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...The graveyard was filled with names from the ship’s manifest: Browns, Youngs, McCoys and, inevitably, a great many Christians....
...It conjures Marlon Brando and On the Waterfront or something, not quite the same vibes. Robert Armstrong You are talking about the Midtown uniform. Jo Ellison The Midtown uniform. Exactly....
...In The Meat Paradox (Little Brown, March), Rob Percival explores our relationship with meat and asks whether we will still be eating it in future....
...The young Marlon Brando in raised shirt collar was a visual shock in shabby, recession-hit, pasty-faced early-1990s England....
...Biographies of note in the early part of the year include Richard J Evans’s Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little Brown, February) — the first one of the late historian and polymath....
...While saying goodbye to the festival’s director, Marina Salandy-Brown, we interrupt the government’s chief justice, checking in to ensure a good seat for the national youth poetry slam....
...wire-rimmed glasses when I was at school but have worn this square-lens style in black ever since. oliverpeoples.com The last item of clothing I added to my wardrobe was a single-breasted, double-vent dark brown...
...A God in Ruins, by Kate Atkinson, Doubleday, RRP£20/Little, Brown, RRP$28 In her 2013 novel Life After Life, Atkinson followed one woman through multiple possible lives....
...Brown Noddy seabirds chatter on the sandbars. Terns soar above us, their split tails like those of giant swallows....
...Marlon Brando, 1924-2004. Actor, expert make-up artist, bisexual sex addict, kook....
...literary ghetto, for example; and historical novels, once the embarrassing be-ruffed cousin of modernist fiction, have now won Britain’s Man Booker prize for four years running — most recently in the form of Marlon...
...For example, in “We Don’t Need No Names Here” (1973), Dumas juxtaposes photographs of two bare-breasted black women from an ethnological study with a film still of Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider from...
...“You can only go so far selling bikes on the back of Steve McQueen and Marlon Brando. What they’re doing now requires a different marketing strategy.”...
...… Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought and Work, by Susan L Mizruchi, WW Norton, RRP£18.99/$27.95 Biographers have often highlighted Marlon Brando’s eccentricities....
...The former boxers played by Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront are of the same type. Once all-American heroes, they embody broken American dreams....
...This is not like Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront,” says Mr Ord, referring to Elia Kazan’s Oscar winning film about union corruption and violence in the New York docks in the 1950s ....
...More hip tees form part of Hamnett’s autumn/winter collection, complete with slogans such as “Save Life on Earth”, while Browns boutique and Harpers Bazaar’s recent styles in aid of the charity Women for...
...For Jamaican novelist Marlon James, “it’s about a multiplicity existing within each person. That’s not to say everybody gets along, or that we morph into one....
...man, he went to Brown University and then the Sorbonne, and then …where was I?”...
...Steven Berkoff directs and takes the part of Mob boss Johnny Friendly, and Simon Merrells that of the beleaguered boxer Terry Malloy – a role played to Oscar-winning acclaim by Marlon Brando....
...For a second, as he strides down the street in his brown coat, he looks almost anonymous....
...North by Northwest, she is so into the story I restrain an impulse to describe my own encounter with Cary Grant’s delectable blonde seducer, Eva Marie Saint (when I was editing the memoir by her friend Marlon...
...Another old-school CNN host, Campbell Brown, has quit, unable to compete with Mr O’Reilly and Mr Olbermann, just as Mr King had fallen behind Mr Hannity and Ms Maddow an hour later....
...From the air, as we came into land, I watched the progress of a wide, coffee-brown river as it coiled its way through thick coconut groves towards the sea....
...Unlike the maths teacher, Gordon Brown could afford to get his teeth fixed and smiles all the time....
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