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“[She] trained a generation of American teachers in the Suzuki method and [her] standing as a musician helped the Japanese movement establish itself in the United States.”

“The Victorianator is a game in which players score points for how well they master the techniques of Victorian elocution, from giving words their proper inflection to accenting their delivery with appropriate gesticulation.”

A new book “claims that not only was the designer the lover of a German officer, Hans Gunther von Dincklage, which has been well-documented, but they were spies who went on missions to Madrid and Berlin.”

With his first hit film in 1957, Kapoor “changed the face of Bollywood cinema … By dancing in the big musical numbers, the hip-swinging Kapoor bucked the Bollywood trend of a stationary hero” and a decorous, innocent approach to romance. He “became arguably the first male pin-up of the Indian subcontinent.”

After two back operations over the summer relieved “the excruciating pain that has plagued him over the last several years because of back problems, Mr. Levine is planning to begin rehearsing at the Met right after Labor Day and has not canceled any performances, said his brother, Tom Levine.”

“It gives you the ability — if you pay attention and if you approach it with an open mind — to kind of hone and mold and adapt to what is going on out there in the world and how you’re being perceived and how people are embracing what it is that you do and the products that you offer.”

“According to reports, 41-year-old Fairey and his colleague Romeo Trinidad were punched and kicked by at least two men outside” a Copenhagen nightclub. … Earlier this month he was involved with a controversial mural that has enraged leftwing anarchists throughout the city.”

“It didn’t leave permanent wounds because the response was so remarkable. I admit that when it first happened, I was horrified. … What really annoyed me was that it all happened in the week my new play was opening, and so deprived me of my usual agony and distress about the reviews.”

Tareque Masud, aged 55, was his nation’s first director to win a prize at Cannes and to have a film submitted for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar. He and four others (including the head of one of Dhaka’s television stations) were killed when their car was hit head-on by a bus.

“Talking about his latest short story collection, When the Killing’s Done, [the] American writer … explains how he woos his audiences and the significance of islands in his fiction.”