“... White House​ Correspondents’ Dinner is held every spring in the subterranean ballroom of the Washington Hilton. The blue lights make you think for a moment you are several fathoms under an ocean. In 1997 there were 260 tables, each set for ten people, and a dais where the presidential party would sit. Ten thousand plates were sent out from the kitchens ...”

“... a Jewish supermarket millionaire from the far West, while the Nixon Administration brought to Washington a veritable mafia of get-rich-quick Floridians and Californians who, to put it mildly, were not overly weighed down by a public service ethic. Henry Cabot Lodge had given way to Bebe Rebozo. Watergate scattered this group in all directions (including ...”

“... being loved.’ The various men on whom in the course of time she seems to have placed her hopes (Bryan Proctor, Aubrey Beauclerk, John Howard Payne, Washington Irving, Prosper Mérimée) tended to want too much from her, remain elusive or abruptly marry someone else. Most depressing of all was her late romantic fixation on ...”

“... of declassified US documents obtained by Robert Norris of the Natural Resources Defence Council in Washington. It may well be that there are errors in our account – given the habits of secrecy and misinformation which prevail among British governments it could perhaps hardly be otherwise – but what follows is at least an introduction to the issues. The ...”

“... on the street about my case.’ The Italian professor who had taught Knox at the University of Washington arranged for her ‘to keep earning credit through independent study’. A local politician and his colleague ‘brought me as many books as I could devour by my favourite Italian authors’. An expatriate couple from Seattle opened up their house near ...”

“... in vain; Mary Connell, found dead by a rick of turf; Philip M’Gowan’s wife and daughter; Bryan Flanagan, found dead by the road side; Widow Davy’s daughter; Andrew Davy. KILTURRA ELECTORAL DIVISION – John May and son; Pat Marren, Widow Corlely, John O’Hara, John Healy’s two daughters.What interests me here is the resonance of the names, all ...”