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Alla Demidova before the premiere of Lyubov Arkus’s film “Kto tebya pobedil nikto”

A little piece of Alla Demidova. Ahead of the premiere of Lyubov Arkus's film about Alla Sergeyevna, "Kto tebya pobedil nikto"

A woman in a jacket and short skirt sits on a stone parapet beside a bronze cannon whose muzzle is shaped like a smiling lion's face.

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Actress Sabine Azéma beside an old cannon in Paris, photographed by Robert Doisneau in 1986

The actress Sabine Azéma and a smiling cannon, Paris, 1986. Photograph by Robert Doisneau

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Mood for the Evening: Prince Michael of Kent and His Wife, Princess Michael of Kent, Baroness Marie Christine von Reibnitz, Leave the Exclusive Oswald's Club in Mayfair in Their Car

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Her: my father will be at dinner, could you look as serious as possible?

Her: my father will be at dinner, could you look as serious as possible? Him: not another word

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Nineteenth-century memento mori figurines seem to remind us not of death but of the mistaken search for a better half

Rectangular brooch with a painted eye under glass, surrounded by a row of small pearls, with the pin visible on the right.

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English brooch of the early 19th century with an image of a lover's eye

A brooch "Look me in the eye, I want to say I'll forget you, I won't weep", with the portrait of a lover's eye, as you will understand. England, early nineteenth century

Close-up of a stone mask with empty eye sockets, a long nose and an open mouth with carved teeth.

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Neolithic stone masks from the Judean Desert, 9,000 years old

With empty eye sockets and gaping mouths: not guests of Mutabor, but Neolithic masks from the Judean Desert. These 9,000-year-old artefacts are carved from limestone and served a ritual purpose, embodying the spirits of ancestors

Gallery with white walls and a gilded frame at left. A white-haired woman in a wheelchair raises her hand; a blonde woman in a dark jacket and a woman in a pink blouse stand beside her.

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Elderly woman in a wheelchair talks with two women in a gallery

NB! · Observations · Paris · People · Humour

Claude Debussy, who died as the First World War drew to its close, has a maximally dull grave, and I cannot imagine how Manuel de Falla managed to dedicate music to this resting place, music of which, incidentally, I am not much enamoured either

Black-and-white drawing: iron bars between stone blocks are threaded onto a vertical rod and bound by a ring to a forged pin with curved, splayed prongs.

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Iron clamps and dowels in stone masonry: a technical engraving

A dark iron anchor shaped like a cross on a stone wall with peeling white plaster.

NB! · Architecture · Humour

A façade anchor with tie rods on a wall with peeling plaster

What is a facade anchor with tie rods, or what does iron patience look like? Rather like the back of a television presenter's head after a facelift

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