Karl Johnson makes an excellent Firs, the ancient servant who regrets the freeing of the serfs and who alternates between dignified paeans to the old days and mumbling streams of profanities.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
So are the many paeans to the social and economic benefits of university research that schools have posted in the past two months.
Whether a requiem is due for rom-coms or not, in the meantime there's at least a conveyor belt of cringe to feast upon.
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Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
6 Mar. 2025
The funeral procession begins with a sorrowful requiem but transitions into a celebration of life — reminding us that life extends beyond death, that grief is not the absence of love but an extension of it.
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Mathew Holloway,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Feb. 2025
Prominent among these are baseless critiques of the NAEP itself (lauded as the gold standard of achievement measures) and a lament that the science of reading — recently endorsed by more than 40 states — has failed.
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Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
In classical terms, this begins as an Adagio in D minor — a slow lament led by a solo cello, that accelerates into a chaotic swell of strings.
Returnal Returnal was one of the first exclusives of the PS5 generation; a fabulously grotesque sci-fi horror dirge, and still worth your attention today.
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Luke Winkie,
Vulture,
1 Apr. 2025
On the final night, one of the regulars hired a Scotsman in a kilt to play a bagpipe dirge.
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