Five articles
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Five Cent Cine: Challengers
Challengers ★★★1/2 (out of 4 stars) “Are you talking about tennis?” In the final seconds of “Challengers,” Tashi (Zendaya) breaks the plane of her controlled, low-affect character to hurl a []
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Five of the best books about eating
From a pioneering 1940s ‘gastrography’ to a recent novel about a real-life 18th-century French peasant cursed with an appetite to eat just about everythingFood in books has a way of lodging in the memory. For some it might be the kidneys on Leopold Bloom’s mind in Joyce’s Ulysses. For others, it’s the hard-won German sausage that Ratty finds at the end of Wind in the Willows. The book may be rich or grotesque, stark or sickly sweet, but we, the reader, are always invited to ask ourselves why,...
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Five takeaways from the Pennsylvania primaries
Voters went to the polls for the Pennsylvania primaries on Tuesday, cementing races up and down the ticket in what will be one of the critical swing states in November. President Biden and Donald Trump glided to victory in their respective contests, as expected, though both men faced protest votes. The Keystone State is one []