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...The fantasy was shortlived, however, after Biba’s majority shareholders Dorothy Perkins were bought out by property and investment firm British Land....
...So where are today’s Dorothy Sayers wasting their talent?...
...For many Swiss, though, autumn is the Alps’ most magical moment, when the larch trees — Europe’s only deciduous conifers — turn golden, the sun shines and the mountain tops are dusted by the first snows....
...Because I don’t know any sommeliers, I’ve gone for the next best thing: Lord Peter Wimsey, the aristo sleuth from Dorothy Sayers’ Golden Age detective novels....
...Olivier was out of his depth, and the cracks in their marriage became chasms as she began a tempestuous affair with Peter Finch and he a more temperate one with Dorothy Tutin....
...“They lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles,” said Dorothy Parker wryly of the members of the Bloomsbury Group....
...For me, The Wolseley has been like that fabled land imagined by yearning Dorothy stuck in grey Kansas, “Some place where there isn’t any trouble . . . ” It feels like the end of that era now....
...I saw a little Dorothy straight from Oz, her blue chequered dress and glittery red shoes bringing an irresistible smile to my face....
...I’m with American poet Dorothy Parker, or the lines sometimes attributed to her: “I like to have a martini/ Two at the very most/ After three I’m under the table/ After four I’m under my host.”...
...Goldstein’s English translation in June (Europa Editions RRP£20/$26), while in the same month shrewd contemporary satirist Amanda Craig reworks Strangers on a Train with a millennial protagonist in The Golden...
...There’s a brief, entirely gratuitous appearance by Dorothy and her Wizard of Oz friends, in the stage equivalent of “cutaway” gags in cartoon series....
...The great American decorator Dorothy Draper, in her staunch yet jaunty hostess bible Entertaining is Fun!...
...Its golden age was the mid-20th century. But it has a genealogy to make black Americans’ hearts swell....
...Like Dorothy in Oz I could leave behind my grey day and plunge myself into a world of colour and adventure and bad puns....
...This golden age of audio sprung from the same creative impulse as the concurrent golden age of television: trust in the audience, or even a certain indifference to it....
...A golden final weekend is in prospect. Joe Joyce, the art student turned boxer, guaranteed himself a medal....
...Dorothy Fields! I haven’t thought about her for a very long time. So I listened to An Evening with Dorothy Fields, and soon she was singing “If My Friends Could See Me Now”....
...Born in Oxford on August 3 1920, Phyllis Dorothy James was one of three siblings. Her father worked for the Inland Revenue and she was to hold a civil service post herself....
...Leigh’s film suggests he also had sex with his housekeeper of 40 years Hannah Danby (superb study in tortured fidelity from Dorothy Atkinson)....
...Lupita Nyong’o The fashion world first started falling for the 31-year-old star of 12 Years a Slave when she stepped out in a crimson caped gown by Ralph Lauren at the Golden Globes....
...Regardless, Jeb, the golden boy of the Bush clan, is barely mentioned in this memoir. These trepidations aside, 41 turns out to be a helluva good read....
...So blinded are we by such versions of a “golden age” of working-class culture, with its up-by-the-bootstraps wholesomeness, that we have overlooked how working-class lives have been derided and diminished...
...This will include a dissection of the costumes made by designer Alexandra Byrne in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)....
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...“It’s a golden prison,” added Dolce. He was not speaking entirely metaphorically....
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