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...Critics hated the turn to pastels, riddles and fragmented compositions. In Mind/Mirror, that whole era feels like a long transition to a more profound late-late period....
...Good investment analysts don’t speak in riddles like Simonides — at least most of the time — but they do sit in a central spot between investors, companies and bankers....
...Kosma revived it for Marcel Carné’s 1946 film Les Portes de la Nuit (The Gates of the Night); with heartbreaking lyrics by the film’s scriptwriter, poet Jacques Prévert, it was sung by Yves Montand....
...The question of why German wages are not rising faster is one of the biggest riddles of the economy....
...“Spiders in Common”, which poses the architect-and-apple riddle, includes a grid suspended with leather straps and tiny bird skulls....
...Conceptual riddles are certainly left hanging....
...That rules out much of the visual arts of the last century, from Marcel Duchamp’s urinal “Fountain” of 1917 (which gets a chapter of abuse) onwards....
...The chief executive of the Italian car group is set to become the Swiss bank’s non-executive deputy chairman, but more importantly a minder for UBS’s controversial executive chairman Marcel Ospel....
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