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...Her sixth round win over the experienced GM Mark Hebden was one of the youngest in chess history by a girl against a grandmaster....
...This superb achievement foreshadowed an epic sequel in 1970-71, when Fischer won 20 games in a row and defeated two Candidates opponents, Mark Taimanov and Bent Larsen, by 6-0 margins before going on to...
...The composer Leonard Bernstein had a big nose. Bradley Cooper, who is playing him in the upcoming film Maestro, also has a big nose, but not as big. So, for the film, he’s wearing a fake one....
...The team of Mark Hebden, John Emms, Keith Arkell, Glenn Flear and Chris Ward were brilliantly led by Hebden, 65, who scored 7.5/8 and took the board one gold medal....
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...pleated tulle skirt that burst out of the hem, was a recreation from the fashion house’s collection in 1951 — the same year that Mulligan’s Maestro character, Felicia Montealegre, married the film’s subject, Leonard...
...Other multiple nominees included Maestro, Bradley Cooper’s biopic of composer Leonard Bernstein, with seven nods including Cooper’s own performance as Best Actor; and literary satire American Fiction, whose...
...China already holds the individual women’s world title, and both their Olympiad teams won gold on their last appearance in 2020, so the result marks a further break-through in a country where Chinese chess...
...In 2000, the paper won a Pulitzer prize for Mark Schoof’s pioneering eight-part investigation into Aids in Africa....
...“Climate is being ‘renationalised’, as a green backlash becomes a powerful rallying cry for the anti-establishment right,” wrote the ECFR report authors, Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard....
...You can sit out on the huge terrace with a Pepiño Jalapeño Margarita and, after dark, move inside for a menu of whole-roasted king crab legs and wagyu steak tacos by ex-Nobu chef Leonard Tanyag....
...Marion Cotillard won an Oscar for playing Édith Piaf, and Bradley Cooper is now gunning for recognition for his role as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro, his self-scripted, produced and directed film....
...Seventeen Leonard Cohen songs, 14 hyper-athletic dancers, catwalk-slick production values: Ballets Jazz Montréal’s 2017 hit Dance Me has a lot going for it, but its London premiere at Sadler’s Wells was...
...Its price tag — which would mark an auction record by far for the 17th-century painter — reflects the rarity of his court paintings on the public market as most remain in royal or museum collections....
...Take a break from the news Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro, and the Disney fairy tale Wish — which marks the studio’s centenary — are among this week’s film releases....
...Last year’s event drew 12,000 for an evening of Tchaikovsky, Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin....
...Emma Stone shows her full range, morphing from childish naïf to oversexed bon vivant to world-wise realist as the men around her (Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef) struggle to keep up....
...The book springs in part from a 2021 essay in the New Statesman that provoked an immediate, defensive, response from his erstwhile colleague, ECFR director Mark Leonard....
...The programme is all-American, with classics by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Williams, as well as beloved pieces such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, 100 years after its debut....
...The discounts mark a major shift after more than two years of superheated house prices encouraged by very low borrowing costs and government incentives that have now come to an end....
...Mark Oliver, of Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates, said the league’s strategy needed to “create tension” — and divide the rights into packages that incentivise broadcasters to compete against each other....
...In 1927, in the ruins of the ancient Sumerian city of Ur, in present-day Iraq, the British archaeologist Leonard Woolley uncovered an alabaster disc featuring the imposing figure of a high priestess....
...The No1 seeds are led by Michael Adams and Nigel Short, supported by the experienced trio of Mark Hebden, John Emms and Keith Arkell....
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...Mark Hebden, one of England’s oldest active grandmasters, achieved his first national title in classical chess last weekend at age 64....
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