Russian collecting is far from dead, thanks to “a new cast of characters”, says Francis Outred, Christie’s new European head of post-war and contemporary art.

佳士得欧洲新任战后当代艺术部主管Francis Outred认为，因为有了“新角色”的出现，俄罗斯收藏界还远未到被宣判死亡的地步。

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Visitors get a splendid, inviting vista into the new building: dead-ahead on line-of-sight is a distant and vast plaster cast of the Apollo from Olympia.

参观者步入新馆后，眼前出现的是一片辉煌、愉悦的景象：向前直视，远处是奥林匹亚山的阿波罗巨幅雕像。

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And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

他们就从埃及将乌利亚带出来，送到约雅敬王那里。王用刀杀了他，把他的尸首抛在平民的坟地中。

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Since all 40 Republicans were on record as opposing the bill, the Democrats did not have a single vote to spare, needing every Democrat and Independent who normally votes with Democrats to cast their votes for it, or else have the vote dead before it ever reached the floor.

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The settlement meant that the film, called Vana Yudham and featuring several members of the dead bandit's gang in the cast, was released as planned on Thursday.

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Vana Yudham, directed by AMR Ramesh, has several of the dead bandit's gang members in the cast.

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The golds and burnt oranges in "Bouquet of Mimosas, " meanwhile, cast a warm, soft glow that illuminates the cavernous, usually dead space of the lower level of the Met's Robert Lehman Wing.

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