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...Occasionally the influence is clear, as in J Robert Lennon’s 2021 novel Subdivision, in which a woman checks into a mysterious small-town guesthouse....
...Dinner was a hotdog soused in American mustard; drinks were Shirley Temples and malted shakes. The atmosphere was pure joy. I am not alone in my obsession....
...Simon Schama FT contributing editor The most memorable read for me this year was a re-read: Stephen J Pyne’s The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica (1986), a stupendous synthesis of natural and cultural history...
...J Sainsbury’s chief executive Mike Coupe, who orchestrated the UK supermarket chain’s failed £7bn tie-up with Asda, is to step down after almost six years in the role....
...But what need, with that husky voice-honey tripping the scales while a thick and honey-coloured envelope of fur — no twerking for Dame J — wraps her in an all-body halo?...
...Roger Baldwin, founder, American Civil Liberties Union, New York, June 2 1976; IF Stone, journalist, Washington, DC, July 8 1976; Jules Stein, founder, Music Corporation of America, New York, May 28 1976; Shirley...
...Among the mourners was Robert Lewis Burns, Shirley’s uncle and a Vietnam war veteran....
...Eric J Redemann Walnut Creek, CA, US...
...of perfection or nothing,” says Fashion Tech Lab’s Amanda J Parkes....
...Thomas J. Mayer’s Jochanaan is formidable in every sense, a prophet well worth the fuss; Gerhard Siegel and Marina Prudenskaya are superb as the awful Herodes and Herodias....
...Search for Shirley Muldowney, Erica Enders-Stevens, Alexis DeJoria, Angelle Sampey, and sisters Ashley, Courtney, and Brittany Force on the internet....
...“No part of the high street appears to be immune from this downturn now,” said Darren Shirley, a retail analyst at Shore Capital....
...Mezzo-soprano J’nai Bridges ably portrayed the Latina Josefa Segovia, who meets a sad end....
...Harry Belafonte brought a silkier, more stately touch in 1971, introducing strings to the arrangement, an orchestral direction Shirley Bassey pursued with even greater zeal in 1973, resurrecting the vocal...
...But the cast includes Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund and R&B star Mary J Blige, and Rees directs with authority — her future looks promising....
...His mother enrolled him in dance lessons at the school Shirley Temple had attended....
Ian Bostridge’s Ulisse is compelling in Richard Egarr’s unembellished rendition of Monteverdi’s opera
Bruno Ravella’s staging brought breeziness and a superb cast to the comedy based on Strauss’s marriage
...Its opening performances of Back to the Future, the 1985 time-travelling film starring Michael J Fox, were cancelled at short notice because the production was not ready in time....
...Ben Ramsey, an analyst at J.P....
...“People feel very, very angry,” says Mr Reeve, whose partner, Lisa Duffy, is Ramsey’s mayor, and whose mother, Shirley Reeve, is also on the town council....
...Paul J Davies is the FT’s insurance correspondent...
...He’s a known quantity,” said Craig Shirley, who is now working on an authorised biography of Mr Gingrich....
...Rival J Sainsbury reported like-for-like sales growth for the six months to the beginning of October of 1 per cent....
...“It was a slightly different environment last time because the consumer was a bit more buoyant,” said Darren Shirley, analyst at Shore Capital....
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