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...A novel this playful — like an episode of The Twilight Zone co-written by René Descartes and Mel Brooks — would be an unusual contender for the resolutely sober Booker Prize....
...Adam Low film director Akram Khandancer and choreographer Ayelet Waldmanwriter Augustus Casely-HayfordDirector V&A East Prof Carl GombrichLondon Interdisciplinary School Caryl Churchillplaywright Cate...
...I don’t think [News UK chief executive] Rebekah Brooks wanted to do it, and some others didn’t want to. Whereas David Rhodes, I think Rupert, maybe Lachlan [Murdoch], they did want to do it . . ....
...The statue is by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and it is considered one of finest pieces of public sculpture in the country. Shaw is on horseback and his men walk....
...Lecture complete, we head off to Davies and Brook, his new restaurant in Claridge’s hotel, Mayfair....
...It remains to be seen how the assets will go down in the long run but if AB InBev’s takeover of SABMiller is anything to go by, investors are taking a more sober approach to megadeals....
...In the 20th century, sober modernists steered clear of a path that they found bathetic....
...But the overall tone is sober, and the suggested remedies, while tough, are not wholly disproportionate....
...There are indeed some good pictures, including works by Augustus John, Sir William Orpen and Sir Alfred Munnings....
...curving blue-gold galleries is Rembrandt’s only depiction of British sitters, a rare double, full-length pair of portraits, returned from Boston: “Reverend Johannes Elison” and his wife “Maria Bockenolle”, sober...
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...It was one of the more sober moments. Rottingdean Bazaar are a duo overflowing with ideas. “We took blow-up costumes and shibori-ed them,” said James Theseus Buck, one half of the pair....
...As he discusses his father’s designs for semi-submersibles, his sober reserve vanishes and he springs to a whiteboard in his office to sketch out the idea....
...That is a shame, because the striking thing about the iGeneration, as the academic Jean Twenge calls them, is how sober and strait-laced they are. A quarter of under-25s don’t drink....
...While the working week has become increasingly sober, the weekends are still seen as the time for bingeing and excess....
...With Rebekah Brooks cleared of phone-hacking charges, the once real threat of the London scandal consuming the US headquarters has now receded....
...Seeing these works in the British modernist temple Pallant House, whose collection starts with Augustus John, Duncan Grant, William Coldstream, David Bomberg, emphasises by contrasting context just how radical...
...Bonhams chairman Robert Brooks would certainly be pleased to reclaim the auction world record that he took in 1987 when he sold a Bugatti Type 41 Royale for £5.5m at Christie’s....
...inspiration …The world of science described by Michael Brooks is far from the image of sober, sedate rectitude long promoted by the scientific establishment....
...weaker by 0.4 per cent to the dollar at $1.4361 and Spanish 10-year yields are up 3bp to 5.76 per cent, while the SovX has pared its losses, as the ebullience that greeted the deal is replaced by a more sober...
...“If you had talked to sober people working on AI five years ago about this, they would have said it was 20 or 30 years away,” says Rodney Brooks, professor of robotics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...And then: “And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.” There it was....
...But then, at last, a tiny village appeared, by the side of which ran a sparkling brook shaded by tall poplars....
...Demand for fine wines such as the Bordeaux 2005 vintage is also falling, according to Justerini & Brooks, the upmarket vintner in London’s St James’s....
...The resulting jacket, waistcoat and breeches ensemble in a single dark colour is regarded by some costume historians as the precursor of the sober three-piece suit that has dominated male wardrobes for generations...
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