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...Bird and Sherwin have done the legwork for him: the principals come with rich biographies and ready-to-go dialogue....
...“He was intellectually very rigorous and insisted that intuitive work was for the birds. You needed to justify every mark you made. Perfect meat and drink for me.”...
...Squint past the bird’s nest, and you realise the face belongs to Kenneth Branagh....
...On “Dryad’s Love Song”, the touchstones are Kenneth Grahame and CS Lewis, that English Arcadia where the shadows lie, the music a dappled amalgam of Nick Drake and Virginia Astley....
...“If and when Abrdn leaves the index, these funds will be required to sell their holdings,” said Kenneth Lamont, senior manager for passive strategies at Morningstar....
...Consider Barbara Bush, who was not a fashion plate but was a loyalist to fake pearls, specifically a triple-strand style designed by US costume jeweller Kenneth Jay Lane....
...The otherness of these birds is powerfully told: Macdonald herself releases one young swift, realising her hand was the “last solid thing the bird would touch for years.”...
...I’d never seen a sparrowhawk either, and certainly not seen one pluck a blue tit out of the air before my eyes and stand on its kill with, in the words of naturalist Kenneth Richmond, “the fury of that lunatic...
...Kenneth Branagh does Shakespeare — again. But All is True is not The Bard as we know him....
...The Observer’s Kenneth Tynan, while noting the play’s flaws, described the teenage playwright as “a portent”. This is where Celia Brayfield and Selina Todd each begin their excellent new books....
...Stephen Bird, Citigroup’s head of consumer banking, is leaving the company amid a leadership shake-up at the lender....
...The collection features birds and fish on patterned lounge shirts, reversible bombers and leather goods. “I think ‘recontextualise’ is the word,” says Weston....
...He was a powerful but pitiful Rudolf in Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling in October and has a great gift for melodrama....
...The Barbican’s fascinating 60-minute programme, Kenneth MacMillan: Steps Back in Time, featured extracts from The House of Birds and Danses Concertantes (both 1955) and the whole of Laiderette (1954)....
...Introducing performance to the museum space goes back at least as far as Kenneth Clark’s stint as director of the National Gallery in the 1930s and 1940s....
...As controller of BBC2 he commissioned some of the corporation’s most famous programmes — including Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation....
...A colleague and I once listened to its then president, Kenneth Kaunda, deliver an interminable speech in which he referred to “my intelligence services”. “Zambian intelligence,” muttered my friend....
...So did Michael Heseltine, Norman Lamont and Kenneth Clarke, some of the longest-serving ministers of our own time. Alex Preston is not a politician....
...That distinction should probably fall to E L de Mole, an Australian who approached the British war office in 1912 with a design that was — in the words of historians Kenneth Macksey and John Batchelor —...
...Sitting in the warm looking out at the tits dashing on and off the bird table against a background of hard frost and clear blue sky I realise how little has changed over my lifetime....
...“They may be a little more likely to drop the case if you argue: ‘this is not our issue; it’s our friends’ overseas,’” said Gary Lincenberg, a principal at Bird Marella in Los Angeles....
...Around us all the birds of Oxfordshire were singing, or so it seemed. The sound of church bells carried across the fields....
...Why else is Francis of Assisi, the saint who preached to birds, still one of Christianity’s best-loved figures?...
...John Kenneth Galbraith famously called India a “functioning anarchy”. Sometimes these days the country can feel more anarchy than function. For the traveller, India’s rapid growth poses a conundrum....
...Tyler Cowen No, Larry Bird is not in the running at all....
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