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...A wood-burning fire (there is no central heating) warms the room with its long kitchen table, piano and blue-grey flagstone floor....
...He winced and came up with the yellowish to cream Ghislaine de Féligonde, a smaller-growing rose whose main enemy is its cumbrous name; Debutante, a small flowered rose-pink with a long season; Ethel, whose...
...Ethel Smyth, a leading figure among the suffragettes and too long neglected as a composer, is suddenly in the spotlight again....
...“Midway this way of life we’re bound upon / I woke to find myself in a dark wood”, wrote Dante. Kamm was 50 years old when one day he suddenly found he could not remember where he lived....
...Their first house was a log cabin, but it was destroyed in the 1970s by squatters who wanted the wood, Kuria says....
...But overall, quality is tepid; many contemporary paintings, particularly — several by Caragh Thuring and Issy Wood are examples — are too inept and thought-free to merit a place in any Tate....
...Ruby Ross Wood’s eclecticism combined bright, broad-checked swags and drapes with floral Chinoiserie wallpapers....
...Gypsy, with Ethel Merman (1959) When the young Sondheim was invited to write the words and music for Gypsy, a musical loosely about striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, its star Ethel Merman was unimpressed...
...The latter is Afro-America’s answer to Ethel Merman, supplied to us by the life force of cinema in collaboration with TV’s American Idol....
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