He said he had finished a play about the friendship between poet WH Auden and composer Benjamin Britten, with rehearsals due to start at the National Theatre in September.
I'm uncertain about the gender reassignments, but there is no doubt that the updating does its job, elegantly transforming this play about wealth and artistic patronage, about the futility of buying friendship, about pandering to the prosperous, into a paradigm of what Karl Marx saw in his 1844 philosophical treatise as the polluting power of money.
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Although some of his colleagues teased him about the age difference, Mr. Bakke says, he values the friendship because the two can talk about both work and personal issues.
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But today, I want to speak directly to the Brazilian people about how we can strengthen the friendship between our nations.
Her book, which is shortlisted for the Orange Prize, is about friendship and war in the troubled West African state.
You asked about the value of our friendship, about our husbands and children.
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano joined President Obama today in the Oval Office for a discussion about the deep and abiding friendship between our two countries.
It provides the characters and visual poetry on which to project our deepest feelings about the persistence of love, the power of friendship and the joy of embracing life toward the end of life.
This documentary, about the unanticipated results of a Facebook friendship, is an exemplary and surprising vision of modern life.
More importantly, the all but certain results of South Sudan's independence serve as yet another reminder to the West about the nature of power, war and friendship.
Like the writer Sheila Heti and the filmmaker Lena Dunham, Ocean is deciding what it means to talk about friendship, drugs, love, and sex, and is setting the parameters for shame and regret in a world in which failure is simply a way of saying hello.
Yet when we began to disagree, even quarrel, about the direction of the Public Interest, I told Irving, but also said that friendship is more important than ideology, which I still believe.
France is an independent country and cares about its independence but in old friendship with the United States of America.
Although it will contain little more than platitudes about friendship, co-operation and the world in general, it is clearly intended as a gesture of warning to the United States that the Russia-China axis is not to be underestimated.
"The point is that our commentaries are about our own standards and are put forward in a spirit of friendship and support, " the foreign office minister continued.
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My mind wandered back to 10 years ago when I first stepped foot into the school, only worrying about things like my friendship bracelets, and now I was expected to leave everything I ever knew behind.
Detectives believe the girls' home computers may hold clues about their friendship.
They were good friends, she was interested in more, but she knew that a hard sell about a life together would change the discussion, probably the friendship and possibly even his phone number.
Grant himself tells a revealing story about a meeting he had with Abramovich in the early days of their friendship.
And we will continue talking about other issues -- issues that I know will be supported by the strong friendship and leadership shown by President Obama that will lead to a greater partnership between our two countries.
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Haggis related a story about Katy, the youngest of three daughters from his first marriage, who lost the friendship of a fellow-Scientologist after revealing that she was gay.
While Costa talks about Mourinho's more genial nature and his "friendship" with players, the Chelsea manager is not without his detractors and the Portuguese's behavior outside of the home locker room has often been criticized.
She gets up at 5:30am every morning, leaves the house about the time the kids and I are rising, goes in early to work to get things ready for the day, spends the school hours teaching lessons about mathematics, literature, science, civics, citizenship, friendship, achievement, disappointment, dedication, right, wrong, pride, humility, and more, and stays late to organize materials and set up special projects.
But while Ruth seemed congenitally dour, Daphne had a quick smile and a sunny disposition, and most of the time she simply laughed off the steady stream of jibes about her pregnancy, accepted them as just a bit of fun being poked within the bounds of friendship and family.
Among the other books that suit my summer taste for page-turning history include No Ordinary Time, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand and, a book I recently read about the relationship between Roosevelt and Churchill, Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham.
He is alleged to have lied about the date his improper activity with Ms. Lewinsky began, and whether it was preceded by any period of friendship.
Both men were frank about their complex friendship and contrasting personalities a Kings of Convenience quirk that led to spirited arguments in the recording studio.
The relationship between friendship and happiness is a constant theme in the book, so I was eager to here more about her views on hapipness.
Mr Clinton may have been more blatant about his price tags, but his predecessors were equally aware that a night in the Lincoln Bedroom could cement a useful friendship.
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