| 单词 | strangeness |
| 例句 | Some matching strangeness in us that may or may not have come from our being related. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I nod my thanks, wondering at the strangeness of the last few minutes, and go. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z For a moment the strangeness of the news made them all stare silently. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I felt a kind of sorrow for them: a commonplace whose strangeness remained somehow hidden from my incurious fellows. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But everything here seemed peculiar—this entire loop, with all its chaotic strangeness, was perfect camouflage for peculiars. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I had to admit, despite the strangeness of the whole thing, Renee and Annette had done an incredible job with the whole project. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d lie there a few minutes, enjoying, in a way, the strangeness of my situation; then I’d groan and drag myself up to get Ob and May. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z This spectacle arrested us with its strangeness; for the landing parties had been ordered to fire merely the docks and buildings by the water, not the town itself. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It seemed as if there was no end of strangeness. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Bargh winced at the memory and the strangeness of it all. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “My good friend Henry,” he said stridently, the strangeness of that notion hanging there for us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Even then, I was excited by the strangeness of it. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I want to stress the strangeness of this procedure. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I’d heard rumors about the serious strangeness of Mrs. Morris, the American history teacher, and I can now say that those rumors are fact. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z When my wife answered, the strangeness of my situation again swept over me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t stay awake, and he couldn’t sleep, either; his head was spinning, a daze of strangeness hung over everything, and his hand was sore and throbbing. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked at his drawings for a long time, memorizing their beauty and strangeness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And it’s when you look at that picture that the strangeness starts. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z His slight strangeness set him apart and made him safe as a repository. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She had become part of the exodus without entirely registering the enormity and strangeness of it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I think about all the strangeness of his being here, sleeping in homespun sheets, wearing the same clothes for days on end, eating bread and cheese, and not complaining about any of it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The more he saw, the more numb he grew to the strangeness of the new world. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z So quiet it amounted to nothing but a snap of air, and that was the strangeness of it, how a small sound like that could fall across the whole world. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I recalled that inward sensation I had experienced: for I could recall it, with all its unspeakable strangeness. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z It is often necessary, for meaning to come through, that there be an almost vague sense of strangeness and askewness. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z What bothered Hazel, Dandelion and Hawkbit was the openness and strangeness of the down and their inability to see very far ahead. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the daylight the angels were less visible, though to any eye their strangeness was clear. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The morning’s brightness drew me awake and I was surrounded with strangeness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I'd heard it all my life but suddenly the strangeness of it came through to me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Nel trotted along behind, enchanted with the smell, the candles and the strangeness. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He looked as if he were not conscious of the strangeness of the occasion, but he was. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The fact was that he was dizzy with all this strangeness, and he hoped that by attending to something dull and workmanlike he’d regain a little balance. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But then the strangeness between us began, the feelings of oddness and misplacement, and our move never happened. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Your fingers turn the strangeness of these pages that somehow connect my life to yours. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “I felt the strangeness, the road, the light, and for a moment I felt as if I were the last man alive on this world....” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Will felt he shouldn’t stare, though his head was ringing with the strangeness of it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked around, sitting on her pine branch proud and unafraid, though her heart was beating with the strangeness of it, and her dæmon fluttered to sit close to the warmth of her body. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a strangeness about their movement that she couldn’t quite work out. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Only the strangeness of it, to me a Terran, and the strangeness of seeing the flash of my friend’s spirit in this grim, fierce, provincial boy, made me dumb for a while. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z One doesn’t have to be sensitive to feel the strangeness of Deer Isle. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z These tales of Africa I remember best, because of their strangeness; but most of our Regiment have never seen the country, and remember it only as a place of legend. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He worked during the day in an offhand, insolent manner, but there was a strangeness to his eyes whenever you spoke to him. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The strangeness of her daddy’s appearance and the late hour conspired to sink a peculiar anxiousness into Ophie’s bones. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The oak was too bulbous, the elm too straggly, and in their strangeness they seemed in league. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They were in the orchard now, in the dense interweaving of orange trees, and Richard felt a strangeness overcome him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In a way, her strangeness, her naivet6, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I felt better at once; the strangeness vanished. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z They always turned red after she drank, but he was only noticing the strangeness of it now, the angry-red ears jutting out by her pale face. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He always said, “We look out for each other in Logan County. That’s a bit of our strangeness I hope rubs off on the rest of this big, normal world.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He accepted this strangeness and that without questioning why anything was, except that in this day this thing came. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It was strong, but there was a strangeness to this movement that made me ask, “Are there two babies?” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The basement of the Château de Bordeaux is a warren of strangeness. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z When Feynman made that comment, physicists had had half a century to adjust to the strangeness of atomic behavior. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was slightly ominous because of its strangeness—no wolf was so vicious to other wolves—but I half believed they weren’t serious. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Dany liked the strangeness of the Eastern Market too, with all its queer sights and sounds and smells. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “I thought my little girl could be like the girl in that book—Alicia in Wonderland! But I was wrong. My baby girl didn’t see all the beauty—just the strangeness.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z As I listen, shaking my head at the strangeness of the priestly conversation, another priest comes running up, younger than the others, pulling his outer robe on as he comes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z But in her mind’s eye all she could see was him, and she wanted to be with him, all of his cold strangeness. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The strangeness of the school and the other children made me very sad. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z This time there was no strangeness in my waking, but a grateful sense of peace. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Harry stared at the creature, filled with wonder, not at her strangeness, but at her inexplicable familiarity. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It is not only the size of these redwoods but their strangeness that frightens them. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z By playing up their strangeness, the way a slave simpered and acted childlike to escape a beating, they evaded the entanglements of the quarter. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The two dæmons considered the strangeness of this knowledge. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Although she lived in town, Old Tallow was so isolated by the force and strangeness of her personality that she could have been surrounded by a huge dark forest. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z We had thrust our daughters into all the strangeness and intensity of White House life, not knowing how it would impact them or what they’d take from the experience. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Something about the fullness of the room, or the strangeness of the stranger, has made me talkative, and I shout back, "Ashland Avenue is what they play to terrorists to make them talk." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z It wasn’t just the strangeness of rooming with a woman which kept him up with the streetlights. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z If this was strange, it was only part of the strangeness of this place and of his presence in it. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Lina stepped slowly because of Poppy, and Poppy clung to her neck, unusually quiet, sensing the strangeness and importance of what was happening. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The strangeness of Mr. Collins’s making two offers of marriage within three days was nothing in comparison of his being now accepted. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Dany followed close on her silver, staring at the strangeness about her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And in the middle of the strangeness, a familiarity. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them later remarked, “It just shut you up. The strangeness of it. Going out there, where we’d always had such a welcome.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In Cal the process had been so long and so slow that he felt no strangeness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There’s this strangeness, like when you accidentally turn one street too early, and, because all of the cookie-cutter houses look the same, you feel as if you’re in a parallel universe. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Moody could see through Invisibility Cloaks. . . he alone could see the full strangeness of the scene: Snape in his nightshirt, Filch clutching the egg, and he, Harry, trapped in the stairs behind them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He enjoyed the strangeness of sitting in the wrong seat, and then feeling his son’s presence as the cushion molded around him and held him close. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The strangeness of my situation struck me anew—I was a man born old at midnight into a new life. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then when he had seen the fish come out of the water and hang motionless in the sky before he fell, he was sure there was some great strangeness and he could not believe it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Its high, somewhat stiff collar against my neck, the wide cuffs touching my wrists, the rich material against my skin excited a sense of strangeness and distinction; I felt like some nobleman, some Spanish grandee. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The little towns, where nobody waved, and the other passengers in the train, with whom I had achieved an almost kinfolk relationship, disappeared into a common strangeness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Had he always taken for granted the strangeness of these names? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z So Ophie pushed aside the strangeness—the whole manor was odd, really—and carefully handed Mrs. Caruthers her tea, the delicate cup balanced upon its equally fine saucer. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z For all the strangeness of their escort, she had Con and Taisin with her, and they would do all right. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He was terrified of that monster of strangeness they called the capital. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z In my mind I pulled away the layer of strangeness that had covered everything. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Plenty of white people came to look on this strangeness. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z There was a strangeness in the silence that followed, as if it was full of unspoken words. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “Here and now confuses their equipment. You can’t ever say Logan County strangeness isn’t good for something.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Remember when I told you I saw him naked awhile back and it made me feel some strangeness down in my secret place? Well, in these dreams, he’s like...God, this is embarrassing!” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z For some time now, Laila had begun to sense a new strangeness when the two of them were out in public. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Now and then, older and braver boys, inspired by the old man’s strangeness, would dare each other into an attempt to tease or torment him—but not for long. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The strangeness of the place wore off little by little, but Naomi’s hostility toward Henry did not. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know how to explain the strangeness. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Such is the strangeness of the human heart. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know if it’s the peanut butter or the strangeness of that word that almost makes me choke. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z He thought about the first day he had gone there, the strangeness of it, the way he had trodden about warily, like a cat, smelling out new things. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Lee felt a strangeness in the air, a coolness. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought that perhaps I had come upon the forest equivalent of a queen bee, and I wondered whether this algae would ever cease to amaze me with its botanical strangeness. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z But a sense of strangeness will not leave me, I cannot feel at home amongst these things. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if everything was back to normal after the strangeness of the night before. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Again the strangeness, the secret awareness that the person on the other end did not know he talked with a Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Dicey remembered Momma’s strangeness and James’ idea that craziness was inherited. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I was struck by the strangeness of that page: Dad could command this science, could decipher its language, decrypt its logic, could bend and twist and squeeze from it the truth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And Melanie noticed a strangeness in her voice and that her hand shook as she put milk and cookies on the table. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel shook her head slightly at the strangeness of it, this once-ordinary sound that in the mist-filled forest felt like a mechanical menace. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I remember thinking about the strangeness of this country: it is very cold outside and extremely hot inside. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He fell silent, facing the immensity of the strangeness before them, and then breathed out. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “All of a sudden, Logan County strangeness is my fault, huh?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z When Mr. Obama was growing up, he remembers, “the very strangeness” of his heritage and the worlds he straddled could make him feel like “a platypus or some imaginary beast,” unsure of where he belonged. Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Might this colossal voice spend her near-future paying closer attention to the strangeness of existence and all of the microtonal emotions that go with it? Review | Adele’s ‘30’ has more to offer than dazzling sadness 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z The goal is to wrest the play from naturalism and restore the Apollonian formalistic exultation, the primordial aestheticized and ritualistic strangeness of classical tragedy. Jacques Rivette’s Thirteen-Hour Experimental Film 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z We tend to assume Cézanne left the volatility and strangeness of his youthful efforts behind. Review | Want to go deep inside a great artist’s mind? MoMA’s Cézanne exhibition is the one to see this summer. 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z That’s why I wanted you to see it,” Paul advises Harry – a quote that sums up a decade of passing strangeness that can’t be explained to those who didn’t see it firsthand. Don Draper?s reckoning nears 2012-05-21T12:45:00Z Once I started to research Satie's life in detail, I was captivated by the strangeness and complexity of the man, but also by his fierce resolve to change music forever. Erik and Me: Alistair McGowan on Satie 2013-07-12T17:30:08Z You may enter a lost zone and simply become caught up in the strangeness of the environment. Essay : The Unhip, Unexpected Joys of Cruising 2014-03-12T15:58:09Z You had easy access to the feelings of paranoia and strangeness that are in the film. Richard Ayoade does The Double 2014-04-07T05:50:06Z Even as the show aims for small-town authenticity, the directors are trying to capture visually the strangeness permeating everything. ‘The Leftovers,’ About a Small Town’s Loss, Comes to HBO 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z It is sometimes a little too folksy and fairy story, but contemporary strangeness wins out, and it is throughout something to behold. TV Picks: 'Powerless,' 'Craft,' 'Who,' 'PuppyCat,' 'Garden Wall' 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The story is full of darkness, strangeness, magic, evocations of a threatening sea and cloudy skies, bitter confrontations between the wife and husband. When Boston Ruled the Music World 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Children are comforted by familiarity as much as they are enchanted by strangeness, and “Mary and the Witch’s Flower” has enough of both to hold the attention of young viewers. Review: ‘Mary and the Witch’s Flower’ Chases a Girl and Her Broomstick 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Which is to say, West heard in King Crimson’s “20th Century Schizoid Man” an intense riff buried in an odd place; Gong songs are filled with such intense strangeness. Remembering Daevid Allen, co-founder of Soft Machine and Gong 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z This kind of strangeness is commonplace in contemporary dance. Dance Review: Donna Uchizono Interprets Ideas of Oliver Sacks 2013-04-23T22:10:51Z Yet, being an artist immersed in contemporary music, he also revealed the experimental strangeness in this piece, especially with his impetuous dispatching of passagework. Review: Andris Nelsons Makes New York Debut as Boston Symphony Leader 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Until Valentine’s Day, when the six-week rocket of strangeness that Ms. Fox rode to international fame ended with confirmation that they’d broken up. Julia Fox Will Come for You 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Just take in the voluptuous strangeness of it all. A Welcome Gust of Weird, and Adventures in Shadow Puppetry 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z He didn’t exhibit the toughness of Leo, the heart of C. J. or the strangeness of Doug. From ‘The West Wing’ to ‘Veep’: Chiefs of Staff, Imagined and Real 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Almodóvar said he was struck by the way Ms. Munro captured family dynamics; he pointed to “a sense of strangeness” in her work, and the mystery beneath the surface of ordinary life. Pedro Almodóvar Explains His Connection to the Panama Papers 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z “I never got over the strangeness of a racialized society that defines people of color as inferior — that is a science-fictional state,” he said. ________Stepping Into the Expansive Worlds of Black Imagination 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The movie’s too awkward to be good, but its dreamy strangeness stuck in my head. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Paul McCartney to ‘Puss in Boots’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Colbert sees the world as one whose complications and strangenesses demand satirizing; Fallon sees the world as one that isn’t complicated or strange at all. Why Stephen Colbert beat out Fallon and Stewart for the Emmy 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z “He smiled, and the strangeness of that smile, its lack of malice, left me confused.” Review | In ‘Washington Black,’ a 19th-century slave escapes on a balloon 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z In the bracing strangeness of the moment, I was convinced that this was the most powerful singing I’d heard in years, or maybe even in life. Review | On ‘Jacqueline,’ Haley Fohr sends her alter ego on a road trip 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z The value of “Rite” piano arrangements is their stark focus on the work’s harmonic strangeness and rhythmic sharpness. Music Review: ‘Rite of Spring,’ With Clanging Pianos and Drums 2013-06-14T20:18:20Z With it separated from ourselves, we are able to observe its fragility, its strangeness and terrible power. A Magic-Filled Island Where Life’s Struggles Rage 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z In Season 3, Jesse brings his ex-girlfriend and an Irish vampire to the Louisiana plantation where he was raised, where more strangeness awaits. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Parts Unknown’ and the BET Awards 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z ‘An instrument for making all the strangeness apparent’: the Horniman’s garden pavilion by Walters and Cohen, with shades of Mies van der Rohe. Horniman Museum; Bauhaus Live – review 2012-05-26T23:05:30Z Krishna, whose lower range tunnels subterranean caverns, her careful art glimmers with some of the strangeness of the divine. Review: Keeping the Dance Fires Burning at the Joyce 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z I wasn’t sure at first, but then I looked into her life and decided its strangeness gave it so much color there were possibilities. Far From Valhalla: A Tabloid Star Is Joining The Sisterhood Of the Fallen 2011-02-13T01:06:18Z Then, beginning in 1969, more strangeness: The sculptures gain in size and become porous, and delicate. Gego: Drawing in Space at the Guggenheim 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The exception — the aspect of the film that suggests some of the strangeness and intricacies of a reality that is both unimaginably distant and not even past — is Erivo herself. ‘Harriet’ Review: Becoming Moses 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z One grain of good news: a lot of us, even in this country, finally seem to be of aware of the strangeness of the planet we’re now on. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z At least a couple of rappers have risen to the implicit challenge of Young Thug’s strangeness. Critic’s Notebook: Young Thug’s ‘Black Portland’ Extends His Reputation 2014-02-05T21:42:57Z The grammatical strangeness touches us at almost every turn. Poem of the week: Donal Og by Lady Augusta Gregory 2010-04-19T08:47:00Z For her this means having a taste for the extreme and whatever strangeness escorts sunshine; the view from a highway and the perspective gained from passing — not through, but alongside. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z It was a few months into the pandemic, and the strangeness of lockdown and the turmoil and urgency of the Black Lives Matter protests were on his mind. When Dance Shut Down, These Directors Banded Together 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z This was a splendid programme, plunking down facts firmly and stepping nimbly along them, while managing to convey all the strangeness and excitement of medieval history. Last night's TV 2010-08-05T07:00:00Z Listening to the audience around me gradually gather their bearings in Ruhl’s world and allow themselves to laugh at its captivating strangeness felt like a music of its own. Review | At Met premiere, ‘Eurydice’ offers a beguiling visit to the underworld 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The strangeness of these times have given novelists all kinds of new material for thrillers. The Trump era is posing some major challenges for thriller novelists 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z We are interested in your own delight and passion and strangeness as reflected in your characters. Do characters express theme? 2013-02-20T01:00:00Z They wanted to be out of a studio and in the real-world strangeness of “The Office” and “Little Britain.” The Baronesses Are Coming! And Filling a Comedy Gender Gap 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z It is a shared phenomenon, something to be talked about; it is even a matter of pride how much strangeness we have seen. Critic?s Notebook: Fasten Your Seat Belts And Embrace the City 2010-10-14T15:49:00Z What if, instead of atoning for all of those old interviews with new interviews, Mayer chose to wrestle with his strangeness in song? Review | Why isn’t John Mayer’s music as weird as John Mayer? 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z As he sees it, the Audible adaptation hasn’t required him to compromise the audacity, the ambiguity or the endearing strangeness of the comics. Sweet Dreams: Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman Becomes an Audio Drama 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z It wears its unusual format lightly, making us comfortable with its strangeness and audacity; if nothing else, it helps you begin to visualize life on Mars. To Mars, Not a Moment Too Soon 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z I imagined being a child and lying awake when others were sleeping, the strangeness of that silence. Magazine Preview: You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey! 2011-06-09T14:04:26Z “I love outsiderness. I love strangeness. It’s where I feel at home, and I think the world, for the most part, is very strange.” Regina Spektor Tunes Up for Broadway 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Josquin indeed wedded the logic of math to the magic of melody, and his compositions feel like they unfold with both perfect clarity and atmospheric strangeness. The Renaissance’s Most Influential Composer, 500 Years Later 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z But the show lacks the logic of dreams and the strangeness to justify its incoherence. Review: ‘Andy Warhol’s Tropico’: Ever Get Stuck in a Dream? 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Resembling a flash mob, the attractive dancers race from one asymmetrical tableau to another, sometimes adding eccentric gestures without the frisson of true strangeness. Reviews: Works by Rebecca Davis and Milka Djordjevich, and Lyon Opera Ballet 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z It’s a vision of the near-future that borrows heavily from the strangeness and conflicts of the present. Imagining a thirsty future in Paolo Bacigalupi’s ‘The Water Knife’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z For these artists, strangeness is in the details. Review | In the galleries: Some art is sultry, while other pieces are smoky 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z And yet she is constantly reducing the frisson of potential strangeness to weak camp, introducing spooky music and giggle-producing gags, as if she lacked confidence in her psychoanalytic ideas. Dance Review: Exploring Time in the American Realness Festival 2014-01-21T22:04:18Z But to Mr. Pollock, what makes a work a classic is not its familiarity and universality but its utter, irreducible strangeness. Murty Classical Library Catalogs Indian Literature 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z In his own flat, glossy, beautifully empty way, then, Gary Hume is very much a painter of everyday life in all its rich and limitless strangeness. Gary Hume: 'I couldn't hold down a job. That's why I became an artist' 2013-05-18T21:00:01Z That is, until Dean wrote his adaptation, which captures something of the authentic “Hamlet” music — in all its strangeness, dissonance and haunting beauty. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Adding to their appealing strangeness are tissue-thin surfaces that are a result of being painted on plastic casts of stretched canvases rather than real ones. Museum & Gallery Listings for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Popping flashbulbs heighten the strangeness of these invisible projectiles. Art In Review: PAUL PFEIFFER: ‘Playroom’ 2012-10-04T21:13:50Z The latest “Star Wars” show, “Andor,” which makes its debut Sept. 21 on Disney+, adds to the sense of strangeness by not following this pattern. Can Tony Gilroy Bring New Hope to ‘Star Wars’? 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Luka eats the cookies but remains stoic, and I imagine his confusion as he tries to process the strangeness of the experience - the unrestricted access to cookies, the animated Elmo, the cooing faces. Motherlode Blog: My Baby, the Star 2012-08-14T19:55:08Z If “The Collision” is more enamored with its quirks than with cohesive storytelling, then “The Martyrdom” is its antipode, a play so procedural that it leaves little space for strangeness and wonder. ‘The Collision’ and ‘The Martyrdom’ Review: A Nun Ahead of Her Time 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z It is the creepiness of our time, the strangeness of our cities, the paranoia of this absurd age. A modern masterpiece: Mike Nelson's The Coral Reef 2010-06-14T12:55:00Z The best songs — “Two Weeks,” “Pendulum,” and “Closer”— keep the record in your ears beyond the pleasing strangeness of the initial encounter. FKA twigs Tries a Different Tack on ‘LP1’ 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z So the score had repetitive elements that could be learned and performed easily, but with just enough inventiveness, even strangeness, to be musically interesting and emotionally powerful. ‘The Public Domain’: Cherished Harmony in a Splintered Nation 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Day makes pictures that imbue the everyday with vivid strangeness. Review | In the galleries: Two photographers focus on the pastoral beauty of Arlington 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Gray conjures the future in grandly imaginative touches that link it giddily to the present day while signalling its alienating strangeness. “Ad Astra,” Reviewed: James Gray’s Masterwork of Personal Film in an Alien Setting 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z From this foray into the remotest tundra of the avant-garde, he soon developed a style that preserved the strangeness he prized while making that strangeness enticing, even welcoming. John Ashbery, the Gift of Quiet Moments 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Take the utter strangeness of James Ensor's wheelbarrow in the foreground of an autumn garden. Impressionist Gardens; Another World: Dal?, Magritte, Mir? and the Surrealists 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Gallery visitors will find out far more about the work of Piero than his life because researchers have failed to uncover much about him beyond his reputation for strangeness. Fame finally comes to little-known Renaissance master Piero di Cosimo 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z With their eye for the strangeness in the world, the unaccountable in human beings, these films can haunt you. Werner Herzog: 50 years of potent, inspiring, disturbing films 2013-06-01T08:01:00Z Let it refresh you with its strangeness and freedom, its intimacy and depth. Is journalism killing my creativity? 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z The strangeness of giving birth during a pandemic doesn’t end when you get home, though. 'I started shouting at the midwives': the stress of giving birth under lockdown 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z But those works have brevity on their side, layering their absurdity with very real concerns about the inescapable nature of poverty, a flash of strangeness that echoes far beyond the page. A Bag of Cash Falls From the Sky. Trouble Is Close Behind. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z The strangeness is, of course, heightened by the fact the speech is delivered by Scorsese himself – as film journalist Ambrose Heron has noted. Has film really outgrown racism? 2011-08-01T10:18:35Z For one thing, “The Interview” lacks the strangeness in content or style of many cult movies -- far from bizarre or campy, its jokes are largely of the mainstream studio variety. Sony's North Korea film 'The Interview': Can it achieve cult status? 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z It was a parallel quality – of always being Sarah Bernhardt, and always connecting the audience to the unfathomable strangeness of being Bernhardt – to which critics of the 19th century's most famous actor loudly objected. Stop treating actors with contempt 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z Her fans include Ari Aster, director of “Midsommar,” who said in an email, “At her best, she lends a subtle, deeply individual strangeness to the quotidian.” A Filmmaking Life Gets a Sequel 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z They spend a lot of time wandering the fields and pathways of a drab and marshy northern French countryside, their mostly silent, idle days punctuated by spasms of violence and eruptions of metaphysical strangeness. Movie Review: ‘Hors Satan,’ Directed by Bruno Dumont 2013-01-17T23:18:44Z Though at times tasteless and barely coherent, the story is oddly affecting, the very strangeness of Nyholm’s folkloric vision and its unnerving execution pulling you in. ‘Koko-di Koko-da’ Review: Torture, Kill, Repeat 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z Diaries are fascinating for their strangeness, the unexpected tangents that pull you up short.' Diarykeeping is an exceptional and heroic act 2012-12-30T16:00:01Z The strangeness that De Palma conveys is as much psychological and even metaphysical as it is practical. Movie of the Week: “Mission to Mars” 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z It is difficult to put into words the alien strangeness of the microscopic worlds depicted by the pioneering film-maker F Percy Smith. Small wonders: the tiny world of F Percy Smith 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Something about the strangeness of the people and the harsh indifference of the nature that surrounds them feels real, even if realism in the conventional sense may be the last thing on the filmmaker’s mind. Review: The French Countryside Holds Surprises in ‘Staying Vertical’ 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z He ponders the strangeness of Roman numerals and rabbits. Review: Looking Inward in Poetry Books From Ron Padgett and Nick Flynn 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z He’s at the center of a truly fantastic landscape, one populated with machines that increase the story’s strangeness and plausibility while doing nothing to distract from the coming-of-age that is its real point. Fantasy worlds get an upgrade with alternate technology 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Clark wants to make us recognise the difficulty and strangeness of Picasso's modernism: yes, of course, Picasso is an artist who should shock and disconcert you, if you are looking at him properly. Picasso – separating truth and fiction 2013-07-10T14:32:55Z This short solo is a masterpiece of strangeness. Mary Wigman: a dance pioneer with an awkward past 2013-05-22T14:22:00Z A few pages later our Hemingway avatar David experiences "the strangeness inside" as Catherine penetrates him. The androgyny of being Ernest: A gender-fluid reading of Hemingway that upends his macho image 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z But nothing can explain the cosmic allure, audacious inventiveness and gripping strangeness of Mr. Ruders’s ingenious music. Classical Playlist: Haydn, Poul Ruders, Vaughan Williams and More 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z They are memorable partly because their strangeness never fades. Movie Review: ‘Frankenweenie,’ Tim Burton’s Homage to Horror Classics 2012-10-05T00:09:14Z Ambitious, heady and distinctive, if easier to admire in theory than engage with moment to moment, “A Cop Movie” has a conceptual strangeness that’s difficult to overstate. ‘A Cop Movie’ Review: When a Uniform Is a Costume 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z All the production's energy goes into creating an extravaganza of strangeness. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Ragtime; Antigone – review 2012-06-02T23:05:48Z Their eccentricity does not reside in the content of who lives inside or parks the car but in the flat-out strangeness of a typology we take for granted. Hammer's 'Gridwork' plots Charles Gaines' captivating process 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z It took some time for readers to recognise the power, the subtlety, the absolute originality, the strangeness, the wisdom and the depth of Fitzgerald's work. From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z Other times it is mind-boggling craft and exquisite technique whose aesthetic strangeness can render the art question moot. Review: At the Costume Institute, Couture Meets Technology 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Despite help from Rich and Tone Talauega, who worked with Jackson, Wheeldon keeps swerving from that core, straightening away the rhythmic complexity of Jackson’s dancing along with its strangeness. Tony Nominees for Choreography Put the Past in Motion 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z The strongest stories — “Austin,” “Vines,” “Rhinebeck” and “Silhouettes” — are shot through with almost subliminal strangeness and build toward endings of uncanny attenuation, endings worthy of Raymond Carver in his later, elegiac mode. Three New Story Collections Make Place a Protagonist 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z The strangeness here may have less to do with the affection that binds the central couple than with the ties of kinship and friendship between them and the rest of the characters. 'Love Is Strange’ Stars John Lithgow and Alfred Molina 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Zambians, as Serpell writes, “were so used to foreigners being strange, they had no expectations or judgments about the nature of that strangeness.” Review | ‘The Old Drift’ is a brilliant literary response to generations of bad politics 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z “I had no sense of strangeness,” Rahim said, switching from English into French. T Magazine: Changing of the Avant-Garde 2011-02-25T20:22:41Z Don’t get me wrong — I’ve been intrigued by the strangeness of “The Leftovers” and my editors here at ArtsBeat typically expect me to file on time. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Grief and Its Hucksters 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z Dig a little deeper, however, and you uncover a lurking strangeness. Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh | CD review 2010-04-01T14:35:00Z “It takes courage as a woman,” she added, “to write, show or embody strangeness.” With a Doppelgänger Novel, Deborah Levy Embodies Strangeness 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z It's energetic and fun, and its eccentricity matches Faune for strangeness. Rambert Dance Company ? review 2012-05-16T17:32:04Z Like Johnson, Kennard escalates the strangeness with the oddness of his comparisons. 'The Transition' plumbs every poet's worst nightmare: corporate hell 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Our first taste of chimichurri or vindaloo or gefilte fish may be off-putting and strange, but that initial frisson of strangeness can also be a spur to further exploration. Big Questions, Smart Women, Mann?s Movies 2011-04-22T13:31:51Z And rather than try to make the strangeness more palatable, A24 — and to an increasing extent, other companies — has leaned into the strangeness. Ghost shops and farting corpses: How viral conceits became Trojan horses for brilliant dramas 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z The video clip multiplies the strangeness: It’s a pole dance turned into a cosmic abduction and muddy ritual. The Playlist: Taylor Swift Wants to Start Over, and 7 More New Songs 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z It’s easy to look at the strangeness of his work, and it’s a trap. 2010-01-29T03:53:00Z Others, on meeting her, burst out laughing at the strangeness of her name. Timberlake Wertenbaker: 'I'd love to write for Holby City' 2013-01-14T18:45:02Z There's a frisson, a strangeness to the moment – a sense that gardens in the 19th century were places of tantalising desire and danger. Floral fantasies: garden paintings reveal the radicalism of the Impressionists 2010-08-20T12:40:00Z Her work becomes almost collagelike — an effective way of communicating the strangeness of the immigrant’s experience, in which everything in the world is there for the taking and endlessly foreign at the same time. Shahzia Sikander’s Exquisite, Entangled Worlds 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z “It’s nice to see so many people exploring their own creativity during this time, using art as a way to cope with the strangeness,” he said. Missives From My Locked-Down Friends, From Siberia to Samarkand 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z The book is in part an attempt to find "strangeness at the heart of the deeply ordinary". A life in writing: Jonathan Coe 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z But A24 essentially threw a sheet over the names, cut out two holes and said, “The strangeness is more important.” Ghost shops and farting corpses: How viral conceits became Trojan horses for brilliant dramas 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z I wanted to write about this strangeness from the perspective of someone who would never think about the darker parts of society until a loved one forced him to. Te-Ping Chen on the Nihilism of the Internet 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The tender strangeness of other Shakespeare plays — Hamlet’s sea voyage, the animate statue in “The Winter’s Tale” — must yield to “Cymbeline’s” final act, which discloses more than two dozen improbable secrets with machine-gun speed. Fiasco Theater Company Rides Shakespeare to Success 2011-09-02T19:00:54Z Reviewing the novel for The Financial Times, Christian House wrote that it succeeds thanks in part “to its multisensual atmosphere of strangeness.” Subversive Novels Dominate Shortlist for International Booker Prize 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z But like his oddly unanxious “Parsifal” at the Salzburg Easter Festival two years ago, his “Tristan” smooths over the work’s strangeness, its emotional extremes, its revolutionary harmonies. Review: Cheers, but Modest Impact, for Revisionist ‘Tristan’ 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z How that happens, and the strangeness of it, are sad and human and the heart of the book. Beware the infectious beasts of 'The Blondes' 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Such images are part of Stezaker's continued investigation of the intimate strangeness of the photographed human face, the way it exposes and veils at the same time the feeling, thinking creature within. Brian Dillon on John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery 2011-01-29T00:06:00Z Nothing gets in our way as we wander through these elaborate compositions, warming to the quiet intelligence and patient craft with which they were made, and slipping into their deep, meditative strangeness. Art Review: ?Georges Braque: Pioneer of Modernism? - Review 2011-10-13T22:30:51Z Chabrol's genius is that the pair's strangeness falls entirely within the realms of acceptable – if odd – behaviour, while inching towards an unholy finish. La C?r?monie: No 16 2010-10-17T10:40:00Z He insists on his own strangeness, but he does not quite sell it. 'Mulaney' feels more than a bit like 'Seinfeld' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z The strangeness of the salon owner’s belt and haunches grazing Susannah’s face while he moves and she sits. ‘Medusa’s Ankles,’ a Selection of A.S. Byatt’s Wildly Imagined Stories Across Three Decades 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Like so many Tonight Show games, Random Object Shoot-out inserts a giant element of strangeness into an otherwise standard setup — in this case, the competition involved shooting these inexplicable objects through a basketball hoop. Taylor Lautner and Jimmy Fallon: 'Random Object Shoot-Out' 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Proclaiming Cheever's strangeness should be a cliche, but for each generation the WASPiness of his settings seems to shroud his work in a phantom conservatism. A brief survey of the short story part 45: John Cheever 2012-11-16T11:05:54Z Is the strangeness, richness and ambiguity of theatre a distraction from politics or a source of it? Can political theatre change the world? 2010-04-13T10:47:00Z “I try to alternate beauty with strangeness or horror,” she said. Bloom and doom: Pokemon Go-like art project explores climate change 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Professor Robert Bartlett . . . conveyed the strangeness and excitement of medieval history. Last night's TV 2010-08-05T07:00:00Z The production's hallucinatory strangeness divided critics, with some embracing its European swagger, and others arguing that the primacy of text suffered at the expense of show-off direction. Best theatre of 2012, No 4: Three Kingdoms, Lyric Hammersmith 2012-12-18T17:17:11Z And last week it acquired the Cumnock Tryst: a music festival that for the strangeness of its name alone drew interest beyond the Scottish borders. Scottish Composer James MacMillan Opens Cumnock Tryst 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The artist Polly Morgan uses taxidermy to explore what was called in one of her exhibitions “the poetics of strangeness”. How to dispose of a dead pet: is taxidermy the very best option? 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z There is no such thing as a “Commendatore” in Japan, but I felt the strangeness of the title and I appreciated that strangeness very much. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Holmes disperses mystery, turning the disgust and mayhem of murder into something ultimately comforting; all is in order, so long as Holmes is there to disentangle the strangeness. Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z We heard mournfully beautiful passages from two of his best-known compositions, "The Curlew" and "Sleep", their melodic strangeness giving only a hint of his tumultuous personality. Desert Island Discs; Robert Winston's Musical Analysis; Ziggy Stardust Came From Isleworth 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z But it also has moments of lightness and strangeness, as well as kinks and sour notes, which strengthen the sense that these are people, not figurines in a dutiful, paint-by-numbers biopic. ‘Jackie’: Under the Widow’s Weeds, a Myth Marketer 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z She’s doing a singular form of acting, and we’re caught up by the strangeness of both her outward behavior and her character’s private thoughts. Barely Moving, but Communicating Volumes 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z But to be enamored with that strangeness, that perpetual smokescreen of his, means getting caught in Scratch’s most profound musical trap. Perspective | Behind the smokescreens, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry was a true master of sound and spacetime 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z The tiny, evanescent scherzo and breathtaking prestissimo finale both introduce quarter-tones, giving a fuzzy strangeness to some of the harmonies. NYO/Bychkov 2010-08-08T11:33:00Z Maybe it’s about the strangeness of a universe we experience only through our neurons. Three Journeys Under the Radar: Trippy, Unsettling and Affectionate 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z But lost in the sheer strangeness of it all was that crystalline, indelible moment of triumph that “Moonlight’s” victory represents, above and beyond its artistry. Amid the confusion of ‘Moonlight’s’ big win is a monumental moment for the Oscars 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Speculative fiction writers would be fools to bet against the power of the richness and strangeness of the real world by pulling almost anything solely from the imagination or from other books. Sci-fi and fantasy authors reveal truths in the strangest fiction 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Yet the puppetry also recognises the hallucinogenic strangeness of the story. Alice in Wonderland ? review 2011-01-04T22:30:01Z Lloyd Webber’s music exaggerates the pure gusto of the “Cats” poems—the strangeness, doubled, somehow becomes mainstream. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Clinton had no choice, of course, but the cloudy strangeness of that tweet, a non-sentence with no clear subject or object, is the result of Kochian black magic at work. Charles Koch goes full Tyrion Lannister: His threat to back Hillary hints at the brothers’ devious game of thrones 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z The kind of fear that Campbell and Klein evoke so effectively is primal in nature, infused with a sense of strangeness and existential threat. Review | Horror novels are having a renaissance. Here’s what to read. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z We need reminders of strangeness and daring, films that don’t just confirm what we already thought we knew. Strangeness and Daring at the New York Film Festival 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z But only the final section, with its gently cacophonous instrumental textures, evoked the alluring strangeness of much of her music. Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs Meredith Monk’s Instrumental ‘Backlight’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z That’s what good TV is all about — and it’s the very experience that we happy few get by sitting still and letting “Twin Peaks” patiently insert its epic strangeness into our minds. Perspective | While you were watching summer’s biggest TV show, you missed summer’s best TV show 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z We laughed at the novelty of my week and the fundamental strangeness of being granted the opportunity to step into a life so different from my own. Adventures in Upscale Brooklyn 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Benjamin savors the strangeness of these words. Review: A Long-Awaited New Opera Is a Raucous Beauty 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z But building a cinematic space in which the language can breathe — in which both the archaic strangeness and the timelessness of the poetry come to life — demands a measure of audacity. ‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ Review: The Thane, Insane, Slays Mainly in Dunsinane 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z The strangeness of such stories isn’t just at the level of construction; it emerges from the writer’s very perception of the world and seeps into the syntax. ‘The Governesses’ Offers Subtle Lessons in Shame, Constraint and Lust 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z They had an arresting presence, a combination of graphic refinement, aural strangeness and compressed meaning that made you stop and ponder. Review: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Unknown Notebooks’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Olinghouse is in great territory, but perhaps needs to find her way to a truer, wilder sense of strangeness. Dance Review: It?s Vaudeville Without the Tomatoes 2011-02-05T00:03:32Z The wondrous strangeness of the Nativity story came finally, fully alive. Music Review: Riverside Choral Society, at Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-24T21:59:57Z My wife is so nice to me, so tolerant of my strangeness. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z While Aunt Pearl is a source of stress for Mom, the children accept her strangeness. Helping Children Understand Death 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Marcus' ambition, as usual, is to reclaim their strangeness and explain their staying power. Into the ether with Greil Marcus' ' History of Rock 'n' Roll' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Seemingly stunned by the strangeness of the breaking news, they reflexively launched into joke torrents, superimposing 21’s face onto images of Buckingham Palace guards and translating his lyrics into Cockney slang. Perspective | 21 Savage is facing deportation. Curb your memes and locate your humanity. 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Who do they consider forebears of their mix of strangeness and accessibility? Crystal Fighters: Bringing Basque the beats 2011-03-28T20:44:00Z Legion’s strangeness might be stifling, but the 33-year-old has long specialised in disconcerting kooks. 'It's exhausting not being human' – the weird world of Legion's Aubrey Plaza 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z There's no flinching from the most extreme technical demands – the fiendish second movement of the Sonata, Quasi Faust, is triumphantly negotiated – and the sheer strangeness and power of the invention is given free rein. Alkan: Grande Sonate Les Quatre Ages; Symphonie, etc – review 2012-05-24T21:31:01Z And that strangeness is front and center in the video for “Generation Why,” which Ms. Mering directed as a dystopian travelogue, shot against a backdrop of beachside decay. The Playlist: David Bowie’s Unreleased Songs and a ‘Putin’ Satire 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The strangeness of the opening chapters carries for the whole novel, the latest from Lethem, known for “Motherless Brooklyn” and “The Fortress of Solitude.” Alexander Chee on Jonathan Lethem's 'A Gambler's Anatomy': 'Oceans 11' meets 'Escape to Witch Mountain' meets a meningioma 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The performance subtly, almost stealthily, balanced the work’s elements of exotic strangeness and overtly virtuosic violin writing. Music Review: London Symphony Orchestra, With Colin Davis - Review 2011-10-20T21:57:49Z The film is mind-blowing in its ambition and strangeness, but also decidedly modest, as if it were one of those stones packed with information that we might someday learn to unlock. The Future of Movies Collides With the Past at the New York Film Festival 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z The strangeness of her family life — the unanswered questions, the tension and isolation — had finally taken its toll. What Is Your Obligation to a Difficult, Deceptive Parent? 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Reviewing the world premiere in The New York Times, Harold C. Schonberg wrote: “To compound the strangeness of the score, it ends up sounding completely impersonal — neutral, even nondescript.” Marvin David Levy, Opera Composer Who Became a Felon, Is Dead at 82 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Fanciful images representing the strangeness and danger of the unknown accompany geographic information. Review: ‘Medieval Monsters’? Those Beasts Are Not Extinct 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z But then this conflict emerges as tragedy, mystery and pure strangeness as Gretta, Gabriel's wife, makes it clear that she belonged to that older world in a way that she will never belong to him. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z Grim and guarded tidings, delivered with beauty, strangeness and drive: That was Radiohead at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night, starting the North American leg of its first tour since 2012. Review: Radiohead Revels in the Key of Dread 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Its opening scenes are beguiling in their strangeness, and its climax is wild and hilarious. Movie Review: ‘Frankenweenie,’ Tim Burton’s Homage to Horror Classics 2012-10-05T00:09:14Z For a minority writer, the strangeness that attracted a reader’s curiosity in the first place is a strangeness that must be overcome. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia 2013-05-07T17:41:43Z Bruckner, a creator of symphonies of visionary strangeness and sprawl, represents an alternative path. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Bruch and Bruckner 2013-01-10T22:16:29Z "I feel so released," says Belle, in "Train", when the strangeness and ether of a hospital operation makes her remember and then tell the story of her father's death. Dear Life by Alice Munro – review 2012-11-08T08:01:01Z It is to her a touchstone, weirdly resonant, a bag of unsolemn strangeness to draw from. When Your Movie Is a Hit for All the Wrong Reasons 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z And in 1999, in what seemed a knowing reference to his growing strangeness, he announced his intention to play the title role in a forthcoming film, The Nightmare Of Edgar Allan Poe. Michael Jackson: King of hypochondria 2010-04-23T23:14:00Z Yet memorable it will be, for its very strangeness, as well as for Mr. van der Aa’s imaginative production and for Mr. West’s riveting performance. Review: ‘The Book of Disquiet,’ Opera as One Man, With Films 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z While the coronation crown most acutely symbolizes the monarchy, perhaps no item in the ceremony illustrates the strangeness of it all more than the Sovereign's Orb. King Charles III's coronation: The bloody history behind some of the crown jewels 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z But he added that, despite surface similarities to other music of the period — such as Brecht and Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera” — each piece by Dessau bears the imprint of this composer’s strangeness. A New Album Reflects a Composer’s Stubborn Versatility 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Zentrum Kreuzberg is a mainstay of the Niche lineup, its seedy strangeness apparently a plum attraction for well-heeled visitors to Berlin. The $2,000-a-Day Berlin 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z It also symbolised the revival of a genre in which strangeness and blackness not only co-exist but are impossible to separate. From Beyoncé to Sorry to Bother You: the new age of Afro-surrealism 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z "It serves as a reminder to the voters of the strangeness we embrace," she said. 'Portlandia's' Toni and Candace plan to make an Emmys mark in L.A. 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Part of the allure of the show is the relationship between the strangeness of hoarding, how absolutely unreasonable and destructive it is, and the familiarity of it. Inside the strange world of "Hoarders" 2010-09-06T20:01:00Z The production, particularly in a haunting first act, memorably conveys the strangeness of a new religion: the arbitrary nature of its rituals coupled with the stringency with which they’re performed. Review: A Present-Day ‘Parsifal’ With a Nod to the Past 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z When it reached Britain, it was expensive and exotic and, according to “The Book of Coffee and Tea,” was “served as much for its strangeness as its taste.” Ah, Tea. So Relaxing. But Its History Is Another Story. 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z The Times described its earlier run as “unafraid of its own strangeness.” Step Aboard or Put on That Blindfold: 2017’s Theatrical Adventures 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z The pieces seen here seem to sap the originals of their unpredictability and strangeness. Performance artist Marina Abramovi? ? 'I have to be like a mountain' 2010-03-19T12:26:00Z We'd go and buy fabrics, customise our leather jackets, make cummerbunds, find old military things and throw them together in a mix of glam, military and strangeness. It's Blitz: Birth of the New Romantics 2010-05-14T23:37:00Z But if Majella’s spoken range is curtailed, her interior range is vast and illuminated by a prose style at once accessible and stippled with strangeness. Review | Make room for ‘Big Girl, Small Town’ 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z This exhibition is powerful partly because it forces us to pay attention to each animal in all its strangeness. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Noah’s Ark,’ at Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles 2014-04-21T21:43:03Z The strangeness of the Langton-era Bible chapters lingered and created an atmosphere that novelists found congenial. The Chapter: A History 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z The neighborhood of this particular strangeness is a remote abbey in 1952 Romania, where a nun hangs herself in a prologue. Review: In ‘The Nun,’ a Franchise Resumes Its Scary Habits 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z The void is only the start of the mythical strangeness. “Outer Range” is Amazon's creepier answer to "Yellowstone" 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z Part of its power derives from the sheer exuberant strangeness of Hand’s storytelling. In ‘Hard Light,’ a heroine who’s an edgier (and older) version of Lisbeth Salander 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The setting highlighted the pieces’ strangeness while they, in turn, underlined the strangeness of great wealth, proof of which is never out of sight at the house. At a ‘Dinner With Ghosts,’ Everything Is Art 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z The strangeness of the landscape and the blazing heat may contribute to his emotionally volatile state, but what pushes him to the edge is a document Yahalom asks him to sign. ‘Ahed’s Knee’ Review: A Filmmaker’s Agony in the Desert 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The regulars at DC’s quickly took to the project, despite, or perhaps because of, its strangeness. How Dennis Cooper Creates Fiction from GIFs 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z “Louie,” his television show, frequently exhibits a kind of cinematic strangeness that C.K. has thus far not brought into his specials, save for this brief taste. Half-Truths, Non-Truths, and Louis C.K. 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z This dumps him into the strangeness of Good Night, where the townsfolk whisper about mysterious happenings at the old hotel and an older mine in the area. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z These writers — who stay interested in smallness, strangeness and the obscure — have a way of lasting. Times Critics Discuss Their Year in Books, From New Talents to Old Favorites 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Maybe it takes an out-of-town visit to a string of intriguing exhibitions to see the strangeness and wonder of it all. Museum Exhibitions at National Archives and the Smithsonian 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The comparisons help put Krohn's body of work into context but do nothing to capture the ineffable, melancholy strangeness and beauty of her writing. 'Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction' yields writing of strangeness and beauty 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z This piece is thrillingly confident in its strangeness. Review | The ballet dancers dived into the ball pit. That’s when the evening really took off. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The animation suffuses “Flee” with a strangeness that a conventional documentary might not possess, and that perhaps mirrors Amin’s own alienation. ‘Flee’ Review: From Kabul to Copenhagen 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z His presence in “Double Take” does not really make the history surveyed in the film resonate with more strangeness than it already possesses. | 'Double Take': Grimonprez Makes Hitchcock a Symbol of Cold War Era 2010-06-01T22:24:00Z The performance powerfully conveyed the astonishing strangeness of this inventive work; the Philharmonic sounded magnificent. Review: The Philharmonic Hails Sibelius, and Offers Joshua Bell on a Mendelssohn 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z “The understanding of other people’s deep, mysterious joys, passions, pursuits; embracing our inherent strangeness as humans, is an important part of what we do,” Thuras says. Eploring Los Angeles (and the world) with Dylan Thuras of Atlas Obscura 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The moment is superbly played by Janet Leigh: this is an unbearably tense and horribly real scene – different, in many ways, to the remaining rococo fantasy of strangeness and fear. My favourite Hitchcock: Psycho 2012-07-23T10:57:21Z Like anyone who sets foot in stores and appreciates the inherent strangeness of retail, I admire a spiteful salesclerk: the air of resentment, the glacial response time, the high beauty-to-knowledge ratio. Critical Shopper: Service? Maybe It’s a Danish Thing 2013-12-04T21:57:31Z The topic was supposed to be foreign meddling on social media, but important matters of state were, as usual, swarmed by strangeness and nonsense and sincere fretting over the direction of the country. Summer’s over, and things are back to bonkers. Here’s the view from Crazytown, D.C. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z The frantic strangeness of "u," which features a raw-throated performance worthy of Martin Sheen's hotel meltdown in "Apocalypse Now." Kendrick Lamar's 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z But the scale of his ego, the immodesty of his conflation of the history of two nations with the fluctuations of his own consciousness, is matched by the strangeness and dynamism of his images. At the Telluride Film Festival, ‘Women Talking’ and Other Topics of Conversation 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z The fragile strangeness of ordinary objects is also evident in sculptures of potted cactuses, books and decorative knickknacks, all made from painted tissue paper. Uncharted seas in 'How to Build a Foghorn' at Samuel Freeman Gallery 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z And I think strangeness is an undervalued element to comedy, or one that is often misunderstood. “I like that spot where fear and laughter converge”: Carrie Brownstein on how “Portlandia” takes on aging, “Transparent” and channeling Sleater-Kinney on set 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z In the cinema, the nearest in spirit could be Luis Buñuel's 1972 film The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie – but even there, the strangeness is partly explained by dreams. The Trouble With Harry: Hitchcock's lost masterpiece 2012-07-02T18:00:01Z I'd say describing the plot is tricky but the fact you don't know what's going on adds to the lurid strangeness. Zombies? Mogwai know the score 2013-02-18T06:00:00Z The strangeness of reality consistently exceeds the expectations of science, and the assumptions of science, however tried and rational, are very inclined to encourage false expectations. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z It’s unfortunate that this time, while her pacing is swift, her prose, unfortunately, is often workmanlike, lacking the sheer bravura strangeness of the previous novel. Review | In her new novel, Rene Denfeld draws on her experience as a homeless teen 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z The strangeness of these episodes, Bertino said, allowed her to unearth a deeper truth. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z “The Chambermaid,” Lila Avilés’s quietly stunning debut feature, is a work of closely observed workplace realism, but at times it achieves the strangeness and intensity of science fiction. ‘The Chambermaid’ Review: Amid Luxury, an Entrancing Drudgery 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Or the so-called strangeness of its people, those Weird Florida and Florida Man moments that repeatedly crop up in the news? Florida Women Are No Joke. I Should Know. 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z This fear might explain the earlier preoccupation with familiar strangeness and the old made new. Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas 2013-02-25T10:51:18Z It's a realm of concealment, strangeness and subterranean nightmares, but it's a refuge, too. Mind the werewolf: the London underground in film 2013-01-09T05:59:01Z Hip-hop strangeness that proves repetition can make discordance become normal. Readers recommend: discordant songs ? the results 2011-02-10T17:22:20Z He increased our sense of the work’s strangeness and stature, showing how it recycles rhythmic and melodic material as it goes on while almost imperceptibly transforming from sardonic to sincere. Music Review: She Can Be Tender, but She May Be a Killer, Too 2011-06-10T23:00:13Z The columns weren’t looking for influence or significance; they were looking for strangeness and surprise. Is Bandcamp the Holy Grail of Online Record Stores? 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z They repeatedly joked about the strangeness of the experience — and gently roasted Jason Sudeikis, who accepted his actor in a TV comedy or musical trophy for Apple TV Plus’s “Ted Lasso” in a sweatshirt. At the Golden Globes, faulty connections and some mixed messages about diversity 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z A dry, sweet, dirty-minded tale set in a nowheresville Norwegian town, "Turn Me On, Goddammit" testifies to the continuing strength -- not to mention strangeness -- of Scandinavian cinema. Tribeca: Teen horniness -- in Norway! 2011-04-27T20:30:00Z The young actors in the Potter films often spoke of the strangeness in reading each new book by Rowling, flicking through the pages to see what they'd be required to do over the next year. Harry Potter and the A-Z of magic 2011-07-09T23:07:10Z His ballets are certainly not without pain or strangeness, even sarcasm, but, in the main, they love the world and its people. Ratmansky’s Beauty Wakes Up 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Dirty Projectors’ newer songs haven’t given up their strangeness, particularly in their lyrics. Music Review: David Longstreth’s Dirty Projectors Do ‘Swing Lo Magellan’ 2012-07-10T22:16:36Z The strangeness of seeing oneself distorted in literature – and indeed of not seeing oneself at all – was part of my own childhood. Chinua Achebe: The man who rediscovered Africa 2013-03-22T14:45:00Z His method is to imply a dreadful strangeness rather than a straightforward working-out; conflict and tumult blind-side his characters rather than staring them full in the face. On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry ? review 2011-07-20T11:00:01Z From Loren Eiseley to EO Wilson, the scientist reflecting in essay form on the wonder, beauty and strangeness of nature and on human responsibility is a well-established tradition in the US. Caspar Henderson's top 10 natural histories 2012-10-10T10:33:31Z The horror is rooted in the unknown, but this strangeness also sparks curiosity and fascination. Gray Matter: The Critique of Pure Horror 2011-07-17T04:49:00Z My brother made his peace with the strangeness, but I did not and it made for an ugly adolescence. Pater Familiar: Watching Andrew Cuomo's pandemic briefings finally let me grieve my father 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z The elements of the novel that Schamus omits are exactly the ones that give Roth’s work its strangeness, its uncanny resonance, its complexity, its scope, its depth. A Sterilized Philip Roth Adaptation 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z At once mocking, lamenting, and paying homage to Modernist ideals of order and reason, the pieces also expose the hypnotic strangeness of the era’s advertising culture. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z In turns, the women speak elliptically about the strangeness of ordinary life. Review: A Séance (With Leaf Blowers) in ‘Variations on the Main’ 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z For all its strangeness, the work has a darker shadow: melodrama. Alessandra Ferri Performs a Work by Lar Lubovitch 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z And, like Anna, he understood the strangeness of reentering the dating pool. Snowzilla delayed this couple’s wedding, but not their marriage 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z But their strangeness shook something deep within, and instead of helping to resolve troubles in practical ways, they expanded the very sense of what it was to have inner worlds and imaginary lives. “A Monster Calls” and the Stifling Lessons of Children’s Movies 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The strangeness attracts a following, and that following spreads the word. Sony's 'The Interview' on strange ground, but is it in cult-film zone? 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z It also happens to be the single greatest moment in the movie, because it is unpredictable, silly, plays to Plaza’s strengths as a weirdo and magnifies the strangeness of the situation. Life After Beth first look review – fun zombie premise is dead on arrival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z It is a performance of real strangeness, alienation, wit and unreadable charm. Bowie the film star: imaginative, daring and endlessly charismatic 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Beethoven’s late quartets—and especially the last one—offer visions of strangeness and radicalness in a classical package. A Sterilized Philip Roth Adaptation 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Manning was overwhelmed: “His beautiful mouth” was “perpetually unbending into a graceful smile. … I could have wept through strangeness of sensation. … I was absorbed in reflections when I got home.” The Opium War and the Humiliation of China 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z “But this is really a story about getting lost, finding home, and the strangeness of time.” Rip Van Winkle, Newly Awake, Meets His Neighbors Onstage 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z The same was true when Mr. Alden’s 1930s “Don Giovanni” for City Opera kept its basic mood but dulled its sharp strangeness in its cross-country move to Mr. Gehry’s abstract installation. Dudamel Leads Mozart’s Opera With a Zaha Hadid Set 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z Yet just below its pleasing surface, the music abounds in quirky strangeness. Review: Danish String Quartet Plays at the Rose Studio 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z And you had the strangeness of the commercial to build on. The Little Lad? Berries and Cream? Call It Performance Art. 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Her paintings follow suit, haunting everyday, mostly domestic, people-free scenes with strangeness — largely through her attention to light, paint texture and scale. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z There is a danger, though, in focussing on the strangeness of Stanley’s voice. Ralph Stanley’s Inimitable Voice 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z As the soft-focus strangeness of the moment settles in, the cherry-red tags on their clothes punch through, and the eerie feeling dawns that this might be an ad for Supreme x Levi’s or an airport. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in April 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z The strangeness has gotten only more pronounced since that night in Schnucks. Anxious? Yes. But Not About My Son’s Wedding. 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z And while Mr. Byrne’s instructions acknowledge the current situation and the strangeness of being inside with so many other people, the dominant tone is of reassurance and permission giving. Running Live Dance Drills at the Armory 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Perhaps the shadowy fear is there not as a warning to dim your strangeness, but as proof that your inner light is shining like a beacon in spite of the fear. A Graphic Memoir That Confronts the Weirdness Within 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z This biopic combines sentimentality, comedy and deep strangeness in equal measure. Every Stephen Frears film – ranked! 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Readers who were able to find the Gaia remarked on its strangeness. From Campania’s Volcanic Soils, Whites in Multiple Colors 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The strangeness of people went on and on. 'The Illumination': Kevin Brockmeier's fable of human pain made manifest 2011-02-24T00:04:07Z Talking past each other, they had their second fight in two days, which led to the episode’s one outburst of strangeness. ‘The Affair’ Season 3, Episode 8: People See What They Want to See 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z “Their arresting strangeness arises from the fact that they are painted on the models’ closed lids, a well-known Doll Girls technique.” Doll’s Play 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Reading her, you are left feeling dislocated by the world’s strangeness, and wondering if she and her discombobulated characters are really the sane ones. Books by Melanie Finn, Alexandra Kleeman, Robert Seethaler and Margot Livesey 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Then the solo piano embarks on a sudden flurry of insistent strangeness, a sound unmistakably atonal in a brief 20-second burst. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z After icebreakers of varying strangeness — massaging our neighbor’s shoulders, simultaneously shouting our own names — we’re released to a seated position. Ball pits, buskers and ‘ninja gardeners’: This business conference is a circus. 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Most every scene portrays a state of crisis, tension or strangeness; normalcy goes out the window, and with it all but the bitterest, blackest humor. Artful 'Leftovers' on HBO leaves viewers wanting more 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z First performed in 1894, Massenet's Thaïs is one of opera's most striking examinations of the relationship between religion and sensuality, and a love story of unique strangeness. Tha?s ? review 2011-08-19T11:38:44Z The whole event seemed like a conceptual artwork about the essential strangeness of Australia’s physical environment. In Sydney, Lively Culture Amid Natural Beauty 2014-04-11T18:04:18Z As she tracks her way back to her life, wonder and strangeness recede. Finding solace in the skies: Helen Macdonald’s memoir ‘H is for Hawk’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z In this main center, perhaps the history and nature of the park itself could have been explored as well, offering some hint of the strangeness and importance of the enterprise. A Shrine That It Seems to Tame Old Faithful 2010-08-30T17:28:00Z When I interview him inside the Pineapple Dance Studios, it is very strange, even though I had prepared myself for strangeness. Paul Morley meets Pineapple Dance Studios instructor Andrew Stone 2010-04-23T11:48:00Z Authors often weave immigrant narratives into tapestries of symbolic prose, metaphors for long lost homes and the strangeness of new cultures. Can India Be Her Homeland, Even if She’s Never Been There? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z On “Black Portland,” Young Thug’s strangeness — which on earlier mixtapes like “1017 Thug” and “I Came From Nothing 2” could be grating, or at the least inconsistent — is molded into something reliably beautiful. Critic’s Notebook: Young Thug’s ‘Black Portland’ Extends His Reputation 2014-02-05T21:42:57Z Soon, though, strangeness sets in: “When someone comes forth from the stairs of the belfry, it is a still life.” Review: Cantata Profana Revives a Henze Cycle Inspired by German Poems 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z It's interesting how art's meaning is changed when it goes public, when it invades the space in which people might expect to be free from ideas, challenges, strangeness. Public art? Not in my back yard | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-24T17:00:00Z The strangeness of all this does not mean that such speculations are invalid, or that they undermine the theories themselves. Do We Have Minds of Our Own? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z “For me the joy of it is the strangeness of the way life can tip into farce and horror at the same moment. These are characters in conflict with themselves and the world.” For Hugh Grant, a Smaller Screen Brings a More Complex Role 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z What’s truly terrifying is when you sense a strangeness in something that is seemingly ordinary. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z But she speculated that officials’ wariness might simply reflect the nagging strangeness of the Savitsky story — the sequence of events that resulted in a collection of extraordinary value being housed in the middle of nowhere. ?Decadent? Russian Art, Still Under the Boot?s Shadow 2011-03-07T23:09:00Z “She adores all my kids, it’s amazing,” Donald once told a reporter — he was happily blind to the strangeness in the air whenever she was with his children. ‘The Arrangements’: A Work of Fiction 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z This is Lacey’s specialty: She captures with eerie precision the strangeness of being a person in the world, living alongside other human beings with unknowable thoughts and feelings. In her inventive novel 'The Answers,' Catherine Lacey experiments with the components of love 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Their eyes bulge and stare in a manner that is perhaps meant to suggest the strangeness of their predicament but really just appear hugely inane; these are sentient beings, I suppose, but not very. Dance Review: Tumbles and Twitches in an Alien World Undersea or in Outer Space 2011-07-12T21:00:01Z The performance vividly captured both the score’s glittering splendor and its strangeness. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra, With Nézet-Séguin, at Carnegie Hall 2013-01-18T21:50:44Z The strangeness, beauty, and comedy of the night reached its apotheosis when an auctioneer from Christie’s came onstage and auctioned off Springsteen’s Fender Stratocaster. A Night of Wise, Tortured Election Anxiety with Jon Stewart and Friends 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z What’s more, the show makes Dickinson’s strangeness familiar in its grasp of her artistic spirit, her blazing way of putting interior blisses in tension with eternal agonies to forge an intimate bond with green Infinity. “Dickinson,” from Apple TV+, Is Deeply Weird and Dazzles Gradually 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Having lived in Florida since I was 9, I’ve had experience of that visible strangeness. Jeff VanderMeer on the beauty and weirdness of Florida 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z They were amazed by his strangeness — the liberties he took — but also by his consistency. Perspective | Compassion. Claustrophobia. Originality. Why El Greco inspired so many great modern artists. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z I much more enjoy the strangeness and the frailness of real people’s lives and then figuring out a way to make that into a story. Mike Mills’s ‘20th Century Women’ is ‘very long thank-you note’ to his late mother 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Onakoya’s mother and father met in the District after moving from the South, and she recalled the strangeness of going down South to visit relatives in the Jim Crow era. Art is helping seniors piece together snippets of their past 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The Brooklyn Hasidim retain a kind of strangeness and complexity that makes them seem drawn from life and that makes the young Asher’s otherness potent. Theater Review: ‘My Name Is Asher Lev,’ at the Westside Theater 2012-12-05T04:57:17Z Part of the seeming strangeness of Shen Yun could be attributed to a latent Orientalism on the part of Western viewers—including those of us who are of Asian descent. Stepping Into the Uncanny, Unsettling World of Shen Yun 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z In using the distancing effects of language as a blunt instrument simultaneously to create strangeness and cut more deeply to the heart of human experience, Ms. Bent follows a long tradition of adventuresome playwrights. Theater Review: ‘The Hotel Colors,’ Eliza Bent’s Debut at Bushwick Starr 2013-05-14T21:30:57Z The strangeness is trotted out with no foundation; in this sense, “Meteor Shower” is built like a skit on “Saturday Night Live,” Martin’s own longtime proving ground. Review | What’s Steve Martin up to with ‘Meteor Shower’? Your guess is as good as mine. 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z The natural vagueness of the style reveals the torrid inner life of Berger’s adopted characters and the strangeness of their rigidly coded world. Thomas Berger’s Egoless Fictions 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z We’d all be a bit punchy by the end of it, buzzing with sugar and the strangeness of so much time together. How I found Christmas again in Grandma Ruth's peanut butter balls 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z A Beatles album needs a dash of strangeness, of course. magicman provides some context to 1979's The Broadcast, a track admired by David Bowie. Readers recommend: solo Beatles songs – results 2012-06-21T11:53:16Z It's a contrast that Sultan described as "a reciprocity of strangeness." The personal, provocative on display in fall photo books 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z The sheer strangeness of the film may be mesmerizing at first, but even the slim 70-minute run time eventually feels tedious when so little happens. ‘Tito’ Review: An Oddball Character Study 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Last month, the record label Light in the Attic reissued his self-titled album, along with a new collection of previously unreleased demos, titled “If Evening Were Dawn,” that deepen Sullivan’s eerie, essential strangeness. Jim Sullivan, a Rock ’n’ Roll Mystery That Remains Stubbornly Unsolved 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z In fact, he was so naturally sunny, so utterly without guile, so devoid of cynicism or pettiness as to create for himself a whole new category of strangeness. Books of The Times: Ronald Reagan as Dad, a Sunny Stranger 2011-01-27T14:19:29Z The climactic conclusion works because of its strangeness, because of its imaginative reach and implications. Review | Can a woman find true love with a handsome fish? 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Arcadia’s crop of children will grow up to be troubled and rebellious, yet they will always be bound by the strangeness of their shared childhood. Books of The Times: ?Arcadia,? a Novel by Lauren Groff 2012-03-18T20:59:20Z They grant shape to life’s surpassing strangeness — the knotty stuff of death and loss and loneliness — without sacrificing one whit of imagination. Rikki Ducornet's 'Brightfellow' is a sophisticated embodiment of children's imagination 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Indeed, Mr. Imbrogno, 59, is enthusiastic about all matters of high strangeness: genies, aliens, sea serpents and strange swamp creatures. A Hike Into the Mystic, or Just a Walk in the Woods? 2010-10-14T21:39:00Z Mr. Gergiev’s performance caught those qualities, especially the campy veneer, which is somehow crucial to preventing the music from slipping into sentimentality and keeping its strangeness on the surface. Music Review: Embracing the Ambiguity of Mahler?s Seventh 2011-02-24T23:27:09Z “My Octopus Teacher” surprises many with the strangeness of its subject: a mollusk with barely distinguishable eyes, that demonstrates a kind of light-footed moxie and reserves of iron will. A New Breed of Animal Documentary 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Not everyone appreciates the store’s strangeness, of course. How the pandemic saved Glut, an odd, beloved Maryland food co-op 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Helbers said that his collection of granddad cardigans, washed corduroys and band-collar shirts was influenced by the Amish, with “a hint of strangeness” supplied by David Lynch. On the Runway: Paris Men's: Fashion Hams and the Home Front 2011-01-20T20:54:21Z You feel Mr. Johnson periodically reining himself in, yet the movie cuts loose when he does, as when he embraces the galaxy’s strangeness, its non-humanoid beings as well as its magic and mystery. ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Embraces the Magic and Mystery. Read Our Review. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z This is heightened by the strangeness of Ms. Tanowitz’s musicality, which — often inexplicably satisfying — very seldom employs any step-for-note correspondence and often seems to employ dance tempos and constructions far from the music’s. Dance Review: Pam Tanowitz Brings a Certain Eccentricity to Dance at Joyce 2014-02-05T22:27:31Z Unburdened by representation, Rothko’s suspended blocks of autonomous color accentuate the strangeness of Church’s palette, especially the array of lavenders, pinks and yellows in his skies. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Weinstein wasn’t at the screening Wednesday — and that was just the beginning of the strangeness. Cannes 2014: 'Grace of Monaco' opening more awkward than regal 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z But there are still enough shocks of the familiar, and moments of alarming strangeness to ensure The War of the Worlds remains essential. Summer voyages: The War of the Worlds by HG Wells 2013-07-26T10:50:02Z There is a strangeness and a sophistication to such elements, but also a whimsy, in keeping with Barrie’s sad, magical words. | 'Peter and Wendy': In This Neverland, It?s Peter Puppet 2011-05-10T21:32:03Z Kijak, who was 2 years old when "Exile on Main Street" was recorded, hasn't tried to make some definitive meta-masterpiece to mirror the strangeness of the album. Mick Jagger rocks Cannes 2010-05-19T22:10:00Z Much of its strangeness is a product of the town's German heritage. Namibia's Skeleton Coast 2010-04-24T23:15:00Z The artist writes that these juxtapositions were inspired by the strangeness of Bellini’s “Madonna and Child,” but others may think of surrealism. In the galleries: A celebration of language from antiquity For all their strangeness and inflated claims, the books do not seem to herald the kind of violent actions Long took on July 17. Cosmo Setepenra, a.k.a. Baton Rouge police shooter Gavin Eugene Long, revealed his 'laws of the universe' in three self-published books 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z With precision and strangeness, her dances celebrate the very thing she finds herself racked with: vulnerability. A Choreographer Who Mingles the Ordinary and the Odd 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Tony raises an eyebrow, but joins Maria fluidly without questioning the strangeness of it all. What Is ‘West Side Story’ Without Jerome Robbins? Chatty. 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z In the end, “Careful” illuminates the mental strangeness of accidents. Be Careful! Your Mind Makes Accidents Inevitable 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z What makes so reverberant is the counterpoint between the alien strangeness of the choreography, with its twitchy dislocations and jolting kinetic currents, and the Royal dancers' narrative instinct. Chroma/Tryst/Symphony in C; RainForest/The Art of Touch/A Linha Curva 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z Mr Wilson-Lee speaks of the “exquisite strangeness” of the fact that “ravaged by physical hardship and fever” they should reach “for lines written for Elizabethan Londoners several hundred years earlier”. All the world was his stage 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Biden’s memoir give us a remarkable view of the agony and strangeness of the period when he cared for his son — and then mourned him — while simultaneously fulfilling his duties as vice president. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z I prefer performances that emphasize its strangeness, as this one did. Review: At New York Philharmonic, a Soloist but Not His Violin 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z They spend a lot of time wandering the French countryside, their mostly silent days punctuated by spasms of violence and eruptions of metaphysical strangeness. ‘Hors Satan’: Minimalism wrapped in mystery 2013-03-01T00:12:51Z If “The Areas of My Expertise” reveled in the weirdness of the nearly true, “Vacationland” pauses at the strangeness of the ordinary, the bluntness of real-world circumstances. In ‘Vacationland,’ John Hodgman confronts surrealism of adult life 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z It’s an attitude familiar to children and scientists both: The earth may not be alien, but its wonders and strangeness should never be taken for granted. His Son Hiked Into the Costa Rican Jungle, and Never Came Out. What Happened? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z The translations arriving this year reveal the dizzying strangeness of Sorokin’s work, and reflect his obsession with the horrors of Russia’s past and his anxiety over where the country is headed. He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z The first-movement Nocturne was the most strongly articulated by both soloist and orchestra, a soundscape of lunar strangeness that joined extremes of low brass moans and high filaments of violin. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann and Philharmonic Play Shostakovich 2012-11-25T23:04:20Z And it was about the comfort — for them, anyway — of self-indulgence, of acknowledging the strangeness of the circumstances and giving themselves room. Review: Foo Fighters Bring a Little of Everything to the Stage, Including a Broken Leg 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z For all the apocalyptic strangeness of his settings — permeable borders, plague addled cities — his stories mold something rich and fundamental from the stuff of prosaic life. In Yuri Herrera's hard-boiled 'The Transmigration of Bodies,' dirty work is providence 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z It seemed to me then that the pulse beneath these songs was always Manzarek's playing, that those keys somehow embodied all the storms and strangeness, the fire and love, the other side of these songs. Ray Manzarek was the key to the Doors 2013-05-21T16:59:18Z Nowadays I watch my own children and wonder if I'm providing enough strangeness and wonder to protect them from being crushed and swamped by everyday life. Steven Appleby: A life in pictures 2012-10-05T23:04:02Z A tall, silvery slice of metal, about 10 feet high with an aura of strangeness about it, is spotted in the red-rock canyons of the Utah desert. Did John McCracken Make That Monolith in Utah? 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Taylor’s book doesn’t evoke the wonder of “Star Wars” so much as the strangeness of its vast success. The Crazy History of “Star Wars” 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z For all the strangeness of "Sideshow," this was also a Monday evening very much in the MEC tradition. Monday Evening Concerts is back with a bang, whimper, whistle, click and clang in 'Sideshow' 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z As images alone they have an impersonal beauty, a compelling stillness and strangeness. Abstract and affecting, the new Mars pictures are a confrontation with the sublime | Sam Leith 2010-03-21T22:30:00Z Now as the taxi spun and wound into Mayfair, the women felt the strangeness of the day. Friends Reflect on the Designer Alexander McQueen?s Death 2010-04-03T04:11:00Z Her novels were, that summer, an introduction to the acceptability of strangeness, to the beauty found outside shared experience, and most of all, an introduction to the glorious privacy of reading. In Praise of Iris Murdoch 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z But Ms. Green never moved us beyond this initial effect of strangeness; there was little in “nerves” that really imprinted itself on the eye or felt structurally persuasive. Dance Review: What to Expect When Fairy Tales and Reality Are Just as Strange? 2011-02-05T00:03:32Z Karam says he’s drawn to “the strangeness in people” who live in a state of dread; it’s the psychological realism of the everyday, it seems, that fires his imagination. How a humane playwright made it all the way to Broadway 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z As a mother in the 1980s reading these stories to her own children, and discovering their strangeness and violence, she came upon the idea of writing about and eventually teaching them. What About the Heroine’s Journey? 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z The symphonies combine seemingly disparate qualities of late Romantic fervor, rustic colors, folksy elements, advanced chromatic harmonic writing, mystical strangeness and spurts of wildness, all conveyed in Mr. Gilbert’s vivid readings. Classical Playlist: Carl Nielsen, Lou Harrison, Bach and More 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z The five-year employee still shakes his head in disbelief at the strangeness of the pieces and laments the heartbreaking losses. The weird afterlife of banned TSA items 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z He is not a fashionable writer now, but the sheer strangeness, energy and lucidity of his sentences deserves a far bigger readership. The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z David created such an atmosphere of fantastic strangeness. Twin Peaks: 20 years on 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z How do you think that that strangeness, experienced through the brother’s distance from Lulu’s actions, conditions the way we read the story? Te-Ping Chen on the Nihilism of the Internet 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Heroically unaware of her strangeness, or indifferent to its effects, Ms. Goering seems to do everything she can to reject the life that is expected of her. The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z As Lee writes, Green was “a very particular man, and perhaps there was a strangeness to his character too, or what might even be described as an emptiness — a quality indefinable, and perhaps nonexistent.” This Novel Revisits a Power Broker Who Trod Lightly and Left a Big Footprint 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z The discovery of the strangeness in the ordinary and the ordinary in the strange, through juxtaposition, repetition and translation: that is Ms. Bocanegra’s continuing artistic quest. Breaking Through Categories and Conventions at BAM 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Parts that let her communicate the essential strangeness of behaving like a person, especially a female person; parts where she never has to apologize for a character’s sharp angles and iffy choices. Cristin Milioti Is No One’s Accessory 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z In “Harper Regan” what emerges is the sense of the ineffable strangeness of others, and the awareness that others feel that way about you. Theater Review: Mary McCann in ‘Harper Regan’ at Atlantic Theater Company 2012-10-11T02:00:00Z Soon, it would become obvious to everyone that Plaza’s strangeness wasn’t confined to the screen. 'It's exhausting not being human' – the weird world of Legion's Aubrey Plaza 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Seen together, her objects lose some of their strangeness, and the installation of a dozen or more sculptures in some galleries here has a reductive effect. Ghosts of the Past, Embalmed in White Plaster 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Denis Johnson seems to be the abiding spirit of the novel, which achieves the incendiary strangeness of his prose if not the same supreme illumination. New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The rehearsal period – 12 hours a day, seven days a week – seems to have immunised them to the sheer strangeness of the work. The last unperformed Stockhausen opera lifts off 2012-08-08T18:00:01Z Mr. Gergiev and his players reveled in the grotesquerie and strangeness of this fractured symphonic scherzo. Mariinsky Orchestra Makes Mahler Russian 2010-10-18T16:07:00Z “Smiling Friends” feels like a cross between the earnest strangeness of “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” and the procedural style of “Cupcake and Dino.” How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z We talk about books and jobs and the strangeness of life in twenty-first-century America. On the Road with “Little Failure,” Part II 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z As one of the characters muses at one point, "the streets of London are full of strangeness". Which out-of-print book would you like to see republished? 2012-05-24T13:59:06Z “Touch Me Not” offers immersion in that strangeness and invites contemplation of some of the varieties of physical difference. ‘Touch Me Not’ Review: Our Bodies Examined 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z He brought out the flickering strangeness of the burnt-umber wind fragments at the beginning of the second movement; oboe and veiled violas had earlier been combined meticulously enough to convey the essence of nighttime. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Gives a Master Class at Carnegie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z I miss the drift of the city, the strangeness, the surprise. Times Critics Discuss 2020 in Books, From ‘Pandemic Blur’ to Favorite Discoveries 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z The Chemical Brothers' psychedelics utterly lack the element of fear or genuine strangeness. The Chemical Brothers 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z It startles by stealth and apparent quietness, by its steady appeal to unashamed affection and sudden swerves into strangeness. The Dark Earth and the Light Sky; Twelfth Night; The Magistrate – review 2012-11-25T00:05:48Z What else is “exotic”? It involves strangeness and desire, the desire for strangeness, with a sense of risk but no real threat of danger. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z There is a strangeness to his sentences, in their coil and snap, that gives the prose a freshness and ease. A French Writer Who Blurred the Line Between Candor and Provocation 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z But some of the most memorable works in the show — organized by Jason Sun, a curator in the Asian art department, in the jewel-box Chinese Decorative Arts galleries — are notable for their sheer, look-at-me strangeness. Art in Review: ‘Colors of the Universe’: ‘Chinese Hardstone Carvings’ 2012-12-27T22:03:38Z Disquieted by the strangeness of a break from our complicated past and riddled with worries that I hadn't yet perfected her gomtang recipe, I still made good on my promise to take care of her. A nourishing soup to heal the cracks 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z That strangeness is typically the result of our knee-jerk assumption that doing things alone equals desperation. How to be alone 2012-08-04T23:30:00Z To add to the gentle strangeness, the album remains in the key of A throughout, with the sole exception of the final song. Christopher Owens on life after Girls 2013-02-01T14:00:00Z And while the strangeness of non-“robotic” robot movement may trigger our limbic alarm bells, there can be beauty in it, too. ‘M3GAN’ Makes Us Ask (Again): Who’s Afraid of Dancing Robots? 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Viewers of the show called out the strangeness of the hosting choice on social media. ‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ Is a TV Rarity With Familiar Drama 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Both “The Young Pope” and “The New Pope” thrive on strangeness and secrets — to a fault. Review | ‘The New Pope’ has all of the style but none of the substance that ‘The Young Pope’ had 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z But this overly orthodox, Grand Old Opry medley is at odds with the beguiling strangeness of much of Plant's material. Robert Plant 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z It’s my one spot of strangeness in my week, the place where I’m always an outsider, always learning. Surviving 8th grade: How a shy Irish Catholic girl found refuge in Yiddish Club 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z These musicians, under Mr. Gergiev, put you in a mind-set where you just went along with the contradictions and strangeness, rather than trying to make sense of it all. The Mariinsky in Two All-Russian Programs at Carnegie Hall 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Above all, the play evokes the disorienting quality of bereavement and the strangeness of viewing one’s parents from different perspectives as childhood recedes into memory. Reality TV, ghosts and an exorcism make for an engaging ‘Interstellar Ghost Hour’ 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z At the height of his “Star Trek” fame, he even sang on a series of folk-pop records, a musical body of work perhaps only equaled in its strangeness by the albums of William Shatner. Leonard Nimoy, Spock, and the mixed blessing of an iconic role 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z What Misty fails to recognize is she finally has someone sitting across from her who will accept her strangeness wholeheartedly. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: Destructive Secrets 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Borne along on the whine of insects and a lead performance of surpassing strangeness, “Mosquito State” is a disquieting merger of body horror and social commentary. ‘Mosquito State’ Review: Bugging Out 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z And yet there is something about the very strangeness of the poem that magnifies its emotional power. The Strange Power of a Medieval Poem About the Death of a Child 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z It approaches a genuine strangeness, takes a sniff, then creeps away, curls up in its basket, and goes to sleep. “Cats” Reviewed: It’s Not Quite Weird Enough 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Scott called “Saint Omer” an “intellectually charged, emotionally wrenching story about the inability of storytelling — literary, legal or cinematic — to do justice to the violence and strangeness of human experience.” For the Documentarian Alice Diop, Only Fiction Could Do Justice to a Tragedy 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z If there are no aliens or spaceships to be seen, the strangeness consists of jolts of information and confusion that seem to arrive from out of the blue. | 'Everything Strange and New': Bye-Bye, Happiness; Life Is a Trap 2011-02-25T01:03:32Z But she found the strangeness of the piece — its metadrama, its ephemerality — “genuinely creatively exciting.” Who Needs a Super Bowl Ad? Skittles Ups the Ante With a Broadway Musical 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z The slow movement is a marvel, revealing already at 19 that Prokofiev was capable of the bittersweet strangeness that would mark his greatest music. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z It is, above all, a commentary on, and example of, the strangeness and sadness of trying to force the past back to life. On TV, You Can Go Home Again. But It’s Weird. 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z So too the past seems bled of its strangeness, despite the presence of death. Theater Review: ‘Brontë: A Portrait of Charlotte’ by Alloy Theater 2012-08-05T21:24:31Z Instead, I grew up with the unsugared Brothers Grimm and the strangeness of Lewis Carroll. A Playful, Posthumous Picture Book From Maurice Sendak 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z In her new collection, Oates may be interested in renovations more than innovations, but readers will find plenty of ambiguity and strangeness to celebrate. The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates – review 2012-12-27T05:59:01Z The movie attempts to convey the strangeness of O’Connor’s stories through graphics and animation. ‘Flannery’ Review: Stories About a Writer 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z "Unfortunately, the film doesn't have sound, so we don't know what he's thinking. But it's this Samoan chief observing the strangeness of the yachts in the harbor." Vodka-spiked oranges and tamale lessons: Irvine's lost commune 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Its contrasting combination of severe modernity and classicism, its angular strangeness and folk-dance ease, the staggering inventiveness of its two pas de deux all retain the force of the new with every encounter. Dance Review: Romanticism and Modernism, Joined by the Violin 2010-09-27T23:29:00Z They merely present the unresolved strangeness of America and its music. Music Review: Songs of America, With Beauty and Gusto 2011-05-01T21:21:11Z Here is a strange film whose strangeness is disguised – though only at first, and not for long – by the mannerisms of documentary realism. Film review: Ivul 2010-07-22T21:43:00Z I found, too, the strangeness of my family’s religion — this sense that sin was all around, crowding in on us like an enemy at the gates. What the Church Meant for James Baldwin 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z What Tillmans is doing is showing us the world as it is, while also alerting us to its overlooked strangeness and beauty. Les Rencontres d'Arles 2013 – review 2013-07-06T23:07:32Z But they need to risk more, to put more of their own idiosyncratic strangeness on that same floor. Dance Review: Take Dance in ?Flight? at Dance Theater Workshop 2010-05-21T23:03:00Z But his third record, “Talk Dirty,” got into some sonic strangeness, and his latest, “Everything Is 4”—according to Jon Caramanica, our resident Derulo-ist—suggests a new sort of vision for pop. Popcast: Jason Derulo Glides Across Genres 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Paintings that capture the strangeness of Huntington Beach, the latest from an icon of punk graphics and a longtime painter who still sets his sites on the rich and the powerful. Datebook: Suburban strangeness, a master of noir, skewering the powerful 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z In his memoir, “My Father at 100,” Ron Reagan grapples with his father’s sunny “strangeness.” TV Watch: Remembering the Reagan We May Never Know 2011-02-04T18:54:16Z At 68, he is as curious as ever, never ceasing in his lifelong journey to excavate the strangeness at the heart of the human soul. Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Werner Herzog's 3-D Trip 2011-05-01T05:50:00Z At the same time, her camera ranges freely and widely within that world, zeroing in on tiny instances of strangeness and beauty and looking upward and outward at the sky and everything under it. Review: Youthful Recklessness Finds Adventure on the Road in ‘American Honey’ 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z His waggish vision — turning things upside down and inside out to revel in their strangeness — feels very current. Jimmy DeSana, Downtown Pioneer and Provocateur, Goes Mainstream 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z The Square turns a contemporary art museum into a city-state of bizarre, dysfunctional and Ballardian strangeness. Prowling panthers, paranormal spies and vengeful ice-skaters: must-see movies of 2018 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z It wasn’t like a nightmare or anything, but it stuck out for its strangeness. “The power of Christ compels you!”: When our house became possessed by spirits 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Then there are the bizarrely athletic dance sequences, diverse business with ducks and pomegranates, and a closing tableau of rabbits that shifts the film into an entirely different zone of poetic strangeness. Yorgos Lanthimos, director of The Lobster, on his wild, star-studded life of Queen Anne 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z I inherited this fascination, and I attribute the darkness and strangeness of the comedy made by that generation to the war. Where does all the best comedy come from? Death and war 2012-07-06T21:30:01Z To discover its profound strangeness, you need to track marks in its terrain, and to watch for disturbances to the expected. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male 2013-03-15T12:03:22Z David Bowie did more than write about alienation, strangeness or isolation. ‘Thank You, Mr. Bowie. You Changed Our Lives.’ 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z A wonderfully menacing passage in this ridiculous book evokes the primal strangeness of the male id rising up to eat the world. In “The Feral Detective,” Jonathan Lethem Returns to Detective Noir for the Trump Era 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z For real strangeness in novels, you usually have to voyage to lands that still tolerate the obdurate, the sleazy, the resentful, the offline and any other attributes presently considered unmarketable. John Waters’s First Novel Is Manic, Hyperbolic and Deviant. Surprised? 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z It ignores the strangeness of the dead, the final opacity of the past and the flexibility with which human culture moves. Aztec and European empires collide in the strange and bloody 'Sudden Death' by Álvaro Enrigue 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Roth epitomises their sheer strangeness in a sort of Swiftian vision: the volcano as a fiery pudding, a steep learning curve for Gulliver in his travels. Volcanic splash 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z But then in 2005 she went and hooked up with Tom Cruise and solidified the strangeness of her persona: Who does that kind of thing, and why? Who are you, Katie Holmes? 2012-07-08T19:00:00Z And so they should be: for it is epiphany that we are witnessing here, the moment that divine power, in all of its unsettling strangeness, makes itself manifest. The shock of the old: what the sculpture of Pan reveals about sex and the Romans 2013-03-23T16:49:06Z As handsome as they were, his rock-and-roll songs came coated in a thin residue of psychedelic strangeness. Perspective | Tom Petty’s Americana felt stranger than the rest 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z But for all this, the sheer strangeness of his material has, over the years, tended to make his undoubtedly compassionate involvement seem nonetheless a little bit creepy. Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks - review 2012-11-08T08:00:01Z To some, Moonrise Kingdom may be nothing more than a souffle of strangeness, but it rises superbly. Moonrise Kingdom – review 2012-05-24T14:15:01Z Professor Bloom himself said that “the canonical quality comes out of strangeness, comes out of the idiosyncratic, comes out of originality.” Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z For Bakewell, the essence of humanism lies not in grand ideas but the idiosyncrasies of individual experience — and the joyful strangeness of language itself. For Sarah Bakewell, Nothing Human is Alien 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Alien, exotic strangeness is on these artists' minds. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Their interpretations and tone were cutting and severe, accentuating the strangeness of the works and emphasizing their modernism. Music Review: Instrumentalists at an Exhibition 2011-06-02T22:03:15Z Agog at the strangeness of this new world, he remained a mystified outsider. 'America's top satirist' 2010-09-04T23:02:00Z But he evokes the glamour and strangeness of silent movies without entirely capturing the full range of their power. | 'The Artist': ?The Artist,? by Michel Hazanavicius - Review 2011-11-24T13:00:00Z Also, I don’t just want strangeness or experimentation. ArtsBeat: Poetry Profiles: Alice James Books 2014-03-26T19:43:37Z That doesn’t mean it’s messy — it’s not — but it is unafraid of its own strangeness. Review: In ‘The Loon,’ the Birds Can Coo. Can You? 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z I would unfold the story as it unfolded to him, in all its strangeness and frustration. Guardian book club: Kate Summerscale on The Suspicions of Mr Whicher 2013-01-11T20:00:11Z Lee’s use of pioneering technology adds another level of strangeness. Ang Lee: 'I am Hulk! I am the hidden dragon!' 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z But that’s the strangeness of “Hero,” which pledges allegiance to two theatrical styles, the commercial musical and agitprop drama, with its impeccably decent good guys and thoroughly evil bad guys. | 'Hero': ?Hero,? a Korean musical, at the Koch Theater - Review 2011-08-29T22:31:59Z As much as “A Separation” is about the strangeness of marriage, it’s also about grieving. Katie Kitamura on relationships, absence and her novel 'A Separation' 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z They might be older, but they still embrace their strangeness. Jane Campion: ‘The clever people used to do film. Now they do TV’ 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Standing in the doorway, separated from all that dirt by a hip-height sheet of Plexiglas and inhaling the loamy aroma, I was struck less by the strangeness than by the contemplative calm it evoked. The Met, they’re not: The oddest museums in New York City 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The book details every painful stage of Scott’s increasing strangeness, some but not all of it fueled by drugs. Books Of the Times: ‘The Splendid Things We Planned,’ Blake Bailey’s Memoir 2014-02-23T22:48:06Z To say more about this novel would be to risk spoiling, well, not the plot, exactly, but the profoundly rare experience of an encounter with genuine strangeness. A lost-and-found surrealist treasure: 'Mrs. Caliban' by Rachel Ingalls 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Steven Morris, one of the composers of the “Duck Commander” show, said that he believed “the specificity and the strangeness of the family’s lives and home are a great fit for a compelling musical.” 'Duck Dynasty' Family at Center of New Las Vegas Musical 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Much like the horror film “Wrong Turn”, the game trades in on its audience’s preconceived notions of rural residents in order to instill fear and create a feeling of otherness or strangeness in its players. “Fallout” video game series’ post-apocalyptic vision of West Virginia might not be worth th... 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z So maybe it was an attempt to find a form that would counteract the heavy weight and strangeness of the content. Ben Marcus: Jonathan Franzen’s cultural commentary is really embarrassing 2014-02-10T01:00:00Z They tap moments of beauty or strangeness; of everyday life or travel; of buildings, streets and weather. An Exhibition Worth Thousands of Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The light hitting his left arm creates an X-ray strangeness. ‘Men in Armor’: El Greco and Pulzone at the Frick Collection 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z I'm quite dictatorial about how the words are set down on the page, trying to capture the strangeness of spoken language. Bryony Lavery play Thursday explores 7/7 attacks through eyes of passengers 2013-02-21T20:31:01Z Even when he is not explicitly borrowing some folk tune, Bartok’s music is run through with the earthy strangeness of Eastern European folk music. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Which 20th-Century Masters Will Make the Cut? 2011-01-12T13:43:50Z He quickly turns his attention to what he sees as the strangeness of French life. Movie Listings for April 15-21 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z But there is a strangeness about them that exceeds mere caricature. Art In Review: Bryan Drury?s ?Portraits? at Dean Project 2012-02-02T23:51:58Z The bracketed asides "as if I'd had a friend", "as if there's no other day", add a further note of strangeness, undercutting the first thought. Poetry workshop: Names 2011-07-12T10:04:43Z It is confident playing that makes for fun listening — I particularly liked the mellow “Spring Rounds” — but for sheer strangeness and shock, Stravinsky’s original keeps outdoing its descendants. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Beethoven, the Bad Plus, Fred Astaire and More 2014-04-02T16:00:38Z “The whole thing is about the strangeness of the architecture,” she said. New Triennial Offers Artists the Canvas of Cleveland 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Who couldn’t use some of its unruly strangeness? The Dance Laboratory of an Existential Fidgeter 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z His dependable strangeness and self-reliance cast him as a spiritual forebear and elder ally for songwriters at the country and folk fringes of indie rock. Michael Hurley, an Original Folk Iconoclast, Turns 80 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z It was better for the mind to engage with and analyze the world than to gape at its strangeness and mystery. Newly scrubbed Renwick Gallery opens Friday 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z It is kind of like a compendium of my strangeness. Sofia Samatar on the many influences on her fantasy novel, 'The Winged Histories' 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z And in the process of photographing unconventional, sometimes outre subjects, she was training herself to detect strangeness when it occurred in a lower key, in everyday life. Previously Unseen Arbus, Unearthed Years After Her Death 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z It gives us the peculiar atmospheres, the unearthly light over the Breton landscape, the static silences and frozen gestures, the strangeness and sadness, the melancholy and yearnings in his art. Paul Gauguin: guilty as charged 2010-09-27T20:31:00Z That strangeness once gave her centrist disco-pop real teeth, but it has long since decayed. Review: Lady Gaga, the Flashy Provocateur, Battles Lady Gaga, the Raw Voice 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z These scenes seem borrowed from Westerns and war films, but they retain the absolute simplicity of their comic strangeness: the disproportion between ant-sized Scott and the scale of the world that he knows. "Ant-Man" Is a Superhero Movie for Skeptics 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z "Men could see the strangeness of his brain," Vasari went on, insisting that Piero would never have his rooms cleaned or his garden kept in order. Fame finally comes to little-known Renaissance master Piero di Cosimo 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z “The strangeness of this account is that it never happened,” he wrote. Richard Matheson (1926–2013): The Wizard of What-If? 2013-06-28T20:55:11Z She paid scrupulous attention to expressive devices: for instance, the emphatic strangeness of Beethoven’s dissonant spikes in the 27th variation. Music Review: Beth Levin Plays Beethoven Variations at Bargemusic 2010-07-04T21:51:00Z You hear this strangeness the instant the opening chords sound in Beethoven's String Quartet in F minor Op 95. Chiaroscuro Quartet: Beethoven, Mozart – review 2013-07-13T23:05:03Z The strangeness and emotion that made the first two films occasionally mesmerizing is replaced in “Purgatory” by crime-procedural efficiency. Television Review: ?Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory? on HBO - Review 2012-01-11T23:08:35Z While playing with consummate pianism, Karp conveys the strangeness in the piece, as in the seemingly chaotic stretches of development in the first movement. Box Sets Highlight Leonard Shure and Howard Karp 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z While the piece celebrates the beauty and strangeness of the animal kingdom, it is also an admission of our inability to escape our own limited frame of reference. Allora & Calzadilla celebrate beauty, oddity of animal world 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Instead the movie tamps down and tidies its innate strangeness, cutting carefully loose only in its more comic numbers. ‘Cats’ Review: They Dance, They Sing, They Lick Their Digital Fur 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z In a richly colored and intensely dramatic performance, the Utrecht players conveyed the captivating strangeness of this brooding, mercurial 30-minute work. Music Review: Utrecht String Quartet at the Frick Collection 2013-01-22T23:00:32Z But it had the saving grace of the performance by Robin Williams, whose charismatic strangeness usually gave a weird, anchoring conviction to treacly parts. Review: ‘Dead Poets Society,’ Starring Jason Sudeikis as the Idealistic Teacher 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z It takes time to appreciate the strangeness and wonder of these carefully rendered paintings by Kent O’Connor, a Los Angeles artist. An Elegant Return to Form at Independent Art Fair 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z In Lisbon, Zohra has embraced the strangeness of her new surroundings. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z But Foster has always had a head for life’s strangeness. The brave one: why Jodie Foster is Hollywood’s ultimate survivor 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z And though Ashling’s strangeness is undeniable, it’s also slippery to pin down. ‘Lucy’ Review: There’s Something About the Babysitter 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z There are numerous memoirs about the strangeness of sharing space with an animal, the loneliness of difference, the sadness of losing one’s sibling. Language is failing us: What does teaching sign language to a chimpanzee have to do with our troubled conversation about race? 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z The best give you that shiver of strangeness and originality; all of them amused, provoked and moved us. The Polari prize takes a vada at gay writing today 2011-07-05T15:06:24Z The show works hard to reinvest Dickinson’s most familiar lines with a surpassing strangeness. “Dickinson,” from Apple TV+, Is Deeply Weird and Dazzles Gradually 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Instead the tableau had a theatrical strangeness and a new kind of perplexing social resonance. A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z And in these days of DCI Luther shouting "WHYYYYYY" in the rain, it's almost a relief to surrender to the strangeness and be sucked into such bewildering depths. Top Of The Lake: a mystery that's impossible to get a handle on 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z I need its ozone of strangeness and new things and new people. A Husband for Home; a Wife for Away 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Across the world, wombats are seen as exotic creatures that represent the strangeness of the Australian outback. Meet your tour guide to Australia, the wombat 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z He also compared the strangeness of Degas's vision – "I often feel he wants to make looking more difficult for us" – to Wallinger's insistence that his artwork can only be glimpsed through holes or apertures. National Gallery puts on a peep show with Mark Wallinger's nude Diana 2012-07-09T15:25:00Z The film ends with a wondrous tableau well suited to expressing the strangeness of life and death, but it might have captivated more by saying less. ‘I Was a Simple Man’ Review: Letting Go 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z When a viewer has tapped into a director’s frequency, there’s a willingness to follow where the script leads, at which point strangeness and confusion become alluring rather than alienating qualities. Extended scares: in defense of the two-hour-plus horror movie 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The strangeness of “Evangelion”—what made it great—was that it drew from both camps while blurring the line between them. How “Neon Genesis Evangelion” Reimagined Our Relationship to Machines 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Even those familiar with the nudibranch, stubby squid and pink brittle star are likely to be impressed by the variety and strangeness of these gelatinous, often plantlike animals. In the galleries: A personal look at a maker of monuments 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z You need not hold any specific political opinion about the forty-third president of the United States to see how his words illustrate a fundamental strangeness of the “cult of optimism.” Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z There are two extended group dance sequences, one filmed almost entirely from above, that are enthralling for their discovery of the strangeness and beauty of human bodies. ‘Climax’ Review: A Party That Assaults the Senses and Scrambles the Brain 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z But Rekdal means to report honestly on those “boring … poignant” things that remind one of mortality, and she upholds Bishop’s commitment to making life’s strangeness familiar. Poet Paisley Rekdal should be better known, and 'Imaginary Vessels' may be the collection to do it 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Did the strangeness of the series, and especially Autumn, appeal to you? Imogen Poots Keeps Everyone Guessing in ‘Outer Range’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z What is strangest about “On Drinking,” though, is its lack of strangeness. What Charles Bukowski’s Glamorous Displays of Alcoholism Left Out 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The strangeness is still there now, but he is used to it. ‘Everyone thought I was mad’: how to make a life-changing decision – and stick to it 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z If “Jacqueline” is a concept album about gaining control over music’s — and/or life’s — inherent strangeness, it makes me wonder what Fohr expects from her uncontrollable audience. Review | On ‘Jacqueline,’ Haley Fohr sends her alter ego on a road trip 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z This sense of mingled strangeness and recognition reverberates through all of Krohn's work, most clearly in "Tainaron: Mail From Another City." 'Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction' yields writing of strangeness and beauty 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z Whatever the tone, hanging over “Days of Awe” are questions about how we metabolize strangeness, danger, horror. Flawed, Fragile, Hungry Human Bodies: A.M. Homes’s Stories Get Under the Skin 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z The film board called it a milestone for independent cinema, and Leggett noted Tarantino's "stylized violence and kind of strangeness" in the cinematography. 'Mary Poppins' among 25 U.S. films to be preserved 2013-12-18T14:01:43Z She also talks about the strangeness of rock ‘n’ roll fame for a woman who doesn’t even consider herself a musician. Kim Gordon on life after Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore: “It was surprising how many people cared about the band or us” 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Though he certainly reads as contemporary, he’s not committed enough to the show’s strangeness to compel us. Review: Hulu's 11.22.63 Revives King—and Tries to Save the President 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z What in another world might be called miracles are, here, baleful strangenesses. In This Novel, Witchcraft Makes Women Powerful, and Vulnerable 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Yet in “Ghost lines,” where strangeness and slapstick struggle to coexist, it gradually becomes clear that beyond more imaginative lighting — the blackouts, for one, are overdone — something is missing. Dance Review: Cori Olinghouse at Danspace Project 2013-12-13T22:32:48Z It was this same sensibility, I imagined, that led some in the audience to react with titters during the film’s many moments of extreme tension and visionary strangeness. I Accidentally Walked Into “Border,” and It Kind of Changed My Life 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z His last two albums have essayed a music of extraordinary intimacy and strangeness, schooled in the last century's avant gardes but with baritone phantoms of the familiar Scott still in attendance. No Regrets: Writings on Scott Walker, edited by Rob Young - review 2012-07-27T21:55:02Z It begins with a scene of intense, captivating strangeness. The Trouble With Harry: Hitchcock's lost masterpiece 2012-07-02T18:00:01Z It awakens other appetites, longings that are too often neglected: for beauty, for strangeness, for the delirious, heedless pursuit of perfection. The Best Movies of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z A more significant reason why Roman Britain will remain elusive, however, is its strangeness. Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, by Charlotte Higgins – review 2013-07-24T10:06:01Z In the film, the water is murkier than in the painting, and the visuals are more monochromatic, but the scene retains the same sense of strangeness. In ‘Borgman,’ a Surreal Touch of Evil 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Taking up the fussy antiquarianism of the folk revival, he restored strangeness and sublimity to the old songs, even as he made them new. Critic?s Notebook: His Back Pages, Captured on Film 2011-05-17T19:00:20Z Mark Strand, whose spare, deceptively simple investigations of rootlessness, alienation and the ineffable strangeness of life made him one of America’s most hauntingly meditative poets, died on Saturday at his daughter’s home in Brooklyn. Mark Strand, 80, Dies; Pulitzer-Winning Poet Laureate 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z Walters and Cohen's pavilion, a well-proportioned, timber-framed glass box, its structure black-clad on the outside, is an instrument for making all this strangeness apparent. Horniman Museum; Bauhaus Live – review 2012-05-26T23:05:30Z If that sounds confusing, that's because it is, but wrapping your brain around the strangeness is all part of the pleasure and challenge of the book. Hugo awards 2010: the shortlist 2010-04-06T09:36:00Z His whole world has disappeared, and that's the strangeness of it. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z Yet ultimately it remains as unresolved as life itself: a film full of truth and strangeness and uncertainty. The best films of 2016 ... that you probably didn't see 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z He was, as Bhattacharya puts it, “a complex character,” and there are tantalizing glimmers of such human strangeness and complexity in this book. ‘The Man From the Future’ Recounts the Life of a Restless Genius 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z The characteristic — thrilling — strangeness remains, particularly when Hadreas indulges the deeper registers of his singing voice. The Passion of Perfume Genius 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z This British comedy game show is a combination of crossword puzzle cleverness, scavenger hunt strangeness, and super-sloppy feats of strength. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z As a much younger person, I remember being put-off — even slightly frightened — by the song's utter strangeness, especially McCartney's daunting lead vocal. Paul and Linda McCartney's "Ram": Dramatic pop virtuosity that still shines brightly at 50 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Hanging over it all are questions, sliced through with Homes’s dark humor, about how we metabolize strangeness, danger, horror. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z But ultimately, the large-scale strangeness breaks down isolation with communal comedy. Critic?s Notebook: Fasten Your Seat Belts And Embrace the City 2010-10-14T15:49:00Z The production’s larger problem is its straining for a more obvious sort of strangeness. Theater Review: ‘Motel Cherry,’ by Peggy Stafford, at Here Arts Center 2012-06-25T22:46:40Z Its author might be a modern Chinese counterpart to Thomas Hardy, whose intensively observed dramas of rural life have a similar tone of beguiling, melancholy strangeness. Movie Review | 'Ghost Town': Zhao Dayong Fleshes Out Life in Remote China 2010-03-15T04:40:00Z The literalness of film and the creaky conventions of the biopic threaten to dissolve that strangeness, to domesticate genius into likable quirkiness. Review: ‘A Quiet Passion’ Poetically Captures Emily Dickinson 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z How can I capture the deep strangeness of appearing on "Jeopardy!" I won big on "Jeopardy!" So why does it still haunt me? 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Despite Jack’s “inaccessible strangeness,” she figures out that her brother is separated from the woman he loves, and that his daily letters to her in Memphis are returned unopened. Marilynne Robinson’s New Book Explores Love in Segregated America 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z "Lebowski's" unique strangeness attracts a core following, and over time that following spread the holy word, creating fan fests and cultism. Sony's North Korea film 'The Interview': Can it achieve cult status? 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z That the poems were actually written by the actor playing the guard, Shen Shaoqiu, and that Mr. Shen in real life is a policeman as well as a radical poet, only adds to the strangeness. | 'The High LIfe': Captive to Politics and Radical Poetry 2011-06-19T22:17:09Z It’s this vein of strangeness that the two artists tap in this show. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The phrase is part of the title character’s entrance line in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” and announces the work’s strangeness and ambiguity, the way it shifts between comedy and tragedy. At Salzburg, Don Giovanni Gets No Pleasure From Seducing 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z |
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