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In an article for the Sunday Telegraph on the day of the interview, Paxman wrote that he found it "quite impossible to reconcile this public Gates [fabulously rich, powerful, and therefore an object of much hatred] with the awkward, shy, nasal character I found seated opposite me."
Fob James Jr. fell just shy of the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff in the Republican primary for governor.
The puzzling decision to relegate the painter of sun-drenched tablecloths and rainbow gardens to the underground makes some sense given the direction and drift of the show, the third MoMA retrospective of Bonnard's work since his death just shy of age 80 in 1947.
As a group, molecular biologists shy away from teleological matters, perhaps because early attitudes in molecular biology were shaped by physicists and chemists.
Carey gives us the flawed, utterly romantic anti-hero of high Victorian fiction--absurdly tall, absurdly shy, absurdly proud, absurdly trusting, Maggs is a sighted Edward Rochester, a kinder Heathcliff.