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Arranging her songs for orchestras, programming cutting edge beats, and writing lyrics with wit, emotion, and historical and literary inspirations, Björk is an art pop icon and one of the world’s most original living songwriters.—
Al Shipley,
SPIN,
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After checking Notre-Dame off your list, cross the Seine and peruse the titles on the leaning antique bookshelves of English bookstore Shakespeare and Company, which was once the meeting ground for the expat literary set in Paris.—
Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Jan. 2025
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Such would-be scientific treatises in fact functioned more like manifestos, and decisively influenced Eliot and Ezra Pound’s generation to favor a poetics of the objective sensuous image over one of the dramatic declamatory mood.—
Benjamin Kunkel,
The New Yorker,
9 Dec. 2024
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But there’s nothing boring in Coppola’s realization of this culminating drama, and none in Driver’s declamatory enthusiasm.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2024
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The trial could also provide courtroom fireworks between two bombastic attorneys.—
James Queally,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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Biden, the nation’s oldest commander-in-chief, strode stiffly into the ceremony flanked by Harris after both failed to deliver on Democratic hopes to turn the page on the era of Trump’s bombastic populism.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
20 Jan. 2025
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Here is an important one: Were the poll respondents made aware of the actual number of transgender students participating in scholastic sports relative to the overall number of students participating in those programs, based upon either local, state, or national statistics?—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Jan. 2025
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Sanders won the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, which is given to the nation’s top quarterback who best exemplifies character, scholastic and athletic achievement.—
Ryan Canfield,
Fox News,
24 Dec. 2024
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Stan would’ve played Joe Alwyn’s role, Harry Lee Van Buren, the pompous son of Guy Pearce’s moneyed industrialist who exploits Adrien Brody’s Jewish-Hungarian architect.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
14 Jan. 2025
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What began earlier in Iannucci’s career as simply skewering pompous politicians has matured into an examination of what happens when leaders with feet of mud let their egos make decisions that will change the lives of millions.—
Stephen Rodrick,
Rolling Stone,
8 Jan. 2025
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Still, there’s great friction in this story line, because Bridger and Young’s dialogue is simultaneously so florid and pointed, and because the actors playing the Mormon baddies really gnaw on their villainy.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2025
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But sentimentality suits Flanagan, whose florid writing style is well matched by the high-concept ideas explored here.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
1 Jan. 2025
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Mufasa opens in the stilted aftermath of the 2019 movie (also written by Nathanson).—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Dec. 2024
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The rooms The camp has just nine tents branching off a stilted wooden walkway with plenty of space in between.—
Chris Schalkx,
AFAR Media,
12 Dec. 2024
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Boots in the boudoir Spring/summer 2025 is going to be full of flowery feminine prints and floaty blouses and skirts if the Paris runway shows that end Tuesday are anything to go by.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune Europe,
1 Oct. 2024
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The album had a flowery psychedelic cover and was widely advertised in New York and California.—
James R. Hagerty,
WSJ,
27 Jan. 2023
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