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...Frieze London in 2021 the gallery showed “Ru k’ ox k’ob’el jun ojer etemab’el” (“The Echo of an Ancient Form of Knowledge”) by Edgar Calel, an Indigenous Maya Kaqchikel artist, which features two dozen rocks...
...The last music I downloaded was Afrique Victime, the album by Mdou Moctar; it’s modern rock inspired by Tuareg guitar music. Portishead is always on repeat on my Spotify....
...The songs, from Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, create a suitable rock vibe, best suited to belters such as Vivian’s defiant “I Can’t Go Back”....
...sings the cabaret artist Justin Vivian Bond, forsaking her usual New York haunts to appear here at the Vienna Staatsoper....
...“Our strategy is to enable the frontal cortex of doctors rather than lobotomising them,” says Bill Evans, managing director of Rock Health venture fund....
...Inside a warren of cement and steel pipes, rock — mined in Australia — is heated to 1,000C in a giant coal-fired boiler....
...He joins Vivian Robinson, who joined the US firm from the Serious Fraud Office in 2011....
...There is remarkable honesty in that answer, but it sure puts a kid between a rock and hard place....
...The lumps of rock are then loaded on to a conveyor belt that winds its way up the 300m of roughly cut tracks to the top of the quarry....
...However, during the recession, demand for rock, sand and gravel dropped to about 150m tonnes a year, from a long-running average of about 215m tonnes....
...Olaf Bjaaland, one of Amundsen’s party, lived on long enough to meet Sir Vivian Fuchs. He was appalled by Fuchs’s use of mechanised transport....
...Then there’s Alberto Vivian, whose new frontier was “a little island with hardly any cars”....
...Cricket legend Sir Vivian Richards has an enthusiastic welcome for the developers – and their clients....
...The notorious comment by the literary critic Vivian Mercier on Waiting for Godot – “where nothing happens – twice” – comes to mind....
...Vivian’s Oscar The European Union was quick to claim credit for an Oscar triumph on Monday....
...Kropp was killed in a rock climbing accident in 2002. “There are no bold old climbers,” says Hempleman-Adams....
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