| 单词 | towering |
| 例句 | From the ground, the towering man seemed a million feet tall. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The mountains, towering above her after three nights’ travel inland, seemed suddenly crystal clear, their snowy peaks catching the last rays of the setting sun. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z As the carriage trundled toward a pair of magnificent wrought iron gates, flanked with stone columns topped with winged boars, Harry saw two more towering, hooded dementors, standing guard on either side. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Past the com and potato fields, my house comes into view, looking small and weak against the mountains towering behind it. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I followed the gesture and gasped at the sight of a beautiful city that seemed to be floating in the middle of the lake, encircled by a magical mist, bedazzling us with its towering splendor. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z And yet here was a monster, clear as the clearest night, towering thirty or forty feet above him, breathing heavily in the night air. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z An empty parrot cage, a mangle, a towering dresser, a scythe. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Manhattan was a towering mass of skyscrapers on their left. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He glided toward them and landed noiselessly in a towering beech tree. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Mark sits on a seat at the tail end of the vessel and twists backward to look up at the towering skyscraper, where the dwindling glow of the day’s sunshine reflects an amber sheen. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The blurred tree towering overhead consumes the sun; the ground is dead; I gasp for rain and wind. scene: The Queen BesideHrothulf’s Bed. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Often they appeared from the bush walking on stilts, towering above the crowd and screaming in different tongues. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z A shape began to appear in front of them, something high and towering and dark. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Even though she was seventy years old and only 5’2”, Gran looked towering in the foyer. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It looks like a towering sculpture of lighted glass and metal, like a machined piece of art. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Jason nodded encouragingly, like this was great news—like he expected Leo to walk up to a towering mass of darkness, shoot a few fireballs, and solve all their problems. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And yet Odysseus gazed out marvelling at the ships and harbors, public squares, and ramparts towering up with pointed palisades along the top. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Mariela, on opening night, is simply towering—“a different actress,” Volpe says, from the one who had struggled in recent weeks. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He is the Baba of my childhood, Toophan agha, the towering specimen of Pashtun might, not the withered man under the blankets, the man with the sunken cheeks and hollow eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There was a guard of orcs crouching in the shadows behind the great door-posts towering on either side, but the gates were shattered and cast down. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Jon Snow glanced up at the Wall, towering over them like a cliff of ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Yossarian could make out Major Major by his towering and lanky aloofness and thought he recognized Major Danby mopping his brow with a handkerchief. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The city darkens as I reach its border, a wide dirt clearing a few yards wide that separates Lkossa from the first of the Greater Jungle’s towering black pines. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Ernest Rutherford was one of science’s Great Men, a towering figure who drove developments in his era rather than riding in the wakes of others. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Dazed and gasping for breath, I stared up and there he was, towering over me, grinning. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Starlight filtered through the green canopy of towering oaks and magnolias on Lydia’s street. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z It was attached to something at the top—a giant rock, a towering tree, something. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z At the center was a raised dais, and on that dais, towering above the dancing politicians, stood Ghohg. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “The dishes,” Mumtaz said, and pointed to a towering stack in the sink. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Now they stood across from each other: Cecile towering over Fern with her arms crossed, and Fern looking up at Cecile. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z On each side of the depression there were large trees—white pines that went towering up and shaded the whole place to make it feel like a quiet garden. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z They were in a place the size of a cathedral with the appearance of a city, its towering walls built of objects hidden by thousands of long-gone students. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was easily visible, towering over the rest of the forest. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Considering how tightly packed these pines—which look suspiciously like towering dragon-giants in this moment—are, moving even the slightest bit in the wrong direction could be disastrous. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z And I felt that moment when we left the ground, and the fair fell away below us, and ahead of us was nothing but the towering white clouds. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Just across the street is the New York Times building, a towering sheet of metal, and—my God, it’s like nirvana—to my left, an Applebee’s. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Jeremy circled over it one more time, looking at a certain mark three-fourths of the way up the towering main trunk. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z But within a short time, the surrounding landscape began to change from towering trees to rocky hills. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z She was a towering figure, gliding solemnly to the front of the room. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She was a part of the image somehow, and she knew that when it was finished, the bond between her and the colorful, towering figure would literally be sealed by spirit. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Snape stumbled; he was wearing a long, lace-trimmed dress and a towering hat topped with a moth-eaten vulture, and he was swinging a huge crimson handbag. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I’m standing there, towering over his scrawny little behind, wondering where this voice came from. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Another match was struck; the candle was lit again, and Gregory held it up so that its flame illuminated a massive, towering, teetering pile of spoons and kettles and soup bowls. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z We are standing in the middle of a white sidewalk, next to a white street crowded with white cars, with white columned buildings towering all around us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I slipped off into sleep somewhere between Staunton and Lexington, and woke up just in time to get a perfect view of the towering white warehouse that was Roanoke, Virginia’s former Walmart. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It stood before them like a piece of raw green stone towering forever into the sky and disappearing into silver mist. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes a brief tour: a glimpse of the sea in one district, towering forests in another, ugly factories, fields of wheat, stinking refineries. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In his loincloth and war paint, his hair matted with burrs and feathers, he really did look like a wild creature, small and fierce among the towering goldenrod and thistles. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The unnamed peaks towering over the glacier were bigger and comelier and infinitely more menacing than they would have been were I in the company of another person. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It sat on a street of massive homes and towering trees in a place called Lake Forest. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I hustled back into the kitchen and braked a few inches before slamming into my dad towering in the middle of the room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Yeah, I guess it was fate, because when I opened the pamphlet and saw the picture of the jagged, towering rock sitting alone in the middle of my glacier-flattened state, the plan was revealed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He pointed to a brick chimney towering over a flat-roofed building where a thin line of smoke curled lazily into the air. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A towering black curtain had been swept across half of the room, blocking the other half from sight. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He stopped when Newt did, right next to the massive wall towering above them like a skyscraper—another random image that floated in the murky pool of his memory wipe. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z A towering cliff of a black, basaltic rock cut off the sunlight, and the deep night shadow of an airless world surrounded them. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z As I did, the towering computers around me began to emit a cacophony of sound, like a grand orchestra tuning up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The towering forms of the young hunters crashed to the ground, each pierced by the spear of the other, each slaying and being slain by the only creature he loved. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Dicey and James carried a towering pile of bushel baskets. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The old fire was there and the indelible image of Boobie towering over hapless tacklers. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When he strolled into Mrs. Torrance’s classroom, he saw that Njemile was there, too, towering over all the other students in the room. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z After leaving the highway, we crossed the Alafia River, passed some strawberry fields, then turned into a shaded lane where a long driveway led to a yellow house surrounded by towering trees. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Julia and I could look up at the canyon rims on either side of us and imagine the towering monolithic face of a one-hundred-fifty-foot-tall death trap that stretched across the sky from west to east. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “Look,” Betonie said, pointing east to Mount Taylor towering dark blue with the last twilight. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Ron caught up with them five minutes later, in a towering rage. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The rain beat down and the black river roared while Roosevelt shivered under the towering trees. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The giant blue sky, the fields of po- tatoes and corn, the white houses with red tile roofs, the rocky canyons, the mountains towering overhead. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A life-sized Nativity scene has been set up on the lawn below the towering statue of El Jefe on his horse. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I gazed up to the towering heights of the tall trees. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Festoons of holly and mistletoe hung all around the walls, and no less than twelve towering Christmas trees stood around the room, some sparkling with tiny icicles, some glittering with hundreds of candles. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z It was a far cry from the towering skyscrapers and concrete landscape of where he’d grown up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Only towering Parnassus was not quite covered, and the bit of dry land on its very topmost peak was the means by which mankind escaped destruction. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Panicked, I look at the towering trees, the brown undergrowth. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z One as towering as the Golden Gate Bridge. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z I glance over to the towering sycamore tree, the dark hollow. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z In the autumn towering brown dust storms sometimes blew in from the rolling wheat country to the west. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Behind the open market was a towering wooden building with four separate roofed sections and fenced- in courtyards. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The creature came clumping into the cave and stood towering over the BFG. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was parked under a towering oak tree outside Johns Hopkins Hospital with three of his children—two still in diapers—waiting for their mother, Henrietta. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z We’d stack our gifts—along with the sacks of flour and sugar, blankets, and trunks that other families were taking— on top of the bus in a great towering pile. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Amaze me!” cried Mr. Lemoncello as he dashed toward the towering fiction bookshelves and disappeared through another secret door that whooshed sideways in the shelves. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z My parents grew up in these towering mountains, the Hauts Plateaux, in a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo called South Kivu. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The peach was rushing closer and closer to it every second, and closer also to the towering white cliffs that came first. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z A towering man with a dense mustache, Emmett, as Tom’s father liked to be called, was poor, stern, hardworking, and pious. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The towering tents are striped in white and black, no golds and crimsons to be seen. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The whale was enormous, rising so that its front half was totally clear of the water, towering over him, looking down on him, studying him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A towering funnel of smoke gradually drifted over us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He thrust his pole out ahead of them and pushed them away from a towering green obelisk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Inside the adjoining tent there is a towering tree. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He slammed both hands against it to keep me from going anywhere, towering over me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z We stare at the towering column of black smoke twisting upward from the city’s newest bomb site. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The rain had cleared and now the sun was sliding into a towering mountain of clouds over Dactyl Hill. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul’s towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z I let out a gasp, seeing him like that, towering over me, holding Clove like a rag doll. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Light pours in from a glass ceiling atrium and down to where we stand, in the middle of an open space decorated with towering indoor vines. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They seem small, bobbing in the river beneath towering old trees. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The splendor before us has taken clearer shape now, forming a towering column of white-gold light that seems to stretch into a realm beyond the sky. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She smiles sweetly at Michael, who is towering over all of us. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z At last, Narcissa hurried up a street named Spinner’s End, over which the towering mill chimney seemed to hover like a giant admonitory finger. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z For several seconds, he stood frozen, towering over me, glaring down as though he meant to hit me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Upon a towering barbed throne sat an old man in rich robes, an old man with dark eyes and long silver-grey hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In addition to towering walls of books, there was a whole planetarium of stars and constellations projected on the ceiling. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z She remembered white cliffs towering over the ocean, swarming with seabirds nesting in high caves. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They were all in a small clearing completely surrounded by thick oak trees and towering pines—older ones that hadn’t been completely consumed by the sun flares—standing on dry, brittle undergrowth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Delphi under towering Parnassus, where Apollo’s oracle was, plays an important part in mythology. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Gran shuffled over to another towering pile and removed the top two boxes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z There he stood, grown suddenly tall, towering above them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A great ring-wall of stone, like towering cliffs, stood out from the shelter of the mountain-side, from which it ran and then returned again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Groves, who thought the latter shortcoming deprived Oppie of the scientific prestige the project leader should possess, plainly was unaware of the scientists towering reputation in the physics community. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The shadows of the brush and the towering cottonwoods were thick and dark. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a glossy new airport, towering skyscrapers. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z His towering frame, slick suit, and dark skin put him in stark contrast to everyone else around. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z She barely stopped herself from crumpling onto the street as the giant shadow creature dragged itself forward, towering over her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Michelangelo pulls himself up to his towering height and stares off at the horizon. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Cold air radiated from a towering indoor fountain that sprayed water over coiled copper tubing, trickling down by some new science to form blocks of ice at its base. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The first time he was down, when Lancelot was coming towards him to accept his surrender, he became flustered and thrust at the towering man from below. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Trunchbull had now reached the victim and stood towering over her. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z She leered at the fairies and glanced confidently at the towering demon. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Ten miles ahead of them was a towering black mountain spotted with snow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She makes the most of what she has, filling the window nook with houseplants of all kinds, a bonsai weeping willow, a towering ficus with drooping fronds, a fiddle-leaf fig. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Not far away, in the middle of the garden, he could see the giant peach towering over everything else. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The towering structure rose a good live stories tall, topped by a weather vane in the shape of a bull. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z There, standing ten feet from the register, was a large man—towering, really—in a gray suit. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z On they went, higher and higher up the dizzying trail, on one side the sheer stone walls and brutal peaks towering above them, and on the other an endless, limitless, bottomless nothing. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z In two large strides the Trunchbull was behind Eric's desk, and there she stood, a pillar of doom towering over the helpless boy. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z She gestures at the towering bowl of twisted metal that once held the bonfire. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A little beyond where the houses ended on the far side of Dactyl Hill, a towering concrete building stood surrounded by barren fields. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “SHUT UP!” the policeman hissed, a hazy shadow of terror towering in front of me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice reminds me of the days with my Aunt Fannie Mae, of the towering trees and Georgia’s glistening stars, of the rooster that woke us to the morning sun. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I imagine climbing towering trees, spying on eggs and eaglets. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Just Renee looked around at the dry twigs and towering trees. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z In two or three weeks towering clouds with swollen purple bottoms would rise out of the east. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They stopped together at the base of the towering wall. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Passing through the towering ice pinnacles of Phantom Alley we entered the rock-strewn valley floor at the bottom of a huge amphitheater. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z A dazzling bolt of electricity strikes a towering tree and then a lightning storm begins. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He climbed up to the attic bedroom Elinor had given him and lay down on the narrow bed with the crates of books towering around it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z As Cole weakened, he stared up at the giant spruce tree towering above him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Just a walk through miles of snow and ice and glaciers and boulders and crevasses to the towering top of a sleeping volcano. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Somewhere in the canyon wall of crates towering above him. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Before he could reach them the water had deepened too much even for his towering height. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Two towering white men, utterly out of place in that neighborhood and at that time of night, have confronted him. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Their huge bodies pushed through the crowds, towering over everyone else. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z And there I was, on the Cramps’ couch, so soft and so scared I’d have made a blob of whipped cream look tough, and Teds towering over me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Eddard Stark rode through the towering bronze doors of the Red Keep sore, tired, hungry, and irritable. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z By the time we arrived at the large plaza and stopped in front of the towering gateway, my hands were shaking and my heartbeat was pounding in my ears. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z There are two spacious rooms, flaking plaster walls, scuffed parquet floors, towering stacks of boxes he has not yet bothered to unpack. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Then my father shouted, “Look!” and I raised my head to see a towering mountain of rock emerge from the blank canvas before us. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Stores pressed against other stores on either side of us, large signs in Urdu and in English towering on billboards overhead. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Brash skyscrapers, towering high above the city’s busy markets and railroads, made almost anything seem possible. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He was a towering hulk of an animal and had a thick coat of fur, but even he was struggling with the frigid temperatures. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z A few blocks from the center of town, it is a simple, two-story Victorian in the Queen Anne style, with a big cottonwood towering over the front yard. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a very towering sort of tower and had all manner of nooks and crannies inside it where the pigeons could roost, and they were very satisfied with themselves. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She turned back and caught a glimpse of the towering creature taking a slow, ungainly step in her direction. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z As with the gushing fountains and towering ivory walls, the lamps themselves seemed to be the product of a dream. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “He stood there towering like some primitive god of the dark forests,” Mathews wrote. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A few feet away from her, three towering golden shrouds stood glowing in the middle of the street. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The woman will never find the old house behind the hedge of towering hibiscus at the bend of the dirt road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The vaulted roof seems to stretch up forever into the inky London sky, and beneath it the room is arranged like a city square somewhere in Florence, climbing columns and towering altars and archways. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Here were two artists, one black and one Puerto Rican, standing beneath a 115-year-old chandelier, bracketed by towering antique portraits of George and Martha Washington, singing about feeling “at home in this nation we’ve made.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I suppose I have met them, but not like this, towering above us like titans. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Only when Cole’s hand again rested on the ground, only then did the towering animal lower its huge head as if nodding. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He had been taller than her for a long time, but he felt like he was towering over her. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Two of his men stepped to the towering doors and pushed them open, and Cersei walked through them into the open air, blinking at the sunlight like a mole roused from its burrow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It didn't look much like a factory—no towering steel silos or smokestacks billowing carbon monoxide, just a few buildings that vaguely reminded him of airplane hangars. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z She had worked up an image of Orion as a towering ugly demon, even worse than Polybotes, the giant who had attacked Camp Jupiter. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The Colonel stood up, towering over the rest of us as we sat. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z He stands, towering over us with broad shoulders and muscles that strain the seams of his uniform. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Darrell was the biggest kid in the whole school, towering over everyone with a greasy, meaty face full of hills, valleys, and potholes. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z That same insistent pull she’d felt in the zoo had guided her through the lemongrass fields as the zoo’s towering brick walls grew distant, and the city of Lkossa’s outer slums rose to meet her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The towering figure roared: a creature so large that a man could have bathed in the soupy spittle of its mouth and sat curled up in the chambers of its heart. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Our environments change from jungle to city to towering cliffs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Standing in front of him was the real Hades, towering in his black robes and scowling down at his son. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z It looks like a giant shoe box next to the shiny curved dome of the mosque with two towering minarets. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z But Thomas and Kira both held him and finally he allowed Thomas to pick him up and carry him on his shoulders, towering over the crowd. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was twenty minutes’ walk away; she could see it clearly, towering high and tossing its great head in a dialogue with the urgent wind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A little way off, towering over their heads, they saw a tree which had certainly not been there before. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z I stare into the midnight forest, with its dark, towering shapes. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z It held nothing but a narrow bed surrounded by crates of books towering up to the rafters. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Ophelia thought that Paul’s personality was built of oppositions—a need for frenzied activity that verged, she thought, on desperation, and a towering self-confidence oddly combined with a hunger for affirmation. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z They reached the edge of the flowers, a dense growth of trees and brush that started at the foot of a towering mountain. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Henry’s yelling now, and he’s out of his chair, hands shaking, towering over Philip, and Alex notices that he’s actually taller. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Feet away, towering above him, was a solid wall of spiders, clicking, their many eyes gleaming in their ugly black heads. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Daddy hobbles two steps forward, towering over me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She had climbed the stairs to a vine-covered palace across the street and stood peeking through the towering front gate. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The loggers had had their pick of the virgin timber still growing along that section of the Dungeness— towering Douglas firs and massive western red cedars. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He stood in front of me, towering, not even a hint of a smile, only worry and sadness and something verging on panic. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Gaines could stomach the police cars, but he wasn’t necessarily prepared for the towering antenna rising up from the KMID-TV van. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Singe peeks out at me from behind her towering hair. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He was still on the hill behind his house, nestled in the roots of the yew tree towering over him. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Dad was now moving along the line as well, towering over Mom’s shoulder but saying nothing. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z He looked searchingly at the towering mountains—ridge after ridge after ridge until at last there was the ocean. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z They hit the river with a towering splash, and Mother Rhoyne swallowed up the two of them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Harry, Ron and Hermionfe shivered slightly — the towering white chessmen had no faces. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Malik’s tall enough that I spot him towering over several people as he makes his way down the hall. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z If he stood up, towering high above them, or if he stopped quacking for more than a moment, they stopped following and began to cry loudly. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Hades rose from his throne, towering to the height of a football goalpost. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z This was one of our usual spots, the wooded area next to my father’s fields where our towering green stalks of sugarcane met the orange groves that dotted the landscape into the horizon. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It became three-dimensional, a towering monster glistening with fresh paint, long arms stretched out in front of it as it raced back and forth. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The palace was in the center of the city, towering over all other structures. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “This malfeasance must be stopped” was what the unassuming janitor Alfred T. Slipper always said before he was transformed into the amazing Incandesto and became a towering, crime-fighting pillar of light. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z In Egypt, a towering colossus, immobile, beyond the power of the imagination to endow with movement, as fixed in the stone as the tremendous temple columns, a representation of the human shape deliberately made unhuman. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His towering image stood tall against the cement wall, arms crossed over his chest, his name written in bubbly letters across the front of his favorite hoodie. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Then how his shipmates killed Lord Helios’ cattle and how Zeus thundering in towering heaven split their fast ship with his fuming bolt, so all hands perished. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Denuded mountains are visible to the west, towering sternly above the rooftops of adjacent double-wides. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood on his long legs in the middle of the dirt road, his long neck towering above the car, and looked down his long nose at us. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z And from those evil heads there came a high shrill cry that echoed in the towering walls before him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He liked for her to mount him so he could see her towering above him and call soft obscenities up into her face. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Beyond them stretched more cornfields, a few whitewashed houses with red tile roofs, and, towering in the distance, mountains. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The visitor center was huge inside, with high, towering ceilings and great open spaces filled with displays about Mount Rainier. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Against the stage’s backdrop is a towering screen with an ice-blue dragon’s head breaking out through it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z "What are they-oh God! I'm hungry-" The towering rock seemed to sway under him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Her stomach clenching, Celaena averted her eyes from the prisoners, keeping up with the captain as they headed to a caravan of horses near the towering wall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The highway is lined with towering blue- gum trees. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He is both brilliant and problematical, and it is fair to say that his towering legacy has had more impact on the worlds of literature, philosophy and politics than, strictly speaking, on musical development. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A tall man stepped forward, towering over the much smaller Mr. Ebgard. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He raised his eyes with difficulty to the dark slopes of Mount Doom towering above him, and then pitifully he began to crawl forward on his hands. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The dark patches grew darker, but they shrank; and suddenly he saw, towering ominous before him and leaning slightly towards one another like the pillars of a headless door, two huge standing stones. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But then she looked up at the towering beast and found it glaring at the unfolding carnage. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The ink-black wedge of the summit pyramid stood out in stark relief, towering over the surrounding ridges. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z On starless nights the great cliff was as black as stone, a darkness towering high above the wide world, but when the moon came out it shimmered pale and icy as a frozen stream. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When he was before me, towering, indignant, I could not remember how, when I was young, his laugh used to shake his gut and make his glasses shine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He stood up, towering over her, and said, “You must go back the way you came. You took an enchanted path, and you cannot remain here.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Two thrones made of gold stood on the upper level of a towering stage decorated with silver. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The bears slammed into Roz, knocking her against the trunk of a towering tree. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The Cyclopes, too, were gigantic, towering up like mighty mountain crags and devastating in their power. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z A towering cylinder of stone sat in the center of the cave. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z At the gates of Daznak’s Pit two towering bronze warriors stood locked in mortal combat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mother Water Monster took ten steps and was towering over Nathan. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Most of the wall space was taken up by towering bookshelves that reached high above my head and held more books than I’d ever seen outside a library. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z A wide expanse of lush plains turns into a crystal-blue lagoon, surrounded by towering cliffs and smooth, steep rocks, their tops covered with vegetation. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Aru blinked and looked up to see a wall of flames towering above them, blocking the cave entrance. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Every tick and tremble was a towering throng haint lying, in wait. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z My heart lifted at the sight of John Henry towering over everyone as he took a head count. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Celia stops walking as she reaches the open square, halting next to the towering astronomical clock where carved apostles are making their scheduled hourly appearance despite the weather. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Courtiers filled the gallery while supplicants clustered near the towering oak-and-bronze doors. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She held the tray up higher, and the candle shed its weak light on the towering pile of spoons and bowls and kettles. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He rushed upon the crooked man, towering with passion. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Sandi turned to see the maître d' heading in their direction with a tall, dressed-up woman, and behind her, a towering, preoccupied-looking man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z But now Emma could make out the dim shape of her little brother beyond the door, halfway up the towering stairs to the stage. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Pong craned his neck back to see the spirit of Ampai towering over him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He felt so tall, towering alone up at the front of the classroom. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Most days he'd woken up in a sweat, unable to shake the image of her towering over him, dragging him back to prison. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I stepped back, out of Fang's reach, air rushed into my lungs, pushing him out, he was back outside, just a desperate boy, no, two desperate boys, standing at the bottom of a towering rock. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It’s three stories of towering stone, peaked roofs, and ginormous windows. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z When the morning dawned, foggy and squally, they were right up under the island’s towering black cliffs, and a violent squall tore down the side of a mountain, slamming into the boat. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He no longer felt exhausted or discouraged or anything else except a towering fury to survive. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt an uncomfortable sense of vertigo looking at the towering walls, as if he hovered above them instead of sitting at their base. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z And when his parents were killed in a mining accident, the mate went to live in the grove with her, learning to nurse the tender shoots into towering giants with rustling fan-shaped leaves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The houses they passed were all fenced off or hidden behind towering hedges, so he could barely see any of them. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z A small fire crackled, casting long shadows across the towering form of Miss Miss. The sculpture seemed alive. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z When we got to the bottom of the hill, John Henry stopped, still towering over the women now on top. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z New York was known for its architecture, the elegant brownstones, the towering skyscrapers, the grand museums. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z We passed roadside restaurants advertising breakfast specials and movie theaters with the show times listed on towering signs near the edge of the highway. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z They sped off up adjacent aisles; Harry could hear the others’ footsteps echoing through the towering piles of junk, of bottles, hats, crates, chairs, books, weapons, broomsticks, bats.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z There was a picture of Sissy taken twenty years ago—Sissy with a towering crimped pompadour and huge leg-o’-mutton sleeves—Sissy, sixteen years old. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z This time the towering fellow swung on him like a shying horse. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He went to the towering cabinet against the far wall and pulled out a box. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The dark, towering silhouettes of the Wallowa Mountains surrounded us on all sides. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z "What are you going to do-?" From the top of the towering rock came the incomprehensible reply. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z As the warm, wet Amazonian air hits the towering Andes, it cools and sheds its moisture in the form of snow. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The contrast between the two towering figures of Berkeley science was striking. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Hurriedly Roy made his way through a forest of towering lodgepole pines. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Will thrust his cold hands into his pockets, and stood staring up at the carved panels of the two closed doors towering before him. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama Bellini, who was on duty in the morning, stood towering, frowning down on them. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of the wreck rose the Black Rider, tall and threatening, towering above her. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He hissed and reared up on his hind legs, towering over me, his great paws ready to swat me down. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I liked the Lithuanian girl, but the towering woman called Eva spoke bad Polish and always seemed impatient. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He stops at the towering main entrance, a sheer glass door painted with stripes in our team colors, and pulls aside as the panels slide open. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As we waited for a streetcar to take us to Aunt Cleo’s home for temporary lodging, I looked northward at towering buildings of steel and stone. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But what really catches my attention are the towering cliffs of blue ice on either side of us, forming our path. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Everything's closed now, and the tourists who flood the wide sidewalks during the day have gone back to their hotels, towering fifty stories above us. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him, not the white masjid with its bright diamond lights and towering minarets. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It stopped beside a towering marble headstone, only six feet from them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It looks like a prehistoric polar bear, except as tall as a skyscraper—and its jaws are open wide, revealing a row of sharp teeth, each one as long as the nearest towering ice structure. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Roosevelt and the others couldn’t see them because the animals were hiding and blending in among the densely packed leaves that make up the upper level of the towering trees, known as the canopy. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Major Major’s father was a towering, gaunt man in heavy shoes and a black woolen suit. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z When the towering ruins gave way to flatter ground, Tally opened up the hoverboard. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z A towering cliff stood behind them, a sheer drop, black and faceless. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z But others were brick and stone with wooden roofs towering over her head. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z In an instant, the green hangings became scarlet and the silver became gold; the huge Slytherin serpent vanished and a towering Gryffindor lion took its place. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The White City was a labyrinth of lagoons and tended gardens, and spread throughout it all, towering buildings crammed from floor to ceiling with exhibits. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He paused by the cot, towering over Bigger. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z They were running along the edge of a towering ravine. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The towering magnet weighed 220 tons, its sixty-inch pole faces nearly twice the diameter of its predecessor’s at the old Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, there were several towering piles of empty tuna-fish cans. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z She was even more imposing towering over me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The first level that Hideo’s committee has created for our game looks like a world of glittering ice and towering glaciers. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We wore the same haircut, a towering box cut made popular by rappers like Big Daddy Kane, whose elegantly chiseled high-top was the gold standard. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The trio of towering shrouds emerged from the pines. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The twins huddled around him, towering over him. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z On an Arizona highway, a two-car caravan is flashing across sagebrush country—the mesa country of hawks and rattlesnakes and towering red rocks. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z On top of the mountain, Tegucigalpa’s highest, shrouded in wisps of clouds by day, bathed in an orange glow of lights by night, stands a towering statue of Jesus. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He’d once told it to his friend Willie-Jay; he had described to him the towering bird, the yellow “sort of parrot.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The thing looked like it could transform into a towering sixty-foot robot at any minute. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z In the streets, for instance, I discovered that New Yorkers never look up at the awe-inspiring buildings towering above them. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She propped the foam-board-mounted artist’s rendering of his next towering condominium project on an easel. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z That show’s Library was a monumental edifice, with towering marbled halls and tinkling fountains, like the lobby of some five-star hotel. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I gazed up at the towering robot, admiring the attention to detail Halliday had put into coding it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But watching the awestruck students, who in this series get to work directly with some of the towering figures in the arts, is only half the fun. | 'Masterclass': An HBO Documentary Looks at the YoungArts Program 2010-04-16T23:40:00Z The restaurant is at the base of the towering new Mondrian hotel in SoHo. Restaurant Review: Imperial No. Nine 2011-06-08T08:30:27Z It’s not just the image of white knights on horses and towering gray castles that creates that “realistic” feeling, but also blood and gore, and what we often describe generally as “grittiness.” Reveling in the darkness: “True Detective,” “Game of Thrones” and the missing critique in TV’s cult of gritty realism 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Existential questions arise when beholding the towering astronomical clock inside Strasbourg’s iconic medieval Notre Dame cathedral. 36 Hours in Strasbourg, France 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Later in his career, Reed became an elder statesman of rock, a towering figure in a club with legends such as Bob Dylan and Neil Young. Rocker Lou Reed of Velvet Underground dies at 71: Rolling Stone 2013-10-27T18:31:28Z Those conversations yielded the play “Jitney,” the only one of the 10 plays in Wilson’s towering Century Cycle to be written in the same decade — the 1970s — it was set. From Nosebleed Seats to the Stage, Actors Discuss August Wilson 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The Remonstrance is displayed there in an anteroom off the rotunda, which is dominated by a timely and towering backdrop that evokes its provenance: a 40-foot-high facade of a 17th-century gabled Dutch canal house. Document That Inspired Bill of Rights Goes on Display in Manhattan 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z As they ascended their tables, some models wobbled in their towering thigh-high stretch leather boots. Burberry’s Alternate Fashion Reality 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z In an invaluable exhibition guide, Mr. Black describes the drawing as being about “the towering beauty as well as the horrors of the 20th century,” without indicating which images fall into which category. Art in Review: Rafael Leonardo Black: ‘Insider Art’ 2013-05-16T20:40:33Z Will Gompertz considers the contributions of two towering figures towards making the arts for everyone. Making the arts for everyone 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Lanky and brace-faced, Anna, clocking in at a head taller than the actors playing her classmates, hunches over in dead-on embodiment of every girl who suddenly finds herself towering over the boys she's crushing on. Middle school was hell. "PEN15" makes me (almost) want to go back 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z These tours traverse a dramatic landscape just beneath the towering Andes mountains, where Chilean cowboys in flat-brimmed chupalla hats and chequered ponchos roam through emerald green hills. Top 10 bike-friendly wine routes 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Roosevelt was one of the towering figures of the 20th century, but he and his accomplishments scarcely register in this amorphous, bafflingly aimless movie. Movie Review: ‘Hyde Park on Hudson,’ With Bill Murray and Laura Linney 2012-12-06T13:00:00Z That home, towering above the city, is as spacious and warm as the other interiors are dismal and claustrophobic. Am I in Manhattan? Or Another Sequel to ‘Blade Runner’? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z The show’s title piece is a towering wall of file cabinets, assembled into a vast canvas for paint and photo-transfer imagery. In the galleries: Finding new ways to take in the natural world 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The genius of the song, aside from its towering musical architecture, is that basic lyrical sentiment, a kind of pure pop poetry that lends intense drama to even the most mundane crisis. We’re all livin’ on a prayer: How a hair band anthem from the least cool ’80s rockers became a classic 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z The Electric Daisy Carnival is the largest electronic music party in the United States, complete with a towering Ferris Wheel, amusement park rides, celebrity disc jockeys and electronic music heavyweights. 2 Electric Daisy Carnival revelers die in Vegas 2012-06-18T01:21:26Z It was the towering waves he caught, coupled with a blunt but friendly manner, that made Noll’s reputation. Legendary big-wave surfer Greg ‘Da Bull’ Noll dies at 84 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z Everything is turned to 11 in 1985: the towering crest, the amped-up gospel choir, the electric delivery, the fake ending two-thirds of the way through followed by LaBelle taking everybody back to church. ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’: From Broadway Tear-Jerker to Covid-Era Anthem 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z “Tourists,” muttered Ira, my husband, as he and my college pal Steven forged ahead down a mountain trail of wildflowers and towering spruces. In Certifiably Happy Norway, a Cranky Traveler Finds Some Bliss (Within Reason) 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Carrie Wood’s lighting is both subtle and overtly theatrical, including towering light stanchions at the back of the house. Dance Review: Adrienne Truscott’s ‘ Too Freedom ’ at the Kitchen 2012-12-10T22:48:09Z Misunderstandings and rivalries accumulate like the towering stack of boxes in their aunt’s house. Sisters face off in play set in Ballard 2012-12-13T22:01:04Z Robert Westall was also a towering figure, not only as master of the spectral short story, but as author of The Scarecrows, one of the most frightening novels I have ever read. How Edgar Allan Poe scared the bejesus out of my childhood heart 2010-07-07T11:34:00Z Condemned to death in the desert, the despairing prince miraculously spies “a lofty and spacious castle towering to the sky.” In these medieval Arab tales, a heavy dollop of spice 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z But then the team — about 25 people — tried to visit the Greek World Heritage site of Meteora, known for Orthodox monasteries perched upon towering rocks. Four Months, 5,000 Miles: A Refugee Puppet Looks for Home 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Eventually, I spotted some macaws flashing their Technicolor plumage as they circled around and returned to the towering treetops. Personal Journeys : Pink Dolphins and Sunsets Along the Amazon 2014-04-11T18:08:34Z Gangsta's Paradise builds an Eden of towering oddities. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z Playwright Young Jean Lee’s 2009 dissection of the motives and psychosexual dilemmas of the progeny who drive the Bard’s towering masterwork isn’t so much a deconstruction; neither Lear nor Gloucester appear, for starters. Young Jean Lee's risky, intriguing riff on 'Lear' at City Garage 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z The centerpiece was a music festival–caliber stage, complete with a towering proscenium arch and faux painted curtains that framed two live drummers, backlit by electric stars. A Look at the Set of Tommy Hilfiger’s Spring 2015 Show 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s been some time since I last visited the Anderson Valley, a bucolic sliver of coastal Mendocino County, where Pacific fogs glide through the towering California redwoods, playing cat and mouse with the rising sun. For Pinot Noir, Put Anderson Valley Among California’s Best 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Less than a year after its completion, London’s towering 20 Fenchurch Street—nicknamed the Walkie-Talkie for its 579-foot-high concave façade—is no stranger to public scrutiny. Rafael Viñoly’s 20 Fenchurch Street Welcomes A Lush Sky Garden 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Instead, the movie leans into the beauty of Jackson’s world with images of towering palm trees and roaming mustangs, and with many, many scenes set in both dawning and fading light. ‘Jockey’ Review: Hit Hard and Still Riding 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z The show’s creator and primary writer, Chris Chibnall, has returned to that initial story — represented visually by the towering cliffs beneath which the victim, a young boy, was found — throughout the series. Review: ‘Broadchurch’ Ends Its Run as Entertaining and Moving as Ever 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z In the dining room, there was a towering white cake for guests topped with strawberries and decorated with hearts and the letters "ZZ" on each tier. Zsa Zsa kept behind closed doors at birthday party 2012-02-07T15:45:22Z On Tuesday, her outfit consisted of a lacy crimson gown, towering scarlet Christian Louboutin heels, and cherry-red lipstick and nail polish. Even at Her Funeral Celebrations, Aretha Franklin Was the Height of Glamour 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Initially “A Dozen Dreams” doesn’t look like much: Among the towering palm trees and the lifeless luxury is a small room, the inside of which is designed as a dilapidated theater. ‘A Dozen Dreams’ Review: Eerie Memories Bring Magic to the Mall 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z They file in, swapping their sundresses and sandals for leotards, flippy little skirts and the towering but sturdy platforms required for samba. Rio teacher out to prove 'gringos' can samba, too 2013-02-12T13:06:16Z The golden light of dawn caught the tops of Nepal’s towering Himalayas, lighting the forbidding, yet starkly beautiful, peaks. Trekking with the kids in Nepal 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Stephen Fry brought his towering intelligence and wit to Oscar Wilde, but Everett brings both of those along with his own bruised glamour and a jolt of bitter darkness as though he's possessed. Rupert Everett: 'Sex is over. I'm not motivated by it any more' 2013-04-21T07:30:01Z Cape Town, wedged between the towering sandstone mesa of Table Mountain and the Atlantic Ocean on Africa’s southern tip, is marvelously scenic. Journeys: A Culinary Gateway to Cape Town Opens 2012-11-28T17:30:02Z The oldest man-made, outdoor object in New York is the towering, granite obelisk in Central Park known as Cleopatra’s Needle: It’s nearly 3,500 years old. | Art: A (Big) Bit of Egypt in Central Park 2013-12-06T21:48:10Z On the flip side: Is Lancaster Dodd a towering, devout believer? The Master Mystery: Solving Paul Thomas Anderson’s Many Riddles 2012-09-24T12:00:35Z Under towering palms, we ate raw fish tossed in coconut milk and shared tallboys of Hinano beer. In a Year of Abrupt Transitions, a Trip to Tahiti. And Calgary. 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z On social media he has marshaled expressions of solidarity with Ukraine from across the ballet world, a world in which Russia has historically played a towering role. A Leading Choreographer Joins the War Effort, With Classical Ballet 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z A pitiful man crouches and pounces before a towering showgirl before being swallowed in her voluminous cloak. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at David H. Koch Theater 2013-02-02T01:32:24Z Unlike the towering white behemoths we’d passed, it was just three stories tall, with 78 rooms, cobalt blue shutters and turquoise and lemon yellow piers jutting into the ocean. A Jamaica Trip With the Ultimate Travel Amenity: A Nanny 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z “One thinks of Lear as rather towering, a kind of oak,” he said, sipping a cappuccino in a coffee bar near Central Park. The King’s the Thing, Not the Play, for an Actor Who Would Be Lear 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z No less a towering figure than Octavia Spencer will play God in “The Shack” on March 3. Starting with ‘she-ro’ Wonder Woman, spring’s movies look encouraging for exhilarating female roles 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z My earliest memory, at the age of three, is standing in a large atrium with three bears towering over me. Your First Visual Arts Crush 2013-08-14T20:57:44Z The hair is performance art, a palmier one day, a Medusa nest of towering curls the next. Analysis | The newly relevant relationship between Trump and ‘Sunset Blvd.’ 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z A dangling ringlet of orange peel or a yellow floof of cotton candy finishes the towering inferno. Trump’s Towering Inferno and other cocktails inspired by presidential candidates 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Eager waiters in towering white hats set down guava cocktails and chipotle baguettes before you’ve even cracked the menu. Surfacing: Where Centro Parties at Night 2010-03-05T04:01:00Z The petite Ms. LuPone is routinely referred to as a towering legend, but in person she’s earthy, calling everyone from stagehands to fellow cast members to me “doll.” Put Down Your Phone! It’s Patti LuPone. 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z You get to City Kebab and Pizza, and suddenly, towering above you on your left, is the magnificent art deco Broadway Cinema. Cine-files: Letchworth Broadway Cinema 2011-08-16T13:01:54Z But he paid homage to another of the city’s towering female characters when he made Broadway Danny Rose. From Holly to Annie to Brooke: the women of cinema who personify New York 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z He had erected a towering range of snow-capped peaks. Fashion Review: Tommy Hilfiger and Tory Burch at New York Fashion Week 2014-02-12T03:09:55Z In the Amazing Maize Maze, located at the Queens County Farm Museum, visitors can embark on a scavenger hunt through acres of towering cornstalk on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in October and on Oct. Spooky Season Has Arrived in New York. Here’s What’s on Our List. 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The machine stood beside a deli counter, towering over cardboard boxes piled near the entrance to the Iconic Magazines store in SoHo. Written in the Stars? More Like Written by A.I. 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z Living in an old shipping loft, she made the most radical work of any of them: towering open-warp fiber pieces that stretched from floor to ceiling and across the loft’s wide space. At MoMA, Women at Play in the Fields of Abstraction 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z There, under a canopy of towering redwood trees in an ancient forest, a yoga instructor, Bridget Boland, led a class through an hourlong session of vinyasas and deep breathing. A Teetotaler’s Guide to Sonoma County 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z The 2012 Emmy Awards red carpet in Los Angeles was a flurry of designer gowns, towering stilettos and glittering gems. VIDEO: Emmys 2012: Red carpet fashion 2012-09-24T11:20:40Z The pandemic temporarily halted tours, but you can get a sense of the stonewalled distillery’s vintage grandeur through a towering window facing the road into the village around back. In Scotland, a ferry-borne exploration of the Inner Hebrides 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z He's trying to impersonate Raymond from within the towering comic creation that long ago subsumed him. Steve Coogan: forever Partridge? 2013-04-15T15:29:00Z The deafening roar of about half a dozen trunks-on-wheels trundling over concrete fills the loading entryway while in the background, a towering wood plank wobbles on a scaffolding-like metal truss. 'Hamilton' hits L.A.: Behind the scenes of the landmark musical's arrival in Hollywood 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z A black officer with a towering athletic build jumped out and hollered for the kids to come and stand by the cruiser. Motherlode: Talking About Race (Etc.) 2011-03-10T18:27:57Z The firm’s director, a towering figure in death penalty jurisprudence named Stephen Bright, took Stevenson under his wing and taught him justice, southern-style. Just Mercy: new film that captures the start of a brilliant civil rights career 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z It is an arrestingly spare actors’ playground, surrounded by towering white walls, the stage covered in autumnal fallen leaves. Robert Carsen Is Opera’s Most Reliably Excellent Director 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z Wearing flip-flops and sweatpants, Mr. Schnabel ushered a reporter to a kitchen table in his towering pink apartment building, called Palazzo Chupi, in the West Village. Julian Schnabel Discusses His New Film, a Palestinian Story 2011-03-22T17:11:02Z “The Mostly Mozart Festival this summer celebrates Beethoven,” a program note begins, and the juxtaposition of these two towering figures is the snoozy theme of the next month. Music Review: Alice Coote and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet at Mostly Mozart 2013-07-31T21:15:18Z How exciting it would have been to watch these two towering figures wrestle as allies into 1964. Kennedy and King: The remarkable intersection of two great lives 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The conductor on Monday was Plácido Domingo, who just finished a Met run of Verdi’s “Luisa Miller,” the latest attempt by this towering artist to prolong his vocal career as a reconstituted baritone. Review: Third Tenor’s Not Quite a Charm in the Met’s ‘Roméo’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Guru Rinpoche prevailed, and he scattered the demon’s body parts across Mustang: its blood formed towering red cliffs, and its intestines tumbled to the wind-scoured earth east of the cliffs. Explorer: Myths and Mountains in Nepal 2012-10-28T06:23:48Z Joseph Johnson, the principal cellist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, led off with a lovely performance of Bach’s towering Suite No. 1 in G for solo cello. Music Review: Santa Fe Chamber Festival Draws Musicians but Few Critics 2013-08-05T22:01:54Z Wooden houses on stilts, painted mint green and baby blue and shaded by towering palms, line the main dirt road. Next Stop: In Cambodia, Koh Kong Emerges as an Eco-Tourism Destination 2011-03-04T19:55:00Z To television viewers who have followed the medium’s resurgence of erudition and artistic credibility, the 77-year-old Milch is a towering figure. David Milch Still Has Stories to Tell 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Upon arrival, it appears to be a sweeping development of garish high-rises towering over the beach. In Albania, age-old traditions and Mediterranean beaches on the cheap 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Its music is only loud, only towering, never soft. | High on Fire: High on Fire, Metal Trio, Blasting the Blender 2010-04-11T22:11:00Z Before you know it, the Bradburns get a backyard with train tracks, minicars and a towering birthday hat sculpture. Critic?s Notebook: Every Home?s a Castle, Cinderella 2011-06-05T19:45:15Z Ms. Williams is a commanding and kinetic stage presence, towering over Ms. Robinson, who is more unpredictable and provocative; she is quicker to laugh, to be vulnerable or to insult. In ‘2 Dope Queens’ a Duo Muses Over Life, and Stanley Tucci 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z The air becomes buoyant and rises, creating the towering clouds we associate with thunderstorms. Understanding tornadoes: 5 questions answered 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z More extraordinary, the two towering masterpieces which were to become the springboard of European opera were written in the very last years of his life. Monteverdi's Flying Circus 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z Although Cavanaugh, 7, appeared tiny next to the towering truck, it was his big idea to load it with essentials for people in need — more than 1,500 miles away from his Maryland home. A Maryland 7-year-old was bullied. He responded by opening a food pantry. 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z It shows a towering disdain for both men and women. ‘Women Who Flirt,’ a Romantic Comedy From China 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z An old sycamore tree suggested the place where the fictional Christopher Robin lived; a towering walnut tree the arboreal abode of Pooh himself. The real forest that inspired the stories of Winnie-the-Pooh 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Varda was a towering figure of French New Wave cinema of the 1950s and 1960s and a contemporary of directors such as Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. Agnes Varda, the grande dame of French cinema, dies aged 90 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z After his death yesterday, Ebert is rightly being remembered for his towering achievements in many media: newspapers, books, the movies themselves, even Twitter. Why Roger Ebert’s Thumb Mattered 2013-04-05T14:49:54Z Those buildings, and other historic structures in the Civic Center neighborhood, evoke an earlier kind of cultural palace: huge, towering and somewhat removed from the hustle of everyday existence. A jazz nexus takes shape in San Francisco 2011-05-16T14:01:03Z Mahalia Jackson’s towering “Amazing Grace” shared space with the Carter Family’s bucolic “Keep on the Sunny Side,” the Texas blues titan Blind Lemon Jefferson with the Appalachian lawyer Bascom Lamar Lunsford. How to Handle the Hate in America’s Musical Heritage 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z So is a boiler room below it, where dancers overlook towering turbines while the bass goes boom. In Berlin, Still Partying in the Ruins 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z I would remember the times in the past he had crumpled under the inability to meet his own towering standards. Yes, I know my kid is average 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z These towering, complex, passionate protagonists appeal ever more strongly to women artists and writers — because they expose the nexus of constraints that surrounds women and drives them to extreme acts of violence. Evil Stepmother, Reimagined 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The largest prop is a towering Trojan horse, made of the debris the battle-weary Greeks would have had at hand, mostly used weapons and war junk. Music Review: ‘Les Troyens,’ at the Royal Opera House in London 2012-06-26T21:10:52Z Some of his recent large shows have had full-size horizontal sarcophagi and towering vertical jars, invoking both mortality and ancient burial traditions. Review | In the galleries: Artistic reflections on what mortality leaves behind 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Ethan and Maya admired the quiet, narrow streets and low wooden houses, a striking contrast with our manic Manhattan metropolis of towering high-rises. Taking Your Teenagers to Kyoto 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z In addition to clearing, fire suppression has reduced the number of towering hardwoods that have been there for hundreds of years. A battle of green against green in this Texas community 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z We threaded among hamlets studded with wood-framed cottages on stilts and through shady, swampy patches sheltered by towering palm trees. Heads Up: Escaping to ‘Bangkok’s Green Lung’ 2013-06-14T20:05:33Z You enter with lanterns, one or two at a time through mirrored swinging doors, to walk on leaves and a wood stump path under towering, fragrant fir trees. Nature With Chirps, but No Tweets 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The volume this season was concentrated in the shoulders, towering merengue-like constructions that would have been hard-pressed to make it through a standard sized door. Punk spirit lives on in Paris, with Gaultier show 2010-10-03T00:16:00Z Call-and-response vocal parts, howling guitars and towering crescendos function as exclamation marks. Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z You feel almost dizzy looking up at the colossal head of Leigh Bowery, towering over you. Lucian Freud storms the Pompidou Centre 2010-03-16T21:35:00Z Portrayed by the chapel’s towering, hyperactive, pompadoured owner, Brendan Paul, the King incongruously plucked out melodies by AC/DC, Kiss and Metallica as the encore bride danced alongside him. Las Vegas After the Shooting: Renewing Vows, Embracing Community 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z There was the glimmering Aztec costume in gold, with towering feather headdress and ankle rattles. Astrid Hadad, 'Lady Gaga of Nixtamal,' is part of thrilling start to PST's performance fest 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Where it fails is in conveying Mordecai Richler's towering literary presence. Did Barney need another version? 2011-01-27T11:34:22Z Some students call it the Harry Potter Room, for its winding staircase and towering wall of painted portraits. In Vancouver, discover University of British Columbia’s delightful attractions 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z There was a charming Unicorn dance for Valerie Sheldon Tabor, who crossed the stage in dainty prances while wearing a towering headpiece in the form of the mythical creature. | New York Baroque Dance Company: When a God Loves a Nymph, and Other French Court Intrigues 2010-09-22T22:12:00Z This towering late collection of chorale preludes is not entry-level Bach, least of all for those unfamiliar with the chorale tunes themselves. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Other reporters may have been put off by the towering odds of Brat beating Cantor. Dave Brat was mostly ignored by political reporters It needs to have a single towering peak, six ridges and a huge diameter covering several miles. Dream relocation: The Hobbit's Middle-earth made in middle England 2010-10-25T15:07:00Z His final project was a towering edible sculpture of bread devoted to the theme of Blaise Pascal. Cultured Traveler: In Paris, Where Artisanship Becomes Art 2012-10-12T20:04:36Z The average-guy drag fits nicely with his comic persona, which is of an average guy driven to peaks of towering rage by current affairs in all their sordidness. Theater Review: ‘Lewis Black: Running on Empty,’ at Richard Rodgers Theater 2012-10-11T02:00:00Z So it leaves you feeling a bit baffled and deflated – how can we possibly be so towering a threat that Hollywood would strive so energetically, so rigorously, for our belittlement? Why Wonder Woman is a masterpiece of subversive feminism 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z She is currently off hers, given the towering heels. Gloria Estefan left Cuba as a young child, but the island defines her, and her music 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The play’s title derives from the supposed towering height of the Clarke family, although none of the actors are particularly tall, and, for that matter, the family height figures only tangentially. | 'The Talls': A 17-Year-Old Beanstalk From a Wholesome ?70s Family Is Eager to Go Far Out 2011-08-16T21:14:24Z Mark McCullough’s vivid lighting and James Noone’s stark set — a towering metal scaffolding that frames the stage; Senta’s bed; billowing sheets; and dangling ropes — intersected in ways that blurred distinctions between reality and feverish dream. Critic’s Notebook: Glimmerglass Offers an Ambitious Spread of Works 2013-07-22T22:01:46Z In Venice, audiences left “Sun & Sea” to be confronted by countless cheap souvenirs and towering cruise ships. A Climate Opera Arrives in New York, With 21 Tons of Sand 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z For all the detailed intricacy of his account, he plays this towering work with in-the-moment freshness. Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Handel and Bach 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Plenty of towering literary figures — among them Balzac, Turgenev, and the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Jane Smiley — have taken inspiration from King Lear. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z I walked under the towering red gate and toward a group of ancient cedar trees. Hiking in a Forest Born Out of Mount Fuji’s Lava 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z “Antigone” features experienced artists — like François Clavier, who makes a toweringly self-satisfied Creon — as well as a chorus of four amateur women who have experienced exile. In Paris, Young Theater Makers Swing Big 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Another towering achievement, it’s a cinematic portal that sounds vaguely like a lost jam among the mid-’70s Grateful Dead, Tuareg guitar sorcerers Tinariwen, Nick Drake and if the sculptor Constantin Brancusi made beats. Darkside returns to lay claim to the title of best psychedelic rock band in the world 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z He stacked clause upon clause in their sentences, constructing towering and often opaque chains of thought and feeling. Review: A Look Into the Life of Henry James, in His Own Unsimple Words 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z The towering Gothic cathedral, marking the center of the town of Chartres, somehow captures the spirit of the 13th century — the so-called Age of Faith — in the 21st century. Chartres Cathedral: The age of faith in stone and stained glass 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z She had spent pretty much all of her adult life being dazzled by a man of towering intellect. How Alzheimer’s took my brilliant dad, Lord Goodhart, in increments 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z The metropolis, a mash-up of San Francisco and Tokyo, is situated on a shimmering bay and teems with towering skyscrapers and pulsing neon lights. Software behind 'Big Hero 6' pushes envelope on computer animation 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z A towering dead willow tree is a reminder of the water that flooded and contaminated the garden during Hurricane Sandy. In New York City's Lower East Side, gardening is a political act of resistance 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Silent films could get pretty long but this 1927 work – one cut runs at more than nine hours – is probably the medium’s towering achievement: a monumental biopic of the general by Abel Gance. Neverending stories: five of the best very long films 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Capuchin monkeys are jumping from branch to branch in the trees — eucalyptus, mahogany, rosewood — towering above. A guide to the hidden spots of Rio, a bustling city of six million people 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z And Arnie is no longer the towering colossus of old: those years away from the big screen do not seem to have improved him as an actor or as a screen presence. Is Schwarzenegger ready to make a Last Stand as Conan the Barbarian? 2013-01-18T16:31:18Z Atop their heads the models wore towering patchwork confections, by the set designer and artist Gary Card, like crowns of scraps. What Do Women Need Now? 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z In a festival that otherwise gave relatively short shrift to Sibelius’s towering influence on composers who followed him, here was striking evidence of his impact. Critic?s Notebook: Social Context as Musical Theme 2011-08-22T21:31:56Z The towering achievement was a life of Wittgenstein and the other was a less sympathetic, but still extraordinary, two-volume study of Bertrand Russell. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-11-16T10:06:01Z The soprano Jessye Norman, who died on Monday at 74, was a towering figure on stages in New York and abroad. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘High Life’ and the iHeartRadio Music Festival 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Its towering main atrium, punctuated by concrete balconies once used for transfer of wartime supplies from train to ship, looks like a dystopian backdrop from “Brazil” or “Metropolis.” ‘Doomocracy’ Puts the Politics of Fear on Display in Brooklyn 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Surrounding everything were towering sheer rocks under blankets of white streaked in places with ski trails. Want to ski on your summer vacation? Head to the Chilean Andes. 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z “Studio in a Small Town,” exhibited for the first time, points toward the artist with its title and shows an interior occupied by two towering, seemingly mismatched boots, standing at attention. After the Storm, Philip Guston for Real 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Standing on a ledge midway through the via ferrata route, with Class 4 and 5 rapids 30 to 50 feet below and the rock walls towering above, immerses you in the chasm’s wild character. Coming Soon to an American Cliff Near You: ‘Via Ferrata’ Routes 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z But working alongside such towering entertainment figures as Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner, the acclaimed “Angels in America” playwright, Peck faced an intimidating challenge, to be sure. With ‘West Side Story,’ choreographer Justin Peck brought dance into the Spielberg universe 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Dr. Pascual ordinarily spends most of her Easter at the church, playing the cathedral’s towering pipe organ herself for the Masses at noon and 1 p.m. For Musicians This Easter, Still Looking to Soar in Empty Spaces 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z "It's gorgeous, it's enormous," said Kristy Connery of the massive tree towering above the hundreds of thousands of people who gathered to watch the ceremony. Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lights up 2013-12-05T14:35:30Z Among the towering intellectuals of his era, Trevor-Roper was perhaps the least dull — a sort of P. G. Wodehouse character with an avenging, steel-trap mind. Books of The Times: Adam Sisman?s ?Honourable Englishman,? on Hugh Trevor-Roper 2011-12-06T21:46:10Z A walk-in fantasia of urban infrastructure, with crisscrossing bridges and towering scaffolds, it’s as upbeat as the Picasso is elegiac. Art Review | 'Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris': Picasso and Peers at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2010-04-01T22:49:00Z With his towering physique and unforced charisma, Mr. Pape looks regal and imposing. Music Review: Ruthless Czar, Haunted by Doubts 2010-10-12T19:51:00Z And the small white marble spa also looks onto one of the city’s largest private gardens with peaceful green lawns, towering trees and winding pathways that lead past tucked away statues. 36 Hours: Florence 2010-07-23T06:19:00Z People drift into a circle of six towering screens, wearing high-tech 3-D holographic visors, like moon-walkers taking their first steps in an alien atmosphere. Brian Eno Wants to Take You ‘Inside the Music’ 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Behold the sight of it: towering over homes, strapped to car roofs and overshadowing the average human. Of course the 12ft skeleton is 2020's most coveted Halloween decoration 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z The sole concert that broke with that notion, presented at Avery Fisher Hall on Saturday night, included nothing by Mr. Adams; the whole evening was given over to Bruckner’s towering Symphony No. 8. Music Review: A Chance to Hear Bruckner Anew, by Himself and With an Unexpected Partner 2011-07-18T22:00:36Z The towering level of pre-awareness, underpinned by the desire to see the sins of the prequels rectified, has been the key factor. What Star Wars: The Force Awakens has to do to beat Avatar 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Alice's sad mother, who seems to her daughter to be a looming reproach, becomes a towering judge: a sky-high black column pronouncing sentence. Sucker Punch; Welcome to Thebes; Alice 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z Erin Stead, who did the illustrations, said they were very aware of the creative risks involved in taking on the work of such a towering literary figure. A Rediscovered Mark Twain Fairy Tale Is Coming Soon 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Tory Cowles dominates a corner of the room with a towering assemblage of steel and wood whose jagged pinnacle gnarls toward the ceiling. Review | In the galleries: Glenn Ligon exhibition draws on Baldwin, Stein and Warhol 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z It’s enormous, 20 metres high, towering over the shed that used to be my dad’s office. 'I'm delighted to find them big now': a pilgrimage to the trees my father planted 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z For as long as I can remember, the towering amount of cookie tins on the dining room table has been a permanent holiday fixture. A holiday baking celebration: Salon Food's 6 favorite cookies to enjoy right now 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z He was so tall, towering over desks—and his voice was instantly recognizable. From "The Wire" to "John Wick," we trusted Lance Reddick as a voice of authority, empathy and comedy 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Mostly, it seems, it was a common-enough big city and publishing world malady: the towering inferiority complex. Books of The Times: ?Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man?: a Memoir by Bill Clegg 2010-06-15T23:13:00Z But before he reached his destination, he stopped in the town of Green River, where he discovered a dramatic vista of towering cliffs. Inside Art: Athletes to Bring Life to Venice Biennale 2011-03-03T17:52:13Z Her parents live behind towering walls in a compound protected from the island's poverty and desolation. Roxane Gay's 'An Untamed State' gives torture survivor a voice 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Once on the island, we make our way through a maze of wide, winding roadways that remind me of Paris, complete with towering statues and monuments, and immediately take a wrong turn. In Detroit, Belle Isle Aquarium is a forgotten gem for fish aficionados 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Muffler Men are mammoth advertisements in the form of towering fiberglass figures. A Road Trip to the Fiberglass Frontier of Northern Wisconsin 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Even before her father’s Ponzi scheme is exposed, Maia seems like a wisp of a woman, lacking confidence and at times easily lost among the more towering personas that surround her. ‘The Good Fight’ Recap: On the Other Side 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z The towering man commanded our attention just by stepping to the center of the room. Trading my bicycle for a Harley: Learning to ride a motorcycle at 57 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Instead of bouquets, the bridal party carried jugs of water to a towering altar draped in greenery and white flowers. Bible Study Brought Them to the Altar, Where They Shared Their First Kiss 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Her old employers described how she filled her quarters with hoarded treasures and towering piles of yellowing newsprint. Vivian Maier and the Problem of Difficult Women 2014-05-10T04:00:00Z Composer, conductor, activist, teacher, rule-breaker, American icon: Leonard Bernstein was a towering figure for the many American musicians who came in his turbulent wake. Perspective | Does Leonard Bernstein have any heirs? 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z To the left, under a towering tree, there’s a screened porch sheltering stacked firewood below, seeming also to float on air. Ezra Stoller Turned Buildings Into Monuments 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z “One thing I find incredibly aggravating is that several entrepreneurs encountered resistance from the city, and yet all over the city there are developers who raze single-family homes and build big towering apartments,” Thomas said. 'Real-life' house from Up is something to believe in – until it gets torn down 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Dean was served a towering lemonade in an elegant flute and Paulina drank a Shirley Temple with three skewered cherries, served in a martini glass. 20 Years After Honeymoon, a Return Trip to Amsterdam 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The two ended up saving about half of the original plantings, including a towering Scots pine. Garden redesign is the best of old and new 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Busts of Marti appear everywhere in Cuba, Havana’s international airport is named after him, and there is a towering monument to him in Havana’s Revolution Square. Cuba unveils Jose Marti statue, a gift from Trump's hometown 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Anyone singing this role today must compete with the memory of towering tenors who have performed and recorded it. Review: At Met Opera, ‘Pagliacci’ Goes Vaudeville as ‘Cavalleria’ Turns 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Alabama’s Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, which produced pig iron beginning in 1882, is described as a web of pipes and towering stoves that stand as a “monument to the Industrial Revolution.” Meet the latest tourist attractions: Abandoned factories 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z In a white tuxedo shirt, suspenders and her towering pompadour, Monáe belted out a mix of her own music, including "Tightrope," "PrimeTime" and "Dance Apocalyptic," and classic R&B hits. Janelle Monae rocks MOCA gala honoring John Baldessari 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z The dinner recalls all those scenes in Drury’s novels where everyone in sight is a towering mover and shaker. Allan Topol’s ‘The Washington Lawyer’ abounds with Beltway skullduggery 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z On that first night, we made camp on a pleasant bend in the river with a white gravel beach framed by towering gray walls. Explorer: Bivouacking in Oregon?s Back of Beyond 2011-08-19T18:55:00Z Terfel, in every sense a towering and mesmerising presence, gave that sordid show of piety even greater force than usual. Tosca; La rondine; Arensky Chamber Orchestra ? review 2011-07-16T23:07:14Z He was not merely a hitter of towering home runs, but the progenitor of our contemporary conception of what it means to be a celebrity. Babe Ruth, the First Modern Celebrity 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z "A towering figure who remains a major voice in world issues, President Clinton continues to shape the political dialogue both here and around the world," the director and producer said in a statement. Martin Scorsese to direct Bill Clinton documentary 2012-12-17T20:15:44Z Buttresses and arches support the vast roof and light from a giant stained-glass window filters on to the towering stainless steel tanks of fermenting wine. Gaudí's Catalan shadow: the art of Josep Maria Jujol 2013-06-03T06:00:06Z I anticipate questions about the wren’s singing, the mighty Colorado River or the towering cliffs of the Grand Canyon, through which we’re floating. A river guide lays out the dos and don’ts of rafting etiquette 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The fourth and final season, “The Dream Door,” is about Pretzel Jack, a towering loose-limbed figure who slaughters anyone who threatens the woman whose imagination birthed him. Summer Chills: A Horror Fan’s Guide to What to Watch Right Now 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Lewis, who died Sunday at 91, was a towering figure in the entertainment business, but his résumé was almost devoid of the kinds of honors Hollywood bestows on its most respected artists. For Jerry Lewis, Few Statuettes but Lots of Influence 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Three million tourists a year come to this town of barely 10,000, nestled among towering rusty sandstone rock formations in the northern Verde valley. Spiritual Sedona: the Arizona town bursting with positive vibes 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Hoffman's Kirkland bakery supplies the towering Bavarian chocolate cake lavishly layered with chocolate mousse, whipped cream and cherries plumped with kirsch. Visit Heidelberg Haus for homestyle German cooking 2012-05-03T20:15:05Z Inside a towering soundstage, just around the corner from where such television comedies as TBS’ “Cougar Town” and Showtime’s “Episodes” have been filmed, another production is in full swing. Amazon Fills Its Video Cart With 2 New Comedies 2013-11-12T16:24:27Z The heroes of this book, whom Mr. Elie discusses in absorbing detail, are towering modern interpreters of Bach. Books of The Times: ‘Reinventing Bach,’ by Paul Elie 2012-10-07T20:25:38Z Across town, the newly developed Town Center hosts blocks of brand name shopping and dining, a towering new Westin Hotel & Residences, and the Sandler Center for Performing Arts. New at Virginia Beach 2010-04-14T16:01:00Z A spectral mist glides among towering Douglas firs, stands of hardwoods and deep ravines. 'Wildwood Chronicles' conjures a Portland fantasy 2014-03-26T13:22:10Z Lumbering and towering, he is the gentle giant in thick glasses. You know the Beatles. Here are 16 other important names in the epic ‘Get Back’ series. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z In Ms. Argerich’s towering early traversal of Chopin’s Sonata No. 3, the Largo stands out, beginning stonily then receding into almost dissolving dreaminess, and on from there in great tidal waves of approach and release. Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z That they have no idea where the party is, no connections to tip them off, and start off on their big night wearing matching jumpsuits is obviously no problem for two such towering intellects, right? "Booksmart" and the art of losing control: A platonic rom-com's lessons cross generational lines 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Following up a performance that features towering flame-throwers and a massive mob of U.K. grime rappers is no easy task, so Kanye West just decided not to. You've Probably Already Watched Kanye's New Music Video 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Yet towering apartment buildings are rising on nearly every block and rents are escalating, along with rumors. 10 Galleries to Visit in Chelsea 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z One of the modernist ambitions was to integrate human with nature, and the vast windows frame the towering pine trees, which stretch to the sea. Cape Cod's hidden modernist houses 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z In the stark and celestial work, Mr. Gehry’s two-tiered set provides a towering stage for Ms. Childs’s kaleidoscopic configurations, executed by 11 dancers. 15 Summer Dance Festivals, Saratoga to Vail 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z She stopped next to two towering pedal harps — one ivory and one walnut — made by the famed Lyon and Healy music company in Chicago. How the Harp Got Hip 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z So perhaps the show’s most germane aspect is not the towering scale of its largest pieces, but its collaboration of techniques. Review | In the galleries: A heightened homage to trees and what they can teach us 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Emerson’s instrument is a towering monolith with patch cords hanging off it like an automaton’s viscera, and it highlights how the story of popular music is bound to technology. The Art of Rock: Four Museums Explore How We Connect to Music 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z But they’ve also been harangued over everything from ticketing systems and prices, to the shows’ location, to the replacement for the towering Mr. Garcia. As Dead Exit, a Debate Will Not Fade Away 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Things are roughly divided into sections: All the cookware on one street, towering stacks of colorful plastic containers on another. Navigating Sometimes Chaotic, Always Fascinating Addis Ababa 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z But just as she was at once towering and childlike, she was both mighty and vulnerable. Lorraine Hansberry, American radical: She pushed RFK to make “a moral commitment” on civil ri... 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z At the bay’s northern edge, large houses climbed a steep hillside toward a towering statue of Jesus. | Latin America Issue: Twain?s Nicaragua, 144 Years Later 2010-09-17T16:03:00Z Malouff recently blogged about the skyscraper boom taking place in these areas, with planned buildings towering as tall as 400 feet. Invasion of the faux cities 2012-09-22T15:59:00Z The Griffith Observatory feels Oz-like towering over the sparkle of Hollywood. 'Nightcrawler' shows how the news worm has turned 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z In the heart of the garden, there are towering shrubs of buttonbush and bayberry amid lower drifts of lobelia, aster, swamp mallow, goldenrod and winterberry. In deer territory, good fences make good gardens 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Metaferia’s piece, “Headdress 21,” is a towering image of a fellow artist, Wildcat Ebony Brown, crowned with a collage of civil rights imagery — an ode to Black female activism throughout history. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z A towering highlight is George Lorio’s “Split,” a simulated tree trunk covered in found bark and cut vertically in two. Review | In the galleries: Sequence of photographs creates a graphic continuity 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z In a summer when so much of the world was still reeling from Covid-19, it was heartening to think that at least a towering oak might be saved. Seeing Double With Jasper Johns 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Succession plans at the Met were complicated by the uncertainty over how long Mr. Levine, a towering figure who has shaped the modern company since the 1970s, would be able to continue in the job. Yannick Nézet-Séguin to Succeed James Levine as Met Opera’s Music Director 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Plus, a large mason jar or tall drinking glass will help to accommodate the towering stalks so that they can stay fresh for days. This wacky storage method will save your asparagus 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z The highlight for me was his towering account of Schubert’s Sonata in A, in which gossamer passagework alternated with chiseled declamations. Review: Andras Schiff Turns Mischievous at Carnegie Hall 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z ETYEK, Hungary — By the time Antonio Banderas shaved off his eyebrows and hair to play Pablo Picasso — his lifelong hero, his towering standard of greatness — he had already been asked to portray Picasso twice. Antonio Banderas Doesn’t Think You’ll Remember Him. Not Yet. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z The Serra de Tramunta rose behind me, a towering limestone mountain covered in wild olive trees, pines and rosemary. Robert Graves Found ‘Perfect Tranquillity’ in Majorca 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z The central mystery plot involves the haunted production of “Demons of Passion,” a musical spectacular with Expressionist touches whose leading ladies keep getting bumped off by a towering figure in a phantom costume. Escaping Into ‘Babylon Berlin’ and ‘My Brilliant Friend’ 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z In one montage, Ana and Christian are on a proud, pristine sailboat, slicing through glassy waters, an American flag rippling in the breeze, the mountains of the Pacific Northwest towering behind them. The Sad, Shiny Surfaces of the “Fifty Shades” Movies 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z The stalls around him showcased towering display pieces: rose quartz boulders, massive amethyst geodes. Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The production, which opened Sunday at the Mark Taper Forum under the direction of Tina Landau, is both towering and teetering. In 'Head of Passes,' a mother comes to terms with a storm, a secret and God 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z She was towering over me, crying, sniffling, trying to explain. When Love Isn’t as Simple as Standing by Your Man 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Two towering biodomes, comprising the largest greenhouses on Earth, were built in 2001 and conceived by a visionary named Sir Tim Smit, who was determined to demonstrate the interdependence of people and plants. Cornwall’s stunning countryside holds everything from Iron Age wonders to Land’s End 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Tributes poured in for Horsley, recognizable by his flamboyant dress and towering black top hat. British dandy, author Horsley dies: report 2010-06-18T16:41:00Z Nobody knows who first built the towering castle-city, but it was already famous when Alexander the Great added it to his empire in 331 B.C. A Facelift for an Ancient Kurdish Citadel 2010-07-29T07:50:00Z At the same time, he remained capable of walking into a movie - any movie, in any genre - with an open mind after decades as a towering force in this business. AP critic remembers colleague, friend Roger Ebert 2013-04-04T22:42:09Z It makes such a stark contrast to so much American independent cinema, less in terms of budget and production scale than in its towering ambition toward that most fascinating subject: another human being. Arts & Leisure: Film Favorites of A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis in 2011 2011-12-14T13:13:18Z Demanding a colossal orchestra, its five movements map a spiritually symbolic climb from a seashore to a towering, craggy peak; its finale, complete with a gloriously Brucknerian ending, is titled “Courage.” 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Amazingly trim and towering at 75, he still has the radiance of a performer who gathers warmth from the spotlight. ‘Lady, Be Good!,’ an Encores! Version of the Gershwins’ 1924 Hit 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Ibsen’s Hedda is a towering example of independent-mindedness; it would be a thrill to see her grab the 21st century by the lapels and deliver a rousing statement about equality. Must she die? In Victory Theatre's funny 'Resolving Hedda,' an Ibsen character tries to defy fate 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z On Friday, Astolfi arrived at the salon at 6:30 a.m., dressed in a long black sundress and towering platform espadrilles with leopard-print straps. The hair salon is now a place of anxiety. And clients can’t wait to return. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Ten years later, Barna moved to New York, where she took photographs of the streets and the towering cityscape. Review | Dozens of great photographers you’ve probably never heard of — all of them women — light up this revelatory show 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z His father, the founder of Grove Press, was a towering figure who published writers like Jean Genet and William S. Burroughs. The Last Days of Beckett’s, a Smoky New York Literary Salon 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z The Queen of the Night, her glory reduced to a glimmer, is the white dwarf to Sarastro’s towering sun, a fabulous geriatric in a spangly dress who cannot move without assistance. Review: Pulling Back the Curtain on ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z “We are heartbroken to lose a writer of towering talent, unlimited imagination and unparalleled inspiration,” said Robert Holguin, the academy’s president. I Am Legend Author Richard Matheson Dies at 87 2013-06-24T20:35:01Z Ethnicity as a performance is at its most theatrical in Irvin Morazán’s fantastically costumed performances, in which he wears towering masklike headdresses that mix references to pre-Columbian and contemporary hip-hop cultures. Art Review: Artists Whose Vitality Flows From the Streets 2011-06-16T21:52:56Z Depending on your perspective, Schnabel either made Shure the towering artist he became or filled him with anxiety that impaired him for life. Box Sets Highlight Leonard Shure and Howard Karp 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Like many towering exponents of a musical instrument, Mr. Phillips left a legacy of new works, students and students of students. Harvey Phillips, a Titan of the Tuba, Dies at 80 2010-10-24T04:19:00Z Or with his panko-encrusted hamburger on the brunch menu, a towering mouthful so overflowing with toppings and condiments that it won’t matter if the patty is cooked three shades beyond the temperature you requested. Urban Heights review: In Bethesda, this revival needs more reviving 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The Golden Lion is a local landmark, a towering red-brick building with a double-peaked roof and a high, pronged chimney. The death and life of the great British pub | Tom Lamont 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z The rolling landscape is dominated by a towering 25-foot-tall statue of a stone lifter with a massive stone resting on his shoulder. Pursuits : Stone Lifting as Sport in the Basque Country 2014-04-18T18:27:50Z The result was a towering concrete stadium with a unique wavelike roof that architects have hailed as a gem of tropical brutalism. As Miami’s skyline booms, the future of a long-neglected tropical brutalist gem hangs in the balance 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z They seem more like an arboretum than anything else, and I admired mazelike java fig trees, a towering smooth-barked kauri and a fascinating cannonball tree, which holds dozens of large, spherical fruits. Sri Lanka, an Island Nation That Is Best Savored Slowly 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z The lasting impression of Giuffre was her immense bravery in facing such towering institutions alone. 'Prince Andrew can't slink away from this now' – the TV triumph of Virginia Giuffre 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Childhood maltreatment is alluded to, but such is the towering moral agency invested in the characters that it's not allowed to excuse their behaviour. Ill Manors just wants a little respect for our gangsters 2012-06-06T11:07:56Z In the towering Music Room, marble floors and red curtains seem to lead toward a luminous ceiling by Venetian painter Tiepolo. Not up to the massive Louvre and its long lines? This small art museum is much more intimate. 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Massaman curry looks impressive, dominated by a lamb shank towering over fingerling potatoes and a golden moat of coconut milk and warm spices, but it grows tiresome after a few bites. Mango Tree review: Why it doesn’t matter that it’s part of a chain 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Back then it would have seemed bizarre, even obscene, that this towering work about a crisis threatening humanity might become a piece of musical entertainment. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z That he succeeded in overcoming so much to produce towering works of art earned him the enduring regard of his countrymen. Andrzej Wajda, Towering Auteur of Polish Cinema, Dies at 90 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Cornell corralled Audioslave’s towering hard rock into something both fresh and timeless, by being a typically expressive vocalist: passionate and wary, cathartic and subdued. Chris Cornell’s talents transcend the grunge genre he helped create 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Jeffrey Wright — at 53, younger, leaner and less towering, nowhere near haggard, and African-American — was not on those lists. Jeffrey Wright on ‘The Goldfinch,’ ‘Westworld’ and James Bond 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps no subject better captures the spirit of Mr. Pettibon’s drawings than that of surfers dwarfed by towering waves. Raymond Pettibon: Pictures, Literary Voices and Surfers, Too 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z The Manolo Blahnik towering stilettos she wore as she embarked on a trip with her husband to the scene of the Hurricane Harvey devastation in Texas with a close-up of her ankles? Selling Melania Trump, One NFT at a Time 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Director Abraham and set designer Scott Bradley put the play in the Idaho backwoods, within a towering A-frame cabin, working fireplace and all. ‘A Great Wilderness’: a crisis of faith, identity 2014-01-24T17:52:35Z The government of Nicaragua is betting that a new $10 million airport will boost tourism on Ometepe Island, a Unesco Biosphere Reserve known for its towering twin volcanoes. New Access to a Nicaraguan Island 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z It's clearly intended for seasoned players, because the new beasts tend towards the brutally difficult, including the towering, scythe-wielding figure of Death itself, who must be dealt with over multiple encounters. Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen – review 2013-04-27T05:00:23Z She said that aggressively policing books for inappropriate content and banning titles could limit students’ exposure to great literature, including towering canonical works. Book Ban Efforts Spread Across the U.S. 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z But their seemingly towering romance—he threw it all away for her!—crumbles in the hands of biographer Andrew Morton. ‘Wallis in Love’ Challenges a Royal Love Story 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z For almost half an hour, he strutted around this French restaurant known for its towering floral displays and airy soufflés, perching on diners’ tables and even growling like a cat. Live at La Grenouille: Caviar, Crystal and the Owner’s Flashy Crooning 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z A towering aluminium sign reading Entering City of Vancouver is set against a series of posters for group exhibitions by local artists. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z There are far fewer shows about the towering drama of a family of color, whether that’s black, Latino or Asian. “Empire” state of mind: Lee Daniels’ new show is like “Game of Thrones” for the hip-hop world 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, the facile reaction to the exhibition – and some of the reviewers are bound to fall for it – is to denigrate most of Picasso's British contemporaries when seen alongside his towering achievements. Pablo Picasso and his influence on British art 2012-02-10T22:55:13Z Under the towering glass rotunda, I helped myself to a paper cup and finally sipped the sparkling mineral water. Going to a spa? Try the original one, in Belgium. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Yes, Vanilla Ice, once the most famous and reviled rapper in America, a towering figure of hip-hop crossover and identity crisis. ?The Vanilla Ice Project? on the DIY Network 2012-01-13T17:00:00Z I came to Munich to see this towering exhibition after admiring several previous shows of Mr. Anatsui, including one at the Brooklyn Museum in 2013. El Anatsui’s Monumental New Show Is an Act of Justice 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Today he is a “figure of towering influence, as a teacher and as an artist,” said Alexandra Munroe, the Guggenheim Museum’s senior curator for Asian art. A Towering Figure in South Korean Art Plans His Legacy 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z At White Cube, Damián Ortega contributes “Ulysses Way,” a towering assemblage sculpture of a bicycle with a household’s worth of objects and appliances tied above its back fender. Art Review: Free-for-All Spirit Breezes Into a Vast Art Fair 2011-03-03T23:15:11Z Photograph: Lucy Brown Through a towering brick arch over Heath Mill Lane in the old Birmingham industrial district of Digbeth, someone has put their artistic talents to work on a lot of old car parts. Putting the Flatpack film festival on the map 2010-04-06T14:56:00Z At sunset, a symphony of crickets mesmerizes, as the fading light bathes the surrounding river and towering palm trees. Next Stop: A Pocket of the Past in Battambang, Cambodia 2011-12-15T21:22:50Z The three-year project resulted in an impressive series of giant tableaux, made up of hundreds of contact sheets, presented in towering light boxes. Tower blocks and tomes dominate the Rencontres d'Arles 2011-07-11T15:26:24Z Two towering metal poles were planted, the first of 17 ranging from 40 to 80 feet high. A ‘Constellation’ of Light Above the Ruins of Bannerman Castle 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z On the roof, the establishment’s name glows in green neon letters that illuminate the towering fir trees surrounding the gravel parking lot. Journeys: Wisconsin Supper Clubs, Old-Fashioned and Open to All 2011-11-23T18:45:06Z Mark Rylance, a towering figure in the theater world, is set to get all the more towering — reaching at least 24 ft., to be exact. Mark Rylance to Play the BFG 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Great blue herons nest in the towering firs and peacocks strut; relax and listen to birds fussing and fountains gurgling. 36 Hours in Victoria, British Columbia 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z A tiny model of the Avery Fisher Hall stage showed the orchestra surrounded by towering sunflowers, to be constructed from cardboard, bamboo and caution tape, with bright yellow plastic shopping bags for petals. Music: Working With Whimsy Fit for the Philharmonic 2011-06-20T22:15:29Z Then savor your tropical elixir beneath a towering tree on a picnic-perfect lawn. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Panama City, Panama 2011-04-21T20:00:00Z The towering white walls of the atrium helped to highlight the meticulous attention required for so-called ordinary movement. Review: MoMA Puts Judson Dance on Display and, Better Yet, in Motion 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z That kind of towering popularity probably helps Drudge forge his own path, said Rosenstiel. Matt Drudge draws Trump’s ire, setting off a potentially substantial split between the conservative media power player and the president 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z It occupies a small area alongside a creek, nothing more than a few curlicues of fire rings and grass protected by towering cottonwood trees. Rich in Surprises and Secrets, There’s a State Park Waiting for You 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z “All the Money in the World” is a story of towering greed and the absence of mercy, and an ideal 21st century morality tale. Review: Christopher Plummer Dominates ‘All the Money in the World’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z Go swimming right in the middle of it all in Waikiki Bay: Kuhio Beach faces several palm-tree-lined lanes of passing traffic, with myriad high-rises towering above. Times food writer offers old favorites and new haunts in Honolulu 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Lane contributes a portrayal just as towering, a turn that in Cohn’s deathbed scenes takes on harrowing proportions, as he and Brown’s Ethel spar for one final mordantly funny round. Review | Forget ‘important.’ ‘Angels in America’ is brilliantly entertaining. 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z A glass-walled kitchen, towering ceilings and magnificent views of Hyde Park conspire to offer the restaurant a sense of openness and accessibility. Critic?s Notebook: In London, Stalking the New 2011-05-25T04:14:30Z Set against the towering Tyn Church, dozens of little red-roofed booths will line the square, hawking everything from handcrafted jewelry and ceramics to wooden toys and Bohemian crystal. In Transit Blog: Prague Christmas Markets Come Alive 2011-11-25T11:00:58Z The park was as impressive for its towering gray Mayan pyramids as for the wildlife in the surrounding jungle — spider monkeys, toucans, parakeets and raccoonlike animals known as coati. One of Guatemala’s most exquisite boutique hotels is owned by Francis Ford Coppola 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Jade Mountain in Soufriere Bay, St. Lucia is a highly secluded resort built into the side of a towering cliff with 29 “sanctuaries.” Want a Completely Private Destination Wedding? Rent a Resort. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Despite being a pioneering woman, McDaniel has always had to contend with being defined by the towering men in her personal and professional lives. RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is trying to hold together a party that Donald Trump might want to tear up 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z For most of his life, Beethoven, now considered the towering giant of his age, was not the most successful or popular or recognized composer of his own neighborhood, let alone his era. The Score: A Pitch for New Music 2011-05-11T22:38:37Z These includes the most statuesque loblolly pine in the world, towering 167 feet above the surrounding tupelo forest. 11 Great Alternatives to the Top National Parks 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z One is the title character, the towering Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. In ‘Crime Scene,’ Joe Berlinger Investigates True-Crime Obsession 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z The digital scenery in director Bill Castellino’s efficient production sweeps the action from the rainy urban hell through the stars and into surreally green valleys and towering mountains. Visions of Heaven (and how to get there) in C.S. Lewis’s ‘Great Divorce’ 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Another sort of woodworker, Foon Sham, is known for towering sculptures but here offers delicate, circular drawings that appear to emanate from small wooden chips mounted on the paper. Review | In the galleries: Pulsating dramas of light and sound 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z The towering bronze sculpture, titled “Brick House,” depicts an African-American woman with braids whose torso evokes a skirt-like house. An Artist Ascendant: Simone Leigh Moves Into the Mainstream 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z The cerebrally throbbing dance party continued under the moon, the stadium encircled by the silhouettes of towering pine trees against the night sky adding a touch of Northwest magic to the proceedings. Review: Death Cab for Cutie, ODESZA’s Bellingham love fest starts summer early 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z The area is also packed with young entrepreneurs hustling to meetings at the towering office spaces nearby. | Video: Polished Yet Casual in the Flatiron District 2014-04-30T19:53:16Z However, it is held together by a towering performance by Kathryn Hahn. Forget Friends! The 25 greatest overlooked sitcoms – from Lovesick to Younger 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Okay, so it’s actually only 21, but the point is: Thin is in on a strip where you’re either teetering over the beach or towering high above it. Patrick Dempsey's Malibu Drive 2013-09-05T13:00:00Z The rest of her hair was done up in a towering blond beehive with a dark streak on the front. Lady Gaga lays egg (really!) on Grammys red carpet 2011-02-14T02:41:08Z He soon became a towering figure there, his path-breaking works both intriguing and baffling listeners, including his former teacher Haydn. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: The Vienna Four 2011-01-10T17:10:24Z This combination of towering rock formations, some of them hundreds of feet high, and thick forests has made Matobo an ornithologist’s paradise. A Birder’s Paradise in Zimbabwe 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z It is beyond ample as a showcase for Mr. Hockney’s towering drawing gifts, openness to new technologies and his incessant work ethic. David Hockney: A Life in Drawing 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z The finale: Wild fireworks ignited from towering scaffolding, erupting in the national seal of Mexico — with an eagle eating a snake — along with sparking, spinning sombreros and mariachi guitars. Spend holidays in foreign lands for a joyful taste of cultures 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Yes, that holiday is being celebrated in this Jewish household, a commingling of traditions that finds droll expression when a child mistakenly tops the towering Christmas tree with a Star of David. Review: In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard Reckons With His Jewish Roots 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Woods, of course, dominated golf for 15 years, thrilling crowds with his towering drives and clutch putting. Jordan Spieth is a terrific young golfer, but can he catch the Tiger? 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Librarian Anne Jarvis said the war diaries were of "towering importance". Sassoon war diaries published online 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z We ventured in and nosed our headlights around towering granite outcrops until we found our campsite. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The magnitude of this transgression reveals itself on Susan Hilferty’s monumental set: The towering house of the ruling family, rising amid a landscape of black, molten rock, has walls encrusted in scarlet. Review | Michael Kahn turns to a timeless play from ancient Greece to send off his career 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Their world felt both subterranean and luminescent, thanks to Clifton Taylor’s lighting scheme — towering trapezoids of light on the black backdrop — and Ms. Weare’s motifs of creeping walks and ritualistic stomping. Juilliard Students Star in ‘New Dances: Edition 2014’ 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Under a towering maple strung with white lights, little screens glowed like fireflies at tables during dinner. In Southampton, One Last Fund-Raiser Before the Parrish Moves 2012-07-16T17:59:41Z McCartney turns the soul ballad “Maybe I’m Amazed” into a towering moment, pushing his voice higher and harder. Top concerts 2011, from Le Butcherettes to Paul Simon 2011-12-20T19:04:00Z Yet it remains a towering presence on the city’s skyline and each night on goes its large beacon, a recurring motif for Lovecraft, including, menacingly, in his “Haunter of the Dark” story. How to Find the Spirit of H.P. Lovecraft in Providence 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z When driving through Northern California’s Southern Sierra Nevada, a mythical landscape begins to emerge at 5,000 feet, namely massive sequoias, some towering as high as a 27-story building. Glamping Adds a Touch of Luxe to the National Parks 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Classical music Philip Glass A musical conversation with one of the towering figures of contemporary composition. Walter Mosley, John Mayer and artist Eli Hansen are A&E highlights this week 2010-03-24T23:21:00Z In 1890, Henrik Ibsen wrote a towering and difficult play about a woman hemmed in by society and tormented by her own conflicting impulses. A manic ‘Hedda’ sails ’round the bend at Studio Theatre 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z The Grammy-winning group played in front of towering Cuban and Puerto Rican flags as the sun set and foamy waves crashed against the famous Malecon boulevard that hugs the seawall along Havana's coast. Calle 13 rocks Cuba, braces for Miami backlash 2010-03-24T00:40:00Z It's only 7 1/2 miles long and less than a mile wide and, for starters, boasts not a single towering condo. Insider's Guide to Anna Maria Island 2010-03-11T20:37:00Z With towering layers covered in billowing frosting, banana cakes qualify as dessert, not breakfast — unless, of course, a sugar rush is your waking intention. A Cake to Keep Your Sweet Tooth in Shape 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Haze jumped down from the towering Pyramid stage to perform her last two songs while doing determined loops through the crowd. The Complete Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem: 30 Top Moments 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z We live in Tokyo, a city of immense crowds and towering buildings. Where Sand Dunes and Camels in Japan Evoke the Sahara 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z A towering “Beacon,” built in 2004 from rough branches with a bulbous, spiky observation pod on top, is still there, overlooking the river. Journeys: Art Sprouts in Russia 2010-10-02T05:01:00Z As it happens, "Godzilla's" terrifying towering reptile — the latest in a very long line — is one very cool dude. For a monster, 'Godzilla' plays it a little too cool 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The most inviting, easily flowing song on “Puxico” is “This Town Still Talks About You,” focusing on the echo a towering figure leaves in a tiny place. The Best Country Is in the Details. Natalie Hemby Knows That. 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Gut on a bright spring day the scene is stunning, in just the opposite way—filled with bird song and squirrels, flowering gardens and towering oaks. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z Now, at 73, he is confined to a wheelchair but is still a towering figure of Italian cinema. Bernardo Bertolucci says TV shows better than Hollywood now 2013-05-28T13:10:46Z It was the natural beauty of the river setting and the towering old trees that got the Denneys to build here. An Eastern Shore river home is a family getaway for all seasons 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z So in my head, this was a towering story of man versus nature with this titanically impactful ending, of this tragic death of this hero. Natasha Lyonne and Rian Johnson Trace the TV Origins of ‘Poker Face’ 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z The city’s historic center, which fans out around twin lawns planted with towering elms, maintains an old New England character, with neo-Gothic towers, well-aged dive bars and working-class neighborhoods of faded but elegant Victorian houses. 36 Hours in New Haven, Conn. 2012-10-27T00:00:22Z If she could not source her dream fit in stores, she figured, she’d invent her own: tight and towering, with a rigid seam that scooped up the posterior. How High Can High-Waisted Pants Go? 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Once a towering institution within American culture, the review had languished over the decades as its influence and readership had waned. New Life for a 125-Year-Old Literary Journal 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z Chase stood with her towering contrabass flute against the backdrop of a projected film landscape, by Ailbhe Ni Bhriain, of an Irish bog — a site, Cleare says, of rich industrial and geological history. Review: ‘Density’ Keeps Expanding the Flute’s Universe 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Even Marshall, with his towering reputation, was not immune. A Marshall Plan for China? It Existed, but Even Marshall Couldn’t Pull It Off 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Through chinks in the towering rocks we glimpse blue and green waters, dappled vegetation, mountains receding into a glowing sky. The Virgin of the Rocks: Da Vinci decoded 2010-07-13T20:31:00Z We followed the water, first into darkness and onward into gradually strengthening light that built to reveal another mountain of rocks towering over us. Deep in Vietnam, Exploring a Colossal Cave 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z She was struck by Mr. Roberts, a towering ninth grader when she spotted him in the back of a modern dance class she taught at a local arts high school. An Ailey Dancer Loyal to His Miami Roots and Mentor 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z A few years ago, Brad Pitt worked for a while with Frank Gehry on the design for a shocking wave of towering new apartment blocks in Hove: that's Sussex, not California. RIBA v Bieber and Barbie: the battle for architecture's future 2011-03-04T17:41:16Z DAYTON, Ohio — Every Sunday from May to October, Larry Weinstein plays music for people here in Dayton, on the towering Deeds Carillon, which rises above the city’s south side. Everything Is Bigger at Open-Air Museums 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Lady Gaga emerged from a car wearing towering stilettos, thick black sunglasses and a platinum blond wig. A Selfie with Lady Gaga at MoMA PS1 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z When Cromwell comes to the door, a towering 6ft 7in with the face of an Easter Island statue, he says hi then turns to go and haul logs in for the fire. James Cromwell: 'In jail, everyone recognises my face' 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z The towering 30-foot monument is the first dedicated to a black leader on the National Mall. Obama, Aretha to headline MLK monument dedication 2011-10-12T01:16:04Z But when the guide pointed to long, lacy formations hanging from the towering ceilings, I saw only ribbons of jamón. Come for the mushrooms, stay for the ham: This unsung corner of Spain is home to fabulous food 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The 50-year-old woman was riding the bus just after midnight when Jenar Sanders, 18 and towering over her by nearly a foot, got on at Randolph and State streets, police said. Woman corners, lectures suspected robber 2012-01-27T15:28:00Z And so they must be vaporized by half, or attacked by towering monsters, or vanquished by irate dwellers from the oceans’ polluted depths. Why Is Hollywood So Scared of Climate Change? 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z We emerged from the exhausting odyssey halfway around the globe into a steady rain outside of Seoul’s towering modern central train station. In South Korea, a search for beauty, one day at a time 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z There was intricate choreography that Egerton sometimes had to perform in platform boots and towering feathered headdresses. Taron Egerton Tries to Keep ‘Rocketman’ Performance in Orbit 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z You’ll also find the towering Moreton Bay fig tree, which, legend has it, is the same tree that inspired Walt Disney to build the fantastical Swiss Family Tree House two miles away at Disneyland. 36 Hours in Anaheim 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z "So we're two of the towering forces in Chicago theater," he says. Robert Falls, Midwesterner at heart, warms to L.A. for 'Luna Gale' 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z And though I spent half an hour plodding up switchbacks, the towering redwoods and green Santa Lucia Mountains rewarded the effort. Big Sur, California’s most scenic coast, reopens – to hikers only 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z The director George Romero, whose six zombie movies represent a towering landmark of horror, died on Sunday of lung cancer. In George Romero’s Zombie Films, the Living Were a Horror Show, Too 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Theatergoers see two costumed actors, as always, but also, rising high above them, a towering, gnarled tree, within which writhes a 17-foot avatar of Ariel, moaning in recollected agony. At This ‘Tempest,’ Digital Wizardry Makes ‘Rough Magic’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z His towering works on the sides of urban buildings are proudly, purposefully non-narrative and without a pointed agenda. Mural artist Kent Twitchell is extra busy at his canvas: L.A.'s streets 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Among others, structural engineers, practical poets of often towering imagination and import, have also figured out how to scale those heights. The Hidden Feats That Built New York’s Towering Skyscrapers 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z This unfiltered, towering figure — who looked down on the world, in all senses, from a six-foot-plus linebacker’s frame atop stiletto heels — wasn’t a comment on gender. The Cathartic Value of Dame Edna’s Extravaganzas of Ego 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Another choice is a visit to Muir Woods National Monument, north of San Francisco, to see the towering redwoods followed by a cruise of San Francisco Bay. From TripAdvisor, a Program to Help Refugees Get to Know the U.S. 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z The primary delights in “Bring It On” are the breathtaking displays of human fireworks that send the show’s well-drilled dancers flying skyward, forming towering human pyramids, or tumbling across the stage backward, like electric-powered Slinkys. | 'Bring It On: The Musical': ?Bring It On: The Musical? at Ahmanson Theater - Review 2011-11-22T23:00:56Z Rachel Hauck’s scenic design — two antique chairs, a bench and a side table with drawers, surrounded by the towering white columns and high balcony of a plantation house — is neutral and, at eye-level, uninspiring. Review: ‘Confederates’ Talks Race in Double Time 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Our next destination was San Simeon, a foggy beach town tucked below towering hills. Brews, baby seals and ‘Big Little Lies’: How an epic Highway 1 road trip brought three guys closer together 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z A more familiar species, the towering white ash, is a tree of drier, upland areas. How an uninvited pest doomed the ash tree 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z One woman asked me if someone had “jumped” and nodded up at a towering set of apartment buildings. Crawling Through New York City with the Artist Pope.L 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z A towering and solidly built man, his presence loomed large at the back of the fabled blues club Antone’s. 11 mistakes novice grillers make — and how to correct them 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z We made it 33 miles south into California’s coastal Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, its towering trees so immense we felt like we were shrinking. Airstream trailer stays add retro glam to a road trip down the Pacific Coast 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Scott Walker, who recently insisted on calling the Wisconsin State Capitol's evergreen a "Christmas tree," Mayor intends to refer to the towering Tannenbaum at the city's center as a "holiday tree," spokeswoman Tarrah Cooper said. Emanuel to light Daley Plaza 'holiday' tree today 2011-11-23T06:01:00Z When he goes missing, Saint-Exupéry joins another pilot in searching “between the towering walls and pillars of the Andes,” the peaks rising above 22,000 feet. Taking to the skies in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s ‘Wind, Sand and Stars’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Women in towering gladiator heels teetered on the grass clutching goody bags from Lacoste. Scene City: No Rest on the Hamptons Party Tour 2011-06-01T20:13:34Z Music throbs and rises to intense crescendos, fades and then reforms into towering clusters. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z Here are just a few of the towering figures brought into focus by Kakutani. 38 Years on Books: The Essential Michiko Kakutani Reader 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Although Ms. Grande delivered a few ballads while seated, for most of the show she was in choreographed motion, cantering around a wide stage and down a long runway in towering, stiletto-heeled platform boots. Review: Ariana Grande Asserts Herself With Stilettos and a Soaring Voice 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Ms. Bullock, her voice by turns warm and teeming with urgency, felt at times larger than the chapel itself: towering in the “Magnificat” and chilling “Memorial de Tlatelolco.” John Adams and David Lang: Masters of the Modern Holiday Oratorio 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z Despite my fear of heights, I was particularly awed by two towering monuments, Devil’s Tower and the Gateway Arch. Road to Recovery 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The sonata’s four teeming, volatile movements are musical portraits of towering figures in American transcendentalism: Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts and Thoreau. Music Review: Fill-In Delivers a Muscular Pairing of Ives and Bach?s ?Goldberg? Variations 2011-03-28T22:17:36Z First there’s Jacques Lipchitz’s towering gray “Lesson of a Disaster,” 1961-1970, in which an almost comically cheery phoenix feeds her young atop an elaborate tower of flames, hoops and globes. The Unforgettable Meets the Unimaginable at the Winter Show 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Cootie’s towering mass is also an idea: It’s a larger-than-life manifestation of the way society perceives Black youths as dangers. Review: ‘I’m a Virgo’ Goes Big 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Trump towering over her in Louboutin stilettos, in an olive-green trench coat she never took off and whose tied belt she adjusted constantly. United they stand: Melania Trump and Karen Pence make a statement with S.C. trip 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Little fingers will be itching to touch her tempting cut-outs of storybook A-frame houses, a faceted diamond and a towering mousse cake. Holiday Gift Books for Children 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z They were stuffed into shelves in my living room, study and guest house, and those that didn’t fit were heaped in great, towering stacks on the floor. How to purge 30 years of cookbooks? Start with the ones by chefs. 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z The city has a relatively new street-art scene, with towering murals my kids loved to look for — when they found one, they’d jump up and down and cheer. Greetings from Asbury Park, love Mom and the kids 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z The islands are actually the peaks of the towering “mountains” of the Mid-Atlantic range, the longest mountain range in the world, except most of it is underwater. In the Azores, the tradition of the ‘emigrante’ endures 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Seven fairgoers were killed and 58 were hurt in the Aug. 13 collapse, when towering stage equipment tumbled onto fans below. Sugarland attorneys on Indiana stage collapse victims: Not our fault, may be yours 2012-02-21T20:16:00Z Questions were also raised as to whether an American actress should play one of the towering figures of British politics. Meryl Streep promotes Thatcher biopic in London 2011-11-14T14:45:49Z Its tangents include a path through a trillium garden of rare species and forms, as well as a path through towering and majestic tulip trees. At the Mount Cuba Center, native plants flourish in their natural setting 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z It really is a towering wonder, visible from miles around. On the Pilgrims? Path Through England and the Netherlands 2011-11-17T20:41:15Z Combining volcanic boulders and towering curved steel, the lamp is a world away from Mr. Walker’s groovy bubbler. Trends in Design and Home Furnishings 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Cosby, now 73, is a towering figure in stand-up comedy, TV, and race relations -- by turns healing and divisive, wholesome and scandalous. "Pioneers of Television": The bloody, sexy rise of the American crime show 2011-02-01T15:02:00Z The Museum of Modern Art collects and prizes the sculpture and designs of Isamu Noguchi, a towering figure in 20th-century American art. Isamu Noguchi Artwork in Midtown Building Is in Peril 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The giant ensemble will include the towering sousaphones, and the shoulder-carried marching tuba. TubaChristmas presents holiday music at its most sonorous 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z When a musical hero of towering influence dies, the urge is to go straight to the tape: recordings, footage, a captured moment that stands in for the unwieldy fullness of a life. How Rudy Van Gelder Shaped the Sound of Jazz as We Know It 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z As you walk among more of the towering pictures, faces contorted with pain and rage contrast with harmonious architecture. Raphael: Cartoons and Tapestries 2010-09-06T14:32:00Z "We're seeing a lot of winter boots with an open toe and towering high heels," Steele says. Peep-toe boots let them all hang out 2010-10-20T17:34:00Z At O’Connell Street, check out the towering silver Spire of Dublin, built for the millennium and nicknamed, in classic Dublin fashion, “the stiletto in the ghetto.” 36 Hours in Dublin 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z The Hamptons are famous for a lot of things, among them beautiful beaches, spectacular mansions, quaint villages, extraordinary gardens, and miles and miles of towering hedges. Lee F. Mindel Tours the Most Gorgeous Spiritual Buildings of the Hamptons 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z “It was important to show him as a human being more than just this towering figure in baseball history,” Mr. Corcoran said. For Jackie Robinson’s Centennial, a Display of Rarely Seen Photographs 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z “Face it. I won’t be starring opposite Tom Cruise in any films anytime soon, unless it’s as a scary monster towering over him,” Davis says. Davis plays freak in “Side Show” 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z A quarter century since Nachume’s death, his name has faded into the background of a fickle art world, but to his son, the towering paintings from his final years, which explode with light, feel immortal. A Flood, a Boxcutter and a Son’s Pursuit to Keep His Father’s Legacy 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z And though many are seen in retrospect as towering leaders, most, like politicians everywhere, spent their careers preoccupied with threats to their own power, fending off the attacks of forgotten political rivals. No unity in diversity 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z His iron and steel arcs and lines, towering in their simplicity, play elegant counterpoint to Versailles's elaborate gardens and ornate edifices. TIME's Summer 60 2011-07-15T18:25:00Z He was a teacher and mentor of two towering artists, David Hammons and Kerry James Marshall, but he was also a beautiful artist in his own right. New York Art Guide: How to Navigate Museums This Holiday 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Ben, who lives in a towering Oslo apartment complex, isn’t the only kid there with psychic powers. In ‘The Innocents,’ Kids Behaving Deadly 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z And ever so gently and movingly, the film begins to raise its subject back up to a towering state of wisdom and foresight. Review | HBO documentary about MLK’s final years shows an exhausted, conflicted hero 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z “A View From the Bridge” lives in the shadow of Miller’s towering “Death of a Salesman” and conscience-pricking “The Crucible,” but, as van Hove reveals, it’s every bit as great. The 1955 play topical as ever: ‘View From the Bridge’ revival storms into D.C. 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Three years later, a towering image of a scantily clad Lady Gaga flashed on a billowing white curtain. Lady Gaga back at Lollapalooza 3 years after debut 2010-08-07T14:31:00Z Other characters we care about get a little lost in the endless shuffle: The towering knight Brienne of Tarth is shoehorned awkwardly into the action, just to remind us she’s there. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Game of Thrones’ Opens a Fourth Season 2014-04-04T21:45:49Z The satirist Stephen Colbert stares out at a towering "telecommunications skyscraper whose peak bristles with microwave transmitters" and thinks mostly about cancer. New York City views 2010-07-31T23:04:00Z What may look manageable one day, might be a towering tangled nightmare the next. So, you’ve built a vegetable garden — here’s how to take care of it 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z This is beautiful hill country, towering 350 feet above the majestic gorge. After tackling Stage 4 cancer, he took on a new challenge — Hadrian’s Wall 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z We floated along in the early morning under the towering crags, listening to birds singing and the calls of distant monkeys as bamboo and banana leaves drooped into the water. Laos town known for drunkenness and tourist deaths cleans up its act 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z “Of all the towering figures of the twentieth century, both good and evil, Winston Churchill was the most valuable to humanity, and the most likable,” he wrote in a 2009 biography. Paul Johnson, Prolific Historian Prized by Conservatives, Dies at 94 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Rather than opt for an inevitably forgettable hors d’oeuvre, Morlot boldly juxtaposed a substantial composition by his compatriot, one of the towering musical minds of the last century. At Seattle Symphony, cosmic radiation from Beethoven and Messiaen 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z By the pool, bass boomed from towering speakers. Wristbands and Room Service: Music Festivals Check In to Hotels 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Mirren remembered Rickman as “a great friend” and “a towering person, physically, mentally and as an artist” whose voice “could suggest honey or a hidden stiletto blade, and the profile of a Roman Emperor”. 'We are all so devastated': tributes pour in to Alan Rickman from acting world 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Erected principally during the 1970s and 1980s, the district sports a Hellenic theme, and the towering blocks of ersatz classical buildings suggest a Las Vegas casino complex that was sold off as public housing. 36 Hours in Montpellier, France 2012-08-09T19:11:35Z In the book’s best photo, she’s in a schoolroom, wearing a minidress and a towering wig, playing for kids who are staring at her in wonder, like she has just landed from Mars. Review | ‘Dolly Parton, Songteller’ is a gold mine of little-seen photos and personal anecdotes 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Close to a century old, it’s set in a six-acre oasis of sloping lawns and towering trees, a rustic holdout against the tidy brick suburban houses that peer in over the driveway fence. Emilie Brzezinski is her own kind of power player: an artist with a chainsaw Once the train has passed, I follow the footpath over the railway and through the works with its churning conveyor belts and towering sand dunes. Pip and Me: A Journey Into the World of ‘Great Expectations’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The woodland is marked by towering hardwoods, and the forest floor is full of shrubs and wildflowers that peak in the spring. Biden put Wilmington on the map — but for garden lovers, it was already a destination 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z Leading the way is the architect-of-the-moment Joseph Dirand, whose elegantly spare Paris apartment, with its towering windows and generous slabs of marble, puts a new spin on minimalism. | Spring Design Issue 2014-04-12T00:00:12Z Solomon also plays in her live band, towering over Wolf in a Pantera T-shirt with cutoff sleeves. Remi Wolf Turns Bedroom Pop Into Hypercolored Explosions 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Though the facility, with its whirling bottling line and its towering barrel fermenters is not open to the public, it will be transformed into a tour-friendly facility and beer garden later this year. Journeys: San Diego’s Thriving Craft Beer Scene 2012-05-25T17:33:07Z Although Arnold is today regarded as one of the towering musical figures of the 20th century, audiences have had to wait 60 years to hear The Dancing Master. Maclom Arnold's The Dancing Master finally comes in from the cold 2012-10-11T10:57:48Z In “The Henry Ford,” a schooner’s towering sails evoke an immense white bird settling into its nest. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in November 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z At high school these two geeky Jewish kids with socialist families were suddenly thrust into a big scary world of towering, beautiful 17- and 18-year-olds. Seth Rogen: the slacker's guide to getting ahead 2013-06-21T23:01:00Z As the towering visions crawl past, costumed riders toss all manner of trinkets to eager, screaming crowds. Heads Up: In New Orleans, Early Mardi Gras Parades Are Family Fare 2011-02-04T19:55:00Z Galleries, an interactive video installation and bars line a grand hallway that cuts through the towering concrete plinths of the plant’s former turbines, and a vast mirror ball hangs in the cavernous hall. The Luminato Festival Turns a Former Power Plant Into a Creative Engine 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z The role must have been punishing, but, perhaps for the first time, Mr. Vaughn seems comfortable in his towering body. Review: ‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’ Features a Revelatory Vince Vaughn 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Like last year’s “Leviathan,” also from Russia, “The Fool” is a merciless exploration of top-down municipal corruption, with a towering performance by Nataliya Surkova as the imperious mayor. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Behind a small counter was a towering blackboard detailing the owner’s newest sandwich creations. Before the Wedding, a Test: 3,000 Miles of Barbecue 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z For example, each summer night when darkness falls in the Champagne-making town of Reims, France, a crowd gathers at the foot of the towering cathedral to enjoy a free sound-and-light show. Lovely summer evenings in Europe 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z No crazed Timons or Tituses, nor anything like the Everest of Hamlet, towering above them all. Are Shakespeare's women second-class citizens? 2012-07-19T11:09:28Z A small birdcage floated above the piano, and three towering windows lighted up the room. The Robert Mapplethorpe photo you haven't seen: The one he took of me 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Aided by Yoni Kallai, who controls her harnesses, she floats up and along the branches of a towering tree, achieving an otherworldly illusion of weightlessness. Review: In ‘Herstory of the Universe,’ Ancient Myths Are Brought to Life 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Fashion week in New York, Paris and Milan can often be a surreal experience, full of towering fantasy, inflated egos and sky-high stilettos. Saudi Arabia Just Had Its First Fashion Week 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Imagine staring across the Utah wilderness at those famous towering mesas and buttes. Campaign against Trump’s threat to US national monuments gathers pace 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Kinnell, who died in 2014, was a towering figure in American poetry, publishing 10 collections over 65 years; in 1982, his “Selected Poems” won both a Pulitzer and a National Book Award. New & Noteworthy 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z At times, two performers controlled towering bodies — flamingos in one section, and Max Headroom-like dystopic figurines in another — with a set of puppetry sticks. Review: Katy Perry, Queen of Froth, Stars in a Carnival of Her Own 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Photograph: Ethan Miller/Getty Images A towering figure departed the scene last week: said their long goodbye, dropped into the big sleep. Close up: paying tribute to Roger Ebert 2013-04-11T14:59:08Z Opening credits play over recurring scenes of cloistered nuns shrugging off their shapeless smocks and dancing before a towering neon cross. Review: ‘The New Pope’ on HBO: Faith, Hope and Sponge Baths 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Pure classical lines, no decoration, a towering truth: this is the focal point of a vast democracy that will tonight choose its leader. Obama's art army 2012-11-05T22:00:02Z A powerful design by Michael Vale puts a giant statue of a leader towering above the stage, his fat back to the people he's supposed to be championing. Julius Caesar; The Physicists; Wah! Wah! Girls – review 2012-06-09T23:08:07Z But below, in the official rooms of the residence, two fresh, cut trees are already in full regalia, the larger a towering 15-foot fir softening the gridded fenestration of Oswald Ungers’s magnificent contemporary architecture. A trendy Tannenbaum: German ambassador’s residence blends Old World traditions with modern digs 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z If Brando’s performances are towering in their greatness, Monroe’s characters feel airy and improvised, as if she were playing herself. It’s all fake: How the leaked call between Taylor Swift and Kanye West exposes the artifice of celebrity culture 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Its towering roof was held up by a forest of wood pillars and its enormous gilded statues inspired awe. Explorer: Myths and Mountains in Nepal 2012-10-28T06:23:48Z Across the river, at the chaikhana, or teahouse, elderly men ruminated at low tables while the talismanic hulk of Babash-Ata — the 14,000-foot massif towering to the north — watched over all. Explorer: Deep Into the Dream World of Kyrgyzstan 2014-05-09T19:07:12Z In the video, the bodyguards could be seen towering over King and then moving away when King unsuccessfully tried several times to get up off the ground. R&B diva LaBelle sued over alleged airport beating 2011-06-04T01:01:05Z He also used lamps and spotlights to produce a dramatic view of a worker beneath a towering cliff of salt, so denuded and striated it appears almost like a lunar landscape. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The early reader’s steady ascent can explode into a towering geyser of literacy because, Cunningham explains, reading is largely self-taught and begets its own mastery. Can babies read? 2012-09-12T16:08:00Z “Our open-plan office failed, so we’re moving to a towering panopticon.” Essential Arts & Culture: A censored mural returns, PST: LA/LA is humming, learning from Las Vegas 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z But six honey-hued granite peaks give the illusion of a towering castle and jut like spindly fingers into the sky. Exploring ‘The Land of Morning Calm’ 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z The performance lacks emotional thrust and stature; Lear’s towering rages often come across as indiscriminate shouting. The Shakespeare Globe’s Informal ‘King Lear’ at the Skirball 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z I turned off the beach down one of the many unmarked sandy roads that cut through the towering forests. Welcome to Estonia’s Isle of Women 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z There’s an almost solemn feeling to the introduction, which quickly transforms to a melody filled with immense joy and restraint against Jordan’s towering sax. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z And the through line among the works is bigness: towering paintings, engulfing screens, walls covered not by one piece of faux bologna but by hundreds. Whitney Biennial 2017: Kamasi Washington collaboration is first among the big, the boundless and the beautiful 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z There is wildness too: “bear jams” disrupting traffic, cougar sightings and soaring eagles, towering ancient trees, log-strewn beaches and distant snowy peaks. 36 Hours in Victoria, British Columbia 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The women appeared mesmerized by the towering artworks, and by Kenny Jr. in his flowing shalwar kameez. House Proud: Pink Robots at the Gate 2013-08-21T22:22:38Z Thousands of bulbs and wildflowers carpet the ground on the March Bank and spectacular drifts of azaleas bloom beneath towering trees in the Azalea Woods. Best Places in the South 2010-02-17T21:30:00Z Busts of Marti appear everywhere in Cuba, Havana’s international airport is named after him, and there is a towering monument to him in Havana’s Revolution Square. Cuba unveils Jose Marti statue, a gift from Trump's hometown 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z The Britain-set show, in which the statuesque performer Lola saves a provincial shoe factory by inspiring a line of toweringly outré footwear, is now running Off Broadway. Review: A Faithful ‘Kinky Boots,’ With All Its Pizazz and Pitfalls 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z If The Review's writers have since become less towering figures in the culture at large, they were treated as titans by Tuesday's crowd. ArtsBeat: Old Friends Help New York Review Celebrate 50 Years 2013-02-06T18:26:41Z He lived in a large country house decked out with towering piles of ancient Daily Telegraphs. Rewind TV: Martina Cole's The Runaway; Bored to Death; Spiral; Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands 2011-04-02T23:09:39Z Rafanelli staged a number of events for the Obamas at the White House, including seven state dinners and five kids’ state dinners, which featured towering topiaries of fresh vegetables. Obama party planner Bryan Rafanelli shares his secrets for a memorable bash 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Their appearance has always been equally striking, especially for the three women in the quartet: towering fur hats, long matching dresses and wildly colorful Iris Apfel-style jewelry. DakhaBrakha, a Band From Kyiv, Saw a War Coming 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z As Wotan, Terfel, now fully inside the role, has towering stage presence, intelligence, anguish, a sense of this god's bloody-mindedness and fallibility. Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2012-09-29T23:07:03Z What child hasn’t dreamed of being big, of finally towering over Mom or Dad? Things to Do With Kids in N.Y.C. This Summer 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z He moved toward her as he spoke, his towering frame draped in his trademark, slim-cut black suit, a gold chain falling across his white collared shirt, his chin-skimming locks dyed black as the eternal void. The transcendence of Nick Cave: After losing his son, the post-punk icon found communion with his fans 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Walk to the centre of the high wooden footbridge that spans the gorge to appreciate the picture-perfect sight of the towering mountains in the background, and the picturesque island of trees just before the falls. 20 of the world's best waterfalls: readers’ tips 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The scene onstage was nothing but surreal — fragmented light beams suggesting a proscenium; towering, billowing curtains lit in dreamy shades of blue, their translucence revealing the impression of a building facade beyond. ‘The Hours’ Becomes an Opera. Don’t Expect the Book or Film. 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Don Cheadle depicts Miles Davis, the towering jazz trumpeter and composer brought down by drugs and fury, in this biography, which Mr. Cheadle also directed and helped write. What’s on TV Wednesday 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Against the bright sky of an Oslo summer evening, three bodies twirled and popped in unison beneath towering Roman columns. The 52 Places Traveler: Keep Oslo Weird 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Less bulky but also towering are Todd Warner’s streamlined giraffe and ostrich, with nearly flat bodies but more rounded necks and heads. Review | In the galleries: Simple objects speak about living in an 18th-century hostelry 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z These wide verandas hold plenty of Adirondack chairs to drink in the views of the grassy lawn with a fountain in the circular drive, and the backdrop of dramatically towering trees. Visit Yosemite’s stunning Ahwahnee, but stay in the less crowded, less pricey Wawona 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z No one, it seemed, could measure up to his steely, uncompromising drive and towering expectations. How psychopaths take over 2012-10-13T17:00:00Z When the occupant of the crate appears, he’s not a wispy vampire-next-door like those from “True Blood,” he’s a towering, ugly leviathan, like Max Schreck crossed with Stone Cold Steve Austin. ‘The Strain,’ on FX, Centers on a Virus Linked to Vampirism 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Sunflower fields such as those at Frederick Farms produce towering yellow flowers, proudly flourishing after a long winter, as bright as those that intoxicated Van Gogh in Arles. Looking for French connections in Upstate New York 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z It is a towering exaltation of oil paint, with each rock, bush, cliff and tree given its own colors and texture, while waterfalls of pure white cut among them. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The previous one, in 2018, was a towering adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s epic novel “Infinite Jest”; before that he tackled works by Dostoyevsky, Chekhov and William Carlos Williams. At Salzburg Festival, Directing Slow and Fast 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Housed in a towering chalet at the center of the village, the property features cozy wood-paneled rooms and an indoor-outdoor pool. Her uncle died with the French Resistance, and she had to visit the spot 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Wearing towering gray wigs and ample skirts, the dancers, once arrayed in finery, stiffen in periodlike portraits. Review: In ‘Arena,’ Walter Dundervill Uses Fabric as a Foil 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Mark, a towering, perennially upbeat presence, relentlessly gabs away; Jay, short and bearded, lingers alongside. film: Mark and Jay Duplass Go From Indies to Studio Films 2010-06-11T23:35:00Z She is 5-foot-10, taller in heels, a black woman with hair to the middle of her back, a soft voice and a towering presence. Desirée Venn Frederic went from jail cell to style-setter 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z He wrote of “towering walls of verdure” and “gleaming cataracts of vines,” of birds of “splendid plumage” and “rollicking monkeys.” | Latin America Issue: Twain?s Nicaragua, 144 Years Later 2010-09-17T16:03:00Z The towering statue is on display, as are photos of the statue on location at night. Review | In the galleries: Breaching the border between art and furniture 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z With its stunning interior, towering painted ceilings and stained-glass windows, the Boekhandel regularly appears on lists of the world’s most beautiful bookstores. In Maastricht, a Taste of Joie de Vivre 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z A new exhibition compares the artistic trajectories of two of the 20th century’s most towering Modernists: Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera. Datebook: A SoCal artist pair, a doc about a culture-war artist, Rivera and Picasso 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z He is an attention-seeking man — pathologically so, it seems; the only time he seems comfortable during the whole trip is when he’s navigating a crowd of awestruck Koreans, towering over them like a benevolent giant. Dennis Rodman’s North Korea diplomacy trainwreck: His “Big Bang in Pyongyang” goes out with a whimper 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z The towering ski jumps and toboggan runs, not to mention the “Miracle on Ice” hockey rink, look much as they did when Jimmy Carter was in office. 36 Hours: Lake Placid, N.Y. 2011-12-08T15:29:59Z A towering wall of rotating stone funerary stele fragments welcomes visitors. In France, Narbonne takes a turn in the international spotlight 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z If you look at a mangrove swamp underwater, it seems as implausible as any Tolkien landscape, with ent-like trees towering out of tangles of roots. Summer readings: Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien 2011-07-28T15:01:11Z Snoop, towering way above Boo Boo, wipes his hands and pulls her towards him. Snoop Doggy Dogg: 'Ain't nobody else bigger than me but Michael Jackson' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-07-03T14:20:00Z He was forced to navigate towering forests of glowing mushrooms. The town that produced musical legends keeps staying in the groove 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z That rusty, towering wall snaked through the hills and canyons of northern Sonora and southern Arizona forever deranging a world that, given cross-border familial and community ties, then considered itself one. The great Mexican wall deception: Trump’s America already exists on the border 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Despite her sparse output — she’s released just four books over two decades — Keegan has gained a towering reputation as one of Ireland’s canonical writers. Claire Keegan Harnesses the Power in Brevity 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z It wasn’t much, but it was the man himself, a towering figure two inches high. Looking for St. Francis 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Four towering, delicate tents of iridescent white string, suspended from the high ceiling, each housed one statuesque, slow-moving dancer in white. The BEAT Festival Returns to Brooklyn 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z There weren't any butterflies, which evidently avoid the tourist season, but there were towering cliffs on either side of a secluded slice of beach. T Magazine: Turkish Delight 2012-07-12T21:02:17Z In a statement, Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago called Mr. Brooks “a Chicago blues legend with a towering talent and soulful style that won him legions of fans across the country and around the world.” Lonnie Brooks, Bluesman Who Had a Hit With ‘Sweet Home Chicago,’ Dies at 83 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z A rock climbing hot spot during the summer, Smith Rock State Park’s towering red cliffs are also popular for winter hikes. 8 New Hotels for Winter Enthusiasts in the U.S. and Europe 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Looking up at the adults towering over me, I saw my parents smile, sing, clap and dance, and I joined in. My earliest childhood memories are from Margaritaville 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z This is a trio of towering performances, made all the more intense by the sense that any tower can, eventually, be toppled. 'Outgoing Tide' a touching look at end-of-life woes -- 3 1/2 stars 2011-05-23T21:19:02Z Its ornamental gardens, lorded over by a towering monolith of naked tumblers, speckled with bronzes of giant grouchy babies, present a kind of Nordic “Last Year at Marienbad.” 5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Some seem to be landscapes, their snow-capped peaks towering overhead. Diving into Ryan Callis' shape-shifting 'Ocean Memories' 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Displaying them was a genuine expression of my admiration for a towering American artist. Should I Put Away My James Levine Recordings? 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z She was surrounded by grownups, towering above her, when she abruptly and dramatically declared: “I’m shy!” before running out of the room. Daisy Ridley: ‘JJ Abrams warned me that Star Wars is a religion’ 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z When traveling in France, I can’t help but marvel at the towering Gothic cathedrals that mark the centers of many towns. Centuries of survival: Inside France’s gothic cathedrals 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Another, for The Atlantic in 1989, showed the Cold War diplomat George F. Kennan towering over the Capitol’s dome and St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow, superimposed on a Dalíesque landscape littered with geometrical figures. Fred Otnes, Illustrator and Collage Artist, Dies at 89 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Seven hours of that unfamiliar god towering over, biting into my shoulder, and I hurt right down to the skeleton. In Rural Japan, Lifting a Shrine and Building a Friendship 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z He was 54, and the towering genius of the British art world. 'Lucian wanted us to have a baby' 2012-10-12T23:05:22Z This time, however, the towering ego and genius that propelled the earlier book is missing — and is missed. ‘Under the Wide and Starry Sky’: R.L. Stevenson’s muse 2014-01-15T22:17:21Z The next week, she was towering over actresses on the red carpets of Cannes as a “friend” of the Swiss watch company IWC Schaffhausen. The Czech Fashion Model Karolina Kurkova Seems to Be Everywhere 2014-01-15T21:27:19Z I saw the Brotherhood of the Wall, imperturbably guarding a towering barrier of ice and magic. Learning to Love Airport Lit 2012-02-17T20:39:16Z “Never miss the last day of summer” faces a scene filled with house-sized servings of cake and towering fruits as well as a joyous parade. ‘Rules of Summer,’ by Shaun Tan As the traffic thins, and the road narrows, the landscape changes dramatically, with lush vegetation and empty fields replacing the crowds, the towering hotels and designer storefronts of Waikiki. A Small Child, a Big Board, on Oahu’s North Shore 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z But he became the best-known tin star of his era, portraying the towering, weathered marshal for 20 years, from 1955 to 1975. James Arness, Marshal on ?Gunsmoke,? Dies at 88 2011-06-03T18:34:50Z Or, to be fair, to walk through it, but since it was only an inch or so deep, and she was wearing towering platform heels, it looked as if she was walking on it. Sex, Saint Laurent and a Mutiny 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z The cake he concocts for the Taste of Staten Island contest — a towering inferno of cakes, circus tents, lion cages, clowns and chocolate-covered popcorn — isn’t actually edible. The TV Watch: Viewers Still Drool for Frosting Fantasies 2011-06-20T22:15:18Z The bold and poppy works are divided into artist, musician and actor-celebrity portraits — some of them are upward of 6 feet tall, such as his towering prints of Raquel Welch and Miley Cyrus. Printmaker Richard Duardo made his art — and others' — pop 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Then there was my Uncle Jack, a towering man who was many years older than my father. Cookie-crazed dogs, blackened latkes and more of our favorite holiday food memories 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Over time, writers, as well as painters, established a well-worn vocabulary of flaming rivers of lava, lightning flashes and towering mushroom clouds, but nothing could have prepared us for the photographs of Eyjafjallajökull. Volcanic art 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z One is a towering 2005 sculpture by Thomas Schütte of three grotesque male figures swathed in blankets and peering malevolently in all directions. Art Review: When Repression Was a Muse 2011-07-21T22:30:28Z The children also eat lunch, sing songs and occasionally squabble under the open sky and towering trees. Preschool Without Walls 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z The conviction marks the final comeuppance for a towering figure who wielded his power in the movie industry – as well as his commanding physical presence – over vulnerable young women seeking his help. Harvey Weinstein found guilty at rape trial 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Consider the towering wigs of the court of Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette; the powdered wigs British barristers still wear. What’s the Big Deal About a Woman Being Bald? 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z In either case, the goal is a bun that is as towering, voluminous and globular as possible. Skin Deep: Mane-Taming Topknots Take to the Streets — Skin Deep 2013-05-15T19:42:55Z How would towering skyscrapers holding a hundred thousand people create a sense of freedom and space? How Frank Lloyd Wright Tried to Solve the City 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The towering brunette beauty in shiny spike heels and her short, gray-haired companion waited in line at dusk in the French capital one recent Friday as tourists in jeans and hoodies stared in envy. In Transit Blog: Orient Express, the Exhibition 2014-05-12T15:12:17Z The four "ballerinas" are danced by the heftier members of the company, towering over their smaller men. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo 2010-09-26T21:30:00Z This might not seem like an especially noteworthy event, given that city’s towering importance in the history of music — and chamber music, in particular. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Distracted by towering peaks in every direction, I ran a stop sign on the way into the mountains and was pulled over by a police officer, who took pity on me with a verbal warning. Backcountry skiing brings avalanche safety to the forefront 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z So he arrives in her room, dragging a duffel bag and, in the towering Lithgow’s hangdog mien, craving a return to the political front lines. Review | This new Broadway play about the Clintons’ marriage is as fascinating — and sad — as you’d expect 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z This trait isn’t just about the usual qualities associated with memorable acting — emotional verisimilitude, being in the moment, a star’s towering presence. Jan Maxwell Was a Star Made for the Stage 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z His towering cone of sand came out perfectly, and for good reason: He did a trial run on the beach a few days before. Creative Time Sand Castle Competition for Artists 2012-08-19T22:30:09Z On the third day, local guides from the nearby Rancho San Cosme hoisted us on mules and led the group along cliffs with majestic views of ocean and towering rock islands. In Baja California, swimming with the whale sharks, and more This toweringly ambitious, if occasionally pretentious film installation is the creation of Julian Rosefeldt, its writer, director and producer, a German artist drawn to complex narratives and fusions of real and cinematic space. 12 Faces of Cate Blanchett: A Chameleon in the Armory 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Another perennial attraction is the Military Tattoo, which runs through August on the esplanade of the castle towering over the Scottish capital. Edinburgh Fringe grows bigger than ever 2010-06-10T16:39:00Z Visitors stroll along walkways, through “rooms” with 10-foot ceilings and towering formations. Can you plan a 2017 vacation with a 40-year-old travel guide? 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Panama City, with its glistening skyscrapers, is a towering reminder of the canal’s significance to world trade. In Paradisiacal Nicaragua, Contemplating a Canal 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Willig channels the lovable tenderness of the towering icon which a gentle joy capable of melting away all doubts about this show. With "Young Rock," is Dwayne Johnson starting his presidential campaign 10 years early? 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Evoking the coronas of blazing suns, the earflares would flank faces further graced with towering gold diadems and, most unfamiliarly, substantial nose ornaments. At the Met, All That Dazzles Is Not Just Gold — It’s Feathers, Too 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z This writer is building a towering edifice, in what feels like real time. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Three’ 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z On the marathon Fendi runway at its HQ — the longest in Milan, according to the brand — Mr. Jones had built towering metallic arches, reflected in a mirrored wall to create an endless corridor of glam. The New Days of Disco 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z So there were gorgeous scene-setting landscape shots of rocky tors from some uninhabited Mediterranean island of the mind; of foaming surf and whitewashed bell towers; of sunsets, wildflowers and towering cactus. Chanel’s First Digital Show Was a Disappointment on Many Levels 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Save room for a towering slice of their cream pie. Chill out at Hawaii’s Ko Olina resort, gorgeous beaches on Oahu’s quieter side 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z In the post-dawn gray, the villagers marched up the hill, the men in black carrying platters of bananas and corn cakes, which they laid down before a towering fig tree. Lost in Java 2011-05-06T20:26:42Z Somehow the towering spire of St. Nicholas Church survived the bombing. Discovering ‘undiscovered’ Hamburg 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z From its humble beginnings in the late 1960s, over 100 boutique wineries are now nestled here amid towering native eucalyptus forests. Five Reasons to Visit Perth 2012-05-09T05:20:00Z The 44th annual ceremony also featured a video message from Bill Clinton, who spoke about the significance of Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come," which was honored with the towering song award. Sting, Billy Joel, Elton John at Songwriters Hall 2013-06-14T05:10:10Z We were pining for the fjords; next morning, we arose early as the Sky glided through the towering peaks of gorgeous Geirangerfjord. Shetland Isles to Norway: Cruising the land of the midnight sun 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z A typical video shows Ms. Calley playing pop and R&B on a towering champagne-hued pedal harp in her spacious living room, dotted with various greenery and flooded with natural light. How the Harp Got Hip 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Boulanger’s piece could hardly register alongside a towering piano concerto and a yet more towering symphony, Prokofiev’s Fifth. Review: Two Artists Arrive at the Philharmonic, Loudly 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z It was no ordinary film set: it contained two steel and concrete buildings, its own power plant, tarmacked streets and working traffic lights, plus several towering trompe l’oeil facades. Jacques Tati’s Playtime: life-affirming comedy 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Ratmansky, who has spent the past 13 years at American Ballet Theater, said he was inspired by the legacy of City Ballet, which was built by the towering choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Alexei Ratmansky, Renowned Choreographer, to Join City Ballet 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z André Brink, a towering South African literary presence for decades whose work in English and Afrikaans fell afoul of apartheid-era censors, died Friday, South African news reports said. André Brink, South African Literary Figure Who Ran Afoul of Censors, Dies at 79 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z The young Korean pianist H J Lim had no such trepidation about taking on these towering works. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z A towering sculpture by the Nigerian artist Billy Omabegho stands in the small plaza outside the consulate, with zigzagging vertical curves that call to mind chain links or an abstract ouroboros. Meals for (Mostly) Everyone at Divine Flavored Nigerian Food Truck 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Plus towering metallic platform shoes, stretching the silhouette to the sky. ‘Bridgerton’ Has Nothing on the Couture 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z When his credit cards are declined, he steals the huge thing — it resembles “insane trees towering above some insane world” — and staggers down the street with it. ‘The Emerald Light in the Air,’ Stories by Donald Antrim 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z You can see one sort of possibility — Marquis and Marioni’s fanciful collaborative teapot goblets, for instance — triggering another sort of possibility in Mount’s towering “Scent Bottles.” Aussie-U.S. glass-art ties made clear at Museum of Glass 2013-07-31T22:35:09Z They cling precariously to the foot with the wispiest of straps and have towering heels that tilt the pelvis backward and the breasts forward, exaggerating the wearer's contours to fertility goddess amplitude. | A Brief History of Fashion's Favorite Flat 2012-11-23T20:00:44Z This towering yet whimsical figure and other organic forms by Moore take on a dreamlike quality against grass and sky. Cy Twombly, Ren? Magritte and Thomas Struth ? the week in art 2011-07-08T16:17:00Z A towering dandy dressed in red-and-white polka dots came over to tell him how much he liked his column. 2010-01-29T23:40:00Z We see Holiday as a heroin user, a devoted but not always reliable friend, an operatic figure of towering pain and sublime resilience. ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ Review: Singing for Her Life 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Think about what the season means to you — opening-day baseball, perhaps, or rain showers that end with towering rainbows — and incorporate that into your weather art. Calling all artists: KidsPost is looking for your best spring weather art 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z During his live show, he creates towering landscapes of keys and ambiance without the aid of a computer. Your week in Seattle music: Tony Bennett, Tegan and Sara and more 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z But now the festival ground, with its distinctive backdrop of bare mountains and towering palm trees, lies empty. For Festival Fashion, the Music Has Stopped 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z In Europe, his elegant, ruminative style — often compared to Proust or Henry James — has led to a towering literary reputation. Javier Marias Finds Popularity on the Rise in Britain and the U.S. 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The Lego Movie is still towering over its rivals on the North American box office chart, after spending a third week at number one. Lego Movie blocks out film rivals 2014-02-24T09:53:34Z Ravenous | Sotkamo in Midsummer A mist floats over a lake bordered by lodgepole pines, towering spruces and birch trees dotted with young leaves. | Sotkamo in Midsummer 2012-07-24T13:00:53Z Thailand's Phang Nga Bay resembles an alien seascape, where towering limestone cliffs in improbable shapes carve the view into unfamiliar patterns of land, sea and air. In Pictures: The World's Most Amazing Views 2011-02-18T16:30:00Z Most of Mr. Rea’s body, thin and towering, is taken up by his legs. Review: A ‘Waiting for Godot’ as Comically Futile as a Looney Tune 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z He’s got a way with conjuring and releasing pressure, and can just as easily construct towering columns of sound as scatter them into clouds. With the NSO, French piano duo Katia and Marielle Labèque brew up a storm (and some stress) 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z The towering statue of Athena will be in the Met’s Great Hall, where visitors enter. Two Old Visitors to the Metropolitan Museum Will Stay a While 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z It does not look like history, at least not as we think of it; it looks like storage tanks, and gas flares, and towering derricks. In North Dakota, Boom, Bust and Oil 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The monument, which attracts about 600,000 visitors a year, was shut down early on Sunday after the doors to an elevator inside the towering column failed to open near the top of the building. Washington Monument reopens after elevator problems force closure 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Wes Anderson built a towering and beautifully balanced house of cards in "The Grand Budapest Hotel" that was as remarkable for its amusing imagery as its interlocking story. Daring films lifted the artform in 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z He stopped at a towering, ancient tree, its thick trunk twice his stocky girth, called chechem. An Eco-Tour of Guatemala’s Rio Dulce Region 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Some cover multiple pages, building to towering peaks. Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into ‘The Committed’ 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z He brings unmatched experience and towering artistry to everything he does. A Look Back at a Year of Top Voices 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z The technical instructions for assembly that often baffle us today presented equal difficulties in the 18th century, when the problem was not a flat-pack wardrobe but a towering, snorting steam engine. The Arts of Industry in the Age of?Enlightenment by Celina Fox | Book review 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z Centuries later, Venetian courtesans clopped around in towering chopines, while during the reign of Louis XIV, red heels were a mark of nobility. Makers: Who Made That Stiletto? 2012-04-13T18:26:02Z In the meantime, Benidorm’s towering hotels and apartment blocks are empty. 'We need the Brits': Benidorm banks on August tourist surge 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z The Na Pali Coast is a bucket-list must with towering green spires, deep canyons, and perilous cliffs sloping into the sea. These Are the Best Views in America 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z But the power of the cutouts is less about narrative than materiality and form: totemic presences conjured by brusque but beautiful painted surfaces and towering scale. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Florists crafted 20 towering tributes—up to 65 feet long and 32 feet tall—imitating colors, motifs, and imagery from Van Gogh’s paintings, including several iterations of his famed self-portraits. Van Gogh Is Celebrated by His Hometown in the Flower Parade 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Queen Victoria was not amused by this towering symbol of the rackety Georgian ancestors whose image she was trying to obliterate. Royal treatment 2010-04-18T19:00:00Z Even the preshow curtain, a towering photograph of Catfish Row, suggests something documentary. Review: ‘Porgy and Bess’ Returns to a New Opera Landscape 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The modernist building occupies the site of the first Battle of the Marne — constructed beneath the towering “American Monument,” a 23-meter-high sculpture called “Tearful Liberty,” given to France in 1932. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z From there, looking out over the Reflecting Pool, is the towering Washington Monument, with the ornate dome of the U.S. These Are the Best Views in America 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z While Stan simmers in front of the television, Joy putters about, baffled by her four towering, worrisome children, whose failure to produce a single offspring enrages her. Liane Moriarty’s New Novel Is a Family Saga and a Mystery 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Maxwell and his New York City Players have joined forces with another towering bastion of the avant-garde, the Wooster Group, to present “Early Plays” by Eugene O’Neill at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z Set high in a towering building, the corner flat is by turns a nest and enclosing frame, and while it’s far from the city’s touristic center it also seems very removed from the world below. ‘The Passengers of the Night’ Review: A Woman’s Second Act 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Aside from a lone jogger’s, my footprints were the only ones in the sand as I walked along the water’s edge, past towering hotels that soon faded into trees. Finding sun and seclusion by beach-hopping on Puerto Rico’s west coast 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z This 10-mile-long scenic parkway, lined with towering redwood groves, runs through Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. Accessible Nature: A Trail Guide for Disabled Hikers 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Agape Enterprise, which lies just inside the unassuming front metal door, occupies a wood-paneled room furnished with a green Victorian sofa and towering cream-colored drapes. Bushwick, Brooklyn as Next Gallery District in New York 2012-03-07T23:17:42Z In 1927, for instance, Mae West's hit Broadway play "Sex" was advertised with a publicity still of the bosomy actress towering over an apparently defenseless man sprawled in a chair. Women behave badly in films, and box offices applaud 2011-08-12T21:54:06Z From the classic mini sandwich cookies to giant macarons decorated with royal icing, to a towering, sliceable layer "cake," there's a whole lot of ways to embark on your own macaron adventure. 6 macaron recipes for the perfect Parisian treat 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Necessary to the accomplishment of all three breakneck transformations is the total absence of justice, and the equally towering presence of insecurity of every kind: physical, material, spiritual. A Facebook Post Lands an Innocent Woman in Jail in This Riveting Debut Novel 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z “See that one?” our guide, Marlene Fenstermann, called out, pointing to a towering roof barely visible over a windbreak of pines. Journeys: In Iowa, Working to Save Historic Barns 2012-06-01T19:11:06Z It’s not often that the paintings of an Italian Renaissance master arrive in a New York museum unadorned by the aura of fame and towering talent, but so it is with Giovanni Battista Moroni. A Cult Favorite Enters the Art Canon 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Now, at 44, Moran is a towering figure in this music of endless possibility, and he appears to be taking those possibilities more seriously than ever. Perspective | Jason Moran is making jazz history. Don’t miss it. 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Her filmed version uses the original theatrical stage, with towering walls and minimal set decorations. ‘Four Quartets’ Review: Virtuosi in Verse 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Walking into the gallery full of Sanchez’s towering canvases for the first time, the sensation was nearly physiological — like my eyeballs were humming and I’d developed sudden-onset tinnitus. Gallery Walk: Postcards from a trip through Pioneer Square’s galleries and graffiti 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Salander, a tiny figure, too, seems just as towering, her outsize image an outgrowth of her moral absolutism. Lisbeth Salander: Bringing Back Leather and Spikes 2012-02-01T21:36:05Z Brick's father, a towering patriarch known as Big Daddy over whose inheritance the family squabbles, is equally unable to face up to the fact he is dying of cancer. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Tennessee Williams's southern discomfort 2012-09-30T19:00:11Z Noses and mouths comprise simple geometric shapes, cones and spheres and half moons, while the towering brows are festooned with designs of startling intricacy. African Masterpieces With the Grace of Kings 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z When the documentary was first announced, the Oscar-winning director described Mr Clinton as "a towering figure who remains a major voice in world issues". Scorsese Bill Clinton film 'shelved' 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z But he never renounced his artistic labor, that of the singer with a story to tell about loves lost and won, a towering voice with a guitar and a sense of poetry and swing. The Soaring Legacy of Pablo Milanés 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z The two met at a friend’s apartment to talk with Jason Zinoman about growing up with arguably the two towering giants in all of stand-up comedy. For Rain Pryor and Kelly Carlin, Comedy Is a Family Business 2012-07-20T12:00:00Z It’s hard to recognize Lady Gaga out of her usual get-ups: the meat dresses, seashell bikinis, towering stilettos and skyscraper hair. Crooning the Classics 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z I hesitate to call it a comedy, somehow, as if that were an affront to its thoroughgoing, towering weirdness; but of course it is made to be funny, and it is. TV Picks: 'Danger 5,' 'It's Okay To Be Smart' 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z Since fans of HBO’s towering, dramatic family tragicomedy have had to wait a full two years for new episodes, audio stepped in to fill the void. 6 TV Tie-In Podcasts to Enhance Your Next Binge 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The Waimea Canyon, the towering cliffs of the Nā Pali coastline, the horseshoe reef of Tunnels beach, and the Weeping Wall. 20 of the world's best waterfalls: readers’ tips 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z But some local environmentalists and residents oppose the plan, which along with the pipeline includes a towering production platform to be built just 10 km from shore. Under the sea: antiquities make way for Israel's Leviathan pipeline 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Kay Redfield Jamison arrives punctually at a towering marble statue of Jesus Christ in the entrance of the old hospital building on Johns Hopkins Medical Campus. After Writing About Mental Illness, Kay Redfield Jamison Turns to Healers 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Topics: , , Culture, domino sugar factory, , Museums, , , The massive Domino Sugar Factory that faces the East River with its iconic yellow sign is expected to soon be dwarfed by towering skyscrapers. Can Brooklyn’s sweetest landmark be saved? 2013-06-08T12:00:00Z Yet as a composer Mr. Sondheim is a towering figure. Music Review: Philharmonic’s ‘Symphonic Sondheim’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-01-30T23:29:07Z Amal, a 10-year-old Syrian refugee puppet, appeared transfixed by the music — much like the many travelers strolling by with their suitcases appeared transfixed by the 12-foot-tall puppet suddenly towering before them. Little Amal Arrives in New York, With a Message of Hope and Humanity 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The Bambino changed the game forever in the 1920s and ’30s with his towering home runs. Perspective | Like Tom Brady, lots of great athletes have changed teams as they near retirement 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z For instance, we were standing on the observation deck of the Woolworth Building, where no one is allowed to stand, and One World Trade Center is towering above us. Brian Unger on ‘the Big American Story’ 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z His performance of the towering Chaconne was by turns ruminative and assertive, with stretches of carefully manipulated, flexible tempos and considerable coloristic touches. Music Review: Emotional Essays and a Soliloquy for the Violin 2011-05-23T21:02:07Z Here was a towering contemporary composer enjoying a renewed burst of creativity that started in his 90s and kept him going almost to the end. An Appraisal: Elliott Carter, Composer and Master of ‘Gear Shifting’ 2012-11-06T22:51:30Z Week after week, trip after trip, we explored different portions of the park, always coming to rest in some beautiful campsite at the foot of one of Yosemite’s towering granite peaks. Perspective | When I was 15, a psychiatric hospital nearly ruined my life. This advice saved me. 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z She's struggling a bit to get up the stairs in her towering heels, and then down the other side. Big Brother's return 2011-08-18T19:25:00Z Anarcha is a towering presence, rising 15 feet high — nearly double the size of the bronze monument to Sims, which has been estimated to stand eight feet tall. The statue of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women still stands in Alabama. But now there’s also a monument to his victims. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The complex just completed a $250 million makeover that includes a striking glass pavilion with towering steel columns shaped like baskets. New Neighbors Revitalize Battery Park City 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Made as if by an obsessive teenage sci-fi fan, it depicts a towering rocky prominence crawling with pipes, ladders and other kinds of industrial superstructure coming from oil processing installations on the ground level. Art Review: The Uncluttered Look Has Its Day 2011-03-03T23:30:06Z “See that tree there, the big, thick one a couple yards back,” he said, pointing toward a towering oak tree. Pete Hamill ‘Ain’t Done Yet’ 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Ms. Cao’s virtual world looks as if it has been envisioned by a sci-fi novelist, with towering shiny buildings, bright commercial signs, ultramodern lounges, superhuman people and a generally uncanny feeling. Cao Fei Captures Modern Malaise in a Series of Inventive Videos 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Some of my favourite parts of the book are the ones in which Bilal describes his house and the towering pile of books acting as a partition between two 'rooms'. A Beautiful Lie by Irfan Master - review 2013-06-28T14:00:00Z Because Jews came from the desert, visitors do, too — with the help of windy sound effects and towering video screens. In a prison that once housed Jews, a new museum devoted to Italy’s Jewish experience 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z He overcame impossible odds with no outside help to become an eminent musician, a towering and pioneering force in New Zealand music education and performance. Q&A: Rosemary Nalden 2013-05-10T13:14:51Z She has not a hair out of place, not a freckle in sight thanks to full-face foundation, and generally looks as if she were born in towering heels. Skin Deep: Beauty and the Beach 2011-06-22T21:29:54Z Ms. Feinstein’s drawings, murals and towering sculptures — many of which are on view at the museum — are invested with elements of the supernatural and religious iconography. Rachel Feinstein Unveils the Darker Side of Fantasyland 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z And his 2007 feature Katyń, about the gruesome second world war massacre covered up the Soviets, is arguably his towering achievement. A short history of Polish cinema 2011-04-06T13:41:35Z But nodding toward the towering pin oaks that flank the gate, he remarked that they, too, were once tiny trees. Brooklyn Botanic’s New Discovery Garden, Not Just for Kids 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Lewis was officially recognized as a “towering figure in cinema” at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Jerry Lewis, Mercurial Comedian and Filmmaker, Dies at 91 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z "Edward Albee was chosen for a clear and obvious reason: he is a towering presence in American theater," Andre Bishop, chairman of this year's MacDowell medalist selection committee, said in a statement. Playwright Edward Albee to receive MacDowell medal 2011-04-12T22:56:56Z To outsiders, the Delaneys appear to have everything — a happy marriage, towering height and athletic prowess — but, like the women of “Big Little Lies,” also cope with epic dysfunction and a hailstorm of secrets. Liane Moriarty writes women’s fiction. Have a problem with that? She doesn’t. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Technology, a mixed blessing to be sure, is here a towering straw man, responsible for much of our unhappiness. Review: ‘How to Be Bored’ Looks at How to Deal With the Blahs 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z The buildings were originally a dormitory-style holiday camp for Russians, but the only remnant of that considerably less luxurious era is a towering copper sculpture of Josef Stalin — retained, presumably, for its kitsch value. Splendor on the Steppe 2010-04-14T12:55:00Z If you’d visited Tatoosh Island, a windswept chunk of rock off Washington’s coast, in 1963, you would have been greeted by an odd sight: a towering, bespectacled biologist flinging sea stars into the Pacific Ocean. Peering Into the Brutal, Beautiful World of Tide Pools 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The Vienna Philharmonic played towering works by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Mahler over four programs. Nine Concerts in Seven Days at the World’s Most Famous Concert Hall 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z The center is home to a towering Big Bird and a motley crew of puppets and Muppets. Atlanta Family Weekend On the Cheap 2011-10-14T15:20:00.890Z What emerges is an intimate portrait of a towering cultural figure. Netflix Has Some Great Music Documentaries. Here Are 11 of Them. 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Its stunning visual feast included a towering jeweled tree and billowing ocean waves, crafted from silk, that were almost as airy and alive as the dancing. The stylish imagination behind Christopher Wheeldon’s “Cinderella” 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z More than 10 curvy miles hug the cliffs of the Chuckanut Mountains, flashing views of the Salish Sea bays and islands below as you wind your way through the towering evergreen forest. Go North for Active Days and Appetizing Nights 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Eons of geological time are visible in everything from the walls of a towering canyon to the dull, dusty stone at your feet that hides the lacy remains of some ancient sea creature. Along the Rio Grande, a Hot Spring and a Warm Welcome 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Today she is buried with her husband below the twin obelisks of the family’s towering tomb at Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris. Wildenstein Trial to Lift a Veil on Opaque Art World Dealings 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z If these places don't sound familiar it's because they're long gone — shuttered, reborn as restaurants or discount clothing shops or torn down to make way for Bunker Hill's towering Financial District. 'Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles': Rick Prelinger's new film of old home movies and studio outtakes 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z The best way I can describe the otherworldliness of the river by Bird Cloud, with its towering 400ft cliff, is to invoke Uluru in Australia's red centre. Digested read: Bird Cloud by Annie Proulx 2011-02-14T21:30:03Z Two towering masterpieces, a stage full of musicians on their mettle, an amazing piano soloist and an inspiring conductor. Review: Pianist Yefim Bronfman and Seattle Symphony earn thunderous applause 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z For a piece billed as towering, the Busoni concerto is actually pretty chatty. Pianist Ohlsson brings elegance to a whiz-bang performance of massive Busoni On Wednesday, the towering tree in Rockefeller Center will be lit during an evening of performances from 7 to 9 p.m.; Spare Times for Nov. 28-Dec. 4 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Across race, class, and city, American mothers are tasked with the towering responsibility of feeding their kids “well” and keeping them healthy. More time in the kitchen may not be the answer to feeding kids well 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z This replacement was good, too, and if the towering Mr. Chappelle seems a less-than-obvious physical choice for the young Philip, Hamilton’s doomed son, he uses the disparity to witty effect. In ‘Hamilton,’ Javier Muñoz Puts a Different Spin on the Title Role 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Portrayed by a trained performer, Tubman will meet children, answer their questions and demonstrate how a tiny woman — she was just five feet tall — became a towering hero of the abolitionist movement. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z It was a place where we watched clouds roll in over the nearby island of La Desirade and felt the wind whip through towering rocks. On Guadeloupe, beautiful beaches — with a backstory 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z From a towering gray barn, roosters crow and a horse whinnies. Little San Juan County takes on the GMO goliaths 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z For her sculpture “Stockpile,” the Oakland, Calif.-based artist Allison Smith created a towering stack of crates, barrels, wooden guns, a spinning wheel and other colonial-era objects. | Where Arts and Crafts Are One 2013-07-01T21:56:26Z In Flight, he has his most complex, least sympathetic role to date, and he gives a towering performance, dominating the film as he struggles to confront his life, his conscience and his various responsibilities. Flight – review 2013-02-03T00:07:01Z O'Shaughnessy's twin towering achievements are two very large books: The Will, in two volumes, first published in 1980, and Consciousness and the World, published 20 years later. Brian O'Shaughnessy obituary 2010-07-14T17:13:00Z Your Hint: The villagers in this border region are surrounded by a landscape where hundreds of caves are hidden beneath thick vines and towering dipterocarp, kapok and teak trees. In Transit Blog: Guess Where This Is 2011-10-06T16:30:11Z With the help of eight generous donors of materials, Gas Bandit created a towering bust in the image of his late wife. Gamer uses “Minecraft” to pay tribute to his wife 2014-03-13T13:00:00Z My next stop was the Cathedral of Learning, the towering Gothic Revival landmark that began construction in 1926, and its Nationality Rooms, a fascinating collection of themed classrooms. Built on Steel, Pittsburgh Now Thrives on Culture 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z It is generally a reliable bloomer bearing impressive white or pink flower plumes towering above a tall fountain of sharp edged leaves. Q&A: Pampas grass has lost its plumes; ailing gladiolus 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Those were the words he used on the eve of our visit to an orchard north of Bangkok that was filled with these green spiky fruits dangling dangerously from towering trees. Pursuits: A Love Letter to a Smelly Fruit 2013-12-03T18:33:25Z And towering over the band were three monoliths: surrealistic, cartoonish, wide-eyed faces, their expressions somewhere between astonishment and alarm, bathed throughout the set in neo-psychedelic lights and video. Review: Animal Collective, in Joyful Pursuit of Sensory Overload 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z As a tribute to Lagerfeld, a towering figure at Chanel for more than 35 years, there were rigid white collars on top of light dresses and oversized bows on the chest. 'All-aboard' the Chanel Express for debut Viard collection 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z It’s also an elegy for a time when Eisenberg came close to her own self-prescribed destruction among the same towering loblolly pines and bending rivers of Pocahontas County. Decades After Two Murders, an Appalachian Town Grapples With the Crimes 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z There’s a path up one side, and a ski-lift on another, but I opted to climb this towering symbol of the High Coast by via ferrata – a series of steel footholds and cables. Sweden’s High Coast: an uplifting experience 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Out of shot is Michelangelo's David, towering unseen. Thomas Struth ? review 2011-07-06T17:42:12Z He turned a corner and gazed up in amazement as costumed Bowie mannequins peered down from a towering platform, like glamorous gargoyles. Tituss Burgess Gets Schooled on David Bowie 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z “The way many New Yorkers experienced the towers in their daily lives was that kind of ground-level looking up, these things towering over you,” he said. Magazine Covers About 9/11 2011-09-09T23:30:24Z Officials in Oslo are hoping that popularity will draw more visitors to the city: A towering new building for the Munch Museum is being built on the city’s waterfront. An Artist Wants to Build a U.F.O. Next to Edvard Munch’s Studio 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The towering end result horrifies her family and nearly kills the family dog, before actually killing her once she takes a bite. SNL: Elizabeth Warren faces Kate McKinnon's Elizabeth Warren 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Proportionately it seems less grandiose than the original, but it remains a towering, double-fistful of deliciousness. You won't leave Bellevue's Lunchbox Laboratory hungry 2012-04-12T20:15:10Z “He was screaming. He was a big guy, and he was towering over me. I was really scared.” Weinstein trial: witness says mogul screamed at her for refusing threesome 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t think, I couldn’t feel — all I could do was stare in bewilderment at the towering buildings in the distance. Chris Colfer: The First Time I Braved New York (and a Taxi!) 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The otherworldly landscape of Bryce Canyon’s towering sandstone hoodoos, natural arches, staircases, and canyons leaves an indelible impression no matter where you stand. These Are the Best Views in America 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z It looks at a glance like a monument, a towering edifice of painted wood and brass. Art’s New Perch: Your Neck, Not Your Wall 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Her sculptures, carved or molded from cedar, are towering, surprising mammoths that seem like organic growths bursting from the ground. ‘Into Her Own’ Review: A Sculptor’s Monumental Achievements 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z It’s accommodated, fed, watered, and sold trinkets to generations of travelers who visit its towering abbey. France’s stunning Mont St-Michel inspires 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Beautiful old homes, sheltered by towering live oaks, give the neighborhood a lush feel. Mardi Gras in Mobile — where it started 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Last year, the British Museum staged an exhibition of Renaissance drawings that seemed to reject the idea of Leonardo as some towering genius – stressing, for instance, how much he was influenced by his teacher Verrocchio. The Da Vinci ode: I was right about Leonardo's genius 2011-04-01T14:19:07Z "Tiger," HBO's new two-part documentary about Tiger Woods, attempts to explain the towering rise, epic downfall, and eventual comeback of one of the greatest athletes in the world. HBO's messy "Tiger" treats the controversial golf icon as salacious entertainment 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Taylor was a towering figure whose career as a choreographer began in the 1950s, rooted in experimentalism. The Paul Taylor Company Without Paul Taylor 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z The group’s video for their new single features band members towering over the Earth as strange, seemingly incongruous images meld together. Coldplay Mess With Perception in Illusory 'Up&Up' Video 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Yet nothing could obscure Domingo's towering stage presence. Sunken Garden; Nabucco; Mark Padmore & Graham Johnson – review 2013-04-20T23:08:33Z A terrace off the third-floor lobby offers striking views of grand steel bridges and towering cranes that reflect the neighborhood’s gritty manufacturing past. Check In: Hotel Review: Aloft Cleveland Downtown 2013-12-10T19:37:25Z The other presence is the towering trumpeter Miles Davis, the laconic voice of a jazz vanguard that succeeded Armstrong. Theater Review: Louis Armstrong Reminisces in ‘Satchmo at the Waldorf’ 2014-03-21T00:30:14Z In an airy work room filled with old sewing machines and towering shelves full of fabric, craftspeople stitched, pinned, sewed, stepping back from the mannequins to admire their work. Not Off the Rack: This Year’s Bespoke ‘Nutcracker’ at City Ballet 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z "It's spectacular," said Obama, as he gazed at the circle of towering megaliths while sheep grazed in a nearby field. In break from NATO, Obama visits prehistoric Stonehenge 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Set against the emerald background of shield volcano Mount Waialeale: a towering physical beauty from an earlier geological age, this is one of the most astounding sights on the planet. 20 of the world's best waterfalls: readers’ tips 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Life was mostly back to normal in Miami, with the towering piles of debris lining the streets the chief remaining sign of the storm. An Ailey Dancer Loyal to His Miami Roots and Mentor 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Its towering red brick is worn to black, its steps have all but crumbled, but stone dragons still stand guard. 2 weeks, 1 country and a world of wonders in Thailand 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Five centuries later, Stonehenge as we know it was built using some of those existing bluestones, as well as more than 80 towering “sarsen” stones, the monument’s vertical pillars, and horizontal lintels, or capping stones. What Was Stonehenge For? The Answer Might Be Simpler Than You Thought. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Let Silicon Valley chase a sleek future of frictionless rectangles and orbs: Brian’s creation, Charles, is a towering, homemade shambles with gray hair and a doddering shuffle that gives the impression of a retired sheepherder. ‘Brian and Charles’ Review: I, Robot Wearing a Cardigan 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z My mother, who came along for the tour, remembers being terrified as a child of the towering figure in a pink dress that would shake and cackle whenever someone approached. On Maryland’s Eastern Shore, walking among the spirits His style is ostentatiously androgynous: fur shawls, ankle boots, diamond chokers, sheer tops, draped on a frame nearly as towering as that of his father, a former Los Angeles Lakers star. EJ Johnson Is ‘Not Just Some Other Rich Girl’ 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z The buzz centers on the dynamic presence and towering voice of singer-guitarist Brittany Howard. Album review: Alabama Shakes, 'Boys & Girls' ✭✭✭ 2012-04-06T18:24:00Z Although the book’s main focus is on a string of international standoffs, the little details often have more freshness and insight than its towering ones do. Books of The Times: Evan Thomas’s ‘Ike’s Bluff’ Looks at Eisenhower 2012-09-24T22:29:05Z One picture gazes down at Venice from above St. Mark’s Campanile, the city’s highest structure, and another takes a similar perspective on Ubud, Bali, a town that has no towering buildings. In the galleries: Anything but simplicity in these drawings 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z After it went out of print, “Little Man, Little Man” received scant attention from scholars, who largely overlooked it as an inconsequential footnote to Baldwin’s towering literary legacy. A James Baldwin Book, Forgotten and Overlooked for Four Decades, Gets Another Life 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z The portrait of Beethoven that Yannick Nézet-Séguin creates through his conducting tends to be one of monumental grandeur, of this composer as a towering Great Man. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Two kids rolled up and sat a few chairs down, along with a towering white guy with a big baby face and a thin black woman in her UB school store uniform. Chris Wilson's master plan transformed his life after prison. He insists he's "not an anomaly" 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z The children’s choirs that occupied the front rows of the towering risers sang entirely from memory. ArtsBeat: Mahler Megasymphony: The Onslaught 2012-02-19T18:26:18Z Arthur Kulkov, the Siberian born, Coney Island raised in-demand model currently towering over Port Authority in an ad over five stories tall, is known around town for his eccentric and super-stylish way. T Magazine: Sunny Delight 2011-05-13T18:34:20Z Bandar, as it is known, is a town of scorching sunshine, warm blue waters and towering palms, and was once an important post on the spice route from India to Europe. A foodie tour of Iran: it's poetry on a plate 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z At the heart of Glenstone’s idyll is not a stately home but the Pavilions, a cluster of towering concrete cubes. Glenstone’s landcaping as mindful as its artwork 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z It was just off a birch-lined road that led from the towering entrance gates, and not far from the thirty-two-room house. Why Tolstoy Took Up Tennis 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The seafood saloon sits between the towering, Italian-themed Officina and the Maine Avenue Fish Market, which is lit up at night like a carnival. Review | The Wharf’s newest seafood joint is an oyster bar with much more than oysters 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z No, Hurley’s the guy you want around in a crisis; affable, moral, trustworthy and with a towering sense of perspective. Larry David to Lisa Simpson – life lessons from TV's top role models 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z The library of his New York townhouse, with its towering bookcases, a portrait of George Eliot and a photo of the Chekhov family, was a shrine to literature. Robert Gottlieb, Eminent Editor From le Carré to Clinton, Dies at 92 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Mostly, though, “Skyscraper” is about the movie’s other, far more towering figure: Mr. Johnson, a performer whose colossal physicality is strikingly complemented by a delicate expressivity too rarely seen in contemporary blockbusters. Review: In ‘Skyscraper,’ Dwayne Johnson Scales a Tower of Clichés 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z David Oyelowo, who gave a towering performance as Martin Luther King, was also snubbed. The Oscars might not be #SoWhite in 2017: These buzz-worthy performances could be game-changers 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z On to a towering set is projected an online exchange between a mother and her son. Girl X ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:35Z The banks were thick with banana and mango trees and towering coconut palms. Taking to the River in Thailand 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z We spent a week strolling along the beach, watching whales, picking berries and hiking among California’s towering redwoods. AWAY IS HOME | Bad start to the trip? Don’t turn back 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z Entire cosmologies, who knows how old, are built into, and dramatized in, Dogon masquerades, through masks, like those in the show, some towering into the sky, others designed to scrape the ground. Art Review: ‘African Cosmos,’ at National Museum of African Art 2012-08-30T21:48:16Z In the towering pivotal scene, our hero/enemy, a medical officer who has discovered pollution in the baths in his spa town, sets out to woo a crowd and ends up by denouncing it. Public Enemy; These Shining Lives; The Hothouse – review 2013-05-18T23:07:16Z Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik was more blunt earlier this month: “The competition to be the first billionaire in space should mark a milestone in the towering vanity of the wealthy,” he wrote. Billionaires in space: The launch of a dream or just out-of-this-world ego? 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z If you choose to walk from downtown London to the striking brick edifice encircled by a park, you’ll be drawn by its towering dome. London’s Imperial War Museum takes visitors back into the trenches 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z It’s also just a few minutes’ walk to the Bund, the famous waterfront area where old European banking and trading houses gaze over the river at the new, towering financial centers of Pudong. Conquering High-Priced Shanghai, From Dumplings to Modern Art 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z And when Easy hushed us all for a few minutes to experience total silence in the shadow of towering orange cliffs, with the river to ourselves, it was, as the kids say, awesome. Road Scholar’s trips for kids and their grandparents provide a rare bonding experience 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Indeed, his accomplishments in loneliness are nearly as towering as his accomplishments in song, and it’s the race problem, in part, that apparently made this the heartbreaking case. James McBride’s ‘Kill ’Em and Leave’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Brand's brand of pop-spirituality, philanthropy and towering self-regard provoked considerable comment below the line, including this diagnosis from bobkennedy: His psychological makeup is no different from a cult leader. Comedians get chance to fall flat on TV, and Eddie Izzard sets sights on politics 2013-02-05T16:36:20Z In this case, it is a towering pack that fellow trekkers dub "the monster." 'Wild' takes Reese Witherspoon into raw, bracing new territory 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Last fall, after parts of Santa Rosa were leveled by blazes, he put a towering firefighter on his property to honor first responders. In Sebastopol, Calif., recycled junk sculptures with a Wine Country backdrop 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Centered on an elegant patio and fountain, the hotel rises like a Moorish castle, with palatial archways, tiled Andalusian frescoes, towering timbered ceilings, ornate iron balconies, and minarets. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: Alfonso XIII in Seville, Spain 2013-01-16T17:50:31Z Now there are plans to build a towering mixed-use development right here on North 21st Street. In Purcellville, landmark Nichols Hardware reaches a hard-won milestone: 100 years 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z With women in towering shoes so vertiginous their legs shook as they minced, ever so slowly, around the room. Bind Me Up; Set Me Free 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z A towering genius, Wells overcame poverty and illness while producing enormously popular science fiction tales and political books that sought to destroy the British Empire. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z “But I think it’s equally special to be looking up at the sky alone, in solace, maybe in a field with songbirds singing or staring at towering redwoods.” When 4 Photographers Looked Up, This Is What They Saw 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z Then there are the less-than-conventional operatic dangers of freak tides, towering waves, and the set sinking into the spongy shingle, perched just a few feet away from the water. Peter Grimes on the Beach? Shiver me tenors! 2013-06-12T18:00:01Z Robert Gordon, a 1950s-influenced rocker with a silky baritone and towering pompadour who emerged from the New York punk underground of the 1970s to help stoke a rockabilly revival, died on Oct. Robert Gordon, Punk Rocker Turned Rockabilly Revivalist, Dies at 75 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Having spent too long talking to people in the other queues, and not enough time queuing, we wedged into the front row with the screen towering terrifyingly above us. Why the quality of Sex and the City 2 makes little difference to its fans 2010-06-04T16:36:00Z They then projected a huge skull and crossbones on to the Russian government building, and re-enacted Eisenstein's epic about the Bolshevik revolution, October, by scaling its towering gates. Don't raise the bridge: Voina, Russia art terrorists 2011-04-12T21:00:01Z The list also features the rolling hills and towering mountains of the Lake District and the remote Atlantic island of St Helena, where Napoleon died in 1821. What's on your list for world heritage status? 2011-03-22T15:06:00Z Bidding on the towering tribute to heroes of the Sept. Sept. 11 statue in Md. to be auctioned on eBay 2010-05-10T11:16:00Z The woods, full of towering tulip poplars, oaks and other native hardwoods, were not regenerating. In deer territory, good fences make good gardens 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z We have stony prairie; they have westerly breezes and towering dunes, huge undulations that begin in Indiana and continue all the way north. From Chicago to Mackinac Island, a Tour of Lake Michigan 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The song, performed by Jordin Sparks, was honored with the towering song award. Sting, Billy Joel, Elton John at Songwriters Hall 2013-06-14T14:26:09Z Today the most famous of all Fluxists is Ms. Ono, who now has a billboard pleading “Imagine Peace” towering over a highway in Houston. Art Review: ?Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life? - Review 2011-09-23T23:19:41Z Take a drive up the destroyed volcano called Mount Mazama in Oregon, where towering fir trees line both sides of Route 62. Inspirational Travel Destinations 2010-12-09T17:15:00Z In his towering gray pompadour, Ashby suggests a vain, surgically altered Mafioso relocated to Virginia through the witness protection program. Review: ‘Ashby’ Pairs a Retired C.I.A. Killer With a High School Nerd 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z As with Havasupai Falls, towering red cliffs provide a picturesque backdrop to the flowing waters. Havasupai Falls is crowded and visiting will get more complicated. We have an alternative. 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Indulging all the romantic excesses of the gothic revival, the country house is an entangled mass of towering arches. Lucy Skaer, Lowry, Vermeer: the week's art shows in pictures 2013-06-21T12:00:00Z Commissioned specially for the exhibition is a towering installation by the Cameroonian artist Barthélémy Toguo called “The Pillar of Missing Migrants,” that nearly reaches the top of the Louvre’s glass Pyramid. More Art to See in Paris This Fall 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z For that reason, Kremwerk, the underground electronic-music club nestled between towering high-rises and construction cranes downtown, is quite literally a diamond in the rough. Kremwerk brings back 4-night dance-music festival Kremfest 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z They are rich and intensely colorful works, some light-filled seascapes, others brooding forest interiors and portraits — there is no other word for them — of trees, whether of a towering red cedar or a fledgling pine. Vancouver Island, Through an Artist’s Eyes 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z “The Nutcracker” is set on Christmas Eve, and typically features a towering Christmas tree and dancing snowflakes, making it an annual holiday tradition around the world. ‘Nutcracker’ in May? The Virus Postpones a Christmas Tradition 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z The central section of “siege,” her whole-floor installation here, is a forest of towering, narrow arches. Art Review: Altfest, Barlow, Dean, Djurberg and Liden at New Museum 2012-06-07T22:17:35Z In the 1980s, the building acquired another nickname, the Coyote Building, as its spire and towering flagpole were said to favor a baying coyote. In Chicago, Landmark Hotels Where the Views Are Enchanting 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z This ignites the ire of Abundance’s house mother Elektra, a towering force played by Dominique Jackson. The uplifting realness of FX's "Pose" 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Here in western Alberta, towering peaks with rugged glaciers ring the glorious Bow River Valley. A family trades sand for powder on a spring break adventure in the Canadian Rockies 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z What makes Pierre a towering modernistic figure is that he has managed in his life to move between revolutionary moments and evolutionary moments. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z Strapped to the side of a towering marble column was a wooden post. European art comes alive when you learn the story behind it 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z She wore a gold dress and towering stilettos, and launched into a parody of Cher’s “Welcome to Burlesque,” putting in all sorts of lyrics about illegal substances and anonymous sex. Scene City: Carrying a Torch for Bar d’O 2012-12-26T20:13:38Z “Hometown” builds powerfully with a gospel choir wrapped around a towering guitar solo. Review: Brantley Gilbert’s star-making album 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z From the summit, hikers gaze across a lush green valley guarded by towering cliffs. 10 of Canada's best lesser-known national parks 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z And when I signed my first book contract, I reinvented it into a towering three-layer cake I affectionately nicknamed a "not-so-shortcake." I'm a pro baker — but my mom's biscuit recipe will always be my favorite 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z The absence of Barenboim, a towering figure in classical music for decades, has brought into focus his singular stature and power. Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Miles of bookshelves towering up on nine levels, with another below ground, are ready and waiting to receive more than two million books. £188m Birmingham library project ready for finishing touch – 2.3m books 2013-04-29T19:15:16Z The overland journey from Tibet to Nepal, on winding roads and amid towering Himalayan peaks, must be one of the world’s most breathtaking. Nepal-Tibet border reopens to tourists after 2015 earthquake 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Amid the towering piles and teetering stacks of video games that arrive every year there are always some that nag: the ones that got away. Critic?s Notebook: A Critic?s Lament: The Games That Got Away 2011-12-24T02:00:10Z She wore a short, angular jacket that barely reached her thighs, olive-green tights and shiny, elaborately laced knee-high boots with towering high heels. Music: Even Offstage, Lady Gaga?s Ready for the Stage 2011-05-18T13:02:40Z His progress is visible in the towering stacks of manuscript pages that cover a large table in his living room, which doubles as a work space. Larry Kramer’s Novel ‘The American People’ Adds a Gay Dimension to History 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z The Sagrada Família, the towering, incomplete Gaudi cathedral, is one of several inspired physical embodiments of the serious ideas this book means to contemplate. In Dan Brown’s ‘Origin,’ Robert Langdon Returns, With an A.I. Friend in Tow 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z One of the most influential works by this towering figure of American music is “Drumming,” composed in the wake of Mr. Reich’s 1970 visit to Ghana. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Jason even uses his rocket of an arm to smash a towering light, albeit with a stone, not a bat and ball. Review | Emily Nemens’s ‘The Cactus League’ is a nostalgic look at the world of baseball 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z And he remains freakishly nimble, sprinting from one side of the stage to the other, dressed all the while in towering designer heels. Prince performs first UK festival 2011-07-04T03:48:45Z They’re our life’s towering originals, the difficult ones who infuriate us and exhilarate us in equal measure. Review: In ‘The Narrow Door,’ Paul Lisicky Opens a Window on Friendship 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Johnnie Brown, stylish in a straw fedora and French cuffed shirt, strolled through one of Savannah’s oldest black cemeteries, pausing in front of a towering oak tree. Savannah, Both Sides 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The towering Jefferson Davis obelisk continues to be a landmark for him in the flat Kentucky countryside. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z It’s like looking at a towering sparkling showgirl headdress and shrugging, “Needs more feathers.” "Rocketman" won't go breakin' your heart — but maybe it should've tried 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Crowning hillsides and standing along the coast in this same small corner of Cornwall are towering cylindrical stone stacks, remnants of deserted tin mines. Cornwall’s stunning countryside holds everything from Iron Age wonders to Land’s End 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The contrast between the tiny Mouse King biting at Clara’s hands or feet and the human-size one towering over her is drastic. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: Shh, the Puppets Are About to Dance 2010-12-07T12:00:00Z Across the southernmost fields of Storm King, Mark di Suvero’s titanic steel articulations remain the paradigmatic sculptures of Storm King, their abstract concatenations of beams and panels towering majestically over the grassland. Storm King Reopens for the Art-Starved 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The trail dumped him beneath towering overpasses and a small clearing that led to the river, where Buckley is believed to have entered. Kevin Morby Chases Ghosts, and a New Album, in Memphis 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z The store was known for its labyrinthine layout and towering stacks of books. Dave Dutton, longtime L.A. bookstore owner, has died 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z I remember taking a train from the capital to the coast and almost being able to pick the flowers from the window — the rain forest was towering over the railway. Charting Change in Madagascar 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Basin and Range wasn’t on it, so I set out to find a towering silver alien in front of a Quonset hut on Nevada’s Extraterrestrial Highway, so named because of nearby Area 51. At Basin and Range National Monument, Landscapes, Art and Aliens 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z It becomes an atrium in the guise of a towering canyon, a city block deep. Wonder and Awe in Natural History’s New Wing. Butterflies, Too. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z There’s a wealth of provocative and creative Black-focused programs in February, looking deep into the past to examine topics such as the roots of slavery and the achievements of towering figures including Frederick Douglass. TV marks Black History Month with provocative, creative fare 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z “Nick Serota is a towering figure in the world of art and museums,” Tom Eccles, executive director of the center, said. Nicholas Serota Wins Bard Curatorial Award 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z The overwhelming immensity of the production sometimes dwarfs these fine actors, even when they are projected in close-up on to the side of the towering edifice. 2008: Macbeth – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-12T14:10:00Z It appears just as its subject has been nearly forgotten and long enough after the 20th century has passed to appreciate his towering significance. Books of The Times: ?George F. Kennan? by John Lewis Gaddis - Review 2011-11-23T00:16:55Z Despite the revival, rye still sits in the towering shadow of its more popular cousins; bourbon and Tennessee whiskey account for three-quarters of American whiskey production. Explorer: Rye Whiskey Is Back, With Flavors of American History 2011-12-23T17:57:07Z From any of these spots you can go fishing for barramundi, hike to sacred rock art sites, and take tours to towering waterfalls or up croc-infested estuaries to spy on wallabies and jabirus. The 46 Places to Go in 2013 2013-01-11T16:15:59Z Sandwiched between, on Saturday, is a 21st-century choreographers’ bill starring Justin Peck’s “Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes,” his thoughtful interpretation of Aaron Copland’s towering ballet score. Dance Listings for May 29-June 4 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z He is a towering, loping presence; at 58, he seems finally to have attained the middle age that he exuded, as Frasier Crane, from his early 30s onwards. Kelsey Grammer: starting over 2013-03-23T09:00:00Z But in 2008 the Copenhagen city council voted against erecting the sculpture, a mastodon of towering geometric shapes, with a majority deeming the work too clunky and costly. Scene/Seen: A Bold New Art World Is Lighting Up Western Denmark 2011-10-14T13:30:15Z A few blocks from the terminal, there was the cathedral, towering over the town’s low roofs, surrounded by lovely gardens along the slow and narrow River Itchen. A London day trip to Winchester, England’s former royal capital 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z He was a towering jazz pianist with a staggering 23 Grammy Awards who pushed the boundaries of the genre and worked alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z And yet her reading of Bach’s Partita in D, its Chaconne sparkling with freshness and grace, became one of the most memorable renderings of this towering masterwork of the violin repertory I have heard. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The surfaces of Anderson’s towering talismans contrast rough and finished textures. Review | In the galleries: The past invades the present in paintings by Gregory Ferrand 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z At 77, Rivers' tiny frame still holds a towering determination not to be denied, forgotten or pushed aside. Review: Joan Rivers proves she won't be denied at Snoqualmie Casino show 2011-02-13T22:22:04Z And now he is making perhaps his biggest star turn yet, as the executive chef at Imperial No. 9, a nightclubby restaurant inside a planted greenhouse at the new towering glass Mondrian Hotel in SoHo. A Chef Is Cooking 2011-03-10T00:22:56Z As the NAACP’s 18th president, Brooks inherits the organization’s storied history, peopled over the years with such towering African American figures as W.E.B. Who is the NAACP's new president, Cornell William Brooks? Teamed with towering double platforms, they made the models look like masters of an alternate universe. Why the Suit Is the Shape of the Moment 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Girardi used to be a towering presence in the legal community in Los Angeles. The Real Trials of a ‘Real Housewife’ 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z That theme is evident from the moment visitors step inside the new museum to be greeted by a towering, 22-ton rusting baobab tree. Senegal’s Museum of Black Civilizations Welcomes Some Treasures Home 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z “Whither” resembles a scene from a dreamy Western as four riders and a packhorse climb a hill with a towering thunderhead as their goal. ‘Territorial Hues’ offers colorful journey through Washington State’s printmaking past 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The arc of the pharaoh’s reign is recounted in spoken passages by Zachary James, whose towering presence and booming declamations feel thrillingly neither of this time nor world. Review: The Met’s ‘Akhnaten’ Takes a Post-Grammys Victory Lap 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Robert Brill’s clean, sturdy sets included towering masts, spidery riggings and, in one scene, a brilliantly realized whale-rendering works. Music Review: In ?Moby-Dick? in Dallas, Big Role for the Roiling Sea 2010-05-02T22:07:00Z The group loomed in the mezzanine among the towering and protruding organ pipes, perhaps the appropriate place for metal tubes that sing with air. With the Barclay Brass, D.C. takes an outsized role in the small world of classical brass music 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z The work depicts three haystacks towering over harvest workers on a bright summer day. Van Gogh artwork looted by Nazis to be auctioned in New York 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z In the central Great Canal, a towering waterfall will cascade from a yellow construction crane. Olafur Eliasson Envisions a Spectacle in Versailles 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z With reinforced-concrete arches and balconies shaped like immense rocky outcroppings or glacial formations, the hall vies with the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, the museum’s towering entrance on the opposite side of the campus. Natural History Museum’s Expansion: Part Dr. Seuss, Part Jurassic Park 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z “All this attention, it’s going to be fun,” says towering Frozen Tundra Man, a.k.a. All eyes are on Wisconsin, the state that’s gearing up to define the presidential election 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z With massive battle scenes, biblical plagues and a towering tidal wave, British director Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings" is an epic historical drama and retelling of the story of Moses as a reluctant prophet. Epic 'Exodus' casts Christian Bale's Moses as reluctant leader 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Among the recently acquired specimens is a towering 12-foot amethyst geode from Uruguay, which will be on display in the museum’s Grand Gallery through this year’s winter holidays. New Home for Gems and Minerals at the Museum of Natural History 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Two roof decks offer wonderful views of the city, although it’s unclear why this particular monolith deserved to be a towering outlier in a mostly low-rise area. Mr. Purple, a Trendy Hotel Bar on the Lower East Side 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z The Costa judges described his 14,233-line translation of Dante, which took him several years, as "a towering achievement that will stand the test of time". Clive James up for Costa award 2013-11-27T02:06:32Z Leigh Maddox’s three “Beeboxes” are elongated house forms filled with sections of tubes, much like the towering one a few blocks north. In the Galleries: Music and art collide with a pop Yet you have a mile of broad sweeping sand dotted with towering rocks that stand in large low-tide pools flickering with tiny fish and shrimps. The 50 best beaches in the world 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z We could see over to Mount Agung, towering over the landscape to the southeast. In Bali, hiking a volcano to greet the sun 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z There were a red barn, overgrown gardens, towering oak trees - and a "for sale" sign. TV show follows evolution of exurbanites' farm 2011-04-17T23:46:04Z “Lulu” already had a towering reputation, and its effective banning by the Nazis had kept it a political symbol after the war. Friedrich Cerha, 96, Who Finished Another Composer’s Masterpiece, Dies 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z A walk around the garden is a lesson in the diversity of things that can thrive in this climate: tiny turkey figs, knobby atemoya, towering banana trees. 2010-01-15T22:44:00Z The first thing he does is scale up the work, with some samplers towering more than 7 feet high. Artist confronts gun violence, gender roles through embroidery 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z The Haines homestead is a hundred and sixty acres that stand face to face with the towering presence of Mount Hayes. Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z However, orphans, the sick and those with communicable diseases were still incarcerated behind its thick, towering black walls. The coalition's attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Rather than replace the monument at the top of the 90-foot-tall column, Ms. Leigh will position her figure on the ground beside the towering column for several months as a temporary counterpoint. A Show With Its Host City, New Orleans, as the Protagonist 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, swirls of patterns surround a realistic portrait of beloved singer and actor Simon Diaz, an immense image on a wall towering over a Caracas street. AP PHOTOS: Venezuelan street artist seeks to inspire 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z It says something about the range of their collaboration that “Jurassic Park” came out the same year, featuring another towering Williams score — infused with an almost religious awe for the prehistoric creatures of the film. John Williams on ‘Indiana Jones’ and His Favorite Scores 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z It's no exaggeration to say that the new skylines, culminating in the towering glazed spike of Italian architect Renzo Piano's Shard, owe their existence to this moment. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z I’ve been told it was historically all part of an effort to toughen me up, but instead I was filled with towering doubts about my own worth. When my therapist dared me to sleep with her 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z Surrounding and fronting the quiet manicured lawns were the towering glass-faced office buildings within which the personnel walked, argued, sat, stared — in a word, worked. In-work dining at Silicon Valley companies like Google and Facebook causes spike in divorce rate 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Melodic lines are layered though each, a towering layer cake’s delicious stratum to be savored. Bruckner as a holiday treat? The L.A. Phil thinks so 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z It’s probably healthy, especially in a winner-take-all era of enormous superstars and plutocrats towering over the rest of us, that we reserve a bit of resentment for people who are incredibly rich or famous. Back off U2: Criticizing the band for not playing Paris immediately after the terror attacks is absurd 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Sometimes Moore gets bogged down in plot summary, as she does in her review of Margaret Atwood’s “Oryx and Crake,” which sounds unreadable despite her characterization of it as a “towering and intrepid new novel.” From Don DeLillo to Marilyn Monroe: Lorrie Moore’s First Essay Collection 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The spacious interior is cleft down the middle by two towering white walls — an abstracted fjord — with high-up bridges that cross between them. ‘Mad dash to the finish’ as Seattle’s new Nordic Museum prepares for its grand debut 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z I confidently predict she will be seen as one of the towering figures of our time, when most former Booker winners have been completely forgotten. Is the 'Beryl Bainbridge Booker' a good thing? 2011-02-13T00:05:32Z A quick look at the city’s SoHo area or the centuries-old brownstones that line the streets of quiet Brooklyn neighborhoods reveals there’s much more to the Big Apple than towering skyscrapers and new buildings. Discover 50 Years of New York City’s Historic Landmarks 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Photograph: Alamy In contrast to the towering, illuminated skyscrapers and hi-tech infrastructure of Japan’s major cities, the Iya Valley is perhaps one of the most isolated regions of the country. Searching for the remote: Cabo Raso, Patagonia’s coastal ghost town 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Slim offered a preview Tuesday of the towering structure, which is dramatically angled and covered with 16,000 aluminum hexagons. Mexico's Slim unveils new art museum in capital 2011-03-01T22:38:11Z He holds in his magnificent memory a panorama of American culture in the nineteen-thirties and forties, which, in the wake of the great European emigration to Southern California, included several towering figures of twentieth-century culture. The Magnificent Memory of Norman Lloyd 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z By all accounts, I had been told that tourism was on a steady uptick and everywhere I looked construction cranes were putting up towering new malls and hotels. Living Like a Local in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The summer dress code of silver and white was designed to blend into the snowy scene, as the transparent tent under towering trees was opened for the White Fairy Tale Love Ball. Special Report: Fashion: Fashion's Naked Heart 2011-07-07T17:36:26Z Upon entering, catch the epic view of a towering Winged Victory sculpture, visible in the home’s conservatory, across a dramatic 175-foot pergola. 36 Hours in Buffalo 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z By contrast, the whole idea of Graham, the towering modern-dance pioneer, still rings with defiance and daring. Review | Martha Graham dancers are marvelous, but the message is mixed in Kennedy Center program 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Those employees will be mostly white, mostly men, and mostly known for upholding an industry whose sexism is towering, peerless and, according to charmers like James Damore, not even as sexist as it should be. The Fate of Most Silicon Valley Drones: ‘Live Work Work Work Die’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The show was “Company,” a musical about a 35-year-old in the midst of an existential crisis, and as Coughlan left the theater, she saw a towering Times Square billboard. The Secret Is Out on This ‘Bridgerton’ Star 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z He contrasts this with the parallel career of AJ Ayer and then his own much less towering interest in philosophy at school. Keeping Up with the Germans by Philip Oltermann ? review 2012-02-09T09:00:01Z It was fitting that the opera he conducted to open the Met season was by Tchaikovsky, a towering Russian composer who was a tormented gay man. Gustavo Dudamel and Valery Gergiev Face National Issues 2014-04-03T12:00:01Z And Thomas manages the neat trick of making a towering figure seem both imposing and human, as he overcomes his own temper to make history. Review: 'Jackie & Me' brings together Little Leaguer, hero 2011-05-06T20:50:11Z Critics say the 13,000-pound towering nude is not appropriate public art. A giant nude statue in California is stirring controversy 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The 1927 Inn at Death Valley, with its mosaic-bottomed pool and towering palms, is an oasis that stands in stark contrast to our hottest national park. When the hotel is the destination 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Solo and Simon emerge from their rooms to play basketball before dinner, giants now, towering over their mother. Poet Elizabeth Alexander’s memoir of love, loss, art and glorious food 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z The show seems as if it will build to some towering finale, but instead it keeps teetering along at the same consistently high mark. Review: ‘Asking for It’ Uses Wit to Tackle Cultural Norms About Rape 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z This museum on the banks of the Sydenham River is dedicated to the life and times of one towering figure — Josiah Henson, a freedom seeker from Maryland. At Ontario Underground Railroad Sites, Farming and Liberty 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z But De Shields’s towering presence is somehow more captivating in the quiet beats — perhaps most strikingly when he carries the corpse of his daughter in his arms, unwavering, halfway across the stage. André De Shields Isn’t Done With ‘King Lear’ (or ‘Hadestown’) 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z ON a recent summer evening at Mr. Black, a dance party held every Tuesday at Bardot on North Vine Street, Sean Wagner was towering above the crowd. Some Men Are Dressed to the Nines, the Height of Their Pumps 2011-10-14T23:44:18Z For fame is the name of the game on the runways, in the front rows and among the outrageously dressed wannabes, toddling on their towering platform shoes outside the show venues. Playing the Fame Game 2012-09-13T17:31:40Z In the book the lighthouse learns that the bridge towering over it has not erased its place in the world, and preservationists, along with elementary school letter writers, helped make that happy ending real. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 5-11 2012-10-04T22:49:01Z “Infantry,” rows of Alexander’s creatures are arranged in perfect military formation and outfitted in black found shoes on a red carpet in the cathedral’s towering Germanic chapel. | Jane Alexander 2013-04-19T13:00:31Z Guys like Gregory Peck and I don't want a big lug like you towering over us. James Arness of 'Gunsmoke' fame dies at 88 2011-06-03T18:16:09Z In an especially challenging scene from Season 12, also in the water park episode, Frank rides a towering, dry slide that is closed off to customers. Meet the Secret Weapon of ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Board of Education, the towering 1954 civil rights landmark, and his years as the Supreme Court’s first black justice. It’s Thurgood Marshall to the Rescue in a New Thriller 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z A real master class is a strange blend of seminar and performance, a high-stakes event in which a young person appears onstage to be considered, guided and sometimes humiliated by a towering older figure. An avuncular Frank Gehry takes to the Web in new online master class 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z The “Untitled” series, one of the towering achievements of American art, reminds us that nothing can surpass the strange beauty of reality if a photographer knows where to look. Arbus, Untitled and Unearthly 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Nowadays, it is now known worldwide for its towering mugs of beer, oompah music, men wearing traditional Bavarian Lederhosen leather shorts and women in bright costumes. Beer flows as Germany kicks off Oktoberfest 2012-09-22T19:46:03Z And for their efforts Washingtonians are rewarded with long hours, mediocre salaries, towering rents and precious little spare scratch for weekly blowouts. Is ‘The Wing’ too hopelessly Manhattan for the working women of Washington? 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z The set’s musical reach was typically wide and ambitious, touching on everything from protest folk to soul and hard rock, with Garry Tallent’s bass a towering presence throughout. Concert review: Bruce Springsteen at Wrigley Field 2012-09-08T12:25:00Z The lobby is a towering space framed on both sides by several big, balconylike reading rooms. Architecture Review: Civic Engagement Trumps ?Shhh!? 2011-01-30T18:34:30Z Cedars-Sinai Medical Center rises up behind it, like towering, angry waves. Abstract Frank Stella sculpture 'Adjoeman' joins Cedars-Sinai artworks 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z But the towering man with trademark worker suits, hoarse voice and wavy hair also is remembered by Greeks for his stubborn opposition to postwar regimes that persecuted him and outlawed his music. Greek music great Mikis Theodorakis dies at 96 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Made expressly for the high-ceilinged venue are a few towering pictures divided across several sheets, notably the 13-foot-high “This Moment On/Ribbons in the Sky.” Review | In the galleries: ‘Taking Territory’ exhibition finds the creative common ground 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z At its centre is a towering performance of Mount Rushmore dimensions from Daniel Day-Lewis. Oscars 2013: and the overall winner is … politics 2013-02-23T23:22:53Z Elsewhere in the show, Almond’s “Present Form” series depicts towering rock columns from a millennia-old stone formation, dating from roughly 3000 BCE, found on an island off the coast of Scotland. Darren Almond's Ghostly Photography at London's White Cube Gallery 2014-01-30T05:00:00Z Richard Taruskin, a music historian of towering intellect and erudition who delighted in stirring up good trouble, died on Friday at 77. Music’s Towering Intellectual, With an Appetite for Trouble 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Find a table in the manicured garden where you’ll be shaded beneath towering trees and soothed by the sound of trickling fountains. 36 Hours in Buenos Aires 2013-09-12T22:16:50Z The towering church organ is put to infrequent but incredible use, as with a live accompaniment screening of The Passion of Joan of Arc earlier this year. Cine-files: Triskel Christchurch, Cork 2012-11-20T10:15:29Z There’s no doubt that the towering brothers will meet face to face. How will "Game of Thrones" end? Fans on Salon's staff have theories 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Once over, he finds himself in a building site, but still surrounded on all four sides by towering walls. The Wall by William Sutcliffe - review 2013-03-30T15:00:00Z It is unavoidable, too, in the Parthenon-like gazebo that houses the towering figure of Jefferson at the edge of the Tidal Basin. Memorial Review: Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Opens in Washington 2011-08-25T12:00:00Z Abramson was born in Russia, and “Two Face” is in part inspired by the towering leaders and steely crowds found in old Soviet propaganda posters. Mark Abramson’s “Two Face”: Scenes from the Republican National Convention 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Servellon points to one of her works, “The Garden Party,” which conjures a buzzing, hissing, rainbow-hued beehive in which those towering cat ladies sport Mardi Gras masks. Raven Servellon's 'Velvet Sunflower' is a trippy art party 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z The only things visible from my home for the night were rolling hills blanketed in vivid green, backed by rocky mountains towering over them. In New Zealand, Sauvignon Wishes and Sashimi Dreams 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Still, it was a huge draw and full of variety, featuring towering ghost dancers, rippling ectoplasm, floating stripes, rambling dots and more. Cunningham dances hit antic, moody, transcendent notes 2011-10-28T17:18:04Z The towering composers of earlier eras, even Bach and Handel, thought of themselves as artist-practitioners, creating the works their jobs demanded, even recycling existing pieces when pressed for time. Trump Is Wrong if He Thinks Symphonies Are Superior 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z Midtown is largely empty, the towering office buildings no longer spilling forth hordes of potential viewers primed for distraction on a lunch break or cocktail hour. Holiday Windows Aren’t Over. Neither, They Say, Is New York. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z It also comes with a towering legacy: Edward James Olmos’ crackling original performance. Demian Bichir plays it cool in 'Zoot Suit' 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s possible to perform a towering symphony associated with an orchestra’s legacy as well as offer a recent work. Review: Concertgebouw Orchestra Shows Off Its Legacy at Carnegie 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z McCarter says that whenever he stays on Sinclair, the allure of life on the mainland, just beyond towering Lummi Island to the east, fades. The ‘other’ San Juan islanders go their own way 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z I love the towering space of GoMA, and the way the first giant space to the right of the entrance allows exhibitions to stretch their wings and reach for the sky. Review: My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia 2013-06-06T03:00:00Z "They like to observe their terrain from a towering vantage point, so we've given them a habitat that lets them do exactly that – with a view out over Regent's Park." London Zoo's new Tiger Territory: built for the animals first, and visitors second 2013-03-20T18:32:11Z His opponent could be a towering karate champion or an army of uniformed thugs. How Bruce Lee Exploded a Stereotype With a One-Inch Punch 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The Times’s obituary described him as a “towering novelist who explored lust, Jewish life and America.” A Philip Roth Reader 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z There's even a fresh appreciation of restraint in new songs such as the tender Save Me, written and sung by towering bassist Chris Wolstenholme, and the sinewy, slow-burning menace of protest song Animals. Muse – review 2012-10-01T11:35:50Z He was “a towering human being with stories for days,” according to Elijah Wood, who played Frodo Baggins in Jackson’s films, while director Martin Scorsese called him “a great actor and a wonderful friend”. Johnny Depp pays tribute to 'noble and wise' Christopher Lee 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z The towering title track layers intricate guitar work atop skittering percussion before a chorus comes along and sweeps everything into a tidal wave of sound. Foo Fighters Are Shaken Yet Still Standing on ‘But Here We Are’ 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z With the acquisition, UTA took on the estates of towering literary figures like John le Carré, Ian Fleming, Daphne du Maurier and A.A. United Talent Agency Grows Its Literary Business 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Loveliest of all is the towering Smith Island cake. Review | At Old Maryland Grill, every night is homecoming 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z A few beats later and his gaze is again directed up, but now at Rustin, who’s towering above King, challenging him. ‘Rustin’ Review: A Sidelined Civil Rights Activist Comes Center 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z ‘Let It Go’ Moment Hold on tight: Elsa belts it out while standing atop a towering set of crystal stairs that rotates out over the audience. Let It Go Go Go! Three Stage Versions of ‘Frozen’ Are on the Way 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z The designer L’Wren Scott, whose was found dead in her New York apartment on Monday, started her fashion collection eight years ago, building it on her own elegant and towering self. On the Runway Blog: A Reflection: Suzy Menkes on the Fashion Designer L’Wren Scott 2014-03-17T19:01:28Z His magnificent exhibition of abstract paintings at Ace Gallery in Beverly Hills fills the towering main space with the perfect combination of visual wallop, funky nuance and breathtaking sensitivity. What to see in L.A. galleries: Andrew Masullo's off-kilter world, plus Gary Lang and Ruth Pastine 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Montgomery rose from the river and followed the trail below the towering rock facades of the canyon. Montana cold-water fishing offers respite from crowds 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z His set is all wooden spindles, moss-green walls, towering bookcases and shabby but solid furniture – everything is impeccably period, but the walls are all leaning at crazily expressionist angles. Candida – review 2013-07-13T23:05:35Z The moon peeked between the towering trees and coal plant lights blinked in the far distance. My mother, alone in the woods 2014-01-20T01:00:00Z It’s the towering feathers of a warrior coming up over the horizon. First-time hunter vs. turkey: Thanksgiving dinner is on the line. 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z They are itching, after more than a year of confinement, to step up their style game in towering heels. High Heels Are Ready to Stomp Out Crocs and Birks 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z Photograph: David Levene It was meant to be the 50-metre-tall "angel of the south": a stupendous white horse towering over redeveloped land in Kent. Angel of the south 2013-03-05T15:19:23Z Because of the building’s relative squatness, however, this rooftop pool provided office workers in the towering buildings on all sides with close-up views of all sunbathing action. At Singapore Hotel, Whimsy and Elegance, à la Lagerfeld 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z And then I found it: deluxe, A-list-size palms towering overhead, skewed building blocks piled one upon the other. For sale: Dennis Hopper's house 2010-10-04T19:30:00Z Two unlikely explorers teetered on stilts in the lower left corner, one bulbous eye peering through a towering telescope. Art in Bristol, England, Moves Beyond Museum Walls 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Yet those blocks have assumed a towering, powerful shape by the end of “Mecca” that speaks to mortal hopes and fears so directly it makes you catch your breath. | 'The Road to Mecca' : ?Road to Mecca? at American Airlines Theater - Review 2012-01-18T03:01:07Z Within a half-hour drive of the ancient town, you can ride a basket boat through river channels thick with water coconut trees or climb the steps of the Marble Mountain into caves with towering Buddhas. 36 Hours in Hoi An 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z He is doing this with a pair of films that unravel the psyches of two towering historical figures of the 20th century. Director Pablo Larraín is this awards season's double threat with 'Jackie' and the poet caper 'Neruda' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Under the patronage of Raf Simons, the brand’s chief creative director, Mr. Ruby has transformed the towering Art Deco building in his kaleidoscopic vision. This Artist Is Calvin Klein’s Latest Muse 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Planted with towering trees from Normandy, this garden thus pays homage to the medieval cloister, while the esplanade mirrors the size of the Place de la Concorde. Lucky 13: The unsung arrondissement you need to visit in Paris 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Bay seems to have an obsession with towering, alien robots walking the earth, battling each other to catastrophic ends in, essentially, plain sight. The new “Transformers” trailer shows us Optimus Prime’s face — and I wish it didn’t 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z To his staunchest defenders, however, he was a Nazi of convenience — a sometime personal anti-Semite, perhaps, but a philosopher whose towering intellectual achievements are undiminished by temporary political dalliances or everyday bias. Heidegger’s Notebooks Renew Focus on Anti-Semitism 2014-03-30T21:44:42Z Her towering “Brick House,” a bronze bust of a Black woman, presides at the entrance of the Arsenale. US artist Leigh recasts colonial imagery at Venice Biennale 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Visitors to Uppsala will still easily find the towering cathedral and hilltop castle — visible from most vantage points in town — but now there are plenty of reasons to stick around and explore. Next Stop: In a Swedish City, Reinvention Under Ancient Spires 2012-08-10T19:17:16Z Oscar-winner Jolie provides the voice for Tigress, while Dustin Hoffman portrays Master Shifu, Po's mentor in a story set in ancient China against backdrops of lush forests, towering temples and crowded cities. Jolie, Black seek "inner peace" in Kung Fu Panda 2 2011-05-12T14:48:43Z The towering video depicts Mr. Nauman’s hands enacting all the possible combinations of the four fingers and thumb — 31 positions in all — accompanied by his verbal enumeration of each finger combination. Inside Art: 2 Continents, 1 Work and 31 Hand Positions 2011-07-07T21:53:47Z In this high-definition series of cinematic landscape paintings, hardy mortals are often mere matchsticks within improbable panoramas of shimmering blue ocean, rock cascades and towering trees shrouded in mist. Movie Listings for Feb. 20-26 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z A year later, the towering 6-foot-4 actor with a voice that has been described as a “solemn, aristocratic baritone” gained international fame as the blood-sucking vampire in Hammer Films’ “Horror of Dracula.” Christopher Lee dies at 93; screen star of 'Dracula' and 'Lord of the Rings' 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The crumbling caverns and skeletons all look as fake as the drooling volcano towering over the center of the island. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island?The Rock's Latest Family Role 2012-02-09T14:30:12Z I wonder if American and British high school syllabuses should include, besides Shakespeare and Steinbeck, translations into English of works by Homer, Tolstoy, Cervantes and other towering figures of world literature. Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Wordsworth and Coleridge, it is worth remembering, became towering figures of English Romanticism only after a trip to Germany in 1789. Kurt Schwitters: the pop art pioneer who brought order to chaos 2013-01-19T09:01:37Z It features 16 stone sarcophagi quoting Stalin in German and Russian, and a towering statue of a Russian soldier holding a German child and standing on a crushed swastika. Frugal Traveler Blog: After the Thaw: Outdoor Fun in Berlin 2013-05-28T18:26:48Z In keeping with the repurposing ethos, the store itself is made up of a towering stack of used shipping containers. Zurich, for a Song 2010-09-24T18:42:00Z Mr. Waterston responds to filial ingratitude more in sulky petulance than in towering rage. | 'King Lear' : ?King Lear? at the Public Theater - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z Armed only with her sustained ability to notice — the very engine of Cusk’s towering literary achievement — Faye neutralizes his obscenity: “I looked into his cruel, merry eyes, and I waited for him to stop.” Elusive leaps of grace and daring: Rachel Cusk's 'Kudos' 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z She had planned to visit the Greek World Heritage site of Meteora, known for Orthodox monasteries perched upon towering rocks. Little Amal Arrives in New York, With a Message of Hope and Humanity 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z It takes place in a single room, faced head-on, of towering walls and with sets simultaneously familiar and impossible to place: that era’s fashions, surrounded by sleek, futuristic panels. Review: A Rescue Operation Salvages Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z At the other end of the jewelry spectrum lie Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels, whose towering legacies helped shape the last century of jewelry design. Special Report: A Cut Above: Jewelry: A Renaissance in High Jewelry Making 2010-12-11T08:10:00Z Everywhere, towering French windows opened onto the roofs of the ancient town and the sea beyond, letting in an intense morning light. In a walled port city in northern Israel, a chef is driven by his impeccable taste 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z He is one of the towering Bach interpreters of our time. Bach in the hands of a master: András Schiff in Seattle 2012-10-16T15:20:05Z Richardson’s towering, snaking construction is the largest object in “Wall.” Review | In the galleries: Artists join forces to adorn a wall that will come tumbling down 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z When the ritual is complete, Damien is sweating and Lorri is blissful, encased in what they visualize as a protective sphere of light, flanked by flaming blue pentagrams and towering angels. Against all odds: the most incredible love story you'll read today 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z James Ortiz’s towering puppet creations straight from the prehistoric era — a woolly mammoth and brachiosaurus — in “The Skin of Our Teeth” were also a visual delight. Against All Odds, Broadway Rose to the Occasion. Mostly. 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z She sang duets with towering video footage of her early mentor and husband, Sonny Bono, trading lines with him on “The Beat Goes On” and “I Got You Babe.” Music Review: In Las Vegas-Style Spectacle, Cher Flaunts Strength, Staying Power and Physique 2014-05-11T04:01:26Z “Awesome in its way, with its bulbous head and towering stem, it is nonetheless an abstract image freed from human agency and human consequence.” Art Review: Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Black and White 2011-06-30T21:47:55Z The whole thing was a mess of botched jokes, palpable stage fright and backstage infighting that stands as a towering example of everything that can go wrong with TV revivals. Reboot regrets: the TV revivals that should never have happened 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Each year, millions of tourists visit the towering pyramids and temples of the sprawling metropolis of Teotihuacan, far from the latest discoveries on the city’s southern edge. Stylish suburbs: how ancient Mexican metropolis dodged inequality trap 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z She was tall and striking, with almond eyes and long dark hair, dressed as a gypsy in green silk, towering over the men on either side. All Twisted Up by Gender Bending 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z In the southwestern suburban desert I knew, with similar colors and textures woven through the landscape around the set of their family home, there was no Endor, no towering redwoods a bike ride away. "E.T." at 40: A personal reflection on the importance of a "closed story" 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z He is already statuesque, but as he stands on the stage of the Damrosch Park bandshell, the sculptural effect of the draping fabric and the towering structure transforms him into a monument from another time. Dancing on Grass and Concrete at New York City Ballet 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z The book's towering position in the literary world was reflected in a statement by Barnes & Nobel Chief Executive Ron Boire's statement. Harper Lee remembered by a president, publishers and more 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z At that orchestral climax, Kentridge crowds the stage with towering, obvious and distracting war imagery that overstates the effect. The Ups and Downs of Europe’s Most Interesting Opera Festival 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z When it does, “you are going to be ready,” insisted Kelly Mills, a publicist who first glimpsed Mr. Smith about a year ago oozing attitude and towering above the crowd at a late-night party. 2010-02-13T02:22:00Z The only flaw was the shoes, towering wedges with a footbed that curved downward, like a black diamond ski slope. Like clockwork, Akris churns out another fine show 2010-10-03T12:01:00Z These less courtly canvases show another side of the artist; the men and women against flat brown backgrounds convey the sympathy that accompanied, and sometimes was smothered by, his towering ambition. Velázquez’s Infinite World in a Handful of Portraits 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Instead, everyone’s eyes were locked on an art installation recently erected in the grass, where it would remain towering over visitors for a week. Jeff Goldblum’s a movie star, jazz pianist and an inescapable meme. What’s behind his enduring appeal? 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z The Brahms variations followed, played with an unusually light and athletic touch which was not wholly persuasive but nevertheless gathered momentum for the towering fugal conclusion. Leon McCawley ? review 2010-12-03T22:30:00Z The result of Fink and Murphy’s partnership is both of-the-moment and timeless: a striking V-shaped building with towering steel casement windows set into white stucco walls. Los Angeles Home - High Design for a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z To see the Flaming Lips tonight is a thing of wonder: there are giant orange gorillas, men in grape-coloured spandex and towering inflatable frogs. Glastonbury 2010: How Dizzee and the performers psyched up 2010-06-28T07:59:00Z Familiar views of towering, twisting cypress trees, which Van Gogh compared to Egyptian obelisks, were among three landscape themes he experimented with in his year confined to the Saint-Paul de Mausole asylum. An art lover’s Impressionist video trip to Provence and the Riviera 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z He followed with his own towering performance in Brecht's The Life of Galileo, an obscure Polish play, and a new play, To Scotland With Rhubarb, by the poet George Bruce. Tom Fleming obituary 2010-04-20T18:08:00Z But she knew they were the key to the towering sandwich Mr. Whitener envisioned. A Comforting Breakfast Sandwich Gets a Sweet Lift 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z The cohort included 26 performers, some beefy and towering, others sinewy and short. Inside the Ring of Underground Wrestling 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z It was Fairbanks who first turned this creature of the pulps into a towering legend. Zorro at 100: Why the original swashbuckler is still the quintessential American action hero 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z It’s a stunning scene — wilderness and the towering Tetons. 36 Hours in Jackson Hole, Wyo. 2013-12-18T21:54:55Z Tudyk is at it again, except that this time he’s playing a towering, pompous alien scornful of the humans he’s been sent to exterminate. When a Break From TV Brings More TV 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z In the mid-’60s Mr. Foulkes began to use rags to apply and selectively wipe away black paint, creating monumental pictures of towering rock formations on canvases up to nine feet tall. Art Review: Llyn Foulkes Retrospective Opens at the New Museum 2013-06-20T23:05:46Z Standouts like the taut “I Sat by the Ocean,” complex “I Appear Missing” and towering “My God is the Sun” suggest he needn’t worry. CD reviews: Lenka, Queens of the Stone Age, Roomrunner 2013-06-03T19:32:13Z It is a robot, a towering inferno, a majestic peak. | Board Book Roundup: This Season?s Board Books 2011-10-19T16:33:40Z Xue loved bamboo — and it’s everywhere, some with stalks as wide as small trees towering 50 feet overhead. 36 Hours in Chengdu, China 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Sorkin reinforces the necessity of a towering Atticus by shifting the perspective away from his daughter, Scout, whose narration defines the voice of the novel and the 1962 movie version. Review | Broadway’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is here, and Jeff Daniels soars as Atticus Finch 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z But last night, Vedder and a packed hometown crowd got to share the weight of losing a brother and towering figure in the Seattle music community together. Eddie Vedder honors Mark Lanegan during second Seattle show 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Think back to “The Rules of the Game,” in which Octave explains that he loves Christine partly as a tribute to her father, a conductor of towering importance whom he idolizes but cannot equal. Dad Left a Big Impression: The Renoir Family Inheritance 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Before you go, swing by Toby’s Estate with its high ceilings, naked-bulb chandeliers and towering windows with views of its backyard. Things to Do in NYC This Weekend: MoMA PS1 and Quad Cinema 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The temperature drops to a chilling minus 35 degrees, snow blankets the village green and neighbors trudge through the towering drifts to warm themselves by the fireside at the local inn. Buried by Snow or Stuffed in a Suitcase: The Bodies Add Up in Marilyn Stasio’s Latest Crime Column 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Most agree that the towering heaps of carbohydrates eaten with the turkey are more likely to induce sleep. 6 Steps to a Great Thanksgiving Nap 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Its most popular recurring art piece is a towering illuminated daisy sculpture. A Selection of Summer Music Festivals 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Proponents of restoring Miami Marine Stadium say the city should prioritize holding on to historic sites as towering new glass hotels and condos emerge — something the city does not have a reputation for doing. As Miami’s skyline booms, the future of a long-neglected tropical brutalist gem hangs in the balance 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z No tattoo parlors, only hill-tribe villages for neighbors and a karst-and-mist landscape where hundreds of caves lay hidden beneath thick vines and towering dipterocarp, kapok and teak trees. Journeys: Ban Tham Lod in Northern Thailand 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z Tucked away in his bit of forest in Abeokuta, the city patched between towering granite outcrops that he’d just fled, was a small cactus patch. Wole Soyinka Is Not Going Anywhere 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Its glory is its towering central character, one Troy Maxson, an unbowed oak of a man thwarted by racism and squandered talent and originally played on Broadway by James Earl Jones. Revealing the holes in August Wilson’s ‘Fences’ 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z I loved our loft room’s towering ceilings and space-saving flourishes, like the carved sliding door to the bathroom. Aboard the Winter Park Express, train it from downtown Denver to the slopes 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The queen’s ravenous chasing after the latest styles in hairdressing is amusingly depicted when the towering wigs worn by her and her frenemies suddenly shoot from their heads like rockets. Theater Review: David Adjmi’s ‘Marie Antoinette’ at Yale Repertory Theater 2012-11-12T17:08:56Z A Deutsche Grammophon blurb describes Victoria as “a towering composer whose works glow with the passion and vibrant tonal palette of El Greco,” presumably the case these recordings are trying to make. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z Simpson, Michael Jackson or Barack Obama, these towering figures who double naturally as Rorschachs of a roiling national consciousness. In ‘The Last Dance,’ Michael Jordan and the Bulls Still Dominate 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z “He was more than just a game show host, he was a legend, a towering figure,” Richards said in pre-taped remarks. Older actors claim supporting trophies at Daytime Emmys 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z “Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,” Plant sang, still searching for the new in the shadows of his towering past. Concert review: Robert Plant at Taste of Chicago 2013-07-13T03:44:00Z After intermission Mr. van Zweden turned to Tchaikovsky Fifth Symphony, written in 1888 when the composer was a towering figure in Russian music, though not without his critics. A Star Pianist Brings Soft-Spoken Virtuosity to Scriabin 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z As festivals go, think of it as the equivalent of a Robert Altman ensemble picture: plenty of stars getting equal treatment and no one towering as a headliner over the rest. Huntington Beach gets its close-up in 3 films at SoCal festival 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z “Picasso and Rivera” at LACMA: A face-off between two of the planet’s towering Modernists shows some of their parallel interests in Cubism and ancient art. Essential Arts & Culture: Mighty year-enders, naked hotel theater, a 'Messiah' for rich and poor 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Baldwin, a towering literary figure, found less success as a dramatist, partly because of the mostly white cultural gatekeepers of the ’60s and ’70s. ‘Raisin in the Sun’ and ‘Harder They Come’ to Be Part of Public Theater Season 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z In the grandest of the Philadelphia artist’s pictures, a naked white man stands in blood-red water below towering Civil War monuments. Review | In the galleries: Washington Sculptors Group shows a playful nature 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z A towering concrete stairway orients visitors in spaces otherwise meant for meandering and discovery, with glimpses of woods and an upper meadow. Rescuing Artists of Vision 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z He shows how they become features in an urban landscape of concrete and steel, towering above suburban house in Queens and Long Island or fighting for light amid the tall towers of Manhattan. New York Arbor by Mitch Epstein – review 2013-04-28T10:00:01Z It combines diplomatic intrigue, spycraft, towering personalities, bureaucratic bungling, military history and ideology. Missed connection 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Hirsch, no stranger to solitude after his towering performance in Into the Wild, nobly plays his lines straight. Sundance film festival 2013: Prince Avalanche – first look review 2013-01-24T16:55:49Z For the more than 90,000 fans making the pilgrimage to the Empire Polo Club, it’s the beginning of three days of music bliss -- underneath a cotton candy-colored sky and towering palm trees, no less. Coachella 2015: Are Kanye West tix, iPhones worth wristband in trade? 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z On Nov. 14, 2011, it was a small boy with a violin case, looking in at a studio of towering basses, huge drums and a menacing maestro pounding a grand piano. Jean-Jacques Sempé, Cartoonist of Droll Whimsy, Dies at 89 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z It is a magnificent, toweringly ambitious and visionary work – brilliantly shot by Emmanuel Lubezki, passionately felt, and deeply serious in its address to the audience. The Tree of Life ? review 2011-07-07T14:00:01Z Not long into the film — as towering wax palm trees filled the screen — my eyes glazed with tears. I Watched ‘Encanto’ With My Dad. It Brought Him Back Home. 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z From the arched entryway, I spot its granite obelisk towering 117 feet above the sprawling green prairie land. Commemorating Lincoln’s death in the city where he spent most of his life 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z As you ride back toward town, notice the ficus hedges, artfully sculpted or forming towering walls, and watch for pelicans and parrots overhead. What to Do in Palm Beach, Fla. 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z The towering “Berlin” reads like not just a masterwork but also a life’s work. The 10 best graphic novels of 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z A bright moon hangs above the towering Siberian spruce. She Slipped Past My Age Filter 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Still, with concert-going suspended, we should take a chance to listen to music by a towering composer who is overlooked today. Before Bach, He Was Germany’s Greatest Composer 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Katz’s paintings include billboard-size heads and towering canvases of trees that are either startlingly patched with bright color or cosseted in layers of shadow. Alex Katz: Six Ramps of a Painter’s Progress 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z After hours of winding through narrow channels surrounded by towering reeds, our dinghy got stuck in the vegetation. 'Hippos snapped my last boat in half': Planet Earth II's hairiest moments 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z The intro to Star Trek: Discovery, for instance, is as toweringly self-important as anything since the first series of The Leftovers. 'Destruction of the most satisfying kind': in praise of Netflix's 'skip intro' button 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Investors want evidence that Washington's political leaders are capable of tackling the towering U.S. deficit and the country's mounting debts, after ratings agency Standard & Poor's cut the U.S. Obama offers $3 trillion debt plan 2011-09-19T16:19:02Z But we leave the town behind and drive a few miles to the busy intersection where a sheet-metal roof encircles two towering almond trees that watch over the eatery known as the Hardest Hard. Touring St. Lucia with its Top Chef 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Each year about 4.5 million people shuffle off the ferries that service Liberty Island to see up close the famous torch-wielding Roman goddess towering above them. New Statue of Liberty Museum Illuminates a Forgotten History 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Click here to view videoAlso making real waves abroad – and astounding people with her towering Marie Antoinette hairdo – is Selah Sue. Belgian music now: from Antwerp to Waterloo 2012-07-03T11:45:19Z The artifacts range from tiny gold coins to a pair of towering eight-ton granite figures. Philly hosts world premiere of Cleopatra exhibit 2010-06-04T20:09:00Z And now they're introducing dance music under the towering arches of Liverpool's Anglican cathedral. This week's new clubs 2011-04-01T23:06:01Z This staging dreams of a better future, with a towering Afrofuturist spaceship that, at the beginning, appears to be calling Malcolm X home. Review: Anthony Davis’s Malcolm X Opera Finally Arrives at the Met 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z It's a valiant but unwieldy production, dominated by a 100ft-wide cinema screen towering over Wayne's orchestra and the actors. The War of the Worlds – review 2012-12-16T18:00:04Z The Sisulus, towering figures of the apartheid struggle, appear not as fighters but as elderly lovers and parents. Seeing Johannesburg Through Artists’ Eyes 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Pyramus and Thisbe are represented by towering, 15ft-high puppets that owe something to sophisticated companies such as Handspring and Royal de Luxe but also to an English eccentric like Heath Robinson. A Midsummer Night's Dream (As You Like It) – review 2012-08-15T17:05:47Z “We’re taking up this game, this unfinished project that the Romantics left towering over time and space. We’re taking over where they left off.” Painting Wagner: Celebrated Artists’ New Work for the Opera Stage 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z The credibility bookcase, with its towering, idiosyncratic array of worn volumes, is itself an affectation. The ‘Credibility Bookcase’ Is the Quarantine’s Hottest Accessory 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z The director of action and thriller films such as "Top Gun," "Days of Thunder" and "Crimson Tide" died in August after leaping from a towering bridge over Los Angeles' harbor. Tony Scott's agents seek $1m in unpaid fees 2013-01-31T02:15:09Z If musicians were measured not by the number of records they sold but by the number of peers they influenced, JJ Cale would have been a towering figure in 1970s rock ‘n’ roll. Musician JJ Cale Dies; Wrote Clapton, Skynyrd Hits 2013-07-27T23:27:34Z For Trey Ellis, an executive producer, presenting King not as a towering figure but as an outsider was part of what drew him to the project. Seeing Martin Luther King Jr. in a New Light 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z Wallsé is still his base camp, where at the end of the night you might see him towering over the second-tallest person at the bar. Schnitzel and Strudel and Other Favorite Things, at Wallsé 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z In case you were wondering, the title character in this 80-minute, four-actor play is no mere airy metaphor but a figure of towering physical substance. Review: An Elephant’s Ghost Stalks the World in ‘Mlima’s Tale’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z Pauline Kalker, the member of the group’s artistic trio who has taken on directing duties for the act, said she saw the towering filmic set as “moving paintings.” One Opera, Three Acts, Three Different Stagings 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Grace Bumbry, a barrier-shattering mezzo-soprano whose vast vocal range and transcendent stage presence made her a towering figure in opera, and one its first, and biggest, Black stars, died on Sunday in Vienna. Grace Bumbry, Barrier-Shattering Opera Diva, Is Dead at 86 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z In early 1990s American rave culture, titanic jeans and towering platform sneakers were de rigueur. The Next Big Thing in Fashion? Big Things 2014-04-23T22:56:50Z Standing on the mostly bare stage, actor Sean Hayes took a moment to absorb the towering grandeur of his new dominion. As God in 'An Act of God,' Sean Hayes has his OMG moment 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z The room itself is awesome, with its towering ceiling and fine wood paneling and massive seal of the United States on the wall facing the thirty-eight members of the committee, the grand jurors. How an impeachment unfolds: Inside the 1974 Nixon hearings, day by day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Here is the towering Beethoven, the composer as revolutionary, striding across the pages of these scores — brash, adventurous and ingenious. A Quartet Sets a New Standard for Beethoven Marathons 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z It was 7am and the port of Hamburg was a hive of activity, our port security van speeding past whirring cranes and towering stacks of shipping containers. I didn't want to fly – so I took a cargo ship from Germany to Canada 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The park is named after its spectacular and multihued limestone cliffs, towering directly above the lake for 15 miles and frothing with waterfalls. Water, Sand and Plenty of Elbow Room on 8 Wild, Protected Coastlines 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z As the militant Margaret, the smitten Juliet and the restorative Marina, Ms. Packer ends up towering over a prostrate Mr. Gore. Theater Review: ‘Women of Will’ at the Gym at Judson Memorial Church 2013-02-03T23:10:30Z Locals and visitors alike wore towering top hats striped with the national colors of red, white and green, and all shared in high spirits as celebrations continued late into the night. Spend holidays in foreign lands for a joyful taste of cultures 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Forget an indoor fireplace, this towering outdoor beauty sets up the surrounding space for the ultimate outdoor kitchen. 17 backyard kitchens that make us want to live outside 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Yes, "World's Best" is a lofty claim from this towering cake — but it's got a pretty clever trick to create such puffy, golden layers. 20 best Father's Day cakes for dads (and people who love cake) 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z With each year that passes, the insects and flowers come back, saplings regrow and some of the towering trees that survive a fire regain their luster with new, distinct scars to show. Heat, Water, Fire: How Climate Change Is Transforming the Pacific Crest Trail 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z The ballet’s second act is dominated by a towering, crooked, deliciously decadent-looking cake. Flights of imagination in Cincinnati Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z This April marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the towering figure in the struggle for civil rights, champion of the poor and outspoken opponent of war. Review | The words of Martin Luther King Jr. as you’ve never heard them before 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z One of our challenges was to make Bane look bigger, like he's towering over the other characters. The Dark Knight Rises: the team behind the trilogy's epic finale 2012-07-13T23:01:00Z “I wanted them to understand what kind of force created this particular piece,” said Mr. Holder, whose father was a towering 6-foot-6 with a melodious, booming voice. Bringing Back ‘Dougla’ Is a Family Affair 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z The celebrity then ambushes the person with a camera crew — Mr. Petrillo is shooting pool with a friend when Snooki and her towering hair arrive — and says the video hurt their feelings. In Reality Show, Celebrities Confront Detractors 2011-09-12T15:05:11Z Obviously, the windows and the space of the house towering over this valley was also meant to give the feeling of anxiety. "Lady Chatterley's Lover" director on sensuality and "a woman who takes ownership of her body" 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z But with a sextet, he builds arrangements that have a stubborn, towering new power. The Best Albums of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z “March,” the full trilogy, should be shelved in every school library across the land as towering achievement. Rep. John Lewis’s new ‘March: Book Three’ rises to the historic occasion 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The “Apocalypse” of the title is a vague and compelling creative conceit: everything is ending, so why not make a towering savory confection of smoked whitefish salad garlanded with pastry swans? The Best Food Books of 2018 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z These days you’re lucky to see celebrity concrete — a curb and the lip of a driveway, ending at a towering gate. TMZ’s Vans Give Tourists a Tawdry View of Hollywood 2012-08-29T18:45:19Z On the south, however, a towering, wooded cliff, too steep to build on, provides a glimpse of what the area might have looked like. History buffs trace the steps of a young George Washington through the DMV 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The cast is the best that could be assembled, with Hans Hotter at his towering peak as Wotan. Critics Name Their Favorite Wagner Recordings 2013-08-22T20:50:13Z Just a few miles after passing a towering Marlboro Man ad, a second billboard off the highway promotes cigarettes with a new American face: Kelly Clarkson. American Idol winner sparks smoking debate 2010-04-20T18:43:00Z And people like me, who see the approach of that towering sombrero and can’t help but let their curiosity get the better of them. This S.C. roadside attraction is garish, tacky and un-PC — but I stopped anyway 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z A towering unread book pile, and the sedimentary layers of clean-enough clothes on a chair is not going to be a pleasant workplace. Why you shouldn’t work from bed (and a guide to doing it anyway) 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z A few minutes later, I was hiking my way through a thick swath of towering Douglas fir and Western red cedar trees, boughs draped with hanging moss. Whistler’s Slopes and Après-Ski Charms, the Cheap Way 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z For a final year, though, the family traveled with camels, sheep, cows and horses through “towering waves of immaculate golden sand dunes,” with Li to chronicle their life of almost unbelievable strenuousness. The best travel books of 2021 — so far 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z A hero in Britain after the Seven Years’ War, Frederick was lionized on the teapot with the inscription “Semper sublimis” — “still towering.” Ah, Tea. So Relaxing. But Its History Is Another Story. 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Under the towering evergreens, there’s a trio of characters in bronze: Ramona, Henry Huggins and Ribsy. Ramona Quimby’s Portland: A self-guided walking tour through sites in Beverly Cleary’s books 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z New York Magazine called it a “masterpiece,” while Hank Stuever’s review in The Washington Post called it “nothing short of a towering achievement.” Meet the man who has finally explained O.J. Simpson to the world 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Famous for its elaborately carved wood and ancient structures, its narrow side streets zigzag through towering, balconied walls. My Return to Nepal, in Memoriam 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z On board, we happily passed the time in quiet contemplation of the slowly unfolding panorama of snow-capped mountains towering over the white-capped sea. Sailing to the End of the World in Patagonia 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Whereas Strachey despised the commercial and political might the industrial revolution made possible, current observers look at our own sclerotic polity and contrast it with the Victorians' towering ambitions. Were the Victorians cleverer than us? It depends which way you look at it 2013-05-14T17:30:01Z The Hollywood studio behind the record-breaking franchise has relocated the original Great Hall at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and visitors will be treated to a surprise entrance into the towering set. UK studio tour aims to conjure Harry Potter magic 2011-10-02T23:14:12Z It was a wicked and a towering performance. Rewind TV: Run; The Apprentice; Family Tree – review 2013-07-20T17:05:00Z A millennium-old minaret towering above Aleppo's Umayyad mosque, an imposing citadel overlooking the old city center, a medieval covered market and a 21st century shopping mall. Pictures of splendors past: Aleppo before the war 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z It only took them a few hours to build their lead single, “Gaslighter,” from a word jotted in Maines’s notebook into a towering breakup anthem. The Chicks Are Done Caring What People Think 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z And while the results are carefully plotted and constructed, they are not always towering or eye-popping. A New School of Pastry Chefs Got Its Start in Architecture 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z "She was not just a legend of the silver screen but she also had a big heart and she will be missed," said Trump, her blond locks swept into a towering beehive. Star-studded AIDS gala raises record 10M euros 2011-05-20T11:52:12Z We stepped over tree roots and rocks, and traversed a boardwalk of bridges on the Island Trail, a four-mile hike along the shoreline with breathtaking views of coves, towering forests and, of course, Lake Michigan. Journeys: Beach Hopping Along Lake Michigan?s Eastern Shores 2011-08-26T19:00:00Z The towering playwright, who died in 2005, and whose work Mr. Leon has widely produced and directed, told him that “cultural specificity is the best route to universal appeal,” Mr. Leon said. Television: Kenny Leon Directs a New ‘Steel Magnolias’ for Lifetime 2012-09-29T23:29:02Z But towering over all is Magnani, as a pregnant widow, mother and bride-to-be. Rossellini’s Eternal City 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z In the hotel room, one window had a sweeping view onto the bay below, with the ships gliding in the harbor under a summer sun, and the other opened onto the towering hillside above. Favorite Place: Seduced by Naples 2013-12-13T16:02:13Z There’s nothing like hearing — no, feeling — the earthshaking stomp of an approaching Tyrannosaurus rex in movie-theater surround sound, or witnessing velociraptors rampage through a kitchen on a towering screen. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z But it's hard to pity people who have built massively successful careers in spite of mirthless arrogance, a towering sense of entitlement and disdain for a world they're convinced has got everything wrong. Andy Gray and Richard Keys have finally met their Waterloo. I'm glad 2011-01-30T00:06:24Z It’s 86 degrees outside, but in the dank walkways between the towering stainless steel tanks of Atlas Brew Works, the temperature hovers somewhere between Bikram-yoga hot and Mojave Desert sweltering. D.C. breweries are transforming seedy office parks into a hopping scene 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z But Mr. Pierce maximized the arrangements, surrounding his small, scratchy voice with counterpoint, resonances and the potential for towering crescendos. Music Review: Spiritualized ?Floats in Space? at Radio City 2010-08-01T22:22:00Z Apart from “An die ferne Geliebte,” Beethoven’s lieder are chronically overlooked next to his towering achievements in the symphony, sonata and string quartet. Review: A Recital Brings Together Two Schubert Masters 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z The centerpiece of her “Parallels: Sculptures & Installations,” at Honfleur Gallery, is a rocky wall that contains a towering waterfall. In the galleries: Where nature and art come together German Modernism had no towering giants like Picasso or Matisse, and no art-shattering style like Cubism. Art Review: Bleak Visions From Early-20th-Century Rebels 2011-03-24T22:07:05Z Nothing says summer celebration like a towering ice cream cake! 19 no-churn ice creams that are summertime magic 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z It is conceived to bring millions more square feet of towering private, high-end office and residential construction to the neighborhood. Hudson Yards Promised a Park. They Didn’t Mention the Giant Wall. 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z How do you represent a man of such towering achievement whose modesty was one of his core values?” ArtsBeat: In Response to Complaints, Gehry Changes Design for Eisenhower Memorial 2012-05-16T16:33:11Z Those not versed in Saint-Saëns lore might be surprised to discover just how towering a figure he once was. Critic’s Notebook: A Bard Music Festival Weekend of Saint-Saëns 2012-08-13T21:46:15Z Its towering, glowering Northwest Coast totem poles were city landmarks the way the New York Public Library lions were. Art Review: ‘Life, Death and Transformation,’ at Brooklyn Museum 2013-01-17T23:01:56Z Among the highlights is a young artist’s room-size sound and light installation and a collection of towering structures made from cut paper images. Around Town for Nov. 25-Dec. 1 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z A mercurial personality who could flip from naked neediness to towering rage, Mr. Lewis seemed to contain multitudes, and he explored all of them. Jerry Lewis, Mercurial Comedian and Filmmaker, Dies at 91 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Choukri is a towering figure in Moroccan literature, and this novel is perhaps his best. Read Your Way Through Tangier 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z It’s a bleak world that Blazkowicz wakes up to, filled with concentration camps and towering brutalist buildings where Deathshead and his countrymen conduct their experiments and build ever more powerful weapons. Review: Alternate-history Nazis cry ‘Wolfenstein’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Sometimes people have been quietly seated in the towering surroundings of great churches such as Rome’s Santa Maria Maggiore. Why early-morning walks are the best way for travelers to explore new places 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z The architecture alone — a towering and grand early 20th-century building that wraps around an entire city block — is impressive. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Amsterdam 2011-04-14T20:03:53Z But shifting the locale from Paris/London/New York to Bellevue doesn't quite fit, nor does Eugene Lee's towering, shiplike set. Review: 'God of Carnage' at Seattle Rep is amusing but hollow at its core ? like the characters 2010-10-07T20:49:00Z Take two buses and Europe’s longest diagonal outdoor elevator to access a network of hiking trails and a walkable dam at 6,700 feet with stupendous views of two reservoirs and towering mountains. Exploring Austria like a local in delightful towns unfamiliar to most American tourists 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Ortved quoted one assistant on the show who said that Groening wanted the matriarch, Marge Simpson, to let down her towering blue beehive and reveal rabbit ears. Sam Simon, co-creator of ‘The Simpsons,’ dies at 59 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The drawing was doubly iconic as the likeness of one of the two most famous Impressionists, Monet, by the other towering figure of the movement, Monet’s old friend Renoir. Auctions: Money Pours Into Impressionist and Modern Art 2011-05-06T11:30:08Z For most of the opera the unseen Powers communicates in electronically altered tones to his wife, daughter and assistant represented by patterns of light that play across the towering walls of Alex McDowell's futuristic set. COT's dazzling 'robot opera' poses provocative new questions 2011-04-03T18:39:00Z One towering blond female impersonator posed with a giant plastic baby bottle by the entrance. Scene City: David Barton and Susanne Bartsch Blend Halloween and Christmas in SoHo 2013-12-18T23:45:38Z He is the great storyteller – a towering figure. Dickens statue planned for Portsmouth 2011-08-19T11:46:45Z It was called the Hemlock Grove because of its fine towering trees. Critic?s Notebook: Where the Lenape Trod 2011-11-03T22:02:38Z So it’s good to be reminded of the personal as well as principled conflicts among Wellington, Melbourne, Peel, Aberdeen, Disraeli and Gladstone, all of whom, one may say, seem towering figures by today’s dismal standards. A History of the British Empire at Its Peak 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z An even grander giantess, towering in her ballgown, spins around to reveal her finery is just a facade. Raucous grandeur in Washington Ballet’s ‘Carmina Burana’ 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Clear examples are the so-called “Madonnas,” such as two of towering crowned women. The mystery of an artist only deepens: The remarkable drawings of Martín Ramírez at DTLA's new museum 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z The artistry of the illustrations matches that of the writing — Gaiman’s castles of dreams and towering gates of Hell are rendered in vivid colors and meticulous detail. ‘The Sandman’ Is Coming to TV. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal. 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z That was when he got knocked over by the towering toad that whacked him with a rusty sword. The Book of Mormon’s foggy origins 2012-08-12T16:01:00Z A heavenly setting with towering trees, roaming chickens, live music and a hearty menu including a sky-high wedge of key lime pie. Key West with kids — some explanations and exceptions required 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Franz Liszt, the other towering virtuoso pianist-composer of the 19th century, had many virtues but was almost never as subtle or tasteful as Chopin: He was an enthusiastic, friendly dog, often too eager to please. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z His great monologues in the first and third acts were the towering highlights of last night's performance, and were almost unbearably raw and moving. English National Opera has excelled with this Parsifal 2011-03-09T17:21:07Z At first sight, the scene looked familiar: a towering white vessel, loaded with tourists, most of them from North America, making its way past centuries-old buildings and narrow canals. ‘Little Venice’ Finally Gets its Moment 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z It was delicate yet elaborate, refined and expensive — a performance art of finely julienned vegetables, sublime sauces, towering souffles. I thought French cuisine was the height of precision. My mother-in-law taught me an easier way. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z On break from the show’s Vancouver set, Skarsgard, 43, settled his towering, post-“Tarzan” frame onto a sofa in a Manhattan film office while alternating sips of water and black coffee. There Are Worse Roles Than the Seducer. Ask Alexander Skarsgard. 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z This is why the set is virtually nonexistent here, and is mostly just projections on the towering stone backdrop of the Felsenreitschule, the word “INTOLLERANZA” written across its broad stage. An Opera Screams for Human Dignity 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Nazarov, 52, a towering figure with a mop of gray shaggy hair, has directed several Russian TV shows and trained as an actor in the fading days of the Soviet Union. Russia has its own TV show like ‘The Americans’ — but it’s a comedy set during Trump’s presidency 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Behind us, the old city fortifications marked flood lines and dates, commemorating when the river waters spilled over their banks to creep up the high, towering walls that surrounded the city. Frankfurt on the fly: A long layover allows for a walking tour of the German city 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Left alone with one of his would-be executioners, Sushenya cares for, and then literally carries Burov, shouldering him and the story’s moral burden with towering grace. Movie Review: ‘In the Fog,’ a Wartime Tale in a Russian Forest 2013-06-13T23:30:45Z And then there’s Jacques-Louis David’s towering, storm-racked equestrian image of Napoleon Bonaparte crossing the Alps, looking very far away indeed, in both miles and mood, from its home in Versailles. Louvre Abu Dhabi, an Arabic-Galactic Wonder, Revises Art History 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Inspired by Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels,” the whimsical wonderland includes 300 miniature displays of world landmarks and cities, scaled down to 1/87th of their true, towering size. From undercover to underwater: Four new Times Square attractions offer a variety of immersive experiences 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z But even though players only got to speak to him during the quick “contestant chat” segment and as the credits rolled, Trebek was a towering presence from the start. An oral history of how Alex Trebek became America’s most beloved game-show host 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Both stand at a towering 32 feet high, weigh in at 4,000 pounds of steel and are lighted most evenings through Dec. 6. A Guide to New York Holiday Events: Trains, Nutcrackers and a 79-Foot Tree 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The towering metal, the booming roars, the sea of people she was navigating, suddenly everything was overwhelming. Amusement parks are an expensive way to stand in line while roasting in the sun 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z When 43-year-old Justin Trudeau was designated the prime minister of Canada this week, it awakened memories of his late father, Pierre, a dashing law professor who became the country’s most towering politician. Justin Trudeau’s mother, Margaret, was like the Princess Diana of Canada — with a happy ending 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z But by the 1940s he was in his towering maestro mode, determined to clean up the indulgent mess, as he saw it, that had come to be considered the Italian opera style. Toscanini and Giulini Put Their Mark on ?Traviata? 2010-04-04T21:37:00Z Penn is thinner than he was but just as toweringly tall. Review: ‘Penn & Teller on Broadway’ Explores the Illusions of Technology 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z This towering figure who has changed the course of all our lives is both everything and, suddenly, nothing. Books of The Times: ‘The Intercept,’ Dick Wolf’s First Novel 2013-01-10T19:26:43Z Sitting in the shadow of the towering Lovell telescope in Cheshire, guitarist Jez Williams is telling the tale of the band's cosmic rock experiment here. Doves: "The band are splitting up? Nobody told me!" | Interview 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z For the vast majority of American history, as Morris reminds us, movements we would today call “evangelical” were largely leftist, which is best evidenced by the towering figure of William Jennings Bryan. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z “Ghost Forest” uses towering dead Atlantic white cedars to create a temporary copse of arboreal skeletons. Review | Maya Lin’s forest in a Manhattan park makes a point about climate change. Is anyone listening? 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z A driven, obsessive purist, he was also a magician, creating lyrics and music to such towering shows as “A Little Night Music,” “Into the Woods,” “Company,” “Follies” and “Sunday in the Park with George.” Perfectionist. Genius. Icon. That was Stephen Sondheim 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z As she passionately sliced her violin bow across her body, over and over again, it cast elongated shadows across the stage’s backdrop of towering bamboo stalks bathed in green light. Laurie Anderson and Todd Haynes are honored at Hammer Museum gala, where the talk turns political 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Hidden below the stage level, the towering windmill and wooden horse of “Don Quixote” sit amid a maze of set pieces. Never Missing a Curtain This Season, the Met Opera Takes a Final Bow 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z IndieWire called the movie “a towering and devastating work of shocking intelligence and still greater emotional power.” Nan Goldin and Laura Poitras: Two Artists, One Devastating Film 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z It's a towering achievement — not only compared to the results enjoyed by the other former Beatles during this era, but also in terms of the steep level of competition in play during that period. Paul McCartney singles box set tells riveting story of a brilliant musician with something to prove 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z “You pull up to towering ancient redwoods, in the sound check alone, it’s magical.” The Bay Citizen: Folk Music, as Close to Nature as It Gets 2010-09-24T04:45:00Z In “Graphic Masters: Dürer, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Goya, Picasso, R. Crumb,” she focuses on six towering peaks from the graphic-arts mountain range and gives each artist ample room to be himself. Lines of distinction: Seattle Art Museum exhibit shows range, diversity of Graphic Masters 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Have you ever wanted to see a towering novel of moral anguish reduced to an 80-minute romp? Review: ‘Field Guide’ Brings Standup to a Dostoyevsky Downer 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z We went for a walk through the winding streets of her subdivision, the Beartooth Mountains towering in the distance and Chief running in circles, entertaining us with his puppy energy. When Sturdy Love Is What You Need 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Yet, on Sunday, police were removing the director's body from Los Angeles Harbor hours after they say he stopped his car on the towering Vincent Thomas Bridge, and jumped. Hunt for answers in 'Top Gun' director's death 2012-08-20T20:43:12Z In Matovina's highly capable hands, "Misunderstood" comes vividly to life as a tender, loving epitaph to one of the towering songwriters of his day. Badfinger's Pete Ham: "Misunderstood" 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, guitarists Keith Richards and Ron Wood and drummer Charlie Watts kept stacking up rude little gestures until they’d built the towering songs that everybody had trekked to the desert to dance to. Did rock-and-roll die at Desert Trip? Or did it finally achieve eternal life? 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z They are among the marvels of Volcano at Compton Verney, a show of paintings, prints, films and more from Turner to Warhol and beyond, all centring on these towering infernos. Volcanic splash 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z Sculpted in steel and covered in satin, LuminoCity’s enormous lanterns occupy environments like the Winter Fantasy, which includes Santa’s sleigh and a towering castle. Holiday Nights, Merry and Bright 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Prime rib is not a steak; it’s a roast, and the difference is what lends it its towering grandeur. Prime Rib Regains Its Place as a Restaurant Centerpiece 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z The scenery on Bandon Trails is every bit as inspired as its seaside brethren — the contrast of gaping waste bunkers with towering conifers on this rolling terrain is both startling and exciting. A wee bit of Scottish golf on Oregon’s coast 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Dale, in my childhood-mind’s eye, is unimaginably tall, a towering behemoth of a hill. Creeping Through My Home Town (for Research!) 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Lawrence is one of the towering figures of British portraiture, but suffered a dramatic loss of reputation after his death in 1830. Duke of Wellington's softer side surfaces in exhibition on Regency artist 2010-10-18T16:10:00Z In reality, she said, the historic building is as much a temporary exhibition space as the refurbished auto showroom next door, across a pedestrian plaza marked by a towering sculpture of a paintbrush. Seeing the Past from the Future 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z |
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