Hints and tips:
...The title of Jorja Smith’s second album, Falling or Flying, invites us to crane our necks and look upwards. Not many singers have had an ascent as rapid as hers....
...A rare estate sale of seven ceramics last year fetched from £3,275 (including fees) for a broken and reglued plate to £26,855 for a small plate painted with red cranes....
...Bousfield was a fourth-generation hunter-explorer from a family for whom pushing boundaries appeared to be a competitive sport....
...In 1772, George III even hired a dedicated plant hunter to bring back special specimens....
...It sells leather goods, from bags to chaps; there are concerts at Chico Basin Ranch; they host artists and hold exhibitions; there are trips for hunters, fishermen and birdwatchers....
...figure of the singer herself — a display of showbiz pyrotechnics employed as much to humanise as dazzle — the film involves an acutely edited array of different perspectives, from close-ups of Swift to crane...
...“We’re trying to find something that doesn’t involve us driving to get bagels in the morning,” says one house-hunter....
...Semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers, they made tools from wood, flint, bone and antlers and hunted with dogs; they made canoes, wove baskets, caught fish and buried their dead....
...Someone had left a small crane unchained. It spun like a weathervane....
...His grandfather was Jack Bousfield, adventurer, safari guide and famous hunter turned conservationist....
...Think of a famous plant hunter associated with botanising in China, and names such as Robert Fortune, Ernest Wilson or George Forrest might come to mind....
...Buying up a host of British assets, Doha became an aggressive deal-hunter....
...“Cranes in the Sky” is a thoughtful ballad about feeling depressed, high vocals and harp fluttering against a grave violin backdrop....
...They busked high-angle shots with a spindly homemade crane. They attached a camera to the eagle, using the harness worn by rescue dogs when they sniff through war ruins....
...He reminds me a little of Martin Crane, father of Frasier in the popular US sitcom, who, when forced to move into his son’s swish Seattle apartment, is adamant that his comfy chair must come too....
...Based on a Tatar poem by Gabdulla Tukai, it gives us bird-maidens modelled after cranes rather than swans; in lieu of wistful yearning, they flutter and soar....
...But what the finance minister calls “Icelanders’ hunter mentality” is kicking in as people in the tourism industry fear the worst....
...Some of its best specimens come from his own seed collections in north Vietnam, the new Mecca for resolute plant hunters....
...Aged five, he spied on a family of cranes. “I hid myself in the pond so only my eyes and nose were above the water. But the cranes got angry, and attacked me.”...
...Money launderers mingle with fortune hunters....
...Page identifies it as by Walter Crane, an artist associated with the Arts & Crafts movement of the late 19th century, another of his obsessions. “The whole concept of it is really beautiful....
...Then West reappeared in a crane above the audience, rapping, with hokey literalness, “Touch the Sky”, a spectacle neutered by his near invisibility in the cherry picker....
...At the left is a crane, a tall green grasshopper-like contraption, for lifting the tombstones....
...We watched a huge variety of birds: pratincoles, jacana, wattled cranes; we joined 60 crowned cranes feeding....
...A third man, bearded, wearing a blue mask and indigo Zorro-style cape, jumped on to the base of the crane....
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