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Review: Love Is Wild, if Not Pretty, in ‘God’s Own Country’

Photo Josh O’Connor, left, and Alec Secareanu in “God’s Own Country.” Credit Agatha A. Nitecka/Orion Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn Films Trapped between skies like beaten tin and earth scrubbed raw by wind and rain, the characters in “God’s Own Country” are well used to harshness. Like Johnny (Josh O’Connor), who labors …

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Exploring Rodin’s Place in Literary History

The subject of creator and muse plays a central role in Rodin’s oeuvre. Mr. Gleis pointed out that even “The Thinker,” of which the museum owns a 30-inch-tall bronze that was cast in the early 1880s, captures the artist’s endless search for intellectual fodder. The marble sculpture “Man and His …

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‘One-off’ $1.9 million supercar damaged in UK crash

Sussex Police A blue Pagani Zonda collided with a central barrier on the westbound A27 at Tangmere in West Sussex, England on Saturday 21 October, 2017. An extremely rare Italian supercar estimated to be worth more than £1.5 million ($1.9 million) was left with “significant damage” after it smashed into …

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Lyft gains on Uber as ride-sharing runs past taxis in New York City

Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images An attendee at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 6, 2016, waits for a ride in the Uber and Lyft reserved staging area. The shift from taxis to ride-sharing companies may have hit a tipping point in New York …

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Kobe Steel plant that supplied plane components being checked

Tomohiro Ohsumi | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Kobe Steel headquarters stand in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017. Japanese authorities are conducting safety checks at a Kobe Steel Ltd aluminum plant that supplied components for a domestically built passenger aircraft, the transport minister said on Tuesday. Kobe …

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What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘At Home With Amy Sedaris’ and ‘Snoop Dogg Presents Joker’s Wild’

Photo Amy Sedaris and Paul Giamatti in “At Home With Amy Sedaris.” Credit Alison Cohen Rosa/truTV Learn how to entertain guests and make cutesy crafts with Amy Sedaris’s new series. And Snoop Dogg hosts a reboot of a classic game show. What’s on TV AT HOME WITH AMY SEDARIS 10:30 …

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Why everyone’s talking about bitcoin and Zimbabwe

Wilfred Kajese | AFP | Getty Images A man holds a two dollar Zimbabwean ‘bond note’ withdrawn in Harare, Zimbabwe on November 28, 2016. A surge in demand for digital currency in Zimbabwe has highlighted an interesting quirk in the trading of bitcoin, as well as the current economic woes …

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US State Department exploring sanctions against Myanmar

TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images Rohingya Muslim refugees await relief aid at Nayapara refugee camp in Teknaf on October 21, 2017. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims stranded near Bangladesh’s border after fleeing violence in Myanmar were finally permitted to enter refugee camps after ‘strict screening’, officials said. The world’s largest economy is also …

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Chasing the Spirit of a Fractured Spain through García Lorca

To search for García Lorca’s Andalusia is to chase fragments of poetry and loss. He was silenced more than 81 years ago at 38 — murdered in the summer of 1936 by a paramilitary death squad at the outset of the Spanish Civil War for his antifascist sentiments and homosexuality. …

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China’s Communist Party enshrines Xi in constitution

Getty Images Chinese President Xi Jinping, bottom center, is applauded by senior members of the government after his speech at the opening session of the 19th Communist Party Congress held at The Great Hall Of The People on October 18, 2017 in Beijing, China. China’s ruling Communist Party on Tuesday …

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