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...That martini-fuelled disgrace indirectly leads Eric to develop an intense friendship with the party’s co-host Walter Poole (Paul Hilton), an older gay man who confides his memories of the 1980s Aids epidemic...
...Walter Crane’s willowy “The Renaissance of Venus”, based on Botticelli, is a hermaphrodite fantasy, the goddess modelled on a boy: “My dear fellow, that is not Aphrodite — that is Alessandro,” exclaimed...
...David took a 10-year-old William to see another aunt, Ethel, a sculptor. “She was really inspirational,” he recalls....
...But Walter, who hopes to use some of his mother’s $10,000 insurance money to fund a liquor store business, disappears for long stretches....
...And even when he is with his late loves Ethel Mannin or Dorothy Wellesley or Edith Shackleton Heald in England, his wish “to be back home with you drinking a bottle of Muskatel & telling you all the news...
...To Walter Schneir, the pursuit of the truth in the Rosenberg case was an absolute, even as he was sand-bagged over the years by new revelations....
...Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) was quite a Dame. A progressive, dauntlessly prolific composer, she demanded and commanded her place in a man’s world. She hobnobbed with Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Dvorák....
...Other old names, in contrast, remain stubbornly out of favour, such as Deirdre, Ethel and Gertrude for girls and Norman, Percy and Walter for boys....
...The cross-cultural paintings by artists including Will Ashton, Ethel Carrick Fox, Bessie Davidson and Rupert Bunny evoke a city during a period of fragile calm....
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