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In this bucolic setting, he could not be much farther from Hollywood.

It would be bathetic to compare the upheavals, rebellions and mortal struggles of the Arab Spring to the changing of the guard among fashion designers.

When there were no more landlords willing to wait forever for their rent-money, the impecunious family moved to an old scow anchored in shallow water near an abandoned wharf.

Then with an air of renewed determination, she returned to her breakfast and ate everything comestible in sight.

The valet touched his hat respectfully, and went up the gangway, followed by the obsequious porter.

"I really did nonplus you, didn't I?" she insisted, aware of his amusement.

It could be that, because postmodern novels permit themselves such extraordinary liberties with the very history and geography that they exploit, fact-checking is now otiose.

Natali may be right about many of the book's concepts having become common currency in multiplexes since it was written, but Neuromancer remains heavily dotted with scattershot cyberpunk slang fired so hard and fast at the reader that it's almost impossible to absorb all those new words before the next wave of techy patois turns up.

Modi has urged an overhaul of the tax system, calling it a "burden on the common man", but has given no specifics.

He regarded me with a fixed and serious eye, but at length, yielding to my importunity, reluctantly granted my request.

The ostensible cause of her removal was to make room for other prisoners.

An anonymous blogger is a tenuous enough source for a news story.

If your friend wants you to help repair the cornice on his house, you’d better bring a ladder. The cornice is the decorative molding that stretches horizontally along the top of some buildings.

Yet there was nothing mawkish or funereal about the atmosphere at the weekend shows — rather they were a celebration of the individuality that produces imaginative talent.

Yet there was nothing mawkish or funereal about the atmosphere at the weekend shows — rather they were a celebration of the individuality that produces imaginative talent.

I was nettled by Alene's tone of superiority.

They spurned their monitoring role, they had their own ideas and they wanted to express them.

Throughout the set, Mr. Bavouzet’s deft touch, fluid playing and coloristic flair illuminated myriad details, which unfolded with crystalline clarity and hazy atmospherics in turn.

"She's had no children, you know," Betty says, as a complete non sequitur, in the middle of Beryl talking about her first wage cheque.

I wrote, in fact, that I would be stunned, flabbergasted and flummoxed if the Mariners landed Cano.

And yet, my kids were already adroit with touchscreens and browsers and downloads.

As one of the young stars of the big data movement, he’s adept at finding simple patterns amid complicated chaos.

A Chicago treasure at age 88, she's as ingratiating and radiant as ever.

As Simon Winchester writes in his introduction to this latest edition of her correspondence, she was someone “for whom the words imperturbable, indomitable, and redoubtable might have been coined.”

Even the redoubtable German economy now seems to be buckling.

Mary’s boss, in a weak romantic overture, invites her on a road trip to Los Angeles, mecca of movies, artifice and plastic surgery.

Time Warner Cable management has rejected his overtures because they viewed a deal as not benefiting shareholders.

Yet by engaging the material in just the way he wanted, Mr. Brown avoided any trace of the pedantic.

Instead, they present an impassioned and emotive critique of gender perceptions.

By plunder and rapine some have accumulated wealth, but many more are greatly injured in their circumstances.

Perhaps our predilection to obsessing over our appearance is biological.

But, there are also many seemingly innocuous details that most people may not have any qualms about sharing, which could impact your job prospects.

But Ms Spear's murder also showed how dangerous certain relatively innocuous activities, such as driving at night on a motorway, can be.

Some of Iran's key trade partners, however, demurred, and other players began discreetly negotiating in search of a compromise to break the deadlock.

Finally, we conducted photomorphogenesis assays in plant seedlings to place our findings in a physiological context.

Yes it’s an interesting story from a technology perspective, but even more so it shoes the way the machinations of the technology industry work.

And although the task noticeably heated up the Mac Pro, its fan stayed quiet, and it didn’t seem perturbed.

Chaos ensues around them, as the Militia Guild battle with marauding pirates.