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...Robert Frank got there first, treating it as a poetic motif and surrounding it with language, irony and critique. Seeing Frank’s photos, Ruscha wrote, “was like opening a book laced with dynamite”....
...The wooing paid off: shortly after stepping down as chancellor in 2005, Schröder became chair of Nord Stream AG and in effect Gazprom’s man in Germany, an appointment that left an indelible stain on German...
...Frank recalls, “We looked at each other and said, ‘Well, what have we done?’”...
...Trump voters can’t wait to vote,” says Frank Luntz, a veteran pollster known for his work on the Republican party’s messaging. “It’s very hard to beat somebody like that.”...
...For all the challenges of travelling with children – which, let us be frank, are born of privilege rather than anything remotely verging on hardship – having them in tow makes travel more enriching....
...Stains don’t show. It is thinning and has eight pockets. But, as a person who has worn out more blue suits than I can count, I must admit that it is the teensiest bit dull....
...I’ve recently rediscovered Frank’s Bike Shop. It’s in the Lower East Side, it’s been there for about a million years, and Frank himself still works there. He takes his time and explains everything....
...For Olaf Scholz, finance minister, it is much more — a stain that could complicate his campaign for the top job in German politics....
...“It’s a tache [stain], but in a positive way,” says de Castellane. Dior’s decision to stage the launch in Shanghai underscores China’s buoyancy....
...“We absolutely have to ask ourselves why CO2 emissions are not falling,” says Frank Peter, deputy director of Agora Energiewende, a Berlin-based environmental think-tank....
...In the vernacular of some public schoolboys, state-school pupils were “stains”, below even the “Tugs” from minor private schools....
...But let’s be frank: Trump will not be impeached next year, or the one after....
...Pen-and-ink drawings, watches, cookbooks splotched with notes and stains, Plath’s own copy of her only published novel, The Bell Jar — the raw materials of a full writing life, each object bringing Plath...
...But it only happens every few months and afterwards I scrub the stains off and everything looks fine. The drip in my bedroom no longer wakes me: I sleep with ear plugs....
...For three years, desk endured muesli mornings, wine stains and the occasional clatter of spiky heels during a work party....
...The stains on the Vogue linen were salutary for us to see, even though they were in predictable places. The only shame is that people do not do this more often....
...Penelope Fitzgerald produced The Blue Flower (her best book, said the critic Frank Kermode) when she was 78....
...The business, which includes Air Wick fresheners, Calgon dishwasher aids and Vanish laundry stain remover, could be worth between £6bn and £7bn, according to some analysts’ estimates....
...But one unique voice was nearly lost from the story: Joash Woodrow (1927-2006), a contemporary of Frank Auerbach at the Royal College from 1950-53, and regarded there as an outstanding draughtsman....
...It was repealed by former president Bill Clinton in 1999, a business-friendly piece of deregulation that left a stain on his legacy in the eyes of many progressives....
...The men maintain a friendship of sorts, brought together by a mutual stain: their fathers were high-ranking Nazi officers responsible for the deaths of untold Jews and Poles....
...Yet her exposure of the extent of his misdeeds left an indelible stain, which subsequent chroniclers have been forced to either acknowledge or whitewash. Lehman takes the latter course....
...Under the stewardship of his nephew, Frank Bower, it became a haunt for journalists and lawyers during the golden age of Fleet Street....
...Frank Asche, a marine economist and professor at Norway’s University of Stavanger, argues that the fish farming industry is still learning ways to deal with disease....
...“The CIA’s actions a decade ago are a stain on our values and on our history,” she told the Senate. Ms Feinstein had three specific objectives with the release of the report....
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