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Weekend Words: Dangerous
This week, danger!
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Weekend Words: Fault
“Here we are. Here we are. We predicted it. Nobody wanted it to be this way.” said Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, assessing who's at fault for flirting with default.
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Weekend Words: Five
On October 5th, the Carnegie International — the biennial that's not a biennial but arrives every three to five years — opened in Pittsburgh after waiting the limit, five years after its last version in 2008.
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Weekend Words: Sing
This week, Weekend Words sings a torch song for the dear, departed City Opera.
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Weekend Words: Brink
This week, after years of wrangling, threats and doomsaying, we've received an actual date — October 17th — when the U.S. will run out of cash. Two and a half weeks and then, the brink.
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Weekend Words: Vacation
Now that everyone is back at work, Weekend Words is going on vacation.
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Weekend Words: Wave
With Labor Day coming tomorrow, Weekend Words waves a regretful farewell to the last waves of summer.
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Weekend Words: Rejection
This week, in honor of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, Weekend Words considers rejection.
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Weekend Words: Betrayal
The arts are never far from reach, even at the scuzziest of murder trials.
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Weekend Words: Sound
Yesterday, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, opened Soundings: A Contemporary Score, the museum's first major exhibition of sound art. But will it answer the question, "If a piece of art falls in the forest and no one hears it, is it still art?"
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Weekend Words: Enemy
This week Bradley Manning was acquitted of charges of aiding the enemy. But in the immortal words of the prophet Pogo, "We have met the enemy and he is us."
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Weekend Words: Ditch
It was only a matter of time before MOCA ditched Deitch.