Ms.PiscesRose
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In English, adjectives seem to follow a specific order:
opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun
We’re steeped in the pattern from birth, and apply it effortlessly.
opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun
We’re steeped in the pattern from birth, and apply it effortlessly.
January 29, 2026 at 2:49 PM
In English, adjectives seem to follow a specific order:
opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun
We’re steeped in the pattern from birth, and apply it effortlessly.
opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun
We’re steeped in the pattern from birth, and apply it effortlessly.
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9/ Let’s dispense with the myth that optional policies enhance freedom. Once polio reappears, public-health responses include school exclusions, travel advisories, mandatory vaccination orders, and quarantine measures. Prevention is actually the least coercive option.
January 24, 2026 at 11:27 AM
9/ Let’s dispense with the myth that optional policies enhance freedom. Once polio reappears, public-health responses include school exclusions, travel advisories, mandatory vaccination orders, and quarantine measures. Prevention is actually the least coercive option.
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Today is a great day to read my review of the best movie I saw last year:
THE SECRET AGENT has received 4 Oscar nominations, including Best Actor for Wagner Moura & Achievement in Casting. Read @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social's review, where he claims “ once in a while, you see a movie that doesn’t feel made, but extracted from a dreaming mind.”
The Secret Agent movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert
This is one of the year’s best films, and one of the most distinctive.
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January 22, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Today is a great day to read my review of the best movie I saw last year:
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"Today’s poem is a love poem, one in which the long-married speaker can hardly imagine their own 'beforetimes' — the life before their spouse," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1437.
Read “Now that we’ve been married all these years" by Keetje Kuipers: bit.ly/3ZlrrbC
Read “Now that we’ve been married all these years" by Keetje Kuipers: bit.ly/3ZlrrbC
January 19, 2026 at 5:50 PM
"Today’s poem is a love poem, one in which the long-married speaker can hardly imagine their own 'beforetimes' — the life before their spouse," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1437.
Read “Now that we’ve been married all these years" by Keetje Kuipers: bit.ly/3ZlrrbC
Read “Now that we’ve been married all these years" by Keetje Kuipers: bit.ly/3ZlrrbC
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Alexandra Byrne’s costumes for the 2020 adaptation of Emma offered a beautiful interpretation of dress. They were informed by extant objects although not intended to be faithful recreations. This homage to a c1817 pink spencer was especially memorable @chertseymuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
January 19, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Alexandra Byrne’s costumes for the 2020 adaptation of Emma offered a beautiful interpretation of dress. They were informed by extant objects although not intended to be faithful recreations. This homage to a c1817 pink spencer was especially memorable @chertseymuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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We All Came Out of Gogol’s Overcoat: The Uneasy Duality of Identity in Mira Nair’s THE NAMESAKE
We All Came Out of Gogol's Overcoat | The Namesake (2006) - BW/DR
On the uneasy duality of identity in Mira Nair's 2006 film, The Namesake.
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January 11, 2026 at 10:01 PM
We All Came Out of Gogol’s Overcoat: The Uneasy Duality of Identity in Mira Nair’s THE NAMESAKE
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I rewatched FRIENDS & was struck at the multitude of establishing shots in scenes where one of the gang is sitting in their apartment reading a contemporary fiction novel
January 7, 2026 at 2:54 PM
I rewatched FRIENDS & was struck at the multitude of establishing shots in scenes where one of the gang is sitting in their apartment reading a contemporary fiction novel
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Whilst Madame Grès experimented with many different silhouettes and techniques during her long career, she often returned to her trademark style, her fine silk jersey pleats. This is an early #1960s iteration in soft lilac shades @phxart.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
January 5, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Whilst Madame Grès experimented with many different silhouettes and techniques during her long career, she often returned to her trademark style, her fine silk jersey pleats. This is an early #1960s iteration in soft lilac shades @phxart.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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This year I’m going to be kinder, more positive, work harder, and put more faith in myself until the very first minor obstacle throws me off for the next 350+ days
January 1, 2026 at 5:13 PM
This year I’m going to be kinder, more positive, work harder, and put more faith in myself until the very first minor obstacle throws me off for the next 350+ days
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So, I look it up. It turns out that the guy who wrote the pilot for BEWITCHED based it on elements from BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE as well as the 1942 Veronica Lake movie SO I MARRIED A WITCH (yes, I watched that immediately).
December 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
So, I look it up. It turns out that the guy who wrote the pilot for BEWITCHED based it on elements from BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE as well as the 1942 Veronica Lake movie SO I MARRIED A WITCH (yes, I watched that immediately).
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This is the 17th(!!!) edition of my Favorite Fifteen Films of the Year post
Marya's Favorite Fifteen Films of 2025
It's been another great year for cinema!
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December 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is the 17th(!!!) edition of my Favorite Fifteen Films of the Year post
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Merry Christmas to all, but especially to you, you beautiful old building and loan.
December 25, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Merry Christmas to all, but especially to you, you beautiful old building and loan.
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Here's a Christmas Day recommendation for a Christmas-set movie that has basically nothing to do with Christmas: The Lion in Winter, a deeply ahistorical but very funny movie about Henry II trying to choose his successor. A big influence on Succession, and you can tell in how biting the dialogue is.
December 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Here's a Christmas Day recommendation for a Christmas-set movie that has basically nothing to do with Christmas: The Lion in Winter, a deeply ahistorical but very funny movie about Henry II trying to choose his successor. A big influence on Succession, and you can tell in how biting the dialogue is.
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I had so much fun revisiting the movie Waiting to Exhale and its impact, which might be even bigger than you remember, for NPR.
30 years later, 'Waiting to Exhale' endures
www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...
30 years later, 'Waiting to Exhale' endures
www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...
30 years ago, 'Waiting to Exhale' was the blockbuster Hollywood didn't anticipate
The 1995 adaptation of Terry McMillan's novel celebrated the beauty of Black sisterhood.
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December 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I had so much fun revisiting the movie Waiting to Exhale and its impact, which might be even bigger than you remember, for NPR.
30 years later, 'Waiting to Exhale' endures
www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...
30 years later, 'Waiting to Exhale' endures
www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...
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It made me cry a little
This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
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December 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
It made me cry a little
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Im so very serious when I say there may not be a better pair of actors we have ever seen on screen than Kim Novak and the cat playing Pyewacket in Bell Book and Candle. As obvious and cliché as it may be, "spellbinding" is simply the best word to describe the effect of their work and chemistry...
December 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Im so very serious when I say there may not be a better pair of actors we have ever seen on screen than Kim Novak and the cat playing Pyewacket in Bell Book and Candle. As obvious and cliché as it may be, "spellbinding" is simply the best word to describe the effect of their work and chemistry...
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Christmas Movie Dress Advent Calendar, Day 17: Da'Vine Joy Randolph's party dress in THE HOLDOVERS and how it avoided cliche and explained her place in the world
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Christmas Movie Dress Advent Calendar Day 17: Da'Vine Joy Randolph in THE HOLDOVERS - Tom + Lorenzo
Yesterday, a faithful yuletide wife! Today, a mourning holiday mother. We're sorry again! As we noted with the first sad frock in this calendar, Christmas
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December 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Christmas Movie Dress Advent Calendar, Day 17: Da'Vine Joy Randolph's party dress in THE HOLDOVERS and how it avoided cliche and explained her place in the world
tomandlorenzo.com/2025/12/chri...
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There were dozens of magazines devoted to music, movies, books with culture fiends and subject matter experts who would guide you to the media that most deserved your time and money. Siskel and Ebert would watch all the movies get on TV each week to tell you what was what!
December 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
There were dozens of magazines devoted to music, movies, books with culture fiends and subject matter experts who would guide you to the media that most deserved your time and money. Siskel and Ebert would watch all the movies get on TV each week to tell you what was what!
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2025 watch #157: Barefoot in the Park. People shouldn’t be allowed to be this beautiful. It isn’t right.
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
2025 watch #157: Barefoot in the Park. People shouldn’t be allowed to be this beautiful. It isn’t right.
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2025 watch #91: Mississippi Masala. Young Denzel Washington as the romantic lead in a film directed by a woman GOD BLESS THE FEMALE GAZE
June 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
2025 watch #91: Mississippi Masala. Young Denzel Washington as the romantic lead in a film directed by a woman GOD BLESS THE FEMALE GAZE
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2025 watch #16: Kiki’s Delivery Service. Needed something pure and healing to scrub the brain. Oh, to be a little witch with a little cat and find a community of capable women to teach me how to be a person in the world. (I choked up when Jiji stopped talking.)
February 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
2025 watch #16: Kiki’s Delivery Service. Needed something pure and healing to scrub the brain. Oh, to be a little witch with a little cat and find a community of capable women to teach me how to be a person in the world. (I choked up when Jiji stopped talking.)
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Happy birthday to Jane Austen, and to this very on-brand Economist chart
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December 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Happy birthday to Jane Austen, and to this very on-brand Economist chart
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
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Levitating
A ★★★★★ review of The Way We Were (1973)
We used to make MOVIES. This one just blows my mind every time I rewatch it. Fiercely political. Hopelessly romantic. Deeply critical of Hollywood and the way it twists art into commerce. Eviscerates ...
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December 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Levitating