The novel was effectively self-published by Proust himself (he paid a publisher to put it out) because the manuscript had been turned down by umpteen respectable publishing houses.
If she hadn't grown in all directions, "I probably would have gotten married, settled down and had umpteen million kids," she told me.
There was umpteen dashes down the track, with Javed sometimes running a long way past short leg and silly point to whip against the spin into the open spaces.
He believes Tuilagi will offer greater impact than a man who has rescued and won umpteen games for Ireland down the years.
Sure, but with names like Amazon, Google, Apple, Spotify and umpteen others staring them down, Mecanto definitely has an uphill climb ahead.
His most perfect political parable, "Yertle the Turtle," whose ending, in which a small bottom-dwelling turtle named Mack brings down the megalomaniacal Yertle, can still, after umpteen dozen readings, send a chill down my spine like the "Marseillaise" scene in "Casablanca" or one of Blake's "Songs of Experience".
Elsewhere, memories of the late nineties, West London pub girls re-emerged at Topshop Unique, where umpteen backless slip dresses and tops came down the catwalk, alongside one statement-making, super-boxy pair of raw-look jeans, shown deeply cuffed.
He was afraid, for instance, of going down in history as "the chairman who missed China", and made umpteen trips there bearing gifts of leather-bound copies of the Shakespeare plays so beloved of China's then leader, Jiang Zemin.
Tree branches frame umpteen layers of something that stood the day before, including an upside-down car beneath.
Ezralow is keen to play down the scrutiny he and director Julie Taymor, creator of The Lion King, have found themselves under, thanks to the umpteen delays, injuries and technical glitches that have plagued the show.
