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‘Heysel 85’ Review: A Real Soccer Riot Becomes a Tense Political Metaphor
Intense and intently observed, Teodora Ana Mihai’s “Heysel 85” chronicles the eruption of violence before a major soccer match in…
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Producer Blue May on the Making of Lily Allen’s ‘West End Girl,’ the Year’s Buzziest Album: ‘It’s a Whole Record of Pretty Much Zero Metaphor’
Occasionally a producer or writer who is known primarily to music insiders suddenly emerges with a calling card that puts the wider world…
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Guillermo del Toro Says ‘Frankenstein’ Isn’t a Metaphor for AI: ‘I’m Not Afraid of Artificial Intelligence, I’m Afraid of Natural Stupidity’
It’s alive! And it’s at Venice Film Festival! But it’s not a metaphor for artificial intelligence. Guillermo del Toro‘s “Frankenstein,”…
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Contributor: It's no metaphor — undersea cables hold together our precarious modern life
In the early days of the pandemic, I began pondering the idea of healing. I stumbled upon a story about a cable repair vessel, the Leon…