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...The reason: Abel’s mother met Michel in prison. Garrel musses up his usual cosmopolitan profile with an amusingly fussy turn as Abel, who spies on Michel’s comings and goings like an amateur gumshoe....
...It may well be that the challenge of reproducing the vox Napoleana (the tone of which historical sources are strangely quiet about) is possibly best met by the captions of silent movies such as Abel Gance...
...Roman gladiators painted their faces with it. Stradivarius varnished his violins with it....
...In a few short, simple scenes, Churchill creates a tragedy that has echoes of Cain and Abel, the ancient Greeks and Shakespeare....
...These showed ex-presidents Carlos Salinas, Enrique Peña Nieto and Felipe Calderón with red blindfolds detailing their alleged crimes under the slogan, “Do you want Salinas, Peña and Calderón to go to jail...
...Scorsese are all testimony to the visits paid by cinema royalty to this quintessentially Roman space, a stroll from the Tiber in the city’s historic centre....
...Seneca, the ancient Roman philosopher, got to the core of our troubles with time in a famous letter known by the title On the Shortness of Life....
...“Marmalade” stems from the Portuguese marmelada, a quince-and-honey solid jelly that itself goes back to the ancient Greeks, Romans and Persians and is still enjoyed today....
...He ran investors through the Great Depression, the Civil War and the outbreak of the Spanish flu, with a series of black-and-white slides with simple facts written in Times New Roman font....
...New crops and cooking styles followed as the Romans, Arabs, Normans, French and Spanish each dominated the central Mediterranean island in turn....
...Nine properties are available on Sicily and nearby islands, including Capo Faro lighthouse on Salina, the setting for the 1994 Michael Radford film Il Postino....
...Abel Halpern, who led the Poundworld deal for TPG, says one of the attractions was its growth potential. TPG wants to expand Poundworld’s footprint beyond its 285 stores....
...said the biggest investors behind Black Iron, which is listed on Canada’s TSX, were Forbes & Manhattan, a Toronto-based private merchant bank, Luxor Capital Partners, RBC Global Resources Fund and Grupo Salinas...
...In 1929, the Parisian sculptor Abel Lafleur made him a 30cm statuette of Nike, Greek goddess of victory. Crucially, the trophy wasn’t solid gold: merely silver coated with gold....
...By the festival’s midpoint we had mentally awarded the Golden Lion to either Roman Polanski (Carnage) or George Clooney (The Ides of March). In the event, neither won anything....
...Matthew Kneale’s latest book is ‘When We Were Romans’ (Picador)...
...During fascism, half this medieval square was removed to reveal a Roman amphitheatre, as part of Mussolini’s campaign to associate himself with the greatness of Rome, but today it looks sad and abandoned...
...But there was always time to idle and think and read – to sit under the lemon tree in the patio absorbing poetry by Lorca and Salinas, the novels of Pérez Galdós and Sénder, and the bracing but untortured...
...But what’s most amazing about Casa de Salinas is that a modern-day family, the Salinases, still lives in it. “There were many houses like this but not many survived,” says Bruno Salinas....
...The next day saw us sail to modest and homely Salina and then on to the island of Panarea, with its stunning Hotel Raya....
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