Roald Dahl wrote, "The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counterattack."
There's a much-ballyhooed law of the internet that if something exists, there is pornography inspired by it. That no matter what weird or seemingly banal thing you can think of, somebody out there is getting their jollies to it. But that concept has a (presumably) cleaner doppelganger: that no matter how cripplingly boring a subject may seem, thousands are furiously talking about it in the depths of the web.
Since 1985, A Tribe Called Quest have been pioneers of alternative hip-hop, combining playful poetry with searing social commentary and funky, infectious electronic melodies. Since splintering in 1998, the group came together for a handful of reunion gigs, but didn't release any new albums until last year.
Footsteps and the purposeful thrum of air conditioners are the loudest sounds in Christie's Park Royal warehouse on the day of a recent visit. Beyond two leopard-print chaises longues and a phalanx of vacant plinths and pedestals is Adrian Hume-Sayer, director of private collections at the auctioneer's, busying himself with Audrey Hepburn's trove.
Mayim Bialik is one of the highest-paid actresses on television,
In a voice as mellifluous as Highland heather honey, Phyllida Law leans forward and confides: "It has been an awfully long road." One of our longest-serving actresses, Law has been working almost non-stop for more than 60 years. Yet those eyes - as big, blue and bright as gulls' eggs - are so mischievous, it's not impossible to imagine, despite the gloriously coiffed white hair, Law is still an ingenue in the wings waiting to take over the lead role, as she first did after joining the Bristol Old Vic in 1952.
Henry Kissinger said, "The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."
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