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...I recalled a sentence from an Edna St Vincent Millay poem: “Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.” Even for the most mathematically uninclined minds, geometry is the fount of visual pleasure....
...AI can only triumph if it incorporates the secret of Dame Edna’s success. stuart.kirk@ft.com...
...In 2022, Mashama won Outstanding Chef at the James Beard Awards. Since 2014, she has been chef and partner at The Grey, a restaurant located in a formerly segregated bus station....
...Another of the most influential chefs in America was named James Hemings....
...“Water is a key driver in nature and biodiversity loss so if we don’t think about water, we’re not going to succeed in protecting nature and building biodiversity,” says Kirsten James, senior director of...
...Mashama recently won Outstanding Chef at the James Beard Awards. Since 2014, she has been chef and partner at The Grey, a restaurant located in a formerly segregated bus station....
...In 2019, Bailey was featured on the Netflix show Chef’s Table and won a James Beard award for best chef in the south-east US. That made her one of just two black women ever to have won a James Beard....
...CNA: In one of Edna O’Brien’s novels, August Is a Wicked Month, there’s a section where they’re talking about a writer. He’s not named, but it’s obvious that it’s James Baldwin....
...On a chill, rain-swept evening last month in central London, Edna O’Brien stepped delicately on to a stage in the Royal Institute of British Architects....
...The first time I ever presented a West End audience with the character of Dame Edna — at that time Mrs Norman Everage of Moonee Ponds, Melbourne — was in 1968 at the Fortune Theatre....
...James Joyce immortalised Dublin in works such as Ulysses, the landmark piece of 20th-century fiction, saying the Irish capital could be rebuilt from his work if the city was ever destroyed....
...They were joined by a general proliferation of Dame Edna-esque feathers: Mary Katrantzou created floor-length ruffled dresses smothered with plumes; Anthony Vaccarello cropped his high on the thigh for Yves...
...Scrimping a living from odd secretarial and life-modelling jobs, she found herself in Greenwich Village at the centre of a downtown art scene that included Eugene O’Neill, the writers Djuna Barnes and Edna...
...Edna O’Brien was a Bellowian 85 when she published The Little Red Chairs to general rapture two years ago....
...The first is about his mother, Edna, written in 1986, five years after her death. “I just missed her,” he says....
...Last year’s winning novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James, has sold more than 360,000 copies to date in the UK and Commonwealth and is available in 20 languages....
...Bestsellers included Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser (who had earlier worked for the company), The Double Helix by James D Watson and Harold Evans’ Good Times, Bad Times....
...A Brief History of Seven Killings, by Marlon James, Oneworld, RRP£8.99/Riverhead, RRP$17 James became the first Jamaican winner of the Man Booker Prize with this exploration of the events surrounding the...
...He had stood for the Labour leadership when Harold Wilson resigned in 1976 but came a poor fifth, the prize going to James Callaghan. When Callaghan resigned as leader in 1980, Healey stood again....
...Claire Messud Author of ‘The Woman Upstairs’ One of the most powerful and resonant books I’ve read this year is Edna O’Brien’s haunting novel The Little Red Chairs (Faber)....
...In addition, bank lending is up, and tourism, worth $16bn last year, could also benefit from the peso’s recent weakness against the dollar and the James Bond effect: part of the latest 007 film Spectre is...
...Australia gave us Dame Edna Everage and Paul Hogan (which is not much, really, but I did not want to leave them out and hurt their feelings)....
...Camus on one side, Edna O’Brien on the other. Both of them charming, eloquent, fiercely intelligent....
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