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...Among titles hailing from Cannes, Berlin and Venice, Richard Linklater’s Hit Man left Toronto movie-goers with wide grins thanks to its screwball-perfect yarn about an ordinary dude (Glen Powell) who falls...
...Elizabeth I appointed the Earl and Countess custodians of the captive Mary, Queen of Scots in 1569....
...I was hoping we could produce these quickly, but this type of cashmere yarn is quite rare. My favourite building is Milan’s Velasca Tower by Studio BBPR, which was built in the ’50s....
...Writers from Elizabeth Gaskell to Sarah Moss have written about Manchester’s Victorian working class, and new middle class, in books such as Mary Barton and Bodies of Light....
...“It’s the newest and most updated form of luxury now,” says Malone Souliers founder Mary Alice Malone....
...Together, the words are lyrics from a song by Mary J Blige, whose music, Barrington says, the women loved....
...Characters have little time to expand: Hana Ichijo’s Meg (sweet) and Mary Moore’s Amy (brattish) are particularly short-changed, as is the girls’ curious neighbour, Laurie (Sev Keoshgerian)....
...The opening had been the idea of the Irish president Mary McAleese, who had issued the invitation, only, of course, for it to be instantly vetoed by the Palace guardians....
...Meanwhile, a serial killer by the name of Valentine (Michael Esper) runs amok like the loose thread in a rapidly unravelling yarn....
...trip from Oxford up the river Thames to the village of Godstow, a stuttering Christ Church mathematician named Charles Lutwidge Dodgson entertained three of the college dean’s daughters with a fantastical yarn...
...In the Union of the Realms, elections are contested every five years and the region whose storyteller’s yarn is voted the best gets to hold power....
...The thematic musings are never obtrusive; if you thread them together, fine, and if not it’s still an excellently told newcomer/usurper yarn....
...Catlos notes, for example, how they formed cults of the Virgin Mary that enabled outward displays of Catholic piety in conformity with private Islamic conviction....
...Before you can say Little Miss Sunshine, the clan are on the road in a shamelessly schematic feelgood yarn buoyed up by its energetic young cast....
...Mary, now in her eighties, told me that she went to island gatherings with Mack long ago. “I went for the cards....
...He had also painted Protestant gentry such as Sir Peter Carew who, on the accession of the Catholic Mary, was involved in a botched rising....
...This gives them the opportunity to spin their tedious yarns of glamorous high living....
...Best were the knit pieces, like a knit rugby shirt, a long navy chunky sweater, or a grey knit blazer of a pleasing tight yarn....
...Set in 1815, The Wrath of the Lizard Lord is a rip-roaring, gung-ho adventure yarn that starts off at a sprint and rarely relents....
...Samman’s account of how they found the burial spot on the Isla del Coco, and the hazards faced, makes an engrossing yarn. “We discovered that a vessel can only be anchored in two of the island’s bays....
...Part relationship study, part sailing yarn, this odd yet enthralling book lingers long in the mind....
...… Mary Katrantzou If I’m flying short-haul and going straight from the airport to an event, I keep what I am wearing, and add a pair of amazing costume earrings....
...To wit: a dapper and raffish three-piece cotton herringbone suit actually rewoven from denim that had been bleached, with half its yarn left raw, the other half dyed....
...There are new yarns that push all sorts of boundaries: some look like potpourri, others like holographic tapes; others don’t look like traditional yarns at all....
...In Mary Zimmerman’s dramatisation and Lu Kemp’s supple production, the show grows like a set of Chinese boxes, opening up story within story within story....
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