A sort of appeals on wheels.GRAHAM PERRY Camberley, SurreyEvery little helps profits* Preventing rather than provoking price wars with price-matching guarantees poses an interesting argument ("Guaranteed profits", February 14th), but there are two missing elements.
You may find your lawyer's assessment inconvenient, but while ethics and law do not always coincide — there are unjust laws; there are situations the law ignores — ethics is not a sort of appeals court you can go to if the law gives you an undesirable decision.
There are bargains to be had, of course, and when a president makes any sort of appeal, that should be seen as a willingness to bargain.
We're all aware that an artistic scene that gains any sort of appeal or traction is eventually leeched on, Death-Eater-like, by "property developers".
Part of the field's popularity, among patients and doctors alike, stems from the fact that celebrity athletes, desperate to get back to playing after an injury, have been trying unproven treatments, giving the procedures a sort of star appeal.
While all dictatorships are sordid, brutal, inhumane regimes (and none more so than that of Stalin), nazism seems even now to have a sort of "negative appeal" to many individuals which other regimes do not have.
TV's "Teletubbies" have always had a sort of stoner appeal to them, but this new video might be more of a bad trip.
Going back to the day of Custer's Revenge, when the rape of an indigenous woman by a gun-toting cowboy was used as a sort of shock appeal to draw in audiences, video games have continuously tried to entertain players by glorifying or contorting complex scenarios into flagship moments.
The director has flirted with the medium before, using it as a sort of court of appeal in 1994 to remake for ABC Don't Drink The Water, a 1969 film that had apparently dissatisfied him.
The sonic eccentricities have been smoothed over to some degree, and while his music will possesses plenty of quirk, his music now has more of a populist sort of appeal.
