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The critics' consensus on "The Rise of Skywalker," the final installment of "Star Wars," is... not great. According to Rotten Tomatoes, before the movie opened, it stood at 57 percent fresh. But reviews haven't always been so harsh. At The New York Times, at least, the critics have positively endorsed some entries in t...
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To hear more audio stories from publishers, like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Reporting on the White House's herky jerky coronavirus response, Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman has a quotation from Jared Kushner that should make all Americans, and particularly all New Yorkers, dizzy with terror....
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TOKYO Mika Tanabe, a new investor in the Japanese stock market, has been on a stomach turning roller coaster ride. Since March, her shares in Softmax, an electronic medical records company, have slumped 30 percent, surged 120 percent, lost half their value, then climbed 20 percent again. She watched in bewilderment as ...
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That song got stuck inside my head. Before a recent screening of "The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part," a promotion for the film was playing on a loop with a snippet from its "Catchy Song." As the chorus repeated over and over that "this song's gonna get stuck inside your head," I found that very thing happening on a lev...
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Obama's willingness to be honest about the West's imperial past led conservative critics to accuse him of conducting an "apology tour," a meretricious dodge. They ignored the other half of his message, which gave it an elegant balance: "Islam has to recognize the contributions that the West has made to articulate certa...
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Stephen Jackson has been a consistent presence at protests and news conferences in Minneapolis since George Floyd's death last month. Stephen Jackson Was Known in the N.B.A. as an Agitator. Now He's Leading a Movement. Just a few months after being jettisoned by the Indiana Pacers and joining the Golden State Warriors ...
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The thing that James Comey will probably like best about "The Comey Rule," if one believes its characterization of him, is that his name is in the title. But he is not exactly the hero. He is not even, really, the star. Comey (Jeff Daniels), the former F.B.I. director, gets more screen time than anyone else in Showtime...
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Jan Morris, the acclaimed British journalist, travel writer and historian who wrote about history's sweep and the details of place with equal eloquence and chronicled her life as a transgender woman, died on Friday in Wales. She was 94. Her son Twm Morys said in an email that she died in a hospital near the village of ...
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Lucy was a small one. She weighed about as much as the average 2nd grader and stood about three and a half feet tall. But that lady (or pre lady, because Australopithecus afarensis like her weren't quite human) was strong. Her famous skeleton, a 3.18 million year old fossil also known as AL 288 1, tells us so. But to b...
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On Monday, Kylie Jenner sold 51 percent of her cosmetics and skin care brand to Coty for 600 million, a price tag that values the enterprise at 1.2 billion. Whether we agree that she is self made or not and you can argue that in many ways she is mom made you can't dispute where she is now, or the effect the success her...
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In "The Bird Revelation," the first comedy special to focus on the MeToo movement, Dave Chappelle, sitting on a stool at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles in November, pauses to give advice to some comedians in the back. "You have a responsibility to speak recklessly," he says. In that special and a second one, "Equanimi...
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The Parkland survivors emerged at just the right time for Cullen. He wrote the book "Columbine," a deeply researched and thorough account of the 1999 massacre at a Colorado school that ushered in the era of school shootings. Years of covering shootings, being called as an expert talking head on shootings, writing and t...
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It's an old story that New York's first fancy apartment building opened in 1884, in a neighborhood so far northwest that the many gabled chateau was called the Dakota. But did you know that its developer, Edward Clark, had already given the name Wyoming to a building on West 55th Street? As might be expected of a coffe...
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If it wasn't for a blowup with one of her three children, Kirsten Wazalis might never have called a friend to come over and commiserate one July evening in 2012. And if the friend hadn't suggested that the two go out and listen to music, she might have never met Glenn Leader. Ms. Wazalis, 50, shook off her gloom at Ste...
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Fashion & Style
SIRUSERI, India A massive futuristic office complex is rising from a patch of spare, arid land here near the southern Indian city of Chennai. Six butterfly shaped buildings dock like spacecraft to two long metal latticed terminals. About 12,000 people already work at the campus, being built by India's largest technolog...
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Heroes Model Management, a modeling agency, formerly at 110 Greene Street, has signed a seven year lease for 3,450 square feet on the second floor of this 1860 five story building in the SoHo Cast Iron District. This three story industrial building, built around 1931, features three large residential lofts on the top f...
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He shouted down a question from CNN, calling the network "fake news." He knocked NBC News for "such dishonest reporting." He falsely accused the London tabloid The Sun of cherry picking quotes from an interview and complained about a photograph in The New York Times that, he said, made it look like he had a "double chi...
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SAN FRANCISCO Twitter's defining attribute has long been its brevity: 140 characters in a post and no more. That is now set to change. Twitter said on Tuesday that it would test extending the text limit of a post on its service to 280 characters. (In effect, that would double the length of the first two sentences of th...
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Technology
Don't look for God within the cloisters of "In the Green," Grace McLean's oddball musical portrait of the sainted medieval nun, theologist and composer Hildegard von Bingen. Though Hildegard (1098 1179) was celebrated for having a direct line to the almighty, via holy visions, the Judeo Christian deity is invoked but b...
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A Fifth Avenue Co op Tops the List of Sales in May The priciest co op sale so far this year occurred on the Upper East Side, as several more big closings took place throughout New York in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. Many of the deals that closed in May were in contract before the coronavirus pandemic struck ...
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A Toronto jury on Thursday concluded a coroner's inquest into the death of a drum technician who died after the roof of a stage collapsed on him before a Radiohead concert in 2012. The technician, Scott Johnson, had been hired for the band's tour for its album "The King of Limbs." An hour before a sold out show in Toro...
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Alone on the Range, Seniors Often Lack Access to Health Care Beverly Kolacny, 82, at her home on the Clark Fork River in Wyoming. Janie Osborne for The New York Times What's it like to grow old in rural America? Millie Goolsby is a retired nurse, so when she experienced chest pain five years ago, she recognized the sig...
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Well, that was a downer. Not President Trump's recent blame the press conference; the Marc Jacobs show. Maybe we should have expected it. This designer's singular skill, after all, is discerning which way the wind is blowing and capturing that moment in cloth. On Thursday, Mr. Jacobs brought New York Fashion Week to a ...
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LONDON "Hamilton" and the new "Harry Potter" play are the hottest theatrical shows of the moment, with "Hamilton" outgrossing everything else on Broadway, and Harry, Hermione and Ron drawing hordes of muggles to London's West End. But success has a side effect: Both shows have fallen prey to high tech scalpers who harv...
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To make ballet contemporary again, modern music and modern sensibilities are needed. And lo! Thursday night at New York City Ballet brought two world premieres, entirely unalike, each to new music, each distinctly reflecting the world we inhabit today: "The Shimmering Asphalt," choreographed by Pontus Lidberg to a comm...
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MARRAKESH, Morocco "If you come to Marrakesh, you don't come to see contemporary art," Othman Lazraq, president of the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden told journalists before the opening of his independent museum. "You come to see camels and dancing ladies." Mr. Lazraq, 29, son of the multimillionaire Moro...
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MUNICH It seems safe to say that right now, there is more live theater being performed in Germany than anywhere else on earth. After a spate of hastily devised productions that used coronavirus driven social distancing and hygiene restrictions to achieve heightened levels of intimacy and immersion, ensemble theaters he...
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As if to tighten a nightmarish vise on our minds, Ligeti's quartet returns at regular intervals during this show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In other ways, though, the production, written by Eve Wolf, the Ensemble founder, and directed by Donald T. Sanders, is straightforward. Unfairly accused of spying, Capt. Al...
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Identifying the next great ballet choreographer isn't exactly like recognizing the Messiah, yet for the ballet obsessed there are similarities. Since the deaths of George Balanchine, Frederick Ashton and Jerome Robbins at the end of last century, the sense of loss has remained so strong that critics and audiences have ...
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I was not excited to review a book about Instagram. Sure, I'm glued to the app; right now those pictures of dogs and babies and my friends' home cooking are my main source of quiet pleasure in these miserable times. But it didn't feel like the moment for a list of reasons as so many books in this genre are of why this ...
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"The government is very powerful," a corrupt registrar (Ajay Chourey) tells Aasiya (Shilpi Marwaha) when she arrives for the umpteenth time to beg for a death certificate for her long missing husband. To illustrate his point, the registrar will happily issue the certificate; all Aasiya has to do is sell him her land or...
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Shocked by Your Tax Refund? Next Year Could Be Worse Unless You Act Now Conor Barnes, an accountant in New York, decided to stop telling her clients to "have a nice day" at the end of their meetings. Often she delivered news that had, in fact, ruined their day: They owed the government money, sometimes a painfully larg...
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Your Money
Profiling four members of an underdog high school wrestling team in Huntsville, Alabama, "Wrestle" constructs an empathetic portrait of a mat that's anything but level. Filmed in 2015 16 during its third season, the team is already defeating more experienced and better financed opponents. Yet, as the countdown to the S...
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The coronavirus won't be loosening its grip on the United States any time soon, leading infectious disease experts said on Sunday. They are also uncertain how the viral spread will be affected by the patchwork of states reopening businesses and by large events like protests and President Trump's upcoming campaign ralli...
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It wasn't the first time we'd eaten pizza with friends in a food court. But doing it while wearing a custom made sequined gown and suit? At the Grammys? Definitely a first. We were at Madison Square Garden, husband and wife nominees for the cast album of our Broadway musical "Come From Away" a story about strangers lan...
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Here, as in her previous fiction, Ms. Shields writes with an almost painfully attuned ear for the nuances of language and the way they attach to feelings and probe the most delicate layers of human consciousness. Her words ring like stones in a brook, chilled and perfected; the syntax rushes like water, tumbling with t...
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MUD (2013) on Amazon, Google Play, Hulu, iTunes and Vudu. In small town Arkansas, two boys, Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland), explore an island on the Mississippi River and make two discoveries: a boat wedged in a tree and a sun kissed runaway who's been living in it. That man, Mud (Matthew McConaughey...
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At a literacy center in Brooklyn where I volunteered a couple of years ago, I was often surprised by which books would catch a child's eye. It was not always the ones with bold jackets or zany titles, as I somehow expected. Often it would be a quiet story a bit old fashioned, even. One favorite was Barbara Cooney's 198...
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For 50 years, Paul Theroux's addictive novels and brutally honest travel narratives have inspired readers to leave home, travel slow and with a purpose beyond sightseeing. His versatility and boundless curiosity shine in "Figures in a Landscape," a new collection of essays (to be published on May 8), and in his latest ...
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Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, pioneering transgender activists who were at the vanguard of the gay rights movement, will be immortalized in a monument that may be placed down the street from the Stonewall Inn, the city said on Wednesday. Ms. Johnson and Ms. Rivera were both drag performers and vibrant characters...
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Habits are hard to break. That's one reason people are still asking "How's it going?" during a world upending pandemic. A similarly reflexive "Fine" often follows, which is why it was so jarring when, during a recent interview, the pianist Lang Lang responded with a wince and shouted: "It's horrible!" This is a difficu...
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It sure does get exhausting working for the global corporate media conspiracy. The hours are horrible (my kingdom for a weekend off). You never know what the puppet masters are going to order up next. (I wish that guy from Mexico, What's His Face Slim, would get off my back.) And there's no extra combat pay when, at th...
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Where You Can See the Stars of 'Hamilton' Now None Disney Plus, via Associated Press When a hip hop musical chronicling the life of a Treasury secretary made its way uptown to Broadway in 2015, a fair number of the faces onstage were still relatively unknown. Many know the story of what would come next: "Hamilton" beca...
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One of my most vivid memories of Arthur Mitchell, who died last week, is of dancing with him in Moscow in 1962. George Balanchine, New York City Ballet's founding choreographer, had left the Soviet Union in the 1920s. And now he was returning for the first time to present his company of American dancers. Tensions were ...
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. The 2004 baseball season was a turning point for the Mets. It was the final year of Art Howe's forgettable reign as manager and the last season that the storied lefties John Franco and Al Leiter pitched for their boyhood team. But new beginnings also emerged that year: David Wright made his debut i...
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The 50,000 officials, delegates, journalists, protesters and gawkers expected to head to Cleveland during the Republican National Convention will encounter extra tight security around the Quicken Loans Arena, known locally as the Q, where the main event takes place from July 18 through July 21. But beyond the secured p...
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An unlikely hodgepodge of names gets dropped in the course of Red Bull Theater's Short New Play Festival: Virginia Woolf, Rachel Dolezal, Troilus, Cressida, Cervantes, Trump. But the name that gets dropped hardest dropped in the sense that it all but disappears is that of the production's touchstone, Noel Coward. The e...
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FIFTY years ago this month, General Motors cast off the overchromed tailfinned excesses of its postwar auto designs and shocked the Paris auto salon by slipping into a clean, crisply tailored new suit. The 1963 Buick Riviera made its world debut, winning rave reviews even from Europeans who had been scornful of Detroit...
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HERE WE GO AGAIN At a recent open house at 33 Rosedale Avenue in White Plains, several lookers were already in contract on other houses. They were back on the hunt for a house, because their appraisals had come in low enough to cast a pall on their deals. IN White Plains recently, 16 couples attended an open house at a...
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ROME Sometimes the most extraordinary finds occur by sheer luck. At least that was the case of a fourth century B.C. chamber tomb that came to light five weeks ago during the construction of an aqueduct in a Rome suburb, when an earthmover accidentally opened a hole in the side of the chamber. "Had the machine dug just...
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Art & Design
My Aunt Doris recently passed away, exactly two weeks before her birthday. She would have been 107. I have been involved in health care for my entire professional life, as a hospital executive, consultant and professor of health care management. But the time spent with my aunt at the end of her life taught me more abou...
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Nestled in the Rocky Mountains of south central Idaho lies Ketchum, an outdoors obsessed city and home to America's first destination ski resort, Sun Valley. At 9,150 feet, Bald Mountain, called Baldy, presides over Ketchum with 12 lifts, 105 trails, a sophisticated snow making operation and impeccably groomed runs. Wh...
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Mark Hartman for The New York Times
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Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. I've been coming around to the view that Bernie Sanders could really win the Democratic nomination and the presidency, and the numbers show it. A poll released last week by The Des Moines Register and CNN gives him the lead in Iowa, and he's in strong contention for New Hampshire. His fund rais...
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"For Forest," an installation of 299 trees in the Worthersee stadium in Klagenfurt, Austria. The curator Klaus Littmann expected complaints when he installed 299 trees some up to 50 feet tall in a soccer stadium in Austria . In a telephone interview, Mr. Littmann said he wanted people who saw the forest to think about ...
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Uzo Aduba studied classical voice at Boston University before moving to New York to pursue theater. She was on the verge of quitting acting when she learned she had landed the part of the zany, troubled Suzanne Warren, also known as Crazy Eyes, a role for which she won two Emmys. Although Suzanne doesn't sing often eno...
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THE steady flow of reminders to keep tires at the automaker's suggested inflation levels even President Obama chimed in demonstrates just how far the demands of auto maintenance have diminished. With spark plugs that seem to last forever and oil change intervals stretching to 10,000 miles and more, many owners continue...
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Some disasters, like hurricanes and earthquakes, can bring people together, but if history is any judge, pandemics generally drive them apart. These are crises in which social distancing is a virtue. Dread overwhelms the normal bonds of human affection. In "The Decameron," Giovanni Boccaccio writes about what happened ...
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A new study provides the best evidence yet that wearing a back brace will slow the progression of the most common form of scoliosis in adolescents, helping them avoid painful spine surgery. Physicians have recommended bracing for more than 50 years, but until now, studies of its effectiveness had produced mixed results...
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By the end of this century, the landscape around Mount Everest may drastically change. As the planet continues to warm, the Everest region of Nepal could lose most of its glaciers, according to a study published in the journal The Cryosphere. "We did not expect to see glaciers reduced at such a large scale," said Josep...
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ROME An Italian court ruled on Wednesday that Leonardo's famous "Vitruvian Man" drawing would be allowed to leave Italy for the much ballyhooed Leonardo exhibition that opens at the Louvre in Paris on Oct. 24. The drawing, a study of the proportions of the human body that dates to around 1490, will be shown at the Louv...
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Credit...Vincent Tullo for The New York Times "This is so weird," Jake Shears said one afternoon in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. He was standing on South First Street, in a leather jacket and a backpack, staring up at the building where he lived in 1999, when he was new to New York and not yet the frontma...
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Sean Baker, a filmmaker whose fame has hitherto resonated mostly underground, broke the surface in 2015. "Tangerine," his microbudget Los Angeles picaresque tale about two transgender women of color working an unbecoming strip of Santa Monica Boulevard near Highland Avenue, found its way onto year end best of lists and...
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THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY PRESENTS THE LITTLE MERMAID LIVE! 8 p.m. on ABC. In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the release of this classic animated film, Disney has tapped an all star cast for a live stage performance of the beloved underwater musical. Auli'i Cravalho, who voiced another Disney princess as th...
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"Testing, can you hear me?" playing piano "I don't want nobody." The simple thing about Aretha Franklin is she was a great singer, a singer who could do anything. "The moment I wake up ..." She could do rhythm and blues, she could do jazz, she could do opera. She could do country, probably. They started calling her the...
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DROGHEDA, Ireland Brian and Rosie Condra grew up poor. But as prosperity washed over Ireland in the first decade of the 21st century, they managed to buy a modest house, start saving for their children's future and, for once, do more than simply make ends meet. "We were on the up and up," Mr. Condra said. The Condras a...
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While former Vice President Joe Biden spent nearly a year nailing down the Democratic presidential nomination, the Trump campaign devoted the better part of the past four years vacuuming up as much data as possible to better target and influence American voters. The Trump campaign is using its head start to break fund ...
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SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. The classic car auctions here last week were remarkable for not being especially remarkable: No bubbles burst, and neither did the market make another vertical leap. While no single sale overwhelmed the collector car community something that has happened often in previous years there was a respectable...
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WASHINGTON No American president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has won a second term in office when the unemployment rate on Election Day topped 7.2 percent. Seventeen months before the next election, it is increasingly clear that President Obama must defy that trend to keep his job. Roughly 9 percent of Americans wh...
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A. We had a great year. We completed the acquisition of the Sheraton Galleria in Atlanta; we're renovating that. We negotiated the franchise agreement for the Hilton on Marco Island. That will be the launching of the complete redesign of all the public spaces. We just redid the guest rooms. It was the first hotel franc...
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Read about the events that our other critics have chosen for the week ahead. THE OTHER JAPANESE NEW WAVE: RADICAL FILMS FROM 1958 61 at Japan Society (April 5 27). Nagisa Oshima's "Cruel Story of Youth," which had its premiere in 1960, may or may not be the definitive depiction of the alienation felt by Japan's postwar...
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Credit...Adnan Abidi/Reuters I landed in Delhi on a work trip in mid March and just over a week later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced what was soon recognized as the world's strictest lockdown. He warned Indians to imagine "a sacrosanct line" around their homes, not to be breached for work or travel of any kind...
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Jeff Daniels as the former F.B.I. director James Comey in "The Comey Rule." Holly Hunter portrays Sally Yates, who was the acting U.S. attorney general. Before Nov. 3, Watch This and This and This Jeff Daniels agreed to play James Comey in Showtime's "The Comey Rule" on the promise that the four hour mini series would ...
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A 6,000 square foot block through retail space is available in this six and a half story TriBeCa loft condominium, where the singer songwriter Taylor Swift owns the penthouse apartment. The space has 77 feet of frontage along Franklin Street and 33 feet along Leonard Street, and the block has a stop on the No. 1 subway...
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TO BUILD A BETTER WORLD Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth By Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice As secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice hung up in her office portraits of George C. Marshall and Dean Acheson, the predecessors who, more than anyone else, built the institutions that governed th...
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Woods's neck issue may indeed be minor, but for many years when he struggled to play through myriad infirmities, Woods often withdrew from a tournament with a similarly short statement about a seemingly insignificant injury. In the end, he missed dozens of events, and his absences from competition lasted months because...
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Glytone Enhance Brightening Complex, 70 at dermstore.com, a combination of glycolic and azelaic acids, gently lightens hyperpigmentation by breaking up pigment proteins. What's nice is that it can be applied all over, unlike the often prescribed skin lightener hydroquinone, a spot treatment. That makes this cream ideal...
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Fashion & Style
Though she began writing at age 7, Grace F. Edwards waited until she was 55 to publish her first novel. That book, "In the Shadow of the Peacock," was a lush portrayal of Harlem during World War II, a girl's coming of age story set against the race riots of the time. It was a placeholder for the six detective stories s...
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It would seem almost impossible for a late night comedy show that employs 17 cast members (along with many other artists, technicians and staff members) to produce new episodes in this era of sheltering in place. But this weekend, "Saturday Night Live" is going to give it a shot. On Thursday, NBC said that "S.N.L.", it...
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I might have completely written off "Ma," the ambitious, but not fully realized psychological thriller as a "Get Out" copycat had I not read an interview in which Octavia Spencer said that playing an increasingly unhinged woman, in the starring role, represented a new era in her career. She would no longer play caretak...
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A batty composer, a fusty French chateau, missing children and that old faithful, the Antichrist add up to a whole lot of silliness in "The Sonata," a leaden Gothic ghost story whose high gloss imagery fails to disguise its low energy plot. Bedazzled or otherwise, cliches are still cliches, and this debut feature from ...
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Is there anything easier to sell than a pedicure to a sweaty New Yorker? Plop down, let someone soak and exfoliate and massage and moisturize your feet, and all that is asked of you is to stare into space, read that week's tabloid or, in my case, gently stalk your high school crush's wife on Instagram. It's a respite, ...
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Results of small studies have trickled out in the last few weeks that signaled more problems with using the malaria drugs to treat coronavirus patients. The latest report, on Friday in the journal Nature Medicine, describes abnormal heart rhythms in 84 patients treated with the drugs. Several medical societies, includi...
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LONDON Vanessa Kirby has never given birth, but after shooting her first lead movie role in "Pieces of a Woman," she kind of feels like she has. "Whenever I see a pregnant woman now, or someone's telling me that they've just given birth, I smile," she said in a recent video chat. "I feel with them." The two full days s...
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Still reeling, Harper moved to Philadelphia to work at a hospital where she was eventually passed over for a promotion by an apologetic (white, male, liberal) department chair who said: "I just can't ever seem to get a Black person or a woman promoted here. That's why they always leave!" From there, Harper went to an e...
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"Crown Vic" begins in the midst of a kinetic shootout, the camera zipping back and forth as a pair of masked robbers careen away from the L.A.P.D. in a car. But the writer director Joel Souza soon dissipates the adrenaline rush of this opening into a verbose, hackneyed thriller about a night in the lives of a veteran p...
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Speculation about the Obamas' books and how much they would sell for have been circulating in the industry in recent weeks, as executives at the top publishing houses met separately with the former president and first lady. Some publishing executives who followed the bidding process said that the opening offers for Mr....
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Yekaterina Kondaurova, the elegant, flame haired principal of the Mariinsky Ballet, appeared in "Swan Lake" during her first year with the St. Petersburg company in 2001. "I was in the last row of the corps of swans," she recalled in an email interview. "At the time I thought it was the most frightening thing there cou...
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Harrison Coll and Sterling Hyltin as the title characters in Peter Martins's "Romeo Juliet" at New York City Ballet. Mr. Coll made his debut in the role on Tuesday. The issues arising from the departure of Peter Martins as ballet master in chief of New York City Ballet keep multiplying. What value do Mr. Martins's own ...
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Over Labor Day weekend, a steady stream of hopefuls arrived at Eckhaus Latta's basement studio in Chinatown for the chance to take an audition strut down a makeshift runway. New York Fashion Week was days away, and Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta, the designers of Eckhaus Latta, and their casting director, Rachel Chandler, ...
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Fashion & Style
From left, "Study for the Madonna With the Fruit Bowl" (c. 1478 1480), "La Belle Ferronniere" (1493 4)," and "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne" (c. 1503). PARIS No institution in the world owns more Leonardo da Vincis than the Louvre. There are five paintings in its collections including, most famously, the Mona Li...
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Art & Design
Fed Board members have substantial, but not absolute, power at the central bank. Of the 12 votes on the rate setting Federal Open Market Committee, the board has seven. The other five voters come from the Fed's 12 regional banks. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has a permanent say, but the others rotate in and out...
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Economy
Lyme disease is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected ticks. The tick above, in its larval stage, is no bigger than the period at the end of this sentence. We've all heard the advice about avoiding Lyme disease. If you walk through wooded or grassy areas where it's prevalent, you should use insect repellen...
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Health
The title of Craig Morgan Teicher's new book, "We Begin in Gladness," comes from a poem by William Wordsworth: "We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; / But thereof come in the end despondency and madness." These lines have come to embody a cliche about poets' downward emotional trajectories over the course of their ...
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Books
Opened in late June, the Lodge at the Presidio has the unusual perk of having a San Francisco address in the heart of a 1,500 acre national park the Presidio, an iconic former army post, now home to miles of forested hiking and biking trails, plus museums, restaurants, and even a bowling alley. The sister property to t...
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Travel
Ryan Seacrest Could Face as Many Questions as He Asks at the Oscars Though he'll be the one holding the microphone, Ryan Seacrest may face as many questions as the celebrities he interviews on Sunday at the Academy Awards red carpet. Mr. Seacrest, an E! host, was accused of sexual harassment by his former personal styl...
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Movies
Raising the minimum wage could lower the suicide rate, according to a study published last week, delivering labor advocates a tantalizing new finding about the broader impacts of wage changes even as some experts said other factors could explain the decrease. More than 47,000 Americans died by suicide in 2017, and with...
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Health
Bill Shine, a former co president of Fox News and top lieutenant to the network's founder, Roger Ailes, has spoken with White House officials about taking a position on President Trump's communications team, according to several people briefed on the discussions. Mr. Shine has no political experience outside of produci...
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Media
PREVIEW Before the auction began, Richard Hein inspected one of 80 vehicles offered to military collectors. AUBURN, Ind. Don Coffman broke the news to his wife by telling her he had bought a German convertible. Technically, it was not a lie: the vehicle was German, and it did have a folding top, but it was not the spor...
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Automobiles
I was 22 in 1993 when Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat shook hands on the White House lawn to officially begin the peace process that many hoped would create a Palestinian state alongside Israel. I've been arguing for a two state solution first in late night bull sessions, then in articles and speeches ever since. I beli...
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Opinion