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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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"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.
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"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.
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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.
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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?
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'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.
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