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05/09/2008 08:52 AM |
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Art Review | 'Superheroes': Power Dressing |
The Metropolitan Museum offers a playful look at comic book costumes and their influence on radical haute couture.
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05/08/2008 10:26 PM |
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Music: Verdi Versus Shakespeare: With âMacbethâ Itâs a Draw |
With two gripping productions of âMacbethâ in New York right now, the good news is, thereâs no need to choose.
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05/08/2008 10:21 PM |
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Movie Review | 'Speed Racer': Gentlemen, Start Your Hot-Hued Engines |
âSpeed Racerâ sets out to honor and refresh a youthful enthusiasm from the past and winds up smothering the fun in self-conscious grandiosity.
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05/08/2008 10:58 PM |
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Art Review | 'Life on Mars': An Alien Sighting on Planet Pittsburgh |
Lately, it seems, biennial exhibitions donât do much except sit there, looking good and offending no one. The 55th Carnegie International is no exception.
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05/09/2008 08:13 AM |
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Theater Review | 'Rafta, Rafta . . .': No Sex, Please, Weâre British Indians |
This tale of a beleaguered honeymoon exposes its charactersâ foibles with gentleness and compassion.
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05/08/2008 10:27 PM |
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Television: Sunday Nights With the Siblings |
I watch âBrothers & Sisters,â like many other women I know, with the pre-emptive regret of someone gustily digging into a second piece of cake.
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05/08/2008 10:36 PM |
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Movie Review | 'Surfwise': A Family That Surfs to a Beat: Its Own |
âSurfwiseâ has a bohemian vibe and a cool sheen, but itâs an eager-to-please, pleasing commercial enterprise with a reassuring narrative arc.
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05/08/2008 10:15 PM |
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Inside Art: Metâs Nautical Mural Has a Return Voyage |
A grand Art Deco mural is made whole for the first time since the Normandie sank.
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05/09/2008 08:16 AM |
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Books of The Times: In a Changing World, an Ever-Evolving Terrorism |
Philip Bobbittâs powerful, dense and brilliant new book argues that the nature of terrorism has changed as nationhood has evolved.
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05/08/2008 10:29 PM |
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Music Review | 'Camelot': That Congenial Spot Revisited, With a World-Class Orchestra Playing Along |
A major selling point of this âCamelotâ is the chance to hear this winning 1960 score sumptuously performed by the New York Philharmonic under the musical theater maestro Paul Gemignani.
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05/09/2008 04:33 AM |
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Video: Burma shuns foreign aid workers |
The Burmese military regime wants to control distribution of international aid itself |
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05/09/2008 03:35 AM |
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UN to resume Burma aid flights |
Flights had been halted after military government impounded emergency supplies for cyclone survivors |
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05/09/2008 01:49 AM |
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Save the Children Fund and the International Red Cross on the cyclone relief |
Kathryn Rawe, of STCF, and Angelo Gnaedinger, of the ICRC, describe the latest issues on relief for the victims of the cyclone in Burma |
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05/09/2008 04:34 AM |
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Johnson and Bloomberg unveil plans for cooperation between New York and London mayor |
City hall officials from London and New York could be clocking up the airmiles as the mayors of the two cities seek to cement their special relationship with an exchange programme |
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05/09/2008 10:14 AM |
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Bloomberg and Boris compared |
New York and London are considered sibling cities, so how similar are the two mayors? |
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05/09/2008 01:25 AM |
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Sarah Boseley reports on research on baby survival rates |
Sarah Boseley, the Guardian's health editor, explains that new research shows very low survival rates for babies born under 24 weeks |
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05/08/2008 05:41 PM |
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New research on baby survival rates stokes abortion limit row |
No improvement in chances of life before 24 weeks, despite medical advances |
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05/09/2008 08:30 AM |
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Facebook reinforces safety measures |
Social networking site Facebook has announced it is beefing up its security features in a move to protect younger web users. By Jemima Kiss |
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05/08/2008 05:42 PM |
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How green are we? New figures show Britons back recycling |
Good news on waste disposal and public transport but rise in car and air travel |
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05/09/2008 05:28 AM |
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Johnson hires former BBC correspondent as press chief |
Boris Johnson has appointed Guto Harri, the former BBC correspondent, to be his communications director at City Hall |
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05/09/2008 03:54 PM |
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Superhero fashion soars in New York exhibition |
Fantasy, irony and imagination make the show, "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until Sept. 1, a spectacle not to be missed. |
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05/09/2008 03:54 PM |
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A 'Superhero' gala and a bash for Clooney |
George Clooney celebrated his 47th birthday as the opening of the "Superheroes" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was feted with superheroic celebrity scale. |
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05/09/2008 03:54 PM |
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Top jewelers turn to their heritage to sell on the global stage |
Napoleon sells for Chaumet, India for Cartier. Jewelery houses are dusting off history and putting a contemporary spin on centuries-old stories to counter a challenge from luxury fashion brands. |
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05/06/2008 06:53 AM |
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Fulco di Verdura: The elegant beguiler of stars |
A friend of Cole Porter, discovered by Coco Chanel, the Palermo aristocrat Verdura was the favorite jeweler in a gilded circle that included Greta Garbo, Katherine Hepburn and the Duchess of Windsor. |
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05/02/2008 08:57 AM |
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Padua's goldsmiths: modern masters of form |
Over six decades, a school of goldsmiths in northern Italy has created original and important pieces of jewelry works based on Renaissance principles of geometry. |
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05/09/2008 03:54 PM |
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Delfina Delettrez Fendi makes jewelry for women with a sense of humor |
The daughter of Silvia Venturini Fendi and the French jeweler Bernard Delettrez delights in jeweled skull necklaces, frog rings and bracelets set with eyes of Murano glass. |
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05/09/2008 03:54 PM |
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Greener pastures for Miguel Adrover |
The Spanish designer Adrover has teamed up with Hess Natur, the German mail order brand, to create a collection of environmentally friendly clothes. |
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05/09/2008 03:54 PM |
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London exhibit probes parallels between architecture and fashion |
"Skin + Bones, Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture" (at the new Embankment Galleries in London's Somerset House until Aug. 10) is a fascinating study of how the two crafts have run separately but on similar lines over the last 25 years. |
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05/09/2008 03:54 PM |
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Totting up the World's top-earning runway beauties |
In fashion, one day you're in and the next you're out. Some beauties moved up, some down, some off, a few on. |
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05/09/2008 03:54 PM |
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The stars are now keeping 'bumps' under cover |
Celebrities, and the designers who dress them, are moving away from the form-fitting clothes that used to announce their pregnancies to the world. Discretion and loose-fitting tops are now the style. |
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11/14/2007 10:00 PM |
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On TV, men are the new weaker sex |
"Big Shots," ABC's mostly-comedic take on male bonding, is a man's idea of a woman's idea of men. The show's heroes - each the head of a corporation - are adorable, sensitive, flawed, and yearning for love. And they're eager to talk about it. They gab about troubled relationships on the golf course, across the pool table, in the steam ... |
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11/14/2007 10:00 PM |
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Hottest suburban dad alive |
Sounding a bit like LBJ, Matt Damon swears he did not seek and will not accept the mantle of "Sexiest Man Alive," which the discriminating editors at People foist on the Cambridge-bred actor in the new issue. "You gave an aging suburban dad the ego boost of a lifetime," Damon writes of the overdue honor. "My 9-year-old stepdaughter now thinks ... |
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11/14/2007 10:00 PM |
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B'way talks to resume |
With the lucrative Thanksgiving week looming, striking Broadway stagehands and theater producers say they will start talking again on Saturday. Local 1 and the League of American Theatres and Producers jointly announced yesterday that they will resume negotiations "at an undisclosed place and time." Thanksgiving weekend is one of the best times for business on Broadway, with many shows selling ... |
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11/14/2007 10:00 PM |
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In Mosley's mysteries, a history of race relations in the US |
NEW YORK - When the world first met Easy Rawlins, he was 28. It was post-World War II Los Angeles - a city full of opportunity and without a long history - not a bad place to be for a smart, confident black man. Fired from his job, Easy was in need of fast cash to pay his mortgage. So ... |
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11/14/2007 10:00 PM |
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Novel set in Vietnam War, CIA history win National Book Awards |
NEW YORK - Denis Johnson's "Tree of Smoke," a 600-page journey through the physical, moral, and spiritual extremes of the Vietnam War and its aftermath, won the National Book Award for fiction last night. |
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11/14/2007 10:00 PM |
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Drifting in the shadows of 'Hamlet' |
NEW YORK - The Wooster Group's production of "Hamlet" at the Public Theater is extremely interesting. It's almost as interesting as "Hamlet" itself. |
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11/14/2007 10:00 PM |
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Drawing on our Colonial history |
The Old North Bridge in Concord, site of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the first battle of the American Revolution, isn't so old. The bridge there has been destroyed by storms and floods several times and rebuilt. The current version, in what's now Minute Man National Historic Park, was erected in 1956. |
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11/14/2007 10:00 PM |
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Fine language, fiery emotion |
When reading books I'm going to review, I fold down the corners of pages containing passages that are especially illuminating or powerful. My copy of Irish author Anne Enright's "The Gathering," winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, is now twice its original thickness from all of those dog-eared leaves. In fact, about the only unfolded corner is the cover ... |
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11/14/2007 10:00 PM |
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WROR and WODS get into the all-holiday spirit early |
It's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas. Yes, as of this past Monday - more than a week before Thanksgiving - two Boston stations have already switched to a temporary format of all-holiday music. |
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09/22/2007 10:00 PM |
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Warping the lessons of Watergate |
John Dean, who was White House legal counsel to President Richard Nixon, famously identified "a cancer growing on the presidency" when he testified as the government's key witness in the Watergate trial. In 2004, in the damning analysis "Worse Than Watergate" he made a similar diagnosis about the Bush-Cheney administration, and now "Broken Government" (Viking, $25.95) examines, with great precision ... |
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