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Or that in 1932 Georgi I. Rublev, behind the unpromising subject of A Factory Party Meeting , could have been up to something that looks simultaneously back to rural primitivism and forward to Larry Rivers?
With little dry land to build on, exactly why a small group of settlers chose this unpromising spot is difficult to understand.
The daily El País of Madrid devoted a whole column to the unpromising scandal of Domingogate--a story from its Washington correspondent about how Monica's mother, Marcia Lewis, had included in the original manuscript of her book The Private Lives of the Three Tenors a passage "imagining" a love affair between her and Plácido Domingo.