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Eartha Kitt strikes a pose in London, September 30th, 1951.

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Deborah Mitford, c. 1938

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Lady at an Easel. Duncan Grant (Scottish, 1885-1978). Oil on canvas. Oxford Brookes University.

This painting shows the artist’s daughter Angelica Bell (later Garnett) (1918–2012) painting in her father’s studio at Charleston, Sussex. Vanessa Bell had an affair with the painter Grant, with whom she had a daughter, Angelica in 1918, whom Clive Bell raised as his own child.

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In 1932, Anna May Wong was photographed by Carl Van Vechten, a prominent portrait photographer known for his striking black-and-white images of artists, performers, and cultural figures during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. These portraits of Wong are some of the most iconic ever taken of her.

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Grace Kelly as Frances Stevens in To Catch a Thief (1955)

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My Bloody Valentine (1988)

© Melody Maker

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how to say "I love you" in x-files [181/?] ⤷ 3.17 — “Pusher”

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“I still have my old copy of Sophocles, heavily underlined, covered with sweet, embarrassing notes-to-self (“irony?” “recognition of fate?”) written in my rounded, heartbreakingly neat schoolgirl print. Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.”

— Francine Prose, Reading like a Writer

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Spex (Musik Zur Zeit) (1984)

The Smiths

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“I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling fingertips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow. Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low, Of some song sung to rest the tired dead, A song to fall like water on my head, And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow!. There is a magic made by melody: A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool Heart, that sinks through fading colors deep To the subaqueous stillness of the sea, And floats forever in a moon-green pool, Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep.”

— Elizabeth Bishop - I am in Need of Music

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Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews in Laura (1944)

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Denis Diderot qt. in Edgar Saltus, The Anatomy of Negation

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Nirvana, 1991

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Everyone shut up! It’s the ten year anniversary