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...And that’s what this might be,” says Richard Sylla, emeritus professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business....
...The FT’s Richard Waters lays out the carmaker’s bumpy road ahead on Behind the Money....
...Yet as a composer, he was less feted, somewhat in the shadow of his friend Richard Strauss....
...richard.waters@ft.com...
...He has been described by his biographer, Ashlee Vance, as a “sci-fi version of P T Barnum”....
...He catches the heavy dose of PT Barnum in the showmanship, and he identifies Musk’s somewhat overzealous rendition of his own life story....
...Under the direction of Richard Maltby Jr, and with a black-and-white image of a music hall as a backdrop, Dale spends the first half of this 100-minute, interval-free evening on his feet....
...It is matched only by his P T Barnum-like ability to generate excitement – generally through silly stunts – around the businesses he backs....
...large, square, bare stage of the type that would normally host a live band, while the seating is a mixture of a central floor with cushions and a semi-circular rake that lines the edge of the tent – more Barnum...
...A remarkable little show at the British Museum (the latest in a run of brilliant exhibitions, by the way, that have the “whiff of PT Barnum combined with the most ferocious scholarship”, as Nicholas Hytner...
...There was a hint of Aneurin Bevan in the anti-Tory rhetoric but there were also undertones of Harry Truman (“Give-em-hell Harry”), Richard Nixon, Phineas T....
...Chairman Mao gave America pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing in 1972 as an act of goodwill following the visit of Richard Nixon....
...The morning after China inebriated us with spectacle in the Olympics finale – courtesy of moviemaker-turned-Beijing-Barnum Zhang Yimou – we woke to reality with a splitting headache, writes Nigel Andrews...
...The first tetralogy to be written, the Henry VI plays and Richard III, show “an angry, passionate theatre-maker who is anxious to bring a lot of politics and Barnum & Bailey to the stage, in quite a Brechtian...
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