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Frozen Thames main character in quirky look at British history
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The Frozen Thames
By Helen Humphreys
McClelland & Stewart, 184 pages, $25
Reviewed by Ursula Fuchs
THIS slim and beautiful volume of short stories fast-forwards through centuries of British history, pausing every time the Thames River freezes over.
In each of 40 vignettes, author Helen Humphreys zooms in and focuses on imagined scenes based on historical fact.
The frozen Thames becomes her main character, and appears in guises as varied as frost patterns on a window. At times it's a one-in-a-lifetime magical playground, at others a looming agent of death and starvation; then again it's ...
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Smoking gun Kenneth Tynan was a taboo-breaker and spanking aficionado. But above all he was a critic. A revolutionary one. A critic who created as much as he destroyed. Theatre writer Paul Taylor assesses his legacy while, overleaf, Corin Redgrave and Rob Brydon - who play Tynan on stage and screen - review the reviewer
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...some of the above, the life of Kenneth Peacock Tynan (1927-80) began to unravel...and it was immediately clear that Tynan would not be welcome in the new...the future critic's mother. Kenneth's rather fabulously apposite...
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TYNAN'S LIFE AND TIMES
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...films of the time, Tynan's revue was a product...was wrong. Kathleen Tynan reveals that Kenneth was the son of a civic dignitary, Sir Peter Peacock, mayor of the North...Paradise." Much of Kenneth Peacock Tynan's lifetime preoccupation...
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Friday Book: The last rites of a disillusioned narcissist The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan edited by John Lahr (Bloomsbury, pounds 25)
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...critic they most admire: Kenneth Tynan, legendary penman of...flamboyant style and peacock posing, Tynan started as a star...Loamshire plays", Tynan found himself in the...biography, The Life of Kenneth Tynan, confirms the...
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The bravura rage of Kenneth Tynan
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...in the prologue to "The Life of Kenneth Tynan," the deeply personal, deliciously...but never a boring one, for Kenneth Tynan's life had all the makings of...working-class woman, and Sir Peter Peacock, a politically prominent self...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Book review: Self-indulgence, sadism and scathing reviews; The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan. Edited by John Lahr (Bloomsbury, pounds 25). Reviewed by Keith Brace.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...WH Auden, JRR Tolkien and Kenneth Tynan - who escaped from their native...revolution largely created by Tynan. They are also a funny-sad...illegitimate son of his father, Mr Tynan, alias Sir Peter Peacock, owner of the popular stores...
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AUTHOR-WIFE'S ROLLER-COASTER LIFE WITH NOTED CRITIC KENNETH TYNAN
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...they both had affairs. Kenneth Tynan, who created the erotic...illegitimate son of Sir Peter Peacock, a prosperous businessman...of Warrington, and Rose Tynan, a working-class Irish woman. Kenneth Tynan's first wife was the novelist...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Prophet of outrage; Books: Cast forever as the first man to use the f-word on television, Kenneth Tynan deserves a better epitaph.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England)
; Byline: GARRY O'CONNOR KENNETH TYNAN: A Life by Dominic Shellard...raise whirlwinds." This was Kenneth Tynan's lifelong motto, pinned above...Birmingham suburb, the son of Sir Peter Peacock, rich businessman, Justice of...
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Peacock by name and nature
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; Peacock by name and nature KENNETH TYNAN: A LIFE by Dominic Shellard Yale, L25, pp. 399, ISBN 030009919...is not Dominic Shellard's fault that to the outside world Kenneth Tynan is now more famous for his sex life than his opinions. Plucking...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Surviving a torrid life with Tynan the tyrant; Books: Critic's choice.(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...theatre club. She writes of Kenneth Tynan: 'He wore a double...of the late Sir Peter Peacock. I have an annual income...been taken,' replied Tynan, flicking his cigarette...has been written about Kenneth Tynan, the enfant terrible...
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Tales Of Tynan; The Drama Critic's Widow, Dropping Names in a `Brave' Biography
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...legendary British drama critic Kenneth Tynan) and dates famous (film director...written a book, "The Life of Kenneth Tynan." It's about her late husband...illegitimate son of a Sir Peter Peacock, and later, shrugging off his...
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