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...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...August 17, 23 and 25; further information and tickets here Battersea Park in Concert A long weekend of concerts spanning everything from jazz to West End hits in the south-west London park; last year’s...
...In this case it’s 1968 and the launch of a series of late-night television debates between the maverick liberal author Gore Vidal and the arch conservative commentator William F Buckley Jr....
...In the foreground, Mutu’s red soil, wood-entwined figure “Sentinel V” presides like a grotesque goddess — part Earth mother, part vengeful spirit....
...a place where east meets west, allows the museum to look at this condition of an embedded architecture of immigration....
...Bristol, UK Polymath 1,041: Phoebe Sutherland, London Crossword 16,278: Peter Bromwich, Birmingham; James Reid, Fife, Scotland; EASherratt, Staffordshire, England Polymath 1,040: Patricia Blakemore, West...
...For all the legacies of Christopher Wren and William Mulholland, neither underwent a rationalisation as total as Haussmann’s of Paris, or Pope Sixtus V’s of Rome....
...Virgin Louis V on my back, baby. Living fast, dying slow, that's the catch, baby. Suicide doors, [MUTED] around and crash, baby. I do the dash, baby....
...Empirical analysis by Thiemo Fetzer at Warwick suggests that the West Midlands and South West regions will be particularly hard hit. It is difficult to see 2021 being a year of levelling up....
...(The trailers show vast cities rippling and folding in on themselves, à la Christopher Nolan’s Inception.)...
...He considers minor writers such as Robert Wilson and George Peele and canonical figures including Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser and, above all, William Shakespeare....
...As if to point up the breadth of the fair, David Zwirner’s stand, positioned along one of the prime avenues, was entirely given over to the works of Christopher Williams, whose catalogue for his recent retrospective...
...Following Charles V, the 42-year reign of Philip II saw further expansion as well as consolidation of the empire....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Christopher Fowler …………………………………………………………….....
...FIVE TOP FLORISTS Shane Connolly (UK) From a studio in west London Shane Connolly is floral designer to HRH The Prince of Wales; last week his flowers opened the Cecil Beaton exhibition at the V&A....
...study of screenwriter William Goldman....
...Severed from wider debates about authenticity and cut off from conservation science in the west, the restoration of the palaces was not widely appreciated....
...In 1699 William III commissioned Christopher Wren to build a gallery devoted to the Raphaels at Hampton Court that was open to the public; when Queen Victoria created the V&A, she decided in 1865 to make...
...The 4th NPower Test, England v Pakistan, is at Lord’s, August 26-30, www.lords.org ………………………………………….....
...Wendell V. Graham, Washington DC, USA TF: In total about 24 UK stocks can be bought in the US....
...His cellist son Christopher acts as a gentle foil. Between them they amusingly blend the genres of misery memoir and Mediterranean escapist idyll....
...The US Chamber of Commerce should be happy now that William Donaldson is out of its hair....
...Mr Bush Jr is different. He accuses them of petty squabbling over the partisan composition of the Supreme Court....
...Bush stood before an audience of conservatives last week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the National Review, he credited William F....
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