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<description><![CDATA[The latest version of Anton Chekhov's famous play  hit Broadway on Thursday. Christopher Hampton, who adapted the play, says he drew on Chekhov's muscular, blunt words for the critically acclaimed production.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Slate.com's film expert takes us through the reviews of the latest releases. This week: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, the story of young love in Manhattan, the comedy Beverly Hills Chihuahua starring the voice of Drew Barrymore and How To Lose Friends & Alienate People, the story of a disillusioned intellectual obsessed with celebrity and fame.]]></description>
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<title>Cultural Collision:  Puccini&#x27;s &#x27;Madame Butterfly&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Legendary tenor Placido Domingo takes to the podium, to conduct Puccini's Madame Butterfly, in a Washington National Opera production starring soprano Xiu Wei Sun as Cio-Cio-San.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;Rachel Getting Married&#x27;: Demme&#x27;s Masterpiece</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's not often you hear the word "masterpiece" coming from a film critic. But David Edelstein says it applies to Jonathan Demme's newest film, a marvelously textured thing at once focused and bursting at the seams.]]></description>
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<title>Windshield Wipers Invented In &#x27;Flash Of Genius&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In 1967, Robert Kearns received patents for inventing intermittent car windshield wipers. He offered his idea to automakers but was turned away. When Ford and Chrysler started manufacturing cars with wipers without crediting Kearns, he took the case all the way to the Supreme Court. A new film called Flash of Genius tells his story.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/books/06games.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>The Future of Reading: Using Video Games as Bait to Hook Readers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Publishers, authors and even libraries are embracing video games to promote books to young readers.    
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<title>Theater Review | &#x27;13&#x27;: Stranger in Strange Land: The Acne Years</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Though it features a buoyant score and a book that dances on the borders of bad taste, “13” ultimately feels as pre-processed and formulaic as “High School Musical.”    
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<title>A Collection of Tribal Art Is Embroiled in a Modern Family Feud</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A gift of art from New Guinea that was promised to the de Young Museum in San Francisco is in dispute.    
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<title>Music Review | Madonna: Aerobic, Not Erotic: The Concert as Workout</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Time obsesses Madonna on her Sticky and Sweet Tour, which made its first American stop at the Izod Center.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/movies/06fire.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>It&#x2019;s a Healthy Marriage of Faith and Filmmaking</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The film “Fireproof,” about a firefighter who saves his marriage by turning to God, has become a box office success.    
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<title>Music Review | New York City Opera: Feeling Modern, City Opera Starts an Itinerant Season</title>
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<description><![CDATA[New York City Opera opened what is going to be a modest season, devoid of staged productions, with a very fine concert of notable 20th-century works at St. George Theater on Staten Island.    
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<title>Critics&#x2019; Choice: New CDs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[New releases from Oasis, Deerhoof and Jazmine Sullivan.    
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<title>He&#x2019;s Flying With Eagles While Staying Inside the Den of the Grizzly Bear</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/arts/music/06eagl.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Department of Eagles creates graceful, surreal, inward-looking pop that finds both unadorned sorrows and elaborate, circuslike wonderment.    
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<title>Books of The Times: Couple Creates an Empire by Felling Trees and Anyone in Their Way</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ron Rash’s fourth novel, “Serena,” will prompt instant interest in his first, second and third.    
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<title>Dance Review | Richard Alston Dance Company: Celebrating a Leader of Britain&#x2019;s Modern-Dance Vanguard</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Dance Umbrella festival in London celebrated Richard Alston’s 40th year of creating dance.    
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<title>Television Review | &#x27;17 Kids and Counting&#x27;; &#x27;Opportunity Knocks&#x27;: O.K., but Can You Get a Cab in New York?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[“17 Kids and Counting” has the potential to keep the culture wars raging; there is something vaguely depressing about the way “Opportunity Knocks” debunks family mythology.    
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<title>Dance Review | Morphoses: The Essence of a Dancer, Revealed With Ease</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Christopher Wheeldon is a choreographer with an instinctive grasp of dancers and their abilities.    
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<title>Music Review | Toronto Symphony Orchestra: Revolutionary Martyrs and Sinful Sisters</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Toronto Symphony Orchestra gave a wrenching, full-throttle account of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11.    
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<title>Music Review | Vicente Fern&#xE1;ndez: Mexican Star Holds Forth on a Long Thirsty Evening</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Mexican ranchera star Vicente Fernández owned the stage with a studied theatricality, businesslike in his looseness.    
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<title>Music Review | &#x27;Lucia di Lammermoor&#x27;: A Scottish Castle, Ruled by a Soprano</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Diana Damrau had an impressive outing as Lucia in the Met’s revival of Mary Zimmerman’s inventive 2007 production of “Lucia di Lammermoor.”    
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<title>Music Review | &#x27;Six Saturdays With Messiaen&#x27;: Reverence and Rapture, Expressed by an Organ</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If anything could convince a committed disbeliever to question that stance, it might be the organ music of Olivier Messiaen.    
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<title>Bridge: In Beijing Competition, Lots of Clubs and Big Swing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[After two of the six days of qualifying play in the first World Mind Sports Games, the American senior team is leading its group.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: At Box Office, a Dog Has Its Days</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The new Disney comedy “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” took the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Springsteen for Obama</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The big draw for a crowd of nearly 50,000 at a get-out-the-vote rally in Philadelphia was not Senator Barack Obama, whose campaign was sponsoring the rally, but Bruce Springsteen.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Studio Opens in Atlanta</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sidney Poitier and Oprah Winfrey were among the thousands of guests at the grand opening of Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: &#x2018;S.N.L.&#x2019; Keeps It Political</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Once again, “Saturday Night Live” led off the weekend’s show with Tina Fey as the Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Jackson Delays Shows</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Janet Jackson has postponed three more concerts on her North American Rock Witchu tour because of an unspecified condition, The Associated Press reported.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Israel Below the Surface</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tickets are on sale for the second annual Other Israel Film Festival, which is dedicated to showcasing the lives of Arab citizens of Israel.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: In the Wings</title>
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<description><![CDATA[John Lavelle will star in a new production of “Catch-22.”    
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<title>Thomas Mallon: Abraham Lincoln and the politics of memory.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/10/13/081013crbo_books_mallon</link>
<description><![CDATA[At the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C., on May 30, 1922, remarks by Robert Moton, the principal of the Tuskegee Institute, received special attention from the &#8220;colored&#8221; section of the audience. The federal commission responsible for the memorial&#8217;s construction were loath to have Moton participate at all&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Sasha Frere-Jones: The Brazilian Girls at Terminal 5.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/10/13/081013gonb_GOAT_notebook_frerejones</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sabina Sciubba has lived in Italy, Germany, France, and New York, and is currently the lead singer of a band called Brazilian Girls, which contains no Brazilians and only one girl. The group&#8217;s third album, &#8220;New York City,&#8221; is sung in five languages, though not all simultaneously. Perhaps the most&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Richard Brody: Max Oph&#x26;#252;ls at Film Forum.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The exacting and sumptuous Cin&#233;math&#232;que Fran&#231;aise restoration of &#8220;Lola Mont&#232;s,&#8221; Max Oph&#252;ls&#8217;s last film, from 1955 (opening at Film Forum on Oct. 10), recovers not just the movie&#8217;s look but also its meaning. The romantic costume drama presents a great nineteenth-century femme fatale, a faux-Spanish danseuse and gold&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>John Lahr: Ian Rickson revives &#x22;The Seagull.&#x22;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When Anton Chekhov&#8217;s &#8220;The Seagull&#8221; first opened in St. Petersburg, in October, 1896, the hubbub of catcalls was so loud that the actors had trouble hearing themselves. Recounting the play&#8217;s sensational failure--the humiliated author stopped writing plays for a few years--Chekhov wrote to a friend, &#8220;The theatre breathed&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Hilton Als: My Barbarian at the New Museum.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The New Museum curator Eungie Joo has a nose for talent--particularly for performers who are more likely to comment on the &#8220;legitimate&#8221; theatre than to attend it. Just recently, she reintroduced New York audiences to My Barbarian, a performance collective based in Los Angeles. Founded in 2000 by Malik&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Tony Award</title>
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<description><![CDATA[From 1974 to 1980, the immensely assured multi-instrumentalist and composer Anthony Braxton was given virtual carte blanche at Clive Davis&#8217;s Arista Records--an unlikely union of artist and corporation. Braxton was nothing if not rigorously intellectual and formally obsessed--a sonic omnivore influenced by artists as seemingly irreconcilable as&#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.   
          
          
        ALL MY SONS 
        John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson, and Katie Holmes star in Arthur Miller&#8217;s play from 1947, about a businessman&#8217;s shady dealings during the Second World War. Simon McBurney directs. In&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: The Other Half</title>
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<description><![CDATA[F. W. Murnau&#8217;s 1924 drama &#8220;The Last Laugh&#8221; (a new restoration of which is featured in a two-disk set from Kino) may well be the apogee of silent-film production. From its small-scale story--the aging head doorman at a grand hotel can no longer lift heavy luggage&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[POETS OUT LOUD&#8221; 
        Fordham University&#8217;s reading series presents Sarah Gambito, Myung Mi Kim, Ravi Shankar, and Kelly Tsai. (113 W. 60th St., 12th fl. No tickets necessary. Oct. 8 at 7.) 
          
        CASSANDRA WILSON 
        The jazz vocalist talks about her career with the critic Gary Giddins. (City University of New York&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: On the Horizon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[DANCE 
        TUDOR HOUSE 
        Oct. 21-Nov. 2 
        This fall, American Ballet Theatre celebrates the British choreographer Antony Tudor (1909-87); on opening night, Gillian Murphy and David Hallberg will dance the pas de deux from his one-act &#8220;Romeo and Juliet.&#8221; (212-581-1212.) 
          
        MOVIES 
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        Oct. 31-Nov. 5 
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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)--Oct. 8: In the early nineties, Digable Planets forged a fusion of jazz and hip-hop that sounded to some&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Mutton Doing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[People who call Lambchop a country band should probably stop. While the group&#8217;s earlier albums, like &#8220;Nixon,&#8221; were firmly within the countrypolitan tradition--mid-tempo epics strategically overproduced with lavish strings and horns--the music made these days by the singer and songwriter Kurt Wagner and his ensemble of adjustable&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Movies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OPENING 
          
        ASHES OF TIME REDUX 
        The director Wong Kar-Wai&#8217;s reworking of his 1994 adaptation of a martial-arts novel, starring Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, and Tony Leung Ka Fai. In Cantonese. Opening Oct. 10. (Angelika Film Center and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.) 
          
        BODY OF LIES 
        Reviewed&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Dance</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/dance/2008/10/13/081013goda_GOAT_dance</link>
<description><![CDATA[BALLET HISPANICO  
        The company&#8217;s two-week season at the Joyce is the last with its pioneering founder, Tina Ramirez, as artistic director. To cap off her estimable tenure of nearly forty years, she takes the stage for a small role in Graciela Daniele&#8217;s &#8220;Stages.&#8221; The first week also includes the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Classical Music</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/classical/2008/10/13/081013gocl_GOAT_classical</link>
<description><![CDATA[OPERA 
          
        METROPOLITAN OPERA 
        Last season&#8217;s opening-night attraction was Mary Zimmerman&#8217;s new production of &#8220;Lucia di Lammermoor,&#8221; whose combination of fantasy and verisimilitude delighted the daring but left traditionalists unmoved. Diana Damrau (who could definitely give 2007&#8217;s Lucia, Natalie Dessay, a run for her money) takes the title role&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Art</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/2008/10/13/081013goar_GOAT_art</link>
<description><![CDATA[MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES  
          
        METROPOLITAN MUSEUM  
        Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--&#8220;Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964.&#8221; The first-ever American retrospective of the Italian modern master is the sleeper hit of the season. Morandi&#8217;s still-lifes, each an adventure, are unbeatably radical meditations on what can and can&#8217;t happen when three dimensions&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/above/2008/10/13/081013goab_GOAT_above</link>
<description><![CDATA[HARVEST TIME 
        With the price of gas being what it is, a quick trip to the country for, say, a Halloween pumpkin and some fresh air requires much consideration. So what&#8217;s an urbanite to do? Head to the Queens County Farm Museum, the oldest patch of continuously farmed land in&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>David Denby: &#x22;Body of Lies&#x22; and &#x22;Happy-Go-Lucky.&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/10/13/081013crci_cinema_denby</link>
<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a startling moment in &#8220;Body of Lies,&#8221; the potent new thriller directed by Ridley Scott--a moment that not only crystallizes what the movie is about but shrewdly demonstrates the ironies of asymmetrical warfare in the age of terror. The hardworking C.I.A. field agent Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) has&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: &#x22;The Snowball&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/10/13/081013crbn_brieflynoted1</link>
<description><![CDATA[This authorized biography of Warren Buffett, based on thousands of hours of interviews, appears just a week after Buffett took a decisive role in the current financial crisis, investing some five billion dollars in Goldman Sachs--a deal that conforms to his maxim &#8220;Be fearful when others are greedy and&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: &#x22;The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/10/13/081013crbn_brieflynoted4</link>
<description><![CDATA[The journal of the Quaker mystic and abolitionist John Woolman has never been out of print since 1774, when it was first published. Along with Woolman&#8217;s pamphlets and speeches, the journal was instrumental in persuading the Society of Friends to give up owning slaves. In this meditative biography, Slaughter provides&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: &#x22;Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/10/13/081013crbn_brieflynoted3</link>
<description><![CDATA[Attempting to explain &#8220;why Americans vote the way they do,&#8221; Gelman and a group of fellow political scientists crunch numbers and draw graphs, arriving at a picture that refutes the influential one drawn by Thomas Frank, in &#8220;What&#8217;s the Matter with Kansas?,&#8221; of poor red-staters voting Republican against their&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: &#x22;Capitol Men&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/10/13/081013crbn_brieflynoted2</link>
<description><![CDATA[During Reconstruction, sixteen black men served as congressmen. They have been scorned as bumbling, corrupt, or ineffectual--former field hands in shiny suits--and even the growing recognition, in recent years, of the shamefulness of the North&#8217;s abandonment of Reconstruction has not entirely effaced that caricature. Dray&#8217;s book should do&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Alex Ross: Stockhausen&#x27;s &#x22;Gruppen,&#x22; at Tempelhof Airport, in Berlin.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2008/10/13/081013crmu_music_ross</link>
<description><![CDATA[For a few years in the late nineteen-sixties and early seventies, Karlheinz Stockhausen, the German avant-garde composer, nearly achieved the status of a pop icon. Each new piece of his attracted crowds of critics, struggling to convey the latest cosmic splatter of pointillistically variegated sounds. A lavish recording&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/10/06/081006gonb_GOAT_notebook_aletti">
<title>Vince Aletti: &#x22;Street Art, Street Life,&#x22; at the Bronx Museum.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/10/06/081006gonb_GOAT_notebook_aletti</link>
<description><![CDATA[In its attempt to keep an impossibly broad and popular subject manageable, the Bronx Museum stunts and nearly smothers &#8220;Street Art, Street Life,&#8221; but the sprawling exhibition&#8217;s best work survives. Driven primarily by photography, video, and performance art, the show opens in the nineteen-fifties, with images by Robert Frank&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Sasha Frere-Jones: How the most important producer of the decade changed the rules.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2008/10/06/081006crmu_music_frerejones</link>
<description><![CDATA[At first, in the late eighties, he was DJ Timmy Tim--a kid named Timothy Mosley, from Virginia Beach, who liked creating beats in his bedroom. Then, in the nineties, he renamed himself Timbaland and began the stretch of work that has made him, against considerable competition, the most important&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Pictures of People</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/10/06/slideshow_081006_peyton</link>
<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s issue of the magazine, Calvin Tomkins writes about the artist Elizabeth Peyton. &#8220;Peyton calls what she&#8217;s doing &#8216;pictures of people,&#8217; rather than portraits,&#8221; writes Tomkins. &#8220;Whatever they are, the way she does them, with an unembarrassed emphasis on visual pleasure, suggests a shift in current attitudes about art and artmaking.&#8221; On October 8th, &#8220;Live Forever,&#8221; a survey of Peyton&#8217;s work from the past fifteen years, will open at the New Museum. Here is a selection of her work.]]></description>
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<title>John Lahr: The mystery plays of Sarah Ruhl and Peter Shaffer.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2008/10/06/081006crth_theatre_lahr</link>
<description><![CDATA[In 1997, as the playwright Sarah Ruhl was on her way to see the first work of hers to be produced, she was knocked unconscious in a car accident. Nonetheless, she managed to get to the show--two short plays that now, with the addition of a third, make up&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: The Theatre</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/theatre/2008/10/06/081006goth_GOAT_theatre</link>
<description><![CDATA[OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS 
        Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information.   
          
          
        ALL MY SONS 
        John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson, and Katie Holmes star in Arthur Miller&#8217;s play from 1947, about a businessman&#8217;s shady dealings during the Second World War. Simon McBurney directs. In&#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/2008/10/06/081006goab_GOAT_above1</link>
<description><![CDATA[MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 
        The journalist Nicholas Lemann talks politics with Theodore C. Sorensen, former adviser to President John F. Kennedy. (Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Ave. at 103rd St. 212-534-1672. Oct. 1 at 6:30.) 
          
        SYMPHONY SPACE 
        Salman Rushdie, the editor of &#8220;The Best&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: On the Horizon</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/horizon/2008/10/06/081006gohz_GOAT_horizon</link>
<description><![CDATA[AUCTIONS 
        STRINGS ATTACHED 
        Oct. 10 
        Martin Guitar--a storied brand in the history of blues and rock--is a hundred and seventy-five years old, and Christie&#8217;s is marking the anniversary by offering forty-nine of the company&#8217;s guitars at its upcoming sale of musical instruments. (212-636-2000.) 
          
        MOVIES 
        POLAND, SPRUNG&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Night Life</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/nightlife/2008/10/06/081006goni_GOAT_nightlife</link>
<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)--Oct. 3: Jerry Lee Lewis, the Killer, is still doing wonders with his pumping piano rock. Oct. 4: Taj Mahal&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Movies</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/revivals/2008/10/06/081006gomo_GOAT_movies</link>
<description><![CDATA[OPENING  
          
        ALLAH MADE ME FUNNY 
        A documentary about a trio of Muslim American comedians. Directed by Michael Wolfe. Opening Oct. 3. (Quad Cinema.) 
          
        AN AMERICAN CAROL 
        In this comedy, directed by David Zucker, an anti-American filmmaker (Kevin P. Farley) is given a lesson in patriotism. Opening Oct. 3. (In&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Dance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY  
        &#8220;A Quarreling Pair&#8221; takes Jane Bowles&#8217;s four-page puppet play, a cloistered study of two co-habiting sisters, and explodes it into a postmodern burlesque show. (BAM&#8217;s Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave. 718-636-4100. Sept. 30 and Oct. 2-4 at 7:30.) 
          
        BALLETMET&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Classical Music</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/classical/2008/10/06/081006gocl_GOAT_classical</link>
<description><![CDATA[OPERA 
          
        METROPOLITAN OPERA 
        The magnetic Erwin Schrott--the current classical marketer&#8217;s dream--takes the title role in &#8220;Don Giovanni,&#8221; heading an impressive cast that also includes Krassimira Stoyanova, Susan Graham, Isabel Leonard, Matthew Polenzani, and Ildebrando D&#8217;Arcangelo; Louis Langr&#233;e, a brisk and efficient Mozartean, conducts. (Oct. 1 and Oct. 4&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Art</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/2008/10/06/081006goar_GOAT_art</link>
<description><![CDATA[MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES  
          
        METROPOLITAN MUSEUM 
        Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--&#8220;Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964.&#8221; The first ever American retrospective of the Italian modern master is the sleeper hit of the season. Morandi&#8217;s many still-lifes, each an adventure, are unbeatably radical meditations on what can and can&#8217;t happen when three&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/above/2008/10/06/081006goab_GOAT_above</link>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORKER FESTIVAL 
        The ninth annual gathering of contributors to the magazine takes place Oct. 3-5. Advance tickets to many events have sold out, but, as of press time, others are still available. A partial list follows. Oct. 4 at 1: The dancer Alexei Ratmansky talks with the critic Joan&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>David Denby: New Wave at BAM.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/10/06/081006gonb_GOAT_notebook_denby</link>
<description><![CDATA[The compilation film &#8220;Six in Paris&#8221; (&#8220;Paris Vu Par . . .&#8221;), from 1965, screening at BAM Oct. 3-9, is a not terribly distinguished but nonetheless happy souvenir of the New Wave, when films could be thrown together casually. Six directors, three established (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Rouch, and Claude Chabrol), one starting&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: &#x22;Unpacking the Boxes&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/10/06/081006crbn_brieflynoted4</link>
<description><![CDATA[Most memoirs begin with a birth, but Hall&#8217;s starts with another sort of becoming: &#8220;At fourteen I decided to spend my life writing poetry, which is what I have done.&#8221; Soon Hall moves from suburban Connecticut, where &#8220;nothing happened,&#8221; to Exeter, Harvard, and Oxford, his time line marked indelibly by&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: &#x22;The Good Thief&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/10/06/081006crbn_brieflynoted2</link>
<description><![CDATA[This striking d&#233;but novel is an homage to old-fashioned boy&#8217;s-own adventure stories, and unfolds like a Robert Louis Stevenson tale retold amid the hardscrabble squalor of Colonial New England. The sheer strangeness of the story is beguiling: a one-handed boy, tainted by his upbringing in a Catholic&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: &#x22;The Given Day&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/10/06/081006crbn_brieflynoted1</link>
<description><![CDATA[Lehane, whose previous novels include &#8220;Mystic River&#8221; and &#8220;Gone, Baby, Gone,&#8221; sets his latest at the end of the First World War, as waves of immigration, uneasy race relations, and agitation over labor issues culminate in a police strike in Boston. Danny, a patrolman and the son of a powerful&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: &#x22;Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/10/06/081006crbn_brieflynoted3</link>
<description><![CDATA[Facundo Bacardi, who founded the eponymous rum company in 1862, came to Cuba from Spain as a teen-ager. By the turn of the century, as Gjelten lucidly recounts, the distilling operation that Facundo had begun in a shed was among the brands most closely identified with Cuba, and the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Ben Greenman: The Pretenders&#x27; &#x22;Break Up the Concrete.&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/recordings/2008/10/06/081006gore_GOAT_recordings_greenman</link>
<description><![CDATA[The title of &#8220;Boots of Chinese Plastic,&#8221; which leads off the Pretenders&#8217; new album, &#8220;Break Up the Concrete&#8221; (Shangri-La), alludes to Bob Dylan&#8217;s &#8220;Boots of Spanish Leather,&#8221; but the song&#8217;s propulsive rhythm and surreal lyrics mark it as a close cousin to another Dylan song, &#8220;Tombstone Blues.&#8221; In just&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Anthony Lane: &#x22;Blindness&#x22; and &#x22;Rachel Getting Married.&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/10/06/081006crci_cinema_lane</link>
<description><![CDATA[Things go awry in &#8220;Blindness&#8221; from the start. In a busy, unnamed city, a traffic light changes to green, but one car fails to move. &#8220;I&#8217;m blind,&#8221; the driver, a Japanese guy, cries, pawing at his eyes. In the ensuing melee--and this sets the tone for the rest of&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Adam Gopnik: The passions of John Stuart Mill.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/10/06/081006crat_atlarge_gopnik</link>
<description><![CDATA[It is a hard thing, being right about everything all the time. Nobody likes a know-it-all, and we wait for the moment when the know-it-all is wrong to insist that he never really knew anything in the first place. The know-it-all, far from living&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: The Theatre</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/theatre/2008/09/29/080929goth_GOAT_theatre</link>
<description><![CDATA[OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS 
        Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information.   
          
          
        ALIENS WITH EXTRAORDINARY SKILLS 
        Women&#8217;s Project presents Saviana Stanescu&#8217;s dark comedy, about a Moldavian clown trying to obtain a U.S. work visa. Tea Alagic directs. In previews. Opens Sept. 30. (424 W. 55th&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Movies</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/revivals/2008/09/29/080929gomo_GOAT_movies</link>
<description><![CDATA[OPENING 
          
        CHOKE 
        Clark Gregg wrote, directed, and co-stars in this adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk&#8217;s novel, about a sex addict and scam artist who seeks to learn his father&#8217;s identity. Starring Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, and Kelly Macdonald. Opening Sept. 26. (In limited release.) 
          
        EAGLE EYE 
        D. J. Caruso directed&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Classical Music</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/classical/2008/09/29/080929gocl_GOAT_classical</link>
<description><![CDATA[OPERA 
          
        METROPOLITAN OPERA 
        Ponchielli&#8217;s &#8220;La Gioconda&#8221; is at once a farewell to Grand Opera and a preview of the verismo style of the composer&#8217;s students (such as Mascagni). Margherita Wallmann&#8217;s production is very, very old, but if &#8220;Gioconda&#8221; is well cast--and this revival features such singers as Deborah Voigt&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>David Denby: &#x22;Appaloosa&#x22; and &#x22;Righteous Kill.&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/09/29/080929crci_cinema_denby</link>
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<title>Review: &#x27;Nick and Norah&#x27;s Infinite Playlist&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Michael Cera stars in this teen love story that alternates between sweet and touching and goofball gross-out.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Blindness&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Set in a city where people are suddenly stricken with sightlessness, allegory never rises to level of believability.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Rachel Getting Married&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wrenching family drama puts Anne Hathaway center stage as an emotional wreck who creates havoc at her sister's nuptials.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Religulous&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bill Maher's documentary skewers religion but chooses laughable targets to make his point.

   
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<title>An Indonesian artist uses her canvas to unite a nation</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Grace Siregar taps local artists to create public sculptures and other artworks that emphasize themes of peace and reconciliation.

   
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<title>Karsh&#x2019;s art &#x2013; iconic yet intimate</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Canadian photographer's celebrity portraits avoided cynicism and remain revealing decades on.

   
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<title>The white/nonwhite divide</title>
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<description><![CDATA[South African photographer Mikhael Subotsky's images offer stark evidence of apartheid's lingering shadow.

   
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<title>Books about new architecture and design that stretch the imagination</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Spinning structures, China's dizzying new urban designs, mind-bending high-tech, and not-so-big apartments.

   
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<title>Six Picks: Recommendations from the Monitor staff</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Download a song, if you promise to vote; 'tweet' the debate as it happens; sing your way through election history; and more.

   
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<title>From our files: A conversation with Paul Newman</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Monitor spoke with the late actor and director in 1981 about selecting roles, plots that challenge an audience, and journalism.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Miracle at St. Anna&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Spike Lee's retelling of World War II's black infantry draws on all the clichés.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Documentary gives even-handed portrait of the man responsible for the toxicity of political campaigns.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;The Lucky Ones&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a plot full of glib contrivances, this home-front story of the Iraq war follows the lives of three returning vets.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Choke&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Adaptation of Palahniuk novel is a dark comedy about sexual addiction and mothers and sons.

   
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<title>In new move, bands play complete albums in concert</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As CD sales plummet, novelty gigs win box office bump and delight audiences.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;A Thousand Years of Good Prayers&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tale of a Chinese widower who comes to stay with his chilly Americanized daughter has quiet suspense and poignancy.

   
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<description><![CDATA[Thriller set in Brazilian slum captures brutal methods of Rio's SWAT-like cops, but offers little beyond its violence.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Appaloosa&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Old-style western plays on the camaraderie and courage of frontier life.

   
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<description><![CDATA[Costume drama hangs more heavily on the outfits than the infamous life of Georgiana Spencer.

   
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