Hints and tips:
...Robin’s current bestselling book is Homer and His Iliad....
...Two tiny islands – Allen and Benner – just off the coast are also beautiful and are where the painter Andrew Wyeth and his family once lived and worked....
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...Just as the show appeared to end, the lights dimmed and on the screen appeared Homer Simpson, desperate to secure something — anything — from the label as a birthday gift for his long-suffering wife, Marge...
...“Poor”, when the Keats siblings’ tangled legacy (from a wealthy grandmother) inspired Dickens’s Bleak House account of the interminable Jarndyce v Jarndyce case?...
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...(WSJ) What else we’re reading Just one in 10 fund managers expect V-shaped recovery V, U, W, L — just a handful of the letter-shaped recoveries that investors have put forward as possible paths for the...
...The consultancy predicts revenues across Europe’s Big Five leagues will drop by €1.5bn this season, but make a V-shaped recovery next season....
...Why Dylan Matters , by Richard F Thomas, William Collins, RRP£12.99/Dey Street Books, RRP$24.99 Homer, Ovid, Virgil . . . Dylan?...
...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...Many stereotypes about WWC men came together in the hapless cartoon character Homer Simpson. American progressives showed respect to ethnic and sexual minorities, not to the WWC....
...The British Museum this month staged a live reading of Homer’s Iliad in partnership with the Almeida theatre, during which actors including Simon Russell Beale and Lesley Manville declaimed the work in its...
...They are one of only two families to have three generations of work represented in the Smithsonian (the other is the Wyeth family of painters)....
...the Analysts, Martoma claimed to have “black edge” —illicit, nonpublic information… The Analysts exchanged a number of emails and instant messages with Cohen about whether Martoma’s advice on Elan and Wyeth...
...Meanwhile here’s the DOJ’s sealed criminal complaint in USA v Martoma....
...He talked to Goldman about Homer and the next thing we knew, he was on a boat in the Mediterranean reading The Odyssey....
...“Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood” (1885) shows Monet using the device. 1880s-1900s As impressionism dominates, plein-air painting is practised by Van Gogh and Cézanne in Provence; Winslow Homer...
...He quotes the former King Mohammed V as saying Morocco has its roots in Africa but breathes through its foliage in Europe....
...I stroll through and have romantic brushes with Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins....
...The first, Booth v the town’s old establishment, was a rout. The second, Booth v his business rival Leon Morelli, was long-lasting and either hilarious or horrendous, depending on your standpoint....
...A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years By Diarmaid MacCulloch Allen Lane, £35 The provocative title reflects MacCulloch’s claim that Christianity began with Homer and King David – and...
...The court will decide whether to shield drugmakers from many costly patient lawsuits, agreeing to hear Wyeth v Levine, a case that tests whether companies are protected from liability when federal regulators...
...Instead, he reread Homer’s Odyssey and used that as inspiration. What was the novel? 23....
...Andrew Wyeth is also garnering serious attention and Adelson Galleries is featuring the highly-touted exhibition Andrew Wyeth: Helga on Paper ....
...E.V. Rieu’s translation of The Odyssey was published in 1946 as the first in the Penguin Classics series. Over the next decade it sold an unprecedented three million copies....
International Edition