Hints and tips:
...that looked as if their sleeves and low necklines had been pumped with air (something Moschino’s Jeremy Scott also did this season as a camp riff on inflation)....
...“[They] happened to be the most liquid asset that those entities had to liquidate in order to cover their leverage and margin issues,” said Scott Kleinman, co-president of Apollo, on an earnings call....
...She fiddles with a mechanical toy Ferris wheel and, to our surprise, manages to bring it to life. Sort of. (The motor grinds but the wheel does not turn.)...
...The cascade of stupidly shaped skyscrapers, sky-gardens, Ferris wheels, domes, pop-ups and viewing decks seems to betray an insecurity, a sense that the city is not enough....
...Walter Scott would have enjoyed this greatly....
...Everland is a deftly interwoven tale of two Antarctic journeys, a century apart – the first loosely based on Scott’s mission, the second a contemporary field trip....
...… Joshua Ferris Author of ‘To Rise Again at a Decent Hour’ (Viking) My favourite novel of 2014 is Zachary Lazar’s I Pity The Poor Immigrant (Little, Brown)....
...Colourfully and sweetly extolling his work — The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink — with emphasis justifiably on Hughes’s compassion for teenagers....
...Scott Adams, that better known cubicle-hater and creator of the Dilbert comic strip, worked for many years in a big company and once said: “Me, I’ve gnawed an ankle or two.”...
...The winter festival is also a great draw, with people flying in from all over the world for the Christmas market, giant Ferris wheel and open-air ice rink....
...The first Ferris wheel loomed above the “White City” and carried 2,160 people simultaneously on a 20-minute ride for 50 cents, every ride accompanied by a band in one of the cars....
...Wood has since graduated to pink Hunters when she walks Ferris, a Spritz crossbreed: “I go for quality.” ....
...Scott Parsons, deputy assistant Treasury secretary for critical infrastructure, says the most basic lesson learned from September 11 was the need for back-up facilities far enough away from a main site....
...It has been used to crystallise future revenues on projects ranging from the London underground train system to ticket sales on a Singapore ferris wheel....
...At the London Eye, the giant, exquisitely engineered ferris wheel, the queues are starting to lengthen....
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