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Compliant Mechanisms

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By Bradley Babendir Verified
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As all who’ve tried it and been quickly embarrassed will know, it is physically impossible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. You’ll find yourself remaining firmly on the dusty ground, tugging at your feet and looking hapless. The phrase’s origin is disputed, but what is clear is that its original meaning was a sarcastic way of saying something was impossible to do.
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Death Is Young | Bradley Babendir

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By Bradley Babendir Verified
| The Baffler Verified
Sun City by Tove Jansson. NYRB Classics, 224 pages. 2025. The first thing you notice is what isn’t there. Retirement homes and communities, as their euphemistic name implies, are premised on the denial of certain realities. Early in Sun City, Tove Jansson’s 1974 novel about one such place in St. Petersburg, Florida, she writes that you’ll “meet no children and no hippies and no dogs” in the surrounding area.
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Inside Man and Da 5 Bloods: Stealing Valor

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| Bright Wall/Dark Room Verified
In Dog Day Afternoon (1975), a TV interviewer asks Sonny (Al Pacino) why he’s robbing a bank. “What? I don’t know what you mean by that,” he says. “I’m robbing a bank ’cause they got money here. That’s why I’m robbing it.” Many auteur directors—Michael Mann and Steven Soderbergh, among countless others—got big breaks and found massive commercial success with their entries in the heist genre.
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