At the end of the film on the beach, there’s a little moment when his legs fold around himself in a spiral, like a cinnamon bun, which was done on the reference table.
Gary Hershorn captured those same skyscrapers as the moon passed behind the spire of the Empire State Building from Union City, New Jersey, revealing more of the urban skyline as artificial and natural light teamed up to illuminate the night.
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Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
2 Apr. 2026
The skyscraper is styled with gold lettering and a red, white and blue spire.
The lunchtime sandwich that reigns supreme is undoubtedly the mushroom dip, with a tangle of Long Beach oyster mushrooms confited in oil, then roasted until their edges become crisp and curl in the pizza oven.
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Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2026
Nakamura, who works almost exclusively in his native Japan, smooths over those divisions, creating reverent, porous structures that open to the landscape or curl in on themselves in repose.
Its eponymous flowers are deep red-orange and the foliage is composed of whorls of needle-like, silvery-blue leaves.
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Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
7 June 2025
In 2024, the Ig Nobel Prize in anatomy went to an international team of scientists for their discovery that scalp hair whorls are more likely to spiral in a counter-clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere compared with the Northern Hemisphere.
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Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 June 2025
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