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...The plot unfolds in the Hotel Messina, a chic pink and gold edifice that, in Anna Fleischle’s luscious design, fills the Lyttelton stage....
...Notably it’s all women we see first (Leonato, governor of Messina, becomes matriarch Leonata here, played by Katy Stephens), as they slice oranges, unwind paper chains and shake out pretty dresses....
...Kedar Williams-Stirling’s Bilal seems breezily cool but is forever stroking his chest as if trying to reassure himself; Francis Lovehall’s Omz is more contained, physically, but looks ready to burst; Emeka...
...Antonello da Messina: ‘Saint Jerome in his Study’ 3 Hear hear a. Frederic Leighton: ‘Flaming June’ b. Juan Gris: Portrait of the Artist’s Mother c. Caravaggio: ‘The Incredulity of Saint Thomas’d....
...Matthew Dunster’s revival of Much Ado, which transfers the action from Messina in the 16th century to Monterrey during the chaotic early-20th-century Mexican Revolution, is a smart (and fresh) departure...
...Marcus Rivaldi and William Hardcastle have joined as analysts from Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, respectively....
...So William Hague, the former UK foreign secretary, deserves credit for opening a Diplomatic Academy last month. Britain has the Rolls-Royce of diplomatic services but it needs upgrading....
...As Benedick, member of Don Pedro’s army stopping off on the way home at the house of Leonato, Governor of Messina, Hamish Linklater attacks his assignment with relish....
...“I am sure that the forces in the Democratic party that want her to run are going to do everything in their power to make her the inevitable and invincible candidate,” said William Galston, of the Brookings...
...“She is incredibly talented at delivering a message and she understands how to communicate in today’s political world better than most,” says Jim Messina, Mr Obama’s campaign manager....
...“Both of us have the challenge of getting to 270 electoral votes and if you look at the map, we have many more roads to 270 than they do,” said Jim Messina, the Obama campaign manager....
...Saboteur Cameron was stalked in the Brussels corridors by William Hague in the role of political commissar....
...“They’ve been on the cusp of this a few times over – I think they get it,” says Chris Messina, an early user who devised the use of the # symbol on Twitter as a way to group messages by subject....
...Only the other day William Hague recalled that during the 2001 election campaign he had invited the voters to follow him in saving Britain from the European dragon....
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