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...The sirens of Homer’s epic poem haven’t been the islands’ only illustrious residents....
...That’s a lot of plot, which makes the dialogue dense even before we get to the scenes in which child prodigy Akilla quotes great chunks of Homer’s Iliad to demonstrate his intellectual prowess....
...South Africa’s Modern and contemporary successes — Gerard Sekoto, William Kentridge, Zanele Muholi and Cinga Samson — are also in the sale....
...There's a wonderful, I think a little bit apocryphal, quotation that is ascribed to William Faulkner....
...Tithonus indeed lived forever but as Homer explains: “When loathsome old age pressed full upon him, and he could not move nor lift his limbs, this seemed to her in her heart the best counsel: she laid him...
...Williams called it “a strange, very tense, slightly violent shape” — it evokes birds, predators, migration....
...In March, Artists at the Center invites leading dancers to create a programme of their choice: Tiler Peck, a principal at New York City Ballet, starts off with works by William Forsythe, Alonzo King and...
...Perhaps that will develop as Williams begins to experiment with haute couture for his debut in January....
...It ought to be widely taught in schools and be as well known as Homer’s Odyssey or The Arabian Nights. Writing Changing Destiny, I wanted to bathe the audience in this eternal stream....
...“It’s a big shift for what has always been a resort community attracting mainly seasonal second-homers and retirees.”...
...Hypsipyle (played by Olivia Williams) is the character Haynes has chosen to take on in 15 Heroines....
...The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer’s engrossing history of Nazi Germany, certainly left me paler than my friends....
...Then felt I like some watcher of the skies/ When a new planet swims into his ken — Keats, “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer” It is a scene familiar to any sci-fi aficionado: the tiny dot, a speck against...
...Translating Homer, Pope did much the same, doodling bits of garden on the back of his pages....
...He also designed the wheeled Louis Vuitton suitcase at your side, the RM Williams boots on your feet and the Apple Watch on your wrist....
...A distressed woman being interviewed says, “I don’t know Homer Simpson, I — I never met Homer Simpson or had any contact with him, but . . . ” She starts to cry uncontrollably, whimpering “I’m sorry, I can...
...The contemporary collaboration between poet Alice Oswald and painter William Tillyer proves that this age-old rapport is as nutritious as ever....
...The Silence of the Girls , by Pat Barker, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99/Doubleday, RRP$27.95 Barker’s powerful feminist revision of Homer’s Iliad creates a central narrative voice for Briseis, the Trojan queen...
...Versatile Mr Williams is also currently a non-executive director of Aviva, John Lewis and Royal Mail....
...Championed by John Williams, New York Fed president, R-star is the real, or inflation-adjusted, interest rate that occurs when the economy is at full strength....
...Why Dylan Matters , by Richard F Thomas, William Collins, RRP£12.99/Dey Street Books, RRP$24.99 Homer, Ovid, Virgil . . . Dylan?...
...Homer’s Odyssey is probably the most influential work of art in the culture of the west....
...John William Hill’s lush portraits of fruit insist, in evangelical strokes, on biographical specificity; it’s the tale of individual apples and plums that grew lush upon the stalk, then died....
...The French word for a wind turbine is “éolienne”, from Aeolus, the mythological keeper of the winds in Homer’s Odyssey, who first tries to help and then turns against Odysseus....
...Love is Blind, by William Boyd, Viking A young Scotsman discovers a new life in Paris in the popular Boyd’s latest....
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