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...Frank Herbert’s Dune, thanks to the recent film versions, continues to ascend in price. (Last autumn, a rare storyboard for Dune sold for £350,000 at Peter Harrington.)...
...The word “doppelgänger” is from the German doppel (double) and gänger (goer, or walker). Freud called the feeling of walking alongside a double “uncanny”, Hitchcock “vertigo”....
...Following a brief first marriage, she wedded William McCormick Blair Jr, the former US ambassador to Denmark, in 1961....
...“Russia,” Raiffeisen’s former chief executive Herbert Stepic liked to say, “separates the wheat from the chaff”. Now, the situation is reversed....
...Headliners include Summer Walker, Maxwell and Davido....
...White House: US president Joe Biden welcomes his Philippine counterpart Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr for a bilateral meeting after the two countries recently held their largest joint military drills in...
...A victory for Warnock, a pastor at the late Martin Luther King Jr’s Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and who was first elected to the Senate after winning a run-off in January 2021, would be of tremendous...
...In the early 1960s, Denmark Groover Jr, a Democratic state legislator in Georgia, led the push there for a two-round voting system as part of an unabashed effort to suppress the votes of African-Americans...
...Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple whose family picked cotton in Georgia, once said her mother was “an artist whose palette was a flower garden”....
...Yet Walker remains in contention to unseat Raphael Warnock, the incumbent Democrat and pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr used to preach...
...I have an intaglio print by Kara Walker, titled Lil Patch of Woods (1997), which I have hung in my home office for motivation....
...What persists, however, is a belief that the region is on a slow path towards progress, a belief inspired by the great Georgia native Martin Luther King Jr’s famous quote that the moral arc of the universe...
...One of this year’s hits was the well-deserving Scottish painter Caroline Walker, who had her auction record broken at three consecutive sales in a row: £239,400 at Christie’s; £516,600 at Phillips; and then...
...supremacist atrocities of Timothy McVeigh’s Oklahoma City bombings and the 1998 lynching of James Byrd, Jr....
...She died in obscurity in 1960, but her reputation was revived by Alice Walker in 1975 and she was subsequently canonised as a great African-American writer — the predecessor of Walker, Toni Morrison and...
...Lawyers from Herbert Smith Freehills, Kingsley Napley, Simmons & Simmons and DLA Piper have also been called in to advise....
...Dorothea Herbert is up for the challenges of Leonore, feisty whenever necessary, but with enough of a lyrical quality in the voice to take her over the hurdles of the aria....
...Failure poses material risks, ranging from litigation to reputational damage, Walker says....
...But it is not cycle-only — you will have to navigate your way alongside joggers, walkers and dog-lovers....
...Based on Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel, director Denis Villeneuve’s epic psychodrama tells the story of Paul Atreides (played by Timothée Chalamet), a young man drawn into an interplanetary power struggle between...
...He would go on to work for the scion of a venerable New England clan that, with the inauguration of President George Herbert Walker Bush in 1989, had become an American dynasty....
...He was previously co-head of Herbert Smith Freehills’ German disputes practice....
...Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Ulysses S Grant, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover and Roosevelt all tried to recapture the White House after leaving office. Only one — Cleveland — succeeded....
...In 1995, local philanthropist Mitchell Wolfson Jr opened The Wolfsonian, a South Beach museum devoted to 19th and 20th-century objects and design....
...The three most empathetic people I’ve known in American politics have been Joe Biden, George Herbert Walker Bush, and John Lewis....
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