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| Norman Hartnell: master of the royal wardrobe | ||
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Norman Hartnell dressed the Queen for the two most important occasions of her life - her wedding and her coronation - yet has long been dismissed as a fashion irrelevance. As a new book sets out to rehabilitate the couturier's reputation, Linda Grant celebrates his life and work. |
| Light at the end of the tunnel | ||
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When an unknown Christian Dior showed his extravagant fairytale collection in 1947, there was total shock. The government even banned Vogue from mentioning it. But the New Look was born. |
| Are dress codes dead? | ||
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Even the swankiest restaurants admit diners in jeans these days. Does nobody dress up to go out any more, asks Linda Grant . |
| Coco Chanel - la dame aux camelias | ||
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The little black dress, tweed suits, costume jewellery and red lipstick - we owe them all to Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel. As a new book celebrates her signature style, Linda Grant assesses the legacy of fashion's very arch modernist. |
| The real exodus | ||
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When the tale of Jewish illegal immigrants sailing for Palestine was turned into a bestselling book and film, it came to symbolise the birth of a nation. But was the story true? Sixty years on, Linda Grant separates fact from fiction. |
| Nothing in the shops | ||
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All Linda Grant wanted was to update her summer wardrobe with a couple of this season's key garments. So why did the high street fail to come up with the goods? Is this the most disastrous clothes season ever? |
| Panic stations | ||
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Why would a grown woman suddenly become terrified of escalators - especially after 20 years using the London Underground? Linda Grant looks back on a summer of fear, inconvenience and embarrassment. |
| Style over substances | ||
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Edie Sedgwick had no real talent to speak of, writes Linda Grant, except for taking narcotics. Yet, as a new book of photographs reminds us, Andy Warhol's dysfunctional and doomed groupie was redeemed by one thing… |
| The woman who shopped for England | ||
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Colleen McLoughlin has nothing on Emily Tinne, a Liverpudlian housewife who did little but buy clothes for 30 years. Linda Grant visits a new exhibition showing just what this Edwardian shopaholic picked up on her many, many sprees. |
| It's kosher | ||
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Critics have praised Mike Leigh's new play about a Jewish family - but is it as true to life as they say? |
| Let there be dark | ||
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Black is back - with a vengeance. But Linda Grant, for one, will not be wearing it this time around. After all, for women of a certain age, the Cruella de Vil look really isn't that attractive. |
| Tales of Tel Aviv | ||
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grieving father tells Linda Grant about the day his 13-year-old son was
killed by a suicide bomber. |
| Defenders of the faith | ||
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Since the Holocaust, the idealised version of the Jew has been Primo Levi, a 'latter day saint'. But, argues Linda Grant, from Samson to Ariel Sharon there have always been tougher, more aggressive role models |
| Questions to Cairo | ||
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Since the terror attacks on America many thousands of words have been written about the fraught relationship between the west and the Arab world - yet numerous questions remain unanswered. If our governments were wrong to support the despotic rulers of the Gulf states, who should they have supported? Why is it that so many Arabs believe the seemingly preposterous claim that Israel masterminded the attacks? Here novelist Linda Grant poses a few of these thorny questions, and Egyptian journalist Hani Shukrallah offers some answers |
| Laughter is life | ||
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There is much to fear. But whatever might be in store for us, this is not the moment to lose our ability to laugh |
| What lies beneath | ||
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We see angry Palestinian children being shot by soldiers and are outraged. The Israelis don't see the children - they see millions of Arabs, intent on their destruction. Linda Grant visited Israel five times to research her Orange Prize-winning book, When I Lived in Modern Times. Here she reveals what she learned about the inner workings of the Israeli psyche |
| Whose Europe is it anyway? | ||
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A new Europe is taking shape. More united, yes, but is it also increasingly xenophobic? Travelling from country to country, Linda Grant finds that the danger is less the resurgence of old-style fascism than the rise of 'modern', democratically elected, far-right parties, on the model of Jörg Haider's Freedom Party in Austria, whose aim is to turn the continent into a largely white fortress. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4055316,00.html (part2) |
| Smitten in futureville | ||
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A It was the first new Jewish city to be built since biblical times, a corner of the Mediterranean that is forever Bauhaus. It encapsulated the aspirations and flaws of the state of Israel to come. Tel Aviv, Linda Grant finds, is her kind of town |
| Before the deluge | ||
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Turkey wants to build a dam far east on the River Tigris. If the plan goes ahead the historic town of Hasankeyf will be drowned and up to 25,000 Kurds will lose their homes. It would be rather like bulldozing Stonehenge... and the British government is likely to provide financial backing. |
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