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Patt Morrison Asks: The poet, W.S. Merwin
An Idaho resort hotel's verdure is not the wild tumble around W.S. Merwin's beloved Hawaiian home, but disciplined grass and orderly stands of trees. Not, perhaps, the sort of trees Merwin had in mind when he wrote, "On the last day of the world I would...Tags: Genesis (music group), Human Interest, Biology, Dog (animal), Ted Hughes
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Jackson residents reflect on relations beyond 'The Help' lens
On a recent steamy Saturday evening, 11 members of Deborah Rae Wright's book club — black, white, Indian and Jewish women — gathered in her meticulously restored Craftsman home on the rundown west side of the Mississippi capital. The topic was...Tags: Laws, Clubs and Associations, Politics, African Americans, Human Interest
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Fall Sneaks list
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All's Faire in Love
A college football star has to make up for his many absences by working at a Renaissance fair, where he falls for an aspiring actress. With Christina Ricci, Owen Benjamin, Cedric the Entertainer and Matthew Lillard. Written...Tags: Jackie Chan, Abigail Breslin, Football, Maxwell, Refugee
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Movie review: 'Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life'
Unconventional, imaginative, nothing if not audacious, "Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life" is a portrait of creativity from the inside, a serious yet playful attempt to find an artistic way to tell an emotional truth.
"Heroic" may seem like an odd word to attach...Tags: Paris (France), Human Interest, Boris (music group), Music Industry, Judaism
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Critic's Notebook: 9/11-related TV programs to watch
The 10th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon arrives a week from Sunday — I don't think I need to tell you the date — and as might be expected, television is all over it. Our decimal culture encourages comment,...Tags: Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), CNN (tv network), Rudy Giuliani, Suze Orman, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Critic's notebook: Skyscrapers remain powerful symbols, post 9/11
Any skyscraper is a contradiction.
The tall tower is architecture's most famous building type and also the one most clearly at odds with the profession's roots. Fundamentally, architecture is shelter, a concession that we're afraid to face the elements...Tags: Architecture, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Empire State Building, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP, Anxiety
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Vann Nath dies at 66; Cambodian painter survived torture in prison
Vann Nath, whose talent as an artist helped him survive Cambodia's most notorious prison during the Khmer Rouge's reign of terror in the 1970s and whose later paintings bore witness to the prison's many horrors, has died. He was 66.
Vann Nath, who...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Pol Pot, U.S. Department of State, Prisons, Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
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Architect's vision takes shape in Sept. 11 memorial
The burly construction workers ignore the lanky man as he dips beneath steel beams, plods through muddy puddles and inches his way past the spinning barrel of a cement mixer. In his neat jeans, button-down shirt and leather brogues, he clearly is not...Tags: Politics, Human Interest, Housing and Urban Planning, Machine Manufacturing, Tourism and Leisure
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