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...Based on social satirist Tom Wolfe’s 1998 novel, it condenses 750 pages into an eminently watchable but uneven six-part Netflix series....
...By the time this column appears, I hope to be the new owner of an Edward Wolfe drawing of an Omega Workshops screen, which surfaced in a Rogers Jones & Co sale of the contents of Machen House in Wales....
...Scott Group, an analyst at Wolfe Research, said the chances of a full-blown strike “remain low” because “Congress would very likely intervene”, but some economic impact was unavoidable....
...At times it’s like reading Tom Wolfe given the fixation on objects and money....
...And, giving the elephant (and her operators, Zoe Halliday, Wela Mbusi and Suzanne Nixon) a run for her money as the human star of the show is Jack Wolfe’s excellent Peter....
...In their book Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose, first published in 2003, Raj Sisodia, Jag Sheth and David Wolfe describe a group of 72 listed and private companies...
...As part of their investigation, US authorities in 2018 indicted two former Goldman Sachs bankers, Tim Leissner and Roger Ng, accusing them of working with Mr Low to siphon billions of dollars from a fund...
...It became known for political journalism as well as coverage of music and cultivated writers including Hunter S Thompson, Tom Wolfe and Joe Klein....
...“Help, we are trapped in a dystopian nightmare,” cried a slogan projected on the background screen during Roger Waters’ show, the first in the BST Hyde Park series of vast outdoor concerts....
...David Lewisohn and Margaret Wolfe London NW5, UK...
...A group of free market economists, including Patrick Minford and Roger Bootle, have issued a report arguing that a “hard” Brexit would benefit the UK economy and turn the country into a “driver of global...
...Miller also set the pattern for an annual visitation by glamorous literary names such as John Updike and Tom Wolfe....
...Why British author Roger Hargreaves lived here in the 1970s and 1980s when he wrote his Mr Men and Little Miss children’s books....
..., Leicester, UK Now turn your attention closer to home, FT / From Prof Roger Levy, London School of Economics, UK Expose the powerful men who exploit their position / From Angela Boyle, Cambridge, UK...
...When Roger Federer and Zlatan Ibrahimović retire, no sportsperson of the very highest class will be older than me. The sting of mortality I feel that day will pass....
.../ From Roger Clark...
...There are early reminders of Sherman McCoy in the air; indeed, Tom Wolfe’s phrase, “haemorrhaging money”, makes an appearance....
...One of his finest long essays is a meditation on the beauty and brilliance of Roger Federer....
...Tom Wolfe, John Updike, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Franzen – all have been Kakutanied. Yet none of them would even recognise her in the street....
...Rose Gray and Lady Rogers, the co-founders of the River Café, both become MBEs, as does designer Cath Kidston....
...Paramjit Bassi, chairman, Bond Wolfe, private investment company. William Baxter, deputy chief executive, BaxterStorey, catering services company. Sarah Connolly, opera singer....
...“I was sued in a big way by Richard Rogers. Lord Asshole.” Brand had been sceptical about the amount of maintenance required by Rogers’ designs....
...Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities takes apart the relationship between Wall Street and New York society....
...Cartoonists and illustrators have often made war on the avant-garde (Evelyn Waugh began as an illustrator and Tom Wolfe, another seasoned smiter of the New, used to publish caricatural illustrations of his...
...Mr Kravis, a dealmaker worth an estimated $2.5bn (£1.3bn, €2bn) whose sprawling New York home was parodied in Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities , had offered to travel to the sleepy reaches of Harrisburg...
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