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...This was in 1984, when Geraldine Ferraro was the first female vice-presidential candidate for a major party, running on Walter Mondale’s presidential ticket....
...An actual suicide occurs in “33⅓”, which is based on the death by hanging of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis....
...They were mechanised with the help of innovative set and spatial designer duo Isabel and Helen, while Green also counts David Curtis-Ring as a long-time collaborator on his show set designs....
...But the people I’ve learned the most from have been my contemporaries: Elif Batuman, Rebecca Curtis, Benjamin Kunkel, and Chad Harbach....
...Some had avant-garde interests, among them Curtis Moffat and Paul Outerbridge from the US and László Moholy-Nagy, displaced by the rise of fascism in Germany....
...(Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld is coming soon, and Persuasion and Mansfield Park may follow.)...
...“We have a small nucleus of supporters who have been with us for a long time,” Ms Curtis said....
...Selections by Isabel Berwick … FICTION IN TRANSLATION The Parrots , by Filippo Bologna, translated by Howard Curtis, Pushkin Press, RRP£14.99/$25 The winner of one of Italy’s most prestigious literary...
...“If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is,” Jobs told his biographer, Walter Isaacson....
...A menacingly impassive Robert Shaw, wearing a face like a slab of steak injected with Botox, duelled by telephone with police negotiator Walter Matthau, every film buff’s favourite incarnation of a duodenal...
...But, as Walter Cronkite said in signing off his newscast every weeknight, “that’s the way it is” these days....
...Yes, Auchincloss wrote about people having affairs, as in The House of the Prophet (1980), based on the life of the great public intellectual Walter Lippmann....
...Curtis Publishing was sold at $124 per share; five years later it was worth $5. US Steel was sold at $258; it would fall to $24 in 1932. Guaranty Trust was perhaps the worst of all....
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