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...His direct, incisive portraits, and those of his colleagues — Neil Kenlock, chronicling the Black Panther movement; Charlie Phillips’ crystalline close-ups of mixed race couples in Notting Hill; Horace Ové...
...At the top of the social scale, hung with his golden chain of office, there was the stout figure of the Lord Mayor himself, Sir Stephen Soame....
...Many of the speakers, such as Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone, have large business interests with the PIF....
...Photographs: National Trust Images/Stephen Robson/nationaltrust.org.uk; National Trust/James Dobson; Alamy; GAP Photos/Andrea Jones; Richard Semik/Getty Images; Dan Kitwood/Getty Images...
...of the best bits of an Osborne visit, and as you shuffle through, ogling the mahogany-boxed bath, the royal paintings (Victoria’s better than Albert’s), the twin desks (hers cluttered, his clear) and a Minton...
...As it happens, the word “serendipity” was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754....
...Letter in response to this analysis: It makes sense to extend the two-year timetable as a way out of this debacle / From Stephen McCarthy...
...Stephen Deuchar, chief executive of the Art Fund, the UK’s largest art fundraising charity, said Mr Hunt, a former trustee of the Heritage Lottery Fund, was a “cultural heavyweight”....
...Clarke was just 18 when he joined Horace Silver’s band; stints with Joe Henderson, Dexter Gordon and Stan Getz followed: “They treated me real nice”....
...He approvingly quotes the Roman poet Horace: “Change only the name and this story is about you.”...
...The new US embassy is “like a Norman castle,” says Stephen Graham, professor of cities and society at Newcastle University....
...It is curated by Stephen Feeke, director of Roche Court Sculpture Park, which mounts superb examples of art in the outdoors, mixing modern and contemporary work against rolling hills, bluebell woods and...
...Stephen Deuchar, chief executive of the Art Fund, said reductions in public funding and the expectation of further cuts under a future government, had left museums and galleries facing a “grim outlook”....
...In this edition, almost as fascinating as Horace’s lines are some of the collected translators: Milton, Byron, even Elizabeth I....
...In a fascinating catalogue text, curator Stephen Hebron, traces genius back to its Latin root gignere, which literally means to beget, a reflection of the ancient Roman belief that man was born with his...
...I had the chance to enjoy two of our finest contemporary pianists (both London-based, as it happens): Stephen Hough displaying his refined, insouciant virtuosity in Rachmaninov and Lutoslawski on the first...
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...Along came William Kent who, in Horace Walpole’s words “leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden”....
...with flair, and broke boundaries: Peter Watkins’ The War Game (1965) depicted a Soviet nuclear attack on Britain, Potter’s Brimstone and Treacle included the rape of a severely injured girl (1976) and Roy Minton...
...Mark Stephens of Finers Stephens Innocent agreed: “The issue with Twitter and SMS [text messaging] is that injunctions are not enforceable as you can’t stop people talking and in any case the servers which...
...Wedgwood was not the only inspired entrepreneur – Josiah Spode and Thomas Minton were among several others – but his creative energy also encompassed art patronage, social reform, philosophy and scientific...
...Stephen Poole lived in one of the historic terraces for 28 years, until it was demolished last year....
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