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In an architecturally ingenious sleight-of-hand, the old contortedly cramped but sentimentally beloved Theatre Royal, its site expanded by the purchase of several adjacent properties, has made a swanlike interior metamorphosis into the larger (780 seats in the main auditorium), unostentatiously plush, technically state-of-the-art Wexford Opera House.
In a much-needed act of public spiritedness, Toyo Keizai rated major companies and products in terms of their "loyalty dividend," a figure that is determined, rather contortedly, by factoring the overall market share against percentage of devoted customers (however you work that out).
Nearby is part of a vast polyptych, six panels wide, by Vittorio Crivelli: contortedly ornate and interesting only in the bony attenuation of the figures, which is so striking a feature in the work of his more famous brother, Carlo Crivelli.
 
 
 
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