Hints and tips:
...Joyce Carol Oates is stunned to find me at the restaurant. Just minutes before, she was told that all the trains between New York and Princeton, New Jersey, had been cancelled....
...Stroll through star-lined light tunnels, past an 8m sphere filled with more than 20,000 moving lights and alongside dancing fountains (from £19.50 for adult non-members, from £14.50 for children)....
...For sheer drama, the illuminated ruins of Fountains Abbey, combined with carol singing as part of its “Music and Lights” events, would move even the most entrenched Scrooge to embrace Christmas....
...Eileen Agar’s “Marine Object” (1939), a broken amphora found on a beach near Toulon and studded with crustaceans, and Carol Bove’s immaculate equilibrium of seashells, coral and feathers “Le Sphinx Rouge...
...The sections between each bridge are treated, according to architect Carol Ross Barney “as a series of rooms”....
...Sometimes, it has glimmered like frozen mist, or a fountain of gold, at other times it has been more like a towering wizard, with a dark cloak spangled with starbursts....
...Near my hotel, in the new Branson Landing shopping complex by Lake Taneycomo, an American flag flies above a fountain fitted with a battery of 10 flamethrowers....
...Having exhausted his pay cheque, he was had to pawn his fountain pen: “My father! That man of rectitude! Going into a pawnshop!” As often in Payback, the prose seems poised for flight into fiction....
...“Fountain” (2007), by the Arte Povera-influenced Marisa Merz, features a scruffy lead tub spouting water over a frail desert plant – an exquisitely rudimentary celebration of humanity and nature....
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