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...Cecil B DeMille would have been hard put to stage an epic on this scale and that is assuming there were three singers ready to take on its hugely challenging principal roles....
...Its sovereign debt is trading at levels that suggest the market expects downgrades from its triple B investment-grade rating....
...Beaufoy’s and Nutter’s writing is as cautiously optimistic about the resilience of community spirit as it is angry about the shrinking welfare state. One thing it avoids is the B word....
...Festival, Germany This year’s Wagner-athon brings back Valentin Schwarz’s modern, decadent Ring cycle, which premiered to mixed reviews last year, alongside stagings of Tannhäuser, Der fliegende Holländer, Tristan...
...But Tristan Smith, a shipping researcher at UCL, argued that parts of the private sector also lobbied for more flexible rules and exemptions, including for ships facing bad weather....
...Are we going to continue to allow people such as Mark and his deputy Sheryl Sandberg to tell us that either: a) they have no responsibility for any ramifications of their technologies; or b) they’ve added...
...Some of the finest moments in the Liebestod occurred in the quieter passages and that was true of Abduraimov’s Liszt B minor Sonata too....
...These entitled us to free bed and breakfast accommodation if we took a three-course dinner at the B&B each evening....
...St Helena was chosen to house the former emperor after his defeat at Waterloo because it was (a) a British possession and (b) a byword for remoteness. Both these facts are still true....
...wigmore-hall.org.uk Photograph: Tristan Cook...
...YouTube nutters on bikes. A dad and two sons taking their camcorder time-capsule project, plus family frictions, into the big arena....
...Tristan Sturrock and Lucy Tuck play both dog-lovers Mr and Mrs Deary and dog lovers Pongo and Perdita....
...“An exciting generation of filmmakers is coming through — people like Clio Barnard, Ben Wheatley, Joanna Hogg and Andrew Haigh — but it’s still hard to get genuinely indie films off the ground,” says Tristan...
...But plot well-turned and pace moodily rubato, as in the best kind of B-movie....
...Plan A has not morphed into Plan B....
...Where his first book, The Natural Navigator, covered how to get from A to B using only the sun, moon and stars, The Natural Explorer is altogether more esoteric....
...S&P lowered Spain’s rating to triple B plus, at the lower end of investment grade ratings, from A, and warned that further cuts could be necessary particularly as growth could weaken further....
...Switching from a conventional trumpet in C to a piccolo trumpet in B-flat to, yes, a cow horn, he swings and sways, blasts and blares, swoons and croons with sassy savoir-faire....
...In September 2005, Gwen Stefani’s L.A.M.B also emerged at the New York shows, featuring slouchy dresses, tracksuit harem pants (prices from $45) and hair quiffs eerily reminiscent of the singer’s own grunge...
...Hate: A Romance, by Tristan Garcia, translated by Marion Duvert and Lorin Stein, Faber, RRP£12.99, 320 pages Garcia was awarded the prestigious Prix de Flore for this novel, a powerful debut charting the...
...Famous Afro-Americans (James Brown, B.B....
...Monday’s programme opened with Mozart’s songful Sonata in B flat, K.333....
...According to Tristan Garel-Jones, president of Canning House, a London-based organisation that promotes Iberian and Latin American culture, Spanish is the most studied language in the UK’s state schools....
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