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...Writing about sepulchres in 1809, Mary Shelley’s father, William Godwin, lamented that tombstones were being shuffled off like stubble, ready for next year’s crop....
...St Catherine, ecstatic Mary Magdalene....
...It’s very likely I’ve been infected – or dangerously enabled – by the “coquettification” of fashion that has seen the resurgence of stereotypically feminine tropes on the catwalk: Mary Janes, roses, frills...
...Behind Martha, St Judith slips a skull-shaped mass into an open bag as laconically as if she were snagging some shopping rather than Holofernes’s head....
...“Routines make people feel at ease,” Judith Schomaker, an assistant professor in neuropsychology at Leiden University in the Netherlands, told me....
...Speaking from St Mary Magdalene school in the borough, Oliver said: “I’m proud of what they’re doing here. And when you see it working . . . you do realise it’s not rocket science.”...
...Additional reporting by Mary McDougall...
...David Hockney designed the Queen’s Window for Westminster Abbey and pop artist Eduardo Paolozzi designed the wonderful Millennium Windows for Edinburgh’s St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral....
...Judith Freedman, emeritus professor of taxation law and policy at the University of Oxford, says we now need “fundamental reform and not fiddling” with the tax system....
...Mary Brueggemeyer, a Republican from Fairborn who is retired from the Air Force, said she saw Russia’s war on Ukraine as “unjust”....
...And Mary Abbott’s undulating chords in hot colours in “Purple Crossover” and the rushing liquid flow of the towering vertical of “Mahogany Road” are as sensual-rowdy yet graceful as the paintings of her...
...Olivia Ghosh, junior specialist in Old Masters at Christie’s in London, cites Judith Leyster’s “Merry Company”, which set a record in 2018 when it sold for £1.8mn, surpassing the artist’s previous record...
...Her friend Judith, meanwhile, is an unattached, child-free doctor whose greatest passion is her beloved horse....
...Tom Wright’s family grew sugar beet on their mixed farm near Moulton St Mary in Norfolk for more than a century, but this year they have planted none....
...As a teenager she used to kayak across the lake to visit Mary Ellen Tyus and Mary Ellen’s mother, Mrs Anderson. They always had a plate of peanut butter cookies ready when she arrived....
...Her décolleté “Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy” celebrates sexual rapture — no repentance: this is a free woman....
...Her career sprang from a meeting on a beach, aged 11, with Mary Greenwell — Diana, Princess of Wales’s make-up artist — who later took her on as an assistant....
...“We support safe school reopening in September and leaders have been working extremely hard on that, but we would be a lot more confident if the ‘what-ifs’ had been answered,” Mary Bousted, joint general...
...Hong Kong Crossword 16,129: FJ Chalton, Liverpool; Nik Morrell, London; Ian Dempsey, New Jersey Polymath 1,015: Richard Otley, Wakefield Crossword 16,123: Michael Baylor, France; Scott Forbes, London; Judith...
...Additional reporting by Tabby Kinder, Judith Evans and Oliver Ralph...
...Mr Dimon was among the senior bankers to whom Mr Neumann would often turn for advice, and Mary Erdoes, head of JPMorgan’s asset management unit, was closely involved in the planned listing....
...Mary Finnigan, head of transactions at WeWork for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, said: “We’re pleased to announce this new lease agreement for WeWork in London . . ....
...The billionaire Safra family, who planned the building, own the Norman Foster-designed “Gherkin” office building at 30 St Mary Axe and had hoped to add The Tulip on a patch of land close to its base by 2025...
...J Safra Group, which owns the 40-storey “Gherkin” at 30 St Mary Axe and the surrounding site, had originally looked to develop the Gherkin’s glass cone as a tourist attraction....
...Ed Lyon is an outstanding Orpheus, Mary Bevan a radiant Eurydice. Lucia Lucas showcases an impressive baritone as Public Opinion — here depicted as a London taxi driver....
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