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...The story we know best — of Victor Frankenstein and his manufactured creature — is encased within Shelley’s account of Walton, a questing young seafarer whose whaling ship lies trapped in ice....
...In Chapter 7, she has Victor Frankenstein describe his creation as “handsome” — PBS altered this to “beautiful”, which appears in the final text....
...The villains are men such as David Young of Cable & Wireless (a company “kowtowing” its way “incompetently to disaster”), William Purves of HSBC and, of course, the “clever, conceited, acerbic” Percy Cradock...
...Hollow, a lockdown creation by talented Stina Quagebeur, was a well-crafted unhappy coupling danced in daywear by Emily Suzuki and Victor Prigent....
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...“There’s a strong rise in traffic flows, up 30-50 per cent on some days compared to last year, depending on the day,” said Sébastien Rivera of the National Road Transport Federation in the Calais region....
...It was the only moment during the half-hour press conference — his first set of public remarks since Mr Biden was declared the victor — that the president appeared to accept reality....
...“Time coming soon to say goodbye with grace & dignity,” Mr Rivera wrote on Twitter....
...“Most French companies have decided not to send their trucks, so there’s less traffic in Calais,” said Sébastien Rivera of the National Road Transport Federation in the Calais region....
...In the mid-1930s, the Russian-born communist Victor Arnautoff decorated the walls of George Washington High School in San Francisco with a scene of the first president, forced to confront the slaves he owned...
...Victor Hugo, the 19th century French novelist, captured a positive and rather uplifting way to view and manage uncertainty: “Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still...
...Instead, Mr Rivera tacked to the right, hoping to become the main alternative to Mr Sánchez. On Monday, he resigned....
...Podemos wants a formal coalition with the PSOE, whereas business wants the Socialists to form a government with Ciudadanos — which its leader, Albert Rivera, has ruled out....
...In among the incessant rain and storms of July 1816, Shelley imagines Victor Frankenstein and his Creature into being....
...Mary and Percy ended up eloping to the continent; Percy’s first wife killed herself. Across Europe, Mary and Percy consorted regularly with Lord Byron....
...Víctor Valdiviezo, a mining engineer, works for the Chinese-owned Las Bambas copper mine in Peru. “I had my doubts at first....
...She was so convincing that she was sent to Moscow on a secret mission for Comintern and became the close confidante of an influential communist, Percy Glading....
...Yet from this “mess”, as many are calling it, one clear victor has emerged: Spain itself....
...The view that Waterloo was a triumph for political reaction found memorable expression in Victor Hugo’s long digression on the battle in his 1862 novel Les Misérables....
...Primo de Rivera’s body should also be moved, but could be placed elsewhere in the church with other war dead, it says....
...Rodrigo Rivera Salazar, defence minister, on Thursday called on Cano to surrender, saying he would receive fair treatment....
...“Rivera idealised pre-Hispanic times but there were city-states and wars to obtain prisoners to sacrifice. There was fear.”...
...Without Scott, Victor Hugo would never have written Les Misérables (1862); Alessandro Manzoni I Promessi Sposi (1827); Tolstoy War and Peace....
...There are a clutch of Goya prints and Redon pastels, as well as drawings by Victor Hugo. The novelist would scrub ink on to paper and then elaborate shadowy figures and bleak landscapes from the marks....
...It is – wait for it – the fictional hero himself, Victor Frankenstein. But on Planet Ackroyd, Victor is not fictional....
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