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“... But clear-cut issues fought out to a finish Have sex appeal no slaughter can diminish. Port Stanley’s airstrip is the first thing hurt, Bombed by a Vulcan and a pack of Harriers. No skin and hair fly with the grass and dirt. Unharmed back to Ascension and the carriers Go all the planes. This war seems snugly girt, Like some Grand Prix, with ...”

“... Their willingness to explain away the anomalous pressure readings should be remembered alongside Stanley Milgram’s famous electroshock experiments as a case study of the extent to which authority can warp perception. After the blowout BP behaved like a well-trained Mafioso. At first it denied everything and attempted to pass primary responsibility for the ...”

“... repairmen, movie people, pop stars’. Rocket is grown under the cover of immense domes; the only fish is farm-grown sushi tilapia. There are ‘eleven and a half billion people on the earth … sixty million of them right here in California’. The US West Coast has been afflicted with a vicious Mucosa plague – a malady reminiscent of the encephalitis ...”

“... superior social status in the world; or provocative and combative and rude like Randolph, Edward Stanley, Nigel Birch and others’) and it seems he is unwilling even to be a gentleman. He notes that Somerset Maugham said that Kipling was ‘not quite a gent’. When Kipling said of somebody, ‘He’s a white man,’ Maugham thought: ‘How I wish, in order ...”

“... official creator, Stan Lee (typically, for his generation of showmen, a de-Judaicised ‘Stanley Lieber’), has boasted: ‘Spider-Man’s costume covers every inch of his body . . . any reader, of any race’ – if not gender – ‘in any part of the world, can imagine himself under that costume.’ But, quite satisfyingly, Parker doesn’t don ...”

“... word. 19 May. Come out this morning (still grey, still cold) to find smack in front of my door a fish – a wet fish actually, about nine inches long, still glistening as if just caught. Pinkish in parts (a mullet?) dropped by a seagull perhaps or hurled into the garden by a dissatisfied customer? Except the wet ...”

“... Richardson’s book is very much of its time. Since the enthusiastic re-evaluation of Emerson by Stanley Cavell, Harold Bloom and, most importantly, Richard Poirier, Emerson’s stock has probably never stood higher. He seems, temporarily, to have moved into a privileged place beyond criticism. But I wonder if that is good for him. In 1887 Henry James ...”

“... decentralised cells with significant autonomy to make executive decisions. In the words of General Stanley McChrystal, who headed the US Joint Special Operations Command from 2003 to 2008, ‘to defeat a networked enemy, we had to become a network ourselves.’ Each cell is made up of officers from different branches – infantry, artillery, air ...”

“... and to use language. A ginger cat resembles a tabby cat in respects apart from its colour (likes fish, swishes tail when angered, pounces on mice), so both are cats. Something that twitches when angered could consequently have a word appropriate to a cat transferred to it, as a kind of cross-categorical switch which is analogous to the kinds of analogy that ...”

“... almost simultaneously with Jenkins’s great factory ship. With luck he will pick up some of the fish thrown back into the water in the latter’s wake. It would be a shame if his more discursive and analytical volume, which is also more compact, and just as well written, were lost in the shadow of Jenkins’s greater fame. But does any of this justify the ...”

“... who ground their ochres from earth in rock holes next to the overhangs which they adorned with fish and birds and lizards and spirit-figures. They are also working as nearly as humans can to the processes of nature itself. If you look at the photographs by Paul van Vlissingen taken monthly from one August to the next at Rudha Cailleach, or ...”

“... Dogs and picnic parties and distant traffic heading out of town on the A2. Star Wars repainted by Stanley Spencer at his most Cookham bucolic. ‘While there is no reported threat to the Games,’ my pamphlet said, we need to ensure the safety of those attending … The overall police-led plan includes a range of equipment and personnel being located across ...”

“... with his mother. Living with you is like living at boarding school: chicken Monday, fish Tuesday.       I have deep friendships.       I have friendships       with other recluses. But the story that gradually emerges – the wife is sealed off, reclusive, controlling and judgmental; the husband, enraged and ...”

“... from Magiciens were represented in Enwezor’s Documenta – Bruly Bouabré, Louise Bourgeois, Stanley Brouwn, Alfredo Jaar, On Kawara, Isek Kingelez, Juan Muñoz and Jeff Wall. Yet Magiciens was dismissed by a leading New York critic, in my hearing, as reminiscent of a ‘Tokyo Airport giftshop’. Eight years passed before Enwezor curated Trade Routes in ...”

“... of Lowell’s opening line, ‘It was a real Maine fishing town,’ and the line ‘where the fish were trapped’. ‘I have two minor questions,’ she wrote. As usual, they have to do with my George Washington-handicap. I can’t tell a lie even for art, apparently; it takes an awful effort or a sudden jolt to make me alter facts. Shouldn’t it be a ...”