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Bright Wall/Dark Room October 2024: All Hail the Screwball Queen by Olympia Kiriakou
We are pleased to offer an excerpt from the October 2024 issue of the online magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room. Their theme for October is Screwballs, and they’re devoting the entire month to screwball comedies, past and present. In addition to Olympia’s piece on Lombard, the issue also features new essays on “The Thin Man,” “The Palm Beach Story,” “The Awful…
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Panic! At the Disco: Body Double at 40
“Welcome to Peeping Toms, New York’s newest and grooviest game!” – Brian De Palma, “Sisters” “You know your dick was hard the entire time,” Quentin Tarantino once accused of Stanley Kubrick. It was in response to how Kubrick maintained that “A Clockwork Orange” was a powerful statement of anti-violence and took no pleasure in its…
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From QR to compromise: The growing “quishing” threat
Attackers leverage QR codes in PDF email attachments to spearphish corporate credentials from mobile devices
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Bumblebee Queens Prefer to Live in a Toxic Home
In an elaborate experiment, scientists discovered that the insects chose to hibernate in soil full of pesticides and other poisons.
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Paying Workers $10,000 to Move Helped Reverse Tulsa’s Brain Drain
Researchers found that when remote workers were paid to move to Tulsa, Okla., everyone came out ahead.
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How Media Outlets Covered Trump’s Musical Town Hall
When former President Donald J. Trump played D.J. at a campaign event on Monday, both liberal and conservative media outlets described it as “surreal.”
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SBA Depletes Disaster Loan Funds After Helene and Milton, Biden Says
Federal officials urged people to keep applying for the loans, which they said they would continue to process while awaiting more funding from Congress, which is not set to reconvene until Nov. 12.
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Holiday Sales Growth Expected to Normalize to Prepandemic Levels
Despite shoppers’ election-year concerns and worries about the economy, retail executives predict sales to increase as much as 3.5 percent over last year’s holiday season.
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Boeing Seeks to Line Up Billions in Financing as Strike Goes On
The aerospace giant said it could raise as much as $25 billion in debt or equity over the next three years, including a $10 billion line of credit.
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Biden Announces $425 Million in Aid to Ukraine
President Biden spoke by telephone to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine about the security package, which includes munitions, armored vehicles and other weapons.