Hints and tips:
...A “short, quick, angry cross dashing of water in every direction” tucked between “howling and shrieking” surf, wrote Edgar Allan Poe in his 1841 short story, “A Descent into the Maelström”....
...He emulated former director J Edgar Hoover by wearing dark suits, but his quick temper and dour manner made him unpopular....
...Mnangagwa, an 80-year-old former spymaster who first took power after a military coup overthrew Robert Mugabe in 2017, was officially re-elected last month with 52.6 per cent of the vote, versus 44 per cent...
...A pity that it ends not with this but with light-hearted pastiche: a true-crime radio drama (brought to you by J Edgar Hoover and Lucky Strike)....
...“Unfortunately we are in uncharted territory,” said Robert Egge, chief public policy officer at the Alzheimer’s Association....
...Artists too were drawn to the new medium, including Francisco Goya in the 1820s and Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in the latter part of the century....
...of Binibona, Toni Durán’s exquisitely authentic country house retreat with its orchards and flower-filled gardens; and Hotel Corazón, where British photographer Kate Bellm and her Mexican artist husband Edgar...
...Kaunda was born in 1924, in the same year as his future fellow liberation-leader-turned-autocrat, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe....
...Two opera companies evidently agree, and are offering new online filmed versions of a pair of operas based on Gothic stories by Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe....
...Job moves Two big job moves resulting from the Wirecard fallout: Edgar Ernst, the president of Germany’s Financial Reporting Enforcement Panel, will step down following mounting political pressure over...
...What type of animal appears in the title of the first book by Robert Galbraith (a pseudonym for J K Rowling) — and the first film for which Jack Nicholson won an Oscar?...
...Documentaries have always been a big part of Sundance’s reputation, even if, for once, festival founder Robert Redford wasn’t on hand to remind us of the fact....
...‘Detour’ (1945), Edgar G. Ulmer Near enough a parody....
...Louis Stevenson) The Bull (The Archers) The Crucible, in Sheffield Duran Duran The Haçienda, in Manchester Foxtrot and tango Edgar Degas Warwickshire Round Six The Tailor of Gloucester Paddington Bear...
...Directed by Robert Eggers (The Witch), it’s a claustrophobic, 19th-century-set two-hander, loosely adapted from an unfinished Edgar Allan Poe story and mesmerisingly shot in chiaroscuro black and white....
...The probe, led by special counsel Robert Mueller, concluded this year with no finding of a criminal conspiracy between Mr Trump’s campaign and Russia....
...One could adduce a similar genealogical chain in the genres of portraiture (Nadar, Yousuf Karsh, David Bailey, Robert Mapplethorpe, Rankin) or artist-photographers (Edgar Degas, René Magritte, László Moholy-Nagy...
...It features one of Robert Mapplethorpe’s most recognisable self‑portraits: naked torso, one arm outstretched, knowing grin. The shot was originally taken in 1975....
...Robert Shrimsley FT UK editor-at-large For fiction and underworld escapism, James Ellroy’s Underworld USA trilogy, especially the first novel, American Tabloid....
...The subsequent popular TV mini-series, starring Robert Mitchum as Pug Henry, was a further embellishment....
...The House judiciary committee voted to hold William Barr, the US attorney-general, in contempt of Congress, igniting a “constitutional crisis” over Robert Mueller’s report....
...The expert witness for Mr Chamisa’s claims of rigging, Edgar Otumba, acted in the same role for the Kenyan opposition candidate Raila Odinga....
...The PAG Investment Solutions team will be led by Edgar van Tuyll, previously chief quant strategist at Pictet....
...The FBI has always been a somewhat sinister operation (remember J Edgar Hoover?). It could certainly using a freshening of the brand, and Mueller is just the G-man for the job....
...Mr Trump’s White House is under siege from Robert Mueller’s Russia collusion probe....
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