As the car carrying him departed the police station, a photographer captured another indelible image, of the former Prince slumped in the back seat, wide-eyed and slack-jawed—the boy for whom the chimes once pealed looking very much like a man for whom the bell now tolls.
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Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2026
May your sounds, your chimes, your silence calm us.
The movie plunks us down at Mar-a-Lago, where Melania struts out the door and into the back of an SUV, which will take her to the red-white-and-blue private plane painted with the word TRUMP that’s waiting for her at the airport.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
30 Jan. 2026
Each January, Stoever makes a maximum contribution to a Roth IRA and plunks another chunk of cash in a solo 401(k).
Soft piano music intermingles with the tweeting of sparrows outside, and my nose tingles with the heady scent of leather mixed with the musty perfume of incense burning on the windowsill.
—
Nicola Chilton,
Condé Nast Traveler,
12 Aug. 2025
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