Dancing with the Stars” is back, for its sixth season. The women have dusted off their sequinned bras, the men have reassumed their matador poses, and the whole big diamanté cheese ball is rolling down the highway again, into your living room. Professional ballroom dancing is an oddity, because for . . .

MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)–“Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions.” Through May 11. | “Gustave Courbet.” Through May 18. | “Jasper Johns: Gray.” Through May 4. | “Lee Friedlander: A [...]

Of all the films about prostitution, Kenji Mizoguchi’s “Street of Shame,” made in 1956 at the end of his career, is perhaps the greatest. After directing many magnificent period films, Mizoguchi set this film in the present–in the red-light district of Tokyo known as Yoshiwara–during a debate . . .

By the time “South Pacific” closed its run on Broadway, after five years and nineteen hundred and twenty-five performances, it had done its work in the world. The 1949 musical–the first show that Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein produced as well as wrote–played to an estimated three . . .

Dancing with the Stars” is back, for its sixth season. The women have dusted off their sequinned bras, the men have reassumed their matador poses, and the whole big diamanté cheese ball is rolling down the highway again, into your living room. Professional ballroom dancing is an oddity, because for . . .

MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)–“Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions.” Through May 11. | “Gustave Courbet.” Through May 18. | “Jasper Johns: Gray.” Through May 4. | “Lee Friedlander: A [...]

Of all the films about prostitution, Kenji Mizoguchi’s “Street of Shame,” made in 1956 at the end of his career, is perhaps the greatest. After directing many magnificent period films, Mizoguchi set this film in the present–in the red-light district of Tokyo known as Yoshiwara–during a debate . . .

By the time “South Pacific” closed its run on Broadway, after five years and nineteen hundred and twenty-five performances, it had done its work in the world. The 1949 musical–the first show that Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein produced as well as wrote–played to an estimated three . . .

Op-Ed Columnist
Tet Happened, and No One Cared
By FRANK RICH
Published: April 6, 2008
John McCain’s doomed promise of military “victory” in Iraq is akin to Wile E. Coyote’s perpetual pursuit of the Road Runner, with much higher carnage.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/opinion/06rich.html?ex=1365134400&en=01f9a9c8d1c6d2af&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink