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“... eyes, grey-blue legs and feet. Most of him is black, except the base of the enormous bill is green and yellow and he has a bright gold bib and bunches of red feathers on his stomach and under his tail.’ Lota owned the apartment in Rio and, as Bishop wrote to a friend from Petropolis, forty or fifty miles from Rio, ‘lots of land here and is in the ...”

“... the correct date, 1938, in the essay by Akhmatova that follows. His first book, Stone, is given as Green Stone, the original Russian having referred to the colour of the binding of its first edition. The famous Italian Slavist Lo Gatto is Logatto, Modigliani is Amedea. Lourié appears as Lurye, for, as a prefatory note explains, the names ‘have not been ...”

“... its medieval layout. It’s not hard to notice the absence at the heart of the town, a great green open space once occupied by a massive Benedictine abbey. Little of it is left: the remains of two monumental entrance gates plus a lofty detached bell tower, the latter dwarfing the two parish churches that once respectfully flanked an abbey church as large ...”

“... penetration? ‘The mind of America’. A capacious subject. As Harry minutes while he’s still a green neophyte: ‘In Intelligence, we look to discover the compartmentalisation of the heart. We made an indepth study once in the CIA and learned to our dismay (it was really horror!) that one-third of the men and women who could pass our security clearance ...”

“... hair and blue eyes of her Argentinian Jewish mother, Appelfeld’s youthful, good-natured wife, Judith. The Appelfelds appear to have created as calm and harmonious a household as any child could hope to grow up in. During the four years that Aharon and I have been friends, I don’t think I’ve ever visited him at home in Mevasseret Zion without ...”

“... I heard that US forces were still unable to secure the two-mile highway from the airport to the Green Zone. I heard that the President’s uncle, Bucky Bush, had made half a million dollars cashing in his stock options in Engineered Support Systems Inc, a defence contractor that had received $100 million for work in Iraq. Bucky Bush is on the board of ...”

“... by a ‘sub-creator’. Anyone, Tolkien argues, can use language to think of something like a ‘green sun’. But it takes a lot more effort to build up a whole world in which such a thing will seem credible and consistent: ‘When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an ...”

“... by intakes of amphetamine, caffeine and nicotine, an unholy trinity. Sontag’s younger sister, Judith, had introduced her to cigarettes during a rough patch in her marriage to Rieff in the hope of calming her nerves. ‘She was so miserable, and I wanted to relax her. I taught her how to smoke. That’s the worst thing I ever did.’ In​ 1975, Sontag ...”

“... post, next to a Union Jack, and ‘Live in London’, beside an emoji of a small house and a very green tree. She liked to imagine that one day she would live in a house like that with her husband, Hassan, and their two daughters. Hassan used to work at the mosque. Later on, when he was spending more time away, Rania would send him loving messages along with ...”

“... because there’s a choice doesn’t mean you’re free to choose.In Latin America, where a ‘green wave’ of abortion legalisation is underway, it has taken decades of community and activist work to build the momentum for legislative change; more important, that work has created the infrastructure needed for education and access (the stark exception ...”