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It is a beautiful place, with tiled floors, fine curtains, and heroic statues everywhere.

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The curtain your brother is hiding behind is moth-eaten and flimsy.

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First light beams through the curtains and doors we left open to the balcony and confirm our well-earned sleep is over.

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“First, pulling back the curtain, showing somebody how one might work. Also, it’s not how I work. So, how do I play a guy who’s like me, who’s an actor, but shows them something different?”

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“An iron curtain has descended across the Continent,” declared Winston Churchill, Britain’s prime minister during World War II, while visiting America in 1946.

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