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...It’s quite groovy; you’ll see people in there like Damien Hirst and Lily Allen but also drystone wallers....
...Yet perhaps the most familiar of familiars is the cat, with its recurring presence in ghost stories from the time of Edgar Allen Poe onwards....
...He wades through slimy water in the River Wye in Wales, where run-off from industrial chicken farms is causing frequent algal blooms....
...Jemma Wadham’s ‘Ice Rivers’ is published by Allen Lane Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...‘English Pastoral: An Inheritance’ by James Rebanks is published by Allen Lane Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...Witcraft: the Invention of Philosophy in English, by Jonathan Rée, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 768 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Bloom has captured the 1930s with seeming effortlessness....
...The dialogue was stilted at best when Mr Bloom made his October quip....
...Extra features include the Manchego in his pomp, interviewed on a busy Madrid street and proclaiming himself (rightly) one of the world’s great directors of actors, the equal of Bergman and Allen....
...Their full skirts billow like galleon’s sails and their bare shoulders battle goose pimples as they gather Lakmé’s exotic blooms (if only)....
...When Meryl Streep uses an awards podium as a bully pulpit, and Lily Allen tweets against Brexit, they are doing what entertainers always do....
...At a low point in their romance, Alvy Singer (aka Woody Allen) says to Annie Hall: “A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies....
...At least Bloom occasionally picks his nose. The sixth game, Journey, was produced by thatgamecompany whose mission is to “make a positive contribution to the human psyche worldwide”....
...The panorama sweeps from the romantic granite outcrop where Edgar Allen Poe rambled in search of inspiration, down past the pristine sod and gracefully corkscrewing pathways of Olmsted’s fledgling park,...
...But the bloom of youth is still desirable. Promiscuity outbids incontinence (no matter how alike they are)....
...A friend of the poet Allen Ginsberg and himself an experimental film-maker who spent his final years as “shaman-in-residence” at a Buddhist-inspired university in Colorado, Smith was fascinated by the occult...
...Knights Bachelor Gerald Acher , for charitable services Rodney Aldridge , chairman, the Aldridge Foundation, for services to young people Charles Allen, for services to the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics...
...The clowns (Paul Appleby, Brian Frutiger and Joshua Bloom) were clever, the nymphs (Audrey Luna, Tamara Mumford and Lei Xu) exquisite....
...Lizzie Sanders has produced a magnificent single pinky white bloom of Rhododendron basilicum bursting out from a spray of elegant leaves....
...Thomas Allen brings a lifetime’s experience to Faninal – a joy to behold – and Graham Clark’s Valzacchi defies the years....
...The wave of the 1950s – James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Allen Ginsberg and the Paris Review crowd – had all this too, along with inescapable romantic nostalgia for the 1920s....
...In spring, the interlocking spurs’ rough grassland blooms with wildflowers and peregrines breed nearby at an eyrie in the crags....
...The first, from directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, dramatises the furore that greeted Allen Ginsberg’s beat ballad “Howl” in 1952....
...Yet always lurking beneath the blooms of success was the question of whether they contained the seeds of their own destruction....
...Allen also has a tendency to bathe each character’s Big Speeches in a thick spotlight....
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