Every year, thousands of schoolchildren in and around Birmingham get dressed up as their favourite book character, and ...

elastic-waist glory. “Do you wish the players still wore stirrups?” I ask, probing. “Oh hell no. Stirrups are for nerds, man. Listen, (Carlos) Delgado used to wear black, literally black ...

Once the game began, though, Stoppard was a revelation, first as wicket-keeper where his “elastic leaps and hair ... He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance ...

“I heard a bang which initially I thought was a gunshot but I think it was the elastic of the catapult and it hit me straight ... catapult had been used following a verbal altercation. “A man ...

Mr. Driggs says, in regard to his new theory of ... He is evidently mistaken in supposing that any scientific man acquainted with the laws of acoustics entertains the opinion that atmospheric ...

Ke Huy Quan has his first Hollywood starring role in Love Hurts after several decades. He redefines what it means to be a ...

Andrew Motion, chairman this year of the equally prestigious Man Booker Prize, was disappointed by the lack ... He hooked his fingers into her waistband, caught the elastic of her underwear and began ...

“Mr. Peanut signed the Treaty of Surrender with President Clinton on the White House lawn today.” This is a real line of dialogue—one that is uttered with absolute somber sincerity—from the new ...