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...Matthew Bourne’s popular 2005 dance version of Edward Scissorhands, installed at Sadler’s Wells for seven weeks as part of an 18-venue UK tour, gets off to a stirring start....
...As Nairn puts it, it looks “like a jolly late seventeenth century house”. Which indeed is exactly what two-thirds of it are....
...Is it a jolly jamboree where German-Americans can make campfire s’mores to the rousing strains of an oompah band?...
...Former Bolshoi and San Francisco Ballet dancer Yuri Possokhov gave us Senseless Kindness, set to Shostakovich‘s Piano Trio No 1 (exquisitely played by Julia Richter, Matthew Scrivener and Garry Stevens)...
...Matthew Weeks, a fellow servant at a nearby farm, was convicted of the crime. He spent 10 days in Bodmin Jail before his execution....
...Matthew Gearing, the recently departed chair of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, was expected to join Essex Court Chambers from law firm Allen & Overy in May....
...The holiday season may not be so jolly for some retailers and fashion brands, which could fall victim to a new wave of store closures if holiday sales disappoint....
...“In the 1980s [Heller] was very involved in helping steer me,” Matthew says....
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...Matthew White directs this ridiculous soufflé with a light touch and tongue in cheek....
...Stocks had ended November in a jolly mood as the S&P clinched its best week in seven years on the heels of the worst month of 2018 during which the S&P tumbled 6.9 per cent....
...Jilly Cooper’s polo-playing classes are generally quite jolly. And I would argue Jane Austen is reasonably generous in allowing her aristocrats a good time. It’s true also of Crazy Rich Asians....
...It is a jolly evening, not a little faux-naïf in its manner, and tremendously good-humoured. Here are early dance-works by Matthew Bourne, created between 1989 and 1992....
...When she suggested a book about it to her editor, Roger Benedictus, he said, “Jolly good idea, we haven’t got anything about that period.”...
...Shuang Shuang is a “concept” restaurant that’s surprisingly jolly. You are seated at a kaiten-style serving conveyor and a waiter pours broth into a bowl on a hotplate set into the counter....
...A pit was improvised for the occasion, and Louis Langrée, maestro in residence since 2002, kept things together with jolly propulsion....
...Immediately after his 5,000 metres victory, his equally jolly wife Dana won the javelin. “I inspired you,” he would say. “Go and inspire some other girl to throw 50 metres then,” she would reply....
...Now that we’ve embarked upon the jolly ship HMS Brexit, I need to get a better fix on what matters at the global trade and business level....
...says Mr Jolly, who manages about $200m in assets. It appears many share his scepticism....
...She will be replaced by Phil Bentley, who as boss of British Gas remained resolutely jolly even when brickbats were flying....
...She’s had several — Carlos Acosta, Federico Bonelli, Steven McRae, Matthew Golding. Does she choose them?...
...Buying property in St Moritz: see House & Home Photographs: swiss-image.ch/Andy Mettler Details Matthew Engel was a guest of the Carlton Hotel St Moritz, Switzerland Tourism and Swiss....
...George Osborne and Nicola Sturgeon have opted for a jolly cartoon. Jeremy Corbyn preferred a snow-covered bicycle. David Cameron chose a picture of himself (and his wife)....
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...The Car Man, Sadler’s Wells, London Matthew Bourn’s revisionist take on Bizet’s Carmen — now set in a garage-diner in the 1960s US — promises “an unstoppable spiral of greed, lust, betrayal and revenge”...
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