Hints and tips:
...Every day at the same time, a warden opens these gates that separate two communities from each other. It's called a peace wall....
...The steps belong to Bernadine Williams, a brisk, neat, self-possessed woman — the warden. “One of the bad guys,” she says, anticipating another character’s judgment of her....
...“I do remember you, because you’re the guy who pierced my ear in Walberswick in Suffolk, in the summer of 1978.”...
...“Big guy,” said Justice Mutshinya, the senior camp manager, who was showing us around. “He was parked there for three days.” What happened if guests dropped their wallet, I wondered? “It’s a headache....
...At Google, I worked with a guy named Jonathan who ran the product team....
...Clapham John Lanchester’s hefty 2012 novel Capital follows the intersecting lives of a wide cast of people, from bankers and footballers to parking wardens and pensioners, living and working on a fictional...
...Anoushka Warden’s monologue My Mum’s a Twat is probably very good (it was received as such when it premiered at the Royal Court in January) but was obliterated by the festival organisers’ decision to put...
...But we’re about as popular in the City as one of our parking wardens — and even they’re virtual nowadays. Our market cap’s down from £6.9bn highs in 2014 to £1.3bn now....
...He describes how wardens woke him up every 15 minutes at night to check if he was alive....
...Then, on the morning of September 25, Angola’s warden told Hawthorne that the papers had been issued for his release....
...(Because that’s the sort of problem-solving guy he is.)...
...“The hooter would go and the guys would come charging out of the gate,” he said, remembering the factory across from his old school and the smell of a bus packed with working men....
...A church warden, John Lumley, tells me the Sunday congregation is down to 20 or so. There are no other visitors to disturb us, but it is a place where one speaks quietly....
...John Vickers, warden, All Souls College, Oxford Significantly, but don’t ask me how....
...Other experimental builds at Dungeness include Pobble House, a steel mesh structure by Guy Hollaway, and the tar-coated Shingle House by Nord architects....
...The lanky 35-year-old South African warden has a muscular tanned frame, a laconic manner and a host of compelling stories....
...It’s a genius plan if you think about it, because there really is no one out there looking out for the little guy....
...“The Wall Street guys are the right guys to be involved because farmers and gas station jockeys don’t have the sophistication.” That might excuse one direction of traffic but perhaps not the other....
...This guy wants to discuss a George Saunders short story. I certainly would not wish his situation on anyone, or, at least, not on most people....
...But there is any number of available bad guys. If you get over-captivated by the particular, you lose sight of the universal....
...“A lot of the guys don’t even realise there is a fence surrounding this place....
...More recently, there are traffic wardens who cannot cancel a parking ticket once their handheld computers have started the process....
...Captains of industry and hedge-fund guys live here.” Concierges in metal-grey uniforms stand on the building steps....
...His career started inauspiciously, working in the shadow of the spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, but ended triumphantly with his Falklands war role as the link with Washington, where he remains a legend...
...These guys never stop.’” Who else but Jack Kerouac, and what else but his immortal, delirious celebration of American hyper-mobility, On the Road?...
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