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...They are different from you and me,” F Scott Fitzgerald wrote nearly a century ago....
...The uncut books in the lavish library in a mansion on the hill are presumably a nod to Jay Gatsby too — Walter is mining the same seam as Fitzgerald in his examination of the gulf between rich and poor....
...McCarthy, former US senator (Minnesota), Washington, DC, March 3 1976 Third row: Gerald Ford, US president, Washington, DC, March 18 1976; William Simon, Treasury secretary, Washington, DC, May 4 1976; Rose Fitzgerald...
...Claims to fame The club is name-checked in many classic US novels: fictional members include Nick Carraway in F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Patrick Bateman in Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho...
...In the front room of William Boyd’s Chelsea house, expensive drawings line cream walls and a bust of his fellow Scottish writer Walter Scott adds a faintly aristocratic touch....
...Walter Thompson and GroupM. It advises companies on where to place their ads. And it also creates those ads for those clients....
...I like classical music — Bach, Beethoven — and the music from when I was young: Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. I have been inspired by a record player my children bought for me....
...By 2012, overseas buyers accounted for 90 per cent of sales, according to estate agents Sherry FitzGerald. But appetite from within Ireland is returning....
...But although Myra Breckinridge is certainly more complete than Fitzgerald’s final novel, many would still consider it rather less finished....
...Martin Sorrell is less Freddie Krueger and more Benjamin Button, the F Scott Fitzgerald character who starts life looking like a 70-year-old and gets progressively younger....
...Ishiguro smiles, obligingly reeling off a list of greats to whom this applies: Austen, the Brontës, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, Kerouac, Mailer....
...“Stock will probably immediately reflect the removal of the litigation risk,” Citi’s Walter Pritchard said. “This risk has been present since IPO and has made the stock un-investible for some.”...
...He was tearing through Hunter S Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald, “and they’re all drunks”. Goodman says: “All the great actors were drunks....
...I Puritani is by Bellini (a name I confess I had previously associated only with a cocktail) and is based on a novel by Sir Walter Scott....
...and The Last Days of Disco (1998), he emerged as something like the Quentin Tarantino of social portraiture, a true original who evoked a miscellaneous yet coherent lineage (Austen, Balzac, Wilde, Waugh, Fitzgerald...
...“Crucial to Ahearn’s work is its venue and audience,” the artist and art critic Walter Robinson wrote in a review for Art in America magazine....
...Mixit’s management team, led by president and chief executive Walter Fitzgerald, are also the group’s founders and staying on Patsystems....
...In recent years it would be the trip my wife and some friends made to Walter De Maria’s land-art piece, “The Lightning Field”, in New Mexico....
...Failing that, Red Capitalism, by Carl E Walter and Fraser JT Howie, sums up the mess that is China’s banking system nicely, too....
...Harriet Walter, actor. COMMANDER, CBE Francis Baron, former chief executive, Rugby Football Union. Rabbi Tony Bayfield, for services to British Reform Judaism....
...Local agents Savills Hamilton Osborne King, tel: +353 1-663 4300; www.savills.ie Sherry Fitzgerald Group, tel: +353 1-643 1400; www.sherryfitz.ie Knight Frank Ganly Walters, tel: +353 1-662 3255; www.knightfrank.ie...
...In Gorilla Girl from Touch and Go, whose authors were Jean and Walter Kerr, Chenoweth is the dumbest of blonde movie stars whose only talent is a fixed smile....
...Scott Fitzgerald’s jazz age, “jungle music” (as it was called in the unenlightened 1920s) elicits twin responses of white fear and fascination....
...The speculation is that extended leave, coupled with a book deal, would be the best way of saving face all-round – assuming the special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald does not have other ideas....
...In Hermione Lee’s absorbing, prize-winning 1996 biography, Virginia Woolf, the flirtations and marriage proposals of Woolf’s youth occupy scant space: Walter Headlam, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Hilton Young, Walter...
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