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...Raymond Chandler was famous for his similes, which read like funny throwaway lines in books such as The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. Well: they weren’t....
...The Harry Potter books becoming collectables in the Noughties merely made the already-growing market go more mainstream, he says....
...This month also saw the announcement of the closure of another UK landmark, Arthur Beale, a yacht chandler in Covent Garden that sold rope to Tenzing Norgay to conquer Everest, and an ice axe to Ernest Shackleton...
...Through Cameo, celebrities have become a curiously postmodern unit of communication between people they’ve never met: one man even proposed to his girlfriend using a video from Matthew Perry, aka Chandler...
...“The flare-up of the virus means more stimulus, lower interest rates for longer and therefore less demand for the dollar,” said Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex....
...His collaboration with Raymond Chandler on Double Indemnity was infamously stormy and Diamond’s wife claimed the quarrelling couples of their films, which included The Apartment and Some Like It Hot, were...
...“Playing with GPT-3 feels like seeing the future,” tweeted Arram Sabeti, a tech entrepreneur who used the software to write a Raymond Chandler-style screenplay about Harry Potter....
...The characters, mostly dressed in shapeless tracksuits and football shirts, shed the aura of transgressive charisma they have in the film (which came after this adaptation by Harry Gibson was first staged...
...— letter from Philip Chandler in London, UK “Sir, £3bn Brexit contingency; £300,000 stamp duty waiver for first-time buyers; 300,000 new homes to be built; £300m for High Speed 2 infrastructure, to name...
...The most famous example of a shock US election result remains Harry Truman’s 1948 win over Thomas Dewey, memorialised in a photo of Mr Truman holding a newspaper whose headline erroneously gave the victory...
...Chandler, in turn, was friendly with James Bond creator Ian Fleming....
...harry.eyres@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/eyres ——————————————- Letter in response to this article: Harry’s home was no Totleigh Towers / From Mr Christopher Bellew...
...Growing in the same neighbourhoods as Debbie Harry and Richard Hell was the hip-hop movement, the hegemon of today’s popular culture....
...harry.eyres@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/eyres...
...By comparison, Sir Harry is a humanitarian crusader. The latter’s universe is the half-dozen staff who save the country from danger, disaster or extinction....
...Chandler, a US entrepreneur and then publisher of the Los Angeles Times, brought in thousands of Chinese coolies to construct an irrigation system for agricultural development....
...Harry Kroto won the Nobel Prize in 1996. He did his research at Sussex University’s chemistry labs. Where is he now? At Florida State University. Is Sir Harold “American” or “British”?...
...Chandler, the judge overseeing a trial that started on October 20 and was due to last four weeks, said: "I'm not going to stop you." Top intelligence Has Rummy finally come around?...
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