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...Moran and Bennett invest so much fragility, poignancy and passion in their overlapping monologues, while O’Brien’s subtle writing gives dignity to what could be easily derided as ordinary midlife crises...
...“We are ‘nouveau riche’,” says Fergal O’Brien, director of lobbying and influence at business confederation Ibec....
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...Bennett’s arresting, humane novel is an indictment on race and class in America....
...The leading men were everyman-handsome, not too pretty: Humphrey Bogart, Glenn Ford, Robert Ryan, John Garfield, Edmond O’Brien, Burt Lancaster....
...Then O’Brien appears on the screen, informing us that he is retiring and leaving the Maze in the hands of a good friend. Our maze master bounds in....
...As Maria Island disappeared in the mist, I thought about the copy of an 1849 letter home I’d read in the penitentiary, from Irish political prisoner William Smith O’Brien: “To find a gaol in one of the loveliest...
...There are flickers of other literary dissidents, too, such as Amy Hempel, Lydia Davis, Edna O’Brien and Angela Carter; the last two in particular come to mind in the way Bennett lets raucous digressions...
...For former US army major Chris O’Brien, now a London-based strategy manager at professional services firm KPMG, becoming an effective business leader has meant consulting with colleagues more than he would...
...s internet users and might eventually have shamed the state into relaxing its censorship, maintains Danny O?Brien, activism co-ordinator of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a US pressure group....
...In his book The Phantom Empire, Geoffrey O’Brien explains how, as the film industry developed, Italian and American directors influenced each other to create what became the standard, mythical view of the...
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