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...This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s guide to Zürich As we stood in a very Swiss orderly line of chocoholics outside the Lindt Home of Chocolate museum, waiting for the doors to open, a strange quiet...
...It is into this strange arena that Martin Crimp dives with Not One of These People: a 90-minute piece that smashes questions about authorial intent and licence — what right does a playwright have to put...
...Pigeons pirouette around the lad, cooing as they perform their strange upwards flutter to land. Fancying these creatures is another ubiquitous sport in Cuba....
...His artists might appear as marigolds blowing in the breeze, fluorescent Aztec shapes or strange primordial creatures, with limbs moving in every direction....
...At a time when theatres are closed and public gatherings forbidden, it seems more than strange to be attending the premiere of Henze’s Das Verratene Meer (The Betrayed Sea) at the Vienna State Opera....
...Vera Jourova, the EU’s executive commissioner for transparency and values, visits Warsaw on Tuesday for her maiden trip to discuss the rule of law in the EU’s fifth-largest member state....
...I drive into Accra, which is in lockdown — a strange and eerie feeling of apocalypse. Where are the schoolchildren, the women frying doughnuts, the newspaper sellers, the beggars?...
...From the get-go there’s something strange about the grown-ups’ behaviour and their interaction with the lad. Soon they’re writhing first in sexual congress then in their death throes....
...This novel is every bit as strange and sensuous as Celt’s lyrical debut, The Daughters, a haunting fable of motherhood and mourning....
...Invitation to a Bonfire , by Adrienne Celt, Raven, RRP£14.99/Bloomsbury, RRP$26 Inspired by Nabokov’s marriage to his wife Vera, Celt’s second novel is the strange, sensuous tale of celebrated émigré author...
...Vera Papisova, the magazine’s digital wellness editor, says: “Our mental health coverage, particularly articles around anxiety and depression, are some of the most-read articles on our website.”...
...Instead, for her new production at Berlin’s Deutsche Oper, Vera Nemirova gives us refugees....
...But even if it were only half-true, how strange that such preoccupation should have been absent from our screens....
...When I did [Mike Leigh’s] Vera Drake, Reg [his character] was thinking so many things but he said them in monosyllabic responses.” Terry Donovan is another silent type....
...“Nemtsov might have been a strange kind of sacrificial victim for those who stop at nothing to achieve their political aims”....
...strange idolatry inspired by the Pankhursts; the horror of forced feeding in prison; the visceral fear they inspired, with men whispering “sex filth” at women selling militant newspapers....
...Many of those she quotes are comparatively well known; the poet Anna Akhmatova, for instance, or Trotsky’s cousin Vera Inber....
...How do you classify this “strange product”? Is the trade “for here or to go”? This exuberant adaptation for the stage does full justice to Gogol’s classic....
...Mr Ponomarev’s wife, Vera Shabelnikova, told Interfax news agency that he had been receiving strange phone calls lately, and “there was the impression that my husband was being followed”....
...The situation was expressed most clearly by Vera Wang, who based her entire collection on the push-pull of just such dualities: hard and soft, silk and chiffon, glittering paillettes veiled by an over-dress...
...When I take students out I make sure they look really good, not in-your-face or strange – it’s always clear that they’ve made an effort....
...Afew years ago Floriane de Saint Pierre, a Paris-based headhunter specialising in luxury and fashion, began to notice something strange....
...Surfaces show a strange “efflorescence”: a flowering of white patches caused by “lime bloom” or - even lovelier - “lime weep”....
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