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...Odey was known for another predilection: hiring “earls and girls”....
...In a wood-panelled library of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the artist Kerry James Marshall is reminiscing about his first encounter with art....
...Baroness Meta Ramsay orders a cup of Earl Grey tea and urges me to try a scone....
...Stoner was active in the Ku Klux Klan, described Adolf Hitler as “too moderate” and served as an attorney for James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King Jr’s assassin....
...Fadoul, a Moroccan avatar of James Brown, belting his way through “Ahl Jedba” with rock drums and a reed instrument buzzing in the background like a tiny mosquito....
...Continue north into North Audley Street and cut through Providence Court into Brown Hart Gardens (Charles Stanley Peach, 1903-6)....
...Marcia sang about being “Young, Gifted and Black”, James Brown commanded “Say It Loud: I’m Black and I’m Proud” and The Last Poets inspired a young Linton Kwesi Johnson to start writing protest poetry....
...Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a Wall Street critic and champion of tougher financial regulation, could be installed at the helm of the Senate banking committee....
...Instead, Foster helped the art department create a custom fake that even Downey Jr couldn’t disdain....
...Kate Brown, the Oregon governor, described the actions by the Trump administration as “absolutely unacceptable” and “purely a photo opportunity” for the White House. “He is trying to distract . . ....
...James Baker served as Reagan’s chief-of-staff and as secretary of state during the tumultuous years of the end of the cold war....
...He went on to star as a number of other real-life characters famed for breaking America’s racial barriers, including soul singer James Brown in Get on Up, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in Marshall...
...Raoul Peck’s documentary creates a narrative out of notes and letters written by James Baldwin in the 1970s....
...The video compelled Ms James, a 24-year-old airport security worker from Brooklyn, to protest for the first time....
...Thomas Foubister, London; Michael Sweeney, Dublin; David Sands, Maryland, US Polymath 1049: Mary Whittaker, Leicester, England Crossword 16,326: Simon Dare, Surrey, UK; Max Stewart, Australia; David Brown...
...“To truly power-dress is to express your individuality,” says Jeanne Yang, stylist for Hollywood clients such as Robert Downey Jr....
...1976; John deButts, chairman, AT&T, New York, May 5 1976; César Chávez, organiser, United Farm Workers, Keene, California, June 27 1976; Charles Shaffer, attorney, New York, July 9 1976; Herbert J Miller Jr...
...John Scavotto Jr, the leader of the local chapter of the sheet metal workers union, says the CRRC facility is a “godsend” — with high-paying jobs including benefits — but is worried about its future and...
...Here, in infancy, was the cultural wave that spurred the civil rights struggle, the black power movement and songs such as James Brown’s “Say It Loud — I’m Black and I’m Proud”....
...Clyde Stubblefield’s drum-break on James Brown’s “Funky Drummer” has been sampled thousands of times, by such diverse talents as Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sandé and Public Enemy....
...They had ousted Brown in March last year and put in new management who ran the business in the run-up to its administration and sale in April....
...It was a dull brown insect — the endangered European field cricket Gryllus campestris breeding quietly on the estate’s heathland — that sprang to the rescue....
..., whose name has undergone a variety of punctuation shifts plus an incarnation as The Horny Horns, were the instrument through which James Brown developed the revolutionary rhythms that are still so relevant...
...Biographies of note in the early part of the year include Richard J Evans’s Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little Brown, February) — the first one of the late historian and polymath....
...While he deserved the reputation, said Mr James, he also understood that “if you are leading an organisation, you cannot be a marshmallow”....
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