Most of the surface is made up of a fine dust with jagged edges because it hasn’t been weathered by wind or water.
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Jeremy Bogaisky,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Against all of this allegedly heady stuff, the score—by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross—intentionally jars us from encroaching drowsiness with chortling woodwinds and shardlike piano chords that are the aural equivalent of jagged Plexiglass off-cuts.
During Friday’s press conference in the Palazzo del Casino, the actors tangled with the film’s thorny topics, which deal not only with assault but also race relations in the academic world and the ideological divide between generations.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
29 Aug. 2025
The road narrowed, and dry grass and thorny scrub leaned over the dusty track, as two rhinos stepped quietly out of the undergrowth.
Fifteen years of separation led them to grow even further apart, though, and a once-symbiotic relationship has evolved into something considerably more prickly.
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Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
30 Aug. 2025
Noah Baumbach’s painfully incisive portrait of a family divorce among a remarkably prickly family of Brooklyn intellectuals finds so many ways to showcase its characters’ most brittle sides.
Even though modern machines and detergents have taken most of the workload out of the task, there are still some outdated laundry habits that may leave your clothes and linens looking dingy, smelling less than fresh, and feeling scratchy.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
8 Aug. 2025
The cups are removable, which is nice, depending on my mood, and the lace isn’t itchy or scratchy on my sensitive skin.
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