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The first half is an autobiography of his pre-Supreme Court years, full of affection and with some truly astonishing stories.

The contest for the top four places in the eight-team group was blown wide open by South Africa's astonishing comeback against India on Thursday, led by Nadine de Klerk's unbeaten 84 from number eight.

Perched in his art-filled château in the south of France, the British expatriate spent years hurling invectives at, falling out with or blatantly undermining an astonishing number of people.

Foreigners were astonished to see that even ordinary Dutch homes displayed paintings.

“Sèvres Extraordinaire!” approaches its subject—pioneering, astonishing ceramic confections that are neither purely functional nor purely decorative but sui generis art, or “sculpture”—in the broadest sense.