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It needs flannel in lengthy widths, and it's here that Harry and Alan come through like a whole warehouse full of pyjamas ) to the 1976 Olympics (' Jenkins has a lot to do ' was a new way of saying that our man, of whom we had such high hopes, was not going to pull out the big one ). In between we have 'War and Peace' ( Tolstoy makes television history ), the Royal Wedding ( Dimbling suavely, Tom Fleming introduced the scene ), the Winter Olympics ( unintelligibuhl ), the Eurovision Song Contest ( The Hook of their song lasted a long time in the mind, like a kick in the knee. You could practically hear the Koreans singing it. 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James writes with exquisite perception and surgical precision; he is a poet of powerful argument and emotional force' The Times The reputation of Clive James as a poet was slow to form, perhaps because he was too famous as a star journalist and television entertainer. There was also the drawback that his poetry was so entertaining it was hard for many critics to take seriously. But after the notoriety achieved by a single self-satirizing poem, 'The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered', one of the most anthologized poems of recent times, James's poetic output became impossible to ignore, and his 1985 collection Other Passports was greeted with praise for its thematic scope and technical accomplishment, even by critics who still doubted his seriousness. Since then, James has emerged unarguably as one of the most prominent poets of his generation - and The Book of My Enemy (which includes Other Passports) shows why. 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