Introduction: In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their brief was simple. Understand what Americans
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Then there is “JFK” as pure cinema. The film operates as a whirling, paradoxical gyre: sprawling and tightly coiled; hallucinatory and clearly legible; shockingly subversive and reassuringly old-school. One of the film’s most vivid characters, a shadowy government figure named Mr. X., played by…
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As he witnessed the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on July 16, 1945, a piece of Hindu scripture ran through the mind of J. Robert Oppenheimer: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I
You could tell on Wednesday night that Jon Stewart, the host of the Daily Show, had been eager to get at former Treasury secretary Tim Geithner for a while. Geithner's new memoir Stress Test defends t
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Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Federal antitrust enforcers released new draft guidelines for evaluating anti-competitive mergers Wednesday, redoubling their aggressive scrutiny over digital
DPG would like to thank Ikelite for supplying the Ikelite 200DLM housing for the Canon EOS R7 as well as a pair of Ikelite DS230 strobes and various accessories used in this review. DPG would also lik
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Framework CEO Nirav Patel describes it in biblical terms: “So many have tried to capture this holy grail and died along the way.” It’s a very dramatic way to say that his new Laptop 16 lets you replac
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NAIROBI — Kenyans braced for more violence on Wednesday with the start of a three-day protest over tax hikes and rising prices, although unrest was initially confined to just a few areas. In the capit
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