The actor naturally has anecdotes aplenty regarding Bergman, but one in particular highlights both the director's gift for spontaneous inspiration and the vicissitudes of filmmaking.

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Yes, and to experience nature's annual gift of renewal, with a cold one in hand ... more Vivaldi, please.

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For much of the 20th century, Mr Hirschfeld's drawings were there to be savoured in the Sunday edition of the New York Times, where one's appreciation of his gift for spearing a performer's physiognomy co-existed with a weekly hunt for the Ninas that is to say, the number of times Mr Hirschfeld had the name Nina embedded in almost every drawing, as a tribute to his only child.

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When I arrived here in the U.S., one of my old friends from the camps bought me a gift, a set of Tinker Toys.

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Having been given one of Housley's aprons as a gift, Derian approached her to sell her products in the shop.

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