“... understood, has no truth value – can be productive of knowledge by altering an inquirer’s frame of reference.’ This is good; it might well afford a tenable defence of his use of economics; but to concede that economic theory is at best, and in places, an illuminating metaphor for law will not sit with Posner’s idealisation of economics or allow ...”

“... on the blacklist. The virus that would surface decades later, disguised as Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan, began here. Fault lines in the American psyche are most obvious at the interface of showbiz saccharine and the political process: Monroe’s birthday tribute to JFK, Sinatra as MC at the Kennedy White House, late-liberal millionaires from ...”

“... at once detailed, puerile and unbending – a strange hodge-podge of Baudelaire, Mary Barnard and Ronald Firbank, all coloured still by the prejudicial fancies of a flannel-shirted, late Seventies lesbian adolescence: SAPPHO: short, dark in appearance, teensiest hint of a moustache – a cross between Mme Moller (high school French teacher) and a slightly ...”

“... views and with his claims about human sexuality. He had given the old ‘problem of evil’ a new frame, and was keen to establish its theological propriety. Even if his critics were right that Malthus was a class-lackey, his dismalness doesn’t necessarily follow. (There were political economists peering out of the same, or adjacent, class pigeonholes who ...”

“... were aristocrats; she was by turns one of America’s most adored stars and a hate figure; Ronald Reagan invited her to his inauguration; she was Hitler’s favourite actress. Negri called her autobiography Memoirs of a Star and meant it. ‘Pola Negri is a star and she intends to play that role as long as she lives,’ an interviewer wrote in 1970. We ...”

“... energy, channels the music of the Sixties – played at top volume – through his hulking frame onto his huge, ’Scope-shaped canvas. In the Faber book, which brings together facts, feelings and opinions on Scorsese’s whole career to date, he says: ‘I guess that from now on what I intend to do is paint with colour.’ It’s certainly what he and ...”

“... gods; but I think that the river ...’ Eliot’s epigraph and Kelley’s note would make an ideal frame for a modern quest-romance, if geography and modernity did not conspire against so satisfying a conclusion. The mouth of the river offers no promised land, only the whorish city of New Orleans and the decaying swamp of the Mississippi Delta. On his way down ...”

“... there should be a criminal law: eligible conceptions of the good are unlikely to include those of Ronald Biggs. As regards both this fundamental problem of political philosophy, and his preferred solution to it, Habermas’s position is similar to that of many recent liberals writing in the analytical tradition, such as Brian Barry, John Rawls and Charles ...”

“... FIRST ANNOUNCER: The man from Abilene. Out of the heartland of America, out of this small frame house in Abilene, Kansas, came a man, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Through the crucial hour of historic D-Day, he brought us to the triumph and peace of V-E Day. Now, another crucial hour in our history – the big question. MAN: General, if war comes, is this ...”

“... of course, and certainly not the common man. But to put a play within a play is to add another frame which enables one to introduce more jokes, but also more irony as references within the play find echoes outside it. Jokes like the Headmaster’s ‘Thirty years ago today, Tupper, the Germans marched into Poland and you’re picking your nose’; ironies ...”

“... the laundry. This becomes symbolic of the ease of life in social democratic Europe. In the final frame of the film Moore takes a giant pile of laundry to Washington, and asks the government to wash his dirty clothes for him. In another stunt, he takes a group of 9/11 ‘heroes’, rescue workers with severe health problems, for treatment in Cuba, where they ...”

“... case study-style house has now been demolished), Leo Rubinstein, Paul Tvrtkovic, Ray Smith and Ronald Coleman. Most of these were deadpan little houses, in brick with exposed concrete frames, often with small windows onto the street and much larger ones onto the gardens and courtyards.Clients included playwrights (Michael Frayn), pop stars (Sandie ...”

“... the Post, identifying the soldier who had brought My Lai to senior officers’ attention. This was Ronald Ridenhour, a member of a Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol Unit who had learned about the massacre from someone in Calley’s platoon. Through Ridenhour, by then a college student in California, Hersh found the rest of Charlie Company, and multiple accounts ...”

“... side for those with an interest in manipulating the codes. But this doesn’t prevent others like Ronald Weintraub (company president, marketing consultant, private investor) from explaining with relish how a grasp of semiotics can help pull customers in off the sidewalk. Milton Glaser likewise has some canny things to say about the breakthrough of ...”

“... the KGB than the KGB’s implacable foe, the Afghan mujahidin, ‘freedom fighters’ supported by Ronald Reagan, among others. Today’s neo-cons no longer want to imitate Reagan by helping resentful young Muslim men regain their dignity through violent insurgency. Instead, they want to give them an alternative path to dignity: namely, liberal democracy. But ...”