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As she turns 81, the singer whose intimacy matches her grandeur is the subject of a PBS documentary, “Irma: My Life in Music.”As she turns…
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The guard at a museum in Russia has been suspended after he used a pen to draw on “Three Figures,” an avant-garde painting from the…
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In “Born of Lakes and Plains,” Anne F. Hyde draws attention to the roles that intermarriage played in the development of the American West.In “Born…
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