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Elsewhere in the booth are pulsating Op art–inflected pieces by Younes Khourassani, who studied under Hamidi at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Casablanca in the late ’90s and early 2000s.
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Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 31 Jan. 2025
The other pulsated from the outskirts of a distant old, dead galaxy no longer producing stars, according to a new study.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025
The borders of each one could begin to pulsate with every subsequent presidential handover.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s pulsating Globe-winning score for Challengers also looks to have no serious challengers in its way to victory after this first win at the Globes.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2025
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Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 31 Jan. 2025
The other pulsated from the outskirts of a distant old, dead galaxy no longer producing stars, according to a new study.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025
The borders of each one could begin to pulsate with every subsequent presidential handover.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s pulsating Globe-winning score for Challengers also looks to have no serious challengers in its way to victory after this first win at the Globes.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2025
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My toothache throbbed all the way down my neck as my cab passed shop windows filled with fresh pasta the color of spring hay, icebergs of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, and ladies forming tiny tortellini around their fingertips, before dropping me off at an anonymous building in the centro storico.—
Marcia DeSanctis,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Feb. 2025
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The next morning, my legs were still throbbing but guess what?—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Orange County Register,
5 Feb. 2025
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In sumptuously vibrating chords in the first movement of Schubert’s Fantasy, Olafsson’s touch was a little wetter and more muted, Wang’s percussive and as coolly etched as a polygraph.—
Zachary Woolfe,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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Even the film’s basic exposition, showing Anna working in Klaus’s household and receiving her fateful instructions from Hansen, is richly suggestive of the turmoil vibrating beneath the orderly domestic surface.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2025
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Australia beat their oldest rivals by five wickets in their Champions Trophy group game at Lahore on Saturday.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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As coached by Joe Schmidt, the Irish national team beat the New Zealand All Blacks here in 2016 (before some 62,000 people) for the first time in 111 years.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Feb. 2025
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Successfully straddling that somewhat icy tone and a more hyperbolic effect are the anxious, pulsing synth textures of Martin Dirkov’s original score, which duly recall enduring prior thriller soundtracks by Tangerine Dream and Giorgio Moroder.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
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Their personalities, stories and overlapping narratives produce their own gravitational pull, meaning the crux of women’s football’s (still vigorously) pulsing tribalism is not as simple as being from that part of the country, nor are the lines as black and white.—
Megan Feringa,
The Athletic,
3 Feb. 2025
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