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It’s apropos source material for a track on Adams’ new, vociferously Canadian album “How’s It Goin’.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Flanagan has brought other Stephen King novels to the screen before, but those have tended to be much more faithful to the source material.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The Times has reached out to Tree Paine, Swift’s longtime rep, to confirm if Kaufman’s column was any sort of source material for the song, and will update this accordingly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
"Polymer source material is abundantly available from consumer waste, and our catalyst system, aluminum molten salts, is very cheap," Qiu said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Pulcinella is sparklingly inventive with its source material but it is nevertheless the musical equivalent of placing the Art Deco spire of Manhattan's Chrysler Building on top of Christopher Wren's Greenwich Hospital.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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