Imagine waking up, groggy and bearded, on a space ship light-years from Earth.
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
22 Mar. 2026
But then the dream deviates, and takes me to the set of Gilligan’s Island, where Bob Denver, who originally played the part of Gilligan, has been replaced by a bearded intellectual who looks like Karl Marx combined with Cesar Romero, who played the Joker on the original Batman TV show.
Cowley conceived of the American tradition, dating back to the eighteenth century, as analogous to, say, that of the French: a comprehensible sequence of geographic and aesthetic developments, not the mere littering of hirsute eccentrics that it was typically taken to be.
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Vince Passaro,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
By documenting lushly hirsute Japanese officials alongside their beardless counterparts, portraiture preserved a photographic record of colonial subjects’ visibly inferior status.
Using a fork, gradually draw the flour into the liquid until a shaggy dough begins to form.
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Monti Carlo,
AJC.com,
20 Mar. 2026
Redmayne brings a sweetly doltish everyman energy to this increasingly off-kilter affair, with much of the dialogue between him and his co-stars (including Stratton-Twine as the missing woman’s slacker brother) improvised in disarmingly shaggy fashion.
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