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• There’s A Brouhaha In Tokyo Over Zaha Hadid’s Stadium Design

  04-01-2015 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The debate illustrates how Olympic stadiums engender more passion than almost any other buildings, and how the massive, expensive public projects become potent symbols of architectural prowess and economic pride — structures in which countries invest nothing less than their national identities.”
  
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• Medical Reality TV Shows Are Filming People’s Deaths Without Their Families’ Consent

  04-01-2015 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Patients caught up in emergencies are especially vulnerable, posing special issues for reality shows. They may not be conscious or be able to speak for themselves; they may be quite literally exposed, as caregivers work to help them.”
  
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• The Oscars Want Small Intimate Movies … That Make A Lot Of Money

  04-01-2015 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘The movie that’s on fire right now is Selma,’ Karger said. ‘A $900,000 opening on only 19 screens is huge.'”
  
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• When You Write A Book Of Personal Essays And Everyone Loves It, What’s Left To Say?

  04-01-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We’re fundamentally attached to the redemption narrative: I was lost but now I’m found, I sinned but now I’m saved, I made lemonade from lemons, and so on. But the question I ask in different ways throughout the book is what happens when or if you don’t come out of a tough situation a better […]
  
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• Music Downloads Plummet As Streaming And Vinyl Surge

  04-01-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Vinyl sales of 9.2 million might be up 52 percent from 2013, but that can’t offset a huge drop in album and individual song download sales.
  
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• Libraries Need To Innovate With A Lot More Than Coffee (Though Coffee’s A Good Start)

  04-01-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Despite massive cuts to budgets and opening hours over the past few years, a third of the population uses libraries (50% in poorer areas). A fifth of people still don’t have the internet at home and more still don’t know how to use it.”
  
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• Singing The ‘Winterreise’ With Bob Dylan And Billie Holiday In Mind

  04-01-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Classical song and popular song should not be so far apart: they share a lot in their subject matter and in their aesthetic of intimacy. Mostly, however, the influence has to be a subliminal one, for only then can it avoid self-consciousness or a certain archness.
  
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• Do People Who Love Tolkien Have A Deep-Seated Hatred For Democracy?

  04-01-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Moorcock’s literary agitation shook the fantasy and science-fiction establishment and made it possible for writers to step outside the long shadow of Tolkien and other fantasy devices.”
  
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• Transforming A Thomas Pynchon Book For The Silver Screen

  04-01-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s not a question of homage but of throwing absolutely everything into the mix for processing, every stray particle of a commonly shared culture—every joke good or bad that you ever heard, every commercial you couldn’t escape from, every sex fantasy or tabloid crime story that inhabited your dreams, every tag line dredged up from […]
  
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• New Book Collection Brings A Dizzying Array Of Indian Classical Literature To The Masses

  04-01-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While the canon of surviving Greek and Roman classics is fairly small, the literature of India’s multiple classical languages includes thousands upon thousands of texts, many of which, as the writer William Dalrymple recently noted, exist only in manuscripts that are decaying before they can be translated or even cataloged.”
  
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• The American Version Of The DVD For ‘Pride’ Removes References To The LGBT Main Characters

  04-01-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The image on the back of DVD cover has also apparently been digitally altered to exclude a banner in the background, which reads ‘Lesbians & Gays support the miners.'”
  
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• Power Cut Sends West End Casts Walking Into London In Their Costumes

  04-01-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “More than 1,000 people watching Les Miserables and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time were evacuated on to the streets.”
  
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• Film Critics Name Godard’s Latest (A ‘3D Extravaganza’) The Best Film Of The Year

  04-01-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In honoring the French New Wave icon’s 39th feature, a densely layered 69-minute fantasia on the ongoing evolution of language, history, coupledom and cinema, the Society went decidedly against the grain in a season that has largely favored ‘Boyhood.'”
  
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• Writers Are Suddenly Moving Back And Forth Between TV And Theatre

  04-01-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For hungry playwrights, TV presents financial offers difficult to refuse, and the medium grows more prestigious and creative every year. And for TV writers used to the difficulties of collaborating on a script, the theater offers them a chance to have the final say on their own words.”
  
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• How Much Should Musicians Suffer Before They Attempt Beethoven?

  04-01-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I don’t take life for granted, and I don’t know if I will be alive in five years. As far as I know, no composer wrote on their score, ‘Forbidden to those under age 18.'”
  
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• London Architects Working Against The Skyscraper – And Toward A Parisian Version Of The Capital

  04-01-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Working from offices wallpapered with copies of the Times from 1957 in the picturesque historic town of Dedham, they are the antithesis of their modernist rivals in central London studios. But their latest scheme confirms them as a spearhead of a growing movement for an alternative urbanism.”
  
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• The Dance World’s Quiet Revolution

  04-01-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This is an extraordinary time in the dance world, when five of the greatest ballerinas of our time, from leading American ballet companies, have, coincidentally, all announced their retirement within months of each other.”
  
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• What Large-Scale Puppets (And Theatre That’s For Fun) Mean To Audiences

  04-01-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Over time, I’ve narrowed it down or finessed it to: A puppet is an inanimate object that’s manipulated in such a way that an audience believes it is alive and thinking.”
  
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• Christo May Get His Arkansas River Project After All

  04-01-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Members of Rags Over the Arkansas River, also known as Roar, filed the lawsuit, contending the project threatens bighorn sheep, public safety, traffic on US 50 and businesses that depend on the scenic river.”
  
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• China’s design culture to benefit from the Bauhaus

  04-01-2015 13:24
  
  Leading university builds museum and institute aiming to inspire innovation
  
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• Cold Stop

  04-01-2015 03:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dan and Mary look at each other through the thick window pane. They talk to each other through an intercom. She wants to scream at him. “You said that you were out of that for good.” “Listen,” Dan says. “I just thought we could use a quick fit in our pockets.” “But, everything was ready, ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• PM demurs over portrait: David Cameron has yet to sit for an official painting for the Parliamentary Art Collection

  04-01-2015 01:00
  
  When David Cameron leaves Downing Street for the last time his face probably won't be quickly forgotten by the British public; but it might not be remembered too well by future generations because, in a break from tradition, he has yet to sit for an official portrait for the Parliamentary Art Collection.
  
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• Japanese photographer Shin Noguchi presents his country's culture with beauty and humanism

  04-01-2015 01:00
  
  Shin Noguchi has been documenting his native Japan for more than a decade, capturing unusual events and remarkable instances throughout its cities. Now based in Tokyo and Kamakur, 30 miles to the south-west of the capital, the 38-year-old was first attracted to street photography after reading A l'est de Magnum 1945-1990, about the renowned photographic agency, as a teen.
  
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