“In sight, it must be right.” Get excited, Los Angeles .
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You stare at that little circle thingy wondering, "how much of my life have I wasted looking at loading screens?"
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The new Mad Men poster, courtesy of Milton Glaser, is all kinds of late-’60s/early ’70s psychedelic. But there will be plenty more for Don Draper to focus on in Season 7.
Mad Men creator Matt Weiner has a history of weaving hidden messages into the AMC drama's key art, and with the seventh and final season premiere just about a month away, fans really only have a new poster — courtesy of graphic design legend Milton Glaser — to dissect.
“There is a dreamlike quality to it, and believe it or not, it is related to the show, and not because it's psychedelic," Weiner hinted in an interview with the New York Times. “It maintains the idea that this is somehow going on in Don Draper's mind, which is what the story is always about — and what the back of his head is about, on some level.”
There will be plenty of stimuli in 1969, when Season 7 is expected to pick up, to keep Don's mind busy. So here are some other iconic moments and images from that year that could be occupying the recently suspended ad man's idle mind.
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Don definitely would need a cigarette while watching Nixon, the man he and Sterling Cooper bet on and worked with in the 1960 presidential election, get sworn in. That's a hard pill to swallow.
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And Don walks around the office for the next year doing business with the catchphrase, "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse," and telling himself every morning, "Great men are not born great; they grow great."
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Which leads Don to wonder why there aren't more women in this bed.
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Scrunchies, and chokers, and babydoll dresses, oh my!
There are just so many little things to keep track of when you’re expecting. Just remember: “There’s a chart for that.”
Featuring a little girl’s incredibly moving act of generosity, Jurassic Park with cats instead of dinosaurs, and a heartbreaking “second a day” video that imagines the impact of Syria’s war on London’s children.
What do different languages sound like to people who don't speak them? Like the perfectly-accented sentences of pure gibberish that Finnish YouTuber smoukahontas strings together in this incredibly fun video. (1:45)
Getting back to the gym for the first time in a while is pretty much the worst. Come on, just one more sit-up and you can have a taco! (1:46)
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Can’t handle this jorts game.
TOTALLY REASONABLE.
A straw fedora, you guys. WHAAAAAAT?
What do Mufasa, Mr. Banks, and Mrs. Potts all have in common? They were all EXCELLENT Disney parents. You won’t find any Lady Tremaines in this list.
She's a fiery women's rights activist and he's a stodgy old banker. But they still find time to take their kids to fly kites.
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Mrs. Darling is an under-appreciated saint for dealing with the mood-swings of Mr. Darling. She probably drank a lot of wine.
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How do you think Belle got to be so smart? Maurice probably gave her a love of reading and knowledge.
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Finally, foster parents who are presented in a good light!
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To celebrate the start of same-sex marriages in England and Wales later this month, Channel 4 is airing a musical wedding ceremony. No, really.
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"This isn't a musical about our wedding, this is a musical celebration about the historical importance of March 29th; the first day gay men can legally marry in England and Wales," says the couple.
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The struggle is real.
Orlando Bloom, never change your beautiful awkward face.
What colors do YOU see?
These women haven’t won Nobel Prizes or hit the speaking circuit . But they’re pushing boundaries, changing norms, saving lives, and speaking up — even where bad news dominates the headlines.
The Network was founded in 1995, the same year the Taliban rose to power. The Taliban eventually stripped women of many basic rights they'd enjoyed in Afghanitan. Today, the Afghan Women's Network --and other active women's groups like Equality for Peace and Development -- is on the front lines of the fight to improve the status of women. Its members, all civil society groups, have helped enact a law to eliminate violence against women, overturn a legal provision threatening impunity for domestic violence, and tamp down a move to bring back stoning.
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Palestine's first all-women racing team proves women can literally run circles around men. Because of Israel's limitations on movement, the Speed Sisters compete on makeshift tracks inside the West Bank — on Arafat’s former helicopter pad in Bethlehem, in the vegetable markets of Jenin, and next to a prison near Ramallah, to name but a few of their race sites as listed on their web page. And they win: In 2011, Noor Daoud became the first Palestinian to win first place in an Israeli race.
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In 1993, at the height of a genocide in Burundi, Marguerite Barankitse tried to talk sense into the killers in her village. They decided to punish her by tying her, naked, to a chair and making her watch the slaughter of her neighbors in a church. Far from embittering her, the experience devoted Barankitse to peace, and when she escaped, she also sheltered and cared for 25 orphans. Since then, Barankitse and her organization, Maison Shalom ("House of Peace"), have cared for more than 20,000 orphans and vulnerable children. Barankitse also runs a hospital, schools, and a microfinance program.
In Jarkarta, Yulianus Rettoblaut — warmly known locally as Mummy Yuli — is building a home for the aging transgender community in Indonesia, which has has an estimated three million trans citizens. Traditionally, elderly Indonesians are taking in by their own families, but trans people are often shunned and reduced to begging. Right now, Mummy Yuli's old folks' home has a wait list 800 deep.
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You gotta take this quiz, it’ll change your life, I swear.
I may or may not be crying laughing.
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I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE ANYMORE.
The Straight Dope revealed it, Reddit reminded us, and Foodbeast confirms.
To be fair, the extra space underneath is there to let the noodles cook and expand evenly, not to cheat you of your precious, hard-earned instant meal replacement.
Sorry, but your stash of individually packaged golden nuggets is only good for about 45 days.
“I don’t want any kid to be sad that they have no hair.” So many feelings.
"Sometimes kids get sick and then their hair falls out. That's really, really sad."
"I have more hair, just cut some of it off."
Get your mind out of the gutter.
Yeah, you can slide right on over here. Get the recipe.
Did you know this was a thing? I did not know this was a thing. Get the recipe.
Look at that sweet, sweet mozz. It's waiting for you. Get the recipe.
Arguably the best part of Lena Dunham’s hosting duties on SNL .
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