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...Helen has been abducted and raped, and her author Homer does not just excoriate the victim but picks her to spit the venom. Did Homer loathe his subject?...
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...Which comedy drama of the 1990s starred Robert Carlyle as a Scottish policeman with a dog called Wee Jock?...
...Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox (Allen Lane) With a long-held adoration of the great epic poem, English historian and FT gardening columnist Lane Fox presents a many-threaded study of Homer’s work...
...“Boeing needs to get their act together,” said American Airlines chief executive Robert Isom on a call with analysts....
...After shooing away baboons from the forecourt, he searches by torchlight and notices a small casket under a pile of battered portraits of Robert Mugabe, Muammer Gaddafi and Julius Nyerere....
...He posed for portraits by the photographers Robert Mapplethorpe and Peter Hujar, which he then repainted, reclaiming his skinny body and dour expression....
...Bloch, as he reminded us, studied violin with Eugène Ysaÿe —the “biggest rock star of the violin, when violinists were rock stars”....
...Man Ray chose Eugène Atget’s view of a crowd on the Place de la Bastille looking up at a solar eclipse in 1912 as the cover for La Révolution surréaliste in 1926....
...The University of Chicago’s Eugene Fama then presented a cohesive hypothesis for why: thousands upon thousands of investors constantly trying to outsmart each other meant that the stock market was “efficient...
...when he had an even bigger work in the museum’s renowned Carnegie International show in 2018, ranks the acquisition of Anatsui’s “Palettes of Ambition” (2022) alongside pieces by Claude Monet, Winslow Homer...
...“The Veteran in a New Field”, painted in 1865 after the surrender of Confederate general Robert E Lee, encapsulates a persistent friction between allegory and reality, grief and hope....
...“I love CoBrA’s sincerity in the return to the basics, in search of newness,” says Robert Nava, a Pace Gallery-represented artist who cites the movement’s spontaneity as a major inspiration....
...That’s a lot of plot, which makes the dialogue dense even before we get to the scenes in which child prodigy Akilla quotes great chunks of Homer’s Iliad to demonstrate his intellectual prowess....
...The sanctions on Eugene Tenenbaum and David Davidovich bring the total number of oligarchs, family members and associates with ties to Russia on the UK list to 106 since February, the government said on...
...In reality, there was only ever one suspected murder on the Orient Express (in 1950 the body of Eugene Karpe, a US naval attaché in Bucharest, was found lying by the line near Salzburg), but there was plenty...
...Eugene Tenenbaum, an associate of Abramovich who has served as a director of Chelsea since the oligarch took it over in 2003, is a Jersey resident, according to British corporate records....
...Sussurro’s management company is Blue Ocean Management, a Cyprus-based company that also manages Le Grand Bleu, a 113-metre superyacht that Abramovich reportedly gave to his business associate Eugene Shvidler...
...Authorities arrested a man who had been Black’s neighbour at a local rooming house: Robert Durst....
...His grandfather, Sir Robert Ho Tung — famed as the richest man in Hong Kong — is represented in photographs with George Bernard Shaw, both in Chinese dress....
...Robert Klein is leaving the Bundesliga, where he was head of international for the German football league, to join Endeavor‘s IMG Media as head of global football....
...“[The] overall mood and sentiment across KKR is quite positive,” said chief financial officer Robert Lewin on an earnings call....
...The novelist Sebastian Faulks once remarked that “of the 100 greatest stories ever told, 99 are probably in the Old Testament and the other is in Homer.”...
...There’s The Chairs at the Almeida (from February 5): a new version of Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist drama by Omar Elerian that draws on the climate crisis....
...The novel borrowed its structure from Homer’s Odyssey and experimented with the possible styles available to anyone writing in English....
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