Certainly it's lots easier to be Mary in a brown serge and clumpy boots than it is in the soft, fluffy things Marie used to wear.

Well, there’s Sarah Lucas’s “Cigarette Tits II (Idealized Smoker’s Chest II)” from 1999, a sculpture that conjures rebellious female debauchery with a side chair, two breastlike hemispheres covered with cigarettes and a black bra.

We demonstrated that microdensitometric method measures the column of blood in the retinal arterioles.

“No, the coffee. Do you want a cup of Americano?” I groaned. Welcome to Europe. “Can't I just get a cup of regular coffee? A little cream, a little sugar?” […] “An Americano is a shot of espresso with hot water added.” “I don't know why they call it Americano. No one in America drinks espresso and hot water.”