![]() It caught fire when we lit some candles on Christmas Eve a few weeks ago. The Barbie Dreamhouse didn’t burn down…completely. “Why is Paulina screaming like the Barbie Dreamhouse is burning down again?” She waves her glowing pink fairy wand that has a star tip in my face. ![]() The chiffon buckles angrily, and I wonder if she’s been sitting on the floor with her dolls for the past half hour. Only this one’s wrapped in her purple fairy dress that has a pair of net wings attached at the back. She knows I would never really do it, but the threat works every time.Īt that moment, the exact likeness of the five-year-old on my legs comes walking through my door. Immediately, I stop tickling my baby sister, sit down on the bedside, and put her on my lap, giving her one of those you-do-that-and-I-rip-off-your-stuffed-bunny’s-head looks. “Angel! Angel, stop! I’m gonna pee my pants!” ![]() A LAUGHING BUNDLE of strawberry blond hair squirms on my bed. ![]()
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![]() It says: "Forwarded herewith are two rolls of film which are the negatives of the photocopy of Dr Zhivago by Pasternak. Other possibilities include translators, as well as Feltrinelli, who brought out the first foreign edition of Doctor Zhivago in Italy that November.Ī CIA memo, dated 2 January 1958, reveals that MI6 delivered a copy of the original 433-page typed manuscript to American intelligence. After returning from Moscow Berlin also gave copies to Pasternak's sisters living in Oxford. Berlin, a native Russian speaker with extensive British diplomatic contacts, is one possible source, though he opposed the novel's early publication. ![]() ![]() It is unclear if someone from Pasternak's inner circle gave the manuscript to British intelligence to copy or if MI6 purloined it without the owner's consent. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She was wrong.”), the two share a conspiratorial smirk in the hall and Nikita reevaluates his day. “She thought she could fight a cold with amoxicillin. Could life be any more depressing? The students are less than receptive and the lecture goes predictably awry, but when Nikita and Lucian step out to let the official video cover the rest (“This is Lucy,” intones the ominous voice-over. After his doctor refuses to give him a prescription for the phantom pains he still suffers three years after the amputation of his left hand, he returns to work in a foul mood only to find he’s been inexplicably paired up with an awkward new guy named Lucian to give a last-minute high school lecture on the dangers of misusing antibiotics. Cynical hedonist Nikita Koshkin is 27, overweight, and unfulfilled, both in his job at the local public health department and in his love life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Much more than simply the prototype for Conan, Kull is a fascinating character in his own right: an exile from fabled Atlantis who wins the crown of Valusia, only to find it as much a burden as a prize. 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Jan von Holleben spent a lot of time moving individual sweets slowly across the paper, then patiently pressed the shutter release of his camera after each movement. Quite incidentally, while working on the pictures, a few short, stop-motion films also emerged. The props were ordered, and ideas for the series soon began to bubble up: the diversity of possibilities for creative imagery, was as colourful, sweet and often sticky as the material itself. The impulse for the project came from a request by the »horizons zingst« Environmental Festival curator, Edda Fahrenhorst, who wanted a series dealing with the subject of sugar to complement the 2022 festival motto: “Eat It – About Food”. ![]() What happens if you are surrounded by sweet things all day long, and close to suffering from a sugar overload? 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