Final Curtain Came Too Soon
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on November 28, 2008
Always a frenetically busy person, he explained in his clipped English accent that he was on a tight schedule: “I’ve got to take my sister out to dinner in half an hour.” In other words, the interview would have to be snappy.
In the end, though, it ran over time. Controversy had raged around Hickox for [...]
Curtain Comes Down Early For Cubs In Game 3
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on October 5, 2008
This one happened in the first inning and was the worst possible nightmare for the Cubs. Already facing a must-win situation, the Cubs quickly fell behind 2-0, taking the wind out of their sails.
And in came two runs as Loney smacked Rich Harden’s fourth pitch into the right-field corner. It didn’t matter that Matt Kemp [...]
Olympics That Never Ring Down Curtain
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on September 11, 2008
“Life should be like Olympic Games that never ring down the curtain,” said Ping Yali, China’s first Paralympic champion on Thursday.
Starting from 2007, Ping has turned her parlor into a chain of successful business though there were ineviatably all sorts of difficulties. And, more than that, after many years of motherly love and patience, her [...]
Proud China brings curtain down on epic Games
Filed Under Country Curtain, Cur Tainx | Posted on August 24, 2008
The Beijing Olympics ended with a blaze of deafening fireworks on Sunday, bringing down the curtain on a Games that dazzled the world with sporting brilliance and showcased the might of modern day China.
The sporting extravaganza failed to quell criticism of China’s human rights record, although the International Olympic Committee (IOC) gave the organisers the [...]
Appetite for Twenty20 is final curtain for Pro40
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on July 20, 2008
The changes to the structure of English domestic cricket from the start of the 2010 season, put forward for approval this week by the England and Wales Cricket Board, spelled the end for the 40-over competition because of the appetite for yet more Twenty20.
But the future of the competition does not make a difference to [...]
Curtain gets taste of Derby venue
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on May 30, 2008
Curtain Call came through a racecourse spin at Epsom ahead of his participation in the Vodafone Derby on Saturday week.
With Casual Conquest set to be added to the field for the blue riband, Curtain Call is likely to be sent off second favourite and he was the centre of attraction at the course’s Breakfast With [...]
Memories sure to last beyond the final curtain
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on May 30, 2008
There can’t be many who don’t wish to be remembered fondly after they’ve gone. It’s confirmation that our time on this earth mattered, that we didn’t simply float along on a cloud of self-obsession and trivial pursuits.
Those who are rich enough can ensure their name lives on through the donation of large amounts of dough [...]
The final curtain
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on May 3, 2008
FRANK Lloyd Wright was an arrogant man and he cultivated what you might consider a shortcoming into what he saw as a virtue. It is far nobler, to paraphrase Wright, to be honestly arrogant than to be dishonestly self-effacing.
And he had the genius to carry it off in style, even dressing the part, capes and [...]
Bolsover shows good housekeeping
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on April 6, 2008
Bolsovers decision to retain its housing stock rather flew in the face of the Governments desired outcome for the future of council housing. The hard road it might have been but the dissident choice paid off the district council is proving its worth as a landlord
Since taking the decision to retain its housing stock [...]
A singular ‘Express’ ride
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on March 29, 2008
When Paul Theroux arrived in the Patagonian town of Esquel aboard a creaking antique rail carriage pulled by a steam engine resembling a “demented samovar on wheels”, it was his last stop on a train journey that began in Boston. Thirty years later, the Old Patagonian Express still steams out of Esquel in south-west Argentina, [...]