Hints and tips:
...Quant funds like Renaissance Technologies, the $60bn firm founded by Jim Simons, and DE Shaw, continued their winning streak....
...Meanwhile, Martin Shaw in his white, whiskery sideburns, makes a funny and bombastic Hobson, but his performance feels curiously deliberate and his authoritarianism more surface bluster than the product...
...Alongside, Jarlath Conroy provides an effective foil as the decrepit, monosyllabic Willie, who seems incapable of either helping or fleeing from his relentlessly bossy companion....
...George Bernard Shaw wrote a novel about the sport (Cashel Byron’s Profession, 1882). James Baldwin covered Floyd Patterson’s 1962 fight with Sonny Liston....
...Looking at the light suffusing these paintings, George Bernard Shaw’s idea that the Irish climate created Irish character and even Irish nationality comes strongly to mind. So does Irish history....
...The 1971 visitors to New Zealand were the mould breakers, with Welsh legends Gareth Edwards and Mervyn Davies aided by the likes of Ireland’s Mike Gibson and Willie John McBride, Scotland’s Gordon Brown...
...Willie Walsh, chief executive of BA’s parent company International Airlines Group, said the termination of the joint services agreement with Qantas was amicable and would not have any impact on earnings....
...Martin Shaw’s Gently, all lugubrious meditation and unillusioned patience, contrasts nicely with his eager, puppyish sergeant....
...Though I think Willie is a grimmer role than Tim Potter makes him, this account of the play – memorably designed in a devastated landscape by Tom Pye – gives us both Warner and Shaw at their finest....
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