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The 21-year-old, born in a Paris suburb, may be basketball’s most worldly superstar, spending his free time playing chess, sketching and poring through 1,000-page novels.

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Liniker’s path to this moment has been marked by cycles of reinvention that hold truth to her style and worldly vision as an artist and person.

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The hotel’s lobby bar called The Gripps was made for a tough, hard-drinking, worldly crowd of voyagers, tucked into the far corner of an empire.

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But alongside its worldly successes, the show also provoked conversations about socioeconomic inequality in South Korean society, such as the prevalence of debt, which looms in the backstories of several characters.

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It gives her music a worldly quality, reflected in multilingual tracks like “Eurotrash,” which Rivera sings in English, Spanish and French.

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

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