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...My final guests, John F Kennedy, 35th president of the US, and his rumoured lover, the actress Marilyn Monroe, have joined us. Prince Charles pours more Krug....
...It replaced a dark blue Pakeman, Catto & Carter thing with stripy piping, latterly slightly stained, given to me a previous Christmas and which went bust about the same time Pakeman, Catto & Carter did themselves...
...The ostensible subject is near-parodic – an emaciated girl in a Rio slum tries to make like Marilyn Monroe. But Lispector was a fierce and singular talent....
...“Twenty Marilyns (Marilyn in Colour)”, and “Marilyn Monroe in black and white (twenty-five Marilyns)” repeat the image....
...In a stroke of design genius, the cover is illustrated with Marilyn Minter’s 2005 painting “Stepping Up”: a gaudy, jewelled strapless stiletto shoe reveals, as its owner ascends a staircase, filthy, sweaty...
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