Arts
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The Tiny Dancers Who Make ‘The Nutcracker’ Sparkle
“I think it’s one of the best costumes. It’s so furry and smooth and nice. But it’s also really hot.” Eleanor Murphy, left, 9. “I like throwing ...
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‘The Rat Trap’ Review: Together for Better, but Mostly for Worse
Sheila Brandreth and Keld Maxwell are in love and about to get married. She is a novelist and he is a playwright, both at the start of their ...
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Lars von Trier Had the Key to the End of ‘The Kingdom’ All Along
In the first two seasons of Lars von Trier’s haunted-hospital drama “The Kingdom,” hailed since the 1990s as Denmark’s “Twin Peaks,” von Trier ...
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‘White Noise’ Review: Toxic Events, Airborne and Domestic
Late in “White Noise,” after the ecological disaster known as the “airborne toxic event,” on the heels of a professional triumph, and in the ...
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‘Devotion’ Review: An Airman in Reflection
“Devotion,” directed by J.D. Dillard, recounts the landmark career of Ensign Jesse L. Brown, the son of a Mississippi sharecropper who became the ...
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A Nick Cave Survey With Plenty of Bells but No Whistles
In 1992, when Nick Cave made his first soundsuit, the ornate, full-body garments for which he is best known, it was his response to the beating ...
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Review: In ‘The Hours,’ Prima Donnas and Emotions Soar
“The Hours” — a new opera based on the 1998 novel and the 2002 film it inspired — features a redoubtable trio of prima donnas. And it was ...
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The Soaring Legacy of Pablo Milanés
Pablo Milanés, who died in Madrid this week at 79, left behind a body of work that was deeply personal even as he navigated one of the 20th ...
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Black Can Be Even More Beautiful
To say “Black is beautiful” now, in certain areas of the country, is to state the obvious. In other places it may sound like a deliberately ...
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‘The Swimmers’ Review: Overcoming the Greatest Challenges
In most movies, an emotional triumph at the Olympics would be the principal goal for a protagonist. In “The Swimmers,” it’s more of a secondary ...