Hints and tips:
...I shut my eyes firmly anyway, in respect, as Woolway’s faggots and peas passed my lips, bringing with them a sensory overload and transcendental bliss. I took the rarebit. How could I not?...
...And then comes the brass-heavy “Bliss” with its soca-fuelled chase between steel pans and flute....
...Even further west, Against the Edge, a Frieze off-site programme by Jay Ezra Nayssan, puts the work of Nicola L in the former Pacific Palisades home of the exiled German author Thomas Mann....
...“Cosmoss has been phenomenally successful since its launch… exceeding all expectations,” says Triona McGinley, beauty director at Brown Thomas Arnotts....
...From £165, coldatnight.co.uk (Almost) On Chesil Beach West Dorset: good enough for PJ Harvey and Mark Hix (and Jane Austen, and Thomas Hardy), good enough for us....
...Your article on Cape Cod’s housing market (House & Home, FT Weekend, June 19) recalled the writing of Sir Thomas More, now over 500 years old....
...The brainchild of Michael Tilson Thomas, former conductor of the San Francisco and London Symphony Orchestras, the New World Symphony is “America’s Orchestral Academy” — and with Michael’s global reputation...
...Some see him as a mystic visionary; others interpret the Divine Comedy as Thomas Aquinas’s Aristotelian Catholicism put into verse....
...Two of the most popular English works of all time — Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro and Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis — fall into this category....
...Wordlessly, but quite convincingly, her videos portray a farming and cooking life in the Chinese mountains, where days seem to pass in bucolic bliss....
...Equally obviously, Steve McQueen’s folding Persols in The Thomas Crown Affair. Men in Black, The Matrix, Reservoir Dogs. They all have a place in the canon, but nothing beats The Italian Job....
...It dates back to the 1700s, and was remodelled in the 1850s by William Cubitt, brother of Thomas, the Georgian master architect....
...They are the very picture of 1950s wedded bliss — they could have stepped right out of a Good Housekeeping advertisement for baking powder....
...This week, Thomas Cook warned the extended heatwave in the UK and Europe had hit demand for foreign holidays....
...By contrast, the second concert under Michael Tilson Thomas was a subdued affair....
...Swelling strings are employed to dispel the whiff of ammonia in the scenes of urinal bliss, and the contrast between the men’s coupling and Michael’s wedding night is heart-rending....
...Thomas heartily agreed, although he added: “They could improve breakfast.” How, he was asked? “Ice cream.”...
...“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven,” wrote Wordsworth about the French Revolution. The year is 1989, not 1789, but the poet’s sentiments capture our mood....
...composer and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, and India’s Rajasthan Express ensemble — had higher purposes in mind when they gathered at the Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur to record the album (there’s a Paul Thomas...
...For a man, on the other hand, flower gardening was presented by Thomas Bridgeman as a means of maintaining “his station in society as becomes a rational and intelligent being, instead of sinking himself,...
...And of course Thomas Jefferson embedded “the pursuit of happiness” in the US Declaration of Independence, but no one can agree what he meant....
When the Wall came down, a regime established for an eternity collapsed, writes Thomas Brussig
...Now previewing The Audience, Apollo Theatre, London Kristin Scott Thomas succeeds Helen Mirren in the recast return to the West End of Peter Morgan’s comedy about the private audiences between the Queen...
...It had been seen by many, at first, as a glorious event, in which tyranny was overthrown and power given to the people: “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive”, recalled Wordsworth, “But to be young was...
...Arthur Bliss was wounded on the Somme and gassed at Cambrai – events which, along with his brother’s death, profoundly affected him....
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