Research says that your 40s are your unhappiest age. Its worse for millennials | Sophie Brickman
Posted on March 21, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
OpinionLife and style This article is more than 1 year oldResearch says that your 40s are your unhappiest age. It’s worse for millennialsThis article is more than 1 year oldSophie BrickmanI was already glum about soon turning 40. Then I learned that happiness is U-shaped – it bottoms out in your 40s, then starts to inch its way up again in your 50s
All indicators to the contrary – the three children, the mortgage, the gray hairs, that little immutable fact that I was born in 1984 – the idea that I am approaching 40 is as discordant to my identity as is my bra drawer, which, since the pandemic and the birth of my one-year-old, consists mostly of slings.
[Read More]Samuel L Jacksons 20 best films ranked! | Movies
Posted on March 21, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
Master of the universe … Jackson as Marvel’s Nick Fury in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Photograph: Marvel Studios/AllstarSoon to be seen in The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, the actor has a CV taking in dancing losers, choric narrators, a Bible-misquoting killer – and Marvel’s coolest middleman
by Peter Bradshaw20. Chi-Raq (2015)Samuel L Jackson is the elegantly besuited, cane-twirling, fourth-wall-breaking narrator in Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq (pronounced “shy-rack”), set in the city of Chicago, where the homicide rate has exceeded the US death toll in Iraq.
[Read More]The longer you look, the darker it gets: reassessing Gustav Klimts The Kiss
Posted on March 21, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
Golden moment … Klimt’s The Kiss at the Belvedere Museum, ViennaGolden moment … Klimt’s The Kiss at the Belvedere Museum, ViennaArtIs the woman unconscious? Could the man’s embrace be violent? A new film invites us to challenge our preconceptions about the gilded masterpiece
Some paintings become so iconic that it is difficult to remember that they are in fact paintings, not just posters on the walls of dorm rooms stained with Blu-Tack.
[Read More]Tina Turner: Amy, the drugs don't work | Music
Posted on March 21, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
In the newsMusicTina Turner: Amy, the drugs don't workLike an R&B agony aunt, the singer offers Amy Winehouse her words of wisdom on substance use. Plus, Coldplay stand on the shoulder of Oasis, and Take That's offensive facial hair blights their Ivor Novello winThere are sage words from Tina Turner this morning on the welfare of Amy Winehouse. That said, we wonder if there's a celebrity in the land who doesn't have an opinion on Amy Winehouse.
[Read More]Why death of war reporter Christopher Allen must be made visible | Roy Greenslade
Posted on March 21, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
Journalist safety This article is more than 4 years oldWhy death of war reporter Christopher Allen must be made visibleThis article is more than 4 years oldRoy GreensladeAllowing tragic murder to pass without rigorous investigation is to sanction killing of journalist
Journalism lost a special person the day Christopher Allen was murdered in South Sudan. The fact that very few journalists, let alone millions of others, know of his death in August 2017 is a tragedy behind a tragedy.
[Read More]Wild women: the rise of all-female outdoor activity groups
Posted on March 21, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
Camping holidaysOn international women’s day, we celebrate the grassroots groups giving women the confidence to enjoy the great outdoors
It was a little after midnight when I heard footsteps approaching my bivvy bag. Normally when wild camping, a sound like this would cause me to sink further into my sleeping bag, hoping I wouldn’t be seen. Yet that night, sleeping on a hillside on the western escarpment of the Chilterns in Buckinghamshire, there was no need – or indeed chance – to remain hidden.
[Read More]A Royal Affair: one to remember | Period and historical films
Posted on March 20, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
Reel historyPeriod and historical filmsA Royal Affair: one to rememberThe court of Christian VII of Denmark was rocked by adultery, madness, and sado-masochism - but all they really cared about was who got to wear the trousersDirector: Nikolaj Arcel
Entertainment grade: B+
History grade: B+
Princess Caroline Matilda, sister of mad king George III of Great Britain, was married off to mad king Christian VII of Denmark at the age of 15.
[Read More]Amid the opioid epidemic, white means victim, black means addict
Posted on March 20, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
Guardian SelectsOpioids crisisAmerica’s social hierarchies rule everything – even the opioid epidemic. You don’t have to dig deep into the recovery process to find the hypocrisy to people of color
My cursor is hovering over the “unfriend” button, but I haven’t clicked it.
Today, my relationship-severing finger is poised to get rid of Matt. Matt is a friend with whom I spent a lot of time about six years ago. We were close in rehab, but I haven’t seen him since.
[Read More]Because Our Fathers Lied review: Robert McNamara, Vietnam and a partial healing
Posted on March 20, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
BooksReviewThe son of John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson’s defense secretary delivers a searing memoir of war, betrayal and love
In the mid-1960s, Craig McNamara and his mother were both diagnosed with ulcers. Craig has a theory about why they were afflicted simultaneously: “I think we both felt the weight of my father’s decisions throughout our bodies and in every part of our minds.”
1968: the year that changed AmericaRead moreIt’s a rare child who doesn’t have some kind of love-hate relationship with his or her parents, and that was especially true for all of us who came of age in the 1960s.
[Read More]Frank Terpil: How a CIA spy went rogue to court the worlds worst dictators
Posted on March 20, 2024
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| Valentine Belue
The ObserverCubaThe remarkable tale of Frank Terpil, former intelligence agent, fugitive from US justice and a 53-year jail term, who has died in Havana
To those not in the know, he would introduce himself as Robert Hunter. An Australian retiree, he said, whiling away his latter years with his notably younger Cuban wife, in a simple bungalow overlooking the Playas del Este, a string of white sand beaches outside Havana.
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