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...That’s it — there’s no win condition, no fail state, just a constant stream of motley Martians to guide into the right sessions, and a few gadgets, such as X-ray machines, to aid the selection process....
...A hitherto uncatalogued games board by him here and the crucifix probably presented to Pope Paul V have also been added to the corpus of his works....
...One good read Much as it pains us to praise Robin Wigglesworth, he has written a good review of the new book on Ray Dalio....
...Dr Robert Winston Ray Winstone...
...Who would produce a TV with a cathode ray tube now?’...
...The last thing I bought and loved was a pair of Stan Ray OG Painter pants. White, of course. They are made in my home state, Texas, and I wear them nearly every day....
...In a letter in 1725 Pope says that when the grotto is lit up with lamps “a thousand pointed rays glitter” off the glass and mirrors in the walls....
...Sotheby’s has brought Francis Bacon’s unrelenting “Study for a Head” (1952), the head-and-shoulders portrait of a silently screaming Pope, that will be offered for between $20m and $30m on May 16....
...The picture shows Christ with coloured rays flowing from his heart, symbolising sister Faustina’s vision of Christ’s gift of divine grace....
...These range from Bacon’s raw, urgent, silken screaming Pope (“Study after Velázquez”) and howling animal stand-ins for psychological agony “Dog” and “Study of a Baboon” in the early 1950s, to Freud’s 1990s...
...Prof Ray Kinsella Ashford, Co Wicklow, Ireland...
...There is an image of Pope John XXIII on one side, and on the reverse an image of the Holy Ghost floating above the bishops.”...
...launch site of the Pukguksong-2 long-range ballistic missile Aftin, a miniature poodle, wins the non-sporting group at the 141st Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York City Former Spitfire pilot Ray...
...Welcoming immigrants is where this Pope’s agenda clashes most directly with US politics. The Church’s strongest ray of light is in its booming Hispanic congregations....
...When the secret talks with Havana were revealed — with their back-channels through the Pope and Canada — senior US officials had braced themselves for a strong backlash....
...“I had been feeling hopeful about the new pope and I wondered what animal should accompany him. Should he be rising up on a lion or a tiger or a dragon?...
...Alexander Pope earned about £5,000 for his translation of The Iliad in the 1710s, equivalent to £100,000 today....
...In such works, Zurbarán’s vision of heaven tends to monotony: a hazily golden space populated by the winged and gauzy heads of cherubim, sending down rays of apricot light through gaps in the cloud....
...Pope Paul IV, a viciously intolerant Counter-Reformation Pope, withdrew his salary. An error in his design for St Peter’s left him prostrate with “shame and grief”. Yet there were comforts....
...Both Pope Francis and President Obama, each lauded as a kind of self-made man in his own right, have emphasised the gravity of this problem....
...They feature sailing boats, swans and a landscape entitled “Evening’s Last Rays”....
...This was a letter sent by the Scottish nobles to the Pope six years after Scotland’s victory at Bannockburn, asking him to recognise Scottish independence....
...As troublesome projectors are among the most stressful hiccups of daily worklife, we might even lobby the new pope for a possible sainthood for said saviour....
...Her collection of more than 1,000 pieces includes work by stars such as Charles Ray, Rosemarie Troekel and Felix González-Torres....
...Suddenly the voice – from teasingly conversational to clangorously epic to tenderly lyric – is right beside you even when it’s a talking beast: “The Pope pops Satan, Satan pips the Pope,”/ Plutus barked...
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