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Produced in collaboration with la Cinémathèque française, the British iteration of the show reimagines and expands on the 2025 Paris presentation with more than 700 objects, including original storyboards, notebooks, photographs, puppets, models, sketches and costumes from his movies.—
Stephanie Sporn,
HollywoodReporter,
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The puppets’ heads in the past are silicon moulds multi-layered by oil painting to look like aged wood.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
6 Jan. 2026
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Minneapolis leaders are pushing for state law enforcement to be part of a joint investigation with the FBI into Wednesday's shooting.—
Victor Jacobo,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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Last January, Navajo leaders advised citizens to carry their Certificate of Indian Blood or tribal identification card.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
11 Jan. 2026
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Western counterparts often acknowledge them privately, even as public backlash from some European institutions and media figures ensued against Rubio’s candor.—
Daniel Ross Goodman,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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The Mean Green’s best football season ever wasn’t even over before the major figures from that team left, or announced their intentions to bounce ASAP; when the season did end, moments after UNT defeated San Diego State to win the New Mexico Bowl, is when the great Denton flood began.—
Mac Engel
January 9,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Jan. 2026
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Long snapper Hank Pepper, linebacker Eric Gentry, quarterback Jayden Maiava, wide receiver Asante Das and offensive lineman Tobias Raymond were each announced as game captains on Saturday.—
Haley Sawyer,
Oc Register,
8 Nov. 2025
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The Republican National Committee is now providing personnel, including five full-time staffers, 50 county captains over 15,000 volunteers, who include attorneys and poll workers, per the committee.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
4 Nov. 2025
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The resale prices of Labubus started to fall after Pop Mart increased production of the dolls to meet demand, according to CNBC.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
2 Jan. 2026
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The counterfeit market has caught up, with 236,000 Labubu dolls seized at UK borders alone, raising health and safety concerns.—
Will Barker,
TheWeek,
30 Dec. 2025
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But in years past, the commission’s leaders have often been at odds with each other, or with police chiefs, including Anne Kirkpatrick and Floyd Mitchell, who resigned last fall.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2026
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While Maduro served as the symbolic and diplomatic face of Chavismo, day-to-day authority was long dispersed among loyal enforcers, negotiators and security chiefs whose influence often rivaled — and at times surpassed — that of the president himself.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
6 Jan. 2026
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This snowy themed show, which features about 100 marionettes, includes sledding slopes, caroling penguins and Santa’s workshop.—
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
26 Nov. 2025
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The two worked together on Anderson’s most recent film, The Phoenician Scheme, for which Sharp sourced original paintings by such masters as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and René Magritte for the art collection owned by Zsa-Zsa Korda (played by Benicio Del Toro).—
Stephanie Sporn,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Jan. 2026
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Hughes is a certified personal trainer with a masters in holistic nutrition and about 20 years of experience helping clients get strong with weights.—
Deborah Vankin,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Figureheads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/figureheads. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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