Hints and tips:
...ANGELINE CHEN: My name is Angeline. I'm a solicitor here in Hong Kong. And in our free time, myself and a lot of colleagues, we go and assist people who are arrested because of the protests....
...Ernest Hemingway, Damon Runyon, Ring Lardner, Norman Mailer and Jack Kerouac, all of whom wrote about sport (and with none of whom I’d dare compare myself for a second), would have agreed....
...Sitting here behind my computer, I’m the very last line of resistance.” Photographs by Miguel Candela for the Financial Times Produced by Claire Manibog, Kari-Ruth Pedersen and Adrienne Klasa...
...I’m not such a big Malibu fan, I have to admit. If you want to stay by the beach, I’d say The Rose Hotel in Venice is the place to book....
...“I’m having to say we don’t watch Peppa Pig, but I know that won’t last,” says Rothnie. Today the bane of many parents is YouTube....
...“You don’t sit down and think, ‘I’m going to write an album track.’...
...Clavane says: “I’m happy in my misery. I’m happy in my moaning — that’s one extreme. And when we do win, we’re the greatest team in football.” I know the feeling....
...When I fall in love with something that a designer does, I’m heartbroken to see the next season it’s gone. It’s always been my philosophy to be consistent.”...
...But I’m grateful for the judges’ errors. In 1993 my typewriter and I made it back to London and, a year later, my book Football Against the Enemy was nominated for the prize....
...Runyon Canyon is a peculiar place....
...In the Damon Runyon story Blood Pressure, a narrator with doctor’s orders to lead a low-stress lifestyle is dragged along on an escapade of ever increasing scariness by a hellraiser called Rusty Charley....
...Sweat stings my eyes and yet I’m shivering. My stomach lurches, my head spins, my teeth chatter....
...I’m not gonna lie. I pull myself up by the handrails. I’m old. Just look at my legs.” (A preliminary inspection seemed to substantiate this claim.)...
...They followed Damon Runyon’s dictum: “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet it.” While the rest of us got fatter, athletes went the other way....
...The invocation of football befitted a man who – like Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Damon Runyon, Ring Lardner and other great American writers – was a sports journalist....
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