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While their work has a core of seriousness, their onstage persona is free of the pedantry leftists get maligned for, more hapless millennial than Marxist lecturer.—
E. Alex Jung,
Vulture,
21 May 2026 -
But our understanding of pedantry, denoting the sticklerishness of academic specialists and grammar obsessives, is a relatively narrow one.—
Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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In a sea of prestige actresses doing dramedy, Byrne is a true comedic talent, sporting incredible instincts for finding the funniest angle for Sylvia to take in her line readings or gestures.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
29 May 2026
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Volunteers and the Washington family played a recording of Asaiah Washington doing a poetry reading, had a moment of silence, and also read off the more than 50 names of Sacramento jail inmates who have died since 2018.—
Theresa Clift
May 29,
Sacbee.com,
29 May 2026
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