"It's proven that reducing idleness reduces violence," Ms. King said.
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We choose the risks of overwork over the risks of idleness.
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We have to fight back with idleness and saudade and tradition.
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These villages are now concentrations of idleness, frustration, suffering and grief.
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Forced idleness excludes the middle class from a feeling of social usefulness.
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There was nothing left in life for him but idleness, petty mischief, and booze.
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If idleness is true bliss, Gudetama asks, then isn't anything more than that painful?
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It has degraded the nation and it has encouraged laziness, idleness, hypocrisy and even crime.
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Head is currently performing in a London production of Terence Rattigan's play Love in Idleness.
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And then there are those who feel like mornings are meant for sleep and idleness.
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It's in these moments of idleness that your mind might stumble upon a truly new idea.
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Idleness and isolation have dulled the spirits of a people whose ancestors were feared cattle rustlers.
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Women and children are vulnerable in squalid conditions where idleness and violence go hand in hand.
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In the recording, Mirziyoyev scolds Khodjaev over idleness and corruption among the bank's lower-level officials.
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The chief justification for prison labour is that it both defeats idleness and gives inmates marketable skills.
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Throughout his 213.6s, Lee Baumann said he bounced between idleness and marginal jobs as he battled opioids.
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I've never felt remotely apologetic about it; I take profound pleasure in my times of complete idleness.
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One 2010 study even found that people actually have an aversion to idleness, finding busyness more comforting.
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If you are a mollusk and you're reading these words, chances are you're prone to idleness and sloth.
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Perhaps the most intriguing form of idleness is one nearly all of us are intimately familiar with: procrastination.
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Authorities say they organize the contests to encourage self-esteem, fight idleness, and promote integration among women prisoners.
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In postwar Europe, the impracticality of the twin restrictions of corseted waist and full skirt indicated wealth and idleness.
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In her words: Four be the things I am wiser to know / Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
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A widower with no children, Silva spent his free time in complete idleness, eating his meals in a local restaurant.
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And that the individual virtual ants had to have idleness built in as a potential response to a crowded tunnel.
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Learning takes time and effort, so don't get discouraged if you don't catch on immediately to the benefits of idleness.
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But for many, idleness will be enforced, and along with it the shame of being watched and treated as sinners.
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The amount came from from a special fund intended to reduce idleness and encourage development of family and community ties.
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Now, with idleness in mind, I just park myself on the couch as often as possible and see what happens.
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Integral to the capitalist ethic is a powerful threat of idleness that, in many cases, game developers have taken advantage of.
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The tools in my first book (The 4-Hour Workweek) have always been for maximizing per-hour output, not promoting idleness.
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Their spirits had been lifted after hours of idleness and uncertainty, once they were informed that the game would be resumed.
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Twenty-four-hour care is particularly grueling and isolating: long bouts of idleness, punctuated by spasms of disorder and intimate struggle.
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" Parents need to steer their children away from the dangers of "idleness and passive drift" — of, as he puts it, "affluenza.
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There are few bigger wastes than the loss to idleness of hours, days and years by people who would rather be working.
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But over time, the stigma against leaving the workforce would surely erode: large segments of society could drift into an alienated idleness.
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Idleness, as we know, has a bad rap in Western culture, but it can be a philosophical experience in its own right.
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It was a generator of misery and paralysis on an epic scale — lives wasted, hopes quashed, youths reduced to idleness and inertia.
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What if the opposite of work isn't idleness, vegetative lounging, but something creative, perhaps a form of solidarity or way of being together?
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And, in doing so, it restores our capacity to dream as Black people—to imagine a future of Black rest, relaxation, and idleness.
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In this article, I examine the reasons behind this trend of increased idleness and what this tells us about work opportunities and incentives.
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Indeed, in a certain sense, it eludes us because, at its most radical, idleness tends to devour its devotees (again, Oblomov and Bartleby).
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So tired of just "thoughts and prayers," and idleness, when already over a dozen school shootings have occurred since the beginning of 2018.
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Planters built magnificent houses high above their sugar cane fields, and lived lives of idleness, gorging on drink and wanton sex with slaves.
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The minutes passed slowly, the temperature and humidity rose, and then, when the ferry did eventually pull up, idleness turned into intense action.
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CreditCreditRobert Rausch for The New York Times Idleness is generally not something visitors to remote corners of the Caribbean need to seek out.
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Our politicians, eager to reduce the cost of providing a social security, grind into us the notion that idleness is a great sin.
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"Unlike western vacations, which Soviets perceived as vulgar pursuits characterized by conspicuous consumption and idleness, holidays in the USSR were decidedly purposeful," Omidi writes.
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Additionally, Current Population Service data from 2628-28503 reveals that around half of men not in the workforce blamed a disability for their idleness.
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However, when we isolate a large portion of the population, we begin to identify the bad incentives at play in this increasing trend of idleness.
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Less than a week old, the shelter has assumed the squalor of an overwhelmed refugee camp, and the rhythms of enforced idleness have taken hold.
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Technology doesn't make it any easier: The smartphone you carry with you at all hours makes it almost impossible to truly unplug and embrace idleness.
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And take advantage of convenient opportunities to practice idleness, like when you're standing in line or waiting for the children to come home from school.
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Mr Krueger reports that among men aged 21-30 "idleness"—meaning not working, seeking work or studying—rose by 3.5 percentage points between 1994 and 2014.
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As well as narcissism, idleness and a willingness to take advantage of others, they share a flair for arguing that black is white and vice versa.
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Race gap: White, black and Hispanic graduates had an increase in idleness after the recession, and only young black graduates returned to where they were before.
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Military In this environment of political idleness, Americans have started to discover that consumer-oriented businesses are sometimes more responsive, and more accountable, than elected officials.
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They arrive by stealth during moments of idleness, creeping in while you're staring out a window or soaking in the bathtub or just wandering aimlessly along.
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They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts, and that they will not be supported in idleness either here or elsewhere.
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"To sum up, people dread idleness yet were not willing to engage in busyness unless they could justify the busyness with a purpose," Yang and Hsee wrote.
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In our idleness we intuit a cosmic meaninglessness, which comes along with the realization that, with every action, we get only more entangled in the universal farce.
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Swiping had become a reflex in the face of idleness, he barely registered that he had opened the app at all and already he was getting matches.
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"I want to work!" screeches a kratt, voicing the mantra of gadgets that find idleness so intolerable they view it as a reason to kill their makers.
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The evacuees sat in an awful kind of idleness, just wondering what had become of their homes and when they would be able to see them again.
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The callous palms of the laborer are conversant with finer tissues of self-respect and heroism, whose touch thrills the heart, than the languid fingers of idleness.
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It should come as no surprise that self-care, as coopted from black women and marketed largely to white women, has come to be synonymous with idleness.
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In 1932, the British philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote an essay called "In Praise of Idleness" which contains a point that's more relevant than ever for America's overworked employees.
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"People dread idleness, and their professed reasons for activity may be mere justifications for keeping busy," University of Chicago professor of behavioral science and marketing Christopher Hsee observed.
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Tramp art was at its peak from the 1870s to the 1930s, and socially it coincided with a particular moral bent that considered idleness as the devil's playground.
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That itch still lurked though, so after a prolonged period of idleness I felt it was time to come out of retirement and have a long, hard scratch.
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A few of the scrolls make learned allusions to religious and literary texts: Tamura Suio's "Courtesan and Elephant" (1716), for example, references Yoshido Kenko's Essays in Idleness (c.
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One presenter, Jean O'Callaghan, a principal lecturer at the University of Roehampton in London, offered a more positive interpretation of this group, framing them as masters of idleness.
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Fight fans were impressed even more by Ali's dogged courage when the Supreme Court finally allowed him to return to the ring after three and a half years enforced idleness.
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Sites of idleness and wasted time like the Czech school are fertile breeding grounds for the habit many of us form in childhood of always being in love with somebody.
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So with the scientific literature showing the upside of employment and the downside of idleness, we still have the "kinder and gentler brigade" fighting work for those on food stamps.
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Calls to close the place completely have since picked up steam, but correction officials last year released a 14-point "anti-violence agenda" that includes something called idleness reduction programming.
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Idleness does not run in my family, we were never the type to sit and watch movies together, we were never the type to sit and do much at all.
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Rather than encourage industry, imagination, and innovation, out-of-control welfare spending disincentivizes these values, allowing a crippling cycle of idleness, reliance on government, and poverty to take their place.
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The Obama administration codified it in Performance-Based National Detention Standards in 2011, stating that its purpose, among other goals, is to reduce idleness, improve morale and lower disciplinary incidents.
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Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute is full of ideas to encourage work: less occupational licensing, a lower payroll tax, more apprenticeships, a disability system that no longer incentivizes idleness.
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The strength of the labour market calls into question gloomy predictions about the future of work—that increasingly sophisticated computers will consign growing numbers of workers to a life of enforced idleness.
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The Wind Rises, then thought to be Miyazaki's last movie, had already been released, so he saw the machine behind My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, and Spirited Away in a moment of idleness.
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NOW Free time, or some institutional version of essential idleness, for you and me and us and now, is lost and gone, efficiently sucked away by and into someone else's supermassive black hole.
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His absence destabilizes Lydia in ways beyond simple grief — in part because she's a woman with very little to do, one who has refused paid work and charity work alike and cultivates idleness.
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Relaxation and idleness are markers of sophistication in Ms. von Bonin's book, and if her scallops and octopuses look a little bored at times, that should be seen as a sign of their modernity.
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"She loathes the complacent idleness whereby contemporary Americans dismiss Puritanism and turn John Calvin, its great proponent, into an obscure, moralizing bigot," the critic James Wood wrote of Robinson in the New Yorker in 2008.
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Dramatic license, perhaps, and yet not dramatic enough; the production, directed by the Huntington's artistic director, Peter DuBois, alternates too mechanically between whipping the same questionable points into crises and a sort of reactionary idleness.
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"This is why Christ is represented as though he is stepping outside of the building, not just confined to the idleness of inner walls," Baker wrote in the letter, which his friend also posted on Facebook.
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" In JFK's word choices, we can hear the echoes of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's rhetoric during the New Deal in the 1930s, replete as it was with exhortations to put and end to "underconsumption" and "idleness.
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That their use, and the anxiety about gambling and idleness encouraged by these "picture books of the devil," had already resulted in anti-gaming ordinances demonstrates how quickly the cards gained popularity in the Middle Ages.
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In the 19th-century Checkered Game of Life, virtues and vices like honesty and idleness became spaces on the board that could send you forward or backward on the path that eventually became The Game of Life.
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Williams — for many years now a baroness — does return, bringing her unquenchable passion with her, one can only look on moist-eyed at an enterprise embarked upon in a spirit that was the exact antithesis of idleness.
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"This life is nothing special, but we're enjoying it," O-Ei says in her voiceover narration, articulating a beautifully humane and hedonistic defiance of religious prohibitions against the simple pleasures to be found in urban mischief and idleness.
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The idea, says Edward Coyle, a professor of kinesiology at UT-Austin and senior author of the new study, was to see how their metabolisms would respond to this outlandishly fatty, sugary meal after their days of enforced idleness.
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The computers—the phones and the algorithms and the damn neural net—they're all conspiring to erase time, to introduce an efficiency so good that time ceases to exist, thus rendering such concepts as idleness and saudade and tradition obsolete.
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For everyone involved, it's like waiting for a jury in a big trial to reach its verdict: long stretches of edgy idleness are laced with the prospect of frenetic action and hugely consequential outcomes that could unfold at a moment's notice.
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A Terence Rattigan play from 1944 that is a revision of the author's "Less Than Kind," the whimsically named "Love in Idleness" — the title comes from Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" — emerges in its present iteration as a premiere of sorts.
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In my idleness last night, I spent a long time just tickling my 5-year-old daughter, pretending to scare her, and lying on my back with her in "airplane position" while she perfected a move she called the hummingbird.
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" As that Old Testament passage says: "She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness … Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.
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Officials said that the voluntary program, which began Wednesday, was part of a national campaign to model good behavior for children, and that General Prayuth had created it after learning of research that documented widespread physical idleness among Thailand's youth and older citizens.
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Ms. Lane (whose natural commanding presence is put to strangely artificial use) portrays the love-blighted Ranevskaya, who returns to her provincial childhood home, where her older brother, Gaev (John Glover, looking and acting like a wonky Roald Dahl character), lives in blinkered idleness.
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Cartoon characters' rubberiness, their jazziness, their cheerful buoyance and idleness all chimed with popular images of African Americans, already embodied in minstrel shows and in Joel Chandler Harris's tales of Uncle Remus, which Disney was to make into an animated feature, Song of the South, in 1946.
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London Theater Reviews Lightness of touch can be among the most difficult theatrical virtues to achieve, which means that not even the gossamer presence of the sublime Eve Best can keep the Menier Chocolate Factory's intriguing makeover of "Love in Idleness" from feeling like pretty heavy going.
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Having scored a West End triumph in 2011 with his masterful production of Mr. Rattigan's "Flare Path," Mr. Nunn has created on this occasion a text that draws from "Love in Idleness" and "Less Than Kind" to honor the writer's drawing-room wit, as well as his sociopolitical bent.
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But relatives and friends describe her as being uncommonly unimpressed by the trappings of privilege and instead driven by an almost religious sense of fairness, an aversion to idleness and a family-bred commitment to service that has helped elevate her into one-half of Virginia's most famous power couple.
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A lot of games I loved this year are games that I played fairly late, and while some of that is probably down to recency bias, I think it has more to do with the fact that sometime in November, I wasn't so quick to start catastrophizing in every moment of idleness.
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In the early 14th century, the Buddhist priest Kenko wrote a series of short meditations — gathered in the subsequent decades into a collection now known as "Essays in Idleness," or "The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko" — in which he mentioned the cherry blossom: The changing of the seasons is deeply moving in its every manifestation.
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As essayist/cartoonist Tim Kreider tells us in the "The Busy Trap": "The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration … "This makes me think of what I once read about Jonas Salk.
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The video deftly shows the banality of evil in the boots of U.S. Army soldiers—there for our "protection"—gathered around their armored vehicles waiting for something to shoot, and the idleness of bored cops checking their phones and leaning against barricades lining the streets of D.C. Flags with Trump's bloated visage wave as tourists nervously perambulate around the capital.
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" Zhang Junfang on "How to Get the Most Out of Art (Even When You're Not Sure You Get It)" Matt on "The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness" Shawna Muckle on "How Politics Took Over the Killing of Mollie Tibbetts" Juan Reyes on "Catholic Priests Abused 1,000 Children in Pennsylvania, Report Says" Anna Salvatore on "We Use Sports Terms All the Time.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads N O C T U R N E Rippling in the ceosops Foreskin of wind Still surrounded by blood Poverty And the uneven caresses Lying at the bottom Dreaming dreaming Days of complete idleness Urinating Without rejection Transparent At **** in the afternoon Now rising Now setting A windbreak of gum trees Etcetera The edge of time Etcetera * * * Lynn Xu was born in Shanghai and is the author of Debts & Lessons.
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The night's primary stage, the dining table, was covered with a canvas cloth printed to mirror the allegorical painting on the ceiling (Hugues Taraval's "Athena Rescuing a Youth From Idleness") — "as above, so below," said the artist Leo Villareal, who, along with Chloë Sevigny, Jean Vanderbilt and the artist Elizabeth Colomba, was one of 24 seated guests — as well as ceramic bowls by the artist Jesse Wine that approximated human heads, their hollows filled with chilled pea-and-ginger soup.
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The night's primary stage, the dining table, was covered with a canvas cloth printed to mirror the allegorical painting on the ceiling (Hugues Taraval's "Athena Rescuing a Youth From Idleness") — "as above, so below," said the artist Leo Villareal, who, along with Chloë Sevigny, Jean Vanderbilt and the artist Elizabeth Colomba, was one of 24 seated guests — as well as ceramic bowls by the artist Jesse Wine that approximated human heads, their hollows filled with chilled pea-and-ginger soup.
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