Hints and tips:
...In a neat reproach, outlaw country grandee Willie Nelson has a cameo in the album in the role of a radio DJ....
...They reveal a long family history of collecting. “It’s a horrible strain,” says Adrian. “My uncle George Dannatt had a well-known collection of British modernist art....
...But giving it all away is hard and nowhere near as much fun as building spaceships or partying with Kim K....
...“I named this room after him,” he explains as we look inside, before moving on to one of the two dining rooms, this one named after his uncle Alistair....
...One is Willie Adams, a father of four in his thirties, who was working at Washington’s Georgetown University Hospital until last year, but is now unemployed and has recently been attending Robinson’s courses...
...Among the mourners was Robert Lewis Burns, Shirley’s uncle and a Vietnam war veteran....
...By the time I came to appreciate Willie Shalyt, or Uncle Willie as he was generally known around Manchester, he was a tall, well-dressed gentleman who had gone bald at an early age....
...Her uncles found jobs in construction, her father went to work in a prison. “But things were never the same. I saw the fire leave.”...
...For Mr Lawson, this was brought to a head in March after travelling with BA from Cape Town to Geneva via London. Each of his four flights had a problem....
...He scans the other pictures: “Uncle Sol — Uncle Willie we called him — lived in the same house that I did. Max — the only one in the family who actually made some money.”...
...Or Lee Atwater’s 1988 commercial, which portrayed the Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis as a lily-livered liberal who allowed Willie Horton, a convicted murderer out on a weekend furlough...
...Tebbit felt Thatcher needed some support in case the more dovelike Francis Pym and Willie Whitelaw lost their collective nerve....
...A strong supporting cast includes Jeff Rawle as loveable old soak Uncle Willie, Barbara Flynn as the nameless Mother Lord, and a role more or less created for this production, that of pianist/singer Joey...
...Prewar fighters Joe Louis and Willie Pep (such a virtuoso of feints and lateral movement that he reputedly once won a round without attempting a punch) are in the conversation....
...Wilderness cabins are a common theme in North American literature, from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie to Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe....
...“He’s like a father figure for those of us who wanted to straighten up and fly right.” Goode was born into a musical family in Kingston, Jamaica; his uncle is the guitarist Ernest Ranglin....
...What links the titular 18th-century acting dynasty with the boy Joseph, who in 1990 comes to live with his reclusive uncle in Spitalfields?...
...At the same time, Nigel Lawson embarked on his first Budget as chancellor, and made several significant changes to the tax system....
...Every one of the book’s mistakes was like a hammer-blow to me: we will come to the story of the “Wisden willie” later....
...After the resignation of Lawson in 1989, and of Thatcher a year later, later chancellors were left to repair their financial legacy....
...John Lawson at Investec moved his recommendation from “hold” to “sell”....
...Mr Zuma said Willie Hofmeyr, a respected anti-apartheid activist, would be replaced as head of the Special Investigating Unit “in order to strengthen the institutional capacity to fight crime and corruption...
...I think it keeps you clean” (G.K. Chesterton); “There is of course no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the piano” (Rebecca West)....
..., driving Nigel Lawson and Sir Geoffrey Howe from the cabinet by her refusal to set a date for joining the European Union’s Exchange Rate Mechanism....
...Tayanç Ayaydin makes a winning loser as Mihram, who uses Charlie Chaplin pluck to escape a Willie Loman plot....
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