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The owl and the parrot

The Philippine Star 25 Aug 2024
Who’s the English-educated Pinoy of my generation who doesn’t remember this verse by Edward Lear, a ...
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Warhol idolised her, Thatcher copied her and Kingsley Amis had a deep fear of farting in her presence: but what was the Queen really like?

The Observer 25 Aug 2024
When people looked at the Queen, what did they see?. On one level, the answer is obvious ... Photograph ... I told her all about English humour, and Wodehouse and Monty Python and Just William and Marty Feldman, not forgetting Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll ... .
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‘Exceptional’: rare books of illustrations from Darwin’s ‘bird man’ on sale for £2m

The Observer 05 May 2024
Around the same time, poet and artist Edward Lear published an illustrated book on parrots which proved immensely popular in the 1830s.
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‘His body was a tool telling truths’: Julian Clary and Juliet Stevenson on one actor’s extraordinary exit

The Observer 03 May 2024
He monologues all day, every day, does interpretative dance in his recliner and gives us lashings of King Lear ... a total stranger until Simon sent her the screener having heard her rave on the radio about King Lear.
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‘If you’re anointed tonight, you can be dumped on tomorrow’: Steve Martin on fame, failure ...

The Guardian 22 Mar 2024
... Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac that found Martin investing his comedy with emotional weight for the first time, will dispute the Edward-Lear-like genius of the line “earn more sessions by sleeving” .
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‘If you’re anointed tonight, you can be dumped on tomorrow’: Steve Martin on fame, failure and TV humiliation

The Observer 22 Mar 2024
... Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac that found Martin investing his comedy with emotional weight for the first time, will dispute the Edward-Lear-like genius of the line “earn more sessions by sleeving”.
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Edward Bond: ‘Our theatre trivialises or generalises – both are forms of sleaze’

The Guardian 06 Mar 2024
... should run a stage at the National Theatre Edward Bond obituary When Shakespeare’s Lear is mad he wanders on a heath and proclaims a philosophy of utter sanity.
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British playwright Edward Bond dies aged 89

Metro UK 06 Mar 2024
Edward Bond has died aged 89 (Picture ... British playwright Edward Bond, who wrote Lear and The Sea, has died at the age of 89 ... ‘Edward was one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century ... Edward was one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century.
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75 Dance Quotes to Inspire You to Get Up and Move

The Marshall News Messenger 20 Feb 2024
Dancing is an art, a sport and a cathartic activity all in one ... One of the most beautiful aspects of dancing, however, is allowing your body to move however it feels called ... Just get up and dance ... Related ... 1 ... –Amit Kalantri. Canva/Unsplash. 2 ... –Edward Lear.
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Brigade issue portable heater warning following 3am blaze

Islington Tribune 16 Feb 2024
Fire engines attend the scene of the fire in Holloway in the early hours of Sunday ... He said ... A blue plaque said it was once the site of archery contests, while The Owl and the Pussycat poet Edward Lear was born and lived in nearby Bowman’s Lodge ... ....
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The Daily Mail 10 Feb 2024
The Owl and the Pussycat is a children’s poem by Edward Lear that tells the story of a devoted owl and cat who sail to sea, declare their love and decide to marry.
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Wayne C. Beyer: Republicans need a Plan B

Union Leader 02 Feb 2024
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,. In a Sieve they went to sea.. In spite of all their friends could say. — “The Jumblies” by Edward Lear ... First, a second Trump presidency would look like the first ... Do the math ... Next, Trump cannot win ... Wayne C ... ....
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A Shakespeare play slashed to 80 minutes? Bring it on – theatre can be far too stressful

The Observer 19 Jan 2024
“How poor are they that have not patience!”. So implores Iago in defence of his slowly unfolding plot ... Their programme also features full-length productions of Pericles, Othello and King Lear, as well as Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II ... .

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