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I first came across the name of Tcherina in the opening titles of the film "The Red Shoes", and it turned out that she was not only an actress and ballerina but also a sculptor, painter and writer. Yet she owed her resonant Russian name not to her
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My son asked me: is your mother still dead? I answered him: yes, but today she is becoming a bridge. One hopes it was the son who is now 3 years old who asked, and not the one who is 23. And yes, Paris now has a bridge named after
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Everyone has suddenly stopped talking about it, and yet it is right on the approach to our planet
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Natalie is 13 here, Jean is 46; it turns out he was born in 1948
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Johnny Depp is to film The Master and Margarita. It is also known that Depp will play the lead in the first English-language screen adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel
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J.W. Anderson has blithely copied the design of old Christmas-tree decorations and is selling them at prices from €80 to €300. Many items are marked "request to buy": the request, presumably, implies a search for cheaper analogues on Avito. Do you like this sort of "
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She was, incidentally, 24 then. Now she is 43. But this is only the beginning
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Sotheby's is to offer a boudoir chair made for Marie Antoinette by Georges Jacob. A magnificent piece of work and, above all, astonishingly untouched by time
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Nike? An excellent choice!
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On 1 April 1976 Wayne drew up the partnership agreement for the Apple Computer Company, typing it out on his own IBM typewriter. He received a 10 per cent stake in the start-up, but the trio did not last long: twelve days later, fearing financial liability, Wayne withdrew from