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“... of Lowell’s opening line, ‘It was a real Maine fishing town,’ and the line ‘where the fish were trapped’. ‘I have two minor questions,’ she wrote. As usual, they have to do with my George Washington-handicap. I can’t tell a lie even for art, apparently; it takes an awful effort or a sudden jolt to make me alter facts. Shouldn’t it be a ...”

“... and saw coming down a vast man with a much smaller friend in tow, like a whale and its pilot fish. He was wearing his coat slung around his shoulders just as I’m sure we’d seen him in the cinema when he was the Gestapo chief in Pimpernel Smith and, if it was in the late 1940s we would have seen him as Mr Bumble in Oliver Twist and Jaggers in Great ...”

“... and North by Northwest in 1959. Altogether he was in five films directed by Hawks and four by Stanley Donen, the last and best of which was Charade (1964) – famous for the scene in which Grant has a shower with his ‘drip-dry’ suit on. He was married four times, and had one daughter, with Dyan Cannon. In 1968 he joined the board of the Fabergé ...”

“... for plain living and high thinking. It took a long time for Friday to be marked as the day for the fish special, as Henkin’s magnificently detailed table of menu changes in Chicago illustrates. Though they long remained both working days and school days, Saturdays often offered a looser and more varied schedule than weekdays – and private schools had ...”

“... from collaborations with Róisín Murphy and Björk, but Plat du Jour is a different kettle of fish, a personal project that has taken a couple of years to devise and record. As the opening track makes clear – it’s called ‘The Truncated Life of a Modern Industrialised Chicken’ – he is obsessed by the ethics of eating. In its idiosyncratic way ...”

“... countries with an old and unified bourgeois culture. That most bourgeois of Conservative premiers, Stanley Baldwin, could solemnly and characteristically declare, as late as 1924, that he thought the countryside was ‘the essential England’, and that England would always be ‘essentially in the countryside’. Few would have contradicted this sentiment ...”

“... timber lattice roof’, and to one side, a large pond is intended to compensate the Thames’s fish for the imposition: a Swedish eco-lodge in the middle of Gotham. The idea of building tunnels under the city to connect stations on its outskirts via the centre has its origins in the town planner Patrick Abercrombie’s utopian plans for postwar London. For ...”

“... boxes. I took the proof up to the staff room and put it in my bag before getting busy with the Stanley knife. After work, I read some more. When term started up again, I packed the proof along with my coffee cups and told my tutor I wanted to write my final-year thesis on it. As I was working on it, the novel came out. Then it won the Booker Prize. I ...”

“... isn’t always profitable to make comparisons across art forms, but Harvey is certainly aware of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, both of them authored in a way that is unusual in an art form as collaborative as cinema. 2001 envisions a future of glassy boredom punctuated by awe, while Gravity starts from a situation ...”

“... of tides. A sickly brown scum smelling of drains and nutrient-starved parasites sucking on rotting fish. Nobody wants to breaststroke through pesticides and fertilisers, microplastics, petrol, mercury and the corpses of the malformed creatures that feed on them. The rains return. Pipes fail again. Fines are issued. Investors get their protected dividends.It is ...”

“... as a pathology of ‘the system’ make it akin to an alien visitation. The investigations of Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo suggest that this is either false or raises the question of who runs the system. Indeed, Zimbardo, the designer of the 1971 Stanford prison experiment, when undergraduates enacted roles as prisoners and guards in a mock ...”

“... the Thames, from the pomposity of City Hall to the opportunistic funland of the London Eye and the fish tanks and fast-food franchises of County Hall, the former seat of local government. Stretches of the official path along the river are marked, along with living-statue performance artists and street musicians, with uplifting quotations from approved poets ...”

“... The volcanic island had been described to him, by a Japanese friend, as Edenic, a place of birds, fish, turtles. ‘The community is essential to the creative act,’ Snyder said. ‘The solitary poet figure and the “name” author will become less and less relevant.’ Our route to Kitkitdizze read, in the email Snyder sent, like one of his ...”

“... interesting that was discovered was filed away, and would sometimes be leveraged for bigger fish, at least in biographies less careful than Gage’s. Gentry quotes Sullivan:The moment [Hoover] would get something on a senator he’d send one of the errand boys up and advise the senator that we’re in the course of an investigation and we by chance ...”

“... Or do they simply want to send Farage floating into Parliament, like the astronaut at the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, to start methodically extracting the circuits from the out-of-control controller’s brain? There’s plenty of evidence in Thanet to support Ukip’s general proposition that local power is being diminished while the ...”