An increasingly controversial incarnation of reality television is the hidden camera show, or “ambush television,” in which a prank is played at the expense of an unsuspecting victim.

He was listening to The Best of the Pink Floyd, smoking a joint.

The total area within the Romano-British fortress is perhaps three acres, and the fact that the explorer is no longer young and was single-handed quite precluded any extensive trenching in the hard and stony soil with no implements other than a shovel, a small spade and a moot-axe.

She pushed her fingers under the cream lace, into the ginger harl of spun glass.