“Belfast”
“The Power of the Dog”
“West Side Story”
“Licorice Pizza”
“Dune”
“King Richard”
“CODA”
“Don’t Look Up”
“Drive My Car”
“Nightmare Alley” wapo.st/336OUUt
Best actress:
Nicole Kidman, “Being the Ricardos”
Jessica Chastain, “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”
Olivia Colman, “The Lost Daughter”
Penelope Cruz, “Parallel Mothers”
Kristen Stewart, “Spencer”
Will Smith, “King Richard”
Benedict Cumberbatch, “The Power of the Dog”
Andrew Garfield, “Tick, Tick…Boom!”
Denzel Washington, “The Tragedy of Macbeth”
Javier Bardem, “Being the Ricardos”
Jane Campion, “The Power of the Dog”
Kenneth Branagh, “Belfast”
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, “Drive My Car”
Paul Thomas Anderson, “Licorice Pizza”
Steven Spielberg, “West Side Story”
When Mikaela Shiffrin started down the slalom course in Yanqing, she was intentionally aggressive.
Her 47 World Cup victories and 2014 Olympic gold medal prove that she knows how to win a slalom, perhaps better than anyone else in the world. wapo.st/3GG51pV
Slalom is the Alpine discipline with the most turns, and skiers try to keep as straight a line as possible through the gates.
The turns are set close enough that there is little room for error. But at the fourth gate, Shiffrin slipped. wapo.st/3GG51pV
When Shiffrin is skiing her best slalom runs, her lower legs attack the turns — transferring pressure quickly from the inside edge of one outside ski to the inside edge of the next outside ski — while her upper body remains remarkably stable. wapo.st/3GG51pV
"These kinds of pledges are not at all unusual. There were nominations for certain parts of the country or religion ... There's a certain hypocrisy here and a sort of failure to note that these are always political decisions," says @scotusreporter. twitter.com/i/spaces/1lPKq…
A severe winter storm unleashes blinding snow and punishing winds from the Mid-Atlantic to New England. Follow our live coverage. washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01…
The most severe conditions in eastern New England are expected to last through around 5 p.m. Saturday.
The National Weather Service is expecting snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour. Wind gusts have reached as high as 60 to 80 mph. washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01…
@capitalweather’s Matthew Cappucci is in Cape Cod, reporting “major blizzard conditions” with foot-and-a-half snow drifts.
He explains the meteorological phenomenon of the “bomb cyclone”:
White House to distribute 400 million free N95 masks starting next week wapo.st/3FGL69M
The Biden administration plans to distribute 400 million high-quality N95 masks for adults free of charge at thousands of pharmacies and other locations starting next week, a White House official said. washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01…
U.S. officials are starting to ship masks at the end of this week; the masks will be available at pharmacies and community health centers late next week.