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Commodities markets have taken a beating this summer. Oil, coal, coffee, soybeans, copper, iron and nearly every other commodity has fallen sharply in price, upending currency markets and inflicting pain in large parts of the world economy. But few Americans are complaining. Unless you are trading soybeans or have been...
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Your Money
Alex Olmedo, the Peruvian who dominated the world of international tennis in 1959 when he won the Australian and Wimbledon men's single championships and reached the final of the United States Nationals at Forest Hills, died on Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 84. The International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newpor...
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BRUSSELS It was Nov. 9, 2016, the day after Donald J. Trump was elected president of the United States. The pianist Igor Levit strode onto the stage at the Palais des Beaux Arts, an Art Deco gem here known as Bozar, to play Beethoven. But first, he had something to say. Declaring that "the time of staying in my comfort...
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Music
Travis Wall, left, and Robbie Fairchild led a class for dancers boys and girls, men and women near the studios of "Good Morning America" in Times Square. At about 7 a.m., around 300 dancers boys and girls, men and women took turns glissading across the concrete at 44th Street and Seventh Avenue, which was transformed i...
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Dance
On a Saturday in November hundreds of people of all ages savored the mild afternoon in a downtown Memphis hangout named Loflin Yard. Set on nearly two acres, there was something for everybody. Families clustered around bonfires in a sprawling yard. Adults lounged in rocking chairs sipping hot apple cider spiked with bo...
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Left, Jason Henry for The New York Times; right, Anthony Lanzilote for The New York Times Left, Jason Henry for The New York Times; right, Anthony Lanzilote for The New York Times Credit... Left, Jason Henry for The New York Times; right, Anthony Lanzilote for The New York Times It was not a given that Steve Hilton, th...
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Technology
See Now, Buy Now In this new world of faster fashion, you can shop many of the collections that just walked down the runways in New York (and Los Angeles) right now. Ralph Lauren has transformed his flagship with an immersive botanical installation inspired by the see now, buy now spring collection. It covers every wal...
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Fashion & Style
The actress Sophia Loren is a symbol of Italy to generations of moviegoers. Born in Rome on Sept. 20, 1934, as Sofia Villani Scicolone, she was raised outside Naples and suffered intense deprivation during World War II. As Italy entered the postwar "Dolce Vita" era, she became a star of Cinecitta, Rome's film industry ...
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Travel
An American organization of professors on Monday announced a boycott of Israeli academic institutions to protest Israel's treatment of Palestinians, signaling that a movement to isolate and pressure Israel that is gaining ground in Europe has begun to make strides in the United States. Members of the American Studies A...
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Education
Last November, the internet fell in love with Tanqueray, a straight shooting New Yorker who shared memories of her life as a burlesque dancer in the 1960s and '70s with the many millions of people who follow Humans of New York on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Her tales were full of underground glamour and gr...
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MALCOLM X (1992) 7 p.m. on SundanceTV; also on iTunes and Amazon. Drawing from "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" (1965), a screenplay by Arnold Perl and James Baldwin, and copious research, Spike Lee traces the life of Malcolm Little (Denzel Washington), the street hustler turned black nationalist leader who became a te...
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Television
The Museum of Modern Art's decision to tear down the quirky little American Folk Art Museum, barely a decade old, has generated outrage; only the loss of Penn Station in 1963 and the fight that saved Grand Central in the 1970s have been more bitter. But of the structures that have come down since Penn Station fell, the...
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Real Estate
Our columnist, Sebastian Modak, is visiting each destination on our 52 Places to Go in 2019 list. His last dispatch was from Japan's Setouchi Islands, where he took in a once every three years art extravaganza. On Halloween night, defying a ban on masks put in place last month by the police, hundreds of protesters asse...
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Travel
Facebook said it intended to offer Libra to almost all of the 2.7 billion customers who are now on its Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp services. It also hopes to allow Libra to be used for payments for things like ads on its social network. Facebook has set up a subsidiary, Calibra, which will be responsible for making...
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Technology
American democracy is now in such a precarious situation that this week the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had to issue an unusual reminder to the armed forces that they all took an oath to the Constitution and "not to a king or a queen, a tyrant or a dictator." Charles M. Blow's comparison of President Trump to...
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Opinion
A supervised exercise program that gets young children running and playing for an hour before school could make them happier and healthier, while also jibing with the needs and schedules of parents and school officials, according to a new study involving two dozen elementary and middle schools. The results also caution...
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Well
Donald Trump is who he is as a politician because of his unapologetically racial vision of the American nation. Trump's America is white, and he sees his job as protecting that whiteness from black and brown people who might come to the country or claim greater status within it. That's what it meant to "make America gr...
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Opinion
Making and hearing music in public is inherently social, and the mysterious alchemy of a live show of sharing the same vibrating air can't be replicated at home. Empty rooms. Empty stages. Empty seats. Empty dance floors. And not far away, empty lobbies, empty dressing rooms, empty back rooms, empty bar areas, empty ki...
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Music
LONDON Asil Nadir, the disgraced Turkish Cypriot businessman whose Levantine panache and deal making zeal rattled Britain's stodgy corporate establishment in the 1980s, returned here Thursday to face charges that he embezzled PS30 million while running the London based conglomerate Polly Peck International. A stock mar...
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Global Business
Metropolitan. Maritime. Mystical. Those are the three faces of France's rugged northwest corner, where Arthurian legends, stone circles and Celtic traditions suffuse the forests and fishing villages. Now they are closer than ever, thanks to the two year old LGV train line, which links Paris to the regional capital of R...
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Travel
Microsoft landed a major blow in its decades long battle with its video game industry rival Sony on Monday, announcing the 7.5 billion acquisition of a video game company that narrowed the gap between the two tech giants' offerings. By buying the game maker ZeniMax Media, the parent company of gaming studios like Bethe...
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Technology
Covering Ikea cabinets with custom doors can give an inexpensive kitchen a surprisingly high end look. This kitchen in Copenhagen was customized with Surface doors by Norm Architects for Reform. People often assume that getting a gorgeous kitchen like the ones they see in design magazines would require draining their b...
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Real Estate
WASHINGTON It's funny that Donald Trump doesn't like a movie about con artists who invade an elegant house and wreak chaos. He should empathize with parasites. No doubt the president is a movie buff. He has been known to call advisers in the wee hours to plan movie nights at the White House for films he wants to see, l...
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Opinion
On Monday, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation released the fourth of its annual Goalkeeper reports, which track the slow but steady progress the world has made toward more than a dozen health related goals set forth by the United Nations in 2015. This year's was unrelentingly grim. The coronavirus pandemic has scorc...
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DANCE NOW FESTIVAL at Joe's Pub (Sept. 4 7, 7 p.m.). For decades, this post Labor Day sampler platter has ushered in the busy fall season with sweet and savory snippets of dance. Over four consecutive nights, 40 local artists will face the festival's challenge to present a "clear and complete artistic statement" in fiv...
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In recent months, Roger E. Ailes's influence seemed to be everywhere in the news. Fox News, the cable network he founded, has served as the preferred outlet for the president of the United States. At the same time, the sexual harassment scandal that led to Mr. Ailes's ouster in July continued to besiege the network, mo...
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Media
Do You Have What It Takes to Be an Olympian? Becoming the most decorated Winter Olympics athlete in history requires snow, fortitude, technique, squats, more squats, a team of dedicated physiologists, a stable body weight, running shoes, high intensity intervals, about 940 annual hours of exercise much of it conducted ...
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Where Masters and Mistresses of the Universe Can Have It All Not long ago, a shiny, glass and metal shopping mall appeared in Lower Manhattan, the kind of thing Manhattan natives (your stopgap Critical Shopper included) longed for in their foolish youths when suburban friends would floss and brag. It is called Brookfie...
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Fashion & Style
The Trump administration is vetting Judy Shelton, a conservative economist and former Trump campaign adviser, for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board, according to people familiar with the matter, putting the longtime Fed critic one step closer to a leadership role at an institution she would like to drastically change...
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When racial justice protests were sweeping the country in June, Shayla Avery, 16, chose her school in Berkeley, Calif., as the site of her first demonstration. She planned it all out: The demonstrators would march about a mile from San Pablo Park to Berkeley High School, joined by drummers; she would accompany them, st...
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Dance
It was, by most standards, a short stay. The pop up metal monolith that became the focus of international attention after it was spotted in a remote section of the Utah desert on Nov. 18 was dismantled just 10 days later. On Tuesday a local outdoorsman with a penchant for stunts claimed credit on social media for the s...
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Art & Design
Sourdough is the oldest form of leavened bread. Last year Seamus Blackley, father of the Xbox, baked a loaf using what was purportedly 4,500 year old yeast scraped off ancient Egyptian pottery. All modern recipes begin with a starter, basically a flour and water slurry colonized by bacteria and wild, airborne yeasts th...
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Science
The stories of the eight families featured here mean we don't have to rely on the hypothetical: Undocumented immigrants from Mexico, Honduras, Colombia, Laos, Israel and Mauritania including small children, teenagers and a pregnant woman share their journeys as they fight deportation orders, endure separation from thei...
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DERAILED by a crushing earthquake and tsunami in March, Japanese carmakers will no doubt be glad to put 2011 behind them. Yet most other auto companies managed to shrug off the year's economic aftershocks, though the effects of supplier outages and the summer's floods in Thailand were felt worldwide. Still, as December...
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Automobiles
Re "Is the G.O.P. Getting Serious About Climate Change?," by Ericka Andersen (Op Ed, Aug. 8): The proposals that are cited as evidence of the Republicans' turnaround on climate change focus on carbon capture, which allows polluters to keep burning fossil fuels so long as they capture their emissions. But carbon capture...
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Chadwick Boseman, the regal actor who embodied a long held dream of African American moviegoers as the star of the groundbreaking superhero film "Black Panther," died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 43. His publicist confirmed the death, saying Mr. Boseman's wife, Taylor Simone Ledward, and family were by ...
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A roundup of motoring news from the web: Ford this week revealed its new Troller T4, a Wrangler like sport utility vehicle, for the Brazilian market. The vehicle is equipped with a 3.2 liter diesel engine and a 6 speed manual transmission. The company did not announce pricing, but the current Troller T4 costs about 46,...
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Automobiles
We woke recently to heavy smoke in the air. We live in Stanley, a small village in the Victorian High Country, a three hour drive north of Melbourne. The fire authorities were suggesting that the three bush fires could join to form a mega fire. We made the decision to evacuate. We loaded the car and joined the thousand...
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The National Labor Relations Board announced a new regulation on Tuesday that makes it harder to challenge companies over their labor practices, potentially affecting the rights of millions of workers. The rule, which will take effect on April 27, scales back the responsibility of companies like McDonald's for labor la...
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For an independent designer operating in a world of megabrands like Amazon, Zara, Nike and H M, an old maxim may hold the key to survival: United we are stronger. At least that was the thinking Elizabeth Solomeina applied when she was struggling to find a way to show and sell the jewelry she designs without spending hu...
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Fashion & Style
The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values . It is separate from the newsroom. Shelter in place orders are an effective means to slowing the spread of the coronavirus, yet millions of Americans have no choice but to leave...
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An effort to raise money for entertainment workers hurt by the coronavirus pandemic has collapsed because of a dispute between a major charity and a labor union representing musicians. The charity, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, had planned an online fund raiser on Monday at which it would stream a concert, recorde...
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Theater
During his presidency, Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, watched 363 movies at Camp David. Spread out over eight years, it's a pardonably large total, especially for two former film actors, a couple who retained show business as a frame of reference long after they'd gone into its professional cousin, politics. All th...
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Books
E. Katherine Kerr, right, with Meryl Streep in the 1983 movie "Silkwood." Ms. Kerr may have been best known for her film roles, but the bulk of her career was onstage. E. Katherine Kerr, a stage and screen actress and playwright who won strong reviews for her Off Broadway work and an Obie Award in 1982 for her performa...
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Theater
The lander touched down on Mars more than six months and 300 million miles after it launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. InSight has already transmitted back its first image. 50 meters constant velocity. 37 meters ... 30 meters ... 20 meters. 17 meters standing by for touchdown. Touchdown confirmed. Ch...
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Jim Kiick, one of a trio of running backs who formed the guts of the Miami Dolphins' team that made three consecutive Super Bowl appearances in the early 1970s, died on Saturday in Wilton Manors, Fla. He was 73. His death was confirmed by his daughter, Allie Kiick. Kiick had Alzheimer's disease and had been in an assis...
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Sports
Renee Elise Goldsberry says her beauty regimen has been influenced by her stage roles and by TV makeup artists. The Tony Award winning actress Renee Elise Goldsberry, 46, is known for her Broadway performances she played Angelica Schuyler Church in "Hamilton" and had leading roles in "Rent" and "The Lion King" but she ...
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Fashion & Style
Credit...Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times When winter came to Beijing, it arrived as it often does, as a snarling Siberian wind. The cold howled through the hutongs and around the ring roads. It weaseled under the doors and through the seams of your shirt. It was early December. "Da xue" season had arrived, the tim...
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Travel
Labor Day is an opportune time to take a last minute, fun filled getaway, says Adam Weissenberg, the head of travel, hospitality and leisure at Deloitte, a hospitality services company . "Compared with Memorial Day and Fourth of July, which are incredibly busy travel periods, Labor Day is slower because the school year...
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Travel
THE WEIRDEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous By Joseph Henrich According to copies of copies of fragments of ancient texts, Pythagoras in about 500 B.C. exhorted his followers: Don't eat beans! Why he issued this prohibition is anybody's guess (Aristotle thou...
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Books
"We were just thinking of all the restaurants that we've outlived," Judy Collins said on a recent afternoon at the Carlyle Hotel in New York. She was there with her husband, Louis Nelson. "It all started with Orsini's," Mr. Nelson said, referring to the famed pasta house in Midtown Manhattan where the couple had their ...
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Style
LONDON People lining up at a ticket booth under a Ferris wheel. Police officers questioning a skeleton figure as his dog looks on. Two new Banksys have popped up at the Barbican Center here, authenticated on Sunday by the British graffiti artist on his Instagram account. The pieces, which refer to the work of the Ameri...
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Art & Design
Pierre Boulez in the 1950s. His 1944 work "Prelude, Toccata et Scherzo" has been performed publicly for the first time.Credit...Israel Shenker/The New York Times Listen to excerpts from the piano solo "Prelude, Toccata et Scherzo," written in 1944, when the modernist master was just 19. Pierre Boulez in the 1950s. His ...
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Music
New York Men's Fashion Week: Bruised, but Still in the Ring Barely three years after New York Fashion Week: Men's made its debut as a stand alone celebration of all things sartorial and male, the bold experiment has fizzled. Inaugurated in 2015 as a move by the Council of Fashion Designers of America to showcase homegr...
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Fashion & Style
Two Paths for Charitable Giving: From the Head or From the Heart OUR dog Lucy died this week, and it got me thinking about the role she played in making both my wife and me more charitable. Lucy was a retired guide dog who, during her working life, gave birth to 32 puppies, many of whom also became guide dogs. My wife ...
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Your Money
A panel of health experts stopped short of recommending that all American adolescents and young adults be vaccinated against a dangerous strain of meningitis that has caused outbreaks at Princeton University and the University of California campus in Santa Barbara, opting instead to let doctors decide whether to give t...
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Health
He first saw the mother, Monica Vega , when she was in her 35th week of pregnancy, five weeks short of a full term birth. Her obstetrician believed her fetus had a liver cyst. Baby Itzamara, who had abdominal surgery shortly after birth. But, using color Doppler and 3D/4D ultrasound imaging, Dr. Parra Saavedra was able...
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PARIS For those who consider New York's Museum of Modern Art their hometown museum, encountering Constantin Brancusi's bronze "Bird in Space" (1928) at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris is akin to spotting an old friend while traveling in a foreign country. "Well, that's kind of what we're going for," said Glenn Lo...
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Art & Design
TV ratings are collapsing. Media stocks are falling. Cord cutting is accelerating. There has been no shortage of bad headlines for television networks over the last few months, as investors grow concerned over dropping viewership and as people increasingly find new ways to entertain themselves. Yet while audience atten...
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Media
Patrick Herning has a vision for the future of plus size shopping. "Say you're in Nordstrom with your straight size friend," he said, using the term for standard industry sizing. "She sees this Altuzarra blazer, and you can go to 11 Honore for the same one: same brand, style, fabric, just a different size." That is his...
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Style
When Patrick Ayres first saw the condemned 1918 house that would eventually be home to Cloverdale, he didn't dare go in. The 31 year old former executive sous chef of Canlis in Seattle had moved home to Steamboat Springs, Colo., to raise his kids and envisioned opening a restaurant that would cement the state on the cu...
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Credit...David Kasnic for The New York Times When the Church Brew Works opened in 1999, it amounted to a rare bit of good news for the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Its population had shrunk by half since 1960. A quarter of its residents were over 65, mostly old timers who once worked at the steel mills tha...
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Economy
There are few things on the island of Hawaii that are more valuable than fresh water. This is not because the island is dry. There is plenty of rain. The trouble is that there is tremendous demand for this water and much of it that does accumulate on the island's surface disappears before it can be used. New research b...
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Science
A home health care worker in Durham, N.C.; a McDonald's cashier in Chicago; a bank teller in New York; an adjunct professor in Maywood, Ill. They are all evidence of an improving economy, because they are working and not among the steadily declining ranks of the unemployed. Yet these same people also are on public assi...
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Economy
The squids are all right as are their cephalopod cousins the cuttlefish and octopus. In the same waters where fish have faced serious declines, the tentacled trio is thriving, according to a study published Monday. "Cephalopods have increased in the world's oceans over the last six decades," Zoe Doubleday, a marine eco...
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The "Winter Garden" duplex penthouse at One57, Extell Development's vitreous skyscraper, which has attracted a bevy of billionaire buyers since sales began in 2011, sold for 91,541,053 to a group led by the hedge fund mogul William A. Ackman. It was the second highest price ever paid for a single residence in New York ...
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Real Estate
The tenor Lawrence Brownlee has been the only Black winner of the Richard Tucker Award since it was first given in 1978. The Richard Tucker Music Foundation, which grants prestigious awards to young singers, removed David N. Tucker from its board of directors on Monday evening. Mr. Tucker, a son of the distinguished te...
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Music
George Balanchine's pure dance masterpiece "Jewels" explores three facets of ballet: "Emeralds" evokes France; "Rubies" captures an angular, energetic midcentury American modernism; and "Diamonds" conjures the courtly grandeur of imperial Russian classicism. Several performances commemorating the work's 50th anniversar...
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Dance
The opera singer David Daniels, one of the world's leading countertenors, was arrested on Tuesday on a sexual assault charge stemming from a 2010 incident in Houston. Mr. Daniels and his husband, Scott Walters, were arrested Tuesday afternoon in Michigan, where they live, on warrants issued by the Houston Police Depart...
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Credit...Andre D. Wagner for The New York Times With his new film, the peerless American filmmaker self isolating and reflective in New York unsettles past and present conflicts. It's a funny thing, Zooming with Spike Lee. He's remote, confined within a box within a box on your computer screen, and yet somehow undimini...
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Movies
Hypertension is dangerous. High blood pressure damages the inner lining of the arteries, limits the ability of the heart to pump blood and strains the organ in a way that can lead to heart failure. The condition increases the risk for stroke and vascular dementia, and hypertension is one of the most common causes of ki...
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Health
ROCKLAND, Me. Reade Brower cuts an unassuming figure for a media mogul. On a drizzly October day here, he could be found tucking into a grilled cheese sandwich with bacon at the Home Kitchen Cafe, clad in a Hawaiian shirt, shorts and a Red Sox cap. He was wearing shoes, which he often forgoes, as he had when he ran a r...
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WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration has delayed by a year the deadline for the nation's chain restaurants, pizza parlors and movie theaters to post calorie counts on their menus in what some consumer advocates said was a setback for public health but others contended would simply give companies enough time to c...
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Like most Brooklyn renters, Robert Collignon never expected to buy a snow shovel, let alone a Subaru Forester. But a career change and a six month road trip in a Volkswagen Westfalia camper van a few years ago meant subletting his apartment in Williamsburg and eventually led him to a new home in the Catskills. "The ide...
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Real Estate
Whether you think of them as quotidian, or "soaring masonry facades enlivened by decorative details," as does the New York Landmarks Conservancy, the network of 1910s and 1920s buildings erected over Grand Central's sunken railroad yards was a remarkable development, unlike anything ever done in New York. But the linch...
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Helen Frankenthaler in her studio "in the woods" in Provincetown, 1968. Working on the floor, she poured thinned paint directly onto raw, unprimed canvas, a technique that established the Color Field movement. The Abstract Expressionist and Color Field painter Helen Frankenthaler (1928 2011) had a way of ignoring bound...
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Art & Design
Re "Fear, Knowledge and the Coronavirus," by David DeSteno (Sunday Review, Feb. 16): Worldwide paranoia over the coronavirus is out of control. The World Health Organization characterizing it as a "very grave threat" globally serves only to trigger even more fear mongering. Here's the deal: The overwhelming majority of...
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Opinion
There was no parade of royals, no throng of fashionable spectators in top hats and fascinators. But the normally glamorous Royal Ascot horse racing meeting still got underway as usual on Tuesday. Also missing was the enthusiastic racing fan Queen Elizabeth, for the first time in her 68 year reign as sovereign. "I am su...
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Sports
Saturday was a red letter day twice over for New York dance goers: the 30th anniversary of the choreographer Frederick Ashton's death and the return to the American stage of the dancer Marcelo Gomes. Ashton, though British, always felt his work was better appreciated in New York over more than 50 years of his lifetime;...
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From tailfinned Cadillacs of the 1950s to three ton S.U.V.'s at the turn of the century, luxury vehicles have always pushed the limits of size and mass. Now it's happening again, but in the opposite direction: automakers are whipping up bite size luxury models, confident that Americans are finally seeing the upside of ...
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Automobiles
Shortly before the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened to the public in 2016, Kobe Bryant took a walk through its sports gallery, which chronicles Black athletes' fight for equality and their cultural contributions. Mr. Bryant, whose 1 million donation to the museum gave him the sneak peek, l...
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BERLIN When the team from one of Moscow's leading avant garde theaters performs during a brief residency in Berlin this week, much of the attention will be focused on a man who is not there. That man is the group's director, Kirill S. Serebrennikov, who is under house arrest in Russia, accused of embezzling 133 million...
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LEIPZIG, Germany While it's impossible not to think of Johann Sebastian Bach as you walk through this city, where he spent the final decades of his life, what little remains of his world here has been altered almost beyond recognition. The house where he and his family lived was demolished a century ago. Next door, St....
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Music
Outdoor Stages: Dance in the Park, Where You Can't Hide Behind a Tree If you passed through Madison Square Park in the past week or so, you might have come upon people in colorful unitards contorting on the lawn or clambering over a fence, again and again, before they huddled and tried something else. The choreographer...
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When the director Sam Mendes was a young boy, he and his father often traveled to the West Indies to visit his grandfather Alfred Mendes, a novelist. Sam, who had been brought up in North London, found his grandfather to be quite exotic: The small and wiry World War I veteran would sing opera in a booming Trinidadian a...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
President Trump on Wednesday announced a series of new sanctions against Cuba that prohibit Americans from importing Cuban cigars and rum and staying in hotels funded by the Cuban government. The new restrictions follow a series of measures announced by the Trump administration in 2019 that aimed to curtail travel to C...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
Even within the gruesome history of torture and execution devices, it ranks as a thing of unspeakable cruelty a harrow that punctures the skin of the convicted prisoner by writing the crime of which he has been accused on the surface of his naked body, over and over again. The process takes 12 hours altogether. And the...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Theater
An overhead light drawing attention to his face, the actor Danny Glover drops his head into one hand and starts to cry. Then, he abruptly switches to deep belly laughs, before resuming a straight face. "When I act, if I do this, it's totally in my control," he says into the camera. "But for someone with pseudobulbar af...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Media
Sarah Barnett, the head of BBC America, will take on an expanded role at AMC Networks that puts her in charge of several cable channels, including AMC, SundanceTV and IFC, the company said on Monday. The move was announced a week and a half after Charlie Collier, a former leader of the company, left to take a new posit...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Media
It's no secret that frugal American travelers can stretch their budgets wherever the United States dollar is strong. One such place is, conveniently, our northern neighbor. For the past year, the dollar has fluctuated between 1.30 and 1.36 Canadian dollars, effectively offering a discount of about one third to American...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
LAS VEGAS Ask any hacker who's been around long enough, and there's a good chance you'll hear an archetypal story, tinged with regret, about the first time his or her real identity was publicly disclosed. After enjoying years of online anonymity, the hacker known as Grifter was unmasked by a less than scrupulous spouse...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? None This Weekend I Have ... a Half Hour, and I Need Comfort 'Bob's Burgers' When to watch: Sunday at 9 p.m., on Fox. "Bob's" kicks off its 10th season with a total sweetheart episode, in which Bob buys Linda a ring for their anniversary which Gene promptly loses at a wa...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Television
"The Hunger Games," by Suzanne Collins, came out in 2008. It is the first in a trilogy by the same name that includes "Catching Fire" (2009) and "Mockingjay" (2010). The series has more than 100 million copies in print worldwide, and spent more than 260 consecutive weeks on The Times best seller list. The books have sp...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Books
In 1993, Jeffrey Edwards was a soloist with New York City Ballet when he did something radical, at least for the company: He accused Peter Martins, the powerful ballet master in chief, of verbal and physical abuse, and reported him. "I brought a complaint to the general manager, company manager and the dancers' union, ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Dance
SAN FRANCISCO Amazon said in a legal complaint unsealed on Monday that it had lost a 10 billion cloud computing contract with the Pentagon because President Trump used "improper pressure" to divert the contract from the company to harm its chief executive, Jeff Bezos. The Defense Department reviewed outdated submission...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
In 1949, when America was obsessed with the threat of Communist agents pervading and perverting the nation's core institutions, the University of California introduced a compulsory loyalty oath. At a faculty session to consider the new political test, one professor in his mid 50s from the medieval history department, a...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Books
Knee replacement surgery relieves pain and improves function in patients with severe osteoarthritis much more effectively than nonsurgical therapy alone, researchers reported on Wednesday. Despite hundreds of thousands of knee replacements performed in the United States yearly, until now there had been no rigorously co...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
"The owner is not a trainer," Dr. Fugazza said. "He reported that Whisky attended a puppy course," she added, "but she didn't go on with training." That's another encouraging part of the story. So what if you didn't get an M.F.A., you might still be able to write that novel. Whisky learned the names of the objects in h...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
Early on in the documentary "The Dog Doc," one of the veterinarians working at the Smith Ridge clinic in South Salem, N.Y., mentions that each animal who comes into the clinic is blood tested and offered a nutrition plan based on the results. It's the first time in "The Dog Doc" that the standards of care practiced at ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
THE BOYS Stream on Amazon. A trailer for this streaming series adaptation of comic books by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson features eye gouging, machine guns, lots of swearing and what appears to be a baby that fires lasers from its face. And that trailer is only about two minutes long. The thrust of the series whose...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Television