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...Philanthropist and businessman Robert Devereux also loans his Swahili townhouse there to African artists who come to teach at the local orphanage, Anindan....
...It provided the prime minister with a way to winkle James Cleverly out of the Foreign Office and into the Home Office, without it looking like a snub to him....
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com...
...safe but solid — La bohème, Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet, Handel’s Rinaldo and Bernstein’s Candide, plus the premiere of a new opera for young people, Ben Morris and Laura Fuentes’s The Rip Van Winkles....
...Buffs of compellingly bad historical movies will recognise this line from the movie Elizabeth when the English queen tells the traitor, and her former paramour, Robert Dudley, that she is keeping him alive...
...It is what Robert Harris calls the “keep the show on the road” types who pass without glory, perhaps because their best deeds are acts of omission....
...The charges against him were byproducts of Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election....
...In the fine recent Brazilian drama Aquarius, developers try to winkle out the last resident of a vintage apartment block, allowing them to throw up a tower....
...It turned out he had grown up in a Dallas suburb, not inner-city Miami, and that his real name, carefully withheld by his record label, was Robert Van Winkle....
...A ‘50s stockbroker waking from a nap of Rip Van Winkle-like length in the library of the City of London Club would not notice the time slip....
...Three years later the man otherwise known as Robert Van Winkle could be found in the Kent town of Chatham playing Captain Hook in a Christmas panto production of Peter Pan....
...Slight and spry, he turns up to be interviewed wearing a striped Abercrombie & Fitch shirt, black trousers and youthful, winkle-pickerish boots....
...So-called subsea engineering uses seabed drilling and extraction structures that can be attached to surface vessels to winkle oil out of the most inhospitable corners of the world....
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