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...The first series of Norma Percy’s excellent documentary Putin vs the West considered how occidental powers underestimated the Russian president’s expansionist ambitions in the decade leading up to the invasion...
...This is Norma Desmond as Norma Desmond was — as Norma Desmond still is in her own mind....
...Scenes from that great escape irradiate the Morgan Library in New York’s mini retrospective of Walton Ford, our finest living painter of animals....
...Aside from relevance to Callas’s centenary, 7 Deaths offers an innovative, multimedia take on opera, combining film, speech, theatre and music, and will draw in a new audience from the world of contemporary...
...(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.)...
...The theory behind Sunak’s various announcements this week is that by announcing a new set of policy priorities he can establish himself as a new and fresh leader....
...“We have to try something new.”...
...of meat — a 40-ounce bone-in ribeye, an enormous pork porterhouse prepared porchetta style — and Neapolitan-style pizzas with perfectly crispy-chewy crusts (the Norma with eggplant and ricotta salata is...
...The struggle to adapt to a new reality has clogged up the IPO pipeline. Partly the blockage is psychological, a matter of pride and ego....
...Liszt’s Réminiscences de Norma balanced some poetry against barnstorming climaxes....
...Now a new BBC series, Putin vs the West, finds history repeating itself....
...Wagtail, 68 King William St, London EC4; wagtaillondon.com The Terrace at Norma A slice of Sicily on a corner of Fitzrovia....
...The supervisory board has tapped former Siemens executive, Miguel Ángel López Borrego, who currently heads German automotive supplier Norma Group, as her successor....
...Intrigue takes root between Narvel and his employer: icy blueblood Norma Haverhill, brilliantly played by Sigourney Weaver with a hint of Sunset Boulevard....
...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...
...And Moda Operandi included a paddle and set of pickleballs in its new Club Moda summer capsule collection....
...It’s a clever bit of Italian regional fusion; the vinegary aubergine and the salted ricotta nod to Sicilian classics (caponata and pasta alla norma), while earthy polenta historically hails from the north...
...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....
...The court recently appointed a new chief justice, Norma Piña Hernández, who is seen as more independent than her predecessor....
...The difficulty for defence chiefs is that as the war continues, new demographic factors could make things worse....
...“It just goes to show there’s nothing new under the sun when it comes to tax policy,” Monteith says....
...Norma’s Giovann Attard, who serves his mortadella with a pistachio crumb, similarly recalls sandwiches “stuffed” with it....
...“I grew up in a world not different from Norma Jeane Baker, and my mother was about that age....
...My mother, for those of you who may or-- you're probably way too young-- my mother was discovered by Norma Shearer. Norma Shearer was a silent film star....
...Rae, if Norma Rae were sitting in her home office rather than a textile plant, and not handling machinery but plodding through emails....
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