From Judi Dench and Mary Berry to a Cate Blanchett-styled gnome, the world’s greatest flower show was as much a display of the city’s fashion verve as of its fine floristry.
☃️❄️Sundance was as snowy and fun as this photo shoot foreshadowed❄️☃️ Thank you so much @Variety@ChrisWillman@shirleyhalperin for this cover/interview and Mary Ellen Matthews for taking these pics. Can’t wait for Jan 31 when #MissAmericana# comes out on @NetflixFilm!
I was eating pie at a local diner when the waitress announced that regular customers Bob and Mary were celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary.
The whole room cheered.
Bob kissed Mary’s wrinkled cheek.
The waitress turned to me, the only stranger in the booth: "Hey honey, give the lovebirds a toast!"
I froze. A public address. Honor demanded eloquence.
I stood up, bowed from the waist, and spoke with profound samurai gravity:
"Forty winters of shared rations. The lady has been the shield that defends the fortress from within. The gentleman has been the spear that cuts through the wilderness. Neither has yielded the field. This is not mere marriage. This is an unbroken military alliance of two noble souls."
The diner went dead silent.
I panicked. I assumed I had ruined the party with medieval metaphors.
Then Mary pulled a napkin to her face and began to weep.
Bob stood up, his eyes shining, grabbed my hand, and yelled:
"GODDAMN RIGHT! SHE'S MY SHIELD!"
The entire diner exploded into roaring applause. Truckers were wiping tears with paper napkins. The cook rang the order bell six times.
Bob bought my pie. I bought Bob’s coffee.
Forty years of battle, won together.
Will different branches of feminism ever be able to agree?
In this debate, social critic Minna Salami pushes back against Kathleen Stock and Mary Harrington’s argument that the conflict over how feminists define themselves is damaging for the movement as a whole.
Join them alongside Lucy Jones in “Gender equality and the freedom trap”.
Guided by a strong set of conservative values, Dick Cheney devoted his life to public service — from representing Wyoming in Congress, to serving as Secretary of Defense, and later as Vice President of the United States. While we didn’t agree on much, he believed, as I do, that family is the beginning, middle, and end. Jill and I send our love to his wife Lynne, their daughters Liz and Mary, and all of their grandchildren.
Today marks 51 years since the canonisation of Saint Oliver Plunkett
The Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland, successor to Saint Patrick, was martyred for his Catholic faith
The depraved savagery of his martyrdom took place at Tyburn, London, he was hanged, drawn and quartered, his dismembered remains set on fire and buried in the ground before his head was later brought back to his native Ireland
At his canonisation in 1975, Pope Paul VI greeted the pilgrims in Irish:
'Dia is muire Dhíbh, a chlann Phádraig! Céad mile fáilte rómhaibh! Tá Naomh nua againn inniu: Comharba Phádraig, Olibhéar Naofa Ploinéad. (God and Mary be with you, family of Saint Patrick! A hundred thousand welcomes! We have a new Saint today: the successor of Saint Patrick, Saint Oliver Plunkett)'