Grim laughter sometimes, for Orumbo is a nasty piece of work (Mr Bandele resists political correctness), but witty with it.

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Vladimir Baskakov, head of Goskino, the central state administrative body for the cinema, emerges as a particularly nasty piece of work.

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In his interview with Sky News, he defended Eddie Mair's questioning of the London mayor, Boris Johnson, in which Mair had called the mayor a "nasty piece of work".

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Because he's mercurial, insufficiently engaged by the more boring (but crucial) operations like distribution and, ultimately, because he's a pretty nasty piece of work.

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In his interview with Boris Johnson, Mair called the mayor a "nasty piece of work" and questioned him about making up quotes and lying about an affair.

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