" Because they were bias-cut, as Mr. Mackie explained in an interview, "they open like a Chinese puzzle and cup at the knee, holding you in.
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"I remember a decade ago when people were embarrassed about living in Flushing," said Helen Lee, an executive vice president with F & T Group, one of the developers of Tangram, a 193 million-square-foot, mixed-use complex named after the Chinese puzzle.
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The Chinese Puzzle is a 1932 British crime film directed by Guy Newall and starring Leon M. Lion, Austin Trevor, Lilian Braithwaite, Elizabeth Allan and Francis L. Sullivan.BFI Database entry The film is based on the play The Chinese Puzzle by Frances Barclay and Leon M. Lion which had previously been made into a film The Chinese Puzzle in 1919.
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The Chinese Puzzle is a 1919 British silent crime film directed by Fred Goodwins and starring Leon M. Lion, Lilian Braithwaite and Milton Rosmer.BFI.org It was an adaptation of the play The Chinese Puzzle written by Lion and Marion Bower.
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Reykjavik International School Logo The RIS school logo was designed by Unnur Valdís & Einar Gylfason at Leynivopnid. It was inspired by the ancient Chinese puzzle Tangram.
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Chinese Puzzle () is a 2013 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Cédric Klapisch. It is the third chapter of the Spanish Apartment trilogy, after L'Auberge Espagnole (2002) and Les Poupées russes (Russian Dolls, 2005).
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Romain Duris (; born 28 May 1974) is a French actor, best known for his role in Cédric Klapisch's Spanish Apartment trilogy, which consists of L'Auberge Espagnole (2002), Russian Dolls (2005), and Chinese Puzzle (2013). He also appeared in Iris (2016 film) and All the Money in the World (2017).
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2016, Coconut Connection (5.12), Great Sail Peak, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada—First free ascent. 2016, Northwest Turret (5.13a, 22 pitches), Great Sail Peak, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada—Established route with Joshua Lavigne and Marc-André Leclerc. 2016, Hidden Dragon (5.12b/c), Chinese Puzzle Wall, Nesakwatch River Valley, British Columbia, Canada—Established route with Marc-André Leclerc. First free ascent.
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They each speak different languages and have different cultural standards. The film is told in the first person by Xavier. The dialogue is mostly in French, with some English and much Spanish, a little Catalan, Danish, German and Italian. It is the first part of the Spanish Apartment trilogy, which continues in the sequels Russian Dolls (2005) and Chinese Puzzle (2013).
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The letter would surely anger her fiancé, and it is now in the possession of Mr. Lavington. He is demanding twenty thousand pounds for its return, a sum she cannot afford. She went to Lavington's house in Wimbledon to plead with him. He showed her the letter in a Chinese puzzle box and says he keeps in a place she will never find.
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The craze quickly spread to other European countries. This was mostly due to a pair of British tangram books, The Fashionable Chinese Puzzle, and the accompanying solution book, Key. Soon, tangram sets were being exported in great number from China, made of various materials, from glass, to wood, to tortoise shell. Many of these unusual and exquisite tangram sets made their way to Denmark.
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Russian Dolls () is a 2005 French-British comedy-drama film, the sequel to (2002) and the second part of the Spanish Apartment trilogy, which is concluded with Chinese Puzzle (, 2013). Cédric Klapisch wrote and directed the film, whose settings include Paris, London, Saint Petersburg and Moscow. Klapisch makes use of digital and split-screen effects in the film, as well as non-linear narrative.
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Figures were typically uncoloured, or just with certain features coloured in ink, often just black, but sometimes a few other colours. Chinese puzzle ball with openwork and a series of twelve smaller balls, ivory, 19th century By the 18th century China had a considerable market in items such as figures made for export to Europe, and from the Meiji Period Japan followed. Japanese ivory for the domestic market had traditionally mostly been small objects such as netsuke, for which ivory was used from the 17th century, or little inlays for sword-fittings and the like, but in the later 19th century, using African ivory pieces became as large as the material would allow, and carved with virtuosic skill. A speciality was Chinese puzzle balls, consisting of openwork that contained a series of smaller balls, freely rotating, inside them, a tribute to the patience of Asian craftsmen.
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The film garnered favourable reviews. It scored a 78% 'certified fresh' rating on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 64 reviews, with a weighted average of 6.52/10. The site's consensus states: "Pleasantly easygoing and consistently funny, Chinese Puzzle offers a suitably endearing conclusion to Cédric Klapisch's Trilogy of Xavier." At Metacritic, it has a score of 64 which is based on 24 critics, indicating "Generally favorable reviews".
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She reprised her role in the 2005 sequel, Les Poupées russes (The Russian Dolls) and the 2013 follow-up, Casse-tête chinois (Chinese Puzzle). Also in 2005, Reilly had roles in such films as Mrs Henderson Presents and Pride & Prejudice. Reilly's first lead role came in 2008 in the horror film Eden Lake and, in 2009, she had a high-profile role on prime-time British television in Above Suspicion.
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This included the music of John Rehnberger, Off Beach, Ut, Lee Ranaldo, Mofungo, Khmer Rouge, The Problem, Smoking Section, Sonic Youth, Jeff Lohn, Ima, Jules Baptiste Red Decade, EQ'D, Avant Squares, Don King, Primivites, Ad Hoc Rock, Y Pants, Barbotemagus (as it is spelled on the cover), Economical Animal, Chinese Puzzle, Glorious Strangers, Built On Guilt, Fakir, Lampshades. In 1982 the Noise Festival Tape was released by White Columns.
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Moffat felt that this one-way filming made the performance more convincing. Moffat initially wrote placeholder dialogue in the script for the scene where the Doctor tells Sally that he can hear her in the DVD shop, because he knew the lines that appeared would have to play "double duty later on" and be authentic and fresh both times. Gold called the sequences "the heart of the Chinese puzzle".
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Danish interest in tangrams skyrocketed around 1818, when two books on the puzzle were published, to much enthusiasm. The first of these was Mandarinen (About the Chinese Game). This was written by a student at Copenhagen University, which was a non-fictional work about the history and popularity of tangrams. The second, Det nye chinesiske Gaadespil (The new Chinese Puzzle Game), consisted of 339 puzzles copied from The Eighth Book of Tan, as well as one original.
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The fear of racial replacement was presented as an apolitical call to White racial unity in among Australians.Auerbach, Sascha. Race, Law, and "The Chinese Puzzle" in Imperial Britain, London: Macmillan, 2009 Culturally, Yellow Peril invasion novels expressed themes of the White man's sexual fear of the supposed voracious sexuality of Asian men and women. The stories feature Western women in sexual peril, usually rape-by-seduction facilitated with the sensual and moral release of smoked opium.
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He began to make a name for himself in the early to mid-1970s as a literary minimalist, writing terse, imagistic poems. Critics have referred to Simic's poems as "tightly constructed Chinese puzzle boxes". He himself stated: "Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is merely the bemused spectator."Simic, Charles (ed.) (1992) The Best American Poetry 1992, Charles Scribner's Sons p xv Simic writes on such diverse topics as jazz, art, and philosophy.
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Deborah Makepeace (1957, Buckrose, Yorkshire, England - 2 February 1999, Bromley, London, England) was a British television actress. She trained at Elmhurst Ballet School in Surrey. Her notable roles included Sara Crewe, the central character in A Little Princess (1973), The Chinese Puzzle (1974), The Apple Cart (1975) and Princess Helena in Edward the Seventh (1975), Penmarric (1979), Byron: A Personal Tour (1981) (as Claire Clairmont) and Sorry! (1987). She appeared in rep at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in the 1978 season.
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At the Police Station, Inspector Bragg seems quite happy to tell the player that he found the items stolen from the Manor. The Constable corrects him and says that someone else found them, but Bragg does not allow him to reveal who. Outside, though, the Constable tells the player (via hidden message) that the Butcher found the items. When the player arrives at the Butcher's, he describes the items that he found: a walking stick, a Chinese Puzzle Box, and an old writing box.
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Desk for John Lennon by Dakota Jackson In 1974, Jackson's career as a designer began when Yoko Ono asked him to build a desk with hidden compartments for husband John Lennon. "She wanted to make a piece of furniture that would be a mystical object; that would be like a Chinese puzzle," Jackson recalled in a 1986 interview published in the Chicago Tribune. The result was a small cubed- shaped writing table with rounded corners reminiscent of Art Deco era style. Touching secret pressure points opened the desk's compartments.
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An ivory puzzle ball from the Felsenmuseum Bernstein collection in Austria A Chinese puzzle ball, sometimes known as a devil's work ball (), is a Chinese- made artefact that consists of a number of intricately carved concentric hollow spheres carved from a single solid block that fit within one another in a way that looks impossible. They are typically made of ivory. They are made from a single solid ball with conical holes drilled in it, with the carver separating the different spherical shells using L-shaped tools. 3D imaging using computational tomography has been used to identify details of the manufacturing process.
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In 1974 Finch wrote a six-part children's adventure series, The Chinese Puzzle broadcast on BBC1 and in 1978 wrote 9 episodes of Fallen Hero for Granada Television. He also wrote a number of episodes forJuliet Bravo, The Gentle Touch, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, Bergerac and The Bill. From 1987 to 1989 he wrote for the comedy drama Flying Lady which starred Frank Windsor and from 1992 to 2006 he wrote 35 episodes for Heartbeat set in rural Yorkshire. 2005 saw the release of his film adaptation of Heidi directed by Paul Marcus, starring Emma Bolger with Max Von Sydow and Diana Rigg.
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Lalitgiri Mahastupa The excavations carried out by the ASI at Lalitgiri have unearthed remnants of a large stupa on the hill. Within the stupa, two rare stone caskets were found with relics of Buddha; this was the first such find in Eastern India. The stone caskets, like Chinese Puzzle boxes, made of Khondalite stone, revealed three other boxes within them, made of steatite, silver and gold respectively; the gold casket, which is the last one, contained a relic or dhatu in the form of a small piece of bone. Another interesting find is that of an east facing apsidal chaityagriha, built of bricks, in size with -thick walls.
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Li had her first break in the acting world starring opposite Matthew Morrison in the Tony Award winning Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific (2008) at New York's Lincoln Center. Following on from this early success, she won roles on a variety of TV shows and films including Blue Bloods (2010), Damages (2011), The Following (2013), Cédric Klapisch's Chinese Puzzle (2013) and Mistress (2014). Li expanded her visibility and presence on a global level by landing major television roles in Neil LaBute's Billy and Billie (2015) and Steven Spielberg's Minority Report (2015) on Fox. In 2016, Li was cast in the recurring role of FBI recruit, Iris Chang, on the ABC thriller series Quantico.
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Chinese puzzle: who is Hu's heir?. The Age, 20 September 2009 Xi, who succeeded Zeng in his posts of Vice-President and executive secretary of the Secretariat, then became the heir apparent to succeed Hu Jintao as China's top leader. Zhou, who was his closest subordinate in his 'Oil Clique', became the most powerful Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission.多維月刊﹕曾慶紅顛覆團派布局迎來太子黨新時代 Since then Zeng has made public appearances only on a few ceremonial occasions, such as the 30th anniversary of the Third plenum of the 11th Central Committee in 2008.
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His costume is the one he used as a performer. Prior to Vincent's death, during one performance in New York City's Greenwich Village, an encounter with a Chinese puzzle box caused him to fall into an occult dimensional realm, from which he was rescued by Doctor Strange. After Adam killed Vincent, and because Walter allowed him to, Dominic, who harbored resentment towards them, retreated to a remote island for eleven years, in part because his enhanced senses are overwhelmed in more urban areas. Although Dominic moved to the Destine family estate following Adam's return to Earth, he refused a reconciliation with Adam, saying that he would never forgive him for killing Vincent.
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Most of these were mysteries, such as The Chinese Puzzle (1974) and an adaptation of The Five Red Herrings (1975). In 1977, he found himself back to regular series work when he was given All Creatures Great and Small, which began transmission in January the following year. Although he would produce other shows in the downtime from All Creatures—such as the poorly received soap opera Triangle and another veterinary drama, One By One—he would work on All Creatures until the end of his active career in 1990. As producer of All Creatures Great and Small he received his only two significant awards nominations: a BAFTA nomination for Best Drama Series in 1979, and a Primetime Emmy nomination for Best Children's Series in 1990.
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The Finn woman tells the reindeer that the secret of Gerda's unique power to save Kai is in her sweet and innocent child's heart: Vilhelm Pedersen illustration When Gerda reaches the Snow Queen's palace, she is halted by the snowflakes guarding it. She prays the Lord's Prayer, which causes her breath to take the shape of angels, who resist the snowflakes and allow Gerda to enter the palace. Gerda finds Kai alone and almost immobile on a frozen lake, which the Snow Queen calls the "Mirror of Reason", on which her throne sits. Kai is engaged in the task that the Snow Queen gave him: he must use pieces of ice like a Chinese puzzle to form characters and words.
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The Scotsman. and the Los Angeles Times "complex as a Chinese puzzle ... what distinguishes Hartland are his exotic settings and precise portraits of the agents." Kirkus Reviews, however, found "Lots of potentially rich material here ... but ex-agent Hartland, who writes with crisply sturdy efficiency, hasn't found the right shape for suspenseful plotting and hasn't come up with involving central characters." Dead Men introduced two characters who would figure in this series of Cold War books – David Nairn, working-class boy from Scotland, who went to Oxford and is now a key player in MI6, and Major-General Nadia Alexandrovna Kirova, who has got to the top of Soviet military intelligence, the GRU, despite being a woman, and is now battling to keep her place in the Politburo.
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Doremus wrote plays, including Larks (1886), A Boy Hero (1887), The Charbonniere, A Chinese Puzzle, Compressed Gunpowder, Dorothy, Fernande, Fleurette, Pranks, Real Life or Andy, A Fair Bohemian (1888), The Circus Rider (1888, starring Rosina Vokes), Mrs. Pendleton's Four-in-Hand (1893, based on a story by Gertrude Atherton), The Fortunes of the King (1904), By Right of the Sword (1905), and The Duchess of Devonshire (1906, written for Canadian actress Roselle Knott). She also co-wrote The Sleeping Beauty (1878) with Mrs. Burton Harrison, A Wild Idea (1888) with Elisabeth Marbury, A Full Hand (1894) with M. F. Stone, The Wheel of Time with T. R. Edwards, The Day Dream with E. R. Steiner, Mock Trial for Breach of Promise, with H. E. Manchester, Miss Devil-May-Care (1916), One of the Boys (1920) and A Castle in Spain (1935) with Leonidas Westervelt, and The Chain (1920) with Julia S. Trask.
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