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...And there are few historical insights to glean, unlike with Henry VIII’s Mary Rose, which yielded a Tudor time capsule when it was raised from the depths in 1982....
...But its lease with the St Mary Moorfields Trust, a charity run by the Diocese of Westminster, expired last week....
...South African artists are in focus in London this autumn, with a solo exhibition of the sculptor and painter Mary Sibande at Somerset House in October and the imminent arrival of the Johannesburg-based Goodman...
...But up close, the Mary that Matar wants to show me doesn’t look particularly virtuous or holy. She looks tired....
...Conrad’s “the horror, the horror” had come to adventure-futurism on screen....
...One of Snap’s longest-serving executives, communications chief Mary Ritti, is planning to leave Snapchat’s parent company at the end the year....
...These include Tom Conrad, vice-president of product, Mary Ritti, vice-president of communications, Mark Randall, vice-president of hardware and Chris Handman, general counsel....
...The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, by Maya Jasanoff, William Collins, RRP£25/Penguin Press, RRP$30 Harvard historian Jasanoff explores what Conrad termed his “life in the wide world”....
...Neither Conrad nor Santayana expected human nature to improve, a view that might reconcile us to our own degenerating historical moment....
...These include Chris Ofili’s 1996 painting, “The Holy Virgin Mary”, which was shown in the epochal Sensation show in London in 1997....
...That’s “them” as in Carrey and Daniels and “them” as in writer-directors Bobby and Peter Farrelly, whose best work in bad-taste comedies (D&D1, There’s Something About Mary) is still the benchmark....
...Peter Frankopan Author of ‘The Silk Roads’ I absolutely loved Mary Beard’s SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile). It is a sparkling book that brings the past to life....
...Asterix and the Missing Scroll, by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, translated by Anthea Bell, Orion, RRP£10.99/Asterix RRP$17.99 The indomitable Gaul is back in this second outing from Ferri and Conrad...
...Mary Anne Hitt, director of the Sierra Club’s anti-coal campaign, says the coal lobby takes a “scorched earth” approach to any environmental regulation....
...Mary Borden’s short story “In the Operating Room” is a packed, feverish dialogue piece, where order barely prevails over chaos in a field hospital: “2nd Surgeon: What’s his ticket say? Show it to me....
...Percy and Mary Shelley lived here while she wrote most of Frankenstein (1818), which may have provided a model for our lock keeper’s personality....
...Conrad have produced a brand new Asterix adventure that’s all but indistinguishable from the originals....
...They flopped on the concrete like beached sea lions and pressed themselves against the glass façade of the new Conrad Hotel opposite us....
...The prologued childhood trauma of a brother’s death on a terrorist errand (surely nicked from Hitchcock’s Sabotage or its original, Conrad’s The Secret Agent?)...
...If you are staying north of the historic centre at the Conrad Hotel, you can wander into Yildiz Park, formerly a hunting ground for sultans, and inspect the Yildiz Chalet – a 60-room extravaganza built for...
...asked Kent Conrad, a Democratic senator from North Dakota. “That is a loophole so big you can drive a Mack truck through it.”...
...Turn-down service included switching on a radio channel playing a “Dream Land” CD with songs such as the “Mary Poppins Medley”....
...Lugar Senator Daniel Coats Senator Tom Harkin Senator Charles Grassley Senator Pat Roberts Senator Jerry Moran Senator Mitch McConnell Senator Rand Paul Senator Mary L....
...Kent Conrad (D-ND) Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) Sen. Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI) Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) Sen. Patrick J....
...Three of these, Russell Crotty, Teresita Fernandez and Ellen Harvey, are no such thing; but they and the others – conceptual painter Daniel Buren, geometric sculptor Conrad Shawcross and film-maker Douglas...
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