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“... the magic, though this was a dynamic, hyper-functional Mr Bean: cartoon-eyebrowed but steely-eyed. Steve Rattner, Obama’s ‘car czar’, described Ghosn as ‘intense – almost like a coiled spring – earnest, and precise, all wrapped in a compact package of determination and drive’. A high performance light vehicle, in other words. Success came ...”

“... the latter may be. Nevertheless, it is fascinating that a college dropout called Michael Taylor, who worked as a knife salesman and grocery clerk, came to figure out which were the world’s tallest trees: everyone knew they were redwoods, but the precise trees had not been identified. Another student called ...”

“... sculptors to ‘express’ themselves.Or not. Not express themselves: Barratt Homes, Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey, Berkeley, the billionaire volume builders practise ‘land banking’, hoarding potential sites in the sure expectation of getting planning permission for lifestyle-immersive-dreamtime future slums when the market is propitious – maybe ...”

“... Smith lived in her Palmers Green house; from her mid-twenties, nicknamed Stevie after the jockey Steve Donoghue, she lived there alone with her aunt, producing three novels and a torrent of poems and articles, and working as a secretary at Newnes and Pearson’s publishing company. Nor is it easy to write a clear-sighted account of a gifted writer who is ...”

“... them, ‘pretended to like them’, and would pretend to like whatever it was that they liked:With Steve, a midlife-crisis sufferer with an earring to prove it, I pretended earrings were cool – so much so that he thought it appropriate to pierce my ear, too. With Chip, an alcoholic police officer who saw my earring as a sign of ‘girliness’, I had thick ...”

“... Yesterday (an error I fell into)? How be casual with Katharine Hepburn or do anything but gaze at Steve McQueen?My best plan, I found, was to make a mental note of who was there so that I could write home that night, then go and get some food at the vast buffet and gracefully retire. But it often turned out that the nicest people were at the buffet, or at any ...”

“... gallery of male heroes was assembled from decades past: Michael Caine, George Best, Keith Moon, Steve McQueen. Some of them I’d barely heard of and some were dead (or very nearly), but I was left in no doubt that a proper lad would be a fan of these geezers. Undoubtedly Loaded – along with Arena, Esquire, GQ, FHM, Maxim (to name just the biggest ...”

“... misplaced. But USA Gymnastics bizarrely still tried to assert Nassar’s innocence, and its own. Steve Penny, its CEO, rang Tasha Schwikert, another member of the 2000 Olympic team, to ask for a supportive statement. He asked if Nassar had abused her. She said no, but knew it wasn’t true. Nassar had told Schwikert, who had an Achilles problem, that there ...”

“... Berkti was one of the dead.‘I’m speaking for Fethia and Hania!’‘And I’m speaking for Steve Power,’ Ishmael said, ‘my first ever babysitter.’ He looked up at the charred building through the trees. ‘That’s my tower,’ he said. ‘It’s my tower. I grew up there.’‘You’re real,’ the community leader said, taking out her ...”