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...This is where Francis (played by Aaron Pierre as an adult) and Michael (Lamar Johnson) grow up in a small apartment with their mother Ruth (Marsha Stephanie Blake), a nurse of Jamaican origin....
...Long-rumoured to be in the running to replace the late Virgil Abloh at Louis Vuitton, she has hardly been held up by losing out on the gig to Pharrell Williams....
...“It is what it is” was among the numerous idiomatic expressions that William Safire covered in his “On Language” column in The New York Times....
...A few songs have a tossed-off feel to them, like her airy collaboration with Kendrick Lamar on “Nile”, while the snatches of film dialogue disrupt the flow of the music....
...In this highly segmented field, Pharrell Williams is a renaissance man....
...As Hancox writes, an 1883 painting of the Thames by William Wylie is titled Toil, Glitter, Grime and Wealth on a Flowing Tide....
...On my bedside table among a pile of other books — Mary Gaitskill, James Baldwin, William Burroughs (yikes!)...
...“You’ve heard everybody talk about a V, a W, an L, a bathtub, all kinds of words” with regard to future oil prices, said Lamar McKay, deputy group chief executive of BP....
...“Listen to Kendrick Lamar’s record [To Pimp a Butterfly], it’s extraordinary,” he suggests. “That’s changing the music. Listen to D’Angelo’s [Black Messiah]....
...CCO announced on Monday that William Eccleshare, who was appointed group chief executive in 2012, will give up responsibility for the US and will focus on its international operations....
...“Blind Threat” to the dirty south bounce of “Los Awesome” (overseen by Pharrell Williams, with his production hat on)....
...Although he still produces new acts, such as rapper Kendrick Lamar, his solo recording career has taken a back seat since 2008....
...Pharrell Williams calls him “this era’s Bob Dylan”; the sold-out crowd who braved London’s icy slush to see him on Sunday would be content with a worthy successor to Tupac Shakur....
...“With unemployment over 9 per cent now for 21 months, jobs are scarce and families are worried,” said Lamar Smith, the Republican chairman of the House judiciary committee....
...John Lamar Worzel was born in Staten Island, New York, on February 21 1919....
...Last month, the state executed Stanley Tookie Williams, 51, the former leader of the Crips gang....
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