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The ad depicts a barefoot Kenyan runner sprinting across a rugged landscape as a group of white men in military SUVs tracks him down as if on a hunting expedition.
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Matthew Pittman, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2025
There was so much pre- match negativity and expecting Arsenal to turn us over and moaning about the transfer window as if the club didn’t want to buy players.
—Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025
Intertwined with the Ochi noises is David Longstreth’s transfixing score, which rings so brightly ethereal as if truly comprised from sounds captured in the forest.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
Next to him sits Freud, wearing a suit and tie and looking down at the table, as if set apart from everything around him.
—Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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Matthew Pittman, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2025
There was so much pre- match negativity and expecting Arsenal to turn us over and moaning about the transfer window as if the club didn’t want to buy players.
—Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025
Intertwined with the Ochi noises is David Longstreth’s transfixing score, which rings so brightly ethereal as if truly comprised from sounds captured in the forest.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
Next to him sits Freud, wearing a suit and tie and looking down at the table, as if set apart from everything around him.
—Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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