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...The biggest motor insurers in the UK, for example, are the same ones that were around a decade or two ago — Aviva, Admiral, Direct Line et al. It is a similar story in the US....
...Doon’s first novel, The Caretaker, was published in 2020....
...Stopping by one of the 63 giant pillars supporting the venerable hotel, he points to a contraption at the top: “That’s our own idea of a jack. It’s really, really novel engineering.”...
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...She first picked up the violin aged four, when her older sister, Stephanie — now violinist for the pop group Clean Bandit — decided she wanted to learn....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...And although people say they like new things, often what they want is merely for existing things to work better. Innovations must be bought repeatedly if they are to succeed commercially....
...In friends’ homes where the food was simple and the wine flowing. Best Parisian food ritual . . ....
...In my world, this novel is already a classic....
...It is about the need for products that signify membership in a group, be it the cult of celebrity-for-celebrity’s sake that drove the Bling Ring to invade the homes of Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton et al and...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...Again, it was all a bit vague in the courtroom, but one idea seemed to be giving NML et al whatever the backlog of 11 years of payments was, and then paying them at the EBG rate thereafter....
...It was the first two years that were the worst, when he felt that in a way he was a hostage to the hostages – Terry Waite, John McCarthy et al....
...These include Marvel, bought by Disney for $4bn in 2009, and DC Comics, owned by Time Warner....
...Nick Hornby et al followed. Davies deserves this reissue under a new title....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...And why, now, doesn’t someone come along and eat Durant for lunch, in the way that Blockbuster has been laid low by Netflix et al? There are two answers (at least)....
...And he freely admits that the Star Wars films had a bigger influence on him than the Star Trek television series or earlier films featuring Spock et al....
...It is a novel, but one based on actual people and events in Depression-era Louisiana....
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