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...As Captain Smiley hoists the lateen sail, we lean into the northerly trade wind and take off....
...Gung-ho Bond and conscience-stricken Smiley alike did their bit for British espionage exceptionalism. However, a gulf divides the real-world records of both men....
...Jenkins had worked with Robert Kennedy Jr to co-produce a film called Medical Racism: The New Apartheid, which warned black people against vaccines....
...It depicts one of HP Lovecraft’s tentacled monsters with a friendly little smiley face tacked on. The mask — what the public interacts with when it interacts with, say, ChatGPT — appears “aligned”....
...The post earned him 37 smiley face emojis, based on a screenshot seen by the Financial Times....
...Briefly we digress into a celebration of Alec Guinness’s magisterial command of George Smiley. “He didn’t look like Smiley in the books but it didn’t matter,” says Nauman reverently....
...she says, with the sixth of 12 exclamation marks (plus one smiley face) before our thread concludes....
...Would it be strong and stable, Robert? It could be strong and stable. Because... Because... I think that has one has been road tested unsuccessfully....
...The annual reports are full of smiley happy people having a lovely time in the group’s shopping centres, while the directors talk about the quality of the assets and the glittering prospects....
...The smiley face’s expression tells the child whether it’s time to get up or go back to sleep. urbanhello.com Roberts iStream 3, £200 Wet or sticky fingers and electronic devices don’t mix, so it’s useful...
...These include Banksy’s spray-paint on canvas “Bomb Love” (2003, £240,000) and acrylic and spray paint “Smiley Copper” (2003, £680,000). Works start from £15,000 and are on view until July 3....
...A 1975 photo of a green-and-white garbage can bears a yellow smiley-face sticker and the fragmented words “Be our guest”....
...A former MI5 deputy director, he took over from Robert Hannigan in 2017....
...Tom Smiley, Hall County’s election board chairman, says the initial resolution to introduce bilingual ballots had no standing because there was no budget for the measure....
...They all exist in emoji form, the messaging icons that have gone beyond smiley faces to become a marketing phenomenon....
.../Harper, RRP$28.99 While Sisman may not make the literary case for le Carré’s novels as cogently as some might wish, he offers insights into the complex and contradictory life of the creator of George Smiley...
...Also part of that underground scene was 3D, aka Robert del Naja, who went on to form the influential trip-hop outfit Massive Attack....
...The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert Caro, Bodley Head, RRP£35/Vintage, RRP$26 First published in 1974 but only now appearing in the UK, this slab of a book is a fine monument...
...And that means no more memos ending with a smiley face....
...… Some Luck, by Jane Smiley, Mantle, RRP£18.99/Knopf, RRP$26.95 Smiley’s epic about a farming family’s efforts to adapt to changing times is the first in a trilogy spanning 100 years....
...A blinded smiley would look just like that. It acts as a graphic shorthand of the whole picture: a visual title....
...Robert Small, 81, worries about the quality of new jobs. Ford is shutting a nearby plant at the cost of hundreds of jobs....
...Andrew Kennedy turns Baron Lummer into an unbearably smiley snake, while Susanne Holmes’s Anna and Jonathan Best’s Notary provide strong cameos....
...Is it too anxious, in its Weinstein-produced way, to wear a Smiley badge pinned to its sackcloth? Perhaps. But who will seriously complain?...
...Both were much needed, first under Ian Smith – the dour, last prime minister of white-led Rhodesia – and then under his successor, the ageing autocrat Robert Mugabe....
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