What can the booker do if he has this specimen with all this talent, but does just enough to get by with the victories every week? |
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In stand-up, you are the booker, the marketer, the promoter, and the performer. |
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He promised everyone would get their money and, taking over Leslie's financial responsibilities got him a job with a booker for a theatre chain. |
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He was a theatrical film booker and educational-materials distributor based in Clarksburg, West Virginia. |
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An early Booker winner, in 1971, for In a Free State, he has been garlanded and honoured by every major prize committee. |
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She's just surfaced, blinking like a mole, after wading through 50,000 pages of fiction in her role as a Booker Prize judge. |
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In the early twentieth century Booker T. Washington's accommodationist philosophy dominated discussions of racial progress. |
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Be watchful for later jackets on the Booker winner with flashes advertising the prize. |
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Some people are, however, going to be disappointed to learn that his chance at a Booker has already come and gone. |
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He has the skill and style to knock the typical Booker Prize-winner into a cocked hat. |
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Frostrup faced the same hostility when she was on the judging panel of the 1999 Booker prize. |
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Booker was recognized for her work as honorary consul and her efforts at promoting Australian Aboriginal art. |
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If this sounds like an unlikely subject for knockabout comedy, it is, but Booker prize winner DBC Pierre almost pulls it off. |
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It's a little spot of England where Channel 4, the Guardian, Alessi orange squeezers, ciabatta and the Booker short list don't exist. |
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This, then, is the Booker Prize 2000, the undisputed highlight of the literary calendar. |
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Pierre's true-life journey from debt-ridden drug addict to Booker Prize winner has been a stranger-than-fiction ride. |
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The Bird of Night was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Best Novel Award. |
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Most recently, booker announced on Twitter that he would be going vegan, at least until the end of the year. |
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The machinations of Booker juries are a smugly guarded secret, but one senses a good few compromises and second-bests here. |
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His repertoire includes movies, too, for which he's written successful scripts, and novels, one of which won the Booker Prize. |
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A trademark 10-minute Booker T and the MGs-style funk jam closes the record, once some jazzy scatting is out of the way. |
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For once, therefore, the Booker panel made the right decision in awarding last year's prize to The Line of Beauty. |
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Michael Bankston, who led the team in sacks and the line in tackles, will rotate with Booker and be the top sub at all four line positions. |
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Linda's most recent novel, Still Here, was longlisted for the Booker Prize. |
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Shalimar was longlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize but then inexplicably excluded from the shortlist. |
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The novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize when it was released, and remains a cult classic. |
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When the Man Booker Prize longlist was announced last month, reporters were delighted to see his name on it. |
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It was quite a spin-out to encounter, this far down the Booker longlist, a novel set in Adelaide. |
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On Booker shortlists, the preponderance of some subjects over others has long been a source of comment. |
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Even as the two-time winner of the prestigious Booker Prize, Coetzee didn't show up for the honors. |
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If I'd won the Booker or the Commonwealth Prize my books would have been everywhere. |
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Like few public officials, Booker has gone out of his way to establish that he is in sync with the problems of his constituents. |
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Instead, Booker is trying to do a better job of living out the principles he already has. |
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Banville published a letter in The Guardian criticizing the elitist preferences of the Booker judges. |
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Each step of the way, Booker has thrived on the philosophy that your actions matter more than what you preach. |
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At the inaugural ball, an attendee from another state even showed Booker the one she was wearing. |
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Though certainly romantic on the subject, Booker has been neither corralled nor bamboozled. |
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The most recent Booker boomlet began at the end of the summer, during the Democratic convention. |
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Some supporters keep pace, and others trail behind walking, there to observe Booker in the flesh more than for the cardio. |
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Booker plans to spend his Thanksgiving dinner with CBS correspondent Gayle King and their families. |
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To complicate matters further, the only people who seemed to have any desire to go after Booker were of the conspiracy-theory ilk. |
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Sens. Rand Paul and Cory Booker may have drawn wide attention and praise for their REDEEM Act. |
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It also helps that he kept Cory Booker off the ballot with a crafty scheduling of a Senate special election last month. |
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It won the Booker Prize last year, but received no garlands from Pat. |
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Few politicians garner the celebrity that Senator Booker does, and fewer still seem so earnest and human while doing it. |
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Somehow, this did not endear Lonegan to voters, and Booker officially entered the Senate on Oct. 31st. |
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Doyle, enright, and Banville have all won the Booker and the attendant publicity surely increased their American readership. |
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In a Free Stateby V.S. Naipaul A fictionalized memoir by the Man Booker International Prize nominee. |
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Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana and A World on Fire, and judge of the Booker prize introduces the event. |
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When Booker assumed office, his half-a-million constituents were grappling with high unemployment and rampant poverty. |
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Instead, Booker took softballs during a cocktail event, sponsored by Bank of America. |
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James dropped out of the race, and Booker strutted into office at 920 Broad Street with 72 percent of the vote. |
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The police vehicles take off from the parking lot with Booker and Fulop in tow. |
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Researchers also are keeping tabs on Democratic rising stars, including Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, and the Castro brothers. |
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At 28, Eleanor Catton became the youngest ever winner of the Booker Prize with her swirling, mesmerizing epic The luminaries. |
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It is undeniable that the Booker helped Rushdie get kind reviews in the upmarket press and elevated him further. |
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Cory Booker, the dashing mayor of Newark, N.J., is good at politics and all that. |
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No one is vetted in the manner that Beinart seems to think Booker should when dealing with Hecht and Boteach. |
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Life of Pi immediately became the odds-on favorite to win, with more bets placed on it than any other Booker nominee ever. |
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Booker had previously refused to officiate at any weddings as a statement of principle until same-sex marriage was legalized. |
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Voters easily chose Booker over his Republican opponent, recent Garden State transplant and one-time conservative hero Jeff Bell. |
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A gentleman named Lee Daly from Dublin, Ireland asked Booker for help with a pothole in front of his house. |
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Throughout all the hullabaloo and spurious handwringing, the one constant was Booker, whose profits derived largely from the unglamorous cash-and-carry trade. |
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In 1895, Booker T. Washington infamously counseled accommodation to racial discrimination in exchange for material progress that never materialized. |
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Booker T. Washington was the first black man to dine in the White House. |
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Similarly, The Best of the Booker was awarded in 2008 to celebrate the prize's 40th anniversary. |
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Australian winners of the Booker Prize include Peter Carey, Thomas Keneally and Richard Flanagan. |
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Between 2005 and 2008, the Booker Prize alternated between writers from Ireland and India. |
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The Booker prized created a permanent home for the archives from 1968 to present at Oxford Brookes University Library. |
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In 1972, the winning writer John Berger, known for his Marxist worldview, protested during his acceptance speech against Booker McConnell. |
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Created in 1969, the Man Booker Prize is the highest profile British literary award. |
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In 1970, Bernice Rubens became the first woman to win the Booker Prize, for The Elected Member. |
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The Booker Prize Foundation works with libraries across Britain promoting the prize, especially the shortlist, to library users. |
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Just minutes after the Man Booker Prize final short list was announced earlier today, PinnacleSports. |
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Amsterdam is a 1998 novel by British writer Ian McEwan, for which he was awarded the 1998 Booker Prize. |
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Booker has launched its latest Price Rollback campaign-cutting the price of 650 products. |
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Back in jersey City, Booker is still talking in the parking lot. |
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Like the Nobel or the Man Booker International Prize, it is awarded not for any one work, but for an entire body of work. |
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Dunkleys make pies at Wellingborough, next to Booker, and make them for Wetherspoons and Welcome Break. |
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In 2013 NoViolet Bulawayo's novel We Need New Names was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. |
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Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996 and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. |
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Josias Booker had emigrated in 1815 to Demerara as one of the first British settlers. |
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Booker employed his private stock as a late afternoon delight for visitors to the Boston distillery. |
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As part of The Times' Literature Festival in Cheltenham, a Booker event is held on the last Saturday of the festival. |
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The foundation is an independent registered charity funded by the entire profits of Booker Prize Trading Ltd, of which it is the sole shareholder. |
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Dame Hilary Mantel is a highly successful writer of historical novels winning the Booker Prize twice, for Wolf Hall 2009, and Bring Up the Bodies. |
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His 1997 novel, Enduring Love, about the relationship between a science writer and a stalker, was popular with critics, although it was not shortlisted for the Booker Prize. |
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Forester, John Ruskin, Radclyffe Hall, Susan Hill, Hanif Kureishi, Maureen Duffy, Khushwant Singh, Sir Leslie Stephen and the Booker Prize winner Anita Brookner. |
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No, it wasn't a profile on New Labour, but Andrew Davies's dramatisation of the 2004 Booker Prizewinning novel of class, money and sexual awareness. |
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Ali Smith, the author of the Booker Prize nominated novel Hotel World and the Whitbread Award winning novel The Accidental, took her undergraduate degree here. |
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The longlist of thirteen authors for the 2010 Man Booker prize was announced on 27 July and includes Peter Carey, who has won the award twice before. |
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Brown's debut novel Real Monsters was published on 1 March 2015 and was shortlisted for the Luke Bitmead Bursary, as well as being longlisted for the Not The Booker Award. |
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At first Martin Luther King Jr. invoked Booker as a moral authority for King's ethic of love and his posture of passive resistance to white hatred. |
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This work won the 1981 Booker Prize and, in 1993 and 2008, was awarded the Best of the Bookers as the best novel to have received the prize during its first 25 and 40 years. |
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Historically, the winner of the Man Booker Prize had been required to be a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Republic of Ireland, or Zimbabwe. |
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