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...Cast two eminent Hollywood actresses in a stormy psychological drama, and — especially if the setting is mid-20th century — you inevitably invoke the imperious spirits of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford....
...The period covered includes the Cuban missile crisis, the Profumo affair, the assassination of John F Kennedy, the fall of Harold Macmillan and the brief premiership of Alec Douglas-Home before the election...
...And like the films of the same era by the great Douglas Sirk, those lush surfaces are deceptive....
...His name, after the suave American actor Melvyn Douglas, was “like calling somebody Tyrannosaurus rex”....
...Joan Baez was “wicked-looking — shiny black hair that hung down over the curve of slender hips, drooping lashes, partly raised”....
...Douglas McCabe, chief executive of media researchers Enders Analysis, said: “It’s not a business that you go into to make money. Making money from newspapers is hard enough....
...“In the postwar period, David’s work sits in comparison with that of Joan Eardley, Barbara Delaney and Gillian Ayres, women following in the footsteps of those of the St Ives milieu in the 1930s: Barbara...
...Robert Mitchum lured from sleepy east California back to his dark past by Kirk Douglas via Jane Greer, playing one of the most fatal of femmes fatales....
...Ross Douglas, founder and former director of the fair and a shareholder of Artlogic, says he is “delighted” that Sibeko is buying the fair....
...Look at the inside of Google’s Douglas County, Georgia, data centre: the bright colours of its piping pure Pompidou....
...There were also proposals in the 1960s, most notably Cedric Price and Joan Littlewood’s Fun Palace which posited a positive architecture capable of change and adaptation....
...“He is not a career politician and he is not a party politician,” said Joan Walley, the former chair of the environment committee....
...It’s a clever touch to title the show after the text — “ I Still Believe in Miracles”, 2006 — inscribed permanently by Douglas Gordon above the door from which you exit the last room....
...Douglas Coupland’s most recent book is a non-fiction title, ‘The Age of Earthquakes’, published by Penguin. Twitter: @dougcoupland Photograph: Ken Mayer Studios ©Douglas Coupland...
...The property includes separate staff quarters, an infinity pool and hot tub, and is listed with Douglas Elliman....
...The down-and-dirty, pre-Giuliani, 1980s New York; the little daughter, brown hair shorn like Joan of Arc, gasping with delight at her soon-to-be boiled rabbit; Michael Douglas before he got his teeth fixed...
...Some, including Douglas Gordon, Joan Jonas, Robert Barry and Diogo Pimentão, are already on his roster, with others due to be announced....
...“Growth has now returned and unemployment is falling,” says Joan Burton, Ireland’s social protection minister....
...Beyond the British folk realm, artists from Joan Baez to Fleet Foxes have sung them....
...Joan Manuel Campalans, managing director of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation in Spain, is also combating this problem....
...Joan McVittie, the head of Woodside High School in Wood Green, north London, says Fiona Flint, the wife of HSBC chairman Douglas Flint, has been an “inspirational” member of the governing body for the past...
...To date, technology still struggles with the nuances of sculpture – Googling Joan Miró’s bronze-and-steel “Tightrope Walker” brings up lots of pages about chihuahuas – but it will improve as more people...
...One was future Tory MP Douglas Dodds-Parker. Another was Peter Fleming, brother of the man who would create James Bond, Ian Fleming; Bright “dated” Ian when he worked for naval intelligence....
...In 1988 Virginia became the first state to elect a black governor – Douglas Wilder, now Democratic mayor of Richmond....
...The arcane voting system in Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones meant that the two contenders were likely to share the spoils with each picking up one of the pair....
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