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...In the String Quartet No 2, And once I played Ophelia, the visions are the ones in Ophelia’s mind, voiced with uncanny, stratospheric precision by soprano Jennifer France....
...From photographs I’ve seen, one of my favourite spaces appears to be a dining pavilion in the villa’s garden, with its beautifully painted murals of flower-bedecked trelliswork by Lawrence Mynott....
...At the end of a white road, near the village of Selcë e Poshtëme, an elderly woman with two chickens under her arms pointed us to a track....
...The inspiration – instantly recognisable to any adult from many films besides this one (cue Meryl Streep’s “I had a farm in Africaaaa…”) – came from across east Africa....
...I’ve often steered friends and visitors to its gloriously un-chic bar for the Taylor-and-Burton patina it gives. But the 75 rooms were always a bit too tired to warrant recommendation....
...“When I work with Japanese,” he says in the film, “I become Japanese. When I work with westerners, I try to be like them.”...
...As Rowan said on Apollo’s third-quarter earnings call: “When I talk about private credit, I’m really talking about the secular change as a result of debanking....
...Once considered a status symbol and a delicacy, jelly was served at medieval and Tudor banquets – think of Hilary Mantel’s description of towering castles with “edible archers peeping from the battlements...
..., “I’ll miss the thing by waiting for it.”...
...Developers are then left sprinting over thin air like Wile E Coyote, as at present....
...“When we did the pig family, the father was called Richard E Grunt and the son was Hugh Grunt.”...
...Howard, Alnwick Castle, the Bank of England and 10 Downing Street....
...As the road continues north towards Klampenborg, the coastal villas get fancier and fancier, and I start daydreaming about which one I’d most like to live in....
...Inspiration for training vines can be found by strolling under the extensive vine archway in the Edwardian Formal Garden at Powis Castle in Wales....
...‘A completely new world’ Uppsala is renowned for its university, the oldest in the Nordics, as well as Scandinavia’s biggest cathedral and a grand royal castle....
...Ofili’s portrait of weeping Doreen Lawrence, whose teenage son was murdered, is Britain’s most significant painting about race....
...Cockett’s point of departure is Carl E Schorske’s Pulitzer-prize winning 1979 work Fin-de-Siecle Vienna....
...At Harlech, one can visit Harlech Castle, built by Edward I in the late 13th century and eventually the last mainland royal fortress to surrender to the Parliamentarians during the English Civil War....
...But I wouldn’t give a fig about the horrors if I could live within his sumptuous walls....
...I was intrigued....
...From €195, alcuzcuz.es Ajesh Patalay Muxima, Aljezur, Portugal I’m not sure I had ever actually seen frogs perched on lilypads outside a Beatrix Potter illustration, but you’ll come eyeball to eyeball...
...TE Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, described Wadi Rum as “vast, echoing and god-like”. Wadi Rum was a great stage for Lawrence, who wrote of his involvement here in the Arab Revolt....
...Cézanne reportedly boasted, “With an apple I will astonish Paris.”...
...Writers have long experimented with games as part of their practice, notably the francophone Oulipo group, whose member Georges Perec wrote his 300-page 1969 novel La Disparition without using the letter “e”...
...Tables here are much coveted — and I get it. Rome is loved for its specialities, and the primi courses here are some of the best in the city, such as the pasta with cacio e pepe....
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