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...I thought art was Greek, Roman.”...
...His previous series Britannia, a hallucinatory reimagining of a nation torn between Celtic tradition and Roman society, showed that he is as comfortable demolishing conventional thinking and narrative on...
...The work was laborious: the Roman drain’s humid and confined environment meant that engineers could only work in 20-minute stints, with longer periods deemed unsafe....
...Maurizio Paparello (he’s the one with the nearly waist-length dreadlocks); the packaged foods, from cantabrico anchovies and gourmet tunas to verdure sott’olio (vegetables marinated in olive oil) to classic Roman...
...The Jewish Roman historian Flavius Josephus, writing in the first century, described King David as a man “of excellent character and endowed with all the virtues that were desirable in a king . . . a man...
...Booth lives in a trailer way out of town, but Dalton has a house in LA’s Benedict Canyon where a midlife crisis is partially triggered by the arrival of his hip new neighbours: Rosemary’s Baby director Roman...
...They have now expanded to a four-piece with musicians and co-vocalists Dawn Bothwell and Sally Pilkington. Guest drummer Will Guthrie also joins them....
...A member of the Faculty of Divinity, Mr Goode cited the Roman poet Horace in conclusion: “Dum loquimur, fugerit invida ætas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.”...
...Pairs of professors confer in alcoves below fake crumbling pillars and marble statues of Roman emperors....
...Leaner, a little funnier and pretentious in a more north London way was Sally Potter’s The Party, a monochrome exploration of middle-class mores in which a disparate group of friends gather to celebrate...
...I go to Sally Clarke. 124 Kensington Church Street, London W8 (020-7221 9225; sallyclarke.com) The best book I’ve read in the past year is The Door by Hungarian author Magda Szabó....
...So did I cheer when I saw her Revolution slogan T-shirt sally down the catwalk? Sure as heck I did....
...From the Lake District’s fells, inspiration to Wordsworth and Beatrix Potter, the lively bars of Manchester, the roar of the Gallowgate End at Newcastle United and to the Roman remains of Hadrian’s Wall,...
...The owner sallies out to greet the customer. “Good morning, Sir, may I help? A blazer, perhaps? Or some slacks? “But maybe you’re shopping for investments, not clothes....
...Sally Cheshire likes a challenge....
...Part futuristic dystopia, part Roman epic fantasy, it’s gutsy, gory and compelling....
...Patent battle victory lifts Velocys shares to record Shares in Velocys – a specialist technology company backed by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich – hit an all-time high this week after it won a legal...
...Six years later, he moved on to Vienna, working for the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian II, who died within a few months....
...There are more exotic effects when Russia’s Konstantin Gorny sallies forth with charcoal Slav tone as the Pontifex Maximus....
...Greek and Roman writers alluded to open-air food vendors, while in medieval times cities such as Cairo boasted an array of specialised food vendors (tabbakhun), from halwaniyyun (halva sellers) to haraisiyyun...
...We should look with indulgence upon these harmless sallies....
...His lifelong desire to sally forth and dazzle the world has, he notes, been reinforced by fatherhood....
...The Japanese are increasingly familiar with the Roman alphabet – they use it to send texts in their own language....
...The effect is akin to being in a grand Roman villa rather than a bland Californian skyscraper. But the most striking feature is in the walls....
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