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Alexandr Radayev
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It feels as though Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 "Romeo and Juliet" cast not Leonard Whiting as Romeo but Zac Efron of 2008
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Woman in a swimsuit descending the steps of a white yacht
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Tatler publishes photographs of Princess Diana from her last summer holiday aboard the 64-metre yacht Jonikal, built at the Italian yard Codecasa in 1990 and owned by the Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed
Tatler has published photographs of Princess Diana from her last summer holiday aboard the 64-metre yacht Jonikal, built at the Italian yard Codecasa in 1990 and owned by the Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed. On board this luxurious vessel Diana was spotted in the Mediterranean in 1997 with the
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Inside, we are all the same age
Gertrude Stein. I wonder whether she meant that inwardly we are all the same age as one another? That would be a little odd. Or that inwardly each of us remains at one age, that is, an unchanging one? By the sense of it, the second seems more likely. Inside,
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I doubt I am the only one to have run into the problem: the state and size of the home library are such that no book can be found in it, so it is easier to buy the edition you need than to hunt for it at home
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When You Feel Like a Happy Walrus
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, 1962
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The Parnassian Mockingbird Turns 6!
In all these years I could count on one hand the days when I failed to post in the Mockingbird. It is not merely a community of cultural history or some new medium: the Parnassian Mockingbird has become a self-sufficient intellectual phenomenon with a style, a character and a
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The Floor at Château Vilsavin
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"Pull all the faces you like behind my back; my backside is looking at you"
Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet
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The Aeroplane
The Aeroplane. Viktor Vasnetsov
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Iron scold's bridle used on women accused of gossip in 17th-century England
In seventeenth-century England, this contraption was applied to women accused of gossiping: a metal frame fitted over the head made it impossible to open the mouth. A woman convicted of so nebulous an offence as tittle-tattle was required to walk through the town in such headgear