Benedict Cumberbatch plays British businessman Greville Wynne who gets caught up in espionage during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Liam DanielA new film starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Courier, tells the story of the salesman, Grenville Wynne, caught up in the murky world of espionage during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This follows recent news that David Smith, a 57-year-old and apparently normal security guard at the British embassy in Berlin, had been spying for Russia. So why do seemingly ordinary people become spies? In 1988 the KGB defector, Stanislav Levchenko, described an American mnemonic, Mice, which stands for “money”, “ideology”, “coercion/compromise” and “ego”. Susceptibility to these factors, he claimed, was a target’s key weakness that could be exploited. Money Officials in debt...
For creative Anthony D’Argenzio, distressed furniture has become an unofficial calling card—he has a soft spot for reviving forgotten pieces for his own house and those of his design clients. While “distressed” tends to bring to mind the bad shabby-chic furniture of the early aughts, the Zio and Sons and This Old Hudson founder has a broader interpretation, relying on each item to tell him exactly what it needs—or doesn’t need—to shine. And according to D’Argenzio, learning how to distress furniture is actually much easier than people think. Though he’s tried his hand at many different applications, his favorite methods are reviving bare wood with beeswax oil and playing around with a whitewash to freshen up an already-stained piece. “My mantra...
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