Hints and tips:
...Wander the British Museum for a while and you’ll come across the Franks Casket, a mysterious eighth-century box made from a stranded whale’s bone....
...Its ethos was summed up by the comedian Frank Skinner, who told the sixth issue: “I’ve never gone along with all this new man bollocks . . ....
...Instead, Michael Medwin, the Cockney corporal from the TV series The Army Game, turned up, sounding surprisingly posh....
...The abolition of corporal punishment is no bad thing....
...But he misses the closer, if more worrying, parallel, between banks’ and regulators’ insistence that all is well and Lance-Corporal Jones’s counter-productive cries of “Don’t panic!”...
...The Women By TC Boyle Bloomsbury £12.99, 464 pages Boyle directs his raw satirical powers at a flawed, egocentric manipulator: architect Frank Lloyd Wright....
...Frank Rich’s splendid book, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, covered similar ground. But the selling goes on....
...It reveals casting near-misses that, with retrospect, seem outrageous (David Jason instead of Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones?)...
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