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...Round on the Links The link was types of power Soft Cell Andy Flower Gone with the Wind Conrad Black Gas War Horse Mexican wave Oil of Olay Will Smith Dead Sea scrolls...
...HG Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford were other guests....
...Nails, Christina Conrad at Calliste. Set design, Aymeric Arnould at Open Space Paris. Seamstress, Carole Savaton at Atelier on Set. Production, Michaël Lacomblez at Louis2....
...Bayswater department store Whiteley’s was the centrepiece of one of London’s most fashionable neighbourhoods, a vast ocean liner of a building attracting the well-off and the well-read from across the capital: Conrad...
...But there are also new extravagances: outdoor showers, safes bolted into the floor and a residents-only restaurant by Todd English, the James Beard Award-winning chef....
...For instance, Matilda becomes a different person when she reads not the exotic adventures of Joseph Conrad but the domestic drama of Jane Austen....
...The Ondaatje items include some fine art, with a bronze bust of Joseph Conrad by Jacob Epstein (1924, est £5,000-£8,000) and, the catalogue’s cover lot, a rare portrait of “a young lady, a free person of...
...Duck into the St James’s Park underground station booking hall, straight out the other side, cut smartly left and into the entrance of a nondescript hotel called the Conrad Hilton....
...Think of Joseph Conrad, or James Joyce. Had the Polish seafarer and the itinerant Irishman never packed their suitcases, their novels could not have been written....
...On the freezing beach, one of the lifeboats, the James Caird, was strengthened and a deck added, sealed with oil paint, lamp wick and seal blood....
...“We don’t want the recovery fund to become a party fund for PiS,” said Pawel Zalewski, from Civic Coalition....
...What Nabokov called a “private tragedy”, Yiyun Li — who, like Joseph Conrad, has never written in her native tongue — calls a “private salvation”....
...“I am an incredible consumer of images, of every type of film,” says the Haitian-born director, best known for the Bafta-winning 2016 documentary I Am Not Your Negro, on the African-American writer James...
...Like Joseph Conrad’s character Charles Marlow and Philip Roth’s Nathan Zuckerman, le Carré’s George Smiley recurs in his novels, reminding readers of the author’s enduring concerns....
...Asterix and the Chieftain’s Daughter , by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, Orion, RRP£7.99 Stepping into the sizeable shoes of Goscinny and Uderzo for a fourth time, Ferri and Conrad produce yet another...
...It was the time of postcolonial literature, James Bond, and, part-brokered by George Harrison, India’s hold on a segment of western youth....
...James Cameron writes and directs, Arnie stars, as cyborg sci-fi finds its Dadaist dream movie....
...Conrad Black and his wife turned up to a party as Cardinal Richelieu and Marie Antoinette. Not long after, he was in jail....
...In a safe Norfolk seat, Nick Conrad, a former BBC presenter, was forced to stand aside for comments on rape deemed “completely unacceptable” by the prime minister. Both were rapidly replaced....
...It becomes clear that Max, the book’s hyper-efficient, borderline-psychopathic anti-hero, is a modern version of Conrad’s Marlow and has his own Kurtz to face....
...Round on the Links The link was chess The Woman in White Conrad Black Emily Bishop “Castle on the Hill” Martin Luther King day Pawn shop The Dark Knight Alexander McQueen Checkpoint Charlie Endgame...
...In Tom Bower’s biography of Conrad Black, the disgraced former press baron, an unnamed source offers the deliciously waspish quote: “I don’t understand why Conrad wants to be the poorest billionaire in America...
...Conrad’s “the horror, the horror” had come to adventure-futurism on screen....
...Cornelia Parker, Ron Arad and Conrad Shawcross have all been featured in St Pancras International’s Terrace Wires, the station’s public art programme that it runs in partnership with the Royal Academy....
...James was congratulating Conrad on his recent volume of essayistic reminiscences The Mirror of the Sea, and he was referring mainly to Conrad’s long early life as a sailor: roughly a 20-year spell beginning...
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