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...Analogous to “women’s pictures” such as Stella Dallas (1937) and Mildred Pierce (1945), as well as 1990s maternal melodramas such as Mermaids and Tumbleweeds, Holmes’s movie empathetically depicts the plight...
...As Mildred Pierce, Joan Crawford set up a restaurant chain....
...Conventional piercers are happy to pierce with gold (oh yes) but are unwilling to pierce certain segments of the ear “in case it rips”....
...John Currin’s shrill, elongated harpies are another background presence, touched too, though in a different way from Freud, with Old Master allusions – notably in Sara Le Roy’s “Sandra” and Simon Casson’...
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