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...Wauters was a former professional footballer, who had represented Belgium and befriended Marilyn Monroe while playing in the US in the 1950s....
...This is something which Marilyn Richardson is now reckoning with....
...A few crowd-drawing perennials — Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” and Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”, for instance — never budge, but periodically one Rauschenberg displaces another, or a whole flock of...
...DH Lawrence, Henry Miller, James Joyce, Rabelais, Henry Fielding, Anaïs Nin, Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Marie Stopes, Betty Dodson, Carl Jung, Marilyn French and Germaine Greer....
...Who can forget Marilyn Monroe, looking demure and chic in a black turtleneck and white trousers, curled up on her sofa for a Life magazine shoot in 1953?...
...“If I was a valuer now, I’d be taking off the 15-20 per cent Covid bubble increase, back to pre-pandemic pricing.”...
...And with the emphasis on “clean” beauty and glowy dewy skin taking over the beauty world, I’d also forgotten how useful a lip product can be when it comes to looking polished....
...“They are trying to align themselves with something that the public are already very positive about, which is renewables,” Townsend said....
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...“But Susan and I agreed that had we known him, we’d have fallen for him like a tonne of bricks!”...
...The headmaster at my sons’ new school told me I’d never move back…” she smiles....
...Although “Dear Zoë” is a new work — and how nice to see an artist d’un certain age prove that he’s better than ever — its genius for critiquing gendered and racialised capitalism lies in his choice to look...
...“A mathematician is asked if he’d rather have a cold coffee or meet God. He says he’ll have the cold coffee,” reports a character in this novel. Why?...
...Christie’s accomplished their goal of selling the Marilyn for as much as possible. Even if it didn’t go for quite as high as they’d hoped....
...Blue spheres of musical notes float up from his saxophone on to Warhol’s gold ground, reminiscent of his golden “Marilyn”s....
...“If we’d lost, then Morgan would have been sacked, Matt would have been, Keir probably would have faced a coup.”...
...Who was that brown-haired person I’d spent a decade masquerading as? Growing up, the social conditionings were plentiful. Blondes have more fun. Gentlemen prefer them....
...Christie’s has set ambitions high for Andy Warhol’s signature square silkscreen, “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” (1964)....
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...I thought I’d be crashed up in a car or a plane or fallen off a mountain years ago. But I’m still here.”...
...“But I’d be lying if I said some wealthy investors didn’t occasionally dip into their portfolio.” madison.darbyshire@ft.com...
...I’d rather hear about other people’s nematodes on Gardeners’ Question Time....
...But I’d still struggle to explain what this selection of artists really tells us....
...When Princess Margaret fell in love with Group Captain Peter Townsend, a commoner and a divorcee, the Queen — supreme governor of the Church of England — stayed aloof and the princess finally renounced Townsend...
...And her father, Tony Curtis, was in Some Like It Hot with Marilyn Monroe and The Sweet Smell of Success, and many other great films....
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