Overbooking - United Airlines Flight 3411
Listening: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0500yjw (report starts at 00:50 and runs to 05:00)
Reading: http://fortune.com/2017/04/12/united-airlines-healthcare-lessons/
Vocabulary:
From the listening
to cash in
to place a bet
to auction off
aghast
cheapskate
to spot a problem
why bother?
more often than not
more times than you can count
From the reading
to wrench
tin eared
fill in the blank
to fall short
hub and spoke industry
specialty (U.S.) speciality (U.K.)
In general
to read (meaning) into something else
Going further:
Gothic (Directed by Ken Russell 1986)The film stars Gabriel Byrne as Lord Byron, Julian Sands as Percy Bysshe Shelley, Natasha Richardson as Mary Shelley, Myriam Cyr as Claire Clairmont (Mary Shelley's stepsister) and Timothy Spall as Dr. John William Polidori. It features a soundtrack by Thomas Dolby, and marks Richardson's film debut.
The film is a fictionalized retelling of the Shelleys' visit to Lord Byron in Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva focussing on their competition to write a horror story, which ultimately led to Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein and John Polidori writing The Vampyre. The same event has also been portrayed in the films Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Haunted Summer (1988), among others.
The film's poster motif is based on Henry Fuseli's painting The Nightmare, which is also referenced in the film.
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