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...February 10 to March 16; further information and tickets here ‘Rent: The Musical’, State Theatre (Arts Centre Melbourne) Jonathan Larson’s retelling of La bohème, transposed to NYC’s East Village, tackles...
...dedicated to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and musician Kurt Cobain, and ceramic cans decorated with cartoon-like human organs (based on Egyptian canopic jars, these are “metaphorical fizzy drinks for parched pharaohs...
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...And this year Jonathan Safran Foer’s magnificent new Haggadah, beautifully designed by Oded Ezer, will join the pile....
...This week, Sam Weihagen, interim chief executive of the UK company, said that a crippling cash crisis was partly the result of civil unrest in the Land of the Pharaohs....
...We seldom talked about it, except for fleeting analogies on Passover and Purim, both commemorating the destruction of early editions of Hitler: Pharaoh, Haman, the perennial mamzers, the bastards....
...The longest episode, “Pharaoh and Moses”, slows things down even further. Moses (Giannini) is a cross-legged yogi intoning “Let my people go” and calling down plagues upon Frost’s Pharaoh....
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...Reopening Unity in November 2006 was like “entering a pharaoh’s tomb”, Mr Williams recalls. The miners fought their way through two rock falls and found the mine just as it had been left....
...The price of wheat has risen this year for the same reasons it did in the days of the pharaohs: the weather and the harvest....
...“Since the time of the pharaohs the pyramids have not been built. We should expect the death of Titanic the movie....
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