"maintaining as many options as possible until forced to pursue a particular course. However, once he made a choice he kept his ministers on a tight leash. Defense Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement lost his ministry over his opposition to French participation in the First Gulf War. Initially, Mitterrand, like British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, was vary of German reunification, fearing that it would lead to Germany gaining too much power. He was reluctant to take action because Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev warned it would lead to a military coup d'état in the Soviet Union. Mitterrand did speak in favour of"
"Roberta Collins Roberta Collins (November 17, 1944 – August 16, 2008) was a film and television actress who was known for her attractive physique, blonde, curly hair, and Marilyn Monroe appearance. She starred in many exploitation films, including the prostitute Clara in Tobe Hooper's ""Eaten Alive"", and as Matilda the Hun in the science-fiction film ""Death Race 2000"". Jack Hill, who directed her in ""The Big Doll House"", said of her, ""I think she could have had a great career, but she couldn't get her personal life together ... she would be fantastic one day, do everything right, and then"
"Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comic ""blonde bombshell"" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and was emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a top-billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed $200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962 (equivalent to $ billion in ). More than half a century later, she continues to be a major popular culture icon. Born and raised in Los"
"was magical"". Similarly, Jonathan Rosenbaum stated that ""she subtly subverted the sexist content of her material"" and that ""the difficulty some people have discerning Monroe's intelligence as an actress seems rooted in the ideology of a repressive era, when superfeminine women weren't supposed to be smart"". Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comic ""blonde bombshell"" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and was emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a"
"and the designs of French couturier Hubert de Givenchy. However, although never strictly eponymous, Hepburn’s hairstyles - especially those in the films ""Sabrina"" (1954) (short with a fringe, or ""bang"", across the forehead) and ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961) (pulled back and gently piled up around the crown) have been widely copied. The social historian Dominic Sandbrook wrote of ""black-jersied gamines with Audrey Hepburn hairdos"" presiding over British coffee bars in the mid-1950s. Marilyn Monroe's signature platinum blonde look, worn throughout the height of her career, was dubbed The Marilyn. In the 1960s, the iconic pixie cut worn by the British"
"Awards), ""Bumbledown: The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan"" (a quasi-documentary about the President), and ""The Sound of Maggie"" (satirising Thatcher and parodying several musicals such as ""Oliver!"", ""West Side Story"" and many others). Many British politicians in parliament during Margaret Thatcher's tenure were parodied. By far the most prominent was Thatcher herself, portrayed as an abusive tyrant and cross-dresser (she wore suits, shaved, used the urinals, was portrayed as a cigar-chomper and addressed by her Cabinet as ""Sir""). The Thatcher puppet had a strong dislike of anything French (agreeing with Hitler about 'teaching those Frenchies where to go' and"
"with her, since they feared to receive a bad reputation sympathizing with Mary Robinson. Mary Robinson (poet) Mary Robinson (née Darby; 27 November 1757? – 26 December 1800) was an English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist, and celebrity figure. During her lifetime she was known as ""the English Sappho"". She earned her nickname ""Perdita"" for her role as Perdita (heroine of Shakespeare's ""The Winter's Tale"") in 1779. She was the first public mistress of King George IV while he was still Prince of Wales. Robinson was born in Bristol, England to Nicholas Darby, a naval captain, and his wife Hester (née"
"Charles Mingus. However, her greatest fame—and notoriety—came from her work as a muse and collaborator with more prominent artists. On one occasion, she turned up at Andy Warhol's studio and put a bullet through a stack of his silk-screen paintings of Marilyn Monroe, after which she was banned from the studio. These four paintings, thereafter, were called ""The Shot Marilyns"". Podber revelled in her bad-girl reputation. In an interview in 2006, she said: I've been bad all my life. Playing dirty tricks on people is my specialty. In the art world, she served mostly as a muse and a co-conspirator"
"Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Brigitte Bardot and Mamie Van Doren. A review of English language tabloids from the United Kingdom has shown it to be a recurring blonde stereotype, along with ""busty blonde"" and ""blonde babe"". Jean Harlow started the stereotype with her film ""Bombshell"". Following her, Monroe, Mansfield and Van Doren helped establish the stereotype typified by a combination of curvaceous physique, very light-colored hair and a perceived lack of intelligence. During the 1950s, the ""blonde bombshell"" started to replace the ""Femme fatale"" as the mainstream media stereotype. Marjorie Rosen, the historian of women in films, says of the"
"champion; future President James Garfield; and Carl Schurz, a German-born American politician, who described her as follows: She was about eighteen years old, tall and slender and exceedingly well formed. . . . Her little nose, somewhat audaciously tipped up, could perhaps not have passed muster with a severe critic, but it fitted pleasingly into her face with its large, languid, but at the same time vivacious hazel eyes, shaded by long dark lashes and arched over by proud eyebrows. The fine forehead was framed in waving, gold-brown hair. She had something imperial in the pose of the head, and"
"Margaret Ballinger Margaret Ballinger (née Hodgson; 1894–1980) was the first President of the Liberal Party of South Africa and a South African Member of Parliament. In 1944, Ballinger was referred to as the ""Queen of the Blacks"" by TIME magazine. At that time she held considerable power in the government of South Africa. Margaret Hodgson was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1894 and moved to South Africa with her family when she was a child. Her father arrived just before the Boer War and ended up fighting against the British. Hodgson (Ballinger) attended the Huguenot College in Wellington before continuing"
"Maude. Percy Toplis (The Monocled Mutineer), founder of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Portuguese President António de Spínola, filmmakers Fritz Lang and Erich von Stroheim, prominent 19th-century Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz, Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov, actor Conrad Veidt, Dadaists Tristan Tzara and Raoul Hausmann, esotericist Julius Evola, French collaborationist politician Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson, singer Richard Tauber, diplomat Christopher Ewart-Biggs (a smoked-glass monocle, to disguise his glass eye), Major Johnnie Cradock, actors Ralph Lynn, George Arliss and Martyn Green, and Karl Marx. In another vein, G. E. M. Anscombe was one of only a few"
"political identity. Throughout history and especially over the past century, hairstyles of cultural figures and media celebrities herald evolving social values. Lauren Bacall and Veronica Lake gaze knowingly from behind their signature soigné waves; Jean Harlow and Marilyn Monroe radiate Hollywood’s golden-age glamour; the Beatles’ mop-tops, Elvis Presley’s pompadour and sideburns, and Rod Stewart’s sexy shag embody rock-and-roll rebelliousness. Twiggy’s pixie cut epitomizes mod sixties youth and the freedom of shortening hemlines, Farah Fawcett’s tousled waves vividly call to mind the decadent disco era, and Grace Jones’ flattop symbolizes her pioneering androgyny. From Roaring Twenties bobs to punk mohawks, 18th-century"
"Marilyn Monroe vehicles — ""Bus Stop"" and ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes""— and her role in ""The Wayward Bus"" was strongly influenced by Monroe's character in ""Bus Stop"". Other studios also tried to find their own version of Monroe. Columbia Pictures tried it with Cleo Moore, Warner Bros. with Carroll Baker, Paramount Pictures with Anita Ekberg, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with Barbara Lang, while Diana Dors was dubbed as England's answer to Mansfield. Jacqueline Susann wrote, ""When one studio has a Marilyn Monroe, every other studio is hiring Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren."" The crowd of contenders also included Sheree North, Kim Novak,"
"& Hyde but was not selected for any of them, despite the support of the Labour-affiliated Unite union. The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray Pages 19-20 Barbara Roche Barbara Roche Barbara Maureen Roche (""née"" Margolis; born 13 April 1954) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hornsey and Wood Green from 1992 until 2005, when she lost the seat, despite having previously enjoyed a majority of over 20,000. The daughter of Barnet and Hanna Margolis she was educated at the Jews Free School, Camden Town and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford where"
"Mary Robinson (poet) Mary Robinson (née Darby; 27 November 1757? – 26 December 1800) was an English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist, and celebrity figure. During her lifetime she was known as ""the English Sappho"". She earned her nickname ""Perdita"" for her role as Perdita (heroine of Shakespeare's ""The Winter's Tale"") in 1779. She was the first public mistress of King George IV while he was still Prince of Wales. Robinson was born in Bristol, England to Nicholas Darby, a naval captain, and his wife Hester (née Vanacott) who had married at Donyatt, Somerset, in 1749, and was baptised 'Polle(y)' (""Spelt"
"very different if they were stripped naked. The song later states that mass-murderer Charles Manson and the Pope may be similar if ""we press their smiles."" Other celebrities who get compared include deceased actress Marilyn Monroe with deceased comedian Lenny Bruce, actress Raquel Welch with political activist Jerry Rubin, and Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver with Queen Elizabeth II. The lyrics also point out the similarity between the listener and then-New York governor Nelson Rockefeller and with the singer. In one verse the song moves away from comparing people and instead suggests that the US president's residence, the White House,"
"by Giuseppe Mazzini, Richard Cobden, Eugene Oswald, Malvida Mesenbug, Mathilde Blind, Moncure Conway, and “so many bright personalities.” Stanfeld's physical and mental health declined starting in 1881. She died on 29 March 1885 of a cerebral haemorrhage in her home, Stoke Lodge, Hyde Park Gate, London. Caroline Ashurst Stansfeld Caroline Ashurst Stansfeld (1816–1889) was a member of an important family of radical activists in mid-nineteenth-century England who supported causes ranging from women’s suffrage to Italian unification. In 1844 she married<ref name=""doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/56461""></ref> future MP for Halifax James Stansfeld (1820–1898), the preeminent political advocate for the movement to repeal the Contagious Diseases"
"Chancellor and manservant George Osborne and forces him to do various unpleasant things, i.e. lick dog muck off his shoes (a reference to ""old Etonian"" fagging). Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague is portrayed as an oafish, bitter alcoholic Yorkshireman (referencing his past claims of having drunk ""14 pints a day"" as a teenager) and the then newly elected Mayor of London Boris Johnson portrayed as half man and half dog, so when he tries to talk about issues, he instead does acts of canine behaviour e.g. chasing his tail and licking his genitals. While on the side of the Liberal"
"of Congress. World leaders and politicians: David Ben-Gurion; Willy Brandt; Henry Cabot, Jr.; Charles de Gaulle; Everett Dirksen; Dwight Eisenhower; Barry Goldwater; Andrei Gromyko; Dag Hammarskjold; Averell Harriman; Hubert Humphrey; Lyndon Johnson; John F. Kennedy; Robert Kennedy; Ted Kennedy; Nikita Khrushchev; Eugene McCarthy; Jawaharlal Nehru; Richard Nixon; Ross Perot; Ronald Reagan; Nelson Rockefeller; Dean Rusk; William Scranton; and Adlai Stevenson. Artists and entertainers: John Lennon; Paul McCartney; Ringo Starr; George Harrison; Marilyn Monroe; Elizabeth Taylor; Eddie Fisher; Warren Beatty; James Earl Jones; Ossie Davis; Helen Hayes; George C. Scott; George Segal; Julie Andrews; George Hamilton; Jackie Gleason; Toots Shor; Robert"
"Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (23 September 1861 – 25 August 1907) was a British novelist and poet who also wrote essays and reviews. She taught at the London Working Women's College for twelve years from 1895 to 1907. She wrote poetry under the pseudonym Anodos, taken from George MacDonald; other influences on her were Richard Watson Dixon and Christina Rossetti. Robert Bridges, the Poet Laureate, described her poems as 'wonderously beautiful… but mystical rather and enigmatic'. Coleridge published five novels, the best known of those being ""The King with Two Faces"", which earned her £900 in royalties in"
"Curiosites de la Foire"" (Paris 1775). Blonde actresses have contributed to this perception; some of them include Marilyn Monroe, Judy Holliday, Jayne Mansfield, and Goldie Hawn during her time at ""Laugh-In"". The British filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock preferred to cast blonde women for major roles in his films as he believed that the audience would suspect them the least, comparing them to ""virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints"", hence the term ""Hitchcock blonde"". This stereotype has become so ingrained it has spawned counter-narratives, such as in the 2001 film ""Legally Blonde"" in which Elle Woods, played by Reese Witherspoon,"
"power struggles between David Lloyd George and Joseph Chamberlain, the women's suffrage movement, and the day on which Mr Rolls met Mr Royce. The suffragette campaign becomes violent and independence for Ireland is proposed, while dockers and miners go on strike for improved conditions and wages, and the popular press raise fears of a German invasion. As a result, Liberal Chancellor, David Lloyd George, faced the dilemma of pensions or battleships. Marr also describes technological advances such as aviation and cinema, with future Hollywood stars Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel touring together across Britain. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand"
"Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Muhammad Ali, Salvador Dalí, Benjamin Spock, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Liberace, Howard Hughes, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Ronald Reagan, Kirk Douglas, Idi Amin, William Conrad, Golda Meir, Rasputin and Billie Jean King. When an image was particularly effective at parodying a politician, an entertainment personality, or another public figure, it was repeated. For example, Marlon Brando (sometimes called “Burpo”), who was known for his love of good eating and his enormous weight gain, was often shown attired in a pin-striped suit, nonchalantly eating twirled spaghetti from a fork. In addition,"
"of curvaceous physique, very light-colored hair, and a perceived lack of intelligence. A review of English-language tabloids shows it to be one of the most persistent blonde stereotypes—along with ""busty blonde"", and ""blonde babe"". Mansfield, Monroe and Barbara Windsor have been described as representations of a historical juncture of sexuality in comedy and popular culture. Academics also added Anita Ekberg and Bettie Page to the list of catalysts of the trend of exaggerated female sexuality, along with Mansfield and Monroe. M. Thomas Inge describes Mansfield, Monroe and Jane Russell as personifications of the bad girl in popular culture. Judy Holliday"
"of harming others. In reporting on the fall of a woman from a tightrope at an 1869 performance of Pablo Fanque's Circus in Bolton, the ""Illustrated London News"" described the tightrope walker, Madame Caroline, as a ""female Blondin"". Two streets in Northfields, London, are named in his honour: Blondin Avenue and Niagara Avenue; they were formerly the site of part of Hugh Ronalds' renowned nursery. During the run-up to the United States presidential election, 1864, Abraham Lincoln compared himself to ""Blondin on the tightrope, with all that was valuable to America in the wheelbarrow he was pushing before him."" A"
"1954 Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (23 September 1861 – 25 August 1907) was a British novelist and poet who also wrote essays and reviews. She taught at the London Working Women's College for twelve years from 1895 to 1907. She wrote poetry under the pseudonym Anodos, taken from George MacDonald; other influences on her were Richard Watson Dixon and Christina Rossetti. Robert Bridges, the Poet Laureate, described her poems as 'wonderously beautiful… but mystical rather and enigmatic'. Coleridge published five novels, the best known of those being ""The King with Two Faces"", which earned her £900 in royalties"
"Knightley (b. 1985), and Emma Watson (b. 1990); Portuguese actress Maria de Medeiros (b. 1965); French actresses Juliette Binoche (b. 1964), Audrey Tautou (b. 1976), and Vanessa Paradis (b. 1972); Israeli-American actress Natalie Portman (b. 1981); Canadian model Linda Evangelista (b. 1965); American models Kristen McMenamy (b. 1964) and Tina Chow (1951–92) (whose ""gamine look made her the darling of [photographers] Cecil Beaton and Arthur Elgort""); Russian tennis player Anastasia Myskina (b. 1981); and American singer Cat Power (b. Chan Marshall, 1972) (""The French, in particular, took to her gamine looks and confused air""). Penelope Chetwode (1910–86), later Lady Betjeman,"
"Kathy Kirby Kathy Kirby (born Kathleen O'Rourke; 20 October 1938 – 19 May 2011) was an English singer, reportedly the highest-paid female singer of her generation. She is best known for her cover version of Doris Day's ""Secret Love"" and for representing the United Kingdom in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest where she finished in second place. Her physical appearance often drew comparisons with Marilyn Monroe. Her popularity peaked in the 1960s, when she was one of the best-known and most-recognised personalities in British show business. Kirby was born in Ilford, London, the eldest of three children of Irish parents."
"Catherine Hunt Dame Catherine Reeve Hunt (""née"" Hawkins; 22 December 1854 – 18 October 1948) was an English politician and activist who was mayor of Colchester, Essex, in 1924–25. Hunt was born in 1854, the daughter of Charles Henry Hawkins, of Maitlands, Colchester and Sarah Jane, daughter of John Bawtree, of Abberton, Essex. Her father was mayor of Colchester four times (1848–49, 1865–66, 1870–71, 1871–72). She married Dr Edgar Atlee Hunt, her aunt's widower, in 1896. Hunt and his first wife, Charlotte Mary Bawtree, were the grandparents of actress Elizabeth Inglis and great-grandparents of American actress Sigourney Weaver. She was"
"Marilyn (singer) Peter Robinson (born 3 November 1962, Kingston, Jamaica) better known as Marilyn, is a British/Jamaican pop singer and songwriter. He is most well known for his 1983 hit ""Calling Your Name"" and his highly androgynous appearance. Robinson was born in Kingston, Jamaica. At age 5, he moved with his mother to Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. He left school at 15, and has stated that he was bullied at school for being feminine, and that he self-harmed. As a boy, Robinson loved Marilyn Monroe's image, and Marilyn became his school nickname. While the name originated from homophobic bullies at school, Robinson"
"and his daughter Caroline the only representative of Georgebarrisphotos.com. Barris died on September 30, 2016, at the age of 94. George Barris (photographer) George Barris (June 14, 1922 – September 30, 2016) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his photographs of Marilyn Monroe. He was born in New York City to Romanian parents. Barris had a lifelong interest in photography, and as a young man he worked for the U.S. Army's Office of Public Relations. Many of his photographs of General Dwight D. Eisenhower were published. After the war, he became a freelance photographer and found work"
"received a terminal diagnosis. Police Scotland confirmed it was investigating the complaint. Howard Lew Lewis Howard Lew Lewis (21 August 1941 – 20 January 2018) was an English comedian and actor, best known for his roles in comedy series including ""Maid Marian and Her Merry Men"" and ""Brush Strokes"". Lewis's father, Oswald Tenby-Lewis, was awarded membership of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) by Queen Elizabeth II for his personal services to the royal family. His maternal grandmother was an opera singer known as Dame Ethel Gomer Lewis. He was related to Rupert Davies who played the original Maigret on British"