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Instead, and perhaps fittingly, Coppola takes a page from Jacobs’s own book, and strings together a gauzy assortment of references and influences—presented through clips, photographs, and interviews—that have made up Jacobs’s artistic blueprint over the years.
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Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2026
It was further popularized by Late Night with Conan O’Brien, which aired out-of-context clips from Walker, Texas Ranger that reinforced his over-the-top image.
With cultural mainstays like rice extract and buzzy compounds like several types of hyaluronic acid, these formulations offer more than straightforward sun protection.
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Deanna Pai,
Vogue,
19 Mar. 2026
Wellness programming includes indoor and outdoor onsen, forest bathing, traditional Japanese spa treatments like shiatsu massage and rice extract facials, and cuisine inspired by Kyoto’s historic culinary traditions.
These are a few of the plentiful subjects broached by the movie, which goes on to encompass snippets of various activist groups, civil liberties attorneys, and local politicians, but all these topics are crammed into a scant 84-minute runtime, and few are given the requisite attention.
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Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2026
Cawood introduced Gavitt — a snippet of Cawood’s remarks were carried on the telecast, subjecting him to considerable teasing — who spoke live on national television at the front of a Hyatt ballroom full of people.
The excerpt begins with a 1988 trip McDonough takes to Stewart’s home in Fort Pierce, Florida, and ends with the reveal of a shocking event that changes the course of his subject’s life.
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Jonathan Bernstein,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2026
And from the excerpts, the reader learns that Hermia, too, is preoccupied with androgyny.
The series retains its fondness for rapid-fire, near-impenetrable finance jargon and for ostentatious literary quotations—the product, we’re meant to assume, of the characters’ otherwise wasted Oxbridge educations.
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Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
That’s one of the le Carré quotations, which is literal and metaphorical.