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...“I thought I’d help out and then go back to work,” Grace recalls....
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...She recounts seeing a picture of Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg and their dog that she’d never seen before....
...“My friends used to do cosplay, dressing up in wigs and things, and I’d photograph them, then create a whole 3D world [on her computer] and put them into it....
...President Franklin D Roosevelt enacted the NLRB in 1935 as part of a sweeping set of legislation amid a series of violent labour disputes....
...Then Christie has the ability to harness it and make it happen.”...
...The final look, of corseted latex, was worn by actor Gwendoline Christie....
...He put the items up for auction at Christie’s months later in 1992, though he’d decided to keep back the handwritten diaries....
...“If I were in HMRC, I’d be arguing these payments [by the Post Office] are not deductible,” she added. However, other tax experts said the matter was not clear-cut....
...While I’d agree with your assessment about Ramaswamy as a self-promoting phoney, such people can still tell us important things about where we are in a given moment in history....
...“He knows that if he puts them back into Christie’s, he’ll be lucky to get half his money back,” Rollitt says....
...“If you put 10 specialists in a room, you’d probably get 10 different opinions about what something was worth.”...
...He says that, if he’d taken Sherborne’s advice, “there’d still be a News of the World on Sunday and no hacking claims.” “It’s not true!” says my guest, smiling....
...That bust shape reappeared again at the British Fashion Awards last year, on Deacon’s life partner, actor Gwendoline Christie, who wore a chocolate-brown gown with exaggerated versions of the wired bust...
...If they donate to a super PAC, they can give as much money as they’d like....
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