Her West End debut came quickly, as Nina in a 1985 production of The Seagull.

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Hotspots springing up to serve the new residents include coffee shop Nelson the Seagull, restaurants Wildebeest and Pidgin, and Save On Meats, an old butcher shop with a legendary neon sign that now houses a popular diner.

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She began acting at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds before making her professional West End debut in a 1985 revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, winning the London Drama Critics' most promising newcomer award for her performance as Nina.

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Last Tuesday Montella now the manager of Fiorentina sat in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio next to the city's mayor, Matteo Renzi, and talked about, well, flight and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the 1970 fantasy novella.

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And the firm has had their head in the emerging market game since it started selling Peruvian seagull droppings as fertilizer for British farmers back in the 1860s.

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Coppell's decision will come as a disappointment to Seagull striker Nicky Forster, who played under the former Manchester United winger at Reading, and had expressed a desire to work again with his former boss.

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It helps if you know something about Chekhov when Sonya wails "I am a wild turkey, " it's more fun if you know that's a riff on his "Seagull" but Durang's genius is the ability to write highbrow and low at the same time.

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The motives of anyone who purchases a six-foot hamster or a mechanical seagull built from kitchen utensils can only be guessed at.

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And it may not be wise to follow the example of the man in the wool Union Jack cap who crashed Simpson's victory interview on NBC and cooed what sounded like a lonely seagull call.

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