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On Stranger Things, Harbour played police chief Jim Hopper, the surrogate father to Brown's telekinetic teen Eleven, and the new drama from A24 and Netflix finds them as estranged father-daughter spies.
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The District of Columbia's most affluent suburb is McLean, home to diplomats and spies.
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Today’s intruders rarely smash through the front entrance.
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In contrast to his wife, Joseph was calm, polite, careful not to do anything to upset the intruders.
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But pretty soon the two interlopers into this small, grudge-holding but tight-knit community — the kind where, going back generations, everybody not only knows but is mightily resentful of everyone else’s business — develop a kind of outsider kinship.
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An analysis of the recordings showed that the parents behaved aggressively toward the divers more often when the human interlopers were staring at the offspring or the parent, compared with when the diver was looking in another direction or completely turned away.
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The rubberneckers who gather across the street are represented by crowd noise, and at one point a handful of cops stalk down the aisles of the theater, guns pointed right at Sonny.
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So Wembanyama naturally decided to toy with his rubberneckers.
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But Lighton doesn’t treat them as sitcom-ish meddlers.
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Keyboard busybodies, naturally, expressed their unsolicited opinions in the comments section.
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“Priers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/priers. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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