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...Chelsea Pitch Owners was created after property developers sought to build housing on the site of Stamford Bridge in the 1980s, prompting then Chelsea chair Ken Bates to buy the freehold....
...Don’t worry, Jewell’s mother Bobi (Kathy Bates) tells him: “You’re still the good guy.” But good guys need bad guys, on which Eastwood has never stinted....
...The Life of Walter Gropius, by Fiona MacCarthy, Faber A portrait of the founder of Bauhaus by a celebrated biographer....
...But the most novel and productive conversations are with those you know least well but still trust, says Prof Walter....
...The Everyday Sexism Project, which she founded two years ago, has got through to me in a way that the writings of Camille Paglia, Natasha Walter or Naomi Wolf never have....
...Walter Scott would have enjoyed this greatly....
...Jackson Bate’s biography of Keats (“I’m so ignorant – you guys pronounce it ‘Keets’, right?”)....
...A single-track road then takes you down to Abbotsford, Sir Walter Scott’s riverside mansion, and the way continues along the banks of the Tweed into Melrose....
...’ pit stop: An Bhun Abhainn, LouisburghPost-walk tipple: Thomas Swift, bar manager, recommends Hot Powers Irish whiskey, €3.80 per glassGreat for kids: ★☆☆Level of experience: ★★☆Wildlife: ★★☆ Dominic Bates...
...The 1927 Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart showcased model dwellings by major modernist architects including Peter Behrens, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Bruno Taut....
...The sitters could be Pride and Prejudice’s Mrs Bennet and her sister Mrs Philips, or Emma’s Mrs and Miss Bates, with whom we eventually engage with deeper human understanding than we initially expect....
...Walter Jackson Bate, the great biographer of Samuel Johnson, banished “Hum 6” on the grounds that it left students ignorant of a lot of basic material....
...God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World By Walter Russell Mead Atlantic £25, 320 pages FT bookshop price: £20 Walter Russell Mead adds religion to the mix of Anglo-Saxon virtues...
...Papers 2 By Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates Sergison Bates £22, 163 pages Sergison Bates have built an international reputation for serious, thoughtful and urbane design and this little book forms part...
...Sadly, it turns out that J Walter Thompson, Ford’s advertising agency, came up with dialogue that it thought sounded like Mamet....
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