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Zito obituary | Soccer | The Guardian

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SoccerObituaryZito obituaryStar midfielder in Brazil’s World Cup-winning sides of 1958 and 1962The footballer Zito, who has died aged 82, was a hugely influential mainstay of the golden era Brazil sides that won the 1958 and 1962 World Cups, and a legend at his club Santos, in São Paulo, with whom he collected many championship and cup winners’ medals. Zito made his debut for his country in 1955, but it was when he came into Brazil’s two-man midfield in their third game of the 1958 World Cup in Sweden that he made all the difference. Read More...

French Newspapers Are Going Nuts Over This Kate Middleton Lookalike

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The French media have spotted an uncanny Duchess of Cambridge doppelgänger... Zut alors! Qu'est-ce qui se passe? What is going on here?! The French media seem to have made a discovery relating to the British monarchy and it's making them go mad! Our friends over the pond seem to think that French cycling champion Paulin Ferrand-Prevot looks a bit like Kate Middleton and we kind of agree... Read more: These Identical Strangers Are Real Life Doppelgängers! Read More...

Porn and the shadow side of paradise: Thomas Ruff's Nudes

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PhotographySome of Ruff's blurred Nudes, gleaned from pornographic websites, impart a lyricism to the images. Others lay bare the nastiness of the industryIn the mid-1960s when Philip Larkin saw a couple of kids and guessed "he's fucking her and she's / Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm", he knew this was the "paradise / Everyone old has dreamed of all their lives". It was a paradise that turned out – isn't that the way with any paradise? Read More...