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Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin on the set of City Lights in 1929

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The thing is, so long as Cruella doesn't turn up

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Reference portal Gramota.ru names its editors' "words of the year"

In the opinion of Gramota.ru, the word of the year is "vaib" ("vibe"), while in the individual categories the winners were "prompt" (IT), "podcast" (culture), "microRNA" (medicine) and "marketplace" (economics)

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We recently looked together at the shortlist of the Russian Creative Awards, which for the first time in a long while included a category for young figures in culture, art and the creative industries (established jointly with the Tavrida art cluster)

We recently looked together at the shortlist of the Russian Creative Awards, which for the first time in a long while included a category for young figures in culture, art and the creative industries (established jointly with the Tavrida art cluster). The awards ceremony took place on Friday, and we

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Mads Mikkelsen at Secondary School

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King Felipe VI of Spain and Queen Letizia in Official Portraits by Annie Leibovitz

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The gates of Melbourne's Luna Park, built 110 years ago: Mr Moon's maw recalls at once every urban legend and horror story about children vanishing in amusement parks

The gates of Melbourne's Luna Park, built 110 years ago: Mr Moon's maw recalls at once every urban legend and horror story about children vanishing in amusement parks. Small wonder, when you are swallowed at the very entrance by so appalling a mouth. One naturally thinks,

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Old Hottabych's Slippers by Bottega Veneta

Full price: 1.100 €

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At last I remember what that music show on Rossiya-1 reminds me of, the one where the judges for some reason start singing along with the contestants while Sergei Lazarev runs up and down the aisles pressing buttons

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I had no wish to comment on the sale of a banana for over six million dollars, but then I came across a quotation from Pat Buchanan, senior adviser to three American presidents: Nixon, Gerald Ford and Reagan

The quotation runs as follows: “Wheeler Williams, one of America's great sculptors, recognised that the aim of modern art is to destroy man's faith in his cultural heritage. In other words, art is merely one more front in the merciless war of the cultural revolution against

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⚡️Something Beautiful for the Night ⚡️

A shoot by Ellen von Unwerth for Ulyana Sergeenko's new collection, with Natalia Vodianova and Katya Letskaya, Ulyana herself and her daughter Vasilisa (attention, please), held on a ranch in the outskirts of Paris. I would never have thought such a thing existed. It turns out that Ellen

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Hugh Bonneville posts a photo of the greatest British actors of our time at the celebration of Noël Coward's 125th anniversary: Derek Jacobi, 86, Judi Dench, nearly 90, Ian McKellen, 85

Hugh Bonneville has posted a photo of the greatest British actors of our time at the celebration of Noël Coward's 125th anniversary: Derek Jacobi, 86, Judi Dench, nearly 90, Ian McKellen, 85. The dinosaurs are still in the ranks 💥