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American Born Chinese
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American Honey
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Haibane Renmei
Carries a strong pull into books through memory and folklore.
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Born This Way
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Born to Run
Carries a strong pull into film through power and after-hours.
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The Promise of Happiness
Carries a strong pull into books through power and South Asia.
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Man's Search for Meaning
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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Television · Strong bridge
American Princess
2010s
American Princess is a 2019 television series from United States, shaped by named creators. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure. Rooted in United States. Engages with nature, surveillance. In the index for the quality of its sustained storytelling.
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Music · Strong bridge
Born to Run
1970s
Thunder Road and the dream of escape. The Boss at maximum romantic desperation.
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Haibane Renmei
2000s
Born from a cocoon in the village of Old Home, a young Haibane—a being with a halo and small gray wings—awakens to a world she does not understand without memories of her past. Named Rakka for the dream of falling she had while inside the cocoon, she soon becomes accustomed to life in the strange town. However, ther...
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American Honey
2010s
American Honey is a 2016 road drama film written and directed by Andrea Arnold, and starring Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, and Riley Keough. The film follows Star (Lane), a young girl from a troubled home, who runs away with a traveling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling magazine subscriptions door...
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Essays 1940s
Man's Search for Meaning
A psychiatrist survives Auschwitz and finds meaning in suffering. Logotherapy born from the camps.
Television 2010s
American Gods
American Gods is a 2017 television series from United States, shaped by Bryan Fuller and Michael Green. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure.
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Born Free
1960 novel by Joy Adamson
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Born This Way
Born This Way is a 2011 album associated with Lady Gaga and Interscope Records. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
Film
Stu Phillips
American composer of film scores and television-series theme music, conductor and record producer (born 1929)
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Essays 2010s
The Promise of Happiness
Alexander Nehamas is a Greek-born American philosopher. He is an emeritus professor of philosophy and comparative literature and the emeritus Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1990. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Scie...