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...Stockings have complex associations, from the sexual to the sinister, worn by Mrs Robinson in The Graduate and also by movie bank robbers....
...She also placed great emphasis on Monroe’s relationship with Charlie Chaplin Jr and Edward G Robinson Jr, who both became her lovers....
...Robinson, big gangster star of Warner Bros in the 1930s, plays a mid-life-crisis dupe who (I can hardly blame him) falls for shockingly gorgeous, morality-free Joan Bennett....
...He also devises a series of Heath Robinson machines, culminating in an elaborate display of live pancake-making that drew gasps of delight from the 10-year-old in front of me....
...Since his arrival, the prime minister’s residence has undergone a makeover and is now covered in lurid pop-art pieces, with Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso leering down from the walls....
...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....
...Beijing looks as if it is formulating an east Asian version of America’s Monroe doctrine....
...Third Point, an aggressive activist run by Dan Loeb, was down 8.3 per cent, leaving it up 6.8 per cent for the year, while in the UK several funds from Lansdowne, GLG and Sloane Robinson had a weak month...
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