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'Finally there is the key contributor who became known as the Fourth Man: zither-player Anton Karas, who was playing when Reed and his team first had dinner at the Astoria. Reed was much taken with Karas’s playing and, to Korda’s surprise, the director proposed that instead of a conventional orchestral score, The Third Man be accompanied by Karas’s solo zither alone. The music scored a huge hit — and Karas, in demand around the world, was able to provide amply for his family.'

ft.com/content/e7c59b93-2536-4

'Fiquei a saber que o mural resultava de uma encomenda para uma pintura alusiva ao 25 de Abril destinada ao muro do Centro de Cultura Popular de Alcântara no Largo do Calvário e que o mural tinha um título plenamente significativo “Do tempo da outra senhora ao tempo novo”

expresso.pt/revista/culturas/2

'These results demonstrate the contribution of alternate translation to diversifying mammalian proteomes, and its association with protein stability, tissue-specific proteomes, and diseases.'

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

'Here, we bridge the gap between meta-analysis methodology and open science principles by proposing quick tips for open, transparent meta-analyses. These tips, summarized in Fig 1, are intended to help researchers design, conduct, and publish meta-analyses that adhere to the highest standards of openness and transparency, ensuring that their findings can be trusted, replicated, and built upon by the scientific community. We also provide a checklist to help researchers, reviewers, and journal editors implement these guidelines in practice'

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol

"Sweet Smell of Success is a true classic. The passing of half a century has deepened its manifold pleasures. We do not mind the absence of a few genre conventions, like a hero or hope or justice, when we can get, in spades, scintillating dialogue, ingenious photography, keyed-up performances, and coolly thumping music, all paced at a carousing canter."

criterion.com/current/posts/17

Havent read this one yet, but Ogawa's "Memory Police" is fantastic, if you're looking for a book to enjoy in the closing days of August (it's not long).

lithub.com/the-10-best-book-co

"Cameron created a pantheon of hairy brainboxes, boasting that ‘the greatest men of the age (...) Joseph Hooker, one of her most keenly defined portraits, looks as if he is trying to escape his whiskers."

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n16/su

From Chistopher Sexton's biography of Macfarlane Burnet, "The Seeds of Time".

From Masha Gessen's 2012 book, The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (highly recommended)

'She’s the one whose performances offer the most surprises, the most shocks, the most moment-to-moment inventiveness, and, above all, the most almost-unbearable force of emotional expression, combining extremes of strength and vulnerability, of overt display and inner life.'

newyorker.com/culture/the-fron

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