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...“He walks erect, and has acquired a tolerably genteel bow, and other expressions of civility,” wrote a Suffolk parson after meeting Mai at the Royal Society, where he dined 10 times during his two-year stay...
...For Brazilian-born Jade Samuels, the move to Fulham from South Kensington three years ago brought extra space but also a welcoming sense of community....
...When she dies from syphilis, Moll’s coffin becomes an impromptu tavern bar, at which the parson spills his brandy as he shoves his hand up a mourning whore’s skirt. You want to look, you want to flee....
...Adam and his family moved out of their terraced house in Parsons Green in 2009 to a nine-bedroom Tudor priory in Chichester, West Sussex, so that his four boys had space to roam free....
...The (supposed) lifestyle of the old country parson remains catnip to the affluent English, as the enormous prices commanded by former village parsonages testify....
...In these scenes, Dottie is made-up to look like an octogenarian Cyndi Lauper, and Estelle Parsons, who portrays her, cackles commentary with an indulgent scene-stealing glee quite at odds with her reputation...
...First came Roberto Carlos, followed by Samuel Eto’o, who he signed for a reported €60m, three-year contract last August, making the Cameroonian striker the highest-paid player in the world....
...The writer Samuel Adamson and director Sean Mathias have gone back to Truman Capote’s original novella to find something darker than got on to celluloid....
..., Thank you for your letter, also MS,” Samuel Beckett wrote to a London publisher in July 1936....
...Dick Parsons is not one to bear grudges....
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