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That, in itself, seems like nothing special, until you consider the evening's title, "Imagine: Iraq".
It's a premise that could serve as a springboard for the sort of quality bedlam promised in the title — imagine Terry Southern cutting a swath through the television business.
That title – Imagine – was then withdrawn from sale by his publisher and he was sacked from the New Yorker.
Those of us with marginal powers of comprehension may have realised that the programme's full title, Imagine… Alan Ayckbourn: Greetings from Scarborough, was going to be about the playwright Alan Ayckbourn, who lives in and reveres his adopted Scarborough; and so it was, and a very good programme it was.
The workshops, conducted under the title Imagine New York, constitute the broadest public participation so far in any efforts to help plan the redevelopment of the area devastated by the bombing and subsequent collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
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For years I avoided reading The Millstone – I think I was reacting to an unconscious suggestion that came from its title, imagining it would be heavy and punishing.
As a test of the power of titles, imagine an occasional theatregoer or a tourist browsing the current West End listings.
It was a great mistake, he suggested, in a review of the first 10 Penguin titles, to imagine that cheap books were good for the book trade, for the punter with five shillings to spend in a price-cutting market would probably end up parting with a mere one and six and blowing the rest on cinema tickets.
The title story imagines the life of a historical figure, Sophia Kovalevsky, a 19th-century Russian mathematician and novelist.
(It's fine, for example, for "RJ Berger" to show the title character imagining his love interest arriving at school naked, but not to actually show the nudity).
The last stanza of the title poem imagines the mermaid and "armoured" merman's journey into the bowels of a wrecked ship: "We are, I am, you are / by cowardice or courage / the one who find our way / back to this scene / carrying a knife, a camera / a book of myths / in which / our names do not appear".
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