The numbers of unmarried American women are burgeoning, and Republicans seem at a loss to woo them.
2012
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Egyptians vote on constitution
The referendum caps a nearly two-year struggle over the post-revolutionary identity of the country.
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Eastern Maine Notebook: Despite impaired hearing, Phelps’ basketball sense is keen
BANGOR – Mt. Desert Island point guard Jon Phelps hit a 3-pointer with just over seven minutes left against John Bapst at the Bangor Auditorium. It gave the Trojans a lead they would not relinquish, and MDI won its first game of the young season. A few seconds after that basket, a timeout was called, […]
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Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
In this week’s poem an elderly Maine woman tells such vivid stories about her early life, she transports her listener, poet Elizabeth Tibbetts of Hope, back to the past.
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Portland Symphony Orchestra enters the ‘Magic’ season
Lyn Dillies puts more magic in “Magic of Christmas.” The Massachusetts-based illusionist joins the Portland Symphony Orchestra for this year’s “Magic of Christmas” concerts at Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland. Music director Robert Moody has conceived a program that includes the drama of magic, traditional stories from the Bible and festive holiday cheer. In […]
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TV: ‘Gossip Girl’ offers lesson in TV hype
Over a six-season run that ends Monday (8 p.m., The CW), “Gossip Girl” was a teen drama known for its love triangles, scandalous affairs, OMG moments, and lots of very bad behavior by very rich people. It also became a prime example of how a little show can make a big splash in today’s fragmented […]
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Simple spirituality and quiet complexity in two shows
We have this idea in America that important paintings should be big. Really big. While this is a holdover from Abstract Expressionism, the idea goes much deeper into 19th-century Paris-led culture of giant narrative tableaux. Yet it can be argued that Modernism painting developed as a response to these absurdly affected giant paintings. This came […]
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Classical Beat: On tap at the PSO: A playful yet demanding work by Prokofiev
I don’t know whether it was deliberate or not, but the Portland Symphony Orchestra has programmed for its Jan. 27 concert a strange cousin of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” the 100th anniversary of whose tumultuous premiere is being celebrated this concert season. With his marketing antennae fully extended, ballet master Sergei Diaghilev was looking for […]
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Book Review: Nature’s comeback proves to be a wild ride
The nature-challenged reader will discover many startling facts in Jim Sterba’s new book. One stands out: Not only are America’s Eastern forests roaring back to life, they’ve been doing so for more than a century. Sterba, a veteran reporter for the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, literally stumbles onto this truth one […]