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...King Lear Wyndham’s Theatre, London “You are old,” characters keep telling Kenneth Branagh’s King Lear — which feels a bit rough as, at 62, he makes for a pretty sprightly monarch....
...Founded in 1978, the original LCB was the brainchild of South African-born dancer Harold King, whose energy and limitless personal charm secured funding, ballet world favours and the patronage of Diana,...
...He begins with the so-called golden age in the 1950s and 1960s, when the prime minister Harold Macmillan reflected the country’s postwar boom in his “never had it so good” remark....
...cut a long story short — and few tales beg as much abbreviation as Starr’s four-year investigation into the Clintons — the report oozed with detailed sex encounters in the bodice-ripping language of a Harold...
...By January the next year, she had enrolled at both the Courtauld Institute and the Slade School of Fine Arts, where she found tutor Harold Cohen insightful....
...Like Harold Pinter (a huge fan), Coward used repetitive, banal-seeming utterances to mask undercurrents of love — or menace....
...But Beckett again benefited from the passionate support of influential critics, particularly Harold Hobson and Kenneth Tynan, who both emphasised Beckett’s playful debts to the music hall....
...As the IMF negotiations dragged on in the month before the deal, Harold Lever, a key cabinet minister, wrote a paper urging Callaghan to use the expected deal with the fund as a way to join the EEC’s monetary...
...The author admires politicians from across the political divide and writes with approval of Conservative politicians such as Harold Macmillan, Michael Heseltine and Kenneth Baker, as much as he does Labour...
...As for Brown, he was, at least after his Treasury years, Harold Wilson: academically almost superhuman, but as grounded as a balloon....
...Unlike his friend Harold Pinter, he is a generous and flexible collaborator in the rehearsal room, even after 50 years of validation. As literary criticism, it is frustrating....
...If it happens, few will deserve more credit for the — let us go with “Renaissance” — than Harold Bloom....
...Roy Jenkins, Kenneth Clarke, Michael Portillo, David Miliband and George Osborne are just a few political heirs apparent who never clinched the top job....
...“At a time when Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan was claiming people ‘had never had it so good’, reactions to the play exposed a deep social chasm.”...
...It is a tribute by the American humorist and writer James Thurber, about working at The New Yorker under Harold Ross, the magazine’s co-founder and editor between 1925 and 1951....
...His Budget did not go down well with the country, the cabinet or, most importantly, with prime minister Harold Macmillan....
...Under Harold Wilson, the Labour prime minister, a working group belonging to the “Official Committee on Communism (Home)” met periodically to discuss intelligence....
...The Curse of Cash, by Kenneth Rogoff, Princeton University Press £22.95/$29.95 Rogoff argues that we have the ability to dispense with physical cash....
...Harold Wilson tried that with the Department of Economic Affairs but it failed. Subsequent prime ministers, spurred by frustrated advisers, have toyed with clipping the Treasury’s wings....
...’s mysterious friend Lord Kagan arrives every weekend in a Jaguar to stay with his mistress, and two men are living together up the road — who turn out to be Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell....
...Oklahoma-based Continental Resources, controlled by its founder Harold Hamm, said it would cut capital spending by 66 per cent this year to $920m, following a 46 per cent reduction last year....
...So said the art historian Kenneth Clark, and I think Simon Schama would probably agree with him....
...And Kenneth Cranham is quite simply shattering as André. We see this mischievous, crusty, clever, truculent man gradually receding until he’s left, in his pyjamas, weeping, “I’m losing all my leaves.”...
...Harold and Annette Simmons, whose wealth stems from their ownership of several industrial companies, doled out more than $27m to Republican groups in 2012....
...Cardiff Garcia The other thing that came to mind was an old idea from the literary critic Harold Bloom about what is the real American religion....
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