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U.S. coronavirus outbreak soon to be deadlier than any flu since 1967 as deaths top 60,000

(Reuters) – U.S. deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 60,000 on Wednesday and the outbreak will soon be deadlier than any flu season since 1967, according to a Reuters tally. Healthcare workers gather for lunch purchased by members of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) outside the Brooklyn Hospital …

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Bus-stop art gallery lifts spirits in lockdown London

LONDON (Reuters) – A London bus stop has been transformed into a children’s art gallery by a local resident who wanted to brighten the drudgery of lockdown life, creating a colourful community hub amid the anxiety and isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic. Posters designed by poet and artist Robert Montgomery …

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Dancing in the streets: Ballet stars perform in empty Amsterdam

Ballet dancer Yvonne Slingerland Cosialls of the Dutch National Ballet performs on the streets of Amsterdam for the “Gently Quiet” project, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands April 24, 2020. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Six dancers from the Dutch National Ballet headed out …

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Spray it, don’t say it: Kenya graffiti artists spread health message

NAIROBI (Reuters) – A six-foot image of a sad-eyed man, baseball cap askew and mask covering his nose and mouth is spray painted on a building in a Nairobi slum. Next to it are the words “Corona is real”. There are six other pieces of graffiti like it around Mathare, …

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Books to Read in May

Image ‘The Arab Winter: A Tragedy,’ by Noah Feldman (Princeton University, May 12) Was the Arab Spring a failure? There is a sense that the protests across the Middle East in 2011 failed to bring about any enduring, positive change, except in Tunisia. But Feldman, a Harvard professor, argues that …

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In dress of giant inflatable roses, Chinese artist marks Earth Day

Artist Kong Ning, wearing a face mask following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, prepares for a portrait in a wearable art piece she made to mark Earth Day, during a Reuters interview outside her studio in Beijing, China April 22, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins BEIJING (Reuters) – Wearing a dress …

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From Saigon to the Suburbs, a Vietnamese-American’s Struggle to Assimilate

The dichotomy he thus sets up — between what he perceives as his true, American self and his Vietnamese face — is never quite resolved. A high school teacher takes him to see a production of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” a gesture that makes him feel “known …

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An Unlikely Romance Blooms in a Hospital Room, Then Metastisizes

REPRODUCTIONBy Ian Williams In his 2012 poem “Rings,” the Canadian writer Ian Williams turns a verse from Genesis, “Give me children, or else I die,” into a wry refrain. As it appears alongside mundane domestic choices like whether to adopt a pet or redecorate, the desperation of the verse gives …

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With just a canary for company, Russian artist self-isolates in gallery

Artist Sergei Pronin works on a painting, which depicts a monument to Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, in an art gallery in Zheleznovodsk, Russia April 15, 2020. Sergei Pronin, aged 31, stayed at the Pushkin city gallery to continue his work and guard the building during a self-isolation regime, which was …

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Hollywood’s Backstage Creatives Try to Soldier On

LOS ANGELES — Just a few weeks ago, Hollywood’s global assembly lines were spinning at full speed. Crews were working on Universal’s latest “Jurassic World” installment and Disney’s live-action “Little Mermaid” in Britain. Guillermo del Toro was in Toronto shooting “Nightmare Alley,” a Fox Searchlight remake. Marvel had productions running …

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