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Shearer's Royal Ballet colleague Margot Fonteyn was by 1948 the world's top ballet dancer. Her grace, sense of drama and ability to remain en pointe for seemingly minutes on end won her wide acclaim (and the cover of TIME). Later, when she was in her 40s, she found new life and a new lover with young Rudolf Nureyev. But her story was gaudier than her renown: the stuff of affairs, abortions, gunrunning for her Panamanian husband, an old age stripped of wealth, burial in a pauper's grave. Tony Palmer's thrilling 2005 documentary brims with pertinent clips...
...this week's TIME magazine, book critic Lev Grossman writes about the under-40 generation of American novelists. Here are eight novels from those authors that have drawn acclaim in the past few years. Which one do you think is most likely to become a classic...
...first stage play—“Forty Years On”—debuted back the revolutionary days of ‘68. However, various critics have considered his recent take on elite schools and education the pinnacle of his career. Judging by the widespread acclaim and the myriad of Tony awards received a couple of weeks ago, they are spot...
INDUCTED. Assia Djebar, 69, Algerian writer and filmmaker, into the ?lite Acad?mie fran?aise, its first member from France's former North African colonies; in Paris. In a writing career spanning half a century, Djebar has won acclaim for tackling difficulties faced by women in Muslim societies. Currently a professor of French literature at New York University, Djebar becomes one of only 40 "immortals," as the Acad?mie's members are known...
...reporting, including Zawahiri's decision to halt the attack. A former Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Suskind is also the author of the 2004 book The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill, which won acclaim as one of the first bare-knuckle accounts of the Bush administration's preoccupation with Saddam and its disdain for independent thinking by Cabinet members...