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  • As I did at FIAC, I selected 18 galleries and asked their most anglophonic expert to pick an image and talk about it for under two minutes.

    Michael Kurcfeld: Doing Shots: The Old and the New at Paris Photo 2011 (VIDEO) Michael Kurcfeld 2011

  • Parker is a bit like Chauncey Gardner in “Being There,” the right person at the right time who was able to distill the unspoken desire of the anglophonic wine-consuming Volk, looking for “objective” measures of quality without wishing to be bothered by the messy and somewhat subjectivist notion of terroir.

    Wine Person of the Decade - nominations open! | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • At the same time, it is NOT to say that they are not capable of Socialism ... although the "S" word equate with Joe McCarthy reds-under-the-bed paranoia in many North American minds forgetful of the fact that their anglophonic soul mates across "The Pond" in Olde England have embraced the "S" word without throwing themselves in sheer desperation into the River Thames because of it.

    Like the American Revolution, Venezuela's in the name of Liberator Simon Bolivar is NOT going to be a walk-over! 2008

  • Because that would validate all my preconceived notions of innate North European linguistic ability - and our knack at attracting patronising anglophonic morons.

    Can You Top This Miss Snark 2005

  • The success and rise of Dravidians is mainly due to their latent anglophonic skills more than anything else it certainly ain't anything specifically anatomic or cultural in the sense that Anglophonia is the edge you need to get ahead, climb the ladder, get to the top in this competetive world.

    Why are South Indians so smart? Steve Sailer 2002

  • That's not to say he sings in a heavily accented style, far from it; indeed many of the characteristics of the Faroese language carry well into Teitur's anglophonic melodies but the shroud of mystery is one which a lot of artists benefit greatly from.

    Drowned In Sound // Feed 2009

  • Izarra has presented himself as a New World leader in the communications revolution but, apart from setting up TeleSUR to mimic CNN en Espanol throughout South America (and hey, why not the world?), he's aiming to mimic AP, Reuters and UPI (even AFP, Xinhua and DPA) with a non-aligned alignment of state-controlled news agencies to pump the news that the AP, Reuters, UPI et.al. "brotherhood" patently fail to do in their anglophonic First World bias on world events!

    Nothing has changed since the days of Caesar and Brutus! Et tu! 2008

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