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Other much-mythologized denizens of the penthouse would be playboys and femmes fatales, whose setting ensured that they would attain new heights in romance or intrigue, perched between twinkling city lights and twinkling celestial stars.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Other much-mythologized denizens of the penthouse would be playboys and femmes fatales, whose setting ensured that they would attain new heights in romance or intrigue, perched between twinkling city lights and twinkling celestial stars.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The best design books can open your eyes to a beauty previously unseen as easily as they can make you fall all over again for something you've always been awed by ... from fantasy worlds to factory design and from Hitchcock's femme fatales to painter's studios.
Divine Design: 15 Books From Factories To Femmes Fatales Nicole Campoy-Leffler 2010
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But this addition, featuring operatic femmes fatales Carmen, Dalila, Manon, etc. in choreography by Nicola Bowie, felt like filler.
The Tests of Patience Heidi Waleson 2011
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The best design books can open your eyes to a beauty previously unseen as easily as they can make you fall all over again for something you've always been awed by ... from fantasy worlds to factory design and from Hitchcock's femme fatales to painter's studios.
Divine Design: 15 Books From Factories To Femmes Fatales Nicole Campoy-Leffler 2010
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Little Black Dress charts eight decades of adaptations, parodies and pastiches from the femme fatales of 1940s film noir, through the miniskirted precociousness of the 60s Chelsea sex kitten, to the goths and power dressers of more recent decades.
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His portraits are dexterous and offer a merciless likeness, his carvings show startling technical accomplishment, his landscapes open up the pinnacled hills of the northern regions, and his femme fatales mark what is considered to be the beginnings of soft pornography.
Cranach's Femme Fatales Highlight 'The Other Renaissance' Francesca Angelini 2010
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In the heady days of silent film, the actresses playing vamps and femmes fatales had suitably sonorous names like Theda Bara (Theodosia Goodman, from Cincinnati) or Nita Naldi (Mary Dooley, born in Harlem).
The Queen of Comity Alexandra Mullen 2011
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Lot 2 TV GUIDES 1999-2004 STAR TREK Jeri Ryan 7 of 9 femme fatales vol. 7 #2 jeri ryan star trek borg
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Not only will ABC have a new trio of femme fatales in the Charlie's Angels reboot, but CBS' NCIS has just snagged one of the alums for a hot role.
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