Hints and tips:
...James Cleverly announced he plans to review the graduate route, as part of a package to bring down net migration. His predecessor has repeated calls to scrap it....
...The Innocents (1961) was a skilful Henry James adaptation. The Great Gatsby (1974) was re-scripted by Francis Ford Coppola after Paramount deemed Capote’s version unusable....
...Sadly, Isherwood’s plan is wholly impractical now that LA is the world’s most gridlocked urban area....
...Here are Dylan Thomas’s last days in New York, when it seems always “the dead, anguished middle of a drunken night”; Truman Capote’s “unique crocodilian celebrity”; WH Auden, Isherwood, Henry James, Nabokov...
...That was how Isherwood accused Maupin of envisaging him....
...But while recuperating in England, he wrote comic poems that even his childhood friend, Christopher Isherwood, described as “heartless”....
...“They [the Conservatives] don’t get it,” said James Frith, Labour’s candidate in Bury North. “They’re campaigning as if the economy’s booming, and it’s not.”...
...For the US, consumer food prices are likely to be offset by cheaper petrol and natural gas, as Phil Isherwood at Absolute Strategy Research points out....
...The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst; Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov; Nothing by Henry Green; Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet; Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust; A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood...
...Furthermore, as Philip Isherwood at Evolution points out, the biggest May-September falls were often in recessions. There is no sign of the US heading towards recession....
...I’d like to get a copy of James Holland’s Dam Busters, which looks interesting. And finally, I’m tempted to have a look at EL James’s Fifty Shades of Grey. What can all the fuss be about?...
...The effect, Phil Isherwood at Evolution Securities points out, should be to hand over the baton for growth from expanding margins – which are close to their pre-crisis levels – to increasing revenues....
...Snippets from obvious candidates such as Christopher Isherwood, Karl Baedeker or Eva Figes conjure Weimar’s liberal creativity and Nazi tyranny; John le Carré and Philip Hensher evoke cold war paranoia....
...“More domestically orientated companies are going to struggle,” says Philip Isherwood at Evolution Securities....
..., by James Shapiro, Faber RRP£20 For centuries, the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays has been disputed....
...But the hero “James Ballard” in JG Ballard’s Crash is nothing like JG Ballard....
...“We take a cautious view given earnings dilution and the high price paid, though note potential synergies,” said James Britton at Lehman Brothers, who kept an “overweight” rating on the stock....
...Mudlark’s mind wandered at lunchtime on Wednesday to that opening line from a research note published this week by James Montier, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein’s global equity analyst....
...Philip Isherwood, global strategist at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein said there were indications that equity investors were changing tack....
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