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...Conrad Truedson Eugene, Oregon, US...
...Ostensibly a boy with everything to live for — from a maritime family, he had just obtained his captain’s licence — Conrad had been struggling with depression and anxiety for months....
...In a calm, O’Brian’s Captain Jack Aubrey scratched a backstay superstitiously, as an alternative to whistling for a wind. For us, it worked....
...But as a reviewer he sees more than the qualities derived from Joseph Conrad’s original. He sees the genius of Hitchcock’s filmic enhancements: the images, the cutting, the cumulative kinetic gaze....
...Theresa May’s behaviour reminds me irresistibly of Captain MacWhirr in Joseph Conrad’s Typhoon (January 16)....
...What you’ve been saying A parable to navigate May’s stormy leadership, letter from Nicholas Coulson, Carlisle, Cumbria, UK Theresa May’s behaviour reminds me of Captain MacWhirr in Joseph Conrad’s Typhoon...
...‘Really beautiful country,’ Captain Cook reckoned. ‘That’s why I’m cleaning up people, take it away.’ ”)....
...The movie — inspired by Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness — followed US army captain Benjamin Willard’s mission upriver to locate and terminate US special forces colonel Walter Kurtz, who had gone...
...New Zealand have possibly the most experienced midfield ever assembled: Dan Carter, Ma’a Nonu and Conrad Smith. That experience in the intense pressure of a World Cup final might just be decisive....
...The North Water has, in places, a Conrad-Melville undercurrent, but for the most part it is Dickens’s influence that is most keenly felt....
...Before returning home, the team’s captain and vice-captain, Dave Gallaher and Billy Stead, dictated at extraordinary speed a 300-page book on the game, The Complete Rugby Footballer on the New Zealand System...
...Anatomy of a Soldier, by Harry Parker, Faber, RRP£14.99/Knopf, RRP£25.95 Former British army captain Harry Parker’s semi-autobiographical novel about a soldier who loses both legs is a compelling addition...
...Orrin Evans’ Captain Black Big Band Mother’s Touch (Positone)...
...Testimonies from the men who served under him suggest an almost recklessly brave captain, “strolling about no-man’s-land as cool as if he were on the parade ground”....
...Asterix and the Missing Scroll, by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, translated by Anthea Bell, Orion, RRP£10.99/Asterix RRP$17.99 The indomitable Gaul is back in this second outing from Ferri and Conrad...
...“Tell him the captain got drunk and threw it off,” the captain growled....
...Told by Matthews, the story loses none of its strangeness and its swashbuckling verve, reading at times like a cross between Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Gogol’s The Government Inspector....
...One of the enduring images from my childhood was an illustration from Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (1870) showing Captain Nemo’s library on his submarine, the Nautilus....
...Either way she is setting a precedent that other female captains of the universe may well use as a how-to, or how-not-to, guide for trials to come....
...A ship’s log, which all residents are expected to fill in, sits on the octagonal captain’s table and above, on the wall, a flush-fitting cabinet door opens to reveal a series of Banner’s artworks, which...
...I’d been reading what turned out to be his last novel, The Captain and the Enemy, in which a young boy is hurried away from school and off on an adventure by a mysterious benefactor, as well as an interview...
...The son of a second-hand car dealer, Conrad Clifford grew up in south London and began his career at Cathay Pacific, followed by a stint at Virgin Atlantic Airways....
...I became obsessed by Biggles; I’ve named one of my characters after Captain WE Johns. When do you feel most free? When I’m walking home from the swimming pool. What is your current favourite word?...
...Andrew Strauss, England cricket captain. Tim Brooke-Taylor, actor and writer. David Thackray, head of archaeology, National Trust....
...Today, the courts must decide whether the rewards of men such as Jeff Skilling, the jailed Enron chief executive, and Conrad Black, the former owner of The Daily Telegraph released from prison last month...
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