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As Alex Honnold observes, if he solos El Cap, it’s like winning a gold medal in the Olympics. But there’s no second or third place. If he fails, he dies.
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The Verona Quartet is certainly worth watching, above all for the intimate way in which they communicate with each other and with the audience.
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Steven Barkhimer’s mastery of the role’s physicality is the key to his expression of its villainy.
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Shange’s nervy mix of wordplay and in-your-face didacticism — of resilience in the face of hardship — is very much the empowering thing.
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Lost Laughs is an absorbing examination of the dark side of American celebrity.
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I’ve never run across music like this and never had even a platonic notion of what such a hybrid would sound like.
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Here we are more than a year into the tumultuous Trump era, and we have not seen a revival of angry punk or righteous folk.
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It’s hard to sit through these six masterpieces and not feel, for the moment, that life is really good.
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Del Toro creates a visually intriguing world, but the story’s premise is too farfetched to work.
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A devastating piece, given the recent mass murder in Parkland, Florida, but DeKalb Elementary unfolds with an almost eerie calm.
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Visual Arts Commentary: John Singer Sargent — A Particular Sort of Loner