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Most impressively, Lopez grabs a martini, slowly does a one-legged spin to the ground and then uncoils herself to stand back up and cheer.

From Thomas Mann to Daphne du Maurier, Patricia Highsmith, Michael Dibdin and Donna Leon, novelists have been drawn to the watery labyrinth where solid ground routinely crumbles and where certainty—even identity itself—might dissolve.

She favors installing parental controls, even though wily children can outwit them, on grounds that some thwarting is better than none at all.

But time is the one thing the Tories don’t have as Reform gains ground.

So that’s why I was really thinking, ‘You know what, this might be grounds for a case.’