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Kids, Don’t Try This Cocktail! Buy Your Clutch at Bendel’s
J.D. Salinger liked to take the piss out of himself … literally. Margaret Salinger’s memoir of her father, Dream Catcher (published Sept. 6 by Pocket Books), catalogs many of reclusive J.D.’s...
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From Gandhi to Gangster … There’s Music in Them Thar Hills
From Gandhi to Gangster For a diverting, pulse-quickening antidote to the summer-trash explosion at the movies, check out Sexy Beast , a noirish psychological crime thriller that kicks the familiar...
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Who Invented Terrorism? Does ‘Sherman’ Ring a Bell?
After terror comes fear, hysteria and loss of the power to think straight. Thus we have the influential New York Times writer, Thomas L. Friedman, informing his frightened and confused readers that the...
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Nonviolence at the Met; A Boldface Crowd at Zankel Hall
Compared to the publicity blowout that preceded the season-opening production of Lucia di Lammermoor—a wild-eyed Natalie Dessay plastered over dozens of city buses—the Metropolitan Opera’s promotion of...
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Raise Your Glass! Gandhi's Opera, Satyagraha, Returns to the Met
Tenor Richard Croft (left) as Gandhi In the 12 years after Philip Glass first worked with sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar in 1965, the composer frequently traveled to India, becoming fascinated with...
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Philip Glass Will Join 'Occupy Lincoln Center' on Thursday
Philip Glass (Photo courtesy of Getty Images) The organizers of the Occupy Wall Street protests will hold a General Assembly at Lincoln Center on Thursday to protest the cultural hub’s corporate...
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Former UN Staffer: It’s Imperative US Cuts Ties With United Nations
When Americans allow their income tax to pay the salaries of corrupt UN staff, we are assisting crimes against humanity.
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Demolition Goes Global: Gandhi, Lord Nelson and Lenin Statues Face the Chop
American debate leads other countries to rethink out of fashion monuments.
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