MoMA presented the once derided image as the foundation stone of Modernism and turned it into an icon.

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Although the financial world is collapsing around the main characters, Stone once again addresses the issues of greed, loyalty and betrayal.

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Fresh drops speckled his windshield as he turned in to his neighborhood, through a break in the stone wall that had once marked the bounds of the farm.

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To get there, you have to pass a row of splendid shikumen (traditional stone-gate houses) , and the old-Shanghai textures continue once inside, with red-brick interior walls and reproduced stone gateways above doorways to rooms which are simple, but smart.

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Rolling Stone magazine once described them as "the biggest band of the 70s" and "unquestionably one of the most enduring bands in rock history".

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High on a hill, crowning the turquoise- and red-roofed homes across the waterfront, sat a stone fort that was once a lookout for pirates.

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It's not just easier for journalists to get to, it means that they are once again at the heart of things in Central London, a stone's throw from Parliament, the Law Courts and Whitehall.

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Once you invent something, the road to making money from it is paved with a particularly tricky stone you have to be worried about: patents.

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The former Scottish Labour MP George, now Lord, Robertson once remarked that devolution would "kill Nationalism stone dead".

BBC: Scottish Election: Campaign successes and stinkers

The landlord of a pub where Stone sometimes drinks wanted to remain anonymous but said the singer made "no fuss" when she once had to be turned away having failed to book a table for dinner.

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