Hard-hitting, fast-paced corner player Erich Barnes, who helped carry the Giants to three consecutive NFL championship games in the early 1960s, died Friday in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. He was 86 years old. His death at a hospital was announced by the Giants, who said he came after a long illness but did not provide additional details. …
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Doris Kearns was an assistant professor of history at Harvard University in 1972, teaching a course on the American presidency, and embarking on the book that would mark the start of her remarkable career as a popular historian, “Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream,” as Richard N. Goodwin entered his office. A legendary speechwriter for …
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Goodwin’s archives include his public service as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, his work as a House subcommittee inspector on the fraudulent television game show “Twenty-One” (a story adapted from the 1994 film “Quiz Show”), as well as working for Kennedy and As notes and notes showing how he helped shape national …
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Hi, I’m Edgar Wright. I am the director and co-writer of Last Night in Soho. In this scene, Thomasin McKenzie’s Eloise rents a room in Fitzrovia, just north of Soho, and she, let’s say, supernaturally unfolds. And he is about to enter his 60s in his dreams. A young fashion student who comes to London …
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The robbery, which occupies the first part of the book, is perfectly executed both by its participants and by its omniscient author. Whitehead’s prose becomes tense, exciting, and jolly as he describes the (fictional) printing of the (real) Hotel Theresa—the lucky “center of the Negro world”. “Robbing The Hotel Theresa” was like “kissing Mickey to …
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“It gave me a sense of deja vu, because that’s what we did in the ’70s – we were trying to get supply side effects,” said Barry P. Bosworth, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Wage and Price Stability under President Jimmy Carter. He said efforts have failed to contain overall inflation. “It’s not …
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