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...“The ascetic official had suddenly transformed into the angel of death,” Baranov says. “It was the first time I’d seen a phenomenon of this kind....
...success in Seiler’s home country of Germany, this novel follows Carl, a bricklayer and aspiring poet from the former GDR, as he travels to Berlin in search of a different life after the fall of the Berlin Wall...
...Thus “Angels and Otherworldly Beings” introduces Cameron’s cherubs — neighbours’ tousled, pouting infants — and graveside mourners (“Angel at the Tomb”, “Angel at the Sepulchre”) to Woodman’s experiments...
...Homer Simpson also called the former Chinese Communist party chair Mao Zedong a “little angel” who killed millions....
...Watson said heritage questions in planning were “like 12 angels dancing on a pinhead. It’s very delicate. That nuanced element makes it open to challenge....
...It follows what Ruo calls two “tracks”: the racist reaction against Chinese immigration to California, and poems carved into the walls of the immigration detention centre on Angel Island in San Francisco...
...“Wall Street is really good at selling stuff, they’ll sell anything they can make a buck on.”...
...Many of Wall Street’s biggest names have offered spot bitcoin ETFs, including BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager....
...Now they face competition,” Angel added....
...Many of the rooms have double-height walls and large windows....
...Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann (Granta/New Directions) A clandestine and destructive love affair is at the centre of this novel, set before and after the fall of the Berlin wall...
...Captures well the dilemma facing ambitious young men who think Wall Street is the answer....
...I’m surrounded by dozens of depictions of the Madonna and Child, catalogue pages mounted into the walls of a greenhouse-like structure....
...Berlinde de Bruyckere’s City of Refuge III, textural sculptures of fallen angels, tragic yet redemptive, perfectly suits its setting, San Giorgio Maggiore’s chapel and monastery — a refuge of peace....
...“Look out for the angel,” says Silvie Jacobi, giving me directions to the London School of Mosaic (LSM). After a few false turns, I find it....
...Looking back, all of us wonder if the swallow that appeared in the midst of the storm was some kind of guardian angel....
...“They started off as this 800lb gorilla, but now they’re facing stiff competition,” said Jim Angel, professor at Georgetown University....
...The puzzled goats and convalescent mother add earthy counterpoint to the orchestra of angels up in their gilded heavens....
...In Barragán’s small, austere dining room, a modest crucifix adorns one wall....
...The four imposing 18-foot trombones, made by connecting the bells of sousaphones and trombones on to elongated brass beams, are installed on an elevated platform against the wall....
...A figure anticipating Rego’s “Dog Woman”, a nude crouching on all fours, pours down a wall....
...Modern and contemporary artworks — from Warhol silkscreens to canvases by New York graffiti artist and Keith Haring protégé Angel Ortiz — are found throughout the bar, sitting rooms and hallways....
...Philip IV commissioned the artist in 1636 to decorate the walls of his hunting lodge, the Torre de la Parada, and Rubens created oil sketches of about 60 scenes....
...With that in mind, I found History’s Angel, by Anjum Hasan (2023), particularly poignant in her reminder that an individual such as her daydreaming, poetry-loving Muslim teacher Alif is far more than his...
...We drive past a glinting, touchscreen cash machine set in a wall that looks to be centuries old. I smile....
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