The weather in the bay vacillates on a daily basis.
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The result is a novel that vacillates in tone and genre.
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Edlund's script, for example, vacillates between grounded realism and zippy punchlines.
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Due the show's timeline, she vacillates between harried parent and destroyed parent.
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"Vaxxed" itself vacillates between vilifying vaccines and saying that they save lives.
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It vacillates in the middle, never committing to one or the other.
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Their comedy slyly vacillates between articulating this animus and then skewering it.
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Instead, it vacillates between ponderous solemnity and a distressing tendency towards silly schtick.
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Owens, under enormous pressure from both sides, vacillates, but eventually goes to Berlin.
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Mr. Trump vacillates between confidence and fatalism when it comes to North Korea.
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For the Love of Spock vacillates between exploring Spock and telling Leonard Nimoy's story.
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And it's not as if Mr Trump vacillates between criticising Muslims and praising them.
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His behavior vacillates between adorable and exasperating, and Anne sees it that way, too.
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Instead, the show vacillates wildly between tongue-in-cheek comedy and straightforward, dull drama.
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It vacillates between ever-expanding, dense subplots that require a steady hand to pull off.
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He vacillates wildly between the two, which makes the film's climax all the more effective.
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I'm amazed by how this season wildly vacillates between situating Elizabeth or Philip at its center.
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CNN has reported that Trump vacillates between wanting to sit down for an interview and not.
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Either way, the show currently vacillates between fan service, hasty plot advancement, and some neat-looking battles.
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Though Ms. Krause's Jane rages when frustrated, the movie vacillates in illustrating the extent of her condition.
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He seamlessly vacillates between beautiful images celebrating nature's beauty and beautiful images celebrating mulleted 80s wrestling stars' beauty.
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Mary Harron vacillates between prison and movie ranch in "Charlie Says," her drama about the Charles Manson cult.
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These days, Morgan vacillates between humor and philosophy and if you can't handle the combination, you can't handle him.
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Hoang infused Stella's first person narration, which vacillates between earnestness, anxiety, and tremendous excitement, with her very personal perspective.
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He is cunning, though not always smart, and like many adolescents he vacillates between wild overconfidence and childlike naïveté.
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Kanye West vacillates between being ham-fistedly provocative and metabolizing the backlash he receives from his outlandish behavior into content.
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His delivery vacillates between effortless bars for the boom bap set and energetic ramp-ups for the clubbier trap fare.
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"Real Life" vacillates between two protagonists, Sarah (Anna Paquin) and George (Terrence Howard) who can't shake the connection between them.
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It's a tyranny, they feel, from a scientific community that vacillates between whether coffee and salt is healthy or unhealthy.
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The work vacillates between discomfort and humor, as she stuffs her mouth with marshmallows, gagging and drooling through the recitation.
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Created by Jed Mercurio ("Line of Duty"), "Bodyguard" vacillates between the thrilling and the ludicrous, sometimes in the same scene.
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Clarissa vacillates between attraction to and moral revulsion toward Lovelace, who is as slippery a character as fiction has produced.
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But even Will Smith can't save the movie, which vacillates between being fun family fare and a mediocre musical comedy.
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She vacillates wildly between being a passenger in her own story and someone who is trying to take control of it.
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A real life Queen of Hearts (she even plays croquet indoors), Anne vacillates between manic energy and the deepest throes of depression.
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As Michael Glatze, a gay-rights agitator who struggled to become a straight Christian pastor, Mr. Franco broods and puzzles and vacillates.
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Lead singer Alicia Bognanno's high voice vacillates between a soft coo and a howl; she's able to scream with the best of them.
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He vacillates between wanting to stay with his girlfriend and to follow his gut (or, since Alex Strangelove is delightfully raunchy, his crotch).
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They also criticized the national government in Rome for a schizophrenia that vacillates between drop-everything alerts and just-wash-your-hands reassurances.
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Where once the Game of Thrones subreddit bustled with plot speculation, now it vacillates between relentless dragging, heartfelt goodbyes, internet weirdness, and fan creations.
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If Doyle vacillates between embracing and undercutting the play's inherent cartoonishness, it is perhaps because our own daily reality has long since surpassed it.
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The Boss alters her character depending on the needs of whatever scene she's in, and she vacillates between protagonist, antagonist, and broad comic support.
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In private conversations, the president vacillates between sounding regretful that Mr. Kushner is taking arrows and annoyed that he is another problem to deal with.
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Mr. Trump, politically weakened and under investigation by the special counsel, vacillates between declaring economic war on China and wanting to be Mr. Xi's friend.
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But Fukuyama vacillates throughout on how great a threat aspiring Supermen in the Nietzschean mold might pose to the peace at the end of history.
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She has been challenged by ambivalent or outright hostile governments, by communities lacking proper support, and by a public that often vacillates between indifference and racism.
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"Part of the reason someone vacillates from position to position to position is they're not starting from a core set of principles and beliefs," Cruz said.
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An origin story that vacillates between sendup and appraisal, the film follows Bush (Josh Brolin) from his Yale days through the earlier years of his presidency.
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The series vacillates between guarding the fandom and gently teasing it, vaulting fan fiction to mainstream recognition while reinforcing its subordinate relationship to conventional creative properties.
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But Ludovic Tézier, his sound stalwart and stylish and his face oddly pale, captured the strange ambiguity of Rodrigue, who vacillates between loyalty to Carlos and Philippe.
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There is Kelly Lynch, one of the film's villains, who vacillates between suits and little black dresses and leather like the hard femme I aspire to be.
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Activists say the government vacillates on its attitudes towards homosexuality, pointing out that gay clubs and bars are often left alone while gay dramas are banned on television.
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Activists say the government vacillates on its attitudes toward homosexuality, pointing out that gay clubs and bars are often left alone while gay dramas are banned on television.
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Even when steeped in the mores of a culture that vacillates in its manufacturing of what I should find hot, the bodies in French's photographs are a marvel.
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She vacillates between extreme confidence and near-paralyzing insecurity, and friends say they cannot predict which they will experience: Naomi, the fiery tiger; or Naomi, the meek schoolgirl.
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Sam and Gabe's debate — 31 engaging minutes, I tell you — vacillates from the political to the private slowly, at first, as they each pause their devices to confess things.
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"In private conversations, the president vacillates between sounding regretful that Mr. Kushner is taking arrows and annoyed that he is another problem to deal with," according to the report.
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And that Al Jazeera's coverage of Mideast current affairs vacillates wildly based on whether or not Qatar's rulers are getting along with other countries' leaders at any given time.
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Cena is basically what every dad pictures himself as when fantasizing about beating up a daughter's suitor, while Barinholtz vacillates between lovable doofus and, somewhat astonishingly, the voice of reason.
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The addition of such personal detail woven seamlessly into the installation sets up a situation in which the mind vacillates between state narratives based on objective records and self-portraiture.
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Her origin story has been endlessly tweaked; the same is true of her personality, which vacillates between extreme misandrist, feminist caricature, and a glorified girlfriend, depending on who's writing her.
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The concrete, Manhattan sidewalk in the middle of February — which vacillates between a rainstorm and an arctic wind tunnel, depending on the time of day — is the true cool-girl runway.
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The WikiLeaks Twitter account, believed to be manned by Assange, vacillates daily between defending the organization against detractors and promoting damaging stories about Clinton — some of which border on conspiracy theory.
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She vacillates between seeming like a victim and acting demonic as hell—she keeps using magic to kill people, but they probably deserve it, so it seems fine to any rational viewer.
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Trump complimented Chinese efforts to curb North Korean activities just yesterday — though he often vacillates on that topic, having said that China does "NOTHING" but "just talk" on North Korea last year.
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On the theory that his Joyce-venerating late father wanted him to write a novel worthy of his name, Leopold vacillates between a navel-gazing update of "Ulysses" set in 1992 Cambridge, Mass.
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And HBO's hit show Succession vacillates between tragedy and comedy in showing how the adult children of a media mogul (modeled on Rupert Murdoch) are both enabled and trapped by their family's wealth.
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As someone who vacillates between iOS and Android fairly often, but who considers a lightly cracked iPhone 6S her daily driver, I'm also considering whether the Pixel phone is the next phone to buy.
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Throughout the book, he vacillates between the idea that meritocracy is a thin ideological veneer protecting a new aristocracy—and the idea that those who succeed at the race really are special, if overcompensated.
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Unfortunately, combining family planning with other interventions in the calculation of lives saved results in an approach that vacillates between treating the complications of pregnancy and infancy and treating pregnancy and infancy as complications.
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He vacillates between disgust at those who said he let kids die and anguish over knowing that as the only armed law enforcement officer on campus, he was best positioned to take down the shooter.
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This juxtaposition — an eager cadre of supporters laying the groundwork for a campaign they assure is all but certain while the would-be candidate publicly vacillates — has effectively kept the nascent Democratic race on hold.
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A series that captures the beauty of idiosyncratic moments, the images feel like relics of the early aughts, while the work of Cig Harvey at Robert Mann vacillates between the heavy-handed and the sublime.
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The index vacillates between a possible +100, which would mean that all Americans think the economy is in great shape and headed in the right direction, and -100, which would mean no one feels that way.
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In March, a Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that a majority supported "a national health plan or Medicare-for-all plan," 56-39, but support vacillates in both directions depending on how the program is portrayed.
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But the numbers don't lie: it's another company that vacillates between slow growth and outright decline, Tom Dotan reports: For now, Snap's ad revenue is growing quickly, as advertisers flock to what remains a relatively new platform.
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While Dolores changes, Teddy (James Marsden) requires some reprogramming, Dr. Ford (Anthony Hopkins) needles Teddy about his role in life, and Teddy, booted in safe mode, vacillates between his corny programmed dialogue and his robotic self-analysis.
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As we've discussed here before on more than one occasion, the two of them have a long and complicated relationship, which vacillates between idol worship, friendly rivalry, not-so-friendly rivalry, regular friendliness, and mutually beneficial business arrangements.
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Not even a month into the Trump presidency, the show vacillates wildly between giddy highs that feel fueled by righteous rage and, more frequently, clunky lows that feel like the show knows every eye in the world is watching.
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While the piece was originally designed for ten dancers, the update — a bit distractingly — vacillates between ten and eleven, with Brooklyn-based performance artist Brittany Engel-Adams alternating between sitting in the audience and joining the other performers onstage.
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With the Wu-Tang album playing in the background, Shkreli says he vacillates between wanting to destroy the record and dreaming of installing it in some remote place so that people have to make a spiritual quest to listen.
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"Diamond Tongues" vacillates between light, faintly romantic humor — her pal Nick (Nick Flanagan) is one of the many people who try to manage her expectations for stardom — and darker territory, as when Edith is taken in by an acting teacher.
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Even as Trump vacillates, it seems likely that his administration will take a hard stance against immigrants who lack legal status, and the tenuous victory for belonging that the student activists worked so hard to achieve is likely to unravel.
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He vacillates between a conspicuously polite and well-behaved young man who greets even his enemies with unironic warmth, and the textbook villain from Season 1 who speaks frankly and crassly about fucking whoever he wants and coming out on top.
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You could argue that this is the point: As Sandy skirts financial ruin and vacillates over his relationship to an "age-appropriate" woman (played by Nancy Travis, 17 years younger than Douglas), Norman frequently calls him out on his shallowness.
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The shock of Sharon Stone's 1996 Gap turtleneck vacillates from best and worst lists depending on the sense of humor of the publication doing the rating; likewise her white Gap button-down shirt in 1998 paired with a purple Vera Wang skirt.
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Giving Trump's political nemesis an uninterrupted stage on the Senate floor could test the notoriously mercurial president's patience as he vacillates between a desire for a quick, dismissive trial and a robust one that includes a slate of his hand-picked witnesses.
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On Friday, they visit New York in support of their recent album, "Green and Gray," which vacillates between post-hardcore ferocity and folksy rumination, begrudging everyone from the White House policy adviser Stephen Miller to the looming specter of death along the way.lpr.
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Smith is perfectly balanced by Shameik Moore as the slightly older, slightly more volatile Shaolin Fantastic, a wannabe DJ who meets up with Ezekiel and sparks a love-hate friendship that frequently vacillates between its two extremes, sometimes in the same conversation.
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Plunged into turmoil in the midst of taking his kid on a college tour, Brad vacillates between elated hope for Troy's future and a desperate desire for him to avoid what Brad perceives as his own lack of success, feelings that are expounded upon in claustrophobic voiceover.
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Fortunately for us, Williams's performance goes beyond his rather limited purview, but Daniels's doesn't; he vacillates between soliciting the audience's sympathy—letting us know that Ray himself thinks he's a creep—and trying to rise to Williams's daring and nonjudgmental embodiment of her not easily assimilable character.
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O'Rourke entered the Democratic primary Thursday, and a close reading of his policy positions on health care reveals he vacillates between Medicare-for-all as "the best way to ensure Americans get the health care they need" and criticism of the Medicare-for-all plans offered.
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The movie vacillates between shots that belong to comedy — conventional over-the-shoulder shots that let you feel like you're in on the conversational joke — and shots that belong to horror — empty patches of screen that make you feel like someone could jump out at any moment.
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In order to broaden our understanding of cannibalism, which he says vacillates between "the sensationalistic shit" and academic studies, Schutt examined the animal kingdom and applied what he learned to examples of cannibalism among humans, as well as the Western taboos that have led us to consider it unthinkable.
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Which is not to say that Mr. Brooks is a liar, per se — only that he is an outstanding salesman, one of the greatest in pop music history, a man who vacillates seamlessly between the performance of intimacy and the performance of exuberance, and often does not distinguish between the two.
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The island vacillates between ostentatious displays of wealth (a golf course that overlooks the $100,000 boats in the marina), touristy kitsch (a giant sculpture of an ice cream cone near stores selling candles, postcards and fudge) and truly beautiful undeveloped areas that feel as remote as any northern Wisconsin forest.
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In fact, the film vacillates between buddy humor (like Oscar Isaac running around asking everyone if they got his text about murdering a cartel leader — maybe not something you want to put in writing), and deeply painful musings about the nature of military service, and the psychological and physical toll it leaves behind.
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Mr. Djawadi has said the idea was to recreate the world of the show, a Tolkien-meets-"Godfather" fantasia based on the novels by George R. R. Martin, filled with warring clans, magical happenings and gorgeous music that vacillates between percussive, martial works and minor-key pieces, billowing with anguish and dread.
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At one point, while the two are listening to the unheard two million dollar Wu-Tang album Shkreli purchased this past December, he describes what he wants to do with it: With the Wu-Tang album playing in the background, Shkreli says he vacillates between wanting to destroy the record and dreaming of installing it in some remote place so that people have to make a spiritual quest to listen.
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Instead, Alice — who narrates in a voice that vacillates between irresistible charm and grating cutesiness — finds herself charged with overseeing Frank, who speaks in a "weird monotone," can neither be touched nor allow anyone to lay a hand on his belongings, regularly spends time "wrapped in his comforter, rolling on the floor and muttering to himself" to calm down, and copes with frustration by bashing his head into glass doors and metal poles.
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Brockes, an Englishwoman living in New York and the author of a previous memoir, "She Left Me the Gun," about her mother, is so smart and tartly charming (think "Fleabag" meets Helen Fielding) that it doesn't much matter that you sense an obligation to make a word count as she vacillates about some aspects of her story, particularly her relationship with her sort-of-partner, L. It's hard to fault her: While Brockes is another woman of privilege (and diligent savings), as a 21st-century freelance journalist she lives like a polar bear, hopping from one glossy magazine ice floe to another.
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