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...“In the pre-digital age, designs were built up by hand using a combination of painting, collage and photocopy,” adds Docherty....
...Ray shows no pre-emptive wince, no anticipation of pain. I was reminded of the shocking and sometimes beautiful way that an inebriated person’s body can collapse and fall through the air....
...In “Imágen de Yágul”, Mendieta places her naked body in an ancient Zapotec tomb at the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican site of Yágul in southern Mexico. Delicate flowers appear to sprout out of her form....
...The Günes Motel, moreover, has the advantage of being the closest to the giant pre-Christian godheads of the Unesco site of Mount Nemrut, which Don wants to reach at first light....
...But Linnaeus possessed massive self-belief. Before the age of 23, he wrote, he had already “conceived of it all”....
...In fact, dinner parties should not take place in the formal dining room, which most of her readers would still have possessed....
...Before his death, though, he devotedly immortalised a pre-gentrified city. Brick by brick, he enshrined himself within it with his magical-social realism....
...For the artist, we are all Cassandra, possessed of unheeded intuition....
...Clara Schumann, gifted wife of the more famous Robert, admitted defeat, writing: “I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there...
...That figure was ahead of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, demonstrating Centerview’s pre-eminence in blockbuster situations....
...“There is nothing pre-20th century. It is fantastically intimidating.”...
...For a moment the whole place was possessed by the magnificent simplicity of the countryside....
...We begin in Victorian haunted-house territory, with the nameless woman attending seances and responding with unnerving physicality, apparently possessed by deceased spirits....
...He brought knowledge that nobody in insular England at the time possessed....
...Harrison said Schroders now possessed “a broad platform to grow in China, the fastest growing asset management market globally”....
...In his potager and his flowery borders, he was “possessed by something indescribable — something between resolve, rapacity, insistent hunger, and adamant refusal to fail”....
...All these explosions shattered pre-existing political regimes and led to the creation of written schemes for their replacement....
...I’ve broken my nose, I’ve broken a rib, broken my hand…” Ali is tough, self-possessed, funny and unafraid to tell it how it is....
...“The world will witness a new strategic weapon to be possessed by the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] in the near future.”...
...Mr Barr said the investigation into the December 6 shooting at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida had so far found no evidence of “assistance or pre-knowledge” of the attack by any other Saudi military...
...Augustus, elector of Saxony, possessed a chest-like alchemical furnace....
...Listen here The book draws on his pre-rabbinical background studying and teaching philosophy at Cambridge university....
...It was fascinating to contemplate the house pre-Beaton, and how he was able to turn it into his own pastoral paradise....
...The priest, it emerges, didn’t just hoard ancient artefacts, but possessed books and other documents that point to a different truth about the Apocalypse — one sharply at odds with Church doctrine....
...Gloria Vanderbilt, most famous descendant of what was once the city’s pre-eminent family, died not long thereafter, aged 95....
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