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...Oxford gives himself the code name Arthur and musters a gaggle of sidekicks, including his valet (Djimon Hounsou), and Conrad’s governess (Gemma Arterton), casting that nods to the 2021 requirement of racial...
...There’s also the lovably Dickensian Arthur Bacon, the son of Stalin’s London landlord, in whom the Communists from Georgia plant dreams of equality....
...Arthur Bispo, lightweight champion of the Brazilian navy in the 1930s, is consumed by a malady that sits somewhere between schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive disorder....
...Still, the time-pressed Fitzgerald managed, with help from the ghost of Joseph Conrad, to bring off — in the Gatsby-Daisy-Nick set-up — a perfectly judged piece of narrative placement....
...“They need to stay or otherwise China’s weight will be bigger still,” says Conrad Saldanha, an EM equity portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman....
...For George Eliot, Joseph Conrad and John Buchan, Blackwood’s was the vital stepping stone; for Anthony Trollope and Elizabeth Gaskell, it was Cornhill; for Arthur Conan Doyle, The Strand....
...Such a rationalisation is almost, but not quite, plausible in the case of Theatre O’s adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent (Traverse)....
...Conrad have produced a brand new Asterix adventure that’s all but indistinguishable from the originals....
...Yet Le Carré works more in the pessimistic tradition of Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene. As good and vital as he is, he’s no Orwell or Wells....
...The revolutionary use of accents was subsequently copied by Arthur Andersen in its rebranding as Accenture....
...Think Arthur Bach, drunken millionaire playboy in Arthur, guided by compassionate butler Hobson....
...That report was subsequently discredited by Arthur Andersen, the accountancy firm....
...Kenneth Branagh impersonates Benn as a mixture of Arthur Lowe of Dad’s Army and Hitler....
...And from the shorter works of Joseph Conrad – marvellous Conrad – came Ridley Scott’s The Duellists and Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, dredged, like the richest spoonful of soup, carrying meat, bones and some...
...Arthur Danto’s answer is to shape an entirely new map, its contours and capitals unrecognisable to traditionalists....
...Arthur de Haast of JLL Hotels said: “One of the things this deal throws up is a private equity company buying into not just the real estate but the operational entity and a brand....
...Readers would do well to consult Conrad Black’s recent excellent biography - or the one-volume history published by Harvard historian Frank Freidel....
...I imagine Arthur Sulzberger and Isadore Sharp, who run The New York Times and the Four Seasons hotel group respectively, would have approved....
...Tuesday's ruling by the Supreme Court cannot bring Arthur Andersen, once the world's biggest accounting firm, back to life....
...Hollinger International, the publishing group that ousted Conrad Black as its chairman last year, has agreed a pay deal worth up to $3m a year with his successor....
...In the city-hotel that is Hong Kong, the Four Seasons’ opening this month is the biggest event in the industry since the Conrad, Shangri-La and Marriott opened a decade and a half ago....
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