"Love Story" and Why We Cling to the Kennedy Myth
The new series about the romance between John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Carolyn Bessette is little more than a look-book"but its popularity is proof of the Kennedys' enduring allure.
The new series about the romance between John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Carolyn Bessette is little more than a look-book"but its popularity is proof of the Kennedys' enduring allure.
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Mark Rosenblatt's début play brings light, shadow, and humor to its portrait of a troubled writer.
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In "When the Museum Is Closed," Emi Yagi takes her study of female objectification to a new, literal extreme.
This year marks the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the nation's founding. The two hundredth wasn't exactly smooth sailing.
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The BBC spent resources politically castrating its awards-show broadcast that would have been better spent protecting vulnerable guests.
Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, the creators of the financial drama, explain what "finance bros" misunderstand about capitalism's allure.
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If you're on your phone: Clara and Desmond are spies, and they are meeting at a church in Paris. Their names, again, are Clara and Desmond, and they are spies.
The event's theme: Fugitives.