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...Hughes. Glasgow-born Duffy, 53, said she had thought "long and hard" before accepting the high-profile job, and gave the final say to her 13-year-old daughter. Her response? "She said, 'Yes mummy, there's never been a woman.'" Now Duffy, who once said "no self-respecting poet" should have to write about royal weddings (she was referring to the 1999 union between Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones) will be expected to do exactly that, in a role that requires her to write poems for royal events, funerals and various state occasions...
...It’s a challenge, but I think it’s that much more meaningful because everything is done so independently. You are always aware of how much work you put into it and you have to make everything your own. It helped me prove to my self how strongly I felt about theater and pursuing it regardless of the structure.” What does the future hold for Kline? Neither history nor science. “I will be doing something in theater. I think ideally I would love to be working someplace where it would...
...Life” is not a disaster. Dylan’s true disasters, like political putsches or catastrophic weather systems, draw a bewildering sort of fascination—think “Dylan & The Dead,” his born-again Christian phase, or the infamous “Self Portrait”—that this album never inspires in the listener. Mere failure seems a more appropriate categorization, but that would make the mistake of confusing expectations surrounding Dylan’s work—today or almost half a century ago—with the expectations...
...wall of him. We take our burgers outside to finish our chat while we eat.He unfolds the wrapping on the burger, takes off the top bun, and applies the mustard and ketchup in the sine waves just like he had demonstrated. We chat between bites about hyper self-awareness and grueling football practice.“You know,” he says, “I’ve always been weary of being a regular somewhere or having a regular. I think it’s the mark of a stagnant life. But I’m willing...
...athletes—four of whom self-identified as queer, with the fifth calling himself a “queer ally”—responded to questions about the difficulty of coming out on a sports team, the social choices queer athletes face both on and off the field, and the quest for tolerance in a realm that is stereotypically unwelcoming...