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...Bennett got the idea from his native Yorkshire, which is subject to volatile flooding....
...Bennett Roberts, whose gallery Roberts Projects has participated in Felix since its inception, describes this edition as a “very positivistic move” from the organisers....
...They include Chinese porcelain, clay pipes and a silver spoon, and are part of the sale....
...In 2006-07, he also pulled off a coup for his home town, buying the Seattle SuperSonics basketball team in a consortium led by Oklahoma businessman Clay Bennett, and then moving it to Oklahoma City....
...” - Irwin, The History Boys The jaundiced view of military commemoration expressed in Alan Bennett’s 2004 play may owe something to the fact that Mr Bennett belonged to the generation of men who were called...
...brian.groom@ft.com ——————————————- Letter in response to this column: Yorkshireman’s grudge against Handel / From Sir Edward Clay...
...At one moment a wet, grey lump of clay would be slapped on to the fast rotation of the wheel....
...(He in turn had taken over the booking from Clay Frick, the Pittsburgh coke king and New York art collector, who had also fortuitously cancelled his trip.)...
...One of Bennett’s latest projects is a southern hemisphere garden....
...Shaping the messy material of a private life to keep an audience gripped already demands huge discipline (just look at that master of the genre, Alan Bennett)....
...“People have been coming here since well before the industrial era for its seams of red clay. I just want to engage people with this wonderful stuff....
...His Yorkshire vernacular is the clay from which he sculpts often ferocious verse that demands to be spoken out loud.”...
...The local clay and coal mines made Staffordshire ideal for china production....
...For our wedding anniversary last Saturday I bought Ken caricatures of two fellow authors, Evelyn Waugh and Alan Bennett....
...Jana Bennett, its head of television, conceded that some way would have to be found to keep the plurality of having C4 providing news and documentaries....
...Society veterans still fondly remember young Robbie Williams, the most famous son of Burslem since Arnold Bennett. He played the Artful Dodger in Oliver!...
...The 7,000 sq m building – designed by Bennetts Associates and Lomax Cassidy Edwards – has been hailed as one of the most sustainable in Britain....
...Clay Harris was at Lord King’s memorial service this morning. And our very own 3am girls were at last night’s launch party for Stella McCartney’s new collection. It does for us, as Alan Bennett says....
...Cannily, the report’s section on access to government finance starts by quoting Arnold Bennett: “Much ingenuity with little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.”...
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