SOME years back the BBC enjoyed a surprise hit with a spoof chat-show presented by Mrs Merton, a fictional northern housewife whose trick was skewering guests with mock-naive questions.
MY PRINT column this week looks at the politics of House of Lords reform, and suggests that this dry-sounding subject is actually a rather important clash about power and its transmission.SOME years back the BBC enjoyed a surprise hit with a spoof chat-show presented by Mrs Merton, a fictional northern housewife whose trick was skewering guests with mock-naive questions.
An illusionist whose tricks are hollow.
Stoppard gallantly pressed on, and I have a vivid memory of him, desperate in the gathering dusk, frantically shuffling his precious pages and brandishing his cards, like a panicky magician whose tricks are blowing up in his face.
The Great Alzana, the high-wire artist ballyhooed as "The Most Dare devilish Human Ever to Skirt Eternity's Brink," whose tricks were so dangerous that New York State passed a law to keep him from working without a net, died on Feb. 16 at a hospital in Sarasota, Fla. Away from the spotlight, his name was Harold Davis, and he was 82.
There you go! Tech used the right way - beauty gadgets whose tricks are actually helpful.
Among the newest and slickest birding apps is BirdsEye, whose main trick is to use your exact location to provide a list of birds you might see.
Besides the cats, she has a dog whose best trick is to fall to the floor when Edna points an imaginary gun at him and says, "Bang!
This thesis is illustrated on every page of her delicately constructed memoir, "Time to Be in Earnest," whose opening trick is to pretend to be just a diary.
They include an ice-cream vendor whose job is to deliver free scoops all day; Monica, who has "no title" but is getting artists and their equipment to stages on foot because of the dearth of golf-carts; and campsite manager The Art whose party trick is shaking the dust out of his wizard-like beard.
