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  • Surrounded by a stable of gifted supporting players like Kennedy, Stewart, Marilyn Maxwell (as a high-living, seductive gold digger), and Lola Albright (as Midge's married lover), Douglas embodies the stubborn, selfish qualities that make Midge both a hero and a lost cause.

    John Farr: Kirk Douglas Turns 95! John Farr 2011

  • After this, Liane moved easily between the aristocratic lesbian clique in Paris and the high-living, frenetic whirl of Tout Paris, though her vicious feud with Caroline Otero took precedence in the press.

    Cocotte of the Week: Liane de Pougy | Edwardian Promenade 2010

  • Cézanne's gamblers are far from the high-living layabouts more usually associated with this theme in paintings of rustic life.

    This week's new exhibitions Robert Clark 2010

  • He was the high-living dwarf painter, capturing the black stockinged legs of can-can dancers, young lovers, old roués, prostitutes, backstage secrets and lesbian clinches in posters and dynamic paintings.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • The place is very modern in terms of utilities and latest high-living trends.

    Luxury Home in Hualalai 2009

  • I'd been in Russia as the USSR blew apart, seen soldiers sprinting from their posts carrying bundles of rifles to sell at market, and special forces soldiers loading insignia-free private cargo jets at airbases; I'd witnessed the orgy of trafficked cocaine, luxury goods and bullets in Milosevic's Serbia -- officially a country under lockdown, but filled with high-living Mafiosi courtesy of these ex-Soviet mercenary aviators and their nightly delivery run.

    Matt Potter: My Adventures with Mercenary Aviators: A Secret History of Globalization, Organized Crime and Terror Matt Potter 2011

  • He was the high-living dwarf painter, capturing the black stockinged legs of can-can dancers, young lovers, old roués, prostitutes, backstage secrets and lesbian clinches in posters and dynamic paintings.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • (Anyone still believing that this was an heroically unselfish act on the part of an ex-staffer, acting alone to save the tattered reputation of the high-living flibbertigibbet who had just finished underbussing her, is -- to put it charitably -- a gull.)

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • I'd been in Russia as the USSR blew apart, seen soldiers sprinting from their posts carrying bundles of rifles to sell at market, and special forces soldiers loading insignia-free private cargo jets at airbases; I'd witnessed the orgy of trafficked cocaine, luxury goods and bullets in Milosevic's Serbia -- officially a country under lockdown, but filled with high-living Mafiosi courtesy of these ex-Soviet mercenary aviators and their nightly delivery run.

    Matt Potter: My Adventures with Mercenary Aviators: A Secret History of Globalization, Organized Crime and Terror Matt Potter 2011

  • The latest allegations come at a moment of particular vulnerability for the blunt-speaking, high-living prime minister.

    Italy's Berlusconi in prostitution probe 2011

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