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11 November
'Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil' [https://t.co/l7SNkEv6UI]
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Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. #1
Wiki : 'The oldest known oil paintings are Buddhist murals created circa 650 AD. The works are located in cave-like rooms carved from the cliffs of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, "using walnut and poppy seed oils"' [https://t.co/d65VCxBG3Y]
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 11, 2022
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'The future's bright', etc. - from 1994 onwards, some of Orange's advertised predictions, prophecies, foresights or guesses about the world and what e-mail, cinema, video-conferencing, text messages would bring...https://t.co/otlfYqNnfA
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 11, 2022
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Obviously fearful of any one of them becoming a Tango victim*, they congregate at speed and en masse - as I counted, there are eight or nine of them !
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 5, 2023
* Or intending, perhaps, this 'tour de force' to frighten others off ? ;)
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Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. #5 https://t.co/FhI70VMa5u
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 5, 2023
'"We are facing new pandemics, economic inflation and increasingly authoritarian governments, who will attempt to crush civil unrest.
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 5, 2023
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'"This is a crisis, and it needs a crisis response.
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 5, 2023
'"I want a safe future, not just for my grandchildren but for all children around the world and the generations to come."'https://t.co/BfZKcN8g3z
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World registers hottest day ever recorded on July 3 :
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 5, 2023
'Antarctica, currently in its winter, registered anomalously high temperatures.
'Ukraine's Vernadsky Research Base in the continent's Argentine Islands recently broke its July temperature record with 8.7°C (47.6°F).
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Neither of these reports says what picture(s) the jigsaws show, but previous protests, in galleries, have involved one of van Gogh's canvases (Sunflowers) and Constable's The Hay Wain...
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The links of Patel and numerous others honoured by #BadHeadJohnson to petrochemical companies and / or climate-change denial have been pointed out on Twither in recent weeks.
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 10, 2023
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* Sic.https://t.co/Efhb0ilB0g
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Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. #10 https://t.co/4mxTZbfWfT pic.twitter.com/6fxTS9HLPl
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 20, 2023
'On Friday, the Wildlife presenter gave the UK’s major political parties an ultimatum to stop sanctioning future licensing of oil and gas or risk losing votes.https://t.co/OVUtIhzRxF
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 5, 2023
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'"The government appears to be on the brink of junking a lot of green policies as they use the environment as a political football while they jostle for votes.
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 5, 2023
'"But it’s not about votes, it’s about life on earth," he said.'
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Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. #12
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 18, 2023
French police have arrested two people as part of an investigation after protestors were filmed throwing soup over the Mona Lisa portrait in the Louvre.https://t.co/EAUh4K2tCW
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 29, 2024
Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. #13
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)