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...Francis Jeffrey, a hardheaded magazine editor, told Dickens that Paul Dombey’s death led him to feel “my heart purified by those tears”. Dickens himself was surprisingly unsentimental....
...Dylan Thomas threw up on the carpet, idler Jeffrey Bernard idled there, and artists made their names merely by signing the guest book....
...In Everett’s Erasure, the main narrative frame is disrupted by surreal conversations between Derrida and Wittgenstein, Joyce and Wilde, symbolic contemplations on carpentry and fishing....
...It’s the largest UK commission so far for Hudson Valley-based artist Jeffrey Gibson, who will be the first Indigenous artist to present a solo exhibition at the US Pavilion during the 2024 Venice Biennale...
...When good Americans die, wrote Oscar Wilde, they all go to Paris. Of course, Americans can be impatient people, and quite a few, hoping to beat the queues, don’t wait for death....
...He’s currently shooting Olivia Wilde’s horror-thriller, Don’t Worry Darling. Diversification from the evanescent world of teen-pop continues with his involvement in the Co-op Live arena....
...Jeffrey Dowd gave a deeply affecting performance as the dwarf, bringing the heft of a countertenor to the character’s expressions of despair....
...We can have Adolf Hitler and Mother Teresa, Oscar Wilde and St Francis, Mae West and St Benedict....
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