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Horizontal lines of layered color formed by the artist’s marching footprints, tracked across the canvases, create unruly waves, their shapes sometimes suggesting schools of fish.

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The first deployment to Los Angeles, in June, came after sometimes unruly protests over widespread immigration raids that critics said appeared to target people based largely on their race or the language they were speaking.

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She said Henry's strong will and "unruly energy" make him the perfect detection dog.

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Receptive to tenderness but prone to violence, the nameless Creature now has, in Elordi, a performer suited for all its unruly emotions.

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“The Perfect Neighbor”: What begins as a vaguely comical and seemingly minor dispute between neighbors arguing about unruly children on a suburban Florida street grows increasingly tangled and, finally, violent.

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