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The Ballad of Wallis Island sees Key play Charles, an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of reuniting his favorite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer, a duo played by Basden and Promising Young Woman's Carey Mulligan, for a private show.—
Simon Thompson,
Forbes.com,
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He’s invited her along on a business trip, to the wilderness retreat of eccentric zillionaire Odell (Richard E. Grant), the head of a hugely lucrative pharmaceuticals company.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
28 Mar. 2025
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Among the coveted dim sum items at Paradise Dynasty in Costa Mesa and Glendale are golden, flaky radish pastries.—
Cindy Carcamo,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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For this reason, products with urea are often used to improve skin conditions that create dry, itchy, flaky, and scaly skin, like eczema and psoriasis.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
19 Mar. 2025
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These early quirky roadside attractions of the 40s and 50s included things like Cypress Gardens, citrus grove viewing towers, and zoos.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
22 Mar. 2025
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This is a film that takes the quirky absurdism of Lewis Carrol’s book and the 1951 Disney film and drives it off a cliff.—
Barry Levitt,
TIME,
21 Mar. 2025
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In Haiti, there hasn’t been a general election in nearly a decade; more than a million have been displaced by armed gang violence and the country’s volatile capital is on the verge of collapse.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
22 Mar. 2025
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Super Micro shares have been on a volatile run this year.—
Pia Singh,
CNBC,
21 Mar. 2025
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The sometimes impetuous Nasser and the reserved and uncharismatic Hasan al-Hudaybi, the Brotherhood’s general guide (the top official) at this time, grew to hate each other in the years immediately following the revolution.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Aug. 2018
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Sheinbaum must walk a fine line between her constituents, who don’t want to see Mexico humiliated — or go broke — and the unpredictable, impetuous Trump.—
Patrick J. McDonnell,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Dec. 2024
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Among the topics discussed: The Nuggets are in the middle of a mercurial stretch of basketball that’s included some of their best (Nikola Jokic’s 30-20-20 vs. Phoenix) and worst (Wizards loss) games of the season.—
AAron Ontiveroz,
The Denver Post,
18 Mar. 2025
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Like Jackson, Solomon has a mercurial, aspiring politician of a son, Junior (Glenn Davis), who, in the timeline of Purpose, is just out of a prison term for tax fraud, and whose wife, Morgan (Alana Arenas), is about to go in and serve her time.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Crankish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crankish. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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