"was no gloating or effort to humiliate Gorbachev. While US President George H. W. Bush wanted to make NATO more of a political than a military alliance, Thatcher, spoke out for the importance of the military role. Like Mitterrand in France, she was nervous about the reunification of Germany, repeating the quip from Lord Ismay, NATO's first secretary general: ""The purpose of NATO is to keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down."" Thatcher and Mitterrand had a more specific worry. Bush said: ""Margaret still feared the worst from reunification and, like Mitterrand, worried that the Germans"
"notoriety in 1971 after ""New York"" magazine published a series she wrote about prostitution called ""Wide Open City"". Part 2 is called ""Redpants and Sugarman"". Sheehy told the ""Washington Post"" that she had created a ""composite character"" for ""Redpants"" in order to trace the full life cycle of a streetwalker, but the explanation was edited out of the story. Published in June, 1989: President Mitterrand says Britain's prime minister ""has eyes like Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe."" She also has the nerves of a five-star general and increasingly, the sexual charisma of a woman in her prime. She"
"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"
"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"
"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 in Hollywood. He photographed many stars of the 1950s and 1960s, including Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Cleopatra, Marlon"
"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"
"Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her ""The 'Iron Lady, a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies known as Thatcherism. A research chemist at Somerville College, Oxford, before becoming a barrister, Thatcher"
"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"
"Sally Kellerman Sally Clare Kellerman (born June 2, 1937) is an American actress, activist, author, producer, singer, and voice artist. Kellerman's acting career spans over 60 years. Her role as Major Margaret ""Hot Lips"" Houlihan in Robert Altman's film ""M*A*S*H"" (1970) earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. After ""M*A*S*H"", she appeared in a number of the director's projects: the films ""Brewster McCloud"" (1970), ""Welcome to L.A."" (1976) (produced by Altman, directed by his protege, Alan Rudolph), ""The Player"" (1992) and ""Prêt-à-Porter"" (1994), and the short-lived anthology TV series ""Gun"" (1997). In addition to her"
"hoisting Marilyn Monroe on their shoulders. For a concurrent show that same year in New York, she had city buses wrapped with quotations from figures such as Malcolm X, Courtney Love, and H.L. Mencken. For her first retrospective, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, she created 15 billboards and countless wild postings, executed and installed in both English and Spanish. For a public awareness campaign to promote arts instruction in the Los Angeles Unified School District, Kruger covered a bus with phrases like ""Give your brain as much attention as you do your hair and you'll be a"
"Foundation in 2006, where she established the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her ""The 'Iron Lady, a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies known as Thatcherism."
"Scarfe – The Thatcher Drawings"". On Fulham Road in Chelsea, London, there is a 1980s-themed late-night bar dedicated to Thatcher called Maggie's Club. Cultural depictions of Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. Her portrayal in the arts and popular culture has been mixed. In the words of one critic she attracted ""musical opprobrium like no other British political leader"". Such opinion is divergent from mainstream opinion polling which tends to place her as the most popular British prime minister since Winston Churchill. Arts critic Michael Billington noted that ""Thatcher may not"
"two figures were attempting to roll back their respective nations to the socially and politically regressive, laissez-faire, and imperialist policies of the 19th century. In 1988 he was given an exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London at which he exhibited the portrait of Margaret Thatcher, full of iconographic references featuring cameos of Maurice and Charles Saatchi. The Saatchis were well known not only as art collectors on an aggressive scale, widely affecting the course of the art world by their choices, but also as the managers of Thatcher's successful, fear-based political campaigns as well as that of the South"
"to Collins was part of the St. Louis International Film Festival. ""Caged Heat"" was screened and in a concert, Stace England and the Screen Syndicate played an album of songs inspired by Roberta Collins. 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"
"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"
"Kathleen Ollerenshaw Dame Kathleen Mary Ollerenshaw, (née Timpson; 1 October 1912 – 10 August 2014) was a British mathematician and politician who was Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1975 to 1976 and an advisor on educational matters to Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s. Born Kathleen Mary Timpson in Withington, Manchester, where she attended Lady Barn House School (1918–1926). She was a grandchild of the founder of the Timpson shoe repair business, who had moved to Manchester from Kettering and established the business there by 1870. Deaf since the age of eight, her fascination with mathematics was inspired by her"
"Frank, Dorothy Day, Judy Blume, Sacajawea, Theodore Roosevelt, Julia Child, Golda Meir, Stevie Wonder, Nancy G. Brinker, Clara Barton, Sheila Spicer, Winston Churchill, Lisa Simpson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Tina Turner, The Three Stooges, Wangari Maathai, Agatha Christie, Leonardo da Vinci, Dolly Parton, Sojourner Truth, Branch Rickey, Lucille Ball, Elizabeth Blackburn, Ella Fitzgerald, Mahatma Gandhi, Mary Shelley, Rochelle Lee Shoretz, Tank Man, Billie Jean King, The heroes of United Flight 93, Temple Grandin, Rosa Parks, Jane Goodall, The 14th Dalai Lama, Abraham Lincoln, Thurgood Marshall, Dorothea Lange, Hannah Senesh, Randy Pausch, Sally Ride, Benjamin Franklin, Wilma Rudolph, Dotty Rubin, Teri Meltzer, Cori"
"Richard Meryman Richard Sumner Meryman (August 6, 1926 – February 2, 2015) was a journalist, biographer and ""Life"" magazine writer and editor. He pioneered the monologue-style personality profile, beginning with a famous Marilyn Monroe interview, published two days before her death in 1962, which became the basis for a 1992 HBO program, ""Marilyn: The Last Interview"". Over the course of his six-decade career, Meryman interviewed a host of 20th century luminaries, including Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Olivier, Mae West, Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Carol Burnett, Burt Reynolds, Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, Louis Armstrong, Paul McCartney, Marilyn Horne,"
"Gina Lollobrigida, Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, Jacqueline Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak, Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, and Mary Tyler Moore. Capri pants marched even in the Existentialist Bars from Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris: “Young women loved themselves in black roll necks, tight Capri pants, and flatties [flat sandals] along with straight long hair and black-painted eyes a la Juliette Greco,” reported Professor Gundula Wolter (1994, 270). Sonja de Lennart was also the first designer who utilized the famous Everglaze textile from America which her family from California sent to de Lennart upon her request. Subsequently, it developed into big business for"
"Speech and Drama. Sally Grace Sally Grace is an English actress, who has worked extensively on radio, television and in animation. Grace was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She was a member of the team on ""Week Ending"", the BBC Radio 4 topical satirical sketch show, where she was the voice of Margaret Thatcher from 1983 onwards, remaining until the series ended in 1998. Her work with Ken Bruce on Radio 2's ""What If Show"" led ""The Independent on Sunday"" to describe her as ""the best impressionist in the"
"Margaret Thatcher on the show, he also voiced many of the show's other characters, including Roy Hattersley, The Queen Mother, Alan Bennett, David Attenborough, Harold Wilson, Bruce Forsyth, Robert Runcie, Edward Heath, Shirley Williams, David Frost and Malcolm Rifkind. As an actor, Nallon has performed in several musicals including as Narrator in ""The Rocky Horror Show"" at Leicester Haymarket Theatre and as Jacque in ""Carnival"" as part of a staged reading at the Barbican. On film, he appeared as the family doctor in ""The Girl With Brains In Her Feet"", a film about a talented teenage athlete who struggles to"
"Shot Marilyns The Shot Marilyns is a work of art produced in 1964 by Andy Warhol. It consists of four canvases, each a square measuring 40 inches and each consisting of a painting of a Marilyn Monroe, each shot through in the forehead by a single bullet. Warhol actually painted five colored Marilyns in 1964 with different colored backgrounds: red, orange, light blue, sage blue, and turquoise and he stored them at The Factory, his studio on East 47th Street in Manhattan. Dorothy Podber (1932–2008), a friend of Factory photographer Billy Name, saw the recently completed paintings stacked against one"
"became known as Marilyn Monroe and is said to have told Bernard, ""Remember, Bernie, you started it all"". In the early 1950s, Bernard fought obscenity charges that ended with a case in the U. S. Supreme Court. He submitted as part of his defense a letter from then-General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was a fan of Bernard's pinup photography. The letter thanks Bernard for the morale-building effect of his pinups during World War II. Bernard's daughter Susan Bernard has made the case that the pinup style popularized by Bernard and his friend Vargas was ""celebrating and empowering women rather than"
"coordinator of the collective. Some other influences at the Museum School were Susan Denker, Ann Hamilton, Kiki Smith and Laylah Ali. Themes related to race are often evident in Gallagher's work, sometimes using pictographs, symbols, codes and repetitions. ""Sambo lips"" and ""bug eyes,"" references to the Black minstrel shows, are often scattered throughout Gallagher's works. Certain characters are also used repeatedly, such as the image of the nurse or the ""Pegleg"" character that sometimes populate her page's iconography. Some of her pieces may explicitly reference the issue of race while also having a more subtle undercurrent related to race. She"
"Brando, Charlie Chaplin, Frank Sinatra, Clark Gable and Steve McQueen. Barris is perhaps best known for his work with Marilyn Monroe, whom he photographed in 1954 on the set of ""The Seven Year Itch"", and in 1962 at Santa Monica beach, and in the Hollywood Hills in a series that became known as ""The Last Photos."" Barris was collaborating on a book titled ""Marilyn: Her Life In Her Own Words"" at the time of her death. Barris is well known for taking the last photo of Monroe on July 13, 1962. IHL|InHollywoodland is the only licensing agent for George Barris"
"years of Tony Blair's government, published in paperback by Ebury Press in June 2007. Brown's predominantly factual biography of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, ""Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret"", was published in 2017 and won the 2018 James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the biography category. Brown's wife is the author Frances Welch. They have two children. Frances Welch's niece is Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine. Craig Brown (satirist) Craig Edward Moncrieff Brown (born 23 May 1957) is an English critic and satirist, best known for his parodies in ""Private Eye"". Brown was educated at Eton"
"Charlotte Mitchell Charlotte Mitchell (born Edna Winifred Mitchell; 23 July 1926 – 2 May 2012) was an English actress and poet. In the 1950s she provided lyrics, sketches, and occasionally acted in revues on London's West End. She was especially successful in her ventures providing lyrics for Madeleine Dring in ""Airs on a Shoestring"" (1953), ""Pay the Piper"" (1954), and ""Fresh Airs"" (1956), all productions of Laurier Lister. She was once (allegedly) the girlfriend of Peter Sellers, and appeared in ""The Goon Show"" episodes ""Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest"" (1954) as Maid Marian and ""Tales of Montmartre"" (1956) as Seagoon's"
"1986 play ""Strawhead"", which was produced off Broadway starring his daughter Kate Mailer. """" (1988) by Gloria Steinem Marilyn: A Biography Norman Mailer's 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe (usually designated Marilyn: A Biography) was a large-format book of glamor photographs of Monroe for which Mailer supplied the text. Originally hired to write an introduction by Lawrence Schiller, who put the book package together, Mailer expanded the introduction into a long essay. The book was particularly controversial. The book's final chapter states that Monroe was murdered by agents of the FBI and CIA who resented her supposed affair with Robert F."
"of the late-twentieth century, often compared to Churchill and David Lloyd George for her transformative agenda commonly referred to as ""Thatcherism"". She was Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975-1990, and Prime Minister from 1979-1990. She was often called the ""Iron Lady"" for her uncompromising politics and leadership style. Political analyst Dennis Kavanagh concludes that the ""Thatcher Government produced such a large number of far-reaching changes across much of the policy spectrum, that it passes 'reasonable' criteria of effectiveness, radicalism, and innovation."" The Labour Party under James Callaghan (Prime Minister 1976–79) contested the 1979 general election as unemployment passed the"
"Marilyn Miller Marilyn Miller (born Mary Ellen Reynolds, September 1, 1898 – April 7, 1936) was one of the most popular Broadway musical stars of the 1920s and early 1930s. She was an accomplished tap dancer, singer and actress, and it was the combination of these talents that endeared her to audiences. On stage she usually played rags-to-riches Cinderella characters who lived happily ever after. Her enormous popularity and famed image were in distinct contrast to her personal life, which was marred by disappointment, tragedy, frequent illness, and ultimately her sudden death due to complications of nasal surgery at age"
"and Hutch""; from fine arts: Sergio Rossetti Morosini, artist and conservator, and internationally renown glass artist Mitchell Gaudet; from music: conductor and composer Odaline de la Martinez, who was the first woman to conduct at a BBC Proms concert in London; from government: Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House who famously coordinated the first Congressional Republican majority in 40 years, and Luther Terry, former U.S. Surgeon General who issued the first official health hazard warning for tobacco; from medicine: Michael DeBakey and Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Obama's Surgeon General; from science A. Baldwin Wood, inventor of the wood screw"
"Sally Grace Sally Grace is an English actress, who has worked extensively on radio, television and in animation. Grace was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She was a member of the team on ""Week Ending"", the BBC Radio 4 topical satirical sketch show, where she was the voice of Margaret Thatcher from 1983 onwards, remaining until the series ended in 1998. Her work with Ken Bruce on Radio 2's ""What If Show"" led ""The Independent on Sunday"" to describe her as ""the best impressionist in the business"". She voiced"