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Ugly Is As Ugly Does

Miranda France SCARS OF SWEET PARADISE by Alice Echols Virago, £18.99, pp. 408 J anis Joplin reckoned to have lost her looks around the age of 14. From then on, she said, 'the......

Unflustered And On Target

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