Her books were their progeny, Stein acknowledged, and without Alice’s mothering—and typing, proofreading, cooking, sewing, shopping, bookkeeping, and warding off bores—they might not have been born.
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Judith Thurman,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
Anyone who thinks English Heritage sites are run by bores is in for a surprise.
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Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Sep. 2025
VIPs expect a private chef, a driver to take them back and forth to the festival grounds or auxiliary events, private security, IV drips provided at home, an on-call cleaner and private tennis or pickleball lessons.
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Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
Rather than simply preventing drips, the mom continues transferring a significant portion of the ice cream into the cup — leaving noticeably less on the cone.
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