In 2014, when interviewed on the BBC Radio program "Desert Island Discs," she declared that her choice of a desert island luxury item would be a lifetime subscription to Vogue.
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The final segment, "Ezra Blazer's Desert Island Discs," unfolds as a fictional interview segment on the BBC program, as a journalist asks Blazer about his writing and what music he would take to a desert island.
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Without spoiling the finale, there is a reoccurring motif of the "desert island band" question—if you are stuck on a desert island and you can only choose one band to listen to, who would it be?
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There are a few things I would bring to a desert island.
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The last of these new Digital Wellbeing experiments is called Desert Island.
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Or, like we said, if you find yourself on a desert island.
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Madison was asked what treat she'd choose to take on a desert island.
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If I am on a desert island, I will have plenty of time.
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Here's Gabe Fowler, who runs Desert Island Comics and the Comic Arts Brooklyn Festival.
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If you haven't heard of Hamilton, you've probably been marooned on a desert island.
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Desert Island and Morph, meanwhile, take an app-centric approach to screen-time reduction.
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Both make surviving on a desert island seem like a walk in the park.
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Maakies NewspaperBy Tony Millionaire (Desert Island)Maakies got made into a fold-over newspaper.
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Do you understand that the game is desert island movies, not guilty pleasure movies?
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In terms of desert-island beauty products, blush rarely seems to make the list.
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If you two were exiled to a desert island, which work would you bring?
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"They were cut off like people on a desert island," he told The Times.
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Listen carefully, and you can also detect Britain's changing social mores in "Desert Island Discs".
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My novel "Orphan Train" — set, in part, on Mount Desert Island — was an unexpected success.
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Go visit Desert Island if you haven't and buy a copy of this zine too.
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A young man, stranded on a desert island, attempts to escape by building a raft.
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DAILY CROSSWORD COLUMN Peter A. Collins gets stranded on a desert island, but he's resourceful.
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Inside the List RAP SHEET: The idea of "desert island books" always makes me smile.
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Jeff Flake and his buddy were alone on the desert island with a camera crew.
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As a guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs show, Gates discussed various topics including his philanthropy work, career, personal life and the playlist he would make if he got stuck on a desert island (he's into U2 and the Hamilton soundtrack).
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Are you about to hang on a desert island with the ghosts of Tupac and Biggie?
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Hiding my identity was like living on a desert island, shut off from the outside world.
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But if you were stranded on a desert island, what book would better reward long study?
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You're fantasizing about moving far away to a desert island, without internet, annoying people, or responsibilities.
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They wind up stranded on a desert island together, and, after building trust, forge a connection.
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I love the immediacy of being there, and being in the desert or on a desert island.
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It was "a desert island where all the genealogists can go play in the sand," Fitzpatrick said.
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It takes 30 minutes to get there on a ferry from Bass Harbor on Mount Desert Island.
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Ahead, five hairstylists (and a few of our editors) share their number-one, desert-island styling products.
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If Gucci Mane was marooned on a desert island, Gladwell asks, what five records would he take?
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Here's a photo of us enjoying each other's company a couple years ago at Desert Island Comics.
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In his "Desert Island Discs" interview, Johnson was asked about his ambition by Sue Lawley, the host.
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And Reese, if you're reading this, we need to know your top five Desert Island movie picks.
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Yet that will not stop him belting out childhood hymns if he finds himself on a desert island.
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You can find Angus on Twitter You can listen to Theresa May's entire 'Desert Island Discs' right here.
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I like to play this game with my friends and ask what are your desert island five cuisines?
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All the Pizza: If host, Carlo, was on a desert island his one food choice would be pizza.
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Then he put James Joyce's "Ulysses" at the top of 10 books he'd take to a desert island.
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The real Gucci Mane no doubt is on a desert island even now, drinking lean and reading Shakespeare.
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Last year she even designed clown cut-outs for a photobooth at Desert Island Comics interactive book fair.
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But how would things go if, say, it were just two of them — stuck together on a desert island?
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" When asked on Desert Island Discs what single novel she wanted as a castaway, she answered, "Pride and Prejudice.
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If I'd just survived a month on a desert island, I probably wouldn't say no to a Denny's omelette.
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An empty swimming pool, at its centre a column which once supported a desert island, amplifies the smallest sounds.
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Imagine going to sleep in a floating capsule hotel, and waking up on a desert island in the morning.
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ITV specials, Pierce Brosnan, TOTP2, your nan, buffets, desert island discs, Alan Partridge, Peter Kay routines and karaoke machines.
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Insider asked 17 dietitians or dietitians-in-training what three foods they'd bring with them to a desert island.
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When Dr. Owens asked Will to choose a "desert island" candy, he struggled to come up with an answer.
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And Stitcher, a podcast app that reliably delivers everything from Revisionist History to archived episodes of Desert Island Discs.
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And because if I was alone on a desert island, Anne would be like a plucky, chatty, imaginary friend.
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To back up, just in case you've been stuck on a desert island, here's what you missed this week.
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" On what they'd bring to a desert island, which, frankly, same:Kanye: "I would bring my laptop and the Internet.
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The event will take place in Pratt's Activities Resource Center (ARC) building in collaboration with comic book store Desert Island.
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Beryl is a quiet housewife who secretly dreams of being whisked away to a desert island by a hunky hero.
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Gladwell finally gets on to asking Gucci about his music taste, borrowing the format of the BBC's Desert Island Discs.
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Dr. Zeichner, on the other hand, considers urine therapy more of a last resort, stranded-on-a-desert-island measure.
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This is Gabe Fowler who owns Desert Island Comics, a great comics store off the Lorimer L Stop in Brooklyn.
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He also got the Warriors' General Manager Bob Myers, who lists PB&J as his desert island meal, on board.
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And if I'm stranded on a desert island, and have ten records to take, I know she's in the collection.
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"The Martian," Andy Weir If I was really stranded on a desert island, this novel would be good to have.
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Desert Island Comics is the best comic store New York has to offer and it recently turned ten years old.
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It is in an 18th-century village near Acadia National Park that is the oldest settlement on Mount Desert Island.
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Desert Island embodies an "abstract idea of punk rock," Mr. Fowler said, by operating on a no-restrictions consignment basis.
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After all, you may not find cutlery on a desert island, but palm fronds make good napkins in a pinch.
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In March 1977, before illness overtook her completely, Ms. du Pré appeared on the BBC radio program Desert Island Discs.
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Would you do math if you were on a desert island and there was no one to admire your beautiful proof?
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That'll teach us to listen to Nigella Lawson's Desert Island Discs while driving towards one of my life's most pivotal experiences.
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Her Desert Island Discs playlist is the soundtrack to a dull Sunday in your Aunt's as drizzle patters against the window.
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You can experience it for yourself any time you like, on a desert island or the streets of New York City.
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Plays Elizabeth Laine "Blood on the Tracks" came out when I was in high school and remains my "desert island" album.
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"The Red Turtle" is a stark man-on-a-desert-island tale that speaks with its visuals rather than its characters.
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If you put me on a desert island with any two random items, I would make them look like they were fucking.
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I can't get the image of Garfield and Stone, trading witticisms (or enjoying more PG-13 activities) on a desert island somewhere.
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The desert island band theme came to me early on because of how I felt being a member of the hardcore scene.
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He hates angry, loud people and describes himself as "obsessive compulsive," which is a problematic trait to have on a desert island.
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And then at the end, they pick their most favorite song and the book that they would bring on a desert island.
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In this fantasy adventure, Paul Dano's character, similarly stranded on a desert island, bonds with a corpse (Daniel Radcliffe) that washes ashore.
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Along with Criterion's Jacques Tati box and the complete set of "The Wire," it's something I would take to a desert island.
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Related: The Desert Island Aqua-Mansion Private Floating Islands Are The New Luxury Megayachts Ditch Civilization for One of These Perfect Cabins
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In interviews, the question of "desert island" books is difficult for writers to answer, not because it's complex but because it's misrepresentative.
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Imagine a team of superheroes converging on a desert island, except they all speak different languages and have to learn to communicate.
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The couple met after Ms. Pickett encountered Mr. Davis on July 4, 2014, in a parking lot on Mount Desert Island, Me.
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My desert-island dessert, they're the one confection I can imagine eating ad infinitum — or, at least until the rescue plane arrives.
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"TheShadowBrokers rather being getting drunk with McAfee on desert island with hot babes," an apparent reference to eccentric anti-virus mogul John McAfee.
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"You have to imagine that you're doomed to be on this desert island for perhaps the rest of your life," the presenter explained.
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The pop star is the person she'd most like to be stranded with on a desert island (Colbert chose her husband, President Obama).
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Lipstick takes the No. 1 spot on our list of beauty products we would need if we were stranded on a desert island.
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The sidekick, who was sitting on a desert island, raggedy, starving, alone, fading, suddenly drops out of the sky and onto your character.
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What you Get An Italianate Victorian an hour from Detroit, a Craftsman cottage in Oakland and a glass house on Mount Desert Island.
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But Mr. Trump's moods have always been like storm clouds passing quickly over a desert island, and aides say that has not changed.
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Beyond the meritocratic inventory system, Desert Island proselytizes offbeat creativity through its annual fall festival, Comic Arts Brooklyn, together with the Pratt Institute.
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The two of them were left alone on a desert island to test their ability to feed and shelter themselves with bipartisan cooperation.
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The Hacksaw Ridge star even named Stone as the one actor or actress he'd bring along to a desert island if given the choice.
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The Hacksaw Ridge star even named Stone as the one actor or actress he'd bring along to a desert island if given the choice.
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Would you ask which of her siblings she'd kill last in a desert-island survival scenario, or what she really thinks about Blac Chyna?
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You are stranded on a desert island, and you can only take one bread derivative, one potato derivative, three dips, and a luxury item.
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He then had the two brands that many collectors identify as the ones they would want if they were stranded on a desert island.
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I'm not saying it's the first thing I'd take with me to a desert island, but I do like seeing it in my drawer.
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The format of "Desert Island Discs" has hardly changed since it was first broadcast in 20163 from the Blitz-scorched BBC studios in Maida Vale.
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"Sebastian loves Jake and the Neverland Pirates," says the Amber Rose Show star, 32, showing off the desert island mural that covers her son's room.
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A few days earlier, three castaways were rescued from a small desert island in the Pacific when they also wrote out "HELP" in palm leaves.
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If you missed CAB this year you can visit Gabe's comic store, Desert Island in Brooklyn and mark it on your calendar for next year.
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Haydn's 10th opera tells the story of two sisters, Costanza and Silvia, who live on a desert island, where they were abandoned by Costanza's husband.
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Bemis's original vision was to engage in his own version of the desert-island, fantasy team-building that resulted in My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
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In short order she quit her job in publishing, moved to Mount Desert Island, and got a job as a schoolteacher before becoming a librarian.
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Totally. At least, that's the fantasy: If you put yourself on a desert island with your drawing equipment, you can just do nothing but draw.
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Still, if I were fleeing to the proverbial desert island, I'd sacrifice the whole of Mr. Domingo's output to preserve that single "stanza" of Pavarotti's.
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But he still made it to Wimbledon, where he entered the main draw with a protected ranking and a beard worthy of a desert island.
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Bill Gates told The New York Times it would be one of the 10 books he'd bring to a desert island — and why ever not?
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If I were on a desert island, I'd take Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein, Alice Neel's portrait of Warhol, then anything Hans Holbein ever painted.
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ESB: Look, we're starting this movie with our protagonist going off to a desert island to meet a Jedi master, just like Luke and Yoda.
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He spoke about his charity work when he appeared on the 75th anniversary edition of BBC Radio 4's flagship biographical show 'Desert Island Discs.'
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If you're curious, Joseph Gordon-Levitt said he would bring Orson Welles to a desert island, which is another fascinating situation that can entertain your daydreams.
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Famous guests select eight records to keep them company on a hypothetical desert island, answering questions in the gaps between them about their lives and careers.
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We've all thought about what we'd do if we found ourselves stranded on a desert island, but only few of us actually have what it takes.
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One RBC survey question asked respondents which social media network they'd choose if they were trapped on a desert island and had to pick only one.
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But this is his most daring novel, and the labyrinthine twists and turns of each sentence demands undivided attention — so perfect for a desert island, then.
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She said someone asked Scalia if he were stranded on a desert island whom he would prefer as his new colleague, Laurence Tribe or Mario Cuomo?
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The summer before medical school, he joined a biological laboratory on Mount Desert Island, Me. One project there set the stage for his interest in babies.
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Like Desert Island Discs (but with rougher sound engineering), each episode consists of an interview with an artist, interspersed with passages from songs that she chooses.
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Of course, "Elektra" later became one of my favorite operas, and an earlier recording of it by Ms. Nilsson became one of my desert island discs.
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"Conversations With Wilder," Cameron Crowe I bet there aren't any movie theaters on the desert island, so I will bring books that remind me of cinema.
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When I saw Jeremy Mangan's painting "Pacific Northwest Desert Island" (2016), I recognized the Tacoma artist as the single carryover from the last biennial at TAM.
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The lineup of artists and events has been curated by the festival's founder, Gabe Fowler of Desert Island, and Matthew James-Wilson of FORGE Art Magazine.
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"There's this image of a desert island that's pristine," said Elizabeth Mendenhall, an assistant professor of international government and marine affairs at the University of Rhode Island.
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You can still open all of the other apps on your phone, but you'll be called out for it when Desert Island serves up its summary report.
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It's not exactly a grindhouse Scott Pilgrim, but a recurring bit about "desert island bands" peppered throughout the carnage has some of that series' music-obsessive winkiness.
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Palahniuk devised a strategy — play Bowie's "Young Americans," a song he "could listen to forever on a desert island," on the jukebox on repeat until people left.
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They are my desert-island food, along with bagels and lox, or a good take on a niçoise salad, or maybe a salty burger with crispy fries.
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As soon as you start the game, you'll be greeted by Timmy and Tommy, the Nook Twins, who are here to prepare you for desert island life.
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And that's true whether you're stuck on a desert island, or cozied up in your kitchen with a fragrant pot of chickpeas bubbling away on the stove.
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"If you are in Manhattan or you are on a desert island somewhere, if you have Wi-Fi, you can buy this fight," promoter Dana White said.
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She shares her list exclusively with T. "Mansfield Park," Jane Austen I'd definitely need some Jane Austen on a desert island, so I choose her most complex book.
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For some, the task might compare to such challenges as choosing between money and love, deciding on a hypothetical desert island meal, or definitively naming Marvel's best Chris.
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As the name implies, Desert Island is meant to help you focus on only the essential apps you need for a certain task or on a particular day.
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Desert island lists, survival tips, would you rathers: Get creative and watch out for Marina's responses as she goes through the many stages of stranded on an island.
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For AR/VR 2.0 to live, AR/VR 1.0 must die If you haven't heard about VR/AR by now, your desert island must not have Wi-Fi.
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From Ted Talks and My Dad Wrote A Porno, to Desert Island Discs and S-Town, podcasts have completely changed the way we tell and listen to stories.
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In it, Hank (Paul Dano) halts his plans to kill himself when he spots a corpse named Manny (Daniel Radcliffe) on the shore of his isolated desert island.
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Pierce, who has also starred in "The Wire" and "Ray Donovan," appeared in the latest episode of BBC Radio 4's "Desert Island Discs," alongside host Lauren Laverne.
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But on March 20, I emerged on a desert island, where the beach is right there, animal friends are always close by, little shops are open for business.
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What we're listening to: Lin-Manuel Miranda on the BBC's Desert Island Discs radio show, where he names the eight songs he'd take if he were a castaway.
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If you were marooned on a desert island and, due to lack of signal strength, you could listen to only one person, would it be Kara or Lauren?
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When it comes to desert island beauty products, many would prefer to beef up their lashes with mascara above all else, while others would pick the power of concealer.
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Another study by RBC found the same, that teens would choose Snapchat over Instagram as the one social network they'd choose if they were trapped on a desert island.
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Figure skater Mirai Nagasu also echoed the Shib Sibs' desire to have a Summer Olympian with her on a desert island, and had one athlete in particular in mind.
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She and Fowler knew one another through the world of comics—Fowler organizes a yearly comics festival in Brooklyn and is the owner of Desert Island, a comics store.
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A cover article last Sunday about four sisters who bought houses on Mount Desert Island in Maine referred incompletely to the renovation of one house, that of Cynthia Baker.
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It's The Odd Couple on the high seas with Yara Greyjoy and Salladhor Saan, as a mutiny lands these two fish-out-of-water stranded on a desert island.
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Inspired by Quimby's Bookstore in Chicago, which has sold everything from books on Russian prison tattoos to zines depicting destroyed foodstuffs, Mr. Fowler, 43, opened Desert Island in 2008.
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"Pacific Northwest Desert Island" similarly does not reveal its inhabitants, but its shack appears to have been made from tree shards, debris, and anything else its owner could scavenge.
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In May 210, he made a rare public appearance in Maine to mark his approaching 100th birthday by donating 1,000 acres (405 hectares) for preservation on exclusive Mount Desert Island.
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Now, we know it might take a lot to get you to retire your Coca-Cola Lip Smacker, but isn't it time you start considering a new desert island product?
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"I look back on that moment and just feel a bit embarrassed that I was so naive," McCartney said on the latest episode of Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
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Though my three sisters and our parents owned houses within two miles of one another on Mount Desert Island, I was resigned to the fact that I probably never would.
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It is a monumental book in every way, and when I am done happily rereading it on hypothetical desert island, I imagine I could use it as a small table.
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Let me ask you this: If you were stranded on a desert island and could only have one library of original movies and shows to choose from, whose would it be?
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If we were stranded on a desert island with only a few products, bronzer would be at the top of that wish list (along with maybe an eyebrow pencil...and SPF).
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As Scott Conlin strolls through the lush green grounds of Arise Addiction Recovery Center's campus, it's easy to forget that we're not walking the aesthetic confines of nearby Mount Desert Island.
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The relationship between Phil and Carol boils down to the schoolyard question: if you were stuck on a desert island with the world's most annoying person, would you make it work?
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Beckham was the guest for the 75th anniversary of Desert Island Discs, a show that asks a "castaway" to pick eight recordings to keep them company on an imaginary uninhabited island.
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This performance was certainly aided by the 50mm Summilux, which is an absolute beast of a prime lens that would be at the top of my shortlist of desert island lenses.
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The girl and her father begin the book as the least popular members of a colony on a desert island, and part of the fun is wondering how they got there.
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It is about an hour west of Mount Desert Island and an hour and a half northeast of Camden, Me. The Holbrook Island Sanctuary state park is a 2663-minute drive.
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This valuable period-instrument orchestra, under the direction of Thomas Crawford, makes a case for a second listen to his opera "L'isola disabitata" (The Desert Island), set to a libretto by Metastasio.
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For a true desert island experience, the staff will ship guests off to a sandy spit in the middle of the ocean with a private chef for a picnic and snorkeling session.
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With his wife, a perky real estate agent ("Leave Kay alone on a desert island and she'd make friends with a coconut," Terry says), he lost everything in the 2008 financial meltdown.
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That's why "I Seek the Truth," Anna and Elsa's duet from the outtakes section of the deluxe edition, is probably the Frozen 2 song I'd take with me to a desert island.
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The book ends with the transcription of "Desert Island Discs," a BBC radio program in which cultural figures select their favorite pieces of music, which are played on air between interview segments.
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Every week, creative people share the 10 titles they would most want with them if they were marooned on a desert island — a part of the editor Aaron Hicklin's ongoing project OneGrandBooks.com.
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I read Saunders's essay hours after finishing "Lord of the Flies," by William Golding, about a group of boys stranded on a desert island, and it made for a disturbing reading experience.
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The retired soccer player recently opened up to BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, where he revealed that he and Victoria have renewed their wedding vows since their first nuptials in 1999.
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But only a select few superfans will be able to purchase the Tatooine Round Dutch Oven ($900), inspired by the desert island of the same name that's famous in the "Star Wars" universe.
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I have a strong suspicion something truly critical to my life lies in the last 50 pages, and if I were alone with it on a desert island, I would finally find out.
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Malina Malkani, the New York City-based creator of the Wholitarian Lifestyle and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, picked a deconstructed egg-topped avocado toast for her desert island foods.
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As the reel of clips played, it occurred to me that none of Mr. Domingo's recordings would be among my desert island discs; other voices and presences have been more urgent and essential.
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What we're listening to: Lin-Manuel Miranda on the BBC radio show "Desert Island Discs," where the "Hamilton" creator names the eight songs he would take with him if he were a castaway.
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"The Voyage of the Beagle," Charles Darwin Lost on a desert island, having a book like this to inspire you, and to learn, would allow you to still dedicate your life to something.
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There'll be plenty of local representation, like Desert Island Comics, and in addition to perusing and purchasing artists' books, you can also learn about the process of printing them at Soft City's booth.
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Yes, that's right, we're casting our minds back two whole years to when Theresa May joined the likes of Tom Hanks, Ray Winstone, and Stephen Fry, by recording her very own Desert Island Discs.
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They often use simplified examples, such as the classroom staple of a desert island with only two inhabitants, who can either both gather coconuts and fish or specialise in one pursuit and then trade.
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My Bookshelf, Myself For his bookshop and website One Grand Books, the editor Aaron Hicklin asked people to name the 10 books they'd take with them if they were marooned on a desert island.
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The 'Be Gentle, Be Kind' Superfoods conditioner:Briogeo's kale-apple conditioner smooths dead ends and manages my frizzy flyaways, earning a spot on my list of necessities if I were stuck on a desert island.
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In 2002, if you asked me which album I would take to a desert island and listen to for the rest of my life, the answer was Taking Back Sunday's Tell All Your Friends.
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"I thought when I was preparing this sort of list that I'd actually quite like something to perhaps jig up and down to or dance to a bit on this desert island," she said.
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Neighborhood Joint Sam Baldwin stood silently beneath the chandelier of cut-out magazine covers in Desert Island, a consignment-based comic book store on Metropolitan Avenue, his arms heavy with a stack of publications.
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"My desert island, all-time, top five, most memorable heartbreaks are as follows," Kravitz teases in the last line of the trailer, leaving us tortuously hanging until the series drops in full in February.
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Without question, if I had two minutes to grab my life's possessions before being snatched away to a desert island, I would absolutely grab my Mario Badescu Skincare Facial Spray with Aloe, Herbs and Rosewater.
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A top contender for the title of 2016's weirdest movie, Swiss Army Man stars Paul Dano as a man who gets stranded on a desert island with a farting corpse, played by Daniel Radcliffe.
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In 1943, the heirs of one of those families donated the bulk of the land that comprises the Isle au Haut portion of Acadia National Park, most of which lies on nearby Mount Desert Island.
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If you're only going to buy one kitchen appliance, or you can only bring one hypothetical tool to a kitchen on a desert island, it would be difficult to find one more useful than this.
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There have been more than 3,000 episodes of Desert Island Discs recorded since it was first broadcast on 29 January, 1942, and the castaways have ranged from prime ministers and actors to sportspeople and scientists.
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On a cold Friday night in March, Teddy Mui, the manager and 40-year-old son of Winnie Mui, the owner, seemed as if he had returned from a lengthy stay on a desert island.
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To get to know my new team at R29, I asked every Beauty and Shopping editor what their one stranded-on-a-desert-island product was — kicking it off with my tried-and-true favorite first.
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Mount Desert Island and its busy Arcadia National Park have put the northern Maine coastline on the map, but if you are looking for something a little less touristy nearby, Swan's Island could be the answer.
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These categories often significantly overlap; on, say, the Bachelor spinoff Bachelor in Paradise, the contestants are kept on a "structured reality" desert island while they also compete for the affections of members of the opposite sex.
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That, in the desert island setting, means there is a large drop in temperature, often by as much as 15 degrees Celsius, or 27 degrees Fahrenheit, which affects the track surface and therefore the tire grip.
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But as a guest on "Desert Island Discs", a BBC radio programme in which celebrities imagine themselves as castaways, he said he would "sing a few hymns and march up and down" to keep his morale up.
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During a roundtable discussion with several other actors for The Hollywood Reporter, Garfield said that he'd take Stone with him if he were ever "on a desert island and can have one actor or actress with" him.
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Though the daughter of Helios, god of the sun, Circe is banished to a desert island by Zeus, there she bonds with mortals, interacts with legendary figures (Madea, the Minotaur, and more), and sharpens her witch powers.
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Plus, Martin Heinrich of New Mexico once had a reality TV show with the Republican senator Jeff Flake that asked whether senators of the opposite party could get along if they were stranded on a desert island.
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On this week's episode of "Tell Me Something I Don't Know," you'll learn about a beer recipe to bring on a desert island, some particularly uncomfortable sounds and a career that lacks female participation (besides the presidency).
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"Condensing water from moisture in the air, is viable if I was on a desert island, I had lots of money and there was no other source of fresh water and I was going to die," he said.
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I can only imagine it's a story-driven adventure game in which you hunt down the famous Seths of the world (Rogen, Green, MacFarlane, some other Seth I can't think of) and ditch them on a desert island.
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In the event you have been living on a desert island without WiFi for the last three years, let me fill you in: Donald Trump is intellectually, ethically and morally unfit to be president of the United States.
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In 2014, appearing on the BBC radio show "Desert Island Discs," she chose an Anglo-Catholic hymn, "Therefore We Before Him Bending This Great Sacrament Revere," which she used to sing with her parents in an empty church.
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Anthony says that if he was stranded on a desert island, he would "probably" want it to be made out of "those flesh-eating plants from Life of Pi." Forget falling in love: He is ready to die.
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"If you and I ended on a desert island and there was a bottle of liquor, there's an even-money chance it would be Southern Comfort," Mark Brown, the chief executive of Sazerac, said in a phone interview.
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The recent quakes rattled already frazzled nerves and transformed L'Aquila into "a desert island," her cousin and co-owner, Peppe Colaneri, said, and the meager earnings of the last two months have been laughable compared with their investment.
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If I was stuck on a desert island that only had a Burger King and a McDonald's and nothing else, not even coconuts, I'd choose Burger King — but just barely — for its better fries and more balanced burger.
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In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, David opened up about the special day, while also admitting that "marriage is difficult at times" as he and his wife continue to work hard at their relationship.
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A light dusting of bronzer warms up our complexions, basically nixing the need to sit out and bake in the sun — so, on said desert island, we could comfortably chill under a palm tree with an on-point glow.
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But as the trailer for The Red Turtle shows, the film doesn't follow Ghibli's house style at all, and it's about a man alone on a desert island, rather than the usual kids interacting with a big, chaotic environment.
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In a memorable 2016 interview on the BBC's Desert Island Discs radio show, Bill Gates admitted used to memorize his all his employees' license plates so he could track what time they arrived and left the office each day.
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From a "desert" island in the Canadian Arctic — used by NASA for research because it mimics the extreme conditions of Mars — to an unconquered mountain in the Himalayas, here are some of the most fascinating unexplored places on Earth.
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When sitting down with PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly Editorial Director Jess Cagle for his signature Cagle Exercise, the actor opened up about his desert island book, his go-to Beyoncé song, the shocking thing he finds overrated, and much much more.
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It's inspired us to tap into each previously-untouched pan from our favorite shadow palettes this season and it's been fun, but when push comes to shove, there's really only one desert island eyeshadow that we wear on repeat: gold.
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PEOPLE asked members from Team USA what other Olympian, from the Winter or Summer games, they would want to be stranded on a desert island with them, and their hilarious answers ranged all the way from from practical to romantic.
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Both tagged their locations as Soneva Fushi, a spectacular property in the Maldives that bills itself as a "desert island hideaway" with one-bedroom villas starting at $1,272 per night and reaching more than $36,000 per night in high season.
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In the miraculous Facebook Live below, we learned about Kathie Lee's new curls (they have been caressed by some of Hollywood Elite), when Hoda feels her most beautiful, their desert island beauty-product picks and so, so, so much more.
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And if you are lucky enough to be one of the chosen ones making their escape to a remote desert island in the coming months, these ladies from Heidi Klum to Lily Aldridge have got your entire resort-ready wardrobe covered.
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That place was probably, if you're anything like us, a really comfortable rock planted in a really blue part of the sea, that'd become a bacchanalian paradise, a hedonistic desert island that would play host to round the year parties.
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On this episode of Daily VICE, we catch up with three-time Olympic swimmer Nathan Adrian to ask him some questions about what it's really like in the Olympic village after hours and who he'd leave on a desert island.
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Now based in Norwich, Vermont, with a seasonal studio on the Blue Hill peninsula, Emlen has painted her share of Maine motifs, taking on some of the most iconic landscapes, such as Monhegan Island and the Mount Desert Island region.
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Now based in Norwich, Vermont, with a seasonal studio on the Blue Hill peninsula, she has painted her share of Maine motifs, taking on some of the most iconic landscapes, such as Monhegan Island and the Mount Desert Island region.
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"Everything I wrote from Brussels I found was sort of chucking these rocks over the garden wall and I listened to this amazing crash from the greenhouse next door over in England," Johnson told the BBC's " Desert Island Discs ," in 22016.
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Rob dates men and women; among the people included in her "desert island top five most memorable heartbreaks" of all time is Kat, a woman whose type is "tall, blonde, and white," and Rob's most recent ex is a black Briton.
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At FUNHOUSE Book Fair, co-organized by Desert Island bookstore at The Drawing Center in Soho, guests will collaborate with resident cartoonists such as Thu Tran, Gary Lieb, Laura Perez-Harris, and Joanna Fields, whose books will also be offered for sale.
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The Académie Française awarded its grand prize to that novel, his retelling of Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe," in which the English castaway, rather than imposing civilization on his desert island, sheds his Western skin and finds enlightenment in the worldview of Friday.
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Begun in 2013, Comic Arts Brooklyn (CAB) is a relative newcomer that has carved out something of a niche for itself, as a smaller show whose exhibitors are chosen exclusively by organizer Gabe Fowler (the owner of beloved local comics shop Desert Island).
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"We start telling little girls not to lead at very young ages and we start telling little boys to lead at a very young ages, and that's a mistake" she told interviewer Kirsty Young on the long-running radio show Desert Island Discs.
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I actually resented my good fortune sometimes — I may have had distorted, oversimplified notions that romanticized a hunter-gatherer, stranded-on-a-desert-island-in-a-good-way(?)-type life — and this, the resenting, proved that I didn't get it at all.
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Next year, in addition to introducing their first full line, Club Duquette will work with the Initiative for Creative Arts, a hip-hop-focused youth empowerment group, and with Desert Island Island Supply Company to fund local creative writing, poetry and music workshops.
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Finally, I dug these portraits the photographer Rogier van Bakel took up on Mount Desert Island, in Maine, to thank the first responders who saved his daughter after she crashed through the ice of Long Pond on a snowmobile during a winter snowstorm.
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A few years ago, Desert Island Comics owner Gabe Fowler started promoting his own alternative comics fest, currently called Comic Arts Brooklyn, which has raised the question: Which is the better alternative comic con, and how long can New York support two alternative comic cons?
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I mean, it's worrying enough that our new prime minister would make an excerpt of dialogue one of the 8 records she'd take to a desert island, but even more concerning that it takes talk of a failing health system to really get her chuckling.
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Availability: In theaters Nominated for: Animated Feature An enchanting fable about an unnamed man who gets shipwrecked on a desert island where he meets a mysterious giant red turtle, this Belgian-Japanese co-production is a quiet but striking marvel of the animation medium.
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Meanwhile, Cattelan and Ferrari's 11 store window installations are rather tame (one features the Eiffel Tower on a campy desert island), often falling back on absurd accumulations of objects typical of the early '60s work of Arman, when he arranged collections of common objects.
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Or not: with a gentle nudge from his mother, he opted instead to make a more personal statement, and is repaid for his efforts with a jolt of group rejection that leaves him feeling as alone as any shipwrecked traveler on a desert island.
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This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman has talked about how one of the big influences on the show is Lost, ABC's famous desert island drama about castaways whose lives prior to being stranded were just as eventful as their lives on the island itself.
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And so this is an incredible opportunity to buy slowly and carefully only the Robinson Crusoe stocks -- the ones you would own for 50 years if you were on a desert island and the ones that are especially in people's sights about the coronavirus.
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JAMES R. OESTREICH AT 1 MINUTE 9 SECONDS The great soprano Gundula Janowitz, who turned 80 on Wednesday, is known for her silvery purity (her recording of Strauss's serene "Four Last Songs" is my, and many others', desert-island pick) more than her explosiveness.
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Since my friends were all in the same boat as me in life, and that boat was beached on a desert island with no attempt to get it back into the water (Los Angeles does that to you), I asked my therapist to weigh in.
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In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs for a special 75th-anniversary edition, the soccer star opened up about the special ceremony, while also admitting that "marriage is difficult at times" as he and his wife continue to work hard at their relationship.
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On the eve of the new season of Dead Set on Life, we also learn how Matty's show got its Husker Dü-inspired name, what Matty loves and hates about Instagram, and what he'd cook for his grandmother if they were stranded on a desert island.
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You might end up as lost as the crew of the S.S. Minnow on your way to this Soho Grand cocktail lounge, which, in keeping with its desert-island theme, floats just off to the side of the hotel, at the mercy of the open sky.
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Mr. Flake, who once felt so strongly about the need for bipartisan compromise that he marooned himself on a desert island for a week with Senator Martin Heinrich, Democrat of New Mexico, called it a "shame" that the chances to reach across the aisle are now rare.
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At $99, however, it might be a fun addition for an on-the-go family that wants to keep up with Sesame Street or a TV lover who wants to catch up with a favorite program in a hut on a desert island or on a plane without wifi.
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The revered theater director Peter Brook has made only a handful of films, but they include one cinematic classic: "Lord of the Flies," his 1963 adaptation of William Golding's apocalyptic fable of British schoolboys on a desert island, and of how quickly a civilized veneer can crack into barbarism.
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Read more:The science behind Adele's 'sirtfood' diet and 24 other bizarre celebrity weight-loss plansWe asked 17 dietitians what foods they'd take to a desert island, and chocolate was the clear favoriteVitamin D, iron, and 12 other supplements that new research finds are useless for heart health and longevity
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Lord of the Flies may be the most apparent literary parallel to Netflix's teen drama The Society and while William Golding's tale of children lost on a desert island sans adults was certainly an inspiration for the series, a dark fairytale could be the real key to understanding The Society.
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They seem to be waiting for a return to normalcy without realizing that people who voted for Brexit or Trump are not an isolated fringe who can be banished to a desert island, and that there is substantial dissatisfaction even among people who they consider to be in their camp.
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In Israel, a new round of discussions were held over how to deal with Arafat, and many suggestions were put forward: exile him to a desert island, put embarrassing videos of him on the internet, release the many documents seized from his office ordering the transfer of funds to terrorists.
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"Here is a condensed Haydn opera with fabulous arias on a par with Mozart's" and "orchestration superior to Mozart's," Mr. Crawford says of "L'Isola Disabitata" ("The Desert Island"), the 1779 chamber opera that he and his American Classical Orchestra performed in a semi-staged production at Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday evening.
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I just loved it, and it was so preposterous: It was about a couple of girls who are on a big ship traveling somewhere, and they get shipwrecked with a boat full of babies and they all wind up on this desert island and the older girls are in charge of the babies.
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The fable-like story of a man who washes up on what seems to be a desert island — where he meets a giant red turtle that turns out to be more than it seems — is simple and universal, and communicated exclusively through music, the occasional wordless exclamation, and, primarily, lush storybook visuals.
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The Jonas Brothers singer, 29, and the Game of Thrones star, 23, tagged their location on Instagram as Soneva Fushi, a spectacular property in the Maldives that bills itself as a "desert island hideaway" with one-bedroom villas starting at $1,272 per night and reaching more than $36,000 per night in high season.
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"It was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco, of all the things, and I remember I was sitting talking to Benazir and Philip came over and she said 'oh, do you know Philip May?' and the rest is history, as they say," Theresa told BBC Radio 4 program Desert Island Discs back in 2014.
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Against the backdrop of the #J20 art strike, free museum programming on January 20, and millions of people joining the Women's March on Washington and solidarity marches across the world, Gabe Fowler, owner of the Williamsburg, Brooklyn, comics shop Desert Island, decided to devote a special issue of his comics newspaper, Smoke Signal, to women's voices.
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During a yachting holiday gone wrong, aristocratic Raffaella (played by Mariangela Melato, who plays the female lead in many of Wertmüller's films) ends up stranded on a desert island—a place where, Wertmüller explains in her email, "society and social borders don't exist"—with Gennarino, a member of her boat's crew (Wertmüller's leading man of choice, Giancarlo Giannini).
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Jack's genius lies in assessing the desires of the broadest possible audience segment — nostalgic Seinfeld fans, or audiences who want to watch attractive middle-aged women battle on a desert island–themed reality show — and digging in the NBC archives to locate what can be mixed together, microwaved, and served up for maximum advertiser dollars and profit margins.
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I'm way down east in Maine, Bar Harbor, Mt. Desert Island, leaf-peeping the reds and yellows with one of my kids, steaming on a working boat through Frenchman Bay to Egg Rock Light and a half-dozen seals banana-loafing on the rocks while guillemots red-foot it into the water at speed, their tuxedos sleek.
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In Serbia, he'd got sick and seen a doctor, who had given him an illustrated Ladybird edition of "The Princess and the Frog," along with a Penguin Readers paperback of "The Cay," Theodore Taylor's 83 young-adult novel about a boy who loses his mother in a torpedo attack and washes up on a desert island.
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Imagine the ever-popular BBC radio program Desert Island Discs with an artist-only guest list and a feminist bent and you'll get What Artists Listen To. The London artist Pia Pack started this podcast shortly after moving to Los Angeles in 2017 to explore "the stories and soundtracks of artists' lives" and get to know female artists in her new community.
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That's before you even consider the fact that Nizlopi were, by his own admittance, the biggest influence on the career of Ed Sheeran, who at 14 begged to be their roadie, who last year put their song "Flooded Quarry" as his top pick on Desert Island Discs, and whose effusive patronage led to the band reforming, touring again, and now running songwriting workshops and retreats.
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The hero abandoned on a desert island for 10 years because of a suppurating wound, whose implacable hatred must be overcome if a great war is to be won; the girl whose individual sense of justice contends with the tyranny and political dishonesty of her uncle; the hero who must visit his dead father in the underworld both for comfort and for counsel — these are some of the myths that guided the Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney (1939-2013).
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. You know an episode of Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 is going to be a cracker when the synopsis opens with: "She's apologized twice in parliament for failing to find a suitable person to head up a child abuse enquiry, a minister in her department claimed working with her was like 'walking through mud', and then there was the controversy over the vote on the European arrest warrant..." Tonight Matthew, I'm going to be, Theresa May!
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