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Sunday, February 13, 2022

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

The 6 Phrases That Will Totally Ruin Your Chances in a Job Interview

www.businessinsider.com: A job interview can be a stressful time, especially if you really want that job or have been looking for a job for a long time. The stress can cause you to make mistakes. Nerves and insecurity are two of the biggest factors to overcome when interviewing for a role. They can cause you to utter a phrase that, although it may seem harmless, ends up ruining the whole thing.

Here’s Why ‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno’ Wasn’t Nominated for an Oscar

www.thewrap.com: If there was a breakthrough original song from last year’s crop of contenders, it was undoubtedly “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” the Lin-Manuel Miranda-penned earworm from “Encanto” that has gone on to become a certifiable blockbuster (it currently has nearly 125 million streams on Spotify and is the No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100). But when the Oscar nominations were announced Tuesday morning, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” was conspicuously absent. Instead, the stirring “Dos Oruguitas” from “Encanto” scored the nomination.

‘There’s a truth to it’: RSC casts disabled actor as Richard III

Royal Shakespeare Company | The Guardian: He is one of Shakespeare’s most reviled characters, distinguished by his “deformed, unfinish’d” figure. Now, for the first time, the Royal Shakespeare Company has cast a disabled actor in the title role of Richard III in a new production opening later this year.

How to ace the dreaded job interview

nypost.com: Job interviews aren’t like first dates. If you flub a question, you can’t recover with winsome charm and by picking up the tab. Maybe it’s not game over, but don’t be that person who flounders.

What It's Like to Be a Safety Supervisor on ‘Jackass Forever’

www.vice.com: The masochists behind Jackass have been putting their bodies through absolute hell for more than 20 years. While they were a bunch of bright-eyed degenerates when their show debuted on MTV, the crew has now solidly entered middle age

 

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