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...“I wish I were dead,” she laments to her fusspot mother (Lucy Black, drolly uptight), who sits stitching interminable embroidery and bans reading because it “debauches the mind”....
...Lucy Mitchell owner of SeeWoo, inherited it from her father, Stanley Kwai Tsun Tse, who passed away last year....
...The museum staged a show about modern Californian design and so I would go to see everything I could: houses by Rudolph Schindler and Richard Neutra, the landmark Eames House, basically anything of the period...
...The authors of the report include Lucy Powell, a shadow business minister, leftwing journalist Ellie Mae O’Hagan, and James Meadway, a former economics adviser to John McDonnell, who was shadow chancellor...
...The film being imitated is D.O.A., a classic film noir by Rudolph Maté, released in 1950....
...(NYT) Funds flow from Carlyle unit Investors have pulled $2.5bn from a hedge-fund owned by Carlyle Group after an outsize bet on mortgage groups Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac led to steep losses last year....
...Benn pays tribute to her sisters, from authors light, dark and vagina-preoccupied (respectively, Caitlin Moran, Rachel Cusk and Naomi Wolf) to young bloggers such as Ellie Mae O’Hagan and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett...
...As Mae West so pithily observed, the only carrots which are interesting are the number of carats in a diamond....
...“I started as Snow White,” Mae West once said, “then I drifted.” “Drifting” is one of the great rhythmic modes in cinema. Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st, from Norway, does little else....
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