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Dan P. Lee

  1. fixations
    Why Is America Obsessed With Perfecting Its Teeth?The story of a rapidly expanding industry that has little reason to exist, except the clearest reason in the world.
  2. fixations
    Why Is America Obsessed With Perfecting Its Teeth?The story of a rapidly expanding industry that has little reason to exist, except the clearest reason in the world.
  3. year in culture 2013
    Steve McQueen on 12 Years a SlaveThe film’s brutality made its own director look away, but to call it a movie about slavery is, he feels, to miss the point.
  4. houston we have an explanation
    Alfonso Cuarón Answers All Your Questions About GravityThe real-life science behind the filmmaking, butting heads with his advisers, and much more.
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    Alfonso Cuarón on Making GravityHe believes movies aren’t about telling stories as much as making intense, lingering moments.
  6. Welcome to the Real Space AgeThis is not a rendering. It is a launching pad in the New Mexico desert for rocket planes that will send you into space for $200,000. It opens l […]
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    Listening to BeckHe’s still making music. Differently from anyone else.
  8. 4:52 on Christmas MorningOne year ago, a fire raged in Stamford. It burns still.
  9. Sex: The Multiplicity of DesireShort-stay motels, foot-fetish parties, lesbian role reversal, a hot date on Smith Street: Saturday night in the city.
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    ‘I Just Want to Feel Everything’: Hiding Out With Fiona Apple, Musical HermitTalking and texting and inebriating and listening to music and staying up late and generally spending a lot of hanging-out time with one of America’s most mesmerizing and (ordinarily) most reclusive songwriters.
  11. Peaches: Who’s Your Daddy?She was 16, he was 52, what could go wrong?
  12. After the RaptureRadio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted the world would end this past May. Since then, he has recalculated—and is now sure it will end this […]
  13. Commander-in-Chief, AccidentalThe brief, harrowing administration of Richard A. Clarke.
  14. Hijackers, TheWho were they?
  15. CarpoolingLiz, Jacko, and Marlon: The starriest refugees in history.
  16. Paw Paw & Lady LoveHas the Supreme Court ever heard such a peculiarly American story as that of Anna Nicole Smith? And they didn’t know the half of it.
  17. Travis the MenaceHe was the most famous ape in America. But to really understand a chimp, you have to know his mother.