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...A handy précis of this column: on April 4, Cole Palmer and Chelsea dispatched Manchester United 4-3, with goals in the 100th (a penalty checked by VAR) and 101st minutes. The multiverse is here now....
...the breakdown up to 2021, the most recent year for which Jagex has published accounts (its 2022 accounts are overdue at time of pixel): Gold, members Here, via Goodbody analyst Patrick O’Donnell, is a précis...
...That has since been upended by the arrival of generative AI tools, prompting him to ask ChatGPT to write a precis for a Black Mirror episode....
...As that precis indicates, Keneally’s interest lies in Mitchel’s political attitudes and activities....
...It’s an inspiration he has wisely pursued for his fourth novel North Woods, which both attracts and resists précis....
...Art still rattles power. That old lesson played out again last month as French director Justine Triet won the Cannes Palme d’Or for courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall....
...Midway through, director Louis Leterrier offers a précis of the whole saga to date. The sequence is seemingly aimed at series latecomers, but the real point is to underline the wistful mood....
...“Catch the ball if it comes to you, throw it in towards the nearest wicket,” is the small-town mayor’s precis of the 42 laws that govern the centuries-old game he has taken to playing recreationally....
...(To précis, heavily: lucky pennies are manufactured, overseen by suited pigs. The effect is less Orwellian than it sounds.)...
...In precis, the son of Windrush-era Jamaican parents grows up a bright but disengaged Brixton schoolboy; later comes a westward drift to Notting Hill, constant harassment from the police offset by the power...
...So I think we have to have the courage of our art. We have to say our truth in our way and offer it to the world and hope the world gets the point of it. INTERVIEWER: Thank you....
...Haidt calls his new essay a “précis” of his next book, one he wasn’t meant to be writing....
...The same fascination with high deception now inspires Operation Varsity Blues, a flawed but watchable precis of the 2019 US college admissions scandal which led to dozens of parents facing jail time, among...
...As such, history students may come to be glad of the precis offered by Life in a Day 2020. A mass snapshot devised by YouTube and film-maker Kevin Macdonald, it is actually a sequel....
...And although the kindest thing one can say about him as a critic is that he has a flair for concise précis, Bailey does give the reader a vivid sense of the richly varying modes in which Roth operated —...
...Xstabeth, his third work of fiction, is less susceptible to straightforward precis. “I’m not 100 per cent sure,” Keenan said in an interview, “what’s going on in it myself.”...
...Written by the artist Ram Kumar, who died in 2018, these words are a beguiling precis of the challenges posed by abstract painting....
...And finally, something very different in a book whose précis sounds so much drier than it actually is....
...They went on to offer a laughably sketchy and largely inaccurate precis of Derrida’s work before remarking that “many French philosophers see in M Derrida only cause for silent embarrassment”....
...For everyone else, I can precis: 1) Self-described teenage weirdos, gleefully relieved just to find each other. 2) Hip-hop early adopters whose in-joke brattiness blurred into reality (cue “(You Gotta) Fight...
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...Otherwise, a precis is offered by a title card. “And now,” it reads, “after 25 years in the making and unmaking . . . ” Quite a legend to live up to....
...Whether revolutionary or a smart stunt, the act has proved a fitting précis of this year of distracting spectacle....
...John Dunbar had an art gallery called Indica....
...The Death of Truth offers a limpid precis of what is available. Kakutani has read all there is to read so we don’t have to....
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