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...When I visit in late October, heaps of orange and yellow dahlias and dusky pink astrantia are giving a terrific late-autumn display....
...It was my ex-husband, Bruce [Willis], who wanted to get a place here; I’d never really heard of Sun Valley. The first time I came, our eldest daughter Rumer was 12 days old....
...Recommended reading For a darker view of a post-Putin future, I recommend the new issue of Foreign Affairs magazine where Eugene Rumer, a former intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the US national...
...“I hadn’t thought about Black Narcissus until the idea came up in a meeting with the BBC. I told them nobody else could do it!”...
...“I can imagine she made clear that any intervention would devastate peace in Europe and have far-reaching consequences for Europe’s relations with Russia,” he said....
...Asked about such a strategy on Friday, Mike Pompeo, US secretary of state, said: “I do think there’s that opportunity.”...
...“Part of this, I think, is Putin doing payback,” he says....
...Rumer’s new album ‘Into Colour’ is out now on Atlantic Records Photographs: Getty; Lauren Dukoff; iStock...
...But I can’t help wondering if Eugene Rumer and his co-author Thomas Graham miss a very simple problem with their argument, in “Arm Ukraine and you risk another Black Hawk Down” (February 4), that instead...
...Rumer Into Colour (Atlantic) “I don’t want to lose control,” Rumer sings on her third album, Into Colour....
...Equally strange is his suggestion that Mr Putin’s aggression has been successful and justified in some way that, frankly, I can’t comprehend, considering the cost to Russia in both the short and long term...
...“I do not see this debate [about arming Ukraine] dying down at all,” he said....
...But just as Smith’s paean to doing what she wanted was written by a pair of men (Porter Grainger and Everett Robbins), so, too, Mvula is indebted to a male collaborator: Rumer producer Steve Brown, who persuaded...
...The magnificently moody “Take Me As I Am” found her singing the passive-assertive sentiment “If this love is unconditional, then why don’t you take me as I am?” This was music to surrender to....
...Her debut album can be formulaic, as with the jaunty piano-pop of “Am I Forgiven?”, but Rumer’s wistful, unhurried vocals, relating tales of love and heartbreak (mainly the latter), are entrancing....
...My husband and I are normally quite strict about what we let our children eat. Can I ask her to comply?Mrs A Smith, Exeter When we experience something new and wonderful, we often take too much of it....
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