Gwyneth Paltrow's coming … she's going to see my bits!!! Michelle Olley's performance diary The late British fashion designer Alexander McQueen induced writer Michelle Olley to lie naked in a glass box in 2001 as the coup de theatre of a fashion show.
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Cameron, and others less combatively, complain that Juncker is being imposed by a parliamentary coup, usurping the prerogative of national leaders to agree on the nomination.
The England bowlers strained for the coup de grace.
In the ever-bitter battle of nerves that the heritage dispute has become, the meeting, for many, is already a coup.
He described how governors in one school "wanted to replace the head with a Muslim head"; in another that "staff and governors were in an alliance to destabilise the head"; and in another school he described events as a "bloodless coup".
One man who knew many of them is Simon Mann, an old Etonian former SAS officer who achieved infamy in 2004 with a bungled coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea.
"What is happening now is a military coup," he bellowed shortly after entering the courtroom, in the hectoring tone that Egyptians came to lampoon during his year-long presidency.
"It's no good – it sends a message to the people that 3 July was a coup," said Ahmad Abd Allah, an activist who called for the fall of both Mubarak and Morsi.
Apart from adding a morose kind of gaiety to life, the failed coup attempt against Farage could yet offer some hope to Labour.
Bournemouth must be hoping that enough of their regular fans feel proud enough of the coup to sell most of the stadium's 10,700 seats, because at those prices they are unlikely to pick up too many families on their way back from the beach.
