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...Philby enjoys the lustre of being the granddaughter of the “Third Man”; her upcoming book Edith and Kim traces the relationship between Kim Philby and Edith Tudor-Hart, the woman who introduced him to his...
...Her words recall Miss Jackson in The Age of Innocence pronouncing on prevailing tastes: “In my youth [...] it was considered vulgar to dress in the newest fashions; and Amy Sillerton has always told me that...
...Asked to strip when auditioning for Peter Brook’s Theatre of Cruelty, Glenda Jackson swiftly dropped her knickers. Atkins refused....
...Aaron Jackson, founder of the humanitarian non-profit Planting Peace, raised money to buy the single-storey house opposite the church in 2012....
...The house, a steel and glass object of ineffable elegance and inestimable influence, was commissioned by Edith Farnsworth, a well-to-do physician in Chicago....
...Edith Halpert (1900-1970) was born in Odessa and arrived as a child in New York....
...Edith Wharton (then Edith Jones) was married in the church. Visitors to certain lots on Sixth Avenue were required to pay a fee to get in, usually a dollar....
...Wilson’s wife Edith acted as a mediator between the largely immobilised president and his cabinet....
...He is buried with his wife, Edith; beneath her name is inscribed the name “Lúthien”, the loveliest of elf-maidens in The Silmarillion, and below his the name “Beren”, her mortal lover....
...Too many to name, I’ll stick to the dead ones: Thomas Mann, Richard Yates, Edith Wharton, Vasily Grossman, IB Singer, Nikolai Gogol....
...“The Michael Jackson death drug.” “You can get that shit on the street?” “No. You have to be Michael Jackson.” We all want a new life We all want to quit tomorrow We all want to fall in love....
...Eleven Rings : The Soul of Success, by Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty, Penguin Press, $27.95, 368 pages Jackson isn’t just a revered American basketball coach; this son of Pentecostal ministers is also...
...by Hilton Als, McSweeney’s, RRP$24 The New Yorker critic’s first major work since 1996’s The Women, this collection of essays parses cultural figures including Truman Capote, Flannery O’Connor, Michael Jackson...
...It includes lions, one of Michael Jackson’s tigers and a couple of leopards. Hedren has several domestic cats too....
...Jonita Landis, Mark’s mother, had grown up in Laurel and the family moved to Jackson, Mississippi, when Arthur retired....
...In her subject matter Smiley invites comparisons to Edith Wharton, though she isn’t quite the fine stylist that Wharton was....
...In the past it has been attended by the Clintons, the Duchess of York, Mikhail Gorbachev, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson. This year’s the performers include Jennifer Hudson and Estelle....
...The Return of The Player has an epigraph from New York author Edith Wharton: “What the American public always wants is a tragedy with a happy ending.”...
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