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...Davis said that while early clashes between the PDFs and regime soldiers were typically over in minutes, recent attacks and ambushes have lasted for hours....
...This glamorous collection includes big names such as Oscar-winning actors Hattie McDaniel and Sidney Poitier, but also lesser-known figures such as 1930s actress Nina Mae McKinney, nicknamed the “black Garbo...
...For one thing, she was married but had a female love, Dussie Mae (played in the film by Taylour Paige)....
...Mae West: “The Edwardian bust, the piled peroxided hair, the seductive and reeling motions reminiscent of an overfed python . . . ” Bette Davis: “Her precise, nervy voice, the popping neurotic eyes, a kind...
...Ingestion of a different kind features in The Most Dangerous Man in America by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L Davis (John Murray RRP£14.99, April; already available in the US), which relates an episode in...
...To my left, Dorothy Parker, to my right, Bette Davis, and underneath me, because I’m in his lap, Idris Elba. Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?...
...(Her own self-description: “a poor man’s Bette Davis”.) They Drive by Night (1940) advanced her reputation. High Sierra (1941) was her stellar peak....
...Jefferson, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the New York Times, includes sharp descriptions of postwar black American performers such as Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis Jr, who prized...
...His mastery of the LinnDrum machine, manufactured in 1982, gave “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker” and a dozen other songs their queasy syncopation....
...On the opposite page is a list that reads “In Memory of Jordan Russell Davis”, “In Memory of Eric Garner”, and so on....
...In the US, the mortgage market could not operate without the financing provided by twin utilities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The parallels are intensifying in two ways....
...Fellow habitués Harold Ross, Alexander Woollcott and Robert Benchley were no less renowned for their glinting apercus than Dorothy Parker, and yet posterity has cruelly cast them as her entourage....
...Admirers included Mae West, Bette Davis, George Gershwin, Leon Trotsky, Errol Flynn, Orson Welles and Frida Kahlo....
...A few miles across London, however, Britain’s tennis players — or, to be more exact, the two Murray brothers — beat an even older enemy, the French, to reach the semi-finals of the Davis Cup for the first...
...Co-presenter Evan Davis later said: “She shouldn’t be guest editing, she should be permanently presenting the programme.”...
...The writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis in my writing life....
...“I felt bad for Dorothy,” he wrote, “but it was a million bucks for the Democratic party.”...
...Dividends from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and rising tax receipts helped push the surplus to $116.5bn, compared to a $59.7bn deficit a year earlier (Bloomberg)....
...Rosenberg is an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell, a global law firm...
...In the US, banks often sell mortgages on to the federal agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which repackage them into mortgage-backed securities....
...“We know that this is an unsustainable moment in time, because refis are so robust,” said Richard Davis, chief executive of US Bancorp....
...“And this is Polly Maggoo [Dorothy McGowan, the star of his 1966 fashion film Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?] She’s all over the book.”...
...“There have been big deals, but this was a colossal transaction,” says Richard Drucker, a corporate partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell....
...It also said it would reinvest any early repayments from mortgage securities back into debt issued by mortgage agencies such as Fannie Mae, to reduce household mortgage rates....
...“It has always been next year that the issue of Fannie and Freddie will be taken up,” said Randall Guynn, a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell as he moderated a panel at the New York event....
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