Hints and tips:
...La Bassey stops warbling, and those rivers of light streaming through my fingers dry up....
...My style icon is Shirley MacLaine as the lead in the 1960s film Irma la Douce. She plays a prostitute who has a very classic look with a twist....
...Flynn is signed to River Lea, the folk offshoot label of Rough Trade and foremost champion of the contemporary Irish scene....
...Walking by the River Ure in Yorkshire at nightfall recently, I was heartened rather than scared to encounter a pipistrelle out hawking for insects....
...By Monday, the Salzach threatened to burst its banks; paths were closed, the city was erecting barricades, and the river seethed with plastic jetsam....
...Far below, the glorious sight of a river flowing through grassland spread out before them....
...To reach the Underworld, Alceste must cross the river Styx. It is guarded by men on sticks....
...libretto remains just as incomprehensible as before — a love triangle between Jewish exile Tammu, Babylonian whore priest Innana, and a virginal Soul, watched over by a priest-king, Death, the Euphrates river...
...“Adieu to Old England”, performed by Shirley Collins, is “a story of loss, of loss of privilege, that resonated across the centuries”....
...For Brazilian businesswoman Shirley Santos, there is no option but to vote for the far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro this Sunday in the second round of one of the most contentious elections in recent history...
...caves, hills and rivers....
...Shirley Bassey gave it plenty of welly in 1959 with a stentorian version that sounded like a Bond theme in waiting....
...The river Thames drifts below, and swans begin to disentangle themselves from sleep. For a moment the peaceful river is theirs. But it won’t last....
...Raven-Ellison was joined on his walk last week by Shirley Rodrigues, London’s deputy mayor with responsibility for environment and energy....
...I chatted to Dame Shirley Bassey’s former music director about arts funding, while another Big Tenter explained how he made a million pounds last year from tonic water....
...Though Britten also drew on Sumidagawa in his Church Parable Curlew River, Stilles Meer is surely the first opera to include both a talking robot and references to forensic odontology....
...From the window it is possible to glimpse the stretch of the river Thames that hosts Henley’s annual regatta. On most days, Shirley and her husband stroll on the riverbank....
...“They should not allow them to drive or move around places where they are attacking us,” says Shirley Nissan, a woman packing groceries into her car....
...Mr Blackburn added: “A lot of the best quality and highest-value agricultural land in the UK is located close to rivers and on floodplains.”...
...Then – in a twist resembling the ending of Shirley Valentine – he turns his head, and sees Eroshka discussing village matters with his beloved, as if Olenin had never existed....
...This Rheingold plays on a bare stage, with a populace of plainclothes supernumeraries who are variously the Rhine river (in clear plastic raincoats), minions of Niebelheim (in suits, with laptops), and the...
...Our bus is obliged to take a huge detour, and we cross the vast, muddy river on log ferries that look as if they are millimetres from capsizing....
...Aged five, she and her older sister tumbled on to the platform at London’s Liverpool Street station, flotsam in a “river of exhausted, bewildered, tear-stained faces”....
...Additional reporting by Shirley Chen in Shanghai...
...A band is playing a Shirley Bassey song while a group of professionals explains that Iraq’s failures today are also opportunities for the future....
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