Word: yorkshireman
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...their verbosity," says Aird. That could easily be Andrew Pern's mantra. The owner and head chef of The Star in the village of Harome, Yorkshire, runs one of the few pubs to have won a coveted Michelin star. Yet his menus are as blunt as the plain-spoken Yorkshireman himself. He serves dishes such as braised oxtail with horseradish sauce and "no pools of this and no puddles of that," Pern says. "Nine out of 10 times fancy descriptions are just trying to cover up ordinary food." The only thing ordinary about Pern's pub is the language...
...widely praised South African writer (Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K), sides with the serious Crusoeites. In this terse sequel, he imagines an Englishwoman, Susan Barton, marooned on the same island with the lonely men. For almost three decades, according to the original version, the Yorkshireman lived womanless, out of reach of the English language. In Coetzee's tale, the estrous Susan is in search of an abducted daughter. En route, she becomes the mistress of a ship's captain. Mutineers seize command and set her adrift in a small boat. It grinds ashore on the celebrated...
...narrowing influence and opportunities abroad and unfulfilled expectations at home. As head of government for nearly eight of the past twelve years, Wilson may not have dominated the era, but he was certainly its dominant political figure and symbol, a round, pipe-puffing, wily-some would say shifty-Yorkshireman waging a struggle to hold party and country together...
Philip Coles was a Yorkshireman who came to the U.S. as a young man and studied engineering at M.I.T. He and his wife, Sandra Young, an Iowa farm girl, had two sons: Robert, born in 1929, and William, born in 1931 and now an English professor at the University of Michigan. The family lived a comfortable, bookish and musical life in the Boston suburb of Milton, and both boys were bright enough to go to Boston Latin School and Harvard. Bob Coles was good at tennis and running, led "a pretty active social life" and, he says, was "no more...
...government plans to partly dismantle his $2 billion-a-year fuel conglomerate, which is the world's largest coal company. The Tories want to strip off some of the Coal Board's many nonmining sidelines, like chemicals, brickmaking and North Sea gas ex ploration. Robens, a hearty Yorkshireman known among miners as "Alf," did not care to preside over the dismantling. "Taking profitable areas away from the National Coal Board," he warned, "would make it more difficult for the coal industry to be viable...