Hints and tips:
...Clare Munro is a tax adviser at Weatherbys Private Bank...
...This sly three-hour slow-burner is a crime drama of sorts — until it isn’t. It begins with a solitary middle-aged man, Morán (Daniel Elías), weary of the monotonous grind of working at a bank....
...The programme doesn’t pass direct judgment and takes no side on the thorny dilemmas of statecraft that it broaches....
...“They don’t move, they don’t go to sleep, they don’t hide like they would at the zoo,” he explains....
...“Having roped-off rooms with staged furniture isn’t really something that everyone can connect to at all,” Munro said....
...(Major held the 1992 election a month earlier than he needed to, because that coincided with when he first met his wife, Norma, but I don’t think that really counts as an exception to the rule.)...
...I didn’t recognise the music from its name but as I read the Life of a Song article (March 4) on Rachmaninov’s Prelude in C sharp minor I was sure I knew it....
...“I studied accounting at university and knew there was a problem but didn’t want to confront it.”...
...My absolute favourite simple recipe — and one of the meals I absolutely could not live without — is pasta alla norma: aubergines, tomatoes, oregano and chilli with lots of olive oil....
...In 1992, John Major went in April not May, because April 9 1992 was the anniversary of the day he met Norma Major....
...Subsequent research by Oleg Korenok, David Munro and Jiayi Chen has attempted to quantify the tipping points at which people start paying attention for many countries....
...Off-roadersAhead of Land Rover’s first fully electric model in 2024, new Scottish entrant Munro has developed its MK1, with prices for the utilitarian off-roader starting at £59,994....
...Owners find it difficult to accept that their company isn’t as valuable as it used to be....
...“At first, I didn’t like [Massa], but . . . at least he’s a Peronist,” said Norma Calveyra, a 58-year-old seamstress. “We don’t want everything to blow up, to lose all our rights,” she added....
...“It hasn’t been as dire as this for many a year,” said Al Munro, metals strategist at Marex, a London-based broker....
...Like her kindred spirits Alice Munro and Mary Gaitskill, she writes long stories of such style and depth of feeling that they can each feel like the compressed achievement of a novel....
...“We would prefer buybacks to be less prevalent,” said Euan Munro, chief executive of Newton Investment Management....
...Your version won’t be nearly as good. But it will be reminiscent, and will make you want to return....
...Two female leads, then, though it falls to a male supporting character to wear a T-shirt reading “We Should All Be Feminists”....
...The pickleball opportunity hasn’t escaped fashion and activewear brands....
...It doesn’t have to be a splash and you don’t have to capitalise on it in a couple of months.” Two things could help Europe to develop some momentum....
...“Everyone’s disappointed by the China [GDP] number,” said Al Munro, senior base metals strategist at Marex, a brokerage. “We’re in a very choppy, uncertain environment”....
...In 1978, she sang both the title role and that of Adalgisa in the same production of Bellini’s Norma at Covent Garden. Bumbry enjoyed a 20th-century prima donna lifestyle....
...It was in the mid-19th century, after Bellini’s Norma premiered in 1831 with its soaring aria “Casta Diva”, that the Italian term for goddess began being used widely to confer honour on prominent female...
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