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...Like the young male protagonists of Cameron Crowe’s autobiographical Almost Famous, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, I too turned 15 in 1973....
...a dozen albums and won a Grammy, consulted tech companies, received multiple “honorary doctorate” degrees, helped to create an Olympic opening ceremony and turned Moby-Dick into a techno-opera....
...fellow Letters in response to this article: Cambridge dons and their code of conduct / From Manus Charleton, Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland Recalling a judge’s advice on right to cause offence / From Dick...
...The rock autobiography might be at its zenith right now, with enough of music’s golden generation still alive to churn them out (the biggest prize of all, the Moby-Dick of rock memoirs, is Mick Jagger, but...
...Ms Anderson will make a fascinating and nuanced Thatcher....
...The dedication of UK fans inspired British DJ Phil Dick to organise a new yearly event in Detroit, starting last October....
...When Edward James Olmos’s cop Gaf approaches Deckard at the noodle stand he speaks a few words of bad Hungarian, including a juicy rendering of the phrase “horse-dick”....
...Cressida Dick, the Met Police commissioner, said the force needed to make “rapid progress” in implementing the report’s recommendations, while Ian Hopkins, Greater Manchester’s chief constable, said the...
...I think of Laurie Anderson, Patti Smith and Grace Jones. Some big weirdos. There are plenty of women who have come before and said it’s permissible to be yourself....
...I took it, Dick Tracy-style, in sight of a homeless man. He looked at me with a loathing that could pierce armour and I realised how idiotic I looked....
...Their idea of marrying well is a Jihadi Tom, Dick or Mohammed. It gives them a sense of purpose....
...At DKNY, Yadim added mascara only to the tips of the lashes, explaining “It’s about adding definition, nothing more,” while Dick Page at Zero + Maria Cornejo left it off altogether....
...Dick’s Sporting Goods shares slumped 18 per cent to $43.60 after the retailer warned profits for the full year would be lower than forecast, weighing on the sporting goods sector....
...… I later read that Dick Price, the co-founder of Esalen, had died when a boulder fell on him in 1985. While meditating. But that seemed a little suspect....
...When we encounter androids in the work of novelists such as Philip K Dick or Isaac Asimov, they are often tragic figures who demand an extension of sympathy: above all else they long to be human, which they...
...“Attempting to put procurement in the hands of the private sector in this manner is without precedent in advanced defence markets,” said Guy Anderson, senior principal defence industry analyst at IHS Jane...
...… We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer’s, by Dick Swaab, Allen Lane, RRP£20/ Spiegel & Grau, RRP$28 An extraordinarily broad sweep through the past and present of neuroscience....
...Guy Anderson, an analyst at IHS Jane’s, estimates that defence markets open to western companies will grow just $21bn to $427bn by 2016....
...Among BAE suggestions could be Paul Anderson, a current independent non-executive who hails from the US, one person said. EADS and BAE declined to comment....
...Ian King and Dick Olver, respectively BAE’s chief executive and its chairman, have also been tarnished because of their inability to persuade even BAE’s most loyal shareholders of the wisdom of the deal....
...Instead, Dick and Pat are lowered in on airline seats from the flies like gods descending from the heavens in a Baroque opera....
...to help straighten out the company, and then as Michael got more involved, Cubby started to rely on him in terms of his technical and scientific background, coming up with ideas, and then working with Dick...
...BAE Systems chairman Dick Olver has appointed Premier Farnell chief Harriet Green to the defence group’s board, which saw the departure of director Andy Inglis of BP in the summer....
...Dick Olver, chairman since 2004, has made wide-ranging changes to the company and its personnel....
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