Meet Jane Sloan (Katie Stevens), a bright young thing with Kendall Jenner looks and delusions of Joan Didion grandeur.
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A contingent there coalesced around Rob Sand, the state auditor and boyish bright young thing of Iowa Democratic politics.
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Contrast that with Kirsten Gillibrand, who may now be solidly in middle age, but was a bright young thing once, too.
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Everyone was sort of talking, I remember, it was a big deal because you were sort of the bright young thing at the time.
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Best of all is Ms. O'Hare, who aside from her lovely singing and dancing has just the right style for a bright young thing without scruples.
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As a teenager, Arter was a bright young thing at Charlton Athletic, possessed of the "huge dreams" that come with a place in a Premier League academy.
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As Beaton's authorized biographer and literary executor, Mr. Vickers is a principal architect of a crowded cult dedicated to erecting an ever-higher pedestal to the aesthete, photographer, Bright Young Thing, diarist, painter, decorator and designer for stage and film.
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After a quick pick-me-up espresso or three (the fashion week version of lunch), and a flurry of accessories appointments around town, it will be time for Emilio Pucci and a second collection from its Bright Young Thing designer, Massimo Giorgetti.
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In one poignant scene, she lies about not having kids to her employer-turned-friend Susannah, and though it's not without some guilt, you can see her relief at being perceived as just another bright young thing on the path towards stardom.
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Even better news for a sport always on the lookout for the next bright young thing to challenge the established order of Djokovic, Federer and Rafa Nadal, Khachanov showed why he has the weapons and temperament to offer them a real threat.
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They are seeking an antidote to Trump's magnetic stage presence and ability to command attention, and she has that in greater quantities than anyone else in the field — certainly more so than Beto O'Rourke, a similarly experience-light candidate whom many Democratic operatives are pushing in a quest to capture some Bright Young Thing magic.
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The bright young thing society novelist Nancy Mitford stayed at 40 in 1955.
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Doubt is the second album by British alternative rock band Jesus Jones, released in 1991. The album reached #25 on the US Billboard 200 and topped the UK Albums Chart, and the tracks "Real Real Real", "Right Here, Right Now", "International Bright Young Thing", "Who? Where? Why?" and "Welcome Back Victoria" were released as singles to promote it.
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Originally entitled Jane's Journal, Or the Diary of a Bright Young Thing, the salacious comic strip featured the misadventures of the title ingenue. The heroine had a habit of frequently (and most often inadvertently) losing her clothes. Her intimate confidant was a pet dachshund named Fritz. Her full name was Jane Gay, a play on the name Lady Jane Grey.
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Jesus Jones are an English alternative rock band from Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire, formed in late 1988, who recorded and performed into the 2000s. Their track "Right Here, Right Now" was an international hit, and was subsequently globally licensed for promotional and advertising campaigns. They also achieved chart success with the songs "Real Real Real", "International Bright Young Thing" and "Info Freako".
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His landlord is modelled on his real- life landlord Stephen Tennant (1906–1987), a 1920s socialite and a "bright young thing" who is also the model for the Hon. Miles Malpractice in novels by Evelyn Waugh and for Cedric Hampton in Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford. Naipaul rented a cottage at Tennant's Wilsford House estate, north of Salisbury.
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"International Bright Young Thing" is a song by the British alternative dance band Jesus Jones. It was released as the third single from their second album Doubt, and was a top-ten hit in Britain. It followed "Real Real Real" and "Right Here, Right Now". All three singles were included on a Jesus Jones compilation album Never Enough: The Best of Jesus Jones released in 2002.
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Lambert's sculptures were first exhibited at Regent Street's Goupil Gallery in the spring of 1925 where he showed mainly bronze portraits. As early as 1926, Lambert began to make sculptures incorporating the motif of birds in flight. He held his first one man exhibition at the Claridge Gallery in 1927. Between May and July 1928, the aristocrat and Bright Young Thing Stephen Tennant sat for a bust portrait by Lambert.
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The Daily Mirror cartoonist Norman Pett had been drawing a weekly cartoon since 1932 which he called Jane's Journal — The Diary of A Bright Young Thing. Pett's original model was his wife, but he replaced her with Chrystabel in 1940. In 1944, when Jane first appeared nude in the cartoon, she was credited with 'inspiring' the 36th Division to advance six miles into Burma. In 1948, Pett's assistant Michael Hubbard took over the Jane cartoons.
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Portrayed by Madeleine Cannon, Lady Dorothy "Dolly" Beatrice Louisa Hale is one of Georgina's closest friends and a fellow "Bright Young Thing". Lady Dolly is the daughter of the Earl of Shelbourne and lives, in 1928, in Mayfair. In 1927, while visiting Georgina, Lady Dolly meets Frederick, the Bellamy's footman, and they soon start an affair. Lady Dolly then secretly arranges for Georgina and Frederick to have to kiss in a film that they are both starring in.
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Brenda Irene Isabelle Frances Theresa Dean Paul (8 May 1907 – 26 July 1959), generally known by her stage name Brenda Dean Paul, was a British silent film actress, socialite, and "Bright Young Thing" in the 1920s. Her use of illegal drugs landed her in court and in the tabloid press of the day. She served time in Holloway Prison and had many stints in hospitals in efforts to shake her addiction.Brenda Dean Paul - 1920s "society drug addict", Writingwomenshistory.blogspot.co.
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Guided By Voices, The Beach Boys, Buddy Holly, Frank Black, John Lennon, Matthew Sweet and The Velvet Underground are cited as Hammond's musical influences. Alhough vocalist Julian Casablancas is the primary songwriter in The Strokes, Hammond co-wrote the track "Automatic Stop" with Casablancas for the group's second album Room on Fire. He has been credited with writing three mostly instrumental songs ("Swiss Beats", "Holland", and "By the Way") for the band's 2001 tour video titled In Transit. These songs were reworked for his later solo album and have different titles ("Everyone Gets a Star", "Bright Young Thing", "In Transit").
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From 1902, Shulbrede Priory became the family home of Arthur Ponsonby, later (1930) created first Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, and his wife, who was the daughter of the composer Sir Hubert Parry. Parry composed some piano pieces called Shulbrede Tunes, which were musical portraits of the members of the Ponsonby family. Lord and Lady Ponsonby had a son, Matthew Ponsonby, later the 2nd Lord Ponsonby, and a daughter, the "Bright Young Thing" Elizabeth Ponsonby, whose family home this was. Until 1925, when copyhold was abolished, the Court Baron of the Manor of Linchmere and Shulbrede was held in the priory.
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Born in East Hull, Bean was educated at Hull Grammar School, and then studied social psychology at Loughborough University, graduating with a 2:1 BSc Hons. He then worked as an occupational psychologist,Aleks Sierz, "It's never too late to wow an audience Richard Bean has burst on the theatre scene with five acclaimed new plays in 18 months. But he's no bright young thing, the former punk, psychologist and stand-up comedian tells Aleks Sierz", Daily Telegraph, 6 January 2004. having previously worked in a bread plant for a year and a half after leaving school.
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In the spring of 1990, Jesus Jones recorded their second album, Doubt, but their record label was forced to delay its release until the beginning of 1991. The album sold well, due to the success of "Right Here, Right Now". The song is about the swift end of the Cold War, and reached No. 2 in the US and No. 31 in the UK. In June 1990, Jesus Jones appeared at the Glastonbury Festival. Other singles from Doubt included "Real, Real, Real" and "International Bright Young Thing", which became two of their biggest hit singles in the UK, reaching No. 19 and No. 7 respectively in the UK Singles Chart.
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Whelan played regularly for the Sky Blues throughout the 1996–97 season without providing the spark of the previous season, as the club again struggled to avoid relegation, with Ron Atkinson becoming director of football and Gordon Strachan being promoted to the manager's seat in November. His reputation as the bright young thing was usurped by his new strike partner Darren Huckerby. Whelan still managed six goals from 35 league games that season. The Sky Blues' form improved markedly in the 1997–98 season as they rose to mid-table respectability in the Premiership under manager Gordon Strachan, with Noel Whelan playing a key role in midfield.
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