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...“Good career move,” said Gore Vidal on the death of Truman Capote; but in truth, most writers when they die slip all too easily from public notice....
...Both Vidal and Buckley, respectively representing the liberal and conservative factions of America, went for the jugular....
...The justices’ decision, in the case of Thaler vs Vidal, leaves in place two lower court rulings that only “natural persons” can be awarded patents....
...His delicious jeu d’esprit Nat Tate: An American Artist, published in 1998, purported to be the biography of a lost painter, and came with praise from David Bowie and Gore Vidal, who were in on the joke....
...This association did not exist a decade ago, yet it is quite clear today,” says Xavier Romero-Vidal, one of the report’s authors....
...David Bowie completes the set, and we enjoy our first John Collins on the terrace with the sun setting across the Tyrrhenian Sea....
...More on this topic Global public opinion is divided on Russia and China — Xavier Romero-Vidal, David Evans and Roberto Foa, in a report for the UK in a Changing Europe research group, set out how public...
...I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke is published by Picador at £9.99...
...One sizzling recent example was James Graham’s Best of Enemies at London’s Young Vic, which dramatised genuine debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr....
...“The effect on the president’s image is irreversible,” said Thiago Vidal, a political analyst at the consultancy Prospectiva....
...Kind as he was (a wry Isaiah Berlin, it is said, likened him to Christ), John Rawls would have deplored the cop-out....
...John Kavulich, president of the US-Cuba Trade and Economic Council, said that if Havana successfully pushed through exchange rate liberalisation and expanded the private sector, this would create incentives...
...“They are going with a ‘big bang’ exchange rate adjustment, although they will try to regulate the impacts with administrative measures and repressing inflation,” said Pavel Vidal, a former Cuban central...
...“To paraphrase Gore Vidal, in [the advertising] business it is not enough to succeed but for others to fail,” he said....
...Watch as the future US president engages in some football, or soccer, banter with British players-turned-presenters Ian Saint John and Jimmy Greaves....
...But Mr Macri may have a back-up plan for that occasion too: late next year, he could stand aside and let Maria Eugenia Vidal, the popular governor of Buenos Aires province, run for president instead....
...It could be voiced with the John Osborne howl of rage, but equally it could be sly and cool as in Beyond the Fringe. Either way, not statuesque....
...The discussion about race, as the African-American academic John McWhorter pointed out in a recent issue of Atlantic magazine, has taken on a quasi-religious tone....
...Worryingly, a draft of new private sector regulations circulating on the island “suggests a focus primarily on more control and penalisation”, notes Mr Vidal, the economist. Cuba is alone....
...For example, Olivier Vidal of the University Grenoble Alpes estimates that to build the infrastructure for clean energy the amount of copper needed amounts to almost half the total mined since 1900....
...It’s where both John Belushi and Helmut Newton died. “The Chateau captures almost any moment in time going back to 1927,” says Balazs. “It has its own culture.”...
...As the essayist Gore Vidal apparently put it: “Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.”...
...Last week, Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, the top Cuban official for US affairs, said that Havana had played no role in the sonic attacks, and said the US staff withdrawal and accompanying travel warning would...
...But Ms Vidal did not sound like she believed her words....
...Furthermore, Ronnie Sassoon (Vidal’s wife) used to pop in twice a week for a blow-dry whenever she was in town....
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