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Clara Bow, (born July 29, 1905, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 27, 1965, Los Angeles, Calif.), American motion-picture actress called the “It” Girl after she played in It (1927), the popular silent-film version of Elinor Glyn’s novel of that name. She personified the vivacious, emancipated flapper of the 1920s. From 1927 to 1930 she was one of the top five Hollywood box-office attractions. Clara Bow was born into a poor family; she was sexually abused by her father and neglected by her mentally unbalanced mother. She went to Hollywood by way of a beauty contest while still in high s...

Plastic pollution blights the Cornish coast, but local people are tackling the problem. Frankie Adkins joins them on a coastal clean

A trip to the dump is one of my great pleasures in life – and I’m not alone ‘The gruff camaraderie, the clang of rubble against metal’: Richard Godwin, locked and loaded. Photograph: Pål Hansen/The Observer ‘The gruff camaraderie, the clang of rubble against metal’: Richard Godwin, locked and loaded. Photograph: Pål Hansen/The Observer Everything has its place at the dump, no matter how abject or broken. No wonder there were queues when it reopened after lockdown Sat 22 May 2021 10.00 EDT A couple of miles from my home, down on the other side of the motorwa...

My Turn: Nightmarish prophecy of a great world of plastic now a manifest Fortune magazine declared, in this cover story in October 1940, that the United States had entered the Plastic Age. Chris Mullen/fulltable.com In 1940, we entered the Plastic Age, declared Fortune magazine in its prophetic October issue. Writers and graphic artists swooned at the rapid evolution of miraculous new plastics, and hailed them for their vibrant color, lightness, versatility, malleability and durability. They forecast a time when practically anything could be pressed, squeezed, rolled, sawed, drawn, cast, or...

Chained to the Grave #4 (of 5) Brian Level & Andy Eschenbach (w) • Kate Sherron (a & c) Outlaw Roy Mason has come back from the dead, chained to the headstone that marked his grave. On the trail of buried gold and hunted by a Big Bad, Roy struggles to hold his family—and his body—together. Writers Brian Level (Darth Vader, Thanos, Deadpool) & Andy Eschenbach (Heavy Metal Magazine, Red Shoes) and artist Kate Sherron (Invader Zim, The Amazing World of Gumball) bring you a tale of intrigue, murder, magic, and the good ol’ wild, wild west! FC • 32 pages • $3.99 Order 10 copies and get...