I fell in love with racetracks shortly after I saw my first Thoroughbred. No enterprise offers so much varied activity by so many people in a full afternoon. The jobs…
Those who endured last spring’s epic snore, ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ (2014), wondered why so many actors, so much CGI, to so little effect. They didn’t realise Wes Anderson had tried…
My mother shut off topics that approached her well-defended borders of propriety. Her eyes would slowly rise above the lenses of her half glasses to meet the speaker’s. ‘Do I…
One word can have such distinct meanings that I never connect them. Consider the words ‘conversion’ and ‘redemption’, important in the vocabularies of Christians and the bond market. And then…