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...“Take Me Away”, a meditation on Octavia Butler’s maxim that “God is change”, is built around a sped-up ngoni riff on the banjo, a clatter of percussion and a Caribbean-tinged melody. ★★★★☆ ‘Sun Without...
...The sole point of contention in realising the show was Octavia’s choice of palette – in particular the colour purple....
...She cites the importance of Octavia Butler, whose novel Kindred has characters slipping through time as they reveal the brutality of American slavery, and Drexcyia, a Detroit techno duo who dreamt up creatures...
...Another writer beloved by collectors is Octavia Butler, the first black woman to receive both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and the first sci-fi author to be granted a MacArthur fellowship....
...They got Octavia Spencer to play Mother Nature quizzing them about what a good job they are doing in going green. Vomit-inducing sanctimony. It was so nauseating I wanted to go out and buy an oil rig....
...A pinboard is covered with typed-out texts from writers including the science fiction authors Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin and the feminist social scientist Donna Haraway....
...When interior designer Octavia Dickinson was decorating her London home a few years ago, the TV became a sticking point. “The only place you could put it was above the fireplace,” she recalls....
...For me, mixing materials and patterns has the same effect,” says interior designer Octavia Dickinson. “There’s nothing better than lying in the bath looking at thingsthat make you happy.” In her case?...
...The trust’s founders, especially the radical housing reformer Octavia Hill, were well aware of the constant need for change....
...“God is Change,” wrote science fiction novelist Octavia E Butler. And God, to paraphrase Lydia Tár, always catches up with you. ★★★★★ In UK cinemas from January 13 and US cinemas now...
...For a cloakroom in an Oxfordshire house, interior designer Octavia Dickinson is replicating the drapery of a Napoleonic field tent, in wide blue and white stripes....
...Following Octavia Butler and NK Jemisin, it imagines a world after catastrophic climate change....
...This “painterly” approach is also what drew debut children’s author Hannah Shuckburgh to the work of artist Octavia Mackenzie....
...Later, I discovered that the list of writers who were not awarded the Nobel, from Vladimir Nabokov and Jorge Luis Borges to Octavia Butler or Annie Proulx, was as distinguished as the list of winners....
...Augustus shipped his daughter Julia here, following charges of adultery, then Nero expelled his wife Octavia to the island so he could be with his new mistress Poppea....
...If it feels a bad sign to see Octavia Spencer this underused, listen to your instinct. And keep watching the skies. ★★☆☆☆In UK cinemas from December 3 and on Amazon Prime from December 10...
...Another popular pocket is The Sisters, a conservation area near the river where the streets are named after the landowner’s daughters: Edna, Orbel, Ursula and Octavia....
...daughters were given the run of the store to choose what they wanted, eventually picking out a selection of colourful fine jewels made by Jetter herself, as well as brands including Melissa Kaye, Graziela and Octavia...
...Equally wasted is fellow crime-fighter Octavia Spencer, cast as a nerdy straightwoman with the gift of invisibility — an ability the rest of the cast must have envied....
...A later torchbearer was the social reformer Octavia Hill, who had spent the happiest part of her childhood at her grandfather’s house on the edge of the heath....
...Jewellers such as Ellis Mhairi Cameron in London, Alexandra Dodds in Sydney and Octavia Elizabeth in LA all tap into the rough-hewn vibe, but set their jewels after the fact....
...It is part of a tradition of art, literature and music that includes the jazz musician Sun Ra, who wrote songs such as “Tapestry from an Asteroid”, and Octavia Butler, whose novel Kindred blended slave narratives...
...Here, our unnamed orphan hero (Jahzir Kadeem Bruno) and beloved grandmother (Octavia Spencer, excellent) arrive in flight from witches among them, only to find themselves in the very epicentre of evil....
...The most cited authors are Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and Poul Anderson; women, from Ursula K Le Guin to Octavia E Butler, are under-represented, but as the dictionary grows and begins to collect citations...
...The landing point is named by Nasa after the American science fiction writer Octavia E Butler. Does hope have a sense of humour? Yes. Lex Greensill and the dramatic collapse of his finance company....
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