But Cowell said: 'I reckon that there's a lot of money to be made by someone who's willing to have their sex changed.'" The Times reported that the Picture Post paid Cowell £8,000 for her story, the equivalent of £185,000 today, and that the autobiography netted Cowell a further £1,500 £30,0000).
The region's simmering religiosity infects even the names allotted to the tale's main adversaries, Cross and Candlestick, and in the interstices of the furious plot another story of equivalent atrocity is haltingly unfolded; vectors of betrayal and assassination reaching from the Shankill Road to Downing Street.
Objects and stories were equivalent treasures, meant to be pondered, weighed and preserved.
Based on this model, an inductive substructure identification method is formulated, using the cross power spectral densities between the frame floor horizontal accelerations and a reference response, to identify the equivalent story stiffness and damping parameters of the frame from top to bottom inductively.
Ottolenghi nodded, and told an equivalent story of Las Vegas royalty.
My guess is that he will long be remembered as a master of the short story, the American equivalent of Maupassant.
The interior, however, is another story — the décor equivalent of purple prose, with garish paintings, an antique hat collection and elevators decked out with fresh flowers.
In "Toy Story 3" the equivalent moment comes near the end, when Andy's mother, an unsung stalwart of the franchise voiced by Laurie Metcalf, looks around his empty room and wonders where the time went.
The pat-down story was the equivalent of vaporware — it seemed as if something huge was about to happen, but it turned out that it was a story about a story, the noisy, fervent sound of a news system feeding on itself.
I've gone down this road before, suggesting that the story is the equivalent of a musical melody or an architectural framework: a basis, not a goal; an element that may either be charmingly memorable or ingeniously conceived, but that is merely a starting point for a significant work, not a result.
