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Staggeringly, her appearance at the American Music Awards last November featured the Fiat centre-stage, before she simulated sex with rap's Pitbull.
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But in putting an iconic figure centre-stage and making their personal struggle its focus, the film is typical of a current political cinema in which the personal trumps all.
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Christopher Adams, the FT's Markets Editor, made this point on Twitter:@ChrisAdamsMKTS: France & Austria to be cut to AA+ leaving Germany as only large triple-A country underwriting EFSFAnd if the EFSF loses its AAA, then its own cost of borrowing would probably increase.3.28pm: Stock markets are in retreat this afternoon, as the Eurocrisis moves centre-stage again.
Eurozone crisis live: S&P cuts French credit rating on night of downgrades - 13 January 2012 2012
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Cause it's all fine and dandy for teh Gayz to get to be centre-stage in Big Serious Movies, but Brokeback Mountain, say, is Johnny Come Lately here.
Archive 2010-02-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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Cause it's all fine and dandy for teh Gayz to get to be centre-stage in Big Serious Movies, but Brokeback Mountain, say, is Johnny Come Lately here.
Whatever the Fuck You Want Hal Duncan 2010
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Sharma then took centre-stage, the 22-year-old taking the final three scalps for four runs and in the process passing 100 Test wickets.
Ishant Sharma strikes to give India narrow edge over West Indies 2011
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To the contrary, in order to make progress about how we manage climate change we have to take science off centre-stage … What is ‘self-evidently’ dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth-seeking; we might gain some insights into the question if we recognise the socially contingent dimensions of a post-normal science.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Dangers of a Monoculture — Reactions to the CRU Emails 2009
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Sharma then took centre-stage, the 22-year-old taking the final three scalps for four runs and in the process passing 100 Test wickets.
Ishant Sharma strikes to give India narrow edge over West Indies 2011
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People and money are scrambled from the dark and ignored fringes to take centre-stage in the light.
“Ruralshire Constabulary to get TASER on the front line” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Here is another revelation brought forth by the floods in the form of four actors that are, or considered to be, at the centre-stage of rescuing flooded Pakistan: a newfound power for civil society organizations intersecting with global partners for coping with state-failure.
Saskia Sassen: Pakistan's Floods Reveal an Emerging Geopolitics 2010
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