Memling took the old reliquary containing Ursula's remains – a wooden box, which people had been coming to touch for hundreds of years – and then housed it in a sort of dolls' house in the shape of a miniature church.
Bowie's face sings on a sort of Siamese doll in a studio, with a woman's face squashed next to his (it seems she may be Jacqueline Humphries, wife of the artist Tony Oursler who made the video).
"What we have here is a sort of babushka doll strategy, where we produced one document, the applicant saw a reference to another document and said, 'We'd like that document as well,'" he said.
Beaton's clear-eyed, ambivalent sketches of decrepit glamour — we similarly encounter Nancy Mitford, Noël Coward, John Gielgud, and Marlene Dietrich ("a sort of mechanical doll... with a genius for believing in her self-fabricated beauty") — are the best of what's in these last diaries.
** Beaton's clear-eyed, ambivalent sketches of decrepit glamour — we similarly encounter Nancy Mitford, Noël Coward, John Gielgud, and Marlene Dietrich ("a sort of mechanical doll... with a genius for believing in her self-fabricated beauty") — are the best of what's in these last diaries.
There was no money in a wildlife refuge, of course, so, as she grew older, Marleen took up what we all supposed had been her mother's trade, but as if living in a story about herself, without awareness or consequence, a sort of rag-doll act of her own.
The subscription companies appear to know each other, too: lots of boxes contain adverts for other boxes, like a sort of subscription Russian doll.
The New York Times reviewer Michiko Kakutani, famously hard to please, praised your book to the heavens but took issue with the sections dealing with Warren, who she said felt "oddly fuzzy and abstract" and "emerges in this volume as a sort of handsome paper doll".
