Hints and tips:
...Philosopher AJ Ayer did write football match reports for The Observer in the 1950s, but he seems to have treated this as a vacation from thinking....
...Some might have found it patronising but it was indelibly reminiscent of Ronald Reagan’s trademark “there you go again” comment when Jimmy Carter was getting over-earnest in their 1980 debate....
...Easier to vanish from a marriage, as the unwitting Ronald Colman does, a shellshocked former soldier who quits wife Greer Garson after being hit by a taxi....
...Ronald Reagan also worked the land, to portray himself as a vigorous westerner in spite of his age, and he created a “kitchen cabinet” of wealthy Republican advisers from his California social circle....
...If the Ayers script was troubling, she said, it was because many people found Mr Obama’s associations and judgment troubling....
...The recent scuffle over remarks Barack Obama made about Ronald Reagan shows that the Illinois senator is, on the campaign trail at least, making noises about making nice with the enemy....
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