Thigh society: why mens shorts are getting shorter
Posted on May 10, 2024
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‘I’m just a guy leaving the gym’: Milo Ventimiglia shows off his incredible thighs in a shot that went viral on social media. Photograph: AKGS/Backgrid‘I’m just a guy leaving the gym’: Milo Ventimiglia shows off his incredible thighs in a shot that went viral on social media. Photograph: AKGS/BackgridThe ObserverMen's fashionThis summer is officially sexy – and the hottest look for men is short shorts. But are we ready for this much male flesh?
[Read More]Titanic tourist submersible: desperate search for sub missing with five onboard | The Titanic
Posted on May 10, 2024
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The Titanic This article is more than 6 months oldTitanic tourist submersible: desperate search for sub missing with five onboardThis article is more than 6 months oldFrench expert and British explorer believed to be among five onboard submersible missing in north Atlantic since Sunday
Explainer: what is the Titan tourist sub and what might have happened to it? Search and rescue teams were racing against time on Monday to find a tourist sub that went missing in the north Atlantic while on a dive to the wreck of the Titanic.
[Read More]Top 10 books about freedom
Posted on May 10, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
Top 10sBooksAuthors as radically different as Julia Donaldson, John Rawls and Ayn Rand can make us appreciate the value of freedom, and the terrible jeopardy of losing it
Everyone has a different idea of freedom. Some want to be free to do what they want, any old time. For others, it’s about being free from the overbearing state. I think that’s the point. Freedom is different for everyone – to define someone else’s freedom is to trap them in your idea of who they should be.
[Read More]Why Intimacy is undercover porn
Posted on May 10, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
MoviesAlexander Linklater's article about how it felt to watch his girlfriend giving Mark Rylance a blow job could not have been better timed. The disappointments of this season's Big Brother have left those broadsheet readers that have a taste for prurience desperate for something new to discuss. Linklater's long and thoughtful piece about his response to his partner's involvement in some of the most explicit sex scenes seen in mainstream cinema more than fulfils this remit.
[Read More]A guide to Henri Dutilleux's music | Music
Posted on May 9, 2024
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A guide to contemporary classical musicMusicA guide to Henri Dutilleux's musicThe Frenchman has transformed his astonishing compositional refinement and willingness to take inspiration from other art forms into works of real emotional immediacyI could do this with any piece of Henri Dutilleux's, the French composer whose 97th birthday is this week. But seeing as it's one of my favourites, we might as well start with his Cello Concerto, Tout un monde lointain, the visionary five-part piece he wrote for Mstislav Rostropovich in 1970.
[Read More]Celia Gregory | Television | The Guardian
Posted on May 9, 2024
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TelevisionObituaryCelia GregoryAn accomplished and dedicated actor, she was a familiar TV faceIn the 1970s Celia Gregory, who has died aged 58, appeared on the Sunday Times list of Britain's most promising actresses. During the ensuing 20 years, her talent and dedication carried her career from strength to strength.
She appeared on the West End stage with Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright and Frank Finlay in 1973 in Eduardo de Filippo's Saturday, Sunday, Monday, directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
[Read More]Colts owner Jim Irsay was treated for overdose at home in December police | Indianapolis Colts
Posted on May 9, 2024
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Indianapolis ColtsColts owner Jim Irsay was treated for overdose at home in December – policeColts owner was found ‘unresponsive’ at home, police sayIrsay has admitted to previous overdose and addiction battlesIndiana police responded to an emergency call at Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay’s home last month for a suspected overdose, according to a FOX59 report.
Records obtained by the Indianapolis TV station said police responding to a Carmel, Indiana, residence at 4.
[Read More]Emilia Clarke: Game of Thrones nude scenes were 'terrifying' | Game of Thrones
Posted on May 9, 2024
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Game of Thrones This article is more than 4 years oldEmilia Clarke: Game of Thrones nude scenes were 'terrifying'This article is more than 4 years oldThe actor who played Queen Daenerys says she’s been pressured to shoot naked since the show, but is ‘a lot more savvy’ now
Emilia Clarke has revealed she felt uncomfortable acting in some of her nude scenes in Game Of Thrones.
The British actress played queen Daenerys Targaryen in HBO’s sprawling epic, which became notorious for its explicit portrayal of sex and violence.
[Read More]Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzales: Room 29 review pretzels and despair
Posted on May 9, 2024
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‘Excellent company’: Chilly Gonzales at the piano with Jarvis Cocker. Photograph: Garth JenningsView image in fullscreen‘Excellent company’: Chilly Gonzales at the piano with Jarvis Cocker. Photograph: Garth JenningsKitty Empire's album of the weekJarvis CockerReview(Deutsche Grammophon)
The ex-Pulp frontman and pianist check in at Hollywood’s infamous Chateau Marmont for this beautifully bittersweet song cycle
Hearing Jarvis Cocker’s lascivious Sheffield mutter can still produce a contact high, particularly in those who came of age with Pulp.
[Read More]Maya Wolfe-Robinson | The Guardian
Posted on May 9, 2024
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During the transatlantic slave trade, more enslaved African people were taken to Brazil than any other country. Today, more than half of Brazil’s population identify as Black and there are more Black people in Brazil than any other country except Nigeria. But the country is still grappling with deep structural racism
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