Hints and tips:
...In any case, Bond villains were often highly educated, as was Orson Welles’ Harry Lime, another private-school baddie, who could also do a fine line in rhetoric....
...“Within my term in office, I will not touch the issue of unification....
...I can do that, le Carré smiles, “Like I can do bird noises.”...
...“I’m not going to argue with you,” Parkinson told the boxer in one interview. “You’re not as dumb as you look,” Ali replied....
...Democrats, in a new party manifesto, envision a return to nuclear power and a harder line on asylum seekers, immigration and the place of Islam in national life, William Noah Glucroft writes for Deutsche Welle...
...Indeed, offspring or grandchildren act as an excuse for customers such as Welles-Gould. “Treehouses aren’t just for kids, and I think I’m going to be spending a night out there myself,” she admits....
...Thirty-three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany is politically unified but dividing lines persist between east and west, the government’s commissioner for eastern Germany tells the Deutsche Welle...
...“I want people to go back home and say ‘Woah!’”...
...I’d like to draw your attention to two first-class analyses of Slovakia’s political scene....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com....
...Dal Bolognese eventually became a favourite of writers, cultural figures and intellectuals such as Alberto Moravia, Jean-Paul Sartre and Orson Welles....
...Orson Welles once went on a violent rant about Woody Allen, whose timidity he saw as a species of arrogance. (A self-mocker, after all, is still talking about their favourite subject.)...
...He replied: “I also have control of the mausoleum, and if necessary, I can check.” Hearst died in 1951 and the estate opened to the public in 1958....
...“I have seen dead bodies in my life because of being a medical doctor,” she told me....
...“I don’t know why she appointed him as her chef de cabinet,” said one parliament official....
...Last time I checked, it was busy with a nationwide Covid lockdown. North Korea? Donald Trump visited there a few years back; I’ll bet he has an opinion and he’d just love to share it....
...A Deutsche Welle article looks at how maritime frontiers, energy exploration and the divided island of Cyprus are chronic sources of tension between the two countries, which are, nominally at least, Nato...
...Regarding Sikorski’s broader point, I have much sympathy but also some reservations....
...Some of those helped make TV history, I say: a personal favourite was Leslie Megahey’s magisterial Arena three-hour documentary The Orson Welles Story from 1982....
...One anonymous Green party politician told the state broadcaster Deutsche Welle that it wasn’t only ministry rank and file who were struggling: “Robert needs a lie-in.”...
...So I sent his list to some people I respect, both in and adjacent to academia, to see what they made of it....
...The ban on broadcasters BBC, Deutsche Welle and Voice of America is a big blow to Afghans who are trying to remain connected to the outside world....
...“I’d be cautious about banning RT,” said Robert Largan, a Conservative MP. “Putin would respond by banning the BBC in Russia, which actually cuts through his propaganda to millions.”...
...Binge-watching screen Lears has treated me to a mercurial-magisterial Michael Hordern, a raging Ian Holm, a sonorous Orson Welles, and an Olivier veering wildly between the titanic and the tricksy....
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