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...Enigmatic figures loom out of the encroaching darkness, smirking officials confront Josef K — GPT-4’s chapters have the sagging earnestness I’ve come to associate with AI imitations of human authors....
...A growing number of House Republicans said after Scalise was nominated that he had not earned their vote, including Chip Roy of Texas, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Nancy...
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...In a bizarre display of support earlier this week, House Republicans held a fundraising auction for McCarthy’s used cherry lip balm, with controversial Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene placing...
...Meyler’s roster of 2,000 or so properties includes mostly notable homes, such as those designed by Richard Neutra or Greene & Greene....
...Roy Bailey, a Texas fundraiser who served as national co-chair of Trump’s joint fundraising operation with the RNC, said it was “literally hard to keep with” the number of new donors from his state....
...“No matter what happens, there is going to be a reckoning,” Chip Roy, a Texas Republican, warned at the event....
...We’ve all seen those ‘farewell’ emails that go viral with ‘F**K YOU BOSS’ spelled out from the first letter of each sentence....
...Although there are links between now and then, including the fact that the mob lawyer, Roy Cohn, who was later to become Donald Trump’s mentor, was Senator McCarthy’s right-hand man, it is the contrast that...
...This moment in Indian history — a time of riots and persecution, lynchings and fear — has old roots, as K Srilata reminds us in her poem, “Gujarat, 2002”: “All those burning afternoons later, / there’s still...
...Each exposure to bureaucracy is as harrowing as what those bastards did to Josef K. Even a meandering or repetitive conversationalist is gently eased out of your life....
...“cash out and f**k off”, Logan makes an offer to buy out his son’s stake in Waystar Royco for $2,015,708,009. Two whole yards....
...Only last month, as Myanmar plunged into the chaos of a military coup, two poets — K Za Win and Daw Myint Myint Zin — were shot dead by the army; the country’s most popular comedian, Zarganar, is now in...
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...The most cited authors are Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and Poul Anderson; women, from Ursula K Le Guin to Octavia E Butler, are under-represented, but as the dictionary grows and begins to collect citations...
...Cox finds that same existential unease in Roy. “He is a misanthrope. A nihilist. Basically he is disappointed with the human experiment. And that is where you get this merry cry of ‘F**k it!’...
...Graham Greene, whose thrillers were often brilliant investigations of moral ambivalence, also wrote children’s books (The Little Horse Bus, The Little Train, The Little Fire Engine)....
...Some, such as Ursula K Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea, are spectacularly unsuccessful sleepwalking zombies, and only a few, such as the BBC version of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, are given a satisfying second...
...Roy Twite became CEO in 2019 and has outlined a strategic plan to lift all three divisions back in the direction of 20% operating margins....
...James has no patience with genre snobbery, and his literary influences clearly range far beyond JRR Tolkien — from Gabriel Garciá Márquez to Ursula K Le Guin, NK Jemisin to Philip Pullman, he draws from...
...Water scarcity was a “media creation”, K Palaniswami, the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, said in June, even as vicious fights were breaking out in queues for water and some companies were telling staff to...
...“The whole atmosphere was like a Graham Greene novel,” he says....
...Like Graham Greene, Spielberg likes to alternate serious stories with “entertainments”....
...Mr K Gewürztraminer 1999 was a decidedly mature joint effort between the late Alois Kracher, Austria’s king of sweet wines, and Sine Qua Non’s Manfred Krankl....
...In America, the family of Roy Orbison were watching this success with interest. “I’m a big Elvis fan, and my brothers and I were a little jealous of If I Can Dream,” says Roy Orbison Jr....
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