JAMES BOND
May 2013
Judi Dench's embattled M in Skyfall at one point reaches not for a Beretta or one of Q's exploding pens but a few lines of Tennyson. Would the words of Carol Ann Duffy work as well?
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January/February 2013
‘After an evening’s drinking a friend woke up to find he had gone to bed with George Bernard Shaw’
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June 2008
No novelist since Stevenson imparts so much energy into simple-seeming sentences through inch-perfect phrasing and punctuation
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