There is this arts centre I quite like and also dislike. Despite being voted "London's ugliest building" according to a BBC poll in September 2003, is still officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance. But further to the site, they do theatre, art, dance, education, music and films....As they undergo their 25th birthday, they wanted to know, after thousands of films have been screened in their cinemas since their opening, which were the public's 25 favourite.
And ladies and gentlemen, the highly cultured attendants of such prestigious insitution agree with me, in at least one, the winner, which gave us this famous quote:
"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
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