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Performance & Stardom

BAFTSS_Stars

Today’s #SundayStar is birthday boy Gene Kelly, star/choreographer/director/hunk, who was born 108 years ago today. Steven Cohan classes Kelly’s star persona as ‘virile’, characterised by ‘athletic, sexually aggressive dancing’.

Graham Mann 🚢🎤

grahamkmann

@DanielPink changed my view on sales, and To Sell is Human is the first book I recommend to anyone getting into the field.Here are 20+ takeaways First, some facts:America's

The Meaning of Catholic

meaningofcath

THREAD / Here I will attempt to show the destructive force of the industrial #revolution on the #family - which is central to understanding our present culture and the birth

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

THREAD. 1/xSome more Torah on our absolute obligation to non-citizens, to immigrants, to the vulnerable migrants in our midst. גר ger can be translated as an alien, a sojourner, an

Ariel Ron

arielronid

Thread: 1/For folks interested in 19c US history of capitalism and pol econ, I cannot recommend enough @yuenyuenang's How China Escaped the Poverty Trap. It offers fresh thinking for reflecting

Timothy Massaro

word_water_wine

Why do we need to heal to help others, especially pastors? While we can point each other to Christ as wounded people, the problem is one of identity. If we

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

LRT: One of the problems with Twitter moderation - and I'm not suggesting this is an innocent cause that is accidentally enabling abuse, but rather that it's a feature, from

Dawn Lotharius

Able_Dawn

This child's ear is terribly disfigured...https://twitter.com/digwarrior4kids/status/1246135168458469383 Tents are for enemies. https://twitter.com/digwarrior4kids/status/1247222180259258374?s=19 Many children were shipped via the Clin

peter 👻 BOO!

peetahbooty

I have a love/hate relationship with horror films, but I can't stop myself from watching them. I like a good scare and obviously, accumulating an excruciating number of sleepless nights.

Mario Niepel

MarioNiepel

What follows is a rant about what I see as a dichotomy between the stunning success and an epic failure of modern Biology. While this may seem like an indictment

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

Some thoughts from planet science at this point in the pandemic. The first thing to note is that science is the exit strategy (@JeremyFarrar's great pithy phrase) - clinical science

Enviro Health Mum V2

mum_v2

Electro Hypersensitivity AKA microwave sickness. For some it never goes away. Restricted lives, lockdown.#environmentalsickness #EHS #wirelessharm https://twitter.com/DazHarmer/status/1331323573554851846 "The number of diagnosed cases

Jeanine

jeankristanto

Haikyuu characters if they were a smoker; a thread. Disclaimer: i'm in no way support or suggest the reader of this thread to smoke, i also didn't promote any of

Walk Ride Salford Central

WRSalford

I've traced what remains of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury canal in Salford until it becomes a path again. I live on the canal, having access to it where I

Robert Sandy

frodofied

The next 18 months are going to be filled with stories like this. Beware.While the story itself is essentially true, it is the narrative bend that rings hollow, and it

Paul Sebert

Paul_Sebert

Wrestling (and other) references in today's #DuckTales a thread. #RumbleForRangarok Scrooge refers to a crowd chanting for Jormungandr as "an incantation to summon the beast." "The Beast" is a nickname