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...The additions are Aik-Ping Ng, Edith Ang, Dorothy Chan and Christine Wong....
...The three Billie-Holiday style dresses in dove gray, black and butter yellow that closed the show were surely dream dresses for anyone planning a night on the town....
...“Freddie Gray . . . Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin,” he said, standing near the makeshift memorial in front of the Dallas Police Department on Friday night....
...Leigh’s film suggests he also had sex with his housekeeper of 40 years Hannah Danby (superb study in tortured fidelity from Dorothy Atkinson)....
...The figure was modelled by Leighton’s young muse, tall, slender Dorothy Dene, her curly hair daringly cropped for an image hovering between portrait and pin-up....
...Plats du Jour by Patience Gray (a woman whom Mrs David detested even more than she detested Peter Mayle) and Primrose Boyd is of 1957....
...As fellow American writer and satirist Dorothy Parker put it, “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.” Gray and Smith cite various explanations for writerly substance abuse....
...Simon Gray’s The Smoking Diaries. What books are currently on your bedside table?...
...But in the second shortest, a page and a half from Alasdair Gray entitled “Pillow Talk”, is one of the best....
...Additional reporting by Alistair Gray...
...fireworks so characteristic of Stewart and Gray’s partnership....
...Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia By John Gray Allen Lane £18.99, 256 pages FT bookshop price: £15.19 John Gray’s book charts Utopianism’s declining trajectory from Jesus to Stalin...
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