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...*The artwork at the top of this article is “Dulka Warngiid” (Land for All), 2007, by Birmuyingathi Maali Netta Loogatha, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Warthardangathi Bijarrba Ethel Thomas, Thunduyingathi...
...More impactful than, say, 1896’s Thomas Edison-produced The May Irwin Kiss, these refreshing snippets capture black people’s longstanding desire for representation....
...I have never thought myself serious and sensible enough to be a “Thomas”. I have only ever been Tom. Thus in naming someone appropriately, we might get to the essence of who they are....
...Some, like Gluck and Ethel Sands, were lesbians....
...In 1912, at the height of the suffragette movement, Ethel Smyth was sentenced to two months in Holloway prison for smashing the windows of a cabinet minister....
...Van Vechten’s pictures of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Zora Neale Hurston and Ethel Waters stress their hard-earned dignity....
...That abandonment echoes forlornly through this two-act evening, with music and lyrics by Christopher Curtis, and book by Curtis and Thomas Meehan. As Chaplin, Rob McClure has a fetching period charm....
...The whole cast has returned for the new series, with only one significant addition – Ethel, the new maid. Ethel wants to make something of herself, for which the other servants make mincemeat of Ethel....
...Her letters to friends such as the playwright Lennox Robinson and the poet and art critic Thomas MacGreevy (not included in this edition) certainly show bursts of forgivable impatience....
...The ageless Richard Thomas portrays Strickland, and if his professorial-looking character is a billionaire, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. ()...
...Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) was quite a Dame. A progressive, dauntlessly prolific composer, she demanded and commanded her place in a man’s world. She hobnobbed with Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Dvorák....
...Vulture funds are circling fashion retailer Ethel Austin, which is dangerously close to breaching its banking covenants because of poor trading, reports the Sunday Times....
...In a study to determine which subjects had absolute pitch – the almost-mythic ability to identify notes – he renamed “C” and “G” as “Fred” and “Ethel” and asked people to memorise the sounds....
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