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...Firm-voiced Johannes Kammler is the down-to-earth Figaro, Richard Burkhard a caricature-free Bartolo, Callum Thorpe a sonorous Don Basilio and Andrew Stenson a Count Almaviva best heard in his lyrical singing...
...The decision he and Richard Nixon took to back Pakistan’s brutal suppression of the uprising in what became Bangladesh is high up on any charge sheet against him....
...America, as Richard Hofstadter wrote a few years before RFK’s death, suffers from periodic waves of paranoia....
...As we leafed through the book, a framed portrait of Romolo Bulla Sr watched over us sternly, high up on the wall. Romolo Sr was, by all accounts, a difficult man....
...There they make 1,800 shades by hand, using a method passed down from Henri Roché Sr, which has changed little since the 18th century....
..., and A Very English Scandal, about the trials of 1970s Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe (Hugh Grant). Long before streaming, Frears was a multi-platform operation, shuttling at will between film and TV....
...But during this campaign, his son spun Marcos Sr’s presidency as a golden age of prosperity, and he won by a large margin....
...As is customary on the Glyndebourne tour, this is a young cast all round. The outstanding voice is the resonant bass of Callum Thorpe, a hugely promising if not very characterful Rocco....
...Whatever the result, this is a remarkable turnaround for a family who were pariahs (albeit very rich ones) when Marcos Sr was ousted in 1986....
...Thorpe argues that disclosing the stake of a named manager neglects the fact that many funds are run by large teams, and that investors could misinterpret changes in a manager’s holdings for purely personal...
...He looks at a range of mobility options, including the Mate Icon e-bike, the Onewheel Pint Board (pictured), the Seabob F5 SR Sled and Polaris Ranger EV Vehicle....
...Mach 5 is more than twice as fast as the cruising speed of Concorde and some 50 per cent faster than the world’s fastest jet-engine powered aircraft, the SR-71 Blackbird....
...“It’s a very Chinese success story,” said Frank Thorpe, BYD UK’s managing director....
...Wyatt’s parents, Mr and Mrs Richard Wyatt Sr., look to be the sellers of the work: they were recorded as lending it to the touring White retrospective that closed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art...
...Santiago Alfonso, himself a former dancer and choreographer, makes a powerful screen debut as Acosta Sr, but the movie is stolen by fellow newcomer 10-year-old Edilson Manuel Núñes as his whiny, ungrateful...
...Apollo was a project championed by Democratic politicians, derided as “nuts” by one Republican president (Dwight Eisenhower) and cancelled by another (Richard Nixon)....
...Richard Goulding, an actor who has worked with her on an upcoming Channel 4 series Traitors, tells me that on set she is not only “a consummate performer — subtle, deep, funny, light at the right time”,...
...The property offers views of the Comeragh and Galtees mountains, fishing on the river Suir and a conservatory designed by Richard Turner, who built the Palm House at Kew Gardens....
...At one point the line-up included former US president George Bush Sr, his secretary of state James Baker, former British prime minister John Major and former World Bank treasurer Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss...
...Vendors are more willing to listen to sensible offers from unencumbered buyers,” says Richard Bernstone of Aston Chase....
...In 1804, Frederick Graff Sr designed a hydrant that he had manufactured by Foxall & Richards, a firm better known for producing the cannon used by the US Navy....
...Jon Huntsman Sr founded Huntsman with his brother in 1970 after leaving a junior role in President Richard Nixon’s White House....
...According to Richard Speedy of Strutt & Parker, southern Cornwall attracts sailors and their exacting standards make for strictly stratified house prices....
...“You’ve got to have massive price inflation to overcome that,” says Richard Barber of WA Ellis....
...“O, what a pity is it that [Richard] has not so trimmed and dressed his land as we this garden!”...
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