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...How could a shy, talented young south Londoner become a rampaging and eventually self-destructive monster of ego?...
...Hardwick and Shauna Macdonald share an easy chemistry as uptight Emma and exasperated Amy, and Swedish actor Erik Olsson has gentle charm as Lance — a stoned, Scandinavian cousin of Mark Rylance’s Rooster Byron...
...Sandy, shallow and usually with reliably moderate surf – great for long-boarders and learners – it’s a young-family stalwart (though among those families a Hemsworth or two might be disporting)....
...Dark afternoons of spirit-raising and ether-taking with their glamorous neighbour (Lord Byron) and his handsome doctor (John Polidori) led to storytelling....
...The young Englishman’s primary reason for visiting Greece was to investigate the circumstances around Byron’s death. But there were other forces at play....
...When young John Byron (the poet’s admired grandfather and an inspiration for the early seafaring adventures of his own Don Juan) precariously climbs a swaying 100ft mast to furl a sail, Grann lets us see...
...The multitracked layers are carefully arranged, with room for a super solo from young tenor saxophonist Xyngo....
...The avalanche is more than a kilometre west but a young man serving coffee gives the mountain a reproving look. “You always need to watch the rocks,” he says....
...Blame Lord Byron and the young Milords doing the Grand Tour on their gap year, blame cheap package holidays or Elizabeth David, but when we dream of outdoor eating, it is always overlooking blue sea or in...
...There are completely different problems for operations such as Byron or PizzaExpress going through their latest change of private equity ownership and, say, a well-regarded independent, run by a young chef...
...A growing young family spurred Lehtonen-Riley’s recent move to rural Essex, where he is building a house with a new jewellery studio, which will be converted from a barn....
...Trumpeter Byron Wallen joined Cole in the front line and drummer Hamid Drake and percussionist Yahael Camara Onono delivered a complex rhythmic web....
...Later, in Port Byron, another historical marker solemnly informed us that a local man, Amos S King, “gifted a bible to Pres Abraham Lincoln in 1861....
...It was the morning of June 22 1741, and two young Englishmen, William Windham and Richard Pococke, set out with their retinue from Chamonix in search of glaciers....
...I was also given a Byron’s Complete Works. The paper, just the feel, running your fingertips through the book and down the page… It’s such a sensorial experience....
...As well as other things, Byron was an ironist; Dickens a comic turn even when he was most polemical about grievous social wrong; Twain a stinging stalker of pompous lies and empty vanities....
...In April, Mark Rylance reprises his scintillating delivery of Johnny “Rooster” Byron, a decade after Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem first hit the stage (Apollo Theatre, from April 16)....
...Visitors to the V&A can still peep through its window into miniature glass-painted scenes from nature, illuminated by candles, which the young Gainsborough artfully placed behind a light-diffusing silk screen...
...Given that his religion barred him from the official posts which his genius merited, the young Pope had few employment options....
...Adrian Tinniswood, Jonathan Cape £30/Basic Books $32, 432 pages The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and People by Clive Aslet, Yale £18.99, 246 pages Miranda Seymour is the author of ‘In Byron...
...Back before the Married Woman’s Property Act of 1870, abducting a young heiress was the easiest way for a fortune hunter to obtain her wealth....
...The monks hold Byron in great esteem. Spending the winter in Venice in 1816, he rowed out to San Lazzaro three times a week to work on an English-Armenian dictionary....
...Byron is more his style: “His rock and roll-ness and relationships made him interesting and fun. But beyond that, the Romantics . . ....
...In 1957, he asked his agent Byron Raphael to begin procuring more girls for him and hundreds were desperate to meet the hero with the velvet voice....
...Someone has let slip that a group of young artists is staying next door and they are determined to keep the party going. Parton winks as she hands us our coats....
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