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Party Fears 22
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Party Fears 22
1. No-one will come.
2. In my fear about no-one coming I’ve invited too many people. Now too many people will come.
3. They’ll get mugged on the way and it will be my fault.
4. In my fear about too many people coming I have[…]

Three Beatles Songs
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Three Beatles Songs
Or perhaps that should be, ‘three Beatlesploitation songs’. When the Beatles wave broke on America, how could the existing pop – girl and boy groups with their bouncy, witty, politely nuanced love songs – d[…]

getting caught
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getting caught
I’ll tell you what fear is, it’s what Hitchcock knew. I’m always skating on the thin ice, always snatching a moment at the record store here and a random troll of the Internet at work there, running to the post office[…]

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I have on my desk a bottle of Palestinian beer
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I have on my desk a bottle of Palestinian beer. The importers of Taybeh Beer are interested in SOAS stocking it. We can’t, due to buying restrictions via the NUS, but politically it might be a bit dodgy anyway. Because the distributor si giving[…]

The science of movie chemistry.
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The science of movie chemistry. I would be really interested in this because it strikes me that so many romantic comedies stumble at this, the most important part of the process: the casting. Unfortunately the article is a bit of a gyp because it se[…]

Dissensus
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Dissensus: sincere best wishes and good luck to Matt, Mark and co. with this project (a new message board).[…]

I DON’T beLIEVE IT!!
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I DON’T beLIEVE IT!!
i got into Eyes, Lies & Illusions for free, by pretending to be r.sinker not m.sinker and thus in the education&outreach racket. This wz a good thing, cz it’s a bit lame for ‘9, sadly. Werner Nekes&#8[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS 17: TRADING PLACES
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FT TOP 100 FILMS
17: TRADING PLACES
Swopping is funny. The cinema proves it. The fish out of water scenario is great, all the more so when you get two for the price of one. Trading Places, for all its borderline offensive set-up manages to handle one[…]

Hidden secrets of nursery rhymes
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Hidden secrets of nursery rhymes: lit crit equivalent of “The Magic Roundabout is all about drugs”, surely? And why is the book title a Smiths reference?[…]

Your search – “lemon polenta cake with warmed seasonal berries” – did not match any documents.
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Your search – “lemon polenta cake with warmed seasonal berries” – did not match any documents.
New pud on offer currently at Pizza Express and yr correspondent i’m afraid went into such a snit at the way this item wz ex[…]

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