Hints and tips:
...Not every extract was a winner — Alice Topp’s clichéd trio Little Atlas looked like two men fighting over a deckchair in a high wind — but there were many compensations....
...There are music sessions in every pub — fiddles, Uilleann pipes, accordion, mandolin, penny whistle....
...Things pick up on “Clock Winds Down”, an urgent dispatch from the front lines of the climate wars. “The ice caps melt, the Amazon burns . . ....
...Phillips; Linda — it is so rare to see her perform on stage, let alone with Richard, that the audience gasped, and her children hugged her protectively — and their grandson Zak Hobbs, ubiquitous on guitar and mandolin...
...There is surprisingly little medical research into intestinal wind. Rarely life-threatening, it’s one of the less glamorous (back) passages of medicine....
...And then Raman and Mills returned alone for Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington’s “Wild Is The Wind”....
...actress and singer Connie Stevens released a version that was more Johnny than Nina: sickly strings, a sweet, girlish vocal delivery (in the lyric, oddly, she hears the sound of “violins”, rather than “mandolins...
...A father and daughter, both literary academics running away from destructive relationships, wind up together in a rural motel....
...I’ve just returned from holiday on Kefalonia, the setting for the novel Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, where the tavernas were full, the retsina flowing and the harbour bustling....
...At the past few shows, he has played drums and mandolin but his uniquely expressive vocals have been absent....
...It was September, and the wind battered the island for four days without stopping, as it does at that time of year....
...More than Gone with the Wind meets Captain Corelli’s Mandolin? Without wit, sedition or probing psychological insight, Love in the Time of Cholera makes do with a grand, glossy stoicism....
...Even Coke’s less social aspects have found a place in the Mayan culture of southern Mexico, where wind is an element of healing....
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