Новости за 12.12.2016

On January 25, 2009, a jubilant Meryl Streep stood before a gala crowd at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, in Los Angeles, having just won an award for her role in “Doubt,” the film adaptation of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about sexual abuse, race, and the Catholic Church. Clutching her statuette, Streep gave a shout-out to the rest of the cast. When she got to Viola Davis—who had earned her first Academy Award nomination for her performance as the mother of an African-American... Читать дальше...

for something smaller than his buckle: the figures of the men unmade inside it, the thousands vanished in its glass.

Alex Susong Jones—“Susong is Anglicized French, or so I’m told”—was born in Greeneville, Tennessee, to a newspaper family. His grandmother founded the Greeneville Sun; his father became its publisher. “It was something I grew up in,” Jones said the other day. “Eight years old, melting pig iron for the letterpress machine—OSHA would have had a fit.” When Jones grew up, he covered the newspaper business for the Times (byline: Alex S. Jones). He won a Pulitzer, wrote two books, became the inaugural... Читать дальше...

When Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin, and Moss Hart put together the musical “Lady in the Dark,” in 1940, Freud was big. The great man’s thinking had yet to come under wide attack, and psychoanalysis—at least, here in America—was still a relatively new phenomenon, a science for the privileged. Liza Elliott, the protagonist of the musical, who runs a fashion magazine called Allure, has lots of power but no outward oomph. Depressed and anxious, she works with her analyst to figure out why she, an arbiter of taste... Читать дальше...

Prosecutorial Ethics 101

Stephanie Clifford, in her eye-opening piece about the former New York Police Department detective Peter Forcelli and the wrongful-conviction case of Edward Garry, which is winding its way through the judicial system, says that “there is no manual that Forcelli could write that would stop police departments from pressuring detectives for results or prosecutors from taking on dubious cases” (“A Shot to the Heart,” October 24th). Actually, such a manual does exist for prosecutors... Читать дальше...

In 1948, the avant-garde photographer Grete Stern, a German Jew living in Buenos Aires, was hired by Idilio, a popular women’s magazine, to illustrate a weekly column called Psychoanalysis Will Help You. The column solicited readers’ dreams, and thousands responded—a majority with nightmares. Anxiety, domination, and entrapment were common themes.

Amy and Carl (both pseudonyms) had never met before they decided to move in together earlier this year. Amy was a twenty-four-year-old Upper East Sider with a live-in boyfriend, and Carl was a fiftysomething security guard with two kids. What brought them together was the fact that they have lazy eyes—Amy’s left, Carl’s right.

Tours at the Tenement Museum, on Orchard Street, are usually benign educational affairs, celebrating the city’s immigrant past. But, since the election, conversations have grown contentious. One tour member, who could appreciate Ellis Island but would extend her sympathies only so far, said, “Immigrants back then were different,” starting an argument. Tour guides have been receiving special training to cope with what one docent called “the current political climate.” Still, the show must go on. Читать дальше...

What is the precise moment, in the life of a country, when tyranny takes hold? It rarely happens in an instant; it arrives like twilight, and, at first, the eyes adjust.

From nodding off I don’t know when.

“Should we do something?” Dory asks her boyfriend, Drew, as screaming voices leak through their bathroom wall.

It’s 1979, and everything is in flux. Ayatollah Khomeini assumes power in Iran; Margaret Thatcher becomes the British Prime Minister; and, in Santa Barbara, Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening) invites a squad of firemen to a party. Her son, Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann), aged fifteen, points out that only she would do such a thing, but to her it seems quite natural. Earlier in the day, when her car—in fact, her ex-husband’s Ford Galaxy—burst into flames in a parking lot, the firemen extinguished the blaze... Читать дальше...

Our helicopter was heading over the Niger Delta, across a vast and unstable sky, with gray clouds surging above. I was sitting behind the pilot, and behind me, gazing out a starboard window, was Edward Burtynsky, a Canadian photographer known for his sweeping images of industrial projects and their effects on the environment. For three decades, he has been documenting colossal mines, quarries, dams, roadways, factories, and trash piles—telling a story, frame by frame, of a planet reshaped by human ambition. Читать дальше...

In October, 2005, Thomas Krens, the director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, flew from New York to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. In the gilded lobby of the Emirates Palace hotel, Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan, the crown prince, described his vision for Saadiyat Island, a twenty-seven-billion-dollar development not far from the city’s downtown. Saadiyat, which Emiratis refer to as “the island of happiness,” would include luxury hotels, Marbella-style villas, and a boutique shopping quarter. Читать дальше...

When Hulk Hogan faced off in court against the Web site Gawker, earlier this year, it was easy to become distracted by the rococo tawdriness of the spectacle. After all, the case centered on the leak of a surreptitiously videotaped sexual encounter between Hogan, the professional wrestler, and the wife of his erstwhile best friend, who is named Bubba the Love Sponge. The trial, which took place in St. Petersburg in March, laid out a sordid tale of betrayal and exposure, told mostly by Hogan, whose... Читать дальше...

Will another love triangle threaten the monarchy? After hiding from a ship in the night, Prince Robert (Max Brown) was still stranded on a deserted beach on Sunday's all-new episode...

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The Voice The final four artists compete in this new episode. 8 p.m. NBC

EVERETT, Wash. — Lower Columbia was hot from the outside and pulled way in the fourth quarter to hand the Linn-Benton Community College women’s basketball team a 78-65 defeat in the championship game of the Everett Classic on Sunday afternoon.

Sports calendar, Dec. 12-13 College basketball Auburn vs. Boston College FS1 Jacksonville State at Maryland ESPNU Seton Hall FS1 NBA Portland at L.A. Clippers NBATV NFL Baltimore at New England ESPN (1050) NHL College basketball Temple at Villanova FS1 South Carolina State at Clemson ESPNU Tennessee Tech at Tennessee SECNet North Carolina Central at LSU SECNet Central Arkansas at Michigan BigTen NBA Warriors at New Orleans CSNBA (95.7) Minnesota at Chicago ESPN Oklahoma City at... Читать дальше...

This piece of verbatim theatre gives much-needed airtime to some of the less prominent letters in 'LGBTIQ'.

Premier Colin Barnett has explained the government's role in funding and negotiations for the Australian-first direct service from Perth to London.

Farmers held a massive rally at Jahangirpura to protest against the demonetization move and restrictions placed on the district cooperative banks by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) here on Sunday.

Two workers died and one was taken ill at an industrial unit in Vapi GIDC on Sunday.

A billion Facebook users will be able to watch Sydney's New Year's Eve firework celebrations live from their mobile phones.