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The Out-Laws is another mild diversion spat out of Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison factory.
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The acts of reinvention in “Mission: Impossible–Dead Reckoning Part One” are revelatory, object lessons for how all future summer sequels can be written.
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“The Lesson” is well-crafted, infused with nervy suspense and an almost Gothic sense of unease.
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Bohuslav Martinů, one of the greatest Czech-born composers, reveals a dark-comic sensibility in his rarely performed “Knife” and “Bridge” operas.
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“The Horror of Dolores Roach” is a captivating mixture of horror, suspense, and comedy that proves we haven’t come all that far from the class-fueled injustices of Victorian England.
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“Lynch/Oz” roams from The Yellow Brick Road to “Mulholland Drive”.
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This week’s poem — an excerpt from Edmund Berrigan’s “Things to do on the Lower East Side in the late 70s and 80s.”
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer eludes easy categorization, but Henry Threadgill’s new memoir — and his latest recording — take a step in defining his singular artistic personality.
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The clarity and focus of Ron Carter’s bass is exemplary here, as is the balance with Richard Galliano’s accordion.
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Book Review: Placing University Branding Irons in the Critical Fire
Any reader curious about the multifarious and complex relations between academic values and branding will find much to mull over in these essays.
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