Word: julians
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...recounted in the British press. He left his wife of almost 10 years and his two sons to take up with an American woman. Dissatisfied with the negotiations for the rights to his eighth novel, The Information, he dumped his agent, Pat Kavanagh, thereby infuriating her husband, the author Julian Barnes, who was until that moment one of Amis' closest friends. Amis underwent a long bout of dental reconstruction, prompting reporters to observe, in print, that he was not only a failed husband and father and money-mad but vain as well. And then the other famous Amis, his father...
...court-show spoof All Rise for Julian Clary, Clary--a proudly queeny gay man in dandyish paisleys and an ascot--dispenses arch, arbitrary justice to aggrieved parties: it's like the Judge Oscar Wilde Show. And Goodness Gracious Me offers postcolonialist sketch comedy from a British-Indian troupe...
...article "Box Score: Who's Rich Now?" we listed people who sold stock before the April dotcom market debacle [BUSINESS, May 1]. We incorrectly listed Julian A. Brodsky, a director of Internet Capital Group, as selling $327 million worth of indirectly held company shares. In fact, the shares were owned by Comcast ICG, a subsidiary of Comcast Corp., of which Brodsky is vice chairman, and all the proceeds of the sale went to Comcast, not to Brodsky himself...
...upheaval follows famous troubles at another suffering hedge fund, Julian Robertson's Tiger Management, which has shut down, and at Berkshire Hathaway, where Warren Buffett's poor performance of late has put the stock into a historic tailspin. Buffett, of course, is no day trader. But totting up the problems of some of the world's most revered investors can be instructive--O.K., and a little...
RACK 'EM UP Do those wobbling, teetering stacks of CDs on your desk and shelves make you nervous? Julian Brown, the award-winning British designer of the famous Hannibal tape dispenser (you know, the one that looks like an elephant), has a simple solution: the CD2 ($12.50 at Counterpoint, 888-545-5073), a simple, elegant little rack that comfortably cradles 10 CDs at a time at a pleasingly jaunty angle. It's so unobtrusive, you hardly notice it. CD2 comes in six colors, from translucent orange to grass green to metallic aluminum, and when you don't need...