Winston Churchill, a keen aficionado of wartime deception, described the spying game as "tangle within tangle, plot and counterplot, ruse and treachery, cross and double-cross, true agent, false agent, double agent, gold and steel, the bomb, the dagger and the firing party... interwoven in many a texture so intricate as to be incredible and yet true".
Concerts on Wednesdays-Fridays 10pm, until end August The Spanish are keen aficionados of el ping-pong, and you're as likely to find a public table in a park as you are a slide.
And because we were driving the Bessacarr E495 – the Cadillac of European motorhoming, some might say – aficionados were keen to chat.
He was a keen bridge player and an aficionado of very dry martinis, which he took without ice, but with one or two olives.
An aficionado of oriental music and a keen reader, Hrawi studied commerce at the Jesuit St Joseph University in Beirut and gained a diploma in public administration.
Classical music aficionados, for instance, have never been keen on that kind of sonic compression.
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A die-hard Jets fan, he rarely missed a tailgate party; an aficionado of fine Scotch and cigars, he attended tastings at Keen's Chop House in Manhattan with like-minded colleagues.
As sorry as city officials and aficionados are to see Schmiel go, there is a keen sense of anticipation of her replacement: Nike Wagner, the great granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner.
All that said, it's also important to remember that, of the celebrities on the "Anti" side who've criticised GamerGate's sexist slant, actress (and renowned gaming culture aficionado) Felicia Day suffered "doxxing", whereas the equally, if not more vocal, Chris Kluwe – a retired American football player and keen gamer – did not.
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