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intelligencer

13

Power

The felonious witness

in Mueller’s bell jar

By Olivia Nuzzi

18

Ranking

2020’s megarich

Democratic donors

By Gabriel Debenedetti

20

76 Minutes With ...

Vic Seixas, the

nonagenarian

Grand Slam champ

By Reeves Wiedeman

strategist

49

BestBets

Combat boots stomp

back to the catwalk

51

LookBook

“Women of Taste”

at Zitomer

54

Design Hunting

Chic and disorderly,

Manolo Blahnik style

ByWendyGoodman

58

Investigation

Mirror, mirror on

the selfie wall

60

Food

Platt on Franco-Japanese

fusion at Maison Yaki;

B(aconless)LT

theculturepages

63

Williams/Verdon

Michelle Williams

flips the billing for

Fosse’s partner

ByJacksonMcHenry

65

Here’s Proof That They

Were Really Friends

TheonewheretheFriends

gang celebrates their 25th

66

GowanusRecCenter

The WeWork-ization

of nightlife

By Madison Malone Kircher

70

Critics

tvbyMatt Zoller Seitz

Confronting our dark past in

The Terror: Infamy;

musicbyCraig Jenkins

The Bon Iver experiment

continues withi,i;

architectureby

Justin DavidsonA case

for gentrification

78

ToDo

Twenty-five picks for

the next two weeks

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