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...“Offshore wind is our lifeline to this town,” said Stevenson, who is not related to David Stevenson. “If we lose this, we’ll be in very, very dire straits.”...
...Several of her recent roles have portrayed women whose tough exterior conceals a wealth of strife: Elizabeth I in Mary Stuart, Dorothy in the ITV crime drama The Long Call, a heartbreaking Winnie in Samuel...
...Robert Louis Stevenson, in the dedicatory lines of A Child’s Garden of Verses, refers to his nanny as “My second Mother, my first Wife, / The angel of my infant life.”...
...But others disagree, like Gary Stevenson....
...Maybe, in time, you too could become a millionaire. 16-17 age group Winner: Eliza Stevenson-Hamilton, Benenden School, Cranbrook In uncertain times, lots of people worry about their finances....
...Only one was in English: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. The prisoners drew lots for the privilege of reading it first, and quickly read it to pieces....
...mash-note — the Queen’s consideration, modesty and courage are often praised; two parts practical detail, such as when “the Queen was in need of some checked skirts,” so we went to the fabric mill at Halley Stevensons...
...Yes, Elizabeth Warren is underpriced for myriad reasons (“Warren is underpriced in the Democratic race”, Janan Ganesh, May 30)....
...As Stevenson said after being told he had the support of every thinking American: “Yes, but I need a majority.”...
...Last summer, New York magazine put a bounding Elizabeth Warren on its cover, along with the headline “Front Runner?”...
...With the exception of Elizabeth Warren, whose campaign has yet to catch fire, today’s Democratic aspirants are content with a brassy slogan....
...Other artists on show will be the Maputo-based Nelsa Guambe, whose paintings delicately reflect women’s everyday emotions and circumstances, and the cross-disciplinary Port Elizabeth artist Mxolisi Dolla...
...Even before that, voters were looking for someone a little more dynamic: choosing Dwight D Eisenhower, the second world war hero, over the bookish Adlai Stevenson....
...Williams’s Elizabeth grows increasingly pinched and paranoid; Stevenson’s Mary, by contrast, is fluid, impetuous, demonstrative....
...Port Elizabeth international airport is about two-and-a-half hours’ drive. What A five-bedroom, five-bathroom house built out of local stone to resemble a castle....
...“Here you have Elizabeth on the throne and Mary in prison,” adds Stevenson. “But Elizabeth spent her whole childhood in a form of prison and Mary only knew being a queen....
...Pirie’s contribution, in 2002, was a twin-volume guide to Fragmenta Regalia, Sir Robert Naunton’s account of the main figures in the court of Queen Elizabeth I....
...Talitha Stevenson is author of ‘Disappear’ (Virago)...
...In between, he gave a recital before London’s cultural elite in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Fellow musicians described it as “absolutely glorious”....
...Alive: New and Selected Poems, by Elizabeth Willis, NYRB Poets, RRP£9.99/$14 The US poet has a gift for achieving poignancy through juxtaposition and a deceptively light touch....
...Elizabeth II. A hair-curling paper could not be slipped between Meryl Streep and Margaret Thatcher....
...The UK business secretary has ordered officials to investigate whether there is enough evidence to begin disqualification proceedings against Sir James Crosby, Lord Stevenson, the former HBOS chairman and...
...My favourite examples are not the great ones – from the trophy houses of Henry VIII or Elizabeth I, or James I: Hampton Court or Hatfield House – but the ceilings found in quiet, country backwaters, where...
...For Stevenson, this “cult of doing your own thing” retains an allure for contemporary designers who also want to promote a social message....
...I then got a job onshore but about 16 years ago, after speaking on maritime history on the Queen Elizabeth 2, I got the idea of acting as an agent to fix speakers for cruise lines....
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