Month: August 2023

Photography courtesy of launchmetrics.com/spotlightFrom milky berry manis to pistachio nails, pastels are having a serious moment. By Melissa Fejtek Date August 9, 2023 Facebook Twitter Summer 2023 is well underway, and between tomato girls, Barbiecore and coastal cowgirls, the trends have been trending…hard. Case in point: this year’s hottest nail colours, which have been taking
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Wondering how to make a lasting impression? For many, broadening charisma can be a challenge, leaving them in search of innovative solutions — this is where pheromone perfumes come into play, often promising to unlock heightened attraction. So, do pheromone perfumes work? While they have garnered attention as a potential aid in interpersonal relations, science
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Play video content CBS ‘Big Brother 25’ contestant Luke Valentine created a pretty tense situation after dropping the N-word mid-conversation with some fellow houseguests. Luke was seen chatting on the live feeds early Wednesday morning with contestants Jared, Cory, and Hisam when he said, “We were in the f****** (inaudible) room, n****.” Realizing his mistake
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Children’s books, comics, puzzles, toy cars, soccer balls, illustrations, the lyrics of songs and lullabies: taken together, the stories in Michele Mari’s You, Bleeding Childhood represent a cataloguing of objects and texts, a crystallization—through the most personal artifacts—of a childhood, and with it, a life. A literary project such as this could no doubt be
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I’ve always loved the novella, which Henry James called “the beautiful and blessed nouvelle” and which Joyce Carol Oats deemed “the most difficult, at least for me” of “all the literary prose forms.” Its length makes it seem grander and more important than a mere short story, while its brevity means that the reader can
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Spies in Disguise is a 2019 American animated spy comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The story of Spies in Disguise follows a secret agent named Lance Sterling who is transformed into a pigeon by a young and highly intelligent scientist named Walter Beckett. Beckett and Sterling then
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Sometimes, writers get undue credit for coining particular words. Did Shakespeare really ‘invent’ the word ‘alligator’? Or ‘puking’? Or is his use of these words simply the earliest use we have (or at least, have found) on record? (Indeed, in the case of ‘alligator’ Shakespeare’s isn’t even the earliest
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