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...killed Marie Colvin.”...
...When Marie Antoinette said “Let those dummies eat cake”, this was what she was thinking of....
...(FT) Baby names in France A century ago, one in eight girls born in France was named Marie; today the figure is less than 1 per cent....
...A postcard from Anita Brookner leaning against Judy Garland’s actual 1950s white leather address book, open on the page with Bette Davis, Sammy Davis Jr and Doris Day side by side?...
...Marie, a middle-aged woman, said she voted No to be “on the safe side”. “It’s a very complicated treaty but I think it was safer to vote no,” she said....
...My mother’s idea of a lullaby reflected exactly her twin passions for the cockney and the kosher: Marie Lloyd music hall one night, Sophie Tucker (“The Last of the Red Hot Mamas”) belters the next....
...Doris-Ann Williams, director-general, British In Vitro Diagnostics Association. Margaret Wood, managing director, ICW. Philip Woodworth, oceanographer....
...But with the news that the director was to be Doris Dörrie, perpetrator of a Planet of the Apes-style Rigoletto in her native Germany, hearts sank. In the event, expectations were confounded....
...Rumours that he tried to claim for costs on having his Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit dry-cleaned or shipping his Marie Antoinette pomade and rouge are completely unfounded....
...Following Doris Lessing’s victory this year, how many living Nobel laureates for literature are British citizens? 21....
...“Beck is a reformer, but one who focuses on concrete projects, not grand goals,” says Doris Ahnen, Rhineland-Palatinate education minister....
...Marie Walewska. Warren Beatty? Bugsy Siegel. Kirk Douglas, Tim Roth and Martin Scorsese? All Van Gogh. Charlton Heston? Moses and Michelangelo. Rod Steiger? Napoleon, W.C. Fields and Pope John XXIII....
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