Hints and tips:
...Cecil Beaton, the great society photographer, used all sorts of tricks to flatter his subjects after replacing what he called “hazardous candid camera shots”....
...(She still has a book Kempson gave her – The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror – which sits on the table beside her armchair.)...
...Founded in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1951 by warlock and screenwriter Cecil Williamson, it moved to the Cornish coast in 1960....
...This is not the England of Cecil Beaton and tea parties on the lawn, it’s Heathcliff and Gabriel Oak, oiled and wrestling in a gale....
...where reservations are recommended because the dining room is tiny), I’m treated to possibly the finest plate of fish I’ve ever tasted: a succulent fillet of turbot with scorched runner beans in a reddish-brown...
...captures a fascination with artists, sex, history, publishing and intrigue that is on display on every other wall: cartoons and sketches by the people who lit up her magazines’ pages, from Art Spiegelman to Cecil...
...“When I was growing up, posh people – because we were never posh people, we were intellectual left-wing Islington people – all had 18th-century brown furniture,” says Adrian....
...Graphic, bulbous and decorated with an impish face, it contrasts marvellously, and in a very 2020 way, with the fussy floral rug, gilt picture frames and brown-wood furniture....
...Susan Brown, leader of Oxford City Council, had earlier invited the college to apply for planning permission to remove the statue, which is part of a Grade II* listed building....
...The Shanty Brunch, the Brown Derby and the Egg Bender were famous dishes at which restaurant? Which biscuit comes in Gentoo, Chinstrap and Emperor varieties?...
...Change Healthcare general counsel Loretta Cecil aimed to have no government investigations, major litigation, accounting restatements or public relations gaffes for 10 years when she was appointed in 2017...
...Public art has also become a flashpoint, from statues of Bristol’s Edward Colston and Oxford’s Cecil Rhodes to those of Confederate army leaders in the southern US....
...Capability Brown knew a thing or two about social distancing....
...The latter has been working closely with curator Robin Muir on the National Portrait Gallery’s upcoming Cecil Beaton exhibition, and the society photographer’s tinfoil and graphic backgrounds found their...
...Sunday morning starts with brown bread or classic Irish soda bread from McCambridge, served with local smoked salmon....
...Eucomis is pushing out its brown freckly stalks and wide, pale yellow leaves and attracting flies as pollinators....
...Joanna Burch-Brown from the University of Bristol analysed responses to Colston Hall’s name change and found those opposing the move were more than double those supporting it....
...SpareRoom pictures of dark brown, “easy-to-clean” leather couches and white-box bedrooms haunt my dreams....
...Sterling K Brown, the star of NBC’s This is Us, became the first black actor in the 75-year history of the Golden Globes to win best actor in a television drama....
...The coda is Cecily Brown’s “Boy with a Cat” (2015), a smart abstracted painterly riff on Manet’s odalisque....
...On September 7 1932, after a party at Ashcombe House, Tom Mitford (brother of the more famous sisters) wrote to society photographer Cecil Beaton: “My admiration for your organising passes all bounds: it...
...Esmond Cecil Harmsworth (1898-1978), second Viscount Rothermere and nephew of Alfred Harmsworth, was an MP from 1919 until 1929....
...The greyish-brown sandstone mill-owners’ mansions, overlooked by the Yorkshire Moors, survive as relics of the era....
...On my next trip I’ll head to The Cecil. And I might get up at dawn, take the subway to Hunts Point, and shake Sam Solasz’s hand....
...That evening we played golf on a delightfully empty course, and dined off local fish and lamb, at Aghadowey’s charming Brown Trout Inn....
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