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...Blockbuster dramas that should have been big hitters, such as Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel, have endured ignominious humiliation....
...Is it the book we wish Jane Austen had written?...
...Stewart is also behind the chintzy bonnets worn by Anya Taylor-Joy and Mia Goth in Autumn de Wilde’s recent buzzy adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma....
...BLADE RUNNER (1982) Sci-fi cinema transformed forever in the furnace of production design, through the painterly pyrotechnic vision of Ridley Scott. RAGING BULL (1980) Scorsese’s corrida of power....
...Jane Austen got it right. She lived in an age before movie reviewing existed; yet she seems miraculously, and precociously, to have got its measure....
...What credit rating agencies want to see from all municipalities is some kind of plan, says Jane Ridley, a senior director in the US public finance team at S&P in New York....
...Calamity Jane may eventually find redemption but nothing else is righted in a system based on power, corruption and lies....
...I asked Jane Ridley, expert biographer of our royals, for an update. Little Victoria was married and sent abroad at the age of 17....
...Biographer Jane Ridley describes him as “the first modern gossip-column prince, keenly spied on by the new society papers …competing for royal scoops”....
...Jane Collins, the party’s candidate, says the controversy, which drew national attention, has fuelled support....
...fir tree), the young Scot who explored Oregon and was gored to death by a bull at the age of 35, to Reginald Farrer, buried on a mountain top beside a crate of whisky and a complete set of the novels of Jane...
...The ardent reforming prelates – Cranmer, Ridley and Latimer – were subjected to show trials before their deaths. All in vain....
...The film gets better as it goes along; in terms of pure giggle-inducing brio, it recalls Amy Heckerling’s Valley Girl comedy Clueless, an update of a classic (Jane Austen’s Emma) that is now a classic in...
...This particular view has been explored in great detail by such writers Jane Jacobs and Peter Hall, and more recently by Richard Florida and Matt Ridley....
...The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, by Matt Ridley, Fourth Estate RRP£20 Ridley saw the financial crisis up close and personal as chairman of the failed mortgage lender Northern Rock, rescued...
...The unpopular Spanish marriage provoked plots and reprisals, including the death of Lady Jane Grey....
...But it is a woman, Jane, the present Duchess of Northumberland, who may go down in history as the most influential member of the region’s current landed gentry....
...Matt Ridley, the former chairman, received compensation of £223,000 last year although he waived £30,000 more that he was entitled to....
.... …………………………… MPs placed a large part of the blame for the Northern Rock crisis with the bank itself, describing its business strategy as “high risk” and “reckless”, Jane Croft reports....
...Mr Ridley’s departure comes as the stricken lender considers at least three takeover proposals....
...Michael Fallon, the Tory MP, asked Mr Ridley: “Why are you still clinging to office?”...
...Line-caught and lying on the slab at east London’s Ridley Road market, it had looked bright-eyed and was half the price of anything else....
...Matt Ridley, who stepped down as chairman of Northern Rock last month, received nothing in compensation when he left....
...Adam Applegarth, chief executive of Northern Rock, and its chairman Matt Ridley will on Tuesday appear in public for the first time in a month to face hostile questioning from an influential Commons committee...
...Mr Lawson said he was given the impression by Mr Ridley that the company was not under immediate pressure from the government to effect a disposal....
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