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The debate over Gwyneth Paltrow's leggy look
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticIn last week's Fashion Diary column, I wrote about the wardrobe choices of Gwyneth Paltrow during her recent publicity tour through L.A., when she appeared at events promoting her new cookbook and personal trainer Tracy Anderson's new fitness studio....Tags: Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man 3 (movie), Stella McCartney, Erdem, Band of Outsiders
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Uncertainty around Kent Nagano's tenure at Montreal Symphony
Kent Nagano's tenure at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra appears uncertain following reports that the American conductor will depart the orchestra when his current contract as music director expires in 2016. But the orchestra's management has vigorously...
Tags: Sweden, Arts and Culture, Culture, Music, Entertainment
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Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist dies; Hitler assassination plotter
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, the last known surviving member of the German resistance group that tried unsuccessfully to assassinate Adolf Hitler during World War II, has died. He was 90. He died Friday at his home in Munich, his wife, Gundula von Kleist,...
Tags: Conservative Party (UK), Assassinations, Book, Germany, Armed Forces
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A Wagner 'Ring' that's sustainably powered
MUNICH, Germany — Wagner's "The Ring of Nibelung" is no picnic. The epic four-evening mythic drama is the macho challenge with which operas prove themselves. It practically did in Los Angeles Opera when the company finally got around to mounting...
Tags: Apocalypse Now (movie), Arts and Culture, Culture, Human Interest, Festive Events
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'Lincoln' writer Tony Kushner on working with Steven Spielberg
Tony Kushner had a decade's worth of plays behind him when his epic two-part masterpiece, "Angels in America," exploded in the mainstream in 1992, going on to win the Pulitzer Prize, two best play Tonys and a clutch of other stage awards. In adapting...
Tags: Steven Spielberg, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Daniel Craig, Religion and Belief, Entertainment
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2012 another bad year for U.S. disasters, and it may get worse
Tornadoes and wildfires. Droughts and hurricanes. The United States saw almost every sort of calamity this year as 11 billion-dollar natural disasters struck the country. Superstorm Sandy hit New York, ruined parts of the New Jersey coast and closed the...
Tags: Natural Disasters, Stock Market, Mountains, Disasters and Accidents, Ecosystems
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Free-speech advocates worldwide protest Russian punk band's sentence
World NowFrom Paris to Hollywood, free-speech advocates reacted with outrage Friday at the two-year prison sentences handed down by a Russian court against the feminist punk-rock trio Pussy Riot for a protest stunt in a Moscow cathedral against President... -
Gustavo Dudamel, Kent Nagano in leadership change at Gothenburg
Conducting titles at the world's top orchestras are often convoluted and mystifying. In the case of Sweden's Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, a newly announced leadership change is baffling even by classical standards. For five years, Gustavo Dudamel has...
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Teofilo Stevenson dies at 60; Cuban boxer was three-time Olympic heavyweight champ
Cuban boxer Teofilo Stevenson, the three-time Olympic heavyweight champion with a devastating right hand and a gentlemanly demeanor, died Monday. He was 60.
"The Cuban sporting family was moved today by the passing of one of the greatest of all time,"...Tags: Moscow (Russia), Heart Disease, Sports Illustrated, Cuba, Muhammad Ali
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U.K. military at Olympics outnumber U.K. troops in Afghanistan
The Summer Olympic Games in London kick off today with the opening ceremony extravaganza, march of athletes, lighting of the flame and security and surveillance so pervasive it would make Britain’s great prophet of dystopia, George Orwell, cringe in...
Tags: Summer Olympics, Afghanistan, United Kingdom, Olympic Flame Lighting Ceremony, Armed Forces
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Horst Faas dies at 79; Pulitzer Prize-winning combat photographer
As chief of photo operations for the Associated Press in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Horst Faas didn't just cover the fighting — he also recruited and trained new talent from among foreign and Vietnamese freelancers. The result was...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Photography, Arts and Culture, Wars and Interventions, International Military Interventions
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In the Abstract
LA Times MagazineThe genius of Ellsworth Kelly on display in Los Angeles not once but twice...
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