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His tragedies outweighed his infidelity.

"The Doctor': Julius Erving, beyond the hype

Flying a little too high

Julius Erving was once a great basketball player, role model and family man. In retrospect, he benefitted from the contrast between his relatively clean self and the coke-snorting brothers who were despoiling professional basketball's image before he came along.

Robert Liss

Articles 4 minute read
Is history science or literature?

John Lukacs's 'History and the Human Condition'

A pragmatic Cold Warrior's last hurrah

Was World War II necessary? How about the Cold War? History and the Human Condition places the historian John Lukacs squarely in the humanist tradition of the public commentator who invites us to reflect on the values of a shared past, unlike the trendy and sometimes trivial work that characterizes too much of his profession today.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 8 minute read
Amy Aldridge, Hussey: Feast for the mind and the senses. (Photo: Candice DeTore.)

Pennsylvania Ballet: Forsythe and Kylián

Rising to the occasion

Innovative works by William Forsythe and JiÅ™í Kylián revealed the strengths of an outstanding company of dancers who should be offered more such challenging choreography, as well as an audience equally willing to be challenged.
Jonathan M. Stein

Jonathan M. Stein

Articles 5 minute read
What are all those foreigners doing in this typical American town?

Ten questions about 'Man of Steel'

Maybe they should call it Brains of Steel

You don't need Superman's X-ray vision to spot the logical holes in his latest film.
Alaina Johns

Alaina Johns

Articles 3 minute read

What I learned from "Rocky Horror'

A would-be faggot comes of age: How Rocky Horror changed my life

I wasn't gay in high school, but I was a freak— and The Rocky Horror Picture Show endowed my circle of freaks with a transcendent sense of our value. Or was it the other way around?
Lance Manion

Lance Manion

Articles 5 minute read
Schuman: Too much money, too many men.

"Powder Her Face' at the Perelman

Was she the top, or the bottom?

The scandalous and subsequently pathetic life of the sexually voracious socialite Margaret Campbell makes a surprisingly clever and intriguing opera.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 4 minute read
Manet's 'Olympia' (1863): For paying customers only.

"Manet: Return to Venice'

Manet's Italian connection

Edouard Manet travelled to Venice three times in his short lifetime. This unique exhibition shows how Italian Renaissance artists influenced a father of modern art.

Anne R. Fabbri

Articles 3 minute read
So THAT's what the song was about!

A horse with no name? Why not?

Toto, I have a funny feeling we're not in 1972 any more

The counterculture had its pop music euphemisms, wink wink. God help the clueless among us who never quite understood what “horse,” “white rabbit” or “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” stood for.
Kile Smith

Kile Smith

Articles 2 minute read
Brigati, Danelli, Cornish, Cavalieri: More than nostalgia.

Rascals reunion at the Academy of Music

Nostalgia yes, romance no

The Rascals, who haven't played together since the '70s, demonstrated that they're still a good band. But why are virtually all Broadway shows these days allergic to tender love songs?
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 2 minute read
World War I fantasy: Blacks whip Huns, to Lincoln's delight.

'Black Bodies in Propaganda' at the Penn Museum

Can you spell ‘exploitation'?

In America as elsewhere, black people were usually segregated if not invisible. But when they were needed to fight wars, a new exhibit demonstrates, propagandists were only too eager to attract them.
Alaina Johns

Alaina Johns

Articles 5 minute read