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His was the corner table to the left of the bar. Four days a week, twice daily, at seven meals out of eight for decades, Robert Hatfield Ellsworth could be found seated in a booth of channel quilted vinyl at Donohue's Steak House. His standing lunch order was grilled cheese and bacon with a side of coleslaw and Jim Bea...
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Sign at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as it prepared to reopen to the public on Saturday. (That's Amedeo Modigliani's 1916 "Portrait of Leopold Zborowski,'' bemasked.) You won't be able to use the drinking fountains, check your coat or eat in the cafe. You will have to wear a mask, submit to a temperature check and agr...
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Good morning and welcome to London, the kindest, gentlest and shortest fashion week of the Big Four. Things got underway unofficially last night (just around the time the models were stepping off the catwalk at Marc Jacobs) with a Champagne coupe or two when the great and the good of the British industry came out for a...
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We are the products of evolution, and not just evolution that occurred billions of years ago. As scientists peer deeper into our genes, they are discovering instances of human evolution in just the past few thousand years. People in Tibet and Ethiopian highlands have adapted to living at high altitudes, for example. Ca...
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As important as they can be to a hip hop act, hype men are supporting characters: They are there to valorize the M.C. and are meant to stay in their lane. A few, like Jay Z, went on to fame but mostly nobody ever thought Flavor Flav had more to say than Chuck D in Public Enemy. What happens when one of these sidekicks ...
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The patients were gravely ill, their hearts scarred by infections or heart attacks. In each, the electrical system that maintains a regular heartbeat had been short circuited. They suffered frequent bursts of rapid heartbeats, which can end in sudden death. The condition kills an estimated 325,000 Americans each year, ...
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Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon. 'THE JAZZ AGE: AMERICAN STYLE IN THE 1920s' at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (through Aug. 20). While handsomely and mostly filled with Art Deco, this exhibition has banished those words Art Deco, that is in an attempt to show how American de...
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SAN FRANCISCO Three residential towers in the notoriously crime ridden, impoverished Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood opened earlier this year, the first signs of efforts to overhaul the area. Not so long ago, the public housing project known as Hunters View that is being replaced by the new development was ranked wo...
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When I was 17, I broke my hip at the Grand Canyon. A boulder I was sitting on rolled over on top of me, crushed my hip and pelvis, trapped my leg and dragged me to the very rim of the canyon. It would have taken me over the edge if not for a skinny pinyon pine growing up from under the rim right at that spot. I was luc...
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THE IN BETWEENS The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna By Mira Ptacin In the spring of 1848, the ghost in the wall Mr. Splitfoot, they called him came knocking for attention. The wall stood in the home of an upstate New York family and the knocking occurred when the daughters of the house, Kate and Margar...
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That was a quote from NASA's planetary defense officer, Lindley Johnson, after a large asteroid soared narrowly by cosmic standards past the Earth on Wednesday morning, the closest approach by such an object in more than a decade, according to scientists at NASA. The asteroid, discovered three years ago and known by as...
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Rebecca Naomi Jones, who has made her reputation in rock and pop musicals, will tackle a classic as Laurey in "Oklahoma!" "That felt so vulnerable," Rebecca Naomi Jones confessed during a recent rehearsal break at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn. She had just worked through an intense a cappella rendition of "Out of My...
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Some 20 years ago, in a New York hotel suite on a late summer morning, I was raptly observing two fabled theater stars, Julie Harris and Christopher Plummer, in conversation. Both multiple Tony Award winners (five for her, two for him) whose stage appearances were regularly greeted with hosannas, they seemed to my eyes...
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The white interior of the XchangE features a drive by wire steering wheel that slides to the center of the dash so that both front seat passengers can have unobstructed views of their own personal video monitors. But the swiveling front seats from a conventional automobile perspective, anyway are wild. Spun around to f...
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Joseph Gordon, who has been promoted to principal dancer, made his role debut as the male lead in "Diamonds" this fall. New York City Ballet, which forced out three male stars this year after a nude photo sharing scandal, is replenishing its ranks: The company announced Saturday that it was promoting seven dancers, inc...
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I'm a box office watcher. The numbers are an indicator of national taste and cultural health. But we're in the midst of a pandemic; the megaplexes are closed. There's barely a box office to watch. The usual trusted sources are now featuring headlines like "Friday Estimates: Nothing to Report." Everything's streaming, a...
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The best game of the N.C.A.A. tournament so far came Sunday afternoon, when Central Florida challenged no less than Duke. The Blue Devils tend to be front runners even in down seasons. And this is no down season: They are the No. 1 overall seed, and their best player, Zion Williamson, is the most popular college basket...
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"We won't find out the results of today's elections until long after this taping, so, for now, we'll just congratulate any man who's around the age of 78. Well done! You're crushing it! Never doubted you!" JAMES CORDEN "The big story coming into tonight was that the moderates are consolidating behind Joe Biden. Yes, th...
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Gymnastics at the highest levels is serious business: A minor stumble can mean losing a medal, and stepping out of bounds could keep you off the team entirely. At a college meet over the weekend, Katelyn Ohashi of U.C.L.A. delivered a brilliant technical floor routine, with nary a step on her landings. But a YouTube vi...
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Mr. Crespino is the author of, most recently, "Atticus Finch: The Biography Harper Lee, Her Father, and the Making of an American Icon." We are all Georgians now. Or at least that's how it feels with the eyes of the nation focused on Georgia and its two U.S. Senate runoff elections on Jan. 5, which will determine party...
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O.K., folks, you know the drill by now: The "Saturday Night Live" opening sketch is a space for the cast and its alumni to run through their various political and celebrity impressions, and this week the setting was a rally for President Trump (played by the increasingly rare Alec Baldwin) held in Albuquerque, N.M. Or,...
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The announcement shows how Amazon, like other large tech companies, has been thriving in the economic chaos of the pandemic. As consumers hunkered down and shopped online, Amazon posted record sales and profits in the most recent quarter. It sold 57 percent more products than a year earlier, and profit doubled to 5.2 b...
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On Monday, Kerry Washington announced on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" that her Broadway play, "American Son," will be adapted by Netflix. She is set to reprise her role as Kendra, the concerned mother of a son who may be in great danger. The rest of the cast, including Ms. Washington's co star, Steven Pasqu...
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ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER at New York City Center (Dec. 6, 8 p.m.; Dec. 7, 2 and 8 p.m.; Dec. 8, 3 and 7:30 p.m.; Dec. 10 12, 7:30 p.m.; through Jan. 5). The first full week of Ailey's monthlong winter season brings two premieres. On Friday, the company introduces the veteran Seattle based choreographer Donald...
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He Promised Her the Moon and Stars. They Married on Eclipse Day. Kelly Turek and Chris Dutton, a pair of stargazers and self described "science fiction nerds," were married Monday in Georgetown, S.C., where they spent the first few minutes of a bright future together in total darkness. "Oh my gosh," said Ms. Turek, who...
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The best that can be said for some recent Metropolitan Opera productions "Samson et Dalila" and "Tosca," I'm looking at you is that they don't actively hinder the works being performed. But Robert Carsen's staging hardly ever stops helping Boito's "Mefistofele," which opened on Thursday in its first Met revival in almo...
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You could have been enjoying this newsletter yesterday. If you like it, sign up to get it directly, every Friday, at nytimes.com/rory. In the end, what killed the Cup Winners' Cup was that common culprit: just a little too much of a good thing. For three decades, Europe's three major club competitions dovetailed perfec...
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HONG KONG The party might not be over for Asia, but for now, at least, the band has wandered off to take a break. For the last few years, Asia's developing economies including those of China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand have been powering ahead of much of the rest of the world, buoyed by a heady cocktail of...
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CBS Inquiry Into What Went Wrong in Les Moonves Era Hits Snags as It Advances The MeToo movement may have affected the CBS Corporation more than any other mass media company over the past year. After The New Yorker and The Washington Post published articles detailing accusations against high ranking men at the network,...
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There's a reason the career making lineup of the Breeders didn't talk for over a decade. But no one quite remembers what it is. There was a fight, of course, between Kim Deal, the songwriter, singer and guitarist who co founded the band, and the drummer, Jim Macpherson, sometime after Lollapalooza in 1994 the year afte...
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This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Ellis Marsalis, a pianist and educator who became the guiding force behind a late 20th century resurgence in jazz while putting four musician sons on a path to prominent careers, died on Wednesday in New Or...
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The rapper Lil Wayne pleaded guilty on Friday to having illegally carried a gold plated .45 caliber Glock handgun and ammunition as a felon while traveling on a private jet last year. "Your honor, I plead guilty," the musician, 38, told the judge during a virtual hearing in Miami federal court. Having been convicted of...
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The Labor Department is proposing to expand overtime eligibility to include most salaried workers earning less than about 35,000 a year. The new threshold would be substantially higher than the current level of about 23,700, but would cover fewer workers than an Obama administration initiative that was thrown out by a ...
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McHugh knows that eccentricity can make for great storytelling better even if it's infused with irony. Take, for example, "Stick," a poem about Jean Baptiste Lully, the 17th century inventor of the conductor's baton. Lully stabbed himself in the toe with his own invention while conducting the "Te Deum" and consequently...
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When we pulled up to the White Mountain Ranch summer retreat at the northern end of Stinson Lake in Rumney, N.H., it was closed for the season but we didn't mind. A dozen of my friends, looking more like rodeo clowns than anything else, clambered out and squeezed into wet suits. This was the perfect staging ground for ...
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By Attacking the Press, Donald Trump May Be Doing It a Favor The answer to all the troubling new questions about the future of the news business how to make money, stop the spread of fake news and reassert a uniform view of reality appeared last week in a plate of "flaccid, gray Szechuan dumplings." That was how the Va...
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FOR ALL MANKIND (1990) Stream on Criterion Channel or Kanopy; rent on Amazon, iTunes or Vudu. "For All Mankind" is a must see documentary for anyone remotely interested in space exploration. NASA gave the first time director Al Reinert access to footage shot by astronauts during the nine Apollo missions carried out fro...
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After a few years of sharing apartments on the Upper East Side, Rebeccah Rumph received a job transfer to London, where she worked in the marketing field. There she met Andy Pocock, who is from Liverpool. That was three years ago. Shortly after they met, in a strange twist, Mr. Pocock was sent to New York for work. She...
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Sticks in a cylindrical experiment at the Goodyear Polymer Center at the University of Akron in Ohio, where Hunter King investigates the engineering of birds' nests.Credit...Andrew Spear for The New York Times Sticks in a cylindrical experiment at the Goodyear Polymer Center at the University of Akron in Ohio, where Hu...
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Did you know that the Martha Graham Center for Contemporary Dance has a free downloadable mobile app? I didn't until Thursday night, when the Graham company hosted a virtual tour of its latest technological endeavors, in particular its new partnership with the Google Cultural Institute. Part of the New Graham series at...
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Whether in recessions or booms, California's economic cycles tend to be more volatile than overall national trends. SAN FRANCISCO The United States is on track to achieve the second longest economic expansion in its history. Unemployment is at a 17 year low. And California's state budget has a multibillion dollar surpl...
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"Do you feel better now?" Monica Wideman asked her daughter, above, after she hit their homemade coronavirus pinata. "The answer was 'Yes.'" If you cannot join, beat. Such is the resolve of creative people bashing pinatas to defeat a pandemic (or at least, excise some of their feelings about it). In Durham, N.C., Xaris...
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HOURS before the start of the Jonas Center Golf Classic, rain was pouring down. The skies were thick with clouds, and puddles were forming in the fairways of the Stanwich Club, a private country club in Greenwich, Conn. With 25 foursomes, each having paid at least 10,000 to enter the tournament, a rainout was the one t...
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The Wing, in SoHo. "No Man's Land" is also the title of the club's biannual print magazine. The Wing, the members only association for women that calls itself "a coven not a sorority," has presented its clubhouses as impeccably designed safe spaces for women to work, network, nosh, primp and talk politics. Update: Audr...
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Before the screen reverts to the old Gmail design, you may be asked to provide Google with your motivation for switching back. This step is voluntary. If you do have a specific reason for not liking the revamped version, you now have a chance to provide feedback. For those who have switched to the new version but are s...
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Full reviews of recent dance performances: nytimes.com/dance. A searchable guide to these and other performances is at nytimes.com/events. American Ballet Theater(through Sunday) The company's fall season and its 75th anniversary celebration conclude with three more mixed bills, which include works by Frederick Ashton,...
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A sprawling aerie on the 64th floor of One57 the 90 story, blue glass skyscraper at 157 West 57th Street where the city's most expensive single family residence officially closed last year sold for 21,500,000, according to property records. It was the week's biggest transaction. The buyer, whose identity was shielded b...
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Every day, about 50 truckloads of merchandise arrive at Amazon's Staten Island warehouse. While the center is highly automated, some tasks are likely to remain in human hands for years to come. The last person to touch an item at an Amazon fulfillment center is the packer, whose job is to stick each order in a box and ...
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New York Theater Ballet, Diana Byer's intimate company, presented a new installment of its "Legends Visionaries" series at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church on Thursday night. The mixed bill showcases works by Merce Cunningham and Agnes de Mille (the legends) and David Parker and Nicolo Fonte (the visionaries). Per...
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It's a sure sign that summer is looming when dancers are suddenly all over town, leaping across grassy parks and sandy beaches. The latest setting for moving bodies can be found among Josiah McElheny's glass tile sculptures in "Prismatic Park," the outdoor public art project presented by Madison Square Park Conservancy...
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The New York Genome Center awarded six cancer research grants this week as part of an initiative examining the role of race and ethnicity in major types of cancer. The projects will investigate a variety of cancers including pancreatic, colorectal and endometrial cancer in African Americans; lung cancer in Asian Americ...
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PARIS It was raining on the final morning of the Paris shows, gray and overcast, but under the glass ceiling of the Grand Palais all was sunny and warm. The designer Karl Lagerfeld had built a beach, complete with dunes, sea grasses and surf lapping at the shore, through which the models splashed barefoot. The sand had...
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DUBLIN Ireland has formally applied for a rescue package worth more than 100 billion, after months of trying to survive its financial crisis with austerity measures and strict budgetary planning. The much anticipated step gave a lift Monday to global stocks as well as the euro. European Union officials, who had been pu...
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This article contains spoilers for Season 3 of "Stranger Things." See some references we missed? Tell us about them in the comments section. The Netflix hit "Stranger Things" is built on nostalgia for late '70s and '80s pop culture, including the works of Steven Spielberg, Stephen King, John Carpenter and John Hughes. ...
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A welder at work at the Danish machinery manufacturer Sjorring. More than a third of companies in this industrial and technically advanced nation can no longer recruit enough skilled workers to fill posts. COPENHAGEN When Peter Enevoldsen won a lucrative order for the precision tractor parts that his company, Sjorring ...
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Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week's most notable new songs and videos. Just want the music? Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes). Like what you hear? Let us know at theplaylist nytimes.com and sign up for our Louder newsletter, a once a week blast of ...
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Ms. Dorrance draws out each performer's individuality, in vignettes that find them slipping into exaggerated costumes and characters: a mustachioed singer (Ms. Sullivan) eagerly pursued by the lonesome Ms. Meyers; a floundering clown (Ms. Dorrance) in an oversized jacket and suspendered pants. Ms. Wiggan Freund puts on...
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A virus can kill, of course, but so can blowhards. As we wrestle with the new coronavirus, let's learn lessons from the 2009 10 H1N1 swine flu outbreak in the United States. At first, polls back then showed that both Democrats and Republicans were about equally concerned with the outbreak. That makes sense: Why should ...
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When it comes to fashion, as a recent conversation revealed, she has plans. I've always liked them. They make me happy. I've worn them for many years. I thought about all the things I'd love to see on a sweater. Maybe a brown Santa. I have friends who are Jewish and Catholic and married to each other, so I had a big gr...
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Therese Bonney/Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, via (c) The Regents of the University of California, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley Therese Bonney/Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers. Yale Collec...
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This week, Facebook has been busy disabling itself. On Tuesday, the company pledged to remove all pages, groups and Instagram accounts identified with the QAnon conspiracy movement a move that will purge hundreds of groups and potentially many thousands of accounts. On Wednesday, the company announced it would widen it...
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Plastic crates moving along a conveyor at the Boxed fulfillment center in Union, N.J. Boxed announced Tuesday that it had sold a 110 million minority stake to one of Japan's biggest retail chains, Aeon Group. Chieh Huang spent years trying to get grocery industry executives excited about the technology at Boxed, his gr...
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DENVER Beverly Grant spent years juggling many roles before yoga helped her restore her balance. When not raising her three children, she hosted a public affairs talk radio show, attended community meetings and handed out free cups of juice at her roving Mo' Betta Green MarketPlace farmer's market, which has brought fr...
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A Ping Pong table, a game of Twister, cocktail franks heated in a microwave and cans of Budweiser? No, it wasn't your typical intermission. On Wednesday at the Kitchen, Big Dance Theater turned an ordinary interval into an onstage party to celebrate the group's 25th anniversary season. As force fed as it was, it did cr...
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Subtle, they were not. Yet even those who made up the well coiffed, titled and tucked crowd in attendance at Ralph Russo gasped when the Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor closed the show at the Grand Palais in a champagne Chantilly lace bridal gown with a double duchess overskirt of epic proportions, hand embroidered with...
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For Dr. Ehrlich, collaborating with Ms. Armitage and the museum is a way to reach the public on a personal level. "One of the things that we've proven beyond a shadow of a doubt is that telling people what the science is doesn't change their behavior," Dr. Ehrlich said. "What we need is to change attitudes." While ther...
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BOOTY CALL (1997) 9:30 p.m. on FLIX If a drama in the vein of Jamie Foxx's Oscar winning performance "Ray" is what you're after, then maybe you should pass on this one. If, however, laughs and a bit of raunch is what you're craving, then this film fits the bill. In a 1997 review for the Times, Stephen Holden called the...
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CARYN GANZ Lady Gaga isn't built to go halfway. She plays sweeping statements as virtuosically as her grand piano, and shameless statements as shamelessly as her keytar. This passion has brought her one of the most fervent fandoms in pop. It's also set up tensions between Lady Gaga the performer and Stefani Germanotta ...
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"Oslo" grossed 808,195 during the week that ended on Sunday, up from 660,561 the week before. Another contender for best new play, "Indecent," had its best week yet, 377,789, as its Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Paula Vogel, urged supporters to see the play before it closes this Sunday. Also notable at the box off...
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WASHINGTON President Trump's visit to India includes a state dinner, tens of thousands of cheering onlookers and even a marching band on camels but a long awaited trade deal between the United States and India is notably absent. For the second time since September, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India visited the...
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When he was hopscotching between segregated poles of 1970s and '80s New York the uptown of Grandmaster Flash and the Rock Steady Crew; the downtown of Andy Warhol and Blondie brokering the kind of cultural exchange that would pave the way for hip hop's eventual takeover, Fred Brathwaite , better known as Fab 5 Freddy, ...
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Matt Kenyon's "Supermajor," a fountain of motor oil (actually, dyed water), is a "memorial to the era of petro capitalism and its mistaken beliefs" of endless supply, according to a wall label at the Museum of Capitalism. Thirty years ago last week , the Berlin Wall came down, a surprise event that soon brought the res...
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The ancients often believed a celestial event like an eclipse to be a bad omen, that the sun or the moon vanishing from the sky was a harbinger of disaster, a sign of devastation or destruction to come. We now know that's not true: There's no evidence that eclipses like the one that will cross the United States on Aug....
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ROUND ROCK, Tex. When Kate Cosway completed her master's degree in 2014, her resume drew plenty of interest, but she rarely advanced far in the hiring process. She was pretty sure she knew why: She is on the autism spectrum and struggles in traditional interviews. Her luck finally turned this summer when she landed a 1...
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John F. Banzhaf III was watching football on television with his family in the Bronx on Thanksgiving 1966 when he realized that the most strategic plays were being made off the field in the cigarette commercials whose jingles, gags, slogans and images of virile cowboys and urbane women glamorized smoking. Two years had...
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When did "sentimental" become a bad word? I've always felt the opposite. I became an actor because I enjoy being moved, and therefore strive to move others. I don't know how one pursues a life in the arts without sentiment. And yet that word has been discredited, or even weaponized, to mean "cheap" or "trite." It's as ...
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When did North America become a home where the ancestors of buffalo roamed? Between 195,000 and 135,000 years ago, according to a study published Monday that reports on the oldest fossil and genomic evidence of bison on the continent. Scientists have set out to chronicle when the massive, furry beasts first crossed int...
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To understand how some companies have lost their souls, consider what happened after U.S. Bank stiffed a customer before Christmas. Marc Eugenio had deposited a 1,080 paycheck into his account at U.S. Bank. The bank put a hold on most of the sum, and he spent many hours in a branch office over two days, trying to get a...
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It seems you can't set foot in a Broadway theater these days without running into a noisy passel of high school students. Not in the lobby, though that might be refreshing given the general grayness of theatergoing audiences. The kids I'm talking about have commandeered the stage, to let the world know preferably in so...
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Hermine is thus pleased that the kaiser acknowledges the military successes of 1940, including the capture of Paris, which his forces had been unable to achieve. He thinks the Wehrmacht was right to have invaded the Netherlands, as a step to the defeat of what he regularly calls "Juda England." Hitler, the kaiser judge...
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The two met in April 1998, when Ms. Rhodes's childhood friend tried to set them up at her husband's birthday party. She was 32 at the time; he was 38. "We were told to come alone, which I did," she said. "Matt showed up with a date." Both had been divorced. He had a daughter from his previous marriage and she had recen...
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The numbers of bacteria in breast milk are relatively low, but breast feeding seems to have an outsize impact in populating a baby's microbiome with good bacteria. In the earliest days after birth, millions of bacteria make their home in a baby's body in the skin, mouth and especially the gut. These immigrants come fro...
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Same sex couples may have won marriage equality, but some gay and lesbian individuals have been left wondering if their unions are still less than equal in the eyes of the government. Kathy Murphy is one of them. She has been unable to collect survivor and death benefits from Social Security since she lost her spouse, ...
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Your Money
Settlement negotiations have hit a snag in the lawsuit challenging the mental competence of the ailing media mogul Sumner M. Redstone, reviving the possibility that the case could proceed to a messy public trial. The development comes after a framework of a settlement was reached last week in the suit filed by Manuela ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Media
Sitting within the Bay of Naples in southern Italy is Campi Flegrei, a vast and restless volcanic caldron. The history of this sleeping colossus includes two massive eruptions, 39,000 and 15,000 years ago, that left deep calderas in the landscape. Its last significant volcanic event was a 1538 eruption known as Monte N...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
Only one painting reproduces an article: "ISIS Claims Responsibility for Blasts That Killed Dozens in Beirut," written by Anne Barnard and Hwaida Saad and published online on Nov. 12, 2015. The article features an eyewitness video from Reuters, which appears here both striated, thanks to low ink, and bisected at the pa...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
The actress Lois Robbins is currently starring in a one woman show that she wrote, "L.O.V.E.R.," which is onstage Off Broadway at Pershing Square Signature Center. The show is billed as "one woman's confession of what goes on behind closed doors and between the sheets." Ms. Robbins is not shy about sharing her life in ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
On that same trip, I went to Mexico City, where I visited museums including Museo Soumaya, which is designed by the Mexican architect Fernando Romero and absolutely beautiful. Then in April I went to Marrakesh and sang at the French Consulate and stayed at Richard Branson's hotel Kasbah Tamadot, in the Atlas Mountains,...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
STOCKHOLM Olle Liljefors stood in a makeshift D.J. booth on Friday evening, spinning tracks by the Swedish musician Avicii, who died suddenly in April. It was not yet 8 p.m., but the cavernous venue was already at capacity, and Liljefors looked slightly nervous. Stepping away from the decks, he swapped his black leathe...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
LONDON The BBC apologized on Friday to a senior female journalist who quit as the broadcaster's China editor this year over unequal pay, and said it would give her backdated wages for the years in which she was underpaid. The journalist, Carrie Gracie, resigned from the role in January and moved back to the BBC's Londo...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Media
Read all of our classical music coverage here. Readers and listeners, here's wishing you a very happy, and hopefully relaxing, Memorial Day weekend. On Monday I went to the premiere screening of a restored version of Meredith Monk's "Quarry" at Anthology Film Archives. (Seth Colter Walls did a fascinating interview wit...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
Ben Hopkins, with a printed dress slouching off his shoulder and caked on glittery makeup covering his face, was explaining the genesis of his band PWR BTTM to the crowd at Joe's Pub in the very small hours of Sunday morning. "Liv and I started this band, not as a joke, but ..." He turned to Liv Bruce behind the drums,...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
Though many Cuban Americans benefit from the Affordable Care Act, many also own or work in small businesses. They cheered the removal under Mr. Trump of the Obamacare requirement that most Americans have health insurance or pay a fine. Michael Binder, a University of North Florida pollster, noted that business owners l...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
CHICAGO As the Walgreen Company expands its sales items to fresh salads, Redbox DVD rentals and digital photo scanners, among other products, its consumption of power keeps inching up. While the company cannot significantly reduce its electricity use in all stores immediately, it is building an experimental "net zero e...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
The Buyer Meg Crosby ultimately decided she was more the type for a midrise. After 15 years in San Francisco, Meg Crosby was eager to return to the East Coast. "New York was on my mind for a long time," said Ms. Crosby, a Maryland native. She owned a duplex condominium with a balcony in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighbo...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
The first sign of trouble came when Dr. Barry Lindenberg, a cardiologist, received a three page insurance form in January, demanding he get preapproval to prescribe one of the oldest known heart medicines. His patient had been on the drug, digoxin, for many years. A mainstay of treating older patients with rapid rhythm...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
MOSCOW For nearly 70 years, Olga M. Ranitskaya's exceptional palm sized diary, bound in snakeskin, slumbered in obscurity. Combining whimsical drawings with clever rhyming couplets, the diary more graphic novel than ordinary journal portrays the physical and emotional hardships of a spirited stick figure, the author's ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
WASHINGTON Makers of cardiac defibrillators, insulin pumps, breast implants and other medical devices might be able to delay reporting dangerous malfunctions to the Food and Drug Administration under an agreement heading for a vote in Congress. Device makers will still have to quickly report any injuries or deaths rela...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
A song like "stupid horse" begins with late 2000s Warped Tour excess and ends somewhere closer to Dr. Demento. One of the best songs here, " xXXi wud nvrstop UXXx ," opens up like the bridge and tunnel megaclub music of the mid to late 2000s think Cascada, or Kim Sozzi and is soon jolted by a dubstep drop as tough as a...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
WASHINGTON Less than six weeks before the election, the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has injected fresh urgency into an issue that had dropped down the list of voter priorities this year: the future of the Affordable Care Act. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on Nov. 10 in a case, which the Trum...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health