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If it's using the original words in an updated setting, that's particularly tricky if set in the 20th or 21st century although it can work OK in period styles, eg the Trevor Nunn Twelfth Night set late Victorian very effectively.

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Chauvet caves are about 32,000 years old, along with a few small, realistic sculptures of women and animals from the same period.

And if tempers are still too high, then they send someone off to visit some relatives, as a cooling-off period.

The tricky thing is that these harsh chemicals are really effective at keeping a garment a specific color for a long period of time.

The 200,000-year period in which men have been top dog is truly coming to an end, believe it or not, and that's why I talk about the "end of men."

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