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...Focused though it may be on the life of 16th-century statesman Francis Bacon, it is with two contemporary quotes that Jesse Norman’s The Winding Stair closes: one an extract from the 2019 Supreme Court judgment...
...A postwar highlight is Henry Moore and Francis Bacon battling sensibilities of societal healing against lonely existential anguish....
...It climaxes in a fun, if fairly random, shower of celebrity reminiscence: Nigella Lawson scoffing only mash; Francis Bacon in the “Dantean horror” of the Colony Room drinking-den....
...On the mezzanine of the Norman Foster-designed, glass-fronted Sainsbury Centre, at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, is a long line of child-sized ceramic vessels....
...While The Tops remained associated with Holland-Dozier-Holland, The Temps came into the orbit of another brilliant writer-producer, Norman Whitfield....
...In the plush living room of the new Capella Sydney hangs a large-scale reproduction of Francis Fowkes’ famous 1788 map of the British settlement at Sydney Cove....
...He wrote to Francis Walsingham, the Queen’s spymaster, in 1581: “There is no way to daunt these people but by the edge of the sword.”...
...Retaining onshore capabilities is critical if the UK is to be able to make modifications or upgrades to equipment in the future, said Francis Tusa, editor of Defence Analysis....
...This one belonged to Charles Saatchi, “an exceptional collector and voracious consumer of the latest in art,” in the words of Norman Rosenthal, then exhibitions secretary of the RA....
...As one leading technologist told a government minister at a Founders Forum event last week, Brexit has resulted in the biggest loss of sovereignty since the Norman conquest of 1066....
...They concentrate on the meetings of musical cultures, either in cities (Jerusalem, Istanbul) or through travellers (Ibn Battuta; the 16th-century Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier, who went to India and nearly...
...There wasn’t much demand for a weighty Francis Bacon triptych with a Russian motif and history, offered by Christie’s on Tuesday for between £35mn and £55mn....
...Francis Tusa, editor of Defence Analysis, said he was “not convinced there is a realistic requirement for this helicopter”. “If we were buying 60-80 aircraft, maybe,” he said....
...The southern part of the woods lay within the manor of Croydon, which had been a possession of the Archbishops of Canterbury since before the Norman Conquest....
...Francis WittsUpper Slaughter, Gloucestershire, UK Letter in response to this letter: Douglas-Home did it with matchsticks / From Jean Lang, Dorchester, Dorset, UK...
...Our guides were the infectiously enthusiastic owner, Francis Armstrong, and his wife, Claire....
...It is the Bronx of Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather films, lives lived in the wounds cut by Robert Moses’ freeways....
...And if Francis Ford Coppola’s opus made Marlon Brando the face of the war’s lunacy, Lee wants to refocus on the peers of the characters played by Laurence Fishburne and Albert Hall on that riverboat towards...
...says Denise Francis, a district nurse team leader, during the wellness group. “I’m going home to Jamaica!”...
...When Francis Avenue in Portsmouth, on England’s south coast, was closed for roadworks during a school holiday, children in the area took the opportunity to put on their roller skates and get out their skateboards...
...It was probably windy when Sir Francis Drake had his Christmas lunch on this coast at Essaouira in 1577. At any rate, he wasn’t impressed with the fare, describing it as “a verie ugly fish”....
...In one particularly low moment, history itself was even pronounced to have “ended” — brought to an abrupt halt nearly 30 years ago by Francis Fukuyama in the rubble of the Berlin Wall and the fall of communism...
...“Moving to New York was a blessing; all the crazy people in the Chelsea Hotel became friends,” he says, mentioning Norman Mailer and John Ashbery....
...The look is a mix of styles, influenced by this tiny island’s history of invaders and rulers: Romans, Greeks, Arabs, Normans, Sicilians, French, Knights of St John and the British, of course....
...This year it was the turn of Ron Chernow, Francis Ford Coppola, Jessye Norman, Claudia Rankine and Elizabeth Strout....
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