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He takes a lot of pride in his preparation and performance and in doing an honest day’s work
“He takes a lot of pride in his preparation and performance and in doing an honest day’s work. His main asset as a bowler now is that by being tall and getting a lot of body into his action, he gets bounce and spin and bowls wicket-taking deliveries, even on pitches that aren’t taking much ...
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He takes a lot of pride in his preparation and performance and in doing an honest day’s work
“He takes a lot of pride in his preparation and performance and in doing an honest day’s work. His main asset as a bowler now is that by being tall and getting a lot of body into his action, he gets bounce and spin and bowls wicket-taking deliveries, even on pitches that aren’t taking much ...
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When the ropes are loosened some time after the election, it will bob to the surface.Another change is that the Tories have aged Most of them seem to be even older than I am. Gone also is the bitterness that marked Mr John Major’s last two conferences. In a week that has been dominated by ...
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His reputation as the Bard of Empire is obviously true, but it misses the point So is his reputation as a vulgarian. He has appealed to the most sophisticated readers – TS Eliot edited an anthology of his verse – as well as to the simplest. Philip Howard in the Times called it a “stiff-upper-lipped ...
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Hardly a declining industry and hardly a declining union.Gordon TaylorProfessional Footballers Association, Manchester. AS A colleague of Liz Davies for many years, I must take issue with Mary Rooks (Letters, 8 October). Liz only broke the Labour whip on Islington Council twice in five years; many Labour MPs have broken the whip in Parliament more ...
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From Doughty Street we’re going on to a reception to celebrate publication of a new biography of Brittain by Paul Berry and my friend Mark Bostridge. These days, thanks to Virago’s republication in 1978 of Testament of Youth and the very successful television adaptation the following year in which Brittain was played by Cheryl Campbell, ...
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But it is nice to be the first Britain again.”He finished ahead of Belgium’s European 10,000m silver medallist Vincent Rousseau, and Britain’s John Nuttall. Rob Denmark, who has been running 120 miles a week of late, faded but then recovered to take a creditable seventh place.. FOR a club who have waxed lyrical over the ...
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Wise headed Gullit’s cross just wide, Gullit himself snatched at a volley enabling James to save and Spencer, put through by Newton, saw the goalkeeper turn his low shot on to a post. Two from Jones and Thomas were well turned aside by Kharin.It needed a McManaman moment, which duly came. Patiently, Liverpool picked and ...
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The log is something to do with John K – creator of the immortal Ren and Stimpy, currently hard at work on a cartoon image of Bjork for her next video. The Daily Star’s own cartoon image of the “Icelandic ice-babe” features hot news of her passionate affair with mild-mannered Massive Attack rapper 3D. Having ...
Full StoryNot everything she does works – repeated playings of her maddeningly over the top cover of blonde bombshell Betty Hutton’s It’s Oh So
Not everything she does works – repeated playings of her maddeningly over the top cover of blonde bombshell Betty Hutton’s “It’s Oh So Quiet” are now being used by the CIA to extract confessions – but the things that do, work in a new way. Her fond memories of the late eighties boom in British ...
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