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...The Guest by Emma Cline (Chatto & Windus/Random House) Emma Cline’s The Girls won many fans for its queasily atmospheric evocation of a teenage girl adrift in a 1960s Californian cult....
...The wealthy clique depicted in Cline’s unsettling second novel is by turns boorish and menacing — but you won’t be able to look away....
...I’m reacting to a few books like The Guest by Emma Cline and Really Good, Actually, by Monica Heisey. I liked the beginning of these books, but they were kind of like sad, lonely little worlds....
...She made the stage at the Opry, was frequently on local and national TV, had her first hit single “I’m A Honky Tonk Girl” and produced her first album in 1963....
...Davis Polk has hired James Dougherty, previously Jones Day’s global chair of M&A, as an M&A partner in New York....
...There were many old friends there in human form, but I mainly ignored them, I’m afraid, in favour of the old friends in bottles....
...“The biggest issue on our agenda in terms of deal execution is the regulatory backdrop,” Latham & Watkins partner Nick Cline told DD’s James Fontanella-Khan....
...A casual browse of the summer sales at Swedish fast fashion purveyor H&M unearths a sleeveless dress in white cotton for £3, and a pair of “Conscious” drawstring-waist trousers cut from a viscose-polyamide...
...What’s the name of the trades union shop steward played by Peter Sellers in I’m All Right Jack? Which former US First Lady died in 2007, 34 years after her husband?...
...Mr Hunter-Tilney notes the “faint air of amusement” with which the one-liner “I’m just a patsy like Patsy Cline” is delivered. It may be one line, but it is two ideas....
...One-liners are delivered with a faint air of amusement (“I’m just a patsy like Patsy Cline”), but there is none of his usual ironic masking....
...The 28-song setlist reached back to “Box Full of Letters”, an alt-rock relic from 1995’s A.M., the first Wilco album....
...“We want to ensure the future viability of the industry once the crisis has passed,” H&M said in a statement....
...Joni Mitchell, Carmen McRae, Peggy Lee, Patsy Cline — my musical influences swing from tree to tree. Ambition or talent: which matters more to success?...
...Steven Spielberg’s new film Ready Player One has been adapted by Ernest Cline and Zak Penn from Cline’s 2011 eponymous bestseller....
...Music on the family stereo ranged from Creedence Clearwater Revival and Don McLean (on the paternal side) to Patsy Cline and Anita Baker (maternal)....
...After betting on Obama’s approval ratings being 55 per cent or higher, Rees complains “I’m already down more than five dollars....
...“I’m not sure it’s rational to set reducing the US trade deficit as an objective. But if you do then this policy package does not seem to get us to a more balanced trade situation.”...
...Stendhal and Grace Kelly: a delightful ménage à trois (I’m French, of course). What’s on your summer reading list?...
...They performed covers of songs by Hank Williams, Curtis Mayfield, Johnny Cash, Woody Guthrie, Patsy Cline, John Lee Hooker, Fats Domino and Pete Seeger....
...Let me tell you, there is only so many times a screen can listen to Patsy Cline singing ‘Crazy’.” There are upsides....
...I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing and hopefully continue opening a few doors up for people.” Nashville’s doors tend to open outwards....
...I’m sure that’s what drew people here in the 1920s and 1930s,” says Montuoro....
...She then admits that she used to be intoxicated by the rock-bottom prices of brands such as H&M and Old Navy. “For a decade I only bought cheap fashion,” she writes....
...“If you leave me, you know, you’ll never see this kind of rent again,” a social X-ray informs her straying master-of-the-universe in a Richard Cline opus from 1994....
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