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...In one of three casts, Angela Gheorghiu sings Mimi — the role that made the Romanian soprano a star in her 1992 ROH debut....
...Back in its heyday, The Prospect of Whitby was visited by historic figures and celebrities: Turner and Whistler both sketched views of the Thames from the pub, and Charles Dickens dined there too....
...An EU diplomat summed up the mood after another rollercoaster EU summit with some seasonal Dickens references: “It’s a Great Expectations lead-in and a Bleak House outcome....
...When Germans vote on September 24, investors are feeling confident that another coalition government under Angela Merkel’s leadership, as predicted by the polls, will pose no threat to the strong showing...
...Of all London novelists, Charles Dickens probably got closest to the Joycean vision of novel-as-map....
...Charles Dickens, another former customer, is an evergreen research subject. “You’d think everybody had written everything you’d need to know about Dickens, but there’s always something else.”...
...I suggest the most powerful people grappling with the Greek crisis, for instance, are women: Angela Merkel, Christine Lagarde. “Yes,” agrees Morgan....
...There was the lingering association with Urania Cottage, a pet project of Charles Dickens, founded by Angela Burdett-Coutts for destitute prostitutes, that was sited just west of the Green....
...The writing is grotesque and gothic, like a satirical version of Frank McCourt’s Irish misery memoir Angela’s Ashes. There are laugh-out loud moments....
...Angela Merkel, @Queen_Europe: the German chancellor reassures her followers that, despite the stresses of saving the Eurozone, she is not forgetting to eat....
...and this year the Grierson Award offers the by now familiar array of industry exposés, portraits of obsession and eccentricity, and biographies of cultural figures (cartoonist Ralph Steadman, activist Angela...
...turn anticipate 20th- and 21st-century “psycho-geographers” such as the Angela Carter of Wise Children, and JG Ballard....
...We wince as she bullies husband Laurence, who has more highbrow cultural aspirations and flaunts his bound set of Dickens to middle-class guest Sue....
...(See Power with grace) Angela Merkel All eyes remain on the German chancellor, the G8’s longest-serving leader, as the eurozone crisis continues....
...There’s a whole lot of them: Charlie Higgins, Joyce, Heaney, Angela Carter, William Faulkner, Roddy Doyle – a great mate of mine – and Borges....
...Their modern equivalents would be Mr Obama, Nick Clegg, Angela Merkel and Silvio Berlusconi. Still, perhaps 1861 was a freak?...
...Evil Fagin is transformed into the benign Solomon Cohen, and even Dickens has a walk-on part, together with other Victorian figures. Tremendous fun....
...He also read widely and campaigned for charitable causes, raised funds for struggling writers and collaborated with Angela Burdett Coutts working for homeless women....
...Return flight Forget about the ups and downs of the German economy and the strains in chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition....
...The best epitaph, Dickens suggests - and these books bear it out - is both a laying to rest and an act of recovery....
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