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...Under the desert sun, no one would blame you for wearying of the piquant little exchanges in this loaded place and timeframe....
...Perhaps the California sun has mellowed him? He goes there regularly with his partner Drew Kuhse....
...The twins’ 2004 acquisition of the newspaper from Conrad Black’s Hollinger after a bitter bidding war marked a crowning achievement for the entrepreneurs, who were raised in a working class family in southwest...
...So, having taken on provisions, we set off in this direction, stopping for our first night at the Conrad campground, next to an abandoned silver mine....
...There is a photograph of Chimamanda Adichie, taken almost immediately after her novel Half of a Yellow Sun was announced as the first African winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction (then the Orange Prize...
...Watt called this kind of descriptive withholding, in which a perception is first narrated using abstract nouns, before being grounded in identifiable objects (a technique he said was invented by Joseph Conrad...
...What Nabokov called a “private tragedy”, Yiyun Li — who, like Joseph Conrad, has never written in her native tongue — calls a “private salvation”....
...The temperature on Langkawi from January to March is near-perfect — always hot, seldom sticky, the sun rarely eclipsed by a passing shower....
...Donald Trump has issued a full pardon to Conrad Black, the former media magnate, who was convicted of obstruction of justice and theft....
...Hemingway published The Sun Also Rises at 27. By 40, James Joyce had given the world Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses....
...A Canadian court has halted Conrad Black’s sale of his lavish Toronto mansion after the tax authorities said there was a risk he might flee the country....
...“The river glideth at his own sweet will,” he wrote in his famous sonnet, surprised to be so moved by a cityscape: “Never did sun more beautifully steep / In his first splendour, valley, rock or hill; /...
...‘Conrad Shawcross: Manifold’, New Art Centre, Salisbury May 23-July 26; ‘The Dappled Light of the Sun’, Royal Academy, London June 8-August 16; ‘Conrad Shawcross’, Victoria Miro, London June 10-July 31;...
...One encounters favourite writers such as Conrad, Kipling and Philip Larkin as well as those he previously neglected, such as Olivia Manning....
...That dislodged a gigantic rock from its orbit in the outer reaches of the solar system and hurled it towards the sun, until Earth got in the way....
...His offer was preferred to a rival proposal from Conrad Black, the Canadian newspaper owner, who also owned the Chicago Sun Times and Daily Telegraph....
...What happens next is an extended disaster — an antidote to the usual run of escape-to-the-sun memoirs....
...Slideshow photographs: Fred R Conrad/ Eyevine; Darren S Higgins/ Eyevine; AP...
...In the late summer sun, it resembles William Blake’s “bar of gold”....
...kaiser and Alfred von Tirpitz, his grand admiral, started a naval arms race with Britain in 1898, failing to see that this was the worst possible way to persuade London to cede Germany the “place in the sun...
...The city’s sun, sea and shopping offering has been central to Dubai’s economic revival since its debilitating debt crisis in 2009, helped by its haven status since the Arab revolutions....
...In the conservative National Review magazine, Conrad Black, the former owner of The Daily Telegraph and Chicago Sun-Times, who served time in prison for corporate fraud, maintains that the president’s supporters...
...The Roi des Belges is named after the boat captained by Joseph Conrad when he was in the Congo in 1890....
...Conrad Black’s release from a Florida prison on Friday capped a good recent period for the disgraced peer and former media magnate....
...Conrad Black has won a legal victory in Canada, where the country’s top court has ruled that the disgraced peer can pursue libel cases against a former head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission and...
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