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...“It’s Jeff Beck, it’s Jimmy Page, it’s Peter Green. John Lennon, Beatles, Stones. And they wanted to do dear old Def Leppard.”...
.../ From Martin Allen, London N1, UK...
...‘Explorer: The Quest for Adventure and the Great Unknown’ by Benedict Allen is published by Canongate Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...It’s a bold statement from someone who helped liquidate Enron’s operations and represented plaintiffs in the Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford frauds....
...When that happens, it’s shocking — to us, to him, even, Beck suggests, to Nellie herself....
...Many words are close to identical: beck (stream), bairn/barn (child), kirk (church), fell/fjell (mountain), dale/dal (valley)....
...He is particularly good on what the pandemic exposed about the gulf in rich countries between apparent preparation and true preparedness, using the phrase of a German sociologist Ulrich Beck, “organised...
...Alfred Hitchcock once said: “To make a great film you need three things — the script, the script and the script.”...
...The Lady from Arezzo: My Musical Life and Other Matters Alfred Brendel, Faber, RRP£14.99 Since his retirement from life as a concert pianist Alfred Brendel has had time for the other sides of his personality...
...Scrolling through Instagram last month, I stopped to stare at Lily Allen’s wedding photos....
...‘English Pastoral: An Inheritance’ by James Rebanks is published by Allen Lane Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...After contacting Cole’s service in January, Alfred Batalla, a senior staff nurse in the intensive care unit at Homerton who began experiencing panic attacks and nightmares after the first wave, was referred...
...Will the same tide finally turn, in France, against Woody Allen?...
...In Woody Allen’s film Midnight in Paris, Dalí baffles the time-travelling American hero by gesturing and exclaiming that he sees a rhinoceros....
...There are fine performances, particularly from Alfred Enoch in the lead, from Sinéad Cusack as his flinty grandmother and Patrice Naiambana as a wise old gardener. ★★★☆☆ The Nico Project at the Stoller...
...The fall in the UK’s economic sentiment “leaves the indicator pointing to growth more or less grinding to a halt” said Oliver Allen, economist at Capital Economics, a consultancy....
...My interest was piqued by Marcela Sapone, who founded Hello Alfred in 2014 with fellow Harvard Business School student Jessica Beck on the theory that time-poor young professionals particularly prized the...
...Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age, by Stephen Platt, Atlantic Books, RRP£25/Alfred A Knopf, RRP$35 Stephen Platt, author of a prizewinning book on the mid-19th century...
...Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, by John Carreyrou, Picador, RRP£20/Alfred A Knopf, RRP$27.95 The rise, decline and scandalous fall of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, the blood-testing...
...Soon after Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck started Hello Alfred, an app offering concierge services such as grocery shopping and cleaning, they reasoned that in order to grow the company, their employees...
...But Paula Rego, Bridget Riley, Auerbach, Hockney (presiding, as I write, over a massive new show in New York) and Allen Jones are with us still and working....
...Neoclassical economists, however, such as Léon Walras, Stanley Jevons and Alfred Marshall, with their marginal revolution and idea of equilibrium, eliminated these distinctions: under the subjective theory...
...For Mr Johnson and those laughing along with him, Mr Barnier and his team are no closer than Alfred T. Mahan’s far distant, storm-beaten ships....
...Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941 and began his musical career playing in coffee houses in Minnesota....
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