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Fashion & Style
Falling for a Guy From Lawn Guyland, Accent or Not
The couple met in 2008, when he began as a sophomore at the boarding school where she was a senior. She was 17 and he was 15.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Opinion
I’m So Sorry for My Loss
I apologize for bumming other people out on a motherless Mother’s Day.It was a loss.
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Travel
5 International Cities That Could Be Bargains for Summer Flights
If you’ve yet to make your summer travel plans, several attractive international destinations are reachable at a discount.I am feeling little need to travel out of state this year.
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Opinion
Liberals, You’re Not as Smart as You Think You Are
Self-righteousness is rarely attractive, and even more rarely rewarded.Republicans are embarrassed by their leaders.
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Style
At Frieze, Your Style Is Your Calling Card
The scene from last week’s art fairs, where fashion gave art a run for the money.Playtime.
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Job Market
Casual Office Chatter Gets a Colleague in Trouble. Now What?
An employee’s conversation about a colleague’s vacation accidentally put both of them in a sticky disciplinary situation. Here’s how to minimize the damage.Good advice.
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Books
8 of the Worst Moms in Literature
Think your mother was harsh? These books will convince you that she deserves a Mother of the Year Award.It is not a search I have indulged in.
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Business Day
Federal Tax Cuts Leave States in a Bind
The federal tax law had the unintended effect of giving states a tax windfall. Now, states must weigh whether to spend the money or give it back to residents.The story starts with the lie that the consequences of the actions labeled a federal tax cut were unintended.
Tax law is mostly social engineering.
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World
Man Wielding Knife Kills 1 and Wounds 4 in Central Paris
A man armed with a knife attacked five people in central Paris, killing one and wounding four, two seriously, according to the police.Usually terrorists try to have a larger impact.
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New York
Brooklyn Safety Patrol Leader Is Charged in Sex Abuse of Teen
Authorities said that the president of a security force for the ultra-Orthodox Jews of Brooklyn sexually abused a 15-year-old girl last year.I am not much interested in the religious aspect.
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Style
Advice for Renovating Your Home
On sun-bleached woodwork, leather alternatives and anything but subway tile.OK
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Style
Rihanna Reigns With Pope-Inspired Dress at Met Gala
Rihanna went all in on the Catholicism theme.Ok
3
Style
The Water Will Come, but Not to This Miami Home
The city’s flooding is expected to get worse as sea levels rise. So a Michigan man has built a house in South Beach that should withstand the water.He has built a fortress in what will be a swamp.
Fashion does not deal well with natural disaster.
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Style
The Scene Inside the Met Gala
An angel, the devil and Kim Kardashian West.Fashion designers are costume designers.
Often they are doing things that can be worn on the streets.
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Style
Trends in Design and Home Furnishings
From chairs to lighting fixtures and water bottles to fabrics, a look at what’s popular in design.A new birth of shoddy.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shoddy
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Arts
I Went Naked to a Museum, and It Was … Revealing
In association with a French nudist association, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris held a special tour of exhibits for nude visitors only.Drapery is important.
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Style
A Tiffany Collector of Things Pastel
A glass collector has amassed pieces from the artist’s late, and least appreciated, period.The work is good. It is not my taste.
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Style
All Those Kitchen Gadgets, but a Sharp Knife Just Might Do
To industrial designers, the universe of kitchen tools is infinite. Egg timers and onion goggles aside, many tasks can be done with a blade.yes
9
Food
Salad For Dinner
Assemble a roasted chicken salad, or start the week with a frittata that is more vegetable than egg.Do what works.
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Fashion & Style
Met Gala 2018 Red Carpet Photos: Rihanna, Katy Perry and Madonna
See the celebrities who ascended the steps of the Met, and what they wore.It could be called a curatorial failure.
It is showing off.
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World
China Blocks a Memorial Service to Sichuan Earthquake Victims
A plan to mourn the 70,000 victims who died 10 years ago contrasted with Communist Party efforts to use the anniversary to praise China’s rapid rebuilding of quake-battered areas.The Times should not be supporting missionary efforts.
That must be left to clandestine organizations.
2
Opinion
Delusions of Kanye
One red-pilled rapper doesn’t erase conservative cluelessness on race.Ross Douthat applies logic and finds the result unsatisfactory.
I agree.
Douthat has not given up the world view of the reactionaries.
He has realized that the world view of reaction is limiting.
He does not propose a work around.
I try to tell people to think.
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Fashion & Style
Falling for a Guy From Lawn Guyland, Accent or Not
The couple met in 2008, when he began as a sophomore at the boarding school where she was a senior. She was 17 and he was 15.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
4
Travel
5 International Cities That Could Be Bargains for Summer Flights
If you’ve yet to make your summer travel plans, several attractive international destinations are reachable at a discount.It is not where my mind is this week.
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Style
Style at the Frieze Art Fair
What art aficionados wore to the Frieze Art Fair In New York City.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieze_Art_Fair
https://www.nytimes.com/search/the%20Frieze%20Art%20Fair/newest
https://frieze.com/
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Opinion
How to Thwart Those Irksome Robocalls
Readers’ ideas include charging per call and developing something akin to spam filters.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/06/your-money/robocalls-rise-illegal.html
My cell phone accepts texts. Sign them.
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Climate
Pruitt’s Dinner With Cardinal Accused of Abuse Was Kept Off Public Schedule
The E.P.A. chief dined with Cardinal George Pell, who was later charged with assault. But the agency is said to have omitted the cardinal from official schedules.We can hope the courts will stop Scott Pruitt.
Donald Trump will not stop him.
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Books
8 of the Worst Moms in Literature
Think your mother was harsh? These books will convince you that she deserves a Mother of the Year Award.These are noteworthy because they are exceptional.
Most bad mothering does not make it to text.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrippina_the_Elder
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New York
Energy Executive Admits Lying About ‘Low-Show Job’ for Percoco’s Wife
Peter Galbraith Kelly Jr. had been accused of giving the job to the wife of a former aide to Governor Cuomo in exchange for his help winning a state contract.Joseph Percoco is guilty.
Politics is a blood sport.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sport
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