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Robbers And Rangers Collide In 'Hell Or High Water'

1:25pm August 12, 2016

by David Edelstein

Two masked robbers clean out small branches of a Texas bank in David Mackenzie's new neo-Western. Critic David Edelstein calls Hell or High Water a work of "broad scale and deep feeling."

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The New York Review Of Children's Books

10:57am August 12, 2016

Contestants guess the piece of classic children's literature based on imagined hoity-toity reviews.

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Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Part Zwei

10:57am August 12, 2016

The German language has a lot of long, crazily specific words. We give contestants words and their definitions, and they have to figure out: are these real German words, or words we made up?

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Everybody Wants To Rule The World

10:57am August 12, 2016

We took the Tears for Fears hit "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" and rewrote it to be about power-hungry fictional characters and organizations.

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Garance Doré: New York Or Paris?

10:57am August 12, 2016

For Doré's special challenge, we read quotes from famous people, and she must guess if they're about Paris, or New York City.

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The Long And The Short Of It

10:57am August 12, 2016

In this game, contestants insert the letter 'E' into a common phrase to turn it into a completely different phrase.

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Ira Sachs and Jennifer Ehle on Ask Me Another.

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Ira Sachs And Jennifer Ehle: Stage And Screen Collide

10:57am August 12, 2016

To celebrate Ehle's two Tony wins and Sachs' cinephilia, we curated a challenge in which the worlds of stage and screen collide.

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Heating Up The Competition

10:57am August 12, 2016

Every answer contains an object that can be found in a kitchen. For example, to "Star of Legally Blonde who won an Academy Award for her role in Walk the Line," you'd say, "Reese WitherSPOON."

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Left to right: Garnet, Amethyst, Steven and Pearl.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Steven Universe' And The Games We Play

6:00am August 12, 2016

by Stephen Thompson

Kat Chow and Gene Demby join the show for thoughts on a groundbreaking Cartoon Network series and various card and board games. And, as always, we close with What's Making Us Happy this week.

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TV Networks Unveil Fall Lineup At Summer Press Tour

6:46pm August 11, 2016

Broadcast and cable networks unveiled their fall lineup to television critics. NPR looks ahead at the good, the bad and the ugly for the upcoming TV season, and how the business is changing.

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