Hints and tips:
...Remove the pastry from the fridge and pierce the base with a fork in a few places to prevent the pastry puffing up too much during cooking....
...They pierce the piece’s body and head with painful precision, as if re-enacting the agony suffered by Becket when King Henry II’s knights hacked at him with their swords....
...It is easy to think of Mildred Pierce, for example, as a character from Arbus....
...Its striations run like fissures through their flesh, or pierce them with the force of bullets....
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