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7 hours ago by Kevin Cryan

An anonymous writer for the Irish Independent, concluding his or her review, Clive James’ The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008 (Picador, Stg£15.99) says that “we’ll forgive the ego and celebrate instead the insights and the elegance of one of the great prose writers of the age”. It’s more or ...

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12 hours ago by orientalsweetlips

The following is taken from a plaque on the side of the Memorial. Any grammatical or spelling mistakes are mine introduced during transcription. The Defence of Hong Kong – December 1941 Hong Kong was regarded, in the event of war with Japan, as an outpost to be held for as long as possible. Isolated ...

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2 days ago by Kevin Cryan

In a recent posting, in which I discussed Clive James’s qualifications for the Oxford professor of poetry, I remarked that “ if anybody has any doubt about just how well James talks about poetry, then they should be be on the lookout for the July issue of Poetr y in which he discusses, among other t ...

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8 days ago by Kevin Cryan

In a posting yesterday, I suggested a good reason for Clive James’s being elected vacant post of professor of poetry at Oxford . An article by Boyd Tonkin in today’s edition of The Independent reminds me that there are things which may well – and possibly rightly –work against his candidacy. His com ...

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9 days ago by Kevin Cryan

Nearly a month ago, while noting that The Observer’s literary editor said that his paper was supporting Clive James for Oxford Professor of Poetry, I remarked that, while James would not have been “among my choices of candidate the first time around”, I could “see that this time around he’s a very g ...

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13 days ago by mariborchan

Download Audio From bbc.co.uk : Australian writer and critic CLIVE JAMES suggests that what makes a film star iconic is their ability to be both inaccessible and seemingly perfect. Their faces, stripped back on screen and airbrushed of imperfections, restrict visual information to a bare minimum thu ...

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15 days ago by Madame Arcati

Molly Parkin. Photo by Tommy Candler My fiancee Molly Parkin has sent me a letter. She is off to Croatia this summer to exhibit a set of her new paintings many of which take the cock as a theme. I hope this isn't Madame Arcati's influence. She also waxes on recent cock posts here. Anyhow, here's her ...

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22 days ago by Kevin Cryan

Clive James, in an interview for the June edition The Word, is asked about his website CliveJames.com . When is asked,“assuming this is the future, how do you think someone like you will get paid?”, James replies that he thinks that ”you don’t”. There are, he says, “going to be some brilliant young ...

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22 days ago by Kevin Cryan

In her review of The Revolt of the Pendulum for today’s Telegraph Lynn Barberwonders “why the distinguished polyglot Clive James blows his own trumpet so incessantly” Non altogether unexpectedly, this is just another version of a question that has been raising it’s head since the book was published. ...

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24 days ago by carasulieman

By Cara Sulieman FESTIVALS goers will have the chance to see some of the biggest showbiz names in the world – for a fiver. The top secret gigs – unveiled by Edinburgh Fringe Festival bosses yesterday – will include top acts normally only seen on TV or who’s ticket prices might normally be out of rea ...

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