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...The wind is sharp and relentless; the surrounding knuckles of the hard-baked Taurus range, in the darkness before dawn, are bunched like a fist....
...In which Martin Scorsese film does Sharon Stone play the character Ginger McKenna? “Carreaux” is the French word for which suit of cards?...
...Whereas the world at large is consumed with pranks, pratfalls and spoofery for this single day of the year, such mischief-making is stock-in-trade for cryptic protagonists whenever dawn breaks....
...Sometimes you can see the trails of hares that come to box on the dawn beach (shingle remembers footprints far longer than sand)....
...And in any case, a glass box with a stone floor is no place for a piano of this calibre....
...This year’s line-up includes James Blake, Cat Power, Simple Minds, Queens of the Stone Age, Air, Take That and The National....
...Which 1983 film was directed by Brian De Palma and written by Oliver Stone? Which 1960s model was nicknamed The Shrimp?...
...You feel the stone sway.”...
...The next day, a friend and I left Laramie for Elk Mountain before dawn. We cruised happily through the empty dark but, as the sun rose, the wind began to blow....
...And so, you know, you can kind of kill two birds with one stone. That’s the story that’s being told....
...It seemed like a new dawn for Myanmar, which had effectively been controlled by the military since a coup in 1962....
...Waves lapped against foundation stones, and coral altars seemed to be oriented to the distant thunder of the barrier reef....
...Stalita gold-plated stone earrings, £79....
...Kilmartin Glen has the richest concentration of prehistoric monuments in Scotland: standing stones, stone circles, a linear cemetery of burial cairns, mysterious rock carvings....
...Footpaths worn smooth by shepherds trace the contours of the landscape, and the sheer slopes are ribbed with dry stone terraces built for grapes, barley and wheat....
...We were staying a few winding miles away at the old stone village of Kapsaliana....
...Coll is a 13-mile strip of low land bordered by dark stone hillocks and empty white beaches....
...We watch the mother otters show their pups how to open shells by thwacking them on stones balanced on their chests....
...“The house was built out of the stones of a castle that burned down in the 18th century,” says Ruiz-Picasso’s wife, the gallerist Almine Rech....
...The War Office, built between 1899 and 1906, was vast to begin with: imperial overconfidence solidified in 26,000 tonnes of Portland stone and 25mn bricks....
...History buffs can hike along Hadrian’s Wall — the 73-mile stone boundary erected by the Romans from AD122 — and visit the Duddo stone circle, a mini-Stonehenge from the early Bronze Age....
...Simon Stone’s contemporary version of Seneca’s tragedy has had mixed reviews, but it will provoke a reaction for sure....
...Since then, craft brewing has exploded around British Columbia, a province that yields a bounty of produce that can be used for beer, from hops and honey to seasonal berries and stone fruit....
...We followed down a hall, where sepia-frosted glass flooded a chapel with an artificial dawn....
...I find Peter Wirtzfeld and Dawn Cobbett....
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