- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).
- Big Bang
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- Nov 07, 2020
In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it since Big Bang in 1986, the point at which Mrs. Thatcher really started to achieve her ambition to make this country more like America - its ambition, economy, it's very tangible measures of success.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.
- Facile
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision, no need for love-tokens or nice views.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kate Middleton's a pretty girl who sounds nice.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy. It's unthinkable. But that's patently the thought process Gordon Brown (or his spin doctor) went through before the Prime Minister appeared on the world stage in Beijing without his suit and tie.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time when formal clothes were one of life's great pleasures, as well as a way of describing instantly a man's status wealth. Toffs wore the most, the proles the least. Fast forward to 2008 and clothes are still an unrivalled pleasure but some men - and this includes many of our betters - have confused status with fake informality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, wearing a tie is a pleasure, a recherche one but a pleasure nonetheless. You could say that I'm avoiding tie avoidance. My own gorgeous collection runs into hundreds and I buy them the way I buy books - I simply can't pass a shop. I have loved them since I could spend my own money on them.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a '70s cop movie location; when the original loft-owners were more dash-than-cash, artistic types.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Selling scent is a key job for celebrities. At any one time, there'll be hundreds of them at it, going on the world's talk shows, doing photo-shoots, providing employment for thousands. Celebrities are instant brands.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. I am a Tom Wolfe fan of the first order.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020