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18 Aug

The Beauty Backslide: Inside the return to conservative, skinny

The Beauty Backslide: Inside the return to conservative, skinny
You’re scrolling your ‘For You’ page at 2am: A clean girl on her hot girl walk rattles off her latest restriction techniques, chanting Liv Schmidt’s mantra, “It’s not a sin to want to be thin.” A carousel of runway clips celebrates the return of cinched waists. A stream of sun-drenched #Tradwife reels show soft-voiced women folding gingham napkins to hymns about submission. An influencer preaches over her bone broth about divine feminine energy. In between, your favourite former body-positive popstar recites a sponsored script thanking her surgeon for her free breast augmentation, encouraging you to book too. Scroll again, and you find a girl in her early 20s with a discount code for black-market Ozempic dupes. Again, and you see an...
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20 Aug

The Children ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Children ~ The Imaginative Conservative
As to critics, it appears to be my fate to disappoint my theological friends by not being Christian enough, while I’m too Christian for Harold Bloom’s blessing. So be it. [i] The mature and well-balanced man, standing firmly with each feet on the earth, who has never been blamed and broken and half-blinded by the scandal of life, is such the existentially godless man. [ii] I. In Place of an Introduction…. After 491 pages, the reader involves the ultimate two words in John Updike’s magisterial Within the Fantastic thing about the Lilies: “the youngsters.” The words are stated without emphasis or misdirection, except from the high ground of grief: “the youngsters,” those holy innocents born into the bad recent days of what appears...
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6 Jan

Macy’s Cautious and Conservative for 2023

Macy’s Cautious and Conservative for 2023
Macy’s Inc., despite the promotional-charged and competitive retail landscape, forecasts that its fourth-quarter sales and profits will fall inside its guidance issued last November. Nonetheless, after experiencing deeper-than-expected business lulls during nonpeak periods in December, sales could possibly be on the low end or middle of the guidance, the retailer disclosed Friday. Within the report, chairman and chief executive officer Jeff Gennette praised his team for operating with “precision and agility” because it managed through the difficult quarter, but in addition sounded a note of caution in regards to the yr ahead. “Based on current macroeconomic indicators and our proprietary bank card data, we consider the patron will proceed to be pressured in 2023, particularly in the primary half, and have planned inventory...
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