Liam Neeson, his hair standing straight up like tensed wire, is the dauntless but neurotic sex researcher Alfred C.

NEWYORKER: Kinsey

They were climbing lamp posts, sitting on barbed-wire fences, standing on the roofs of cars and buses and some not fussed about getting a baton around the kneecaps by the police.

BBC: Cricket World Cup: Andrew White column

Snyder draws more people into the evil: where postwar mythology has enabled the view of an honorable German Army independent of the hideous S.S., he makes it plain that the Wehrmacht, not the S.S., created the first death camps, where Soviet soldiers were crammed together in the open, behind barbed wire, and were starved standing up.

NEWYORKER: Faces, Places, Spaces

Then the finger joined the girl, the tray banged shut, I was standing by my shopping cart, studying the mesh pattern of the collapsible wire basket, trying to recall what was already slipping away.

NEWYORKER: History of a Disturbance