Hints and tips:
...(Remember Le Jeune homme et la mort or Marguerite and Armand or Balanchine’s Tsigane.)...
...Bertrand Russell observed that almost every major intellectual advance in history had begun with an attack on some Aristotelian doctrine....
...A grand triple bill of Fokine’s The Firebird (pictured), Ashton’s Marguerite and Armand and Ratmansky’s Concerto DSCH (Shostakovich score) follows, and Ratmansky’s three-act Cinderella brings the season...
...… The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World, by Russell Gold, Simon & Schuster, RRP$26 This often fascinating account of the rise of “fracking” is the ideal...
...But the depth of the economic crisis makes the stars’ endorsements of Maybach cars and $300 bottles of Armand de Brignac champagne seem particularly jarring....
...I had thought the conventional thing: that the fuss over Jonathan Ross’s and Russell Brand’s obscene call to Andrew Sachs was grossly overdone....
...Here is the bribery-prone, Nixon-era NYPD whose lone cuckoo in the nest, Detective Russell Crowe, gets hate looks from colleagues early on when he hands in, rather than embezzling, 1m drug-deal dollars found...
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