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...In bomb-ravaged Glasgow, following the second world war, the artist Joan Eardley at last felt able to roam the city streets and to create unforgettable images of ruined tenements in which sparse and dimly...
...He invited his friends Sir Michael Caine, Sir Sean Connery, Bill Clinton, Tony Curtis and Joan Collins. At 27, I wasn’t surprised when it was a success almost immediately....
...Everett liked playing Byron. He “is” Wilde....
...Ruth Joan Bader was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 15 1933, the daughter of Jewish immigrants....
...Joan Didion didn’t require such incentives to recognise talent and champion it....
...Anna Wiener’s memoir Uncanny Valley (Fourth Estate £16.99/MCD $27, January) promises a coming-of-age story played out in the Klondike of the modern age or, as reviewer Rebecca Solnit claims, “Joan Didion...
...The sale in April at Christie’s of a late 16th-century portrait of Richard III once owned by Lord Byron for £16,250 was a good example....
...Like many a Darby and Joan marathon on this evidence....
...His funeral took place at Dumbleton in Worcestershire, where he lies beside his wife, Joan....
...In recompense for not having opened his door the first time, he had painted me a picture of Joan of Arc (signed in his own name) and, as I left, he had a request....
...Here a young cast confronted the earthy demands of the Byron-derived Il Corsaro with considerable success....
...This is the house that Paddy built, with his late wife Joan, in the mid-1960s. He sits for a few photographs while we swap notes on travel writers young and old....
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