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...version, The Madness of King George....
...Trump when he was US president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on the US National Security Council from 2017 to 2019, has been appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George...
...“It’s like ‘Waiting for Godot’,” said Alain Bokobza, head of global asset allocation at Société Générale, leaning on Samuel Beckett’s absurdist play of the same name to describe the many false dawns for...
...They include Dame Margaret Beckett and Dame Margaret Hodge. While some former MPs struggle to adjust to life in the private sector those with previous experience in the commercial world can prosper....
...Think of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Josephine Tey, James M Cain, Richard Stark, Pascal Garnier — think of Georges Simenon! Let me make an essential distinction....
...Dealers and upholsterers say that George Smith pieces, particularly those made in the early 20th century, are a close second....
...Jordan Metcalfe’s Dromio of Syracuse, meanwhile, beautifully mixes physical knockabout with Beckett-like musings on existence. “Am I Dromio? Am I myself?” he cries as he scales a rope ladder....
...Like many of Samuel Beckett’s couples, Alice and Edgar seem trapped in a hellish space, mutually dependent in a way only they understand....
...Together they take on the love-hate relationship at the heart of George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession....
...George Steer...
...When he retired from teaching, he started a small shop in Dublin’s George’s Street Arcade before settling here a couple of years later....
...Additional reporting by Yuan Yang, George Parker and Jim Pickard in London. Scanned images of vapes by Lumafield....
...Bethany Beckett, economist at Capital Economics, said that “clearly, a Russia-Ukraine conflict raises the risk that inflation stays higher for longer”, hitting energy consumers among both companies and households...
...Previously classified government documents released on Tuesday show that George Robertson, defence secretary in the Blair government, harshly castigated the then foreign secretary Robin Cook in a letter...
...Ali and Rick Miller, who run it, source incredible pieces from special periods, and this locket was once an old watch chain with an image of St George slaying the dragon....
...Briefly we digress into a celebration of Alec Guinness’s magisterial command of George Smiley. “He didn’t look like Smiley in the books but it didn’t matter,” says Nauman reverently....
...Despite the spike in reservations, Mr Beckett added that sales had been lower at Hawksmoor as customers had, on the whole, spent less per person....
...Watch it now, however, and you can add another name to that long grim list — many of them unknown to the public — of black American men killed in police custody: George Floyd....
...A twist on Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, it focuses on two young African Americans stuck on a street corner, dreaming of a better life and fearful of police brutality....
...But, as George Orwell wrote about Big Brother in Nineteen Eighty-Four, “Always the eyes watching you.”...
...Charlie Beckett, a professor of media at the London School of Economics, said the group’s business model had defied some sceptics....
...Behind him were the names of the Irish Nobel laureates WB Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett....
...Former Lloyds Bank finance director George Culmer is to become chairman of Aviva, replacing Sir Adrian Montague who said in January he planned to step down. More here....
...And what about Jake Gyllenhaal, reprising his Broadway performance as painter Georges Seurat in Sondheim’s groundbreaking musical Sunday in the Park with George (Savoy Theatre, London, from June 11)?...
...Leeds and Leeds Beckett universities are within walking distance. What A studio in a purpose-built block with en-suite bathroom....
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