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“... studios just after the last war – all sword fights, low-cut dresses and swaggering heroes. Barbara Willard’s A Flight of Swans, the latest novel in her ‘Mantlemass’ series, is closer in mood to today’s popular television serial featuring a prosperous middle-class family living at some time in the past. This is a better-written, more solid ...”

“... Harry Smith, performance artist and filmmaker Jack Smith, the married filmmakers Marie Mencken and Willard Maas (models for the couple in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?). Others – the garrulous, waspish speed freak who called himself Pope Ondine, for example, or Barbara Rubin, the teenage networker who introduced Warhol ...”