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...Epitomising Dunlavin’s carefully cultivated authority is his gift of a prized cigarette end to Rebecca O’Mara’s timorous, wife-murdering Lifer....
...And Shot with Crimson (Faber £16.99) continues Nicola Upson’s reliable series with crime writer Josephine Tey as detective; here the violence occurs in Hollywood, on the set of Hitchcock’s film Rebecca....
...They were forced to dig their own graves and then shot....
...They added that such behaviour usually was not grave enough to trigger a termination....
...Graves, bless him, has almost no time to prepare....
...Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s Oscar-winning script tells of an acid-tongued lady-killer who returns from his watery grave in search of someone who will mourn his passing....
...Instead, she found an outlet for her music within the Catholic church, turned to teaching and lived quietly in the Malvern Hills, where she regularly tended the nearby grave of Edward Elgar....
...The idea may sound harmless enough but sensitivity reads are fast becoming a significant force in publishing, with potentially grave consequences for authors....
...One of the most interesting aspects of Rebecca s the way Daphne du Maurier treats her readers like the naive second Mrs de Winter....
...“The symbolism of roses — you take them to somebody when a baby is born, or at a wedding — and there’s the rose you put on a grave,” she said....
...The profound distress of exile and deracination is powerfully evoked by Colm Tóibín in his new novel, The Magician, which encompasses the full sweep of Mann’s life from childhood to grave....
...Farce, when it clicks, is one of theatre’s best weapons against the random pain of life, creating situations so grave they could grace any tragedy — but twisted just a notch so that we laugh at the truth...
...Rebecca West called her “perhaps the best descriptive writer of our time”; Jonathan Raban said her essays were “very close to being pure magic”....
...It still works as a metaphor for the unimaginably grave consequences of the Covid-19 crisis, which should encourage a new era of co-operation and collaboration between government, business, and communities...
...That grave subject matter is handled with a contrasting lightness of touch; characters whirl in and out of view, often changing their names and identities; time, place and milieu shift, and so do register...
...But where there have been grave mistakes, “the technology was just not up to what we do”. The Internet of (Five) Things 1....
...Rebecca Vincent, director of the UK bureau of Reporters Without Borders, the media freedom advocacy group, said the Maltese inquiry was “long overdue” but would “fool no one” if it lacked independence and...
...In a video message urging staff to co-operate Augustus Tang, chief executive, compared the current challenges to the 2009 financial crisis, saying “the situation now is just as grave”....
...Rebecca cried....
...“The Russians and Iranians would be making a grave humanitarian mistake to take part in this potential human tragedy,” the US president wrote in a tweet, extending his warning to Syria’s allies....
...Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian ambassador to the UN, warned that military action could spark “grave repercussions”....
...“Tevye’s Dream” is rich in comic timing, with the actress Barbara Spitz bringing an authentic Yiddish accent to the grandmother who returns from the grave (she is a standout again as the matchmaker Jentje...
...Rebecca Redfern, a bioarchaeologist at the Museum of London and co-curator of the exhibition, said the discovery raised questions about the way people assimilated into Roman society in the city, taking on...
...Alison Clarke London, England I have just come from tidying up my dear Mum’s grave....
...Stripped of their meagre possessions, they are made to undress, then shot and buried in mass graves on the outskirts of the town....
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