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...US shale magnate Harold Hamm is leading attempts to lure an increasingly sceptical younger generation to the oil and gas industry as climate concerns and job insecurity dent the attractiveness of the industry...
...Harold Wilson caused a widespread stink over his resignation honours list in 1976....
...Acutely aware that his own title to the throne would be contested, Harold had himself crowned in a hurry at Winchester Abbey after Edward’s death....
...While he directed content, his brother and co-founder Harold — who became Lord Rothermere — was the business brain and inherited on Alfred’s death. (Harold’s great-grandson is the current owner)....
...And next week Jamie Lloyd’s dazzling 2019 production — also scaling down the nose — returns to the stage (first to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End, then Glasgow and New York) with James McAvoy...
.... ★★★★☆ To August 20, almeida.co.uk The Seagull Harold Pinter Theatre, London Chekhov was the great master of “if only”....
...Back too is James McAvoy with his superb, moving performance in the lead of Cyrano de Bergerac: another outsider, whose story is thrillingly recalibrated in Jamie Lloyd’s production....
...Cyrano de Bergerac Harold Pinter Theatre, London Some things improve with age, and Jamie Lloyd’s Cyrano de Bergerac is one of them....
...There are precedents for police investigating Downing Street matters: 100 years ago, Scotland Yard looked into the buying and selling of honours under David Lloyd George; 15 years ago there was a probe into...
...It was one thing for her to go along with Harold Wilson’s insistence that white Rhodesian resistance to independence with democracy was in effect an act of disloyalty not just to Her Majesty’s government...
...Harold informs Frannie that the internet was full of conspiracy theories regarding the virus until it shut down....
...One sequence is a lift from Harold Lloyd’s silent classic Safety Last, now three years from its 100th anniversary. Progress comes slow indeed. ★★☆☆☆...
...Serving during the war with General Eisenhower in Algiers, Harold Macmillan coined the conceit that Britain could act as Greece to America’s Rome....
...Harold Pinter’s early plays include some memorably garrulous oddballs such as the shoeless tramp Davies in 1960’s The Caretaker and the bullying patriarch Max in 1963’s The Homecoming....
...One of our most active directors last year was Jamie Lloyd (following up his sizzling Pinter season with a stupendous Cyrano de Bergerac), so you might expect him to take it easy in 2020....
...Almeida, London, to February 29 almeida.co.uk Cyrano de Bergerac James McAvoy is sensational in Martin Crimp’s bold new version of the Edmond Rostand classic, which Jamie Lloyd stages as a sort of poetry...
...It’s a staging that wraps up Lloyd’s magnificent Pinter at the Pinter season: again it’s superbly acted and again Lloyd pinpoints the playwright’s brilliant ability, like Beckett, to create a liminal stage...
...Harold Pinter Theatre, London, to May 2 unclevanyaplay.com...
...As Jamie Lloyd’s terrific marathon-of-menace, Pinter at the Pinter, slips past the halfway mark, it goes back to the beginning....
...There’s a gentle, melancholic streak to Lloyd’s staging, albeit flecked with humour (much of it at the hands of the excellent Lee Evans)....
...In Lloyd’s production, Paapa Essiedu and Kate O’Flynn are also superb as the tortured victims....
...The young British diplomat Harold Nicolson, who tried to advise them one afternoon, complained: “It is appalling that these ignorant and irresponsible men should be cutting Asia Minor to bits as if they...
...By contrast, Tesco’s British workforce is over 300,000 and Lloyds Banking Group’s is 75,000....
...His Budget did not go down well with the country, the cabinet or, most importantly, with prime minister Harold Macmillan....
...Lloyd dangling from a clock tower....
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