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...Imagine Grendel and Beowulf setting aside their differences and deciding to shack up together and you’ll have some idea of the flavour of this novel, which balances a sweet, sly sense of humour with some...
...of the loneliness of addiction, warmth suddenly giving way to chilly defensiveness or sly manipulation....
...Sly Bailey, the company’s former chief executive, and Paul Vickers, ex-group legal director, “turned a blind eye to what was going on, and positively concealed it,” Fancourt said....
...Sly, Soviet-style jokes are enjoying a subtle revival on Chinese social media platforms....
...James Court, off Manette Street, sounds deeply Old Soho but actually turns out to be inserted under the back of a vast new development near Tottenham Court Road....
...Not to mention he just released a Netflix doc, Sly, on the heels of Schwarzenegger’s (Arnold)....
...The veteran Everett attempts an audacious rewriting of Mark Twain, and delivers a story bristling with atmosphere, sadness and sly wit....
...It appears, narrated by a velvet-voiced James Mason, in the 1969 documentary The London Nobody Knows and in Don McCullin’s brutal photos of the dispossessed in 1973....
...Solos unfolded over crisply minted rhythms, drummer Justin Tyson dazzled with new-generation beats and bass guitarist James Genus, unassuming and rock-solid in support, delivered a whisper-quiet complexity...
...The mood is definitively Pinter, the sly insults about personal hygiene and nightmare games of hide and seek....
...Witness Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, the city introduced in sly comic style with a gonzo montage of a Pearly King and Queen frolicking through Trafalgar Square....
...The performances are spellbinding — I defy anyone to sit unmoving through Sly and the Family Stone’s soaring “Everyday People” — but the headline act is Harlem itself....
...Mark Stanley dons the sofa-sized shoulder pads as a king whose changing moods are more muddy than mercurial, churning slowly across a sly, sweaty countenance....
...He succeeds James Yeh, who is retiring from the firm....
...James Peck of PX Farms in Cambridgeshire said he started growing sugar beet eight years ago and was the country’s third-largest grower, producing about 82,000 tonnes....
...The film was 1979’s Murder by Decree, starring Plummer as Sherlock Holmes and James Mason as Dr Watson....
...The Innocents (1961) was a skilful Henry James adaptation. The Great Gatsby (1974) was re-scripted by Francis Ford Coppola after Paramount deemed Capote’s version unusable....
...to James Bond’s 007 code number — a surrealist collage of phrases....
...There is no dialogue but several almost Bauschian vignettes in which individual performers go rogue, as when James Southward lurches around the stage kissing (almost) everybody like a drunk in “You’re my...
...Hurston’s matchless ear for the rhythms and cadence of African-American speech (honed during her anthropological work) animates these tales; so too does her sly way with a moral....
...But even in Ingmar Bergman’s gloom-rich films, he showed a gift for mischief and sly drollery....
...“This is the latest fad in Italian denial — a sly version of racism.” Yet the treatment of Mr Balotelli was far from an isolated incident....
...daily manoeuvres in the UK and EU by signing up to our UK Politics and Brussels Briefing newsletters Further reading Bercow’s bombshell cannot mask May’s Brexit failure “Narrow, rigid, unimaginative, sly...
...In 1999, the critic James Wood described James Lasdun as “one of the secret gardens of English literature”. Twenty years on, this description still seems apt....
...“Unpersecuted, unjailed, unharassed writers are trouble for the ignorant bully, the sly racist, and the predators feeding off the world’s resources . . ....
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