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Music Review: Portraits Sketched With Razor’s Edge
There’s no mercy for the comfortable in the songs of Jarvis Cocker. It’s not because he’s some revolutionary outsider, but because he’s one of them.
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Music Review: A Mercurial Narrator, Tackling a Web of Issues
Laurie Anderson tried on a basketful of murky perspectives like so many pairs of sunglasses in the first of her five Lincoln Center Festival performances.
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Music Review: Bernstein as a Fount of Fusion
Elegance without ostentation: that would describe the overview of Leonard Bernstein songs that the pianist Bill Charlap and the singer Kurt Elling brought to Bernstein’s theater music.
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Books of The Times: Creating a Wave and Riding It to Film’s Pantheon
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She Says It’s True, Her Memoir of Forging
Lee Israel forged more than 400 letters from Noël Coward, Dorothy Parker and other literary celebrities, a criminal career she recounts in her book, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
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Music Review: Tearful Tales Punctuated by Plenty of Grins
The songs Karen O, the lead singer of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, performed as part of her side project Native Korean Rock & the Fishnets were teeming with heartbreak and the residue of love gone sour.
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Music Review: Onstage in the U.S., if Not on the Air
In George Michael’s grown-up persona, frankness and vulnerability mix with dance beats and the old sex-symbol charm.
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Movie Review | 'Wonderful Town': In Thailand, Two Lovers Among a Tsunami’s Ruins
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Movie Review | 'Boy A': Trying to Pay the Interest on His Debt to Society
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Celebrations in Cinema by a Longtime Aficionado of Point and Pliés
The Film Society of Lincoln Center is honoring Dominique Delouche, a filmmaker whose documentaries celebrated great ballet dancers.
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‘Dark Knight’ Star Denies Assault
Christian Bale, Warner Brothers’ latest Batman in its smash hit “The Dark Knight,” denied allegations of assault made against him by his mother and sister.
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Music Review: At Tanglewood, a Composer Nears the Century Mark
To celebrate the life of Elliott Carter, who turns 100 on Dec. 11, the Tanglewood Music Center is devoting this year’s programs entirely to his music.
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Writer of the Undead Is Reborn as a Partner at Image Comics
Robert Kirkman is a star on the rise: his books are favorites of fans and critics alike, and MTV has announced plans to adapt Invincible, his superhero series.
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Books of The Times: A History of Abuse in the War on Terror
In Jane Mayer’s hands the legal machinations behind the war on terror make for an absorbing and disturbing story.
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Artie Traum, 65, Stalwart of ’60s Folk Music Scene, Is Dead
Mr. Traum was a guitarist, songwriter and producer who helped carry the spirit of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene to Woodstock, N.Y.
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Climate Film Draws a Rebuke
Britain’s television watchdog ruled that “The Great Global Warming Swindle” unfairly portrays several scientists and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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