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...The area still draws an eclectic, creative mix of people; the writer James Frey and natural skincare expert Tata Harper are both residents and friends....
...Nearly seven times as many bodies as last year are arriving daily in the ancient city of Varanasi, where many Hindus are cremated, with wood shortages for pyres leading to considerable price increases....
...Why The home of Leslie Thomas, who wrote the comic novel The Virgin Soldiers, which was adapted into a 1969 film....
...The green plaque could be added to Jones’s St John’s Wood home the year after his death....
...His work, for Life magazine as well as Look, Flair, and Harper’s Bazaar, back when assignments would routinely take weeks, has covered just about everyone....
...Ben is faced with a dilemma after his depressive wife Leslie commits suicide: does he attend the bourgeois funeral planned by his in-laws, and risk the wrath of social services, or betray Leslie’s Buddhist...
...She took her models to secluded locations, into the woods or to a lake, and two years later shot another set of pictures near her childhood home in Arlington....
...Aviv as a “Bauhaus” Modernist city as a means of differentiating it from neighbouring Jaffa, portrayed as a dark, shady city of the Orient....
...His mother Virginia, a waitress and store clerk, and his older brother Leslie junior, a “surrogate father”, brought up Goodman and his younger sister Elisabeth....
...Old-fashioned town clerks used to be local worthies every bit as entrenched as the Alderman Foodbothams....
...The French in particular have always taken an interest in Dickens, thanks to The Tale of Two Cities – the main one of which is theirs....
...“It was almost like he found a god,” said Truman Wood, his housemate....
...This year, one contemporary gallery, Hauser & Wirth of Zurich and London, is making its debut with “classic” contemporary art, such as “Untitled”, made from wood shavings, glue and rubber tubing on wood,...
...Leslie Crawford is the FT correspondent in Madrid...
...Like the wood-products industry, the rock scene depended on a close symbiotic relationship between the outlying counties and their provincial hub....
...“In central London, a more outdoor lifestyle can be seen in the spread of pavement cafés and restaurants,” says Simon Barry of estate agent Knight Frank....
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