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...Frankenstein itself is structured like a Russian doll....
...“The look was created using liquid liner to enlarge the eye and add drama with scratchy, feathered lines,” says the brand’s national make-up artist Claire Mulleady....
...Claire Wilcox is the senior fashion curator at the V&A Museum, a professor in fashion curation at the London College of Fashion and author of Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes (Bloomsbury, £16.99)...
...There’s a framed Swedish textile, some Japanese vases and ceramic statuettes by British artist Claire Partington....
...In Stef Smith’s Nora: A Doll’s House, a response to Ibsen’s drama, however, that role is refracted into three....
...Ron Lord is a sex-obsessed millionaire unable to sustain a relationship with anything other than an animatronic sex-doll; Claire is his easily swayed evangelical sidekick....
...Leaving the stage bare, a prominent doll’s house stands in for the grand rooms of Ballybeg....
...I can tag a last word of my own on to this list as I too live in a listed country house, one that served as a manor when it was built in 1205, although it is a doll’s house compared with Wolterton....
...In the mid-1970s he lived in Britain much of the year, thanks to his relationship with the actor Claire Bloom (who wrote a withering recollection of their marriage in her memoir Leaving A Doll’s House)....
...The TV advert, unveiled in the UK in November, evoked a nostalgia for the 1990s, when parents would queue up outside Toys R Us stores to grab Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and games consoles....
...The usual happy endings are set aside and the “Ingenue” (Corey Claire Anand in China doll mode) suffers the fate that the stepmother had originally planned. The atrocities come thick and fast....
...Le Vivier des noms is overlong at two and a half hours and the baroque list of names it is built around makes it sound at times like a bizarre phone directory, but the cast led by Claire Sermonne delivered...
...Look out for Two do-it-yourself paper doll sheets with interchangeable clothing options....
...After his 17-year relationship with the English actor Claire Bloom ended, she published Leaving a Doll’s House (1996), which levelled accusations of heartlessness, adultery, unprincipled self-seeking and...
...In 1996, she published a memoir, Leaving a Doll’s House, in which she denounced her former husband, accusing him of misogyny and adultery....
...At Ginger’s Comfort Emporium, Claire Kelsey is launching the UK’s first camel-milk ice cream....
...But perhaps even more over the top is Barbie Shanghai, a six-storey Barbie-themed “department” store that opened last year at 550 Hauihai Lu, selling 1,600 Barbie-related products from dolls to Barbie diamond...
...Take a moment right now to show us on the doll where Goldman touched you. (Dealbreaker also covered Blankfein’s appearance slightly more seriously)....
...Hill: I have long been enchanted by Valley of the Dolls for the cultural references, imagery, colours, soundtrack, mood and themes....
...The characterisations are deliberately exaggerated – the Nieces behave like synchronised dolls, Auntie is a fur-coated dyke who ends up wearing the head of a boar (the name of her pub) – and the exaggerations...
...I secured another conference room and waited as Vicki and Claire unfurled the cloth....
...Bailey’s career highlights include adaptations of period movies Baby Doll and The Postman Always Rings Twice, so I presume her strategy here is a deliberate choice....
...Anna Biller’s Viva is an inspirationally loopy spoof of 1960s/70s sexploitation cinema, its best scenes comparable to that kitsch wonderwork Beyond the Valley of the Dolls....
...Surrealist motifs are also seen throughout – from Werner Rohde’s “Man with Mask” (1928) to Bellmer’s sinister “The Doll” (1934) and the ethereal mannequins in Umbehr’s “Dreamers” (1928-29)....
...The kind of thing you see in Marie Claire magazine’s Spree v Steal feature....
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