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“... in order to hide their identity. Neither variety of male veiling provokes much controversy. As Jennifer Heath writes in her introduction, veiling attracts attention to women’s faces, to the eyes, the mouth and the hair. Veils don’t hide the face so much as frame it. They illuminate one part of the face by setting it in relief to the part they ...”

“... wishing-well in Holland Park for the price of a packet of ten cigarettes, and cruised Hampstead Heath in the early hours for anonymous sex without bothering to mention that he had crabs, who stole fivers from the handbags of his few remaining friends and reckoned they deserved it: did he no longer have a life? That might be one way to understand it. But ...”

“... of all the people one could want to know, including all the year’s ‘debutantes’. His niece, Jennifer Levy, was a debutante in 1985: ‘the absence of Jewish surnames from a printed list would have been too unsubtle for words.’ On the other hand, wealthy Jews had to drive away from Lexington for a game of golf: they might have set up a Jewish ...”

“... the House Un-American Activities Committee, including Ring Lardner Jr (using the pseudonym ‘Eric Heath’). Knight cautions that ‘the anti-fascist interpretation may have more to do with the political context then and now than with any conscious plan on the part of the film-makers.’ And that is the point: the context provides the spin. Proto-fascism (the ...”

“... parents chose Heathfield because none of the girls had spots.’ Or, ‘My mother went to West Heath for tea once, for someone’s confirmation, and she sent me there entirely on the strength of that nice tea.’ The schools they went to could be happy, horsey places, or they could be monstrous, lawless places: they were usually something in ...”

“... the popular image of human sexuality is by insisting, in the words of the writer and activist Jennifer Finney Boylan, that ‘it is not about who you want to go to bed with, it’s who you want to go to bed as.’ This, it can be argued, is the province of gender: how, in terms of the categories of male and female, you see yourself and wish to be seen. In ...”