Word: moores
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...case provoked a roller-coaster of emotions in the Dewsbury Moor council estate where Shannon lived. The impoverished public housing project seemed to find in Shannon's disappearance a cause around which to rally. The local community started its own fundraising campaign, to which one retired resident offered his life savings: $1000, according to the Daily Telegraph newspaper. But initial jubilation after Shannon was found safe turned quickly to anger as a flurry of arrests turned suspicion towards her family...
...books, 22 years ago, Phillips has been trying, with unusual seriousness and concentration, to rewrite English literature by filling in the gaps, the black holes, in the country's official story of itself. In The Nature of Blood, for example, he gave us Othello's story in the Moor's own voice; in Cambridge, he bestowed the name of the august English university on a doomed West Indian slave. His view does not overlook class or other races - in Foreigners he points out that more than 2,000 Jews fought for Britain in World War I, only to be greeted...
...Bali or Phuket because, "It's an international city and you have all the infrastructure of city life. You can feel safe there. Bali and China are scary. You don't know whom to trust." Plus, she says, prices are relatively low, adding, "Where in Hong Kong can you moor your boat right outside your house?" Another Sentosa Cove owner is Rick Scanlon, a 37-year-old investment-fund manager who has lived with his family in Singapore since 1996. "Our lot is right on the water, sort of carved into the hillside," says Scanlon, an American expat. "It reminds...
...cantankerous aunt Lady Catherine de Bourg, and Kelly Reilly is the perfect bitch as the manipulative Caroline Bingley. The one outstanding flaw of the film (other than Jena Malone’s hideous performance) are the stormy long shots of Knightley perched in contemplation on top of a moor. These “breath-taking” sequences are gratuitous and too Bronte-esque; it’s not to say that a wet and pouty Knightley against a stunning British countryside isn’t visually appealing, but Wright is far more successful at extending the narrative when...
...book comes out at a time when the career of the man who was once the world's most famous literary novelist is in deep crisis. The Moor's Last Sigh (1995) was the last in a string of superhits that began with Midnight's Children (1981). Rushdie-watchers were divided about The Ground Beneath Her Feet(1999), but almost no one was prepared to stand up for Fury (2001), which tells the story of a middle-aged thinker who makes a fortune as a TV doll-maker, then flees a bad marriage and goes to New York. There, while...