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...Mickey Mouse first appeared in Steamboat Willie (1928), and on January 1 the US’s draconian 95-year copyright period comes to an end....
...His previous novels, The Gift of Rain (2007) and the Booker-shortlisted The Garden of Evening Mists (2012), dealt with the Japanese wartime occupation of Malaya and its aftermath....
...His greatest creation, Keith Talent, is a pub low-life who deals in stolen goods and sports-speak. (“Pressure? He fucking phrives on it.”) But the physical scrutiny wasn’t the same....
...The Murdoch dynasty Rupert Murdoch is the second of Sir Keith Murdoch’s four children....
...Keith Ellison, the Minnesota attorney-general who led the prosecution against Chauvin, echoed calls for legislative action....
...Before I can even get my first question out, he’s theorising that Feay is a variant on Fahey, and suggesting a link to WB Yeats’s theatrical colleagues, the Irish actors Willie and Frank Fay (“They were...
...Keith Winter, chief executive of Crane Worldwide Logistics, reports seeing quotes for a Boeing 777 to carry freight in the $2m range, up from about $400,000 before the pandemic....
...“One More Second” is a touching love song that brings a familiar sound to the affair: churchy richness of a Hammond organ, played by the great Booker T Jones....
...Crack soul session man Booker T Jones was hired to produce his debut album, Just As I Am....
...His breakthrough album, Dream Weaver, released on Atlantic in 1966, featured pianist Keith Jarrett and the tradition continued with the band he assembled to celebrate his 80th birthday in 2018....
...Slick Willie might equally have been describing why investment groups are charging into wealth management....
...Mr Helberg’s husband Keith Rabois, a Founders Fund partner known as one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent conservatives, helped recruit supporters for the candidate....
...Business is slow: in between cleaning up, the two waiters Sam and Willie rehearse for an imminent ballroom dance competition....
...Founding boss Keith Morgan, appointed in 2013 to design and set up the bank to boost lending to small businesses, will step down at the end of 2020....
...“Banner for Willie J.”, by the Chicago-born Charles White, is an oil portrait of the artist’s cousin, an innocent bystander killed during a robbery at a bar....
...FT Seasonal Appeal This Christmas, the FT commissioned Booker Prize winner Ben Okri to write a children’s short story....
...Keith Lassman, chairman, said this would allow it to “continue our strategic plans with vigour” as well as pay down debt....
...Other contenders, including Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders, have introduced measures to level the playing field in farming....
...Willie embarks on the Redex Trial, a gruelling Aussie car race, but soon finds himself in Aboriginal territory, where he makes an unsettling series of discoveries that force him to re-examine who he is....
...The female lead, Nicola Six, might as well be a sexual hologram: her crass portrayal is said to have cost Amis the Booker Prize....
...Halloween came early at the Man Booker Prize this week in the form of a very American ghost story....
...The £50,000 Man Booker Prize is open to any fiction written in English and published in the UK....
...What does winning a Man Booker prize mean to you? Well, it's a tremendous surge of confidence....
...Not least Tesco, from which he had earlier resigned over an objection to its proposed Booker acquisition....
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