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...Born Gianfranco Corsi in Florence on February 12, 1923, Zeffirelli was the illegitimate son of a cloth merchant and a mother who died when he was six....
...At Lancing College, I acted in The Merchant of Venice opposite Tim Rice (Gratiano to his Lorenzo) and in A Man for All Seasons, as Sir Thomas More, to David Hare’s Thomas Cromwell and Christopher Hampton...
...The merchants in Victoria are all women. The business has been headed by a woman. The marketing director is a woman. These aren’t women that are exploitative.”...
...Sir Steve Redgrave took the Diamond Challenge Sculls in 1983 and 1985; the dominant force in recent years has been New Zealander Mahé Drysdale. In 1993 the first women’s races were introduced....
...At the edge, textile merchants display wax-printed cloths in a cacophony of colours....
...The rise of the urban merchant class produced the 17th century’s seamless fusion of the humdrum and the divine....
...She calls herself a “merchant” and talks a lot about her “team”....
...ParisLa Donna del Lago The most Romantic of all Rossini’s Italian operas opens on Monday at the Palais Garnier in a production by Lluís Pasqual....
...But others may argue it is because, for a long time, Europeans saw Americans as copyists - the first high-street merchants, if you will....
...“The last thing we want is any prima donnas. I’ve never understood the whole pigeon-breasted attitude.”...
...The Asian focused merchant banking and asset management group announced pre-tax profits of $47m compared with $1.8m in the same period a year ago....
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