He was dressed in a long black riding duster, with a strange orange hunting cap pulled down over his eyes.

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Hugo Strange will have already been in each film as a supporting character (and as the main villain in the first film), and in this film Strange is hired by Black Mask to try to develop a psychological profile on Bruce as a way to find his weaknesses.

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The "plastic soul" of "Young Americans" was his strange response to the sound of black America and "Station to Station, " recorded in cocaine-maddened seclusion in Los Angeles in the guise of the "Thin White Duke, " presaged his return to Europe.

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And this is going to sound strange in one sense, because religion to black folk has been so special...

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Singular among the clothes in the show is a superbly cut black wool coat and trouser suit of 1928, made for Michael Strange, which was the pseudonym of Blanche Oelrichs, a poet who was once married to the actor John Barrymore.

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But in a strange conjunction of events, it may have been this same black dog - together with the intervention of a loyal friend during a few fateful days in early May 1940 - that enabled Churchill to achieve the position from which he could alter the course of history.

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