You guys would rather be with someone else who’s equal to your status in life. Tiger Woods, or somebody. I comes across as crass, a Neanderthal, a babbling idiot sometimes. I like to show you that person. I like that person.

A certain form of extra-tropical cyclone, the infamous Nor'easter, can even come to exhibit blizzicane features, including dramatic drops in central pressure and an eyelike structure.

She had thrown a shawl about her and, as they went together towards the tram, sprays of her fresh warm breath flew gaily above her cowled head and her shoes tapped blithely on the glassy road.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.