Articles filed under Washington Post
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For Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs, the harrowing 'Snowpiercer' revival is more timely than everMay 17, 2020 7:29 am - One-thousand-and-one cars long ... It's the line repeated at the beginning of each episode of TNT's latest dystopian drama, "Snowpiercer," premiering Sunday, based on th...
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This voice actor probably ruled your childhoodMay 17, 2020 7:27 am - As a little boy, Frank Welker was blessed with the "strange, innate ability" to mimic the sound and speech of animals. Jockeying for attention at the family breakfast ta...
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Book review: If you could travel, 'The Herd' would be your ideal airplane novelMay 17, 2020 7:00 am - “The Herd” by Andrea Bartz (Ballantine) The phrase “airplane novel” sounds like something from a bygone era, given that air travel itself has been render...
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Bartering is back: When life gives you lemons, trade them for a neighbor's hand sanitizerMay 17, 2020 6:23 am - SAN FRANCISCO - Tammy Calhoun traded a loaf of freshly baked bread and a few homegrown avocados for a neighbor's help planting a vegetable garden in her front yard last ...
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Fearing COVID-19, older people alter their living willsMay 17, 2020 6:20 am - DENVER - Last month, Minna Buck revised a document specifying her wishes should she become critically ill. "No intubation," she wrote in large letters on the form, makin...
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The 6 do's and don'ts of Zoom happy hoursMay 16, 2020 7:29 am - With no place to go on Friday nights, a growing number of those stuck at home are embracing the #zoomhappyhour. Lonely Americans who had never heard of Zoom - let alone ...
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Murder comes full circle in 'Dead to Me': Here are the biggest twists from Season 2May 16, 2020 7:28 am - Note: This discusses plot points from the second season of Netflix's "Dead to Me" - many spoilers ahead. • • • A lot has changed since we met Jen (Christina Applega...
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Women have been hit hardest by job losses in the pandemic. And it may only get worse.May 16, 2020 6:22 am - The last time Americans faced an economic crisis, it was called a "Mancession." As millions of people lost their jobs in the Great Recession, 70 percent were men, many i...
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Video-chatting tips from Al Roker and other prosMay 16, 2020 6:20 am - The transition of our personal and professional lives to video chat came swiftly and without much of an instruction manual. Suddenly, Zoom, Skype, Facebook and Google Ha...
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The limits of smartphone data are on display as the country seeks to reopenMay 16, 2020 6:19 am - Federal and state officials are using smartphone location data to inform what amounts to a high-stakes public health experiment in reopening the economy while a lethal p...