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“... dwelt upon the ties that bind The mazy volume of commingling things, When fell and wild misrule to man stern sorrow brings. Already it is possible to detect in this passage some of the methods he used later to invigorate the Spenserian stanza: the complex syntax, for example, helps to develop a momentum which drives the stanza towards its epigrammatic ...”

“... five I have read are: We All Live in a Perry Groves World (Arsenal winger, 1986-92); It’s Only Ray Parlour (Arsenal midfielder, 1992-2004); Stillness and Speed: My Story by Dennis Bergkamp (Arsenal striker, 1995-2006); Addicted by Tony Adams (Arsenal centre-back, 1983-2002); and, now, Arsène Wenger’s My Life in Red and White. Arsène Wenger on the ...”

“... Don Juan, Byron asked his banker and agent Douglas Kinnaird a rhetorical question: ‘Could any man have written it – who has not lived in the world? – and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis à vis? – on a table – and under it?’ Byron was onto something. He was intuiting that ...”

“... two older gangsters (Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci) take care of this problem, and the younger one (Ray Liotta) stares in shock. Before the camera leaves his face, his own voice on the soundtrack, speaking presumably at another time, announces: ‘As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.’ Then the music and titles come up, with Tony ...”

“... Mr Wopsle confirms this. He had been delighted to recognise Pip – less so to recognise the man who, for part of the time, had materialised ‘like a ghost’ in a nearby seat ... This is how Pip learns for certain that Compeyson is on his trail. The whole thing is narrated in Dickens’s broadest comic vein (poor Mr Wopsle is ludicrously miscast in ...”

“... full possession of their faculties.’ By the 1940s the fact-checker had entered popular culture. Ray Milland’s long-suffering girlfriend in The Lost Weekend works in the Time research department, where checking dates might be a reprieve from minding an alcoholic. In The Big Clock, Milland edits a magazine where the researchers collate seemingly irrelevant ...”

“... an obvious title, were added by restorers repairing the picture with pieces of old canvas: an X-ray shows an amazing patchwork of scraps although the central landscape and the sunset are in comparatively good nick. You can’t rule out mischief. A picture, a little under a foot square, Portrait of a Man (Victor ...”

“... Orwell, Eric Gill, Middleton Murry and Dylan Thomas, Portrait of the Artist as a Professional Man is an acidly amusing account of his twenty-odd years as a radio producer, and the more directly autobiographical The Intellectual Part offers agreeably eccentric views about many matters, including the casual remark that a national church must always be a ...”

“... Minnelli, Gregory Peck, Vincent Price, Robert Ryan, Edward G. Robinson, Donna Reed, Nicholas Ray, Robert Siodmak, Frank Sinatra, Sylvia Sidney, Claire Trevor, Franchot Tone, Walter Wanger, Keenan Wynn, William Wyler, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Jerry Wald and Robert Young. Ronald Reagan, a New Deal Democrat at the time (and an FBI informant since ...”

“... father, the Avraham ben Avraham Avinu, the Charlton Heston of redemption rock, is Johnny Cash, a man of intense spiritual certitude, and enormous wealth and fame, who, in death as in life, remains an example of what it might mean to live as a Christian in an age of celebrity and superabundance: his aims were high and lofty; his life was an absolute mess. In ...”

“... use of it is evident in the poem that lends its title to the entire volume, an elegy for a man, a holiday acquaintance, who is revealed to have died while boating on his own off the New England coast. At its climax, the poet declares:            I find it     tempting to imagine what, when the blood roared, overflowing its cerebral ...”

“... of images, unlike the style of a painter, which is often established by a single picture. One-man shows do the same job, but books do it better. Photographs lose little or nothing in good reproductions, and in a gallery the intimacy of the page is lost. In Foto Follies: How Photography Lost Its Virginity on the Way to the Bank (Thames and ...”

“... but that’s not the whole story: the Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen chartered it from Ray Car Carriers, which is registered in the Isle of Man but owned by Rami Ungar, an Israeli billionaire. Ungar is one of Israel’s biggest car importers and a friend of Israeli politicians including the defence minister, Yoav ...”

“... is a lawyer for both the Mob and Howard Hughes. He started out in American Tabloid as an FBI man and admirer of Bobby Kennedy, but was sacked by J. Edgar Hoover for showing a lack of interest in bugging harmless leftists. He then stole the Teamsters’ secret financial records and used them to feed anti-Mafia intelligence to the McClellan ...”

“... the semiotic anarchies of James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. Think of Ulrich, the hero of The Man without Qualities, and his ‘dreadful feeling of blind space’, of nothingness at the heart of everything. What the interpretation of High Modernism as a terrain of non-belief can’t account for is the wild popularity of spiritualism which was such a ...”