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...The Pivot costs from £2,999 for the base model to £5,179 for “The Full Monty” and takes about three hours to put together, a flat-pack operation involving hefty bolts and Allen keys....
...pre-dawn prayers and hours Gregorian chanting a day still allows time for an occasional film show (The Blues Brothers went down well) and home-produced skits based on the younger monks’ memories of watching Monty...
...Marrying the humour of Monty Python, the directorial flair of Peter Brook, the radical politics of Marx and the Albion-oriented ferocity of a latter-day William Blake, Deller works across installation, film...
...Peter Jay Woodstock, Oxfordshire, UK...
...years to get here,” said Black pointedly, before running through a set of sharp singles: “Missing Words”, a bouncing ska version of the James Bond theme (which also served as a tribute to its composer Monty...
...That their expletive-laden argument is broadcast rudely across the whole boat is the next gag, this one familiar from 1960s Peter Sellers vehicle The Party....
...Standing beside him was Peter, ex-army, accompanying us as security and medical escort....
...Letter in response to this article: One schoolboy memory of Monty’s Moscow warning / From Peter Jay, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, UK...
...Sir Michael Palin is a former president of the Royal Geographical Society and member of the comedy group Monty Python. His travels have been the subject of eight documentary series for the BBC...
...Letters in response to this article: Pub talk priorities / From Michael Gilmore, Bideford, Devon, UK There are many reasons for British pub’s decline / From Peter Backman, London, N3, UK...
...Inspired by BBC television series The Choir, director Peter Cattaneo’s Military Wives is every bit as briskly cheerful and modestly scaled as that real-life origin story suggests....
...There is a Monty Python sketch in which two elderly English women, Mrs Premise and Mrs Conclusion, get into a screeching argument in a launderette over which work is Jean-Paul Sartre’s best....
...For many at the FT, “Monty” will be remembered as a kind, patient mentor, shepherding many a young colleague, instilling his enthusiasm for core FT stories in business, finance and markets....
...Talk of great uncles in the country inevitably leads to Uncle Monty, played with aplomb by the late Richard Griffiths in Withnail and I....
...Monty Python also sent up the stuffy conservatism of the civil service in its “Ministry of Silly Walks” sketch....
...Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go, I owe my soul to the company store.”...
...The Monty Pythonesque nature of Brexit was summed up this week when arch Brexiter Jacob Rees-Mogg tweeted in Latin....
...Peter Mills Amsterdam, The Netherlands...
...“I don’t want to sound all Monty Pythonesque,” he says, switching to a mock Yorkshire accent: “‘I were brought up in’ paper bag....
...Lowry, Frank Auerbach, Tony Bevan, David Hockney and Peter Blake also features....
...Perhaps a more pertinent fictional reference would be Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling, the semi-autobiographical character created by the late Peter Cook....
...So is Monty Don, once a retail jeweller, now a television celebrity....
...Thom Woods, Izzy Perks and Monty Perks Woods, Totnes, Devon Izzy had just turned 19 when she found out she was pregnant with Thom’s baby....
...Like the plague victim being carted away in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, active fund managers are claiming “I’m not dead yet!”...
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