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“Images of a city smoldering and a river clogged with pale, radioactive cadavers never left Keiji Nakazawa’s mind.”

“Oxenford narrated the programme from 1950 to 1971, and her meticulously modulated opening phrase was eventually included in the Oxford dictionary of quotations. But regular listeners also recall the words that would precede her arrival: ‘And when the music stops Daphne Oxenford will be here to tell you a story.'”

“I scan the Internet for my favorite videos, and I’ve made different playlists. I’m stealing back my own content. I call it ‘social fiddle justice,’ and I’m having a lot of fun with it.”

“‘I was the first one to write the truth about Johnson,’ Caro says, before pausing to wonder if this is why Lady Bird stopped talking to him during his research for the first book.”

The obstreperous screen legend has been loudly announcing his plans to leave France over the new government’s tax increases on wealthy citizens. Now President Vladimir Putin has offered the actor a Russian passport and residency permit. Said a grateful Depardieu, “I love your culture, your intelligence. My father was a communist of that era. He listened to Radio Moscow! That is my culture too.”

Apollo Robbins “is a peculiar variety-arts hybrid, known in the trade as a theatrical pickpocket. Among his peers, he is widely considered the best in the world at what he does, which is taking things from people’s jackets, pants, purses, wrists, fingers, and necks, then returning them in amusing and mind-boggling ways.”

“What strikes anyone who has seriously studied Hickey’s essays is the incompatibility of his ideas about beauty with an art world, and an art-education establishment, absorbed in abstract theory.”

While she is most revered for having seen to it that women’s rights were included in Japan’s postwar constitution, she was “one of the first people to bring traditional Asian performing arts to audiences throughout North America” – first at the Japan Society and then, for 20 years, at the Asia Society.

“Jean Roberts was a pioneer of Canadian theatre who, although Scottish-born, led key institutions in the 1960s and 1970s to help establish an indigenous dramatic tradition devoted to local playwrights rather than foreign imports.”