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If those names conjure images of hazy sunlight, wildflower fields and free love — with Beatles music playing in the background — that is no accident.
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Samantha Conti, WWD, 24 July 2024
Multiple cultural trends converged: the crackdown on obscenity, the Gospel of Love, feminism, and above all, perhaps, the doctrine of free love promoted by Woodhull.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
Unrest over Vietnam and civil rights, free love and gay liberation erupted around the Bay Area, fueled in part by Easterners who came seeking a break from society.
—Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
The festival featured Brazilian psy trance music and focused on free love, spirit, and environmental preservation.
—Anna Gordon, Time, 9 Oct. 2023
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Samantha Conti, WWD, 24 July 2024
Multiple cultural trends converged: the crackdown on obscenity, the Gospel of Love, feminism, and above all, perhaps, the doctrine of free love promoted by Woodhull.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
Unrest over Vietnam and civil rights, free love and gay liberation erupted around the Bay Area, fueled in part by Easterners who came seeking a break from society.
—Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
The festival featured Brazilian psy trance music and focused on free love, spirit, and environmental preservation.
—Anna Gordon, Time, 9 Oct. 2023
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Howard sued his wife’s lover for alienation of affection and criminal conversation, according to court records.Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
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North Carolina is one of about a half-dozen states that allow lawsuits accusing a cheating spouse’s lover of alienation of affection and criminal conversation.EMERY P. DALESIO, The Seattle Times, 5 Sep. 2017
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Nowadays, his audaciously eccentric nature, along with his extreme promiscuity, is souring into something far less palatable: a litany of horrific accusations.Raven Smith, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2024
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Russia is a conservative society that viewed the years of Yeltsin’s rule, and its onslaught of pornography and promiscuity, with horror.Robert David English, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2017
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The book’s true love affair is with what cannot be reclaimed: a world untouched by disease and unspoiled by money.Daniel Felsenthal, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
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Los Angeles has long had a passionate love affair with French cinema, dating back more than 60 years ago when there were lines around the block to get into theaters showing the latest works from cinema masters such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and others.Steven Gaydos, Variety, 26 Oct. 2024
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The museum's focus is not only on bringing alive the story of Andersen's amazingly interesting life (filled with love, heartbreak and adventure) but also on taking you by the hand and plunging you headfirst on an immersive journey through Andersen’s bewitching stories.Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
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Hale, Georgia’s campaign lead, said principles of justice and equality align with major faith teachings of love for God and one’s neighbor.Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2024
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The dispute stems from an arbitration award issued in summer 2023 that provided CPD officers accused of serious misconduct the option to have their administrative cases decided by the Chicago Police Board or in private by a third-party.Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 2024
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Caldwell said in the letter the allegations in the lawsuit, which are unproven, point to possible crimes that include abuse of authority, obstruction of justice, witness tampering and misconduct in office, as well as violations of MSP rules of conduct.Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2024
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His initial refusal to bend the knee—even trying for a last-minute coup at the Republican convention in Cleveland with a protest speech from the stage—put him in the MAGA column for disloyalty.Philip Elliott / Houston, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
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Throughout the rest of the movie, Donald demonstrates his mastery of these methods in a relentless and brazen series of betrayals, disloyalties, cruelties.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
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Politics is full of deceit, treachery, and betrayal. . . .Quintus Tullius Cicero, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2012
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Triumph shadowed by treachery became the dynamic of both the revolution and his life.Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2017
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Putin inundates Ukraine’s airwaves with propaganda about the West’s perfidy, the West’s agonizingly slow and insufficient support of Ukraine, the West’s seeming willingness to bleed Ukraine as a proxy, Zelensky’s anti-democratic centralization of power, and the like.Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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On March 4, 1798, the first dispatches from France finally arrived and exposed the depths of French perfidy.Lindsay M. Chervinsky / Made by History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
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“Free love.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/free%20love. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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