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...But in Austrian provocateur Thomas Bernhard’s 1975 play The President, which is being staged in English at Dublin’s Gate Theatre, the dictator and first lady of a small, unnamed country seem to be talking...
...Yet he tempered idealism with aestheticism; his photo of the barefooted farmer Floyd Burroughs and his daughter Lucille makes them look like Nordic deities disguised in tattered clothing and slumming in...
...One special newsletter event to start: Join the DD’s Arash Massoudi for a lunch discussion with Bryan Burrough, author of Barbarians at the Gate, at the FT’s new headquarters on June 18....
...City Lights became synonymous with the hell-raising iconoclasts of the Beat Generation including Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs, whose bright flames and catastrophic burnouts have fascinated...
...Jonathan, the “snobbish, repressed homosexual spy”, finds in Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas “a faggot who’s never been ignited”....
...After the stake was revealed in 2011, the then Hermès chief executive Patrick Thomas expressed in no uncertain terms how he felt about Arnault’s presence in his shareholder base: “If you want to seduce a...
...After making his debut with the first feature-length portrait of Beat writer William Burroughs, Howard Brookner made only one more documentary and one musical — the Damon Runyon compendium Bloodhounds of...
...He writes about reading Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet as a student, and exchanging airmail correspondence with William Burroughs in Tangiers....
...… William S Burroughs: A Life, by Barry Miles, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£30 This scholarly biography of Burroughs by his friend argues that the writer was driven by his wife’s death....
...Dylan Thomas is alleged to have downed 18 glasses of whisky in his room before falling into a coma and dying in a nearby hospital....
...Books manufactured by the company include best-selling titles in the Thomas and Friends series, based on the character of Thomas the Tank Engine created by Wilbert Awdry, and others by the US children’s...
...Jordan Burroughs became the US’s first Olympic wrestling champion of London 2012. Burroughs defeated Iran’s Sadegh Goudarzi in the 74kg freestyle event....
...Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles was condemned in its day as “immoral”. Today, vindicated and invincible, the story returns to the movie screen....
...Cynthia Carroll of Anglo American, the miner, picked On Competition, a collection of the Harvard Business School academic Michael Porter’s landmark ideas on the competitiveness of companies and countries; Thomas...
...In 1901 Wellcome married Syrie Barnardo, the daughter of Thomas Barnardo, who founded the children’s charity. Within a decade the marriage had imploded....
...In May this year Sir Thomas Ingilby, whose family has occupied Ripley Castle, near Harrogate in Yorkshire, for seven centuries, decided to restart Stately Home Hotline, a web-based community that allows...
...The concept has been explored before by Norwich Union, according to Billy Burroughs, head of William Burroughs Annuities....
...Past winners of the FT/Goldman Sachs award were Thomas Friedman for The World is Flat in 2005 and James Kynge, whose China Shakes the World won in 2006....
...It was joined by Barbarians at the Gate, by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, still, more than 15 years since its publication, the benchmark for business story-telling....
...Samuel Palmisano of IBM, while admitting that “I don’t have as much time to read as I used to”, paid tribute to a former Big Blue boss, Thomas Watson Jr, who wrote Business and Its Beliefs....
...Jeff Immelt, chairman and chief executive, General Electric • Barbarians at the Gate, by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar....
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