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...Joseph curls up asleep. Small devils scurry away....
...What served as the monastery library – a high-ceilinged brick chamber – now houses novels, newspapers and audiobooks, while the attic, with its enormous wooden beams, is home to a children’s library....
...But, raked by the beam of replayed movies, that quintessence is enough to give the illusion of continued life....
...“When he sees his vision going off beam, his way of getting it back on beam is getting pretty cross about it,” says Madeleine, his third wife. “Quiet negotiation doesn’t really happen.”...
...It’s very understated as castles go, but it was hand-built, stone by stone, and every beam was chosen by hand....
...Prior to our meeting, I’d had an Aziz Ansari in my mind....
...Inside, the property is filled with large timber beams and matching floorboards....
...Standing in front of the glass just metres from the pandas, German Chancellor Angela Merkel beams and pumps her hands up and down like an excited schoolchild....
...“Don’t add,” he beams, looking up. “Don’t subtract.”...
...Every time I see one, I imagine James T Kirk cocking his arm to whisper into his wrist, “Beam me up, Scottie.”...
...“This one is for Mr Bhagwati,” the barman beams. “Two glasses coming right up.” It’s not only the cold that makes me want something to take the edge off....
...Joseph Stalin While not a man renowned for his refined sensibilities, Stalin made an exception when it came to opera....
...“Joseph Beuys worked with felt, but no one regards him as a fibre-based artist,” McFadden points out....
...The main event is a meeting of 10 book clubs to discuss Star of the Sea, Joseph O’Connor’s 2003 novel set during the Irish famine. The author is present....
...There’d be a big piece missing.”...
...In 1968, Romney Sr was briefly favoured to become the Republican nominee for the presidential election....
...We’d end up with a pile of shards on the floor of the gallery. This was the first time I’d worked with engineers and I thought that this was the end, the dispatch of the dream. It was only the start....
...Inside, the dark wooden floorboards, exposed beams and eccentric chocolate-making contraptions make for a welcoming, bohemian space....
...Still, until his wife Laura gave him The Ultimatum – me or Jim Beam (the bourbon) – W was a feckless failure....
...The 15th century beam for our fireplace, for example, was salvaged from an old convent in Pesaro....
...To others it would be the last place on earth they’d want to live.” Some names have been changed...
...He is now a vineyard consultant to the likes of Joseph Phelps, Rodney Strong, Quintessa, the new Beam Wine Estates, Swanson, the Silverado Winegrowers (“huge – they sell to 70 or 80 wineries”) and many more...
...There wasn’t much reason to imagine this future for Kashmir when Tom Dykes Sr shipped out to India in the mid-1930s....
...The world’s biggest ship, the Emma Maersk, is immense - 397m long, with a beam of 56m and 21 storeys between the bridge and the engine room....
...Some of the world’s most famous military aircraft – such as the SR-71 Blackbird, the high-speed and radar-resistant reconnaissance aircraft – emerged from its hangars....
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