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...Briefly we digress into a celebration of Alec Guinness’s magisterial command of George Smiley. “He didn’t look like Smiley in the books but it didn’t matter,” says Nauman reverently....
...So far, he’s used it less for solemn truths than for smiley selfies: Tidjane with Ivanka Trump, Tidjane with Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, Tidjane with, er, Jaden Smith....
...The annual reports are full of smiley happy people having a lovely time in the group’s shopping centres, while the directors talk about the quality of the assets and the glittering prospects....
...But she relishes the fast, bright footwork and was handled with care by Matthew Ball’s Beliaev, innocent cause of all the mischief....
...The head of MI6, Alex Younger, said he would choose George Smiley over James Bond any time and I reckon this choice of types should have wider application....
...Mr Carswell is one of the cross-party MPs in “Vote Leave”, a campaign run by Matthew Elliott, formerly of Business for Britain, which is focusing on the economic impact of leaving Europe....
...They all dropped away, as did all the Europeans, including, rather horribly, the smiley Irish ex-champion Padraig Harrington and the Australian Adam Scott, who crashed and burned in sight of victory in 2012...
...They all exist in emoji form, the messaging icons that have gone beyond smiley faces to become a marketing phenomenon....
...It can’t be long before smiley faces, which used to bring on a feeling of shrinking revulsion, start appearing too....
...We have been here before, you know; the smiley rightish baby-faced leader; the leftish gloompot economic spokesman, who declined to stand against him and then regretted it …ye gods, forget Tony and Gordon...
...varnish “Living Conditions”, Eva Rothschild’s steel and lacquer “Hansel and Gretel”, Bojan Sarcevic’s burning candle on onyx “Tridiminished”, the mix of charcoal drawings with plaster and fibreglass in Matthew...
...… Some Luck, by Jane Smiley, Mantle, RRP£18.99/Knopf, RRP$26.95 Smiley’s epic about a farming family’s efforts to adapt to changing times is the first in a trilogy spanning 100 years....
...Is it too anxious, in its Weinstein-produced way, to wear a Smiley badge pinned to its sackcloth? Perhaps. But who will seriously complain?...
...Signs, embellished with petals and smiley faces, say: “You are bound to be successful” and “Be happy”....
...It is clearly better to have that conversation face to face,” says Matthew Strawbridge, author of Netiquette: Internet etiquette in the age of the blog....
...matthew.engel@ft.com Matthew Engel ’s dispatch appears fortnightly...
...This was a difficult message to convey amid all the fluffy clouds and smiley songs. So most of the Tories opted to be VERY BORING in talking about it....
...In this respect le Carré’s George Smiley novels shift closer to Spooks : the main private relationship – between George Smiley and wife Anne – is, on her side, faithless and on his, doggedly miserable....
...But rather than sending an emoticon of a smiley face, PopTok users will be able to send short clips from television programmes and films such as Austin Powers, Scarface and Basic Instinct....
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