Ken Burns’ new documentary series Jazz completes the trilogy that began with The Civil War and continued with Baseball. It…
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Filmed in 1998, this adroit BBC/WGBH-Boston production of William Shakespeare’s King Lear is of particular note for preserving Ian Holm’s…
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Playing With the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe (1995), Arthur Coleman Danto In 1989, the Corcoran Gallery, a…
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It’s a pity the new TNT miniseries "Nuremberg", adapted from Joseph Persico’s nonfiction novel, doesn’t sustain the queasy ambiguity of…
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Suggested reading: Money Matters: Consequences of Campaign Finance Reform in House Elections (1999), Robert K. Goidel The Money Chase: Congressional…
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Is it possible that anybody hasn’t heard the lyric: I knew a man Bojangles/And he danced for you/In worn out…
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Cervantes’ great (and voluminous) novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha, with its captivatingly eccentric hero, witty satire, and literate wisdom,…
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