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Review: William Kentridge’s Triumphant ‘Wozzeck’ Will Come to the Met Opera

The stage is dominated by a precarious mountain of platforms, staircase fragments and discarded furniture that, with the help of stage-filling, smoky charcoal animations, shifts during Berg’s brooding interludes from inside to outside, from tavern to barracks to bombed-out heath. The searing final D-minor interlude is echoed onstage in an …

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Major defense stocks surge to all-time highs after Trump’s tough rhetoric against North Korea

U.S. Navy | Reuters F-35 Bravo Lightning II stand ready on the deck of amphibious assault ship USS Wasp for day two of the first phase operational testing in the Atlantic Ocean in this handout photo taken May 19, 2015 and provided by the U.S. Navy. There is one Trump …

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Buy Nvidia before earnings due to gaming strength: Jefferies

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jen-Hsun Huang, president and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., holds the Nvidia Xavier high-end computing module as he speaks during a keynote presentation at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. Nvidia …

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FBI raided Paul Manafort’s home in July

Carlo Allegri | Reuters Paul Manafort of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s staff listens during a round table discussion on security at Trump Tower in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., August 17, 2016. The FBI raided former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort’s home last month amid the probe …

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Tiger Woods likely to enter first-time DUI offender program in Florida

Source: Jupiter Police Department | Reuters Tiger Woods is seen handcuffed and searched by police officers in this still image from police dashcam video in Jupiter, Florida, U.S. on May 29, 2017. Golfer Tiger Woods is expected to enter a program for first-time DUI offenders to resolve charges filed against …

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Each Starbucks now has almost 4 other Starbucks within 1 mile: BMO

Starbucks cafes are facing mounting competition from other Starbucks locations and that’s going to hurt the stock, one Wall Street firm said Wednesday. BMO Capital Markets downgraded Starbucks shares to market perform from outperform after its researched indicated that store overlap has grown to such an extreme point that they …

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Jennifer Lawrence’s New Vogue Cover: a John Currin Painting

Photo John Currin’s portrait of Jennifer Lawrence for the cover of Vogue’s September issue. Credit John Currin/Vogue No airbrushing controversy here. Jennifer Lawrence is fully brushed in a new painting by the artist John Currin. The portrait is one of four different cover images commissioned by Vogue for its September …

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Samsung retakes top spot from Apple in US smartphones, Kantar says

Drew Angerer | Getty Images A view of the new Samsung Galaxy S8 at its Samsung launch event, March 29, 2017 in New York City. Samsung again has a larger market share than Apple in the United States, according to data released by Kantar Worldpanel on Wednesday. The company said …

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Trump on Twitter boasts about US nuclear arsenal after ‘fire and fury’ threat

Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks during a Make America Great Again Rally at Big Sandy Superstore Arena in Huntington, West Virginia, August 3, 2017. President Donald Trump touted the U.S. nuclear arsenal on Wednesday — but said he hopes he “will never have to …

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Review: Aspiring Writers Meet Acerbic Teacher in ‘The Workshop’

Photo Austin Pendleton, center right, as a washed-up playwright who teaches a course in dramatic writing in Torrey Townsend’s “The Workshop.” Credit Knud Adams The characters of “The Workshop” are prone to delivering speeches with a profane, irreverent verve reminiscent of Quentin Tarantino. The dialogue is a succession of quick …

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