CreditCreditNbcu Photo Bank Ms. Merkin is a novelist and critic.
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This Close to Happy , by Daphne Merkin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) .
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Lawyers for Merkin countered that the money manager and his family lost about $110 million in Madoff's fraud, and that Merkin did not willfully blind himself to Madoff's failure to actually trade securities for customers.
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Merkin sales must fly through the roof when Outlander is filming.
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They get a little help from the occasional merkin, of course.
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Obviously, there was more to the show than stylized merkin art.
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THIS CLOSE TO HAPPY: A Reckoning With Depression, by Daphne Merkin.
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Rachel Cusk, Daphne Merkin, and Katie Roiphe, but writers like Melissa Broder,
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What exactly is a merkin, and how did they come to exist?
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I've never actually looked to see if there's a merkin or not.
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"It's not like that stuff is beneath me," Ms. Merkin went on.
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There's a nice homey quality about YCA events at Merkin Concert Hall.
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ALARM WILL SOUND at Merkin Concert Hall (May 13, 8:30 p.m.).
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BROADWAY PLAYHOUSE: ALAN MENKEN at Merkin Concert Hall (March 5, 11 a.m.).
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Those are both possibilities, at least in the minds of the Merkin Bros.
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MUNCHIES: What made you form the Merkin Bros and start making these parodies?
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Mr. Pasquale ("The Bridges of Madison County") renders Merkin as a handsome cipher.
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"What's happened to Woody is so upsetting, so unjust," Previn says to Merkin.
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The Ecstatic Music Festival brought them together on Wednesday night at Merkin Concert Hall.
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Schneiderman's predecessor Andrew Cuomo, now New York's governor, had sued Merkin in April 2009.
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I've seen a merkin on display in a museum, but I've never worn one.
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Of course, Merkin may not necessarily be talking about due process in its legal sense.
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But what about the other men affected, the ones Merkin labels as "the heinous sorts"?
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Merkin et al, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, No. 09-ap-01182.
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Merkin says she suffered from postpartum depression, badly, but her worse fears never came true.
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Kiersey Clemons is making a faux-moss merkin when she runs into a minor snag.
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It was run by Ray Merkin, a theatre person from England and run very strictly.
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Now, however, the time has come, as Daphne Merkin suggests, to question our reflexive responses.
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Merkin portrays Allen and Previn as an affectionate, happy couple with a private home life.
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A merkin is an artificial hair covering actresses wear over the genital region during nude scenes.
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Merkin isn't the only older commentator who worries the movement is devolving into a sex panic.
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Merkin once ran "feeder funds" that sent client money to Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC.
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The next year, Picard reached separate settlements with two other Merkin funds, Ariel and Gabriel Capital.
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Merkin also reached a $410 million settlement in 2012 with the New York attorney general's office.
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"I'm from Wyoming and I grew up loving Olive Garden," Merkin Bro Christian Heuer told MUNCHIES.
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"This artist works with a lot of layering — the mask, the wig, the merkin," Reynolds said.
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Its Very Young People's Concerts at Merkin Hall are specifically for 81793- to 81783-year-olds.
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In contrast to Merkin, however, Orth denied having such a relationship with Mia Farrow in 2014.
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Her solution: emerging from the bedroom fully naked (and rocking a merkin, in case you were wondering).
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But any payouts must go to its investors, not to Merkin, who also lost money with Madoff.
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Anyway, at least now we know what happened to Katy Perry's merkin from the "California Gurls" shoot.
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This Close to Happy engages with this feeling at times, though Merkin doesn't quite take it seriously.
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"I hope that what separated Elle out from the other magazines will be preserved," Ms. Merkin said.
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"Thomson, a stylist extraordinaire, has written an unaccountable and irresistible book," Daphne Merkin wrote in her review.
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The drivers normally call to confirm the order, says Daniel Merkin, who lives in the Canadian city.
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Into this morass daringly comes Daphne Merkin with the long-awaited chronicle of her own consuming despair.
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When Merkin gets married, she feels she has betrayed the sacred monster she so loves to hate.
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Characters have names like President Merkin Muffley, General Buck Turgidson, Colonel Bat Guano, and General Jack D. Ripper.
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He is based in Jerome, Arizona, and he has a winery called Caduceus and another winery called Merkin.
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So the show has a "merkin wall for all the women on the show," as Wilde told Meyers.
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The question of musical influence also shaped the Israeli Chamber Project's concert on Thursday at Merkin Concert Hall.
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Ms. Merkin contends that "expressing sexual interest is inherently messy" and could lead to confusion in the workplace.
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Richard Merkin, an artist and professional dandy, was a Brooklyn native through and through, before heading to Syracuse University.
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Merkin is unlikely to cheer you up, but if your misery loves company, you will find no better companion.
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Merkin also notes that she conducted her interviews with Previn in Allen and Previn's home, often with Allen present.
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We talked to Christina Ricci about playing an It Girl, Zelda's relationship with fame, and the actress' Jazz Age merkin.
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For those still wondering what a merkin is following Jared Leto's 2016 Oscar appearance, no worries— he's got you covered.
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The latter is made the more difficult, Merkin writes, by the fact that depression is a boring topic of conversation.
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And at one point, it meant that Martin Scorsese told her to trim back the bush on a cadaver's merkin.
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Hairstylists from Prema, including Dale Delaporte with additional styling by Charlie Le Mindu, helped make these magical merkin creations possible.
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It's a one-night-only performance, on Monday, June 25, in Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center in Manhattan.
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Merkin could stand to acknowledge that practically all of the high-profile #MeToo cases have concerned more serious violations than those.
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They just put the special effects piece [for the autopsy] over her own torso, and then the merkin over that area.
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"I think it is a quintessential insider movie, one that plays in this shrewd way to groupthink," Merkin told the Post.
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"I really can't come up with a pleasant memory," Previn said when asked by Merkin about positive recollections of her mother.
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But Soon-Yi Previn's story doesn't help rehabilitate his image -- as much as she and Merkin tried in this puff piece.
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Oppens's authoritative musicianship will be feted at Merkin Hall on Saturday in a 75th birthday tribute hosted by WQXR's Terrance McKnight.
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But this most recent performance, at Merkin Concert Hall with a quartet, it's a very different context not typically associated with mourning.
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You may not be fully cognizant of having witnessed a merkin on the big or small screen, but you most certainly have.
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Mr. Merkin and his family are "dealing with the serious fallout from the fire," his lawyer, Andrew Levander, wrote in an email.
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"Risk" may be the watchword of its protagonist, the monomaniacal Robert Merkin (a miscast Steven Pasquale), yet "Junk" feels almost numbingly safe.
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In 1976, he said, he was called in to make an emergency merkin for a Penthouse model who didn't have enough coverage.
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The latest batch of these "People's Commissioning Fund" pieces comes to the Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall on March 6.
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By contrast, the image of Allen that emerges from the story is revealing in ways that Previn and Merkin likely did not intend.
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Schneiderman accused Merkin of "recklessly" feeding $2.4 billion of investor cash to Madoff, while falsely claiming he had been actively managing the money.
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You might think it's more topical and less offensive and significantly cheaper than dressing up as Harambe or Donald Trump's $60,000 head merkin.
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Based on her recent interview with Seth Meyers, Olivia Wilde seems to have a complicated relationship with the merkin she wears on Vinyl.
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Rebecca Merkin, a professor at Baruch College who teaches communication strategies for the workplace, said to leave your political opinion at the door.
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" Merkin emphasizes that Previn is a "hands-on mother" who takes her children to "places she says she'd never once gone with Farrow.
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Merkin has yet to try electroconvulsive therapy, but she has been on medication combos that have inhibited her ability to pee on her own.
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At over three and a half hours, the two-concert performance felt long, sometimes penitentially so in the secular sterility of Merkin Concert Hall.
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Daphne Merkin, a critic and novelist, recently made the point in our Opinion section that we are treating women like frail Victorian-era housewives.
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To satisfy this demand, Cummins tossed together American Dirt, a 'road thriller' that wears an I'm-giving-a-voice-to-the-voiceless-masses merkin.
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Neither Kevin Spacey nor Matt Lauer, who Merkin describes as the truly "heinous sorts," have faced any legal charges for sexual harassment, assault, or rape.
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They mostly left her in the care of the family nanny, Jane, who Merkin describes as an "agent of her mother" and was also abusive.
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" In a much-discussed op-ed in January in the New York Times, Daphne Merkin quoted an unnamed "feminist friend": "What ever happened to flirting?
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Merkin was born into circumstances of plenty, the poor little rich girl; she is not interested in universalizing, though she often does so almost inadvertently.
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It doesn't help that Merkin was also the author of a New York Times op-ed that many took to be dismissive of the #MeToo movement.
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These arguments are all more or less the same, though some of the writers—like Daphne Merkin, author of the Times piece—claim to be feminists.
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Merkin describes them holding hands and Allen ruffling Previn's hair, and the two being forced to sneak away from paparazzi by way of penthouse roof walks.
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The seventh annual Ecstatic Music Festival will begin in January at Merkin Concert Hall and feature performances from Vijay Iyer, San Fermin and Roomful of Teeth.
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It's a shame Merkin, and the editorial decisions of New York magazine, foreclosed upon that opportunity in favor of this frivolous fare that gets us nowhere.
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Merkin is capable of being at once melodramatic and finely nuanced; she has so many good phrases about depression that it's hard to choose among them.
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We never find out how Merkin met Allen, nor whether or not she had overcome any misgivings or feelings of her own about the allegations against him.
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" At The New York Times, Daphne Merkin clutched her pearls about "the victimology paradigm" of young women who she thinks perceive themselves "as frail as Victorian housewives.
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" Mr. Hobson also plays lots of music by living composer, like this 2016 premiere at Merkin Concert Hall of Robert Chumbley's "Three Etudes (by any other name…).
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NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG This engaging, ever-curious series begins its season at Merkin Concert Hall with a celebration of W. C. Handy and the blues.
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"We learn about the particulars of her life without fully understanding how she became the person she presents herself as being," Daphne Merkin writes in her review.
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I would wear a see-through plastic skirt that I bought at Patricia Field, and I would stuff a black wig under it, a big pubic merkin.
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Daphne Merkin opens This Close to Happy (Farrar, Straus, Giroux), her new memoir about living with depression and its tangled causes and effects, with a suicide fantasy.
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One example Sasha gave to back up his claims was his Anthony's 1969 X-rated musical film Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
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Merkin and Roiphe are placed on one side of a line as if this were a "natural" division between generations, when in fact that division exists within generations.
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Jesánte – How Do I Go OnE1 Nightmares On Wax – Les NuitsE2 SLF & Merkin – Tag Team TriangleE3 Lady Alma – It's House MusicF1 Tirogo – Disco ManiacF2 Kings Of Tomorrow feat.
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Merkin said she hadn't read the manuscript and wasn't sure what aspects of his life the book covers or whether he addresses the accusations and the subsequent fallout.
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" When his wife warns him not to commit insider trading with Pronsky, Merkin respondss: "How do you think J. P. Morgan made the kind of money he did?
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Merkin discloses in the resulting profile of Previn — published in the September 17 issue of New York magazine — that she's been a friend of Allen's for 40 years.
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On Friday, the New York Times published an op-ed by the writer Daphne Merkin mourning the death of due process as a result of the post-Weinstein reckoning.
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"Sobriety Art" from Daphne Merkin takes a look at how Leslie Jamison rejected the link between creativity and alcoholism in her new book, The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Afterman.
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This is something I learned when I spoke to Amanda Miller, a professional wigmaker who fashioned the now-infamous merkin that adorned a female cadaver in the Boardwalk Empire pilot.
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And despite the fears of Merkin and her ilk, many women, as Melissa Gira Grant wrote, experience sexual harassment as a waste of time as as well as a trauma.
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Merkin, who was first hospitalized for psychiatric issues at the age of eight, dissects her often inexplicable sadness clearly, with painfully intimate details about her medical regimen and her family.
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One home damaged belonged to J. Ezra Merkin, the Wall Street hedge fund manager who invested more than $1.8 billion of his clients' money in Bernard L. Madoff's notorious Ponzi scheme.
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He was the genuine article, the kind of target that it was legitimate for the Me Too movement to go after — one of "the truly heinous sorts," as Merkin put it.
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To the Editor: While Daphne Merkin shares her concerns that the #MeToo movement might put a damper on office "flirting" and devolve into an "outright witch hunt," I have other concerns.
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The setting will be Merkin Concert Hall, where the Kaufman Music Center will present the first program in this season's Broadway Playhouse, a series introducing children to the classics of musical theater.
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Melody Ranch, Man in Black, and now merkin is a need-to-know term for any Westworld conversation after star Thandie Newton confessed she doesn't wear one on The Graham Norton Show.
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And is there any room to suggest, as Merkin does, that women do have the agency to stand up for themselves when faced with aggressors who are more like Thrush than Weinstein?
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Critics of the #MeToo movement like Daphne Merkin allege that feminists are denying women agency by assuming that they are not capable of consenting to (or refusing) sex on their own terms.
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Released in August on New Amsterdam Records, the project arrives at Merkin Hall in Manhattan on Saturday, as part of the Ecstatic Music series, with Joachim joined by the intrepid Spektral Quartet.
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To the Editor: The nuances that Daphne Merkin sees in levels of harassment, assault and rape do not mean that the victimized person does not realize a lifelong impact from such actions.
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Other prominent #MeToo critics, like Caitlin Flanagan and Daphne Merkin, are old enough to have been around for the second wave but have always been on the conservative end of the spectrum.
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" Mr. Merkin moved into an apartment on the sixth and seventh floors in 1995, according to Michael Gross, the author of the book "740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building.
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Junk's Milken analogue Robert Merkin (Steven Pasquale) is a financial shark in the vein of Gordon Gekko, trying to take over a struggling steel company with investments fueled by the titular junk bonds.
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As a child, Merkin could achieve her mother's full attention only when she was sick, and she ponders whether her yearning for maternal affection might have been an engine of her later breakdowns.
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The highlight of the event, on Tuesday at Merkin Concert Hall, was Odaline de la Martinez's "Canciones de Lorca," a set of four sensual yet intense, even obsessive settings of Federico García Lorca poems.
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Merkin is meant to be an antihero, always chasing the next big score, no matter the cost, but judgment is never passed on him — or any of the play's other morally dubious support characters.
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That includes a woman being brought to orgasm by the idea of her decrepit lover's financial power, and the antihero Merkin solemnly lying to his wife (Miriam Silverman) in the manner of Michael Corleone.
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And as for Garrison Keillor, Jonathan Schwartz, Ryan Lizza, and Al Franken, four accused men who Merkin holds up as a different kind of alleged predator: None of them have been charged with anything either.
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" But even Merkin allowed that "the dude and his disconnected dudeness has a certain appeal now, maybe because the world has grown more horrendous or reality is less bearable than when the film was made.
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Mr. Pasquale will play Robert Merkin, an investment banker whose decades-long story is about "how, while most of us weren't watching, money became the only thing of real value," according to Lincoln Center Theater.
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"In our current climate, to be accused is to be convicted," wrote Daphne Merkin darkly at the New York Times on January 5, citing the fact that Garrison Keillor, Jonathan Schwartz, Ryan Lizza, and Sen.
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The breakthrough described in Nature was the result of two years of relentless effort by researchers in the lab of David Liu, the Director of the Merkin Institute for Transformative Technologies in Healthcare at Harvard University.
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The fire prize is currently finding sponsors to support the full program and has already raised an initial half-million dollars in funding from Dick Merkin, the CEO of Heritage Provider Network, to develop the plan.
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Widely believed to be Broadway's first female lyricist, she will be celebrated in this edition of the Broadway Playhouse series at Merkin Concert Hall, which introduces classic musicals and their creators to the next generation of audiences.
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There is very little choreographed removal of clothing during go-go and strip club stripping, whereas most burlesque shows require a performer to end in pasties and a g-string or merkin (though there are some exceptions).
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Before New York magazine had even published its profile of Soon-Yi Previn — Woody Allen's wife, and the previously silent center of their scandalous relationship — the story had already generated controversy due to its author, Daphne Merkin.
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" In her piece, Merkin worries that "we seem to be returning to a victimology paradigm for young women, in particular, in which they are perceived to be — and perceive themselves to be — as frail as Victorian housewives.
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" She was particularly disdainful of Merkin, who "actually had the nerve, in once piece, to repeat the words of women she knew who were thinking to themselves, 'Oh, for God's sake, grow up, this is the world.
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"I always think that Virginia Woolf would be mortified at having her name associated with this group," said Daphne Merkin, the memoirist and cultural critic, who is a member of the group but does not post anything.
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The group took second prize in the Trondheim Competition in Norway and first prize in the auditions held by Young Concert Artists, which presented the Omer in its New York debut at Merkin Concert Hall this week.
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It has been held in New York at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Merkin Concert Hall and elsewhere, and the festival orchestra has played concerts at venues like Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall.
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The idea that an older cohort of women is leading the charge against the younger generation's allegedly excessive zeal has been bolstered by arguments from writers like Allison Benedikt, Katie Roiphe, Daphne Merkin, Masha Gessen, and Caitlin Flanagan.
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On this week's podcast, Merkin talks about "This Close to Happy"; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Min Jin Lee discusses her new novel, "Pachinko"; and Gregory Cowles and John Williams on what people are reading.
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The accord with hedge fund manager Ezra Merkin also resolved claims against Ascot Partners LP, a "feeder fund" he ran that sent customers' money to Madoff, often without their knowledge, as well as his management company Gabriel Capital Corp.
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"Merkin knew that several of the red flags he identified applied to BLMIS, but there is no evidence that he did anything to confirm that BLMIS was a legitimate operation and not a Ponzi scheme like Bayou," Bernstein wrote.
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"I always thought Elle was different in that it let you write dense, crunchy, textured stories in an age where everything is quick," said Ms. Merkin, who most recently wrote for Elle about considering a same-sex romantic relationship.
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Now, after several decades of silence, Previn, who is currently 73, has given multiple interviews to journalist Daphne Merkin in which she speaks about her relationships with her mother, with Allen, with her siblings, and with the public eye.
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Who crave the freedom, pleasure, and agency that Merkin and the dissident feminists are trying to convince us we've needlessly surrendered, but recognize that "epidemic" and "crisis" are in fact the right words to describe what millions of women have suffered?
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"Wagner meets Tinder": Intimacy in the age of dating apps was the inspiration, the composer Wang Lu said in remarks from the stage, for her effervescent chamber concerto "Cloud Intimacy," which received its world premiere on Tuesday at Merkin Concert Hall.
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On Tuesday at Merkin Concert Hall, the New York Festival of Song gave the premiere of a suite of mordant, jazzy songs from William Bolcom's new opera "Dinner at Eight," which will have its premiere at Minnesota Opera next month.
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If the aim here was to imply that Allen was too inept and unsophisticated to have ever attempted anything untoward with Dylan, Merkin and Previn also give the impression of Allen as a socially cloistered man with a tenuous grasp on reality.
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On the other hand, it's unclear that anyone else would have gotten the kind of access to Allen and Previn that Merkin does in this piece — although again, that does reinforce the narrative that she was handpicked to get their point across.
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MERKIN BROS: We all work in the film industry in different capacities, and a lot of us work in advertising, so this was a way to have fun with some of those advertising tropes that we all see on an everyday basis.
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Merkin recognizes that life is all she has: "I think [suicide] affords a kind of—this is putting it strangely—a paradoxical relief to a very depressed person, to think there's one way out of it," she tells me over the phone.
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So in order to seem healthy, I suppose, they would wear a merkin to conceal the fact that they had lost their hair, which is really interesting when you think about it, because now the trend is to strip it all off.
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Daphne Merkin Last January, when the #MeToo movement was at its most fast and furious, and it seemed like powerful men were falling at the rate of one every few days, I wrote about my concerns as to where all this was headed.
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To accommodate its growing enrollment, of adults as well as children, the school relocated to buildings on the West Side and finally, in 1978, to the new Abraham Goodman House at West 67th Street, a building that also includes Merkin Concert Hall.
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"I think Woody went after me because at that first basketball game I turned out to be more interesting and amusing than he thought I'd be," Previn tells Merkin (Allen began taking Soon-Yi to basketball games when she was a teenager).
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Merkin provides no definitive answer to these questions, but she raises them with such precision and elegance that psychiatric readers will come away from her book with a new appreciation for the task that faces them when dealing with profoundly depressed patients.
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In Monday's decision, Bernstein said the "most compelling piece of evidence" offered by Picard that Merkin turned a blind eye to Madoff's fraud was Merkin's warning to colleagues about signs of fraud reflected in a Ponzi scheme exposed in 2005 at Connecticut's Bayou Group.
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It reached No. 4 on Tuesday night with "Rinaldo" at Merkin Concert Hall, and it was hard to know which was more remarkable: the presence of four countertenors, two of them very fine; or of four Baroque trumpets, and players to wield them adequately.
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The writer Daphne Merkin, who has known Allen for a long time, said he had referred to his memoir as a project that he had been working on for a while, and she noted that she had mentioned the book to some editors she knows.
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Singal and others who are critical of the social justice left—a group that ranges across the ideological spectrum and includes Bari Weiss, Ben Shapiro, Daphne Merkin, and Katie Roiphe—accuse the left of being footstampingly insistent on their views, to the detriment of healthy debate.
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The stage and TV actor Steven Pasquale, whose character is a Michael Milken-like junk bond king named Robert Merkin, carried his script along with homework he had assigned himself — James B. Stewart's "Den of Thieves" and Connie Bruck's "The Predators' Ball," books chronicling 1980s Wall Street.
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U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Stuart Bernstein in Manhattan said trustee Irving Picard can keep trying to recover $280 million of alleged fraudulent transfers to Ascot Partners LP in the two years prior to Madoff's December 2008 arrest and hold Merkin liable in his former capacity as Ascot's general partner.
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The entire star-packed clip is worth watching for amusing snippets from the likes of John Krasinski (who ran into a burning building), Jena Malone (had to have a merkin trimmed for a birth scene), Zosia Mamet (who ate a cow's brain..."by accident"), and so many more.
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Schedule information on Thursday with a music review of a piano recital at Merkin Concert Hall in Manhattan by Daniel Lebhardt, a winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, referred incorrectly to a performer at a coming Young Concert Artists presentation at the hall on April 11.
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NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG As part of the New York Philharmonic's festival "Beloved Friend — Tchaikovsky and His World," this well-loved vocal series delivers a program of songs at Merkin Concert Hall by that composer and his Russian contemporaries, featuring the soprano Antonina Chehovska and the baritone Alexey Lavrov.
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Bridging an even wider temporal gap was the challenge for the composers commissioned for "Seven Responses," a large-scale and mostly successful undertaking by the Crossing, a wonderful chamber choir from Philadelphia, which received its New York premiere at Merkin Concert Hall over the course of two concerts on Sunday.
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THE ARTS Schedule information on Thursday with a music review of a piano recital at Merkin Concert Hall in Manhattan by Daniel Lebhardt, a winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, referred incorrectly to a performer at a coming Young Concert Artists presentation at the hall on April 21.
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For this performance at Merkin Concert Hall, Mr. Lebhardt, a winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, played an overlooked Beethoven sonata, followed by the premiere of a substantive piece by Tonia Ko, ending with a cornerstone of the repertory (by a fellow Hungarian): Liszt's daunting Sonata in B minor.
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Daphne Merkin, for instance, lamented in the New York Times in January that "due process is nowhere to be found" for men like Garrison Keillor, Jonathan Schwartz, Ryan Lizza, and Franken — all of whom had lost jobs as a result of #MeToo, but none of whom had faced any criminal proceedings.
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In her portrait series "Dandies," and the later series "Grandes Dames of Couture," she posed well-known subjects — Richard Merkin and Tom Wolfe among the dandies, and Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli among the grandes dames — in carefully arranged interiors with luxurious fabrics, furniture and paintings, captured in natural light.
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In January 2018, for example, Daphne Merkin argued in the New York Times that women, including some feminists, were criticizing #MeToo privately even as they praised it publicly — "some women, including random people I talk to in supermarket lines, have gone so far as to call it an outright witch hunt," she wrote.
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"At a recent conference, it was pointed out that the field is hard at work, trying to make possible what most people—whose experience with genome editing is watching movies or reading casual pieces about the field—think is already possible," says David Liu, the Director of the Merkin Institute for Transformative Technologies in Healthcare at at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.
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To critics of the #MeToo movement who fear that we are in the midst of a witch hunt and that blameless men are being publicly destroyed, Keillor's story became exhibit A. In the New York Times earlier this month, Daphne Merkin held him up as a contrast to "heinous sorts" like Kevin Spacey and Matt Lauer, arguing that Keillor had been unfairly tarred with the same brush as serious sexual predators.
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You can't feasibly plan a wine trip to this part of Arizona without hitting the four-block stretch of Main Street, where Burning Tree Cellars, Pillsbury Wine Company, and Merkin Vineyards Tasting Room & Osteria (the flagship restaurant run by Maynard Keenan, a wine entrepreneur and lead singer of the alt-metal band, Tool) share real estate with a rock shop, a biker saloon and a 1940s service station repurposed as a diner.
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