“... Idyllwild, near PALM SPRINGS, loaned to them for the occasion by Marilyn’s attorney, Lloyd Wright. Here they had the uncommon luxury of two weeks alone together. The upper-case things have entries to themselves. Just as the Christie’s sale of Marilyn’s knick-knacks did better than adjacent sales of German Art and the Ancient Jewels of Persia, so ...”

“... the subject; and he came to think of them as ‘crackpot realists’ (a phrase he borrowed from C. Wright Mills’s pamphlet The Causes of World War Three). Sellers in his several roles, Sterling Hayden as the psychotic general Jack D. Ripper and George C. Scott as the well-meaning Pentagon ‘moderate’ General Buck Turgidson all did some of the best work of ...”

“... of is that a Home Office official met with James Anderton, Colin Sampson, Sir Philip Myers, and Lawrence Byford (HMI for North West and Ulster) during the Police Federation Conference in Scarborough, just one week before Stalker was removed from the RUC inquiry. It is a tacit tribute to Stalker’s integrity that these men knew he would not abandon his ...”

“... of the Cuban revolution, who went into exile in Italy in 1968. Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, C. Wright Mills and René Dumont, Ernesto Sábato and Charles Bettelheim were all dazzled. For one visiting British delegation, Eric Hobshawm acted as Che’s translator.In the autumn of 1960, in search of economic agreements, Guevara made his first visit to the ...”