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...The ritual is performed to live renditions of Nina Simone hits plus a dismal up-tempo arrangement of “My Way”....
...Collins Seitz Jr, the chief justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, tried to play statesman, noting the state is “not trying to win popularity contests” and that “Delaware has always persevered”....
...It was thanks to the French actress Simone Signoret, who lived and befriended Baldwin in Saint-Paul, that he found the house on Chemin du Pilon....
...Most of all, Simone Gold looks like someone who has never got in trouble. Until the pandemic, she never had....
...Its track-listing opens with her tender rendition of Oscar Brown Jr’s “Brown Baby” (also memorably covered by Nina Simone in 1962, and enduringly resonant in the contemporary Black Lives Matter era); it...
...It was the spilling of children’s blood — among other murders and assaults — that led Nina Simone to compose the song of righteous rage “Mississippi Goddam”....
...Rufus Wainwright, musician and composer “Nina Simone singing ‘Cotton Eyed Joe’....
...Also, ECB president Christine Lagarde’s speech at the first meeting of the Simone Veil Pact, organised by Renew Europe....
...From Simone Biles stepping away from the US Olympic women’s team gymnastics, then making a surprise return to win bronze on the balance beam, to tennis star Naomi Osaka choosing to take “some personal time...
...How about Nina Simone at the same event, slamming her piano keys to begin a smoking “Backlash Blues”? Still nothing? Blanks drawn?...
...The jury added a special acting prize for its star Clifton Collins Jr, who fully inhabits the role of a man on his last rodeo....
...I have two beautiful children [her elder son, Carlo Ponti Jr, 51, is a conductor] and they gave me grandchildren, so I’m surrounded by great love every day.”...
...Only in recent years has Kwame Jr begun working with his father to digitally archive his old photographs and bring them to a wider public....
...In 1979 “To Love Somebody” received an earnest rendition by Hank Williams Jr, giving it country credibility....
...The following year, the song was picked up by Nina Simone and it became the title track of her Baltimore album....
...Laura Larbalestier, buying director for Browns, says: “In the 1980s, women [such as JR’s wife Sue Ellen in Dallas] were dressing to be powerful. Now we are more relaxed.”...
..., Marianne Liquori Simone, Helen Crossin Kittle and Her Unborn Child....
...Martin Luther King Jr.26. Pierre Trudeau, Canadian PM, 1968-79 27. Henry Ford 28. General Franco 29. Crazy Horse, hero of the Battle of Little Bighorn 30....
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