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Yet the recession was not for the reason Williams expected; rather, it was due to the worst pandemic in a century.

From MarketWatch

But in the next two galleries, moving into the 20th century, black artists form a current within that mainstream, dealing with their own concerns.

From The Wall Street Journal

There’s something refreshingly 19th century about Patrick Page’s traveling Shakespeare seminar, “All the Devils Are Here,” which opened Thursday at BroadStage in Santa Monica.

From Los Angeles Times

Fox’s $71.3 billion sale of the major entertainment assets of 21st Century Fox in 2019 effectively anchored the business around programming that people watch live, John Nallen, president and chief operating officer of Fox Corp., said in an interview.

From The Wall Street Journal

The only time it has been higher in nearly 150 years is around the turn of the 21st century, which is the era of the dot-com stock crash.

From Barron's