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...Brown liked to assure people he is a “regular guy,” said JoAnne Bass, the chief master sergeant of the Air Force....
...In contrast, next April, when former army sergeant major Matt Smith hopes 40 runners will be barrelling down the same track, they will still have around 20 miles to the end of stage one and more than 110...
...“Professionally, I’m dedicated to producing August Wilson’s plays.” Wilson, who died in 2005, wrote the Pittsburgh Cycle series that includes Fences and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom....
...If Attlee and Bevin had been hostile to the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, a core of Labour including Aneurin Bevan, Herbert Morrison, Hugh Gaitskell and the young Harold Wilson were all champions...
...Sounding like Dad’s Army’s Sergeant Wilson, he said: “Listen old chap, we changed things around in the edit. Told the story in a more exciting way . . . thought I should warn you....
...The Beatles released Revolver, the BBC began broadcasting in colour, Harold Wilson won a landslide for the Labour party and Time magazine documented a Swinging London....
...Showgirls preen and pout, swivel-eyed sergeants strut and mutter as the razzamatazz of Vegas meets the boom of nuclear fission....
...Sounds like the perfect job for a tough drill sergeant....
...Alvin York – a Tennessee native whose heroism was depicted in the film Sergeant York, starring Gary Cooper – wrote in his diary about making friends in a platoon populated by “Greeks and Italians and New...
...Jane and Louise Wilson’s photographs of concrete bunkers from the Nazis’ Atlantic Wall are anti-Romantic, but conceptually fascinating: brutalist relics from the most brutal of political regimes....
...; Lucio breaks off his first line to remove his nipple clamps; even the Duke wears a black leather corset (evoking memories of Sergeant Wilson in Dad’s Army protesting, “It’s a gentleman’s abdominal support...
...AN Wilson is author of ‘The Victorians’ (Arrow Books). His new book, ‘Dante in Love’ is published next month by Atlantic Books...
...Idris Elba (Luther), late of The Wire, can lapse into his own London accent here; Ruth Wilson (Alice), with her creepiest smile, can haunt and taunt him....
...But the traders who drove increased volumes of equity spread bets up until June, seemingly became as reticent as Sergeant Wilson from Dad’s Army – or as panic-stricken as Corporal Jones – as the assault...
...The British prefer their anger in the proper place: among comedians such as John Cleese (Basil Fawlty), Richard Wilson (Victor Meldrew) and John Prescott (former deputy prime minister)....
...It’s becoming a popular destination: Fallout, in July, was a powerful single drama that showed a black detective sergeant driven to violence by the tradition of omerta that instantly shrouds every scrap...
...The writer is chief executive of Citigate Dewe Rogerson THE CONSULTANT Colin Grant-Wilson First, take a view of the economy and the viability of the institution and department you are with....
...British police are forbidden from bugging parliamentarians by a convention known as the Wilson doctrine after a former Labour prime minister....
...(The procedure envisages the prime minister’s arrest by the sergeant at arms “until such time as the House of Lords orders the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to take the accused into custody”....
...Dad’s Army, for instance, was initially expected to fail by Huw Weldon (then controller of programmes), John Le Mesurier (who played Sergeant Wilson), and three test audiences....
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