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...In October, the Financial Times reported that the Treasury had asked HS2’s management team to identify potential cuts or “scope reductions” to the high-speed line....
...Orange, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, achieved something like instant canonical status with his debut novel, 2018’s There There....
...Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950-1970 collects abstract art made by women artists in the 20 years following the second world war, featuring works by Ruth Asawa, Louise Bourgeois, Barbara Hepworth,...
...In 2021’s Surge, Brown is at first a CGI lay figure jerking robotically to life, swooping into lead-boot backbends, changing direction with mercurial ease while vocalising to a generic-sounding drone of...
...Louise Haigh, shadow transport secretary, insisted the cancellation of HS2’s northern leg was “the exact opposite of the levelling up we were promised” and a sign of “chaos” in Sunak’s government....
...Bob Crowley, whose phantasmagoric designs were the making of 2011’s Alice and who created powerful stage pictures for 2014’s The Winter’s Tale, was a natural choice to bring Esquivel’s dreamlike imagery...
...After that, building on the encouraging improvements in school standards by paying teachers properly to fill vacancies, and repairing school buildings....
...Those who revel in seeing Reform School may, in contrast, recoil at the insulting depiction of black characters in 1933’s The Emperor Jones — an odd choice, given Regeneration’s overarching message of dignity...
...Nicholas waited outside, and Coogan claims he strode into Judge Jeremiah S Jeremiah’s office and demanded: “What is going on?” “What do you do for a living?” the judge asked....
...The last meal that truly impressed me was at my boyfriend Ignacio [Mattos]’s restaurant, Altro Paradiso....
...Streep, who has previously shown off her musical-comedy chops in 2008’s Abba jukebox movie Mamma Mia!...
...Keegan-Dolan came relatively late to dance, enrolling at London’s Central School of Ballet in 1989 at the age of 19....
...O’Hare’s own first appearance in a Crisp column was after a Royal Ballet school matinee in the early 1980s: “I’d done an Irish dance in the school show and he gave me a good review....
...You can have testosterone-fuelled road trips (On the Road) or feminist ones (Thelma & Louise). You can forget the family (Hunter S Thompson), or take them with you (Little Miss Sunshine)....
...Louise Richardson and David Willetts March 19, 5pmSheldonian Theatre, £7-£12.50 Louise Richardson, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, discusses the future of higher education with former universities...
...Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University....
...Behind this reared a hefty bluff, its loftiest crags engraved with colossal double digits by several generations of high-school graduate classes....
...A giant sculpted spider by Louise Bourgeois waits to pounce on a curved area of water. It seems a pity to my eye that somebody has blocked part of the view with what looks like a waste incinerator....
...“Mouvement de danse B” might have been something of a stretch even for an acrobat such as Moreno, but the poses generally ring true — something confirmed by a group of dancers from the Royal Central School...
...In young adult (YA) fiction, too, books concerned with self-harm, sexual violence and anorexia are increasingly popular: Louise O’ Neill’s Asking For It, an examination of rape culture, won Book of the Year...
...Northern Ballet specialises in box office-friendly titles — most of them on the school syllabus....
...Then came his breakthrough role in Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise , which teed him up for a number of traditional — and forgettable — leading parts....
...The spring tour features several revivals including Overdrive, a cornerstone of the British school exam syllabus in Dance, and 1996’s Illuminations (one of Alston’s personal favourites)....
...“When there was the referendum, for example, we had an exhibition in the gardens of the French School of Athens....
...Sequence 8’s scenery consisted of a rather naff cluster of empty picture frames and the performers were dressed for mucking out the shed....
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