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...Oscar Wilde could quip to his friend Ada Leverson that the tragic expiry of Little Nell (one of Dickens’ most popular passages on his massive reading tours) would prompt laughter from all but those with...
...Katz grew up in the quasi-suburban enclave of St Albans, Queens, to Russian-born parents who cultivated a bohemian atmosphere....
...When an event provokes a public response from the Queen, the prime minister and the Spice Girls, questions about cut-through and relevance are quickly dispelled....
...When he was a boy, in Queens, he never felt at ease. There was just one other Jewish family living nearby....
...In Christopher Luscombe’s handsome RSC staging it appears to be 1890s London, as Shakespeare’s comedy of disguise, gender-swapping and sexual confusion rubs shoulders with Oscar Wilde, and draws on Queen...
...Carola Long Lipstick Queen Medieval Intense, £18, SpaceNK.com Fangirls of Lipstick Queen will be familiar with Medieval, a sheer, universally flattering red....
...He was posthumously pardoned by the Queen and in 2017 a new “Alan Turing law” pardoned more than 50,000 gay men convicted of offences that are no longer illegal....
...A girlish Queen Victoria comes to tea with Babbage and admires a computer-generated kitten....
...To generalise heroically, the entire arc of world literature can be summarised as follows: writing about gods, then kings and queens, then ordinary people and, finally, ourselves....
...To someone from Queens, he’s like one of my neighbours. His reasoning is all sort of Queens, like a Queens Republican — nice and pragmatic. You can understand it....
...The Queen in her annual televised speech may have marvelled at video being beamed to mobile phones, but soon my parents would be slinging Satoshis!...
...On “Queen”, an industrial, thrusting ballad, he sings, “No family is safe when I sashay”, while holding elegantly contorted shapes in a black suit and dramatic make-up, and it’s thrilling....
...Preliminary indications are encouraging, says Harriet Roberts, ADAS project manager....
...The problem lies not with Churchill, but with the fact that this will leave no woman on British banknotes apart from the Queen, who is on them all....
...Among border-plants Helianthus “Lemon Queen” reinvaded smart gardens about 20 years ago and is excellent in the back row of a bed, about six feet high....
...My father was making his way to Can¬ada, but had not yet arrived; his absence at my birth was a sign of the deeper absence yet to come....
...This week, even the state beauty queen rolled into town to hand out presents for the children....
...The Maison Blanche is not much to look at – just a dining hall furnished with plastic lawn chairs in the city’s Mvog-Ada quarter....
...Sa’ada was lovely: a mother of four with olive eyes and a flawless complexion. Her daughters were pretty too....
...Emily firmly says: “This rabbit is not for sale” -but the young queen is not easily put off....
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