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...Dick Wolf has, in effect, been making the same two shows for decades with his Law & Order and Chicago franchises; ditto David E Kelley (Boston Legal, Ally McBeal, Big Little Lies) with his love of glossy...
...Along with voles, whales are another recurring motif in the series, not least when Amandine gives Jamie a copy of her favourite book, Moby-Dick, early in their courtship....
...Readers should know that I have witnessed Dick’s work since the mid-90s and have a high regard for her. In the current climate, not even the Archangel Gabriel would escape criticism....
...Commissioner Dick has launched a “wholesale review of culture and standards” at the force in light of the Everard case....
...It is eclectic, running from EL James’s Fifty Shades of Grey to JK Rowling’s first non-Harry Potter novel, The Casual Vacancy , uniting Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch , Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and Gabriel...
...“The industry owes Bill Gross a giant debt of gratitude, pun intended,” said Gabriel Altbach, founder of consultancy Asset Management Insights....
...To this breed, I say, learn from Gabriel Garciá Márquez, who sullied his hands young and often, devouring Dick Tracy and The Arabian Nights with equal devotion but remaining a sceptic about the long perorations...
...Dick’s influence on wider popular culture is extensive. Gary Numan’s Dick-inspired 1979 song “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?”...
...In April, Wanda chairman Wang Jianlin admitted that stricter regulatory scrutiny of outbound investments had scuppered his group’s planned acquisition of Dick Clark Productions....
...Known for his high-flying lifestyle and audacious takeover bids, Mr Wu was detained by authorities earlier this month, write Gabriel Wildau and Henny Sender....
...Jack Dorsey, the Twitter co-founder and chairman who took over as its interim chief executive after last month’s departure of Dick Costolo, said a sharper focus was needed both in product development and...
...The most recent high profile departure was that of Gabriel Stricker, Twitter’s head of communications, who left less than two weeks ago....
...stake in Twitter to 5 per cent, in a vote of confidence that Dorsey can do two jobs; Dorsey appoints Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s General Counsel, to lead the communications team permanently, after former chief Gabriel...
...Dick Costolo, Twitter’s chief executive, has transformed the San Francisco-based company’s management in recent months with one goal: to get 1bn people tweeting....
...Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of Spur, a San Francisco-based urban policy think-tank, also highlighted the problem of the city’s restrictive planning system....
...I’m also rereading Moby-Dick and Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy (1964), planning a reread of [Alexis] de Tocqueville, short stories by [Julio] Cortázar . . . Do you read on paper or ebook?...
...Additional reporting by Gabriel Muller...
...… 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....
...He co-created the Booker Prize and is discoverer and publisher of many great authors, including Gabriel García Márquez, Joseph Heller and Bruce Chatwin....
...He left London – “Dick Whittington and all that,” he shrugs – and moved back to Dorset. Back in the South West, he and Beer started with rough pub gigs....
...The Spanish-language writer to whom he has most often been likened is Colombian Gabriel García Márquez....
...All names were invented at one time or another and if I have to admit it, few are sillier than Richard, which is German for hard ruler (to say nothing of its diminutive, Dick)....
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