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Here are the meanings of the 10 hardest words that have also been used in New York Times articles. This part of Montana, Lewis and Clark country, is flat and implacable with swells, coulees and hills. — 52 Places to Love in 2021 (Jan. 6, 2021)4. motet — a vocal composition, often religious:Another wonderful motet by Byrd is “Justorum animae,” which is basically a commemoration or a celebration of martyrs. He was seeing people being put to death because of their faith. — Language Is Smarter Than We Are (Jan. 11, 1987)The list of the week’s easiest words:

Persons: cicely —, labile —, didn’t, Lewis, Clark, Byrd, —, William Byrd, louche, Brando, Pierre Trudeau, Jon Peters, Barbra Streisand, lookbook, Santis, “, Mr, Arnault, Aimé Leon Dore, cellule Organizations: New York Times, Art, Food, Wear, Aimé Leon Dore Took Locations: New, Faroe Islands, Jena, Montana, Aimé Leon Dore Took New York

☆ Barbra Streisand Is Ready to Tell All. Pull Up a Seat.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Wesley Morris | More About Wesley Morris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Rick Kot, an executive editor at Viking who oversaw production on the book, told me, “Publishing books in two volumes is difficult just as a commercial venture. Nor does it inspire the “five takeaways” treatment that juicy new memoirs by Britney Spears and Jada Pinkett Smith have. These are my thoughts.” She also considered those other Streisand titles, the ones by other people. Sydney Chaplin (one of Charlie’s kids) played the original Nick Arnstein during her “Funny Girl” Broadway run; they shared a flirtation that Chaplin wanted to consummate and that Streisand wanted to keep professional. It’s that Barbra Streisand endured a parade of harsh workplaces yet never stopped trying to make the best work.

Persons: Rick Kot, “, She’s, you’ve, Britney Spears, Jada Pinkett Smith, Streisand, Christine Pittel, hemming, hawing, ”, there’s, Sydney Chaplin, Nick Arnstein, Chaplin, Elliott Gould, Dolly, Walter Matthau, Gene Kelly, Matthau, she’s, Brando, Pierre Trudeau, Jon Peters, It’s, Barbra Streisand Organizations: Viking, “ Publishing

☆ A young Elon Musk once sweet-talked a random mall salesman into giving him a Dungeons & Dragons module for free and we think we know which one it is
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Chris Kaye | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A Ronan Farrow story in the New Yorker highlights an adventure of teenage Elon Musk. Musk and a friend made an unsupervised trip to a mall to obtain a Dungeons & Dragons adventure. While the story doesn't mention which classic '80s module Musk was after, we have a guess. AdvertisementAdvertisementTeenage Elon Musk took a joyride in a boosted car and skipped out of a South African mall with a possibly purloined Dungeons & Dragons module. AdvertisementAdvertisementOnce at the mall, the pair discovered they didn't have enough money to pay for the module.

Persons: Ronan Farrow, Elon Musk, Farrow, Theo Taoushiani, Taoushiani's, Elon, Taoushiani, Musk, he's, Jon Peterson, —, ToEE, Gary Gygax, Peterson, Gygax, Trey Parker Organizations: Yorker, SpaceX, New Yorker, TSR, AAA, Wizards Locations: Johannesburg, South Africa

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