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...“It was the first time I’d seen a phenomenon of this kind. Never, even on the stages of the best theatres, had I witnessed a similar transfiguration.”...
...There’s a drawing by Alex Tavoularis, the artistic director on Apocalypse Now – a styling reference for how Captain Willard, played by Martin Sheen, should look in his fatigues....
...“I was to be conscientiously prepared to follow a career either as a concert pianist or as a rabbi.”...
...The title story in Zero-Sum is about a troubled prodigy desperate for the validation of her professor, loosely based on the late Harvard philosophy professor Willard Van Orman Quine....
...The role of Elizabeth I was beautifully sung by mezzo Christine Rice, even if Britten probably intended more of a mature, lyric-dramatic soprano....
...The circular Round Robin bar at the Willard InterContinental has watered everyone from Mark Twain to Abraham Lincoln....
...“I adored Mrs Hangary.”...
...“If I drive 10 miles per hour, that means I crash once every 100,000 hours of driving,” he explains. “So if I deploy 100,000 cars, I’ll have a crash every hour....
...Willard Ahdritz, founder of Kobalt, said the asset being sold was the world’s first regulated music royalties fund. He added that the songs would be “well taken care of” by Hipgnosis....
...I had an internship at Ernst & Young, where Jerome Thode and Willard Woods guided me through the corporate experience....
...“If I were one of [Altria’s] long-term institutional investors I would have been livid,” Mr Bloomquist said....
...As a child, Jason Boyd used to sneak downstairs to listen to Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called to Say I Love You” on the radio....
...“I do think that they are well positioned . . . to have more success in the future,” he said....
...He had first-hand contacts with most of the leading rulers and military commanders of his time, from Louis XII of France and Emperor Maximilian I to Pope Julius II and Cesare Borgia....
...“He’s one of the reasons I continue to have confidence in the investment in Juul,” said Mr Willard, adding he was “comfortable” with Altria’s existing 35 per cent stake in the company....
...Howard Willard, Altria’s chief executive, said the new Juul chief took a “collaborative and co-operative approach” to his work, “which I think is going to be necessary”....
...Altria chairman and chief executive Howard Willard, who is recovering from Covid-19, is leaving the Marlboro-maker after less than two years in the top job....
...I’m a businessman as well, I have a family to feed and I would like to capitalise and make as much money as I can while doing what I love.”...
...“I expect the existing incumbents of Imperial, BAT and Japan Tobacco will need to revisit their playbooks for M&A and value creation,” he said....
...“Every time I go and see him I first zip my pocket,” says Pierre Lassonde, a Canadian mining veteran, of Mr Friedland’s ability to persuade investors to part with their cash....
...Willard White, 71, made his Royal Opera House debut in 1978 and the bass-baritone has since performed numerous roles for the ROH....
...Plath’s daughter Frieda Hughes describes in measured tones how hard it was to deal with the novel’s issues: “Over the years as I grew up I had to accept more and more of what happened in her life.”...
...“It’s very, very difficult to start up a life company . . . so I would say our preference would be to find a company that’s already there.”...
...After stepping down from his role as chief executive at Bain Capital, Mr Bain was one of the founders of a boutique private equity firm, Bain, Willard Cos....
...However, when word of the location leaked out to the public, the meeting was shifted to the Willard Hotel....
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