Hints and tips:
...The show lacks the stellar artists emerging in the period — no Paula Rego, no Cornelia Parker. It is really about women’s activism: a duller, harder subject....
...Saxophonist Walter Smith III and guitarist Matthew Stevens are high-profile sidemen with bands of their own....
...The novels of Walter Scott thrilled the world and established the romantic myth of wild Scottish warriors (tartan-clad, naturally) which has also endured — think of the movie Braveheart....
...Justerini & Brooks now imports the wines of Walter Scott, Berry Bros & Rudd has Lingua Franca and Corney & Barrow has 00 Wines....
...Elizabeth I (45 years on the throne), George III (almost 60 years) and Victoria (almost 64 years) all presided over periods of national and imperial expansion....
...Round on the Links The link was Thunderbirds Jeff Bezos “Puppet on a String” (Sandie Shaw) The Man with Two Brains Walter Scott (Edinburgh) Trey Parker IR Virgil (The Aeneid) General Gordon Tracy...
...In November 1788, George III went mad....
...Act III will take place in December at the Vienna State Opera, for the world premiere of Orlando by composer Olga Neuwirth, with costumes by the Japanese house....
...It is now run by Mr Coleman and portfolio managers Lee Fixel and Scott Shleifer, with Mr Fixel overseeing venture capital....
...The decision follows the exhausted logic that mechanical reproduction, as the philosopher Walter Benjamin famously warned, leaches aura from art....
...A few doors down from Murray’s house and office — where he liked to take afternoon tea with writers such as Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott — is the Royal Institution....
...Anatomy of a Soldier, by Harry Parker, Faber, RRP£14.99/Knopf, RRP£25.95 Former British army captain Harry Parker’s semi-autobiographical novel about a soldier who loses both legs is a compelling addition...
...I couldn’t get enough of Walter Scott (something that on rereading amazes me): not just Ivanhoe, but the lumbering Waverley, the novel that on publication in 1814 became the first international bestseller...
...Parker’s calypso-themed “Barbados”, when finally introduced, was shorn of its final measure, repeated and left dangling. Ronnie Scott’s...
...And while saxophonist Walter Smith III trenchantly reinvented melodies of his own making, his duet with Akinmusire was a highlight moment....
...Scott Parker, head of performance and technology at KPMG, says the market has been a rollercoaster, with some sectors of the economy hiring management consultants, as others continue to axe them....
...Scott’s novel....
...I keep thinking of the line, often attributed to Shakespeare though in truth by Sir Walter Scott: Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive....
...They asked the Scottish poet Sir Walter Scott, and caused a revolution in literature....
...The Harper brothers really arrived as publishers when they beat their Philadelphia competitors by printing the third volume of Walter Scott’s Peveril of the Peak twenty-one hours after it arrived in New...
...Of course a cohort of writers and film directors, from Fay Weldon and Salman Rushdie to David Puttnam, Alan Parker, Ridley Scott and Tony Kaye, started out in advertising....
...Finlay Scott, chief executive, General Medical Council. Charles Sinclair, former chief executive, Daily Mail and General Trust....
...While Kapur was plainly shooting for a Tudor equivalent of The Godfather Part II, this seems too often confused, directionless and almost pointless – more like The Godfather Part III, in fact....
...George Parker...
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