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...By the third act, as the bereaved young mother grapples with her fate, the stage is packed with oversized Catholic iconography, from an ecstatic golden Saint Teresa to a mutilated Virgin Mary....
...Now try this I had a lovely weekend: I particularly enjoyed reading Imogen Savage on how three amateurs cracked a 445-year-old code to reveal Mary Queen of Scots’ secrets, Emma Jacobs on Ryan Reynolds’...
...Remigio sells pieces that he commissions with cooperatives, weavers and dyers. There are so many treasures to be found there....
...Herzog’s more tranquil observations (a world away from his more popular images that were “not just in colour, but drenched in it, soaked in a pulsing and bloodthirsty red”, as Geoff Dyer writes in his introduction...
...The opening had been the idea of the Irish president Mary McAleese, who had issued the invitation, only, of course, for it to be instantly vetoed by the Palace guardians....
...At a time of sabre-rattling from Moscow, Not One Inch (Yale, February), Mary Sarotte’s examination of the making of the post-cold war world, is very timely....
...Mary Wollstonecraft exploded in similar fashion when Edmund Burke claimed that the constitution of our Church and state was formed “under the auspices and is confirmed by the sanctions of religion and piety...
Republican candidate’s terrible week continues with new accusations
...As a student at the College of William and Mary in Virginia he studied chemistry, but then switched to religion and wrote a thesis about Reinhold Niebuhr, the favourite theologian of President Barack Obama...
...Reporting by Mary Childs and JP Rathbone in New York and Geoff Dyer in Washington...
...Reporting by Josh Noble in London, Geoff Dyer in Washington, and Mary Childs and John Paul Rathbone in New York...
...Geoff Dyer is the FT’s US diplomatic correspondent. Photographs: Ramak Fazel...
...Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It (2003), White Sands offers Dyer’s trademark blend of literary non-fiction, fiction and philosophy....
...Additional reporting by Amina Ashraf in Cairo, Mary Fitzgerald in Tripoli and Geoff Dyer in Washington...
...As Jim Holme, of the Dyers’ Company, explained to me, swan meat was never especially appreciated for its taste....
...Mary Beard and biographer AN Wilson....
...Dyer examines the economic, political and strategic aspects of the contest – as well as the formidable, if very different, domestic challenges faced by both nations....
...Basically, expectations are low: “In the 20 years since the Oslo peace process began, predictions about the new round of talks have probably never been more pessimistic” wrote the FT’s Geoff Dyer....
...A fascinating display here, curated by the artist’s daughter Mary Moore, places Moore’s collection of non-western sculptures against Rodin’s collection of mostly classical pieces....
...First, there are the resemblances between people Amis has known and the characters in his fiction: former girlfriend Mary Furness for Nicola Six in London Fields, former wife Antonia Phillips for Martina...
...This Mary is all too believable....
...chilling but much-loved “Girl with a White Dog” (1950), a portrait of his first wife Kitty, and “Black Triptych”, one of the important series painted by Francis Bacon after the suicide of his lover George Dyer...
...Baxter reminded me of Geoff Dyer, only with more porn and less charm. I did wonder whether some of these suspiciously compliant women were fantasies....
...The platinum foil lettering conveys a weathered, aged effect, while the random italics capture the offkilter quality of Dyer’s imagination....
...In Hawksmoor, however (though the architect is called Dyer, he is obviously Hawksmoor), a grossly damaging character flaw is simply invented....
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