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...Over the past few months, the whales have bent my life under the weight of their massive bodies....
...On a recent trip to India, shadow foreign secretary David Lammy had his ear bent by the business elite over Rolex robbery in Mayfair and the alleged lack of response from the Met....
...David Lammy, shadow foreign secretary, is in the Indian capital for talks on geopolitics and commerce but on Tuesday had his ear bent over the risks of Rolex watch thefts in the British capital....
...The 19th-century American painter William Sidney Mount created the work “The Power of Music” in 1847....
...Huen currently has a sold-out show at Matt Carey-Williams in London (until May 25)....
...These days, however, an equally useful yardstick is to see them in William Forsythe’s ballets....
...Soutine’s equally explosive “View of Cagnes” hangs next to it, highlighting the shared frenzy of brushstrokes and the sense of a townscape bent by centrifugal motion....
...“This administration is determined to advance its radical climate agenda and has made it clear they are hell-bent on doing everything in their power to regulate coal- and gas-fuelled power plants out of...
...But if you have the luxury of a whole day, a completist bent and comfortable shoes, you could also make your way through the galleries in numerical order, from 600 to 644....
...The programme is all-American, with classics by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Williams, as well as beloved pieces such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, 100 years after its debut....
...A recent report by Tony Blair and William Hague makes the case for data-sharing across the state to improve outcomes....
...We see how the wanton destruction of children drives characters to extremes — first Tamora, bent on avenging her son, then the now deranged Titus, cooking up his ghastly feast....
...And then there is the looming presence of William Shakespeare....
...Government agencies responsible for monitoring infectious disease epidemics and providing public health advice are now routinely accused by libertarians of being the tools of a deep state conspiracy bent...
...Many of today’s popular artists also show a Surrealist bent....
...Smart reads Foot on the gas Western energy companies have bent to the pressure to herald a future less reliant on fossil fuels....
...CIA chief William Burns also came and told the Bolsonaro administration not to mess with the elections....
...Add to that the crossover of heritage and streetwear brands from Palace and Ralph Lauren to Dries Van Noten and Stüssy, and you can clearly see how the rules have been bent beyond breaking point to allow...
...“It came back from Liberia shot full of holes,” Williams tells me as we are climbing in....
...The chemical element neon – a colourless gas that glows red when placed in an electric field – was discovered in 1898 by British chemists Morris Travers and William Ramsay....
...Victorian Britain, for instance, produced many high-profile business leaders with a strong religious bent: men such as William Lever of Unilever fame (Congregationalist), the tourism entrepreneur Thomas...
...Over the years, people bent its branches by weighing them down with stones, turning the tree into a living guidepost to game, settlements, medicinal plants and, of course, waterways....
...“They bent over backwards to help me,” he says. “I’ve not got a lot of debt, and I don’t need to borrow a lot of money, but no one else would lend.”...
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