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...Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Ferris wheel, whose painted designs underscore that amusement parks were historically segregated in the US, makes its gleaming revolutions to the sounds of Miles Davis’s Tutu....
...Gatsby’s rival, alpha male Tom Buchanan, is brought persuasively to life by Joseph Taylor’s manspreading bully: “ . . . a body capable of enormous leverage — a cruel body”....
...Its legacy is embodied in the former Millennium Dome, now the O2 arena, located downriver, and in the silly Ferris wheel that now occupies roughly the same spot....
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...Venturing into the Russian zone, Greene went up on a Ferris wheel in a bombed-out amusement park....
...Quercus dentata Carl Ferris Handsome tree with large leaves which turn attractive shades of warm apricot-brown in autumn before falling. Slow growing for the first few years until it gets away....
...The first port of call for movie buffs has to be the Wiener Riesenrad (wienerriesenrad.com/en), the huge Ferris wheel built in 1897 at the entrance to Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt....
...When the author visited the city’s famous Ferris wheel, he looked down on the local populace, tiny in the distance, and was moved to existential anxiety....
...The 2014 Man Booker Prize longlist in full: Joshua Ferris, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour (Viking) The American author’s comic novel about the midlife crisis, as the FT’s reviewer put it, also “has some...
...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...
...Colourfully and sweetly extolling his work — The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink — with emphasis justifiably on Hughes’s compassion for teenagers....
...‘The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit’ (1955) by Sloan Wilson/ ‘Something Happened’ (1974) by Joseph Heller/ ‘Revolutionary Road’ (1961) by Richard Yates This fine triumvirate of novels sets the high-water...
...Barry Forshaw ——————————————- YOUNG ADULT Spook’s: A New Darkness, by Joseph Delaney, Bodley Head, RRP£12.99 The spook is dead, long live the spook!...
...But most readers will agree with Joseph Stiglitz, who wrote in his FT review: “Martin Wolf has outdone himself....
...Systems (I) Integrated Display Systems Intetech (I) Isca UK Italian Beverage Company J J & D Wilkie James H Heal & Company JCB Backhoe Loader Business Unit JD Hughes Group Jomati Consultants Joseph...
...At Fiac, one of his portraits, “Dr Joseph” (2011), was sold at the opening for €30,000 by the Cluj-based gallery Plan B....
...It combined a stunningly original narrative voice with the blackest of black comedy to do for office life what Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 did for the military....
...The Unnamed, by Joshua Ferris, Viking RRP£12.99 A man walks out on his wife – not because he wants to but because he has an irresistible compulsion to walk....
...The thread of how the office infantalises us and makes us powerless was picked up 30 years later by Joshua Ferris in Then We Came To The End (2007), a study of boredom and disaffection in an advertising...
...Joshua Ferris is more reminiscent of Joseph Heller than Herman Melville, but he also proves our columnist wrong: his debut “workplace” novel was, for me, one of the best books of last year....
...Who forgets, once seen, Orson Welles as Harry Lime peering down from the Ferris wheel at the tiny humans below and asking Joseph Cotten: “Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving...
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