Month: September 2020
September 7, 2020
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‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Review: Where to Begin?
“critic’s pick Jessie Buckley and Jesse Plemons play a couple on a trip to some very odd places in Charlie Kaufman’s latest film. Family togetherness (or is it?)…”
September 6, 2020
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Why the No-Tipping Movement Failed (and Why It Still Has a Chance)
“O ne One year after we first spoke in July 2019, Andrew Hoffman tells me I need a “disclaimer” for this piece. “This article was started pre-pandemic. Back in…”
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How Disaster Shaped the Modern City
“Illustration by Mark Harris* O n December 16, 1835 , New York’s rivers turned to ice, and Lower Manhattan went up in flames. Smoke had first appeared curling…”
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Are aliens hiding in plain sight?
“‘You can’t hunt for something if you have no idea what it is’: An artist’s impression of Mars.Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo I n July, three unmanned missions…”
September 5, 2020
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things, review: welcome to the horror of homecoming
“Dir: Charlie Kaufman. Cast: Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons, Toni Collette, David Thewlis, Guy Boyd. 134 min What connects “Lonely Room”, the tragic ballad of…”
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“She’s thinking of ending things. Whatever her name is. Lucy? Louisa? “The Young Woman,” as star Jessie Buckley is listed in the credits? It changes like the…”
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things Review: Charlie Kaufman Opens a Puzzle Box of Existential Dread
“From his screenplays for Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , to his directorial efforts Synecdoche, New York and Anomalisa ,…”
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‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Review: Kaufman Messes With Our Heads
“Mary Cybulski / Netflix Hey, you know that big new movie by the celebrated director that plays around with notions of time and space and is maddeningly hard to…”
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Charlie Kaufman’s Film ‘I’m Thinking Of Ending Things’ Will Leave Many Perplexed
“Support the news Review September 03, 2020 Jessie Buckley (left) and Jesse Plemons in Charlie Kaufman’s “I’m Thinking of Ending Things.” (Courtesy Mary…”
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SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally
“SoftBank is the “Nasdaq whale” that has bought billions of dollars’ worth of US equity derivatives in a series of trades that stoked the fevered rally in big…”
September 4, 2020
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Ian Penman · Vorsprung durch Techno · LRB 10 September 2020
“Kraftwerk performing at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin on 16 January 2015 I n the autumn of 1977, sober-suited Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider of the…”
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Covid-19 death skepticism, explained by a cognitive scientist
“Photos of the deceased are displayed on August 31, 2020, at a public memorial honoring the 5,700 Los Angeles County residents who have died due to Covid-19.…”
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How an overload of riot porn is driving conflict in the streets
“Opinion Weak organization forced right-wing agitators to rely on video and social media. Now they have a machine to spread a narrative of lawless rioting. by…”
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Remote-work visas will shape the future of work, travel and citizenship
“During lockdown, travel was not only a distant dream, it was unlawful. Some even predicted that how we travel would change forever. Those in power that broke…”
September 1, 2020
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“Langston Amadi “I am a walking cartoon most days,” Katy Perry told Billboard in 2010 , and anyone who lived through the reign of Teenage Dream —Perry’s smash…”
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Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh Says He Nearly Died From Covid-19
“Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh spent 18 days at L.A.’s Cedar-Sinai hospital battling Covid-19 in June, he revealed in a harrowing interview with the Los…”