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Sam Tanenhaus: Populism, politics, and the power of Sarah Palin.
The last time the publication of a political memoir aroused as much interest as Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue: An American Life” (Harper; $28.99) was probably in 1995, when Colin Powell’s autobiography, “My American ...
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Nicholas Lemann: A newspaper legend recalls his ascent.
Twenty-five years ago, Harold Evans published a memoir called “Good Times, Bad Times,” which told about the fourteen years he spent as the editor of the London Sunday Times, and about losing his job after Rupert Murdoch bought the paper. ...
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Joan Acocella: Bill T. Jones brings "Fela!" to Broadway.
8220;Fela!,” the musical, directed by Bill T. Jones, that opened Off Broadway last year and just reopened, at the Eugene O’Neill, begins with Fela Kuti, the father of Afrobeat and, in the nineteen-seventies, one of the most popular ...
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Hilton Als: True Grit
The director-choreographer Michael Bennett was forty-four when he died, from AIDS-related lymphoma, in 1987. He was raised in Buffalo, the son of a working-class Jewish mother and Italian father. To say that he was filled with moxie from an early age ...
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Goings on About Town: The Theatre
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OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS
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BRIEF ENCOUNTER
The Cornwall-based Kneehigh Company presents Noël Coward’s play about an affair ...
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Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks
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The chefs David Chang and Mario Batali and the writer Peter Meehan talk about cookbooks and restaurants. (Broadway at 12th St. Dec. 2 at 7.)
JOHN ASHBERY READINGS
The poet reads from his forthcoming collection, ...
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Goings on About Town: On the Horizon
DANCE
HAIR TRIGGER
Dec. 9-12
The Australian dance troupe Chunky Move is known for its cutting-edge multimedia experiments. In “Mortal Engine,” at BAM, the dancers’ movements on a steeply raked platform control green lasers and ...
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Goings on About Town: Night Life
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ROCK AND POP
Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it’s advisable to call ahead to confirm engagements.
THE BELL HOUSE
149 7th St., between Second and Third Aves., Brooklyn (718-643-6510)—Dec. ...
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Goings on About Town: New-Time Religion
paragraph class="noindent">Until the crisis of modernism blew up the bridge that connected classical music and middle-class taste, a composer was expected to have a modicum of religious music in his catalogue; even the agnostic Brahms had his motets ...
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Goings on About Town: Movies
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OPENING
BIG RIVER MAN
A documentary, directed by John Maringouin, about Martin Strel, an endurance swimmer from Slovenia who attempts to swim the length of the Amazon. Opening Dec. 4. (In limited release.)
BROTHERS
A young ...
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Goings on About Town: Dance
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Balanchine’s staging of “The Nutcracker” has been entertaining and delighting children (and adults) since its première, in 1954. It has also been a testing ground for young dancers in many ...
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Goings on About Town: Classical Music
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OPERA
METROPOLITAN OPERA
After Luc Bondy’s limp staging of “Tosca” flopped on opening night, the Met needed a solid hit, and it has one with Patrice Chéreau’s riveting yet humane production of ...
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Metropolitan Opera
Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Velázquez Rediscovered.” Through Feb. 7. | “The ‘Young Archer,’ Attributed to Michelangelo.” Ongoing. ...
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Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond
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The Debutante Hour, a lively female vocal trio whose members play the accordion, the cello, and the drums, needs money to record a new album, so they’re putting on a show, with performances by other bands, ...
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Books: "The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?"
This literary curiosity consists entirely of questions, vacillating between cocktail-party filler (“If you could see a large-animal trainer mauled in the middle of his or her show, perhaps even killed, would you prefer to see the mauling done by ...
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Books: "The Idea of Justice"
John Rawls’s “A Theory of Justice,” published in 1971, has cast a long shadow over modern political philosophy. Sen’s stimulating and eloquent new work is in some ways a commentary on Rawls, but its refinements give his ...
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Books: "The Good Soldiers"
Finkel’s sad and wonderful account of soldiers’ experiences of war follows the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry, which was thrown into one of Baghdad’s worst districts as part of the 2007 surge. The average age of its eight hundred ...
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Books: "The Book of Fathers"
Vámos’s novel chronicles a Hungarian family from 1705 until the present, as its members pass down their recollections of joy and hardship in the carefully preserved manuscript of the title. The novel proceeds via discrete episodes, each ...
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Anthony Lane: "Up in the Air."
For those of us who look to the skies, two major releases compel attention. They make the perfect couple. One is “Up in the Air,” the new film from Jason Reitman, who made “Thank You for Smoking” and “Juno.” The ...
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Andrea K. Scott: Earthly Delights
Carroll Dunham is working blue. That fact won’t shock fans of the painter—he arrived, in the eighties, with polymorphously perverse abstractions that gave way to a ribald world of phallus-faced men—but his new show at Gladstone just ...
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Alex Ross: Rough Magic
Of the reams of argumentative modernist music that circulated through American universities after the Second World War, most is destined to gather dust on the same library shelves that contain the bustling Brahmsian symphonies and tidy Stravinskyan ...
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Vince Aletti: Bright Eye
The photographer Bruce Davidson is having a well-deserved moment. At the age of seventy-six, he has two exhibitions running concurrently, and a new, three-volume survey of his fifty-year career. The range, dedication, and audacity of that career are ...
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John Lahr: Sarah Ruhl and "Finian's Rainbow" score.
In our pornographic age, it’s hard to imagine that there was a time when people were better acquainted with the continent of Africa than with their own bodies. Sarah Ruhl’s “In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play” (superbly ...
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John Galliano
James Wood: The novels of Paul Auster.
Roger Phaedo had not spoken to anyone for ten years. He confined himself to his Brooklyn apartment, obsessively translating and retranslating the same short passage from Rousseau’s “Confessions.” A decade earlier, a mobster named ...
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Letitia James
Goings on About Town: The Theatre
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OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS
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AMERICAN TREASURE
13P presents an avant-garde mystery thriller by Julia Jarcho, loosely based on the movie ...
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Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks
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Leading children’s-book authors, illustrators, and other related parties—including Jerry Pinkney, Leo and Diane Dillon, Art Spiegelman, Françoise Mouly, Charles Santore, Laura Cornell, Holly Hobbie, Brett ...
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Goings on About Town: On the Horizon
THE THEATRE
VOLCANIC FLOW
Dec. 3-13
Mike Daisey performs his latest monologue, “The Last Cargo Cult,” which looks at the financial crisis through the story of a people living at the base of the Mt. Yasur volcano, in the South Pacific. ...
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South Pacific
Goings on About Town: Night Life
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ROCK AND POP
Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it’s advisable to call ahead to confirm engagements.
THE BELL HOUSE
149 7th St., between Second and Third Aves., Brooklyn (718-643-6510)—Nov. ...
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Brooklyn
Goings on About Town: Movies
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OPENING
HOME
Ursula Meier directed this drama, starring Isabelle Huppert, about the disruption of a family’s life by the construction of a highway. Opening Nov. 27. (In limited release.)
ME AND ORSON WELLES
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Goings on About Town: Holiday Music-Classical
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There is hardly a more traditional way to experience the glories of George Frideric Handel’s “entertainment” on Christian themes than to hear the work performed by the St. Thomas Choir of Men and ...
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Christian Lacroix
Goings on About Town: Holiday Events
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This show has it all: high-kicking Rockettes, dancing toys, a live orchestra, ice skaters, 3-D visuals, fireworks, and even a donkey or two for the final scene, the climactic “Living ...
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Goings on About Town: Hand Dance
paragraph class="noindent">Mime, the hand dance that we sometimes see in ballets, has two functions: it looks beautiful—like the steps, it’s set to the music—and it advances the story. One of the loveliest (and longest) mime ...
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Goings on About Town: Frédéric Malle Boutique
paragraph class="noindent">“Fragrance is the most intimate thing you can buy,” Frédéric Malle, a suave Frenchman, said the other day, showing me around the newly opened Manhattan branch of his Paris-based company. ...
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Manhattan
Goings on About Town: Dance
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Where would the City Ballet be without its “Nutcracker”? Balanchine’s 1954 staging of this holiday classic, inspired by his memories of the Kirov production he knew as a child, has been entertaining ...
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Goings on About Town: Classical Music
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OPERA
METROPOLITAN OPERA
Jack O’Brien’s production of Puccini’s “Il Trittico,” a hit of the 2006-07 season, uses big sets and broad emotions (and some of the same singers) to make each of the three ...
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Metropolitan Opera
Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Velázquez Rediscovered.” Through Feb. 7. | “The ‘Young Archer,’ Attributed to Michelangelo.” Ongoing. ...
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Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond
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Manhattan’s one-ring wonder is back for the season. (Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center. For more information, visit www.bigapplecircus.org. Through Jan. 18.)
“WALK OFF THE TURKEY”
On the Saturday ...
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David Denby: "Me and Orson Welles" and "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans."
The lips are wrong. Well, at any rate, they’re different: thin and pursed rather than fleshy and cherubic. But Christian McKay, the thirty-six-year-old British actor who plays the young Orson Welles in “Me and Orson Welles,” has the ...
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Books: "Trotsky"
8220;I hate Trotsky!” Winston Churchill told the Soviet Ambassador in 1938. “It’s a very good thing that Stalin has got even with him.” Trotsky, even before one of Stalin’s agents found him in Mexico and assassinated him ...
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Books: "The Rags of Time"
In the final volume of Howard’s “Four Seasons” quartet, Mimi, a writer plagued by a heart complaint and an obsession with Central Park, visits the Park daily despite her ever-weakening condition. On these rambles, she encounters ...
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Books: "Enemies of the People"
Marton’s suspenseful memoir is the story of her parents, the Hungarian intellectuals Ilona and Endre Marton. Hailed as the last members of the independent press behind the Iron Curtain, the couple flouted the strictures of the repressive regime. ...
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Books: "Bicycle Diaries"
Since the nineteen-eighties, Byrne, the co-founder of the band Talking Heads, has been using a folding bicycle to get around the world’s major cities, and his new book is both a travelogue and a reflection on gentrifying urban landscapes. A ...
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Ben Greenman: Living Doll
David Johansen is best known as the lead singer and principal songwriter of the New York Dolls, the early-seventies punk pioneers, who have reunited recently for both albums and tours. When he’s with the Dolls, Johansen plays mostly fast and ...
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Peter Schjeldahl: "1969" at P.S. 1.
In 1969, we were very free. I turned twenty-seven—too old to be a hippie, after having been too young to pull off being a beatnik—and was so free as to be practically useless, writing just enough to finance days abed in a tiny Sullivan ...
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Paul Goldberger: Jean Nouvel and the art of the façade.
When you catch your first glimpse of 100 Eleventh Avenue, a new apartment tower in Chelsea designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel, its curving façade, an abstract arrangement of windows slanting in multiple directions, looks like a gimmick. ...
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Nancy Franklin: Fox News Channel's latest blowhard.
If you sensed something of a quiet spell about ten days ago, a lull in the usual media storm, it may have been owing to the fact that Glenn Beck, the energetically hateful, truth-twisting radio and Fox News Channel talk-show host, was absent from the ...
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Goings on About Town: Theatre
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Empirical evidence is mounting for the case that you can’t have a Broadway show these days without a marquee name attached. Scarlett Johansson, in her Broadway début, and Liev Schreiber star in Arthur ...
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Goings on About Town: The Theatre
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OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS
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THE AGE OF IRON
To kick off the Classic Stage Company season, Brian Kulick adapts and directs a mashup of ...
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Classic Stage Company
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Greil Marcus celebrates the twentieth anniversary of “A Secret History of the Twentieth Century” by elevating the notion of a lecture to a live performance. (Altschul Auditorium, ...
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Goings on About Town: Night Life
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Arlo Guthrie makes his annual pilgrimage to Carnegie Hall on Nov. 28 to revisit the Thanksgiving misadventures of his youth. He’ll be joined by his children and grandchildren. (212-247-7800.) | The “101.9 ...
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