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...By many accounts, Mary Janes took their name from the sister figure in RF Outcault’s Buster Brown comics, first published in 1902....
...Adapter Lolita Chakrabarti has crafted a quieter show for the Royal Shakespeare Company, without the intellectual dazzle of her celebrated take on Life of Pi....
...Shortly after she is given the Vogue job, Shulman visits the Browns boutique in Mayfair and selects a black Lolita Lempicka suit for her first round of press interviews....
...Nonchalant as a gay icon, he is initially a passive, willing sitter, often dozing, described in rapturous, rapid lines, uncluttered but taking in every aspect of oval head, Lolita lips, fluttering lashes...
...Sheffield Crucible’s hugely praised, puppet-led Life of Pi, adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti, arrives in London (Wyndham’s Theatre, London, from June 22)....
...There’s the cross-country trip in Lolita that’s so beautifully described....
...I understand that a great many otherwise decent human beings believe that more rights for black, brown and female people means fewer rights for ‘ordinary people’, by which they mean white people....
...A portly, saturnine figure clad in a double-breasted suit, cigar held aloft, he moved eagerly through the throng, flattering each guest with the intensity of his interest while his large brown eyes flickered...
...Indeed, the only parallel I can think of for a great work of art increasingly disturbing us is the fraught responses to Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955)....
...“Acting is a funny profession: it’s vocational,” the playwright and actor Lolita Chakrabarti tells me....
...Simon Mawer’s latest novel is ‘The Girl who Fell from the Sky’ (Little, Brown)...
...In point of fact, the great Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was published by Girodias in 1955 after at least 17 houses in the US rejected that gem....
...James Mason, who played Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita, was born in Huddersfield....
...A large woman, she wears her dyed brown-and-blonde hair in long layers. Her black trousers and brown patterned top are accented by a big gold pendant....
...Designs that combine technology with humanity, such as Ron Arad's Lolita fibre optic chandelier that transmits text messages along its arms (www.ronarad.co.uk), will appear on the radar....
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