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Two quirky locations followed — a storage silo on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, and a loft space in an erstwhile canning factory nearby — before Issue won a 20-year, rent-free lease in the former Board of Education building at 22 Boerum Place, at Livingston Street, in Downtown Brooklyn.

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Each morning, while still in bed, she and her live-in boyfriend, an erstwhile stuntman and actor named Bobby Williams, begin a series of predawn exercises that consist of breathing, stretching, contemplating the things they're grateful for and visualizing the day ahead.

It seemed that Helen, thirty years earlier, had conducted an affair on the premises with Barrymore's son-in-law, an erstwhile actor married to the troubled Diana Barrymore, whose mother was a poetess aptly named Michael Strange.

The March games will take place in Iran, an erstwhile foe in recent history.

Local media railed against graft, a rising blight in Mongolia, an erstwhile darling of liberal development economists.

Meanwhile, Hari Kunzru brings radical politics closer to home for My Revolutions (Hamish Hamilton, June), in which an erstwhile activist is haunted by his past.

Some expressed surprise last year that it was a British woman, Lucy Prebble, who chose to direct her attentions toward the very American, very male world of corporate American malfeasance in "Enron," an erstwhile Court entry that has since transferred to Broadway.

Polling in Eastleigh, an erstwhile Liberal Democrat seat where a by-election was due to be held on February 28th, suggested 57% of voters would choose Mr Osborne and his boss David Cameron, the Tory prime minister, to run the economy.

Convicted in 1997, he is serving a life sentence for the murders of two French officers, whom he gunned down in an apartment on the Rue Touillier in Paris, and of an erstwhile colleague of his from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P).

In Flashback (1990), as an erstwhile 60s radical activist gone underground, Hopper seems to be playing his own legend, drawing inspiration from his earlier characters.

From an evolutionary perspective, the mammary gland is derived from an apocrine gland in the skin of an erstwhile frog (a synapsid) [ 4].

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