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Deirdre Bair, right, with the author Simone de Beauvoir in 1984. Ms. Bair's biography of Beauvoir, like her earlier biography of Samuel Beckett, was years in the making and written with its subject's cooperation. Deirdre Bair, who as an unknown writer a half century ago scored a coup by getting the reclusive Samuel Bec...
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Shari Redstone, the CBS Corporation's main shareholder, moved on Tuesday to quell a rebellion at the media company, filing a lawsuit that accused the CBS board of directors of improperly trying to strip her of control. The suit, filed in Delaware's Court of Chancery by CBS's parent company, National Amusements, came in...
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LONDON Sandra Oh scrabbled through the heaped up trash in a dumpster, then suddenly let out a piercing scream. "Wow, excellent," said her fellow actor Turlough Convery as the filming stopped. It was a gray, damp day in mid December, and Oh and Convery were on the set of the BBC America espionage drama "Killing Eve" out...
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Stephane and Frouwkje Pagani in their studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.Credit...Vincent Tullo for The New York Times Stephane and Frouwkje Pagani in their studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This article is part of our latest special report on Design, which is about getting personal with customization. The Brooklyn Navy ...
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An urgent bulletin (well, email) came in the other day from Madeline Weeks, the fashion director of GQ. While in Los Angeles for a shoot, Ms. Weeks had dropped into Barneys New York in Beverly Hills for some occupational reconnaissance and got a jolt when she stepped off the escalator at the third floor shoe department...
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Spotify announced it would no longer promote artists it finds to be out of line with its values, and removed R. Kelly's songs from official playlists and recommendation features. Spotify, the music industry's leading streaming service, said on Thursday that it would stop promoting or recommending music by artists whose...
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I paid 390,000 for my medallion. I had saved 10,000 but I had to put another 10,000 on credit cards for my 20,000 down payment. For an immigrant like me who arrived penniless, it was a promising investment: New Yorkers needed help getting around, the city was growing. I had an asset that was increasing in value, year b...
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FORT WORTH, Tex. The dinner crowd was sparse for a downtown steakhouse, a handful of families and couples lost in conversations. Ryan Lundeby, 32, an Army Ranger with five deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, took in the scene from his table, seemingly meditative beneath his shaved head and long beard. "He watches, he'...
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The Brooklyn Academy of Music on Monday unveiled the lineup of the final Next Wave Festival to be overseen by Joseph V. Melillo, the institution's executive producer and a vital connection to its reputation as a home of cutting edge music, theater and dance. Mr. Melillo, who was hired by the visionary BAM leader Harvey...
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The female Cape bee is a renegade. She breaks all kinds of rules and disregards orders. In this isolated subspecies of honey bees from South Africa, female worker bees can escape their queen's control, take over other colonies and reproduce asexually with no need for males. Scientists identified the genes most likely t...
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The idea was born in an instant. A curator attending an opening at the Baltimore Museum of Art was immediately captivated by a painting from an artist she had barely heard of, Mary Lovelace O'Neal. Three months later, a five decade retrospective opened at the Mnuchin Gallery in Manhattan, Ms. Lovelace O'Neal's first so...
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WASHINGTON Facing mounting government pressure and a public backlash over an epidemic of teenage vaping, Juul Labs announced on Tuesday that it would suspend sales of most of its flavored e cigarette pods in retail stores and would discontinue its social media promotions. The decision by the San Francisco based company...
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The lingering flavor of dance in 2014 is bittersweet. It wasn't much of a year for budding voices or surprising developments. What stays brightest in my memory are mainly instances of established artists delivering more of what they were already known for, several of them for the last time. Here are six highlights. PAM...
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Gordievsky was born in Moscow in 1938, fraught times, even by Soviet standards. But Gordievsky actually had little to complain of. As the son of a K.G.B. agent and loyal party member, he led a privileged life nice apartment, enough food, no members of his immediate family executed in the basement of the Lubyanka, or se...
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Jules Latimer as Emmie and Christopher Dylan White as her co worker Logan in "Paris" at the Atlantic Theater Company. Christmas in Paris is a cheerless occasion. Or at least that's how the Yuletide season is experienced by those working at a big box store in the mid 1990s in the Vermont town of Paris, which gives Eboni...
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This afternoon, Jake Gyllenhaal pulled off a rare feat: He earned his first Tony nomination for his role as Abe in the second half of "Sea Wall/A Life," a pair of monologues narrated by young fathers, and served as a producer on two shows nominated for best play ("Sea Wall/A Life" and "Slave Play"). Tom Sturridge, who ...
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How Much Does a Play Change During Previews? Just Ask 'The Perplexed' The final sound cue for "The Perplexed," Richard Greenberg's new comedy about two estranged, wealthy families brought together by their children's impending nuptials, is offstage laughter. Heralding the arrival of long awaited guests, it's supposed t...
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There's nothing like a vigorous sea to summit hike up the Rock of Gibraltar to clear the jet lagged mind, especially when you're trying to solve a nearly 2,500 year old mystery. Following the zigzagging lines on the colorful paper place mat I'd been handed at the Gibraltar welcome center when I'd asked for a map, I cli...
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, who brought Typhoid Mary to life in her last novel, "Fever," was researching another historical novel when, she says, "real life kept intervening in the form of one crisis after another, either in my own family or those of my friends, so it began feeling more and more odd to turn away from the drama of real life just...
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The new Duke and Duchess of Sussex, surrounded by members of the royal family, Ms. Markel's mother, Doria Ragland, and a group of page boys and bridesmaids. How the Royal Wedding Might Influence Weddings to Come Simplicity and informality joined hands with pomp and circumstance when Meghan Markle, 36, married Prince Ha...
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Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep and lets us get paid to watch comedy. If you're interested in hearing from The Times regularly about great TV, sign up for our Watching newsletter and get recommendations straight to your inbox. President Trump continues to ...
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For three brilliant summers running, starred in Shakespearean dramas in Central Park. He played Ulysses in "Troilus and Cressida"; Brutus in "Julius Caesar"; and, just last year, the treacherous Iago in "Othello." Each time, Mr. Stoll was so uncommonly unaffected, so at home inside the language, that it made you exhale...
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Three to 10 year leases are available for two newly renovated full floor commercial loft spaces the penthouse with access to the roof, as well as the third floor each 2,600 square feet in this five story walk up built in 1910, which is now being renovated. The spaces, wired for high speed internet service, have new har...
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MANCHESTER, England "This is our help," Trajal Harrell said, introducing each of the 10 dancers in his ensemble at the start of his new "Maggie the Cat" at the Manchester International Festival, now in full swing here. The statement wasn't a casual one. "Maggie the Cat," a Manchester commission, is inspired by Tennesse...
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Dance
Deported and 9,000 Miles Apart, but 'You Stay With the Person You Love' When Chuh A first laid eyes on Rex Ny nearly two decades ago, he just knew it was love at first sight. He was a 14 year old who had arrived in the United States just a year earlier, transplanted from Kontum, Vietnam, to Greensboro, N.C. Ms. Ny, who...
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Did you catch the Trump Kelly bout Friday night? What a show. It had Donald J. Trump, The Likely Republican Presidential Nominee, throwing the first punch (of that day) at the star Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly by composing a Twitter post describing her as "overrated" and calling for a boycott of her show. Then Fox News ...
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NORRISTOWN, Pa. In a major victory for Bill Cosby, the judge in his sexual assault trial ruled Tuesday to admit testimony from a Temple University academic adviser who says that Mr. Cosby's central accuser, Andrea Constand, told her she could make money by falsely claiming that she had been molested by a prominent pers...
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"It has nothing to do with stopping others from using the ter m," a spokesman for the basketball star said. It's an undisputed fact that LeBron James loves tacos, especially on Tuesdays. And this Tuesday night, for seemingly the thousandth time, the millennial N.B.A. superstar went on Instagram and announced to his ten...
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If a Manolo Blahnik pump with a three inch heel was the definitive "It" shoe for a generation of urban professionals raised on a diet of "Sex and the City,'' its jewelry equivalent was a sexy gold earring known as the Stella. Roberto Faraone Mennella, the creator of that iconic parabolic hoop, died on June 4 in Torre d...
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MOSCOW Having tried and failed to become a major financial center, Moscow is trying yet again only this time it finds itself competing for business with Warsaw, not London, Tokyo and New York. Moscow wants companies to list on the Moscow stock exchange. It wants money center banks to expand here, as well as insurance c...
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Global Business
ATHENS The Greek government on Wednesday appointed the deputy finance minister to run the ministry temporarily after his boss resigned to lead the country's Socialist party. Filippos Sachinidis, 48, a Canadian born economist, worked closely with the former finance minister, Evangelos Venizelos, who resigned Monday, in ...
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But this rule, which was meant to register fan purchases during an album's all important opening week and also prevent double counting has a host of complications, including undercounting physical product. Last year, Nielsen counted just 73.5 million physical album sales in the United States. How much higher is the rea...
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When locals in Belfast, in Northern Ireland, want to go shopping, they head to the lively city center, a compact pedestrian friendly area with modern buildings and stately structures from mostly the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Although there are international retail chains such as Zara and H M , the neighborhood's ge...
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Plants need carbon dioxide to grow, and we are now emitting 40 billion tons of it into the atmosphere each year. A number of small studies have suggested that humans actually are contributing to an increase in photosynthesis across the globe. Elliott Campbell, an environmental scientist at the University of California,...
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The Chinese government detected Covid 19 in December 2019. On the afternoon of March 13, 2020, President Trump announced a state of emergency. After months of near complete inaction, finger pointing and lies, testing is just starting to ramp up. The states have taken more action than the federal government. Whose job i...
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Barbra Streisand Cloned Her Dog. For 50,000, You Can Clone Yours. It was basically an aside an odd and interesting nugget in an interview with Barbra Streisand that otherwise dealt with heavy topics like sexism and politics. Indeed, most of the 2,800 word article about Ms. Streisand in Variety is devoted to detailing t...
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A pastoral and historic 3.7 acre piece of prime residential and agricultural property on James Lane near Town Pond, the idyllic gateway to the Village of East Hampton, is about to enter the market for the first time in more than three centuries. Known as the Gardiner Home Lot, it was claimed in 1648 by Lion G. Gardiner...
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Real Estate
The choreographer's "The Philadelphia Matter 1972/2020" is a video work for a virtual company of more than 30 performers. That's a lot of Dropbox. David Gordon knows his way around a rectangle. This choreographer and director has stared at them and filled the spaces inside of them with his imaginative arrangements of w...
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"Once those voices begin," said Hilary Mantel, who has been fascinated by the life of Thomas Cromwell since she was a child, "it's like having the radio on in the background for 15 years. It never actually fades." BUDLEIGH SALTERTON, England Hilary Mantel has a recurring anxiety dream that takes place in a library. She...
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The miracle treatment that should have saved Becka Boscarino's baby boy almost killed him. Doctors diagnosed her newborn son, Magglio, with Pompe disease, a rare and deadly genetic disorder that leads to a buildup of glycogen in the body. Left untreated, the baby would probably die before his first birthday. There is j...
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The writers faced discrimination and harassment from their fellow staff members. They remained in the same lowly jobs as their counterparts were promoted. They watched their pitches get ignored or rejected, only to see the same ideas warmly embraced when another writer pitched them. Such workplace woes have long been e...
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From left, Jack McGuire, Alley Scott and Asa Wember, who all participate as "operators" in the interactive piece "temping." At "temping," a solo theater experience that begins performances at the Wild Project on Friday, there is only one seat in the house. That seat is an ergonomic office chair, facing an office cubicl...
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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. As Radu Albot became the first player from Moldova to win an ATP title on Sunday, his small home country in Eastern Europe was holding parliamentary elections. Unlike four years ago, when he was in France for a tennis tournament and spent about 200 on a taxi to the Moldovan Embassy so he could cast a...
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Brooke Stuard and Harley Ellis Stumbaugh were married May 5 in a gallery at the Clyfford Still Museum in downtown Denver. You Could Write a Country Song About Them. (He Probably Will.) As a tour manager and sound engineer for country bands like the Black Lillies and the Band of Heathens, Harley Ellis Stumbaugh used to ...
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Prune Nourry working on her sculpture "The Amazon" at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She created it in response to her treatment for breast cancer. For the last two years or so, the artist Prune Nourry has thought of herself as a sculpture. Ms. Nourry, who is French and splits her time between Brooklyn and Paris, was diagnose...
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In a frank and public act of self examination, a group of doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital published an article Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine detailing the missteps that led to the death of a cancer patient who received a fecal transplant as part of an experimental trial. The man who died, a...
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LONDON Two British cinema chains have faced widespread criticism after they pulled a film about gang violence from their screens. On Sunday, Vue, one of Britain's largest theater chains, canceled screenings of "Blue Story," a feature about rival London gangs, after a brawl at one of its theaters on Saturday. Showcase, ...
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"I'm hungry for new points of view and longing to see more than that one type of protagonist," said Sera Gamble, the showrunner of "You." This article contains spoilers for the Netflix series "You." Netflix's first hit new show of 2019 isn't new at all: The first season of "You," a witty thriller that problematizes bot...
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5% of U.S. Pregnant Women With Zika Had Baby With a Birth Defect Five percent of pregnant women with a confirmed Zika infection in the United States territories, including Puerto Rico, went on to have a baby with a related birth defect, according to the most comprehensive report to date from federal officials. Previous...
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Counting its viewership in the millions, The Wrong just might be the world's largest art biennale the digital world's answer to Venice. To visit, art lovers needn't purchase a plane ticket, book a hotel or queue outside galleries: Admission requires only internet access. Now in its third edition, running through Jan. 3...
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SIDES OF A HORN (2019) Stream on YouTube. This 17 minute short film shows the devastations of the poaching war in Africa, which not only drives certain species to near extinction, but imperils the cultures and livelihoods of local villages. Written and directed by Toby Wosskow and executive produced by Sir Richard Bran...
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The Los Angeles Clippers are hiring Tyronn Lue as their new head coach, according to two people with knowledge of the deal. The Clippers on Wednesday were finalizing a five year contract with Lue to install him as the successor to Doc Rivers, according to the people, who were not authorized to discuss the deal publicly...
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Starting Jan. 26, the Brooklyn born graffiti artist Jean Michel Basquiat's 1982 skull painting "Untitled" will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum through March 11. The work caused something of a stir when the Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa paid 110.5 million for it at Sotheby's last year, making the painting the si...
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As Debt Rises, the Government Will Soon Spend More on Interest Than on the Military The federal government could soon pay more in interest on its debt than it spends on the military, Medicaid or children's programs. The run up in borrowing costs is a one two punch brought on by the need to finance a fast growing budget...
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I wish I had Bobby Goldman's faith that New York is filled with attractive, charming, emotionally stable older men looking for relationships. In "Curvy Widow," Ms. Goldman and Drew Brody's energetic one act musical, which opened on Thursday at the Westside Theater, there's a guy like that around every corner right next...
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Theater
Snapchat has long thumbed its nose at social media conventions. The messaging app initially emphasized posts that disappeared rather than remained permanent. It encouraged users to connect with just a few friends instead of many. And it prized human editing and curation instead of encouraging anybody to post anything. ...
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After Hurricane Irma, tourist attractions and hotels in Orlando and Savannah are once again open for business and welcoming visitors for the most part, at least. Orlando's tourism districts sustained minimal damage from the storm, according to Becca Bides, the vice president of communications for Visit Orlando, the off...
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Beach hair: It sounds achievable simply by going to the beach while having hair. Or, at most, a result of mixing said hair with salty sea air. But the endeavor isn't quite so simple. After all, there are social media posts to consider. A great selfie doesn't make itself; cool hair certainly helps. But if pre beach styl...
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Artistically, the orchestra has punched above its weight in recent years. But financial pressures have convinced its management that major cuts are needed. BALTIMORE When violent unrest spread through the streets of Baltimore in 2015 after the death of Freddie Gray, an African American man who suffered a spinal injury ...
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Potential perils are in plain sight: An intense and unpredictable tariff battle is alarming businesses across the country. The annual federal deficit is heading toward 1 trillion. Credit card debt is soaring. And the synchronous wave that lifted every world economy at the year's start has dissipated. Such risks have do...
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Hertmans's task in reconstructing the life of Hamoutal is formidable, as he knows better than anyone. One salient document, a letter Hamoutal carried with her from France, was recovered in 1864 from the genizah of a Cairo synagogue. This faded and torn page of 11th century parchment is now preserved between sheets of p...
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President Trump believes he represents the "silent majority" of the country against a dangerous, radical minority. He says as much on Twitter, frequently yelling "SILENT MAJORITY" at his followers. Accordingly, his campaign for re election has tried to appeal to this "majority" with displays tailored to its perceived i...
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A GENERATION or so ago, a parsonage was the accepted way to provide members of the clergy with housing, typically in lieu of a higher salary. Particularly for younger pastors on Long Island, the parsonage was often nicer than what they could have otherwise afforded. But these days many clerics are opting to receive a h...
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Therese Kelly, a longtime Amazon employee, said many safety measures were not followed at the warehouse in Hazle Township, Pa. She tested positive for Covid 19. Therese Kelly arrived for her shift at an Amazon warehouse on March 27 to find her co workers standing clustered in the cavernous space. They were awaiting a b...
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So it's all about helping the economic victims of the coronavirus lockdown. How are we doing? The good news is that thanks to Democratic pressure, the CARES Act, the 2 trillion not a stimulus bill that became law less than three weeks after Trump dismissed the notion that Covid 19 might pose an economic problem, is mos...
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The onetime '80s mass market cheapie has gotten an artisanal upgrade just in time for quarantine home manicures. Yewande Moore used to get an acrylic overlay with a gel polish manicure every couple of weeks before coronavirus hit. But when Ohio, where she lives in Kent, shut down salons, she went to Walmart to get tool...
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AT NIGHT ALL BLOOD IS BLACK By David Diop From the very first pages, there is something beguiling about "At Night All Blood Is Black," a slim, delicate novel by the Senegalese French writer David Diop. The narrator, Alfa Ndiaye, is an African legionnaire fighting for the French in the trenches of World War I, who tells...
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BROCKMIRE 10 p.m. on IFC. There are inspirational, family friendly baseball movies like "Angels in the Outfield" and "Field of Dreams" and then there's "Brockmire," about an alcoholic announcer who ends up in the minor leagues after a caustic, profane on air tirade. The show's bawdiness and provincial scope didn't stop...
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GUANGZHOU, China With China's domestic economy stumbling badly this spring as construction and retail sales slow, this country is unleashing a fresh surge of exports that is preserving millions of jobs in Chinese factories but could fan trade tensions with the West. China's General Administration of Customs announced o...
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We are in the middle of a pandemic, but we are also in the middle of a presidential campaign, and I shudder to think how much "earned media" the media is simply shoveling Trump's way by airing these briefings, which can last up to two hours a day. Let me be clear: Under no circumstance should these briefings be carried...
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As evening falls, it will be time for Versace, where no doubt Donatella will dish out her usual dose of barely there va va voom on some of the starriest models of the moment. Log on to the NYT Styles Facebook page; we'll be backstage and on Facebook Live with the beauty doyenne Pat McGrath pre show, before peeking at t...
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On a Tuesday in December, from the dark corridors of the Delhi Metro, we climbed the staircase of the Chawri Bazar station single file, me last, since I had no idea where we were going. We emerged on the fringes of a traffic circle, into a thick, hazy smog that clung to our skin and throat and nostrils, and formed a fi...
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On Saturday, the Brooklyn Museum is opening an exhibition of art and artifacts from Syria meant to recount the country's refugee history. Days later, the Guggenheim will host a conversation with a Palestinian artist, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art will hold a seminar on how museums curate art from the Middle East. ...
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Where 'Yes! To Affordable Groceries' Really Means No to a Soda Tax SEATTLE Standing in a supermarket produce aisle, her face shadowed with dread, the middle aged woman speaks directly to the camera and makes a plea for common decency. "We should not be taxed on what we eat," she says in a commercial that is being broad...
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Claire Jarvis recently reviewed a biography of Virginia Woolf by Gillian Gill. In 1990, John Mortimer wrote for the Book Review about "Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries," Gill's biography of Christie. Crime stories have always been greatly undervalued by the literary establishment. And yet most of the finest...
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What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week Eccentric installations are nothing new, and the one in "Woe men keep going," at Mary Boone Gallery, initially feels just irritating, but in short order its possible meanings and perceptual demands muster a definite, valuable force. It has been conjured by the artist Fia ...
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The last dinner Wendy Dolin had with her husband, Stewart, he was so agitated that he was jiggling his leg under the table and could barely sit still. He had recently started a new antidepressant but still felt very anxious. "I don't get it, Wen," he said. The next day, Mr. Dolin, a 57 year old Chicago lawyer, paced up...
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Ever since the news arrived that Franca Sozzani had died at age 66, I have been wondering what the longtime editor of Italian Vogue would have made of this particular geopolitical not fashion moment. What she would have made, for example, of the election of Donald J. Trump and his beauty pageant of administration appoi...
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This has been an uneven season. On top of the usual demands two time periods, two countries, two major couples, a villain, an ever expanding supporting cast there were the racial issues of colonial America, Brianna's rape, and the fracturing of the Frasers. No wonder this week's episode struggled to weave things back t...
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THE UNWINDING OF THE MIRACLE A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After By When we meet at the beginning of "The Unwinding of the Miracle," her eloquent, gutting and at times disarmingly funny memoir, she has already died, having succumbed to colon cancer in March 2018 at the age of 42, leaving behind her...
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On a gray Wednesday afternoon in Southeast Portland, Ore., someone flicked on the lights in Tango Berretin, a dance studio devoted entirely to Argentine tango. Alex Krebs, the owner, teacher and acclaimed dancer, pressed play on traditional music from the 1930s and 1940s, as students drifted in, tossing aside street sh...
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On March 1, which feels about 20 years ago, NBC News published an essay by a congressional candidate, Jamaal Bowman, about the scars he bore from life in New York under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was then still running for president. "As a working class black male educator during the entirety of Bloomberg's tenure, I...
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Free O.C.R. software for Hebrew, mobile O.C.R. apps and online conversion sites can be found around the web, too. You may want to try uploading a few sample photos of your text or use one of the free (or free trial) programs to see if you are satisfied with the character recognition results. Some O.C.R. programs may ha...
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The first thing Brian H. noticed was that he could grow a real beard. It had been years since that had been possible, years he spent bedeviled by hair loss on his head, face, arms and legs. Brian, 34, who asked that his last name be withheld to protect his privacy, suffers from alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease af...
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LONDON Watching Elizabeth McGorian and Thomas Whitehead performing the Queen and Cattalabutte in "The Sleeping Beauty" at the Royal Opera House, it's easy to think, "Only with the Royal Ballet." The Queen is the loving, solicitous mother of Princess Aurora, the heroine whose finger prick casts the court into a hundred ...
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Dance
When Manhattanites Matt Rappoport and Beno Varela began looking for a new home in Connecticut, they had mixed feelings about making the move. Mr. Rappoport, an attorney, was ready to leave his job at a large law firm, and Dr. Varela, a gastroenterologist, had found a practice he planned to join in Hamden, Conn. But the...
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Real Estate
They Hid From the Mob for Decades. Now They Will Surface in a Film. In 2015, Roberto Buscetta had been hiding for decades under assumed names and 11 of his closest relatives had been slaughtered by Mafia assassins when two filmmakers tracked him down in Florida, looking to chat. His father, Tommaso Buscetta, had been a...
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Television
In 1987, Robert Bork was denied confirmation to the Supreme Court because his originalist beliefs were deemed a serious threat to constitutional rights. Originalism is no less dangerous for those rights today, yet Judge Amy Coney Barrett's repeated statements professing her belief in originalism have been met with litt...
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Opinion
HONG KONG The Chinese government has begun making it much easier for foreign investors to put money into China's stock market and other financial investments, in a slight relaxing of more than a decade of tight capital controls. The move, not publicly announced but disclosed by some private money managers, indicates th...
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Global Business
AUGUSTA, Ga. The men met for dinner at Augusta National Golf Club on Tuesday night. They donned their green jackets, asked after grandchildren, cracked wise, drank wine and thought back to the long ago shots that were their meal tickets now. They gathered because that is what most men who won the Masters do during tour...
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Sports
Beethoven had to present his only opera three times before it won success. It was premiered as "Fidelio" in 1805, revised as "Leonore" in 1806 and revised again in 1814 as the "Fidelio" we know today. Everyone now calls the first two versions "Leonore" to distinguish them from the famous one but they are far from ident...
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Music
Only construction at "essential projects" has been allowed since late March, but many developers have sought exemptions to keep their projects going. Work continued here on East 59th Street on Saturday. Development has ground to a halt across New York City. Or has it? After initially deeming all construction workers es...
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Real Estate
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Wendi Aarons stood in her kitchen in Austin, Tex., and looked at her iPhone. She felt a sudden rush of tears. She glanced at her husband and children, who were eating breakfast. She wasn't sure she could articulate her sadness to them, so she turned to the place where she knew others would understand. "It is hard to ex...
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Style
Senator Amy Klobuchar's nascent campaign is fending off a stream of stories from former staffers that she was a volatile, highhanded boss who often demeaned and humiliated people who worked for her. She has one of the highest rates of turnover in the Senate. "Am I a tough boss sometimes? Yes," she said in a recent CNN ...
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Health
Do You Want to Die in an I.C.U.? Pandemic Makes Question All Too Real Earlier this month, Cheryl Goldman, a retired high school teacher living on Long Island, called her son, Edo Banach, in Maryland. It seemed a routine chat until Ms. Goldman announced that if she became ill with Covid 19, she would decline a ventilato...
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Health
Matt Reeves in 2017. On "The Batman," he said, "My ambition is for it to be incredibly personal using the metaphors of that world." These are unusual times for everyone, including Matt Reeves. Best known as the director of sci fi action films like "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" and as a creator of TV's "Felicity," he...
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Movies
Fraternity members at Louisiana State University adhere to age old rituals, shrouded in secrecy, that dictate how they gather, greet each other and initiate their young pledges. But when they return to campus in the fall, one ritual will be drastically different: They will face much more severe consequences for dangero...
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Education
MALIBU, Calif. The stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway that slices through Malibu is America's premier automotive fashion catwalk. Gaggles of exotics Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Bentleys regularly strut this pavement. Now, electric cars have become a new kind of status symbol on the highway. Few on this car crazed stri...
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Automobiles
The Popcast is hosted by Jon Caramanica, a pop music critic for The New York Times. It covers the latest in pop music criticism, trends and news. On each of the last two weekends, Beyonce headlined the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, performing a set that was huge in ambition and historical scope and stunning...
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Music