Sandra, that's no name for anybody; that was a name for movie stars around 1948. Nobody's used it since. But the fact is, her name really is Sandra. - - - In the mills towns like Torrington and Bristol, the Italians might very well call a girl Sandra for real. Straight. It's just short for Alessandra. Alexandra. So she has numerous choices - she can be Sandy, a clean-cut WASP, or she can be Renaissance Alessandra, or movie-star Sandra, or old-fashioned Edwardian Alexandra, all on the one name.

In brief, the freer the competition, the unfreer the man.

Frank’s breath hitched in his throat when he saw the knife being pointed at him.

It has a geometrical strapwork interlace of linked octograms with central eight-pointed stars.