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“... three months now and can at last ink real figures onto our accountant’s computer predictions. Robin is there early, the lights are on and he’s opened the windows. The Market is still quiet – a far cry from its days as a fruit and flower nexus. I read in the Observer that Michael Caine’s father had worked in one of the London markets. Now the Market ...”

“... and his men; their nets are stiff with it. It cakes their hands and spear-shafts. Enough for one day, they sleep in the shade. Where Actaeon left them. Arms outspread, one step at a time, he inched down through the cooling air, to enter – though he did not know it – the grove of the virgin goddess, Artemis. He parted the branches, slipping through ferns ...”

“... tired of watching, though fearful now, for what he had seen. And Ampelos watched him back, every day, Dionysus riding away on the saddle of a panther to hunt the dark woods with his maenads, with his deer-skin whipping behind him, out on the hunt like a god. And as he watched, he felt a presence at his shoulder saying ‘Why should he have the panthers, why ...”

“... the weight of the camera,the holders, plates, tripod, his enormous coat,he eats the same each day: bread, milk, sugar,and takes the same position to record the seasons.They flick past and he speaks the colours:chlorophyll, honey, cinnamon and bone.     *Edinburgh Castle (detail)The Japanese touristplaces his camera on a post,backs away, and ...”

“... includes, among other examples, the sane, sly, knowledgeable prose of the Washington Post’s Robin Givhan, who not only covers collections but also analyses the looks of American public figures. And there is more reporting on the working and living conditions of the people who make the clothes – from the growing and harvesting of plants (cotton and ...”

“... duchess who thereafter plays a considerable part in their adventures. In The Duchess’s Diary Robin Chapman imagines her to have been an actual person, who had met not the fictitious Quixote but the real Cervantes; and the diary, supposedly translated from the original MS, tells her story. The first book of Don Quixote came out in 1605, the second book ...”

“... the misfortune or bad judgment to be married for thirty years to the current Foreign Secretary. Robin Cook most certainly comes second in his ex-wife’s memoirs. It is wishful thinking on the part of excitement-seekers to call the book an act of revenge: the main thing is the transformation of Margaret Cook from a woman barely noticed during a long ...”

“... the majority have no formal employment and that 76 per cent of Haitians live on less than $2 a day. The abysmal state of the roads, occasional power cuts, unreliable water supply and the fact that only 13 per cent of children are enrolled in state schools, all testify to a failure of the powers that be to furnish basic services. On two occasions – in ...”

“... Jews and squaring himself to outwit Hitler and Himmler and cheat them of their victims. On another day he’d set his heart on a baked potato, a hot dog, a cruise around Manhattan on the Circle Line. There were, however, spots of deep feeling in flimsy Billy. The God of his fathers still mattered. Billy was as spattered as a Jackson Pollock painting, and among ...”

“... his sentiments, particularly his moral outrage. This broke all the anthropological rules of the day, but it was prescient. In a sense, the current generation of anthropologists has voted for Colin. It may not be ‘anthropology’, they say, but it ought to be. This is what anthropology should be like, not hiding behind a phony and unachievable ...”

“... When I was about eleven in 1947, my mother and stepfather, Mary and Robin Campbell, went to live in Wiltshire and were neighbours of Frances Partridge and her husband Ralph. They became great friends. I was somewhere included in that friendship, and Frances made an enormous impression on me as I grew up. These are the years covered in Everything to lose ...”

“... choose my sex yet I was simpler then. And so I can’t leave off going in after myself tho’ some day I may. I didn’t know after I left you at Newent I was going to begin to write poetry. This is not really fair to Frost: ‘The Road Not Taken’ doesn’t treat choice as straightforwardly as Thomas claims, and it’s certainly not the hymn to ...”

“... Of the two​ folk-myths bound up with Englishness, the myth of St George and the myth of Robin Hood, the myth of St George is simpler. Robin Hood is a process; St George is an event. Robin Hood steals from the rich, which is difficult, to give to the poor, which is trickier still, and has to keep on doing it over and over; but St George kills the dragon, and that’s it ...”

“... fanfare to hereditary power and privilege, where’s the opposition? With the exception of a three-day ‘Fuck the Jubilee’ festival in Bristol, there’s little of the agitprop street theatre or situationist provocation that accompanied previous royal celebrations. We are unlikely to see any plywood guillotines or 21 bum salutes outside Buckingham ...”

“... that only a technology in its infancy can engender. She wonders how governments – or modern-day privateers – might use broadcasts to sway a foreign nation; she asks whether the slide to war might have been avoided had the 1914 Sarajevo assassination taken place in the wireless era and the public heard it discussed by experts; she discusses how a ...”