Word: staunton
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...bull market has been butchered, and now a brilliant new book, Triumph of the Optimists (Princeton), by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton of London Business School, casts doubt on Siegel's research...
...Kate, headmistress of a school in an English village. Each week Kate and her best friends--a physician (Anna Chancellor) and a policewoman (Imelda Staunton)--meet to spill their latest ordeals d'amour and decide who among them is the most pathetic of all. Then Kate tumbles into an affair with Jed (dishy Kenny Doughty), a former student who moonlights as a church organist. This steams her friends, who see the affair as a threat to the only family they know. Chicanery and worse follow, as the film dares a violent shift of tone but ends up in a sadder...
Five years ago I was lecturing in Staunton, Va., and retold the story. In the question session, a man in the audience rose and said, "You may not believe that story about the bomb in the attic, but I do. I worked for 25 years at the Defense Intelligence Agency, and that was our understanding." And now I can hear Kennedy asking again, "Do you know something...
...Mike Staunton...
Park, Lord and screenwriter Karey Kirkpatrick stocked Chicken Run with a cross section of Brit types: Bunty (Imelda Staunton) is bossy; silly Babs (Jane Horrocks, who played Bubble on Ab Fab) is forever knitting--when she gets morose, she knits a noose. Mac (Lynn Ferguson) is the nearsighted soul of Scottish ingenuity. Fowler (Benjamin Whitrow), a crusty veteran of the RAF, says Yanks can't be trusted: "always late for every war." The hens' lines to the outside world are Nick (Timothy Spall) and Fetcher (Phil Daniels), two music-hall Cockney rats--larcenists with a soft streak...