...advertising and technology for the purpose of spreading buzzy titbits”; it later, through the hiring of Ben Smith, built a news division — which ate, rather than made money but which has had memorable scoops...
...keeping budgets so low that they can afford to fail sometimes. When they succeed, as they did with Get Out or The Purge, the profit margins are enormous. Blumhouse’s breakout hit, Paranormal Activity...
...In The Distance, Hernan Diaz’s extraordinary epic tale of a lone man’s journey into the heart of the American frontier, has many memorable scenes — but one in particular is notable for its sheer...
...Political speeches are seldom memorable, even days after they have been unleashed in airless conference halls. Only one in recent British memory stands apart: Theresa May’s prime ministerial debut...
...requested,” he says.
But if swimming pools, spas and tennis courts come as standard, what marks out one home from another? For Banks, the most memorable request came from a buyer who wanted a luxury dog...
...executives hiring new designers: Riccardo Tisci, the new chief creative officer at Burberry, is known for a similar ability to fuse different facets of the luxury industry. If designer Virgil Abloh succeeds...
...supported by mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, in fine voice as the novice priestess Adalgisa. The women’s duets, in particular “Mira o Norma”, provide the most thrilling and memorable moments. The able tenor...
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Before trading began on Friday, we were treated to what will probably be one of the more memorable presidential tweets:
After a day of messy...
...songs. It’s possible to succeed with only one, but to be short on both fronts is disastrous. Cooper’s production was way ahead of its time in 1972, prompting moral outrage on both sides of the Atlantic...
...United . . . They won’t ask me. Maybe that’s why they didn’t win the Premier League. Only I could have made them succeed [after Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement]. Nobody else. Only me.”
We are meeting...
...mysterious man accused of murder. Pearce takes great advantage of the island’s landscape and weather to mirror the emotional maelstrom and delivers a memorable, polished debut.
All three have the detachment...
...task. Rachel Kushner’s memorable essay looks at the Shuafat refugee camp, a high-rise, walled piece of lawless urban blight inside Jerusalem’s city limits. Geraldine Brooks, who covered the first...
...automobile companies of all time. William Clay Ford Jr, executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, may be what passes for royalty in the “Motor City” of Detroit — but he’s not quite sure he’s memorable...
....” Simple. Memorable. False. But how to rebut it? A typical effort from The Guardian newspaper was headlined, “Why Vote Leave’s £350m weekly EU cost claim is wrong”, repeating the claim before devoting hundreds...
...What is coming up in the corporate world in 2017?
2016 generated some memorable events, ranging from European banks including Deutsche Bank reaching landmark settlements with US authorities over mis...
...My first day as a reporter in the San Francisco bureau of the Financial Times was memorable. It was June 2012 and Google opened its annual developer event with an incredible stunt.
A skydiver leapt...
...defy the odds and conventional wisdom to succeed in this world and leave the reader feeling better in the process.
But the timing of Lewis’s new work is — to use one of his favourite words — weird. His...
...countries’ flags before the lighting of the Olympic torch. Stealing a page from the London Olympics, which opened with a memorable display on the UK’s challenges and achievements, producers could add a...
...true to the journalistic values he learnt there, which he once described as the need to be “both Kosher and intelligible”.
His prose is as witty as it is punctilious, peppered with clever, memorable...
...with a national lead over Hillary Clinton. Yet his message was based on a deeply alarmist premise. Until now, US history has rarely treated doom-mongers kindly. Among the memorable parallels, the closest...
...that Isis has studied western consumer giants to replicate their marketing tactics. More specifically, it seeks to build “audience engagement” and “reach”, creating memorable “content” that can be...
...memorable summer for British sport, but one moment stood out for me above all other.
It was not from Rio. It happened later. Just a couple of weeks ago on the sun-drenched streets of Cozumel in Mexico.
There...
...from cancer in February 2015, at the age of 70. It mostly succeeds in its mission, painting a picture of a man who braved a hostile board, a combative Congress and an uncharitable press to put AIG back on...
...and the shouty talking heads of cable news channels, was a perfect fit for Oliver, whose turbocharged correspondent became a natural foil for the host’s role as straight man. In one memorable segment he...
...Succeeds, Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal.
That switch from indefinite to definite article in the subtitle is also telling. There have been several biographies of Vidal, mostly written...
