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...Charles-Henry Monchau, chief investment officer at Geneva-based Bank Syz, noted that profitable Russian exporters and banks had been “hit massively” and this could create opportunities....
...In the 1920s Henry Ford set up rubber plantations in the Amazon, a steel mill in Michigan and coal mines across the US to supply his growing automotive empire....
...But there’s also a restless sense of postwar turbulence and Norris retains the scope of the novel with a silent chorus of people on the move....
...The assumption was that May’s Brexit festival would be jingoistic propaganda but four years later ‘Unboxed’ has become something much weirder as Henry Mance explains....
...Meanwhile backstage, props, costumes and wigs need to be separated, and keeping cast members safe is a military operation worthy of Henry V. Shakespeare was not a man for a two-hander....
...“There have been other moments in history when the opening night has been the closing night,” observed the NT’s director Rufus Norris, wryly, as he stepped on to the stage to welcome the audience....
...Among the first recipients was Rufus Norris, now artistic director of the National Theatre....
...Eric Norris, president of lithium at Albemarle, said Chinese customers had been reluctant to commit to long-term contracts for lithium....
...Along with gala ambassadors Olivia Colman and Lenny Henry, the National’s director Rufus Norris will host the event, which in past years has seen unique one-off performances by actors such as Benedict Cumberbatch...
...A terrific climactic confrontation shortly before the end burns with a superficially noble brutality not unlike the newly crowned King Henry V’s rejection of Falstaff, yet even then and afterwards it becomes...
...Evans and adapter Bruce Norris are determined that their version be seen through contemporary eyes....
...We’re in an office at London’s Donmar Warehouse, which next week hosts the finished article: a new version of Brecht’s satirical masterpiece, starring British actor Lenny Henry....
...In keeping with its subject, the play has a free-wheeling, buccaneering style: a roguish mix of Henry Fielding and Bertolt Brecht....
...A small triumph, on the other hand, was Henry Hitchings’ shrewd and never-dull canter through the earliest fictions (Birth of the British Novel, BBC4 Monday) – from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe at the...
...As was the patronage of Paris stage stars Réjane and Sarah Bernhardt, dancer Isadora Duncan and Margot Asquith, the fashion-forward wife of Henry Asquith, the British prime minister....
...The company that the fuss has been about was founded by a US citizen, Henry Lee Norris, who came to Scotland to find a suitable place to make the goods that were proving so popular in his home country....
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