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For those averse to sports, The English Game is focused more on attitudes and mores of the time than on the game itself.
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This is a love letter, told honestly and poignantly, to the Vietnamese people, an homage to their dedication to remembrance, during and after a painful time.
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Sigma Oasis is one of Phish’s better albums since the group reunited in 2009 after a five-year breakup.
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Many of the qualities that mark Penderecki’s best work – exquisite technique, an innate feel for rhythmic athleticism, an ear for dazzling colors and theatrical gestures, an impeccable sense of musical structure, and the affinity for emotional immediacy – are also hallmarks of Rouse’s.
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Shakespeare’s role in American history is not immediately apparent — at least it wasn’t to me. Part of the considerable pleasure of reading this book is seeing how James Shapiro draws the connections.
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I’d have to give the edge to Dave Liebman in terms of innovative creative reach. But Lakecia Benjamin more than holds her own in how she gives re-vitalizing attention to some very important musical roots.
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Childish Gambino is hamstrung by ambition, but 3.15.20 still contains a bevy of enjoyable songs, including one or two tracks that brush against brilliance.
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August is funny in a way — over time its small scale rhythms and monosyllabic reactions generate a comforting beauty that settles in.
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The pace of this superb mini-series is keyed to generating intimacy with the characters and their struggles.
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Cultural Commentary: Songs of Forgetting – From the Cultural Quarantine of the 1918 Flu Pandemic
At a time when fear of the influenza was in danger of being deemed unpatriotic, art retreated to nationalism or escapism.
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