Hints and tips:
...According to writer Virginia Faulkner and diplomat Jerry Wadsworth, questions guaranteed to liven conversation include, “Are you a bed wetter?” and, “Do you like string?” Try them some time....
...Patchett charts Lara’s brief adventure on the screen and stage, and her turbulent relationship with the charismatic actor Peter Duke, who went on to capture the hearts of the nation....
...Wales David Wafer Managing Director, McIvor Scott Recruitment Stephen Cowperthwaite Principal and Managing Director, Liverpool, Avison Young William Fletcher Chief Executive, Recycling Lives Paul Faulkner...
...“ICE would love this to be a giant contract,” says Campbell Faulkner, chief data analyst at OTC Global Holdings, a Houston-based energy broker....
...Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, William Faulkner, Octavia Butler . . . What does it mean to be a writer?...
...Halfway through, the author quotes his friend Peter Carey, who compares writing to “wading in the flooded basement of my mind”....
...Specialist Dutch nurseries recommend Buxus microphylla, especially one called Faulkner, much safer than old sempervirens. Neither is as neat and low as you may wish. Meanwhile, try an alternative....
...Peter Attard Montalto, senior economist at Nomura International, said last week that South Africa was on an “almost inevitable” path to junk status without a big enough crisis to jolt it into gear, owing...
...HSBC’s David Faulkner: The new minister, David van Rooyen, is not well known. The move is a significant surprise....
...He was echoing writer William Faulkner, who once described his own successful novel The Sound and the Fury as a “splendid failure”....
...Though the school was not then producing actors of the calibre of Dominic West, Damian Lewis or Eddie Redmayne, there were hugely ambitious school plays (Peter Shaffer’s The Royal Hunt of the Sun, King Lear...
...Here’s an example with a note from David Faulkner, South Africa economist at HSBC: “We continue to forecast unchanged rates for the next 12 months....
...Peter Sallick, chief executive of high-end US bathroom company Waterworks, which opens its first UK showroom in west London this year, has included a number of brass taps in the store’s range....
...Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said Mr Mo offered an “inside” view of Chinese society and described him as “a mixture between Faulkner, Rabelais and Dickens”....
...Peter Rolls of the interior design consultancy The Design House Winchester has seen an increased interest in Morris wallpapers in the past 10 years....
...Policing was the issue that brought down the old unionist-dominated Stormont parliament in 1972 – when the Northern Ireland government of Brian Faulkner refused to cede law-and-order powers to London in...
...Peter Hennessy, a constitutional expert, told the BBC the new rules “created a very poor impression for the new politics”....
...Born Peter Finlay, Pierre adopted and adapted the name of a cartoon character....
...Mr Fitzgibbon delivered his resignation letter to Mr Rudd soon after he was visited by the prime minister’s chief of staff and Senator John Faulkner....
...I may be put off by childhood memories of being dragged by my nanny through Peter Jones to buy my school uniform....
...“Peter made it look easy.”...
...In the US, about 85 per cent of collateral is cash, says Mr Faulkner....
...The late Sir Peter Russell, a professor of Spanish studies at Oxford who in the 1930s had spied for the British during the Spanish Civil War, is the model for Your Face Tomorrow’s Sir Peter Wheeler, the...
...His Illegal Self By Peter Carey Faber £16.99, 300 pages FT bookshop price: £13.59 Peter Carey has an exuberant writing style and a dazzling imagination but he is, in a sense, a single-issue author....
...peter.aspden@ft.com...
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