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Image description: black silhouettes in front of a purple lit club room The pulsating music sweeps in and crashes like a sonic wave breaking on the beach of Oxford night life. The multicoloured lights shimmer and swirl, fading from greens and blues to red and pink hues. In a disjointing contrast the disco floor throbs […]
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Image Description: Shirley Williams sat on a chair in a black dress with flowers, with a glass of water and mic in front of her. Regardless of one’s own political allegiances, we can all lament the hole in the tapestry of British politics which was left by the passing of Williams. A towering figure of […]
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Gordon Banks, widely considered as one of, if not the, greatest goalkeepers in England’s history, passed away early this week, aged 81 years old. He was best known for his stunning save from Brazilian footballer Pelé during the 1970 World Cup, a move regarded by many as one of the greatest saves ever performed in […]
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Sir Michael Atiyah OM FRS FRSE FMedSci FAA FREng died on 11th January, aged 89. The British-Lebanese mathematician was born on 22nd April 1929 to a Scottish mother and Lebanese father and, after spending both his undergraduate and postgraduate time at Trinity College, Cambridge, went on to win many awards including the Fields medal (arguably […]
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John Joubert, one of the most celebrated British composers of our time, died on 7 January at the age of 91. Born in South Africa, Joubert lived in England for most of his life, residing for nearly half a century in the city of Birmingham. He held professorships at the University of Hull and the […]
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Image Credit: Junko Kimura, Getty Images While teaching marine biology in the mid-1980s at California’s Orange County Marine Institute, a teacher created a manual, ‘The Intertidal Zone’, to help his students. Its titular narrator, ‘Bob the Sponge’, was destined to become the inspiration for one of the most successful animations of all time, which would […]
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Image Credit: Michael Dustin A memorial gathering for Oxford DPhil student Christopher Peel was held on 12 October 2018 at 4pm in the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology. Tributes have poured in after his unexpected death on 12nd August at the age of 28. Peel was pursuing a DPhil at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology under the […]
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James Smith, a St Edmund Hall fresher, has caused an uproar within the college after announcing that he has forsaken the single life for the comfort of going steady with an unnamed female student he met at fuzzy ducks last week. One source said ‘It’s difficult to express how gutted I am. The chat, antics […]
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Contemplating the possible reasons for his presence at the 48th Academy Awards, Miloš Forman wittily suggested that academy members had recognised his directorial work because “Last year I spent more time in a mental institution than the others [nominees]”. Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest managed the great achievement of the Oscar ‘Big 5’ […]
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Richard Adams, author of the timeless Watership Down, has died aged 96. Born in Newbury, Berkshire, to Evelyn Adams, a surgeon, and his wife Lilian, he was educated at Bradfield College. Encouraged by one of his masters, he went on to study at Oxford University. His unusual style, as well as his engagement with his material, […]
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A lonely choir fades into the background, replaced by a menacing, looped bassline. The angelic is replaced by the earthly, the serene by the disturbed. Earlier this year Leonard Cohen wrote a letter to Marianne Ihlen, after he was informed that a former lover and the woman who inspired one of his most famous songs […]
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Wahoo, who tragically passed this weekend, was undeniably the real MVP of Oxford’s Holy Trinity (Park End and Bridge, obviously). Home to your weekly questionable last-minute decision (“I guess we could go out”), Wahoo made a name for itself through the dogged determination of the college Shuffle reps, desperate to plug ‘RETOX’ Fridays. Despite its […]
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For a long time, you’d have been forgiven for associating Alan Rickman with the typecast ‘bad guy’. His career certainly started that way, with his seductive portrayal of the mordant villain Valmont in Christopher Hampton’s 1986 stage production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. His arrival on the film scene, too, saw him play a trio of […]
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On Wednesday, upon hearing the news of the death of the composer, conductor, writer, intellectual, teacher and bon-vivant, Pierre Boulez, the musical world paused to recollect everything that he had given it: not only many dazzling musical masterpieces, and not only a wealth of the highest quality recordings with the best orchestras and ensembles, but […]
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that people are born, and people die. Stars are born, and they too, must eventually die. On 6th January 2016, a star whose light has been shining since he launched his music career back in 1967 died aged 69, after an 18-month long struggle with cancer. That star, of […]
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that people are born, and people die. Stars are born, and they too, must eventually die. On 6th January 2016, a star whose light has been shining since he launched his music career back in 1967 died aged 69, after an 18-month long struggle with cancer. That star, of […]
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Actress Billie Whitelaw, perhaps best known for her intimate collaboration with Samuel Beckett, has died aged 82. She had the simultaneously enviable and piteous distinction of being the muse and go-to performer of Beckett’s work for many years, submitting herself repeatedly to his tiresome, grueling and always extreme methods of creation.
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Incontrovertible directorial legend of film, television, and theatre, Mike Nichols, has died at the age of 83. This was a director who had to his name an Academy Award, four Emmy Awards, nine Tony Awards, a Golden Globe and the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010, among numerous others.
Continue ReadingNick Mutch tells us there was far more to Christopher Hitchens than the popular portrayal of him would have us believe.
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