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...It looked marvellous, like modern art, and made me want to order a Bloody Mary. Nina wears her hair with a severely cropped, almost Amazonian fringe but speaks in a soft, musical voice....
...Initially I thought it was all about me, but quietly Mary steadied the ship. Mary's the captain who doesn't need lots of attention. She just steers the ship, and it's her restaurant, it's her name....
...She is now such a brand that her programmes bear her name: Meet the Romans with Mary Beard or Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit....
...continues its run at the Whitney until February, while of the always powerful programme at the Metropolitan Museum, one spring highlight will be an unusual showing of the 19th-century American Winslow Homer...
...Grottoes have strong links to the classical world, whether in Homer’s Odyssey, as the cave of Calypso or on the road from Rome where the nymph Egeria was said to have communed with Rome’s early king Numa...
...Sales of work by Jessie Homer French were also reported by Finola Jones, director of mother’s tankstation, including two fire paintings to the same collection ($15,000 each)....
...Translating Homer, Pope did much the same, doodling bits of garden on the back of his pages....
...The Silence of the Girls , by Pat Barker, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99/Doubleday, RRP$27.95 Barker’s powerful feminist revision of Homer’s Iliad creates a central narrative voice for Briseis, the Trojan queen...
...If there were a Nobel Prize for mythmaking, the 19th-century diplomat and historian Washington Irving could pip Homer to the title. He had a genius for fanciful fabrication....
...(Other presenters are Mary Beard and David Olusoga.)...
...There’s no dramas, as will no doubt be portrayed,” Sir Philip said on Tuesday, as he announced the departure of Mary Homer, the Topshop chief who is leaving after 30 years....
...The company was led for 11 years by Mary Homer, an Arcadia Group lifer who defected to The White Company, a fashion and homewares boutique, in March....
...In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein, by Fiona Sampson, Profile, RRP£18.99/Pegasus, RRP$28.95 (June) A biography by a prizewinning poet, published for the novel’s bicentenary....
...Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint, by Mary Jacobus, Princeton, RRP£34.95, 320 pages...
...“Quite strongly,” says Mary-Lu Bakker, a blogger and Holland Park resident for more than 30 years, “but because the local facilities are being taken away that’s going to diminish.”...
...“These exclusive collections allow us to capture the energy and aesthetic of the brands we are partnering with,” explains Mary Homer, managing director of Topshop....
...“Why shouldn’t Homer’s descriptions of the Trojan war be drawn from contemporary life? Ancient philosophers, like modern scholars, argued about whether Homer was writing ‘truth’ or mythology....
...With a profound sense of place, it traces the lives of three generations through change — the arrival of electricity, and later, second homers — and continuity....
...She dates these back to Homer’s Odyssey, where young Telemachus tells his mother Penelope to go back to her quarters because “speech will be the business of men”....
...People in the matchmaking industry call these people NFH (“next-flight-homers”)....
...Mary Wilson was a guest of Frank Salt …………………………………………………………….....
...Brought up in a socialist household by his teacher mother, Mary, Waters is more outspoken than the average rock grandee. “Power resides in ideas,” he says....
...Mary Cassatt studied mothers in silent reverie. William Merritt Chase depicted decorative children whiling away the hours....
...The Infinity of Lists: From Homer to James Joyce By Umberto Eco Quercus £35, 408 pages FT Bookshop price: £28 You know how you’re going to be feeling post-turkey, don’t you? Listless....
...Mary Beard, professor of classics at Cambridge University, says: “What’s odd and reassuring is that every generation says to itself, ‘God, we’ve rediscovered Ancient Rome.’...
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