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A show of police force worthy of a banana republic is the latest attraction on the cobbled streets of Georgetown. - Francis Clines Quotes

A show of police force worthy of a banana republic is the latest attraction on the cobbled streets of Georgetown.

Force

Thus does the Beeb ease the English into another gray familiar day, another half-century of magic mystic rays. - Francis Clines Quotes

Thus does the Beeb ease the English into another gray familiar day, another half-century of magic mystic rays.

Delegates crane their gaze at overhead screens. The producers, using fast-cutting close-up shots, have added the narcissistic touch of allowing delegates to watch themselves watch themselves at a convention of people watching them. - Francis Clines Quotes

Delegates crane their gaze at overhead screens. The producers, using fast-cutting close-up shots, have added the narcissistic touch of allowing delegates to watch themselves watch themselves at a convention of people watching them.

Rosie's is as simple as a hubcap and as unpretentious as its own rice pudding. - Francis Clines Quotes

Rosie's is as simple as a hubcap and as unpretentious as its own rice pudding.

The grand institution, at once hoary and ethereal, that some call Auntie and others call the Beeb, and that most, it seems, must call controversial. - Francis Clines Quotes

The grand institution, at once hoary and ethereal, that some call Auntie and others call the Beeb, and that most, it seems, must call controversial.

Britain's gnawing hunger for retrospection is of Proustian proportions; historical confections of past glory are always being sugared up and nibbled at somewhere in the land. - Francis Clines Quotes

Britain's gnawing hunger for retrospection is of Proustian proportions; historical confections of past glory are always being sugared up and nibbled at somewhere in the land.

Glory

It is

It is "lifestyle" journalism the way Chaucer first invented it, and the Times, onto a good thing, is uninhibitedly publishing articles on the passing of a cuckolded poet, a rock promoter strangely addicted to collecting orangutans and an Italian writer striving "to avoid becoming a bore."

Journalism Life Lifestyle Poet

Peter Utley, the newspaper's obituary editor cheerfully checked with Primrose Palmer, his assistant, on the day's soul traffic. The late archbishop from New Zealand sounded promising, it was agreed, but then again it was lunch time, and who knew what had been happening in some now-ending life. - Francis Clines Quotes

Peter Utley, the newspaper's obituary editor cheerfully checked with Primrose Palmer, his assistant, on the day's soul traffic. The late archbishop from New Zealand sounded promising, it was agreed, but then again it was lunch time, and who knew what had been happening in some now-ending life.

New Zealand Traffic

The earnest weatherman is even more hilarious than in America because his forecasts of change are even more unchanging, and his wondrous maps are always pocked with countless rain cloud symbols that seem permanently rooted across the beloved isle. - Francis Clines Quotes

The earnest weatherman is even more hilarious than in America because his forecasts of change are even more unchanging, and his wondrous maps are always pocked with countless rain cloud symbols that seem permanently rooted across the beloved isle.

He sits at the kitchen table, which is the only authentic way to touch down at home in Queens. - Francis Clines Quotes

He sits at the kitchen table, which is the only authentic way to touch down at home in Queens.

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