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Director Thea Sharrock moves the large cast elegantly around the Olivier stage, with some fine performances, including Helen Ryan's as a switched-on granny and Lara Rossi as her part-time-prostitute granddaughter.
Staging a Twitter Revolution Paul Levy 2011
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For switched-on marketers, their Creative Business Idea potential is virtually unlimited.
Naomi Troni: Be Digital to the Core Naomi Troni 2011
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Yay for you, Kathleen, that you have the courage to face what that switched-on light shows! on 15 Mar 2010 at 2: 04 pm Dina B
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Over the years, I'd gone from what I fondly imagined to be a switched-on, youngish-minded mum to a rancid, middle-aged harridan, glaring at shrieking texting huddles in the street – youngsters I didn't even know, but would consider lightly birching.
It's all too easy to hate teens – try a little love instead | Barbara Ellen 2011
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My friend M., a search person who specializes in placing HR leaders, says that twenty percent of her corporate clients want 'switched-on' HR people, and the other 80% want the standard policy-and-process model.
Liz Ryan: Putting The 'Human' Back In HR, Part Two Liz Ryan 2011
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I'm sure today's models are a lot more switched-on than we were.
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Less switched-on types merely boast multiple tattoos.
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Interaction between writers in panel discussion is, at its best, intellectually stimulating both for the participants and for the audience – and speculative fiction readers make a particularly switched-on audience, bursting with good questions.
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Obama falling for that one will lose him a huge amount of respect from his 'switched-on' supporters.
Happy Hour Reading 2009
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The Chinese, a switched-on, pragmatic people who, by the way, are vigorous consumers of digital porn, instantly grasped the government's real goal was to control the free flow of information.
Tom Doctoroff: China's Digital Green Dam: The Party Capitulates 2009
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