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Looking
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Bleeding Edge
Carries a strong pull into television through urban isolation and power.
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Looking for Alaska
Carries a strong pull into television through John Green and South Asia.
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Looking From a Hilltop
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Music
Looking For Alaska
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and South Asia.
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Intimacies
Carries a strong pull into books through power and South Asia.
Essays
Regarding the Pain of Others
Carries a strong pull into anime through modernity and identity.
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Bleeding Edge
2010s
New York City, 2001. Fraud investigator Maxine Tarnow starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO and discovers there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left of the tech bubble.
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Looking
2010s
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Paradise Kiss
2000s
On her way home from school, Yukari Hayasaka is approached by a weird-looking guy who starts looking at her body intently. He's got blond spiky hair, a spiked choker, and multiple piercings on his ears and face. She wants nothing to do with him, and runs away, only to bump into a very tall and beautiful purple-haire...
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Casablanca
1940s
A nightclub owner in wartime Morocco faces his lost love. Here's looking at you, kid.
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Essays 2000s
Regarding the Pain of Others
War photography and the ethics of looking at suffering. Sontag's final major essay.
Television 2010s
Looking for Alaska
Looking for Alaska is a 2005 young adult novel by American author John Green. Based on his time at the private Indian Springs School, Green wrote the novel in order to create meaningful young adult fiction. While he drew from people and events in his life, the novel is fictional.
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Looking for Alaska
2005 novel by John Green
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Music 1980s
Looking From a Hilltop
Anime 2000s
Beck
Fourteen-year-old Yukio "Koyuki" Tanaka is a dispirited young boy with no goals in life. However, this all changes when Koyuki saves a strange-looking dog named Beck from being harassed by a group of local kids. The dog's owner, 16-year-old Ryuusuke "Ray" Minami, is an emerging guitarist and the former member of a p...
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Film 1990s
Taste of Cherry
A man drives around Tehran looking for someone to bury him. Life, death, and the taste of cherries.