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Another time when the party ignored history in this way was after the Tiananmen killings, when it wanted to draw a veil over what had just occurred and signal a fresh, dictatorial start.
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Don Perlimplín expresses doubts but agrees to marry the far younger and very unsuitable Belisa. Belisa accepts the match because her avaricious mother convinces her that Don Perlimplín's money will make her more attractive to other men. On their wedding night two duendes appear and draw a veil over the scene, explaining that some things should be left unseen. The next morning it appears that Don Perlimplín has been cuckolded by five different men who entered through the five windows of the bedchamber.
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Had he done so, he would have secured Solander's posthumous reputation. It has been claimed that Banks treated Solander, and Jonas Dryander, as his servants rather than as botanists of equal standing to others in the botanical establishment. However, Banks clearly had a strong emotional bond with Solander, met his expenses and even supported his relatives in Sweden. In 1784, when he wrote to Johan Alströmer of Solander's death, Banks declared: 'This too early loss of a friend, whom I during my more mature years have loved and whom I will always miss, makes me wish to draw a veil over his death, as soon as I have ceased to speak of it.
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His cousin, John Hollins, moved to London to paint portraits and became an associate of the Royal Academy. Hollins was vice-President of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists for 37 years, and also exhibited at the Royal Academy. He taught modelling for the Birmingham Society of Artists and was instrumental in securing the Royal Charter for the Society in 1868. Sadly, he felt as though the town of Birmingham had been slow to exploit his talents as a sculptor. He said: ‘I wish to draw a veil over my labours for my native town as they were a grievous disappointment to me, and the more than Egyptian darkness and ignorance of that branch of art which I had chosen was simply appalling'.
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Kitty Carlisle, Hart's widow, was unhappy with the film. When Schary showed it to her she said diplomatically, "Well, you did it," and later said she "we draw a veil" over the film. In 1997, she “expressed her disapproval in the April 5 New York Times, saying that she attempted to buy the film ‘to get it off the market.' “ James Woolcott wrote about the film in Vanity Fair: > Act One has a very ‘50s feel, more of a boxy affinity with the Golden Age of > TV than anything released in a film canister. It abbreviates the birth pangs > and floor-pacing agonies of Once in a Lifetime’s gestation, the torturous > rounds of re-writes and previews, sugarcoating everything about the romance > of the theater that All About Eve had salted and pickled... Hamilton isn’t > that bad, but playing an underdog of raging literal and metaphorical > appetite, he purrs as a screen presence, his matinee-idol profile belying > his character’s self-doubt.
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