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As our cantankerous lead, Molina harumphs lovably from scene to scene, conveying both his character’s indomitable will and the wretchedness of his grief.
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Director Penny Lane interviews jazz critics who howl at his wretchedness, then balances it with fans who simply don’t care.
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Luke and Kristen squabble for the entirety of the trip, which only adds to its miserableness.
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Sometimes the irony turns bitter and, with a typically Eastern European sensibility, highlights the paradoxes of institutions, as well as the madness and meanness born from the pursuit and preservation of power.
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After 1965, when African Americans’ right to vote was constitutionally recognized, the meanness continued.
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The horror has come now like a storm— what if this night prefigured the night after death— what if all thereafter was an eternal quivering on the edge of an abyss, with everything base and vicious in oneself urging one forward and the baseness and viciousness of the world just ahead.
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In that context, the language of immigrant criminality becomes part of the rationale for detention rules, enforcement surges and legal changes that treat noncitizens as a standing public safety risk.
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Police sources say no criminality is suspected.
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That feeling stops, however, when pulling into gas stations or parking lots, where the length and lowness of the car require extreme care to keep the chin from scraping.
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That’s the dirtiness of rugs and pulling.
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For a young team learning to stick up for each other, Mangiapane brings a needed dirtiness to the Hawks.
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“Lousiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lousiness. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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