In any case, these are Beckett’s drifters, no doubt, right down to the aching feet and bad breath.
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Greg Evans,
Deadline,
28 Sep. 2025
Shu Qi has spent her career embodying other people’s stories — enigmatic drifters for Hou Hsiao-hsien, comic foils in international action franchises, or, more recently, the tragic heroine of Bi Gan’s Cannes award winner Resurrection.
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Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Sep. 2025
Rumors that the fire was sparked by vagrants have not been proven, Murphy said.
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Shelly Bradbury,
Denver Post,
6 Jan. 2026
Sadly, the reason bus shelters are disappearing is that the city does not wish to provide seating for homeless people or other kinds of vagrants who may congregate there.
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Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
3 Jan. 2026
The social cost of carbon is considered a more accurate accounting of harm from climate change than other calculations used as the basis of carbon credits or carbon offsets to travelers, according to Scripps.
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Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
15 Jan. 2026
For travelers, the Burrees make an excellent choice for long-haul flights, walking around new cities on chilly days, and even casual meals out with your favorite jeans, trousers, and sweaters.
The former, in which Burnett and Hamilton did a song-and-dance routine as Dust Bowl-era hobos, marked the first of several times that the two performed together.
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Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
From oversized, slouchy hobos to structured East-West silhouettes and laptop-ready work totes, this season’s best suede bags deliver a luxurious polish that will elevate every fall wardrobe.
Animals that are kennel-trained will likely be pleased to be in their cozy confines and away from the bustle of vacuums, mops, and the like, but for those who are roamers, consider gating off an area for them.
Told in a lingua franca of philosophy and academic jargon, Lucky’s speech has something to do with the collapse of reason and logic, and the futility of human progress, which is ultimately what tramps Estragon (Reeves) and Vladimir (Winter) are up against, too.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
17 Dec. 2025
Help, of course, isn’t coming—not over the Indian Ocean, not in the nursing home, not on the tramps’ moonlit road.
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