Hints and tips:
...Chief conductor Donald Runnicles begged off sick on Saturday’s opening night, leaving John Fiore battling to keep things together, with little room left for subtlety. The cast, at least, is excellent....
...Biden has much more money to spend than Trump, whose legal problems are sucking up cash Joe Biden led Donald Trump in the 2023 money race, with his campaign and affiliated committees ending the year with...
...Jeffries was thrust into the national spotlight in 2020 when Pelosi named him as one of seven impeachment managers who acted as prosecutors in Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial....
...That makes Andrew Shirley nervous. He puts together the Knight Frank Wealth Index which tracks the movements of collectible assets such as fine art, classic cars and rare whisky....
...In a memorable moment, she asked the Long Island congressman to answer a “yes or no” question: “Was Donald Trump a great president?”...
...Shirley Chisholm famously said, “I’ve been black, I’ve been female . . .”...
...Donald Runnicles and his orchestra fare better than they did in Götterdämmerung, perhaps warmed up by all this extra Wagner, and awoken by the international audience....
...For Sunday’s premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, conductor Donald Runnicles and director Stefan Herheim have the horn players in illuminated boxes above the sides of the stage....
...I will say I’m not thrilled or really pleased,” she said in an office decorated with images of trailblazing black women including Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, and Marxist...
...“I’m unbought and unbossed,” she said, borrowing a line from Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the US Congress and a personal hero....
...At the centre of these peculiar happenings was the Hitchens’ daughter, Shirley, who was 15 and claimed that the ghost wreaking havoc in their house was called Donald....
...Data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics shows the NRA spent just over $29m on the 2020 election cycle, with the bulk of its donations directed towards Donald Trump’s re-election campaign....
...While Donald Trump dismissed the effectiveness of wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of coronavirus, Harris and Biden have continued to wear masks in public — even after they were fully vaccinated...
...“You’re seeing in public the Donald Trump that I saw in private and that people who left the White House staff saw in the Oval Office every day,” says David Cay Johnston, author of The Making of Donald Trump...
...When you can follow his thread, what Biden says can be as corny as a Shirley Temple song. “I fell ass over tin cup in love,” was how Biden described meeting his first wife....
...Steve Bannon, the former adviser to Donald Trump, calls the US-China trade war a fight to prevent Beijing from becoming a “global hegemonic power”....
...Carsen moves his figures with clarity and elegance, conductor Donald Runnicles’ mellow romanticism is leavened with malicious foreboding....
...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...
...The staging is not helped by Donald Runnicles, whose conducting is consciously passionless, consistently heavy-handed, and lacking in precision....
...This is not the first time that Mr Hill, who was in the year above Donald Trump at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, has locked horns with authority....
...He resists a pessimistic reading of history and returns again and again to struggles — from the Paris Commune of the 1870s to demonstrations against Donald Trump today, he sees reasons for hope....
...Donald Trump claimed this week that he wants the US to support environmentally friendly innovation (yes, really) and some American states are experimenting, irrespective of anything Washington does....
...Donald Holder’s lighting looked lurid, with lots of pink. The climactic destruction of the Philistines’ temple was hopelessly fudged....
...Did Donald Rumsfeld really call Colin Powell a “nervous Nellie” in arguing for the invasion of Iraq?...
...Do I need to describe him, or can I simply say that his full name is Vernon W Hill II, he has played golf with Donald Trump and he owns a Yorkshire terrier called Sir Duffield II?...
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