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...Two brilliant teachers, one speech and drama, Jackie Stoker, and a drama teacher called Clive — I don’t know his surname, we just called him Clive. I wanted to do well for them — to do better for them....
...Jackie said, “Take the ring off, it’s a bit loose.” I said, “It’ll be fine . .. ” What is the greatest challenge of our time?Things are becoming frighteningly like they were 100 years ago....
...“We believe the evidence will show that the defendant used his power and influence to gain access to his victims and then commit violent crimes against them,” Jackie Lacey, Los Angeles district attorney,...
...Face-off on the staircase is Bacon’s “Study for Portrait IX”, his caged violent lover Peter Lacey on emerald green ground, versus Modigliani’s brilliant yellow arabesque “La Belle Espagnole”....
...Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty, by Robert Lacey, Harper, RRP£20/RRP$29.99 A biography of the super-agent who built the Ford model empire, Lacey’s book provides a fascinating insight...
...Three Diamonds and a Donkey , by Josh Lacey, Marion Lloyd Books RRP£5.99 A third outing for the Amis/Fitzroy clan, known as the Misfitz for short....
...It was a good omen Gordon Brown picked the right Jackie Wilson song as a warm-up to his big appearance at the Labour party conference this week....
...Jackie Wullschlager is the FT’s chief art critic ………………………………………………………....
...Brooklyn By Colm Tóibín Viking £17.99, 256 pages Eilis Lacey leaves behind her quiet life in County Wexford and travels to Brooklyn in search of better opportunities, in Tóibín’s sixth novel....
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