By now, even the most hardcore fans of French cuisine and “Chocolat” star Juliette Binoche can agree that Justine Triet‘s “Anatomy of a Fall” — rather than Tran Anh Hung’s “The Taste of Things” — was the one movie that could have given France its first Oscar win for best international feature in over 30 […]
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A live-action TV series based on is no longer happening. The project is now dead, according to Dinesh Shamdasani, the co-founder of Hivemind, one of the production companies involved. “We took around a fantastic pilot script by Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton along with a multi-season plan they built with our show runners but got
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Teaching a subject is important; it is also in a sense incidental. The classroom is, first and foremost, a place to train young minds toward a yearning for knowledge and a taste for argument — to be intellectually curious — even if what they wind up discovering challenges their most cherished convictions. – The New York
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If you love to work out, it can be mentally and physically difficult to take time off. I like to strength train four days a week and incorporate cardio by boxing or running, so when I’m too sedentary, my body gets restless, and my focus goes out the window. If I catch a cold or
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Donald Trump’s love for tariffs has only grown in the years he’s been out of office. The former president appears to be well on his way to securing the Republican nomination for president for a third time, and a central policy pitch of his campaign is to institute an across-the-board 10% tariff on imported goods,
For the average reader who loves getting lost in books, there’s usually no reason to pay much attention to the shifts occurring in the industry that undergirds their passion. But that doesn’t mean that the tremors that are regularly rumbling through the book trade won’t lead to tectonic shifts that transform the books we love.
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“A child of small-town Appalachia for whom the idea of going to New York City was like ‘going to the moon,’ he … danced with Martha Graham, was an early member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company and led his own well-regarded troupe for 25 years.” – The New York Times Source link
Riskier companies with some $500 billion of debt are being left out of the Fed pivot party, according to BofA Global. Getty Images U.S. companies have enjoyed a record borrowing blitz in January as financial markets rally in anticipation of a Federal Reserve pivot to rate cuts, except for a notable batch of “forgotten” issuers,
When the US targeted Russia’s oligarchs after the invasion of Ukraine, the trail of assets kept leading to our own backyard. Not only had our nation become a haven for shady foreign money, but we were also incubating a familiar class of yacht-owning, industry-dominating, resource-extracting billionaires. In the January + February 2024 issue of our magazine, we
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Update 1/26/24: Breaking news, Swatch MoonSwatch fans: As GQ reported earlier this week, Omega and Swatch are adding a third party to the mix—a certain widely-beloved beagle with a penchant for howling at the moon. As of now, details are scarce on what the delightfully-dubbed MoonSnoopy will actually look like, but expect collectors of every
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