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15 february, 2020
8 pm
The conductor who lost all his memories — but could still remember both music and his wife. Musician Clive Wearing, who was also a conductor, in 1985 contracted herpes simplex encephalitis, a viral infection that attacks the central nervous system. It left him with what Sacks called “the most severe case of amnesia ever documented”: Unable to form any new memories that lasted longer than 30 seconds, Wearing became convinced every few minutes that he was fully conscious for the first time. After the infection ravaged his brain, Wearing began to fill notebooks with entries like this:
8:31 AM: Now I am really, completely awake. 9:06 AM: Now I am perfectly, overwhelmingly awake. 9:34 AM: Now I am superlatively, actually awake...
Nearly four years after the Brexit vote, Britain has left the European Union, closing a rancorous chapter in the country’s history and beginning another viewed by some with optimism and others with dismay...
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The Cabaret was founded and led by composer Jerzy Wasowski (b. 1913) and writer Jeremi Przybora (b. 1915), the two older gentlemen in the cabaret's title. Wasowski wrote the music, and Przybora, the TV script. The cabaret focused on two Bourgeoisie characters, Pan A and Pan B (Mr. A and Mr. B) "in dinner jackets, bowler hats, and with carnations in their button holes," who tried to find themselves in the new world of communist People's Republic of Poland, invariably poking fun at the changing reality. Their humor has been described as "absurdist, sophisticated and elegant"...
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Kobe Bryant, one of the greatest basketball players of all time, has died in a helicopter crash. He was 41...
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