Hints and tips:
...The BBC could just as well broadcast monkeys throwing darts at a board. (With budget cuts, it probably will.) The real world has started to twig that lie-detecting is a fool’s errand....
...Puzzle 2540 Ian Nepomniachtchi v Magnus Carlsen. AI Cup 2023. Black to move. The world No1 chose Nf5-e3 here. Can you do better? Click here for solution...
...It’s a discipline”, a concern that is also touched on in headings throughout the narrative, such as “Surface v depth” and “Real v fake.”...
...The two kings before him, Edward VIII and George V, similarly had smoking-related diseases. Come the coronation, the Queen’s antipathy to smoking echoed the beginnings of a mood of change....
...King George V’s December message to the empire 88 years ago had families gathered around their radio sets....
...“Poor”, when the Keats siblings’ tangled legacy (from a wealthy grandmother) inspired Dickens’s Bleak House account of the interminable Jarndyce v Jarndyce case?...
...“I was hanging out with Björk and Jarvis Cocker, and with Damien Hirst, Sam Taylor-Wood, Jay Jopling, with Hussein Chalayan and the Chapman Brothers. It was an amazing time. A revolution in the arts.”...
...Now let me ask you about this daguerreotype of you with your arm around Annie Chapman, the second Ripper victim. I do not know this woman....
...George Eliot’s characters dart in and out of Wirksworth, home of Haarlem Mill, which may or may not have inspired her “Mill on the Floss”....
...Kiko Konstantinov had real tension in his tailored lines, which sat slightly away from the body, held by press studs and with darts disorientating the fit....
...The Cubs, guided by its deliciously eccentric manager, Joe Maddon, are young, powerful and talented throughout the line-up and have a closing pitcher, the Cuban Aroldis Chapman, who routinely throws at 100mph...
...There are coins from the reign of Marcus Aurelius, and earlier, to George V, arranged on squares of red velvet; there is a beautiful lid handle shaped like a dove; and a delicate gold ring, woven with snake...
...It’s a performance that harks back to his mercurial Hamlet as he darts around, chatting with audience members housed in galleries on the stage....
...Jake Chapman, one half of the Chapman brothers, has just agreed to swap certain pieces with Hayden Kays, a pop artist who borrows imagery from mass culture and whom Chapman describes as “acerbic, witty,...
...“I found women were drawn to the slimness, without darts, and something of a dramatic cuff....
...My colleague Peter Chapman has a theory that the English working classes realised that it was all up with Empire three years before the upper-classes....
...We’ve already seen how NML Capital v Argentina has influenced Grenada’s legal battle with the Taiwanese government-owned Export-Import Bank of the Republic of China....
...Ruth Chapman, chief executive and co-founder of online retailer Matches, says: “I think school uniform colours work right now because they’re comforting and evoke memories of more carefree times.”...
...(I) Transdek UK (I) Transec (UK) Tristar Cars t/a Tristar Worldwide Chauffeur Services TRL Technology (I) TTS Group Turbosound (I) U Ubisense Group Ubisense Group (I) Union Electric Steel UK V...
...And I take two batteries with me everywhere I go”) and she darts about gathering up art books as various artists’ names arise....
...The crews in this weekend’s Boat Race may suffer nerves, then exhilaration or depression, but almost certainly no more so than the participants in another Oxford v Cambridge needle match: the 58th Varsity...
...Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head , by Rob Chapman, Faber RRP£14.99 Rob Chapman has written a big biography of a fleeting talent....
...But today, floating down a tranquil river while mayflies pirouette in the sunlight and swallows dart and dive over the water, the dream and reality come pretty close. There’s only one problem....
...He darts out of the room again, and returns surprisingly fast with a red-covered book....
...Thus his “O Shirt”, for example, contains almost no darts, marking a departure from the draping favoured by many European designers....
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