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...One critic acerbically noted “the range of emotions that Brown displayed onscreen was no wider than a mail slot,” but added that he did not demean himself by playing the “comic patsy.”...
...Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans (Torva/Henry Holt) Tony Hsieh turned Zappos, the Amazon-owned footwear etailer, into a case...
...Its top is a beautiful patchwork of varying shades of brown and gold — the colours of the cardboard itself; its legs seem dappled in a muddy camouflage....
...Led by three outstanding performances — Paul Mescal, Anjana Vasan and Patsy Ferran (who took over at short notice after Lydia Wilson had to withdraw and is astonishingly good) — it has the feel of desperate...
...He is dressed in an immense chequered brown blazer with a bright orange pocket square, a matching orange tie and a blue shirt....
...A human rights lawyer, Khan, 52, served as a transport minister under former prime minister Gordon Brown....
...The materials, combined with natural light and shadow, create a range of colours — brown, reddish brown, dust — that both contrast and shade into one another....
...Despite the area’s patchy WiFi, for every family home that comes up to rent in North Norfolk through agency William H Brown there are around 25 people interested, says Rachel Allison, the agency’s area lettings...
...Chris Chapman, partner at law firm Mayer Brown, noted that, “for now, the promotion of most crypto assets is only lightly policed”....
...How Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson has ruled on environmental law....
...It’s heads you win, tails you lose: a 2010 meta-analysis of 148 epidemiological studies by Julianne Holt-Lunstad at Brigham Young University showed the effects of loneliness to be as detrimental to lifespan...
...Diary of an MP’s Wife: Inside and Outside Power, by Sasha Swire, Little, Brown, RRP£20, 544 pages As the wife of a minister in Cameron’s government, Swire was part of the prime minister’s inner circle....
...The combination of comfort food with minimal contact with the people providing it has been a winning one, but Kempczinski and I get our brown bags delivered to our table....
...“The assumption is that those investors don’t dig into portfolios or look at what they are invested in,” says Mr Holt....
...The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History, by Nathalia Holt, Little, Brown, RRP£25/$29 As Disney’s Frozen 2 sweeps through cinemas...
...Among Brown’s few props is a set of frisbees, which he randomly tosses into the audience to choose his patsies. That device seems to rule out the use of plants....
...“Wearing PPE all the time doesn’t quite work unless you are filming a medical drama,” Holt says, with a deadpan delivery....
...Rashid Khalidi details a century of conflict in The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine (Profile RRP£25, February/Henry Holt RRP$30, January)....
...In our most recent episode, Griselda Murray Brown and Lilah Raptopoulos talk with FT innovation editor John Thornhill about what this summer’s best tech books say about our cultural psyche....
...Siege: Trump Under Fire, by Michael Wolff, Little Brown, RRP£20/Henry Holt, RRP$30 A gossipy account of the Trump presidency, full of startling details that the president himself would doubtless dismiss...
...The 11th in the series, How the Dead Speak (Little, Brown, RRP£18.99), which finds Hill and Jordan cut loose from the ReMIT team....
...Patsy is a Jamaican woman, who travels to the US to reunite with her childhood friend with whom she is in love....
...Siege: Trump Under Fire, by Michael Wolff, Little, Brown, RRP£20/Henry Holt, RRP$30 A gossipy account of the Trump presidency, full of startling details that the president himself would doubtless dismiss...
...Siege: Trump Under Fire , by Michael Wolff, Little, Brown RRP£20/Henry Holt RRP$30, 352 pages Gideon Rachman is the FT’s chief foreign affairs columnist Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe...
...Holt says: “My daughter Bay, seven, has watched me wear kaftans for years and wanted her own, so I created a ‘mother-daughter’ collection....
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