Then, amongst a chorus of screams from the peasants and a universal crossing of themselves, a calèche, with four horses, drove up behind us, overtook us, and drew up beside the coach. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The incredible thing is that, for the first few hundred years of the first millennium ad, before a universal notation system emerged, all of the chant that monks and nuns sang was memorised. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Call me naive, but I seem to have underestimated the universal desire to sit in a hard plastic chair and stare at a screen until your eyes cross. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

We demand universal adult franchise and we are prepared to exert economic pressure to attain our demands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again he was experiencing the language without words . . . the universal language. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taps the rim of his glass, universal symbol for “Get me a refill.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archimedes’ principle is a limit case, not a universal principle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

On the faces of the people around us, I could see a universal expression, among the young and old—a look of hopelessness, a sense of resignation. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Once we created a way to browse the Internet, people wanted a universal way to access what was out there. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

And Verdi understood that opera was at its most powerful when attempting to impart universal truths through emotionally engaging morality fables. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Unless you find a profit in fencing off universal properties of mankind into exclusive tribal ownership.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

This is not to say that everyone has the same truth, or that there is a universal truth. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In connection with the nearly universal use of insecticides that are liver poisons, it is interesting to note the sharp rise in hepatitis that began during the 1950’s and is continuing a fluctuating climb. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But to be confronted with the prejudice so blatantly, there in that temple to intellectual excellence and rational thought, by something so mundane, so ridiculous, so universal as having to go to the bathroom... Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In almost every case, each side believed itself to be superior—ethnocentrism seems to be a near- universal human quality—and from this belief was convinced that it could control the encounter to its advantage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This is the meaning of the word “universal” as applied to Newtonian gravitation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can appeal, as above, to the written or universal law in support or against a given contract. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The universal attributes of language are genetically set; we do not learn them, or make them up as we go along. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any parent of a child born on a major holiday knows that there’s already a certain line to be walked between an individual celebration and more universal festivities. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mack departed and returned almost immediately with a universal No which was designed by Lee Chong to cover all future requests. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A curving window of nonreflecting glass was the first break in the universal metal, and below it was a single large dial, with a single motionless needle hard against the zero mark. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Water pollution experts throughout the United States are concerned by the fact that detergents are now a troublesome and practically universal contaminant of public water supplies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the 1970s, no educationist would have predicted the explosion in universal written communication caused by the personal computer, the internet and the key-pad of the mobile phone. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Neither side spoke of the interests of the doubly disenfranchised bloc of black women, who could have become advocates of universal suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The ethos of atomic physics—the relentless drive to find irreducible particles, universal mechanisms, and systematic explanations—would soon permeate biology and drive the discipline toward new methods and new questions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And then Miss Whitlaw brought out the universal gift that is cherished in all cultures. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They always seem—universal. Do you have any passages from your favorite prophet Kahlil Gibran you’d like to read to me just now?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

ATP is the universal currency of energy — found in all organisms from microbes to man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Root stood on the doorstep, palms up, the universal gesture for Look, I’m not carrying a big murderous weapon. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

If Levi-Strauss is right, myths are constructed by a universal logic that, like language itself, is as characteristic for human beings as nest- building is for birds. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe people who felt that way had never learned the universal language. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many historians also credit him with at least one noteworthy contribution to astronomy—namely a universal model that put the planets in orbit around the sun, which in turn revolved around the earth. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

A universal shriek arose as the russet boots waved wildly from the wreck and a golden head emerged, exclaiming, “I told you so! I told you so!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that every meal we eat carries its load of chlorinated hydrocarbons is the inevitable consequence of the almost universal spraying or dusting of agricultural crops with these poisons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

ATP is the universal currency of energy, and the metabolic cycles that produce it turn to the same purpose in birds and bacteria, in men and mice. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In fact, geeks repeatedly cite the nearly universal need for people who can cope with computers and software as the primary reason for their elevation to a new techno-elite. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These petitions are signed by 100,000 men and women, who...ask nothing less than universal emancipation,” said Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, who presented the petitions on behalf of the Loyal League. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A casualty of war—be it at the hands of a Nazi soldier, a sniper in Sarajevo, or a gang-banger on the streets of America—is a universal tragedy. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I wasn't thinking of Daisy and Gatsby any more but of this clean, hard, limited person who dealt in universal skepticism and who leaned back jauntily just within the circle of my arm. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Most were universal, such as the sun or birds. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But he was excited at his intuitive understanding of the camel driver’s comment: maybe he was also learning the universal language that deals with the past and the present of all people. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This makes Dowland’s contribution, like Shakespeare’s, something very different from what had gone before: his work has a universal appeal that transcends its age. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe the world wasn’t made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a universal law in military families that mothers could not maintain the strict discipline enforced by fathers to whom discipline was a religion and a way of life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I became testy with Judge Rumpff when he fell into the same mistake made by so many white South Africans about the idea of a universal franchise. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For me, at least, it was a universal insult, like calling someone a jerk. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Pearl glanced over her shoulder, in the universal reaction of all teenagers confronted by their parents in a public place. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ultimately, one tends to avoid him, for the universal characteristic of children is to assume that they have a monopoly on trouble, and therefore a monopoly on you. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It gives great pleasure to the Editor to hear, from every quarter of our City, that universal health prevails in a degree equal to any former period. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He doubted that there is any principle of morality which can command universal assent, and he doubted that any of our sophisticated intellectual systems make sense of how the world is. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live alone, cook for themselves, and eat in solitude. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This force is universal, that is, every particle feels the force of gravity, according to its mass or energy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if the trees couldn’t wait to fall over, as if their sole purpose in the universal scheme of things was to grow big enough to topple with a really good, splintering crash. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Discussions of common sense generally fail to distinguish adequately universal and local definitions of the concept. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She draws circles in the air with her right hand, which is the universal sign for “improvise.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t oppose female suffrage, but it wasn’t their first priority, and they didn’t want to press for universal suffrage if it would make black suffrage less likely. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, certain visual symbols and responses occur so regularly over time and place that they can be regarded as virtually universal. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, however, we are linked in circuits for the storage, processing, and retrieval of information, since this appears to be the most basic and universal of all human enterprises. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hence physicists and chemists can formulate universal deterministic laws at the macroscopic level, but biologists and historians can formulate only statistical trends. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The whole point of him is that his appeal is as universal as possible. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Thus, among the thousands of culturally diverse native peoples of Australia, the Americas, and Africa, no universal cultural taboo stood in the way of animal domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the stars overhead were alive with the promise of Hrothgar’s vast power, his universal peace. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This complaint is universal, and stronger than you in Chicago are aware of, I am sure,” he told Burnham. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Rate times time equals distance is not a universal law; it doesn’t apply under all conditions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The society was reorganized under a new name—the American Equal Rights Association—with a goal of universal suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He occupied himself by inventing the differential and integral calculus, making fundamental discoveries on the nature of light and laying the foundation for the theory of universal gravitation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such narratives do not play down the epistemological problem of moving from the specific to the universal; they accentuate it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She felt like a universal pet, and the second she voiced that thought to herself, Pantalaimon stretched his goldfinch wings and chirruped loudly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They clambered out of the City of Seattle, onto the floating dock, and reenacted a universal ritual of winning crews: the dunking of the coxswain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If heredity too had a universal natural law, then it was likely influencing the genesis of peas as much as the genesis of humans. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“No. He doesn’t seem orthodox—anything. He seems very universal.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some theorists even believe that there can be no universal definition of music because it is so culturally specific. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The actions of the people in this book were both universal and distinctly American. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

His cosmological theory described a flat earth suspended in air, with the other celestial objects lofted above, like leaves blown on a universal wind. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Commonplaces are culturally specific, but they will tend to be so deep-rooted in their appeal that they pass for universal truths. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

This was one of the universals I had so far avoided. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Parathion is not a specific for blackbirds: it is a universal killer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It’s a universal presence, like TV or the Internet. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Wilkerson begins the paragraph by stating that the actions of her protagonists are universal, but she does not rest with that generalization. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It is astonishing how little information we have about this universal process, with all the other dazzling advances in biology. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His projects conduct electricity, engage motion with toothed wheels, react in concert with universal laws of physics. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One look at his teeth, and you could understand his crusade for universal health care. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They could be used as "standard candles"–a term she coined and still in universal use. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ollie looks back at me with that universal dog wisdom, then promptly goes back to sleep. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In short, there would be a multiparty democracy based on universal adult suffrage on a common voters’ roll. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was drawn to the Pythagorean theorem and its promise of a universal—the ability to predict the nature of any three points containing a right angle, anywhere, always. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The iron was one of those universal kinds that go on any voltage and I fitted it to the plug in the wall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But the weather was unhelpful, the flood all-consuming, and the confusion universal. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The voice of the crowd rises into one universal scream as we roll into the fading evening light, but neither one of us reacts. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

If there was a more universal sign for stop, I had yet to encounter it. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little- recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world — the very nature of its life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, the United States is also the only industrialized country in the world that does not provide its citizens with universal health care. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

These are universal truths: to understand them is to adopt them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Were the world just and Swedish-speaking, Scheele would have enjoyed universal acclaim. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Surveys of recent defectors in China have found that this fear is persistent and almost universal. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Because of the universal respect the regent enjoyed — from both black and white — and the seemingly untempered power that he wielded, I saw chieftaincy as being the very center around which life revolved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used the gesture universal in the north to signify friendship, and laid his rifle down at his feet. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That morning, I talked to him about isolation and rejection, about how universal they were to people like him and like me, but how temporal they often were. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached her arms up over her head and wiggled her fingers as if this were universal proof of being fine. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“See that skull and crossbones? That’s the universal symbol for not good.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But if the Revolution begun by the mathematicians was to be successful it needed to identify other ways of establishing and communicating universal truths. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Indeed, a faint hypnopaedic prejudice in favour of size was universal. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is ever the lot of children to accept their circumstances as universal, and their particularities as general. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

For the first time, science could see the universal laws that underlie all of these little half laws. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

By universal agreement among school officials, it had been decided not to disclose the location of the coin toss to the public. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember Mom’s friend, Dr. Nguyen, but think Voxy’s tiny closet is way too small to be the universal seed vault where Mom contributed New Mexican corn, squash, and beans. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Evidently there are certain fundamental experiences and modes of reasoning that are universal and can be regarded as valid in any and every human culture. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

That erected more dynamic intralinear tensions, he felt, and in just about every case left: a message far more universal. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There was almost universal agreement that if War Admiral broke from a walk-up, he would lead from wire to wire. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Geeks can get jobs almost anyplace. People everywhere need people who can maintain, repair, and understand computer systems. It’s a universal need, don’t you think?” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a smell of general decomposition but one with universal dimensions, one that an athlete could identify until the day of his death. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It also yielded alkahest, the universal solvent—an agent that could eat through any substance in the world: glass, stone, metal, even diamond. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

By eight thirty, Mama and Baba have gone into their room and shut the door firmly, after reminding me to keep the porch light off in the universal signal of party poopers. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Since we live in a society constructed around competition, we have a tendency to take competitive behaviour for granted as a universal aspect of social life. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Eyes shone, cheeks were flushed, the inner light of universal benevolence broke out on every face in happy, friendly smiles. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our most powerful story, equivalent in its way to a universal myth, is evolution. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wiggled her hands around her ears as if this was the universal sign for “garbled.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s a universal instinct of the human species, isn’t it, that desire to dress up in some sort of disguise?” said Frank. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sound and light, Doppler argued, behaved according to universal and natural laws—even if these were deeply counterintuitive to ordinary viewers or listeners. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Handel, though, not only represented a musical amalgam of European styles during his lifetime; he also bequeathed to the next generation of composers a non-parochial, universal idiom that was venerated and built upon. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“If I could, I’d write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence. It’s with those words that the universal language is written.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Underlying the random drifting was a deeper, slower, universal movement, out from the land toward the sea. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At such a time, the Negro can look at the starlit skies and find that he has, after all, a place in the universal order of things. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In recent years this cooperative approach had been met with wide, if not universal, acceptance, but it wasn’t always so. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Another of life’s universals is there’s always those things in a town that ‘everybody knows,” except for the person who’s new. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I pointed a finger in the air, which is the universal sign for hold on, and then I called down to Mr. Black from the stairwell, “I don’t think she speaks English!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton had assumed that the American Equal Rights Association would be dedicated to winning universal suffrage—voting rights for all. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Science on the other hand is dispassionate and without bias, it is the only universal language. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They make wonderful hot chocolate. Not really a Roman drink—” “But chocolate is universal,” Annabeth said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They are not universal gods, but rather a particular deer, a particular tree, a particular stream, a particular ghost. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there is such a thing as a universal—and I wasn’t ready to throw all of mine out the window—it’s that there is power in a story. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Liza enjoyed universal respect because she was a good woman and raised good children. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The study of the galaxies reveals a universal order and beauty. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we were truly going to emulate the Freedom Riders, then our writing must transcend the walls of Room 203 and our individual plights and become a universal message. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

No thread, no frailest hair between myself and the universal clutter! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the true “OGs,” as the kids say, the original gangsters, and although the language, colors, and turf have changed dramatically over the last four hundred years, the theme is universal. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Alkahest was a universal solvent, true to its name, and had never failed him before. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The words passed from mouth to mouth, and there was universal incredulity, although the suggestion was communicated through the crowd with startling rapidity.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Notwithstanding the universal admiration for Offenbach’s comic operettas, the opulence of the Parisian experience of opera and its position in society still meant it was a luxury. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I think that your uncle has realized a universal truth.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

More strongly than my fondness for Pecola, I felt a need for someone to want the black baby to live—just to counteract the universal love of white baby dolls, Shirley Temples, and Maureen Peals. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our families and our teachers will be shocked when we go home, but here it is the universal language. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

This says that this pink lipstick is universal, but they mean universal if you are white because I would look like a golliwog if I tried that shade of pink. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The discovery enterprise is no more universal than cricket or baseball or soccer; it is peculiar to the post-Columbus world, and it can only survive within a society which fosters competition. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Thomson is better known as Lord Kelvin, and it is for Kelvin that the universal temperature scale is named. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Latin, the nuns taught us, was a universal language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

These early equation-laws were extremely good at expressing simple relationships, but equations have limitations—their constancy, which prevented them from being universal laws. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

On other days in other years, he had called her “the rabbit in the hat” and “the universal solvent” and “the recycler of our garbage.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They were reminded of their personal sorrows; and perhaps felt themselves to share in a sorrow that was universal. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was the first really universal law of nature ever propounded by a human mind, which is why Newton is regarded with such universal esteem. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

That the victors’ chain of locked hands last night would result in some sort of universal truce in the arena? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Really, Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time,” said Dumbledore, now peering sternly over his half-moon spectacles. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Remakes succeed when they touch on something universal, core themes that carry through time. Perspective | I watched all four ‘A Star Is Born’ movies. Here’s the messed-up reason it keeps resonating. 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

He says his influences were both specifically Indian and universal. Charles Correa: India's greatest architect 2013-05-11T23:04:04Z

The vertical trajectory expands out from the individual to encompass family love, collective love, and then universal love. I <3 you: meet the NYU professor whose love course is becoming a phenomenon 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

The show was universal and exhilarating, but also a little bit sad. Perspective | Fashion Week celebrated what it means to dream — culminating in this one moving Marc Jacobs moment 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

As such, the personal intent of Burnham's "Inside" has been co-opted to reflect some version of the universal. Is Netflix's "Bo Burnham: Inside" our lockdown "Lemonade"? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Takeda’s images raise a question pertinent to other photographs in the exhibition: do photographs speak a universal language or do they need words? Review: Japanese Photographers Reflect on the Fukushima Catastrophe 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Hillary’s class is more universal, in that her subject is “the power of resilience” while his is “inclusive leadership.” Perspective | We took Bill and Hillary Clinton’s MasterClasses. Guess who seemed more prepared. 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

“He saw what was Japanese and also modern and universal.” Greene & Greene designs through the eyes of 'a visual bilinguist' 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

“This mural is universal and timeless,” he said. Once Removed and Destroyed, a Modernist Mural Makes Its Return 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

You remarked earlier that this movie might not be a universal experience. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams: Cannes' hottest couple 2010-05-21T15:40:00Z

The area was once the home of the indigenous Mi’kmaq nation, whose stories about constellations explained the changing of the seasons and other universal phenomena. The 12 Best Destinations for Stargazing 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

But the involvement of Mitchell — everyone called her Tilly — made this story more universal. Ben Stiller Goes Darker for a Real-Life Prison Break 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

We believe that these are universal rules that would also be uncovered by sufficiently intelligent aliens on a distant planet: we are discovering something at the heart of things. The beauty of the Higgs boson 2012-08-04T23:05:33Z

A quilt, a pocketwatch, a rug — each a time capsule, a specific story pointing to a universal experience. From Michigan to Alabama, a 690-Mile Yard Sale 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The largest of the three measures 10½ feet in diameter 4½ feet above the ground — a universal measurement known as diameter breadth height. Tree hunters find three of the tallest sugar pines known on Earth 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

“Clear and universal, but also memorable because it is so unique and personal.” Design: Universal Symbols That Tell the Story 2011-02-13T19:30:05Z

The message is sufficiently universal and neutral that it should be appealing to everybody in this country, and I sincerely hope that it doesn’t get utilized as political fodder in a debate.” Eastwood ad sparks the discord it decries 2012-02-06T22:59:00Z

Freud's death and his posthumous retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery unleashed a universal admiration for his stupendous achievement. Artists need the freedom to be Freud 2012-05-30T14:22:49Z

“In the Waiting Room” was a poem written by a woman about a girl’s perceptions, but the “subject matter”—growing up, experiencing self-consciousness—was universal. Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

An authentic philosophical principle must be universal in its application and reach. Review | The benefits — and limits — of today’s gratitude movement 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

He invented machines for generating mathematical music, did research on a universal language and collaborated with Bernini on the spectacular Fountain of the Four Rivers in Rome, where Kircher spent much of his adult life. Books of The Times: ‘A Man of Misconceptions’ by John Glassie 2012-12-30T21:22:10Z

Holmes has been translated into dozens of languages and has universal appeal, but he is, above all, a reassuring, even flattering figure to the British. The TV Watch: Benedict Cumberbatch’s ‘Sherlock’ Is Back on PBS 2014-01-17T23:38:27Z

For generations Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with its choral finale espousing universal brotherhood, has been the work of choice to solemnize a peace treaty, open a new concert hall or foster communal bonding. Books of The Times: Harvey Sachs?s ?Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824? 2010-06-17T21:09:00Z

“The Harder They Come,” currently being revived at BAM Rose Cinemas and Metrograph, is a universal story set in a highly specific milieu. ‘The Harder They Come’: A Pop Classic That Has Hardly Faded 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Is France defined by its language and traditions, by its geography, or by its universal ideals of liberty, brotherhood and equality? Six French Films That Speak to the Identity of the Nation 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Bread’s many metaphors demonstrate its universal appeal to community and survival. Fry Bread Is Beloved, but Also Divisive 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

Libya is home to five of UNESCO’s World Heritage sites, listed for their outstanding universal value. Vandalism and neglect haunt Libya's ancient heritage sites 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

In a sense his suffering is universal, and Mr. Corella uses subtle means to indicate his internal pressure: a fading smile, a subtle sideways glance or a lonely stroll through happy, dancing couples. Dance Review: Angel Corella in ‘Swan Lake,’ His Ballet Theater Farewell 2012-06-29T21:51:05Z

Its universal message about hatred born of ignorance builds on itself that way — an honest reflection, not a platitude. 'Life, Above All' ? measured tale of AIDS in South Africa 2011-08-19T16:10:05Z

I think what ends up happening is every fairy tale has to speak to something universal. What would today's fairy tale look like if you could "un-Disney-fy people's brains"? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

When you are making entertainment, you want to make something that taps into something universal. "Susie Searches": A cautionary tale of a podcaster who finds a missing student & "insta-celebrity" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

In Rivers' life, they saw a universal tale of an underdog who finds huge success, tumbles from lofty heights and rebounds by reinvention. New film undoes Joan Rivers' cosmetic makeover 2010-06-08T17:35:00Z

Once chapter one of the universal textbook is written, it might seem the end of interesting physics, but Weinberg draws a parallel from geography. Steven Weinberg: 'I wanted to be on the in – privy to all the secrets of physics' 2013-03-03T00:05:05Z

“I think the trick is to understand that universal isn’t defined by a singular way of being,” he offers. A guide to making Hollywood less white, by the filmmakers who have done it 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

These stories are very personal to us, and we realized the more personal and specific you got to your own experiences—kind of paradoxically—the more universal they became. “Master of None” co-creator Alan Yang on writing himself into cheerful Brian and his family’s powerful immigrant story: “All that stuff happened to my dad” 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

I think it's a fairly universal feeling bands get. Beardyman interview 2011-03-20T00:05:18Z

After what he describes as a “sound vision,” a moment during meditation in which he was able to hear and experience those vast, universal reverberations, he bought his first zither. Laraaji’s music has emphasized stillness and calm for decades. Now the world is trying to get on his level. 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

But again, Griffith's case is not universal; she is not reliant on the income she nets from Zumba. Pay for those Zoom fitness classes if you can. Your instructor needs an income too 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z

And the brutal, efficient and ingenious manner in which Lisbeth brings various baddies to justice is calibrated for almost universal appeal, since we all like to see a scrappy underdog bringing pain to the bullies. Summer Movies: Gosh, Sweetie, That?s a Big Gun 2011-04-27T13:02:25Z

Weddings capture our imaginations like few other events, tapping into a universal Disney narrative, especially when royalty is involved, even if only by association. The Pippa Middleton Wedding Dress Effect 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

The consensus on the sparkling wine of choice is universal: something dry. | A Bubbly Twist on the Negroni 2013-12-30T21:30:04Z

The promotion to the universal is a dangerous one. Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z

A universal pop song and the universe are about to align. Bonnie Tyler Will Sing Total Eclipse of the Heart During the Eclipse 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

We can’t ignore this anymore, so we might as well put it all on the table: universal child care, mandatory paid parental leave. Perspective | The pandemic didn’t create working moms’ struggle. But it made it impossible to ignore. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Many people believe that the very idea of universal healthcare – making sure everyone can access care when they need it regardless of wealth – is an idea invented in Britain and uniquely realised in Britain. We love the NHS too much to make it better 2013-03-09T06:31:01Z

But what he was also really saying is that the structure of storytelling and engaging the viewer in a dialogue is something that has universal qualities. Doug Aitken Has an Eye for Dystopia 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

Given enough time, even universal suffering is ignored. 'The Illumination': Kevin Brockmeier's fable of human pain made manifest 2011-02-24T00:04:07Z

Stereotypes are the beginning points of many a sitcom, the universal soil medium from which characters and situations grow. America’s Best New Family Sitcom: Trophy Wife Takes the Prize 2013-10-23T15:20:45Z

Since fame is now a universal obsession, we are interested in other people’s experience of fame the way we are interested in other people’s experience of affliction. Cultural Studies: On Celebrities Good and Bad, or Alec Baldwin 2012-06-29T20:57:20Z

“If we’re talking about fictional stories - and if they’re so-called universal stories - they can be played by any race,” says Free, 45. ‘The Fantasticks’ breaks a color barrier 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

Acclaim for Mr. McCarthy’s work was not universal, however. Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

In "Famous Men Who Never Lived," I wanted to write about loss and about feeling like a stranger, experiences that are universal and apolitical. Building the alternate-universe New York: Novelists Seth Fried and K Chess in conversation 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

They were treasure houses, filled with masterpieces meant to outlast the moment of their making, to speak to the universal. Opinion: High Culture Goes Hands-On 2013-08-10T18:36:44Z

Granted, the four of them are still specific guides in journeys that feel universal. The return of "Atlanta" is perfectly timed, delivering its sharp honesty when we need it most 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Food — a subject of universal appeal — is a big deal in many cities and especially in New York. Bread, Pastrami and Cocktails: Museum Shows Focus on Food 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

This latest look was met with that universal facial-hair gesture of skepticism: the raised eyebrow. Tom Brady Cuts His Hair: Why? 2011-10-05T23:21:51Z

Noting his many international accolades Mr. Pan said, “His art is not simply Eastern, Western or Southeast Asian, but universal.” A Multifaceted Singaporean Painter Breaks Barriers 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

But Adrian touches on something universal when he says: “I don’t want to change the world. I just want people to see me the way I want to be seen. The way I am.” In the transgender drama 'Rotterdam,' a couple cling to love in a time of change 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

Sen. Bernie Sanders tweeted back in June after hearing of Kyote's story that he would provide "year-round universal school meals" if elected president of the United States. California bills seeks to ban 'lunch shaming,' will guarantee state-funded meals for students 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z

I like the universal aspects of the movie that encourage us to see each other as individuals and not try to assign everyone to a social status. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: Making ‘G.B.F.’ 2013-04-19T16:00:13Z

No matter who gets the nod, it’s an assignment that nearly ever results in universal praise. Cecily Strong’s Trial by Fire at the White House Correspondents Dinner 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

He kept the soul of his music rooted in indigenous sounds, yet also incorporated progressive phrasing and cadences to attain universal relevance. Zim Ngqawana obituary 2011-07-06T17:32:38Z

She writes convincingly and compassionately of Willa’s particular struggles, in an insecure yet ebullient voice that also captures the universal awkwardness of being 11. Books to Ease the Transition to Middle School 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Along with sex and death, food is one of the three great universals, and it can be discussed in a far wider range of registers than those other two. The Allure of Imagined Meals 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

The film became a sensation, earning nearly $9 million worldwide, drawing universal critical acclaim for its nuanced character work and even spawning two more films to become a trilogy. Hollywood, please stop adapting K-dramas. It's not just unnecessary, it's racist 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z

But that has not been a universal call. 2021 Notebook: Alec Baldwin and the movie-set shooting 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

He started walking towards the taxi, his arms up, a universal sign to stop. Khizr Khan: the patriotic American Muslim who called out Donald Trump 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

For Kusama, obliteration means eradicating an individualistic sense of self, allowing it to be absorbed into an amorphous, universal infinity. Yayoi Kusama at the Broad: Lots of mirrors, not so much artistic reflection 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

“I was immediately drawn by all the amazing reviews,” said Ms. Kolsky, 53, referring to what she saw at that time: universal raves and more than 100 five-star ratings. A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z

It even becomes, in the mind of some of its more addled fanatics, a universal language. Let's start the foodie backlash 2012-09-28T21:45:06Z

But, while he argues that religion is “universal”—part of “our social skin” as humans—it sometimes seems that “religion,” for him, is basically Christianity, or a monotheistic belief in “the almighty God.” Do primates practice religion? 2013-06-04T15:43:00Z

The fire that lights is, it turns out, the seemingly simple blending of other people's lives into our own and opening both into something universal. Ignition – review 2013-03-24T00:05:45Z

The original manga takes place in what’s described as a “strange corporate conglomerate-state called ‘Japan,’” while this movie unwinds nowhere in particular, just a universal megalopolis filled with soaring gray towers. Review: In ‘Ghost in the Shell,’ a Cyborg With Soul 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Hank explains his conviction that miscommunication accounts for the senseless violence in the world, and that the symbols were his attempt at creating a universal language. ‘Fargo’ Season 2 Finale: No More Schnitzel 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

Other events are pegged to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the mathematician Alan Turing, whose universal Turing machine is the basis of today’s computers. The World Science Festival Arrives in New York 2012-05-24T22:01:03Z

As our reviewer, David Means, noted, this collection “fuses cultures, or perhaps leaps over them, defying time, beating like pop songs, touching universal nerves.” New in Paperback: Haruki Murakami and Richard Thompson 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Nearly every marker of his regionalism, every bit of evidence of his steadfast dedication to exploring Los Angeles and Southern California, has elements of the generic or the universal. What a big Ed Ruscha exhibition misses about Southern California 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

As part of Danspace Project’s Community Access program, this performance collective, with roots in the Indian classical dance form Kathak, presents the premiere of “We Sinful Women,” a look at the universal repression of women. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

The album narrates her breakup with the contemporary-art star Matthew Barney, but avoids tabloid fodder or self-indulgence; the music speaks to personal and universal feelings of heartbreak. Björk's Healing Music 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

Transplants continue to flock to the Sunshine State, all sharing the universal desire for home that a house embodies — and Reyes is not immune. 'Exiles in Eden': An insider's view of Florida in the depths of the Great Recession 2010-08-25T23:17:00Z

I'm apprehensive about my son seeing this, because there are universal truths in it that are going to be very tender for us. Frances McDormand stretches as producer, star of HBO's 'Olive Kitteridge' 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

That speaks to imbuing with universal themes, like PTSD, that folks can engage with and relate to. "Indemnity" director on his unique South African action film: "What if trauma can be weaponized?" 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Maria is promoting the world's first set of universal 3D glasses. Cannes diary 2010-05-13T14:06:00Z

The 22-year-old's opening confession has become a universal ode to romantic devotion: "Guess it's true, I'm not good at a one-night-stand." Grammys 2015: Sam Smith, Rihanna and Ed Sheeran among those to watch 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

This sort of revenge still affects people, but it seems as if the universal “sweetness” of revenge is probably, at least to some extent, a product of popular mythology. Revenge isn’t always sweet, but it can be beautiful 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

From its outset the producers establish the war as a historical event marked by universal loss, with no clear winners. Ten years in the making, "The Vietnam War" is broad and stunning 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

The image of vocal terror is among our most universal and elemental, from Edvard Munch to Janet Leigh. They Scream! We Scream! 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

It reveals something fresh about the difference between types of family bonds and ensuing expectations for them and in doing so, evolves into something far more universal than a portrait of a young con artist. Is Sister Switzerland's Best Chance at an Oscar? Yes. 2012-10-04T18:26:13Z

And in the theater, he found its most congenial, and universal, application. For Peter Brook, the Experimental Showman, ‘Nothing Is Ever Finished’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

But in the museum, they transformed into totems inscribed with universal truths. She broke your heart. He left you. An L.A. museum wants to know all about it. 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Though the site is nominally branded around young British men, its offerings hold an oddly universal appeal. The Silent Film Returns — on Social Media 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

“Perhaps it’s not a coincidence,” she acknowledges, “But I don’t like to mix it. I want things to be more universal than personal.” Jacqueline de Jong Paints It All 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

As the memory-haunted widows of "disappeared" dissidents scan the desert floor for the bones of their executed husbands and relatives, Guzmán eloquently weaves their obsessive quest into the film's universal context. 'Nostalgia for the Light': Looking at the cosmos ? and Chile's haunted past 2011-03-31T20:36:09Z

Suddenly, and without warning, we became universal shut-ins, solitary citizens of our own little islands, stuck indefinitely with whoever was in our immediate orbits; spouses, children, roommates, pets. Family History, Uncovered in Quarantine 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

The movie garnered almost universal acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Fall 2017 Movie Release Schedule 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

By using hieroglyphics, Mr. Penck aspired to create a universal language for addressing all conceivable states of mind and the world. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

It’s an erasure firmly rooted in a film culture that, from its inception, has made a practice of denigrating and distorting black bodies, while elevating whiteness as its falsely “universal” standard. ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ and Hollywood’s enduring problem with whitewashing 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Which gets to one of the trio’s gifts, the ability to deliver songs that can be both soul-baringly specific and universal. Watch out, country bros. The Pistol Annies are back. 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

His law of universal gravitation described the attractive force between two masses in a void. The uncanny physics of empty space 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

With her sensitive, at times idiosyncratic, approach to this same material, Henkel uses her theatrical artistry to reach the universal. Review: In ‘Amour,’ Putting a Palme d’Or Winner Onstage 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

Manohla Dargis’s take: “‘Showing Up’ is a portrait of an individual but the film is universal in the sense that it’s about a woman living in the concrete here and now. The Best Films of 2023, So Far 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

South holds up well to a contemporary viewer, exploring universal themes of alienation and otherness. Newly unearthed ITV play could be first ever gay television drama 2013-03-16T00:01:20Z

He says the reason the boxing movie endures is because the boxer is such a universal figure, while few of us relate to actors. Jake Gyllenhaal: ‘I’m fascinated by my own anger’ 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

Today, he’s seeing many more linens, China and flatware, in addition to digital gifts such as universal spa e-gift cards and adventure weekend experience gifts. The New Rules of Virtual Wedding Gifting 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

It transformed from nonstop zingers that were very adult in nature to this universal story of overcoming adversity by being oneself. ‘Legally Blonde’ Oral History: From Raunchy Script to Feminist Classic 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

It is a universal condition, that of vulnerability. Cornelia Parker: 'I've always been happy to sleep with the enemy' 2013-05-18T09:00:02Z

“For me, call a universal boycott of all DreamWorks productions from here on,” he said. Philippines' top diplomat calls for cut to 'Abominable' over China map 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

Arguments suggesting that music is a universal language are generally scoffed at now, but a Western listener might recognize hints of “Greensleeves” and “Scarborough Fair” in the folk melody that drives this piece. Music Review | Music From Japan: Interplay of Antiquity With Some Modernity 2010-02-22T08:25:00Z

Lyrics about universal aloneness drift in the broadest sense, for good or ill: “These are the words we use to say goodbye.” New Music: Beck’s New Album Is ‘Morning Phase’ 2014-02-24T22:48:45Z

“There is a universal curiosity to be able to see ourselves as other people see us,” she says. Why we’ll never stop taking naked photos 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Their work suggests that it’s enough to look hard for truth — personal and universal — and invest in the details; do that, and beauty will take care of itself. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

“The story of that person is not a personal story and it’s more a universal story, it is literature.” A Polish Artist With Varied Talents 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

And he seems pleased that strong authors’ rights “no longer command universal respect among the born-digital generation”. A clash of two copyrights 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

“I absolutely believe that this helps re-contextualize us in a more universal way,” he said. When Blackness Is a Superpower 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

“I’m not saying this is a universal revolution, but I’ve seen a lot more of it than when times were more normal,” Delany said. They’ve Given $6 Million to the Arts. No One Knew Them, Until Now. 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

But the lessons he taught his students are universal. Book Excerpt: Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations 2013-10-01T16:54:05Z

Now, with states such as Massachusetts mandating universal care and even Republicans such as California Gov. Clinton Presents Plan For Universal Coverage 2007-09-18T10:00:00Z

And I said, ‘Well, you wrote about grief, which is universal and doesn’t really have a color, so I don’t think there’s anything you need to change for me to play it.’ Tonya Pinkins: A story of gun violence and a mother's loss brings this Tony winner back to the stage 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

While many of the show’s themes were universal, they were delivered in a way that was uniquely and intentionally rooted in Black culture. A Groundbreaking Cartoon Family Returns, ‘Louder and Prouder’ 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

Still, keeping our universal plight in mind will help you be compassionate when you tell her — in your best Greta Garbo impersonation — “I vant to be alone.” Social Q?s: Social Q?s: Lonely Hearts Club Ban 2010-08-05T22:31:00Z

“It’s usually considered the realm of women, but there’s something universal about a romance,” she added. Scene City: One Night Heralds ?One Day? 2011-08-10T21:43:07Z

It seems odd to be vexed about a phenomenon as universal as adolescent puberty. The best and absolute worst onscreen first periods, from "Carrie" to "Turning Red" 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

“We’re going to try to strike those universal chords,” he said. LeBron Fandom, and the Making of a Friendship in ‘King James’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

These are arguably the most important, because we may each perceive different flavors in a wine, but textural characteristics are more universal. Wine 101: Key terms to help you find the bottle of your dreams 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z

CHANG: The idea that the specific is the universal, the enormous Chinese diaspora, the glamorous side of ambition, Los Angeles as a beginning and an end. Salon’s author questionnaire: “Sometimes people say the writing is good to subtly suggest that everything else is bad” 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

In terms of the movement sequences/choreography, I was keen to start from universal physical expressions. Brotherhood, love and vulnerability: Lanre Malaolu on filming The Circle 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Always, and especially this year, he’s aware that this approach isn’t universal across the country. ‘I want you to be able to vote.’ These election judges are devoted to their small role in democracy. 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Mozart managed to transpose universal laws of nature into his music. Believe it or not: News of the weird from the year in classical music 2010-12-22T21:46:07Z

By pushing its story to an extreme, “Barry” hits on a universal conflict. Review: In ‘Barry,’ This Actor Slays Them, Offstage 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

If it’s supposed to be some universal and culturally interchangeable narrative, then it doesn’t get to count as a serious exploration of Puerto Rican or so-called Latinx life. The Great ‘West Side Story’ Debate 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

With her personalising of what were intended to be universal tools of self-knowledge, Apter oddly exhibits a version of such characteristics. Difficult Mothers by Terri Apter – review 2012-08-24T21:45:04Z

High rates of UPF consumption indicates an essential failure of our food system to provide universal access to affordable, wholesome food. Ultra-processed foods are not only bad for our bodies, their production damages our environment 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z

Despite an almost universal standing ovation, one that seemed to demand more, there were only three encores on Saturday. Review: Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

The album, which ruminates on trauma, grief and isolation, proves the power of people telling their own stories, using the specific to illustrate the universal. Top 10 albums of 2018 in hip hop and R&B 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

No matter where you live, some experiences are just universal. Lisa Edelstein Says Goodbye to Her ‘Girlfriends’ 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

I think it’s because the themes of the film are very universal. How Did ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Get Those Dogfight Scenes? Joseph Kosinski Explains. 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

I believe in the strength of praying together; I believe in the Christian Easter, a universal symbol of rebirth that everyone – whether they are believers or not – truly needs right now,” said Bocelli. Opera star Bocelli to sing from empty Duomo in Milan on Easter Sunday 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

And thanks to its universal medical care I was able have corrective surgery at a superb clinic in Montreal. My Story: Growing Acceptance for the Transgendered 2013-02-04T04:45:25Z

Did the famously straight-talking tech billionaire, who apparently insisted that the Wednesday session be a “no holds-barred conversation,” hit on a universal truth? Is Mark Cuban right about the pervasiveness of prejudice?

The story I told in my book, “At Home in the World,” was received in the literary press with near universal condemnation. Was She J.D. Salinger’s Predator or His Prey? 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

I don’t want to scare them, and I’m aware my experience is hardly universal. I called him pathetic, he accused me of ruining his life: What children did to our marriage 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

The group nods serenely; the appeal was universal. Purists v partiers: the battle between two popular nudist resorts 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

Showing him the universal sign for choking, which would later save his life when he got a snack caught in his throat, made that sign, and I gave him the Heimlich maneuver. The Manny Diaries 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Globalization would lead to what Karl Marx had called in the Communist Manifesto a “universal interdependence” among nations; warfare would become a thing of the past. A Foreign Policy Realist Challenges America’s Zeal for Intervention 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Or perhaps I mean the lightness of universal tragedy. Review: Tracy Letts Brings Out the Long Knives in Short Plays 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Classical and modern, universal and particular, grand and everyday, his reclining nudes or wrecked cars appear to slide through time itself. Charles Ray Is Pushing Sculpture to Its Limit 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

“The fact that the president just went back on his word to do universal background checks should be front page — and these other moves by Trump are likely designed to distract from that.” Perspective | Mixing troubling policy and loony distraction, Trump tries to get away with media madness 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

There’s something universal about Philip and Elizabeth maintain public and private personas, struggling to hold onto their ideals in a hostile environment. Why "The Americans" Resonates Three Decades After Its Cold War Context 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Experts say any effort of create a more inclusive universal sizing system in the U.S. today would fail too because there is no “standard” American body type. The History of Why It's Impossible to Find Clothes That Fit 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

Bruce had such an impact on you as a teenager growing up; music seems fragmented today, there's no universal narrative among artists. How to separate your dad from Bruce Springsteen 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z

“I have high hopes that my film will show we all have universal experiences that bring us together.” Defying odds, quadriplegic woman in Virginia has twins 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z

They are a vivid part of an unending universal process in which man is destroyed, renewed, destroyed, renewed again – man, who mysteriously emerged from a natural landscape that exists independently of humanity and human consciousness. The Tree of Life ? review 2011-07-07T14:00:01Z

But the trend hasn’t met with universal approval. Trick or treat: should you dress up your dog for Halloween? 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

In a country where craftsmanship is so highly prized, it’s no surprise to learn that even a product as universal as jeans has been raised to an art form. Jean genius: how Kojima became Japan’s denim mecca 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

This is an inclusive perspective that is allows you to make the story universal. "What can be scarier than death?": Ukraine filmmaker on making a war film during wartime 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

"He writes brilliantly of his native home of South Africa, but the themes and conflicts he explores in his works are universal," Ransom Center Director Thomas Staley said. APNewsBreak: Univ. of Texas buys Coetzee archive 2011-10-09T21:16:03Z

It also understands that the way to get to the universal is to be specific. Season Review: Transparent Is a Change for the Better 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

They suggest that such policies should prioritize early childhood programs, high school graduation, universal health coverage, access to contraceptives, housing, jobs and government-issued savings bonds and monthly allowances for all children. Chronicling a Community, and a Country, in Economic Crisis 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

Bringing back the expanded Child Tax Credit and universal free school meals, Biden said during the White House Conference, is worth it. Solving childhood hunger shouldn't be a partisan issue 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Ms. Lázaro was also interested in addressing broader issues in Latino culture, as well as universal themes. A Playwright Who Puts Her Demons, and Family, to Work 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

This is an incontrovertible fact, a universal truth. Readers react: Is 'The Great American Novel' debate finally resolved? 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

It’s beautiful to me that we were able to tell a very specific story about black people that could represent something so understandable and universal to someone different from us. Only 4.8% of TV writers are black. As one of them, I know the system is broken | Stefani Robinson 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

“This is a universal issue. When people have children, their lives change. And their friendships change.” Civilities: When friends ‘hijack’ adults-only social events with kids 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Here was a boy whose trauma was both universal and specific, and who now cannot stop spilling over with all the emotions that he’d spent a lifetime learning to repress. Perspective | Prince Harry doesn’t need to explain himself anymore 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

In many ways, our present, nearly universal crisis is also marked by these two rival pathologies. The Anti-Élite, Post-Fact Worlds of Trump and Rousseau 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

“The Simpsons” and perhaps even “Bob’s Burgers” offer an animated family as a universal family, eschewing the inevitable politics of casting on-screen actors. Cartoon magic for grown-ups: “BoJack Horseman” imbues the cynical TV industry with zoomorphic soul 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

Instead, the enterprise is wrapped up in the prestige of universal values and moral principles. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

And if the allure of advice columns is commiserating over troubles with a universal flavor, then it only stands to reason that there will be as many solutions as there are readers. Social Q?s: Social Q?s Looks Back on Its Questions and Answers 2011-11-04T20:34:33Z

Take the word "time" — surely a universal word denoting a universal concept? Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

Some were inspired by the abduction of babies by Argentina’s military junta during the 1976-1983 “Dirty War,” but their theme is as universal — and as ominous — as any Brothers Grimm fable. Review | In the galleries: Exploring the many perspectives of terricide 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

It is not the scent of Cyprus in some universal way; another visit to the island would yield a different olfactory impression. Aromas can evoke beloved journeys — or voyages not yet taken 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

Who needs another series of Star Wars movies, when the universal studios can go on delivering excitement on this scale? Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes - review 2012-12-12T07:00:00Z

During centuries when physical health was chancy and medical remedies few, ritual efforts to manage injury and disease were almost universal. An Art of Faith, Facts and Miracles 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

A second, the American Woman Suffrage Assn., led by Stone and others, supported the 15th Amendment, as a "positive move toward universal suffrage." A new book places Lucy Stone at forefront of women's suffrage 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

While Christina’s story zeroes in on her struggles as one of only a few Asian Americans in a small, mostly white Southern town, “The Tryout” also captures many of the universal pains of adolescence. Game Face 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

He was the one who said: “Jon, I really don’t want to do that. I want it to be in English and I want it to be as universal as it possibly can be.” Jon Stewart: ‘I’m doing a movie about torture – I’m not being tortured’ 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

He has become a universal ancestor for the African diaspora, an everyman of black history. Malachi Kirby on remaking Roots: ‘I could feel the pain, hear the screams' 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

“We have a universal constituency that loves sweet and sour flavors. The flavor palette is being preserved with a smokiness that people long for.” Immigrants bring new touches to American barbecue. Just like they always have. 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

It did not matter that Müller had published 20 books already, and that The Hunger Angel, her masterpiece, had just been released to universal acclaim in the German press. The gripes of Roth: US incredulity at not winning the Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T18:07:59Z

By keeping this and discarding that, they forged a new, culturally specific art that was innovative within an Iranian context and actively resistant to the notion that Western modernism represented a universal standard. Art Review: Shows at Asia Society and N.Y.U. Grey Art Gallery 2013-09-05T21:50:26Z

A: The problems of these people are universal. ‘Maggie’s Plan’ director has created a comedy about our ‘contemporary confusion’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

He himself believed his stand was essential to vindicate the universal church's freedoms, and events were to prove him right, for his martyrdom became the emblem of spiritual resistance to secular tyranny. Thomas Becket, Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim by John Guy - review 2012-05-18T21:55:07Z

If we’re talking about institutions stained by colonial legacies, universal museums rank pretty high on the list of malefactors — but who knows what new routes and sightlines you can contrive with the right renovation? Gehry’s Quiet Interventions Reshape the Philadelphia Museum 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z

This is partly to do with their freight of universal truths and partly to do with Neel's influence, subject of a show of contemporary art at Victoria Miro, In the Company of Alice. Alice Neel: Painted Truths 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

The evocations of the human figure, the artifacts that adorn the body, the vibrant headdresses, the solemn delicacy or horror of the masks — they all testify to what seems like a universal aesthetic impulse. Critic?s Notebook: Quai Branly Museum in Paris Glorifies the ?Other? 2011-11-25T23:47:39Z

Few scenes seem more seductive in films than the ones that casually nail a universal truth on youth or lust – or both – in an original way and In Between seems built on them. Maysaloun Hamoud, the female director shaking up Israel and Palestine 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Reynolds’s ability to weave story lines in Patina’s life across both particular and universal ground — race and class, acceptance and grief, loyalty and individuality — is seamless and moving. Running for Their Lives in Two Middle-Grade Novels About Track Teams 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

The sound and music, by Sinéad Diskin, come and go, sometimes offering a sense of place, at other times leaving place ambiguous, universal. ‘Walking With Ghosts’ Review: Gabriel Byrne Roams His Past 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Relational ethics means recognizing that what the museum once called “universal” was one specific worldview — not to be scrapped wholesale, but to be absorbed into a global network of other tactics, other approaches, other voices. How the Met Was Made 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

This turned out not to be any problem at all because our friend’s son spoke two universal languages: food and soccer. Madrid for Kids? Try D.I.Y. Spanish Immersion 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

The two artists, one modernist, the other postmodernist, use very different visual languages to speak of a universal subject: reality and illusion and how they meet in art. Art Review: ‘Radical Terrain’ at the Rubin Museum of Art 2012-12-27T20:03:54Z

Is there a universal symbol that connotes danger? | 'Into Eternity': Humans, Who Once Buried Their Treasures, Now Bury Their Dangers 2011-02-01T22:51:58Z

There’s a performance art aspect to the gesture, as if she’s killing the self in order to best express the universal truths of her music. Sia doesn’t want to be famous: Considering how we treat women like Margot Robbie and Renée Zellweger, who can blame her? 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

The subject matter is urgently topical, the themes raised eternal and universal. Of Gods and Men ? review 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

They gathered 24 portraits of private lives that expose a group in some cases kept literally veiled, yet that also illustrate that American Muslim women grapple with universal issues. In ?Love, InshAllah,? American Muslim Women Reveal Lives 2012-01-23T22:28:48Z

Without the big experiments, Weinberg believes we will never get close to that universal textbook. Steven Weinberg: 'I wanted to be on the in – privy to all the secrets of physics' 2013-03-03T00:05:05Z

They’ve done that by a scavenger hunt, of sorts, for young people from groups rarely seen on television, hoping that one of them will squeeze out something universal from the specific. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Buckwild,’ ‘Washington Heights’ and ‘Black Ink Crew’ on TV 2013-01-06T22:55:35Z

Out of this Mr. Crialese has created an absorbing drama not just about a traditional society in crisis and the major issue of immigration but also about individuals facing universal moral choices. Film: Passionate Tales of Lost Identities 2011-09-08T12:30:07Z

It’s the universals of the human experiences that make it last; that’s the stuff I had to go away and work harder on when I was writing. Writing Rupert, Playing Murdoch, Making ‘Ink’ 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

What did you decide to include or exclude from your experiences to make something personal into a film that is universal? In "Los Lobos," two boys who flee Mexico discover that the American Dream isn't Disneyland 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

“I’m always trying to find that universal connecting piece.” In ‘Dear Edward,’ Connie Britton Embraces Her Inner ‘Real Housewife’ 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

A stranger in a strange land, Claire faces the universal issues of time travel: How to pass as a citizen of another time while finding a way home. TV Picks: 'Outlander,' 'Legends,' 'Dick Cavett's Watergate' 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

It’s Kissinger’s embrace of “whatever means” and his facile dismissal of the “medieval notion” of universal morality that give critics ammunition. How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

But even books that stress the cultural side, such as Margaret Mead’s “Male and Female,” can’t get around a few universal human gender differences. The 1,328-Page Novel That Captivated the Primatologist Frans de Waal 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Williams’s poems were written in common and accessible language, beginning with his own everyday experience but leading to something a reader could recognize as universal. Miller Williams, Plain-Spoken Arkansas Poet, Dies at 84 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Rodnyansky said that although the film was about "Russian life, Russian society and Russian anguish ... it’s not specifically Russian, I believe it is very universal." 'Loveless', a film about people that politicians will hate, screens at Cannes 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

But these are human, universal things that go beyond Ai Weiwei … he's not saying he's a saint, or that he is wholly right or good. Ai Weiwei shows Venice Biennale his many sides 2013-05-30T11:57:01Z

He decreed the use of a universal written script, which let him control the political conversation. ‘Age of Empires’: How 2 Dynasties of Art Forged China’s Identity 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

There is comfort in knowing that a tradition is as unique as it is universal — that this recipe is just as cherished by people I've never met. The mysterious origins of grandma's mushroom puffs 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

At its best, European culture draws strength from its belief in reason, liberty, classical tradition and universal human dignity — in short, the principles of the 18th-century Enlightenment. Review | A welcome reminder that there’s value to being a citizen of the world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

Though the themes — oppression, loss, psychic pain — are universal, her music often focuses acutely on Baltimore, where she moved with her mother at age 8, and returned to shortly after Mr. Gray’s death. The Changing Sound of Baltimore 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

While age-related discounts are not universal, they exist in some pursuits, like skiing, where senior status can lop a few dollars off your access to the slopes. Thrifty Strategies for Senior Travelers 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

Recognizing that merely being alive brings suffering, the Buddha teaches universal compassion. ‘Self and Soul’: Mark Edmundson’s biting critique of modern complacency 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

Or would we just set up some kind of blood exchange program so we can move on from this universal healthcare quagmire once and for all? "True Blood" recap: Trust no one 2010-08-23T12:30:00Z

Their ceremony would “celebrate mankind”—the universal belly button. The Olympics Opening Ceremony in Rio: Let the Games Begin 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Aronson’s work animated Old and New Testament allegories to convey universal human emotions — defying the deference of his father, a rabbi, to the Second Commandment. David Aronson, Expressionist Artist, Dies at 91 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

“Hamilton” now employs seven “universal swings,” who are versatile performers ready to travel anywhere they are needed to fill in, up from four before the pandemic; “The Lion King” has brought in three additional swings. Touring Through Omicron: Broadway Shows Hit Bumps on the Road 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

Clearly, these are extraordinary figures, but as with male writers of the time, nearly every example of literary achievement in that era of nearly universal illiteracy is extraordinary. Exhibition Review: ?Shakespeare?s Sisters? at the Folger Shakespeare Library 2012-02-23T23:43:59Z

“Leonardo Da Vinci, he is one of those rare men, those personalities who fascinate us, because he was universal,” Delieuvin said. Louvre exhibit acclaims Da Vinci, 500 years after his death 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

The effect when the student choir performed the work, even though the words were foreign to everyone in the audience, was universal, Aamodt said. Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer whose works gave voice to revolution, dies at 86 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

“All the Way” received universal acclaim, hit No. 4 on the Billboard jazz chart and received a Grammy nomination. Jimmy Scott, hard-luck singer with a haunting voice, dies at 88

I do think, because it’s network TV and they want to appeal to a broad audience and get their corporate sponsors and all that, they’re seeking a more universal, everybody-is-pleased type of stance. 'Fresh Off the Boat Star': I Don't Need to Represent Every Asian Mom Ever 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

“The common language of art, which is universal, serves as a unifying force.” 45 years on, ‘lost’ masterpieces see light in split Cyprus 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

If there was one universal complaint about the sixth season, it was that Don reprised the same dramas, without seeming to change much at all. ArtsBeat: ‘Mad Men’ Recap: Are You Buying the Pitch? 2014-04-14T11:31:40Z

As such, Beyoncé spends a lot of the record examining her role in relationships, and then lending those examinations universal appeal via musical accompaniment. Beyoncé Reviewed: One of Pop Music’s Most Important Moments 2013-12-16T16:28:45Z

“This is a universal terror that you combine with a woman representing everyone,” Curtis added, “and you have a recipe for people going to the movie over and over again.” What’s on TV Thursday: The Original ‘Halloween’ and More Scares 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

The songs leap from personal beefs to universal quandaries, while SZA challenges herself as both musician and persona. SZA Revels in Mixed Emotions on ‘SOS’ 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

Now, Newsom is running for California governor on a platform that includes gun control and universal health care, and Guilfoyle is trying to stop politicians like him. Kimberly Guilfoyle was once half of a liberal power couple. Now she’s basically a Trump. 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Oz identified its central topic as the “troubles of the Jews,” but this seemingly narrow focus did not preclude it rising to a more universal, humanistic plane. Amos Oz and the Politics of the Hebrew Language 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Although significant portions of the 10th District are White and wealthy, Niou often speaks in terms of the most marginalized when it comes to policy, arguing that the rights of the most vulnerable are universal. She’s running for Congress, despite the anti-Asian attacks against her 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

She said that she had been rejected by gatekeepers who told her the characters she writes about — poor people, black people, Southerners — were not universal stories. Masha Gessen, Jesmyn Ward, Robin Benway and Frank Bidart win National Book Awards 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

"It is about human dilemmas and being in a situation under pressure, not just about war, and that is universal," Bernth said. From the makers of Denmark's The Killing and Borgen: a costume drama 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

When a partner gets caught behaving badly, their instant and universal instinct is often to very quickly attempt to sweep the problem away. Perspective | Ask Amy: Sexting inspires unkind comparisons 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z

The filmmakers, citing a desire for the movie to have “universal” appeal, have disavowed both the character’s American commitments and her feminist cause. Wonder Woman’s Unwinnable War 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Then there are the new classic line dances, like the Cupid Shuffle and the Wobble, that seem somehow universal, devoid of their geographic specificity but part of the larger black collective memory. Ten Years of Swag Surfin’ 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

He notes the way America’s listening habits are often segregated by race, and occasionally more universal: The great Motown hits, like “My Girl,” he writes, “seem to pre-exist musical taste itself.” ‘Major Labels’ Wraps Popular Music — All of It — in a Warm Embrace 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

They talked about income inequality and living wages, universal health care, North Korea and 2020. Bernie Sanders calls Trump "the worst president in the history of the United States" 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

“I enjoy touching people in a universal way,” Mr. Parsons, 54, said in an interview. ‘Caught,’ by David Parsons, Performed by Alvin Ailey Dance 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

I work in developing countries where resources and technology are quite limited, but everyone shares the goal of universal health care for all people. Brewing a "Coffeehouse Resistance": Hopeful activism that's organized and energized 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

That is such a universal thing in women’s lives, to have these almost familial relationships with your best friends. Forever Angela Chase: “For young women who were just forming and just getting angry, it was the only thing out there” 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

“Now, more than, ever, a dialogue is so important. We have seen that classical music is a universal language,” he added. An Orchestra Brings Harmony to a Region of Discord 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Paris is, more significantly, where movies from everywhere else end up, or at least book their transit from the local to the universal. Film: Movie Love for Paris, City of Klieg Lights 2010-08-14T14:22:00Z

So, the dress, which also featured a higher hemline, became a formal and universal choice of attire amongst women. How cocktail culture forever changed women's fashion 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z

“It wasn’t just Netflix, but it was universal. What I think Hollywood learned from the Sony hack is that the risk of embarrassment is too high.” Khashoggi doc, too explosive for streaming, debuts on-demand 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

Still, I can’t escape the conviction that cursive—writing it and knowing how to read it—represents some universal value. The Lost Virtue of Cursive 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

The song is about a man who doesn't think he'll make it through to morning, but the lyrics are more universal. Rumer's old music: Townes van Zandt ? Flyin' Shoes 2012-05-21T09:16:16Z

When readers from Russia to Reeltown discover her stories, they find universal meaning there, collisions of prejudices, grievances, misunderstandings, failures, as well as triumphs, kindnesses and generosity.” Mary Ward Brown, 95, Award-Winning Short Story Writer, Dies 2013-05-22T22:29:16Z

It's not personal, but universal; not enclosed but spacious. Mouse Bird Snake Wolf by David Almond and Dave McKean – review 2013-06-21T17:45:01Z

His composure in that moment felt at once universal and highly specific, a point in space and time. Review: Charles Lloyd Returns to the Village Vanguard 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

But that kind of thoughtfulness was far from universal. Perspective | The words Trump uses, and the words the media must use in response 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z

A conlang could be Esperanto, the creation of a Polish physician that some want to see adopted as a universal language, rebuilding the Tower of Babel. New Dictionary Additions: 7 Useful Words You Probably Don't Know 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

There is no universal set of cues, and even the same person will show different types of behaviour, depending on the situation. How to spot a liar – even if he isn’t a cabinet minister 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

You might think we’ve outgrown such stuff here in the age of universal suffrage and women’s rugby; the frail-sex-in-jeopardy gimmick seems a bit retrograde. Critic?s Notebook: New TV: ?Gator Boys? and ?American Stuffers? 2012-01-01T18:02:55Z

That the ideas were ancient and universal, interestingly, made no difference. Review: Anohni’s Declaration Against War 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

She said that she and her staff dress to marry function with form, which is not a universal decision. Winter Storms and Snow Test the Imagination of New York Fashion Week Attendees 2014-02-14T21:09:25Z

Though the first two secrets Batoul reveals appear to be more focused on the specific McDonald’s location where she works, her final revelation appears to be more universal. Former McDonald’s employee claims this one item is free 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

Vladimir Nabokov was right when he called Tolstoy’s prose “so tiger bright, so original and universal that it easily transcends the sermon.” ArtsBeat: A Book Critic At the Ballet 2011-07-14T20:22:03Z

The companies’ universal promise — of an environmentally friendly transportation option — isn’t clear cut, either. How to Travel Using an E-Bike or Scooter 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

It’s not just the expense: critics warn that a universal basic income is unlikely to deliver the benefits its advocates claim. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Looking ahead, venues include scenic parks, castles and other landmarks, and the bill includes recent, universal crowd-pleasers like The Artist and O Brother, Where Art Thou? This week's new film events 2012-07-13T23:10:58Z

You're always trying to tell as universal a story as possible. "Four Seasons Total Documentary" captures the Trump campaign's emperor-has-no-clothes moment 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z

"This night is about something truly universal and healing," LL Cool J said. Triumph, tragedy dominate Grammy Awards 2012-02-13T17:08:13Z

Ganna’s creation extolled Buddhist principles as well as such universal ideals as kindness, acceptance and respect for all sentient beings. Could a mask maker’s quest to see the Dalai Lama bring about world peace? 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

She doesn’t so much depict a universal humanity as practically force it into the viewer’s place, where it implicates, illuminates and bedazzles. Art Review: ‘Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe,’ at Brooklyn Museum 2012-09-27T22:04:12Z

Lee added that she felt that the miniseries would have widespread appeal: "It's a universal story of a legendary woman. There's loss, a long journey and triumph." BET miniseries 'The Book of Negroes' offers woman's view of slavery era 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

To witness such universal admiration for a woman-powered song felt deeply good to me as a kid. Joan Jett’s Raw, Inclusive Rock and Roll 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

He’s been compared to Ginsberg, but Whitman might be more apt: his themes were universal; his psalms were epic. See Leonard Cohen's Life in Pictures 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Marina Warner described folk tales, in Calvino's hands, as being "the sediment of people's experiences, transformed into a universal language by the fantasy". A week in radio: Ken Dodd and Italo Calvino on Radio 3 2012-06-07T20:30:04Z

I am lucky I have that to process the universal human thing and the world around you. TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe on using a "weird gaslighting technique" in new film "Ultrasound" 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

Ozawa’s Mariko may be 80, but the loneliness that prompts her to leave home is universal. Aging Japan: Manga comics turn gray - but spirited - along with... 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

When “Pinocchio” was released in 1940, it was a huge hit, and it continues to hold a universal and long-lasting appeal. Dickie Jones, child cowboy who voiced Pinocchio in Disney film, dies at 87

By the end of her two-week performance, each canvas will bear such a record for a different stock: A representation of an abstraction that symbolizes an infinitesimal piece of the universal financial flux. Here’s How an Artist Plays the Stock Market 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

He evoked universals in an age that veered toward particulars; he sought the respect of institutions that were themselves increasingly suspect; his desperate quest for love seemed too hot for an age of cool. Movie of the Week: “The Patsy” 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

Eighty percent of Democrats and 52 percent of independents said Jesus would support universal healthcare. Republicans confuse “Atlas Shrugged” for the Bible 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

If we look at Switzerland, a country with market-based universal coverage, we see very good health outcomes data. The Myth of Americans' Poor Life Expectancy 2011-11-23T15:45:03Z

As my wife is always telling me, the truth is universal and omnipresent. Book Talk: Sheen "nourished" by narrating Dalai Lama's book 2011-12-08T10:04:59Z

It’s since received almost universal acclaim from critics and been nominated for 13 Emmys. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt season three: Titus parodies Beyoncé in teaser 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

If a woman adopts a male perspective, it seems their story is still more likely to be respected, and read as universal. Has Virago changed the publishing world's attitudes towards women? 2013-03-14T08:00:02Z

In fact, the show's weakest elements are the set pieces, such as Mephistopheles's Calf of Gold song, and the universal waltz that ends the second act, neither of which is effectively staged. Faust 2010-09-20T21:00:00Z

But as Levi explains in a recent video conversation with Salon, what makes Bergman's story so timeless are its universal themes. "Scenes from a Marriage" boss Hagai Levi on empowering the wife to leave: "I have to fight for her" 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

Khan’s young character also deals with universal issues facing middle-grade readers: self-doubt, shifting friendships and family expectations. A step toward greater diversity in children’s books: Hena Khan’s ‘Amina’s Voice’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

The next year he became president and began modernizing the country, ensuring universal education and mandating equal rights for women. Tunisia After the Revolution 2012-04-06T18:10:20Z

Shawcross aims to take our perception of time back to an ancient age before it was measured out by clocks set to a universal measurement. Conrad Shawcross turns Roundhouse into giant sundial 2013-07-23T14:42:54Z

Eggs may be the most universal symbol of springtime on Easter tables around the world, but, in Italy, dishes made with ricotta are also a menu mainstay. You Can Have This Rich Easter Pie Any Time of Year 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Or maybe the way to think about it is that she right-sized her career, away from the silly and grim expectations of complaisance that come with universal acclaim and toward a more earnest plane. The Night Sinead O’Connor Took on the Pope on ‘SNL’ 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Payne’s title refers not to corporate cost-saving strategies but to a technological procedure invented by scientists in Norway and adapted for universal, commercial use. Review: In ‘Downsizing,’ Matt Damon Sweats the Small Stuff 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

Esperanto failed to catch on, either as a universal second language or as the preferred communication of Interpol. Red notice: 10 fascinating facts about Interpol 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z

The scenic design helps turn Nevelson’s egocentric insights about her own talent into a universal message about self-knowledge and personal fulfillment. Review | At Theater J, Albee’s ‘Occupant’ takes a lifeless look at the life of Louise Nevelson 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

Although the misery is universal, this story is uniquely, and often amusingly, French. In ‘Adèle,’ a Young Woman Pounds Champagne, Spurns Hermès and Destroys Lives 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Sketch comedy taught me early on with “SNL” and “In Living Color” that you can speak to things that matter through sketch, and comedy is the universal language of communication in my mind. Robin Thede leads yet another comedy revolution with "A Black Lady Sketch Show" 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z

The theme is universal: true love overcomes all obstacles, but in this case the all-conquering love is between boys. Boys in Love 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Take away perspective and you are stranded in a universal present, something akin, weirdly, to the unhistoried — and, at the risk of tautology, perspective-less — art of the Middle Ages. Andreas Gursky's photos visually articulate the world around us, framing modern society 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z

Amid all the anger and callousness is the tenderness of romantic yearning, the universal desire to be loved. Trying to Feel Love-Worthy (While Working for a Dating App) 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

Kim said her husband has lost his ability to communicate but says, "He still understands the universal language of smiles and laughter and joy." Oscars 2015: Glen Campbell song captures his life with Alzheimer's 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Indeed, that’s the reason our one “large-scale event” every year was usually a musical act and not a comedy act, because music was more of a universal crowd-pleaser than comedy. So, college “p.c. culture” stifles comedy? Ever hear a comedian sh*t on the American Dream at a Wal-Mart shareholders meeting? 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was greeted with so much universal Gadarene critical groupthink – "the greatest movie ever made" was a widespread accolade – that a sober assessment inevitably entailed profound disappointment. Life of Pi is a visual triumph but it won't stand repeat viewings 2012-12-14T16:00:00Z

It got Proscia thinking about why something like marriage equality isn't universal in American society. 'Gloria's Cause' looks at the forgotten figures of 1776 2010-11-28T05:01:00Z

There’s no universal formula for what grieving loved ones want most, but “lost” photographs and warm memories of the deceased are as close as you’ll ever get to it. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: An ex dies young. Should you share old photos with his family? 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

"It should be universal, even if it has deep roots in one place." Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T19:38:00Z

The narrative is told by the horse, because I wanted this to be a story of universal suffering in the war, not told from one side or the other. War Horse: adapt and survive 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

While the family's socioeconomic status would certainly not classify them as "working class," the issues they deal with are universal. Scarecrow suggests | Films in the spirit of 'Another Year' 2011-01-27T20:59:04Z

“So much of the world right now and the content we’re consuming is about differences, and I think this is really a show about the universal elements of humanity,” Raza said. Animals, people rescue each other in heartfelt docuseries 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

But universal accessibility is not the end of the story, it is the beginning. Among the Disrupted 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

And it does this while managing to have universal appeal. Forget "Ted Lasso" – give me a "Bend It Like Beckham" TV show 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z

One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today – love, money, family. Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey to be reworked by Val McDermid 2012-07-19T14:42:25Z

Some of her points are tongue-in-cheek — “When in doubt spray-paint it gold” — while others are universal: “Fight monomania,” and “Wake up early, fear death.” Against the Grain: Rebecca Morris and Peter Bradley’s Art ‘About Nothing’ 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

The loan is part of a wider effort by the British Museum to lend what it calls "universal objects" to different parts of the world. ArtsBeat: A British Museum Treasure Will Visit the United States 2012-11-28T00:00:01Z

The motivations for doing so are pretty much universal. Theater Review: ‘Love and Information,’ by Caryl Churchill, at Minetta Lane 2014-02-20T03:00:14Z

Like her director, Hunt is keen to point out that this is a universal film beyond the issues surrounding disability. Let's talk about sex 2013-01-18T07:55:33Z

Like typing, Googling, and driving, distraction is now a universal competency. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

In that first production “View” was one act, written in verse because, in Miller’s opinion, verse was better suited than prose to expressing universal themes. 2010-01-06T08:21:00Z

"In this competition football is a universal language." Soweto concert to get fans warmed up for World Cup 2010-06-09T17:37:00Z

The only difference between your teenage thing and a universal adult fear is the ability to keep it in perspective. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Don’t blame the messenger, divorced parents. Your behavior is wrong. 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z

They capture some of the universal essence of childhood, as well as giving pinpoint sharp specifics of the pioneering way of life. Which series of books are ideal for a seven-year-old girl? 2013-01-14T14:53:39Z

“The Elephant Man,” though, drew universal praise and ran for 916 performances. Bernard Pomerance, Who Wrote ‘The Elephant Man,’ Dies at 76 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

The back-and-forth between the terrestrial and the celestial suggests that cultural identity is all about transition, and nomadism is universal citizenship. 10 Galleries to Visit Now on the Lower East Side 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Every single one ends with a revelation, a gasp of understanding and universal commiseration. The powerful story of one family’s struggle to save an autistic child 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

The single most universal sign of solidarity, black-is-beautiful fashion, was absorbed by the market, including the entertainment industry, and reduced to commercial fodder, a process already at work in the new protest culture today. In ‘Black Power!,’ Art’s Political Punch and Populist Reach 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

There would be universal health care, rent stabilization, eviction moratoriums forever, universal basic income of some kind, free public education, loan forgiveness. Frank Conversations About Making a Living in Dance 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

If we plan properly and there’s universal buy-in, there will be nothing going on. The Case for a National One-Week Vacation 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

At their best, memoirs burn through the “me” of the genre, and into the universal of the human experience. The Examined Life May Be More Worth Living. Reading About It Is Another Matter. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

“We viewed play as a universal experience by children across the West, and time,” she said. Hello, what is this thing? At the Autry Museum, the vintage toys of 'Play!' are serious fun 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

“It’s the universal values of minimalism: the purity of the geometry, the right proportion,” Richani says. 2009-12-01T05:00:00Z

Even if, like me, you don't speak Welsh, it is perfectly understandable: love of land and family, plus blood, sweat and tears, are a universal language. Tir Sir Gar – review 2013-04-23T17:49:08Z

Agreeing on a universal definition of satire is far from easy. 4.3 trillion readers can’t be wrong — why The Onion’s defense of satire should be heard by SCOTUS 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z

"The film is specific to the Bosnian War, but it's also universal," Jolie said in a statement. Angelina Jolie Bosnia movie gets Dec. release 2011-05-16T21:14:36Z

Experiencing any of your favorite shows with other people around produces an etiquette question with no universal answer: Is talking during the show O.K.? Do You Talk During ‘Game of Thrones’? 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

That universal distinctiveness is what’s meant by the saw “character is fate,” and it’s the source of both the deepest comedy and tragedy. Review: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Gives New York a Fabulous ‘Fleabag’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

There’s a deeper layer of sadness and frustration: The unique and also universal way home eludes Jacob, who knows all too well what one must do to survive. Loss haunts the gay Arab San Franciscan at the heart of Rabih Alameddine's new novel, 'Angel of History' 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

“They very intentionally worked hard not to be ‘The Angry American, Part 2,’ but to be universal and apolitical: ‘We want to support these men and women who sacrificed for us,’ ” White said. Toby Keith was a loud political voice in the Bush years. What about the Trump era? 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Suffering, Ball demonstrates, is universal, and fears are often irrational. Three Married Couples and a Cryptic Headmistress Fuel the Suburban Satire of ‘The Pessimists’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Even still, Katigbak emphasized that in “Out of Time,” audiences will hear the universal stories through Asian American voices — a rarity in the theater, even in 2022. 5 Monologues, Each a Showcase for Asian American Actors Over 60 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

The news of Schumer’s cunning negotiating earned her almost universal praise across the internet. Amy Schumer and Lena Dunham: A tale of two multi-million dollar feminist book deals that were met with wildly different judgments 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

That may be true for some, but it’s definitely not a universal experience. WATCH: A journey to justice in prisons around the world 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

Their musical language was universal: They spoke for us all. What’s Wrong With the Broadway Musical? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

“He’s united the country in their universal disdain!” ‘He’s united the country in their universal disdain!’: Howard Schultz looks for love in Washington 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

The monologues mostly avoid racial animus and lean toward more universal themes. 5 Monologues, Each a Showcase for Asian American Actors Over 60 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

But there's a more universal message to the song. Arcade Fire: Dressing up and falling over 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

But for all the local overtones, the themes are first-world universal. Provocative 'The Casual Vacancy' no ordinary jaunt to countryside 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

This might explain the universal tendency to retain the parental faith. This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief 2014-01-04T19:00:00Z

Barbara proceeds through this atmosphere of universal suspicion as if wearing a suit of armor. Christian Petzold Directs ‘Barbara,’ Starring Nina Hoss 2012-12-07T23:53:01Z

The petition, signed by more than 1,000 free men of color, asked Lincoln to enact universal suffrage for black men. Descendants Tell Stories of Free People of Color 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

You sense that Carrey has always longed for a Groundhog Day; a high-concept movie packed with universal truths that allows him to be sincere and zany in equal measure. Jim Carrey's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

I think that’s what made the role so universal to me. When Your Girlfriend Is Your Father 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

From the Arcadian idyll of Wordsworth's Cumbria to the mean streets of Tony Harrison's native Leeds, specific locales frequently provide poets with a launching pad to universal subjects. What fresh Hull is this? 2010-06-24T13:50:00Z

Marriage, in all its states, is such a universal topic that it's been portrayed in countless films. 5 great movies about troubled marriages 2012-08-10T04:16:04Z

One might read them as anecdotal for the Iranian-American experience, but rendered in Vossoughi’s epigrammatic prose they ultimately unfold through the language of the universal. New Story Collections Reconsider History and Upend Tradition 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

"They also show there's something universal: We all have been brokenhearted at least once." On Valentine's day, a museum for broken hearts 2012-02-13T15:29:16Z

The Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli created this world premiere work to run alongside Expo Milano, a universal exposition taking place in the city now. What's On This Week Around The World 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

How do you think you'll be able to maintain that balance of choosing issues that strike close to home but are universal in appeal? Hasan Minhaj on the joy of making “Patriot Act” and keeping the political personal 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

Raschka decided to use a canine as the star of his book to give it more universal appeal, and he determined to make it wordless so that it could be accessible to nonreaders. 'Daisy' runs off with Caldecott and 'Dead End' takes Newbery 2012-01-28T06:24:08Z

“We were hoping that as a universal language, emoji would grow to include a universal sampling of different culturally relevant foods,” she said. New Emoji, No Hot Dog 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

The wonderful thing about Woody, as a writer, is that he’s able to tap into things that are universal, almost archetypical, but then seem really current. “Refreshingly Honest”: Cate Blanchett on Working with Woody Allen 2013-07-18T16:16:38Z

I hope that this is a universal novel. Author Gabriel Bump: "We might be moving towards worse racial issues" 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

The concept on morality and reason, introduced in 1785, states that one must “Act only according to that maxim by which you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.” A Handy Guide to the Philosophers Referenced in 'Irrational Man' 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Their return to Turkey angered some of the die-hard defenders of the universal museum, and their case was bolstered by the revelation that fewer than a thousand people visited the treasures over five whole years. Turkey's restitution dispute with the Met challenges the 'universal museum' 2012-10-07T13:00:01Z

And while billionaires who venture into space, like Bezos, often wax poetic about universal ideals of "human progress," they fail to articulate who, exactly, these zany space adventures are progress for. You can join Jeff Bezos on his 11-minute space trip for just $2.8 million! 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

Yes, the kids in her books were White, suburban and middle class, but their struggles were universal: sibling rivalry, school bullying, worries about their parents. Perspective | Beverly Cleary, through Ramona, captured the essence of childhood 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

Unionisation, the vote for women, civil rights, gay rights and universal health care – these enfranchisements came after decades of struggle, never overnight, and rarely as a result of a single violent action. American theatre: the wonder years? 2010-04-07T13:29:00Z

It’s our hope that it’s ultimately as universal and accessible as possible. Simon Rich on “SNL,” “Black Mirror,” and dressing Bill Hader as Hitler 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

It was universal: No one could use the law. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z

I knew that it was more than just a singular message from one individual, it was a universal message,” the actor said. ¡Americano! A real Dreamer story debuts off-Broadway 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

The Yiddish version contains words like “Gevalt!” — an exclamation of shock or fright — instead of the more universal “Help!” How Do You Say ‘Tradition’ in Yiddish? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

Through slave labor and colonial expansion, she argues, Western powers built empires whose imposing architecture — often neo-Classical in style and claiming to represent universal aesthetic values — was itself an expression of political control. Radical Rethinking at Biennale: Africa and the Future Share Pride of Place 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Bregman has long been making the case for higher taxes among a raft of other measures to rethink the way the world works, including a shorter working week and a universal basic income. Historian who confronted Davos billionaires leaks Tucker Carlson rant 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

They’re not always deployed for universal good; sometimes, their aims and means are unsettling. On Twitter, a Battle Among Political Bots 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Could it be that religion and culture interact to the point that there is no universal morality? Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z

“Indeed, there is so much media attention on the issue and we run the societal risk of believing that there is one universal transgender story.” Wednesday’s Travel News and Tips 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

“Those kinds of male-female dynamics are things that are universal. Men and women don’t understand each other, and I don’t find that in any way to be a trope.” In the Shadows of a Giant and Dinosaurs 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

That may be what is most universal about it. Louvre Abu Dhabi, an Arabic-Galactic Wonder, Revises Art History 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

While still a plantation society, the archipelago, by then under British colonial control, provided a secure life featuring universal employment and numerous social benefits on islands described by many as idyllic. “24′s” phony history exposed: The dark history of a CIA “black site” 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

It's such a universal notion to just want to belong. Nasim Pedrad finds her inner boy as "Chad": "It’s such a universal notion to just want to belong" 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

A later verse imagines her seeing “your dad playing the piano/and see your other dad wearing glasses,” reflecting the universal hope that our children will understand us. Rufus Wainwright's Out of the Game: The Experimental Singer-Songwriter Goes Mainstream 2012-05-02T10:45:07Z

Yet he still recognizes the Thor-Loki rivalry as a universal struggle. 'Avengers' bad boy Hiddleston wreaks wicked fun 2012-05-01T14:07:08Z

“The brilliant thing about individual stories is that the more specific you are, the more universal it is,” he said. Serpentwithfeet’s Music Is Otherworldly. But His Message Is Down to Earth. 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

“Body, Joy, Cage, Scar” explores such universal themes as healing, persistence and acceptance. Review | In the galleries: Artist’s works criss-cross the paths of U.S. colonialism 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

“Her work is simultaneously universal and very Polish,” Ms. Croft said. Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke Awarded Nobel Prizes in Literature 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Well, it’s a universal passion rooted in universal rage. The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: No 1 – Parasite 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

She sad "How I Ended This Summer" was "a cinematic tour de force ... tense, moving and universal in its scope." Russian Arctic drama wins London Film Fest prize 2010-10-27T21:46:00Z

But this particular story has lived rent-free in my head for almost exactly two years, largely because it speaks to a nearly universal, if under-discussed, truth: the existence of the emergency condiment stash. Taco Bell's Fire Sauce: A condiment drawer staple and underrated caramel corn ingredient 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z

One would assume that for a studio such as Sony, almost universal acclaim would be enough to propel a sturdy, problem-free campaign. Call me by the wrong name: how studios are still trying to straight-wash gay films 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Yet from this grief emerges grace, a sublimity that is not universal but achingly particular. Patricia Lockwood’s First Novel Reaches for the Sublime, Online and Off 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

But the universal language of cinema is the Vin Diesel scowl. Cannes: Director grabs spotlight, but films stand out 2011-05-19T19:56:12Z

Thanks in large part to their efforts, universal salvation was no longer an obscure creed espoused by a scattered few. Damnation, American style: How American preachers reinvented hell 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

No,” says Choi. “If anything, it just proves that music is universal.” Can the New Single from K-Pop Stars Girls’ Generation Challenge ‘Gangnam Style’? 2013-01-11T15:54:41Z

Santi’s contribution to the Paper Towns soundtrack hints at the future direction of her eclectic sound: still far-reaching and universal, but with hooks more focused on, ahem, radio play. 15 Pop Songs You Might Have Missed This Summer 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

The author even becomes religious, acknowledging “our debt to them,” along with our “universal kinship” with the “lowly Carpenter of Nazareth.” Exhibition Review: A View Inside King Kong?s Perch 2011-07-16T00:00:07Z

“The story combines so many unique local and universal themes which connected people from all walks of life, from all around the world,” Erika North, Netflix’s Director of International Originals, said. Netflix signs deal for Thai cave boy rescue miniseries 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

The virtue of the atlas conceived by Johannes Klencke was, through sheer extravagance, to ennoble something that was actually increasingly universal. Here be monsters 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

This story of parallel universes is universal in every sense of the word. ‘Constellations,’ With Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, Opens on Broadway 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

He saw Tamir Rice’s death as both a local tragedy and something more universal: “the brutality of difference being marked on somebody’s body.” An Artist Honors Tamir Rice, One Orange Object at a Time 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

And while I agree that demanding a more equitable division of labor represents a “feminist dream,” at its core it’s really a dream of universal, gender-blind justice. Save Me From This Domestic Drudgery! 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

Names, places and specifics in songs convey universal emotions so much better than generalisations. Rumer: Boys Don't Cry – review 2012-05-26T23:10:01Z

Above all, he sees the Darwinian syllogism of evolution by natural selection as a "universal acid" that applies to animate and inanimate alike, to species and societies, to technologies and philosophies. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C Dennett – review 2013-05-15T06:00:03Z

The modern Christmas tree is a universal symbol that carries meanings both religious and secular. The Christmas tree is a tradition older than Christmas 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z

Elgar’s ‘Dream’ may be framed in Catholicism, but its music is universal in its humanity. Uplifting music, deep themes: Seattle Symphony to perform Elgar’s ‘Dream of Gerontius’ 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

The woman turns out to be a poet trying to come to terms with these atrocities; the same might be said of Ahtila, who appears to be contemplating universal guilt. Kutlug Ataman 2010-04-10T23:06:00Z

For all Paul’s ludicrous ravings about the Red Sox and a Lost Tribe and the girlfriends who got away, he’s frightened of something profound and universal. Book World Joshua Ferris’s ‘To Rise Again at a Decent Hour’

Stern, himself a former union leader who is now a fellow at the Richman Center at Columbia University, urges a “universal basic income,” a proposal attracting wide support on the left. What Do This Season’s Political Books Tell Us About the Election? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

“February 22, 2022 is actually a three universal day,” says Perry. Here comes Tuesday, 2-22-22, a.k.a. Twosday. (It can mean anything you want it two.) 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

He was a universal entry point to classical music. Itzhak Perlman, Violin Legend, Still Proves the Critics Wrong 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

Writing the film was a way to work through those universal anxieties about aging and maturity, Mr. Baumbach said. Adam Horovitz, a Beastie Boy in Middle Age 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

It was a Bible parable with a powerful, universal message, the story of St. Christopher carrying a baby over a stream. Kyung-sook Shin's 'I'll Be Right There' finds artful solace 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

An art that he had once disparaged as sentimental, he now found universal in its appeal. The Art of Della Robbia: From Earth and Water, Pure Beauty 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Here, the subtle use of incidental music occasionally augments the action, but otherwise you're left to watch people going through this universal, at times mundane, yet utterly incredible experience, unprodded. One Born Every Minute: labours of love 2011-01-10T14:35:11Z

In philosophy, the problem of other minds is a time-honored and unresolved conundrum: how to justify the almost universal belief that other humans have minds much like our own, including a rich inner life. Exploring the origins of consciouness, cephalopod and human, with Peter Godfrey-Smith in 'Other Minds' 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Franco added, “It’s a very universal story.” James Franco and Chris O’Dowd on Their Rapport in ‘Of Mice and Men’ 2014-03-19T12:00:02Z

Yet while there may be truths in some universals, it’s hard to forget that this tale has its roots in a bitterly real world. Movie Review: ‘The Patience Stone’ Stars Golshifteh Farahani 2013-08-13T21:09:33Z

“The universal physical awfulness of age is scrutinized … with the cold eye of a Jonathan Swift.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

In today’s globalized world, subject to accelerating change and flux, he says, he now thinks of his experiences as “increasingly universal.” Review: ‘Discontent and Its Civilizations’: Mohsin Hamid at Home in Three Lands 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

From one country to the next, I’d sat at the foot of my berth, my view universal: hawkers sold their wares, lovers held hands, and children played football. ‘The Godfather of trains’: the Trans-Mongolian from Moscow to Beijing 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

It is a universal medium, capable of moving huge audiences along a continuum of understanding from fear and ignorance to tolerance, acceptance and ultimately equality. Your First Crush 2013-07-10T15:42:09Z

Movies were for the masses but made by elites for the middle class; they were “universal” yet exclusionary. A Movie House Divided 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Similarly, it reveals that Billy Elliott has become a universal touchstone for those at a specific turning point in their lives. Films that changed your life: surely you can do better than this survey? 2013-04-15T16:17:55Z

He also pointed to smaller but more universal losses. You Anon 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z

White is normal and universal, while other races and ethnicities require their own special days on the calendar, television networks, subgenres of literature, and university departments. Barack Obama, invisible president: To truly see him requires white Americans to see themselves 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

He's gotten his arms around gigantic franchises with rabid fan bases, to universal acclaim and awards, with the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Force is strong with dream `Star Wars' directors 2012-11-05T17:40:09Z

I’m fighting for universal access to the possibility of human flourishing, and yes, I purposely echo Douthat in this formulation. Karl Marx and the semantics of a “post-work left” 2013-03-02T15:00:00Z

Francis repeated his call for a universal basic income, for welcoming migrants and for what he calls the three L’s that everyone needs: land, lodging and labor. Pope Francis’ book explores George Floyd, virus skeptics 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

“The Tale of Four” is universal in its themes but highly specific in its context, readily understandable in its narrative and visual language but tightly focused in its vernacular. Perspective | Festivals celebrating black films provide cinematic safe space when it’s sorely needed 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

He tilted his head at me in the universal expression of “Girl, you crazy.” A skeptic goes to yoga 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z

While Rubio yammers through another canned response, our eyes look to Trump, giving the universal “You kidding me?” face. Donald Trump, human dog-whistle: The 2016 election, the left and the place where language ends 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

It's a testament to the acuity with which David pinpoints the universal annoyances of life in the well-off west that it works anyway. Larry David: 'I'm cranky' 2010-06-25T23:02:00Z

This is a universal terror that you combine with a woman representing everyone, and you have a recipe for people going to the movie over and over again, which is what seems to be happening. Jamie Lee Curtis: I’m Waving the Banner for Generations of Women 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

And while Jun believes there is a place for everyone in hip-hop, by saying it’s universal, “You’re erasing the culture that it comes from,” she said. A Hip-Hop Dance Crew’s Frabjous Reign in Las Vegas 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

“Embracing, celebrating, evolving, it asserts the codes of the house: vibrant color, a distinct print language, an artisanal touch. Alongside universal ideas of status, allure, beauty and confidence.” Cavalli shows fluid animal prints, 1920s-inspired looks in Milan 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

Seriously - "more social supports, like guaranteed paid parental leave. I’d argue that universal health care and a higher minimum wage would help, too." Are iPhones Bad for Kids? 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

“We just store the disks in our climate-controlled stacks, and we’re hoping for some kind of universal Harvard guidelines,” she added. Emory University Saves Rushdie?s Digital Data 2010-03-15T22:06:00Z

"Stories are universal and if you tell the story well, hopefully it appeals" to everyone. Latin American cinema shows global ambition at Berlin fest 2014-02-12T17:34:30Z

I didn’t think a place as utopian as Sweden — with universal health care, five weeks of paid vacation, 480 days of parental leave — could have a problem as banal as mean girls. Preteen Angst, Swedish Style 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

Each of us needs to remember that our own subjectivity is not a universal condition, and that it was shaped by social and cultural forces we can’t necessarily see. Why we fight about Colbert and Lena Dunham: Twitter politics are all we have left 2014-03-29T16:00:00Z

Duprat said that while the movie is set in Argentina, the themes were universal. Argentina brings comedy-drama about fame and small town jealousy to Venice 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

By focusing on ripeness and winery techniques to extract the most color and concentration, the counterargument goes, winemakers were sculpting wines to match some universal, platonic ideal devoid of passion or originality. In their quest for something unique, Argentina’s winemakers are digging deep 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

The list represents a range of natural and cultural sites that share “outstanding universal value,” according to Unesco’s criteria for selection. Thursday’s Travel News and Tips 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

There is paid sick time and vacation and, like any civilized country, there is universal healthcare. A Worker Shortage Is Forcing Restaurants to Get Creative 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

This question of how to interact with friends who raise their kids with values that are substantially different from yours is nearly universal. Motherlode Blog: Parental Quandary Resolved: When a Friend's Child Hits Yours 2011-12-22T19:30:37Z

Do you feel like you're drawing on different things when you write about men compared to women, or do they all feel universal to you? ArtsBeat: Leaning Toward the Light: Molly Ringwald Talks About Her New Novel 2012-08-15T15:45:38Z

Prohibition was tied both to the introduction of the income tax and universal suffrage, and radically altered the relation of citizen and government. Television: On the Boardwalk, HBO Hangs Out With a New Mob 2010-09-03T19:34:00Z

“It’s in the middle of everything, and that’s how winter is. I wanted to be able to drop everything and go to something that touches on sacredness in a universal way.” Can Parties Help Us Heal? 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

Tawny Cypress, who plays the adult version of Taissa, a survivor who grows up to become a state senator, described the story as universal. How the ‘Yellowjackets’ ‘Weirdos’ Fell in Love and Wrote a Hit Show 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

Deborah Copaken: There is use, I believe, in revealing personal stories and private moments as a stand-in for the universal private moments that all of us experience and wonder, “Is it just me?” What She Learned From the One Who Got Away 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

I try to always go back to ideas that are more universal that people can relate to. Barbra Streisand Can’t Get Trump Out of Her Head. So She Sang About Him. 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Issues around discipline will always prove incendiary and although it’s worth initiating a discussion to agree a universal approach, the likelihood of long-term consensus is slim to zero. My parents dote on our baby but ignore or shame our son | Dear Mariella 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

The only futuristic touch — barely — is the universal remote that controls cooking appliances and music. How to design a dystopian play 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

It’s the feeling that counts, and that feeling is universal. Review: John Pizzarelli Channels Paul McCartney and Antônio Carlos Jobim 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Despite all the commentator blather about universal harmony among athletes, the Olympics have always in part existed to showcase shifts in political geographies, to embody symbolic combat among nations. Fashion Diary: At the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the Opening Ceremony Uniforms Looked One and the Same 2014-02-12T21:58:09Z

Even spectacles that advertise their all-ages, universal accessibility — child-friendly animation sequels, say — traffic in winking allusions to various canons of cultural arcana. Catch That Reference? There?ll Be a Quiz 2011-06-24T20:21:53Z

Yet even after a year of bleeding cash while stage lights stayed dark, the news wasn’t greeted with the universal applause you might expect. Seattle music venues can finally reopen. So why are many staying closed? 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

The simple dramas enacted in “Myths and Hymns” are sometimes only tangentially connected to the lyrics, but the universal expressions of hope, fear, yearning and desire in the songs will strike deeply sounding chords. Theater Review: ?Myths and Hymns,? Directed by Elizabeth Lucas 2012-02-08T03:00:00Z

Female ensemble shows have traditionally striven for universal appeal. Lena Dunham’s Girls: the show that turned TV upside down 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

Louvre Abu Dhabi’s mission is to be a universal museum that tells the story of the world by showing commonalities between artworks and antiquities from around the globe. A Golden Age for Museums in the Persian Gulf 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

However, Republican lawmakers opted not to renew the universal program as part of a spending package passed in March to keep the government open. Solving childhood hunger shouldn't be a partisan issue 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Acting is, for better or worse, universal: We all prepare faces to meet the faces that we meet, to paraphrase T.S. The blur between acting, fakery 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Waithe, who read Little Marvin’s script before she met him, was won over by the specific, passionate perspective he brought to a story with universal relevance. In ‘Them,’ a Black Family Is Haunted by Real-Life Monsters 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

Grief reminds us of something unchanging, universal, eternal. Lonnae O’Neal: Anger, grief, love. And the greatest of these is love. 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

By the end of the war, this very quality earned him almost universal respect. How a deadly plot against George Washington became a historical footnote 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Isetts raises a significant point: There is no one-way road to coffee perfection, just as there's no universal code of ethics or behavior. What does the term "ethical coffee" actually mean? 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z

In Bearden’s embracing art all borders are down — between personal and universal, town and country, history and myth. Art Review: Romare Bearden at Studio Museum, Schomburg and the Met 2011-12-08T23:44:36Z

I decided that every tip I shared should be unisex, so as to be as universal as possible. The 14 most useful household products — and what you can do with them 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

Agonizing over what could have been a universal indulgence, part of that much ballyhooed tyranny of choice once cited as the Millennials' existential scourge. Unlike the shows that came before it, "Insecure" has always been about hustling one's way to success 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z

But then he attacks it for upending “the universal values of the Enlightenment: objectivity, rationality, science, equality and freedom of the individual.” Speaking Truth to Both the Right and the Left 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

“All societies admit the power of music or sound. Attempts to control what is heard in the community are universal,” Ms. Oliveros wrote in a preface to the meditations. Pauline Oliveros, Composer Who Championed ‘Deep Listening,’ Dies at 84 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

And the world hardly suffers from a shortage of empty encouragement, of sponsored inducements to emulate various dreamers and disrupters, of bland universal appeals to the power of individuality. Review: ‘Tomorrowland,’ Brad Bird’s Lesson in Optimism 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. Designer Prabal Gurung tastes US success 2010-08-19T21:19:00Z

But the stakes in the Fang war of wills get higher as the book proceeds, and they move from the specific to the universal. Books of The Times: Mom and Dad and the Two Kids They Damage 2011-08-03T22:00:29Z

Charles Daniels' high tenor going up into falsetto range – as Purcell describes the deities' approval of Cecilia's bestowing of universal harmony – was just one example of conductor Paul McCreesh's meticulous approach to authentic practice. Bath MozartFest – review 2012-11-12T17:28:09Z

Since their union, he's become minor tabloid fodder, but the bigger concern for Legend is that his lyrics may be interpreted now as more biographical than universal. For John Legend, love and social protest make for an 'interesting mix' 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Lamar is the rare popular musician who receives almost universal acclaim, not only artistically, but often as a kind of paragon of virtue. Kendrick Lamar, Mortal Icon 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

Its red-and-white label and glass curves are a universal symbol, an American beachhead on every inhabited inch of the Earth. Coca-Cola’s “It’s Beautiful” Super Bowl Ad Brings Out Some Ugly Americans 2014-02-03T04:32:25Z

Mr. Hooper said he saw universal appeal in the alternately uplifting and tragic tale of Moriarity’s friendship with Mr. Hesson, but was acutely aware of the longstanding trap of inauthentic Hollywood takes on surfing. Gerard Butler in the Surfing Movie ‘Chasing Mavericks’ 2012-10-20T23:07:19Z

Latin remains the official language of the universal Church. Pope ditches Latin as official language of Vatican synod 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Jimmy Kimmel began his show on Monday by addressing critics who have taken issue with his plea last week for universal health care. Jimmy Kimmel Responds to Critics Over Health Care 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

Thanks to this universal appeal, and the film’s rabid teenage fan base, Titanic remained in theaters for 10 months, raking in $600 million in the U.S. alone. Which Is The Better Best Picture: On The Waterfront or Titanic? 2012-02-09T13:58:00Z

It's geographically grounded, chimneys belching in the background, yet it's also universal: a portrait of a groovy, hungry youngster, looking west. Tony Scott: a career in clips 2012-08-20T11:31:18Z

Todd, one of the things that’s almost universal in your films is that you offer us a protagonist that we may not like. Todd Solondz: I’m Judd Apatow’s dark side 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z

Star Wars caught on in a way Star Trek didn't because it taps into something more universal, more felt than thought, grounded in some of our deepest, most instinctual dreams. Star Trek v Star Wars: Star Trek v Star Wars: fans weigh in on the timeless debate 2013-05-17T13:50:00Z

Trees in Adams’s photographs have an anthropomorphic presence — and even, in some instances, a universal one. Sunlit Apocalypse: The Imperiled World of Robert Adams 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

After years spent on the margins of political thought, the universal basic income has, over the past year, gained traction among mainstream thinktanks and some in the Labour party. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

The revival promises to tackle some of humankind’s deepest and most universal issues, which was a hallmark of the original series. 'Twilight Zone' jumps to new dimension with host Jordan Peele 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

I think they're universal themes that when done right are always going to be entertaining. 'Once Upon a Time': Sean Maguire sees his Robin Hood as 'a medieval James Bond' 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

This might explain why the seemingly universal fan favorite is Omar, the stickup man. ‘The Wire’ Stands Alone 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Maybe that’s what happens when three countries’ worth of people work on a script: they can’t help but find something universal. Spotless: a bloody good crime clean-up tale from Esquire 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

As is the custom in movies of this kind, destruction is both universal and selective. Review: ‘San Andreas,’ Dwayne Johnson Rushes to Rescue His Collapsing World 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

In those days, universal health insurance was a pipe dream. Robert Reich: “Cynicism is a self-fulfilling prophecy” 2013-05-14T15:58:00Z

While it's the classic American novel, it's also a universal story of tolerance. Kathryn Erskine's top 10 first person narratives 2012-02-09T12:13:49Z

“Everybody was very clear that ‘Nimona’ was this universal story, a love story,” Bruno said. How ‘Nimona’ Helped Its Creator Explore His Emerging Identity 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

"He was the most radically Catalan artist in his thinking, his expression and references and at the same time the most universal in his language and international projection," Catalan regional president Artur Mas said. Spanish painter and sculptor Tapies dead at 88 2012-02-07T13:22:10Z

While her parents loved the cool of Miles Davis, and her older sisters were drawn to the antisocial force of heavy metal, Ms. Petras preferred the gleaming sheen and universal allure of pop. Kim Petras Just Wants to Be a Pop Star 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z

His entourage of translators, drivers, a monk, an archaeologist and assorted pilgrims are, like the apostles, colloquial and universal, restless and oblivious souls that are at once amusing and profound. Tom Bissell's 'Apostle' takes a ride-along through unanswerable questions about Jesus' disciples 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

What makes acts of humanity universal are respecting the tiny details and specifics. Broadway's 9/11 musical "Come From Away" lands on TV, offering kindness & laughter in dark times 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z

The memoir is tangled in universal questions of identity, nationality, blunder, religion and tragically shows how Syrian civilians have become the overwhelming casualties in the process for such answers. Showing dignity and depth in Syria 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Certainly, the message of “On Thursday We Leave for Home” is universal in its political relevance. The “Twilight Zone” episode that Trump needs to see 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

The Sunday afternoon braai is a universal tradition in South Africa. South Africa aims to live the dream of equality for all 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Home-ownership is a nearly universal aspiration in China, but it is increasingly difficult to get on the property ladder in big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. For Chinese millennials, despondency has a brand name 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

We’ve managed to talk her back from this type of brink before, but the tension in the family is palpable and universal. Mother’s volatile temper has family walking on eggshells 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

The catch: there are big challenges that, ironically, would be mitigated if universal school meals for all had been allowed to continue. Waivers for universal school meals expired. What does that mean for childhood nutrition? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

But I think humor, comedy, it's just so universal. Nate is a "troubled soul": "Ted Lasso" star Nick Mohammed on his character's dark turn 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

Imagine how devastating it would have been had the stonework itself been defaced and left in ruins — a universal, visual trope for civilization’s collapse. Hiking along Virginia’s Aquia Creek and finding history a stone’s throw from home 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

In sum “Play Dead” milks entertainment from the universal human attraction to what repels us: blood and guts, terror and, most of all, death. I?m Not Really a Corpse. I Just Played One Onstage. 2011-03-04T00:24:08Z

Viewers can’t help but identify with one of the men, which is what makes “Fast, Cheap & Out of Control” so universal. The 10 best Labor Day movies for folks who can't watch "9-to-5" one more time 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

Like all reflections on Twitter, mine is vulnerable to mistaking my experience as universal. The Twitter Watch Party Is Over 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z

This project continues, not without controversy, and is sometimes faulted for politicizing art, for putting matters of gender, class and race in the way of supposedly more universal concerns. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Despite its relatively prosperous, White middle-class setting, “Parenthood” manages to acknowledge those universal realities — within the wholesome warmth of a PG-13-rated film, no less. Perspective | Abortion has always been a tough subject for Hollywood. ‘Parenthood’ got it right. 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

“Every woman in Paris is a living propaganda poster, the universal function of the Frenchwoman is to remain chic,” wrote one fashion journalist in the early 1940s. Op-Ed Contributor: High Fascism 2011-03-07T06:48:00Z

“It’s urban and rural, masculine and feminine, casual and refined. It’s universal.” Perspective | Why you’re seeing enamelware everywhere 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Cole has evidently managed to craft another feelgood ensemble comedy about plucky underdogs with universal appeal, in the vein of his previous Calendar Girls. The Film Council's finest hour? 2010-09-16T10:48:00Z

This is not the same as universal empathy or divinely inspired forgiveness or any of that softheaded nonsense. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z

The themes were universal: love, ambition, acceptance or lack of. Farewell to “The Phantom of the Opera,” which welcomed outcasts 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

His vision of the specific agonies of life in present-day China conveys a mighty, universal human despair. “An Elephant Sitting Still,” Reviewed: A Young Chinese Filmmaker’s Masterly Portrait of Political and Intimate Despair 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

And so too with Julian, whose invaluable sexywork in getting Donald Trump elected may yet turn out to be not the universal win for humankind it currently appears. Bravery, courage, strength – why Pamela Anderson thinks that Julian Assange is sexy 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Where there songs on this album that you didn’t want to be universal, songs where you really wanted to say, hey, just listen to my experience as a trans woman? Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!: 'This Is How I Felt When I Was 19' 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

But Roth is eager to focus instead on what Broken has to say about more universal family concerns. Tim Roth: who's the daddy? 2012-05-20T19:00:12Z

The universal adoration of Hancock – especially by comedians – could make you suspect it’s all nostalgia for the good old days when comics could actually get a show on BBC1 rather than a five-minute Comedy Blap. From Python to Seinfeld - are these 12 classic comedies still funny? 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

Some of its stories are universal and painful, yet this book is not mired in melancholy. Books of The Times: ?Then Again,? by Diane Keaton - Review 2011-11-17T23:11:27Z

And yet I've always thought of her comedy – being rubbish with boys, rubbish at not being clumsy, rubbish at managing her mother – as being universal. TV comedy: is it really a class issue? 2011-01-24T15:42:09Z

He just made it really, really good, rescuing Star Trek from sweaty convention halls, making its niche universe universal. Star Trek Into Darkness: how it was made, by the people who made it 2013-05-11T05:00:00Z

What has distinguished Nonesuch has been Bob’s unshakable assurance that he has tapped into a universal zeitgeist. Philip Glass, Pat Metheny, k.d. lang, Audra McDonald all turn out for a tribute to a Nonesuch guy 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Because the expansion of the universe, mentioned in the Barenaked Ladies song, means that the same amount of energy in a larger and increasing volume of space results in a lower universal level of energy. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

His Michael was both man and myth, particular and universal, psychopath and supernatural entity. ‘Halloween’ Review: Babysitters (and Jamie Lee Curtis) Beware! 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

One of your first official acts as a newly elected member of Congress was to co-sponsor a bill that requires universal background checks for buying a gun. Lucy McBath on the “Religion” of Guns in America 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

The exact meanings may get lost in translation, but trite is a universal language apparently. | 'Vincent Wants to Sea': A Mission to See 2011-06-26T22:57:21Z

Produced in France, the series dryly pokes fun at the universal themes of self-serious espionage thrillers and bureaucratic ineptitude. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Rest in Power’ and ‘A Very Secret Service’ 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

How does subject matter, however veiled, become universal? Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, at City Center 2013-12-11T22:17:24Z

This conception of libraries—especially public libraries, where universal access is more important than permanent preservation—explains the metaphor of weeding. Weeding the Worst Library Books 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

Furthermore, the universal accessibility that is part of the ideology of streaming looks in practice more like a kind of invisibility. Is Moviegoing Undemocratic? 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

The story is told through a particular lens and as a result it yields a powerful truth about something larger than the writer’s individual story and thereby renders it universal. Salon’s guide to writing a memoir 2013-01-20T23:00:00Z

Yet this universal connection is felt as deeply local. Boneland by Alan Garner – review 2012-08-29T09:05:01Z

I repeated, which prompted a heavy sigh followed by a sucking noise, a sound I recognized as the universal utterance for lost patience. A Caribbean Without the Crowds: Bequia, a Caribbean Getaway From the Getaways 2011-11-11T19:45:00Z

“Better Things” finds comedy in these mundane moments, making it at once universal in tone and intimately autobiographical. A comedy for grown women: “Better Things” nails the dance of modern female adulthood 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

The owl family generated a similar universal response. Wings of desire: why birds captivate us 2013-07-27T07:00:07Z

“Crime and Punishment,” the show’s riskiest episode and its best yet, uses a universal parental question–how to discipline kids–to both bring out illuminate its characters’ group identity and treat them as specific individuals. black-ish Whips Up a Conversation About Spanking 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The office housework is universal but what it means differs by race. Tightrope-walking and “gender judo”: What women have to do to get ahead 2014-03-20T22:59:00Z

General Assembly resolution 70 years ago calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons "instantly create a universal message of peace." Actor Michael Douglas says the winning posters in a global competition to commemorate the first UN General Assembly resolution 70 years ago calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons "instantly create a universal message of peace." 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Specific and universal, harrowing and hopeful, “Bring Your Own Brigade” opens on a world in flames. ‘Bring Your Own Brigade’ Review: Some Say the World Will End in Fire 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

All the solutions we’ve dismissed as Scandinavian luxuries instead of universal necessities. Perspective | The pandemic didn’t create working moms’ struggle. But it made it impossible to ignore. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

“Terra Firma,” the Coop’s inaugural production, matches its mission to stage plays “that resonate with timeless themes and universal truths,” but in this case resonance isn’t enough. Review: In ‘Terra Firma,’ a Wee Wet Country on the Brink 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

He did, however, approve of the educational components and the universal message of peace. Could a mask maker’s quest to see the Dalai Lama bring about world peace? 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

“The desire to conquer is not just European, it is universal,” he said, noting the empire-building of the Mongols and Aztecs. How a French Novelist Turns the Tables on History 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

Art is a universal language, and to be excluded from that language was very frustrating for artists who were extremely intelligent, educated and had an opinion. Cheech Marin, Searching for a ‘Chicano Rockwell’ 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

“It’s a very human and universal thing to understand ourselves and our objects help us to do that,” Bemko said. PBS’ hit ‘Antiques Roadshow’: a treasure nearing 18 seasons 2013-07-05T22:49:35Z

The drive to create beauty in even the worst of times is a universal human impulse — a statement of belief in what is possible. ‘Made in Afghanistan’ Once Symbolized Hope. Now It’s Fear. 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

He makes the story universal, applicable not only to the leader of a vast nation but also to all of us. Human Most of All: In Moscow, a Theater Stages ‘Gorbachev’ 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

It was the individual and universal story about a passion. In "Life in Synchro," this hyperfeminist sport empowers women to work together 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Taylor's album reveals her struggle with her own insecurities and maybe common universal human emotions that everyone struggles to face. "I’m the problem, it’s me": Why do musicians revisit their pain and doubt in their art? 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z

"The history of the n-word is an attack on universal human dignity. It's therefore an attack on the American Creed. Don't use it." HBO's Bill Maher faces backlash after using racial epithet 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

The awe and grandeur of mountain scenery is surely a universal instinct. The magic of mountains in art 2011-02-08T10:54:44Z

This is certainly not how I describe storytelling’s universal structure, though I do comment upon an average tendency in which fiction makers engineer last-minute happy endings. Letters to the Editor From Steven Pinker, Jonathan Gottschall, and Others 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

“And he said, ‘Write about something universal, something that won’t be out of style in three years.’” Preview: Doors’ Robby Krieger celebrates 50th anniversary of band’s debut album in Seattle 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

Unlike literature and music, say, cinema is a modern, universal language, and the commonalities of vision to some degree override differences in language, tradition and belief. Big Questions, Smart Women, Mann?s Movies 2011-04-22T13:31:51Z

I also became interested in niggunim, this idea of universal melody. A Composer Not Afraid to Mash Things Up 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z

Let us defend ourselves against the universal madness of “the fast life” with tranquil material pleasure. Is Michael Pollan a sexist pig? 2013-04-28T01:00:00Z

It hinted at the wisdom both of old civilisations and of France, the national embodiment of universal truth born of historical trauma. They think, therefore they are 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Does he embrace a minority and immigrant identity, or hope to “transcend” it in favor of something more vaguely universal? Julián Castro’s American Story 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

The country that helped invent the notion of universal free speech has learned to tread carefully. The first rule of satire in the U.S.: Do not offend 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Maybe the memoirs in this blossoming genre teach us that trans experience is a more vivid version of something universal. The Modern Trans Memoir Comes of Age 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

There are also less tangible objects of derision: vanity, stupidity, venality, snobbism, dishonesty, criminality and other probably universal human foibles. Art Review: ?Infinite Jest? at the Metropolitan Museum - Review 2011-09-15T21:19:50Z

Obama, responding to criticism from Edwards that his plan would not provide universal coverage, said he prefers to make insurance more affordable to average Americans rather than make it mandatory. Democrats Focus on Iraq In Contentious Second Debate 2007-06-04T10:00:00Z

The novel is obviously universal in theme and appeal, and draws on foreign cultural influences. Bloomsday: a rare chance to feel good about being Irish 2012-06-16T09:59:01Z

His universal shtick is an illusion, the most potent and inventive artist of this mad, frothy era  That era will come to an end. A shiny poem for Jeff Koons -- assembled from his Whitney reviews 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

The revelation for many was that Boulez's music was far less formidable and far more universal than it once seemed. Pierre Boulez reveled in challenging music's status quo 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

One theme that is pretty universal is the idea of returning to your roots. In ‘Superman & Lois,’ the Heroes Face a New Menace: Teenagers 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

Notaro’s personal story is amazing, but it never transcends the personal to reach something universal. One Mississippi: Tig Notaro bares her scars in intensely dark comedy 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

The fallacy lies in the fact that Modernization, and especially the Enlightenment, made us think of values such as laïcité as universal. Europe is not a secular paradise — and Americans should be careful when embracing this myth 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

That makes sense given the universal aspirations of the story, and it adds dignity and complexity. Sting's former self is at the center of 'Last Ship' 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Though I can't comprehend such a core sorrow, loss is a universal, human thing; you can tap into it, it's accessible. The Killing star Michelle Forbes: why I avoided watching Forbrydelsen 2011-07-15T23:05:00Z

We may strive for different ends, but our longing for home is universal, and it is wonderful to share that road with others, instead of going it alone. My Orthodox exodus: When I left my community, I discovered myself 2014-04-13T12:00:00Z

Her words put welcome, authentic voice to this most universal of emotions, which is also one of the most universally avoided. Review | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes her way through grief 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

Firstly, that this is an opera of riveting dramatic and musical strength, proudly American yet rising above jingoism, profoundly personal yet universal in context. Opera review: 'Amelia' is a profoundly personal, American story 2010-05-10T17:18:00Z

In these stories, Mr. Vásquez writes about more universal interpersonal issues in Europe. New Books From Louisa Hall, Christian Kracht, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Others 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

“It had this taint of a women’s-page subject,” said Judith Thurman, who writes about fashion for The New Yorker, “and she just refused that and insisted that it’s a subject of universal importance.” Anne Hollander, Scholar of Style, Dies at 83 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Not to coin a very old, used phrase, but music is a universal language. “It’s when their hearts and spirits are open”: Ben Cohen explains why he’s taking the fight for campaign finance reform on tour 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lelyveld has restored human depth to the Mahatma, the plaster saint, allowing his flawed human readers to feel a little closer to his lofty ideals of nonviolence and universal brotherhood. Books of The Times: Appreciating Gandhi Through His Human Side 2011-03-29T19:55:27Z

The ideals that he insists are universal are very much those of the country that still proudly calls itself the leader of the free world. Obama's art army 2012-11-05T22:00:02Z

Evan Winter, the video's creator and director, said in writing it he "kind of riffed off the real-life situation" and found a kernel of universal truth in it. Palin fiance Levi Johnston to film music video 2010-07-23T20:57:00Z

The final piece will incorporate Rentrayage’s logo, an eight-point star surrounded by squares that forms a kind of geometric orb that looks a bit like the universal symbol for recycling. The Designer Turning Two Used T-Shirts Into High Fashion 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

“I am free of the virus, positive for the antibodies, AND I am a universal donor!!!” she shared with Survivors Corps a few days ago. The recovered: How it feels to be alive on the other side of the pandemic 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

“It felt to me like an organization that had started one way and was becoming much more universal,” she said in an interview in Vice’s clubby offices in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Gloria Steinem Brings Feminism to Vice TV 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Finland’s experiment is a variation on the idea of a universal basic income: an unconditional income paid by the government to all citizens, whether or not they’re in work. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Moshfegh's palettes are big and small, fictional realms that are often vague in a way that makes them allegorical almost, universal in their blurriness and yet at the same time meticulously rendered with specific details. The strange, savage universe of Ottessa Moshfegh's 'Eileen' 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

For the rest of us, the group’s invincibility myth seems to have finally collapsed under a more universal truth: The only reason life has meaning is because it ends. Review | The Rolling Stones want to teach you how to live forever 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z

His “focus on universal truths,” he believes, is what has allowed him “to build such a massive audience.” The Moral Philosopher of YouTube 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

While that article formed the kernel for this book, Rakoff wisely — and deftly — weaves her Salinger story into a broader, more universal tale about finding one’s bearings during a pivotal transitional year into real adulthood. ‘My Salinger Year,’ by Joanna Rakoff

But while these earlier plays addressed such universal themes as ballet and sexual tension in the classroom, Jerusalem is about morris dancers constructing pergolas on acid and, what's more, every second word is ****. Jerusalem: the British slang explained 2010-06-17T15:57:00Z

While its appeal is universal, those of us of a certain age associate our childhood lunches with that extra exciting element of danger provided by the original metal Hunt's Snack Pack container. Liven up your sad lunchbox with this Snack Pack pudding copycat 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

Kirch’s argument is that the new essays are “exclusively about the self,” whereas great essays in the past could use the self and still be expansive and universal. Have personal essays gotten too personal? 2013-03-17T17:00:00Z

But we also learn of Lincoln’s afterlife and nearly universal appeal. Museum Review: Lincoln?s Legacy at Expanded Ford?s Theater Complex 2012-02-10T13:00:00Z

That’s a testament, Mr. Carlson said, not just to the troupe’s talent but also to a universal yearning for inside jokes. D?ja Hear the One About the Guy From Rochester? 2011-01-14T20:17:09Z

Also, with Alicia gone, “The Good Fight” has a less direct connection to politics, with one early exception — the universal exception, Donald J. Trump. Review: On ‘The Good Fight,’ a Lawyer Claws Her Way Back to Normal 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The struggle to lead a fulfilling life is universal. I do my best to meet people, but I’m lonely and don’t have any friends 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

"I always wanted this story to show how universal certain experiences are – shame, regret, love, envy, honour, forgiveness," he says. How do you put the Kite Runner on stage? 2013-05-14T17:39:40Z

And to universal delight, they got to Tahiti, spot on and right on time. How Was Polynesia Populated? Two New Books Explore the Pacific’s Mysteries 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

That's a question asked by many and answered to universal satisfaction by none. Beach reads for dark summer days: 7 books to soothe the burn 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

But that’s an easy trap to fall into with Wonder’s music, which is so universally beloved — and often so universal — that any combination of artist and song might seem a sure thing. Beyonce, Ed Sheeran toast Stevie Wonder at all-star Grammy tribute 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

I used to think music was a universal language. Let's start the foodie backlash 2012-09-28T21:45:06Z

Even so, many Belgians and Europeans continue to see Tintin as a universal character, a defender of the underdog and a force for good in the world. Belgians keen to share Hollywood's Tintin with world 2011-12-05T14:55:52Z

Indeed, what McCarthy-Jones calls “counterdominant spite” favors equality and fairness and “encourages us to support ideas and ideologies that attenuate hierarchies, such as universal human rights, multiculturalism, and diversity.” Review | Let’s face it, we all have the capacity to be mean. ‘Spite’ explores why that’s not necessarily a bad thing. 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

Learning is a basic and universal human process, but it’s also mysterious. ‘Keep On Keepin’ On,’ a Film on the Jazz Great Clark Terry 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

But my favorite part of her act might be the most universal. These Stand-Ups Are in an Escapist Mood, Much Like Their Audience 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

I think publishers hold certain beliefs about what is universal, and oftentimes we don’t fit, our stories don’t fit into that equation. ‘A Conflicted Cultural Force’: What It’s Like to Be Black in Publishing 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

And as films still fail to have universal open captions for their theatrical releases, studios are leaving out whole, ticket-buying swaths of the population. What's so hard about making movies accessible? 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

“There are certain things about ballet that are kind of universal—it’s just what the rules are,” he said, wryly. Man to Man 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

For sure, the impulse to fill in the gaps, to complete the jigsaw of your past, is a universal one, but what is most important is the emotion an episodic memory contains. Remember the bad and the good times to build your future 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

This is clearly reflected in liberal thought and language, as it emerged from the Enlightenment, most notably in articulating the idea of universal rights. The moral foundations of fascism: Warring psychological theories struggle to make sense of Hitler, Mussolini and you-know-who 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

Instead, she aimed to write a universal story that reflected what was unfolding around her but transcended geography and current events. Middle Eastern Writers Find Refuge in the Dystopian Novel 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

It boasted universal appeal to children and adults without being juvenile; it was novel without being a novelty. Perspective | Shock G of Digital Underground was a psychedelic rap pioneer who helped hip-hop crossover 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z

Oliver believes that the IRS is unfairly vilified by taxpayers, and their status as the universal scapegoat, gives Congress leeway to cut the agency’s budget, which results in fewer services and longer lines. John Oliver Gets Michael Bolton to Sing an Ode to The IRS 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

"You were seen as a whiner—complainer—if you spoke out about that. The universal attitude was 'It's just the way it is. Get tough.'" There's a reason why stars call out Hollywood in Oscars speeches — and why others stay silent 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

"I think the themes of this movie are very universal," Adams said. Amy Adams reacts to negative "Hillbilly Elegy" reviews by saying the film "transcends politics" 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

As Obama signs his healthcare bill into law, this hugely impressive novel deserves a long and healthy life, insuring universal pleasure and thought for readers. So Much for That by Lionel Shriver | Book review 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z

The collection speaks to the resilience of the human spirit and is the physical manifestation of a universal story, Kimura said. George Takei helps L.A. museum acquire internment camp artifacts 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

The do-gooder gospel of universal improvement — helping others, reforming ourselves, making a difference — is what remains of an older, grander, more avowedly political utopian impulse. | 'In a Better World': A Do-Gooder Vision Clouded by Blind Spots 2011-03-31T22:22:34Z

Although student and adolescent development theories shows that many aspects of the first-year of college are nearly universal, our students’ differences affect their college experience significantly. Teach college-bound kids about privilege: It goes beyond the Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman scandal 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

Love is a concept that has obvious universal appeal, yet the most-funded romcoms have by and large focused primarily on the lives of white characters. 'We're part of a greater movement': Hollywood finally gives Asian stories a spotlight 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

“Certain universal constants are discovered from time to time and these constants are like a drone,” Mr. Young said. A ‘House’ Finds a New Home 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Sterling K. Brown is the favorite in the best actor in a TV drama category, with two recent Emmy wins and a shimmering universal positive regard. The TV Surprises and Snubs of the 2018 Golden Globes 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

I think there's something universal in the story. RSC's Matilda: the Musical a hit on Broadway 2013-04-12T17:45:08Z

This doesn't exactly bode well – why is it that Hollywood always seems so desperate to play up the prosaic, "universal" aspects of a story when such ham-fisted tinkering usually only diminishes its impact? Will Hugh Jackman's Real Steel show us some mettle? 2011-08-26T16:04:14Z

"Food is about as universal as it gets," Tran said recently, on the phone from the Brooklyn studio where the show is made. TV treat 'Food Party' mixes kooky cook, kid show vibe with art project 2010-05-18T19:32:00Z

The problem is universal and not concentrated in Latin America. A life in limbo: The ‘doubly invisible’ Mexican immigrants 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z

In the cities the Gandhian ideals of service, self-denial and universal uplift have been drowned out by the aggressive nationalism and shiny consumer culture of India’s urban boom. Books of The Times: Appreciating Gandhi Through His Human Side 2011-03-29T19:55:27Z

“But it does what it’s supposed to do, which is tell a story that’s universal.” She?s Leaving Home; Grab a Camera 2010-10-24T02:23:00Z

Mr. Gilbert said, “The message is universal: the message of resistance and of standing up for what’s right.” ‘Joan of Arc at the Stake,’ Distilled to Her Essence at the New York Philharmonic 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Those were the days: universal healthcare, decent public housing, Clement Attlee and the greater good. This week's new film events 2013-03-16T06:00:07Z

“I am really struck at how universal his appeal is,” she said. Paul McCartney?s ?Ocean Kingdom? at City Ballet 2011-09-11T04:00:07Z

In reality, feminism has no firm nor universal mission. bell hooks vs. Beyoncé: What this feminist scholarly critique gets wrong about “Lemonade” and liberation 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

From here, there’s no universal solution, but asking why you’re so scared is a start, or — the true measure of strength — just slowly releasing your grip on getting the exact outcome you want. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: You’re the captain of your ship, but you have a sinking feeling 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

But for a show that debuted off-Broadway in 1995, its musings on the human experience remain universal. Review | Monumental Theatre’s ‘Songs for a New World’ vividly imagines a better tomorrow 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

When terrorists hijacked planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, the frame of reference the nation turned to in the surreal aftermath was just about universal. Video Game Review: Spec Ops: The Line, From 2K Games, Makes Killing Personal 2012-06-25T16:34:27Z

Moreover, those universal themes are a sleight of hand. Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil MacGregor – review 2012-09-29T23:05:08Z

Smith’s hopes, fears, history and honesty are unique to their experience but universal in their ability to move another human heart. Cartoons, JFK’s Victory and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

Instead, he is humbled and open-hearted, self-psychoanalyzing his need to mess up tidy situations and connecting to a universal struggle that way. Friday Favorites: Lace Cadence, Chocolate Chuck, Kanye West 2010-10-01T19:17:00Z

“We consider ourselves to be ambassadors, all on behalf of peacekeeping missions with music. It’s a universal language,” he said. This teacher was called to protect the U.S. Capitol as a National Guard member. He now holds class from a Humvee. 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

The center’s stage is typically immense, its claimed territory boundless, its age range universal. Museum Review: The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas 2012-12-01T00:56:04Z

Moreover, the need for revenge once you’ve been wronged is also a kind of universal language. No, Democrats aren’t launching a civil war on July 4. But could it happen here again? 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

But if you subtract those geographic indicators, these cynical stories of humble people embracing absurd illusions illustrate the universal impulse to believe in a better future, no matter what. | 'The Optimists': Best of All Possible Worlds: When Life Gives You Mud, Take a Mud Bath 2011-07-27T22:21:43Z

If there’s a universal truth to be drawn from the current makeup landscape, it’s that more is more. How to Wear Spring’s Most Inventive New Makeup 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

It ended too soon, but with great ferocity she showcased not only her huge voice but her charisma, confirming a transcendent brand of universal soul power.  BET 2014: Maxwell, Jill Scott offer love and desire at Staples Center 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

Lerman: The fear of the unknown is the largest universal fear. An oral history of 2020, as told by therapists 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

While other pioneering modernists, such as Fernand Léger or André Derain, remain firmly in their time, Picasso is the kind of universal spirit whose art seems to transcend time – paradoxically, a timeless modernist. Locking our Picasso away 2010-05-06T21:00:00Z

Two additional clumps support each canvas as it leans against the wall like some icon or ex voto, reminding us that painting is a universal, not Western, art form. ‘Chris Ofili: Night and Day,’ a Survey at the New Museum 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

We all know how this story ends, and it certainly isn’t with the universal refinement of feelings. ‘Read Receipts’ On: Two Dystopian Novels Predict the Surveillance State 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, flares, that universal symbol of 1970s nightlife, are turning into a thing, seen at Raf Simons and Tory Burch. Janelle Monáe and Ralph Lauren Make the Case for Clubbing 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

Yet Ms. Arias wields the tools of documentary theater with such dexterity, and her performers have so transparently lived with the damage that the war wrought on them, that their recollections feel utterly universal. Trump, Trauma and a War That Won’t Go Away 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

In a surprising shift of perspective, the Night King will be revealed as a rebel hippie sex god, devoted to veganism and pansexuality, who will bring permanent peace and universal equality to Westeros. How will "Game of Thrones" end? Fans on Salon's staff have theories 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

Maybe I operate from a naive standpoint, but I feel that art is universal and without boundary and is probably the most connective language amongst people. 'Art Brief: Iranian Contemporary Los Angeles': Bridging communities, one pop-up at a time 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

She uses the materials of her life to seek this “a-personal” meaning—something larger, more universal. This Female Consciousness: On Chris Kraus 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

It’s almost as if he were proposing art as the universal binder, the great leveler, a form of social and spiritual — he’s not afraid of that word — salvation. Art Review: ‘Pawel Althamer: The Neighbors’ Is at the New Museum 2014-02-13T20:22:19Z

"There's something," he said, "beautifully universal about it." Rainn Wilson doesn't hold back: "Here's the guy from 'The Office' talking about suffering and death" 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z

But even young readers are also able to recognise some of the universal truths about families in general and sibling relationships in particular that underpin them. How do you pick the right books for a young but fluent reader? 2012-08-13T16:55:26Z

But I'm beginning to find, and I guess I always knew this on some level, that the more specific you are, the more universal it feels. Laura Lippman on turning true crime into fiction: "Am I not appropriating somebody's story?" 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

As a novelist he is a one-off, even if his work—as this book so finely shows—is universal. Transcendental meditation 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

And I resisted — I avoided anything too Japanese because I want the film to be seen as universal. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: A Director Who Likes to Start in the Middle 2012-05-23T12:00:56Z

In the postwar era, even as they faced challenges from television, the antitrust division of the Justice Department and the demographic volatility of the audience, the studios conceived their mission in universal terms. Are the Movies Liberal? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Inherent to most good standup is the ability to find and express the universal truisms in personal experiences, and Jay has this ability. Sam Jay brings her raw "SNL" comedy to Netflix for "3 in the Morning" 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

But soon she realized that the expectation of universal proficiency — and the demands of maintaining it — could breed a sort of flatness, turning dancers into execution robots. A Swiss Army Knife of a Dancer, Making a Virtue of Versatility 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

If a universal web museum is taking shape, it is one with its own guided tours already built in – because search engines point you, without your asking, towards their own choices, their own greatest hits. Google's views 2010-04-12T14:12:00Z

Last year’s prize went to American poet Louise Glück for what the judges described as her “unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” Nobel panel to announce 2021 prize for literature 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Yet it may become a more universal lightning rod than its dark-hearted creator could ever have imagined. How female vengeance powers Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

It started Obama’s first term off with a wave of nearly universal approval—even among Republicans. Where has this Barack Obama been? If Obama had governed like this in 2009, he’d be a transformational, historic president 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Her universal query is also one of self, and her articulations of what she learns are moving. Eat. Sleep. Swim. Repeat. 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Psychologist Carl Jung described archetypes as universal characters or symbols in the human imagination, regardless of one’s background, that project or describe some basic human need. The monsters we create: On Stephen King’s “It,” the creepy clown epidemic and Donald Trump 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

Most horror stories explain their evils by pointing to places and things in the universal that exist to eat, destroy and radiate malevolence without reason. The 10 best TV episodes of 2018: A highly subjective list 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Rubber-necking was, too, of course, along with that universal German vice, schadenfreude. Abroad: In Germany, Uproar Over a Doctoral Thesis 2011-03-14T16:58:11Z

Perhaps the most notable omission was that of "Inception" director Christopher Nolan, despite universal acclaim for his bold vision setting a heist thriller in the subconscious. "King's Speech'"gets royal treatment at Oscars 2011-01-26T01:58:48Z

Given how indelible many people’s memories of childhood camp can be, it’s surprising that so little about that universal rite of passage has shown up on television. Television Review: NBC’s ‘Camp’ Is as Much About the Grown-Ups as the Kids 2013-07-09T21:26:32Z

Sprawled on that couch in New York, he said that story, however universal, is only one story — and queer youth deserve more. A Young Actor Steps Out of School and Into the High Heels of ‘Jamie’ 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

“But I think much of the show’s appeal is universal,” she said. ‘Call the Midwife’ to Premiere on PBS 2012-09-29T23:29:02Z

“There’s something timeless and universal about all great music, and that’s certainly true of ‘Jazz Samba.’ ” Blame it on ‘Jazz Samba’: Bossa nova craze started in D.C.

His work appeals widely in part because it is consciously universal in its references, yet imbued with a capacity to take on the specifics of its location. Special Report: Contemporary Art: A French Artist's Solitary Path 2011-10-13T11:00:14Z

The ulua’s eye glares and its mouth hangs open, in the disbelieving frown universal to defeated fish. Casting for a Big Fish on the Big Island of Hawaii 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

The project eventually opened to almost universal acclaim, and Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had previously been cagey, declared it "one of the most important museum buildings in European cultural history." David Chipperfield: master of permanence 2011-02-06T00:06:23Z

Almond’s exhibition suggests that a fascination with time and space, and with the heavenly bodies that help us measure both, is, well, universal. Darren Almond's Ghostly Photography at London's White Cube Gallery 2014-01-30T05:00:00Z

One thing Shepard noticed, however, was that the imbalance wasn’t universal. Looking for Single Guys? Try the Great Plains 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

It is the right that has inherited the ambitious modernist urge to destroy and innovate in the name of a universal project. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

So far, Black Star Riders seem to be receiving a universal thumbs-up. When one frontman is as good as any other 2013-05-23T13:14:08Z

It condemned universal citizenship, calling instead for a return to the traditional values of la France profonde, an imagined community of quiet village churches and honest people rooted to the land. Turning dark 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z

"War," Junger's best-selling book about his Afghan experiences, announces with its title that it's aiming for universal sweep. 'Restrepo' documents Afghan war at human level 2010-07-15T21:07:00Z

Opera’s power lies in its exploration of the timeless universals of human experience. Review: Seattle Opera stages a ‘Rigoletto’ that’s a sure-fire argument starter 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

It’s a highly specific yet universal story that Zauner narrates with heartbreaking poise. From Nigella Lawson to David Chang, Chefs Narrate the Stories Behind the Dishes 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

“Metal is definitely a universal language,” she said. ‘Behold Death, Darkness, Chaos and the Void’ 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z

After the war, he helped to draft the universal declaration of human rights and later became a diplomat. Political essay by 93-year-old tops Christmas bestseller list in France 2010-12-26T21:05:26Z

Bragg should be applauded for choosing the form of a novel – scene of the universal – rather than the predictable particularities of the misery memoir to tell his tale. Grace and Mary by Melvyn Bragg – review 2013-05-19T11:00:03Z

A universal problem, no doubt, but what if you also happened to be a werewolf? Monday TV Picks: The new 'Teen Wolf' on MTV 2011-06-10T19:19:06Z

The key is to be universal and uniform. Carolyn Hax: Dad’s wife thinks ‘stepmother’ means she gets to walk all over you 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

Two essential ingredients are universal praise and a waiting list that stretches months ahead. Time to get serious 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

"No, no, I thought it was quite universal," she insists. 'I hope I was evil ?' 2010-06-26T23:02:00Z

Mr. Searle’s sensibility, though rooted in an English tradition, was decidedly universal, and not always overtly comic. Ronald Searle, British Cartoonist, Dies at 91 2012-01-04T03:05:54Z

“The results … provide yet one more catalyst for a universal test-and-treat strategy to provide the full benefits of antiretroviral drugs. This and other strategies continue to push us toward the end of Aids.” End to Aids in sight as huge study finds drugs stop HIV transmission 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Harris isn’t making a universal statement about individuals in interracial partnerships; he’s aiming at the interracial partnership of America as a whole. Review: Race and Sex in Plantation America in ‘Slave Play’ 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

He should go—Bridesmaids might be all about women, but the laughs are universal. Bridesmaids: Kristin Wiig's Merry Band of Party Poopers 2011-05-12T09:10:00Z

But also this combination of — that I think is universal — longing for this better place, but also feeling displaced and looking backwards at the same time. Transcript: President Obama on What Books Mean to Him 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

“It was natural for me to wear this unique name, given that my one-of-a-kind pieces speak to a universal emotional consciousness,” she said. Special Report: Jewelry: Jewelry That Sparkles With Stories and Gems 2011-05-12T13:49:21Z

They found variants across 31 languages whose phonetic patterns otherwise varied greatly, suggesting that “Huh?” was a rare example of a universal word. Think You Always Say Thank You? Oh, Please 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

His artistic concerns today are more humanistic and universal, he says, and no longer focused on the Soviet Union. Coast of Utopia 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z

Yorke and company then played "Reckoner" from 2007, whose lyrics made the concert universal: "This is dedicated to all you / all human beings." Concert review: Radiohead unremarkably good at KeyArena 2012-04-10T14:46:06Z

This grief that is the central part of this show is such a universal experience. "I've done my share of bombing": Marc Maron talks about navigating failure, grief and embarrassment 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z

“The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local, the parochial,” he told the Times. William Trevor, eminent Irish author of the darkly humorous, dies at 88 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

And Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2” — famously described by a critic as “an explosion in a shingle factory” — provoked almost universal derision. Two Exhibitions Re-examine the 1913 Armory Show 2012-10-28T04:27:18Z

There was a sense, listening to it, that the music Holcomb made was rooted in something more human, more universal, than even he could have recognized. The Discovery of Roscoe Holcomb and the “High Lonesome Sound” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

And his story, while ripe for tabloid fodder, also deals with universal themes like race, class, and the sometimes tortured relationships between brothers or between fathers and sons. The Rollout of Prince Harry’s Book Is Chaotic. Sales Are Still Surging. 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z

There will be a new board in September and there is a really strong field of candidates and a universal determination to chart an even course. Poetry Society reinstates Judith Palmer as director 2011-08-18T15:41:19Z

While I respect their sense of history and their desire for universal standards, I resist such declarations when they fossilize into something that deadens inspiration. Review | At this Maryland restaurant, hand-pulled noodles are the star attraction 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Three years after the war, Mailer honestly depicted an almost universal lack of sympathy for a Japanese enemy who showed little mercy. Why America preferred to forget about the Pacific war ? until now 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z

“How will we solve the tension between issues of cultural specificity and more universal questions? How will we re-enter history after centuries spent on the sidelines?” Books of The Times: ‘Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution’: Essays From 8 Nations 2013-12-30T21:05:36Z

What Nimoy and the others did not know was that they would become the central icons in a new sort of religion, one that stood for science, logic, diversity and universal peace. Leonard Nimoy and the lasting dignity of being Spock 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Gwendy’s progress through awkward adolescence to mature young adulthood is consistently credible, and provides a solid foundation for the story’s larger, more universal concerns, such as the ongoing human capacity for self-destruction. Stephen King and Richard Chizmar put the fate of the world in a girl’s hands 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

But it also raises a universal question: At what price would you escape your pain? Review: In ‘Electric Dreams,’ the Future Seems Outdated 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

But the universal nature of the issues she explores “makes them very relevant within a global context.” Meet Six Disrupters at the New Museum’s Triennial 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Coelho does a less specific version of the same thing in lyrics that evoke universal truths. Review: Ute Lemper Seeks Truth and Justice in a Collaboration With Paulo Coelho 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

And Rodin is as universal in his fragments as in the big figures, because he understood the human body so well. Henry Moore talks about Rodin's irresistible influence – from the archive 2013-03-23T07:59:02Z

Now that G.P.S. rules the world like some kind of a new universal religion, I never think twice about asking my phone how many feet I am currently standing from the nearest Italian restaurant. Wife/Mother/Worker/Spy: With G.P.S., Life?s Journeys Have Become a Little Less Mysterious 2010-03-15T22:58:00Z

“I felt like I couldn’t put my own oxygen mask on,” Mr. Raedel said, referring to the universal commercial airline directive to parents in the event of a loss of cabin pressure. How Quitting a Job Changed My Work-Life Balance 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

That's the big game David Milch was after in his writing: finding the universal in the specific, the imaginative in the fanciful and the writer at the farthest reaches. The future tense of joy: "Deadwood" creator David Milch recaptures memory in "Life's Work" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

Granted, I didn't know all the details, but the play was easy to follow because the message was universal. Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Raises the Bar for Broadway Magic 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z

Like his peers, Mr. Slominski argues for the toilet’s formal and universal significance. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

His research into workout habits reveals that “people want to be around others who are like them. That’s almost universal.” Is your spin class too young, too thin and too white? 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Many life passages in this film may be universal, but the love here is extraordinary. Movie Listings for June 24-30 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Connecting to the universal generosity of baking and the pursuit of sweetness is much more accessible. The seasonal joy of "The Great British Baking Show" 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

Sadly, this was not uncommon, Tubbs reminds us: “The effects of slavery . . . the constant control of Black women’s bodies through sexual violence, was universal, far after emancipation.” Review | ‘The Three Mothers’ honors the women who made Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

Passive-aggressive emails and constant meetings and stressful workloads may be universal, but they are also particular; every dysfunctional workplace is dysfunctional in its own way. Perspective | For 20 years, happy hour has seen us through work — and life 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

There are universal values but they're not actually the things that the novelist is concentrating on. I am an English writer, not a British one, Ian McEwan tells Alex Salmond 2012-08-22T21:40:25Z

This universal barrage has, in turn, muted the mark’s ability to powerfully exclaim, like as a joke’s hilarity wanes when told over and over and over. Your Guide to Not Using So Many Exclamation Points 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

His divorce in 1952 coincided with a move toward greater abstraction and broaching of more universal themes dealing with the human psyche. ?Will Barnet at 100? at the National Academy Museum 2011-10-09T04:00:20Z

But others will surely be inspired by its calming melodies and universal themes. CD reviews: Lenka, Queens of the Stone Age, Roomrunner 2013-06-03T19:32:13Z

Dying and grieving are universal experiences, but so is wonderment at what death entails. I?m Not Really a Corpse. I Just Played One Onstage. 2011-03-04T00:24:08Z

While violence against women is a universal TV plot device it’s rarely as meticulously comprehensive as what we’re shown of Jamie’s experience. 'Outlander' Recap: The Violence That Men Do 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

More important, the actress didn’t see the movie as a story about baby-boomer life; the themes are universal. As Sally Field aged, her parts got less interesting — until ‘Hello, My Name Is Doris’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

But in this hour, Whitney is the universal teenager — and not unlikeable — afflicted with a sixth sense about the instability in her parents’ marriage. 'The Affair' Recap: Alison Hits Brooklyn, 'Girls' Style 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

In doing so, it tackles universal themes including art, sex, family and existential loneliness in a way that’s simultaneously playful and profound. 10 Best Books of 2012 2012-11-30T16:00:09Z

The novel helped reveal the horrors of Papa Doc’s rule to the English-speaking world, but its themes are universal. New & Noteworthy, From Angels to American Cuisine 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

They featured universal adolescent themes, like alienation and a hunger for acceptance, and thrust protagonists into chilling situations, often with supernatural elements. Lois Duncan, 82, Dies; Author Knew ‘What You Did Last Summer’ 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

Her politics are universal, but also severely personal. Albums by Mary Lambert, Nico & Vinz and Angaleena Presley 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

At first, the young man seems to inspire almost universal sympathy, even as various groups try to use his death to their own advantage. ‘Burning Bush,’ an Agnieszka Holland Film on Communism 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

And that’s when you start speaking the universal language that makes the movies that come out of Hollywood so powerful. The American Latino Experience: 20 Essential Films Since 2000 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Q: Stephen, do you think there’s something universal about feeling like an outsider? ‘Wonder’ author and director talk about teaching empathy in the age of Trump 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z

“It has to be universal, permanent change that makes a worker feel like it’s worth coming back to this industry,” Ms. Jayaraman said. How to Make an Unloved Job More Attractive? Restaurants Tinker With Wages. 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

He spends almost half his universal credit on the rent for his flat above a shop. The private renters trapped in Britain’s new slums 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

His anxiety has likely been mollified slightly by the album’s reception: nearly universal critical acclaim and a No. 3 debut on the Billboard album chart. Miguel connects with the soul of R&B 2012-11-21T16:19:00Z

Yet beyond the platitudes, the program did offer a profound musical juxtaposition, at least on paper: Adams’s memorialization through a fragmented and highly localized musical language and Beethoven’s ode to universal brotherhood. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs 9/11 tribute paired with Beethoven

It’s so specific that it captures the universal. Lupita Nyong’o and Trevor Noah, and Their Meaningful Roles 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z

It’s made Mr. Mars, 24, one of the most versatile and accessible singers in pop, with a light, soul-influenced voice that’s an easy fit in a range of styles, a universal donor. Critic?s Notebook: Bruno Mars in Ascension 2010-10-05T22:58:00Z

Rilla Askew captures the differences — and the universal sameness — in an affecting new novel, “Kind of Kin.” ‘Kind of Kin’: lines that divide a small Oklahoma town 2013-02-13T22:31:22Z

Lowrey, a journalist who covers economic policy for The Atlantic, musters considerable research to make the case for a universal basic income — a government-funded cash handout for all. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

There’s two things about New Orleans that are sort of counter to each other: it does create, at points, art that becomes universal, that actually leaves New Orleans. Magazine Preview: The HBO Auteur: David Simon 2010-03-17T14:56:00Z

As Regenold was quick to remind me, there’s no “universal truth” when it comes to water bottles. Best insulated water bottle 2012-10-07T16:00:00Z

But given the universal enthusiasm for talking about oneself and encouraging presents, Miss Manners is surprised they are not more popular with parents-to-be. Perspective | Miss Manners: Handling bike lane infractions 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

With the help of scholars , I selected 12 images from around the world that are “true” in the way they translate local idioms and sensibilities into the universal ethos Christianity strives to represent. Searching for a Jesus Who Looks More Like Me 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

Nail bars are universal in their aesthetic; I sipped tea and started flicking through the polish-flecked magazines, when I recognised a familiar laugh among the chatter of Vietnamese soap operas. The Sunday Jeff Goldblum entertained me in a nail salon | Bre Graham 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

We’ve managed to talk her back from these type of brinks before, but the tension in the family is palpable and universal. Carolyn Hax: Dealing with a volatile mom? Better get therapy — for yourself.

It's about the universal experience that men have in combat. Documentary on Afghan war attempts to show what soldiers experience 2010-07-07T20:35:00Z

With all games being shown on national networks rather than solely on local channels, the most memorable voices of football are universal. A look at iconic announcers in NFL history 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

The self-titled follow-up expanded this homespun approach to visionary proportions, embracing the South and its lore as a metaphor for universal longing. Levon Helm, drummer and singer for the Band, dies of cancer 2012-04-19T19:39:00Z

Kel and I talked early on about the idea of making it a black family with universal issues but still keeping things specific and authentic. Trey Edward Shults’s Fractured Family Portraits 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z

“You know,” I thought to myself during one of the many circumlocutory and not-particularly-funny sequences in Life After Beth, “this is probably some sort of metaphor about the universal desire to retain one’s youth.” Life After Beth first look review – fun zombie premise is dead on arrival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kalmar believes that “In Terra Pax,” with its universal cry for peace and hope, stands a better chance of attracting future presenters. Interest Grows in a Master of Choral Mystery and Power 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

It’s universal,” he said in an interview with The Washington Post. Now, even quilters are angry: How a social-justice design started a feud 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

This incredibly constructed album — made fresh off the the dissolution of her partnership with TK — is far more vulnerable than previous works, which dealt largely with more universal concepts. Björk on being a woman in music: “Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times” 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Certainly, Trump is capable of derailing or rescinding many achievements that Obama and others fought and hoped for: universal health care, the Paris accord, a liberal-leaning Supreme Court. Mourning Trump and the America We Could Have Been 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Dirty jokes are a force of nature, a celebration of life in all its fullness and squalor, as universal as comedy gets. Prime time's new age of crudeness 2011-01-17T15:01:00Z

No revision to the  would be greeted with universal praise from a field increasingly polarized between viewing nature or nurture as the essential cause. Redefining addiction 2012-07-10T15:01:00Z

I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal. Not Getting with the Program: An Interview with Meghan Daum 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

“While its themes and narrative are universal, Rostand sets it in a heightened world where language and oratory ability are as powerful as weapons.” London’s ‘Cyrano,’ With James McAvoy, Is Headed to BAM 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Fundamentally, though, there's a great authenticity to the kids in "E.T." that makes it so universal, and that comes from the honesty and purity of Melissa Mathison's script. Phoning home again: `E.T.' 30 years later 2012-10-06T16:48:58Z

It turns out there are no universal no-go zones when it comes to talking about religion, race and ethnicity in America. “Amish Mafia”: Is there really such a thing as an Amish thug? 2012-12-12T19:08:00Z

This isn't to denigrate today's art, only to marvel at the timeless and universal genius of Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo or Michelangelo: who is the greatest? 2010-03-30T07:00:00Z

Though the object is fantasy or whim, our desire for it finally is something that we might call universal. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z

It resembled the universal visage of a million office ID badges, the frozen smile, the awkward tilt. How the U.S. ethics chief took on Trump and became a reluctant Washington hero 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

The universal physical awfulness of age is scrutinized, as above, with the cold eye of a Jonathan Swift. What Matters in Old Age: Rereading, Reconsidering and Reassessing 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

Britney Young: What really draws me to both projects and makes me love them is that with all the specificity in them, they’re so universal and so relatable. “Women’s stories are about kicking ass” 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

But Stone was eager to stress that the issue was universal. Sharon Stone: 'After Basic Instinct, no one wanted to pay me' 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

At the dawn of a new millennium the phenomenon of English seems more vivid and universal than ever before. A global tongue 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z

It was just what I knew, so it is what I drew from, but what I primarily wanted to write about were relationship dynamics that are fairly universal. ArtsBeat: Slippery Nate: Adelle Waldman Talks About ‘The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.’ 2013-07-17T17:05:29Z

“They have to struggle with trying to relate to each other without the universal language, and it’s pretty amazing,” Kemp said. Here’s What 11 TV Writers Are Bingeing 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

China's ruling Communist Party has long railed against Western values, including concepts like multi-party democracy and universal human rights. China classrooms must 'keep out' Western values 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

The library image sidesteps all those details to evoke something more universal, said Ingrid Fetell Lee, the author of the Aesthetics of Joy, a blog about the relationship between décor and delight. A Library the Internet Can’t Get Enough Of 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

His photographs from the time were about “translating these particular experiences, in the moment, into universal pictures,” he said. Wolfgang Tillmans: Older, Wiser, Cooler 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z

For many, Isaac Newton’s laws of universal order were crowning achievements of this movement. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

Gevinson’s role as universal expert on all things teenage has, somewhat ironically, left her little time for iconic teenage experiences like this one. Tavi Gevinson: A Power Teen's New Direction 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

"The voice of the trumpet is a universal sound, it's close to the human voice and I try to exploit that," she said. Columbia shuttle disaster concerto gets top music prize 2013-09-17T21:13:28Z

London is furnished with graceful, airy buildings with generous windows and brick details of simple dignity, constructed in their hundreds to meet the need that arose after the introduction of universal education in 1870. Michael Gove's standardised schools not such a class act 2013-04-13T23:05:30Z

Then, the last chapters read like a novel, and lift the story beyond its immediate circumstances into something more universal. Paperback Q&A: Stella Tillyard on Tides of War 2012-06-19T10:00:01Z

Perhaps it’s because there’s something titillating about unmasking the man whose name has become synonymous with genius, and whose plays embody universal ideas. A new show imagines a punk rock Shakespeare — the latest of our many fantasies about the bard 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Hughes’s proposal — which he himself describes as a “prosaic and incremental” expansion of the earned-income tax credit — is emphatically not a universal basic income. Chris Hughes Made Millions at Facebook. Now He Has a Plan to End Poverty. 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z

Given that the rest of the developed world enjoys universal health insurance, but the U.S. does not, why is U.S. life expectancy higher? Families USA's Bogus Claim That Overturning Obamacare Will Kill People 2012-06-22T12:50:03Z

Another reason grief is an unexpectedly great subject for comedy is that in a fragmented, polarized culture, with a shrinking common collection of references, it’s universal and relatable in a way few other topics are. That’s the Funny Thing About Grief 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

The father of her unruly brood happens to be away at the front, but White says: "I wanted the absent dad to feel universal." Nanny McPhee speaks softly but carries a big stick | David Cox 2010-03-29T09:44:00Z

More broadly this is a resonant, vivid and finally heartbreaking tale about the universal difficulty of marriage and the endless self-delusion of the human condition, driven by a trio of amazing dramatic performances. "Tuesday, After Christmas": A sexy, slow-burning marriage drama 2011-05-27T19:28:00Z

On a deeper level, “Omar” also seems to be about larger universal themes like trust and sexual jealousy. The Carpetbagger: Hany Abu-Assad on ‘Omar’ and Strange Coincidences 2013-12-11T16:35:21Z

There's something universal about it; something that feels like a summation of King's previous work in the horror genre. Rereading Stephen King, chapter 21: It 2013-05-28T16:23:21Z

Clowns of the Blimey School WE often hear that comedy is universal — that laughter is the common language, transcending cultural barriers — but in fact it may be the most difficult genre to export. DVD: Will Hay and Norman Wisdom Comedies on DVD 2013-01-19T15:00:00Z

Now, while he’s open to the possibility of “god, gods, goddesses, aliens, universal consciousness, or whatever,” he’s not affiliated with any religion. Why doesn’t everyone believe in God?: The skeptical brain may hold the answer 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

Would her cries for universal peace have any more clout? Lost in the Yoko Ono labyrinth 2012-06-18T18:03:42Z

The American musician is a veteran of bands like Queens of the Stone Age and Screaming Trees, by universal account a pretty seasoned drugs man over his 45 years, and not chatty. Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan: 'I brighten Mark up and he gives me weight' 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

But the “unfettered appreciation and respect” isn’t quite universal. David Letterman live: the final Late Show - as it happened 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

But fear not: nothing is irreconcilable, since all is bathed in the universal solvent of pop culture, specifically, American pop culture, embodied by the music and the persona of Bruce Springsteen. A Teen-Ager Is Saved by the Music of Bruce Springsteen in “Blinded by the Light” 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Cimino’s aestheticism overrides moral judgment; his visual music turns even bad times and evil doings into aspects of beauty, a sort of existential contemplation of universal wonders. Postscript: Michael Cimino, 1939–2016 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

But the reality of Roman life revealed by the art of Pompeii reveals that uninhibited sex and unrepressed art were universal in this ancient culture, not the preserve of decadent tyrants. Roman erotica lacks a sense of sin 2013-03-26T14:37:18Z

Consider the comparative privilege of the white artist, whose experiences are received as “universal,” even if that artist chooses to assume the guise of the other. When White Poets Pretend to Be Asian 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

What seems to be fairly universal, though, is that food is an emotional subject. What Jamie Oliver's Brazilian gaffe tells us about our deep emotions over food 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

For a show like “Jane the Virgin” to succeed, it must strike a delicate balance: specific but also universal, authentic without being condescending. ‘Jane the Virgin’ Aims Beyond Its Latin Ethnicity 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Performances amid the rubble reignited a sense of community and attempted to rehabilitate classical music as inherently humanistic, universal and uplifting after its supposed “corruption” by propagandistic use during the Nazi era. When Classical Music Was an Alibi 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Nothing is more important than the health and safety of those we love, universal education, justice and care of our common home, Earth. 'I barely breathed': Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson, Steve McQueen and more on their most memorable moments at the movies 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

"Similarly, it will also help to ease the transition when universal credit is introduced and residents will be responsible for paying their own rent from the credit they receive." Housing associations urge benefit claimants to pay extra rent in advance 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

When I explained how it was a universal story, she got it.” Literary Fathers, Literary Daughters, and the Books That Bind Them 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

It will be forever nature’s universal symbol of hope. Magic Shows and Inner Beauty 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

He wants to do some commendable things: work toward universal free child care, require companies to publish equal-pay audits, update sex education. Are After-Work Drinks a Conspiracy Against Women? 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Theory-minded art critics doubt the idea of universal beauty and see claims of beauty made on behalf of artworks as little more than sales patter. Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall 2011-12-30T00:11:48Z

But perhaps the strangest thing about our poetic travels on the tube is the almost universal delight with which Poems on the Underground have been received. Poems on the Underground: copycats and controversies 2013-01-09T06:10:01Z

The Enlightenment vision of artifacts unveiling universal truths has fallen prey to skepticism. Critic?s Notebook: Quai Branly Museum in Paris Glorifies the ?Other? 2011-11-25T23:47:39Z

That universal ache shared by anyone who has ever grown up in a place where you felt you never quite belonged. Roger Bennett spent his British boyhood fixated on ‘Miami Vice’ and the Chicago Bears — then lived his own American Dream 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

In the same way that we test flame-retardant pyjamas by putting them in an inferno, so I think these cases are extreme versions of parenting as a way of illuminating a universal reality. Andrew Solomon: 'I'm one of five parents with four children in three states' 2013-02-16T15:00:01Z

And then there's the pupa, a sentient supercomputer that will someday be capable of universal annihilation, but is currently a mewling blob carried by Terry in a Babybjörn. From "Solar Opposites" to "Midnight Gospel," recent otherworldly animation is worth the head-trip 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z

Twenty years after he swept the ANC to power, pledging to ensure universal access to quality education, jobs and houses, very little of the optimism that engulfed the country remains. South Africans celebrate Mandela, rue broken promises 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Moments of inaction propelled by personal fears may be rooted in a more universal desire for acceptance. A Not-So-Cold Case in Not-So-Frigid Iceland 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

She suggests Brooker’s parable has a universal theme, about the fears any parent has about raising children, and the understanding that at some point you have to let them go. Jodie Foster: ‘I make movies to figure out who I am’ | Tim Adams 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

But the preoccupations that trouble Deb are universal, extending even to our fears of the loss of what defines us when we die. Review: ‘D Deb Debbie Deborah,’ a Dizzying Subversion of Identity 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

He did venture, however, that if the remains were those of the paintings, it was "a crime against humanity to destroy universal art". Dutch art heist paintings may have been burned by suspect's mother 2013-07-17T18:33:12Z

Politico had reported that the senator was "forcefully opposing a provision in the omnibus spending bill that would extend a slew of waivers that have allowed schools to serve universal free meals during the pandemic." Solving childhood hunger shouldn't be a partisan issue 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

“But language is about so much more. And for scholars, the language of food is particularly rich: it’s universal, it’s social, and now it’s easily available online.” Decoding a Menu at Root & Bone 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

“The art we saw is more about universal things, wanting to connect and being part of the world.” In Havana, following a USC museum director in search of great Cuban art 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

“When art supports a more engaged message it reaches all kinds of people, not only the amateurs and specialists: the museum then talks a universal language.” Special Report: Fashion: Gone Global: Fashion as Art? 2011-07-04T18:13:03Z

Unlike many other modern dramas in which a mixed wash of dark and light results in universal gray, "Daredevil" cleaves to a more straightforward morality and plays instead with form. Bare-knuckle, old-school tack in 'Daredevil' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Metaphors, if they’re any good, distill complexity not into simplicity but into clarity, bypassing the details of particular situations to find and represent their unifying universal traits and ideas. “Colossal”: A Monster Movie Hiding Ugly Romantic Passions 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Must vintages always be judged hierarchically, on a single universal scale? How to Think About Wine Vintages 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Men’s stories are universal, while women’s stories are only for girls. Perspective | What are we teaching boys when we discourage them from reading books about girls? 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

The more particular the place, the more universal the truth. A case for D.H. Lawrence as a father of modern travel writing 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

The noteworthy thing is that he believed his opinions were so universal as to be unremarkable. Perspective | Don Lemon returned with an apology in a can 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

As I wrote in my original review, Pamela Adlon’s series, which she co-created with Louis C.K.,  “finds comedy in. . . mundane moments, making it at once universal in tone and intimately autobiographical.” Best of 2016: From “The Crown” to “Superstore,” here are the 15 best series of the year 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

With a whole room devoted to his scientific pursuits, it seeks to capture the quest for knowledge and perfection of a man Delieuvin called “a universal genius.” Louvre exhibit acclaims Da Vinci, 500 years after his death 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

The negative response to kinky Afros is not universal. On the Runway Blog: How Natural is Too Natural? 2012-06-25T20:35:48Z

But the Mozart albums have received more universal acclaim. This Conductor’s Mozart Isn’t for the Faint of Ear 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

The “Magic Mike” empire, too, has proved remarkably universal. Channing Tatum on ‘Dog,’ ‘Magic Mike,’ Marvel and his hiatus 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Picasso fascinates our time as Leonardo da Vinci and Caravaggio do – not as a curious historical figure but as a living force, accessible, universal. Why Picasso has his finger on the 21st century's pulse 2011-03-08T15:30:01Z

By making the show specific to Muslims, we had unintentionally made it full of universal experiences. Where Is God on the Small Screen? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

Everyone is born a narcissist—the natural self-centeredness of the young is one of their most prominent and universal characteristics. Am I raising a narcissist? 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

And wasn't classical music's self-ascribed reputation as superior, universal and difficult aid its popularity, at one time? The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

The family may not be typical, but the movie's themes -- parenting, adolescent rebellion and forgiveness -- are universal. Cheat sheet of leading Oscar contenders 2010-11-24T06:47:00Z

"This music speaks to something universal," Obama declared. Obama joins Jagger, B.B. King, to belt out blues 2012-02-22T13:28:08Z

The film's theme, in a certain way, became more of this universal message for people that have hesitations about what they're doing in their lives, and in their creative lives as well. Sparks talk new album, ever-growing fanbase: "Our audiences are pretty accepting of eccentricities" 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

But mainly, I like saying “Roll Tide,” which is a universal expression among Alabama fans. Social Q’s : Social Q’s — Ingrates and Clumsy Guests 2012-12-27T18:23:12Z

If it is not universal, it is not doing its job as story. Writer Nathan Englander's avenging pen 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

The two-screen “Auto da Fe” is a panoramic view of diaspora as a universal forced condition. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

In a way you can transplant this movie and put it anywhere, because that suburban commute is universal. Emily Blunt Rides the Unnerving Rails of Addiction in ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Even though many of the themes are universal, how reticent were you to hand the project over to a straight writer/director? Moonlight's Tarell Alvin McCraney: 'I never had a coming out moment' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

And beneath that is another, more universal question: Is this the twilight of idols, the last gasp of Great White Men dominating art and life? What to See in New York Art Galleries Right Now 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

“Live Love ASAP,” his forthcoming debut mixtape, is placeless and universal, an album that sounds as if it has ingested the last 20 years of hip-hop’s travels and would be comfortable anywhere. Critic?s Notebook: ASAP Rocky, New York Rapper With a Hint of Elsewhere 2011-10-12T22:28:45Z

Mixing shades of “Macbeth” and “King Lear,” the director Dileesh Pothan enlivens universal themes of greed, ambition and familial conflict by firmly rooting his film in its time and place. Five International Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Yang was always treated as a novelty, and his universal basic income platform was never taken seriously. Warren fought back at the media erasure that felled other candidates by stealing Bloomberg's show 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z

One of the things I took from her was in memoir and the power of identifying those universal truths that connect us. Me Too founder on her healing memoir and creating change: "All of us contribute to rape culture" 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Even without context, though, Seek beautifully expresses the universal experiences of loss and longing, and elucidates how adoption, and motherhood itself, is a lesson in holding conflicting realities at the same time. Amy Seek's 'Confessions of a Birth Mother' explores meanings of motherhood 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

The film doesn't leave you with some final universal, tied together thought, to leave you with, to go off of and learn your lesson. We grew up afraid to be vulnerable: "Minding the Gap" helped me see my toxic boyhood masculinity 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

I think “Breaking Bad” is a more universal kind of story. Bob Odenkirk, Five-Time Emmy Nominee, Isn’t Ready to Get Off the Ride 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Students Who Hint at What May Lie Ahead for a Venerable Troupe Rooting for the return of Dance Theater of Harlem is practically a universal effort. Dance Review: Dance Theater of Harlem II at the Joyce Theater 2012-02-08T22:51:28Z

The turmoil it examines—when to go, when to stay, how to account for what you’ve got before you lose it—is universal. Doug Paisley’s Winter Melancholy on “Starter Home” 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

In fact, it is anything but, unfurling into a gorgeous, glowing, aching thing that connects with viewers from every conceivable background, so universal are its highly specific observations on love and friendship. This Year, the Berlin Film Festival Sparkles 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

Don't expect English to be the "universal" language so many others do. Dreading a President Clinton or Trump? How to Try a New Country 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

The focus on Mr. Izzo was a way of “narrowing it down to something that is personal and universal,” he added, “historical and mythical.” He Tends Venice’s Jewish History. She Filmed Him. 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Very little happens, yet how true to life it seems – the background of disconsolate rains and chattering mynah birds entirely Bombay, the preoccupations universal. First fiction 2010-10-01T23:15:00Z

“National interest supplanted the medieval notion of a universal morality.” How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Her book argues the game creates a "social, and more enjoyable way of remembering death," a universal human fear. Author McGonigal on a mission to makes games matter 2011-03-17T17:48:22Z

"That is a very universal truth, which is even stronger in developing markets where television is not as advanced as it might be, say, in the U.S. or France." Netflix shares surge on subscriber growth 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

There are no universal criteria of diagnosis, no standard treatments and plenty of disagreement about the very contours of the battlefield: What are the bounds of aversion, intolerance and allergy? Review: ‘Another Person’s Poison,’ Matthew Smith’s Book on Food Allergies 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

Abbamonte always packs a universal adapter, but he warns of outliers. Using your electronics abroad

Given the universal shift to home viewing during the pandemic this year, there were almost too many films to see via all of the digital platforms and streaming options. Here are 6 great film performances you missed in 2020 – and how to watch them 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

Montaigne's essay is, at once, uniquely his voice and one of the great universal statements – an inspiration for all those struggling to create a better world. Caspar Henderson's top 10 natural histories 2012-10-10T10:33:31Z

But it doesn’t change that there are redeeming qualities and a universal capacity for redemption and grace. Julien Baker Believes in God 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

“It’s always a constant battle when you’re making a film with African Americans or different cultures,” says director Tillman, but The Hate U Give’s themes are universal. The Hate U Give's Amandla Stenberg: ‘Our generation is upending Hollywood’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

When, with Richard Wagner, orchestral and operatic music began to consider itself superior, universal and difficult, Ross explained in a 1996 New Yorker essay, "it stumbled badly in the new democratic marketplace." The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

In the early 1980s, cleaning and catering in the NHS were contracted out; the market moved in to universal free health care. The Spirit of '45: where did it go? 2013-03-02T16:00:02Z

Unsurprisingly, the initiative will also push for a federal policy on universal school meals. Waivers for universal school meals expired. What does that mean for childhood nutrition? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

But the show's universal appeal rests in the audience's shared conviction that Devi is actually cool, in that way adults recognize but kids her own age are too clueless to understand. "Never Have I Ever" returns smarter, funnier and at the mercy of its hormones more than ever 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

It suggests a kind of heaven: a place a person might go to achieve universal salvation, to be disburdened of her sins and returned to eternity. Going to Graceland 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

“I wanted to take a more positive approach, to not just focus on health care horror stories, but the people who would be empowered by a universal health care system,” Ms. Sokolow said. A Crusader on What Ails Artists 2014-02-18T22:22:37Z

McConaughey, who turns 51 on Nov. 4, enjoys spinning some of these personal yarns, not necessarily because they sound cool but because he believes they reveal certain universal and teachable truths. Matthew McConaughey Wrote the Book on Matthew McConaughey 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

“I wanted to find something universal. Whether it’s Billie Holiday or Maria Callas or Iestyn Davies; if a voice moves us, we feel it.” Writing Her Way From Backstage to Broadway 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Bowie noticed my shock, and with a noticeable twinkle in his eye, raised his finger to his lips in the universal symbol of ‘shh’ and walked on. ‘Thank You, Mr. Bowie. You Changed Our Lives.’ 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Possible collective ritual of appreciation for universal healthcare system. The spies in Glastonbury's Green Fields 2012-07-16T19:00:07Z

For anyone who wants an off-ramp to the moral demands made by this image, this could be the universal caption: “They weren’t our type.” Perspective | We used to think photos like this could change the world. What needs to change is who we are. 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

The object of their grief: universal school meals, a national initiative made possible by the pandemic. Waivers for universal school meals expired. What does that mean for childhood nutrition? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Berger said he had deliberately tried not to make the film "Berlin-specific" in order to portray the universal problem of young people growing up in broken families. Abandoned boys, feuding ex-con and sheriff, start Berlin race 2014-02-07T16:29:59Z

Their local Alliance for Gun Responsibility became a model for other states after they successfully organized and won statewide ballot initiatives, including one that implemented universal background checks. Protest doesn’t work — except when it does 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

Nobody is calling for these plays to be canceled, but to call them “universal” is a little too easy. In Russian Plays, Don’t Mention the War 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

Decades before the ascent of contemporary immigrant fiction, Jhabvala was using her migrations to illuminate the universal human longing for connection and place. Review | Ruth Prawar Jhabvala’s stories capture an India that no longer exists 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Until now, eating in groups has been a universal human ritual. Table for one: how eating alone is radically changing our diets 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

Their mythic adventure stories colonised the imagination of this new generation and took on folkloric qualities of universal recognition and, more problematically, universal ownership. Sweded movies: the end of Hollywood as we know it? 2012-07-05T19:00:03Z

"And at the same time, it's got an energy that is universal." Ralph Lauren, inspired by American West, stops traffic during show 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The almost universal expressions of puzzlement and uncertainty speak volumes in themselves. The moral deceit of pro-lifers: How Donald Trump accidentally revealed the true hypocrisy of the war on women 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

The fate of that movie rather seems to be a rare case of convergence, the mirror image of the nearly universal embrace in past summers of favorites like “Up” and “The Dark Knight.” Cross-Cuts: Reconsidering Box Office Bombs Years After the Fact 2013-08-23T12:44:45Z

Taken together, their stories offer a meditation on collective memory, universal history and the role of society’s outsiders. Paperback Row 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

Yet his subject here is not so much war, which is irreducibly specific; he cares more about the psychological harm wrought by war, which is grimly universal. Im Heung-soon Explores the Horrors Women Endure in War 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

The upshot is a good deal plottier, though, and the message less universal. Review: In ‘Acrimony,’ Taraji P. Henson Endures Marriage and Script Woes 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

“My themes are cosmic reality, like galaxies, but also cosmic in the spirit, like universal consciousness.” Elizabeth de Cuevas, Sculptor With a Flair for the Monumental, Dies at 94 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

But I think that fear is almost universal. Book Talk: The dark doubts in the heart of a Mormon missionary 2013-06-21T14:18:17Z

But to be living in a moment which is so uncertain, having this collective experience, you think of it less in a personal way, and more in a universal sense. Does the Pressure of a Pandemic Transform a Cellist’s Bach? 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

“When it comes to pet travel the only universal truth is that it’s a hassle to fly,” says Kaitlyn Wells, a pet expert for Wirecutter, The New York Times company that reviews products. Want to Take Your Pet on Your Next Vacation? Here Is What You Need to Know 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

What they forget, I fear, is that we all mistake our own parents for the universal norm and can draw the most calamitously misleading assumptions from our parents’ unrepresentative example. How do I tell our sons about their father’s criminal past? 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

It tells the story of the Khan family, but it is also a universal story of migration – struggle, hope and achievement. Khizr Khan: the patriotic American Muslim who called out Donald Trump 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

Since then, clothing has played a key role in much of his public storytelling, where he uses it as a sort of universal shorthand, a shared language almost anyone can understand. ‘Everything About You Must Say Power’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

That low, staggering walk with which she makes her entrance is that of someone pulled downward by the gravity exerted by the universal grave. Review: All the World’s a Grave in the Druid ‘Richard III’ 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

James Joyce, explaining his obsession with chronicling the inhabitants and the landscape of his native Dublin, once noted that “in the particular is contained the universal.” The Uneasy Mirror: Ron Mueck’s Super-Freaky, Hyperrealist Sculptures 2013-05-03T09:45:21Z

It's especially important for overseas sales: the "personal journey" structure gives a story universal traction. Cloclo sends its cultural superhero on the same old personal journey 2012-06-20T13:11:52Z

I find myself scooping up old poetry books, reading Shakespeare and even writing down the colors of this strange, yet I imagine so universal, blend of emotions. Of conscience and creativity 2013-05-09T00:00:00Z

"In many ways this is about the experience of 9/11, but it's also about the universal experience of loss," Whitaker said. TV specials to commemorate 10th anniversary of 9/11 2011-08-24T19:51:04Z

They are drawn from life and can deliver universal truths, but they’re not here to carry the extra burdens of advocacy journalism. Review | ‘The Chi’ is best when it gives life to a community known mostly for its killings 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

It’s merely that many have demonstrated a kind of low-level, destructive and universal incompetence that causes the mind to reel in the contemplation of it. L. J. Davis, Journalist and Novelist, Is Dead at 70 2011-04-09T05:07:20Z

Honesty in writing is key, and so much about parenting is universal. Does Mommy Blogging Exploit Kids? 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

Nor does he make such assertions to Sanders, with whom he debates the merits of a universal healthcare plan. Sacha Baron Cohen reveals “Who Is America?” and the answer is terrifying 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

Hurtado, the main consultant at the independently run Potentate Films, also felt the movie had universal appeal. How the Indian Action Spectacular ‘RRR’ Became a Smash in America 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

While the use of blackface remains problematic in Germany, blind acceptance is not universal. Blackface Clybourne Park Production Cancelled in Berlin 2012-10-18T17:07:34Z

“The Avengers” raked in a billion dollars – and received universal acclaim – even though it mercifully omitted the emotional journey of an average sad-sack guy who morphs from a weakling into a powerhouse. Enough, “Spider-Man”: No more origin stories! 2012-07-03T15:10:00Z

“We elegantly suppress savage impulses that are speaking to intense emotions, universal and personal.” Fashion Review: Rick Owens and a Vibe From the Tribe 2012-03-01T19:23:40Z

Later, Roman physicians found much to admire in the Hippocratic Oath and preserved it for Christian Europe, where the code’s universal moral claims found more hospitable ground. Can the Benjamin Rush Society Bring Free-Market Ideas to Medical Schools? 2011-11-03T17:04:58Z

This song is the great canticle of the universal mopey teen. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

Rendered in English, Spanish, sign language and gobbledygook, the dialogue and lyrics of “Runaways” are the universal vernacular of people trapped in that most painful of limbos, the period between childhood and adulthood. Review: Homeless Teenagers, Strutting and Seething in ‘Runaways’ 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

In a post on her Twitter account on Thursday, the Veep actress shared the diagnosis with a call for universal health care in the United States. Julia Louis-Dreyfus Just Announced She Was Diagnosed With Breast Cancer 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

But audiences are facing their own reckonings, one being whether men, who have been conditioned for so long to accept their own images as universal, are able to extend the same courtesy to women. Can real men love ‘Little Women’? Greta Gerwig thinks they should. 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Without universal standards she is at the mercy of her clients, many of whom want their festivities indoors, without masks, with out-of-town friends and with dancing. Weddings as a Coronavirus Super-Spreader Worry 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

“I think that you can laugh regardless of political allegiances ... laughter is a universal truth,” he says. Donald Trump Takes Center Stage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

That conclusion would seem odd, as Kafka was a master at finding universal metaphors that have grown ever more powerful with time. Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis becomes Google doodle 2013-07-03T11:06:46Z

My female friends with kids express the same frustrations, but in different forms, I said—we mostly end up talking about socialism and universal child care. The Quiet Protests of Sassy Mom Merch 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

This might surprise its modern inventors, who saw it as ideal, universal and equalizing. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Gerwig added that she thought the film spoke to a universal issue among actors of any age. Toronto Film Festival: Al Pacino's 'Humbling' goes the art-life route 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

In the earliest hours of Friday, “Iliza Shlesinger: Freezing Hot,” which has the comic in Denver performing a set focusing on the universal struggles between men and women, premieres on Netflix. TV highlights: ‘American Masters’ pays tribute to magician Ricky Jay 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Similarly, this year also saw the expiration of universal free school meals — another pandemic-driven program that helped reduce the incidence of childhood hunger. Solving childhood hunger shouldn't be a partisan issue 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

While many of Capote’s pieces relate to a specifically Cuban experience, the larger themes—censorship and brutality, but also neglect, abandonment, and oppression—are universal. Cuban Artist Yoan Capote Considers Censorship and Oppression in a New Exhibition 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

The results obtained drawing on this conveniently available set of “normal” people were assumed by almost all researchers to be universal features of human nature, the human brain, the human emotional system. Why Are We in the West So Weird? A Theory 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

A recent analysis by reporter Helena Bottemiller Evich and online monitoring company Impact Social found that public sentiment for universal school meals was "overwhelmingly positive," she wrote. Waivers for universal school meals expired. What does that mean for childhood nutrition? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

If there's a universal truth about picnics, it's what follows. Most picnics suck. Yours doesn't have to 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

That’s a pop objective, and some of her methods were well-nigh universal. Music Review: At the Garden, Shakira Is a Star With a Conscience 2010-09-22T12:00:00Z

It’s rare for a new show to garner as much universal adoration as this dark comedy did when it had its premiere in early February. 10 Recent Netflix Originals Worth Your Time 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Of course, sleep is so complex and personal that there’s no universal cure for insomnia. The Getaway: Can’t Sleep? This (Yawn) Might Work 2013-09-04T16:05:15Z

In an era when many of her peers are aiming for universal appeal, she’s a stubborn auteur. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

A piercing tragedy with Kafkaesque political overtones, it addressed the universal plight of stateless refugees from repressive regimes. 5 things to know about Seattle Opera’s ‘The Consul’ 2014-02-12T20:32:09Z

“Why do white men get to be universal and everyone else has to be a smaller story?” she asked. At This Year's Comic-Con, Superheroes Looked More Like Us 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

Yes, what I was being asked about were the universal themes, the human themes, the friendships, the betrayals, the relationships between the women in the book, motherhood, the role that motherhood played. Wayétu Moore on writing the immortal heroine of "She Would Be King": "She grew as I grew" 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

The greatest case against universal mask usage, some experts said, is that it could embolden Americans to make risky choices and result in a failure to follow social distancing and hand-washing guidelines. Which DIY mask pattern should you use? Even experts can’t pick one to recommend. 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

“Remember,” said his voice, “that you are a gateway between the universal and the microscopic.” Music Review: Bjork at the New York Hall of Science 2012-02-04T08:34:26Z

Together we watched these best friends discover time and again that there is no such thing as a universal standard for perfection. Bidding farewell to "Grace and Frankie": "We wanted people to cry at least at one point" 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z

What defines a poet is a certain universal quality that entails being attuned to the secret vibrations of the world. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XII 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

Many of the hottest issues in the contemporary educational debate never come up at all in "Waiting for 'Superman," including the compulsive and universal over-reliance on standardized testing. "Waiting for 'Superman'": Can public education be saved? 2010-09-23T01:01:00Z

His "craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity" was also cited by Pulitzer. Mental health drama wins Pulitzer 2010-04-13T15:29:00Z

Sharing that detail, Ms. Monroe shifted the song’s sentiment from the universal to the personal: Music Review: Ashley Monroe, Resilient Country Singer, at Joe’s Pub 2014-04-15T21:34:16Z

It’s a social novel that positions idiomatic — rather than stock — characters in a messy world and then strips both down to perversely specific universals through a strong plot and the soul-level clarity of beautiful language. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z

That her main characters are in show business allows Stewart to explore the more universal romantic quandary, What’s real and what’s acting? Two Novels on the Complexities of Revisiting Past Loves 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Instead, more than 30 people showed up at a sleepy intersection in residential Brightwood and, er, sighed the universal sigh. Radiohead leave US fans waiting for the Universal Sigh 2011-03-30T09:22:41Z

Here, the importance of family — the multigenerational household that sustains and constrains the hero — is both specific and universal. Review: ‘Coco’ Brings the Pixar Touch to Death 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

And because every member of the ensemble here is a musician, functioning as both the show’s band and its cast of characters, this savory-sweet sadness feels both organic and universal. Theater Review: ?Once,? With Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, at Jacobs Theater 2012-03-19T02:00:10Z

“Different voices and perspectives are allowed to coexist, thus undercutting any universal truths about women and motherhood.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

So universal was this opinion that no discussion was necessary. Unseen Swells: 'I come not to slag off Coldplay, but to bury them' 2010-06-15T11:31:00Z

In the whimsical figure of the unicorn with its phallic-like horn he sees a universal symbol of all lonely men. Love is a wound, or something like that, in Haruki Murakami's new collection, 'Men Without Women' 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

But, speaking of food, it's the universal connector. Jim Gaffigan’s second act is much richer than his Hot Pockets persona 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

"The big story continues to be the Trump administration's policy of forcibly separating immigrant children from their parents and faced with almost universal condemnation from both sides of the political aisle," Colbert said. Colbert condemns Trump: Migrant family separation “another scoop from your chum bucket of cruel... 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

On the question of corruption, Ogun argued that corruption is universal, but the real problem lay in the governance structure being so large. Nigeria: Africa's superpower? 2010-06-10T11:00:00Z

In "The Godfather," the mob, then, is a metaphor for a universal political sentiment. Why the left loves Martin Scorsese movies – especially right now 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z

“Hamilton’s” ability to transcend the specific cultural context of its inception is the ultimate proof that it is a great work of art with universal significance. Review: ‘Hamilton’ in German? It’s a Thrill. 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

Much of the book is devoted to Kate trying to do the universal juggle. Review | The heroine from ‘I Don’t Know How She Does It’ is back with a new juggling act 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

If you do something in black and white, especially if you use that well, you raise everything to a slightly more abstract and universal level. A Minute With: 'Ida' director Pawlikowski on Oscars, Poland 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

And that’s sort of the problem: The book is part of a genre that is meant to appeal to the universality of 20-something angst, but relies overwhelmingly on experiences that aren’t universal. Ryan O’Connell on Thought Catalog, trolling & the Millennial angst tipping point: “The more you write about your personal life, the less you have one” 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z

I think it is universal in its specificity. "The Persian Version" director on creating a film that is "playful in terms of sexuality" 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z

Because health care is a universal need, it might be best to mandate open enrollment and prohibit group discounts. How Obamacare Tackled the Pitfalls of Employer-Sponsored Insurance Reform 2012-05-14T11:35:22Z

Clinton said she is "thrilled" that Democrats have again embraced the goal of universal coverage, after she and her husband could not get their health-care bill through Congress in 1994. Democrats Focus on Iraq In Contentious Second Debate 2007-06-04T10:00:00Z

Malala Yousafzai, the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, renewed her call for world peace and universal education on Tuesday at a ceremony in which she was awarded the Liberty Medal. Noble prize winner Malala Yousafzai renews call for education for all 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

“Can You Feel It,” which opened the concert, called for universal togetherness, and “Man of War,” Jackie’s best lead vocal onstage, pleaded for pacifism. Music Review: Review: The Jacksons Pay Homage at the Apollo 2012-06-29T16:36:24Z

So, it was important to get those two big things across in the film in a way that is true to me and universal for everyone. How do you explain death to a kid? Mark Webber on fantasy and reality in "The Place of No Words" 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

Other than that, he rarely uses a simple first person in his songwriting, preferring older models of storytelling, particularly ballad traditions in which individual experience takes on a mythic, universal quality. Alasdair Roberts: 'I've always been drawn to heavy, big old ballads' 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

“This play is universal to questions about commitment, faith and love,” Mr. Heusinger said. Patrick Breen and Patrick Heusinger, Actors 2010-02-17T18:48:00Z

It seems destined to be a major - but not universal - crowd-pleaser, and garnered rave reviews from several British newspapers Wednesday. Mirren reigns as Britain's queen in 'The Audience' 2013-03-06T12:26:09Z

“We are a universal network – that means we will be distributed and consumed anywhere our audience is consuming gaming content.” New esports network VENN aims to bring 'gaming as a lens into pop... 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Still, that’s by no means a universal understanding of the ending. Perspective | In some musicals of yore, female characters deserve better. 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

They’re providing their citizens with universal healthcare and education rather than selling these basic human rights to the highest bidder. Global rankings study: America in warp-speed decline 2014-04-09T12:15:00Z

At that point Beckman’s haughty savagery almost pushes the show to a more universal level. Review | A woman plays the title character in ‘Don Juan,’ and he’s still a jerk 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

At the same time, Hannah is finally a rebuke to universal ideas about women. 6 Ways ‘Girls’ Changed Television. Or Didn’t. 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

The themes embedded in this particular incident reflect the universal ways we talk about girls and women. Ashley Judd Speaks Out About Twitter Abuse and Rape 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

“Buffy” famously made real the universal truth that high school is hell. 20 years on, "Angel" has aged better than "Buffy" 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z

And searing the meat like Mr. Centeno — getting it deeply brown all over to build flavor — isn’t a universal practice. The Birria Boom Is Complicated, but Simply Delicious 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

This is different from the civil-rights goal of a universal equality based on humanity alone, extended to the ordinary as well as to the exceptional. “Hidden Figures” Is a Subtle and Powerful Work of Counter-History 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

Poovey said that in its youth, Facts was viewed as "universal principles that everybody agrees on" or "shared assumptions." Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012 2012-04-20T21:47:00Z

For more universal laughs, try “Tell Your Friends!,” at 9 p.m.  What?s On at New York Comic Con 2011-10-13T22:28:06Z

Yet, the convictions of a few were touted as being universal and becoming the policy for all. True love waits? The story of my purity ring and feeling like I didn't have a choice 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

He appears to be singing about a failed relationship in the song but he uses the medium of edgy electronic pop to express a more universal sense of anguish and trepidation. New band of the day: Petite Noir (No 1,297) 2012-06-28T13:34:01Z

A universal story with an esoteric setting, the film was a box-office hit in Israel, winning that country’s version of an Oscar for best picture, and best screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival. ?Footnote,? Israeli Film by Joseph Cedar 2012-03-02T19:18:50Z

Comedy can be timeless and still not be universal, if you get the distinction. ArtsBeat: Funny Then and There, Here and Now 2011-07-25T16:19:24Z

But to be on the bus is to be working through what exactly makes your life universal. For the people of Lyles Station, Ind., a trip to the African American Museum lets them witness their legacy 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

The case ultimately reached the US supreme court, whose ruling paved the way for universal women’s rights across the country. Roe v Wade: Suffragette producers to make film about abortion ruling 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

If there’s anything universal about “The Actress,” it’s an overriding pessimism about the way all marriages eventually turn sour. Amy Sohn’s ‘The Actress,’ a Tom Cruise Roman à Clef 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

We find that emotions are not universal but vary from culture to culture. Omotions are cultural – not built in at birth | Lisa Feldman Barrett 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z

The film is specific to the Bosnian War, but it’s also universal. ArtsBeat: Angelina Jolie Film About Bosnian War to Be Released in December 2011-05-16T15:14:25Z

Part of Gil's greatness is his ability to write anthems that touch on universal themes. Gil Scott-Heron: poet, campaigner and America's rough healer 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z

Redford said the movies in the London lineup were American productions that "speak to universal experiences and global challenges." 14 films in lineup for Sundance London offshoot 2012-03-07T13:16:08Z

He moved on to better causes, like abolitionism and universal education, before discovering his real calling: penmanship. The Lost Virtue of Cursive 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

It’s kind of this universal story of a weirdo growing up. Melissa Etheridge and Jill Sobule Bring Their Whole Lives to the Stage 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

One of the few advantages of planes was that at last you were cut from this universal communication. Wi-Fi on Planes? A ‘Disaster,’ Says Bernard-Henri Lévy. 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

But the idea of an evergreen festooned with decorations originated as a Bavarian church tradition, Pecknold says: “There’s nothing genuinely universal about it as a Christian symbol.” A guide to the secret meaning of holiday symbols 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

An entire set of policies – from voting rights to universal health care – should emerge out of the patriotic instinct. How Bruce Springsteen – and the left – can reclaim and cultivate a vocabulary of patriotism 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

In her work, the inner lives of black girls and black women speak to the human condition in ways both universal and specific. Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

Eichhorn does lightly gesture to a kind of universal human right, one that runs counter to the whims of companies that use data. How Social Media Shapes Our Identity 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

This imperfect, ad hoc system did not guarantee universal access, but it functioned on the realist premise that abortions were a fact of life. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z

I think those kinds of challenges and personal issues are things that are universal, that go beyond music. Biz Markie was the "essence of hip-hop": Hailing the rapper who made us laugh as hip-hop turns 50 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z

A grief that initially seems universal and diffuse ends up seeming circumstantial. 'different words' reveals promising playwright in Kimber Lee 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

I wanted to be as universal as possible. Rap legend Rakim opens up about finding his unique, intellectual sound and transforming hip-hop 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

“I wanted it slightly more universal, about identity, full stop.” ‘Ida’ and ‘The German Doctor’ Reframe a Familiar Narrative 2014-04-25T18:55:18Z

When "people" finish "Riot Baby" – the so-called "universal reader" – how do you want them to feel? "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

“He delivers a Lear both deeply personal and universal: a distinctly individual man whose face becomes a mirror for every man’s mortality.” Christopher Plummer, Actor From Shakespeare to ‘The Sound of Music,’ Dies at 91 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

“It definitely pushed that album over the top to make us universal.” Tony Bennett, Fleetwood Mac and Run-DMC preserved for the ages at Library of Congress 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

It's universal and timeless, i.e. sibling rivalry, mother-daughter jealousies, father indifference and cruelty and family dysfunction, maybe more today than ever. V.C. Andrews felt she had "prophetic powers": Longtime ghostwriter on "Flowers in the Attic" author 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

But while most carmakers are enjoying gains from last year's dismal sales levels, the bounce is not universal. The Year's Worst-Selling Cars 2010-12-03T18:25:00Z

It’s impossible, mainly because”4:44″ is more than an album, more than music even — it’s a vibe, a feeling that’s not universal. The return of Hov 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

Alexie gives a glimpse of an experience both personal and universal, and Morales’s delightful illustrations convey family joy and affection. Best children’s and young adult books of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Now, the floodgates have opened, there are a few other British silent films I would like to nominate for representing "documentary heritage of global significance and outstanding universal value". Five more British silent films Unesco should register 2013-07-12T12:36:01Z

The program uses “the universal language of movement as a means of communication,” Joseph V. Melillo, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s executive producer, said in a statement. U.S. Dance Companies to Tour in Exchange Program 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

“Disability overlaps with aging and universal design,” said Grace Jun, the executive director of the program. Designing for All Abilities 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

Painter thinks a universal basic income of just under £4,000 a year could change all that. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Dr. Greene said that while health is a universal right, he decided to make Monarch, which opened in January 2020, an exclusive club because he wanted his members to be proactive. Think Getting Into College Is Hard? Try Applying for These Gyms. 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z

“By making it broad, we also touch on the universal and relatable element of the blues, that suffering is a shared experience. Our need to express pain is something we all share.” Celebrating a subdued kind of blues 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

There’s a sweet, funny, universal story hiding in the corners of the discombobulated comedy “Big Gay Love.” 'Big Gay Love' struggles with big themes 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

More radically, Ms. DuVernay’s choice for Meg helps redefine our notions of the universal. I Saw Myself in ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’ But I Had to Work Hard. 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

“You want something that has a universal appeal for your first outing in a new genre.” Stuck in a Reading Rut? How to Create New Book Habits 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

Hang culture, it turns out, has universal appeal. The Man Who Made the Australian Café (and, Yes, Avocado Toast) a Global Phenomenon 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

Their magic lies in the insight they can offer, how universal and unifying they are no matter the details of the narratives, their time and place. Boyhood, Moonlight and beyond: the best coming-of-age movies 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Once the universal donor, it’s now the universal recipient. Critic?s Notebook: ASAP Rocky, New York Rapper With a Hint of Elsewhere 2011-10-12T22:28:45Z

“Connection with the spirit, or some sort of universal mythology, all of those things that bring us together, that make us realize we’re united.” A Celtic Revival, in Hip-Hop and More 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

General Assembly, hopes to recognize the "relevance of happiness and well-being as universal goals and aspirations in the lives of human beings around the world" and in public policy objectives. Pharrell Williams, U.N. Foundation team for International Day of Happiness 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

The sentences were like music, spiraling symphonies; the form seemed meticulously designed and, simultaneously, tossed off in the most natural way; the exploration of consciousness always felt both intimate and universal. Is it time to rediscover Conrad Aiken? 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Humor in picture books resonates when it centers on foibles like this one — universal enough for young readers and their caregivers to share. What’s So Funny, Kid? 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

The films are, ultimately, universal tales about family, loss, mental health and sibling rivalries. Their Characters Are Stuck, but the Filmmakers Are Anything But 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

This was certainly true among the more left and progressive wings of the party, as Buttigieg had criticized universal health care and tuition-free public higher education. “Mayor Pete” director on capturing authenticity: "The process of campaigning is dehumanizing" 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z

The universal, of course, is the widely shared experience of empty-nest syndrome, which probably arrives with alarming suddenness for almost all parents. "The Kids Grow Up": Invading your daughter's privacy to make a film 2010-10-27T01:02:00Z

It's personal, but being so specific, it's also universal. "It's a quiet revolt": Filmmaker on how "The Last Tree" moves between Black and white spaces 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

In the Senate in the 1990s, he championed universal health care and later worked with several nonprofit organizations on national service and volunteering. ‘A part of the magic of love’: How Harris Wofford fell for a man 50 years his junior 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

But she adds, that it's still true that there are gender inequities that are universal. Tucker Carlson: “It’s a sign of mental illness” to recognize the patriarchy 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

In “The You Show” the Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite explores such universal questions and how they relate to love, conflict and loss. Dance Review: ?The You Show,? Crystal Pite?s Dance of Relationships 2012-02-24T23:03:11Z

These stories, though concerned with universal, archetypal experiences, are somewhat transmuted into that which is at once strange and familiar. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Picasso, a Communist party member, adopted a disarmingly simple image of a dove as a universal symbol of hope during the cold war. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z

With their generic locations and blurred and hidden faces, Correa’s photos appear to seek universal qualities of city life. Review | In the galleries: These are not your usual travel pictures 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Such an awareness extends to all of us, she suggests, making her story not personal so much as universal, or at least national in scope. When Maya Angelou was interviewed by Studs Terkel 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

"The youthful attitudes, perceptions and values expressed here are universal and timeless, for at its essence, 'The Wonder Years' is a simple story about a kid, his friends and his family," wrote L.A. Returning to 'The Wonder Years' world 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

All of these stories began with pieces of dreams and memories that became short stories, which I explored on the page until they revealed elements of universal truth. The enigmatic gift from my estranged mother that I decided to keep 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

“Personal and universal disaster were forever one,” she told The Post. Carolyn See, memoirist, novelist and book reviewer for The Post, dies at 82 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

That’s a fine undertaking, but what makes her novel sing is its universal themes: how a young woman tries to make sense of her world, and how she grows up. Growing Up in the Margins Without Being Marginalized 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

The diversity of these spots alludes to the fact Starr is beloved by artists across generations — and his musical influence is so difficult to pinpoint because, like the Beatles' impact, it's so universal and widespread. An appreciation of Ringo Starr's dynamic and joyful musical gifts – despite the naysayers 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

The installation is meant to suggest a future relic, like a contemporary Pompeii, and alludes to Miami’s fragile position in the large universal canvas, touching on climate crisis and rising sea levels. Miami Beach unveils traffic sculpture made of sand 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Its status as both the most universal and mutable of roles helps explain why actors always want to tackle it, and why theater addicts like me always want to see them. Hamlet and the Surveillance State of Denmark 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

We might not have children, but we certainly have parents, so those elements make it universal. "The Persian Version" director on creating a film that is "playful in terms of sexuality" 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z

“I’m first and foremost a black man, for sure, but what I’m trying to do, and what I’m trying to represent and build, is universal,” he said in a Vanity Fair profile in October. How Michael B Jordan fought his way to the top of Hollywood 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

Regardless of the sonic dressing, these universal emotions ring true. Why Tears for Fears deserves Rock & Roll Hall of Fame consideration 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

But within the particulars of his situation, Mr. Baddiel has tapped on the door of the universal, reminding us that sometimes you can love someone deeply without necessarily knowing them at all. Ripping Up the Rule Book in ‘An Octoroon,’ and Making a Patchwork of ‘Woyzeck’ 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

It’s a really universal message, that feeling of splitting yourself into a million pieces to try to please everybody and ultimately empowering yourself to be OK with who you are. Meet the Women Who Give ‘Central Park’ Its Sunny Sound 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

In the case of a musical that has achieved not only national awareness but universal acclaim, extreme scarcity. A “Hamilton” miracle: I lost the ticket lottery, but discovered something priceless 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Yet the unexamined norms of sport are incessantly political, often difficult to spot because patriotic reverence sells itself as universal. Matt Lauer, pleasant corporate stooge: America’s double standard on politicizing the Olympics 2014-02-14T16:34:00Z

Robert Duvall’s Bill Kilgore from Apocalypse Now represents the closest you will get to a universal consensus in these matters among surfers. Why can't pop culture get surfing right? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

It shows how universal a mother’s fear of harming her child is, regardless of social or economic differences. | Putting a Human Face on the African AIDS Epidemic 2013-12-12T23:28:02Z

"His themes are timeless and universal. He talked about relationships between sons and parents, between people and governments. What he talked about still resonates with the human condition," Bond said. Rap anti-hero Tupac Shakur bigger in death than life 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Cleary graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where she took a class called The Novel, taught by a professor who said: “The proper subject of the novel is universal human experience.” Beverly Cleary Wrote About Real Life, and Her Readers Loved Her for It 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

“It’s the great unifier — our one universal truth. No matter who we are, where we’ve come from, what we believe, we know this one thing: Love is what we’re doing right.” Pass the Popcorn and Shhh! The Wedding Is About to Start 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z

The princesses, in fact, fare best: Fern and Cricket especially endear through their apt, universal observations on motherhood and childhood. 'Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty' is a charming summer tale of wealth and its loss 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

At the same time, Sara grows more and more impatient with the flakiness and self-absorption that are apparently universal aspects of the artistic temperament. ‘Tell It Like It Is,’ a Chapter of New York From 1968 to ’86 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Gerima does not identify his interviewees, many not overtly connected to the Wilmington 10 case, until the end, a technique that gives their commentary a universal quality. It Started With a Kiss. Then Film Scholars Found More. 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

In the unforgettable closing passage of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald makes it clear that if his story is about America, it is also a universal tale of human aspiration. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z

Any show can string together a decent whodunnit, but examining loneliness as a universal mystery is the more captivating concept enriching the three-part harmony wrought by Gomez, Martin and Short's combined performances. "Only Murders in the Building" bridges Boomer and Millennial sensibilities for a comedy that slays 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

About a year into both her kids being enrolled, school administrators announced that they would be moving to universal free school meals. If universal free school meals end, moms and teachers will be left to navigate child hunger 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

Music is meant to be the universal language...well, yes and no. Korean pop music out to conquer the world 2011-11-29T12:57:32Z

So I'm always looking for what's the next area of life to explore that will help me understand it and bring something universal to other people, too. Filmmaker Cameron Crowe: positivity in action 2011-12-23T19:11:04Z

The universal use of English, with the addition of more and more slang or foreign words, was not something he looked forward to. Peter Carson 2013-01-24T13:17:57Z

It's a universal opera, timeless, and it fits anywhere. Beethoven's 'Fidelio' brimming with hope, love and bravery 2012-10-03T21:00:06Z

“The idea is that you submit yourself to a universal something,” Ms. Sen said. In India, a Dance Haven Shuts Out the World 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

Where else in the country, or in British territories, deserves to be held up alongside the Pyramids and Stonehenge as a place of "outstanding universal value"? What's on your list for world heritage status? 2011-03-22T15:06:00Z

From the specific, find the universal. In chess, it’s called zugzwang: you’re forced to move, but the only moves you can make will put you in a worse position. The way we left Cuba 2012-12-31T18:00:00Z

But “Veep” makes the point more universal by making it less histrionic. ‘Veep’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ Echo Our Politics, as Farce and Tragedy 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Young readers will recognize local spots and universal themes in Washington state authors' books this summer. New summer reading will keep kids, teens and young adults cracking the books 2010-06-23T23:39:00Z

Or, to put it another way, what was once a body of esoteric lore is now a core curriculum, and what was once a despised cult is now a church universal and triumphant. At Comic-Con, Bring Out Your Fantasy and Fuel the Culture 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

He was universal, and yet he was one of the most Italian of artists; he was one of the most criticised of musicians, but also one of the most beloved. Maestro Verdi, your Art must not die 2013-05-03T16:00:01Z

It's interesting when you talk about these universal emotions or feelings that we all experience, though it's not necessarily anger or trauma towards the same thing. “Like Father” writer/director Lauren Miller Rogen: “We heard no after no after no” 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

What are the constituent parts of passion, common to so many cultures and for so long that it seems all but universal? Aiuthor, author: Lisa Appignanesi on the language of love 2011-02-12T00:05:39Z

Sweden and Denmark also offer a “universal child benefit” to families with children, virtually eliminating child poverty. Social democracy and the dignity of work: The U.S. must learn from Scandinavian “utopias” for Bernie’s revolution to move forward 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

However universal, “Close Encounters” was very much a generational statement. ‘Close Encounters’ Was When the Movies Got New-Age Religion 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Biopics or tribute concerts would require universal agreement, unless the heirs were to appoint a business manager to manage such decisions, said Mr. Smith, the lawyer representing Edward Franklin. Is Aretha Franklin’s True Will the One Found in the Couch or a Cabinet? 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z

He relates how earlier anthropologists exploded the myth of some single universal underlying the diversity of all cultures. Faith and Reasons: Two Authors Explore the Persistence of Religious Feeling 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Can we still afford universal pension schemes, unemployment compensation, subsidised arts, inexpensive higher education, etc, or are these benefits and services now too costly to sustain? Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

Meanwhile, the charity Action for Children says the “double blow” of austerity and universal credit is exacerbating hardship. Why aren’t we outraged by child poverty in Britain and the US? | Mary O’Hara 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

I say confusion because the world is filled with things, big things, unsuited to competition and perfect for “good enough”; things that can’t be ranked because there’s no universal yardstick by which to measure them. The case for “good enough”: Forget striving–our happiness depends on being satisfied with less 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

The series will feature "a universal story" with themes that "authentically reflect the hopes and dreams of our diverse audience", according to Nancy Kanter, the executive vice president of Disney Junior Worldwide. Disney reveals first Latina princess 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

We talked with Moore about the film, Ruffalo's universal appeal and Boston accents. Q&A: Julianne Moore of 'The Kids Are All Right' 2010-07-08T09:05:00Z

The film, a production of Brad Pitt’s Plan B to be released by A24, is a stunningly intimate family portrait, rich in personal detail and universal in tenderness. 8 films from the Sundance Film Festival you’ll want to see 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

This institution is a universal nightmare created out of the fear we all have of turning our fate over to strangers whose superior knowledge we have to take on faith. Television Review: ‘Coma,’ an A&E Mini-Series With Lauren Ambrose 2012-09-02T21:56:33Z

“Sometimes I Might Be Introvert” is a captivating album that is at once personal and universal. AP’s top albums of 2021: ‘Sour,’ ‘Donda,’ H.E.R. and Eilish 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

“Nothing too low cut, and something more universal,” he said. Field Notes: What’s New in Bridesmaid Dresses 2013-06-07T20:18:23Z

It’s not hard to understand why – the genre runs on the universal appeal of gambling, with many offering a shot at fast money mixed with puzzle or trivia games of skill and elements of chance. How can "Saturday Night Live" parody a farcical administration? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

"Nothing gets a universal three cheers," he added. BBC gets 2,000 Jubilee complaints 2012-06-06T19:49:10Z

At this charge, a gay performer might trot out that well-worn line, "I want my songs to have a universal appeal." Ricky Martin and what it means to be a gay pop star in 2010 2010-04-01T20:45:00Z

The museum doesn’t shy away from the fact that this symbol of “universal liberty” was far from a reality for people of color and women during the late 19th century and for decades afterward. New Statue of Liberty Museum Illuminates a Forgotten History 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

And while an entire alphabet of ideograms would be unusably bulky, a handful of key ones, scattered into our language, condense thousands of complicated reactions into a few dozen universal symbols. What Tweets and Emojis Did to the Novel 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Not that Europe is a great deal better: the hostility to the Bolivarian leaders is pretty universal in the European media as well, with a few partial exceptions. Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali: brothers in arms 2010-07-26T20:31:00Z

In turn, Ms. Gilmer’s “We Are the Aperture” — a black-and-white group portrait of girls facing their camera lens outward back at her, back at us — reflects the universal sense of belonging. ‘Beautiful Project’ at the Met: Stories of Southern Black Girlhood 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Feelings of failure are a universal experience of parents during the pandemic. Perspective | How to cope with parent guilt, during the pandemic and beyond 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Key West locals—“conchs,” as they’re called—do adhere to a few universals for Key lime pie. Easy Key Lime Pie 2011-03-21T16:20:13.170Z

The process of turning a successful London playwright into an icon of Englishness, then a universal writer and the very “inventor of the human,” to paraphrase Harold Bloom, took centuries. Shakespeare. Dead? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

“In a time of universal deceit,” Orwell wrote, “telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” Perspective | Five ways President Trump can become media literate 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

The taste for modernism is not universal, and suburban officials often avoid enacting landmark ordinances that require owners to become unwilling custodians of an important cultural resource. Why Does the Demolition of a Marcel Breuer House Matter? 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

In both of its stories, which eventually collide, the biggest handicaps are the universal ones: fear and disconnection. Review: In ‘Cost of Living,’ a Familiar Alienation 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

But it also has the makings of a classic, drawing the universal from the personal in its treatment of grief and forgiveness; it fits neatly on the shelf alongside “Jenufa” and “Wozzeck.” Best Classical Music of 2021 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

Both eccentrically individual and universal, these songs evoke the original, piquant talent of a composer whose singular style otherwise feels strangely absent. Review: ‘A New Brain’ Gambols Tunefully Through a Vale of Death 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Next he has me arguing for a universal story structure in which “everything gets worse until it gets better,” before listing some stories that break the pattern. Letters to the Editor From Steven Pinker, Jonathan Gottschall, and Others 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

It’s a touching moment, evoking the universal heartbreak of parenthood, but the movie does not stop there. Film: They Grow Up So Quickly, Don?t They? 2010-07-09T04:31:00Z

So before we started doing the series we talked about universal fears, and home invasion was definitely one of them. ArtsBeat Blog: Don't Stop Screaming: The 'Glee' Guys Introduce Their 'American Horror Story' 2011-10-03T03:10:29Z

It's both incredibly specific to one situation — a breakup around the holidays — and exudes universal longing for escape and a desire to start over. The solace of Joni Mitchell's "River," a holiday song that defies merry and bright expectations 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

No. But in my doing so, did my parents rest better knowing that they fulfilled that universal urge of fiercely protecting their offspring in the best way they know? The True Story of My Marriage to a Pot 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Lannan, Haigh and the show’s writers almost never waste a word or visual detail; each scene is a perfect vignette on its own, forming a universal narrative of the sort that “Girls” still reaches for. HBO’s ‘Girls,’ ‘Looking’ and the delicate balance of vignette 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

The big-tent affirmation of the closer, “To Be Alive,” shares a surprising affinity with Christian pop, not necessarily a sin, except for the way it tones down Sawayama’s idiosyncrasies in favor of something more universal. For the Gloriously Over-the-Top Rina Sawayama, Less Is Less 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

No problem” was the nearly universal reaction to us — but the official national tongue is Luxembourgish. In Luxembourg, a Long Ride Across a Small Country 2012-09-21T18:37:43Z

Religion isn’t a universal subject, but it is dominant in so many works that it is strange not to confront the issue more directly. Review | They were once outsiders, but now are embraced as American artists 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

I had to go neutral and think of it as a universal American small city, you know? "The Outsider": Crafting Stephen King's suburban horror despite a New York state of mind 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

There are few things as universal across cultures as passive-aggressive families. Five International Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

A lot of the themes in the film are very universal. Raúl Castillo Can Empathize With Ambivalence 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

There is this universal theme of loss and missing people. Dermot Mulroney: “Floating in warm water in middle of the night is a strange way to make a livi... 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

“We see these children as more universal than anchoring them to a particular conflict zone,” she said. The French Artist JR Brightens the Montauk Highway 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

“Music is a universal language in that way.” Disney recruits Rapsody, others for EP honoring Black lives 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Add to this universal condition the fact that your husband was only 12 at the time. Honey, That’s Not Why Your Dad Left 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

His masterful follow-up about adolescence in the ’70s is both culturally specific and experientially universal — as relatable characters are set against spare backgrounds. The top 10 graphic novels of 2014

Legends and myths abound surrounding werewolves, each one a variant on the same universal theme and fascinating to read about; the French Beast of Gevaudan, the native American skin-walkers; the Russian Wawkalak. Fangtastic reads: werewolf books 2011-07-19T10:38:23Z

But there is always a sense that the constant human interaction is familiar, timeless and universal. LS Lowry at Tate Britain: glimpses of a world beyond 2013-06-24T17:26:28Z

The man at the desk took my ID, too: a universal policy, he said, with a glance at my gray mane. When Writing a Book Leaves a (Literal) Mark on Its Author 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

The films vary from exploring Judaism and religious issues to dealing with more universal themes of family, relationships and identity – albeit presented through the prism of Haredi life. 'Another way of looking': the rise of ultra-Orthodox cinema 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

I felt it would’ve been a bit obvious to do the Icelandic thing because I wanted it to be more universal. Björk Is Your Tour Guide: Her Stories About the MOMA Exhibit 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

But then would not less-than-global means be needed to adjust universal objectives to local, democratic determinations of priorities? Did the Crusade for Human Rights Lead to More Inequality? 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

“It’s a universal story,” said Gilman, now 52, who was on a recent Sunday at home in the bright, book-filled apartment she shares with her two sons in Washington Heights. Literary Fathers, Literary Daughters, and the Books That Bind Them 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

“She is kind of the universal mom,” Ms. Houdyshell said as she signed his program. In ‘The Humans,’ Jayne Houdyshell Embodies Mom 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show.” ArtsBeat: Despite Protests, Alicia Keys Says She Will Perform in Tel Aviv 2013-05-31T16:59:16Z

“The common language of art, which is universal, serves as a unifying force,” he said. 45 years on, ‘lost’ masterpieces see light in split Cyprus 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

But his coming-out statement focused not on gender or equal rights, but on universal human feelings: passion, obsession, unrequited love. Frank Ocean atop new R&B wave at Grammys 2013-02-07T23:11:00Z

Though over two-thirds of the group are married mothers, they share a universal disdain for “mom’s groups” and say the friendships formed in Mice at Play are deeper and richer than those on the playground. Caution: Women Playing 2011-08-17T20:46:59Z

The film’s “universal black truth” is one that, when Kaluuya first read the script, struck him as so “unsayable” that he asked his agent if Peele could actually make the film. Daniel Kaluuya: ‘I'm not a spokesman. No one’s expected to speak for all white people’ 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

Black and white cloth lining its tunnel represents the Hindu principle of universal balance between light and dark: To drive through it is a reminder of harmony on both a spiritual and physical level. The book 'Wise Trees' showcases ancient trees from around the world 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

She relies on military charities to clothe her two young children in part because the housing element of her universal credit is nearly £100 short of her full rent. The private renters trapped in Britain’s new slums 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

The universal significance was made all the more apparent by Boulez performances that Daniel Barenboim led with his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra made up of young Israeli, Palestinian and other Arab musicians. Pierre Boulez reveled in challenging music's status quo 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

For Tealing, grief is not only compounded by injustice, it is also transformed into something universal. The Professor of Truth by James Robertson – review 2013-06-19T12:30:01Z

The Andy Cohen Diaries, which came out last week, is by no means universal, but it’s an important text when it comes to understanding what it is to be a gay man today. Andy Cohen's Memoir Is the Frankest Book About Gay Life In Years 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

We became friends, and I found the experience of this metamorphosis not unique to me, but rather, universal. David Mamet on Ricky Jay, a Great Astonisher and ‘Truest Friend’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

While Professor Buehler believes other factors contribute to the book’s endurance — the universal title and the seemingly genderless author — she credits librarians and teachers for supporting the book from the start. Why ‘The Outsiders’ Lives On: A Teenage Novel Turns 50 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

No wonder so few choreographers have won universal admiration. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Revisits Three Works 2012-06-01T22:46:12Z

The perfect symbol for liberal modernity is a prison, as governed by a panopticon, an instrument of universal surveillance. Richard Rorty’s Philosophical Argument for National Pride 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

His mantra of modernisation did not extend to universal suffrage. Macaulay by Zareer Masani – review 2013-07-22T09:00:00Z

In terms of healing, what we do know is that pain is universal, but the meaning that we give to our pain, and the way we narrate our pain, is highly cultural and contextual. Love Is Not a Permanent State of Enthusiasm: An Interview with Esther Perel 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

Animals, he reckons, are a universal "language" that transcend cultures and gender. How do I become … an illustrator 2013-01-29T12:48:36Z

And while there is no appropriate age to watch their mum in a sex scene involving tampons and feather dusters, Davis’s comedy is filled with life’s universal horrors. Julia Davis: 'I'm worried there's going to be a backlash' 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

A soldier's courage, a lover's grief, a mother's unending devotion: These are the universal truths that "The Song of Achilles" explores. 'Song of Achilles': The love story behind Homer's epic tale of war 2012-04-25T20:12:07Z

It seems to be a universal problem, and by "universal" I mean that it preoccupies a very small number of people in the so-called creative classes. Miranda July faces "The Future" 2011-07-27T00:30:00Z

But whatever its impact in its home country, this is a universal story as well. | 'Samson & Delilah': Wordless and Lost, a Young Couple Flee 2010-10-15T00:07:00Z

But what develops between Cookie and King-Lu is an exception to this rule of universal antagonism, an instant bond that 19th-century American writers might have described as natural sympathy. ‘First Cow’ Review: The Milk of Human Kindness 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Burroughs thought of art as a universal, timeless, deconstructive subversion of an establishment reality that he called Control. Review | How David Bowie, Jimmy Page, Patti Smith and other musicians fell for William S. Burroughs 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

“That’s what’s attracted a global audience to this music. It speaks to something universal about our humanity: the restlessness that stirs in every soul a desire to create with no boundaries.” Another freedom to celebrate in Washington: Jazz 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

And yet when Friday Night Dinner hit television screens last month, it was met with almost universal disapproval. Have you been watching ? Friday Night Dinner? 2011-03-18T14:07:38Z

What the soprano Julia Bullock loves about Kurt Weill’s music, she said during her recital at the Park Avenue Armory on Monday, is how it spins the personal into the universal. Review: A Soprano’s Recital Captures Her Brilliant Sincerity 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z

Practicing craeft is an experience so universal there’s even a song about it, Stephen Sondheim’s “Finishing the Hat.” Before Glitter and Glue Sticks, ‘Craeft’ 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

Her work is cathartic and concrete, universal and specific, infinitely appealing and intimately personal. Review: At Seattle Art Museum, ‘Infinity Mirrors’ is spectacular, surreal — and, yes, reflective 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Logan said that Sting’s orientation “toward the mythic and universal, in terms of what hands-on work and relations in the family mean, really led the way.” Sting and Jimmy Nail on the Musical ‘The Last Ship’ 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

In focusing so minutely on his own understandable pain and his daughter's equally understandable desire for autonomy, he's trying to capture something universal and something specific. "The Kids Grow Up": Invading your daughter's privacy to make a film 2010-10-27T01:02:00Z

This is a feminist movie with a Sisyphean dimension that’s disquietingly universal. ‘Herself’ Review: She Does It All 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

He made the universal absurd, the absurd universal. Charles Barsotti, Cartoonist With Humor Both Simple and Absurd, Dies at 80 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

She has a very relatable and universal desire to fit in, but high school conflicts with that. "It Lives Inside" director on his psychological monster and "counterintuitive" approach to suspense 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z

“There are impulses that I have that feel like good and positive ones, and then learn that my response is not universal,” Nicola said. Bidding Farewell to His Theatrical Flock 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

As she ends our time with her alter ego Issa Dee, Rae ticks several boxes on the universal series closer bingo card – answering lingering questions, delivering happy endings, tying bows on wishes. "Insecure" no more: The HBO comedy departs with satisfying confidence 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

He described them as “universal,” offering the ease of jeans and T-shirts. Magical Reality in 3D From Issey Miyake 2010-11-22T12:30:00Z

For a team to have a Native American name or mascot does not automatically make it offensive – nor is there ever any universal consensus on what constitutes offensiveness. Scott Walker makes it harder to fight racist team names 2013-12-20T19:36:00Z

“I think it’s very universal, but maybe one of those things that some people don’t realize that other people also do,” Moskowitz said. Obsessed with Wikipedia ‘personal life’ entries? You’re not alone. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

"But it will also be a very personal story, exploring universal themes of grief, loss and forgiveness through one mother's struggle to reconcile her feelings with her faith". Emily Watson to star in 7/7 drama 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

A 2010 study by the Center on Education Policy found an essentially universal gap between boys and girls performing proficient or better on state reading tests. How do you get teen boys to read? Girls, of course 2011-04-27T20:16:06Z

But the sprawling two-venue presentation’s emphasis on contemporary artists who challenge the “presumed universal ideal of the white, male ‘Man of Reason’” was definitely in tune with the moment. A Surreal Feel at a Wartime Venice Biennale 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

The latest, the spartan, percussion-centric “Fetch the Bolt Cutters,” was released during the early days of the pandemic, to near universal acclaim. Perspective | ‘Tidal’ made Fiona Apple a star 25 years ago. Its success nearly overwhelmed her. 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

He wasn’t a theorist of race in a universal sense, but an Americanist. Black, white and blues: Henry Louis Gates Jr. breaks down Albert Murray’s legacy on race and culture in America 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Amputation is the common treatment, and lice the universal scourge. Review | A med student gets a crash course in battle wounds and PTSD in ‘The Winter Soldier’ 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

This simple, universal comfort food is appreciated by young children, rebellious teenagers, young lovers and middle-age and downright old couch potatoes. An ode to the humble, healthy (?) pizza pie 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

These are hard questions, and Diop faces them with ardent, open-minded curiosity, resisting any obvious pronouncements about identity, individuality or universal values. ‘Saint Omer’ Review: The Trials of Motherhood 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

The projects don’t just strike a chord with Asian audiences, but with everyone because the stories are ultimately universal. Randall Park’s directorial debut is an ode to flawed Asian Americans 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

But any approach that would make reading acquisition “easier and more universal in the future—I’m all for that.” Can babies read? 2012-09-12T16:08:00Z

The Goodmans’ race here may mean their suffering resonates with particular intensity for an Asian American audience, but that doesn’t make it less universal. At East West Players, the gut-wrenching emotion of 'Next to Normal' transcends race 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

She went on to make a case for Wonder Woman’s universal appeal. At This Year's Comic-Con, Superheroes Looked More Like Us 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

According to its best-known song, Hair arrived on the scene at the "dawning of the age of Aquarius", a mythical era which would usher in universal peace, love and understanding. Hair, restored 2010-04-14T08:34:00Z

Here, he crafts a film with a narrower scope, which nevertheless aims high in its determination to expose the folly of prejudice, and the universal empathy of all human beings. London River: an outsider's journey to the heart of a very London tragedy 2010-07-13T15:03:00Z

He proves that supporting black entrepreneurs is not just a black thing, it's an American thing, and we should all make an effort to do so, especially if we want to experience universal equality. Killer Mike on America: "We've failed, but we can change it" 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

As time went on, but obviously past her professional peak, she finally obtained universal respect. Paglia on Taylor: "A luscious, opulent, ripe fruit!" 2011-03-24T02:58:00Z

First ladies are unelected, appear apolitical and are rarely controversial, prone to taking on universal good causes that are unlikely to cause offense, like Jill Biden’s Joining Forces initiative to support military families. Jill Biden raises money for Democrats amid gaffes and popularity drop 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z

Slang: The universal language Topics: Baltimore, Oxford English Dictionary, Slang, The Browser, The Wire, Before we look at your book selection, could you tell us what slang is? Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z

"The power and grace of Daniel's performances seem to emanate from something he's made contact with, deep within, intensely private and specific to his experience but also mysteriously universal," he continued. Jennifer Lawrence among Time's 100 most influential people 2013-04-18T17:54:05Z

Mine was not a solution that received universal accolades from commenting readers. Motherlode Blog: Should You Bribe Children to Behave in the Car? 2012-06-22T16:55:52Z

Why do you think it’s had such universal appeal? ‘Insecure’ Season 2 Finale: Prentice Penny on Issa, Lawrence, Safe Sex and Narrative Swerves 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

"Dance is a universal language," Barber said in a recent phone interview, and she hopes the fest is equally rewarding for connoisseurs and "someone who maybe takes a Zumba class every week." Dance Camera West film festival aims to move audiences 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

“Even if they don’t live in Turkey, people really like the film because the subject is really universal,” said Iscan. In ‘Mustang,’ five young sisters determined to break free 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

“On my future CDs,” Mr. Lancaster wrote in 2008, “I will speak to the world with a combined universal sound: Chinese, Indian, South American, Puerto Rican, Jamaican, Trinidadian, German, English and North Philly rap.” Byard Lancaster, Jazz Alto Saxophonist, Dies at 70 2012-09-01T22:58:19Z

There's a "myth" about fairy tales that makes it seem as if they were naturally generated and universal, designated primarily for children. Now it can be (re)told 2011-08-20T14:01:00Z

Laughter is said to be the universal language. | Abroad: Take My Bulgarian Joke Book. Please. 2010-10-27T17:57:00Z

But they were undoubtedly a school, united by a common interest in capturing the spontaneous events that revealed the universal dignity of everyday life. Sabine Weiss, Last of the ‘Humanist’ Street Photographers, Dies at 97 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

When I talked to more women that age, it seemed that it was actually a sort of universal experience. Zoe Lister-Jones subverts sex in "Slip": "Through orgasm, she's being transported into a multiverse" 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

“We need to create jobs, invest in education, and really have a workable universal health-care system,” he says. The Sadness (And Salvation) Of New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft 2012-09-06T14:00:00Z

Coogler's first feature film, "Fruitvale Station," goes into wide U.S. release this weekend, having earned universal acclaim from critics, awards at the Sundance and Cannes film festivals and some early Oscar buzz. For 'Fruitvale Station' director, film school and football pay off 2013-07-25T14:11:50Z

“It was definitely universal, and I was stunned by it.” Kelly Ripa has made a career of being herself. Where does she go from here? 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

"We lost a universal language and something which was really specific to the medium: to tell a story with moving images," he said. In "The Artist," silence is golden 2011-11-25T18:26:20Z

It’s in the fact that there is a phrase for it, that this bruising feeling is so universal and ominous it can be packaged in sarcastic memes, named, dissected. Declutter so you can reclutter – Kondo has a new master plan 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z

Both are signs of how universal Shelley’s myth has become. The Mother of Frankenstein 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

From distant planets to Vienna and English country boarding schools - even the future - it would seem that the problems twins encounter are universal. Penelope Bush's top 10 teen twin books 2013-03-28T16:29:47Z

While commending Garner as a great writer for using the universal to explain the personal in his sequel, he points to the shortcoming in his dialogue. Reader reviews roundup 2012-10-05T15:31:28Z

For instance, is there a universal mechanism that impacts our mental health? Is mental health seasonal? 2013-04-21T15:00:00Z

The universal language Cohen once relied on is gone, though Pat is menschy enough not to ding his boss for harassment. Andy Cohen's Memoir Is the Frankest Book About Gay Life In Years 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

To what extent do you think this book and this journey says something universal about solitude, endurance and the human condition – or is that grandiose? Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z

Apparently, luridly melodramatic limited series constitute a universal language. Review: ‘Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned,’ an Infidelity Drama From Lifetime 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

But “if it’s so easy, you try” has a kind of Beckett-like, universal ring, too. Cass McCombs: Imagine Beckett as a Cranky Singer-Songwriter 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

It’s things like the invention of printing and the resultant rise of literacy, the empowerment of women and the rise of universal moral and ethical principles. Is it impossible to trust one another in the information age? 2013-01-21T12:45:00Z

I say him or her because “The Hunger Games” allows — or maybe compels — a kind of universal identification that is rare, or maybe even taboo. Arts & Leisure: Katniss Everdeen, a New Type of Woman Warrior 2012-04-04T12:00:00Z

Though a technical tome, it takes on big, universal issues and proved a surprise hit of 1971, winning a National Book Award and reaching a remarkably wide audience. 'Classical Style' at Ojai Music Festival draws on wit, wisdom 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

His doubts, guilt and questioning have a universal resonance. Why I'd like to be … Jason Miller in The Exorcist 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

EH I think that it is globalisation, the fact that he predicted globalisation, as one might say a universal globalisation, including the globalisation of tastes and all the rest of it, that impressed them. From Marx to the Milibands 2011-01-16T00:04:08Z

As it turns out, there is no universal demarcation line. Real “spring breakers” don’t have happy endings 2013-03-29T16:01:00Z

I'm asking this question of you based on the fact that you are from Ireland: Do you think that what you just described is a universal quality? It's "difficult to curb his impulses": "The Patient" star Domnhall Gleeson on a killer in therapy 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

I was trying to write about this universal and famous figure, but I clothed him as a media mogul. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Wheeler said he believes the popular science fiction movie will resonate with the Navajo people with its universal theme of good versus evil. Native American tribe plans to dub 'Star Wars' in Navajo 2013-05-02T01:14:08Z

The poem slowly builds to a heart-rending finish in which the personal merges into the universal: Perspective | In a time of crisis, poetry can help focus our fears and transform ‘noise into music’ 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

It's the most personal of exhibitions and yet the most universal. When clutter becomes art 2012-02-15T13:15:10Z

The officers also hashtagged the posted with the universal question, "Who steals a donut truck?" California police officers 'heartbroken' at discovering stolen doughnut van, ruined treats 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

As an escape artist, Mister Miracle speaks to the universal feeling of being trapped. Why D.C.’s escape artist Mister Miracle is the hero we need right now 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

He practiced sign language and espoused the universal language of Esperanto. The 24-hour Joshua Tree party to celebrate Lou Harrison's 100th birthday 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

RuPaul got famous by selling drag to a mainstream audience, while spreading a message of universal love and acceptance. Wigstock Returns From the Dead 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

I don't only mean that readers today easily relate to Wildean concepts; the universal will always be universal, and Shakespeare is as relevant as ever. Dorian Gray's true picture of Oscar Wilde 2010-04-29T09:01:00Z

The film has received universal acclaim since its original premiere in Venice. Hitler comedy Jojo Rabbit primed for Oscars after winning top Toronto award 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z

He was an amateur boxer in his youth, held jobs where he wore shirts embroidered with the name “Phil” and knew how to rebuild the universal joint of a car’s powertrain. Philip Levine, U.S. poet laureate who wrote of working life, dies at 87 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

But her meanings are, of course, devoutly universal. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z

At the same time, the composer sees a timeless, universal quality in the story of Rachela’s hopes, setbacks and resilience. Music and poetry leaven a heavy subject 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

And also, as the passage above suggests, a philosophical insight, a universal principle of alteration and sameness. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

But no region is on track to achieve universal access to safe water services, which is one of the SDG 2030 targets. How the bottled water industry is masking the global water crisis 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z

As Somer sees it, the urge to quiet the mind and engage the body is universal, and he’s happy to provide an outlet for it. | The Godfather of Hipster American Dining Serves Up a Fresh Dish: Enlightenment 2014-01-30T23:25:01Z

I just sat there, breathing and thinking about breathing as a universal principle of being. Why are L.A. people so mean? 2012-12-20T01:00:00Z

“In the Room” offers no flashes of universal revelation, but it’s solid and smart. Review: ‘In the Room,’ About Lessons Learned at a Writing Workshop 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

“Somewhere along the way toward female liberation, it was decided that the most effective method was for feminism to become universal,” Crispin writes. The Case Against Contemporary Feminism 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

In the west, this perception is now almost universal. Should women really be rushing back to work after giving birth? 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

Finally, all the work is essentially about a universal art form: dancing. In ‘Breathing Directions,’ Nari Ward Gathers Layers of African-American History 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Where @SoSadToday was the device of a universal sad girl, the book conveys the experiences of a single struggling woman. The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

The beggars' universal cry is "spare any change", but in Zimbabwe they can be choosers on the issue. Zimbabwe's own-label dollar coins face consumer resistance 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

‘Horizon’ is beautiful and brutal, uplifting and bleak, a story of the universal human condition set in some of the most distinctive places on earth.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

“It was the beginning of universal suffrage and the end of the Empire.” Edinburgh International Festival Embraces Youth at 71 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

For Malick, this vision of a universal consciousness, the reflection of something like the mind in all existence, is the very basis for science—including social science—as well as of art. Terrence Malick’s Metaphysical Journey Into Nature 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Understanding that it affects rich and poor, successful and not so successful, men and women, old and young also helps you to comprehend: this is a universal scourge. We need to keep talking about depression 2012-10-08T14:01:01Z

A. There was, here, at that time, a kind of universal, upper-class assumption of superiority. Julian Fellowes on Twists in the ‘Downton Abbey’ Season Finale 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

“A lot of people say it’s a universal story because it’s about the gap between rich and poor, but I don’t think that’s all the answer,” he says. Parasite director Bong Joon-ho: 'Korea seems glamorous, but the young are in despair' 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

The universal sign of the skeleton, the bones we are all reduced to at last, thus got a biting makeover in Broodthaers’s studio. Marcel Broodthaers’s Brussels, and Mine 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

It positions the singer as a universal if slightly heroic figure and allows her to move into middle age with style. Mary J. Blige’s ‘London Sessions’ 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

"None among us felt or expressed anger toward it, but rather a universal sadness for his silence, as he is America's most admired cultural link to Haiti." Wyclef Jean blasts Sean Penn after Haiti presidency bid failure 2010-09-07T10:38:00Z

When the violins begin to play in “Once” — and the accordion and the mandolin and the guitars and the cello — the instruments swell into a collection of distinctive voices melded into a single, universal feeling. Theater Review: ?Once,? With Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, at Jacobs Theater 2012-03-19T02:00:10Z

To try to reproduce that world according to the canons of 21st-century movie realism would be to diminish and falsify his narrative, which ascends through cultural and social detail into a realm of universal emotion. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z

In a sense, as a space, this is a room that is essentially universal and infinitely transformative. The 25 Rooms That Influence the Way We Design 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

Through this, the series tries — and sometimes succeeds — to raise big-picture questions tied to seemingly universal fears. Netflix's "The Devil Next Door" is a chilling examination of the fear of Nazis among us 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

While his books are shaped by his background, they home in on universal emotional truths. Netflix to Debut Italy’s First TV Show With a Majority Black Cast 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

Issues of race and class are certainly there, but subsumed into the universal realities of life lived, daily, messy, crowded, at home. Art Review: Carrie Mae Weems Charts the Black Experience in Photographs 2014-01-23T23:42:31Z

That feels really powerful for this moment — that this family can contain those feelings and that pain in such a specific way that it again becomes universal as we all question our survival.” ‘Not Understanding Is Really Satisfying’: A Director Keeps You Thinking 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

But today, trauma as a universal motivator has worked its way so deeply into the architecture of many novels that it threatens to become mundane. Misfits, Stalkers and Kiddie Sociopaths: The Latest Thrillers 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

But, says Harnick, the show's real subject is a universal one - family. Fiddler's 50-year stage appeal 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

His voice is sometimes angry but never polemical: it's brave and loving, incredibly personal and yet universal. The artists' artist TV drama writers 2011-07-27T21:16:01Z

Madisynn reminds him that his universal guardian duties include fighting for his right to party. We all love Wongers, who brings the real magic to the MCU 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

Drawing on memory or imagination rather than photographs, she paints moments in which what matters is not location but the universal interplay of sunlight and rippling currents. In the galleries: ‘Strictly Painting’ is anything but 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Even the language of physical attraction seems to be less universal than they might have expected. Review: Reaching Across Korean Borders in ‘Wild Goose Dreams’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

I relate to it as a black woman, but find the ups and downs of life and the navigating of it to be universal. ‘Insecure’ Season 1 Finale: Great Expectations 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

These acts are cosmopolitan, combining American hip-hop and R&B, European techno and the hip-swinging rhythms of the Spanish-speaking world into a sound that's universal and emblematic of Latino youth today. Fiesta Latina charts a pop future with Pitbull, Jesse y Joy and more 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

In 1938, a writer in the Times fretted that “the universal typewriter may swallow all.” The Lost Virtue of Cursive 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

It’s all part of his clinging to his youth, which is a kind of universal phenomenon. Todd Solondz: I’m Judd Apatow’s dark side 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe his text is politics; his rituals, comedy; his vestments, American media—but the gospel, I think, is an old and universal one. In the religion of calling bullsh*t, Jon Stewart was both preacher and disciple: “If you smell something, say something” 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Not bad for a car, if you live in a place where the sun always shines and vajayjay steaming is the cornerstone of a universal health plan. Breakfast with giraffes? Goop’s ridiculous holiday gift guide makes Oprah’s look downright re... 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

Neith believes wholeheartedly in the System, convinced that universal surveillance is a small price to pay for universal ­well-being. Review | What it might feel like to live in a high-tech surveillance state 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

But they will be played by vacationers worldwide thanks to universal idiot-in-paradise refrains such as "Day drinkin', sun goes up and drink goes down, ooh, ooh." Pitbull's new album, 'Globalization,' continues his world push 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

It’s just saying: These principles are out there, they’re universal, and we can start to do things differently. Gillian Anderson speaks out about equal pay and her book, ‘We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere ’ 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

She has written: “My work is NOT pure, isolated, authoritative, universal, self-referential, self-sufficient or removed from social function.” Harmony Hammond’s Art Is Bold and Prickly as Ever 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

During “Freedom,” the screen behind the band flashed with information about forced birth’s relationship to maternal mortality, lack of parental leave and lack of universal health care, concluding with the exhortation “Abort the Supreme Court.” Rage Against the Machine Returns for Fresh Battles 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

Stephens, like other observers, frames Honnold’s ascent of El Capitan as something that transcends particulars, ranking with the universal and all-time great accomplishments. Do Good Climbers Make Good Capitalists? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

He says his contribution to Israel is to help build a world-class institution and to urge the society to look toward the universal rather than the provincial. James S. Snyder?s Facelift of the Israel Museum 2010-07-20T21:45:00Z

Hirschfeld was able to capture the universal appeal of Williams' characters, he said. Exhibit draws on Tennessee Williams' world 2011-03-12T19:38:11Z

So they are using the vocabulary they have, because “dance is a universal form of communication, of expression and of catharsis.” In Richmond, Black Dance Claims a Space Near Robert E. Lee 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Hosseini’s tale gave readers a rare inside perspective on Afghanistan and the intricacies of life there, but it also has, as Arison pointed out, universal themes of immigration, power, redemption, and father and son relationships. A Chameleon Flies From ‘The Blacklist’ to ‘The Kite Runner’ 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Touch is a universal language, but every culture has its own way of speaking it. The power of touch: what will it be like when we can all connect again? 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z

A universal tale of wayward adolescence is woven into complex context. On DVD: Rock ’n’ Roll High Schools in Taiwan and America 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

But the audience recognizing the universal gifts and power of the ideas in this film, it is beautifully uplifting and inspiring for me. Will Smith on ‘King Richard’ and His Secret Career Fear 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Made during tumultuous times — including the Trump years, protests in Hong Kong, and the coronavirus pandemic — it feels responsive and specific, yet also universal. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

“Bodyguard” is definitely the surprise nominee here, up against the big guns of “The Americans,” the star wattage of “Homecoming” and the universal acclaim of “Killing Eve” and “Pose.” ‘Bodyguard’ and ‘Atlanta’: TV Surprises and Snubs of the 2019 Golden Globes 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

As a hero of the Jewish people and a universal hero in the struggle for religious liberty, Judah Maccabee deserves better. ArtsBeat Blog: Mel Gibson Takes on Judah Maccabee 2011-09-09T17:42:26Z

For about double that, a somewhat bulkier “universal” adapter with multiple prong styles built in should work just about everywhere. Five Things to Leave at Home on Your Next Trip 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

A satirical study of the universal insecurities and hierarchical struggles of West African teenage girls, the play receives first-class treatment from director Nicole A. Watson and a cast eager to spread the aforesaid joy. Review | Mean girls are at home in Ghana, too 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

The film is universal — it is about growing up and mother/daughter relationships and coming of age in a very difficult way. "Four Daughters" seeks to understand radicalization by ISIS: "People can go to the side of darkness" 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

You don’t have to know Smith’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry to appreciate her ability to write in a way that feels both unique and universal. Notable nonfiction of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

On the former, Gaga tackled universal acceptance and promoted the freedom of image. Lady Gaga’s New ARTPOP Doesn’t Always Live Up to Title 2013-11-11T17:12:01Z

Although the setting of "The Comedians" is grounded in Hollywood, the show's central theme — society's broadening generation gap — is more universal. Billy Crystal, Josh Gad cut close to funny bone in FX's 'The Comedians' 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

As a result, there is no longer a universal language in which artistically ambitious musicals can be written, meaning that the chances of writing a show that will appeal to a mass audience have plummeted. What’s Wrong With the Broadway Musical? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

Oxo’s products are icons of what’s known as “universal design,” which holds that the best products appeal to people of all walks of life equally. Aging boomers befuddle global marketers eying $15 trillion prize 2013-09-17T15:27:00Z

“And so did the story. It dawned on me that there was something universal about this opera.” ‘Carmen Jones’ Is Back, and Its Director Knows What You’re Thinking 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

What about figuring out how to have universal health care that’s not connected to people’s jobs? Wynton Marsalis Finds Solace in the Optimism of the Blues 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

More than ever on this second viewing, I felt turns on one single piece of class pettiness of the kind I associate with England more than Scotland, but which is probably universal. Neds - review 2011-01-20T22:00:01Z

No, in this case it wasn’t a mad, rip-their-clothes-off attraction, but it was, perhaps, something more universal: that he was misunderstood. How these 5 little words can jump-start an illicit sexual affair 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Subway station elevators and cuts in sidewalk curbs benefit not only people with special needs but almost everybody — examples of what’s called “universal design.” Design That’s Got Users in Mind 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

However, in centering "On the Exhale" on one mother's loss and grief, the play reduces a tragedy of universal magnitude into a private nightmare that almost unhinges an individual mother. Review: ‘On the Exhale’ Addresses Grief and the Attraction of an Assault Rifle 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

The festival reflected his tastes, which were, as David Thomson, the San Francisco-based British film critic and historian, said, “both catholic and universal.” Tom Luddy, a Behind-the-Scenes Force in Cinema, Dies at 79 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

Other quirky but universal figures include classmates, neighbors and a Catholic-school disciplinarian. Review | ‘The Wizard of Hip’ has energy to spare in lively MetroStage production 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

House, said Beck's rally organizers "seized the hallowed ground of the 47th anniversary ... to promote their universal vision of exclusion." Blogger calls DC dangerous for Glenn Beck rally 2010-08-27T20:15:00Z

As both a writer of and performer in the show, he said he wants the message surrounding the human experience to be and feel universal. Gabriel Byrne’s ‘Walking With Ghosts’ Is Heading to Broadway 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

Even for a philistine like me, who fell asleep when a date took her to the opera, “Aria Code” presents a mesmerizing appreciation of these powerful solo performances brimming with universal feelings. Podcasts About Beyoncé, Arias and Health Care: Worth a Listen 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

So while “Belfast” is, in one sense, a deeply personal coming-of-age tale, it’s also a more universal story of displacement and detachment, located most powerfully in Balfe’s fierce, shining performance. ‘Belfast’ Review: A Boy’s Life 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

“But if everybody adopted the same tactics, the eventual result would be universal impoverishment and unemployment.” Books of The Times: ?Grand Pursuit? by Sylvia Nasar - Review 2011-12-01T22:20:40Z

In September the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, warned that antimicrobial resistance was a “fundamental threat” to global health that risked making high quality universal healthcare impossible. Bill Gates: world faces decade at risk from antibiotic-resistant bugs 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

So let's hope that instead of throwing dangerous objects at James, Cleveland fans will simply shower him with the universal sound of derision. LeBron James Returns to Cleveland with Miami: Why Fans Boo 2010-12-14T05:15:00Z

White’s art takes black life as a universal subject, while America has resolutely insisted that the Venn diagram of black life overlaps only in places with the larger trajectory of American culture. Review | Charles White, who made some of this country’s greatest art, transcends labels 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

It does make one play this music differently, thinking of a universal burden, rather than applying one’s own emotion to it. Does the Pressure of a Pandemic Transform a Cellist’s Bach? 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

It says something that when I finished The Circle, I felt a heightened awareness of social media and the way it’s remaking our world into a living hell of constant and universal mutual observation. Dave Eggers’ Scathing Attack on Social Media 2013-10-02T09:45:19Z

One of the things I think is now universal, but maybe I’m wrong, is that it’s now inappropriate to say hi to a stranger on the street. Dating after #MeToo: I've had a lot of sex out of politeness. How do I say no? 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

"Interview With the Vampire" was heavily influenced by the 1936 universal horror film "Dracula's Daughter" . 11 facts about Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire" 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

“In the past, I would shade it in a way that would try to make it a little bit more universal. But all these things really did happen.” Aoife O’Donovan’s Songs Poured Out When Touring Shut Down 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

It was the moment women realized this thing they were doing in private was, in fact, universal. Analysis | ‘I’ll have what she’s having’: How that scene from ‘When Harry Met Sally...’ changed the way we talk about sex 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

The company embraces what it calls “Shakespeare’s staging conditions,” including minimal scenery on a mostly bare platform and “universal lighting” that reveals the auditorium as well as the actors. Review: A Pandemic ‘Othello,’ Socially and Otherwise Distant 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

On screen they’ll try to take stories awash in rarity and peculiarity and imbue them with the universal. Film: Animators Amok in a Curiosity Cabinet 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z

Van Hove’s troupe translated the quest for political domination into a universal language as timeless as it was modern. Notes on a truly Shakespearean year: An enlightened boldness brings out the best in the Bard 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

But when Sui was a kid, American culture was narrowly defined and suburbia was the universal dream. Anna Sui was ahead of her time. Now fashion is taking inspiration from her glorious escapism. 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z

It's a universal story – it speaks about peer pressure to be violent. Viggo Mortensen interview: 'If I think a film's beyond me – that's a good sign' 2013-05-28T18:30:01Z

The subways of New York may be clean, but the language they once bore is universal now. ‘Subway Art’ review: A lush new edition of the NYC graffiti bible 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Such a very public naming of the dead, an annunciation of our universal mortality, would be an act of revelation in the Anglo-Saxon world. Why the Irish get death right 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

“You forget the sense of time and place. The photos become universal images, which resonates in Amsterdam. We are so well-known for our own red-light district.” Photography: Rare Glimpses of Iran’s Lost Underworld 2014-03-20T14:32:28Z

"Her respect for other people was universal and deep and entirely genuine." Ruth Cavin, editor of mysteries, dies at age 92 2011-01-10T15:57:09Z

Pope Francis called for a “spirit of justice” to ensure universal access to vaccines and a temporary suspension of intellectual property rights. What to expect from the star-studded Vax Live fundraiser 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

His unhelpful remarks on self-­deporting immigrants and the freeloading 47 percent beclouded the sunny sources of what his supporters saw as his universal appeal — his “compassion” and “thoughtfulness,” his gloriously solid “40-year marriage.” What Do This Season’s Political Books Tell Us About the Election? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Most white directors make movies about white people, whose stories are framed as universal. Hollywood, Separate and Unequal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

“It’s a fictional story about a universal and timeless process of asking questions and seeking answers,” said Will Daugherty, president and CEO of Pacific Science Center. There’s a new mystery to solve at the Pacific Science Center’s Sherlock Holmes exhibit 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Tonally ambitious and tantalizingly opaque, "The Leftovers" takes the universal trauma of loss and launches it globally. TV Picks: 'The Leftovers,' 'Girl Meets World' and '24: Live Another Day' 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

“Venus on the Half-Shell” is about the accidental destruction of the earth by incompetent universal bureaucrats, and the attempt by the sole surviving human being to seek answers to the so-called Ultimate Question. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

“It’s really entertaining compared to other sitcoms, and it addresses universal issues,” Ms. Konus, 29, said by telephone from her home in Monterey, Calif. “The themes, if you ask me, speak to everyone.” How ‘Friends’ Helps People Around the World Learn English 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z

This category is Adele’s to lose, mainly because each of the other artists is much less universal in their appeal, and will split votes. Grammys: 5 races to watch -- besides Adele's 2012-02-12T18:29:00Z

Meanwhile, the movie’s experienced publicity team said it had never witnessed such universal can’t-cope-with-that rejection from members of the media at Sundance, who left some empty seats at the screening. Unflinching End-of-Life Moments 2011-01-24T22:53:04Z

Which is, I think, a completely universal feeling, and one that's embarrassing for all sorts of reasons. Miranda July faces "The Future" 2011-07-27T00:30:00Z

The themes are so universal - what would you do for your family? All My Sons tour marks Miller centenary 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

I would also talk about how suffering is a universal language. No, Democrats aren’t launching a civil war on July 4. But could it happen here again? 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Spain charts Summary Spain offers free, universal healthcare to anyone resident, legally or illegally, in the country, as well as to tourists and other visitors. Which country has the world's best healthcare system? 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

The quintet, led by vocal powerhouse Brittany Howard, played numerous sets to nearly universal acclaim. SXSW 2012: It's a wrap 2012-03-18T19:19:00Z

The other school denied such universals in favor of what it saw as a distasteful truth: People in all places and at all times strive for power. The Book That Shaped Foreign Policy for a Generation Has More to Say 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z

The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday to Louise Glück, one of America’s most celebrated poets, for writing “that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ninagawa said in the production notes to “Medea” that his goal was “to create a universal theater beyond the limits of age, nationality, language, customs and habits.” Yukio Ninagawa, 80, Who Directed Avant-Garde Productions of Classics, Dies 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

But what has translated well are the values the movie enshrined as a universal artistic credo: the bohemian ideals of freedom and beauty. Review | Will you love ‘Moulin Rouge!’ as a stage musical? Well, you’ll certainly fall in like. 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

I realised there is a universal youth culture. Haifaa al-Mansour: 'It's very important to celebrate resistance' 2013-07-13T23:05:04Z

“Yet the people who write to her are quite impassioned. There’s something universal about what she’s writing about, the ideas and the experience, that becomes equalizing.” Gretchen Rubin actually appears to have it all. But is that the kind of happiness guru we want? 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

A repairman patches holes in the floor with cement, while a painter rollers the walls a universal shade of art-world white. What happens when two artists move into an unfinished museum for 10 days of 'Performance Lessons' 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

Like I said, there was just a universal kindness and warmth to the whole experience. Conan O'Brien's history-making Cuba mission: 'Make them laugh' 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

Central is a long and fascinating discussion of the role of the intellectual in France, contrasting Sartre's "universal vocation" with Foucault's "local struggles", and sneering at the emerging nouveaux philosophes. Non-fiction reviews roundup 2012-06-29T07:00:01Z

He wants “Manor of Speaking” to have both universal appeal and Texas flavor, he said. Texas Monthly : Let’s Talk a Bit More About Bates and Anna 2014-02-23T03:54:32Z

It deals with universal things in a universal way. How an 80-Minute Polish Film in Black and White Became a Breakout Hit 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

“Deli’s a universal sort of food. It’s not just for New York Jews.” The Jewish deli is having a moment in places where you’d least expect it 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

As a scholar, Dr. Stern sought to answer what he described as a “burning question”: “Why and how did the universal human potential for evil become an actuality in Germany?” Fritz Stern, refugee and leading historian of Germany, dies at 90 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

But perhaps the most poignant of Zweig’s illusions was his ideal of a universal European citizenship. Song of exile 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

But Luna insists that, despite the Mexican point of view, all the subjects broached are truly universal. ‘I've benefited from a racist system’: Diego Luna on Amazon's Pan y Circo 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

Whether focusing on injustice or universal loneliness, here, one makes a political point. Antjie Krog: Should Should power listen to poetry?| World Writers Conference 2012-09-26T09:47:23Z

Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Carole King's Tapestry is one of those rare albums that has achieved universal recognition. Christine Tobin weaves a new Tapestry 2010-06-24T22:30:00Z

The pledge comes mostly from left-leaning Americans who view Canada, with its universal health care and cultural progressiveness, as a liberal refuge from Red State America. Canada Would Welcome Election Losers 2012-11-05T16:26:43Z

Mixing high school comedy and magic realism, American pop and African djembe drums, she suggests a world filled with piquant specifics yet one that remains, in essence, universal in place and time. Review: Beauty, Blackness and Beyoncé, in ‘If Pretty Hurts’ 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

The book advocates, in its way, for universal access to health care as a cure not only for physical suffering and injustices in the system but also for the misery of physicians. “The House of God,” a Book as Sexist as It Was Influential, Gets a Sequel 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

“We love stories about identity and acceptance because they’re so universal,” Ms. Savage said, sitting with Mr. Schwartz in their offices on the Paramount lot. Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage Make Films for Paramount 2012-02-01T23:10:23Z

It's also the universal anticipation of that impatient first bite, knowing full well you'll burn your mouth. Kimchi jjigae is one of Beverly Kim's all-time favorite soups: It "hits the core of your soul" 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

Which is a good thing, because "Madam Secretary" has more universal ambitions than "Primary Colors II: Hillary Rises." 'Madam Secretary' Tea Leoni's nomination is heartily confirmed 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

The ad is at once tender and agonizing, intimate and universal, anxious and peaceful. Perspective | Why a pro-abortion-rights candidate ran an ad where she gives birth 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

A steady diet of soup is not guaranteed to inspire famous art, but its appeal is universal. ‘Good soup is one of the prime ingredients of good living’: a (condensed) history of soup 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z

And universal, rather than tied to any particular facts of geography and history. Review: Sorrentino’s ‘Youth’: A Euro Buddy Film 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The “Tory” label is often applied, which badly downplays the power and universal appeal of his work. A Portrait of the Artist as a Droll Slacker 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

It was a type of painting for anyone and everyone, universal in that way. Kerry James Marshall’s Paintings Show What It Means to Be Black in America 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Being a teenager is such a universal experience — either you are one or you were one. Let’s talk about ‘Sex Education’ — and all the bad info we got as teens 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Having achieved grudging universal respect for her business achievements, Stewart is now getting the celebration underway. Martha Stewart's Performance at the Justin Bieber Roast Was Worth Celebrating 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

So, there is a sense there’s something unsettled in the air, the shifting of borders, the obsession with nation over universal good. Q&A: Sam Mendes on making ‘1917’ in one long take 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

Auden — who himself aspired to be “a minor Atlantic Goethe” — championed this “last universal genius” in several characteristically brilliant essays. A new look at Goethe, a one-time cultural celebrity 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

She suggests recruiting “alloparents” to help with child care, but doesn’t mention that America lacks not just universal health care, but national paid maternity leave, day care and preschool. How Do Maya Parents Handle Temper Tantrums? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Doyle often used his Catholicism to explore the human and natural worlds, but this is perhaps the most generous, universal “religious writing” you’ll ever read. Review | The best books to read — and gift — in December 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

“The Killing of a Sacred Deer” won the best screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival in May, but it isn’t the type of film that’s destined for universal approval. Yorgos Lanthimos totally gets that you might hate his movies. He's fine with that. 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

Gooding arguably transcended racial boundaries in his pursuit of universal recognition, but he also missed opportunities. Cuba Gooding Jr: ‘I had 10 years in the wilderness’ 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

For the next ten months, a series of comic book–esque speech bubbles will hang overhead from various lampposts along the MetroTech Promenade, espousing “universal statements about truth” with the hopes of sparking conversation. Hank Willis Thomas’s New Installation About Truth Pops Up in Downtown Brooklyn 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

The universal success of the King James version in England had to wait for the restoration of the monarchy, and its spread across the world for Britain's great imperial advance. The King James Bible reconsidered 2011-02-19T00:06:00Z

The Woman Upstairs is both quieter and braver; it roars in its own muted way, and dares to pin down things that are both excruciating and universal. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud – review 2013-05-17T09:00:02Z

There's much more choice now and the Oscars are no longer a universal "everybody gather 'round" event. Oscars Show Growing Gap Between Moviegoers and Academy 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

In portraying this tale of civic and private wills at loggerheads, Mr. van Hove’s “Antigone” unfolds with the clinical detachment of a professor of anatomy cutting into a universal cadaver. Review: In ‘Antigone’ at BAM, Agony and Despair in Inexorable Motion 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

A universal basic income could, they argue, protect the increasing numbers working in an insecure labour market and moving between zero-hours contracts and part-time jobs. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

We’re often told that music is a universal language, crossing cultural, ethnic and linguistic boundaries. Music is a universal language. It doesn’t sound the way you might think.   2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

“It’s a more universal story than I think people are expecting,” the director told Reuters at the world premiere in London. 'Alita: Battle Angel' movie finally arrives after years in the making 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

The season saw critics and audiences in almost universal agreement over what to avoid with the biggest flops virtually all carrying with them a rotten rating. Summer box office 2019: what are the major lessons of the season? 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

His lyrics, stream-of-consciousness evocations of the Pacific Northwest, are both universal and personal, evoking a mountainous land where "there's no end, there's no glory, there's a slow resounding story". Hidden treasures: The Microphones – The Glow Pt 2 2013-03-12T15:45:19Z

Part of the film’s greatness is that while it is universal, it is also very specific to black male bodies and what they look like to one another as objects of fantasy. The Black/White Oscars Moment That Really Hit Me Last Night 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

If you were Jung you would identify certain primordial and universal motifs at work in the story. Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest by Amos Oz | Book review 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z

This network, he believed, would facilitate the creation of a universal human consciousness that and would form “a gateway to collective enlightenment.” Books to Watch Out For: June 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

And watching this embodied in the guises of actors from divergent cultures adds to the feeling that Kafkaesque nightmares are universal. Review | Binational playmaking takes exuberant, revealing form in the Russian-American ‘Flash Acts’ 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

“I wanted it to be culturally specific, but with universal themes. But this new work is not about being universal.” A Storytelling Choreographer Who Listens to Her Audience 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

And, apparently, the Gawker ideology that all “smarm” was to be cut through with cutting snark was universal and uncompromising, in response to offenses as minor as having a writing job while being insufficiently entertaining. When the absolute right to snark turns sour: A Gawker believer reconsiders the manifesto he once held dear 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

"It's a universal story about a young girl wanting to achieve her dream," Bonner said Friday from Toronto. Romantic comedy gets twist with NKorean acrobats 2012-09-07T16:55:10Z

In an interview in 1969, Mr. Smith said, “As far as I know, the string figures are the only universal thing other than singing.” Object Lessons: The New Museum Explores Why We Keep Things 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Hughes accesses the universal — how all of us love and dream and laugh and cry — by staying faithful to the particulars of his characters and their way of life. How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

His songs handle emotions complex and universal, from his life and others. Summertime, and the living is uneasy for Jason Isbell 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

There, a branching orb traces 460 species, including humans, back to the last universal common ancestor, or LUCA, a small single-celled organism thought to be the common origin of all current life on earth. European Museums Get Adventurous With Virtual Reality 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

On top of the universal propensity to laugh at those in power over us, cartoons add something else: the capacity to capture someone's likeness, recreate them through caricature, and thereby take control of them. Scarfe's Netanyahu cartoon was offensive? Hurrah 2013-01-29T18:30:02Z

As explained on the museum’s website, narrative art “tells a story. It uses the power of the visual image to ignite imaginations, evoke emotions and capture universal cultural truths and aspirations.” What we know about George Lucas' art collection and what we'll see in his museum 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

According to Reich, a universal basic income “will almost certainly be part of the answer”. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

“That is the universal nature of ‘The Snowy Day.’” ‘The Snowy Day,’ a Children’s Classic, Becomes an Opera 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

It’s just exhausting that this continues to be such a universal drag on female leadership. In ‘Year of Yes,’ Shonda Rhimes shares tips from her own enlightenment 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

Highly specific to the landmarks of the real Ashaway, but ringing with the universal, “Ocean State” is a map for the emotional dead ends of America, where kids kill other kids over seemingly nothing. A Thriller Wrapped in a Story of Sisters and First Love 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

He talks about traumatic dreams, erotic dreams, dreams about people we have lost and the universal dream of anxiety, when you’re suddenly confronted with a test for which you haven’t studied. The History of Dreams, From Greek Mythology to Last Night’s Sleep 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

Cameron said the universal message of the show was the importance of play. From Asia to Africa, 'Sesame Street' special tackles coronavirus pandemic 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

As Garner says, “There’s almost a universal rule that any two words that resemble each other in some way will be confounded.” 5 Common Words That Used to Be Totally Unacceptable 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

But Tuesday’s arguments may signal trouble for the unprecedented insurance mandate, widely seen as a cornerstone of the law’s program for achieving universal health coverage for the first time in the nation’s history. Possible trouble ahead for insurance mandate 2012-03-27T15:20:00Z

For decades the book was a universal rite of passage for adolescents, the manifesto of disenchanted youth. 2010-01-28T21:05:00Z

“We look at it like we tapped into something deep and universal and profound,” Chris Wink, one of the original Blue Men, said. How Blue Turned to Green: Blue Man Group at 25 Years 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

The genius of this show is how it uses its high-concept–so to speak–premise to get at something universal. REVIEW: High Maintenance Deserves Its Buzz 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

“The regional is universal,” she declared, stressing the importance of local writers and literature. Sun, Sea and Books Make This Festival an Enticing Destination 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

"I think there's some sort of universal lesson to be learned about accepting or embracing other people or other families and just seeing us as any other family," Shattuck said. Filmmaker reveals family's struggles, triumphs with transgender parent 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

The core message — love is universal, and all the more crucial in a difficult time — seems likely to resonate elsewhere on Mr. Legend’s next album, “Darkness and Light,” due on Dec. 2. The Playlist: The xx Return in a Brighter Mood 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Their potency arises from our recognition of this universal urge, conscious or not. Two-Character Plays Are Highlights of Theater Season 2010-05-08T02:40:00Z

The international audiences took to it: “ ‘Grease’ seems to be universal,” she says. Locally grown ‘Evita’ star travels the long road to the Kennedy Center

But his seemingly universal appeal may be his gift for making the music seem to spring to life unmediated. For Many, Opera and Puccini Are One (Trump’s Campaign Knows the Appeal) 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

The show's universal appeal is its pitch-perfect comic takes on predictable travel behavior, from impatience with slow-moving vehicles to Dad's exasperated threats to Pull This Car Over Right Now. 'Leaving Iowa': A slightly different take on father-son bonding 2012-05-31T20:23:12Z

After being brought low, Affleck’s persona has been infused with a humanizing appeal, as the sad Ben Affleck figure conveys a universal angst spiked with a strangely appealing emasculation. When the Master of the Erotic Thriller Fails to Thrill 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

This is obviously a universal truth, but also kind of my universal truth? It's nostalgic to watch amateur cooks tackle Julia Child's oeuvre—but this "challenge" also irks me 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

Storey's diagnosis – what Wu prefers to call late onset hypogonadism "is not inevitable or universal like the female menopause," he insists. Is there a male menopause? 2010-09-28T05:59:00Z

In addition to universal health coverage and an ambitious climate plan, she espouses a Department of Peace and an overhaul of the criminal justice system that would involve releasing prisoners en masse. Marianne Williamson’s fans made her the ‘orb queen’ of the 2020 campaign 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

Which, in the end, is a much more universal message. Eve L. Ewing Adds a Dash of Black Girl Magic to STEM-Based Learning 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

Knowing some Catalan or at least Spanish is helpful in decoding menus, because English translations and English-speaking servers are not universal. Overnighter: Near Barcelona, Gems From Ancient Rome 2011-06-03T19:03:42Z

Most actors are very courageous people, and my experience is their commitment increases when it becomes clear that the show is not going to get universal approval. Drama as Protest: ‘Our Complacency Is Dangerous’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Rather, he means a methodological commitment to a “self-awareness that your own terms of analysis, understanding and judgment are not universal and cannot be taken for granted.” Should Anthropologists Judge the People They Study? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

What do you think makes your story universal? "The Persian Version" director on creating a film that is "playful in terms of sexuality" 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z

Like “Three Identical Strangers,” Glaser tells a singular story to illuminate a universal truth. Adoption Used to Be Hush-Hush. This Book Amplifies the Human Toll. 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

By having the industrious Parisian university copyists produce his version, Langton could insure that its adoption would be as quick and as universal as possible. The Chapter: A History 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

Or perhaps I’m interested in the place where universal experiences intersect with the particulars of a given cultural moment. Tessa Hadley on Teen-Age Losses of Innocence 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

“We’re imperfect people striving to find strength, solidarity and love, under extraordinary circumstances. While it may seem heroic, I believe the desire to live with purpose, despite the circumstances in one’s life, is universal.” In ‘Gleason,’ filmmaker Clay Tweel follows an unintentional hero’s journey 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

The British say the marbles were legally acquired and are best shown alongside other artifacts in a universal museum, while the Greeks view them as looted treasures that are a foundation of their national heritage. After 220 Years, the Fate of the Parthenon Marbles Rests in Secret Talks 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

Many airlines allow parents traveling with children to board early in the process though this is not as universal as it used to be. How to Travel With a Young Child for the First Time 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

Hereditary received universal praise this year with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with many tipping it to be a breakout hit this summer. Hereditary trailer: will this be the year's scariest movie? 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

He partnered with thredUP after creating the universal logo for thrift, in the shape of a coat hanger. Christian Siriano offers mountain glam for 2nd pandemic show 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

The dynamics at work between fathers and their adult children may be heightened by station, but they are universal. With age, the wisdom of staging 'Lear' becomes less clear 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

Near the end of the set he played “Wish You the Best,” a song that is the logical inheritor of “Someone You Loved” — cataclysmically depressing, but somehow triumphant and engineered for universal acclamation. Lewis Capaldi Will Break Your Heart. (But Don’t Take Him Too Seriously.) 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z

And yet people from any ethnic background can find it relatable, as it hits on important universal themes such as family and love. The American Latino Experience: 20 Essential Films Since 2000 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

The filmmakers didn't need to modernize the text by adding television sets and tanks; the universal, timeless nature of the conflict is clear. 'Coriolanus': Brutal, modern take on Shakespeare's war drama 2012-02-02T21:06:04Z

The movie is a universal story of family, and how complicated familial ties can be; it's a universal story of grief, and how the ones we love never really leave us. "Shang-Chi" is an unapologetically Asian triumph about an unapologetically Asian superhero 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

While village life may not be a universal experience, most modern civilizations have histories rooted in agriculture. “Marriage is an uncut watermelon”: How translation brought my native language to life 2014-03-21T22:58:00Z

King silently smothered beneath what must have seemed to him an almost universal condemnation. The “macroethics” of Martin Luther King Jr.: When he spoke out against the Vietnam War even his supporters deserted him — here’s how he endured 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

It’s a profound, uniquely intimate portrait of the universal process of letting go. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

It was while studying plein-air painting at an academy there that she experienced a kind of mathematical revelation, seeing the landscape as a set of universal principles. Art Review: From Theorems and Numbers, the Geometry of a Diverse Career 2011-07-21T22:35:53Z

That's also a good sign, that Polish art is beginning to emerge from its hermetically sealed space, and our problems are at last starting to be less inward-looking, and more universal. Poland's artists now speak to the world 2011-04-04T21:00:00Z

Bill Clinton’s 1993 proposal for universal health care revolved around an idea called “managed competition,” based on the work of a group of academics and industry figures called the Jackson Hole Group. The Tortuous Conservative History of the Individual Mandate 2012-02-07T20:32:34Z

Young’s book releases a universal shout — political in the best, most visceral way, critical, angry, squinting hard at this culture — while remaining at the same time deeply and lovingly personal. A Poetry Collection That Squints Hard at the Culture, in Pain and in Joy 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

But some of that industry’s figures believe more universal narratives can be mined. Television: ‘The Newsroom,’ Aaron Sorkin’s Return to TV 2012-06-06T13:37:35Z

“Mama” is a universal word, describing the woman who gave us the most cherished love in our most vulnerable state. Why all babies say “mama” 2013-05-13T16:16:00Z

Bad English - "the sort of universal lingua-anglica which is not proper English and which invades French through all sorts of expressions which are unnecessary," he said. New guardian of French tongue is (gasp!) British 2013-04-04T13:50:15Z

Mr. Wheeler’s white room may be a preview of the universal divine light into which each of us will merge, according to some mystics, when we die. Art In Review: Doug Wheeler?s Futuristic Installation at David Zwirner 2012-01-26T23:23:33Z

The specific details of Mr. Suh’s installations serve only to make them more universal. For This Korean Artist, Memories Are a Medium 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z