Hints and tips:
...Was the world crying out for a bawdy comedy set in a Swiss alpine hotel starring Mickey Rourke, John Cleese and Fanny Ardant? No? but it’s directed by Roman Polanski....
...Poor lamb, he used to ring me and ask me, ‘Did you see me on TV?’ And I said, ‘No, Serge, I didn’t.’”...
...It’s been regarded as irredeemably naff ever since our parents’ generation decided it was a poor man’s substitute for mayonnaise....
...When ordinary people appear, as in the gypsy mugging of Harriet in Emma or Fanny Price’s return to her poor Portsmouth family in Mansfield Park, their intrusion into Austen’s refined world is shocking....
...Yeats once summarised Keats (whom he greatly admired) as “poor, ailing and ignorant”. Miller follows Roe in reminding us just how wrong Yeats was....
...But the story of the Radletts, as told by their “poor” (it’s all relative) cousin Fanny, never fails to soothe: something about Uncle Matthew and the entrenching tool, the glamorous and unreliable Bolter...
...When the gap between Portuguese and German bond yields climbed to its highest level for 12 months during February, Fanny Jacquemont decided it was time to buy....
...The novel’s action is divided between the spacious Northamptonshire estate of Mansfield Park, home of the Bertrams, and the cramped Portsmouth lodgings of their poor relations, the Prices....
...It was also in Leeds that I met the legendary Dame Fanny Waterman who founded the world-class Leeds International Piano Competition, with which I became happily involved....
...One sunny afternoon I had drinks with Muller, Guyonnet and a disabled woman named Fanny Esnault on the terrace of the ugly local brasserie, and they began talking about homelessness....
...says Marcus, who is married to architect Fanny Sachs and lives in the family villa Täcka Udden on the Stockholm island of Djurgården....
...A handful of these, such as the Montpelier Plantation – where Horatio Nelson met and then married Fanny Nisbet in 1787 – have been restored and converted into boutique hotels....
...People from the former Soviet Union present a particular problem, says Fanny Voitzwinkler at Global Health Advocates in Brussels....
...… Jane, the Fox and Me, by Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, Walker Books, RRP£15 Hélène is a lonely, bullied schoolgirl who draws consolation from Jane Eyre....
...Today’s poor youth are trying to navigate a system that is unfair and disempowering. The lesson many take away is to trust no one....
...As the “cockney” son of a Moorfields livery stables manager, Keats knew how the poor could serve as fodder for scalpels....
...Clough would surely be turning in his grave, and as time passed I could hardly bear to look at the sprawling marquees and pavilions that, week by week, threatened to transform poor Portmeirion into another...
...The rivalry between Coralie and Florine is a clever re-enactment of the romantic opposition between airy Marie Taglioni, the first Sylph, and her more earthy counterpart Fanny Elssler....
...The “poor prisoner” was John Keats, the most romantic of the romantic poets, writing to his sweetheart Fanny Brawne in 1820, a few months before his death from tuberculosis....
...At the head of the team sat Fanny Vlamynck, Hergé’s widow....
...(For example, would the real Fanny have been quite as clever as the film version?)...
...CF: The Fannies and the Freddies? LF: No, I’m talking about the private institutions, I’m not talking about Freddie and Fanny, they had 50 to one leverage; but that’s another issue....
...In poor districts, whole families of supersized individuals waddle in and out of fast food joints....
...And they observe that he was a great champion of the poor, the homeless and the wretched....
...At the centre of Democratic economic policy are plans to provide $25bn in loans to Detroit automakers and $50bn in transfer payments to the poor....
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