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<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94243975&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1008</link>
<description><![CDATA[Literary critics feared that after the Soviet collapse, the easy availability of popular romance novels and thrillers would seduce Russian readers away from deeper works. Now they attribute a literary revival to the country's new authoritarianism.]]></description>
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<title>King Of Voiceovers Don LaFontaine Dies</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94223431&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1008</link>
<description><![CDATA[Voiceover artist Don LaFontaine died this week at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from complications of an ongoing illness. He was 68. LaFontaine was the voice behind thousands of movie trailers. In 2006, he parodied himself in a Geico commercial.]]></description>
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<title>Poking Fun At The &#x27;Stuff White People Like&#x27;</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93962369&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1008</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a new book based on his popular blog, Christian Lander tracks the trends and tendencies of white people, from fair-trade organic coffee to vintage T-shirts.]]></description>
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<title>The &#x27;Bechdel Rule,&#x27; Defining Pop-Culture Character</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94202522&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1008</link>
<description><![CDATA[Two decades ago, cartoonist Alison Bechdel spelled out a test for whether a movie was worth her time. "Yes" if: it (a) featured at least two women who (b) talk to each other about (c) something other than a man. Two decades later, what measures up?]]></description>
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<title>The Risky Leap From Screen to Stage</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/theater/07bran.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Broadway, it seems, has eclipsed Playboy as the place to make Hollywood pay attention.    
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<title>The New Season | Dance: &#x2018;On the Town&#x2019; and Out of Town</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/dance/07maca.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[New York doesn’t do justice to the choreographers who live and work here, but it remains the best place to see the spectrum of those who don’t.    
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<title>The New Season | Video Games: Creative Ferment in Worlds That Never Were</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/television/07schi.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Video games are enjoying a moment of creative possibility not seen since the early 1980s. Here are some products to watch.    
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<title>The New Season | Television: Big-Screen Star, Small-Screen Player</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/television/07cart.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[With “Entourage”and other television projects, Mark Wahlberg is becoming a force behind the scenes.    
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<title>The New Season Film: For Michelle Williams, It&#x2019;s All Personal</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/movies/moviesspecial/07lim.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Filmmakers love her work, while the public remembers the Heath Ledger connection.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/music/07pare.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>The New Season | Pop Music: Keeping It Indie but Thinking Big Thoughts</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/music/07pare.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[While TV on the Radio has been working its way up from independent to major label and from local clubs to international tours, its music has grown ever more ambitious.    
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<title>The New Season | Classical Music: Prime Berths for Composers Still at Work</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/music/07tomm.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[This season, major institutions are showcasing pieces from living composers in ways that provide them with context and galvanize public attention.    
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<title>Abroad: Watching &#x2018;Friends&#x2019; in Gaza: A Culture Clash</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/world/middleeast/07gaza.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[As young Gazans turn to television and the Internet for a view of the world beyond the armored checkpoints, culture is emerging as a struggle within Hamas.    
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<title>The New Season | Art: Not the Usual Suspects</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/design/07cott.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[From the Bronx to San Francisco, art that reaches beyond museum walls.    
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<title>Big Boi&#x2019;s Balance of Body and Soul</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/music/07chin.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The forthcoming solo album by Big Boi of OutKast has aspirations beyond the dance floor, though it has strong commercial ambitions too.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/design/07ouro.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>The New Season | Architecture: On the Far Shores of Invention</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/design/07ouro.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Off the drawing board and into the city, some intriguing new buildings by big-name designers.    
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<title>No City Opera? Try Some Alternatives</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/music/07waki.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Some opera companies are savvy enough to try to capitalize on City Opera’s closing during renovations to its New York State Theater home.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/movies/moviesspecial/07scot.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>The New Season Film | Independents&#x27; Days: It&#x2019;s Suddenly So Last Year, That Once Bold New Guard</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/movies/moviesspecial/07scot.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[What production companies will be behind the next glut of year-end Oscar possibilities?    
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<title>At Signature, It&#x2019;s a Black History Year</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/theater/07bosm.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[This year the Negro Ensemble Company, founded in 1967, will receive a very public boost from Signature Theater Company.    
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<title>On Tap: A Male, Male, Male, Male World</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/theater/07ishe.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Broadway is shining a bright spotlight on the male psyche this autumn.    
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<title>Drama That Brings Home the Bacon</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/theater/07mame.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[What is the difference between Work and Art, and how is one to draw the line? This is the essential question of “Speed-the-Plow.”    
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<title>The &#x2018;Times&#x2019; of His Past, Returning to Its Birthplace</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/dance/07kour.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[It is with an equal measure of mystification and pride that the artist David Gordon finds himself in the rare position of remounting a dance from 1982.    
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<title>From Old Belgium, Winging In to the New World</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/dance/07sulc.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[In June, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet will present a new full-length piece, “Orbo Novo,” by the Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.    
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<title>The New Season | Television: It&#x2019;s Time to Learn Who Was Killed and Who&#x2019;s in Love</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/television/07hale.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Most of the schedule for fall television is made up of returning shows. Here are some questions that were left hanging by the shows you already care about.    
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<title>The New Season Film | Independents&#x2019; Days: The Revolution Is Dead, Long Live the Revolution</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/movies/moviesspecial/07darg.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[As specialty film divisions close, can studios make films described in more than one sentence?    
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<title>The New Season Film: A Marriage Made on Video, Messily</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/movies/moviesspecial/07raff.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Demme’s new film plunges viewers into a turbulent pool of human behavior and asks them to sink or swim.    
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<title>An Obsession With Justice and Auto Parts</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/movies/moviesspecial/07ciep.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[To get his movie about a feisty inventor made, Mark Abraham, a first-time director, had to be just as feisty.    
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<title>Five to Watch</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/movies/moviesspecial/07durb.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sally Hawkins as a gawky schoolteacher and four other breakout performances    
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<title>The New Season | Pop: Echoes of Monk, 50 Years Later</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/music/07ratl.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Three new concerts salute the one Thelonious Monk gave at Town Hall 50 years ago.    
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<title>A Young Outsider&#x2019;s Life Turned Inside Out</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/music/07cara.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Taylor Swift, a young country artist, is dealing with pop-star-style recognition.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/07alsmail-THEREDSHOES_LETTERS.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Letter: &#x2018;The Red Shoes&#x2019;: Art as Conflict</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/07alsmail-THEREDSHOES_LETTERS.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[To the Editor:.    
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<title>Letter: The Score Was a Star, Too</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/07alsmail-THESCOREWASA_LETTERS.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[To the Editor:.    
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<title>Letter: Robert Downey: Picking Up the Tab</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/07alsmail-ROBERTDOWNEY_LETTERS.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[To the Editor:.    
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<title>Joan Acocella: A festival for everyone.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/09/08/080908gonb_GOAT_notebook_acocella</link>
<description><![CDATA[For anyone who doesn&#8217;t know about it by now, the Fall for Dance Festival is a two-week series that takes place every September, at City Center, and has a notable entry fee: ten dollars a seat, every seat. City Center was once a Shriners auditorium. After our municipality bought&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Movies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OPENING 
          
        AUGUST EVENING 
        A drama, directed by Chris Eska, about several generations of Latino migrant workers in Texas. Opening Sept. 5. (Village East Cinemas.) 
          
        BANGKOK DANGEROUS 
        Reviewed this week in The Current Cinema. Opening Sept. 5. (In wide release.) 
          
        EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE ITALIAN 
        Jason Todd Ipson directed this romantic&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Art</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES 
          
        METROPOLITAN MUSEUM 
        Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--&#8220;J. M. W. Turner.&#8221; Through Sept. 21. |  &#8220;Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717).&#8221; Opens Sept. 9. |  &#8220;Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe.&#8221; Through Sept. 21. |  &#8220;Jeff Koons&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Show People</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A portfolio of photographs by Richard Avedon.]]></description>
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<title>Sasha Frere-Jones: David Banner hedges his hip-hop bet.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2008/09/01/080901crmu_music_frerejones</link>
<description><![CDATA[Why would you take on a stage name if your given name was the excellent and euphonious Lavell Crump? If, perhaps, you needed to suggest that your persona was not fixed. Calling yourself David Banner--a mild-mannered alter ego of the Incredible Hulk--makes perfect sense for a big&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Local Heroes</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/09/01/slideshow_080901_wiley</link>
<description><![CDATA[A selection of paintings by the Brooklyn artist Kehinde Wiley.]]></description>
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<title>John Updike: Max Factor&#x26;#39;s life of beautification.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/09/01/080901crbo_books_updike</link>
<description><![CDATA[The happy story of Max Factor, as enthusiastically told by Fred E. Basten in &#8220;Max Factor: The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World&#8221; (Arcade; &#36;24.95), begins, like a movie, at a high-energy moment of extreme peril:  


                On a winter night in February 1904, twenty-seven-year&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Hilton Als: A family&#x26;#39;s secrets are revealed in The First Breeze of Summer.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2008/09/01/080901crth_theatre_als</link>
<description><![CDATA[In 1969, Larry Neal, a black writer, published an essay titled &#8220;Any Day Now: Black Art and Black Liberation.&#8221; In it, Neal tried to clarify the goals of the Black Arts Movement, an ideological aesthetic that was first laid out by the poet and activist Amiri Baraka, after Malcolm X&#8217;s&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: The Theatre</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/theatre/2008/09/01/080901goth_GOAT_theatre_preview</link>
<description><![CDATA[BOYS IN TIGHTS &#8220;Billy Elliot,&#8221; the long-awaited musical adaptation of the film about an unlikely aspiring young ballet dancer, which is a hit in London&#8217;s West End, has music by Elton John and a book and lyrics by Lee Hall. Stephen Daldry directs, at the Imperial (previews begin Oct&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/readings/2008/09/01/080901goab_GOAT_above1</link>
<description><![CDATA[ALEXANDRA KERRY 
        John Kerry&#8217;s daughter reads from her new book about her father&#8217;s Presidential campaign, &#8220;Notes from the Trail: A View on Politics Through the Windshield.&#8221; (Barnes &#38; Noble, 97 Warren St. No tickets necessary. Sept. 2 at 7.)  
          
        LANSING LAMONT 
        Lamont, a longtime correspondent for Time, reads from his memoir&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Night Life</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/nightlife/2008/09/01/080901goni_GOAT_nightlife_preview</link>
<description><![CDATA[LOCAL TERROIR Wine bars have been popping up all over the city lately, but City Winery (143 Varick St. www.citywinery.com) is different: wine will not only be served in this spacious new SoHo venue; it will also be made there. Those with sufficiently deep pockets can craft their own Cabernet&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Movies</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/revivals/2008/09/01/080901gomo_GOAT_movies_preview</link>
<description><![CDATA[LICENSE TO KILL The latest James Bond entry, &#8220;Quantum of Solace&#8221; (Nov. 7), again features Daniel Craig as 007. Marc Forster directs; the theme song is performed by Alicia Keys and Jack White.   The fall&#8217;s other major spy film, &#8220;Body of Lies&#8221; (Oct. 10), has a topflight director in Ridley&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Fall Classics</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/revivals/2008/09/01/080901gomo_GOAT_movies_brody</link>
<description><![CDATA[Criterion releases a trio of exquisite nineteen-fifties literary adaptations by Max Oph&#252;ls: &#8220;The Earrings of Madame de&#8230;,&#8221; from a novel by Louise de Vilmorin; &#8220;La Ronde,&#8221; based on Arthur Schnitzler&#8217;s play; and &#8220;Le Plaisir,&#8221; featuring three stories by Guy de Maupassant (Sept. 16). 
        Musicals, pre- and postwar, are coming&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Dance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[HIMALAYAN STEPS  It&#8217;s not every day that a group of Tantric Buddhist monks appear in public spaces around the city to demonstrate demon-subjugation dances, known as cham, which are performed in elaborate, brightly colored costumes and masks. The Rubin Museum of Art brings this rare treat to town with&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Classical Music</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CONCERTS IN TOWN 
          
        JUILLIARD ARTISTS IN CONCERT 
        Every week, the Lincoln Center conservatory sends some of its finest young musicians downtown to serenade lunchtime listeners, at no charge. The latest performance is by the harpist Michelle Gott and the flutist Nadia Kyne, who offer a brief concert of works by&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Autumn Sounds</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tricky, &#8220;Knowle West Boy&#8221; (Domino): The king of moody British trip-hop returns with an album that veers between woozy autobiography and dark, stabbing rock (Sept. 9). 
        George Clinton and the Gangstas of Love, &#8220;Radio Friendly&#8221; (Shanachie): The funk godfather covers R. &#38; B. standards with a large group of collaborators&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Art</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES 
          
        METROPOLITAN MUSEUM 
        Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--&#8220;J. M. W. Turner.&#8221; Through Sept. 21. |  &#8220;Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe.&#8221; Through Sept. 21. |  &#8220;Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy.&#8221; Through Sept. 1. |  &#8220;Framing a Century: Master Photographs, 1840-1940&#8221; uses works&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GREAT NORTH RIVER TUGBOAT RACE AND COMPETITION 
        The powerful little helpers that coax giant oceangoing vessels into and out of their berths and haul barges of fuel oil and other necessities around New York Harbor get a moment in the spotlight. Some twenty boats will be on hand, including the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Face Value</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A portfolio of Max Factor advertisements, from the nineteen-forties to the sixties.]]></description>
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<title>David Denby: I Served the King of England and Traitor.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/09/01/080901crci_cinema_denby</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ji&#345;&#237; Menzel&#8217;s &#8220;I Served the King of England&#8221; is a Czech national epic served up with champagne and truffles. This graceful and leisurely movie, adapted from a 1974 novel by the masterly Bohumil Hrabal, covers an enormous time span, starting in the nineteen-thirties, then passing through the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: The Same Man</title>
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<description><![CDATA[George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh met on only one occasion, in 1949; neither man kept a record of what happened, and perhaps the only certain outcome of the meeting is the existence of this idiosyncratic book. Offering an appreciation of two writers typically seen as opposites, Lebedoff strives for neither&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: The Gargoyle</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This d&#233;but novel combines Christian mysticism, medieval imagery, and postmodern fonts to create a sometimes inane and sometimes diverting story. The narrator is a burn victim and former &#8220;coke-addled pornographer&#8221; now reduced to a mummified state in a hospital bed, where he is visited by an Angelina Jolie composite&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: The End of Sleep</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In this madcap picaresque, we follow Fin, an Irish journalist, as he spends a day in the streets of Cairo pursuing a story of buried treasure that he believes will restore his floundering career at an English-language newspaper there. Fin seeks a &#8220;pacy linear narrative with obvious and satisfying&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: The Book of Dreams</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the early nineteen-sixties, under the influence of a Jungian analyst, Fellini started keeping a dream diary. His films, always fantastical, soon took a distinctly oneiric turn, and he eventually filled some five hundred sheets with drawings and descriptions of his dreams, here reproduced in facsimile with English translations&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Birds in Flight</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A portfolio of projects by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.]]></description>
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<title>Sasha Frere-Jones: Nas finds inspiration in anger.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/08/25/080825gonb_GOAT_notebook_frerejones</link>
<description><![CDATA[If hip-hop&#8217;s declining popularity bothers Nas, he will need to have a stern talk with himself. His 2006 album, &#8220;Hip Hop Is Dead,&#8221; was one of the loudest complaints to date about the genre&#8217;s lack of direction (and a pulse). But maybe Nas needed to renounce hip-hop so&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Paul Goldberger: A building that can&#x26;#39;t break free of its predecessor.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/skyline/2008/08/25/080825crsk_skyline_goldberger</link>
<description><![CDATA[Huntington Hartford&#8217;s old Gallery of Modern Art--the white marble bonbon that stood at 2 Columbus Circle from 1964 until a couple of years ago--was a hard building to love but became an even harder one to hate. Excoriated by critics when it went up, then championed by preservationists&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Nancy Franklin: NBC breaks records in Beijing.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2008/08/25/080825crte_television_franklin</link>
<description><![CDATA[Watching the Beijing Olympics, for all the athletic and architectural spectacularity on display, has turned out to be more frustrating than I expected. What an opportunity this was--not, as is obvious, just for China but for the rest of the world, the people whose only chance to visit China&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Joan Acocella: Did a sixteenth-century heretic grasp the nature of the cosmos?</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/08/25/080825crbo_books_acocella</link>
<description><![CDATA[In 1600, Rome&#8217;s Campo de&#8217; Fiori, now a nice plaza lined with caf&#233;s, was one of the city&#8217;s execution grounds, and on Ash Wednesday of that year Giordano Bruno, a philosopher and former priest accused of heresy by the Inquisition, was taken there and burned. The event was carefully timed&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Hilton Als: The mesmerizing Billy Hough.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ever since Eugene O&#8217;Neill and his cohorts first rehearsed the burgeoning master&#8217;s lines in the dunes of Provincetown in the nineteen-twenties, and Tennessee Williams fell in love with the place in the late nineteen-thirties, the tip of the Cape has been home to a number of writers and&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: The Theatre</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS 
        Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information.   
          
          
        FELA! 
        Bill T. Jones directs and choreographs a new musical about the Nigerian composer, performer, and political activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti. With a book by Jim Lewis and Jones and additional lyrics by&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: On the Horizon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MOVIES 
        AMERICAN DIRECTOR 
        Aug. 29-Sept. 1 
        Chris Smith, an independent director who began his career with the diptych-like pair of films &#8220;American Job&#8221; (a narrative fiction) and &#8220;American Movie&#8221; (a documentary), ranges quite a bit further afield for his latest film, &#8220;The Pool,&#8221; which is a fictional project&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Night Life</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ROCK AND POP 
        Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it&#8217;s advisable to call ahead to confirm engagements.  
          
          
        B. B. KING BLUES CLUB &#38; GRILL 
        237 W. 42nd St. (212-997-4144)--Aug. 21: Bobby (Blue) Bland, B. B. King&#8217;s longtime touring partner, lends some authenticity to this Times Square club. Aug&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Movies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OPENING 
          
        DEATH RACE 
        A science-fiction thriller in which an ex-con (Jason Statham) must take part in a deadly car race. Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. Opening Aug. 22. (In wide release.) 
          
        HAMLET 2 
        A comedy, directed by Andy Fleming, starring Steve Coogan as a high-school teacher&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Dance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[DOWNTOWN DANCE FESTIVAL 
        All styles are welcome at this wide-ranging festival of free dance organized by Jonathan Hollander, of Battery Dance Company, from re-creations of Isadora Duncan&#8217;s revolutionary works (IsadoraNOW) to &#224; la page modern dance (Battleworks). Hollander is also spicing things up with two days (Aug. 18-19&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Classical Music</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CONCERTS IN TOWN 
          
        MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL 
        An exceptionally diverse season at Lincoln Center comes to a close. Aug. 19-20 at 8: Osmo V&#228;nsk&#228;, the disciplined director of the Minnesota Orchestra, leads the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in music in the keys of three flats by Mozart (the Serenade for Winds&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Art</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES 
          
        METROPOLITAN MUSEUM 
        Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--&#8220;J. M. W. Turner.&#8221; Through Sept. 21. |  &#8220;Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe.&#8221; Through Sept. 21. |  &#8220;Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy.&#8221; Through Sept. 1. |  &#8220;Framing a Century: Master Photographs, 1840-1940.&#8221; Through Sept&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond</title>
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<description><![CDATA[RUMBLE IN THE (CONCRETE) JUNGLE 
        The Rumblers Car Club, a close-knit group of automobile enthusiasts founded by, among others, Roger Miret, a singer for the local hardcore punk band Agnostic Front, throws its eighth annual &#8220;Kustom Kills and Hot Rod Thrills&#8221; show. It is expected to draw some three&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>David Denby: Robert Bresson&#x26;#39;s Pickpocket.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/08/25/080825gonb_GOAT_notebook_denby</link>
<description><![CDATA[The basic plot of Robert Bresson&#8217;s &#8220;Pickpocket,&#8221; from 1959 (playing at Film Forum on Aug. 20), is derived from that of &#8220;Crime and Punishment&#8221;: an isolated and severe young man (Martin LaSalle) becomes a philosophical criminal who asserts his sense of superiority in larcenous acts while also longing to be&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: Traffic</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On the face of it, traffic is a simple problem: too many cars occupy too little asphalt. But why does creating new roads induce more people to drive? Why does removing signs and markings seem to make roads safer? And why do countries with corrupt governments suffer more traffic fatalities&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: The Challenge</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In November, 2004, thirty minutes after a military commission convened at Guant&#225;namo Bay to try Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden&#8217;s former driver, news came that halted the proceedings: Hamdan had won a lawsuit, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, brought on his behalf by a diverse group of lawyers. Mahler is the author&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: Black and White and Dead All Over</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The assistant managing editor of the New York Globe, a broadsheet newspaper based in midtown Manhattan, is murdered in his office. Suspects include disgruntled beat reporters, ambitious editors, and conniving board members, and the only person who really seems to know what&#8217;s going on is Bashir, the Afghan coffee-cart&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: Alfred and Emily</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the first half of this unusual blend of fact and fiction, Lessing imagines fulfilled lives for her parents, Alfred Tayler and Emily McVeagh, in an England untouched by the First World War. Emily becomes a nurse and an activist, and never has children; Alfred becomes a farmer and the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Alex Ross: Singing Shakespeare at Glimmerglass.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2008/08/25/080825crmu_music_ross</link>
<description><![CDATA[William Shakespeare felt a certain ambivalence toward music as an art, if his words are any guide to his thoughts. The plays overflow with merry songs, sweet airs, and other healthy-minded sounds, but they also contain many instances of music causing mischief, telling lies, or casting shadows. In &#8220;Measure&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Documentary follows the human drama of hurricane Katrina through the eyes of a young married couple from the Lower Ninth Ward.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Ping Pong Playa&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Comedy about a basketball star who gets roped into the family table tennis business is fitfully amusing.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;I Served the King of England&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Chaplinesque fable has an airiness that masks its tragic undertow.

   
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<description><![CDATA[Affecting drama about an undocumented farmworker and his widowed daughter-in-law trying to make ends meet.

   
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<description><![CDATA[A Brooklyn museum lifts the curtain on its fake Coptic sculptures and wins praise.

   
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<title>Goodbye Raffi, hello hipster!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Kid's music gets a rock 'n' roll makeover that soothes adults.

   
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<description><![CDATA[A new CD of foot-stomping gospel, a DVD of classic fairy tales with an irreverent twist, a Spanish author's latest love story, and more.

   
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<description><![CDATA[The move to buy Manchester City is expected to trigger a new spiral in player costs and a fresh backlash to foreign ownership.

   
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<title>Rafael Nadal moves relentlessly toward dethroning tennis&#x27;s reigning king</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This week will tell whether Roger Federer, the Fred Astaire of tennis, can regain his footing after losing the No. 1 ranking to the hustling Spaniard, or whether a once-in-a-generation shift is under way.

   
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<description><![CDATA[Amateur online reviews are creating competition and democracy in the race to have the first word on new albums.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Traitor&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A superannuated, would-be rock star is so passionate about his second chance at stardom you want to cheer him on in this oddball comedy.

   
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