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...overprotective of the television shows I like, especially when it’s clear from their low production values and offbeat humor that they’re not their network’s biggest priority. Over the last six months, I’ve grown very fond of ABC’s “Modern Family.” So, when advertisements for NBC’s “Parenthood” began to saturate commercial breaks in February, I took it personally...
...controversy has extended beyond the blogosphere—The Washington Post reported on financial irregularities within Yéle Haiti's organization, quoting a former tax counsel to the Senate Finance Committee, who said, "it seems clear that a significant amount of the money that this charity raises go for costs other than providing benefits to Haitians in need...
...Evidence” was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and his 2005 novel “The Sea” won it. Critics have compared his dreamy, playful writing to that of Vladimir Nabokov and Virginia Woolf; Don DeLillo praised his work as “dangerous and clear-running...
Doyle also said that his experience with Lichten dates back to 1986. From their work together on the University’s 350th anniversary, “It was clear that he was somebody who knew what he was doing,” Doyle said of Lichten...
...Composer and his cadre become manifestations of the typical “classical establishment”: all ties, fine clothing and preening. They stick faithfully to Strauss’s score—no insertions of guitars or anything like that—but the context makes it clear that they’re talking less about the relationship between the comic and the serious and more about that between the “popular” and the “classical.” The conceit plays out well, especially as the Composer falls in love with...