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“... orgasm of crossing another border. Losing and gaining hours on interminable flights. Another anonymous hotel suite (the Sheraton chain owned and operated by the CIA). Another bugged phone call. ‘Place the money in a fiduciary time-deposit with back-guarantee minimum yield of 6 per cent.’ Slowing everything down with smoke. Rushing it with adrenaline ...”

“... made suffrage a different thing. The polemic ‘I Hate Straights,’ for instance, written by Anonymous Queers (though their names appear in Let the Record Show), copies of which were distributed at Gay Pride in 1990, is the most intransigent statement of social rage associated with members of ACT UP. Yet it includes this passage: The next time some ...”

“... vein/(Pleasing the world) thy praises doth obtain’ (Poems in Divers Humours, 1598), while in the anonymous college comedy The Return from Parnassus (Part I, c.1599), a dim fop called Gullio resolves to ‘worship sweet Mr Shakespeare’ and to ‘have his picture in my study at the court’, though the hard-headed Judicio thinks Mr Shakespeare should move on ...”

“... spread over the fields of Europe, signs of bodies no longer of this world but also not exiled to anonymous extinction. An even grander ongoing project is the laying to rest, as far as that is possible, of the millions whose murdered bodies, more radically severed from their names than those of dismembered soldiers, have no location. Some are in mass ...”

“... and basketball courts are more or less the same, familiarity with one’s surroundings, however anonymous they might appear from the outside, seems to enhance confidence in the performance of repetitive physical tasks. Teams that move stadiums, even from one identikit arena to another, tend to sacrifice a big chunk of home advantage until they familiarise ...”

“... is to be found in Robert Greene’s play James the Fourth, in Marlowe’s Edward II, and in the anonymous play about Richard II, Woodstock. Soon favourites were an almost obligatory feature of plays that pointed at the political abuses of the time. When John Day dramatised Sidney’s Arcadia in 1606 he rewrote the plot to make a favourite a central ...”

“... repute, a certain grandiloquence of expression more characteristic of the tragic muse. The astute, anonymous literary critic who wrote the treatise ‘On Height’ singled him out as an example of how not to do it: ‘so lofty he is positively airborne’; and more military-minded men found his battle descriptions in particular hard to believe. The most ...”

“... In a song called ‘Help Me’, he sounds as if he’s finally crawled to a Narcotics Anonymous meeting: ‘With a humble heart, on bended knees, I’m begging you please: help me!’ Singers like Isaac Hayes (a Stax act, as it happens) had already shown that MOR balladry could be a many-splendoured trip, and with the best songs in the Stax ...”

“... for objection to an individual juror is apparent, both sides face judgment by 12 effectively anonymous individuals. We have never had, as the Americans have, a right to cross-question jurors-in-waiting in order to see whether there is cause for recusing them. But our random system brings its own problems. A juror may know the accused or a witness, or may ...”

“... the administration of such ‘cannibal mixtures’ was sometimes criticised – the author of one anonymous 17th-century manuscript called it ‘dismal vampirism’ – the virtues of ‘mummy’ or ‘mumia’ were proclaimed in standard pharmacopoeia and extensively promoted by physicians, apothecaries and barber-surgeons throughout the Christian ...”

“... there has also been an unconvincing attempt by Charles Hamilton to prove that it survives as the anonymous playscript known as The Second Maiden’s Tragedy, which is more sensbly attributed to Thomas Middleton. There is no sign that Theobald had any specific knowledge of the earlier Cardenio text, records of which re-emerged after his death. (He did know it ...”

“... outside war zones is indistinguishable in practice from mere desirability as determined by anonymous national security operatives. Common sense suggests that at least some of the thousands of alleged militants killed by drones have been killed unjustly: that is, have not been killed in America’s collective self-defence, however capaciously ...”

“... version of the railway shooting, and Wu was attacked in the press and on TV. Early in June several anonymous articles were published smearing Wang, claiming she had a criminal record and had served time for injuring a young policeman. Replying online, she recounted the ordeal she’d been through in Tianjin, pointing out that the Bar Association of Beijing had ...”

“... as with a new intensity to define modern experience, undated and unlocalised. These poems are both anonymous and individual. They are both easy and difficult. They are easy in the sense of their largeness, directness and human centrality. Any good modern anthology of love poetry will hold half a dozen of them, which have grown so familiar over the years as to ...”

“... made sense? I was certainly sceptical about lifting the Underground carriage, but the cry of the anonymous leader made sense to everyone in the crowd. What would make sense if your Tube stop was the subject of a sarin gas attack? Haruki Murakami thinks the events in the Tokyo Underground of 20 March 1995 can teach us something about the Japanese psyche. I am ...”