The Tex-Mex–style chalupas I'm most familiar with are built on flat, crisp-fried corn tortillas.

Filipp Filippovich rolled up his eyes. ‘And what makes you a working man?’ ‘Well, I'm obviously not a Nepman am I?’

Getting to the bottom of Selmes' thinking is not the easiest of tasks but what in essence he is doing is trading a mummy (as in King Tut) for a big daddy (as in Tennessee Williams).

There was a greyness in the east by the time we had completed the Navajo war dance on the front lawn.