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...In 1973, the American novelist Ursula K Le Guin defined the essential function of science fiction as “distancing, the pulling back from ‘reality’ in order to see it better”....
...Moore plays Evelyn, a leftwing mom frustrated by her shallow son Ziggy’s obsession with becoming a YouTube music sensation....
...It’s one of the great titles — provided in fact by her close friend Evelyn Waugh (who also coined her next, even better, Love in a Cold Climate)....
...If the US continues with its K-shaped recovery, the IMF’s prediction of post-pandemic upheaval may prove prescient. Edward Luce is on book leave and will return in mid-March....
...“The f**k is wrong with you?”...
...So, yes, after reading Howard’s book it is easy to shake your head in horror about petty — sometimes stupid — rules....
...I live in France, so my petty problems are shared with a mere 1.3 million Britons in the EU: I may require a residence permit to stay in my own home; I could lose access to healthcare....
...You can present your rival candidate for prime minister as a dangerous threat; but you look weak and petty if you pay a leadership pretender the same compliment....
...Its irreverence and jaunty flirtations with disaster prefigured the better known (and fictional) travelogues of Jerome K Jerome by several decades....
...If Trent Reznor [of Nine Inch Nails] says ‘Get the f**k out of my way,’ you get the f**k out of his way. Dr Dre said: ‘If you send one of your guys up to my studio they’re not going to make it out....
...“At that time I was so removed from political consciousness and moral foundation — I was just a petty criminal....
...Over lunch, the 49-year-old hurtles his way to the end of each sentence without pause, using “f**k” the way millennials use “like”: constantly....
...Had Steven Runciman not actually lived, someone, perhaps Evelyn Waugh, would have invented him....
...The reviewer is an FT leader writer Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe by James K Galbraith (Yale University Press, £18.99/ $26)...
...A post-scarcity economy — a.k.a. the economic reality of an abundant system — may not necessarily lead to a utopian world....
...But many folk tales laugh at both bloodshed and petty cruelties, and the grotesque, the dreadful and the banal are always getting mixed together in comedy and satire....
...She is contesting the R.K. Puram constituency in Delhi – one of 70 seats in the teeming National Capital Territory of 17m inhabitants – in the state election on Wednesday....
...could become a similar reality check for the lobbyists of Washington’s K Street....
...Lewis and Evelyn Waugh turned down OBEs or CBEs. Artists, writers and actors were the most notable refuseniks....
...Please go the f**k to sleep....
...Taylor, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh … were kind of heroes to Christopher Booker and Paul Foot and myself. We wanted to read all their books and know all about them....
...And his status as the champion of shareholder value was destroyed when he made off from GE with a retirement package both outlandish and petty....
...TJ’s products are made by about 1,000 convicts who have committed crimes ranging from petty theft to murder....
...Rebney is shown constantly fluffing his lines (which he wrote), and becoming increasingly enraged, screaming “f**k” and “shit” monotonously....
...This is not a modus operandi I use, partly because I don’t believe it to be true – and partly because of the “k” word....
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