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...Nightclubs and wine bars in mid-1970s London and New York often rang out with the Slickers’ “Johnny Too Bad”, Desmond Dekker’s “007 (Shanty Town)” and other numbers from the film....
...“At Miller Harris I was working on wallpapers with a founder of Cole & Son that decorated our Regent Street store.”...
...There are hosts of such delicious details in Desmond Morris’s vastly entertaining collection of biographical essays on the Surrealist artists....
...US composer Miller Puckette, for example, is professor of music at the University of California....
...The artist’s father, Sir Sidney Kentridge (now 93), represented no fewer than three Nobel Peace Prize winners during his career — Albert Luthuli, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu — as well as the family of Black...
...Last year, Richard Desmond, the owner of Express Newspapers, refused to continue paying the voluntary industry levy that funds the existing regulator, leading to the expulsion of his newspaper group....
...American Media, publisher of the National Enquirer, went through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring late last year; Richard Desmond sold OK!’...
...It helps, Henzell says, that the Jamaica’s female prime minister, Portia Simpson-Miller, takes a clear lead within a very macho culture on anti-discrimination in general....
...Indian sugar millers have been paying up to Rs280-Rs250 ($6.22-$5.55) per quintal, up from Rs140 per quintal in the same time last year....
...Mr Desmond was not available for comment on Tuesday....
...This is not some reactionary Stuckist joke: organised by the Federation of British Artists, selected by a distinguished panel of judges – including Desmond Shawe-Taylor, surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures,...
...His performance as Sir Desmond Murgatroyd (Ruddigore) was sufficiently impressive for him to be recommended to David Franklin for lessons at the Birmingham School of Music....
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