Frayn
Britishnoun
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Prof Keith Frayn, author of A Calorie is a Calorie, agrees many overweight people would probably not have been so, 40 years ago.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
With the precision of a geometric proof, Frayn built his farce on the back of another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2025
“Your weight is like your heartbeat, in the sense that you might have a resting heartbeat, like 65 beats a minute,” Frayn said.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2022
He went to work on “Face Value,” a comedy of mistaken racial anxiety that modeled on the farces of Michael Frayn and Joe Orton.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2020
Frayn suggests that indeterminacy would be a better word for the principle and indeterminability would be better still.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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