Despite this, he appears to have prospered, not least because of the sources, like Brunt, that he kept sweet.
So we had dear Martha at the FBI, in her new, calf-flattering shoes, being kept sweet by the possibility of a forbidden relationship with Clarke/Philip.
The Americans were to be kept sweet by the reopening of Incirlik air base – in Turkish Kurdistan – and the world would forget that Islamist fighters have received free passage across the Turkish-Syrian border.
"Let's give her a present!" These are not words often heard in shops nowadays, but Portas's technique harks back a golden age of shopping, when customers were treated as individuals – and individuals who needed to be kept sweet, at that.
Apart from a powerful scene where Candide encounters a mutilated black slave working on a Dutch plantation, who toils and suffers so that Europe can be kept sweet and happy, Kantor's work seldom packs much punch at all.
I kept "Sweet Pea" as a demo to submit to Burt Berns in New York for some of his artists, so I did that, sent it to him.
