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Newman's Speeding Ticket Defense

Newman’s Speeding Ticket Defense | Seinfeld

Season 4 Episode 4 The Ticket: Newman uses Kramer as his witness when the former refuses to pay for a speeding ticket. Seinfeld stars Jerry Seinfeld as a stand-up comedian whose life in New York City is made even more chaotic by his quirky group of friends who join him in wrestling with life’s most…
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Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero, Artist of Whimsical Rotundity, Is Dead at 91

His voluptuous figures, both in paintings and in sculpture, portrayed the high and mighty as well as everyday people through an enlarging prism. Fernando Botero, the Colombian whose voluptuous pictures and sculptures of overstuffed generals, bishops, prostitutes, housewives and other products of his whimsical imagination made him one of the world’s best-known artists, died on…
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Whales, From Above

Whales, From Above

The photographer Sutton Lynch is documenting a dramatic turning point off the coast of Long Island — a resurgence of sea life after decades of depletion. By Ellie Duke Photographs and Video by Sutton Lynch Sutton Lynch rises most days before the sun, arriving at Atlantic Beach in Amagansett, N.Y., for the early-morning calm. It’s…
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Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote

Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote

In search of a half-remembered passage among the French writer’s voluminous work, I turned to AI to help me find it. The results were instructive – just not about Proust by Elif Batuman The other day, I was looking for a quote in Proust, so I thought I would ask ChatGPT. Here’s how it went. EB: Is…
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What we get wrong about time

“Time” is the most frequently used noun in the English language. We all know what it feels like as time passes. Our present becomes the past as soon as it’s happened; today soon turns into yesterday. If you live in a temperate climate, each year you see the seasons come and go. And as we…
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Adiós Nonino de Astor Piazzolla - Nestor Marconi Quinteto

Adiós Nonino de Astor Piazzolla – Nestor Marconi Quinteto

Título: Adiós Nonino – Autor: Ástor Piazzolla – Bandoneón: Néstor Marconi – Guitarra: Esteban Falabella – Violín: Pablo Agri – Contrabajo: Juan Pablo Navarro – Piano: Leonardo Marconi – Grabado en: Café Vinilo – Fecha: 23/3/2016 – Realización Tangotrazo® Muy agradecido x este material que me fue cedido x la gente de tango trazo e…
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The Boys Pick Up A Couple Of Girls

Stan and Ollie Pick Up A Couple Of Girls

They are sailor’s out looking for a good time with two young lovelies. Stan and Ollie are out to impress, they intend to buy drinks (in a soda fountain) for everyone, but Stan only has 15 cents, enough for 3 sodas. Sodas were 5 cents in 1929! Here is Jimmy Finlayson doing several of his…
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Michael Schratter interview with the BBC
Animation vs Math

Animation versus Mathematics

Animation versus Mathematics

Josephine Baker

The French American icon who broke all taboos

In the travel documentary ‘Bettany Hughes’ Grand Tour From Paris to Rome’, the renowned historian follows in the footsteps of the ‘grand tour’ explorers and delves into the finest that Paris has to offer. In this clip, she looks into the extraordinary life of Josephine Baker, a bohemian icon and World War Two spy. The…
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