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<description><![CDATA[Robert Rauschenberg, one of the most influential artists of his generation, has died at 82.  A man of seemingly limitless imagination, Rauschenberg created works of great beauty out of objects that most people would overlook.]]></description>
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<title>Pop Artist Robert Rauschenberg Dies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The artist, famous for using found objects in his work, was 82. His most famous work, "Bed," was painted on a quilt using paint, toothpaste and fingernail polish.]]></description>
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<title>Robot Performs with Yo-Yo Ma</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Music critics sometimes slam symphony conductors for their overly robotic approach. When the Detroit Symphony performs Tuesday with soloist Yo-Yo Ma, that criticism won't be a criticism. The DSO will be led by Honda's ASIMO robot.]]></description>
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<title>Actor Evan Handler on Life After Leukemia</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When actor Evan Handler &mdash; best known as Charlotte's husband on Sex and the City &mdash; was 23 years old, he was diagnosed with leukemia and given six months to live. In a new memoir It's Only Temporary, he chronicles his journey from the hospital to HBO.]]></description>
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<title>New Stamp Puts Sinatra Back in the Spotlight</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The United States Postal Service releases its commemorative Frank Sinatra stamp Tuesday &mdash; a day before the 10th anniversary of the singer's death. It features his trademark fedora, a big smile and Ol' Blue Eyes.]]></description>
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<title>Troy Maxson: Heart, Heartbreak as Big as the World</title>
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<description><![CDATA[He's the protagonist &mdash; you can't quite say "hero," unless you add "tragic" in front &mdash; of August Wilson's play Fences. James Earl Jones, who first played the part, helps explain why he's unforgettable.]]></description>
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<title>Nuala O&#x27;Faolain, Journalist and Author, Dead at 68</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The celebrated Irish memoirist, who had been battling lung cancer, died May 9. Her 1996 memoir &mdash; about growing up poor in the Ireland of the '40s and '50s &mdash; became a best-seller. Terry Gross talked to her in 2001.]]></description>
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<title>Climber Recounts Tragedy in &#x27;Storm Over Everest&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountaineer and filmmaker David Breashears talks about his new IMAX documentary Storm Over Everest, which chronicles an unexpected and violent storm that hit Everest in May 1996 &mdash; now remembered as one of the mountain's worst tragedies.]]></description>
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<title>Talking With &#x27;Office&#x27; Star B.J. Novak</title>
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<description><![CDATA[NBC's announcement that it would create an American version of the hit British TV show sounded like a desperate move. But today, the program shines, partly because of actor B.J. Novak, who plays the character Ryan Howard.]]></description>
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<title>Networks Take New Tack in Revealing Fall Shows</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The TV networks unveil their fall programming in "upfronts" to advertisers,  hoping to woo them to buy big chunks of airtime. But this year is going to be different, the networks promise. The writers strike is both symptom and catalyst. The uncertainties about new media that led to the strike are also leading to changes in the ad business.]]></description>
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<title>A Blitz of Summer Blockbusters</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Movie theaters don't seem fazed by the fact that there is more than one month to go before the official start of summer &mdash; more than 20 new films opened this weekend. Film critic Bob Mondello talks with host Andrea Seabrook about What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas, Speed Racer, Surfwise, Before the Rains, Poultrygeist, and more.]]></description>
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<title>Music Review: Ego-Fueled Hip-Hop Sci-Fi Space Odyssey</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There is a new yardstick for the size of the universe. It is approximately equal to the size of Kanye West’s ego.    
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<title>Bacon Triptych Auctioned for Record $86 Million</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A 1976 triptych by Francis Bacon brought $86.3 million on Wednesday night at Sotheby’s, becoming the most expensive work of contemporary art ever sold at auction.    
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<title>For Movies, a Summer That&#x2019;s Shy on Sequels</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With this year’s crop of summer movies, Hollywood may have trouble topping last year’s success.    
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<title>Books of The Times: Hit Man&#x2019;s Dilemma: Sly Widow, Nasty Boss</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In Thomas Perry’s new mystery a killer frets over a job that’s gotten out of hand.    
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<title>A British Actor&#x2019;s Seduction of America</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ben Daniels has arrived on Broadway this spring as a largely unknown but deeply attractive British import.    
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<title>Television: As a Lovers&#x2019; Kiss Turns a World Around</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Since its introduction of a gay-theme story line last summer “As the World Turns” has actually gained viewers, specifically younger viewers.    
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<title>Music Review: Cup of Southern Joy (Northern, Too)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Double-Wide’s sound is a kind of pop-art remake of Southern vernacular.    
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<title>Connecting Game Players to Build a Sense of Loyalty</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, Disney’s video game division will open an online service and social network meant to connect players of Disney games across North America.    
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<title>Music Review: Religious Canon for All Generations</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The program at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue on Tuesday was a reminder that American composers have been producing terrific sacred choral works since the early 20th century.    
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<title>Dance Review: Leaping Puffballs, Floating Demons and Lots of Gyrating Whatsits</title>
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<description><![CDATA[“Passion,” a 75-minute show presented by Momix, strikes me as sensationalist trash so brightly harmless that I wish I could fall in line with those who enjoy it as sheer sensation.    
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<title>Music Review: He-and-She Act, Working on a Cabaret Thing, Baby</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The husband-and-wife team of Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. are a prime illustration of how pop culture eventually congeals into a nostalgic cavalcade.    
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<title>Music Review: A Salon With Britten and Mozart as Guests</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Movado Hour, a series presented at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, offers a different kind of experience.     
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<title>Newly Released</title>
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<description><![CDATA[May’s list of new books comes weighted with accolades, from within publishing and without. Reviews of works by Inger Ash Wolfe, Aleksandar Hemon, Chris Knopf, Stephenie Meyer, James Meek and Elizabeth George.    
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<title>Theater Review | &#x2018;Past Half Remembered&#x2019;: What She Saw at 2 Revolutions, and Other Festivities</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A casual loose-limbed spirit permeates “Past Half Remembered,” a slight ensemble-created piece by the New International Encounter theater group.    
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<title>Theater Review | &#x27;Old Comedy After Aristophanes&#x2019; Frogs&#x27;: All Over the Map (and Timeline) Seeking Wisdom</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The whimsy is ever-present in Target Margin Theater’s new show. So why does this play ultimately feel as if it goes on too long?    
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<title>Bridge: At the Cavendish, One Card and an Awful Lot of Points</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The winners of the Cavendish Invitational Pairs on Sunday in Henderson, Nev., were Geoff Hampson of Las Vegas and Eric Rodwell of Clearwater Beach, Fla.    
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<title>Advertising: Fox Will Bring Back &#x2018;Idol,&#x2019; and Add Sci-Fi</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fox will introduce a science-fiction-oriented drama from J. J. Abrams of “Lost” and a comedy about life at a luxury hotel starring Jerry O’Connell.    
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<title>Turner to Offer Marketers Way to Link Ads to Content</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Turner Entertainment is offering a new system intended to pair commercials with relevant moments in the shows they interrupt.    
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<title>Larry Levine, an Inventor of &#x2018;Wall of Sound,&#x2019; Is Dead at 80</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mr. Levine helped create Phil Spector’s groundbreaking “wall of sound” technique on hit records by the Crystals, the Ronettes and the Righteous Brothers.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Jack, Being Nimble</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Jack Black, above, postures amid a small army of faux pandas in an elaborate — what else? — bid for publicity at the Cannes Film Festival. In the animated film “Kung Fu Panda” Mr. Black provides the voice of Po the Panda, a slothful noodle-restaurant waiter called upon to perform heroic feats of martial arts.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Sean Penn&#x2019;s Fiery Revolt</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Defying France’s strict new antismoking laws, Sean Penn, right, president of the jury at the 61st Cannes Film Festival, lighted a cigarette at a news conference yesterday, Agence France-Presse reported. After a couple of puffs in defiance of rules that banned smoking in enclosed spaces since January, he put the cigarette aside and returned to answering reporters’ questions. But a jury member, the Iranian writer and director Marjane Satrapi, prompting laughter, then asked if anyone minded if she smoked “for medical reasons.” She lighted a cigarette; Mr. Penn and the French actress Jeanne Balibar joined her.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Insert Tony Stunt Here</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Who in the world is Cubby Bernstein?    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Non-Tony Award News</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The New York Drama Critics’ Circle presented its top awards to the Broadway shows “August: Osage County” and “Passing Strange.”    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Library of Congress Adds to Aural Archive</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The first trans-Atlantic broadcast, on March 14, 1925; Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia’s reading of the comics in 1945; and Michael Jackson’s 1982 best-seller “Thriller” were among 25 recordings added Wednesday to the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry, The Associated Press reported. The archive is part of the library’s endeavor to preserve America’s aural history through recordings deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.” Other selections this year included Harry S. Truman’s speech at the 1948 Democratic National Convention; the original-cast recording of “My Fair Lady” from 1956; and music by Tommy Dorsey, Roy Orbison, Joni Mitchell and Herbie Hancock.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Neil Diamond, Chart Topper</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For Neil Diamond the 46th time is a charm. His new CD, “Home Before Dark” (Columbia), became the first of his 46 charting albums to reach No. 1. His second record with the producer Rick Rubin, it sold 146,000 copies, Nielsen SoundScan reported, thanks in part to high-profile promotional appearances. Billboard’s Top 10 this week is packed with new releases, though sales were relatively slow. The country star Toby Keith, No. 2 with his new “35 Biggest Hits” (Show Dog Nashville), sold 103,000 copies; Madonna’s “Hard Candy” (Warner Brothers) fell two to No. 3 in its second week out, with 94,000 in sales; Clay Aiken’s new “On My Way Here” (RCA) sold slightly less to reach No. 4. (The figures are rounded.) Down the chart Gavin DeGraw opened at No. 7 with his self-titled album on J Records; Josh Groban’s new CD/DVD package “Awake Live” (Reprise) is No. 8; Dierks Bentley’s “Greatest Hits: Every Mile a Memory” (Capitol Nashville) bows at No. 9; and Luis Miguel’s new “Complices” (Warner Music Latina) is No. 10.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Going Through the Motions</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Possibly the leader of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday could be considered a conductor. Definitely the leader was a semiconductor — a whole lot of them, The Associated Press reported. Asimo, a 4-foot-3-inch Honda robot, led the orchestra in a performance of “The Impossible Dream” from “Man of La Mancha.” After greeting the audience in a childlike voice, Asimo mimicked the actions of a conductor, nodding at sections of the ensemble during the performance and gesturing with one or both hands. At the end Asimo — an aconym for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility — was greeted by the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, above right, and enthusiastic shouts from the audience. Engineers based the robot’s motions on those of Charles Burke, the orchestra’s education director, as he conducted the piece about six months ago.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: No Charges Against Winehouse</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Grammy Award-winning singer Amy Winehouse, 24, will not be charged in connection with a video segment that appeared to show her using drugs, The Associated Press reported on Wednesday, citing her spokesman Chris Goodman. The police questioned her about the footage for nine hours last week.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Getty Trust Trims Staff</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles will eliminate 114 jobs and cut programs to marshal resources for the organization’s arts mission, The Associated Press reported. Fewer than 40 people were laid off, and most reductions were accomplished through attrition, a spokesman for the trust, Ron Hartwig, said. James Wood, chief executive of the trust, said, “The whole goal here is to focus the Getty on the core mission of the visual arts.” The cuts were reported Wednesday in The Los Angeles Times. Mr. Hartwig said that many of the positions are staff assistants and jobs in maintenance, communications and management.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Leonard Cohen, Live Again</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Leonard Cohen received a standing ovation from a sold-out house when he stepped onstage Sunday for his first show in 14 years, The Globe and Mail of Toronto reported. The appearance by the 73-year-old singer and songwriter at the 700-seat Playhouse in Fredericton, New Brunswick, began a 48-date tour that will take him to 14 countries in coming months. He played two sets of eight songs each and four encores. The list included 1960s standards like “Suzanne,” “Bird on the Wire” and “So Long, Marianne.”.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Kitchen Spices Tuesday</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen” drew its best ratings ever on Tuesday as 12.4 million viewers tuned in to the competitive cooking show at 9 p.m., Nielsen estimated. The series attracted the night’s second highest ratings among adults 18 to 49, trailing only Fox’s “American Idol,” which dominated the 8 p.m. hour with 24 million viewers. Fox easily led the night over all, while CBS took second place thanks largely to “NCIS” at 8 (14.7 million). CBS remained solid the rest of the night with “Shark” at 9 (10.2 million) and a rerun of “Criminal Minds” at 10 (8.3 million). ABC was third. Despite outpacing “Hell’s Kitchen” during the 9 p.m. hour in total viewers with “Dancing With the Stars” (16.6 million), ABC struggled at 8 with two episodes of “According to Jim,” which together averaged 4.4 million viewers. At 10 ABC’s “Women’s Murder Club” garnered 8.5 million viewers, well short of the season finale of NBC’s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” in the hour (11.3 million). NBC finished fourth for the night over all.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Footnote</title>
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<description><![CDATA[“The Real World: Brooklyn” may sound redundant, but MTV has approved plans to start production of a Brooklyn edition of its “Real World” reality series in which seven young strangers live together as the cameras roll. MTV said it had ordered 12 episodes of the show, which is scheduled to run in the first quarter of 2009.    
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<title>Worshipping Walt</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For some devoted readers in the late nineteenth century, Walt Whitman was a &#8220;man magnified to the dimensions of a god,&#8221; and &#8220;Leaves of Grass&#8221; a divinely inspired gospel. In a series of entertaining and acutely observed biographies of the &#8220;Whitman disciples,&#8221; Robertson situates their fervor in a complex religious&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Unquiet Life</title>
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<description><![CDATA[David Owen (Tim Robbins), the outraged hero of &#8220;Noise,&#8221; is a pain in the neck, and, depending on your point of view, either the craziest or the sanest man in New York. Making love one night to his wife, Helen (Bridget Moynahan), David is interrupted and unmanned by the Klaxon&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>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.   
           
          
        THE BULLY PULPIT 
         Michael O. Smith wrote and stars in this one-man show about Teddy Roosevelt. Byam Stevens directs. Opens May 14. (Beckett, 410 W. 42nd St. 212-279-4200.)  
          
        LA FEMME EST MORTE&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Last Bite</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In his &#8220;Essay on the Principle of Population,&#8221; of 1798, the English parson Thomas Malthus insisted that human populations would always be &#8220;checked&#8221; (a polite word for mass starvation) by the failure of food supplies to keep pace with population growth. For a long time, it looked as if what&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Invention of Everything Else</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/05/19/080519crbn_brieflynoted1</link>
<description><![CDATA[In this surreal historical novel, the aged and forgotten scientist Nikola Tesla is eking out his last days at the Hotel New Yorker in 1943, communing with pigeons and the ghost of Mark Twain. His ruminations on his career (he was exploited by Edison, cheated by Marconi) and on an&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Staying Power</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Old 97&#8217;s have been occupying a valuable sliver near the border of alternative country and power pop for the better part of a decade. With their last record, &#8220;Drag It Up,&#8221; in 2004, it seemed as though they might move. Dark and sometimes muted, it found the band&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Show People</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall&#8221; is the photographer Amy Arbus&#8217;s fourth book of pictures, and it is her masterpiece. Taken over the course of three years, the images are of actors acting, but they are not onstage. Arbus has posed her subjects backstage, or outside, near the theatres where they are set&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Rite of Spring</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Miller Theatre&#8217;s Stravinsky Festival, a five-concert tribute to the undefeated champion of musical modernism, began with a witty and touching conceit that captured the composer&#8217;s impish spirit. At first glance, the opening concert, which took place at the Morgan Library, seemed to be an odd m&#233;lange of Stravinsky, early&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Reasonable Doubt</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On April 25, three New York City detectives were acquitted on all charges in the shooting death of Sean Bell, an unarmed man whose car was fired at fifty times in the early hours of November 25, 2006. The shock of the acquittal was felt throughout the African-American community&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Readings and Talks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE EDGY MOTHERS READING&#8221; 
         The writers Lenore Skenazy, Louise Crawford, Amy Sohn, Louise Sloan, Christen Clifford, Michele Madigan Somerville, and Sophia Romero share their jagged takes on motherhood. (The Montauk Club, 25 Eighth Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn. No tickets necessary. For more information, call 718-638-0800. May 15 at 7.)  
          
        &#8220;LOST&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Pipe Dreams</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Cluny Brown,&#8221; Ernst Lubitsch&#8217;s last movie, is a satire of British manners that skitters along the border of complete absurdity. Jennifer Jones plays a luminously beautiful orphan girl--a plumber&#8217;s niece who likes to unclog drains. She falls into the hands of an upperclass family in the English countryside (the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>On the Horizon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MOVIES  
        ALL ABOUT YVES  
        June 3-July 22  
        Ivo Livi was born to peasants in the Italian province of Pistoia and grew up in Marseilles, where he worked in a barbershop and on the docks. In his early twenties, he was discovered by Edith Piaf and transformed into Yves Montand&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>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)--May 15: The blues singer and B. B. King associate Bobby (Blue) Bland. May 17: The R. &#38; B. stalwart Keith&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Movies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OPENING   
          
        THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN 
         Andrew Adamson directed this adaptation of C. S. Lewis&#8217;s fantasy, about four siblings who must help a young prince fight for the throne in a legendary realm. Opening May 16. (In wide release.)  
          
        MY FATHER MY LORD 
         Reviewed below in Now Playing. In&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Idolatry</title>
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<description><![CDATA[At a time when radio has lost relevance, and many fans have settled on niches that are reinforced on the Web every twenty minutes with updates and free music, &#8220;American Idol&#8221; offers a recurring event that almost everybody talks about at almost the same time. Every Tuesday and Wednesday, the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Factory of Tears</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Everything is from shit. Absolutely everything,&#8221; Mort writes in her d&#233;but American publication. &#8220;The thing is that there is good shit and bad shit.&#8221; It&#8217;s a difficult point to dispute in this argumentative collection. Mort, a young Belarusian poet living in America, strives to be an envoy for her native&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Diehards</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s let Marlene, the diehard Thatcherite in Caryl Churchill&#8217;s 1982 play &#8220;Top Girls&#8221; (revived at the Biltmore, under the direction of James Macdonald), make the introductions to the imaginary dinner party she throws to congratulate herself on having been appointed managing director of a female employment agency--a fabulous feminist&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Dance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK CITY BALLET 
         Jerome Robbins&#8217;s musical tastes have been neatly packaged into two programs this week, one an all-Russian evening of light Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev works leading up to the dramatic Stravinsky neo-folk ballet &#8220;Les Noces&#8221; and the other a French-accented evening, all Ravel and Debussy&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Classical Music</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OPERA  
          
        METROPOLITAN OPERA 
         The Met&#8217;s final week of performances mixes new productions with returning favorites. Tan Dun&#8217;s &#8220;The First Emperor,&#8221; a Met commission from last season, sold out its run, with a larger than usual Asian audience. But critics were not always kind, noting, among other problems, the difficulty of&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Art</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES  
          
        METROPOLITAN MUSEUM 
         Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--&#8220;Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum.&#8221; Opens May 20. |  &#8220;Gustave Courbet.&#8221; Through May 18. |  &#8220;Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy.&#8221; Through Sept. 1. |  &#8220;Jeff Koons on the Roof.&#8221; Through Oct. 26. |  &#8220;Tiepolo Drawings from the Robert Lehman&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Above and Beyond</title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE REJECTION SHOW&#8221; 
         The series that makes gold from the dross of the city&#8217;s cultural industry by offering comedians, writers, and the like the chance to present work that has been passed over by television shows, magazines, and other established outlets moves to a new location, the comedy club Comix&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>AK47</title>
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<description><![CDATA[General Mikhail Kalashnikov, who invented the AK-47 at the dawn of the Cold War, when he was a sergeant in the Soviet Army, refers to the now ubiquitous gun as a golem--a mischievous creation that has escaped its creator&#8217;s control. He once wished out loud that he had&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Post Toastie</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Steve Brodner toasts Hillary Clinton.]]></description>
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<title>Yentl Illness</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A musical about a chain-smoker with the power of reincarnation: what are the chances of remaking that nowadays? Few movies feel more comically rooted in their era than Vincente Minnelli&#8217;s bizarre extravaganza of 1970, &#8220;On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,&#8221; screening May 9 at the Rubin Museum&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Wild Gift</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Matt Wolf&#8217;s documentary, &#8220;Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell,&#8221; reconstructs the emergence and all too quick dissolve of the musician and composer, who died of AIDS in 1992--as well as the rise and fall of the downtown New York community that nurtured him. A young man from Oskaloosa&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>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.   
           
          
        BABYLOVE 
         Christen Clifford wrote and performs this one-woman show, about her experiences as a new mother. Julie Kramer directs the Hourglass Group production. Opens May 7. (45 Bleecker, 45 Bleecker St. 212-239-6200&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Outer Edge</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Groovy is as groovy does, and by 1968 no American avant-garde troupe was more far out, hip, and dangerous than the Performance Group. Founded in 1967 by the ferociously gifted theatre director and scholar Richard Schechner, the Group was a precursor to the Wooster Group. (The late Spalding Gray&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Hebrew Republic</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/05/12/080512crbn_brieflynoted3</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Bush Administration&#8217;s fervent desire to broker a Middle East peace agreement before it leaves the stage, early next year, seems almost hopeless, given the fractures among the Palestinians, the heedless building of Israeli settlements, and the fact that the Administration itself ignored the problem for years. It is a&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Heatherwick Effect</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For the past few years, an office development tucked away overlooking an old canal behind Paddington Station, in London, has been attracting clusters of people who come to see a footbridge. Made of steel and wood, and crossing the water in eight short sections, the bridge looks ordinary, but, when&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Fight Back</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Up, Odets!!&#8221; Clifford Odets cheered himself on in his diary in 1940, not long before he decamped from New York for Hollywood. &#8220;Or is it down, down, sunk into the self?&#8221; he added. At the time of that diary entry, Odets was in his prime: widely acknowledged as the theatrical&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Readings and Talks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY 
         Werner Kleeman, a German native who was a teen-ager when Hitler came to power, in 1933, and who later emigrated to the United States and was drafted, reads from his memoir, &#8220;From Dachau to D-Day.&#8221; (15 W. 16th St. For reservations, which are required&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Planet Shanghai</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing how much you can accomplish in Shanghai while wearing pajamas. In recent years, Shanghai newspapers have worried that this sartorial habit will give the city a slovenly image, but it seems that many natives see little divide between public and private space. Justin Guariglia, an American photographer who&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Picture Windows</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Photographs of stained-glass art by Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke.]]></description>
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<title>Our Own Devices</title>
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<description><![CDATA[James Prescott Joule, whose findings led to the first law of thermodynamics, spent his honeymoon jury-rigging a thermometer to take a reading at the top and bottom of a waterfall where a lesser man might merely have canoodled. Joseph Henry shredded his wife&#8217;s silk petticoat to make insulation for&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>On the Horizon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MOVIES  
        WATCHING HAWKS  
        June 4-15  
        In his postwar films, Howard Hawks, whose career began in the silent era and ended in 1970, reworked his themes of sexual and generational combat in almost every genre: Western (including &#8220;Red River&#8221; and &#8220;Rio Bravo&#8221;), comedy (&#8220;Gentlemen Prefer Blondes&#8221; and &#8220;Man&#8217;s Favorite Sport?&#8221;), historical&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Night Life</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/nightlife/2008/05/12/080512goni_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)--May 7: The Electric Prunes, the psychedelic-era band best known for the single &#8220;I Had Too Much to Dream&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Movies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OPENING   
          
        THE BABYSITTERS 
         Reviewed below in Now Playing. Opening May 9. (Village East Cinemas.)  
          
        BATTLE FOR HADITHA 
         Nick Broomfield directed this fictional reconstruction of the massacre of Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines in 2005. In English and Arabic. Opening May 7. (Film Forum.)  
          
        BLOODLINE 
         A documentary about the Priory of&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Many-colored Glass</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2008/05/12/080512craw_artworld_schjeldahl</link>
<description><![CDATA[By the lights of many in the international art world, Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke are the leading painters of our day, though it&#8217;s hard to find anyone who will declare them equally great. (I&#8217;m an exception.) Their careers are intertwined by biography and circumstance. Both are from the former&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>I Have To Ask</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/05/12/080512crbo_books_lemann</link>
<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama walked onto the set of &#8220;The View&#8221; a few weeks ago and sat down. It took a moment for the fluttering to die down. When it did, Barbara Walters turned to him and said, &#8220;We were just saying before you came out--maybe we shouldn&#8217;t say this, but&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Hardheaded Weather</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/05/12/080512crbn_brieflynoted2</link>
<description><![CDATA[This collection of both new and previously published poems showcases Eady&#8217;s enormous range as a chronicler of contemporary American life--class, race, family, gender, jazz and blues, and the distinctions between urban and rural environments all play a role in these impeccable lyrics. Eady&#8217;s plain-spoken, pragmatic voice is accessible&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Daughters of the North</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/05/12/080512crbn_brieflynoted1</link>
<description><![CDATA[In Hall&#8217;s unsettling third novel, a series of ecological and geopolitical disasters in Britain has caused all citizens to be herded into urban centers, where women are fitted with contraceptive coils. Hall&#8217;s work covers familiar fictive ground in imagining a dystopia in which women&#8217;s bodies have become the battleground for&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Dance</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/dance/2008/05/12/080512goda_GOAT_dance</link>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK CITY BALLET 
         As part of a Russian-inspired all-Robbins program, N.Y.C.B. is staging the seldom seen &#8220;Les Noces,&#8221; Robbins&#8217;s 1965 remake of Igor Stravinsky&#8217;s extraordinary expressionistic work from 1923, about a joyless peasant wedding. At its first performance this week, Tiler Peck and Adam Hendrickson will be&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Classical Music</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/classical/2008/05/12/080512gocl_GOAT_classical</link>
<description><![CDATA[Opera  
          
        METROPOLITAN OPERA 
         John Dexter&#8217;s cartoonish 1979 production of Mozart&#8217;s Turkish delight, &#8220;Die Entf&#252;hrung aus dem Serail,&#8221; uses cardboard-cutout sets and an endearing comic touch that, while pleasing, recalls an anodyne style of production outmoded at Peter Gelb&#8217;s vibrant new Met. Diana Damrau&#8217;s tawny, pliant soprano makes for a&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/2008/05/12/080512goar_GOAT_art</link>
<description><![CDATA[MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES   
          
        METROPOLITAN MUSEUM 
         Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--&#8220;Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions.&#8221; Through May 11. |  &#8220;Gustave Courbet.&#8221; Through May 18. |  &#8220;Super-heroes: Fashion and Fantasy.&#8221; Opens May 7. |  &#8220;Jeff Koons on the Roof.&#8221; Through Oct. 26. |  &#8220;Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium Since 1960.&#8221; Through&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Around the Bend</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/05/12/080512crci_cinema_lane</link>
<description><![CDATA[Gluttons for &#8220;Duck Soup&#8221; will remember the scene in which Groucho is faced with an official document. &#8220;Why, a four-year-old child could understand this report,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Run out and find me a four-year-old child.&#8221; My sentiments exactly, as I sat in a cathedral-size auditorium&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Above and Beyond</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/above/2008/05/12/080512goab_GOAT_above</link>
<description><![CDATA[BROOKLYN HEIGHTS HOUSE TOUR 
         The arrival of Robert Fulton&#8217;s steam ferry, in 1814, helped turn Brooklyn&#8217;s riverside farmland into one of the city&#8217;s most beautiful neighborhoods. Wealthy merchants drawn by the area&#8217;s sudden accessibility (one developer, Hezekiah Pierpont, described his property as &#8220;the nearest country retreat&#8221;) constructed elegant brownstone and&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Relative Strangers</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/05/05/080505crbo_books_updike</link>
<description><![CDATA[Andrew Sean Greer&#8217;s 2004 novel, &#8220;The Confessions of Max Tivoli,&#8221; quite brilliantly fulfilled the difficult task it set itself--to show the life of a man born old, who over the decades grows backward into infancy and, finally, nonexistence. This narrative feat had been attempted before, by Scott Fitzgerald and&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Orphans</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2008/05/05/080505crth_theatre_als</link>
<description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as naturalism in the theatre, merely degrees of stylization,&#8221; Edward Albee once observed. If nothing else, the musical version of John Waters&#8217;s 1990 film &#8220;Cry-Baby&#8221; (directed by Mark Brokaw, at the Marquis) is a lesson in careful, moderate style. Set in Baltimore in the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Medium Cool</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/05/05/080505gonb_GOAT_notebook_schjeldahl</link>
<description><![CDATA[A show of small, tidy canvases at the punctiliously hip New Museum designates Tomma Abts, the Turner Prize-winning German-English painter, who is forty years old, as the doyenne of a sudden fashion for good old abstract painting in newfangled guises. She&#8217;s pretty cool. Her one-of-a-kind&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Blood and Sand</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/05/05/080505crbo_books_remnick</link>
<description><![CDATA[For thirteen centuries, between 1200 B.C. and the second century A.D., the Jews lived in, and often ruled, the land of Israel. The population was clustered mainly in Judaea, Samaria, and Galilee. The Jews&#8217; dominion was long but not eternal. The Romans invaded and, after suppressing revolts in A.D. 66-73&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Creative writing for extraterrestrials</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A college class, funded by a NASA Space Grant Consortium, contemplates what to say to E.T.
  


   
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<title>One town uses the arts to revive after hurricane Katrina</title>
<link>http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/arts/~3/289708207/p20s01-ussc.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bay St. Louis, Miss., taps painters and the cultural community nationwide to become a rare post-Katrina success story. Why are residents yelling 'Stellaaaaaaa?'
      
  

   
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<title>Music transforms kids and towns in remote area of Bolivia</title>
<link>http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/arts/~3/288255715/p20s01-woam.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Inspired by a biannual baroque festival and the legacy of missionaries, young people join choirs and take up the violin and Vivaldi in parishes across the country's eastern lowlands.
  


   
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<title>Noteworthy: The best in recent kids&#x27; CDs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[From Brian Setzer's orchestral fun with classical music clichés to a Parents' Choice Award winner by Dr. Noize, these albums will delight young ears.
  


   
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<title>Noteworthy: A roundup of recent pop releases</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Neil Diamond sheds the schmaltz; Lenny Kravitz – inspired throwback or tired mimic?; Madonna delivers on dance; Santogold's belated debut.
  


   
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<title>Noteworthy: A roundup of recent jazz releases</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Former Coltrane pianist McCoy Tyner returns for an elegant romp, Bill Dixon's all-star orchestra explodes, and Nicole Mitchell does the unthinkable: make flute-led jazz a force to be reckoned with.
  


   
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<title>&#x27;The Fall&#x27;: Tarsem Singh&#x27;s take on a complex friendship</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some of the set pieces are ravishing, more often they're ravishingly clumsy.
  


   
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<title>&#x27;What Happens in Vegas&#x27;: Annoying, and incompetent</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Kutcher, Diaz comedy tries to get by on star power where none really exists.
  


   
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<title>&#x27;The Tracey Fragments&#x27;: Angst in a thousand shards</title>
<link>http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/arts/~3/286944821/p25s10-almo.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ellen Page comes through with a performance despite distracting directorial stylings.
      
  

   
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<title>&#x27;Speed Racer&#x27;: out of gas</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wachowski Brothers' movie tries for a family-values focus but veers into frenetic, sometimes cheesy effects.
  


   
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<title>The last &#x27;Parandero&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In Belize, musician Paul Nabor preserves an indigenous sound – and awaits a successor.
      
  

   
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<title>Beijing not alone when it comes to Olympic disputes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Controversy – from Black Power salutes to boycotts – is often what's remembered.
  


   
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<title>Cricket&#x27;s Indian revolution: fast play and more pay</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Indian Premier League is altering the game and pulling in the best players from around the world.
  


   
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<title>Kazakhstan seeks identity on the big screen</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Central Asian nation throws Borat a counterpunch.
      
  

   
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<title>Turbo-folk music is the sound of Serbia feeling sorry for itself</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A product of the criminal Milosevic era, its odd nostalgia is the soundtrack to a new wave of nationalism.
  


   
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<title>No escaping politics at L.A. exhibition of Mexican-American art</title>
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<description><![CDATA[LACMA's rare display of art post the Chicano movement stresses themes of illegal immigration and discrimination.
  


   
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<title>Theater: Many faces of Macbeth</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Shakespeare's 'Scottish Play' meets an array of modern interpretations.
  


   
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<title>Behind this month&#x27;s staging of a &#x27;lost&#x27; Shakespeare play</title>
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<description><![CDATA['Cardenio,' a seldom-staged work attributed by some to the Bard, opens May 10 in Cambridge, Mass.
      
  

   
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<title>A fight without finish</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In 'Redbelt,' David Mamet and jujitsu come together, and the result is a draw.
  


   
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<title>A entirely predictable farce</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Patrick Dempsey goes into charm overload in 'Made of Honor.'
  


   
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<title>An iron-clad hero lands with a thud</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A poignant performance by Robert Downey Jr. can't quite save 'Iron Man.'
      
  

   
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<title>A childhood tale with charm</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Authentic 'Son of Rambow' displays an understanding of what it's like to be a kid.
  


   
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<title>Back-to-basics biking movement takes hold in cities</title>
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<description><![CDATA['Fixie' riders, seeking adventure, dart through streets with bravura and no brakes.
  


   
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<title>Tubegazing: &#x27;Carrier&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[PBS's monumental 10-hour documentary about the USS Nimitz goes below decks during its recent deployment to the Gulf.
  


   
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<title>Zooey Deschanel has another day job: singer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The actress and M. Ward have formed a duo called She & Him that emulates the feel of 1960s music. Just don't call it a vanity project.
  


   
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<title>Theater: Rattlestick Playwrights Theater</title>
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<description><![CDATA[And intrigue bogs down Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Boeing-Boeing (By Michael Feingold)
  
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<title>Theater: Rafta, Rafta . . .</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In Bollywood cinema, censors have decreed that even kisses are too racy for the screen. Lovers must demonstrate their passion by way of torrid glances, fervent hand-holding, and frequent musical numbers. But Ayub Khan-Din's Rafta, Rafta . . ., produced by the New Group, is a play, not a film, and it takes place in Boulton, England, not Mumbai, so the young Anglo-Indian couple at its center should be free to canoodle as much as they choose. Yet . . . read more  (By Alexis Soloski)
  
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<title>Theater: The Unconquered</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Scottish play, but not that one (By Alexis Soloski)
  
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<title>Art: New York Schooled: Spring Art-School Exhibitions</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Art school has always been about stealing from your elders, then hacking your way through those influences to something of your own. For centuries, that meant copying master works and drawing from live models to discover new ways of depicting the human body's arching slabs of meat in perspective. But that was before Cubism fractured the body, Abstract Expressionism dispersed it, and Minimalism dispensed with it. Now all we've got is amorphous . . . read more  (By R.C. Baker)
  
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<title>Books: The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York</title>
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<description><![CDATA[They loved this dirty town (By Tom Robbins)
  
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<title>Books: Personal Days</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Have you prepared your 'layoff narrative' yet? (By Elizabeth Hand)
  
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