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...Perhaps more than most other 20th-century figures, Joan Didion brings out the simpering fangirl in even the butchest people....
...The literary flights of Joyce Carol Oates’ source novel give way to the headbangingly literal. De Armas, a gifted actress, is adrift....
...The two had met several years ago with an eye to collaborating on a film Field had written with Joan Didion, but nothing came of it....
...Much like the titles of Walker’s paintings — “Elaine”, “Alem”, “Torh”, “Carol and Lil” — the balance between familiarity and anonymity is ambiguous....
...Davidson quotes Thomas Hardy’s poem “Seen by the Waits”, in which startled carol singers witness a squire’s wife dancing alone with “delinquent joy”....
...Essayist and novelist Joan Didion, who found fame in the 1960s, is as likely as any young novelist to write the next big book....
...“She’s holding the Washington Post”, my friend Carol Booker told me....
...Phillips has secured the first public sale of a large 1957-59 Alberto Burri work (up to $15m) and a white-ground 1945 painting by Joan Miró (up to $18m) while Christie’s also fields a $300m-plus collection...
...Opinions about television are ten a penny, and you can get them anywhere; if it’s Moore’s opinion I’d rather hear it on John Cheever or Joyce Carol Oates or Dawn Powell....
...Eileen Agar’s “Marine Object” (1939), a broken amphora found on a beach near Toulon and studded with crustaceans, and Carol Bove’s immaculate equilibrium of seashells, coral and feathers “Le Sphinx Rouge...
...“Rarely attempted, and still more rarely successful, is the bibliomemoir,” began Joyce Carol Oates in her 2014 review of Rebecca Mead’s personal journey around George Eliot, My Life in Middlemarch....
...The carol ends with the gentle lesson that those who “bless the poor/ shall themselves find blessing.”...
...This 1853 Christmas Carol, set to the melody of a 13th-century Nordic Hymn, has since fallen into the hands of Joan Baez, Tom Jones and Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple....
...They have always been so, from the glory days of the “women’s picture” in the 1940s, when Joan Crawford starred in Mildred Pierce, and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday....
...In Carol Rama’s 1967 work on paper “Spurting Out”, plastic googly eyes cluster at the edge of a flesh-coloured crater encrusted in something that could be dried blood....
...Todd Haynes’ 1952-set Carol (2015) was celebrated as a trendsetter on its release....
...I do not go for the yellow cover of Carol Klein’s Making A Garden: Successful Gardening By Nature’s Rules (£25), but any keen gardener would love this excellent book....
...Joan Collins, the evergreen actress and author, becomes a dame for her services to charity....
...Edie is joined by various members of the Campbell clan, including mother Sophie Hicks, father Roddy, grandmother Joan, grandfather Jeremy, sister Olympia and even her horse, Dolly....
...How else to explain the fact that Viktor & Rolf, the Dutch duo who made their name with a sort of performance art couture, opted for a live soundtrack courtesy of indie singer Joan As Policewoman, but then...
...This month alone has already seen significant London openings of plays written by actors Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag), Louise Brealey (Pope Joan) and Simon Callow (Inside Wagner’s Head, which admittedly...
...Back in the 1960s and 1970s, Joan Jonas was a pioneer....
...To give the show some extra grounding in real life, there are cameos from well-known personalities: Clare Balding, Carol Vorderman. There are rumours that Hall himself will appear in a future episode....
...In January Joan Burton, Ireland’s minister for social protection, told the FT she favoured introducing some kind of pension protection scheme....
...Joan Tower is one of a kind – an independent thinker, a dazzling craftsperson and a composer who steadfastly refuses to toe popular party lines....
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