(1) Randy denton (@RandyHusker) Scarface showing on Spike TV right now.Every channel buried in white powder.
(2) Some singers and writers are understood to write “in character” – Elvis Costello, for instance, or Randy Newman – because the characters they create are so obviously not themselves, and are either highly exaggerated or satirical creations or, in the case of Randy Newman, a monstrous opposite.
(3) The Yankees president, Randy Levine, and Cashman had a conference call with Tim Lentych, the head athletic trainer at the player development complex in Tampa; Rodriguez; and Jordan Siev, co-head of the US commercial litigation group at Reed Smith.
(4) This week people around the internet have taken to photoshopping WWE wrestler Randy Orton’s famous head slam move on to videos of people falling over.
(5) When she refuses to watch it, Randy vomits masticated Member Berries on both of them.
(6) On the defensive side of the football, the South Florida club also added former Houston Texans DT Earl Mitchell (4-years, $16m), who’ll go someway to replacing outgoing veterans Paul Soliai and Randy Starks.
(7) State they’re in This was the season American MBNA credit-card scion Randy Lerner finally announced his Villa venture was over and he wanted to sell.
(8) Several clubs increased their wage bills by £6m or less but Aston Villa actually reduced theirs by £3m from £72m as the American owner, Randy Lerner, sought to wrestle their finances into shape ready for a sale of the club.
(9) This year Randy Ryder will meet his mother for the first time.
(10) Villa Ownership US holding company Reform Acquisitions LLC, sold by Randy Lerner in June 2016 to Chinese businessman Tony Xia, who owns the shares via Zhejiang Ruikang (Recon) Investment Co, based in Hong Kong.
(11) MacDonald , who was interviewed by Randy Lerner, Villa's owner, on Wednesday, has indicated that he would be receptive to working in partnership with a more experienced figure.
(12) Andy Hunter Aston Villa 13th Money to spend Three years ago Randy Lerner smashed Villa’s transfer record when he sanctioned the signing of Darren Bent for a deal rising to £24m.
(13) Large jazz ensemble album: Night in Calisia, Randy Brecker, Wlodek Pawlik Trio and Kalisz Philharmonic.
(14) I saw the video of Garner being arrested, it was horrible,” said Randi.
(15) Profumo was an oddity – a randy politician à la JFK in a dry-balled, homophobic, strait-laced Tory administration.
(16) He told LBC radio: "I am hoping that the real predators are the ones we are going to find out about: the Glitters of this world, the Saviles of this world, not people that were randy young pop stars in the 1960s, 70s and 80s even, that had women throwing themselves at them everywhere they went, because that is a whole different area and a whole different situation.
(17) Today the Birmingham Mail makes one simple, stark request to the Aston Villa board: sack the manager.” Yet his departure still comes as a surprise given the support Lambert, who won the Champions League as a player with Borussia Dortmund in 1997, had from owner Randy Lerner.
(18) Aaron Sorkin publishes letter urging daughter to fight after Trump win Read more The other plotlines are more complicated: while Randy and Mr Garrison have been (mostly) obsessed with the election this season, rest of the town in up in arms about online harassment.
(19) On Monday the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine went to James E Rothman (US), Randy W Schekman (US) and Thomas C Südhof (Germany) for their exquisite work on how cells organise and transport molecules such as hormones, enzymes and neurotransmitters.
(20) Randy Workman saw intimate details of the death penalty that are kept from the public eye in the United States.
Virago
Definition:
(n.) A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior.
(n.) Hence, a mannish woman; a bold, turbulent woman; a termagant; a vixen.
Example Sentences:
(1) The publisher's first move into the UK market came in 1987 with the acquisition of Chatto, Virago, Bodley Head and Jonathan Cape, and later with the purchase of Century Hutchinson and the trade division of Reed Books.
(2) And if not everyone agrees with her, or approves of Virago, or wants to be published by a women-only imprint, so much the better: "The last thing you want to be is a flat old thing that everybody loves, like a big teddy bear.
(3) According to Lennie Goodings, publisher of Virago, the suggestion that in 1857 "bad girls, smut and perversion were essentially invented in the eyes of the law is both a fascinating story and, crucially, an important way of understanding how we arrived at our ideas of normalcy and deviancy – ideas which are with us to this day".
(4) Thorn's first book – a memoir called Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star – will be published by Virago next February.
(5) Goodings, who joined five years later, calls herself "a second-generation Virago" but she was there early enough for it to feel like a start-up: "We were at 5 Wardour Street, five flights up a dusty staircase in one room.
(6) Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present is published by Virago Kate Moses Photograph: PR When I think of The Bell Jar , I do not think first of the story of Esther Greenwood's harrowing entrapment in the suffocating air of her own madness.
(7) Sarah Waters's latest book is The Little Stranger, published by Virago
(8) Spare Rib is a brand actually, isn't it, in the sense Virago is a brand?
(9) She recalls one lunch with a literary editor of the Times who "got there and said [she puts on a patrician drawl]: 'I told all the girls in the office I'm going out with a Virago today!'
(10) It was Taylor's ability to get into the skin of the character, more than the padding and a tousled salt-and-pepper wig, which transformed the legendary beauty into a blowsy virago.
(11) Virago is 40: A Celebration brings together new writing by authors including Margaret Atwood and Sarah Waters , on the subject of 40.
(12) It's only slowly, and in recent years, that the voice of the mother has come out – the odd middlebrow novel of the kind Virago and Persephone rescue ( EM Delafield or Dorothy Whipple ) and more recently Margaret Drabble , Julie Myerson , Rachel Cusk .
(13) The Haunting of Sylvia Plath by Jacqueline Rose is published by Virago Lionel Shriver Photograph: Rolph Gobits I read The Bell Jar as an adolescent, and like most teenagers had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her – looks, talent, opportunity, with her "whole life ahead of her," yadda, yadda, yadda – yet was spiralling into misery.
(14) Virago has made a profit every year since it was set up ("a healthy profit", Goodings adds, though she won't say how much on an annual turnover that averages around £3.5m), and she is proud of this.
(15) This is, I fully admit, a pretty odd kind of nostalgia, and the person I blame for it mostly is Katharine Whitehorn, whose Cooking in a Bedsitter, first published in 1961, in print and regularly updated for the next 40 years, and now triumphantly reissued in all its original greasy and hardscrabble glory by Virago (I just wish they had made the cover wipe-clean), fuelled it for many years.
(16) Few insiders feel News Corp was a serious contender to take over Penguin, as reported at the weekend, but Hachette, which has Little, Brown and Virago under its wing, is rumoured to be in buying mood and unlikely to settle for a place in the second division.
(17) Like Spare Rib, Virago referenced the Garden of Eden with a logo of an apple with a chunk bitten out of it: tree of knowledge, here we come.
(18) Virago is 40: A Celebration is available as a free ebook at virago.co.uk
(19) "I'm not going to feel defensive about Virago until the Today programme changes," she says, referring to the fact that just 18% of contributors to the flagship news show are female.
(20) Prized novelists include Waters and Sarah Dunant – authors of Virago's two top‑selling titles last year – and Marilynne Robinson, who won the Orange prize for Home in 2009, a moment Goodings cites as a career highlight.