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...Although this is dystopian drama, both the prose of Margaret Atwood’s original novel and Ruders’ music have sensuousness as a recurrent ingredient....
...In 1982 a rising young Whitehall official accompanied defence secretary John Nott to a hastily convened meeting with Margaret Thatcher, the prime minister....
...An early employee was Sonia Orwell, who brought in Saul Bellow and Mary McCarthy — so setting a pattern whereby literary novelists such as Edna O’Brien and Margaret Drabble complemented Weidenfeld’s own...
...Here a distinction I made many years ago between what I called the two wings of Macaulay’s children provides the answer....
...She was a minister of health under Margaret Thatcher...
...First-year undergraduates attending his lectures on Gibbon and Macaulay were awestruck....
...Never mind the historian Lord Macaulay’s mockery of the debt obsession....
...In this respect, Boyd’s masterstroke comes in having the same actor play both Joan of Arc and Henry VI’s wife Margaret (Katy Stephens)....
...Margaret Thatcher is making a comeback, and as prime minister too: The Line of Beauty, Billy Elliot: The Musical, a recent BBC Radio 4 documentary on her effect on British comedy – and now, at the National...
...(To quote Saturday Night Fever, Beckford “swung both ways: men and boys”, but was also recently widowed, his wife, Lady Margaret Gordon, having died giving birth to their second daughter.)...
...After she asked Gordon Brown why he was unmarried (long before his wedding to Sarah Macaulay), Plomley’s widow, Diana, chastised Lawley for her “extraordinary obsession with other people’s sex lives”....
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