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...The fictional MI6 officer James Bond gropes his secretary, spices his operations with extravagant liaisons and encounters few female spies, the most famous being the dowdy Russian counter-intelligence officer...
...We meet the monarch first as Princess Anne, a dowdy invalid plagued by gout, leg sores, arthritis and successive miscarriages, reluctantly climbing out of her curtained bed to receive visitors....
...“We see mirrors as timeless and effective art forms,” explains Helen Bygraves, co-founder with Jenny Weiss of Hill House....
...logic; what is missing is his insight into English middle-class social reticence and emotional inarticulateness, the tragicomic cross purposes of frustrated small lives, the ugly ducklings who grow into dowdy...
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