“... compressed three vertebrae but never lost consciousness. My English professor and mentor, the poet Michael Heffernan, was first down the stairs and out the door to where I had landed. I must have appeared somewhat dazed and breathless. ‘Did you hit your head?’ he kept asking once he had determined I was alive. ‘What day is it?’ ‘Who is the President ...”

“... Tanna, and one day I will leave you and return. I am coming back to that rock, and when I put my foot on it, mature kava roots will spring from the ground, the old men will become young again, and there will be no more sickness or death.’ His audience applauded the story, but Baylis soon realised that no one in the crowd had heard it before. As the weeks ...”

“... lean into the picture or out of it, and the projection towards us of an elbow or the sole of a foot accelerates the compositional rhythms and encourages communion between the figures – and with us. Correggio was capable of far more daring foreshortening – notably in the aerobatic angels and gesticulating apostles on the domes of S. Giovanni Evangelista ...”

“... root of her problem with men. The only affair she writes about is her affair with a man called Michael. She loves Michael for ‘two short years’ while at university, until her eyes are rudely opened to his shortcomings when she gets pregnant and decides to have an abortion. Given the way Frieda describes ...”

“... bodies. Beit Sahour is a smaller town on the edge of Bethlehem. Angles are important here too, as Michael Awwad, a well-to-do Palestinian shopkeeper, explains with a diagram drawn on the counter of his hardware shop. In July 1988, he begins, Edmon Ghanem, a 17-year-old Palestinian, was walking by a house in Beit Sahour when a large stone fell from the balcony ...”

“... was first published, in Paris, in ‘the early Thirties’, according to its English translator, Michael Henry Heim. It appeared in the émigré journal Numbers and shortly thereafter as a book; fifty years of oblivion later, a copy turned up in a second-hand bookshop and was translated into French, bringing overdue fame to its ...”

“... story: When Did We Go to Morocco? or It Can’t Be True or Haven’t We Met? Of It Can’t Be True Michael Auping says: ‘It is echo-like in its composition. It is composed of a series of tilting frames jostling each other for position within the whole. The eye is teased back to a bright yellow frame in the centre of the painting and stopped short by a series ...”

“... I am sorry MacIntyre does not discuss the fascinating work in virtue ethics being done by Philippa Foot, Rosalind Hursthouse, Michael Thompson and Candace Vogler. As at least an opening move, they have turned away from the contribution a particular culture or political organisation may make to a person’s character – his ...”

“... a lovely maiden positioned at the top; when he arrived there, the girl suddenly reappeared at the foot of the tree, and down the poor man had to go. At any rate in its popular aspects, Buddhism isn’t the abstract, intellectual faith we tend to think it. Living in a coastal village not far from Colombo, the family was modestly well off, enjoying the ...”

“... dry off in the dust, they have to be here if I’m going to write a letter to Marie or Dorianne, Michael and Elizabeth have to be in their bodies for me not to cut them out of my own. They have to answer the phone when I call for me not to walk into the closet for ever. Right now I am sitting on the porch of the house I grew up in. The second place I was on ...”

“... attempts to draw rigid structures of constitutions’. Yet now they had ‘at once to set on foot an organisation in Great Britain to promote the cause of United Europe’ and to give the idea such prominence that it would affect the actions of their fellow countrymen and ‘influence the course of national policy’. ‘The British self-governing ...”

“... except the need for change. ‘There were all these cronies sitting on the second floor,’ Michael Ovitz adds, ‘who just hung out at the business and sucked the profits out of it.’ In 1975, Meyer and Ovitz joined forces with Bill Haber, Mike Rosenfeld and Rowland Perkins, and together they founded Creative Artists Agency (CAA). At first they were ...”

“... is no more in the hands of the factions of the left than it is forced to surrender, bound hand and foot, to the demands of some praetorian guard or other which, mark my words, is not the same thing as the army. It goes without saying that, should any fresh evidence come to light, there would be further proceedings. It’s as clear as daylight; to demand it is ...”

“... duck himself at first, And that will make him hardy and adventurous, And not stand putting in one foot, and shiver, And then draw t’other after, like a quake-buttock; May well he make a paddler i’ the world, From hand to mouth, but never a brave swimmer … He sinks, because he never tried to swim, When wit plays with the billows that choked him. In the ...”

“... its 3000 lbs to 26 batteries, arranged in a clumsy T-frame ‘tunnel’ which sticks up by about a foot between the two passengers – who can scarcely squeeze into what internal space is left. As for luggage, forget it. At current pump prices, US gasoline is cheaper than bottled water. And, relative to the energy it produces, gasoline is light in weight (8 ...”