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...The actual date being honoured is April 4 1923, when Jack, Harry, Sam and Albert Warner formally incorporated Warner Bros Pictures. In fact, the brothers were already established producers by then....
...Anyone in any doubt about the organic existence of Ukrainian as an independent tongue should read Timothy Snyder’s brilliantly illuminating essay on the two languages, published last month in The New York...
...It is an image from the 1920s of a woman, Ruth Snyder, in the process of her execution by electric chair. The composition is strange: too much foreground and awkwardly angled....
...My theory is that the game vendor Snyders put in here is a self-portrait.” On rare occasions, Lutter has veered from the camera obscura....
...The history of plywood, which is being explored in a new exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, is the history of a material constantly being reinvented, repackaged and resold to the public as...
...Snyder’s arguments provide an important warning from history....
...French thinkers of the 1940s and 1950s were attracted to hardline communism, and The Burden of Responsibility (1998), which celebrates the political and intellectual courage of Raymond Aron, Léon Blum and Albert...
...Snyder and screenwriters David Hayter and Alex Tse pack a teeming plot into a tedium-tight structure....
...A starry group of players – Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Rufus Sewell – move round the board, taking turns to bray declaratively and declare “game over” for man’s exploitation of man....
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