Hints and tips:
...Fry....
...You call them chips but they’re fries.” We’re still divided by a common language, I suggest....
...I would fly in Isaac McHale, the chef who owns Luca restaurant in London, mostly for what he misleadingly calls “Parmesan fries”....
...She met Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry at Cambridge university, where Fry has said she was so obviously gifted that her nickname was Emma Talented....
...Chris Grayling offered up his department for budget cuts “like a lamb to please the Treasury”, while Kenneth Clarke before him set many of those spending reductions in train....
...The nude had not been a prominent subject in Impressionist Paris, but after 1900, writes Kenneth Clark, “when art was once more concerned with concepts rather than sensations, the nude was the first concept...
...Buying an extra side order of fries won’t break the bank....
...‘Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation’, Tate Britain, London, to August 10, tate.org.uk...
...The awards ceremony will be hosted by Stephen Fry at the Royal Opera House in London on February 12....
...Fans of the previous films will be horrified to hear that Bakti’s wife finally flips after a scrap and fries his cherished fighting fish, serving them to Bakti with egg....
...Some of the images are unforgettable: the hip-hopper P Diddy at a Seventh Avenue soup shop; Bill Gates insisting on a cheeseburger; the neocon John Bolton smearing his fries with ketchup at the Mayflower...
...The critic Kenneth Tynan described it as “the fullest theatrical expression I have seen of the laws of supply and demand”....
...Prison design has not progressed in 150 years, since the great Victorian reformers such as Jeremy Bentham and Elizabeth Fry cleaned up the squalor of Georgian jails and created airy, hygienic prisons designed...
...Kenneth and Mary Gergen report that resilient older people are able to put their limitations into perspective....
...Sold as such to Viscount Lee of Fareham for $25,000 by a Milan dealer in 1930, it was acclaimed by Roger Fry “as by the master” and published by the Medici Society as “a masterpiece”....
...Kenneth Pitt cultivated David Bowie’s career over many years in the wilderness during the 1960s – only to be cast aside for tough guy Tony De Fries after “Space Oddity” became Bowie’s first hit....
...Clive Bell, Duncan Grant and Roger Fry might be discussing Matisse, John Maynard Keynes talking economics with Leonard Woolf, while Virginia Woolf might interrupt with witty asides....
...Slowly, private buyers of modernist persuasions – Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes – and pioneer collectors such as Samuel Courtauld and Kenneth Clark changed tastes....
...In the early 1960s, the company became the main supplier of McDonald’s french fries. Today it produces two billion pounds of french fries a year....
...In 1930, an early Botticelli, “Madonna of the Veil”, was bought for $25,000 and authenticated by Roger Fry, a respected art historian....
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