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Detenido un líder opositor tras las protestas en Rusia
El lunes, el líder opositor ruso Alexei Navalny fue multado y condenado a 15 días de cárcel. Su detención se produjo el día después de una oleada de protestas por toda Rusia contrael gobierno, que Navalny organizó para protestar contra la presunta corrupción del primer ministro Dmitry Medvedev.
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¿Sigues pensando que el festival de teatro al aire libreEl Grec de Barcelona es el mejor festival de verano de España, Nicolás?
Nicolás:
Hombre, Marta, sino es el mejor… es uno de los mejores. Lleva años haciéndose y la calidad es buenísima.
Marta:
¡Cierto! Pero el Festival Internacional de Teatro clásico de Almagro, en Ciudad Real no debe estar nada mal, tampoco. Ha sido reconocidopor unanimidad con el Premio Max a la Contribución a las Artes Escénicas 2017 por “su puesta en valor del teatro del Siglo de Oro”.
Nicolás:
El Siglo de Oro español sigue siendoun referente… ¡Los clásicos son los clásicos! Fue un período de florecimiento del arte y la literatura en España. Cervantes con el Quijote o Calderón de la Barca o Quevedo en literatura y Murillo en pintura…
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Las Perífrasis Verbales con gerundio are the combination of two verbs in which the first verb is the one that is conjugated in any tense and any form or person and the second verb stays in the gerund form. There's no preposition linking both verbs.
Here is a list of a few common períffrasis verbales followed by a gerund and its uses:
Todos sabemos que Picasso fue un artista de tomo y lomo, ¿verdad? Y por años que pasennunca nos cansaremos de admirar y hablar de su obra emblemática: el Guernica.
Nicolás:
¿Lo dices por qué el año 2017 es el 80 aniversario de la creación de este famoso mural, no? ¡Un mural de 11 x 4 metros! Sin duda una obra de tomo y lomo. No solo por su tamaño sino por su contenido y su expresión simbólica.
Marta:
Cierto… y para conmemorar este 80 aniversario de la creación del Guernica, el Museo Reina Sofía de Madrid ha preparado una gran exposición que analiza esa iconografía de agonía, perplejidad y horror que proyecta.
Nicolás:
Sin duda… Y ¿cuál es la temática de la exposición en torno al Guernica?
Marta:
La exposición reúne una selección de casi 180 obras realizadas desde los años 20 hasta que Picasso pintó el mural en 1937. Con esta colección se explora las raíces de ese mundo imaginario de Picasso que ya se encuentran en muchas obras previas al Guernica.
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La expresión de esta semana "de tomo y lomo" es una expresión popular que se utiliza para describir a una persona que es muy profesional en su trabajo o que es extremadamente bueno entodo lo que hace. También se usa para describir actividades o cosas que tienen una gran importancia.
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