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...While the diktats of Mental Parity occasionally elicit a chuckle, the characters act mostly as ideological mouthpieces: “I’m astonished by how fast this new way of thinking about human intelligence installed...
...Although Jacobson is perhaps brave to broach S&M — which also featured in The Act of Love, his 2008 tale of sexual obsession and, more controversially, in a concentration camp fantasy in Kalooki Nights (...
...“I take drugs because I’m a lousy lay,” he confesses (although the opiates surely can’t be doing him any favours here either)....
...Theorising, I’m afraid, only gets you so far in bed. Is It Ever Just Sex?...
...Flavia doesn’t identify as a victim: “I’m not one of these trauma people,” she tells Om, adding that “trauma people are almost as unbearable to me as Trump people”....
...Hans] becomes aware of some youths eyeing them, trying to guess the relationship between him and the pretty girl, who would do better to be smooching with one of them than an oldster like him,” said (I’m...
...I’m not saying this as in, poor me, but it was never the fun that it is now. Now, when we’re in Miami, I feel wanted. I’m friends with the families of the players.”...
...(I’m not proud to admit that my initial reaction to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2021 Notes on Grief was envy that her father lived 14 years longer than mine, although I was reassured that she, too, found...
...“I’m happy for the family....
...Avinash Persaud, the influential finance envoy for Barbados’s Prime Minister Mia Mottley, said this initiative is following the same logic....
...“I’m glad I was suspicious from the beginning.” Mia first came across scammers after moving to London from Australia....
...I’m Henry Mance, chief features writer at the Financial Times, and I’m standing in this week for Gideon while he’s on holiday. This week’s podcast is about Haiti....
...Her performance was partly inspired by Iris-Mia, the small daughter of a colleague on the show, whom she describes as “powerful, sassy, very quick-witted and not afraid of anything”....
...April 12 to 14; further information and tickets here MIA Photo Fair, Allianz MiCo This year’s fair surveys photographic art through the lens of “Changing”, with a collection of images that explore ideas...
...Paris debt summit: French president Emmanuel Macron and Barbadian prime minister Mia Mottley will lead a summit on how to ease the debt burden for developing countries....
...Mamma mia! Leo Lewis is the FT’s Asia business editor...
...“What we’ve got to do is get through the tough months — and I’m not going to shrink from this, it is going to be tough in the months to come.”...
...“Mamma mia, che bello, buon appetito — you made a good choice, eh!” comes the voice of our Italian waiter (this is LA; everyone knows they have a role to play)....
...But I’m concerned....
...The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, MIA, Arctic Monkeys, Hot Chip, Uffie and Metric all put out new albums recently.”...
...The Boum-Boum Milk promises to be your new serum, toner and moisturiser all in one nifty spray bottle, and I’m all for it. Boom!...
...“But what we cannot do I’m afraid is make up for that with some sort of reparations, we simply do not have the financial resources.”...
...“But when my phone runs out of battery, I’m lost, unable to read the language or locate myself.”...
...By episode two of The Watcher, Nora is already on the “I’m starting to miss New York” jag....
...“I’m proud to be an academic.” Mazzucato’s work has pushed back against post-financial crisis austerity, and the theory that the private sector knows best....
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