Hints and tips:
...Like John le Carré’s George Smiley, Merrick’s mild exterior conceals a steely determination....
...Tracking down the real Miss Moneypenny has been, says Hubbard-Hall “like trying to find a ghost”....
...Smiley brooch, mirror and resin, 1990s “I have always loved the smiley image and because my work is about joy, it seemed the most obvious thing to do in glass,” he says....
...Major players in the sector — influencers, brands, merchants — are sceptical, but a reliance on Big Tech for their livelihood means they are reluctant to miss out....
...she says, with the sixth of 12 exclamation marks (plus one smiley face) before our thread concludes....
...“Lockdown made me miss everyone,” she says. And, with stay-at-home orders in place, she says that crafting and sending a bracelet was “a way of showing your love”....
...What did the EU miss that the UK and US did not? Hannah Kuchler: I think this is a question we may be investigating for months — or years — to come....
...Yet, even if he likes to be described as a venture capitalist (his face lights up when I mention it), it’s hard to miss Younger’s enduring commitment to the slightly boy scout, ingenuity-in-adversity ethic...
...Though some flashbacks are disorientating, the insight into gruff and hostile Luther’s personal life is too good to miss....
...It is impossible to miss the similarities between le Carré and the father who beat him as a child (“but only a few times and not with much conviction”)....
...It is here that master spy George Smiley comes across agent Toby Esterhase munching patisserie and watching the tea dance. The patisserie is still pretty good....
...Its commentary team, led by the much criticised 84-year-old Peter Alliss, turned up later and did the closing stages justice: golf will miss Alliss’s wisdom, wordplay and occasional slips in 2017 when it...
...If viewers can look in any direction, they might miss a key moment of plot....
...It can’t be long before smiley faces, which used to bring on a feeling of shrinking revulsion, start appearing too....
...Would you ever catch the latter with smiley faces on her nails? Unlikely....
...Miss the acute left-hander below and you head straight for the reservoir that the jump is named after....
...It takes a quarter of an hour to find reverse gear and leave the car park in Okehampton and even longer to reach the main road – I miss the turnings and can’t face trying to reverse....
...Laura, the “Treasury boffin, 50 years old, sometime Fellow of All Souls,” who spills secrets over dinner, has a touch of Connie Sachs, mother confessor of the Circus and ally of George Smiley....
...Which doesn’t mean we won’t miss it....
...To say it doesn’t ring true is to miss its point....
...“I didn’t want us to miss a second of our day.” Technology is pervading every moment of our lives – even the most sacred of our most intimate relationships....
...Hence the naive smiley face on Innocent’s drink cartons or the use of white space on packaging for top-notch biscuits....
...David has cleared the way: there are no longer any obstacles to the hit-and-miss business of making jokes. Every subject is fair game: race, gender, disability, mental illness....
...Miss Pipperidge on the CD was singing “You’re a queer one, Julie Jordan” and we sang along too. I grew rather nostalgic as the game went on....
...“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Smiley’s People. All those guys in hairy sports jackets smoking pipes. It was very reminiscent of when I joined MI5.”...
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