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Movies
Woody Harrelson’s Real Life Is Weirder than Fiction
The actor, now starring in “The Glass Castle,” talks about life on Maui, fighting in taxis and playing an ape-battling colonel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_iVlJuj9eQ
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6338476/
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Fashion & Style
A 20-Year Age Gap Makes No Difference
She is two decades older. When she asked him about it, “He said it didn’t bother him, so it didn’t bother me.”If you were not essentially my age it would bother me.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Arts
Randy Newman: And You Thought ‘Short People’ Was Controversial?
Mr. Newman’s first album of original material in nine years, “Dark Matter,” is overshadowed by an unreleased song about Trump anatomy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBdF3E2NVI8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR8BBJz416Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ya-FGHdBso
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Food
A Cool Solution for Hot Summer Nights
This supper is the ideal opportunity to use all those glorious vegetables at the farmers’ market.Yes.
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018879-okra-salad-with-toasted-cumin
I have not tried okra. I was warned away from it.
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Education
More Diversity Means More Demands
Students are protesting for official recognition of their identities, whether racial, ethnic, sexual, religious, first-generation, low-income or immigrant.A mine first attitude leads to factorial arguments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial
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Education
Berkeley’s Semester of Hate
When far right meets far left, sparks fly.It is a religious war.
Think of it that way.
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Books
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from editors and critics at The New York Times.I would attempt any of these if they appeared.
I would not seek them out from these descriptions.
I have a yard of books on the "when I get there" shelf.
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Business Day
A Bad (for the Team) Romance
It appears that a covert office affair is undermining the group’s work. What should you do?Rob Walker advises walking gently and sticking to what is known.
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Travel
A San Francisco Restaurant Serving Hawaiian Cuisine (Hold the Pineapple)
Aina, a modern Hawaiian restaurant whose brunch has spawned a citywide mania, opened last year in a small light-flooded corner space in Dogpatch.As opportunity offers.
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Well
With a Glimpse of Mortality, Losing Sight of the Wild
I used to lead adventurous trips, but once my child had a seizure I became fearful.I want the milky way, the lap of lake water on stone, a low moon on pines and the smell of a low hardwood fire after sunset.
A marsh harrier defending a nest, screech owls hunting and canada jays.
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Randy Newman: And You Thought ‘Short People’ Was Controversial?
It was worth the wait.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Opinion
Can People Change After Middle Age?
Two community volunteers in Shreveport, La., are evidence that they can.OK.
The nature of the change is important.
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Arts
Maharajahs Ruling in the Connecticut Wilds
At his Litchfield County retreat, the textile designer John Robshaw surrounds himself with paintings of bejeweled and mustachioed Indian royals.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharaja
The palette of India is typical though varried.
One can recognize the area of India that painted the image from the color choice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palette_%28painting%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_scheme
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Podcasts
‘The Daily’: The Asian-Americans Suing Harvard, and the Man Behind the Case
Edward Blum has made a career of suing universities about race-based affirmative action. This time, the White House is taking up his cause.Affirmative action is a good idea.
I can fuss over the details.
Special privileges for white applicants are not part of the deal.
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Movies
Review: The Good, the Bad and the Stupid in ‘The Dark Tower’
Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey star in “The Dark Tower,” a mess of a movie based on Stephen King’s sprawling, multivolume series of the same title.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_%28series%29
Tried it, did not like it.
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