Key speeches are faithfully delivered to an audience of two, not thousands; a scene of soldiers destructively revelling on a bridge is given a different spirit by ironic, out-of-time horseplay.
—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
8 Feb. 2025
Another interesting finding from the clinical trial that was more recently reveled is the reduction of visceral fat.
Its governor, Edward Jackson, was a close friend of the the Indiana Klan leader, D. C. Stephenson, a pudgy man with a reputation for high living, carousing, and trouble with the law.
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Tara McAndrew,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Jan. 2017
From there, a series of scenes — a late-night house party full of adults drinking and carousing, a cascade of tinsel falling off a Christmas tree, a playground fail — replicate a you-are-there feeling as a preadolescent named Elwood Curtis navigates the agonies and ecstasies of boyhood.
While capering around with her boss, Matty keeps looking for a private moment alone with Olympia’s luggage.
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Noel Murray,
Vulture,
12 Dec. 2024
Chapman persuaded Ford Motor Co. to fulfill his V-8 engine requirements and built the first of what were to become revolutionary Lotus-Fords, pencil-thin cars that looked like spiders capering through the turns.
Gusts of 50 to 70 mph roared in both states Tuesday and Wednesday morning.
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Mary Gilbert,
CNN,
5 Mar. 2025
Valor roared to a quirky, unexpected lead and fended off a serious comeback attempt Monday night at Magness Arena, defeating PSD, 7-4, and claiming the Class 5A state hockey championship.
Obviously, the White Lotus team gets a beautiful, exotic hotel for its guests to cavort around.
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Michael Goldstein,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
Or just pay close attention to the time-lapse footage of emerging cicadas or the cavorting manatees or the Darwin’s rhea, a South American ostrich that happens to be from one of the few species in the documentary that let males raise their kids.
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Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Feb. 2025
The new brand’s packaging and visual identity – created by Mexican artist Francisco Herrera and featuring a winged spider monkey — evokes Kahlo’s exotic style, as well as her love of these monkeys, which once gamboled around her garden.
—
Joan Oleck,
Forbes,
12 Dec. 2024
Those endless summer days spent watching Messi gambol around the football pitches of our souls?
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