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“... those brown suits and frockish overcoats – is intended to make him look like ‘the type of man Kate Moss might date’, according to a BBC website (Jarvis Cocker is mentioned, and the narrowness of Pete Doherty’s trousers). Then there is the BBC stylist’s choice of footwear: Converse Chucks, subsequently chosen to signify nubility by David ...”

“... haugh, Oxter, pinkie and lobeless lug As it will be in the beginning. A Moment of Your Time for Kate Whiteford Z-rods and a Pictish hoopla of carved rings Swim into view. Yacht sails on the North Sea Tack back and forth, xeroxing other summers When other yacht sails did that too, sped, idled, Veered into light. Dwamtime. Heat-haze. Relaxed, Unchronological ...”

“... of perfect equipoise.Porter (1891-1964) was the cosseted surviving child of three born to Kate and Sam Porter, a pharmacist in Peru, Indiana. He inherited his aptitude for music from his father, a good pianist with an attractive tenor voice. ‘I suppose he started me writing lyrics,’ Porter said – he wrote his first song when he was ten. He ...”

“... very early on. ‘He was ahead of his age in the things he cared about,’ according to his sister Kate, ‘and that led to all kinds of trouble academically and emotionally.’ In a letter to a friend from 1966, reproduced in Richard King’s new oral biography, Travels over Feeling, the 15-year-old Russell is already referring to Walt Whitman, John Cage and ...”