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...“People do want to see things in this market,” says Alexander Bell, co-chair of Sotheby’s Old Masters paintings business....
...The gallery hopes to entice supply to match the current demand for blue-chip art, says senior partner Kristine Bell....
...Doris Bothwell called herself Dorr. All of them hoped not to be disqualified from serious attention by virtue of their names....
...Once Switzerland shuts down on Christmas Eve, my family and I will enjoy the silence — apart from the church bells — and perhaps wander in the nearby hills and woods....
...Rathbones is a very good example of a company that has made a good living out of looking after Auntie Doris’ trust fund. That is very cash generative, but it doesn’t grow....
...The train whistle in The 39 Steps, the tolling bell in Vertigo, the “Knife . . . knife” speech in Blackmail)....
...Is it because the parents who fecklessly leave their kids to take a far-flung holiday, and then go missing presumed dead, tugs at the bereavement emotions and touches off the sudden-calamity alarm bells...
...The second was Kate Dimbleby singing the songs of Dori Previn. This was notable for the right reasons, but also for a point Kate made about success along the way....
...Something about those Bells and Woolfs, perhaps their criss-crossing between prose, painting and partners, spoke to Patti Smith – as if Charleston was the Chelsea Hotel in wellies....
...Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln By Doris Kearns Goodwin Penguin £10.99, 928 pages In her contribution to the slew of books about Abraham Lincoln in this 200th anniversary year,...
...Above are spacious attic rooms where skis, sledges, cow bells (worn by the herd in the summer) and other alpine farming paraphernalia is stored....
...TRENDS The New Romanticism that reared its head last season was not old but new once again at the start of the New York shows, with empire lines, high-necked blouses, lace, ruffles, and full bell sleeves...
...Microsoft, Packard- Bell, and the Sci-Fi Network were apparently made of stronger stuff and forged partnerships with the dark and gory Starship Troopers....
...The bells and whistles of self-advertising shtick are pressed upon the statesman, scientist or artist....
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