Fortunately, Mortdecai always has Jock at hand to concoct ingenious pick-me-ups: "I must say that Drs Alka and Seltzer should have won the Nobel Prize years ago; my only quarrel with their brain-child is its noise".
The News Corporation is carrying a much smaller share of "Avatar's" production cost, as a pair of private equity partners — Dune Entertainment and Ingenious Media — pick up 60percentt of the budget, according to people who were briefed on the economics of the film but spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid conflict with the studio or filmmakers.
(Similarly ingenious: The option called Repeated Calls.
The publisher, Nelson Doubleday, fearing for the lives of his staff, cancelled his deal with Haley; Barney Rosset, the bold and ingenious proprietor of Grove Press, picked up the contract.
The meal ends with a mango dessert – the family property is home to seven different kinds of the fruit, which Siphen's niece picks using an ingenious tool made from a plastic bottle and long stick.
On the top level were scones — ingenious edible serving utensils you use to pick up something called clotted cream, which is what would happen if you mixed the best parts of butter, whipped cream and childhood.
Speculation about the plot and who will sing the theme tune (Adele), has been joined by stories that pick apart everything from his ingenious - but scientifically dubious - gadgets to the ins and outs of his sex life. .
In addition, farmers can be ingenious in problem solving and if they pick-up information about FMNR from friends or other acquaintances they may well innovate and adapt the method to their own conditions.
And a wide variety of ingenious stage trickery illuminates the tale, which picks things up where they were left in Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows epilogue.
But I picked up the first volume, August, for its ingenious premise: it would explore one family's highs and lows through their annual camping trips to a Welsh farm.
