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...The world fell for Laure Calamy when she played the permanently frazzled PA Noémie in French series Call My Agent!....
...So if you decide to write anything, I’d rather it wasn’t about me.”...
...I wish I’d had that tip years ago🤦🏼♀️. (Current state of inbox: 363,000.) And finally . . ....
...We (or our PAs) have organised our lives down to the last 15-minute calendar slot. We have our families, careers, passions. There is no time for the new....
...JPMorgan’s main global markets outlook is also as good as you’d expect from one of the best-staffed research departments on the street. Ceci n’est pas une outlook report, says Man Group. Bonds!...
...And Pa himself is poignantly portrayed....
...“In France, we have an expression: la peur n’évite pas le danger. Being stressed won’t help anything. It’s necessary to keep a sense of perspective,” he says....
...It’s a big, big, faux pas for them. I mean, faux pas is a very soft word. Actually, it’s a disaster....
...Take a break from the news Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise: The Final Months is the Musée d’Orsay’s supremely enjoyable show on the artist’s last, productive weeks....
...We’d all like to have fun at our office party, but the risk of embarrassing yourself is very real....
...She told me to come and see her immediately, and I worked with her for the next five years as her PA. She changed my life....
...Sensing their obsolescence in the modern world (though General MacArthur has left town, their grandson is learning English) Ma and Pa go home....
...“Jacques says there is no -ism in this architecture, no one style,” says Simon Cloutier, a protégé of Labro who now runs the Atelier d’Architecture d’Avoriaz....
...Situation-tailored streams of similarly processed audible mulch could be piped through every PA system in the world, and the only people who’d notice enough to care would be rentiers....
...(PA system announcement) At the front of the room, a large video monitor takes up an entire wall....
...I tasted a range of its wines, including a no-added-sulphites red cleverly named On Souf(f)re Pas that Flache had devised. I was impressed....
...Parisians tend to speak quietly and avoid superlatives, especially when it comes to praise: “pas mal” (“not bad”) is generally enough....
...Ultimate party faux-pas? LJ: Turning up drunk or full from lunch! FK: Smoking before your main arrives. It makes it go cold and ruins the taste....
...The PA has been hobbled by its inability to provide public services and President Mahmoud Abbas’s refusal to hold elections....
...If I didn’t believe words could change people’s consumption behaviour, I’d never have held down a job....
...Monreal, who’d never been to the Teatro, loved it. “From the beginning it was kind of a threesome with the theatre!” Pech laughs....
...More, indeed, of what you’d call joy....
...You do things, you slip up, you make faux pas. All these really nuanced things that if you’ve had parents who work in the workplace, they can teach you....
...Ruscha’s translation of “Ceci n’est pas . . . ” is his 1964 negation “Won’t”, which quivers with wry ambiguity. The terse word appears cut out of blue card stock....
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