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...A cosy sitting room, a jewel-box bar, terraces with water views and the village within walking distance – along Scenic Avenue, past Frank Lloyd Wright’s Della Walker house – round out the picture....
...According to Mike Tracy in Knight Frank’s Hampstead office, Hampstead is “the prime north London spot, a notch above Highgate”....
...What clothes-related nickname was given to teenage girls in the 1940s who screamed at pop singers, especially Frank Sinatra?...
...Hampstead Village, a small neighbourhood in north London beside the vast, eponymous heath, was once a haven for writers and poets, from Blake to Keats, Dickens to Margaret Drabble....
...), New York (Dylan Thomas) and Fire Island (Frank O’Hara)....
...They travel, among other places, to Missolonghi (Byron), Amherst (Dickinson), Rome (Keats), New York (Dylan Thomas) and Fire Island (Frank O’Hara)....
...It was in this area of north London where English poet John Keats wrote his “Ode to a Nightingale” under the plum tree in his garden at Wentworth Place; where Agatha Christie and Henry Moore lived at the...
...From ‘Keats Lives’ (Carcanet, £9.99)...
...Who Knight Frank, knightfrank.co.uk, tel: +44 20 7861 1727...
...Properties next to the heath still generally command the highest premiums — Knight Frank is selling one on Downshire Hill around the corner from the house where Keats once lived for £4.25m....
...Frank Sharry of America’s Voice, a pro-immigration group, expressed optimism that Mr Obama’s policy would be allowed to stand....
...Architecture confers authority in all great museums — Frank Lloyd Wright’s New York Guggenheim housing abstract paintings is the celebrated modernist example — but Tate Modern’s beyond-human scale exerts...
...Doris Edwards, a 50-year-old retail specialist from Dallas, Texas, hopes to scale that ladder within two years, which would mark a seven-year turnround after she declared bankruptcy after losing a job as...
...Chief Executive, Muscular Dystrophy UK Dr John Solly Director, Myrovlytis Trust Professor Andreas Schatzlein Chief Executive, Nanomerics Mike Daw Chief Executive, National Eye Research Centre Dr Frank...
...Unthought Thoughts”, a fivefold symmetrically patterned immersive light and mirror installation; “Double Infinity”, a corridor lined with blackened sandpaper; and a rooftop sun-tracker directing rays into Frank...
...Former Hampstead residents include John Keats and John Constable, and throughout the 20th century the area attracted well-heeled members of the intelligentsia....
...One reporter barges in on Salinger’s sister, Doris, and complains that “she acted put upon”, perhaps because she was....
...The past two decades brought books on subjects ranging from the painters Frank Auerbach and Lucien Freud to histories of Barcelona and Rome....
...‘Night and Day’ by Everything But the Girl (1982) The usual suspects have sung Cole Porter’s exquisitely structured love ballad, following Fred Astaire’s sparkling 1932 original – from Frank, Bing and Doris...
...It may look harmless — or indeed downright right cute — but what if it grows up to be a monster that would have made Doris Lessing proud?...
...Compton Lodge on Compton Avenue is on the market with Glentree and Knight Frank for £13.95m....
...My friend Frank devised a Larkin tour for me. We were both freshly bereaved, and wandered the streets forlornly on the lookout for Larkin landmarks....
...Frank Lloyd Wright. It featured in Blade Runner (1982) as the main character Rick Deckard’s apartment block 22. (c) The artist being trepanned does not exist....
...) The Boat that Rocked is a Richard Curtis film, a categorisation that has begun to have the same scary, feelgood reverb as “a Frank Capra film”....
...Later, on the bus to Granada, I felt enveloped in that familiar Spanish atmosphere of frank and friendly humanity....
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