Guests of the event, dressed up in cocktail attire, admitted to feeling sheepish, reminded so powerfully about the current context, and hurried their way inside the storied building more quickly than in previous editions.
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Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
28 Sep. 2025
Red-cheeked and reticent, the duo shook their heads and took their sheepish leave.
The Movie finds its titular alpha wolf Scott McCall (Tyler Posey) a teenager no more, but still struggling with the same hangdog loneliness.
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CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
26 Jan. 2023
The man is Calum (Normal People's Paul Mescal), dangling on the cusp of 32, handsome in a hangdog way, with an arm in a cast and a big smile that can't entirely hide the distress that nips at his joy.
Doherty, 30, is playing meek flower shop assistant Seymour in the treasured musical, about a strange and unusual plant that feeds only on human flesh and blood.
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Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
18 Sep. 2025
What threatened to be a meek, straight-sets exit for the 13th seed went full-metal crazy on match point down when Bonzi was interrupted from serving it out after a photographer absent-mindedly walked onto the court.
There were dozens of other US fugitives of justice living in Cuba, many of them would-be revolutionaries that had arrived on the island thinking Castro’s government would provide them the military training to become the next Che Guevara but instead they were given menial jobs and forgotten.
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Patrick Oppmann,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
Businesses don’t necessarily hire people solely based on their ability to schedule meetings, fill out paperwork or submit expense reports, even though these menial tasks can take up a significant portion of an employee’s typical workday.
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