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...Spoken word, folk, hip hop and R&B are placed alongside traditional opera....
...I’m staying at Maison 76, Matthews’ luxurious, four-room B&B set in a former 18th-century apothecary. He tells me that the golfers are fewer now....
...This article is part of a guide to London from FT Globetrotter “London is too big,” the novelist William Boyd once observed from his home in Chelsea....
...Thus “Intoxication from the Jahvmonishi Leaves”, an ebullient mix of modern jazz and hard-hitting R&B, is followed by the ebb and flow of “Fete by the River”, a juxtaposition of gentle calypso and punchy...
...Eventually, the B cells turn into a memory device that can quickly reproduce the antibodies if a person is exposed again....
...Liverpool; Nik Morrell, London; Ian Dempsey, New Jersey Polymath 1,015: Richard Otley, Wakefield Crossword 16,123: Michael Baylor, France; Scott Forbes, London; Judith Hadley, USA Polymath 1,014: Peter Boyd...
...Toíbín finds in John B Yeats’s final self-portrait the picture “of someone who had been lit up by life”....
...Here is a boldly-going B-movie somewhere between Cheap Godzilla and Plan 9 from Outer Space. Black is surely being cheeky. We’re meant to giggle, aren’t we, at the dialogue?...
...Prize that a) it was a novel and b) it was good enough to be shortlisted....
...The short B-road looping round the north-easternmost point of Northern Ireland looked innocuous on the map. On bikes it was anything but....
...It’s too early to know how Solo will do in the longer term but, if Boyd writing as Fleming can sell more books than Boyd writing as Boyd, who can blame publishers for commissioning such a product?...
...It was around the same time that Carvalho started making his films, that Pianka, a travel agent, was searching for traditionally-made clothes, and his research led him to the old Merz B Schwanen factory....
...Thaddeus Strassberger’s intense staging, with sets by Madeleine Boyd, a co-production with St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre, begins with a hazy view of the House of Atreus looking resplendently gaudy in...
...The all-male trend was broken in October when Karen Witts was appointed group finance director at Kingfisher, owner of the B&Q home improvement chain....
...If meeting Bob Silvers for lunch is a daunting prospect, it is because he represents not just an institution but an era – or, rather, several; like Logan Mountstuart, the protagonist of William Boyd’s novel...
...Mandelbaum ● Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier, by Edward Glaeser ● The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust , by Diana B....
...I was introduced to him by Anne Boyd, a journalist. She said, ‘Come on Joan, you have done this for Calvin so now you have to do this for Ralph’....
...During the first week, it was fascinating to hear the SPCO play, back to back, two essential but utterly different Viennese works calling for (more or less) 13 wind instruments: Mozart’s Gran Partita in B...
...But he has picked up a thing or two directing the monstrously successful Spider-Man films, not least access to larger budgets, and Drag Me to Hell is a B-movie served up with almost disconcertingly lavish...
...The show has hip fashions and permissible sex but the ambivalence concerning authority figures, even in hotshot Section B, is entirely traditional....
...B Italia....
...more H1-B visas....
...After two successful novels, Dutch-born Michel Faber returns to short fiction in his new collection The Fahrenheit Twins (Canongate £12.99), while William Boyd is at his quirkiest in his compilation, Fascination...
...She seemed determined to (a) answer the question and (b) speak sense, even if it was banal sense. ”Tragedy,” she said, “is about that everything is not happy ever after....
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