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...Things went similarly smoothly when Motion was teaching English at Hull University, where he hit it off with Philip Larkin (“the greatest poet alive”) and, after Larkin’s death in 1985, Motion became the...
...“Everybody tells me recession in America is inevitable,” says Ted Williams, a former US Navy officer who is now the company’s chief executive. “But it’s not happening in shipbuilding.”...
...With a rakish swoop to her hull, Pellew has a hefty, workmanlike presence to make surrounding yachts appear like yoghurt pots. And so many ropes to play with!...
...The bundle includes podcasts, screenshots of news websites such as BBC Persian, Ted Talks and tools to help install secure messaging on mobile phones....
...The rigs, cannon and balusters demanded his watchmaker’s lathe, and the occasional use of a small plastic kettle to bend the strips of wood required to plan the hull and form the deck, held with minute pins...
...A rough-hewn so-called Sprechchor (speaking chorus) shouts its contributions and director Ted Huffman organises the mordant revels....
...“My dad had a job for me and the big thing was that I would wear dress pants because it wasn’t a job where you’re down in the hull of a ship lifting crates....
...It is no accident that while Britain’s most cosmopolitan cities voted for the UK to remain in the EU, the semi-skilled workers of towns like Burnley, Hartlepool, Wolverhampton and Hull were Leave’s newest...
...It was a huge step when he purchased a car in 1964 and then a house 10 years later, where a framed photograph of Ted Hughes was displayed in the lavatory....
...Hull, named UK City of Culture 2017, is to get a £160m Siemens offshore wind turbine blade plant....
...A Mile Down, by David Vann, William Heinemann, RRP£18.99/Da Capo, RRP$14.95 On holiday in Turkey, Vann comes across the steel hull of a 90ft boat and, fulfilling a dream, he decides to rebuild it and sail...
...Bedsit Disco Queen charts the Hull University English Literature graduate’s ascendancy to a sort-of pop stardom in the post-punk 1980s, proving (like Thorn’s idol Morrissey) that the decade of glitz also...
...We have our creativity systematically bashed out of us throughout our lives – check out Professor Ken Robinson on this very subject at Ted Converstaions....
...Mr Reid, 60, is the first poet to win the £30,000 prize since the late 1990s, when Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes won the award twice each in four consecutive years....
...Edited extract of Dave Eggers’ TED Prize 2008 speech (with permission from TED, www.ted.com)...
...The house structure turns on an axle – it’s based on the hull of the Argo. And at the end it’s the chariot, with Medea up high, gloating.”...
...When Ted Baker, the UK retailer, recently opened a concept store in the City of London it sold concierge services alongside its jeans....
...Teddy Turner, the eldest son of Ted Turner’s, is an investment partner in the 70ft 1928 yacht Onawa....
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