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The revival of ancient beauty rituals

April 17, 2022 goneviral 0

Writer Hannah-Rose Yee described her grandmother’s gua sha ritual in Stylist magazine: “To this day, she takes her gua sha and methodically runs it over her face in smooth, elegant motions every evening. I was […]

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Why Nicolas Cage is so misunderstood

April 14, 2022 goneviral 0

He also developed his own mystical ways of getting into character, which he has dubbed “nouveau shamanic”, whereby he uses techniques or objects to expand his imagination and “trick” him into believing that he is […]

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Hidden in the jungle for 30 years

April 13, 2022 goneviral 0

As is emphasised in Harari’s film, Onoda was still a very young man – only 23 years old – at the time of his homeland’s surrender, and likely heavily indoctrinated by the ideologies perpetuated by […]

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The women who redefined colour

April 12, 2022 goneviral 0

Gartside’s modestly entitled Essay (which was followed three years later, in 1808, by a revised edition that she boldly rechristened An Essay on a New Theory of Colours, and on Composition in General) predates by […]

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The gardens that unclutter the mind

April 11, 2022 goneviral 0

Another key concept in Zen gardens is the abundance of empty space – pristine and uncluttered – a reflection of how your mind should be when you’re meditating. In the West, we are uncomfortable with […]

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The Northman is ‘too tame’

April 11, 2022 goneviral 0

There is still gore aplenty, mind you, but nothing on the extravagant scale of that ferocious village raid. There is some wonderfully bizarre imagery, too, but nothing as trippy as that early hallucinatory sequence with […]

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Who is the greatest First Lady?

April 10, 2022 goneviral 0

Susanne Bier (The Night Manager, The Undoing) directs the entire series and gives each heroine’s story a subtly different look. The Roosevelt sections have the burnished glow of a period piece. The Obama years are […]