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...He marches singers up to the footlight, parks them there for the duration of their arias and marches them off again....
...The set, by Raimund Orfeo Voigt, is a faceless concrete bunker — part luxury penthouse, part underground car park, part boarding school bathroom. Antonio’s garden is a rubbish chute....
...(Central Park, 1989), even a nuclear-launch training facility (Missile, 1987)....
...Up on Shirley Heights, the air is really crisp. It’s where I can celebrate myself....
...As we walk through the historic centre of Antwerp to the diamond bourse, I cannot rid my mind of Dame Shirley Bassey bawling out “diamonds are forevaaaah”....
...Dinner was a hotdog soused in American mustard; drinks were Shirley Temples and malted shakes. The atmosphere was pure joy. I am not alone in my obsession....
...Often the tone is more Shirley Valentine than Scheherazade, one of Alithea’s wishes a simple sip of tea....
...less than a week, my reading could travel from magical realism (Adolfo Bioy Casares’ 1940 The Invention of Morel, a 103-page marvel about a fugitive hiding out on a remote Polynesian island), to gothic (Shirley...
...It was where Tommy Flowers — whom she worked alongside — had designed and built Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer, which was used to decrypt codes in Bletchley Park on D-Day....
...Shirley Chisholm famously said, “I’ve been black, I’ve been female . . .”...
...To get in, you had to show your identity document and vaccination certificate and to register via app or paper form; lines snaked right across the car park as elderly patrons struggled with the technology...
...Owen Shirley, a Berenberg analyst, said: “Shareholders will be sad to see [Whiteside] go. He’s done an unbelievable job over the last number of years.”...
...Pale flowers that bloom at night support insects they feed on, says Shirley Thompson of the BCT. Tubular blooms such as honeysuckle attract the moths favoured by long-eared bats....
...“The beaches are spectacular — the parks, the trails, that small-town way of life, really tough to beat.”...
...Norman collaborated with many other artisans, including the architect Walter Shirley and a furniture maker called Wakelin, yet the result is his own....
...We wander through an abandoned forecourt, an underground car park, the red light district and a children’s play-park, all casually inhabited by the kinds of citizens who routinely engage with or ignore the...
...The actress Shirley Dixon, who is 87, has been isolating in London. Like O’Connor, her only physical contact with another person has been medical — a CT scan and a blood test....
...Shirley Haywood disappeared over a hill when her companion was ordered back to the starting point after losing her pack horse....
...This is typical of Rotterdam’s quirky opera festival, a project which has, over the years, occupied spaces as diverse as a disused quarry, an abandoned prison, boats, subterranean car parks, former office...
...However, Darren Shirley, chief executive of The Campaign for Better Transport, a sustainable transport charity, said: “The process is onerous, difficult and expensive....
...In which novel does the heroine make an Easter trip to Rosings Park, home of Lady Catherine de Bourgh?...
...But Owen Shirley, an analyst at Berenberg, who was responsible for one of the downgrades, disagrees....
...Sign up here with one click Chihuly began working in botanic gardens in 2001, with an exhibition at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago....
...Roupenian says her literary heroes are Shirley Jackson and Stephen King. Like Jackson, Roupenian loves ambiguity....
...“Adieu to Old England”, performed by Shirley Collins, is “a story of loss, of loss of privilege, that resonated across the centuries”....
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