Always finish the crossword. ‘When you find yourself stuck with a real bore, have a bit of fun with him’ - Eda Sagarra, former professor of German at Trinity College Dublin, 91 Eda Sagarra: 'Forget the past, it’s all about the future.' Photograph: Eric ...
A bearded elderly man was doing a crossword. No one was talking. There was an air of reflection, of sadness too-only heightened by the faint sound of piped upbeat music and the enamel smile of a woman about to bite into a bacon sandwich in a photograph above the counter. In the ...
Not so, says a plainly wounded Ryder. “The whole thing has been blown out of proportion,” she claims. “I’d done three films in a row: ‘Great Balls of Fire,’‘. . . Roxy Carmichael’ and ‘Mermaids.’ Right after (“Mermaids”) wrapped, I flew to Rome with a terrible upper...
I stare at him. He looks back. I can’t say what it is he has in his eyes. I can’t read people that well. But our eyes meet, just for that instant. Without a word, I nod, take that letter, and walk away, to the other side of the group of prisoners. There is such an a...
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in Hamburg, Vienna, Rome, Cleveland, Bombay... a living person, alone, outside literary cliques, outside print, dying, outside humanity but of it. And setting it down. The Germans talk about Weltschmerz. Always that sense of Weltschmerz expressed itself for me in some such person as Ern...
In the novel, Daisy overdoses in Rome while the band is on break from tour. She wakes up in the shower with Nicky leaning over her. She has a come-to-Jesus moment: "While I had no idea whether or not I overdosed or what exactly happened that night, I could tell he had been trul...
…. There is also a stern reprimand written by Milne on behalf of the anthropomorphic bear, in response to an Observer crossword that referred to the character as a “fabulous monster”. Milne noted to Muller that “Pooh strongly objects”, adding that the bear was threatening to come to ...
Sumptuary laws— ordinances outlawing conspicuous consumption— go all the way back at least to Rome, where among the laws on the Twelve Tables was a prohibition on burying gold and silver ornaments with the dead, an exception being made for dental bridgework.27 Among the blue laws enacted ...
Goscinny& Uderzo’sASTERIX THE GLADIATOR. The year is 50 BC. Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely… In this adventure, the 4th of 26 Asterix books by Goscinny & Uderzo, Cacofonix the bard is captured and sent to Rome as a gift for Caesar. Asterix and Obelix tra...