Da Vinci was a whiz as a painter (hint: "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper"), a scientist and engineer, and a futurist dead-set on fighting the gravitational pull of his own times.
That's what Douglas Carter Beane does with "The Nance, " a dead-serious comedy set in New York circa 1937 in which Nathan Lane plays a self-hating gay man who makes a living playing outrageously effeminate gay men on the burlesque stage.
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But eight of the 12 SPL clubs met at Tynecastle on Tuesday to discuss the issue, prompting Dunfermline Athletic chairman John Yorkston to declare that the idea of a top 10 was "dead" and that a 14-team set-up should be reconsidered.
Humer may be dead set against a deal, but Novartis Chief Executive Daniel Vasella is a patient man.
If investors are dead set on making a play in the broad leisure and recreational services space though, there are a handful of other options.
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The second set was one-way traffic and it was only repairs to a dead spot discovered on the court at the start of the third set that extended the contest to almost two hours.
Mr Ball's own band Dead Red will be performing a set on the Sunday alongside Norwich-based band The Dirty Tricks.
On the karma scale, this matchup of Original Six teams is pretty much a dead heat as these classic clubs get set to meet in the postseason for the first time in 40 years.
Flanagan said relations between Turkey and France have been tense because Sarkozy was "dead set" against Turkey becoming a member of the European Union.
The latter had set a new world record in the dead lift: eleven hundred and seventeen pounds.
When it was available on seemingly every carrier and well-regarded for both its vibrant display and its high performance, there was a good chance that many smartphone buyers at least considered a Galaxy S if they weren't dead-set on another device.
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Even though ex-UK PM Gordon Brown (Labor) first pushed for an FTT in the EU and G-20 a few years back, a new Tory-PM Cameron-led UK is dead set against FTT and bashing banks and traders.
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The following is a list of 5 common lies spun by advisors who are dead-set against indexing.
After one pioneering executive died, his successor didn't just set out to protect a legacy, he wore the dead man's gray suits, telling people that the outfits shouldn't go to waste.
All of which rather neatly explains why the ECB is so dead set against the economically logical thing to do: impose a haircut, negotiated or not, upon the creditors.
"This time around I'm dead set against voting for Hillary Clinton, " said Otis, a longtime Democrat and retired Navy reservist.
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The site now includes a foundation tool that lets loved ones set up foundations in memory of the dead and collect donations to the cause of their choice.
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One example of his outreach work was persuading a British radical who had unceremoniously set fire to a large paper poppy, the British symbol of remembrance for their war dead, to see the error of his ways.
Scott's spooky lighting design is a key element of the theatrical presentation on Marsha Ginsberg's dead leaf-strewn, rundown swimming pool set.
Saints hardly knew what had hit them in the opening quarter, conceding the first of six tries inside the opening set of six, while a kick-off by Foster hit the crossbar to bounce "dead".
After one large American merger, the two firms had a row over the annual picnic: employees of one company were accustomed to inviting spouses, the others were dead set against the idea.
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