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...Decades later, artist Frank Churcher reveals the final clue that enthusiasts were seeking, but a TV presentation has disastrous consequences, and Frank and his family face a grim retribution....
...A hefty, domed head of painter Frank Auerbach, dominated by his vast forehead, seems to depict the process of thought itself....
...lurking in there somewhere: humans tend to think of themselves as irreproducible individuals, with private cravings and secret dreams, yet we willingly fall into the same anonymous formations as electrons, starlings...
...‘A known issue with culture’ Revolut has a brutally frank internal culture, by its own admission....
...Starling Bank was valued at £1.3bn in a recent cash call....
...— and sent murmurations of starlings into the garish blue sky....
...Frank Cohen believes there are now so many billionaires worldwide – and so many buying art – that prices for single contemporary works will soar....
...Favourites of every epoch – from Holbein’s enigmatic “A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling” and William Hogarth’s determinedly unglamorous “The Painter and his Pug” to Chris Ofili’s affecting “No Woman,...
...Several such artists resisted fashion for decades but became famous anyway – Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin....
...The drama is at its best when at its most wry, specific or frank: when the older Billy expresses his terror and grief at his wife’s impending death by launching into a tirade, for example....
...Frank Lloyd Wright conceived the building as a massive spring so tensile it could resist nuclear attack, declaring that “when the first atom bomb lands on New York, it will not be destroyed....
...“I call it Starling, after the man who originally drew it,” he said....
...Floods: Nick Starling, the ABI’s Director of General Insurance, said: “The Chancellor failed to understand the importance of flood defences last year and has failed once again this year....
...FBI agent Clarice Starling needed Hannibal Lecter to help her find Buffalo Bill....
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