“Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can't decipher the cyrillic alphabet.” LooksAbleBuildingUnionsStuckSovietMarvelousSoviet UnionVisitorsAdvertisementsAlphabetDecipher Author:Clive James
“My niece is - her name is Sasha, is currently learning Russian at Melbourne University and I look forward to the day when I can talk to her about Pushkin.” LooksI CanNamesUniversityNieceMelbourneMy NiecePushkin Author:Clive James
“The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London telephone booth to look like that it would have to be guarded around the clock by the SAS.” WorldLooksAmericaStreetsModernTownsCleanLondonClockComparisonTelephonesModern WorldGuarded Book:Flying Visits Source: Flying Visits
“Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.” LooksVersionsTennisPrincessBorg Author:Clive James
“John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.” IfsLooksBuildingRoundsEdgesTennisServingImaginary Author:Clive James
“Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a brown condom full of walnuts.” LooksCondomSchwarzeneggerWalnuts Author:Clive James
