Hints and tips:
...My favourites are the Swarovski-crystal Manolos I have in red, green, black and gold – they’re like Dorothy’s shoes in The Wizard of Oz....
...As a designer myself, I often turn to the mantras penned by the long-dead people whose work I admire and take inspiration from: the American decorators Nancy Lancaster and Dorothy Draper, say, or the English...
...We mostly adore the same stuff: Dorothy Draper, moiré silk, Emilio Terry, shell grottoes, ceramics shaped like fish....
...One Sunday, when he was 17, Hawthorne went to a friend’s house and, on his way home, intoxicated, got into a heated argument with a neighbour, Dorothy Webb, that ended in her death....
...“I felt bad for Dorothy,” he wrote, “but it was a million bucks for the Democratic party.”...
...“The fiercest part of the debate is over where exactly the line is drawn on exemptions,” Terry Duffy, chairman of the CME Group, the world’s biggest listed futures exchange, told the Financial Times....
...Instead of essays about politics, the Paris Review built a massive archive of authors discussing the craft of writing; it was an early publisher of work by Terry Southern and Philip Roth....
...You can buy Georgette Heyer books, but nothing by Dorothy L Sayers or Agatha Christie; six books by Terry Pratchett but none by Tolkien. And you’ll pay practically the same price as for a paper book....
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