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Jesus, in profile in the frame, had shoulder-length waves like late-stage Michael Jackson but a coloring that was more African than His Mediterranean birth would imply, though not as dark as Jean, and much less so than Wole, an actual African.—
David Wright Faladé,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025 -
Amazon has a ton of fashion-forward options that are lightweight and easy to pack thanks to their slim profile.—
Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Sep. 2025
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This temporal blurring between past and present is echoed in the structure of the installation itself, which creates a kind of time loop between the two films, shuttling the viewer between the immediate danger of the war’s outbreak and the lingering trauma of its memory.—
Joanna Warsza,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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The Six of Cups asks you to revisit your past—not to dwell, but to reclaim lost parts of yourself.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 Oct. 2025
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There was a joint memorial service for Gillespie and his grandfather, who died one day after Gillespie, according to Gillespie’s obituary.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
25 Sep. 2025
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Virginia Culver, who in her 44 years at the Denver Post covered religion and reported news obituaries, yet on the matter of her own mortality remained intensely private, died Sunday in Denver.—
Susan Greene,
Denver Post,
23 Sep. 2025
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Trump does have a long history of suing media companies, including a handful of successful lawsuits filed on the 2024 campaign trail and since entering office in January.—
Christian Datoc,
The Washington Examiner,
25 Sep. 2025
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The preview feature, available now for Pro subscribers on mobile, marks OpenAI's latest attempt to make ChatGPT proactive rather than reactive, with the AI model conducting overnight research to deliver morning updates based on user history and connected apps.—
Benj Edwards,
ArsTechnica,
25 Sep. 2025
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Seife is not committing pathography.—
James Gleick,
The New York Review of Books,
13 Apr. 2021
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Death permeates life in an echo of Harjo’s films; Four Sheets to the Wind unfolds in the wake of a suicide, while Barking Water chronicles a terminally ill man’s final road trip.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
23 Sep. 2025
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And there’s some of this feeling in the letters and chronicles left by Spanish warriors.—
Greg Grandin
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
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