In this case, our protagonist, Bill Simmons, is not a bitingly funny comedian, but a bitingly influential sportswriter and commentator, who for 14 years was one of ESPN's biggest stars.
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Arfun Ahmed's 2014 photograph "Olympia Burkha" bitingly inverts the Manet original.
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But this next subject would be bitingly, bracingly of the movement.
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Modrak's past works include the bitingly on-point Re Made Company.
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He said — repeatedly, and bitingly — that she lacked the "stamina" to serve.
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McDonagh's writing is bitingly profane and his camera isn't afraid to show maimed flesh.
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It may not be Carpenter's best, but it's one of his most bitingly allegorical.
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The race was nail-bitingly close: Jones beat Moore by just 1.2 percentage points.
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Nong Am (alternatively spelled Nong Em) remembers the match as being nail-bitingly close.
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Our annoyance when we can't access it, he bitingly points out, is ridiculously unjustified.
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This bitingly funny memoir will appeal not only to parents but to nonparents, too.
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Whatever the material and subject matter, Mas's work is surreal, humorous, and always bitingly satirical.
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It's fair to say this year's World Cup has produced some nail-bitingly tense games.
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I don't think many people know how bitingly precise and unsettlingly funny Wiley can be.
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Their conversation is bitingly cordial as Diane reminds Alicia that she's not at Florrick & Quinn anymore.
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It premiered at Cannes in summer 2019, but it feels even more devastatingly, bitingly urgent now.
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Her music is both brooding ("When the Party's Over") and bitingly satirical ("Wish You Were Gay").
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It tells a standalone story with an emotionally resonant – but still bitingly funny – beginning, middle, and end.
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One girl bitingly summed up the way she saw the events of the past year play out.
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His version of her is a lot less bitingly sarcastic than the version we see every week.
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The temperatures are bitingly cold, and they're forecast to get even icier this weekend, plunging below zero degrees.
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It premiered at Cannes in the summer of 2019, but it feels even more devastatingly, bitingly urgent now.
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"At least Basquiat, you know, died," he says bitingly in the documentary, during a scene shot in 2014.
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A mercurial leader, unctuous one moment, bitingly critical the next, Sheriff Shoar didn't countenance challenges to his authority.
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In that article, Antunes named "Scoop" — Evelyn Waugh's bitingly satirical novel about English journalism — as a professional touchstone.
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" More bitingly, a vice president of the National Front, Florian Philippot, said on Twitter: "Their world is crumbling.
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And by the time coats started dripping paillettes over pipe-cleaner pants, the recipe was lip-bitingly confused.
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I lived in Montreal for a few years, and the winters there are truly frigid—clawing, face-bitingly cold.
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Many of the texts, on FBI cell phones, were bitingly critical of Trump during his 2016 run for office.
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This time, it was the bitingly critical "Moonlight," one of 4:44's most pointed tracks, that got visuals.
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Prokofiev's "Sarcasms" is also accurately titled: its five pieces abound in bitingly comic passages, pounding chords and perpetual-motion craziness.
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Here is a Times recommendation: Freaks and Geeks Watch ... if you want a painfully earnest and bitingly humorous teen drama.
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Virginia had another nail-bitingly close game on Saturday, when they took on No. 29 seed Auburn in the Final Four.
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The result is a film that rings bitingly true, but respects its audience enough to let them connect the dots themselves.
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Ms. Richardson comforts and coaxes and exasperatedly, bitingly demeans, but she and Mr. Sparks play past each other instead of engaging.
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The acoustics in the auditorium are excellent; at the interval, the smell of freshly baked, Proust-bitingly-good madeleines wafts in.
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Either way—both dating and the G.R.E.s being nail-bitingly distressing—the obvious thing to do was to order another cocktail.
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The book is a bitingly funny, and occasionally heartbreaking, look at mental illness, love and relationships, with Kirshenbaum's familiar black humor.
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Markey's Bar: When it's hot out or bitingly cold when you're wandering around the Bywater, Markey's is always a comfortable stop.
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It may not be Carpenter's best film (wrestler-turned-actor Piper's performance doesn't help), but it's one of his most bitingly allegorical.
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Whoever becomes the nominee will go up against Doug Jones, the Democrat who won a nail-bitingly close special election in 2017.
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Dmytro Gnap, an independent Ukrainian journalist not on the list, wrote a bitingly sarcastic Facebook post demanding an explanation for the mysterious increase.
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It's by turns bitingly sarcastic and wistfully regretful, and always ferociously angry at the narrative in which this collection of women has been trapped.
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Thanks to Insecure, her bitingly smart, semi-autobiographical HBO show, back for its second season, the creator, writer and star is feeling more secure than ever.
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Early results from Thursday's referendum on E.U. membership showed a nail-bitingly close race, with just a few percentage points separating the remain and leave camps.
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A little like Peep Show but with a female lead, Fleabag is extremely funny but only kind of a comedy—it's also heartbreaking and bitingly honest.
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They got a version of that Tuesday: a John Kasich win in Ohio and a nail-bitingly close contest between Trump and Ted Cruz in Missouri.
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Sure, it's fun to watch these would-be rapists tremble before Cassie, particularly when writer-director Emerald Fennell's portrayals of these men feel so bitingly accurate.
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It was on a bitingly clear autumn that I hauled on a pair of waders loaned by The Wadden Sea Centre to harvest some of the Pacific monsters.
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He is among a handful of politicians who use Twitter as real people do — casually, bitingly and free of the jargon that clogs up most other pols' tweets.
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A truth rarely acknowledged is that on a very busy and bitingly cold working day during fashion week, most journalists and buyers long for a spot of lunch.
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After two days of Republicans genially congratulating their colleague on his nomination, Lewis bitingly argued that what mattered was Sessions's views, not his personality: It doesn't matter whether Sen.
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Debuted on March 15 via Hulu, Shrill is that tale of Annie Easton, a bubbly calendar editor at a Portland alt-weekly magazine, who is sweet and bitingly sassy.
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"The world has seen American fire and fury in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 72 years ago," Kiichi Fujiwara, a professor of international politics at Tokyo University, wrote bitingly on Twitter.
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Leslie Nassar, the 213-year-old Australian man behind a number of bitingly funny Twitter parody accounts, died Saturday morning after a drunk-driving hit and run in Nampa, Idaho.
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Early results from the referendum showed margins were nail-bitingly tight, with the "remain" camp leading by less than 1 percentage point with about a quarter of voting areas counted.
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Big Mouth relentlessly breaks the fourth wall, and jokes focusing on its status as a Netflix show are peppered throughout the season, most bitingly in a jab at 13 Reasons Why.
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But if it comforts you any, it's totally normal to be nail-bitingly nervous about tests and such — and that anxiety is actually meant to help prepare you for the results.
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In 20003, a nail-bitingly dry year that followed several pitiful winters, Santa Fe's aboveground reservoirs dipped precipitously low, and the city was draining groundwater through its wells at frightening rates.
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The ads range from inspirational to bitingly anti-establishment, and each draws on the hottest political issues of the day: health care, the opioid crisis and the legislative stalemate in Washington.
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Her earnest urgency is counterbalanced by bitingly clever contributions from Daniel Bejar and Pastiche Lumumba, whose "Woke Gentrifyer Starter Pack" (2019) skewers the New Yorker-reading, nonprofit-working, dog-owning liberal.
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In the group's home country, Lebanon, boho crowds flock to see Mr. Sinno, in sequins and muscle T-shirts, sing songs that are alternately brooding and buoyant, sensual and bitingly satirical.
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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog will take viewers to Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina on what is likely to be a bitingly satirical tour of voting in the early primary states.
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He also extensively quoted rap lyrics in 2014's "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" and has appeared on stage with Nas, for which the defunct tech tabloid Valleywag bitingly criticized him.
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"Slings & Arrows," which ran in 22020-2006, is not just the best show ever made about the stage: The insightful, bitingly observed and very funny series belongs in the television canon, period.
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And since the 20th century was a battleground for competing political ideologies, it's no surprise that Julius Caesar was considered ripe material for innovative — and bitingly contemporary — treatments of the old story.
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In fact, all of Cho's greatest gags—and she has many—are jokes about her Korean-American family and her sexual identity that tread the nail-bitingly thin line between crude and comedy.
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"I've always found that humor is an incredibly valuable tool for both coping and change," Shelby Lorman, the 24-year-old writer and artist behind the bitingly brilliant Instagram account @awardsforgoodboys, told VICE.
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On the way, they'll forge an uneasy alliance with a fugitive cattle rustler, become unhappy targets of a territorial barbarian tribe, and have plenty of nail-bitingly close encounters with the insectoid invaders.
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His music has been used by many choreographers over the years, but most nail-bitingly for her, by Jerome Robbins, whose celebrated "The Goldberg Variations" was made for New York City Ballet in 1971.
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But the impeachment trial is about more than the fate of Ukraine — and whether Mr. Trump sold it out for a "domestic political errand," as his former adviser, Fiona Hill, put it so bitingly.
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More crucially, its workmanlike cinematic language can't quite capture the urgency and expansiveness of Didion's vision as a writer, and how keenly and bitingly she managed to forecast the insanities that plague our time.
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The winter was snowy, gray and bitingly cold; the supermarkets were dismal; I didn't speak the language; the seam where the Berlin Wall once stood was still largely a landscape of rubble and vacant lots.
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After all, nail-bitingly close finishes are a time-honored tradition at the Olympics, and OMEGA's team has had to adjudicate results that would have been impossible to judge without sophisticated camera and timekeeping technology.
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Los Angeles producer, Silent Servant, has shared a bitingly insistent new track off his just-released, vinyl-only EGR45-00003 EP on Swedish imprint Elektron Grammofon, subsidiary of the Swedish electronic musical instruments company Elektron.
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This flattening affects representations of young Muslim women in particularly pernicious ways, as though being religious or wearing a hijab or niqab means that someone cannot be outspoken, bitingly sarcastic, deeply intellectual, or profoundly cosmopolitan.
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It's a strange mixture of real reports from the scene, festival-goers trying to make the most of their situation through Lord of the Flies jokes, and the bitingly satirical wit that Reddit is known for.
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The JACK Quartet has made a specialty of nail-bitingly difficult works, including an hourlong piece played in complete darkness and a recent performance in which they labored with rubber restraints and elements of sensory deprivation.
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During a rally, he asked if she had seen the video he posted on Facebook recently, a bitingly satirical bit about how America is No. 1, citing gun murders and prison populations and other dubious categories.
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In his 2013 novel Crazy Rich Asians, author Kevin Kwan builds the world of ultra-wealthy Singaporean society by cheekily (and sometimes bitingly) name-checking every high-end fashion designer and luxury brand under the sun.
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In a sea of clickbait, Just Doug stands out as a bitingly sarcastic take on one Asian-American man's struggle to break into Hollywood—the same thing the real Kim hopes to accomplish with the show itself.
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It's an album that channels someone like Dev Hynes's knack for 80s-leaning glossy pop with bitingly insightful lyrics, as much as the lush, hazy sonics of a group like Cocteau Twins—and she's happy with the end result.
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In the season premiere, when Elizabeth bitingly cuts off Philip's attempt to get her to open up about work — "I know you love to talk," she says, dismissively — it's as breathtaking as any act of violence in the series.
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At this comedy series, the stakes are nail-bitingly high, because the prize this selection of comedians are competing for means so much more than money or fame: They'll be vying for the love and acceptance of two parents.
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After two-plus weeks of nail-bitingly close play, the World Chess Championship came down to its 12th and final regulation game on Monday, with the two talented young grandmasters, Sergey Karjakin and Magnus Carlsen, in a dead heat.
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One of Patreon's top-earning clients, grossing $139,000 monthly from 31,000 patrons, is the bitingly funny leftist-politics podcast Chapo Trap House, whose cohost, Will Menaker, has praised Patreon's small-donor model as essential to the show's existence and integrity.
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The complaint described schools that were overcrowded with students but lacking in teachers; courses without basic resources like books and pencils; and classrooms that were bitingly cold in the winter, stiflingly hot in the summer and infested with rats and insects.
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When Mart Crowley's play opened Off Broadway in 1968, it was an instant and surprise hit, a by turns vicious, lacerating, bitingly funny and squirm-inducing portrait of eight (maybe nine) gay men at a disastrous birthday party in New York.
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But when Joe Sr. suggested — dictated might be a better word — that Bobby be enlisted to help on his 22019 run for Congress, JFK bitingly told a friend and volunteer, "I can't see that sober, silent face breathing new vigor" into the campaign.
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LONDON — The Emmy and Tony Award winner Bryan Cranston ("Breaking Bad") will star as Howard Beale in a new stage adaptation of the bitingly satirical film "Network" scheduled to open at the National Theater in London this year, the theater announced on Friday.
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Oscar winner Jacki Weaver plays the bitingly funny, brutally competent attorney general Catriona Bailey, who insists that Australia must protect itself from Chinese aggression both by maintaining a close military alliance with the United States, and by launching a Patriot Act-style cyber-monitoring program.
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Other remain in the new Russia, including Erik Bulatov — who closes this show with "Sunrise or Sunset" (1989), a bitingly ironic painting from the days of perestroika, in which the state emblem of the Soviet Union sits ambiguously where the sea meets the sky.
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FARGO, N.D. (AP) — President Donald Trump declared Friday the Department of Justice should try to identify the writer of a bitingly critical New York Times opinion piece, purportedly submitted by a member of an administration "resistance" movement straining to thwart his most dangerous impulses.
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The drums, alternately bitingly metallic, briskly clangy, sharp and tinny or deep and echoey or tensely jittery, stretch across a wide range of textures to produce a sense of being always on one's feet, always morphing into new patterns, bouncing around in tightly demarcated spaces.
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Click here to view original GIFDirected by Nerdo, this short animation interprets the poem about beer from Charles Bukowski and it's so dark and bitingly true and just totally spot on about the dependency that someone could have on beer (or wine or whiskey or whatever).
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"Five Rooms," perhaps the most affecting story, derives its title from the bitingly sarcastic, formidably perceptive 16-year-old narrator's reflections on what it must be like for Mr. Rasmussen, the blind man she helps at the prompting of her mother, to live in unremitting darkness.
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The Week Ahead Before problematic plays, there were problem plays — like "Troilus and Cressida," the bitingly cynical 17th-century drama, set during the Trojan War, whose Ping-Ponging between genres and plotlines made it one of the more obscure, flummoxing and fascinating works in Shakespeare's canon.
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What everyone is wondering, of course, is whether this change is merely a temporary blip based on the fact that Trump has wrapped up his nomination while Clinton hasn't — or a harbinger of a new, nail-bitingly close status quo that will persist for the rest of the campaign.
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The college admission process (to a certain type of school, at least) has never been more nail-bitingly stressful—the pressure to write the most unique essay, to cull the most impressive letters of recommendation, to submit the highest standardized testing scores, is enough to break a teenager's spirit.
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Although life in the camps was miserable, with starvation diets, outbreaks of typhus and clothes unfit for the bitingly cold winters, some offered liberties that would have startled survivors of more hellish camps; the Germans at first wanted the world to believe that the camps were routine work sites.
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Indeed, since 2005, when he presented his breakthrough comic-cabaret solo, "Darkside," at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he has toured his bitingly satirical songs (documented on popular live albums and DVDs) internationally, and his passionate admirers have helped propel him from intimate clubs to fronting symphony orchestras in arenas.
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If there's anyone you definitely do not want at a party celebrating your coming wedding, it's the mean-girl central character in "Engagements," a bitingly funny but overly sour comedy by Lucy Teitler that opened on Thursday at the McGinn/Cazale Theater as part of Second Stage Theater's Uptown summer series.
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While Mr. McCain, who is being treated for brain cancer and has spoken bitingly of Mr. Trump in recent weeks, glowingly praised his home-state colleague for his "integrity and honor and decency," he did not use the Senate floor to second Mr. Flake's worrisome message of a government and nation at risk.
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It was a bitingly chilly November evening, and sadly for me, the all-time great singer, who died five years before I was born, couldn't land a post-mortem gig in the Big Apple, so I had to make the journey to the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts in Long Island.
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The constituency is a diverse, northern-English seat: poor in Chapeltown, a couple of miles from the city centre; aspiring in the tidy, suburban closes and crescents farther out in Chapel Allerton; wealthy in the detached stone houses tucked behind hedges and brick walls in Roundhay; and in the far north, by Eccup reservoir, pig-bitingly rural.
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He crashed out the next year but came back to contest a nail bitingly close 2015 Tour against Columbian rival Nairo Quintana, and though he held the yellow jersey from Stage 7 until Paris, he had to hold off Quintana nipping at his heals all the way to the Champs-Élysées for a slim victory of +1'12''.
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Seventeen years ago, Klain led the recount effort on behalf of then-Vice President Al GoreAlbert (Al) Arnold Gore2020 Democrats release joint statement ahead of Trump's New Hampshire rally Deregulated energy markets made Texas a clean energy giant Gun safety is actually a consensus issue MORE, whose legal challenge to the nail-bitingly close Florida results ended up in a 5-85033 decision before the Supreme Court.
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Mr. Boyle, who directed the first "Trainspotting," was not far from the end of the 53-day shoot last summer that reunited the original quartet of actors — Mr. McGregor, Mr. Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Ewen Bremner — for a much-anticipated sequel to the mordant, bitingly irreverent 1996 movie about heroin addiction, sex, squalor and friendship set to a memorably rousing soundtrack in a decidedly tourist-unfriendly Edinburgh.
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For more immersive viewing, you can stream full episodes of Ms. Moore in "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (Hulu, Amazon and iTunes) and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (Hulu, Amazon and iTunes); her heralded portrayal of a grieving mother in "Ordinary People" (Amazon and iTunes) and her bitingly comedic turn as a nagging, preening one in "Flirting With Disaster" (Amazon and iTunes); and a career overview in her own words in the Archive of American Television (emmytvlegends.org).
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