| 单词 | touchstone |
| 例句 | The touchstone of fraternity was my feeling toward white people, how much hostility I held toward them, what degrees of value and honor I assigned to race. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Its Olympian tone made it a perennial touchstone at those political occasions requiring platitudinous wisdom. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Family mottoes, touchstones, prayers of sorts, they boasted of honor and glory, promised loyalty and truth, swore faith and courage. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The plane crash became a touchstone in Elizebeth’s life, a marker she came back to again and again. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z It is an anchor, a promise of the future, a touchstone. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The next day Vincent writes again, hammering home the strong bond between the brothers, with a memory, the memory that is the most important touchstone in their lives so far. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They were the codes and touchstones of the world, capable of translation and possession. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not a good touchstone to use for judging your sanity.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality—for this touchstone can be only oneself. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “Good teachers are touchstones to paths of achieving more than we might have otherwise accomplished, in directions we might not have gone,” he said. Kennedy Center to Award Grants in Honor of Sondheim 2010-09-28T14:59:00Z A new market, featuring local produce, became a touchstone. Perspective | When the pandemic ends, a healthier ‘normal’ could help our obesity crisis. Here’s how to create it. 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z That’s because The Matrix is one of the most celebrated cultural touchstones of the men’s rights movement – and MRAs hate transgender women. Will Matrix film-makers coming out as women turn off men's rights activists? 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Are there other writers that you return to, as kind of touchstones? "You have to think about hope": Author Silas House on democracy's demise, climate refugees and dogs 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Steve Reich’s scintillating “Tehillim” was an obvious touchstone, though Mr. Greenstein’s work seemed less concerned with faith than with heritage and its obligations. Music Review: Skipping Through Russia, Lingering in a Biblical Age 2011-03-04T21:18:36Z “Our show is not an adaptation, but the book is the touchstone for this whole thing,” he said in a telephone interview. Musicians on How ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ Conducts Itself 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z In 1994 it broke over my head like a thunderclap, and in 1990s Britain this touchstone of cool seemed to extend its dangerous influence everywhere: movies, fiction, journalism, media, fashion, restaurants, you name it. Pulp Fiction review – Tarantino's mesmeric thriller still breathtaking 20 years on 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z "Jane Austen, and that one book especially, has become a major cultural touchstone for so many people," he said. Philly book publisher the BRAAAINS! behind phenom 2010-10-15T12:16:00Z He steps away from his father's work and only after his death began asking questions of his mother, who became a kind of touchstone for him. A legacy of 400 pulp porno novels: Chris Offutt's revealing 'My Father, the Pornographer' 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z He plans to use the pavilions as the touchstones for a 24-hour music-and-performance-fueled “happening” the weekend of Nov. 5 nearby at the Catalina Casino, easily the most visible and glamorous landmark on the island. Doug Aitken Plans Underwater Art Installation 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z As much as I love science fiction and fantasy and imaginative stuff, you always have to go back to real life as your touchstone and say, What is the truth? George R. R. Martin on the One 'Game of Thrones' Change He 'Argued Against' 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Film distributors said there are also subtle differences in storytelling, especially with historical and cultural touchstones that differ among audiences. China's homegrown hit films struggle overseas 2013-03-19T08:46:04Z But the details, the little flourishes, the quotidian touchstones, the things he mentions, the musical dialogue, the sway and pulse of the narrative: those are Irish. Bloomsday: a rare chance to feel good about being Irish 2012-06-16T09:59:01Z To the surprise of many, “Home Comforts: The Art & Science of Keeping House,” Ms. Mendelson’s nearly 900-page book — part treatise, part how-to — became a cultural touchstone and a galloping best seller. The Clean Queen Talks Quarantine 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z Walker Evans was certainly a touchstone, but what I do is not a sociopolitical treatise on the area. 'The mystery is enough': Susan Lipper on the Grapevine series 2010-10-13T11:07:00Z But when people come to Paris to take in a bit of fashion, Chanel is the touchstone to which everything else is compared. Perspective | Chanel says goodbye to Karl Lagerfeld gracefully, in a stunning winter wonderland 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z “It’s been my touchstone of my whole life.” A day in Elton John's life: Buy Rolls, write hit song, dine with Ringo 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Today, though, White “isn’t a touchstone for people I consider my peers,” Taylor said. Living With Edmund White 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z His wisdom has a provisional quality not unlike that found in the plays of his lifelong touchstone, Shakespeare. Portrait of the artist as an ageless man: At 92, Peter Brook treads a different path through 'The Mahabharata' 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The same goes for Ms. Bigelow, who doesn’t like to talk about being a feminist touchstone — she doesn’t need to, she has been one for decades — much less her role a female director. Kathryn Bigelow: How Oscar Found Ms. Right 2010-03-10T19:14:00Z Pop culture touchstone Full House is back—and it’s about time. 17 Burning Questions the 'Full House' Revival Must Answer 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Released in June 1972 in a Times Square theater, this hourlong dirty movie became a sensation, a touchstone, a disgrace, providing ample fodder for snickering late-night talk shows and bloviating editorial writers alike. Movie Review: ‘Lovelace,’ About the Star of ‘Deep Throat’ 2013-08-08T22:39:00Z There is never a "Rosebud" moment that points to the source of Doug's pain, but there is much to glean from snapshots of his important relationships, quasi-monologues and palpable joy in pop-culture touchstones. 2 quirky comedies have Seattle premieres 2011-09-22T21:28:06Z As an ethical touchstone or a political principle, it certainly has its dangers. ‘American Sniper,’ a Clint Eastwood Film Starring Bradley Cooper 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z As Hopper started thinking about “Easy Rider,” an instant counterculture touchstone when it was released in 1969, he turned his lens on biker gangs. ‘Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album,’ at the Gagosian Gallery 2013-05-02T21:29:45Z The life of the spirit, a touchstone in his conversation, is key to Nelsons's thoughtful musical intelligence. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Is Jerri still a touchstone you return to with your new characters on this show? Amy Sedaris on Her Hilarious New Show and Jerri Blank 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z As with that cultural touchstone of the 1970s, there was “sharing” and applause. The Return of Werner Erhard, Father of Self-Help 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Greene’s analytical critique of dramatization reflects the more commonplace reliance on a nonfiction record as a touchstone for drama—a reliance that risks tripping up true-story Hollywood films on the road to awards. Two Important Documentaries from Sundance 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z It’s like, “OK, so this is my journey. This is how I got to this point. These are the touchstones that I took with me.” "A similar genesis": The Cure's Lol Tolhurst honors goth and its (spider)web of artistic connections 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z The case has become a touchstone in the political conflict that began in Russia after disputed parliamentary elections last December. Russian Punk Band Is Sentenced to 2 Years for Anti-Putin Protest 2012-08-17T15:28:44Z The movie has become a touchstone for many film fans and critics who admire not only the marathon process that brought it into being but also its casual authenticity and naturalism. Oscars 2015: 'Boyhood's' Ellar Coltrane balances fame and the future 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z The statement continued, "We are heartened and encouraged by the conversations we've had thus far, and we are committed to working together to ensure the continuation of this cultural touchstone that we all treasure." Turner Classic Movies holds our cinematic past. Does it have a future under Warner Bros. Discovery? 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z His faith, and the way he sees human vulnerability as central to politics, is a touchstone on the podcast. Two ‘Leftist Bros’ Dive Into Conservatism to ‘Know Your Enemy’ 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z “These pieces are cultural touchstones that still carry the energy of the stars who performed in them,” she once said, referring to legends like Elizabeth Taylor and Judy Garland. Academy Museum Gives Debbie Reynolds Her Due as a Costume Conservator 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z And when later on someone remarks that “the Jews invented Hollywood,” that might not be a slur, since the old Hollywood produced the films that were for the younger Mr. Godard touchstones of cinema. | 'Film Socialisme': On a Mediterranean Cruise Ship Steered by a Godardian Crew 2011-06-02T23:04:32Z The team went on to produce another generational touchstone, “My So-Called Life,” and, most recently, “Nashville.” How director Ed Zwick is trying to keep pace with a changing Hollywood, long after his ‘Glory’ days 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z “I’ve definitely learned so much about how these two characters use breath differently, how they use resonance differently, and these are the touchstones I grab onto every night,” he said. Solving the 6 Biggest Mysteries of This Broadway Season 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Never a great beauty, rarely the recipient of top billing and not in the strict sense a chameleon, she nevertheless was a touchstone for an audience. Elaine Stritch: There was nothing like this dame One does not need to know these cultural touchstones to appreciate Kaufman's depiction of the relationship between Louisa and Jake, but, of course, it helps. Charlie Kaufman's exasperating "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" could've been a masterpiece 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Here, Walker reflects on some cultural touchstones from her California upbringing and her day-to-day reality in Brooklyn. | Kara Walker on Aerobics, D’Angelo and Her Favorite Hair Haunt 2014-05-06T23:00:25Z The song “Modern Love” is also a big touchstone for the movie. Greta Gerwig on Frances Ha: “I Feel Like an Adult” 2013-05-02T21:23:51Z But the Shakespearean counterparts are at most touchstones for the fully developed characters Gratton writes. Princesses, Priestesses and Time Travel: What’s New in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z He and the others said they would make no major design changes to the rooms; the Seagram Building, a touchstone of modernist architecture, has a thicket of landmark protections that forbid them. A Little Old, a Little New for the Four Seasons Space 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z A book that was the first touchstone for me was “High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing” by Ben Austen. Nia DaCosta on ‘Candyman’ and the Power of Terrifying Legends 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z So, mundane or not, the crystal is literally a touchstone for Ms. Cappellazzo’s brand of materialism: the belief that, simply put, only matter matters. Possessed: Amy Cappellazzo of Christie?s Keeps a Quartz Crystal 2012-04-13T17:55:48Z Ms. Isaacs has made diversity both in membership and awards recognition a touchstone of her presidency. Another Oscar Year, Another All-White Ballot 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z "Watts Riot," the greatest of them, is a key work on view in the galleries of the California African American Museum in Exposition Park, where it is a collection touchstone. Noah Purifoy's smoldering work of art, 'Watts Riot,' is a powerful reminder on the 50th anniversary 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The obvious touchstone for Möller is the Colin Farrell thriller Phone Booth, in which Kiefer Sutherland, on the other end of the line, very much succeeds at starting a fight in one. Don't move! The single-location movies that ramp up the tension on screen 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z A Sambo figurehead occupies the center of the board and tests them on various touchstones of Black culture: What is the second verse of the Black national anthem? In ‘The Blackening,’ Rather Than Dying First, Getting the Last Laugh 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z “American in Disguise” may be the touchstone work in the show. Roger Shimomura’s ‘American Knockoff’ is satire at its best 2013-09-05T20:40:40Z I get the sense that you’re using them more as cultural touchstones and their power as stories, rather than being about faith. Josh Ritter preaches his “messianic oracular honky tonk”: “I don’t feel a huge connection to religion, except as a large accumulation of confusing, confusing stories” 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z It was a couple of years after we lost our daughter and the whole film was like a resounding touchstone for me. 'Absolutely kills me': you pick your saddest movie scenes 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z But their touchstones are no longer incendiary and nuclear bombs. Godzilla Returns to Japan 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Bee took a few moments in between producing “Full Frontal,” an adjacent podcast, “Full Release,” and harvesting habanero peppers from her vegetable garden to share the cultural touchstones she finds inspiring, soothing and deliciously disturbing. Samantha Bee Stays Grounded With ‘The Great British Bake Off’ 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z It rides on the dusty coattails of touchstones of the genre: think “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” the “Mad Max” franchise and “There Will Be Blood.” ‘Gold’ Review: Dry Heave 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z “Corsicana” sometimes veers too close to the idea that the woman with Down syndrome and the emotionally troubled artist are magic touchstones, with deeper wisdom than others and purer ideals. ‘Corsicana’ Review: Four Lost Hearts in the Heart of Texas 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Jerome Kern turns out to be the ideal touchstone for Mr. Bennett: He was a suave melodist who married classical form with jazz inflection, and many of his tunes have long been standards. Review: Tony Bennett and Bill Charlap in ‘The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern’ 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z That movie was a touchstone for Scafaria, as she was making her pitch. The Sly Superpower of ‘Hustlers’ 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The fervour with which even their most elliptical material is greeted tonight reaffirms that Pavement became a touchstone for fans unmoved by Oasis et al's courting of the mainstream. Pavement 2010-05-11T21:15:00Z That song has become such a touchstone for fans, but also for non-fans as well. "There's an underscore of melancholy": "The Bear" producer breaks down season's best needle drops 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z If later series of Red Oaks reached 1987, it would be hard to avoid referencing one of the big movie touchstones of that year … You mean Dirty Dancing? Jennifer Grey: 'I don't understand people who re-enact Dirty Dancing' 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z “They were kind of touchstone pieces for us.” James Levine Leads His 2,500th Met Performance Saturday 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The ball’s timing, just before Vietnam and the Youthquake of the 1960s split the country into Past and Future, serves as a convenient touchstone for meditations on class, fame and modern culture. We’re still talking about Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball 50 years later. Here’s why. 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z This documentary’s title is at least a little contradictory, because the four people it’s about, all cultural touchstones and pioneers for transgender rights, really are New York. ‘I Hate New York’ Review: The Club Kids Are Still Standing 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z That red box became a childhood touchstone, she writes, the way Dahl’s books have been for children with less wonderful grandfathers. Review: ‘Inside Charlie’s Chocolate Factory’ by Lucy Mangan In fact, the LP is a sonic touchstone for modern production, particularly in the way pop-leaning acts seamlessly combine electro and rock influences. “He could be brash; he could be harsh. He was very motivated”: The real story behind Fleetwood Mac’s “Tango in the Night” 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Checker's 1960 cover version of the Hank Ballard and the Midnighters song - released a year earlier to mild success - became a smash hit and turned the dance into a pop culture touchstone. Come on, baby! Checker marks 50 years of the Twist 2010-07-09T20:11:00Z A ’70s pastel study by Paul Cadmus, an early touchstone of gay art, hangs alongside photographs documenting groups dedicated to women’s consciousness-raising, sex on the New York’s piers and political activism. SoHo and TriBeCa, a Cradle of Contemporary Art 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z It’s easy to watch “Transparent” and marvel at not only how good it is but how it’s been received as a cultural touchstone. 2015 Emmy Awards: A triumph for ‘peak TV’ 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z His excellent new album, “Noir Blue,” features three songs by Billy Strayhorn, and one apiece by the comparable Great American Songbook touchstones Berlin, Carmichael and Kern. Critics' Choice: New Music by Justin Bieber and Dum Dum Girls 2010-03-21T20:58:00Z But he also clings to his home and city, which is full of his life’s touchstones. The End of the Long-Distance Marriage 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z “It’s a touchstone to reality,” he said on a recent afternoon in the Archive’s San Francisco office, which is housed in a former Christian Science church. Immersion Therapy in the Trump Archive 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z But Hendrix was one of the few black musicians at an event that has become a cultural touchstone for white America. At ‘Black Woodstock,’ an All-Star Lineup Delivered Joy and Renewal to 300,000 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Chekhov didn’t write novels but he is a touchstone for me. How Ursula K. Le Guin Fooled the Poet Robert Hass 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z A fully human sense of who is represented is a collaborative act, with the audience filling in details, relating elements in the representation to emotional touchstones in their own lives. Perspective | We used to think photos like this could change the world. What needs to change is who we are. 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z If that sounds like and James Blake are touchstones the size of mausoleums here – they are. Deptford Goth: Life After Defo – review 2013-03-17T00:05:21Z The touchstone, the lodestar, the flypaper for me at first was, predictably, Parsons. Riff: I Love ‘The Big Bang Theory.’ And You Should, Too. 2013-05-26T02:11:30Z It’s an obvious aesthetic and political touchstone for Jusu, who nevertheless quickly and confidently spins off in her own direction. A Sundance With Brains and Guts, Disemboweled and Otherwise 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z The outlaw insists on a showdown, and the marshal, always a moral touchstone, must accommodate him. James Arness, Marshal on ?Gunsmoke,? Dies at 88 2011-06-03T18:34:50Z Another touchstone is Surrealist photography from the ’30s, which aimed for more dreamy, psychedelic effects. A Small Brazilian Photo Club That Reached for the Skyline 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Twohy’s reference to “Apocalypse Now” can be read as just another ceremonial nod at a cinematic touchstone, one that seeks to suggest affinity merely through quotation. Movie Review: Vin Diesel Returns in Latest Riddick Film 2013-09-05T21:52:59Z The Vegas shows had gospel singers and a mini-orchestra; he sang “American Trilogy,” merging Civil War anthems of North and South, fusing cultural touchstones. Review: A Reverent Elvis Doc Separates the Trailblazer From His Tragedy 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The trailer, though just eighty seconds long, is packed with nostalgic touchstones—a kind of greatest-hits collection that even people who stopped thinking about “Star Wars” years ago would recognize. Hopeful Signs for the “Star Wars” Do-Over 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z He was there to play his crossover hit “Rockit,” an early hip-hop touchstone, ubiquitous in the clubs and on the street. Two Turntables and a Keytar: The Night Herbie Hancock Rocked the Grammys 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z "The toughest cultural touchstone to let go of is fried chicken, she said." Black Vegans Step Out, for Their Health and Other Causes 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z It’s been half a century since “Cheaper by the Dozen” and “The Brady Bunch” were pop culture touchstones. The rise of the only child: How America is coming around to the idea of ‘just one’ 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z The trailer, which debuted earlier this week ahead of the movie’s screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, shows a different tone than Eminem’s touchstone project “8 Mile.” The trailer for Eminem’s satirical “Bodied” captures the tense thrill of battle rap 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" is a moody comic allegory about desperation, disconnection and dreams that uses "Fargo," the Coen brothers classic, as a touchstone to examine modern life. 'Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter' chases her 'Fargo' dream 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z “Métamorphoses nocturnes” is a taut and seething one-movement work from 1954, a repertory touchstone and as fine a music as any to put a young group to the test. Calidore String Quartet Comes to New York 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z The touchstone of Sully’s experience is the limit of experience, namely, death. Clint Eastwood’s “Sully”: A Heroic Pilot’s Existential Burden 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z But his voice as an improviser was recognizably the same as on one of his earliest and best-known albums, the free-jazz touchstone “Machine Gun,” which landed as a blunt provocation in 1968. Music Review: A Kind of Orthodoxy Built on Improvisation 2011-06-09T22:53:47Z The beloved storybook character created by Michael Bond in the late 1950s and illustrated by Peggy Fortnum are the film's touchstones, the bear a creation of special effects, the people around him simply special. 'Paddington' brings irresistible bear to life 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Love and all its splendor — and peril — is a major lyrical touchstone on Lopez's new album. Jennifer Lopez, at peace with herself 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Yet, throughout her career Ms. Bartoli, when not championing overlooked opera composers from earlier eras, has found her own path into touchstone roles and challenged audience assumptions about the standard repertory. Review: Cecilia Bartoli Has Dramatic Depth as ‘Norma’ at Salzburg Festival 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z That vision changed Ginsberg’s life, and Blake became a touchstone figure for many radical American artists of the 1950s and his destroy-all-tyrants radar continued to burn through the 1960s. The Best Art Books of 2017 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z In glamorous gowns and shining turbans, Nina swans in and out of the proceedings with some regularity, the friendship between her and Shlomo a touchstone in both their lives. Theater Review: ‘Soul Doctor,’ a Musical About Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach 2013-08-16T02:00:40Z Love Island, the cultural touchstone that takes over summers in the United Kingdom. Lena Dunham on Love Island: ‘I'm asking the same question they do – can you love after hurt?’ 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Jaden Smith in the Karate Kid It's one of those eternal cycles: Hollywood power players ransacking their own childhoods for the cultural touchstones of the present day. High kicks, low tension 2010-06-17T23:14:00Z He also had fun with other pop-culture touchstones, while slipping in some passionate political commentary, especially on Latino issues. Fact check: El Vez adds fun to politics 2012-10-24T19:31:05Z They will be woven together and offered as a cultural touchstone and greeting for the new administration and vice president, whose mother was an Indian immigrant. To honor Kamala Harris, these women are bringing a traditional Indian art form to D.C., made by thousands of hands 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z In the Hollywood Reporter, critic Todd McCarthy has a similar mix of praise and reservations The fundamental touchstones of George Lucas’ original creation remain, in director J.J. The Force Awakens reviews roundup: verdicts arrive on JJ Abrams' Star Wars epic 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z "Whoever I cast as James had to have a touchstone to the South," continued Taylor. Getting it together for James Brown biopic 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z “For me, the novel is a kind of poetic touchstone for asking, ‘How do people become evil? Frankenstein at 200 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Canet refers to Schatzberg's movie as a touchstone and screened it for his cast and crew so they could understand where he was coming from. Canet seeks gritty New York in 'Blood Ties' 2013-05-22T12:04:17Z “Virginia knew every word. For me, that was a touchstone.” She Sang. So Did His Heart. 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Notably, the new fourth-season set includes “Donna’s Prima Donna,” the episode in which Shelley Fabares sings the debut of her 1962 No. 1 pop hit, “Johnny Angel,” itself another touchstone of the era. Television: A New Season of ?The Donna Reed Show? on DVD 2011-12-24T05:09:09Z Small, colorful dots came into view: people and cars, which seemed incongruous, implausible even, after the wind, water and ancient relics that had been our touchstones all day. Rapa Nui Is Remote. And Then There’s Its Isolated North Coast 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z You probably know, or at least know of, “A Flea in Her Ear,” a 1907 touchstone of the farcical repertory that is especially associated with the Old Vic, where it has been revived twice previously. Theater Review: Slamming Doore, Heavy Sledding 2011-01-11T13:00:02Z Daniel Defoe’s story of “Robinson Crusoe” became a touchstone. Exhibition Review: At the Folger, a 200-Year Survey of the Sea 2010-08-18T18:21:00Z Some call Confederate monuments relics of a past time to honor the dead, regardless of their dated viewpoints, and touchstones to recall history. The art of the war memorial: What should a monument to a past conflict do? 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z By its third season, “Deadliest Catch” had crossed over from cult hit to cultural touchstone. How Thom Beers Built a Reality-TV Empire 2012-12-16T23:37:47Z Now in book form, the project has become a touchstone for America’s reckoning over slavery and the reverberations for Black Americans. The AP Interview: Nikole Hannah-Jones’ warning on democracy 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z “An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful,” George Orwell, one of Mr. Hitchens’s literary touchstones, wrote. Books of The Times: ?Hitch-22: A Memoir? by Christopher Hitchens 2010-06-01T22:25:00Z It’s been nearly fifty years since the nineteen-seventies began—and yet the touchstones of that decade, from Watergate to the denim jumpsuit, seem more relevant than ever. Sunday Reading: A Cultural Review of the Seventies 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Sports are an important touchstone for Mr. Grooms, who brought up the controversy surrounding his Marlins sculpture by saying, “Do you know about my disaster?” Art Is Fleeting, but Red Grooms Is Forever 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Joel has this connection to a very specific song that's a touchstone. Why we all love "Somebody Somewhere" star Jeff Hiller: "Everybody feels like they're the outsider" 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z In 1980 he released the gloriously raunchy “Rapp Dirty,” which he said he had written more than a decade earlier, and which became a touchstone for a future wave of profane, eccentric rappers. Clarence Reid, Singer and Songwriter Also Known as Blowfly, Dies at 76 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z All of these influences are so essential to the way I think about food that they’re the touchstones of every recipe I create. How I Came to Cook in French 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z When segments played more than an hour earlier returned, they were welcome touchstones. Music Review: Ne(x)tworks Quartet Plays Feldman?s Six-Hour Work 2010-04-12T22:43:00Z Story Story Night: Live music, food, drinks and intimate autobiographical storytelling have made this itinerant series a Boise cultural touchstone for roughly eight years. Fast-changing Boise offers plenty of adventure, day or night. Here’s a list to choose from. 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The project that many consider to be his touchstone, Mr. Adrià said, is the campus for El Colegio de México, a small university for the humanities that he designed with his frequent collaborator Abraham Zabludovsky. Teodoro González de León, Evocative Mexican Architect, Dies at 90 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z A pioneering touchstone of metal’s extreme wing, it long ago formed a closed circuit for itself, a system of structural convolution. Music Review: Meshuggah and Baroness at Terminal 5 2012-05-24T22:31:32Z "Nowhere Boy" alludes to numerous touchstones in Beatles lore, sometimes casually, sometimes dramatically, but always — wisely — without the distraction of reverence. 'Nowhere Boy': A fab film about John Lennon's early years 2010-10-14T20:36:00Z Mathematics was simply there: the setting for existence; the touchstone for all activity. The Genius in My Basement by Alexander Masters - review 2011-08-24T13:30:01Z Ai’s work is rooted in conceptual art and dadaism; mercurial Marcel Duchamp remains a vital touchstone. Ai Weiwei: ‘Without the prison, the beatings, what would I be? 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z It became a touchstone for many new mothers. Anne Lamott, Leftie Guru of Optimism 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z Her raised fist returned to her heart, seeking a touchstone. Dance Review: Sisters Standing Up to the Man 2011-04-29T21:21:24Z For all its flaws, Our Friends remains a touchstone for the possibility of serious, involving television – and should be an inspiration for controllers of drama whichever network they work for. Box Set Club: Our Friends in the North 2011-07-19T13:29:17Z More compelling is “Baled Truck,” which calls up touchstones from the artist’s long career. Evolving sculptural ideas from Charles Ray 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The deal, for $1.62 billion, will put control of the cultural touchstone behind authors like Stephen King and Bob Woodward in the hands of a financial buyer with an expanding presence in the publishing industry. Paramount Agrees to Sell Simon and Schuster to KKR, a Private Equity Firm 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z When I asked him about his approach to making atmos mixes enhancing the listening experience, he noted that "instinct" often acts as his touchstone. New Dolby mix of Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" takes its luminous vocals to soaring heights 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z Roderick Kiracofe, the author of “The American Quilt: A History of Cloth and Comfort,” recalls the popular exhibition “Abstract Design in American Quilts” at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1971 as a touchstone. This Old Thing? Quilts Hit the Catwalk 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z How are these cultural touchstones circulated in the Middle East? "Little America" star: "White people are scared because they will become the minority" 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The action gives Times Square another touchstone production as Broadway seeks as swift a recovery as possible since the coronavirus pandemic shut down the American theater industry 15 months ago. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ sets an Oct. 5 Broadway return, with original star Jeff Daniels and a new producer replacing Scott Rudin 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z The hope is that these moments might even become touchstones of nostalgia, what Don Draper in “Mad Men” called “a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone.” After months in lockdown, we need some new memories. But can you ‘make’ them? 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z What were some of the musical touchstones for your production? The Man Behind the Music for Jay-Z’s Intimate ‘4:44’ 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z It’s the birthplace of Jimi Hendrix and grunge, the mysterious home to some of our darker cultural touchstones like “Twin Peaks.” Here’s how badly the pandemic hurt Washington arts — and some ways the sector can recover 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z As with all of those touchstones, the mood can turn quickly from joyous to spooky, depending on the cast of Mr. LaMontagne’s high, rough-edged voice. In Ray LaMontagne’s ‘Supernova,’ Hints of the ‘60s 2014-04-30T18:25:15Z “KIMI” self-consciously draws from an assortment of cinematic referents, including obvious touchstones like “Rear Window” and woman-in-peril-at-home thrillers like “Midnight Lace.” ‘KIMI’ Review: Sure She’s Paranoid, but Something Really Is Out There 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z His work space there is decorated with art and memorabilia celebrating a wide range of geek-culture touchstones — not just “Star Trek,” but “Superman,” “Back to the Future” and “Star Wars.” Can ‘Star Trek’ Chart a Way Forward? 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z In recent years, her story became a touchstone for film histories, television dramas, a novel and an opera — all in some way exploring national identity in Asia. Yoshiko Yamaguchi, 94, Actress in Propaganda Films, Dies 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Between its hopscotch between perspectives and chronological touchstones in Clinton's presidency as they relate to Kenneth Starr's investigation, it feels disjointed. FX's "Impeachment" doesn't acquit itself well, despite a humanizing portrayal by Beanie Feldstein 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z While considering what was missing from the film, I recalled a passage from the great cinematographer Arthur Jafa, whose 1992 essay “Black Visual Intonation” offers a critical touchstone of directorial imagination: Brad Pitt’s “War Machine” Stays on the Surface of American Politics 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Without the touchstone of religion, death was ripe to be corporatised. The final act of love: reclaiming the rites of modern death 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z In those nearly two decades, it’s become a touchstone for Polish culture in the Washington area. Perspective | Volumes of Poland in the District 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Though he is a welcome star at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera and other great halls in North America, Europe and Asia, Grimsley regards Seattle as a touchstone. Beethoven's Ninth closes out 2011 at SSO 2011-12-23T07:47:28Z The voice Ms. Collins revealed at that concert, and on “Lodestar,” falls several octaves below the soaring one that made her famous on traditional touchstones like “The Power of the True Love Knot” in 1968. For Shirley Collins, a Folk Revival of Her Very Own 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z It is a cultural touchstone for him, almost as influential to his worldview as his Buddhist studies. Looking for Buddhist Wisdom in ‘The Princess Bride’ 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The Borgias’ political machinations provide an undoubtedly grotesque spectacle, a fine subject for the dell’arte all’improvviso, which has long been a creative touchstone of Fo’s. ‘The Pope’s Daughter’ review: Dario Fo’s novel defends the Borgia clan 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Merchant mourned, “The great Garry Shandling’s work is such a touchstone for me that I was actually discussing him moments before I heard the sad news. RIP.” Garry Shandling, groundbreaking comedian and actor, dies aged 66 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Providing that sort of piquant commentary on racial topics has been Mr. Wilmore’s specialty on “The Daily Show,” though he said it has always been a touchstone of his comedy. Larry Wilmore Is Ready for ‘The Minority Report’ 2014-05-11T21:55:43Z The musician, subject of a new documentary, was a manual laborer in Detroit — and, unbeknownst to him, a cultural touchstone in South Africa Who were the most important American songwriters after Woodstock? Sixto Rodriguez, Secret Rock Star Behind Searching for Sugar Man 2012-08-21T12:00:30Z “It never really occurred to me that, if I ever had a child, that child would not sound like me or grow up with some common cultural touchstones,” he says. John Oliver: ‘Maybe Brexit is a great idea. There’s absolutely nothing to suggest that’ 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z This touchstone of cool seemed to extend its influence everywhere in the 90s: movies, fiction, journalism, media, fashion, restaurants. Pulp Fiction to Magnolia: the best films of the 90s – as chosen by critics 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The show, once a behemoth in American entertainment and a cultural touchstone, no longer occupies the same position in the television firmament. 'American Idol' Will End After Next Season 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Women’s gender roles and the tipping points of power remain searing touchstones of Ms. Applebroog’s work. She’s Her Own Artist. And a Daughter’s Muse. 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Was it always a touchstone for you in these books? Jay McInerney on brightness, couples and catastrophe 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Six Tony Awards, three Broadway houses, an Oscar-winning film adaptation and over 30 international reproductions later, this Jazz Age satire has become both a cultural touchstone and a New York City landmark. ‘Chicago’ Pops the Cork on 25 Years of Razzle Dazzle 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Professor Sunstein developed a new interest in “Star Wars” after introducing the series to his son, Declan, 7, and witnessing how it became a touchstone for them. A Harvard Professor Goes ‘Star Wars’ Crazy 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z The edited translation of Catherine Almedingen's memoirs by her great niece was a real touchstone of my childhood. In translation: nine authors pick their favourite children's fiction 2013-06-28T17:29:01Z Ten years ago Ms. Voigt seemed destined to claim this touchstone dramatic soprano role. Spring Performance: Music: ?Ring? Resumes, With All Eyes on Br?nnhilde 2011-02-20T02:02:17Z And she writes so well about those things — that was a very good touchstone for me. "A similar genesis": The Cure's Lol Tolhurst honors goth and its (spider)web of artistic connections 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z There are shades of "The Da Vinci Code," with levels of prophecy, history and mythology that sent at least one of its stars to the Internet for touchstones. USA Network is hoping for gold with its event series 'Dig' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z This is a touchstone for all of us. Carolyn Hax: I don’t want commitment from my boyfriend. He doesn’t believe me. 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z In addition to finding adequate music for kids, many parents wind up revisiting their own cultural touchstones from childhood and foisting them on their children. It’s an eternal parenting question: How can I get my kids to listen to ‘good’ music? 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z A fork and a spoon that belonged to Arthur Rimbaud, the French symbolist poet who has been one of Smith’s touchstones forever. T Magazine: Patti Smith, Requiem Lass 2011-10-14T15:15:24Z It’s about the bond between these characters, but it does channel a number of cultural touchstones. Joel McHale on the Latest Revival of 'Community' and Being O.K. With 'Reference Humor' 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Olive Garden deserves all the attention it will garner for this crucial touchstone in the descent of human civilization. Olive Garden’s “Never Ending Pasta Pass” is a triumph of civilization 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Only by entering the make-believe narrative of a pop culture touchstone could Abed realize the emptiness of a life that revolved around pop culture touchstones. "My Community Pulp Fictional Dinner with Andre" 2011-03-25T16:04:00Z The first track from the groundbreaking album "Nevermind" has become a cultural touchstone. Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ turns 25 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The identity shifts Tigelaar makes with Ng's characters become important touchstones in terms of enacting this filter. "Little Fires Everywhere": An honest finale clears the smoke and reveals signs of hope 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z What was the last electric-guitar riff to become a cultural touchstone — or even a meme? Why It’s Time to Take ‘Rock’ Out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2012-10-10T12:00:41Z But critics praised it, and the show would grow to become a cultural touchstone. TCA 2015: A 'Mad Men' cruise? Don't count on it, Matthew Weiner says 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z He's a mature figure here whose Beijing-based character, Mr. Han, is a touchstone of restrained, masculine power and passion. 'The Karate Kid': Chan-Smith version has kick 2010-06-10T17:12:00Z In South Africa, Green Point is certainly an emotional touchstone. Perfect pitch: Cape Town's Green Point stadium 2010-05-30T20:30:00Z I set out to devise a scaled-down menu for beginners — or anyone who wants to achieve the same flavor touchstones without doing more work than necessary. A Beginner’s Thanksgiving: 7 Recipes That Lighten the Workload 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Mahler, Mozart and Mary are the touchstone names for next season at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. ArtsBeat: Los Angeles Philharmonic Announces New Season 2011-02-07T18:15:24Z "To me, that's the perfect pop song and was kind of the touchstone for the whole record," said Mann, who's 52. Aimme Mann turns to AM radio hit for inspiration 2012-11-20T17:13:09Z By taking on a touchstone Verdi baritone part, Mr. Domingo was asking fans to indulge him in fulfilling a lifelong fantasy, one for which his voice was not really suited. Review: Verdi’s ‘Simon Boccanegra’ at the Met, and a Question of Career Timing 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z The show’s most distinctive characteristic is its attempt to eschew linear storytelling and its refusal to supply the expected touchstones. Review: ‘Little Girl Blue’ Revisits Nina Simone in Her Prime 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z When it comes to our attitudes toward singleness and dating, I think the touchstone for a generation of people, especially women, is still “Sex and the City.” In defense of single people 2012-07-09T01:00:00Z We did speak specifically about some musical touchstones. A Word With: Sam Beam of Iron and Wine 2013-04-19T17:27:31Z Churchill – an ally in two world wars and the cold war – has become something of a cultural touchstone for politicians on both sides of the aisle, especially conservative Republicans. Churchill 'in the year of Trump': Darkest Hour feeds America's love for Winston 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z For most of us, there are major cultural touchstones that we’ve somehow missed entirely. Weekend Miser: Noël Coward Exhibition; Habana Outpost Film Screenings 2012-08-16T21:56:28Z The image became a touchstone over the years as Goldberg faced many days — many years — when she was the only woman in the room or the only woman around the table of decision-makers. Perspective | What Meryl Streep and ‘The Post’ can teach us about the power of being a female boss 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z Yet Mr. Rivers goes beyond traditional touchstones, as if to portray a purer isolation. Movie Review: ‘Two Years at Sea,’ Directed by Ben Rivers‘ 2012-10-12T02:38:35Z The “Handbook” was one of the first touchstones of an era that celebrated coveting, from the bubbly home tours of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” to the upscale-aspiration of MTV’s early videos. The ‘Preppy Handbook’ & Me 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z "Meme. Cultural touchstone. Cheese sandwich," the auction page describes. Ja Rule selling rights to Fyre Festival tweet of infamous cheese sandwiches as NFT 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z The environmentalist precept of “reduce, reuse, recycle” is an aesthetic touchstone for the designer Emily Bode, isolating since mid-March in British Columbia. Emily Bode on How to Make a ‘Sweetheart’ T-Shirt 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z The author and activist Adrienne Maree Brown’s 2017 book “Emergent Strategy,” which positions collective leadership as an essential component of social change, has become a touchstone for those whose work connects art and social justice. Dance’s Communal Ethos Is Moving Into the Office and Boardroom 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Rather than create a fully fleshed fantastical new world, Roberts seems content to refer us to popular touchstones such as “The Blair Witch Project,” “Star Wars” and “Harry Potter.” The apocalypse, as imagined by Nora Roberts 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Poor kids today: they may have to find their own touchstones for terror. Richard Matheson (1926–2013): The Wizard of What-If? 2013-06-28T20:55:11Z Q: Jimmy Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” speech is a touchstone in the film. Mike Mills’s ‘20th Century Women’ is ‘very long thank-you note’ to his late mother 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z “A company that sells alcohol is the moral touchstone of the NFL.” Must-see morning clip: Jon Stewart blasts NFL for its “special brand of spiteful ignorance” 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Krakauer is 57, and his choices could be said to reflect the cinematic touchstones of his generation. Music Review: ‘The Big Picture,’ Movie Music at the Museum of Jewish Heritage 2014-01-30T23:53:10Z But while its text celebrates openness and equality, the work remains a touchstone of Western — and especially German — culture. At G-20, Beethoven Sends a Mixed Message to Trump 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Is there a classic novel you return to as a touchstone? Samantha Hunt: By the Book 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Since you and Jack both trade in references, what were the touchstones for “Being Funny”? The 1975’s Matty Healy Is Still Trying to Be Funny, Sincerely 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z It's an exercise in plangent that is as much indebted to his own musical icon, Woody Guthrie, as it is to country touchstones like Hank Williams and Waylon Jennings. Justin Townes Earle ? review 2011-07-29T17:30:49Z “Tiresian Symmetry” has an equivalent touchstone in Tiresias, the Greek prophet who, according to legend, walked the earth as both a man and a woman. New Music: ‘La Misma Gran Senora’ by Jenni Rivera and ‘Tiresian Symmetry’ by Jason Robinson 2012-12-17T22:57:59Z In the space of a few days, Udwin's film has become a touchstone for women's equality worldwide--even as it can't legally be shown in its home country. Banned 'India's Daughter' fiilmmaker brings her work to the U.S. 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z After weeks of spiteful relations, the two temporarily put aside their differences and the song served as a touchstone for both disgruntled characters. Songs take starring role in TV drama 'Nashville' 2012-12-11T15:45:18Z What were the early touchstones that made you want to become songwriters? Meet the Women Who Give ‘Central Park’ Its Sunny Sound 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z The 1967 movie became a touchstone for the decade’s rebellion even though Webb’s story was set in an earlier era — never referring to Vietnam or civil rights. Charles Webb, author of ‘The Graduate,’ dies in England 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z The track bears no dedication, but in mood and substance it evokes Blind Willie Johnson, one of a handful of touchstones for “Northern Spy.” Review: Michael Bates’s ‘Northern Spy’ Features Nods to Jazz Legacies 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Composed around 1720, just before Bach moved to Leipzig, the cello suites, now musical and emotional touchstones, were little known until the early 1900s. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Those closest to him, it seems, were among the first to resist letting Phoenix be made into a martyr or a ghoulish touchstone. River Phoenix died 25 years ago. He’s still slipping away from us. 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z A more traditional touchstone of Finnish culture is the sauna. Helsinki holds its own among Nordic capitals 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Da Corte’s wide embrace of difference — and interest in dissonant juxtapositions — is matched by his almost feverish use of art historical references and touchstones. Up on the Met Roof, an Artist Is Taking Big Bird to New Heights 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z The ordeal shaped Kennedy’s view of the world and of himself, and established a touchstone by which his character would be defined for the rest of his life. 6 New Books About the Kennedys Land on Shelves 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z A touchstone might be Robert Morris’s 1964 exhibition at the Green Gallery in New York, in which the site is virtually always mentioned as part of the work. Liz Deschenes: ‘Stereographs #1-4 (Rise/Fall)’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Audubon’s “Birds of America” is such a cultural touchstone that it puts his “Quadrupeds of North America” slightly in its shade. A&E highlights: Take a bite of festivals, theater and music 2013-07-11T21:37:04Z Before last week I hadn’t seen this picture in the flesh, but now I’m convinced that it’s a touchstone for a vital moment in California art. Applause, and a caution, for the planned Museum and Institute of California Art 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z This Mexican-American singer’s music is often described as “ukulele electropop,” but with its reggaeton and ambient touchstones, it feels much more eclectic than that label might suggest. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z That two of Nelson’s touchstone actors — the forever outstanding Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders — take their places, as they have in each of the Rhinebeck families, accords the endeavor a solid anchoring. Review | Playwright Richard Nelson ends his epic cycle of hyper-realistic drama with — what else? — a global pandemic 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The Emmy-winning legend who helped make the original series a TV touchstone embraces a new, if similar, challenge here: recreate his signature walk-and-talk energy without the space to walk very far. "A West Wing Special" review: HBO Max reunion plays handsomely to a hidden audience 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Her cultural touchstones were the film Matilda, Disney, Pink and the Spice Girls, and musicals such as Chicago. Daisy Ridley: ‘JJ Abrams warned me that Star Wars is a religion’ 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Its touchstone is the story of William Freeman, a freeborn man of African and Native American descent who was accused of multiple brutal killings in upstate New York. At Edinburgh Fringe, a Spotlight on Mental Health 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z That hasn’t stopped it from gaining a cult following in the 25 years since, becoming a touchstone for girls yearning to be seen. ‘Now and Then’ at 25: Girlhood Finally Taken Seriously 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z “With an anthropologist’s eye, he outlines their different personality traits, their history and cultural touchstones,” Nellie Bowles writes in her review. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z His tip-kvetching Mr Pink in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs transformed both the director and his ensemble cast into touchstones of a new era in independent filmmaking. Steve Buscemi: ‘I feel I haven’t fulfilled my true potential' 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Jumping around wildly in time, and with time’s passage as its central concern, the novella builds a rich mosaic of Walt’s life and of Fall River, a touchstone locale in Orner’s work. The Roving, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Peter Orner 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z This was her first time portraying the touchstone role of Violetta at the Met. Music Review: Natalie Dessay in ?La Traviata? at the Met 2012-04-11T21:29:22Z Sturdy western archetypes sit uncomfortably close to ugly ethnic stereotypes, and “The Lone Ranger” tries to imagine a wholesome, inclusive version of the western while reviving the time-tested touchstones of the genre. Movie Review: In ‘The Lone Ranger,’ Tonto Takes Center Stage 2013-07-02T17:30:46Z There was a time, in the early years of this century, where he was a touchstone for opposition. Jon Stewart fought the good fight during the Bush era: “You had the mainstream media … reduced to taking seriously the garbage that was coming out of the right” 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Yet Fleetwood Mac’s polished pop-rock has also become a touchstone for younger, hipper acts such as Jenny Lewis and One Direction. Fleetwood Mac at the Forum: A band reunited, team spirit intact 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z Even past the 1960s, the film endured for many white Americans as a beloved cultural touchstone, a symbol of golden age Hollywood — and even American identity itself. The Long Battle Over ‘Gone With the Wind’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Taking “Snow White” as a cultural touchstone, Oyeyemi’s novel offers up a cautionary tale on post-race ideology, racial limbos and the politics of passing. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Over the years, states have plotted out themed trails that spotlight local specialties and cultural touchstones, such as barbecue, oysters and Mister Rogers. Satisfy your food, beverage or cultural craving on a Mid-Atlantic trail 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Each trait, he said, became “a touchstone one goes back to without too many flourishes, and see what resonates from that place.” Matthew Barney, Back in the Game 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z He achieves, deftly and gracefully, the unity of inner life and political analysis that is a touchstone of modernity. The Miraculous Apu Trilogy 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Part of The Trip’s allure is that, alongside mainstream references, many of its touchstones are unashamedly learned. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'Work-wise, Steve's terrific. On a personal level, appalling' 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z And there are still plenty of obvious musical touchstones to the Foxes’ material. Review | Fleet Foxes, bigger and better after hiatus 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z Jazz is a touchstone for people who care about musical excellence. To know Bowie, Kendrick and Gaga, you have to know your jazz: “There is an artisan movement going on in music now just as there is in food” 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z “That basic tension was the touchstone for me going into it.” How ‘The Crown’ shaped a generation’s view of Prince Philip 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Pensotti’s other touchstone is cinema, especially the frequently invoked Nouvelle Vague, from which he has learned to mix the serious and the light, never an easy feat. | 'The Past Is a Grotesque Animal': ?El Pasado Es un Animal Grotesco? at the Public Theater 2012-01-10T21:45:50Z Of course, he was already cool, at least to those who knew him from “Cockfighter” and other under-sung touchstones of the 1970s American cinema. Harry Dean Stanton: Fully Inhabiting Scenes, Not Stealing Them 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Williams’s work, which included themes for NBC’s “Meet the Press” and “Today,” also became a touchstone for future news music composition. Network news music is the soundtrack to current events, but few know the composers behind it 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z They are too clever not to provide a few laughs in their strip-mining of touchstone genres, from hip-hop to funk to Alpine polka. Listening to the Best (and Worst) of Broadway 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z There is that touchstone of what it feels like to be 13 and having stuff going on around you in the world and that you're participating in. "PEN15" stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle: "We still feel like we're in seventh grade" 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z It’s a grotesquerie, far beyond the slaughter for sport one might expect of a horror film, the obvious touchstone. Critic?s Notebook: An Album and Its Buzz 2011-01-02T23:09:11Z O’Donovan’s personal touchstones are swept into the mood of the album: pensive, determined, ambivalently and then determinedly hopeful. Aoife O’Donovan’s Songs Poured Out When Touring Shut Down 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z The paperweight is Tory's touchstone as she painfully rebuilds her life — and it also figures in the dramatic conclusion of this intriguing and atmospheric novel. 'The Glass Butterfly': a therapist in peril from a deadly patient 2012-09-19T21:10:08Z This is a touchstone of the soprano repertory. Review: Anna Netrebko Emerges as a Powerful New Tosca at the Met 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z Like similar art relating to science in the ’60s and ’70s — Robert Smithson is a major touchstone — these works show how scientific knowledge and research are often treated as exotic, glamorous and psychedelic. Review: ‘Weird Science,’ a Group Show of Experimental Art 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z She tackled the new edition with certain touchstones in mind, including shifting demographics, the financial crisis, an evolving political landscape and the persistence of white supremacy. A 23-Year-Old Book About Race Landed on the Best-Seller List Because It’s Still Relevant 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, The Babadook has become a touchstone text of 21st century horror, described by The Exorcist’s director William Friedkin as a film that will “scare the hell out of you, as it did me”. The female directors bringing new blood to horror films 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z The touchstone for saxophonists in this style is still Grover Washington Jr., whom Mr. James acknowledged as an early influence in his preface to “The Moment.” Review: Boney James Performs with Panache in Smooth Cruise Kickoff 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z If you can believe it, I’d never seen “Seinfeld” when it was “all the rage” because I didn’t own a television, and so I was never a part of that cultural touchstone. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on Acting and Amateurism 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z And though it never gets to "cue the locusts" territory, the plot twists required to hit certain biblical touchstones throw up a lot of dust. Lifetime's 'The Red Tent' kept standing by leading ladies 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z His deep dive into the 1982 cult classic “Liquid Sky” is a touchstone for brushing off buried gems. Saying goodbye to Marc Spitz: Author, critic, playwright and true believer in rock & roll 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z “Barney’s Version” is explicitly dedicated to Richler’s memory, and also, by implication, to some of the cultural touchstones of his native land. | 'Barney?s Version': Maybe a Dinosaur, Just Not Purple 2010-12-02T22:38:00Z It's a conversational touchstone without veils or filters, rules or conventions. Our group chat is a sacred space to talk openly about being Black in America 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Her work has become a touchstone for O’Neill. What’s Driving a Fresh Wave of Irish Music? Tradition. 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z Q.Did you and Rick Alverson agree on certain touchstones for this movie? For Gregg Turkington’s Character, There’s No Success Like Failure 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Having written about Muhammad Ali, Al Capone, Jackie Robinson and other touchstones of the American imagination, Jonathan Eig says he recognizes a common trait in the disparate personalities he’s explored. The Making of a New M.L.K. Biography: A Q&A With the Author, Jonathan Eig 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z “It felt like a good touchstone, tonally, for where we might end up.” ‘Jackie Brown’ and Tangerine Dream: What ‘I Care a Lot’ Is Made Of 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Long after she and Graham split up, he remains a touchstone, his own wanderings an unspoken dare. Memoirs of an Insatiable Traveler 2011-06-03T17:37:30Z His recordings with Szell remain benchmarks for their clarity, precision and sheer expressive musicality; Brahms’s first piano concerto was a touchstone. Leon Fleisher, sublime pianist undaunted by mysterious hand malady, dies at 92 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z But when she walked with her corgis, she provided a touchstone for people all over the world to connect with the most remote and private of global leaders. Queen Elizabeth: A Visual Dictionary 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Just a decade before, however, the idea that Broadway would use the penthouse of the Christodora as a touchstone of glamour seemed ludicrous. The Interloper on Avenue B 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, each guest room is themed around some touchstone of Greek culture. T Magazine: A Tree Grows in Athens 2011-06-28T18:34:58Z That, too, was sometimes literal, thanks to her tarot cards—one of this show’s many visual touchstones for faith, and one of its many gleeful touches of Victoriana. The damsel in distress trap: How “Penny Dreadful” betrayed Vanessa Ives 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z His parents are only just beginning to understand what a cultural touchstone “S.N.L.” is. Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z One can never assume that a 20-year-old movie that served as a Gen X cultural touchstone has any meaning whatsoever to Millennials and Gen Z. Romancing the music: "High Fidelity" and "Cherish the Day" find affection in their art 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z These are secular hymns for the indie kids — one exhortatory song is actually called “Surfer’s Hymn,” as if to pre-empt comparison with Brian Wilson, Panda Bear’s most obvious touchstone — but that shouldn’t limit their appeal. Critics? Choice: New Cds: Wrapping Up Life and Death In One Album 2011-04-11T21:45:09Z She claimed that touchstone part for her own, and put her mark on the whole season. Review: Anna Netrebko Makes ‘Aida’ Her Own at the Met Opera 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Despite Pip’s name and the mystery surrounding her paternity, “Purity” uses Dickens and “Great Expectations” as a touchstone only in so much as it invokes an array of classics. Review: In ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen Hits a New Octave 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z But if "Roseanne" had kept going in the same direction as season 10, it would never be the culturally relevant touchstone it needed to be, and that it was back in its heyday. The “Roseanne” revival we really needed is the one they’d never make 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z But there is one thing most everyone here agrees on: It would be terrible to see the end of Maine shrimp, a touchstone of local tradition, identity and cuisine. It’s Maine Shrimp Season, Without the Shrimp 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z At first, the audience seemed skeptical, even amused, by the notion of these American cheeses served next to one of their sacred culinary touchstones. How good has U.S. cheese become? Good enough to worry the Italians. 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z “The simple love of making music” is his touchstone, he said, and he returns to it again and again when considering new projects. Dave Grohl: A back-aching, coffee-guzzling, minivan-driving classic rocker 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z "You have to look back at history as a touchstone," Somerstein says. 'Road to Freedom' photos span 50 years of racial division 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z It’s been a touchstone for fashion, music and popular culture, remembered fondly but with a shudder, as the butt of jokes and youthful indiscretions with hairstyles and shoulder heights. Don’t You Forget About Me: The Formerly Irredeemable ’80s Return 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z For me, though, it was like seeing old touchstones from my life. Attention, pinball wizards: There’s a museum in New Jersey just for you 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Miranda and Seller didn’t have a fully formed plan for the film in 2016; Kail worked on the editing intermittently as the show became a cultural touchstone, its lyrics entering the pop lexicon. Perspective | As ‘Hamilton’ becomes a movie, suddenly we’re all in the room where it happens 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Bloom’s most important book, “The Anxiety of Influence,” remains a touchstone. Harold Bloom, a Prolific Giant and Perhaps the Last of a Kind 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Bley’s piano solo on “All the Things You Are” on that album became something of a musical touchstone. Paul Bley, innovative pianist in modern jazz, dies at 83 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z It may or may not be named after the Talking Heads song — as far as sonic touchstones, Nirvana is far more apparent — but like the Talking Heads, this music, too, is a rhythm thing. Naomi Punk's ‘Television Man' totally uncompromising | New recordings 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z It was a cultural touchstone for my generation. Perspective | Taking the Fifth ... and the pills, too 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Before “Fiddler on the Roof” became a Broadway classic and cultural touchstone, it was just a pretty bad idea. ‘Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles’ Review: Inside a Broadway … Tradition! 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z When she attended her first expo, she was grateful for the chance to revisit a touchstone of her childhood, but also delighted to learn about tea varieties she’d never encountered before. For Tea Devotees, This Little Shop Is the Place to Be Right Now 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z To this day a supper club meal remains the common touchstone for me and my far-flung siblings whenever we pay a visit to my parents in Wisconsin. Journeys: Wisconsin Supper Clubs, Old-Fashioned and Open to All 2011-11-23T18:45:06Z The team referred to the photography of Jamel Shabazz and the television series “New York Undercover” as visual touchstones to capture the city’s past aesthetics. How ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Throws a ’90s Hip-Hop Party 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Shakespeare remains a cultural touchstone and an academic trove. ‘Will’ on TNT: A Punk-Rock Shakespeare, Striving and Stage-Diving in the Big City 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z “Round-Up” takes on an institution that is a sport and a cultural touchstone: rodeo. Rodeo, Rockabilly And Ample Mixing 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z But the group’s music — sharp, sociopolitical rhymes set to impossibly cool jazz arrangements — has become a touchstone for generations of younger hip-hop artists. Pop & Rock Listings for Nov. 4-10 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Surrealism and Cubism are touchstones here and figurative painting dominates. The Armory Show, in a Back-to-School Edition 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z And "The Dreaming" has found its audience: The LP's genius is now recognized, including because it's an obvious touchstone for any number of artists; to name a few, Bjork, Tori Amos, Zola Jesus, and Tune-Yards. Kate Bush's bewitching "The Dreaming" turns 40 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z “It reminded me of movies, growing up, that have always been the touchstones for me, which is movies from the ’70s.” Ben Stiller Goes Darker for a Real-Life Prison Break 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z A prize might have been nice, but he didn’t need the festival’s blessing; “Do the Right Thing” became a cultural touchstone, an essential work in Mr. Lee’s enduring, electric career. Spike Lee Turns a Period Piece Into a Protest of the Trump Era 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z The sincerity of early-aughts indie rock is a touchstone of the album—one song, “Burning Up,” is like a hybrid of Usher’s “Climax” and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. In 2016, How to Dress Well Gets Happy 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z It’s also increasingly invoked as a touchstone for understanding our current moment. How Black Citizenship Was Won, and Lost 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z “It’s sort of like a touchstone in that Truffaut, ‘Day for Night’ sort of way,” he added. ‘Irma Vep’ Returns, More Meta Than Ever 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z Disney was a touchstone for Ms. Lee as she grew up. Jennifer Lee, Queen of the ‘Frozen’ Franchise 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z "Cabaret," which won eight Academy Awards - in a year that also featured competition from a little film called "The Godfather" - hasn't seemed to gather mold over time, remaining a crucial cultural touchstone. 'Cabaret' celebrates 41st birthday with a party 2013-01-28T14:13:14Z It was a touchstone as friends died of AIDS. A Return to Acting That?s From the Heart 2011-05-25T15:10:50Z “It was always just a real special sentimental touchstone for me,” he said. Seattle’s Nutcracker house in Ballard returns after a year of uncertainty 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z The upright piano he no longer uses but is a touchstone, he said, “to what really matters.” What It’s Like Self-Isolating in a Studio Apartment 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z The recording, which is a nearly two-hour sound collage of dozens of live versions of the Grateful Dead's "Dark Star," was released 20 years ago, and is considered a touchstone of so-called mashup culture. John Oswald on Plunderphonics, "Grayfolded" and audio collage 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Opponents point to the state’s devastating legacy of hard rock mining — a legacy that includes dark touchstones like areas around the mining town of Butte and the downstream Clark Fork River, both now Superfund sites. Can Montana’s Smith River Survive a Nearby Mine? 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z For my generation of mothers, that piece is a touchstone. Motherlode Blog: After the Opt-Out Revolution, Asking: How’s That Working for You? 2013-08-08T15:18:41Z And by the way, Elan Zafir plays Hubert, torn by affection for Arthur, with such exceptional emotionality that he makes a powerful case for this secondary character to be the humane touchstone for the play. Review | You won’t find Westeros on Folger’s stage. But you will find a game of thrones. 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Spanning 75 years of animated mayhem, with its nods to Porky in Wackyland and other early, wild Warner Bros. cartoons, offered touchstones to parents as well as kids; it’s an up-to-date nostalgia trip. ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Is Rex and ‘Flight’ Has Great Liftoff on a Busy Post-Storm Weekend 2012-11-05T00:27:22Z Such work is a touchstone of ambient techno, which mixes samples, found sounds and field recordings with club-friendly rhythms. The Orb — strange electronic music that’s also popular 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z His first and most successful single, “Walking in Memphis,” from 1991, unfolds as a checklist of that city’s musical touchstones, from W. C. Handy to the Rev. Al Green. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Rick Ross, Marc Cohn, Frazey Ford 2010-07-18T21:21:00Z Along the way, they utter the touchstones of their transcontinental odyssey like an incantation: “Kabul. Tehran. Istanbul. Athens. Rome. Paris. London.” Review | Studio Theatre’s ‘Flight’ soars by tackling big issues with miniature models 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z It’s frightening to contemplate what might have happened had Greer and Sagal continued walking, a nightmare that becomes a touchstone in the book. Review | How running transformed the life of an NPR host 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z "The references in those songs become the building blocks of all these other songs down the road ... they become touchstones, really part of the meat of hip hop songs going forward," Brackett said. "The Message" deemed greatest hip hop song ever 2012-12-05T05:08:58Z One of her major touchstones, though, is Lunch Poems by the New York school figurehead and art critic Frank O'Hara. Artist of the week 194: Jessica Rankin 2012-06-15T15:38:31Z When you were looking at this story and looking at this show, were there other touchstones, culturally, that you were thinking about in those dynamics of female friendship? "Sex Lives" star Pauline Chalamet on civic duty: "We have to pay attention to our democracy" 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The third act of this thriller, a touchstone for Jennifer Lopez diva worshipers, is devoted entirely to a drawn-out, satisfying scene of a battered wife’s revenge. What’s on TV Tuesday 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z He has been my touchstone through the toughest times. Praise Poems: Ellen Bass Talks About 'Like a Beggar' 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Like many other things we consume to alter our state of consciousness, coffee is a social lubricant and a cultural touchstone. I will never apologize for my flavored coffee 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Her album Jagged Little Pill was on its way to becoming a cultural touchstone, a distillation of anger and heartache that seemed to speak for a generation. Alanis Morissette: from queen of alt rock to Guardian advice columnist 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z But why, at a time of economic troubles, when excess is being forcibly rejected, should Klimt’s “Golden Phase” of hyper-ornamentation be a touchstone in the fashion world? Designers Dip Into Klimt's Well 2012-11-12T12:37:03Z But Mansour’s Palestinian characters are smitten in their own ways with touchstones of British culture. ‘The Vagrant Trilogy’ Review: Palestinians in Exile, Yearning for Home 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z So take your turn: name your favorite Viola, your most prized Perdita, your touchstone Touchstone, if it strikes your fancy. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Highlights From a Decade of Watching Shakespeare 2011-07-21T16:23:35Z Two essays concern themselves with Japan, site of many Gibson novels and an enduring aesthetic touchstone for him. William Gibson's observations and prophesies, nonfiction version 2012-01-11T22:09:05Z Space Jam was a surprise hit—it’s still the highest-grossing basketball movie of all time—and has become a cultural touchstone for millennials. See the Stars of "Space Jam," Then and Now 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z With an anthropologist’s eye, he outlines their different personality traits, their history and cultural touchstones. A Journey — if You Dare — Into the Minds of Silicon Valley Programmers 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Though a cult classic and a touchstone work for the director, "Dazed" was a commercial disappointment. 'Boyhood' director Richard Linklater versus time: the big stare-down 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z But starting a decade and a half later, Dee and Davis became touchstones for and frequent collaborators with another independent filmmaker. Portrait of a Marriage, Onstage and at the Barricades 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z “It’s a touchstone, a way of looking at the world, a vast horizontal landscape which the humans involved in the performance find themselves navigating. It’s about place, but it’s not about a place.” Critic’s Notebook: A New York Premiere for John Luther Adams’s ‘Become Ocean’ 2014-05-05T21:43:52Z One of those touchstones is Mr. Baselitz’s monumental “Heroes” paintings from 1965-6, hulking figures that seem to carry the weight of German history on their shoulders. Painting Wagner: Celebrated Artists’ New Work for the Opera Stage 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Slowly, by word of mouth, it has blossomed into something of a cultural touchstone for a generation. Man V Food: Adam Richman spills the beans 2012-06-15T23:05:00Z That Martin Scorsese picture, with its throbbing Bernard Hermann score, must also have been a touchstone for Nightcrawler composer James Newton Howard. Review: Nightcrawler: Jake Gyllenhaal Wants to Take a Picture of You in Pain 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Charlie Parker's hesitant partner in Bird's Savoy masterpieces from 1945; touchstone in the genesis of the Cool, four years later. Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-06T13:26:00Z When discussing his character and others on his show, Mr. Jackson makes references to touchstone movies for rap artists and fans, such as “Menace II Society” and “Scarface.” Under-the-Radar Crime Drama ‘Power’ Keeps Gaining Viewers 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Of course “The White Tiger” is also, first and foremost, entertainment with some “Goodfellas” touchstones. How Netflix helped ‘The White Tiger’ movie become a reality 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z I started to wonder if yellow cake was a cultural touchstone in the Black community, or if I was alone in my affection. Why yellow cake is so important to Black celebrations 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z In the case of me there are personal touchstones in my life. Dwight Yoakam to release '3 Pears' on Sept. 18 2012-07-19T10:39:08Z Last week's historic Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage was a touchstone as well. BET Awards 2015: Politics and nostalgia make it worth watching again 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z The “Appassionata,” the Sonata No. 23 in F minor, is a touchstone of Beethoven’s middle period. Music Review: Leif Ove Andsnes at Carnegie Hall, Part of a 19-City Tour 2014-03-20T23:37:04Z Even pianists of a Romantic bent for whom Beethoven is not a specialty usually play some of these touchstone works. Music Review: Norwegian Pianist Takes a Deeper Dip Into Beethoven 2011-04-08T22:00:21Z Borowski has had his own brush with rock immortality, with a solemn rumour identifying him as "Guitar George", famously referenced in a key verse of Dire Straits' touchstone hit Sultans of Swing. One for the roadies: in praise of rock'n'roll's unsung heroes 2012-12-12T16:34:31Z Instead, the novel, about a young poet who travels to Vienna with her husband and attempts to live out her fantasies by having an affair, became a blockbuster and cultural touchstone. Erica Jong’s ‘Fear of Dying’ Defies the Sunset of Sex 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z “We kept using as a touchstone The Usual Suspects,” Kurtzman tells EW. EW Ranks the 50 Best TV Scenes of the Past Year 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z As the title suggests, “Make New History” takes as its explicit theme the return to the past, to architectural precedent, that’s increasingly a touchstone for younger architects. 'Make New History,' the second Chicago Architecture Biennial, brings the focus back to square one 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Even though his music was an acquired taste and his records sold in small numbers, Mr. Scott became something of a cultural touchstone. Jimmy Scott, hard-luck singer with a haunting voice, dies at 88 Cave has also started a newsletter called the Red Hand Files, where he seems to be transforming into yet another kind of cultural touchstone. The Nick Cave Song That Changed My Life 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z The memorial service had the touchstones of black church. Perspective | George Floyd was an ordinary man. His memorial was a reminder of that simple, powerful fact. 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z The shows were cultural touchstones in Canada and cult favorites in the United States, where they anticipated teenage docudramas like MTV’s “Real World” and soaps like “Beverly Hills, 90210.” Neil Hope Dies at 35; ?Degrassi? Actor Whose Life Unraveled 2012-02-28T05:09:02Z The persona — the red-headed, eyeliner wearing Stardust — would become an enduring part of his legacy, and a touchstone for the way entertainers packaged themselves for years to come. “I’ve only really worked with the same subject matter … isolation, abandonment, fear and anxiety — all of the high points of one’s life”: David Bowie dies at 69 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z In the end, it is our relationship with the audience that proves the touchstone of the evening. Courting the cat: how to hold a theatre to attention 2013-01-02T18:17:00Z Audiences catching this “Three Sisters” may rate it as a touchstone, though. To Moscow! Kennedy Center showcases an expert Russian ‘Three Sisters.’ 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Did you have specific films from the period as touchstones for you, the cinematographer and production designer? The J.J. Abrams Interview: Inside Super 8 2011-06-06T10:25:00Z No matter how exuberant the show gets, that ache is a touchstone. Jump back: Bernardine Mitchell returns in ‘Bessie’s Blues’ 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Karen's former radicalism is a touchstone for the time she spends with granddaughter Waverly, who she accompanies to an Occupy protest in Florida. Kurt Andersen goes 007 in latest book 2012-07-20T20:54:56Z Josh Gad on Twitter said Diamond was “a defining part of our collective pop cultural touchstones.” ‘Saved by the Bell’ star Dustin Diamond dies of cancer at 44 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Eleven Madison Park has trained its audience to expect “endless reinvention,” one of 11 touchstone words and phrases on a sign that hangs in the restaurant’s vast and precise kitchen. Eleven Madison Park Explores the Plant Kingdom’s Uncanny Valley 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Ware was so pleased with the song, recorded over a year ago, it became the touchstone for her second album. Jessie Ware: 'I sing like a dolphin!' 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Instead, these men drew on touchstones in Anglo-American history and culture. It’s Raining Menswear 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z At an advance screening Thursday night, touchstone sights — those closet doors; that demented clown puppet — drew sighs and scattered applause when they first appeared. Review: In ‘Poltergeist,’ They’re Baaack, With GPS and Flat Screens 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z It is a risky strategy; part of the appeal of GIFs is that they are organically referential to collective nostalgia for previous pop-culture touchstones — not choreographed and overtly promotional. 15 Minutes of Fame Is Too Much. Try 6 Seconds. 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z “Airplane! specifically was an incredible touchstone for a whole generation and yet it wasn’t really followed up on all that much,” he tells TIME. They Came Together: Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd and David Wain Champion A New Era of Spoofs 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Boren became a touchstone in the fight for equality under the law. This easy-to-bake, three-ingredient chocolate stout cake was inspired by the "Notorious RBG" 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z The composer Philip Glass once worked as an assistant for the sculptor Richard Serra, after the two befriended each other in Paris in the early 1960s and swapped cultural touchstones. Philip Glass to Perform Inside a Richard Serra Installation 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Some plot points that have become touchstones in “Mockingbird” are evident in the earlier “Watchman.” Review: Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Gives Atticus Finch a Dark Side 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z His singing of the whole body of German song – from Mozart to Henze via his touchstone, Schubert – showed the world a new Germany, as significant in its way as the Wirtschaftswunder. Ian Bostridge: 'Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a titanic figure' 2012-05-18T16:58:15Z The toughest cultural touchstone to let go of is fried chicken, she said. Black Vegans Step Out, for Their Health and Other Causes 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Since that auspicious day, hip-hop has spread from Sedgwick Avenue to every corner of the globe, becoming a multibillion-dollar industry and a cultural touchstone for generations of music lovers. What Are Your Favorite Lesser-Known Hip-Hop Lyrics? 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Writing about his roots, the touchstones of his youth, allowed Foer the freedom to explore larger issues. Where has Jonathan Safran Foer been all these years? 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Evan Narcisse, a journalist and co-author of Marvel’s “Rise of the Black Panther” series, places “March” alongside the “Montgomery Story” as a touchstone in the genre’s long history of presenting sociopolitical issues in digestible ways. He’s a Hill staffer for Rep. John Lewis by day — and an award-winning graphic novelist by night 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z In the nine years since "Sin City" hit, Miller's style has become a widely copied touchstone — that mash-up of grainy black-and-white hyper-reality and splashes of intense color able to set the mood in an instant. 'A Dame to Kill For' is a sinful waste of a sequel 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Both he and Kline have touchstones and influences, and each is working within established frames — the comic-book panel, the movie screen — while also pushing against limits, finding their voices, making their marks. ‘Funny Pages’ Review: Ordinary Life, Complex Stuff 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Developed by an international team, with the museum’s curators led by the Canadian scholar Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, the exhibition, in its size, ambition, location and importance, will instantly become a touchstone. New York Times Critics on What They Want to See 2013-12-31T23:10:26Z In the 37 years since Jim Henson's iconic “The Dark Crystal” debuted, it's become a touchstone for fantasy film fans. "Dark Crystal" director on working puppet magic: "You have to imagine bringing life to everything" 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z It’s become a cultural touchstone, an integral part of our public school curriculum. Protest doesn’t work — except when it does 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The album was a musical touchstone that rose to No. 1 around the globe, selling over 30 million copies worldwide and making the band members global stars. A Guide To The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2014 2013-12-17T22:57:15Z Even if you truly hated it, it’s become a repeat-viewing standby and a cultural touchstone. The Notebook Came Out 10 Years Ago — But It's Not What You Were Watching That Weekend 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z He said the check is a touchstone for the comic book industry because it represents the launching of the Golden Age of superheroes. DC check paying for Superman up for auction 2012-03-26T23:46:04Z This is a cultural touchstone with roots going back to the very dawn of the blockbuster era. Why does Star Wars keep losing its directors? 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z I think the “children of Jordan” thing partly happened because his cultural influence was so profound and so he became a touchstone for everyone that followed. “Keep the heat on Adam Silver!”: Author Dave Zirin sounds off on Sterling, LeBron and Muhammad Ali 2014-05-09T13:24:00Z But to those who were touched by it, especially those of a generation that remembers the times it depicts, the show remains a touchstone. An AIDS-Era Musical in an Age of Marriage Equality 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Now Oliver’s relatively long pieces have become a touchstone of US liberal-metropolitan sensibility. Viral YouTube clips help America’s TV comedy stars find new audiences 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z After the 'big bang' of the 1960s, they were the touchstone that inspired a wave of creative rebellion and musical ambition that revived Liverpool's music scene for a generation. 'Catalyst bands': What do you mean, you've never heard of them? 2011-07-21T21:01:01Z Ultimately the guide’s voice becomes our touchstone and his arm an invaluable aid in negotiating unexpected steps. Exhibition Review: Darkness Visible, and Palpable 2011-08-18T21:50:50Z Yet it’s not entirely the writers’ fault that touchstone male protagonists are jerks. Keep your man-child antiheroes: The new crush-worthy guy is the quietly competent, grown-up man 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z That was a major touchstone for me, though the particular erotics of it weren’t especially relevant to my own life. ‘The Boys in the Band’ and a Generational Divide 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z “There are some touchstone works that really caught a cultural moment,” he said over lunch in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, after a company rehearsal at the Mark Morris Dance Center. Stephen Petronio, Dance Upstart Marked by Experience 2010-04-16T14:29:00Z “The touchstone for him as a designer is the idea of bringing ‘beauty, reason and order’ to the rituals of everyday life,” Ms. Delphia said. Carnegie Museum to Open a Survey of the Designer Peter Muller-Munk 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z They all got their start in the 1960s, delivered songs that became cultural touchstones, have kept recording into this century and can fill arenas on tour. Review: At Desert Trip, Rocking Beyond the Hits With a Vengeance 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z She is good at wresting fresh nuance from familiar touchstones, and arranging them into incisive, opinionated narratives. Books About Losing Faith That Will Give You Hope 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z He shot it without knowing where or how it would fit into the film; it wound up being a touchstone moment. The Carpetbagger: In Oscar Voting, All Politics Is Local 2014-02-27T23:11:37Z Truthfulness, a touchstone for Robbins, inevitably became a criterion when watching the Robbins tributes. Review: City Ballet Salutes Jerome Robbins, a Master of 2 Realms 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z “Pain is not the only touchstone for growth,” the narrator tells herself at the end of the novel, certain that she has been reborn. Ottessa Moshfegh’s Painful, Funny Novel of a Young Woman’s Chemical Hibernation 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The heart of You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, its emotional touchstone, and one of its central plot mechanisms, is a lost child. Woody Allen: 'My wife hasn't seen most of my films... and she thinks my clarinet playing is torture' 2011-03-13T00:05:42Z The background materials for the show mention Fernand Leger as another touchstone for Atassi, who is based in Paris. Farah Atassi paintings: Part Picasso and pure catnip for fans of midcentury design 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z And it’s a common touchstone in comedies about Hollywood, where the passive-aggressive dynamic between movie star and assistant is especially fraught. Television Review: ‘Doll & Em,’ as in Dolly Wells and Emily Mortimer, on HBO 2014-03-18T21:28:44Z Through this mash-up of music and film touchstones "Reservation Dogs" steeps the audience in the uniqueness of its Oklahoma community and the range of personalities that make the place unique. "Reservation Dogs" creator on evolving the show's representation & storytelling: "It's not finished" 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Most of all, she made the touchstone role her own, with shadings and inflections that set her apart. Damrau dazzles in debut as Violetta at Met 2013-03-15T14:42:09Z "It's just a cultural touchstone for all of us to represent a decadent place with power, money, glamour, sex, crime." Sin City Duke: Met moves `Rigoletto' to Las Vegas 2013-01-23T18:25:11Z The tale of Gaagiixiid is a cultural touchstone, a story of sin and redemption, traditionally performed at winter potlatch ceremonies, in which the Haida share songs, dances, and gifts. Can Film Save Indigenous Languages? 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z So she went from childhood, when her violet eyes were one of the touchstones for Technicolor, to being a devoted patron in her later years to those who were sicker than she was. Elizabeth Taylor: let the story melt away and just gaze 2011-03-24T13:00:00Z When it came to conjuring the era through the lyrics, the urbane, “playfully bawdy” couplets of Cole Porter were a touchstone for Shaiman and Wittman. How ‘Some Like It Hot’ Tunes In to the Jazz Age 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z I also use it as a touchstone for excellence in research and writing and integrity. Education experts share the best books they’ve read about teaching 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z For transgender horror fans, the film has become a touchstone. Analysis | From slasher villain to LGBT icon, ‘Child Play’s’ Chucky changes with the times 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Japanese architecture, with its sense of rigor and purity, might have been a touchstone. On the Runway Blog: Prada's New Flower Power 2012-09-20T19:59:38Z It will also likely become a touchstone as the Hillary Clinton presidential decision approaches, along with several new network shows about women in the highest echelons of the federal government. What to stream on Netflix during the long weekend 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Most of the portraits were taken in the last five years, although there is one that serves as a touchstone from 1979. Susan Silas' naked look at self-image at CB1 Gallery 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z The rich, smoky colors and earthy sensuality of her voice were matched by the naturalness of her acting and a fiery temperament at one with this touchstone mezzo role. Second time's the charm for 'Carmen' at Lyric 2011-03-13T23:19:23Z And sure enough, this particular naked statue did just that by serving as a touchstone for a conversation about community standards and censorship. Navigating the Nudity Rules on Facebook 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z These works seemed to amount to encyclopedias of black cultural touchstones, resources of strength in racially fraught times. For Future Generations, It’s Time to Reflect on Black Art 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z "He just wishes he could get a little bit of peace and quiet once in a while," says Carl Reiner of this perturbed cultural touchstone. America In Primetime, an engrossing squint at US television 2013-04-20T05:00:00Z The classics “are sort of these touchstones for people,” Ross said. What divisive ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ cover says about books and readers That first 12 to 14 minutes where Daniel Day-Lewis doesn’t speak was a huge touchstone for me. ‘A Quiet Place’ Was a Huge Hit. Will Oscar Listen? 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z They are touchstones, reflections of our culture of where we are, of who we all want to be. Hollywood's rape culture is our culture 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s a joyride to return to those cultural touchstones. Just like ’80s nerd heaven: The seductive nostalgia of “Stranger Things” — and my unexpected ambivalence 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z These are a kind of touchstone for my generation since we all bought them at the same time and in the same way. How Karen Joy Fowler’s Grandfather Lied His Way Into a Who’s Who 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The miniseries began its existence as a theatrical work, and its most impactful aspects are emotional touchstones entirely linked to character. What if TV told the truth about Chicago? 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Taking on these three touchstones of classical ballet is a considerable achievement for any company but especially one only 9 years old. L.A. Ballet rounds out Tchaikovsky trilogy with 'The Sleeping Beauty' 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Josephine Baker, the absinthe, “perfect corkscrews of lemon peel” in a martini glass: These become not touchstones of Lee Miller’s lived reality, but metonyms for glamour. A Novel About the Life and Times of the Photographer Lee Miller 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z At the risk of sounding churlish, it was sometimes hard not to mistake his original material for cover versions, as the songs were so evocative of their sonic touchstones. Anderson East offers an almost-too-perfect R&B throwback 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z And like Ms. Vallejo, they work to recreate specific cultural touchstones for their customers — vegan versions of Parmesan, Brie, mozzarella, Gruyère and pepper Jack. Vegan Cheese, but Make It Delicious 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z It’s a familiar enough spectacle, and if there’s any justice this movie will become a touchstone and cult object among the grasping, scheming denizens of the current media jungle. ‘Lost Illusions’ Review: The Sweet Smell of Success 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Even if they live on another continent and the food has been in their diet for generations, it makes no difference: the Bel Paese is a touchstone by default. "One nation united under pasta": How the "discovery of pasta" shaped Italy 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Highlights include cafes in Greenwich Village, the Church of Saint Vincent de Paul in Chelsea, which used to offer daily masses in French, the Jeanne d’Arc Residence and other touchstones. Around Town for July 8-14 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Slash’s humble beginnings didn’t exactly portend its future status as a cultural touchstone. Partying with the Germs and drinking with X: A new book about Slash magazine captures L.A.'s early punk scene 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Paul Thomas Anderson has cited it as a crucial touchstone for his 2012 drama The Master, in which Joaquin Phoenix plays a traumatised veteran bouncing around postwar America. My streaming gem: why you should watch Let There Be Light 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z The day produced yet another cultural touchstone, the form of hacked movie studio e-mails that threw into sharp relief the uphill battle faced by films such as “Selma” in a white-dominated industry. Critic’s Notebook: From Ferguson to the Sony hack, ‘Selma’ seizes its moment 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Surprisingly, art history and religious art are also touchstones. It started with a sex dream about a gorilla ... 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Sure, she found others who look like her, but they have different cultural touchstones and possibly values. In “Watchmen,” just as in real life, feelings about Vietnam remain uncertain 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Yet the resulting picture book, “The Story of Ferdinand,” became an immediate bestseller and cultural touchstone. Hitler banned it; Gandhi loved it: ‘The Story of Ferdinand,’ the book and, now, film 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Many of his pieces are horizontal, recalling the forms of early panoramic art and the woven wampum belts that are a cultural touchstone of his people. Oyster Shoreline at ‘Greater New York’ Has a Pearl of a Message 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z The famous alien dive bar was a stylistic touchstone for Jupiter Disco’s look, as was the bar frequented by Harrison Ford in “Blade Runner.” Science Fiction Meets Music (Fanatically) at Jupiter Disco 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z As outrageous as it sounded at the time, it has become a touchstone for me. Les Plesko to be celebrated at UCLA 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z But some historians question whether it is the most illuminating verbal touchstone, given its own complicated history. ‘Sedition’: A Complicated History 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Oh, I see, he was the man who inspired her to become a comedian; he was her touchstone through her difficult entry into comedy, Eric and Ernie got her through difficult times in her 20s. My Hero – TV review 2013-03-29T23:30:01Z Bowie transcended music and was a touchstone for generations of musicians, music lovers and misfits. Where to honor David Bowie on his birthday and anniversary of his death 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z I’ve written this before, but this is one of the biggest things Parks has in common with American stories from It’s a Wonderful Life to Friday Night Lights, a touchstone that Parks has referenced repeatedly. Knope and Change: The Politics of Parks and Recreation 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Mates of State hit a lot of twee touchstones that reached peak popularity around the last time Sufjan Stevens wrote an album about a state. Your week in Seattle music: Wale, RL Grime and more 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z But “Ordinary People” is less invested in the celebrities that serve as its touchstones than in the diaphanous experience of its non-famous protagonists. In “Ordinary People,” Diana Evans Blends Domesticity and Celebrity, with a Gothic Twist 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z It’s “Born to Be Wild,” “Green Tambourine” and other hits that were audio touchstones to home from a distant and dangerous jungle. Outside Charleston, three acres of Vietnam live in South Carolina’s Lowcountry 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z But not before Robert tries to treat a cut on Libby’s leg, which causes her to recoil and run, and then later rub as some type of touchstone. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Can Any Relationship Last? 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z While the title and brooding imagery signal toward the vampirism of Dracula, Miller cites Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt as his touchstone text. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-06-29T23:05:44Z She experiences profound emotional touchstones, like relinquishing the triplets she gestated for her half brother, but also gets the most granular attributes of the six. 25 Years Later, It Turns Out Phoebe Was the Best Friend 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Derek’s elaborate obsession with LuPone, like many of the gay cultural touchstones in “Mister Miss America,” is not exactly original territory. ‘Mister Miss America’ Review: A Fight for the Crown 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z As with my experience of so many modern cultural touchstones, I first came to 24 via a Simpsons parody. 'Downton Abbey is ludicrous': the biggest TV hits we've never seen – until now 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z For a lot of reasons, it’s a touchstone for us and our friendship. My friend’s son has guns 2013-01-10T01:00:00Z 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 One reason for his inaccessibility, Ms. Kesaeva and Mr. Groys said, is that like many Soviet artists, he was fundamental disconnected from the market economy — the touchstone for contemporary artistic success. Special Report: Contemporary Art: A Russian Guru at Work in Venice 2011-06-13T12:00:06Z That was the touchstone where this person lived. Bourdain collaborator Joel Rose: “Anthony was just as your mom saw him on TV” 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z And since Diane Keaton is the touchstone for his greatest films, his greatest characters, his entire sensibility towards women. Woody Allen: 'My wife hasn't seen most of my films... and she thinks my clarinet playing is torture' 2011-03-13T00:05:42Z Another touchstone song of early rock ’n’ roll appeared later in 1957, this time released under Mr. Holly’s name: “Peggy Sue.” Jerry Allison, Who Played Drums With Buddy Holly, Dies at 82 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Still a touchstone for commissioners, Tomorrow's World is being cited as one possible model for a new Channel 4 show under discussion. Maggie Philbin interview: Tomorrow's world for the next generation 2012-10-28T18:47:01Z Two of the book’s touchstones, the Harrison Ford vehicle “Air Force One” and the frontier romances of Laura Ingalls Wilder, conjure sanitized visions of U.S. history. Can One Sentence Capture All of Life? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Which would have been great, were it not for the fact that the century-old Edgar Rice Burroughs novel it was based on wasn't the universal cultural touchstone that Stanton thought it was. Has One Shot blown it by changing its name to Jack Reacher? 2012-06-01T17:06:35Z David Lynch is a touchstone too, but the chief film's selling point is not its wilful weirdness but the bizarre circumstances of its shoot. Escape From Tomorrow – first look review 2013-01-28T17:38:38Z Like Warhol, Mr. Ai surrounds himself with stray cats, has a fondness for neon-tinted floral arrangements and takes pleasure in subverting hallowed cultural touchstones. Ai Weiwei and Warhol, Together Again 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z “The constant touchstone for me has been the Lecoq school and the mask work and clowning in Queensland,” he says. Geoffrey Rush: 'Art doesn’t do well in the dark. But that’s where we’ve put it' 2013-07-15T05:13:00Z In Rise of the Tomb Raider, Croft uses new skills, like learning languages and deciphering carvings, to complete the tombs, a touchstone of the series, and move forward. Lara Croft Has Company: More Female Heroes Appear in Big-Budget Games 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z With its Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack, “The Graduate” became a touchstone of generational alienation in the 1960s. Mike Nichols, ‘The Graduate’ director, dies This novel about an old man reflecting on his experiences as a young medic in Portugal’s colonial war in Angola was my touchstone while I wrote “The Sympathizer.” Viet Thanh Nguyen: By the Book 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Regeneration stories in Doctor Who can be formulaic affairs and they tend to share many touchstones with each other. 'Doctor Who' Series 8 Premiere Review: Deep Breath 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Among other notable qualities, "Glee" is, by consensus, pretty much the gayest network series ever to become a pop culture touchstone. Why "Glee" is the new "Rocky Horror" 2010-10-19T15:45:00Z Reviewers mocked the movie “Love Story,” but it was among the biggest box office hits of its time and became a cultural touchstone, especially for the catchphrase “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” Longtime publishing editor Genevieve Young dead at 89 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z “That is precisely the touchstone moment for where we started off with this.” Tom Hardy, Andy Serkis sink their teeth into ‘Venom’ sequel 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Ohr’s witty, elegant pots — really sculptures — became a touchstone for Ellison; six of them form the heart of this show and are the only works here that he is keeping. The Met Museum Sees More Clay in Its Future 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Obama has become something of a hip-hop touchstone, rapped about by Jay-Z and Young Jeezy, but also someone who has been tarred for his relationship to the genre. Critic?s Notebook: Prez N the Hood: A Hip-Hop Parody Stirs Up Issues 2010-10-25T22:56:00Z "It's so amazing how you don't realize how important these touchstones in your ancestry are until your parents are gone," Rosanne Cash said. Cash's 80th birthday, legacy to be celebrated 2012-02-07T11:25:08Z They met two or three times a year and served as both sounding board and touchstone. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum’s Fraught Task: To Tell the Truth 2012-06-02T16:26:23Z She fretted that “Brave,” from “The Blessed Unrest,” was somehow formulaic, but the message of courage that she wrote for a friend nervous about coming out as gay quickly became a cultural touchstone. ‘The most welcoming safe space on the planet’: How Sara Bareilles returned to her roots in theater 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z There was such a touchstone in the late '70s, and people might not realize that now because people have a different relationship to the Doors now than they did then. "A similar genesis": The Cure's Lol Tolhurst honors goth and its (spider)web of artistic connections 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z It’s clear from that film how La Haine’s verve and radicalism has remained a touchstone, even as banlieue film commercialised and broadened. How La Haine lit a fire under French society 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z The next year, Mr. Walker further helped raise Mr. Clark’s profile as a songwriter with his heart-rending cover of “Desperados Waiting for a Train,” another neo-western touchstone written by Mr. Clark. Jerry Jeff Walker, Who Wrote and Sang ‘Mr. Bojangles,’ Dies at 78 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z To proponents of “inerrant revelation,” the Genesis six days of creation are a touchstone. The scary future of creationism in America 2014-02-09T17:00:00Z But he gets around his problem by taking the humane Jesus as his own touchstone of what matters. The Pious Presidency of Jimmy Carter 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z The cinematic touchstones are just as obvious elsewhere in the program, which isn’t necessarily a negative. At New Directors/New Films, See the World Through Perceptive Filmmakers’ Eyes 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z But the track has been neither a touchstone nor a millstone. Maren Morris, a Pop-Curious Hitmaker, Is Country, After All 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z I’m like a touchstone for them, and they associate me with, like, that first date that they had with the guy that they ended up marrying, or the slumber party.” Molly Ringwald and the Grown-Up Life 2010-05-12T23:05:00Z Fallujah was a visceral touchstone to American hubris and plans gone bad. Blood, sand and tears: A foreign correspondent's view of the opera 'Fallujah' 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z This may not be anyone’s ideal way to address the city’s affordable housing crisis or finance a cultural touchstone or build a skyscraper or a neighborhood. A Billion-Dollar Battle Over a Parking Lot at the Seaport 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z The high court’s decision, he added, “puts less emphasis on the creation of a work,” and seems to direct lower courts away from transformation as the most essential legal touchstone. After the Warhol Decision, Another Major Copyright Case Looms 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z “The touchstone of his ideology — that America is to blame, and her power must be restrained — requires a willful blindness about what America has done in the world,” the Cheneys write. Review: In ‘Exceptional,’ the Cheneys Make Obama the Villain 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z This will be a really important touchstone for my children and their children. Q & A: Rosanne Cash Talks About Her New Album, The River and the Thread 2014-01-15T17:25:41Z The contents of that day reflect another cultural touchstone of Irish history, the founding of the Abbey Theater that year. Theater Review: Death, Sewage ... and a Few Laughs 2011-09-25T21:13:44Z "Garden State" became an unexpected coming-of-age touchstone with its earnest, soul-deep sense of moral confusion and the strength of its willingness to be raw, exposed. 'Wish I Was Here' should have wished for insight 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z And if a decision is made that Atticus is the evening’s touchstone, then having an actor who effortlessly conveys a bedrock fair-mindedness, who entreats us to a belief in our own better natures, is essential. Review | Broadway’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is here, and Jeff Daniels soars as Atticus Finch 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z He was unusually congenial and accessible to interviewers, while cannily embellishing touchstone anecdotes about his underclass youth in a racist America to fit the medium and his mood. August Wilson and the long awaited triumph of “Fences” 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Douglas’s work is currently on display in an exhibition at Manhattan’s Urban Justice Center, and it remains a touchstone for many younger artists looking to marry their practice and their social consciousness. Fifty Years Later, Black Panthers’ Art Still Resonates 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z In many ways, Levi’s Rose is the touchstone for white audience members to check themselves and relate to her discomfort dealing with Caroline across the racial and religious divide about money, justice and raising children. Caissie Levy gets uncomfortable in ‘Caroline, Or Change’ 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z That movie was a touchstone with me for this film. Brian Tyree Henry stars in "The Outside Story," a road movie "with the smallest possible mileage" 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z “Bitter Herbs” was released in its entirety in 1957, becoming a best seller in the Netherlands, and is now seen as a touchstone of European Holocaust literature. Marga Minco, Who Chronicled Jewish Life in Wartime, Dies at 103 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z “The Master” travels east — to New York, Philadelphia and England — but its geographic touchstones are the Pacific Ocean and the Arizona desert. Review: ‘The Master,’ From Paul Thomas Anderson 2012-09-13T15:23:48Z Biden’s guest appearance was the crown jewel of an episode already overstuffed with delightful pop culture touchstones. Joe Biden's Appearance on 'Law and Order: SVU' Was a Hit 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z That zebra forever after becomes a mythic evil, one of Enzo's touchstones for understanding life. 'The Art of Racing In the Rain' at Book-It: an amazing dog wagging his tale 2012-04-25T18:30:29Z Dizzy Gillespie is a common touchstone for these musicians, and their darting, heavily percussive version of his “Salt Peanuts” pays an almost breathlessly giddy homage. New Music: Releases From Velvet Underground, Eric Reed and Volcán 2013-12-16T23:33:13Z All the while, however, the Manhattan-born Liman has continued to burnish a filmography distinguished by features that have become touchstones of their respective genres. Doug Liman hopes his wild loop means a hit with 'Edge of Tomorrow' 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z Saunas are an important social and cultural touchstone in Korea, where the term jjimjilbang refers to public bathhouses where people bathe and sweat communally. In Midtown, Igloos Are Hot 2010-09-16T04:20:00Z “Blues, Too,” inspired by Jim Hall, a mutual touchstone and mentor, ranges far from its frisky melody, meandering with purpose. Albums From Rick Ross and Keith Jarrett 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z “Media vita” has become a touchstone for me this year, a piece I have played over and over as a beacon of certainty at a time when certainty has been impossible. From a 1550s Pandemic, a Choral Work Still Casts Its Spell 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Harjo, though very much a poet of America, extracts from her own personal and cultural touchstones a more galactal understanding of the world, and her poems become richer for it. Joy Harjo, the Poet of American Memory 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z If you grew up playing consoles in the late 1980s and the ’90s, Zelda probably provided some of your touchstone gaming experiences. Video Game Review: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword by Nintendo - Review 2011-11-29T16:04:04Z “This is a list of cultural touchstones, the things that define Jewishness,” she said. Is Seltzer Jewish? And 99 Other Argument-Starters 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z On one hand, the Tarzan legacy ends up with such insipid fare as the Disney movie: on the other, he is still a touchstone for cult writers. Tarzan at 100: lord of the superheroes 2012-06-08T13:13:36Z During that pivotal decade, he didn’t release a single less than defining work, creating a dozen successive touchstones. How the 1970s Launched David Bowie's Career 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z The personal angle is OK, but why not bake in some more meat: the Skinnerian reinforcement schedule that HQ uses so effectively or other touchstones of contemporary culture that require in-the-moment attention? How HQ Trivia Became the Best Worst Thing on the Internet 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z It is now the touchstone for Yanique’s characters’ jaundiced views of land development on their islands, and of the obnoxious, greedy, and debauched continentals who arrive in ever larger numbers. The Virgin Islands, Rewritten 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z That’s crucial for touchstone bits like the sketch that found Ms. Stone and the female cast members using Adele’s “Someone Like You” as a musical answer to job problems and pet parakeet issues alike. Television: Anna Faris and Other Female Hosts on ?Saturday Night Live? 2012-02-26T03:04:12Z That mission, though it sometimes took a back seat to the requirements of a dance band, made Irakere a touchstone for jazz musicians in Cuba. Chucho Valdés, the Pianist, Reflects on Irakere and His Career 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Unlike in the earlier movies, the Roman Catholic Church is a supporting player in “Inferno,” largely evident in landmarks and cultural touchstones rather than cults and murderous agents. Review: In ‘Inferno,’ Breathlessly Globe-Trotting and Decoding to Save the World 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z But Cornelius, and the show he popularized, are rightly still touchstones among musicians and music fans today. Love, Peace and Soul: RIP Don Cornelius 2012-02-01T16:42:21Z Jeanne didn’t believe in God or any kind of afterlife, but lung cancer made believers of her family, so that she, who despised superstition, became a touchstone and talisman to the rest of them. Allegra Goodman: “Apple Cake.” 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z She cites composers including Stephen Sondheim, Irving Berlin and Burt Bacharach's work with Dionne Warwick as touchstones, and their influence is apparent. Essential tracks: Natalie Prass' debut has plenty of brass, irresistible songs 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z "Chocolate, coffee, tea, cream, eggs, ham, tongue, cold fowl, all these are good, and bespeak good knowledge in him who sets them forth: but the touchstone is fish." Ten of the best breakfasts in literature 2010-04-16T23:07:00Z “Cats” is also such a familiar cultural touchstone, such a deeply strange thing, that it has been the subject of nonstop friendly mockery and outright contempt from its inception. "Cats" is a mesmerizing laser pointer for your brain 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z "My work's touchstone phrases are: Making Think, Making Things and Making Reality." Tokyo museum exhibits Issey Miyake's constant innovations 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z But, let's face it, not every show is capable of being a cultural touchstone. Chick flick TV 2011-09-27T22:23:04Z She has since sold more than 15,000 shirts, each of them reflecting tongue-in-cheek nostalgia for cultural touchstones from the last two decades. A T-Shirt Shop for the Semi-Ironic ‘Twilight’ Fan 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Among his most remarkable achievements is assembling a persuasive period soundtrack that is almost entirely devoid of predictable classic-rock touchstones. Movie Review: ‘Something in the Air,’ directed by Olivier Assayas 2013-05-02T23:51:05Z Frequent references to more familiar cultural touchstones, like Batman, Leonard Nimoy, and Bill Gates, help, too. How “The Big Bang Theory” Normalized Nerd Culture 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z “The ornaments are a touchstone of their childhoods and of our lives, too.” The Tinseling of the Lobby 2010-12-10T23:54:00Z Browne explained to me that the fountain is important to him as a cinematic touchstone. A Message of Useful Beauty from New York Fashion Week 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Between “Formation” and “Insecure,” which are very different, you were involved with two of the year’s cultural touchstones. Melina Matsoukas Touched Nerves From Behind the Camera 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z All of them are part of a singular and powerful tradition of mother symbolism, with their own reference points and cultural touchstones. What Does It Mean to ‘Look Like a Mom’? 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z A mainstay of the celebrated team of Hollywood studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew, Mr. Strange played on psychedelic touchstones like the Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds” and Love’s “Forever Changes.” Billy Strange, ?60s Session Guitarist, Dies at 81 2012-02-25T03:50:42Z India - home to over a billion people and one of the most colorful cultures in the world - is a limitless creative touchstone for designers. Fashion shows travel continents and eras in Paris 2012-09-27T20:44:15Z Now the foundation will be a place to see some of the touchstones of modern art. The Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris Will Display Modern Masterpieces 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Feeling Blue: From the beginning, Mr. Noble set Mr. Redmayne apart in a velvet navy blue jacket, which also served as a touchstone for other costumes. Clothes and Character: 'Theory,' 'Selma' and 'Hobbit' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z You hold onto them, because they become touchstones of empathy, reminders of the vulnerability and sincerity that are the building blocks of the mature self. ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ Review: You Are My Friend 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z “You want some of those people who are in the zeitgeist, but you want some of those people that were touchstones that you remember from your favorite sitcom.” ‘Dancing With the Stars’ perfected a formula for kitschy, escapist joy. Can it survive today’s politics? 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Lesley Gore, who was a teenager in the 1960s when she recorded hit songs about heartbreak and resilience that went on to become feminist touchstones, died on Monday in Manhattan. Lesley Gore, Teenage Voice of Heartbreak, Dies at 68 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z If a cookie can be a family touchstone, this one is ours. The Best One-Bowl Cookie Recipe You’ve Probably Never Heard Of 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Recorded with a large ensemble, the music has a hustling, declaratory spirit and a broadly Pan-African take on acoustic jazz, with touchstones spanning from the Antilles to the Eastern Cape of South Africa. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z In crafting the film, Chase reacquainted himself with the songs and cultural touchstones of the period, as well as watching a few old episodes of “The Sopranos” to ensure the timeline fits. ‘The Sopranos’ creators look back at a TV show that slayed 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Though endowed with the aura of art historical touchstones or even older relics, Liu's forms are inescapably of the present. From packaging material to modern totem: The wry art of An Te Liu 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Evoking personal heritage, African masks are their common touchstone. Identity transformed in the Fowler's 'Disguise: Masks and Global African Art' 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Some of the party pieces this year seem destined to join others over the decades as touchstones of national memory. Who’s Irish Now? 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z If it did, it might find a place alongside “Ratatouille,” “Babette’s Feast” and other touchstones of foodie cinema. In ‘The Hundred-Foot Journey,’ Kitchen Wars Break Out 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z While cycles like “Dichterliebe” are touchstones, much of his output remains overlooked. 10 Hours Gives Us (Almost) All of Schumann’s Songs 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z It's fidgety, busy, DayGlo house music – the touchstone seems to be the funny, frantic, solo-heavy tracks Daft Punk were making a decade or so ago. David Guetta: Nothing But the Beat ? review 2011-08-25T14:30:01Z The most popular Rambo movie, “First Blood — Part II,” was certainly a hit, and, with “Rocky IV,” a Reagan-era cultural touchstone, but it didn’t exactly break all-time domestic box office records. The Trump effect on China's box office 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The motherhood aspect of the role was a particularity important touchstone: Berry gave birth last October to her son Maceo. Halle Berry launches into a new era of control with CBS' 'Extant' 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z “Midnight in Paris” carries its cultural baggage lightly and treats the great writers who flit across the screen less as touchstones than as imaginary friends for its hero, a thwarted novelist played by Owen Wilson. Catch That Reference? There?ll Be a Quiz 2011-06-24T20:21:53Z It was cool we got to do the first scene in the booth; that was like a touchstone. Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter: Bill & Ted "aren't playing Van Halen riffs" anymore 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z I would say Shakespeare continues to be a touchstone. Transcript: President Obama on What Books Mean to Him 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Yet, as much as happy was Ross’s touchstone word, grief permeates the film. ‘Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed’ Review: No Gloss 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z She has yet to sing the touchstone role of Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin,” though there is talk that the gap may be filled next season. Opera Review: Anna Netrebko?s Bel Canto Moment 2011-04-12T11:05:35Z The most notable is Christopher Boone, the innocent savant of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, whose immutability is the touchstone for the moral behaviour of all the other characters. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion – review 2013-04-05T08:01:01Z No interview with Rolling Stone is complete without cultural touchstones. Obama's Rolling Stone treatment -- politics to pop 2012-04-25T13:13:10Z Mikal Gilmore of Rolling Stone called the album “a central touchstone for the 1960s” and “an exemplar for a generation that was forging new ideals.” Against “Sgt. Pepper”: The Beatles classic made pop seem male, nerdy and “important” — and that wasn’t a good thing 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Think of this rerelease as an encore, a handy touchstone for you and your kids. 'Finding Nemo 3D': Pixar's masterpiece now has an added hook 2012-09-11T23:32:04Z These were all touchstones that shaped my view of the world just as much as political events such as the death of Kennedy and the war in Vietnam. From Hare to Hytner: leading cultural figures oppose the EBacc 2012-12-14T22:50:00Z Particularly controversial was Mr. Deitch’s decision to cancel an exhibition of paintings by Jack Goldstein, an obscure California artist whose seminal work nevertheless remains a touchstone for artists here. Jeffrey Deitch Faces Critics at MOCA 2012-10-19T23:10:54Z For a while, the Pessemiers lived in Tunisia, where, she says, " 'Jazz After Hours' became a touchstone for us." Seattle jazz broadcaster reaching fans around world 2012-12-22T05:49:03Z By a combination of plan and luck, his show serves as the centerpiece and touchstone for a veritable Albers/Price fest that is also playing out in four other galleries around town. Art Review | Josef Albers and Ken Price: Josef Albers and Ken Price: Bauhaus Meets Venice Beach 2010-03-18T22:29:00Z I know most of them, but I don't know everybody, and seeing where their touchstones came from. "A similar genesis": The Cure's Lol Tolhurst honors goth and its (spider)web of artistic connections 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z She brings distinctive ideas and unabashed impetuosity to these touchstone works. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z How it was it, in so many ways, a touchstone, a metaphor, for dancing and for dancers? How working in a strip club taught "Neon Girls" author lessons about unions and solidarity 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The film also works as a powerful thematic companion to a host of recent cultural touchstones. New Black Panthers documentary tells the story behind the berets 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z You also throw in valid references to “Murder, She Wrote,” and “Clue” and other touchstones of the genre. Director Rian Johnson on the moral clarity of whodunnits and the crazy "Knives Out" 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z It was a gamble for this soprano to sing the touchstone title role of Puccini’s “Tosca” for the first time ever this spring at the Metropolitan Opera. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z During this time, it also became apparent that he had transcended music's interminable cycles of fashion, amassing an unshakeable following and becoming touchstone for plenty of new musicians. Billy Bragg: Barking's Woody Guthrie on 30 years of songs and activism 2013-03-26T17:00:32Z But we found with palpable certainty that the Jews are all gone — there were 10,000 of them — and only a few traces are left of the touchstones of my mother’s girlhood. In Poland, Searching for Jewish Heritage 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z You’ll still find malteds at diners and malted-milk powder on the shelves of grocery stores in the form of Carnation Malted Milk and Ovaltine, but malt is no longer the cultural touchstone it was. A Malted Milk Crawl in New York 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Noël Coward, Shirley Temple, Sophie Tucker and Peggy Lee are a few of the touchstones, but they are references, not escape routes. Music Review: Christine Ebersole Performs at Caf? Carlyle 2012-02-01T22:16:27Z It comes about halfway through this show, it lasts approximately eight minutes, it made Chris Rock a star, and it became such a touchstone in America that Barack Obama would reference it campaigning in 2008. Comedy gold: Chris Rock's Bring the Pain 2012-05-24T10:23:08Z Even as the songs remained cultural touchstones, the narrative’s twists and turns have faded from memory. France Cheers for a Musical It Loves but Hasn’t Watched 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z In the case of "The Solitary House," Dickens' own "Bleak House" is the touchstone, its scheming lawyer Tulkinghorn and police inspector Bucket both pivotal characters in the brutal and bloody story Shepherd unfolds. 'Solitary House' a mystery with a dose of Dickens 2012-04-30T18:38:09Z Solange went to a justifiable extreme in recruiting her family members and a hand-picked journalist, but she was determined to see her art analyzed by those with shared cultural touchstones. Perspective | Covering hip-hop: Why more publications should prioritize diverse perspectives 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z “How crazy is this? A company that sells alcohol is the moral touchstone of the NFL.” Watch Jon Stewart Blast the NFL Over Handling of Domestic Abuse Cases 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z In the years since, I’ve asked many, many people, especially cat owners, if they’ve seen The Collector; they almost always say no, which opens the door for a good story on my one horror touchstone. Hidden horrors: our writers on the scariest movies you (probably) haven't seen 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z These ideas, and Gordon's work of art, proved to be touchstones for Marisa Sanchez, assistant curator of modern and contemporary art at SAM, as she organized the Andy Warhol exhibition that accompanies "Kurt." Review: SAM shows about Cobain and Warhol are daring ? and they really work 2010-05-20T23:08:00Z There are so many touchstones that announce fall’s arrival. The spice is right — and unexpected — for this plum cake 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z And yet what Ms. Simon perceived as a tragedy, Ms. Bodwell saw as a touchstone. The Rise of the Designer Deli 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Are there any concert films that are touchstones for you? ArtsBeat: More Todd Haynes on My Morning Jacket Concert Film 2011-05-03T19:48:06Z Lengthier lamentations ruminated on the newsroom's role in cultural touchstones the network either made possible or contributed to, shaping the conversation to suit their audience. Long ago, younger viewers wanted their MTV News. Can we learn from what it did right in its prime? 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z All wrote works that can still be engaging; none left anything approaching the social and literary touchstone of "Huck Finn." 'Mark Twain': the ebb and flow of the life of Huckleberry Finn's creator 2010-04-07T22:29:00Z The touchstones would appear to be Motown when Norman Whitfield arrived or, more recently, tortured London rock'n'soul cult wonder Lewis Taylor. New band of the day ? No 820: Graffiti6 2010-07-07T12:50:00Z The L.A. artist’s closest touchstone may in fact be Philip Guston, whose late work employed a roughhewn graphic style to paint brilliant images of existential dread and loneliness. Full-frontal absurdity: The world of Louise Bonnet's fleshy, surreal portraits 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Cannibal Holocaust is both a touchstone for real/fake found-footage horror and brilliant social satire. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z This “Siegfried” became one of my touchstones when it first opened in Washington in 2009, and it remains powerful. After ‘Ring’ rehearsal injury, a soprano finally gets her U.S. debut 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Sampling “King Lear” as a touchstone for the incoherent rage of a deteriorating personality became almost de rigueur in the chaotic last months of the Trump presidency. It’s Time to Turn the Page on the Trump-Shakespeare Comparisons 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Barry's goodness hovers over the book and becomes its moral touchstone, a counterpoint to the nastiness elsewhere. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – review 2012-09-29T23:05:13Z Today, Mr. Rosen argues, as new populist forces seek to undermine constitutional, democratic principles in the United States and abroad, it isn’t the activist Roosevelt that should be our touchstone but the more diffident Taft. ‘William Howard Taft’ Review: Taking the Bully Out of the Pulpit 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Its touchstones are modern and Western — Parisian cabaret, Radio City-style variety shows and, since the 1960s, Broadway. From Japan, a ‘Chicago’ You Probably Haven’t Seen 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Splash noted that funk was more than a sonic touchstone. Cimafunk’s Quest to Create One Nación Under a Groove 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, the American rock band released a cover of the cultural touchstone, which includes brief references to 118 major political, cultural, scientific and sporting events between 1949 — Joel's birth year — and 1989. Here's the "We Didn’t Start the Fire" revamp with lyrics covering 1989-2023 no one asked for 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z And yet, as on her album, she used those touchstones as mirrors, holding them up merely to reflect back a sound that was affirmedly Ms. Sandé’s own. Critic’s Notebook: Emeli Sandé’s ‘Our Version of Events’ 2012-06-06T22:42:46Z Here are two salient touchstones: Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the 2016 presidential election, significantly abetted by the approximately 50 percent of white women who cast their ballots for Donald Trump; and the U.S. How White Feminism Threw Its Black Counterpart Under the Bus 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z The clash between God and the devil, drink and the divine, was the touchstone for George Jones's talent. George Jones 2013-04-26T17:06:44Z I hope it’s not just this year that diversity is a touchstone. Rami Malek: 'I Hope It's Not Just This Year That Diversity is a Touchstone' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z For Enwezor, this piece was one of the exhibition’s touchstone works, maybe because it adds a charge of you-were-there realness to other, newer works referring to the civil rights era. Black Grief, White Grievance: Artists Search for Racial Justice 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z The 90s golden age has become a cultural touchstone for the current generation. Black films matter – how African American cinema fought back against Hollywood 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Playing Alice both as a willful teen and a more mature woman of letters, she’s an engaging touchstone figure, with a creamy vocal authority. Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s new musical is pretty big on pretty 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Soon, “Fiddler” turned into a touchstone for Jewishness itself, a handy pop culture reference for everyone who evoked its name or its tunes to claim some Jewish bona fides, from Homer Simpson to Glenn Beck. Tradition! The Indestructible “Fiddler on the Roof” 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Gertrude Stein was clearly a touchstone for Johnson, and "Not Nothing" delves even further into his fascination with word play and the meanings pregnant in any combination of symbols. A movable feast of words in Ray Johnson books 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Understandably, 9/11 become a major touchstone in American fiction. Review | Ottessa Moshfegh returns with another winner: A wickedly funny ‘Year of Rest’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Karen Finley, who became a national touchstone of controversy for her performance art involving nudity and, yes, yams, recalled Mr. Saban as a tireless champion of young artists, both in print and in person. Former Club Kids Rally Around Stephen Saban, a Scribe of 1980s New York Culture 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Inland, the landscape hit all the familiar “Under the Tuscan Sun” touchstones: cypress trees pointing up at billowing cumulus clouds, vineyards rolling back to medieval hilltop towns. Seduced by Tuscany in Winter 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Cooper’s “7 pleasures” is a touchstone for his own birding passion. Young Urban Birders, Open Your Hearts to the Treetops! 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z There are few concessions made to non-Thai audiences, apart from an occasional footnote to explain a touchstone of Thai culture and a list of botanical names at the end of the book. Two Thai Novelists Explore Bangkok’s Swirl of Remembering and Forgetting 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Previously Ms. Boucher has been lost in abstractions; on this album she uses many of the same touchstones, but more directly. Reviews of Albums From Grimes, Galactic and Tyga 2012-02-20T23:49:32Z “People are looking for touchstones from history that give credibility and direction and momentum to their current activities.” Learning About the Civil Rights Era Through Travel 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z On one level, it trod a fairly well-worn path – the 60s soul pastiche has been a touchstone in pop for decades – but it didn't feel that way. A losing game 2011-07-24T18:15:01Z In the past few years, he has become a touchstone for political morality, an imperfect figure in uncertain times. John Dean, Watergate’s golden boy, is back in the spotlight 50 years later 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Contralto Marian Anderson, whose 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial became a touchstone moment for civil rights. This D.C.-based choreographer creates dances about trailblazers, hoping you’ll embrace their ideals 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z "Now today, almost every major cultural touchstone is rooted in the 1980s - whether obviously or subtly," Sirota writes. Review: Journalist takes readers back to future 2011-03-16T20:01:27Z Indeed, "A Hard Day's Night" celebrates their mop-top era, while "Help!" and "Magical Mystery Tour" provide touchstones for the mind-altering substances — weed and acid, respectively — that left an indelible stamp on their music. How the Beatles sold pop music on the big screen 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z While killing dolphins for food remains a cultural touchstone, the hunts generate far more money from selling live animals. Year after 'Cove' Oscar, activists shift tactics 2011-02-26T13:28:08Z It became another geographic touchstone for Yeats — so much so that in his poem “Under Ben Bulben,” he eerily directs the reader to his own grave, in the nearby cemetery of Drumcliffe. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z “I would explain things to him in terms of colors and touchstone words,” she says. 5 Controversial Quotes From Lana Del Rey 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Similarly, it reveals that Billy Elliott has become a universal touchstone for those at a specific turning point in their lives. Films that changed your life: surely you can do better than this survey? 2013-04-15T16:17:55Z Before it was a political football, a cultural touchstone, and a semantic battlefield, Katrina was a meteorological event. Don’t Call It Katrina 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z I would help crowdfund a book from her about Stephen Sondheim, one of her cultural touchstones. In Lorrie Moore’s Nonfiction, the Sounds of an Intellectual Having a Good Time 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z The pitfalls of fame and the touchstones on what fame means for different generations is another area of examination. Denis Leary is ready to rock FX once again 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z He is a touchstone shared by the psychologist Steven Pinker, the rapper and actor Ice Cube and people on social media who equate the pandemic with George Orwell novels. The Strange Afterlife of George Carlin 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z The Beales became figures of mordant fun but also cultural touchstones. Review: ‘That Summer’ Sheds Light on the Beales Before ‘Grey Gardens’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Two cultural touchstones that helped shape the public’s perception of the Kelly accusations are only mentioned in passing in “Surviving R. Kelly.” How ‘Chappelle’s Show’ and ‘The Boondocks’ Kept Us Laughing at R. Kelly 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z It will also feature a new, one-hour daily topical show called "Decades Retrospectical," which will be produced around news events and cultural touchstones of a specific time frame or theme. CBS, Weigel Broadcasting team up to create vintage TV channel 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z During down times they shared musical touchstones like diplomats exchanging cultural gifts. Music: Lou Reed and Metallica Team Up on ?Lulu? 2011-10-27T12:00:00Z But he cited literary touchstones as diverse as Daniel Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year,” Marquis de Sade’s “Philosophy in the Bedroom,” and the novels of Thomas Pynchon. The Coming of Age of Transgender Literature 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z In the professional reviews, however, that unexpectedly varied network was replaced “by a far more predictable set of canonical touchstones.” ArtsBeat Blog: Thinking Cap: From David Foster Wallace to Bret Easton Ellis by Way of Faulkner 2011-09-27T18:08:13Z One of the touchstones of this film for me is dream hampton's "Surviving R. Kelly." W. Kamau Bell on going up against Bill Cosby in Showtime series: "It is scary" 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Being born in the ’90s means that Woodstock is a part of my life only as a cultural touchstone, a symbol of something I can never claim. Woodstock, a Utopia? Not for Every Generation 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z As we saw the edit come together, they were all naturally baked into the process and that's the touchstone that cuts across universal themes. In the PBS doc "Storm Lake," a tiny Iowa paper fights for the future of high-quality local news 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z But it also represents Bonnaroo’s dual ambitions: to be a cultural touchstone known around the world, yet — unlike Woodstock — to be efficiently run, with smoothly flowing Interstate traffic. Bonnaroo Braces for Thousands of Fans 2010-06-09T21:49:00Z "Through his unique voice and vision, 'The Daily Show' has become a cultural touchstone for millions of fans and an unparalleled platform for political comedy that will endure for years to come." Jon Stewart announces he'll leave 'The Daily Show' this year 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z But the name that gets dropped hardest — dropped in the sense that it all but disappears — is that of the production’s touchstone, Noël Coward. Review: Reliving ‘Private Lives,’ This Time Mostly Women’s 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Many of Korneliussen’s most cherished cultural touchstones are those of American or British adolescence; Scout is named for the protagonist of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The Young Queer Writer Who Became Greenland’s Unlikely Literary Star 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Like other cultural touchstones of nineteen-sixties Britain—like the Beatles, like Anthony Burgess’s “A Clockwork Orange”—the poem takes youthful exuberance and ingenuity with the utmost seriousness. The Improbable Life and Prescient Poetry of Basil Bunting 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z With the closing of Ringling, that touchstone is starting to crumble. The end of Ringling Bros.: What the Greatest Show on Earth meant to a man raised in the circus 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z “Merrily” is a touchstone for Price and his cast-mates—a moment frozen in time, however painful. Revisiting a Legendary Sondheim Flop 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The first disc eases you in, with five pieces referring to various touchstones of the famous ’70s and ’80s fusion sound. The Playlist: Previously Unreleased Hendrix, and 10 More New Songs 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Were there any major touchstones that jumped out as we took in “Fire”? Jazz and Opera Come Together in ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Rich color — which seems to be Sialelli’s touchstone thus far — was used with panache in a carefully stage-managed set that featured men’s and women’s designs. Longtime Kenzo designers stage final show in Paris 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z Following its premiere, the Cinderella-like dress proved to be touchstone with fans of all ages, who proudly shared their own incarnations of the look to social media. Constance Wu's Marchesa dress from 'Crazy Rich Asians' donated to the Smithsonian 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z A lovely, vivid actress with a rich, penetrating voice, she threw herself into this touchstone role, though there were moments when her singing sounded strained. Music Review: At Glimmerglass, ‘Aida,’ ‘Armide’ and ‘Lost in the Stars’ 2012-08-06T22:15:41Z Which brings us to “Black Adam,” a dull, listless superhero movie that hits all the expected touchstones of the genre under the guise of a transgressive new antihero story. ‘Black Adam’ Review: Heroism, but Paint It Black 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z His work, he says, is more akin to novel writing than fine art, though on this evidence Borges or Kafka, rather than Agatha Christie, are his touchstones. Ryan Gander: Locked Room Scenario ? review 2011-08-27T23:06:08Z Apu didn’t appear until a few episodes into the first season of “The Simpsons,” but from its 1989 debut, the show was a cultural touchstone. He loved ‘The Simpsons.’ But Hari Kondabolu has a problem with Apu. 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z While it was rooted in the hip-hop production techniques of sampling, scratching, crate-digging and loop-making, “Dummy” was a different mélange of vintage touchstones. Portishead’s ‘Dummy’ Is 25. The Band Asks That You Play It Loud. 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z The actress also cites the Hôtel Costes—a veritable temple of Parisian panache—as a touchstone for her design sensibility. Ellen Pompeo talks to AD about design, fashion, and family 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z “For a lazy actor like myself, she is a great touchstone for what is at stake in the scene.” Anna Chlumsky’s second act 2014-05-08T21:46:15Z Here you feel the organic shapes and mind-bending distortions of 1960s art and architecture as well as mirrors that recall Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” which became a psychedelic touchstone for that era. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z “The meeting for me is a touchstone. It’s the thing holding me together.” Can You Gather With God Over Zoom? 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Leading boomer personalities like Jann Wenner are hitting peak memoir age and there are endless cultural histories of this generation, enumerating their artifacts and touchstones. A Prophet of Boom With Charts for Every Occasion 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Viewed through the Trump prism, the 1969 moon landings are surely the ultimate “make America great again” touchstone: a moment of incontestable US supremacy that occurred within many of his voters’ lifetimes. 'If anyone can Maga, it is Nasa': how First Man put a rocket up the politics of space 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Since the Nixon White House remains our touchstone for executive line-crossing, we asked Dean to compare and contrast the past and present in a lightning round, if you will: John Dean experienced Watergate from inside. He’s watching Donald Trump closely. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z His first feature film, “Garden State,” a moderate indie hit 10 years ago, was essentially a TV comedy with pretensions to be a generational touchstone. Zach Braff Directs and Stars in ‘Wish I Was Here’ 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Although Eshun is reluctant to codify the Black Fantastic as a movement, this quality emerges as one of the touchstones of the exhibition. ________Stepping Into the Expansive Worlds of Black Imagination 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z What the pope chose to hear for his name day was a touchstone Haydn work appropriate to the Lenten season, “The Seven Last Words From the Cross.” Henschel Quartet Offers Solace for Pope Benedict 2010-03-26T16:30:00Z The problem is that when the payoffs arrive, they’re deflatingly familiar — the show has gone from lovingly echoing 1980s touchstones to industriously copying itself. ‘Stranger Things’ Review: Once More Into the Upside Down 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z The touchstone here is the city's great landscape and portrait painter, Joseph Wright, whose work captured the dynamism of the industrial revolution in the city. Format international photography festival – review 2013-03-10T00:05:49Z “This is a cultural touchstone for a whole generation of people that didn’t exist before,” Mr. Whitley said. Skateboarders Won 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z More cleavage, more profanity and more explosions are the touchstones here. Critic?s Notebook: A Critic?s Lament: The Games That Got Away 2011-12-24T02:00:10Z But mostly because of this: As a cultural touchstone, “The Brady Bunch” in its milquetoasty way expanded our definition of family. Lonnae O’Neal: He has 3 kids, I have 3 kids, but don’t call us the Brady Bunch 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Wheeler rallied classmates to build this memorial, a small piece of West Point’s 16,000 acres, yet a vital touchstone to his later achievements and the arc of his life. He helped build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. How did he end up dead in a landfill? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z The program was flanked by the Second and Third concertos, touchstones of the repertory for the past century, and also included the youthful First; the changeable, big-band-inflected Fourth; and the playfully kaleidoscopic “Rhapsody.” Review: Yuja Wang Sweeps Through a Rachmaninoff Marathon 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Peak season is approaching, when these crustaceans are at their largest and most plentiful, so I was keen to reach Hawk’s restaurant, which is widely considered a touchstone of this gastronomic genre. Where Crawfish Are Boiled, Fried and Celebrated 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z It’s clearly from another time, but, lacking any lip service to equality and opportunity and the other touchstones of American political rhetoric, it also seems to come from another country. The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Whichever version you prefer, Blue Suede Shoes is an important touchstone for this week's list as it articulates clearly how central a good pair of shoes can be to self-image. Readers recommend songs about shoes: The results 2010-04-15T20:45:00Z They meet and go to the movies — the cinema’s lobby prominently features a poster for a film by Robert Bresson, a Kaurismaki touchstone — then endure chance accidents and bad decisions. At a Particularly Strong Cannes Film Festival, Women’s Desires Pull Focus 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z I used it as an empathy touchstone when he was unkind. The mothering class 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Without the touchstone of religion, death was ripe to be corporatised. The final act of love: reclaiming the rites of modern death 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Literature is their touchstone; real life, so far, is not. 'The Marriage Plot': a love triangle turned on its head 2011-10-07T21:42:56Z The Central line really has seen it all, and continues to be a touchstone of life in the capital. London Underground at 150 - a birthday journey 2013-01-09T05:21:53Z The piece became a touchstone of performance art in part because of its sheer, outlandish audacity. Vito Acconci, an Artist as Influential as He Is Eccentric 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z She cites Latin cultural touchstones and favorite foods. 12 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2020 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z The album it followed, Nevermind, is an undeniable cultural touchstone that launched its specific brand of “alternative music” into the mainstream. Yes, Nirvana’s Final Studio Album Just Turned 20 2013-09-29T19:46:47Z |
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