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...Charles Dickens revised Oliver Twist extensively to remove some antisemitic tropes after speaking with a Jewish critic who reviewed the work....
...But if we were programmed in a different, deconditioned way, we’d look at women’s breasts or bodies differently, and that’s what I’m trying to do,” explains Castioni, who covered her breast at her exhibition...
...I actually found this promo video they’d made, which is pretty great....
...But they are paying brokerages, which is like where you or I would log on to trade, like Robinhood or E-Trade or Charles Schwab, and they’re paying for like the individual trades....
...It is, finally, coronation time for the new king, 74-year old Charles III....
...How SVB f****d up Silicon Valley Bank trusted Goldman Sachs, and it got shot in the foot....
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...But also Hydra after Leonard Cohen, the Côte d’Azur of F Scott Fitzgerald and the myriad Mediterranean places that had been unspoiled repositories of legend until the moneyed landed there with their elephant...
...Imagine buying a basket of 100 eggs for 50 cents each and selling them for a dollar individually at the market....
...The team is coached by Charles Millet, born in France but raised in the US....
...One of the Bunker team said: “That night, by the time he’d gone up to the flat, I think he’d made that decision....
...In 2018, I curated an exhibition titled “I’m Home”, exploring themes of home and family....
...We learn about tonburi seeds, which come from a Japanese weed and have to be unwrapped individually by hand....
...Irishness seems to matter more to Biden than it did to John F Kennedy. I’d also contend that Biden is the first practising Catholic to occupy the White House, though that point could be argued....
...London Crossword 16,278: Peter Bromwich, Birmingham; James Reid, Fife, Scotland; EASherratt, Staffordshire, England Polymath 1,040: Patricia Blakemore, West Midlands, England Crossword 16,272: Martha F...
...Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles, by William Quinn and John D Turner, Cambridge, RRP£18.99, 296 pages A lovely book....
...The 20th-century art auction already includes Pablo Picasso’s “Les femmes d’Alger (version ‘F’)” (1955), estimated at $25m, and Roy Lichtenstein’s “Nude with Joyous Painting” (1994), estimated at $30m....
...Really, I’m interested in how culture and politics reflect the deep, dark, contradictory, f***ed-up mess of being human.”...
...I like people who kind of f*** with you a little bit and he kind of f***s with you a little bit.”...
...All my life, I knew only one thing about Jim — that he’d been “blown up” while attempting to defuse a bomb during the second world war....
...‘What the f*** do you need that for, Michael?’ they’d ask.” He soon showed them....
...I am far more worried about Labour — but I’m worried about the Conservatives, too.”...
...What the f*** do you think?”...
...They would head to a demo then go to Gabi’s, a café off Trafalgar Square: “I’d have a salt-beef sandwich and he’d have a vegetarian dish.”...
...I went over and I tapped on his window and I said, ‘What in the f**k are you telling me, you old moron?’ I said, ‘How dare you have this Trump sticker on your car?...
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