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Monthly Archives: March 2014
The real John Wayne
Seems there was more to him than we thought. A new biography wins praise from Peter Bogdanovich: The portrait Eyman paints very much resembles the Wayne I knew for nearly 15 years: extremely likable, guileless, exuberant, even strangely innocent. Hawks, … Continue reading
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The toilet roll as sketch book
Classic Stanley Spencer: a scene from painter Lachlan Goudie’s thoroughly absorbing TV documentary about the Clyde shipyard paintings. (You can watch a short clip on the programme’s website.) About 15 years ago, another of Spencer’s famous toilet rolls, from a … Continue reading
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Notebook
Etonians, it is alleged, have problems with such banal conventions as the traffic code. In the old days they disregarded licensing laws. Among Etonians (the accusation has been levelled at myself) the existence of a servant class is taken for … Continue reading
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Notebook
Then he said meanwhile, what about we take in a film this evening? But that was no good to me, because you don’t go into Soho to see films, because Soho is a film, and anyway, most times I go … Continue reading
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Stately
I spent yesterday evening at Hatfield House — home to the Folk By The Oak festival — where Bella Hardy, Martin Simpson & Co premiered The Elizabethan Session, the fruit of a week-long “incarceration” in a house in deepest Herefordshire. … Continue reading
The murder of Kitty Genovese & the making of an urban myth
Nicholas Lemann, incisive as ever, in a New Yorker article about the 50th anniversary of the case that changed the way New Yorkers looked at their city and themselves: The fact that this crime, one of six hundred and thirty-six murders … Continue reading
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Virtuoso
Jeremy Denk brings his version of the Goldberg Variations to London soon. Can’t wait. Here he is, indulging in a little of his “nerd speak”.
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The search for MH370
As the world begins to run out of theories, one of James Fallows’ readers wonders if Hergé got their first: The numerous parallels are quite interesting…it’s a crew takeover, they drop out of sight of radar, it all takes place … Continue reading
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Artificial intelligence, genuine attitude
Introducing Victor, the trash-talking, Scrabble-playing robot: When he is winning, Victor is likely to be boastful, uttering such lines as: “I am the current king of Scrabble, Victor the Mechanical Marvel. That’s Victor the Brilliant for short.” When losing, he … Continue reading
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