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The band survived a literal divorce at one point — Lenker and Meek were married for a few years until 2018 — navigating that split with a public grace that would make Fleetwood Mac’s head spin.

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His literal cancellation is more like a test case, designed to measure the breadth and power of the accelerating authoritarian coup now underway in America.

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Sometimes he would pretend to be a baby, like a literal baby, talking like one, acting helpless, rolling around on the floor.

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He gets straight into it on his new record, on an opening track encumbered with the blindingly literal title, "Opening".

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So it didn’t matter what was being said about us by outside voices, because inside our literal and figurative tent, we believed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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