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...By coincidence (although I sometimes doubt there is any such thing) I’m reviewing a fascinating book, How We Break, by Vincent Deary....
...Director-turned-actor David Lynch delivers an unexpected cameo — surprisingly good — as a gentle-hearted nutter mourning a lost tortoise....
...McCourt likes to portray Marseille as a David fighting Goliath. “OM — this is part of the brand — are the underdog, the fighter, the underachiever.”...
...Introduced by Tilda Swinton and screened in homage to the late David Bowie, Nicolas Roeg’s poetic and artful sci-fi drama The Man Who Fell to Earth not only proved to be an atmospheric tribute to one of...
...Ernest Hemingway, Damon Runyon, Ring Lardner, Norman Mailer and Jack Kerouac all worked as sports journalists. Hemingway once got $30,000 from Sports Illustrated for a 2,000-word piece on bullfighting....
...Meanwhile, David Cameron had obviously looked at me and clocked: “You’re middle class!” That’s how we Britons think....
...Martin Brown, illustrator of the Horrible Histories non-fiction series, is, along with the books’ author Terry Deary, a star among the primary school set....
...As the New York newspaperman and writer Damon Runyon said: “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet it.”...
...Nicholas Hytner, the current artistic director of the National, is a very good director of the plays of Shakespeare and David Hare....
...Furthermore, one large private manufacturer of mining machinery told David Bleustein, a UBS analyst in New York, it was ?...
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