"Veep," a satirical sitcom about American politics, stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and is written wholly by British men.
Ian Parker's interesting Profile of Armando Iannucci highlights the fact that his new HBO comedy, "Veep," about an American Vice-President, is written wholly by British men ("Expletives Not Deleted," March 26th).
Early one morning last fall, Iannucci was on location in Washington, D.C., directing a scene for "Veep," an HBO comedy about American politics written wholly by British men, including one whom Iannucci has described as his "swearing consultant".
The first published Western-style story written wholly in vernacular Chinese, it was a tour de force that attracted immediate attention and helped gain acceptance for the short-story form as an effective literary vehicle.
The bulk of "Next" is written wholly in service to its climax (indeed, to what will happen next), and hence exists as a deferral of, a preamble to, the short story Hynes really wants to tell.
Dan Mayer Berlin, Germany Ian Parker's interesting Profile of Armando Iannucci highlights the fact that his new HBO comedy, "Veep," about an American Vice-President, is written wholly by British men ("Expletives Not Deleted," March 26th).
"One of the things that discourage us writers is the fact that 90 per cent of you children write wholly, or partly, illiterate letters, carelessly typed".
Lorenzo was told that he could transfer to the seminary at nearby Portogruaro, but that, if he did, he would have to become a priest, a calling, he writes, "wholly contrary to my temperament, my character, my principles, and my studies".
David Copperfield was the first occasion in which Dickens chose to write wholly in the first person, though McAndrew recasts it as a dialogue between the adult David (the highly personable Geoffrey Breton) and his younger self, played with great assurance by Jacob Aspinall.
She noted, with inadvertent hilarity, that it was "unconvincing" in its depictions of murder and concluded that it was "an entirely negligible piece of work, badly written and wholly lacking in insight or illumination".
As a result, she has written a wholly convincing life of Morgan that confirms rather than confounds the character reference given to him by Robert La Follette, a United States Senator from Wisconsin, in 1910: "A beefy, red-faced, thick-necked financial bully, drunk with wealth and power".Morgan was, above his many other faults, a colossal hypocrite.
