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...Committee stores (which stockpiled pieces confiscated by the Red Guards), as well as items donated by Party members and their families. Low-slung leather chairs in the cigar lounge were used by members of the Politburo; the green-shaded lamps came from the desks of ministers; a thick purple curtain in the reception area comes from Mao's house in the exclusive government compound of Zhongnanhai...
...period marked by labor unrest and terrorism. That's one reason Agnelli transferred manufacturing abroad to places like the Soviet Union, Brazil and Turkey, where labor was cheaper and the industrial scene less chaotic than at home. One of those investments, the huge Togliatti plant opened behind the iron curtain in 1970, produced more critics than money, but Agnelli saw a bigger picture: "What we like best of all ... is that a very large number of cars rolling in Russia are Fiats." Even more controversially, Agnelli also later sold almost 10% of Fiat to Libya in 1976, before eventually buying...
...When you get to your seat in this beautiful courtroom, there is a handmade goose quill pen waiting for you at your seat. Then the clerk comes out and announces the Justices, who come in through a velvet curtain. The courtroom was packed; the pressroom was packed. Every seat was filled...
...Sellars might just as well have bounded on stage, done a headstand, cried, ‘look at me!’ before the curtain rose, and let the play proceed with a modicum of sensibility,” he wrote...
...appeal to emotion also ensures that Fiddler’s message reaches its audience despite the production’s 19th-century trappings. The play’s human conflict, sandwiched as it is with song and dance, leaves the audience remembering more than the melodies as the curtain falls...