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...The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut (Pushkin Press/Penguin Press) This “work of fiction based on fact” is a stunning portrayal of Johnny von Neumann, the Hungarian-born mathematical genius who helped invent...
...Meanwhile, founder Johnny Boufarhat sold $195mn worth of his own shares, according to a Financial Times analysis....
...It has become a regular haunt: I was told he dined here in early December while Read, Roland Rudd and Johnny Hornby — three WPP stars — all sat at separate tables around him. No words were exchanged....
...The more the Anglo-Scottish border seems to signify something beyond Walter Scott, the more natural a push for independence appears, writes Alec Russell, FT Weekend editor....
...Wooden galleons are replaced by plastic; Long John Silver gets the Marvel treatment; and Robert Newton’s West Country burr gives way to the Keith Richards-inspired drawl of Johnny Depp....
...Dressed in black and singing about infidelity, the couple call to mind Johnny Cash and June Carter in their heyday. The only drawback here is that Springsteen relies on an autocue....
...But after the abrupt exit of Sir Martin following an allegation of personal misconduct and a board investigation, responsibility for WPP — which also owns Kantar Media, J Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather...
...Little Walter’s “Hate to See You Go” is adorned by a grotesque collection of howls and moans: a gleefully theatrical version of the blues guaranteed not to make you feel blue....
...His new business took off, with 100,000 applicants by the end of the year, and Tarr was interviewed on Johnny Carson’s talk show, where he declared, “A computer can find the right date for a person in a...
...Vaughan’s model was his lover, petty criminal Johnny Walsh, photographed naked, “lithe, beautiful . . . tormenting”, as Vaughan noted in his journal....
...The devastation in Portoviejo is so complete that Johnny Quijano does not know how Ecuador will recover....
...obtained by the late Lord Altamont to invest in the property was acquired by Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency in 2010, and has now forced Westport to be put up for sale, priced at €10m through Ganly Walters...
...Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis recorded here, among others....
...“I’m Old Fashioned” sang Fred Astaire in his indelible 1942 recording of a song by Jerome Kern and Johnny Mercer. A Gentleman’s Guide To Love & Murder, the new musical by Robert L....
...“There you go again” helped Reagan, but although Walter Mondale got off some beauties against Reagan four years later, his candidacy was already toast....
...The present generation includes Victoria Wood, Steve Coogan, Johnny Vegas, Caroline Aherne (London-born but raised in Wythenshawe) and Peter Kay. Whence comes this strain? Sykes had his own view....
...Anno Dracula – Johnny Alucard , by Kim Newman, Titan Books, RRP£12.99/$24.99 Newman’s fourth Anno Dracula book is a bracing, witty, allusive vampire tale revelling in the predatory decadence of 1970s New...
...As Walter Cronkite would have signed off his CBS newscast, “that’s the way it is in 2012”. onohana@aol.com...
...At secondary school his English teacher was the trumpeter Ian Carr (who later formed the band Nucleus) and he was taught art by Johnny Walters, another trumpet player....
...I chose Johnny Rotten,” he boasted. He visualised the Sex Pistols as a missile aimed at the heart of the music industry....
...On the other hand, Nolte’s character Walter Smith is alone, sad and fixated on a racehorse that looks like it has champion potential....
...North African pirates were known as corsairs, the Arab equivalent of the privateers that European nations hired to attack enemy shipping, as with Sir Walter Raleigh’s expeditions to the Americas....
...“Hack, I served with Johnny Apple. I knew Johnny Apple. Johnny Apple was a friend of mine. Hack, you’re no Johnny Apple.”...
...Walter Mondale was, and is, a genuinely likeable man but in 1984 he was up against a popular incumbent president in Ronald Reagan who had taken out a patent on geniality in his victory over Jimmy Carter...
...Meanwhile, the Berkeley-based designer Tom Leader’s “Break Out”, which invited visitors to wander through a maze of hay bales interlaced with creaky screen doors while listening to Johnny Cash’s “Ring of...
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