Five new titles burrow into design’s past to reveal a universe that is ‘both perfumed and colorful.’This article is part of our latest Design special report, about creative people finding fresh ways to interpret ideas from the past.Excavating deeply into design history, and the ways the past is ...
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And with it, Halloween traditions.Welcome. Outside my Brooklyn building, a life-size witch dangles an alarmingly lifelike orange tabby by one foot over a bubbling cauldron. Enter the building and a skeleton dressed as a butler stands by the elevator, proffering a bowl of mini Kit Kats. You’ll tiptoe ...
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When Kim Janey failed in September to qualify for the mayoral runoff election in Boston, effectively ending her time as the city’s top leader, her political rivals rejoiced and her supporters were dismayed. But her loss affected one group in particular: the collective of seven other Black women ...
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‘Dune’ and ‘The French Dispatch’Welcome. Denis Villeneuve’s film adaptation of “Dune,” based on Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel, is in theaters and on HBO Max this weekend. Will fans love it? Manohla Dargis calls it “a starry, sumptuous take on the novel’s first half.” Others have tried to ...
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The last home of Nicholas II has been restored and opened to the public as a museum outside of St. Petersburg.ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Maria Ryadova recalled being in a dusty room inside the Alexander Palace, hopping from one floor beam to another and peering into the dark ...
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PARIS — Frédéric Arnault, the 26-year-old chief executive of TAG Heuer, may be the youngest C.E.O. of a luxury watch brand in the world. He may be the fourth child of Bernard Arnault, the third richest man in the world and the chairman of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.‘A Very Happy Devil’A shy, uncomfortable Devil fidgeted at the Halloween party, anxious to go home. Newly out at 38, Devil believed a monkish life would be her future. Suddenly, a beautiful blond dressed in black ...
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The composer assumed the role of “D.J. Webz” for the after-party following the reopening of “The Phantom of the Opera.”It was the reopening night of “The Phantom of the Opera” on Broadway, and Andrew Lloyd Webber was D.J.-ing the after-party.From a booth built earlier that day on 44th ...
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The sky was streaked with purple when I boarded the early-morning train from Bangkok to the Nakhon Chai Si District in central Thailand. For the entire hourlong ride, a monk sat quietly in front of me, smiling, gusts of wind swirling the orange robes over his tattoos.We disembarked ...
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The Polo Bar reopens in Manhattan, and the 82-year-old designer has no plans to slow down.On the deck of his home in Montauk, N.Y., over the sound of crashing waves — a vigorous white noise, more roaring than soothing — Ralph Lauren said he was glad to be ...
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The Polo Bar reopens in Manhattan, and the 82-year-old designer has no plans to slow down.On the deck of his home in Montauk, N.Y., over the sound of crashing waves — a vigorous white noise, more roaring than soothing — Ralph Lauren said he was glad to be ...
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VASHON, Wash. — Within minutes of meeting Amanda Knox for the first time, she planted her newborn daughter into my arms. Yes, Amanda Knox has a baby. A baby that she has been keeping a secret for months, worried that photographers would show up at her door, worried ...
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Ashley Chiang and Dr. Roy Xiao met on the first day of freshmen orientation at Princeton, but their relationship didn’t take off until sophomore year.Ashley Chiang planned to go to medical school after college, and was even accepted into an early-admissions program during her sophomore year at Princeton.But ...
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Gillian Stoss and Zach Lent dated for 16 years — more than half of their lives — before taking their relationship to the next level.Gillian Stoss first spotted Zach Lent 16 years ago at a basketball championship. The team from her elementary school, St. Brendan Parish School in ...
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