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...Steve Cavanagh has cornered the market in British iterations of the John Grisham/Scott Turow-style legal thriller, with razor-sharp dialogue a speciality....
...Consider F Scott Fitzgerald, the great poet of ruined glamour and wasted promise....
...The fabled DeLorean is a delight, disgorging flame and steam like a dragon, appearing to speed around the stage (partly thanks to Finn Ross’s excellent video work) and even — great Scott!...
...“Considering the prevailing rates of the market, if you can get 10 per cent, 13 per cent yields you look like a hero,” says Scott Greiper, president and founder of Viridian Capital Advisors....
...At some point there will be a war of attrition, and I’m not clear how they are going to go about that,” says Scott Kennedy, a senior adviser at CSIS....
...Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s Learning from Las Vegas (1966) and Charles Moore’s You Have to Pay for the Public Life (1965) looked to the casino, the modern vernacular streetscape and Disneyland...
...They sound great and work as one, and at times drummer Jeff Ballard, whose credits include Ray Charles and Brad Mehldau, had to shout to be heard....
...Tech dystopias and utopias have long been staples of science fiction, in such writers as Aldous Huxley, Isaac Asimov and JG Ballard....
...Hiddleston hints at great potential for a much darker side of his own screen persona in Ben Wheatley’s much-anticipated High-Rise, a long-gestating adaptation of JG Ballard’s 1975 novel....
...Walter Scott would have enjoyed this greatly....
...The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (1925) “You know, I haven’t used this pool all summer.”...
...The first in a trilogy whose three parts are all being published this year, VanderMeer’s novel is a psycho-geographical tour de force, channelling Ballard and Lovecraft to instil the reader with a deep,...
...In the introductory note to his story “Always Crashing in the Same Car”, he admits that the work is a collage of other stories, a literary “mashup” of, among others, Italo Calvino, JG Ballard and Julio Cortázar...
...Their answer to Ballard’s hybrid is hepatica x media “Harvington Beauty” from the Vale of Evesham, where it even grows on dry sandy soil....
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