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...Salman Rushdie, Bruce Chatwin, Germaine Greer, Michael Herr, Ryszard Kapuściński, Clive James . . . Sonny listens to his guests, Gita talks to them.”...
...This year, Traverse Theatre is bringing back some of its most shining successes from Edinburgh Fringes gone by: Lauryn Redding’s heart-stopping musical love story Bloody Elle (2022), Nassim Soleimanpour’...
...Scout (Gwyneth Keyworth), Jem (Harry Redding) and Dill (David Moorst) find a nice balance between their childhood and adult selves: Keyworth pugnacious and blazingly moral; Redding troubled and impulsive...
...I think of Brown’s dissections of Germaine Greer (“Why am I the only person in the world who eats rice?”)...
...My mother never actually said the word, but spelt it out instead: “C-O-M-M-O-N”. Cryptic spelling, usually to protect the kiddies, was popular in my parents’ time....
...“Avedon was trying to connect big hair to ideas of revolution,” says Alistair O’Neill, an academic at Central Saint Martins who has been doing some research....
....), deconstructed Eugene O’Neill with techniques derived from Japanese kabuki and Noh (1992’s The Emperor Jones), and tried to bring Richard Burton’s 1960s production of Hamlet back to life....
...This season includes Georgia O’Keeffe’s glorious “Yellow Sweet Peas” (c1925), from the collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen (est $2.5m-$3.5m, Sotheby’s), Germaine Richier’s “Le Grain” bronze (conceived...
...(Currently, the highest priced female artist is Georgia O’Keeffe, whose painting, “Jimson Weed/White Flower No 1”, sold for $44.4m, a figure dwarfed by more than a dozen male counterparts, from Rothko, Pollock...
...(LA Times) The Othello of soul music On Otis Redding’s meteoric rise and tragic death: “Like Shakespeare’s protagonist, the Big O, as even he called himself, had a complex marriage and died both violently...
...(LA Times) The Othello of soul music On Otis Redding’s meteoric rise and tragic death....
...She has also worked closely with feminist writers Jeanette Winterson and Germaine Greer and set up her own music record label....
...Energetic covers of hits by Otis Redding and the Temptations were given just 15 seconds each in a dizzying soul montage....
...Murray-Smith is at pains to deny that her Margot Mason is intended to be Germaine Greer, who suffered a similar incident in 2000....
...It is this kind of casual dismissal that infuriates the feminist provocateur and literary critic Germaine Greer....
...Yet as the crowds poured in to hear writer Andrew O’Hagan begin the festival with a soaring address about the power of the word that evoked the Australia some of his ancestors had escaped to as a “blue heaven...
...The ubiquitous broadcasters – Germaine Greer, James Naughtie, Giles Brandreth – always make for lively discussions....
...On Newsnight Review in January 2002, in a verbal tussle with Germaine Greer he called the Bloody Sunday paratroopers “rotten racist bastards”....
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