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Monday, December 8, 2014

August Winds -"Ventos de Agosto" (original title)

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Rock-Loving Teen Pours Cola Over Her Body in Teaser for Brazilian Coming-of-Age Drama 'August Winds'

Did the title get your attention? The teaser should too!

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NTUC FairPrice launches Warehouse Club

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SINGAPORE — A first membership-only retail warehouse in Singapore that encourages bulk purchases for groceries and household consumables was launched by NTUC FairPrice (FairPrice) this morning (Dec 8). 

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The Green Power Ranger Wants CM Punk in UFC Debut

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Who's CM Punk?
CM Punk
Phillip Jack "Phil" Brooks (born October 26, 1978), better known by the ring name CM Punk, is an American mixed martial artist and former professional wrestler. He is best known for his time in WWE, where he is "the longest-reigning WWE Champion of the modern era", having held the title for 434 days from November 20, 2011 to January 27, 2013. Punk is officially recognized as the sixth-longest reigning WWE Champion of all time.

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An Uber Exec Brought Up The Idea Of Digging Up Dirt On Journalists

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Emil Michael, who came to Uber from Klout
Uber executive Emil Michael said that the company could spend a “million dollars” to hire investigators and reporters to dig up dirt on journalists who wrote negative articles about the company, according to a report on Buzzfeed.

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Saturday, December 6, 2014

Friday, August 3, 2012

Tristan and Isolde by Salvador Dali, 1944

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Tristan and Isolde by Salvador Dali, 1944

The figures of Tristan and Isolde depicted on this canvas were painted by Dalí in 1944 as a backdrop for the ballet Bacchanale, performed to Wagner's music and presented for the first time in 1944 on the stage of the International Theater in New York.

The tale of this ballet, for which Dalí wrote the libretto, began before the war. At that time that title was Mad Tristan. It was to be performed in Paris with the choreography by Leonide Massine, the scenery by Prince Charvachidze, and costumes on which Coco Chanel wished to use real ermine and genuine precious stones. The war prevented the production in Paris, and later the Marquis Georges de Cuevas decided to stage the spectacle in New York. "As with everything else," Dalí writes in The Secret Life, "my Mad Tristan, which was to have been my most successful theatrical venture, could not be given; so it became Venusberg and finally Bacchanale, which is the definitive version."

The two latest collaborations by Dalí in ballets date from 1961, when he participated with Maurice Bejart in the staging of The Spanish Lady and the Roman Cavalier by Scarlatti and a Ballet de Gala for which he wrote the libretto, designed the scenery and costumes, and demanded a curtain formed by motorcycles backfiring, hanging one from the other, and a real boeuf-ecorche-de-Rembrandt which was to have been replaced at each performance so as to exert over the spectators the paralyzing effect of its freshness.


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