Hints and tips:
...Hannah Maxwell’s autobiographical show starts in a mundane way....
...The only flying objects here now are the birds....
...Kate Maxwell Thorington Theatre, Suffolk I felt as if I’d been dropped in a leafy part of Ancient Rome when I first glimpsed this open-air theatre through the ferns and forest....
...As Hero is dumped at the altar, Ming’s hands flutter helplessly like little birds caught in a net....
...Highlight: The enchanting Art Deco Twickenham Bridge by Maxwell Ayrton and Alfred Dryland (1933) was the first major three-hinged, concrete-arched bridge in the UK....
...The telecoms group is an underperforming, mismanaged dodo bird of a company — big enough to have racked up $190bn in debt yet not large enough to fend off the Big Tech apex predators ready to eat its lunch...
...James Maxwell is a Partner at Farrer & Co The legal issues discussed in this column refer to England and Wales....
...farming is more likely to be bleak after Britain leaves the EU / From Chris Huhne, Chris Huhne & Associates, London EC1, UK Rural society welcomes chance to boost UK’s ‘natural capital’ / From Dr Tom Maxwell...
...Voëlfontein (“Bird Fountain”), the family farm, yields marvellous shots of farm hands dancing on New Year’s eve, or hunting....
...I also like food that looks eye-wateringly severe, with a sort of sewn-by-nuns quality, or like one of those still lifes with five lemons, two game birds and a skull....
...Dick Bird’s designs — inspired by the Indonesian shadow puppetry tradition — are both magical and endearing, conjuring up the world of the jungle....
...Yes, but it’s a bit more complicated than that, as Jake Maxwell Watts explained....
...Written a couple of decades after the Britten, Peter Maxwell Davies’s The Lighthouse is cast in a similar mould....
...Was it Maxwell? Like Dylan refusing to sign autographs in the Pennebaker documentary, Coetzee had point-blank refused to answer this question when interviewed....
...and ‘The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim’ I think Rory hits the nail on the head when he says that “everyone is a satirist these days”....
...Although prices for the festive bird are up 25 per cent so far this year, most retailers are selling them below cost, says Meredith Adler at Barclays Capital....
...Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, 75, is one of Britain’s foremost composers....
...In another brilliant portrait of a marriage, “Thieves and Rascals”, Marian, a Manhattan model, is as brittle and as starved as that bird....
...For the best part of 25 years, this was Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ home – the place where he conjured music from storm and spray, hearing bird cries overhead and rollers pounding along the shore....
...At its heart is the surprisingly sympathetic Sandor, imbued with the fleshy charisma of a Robert Maxwell, “greedy for life” in both good and bad senses of the phrase....
...Nor were the expedition members ordinary: ex-paratrooper and veteran explorer Kit Constable Maxwell, Ray Bird, still exploring the world’s remotest places at 83, Land Rover fanatics Crispin Clay and Simon...
...Igor Stravinsky, Pierre Boulez and Peter Maxwell Davies are among the composers who have succumbed to its simple charms....
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