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...It had a huge impact on me and made it feel like a great time to be in London as an art student at Central Saint Martins. It was an exciting time to run my own design agency....
...Instead, we troop meek and apologetic, queueing gratefully to be ripped off, proffering our feeble attempts at Italian only to be scornfully rebuffed in English....
...Cygnus challenged a WPG independent director, Martin Reid, describing him as being beholden to SVP....
...Supply is caught between an unhurried Opec and a meek US shale sector. Despite Joe Biden’s urging, the cartel is feeling little pressure to boost supply....
...A fascinating illustration of such false hopes is a long read by James Meek in the London Review of Books about the Scottish wind tower construction industry....
...He is soon to appear in Vigil, a smart and tense new BBC crime thriller also starring Suranne Jones, Line of Duty’s Martin Compston and Game of Thrones’ Rose Leslie....
...But while he embraces new technologies, he also echoes the comments made by Martin Scorsese and other directors challenging the hegemony of CGI blockbusters....
...Outsiders often misread Messi as a meek and silent figure. Inside Barça he is regarded as a scary powerbroker who can influence any new signing and coaching appointment....
...Alice was an unusual protagonist — a girl, for a start, in a period when many girls did not go to school, and one who is far from the meek, seen-and-not-heard Victorian template as she makes her polite but...
...Set in the aftermath of an American school shooting, Martin Zimmerman’s play is narrated by a teacher who mourns her son’s death by becoming what she fears: an isolated loner, fascinated by the weapons that...
...Best of the rest The truth about violent crime in London — Anoosh Chakelian in the New Statesman Speed Kills: Silicon Valley’s obsession with rapid growth — Will Oremus on Slate.com NHS SOS — James Meek...
...Angela Merkel and Martin Schulz are fighting each other tooth and nail for the highest office in Germany — but you would never know that from their first and only live television debate....
...Kyle Ketelsen met the challenge with meek magnetism. The evening ends with a mawkish tableau mort depicting Escamillo frozen in triumph over a big dead bull. Deep meaning, no doubt....
...Martin Amis blames personal resentment for his failure to win the Booker Prize but the judges’ real prejudice might be against comic work — unless it is, like The Sellout by Paul Beatty, political satire...
...Martin Selmayr is notorious and he loves it....
...The Mostly Mozart series at Lincoln Center often seems modest in scope, local in orientation and meek in accomplishment. It didn’t seem that way on Thursday....
...And just as Ray Longhi knows his baozi from his jiaozi (May 4 2013), so Martin Baenninger knows the difference between Swiss-German and German-Swiss (March 23 2013)....
...Some traders are also taking the view that the China data are sufficiently meek to encourage Beijing to undertake further stimulus measures — a narrative that traditionally lifts market sentiment....
...Investors are worried that central banks’ use of negative interest rates as a policy tool to tackle deflationary trends and meek economic activity will further hurt financial sector earnings....
...Martin Sutton, author of the Penalty Kick Stat blog, cross-referenced those figures with how well-placed each of the shots were....
...Yet this meek object encapsulates the combustible forces — from Andy Warhol to the anti-Vietnam protests — that made the 1960s a catalyst for irrevocable change....
...The strongest newcomer in the generally weak and meek ensemble turned out to be Dmitry Korchak, a Russian tenorino who managed to balance dignity with virtuosity as Don Ottavio....
...James Meek’s is the author of ‘Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else’ (Verso) £12.99 Photographs: Sarah Rose; Rex...
...Martin Crimp’s libretto, scrupulously set, centres on a gripping tale of sexual jealousy, murder and revenge....
...(Kingsley’s grateful son Martin was also close to Bellow and presumably smoothed Leader’s way.)...
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