“Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the
corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.”—Australian man
of letters Clive James (1939-2019), on a TV appearance by romance novelist
Barbara Cartland (pictured), “Wedding of the Century,” in
Clive James on Television: Classics From the Observer, 1972-1982 (2017)
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