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Every day I get a newsletter from the New York Times that lists “Today’s Headlines” on a variety of topics, with links to the articles. Here are today’s headlines under the category “Arts:”
ARTS
Paris’s Jewel-like Orangerie, Home to Monet’s Waterlilies, Reopens, Polished and Renovated
By ALAN RIDING
At first glance, the Orangerie, standing across from the Musée du Jeu de Paume, its near-identical twin, looks largely unchanged. Yet, not for the first time, it has undergone a radical makeover.‘Da Vinci Code’: The Mystery of the Missing Screenings
By SHARON WAXMAN
Sony’s “Da Vinci Code” will be released without first undergoing test screenings, to preserve a climate of mystery and excitement around the movie.ABC Fills Out Its Lineup With Slate of New Shows
By BILL CARTER
The network has ordered 12 new scripted series, clearly searching for some shows that will be able to match its existing hits, like “Desperate Housewives,” “Lost” and “Grey’s Anatomy.”
Here is the headline that was not important enough to make the newsletter:
Stanley Kunitz, Poet Laureate, Dies at 100
By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT
Stanley Kunitz was one of the most acclaimed and durable American poets of the last century.
We live in a world, my friends, where “Desperate Housewives” and the DaVinci Code previews are more important than the death of Stanley Kunitz. Which, whatever you might think of Mr. Kunitz’s work, strikes me as wrong. I take some comfort, however, in noting that the obit is #4 in the Times’s most e-mailed list. So perhaps the public cares if the headline chooser IT person does not.
Here is the obit, which begins:
Stanley Kunitz, who was one of the most acclaimed and durable American poets of the last century and who, at age 95, was named poet laureate of the United States, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 100 and also had a home in Provincetown, Mass.
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