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This accounts for a singular state of affairs in Northern Ireland. The responsible editorials, the government, the political parties have all gradually lost control over the course of political events. In the tough, sectarian enclaves of Belfast or Londonderry, sensitive registers of the political situation, these voices have an air of irrelevance. After years of constitutional paralysis, the working class has little faith left in its civic institutions. In the vacuum, paramilitary power has gained...
...competition. Over his squirming body, he permits the silky-tongued Marylyn Mulvey to sing "Caro nome"-between his mischievous interruptions. Several times he tartly forbids her to touch the piano. Sopranos bend pianos, he tells the audience, by leaning against them. At one point he confides that the singular of Portuguese is Portugoose. For the singular Borge there is no known plural. - T.E.K...
Alas, poor Rudy: his bad luck with producers and directors extends 50 years beyond the grave. For his life has now fallen into the feverish-not to say hysterical-hands of Ken Russell, a director whose singular style and energy once promised excitement, but which now promise nothing but outrage...
...weekly breakfasts with foreign policy advisers, and has an open invitation from Carter to attend every meeting with visiting world leaders. Declared the President: "There is no one who would approach him in his importance to me, his closeness to me and his ability to carry out a singular assignment with my complete trust...
...distant moth-soft dazzle of the temples'" at Agrigento. In a little Sicilian town called Chaos, the birthplace of Pirandello, Durrell watched sunlight "worthy of a nervous breakdown by Turner." When a local doctor was summoned to treat a tourist in Durrell's party, "he had a singular sort of expression, a sort of holy expression which one suddenly realised came from the fact that he was scared stiff in case someone asked him a question in a foreign language...He looked in fact as if he had just emerged after partaking of the Eucharist with Frank Sinatra...