Taking on lung cancer use has provided the most glittering prize.
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"Moscow is the richest, most glittering city in Russia," said Sergei Yakimov, the group's lawyer.
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The famous tend to remain hidden away in villas and yachts at Cannes, the world's most glittering festival.
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The crash deprived the American team of its most glittering talent, and it took years for it to recover.
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And we mean all across — and on Tuesday they managed to snap the most glittering royal group shot in ages.
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The commission presidency is the most glittering of the jobs up for grabs in the EU's big post-election turnover.
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Because for the most glittering time of the year, who better to soundtrack it than the sparkliest singers in the world?
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He's interviewed the red carpet's most glittering stars, and now Jess Cagle is set to share the screen with one of Hollywood's most adorable actors.
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In the rarefied galaxy of restaurants that have received the Michelin guide's highest honor, three stars, Benoît Violier's, in Switzerland, was by one measure the most glittering.
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LONDON — In July, the opera director Peter Sellars gave a stark speech about climate change to open the Salzburg Festival in Austria, one of classical music's most glittering events.
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"I knew it would be tough, Mikaela has been so strong this season," said the late-blooming Hansdotter, who clinched the most glittering prize of her career at the age of 32.
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The ambiguity of that muddled response is playing out in the unlikely setting of one of the world's most glittering playgrounds for the rich, the Riviera, and in its craggy Alpine hinterland.
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"Mémoriale," a kind of chamber flute concerto, closed the evening with one of Mr. Boulez's most glittering works, in a performance comprising players from the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Mivos Quartet and Ensemble LPR.
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The President has shown little sign of examining why he may not be getting full political value for a record that, contrary to his claims, is not the most glittering of any first-year president.
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But on May 8th the streets were packed for a rare event: the chance to cast a ballot for an upstart player challenging the ruling dynasties for one of the Middle East's most glittering municipal prizes.
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Now one of Europe's most glittering film festivals, it began in 245 as an underground act of defiance powered by generators during the darkest days of the siege, and 280,225 Sarajevans braved the shelling to attend screenings.
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In honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the royal, "Queen Victoria's Palace" tells the story of how the young queen brought the palace to life during her reign, transforming the empty royal residence into the most glittering court in Europe.
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Singapore — whose night race is now one of the most glittering events of the season - was the only round in South East Asia in 2019, with Malaysia joining a list of races to fall by the wayside after saying goodbye two years ago.
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It was the highest bid Saturday at Only Watch, the auction that has become one of the watch industry's most glittering, high-profile events, with Prince Albert II of Monaco, wealthy collectors and executives from top brands among the approximately 20183 guests who packed Christie's salesroom at the Hôtel des Bergues here.
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By extension in this film, it means "the most glittering years of everyone's life".
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On Broadway Gwenn starred in a 1942 production of Chekhov's Three Sisters, with Judith Anderson and Ruth Gordon; it was produced by and co-starred Katharine Cornell. Time proclaimed it "a dream production by anybody's reckoning – the most glittering cast the theatre has seen, commercially, in this generation."Review, Time, details of issue and page number needed.
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The first, beginning with Baracunatana, included El Estuche, El Álbum and Rompecabezas. They then go ahead into a couple solo songs, Soy La Semilla Nativa from Niños Cristal by Buitrago and Yo, one of the most glittering hits from the album Dos by Echeverri. The second session contains an unreleased track called Re which is a tribute to the Mexican band Café Tacuba. It consists of sets of words with the "Re" syllable and a Norteño melody.
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In 1878 it was dismantled and moved to Fletcher's Field, part of which is now known as Jeanne-Mance Park. In July 1896, the Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire, as London's original Crystal Palace would be..Gazette article, "Flames devoured one of the city's most glittering landmarks" The site of the Crystal Palace, between Mont-Royal Avenue and Saint-Joseph Boulevard, was developed for housing a few years after the fire. The original downtown location later was home to the Palace Theatre, a movie house, and today contains an alley named Ruelle Palace.
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In 1790 she started a triumphant tour through Germany, and in Bonn she performed for Beethoven. At the end of that year, she travelled to Venice and performed at the Teatro San Samuele in the opera La Didone Abbandonata, wearing a tiara, necklace, and diamond earrings that had been given to her by the Russian Empress. In Venice, Luísa Todi attained one of the most glittering moments of her career; the Italian season of 1790/1791 became known as "Todi's Year". But during her stay in Venice, she started experiencing vision problems, which caused her to abandon the stage for some months.
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Reviewing the record for Rolling Stone, Christopher R. Weingarten rated it three stars out of five. He said it "may not be the most glittering display for Bruno Mars the pop star, but fans can rest assured it is a shining moment for Bruno Mars the producer, arranger and nostalgia curator". In a similar vein, USA Today Patrick Ryan called it Mars' "most polished album yet and a laudable step forward production-wise" but added it appears "oddly aloof" because it lacks the "vulnerability" of Mars' own ballads such as "Grenade" (2010) and "When I Was Your Man" (2013). Ryan rated it two and a half stars out of four.
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However Madame de Maintenon wrote that Marie was one of the most "likeable women in the kingdom".Vatout, Jean, Le château d'Eu: notices historiques, Volume 4, 1836, p. 284 Saint-Simon described her in his Memoirs: "the duchesse de Valentinois was a charming young thing... spoilt by her parents' fondness for her and by the attentions of the courtiers who frequented the Lorraine household ... [The beautiful daughters] who were its chief adornment attracted the most glittering young men. Her husband, very sensibly, realised he hadn't the upper hand", and Madame de La Fayette described her as "more of an elegant flirt than all of the ladies of the kingdom put together".
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But in 1638 Richelieu, desperate for money to carry on the Thirty Years' War, defaulted on the government's bonds. Suddenly Étienne Pascal's worth had dropped from nearly 66,000 livres to less than 7,300. Like so many others, Étienne was eventually forced to flee Paris because of his opposition to the fiscal policies of Cardinal Richelieu, leaving his three children in the care of his neighbour Madame Sainctot, a great beauty with an infamous past who kept one of the most glittering and intellectual salons in all France. It was only when Jacqueline performed well in a children's play with Richelieu in attendance that Étienne was pardoned.
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" Construction on the new hotel began in 1927, and was completed in 1929. Named the Royal York, the new hotel cost $16 million when built. The completed hotel featured over 1,000 guest rooms, each equipped with radios, private showers, and bathtubs, a library, a 12-bed hospital, and a telephone switchboard. The hotel also operated St. George's Golf and Country Club as the Royal York Golf Club from 1930 to 1946, when the hotel's parent company, Canadian Pacific Railway, divested themselves from the golf course property. The building was officially opened on 11 June 1929 by The Viscount Willingdon, the Governor General of Canada, in "one of the most glittering social events in Toronto's history.
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Fifteenth century Venice is the only open port where the masterless dregs of the vampire world can live without fear of attack for violating another's territory. But there are plenty of other ways for a young vampire to die in the most glittering city of the age, as former prince and current pauper Mircea Basarab quickly learns. But there are opportunities, too—in the service of a secretive courtesan, in the bed of a beautiful senator, and in the hunt for an ancient assassin. A vendetta older than Venice itself comes to a climax as Mircea struggles to evade the dangers of his current life, to come to terms with his past, and to uncover the truth hidden behind a city of masks.
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Sellers's hands and footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theatre New York magazine stated that all of the films starring Sellers as Clouseau showcased his "comedic brilliance". Sellers' friend and Goon Show colleague Spike Milligan said that Sellers "had one of the most glittering comic talents of his age", while English filmmakers John and Roy Boulting noted that he was "the greatest comic genius this country has produced since Charles Chaplin". Irv Slifkin said that the most prominent albeit ever-changing face in comedies of the 1960s was Sellers who "changed like a chameleon throughout the era, dazzling audiences". In a 2005 poll to find "The Comedian's Comedian", Sellers was voted 14 in the list of the top 20 greatest comedians by fellow comics and comedy insiders.
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Soon after, Macedonski, the herald of Romanian Symbolism, publicized his praise for the young poet: > "This young man, at an age when I was still prattling verses, with an > audacity that knows no boundaries, but not yet crowned by the most > glittering success, parts with the entire old versification technique, with > all banalities in images in ideas that have for long been judged, here and > elsewhere, as a summit of poetry and art."Macedonski, 1896, in Vianu, p.477 He began stating his admiration for Symbolism and other trends pertaining to it (such as the Vienna Secession) in his articles of the time, while polemicizing with Junimea's George Panu over the latter's critique of modernist literature.Arghezi, Vers și poezie, 1904, in Din presa... (1900–1918), pp.
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Sleeves were a centre of attention, and were puffed, slashed, cuffed, and turned back to reveal contrasting linings. Henry VIII of England (ruled 1509–1547) and Francis I of France (ruled 1515–1547) strove to host the most glittering renaissance court, culminating in the festivities around the Field of Cloth of Gold (1520).Ashelford, Jane: Visual History of Dress in the Sixteenth Century, introduction But the rising power was Charles V, king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily from 1516, heir to the style as well as the riches of Burgundy, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1520. The inflow of gold and silver from the New World into recently united Spain changed the dynamics of trade throughout Western Europe, ushering in a period of increased opulence in clothing that was tempered by the Spanish taste for sombre richness of dress that would dominate the second half of the century.Boucher, François: 20,000 Years of FashionAshelford, Jane: The Art of Dress: Clothing and Society 1500–1914, Abrams, 1996.
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