In the mid-nineties, Bag (an art-world darling best known for the chameleonlike range of personae that she adopts in bitingly satirical videos) and Beckwith (of the cult-favorite collaborative Art Club 2000) co-hosted a late-night public-access TV show.

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And though the city's monumental examples of the beaux arts and art deco movements are well documented in civic buildings dressed up in a mixed bag of Classical Roman and Greek elements, the city actually received its greatest modern architectural contribution in the years after WWII, when Ludwig Mies van der Rohe pioneered the new "International Style".

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He has rapidly mastered the art of making populist points during debates on high economic and financial policy - and as PPS, (parliamentary bag carrier) to his Leader, Ed Miliband, he is already close to the leadership.

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