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Weekend Words: Name
In light of J.K. Rowling's undercover success, Weekend Words wonders, what's in a name?
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Weekend Words: Redemption
The news has been so grim this week that just about the only amusing thing that happened is Eliot Spitzer trying to steal Anthony Weiner's ticket for the Redemption Sweepstakes. Will somebody say "Amen"?
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Weekend Words: Doubt
Given the checkered history of recent Michelangelo discoveries, Weekend Words proposes a round of the children's card game "I Doubt It."
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Weekend Words: Marriage
Declaring DOMA dead, (five out of nine members of) the Supreme Court also struck down Act 3, Scene 1 of Hamlet.
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Weekend Words: Rot
Composting, anyone? If Mayor Bloomberg has his way, the next must-have kitchen appliance will be a pot where onion skins can rot.
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Weekend Words: Crash
Weekend Words looks at crashes past with an eye toward a crash-free future.
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Weekend Words: Shrink
Nowadays all of the world’s knowledge, or at least enough to fill an encyclopedia, can fit onto a flash drive. Weekend Words feels the pinch as the world shrinks further.
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Weekend Words: Rocks
Sarah Sze is representing the USA at the Venice Biennale, which opened this week. Part of her project is the production of meticulously crafted artificial rocks, which she has placed around the city.
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Weekend Words: Fake
Now that the Feds have dropped an anvil on Glafira Rosales, the mysterious art dealer who's been the target of lawsuits over alleged forgeries of Abstract Expressionist paintings, charging her with tax fraud, the question still remains: are the artworks fake?
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Weekend Words: Meat
If we can now grow a hamburger in a test tube, as the New York Times reported on Tuesday, we will still be able to get to the meat of the matter?
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Weekend Words: Bees
It's pollen season, big time, and Weekend Words turns its attention back to bees.
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Weekend Words: Plunder
This week we learned that the family of legendary gallery owner Paul Rosenberg, who was the exclusive representative of Matisse, Picasso and Braque, has claimed ownership of a Matisse that has been in the collection of Norway's Henie Onstad Arts Center for decades.