Showing posts with label Notebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Notebook. Show all posts

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Critic"s Notebook: C-Span, Gun Control and a Protest Made for Streaming

Critic’s Notebook: C-Span, Gun Control and a Protest Made for Streaming


The Democratic sit-in, captured mainly by smartphone video, had emotion, chaos, conflict and the frisson of unpredictable reality.


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Saturday, June 18, 2016

Notebook: Why ‘Transcending Race’ Is a Lie

Notebook: Why ‘Transcending Race’ Is a Lie


The highest compliment America will pay black people — whether O. J. Simpson, Muhammad Ali or Prince — is to claim they escaped their own blackness.


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Friday, May 27, 2016

Notebook: Is Everything Wrestling?

Notebook: Is Everything Wrestling?


The fake “reality” of professional wrestling has become the new norm — from entertainment to politics, and everywhere in between.


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Monday, May 9, 2016

Reporter’s Notebook: Munitions and Music: With the Russians in Syria

Reporter’s Notebook: Munitions and Music: With the Russians in Syria


Along with Russia’s military intervention in the Syrian civil war came “soft power” tactics including diplomacy, messaging and a concert in which a violinist played Bach.


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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Notebook: Prince and the Competition

Notebook: Prince and the Competition


Rivalry defined his career from the beginning — and drove some of his greatest displays of genius.


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Saturday, April 23, 2016

Critic’s Notebook: Prince Knew What He Wanted: Sex, Soul and You

Critic’s Notebook: Prince Knew What He Wanted: Sex, Soul and You


The pop star was not only sex, but also a sexual orientation. His own. And it was oriented toward you.


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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Critic"s Notebook: In First Debate, Democrats Keep the Drama to a Minimum

Critic’s Notebook: In First Debate, Democrats Keep the Drama to a Minimum


If the Republican candidates went to their debates to deliver smackdowns, the Democrats showed up for a singalong in Las Vegas, largely avoiding attacking one another.










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Monday, August 31, 2015

Critic"s Notebook: Miley Cyrus Delivers Many Story Lines to 2015 V.M.A.s

Critic’s Notebook: Miley Cyrus Delivers Many Story Lines to 2015 V.M.A.s


The 2015 awards in Los Angeles were defined not by the host’s stagy shock, but by eruptions of extreme sincerity, sometimes contrived, and sometimes not.










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Critic’s Notebook: In Lorde’s Wake, a Groundswell of Female Rebels in Pop

Critic’s Notebook: In Lorde’s Wake, a Groundswell of Female Rebels in Pop


Industry attempts to construct another Taylor Swift generally fizzled, but that’s no obstacle to attempts to build another Lorde.










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