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...In 1852, Walter Bagehot wrote: “John Bull can stand many things, but he cannot stand 2 per cent.” For more than a decade, quantitative easing stretched that thesis to extremes....
...It left Joerg convinced that there must be a mole at his base but he never worked out who it was....
...Nonstop work had been done last weekend, but one official working on the deal said it had been like “whack a mole”, with new issues arising just as old ones were resolved....
...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....
...It would be remarkable were the CIA to have an equivalent mole on Putin’s staff....
...Like others who have dealt with the port, he had lost faith in the notion that aggressive law enforcement alone could solve the whack-a-mole problem of organised crime....
...Derek B Miller’s Radio Life (Jo Fletcher Books, £16.99) has much in common with another religion-baiting, mid-20th-century SF classic: Walter M Miller’s (no relation) A Canticle for Leibowitz....
...An actual suicide occurs in “33⅓”, which is based on the death by hanging of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis....
...Now, in book form, it comes festooned with celebrity endorsements, with the likes of Bear Grylls, Miranda Hart and Richard Curtis singing its praises. What it is, exactly, is hard to say....
...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....
...So is likening Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s mediocre, composite, generic figures — “The Host over a Barrel”, “Coterie of Questions” — to Walter Sickert’s....
...“Coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeef . . . ” he recites to the astonished Mole, who is taken aback to see him “staggering under a fat wicker luncheon-basket” full of delicacies for their alfresco lunch....
...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....
...At least the Encyclopedia mentions chemical controls, albeit for weeds, not moles....
...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....
...Homer became blind, inhabiting the trenches within the house like a mole. Jorge Luis Borges, too, went blind but saw a world of books as heaven....
...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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