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‘Best Foot Forward’ Is a Story About, and By, People With Disabilities
Casting the right actor for a role often means finding someone who matches the character description in a script, but Josh Sundquist didn’t know if that was possible for his series “Best Foot Forward.” “It sounds silly in retrospect, but this was four years ago,” Sundquist recalled recently. “At the time, it simply didn’t occur…
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Why Biden’s Second Booster Wasn’t Enough to Prevent Infection
President Biden’s coronavirus infection is a stark illustration that the Covid vaccines, powerful as they are, are far from the bulletproof shields that scientists once hoped for. Mr. Biden has received multiple doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine; his most recent shot, a second booster, was on March 30. Studies suggest that those doses will provide…
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Covid’s Risks Are Concentrated Among Americans of Biden’s Age
President Biden is 79, and Americans his age and older have made up larger and larger shares of those dying from Covid in recent months. The virus has taken advantage of falling immunity caused by the time elapsed since many older people’s last vaccinations, and the Omicron variant has evolved a growing ability to skirt…
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When ‘New Art’ Made New York the Culture Capital
When I was a kid in the early 1960s, my Eisenhower-Republican physician-father always had the latest copies of his favored subscription publications on his home office desk: Time, Life, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Mad magazine. To me, Time and Life pegged him an engaged citizen; JAMA, as a conscientious professional. But…
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Welcome to Chicago, Hot Dog Town, U.S.A.
CHICAGO — Before leaving the city for graduate school, Heidi Ratanavanich got a shoulder tattoo of a Chicago-style hot dog. Painterly and bright, the tattoo depicts a poppy-seed bun cradling a shiny frankfurter, which is topped with a squiggle of yellow mustard, neon-green sweet pickle relish, chopped white onion, two tomato slices, a pickle spear,…
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Eggplant Five Ways
“No other vegetable is so content to abandon itself to your will,” Ruth Reichl wrote of eggplant in her 2015 cookbook, “My Kitchen Year.” Though if you’re skeptical, here’s one way to quickly gain some confidence: Start with her simple eggplant salad, which I’ve made so many times since first reading about it I’ve lost…
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In Washington, Olena Zelenska Dressed for Ukraine
On Wednesday, on the third leg of an unofficial three-day trip to Washington, D.C., Olena Zelenska, the wife of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, became the rare first lady to address Congress. But despite the fact that she had, on the initial two days of her trip, engaged in what could have been called typical…
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Amanda Shires Isn’t Letting Nashville, or Her Marriage, Off the Hook
Amanda Shires wasn’t trying to name-drop, honest. It’s just that she’s been working alongside country music legends since she was 15, so most of the characters who populate her anecdotes happen to need no introduction. My onyx ring reminded her of one John Prine once gave her — which she promptly dropped down a sewer…
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In an Orchard With Blooming Poppies, an Anniversary in the Cotswolds
It was a perfectly crafted bag that brought together Melissa Morris, the American founder of the London-based leather house Métier, and Silka Rittson-Thomas, an art adviser and creative consultant. About four and a half years ago, Rittson-Thomas (who is also a contributing editor to T) purchased a Métier Private Eye bag — a chic, roomy…
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