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No holiday music playlist is complete without Donny Hathaway’s 1970 soul classic. From the first measures of the track to his closing line of “shake a hand/shake a hand,” there is no other song that ...
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First encounters on Japanese dating shows usually drip with polite discomfort. Strangers engineered together by ambitious programming exchange hellos, fumble through small talk and strain to find ...
The Japanese writer-director Mamoru Hosoda has made some amazing films that take profound leaps into dreamlike worlds. Hosoda’s “Mirai” (2018) is about a 4-year-old boy who’s resentful of his newborn ...
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