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...Eleanor Lakelin plays with this dynamic in her elegant yet crumbling vessels created from the horse-chestnut trees outside what was once Wilde’s cell in Reading....
...Wander through stalls selling sweets, chestnuts, artisanal local crafts and artwork....
...Chestnuts and limes sigh; ash echoes the sound of the sea while beech gives a stiffer rattling sigh....
...According to his notes, most meetings seem to start by someone saying how busy and tired they are: Henry Moore is “harassed”, Zandra Rhodes is “quite drowsy”, Rudolf Nureyev is “exhausted”....
...Sivandandan won all her 24 games at Rhodes, including a must-win final round against a Swiss rival....
...But also something soft and familiar and welcoming about the patches of vineyard, the chestnut woods, the orchards where citrus trees spattered with bright spots of orange and yellow lurked behind a thick...
...The autumn menu brings a variety of seasonal produce to the fore – pumpkins, chestnuts, cloudberries – but its crowning glory is surely the starter of tomatoes cured in kombu, redcurrant and preserved ramson...
...Puzzle 2468 Bela Sandor v Zoltan Herendi, Budapest 1948. Black (to move) resigned here. Can you do better? Click here for solution...
...Visitors to the V&A can still peep through its window into miniature glass-painted scenes from nature, illuminated by candles, which the young Gainsborough artfully placed behind a light-diffusing silk screen...
...Puzzle 2423 Wei Yi v Tigran L Petrosian, China v Armenia, Pro Chess League 2020. Find White’s surprise winning move. Click here for solution...
...Gormley recently suggested that a statue of Cecil Rhodes that has long been at the centre of controversy at Oriel College, Oxford, should be turned to face the wall; the college’s decision to keep the colonialist...
...Andrews Avner OfferUniversity of Oxford Andrew SayerLancaster University Jo MichellUWE Bristol Nina EichackerUniversity of Rhode Island Roberto VenezianiQueen Mary University of London Jens van ‘t...
...Fontainebleau Climbs guidebook, v-publishing.co.uk....
...After graduation she became a Rhodes scholar at Oxford university before moving to London to work as a media and human rights lawyer....
...Watching the great and almost-local Cyrus Chestnut play jazz piano in Washington’s Blues Alley, the “other” DC fizzles away....
...Where to seeMary Quant at the V&A (vam.ac.uk); till Feb 16. Zandra Rhodes: Fifty Years of Fabulous at the Fashion & Textile Museum (ftmlondon.org); Sept 27 2019-Jan 26 2020....
...Meanwhile, Rhode Island expects coastal properties worth $3.6bn to be under threat by the end of the century....
...World team championships for over-50s and over-65s, in progress this week on the island of Rhodes, provide an opportunity for older players to evoke the 1970s boom....
...It was a special occasion due to the presence of Hou Yifan, the all-time No2 woman who is currently a Rhodes scholar at St Hilda’s. No fireworks, though....
...New Mexico, Rhode Island and Vermont are following suit with bills that would codify abortion access in case the Supreme Court takes steps to overturn Roe v Wade, its 1973 ruling that established a legal...
...To progressives, they are a threat to the abortion rights guaranteed by the court’s landmark 1973 decision, Roe v Wade....
...Don’t tell me we’ll soon get the old chestnut of needing to apologise for the slave trade.” The newspapers’s digital pages have also been a key venue for debate about Colston....
...‘V’ by Wooden Shjips is out now on Thrill Jockey. Oh Sees play UK shows in August and September....
...This year prices in the area have reached €7,000 per sq metre, according to E&V....
...In the city that produced the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, it will remain under scrutiny....
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