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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?...
...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....
...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....
...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....
...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 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.”...
...The novel borrowed its structure from Homer’s Odyssey and experimented with the possible styles available to anyone writing in English....
...That’s part of what makes the 1876 Reconstruction era painting “The Watermelon Boys” by Winslow Homer such a fascinating work....
...continues its run at the Whitney until February, while of the always powerful programme at the Metropolitan Museum, one spring highlight will be an unusual showing of the 19th-century American Winslow Homer...
...Okri’s script, drawn from a 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem, unfolds a story that predates Homer....
...But even Foster could not fulfil the brief for another Sherlock Holmes — the knuckle-dusting 2009 version directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jr....
...Homer Simpson once proposed a toast “to alcohol, cause of and solution to all of life’s problems”. For global companies that have drunk deep of debt, his line captures a nasty irony....
...and participated, in 1949, at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, which championed abstract art and included Robert Delaunay and Jean Arp among its stable....
...Or Homer’s The Odyssey? Number three on his list was Naïve. Super by the Norwegian writer Erlend Loe....
...Closing quote — essential comment before you go Robert Armstrong Homer Simpson once proposed a toast “to alcohol, cause of and solution to all of life’s problems”....
...Colonel Robert Stephenson Clarke was a man of many talents. He took a double first in natural sciences at Cambridge. He had a distinguished military career....
...It was Twombly who painted the pillow on Robert Rauschenberg’s early combine “Bed”. In his own sculptures, he was after “a feel for the irrational poetry latent in society’s most humble materials”....
...Each of the shapely undulations hereabout is crowned or footed by a village with its own life and integrity, even without the northern European second-homers and one freeloading columnist....
...Brian Boeck, the author of this excellent biography, does not attempt to refute the charge of plagiarism; instead he portrays Sholokhov as a Homer of the Don Cossacks, a novelist whose genius lay partly...
...“Ears find historical connections; they’re part of the history we hear recounted like Homer’s tales.” It is also an exhortation. “When you have your ears, you don’t listen,” she says....
...He says the trilogy will follow the pattern of Homer’s Odyssey. “I found myself on my own and starting again,” he says of the first album. “I had to find myself.”...
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