Very few PE, art or music lessons involved setting.

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Trapezium, located in northeast Montreal, offers regular daily classes as well as private lessons in the art of trapeze.

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Mr Blass had a few lessons at an art school, and was taken on as an artist and odd-job man by a clothes manufacturer.

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Earlier this year, billionaire philanthropist and entrepreneur Eli Broad published The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking, and in this interview, we discussed the very secrets to his success.

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The results, he says, offer some simple lessons in the modern art of disguise: Avoid symmetry, and focus on obscuring the area around your eyes.

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