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“... Mr Kinnock would crack under the pressure of a long campaign. As things turned out, it was the Iron Lady herself who showed repeated signs of metal fatigue. From her initial promise to go ‘on and on’, to the bizarre press conference where she paraded her whole Cabinet jammed together side by side – in Hugo Young’s savage phrase, a row of ...”

“... more than a million square miles and 50 million people, together with most of Russia’s coal, iron and oil deposits and half its industry, were lost to Germany and its Turkish ally. A million German troops helped impose a ruthless military dictatorship in the occupied areas, which stretched from Estonia in the north through huge swathes of Belarus and ...”

“... what would now be called electromagnetic induction in August 1831. This was a hoop of hand-forged iron, roughly as big as the rubber rings thrown into swimming pools for children to retrieve. Faraday wrapped each half in a separate strand of copper wire (intended for making sprays of artificial flowers to adorn women’s bonnets), which itself had to be ...”

“... cover of the Sociedad Hispano-Marroquí de Transportes (Hisma), a company set up by Bernhardt, iron ore, copper and other vital minerals were shipped to Germany as well as wool, skins and hides for army uniforms and boots. Since 90 per cent of these mines were British-owned, Bernhardt persuaded Franco to force British companies like Rio Tinto to grant ...”

“... republic in 1918 (the acid had been diluted, and most of it hit his beard), and an assault with an iron bar on the popular muck-raking journalist Maximilian Harden, a friend of Rathenau’s (Harden survived, but only just). It also brought the Organisation Consul to an end. Why had the foreign minister aroused such hatred? The immediate cause was his ...”

“... westward from the Paraguay River to Bolivia. At that remote frontier, unguarded, there stood cast-iron markers, erected in 1939 by a team from the moribund League of Nations, at the end of Paraguay’s Chaco War with Bolivia. This brutal war was fought over oil, and entire regiments died of thirst when the opposing side prevented their access to such water ...”

“... many of the striving, corrupt, developing nations trying to make up for time lost behind the Iron Curtain. Something other than this was expected. The nation that bore the horrors of the Khmer Rouge seemed ready for a kinder if not a more prosperous transformation. This is the country that fought one of the most savage civil conflicts spawned by the Cold ...”

“... text translations of Bernhard’s second and third books of poems, In Hora Mortis and Under the Iron of the Moon, has come back ten years later with an English-only Collected Poems. Most readers, even quite possibly Bernhard readers, won’t know that their man wrote poems. Few would argue with Wilson’s description of him as ‘Austrian ...”

“... more of an activity and less of a product,’ a shift that aligned him with contemporaries such as Richard Serra and Eva Hesse as well as choreographers like Yvonne Rainer and Trisha Brown, who refreshed dance with everyday gestures and basic tasks. At the same time, as Anne Wagner has argued, Nauman held on to historical sculpture as a ‘shadow ...”

“... wrote to Gosse: ‘As for the story itself, it is really sent out to those into whose souls the iron has entered. – has entered deeply, at some time in their lives.’ The phrase will do, I think, to describe, not only his intentions in his last novel, but his sense of himself at this point in his life. The iron had ...”

“... holes that the open ends make in the plywood wall to catch sight of people moving about in the iron-maiden-like field that meets you when you get inside. Once there you have to pick your way through, over or under menacing projections. The field of concrete blocks that makes up Allotment II suggests a maze, not because you can’t work out how to cross it ...”

“... walking round the edge of the military exercise area on Salisbury Plain and pausing at the Iron Age fort on Battlesbury Hill, which looks out over the British army’s Wiltshire estate. Since then most of the army in Afghanistan had come back to Britain, and an item of furniture had been added to the Battlesbury ramparts, among the cow parsley and ...”

“... gills, stones picked from scree, blocks of snow and slivers of ice, earth, deer-dung, scrap iron, fern fronds, spruce thinnings and off-cuts. In this, the land artists are following the footsteps of the original Australians, who ground their ochres from earth in rock holes next to the overhangs which they adorned with fish and birds and lizards and ...”

“... already the author of his major works. The Foundation nonetheless took a big punt on the genius of Richard Powers, who was awarded his MacArthur in 1989, aged only 32. I haven’t checked, but he is probably the youngest novelist ever to win a fellowship. Generally unknown in 1989, and temperamentally reticent, he has lately divulged something of his personal ...”

“... are often spontaneously broken; an ordinary magnet is an example. ‘The equations that govern the iron atoms and magnetic field in a magnet are perfectly symmetrical with regard to direction in space,’ Weinberg says. ‘Nothing in these equations distinguishes north from south or east or up. Yet, when a piece of iron is ...”