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...The virulent yellow walls of Hyemi Shin’s set narrow to a corner, creating a nightmarish sense of claustrophobia....
...It looks like yellow snow, or what’s fashionably termed a “drift” of parmesan, but there’s no sulphurous egginess....
...“I reckon if we left them long enough it’d be rats or mice,” he said eventually. “Those nibbling bastards are the worst, but it’s a difficult one....
...One on the history of the area, the other on the rat-like duplicity of local councillors....
...“Rats” is how Hong Kong leader John Lee has taken to referring to a group of eight pro-democracy activists with a combined bounty of $1mn on their heads....
...Our first response to this was “you lucky bastard”, but then we had further thoughts....
...C’mon, I know there wasn’t an ounce of authenticity in some of the traffic-light curries (“red, yellow or green?”) slung over the counter in the saloon bar of The Old Stabbed Rat....
...Even the once dazzling yellows, blues and reds on the flower-and-vine detailing on gate catches, chairs and pillars had faded or been washed away by rain....
...MoMA’s giant Ed Ruscha retrospective (the first in New York in many decades) announces itself with a rat-tat-tat of punchy monosyllables....
...They’d be happier to see her sprinkling rat poison....
...“ACAB,” they chanted, the English abbreviation for “All Cops Are Bastards”. “A-ca-buh”, it came out in French....
...From the brilliant yellow “Sweet Pungent”, scrawled with wobbly diagrams of machinery and the words “flies” and “fleas”, leaps a black figure with mask face and fists raised in the Black Power salute....
...“You lucky bastard!” he whispered. Invergordon, on the final stretch of the NC500 back into Inverness, proved unexpectedly poignant....
...“The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right.” It’s night. The stars are out. There is contentment all around. The best end to an evening....
...It had been hot all week and as we finished dinner on the terrace, the light turned yellow and a storm broke in torrential rain and apocalyptic lightning....
...Water rats hide near the river, and there are plenty of brushtail and ringtail possums among the river red gums, with dusk views of flying fox migrations....
...Temüjin supported her by trapping rats....
...I noted down the labels on her low-growing tomatoes, Tumbling Tom Red and Tumbling Tom Yellow, and her low peppers, Lemon Dream and Tangerine Dream....
...share of encounters with London parties over the years, but nine months after relocating to New York in my early thirties — and well into my hedonistic retirement — it hadn’t crossed my mind that a small yellow...
...I’d have my articles ready to send, as spools of yellow ticker tape punched out on a blind punch machine, which poked holes in a pattern more or less corresponding to words....
...My personal style signifier is a hat, usually a woolly one, such as my bright yellow one by Oliver Spencer....
...Most dramatic was the Year of the Rat, for which I made pink glutinous rice rat-shaped dumplings stuffed with bean paste, with strawberry liquorice lace tails....
...The bastards change in the wash. They become harder, rather than easier, to pair — and, of course, an odd number will emerge from the washing machine each time no matter what you do....
...Literature is always hovering around her — she is also a writer — and this show is entitled A Rat Surrendered Here....
...In fact, I have something of an addiction: I’m constantly scouring eBay and online auctions for pieces, and when I’m in my happiest place, a junk shop, like a rat up a drainpipe I’m striding past big bits...
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