Sea oats and fir trees dance in the breeze as seagulls squawk in a bright blue sky and the mighty Pacific crashes against the jagged shoreline a few dozen yards away.
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Blane Bachelor,
AFAR Media,
12 Feb. 2025
The neck’s jagged base suggests that the head was torn from a larger, perhaps full-length figure, but the sculpture reveals almost no other significant damage.
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Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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Deb Amlen,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
The case shocked the world, rekindled thorny debates about women’s rights in France and turned Gisele Pelicot into a feminist icon.
Camille Cottin is a standout as prickly, voluble talent agent Andréa Martel, but the whole cast intermingles with enough chemistry and charm to make this one of the best workplace comedies of the last decade.
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Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
31 Jan. 2025
Old news, perhaps, but among Bayern’s transfer targets is — inevitably — Wirtz, which would involve a prickly negotiation.
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The Athletic UK Staff,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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A humidifier can help with dry coughs, congestion, nose bleeds, itchy eyes and scratchy throats.
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Nora Colomer,
Fox News,
5 Feb. 2025
Richter draws on the survivor memoirs written and recorded by his relatives, collaging actual photographs with his own scratchy but realistic drawings.
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Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Jan. 2025
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