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...But as Tom Petty used to sing, “the wai-ai-aiting is the hardest part.” Fourth, the offering is not a litmus test for the London market....
...No need for elaborate plots: just take your story idea from a newspaper cutting about a petty crook betrayed to the police, for a murder, by his girlfriend....
...A dreary record of typical family bickering, petty annoyances and adolescent emotions....
...Aid donors could compensate them for eliminating those tariffs out of petty cash: total development aid by richer countries last year was about $150bn....
...The 16ha site in the City of London, barely a mile north of St Paul’s Cathedral, was flattened during the Blitz, then in the late 1940s and 50s gave way to mud, toads, petty crime and local children....
...In Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar (1954), now a critical favourite, she plays a tough and increasingly isolated saloon owner who spits: “All a woman has to do is slip once and she’s a ‘tramp!’”...
...“We need someone to get things done instead of this petty theatre of politics that makes me vomit,” Oscar Farinetti, the entrepreneur behind international food chain Eataly told the Financial Times....
...It was fairly embarrassing to discover that I hadn’t been the all-round genius I remembered myself as being, and to read again, for the first time in 30-odd years, my petty complaints about teachers, and...
...I loved Crowe’s office, an authoritarian’s grandiose playpen, striped with window light like the last, showy rays of some civic-administration Götterdämmerung....
...Robbie (Paul Brannigan), a Glaswegian with a petty crime record, wants to steal into a castle with his mates and siphon off a wee dram – a few thousand pounds’ worth – of the world’s most valuable antique...
...Facile cynicism, perhaps, but flamboyantly put over by a cast including Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins and a terrific James Gandolfini....
...Akyol’s underlying thesis is that rationalists lost the war of ideas within Islam between the 8th and 13th centuries to hidebound “traditionists” – the struggle between the ahl al-ray and the ahl al-hadith...
...Born to a life of petty crime, Ray escaped from a jail in Missouri in 1967, and for 12 months trained as a “glamour” photographer in Mexico, a locksmith in Los Angeles and a bartender in Atlanta, toying...
...The conjurative illustration was always Satyajit Ray versus Nicholas Ray....
...For this scandal has not only exposed the (mostly petty) venality of (many of) the honourable members of the House of Commons, it is also turning into a merciless X-ray of their role and functions: what...
...“His constant parade of petty sour-grapes criticism is discrediting,” he says. “It’s silly and it’s petty....
...the evils – from petty crime to corrupt politicians – that plague Brazilian life....
...The prisoners, from petty thieves to murderers, worked in heavy iron chains, food was scarce and in winter many died....
...Here, in the tale of a village potter’s unfaithful wife and his vengeance against the lover (a petty tyrant fomenting local strife), one sensory epiphany succeeds another....
...He and Ray Kelly, his police commissioner, have made continued gains against crime without becoming obsessed with press clippings....
...Additional firepower gives Liverpool the look of title challengers With advance sales for the opening Premiership fixtures suggesting a dispiriting World Cup has taken its toll, there is at least a ray...
...It is a portrait of his favourite model – and lover – the petty criminal George Dyer. Painted in 1967 it shows Dyer staring into a mirror and could sell for £3.5m, close to the artist’s record....
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