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...Her friend the writer Blaise Cendrars commemorated the sight in the poem “On Her Dress She Has a Body”....
...It is also the 22nd coup attempt in Africa since 2013, and the 11th successful one since the military ousted Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe in 2017....
...In a crisis such as this, trust is everything, Robert Shrimsley writes — and Boris Johnson must restore it....
...Robert Nozick’s thought experiment of an “experience machine” was simply a suggestive illustration of the inadequacy of pleasure....
...Meanwhile Robert Mugabe, ruler of Zimbabwe since 1980, has recently expressed vocal opposition to his country’s 2013 constitutional amendment, which introduced a two-term limit....
...When Blaise Compaore, the then president of Burkina Faso, attempted the same last year, he was forced out by mass protests....
...She takes in Richard Arkwright’s Cromford in Derbyshire, Robert Owen’s New Lanark and Titus Salt’s famous experiment in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, as well as the dolls’ house creations of John Nash’s Blaise...
...Robert died in 1941....
...Switzerland’s real wine treasures are its indigenous grapes, including Completer and the super-rare Rèze for white wines (there are a total seven acres of Rèze in the world) and Cornalin and Petit Robert...
...One of the finest works at the Cooper-Hewitt is her 1913 collaboration with the poet Blaise Cendrars, “La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France”....
...And so the following night, I made my way from central Paris out to the 20th arrondisement to check out Mama Shelter, a 172-room hotel that opened last autumn in the Saint Blaise quartier near the Pere Lachaise...
...In fact, a more appropriate movie reference for anyone trying to negotiate the season is Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, transformed from hooker to socialite at a polo event by dint of a polka-dot silk dress...
...Lest he be accused of dumbing down, Kagge name-drops Aristotle, Schopenhauer, Robert Frost, Garry Kasparov, Dante, Blaise Pascal, Knut Hamsun, Socrates, Michel de Montaigne, Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Stuart...
...“The signs are already there that the credit cycle in Europe is on the turn, at least in non-financial sectors,” said Blaise Ganguin, chief credit officer for Europe at S&P....
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