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“... environment. In the introduction to the collection of her reprinted essays Clichés of Urban Doom, Ruth Glass offers a forceful, eloquent and polemical expression of the view that planning, along with all the basic values and institutions of the modern democratic welfare state, has been uprooted and up-ended since 1979 by a gigantic conjuring trick which ...”

“... the master whispered, ‘of nucleic acid.’ This was the first we’d heard of it. Rain nosed the glass; wind lashed the trees outside. ‘Four hydrogen-bonded nucleotides locking on like mating damselflies, but each a different size, pulling the ladder’s sides into a twist, like serpents on the sign outside a chemist who for old time’s sake gives lodging ...”

“... hedge at two in the morning to see what he doesn’t often get a glimpse of, that moonspark on a glass of Scotch he doesn’t often smell being more at home with fish-heads and the rinds of Emmental: trainspotting to his fox-astonishment a tumbler doing the rounds of his own beat about heart-height in the ...”

“... pale-rose tint he’s given to particles of water drying on a letter, 6th May 1947, This is the glass in which I drink the fresh and perfumed wine of Alsace à ta santé. Tous les jours que tu n’es pas ...”

“... down each nape. White cheeks and that dagger of kohl down the nose. Vibrissae, strands of black glass under a pure white chin. Nefertiti eyelashes, each aching hair standing proud from each whiffy pelt. That ready-to-flee gaze which unleashes the epinephrin in me – and in my phantom rival, who drops to his knees among the black icicles of our own shadows ...”

“... in a haze of cold spring sky. Breathing Hebrew to himself, he pours water, two delicate glass stamens from a copper cup, over his girlfriend’s fingers. A prayer she is too shy to ask him about. Lone Ranger When all this is over, said the princess, this bothersome Growing Up, I’ll live with wild horses. I want to race tumbleweed blowing down a ...”

“... that rattle-burp it only ever does when the wind is fierce outside. Black raindrops flame on the glass. Light from across the back gardens, one lone yellow oblong, someone up early on a winter morning. And I think of my parents putting radiators in their home, dark slices of metal toast in every room. Before, it was so cold of a morning I’d leave the next ...”

“... split at the folds and fell apart. iii I was probably not more than 12 when, in my aunt’s glass-fronted mahogany bookcase –       dusting its elaborate clawed feet,       the swagged garlands of leaves swathing       the hips of the female torsos       that surged from the column each side       like naked caryatids, or ...”

“... get to if your car moves when the ferry docks, a luxury barracks built of sandy blocks and sheet glass, and a picture of wealth and power as modes of infinite discomfort. It belongs to a high-powered American publisher, and is inhabited when the film starts by a former British prime minister, locked away writing his memoirs. Or rather … That corpse on the ...”

“... Asbury tries out another means of bonding with the incommunicative pair. He pours himself a glass of fresh milk from one of the cans, and drains it. Randall watches him: ‘She don’t ’low that,’ he said. ‘That the thing she don’t ’low.’ Asbury poured out another glassful and handed it to him. ‘She don’t ’low it,’ he ...”

“... so many of Moore’s characters live in, that of disappointed making do: ‘It was life like a glass of water: half-empty, half-full. Half-full. Half-full. Oops: half-empty.’ In ‘Which Is more than I Can Say about Some People’, Abby marries Bob after her dog dies of kidney failure, and the marriage is as successful as that auspicious start would ...”

“... and other poems on fairy mythology; his first serious income as an artist came from the stained glass windows he began to design for James Powell and Sons in the late 1850s. He turned out hundreds of such designs over the course of his working life, most of them for Morris & Co. In a frenzy of mourning after Morris’s death in 1896, he ‘flew at his ...”

“... this prematurely aged Frederica is also a wide-eyed Alice in Wonderland, as the looking-glass world of Dodgson’s Alice books offers recurring analogies for the perceptual distortions and topsy-turvy politics of England in the 1960s. The experimental television programme Frederica hosts is called Through the Looking-...”

“... and green places, and the winds on the heath, and saw the brightness of the skirts of God.’ Ruth Tomalin’s active interest in Hudson is of long standing, for she wrote a biography of him as long ago as 1954. She is obviously deeply acquainted with her subject. But her response to the special problems of writing about Hudson is not always ...”

“... of its original components. Palms can be replaced by propagation, but curvilinear wrought-iron and glass buildings which pre-date the Crystal Palace, of which this was a unique survival, sadly can’t. Quite another sort of approach is to be found in Albion Urdank’s book. An American scholar of enormous curiosity and industry has taken a vacuum-cleaner to ...”