Hints and tips:
...John le Carré took months to construct the opening of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)....
...It is at once a local Italian and an upscale eatery, the quiet neighbour of long-established St John and nearby Quality Chop House....
...It was an unpromising site but he was fortunate in his collaborators, a local landscape gardener and a stone carver....
...Yet, as chairman John Rigas explains, Asprey sold fashionable jade jewels in the late 1920s and ’30s, during the orientalist craze....
...(See my Swamp Note on his recent book on that topic, co-written with John Judis.)...
...Tom CarverWashington, DC, US Letter in response to this letter: Carney backs trickle down theory, not Trotskyism / From John Ure, Director, TRPC, Singapore, Fellow of the Centre of Urban Studies and Urban...
...Tom Carver (Letters, March 27) can rest assured that Mark Carney hasn’t bought into Trotskyism....
...Johnson was appalled and, prompted by House speaker John McCormack, decided to call a special joint session of Congress....
...In the new Sky One comedy-drama Code 404, Mays, 42, plays an undercover police officer, John Major, whom we first meet during a sting that goes fatally wrong....
...And Mad Men has been compared to American writers John Cheever and Raymond Carver....
...Each piece is determined by the size, shape and hue of the available tusk or tooth, and by the skills or inclinations of their individual carvers. No two are the same....
...It is named after the book that contains four withering essays in which John Ruskin attacked industrialisation, free trade and modern economics....
...Like Raymond Carver, Berlin wrote about the poor and addicted because she knew them, and like Annie Proulx she evoked the landscapes of the American west with striking precision....
...Elfreth’s Alley, a 1702 cart lane to the Delaware River, is a good example, gradually filled with an agreeable huddle of brick townhouses built for sailors, carvers and boatbuilders....
...Critics have likened her to a female Raymond Carver, and there’s some truth to that....
...Elsewhere the spirals and figures of the latticework of an early canoe sternpost point to the mastery of the Maori carvers....
...Singer John Legend argues that NFL protests are, despite criticism to the contrary, patriotic....
...John Zealley, senior managing director of consumer goods and services at Accenture, says the groups need to take more risks to balance “investment in innovations that will have more volatile returns” with...
...At the same time, his writing doesn’t invite you to spend too much time admiring its stern rejection of ornament, as Beckett or Hemingway or Raymond Carver sometimes do....
...Antonia Carver Antonia Carver was director of Art Dubai from 2010 to 2016....
...If there is any doubt, posterity will favour black humour, like the apocryphal tale of US general John Sedgwick at the Battle of Spotsylvania on May 9 1864 reprimanding his troops: “Why are you dodging like...
...Jay Carver, lead archaeologist at Crossrail, said scientists would analyse the pulp in the skeletons’ teeth to help prevent future human plagues....
...The desert is by definition an area short of wood, so carvers working here needed alternatives....
...Eleanor Coade used the best sculptors of the day for her models, notably John Bacon (1740-1799)....
...Embracing technology where it can help a process, his growing studio recruits from diverse backgrounds: from master carvers to design technicians and engineers....
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