Hints and tips:
...Each time Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’ blasts through radios and shopping malls this holiday season, the Hipgnosis Songs Fund will make money....
...Partial respite comes with the latest entry in Mariah Carey’s Christmas catalogue....
...Far from being dull, Carey argues that formality has a silver lining....
...A longer-established, amiable guide to the world of verse, John Carey, emeritus professor at Oxford, gives us A Little History of Poetry in March (Yale UP RRP£14.99/$25)....
...Another 2017 treat savoured in 2018 was Craig Brown’s brilliant and original Ma’am Darling (Fourth Estate, RRP£9.99), a biography told through “99 glimpses” of Princess Margaret that is as much a chronicle...
...“It was a carefully thought-through plan,” Dr Carey told the inquiry....
...Known for his pitch-perfect renditions of Danny Boy at public events, Carey could be the life of the party, Democratic or otherwise. Carey later admitted his idea was “reckless”....
...In My View: Personal Reflections on Art by Today’s Leading Artists, edited by Simon Grant, Thames & Hudson, RRP£19.95 Ed Ruscha on Millais, Rachel Whiteread on Piero della Francesca, Michael Craig-Martin...
...Take Peter Sarsgaard as David, the debonair older man who seduces the young ingénue Jenny, played by Carey Mulligan, in the recently released film An Education....
...Craig Donohue, chief executive, told the FT that the justice department probe was “substantially complete” amid furious lobbying against the proposed deal from some leading banks and brokers, who claimed...
...Craig Donohue, CME chief executive, has called the premium offered by the ICE “illusory”, though members also signalled they expected the Merc to at least match the terms offered by the Atlanta-based exchange...
...“We understand where opponents are coming from: it’s the profit motive, not the greater good,” said Charles Carey, the CBOT chairman who would become vice-chairman of the new CME Group....
...CME chairman Terry Duffy will retain the role, with Charlie Carey, his opposite number at the CBOT, becoming vice-chairman. Bernie Dan, the CBOT’s CEO, would stay on as a special advisor....
...However, Mr Dan and Craig Donohue, his opposite number at the CME, recognised that future growth hinged on luring business from an increasingly global customer base, notably from Asia....
...Asked for examples of underappreciated US authors, he cites friend and Australian expat Peter Carey....
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