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...I could see Edna was the work of genius but couldn’t quite laugh. Maybe it was that the morphing of the familiar man with his floppy dark hair into the croaking, gladioli-throwing Edna was too much....
...I recalled a sentence from an Edna St Vincent Millay poem: “Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.” Even for the most mathematically uninclined minds, geometry is the fount of visual pleasure....
...Another popular pocket is The Sisters, a conservation area near the river where the streets are named after the landowner’s daughters: Edna, Orbel, Ursula and Octavia....
...Surely only here would the description of Prince Charming’s equerry Dandini as “an ordinary working man” pass without either a hoot of derision or a gasp of incredulity....
...roots were showing ever more clearly through Edna’s mauve hair rinse....
...Vindication would take another four years, when the US fined BAE $400m and found the company guilty of lying about its dealings, including those with a Saudi prince....
...“I think Prince William has his mother’s traits. He is very easy with people and very like her.”...
...It’s like Dame Edna. There’s no double-entendre jokes, no innuendo – we’re all part of the conspiracy....
...As a writer, Perriam has been compared to Edna O’Brien and Muriel Spark and her gift for humour has been likened to that of Kingsley Amis....
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