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Psychologists, therapists and other experts share the works they recommend to people who are struggling to connect.

n many cases, aches and pains can be a reflection of your daily routines.

Habits like sitting at a desk all day, looking down at your phone or even straining to pick your socks up off the floor can lead to a body that feels creaky, tight and sore. Making time to practice good movement habits can keep you feeling limber and strong.

Physical therapists know this all too well.

“People come in with the same problems over and over again,” said Theresa Marko, a physical therapist in New York City.

She often finds herself recommending the same exercises as solutions, she said — exercises that, for example, “counteract, you know, going to see ‘The Odyssey’ for three hours.”

We asked physical therapists to share the exercises they wish everyone incorporated into their fitness routines. Here are six that came up again and again.

Pauline Clayden, a British ballerina who was the last known surviving soloist from a performance that changed the course of American dance — the opening night of Sadler’s Wells Ballet’s “The Sleeping Beauty” at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York on Oct. 9, 1949 — died on July 21 in Salisbury, England. She was 103.

The \[Metropolitan Museum of Art announced\](https://www.metmuseum.org/press-releases/john-galliano-horizons) that Galliano would be the subject of the Costume Institute’s next exhibition, scheduled to open May 9. It is an exceptional honor. Only two other living designers have been so celebrated by the Met: Yves Saint Laurent in 1983 and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons in 2017.

The [Metropolitan Museum of Art announced](https://www.metmuseum.org/press-releases/john-galliano-horizons) that Galliano would be the subject of the Costume Institute’s next exhibition, scheduled to open May 9. It is an exceptional honor. Only two other living designers have been so celebrated by the Met: Yves Saint Laurent in 1983 and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons in 2017.

fter years of studying how human beings write, the cognitive psychologist Ronald T. Kellogg concluded that drafting a basic persuasive essay was as mentally taxing as digging a ditch was physically exhausting.

Writing well requires a command of vocabulary, spelling and grammar. It forces writers to comprehend a subject, to sift through their working memory of that topic, to organize and plan. Writing an essay is so difficult that a person in the throes of it can do hardly anything else — as anyone who has shushed a spouse or child while trying to compose a decent sentence can attest.

Very few people would volunteer to dig a ditch. Likewise, it is hard — almost impossible, many English teachers will admit — to turn a reluctant writer into an enthusiastic one.

Yet the American education system expects nearly all students to learn how to write an essay. It’s little wonder, then, that as soon as a tool arrived promising to lessen the pain people grabbed it.

Wishing RDN as many more birthdays as he wants. As far back as I can remember, De Niro has always been my favorite actor, so I will celebrate his special day by rewatching one or two of his outstanding performances. But with so many to chose from, which one(s) should I pick? Feel free to make recommendations and share the reason for your choice(s), ... or not. Whichever way, I will be more than "a little bit" grateful for your suggestions.

Four paintings by the Renaissance master Antonello da Messina were stolen from a museum in Messina, Sicily, on Saturday, Italian officials said.

Taking advantage of an annual religious celebration that brings tens of thousands to Messina’s streets, thieves made off with three of five panels that constitute the Polyptych of San Gregorio as well as a small double-sided devotional painting. They are the only works by Antonello da Messina, commonly called Antonello, that remained in his native city.

When we published our list of the 50 best thrillers of the 21st century, we suspected we would hear from passionate readers who felt injustices had been done. (Guess what … we did!)

The ruler is a tyrant. He is irascible, paranoid, convinced of conspiracies that exist only in his mind. He punishes anyone he considers an enemy and listens only to those who affirm his worldview. This is Leontes, the king of Sicilia in Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale,” this summer’s second show at the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. Though the director Daniel Sullivan sets the play in its fairy-tale of world of robes and furs and crowns, this “Winter’s Tale” brings the contemporary parallels bitingly close.

When Elizabeth II was about to be crowned in 1953, British officials decided on the perfect gift for the monarch-to-be: They would bring home the Bayeux Tapestry.

For over 900 years, the 220-foot-long embroidery depicting the 1066 invasion of England by William to Conqueror had resided in Bayeux, France. A celebratory loan of one of Britain’s most important cultural artifacts would have made an ideal coronation present, but there was a problem: French art experts wouldn’t let the tapestry travel. It was too fragile to move, they said.

French experts scuppered another British plan to borrow the tapestry in 1966 for the 900th anniversary of the invasion. Then again in 1980. Last year, too, the tapestry’s handlers insisted a loan was impossible.

And yet, against the odds, the tapestry is now in London. On July 9, at 6:15 p.m., a bright yellow truck carrying the masterpiece, sealed in a climate- and vibration-controlled case, left Bayeux in a secretive overnight operation. Accompanied by members of the French security services, the truck drove onto a Eurostar train that took it under the sea through the Channel Tunnel..

The podcast will be a limited series examining “The Fire Next Time,” by James Baldwin; “Song of Solomon,” by Toni Morrison; “All the Pretty Horses,” by Cormac McCarthy; “Gilead,” by Marilynne Robinson; “All the King’s Men,” by Robert Penn Warren; and “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” by John le Carré.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Galliano would be the subject of the Costume Institute’s next exhibition, scheduled to open May 9. It is an exceptional honor. Only two other living designers have been so celebrated by the Met: Yves Saint Laurent in 1983 and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons in 2017.