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...could by some feat, you’d be hard pressed to recount the plot line. I’ve always loved the end of Poe’s short story “The Man of the Crowd,” in which the narrator follows a mysterious chap through the bustling, contradictory streets of London: “it does not permit itself to be read...
...adjust your screens. That dark chap crooning beside a bosomy, winged model in a Venetian palazzo in a new Victoria's Secret commercial is Bob Dylan. The counterculture bard who once sang of "Advertising signs that con you" is now a TV pitchman. Recruited for his "confidence and gravitas," according to a Victoria's Secret spokesman, Dylan plays his 1997 song Love Sick in the spot (in which, coincidentally, parts of models seem to defy gravitas). His record label called the ad "a great way to reach people with Bob's music." It's also a great way to hang...
...room to steal bed slats and dump off watermelon rinds. According to the diaries, the rogues stuffed a “quill filled with powder” into Abbot’s keyhole to stink up the room. Sometimes, they just dumped buckets of water on the old chap...
...Student One— “Maxwell, if only I had long ago perceived the boon of state education, in all of its drunken, gyrating glory, I might have matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania! Student Two—“Here, here ol’ chap, three cheers for the welfare state...
...model consort ... Lanky and white haired, with a toothy grin and a nasal honk of an accent, Denis has become a cherished figure for his skillful maneuvers through the minefields of public life alongside his wife, or as he would say with precision, 'a pace behind her, old chap, a pace behind her.' He is mainly visible as the gracious host while his wife conducts affairs of state. At 74, he seems eminently fit for the job: the back is still ramrod straight, the step springy, the mind clear as a bell. What keeps him in such excellent fettle? 'Cigarettes...