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...One chapter looks at the significance of eggs in the household of Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas....
...Parker’s “Ode to Fried Chicken’s Guest Appearance on Scandal”: “Everyone likes it. / That’s not the point.”...
...A silvery sheen fills the rich blacks with a springing lightness in Agnes Miller Parker’s “The Challenge” (1934), a fierce, funny spiral of a cat....
...Not only would this do for him politically, it would destroy his marriage to Gertrude, who keeps harping on about how good he is....
...Why The house was built in the early 1900s by British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, whom the owner had met through renowned horticulturalist Gertrude Jekyll....
...Who Strutt & Parker, struttandparker.com, tel: +44 131 226 2500 Listowel, Water Mill, Mecox Bay, New York, US, $40m Where In the waterside hamlet of Water Mill in the Hamptons....
...Both house and gardens had fallen into disrepair but, in 2004, new owners Dominic and Stephanie Parker began a major restoration project....
...The 250 exhibits include paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramics spanning the full length of the artist’s career, from “Yo” (1900), a self-portrait painted when he was 19, and his famous portrait of Gertrude...
...He pitched and pitched and got a break when an essay on Dorothy Parker was accepted by Might, a literary magazine that burned brightly in the 1990s and was co-edited by the not-yet-famous Dave Eggers....
...Here one gets the terse wit of Dorothy Parker, the language games of Gertrude Stein, the blues-inspired songs of Langston Hughes, the light verse of Ogden Nash and Bob Dylan’s great counter-culture carnival...
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