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...The fiction of writers such as William S Burroughs and JG Ballard seemed to offer an approach that gave the viewer a way in....
...Investors are more vocal, urging the likes of BP and Royal Dutch Shell to recognise the financial impact that global warming could have on their operations....
...Gordon Ballard, head of the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers, has seen many downturns in his 38-year career. But they were all followed by recoveries....
...Companies such as Canada’s Ballard, Plug Power in the US and Swedish group Powercell have all seen their share prices shoot up over the past year as investors dive in....
...It made its first investment in 2013, with a $4m stake in Canadian fuel cell provider Ballard Power Systems....
...The structure of the once-failing block has been reused and now has winter gardens, balconies and a diaphanous polycarbonate shell. All that was good — the spaces, the views — has been retained....
...“The economy is in a terrible state,” Mr Ballard says. “This is exacerbated by paralysis at the political level.”...
...The success of last year’s film adaptation of JG Ballard’s High-Riseshows how Brutalism has become a cipher for social breakdown....
...In “Driftwood Houses” he contrasts his plight (“I’ve hit the wall”) with memories of a long-ago family holiday when his daughters gathered shells on a beach and built houses roofed with towels....
...Through the clear water I could see a panettone dissolving into a shimmer of red and green crystallised fruit, while the poolside tiles were smeared with yolks and broken shell fragments.”...
...Miranda Ballard, co-founder of Muddy Boots, says she looked into his past but still chose him over three other offers. “Whatever happened, he transformed some massive names in UK retail . . ....
...It doesn’t so much flatten the cultic contours of his previous writing – the flights into science fiction and fantasy, the influence of JG Ballard and William Burroughs – as elevate them to a new level of...
...on-trend item – the shell colours match anything you wear”....
...“It has been a land grab,” said Mark Gravette, director at London-based nut traders Barrow Lane & Ballard. Traders expect peanut prices to remain high for the next few months....
...There’s a glossy, JG Ballard desolation to it that’s immensely memorable and strangely attractive....
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