Johnson
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Books
A Biography of a Blues Legend, Five Decades in the Making
Mack McCormick’s long-awaited book about the musician Robert Johnson has arrived, in modest and expurgated form.
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Newyork
Lyndon Johnson Was No Friend of Martin Luther King Jr.
We have long known about the F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover’s animus toward the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Hoover built an extensive apparatus of surveillance and disruption designed to destroy King and to drive a wedge between King and ...
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Sports
Two Years Since a Sudden Collapse, Keyontae Johnson Is Proving He’s OK
On Dec. 12, 2020, Keyontae Johnson collapsed during a game. Now, he’s a key member of the Kansas State men’s basketball team and on the watch list for the John R. Wooden Award.
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Newyork
Why Bother to Make Resolutions if We Don’t Keep Them?
If resolution makers wanted a patron saint, they could do worse than Samuel Johnson (1709-84), a lifelong resolver and by his own admission a lifelong failure at keeping his resolutions. Reading his diaries, we may sigh in recognition as time after ...
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Books
How Angela Lansbury and Stephen Sondheim Came to Appear in ‘Knives Out’ Sequel
A fan of musical theater, Rian Johnson had long hoped to land the two stars. But he was already the editing phase when they agreed to take part.
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Books
‘Des Moines’ Review: Drowning in the Drink
A new production of Denis Johnson’s final play showcases many of his signatures: deadpan absurdism, misfit characters, heavy drinking and statements on the bleak fact of human mortality.
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Books
Reclaiming a Place in Animation History for a Female Pioneer
The pioneers of hand-drawn animation were all men — or at least that is what historians (men, almost exclusively) have long told us. Winsor McCay made the influential short “Gertie the Dinosaur” in 1914. Paul Terry (Farmer Al Falfa), Max and Dave ...
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Newyork
Man Arrested in Fatal Stabbing of 3 Women in Queens Home
A 22-year-old man was arrested in Virginia in connection with the killings of three women — a mother, her daughter and her stepdaughter — who ...