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...The Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe had a metal nasal prosthesis after losing part of his nose in a duel....
...I’m Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times. This week’s podcast is about the Arab and Islamic world and the war in Gaza....
...There’s a reason Cardi B’s song “Wap” — “He got some money, then that’s where I’m headed/Pussy A-1, just like his credit” — opens the film....
...They’d wear a colourful scarf, but they would make sure that it was covered, they’d make sure their hair was covered. Now, it can only really be described as a very public act of civil disobedience....
...She went to art school a few years after the duel in the bar because, she says, “I knew there were things I needed to know”....
...“I’m the age I am, I have the body I have now — it’s something different, maybe riskier, but I didn’t think about risk. I’d rather do a film like Vortex than play a grandma baking cakes.”...
...I’m like: OK, but that’s the past, our society has evolved and we have to see that reflected on our screens. Good storytelling transcends race.”...
...The only option, she says, is to continue protesting “until we defeat the Islamic republic even though I’m aware the system is frightening and vengeful.”...
...There is none of that business with cards in slots controlling overcomplicated electrics that always makes me wish I’d stayed at home....
...“I’m simply carrying on my work for the nation,” he said. Few believed him....
...If he fades away, then it’s a duel between the trade-sceptics and the more traditional free marketers....
...Of mixed-race ancestry, D’Oliveira had been raised in Cape Town under white minority rule and captained South Africa’s non-white team before emigrating to England....
...I’ve also enjoyed a book by a 17th-century Italian nobleman sentenced to house arrest after killing a man in a duel....
...I’m not against that, but I’d feel a little bored by it. Frankly, my ego is a little too big. I’d rather take the risk of everyone laughing at me, and saying: ‘You’re washed up....
...“I’m absolutely terrified,” he says disarmingly. “I read the Lunch with Gwyneth Paltrow, which was an all-time great. I’m not sure I can compete with that.”...
...“I’m sorry, do you have a citation for me?” he said at one point....
...One celebrated lyric has the singer Héctor Lavoe exclaiming: “If she cooks like she walks, I’m going to eat every last scrap!”...
...I’m an American and, OK, maybe I’d gone a bit “native”. Was Morris dancing next? No. We made our arrangements, inconveniently choosing to sell our house in Hampshire just after the Brexit vote....
...But I’m finding now that people don’t bother. They’ll usually bring nice small gifts with them when they arrive — flowers, wine or chocolate — but afterwards nothing, not a squeak....
...With a nod both to his ambition and to the famous 1804 duel in which Burr kills him, Hamilton raps: “Hey, yo, I’m just like my country/I’m young, scrappy and hungry/And I’m not throwing away my shot.”...
...And he’d laugh....
...“We launched in 100 cities so they have to do something, and there’s a lot of places on that list I’m not sure I’d call a city – but they’ve got to do what they’ve got to do,” he says....
...I’m fascinated by all those little squares, like Pickering Place behind the wine merchants Berry Brothers and Rudd. It’s where the last duel was fought in London....
...To the T and S of Eliot, the F and R of Leavis, the D and H of Lawrence? What did the “M” stand for anyway? Was it Maxwell?...
...You wonder what you’d be like.” And then his conversation takes a more serious tone....
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