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screens
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This weekend — four years and seven months since cameras first rolled on the project — Desert Warrior squeaked onto 1,010 American screens with the barest minimum of marketing and failed to crack the top ten of new movies.—
Chris Lee,
Vulture,
27 Apr. 2026 -
From January through March every year, our screens—and, for the luckiest among us, our travel schedules—are inundated with fashion shows.—
Alexandra Hildreth,
Vogue,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Potemkin villages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Potemkin%20villages. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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