Hints and tips:
...It focuses on the barbed late-night TV debates in 1968 between the maverick liberal author Gore Vidal and the arch-conservative commentator William F Buckley Jr, which catapulted the struggling ABC network...
...Gore Vidal was a regular, featuring in three shows. In the last of these, in 2008, he was forlorn, prickly and unwell, says Bragg....
...— next to feeble Post-Impressionists Harold Gilman (“Tree”, “In Gloucestershire”) and Spencer Gore (“The Fig Tree”) to demonstrate how UK artists “adapted Van Gogh’s brilliant colours, distinct brush strokes...
...The veneer of merriment evaporates when the birthday boy Harold (Zachary Quinto) finally shows up an hour late....
...Under Harold Wilson, the Labour prime minister, a working group belonging to the “Official Committee on Communism (Home)” met periodically to discuss intelligence....
...Mr Pruitt’s re-election campaign in 2014 was chaired by Harold Hamm, the billionaire chief executive of shale producer Continental Resources and an energy adviser to Mr Trump....
...He got on so well with Al Gore that, during their first meeting, the then US vice-president just handed over the talking points prepared by his staff....
...The announcement this week that the UK would phase out coal-fired power stations was hailed by Al Gore, the environmentalist Democrat who was Bill Clinton’s vice-president, as an “excellent and inspiring...
...Inside, in a piece grim with irony when read with hindsight, Gore Vidal speculates that Bobby is the logical choice to win the 1968 presidential election....
...Al Gore got even closer, though he was astonishingly churlish and charmless in situations he didn’t think mattered much....
...‘In Bed With Gore Vidal: Hustlers, Hollywood, and The Private World of an American Master’ (Magnus Books), by Tim Teeman, is published on November 5...
...Harold asks after he has disposed of the mattress stained by his sister-in-law’s gore. It’s a good question in a novel of 500 pages primarily occupied with clearing up the mess of the first two dozen....
...Just over half a century ago, at the start of 1961, Harold Macmillan, then the prime minister of Britain, was about to celebrate his 67th birthday....
...A display of cosy examples of British post-impressionism – Spencer Gore, Harold Gilman, Roger Fry – makes it easy to see why Hepworth headed to the continent in search of a more rigorous aesthetic....
...In his life and in poems such as “Childe Harold” and “Don Juan”, he cultivated the image of the moody, untamed loner....
...This is not a retrospective show, and visitors may well go away wishing they’d seen more by Bevan and less from his Cumberland Market friends – James Ginner, Harold Gilman, Spencer Gore and two younger associates...
...and Harold Gilman....
...After that defeat, Paul Begala, Stan Greenberg and later Harold Ickes were shown the door as Mr Clinton faced the realities of governing with a new coalition....
...The Royal Geographical Society is housed in a red-brick building just south of Hyde Park, at a junction of Kensington Gore and Exhibition Road that London cab drivers call “hot and cold corner”....
...Harold MacMillan, the former British prime minister, once observed that the biggest challenge to a statesman was “events, dear boy, events”....
...Sickert apart, this show consists of a dilute cocktail of British art at its most imitative: rooms full of earnest, well-meaning, post-post-impressionist cityscapes and interiors by Spencer Gore, Harold...
...Elaine Kamarck was an adviser to vice-president Al Gore, and is now a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government....
...Many of his country’s leaders who may have dreamt of a comeback – including Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Lady Thatcher and Sir John Major – made no great impact after their prime ministerial terms....
...Could he, some ask (not least Mr Blair), be another Al Gore, who threw away Bill Clinton’s golden legacy in failing to win the US presidency?...
...At the start of 1961 the world’s leading powers were run by Nikita Khrushchev (Soviet Union, aged 66); Harold Macmillan (Britain, also 66); Mao Zedong (China, 67); DwightD....
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