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...“Otis really blew up,” said Klotzbach. “There is rapid intensification — and then there is what Otis did.”...
...For 80-year-old Otis Williams, the sole surviving original member of The Temptations, the church was in Texas....
...Original band member Otis Williams (Sifiso Mazibuko) is our narrator, whisking us through an eventful history and joining the dots between episodes of dramatisation....
...Few have demonstrated it more dramatically — or with more peculiarities — than William Beebe, the wealthy Depression-era adventurer who undertook the first deep ocean dives in a minuscule spherical craft...
...To the left is the clubby McRae Bar, named after George McRae, the building’s architect (it will probably be a hit with the suited-and-RM Williams-booted cohort that populates the surrounding banking and...
...For those who don’t know him, download his album Otis Blue, and in particular his version of “A Change Is Gonna Come”. It will make you weep....
...For Jackson (Kedar Williams-Stirling), the former swim team star who spent much of the earlier seasons in a letterman jacket, Dias opted for tighter tailoring....
...“When we clap along to Pharrell Williams or open TikTok it can feel like we’re doing something silly,” says McGonigal. “In fact, we’re doing something intrinsic to our humanity.”...
...William Beebe and Otis Barton, the first into the deep ocean in a bathysphere off Bermuda in the 1930s. Barely a footnote in history.” That balance may be about to change....
...The escalator is now a ubiquitous symbol of leisurely consumerism, in department stores from Macy’s in New York, where some wooden Otis models from the 1920s have been preserved, to the Yamako Department...
...In 1979 “To Love Somebody” received an earnest rendition by Hank Williams Jr, giving it country credibility....
...Pharrell Williams Short and sweet: when Williams arrived at the Academy Awards in Lanvin cut-offs and grey brogues, he offered us an object lesson in how to turn a height disadvantage into a sartorial statement...
...Skibo was the first building in Scotland to install an Otis lift. Electric lights and hot and cold running water were standard in its 20 guest rooms....
...Thicke’s male companions are the hip-hop producer Pharrell Williams and the rapper TI, whose guest rap includes one of the world’s least seductive chat-up lines: “I’ll give you something big enough to tear...
...Other contributors included William Trevor, Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell, Eric Newby, Harry Enfield and, rather marvellously, Barbara Cartland....
...P&W is a division of United Technologies Corp of the US, which also owns helicopter maker Sikorsky and aerospace company Hamilton Sundstrand, as well as Otis, the lift company....
...Along with Princes William and Harry, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Zac Goldsmith, foxhunting hero Otis Ferry, Trinny and Susannah, Boris Johnson, the home-shopping king Johnnie Boden and playboy Tim Jefferies....
...Hank Williams. Jerry Lee Lewis.”...
...Both Kidde and Chubb used to be owned by Williams Group before the UK-based conglomerate demerged them....
...Otis Granville Clark is a wonder....
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