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...less than a week, my reading could travel from magical realism (Adolfo Bioy Casares’ 1940 The Invention of Morel, a 103-page marvel about a fugitive hiding out on a remote Polynesian island), to gothic (Shirley...
...Ideas spread like wildfire around the Valley because of places like Walker’s Wagon Wheel, a packed watering hole where techies from competing firms traded gossip freely....
...Meanwhile Shirley Hughes’s Dogger’s Christmas (Puffin £12.99) revisits her 1977 classic Dogger, with a yuletide twist....
...The orchestral playing is lacklustre, the chorus sounds dreadful, and Thomas Walker cannot sing the title role....
...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...
...presenter£350,000 - £400,000 Fiona Bruce, presenter£250,000 - £300,000 Zoe Ball, presenter, Brian Cox, presenter, Evan Davis, presenter£200,000 - £250,000 Mark Chapman, presenter, Jools Holland, presenter, Dan Walker...
...Armida is the swansong of the company’s departing artistic director Antony Walker, who keeps proceedings packed with nuance and formidably together....
...Under Antony Walker, the crisp rhythms, athletic runs and voluptuous colours of the overture herald an evening of musical luxury. In the title role, Caitlin Hulcup delivers a forceful performance....
...According to Shirley Bassey they are forever, Marilyn Monroe sang that they were “a girl’s best friend” and Zsa Zsa Gabor once said: “I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back”....
...Dame Stephanie Shirley Philanthropist, Shirley Foundation I was an IT entrepreneur and made a small fortune, which I’m now enjoying giving away....
...Often, seeing Abbado conduct feels like watching a blind tightrope walker. He feels his way forwards with distressing fragility. An abyss yawns below....
...Additional reporting by Shirley Chen...
...And don’t call me Shirley....
...Orchids, goats and a valley view accessible by train, by John Shirley “Out of concern for the environment, I like to find walks where trains go to and from the start and end points....
...Misrach is consciously extending a photographic tradition observed by Walker Evans and Lee Friedlander, and taking it into the realm of the post-apocalyptic: “Help!”...
...AB will be able to compensate for the lower sugar price with higher volumes,” said Shore Capital analyst Darren Shirley....
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