Genius
“Joan Crawford: A Woman’s Face” Brings a Star’s Genius to Light
Once Crawford slipped into her style, she never slipped out of it—not publicly. “Never in the thousands of times in our association, was she ever less than perfectly dressed,...
The Comic Genius Who Pushed Television Further Than It Could Go
At its peak, “Your Show of Shows” had twenty-five million viewers, and Caesar was hailed as a genius. Albert Einstein and Leonard Bernstein were fans; on Saturday nights, when...
How to Layer Better, According to a Layering Genius
If layering is an art form, Spencer Phipps is menswear’s Michelangelo. At his eponymous label, the LA-based designer subverts frontier Americana—studded flannel shirts, leather-paneled jeans—with a jocular, Tom of...
D’Angelo’s Genius Was Pure, and Rare
This week, the R. & B. singer D’Angelo died at age fifty-one, of cancer. He was best known for deftly combining the heft and tenderness of soul music with the ingenuity...
The Dyspeptic Genius of <i>Dilbert</i>
Scott Adams turned the comics pages into a witty diatribe against Corporate America. Source link
The myth of the genius hacker
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Cyber Security myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox.The writer is director of the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre and professor...
A Complete Unknown Misses the Elusive Genius of Bob Dylan
That Mangold was worried in the first place about alienating the audience tells you something about his tendencies to walk the line, stylistically speaking—especially as compared to a filmmaker...
Trump’s Genius Plan to Release Gaza Hostages: More War
Lemire explained that Patel, with his penchant for “deep state” conspiracy theories and threatening journalists, is a pick designed to please far-right extremists.“People I talked to say this pick...
Randy Newman’s Genius for Political Irony
A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newmanby Robert HilburnHachette Books, 544 pp., $34.00Take “Political Science,” a novel ditty he wrote during the early...