The duo stepped out in complementary dark ensembles, with Hayek wearing one of her favorite footwear looks — hefty platform heels — with a black velvet dress.
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Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
9 July 2025
My perspective always seems a bit darker and less hopeful.
Tempest’s description evokes a dreamlike horror, laced with black humor:
Men were still stuck in the mud all over the battlefield, imploring help to lift them out : half crazy with the sense of their own impotence, and the enemy shelling. . . .
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Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
13 July 2025
Police say White was abducted at gunpoint from outside his residence July 11 and placed into a white Jeep Renegade by an unknown man in a black face mask.
Elements of her can be found on Lioness in Zoe Saldaña’s Joe McNamara, a CIA operative trying to save the world from the swarthy — terrorists in Season One, Mexican cartels in Season Two — while raising two girls.
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Stephen Rodrick,
Rolling Stone,
9 Mar. 2025
Jett Rink was a really malevolent varmint, and kind of swarthy and dark.
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