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...passions, platonic but deep, were saved for the older women in her life: her sister Vanessa, who became a painter and married Critic Clive Bell; Madge Vaughan, a writer who was married to one of Virginia's cousins; and above all Violet Dickinson, an aristocratic spinster who was part intimate confidante, part sponsor. With Dickinson especially, Virginia tended to lapse into repellent pet names and quasi-erotic baby talk ("I feel myself curled up snugly in old mother wallaby's pouch. Is mother wallaby soft and tender to her little one?"). But these women also inspired some...
Vicious sibling rivalry. While Good Sister Vanessa searches for human dignity with Bad Meg's ex-husband, Meg competes with her daughter for a lover...
...branching out into fashion design. Her first collection, introduced at a Paris ready-to-wear show last week, features-what else?-evening wear specially designed for dancing. With it all, redheaded Regine finds time to rehearse for a new film, The Seven Per Cent Solution, with Laurence Olivier and Vanessa Redgrave. Her part: the madam in an exclusive bordello...
...some interesting discoveries: nine .22-cal. bullets in a stairway cupboard (but no guns), books by Lenin, Marx and Engels, and 50 assorted members of a tiny Trotskyite group, called the Workers' Revolutionary Party, engaged in a political conversation. The party's most celebrated member: Actress-Activist Vanessa Redgrave...
Gorst flung the ultimate Trotskyite insult at the Redgraves: "They are totally Stalinist." Vanessa, for her part, struggled to cast the Red House raid as a cause celebre. The police bust, she eagerly insisted during TV interviews, was "the biggest political attack on any political party since the offices of the Daily Worker were raided...