As a paean to the original, a full-scale 85-foot replica of the clocktower will be a star attraction.
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Jonathan DeLise,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Jan. 2026
Nguyen worries, however, that our urge to quantify the value of our lives and achievements is soul-sucking, and his worries are less fun to read about than his paeans to play.
For Mair, the lament is that the very public controversy playing out on that Olympic stage will force changes at the top level of the sport that will trickle down to the grassroots.
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Kevin Baxter,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2026
Her self-reflections have always landed better than love laments though, and there’s plenty of these on the new one.
The temperature plunges; Reilly’s trills harden into an Old World dirge.
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Brad Shoup,
Pitchfork,
24 Jan. 2026
Swedish singer-composer Anna von Hausswolff, whose cathedral melodies, intense vocals and doom-laden dirges share much in common with Nordic heavy-metal culture, specializes in mystery and grandiosity.
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