The dining-room table was set for two: placemats, plates, polyester napkins blooming from industrial-strength wineglasses.

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High up in the Staffordshire Moorlands in the village of Endon, Liberal Democrat candidate Christina Jebb has her campaign leaflets set out on the dining table.

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And here, with controversial works such as deformed crucifixes set on the grand dining table and tapestry pigs sitting under grandiose crystal chandeliers, Delvoye is certainly examining and challenging the status quo of an institution like the Louvre.

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He'll set the hot pan on the dining table and invite his guests to dig in family-style.

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The men tolerated each other and ate supper together on a card table set on the creaking floor of the big dining room.

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