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...“The combination of texture, humour and the trompe l’oeil design ‘hanging’ with game honours old traditions… For Janet and Cameron, God really is in the details....
...The cast — from PR mogul Edward L Bernays to dictator Carlos Castillo Armas — are mostly historical but in Vargas Llosa’s expert hands, they are alive and kicking....
...Designed in an “L” shape with the front door in the interior corner, it had stone foundations and was made of hardy cedar wood with a wooden shingle roof....
...Incidental intelligence: L’Amour de Loin is the second opera by a woman to be performed by the Met. The first, Ethel M. Smyth’s Der Wald, turned up briefly in 1903. To December 29, metopera.org...
...In 1903, the British composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth had two performances of her opera Der Wald. “This little woman writes music with a masculine hand,” judged one contemporary critic....
...In 1995 gardeners Page Dickey and Penelope Maynard were inspired by the NGS to introduce open days in the US (www.gardenconservancy.org)....
...In his 1973 book, Awakenings, Sacks himself described victims of a sleeping sickness springing to life through music (and the then-new drug L-Dopa)....
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