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...Initially they turn their noses up, but Americans do eggs, bacon, gravy and burgers better than anyone in the world....
...The bookies have him pulling away from Tom Hardy and Henry Cavill, at odds of 15/8....
...How else to describe the verdict of Gordon Burn, novelist and one of the chief chroniclers of the movement, when he wrote in 2009 that the work of none other than Francis Bacon had begun to seem, in the...
...Sammy Boone, the central protagonist in the former, a taciturn but hardy and fiercely independent cowgirl who works on a Montana dude ranch, reads like a forerunner for Graves....
...Along with the pine and Chinese plum tree, it is one of the “three friends of winter”, hardy plants that are symbols of resilience and noble character....
...I muttered something about having gone in a little strong and he shook his head: “You told The Truth.” It was all that mattered....
...Storms are coming — fierce expressionists Francis Bacon, Van Gogh, Louise Bourgeois are the major openings in the city in the next three weeks — but for now “The Blue Boy” serenely holds court, a high point...
...It was with a lump of self-dug salt that Mahatma Gandhi “[shook] the foundations of the British empire”....
...I shook my first White Cargo, a frothy mix of gin and vanilla ice cream from The Savoy Cocktail Book, and garnished a G&T with homemade ice cubes in every colour....
...Then, with a trowel in the damp earth, I dug and plucked and shook clods off tussocks and lobbed them into the weed bag....
...Welsh classics came out: cawl, laverbread with cockles and bacon, smoked haddock poached in milk or ham with parsley sauce, griddled sprats when the fish man came, home-baked Welsh cakes, bara brith and...
...Perhaps living with this knowledge is what makes San Franciscans such a hardy bunch. One person tells me she uses the alarm as a reminder that it’s lunchtime....
...The glowering, rotund figure delivers acerbic asides — “Francis Bacon?...
...She looked over her shoulder at the chef, who ran his eyes over me, found me wanting and shook his head. “Sorry, no booking.”...
...I shook my head helplessly and he looked as if he might cry. I felt inclined to join him. Half a term later I know the answer to his question....
...I managed Hardy’s Return of the Native but then moved on to the works of American writer John D MacDonald, which feature the exploits of detective Travis McGee....
...(FT) Chart of the day Here’s how it all shook out on Super Tuesday....
...Mr Xi, addressing peers and members of parliament in the House of Lords, cited Francis Bacon and Shakespeare as he spoke about the shared history of the two countries....
...It really shook things up.” But it is still far from clear when or if this will translate into an actual cut in deforestation....
...In the bath, he soaps her toes and she describes to him a very busty girl at work next to whom, she says, she looks like a rasher of streaky bacon....
...In 2011, Australian private equity group Champs paid almost A$300m to acquire Accolade Wines, which owns the Hardys brand – the number one Australian wine in the UK....
...I shook my head at the poem. “I refuse to believe you say anything profound about my identity,” I told it. Then I slept. I slept for three hours. What wondrous medicine was in that rest....
...Thomas Hardy was so gripped by Whymper’s account that he wrote a poem about it....
...For ex-FBI agent Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon), the answer is simple: promptly abandon booze-filled retirement for a manhunt....
...That will give consumers the chance to add bacon or mushrooms or caramelised onions to their Quarter Pounder....
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