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...The garden’s maestro, Lucinda Compton, explained to me how she too values it for its easy nature and harmonious colour....
...One Hollywood relationship that did not survive 2020 was that of Warner and traditionally minded director Christopher Nolan....
...The fine brick house was built in the 1690s with help from Christopher Wren....
...The house’s current owners, with designer Tania Compton, have revived it....
...The MP in question was Christopher Patten. Plus ça change....
...What he aims for, and often achieves, is a kind of deadpan zaniness, pitched somewhere between Nathanael West, the cultish writer of surreal, Depression-era fables, and Ivy Compton-Burnett, the cultish writer...
...The club — which over the years hosted the likes of Christopher Isherwood and Damien Hirst — is long-closed and the fading of Soho’s bohemian allure, with its narrow streets squeezed between Golden Square...
...But it’s carnal and satirical and American enough to be heartier than camp — it’s Ivy Compton-Burnett crossed with Mary Karr....
...a picture of Benjamin Franklin on them: Dr Dre (Andre Young) ($550m) The chief executive and founder of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics, Dr Dre, a.k.a Andre Young, came straight out of Compton...
...It also has a church by 17th-century architect Christopher Wren, Piccadilly Arcade and some of the most beautiful surviving shop fronts in the City....
...In June last year, I paid about £80 for a bottle of champagne in Vintage House on Old Compton Street....
...Soon, Her Majesty is working her way through the likes of Nancy Mitford, Ivy Compton-Burnett, and Scott-Moncrieff’s Proust, and ruing the fact that though she has in her time met Messrs Priestley, Larkin...
...After dark there are clubs and bars dispensing the urban beat that is the lingua franca from Compton to Tottenham....
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