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...After encountering Twain’s “Duke” and “King” — con artists who prey on them — at the novel’s midpoint, the pair become separated and Everett’s story necessarily diverges from its source....
...“No pensions bill means that many pension policies will remain in limbo,” said David Everett, head of pensions research with LCP, the consultants....
...Manolo Blahnik is another: soon to be 81, the master shoemaker is still king of the dancing heel....
...Particularly memorable assignments include a photostory in Barotseland, the nation subsumed into Zambia, documenting the ceremony transporting the king up the Zambezi river to his high water palace....
...Rupert Everett reads from Coward’s diaries with a tamped-down, melancholy edge; Alan Cumming narrates as if worried we might walk out should he pause for breath....
...While in the UK the employer’s brand is king, he says that social media allows employees to personalise it....
...Next year it will allow low-cost airline Wizz Air to compete with its own national carrier Belavia, as well as welcome the first tour groups from two UK-based tour operators (Wild Frontiers and Cox & Kings...
...The fear was that if she got stuck into the old fellow, it would be like Achilles and King Priam: gore and sliced limbs everywhere....
...Ophelia in fantastic garlands floats in John Everett Millais’s painstakingly delineated Pre-Raphaelite stream....
...“The 1970s broadens our international appeal,” says Mr King....
...Watch the cast perform like waxworks (Rupert Everett’s King, Emily Watson’s Queen) or alternatively — Bel Powley’s OTT Mags — like clockwork dolls lethally overwound....
...Each takes place in a vehicle beneath video projections of US landscapes (hot landscapes, judging by the heat inside the King’s Head Theatre)....
...I started to try out a little theory of mine inspired by a brilliant teacher I once had called Barbara Everett (the cleverest person I’ve met)....
...The biography of Martin Luther King, and the fact that his (totally non-fundamentalist) prophetic reading of the Bible inspired his leadership of the civil rights movement, remains, to me, a very bright...
...The King of Morocco has given it his formal imprimatur but his approval has not yet translated into hard cash....
...“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you are talking real money,” the US senator Everett Dirksen once remarked....
...(Coming shortly, Beautiful: the Carole King Musical.) This is not the whole story....
...They prefigured disco, were at the beginning of rap – their 1979 rap single “King Tim III” was released a week before the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” – and forged the mid-80s club anthem “I Found...
...From a feminist perspective, the news that John Everett Millais’ “Ophelia” and John William Waterhouse’s “The Lady of Shalott” came top in the recent poll of favourite British masterpieces was disappointing...
...Last Hundred Days include the Senate ratification of the limited nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union; the bombing deaths of four black girls in a church in Birmingham, Alabama; Martin Luther King...
...Goffin, King later remarked, had a remarkable ability “to get inside a woman’s head and say the things a woman was thinking.” Some men, it seems, do know what a woman wants....
...A king stammers; a nation holds its breath. A king starts to conquer his stammer; a world audience starts to hold back its tears, or try....
...Old Battersea House, which has played host to meetings between influential figures in politics and business as well as kings and princes, will be brought to the market next week with a price of £12m....
...I used to get the bus number 30 to go to the University (UCL) and I lived near Kings’ Cross....
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