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...Though Cecil B DeMille’s The Affairs of Anatol (1921) features a delightful dark-eyed vamp, Satan Synne (Bebe Daniels), who leads the feckless hero into her boudoir (the “Devil’s Cloister”, stocked with...
...Describing ball gowns as “fashion as excess”, Rebecca Arnold says they have historically been considered the ultimate status symbol....
...Orwell and Wells, to borrow Matthew Arnold’s phrase from Culture and Anarchy, helped us “to see things as they really are”....
...He orders an iced tea; I go for an Arnold Palmer – iced tea and lemonade....
...So the Arnold Machin bust, made when she was not yet 40, is the most pervasive if least-studied representation, a statement that her majesty is not withered by age....
...Jonathan Arnold, for services to English furniture makers. Paul Ashley, chairman, Clark Door, industrial door maker.Peter Atkins, for services to journalism. Kate Atkinson, author....
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...Among a cluster of Sutherlands, the sober, monumental, monotone “Cecil Harmsworth” makes McCartney look even more like a breath of fresh air....
...“No, after you, Cecil,” came the reply. It could go on for quite a long time....
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