Word: fleetingness
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The sight was fleeting.
When John Major succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, some wondered whether he would ever prove himself half the man the Iron Lady had been. Edwina Currie's newly published diaries - in which the novelist and former Conservative minister reveals that she and Major had an affair from 1984 to...
The title conjures up lighthearted, even ludicrous, images of an elderly man in a grey Chilean general's uniform, weaving his way through the tourist-packed arteries of London's neon heart. But Pinochet in Piccadilly (Faber and Faber; 280 pages), British journalist Andy Beckett's examination of the economic...
Yet even if we have to start being adults, nothing is to say we can’t start playing children. After all, we have learned nothing at Harvard if not how to masquerade. Maybe, if we push aside our egos and our anxieties, we can allow ourselves to don...
Ridgway came to this world in all weather. He was a frequent customer of the prostitutes on the strip, a section of the Pacific Highway from South 139th Street to South 272nd Street that ran along the airport south of Seattle for about eight miles. The strip was lined with...