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...“It’s still too humid,” says Maja Hoffmann, sniffing the air of a ground-floor gallery space in a freshly completed building where Cy Twombly paintings and a Richard Long floor work are among the pieces...
...British heist comedy The Duke is more of a welterweight and a supremely spry one at that....
...But Richard Branson rescinded the decision just days later following criticism from the Daily Mail that the company was censoring the choice of newspapers it offers to passengers....
...In 1990, his son David became managing director and in 2010 his grandson Richard became head of marketing....
...the rural Irish base of his Glen Dimplex group, the world’s largest electric heating maker and owner of consumer brands such as Roberts radio, Walker televisions, Belling cookers, Lec fridges and Morphy Richards...
...You couldn’t find two more divergent covers than the spry electropop offered in 2015 by the Toronto band Beams, who appear to base their synth sound on their apartment’s doorbell, and the woefully gruff...
...Gamperl, a spry 52-year-old, fulfils none of the hipster stereotypes of being an axe-wielding woodsman....
...Edwin Heathcote Film Silent Women: Pioneers of Cinema, edited by Melody Bridges and Cheryl Robson, Supernova Books, RRP£14.99/Aurora Metro Press, RRP$32.95 You may come to this spry slice of film history...
...Splashily, he settled into Ron Miles’s meandering “Ginger Spice”, alongside Dodoo on congas (mostly), Alan Skidmore’s diligent tenor sax and the spry Alec Dankworth on bass....
...As a boy studying dance, or as a young man imbibing comedy, his movement would have been termed elastic; now, at the age of 78, it must be called spry....
...If there is a clear succession plan he will not disclose it, though it seems likely his son Richard is being groomed to take over....
...“I have a cascade of Constance Spry at the end of my garden,” she says, “and by the time the show comes we’re almost into autumn, so I pick every rose I can.”...
...Russell Bolam’s spry, witty production can’t quite overcome these flaws and feels awkward in places....
...Mr Morgenthau, now 93 and still spry enough to take to the dais at Capitale for an address to his fellow prosecutors, says he created the securities fraud office in the 1960s with the purpose of sending...
...And my exhibit B, the success in the west of Richard Dawkins’ paean to atheism, his bestselling book, The God Delusion?...
...Richard Rogers nearly gave up architecture. Or rather it nearly gave up on him....
...Slight and spry, he turns up to be interviewed wearing a striped Abercrombie & Fitch shirt, black trousers and youthful, winkle-pickerish boots....
...They give a spry cover of a 1932 swing tune, “How’m I Doin’”, but the destination of their own siren songs is a spookier, starker place – haunted as much by Nina Nastasia as the Carter Family – which is...
...“I’m going to have alcohol,” I say to Lorin Stein, who has arrived spry as spritz, and is seemingly unaffected by the sweltering heat outside. “Shall we get a bottle?”...
...Spry and convivial, he shakes hands courteously, ushers me into his sitting room and lights up a cigarette, ready for action. He smokes, like he talks, with enthusiasm. There is plenty to talk about....
...Richard Waters, FT San Francisco bureau 2006: Bill Gates handing over technology leadership of Microsoft to Ray Ozzie....
...Connolly was the constitutional opposite of Orwell - a spry wit given to sloth, a portly bon vivant who masticated away his genius....
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