Hints and tips:
...“The last car I bought, just to put things in perspective, was a Mercedes V-Class, to put all the kids and the dog in it.” Our main course gone, Collardi asks if we can see the dessert menu....
...Two years ago, Igor Matovič, then Slovakia’s prime minister, was asked in a radio interview what his government had promised Moscow in return for supplies of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid vaccine....
...Yet Merckx comes out in his jeans and V-neck jumper to wave us off. There is a genuine smile on his face as we roll into a downpour....
...The true showman wants to satisfy his audience, not leave it dissatisfied and baying for more....
...Backstage, all the design team were wearing T-shirts where the V of LV had been replaced by a hand making the V sign. It was a graphic that had appeared earlier on a catwalk sweater....
...Made from three boosters of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle strapped together, it would be the biggest rocket to make it to space since the final launch of Nasa’s monster Saturn V in 1973....
...Trump, a practiced TV showman, says he won’t prepare too much for the debate, and has vowed to treat Clinton with respect if she reciprocates....
...Mueller also watched Grillo lead a demonstration in Bologna of about 100,000 people as part of his V-Day event (V for “Vaffanculo”)....
...And with that, it is over to Apple and another supreme showman Steve Jobs, who is due to speak at its World Wide Developer Conference on June 7, when the new iPhone is expected to be unveiled....
...Patrick French’s biography of V.S. Naipaul will be published by Picador in March. He is also author of ‘Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land’ ………………………………………….....
...Ghost Rider runs out of oomph very swiftly, helped to a standstill by a cast (Cage, Fonda, Wes Bentley, Sam Elliott) encouraged to talk v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y, like 78rpm records when someone has forgotten...
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