For the viewer, the satisfaction comes through vicarious tactile sensation—witnessing how the thatch gets smacked in by a flat, hammerlike device, or the way a tile slots perfectly into a shelf niche.
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Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
17 June 2026
Then, on June 15, 2025, in Kansas City, Kurtz smacked a go-ahead homer off then-Royals closer Carlos Estévez.
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Stephen J. Nesbitt,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
Schwartz slid between the two of them, kissed Benji first and then Zack, Zack and then Benji, back and forth as lips found lips, hands found flesh, underwear found the floor.
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Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
18 June 2026
Barack and Michelle held hands and kissed during the Obama Presidential Center event ahead of its opening later in the week.
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