When you run out of original ideas in Hollywood, you call in the makers of thunder and lightning and, if the film is biblical, the parters of the Red Sea and the choirs of heavenly angels humming to the strings of Mantovani.

Frederick alternated between sips of coffee and spoonings of raspberries.

The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

2005, Justin Chin, Attack of the man-eating lotus blossoms, page I went through my Madonna circa Lucky Star phase, with netted shirts, funky belts, and arms full of trinkly bracelets.: