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...The hero of the peculiar and poignant drama Harold Halibut is a man of endurance....
...Can Lukesh trust this troubled young man’s sudden interest in expanding his worldview?...
...What they present is an uneasy man who hid behind words....
...Harold Wilson caused a widespread stink over his resignation honours list in 1976....
...New York, despite its dynamism, had become an artistic tyranny, where Abstract Expressionist orthodoxies were proclaimed and enforced by the inquisitorial critics Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg....
...In response, Labour prime minister, Harold Wilson derisively dubbed Heath as “Selsdon Man” — accusing him of “designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring....
...The reader is left trying to understand the story of a man who dreamt he was destined for greatness but is no longer even remembered for the scandal which briefly defined him....
...For more on this idea, see a recent Prospect piece by Harold Meyerson. Trump is about to become his own worst enemy....
....” ★★★★★ To January 20 2024, crazyforyoumusical.com Dr Semmelweis Harold Pinter Theatre, London There’s another headstrong maverick at the Harold Pinter Theatre, but this time he is based on a real...
...Harold Rosenberg summed up Abstract Expressionist gloom as Barnett Newman (the tight zip canvases) closing the door, Rothko pulling down the blinds, Ad Reinhardt (who painted mainly in black) turning off...
...Now Harold Fry makes another fine English eccentric....
...The raw pain of these scenes can make you desolate, willing, along with Kent, for this broken man to be released from torment....
...The Harold Wilson of these pages is not just a dry winner. He is a man animated by passions. It’s a good case and it almost washes....
...But in fact, we soon realise, we are trapped in one man’s deeply traumatised psyche....
...While pundits debate whether Keir Starmer is more influenced by Tony Blair, Gordon Brown or Harold Wilson, the figures who loom largest are Ed Miliband and Neil Kinnock....
...I said that he reminded me of Davies [the homeless man in The Caretaker]. “Beckett was clearly the far better player....
...There, he spontaneously snapped a sleeping Rab Butler, Harold Macmillan’s home secretary, and minutes later was approached by a newspaper man looking to buy the photograph....
...As a result, Starmer and Rishi Sunak both sound a lot like Harold Wilson, who in 1964 won an election to lead a country whose existing economic model looked creaky at best....
...He started early with lost causes: at an interview for a posh private school, he told the headmaster how Harold could have won the Battle of Hastings....
...Thirty years on, letters written by one of the team, Dr Harold Tunmore, to his niece are unearthed....
...In the autumn of 1964, in the midst of a general election campaign that would bring Harold Wilson’s Labour party to power by promising a Britain forged in the “white heat” of the “scientific revolution”,...
...Like Harold Pinter (a huge fan), Coward used repetitive, banal-seeming utterances to mask undercurrents of love — or menace....
...The Old Man, streaming on Disney Plus, is not some brash, brazen showcase of undiminished virility....
...Her father Harold was an RAF radio operator during the war and went into business with a partner in a tool shop after; her mother Etty stayed at home to look after their children....
...But this was a man pushing 60, proud of his Homeric learning, on a stage that was set for a career-crowning mot juste.Johnson isn’t funny....
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