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...As we meet her, she is on day one of her treatment and still focused enough to read George Eliot’s novel Daniel Deronda....
.... £60, evelom.com My favourite room in my house is my living room, where there’s a painted ceiling by George Gilbert Scott, who designed the building....
...On a photo from 1976 of a Native American man dancing, a student named George Mesro Coles-El writes that the time is probably between 11am and 1pm, because of the short shadow....
...Another print, the huge 2.5m woodcut “Stowage” by the African-American artist Willie Cole, addresses the legacy of slavery through an image that plays on the famous 1780s slave ship diagram that showed how...
...It was evident in the West Fife mines, where the miners voted in Willie Gallacher, a communist MP, several times before and after the second world war....
...of Philip Barry’s The Philadelphia Story starring Kevin Spacey went some way towards redeeming his erratic first season at the theatre’s helm; now, although he does not appear onstage, Spacey has chosen Cole...
...Maria Friedman directs the delicious Cole Porter musical with enjoyable vivacity....
..., Young Vic, London Natalie Abrahami directs Eugene O’Neill’s only comedy as a bittersweet play about coming of age, with George MacKay....
...“He is one of a group of half a dozen truly important songwriters from a golden era, alongside Richard Rodgers, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin,” says Wilson....
...many musicians can claim to have played with the great gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, experimented with jazz, poetry and Indian classical music, performed at 10 Downing Street for prime minister Harold...
...… Every Day is for the Thief, by Teju Cole, Faber, RRP£12.99/ Random House, RRP$23 After the success of his 2011 novel Open City, Nigerian-American writer Cole returns with this genre-bending mix of...
...Edward Heath’s Tory government proposed a hub airport in the Thames estuary, but it was rejected by Harold Wilson’s Labour administration....
...Nor do they have any close and trusted senior colleague – a sort of latter-day Willie Whitelaw – who performs this function for them....
...Edward Heath’s Conservative government backed plans for such an airport in 1971, but the project was subsequently dropped by Harold Wilson’s Labour administration....
...Martin began as a professional musician during the war, aged 15, playing Jerome Kern and Cole Porter songs that he had learnt by ear in pubs with his dance band George Martin and his Four Tune Tellers....
...esteemed translator Peter Cole makes this survey of medieval Hebrew poetry a beguiling, soulful book; scholarly but romantic....
...doesn’t consider it a brave, or perverse, or creepy decision, to start singing, as a teenager at the time of Nirvana and Pearl Jam, explicitness coy, sticky songs made famous by Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole...
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