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2021-11-12 14:13:31 The New Yorker Radio Hour
Anna Deavere Smith Retells Rodney King’s Story in Theatre

“Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” premièred nearly thirty years ago, but it’s one of the most current and important plays on Broadway right now. Anna Deavere Smith pioneered a form now known as verbatim theatre: instead of creating characters and writing dialogue, she would interview dozens or hundreds of people about an event, and weave a story from those real characters and their words. “Twilight” is about the deadly violence and unrest that erupted after police officers were acquitted of the ferocious beating of Rodney King—one of the first episodes of police brutality caught on videotape and broadcast to the nation. Her form, she tells David Remnick, let her complicate the racial dynamics of Black and white people, to include the voices of Asian Americans and Latinx people involved in the uprising. Deavere talks about how the play reads now, after George Floyd’s murder and the uprising that followed, and about what still hasn’t changed in the cultural climate for Black theatre artists.

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2021-11-12 11:59:53 Word of the Day
Word of the Day: savoir faire

This term has appeared in 15 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

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2021-11-12 11:32:36 Idiom of the Day
have (some/any) qualms about (something or someone)

To have some or certain hesitations, apprehensions, uneasiness, or pangs of conscience (about something or someone). (Also often used in the negative to mean the opposite.) Watch the video

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2021-11-12 11:20:27 edify Open / Comment

2021-11-12 10:03:17 TED Radio Hour
Bucking The System

We hear calls for systemic change, but what does that look like? This hour, TED speakers share stories of taking on institutions — from schools, to medicine, to policing — so they work for everyone. Guests include economist Emily Oster, lawyer Priti Krishtel, and social psychologist Phillip Atiba Goff.

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2021-11-12 08:17:10 Word of the Day
hovel

Definition: (noun) A small, miserable dwelling.
Synonyms: shack, shanty, hut, hutch.
Usage: Compared to the manor house, their own modest home seemed like a hovel.
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2021-11-11 13:59:18 Word of the Day
Word of the Day: fealty

This word has appeared in 125 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

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2021-11-11 10:45:29 curlicue Open / Comment

2021-11-11 09:25:32 Word of the Day
gaffe

Definition: (noun) A clumsy social error; a faux pas.
Synonyms: slip, solecism, gaucherie.
Usage: He knew by the silence that greeted his speech that he had made some kind of gaffe.
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