Hints and tips:
...“No corporation should have that much power. But we’ve all created this serpent which is wrapping itself around us....
...He’s done King Lear. He’s done Hamlet, Othello. But the staging in this one is really contemporary....
...How strange, then, that the reaction was so different when the Biden administration surprised most of us with an expression of support for (maybe, someday) waiving Covid-19 vaccine patents....
...Andrew Hilton: Strange question . . . It assumes we “level”, either up or down. I fear we will do neither....
...As behavioural economist Peter Atwater of Financial Insyghts points out in his latest newsletter, the most recent Gallup survey on economic sentiment uncovered something strange . . ....
...“But the weird thing is that, given the way the performers tell the plots and the attention they pay to the objects, it does have that strange quality of puppetry....
...Combining the fantastical and the ordinary to dreamlike effect, these tales are full of tenderness, humour and strange delights....
...Nothing strange here. Indeed, we may argue that the wretchedness and sadness of the whole affair is, in fact, an acute commentary on the hellishness of Miley Cyrus-level celebrity....
...The strange story that Tibco Software and their adviser Goldman Sachs had not used an accurate share count in their financial analysis, which evaluated a $24 per share buyout offer from Vista Equity Partners...
...dreadfoot V.D.”....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...With industry in decline, opportunities for designers to work for big corporations started to disappear....
...At the same time she has to fathom their strange powers and arcane laws. A fun, sassy romp....
...At the book’s heart is Mikhail Gorbachev, a Lear-esque hero, who gave away what he should have retained to a west bent less on emancipation than exploitation....
...It is, instead, all part of the BBC’s positioning for the strange digital world in which we find ourselves. I understand that....
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