Hints and tips:
...“I remember walking down the Shambles several years ago, suddenly spotting a Harry Potter shop and thinking, ‘Damn, I wish I’d come up with that.’”...
...“That’s why it came as no surprise to any of us who knew him when he’d start singing his favourite song: Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’....
...Before 2022, we’d probably have said that being outside the Eternal City’s historic centre could be considered a drawback. But this year we’re all for a reprieve from Rome’s unbearable crowds....
...But if the apathy levels are repeated in New Hampshire (where it’s cold, but not outrageously so), I’d begin to wonder about voter fatigue and its impact on the race going forward....
...and employees of NatWest feel unsafe....
...But after learning he may soon die, Riswold was glad that he’d dedicated so much time to what would become the exhibition, Two Wars in One....
...When Democrats were in the White House — starting with Franklin D Roosevelt and then under John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Bill Clinton, and even Barack Obama — they favoured internationalist policies,...
...The Tate Britain show features many of Sargent’s portraits of men dressed, including “W Graham Robertson” (1894)....
...Of his TV work, he was best known for The Singing Detective; of his films, for his role as Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts in Harry Potter (a film that “changed everything”, not necessarily...
...Pettet was Severs’ partner, and an extraordinarily gifted potter. (The story of their time together made me laugh and cry in equal measure.)...
...Who goes there: a mix of studiedly eccentric locals, the clergy (undercover), aged luvvies, potters, the much younger lovers of any of the above....
...Our guide to the ancient city is Lampo, who together with his pal Gelon — two young potters who are, well, potless — decides to put on a production of Medea in a local quarry. Their cast?...
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is South African potter Hylton Nel, who should be a national treasure. There’s humour and vulnerability to his pieces....
...When you look at George W’s presidency, you don’t just think about W, you think about on the foreign policy side, Condi, Rumsfeld, Powell. You think about the people around them....
...“Before, I’d be starting seeds March to June but my gardens were super-weedy....
...In the 1950s, he used charcoal for economy, and because “I felt I’d been exposed, that in public I’d put on a costume of thick paint and earthy colours, I was imitating myself”....
...Here with me in New York, he’s just got those Harry Potter proofs to the twins. It’s US financial commentator and men’s style columnist Rob Armstrong....
...After all, he’d just given her the job. “Maybe I was a little ‘drama-queen-Italian-diva’?” says Chiave....
...“The only thing I’d say in response to that is, President Biden is my president as well,” he said....
...I’d love to own one of her energising and mesmerising line drawings in sap-green watercolour ink, which were first shown in London back in 2017....
...They’re not ideal for throwing pots but, much to the disbelief of my fellow potters, I’ve managed to overcome that problem. I go to Pristine Nails in Shepherd’s Bush....
...He gave her her first book about conducting, and her own baton — a Harry Potter moment....
...From the UK selection, I’d pick out Bunzl, chiefly because of my colleague Oliver Ralph’s inclusion of the packaging and distribution business in his wry analysis of the “magnificently unglamorous” seven...
...Then I read W. Brian Arthur’s paper “Increasing Returns and the New World of Business”....
...At the moment it’s W Somerset Maugham....
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