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To address those concerns, Hulls has committed roughly $15 million to establish the Good Luck Fund, which acquires and preserves properties considered important to the community.
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What are the most important values of the community that the superintendent must honor regardless of pressure or politics?
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The passage is incoherent, yet, in conflating progressive reform with arrogant blind faith, it is perfectly suited to Vance’s cynical conservatism.
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To no one’s surprise, Bonnie is immediately transfixed by her Lilypad (voiced by Greta Lee, whose arrogant smarm effectively threads the needle between Maya Hawke’s Anxiety and Regina George’s everything else).
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That sweet spot between professionalism, entertainment and high-and-mighty disapproval?
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Lots of high-and-mighty people populate Tyrrell’s recollections.
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Sea cows are superior to land cows, Voegtlin suggested, because land cows eat grains, which humans could survive on in a pinch.
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Their relationship is built, to a large degree, around Jerry’s belief that Roberta is the superior critic — but this, for Jerry, is a form of chivalry, the flower of their love story.
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This Cannes Directors’ Fortnight prizewinner sets out its pitch-black-comic stall early with a prologue in which, after a brief contretemps, local man Raoul Brun (Jean-Louis Coulloc’h) blows his supercilious neighbor’s head off with a shotgun and then disappears.
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After appearing as supercilious EPA company man Walter Peck in Ghostbusters, Atherton completed his trilogy of goofy comedies with Real Genius (1985) and Bio-Dome (1996).
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But there’s much to like here — from the two leads, the numerous Bay Area shots (the Golden Gate Bridge should get a supporting actor credit), Nick Offerman as a pretentious, cruel chef and Lukas Gage as a clueless cretin love interest/coworker.
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Not to sound pretentious, but Elwood Dowd is sort of like a Christlike figure.
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Jim Parsons, too, understands the assignment as Rose's gold-digging mother, as do our adorably charming Jack Dawson (Rousouli) and hilariously uppity Cal (John Riddle).
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Steve Fields serves lobster tails and filet mignon, but its proprietor likes to think of the restaurant as D-FW’s affordable steakhouse — a place that isn’t too uppity.
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This may be considered presumptuous considering the tote first appeared on the scene only in 2018, but Mary Kate and Ashley’s creation has already catapulted itself into classic status.
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Nothing at Gwyn is overly presumptuous, though; in fact, the clothing still retains a markedly Cali-cool identity, which is to say it’s rooted in minimalism.
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“Fastuous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fastuous. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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