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...Jessica Cale is the glamorous-voiced Poppea and Martha Jones a firmly sung Nero, but the countertenor Ottone, Feargal Mostyn-Williams, is disappointing....
...Caret, by Adam Mars-Jones, Faber £25, 752 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...In “Phyllis and Demophoön”, based on another Chaucer story, Zambaco is model for both figures, even though Demophoön is naked....
...Quincy Jones, who would go on to produce Michael Jackson, got the same response when he expressed interest in working with Otis....
...new erotic consciousness: she is the pouting, sultry goddess in his “Venus” paintings, the adored statue in his “Pygmalion”, the temptress in “The Beguiling of Merlin”, the faces of both nude lovers in “Phyllis...
...Significant Burne-Jones paintings and watercolours include a trophy piece, the androgynous, willowy “Phyllis and Demophoon”, in which both lovers’ faces were modelled by his flamboyant Greek mistress Maria...
...“A lot of people around here have jobs, but they don’t have money to afford the insurance,” said Phyllis Hammonds, 55, of Wise County, who sat in the parking lot wrapped in a blanket to block the cool morning...
...For Coraline’s set, Christine Jones has built tier upon tier of mostly toy pianos; Phyllis Chen, the show’s sole instrumentalist, sits stage left and achieves dazzling effects with pianos both standard-sized...
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