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...Tell me about an animal you have loved.I had a parrot called Rocco who escaped and died. I have another parrot now called Toukie. I teach him (or her?)...
...John Thornhill Bender’s been making this argument for years. In 2021, she co-wrote a famous paper with the title “On The Dangers of Stochastic Parrots”....
...“There used to be a bear kept in a cage, as if it were a parrot,” says Manuel Butler Halter, head of the Spanish tourist office in London, who remembers visiting the zoo as a child in the 1960s....
...Williamson’s gutter poetry, yelled in a meaty East Midlands accent, suggested John Cooper Clarke in a fearful bate....
...The scattershot of grand writerly personalities throughout John Walsh’s coming-of-literary-age memoir sometimes makes you want to duck for cover....
...He parrots pseudoscientific theories of the inferiority of the black race and justifies his position by claiming that, if Southern slaves were given their freedom, they would be subject to equally debilitating...
...Malacrida also designed her boudoir, where she would spend time with their pet parrot Congo, and the Art Deco dining room with its black-lacquered doors and aluminium-leaf ceiling panel....
...Phyllis, a talkative if capricious African grey parrot, finds a use in her cage for the “salmon-coloured sheets” of the Financial Times, “its plutocratic absorbency perhaps giving it the edge over other...
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...Hot on the heels of Michael Cunningham’s Day, fellow American Sigrid Nunez gives us her novelistic take on lockdown life during Covid — albeit in wilder, more genre-bending ways (one major character is a parrot...
...Maro Gorky, A Life Painting is at Long & Ryle, 4 John Islip St, London SW1, from 19 April to 12 May; longandryle.com...
...As you pass through Batman Park, named after city pioneer John Batman, you might spot some wandering swans....
...Captain John Freyer, unable to locate adequate timber to repair the ship in the young city, headed to a mountainous region to its south-east and found “a forest of tree masts” that meant the Admiral could...
...“Climate risk is a risk that investors should be concerned about,” added John Ions, chief executive at UK boutique Liontrust Asset Management....
...Who Knight Frank Point House, Parrot Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands, $15m Where Parrot Cay is a northern Caribbean private island....
...In Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, what’s the name of Long John Silver’s parrot (above)? What title was Antony Armstrong-Jones given after marrying Princess Margaret?...
...Due to open June 18; double rooms from €550; oetkercollection.com Burgundy, France Como Hotels and Resorts is the Singapore-based hotel group behind Parrot Cay in Turks and Caicos, the Shambala Retreat...
...And they get sent on to the radio, they parrot the line that they’ve got from Downing Street which supposedly has looked into it and what?...
...smoke so seductively viscous the viewer almost coughs (“A Whistle in a Wish”, 2018), Yiadom-Boakye’s devotion to her material is as palpable as her painstaking study of forerunners including Goya, Manet, John...
...Jeffrey Lendrum, a former special forces soldier also known as John Smith, was this year sentenced to jail for three years after being intercepted at Heathrow airport with 19 rare birds eggs, worth up to...
...That there are animals here at all is down to John Aspinall, the casino owner who in the 1950s made a fortune running high-stakes games of chemin de fer for aristocratic guests in Mayfair and Kensington....
...He has two parrots in his library. One is shown in a print by John Gould, a 19th-century ornithologist and bird artist. The other is ceramic, and sits next to the picture on a windowsill....
...When I was in my early teens, I read John Wyndham’s post-apocalypse novel, The Chrysalids. In it, one of the characters keens for her devastated planet: “What did they do here?...
...Also on offer is a Thomas Moran watercolour of a sublime Utah canyon that originally belonged to John Ruskin ($500,000)....
...(John Singer Sargent painted him, “noble, heroic” in that titular red coat.) He was also a serial adulterer....
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