Hints and tips:
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Puzzle number 2534A Magnus Carlsen v Nijat Abasov, World Cup semi-final, Baku 2023. Black chose 1 . . . Rg6 and lost. How could he have beaten the World No 1?...
...The show pays homage to “De Profundis”, the weird and wonderful 50,000-word letter the Irish poet and playwright wrote to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, while imprisoned in Reading Gaol for “acts of gross...
...Luckey, in his trademark Hawaiian shirt, shorts and flip flops, runs his hands through his mullet in exasperation....
...Alfred, Lord Tennyson takes up the theme in part of his 19th-century poem “The Princess: Come down, o Maid”: . . ....
...Lindsay Ketteringham, the chairman, is there, sporting a technicolour shirt, head topped with a floppy mullet....
...“You would think the English monarchy had [not] been buried since the time of Alfred.”...
...They begin with a sequel to the English King Henry V’s victory over the French at Agincourt....
...What you cannot see in the show is that George, future King George V, had a dragon and a tiger tattooed on his arm to commemorate the trip....
...Meanwhile backstage, props, costumes and wigs need to be separated, and keeping cast members safe is a military operation worthy of Henry V. Shakespeare was not a man for a two-hander....
...from the upmarket nightclubs and golf courses of Palm Springs, the Salton Sea offered a yacht club, motels, water-skiing, and — after the waters were stocked with shad, orangemouth corvina and striped mullet...
.../ From John V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...Conservatives hope leadership will confer maturity on Boris Johnson, as it did on Prince Hal in Henry V. Cynics think the UK’s new premier has more in common with the incorrigible Falstaff....
...Neither do we need to ponder the meaning of Father Dougal McGuire’s penchant for wearing a V-neck tank top over his clerical robes in Father Ted....
...I was judging an illustration thing at the V&A and I thought, ‘I’ll get there early because they’ve got one box of jewellery that’s been found.’”...
...To check, I turned to my copy of V....
...Once I was done wincing at all its many simplifications, the absence of fellow evolutionary pioneer Alfred Russel Wallace and all the rest of it, it dawned on me that this jumped-up, family-friendly puppet...
...In the 1930s, Alfred Stieglitz photographed poplars repeatedly, identifying with them, since their age was comparable with his own....
...The most remarkable proposal in the exhibition is, perhaps, Alfred Ely Beach’s New York Tube, a prototype subway system built in Downtown New York in 1867....
...Zeitz’s Segera Retreat in Kenya was their lab until the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront proposed the silo as a not-for-profit museum....
...She also treated her own body like a canvas, swathing some areas in grey and leaving the great white V of a neck exposed....
...When Paul Strand was starting out as a photographer in New York, he would approach Alfred Stieglitz every couple of years for an appraisal....
...The latter would have served as a joke at the Alfred E Smith “roast” dinner, where presidential candidates are supposed to make self-deprecating remarks....
...By contrast, the V&A explores her acceptance of technical flaws to add energy and character....
...Lord Denning was delivering the leading judgment in the Court of Appeal in the case of Maxwell v Department of Trade and Industry. Few cases have been so extensively misrepresented....
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