For anyone who’s ever been on a ventilator, death by suffocation is a paralyzing terror and Carson wholly sells this nightmare, painfully gasping for air and gurgling horribly as his nurse call button slips out of reach.
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Gayle Sequeira,
Vulture,
16 May 2025
Art flop: When a bronze head by the master sculptor Alberto Giacometti failed to sell at Sotheby’s auction, the audience gasped.
At the same time, there are other conditions that can present with allergy-like symptoms, and at high enough concentrations, even people without allergies will wheeze.
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Umair Irfan,
Wired News,
5 Apr. 2025
Crappy Christmas lights blinked overhead, and a tiny pug wheezed on a rug by the register.
Despite Wharton puffing his chest in a terrifying bid to control his new wife, however, Serena fights back.
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Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2025
That constant gnawing and sucking and puffing and chomping are all tension generators and all bring the focus back to Husk’s facial hair, the accessory that conveys how resigned the character is to his own recklessness.
The bear growled, huffed and clacked her teeth — making sure her message of getting away from her cubs got across.
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Benjamin Alva Polley,
Rolling Stone,
10 May 2025
In this offbeat and surreal comedy, frustrated playwright Mark becomes addicted to huffing perfume to conjure memories from a previous Italian summer vacation.
Photo Gallery Actress Susanne Wuest was greatly inspired by the box of photos the filmmaker provided of the women who lived on the farm.
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Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
15 May 2025
The ocean-facing 156-seat restaurant, which includes an eight-seat sushi bar and 12-seat pagoda bar, serves signature dishes such as black cod with iso squid pasta and A5 Wagyu steak, as well as locally inspired dishes including lobster truffle tempura and beef kushiyaki skewers.
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Pamela Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 May 2025
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