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...The Rise of the Civilisational State, by Christopher Coker, Polity RRP£55 hardback/£17.99 paperback The idea of the nation-state is familiar....
...The near-success of barnstorming candidates such as would-be Texas Senator Beto O’Rourke and would-be Georgia governor Stacey Abrams argues against conciliation for the incoming Congress....
...Perhaps they should have listened to the Marquise de Merteuil in Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos’s epistolary novel....
...A thinking person’s epic, superbly shot and acted with a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Christopher Walken, it was the great film about the Vietnam war that the world had been waiting for....
...Josie Rourke’s first-rate revival suggests that this is not in any way a matter of quality....
...It could also be comic, as was captured in 1982 by the American humorist PJ O’Rourke when he joined some US communists holidaying on the Volga: “These were people who believed everything about the Soviet...
...I have to go with Christopher Guest in This is Spinal Tap: “Turn it up to 11.” ——————————————- ‘The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way . . . And It Wasn’t My Fault . . ....
...“The fundamental issue is to maintain security while facilitating trade,” says Christopher Wilson at the Wilson Centre’s Mexico Institute in Washington that recently authored a 176-page report on the border...
...… To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, by Joshua Ferris, Viking RRP£16.99/Little Brown, RRP$26 Paul O’Rourke, a New York dentist, insomniac and serial monogamist, finds his world turned upside down when someone...
...Hubris, PJ O’Rourke noted, is one of the great renewable resources....
...Protagonist Paul O’Rourke is a successful New York dentist struggling to feel at ease in the modern world, who finds himself governed by obsessive ritual and obsessive pursuit of women from different creeds...
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...Two – Rourke and Beckham – had staged (several) comebacks, and were still up there....
...Top talent : Megan Fox, Beyoncé Knowles, Jon Stewart, Claire Danes, Mickey Rourke, Al Pacino, Paul Giamatti, Steve Buscemi, Jon Hamm, January Jones, Diane Kruger. 2010 Oscar nominations : 8, including Christopher...
...Rourke demanded. “Because I wanted to see Loki in her tracksuit.” (Loki is his pet chihuahua.) Rourke leapt from his chair and dashed out, to the consternation of the timekeepers....
...Eric Einhorn’s production of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, sung in a new translation by Kelley Rourke, is a less happy affair....
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