“... it is not documented until 1952), this thin canvas, a little over two feet tall, is a single field of dark cadmium red divided by a vertical stripe of one-inch tape painted over with orange cadmium red – the first full appearance of his famous ‘zip’ (though the term wasn’t used until the mid-1960s). Apparently, Newman wasn’t clear about what he ...”

“... and greed, then entered a long period of subsidence and even now resists complete deflation. Frank Close is an English physicist and writer about science who followed the cold fusion story as it unfolded and has now presented his analysis. He tells a good yarn, and his firm grasp of the science enables the reader to savour the blunders of Pons and ...”

“... the manifesto itself is printed on manila paper. This visual and verbal punning puts me in mind of Frank O’Connor’s account of a picture he saw in Joyce’s Paris flat: the city of Cork in a cork frame. An instance, no doubt, of Joyce’s compulsive punning, the picture can also be viewed as the manifestation of an ambiguous attitude. The visual pun ...”

“... the founders of their prosperous republic but the peevish Marxists of the Frankfurt School such as Frank Lightner or the revolutionaries of remote and picturesque ex-colonies, the Soviets found a field ripe for subversion and recruitment.’ (Who needs story, with exposition like this?) Between the big players, people like ...”

“... electric current had shot through her,’ ‘His eyelids gave a slow, saurian blink’). Love Field is the name of the airport in Dallas, and you might well think that the best thing to do with this unbearable but entirely accidental irony would be to forget it. Not for Thomas. Love is his theme, the word he has underlined in his notes (‘Politics is a ...”

“... he is still concerned with the writer’s obligation to recognise and resist a ‘gravitational field’, but this field is identified with the negotium or business of practical life, not with original sin. Admirers of Hill’s poetry will find much in these essays of relevance to his own poetic technique, in particular ...”

“... pages, the last consists of a single word. We’re shown the exact moment when, sheltering in the field station from a storm, Doc’s grip on language begins to fail:His head felt wrong. There was no pain but a weakness. The feeling came and went. There were lights flashing on the radio but there was no sound. He poured a drink and emptied his glass. He rawed ...”

“... new movie, Blitz, the camera rises out of a bomb site in the final scene, slowly expanding the field of vision so as to convey the magnitude of what the bombs have done, but the camera can only see so far: the maps give you an idea of what happened further off towards the horizon.David Bomberg was a fire-watcher in Kensington for much of the war, and was ...”

“... man, a professor of physics at the University of Rochester, who had written his PhD on the new field of X-ray technology. He was also fluent in Greek and Latin and a good businessman. After his grandfather’s death Ashbery told an interviewer that Henry Lawrence was the only person he had ever unconditionally loved. Because there was no kindergarten in ...”

“... been asked to write for the Times Literary Supplement – ‘the highest honour possible in the field of critical literature’. Yet despite such signal distinctions he continued to be poor: Vivien had to darn his worn-out underclothes, and although the family was generous with handouts, he never had enough money to stop worrying about it. At one rather ...”

“... Thatcher years has given impetus to the movement for a Bill of Rights and that the programmatic field need not be left to the political centre. Frank Vibert’s essay in the IEA volume offers a very different reason from Charter 88’s or the IPPR’s or Liberty’s for enacting a Bill of Rights: that the US Supreme ...”

“... Surrey and then to Battersea, at which point Violet read an article in the Daily Mirror about Lila Field and her new London Theatre for Children. She took Noël to audition and Field, German in origin but now with a ‘devastatingly refined’ English accent and ‘foaming with lace’, accepted him. It was one foot on a ...”

“... happily confident as he ponders his past and present achievements, not least in the economic field. Thanks to the greater efficiency of central planning, prosperity has spread even more rapidly than Kantorovich expected. Soviet growth in the 1950s, Khrushchev reflects on the basis of official Soviet figures, exceeds that of West Germany, a rate equalled ...”

“... in the form of men on the ground. Two platoons were suggested or even less or a military field hospital. Bundy said that the result of such a contribution would be worth “several hundred million dollars”.’ While this offer seems to have been withdrawn, for fear of alienating Wilson, US memoranda make clear that it represents the thinking of the ...”

“... leave it for a while to see if it catches a gull’s eye, then put it in the bin. 24 May. Run into Frank Dickens the cartoonist walking down the stalled escalator at Camden Town Tube. Says that in Bristow, his strip in the Standard, he’s about to introduce the concept of Desk Rage, with frenzied attacks on other people in the office. About the same age as ...”