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...True, Mary Janes still carry with them the risk of infantilisation — for some, the flat, one-strap style with a rounded toe is forever the preserve of Shirley Temple tap-dancing in a pink tutu in Baby Take...
...On one cassette, Vanessa-Mae plays her violin thigh-deep in the sea’s waves. “Die poor or/Give them what they want,” Ajudha sings in her a cappella blues composition “Demons” in her room....
...Singer Richard Hadfield, the regular Sunday-lunch musical entertainment, has shared a stage with stars from Gregory Porter to Shirley Bassey....
...This glamorous collection includes big names such as Oscar-winning actors Hattie McDaniel and Sidney Poitier, but also lesser-known figures such as 1930s actress Nina Mae McKinney, nicknamed the “black Garbo...
...David Morris, buying manager at the luxury men’s e-tailer Mr Porter, says sales of joggers have grown by almost two-thirds at the brand in 2020 compared with last year, with shoppers snapping up versions...
...Having written once already of child star Shirley Temple’s “coquetry” and “oddly precocious body as voluptuous in grey flannel trousers as Miss Dietrich’s” (in a 1936 review of Captain January), he went...
...Chisholm, US congresswoman (New York), New York, July 12 1976; Henry Kissinger, US secretary of state, Washington, DC, June 2 1976; A Philip Randolph, founder, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, New York...
...(For evidence of West’s long-term camp, please revisit his sampling in 2005 of “Diamonds Are Forever” by Shirley Bassey on his track “Diamonds From Sierra Leone”, an act of unimpeachable campness.)...
...And best of all, continuous entertainment in the shape of a bar with a piano player who is singing Cole Porter’s “You’ve got that thing” just as you saunter in....
...The final instalment in the Academy of Ancient Music’s three-year Barbican cycle of Monteverdi operas, this performance of Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria was dedicated to the memory of Andrew Porter, long-serving...
...I first encountered Andrew Porter — who died on April 3 — 62 years ago when I went to call on him at the tall, narrow house in Notting Hill Gate, west London, where he lived with the scholar and art historian...
...She also struggles, in a slightly incongruous accent, to get the words across (the text, by Strauss himself, is sung in Andrew Porter’s translation)....
...As a Labour councillor in Westminster he helped bring down Dame Shirley Porter in the 1990s over the “homes for votes” scandal....
...A decade later, he bought the duplex on the top two floors from Dame Shirley Porter, the Tesco heiress and local politician who emigrated after allegations over the sale of social housing and votes in Westminster...
...John Osborne was the laureate of self-loathing; even Jimmy Porter’s rage at the rest of the world in Look Back in Anger is ultimately revealed as displacement....
...He’s a known quantity,” said Craig Shirley, who is now working on an authorised biography of Mr Gingrich....
...As they admire each other with halting, apologetic eyes, one can’t help but will them together, even if it’s clear they carry so much baggage they could use a porter....
...About 150,000 borrowers could benefit from the refinancings, as the vast majority of US home loans are owned by investors and government-controlled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...As a pop diva, she was a role model to many more, not least Diana Ross and Shirley Bassey. She also showed a considerable political conscience, sometimes at a cost to her career....
...Sequins, dancing cowboys and drag queens abound in Barrie Kosky’s shamelessly entertaining outing of Cole Porter’s evergreen Shakespeare revision. And why not?...
...It was perhaps his most celebrated song, “Zourouni”, with an “Egyptian Mae West”, in Kelani’s words, begging her lover to come up and see her....
...Born in 1944 in Middletown, a Midwestern steel town, his father Sewell “Dutch’’ Gross, worked at Armco as a sales executive and his mother, Shirley, was a housewife....
...The tax would be subject to nationally-imposed limits, suggesting that Sir Michael does not entirely trust the breed of politician that once included Derek Hatton and Dame Shirley Porter....
...An essay on the former leader of Westminster City Council, Dame Shirley Porter - of interest, I thought, as Porter was a key figure in the “right to buy” housing scandal - met with a cool reception....
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