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She Walked in Beauty: The Subtle Seductiveness of Anouk Aimée
The French star created characters who could be fantasies or enigmas, but they always intrigued, even when she was miscast in Hollywood.
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Newyork
In Search of the Lost Fireflies
I first learned about blue ghosts last year from Jennifer Frick-Ruppert, a zoologist at Brevard College in western North Carolina. I was at Brevard for a writers’ conference, and Dr. Frick-Ruppert offered to take me to see the ethereal fireflies that ...
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Newyork
The Chilling Reason You May Never See the New Trump Movie
This week I finally got to see “The Apprentice,” an absorbing, disturbing movie about the relationship between the red-baiting mob lawyer Roy Cohn and a young Donald Trump. The film, which was received with an extended standing ovation and mostly ...
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Newyork
The Joys and Perils of Return Travel
Last week I went to Venice, where I was invited to participate in an arts conference. It was the first time I’d been back in 32 years. Venice is one of those bucket-list places, a city so extraordinary you want to see it at least once. But unless you ...
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Books
43 Tony Nominees and the Shows That Shaped Them
‘Purlie Victorious’ Kara Young “My mime teacher had a double-jointed hand, and she taught me this skit about a dying butterfly in a forest. You find the dying butterfly, and you pick it up and your hand becomes the butterfly. And I performed this ...
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Books
‘MoviePass, MovieCrash’ Review: When They Take Your Company Away
An illuminating documentary about the ill-fated (though now-revived) subscription service finds an unexpected story.
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Books
‘Hit Man’ Review: It’s a Hit, Man
Glen Powell stars in one of the year’s funniest, sexiest, most enjoyable movies — and somehow it’s surprisingly deep, too.
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News
An Inflation Test Looms Over the Economy and the Election
The pivotal Consumer Price Index report is set to be published on Wednesday as the window for interest-rate cuts before November is closing.
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Newyork
Watching the Protests From Israel
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Ultimately, the Gaza war protests sweeping campuses are about influencing Israeli politics. The protesters want to use economic divestment, American pressure and policy, and a broad sense of international outrage to ...
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World
‘Dead Poets Society’ Has Some Distinctly Australian Relevance
Brought to life by the Australian director Peter Weir, the movie’s conflict reflects a collective cultural trait his fellow citizens can relate to.