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...The philosopher Martha Nussbaum despaired that Butler’s “obscurity creates an aura of importance”; writer Tom Wolfe accused Butler of “Rococo Marxist mental acrobatics”....
...What about Martha Wainwright’s guide to her Canadian hometown, Montreal?...
...Another writer beloved by collectors is Octavia Butler, the first black woman to receive both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and the first sci-fi author to be granted a MacArthur fellowship....
...Julia Sherman, who currently writes the Salad for President blog, was similarly drawn to the drama of Martha Stewart’s Entertaining (1982) while researching her own cookbook Arty Parties (2021)....
...Cause for celebration at Mitchells & Butlers, the group behind pubs, bars and restaurants including Browns, All Bar One and Toby Carvery....
...Candace Wheeler, the Martha Stewart of her day, was inspired to establish New York’s answer to the RSN: the Society of Decorative Art....
...(“Her name was Martha Lloyd and she made Austen’s ink.”) Unlike some rarefied book stores, The Second Shelf welcomes collectors of all budgets....
...The most cited authors are Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and Poul Anderson; women, from Ursula K Le Guin to Octavia E Butler, are under-represented, but as the dictionary grows and begins to collect citations...
...1,015: Richard Otley, Wakefield Crossword 16,123: Michael Baylor, France; Scott Forbes, London; Judith Hadley, USA Polymath 1,014: Peter Boyd, Wiltshire Crossword 16,117: Mary Aclandhood, London; Rev T K...
...2016 Santa Barbara County£44.40 james@tigervines.com Matthiasson, Matthiasson Vineyard Ribolla Gialla 2017 Napa Valley$45-$54 various US retailers REDS Mountain Tides Petite Sirah 2018 California$19.99 K...
...I can hardly keep down the Cyclizine tablets my kindly butler, Prem, brings me. I say the ludicrous words out loud: “my butler”....
...Last summer, school boards in Butler County, Ohio, were assailed by a vocal faction led by the colourful sheriff demanding gun training for teachers....
...In Altered Carbon (Netflix, from Friday), adapted from the novel by Richard K Morgan, human bodies are known as sleeves, as disposable as a cheap shirt....
...Even though it costs a grand, the iPhone X is considerably cheaper than getting a live-in butler. Yet democratising tech has made our lives worse in all sorts of ways....
...General Electric started the week badly, with its annual 10-K filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission revealing that its planned restatement of earnings for 2016-17 to comply with a new accounting...
...It is so long since Martha Argerich played solo recitals that most people in London have never seen one....
...If there were to be any proper criticisms of any Flotus, look at Martha Washington who was an owner of slaves. So let’s cut Melania a bit of slack....
...So was Leo Butler’s Lucky Dog, about a marriage gone stale. His latest, Boy, seen at the Almeida in April, tails a working-class teenager through London....
...In Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (1889), Harris assures a group of tourists that the Hampton Court Maze is “very simple. It’s absurd to call it a maze....
...To Jerome Kohlberg, life did not come much better than playing third base in a knockabout Sunday softball game on the southern shores of Martha’s Vineyard....
...Daisy, despite fine work from a lithe Martha Leebolt, remains vapid and uninteresting and, despite a painstaking expository prologue, the white-suited Gatsby and Carraway remain all too confusable....
...Linda Sleire, Per Ø Enger, Rolf K Reed, Anne M Øyan and Linda EB Stuhr Letter in response to this article: Vital missing detail / From Daniella Acker...
...The flaw, of course, is that there is no king bee but a queen, a discovery that wasn’t confirmed until 1623 by Charles Butler in his book The Feminine Monarchy. 4....
...All we have to do is try not to f**k it up.” My husband whispered in my ear: “Here’s bloody hoping.”...
...All rooms must be kept exactly at 20 degrees at all times, and there should be 24-hour butler service, the requirements went on....
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