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...John Vaillant was on a writers’ retreat in Italy in May 2016 when his Twitter feed lit up with dramatic news from his home country, Canada....
...“The streets of the poor quarters of great cities are, above all, a theater and a battleground,” reads the opening text, presumably written by Agee....
...Walker Evans caught James Agee in 1937 looking like he just fell out of bed, hair tousled and eyes magically alight through a sleepy squint....
...At the Arkansas literary festival he slips incognito into a talk given by congressman John Lewis, almost an exact contemporary, plugging his own book....
...Here in 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans produced Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a portrait of white sharecroppers written in Agee’s almost Biblical prose accompanied by Evans’s black and white photographs...
...HP on Wednesday promoted Mike Nefkens as acting head of the division to replace John Visentin, who has left the company....
...The broker welcomed the disposal plans outlined last week by new chairman John McFarlane....
...Outside of fashion, famous couples who met at work include Microsoft’s Bill Gates and former product manager Melinda French and Citigroup chairman John Reed and Cindy McCarthy, then a Citigroup corporate...
...Shaw Wu, analyst at Sterne Agee, said: “They are doing quite well already from a profitability standpoint....
...“Eighteen months ago the aerospace business was widely thought to be for sale and the company was working through bankruptcy” said Henry Coffey with Stern Agee....
...“What we got was a good quarter – and a good quarter in today’s market is not strong enough to draw in new investors,” said Henry Coffey, an analyst with Sterne Agee....
...“CIT is benefiting from improving liquidity and credit quality,” said Henry Coffey, an analyst at Sterne Agee....
...An actor directing; a famous film critic (James Agee) scripting; a notorious hellraiser (Robert Mitchum) spellbinding in the lead role....
...In a research note entitled “Poor quarter and even worse conference call”, John Nadel, an analyst at Stern Agee, said that a reversal in Hartford’s fortunes would be somewhat dependent on the conditions...
...And John Singer Sargent’s impressionist landscapes with figures such as “Val d’Aosta: A Man Fishing” are accomplished plays of light on water, but unremarkable versus his daring fin-de-siècle portraits....
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