(That Miranda picked up a doorstopper for his beach reading is a bit of a crack in the naive persona he cultivates).
"I'd like a bit of a crack at some kind of anarchic comedy, but whether or not I'm skilful enough at it all, we'll see," he said.
[For a while] I got into West Adams Prep [a high school run by MLA Partner Schools under contract with the LAUSD], which was a bit of a crack in the armor.
Let us note that despite the instability and chaos caused by Brexit, the utilities still work and the trains still run on time (more or less, anyway. I'm told that there is a bit of a crack-up going on at one railway company).
But at the risk of sounding a bit like a cracked record, they were not the owners of the site at the time of the disaster, they were not the operators of the site at the time of the disaster, they were not the owners and operators of the site at the time of the first and full settlement that was then upheld on two separate occasions by the Indian supreme court.
If you press just slightly against the smooth plastic back panel, either on the 3G USB port or the kickstand area, the plastic depresses and makes a bit of a cracking noise.
Everything from a Victorian threepenny bit, dropped down a crack in the floor of the van, to crude spot-welds have been scrutinised and recorded.
Yet I have a feeling that criticising Gilliam for allowing his wacky imagination to run wild is a bit like having a crack at Jackson Pollock for relying overly on the drip the paint on the canvass trick.
This summer, to raise the bar a bit, he took a crack at saving the world.
When that is completed, the Argosy will stand alone on the block of massive structures, like a wildflower that has found a bit of soil in a crack in the pavement.
