But sidle up to the bar, eerily silent until the restaurant quickly fills with chatter, and order a stiff drink before settling into a table and digging into heaping plates of pasta, milanesa, and a Caesar salad that always hits the spot.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 June 2026
The chatter of cosmopolitan élites is the most reviled of all discourses right now.
The novel is made of math equations, lengthy jokes, digressions in Yiddish, and a whole lot of language play.
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Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
Obviously, the users can also opt for surfing’s rapid digressions due to the overwhelming and disorienting number of choices that they are confronted with when accessing a hypertext.
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Carmen Daniela Maier,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
The show includes a nightly improv section where Mindelle launches into extended tangents about everything from celebrity relationships to political scandals to whatever headline happened to hijack her brain that afternoon.
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Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
June 21 – July 22 Wandering down conversational tangents will be especially tempting today.
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