“The New York City public schools of the 1940s were considered the best schools in the country,” says Diane Ravitch, a professor at New York University who has written widely on the city’s educational history. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Similarly, America's emergence as the dominant world power in the 1940s could never have occurred if the United States had not established stable national institutions at the start that permitted the consolidation of the continent. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

FBI agent Robert Lamphere in the 1940s, when he was the Bureau's top spy hunter. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

By the early 1940s, biochemists had broken cells apart to reveal their chemical constituents and identified various molecules in living systems—but the molecule that carried the code of heredity was still unknown. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s, space research was deemed a little too far out to warrant systematic consideration and development. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

This dynamic had defeated the striking black tobacco workers in Winston-Salem in the 1940s. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the late 1940s, margarine was not very popular. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

On the surface, the warmth of their friendship endured well into the 1940s, surviving the kinds of changes in personal lives and careers that can drive a rift between the closest of friends. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s, thousands of African Americans left the region as part of the Great Migration and headed mostly to the Midwest and West Coast for jobs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The FBI had begun laying the groundwork for the case in the late 1940s, interrogating Langley employees about their knowledge of Perl and his possible conspirators. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Constructed in the 1920s, the building was renovated into a cavernous courthouse in the 1940s, complete with marble floors and an impressive domed ceiling. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The first thing I remember about being a person living in Little Rock, Arkansas, during the 1940s is the gut-wrenching fear in my heart and in my tummy that I was in danger. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the late 1940s no one altogether understood why this should be. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Unlike much else composed in the 1940s, it is still popular and regularly performed both in the theatre and on the concert stage today. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The theory, incidentally, is almost always presented as a recent one, but in fact it was first proposed in the 1940s by Reginald Daly of Harvard. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It’s the late 1940s and she hasn’t yet reached the age of thirty. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In our day and age, you might give a cop-out excuse like "The heart wants what it wants," but keep in mind this was Iran in the 1940s. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s, Agloe, New York, began appearing on maps created by other companies. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even way back in the 1940s, those codebreakers had had early versions of computers to help them. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Antique furniture, the kind I’d seen in films from the 1940s, was positioned around the room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It’s a political cartoon strip from the 1940s. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He reexperienced his gambling mania and his feelings of uselessness after retiring, but this soon passed because it was the 1940s and he was running the bar and grill again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the late 1940s, the United States had no spies in the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Libby’s research began in the global scientific race during the 1930s and 1940s to understand cosmic rays, the mysterious, ultrahigh- velocity subatomic particles that continually rain onto the earth from outer space. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the hush-hush 1940s, such a public display of mental illness would have spelled the end of Blanche’s career at Langley, even if she had been able to recover from the episode. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Back in the 1940s, there were over a hundred thousand kilometers of road in the country. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He went to New York City public schools in the 1940s, then to City College in upper Manhattan, and then to New York University Law School. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Mommy has changed, changed from the time she adopted Christianity back in the 1940s. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the late 1940s, a new kind of conflict cast a chill over Europe and, eventually, the entire world: the Cold War. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The southern California drive-in restaurants of the early 1940s tended to be gaudy and round, topped with pylons, towers, and flashing signs. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

But if Hazel was a kid from the past, did that mean Sammy was from the 1940s? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

From the days of Elizabeth Sobek in the 1940s, through my father’s work, up until right now with Ashley, that was what they did—rescued, protected, and sheltered the young. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

When the humorist James Thurber was writing for New Yorker editor Harold Ross in the 1930s and 1940s, the two men often had very strong words about commas. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

In the 1930s and early 1940s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt began to roll out the New Deal—a massive public works and investment program designed to lift the nation out of a severe depression. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t deny that there is truth in this, but it hardly explains why Merton found the same virtues being admired by scientists in the 1940s as were admired by scientists in the 1660s. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a black dress, gloves, and a black veiled hat like a star from an old 1940s movie. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It seems fitting that Frances Moody, who crossed the line and made a Jewish friend in the 1940s when Jews were unpopular in Suffolk, had married an Italian, Nick Falcone, a wood artisan. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s, Dobzhansky would attack these questions directly: he would eventually become one of the most strident scientific critics of Nazi eugenics, Soviet collectivization, and European racism. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When three West Computers made the leap in the late 1940s to Cascade Aerodynamics, a group that studied the aerodynamics of propellers, turbines, and other rotating bodies, it caused a commotion. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

By the late 1940s, Monod had discovered that the kink was the result of a metabolic readjustment. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

This book is about my experiences as a black child growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the 1940s and '50s under the umbrella of the rules and traditions of my oppressors. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sure, he liked military history, weapons, and biplanes, but he also loved old films, especially romantic comedies from the 1940s and ’50s. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But in fact, Gey’s history indicates that he wasn’t particularly interested in science for profit: in the early 1940s he’d turned down a request to create and run the first commercial cell-culture lab. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He’d been a young man in the 1940s when he first joined the African National Congress and began boldly challenging the all-white South African government and its entrenched racist policies. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Change was in the air in the 1940s. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And in the 1940s, before we got into it, what made every Southerner read his newspaper and listen to newscasts with a special kind of horror? Tribal feelin’, honey, at the bottom of it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He was also a kid from the 1940s. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

By the end of the 1940s the McDonald brothers had grown dissatisfied with the drive-in business. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Not even touching that one,” Lydia said in the 1940s voice. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s, the condition was not well understood, and the doctors at Walter Reed did not recognize it in William. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

This frantic, somersaulting style turned within a few years into bebop, the elite modern jazz of the late 1940s and ’50s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If you were young in the 1940s, this Christian was your Messiah. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He went to New York City public schools in the 1940s, then to New York University, and then to New York University Law School. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

McCarthy was an egotistical man who regarded the fear of Communism that arose in the late 1940s and 1950s as the opportunity to gain what he most desperately wanted: power and publicity. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I had first met him in the late 1940s when he was a member of the Natives Representative Council. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel had no memory of the place from the 1940s, but the food smelled amazing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She’d died in the 1940s and been brought back to life only a few months ago. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The first experiments on reproductive incompatibility and species formation were carried out before the selection experiments, but Dobzhansky and his students continued to work on both problems in the 1940s and 50s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Black women replaced them, accounting for 60 percent of all domestics in the 1940s, and dominated the field until other occupations began to open up to them. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s and 1950s, Avery, Watson, and Crick identified DNA as the gene molecule, and described its structure as a double helix—thereby bringing the anatomical conception of the gene to its natural culmination. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Since the 1940s, the United States had kept a draft in place, requiring all men ages eighteen to twenty-four to register for military service. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Only Hazel seemed scandalized, maybe because she was from the 1940s. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Herrmann earned a nomination for his score, and he went on to provide music for dozens of movies from the 1940s through the 1970s. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Farmville, the town that Dorothy left behind in the 1940s, had become in the 1950s a microcosm of Americas struggle over integration in its public schools. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In the late 1930s and 1940s, security was so tight that “you just hoped and prayed you wouldn’t have to know what you didn’t want to know.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He went to New York City public schools in the 1940s, then to City College in upper Manhattan, and then to New York University Law School. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He had moved to Berkeley in the 1940s, briefly joining scientists to separate and purify isotopes for the Manhattan Project. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

At Harvard, in the late 1940s, he never took notes. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

By the 1940s, several studies —one of them conducted by Howard Jones, Henrietta’s physician—showed that radium was safer and more effective than surgery for treating invasive cervical cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The truth is, though, that from the 1940s until the 1990s, film composers tended to be a different breed from concert hall composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was hard to live through the early 1940s in France and not have the war be the center from which the rest of your life spiraled. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Back when they had been installed in the 1940s—over thirty years after the house itself had been built in 1909—the intercoms had probably all worked. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For several months in the early 1940s, it actually was my home when I had no other place to stay. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1940s, the United States managed to intercept a mountain of cable telegram traffic from Soviet embassies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s and 1950s, the old-line law firms of New York operated like a private club. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The Red scares and Communist hysteria of the late 1940s and early 1950s destroyed reputations, lives, and livelihoods, as Matilda West’s situation proved. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Imagine if civil rights organizations and African American leaders in the 1940s had not placed Jim Crow segregation at the forefront of their racial justice agenda. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But if the Ku Klux Klan of the 1940s wasn’t uniformly violent, what was it? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She’s just opened a box that, to her delight, looks easy to dispose of—dozens of dusty store ledgers from the 1940s and ’50s. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Main Gate of the Los Alamos campus in the early 1940s. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spent hours questioning Pearl Young, who had left the agency in the late 1940s for a job teaching physics at Penn State. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s, Arthur had fought with the Palmach, the military wing of the Jewish National Movement in Palestine. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the 1940s, the fog hid what those sailors did from their fellow citizens. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s, he rejected communism and rediscovered his religious beliefs. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Davis was part of a wave of women who broke codes in the late 1930s and 1940s. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“My grandfather bought that watch in the 1940s,” Mr. Julian says. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mom licks her lips and says, “Between the 1940s and 1970s, about one-third of Native children were separated from their families. Until Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

If you were interested in finding out the ages of things, the University of Chicago in the 1940s was the place to be. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

That idea escalates to its macabre zenith in Nazi Germany in the 1940s, where human eugenics is used to justify grotesque experiments, culminating in confinement, sterilization, euthanasia, and mass murder. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes highlighted are hands and items that didn’t exist in the 1940s, including a laptop. Review | In the galleries: Artists talk through their hats 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

It is something else to learn that in the 1940s — her first decade in New York — she made more than 100 paintings. Louise Bourgeois, Celebrated Sculptor, Unsung Painter 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

One room is a 1940s Russian parlour; another is filled with the contents of a Berlin sex shop. Inside Dau, the 'Stalinist Truman Show': 'I had absolute freedom – until the KGB grabbed me' 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

The 1940s, she said, were “an incredibly important decade for the artist.” Clinton? Trump? Rockwell Voter Painting May Bring Many Washingtons 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

He was offered a seven-year contract with Twentieth Century Fox and secured several lead roles in the 1940s, including Napoleon in The Young Mr Pitt. Herbert Lom, Panther star, dies 2012-09-27T11:55:38Z

The eight-to-12-pound turkeys saw brief success in the 1940s and 1950s after being developed to meet the demand of smaller families, refrigerators and ovens, but were nearly extinct by the 1970s. Heritage turkey breeders preserve Thanksgiving bird tradition 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

This 1940s pharaonic-style building is home to artifacts spanning Lebanon's long history, including the sarcophagus of Ahiram, King of Byblos, on which is inscribed the first known Phoenician alphabet — the prototype of modern Western versions. Five Reasons to Visit Beirut 2011-10-27T12:40:00Z

The production made abundant use of video for its tale of 1940s horror — including movies starring the real-life starlet Acquanetta, née Mildred Davenport — so an online presence feels like a natural extension. Fire Up Your Laptop: A Curated Guide to Theater Now Online 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

Matisse began to make vibrant works from cut paper in the 1940s. 'Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs' at MoMA follows artist's paper trail 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

Her caramel-colored leather jacket was modeled after 1940s styles plucked from costume houses for inspiration. 'Hunger Games' fashions come to fiery life 2012-03-21T00:41:50Z

When John De Fries’s mother was in high school in the 1940s, she was forbidden from dancing the hula and speaking Hawaiian, the language of her ancestors. In Hawaii, the Search for Sustainable Tourism 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

Dating information on the label was no longer legible, but Jeff Joseph, the collector who brought it, and others who knew far more about Chartreuse than I, estimated it was from the late 1940s. From 2018, Indelible Messages From the Past 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Harlem in the 1920s New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century Chicago in the 1940s Soho in the 1950s Which of these is a children's book co-written with her son Slade? Toni Morrison at 80 - quiz 2011-02-22T16:45:10Z

Born in Detroit, Johnson came up in the avant-garde world of American art in the 1940s and ’50s. Ray Johnson’s Camera Was Disposable. The Photos Are Unforgettable. 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

By the 1940s, the association had opened over a hundred children’s theaters in cities across America, from Portland to Chicago to Nashville. Out of the Spotlight, Still a Star: The ‘Backstage Diva’ 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

He grew up watching the westerns and musicals of the 1940s and set his sights on becoming a director, though at his father’s urging he studied accounting for a time. Mike Hodges, Director Acclaimed for ‘Get Carter,’ Dies at 90 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

Starting Monday, its kid-targeted Radio Disney network will air a scripted serial called "My Dream," a contemporary story on a format reminiscent of the 1940s, before TV was pervasive. Radio Disney to air scripted serial 2010-06-29T01:06:00Z

It was opened in the late 1940s on property that once belonged to the McInerny family of traders. What to Do in Honolulu 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

A West Virginia barber shop disgorged one of the fair’s more eye-popping specimens, a 1940s dresser and shelf at the Carl Hammer Gallery. Browsing at Metro Curates and the Ceramics and Glass Fair 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

A lot of movies from the 1940s got turned into radio drama. Amazon's "Vast of Night" is a Richard Linklater, sci-fi, "All the President's Men" thriller mash-up 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

The inventive use of color evokes the work of Mary Blair, the Disney studio’s secret tint weapon from the 1940s to the ’60s. ‘Klaus’ Review: A Santa Origin Story 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

The batch of film I used here expired in 1976, while the camera, a Kodak Reflex II, was from the 1940s. Photographer Ziad Antar's best shot 2011-03-09T22:30:09Z

She and Mr. Fox said they became increasingly interested in the work of the New York Abstract Expressionists of the 1940s and 1950s, some of whom migrated to the East End of Long Island. In Comedy Couple’s Country House, the Art Competes With the Views 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

But the South of the 1940s cannot accommodate a woman who expresses these aptitudes overtly. | 'A Streetcar Named Desire': Small Space, Big Egos: Something Will Explode 2010-06-18T23:18:00Z

But the story Mr. Bram sets out to tell commences in the late 1940s. Books of The Times: Christopher Bram?s ?Eminent Outlaws,? on American Gay Writers 2012-02-02T22:57:21Z

In the late 1940s she persuaded Earl Tupper that his company would thrive if he'd let her take his wares straight to America's living rooms instead of letting them languish on retail shelves. Dixie Longate rings up laughs and sales in 'Dixie's Tupperware Party' 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z

Ms. Fellows continued making movies through the early 1940s, but by then she was no longer a child. Edith Fellows, a 1930s Child Star Trailed by Dickensian Woes, Dies at 88 2011-07-03T00:58:59Z

But in Jalisco, many dishes only dated back to the 1940s. How Maru Toledo is preserving Jalisco’s forgotten culinary history 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

The final one, “Truth Revealed,” looks back to 1940s swing and film music. Béla Fleck Joins the Knights at Pace University Show 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

The concept of Earth-Two allowed for parallel versions of DC’s heroes to have been active from their first appearances in the 1930s and 1940s — and for them to age accordingly. Batman and His Many Robins 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

In the 1930s, runaway brides ran amok with banter and high jinks; in the 1940s, femmes fatales did their men wrong with lipstick sneers and a bullet to the heart. Review: In ‘Girls Trip,’ Women Giddily Under the Influence 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

The heyday of Great Books clubs was in the late 1940s through 1950s. Vashon Great Books club one of oldest in U.S. 2011-10-10T15:48:57Z

Cornell’s greatest works —- the blue-hued Medici boxes from the 1940s, the palaces twinkling in European forests — were already completed by the time he stumbled upon Gris’s masterwork. These Shadow Boxes Are Striking. The Story of Their Origin Is, Too. 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

At the beginning of the exhibition, a panel entitled “Just Some of the Things Women Couldn’t Do in the 1930s and 1940s” reminds us what the world was once like for American women. A Filmmaker Reflects on Justice and the Woman Who Stood for It 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

He had all these giant steel desks from the 1940s that weighed a million pounds. Paper Magazine, the Oral History: ‘They Were Wide Open’ 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z

The world is more troubled now than during the battles between dictators of the 1930s and 1940s? Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century by Eric Hobsbawm – review 2013-03-31T08:00:06Z

The muse whispers into the ear of Caeneus, once an argonaut questing for the golden fleece, now second mate on a 1940s Danish merchant vessel schlepping paper pulp to Turkey. The Whispering Muse by Sjón – review 2012-06-22T21:55:06Z

His father taught Frankenthaler at Bennington College in the late 1940s. Perspective | Helen Frankenthaler came from wealth and privilege. Her art transcends that. 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

This important exhibition brings together almost 200 works from the 1940s to today to tell an island story.• Frieze, funfair photography and Haiti's story – the week in art 2012-10-12T11:27:31Z

From the late 1940s on he worked for Cruzeiro magazine, similar to Life or Look, first as a reporter and then also as a photographer. Arts & Leisure: ?Lula? Is Latest From the Barretos, Brazil?s Film Family 2012-01-18T13:00:00Z

It refers to the period from the late 1940s to the mid-60s when new information derived from computer science outstripped the technology available to alter the brain and other life processes. Review: Harry Dodge Meditates on Identity With ‘The Cybernetic Fold’ 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

At 17, in the segregated 1940s, Myers Brown got the bug to become a ballerina from a white teacher, Virginia Lingenfelder, and was the first and only Black student in Lingenfelder’s ballet club. Moving Over: A Powerhouse of Black Dance Is Retiring (Mostly) 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

For example, many de Kooning canvases from the 1940s — quasi-abstract paintings that are darker than much of what he’d done before and have an almost grotesque quality — have rarely been exhibited. De Kooning Retrospective Is to Open at MoMA 2011-09-13T17:57:51Z

“It wasn’t easy to become obese” in England in the 1940s, Gordon writes, when milk and butter were rationed. A Warm Biography of the Fantastical, Feminist Angela Carter 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

She tells it over and again, I believe, because it’s a memory that haunts her most: a job building bombs on an assembly line in a 1940s Delaware defense plant. Ailing, alone and 89. So how could Hilda Reynolds be joyous? 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

The American Red Cross created its civilian blood donation program in the 1940s. Want This Snoopy T-Shirt? You’ll Have to Pay in Blood. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Evelyn Waugh described Raymond Chandler in the late 1940s as the greatest living American novelist. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z

Music bloomed nearby -- just north of Motor Row was Record Row, the center of Chicago's recording industry between the late 1940s and the mid-1970s, once second only to New York City. Chicago celebrates music history in revived zone 2012-01-22T18:25:35Z

When I entered graduate school in theatre management and producing in the 1990s, we were required to read a series of books entitled Famous American Plays of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s etc. Other stories: why now is the time for a new movie canon – chosen by women 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

Alex Webb’s “Cafe Society Swing: A True Story,” a musical revue based on the 1940s jazz venue that became New York City’s first racially integrated nightclub, will follow from Dec. 16 through Jan. 4. ‘Deliverance’ to Open 59E59’s New Season 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s, Stephen went on to co-edit, with the sybaritic Cyril Connolly, the celebrated literary magazine Horizon. The real Stephen Spender as seen by his son in ‘A House in St. John’s Wood’ 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

He decided to set “Tenor Overboard” in the 1940s and to cram it with what he called “the great tropes of comic opera.” Lend Me a Jukebox Opera. Yuks and Tenor Required. 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z

One family interviewed drove across Texas in the late 1940s, and told of driving for three solid days, stopping one night in El Paso, eating lunchmeat sandwiches the whole way. 'The Warmth of Other Suns': The great African American migration out of the South 2010-09-15T23:42:00Z

She had been a student of Albers at Black Mountain College in the 1940s. The Japanese-American Sculptor Who, Despite Persecution, Made Her Mark 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Matute’s novels spanning the 1940s to the 1960s depicted the devastation of rural, war-torn Spain from a child’s perspective. Novelist Ana Maria Matute dies at 88

That is in the early 1940s, when Crawford is at the height of her fame. “Feud: Bette and Joan” fades out: Old Hollywood may have been no match for the modern woman 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

It was in the late 1940s when the archbishop, Father Hannan at the time, met Kennedy, then a young Democratic congressman from Massachusetts. Archbishop Philip M. Hannan Dies at 98 2011-09-30T04:56:15Z

When she started out, in the late 1940s, no one called Ms. Weiss and her cohort “humanists”; that term came later, when historians in the 1970s began to elevate their work to canonical status. Sabine Weiss, Last of the ‘Humanist’ Street Photographers, Dies at 97 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

This vanity dates from 1940s Hollywood stars, who wore their coats on their shoulders. | Video: Bill Cunningham | Unbuttoned 2014-02-21T22:54:32Z

“Loyalties” was about growing up in an idealistic and radical family — his father, a union organizer, had been a member of the Communist Party in the 1940s — under constant surveillance and harassment from the F.B.I. Carl Bernstein, Looking Back at His Start, Conjures the Newsrooms of the Early 1960s 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

For his part, Chazelle admits he has produced a homage to the past and not a recreation of the musicals of the 1940s and 50s. Is hit Hollywood film La La Land about to become a stage show? 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

Julius Shulman's gaudily colored images show an idealized modern lifestyle for the "Case Study Houses" program in California from the 1940s through the 1960s. A world of change in 250 photos at London exhibition 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

The Ten and others were blacklisted in the late 1940s and '50s by Hollywood film studios concerned that hiring them would be bad for business. Writers Guild restores credit to blacklisted writer 2011-12-20T00:49:12Z

The composition and revision of these five pieces extended almost from the beginning to the end of Rachmaninoff’s career, from the early 1890s to the early 1940s. Review: Yuja Wang Sweeps Through a Rachmaninoff Marathon 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

Three tracks were arranged by Gil Lopez, who died last year, and whose career traced back to the 1940s mambo era. New Music From the Rotem Sivan Trio and Anna Webber 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

It could certainly take a shot at Broadway, where the original, under the title “Angel Street,” ran for three years in the 1940s. Blame Canada (or at Least Ontario) for a Wealth of Smart Revivals 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

He made his first recording as a young man, and by the early 1940s was heard regularly on the radio in Bombay, now Mumbai. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Dies at 88; Indian Classical Singer 2011-02-06T03:15:10Z

Ancel Keys, author of the well known Minnesota Starvation Experiment which took place in the 1940s, had his study participants complete food diaries. Should "food diaries" be assigned in schools? Experts point to potential dangers for youth 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

But its origins date back to the 1940s and ’50s, when ready-to-wear separates entered the market. The return of the going-out top 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z

The sound of Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators also nods to the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, a racially integrated, all-female jazz band that rose to prominence in the 1940s. How ‘Some Like It Hot’ Tunes In to the Jazz Age 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

In the 1940s/1950s, Disney’s “True-Life Adventures” won eight Academy Awards and a surprisingly steady audience for their astonishingly intimate nature photography. ‘Bears’: sleeping and surviving in the Alaskan wild 2014-04-16T19:33:59Z

But “Aquarius” looks at the psychedelic Summer of Love through the smoky filter of a 1940s film noir. Review: Mulder Meets Manson in NBC’s Compelling ‘Aquarius’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

It is a measure of the busyness of Bourgeois’s life that only a few paintings here date from the early 1940s. Louise Bourgeois, Celebrated Sculptor, Unsung Painter 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

Mining 1940s theater and film styles, “Love Goes to Press” can feel satisfyingly old-fashioned. Theater Review: ‘Love Goes to Press,’ at Mint Theater Company 2012-06-20T23:14:03Z

While the film traces Lamarr’s personal and professional lives in a holistic way, it hinges on her invention, in the 1940s, of a pioneering communication system that helped lay the groundwork for modern encryption. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ and ‘Bombshell’ 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Its designer was apparently inspired by a photograph of coats on hooks in a 1940s cloakroom, and the result is as bad as that sounds. We have the cenotaph: we don't need more memorials 2010-07-12T07:00:00Z

In the Mood: A 1940s Musical Revue Celebration of the Big Band era features singers, dancers and a 13-piece band. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 21-28: 'The Mystery of Love & Sex' and more 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

On Mr. Ryan’s 1940s set, optimistically named “United for Liberty/Allied Soldiers/Together They Fight,” a box label explains that it “contains United States Marines, English Guards and Russian Cossacks.” Antiques: A London Apartment Done Up in French 2010-04-22T22:32:00Z

In his senior year of high school in West Germany in the late 1940s, he was overheard turning down a date with another boy. ‘Great Freedom’ and the Long Shadow of an Anti-Gay Law in Germany 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

She spent much of the 1940s in Mexico, organizing its first modern dance company. A timely view of Mexican art and identity in vintage works by Anna Sokolow 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

That may be unavoidable, given that it takes place in the 1940s, but there is a distance even in the intimate moments that keeps us at an emotional remove. In Amy Bloom's 'Lucky Us,' sisters remain plucky in face of tragedy 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Her performing career began in the 1940s and continued well into the 21st century. Ruby Dee, Star of Stage and Screen, Dies at 91 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

But the retro aesthetic is still a desirable one, particularly for the thriving rockabilly subculture of Southern California that favors 1940s- and 1950s-inspired dresses. Vintage is hot: They only look old, really 2011-07-13T19:17:04Z

Studying under Shostakovich in the late 1930s and 1940s, Ustvolskaya, too, dabbled in socialist realism. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

And he, too, left Trinidad, in the late 1940s, for England, where he performed on television and onstage. Geoffrey Holder, Dancer, Choreographer and Man of Flair, Dies at 84 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

He started in the late 1940s and left a rich chronicle of a musical era with photos taken in New York, Paris and London through the 1960s. Jazz photographer Herman Leonard dies at 87 2010-08-16T17:19:00Z

In light of the books, the exhibition has been criticized for glossing over, in particular, Le Corbusier’s well-documented involvement with far-right elements in France from the 1920s to the 1940s. Le Corbusier’s Architecture and His Politics Are Revisited 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

In the early 1940s, her father and sister were sent to concentration camps. Eva Monley, Film Location Scout in Africa, Dies at 88 2011-11-21T04:36:17Z

In the breakfast room of a Washington, D.C.–area home designed by Darryl Carter, a 1940s Italian chandelier hangs over a custom-made trestle table. AD's 50 Most Popular Pins of 2013 2013-12-13T05:00:00Z

Her dramas are sites of living history, too, where personal stories of racism’s unhealed wounds mingle with dark tales thieved from the Brothers Grimm and 1940s Hollywood. Adrienne Kennedy, Playwright: Still Quiet, Still Bold, Still Furious 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

The two of them talk fast at each other, not so much like characters out of a 1940s movie, but like characters out of say, a Nora Ephron movie paying homage to those movies. Friends with Kids: A Potty-Mouthed Mom Rom Com 2012-03-08T11:43:43Z

And his 10-piece backing band looked as if it came straight out of a debonair 1940s nightclub. Kem keeps things classy, stylish at Auditorium 2011-03-27T14:13:34Z

I got off to a disheartening start with “Reading Between the Lies,” by Endangered Artists Sanctuary, a clumsy parody of a 1940s murder mystery set during a reading of a new play. A Double Dose of Divine, and Other Reports From the Fringe Festival 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

Athletic shorts were noticeably short between the 1940s and 1980s before trends shifted towards above- or at-the-knee shorts or longer. 'Short shorts' for men gets applauded on social media as the trend makes a comeback 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

She married actor Bill Williams, with whom she had worked on films in the 1940s before he became the star of the 1950s' TV series "The Adventures of Kit Carson." Actress Barbara Hale, loyal secretary on TV's 'Perry Mason,' dies at 94 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

"When you say, 'We're making this film about a gay English mathematician in the 1940s and at the end he kills himself,' people aren't instantly like, 'I have to be a part of that!'" Franklin Leonard's Black List can help green-light screenplays 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

No one will ever know; the piece was never performed in Satie’s lifetime and wasn’t discovered until the 1940s, long after his death. What It’s Like to Hear the Same Piece of Music for 19 Hours 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wallach performed in more than two dozen Broadway shows since the 1940s — several opposite his wife, actress Anne Jackson. Eli Wallach dies: Character actor known for ‘The Magnificent Seven’ was 98

As the 1940s began, he recorded songs reflecting the Communist party line; accusations of Communist Party affiliations got him questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee and blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Pete Seeger, 1919-2014: A Folk Revivalist Who Used His Voice to Bring Out a Nation’s 2014-01-29T02:31:11Z

Like that piece, “The Great Divorce,” at Lansburgh through Sunday, is a 1940s Lewis work, in this case refuting the title of William Blake’s late-18th-century “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.” Visions of Heaven (and how to get there) in C.S. Lewis’s ‘Great Divorce’ 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

Widowed and well off, Clara lives in the Aquarius, an elegant 1940s apartment building in the seaside town of Recife in north-east Brazil, where she raised her three children, now grown up. Sônia Braga: ‘The Oscars only have four spaces for best actress – one is always reserved for Meryl Streep’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

In fact, Wickiser went back and forth between the two throughout his career, which included a few years in Washington in the 1940s and ended with his 1998 death. In the galleries: Where the wild things are 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

In structure and tone, “Red Tails” proudly harks back to the 1940s and ’50s, when good guys were good, and bad guys bad. | 'Red Tails': ?Red Tails,? George Lucas?s Tale of Tuskegee Airmen - Review 2012-01-19T13:00:00Z

Avedon devalued his most original body of work — the on-location scenes in the 1940s and 50s displaying Parisian dresses — and demanded to be judged as an artist solely for his portraits. Avedon at 100: Photos of Seduction 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

Tallchief was one of five Oklahoma natives of American Indian descent who rose to prominence in the ballet world from the 1940s through the 1960s. Ballet legend Maria Tallchief dies at 88 2013-04-12T17:36:11Z

Her trove, more than 300 works, begins in the 1940s and goes up to “yesterday,” Ms. Joyner said, encompassing four generations. Righting Wrongs and Generating Attention for Art of the African Diaspora 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

The melding of wine and art is a hallmark of venerable European institutions like Chateau Mouton Rothschild near Bordeaux, France, which pioneered the artist-designed label craze in the 1940s by commissioning Chagall, Miro and Braque. A Light Safari in Wine Country 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z

Stritch began her career in the 1940s, appearing in a string of hit Broadway shows. Tributes paid to stage star Stritch 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

She was fascinated by the mind’s shadowy realms, and this fascination no doubt contributed to her decision, in the late 1940s, to pursue therapy. The Many Faces of Patricia Highsmith 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

The film is actually set in the 1940s in the Mississippi delta, but the scene could have taken place a century earlier or even, to a degree, shockingly recently. Meet the new hotshots of American film-making 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

The movie doesn’t bother to evoke the conflict between the lives of these bohemian wild men and the square America of the 1940s and ’50s. Movie Review: ‘On the Road,’ Directed by Walter Salles 2012-12-20T23:12:37Z

She signed on to WLW-AM, a Cincinnati radio station, in the 1940s and stayed with the station after it expanded into television late in that decade. Bonnie Lou, Country and Rockabilly Star of the 1950s, Dies at 91 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

This was written in the late 1940s, is set between the two world wars, and is about an impoverished yet happy and loving family living in a tumbledown castle. If you like books like these: historical fiction for teens 2013-05-14T08:00:00Z

"Prudence" is also a novel about identities and what happens when they clash as they did in 1940s America and continue to do today. 'Prudence' a heartbreaking tale of love, loss and desire 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

There were plenty of barbecue spots established in the 1940s and ’50s, perfuming the streets with smoke. In West Oakland, Barbecue Is Back — With a Side of Fried Chicken 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

It conveys the story of the interrupted romance between a Chinese-American boy and a Japanese student in 1940s Seattle, and its repercussions decades later. In Book-It's new season: Jamie Ford, Jess Walter, Twain and Tolstoy 2012-05-15T18:43:04Z

Mr. Conquest and Mr. Amis also shared a love of science fiction that they indulged by editing “Spectrum,” a series of five anthologies that presented quality science-fiction stories from the 1940s and ’50s. Robert Conquest, Historian Who Documented Soviet Horrors, Dies at 98 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

In the late 1940s, the Soviet Union invited Armenians living abroad to resettle in Soviet Armenia. ‘Amerikatsi’ Review: A Prisoner in His Homeland 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z

My inspiration was the old 1940s horror movie The Wolf Man, starring Lon Chaney, in which – unusually – the werewolf was portrayed as a victim. How we made An American Werewolf in London 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

Despite an impoverished birth and shattered childhood, Holiday's extraordinary vocal talent propelled her to stardom in a racially divided America in the 1930s and 1940s. Singer Audra McDonald returns to Broadway as Billie Holiday 2014-03-19T21:15:14Z

There is a rich online supply of radio plays from the 1940s and 1950s. Don't touch that dial: the threat to radio drama 2010-06-20T20:45:00Z

The late 1940s found Mr. Laurents in Hollywood, trying his luck as a screenwriter. Arthur Laurents, Playwright and Director on Broadway, Dies at 93 2011-05-06T04:27:34Z

That becomes apparent every time Mr. Lahr quotes from Kazan’s book or correspondence about the tremendously fertile collaboration Williams and Kazan shared throughout much of the 1940s. John Lahr’s ‘Tennessee Williams’ Fleshes Out the Playwright 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

“Monsters and Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s” connects art to a moment in history when traditional politics was failing in spectacular and horrifying ways. Review | When artists confronted the horrors of war with monsters and dreams 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

But after the 1940s, as pneumatic blondes blew up and gender roles were re-established, she didn’t often find the film roles that suited her cool, steady gaze. Lauren Bacall’s Debut in ‘To Have and Have Not’ 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

“If I had, instead of working on my album ‘In the Zone’ I’d have been acting like a 1940s heiress day and night.” The 8 biggest bombshells in Britney Spears’ forthcoming memoir, “The Woman in Me” 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z

Until shortly before then, Cox had learned much of what he knew from the movies, especially those of the 1940s and 50s, or the theatre, which had been the subject of his aborted education. Life on the frontline of the Aids epidemic | David France 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

He met a young Ravi Shankar at a concert there in the 1940s, but the men began working together in the 1950s, following the India-Pakistan partition and the relocation of the shop to New Delhi. Ravi Shankar's sitar maker says his legacy lives 2012-12-13T16:59:18Z

One major shift involves the DNA of the wisecracking characters — it’s the same as what first made them stars in the 1940s. For Looney Tunes, a Big Left Turn at Albuquerque 2010-05-19T22:35:00Z

Blueprint for Paradise Laurel M. Wetzork’s new drama, inspired by actual events, about a wealthy white couple who hire a noted African American architect to design a compound for Nazi sympathizers in 1940s L.A. L.A. theater openings, July 24-31: 'Baby Doll' and more 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

The staff got flowers, a photographer and even bought a proper wedding dress from the 1940s for Frankie to wear, according to SWNS. Couple recreates wedding 77 years later after original wedding didn't have photos 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

One subject he did not write about was his mixed-race marriage, unusual in Britain in the 1940s, to Sibyl Allen. E.R. Braithwaite, author of ‘To Sir, With Love,’ dies at 104 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Shadle recently discovered that Price briefly studied with Harris in the 1940s. Welcoming a Black Female Composer Into the Canon. Finally. 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

In the early 1940s, his health failing, he lived mainly in a modest apartment in Astoria, Queens, cared for by relatives. An Urban Painter’s Fantastic Floral Visions 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

"The Plot Against America" takes place in the 1940s and offers of an alternative history in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt loses to Charles Lindbergh, a populist pushing the nation towards fascism. "Democracy is never perfected": David Simon on his new HBO series and the 2020 "s**tshow" election 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

The short has the look, feel and unabashed mayhem of a classic “Looney Tunes” cartoon, circa the early 1940s. Bugs Bunny Is Back, and So Is the ‘Looney Tunes’ Mayhem 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

A Jewish family goes about life in 1940s Newark while Charles Lindbergh, a pop-culture hero with anti-Semitic, white-supremacist and authoritarian tendencies, becomes president. The 50 TV Shows You Need to Watch This Winter 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Ms. Wayne, a self-taught painter, became interested in lithography in the late 1940s and, after collaborating with the printer Marcel Durassier in Paris in the 1950s, adopted it as her primary means of expression. June Wayne, Painter and Printmaker, Dies at 93 2011-08-28T00:23:03Z

The jazzy music kept this thought going through several tough little day dresses with a 1940s slant. On the Runway Blog: Dame Patrol in Milan 2012-09-22T11:34:40Z

A gifted singer from girlhood on, she made her professional debut in the 1940s as a soloist on the radio show “Hymns of All Churches,” broadcast nationally on the Columbia network. Lili Chookasian, Opera Singer, Dies at 90 2012-04-12T17:31:06Z

And therein lies the complex tale of Hirshfield’s brief, eventful career, and its sometimes detrimental intersections with the New York art world of the 1940s, especially the Museum of Modern Art. Morris Hirshfield Rises Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

All the 1940s hairstyles seen on the characters were done in front of a mirror, not digitally. Video Game to Play in Vintage Gumshoes 2011-05-06T20:13:40Z

The Untold Story of American Superheroines”: The evolution of “Wonder Woman’’ began with a comic book in the 1940s. Monday TV Picks: The new ‘Defiance’ on Syfy 2013-04-12T19:32:18Z

In it, he bemoaned what he saw as the historical revisionism fueling popular culture that was “assiduously turning the terrors and controversies of the late 1940s into the entertainments and bestsellers of the 1970s.” ArtsBeat: Hilton Kramer's Provocative Time at The Times 2012-03-27T21:22:20Z

In the 1940s, professional basketball was not as popular as baseball, boxing or college basketball. In its early years, NBA blocked black players 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

Related: Agent Carter declassified: the key facts about Marvel’s 1940s spy caper Ritter, however, remains optimistic. Fight the power: how the female superhero is finally taking flight 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

The jeweler died in a plane crash in the late 1940s and the pieces of his collection have not been offered for auction until now. Costume jewelry worn by Hollywood's Golden Age stars up for auction 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

When Luis Valdez’s play opened in 1978, it broke ground by focusing on the unjust murder convictions of a group of Mexican American men in the 1940s. Demian Bichir will star in groundbreaking 'Zoot Suit'; 2-for-1 ticket sale Friday 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. Butler, who grew up in Detroit, learned to skate there in the 1940s, getting his start at Arcadia Roller Rink on Woodward Avenue. Meet Bill Butler, the Godfather of Roller Disco 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

The Met’s exhibit “African American Portraits: Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s,” on view through October 8th, is defined by a double anonymity. The Eerie Anonymity of a Show of African-American Portraiture at the Met 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Nearing the end of her life, she recalls her emigration from Cuba as a young girl in the 1940s. ‘In the Heights’ Review: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

After an intermission that feels more like 2 a.m. in a 1940s jazz club, Act II morphs from something resembling traditional burlesque into a strange landscape of sexual fear and discovery. | An NC-17 Retelling of ‘The Nutcracker’ 2013-12-09T19:01:54Z

Brook’s prolific theatrical life began in the 1940s, when the Oxford grad and son of Jewish Latvian immigrants won praise for his direction for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House. Peter Brook on his ‘Suit,’ tailored for its Seattle dates 2014-03-12T19:32:39Z

Wooden wall paneling is lovingly scarred by the countless initials of past visitors and paintings exchanged for a cup of coffee by impoverished artists in the 1940s still hang on the walls. Viennese Cafe Icon Hawelka dead at 100 2011-12-29T20:37:07Z

One theory is that they were stored there in the early 1940s while Adams taught in Los Angeles. $45 garage-sale find worth $200M: Ansel negatives 2010-07-28T05:38:00Z

Draped dresses, always with a couture attitude and a hint of 1940s Hollywood, were in contrast with straight-line embellishment of flowers on elongated stalks. Special Report: Diversity and Irony 2010-02-23T18:30:00Z

“There were these feather treatments on coats. They evoked what L.A. originally exported in the 1940s and 1950s. . . . They weren’t doing sweatpants or retro knockoffs. They were fresh clothes.” Does Rodarte actually exist? The vaporous business plan of a fashion industry darling. 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Guys and Dolls National touring production of this classic musical comedy about gamblers, gangsters, showgirls and others in 1940s NYC. L.A. theater openings, April 12-19: 'Loopholes: A Pain in the I.R.S.' and more 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

And also I don’t only buy 17th- or 18th-century pieces; I mix it with furniture from the 1950s or the 1940s. A Peek Inside Jean-Louis Remilleux’s Chateau and French History 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

Many of the red velvet seats are from the 1920s and 1940s. 'They Shoot Mexicans, Don't They?' leads a monthlong look at Latino representation 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

We watch hipster devolve from a “proud flag of suavedom” in the 1940s bop era to a dismissive insult in 2017. ‘Vulgar Tongues’ is pimped out with the dopest research 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Coming of age in the late 1940s, Mr. De Niro was committed to a kind of figurative painting indebted mainly to Matisse. Robert De Niro Sr.: ‘Paintings and Drawings, 1948-1989’ 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Previously the kitchen of a Chinese takeout joint, it now serves seasonal cocktails in 1940s milk bottles. Cultured Traveler: Underground London 2014-01-17T21:43:10Z

The story, which takes place in the late 1930s/early 1940s, is one of make-believe; it is set in the carny world where the wonders are, of course, not what they seem. Guillermo del Toro's rapturous "Nightmare Alley" seduces with its stylish & twisty grift 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

But I thought that we couldn't afford this kind of rhetoric after what happened in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. Karen Armstrong's thinking shifts on religion and violence

He made his stage and film debuts in the early 1940s. John Forsythe, ?Dynasty? Actor, Is Dead at 92 2010-04-02T20:24:00Z

Our house was built in the 1940s in Elizabeth, a few miles away. Our first and last home 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

At the turn of the 1940s, Czapski found himself back in Poland fighting the German invasion. Reading Proust in the Gulag 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

In the 1940s, Mrs. Mumie recalled, a bugle would announce the daily 4 p.m. circus act. Can This Amusement Park Be Saved? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

This is a true backwater but in the 1940s and 1950s, before the bottom dropped out of sugar, it had money: there are cinemas and rundown hospitals. Cuba libre: exploring the island by campervan 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

Q: Your character Catrin offers audiences a window into what it was like to be a woman in the 1940s in the film industry. A Minute With: Gemma Arterton on "The Finest", solidarity among women 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Though plenty of candies and sodas were invented and released in the 1940s – including Mountain Dew and M&Ms – one of the biggest snacks invented were Cheetos. National Junk Food Day: See which snack came out the decade you were born 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

Washington was a college and pro football star back in the 1930s and 1940s. Perspective | Kenny Washington’s time has come. NFL needs to recognize the man who broke the color barrier. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester was recently given a 1940s dollhouse made from cardboard sheets that snap together. Tiny Furniture: A Diaspora of Dollhouses 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

The apse was transported, stone by stone, to the Cloisters in the late 1940s as a long-term loan from the Spanish government. What Museums Don’t Reveal About Religious Art 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

The 1940s French club chairs at the store’s Union Square location were too deep. Jonathan Groff’s Life Imitates His Art 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Another exhibition, “The 75th Anniversary of the American Negro Theater,” features photographs, posters and playbills associated with the company’s stage productions throughout the 1940s. Schomburg Center Commemorates a 90-Year History 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

The commemoration included prayers, a flyover by World War Two aircraft, a parachute jump, the reading of eyewitness accounts of the invasion and bands playing martial tunes and 1940s' swing. D-Day memories still fresh 70 years later for U.S. veterans 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

There is no resemblance to the casual boxy crop tops of the last decade, nor to any other earlier variation: swimwear in the 1940s, athleisure cutoffs in the 1980s, the shrunken baby tees of Y2K. It’s Crop Top Season, and This Year There’s Even More Skin 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

While Powell wanted Blanchett's wardrobe to look like "the 19th century channeled through the 1940s," Cinderella was another matter. Live-action 'Cinderella's' costumes get a glammed-up makeover 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Tash Aw's debut, The Harmony Silk Factory , set in 1940s Malaya, established him as an important voice in conveying the stories of south-east Asia to an English language audience. Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw 2010-04-17T23:09:00Z

The Dead Sea Scrolls, composed of hundreds of manuscripts and thousands of fragments of ancient Jewish religious texts, were discovered in the West Bank by Bedouin shepherds in the 1940s. U.S. Bible museum says five Dead Sea Scrolls fragments fake 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

The show focuses on art from the 1920s to the 1960s and examines the aesthetic differences between prewar European modernists and the American up-and-comers who rose to prominence starting in the 1940s. Iggy Pop in England and Rauschenberg in China: Global Arts Guide 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Colonel DeJesse, who did tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, said the unit might number as many as 33 specialists, “the highest number of monuments officers since the late 1940s,” he said. Ukraine War Bares U.S. Army Delay in Creating New ‘Monuments Officers’ 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Pitt plays a poker-faced sergeant commanding a crew of U.S. soldiers in the 1940s. 30 minutes of 'Spider-Man 2' shown at CinemaCon 2014-03-27T13:32:06Z

In the 1940s they taught at a San Francisco trade school but then were blacklisted from academic jobs because the school was accused of Communist leanings. Antiques: Loving ?Lover?s Eyes? and Loving Cereal 2012-02-02T23:17:03Z

Bourne said one of the most interesting things they learned is that in the 1940s, dance troupes were a lot more eccentric, and less concerned with perfect technique. Matthew Bourne and the U.S. premiere of 'The Red Shoes': 'Art is important, it’s worth fighting for' 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

He cut several records with the Ellington band in the early 1940s, including “Flamingo,” “Jump For Joy,” “You, You Darling” and “Brown Skin Gal in a Calico Gown.” Herb Jeffries, jazz balladeer and star of all-black cowboy movies, dies

Los Angeles had a small sushi-ya scene in the early 1900s, but that first wave of restaurants shuttered in the 1940s when Japanese Americans were interned and forced to close their businesses. Tracing a Los Angeles Treasure: Its Glorious Sprawl of Sushi 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

For sale will be a selection spanning Avedon’s entire career, from the late 1940s until his death, including fashion photographs and portraiture. Inside Art: London Picasso Show Is a Family Affair 2010-07-01T22:30:00Z

Though Davis's schooling in the fast-paced, aggressive bebop of the 1940s proved essential, it is his subsequent work as bandleader for which he is primarily remembered. How Miles Davis electrified jazz 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

For today’s City Ballet dancers, it’s the 1940s jitterbugging moves rather than the classical steps that are a foreign language. Review: A Jerome Robbins Tribute by New York City Ballet Brims With Brio 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

The behemoth of big-tent cable news channels has turned its attention to fashion as a way of exploring the decades from the 1940s to now. Perspective | Documentary series ‘American Style’ embraces fashion as an art form 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z

She began to write short stories for Esquire magazine in the 1940s, shortening her name to Bel to disguise the fact that she was a woman. Bel Kaufman dies at 103; author of bestseller ‘Up the Down Staircase’

Changing his surname at the start of his broadcasting career, he worked as a disc jockey in San Francisco before moving to Los Angeles in the 1940s. Gene Norman, Music Producer With an Ear for Jazz, Dies at 93 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

But "Lights Out" seemed to want to have it both ways -- to be a 1940s B-movie and be a down-to-earth drama about modern boxing and crime, with plausible psychology and real-world details about the sport. So long, "Lights Out" -- you coulda been a contender 2011-04-05T14:01:00Z

But in the 1940s, his compositions, zany yet fastidious, were adopted as the soundtracks for Warner Brothers cartoons. Dance Review: Dance Heginbotham Presents ‘Manhattan Research’ 2013-08-09T20:14:42Z

And at a certain point, the film abruptly jumps back to the late 1940s and ’50s to bring in the Weavers. Movie Review: ‘Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation’ 2013-01-17T23:38:50Z

An exhibition of works by Georgia O’Keeffe from the 1900s to the 1940s. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction

Maybe, in the end, there really is a rough-hewed justice at work, even in 1940s Mississippi. Review | John Grisham’s new novel wades into Mississippi’s racist past 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

With its great sheets of color and capacity for careful gradation, the Technicolor of the 1940s yielded a robust saturation and range of tones that, though frequently imitated, have never been precisely duplicated. DVD: ?Meet Me in St. Louis,? on Blu-Ray 2011-12-09T21:48:05Z

“The Great Fire” was inspired partly by people she knew in the late 1940s in Hong Kong, where she helped monitor the civil war in China on behalf of British intelligence. Shirley Hazzard, National Book Award-winning novelist, dies at 85 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

A writer’s heart beat in his chest, the passion for words there even as he stumbled through a childhood in the 1940s and '50s scarred by a broken family and an angry Harlem upbringing. Walter Dean Myers was a pioneer of diversity in young adult books 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

She moved to New York in the late 1940s and began acting in film, and later, television. Betty Lynn, Thelma Lou on ‘The Andy Griffith Show,’ has died 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z

In the late 1940s, he set up a New York photography studio with his wife Diane, who later became a renowned art photographer. Mash actor Allan Arbus dies at 95 2013-04-24T08:32:05Z

There are pieces on the 1940s – a crucial decade for British women when war led to so many going out to work – and about the writers Rebecca West and Adrienne Rich. Lennie Goodings: 'Virago survived because it's a brand with a philosophy' 2013-07-20T07:30:01Z

This production from the Acting Company, which opened on Thursday at the 59E59 Theaters, directed by Michael Wilson, features works from six notable playwrights, based on tales mostly written by Williams in the 1940s. Review: ‘Desire,’ Six Plays That Second-Guess Tennessee Williams 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

He began his career peddling his music to French artists of the 1940s and 1950s such as Piaf, Maurice Chevalier and Charles Trenet. Charles Aznavour, beloved French crooner, dies aged 94 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, that "Birth of the Cool" became a cultural phenomenon – crystallizing the transition from explosive, 1940s bebop to 1950s cool – seems improbable, in retrospect. Miles Davis' 'Birth of the Cool' heats up again 2011-03-07T15:00:00Z

The 2CV was conceived in the 1940s as an inexpensive vehicle that would tempt French farmers away from using a horse and cart. Ready, set, slow! British Citroen 2CV enthusiasts stage 24-hour race 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

The elder Quizon started performing on stage in the 1940s during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines and made his final comedy flick, where he played a priest, two years ago. Dolphy, comedian adored by many Filipinos, dies 2012-07-10T16:40:09Z

"Dating back to the 1940s, rhythm and blues was intended as a kind of catch phrase that was referring to any music made by or for black Americans," he said. Smithsonian Folklife Festival opens on mall in DC 2011-06-30T21:51:10Z

In late 1930s and early 1940s Europe, though few knew the extent of Hitler’s atrocities, the atmosphere of hate was palpable. For 115 years, one restaurant has fed the elite in Berlin and now Madrid. Nazis included. 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

“Ratched” is a drama inspired by 1940s and 1950s films that eventually decides it wants to be every 1940s and 1950s film. Review: ‘Ratched’ Flies Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest and Into the Mire 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

The staff even entertained her while I tried on a reproduction 1940s dress with red polka dots. Greetings from Asbury Park, love Mom and the kids 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Without question the later plays are less accessible than the dramas of his artistic high summer in the 1940s and 1950s. Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z

The Hamptons home he shares with his fiancé, Tim, becomes a reason to explore Maude Terry’s efforts in the 1940s and ’50s to establish a Black community along the Long Island waterfront. Don Lemon’s New Book Hopes to Guide America Through a Conversation About Race 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

Beck was the illustrator, and he continued to draw Captain Marvel throughout the 1940s. Shazam Is Back. Wait, Who Is He Again? 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Our first destination was Griffith Park & Southern Railroad, which has been running mini­-engines, such as the Stanley Diamond that carried us, since the late 1940s. In Southern California, ride the rails on a kid-friendly scale 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

This is a movie set in the 1940s, but it's being released now. Stars of Malick's "A Hidden Life": When saying no is "enough to change the world" 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

There is excellent writing in this book about flying on Chinese airlines in the early 1940s, bouncing in the air “like a butterfly in a hurricane.” Riding Shotgun on Martha Gellhorn’s Brave and Comic Adventures 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Growing up with a child’s delight for the Saturday matinee cartoons of the 1940s, I have always had a certain nostalgic fascination for the art of animation. Cartoons, JFK’s Victory and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

As for the clothes, Herrera said she was inspired by the 1940s, especially in the shapes of sleeves and in the small waists of the garments. Weather's silver lining: coat comfort on runways 2013-02-11T21:45:09Z

She attended law school at Alabama in the 1940s and never published another novel after "To Kill a Mockingbird" came out in 1960. Holder: 'Mockingbird' has lessons for terror fight 2010-09-21T23:02:00Z

Incidentally, the New York bagel of the 1940s was extremely tough and dense, and would be considered inedible by most current bagel eaters. Risky Baking: It’s Hard to Make a Perfect Bagel Without Lye 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Army Corps of Engineers, which operates local reservoirs that were built in the 1940s to prevent flooding. Flooding from Hurricane Harvey causes a host of public health concerns 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Cage's years in Seattle in the late 1930s and early 1940s, where he taught at the Cornish College for the Arts and met Merce Cunningham and Mark Tobey, get a chapter-long examination. 'Where the Heart Beats': Zen Buddhism and the music of John Cage 2012-07-11T19:53:04Z

In the 1940s, she arrived in Los Angeles, where she became immersed in a midcentury art scene. At The Ranch in Montauk, Plenty of Room for Art and Horses 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

The exhibition opens with early head-and-shoulders portraits from the 1940s and '50s, then moves on to the to vast, monumental nudes for which Freud became famous. Lucian Freud exhibition opens with royal visit 2012-02-08T16:31:04Z

Richard Bennett’s beautiful tempera paintings from the 1940s — “Clearing Land,” “Loggers,” “Splitting Shakes” — are, by contrast, quietly heroic. Edmonds museum exhibit shows how artists responded to hard times 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

But it is mostly about the fashion world of the late 1940s through the early ’60s, when Cunningham was a hat designer and party crasher in Manhattan. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

In the early 1940s he spearheaded the March on Washington Movement, the predecessor to the demonstration two decades later, which pushed Franklin Roosevelt to sign an executive order desegregating defense production industries. Rosa Parks’ activism wasn’t limited to a Montgomery bus 2013-03-15T16:57:00Z

The screenplay doesn’t bother detonating any surprises at all; narrative ingenuity is sooo 1940s. Soderbergh's Haywire: Good Workout, Not So Good Movie 2012-01-19T15:39:42Z

He wanted the speech to sound ancient and slightly foreign, but he was wary of sounding stuffy and florid, like a 1940s Robin Hood movie. For Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Buried Giant’ Is a Departure 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

With songs by the Andrews Sisters, it evokes 1940s wartime bubbliness; it’s delectable. Dance Review: At Met, Ballet Theater?s Modified American Plan 2010-06-10T21:43:00Z

While Dracula and Frankenstein are Universal Studios’ most prolific monsters, as franchises they were treated similarly by the studio in their initial run from the 1930s to the late 1940s. Universal's 2016 'Mummy' Reboot Set In The Iraqi Desert Might Be Cursed 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

But in the 1940s, he started to thin his oils with turpentine to a watercolor consistency, which brought a relaxed softness and fleetness to his art. Arshile Gorky’s Art of Bliss Remembered 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

But his eyes glinted with excitement and purpose only when speaking about Aruba in the late 1940s and early ’50s. On an Island Hunt for Pieces of My History 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

There had been a few decently received shows of Bourgeois's own work in the 1940s and early 1950s, but then the abstract expressionists swept the decks clean. Louise Bourgeois obituary 2010-05-31T21:50:00Z

It’s the music that makes the magic in “February House,” the account of an experiment in communal living in the early 1940s that sounds like a culture groupie’s fever dream, glittering with boldface names. Theater Review: ‘February House,’ at the Public Theater 2012-05-23T02:00:01Z

The designer said that while the 1940s silhouette was his starting point, he "absolutely did not want something retro." Lauren Hutton revisits 'American Gigolo' for Bottega Veneta 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

But the actual advent of the solid-body electric guitar, sometime in the 1940s, was a tangled tale of tinkerers, craftsmen, musicians and businessmen who hardly realized what they had unleashed. Behind the Guitar Heroes 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

The seven posters, dating from the 1930s and 1940s, went on display on Friday at a commemorative exhibition in London organized by Disney. Oh boy - vintage Mickey Mouse posters to fetch thousands at auction 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Allegiance,” opening Nov. 8 at the Longacre Theater, is set mostly in the early 1940s, when a California farming family is ripped from its home and sent to an internment camp in Wyoming. George Takei Guides ‘Allegiance,’ a Musical, Not a Starship 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Perlin worked for the government and later as an artist-correspondent for Life and Fortune magazines during before he began building a reputation in New York galleries in the late 1940s. Bernard Perlin, Painter of Varied Styles, Dies at 95 2014-01-29T04:49:47Z

In the early 1940s Russia’s station chiefs in the West were ordered to gather evidence on any atomic work undertaken by American scientists. In This True-Life Spy Story, It’s America vs. Russia, the Early Years 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

Tan’s parents emigrated, separately, from China in the late 1940s. Amy Tan: Still ‘Joy Lucky’ after all these years 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Born in Cuba in 1915, Ms. Herrera lived for two long stints in Paris, where, in the 1940s, her art became fully formed. An Artist at 100, Thinking Big but Starting Small 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

Mel Brooks began his career as a stand-up comic in the 1940s and went on to make his name as a writer, actor, producer and director. Comic Mel Brooks gets BFI honour 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern with illustrations byScott McKowen Philip Van Doren Stern wrote this story and had it printed as a Christmas card for his friends in the 1940s. Jim Bob's top 10 illustrated books for adults 2010-05-05T10:32:00Z

The movie begins in the aftermath of Indonesia’s fight for independence in the 1940s, with Nana on the run, fleeing nationalist soldiers who are forcibly taking women from villages. ‘Before, Now & Then’ Review: Love and War 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z

His grandfather survived more than one concentration camp and spent several years in exile in China before returning to East Germany in the late 1940s. In Germany, a Jewish Millennial Argues That the Past Isn’t Past 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Some images involved a bit more stage direction than others, as with Halsman’s collaboration with the Surrealist Salvador Dalí from the late 1940s. Last Chance: Philippe Halsman?s Jumpers at Laurence Miller 2010-05-23T23:30:00Z

In the 1940s a family attached a photo of their frail son in a wheelchair to their holiday greeting. Antiques: ?American Christmas Cards, 1900-1960,? at Bard Graduate Center 2011-09-15T21:06:33Z

With a frothy, sophisticated, quick-witted script, Mr. Ozon’s film follows in the tradition of the American screwball comedies of the 1940s. Review: A Rich Field of In-Competition Films at Venice 2010-09-07T15:30:00Z

The toys, manufactured between the 1850s and 1940s, represent real and imaginary infrastructure and tourist attractions in Europe and America. Antiques: Judaica From Tuck Collection in London to Be Auctioned 2012-11-15T21:51:19Z

In the 1940s, the electric guitar was a recent invention, not a mass-produced commodity. The Holy Grail of the electric guitar? Not exactly. 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Linkletter quickly established himself on local radio in San Francisco but floundered when he moved to Los Angeles in the early 1940s. Art Linkletter, TV Host, Dies at 97 2010-05-26T21:10:00Z

It was written in the 1940s by Frank Loesser, who performed it at parties with his wife. Is “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” a date-rape anthem? 2012-12-10T21:14:00Z

Haskell works to establish continuities between the anomalous, 1940s works and late, “fifth season” Magritte. Review | This is not the Magritte we know 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

He’s recorded hundreds of albums as both leader and sideman and performed thousands of concerts touching all parts of the world, dating back to the 1940s. Marshall Allen is 96 years old and still leading one of the most visionary jazz groups of all time 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

This year one of the most celebrated of all American ballerinas, Maria Tallchief, died; her prime was from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. U.S. Ballerinas Redefine an Art, but What About History? 2013-07-05T17:15:59Z

Some of his earliest paintings, from the 1940s, show a sure and confident hand with traditional figuration, including seductively moody self-portraits. Ellsworth Kelly, the master of the deceptively simple 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

It has been at its current location since the 1940s. The western Virginia town that raised a forward-thinking first lady 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

In the late 1940s he collaborated with Niemeyer on a beachfront house and garden in Santa Barbara that was never built. Brazil's modern look: Why Olympic viewers should know the name Roberto Burle Marx 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Others items are links to his time spent working on Hollywood screenplays in the 1940s and early 1950s. Christie's to auction rare Faulkner collection 2010-06-18T17:27:00Z

And in the late 1940s, droves of Eastern Europeans fled Stalinist oppression in the growing Soviet bloc — like the Soviet “show trials” which were designed to purge Hungary and other countries of dissidents. 5 things to know about Seattle Opera’s ‘The Consul’ 2014-02-12T20:32:09Z

This year, the party had a 1940s vibe: There were large sepia-toned headshots of Bette Davis and Cary Grant projected onto the wall. Oscars 2015: Governors Ball hits the spot with ravenous guests 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

After last month's live chat with the excellent Sarah Waters, we're moving away from fiction set in the 1940s into something more wolfish. Live webchat: John Bradshaw 2011-08-03T14:06:09Z

Growing up in South Africa's townships under apartheid in the 1940s and 50s meant segregation and police beatings. The Black Flash by Paul Harrison - review 2012-12-27T08:00:02Z

In the late 1940s, the president of Peru, Gen. Manuel Odría, had a bright idea, or so he thought, about the colonization of the Amazon: start with criminals, convicted or not. ‘Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles’ Review: A Prison in the Amazon Jungle 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

Ms. Lane, the composer’s widow, said she liked some of Mr. Mayer’s ideas right away, like importing several Lane songs from the film “Royal Wedding” for Melinda, who is now a singer from the 1940s. Theater: ?On a Clear Day? Now Centers on the Psychiatrist 2011-11-27T05:27:19Z

In the early 1940s, Baldwin moved to Greenwich Village and fell in with artists and writers, including Richard Wright. Happy birthday, James Baldwin! 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

And she’s got a good ear for the arch repartee of 1940s comedy. Review | In Elizabeth Gilbert’s ‘City of Girls,’ a young woman discovers the joys of sex 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

I found myself mesmerized by stretches of road lined with rusty old mailboxes; the only sign it was not the 1940s were the American flags with all 50 stars. The Poconos for a Pittance 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

This spring there are two permanent collection shows devoted almost entirely to female artists: “Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography” and the smaller “Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now.” Art Review: ?Pictures by Women,? History at MoMA 2010-05-27T22:11:00Z

In the 1940s, this graph was reimagined by Boring, a Harvard psychology professor, in his book Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology. That neat and tidy map of tastes on the tongue you learned in school is all wrong 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

The NSA has been up to its tricks since the late 1940s, and people have been fretting about it for almost as long. How Hollywood softened us up for NSA surveillance 2013-06-16T18:00:14Z

The connection is apt, for Capra's villains are unabashedly Dickensian, his eccentrics too; even the raven that haunts his 1940s movies recalls the mysterious Grip from Barnaby Rudge. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z

His life would have been at risk, as well, but Hollywood work sheltered Korngold from the worst of the Holocaust, and helped him become an American citizen in the 1940s. How a Forgotten Opera Made a Big Comeback 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

The skill was in dangling a simple summer dress from a crisscross of bodice straps or in refreshing the designer’s signature, slightly 1940s, gowns. Fashion Review: Bill Gaytten at Dior Shows a Light Touch 2011-09-30T18:29:29Z

The show’s prints were made mostly in either the late 1940s, when Bourgeois took up the medium, or during her last two decades, when she returned to it at full throttle. Louise Bourgeois: Imagination Unfolds in All Dimensions 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

The Mint Theater specializes in dredging up long-forgotten plays, most of them classically structured and written between the late 1800s and the 1940s. ‘Becomes a Woman’ Review: A Girl Gets Wise in Brooklyn 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

With razor-sharp wit, Megan Fairchild, puffing away on a cigarette and then clearing the air with the silky wave of a hand, brought the glamour of a 1940s chorus girl to her debut. At New York City Ballet, Hits, Misses and Daring Dancers 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

Around 1910, the art dealer and collector Samuel P. Avery Jr. donated them to what is now the Brooklyn Museum, but they ended up back on the market by the 1940s. The Period Room as Reconstruction Site 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

This September, audiences will at last possess a more dynamic, more elegant — and just plain improved — sense of how New York City’s jazz and classical scenes converged in the 1940s. Jazz and Classical Met in the 1940s, and We’re Still Catching Up 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z

But it nurtures in its bosom the largest surviving 1940s prefab estate in Britain, admirably named Excalibur. Excalibur's castles built from postwar dreams must not be demolished 2011-01-06T21:00:04Z

Were Seattle race relations so relaxed in the 1940s? Review: A thoughtful, thought-provoking 'All My Sons' at Intiman 2011-03-28T16:52:06Z

By the 1940s, with urbanization and industrialization on the rise, the milling industry saw a steady decline. The Mora River Valley Faces a New Battle 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

“In her mind, mechanized industrial slaughter had a relation to Europe in the 1940s. Those kinds of equations between animal life and human life are profoundly uncomfortable for us to consider.” Casting a Critical Eye, From the Slaughterhouse to the White House 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Copping cited as his inspiration the watery prettiness of Christian Bérard’s drawings and stage sets in the 1940s, in the days when the decorative artist collaborated with the house of Ricci. Special Report: Fashion: Life on the Ocean Wave 2010-10-01T18:50:00Z

Roads came lately to this remote corner – not until the late 1930s and early 1940s. Scotland's rocky road: a journey to the edge of Lewis – a photo essay 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

A few years later, he operated two businesses, a shoe repair shop and a restaurant, which inspired my grandmother to open her own restaurant — a cozy family eatery in Bensalem, Pa. — in the 1940s. My grandmother’s Sunday dinners were magical. Could I re-create them for my own family? 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

She was not yet born when her kinsmen were thrown into labor camps during Japan’s occupation of Manchuria in the 1930s and 1940s. China's 'mermaid descendants' weave final garments from skin of fish 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

By the late 1940s 7Up was the third most popular soft drink in the United States. Rising design star: Naz Sahin 2012-05-17T21:42:00Z

While he had small roles in a couple of films in the early 1940s, Forsythe's first successes were mainly on the stage. John Forsythe of film and TV fame dies at 92 2010-04-02T19:02:00Z

In the 1940s a move to New York introduces new friends and rivals within Jewish intellectual circles. Early days yet 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

On both projects, the format was chosen to mimic photographic images from the 1940s and ’50s, and the grittiness of postwar America. Happy 100th Birthday, 16-Millimeter Film 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

Though infrequently seen in the digital age, typewriter art was popular in the 1940s and was used by artists like the American Paul Smith. Typewriter artist a font of creativity 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

The reference points were the button-downs of the 1940s and ’50s, when the Brooks Brothers shirt was firmly established as a crucial element of insouciant collegiate style, the more frayed the better. Brooks Brothers Revives the Preppiest Shirt Collar 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Hoarders are not a 21st century invention — in the 1940s the Collyer brothers put the disorder on the map when they were found dead in their debris-riddled Fifth Avenue home. How hoarding and tidying up defined the decade 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

SAT Treasure from MOHAI’s collection usually kept in storage, high fashions from the late 1940s to the early 1960s from Dior fashion house; 11 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

The couturier’s stature as cultural oracle was probably cemented when Christian Dior unveiled his New Look in the late 1940s. Fashion?s Military Invasion Rolls On 2010-02-20T05:10:00Z

When she recently joined the stream of refugees leaving Kiev, it was a reminder of grandparents who fled Nazism and Soviet occupiers in Europe in the 1940s. In Ukraine, female war reporters build on legacy of pioneers 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

Until the 1940s and ’50s, honeymoons and other vacations were usually something that you drove to rather than flew to. Before the bridal thong 2014-04-20T00:00:00Z

By the 1940s, the United States imported nearly half the world’s production. In Portugal, uncorking some unexpected culinary delights 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

The piece also has this wonderful plainsong entry and exit, underlining the fact that, in the 1940s, a lot of people were looking back to the idea of the medieval community. Benjamin Britten: a top 10 2013-01-09T19:30:01Z

Apparently the 18th century Jacobite rebellions were a much more visually vibrant time than the 20th, because Claire leaves the muted tones of 1940s Scotland and wakes up in an Instagram filter. Outlander Recap: Feminism and Time Travel in a Bodice-Ripping Romance? Sure! 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z

After a difficult period of exile in the United States that lasted much of the 1940s, Bertolt Brecht was ready to work with kindred spirits again. A New Album Reflects a Composer’s Stubborn Versatility 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

By the 1940s the complex had been taken over by the Army Signal Corps, which used it for a while to make training films. Architecture Review: Immersed In Images And an Age Of Blurred Boundaries 2011-01-13T22:01:16Z

I wore a black wool crepe pencil skirt, a vintage 1940s bone silk blouse with vertical applied panels and vintage Lanvin pumps of cream leather with a leather tassel. What I Wore: A Week With Cynthia Rowley 2010-12-23T23:31:06Z

“In the early 1940s I planned to be a full-time revolutionary who would move around like they did in Russia,” he told Arts Monthly in 1999. Gustav Metzger, ‘Auto-Destructive Art’ Provocateur, Dies at 90 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

They met in the early 1940s and eloped to Mexico because interracial marriages were illegal in California. Food Scholar, Folk Singer, Blunt Speaker: The Many Lives of Leni Sorensen 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

Here were clothes from the 1940s and ’60s, all utilitarian, all preposterously expensive: the rack of motorcycle jackets, the handful of field coats made from what seemed to be linen. Where Can Men Buy Higher-End Vintage Men’s Wear? 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

He nonetheless returned in the 1940s, after the success of “The Grapes of Wrath” assured him an honored place in the city’s literary pantheon. ‘Supreme City,’ by Donald L. Miller 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Still, in the 1940s through the 1980s, this London cohort did collectively amount to a significant movement toward a new approach to figuration that resisted the prevailing trend toward abstraction, Minimalism and Conceptualism. MoMA Galleries to Change Their Focus 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s he portrayed, eloquently, the ruins of Coventry Cathedral and other bombed churches . In praise of the British art staycation 2010-08-04T14:43:00Z

I’m excluding, of course, the war film, a steady genre since the 1920s, accelerating in the 1940s with films about fighting the Nazis. Elia Kazan and the Armenian Genocide: Remembering “America America” 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Lee, who got her start in the 1940s singing for Benny Goodman's band, went on to record popular jazz-influenced albums and compose for film soundtracks. Witherspoon moving from June Carter to Peggy Lee 2010-08-10T04:50:00Z

These violin concertos – Britten wrote only one, Shostakovich two, the first of which is on this disc – date from the 1940s. Britten & Shostakovich – review 2013-06-08T23:05:25Z

In the 1940s and ’50s, he became friendly with many musicians in Detroit’s vibrant jazz scene and emulated their approach to their art. Philip Levine, U.S. poet laureate who wrote of working life, dies at 87 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Here are some 1940s musicals that send me, to borrow a phrase, over the rainbow. Escape With Me Into the Delirious World of 1940s Musicals 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Miller has also written two contemporary novels and one that takes place in 1940s Japan, but in his latest, “Pure,” he returns to the 18th century. Books of The Times: ‘Pure,’ a New Novel by Andrew Miller 2012-07-03T21:48:27Z

But in the early 1940s he shifted from figuration to the swooping, organic forms for which he’s now best known. Isamu Noguchi’s Efforts to Improve Life in an Internment Camp 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

A few months ago, Gregory Davidson, the son of the 1940s exhibition curator, told the “Art Interrupted” curators that his mother, Martha Davidson, had played a major but unrecognized role in choosing the works. Antiques: ‘Art Interrupted’ Exhibition Ends Tour in Georgia 2014-01-23T22:58:12Z

Monk emerged in the 1940s as one of the high priests of bebop, and was the house pianist at Minton's Playhouse, bop's after-hours laboratory. 50 great moments in jazz: The renaissance of Thelonious Monk 2010-04-29T15:28:00Z

Rhonda Fleming, the actor nicknamed “The Queen of Technicolor” and who appeared with Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan and other film stars of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. Rhonda Fleming, 'Queen of Technicolor' in the 1940s and 50s, dies aged 97 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

Virtually unknown a century ago, Jennifer first took on measure of a cultural charm when the actress Jennifer Jones became a star in the 1940s. Don't worry, parents of babies named Khaleesi: You're in good company 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

The federal government began doomsday preparations as far back as the 1940s, when they started construction on an underground military command center in the mountains of Pennsylvania. The one percent plans to ride out the end of the world in style 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

Such manipulations did not end in the 1940s. Iran's self-aggrandising 'fake' fighter plane and a history of doctored photos 2013-02-13T12:22:04Z

According to Rossellini, her mother has the biggest archive of any female actor from the 1940s, which is collected at Wesleyan University. Isabella Rossellini on Ingrid Bergman: 'Women liked her matter-of-factness' 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Associated Newspapers/Rex Lizbeth Webb, one of the great forgotten stars of British musical theatre in the 1940s and 1950s, has died aged 86. Lizbeth Webb 2013-01-27T15:49:10Z

Or you can peruse whole issues of PM, the short-lived daily that deftly combined sensational photographs and social concern, for which Weegee worked in the early 1940s. Art Review: ?Weegee? at International Center of Photography - Review 2012-01-19T23:35:18Z

In the late 1940s he headed for New York, where by 1952 he was appearing on Broadway as a bodyguard in the comic fantasy “Mrs. McThing,” starring Helen Hayes. Ernest Borgnine, Tough but Tender Actor, Is Dead at 95 2012-07-08T22:21:37Z

Were napkins really called serviettes in 1940s England? Critic’s Notebook: InsightALT, a Festival of Operas in Progress 2013-05-31T21:38:00Z

In the 1940s, they both worked at their brother-in-law’s Chicago record store. Unearthing a Jackson 5 gem from Chicago label One-derful!

And yet in Lancashire in the late 1940s, a formerly unquestioning Nazi loyalist was interned in a prisoner of war camp, and forced to address his crimes and prejudices. From Nazi to football hero: the incredible story of Man City's Bert Trautmann 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

The Shaw club is in a cavernous, boxy brick building from the 1940s. The latest trick to making new developments cool: Just add rock-and-roll 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

In the late 1940s, less than 40 percent agreed. “Just let me go”: Atul Gawande on end-of-life care and making life meaningful 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

This Lead Belly radio recording, dating to the 1940s, could no longer be played. From Woody to Lead Belly, the master of Smithsonian Folkways 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Comstockism would wax and wane, falling to the background during the 1920s Jazz Age or the wartime social dislocations of the 1940s, but it never vanished. Utah and the war on porn: Our long national history of condemning “obscenity” as public enemy #1 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

After emigrating to Miami in the early 1940s, they developed a flashy stage act that combined singing, dancing and comedy. Cherie DeCastro, Singer With DeCastro Sisters, Dies at 87 2010-03-24T22:57:00Z

There was a Jazz Age charm to DSquared2 — not least because the models were all dark-skinned, as if this show really were a riff on some downtown bar scene back in the 1940s. Happy Hybrids: High Tech Meets Heritage 2013-01-16T18:46:42Z

Nineteen Eighty-Four was not a prediction of the future so much as a satire on the fascism and communism of the 1940s. Simon Hoggart's week: how tickled we are, missus 2012-07-20T16:44:08Z

Set in a sumptuous version of 1940s Los Angeles, “Hollywood” imagines a more inclusive version of that era’s Tinseltown. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Hollywood’ and ‘Prop Culture’ 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

Rachel Cameron in the late 1940s, when she was principal ballerina with the Australian Ballet Society. Rachel Cameron obituary 2011-04-07T17:23:37Z

The symphonic music, which recalls the scores of classic American thrillers from the 1940s and 1950s, such as those of Alfred Hitchcock, heightens the tension and threat that ultimately engulfs Daniel. Spanish thriller dredges up dark childhood secret 2012-02-11T20:08:24Z

Her new picture book, “All the Way to Havana,” features American cars from the 1940s and 1950s that are still on Cuban roads. Family visits to Cuba inspired girl to become a poet 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

The eldest of four children, she was born into a rarefied 1940s, upper-middle-class world of debutantes and weekend horseback rides. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

In the 1940s, silk became difficult to obtain and was reserved for essential items like parachutes, not dresses. The Disruption of Weddings, Then and Now 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

It moves between the revolutionary muralists of Mexico in the 1930s and the McCarthyite witchhunts of the late 1940s and 50s to probe the relationship between art and politics in the US. A life in writing: Barbara Kingsolver 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

After asking more questions, Martin learned the painter was Kenjiro Nomura, a famous modernist artist in Seattle in the 1930s and early 1940s. New book and exhibition aim to give Seattle Japanese American artist Kenjiro Nomura the credit he deserves 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

That something was the Phoenicia Lodge, a collection of rustic, 1940s cabins with wooden planks, made up of five rooms, two suites and six independent cottages that the couple bought in the beginning of 2020. It’s Never Too Late to Uproot Your Life and Open an Inn 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

Last Train to Nibroc A man and a woman with little in common meet on a train in Arlene Hutton’s romantic comedy set in the 1940s. L.A. theater openings, April 12-19: 'Loopholes: A Pain in the I.R.S.' and more 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

He also played a frustrated 1940s waiter and family man, opposite Bea Arthur, in Mr. Allen’s 1981 play, “The Floating Light Bulb.” Danny Aiello, Actor in ‘Do the Right Thing,’ Dies at 86 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

I brought a picture of my grandmother in the 1940s, pin-curls under a white nurse's hat. My affair with witchcraft 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z

The most exciting discoveries still are to be found in booths showing works made before the 1940s. Art in Review: PRINT FAIR: International Fine PrintDealers Association 2011-11-03T21:36:19Z

In the 1940s and early ’50s her film roles were mostly small. Barbara Billingsley, TV?s June Cleaver, Dies at 94 2010-10-16T21:30:00Z

In that same Palm House, the philosopher Wittgenstein is commemorated by a plaque for the time he lived in Dublin in the 1940s. An Irish Flâneur, Greeting the Past on His Present Wanderings 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

A Jewish boy in early 1940s Newark is sitting in his bedroom when he hears an airplane overhead. Can It Happen Here? In ‘The Plot Against America,’ It Already Did 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z

Though Salinger and Oona O’Neill dated briefly in the early 1940s, Mr. Slawenski said she did not return his affection and broke his heart when she married Charlie Chaplin. 9 Letters From Young J. D. Salinger Unearthed 2013-04-23T22:10:00Z

But in the 1940s, Bourgeois’s subjects had few precedents in Western modern art. Louise Bourgeois, Celebrated Sculptor, Unsung Painter 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

Baker developed the recipe and technique for cooking it in the 1940s, while at Pennsylvania State University. The grilled-chicken recipe so brilliant it’s got an Ivy League name 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

Eugene, the hero of the piece and Simon's alter-ego, is a young man in the late 1940s on the cusp of finally leaving home with his brother for big careers as a comedy-writing double act. Nussbaum lets loose in 'Broadway Bound' 2011-06-17T18:47:32Z

It followed Alfred Kinsey's books on sexual behaviour in men and women in the late 1940s and early 1950s. 50 years on, "The Joy of Sex" is outdated in parts but still a fun "unanxious" romp 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

While we appear to be in the 1940s, Abbado is careful not to make any direct reference to any specific persecution, though the first-act set bears a resemblance to the Berlin Holocaust memorial. Nabucco; Bach Marathon; Tine Thing Helseth, Kathryn Stott – review 2013-04-06T23:06:25Z

Davis also referenced Lavonne "Pepper" Paire-Davis, a women's baseball league star in the 1940s and the inspiration for "A League of Their Own." Actress Geena Davis critical of Oscar host 2013-03-05T04:01:04Z

The idea of wingsuiting from planes started with the “Birdmen” in Europe in the 1940s, but that met with mixed results – and several deaths. Wingsuiting: adrenaline highs and dangerous lows 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

In the update, the psychologist falls in love with a 1940s jazz singer while treating a gay man, turning this reputable scientist into an advocate for reincarnation and risking his career. Harry Connick Jr.'s musical battles anemia 2011-12-12T22:16:12Z

After wartime exploits in behind-the-lines reconnaissance, he apprenticed in the late 1940s under British director Carol Reed on masterpieces such as “The Fallen Idol” and “The Third Man.” Guy Hamilton, resourceful James Bond director, dies at 93 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Of the thousands of comic-book characters created in the 1940s only Superman and Batman were more popular. A bird, but not a plane 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Though he was hugely influential in the 1940s, adapting tap to bebop, this Charlie Parker of the feet was never very famous. A Hoofer for the Ages 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Knocking down the 1940s building will clear space for an outdoor plaza and part of the footprint of a new 1,000-seat see-through domed cinema. Academy Museum delays opening until 2018, cites talks over traffic and parking 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

That was a big influence — those movies of the 1940s that were turned into radio shows. Amazon's "Vast of Night" is a Richard Linklater, sci-fi, "All the President's Men" thriller mash-up 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Woods was widely regarded as an heir to Charlie Parker, the alto saxophonist who, along with trumpeter Gillespie, introduced the lightning-fast and intricate bebop style in the 1940s. Phil Woods, celebrated alto saxophonist in jazz, dies at 83 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

A finalist for this year’s Man Booker Prize, “The Narrow Road to the Deeper North” portrays a singular episode of manic brutality: imperial Japan’s construction of the Thailand-Burma Death Railway in the early 1940s. Review: ‘The Narrow Road in the Deep North,’ by Richard Flanagan

They stirred from the pages of “The Sheltering Sky,” Paul Bowles’s existential 1940s novel of the unraveling lives of three Americans traveling in the North African desert. Morocco, From Coast to Desert 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

But in their place are amusing parodies of 1940s commercials and an agreeable bonhomie among the cast, enabling this production, like the angel Clarence, to earn its wings. Theater Review: ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ at Irish Repertory Theater 2012-12-12T23:33:28Z

Originally a ballet dancer, he performed with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in the late 1940s before making his debut as an ethnic-dance soloist in 1953. Matteo, Master of Spanish Dance, Dies at 92 2011-03-29T00:56:33Z

They also saw what was left of the Centre d’Art, a workshop where many of those artists trained in the 1940s and 1950s, which also collapsed. Conservators Aid Art Rescue Effort in Haiti 2010-05-10T22:33:00Z

Like in the 1940s, the new guy's popularity fell off. Comics: Let's shed a little light on Green Lantern's backstory 2011-06-16T19:19:04Z

“World Gone By” picks up in the 1940s, with World War II underway and Joe applying his talents to finding ways to profit from it. Review: Dennis Lehane’s ‘World Gone By’ Completes a Loose Trio of Novels 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

One image included in the exhibition shows Cooke, in the late 1940s, bent over her workbench intently focused on a piece of metal. At 97, preeminent jewelry designer Betty Cooke is still inspired to create 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, as Japanese forces occupied mainland China as part of the second Chinese-Japanese War, Hong Kong built its status as a major trade and military hub. What's on This Week Around the World 1458-12-10T05:00:00Z

The California native began a career spanning more than six decades by doing voice impersonations for Cliffie Stone’s radio show and Warner Bros. cartoons in the 1940s. Stan Freberg, Popular American Satirist, Dies at 88 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s, they were used for fertiliser. Fool’s gold: what fish oil is doing to our health and the planet 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

Who knew Santa Claus was part of the Axis powers during the 1940s? Bumbershoot preview: 1 Reel Film Festival at SIFF 2010-09-02T20:05:00Z

The painter Anna Mary Robertson Moses, known as Grandma Moses, became a celebrity in the 1940s, soon after her 80th birthday. The Artist Who Beautified California Banks 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

She treats him with sympathy, acknowledging that he came to prominence in America in the puritanical 1940s and ’50s, that he wasn’t bohemian or rich or worldly. Ingrid Sischy’s Genius: Portraits of Contemporary Culture 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

The resurgence dates back to the mid-1990s, when women started experimenting with burlesque, inspired by old videos of dances from the 1940s and 1950s, and vintage clothing. Theater: Tassel-Twirling Gets a Feminist Touch 2011-11-09T08:30:10Z

It was viewed as a museum piece from the 1940s - an anachronism in post-'60s America. Parker's `Sixkill' has compelling story line 2011-05-04T11:24:12Z

Apart from the shootouts, evoking film noir of the 1940s, it’s the sheer scale of “Railway Heroes” that excites. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. King conquered a childhood stammer to become a radio performer in the late 1940s. B.B. King, Mississippi master of the blues, dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

They are by Seward Hume Rathbun, a D.C. artist who was president of the Washington Water Color Association in the late 1930s and early 1940s. How to remove mold from a watercolor painting 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

In spite of that, decades of economic policy, kicking into overdrive with Operation Bootstrap starting in the late 1940s, led to an emphasis on industrialization and a shift away from Puerto Rico’s agrarian roots. Reclaiming Puerto Rico’s Food Paradise 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

In the 1940s, after recovery from alcoholism thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous, he became a deeply religious Roman Catholic and wrote “The Greatest Story Every Told,” a best-selling life of Jesus. Review: Tony Oursler’s Grand Illusions, Science Left at the Door 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

That prudery and squeamishness lasted well into the 1940s and 1950s. Separate beds are liberating 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m also a massive fan of 1940s propaganda posters, so it was a fun challenge to try and capture the style and attitude of that era.” T Magazine: Poster Boy Wonder 2011-07-21T00:54:00Z

In the 1940s and ’50s he held editorial positions at magazines including The New Republic, Newsweek and House Beautiful, where he was executive editor. Ralph G. Martin, Best-Selling Biographer, Is Dead at 92 2013-01-14T01:29:07Z

If all you know of Terence Davies is his recent Emily Dickinson biopic, “A Quiet Passion,” then his impressionistic memoir of 1940s and ’50s Liverpool, England, is essential viewing. 4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

The art, created in 1937, belonged to a former Disney storyboard artist who worked at the company in the 1930s and 1940s. Early Disney drawings go on show 2013-01-04T16:46:09Z

One often-repeated story took place in the early 1940s, when she was 19. Margaret Whiting, Fresh-Faced Singer of Jazz and Pop Standards, Dies at 86 2011-01-12T05:09:19Z

The look was vintage movie poster, bordering on 1940s noir, imbuing Mr. DiCaprio with a mysterious allure befitting Humphrey Bogart back in the day. In Athens, the Last Man Painting 2014-02-26T22:55:35Z

At the Golden Tip service station, somewhere in Los Angeles in the late 1940s, they pump more than gas. Review: ‘Hollywood’ Gives Movie History a Sudsy Rewrite 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

This was especially significant from the 1940s, when the availability of abundant supplies of fish helped feed the country still suffering from wartime rationing. Hull seeks designer for a memorial to its lost trawler crews 2013-03-22T07:00:00Z

Born in Harlem in 1924, Earl “Bud” Powell was a prodigy who, along with his early mentor, Monk, was part of a cadre of players who re-imagined jazz in the 1940s. ‘Wail’: A biography of Bebop piano pioneer Bud Powell 2013-06-26T22:25:54Z

A nonfiction account of the silent war of Soviet-American espionage from the 1940s to the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Third, most paperbacks, saving only vintage titles from the 1940s and ’50s. Review | All the books in my 300 boxes sparked joy. The lockdown made me rethink why I was keeping them. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

His drinking and womanizing notwithstanding, Mr. Lynn was one of his wife’s greatest sources of musical encouragement, certainly early in their marriage, after they moved from Kentucky to Custer, Wash., in the late 1940s. Loretta Lynn, Country Music Star and Symbol of Rural Resilience, Dies at 90 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

Anna Chao Pai is the granddaughter of a Chinese warlord whose family inverted the usual immigrant trajectory when they arrived in this country in the 1940s. The Independent Women of Sweet Briar 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter is a powerful female figure in a male world, Wilson noted, adding that she modeled the character’s image on the 1930s and 1940s actress Hedy Lamarr, who was also a gifted inventor. ‘His Dark Materials’: Witches, Quests and Talking Animals 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

"I don't care as long as it's entertaining," my boss used to tell me, polishing the implements in his medieval torture exhibition, many of them rusted farming tools from the 1940s. Walking tours are the real fringe theatre 2010-12-20T11:38:27Z

Ephraim Birney stars as the title character, a Navy Yard worker who suffers a devastating injury in 1940s Brooklyn, and his father plays the doctor assigned to his care. Father and Son Return to the Stage, Together. Again. No Regrets. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

Known affectionately across the Arab world as "Sabouha", a diminutive of Sabah, she began her singing and acting career in the 1940s in Egypt, the center of Arab cinema and entertainment. Lebanese singer Sabah dies at 87 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Now she considers the 1940s and the 70s in a new play inspired by the legendary Bristol nightclub of the 1970s and 80s. Strange Interlude, Paradise Lost, The Dug Out: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-05-25T05:00:20Z

And before joining Disney, Boag appeared in a number of films during the 1940s, including "Without Love," starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, and "The Thrill of Romance," with Esther Williams. Disney legends die within a day of each other 2011-06-05T20:54:07Z

A line of natural body-care products he had been planning to launch, inspired by the hammamlike bathhouse at Flamingo Estate — his eclectically refurbished 1940s home in Los Angeles’s Highland Park neighborhood — seemed increasingly unlikely. How a Fruit-Filled Garden Inspired a New Wellness Brand 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

What he was around for, beginning in the 1940s, was a golden age of print journalism, specifically the heyday of the tabloid headline, that shot of visual adrenaline that nailed the eye at every newsstand. Art Review: ?Warhol: Headlines? at National Gallery of Art - Review 2011-10-20T22:00:37Z

Several works in the show’s small second gallery, though, are from the 1940s, when Oppenheim took up an exquisite realism echoing Dalí, Tanguy and Magritte. Meret Oppenheim: Enough With That Tempest in a Teacup 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

Her great-grandfather emigrated to the United States from China in the 1940s and opened Lum’s, one of the first and most beloved Cantonese restaurants in Flushing, Queens. The Rapper Awkwafina Tries to Master Her Rice Cooker 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

As the rural working class left Southern fields in waves, first in the 1910s and '20s and again in the 1940s and '50s, growers found it increasingly difficult to find cheap and readily available labor. Peaches are a minor part of Georgia’s economy, but they’re central to its mythology 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

To borrow a famous phrase from the 1940s Superman radio serial, he stands for "truth, justice and the American way". Orson Scott Card isn't the right man to write Superman 2013-02-14T14:15:00Z

They will be selling tailored suits from the 1940s, knits from the ’70s and more. Sales and Events in New York City Starting Nov. 8 2012-11-07T21:23:07Z

My parents were refugees, and so I literally wouldn’t be here if my parents had not been allowed into the U.K. in the 1940s. International Rescue Committee CEO: ‘The way refugees are seen is a running commentary on our own values’ 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

The flag was adopted by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s and was frequently brandished by counter-protesters at civil rights marches. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

At Gucci, Frida Giannini said that the house “has a long history with film dating back to the late 1940s” and that the company was proud “to keep these vibrant, timeless films alive.” Fashion Films Become the Hottest New Accessories 2010-05-17T10:55:00Z

She was promoted as the “queen of Technicolor” — a motion picture process much in vogue in the 1940s and 1950s. Maureen O’Hara, smoldering Irish beauty of movie fame, dies at 95 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

For Portman has taken on one of the most contentious subjects possible: the founding of the state of Israel in the late 1940s, refracted through the experience of Oz and his family. Natalie Portman on Israel, Hollywood sexism and ‘being the boss’ 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

I’m not certain that it had a phone in the lobby, but a lot of Hollywood apartments in the 1940s didn’t have phones in all the rooms. Charles Fleming on vintage Hollywood and his novel 'The Studio Kill' 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

But in the 1940s and early 1950s he was a big star at MGM. DVDs: When Bob Hope, Joe E. Brown and Red Skelton ruled comedies 2010-06-05T01:16:00Z

But she’s never quite done anything like what she does in “Florence Foster Jenkins,”  a comedy about a terrible opera singer in 1940s New York. 5 things to do this weekend, from a car show to a wife-carrying contest (what?!) 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Providing inspiration to countless drag acts since, the 1940s singer – whose headdresses didn't just involve towers of fruit, but also elaborate constructions of umbrellas, feathers and confectionery – made all her own costumes. Liberace to Carmen Miranda 2013-06-06T09:58:14Z

She won featured roles in much-admired crime dramas of the late 1940s and 1950s, notably “Kiss of Death,” “Nightmare Alley” and “The Killing” — but not, to her regret, as a femme fatale or hard-bitten dame. Coleen Gray, doe-eyed beauty of film noir, dies at 92 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

But the population-controllers' predictions of world famine in the 1940s and the 1980s never came true. Peoplequake: Mass Migration, Ageing Nations and the Coming Population Crash by Fred Pearce | Book review 2010-03-27T00:10:00Z

The author has F. Scott Fitzgerald writing his Hollywood stories in the 1940s. The City of Angels, Viewed Through a Prism 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z

When, in the late 1940s, the country’s Communist Party was outlawed and protests by coal miners were brutally suppressed, Neruda criticized the government in the international press and on the floor of the Chilean Senate. Review | The messy, brilliant life of Pablo Neruda 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

Artist’s Daughter Seeks Return of Nude Videos It is a treasure trove of letters, paperwork, photographs and film that document the New York artistic and literary scene from the 1940s through the 1980s. Larry Rivers?s Daughter Seeks Return of Nude Videos 2010-07-07T18:08:00Z

Heath, a native of Philadelphia, had been playing jazz since the 1940s, in the early days of bebop. Jazz composer and saxophone player Jimmy Heath dies at 93 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

With the rock writer and musician Michael Hurtt, Mr. Miller was finishing a history of Fortune Records, a family-owned Detroit label founded in the 1940s. Billy Miller, Curator and Historian of Fringe Music, Dies at 62 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

By the 1940s and ’50s he was regularly included on lists of the most admired Americans. Louis Armstrong’s Life in Letters, Music and Art 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

However, it's not what Woody did in the 1940s that still riles people in these parts. Woody Guthrie: the return of a pariah 2012-07-12T20:30:00Z

Several works by West have been presented at the Rep, including the plays "Birdie Blue," "Jar the Floor," and "Holiday Heart," and "Play On!" a Broadway jazz musical set in 1940s Harlem. Seattle Rep will debut 'Pullman Porter Blues' 2011-08-19T19:07:04Z

Eventually we learned that there had been another Green Lantern back in the 1940s, who bore no relation to the current one except the name. Comics: Let's shed a little light on Green Lantern's backstory 2011-06-16T19:19:04Z

Dead Sea Scrolls Go Digital The Dead Sea Scrolls were buried in caves for centuries, and then enmeshed in controversy over scholarly access since their discovery in the late 1940s. ArtsBeat: Dead Sea Scrolls Go Digital 2012-12-18T18:55:47Z

Sporting a chic grey and pink 1940s vintage dress tonight, Rachel's voice is raw, taut and direct, suited to bearing witness to maidens, sailors and widows long dead. The Unthanks 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z

Mr. Post worked as a director from the late 1940s to 1999, when he made his last film, “4 Faces,” a low-budget feature. Ted Post, Director for Film and Television, Dies at 95 2013-08-25T01:27:56Z

Concept “Twelfth Night” in 1940s Harlem with Duke Ellington music. In ‘Something Rotten!,’ if Music Be the Food of Farce, Play On 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Unpublished Millay poems have turned up, including a 1940s piece about longing to build a new house. Antiques: Edna St. Vincent Millay?s Home; the Apollo; Irons Galore 2010-07-29T20:44:00Z

He learned about Japan when he first arrived in Tokyo in the late 1940s by endlessly watching movies. Ian Buruma: By the Book 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

But the most attention was paid to the stage, where a wood-paneled backdrop resembles a 1940s radio. Boîte: Finding Harlem Culture and Music at Ginny’s Supper Club 2012-05-23T15:22:57Z

By and large, the corplegados would be trounced by the raw collages that Robert Motherwell made in the late 1940s. Art in Review: GABRIEL OROZCO: ?Corplegados and Particles? 2011-10-13T22:00:35Z

I had some good ones. 1940s film posters. Nick Hornby gave up record stores for Spotify, cigarettes for vaping, and adapting his own books 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

The plate in question was one of those well-chipped enamelled things more recently available as trendy designer kitchenware, but our original, used in this recipe, was utilitarian 1940s ware. Family life 2013-04-27T06:15:02Z

Word from the runway is that the height of these 1940s heels is deceptive and that practicing walking in them would do their wearer good. | Prada 2012-02-23T21:15:52Z

Brooks writes movingly about her own mother’s upbringing in Texarkana in the 1940s, where weekly visits to the local record shop, whose segregation rules were looser, offered a temporary respite from Jim Crow. In ‘Liner Notes for the Revolution,’ a History of American Music With Black Women at Its Center 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

The "Fringe," which runs this year from Aug. 4-28, has been a platform for young artists to make a name for themselves ever since it began in the late 1940s. Donald Trump Takes Center Stage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

The movie time-travels back to the 1940s, and Sun Ra’s origins as a boogie-woogie and stride piano player. Exploring Afrofuturism in Film, Where Sci-Fi and Mythology Blur 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

But despite her impoverished childhood, abusive relationship and addiction, Holiday's extraordinary talent and distinctive style assured her stardom, even in the racially divided America of the 1930 and 1940s. Singer Audra McDonald transforms into Billie Holiday on Broadway 2014-04-14T16:41:20Z

The pending relocation of the Essex Street Market — a city-run market space, one of several first established by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia in the 1940s as an alternative to street vendors — is happening this fall. A City Market Moves Across the Street 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

At this point we consider those traditional holiday jingles, but in the 1940s, those were brand-new pop songs. Here are the 10 most annoying Christmas songs of all time 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Awareness became a clinical problem in the 1940s with the introduction of the paralyzing drug curare. What Happens When You Go Under 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

He watched countless 1940s films, and the book analyzes how ’40s moviemakers “emphasized a parallel between neon signs and various idioms of urban vice, particularly alcohol.” Antiques: Vintage Neon Signs and the Neon Museum in Las Vegas 2012-10-18T22:11:06Z

She also decorated it with pinup-girl posters from the 1940s and 1950s, along with old album covers that have some pink. Bathrooms: Pretty in Pink, Again 2010-12-30T00:05:36Z

"It was used in Scotland in to the 1940s," Thornton mentions, in passing. British Museum Shakespeare exhibition to include prized Robben Island copy 2012-07-17T17:11:20Z

Made of faceted bronze panels, it looks appropriately martial and bulldog-like, though according to designers Clash Architects, it also references 1940s sculptors like Jacob Epstein. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-06-01T16:08:11Z

Anyway, Tchelitchew and the rest of them were swept aside when the Abstract Expressionists came to the fore in the 1940s. Lincoln Kirstein: A Modern Tastemaker With Some Iffy Taste 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Most date from the 1940s and are of her mother and grandmother, who left Soviet-occupied Poland after World War II and gradually made their way across Europe to the United States. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

This is the first time gray wolves have been known to breed in the Oregon Cascades since the mid 1940s.  Famous Oregon wolf that trekked to California has puppies 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Back in the 1940s, his father was "most upset", Mascord remembers, when he wangled a projectionist traineeship at Tyseley cinema, Birmingham. My wonderful life in cinema 2011-02-15T20:00:02Z

August 2005 “My idea was to capture the glamour of the 1930s and 1940s but with a twist,” Geoffrey Bradfield says of his line of furnishings, which joined existing pieces at Stark’s Manhattan showroom. Stylish Screens 2010-03-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, who grew up in a God-fearing Midwestern middle-class household in the 1940s, recalls from her childhood the still-familiar lines: Let it rip! When fart jokes were comedy’s last taboo 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

The company offices, all dark wood, vintage furniture and frosted-glass doors, resemble a 1940s movie set. The luxury-goods company Shinola is capitalizing on Detroit

She was blacklisted as a result and appeared on screen only sporadically in the late 1940s, but she remained active on the stage and helped found theater companies in the ’40s and ’50s. Isuzu Yamada, Actress Who Worked With Kurosawa, Dies at 95 2012-07-15T22:57:26Z

At the same time he was immersing himself in a European-inflected American modernism, which led him to explore abstraction, the career-track vanguard mode of the 1940s. Art Review: Romare Bearden at Studio Museum, Schomburg and the Met 2011-12-08T23:44:36Z

In the 1940s, Florence Knoll shocked the design community by upholstering her architectural sofas and chairs in functional menswear fabrics. Knoll debuts a new line of travel bags 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

And using Pandora to create playlists that emphasize the 1930s and 1940s. Critical Shopper: Anti-Casual Friday Headquarters 2012-12-19T18:10:45Z

The senior-fraud page of the F.B.I.’s Web site says, “People who grew up in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s were generally raised to be polite and trusting.” My Mother and Her Scammer 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Throughout the last century, and notably during the 1940s and ’50s, skating spectacles were opulent, fantastical performances that featured skaters in solos and pairs but also burlesque, comedy and even showgirl-worthy kick lines. Critic’s Notebook: The Glories of Ice Shows Recalled, at Dance on Camera 2014-01-30T23:30:03Z

Filmed on location in New Mexico, the series is set in the 1940s and follows the lives of the men and women picked to work on the top-secret project that produced the atomic bomb. WGN America sets premiere date for 'Manhattan' 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The late 1940s was when de Kooning first caught fire, when abstraction and figures first merged. Art Review: ?De Kooning: A Retrospective? at MoMA - Review 2011-09-15T11:00:58Z

Ms. Tobin was still popular when she quit Mr. Goodman’s band in the early 1940s and returned to Texas with her sons, but music became an afterthought as she raised them. Louise Tobin, Jazz Vocalist Who Put Her Career on Hold, Dies at 104 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

Friederman suspects that his dad's parents also ate those doughnuts in the 1930s and 1940s at their home in Garfield, N.J. As the last of the Entenmann brothers dies, nostalgia for the brand's baked goods remains strong 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

As Petroski would correctly point out, the road is functionally obsolete, designed for the slower automobiles of the 1940s. The freeway that looked like the future in 1940? Now, not so much. Nathan Masters on 'The Road Taken' 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

From among the elegant junk on Mr. Stephens’s lawn they had already picked up a $5 felt fedora and a sheath from the 1940s to add to their earlier finds. The Gimlet Eye: Flea Market Vendors Take Stock in Things of Others 2010-05-12T22:10:00Z

We had a huge migration of Chinese and Japanese Americans into the California's way back in the 1940s. "My mouth is watering": Chef Claudia Sandoval's culinary border tour is undeniably delicious 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

The Erteguns, she says, “resisted all sorts of political pressure in the 1930s and 1940s” as they regularly hosted “Black jazz artists on special jazz evenings at the Turkish Embassy in Washington.” These Turkish brothers found their calling in D.C., championing the Black music scene 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

The American artist Clyfford Still led with two monumental early paintings from the 1940s. Auctions: Fortune Smiles on Abstract Art 2011-11-10T12:00:07Z

That period saw the revitalization of classic heroes from the 1940s, such as Superman, Batman and Green Lantern at DC, as well as the creation of Marvel's Fantastic Four, The Avengers, Captain America and Daredevil. Comic book artist Gene Colan dies at 84 2011-06-24T13:53:07Z

For many years now, I’ve collected Career Romances, books published from the 1940s to the 1960s with titles like “Aerospace Nurse,” “Weddings by Gwen,” “Jinny Williams: Library Assistant” and “Hostess in the Sky.” In Praise of the ‘Career Romance’ 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

The sculptor Augusta Savage abruptly left her home in Harlem in the early 1940s for a drafty farmhouse in Saugerties, N.Y. Augusta Savage’s Rural Escape and Clementine Hunter’s Murals 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Of course, cynicism has always had its place in cinema, from the tough noir films of the postwar 1940s to the paranoid thrillers of the 1970s. At the dawn of the Trump era, cynicism in film has become instantly obsolete 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

February 2006 “I wanted to take the house back to where it began, unmuddy the lines, make it a cool expanse,” designer Stephen Knollenberg says of his 1940s cottage in Douglas, Michigan, which he renovated. Kitchens by the AD 100 2010-04-01T00:00:00Z

Why do the Swan Queen, Prince Siegfried and all the other ballet figures of the 1930s and 1940s move with anachronistically high extensions? Review: ‘Frame by Frame,’ a Ballet That Puts a Filmmaker Center Stage 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

But the suggestion that the Nazis were not the only bad guys in Eastern Europe in the early 1940s is undermined by the film’s disinclination to show the very worst of what the Nazis did. Movie Review: ‘Generation War’ Adds a Glow to a German Era 2014-01-14T22:36:47Z

Imagine a fiercely realistic film about genocidal violence in the 1940s set in a place identified only as “Europe.” Review: ‘Beasts of No Nation,’ a Brutal Tale of Child Soldiers in Africa 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Throughout the 1940s, my grandmother on my dad's side ate coddled eggs in British-colonized Burma, now known as Myanmar. An underrated (and simple!) technique for fancy-feeling eggs 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z

From the 1890s to around the late 1940s, writing about horses and race tracks was one of the staples of American sportswriting; for many, it was American sportswriting. Bourbon and gambling! Kentucky Derby shines as horse racing fades 2014-05-02T15:52:00Z

But instead of a 1940s island holiday, Mrs. Shimada saw the style from a child’s view. Special Report: Fashion: Urban Trek to Sailor Style 2010-10-06T17:38:00Z

In the 1940s, the estate was passed to Leeds University. Yorkshire Sculpture Park widens appeal 2011-07-24T21:56:31Z

In the late 1940s, the home was almost demolished. On the trail of Frank Lloyd Wright in Illinois and Wisconsin 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

His postings took him to many of the world’s most beleaguered or intriguing places — 1920s Burma; 1930s Spain, France and Italy; 1940s Mexico; 1950s Soviet Union. Pablo Neruda’s love nest in Santiago: Like his poetry, it’s filled with passion 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

In 1999 he released a CD, “Bob Welch Looks at Bop,” a salute to bebop music in the 1940s. Former Fleetwood Mac Member Bob Welch Found Dead 2012-06-07T23:20:05Z

James Bacon, who began his career at The Associated Press in the 1940s and spent six decades chronicling Hollywood's biggest stars as a reporter, author and syndicated columnist, died Saturday. James Bacon, columnist to the stars, dies at 96 2010-09-19T01:04:00Z

And he excelled in the jazzy, playful second movement, which is like a 1940s American version of Stravinsky’s Neo-Classicism, impishly dispatching riffs and bopping lines while incisively executing the music’s rhythmic gyrations and irregularities. Music Review: Three Rising Stars Perform in Young Concert Artists Gala 2014-05-08T22:04:37Z

Sometime in the 1940s, it seems, an anonymous man began the annual tribute at Poe's grave. Nevermore? Poe grave visitor again a no-show 2011-01-19T15:03:55Z

Key dates and events in the career of "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace: - 1940s: Wallace begins his news career as radio news writer for the Chicago Sun. Key dates in Mike Wallace's career 2012-04-08T19:13:09Z

Kurt Vonnegut: Lettersby Kurt Vonnegut As fiction editor of Collier's magazine in the 1940s, Burger had paid Vonnegut large sums at the start of his career – $750 for a story in 1949. Kurt Vonnegut: Letters edited by Dan Wakefield – review 2013-04-18T07:01:01Z

The pleasures of silent Hitchcock cannot compare with those of the polished all-American studio pictures of the 1940s and 1950s. Alfred Hitchcock: from silent film director to inventor of modern horror 2012-06-15T21:55:07Z

The Deckers are upgrading a dilapidated 1940s farmers market in the city. On a Design Mission in Mississippi 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

Noel Neill, the petite film and television actress who played Lois Lane in 1940s “Superman” movie serials and on television in the 1950s, died on Sunday at her home in Tucson. Noel Neill, the Lois Lane to George Reeves’s ‘Superman,’ Dies at 95 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

Simmons estimates that prices will reach four or five figures for rarities like a miniature Victorian crimping machine and a 1940s red Pyrex iron. Antiques: Edna St. Vincent Millay?s Home; the Apollo; Irons Galore 2010-07-29T20:44:00Z

After a successful Broadway run in the 1940s, Kurt Weill’s “Lady in the Dark,” with a book by Moss Hart and lyrics by Ira Gershwin, was performed live on NBC in 1954. America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

The big-hearted and wickedly funny holiday tale of a family in 1940s Indiana didn't burn up the box office in 1983. Four things we love about the holidays 2012-11-14T22:51:04Z

Until the 1940s, Jews were recorded as a distinct racial group by American immigration authorities. Donald Trump, Jews and the myth of race: How Jews gradually became “white,” and how that changed America 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

He performed as Little Jimmy Scott with the Lionel Hampton Band in the late 1940s and early 1950s, although his name went uncredited on recordings. Jimmy Scott, angel-voiced jazz singer, dies at 88 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

By the 1940s, brunch emerged as a status-symbol meal, with omelet stations and cellists at swank hotels, or fussy, tableside bananas foster at dining destinations such as Brennan’s in New Orleans. ‘You can never have too many mimosas’: How brunch became the day-wrecking meal that America loves to hate 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

“Guitar Boogie,” an instrumental with a deft solo released in the late 1940s, was his first major hit, recorded when he was 24 and serving in the Navy. Arthur Smith Dies at 93; Wrote ‘Dueling Banjos’ 2014-04-09T00:54:44Z

Vivien Thomas was a minority and an assistant to the head of surgery at Johns Hopkins back in the 1940s. Cal Ripken’s favorite baseball movie, and 24 others on the best film about their profession 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

The Grammy winner is nearly unrecognizable playing Florence, the wife of a sharecropper in 1940s Mississippi. Tiffany Haddish and Mary J. Blige are among nine movie scene-stealers from 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

They have a fantastic collection of films, and each evening this week Sky Arts is delving into its archives, looking at interior design, fashion and architecture, from the 1940s to the 1980s. Our Drugs War 2010-08-09T05:45:00Z

King is returning to the grounds of the old Mississippi Delta cotton gin where as a teenager in the 1940s he worked as a tractor driver. Bluesman B.B. King returns to Mississippi hometown 2012-08-22T00:01:04Z

The novelist Richard Wright, in a reader’s report for Harper & Brothers in the early 1940s, declared Brooks essential: “America needs a voice like hers.” Claudia Rankine on the Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Happel cites the increase in female height and rib cage size since the 1940s as a key issue he and his team encounter when reusing old costumes. Want to Feel Like a Russian Ballerina? Start With the Tutu 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

Sometime in the 1940s, two American editors at the French Surrealist magazine VVV gave their boss, André Breton, engraved Christmas cards. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z

And in a lovely coda to that observation, he adds: “When I was growing up in the 1940s, a song was everywhere on the radio, ‘Cool Water’ sung by Vaughn Monroe. The Catholic Writer Garry Wills Explores the Quran 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

This piece of music theater, about a B-movie star of the 1940s, was smartly staged as a film within an opera at the Prototype festival in 2018. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

The Italian director and actor Vittorio De Sica is best known internationally for the searing, poignant, humanist pictures he made in the late 1940s and early ’50s. Review: From Vittorio De Sica, the Comic Anxieties of la Dolce Vita 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

He began creating illustrations in a representational style for advertisements and magazines like The Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s in the late 1940s. Fred Otnes, Illustrator and Collage Artist, Dies at 89 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

Uncovered in the 1940s, these blockbuster documents kaleidoscopically broadened our sense of what Christianity was and is. New & Noteworthy 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

And a Russian agent, Rudolf Abel, was sent to the US in the 1940s to pose as a photographer. An intelligence expert's view on The Americans 2013-06-16T18:00:04Z

“Aquarius” blends contemporary mores with 1940s movie mystique to paint a disturbing — and compelling — portrait of the peace and love generation. Review: Mulder Meets Manson in NBC’s Compelling ‘Aquarius’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

Its depiction of the gentle, whimsical Jacobowksy summons uncomfortable memories of Hollywood’s portrayal of sweetly self-effacing, self-sacrificing Jews in the early 1940s. London Theater Journal: In the Shadow of the Nazis 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Nothing Is the Same Double-cast production of Y York’s drama about the challenges faced by four young Asian Pacific Americans in 1940s Hawaii in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The week ahead in L.A. theatre, Jan. 14-21: 'Shakespeare in Love,' 'Cabaret' and more 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z

The period from the late 1940s to the 1960s forms the collection's beating heart. Pollock's stellar 'Lucifer' and impressive Anderson Collection 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s, Springs was an artists colony for American expressionist painters including Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. Is the Hamptons Party Moving to Springs? 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s he also got his first taste of the movie business, appearing in several short films made in the area by Grantland Rice, who was better known as a sportswriter. Ricou Browning, Who Made the Black Lagoon Scary, Dies at 93 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

One glance in the right direction and time warps back to the 1940s. Martha’s Vineyard, the Off-Season Version 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

“Captain America: The First Avenger,” directed by Joe Johnston, is less revisionist; it exists primarily to get Chris Evans’s Captain out of the 1940s and into next summer. Riff: The Prescription to Save Ailing Superheroes 2011-07-31T04:23:02Z

But reading the poets who had begun to publish in the 1940s and ’50s opened up worlds to me. How Ursula K. Le Guin Fooled the Poet Robert Hass 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

He also owned works by artists like Picasso, Mondrian and Modigliani — but sold them when he fled Nazi persecution and moved to New York, where he worked in exile in the 1940s. Jewish Museum to Feature the Work of Pierre Chareau 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

The PG-13 rated film, which is being released on roughly 1,000 screens, follows a child in the 1940s who is trying to bring his father home from the war. 'Furious 7' likely to top box again office during slow weekend 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Phages, discovered in 1919, were used to treat bacterial infections but fell out of favor when antibiotics became widely available in the 1940s. 5 dangerous substances the food industry is pumping into your meat 2014-05-01T12:00:00Z

In the 1940s Ginsberg saw himself as some later heir of Blake, Whitman and, perhaps, Ezra Pound. Allen Ginsberg interview: From the archive, 24 April 1985 2013-04-24T06:30:00Z

The outfit now graces a 1940s dressmaker’s form — upright and shapely. How do you save a lady’s coronation robe? Very carefully. 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

For his 50th, he's applied the same treatment to the 1940s bebop themes composed by or linked with his childhood hero, Charlie Parker. Django Bates: Beloved Bird | CD review 2010-03-25T22:05:00Z

Before turning to writing, she studied acting at the American Negro Theater, a Harlem-based group of the 1940s where Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte received early training. Rosa Guy, 89, Author of Forthright Novels for Young People 2012-06-07T04:23:10Z

As early as the 1940s, the term “junk food” was used in the media as a negative way to describe foods such as cake, candy and soda. Perspective | No fads, no gimmicks: 5 food rules that stand the test of time 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

Whitman's career began in the late 1940s, and his tenor falsetto and ebony mustache and sideburns became global trademarks. Family: Country singer Slim Whitman dies at age 90 2013-06-19T14:28:07Z

And both were in the habit of asking their Amazon Alexas to play 1940s music at home. Wedding Bells for Two 95-Year-Olds 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

“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

In 1957, after developing diabetes, he moved in with Miss Wilcox, a Quaker social worker whom he had known since the 1940s, and who cared for him and then cared for his work. Art Review: ?Weegee? at International Center of Photography - Review 2012-01-19T23:35:18Z

During the 1940s he wrote prolifically, including three witty and inventive piano sonatas; an exuberant Sonata for Violin and Piano; and diverse chamber works and songs. Harold Shapero, 93, American Neo-Classical Composer, Dies 2013-05-22T03:58:50Z

Before Italian control in the 1940s, however, this area was part of Austria-Hungary and, before that, the Austrian Empire and, before that, the Holy Roman Empire. No snow required: Exploring Italy’s Dolomites during the offseason 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

And by the 1940s, this myth was living in New York. Art Review: ‘Dancing Around the Bride,’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-12-06T23:01:56Z

And in the early 1940s, the movies were all about looking and desiring and not getting there. Jane Russell: 'An immense, impervious beauty' 2011-03-01T19:55:54Z

Focusing mainly on the 1940s to 60s, Avedissian has amassed a considerable archive of magazine portraits of the great and good, the famous and infamous, of the Arab world. This week's new exhibitions 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z

Together, those books added up to an elegant history of race relations in America from the 1940s through the 1970s. Review: `When the Thrill Is Gone' superbly written 2011-03-08T13:48:16Z

Daniels got yodelling from her grandfather, a country and western aficionado who caught the yodelling craze in the 1940s and yodelled all the way to his retirement home. How to escape your phone and other life hacks 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

They had these restraints, and that's what we leaned into for "The Vast of Night" along with radio dramas of the 1930s and 1940s. Amazon's "Vast of Night" is a Richard Linklater, sci-fi, "All the President's Men" thriller mash-up 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

Wanamaker, who performed on Broadway mostly in the 1940s and '50s and appeared in such films as "The Concrete Jungle" and "Private Benjamin," died in 1993. ArtsBeat: Shakespeare's Globe Sets 2014 Opening Date for Indoor Theater 2012-11-27T17:05:12Z

Nabil's photographs and films evoke the glamour and melodrama of the 1940s golden age of Egyptian cinema. In pictures: From the Middle East 2012-11-13T01:05:32Z

He attended Ohio State in the late 1940s and saw a recruiting poster for naval aviation. 'Devotion' gets into cockpit of 2 U.S. pilots who bond in Korean War 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Now, right from the very start, these American fanzines were looking back to the characters of the 1940s, so there was an element of nostalgia, that was kind of built into them. Alan Moore Digs Up 'Unearthing' and Lays His Comics Career to Rest 2010-07-26T22:05:00Z

He met Woody Guthrie, Alan Lomax and Lead Belly, and began to advocate for migrant workers and miners in the 1940s. Pete Seeger enters 9th decade as an activist 2011-10-24T09:16:03Z

Franks sets the action in a 1940s Casablanca of colonialist kepis and carpet sellers, which suits the story's exotic weirdness. The Comedy of Errors 2010-06-30T20:31:00Z

After spending most of the 1940s on the road as a sideman with various big bands, he returned to Detroit in 1950 to care for his ailing wife and ended up staying for a decade. Yusef Lateef, Innovative Jazz Saxophonist and Flutist, Dies at 93 2013-12-24T19:55:27Z

TWD is basically a cross between a war movie and a 1940s serial. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 7: This Place is Dangerous 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

From the late 1940s until the early ’70s, the most intensive period of her collecting, she bought from galleries and from artist friends during studio visits. Florence Knoll Bassett’s Collection to Be Auctioned 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

At 5 feet, 8½ inches, she was taller than the other young women making names in the movie business in the 1940s and '50s. Lauren Bacall's voice resonated with women 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

The segment devoted to the 1940s, by contrast, was perhaps the most emotionally stirring so far. Taylor Mac’s ‘A 24-Decade History of Popular Music,’ 1930s-1950s 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

“The sin repeats, yeah / Your body’s screaming” goes a recent single; this is a far cry from 1940s history. How Japanese Rock Star Miyavi Became Unbroken's Terrifying Prison Guard 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

B. B. stood for Blues Boy, a name he took with his first taste of fame in the 1940s. B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Miniature mannequins lined the walls in gowns that date from the late 1940s - and next to them the 21 one-of-a-kind pieces they inspired. Beyoncé and J-Lo’s designers cap Paris couture 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

The decades — the 1930s and 1940s — roughly coincide with the inception, climax and denouement of his love affair with Ada Mainardi, a pianist 30 years his junior. Review: In ‘Maestro,’ a Downbeat Look at the Great Toscanini 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

I see one of his 1940s mobiles in a museum and think: Wow. The Biography of Alexander Calder, Part I 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Moody, born in Savannah, Ga., joined Dizzy Gillespie's all-star big band in the 1940s. Saxophonist James Moody dies of pancreatic cancer 2010-12-10T17:24:00Z

"Well it's about time," said Marian Sousa, 91, of El Sobrante, California, who worked as a "draftsman" creating blueprints for warships at the Kaiser Shipyard during the 1940s. Rosie the Riveter finally gets national day of recognition 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

She began composing tunes in the 1940s with her first husband, guitarist Dave Barbour, who also worked for Goodman, including "I Don't Know Enough About You" and "It's a Good Day." Peggy Lee seduced millions with her sultry, sophisticated purr 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

Running her own theater company in the 1940s, Ms. Ferreira championed bold new works and playwrights. Bibi Ferreira, Brazil’s Grande Dame of the Stage, Can’t Stop Singing Even at 94 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Piccoli’s acting career stretched back to the 1940s, but he began his association with major directors in Jean Renoir’s French Cancan in 1955. Michel Piccoli, renowned French acting veteran, dies aged 94 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

Throughout a career that began in the 1940s, Bennett, who died on Friday at 96, maintained one mission, amiably and unswervingly. The Amiable, Unswerving Tony Bennett 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z

From New York City of the 1940s, Billie Holiday walks seductively into the text, “glittering, somber and solitary,” a woman singing her own oracular doom. In Praise of Elizabeth Hardwick 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

The final gallery offers five paintings from the late 1940s that render Matisse’s Vence studio in flat, saturated colors and pulsating patterns of plants and textiles. Art Review: Matisse Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-11-29T22:44:14Z

Horne, who died Sunday at 92, was one of the first black performers hired to sing with Charlie Barnet's white orchestra in the early 1940s, playing the Copacabana nightclub in New York City. Hundreds mourn jazz singer Lena Horne in NYC 2010-05-14T19:46:00Z

Aesthetically, the shorts take their cues from the “Looney Tunes” glory years of the 1940s and ’50s, more revival than reboot. Bugs Bunny Is Back, and So Is the ‘Looney Tunes’ Mayhem 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

Through the 1940s, Broadway was also off-limits to black musicians; few if any performed in the pit orchestras of musicals. Joe Wilder, Horn Player, Dies at 92; Elegance Was His Theme Song 2014-05-10T00:40:17Z

The discussion concerning race began only in the 1940s, but that quickly ebbed a decade later. From abortion and porn to women and race: How Southern Baptist Convention resolutions have evolved 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. Teirstein began to draw attention as a dancer and choreographer in the late 1940s while still a college student. Alice Teirstein, Who Introduced Youths to Dance, Dies at 93 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

“The War Outside,” Monica Hesse’s timely YA novel, brings to life what it was like for Japanese and German families held in Texas’s Crystal City Internment Camp in the 1940s. Review | The tragic timeliness of a novel about a World War II internment camp 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Amazir is described by its publisher, Beautiful Books, as "a story of hope, love and fate set in 1940s Morocco". 'Rare' male up for romance award 2011-02-11T11:04:31Z

Mr. Holloway’s music career began in the 1940s and encompassed styles from bebop to fusion to R&B. His powerful, brassy notes and chunky vibrato swung, regardless of the genre. Red Holloway, Swinger of the Sax, Dies at 84 2012-02-29T15:18:50Z

That collection was touted, according to a replica newspaper in the gallery, as the "ugliest show in town" for its use of a retro 1940s style. Yves Saint Laurent retrospective comes to Denver 2012-03-23T16:24:09Z

She also began writing about the Bay Area art scene, which in the late 1940s was the West Coast base for Abstract Expressionism. Mary Fuller McChesney, Bay Area Artist and Historian, Dies at 99 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

Withers was one of the last remaining stars from the 1930s and 1940s, the height of Hollywood studio dominance. Jane Withers, child actor turned commercial star, dies at 95 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z

Many of them could recall playing alongside the legendary trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, who in the 1940s helped pioneer a fusion of Afro-Cuban music and bebop. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

After the studio system weakened in the late 1940s, big stars and independent producers came into their own. A man in full 2014-04-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Olefsky was the principal cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy in the 1940s while appearing as a soloist on concert stages worldwide. Paul Olefsky, a Cellist and Educator, Dies at 87 2013-06-07T03:43:28Z

First, baseball was the most popular professional sport by far in the 1940s. Perspective | Jackie Robinson, known for breaking baseball’s color barrier, was a towering figure in American history 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

The old revisionist interpretation, which reached its zenith of influence in the 1930s and 1940s, came in many varieties. Did northern aggression cause the Civil War? 2012-08-29T21:41:00Z

I zeroed in on the angle I wanted to film — the 1940s from the point of view of an adolescent girl in France. "She feels things deeply": How "A Radiant Girl" slowly realizes the persecution of the Holocaust 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

International Exchanges: Modern Art and St Ives will run until 28 September, exploring the wider national and international contexts which shaped art in St Ives in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Tate St Ives to close temporarily 2014-01-21T11:26:45Z

By the late 1940s, he had re-established himself at the forefront of Polish music. Celebrating Panufnik, a Polish Composer in London 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

Known for her smoky voice and sultry stare, Bacall raised the temperature in a quartet of hard-boiled 1940s thrillers, although her career went on to include musicals, melodramas and art-house controversies. Lauren Bacall dies at 89 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

In his book “The Biographical Dictionary of Film,” David Thomson explained what knocked him out about James Agee’s film criticism during the 1940s. Books of The Times: Inducements to Filthiness and Other Paradoxes 2011-03-22T11:00:00Z

The code center, part of the setting for a new television series, “The Bletchley Circle,” is restoring its 1940s huts and digitizing a voluminous archive. Antiques: Enigma Machines Fetch High Prices at Auctions 2013-05-16T19:56:44Z

Models strutted the catwalk in lean pencil skirt suits with bedazzled buttons and long, pleated dresses in creamy silk that looked like they were channeling the flippy tennis skirts of the 1940s. Chanel jump-starts Cannes with Cruise collection 2011-05-09T19:42:15Z

Again, the historical lesson comes from the 1940s, when the system of rationing worked so long as people accepted its necessity and it was implemented fairly. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z

Designed as a celebratory cocktail, the Airmail marked the revolutionary shift of letters being delivered by plane from Cuba to Miami beginning in the 1940s. The magic of Miami's modern daiquiri 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z

Director/producer James Schaub and producer Rod Schaub will be on hand for their documentary "Up from the Bottoms," about the northern migration of African Americans in the 1940s. Langston Hughes African American Film Festival gets under way April 17 in Seattle 2010-04-07T23:21:00Z

But it is hard to think of Japan, the 1940s and the Pacific without a flicker of sadness — and that is probably one sentiment the designer should have avoided. Fashion Review: Stuart Vevers at Loewe and Vivienne Westwood on the Catwalks 2011-10-02T18:59:00Z

But a new sense of what life is began to emerge in the 1940s. What Does It Mean to Be a Living Thing? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

And they’re gorgeous, rolling hills and venerable castles and foggy marshes and leafy forests, offering even more escape than we were already enjoying from this tale of a 1940s woman inexplicably zapped into 18th-century Scotland. The 18 Best TV Shows for Vicarious Travel Thrills 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

The clock rewinds to the 1940s, as young Bobby and his mother, Janet, await father Tom’s return from the war, where he is serving as a German interpreter for the Army. How Do You Illustrate Anguish? With Rage or Silence? 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Instead, it mostly feels like a reworked second-tier musical from, say, the late 1940s, with lots of tap dancing and semi-infectious melodies that remind you of other songs. ArtsBeat: Funny Then and There, Here and Now 2011-07-25T16:19:24Z

Verdon’s dance lineage includes years with Jack Cole, the Broadway and film choreographer, whom she danced with and assisted beginning in the 1940s. Verdon and Fosse: ‘She Gave Him Stuff. He Gave Her Stuff.’ 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

He was highly sought after as a soloist in films from the 1940s through the 1960s. Jerry Adler, Harmonica Virtuoso, Dies at 91 2010-03-21T23:58:00Z

More specifically, it’s about bebop musicians in the 1940s. The Ailey Company Meets the Challenge of This Lost Season 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

In the 1940s, the Japanese came this way hoping to seize India; in the 1960s, the Chinese considered attacking India the same way. India's final frontier 2010-12-11T00:06:21Z

Her first novel, “Missing Reels,” is ostensibly about a lost movie and forgotten actress of the silent era, but its true inspirations are the indelible romantic comedies of the 1940s. A novel in love with movies and movie love 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

As I sipped a Birds of Paradise Fizz cocktail, their version of a 1940s classic, with house-made grenadine and herbs from the garden, I decided on the tasting menu over the à la carte options. In Panama City, a Restaurant That Lives Up to Its Name 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

The bases are coated with Rilsan, a plastic in the nylon family that dates from the late 1940s and is made from castor beans. How to repaint a classic fiberglass mid-century chair 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

In the late 1940s, he entered Columbia University, when the school’s president was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Jason Epstein, publishing editor and innovator, dead at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

Reading his grandmother’s 1940s community cookbook, which gave the restaurant its name, he came upon recipes from Cubans and Brazilians alongside Georgians and Louisianians. Bites: A Sense of Place, on the Plate 2013-05-17T18:49:31Z

“His experience of what we could call gay and he would call queer culture, his idea of gender as performance, unexpressed in the 1940s, is absolutely commonplace.” Interpreting ‘The Maids’ Through a Shifting Societal Lens 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

And the catalog cites Lionel Hampton in the 1940s: “If you were a black entertainer of any kind — musician, singer, comedian — being a headliner at the Apollo was your proudest achievement.” Back to the Apollo, Uptown?s Showbiz Incubator 2011-02-07T15:09:18Z

In the early 1940s, the artist Ben Shahn created a painting for the Office of War Information with images depicting suppression, starvation, slavery, torture and murder. Worlds of Oppression Are Interwoven in a New York Show 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

Eventually his interest in Modernist formal innovations led to colorful, Picassoesque paintings depicting domestic family scenes, often featuring young children, and by the end of the 1940s his paintings had become entirely abstract. Will Barnet, Painter, Dies at 101 2012-11-13T23:34:33Z

Compassionate in its telling, the novel shifts between the 1940s and 1970s, and in both timelines, a production of the Tagore play represents an act of resistance. Review | A role for art in times of turmoil? ‘A Play for the End of the World’ gives no easy answers. 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

But by the 1940s he was in his towering maestro mode, determined to clean up the indulgent mess, as he saw it, that had come to be considered the Italian opera style. Toscanini and Giulini Put Their Mark on ?Traviata? 2010-04-04T21:37:00Z

Arbus was born in 1918 in New York and began his career as a photographer in the 1940s and served as an U.S. 'M*A*S*H' actor Allan Arbus dies at age 95 2013-04-23T19:06:10Z

During the 1940s timeline in which "A League of Their Own" is set options were, by design, limited for women. Let me be something every minute: How "A League of Their Own" mirrors "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z

She studied architecture at a university in Havana, and moved frequently between Cuba and Paris during the 1930s and 1940s. Carmen Herrera, Cuban-born abstract artist, dies at 106 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z

However, the orgone box became fashionable in America in the 1940s and 50s, and Reich grew increasingly notorious as the leader of the new sexual movement that seemed to be sweeping the country. Wilhelm Reich: the man who invented free love 2011-07-07T12:15:01Z

This radiant, astounding show further disrupts the history of New York painting in the 1940s as a linear, mostly male endeavor. Louise Bourgeois, Celebrated Sculptor, Unsung Painter 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

He has focused on wares made by Chilton, a company active in Boston and Long Island City, Queens, from the 1910s to the 1940s. Antiques: Notes From the Dealer C. T. Loo, and Pens of a Certain Age 2012-09-06T21:10:10Z

That benefit seems visible in the highly economical studies and prints of women’s faces that Matisse made in the 1940s to illustrate selected poems from Baudelaire’s “Flowers of Evil,” especially those inspired by Jeanne Duval. A Long Overdue Light on Black Models of Early Modernism 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Brown identifies eight Japanese aircraft carriers named after dragons or phoenixes plying the seas in the 1940s. Art Review: ?Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture? at Japan Society 2012-03-22T20:20:17Z

In the 1940s her mother clambered around rocks under the George Washington Bridge, while her father sketched the little red lighthouse. Antiques: Motown Piano Restored - Postcard Books - Film on Lynd Ward 2012-03-22T20:50:46Z

By the 1940s, manufacturers quickly caught on to the idea that wealthier families would buy an entire new set of clothing, toys and other gadgets if the products were marketed differently for both genders. How toys became gendered 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

But by the 1940s, scientists began to reach consensus over the central role of natural selection in the evolutionary process. From Puritans to Ken Ham: The long history of creationism in America 2014-02-22T19:00:00Z

It also covers Beckmann’s Op Art acrylic canvases, produced after he and his wife moved to the United States in the late 1940s. A Belated Retrospective for a Bauhaus Artist 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

He attended an early performance of his oratorio A Child of Our Time in the 1940s and was immediately ensnared. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z

The subjects facing the camera included some of the pop culture sovereigns of the 1940s and ’50s: Carl Sandburg, Tyrone Power, Leopold Stokowski. Art and Museums in NYC This Week 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

An urban myth circulates that sporks were first invented by Gen. Douglas MacArthur as part of the U.S. occupation of Japan in the 1940s. Consider the spork 2012-10-06T16:00:00Z

Still, postmodernism as a conscious literary form began in the 1940s – although today some of it can seem obfuscatory and clever clever, as if angling for a literary prize. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z

But blacks in the 1940s were still second-class citizens at best, deprived of the water fountains, bus seats, voting rights and entertainment opportunities taken for granted by whites. A Great Lady Makes Her Exit: Lena Horne Dies at 92 2010-05-10T19:10:00Z

She appeared on Broadway in the 1940s including a small role in the musical ''Oklahoma!'' and in off-Broadway and summer stock productions. 'As the World Turns' Matriarch Wagner Dies at 91 2010-05-03T02:56:00Z

In the 1940s, Germany invaded Holland and the Nazis started creating a load of anti-Jew rules. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank - review 2013-03-25T09:00:00Z

The Apache Belles, a local dance troupe dating back to the 1940s, shouted, “Tyler, Tyler, we are the best!” The Rose Queen of Texas 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

Tranquilized by the sight of palm-leaf prints and 1940s suits, the older members of her audience get nostalgic and think: “From Here to Eternity.” Fashion Review: Prada, Jil Sander, Gucci, Salvatore Ferragamo, Neil Barrett, Zegna and Calvin Klein Show Spring 2014 Collections During Milan Men’s Fashion Week 2013-06-26T21:45:04Z

According to them, the steel pan bands of the 1940s and 1950s took their names from popular movies of the day. ‘PAN! Our Musical Odyssey’ will make Silver Theatre pulsate 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

In later shows, some of which end with Chris’s death, he is buried under a mountain of junk for charity and visits a metropolis inexplicably frozen in the 1940s. ‘Get a Life,’ Now on DVD, With Chris Elliott 2012-10-21T03:17:16Z

Mr. Polisi, whose father was the Philharmonic’s principal bassoonist in the 1940s and ’50s, was offered the job twice, according to the two people. New York Philharmonic Finds Filling Top Job Is Tough 2011-11-20T22:47:47Z

She regarded herself as the “midwife” of Abstract Expressionism, yet it was a friend, the painter Piet Mondrian, who in the 1940s first recognized the talent of Jackson Pollock. When Collecting Wasn’t All About the Money 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Another version traces the drink to Ensenada, Mexico, where, in the early 1940s, a bartender concocted the drink to honor Margarita Henkel, the daughter of the German Ambassador to Mexico. 3 questions about tequila, answered 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

The “jazz standards” of the 1940s and ’50s were built on that era’s pop and show tunes, which is what the musicians and their audiences were listening to. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

But she insisted on having a Chambers range — top of the line in the 1940s. What My Mother’s Cooking Taught Me 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

Reagan was the leader of the stars’ trade union, the Screen Actors Guild, in the late 1940s and into the 50s, a period of strained relations between workforce and management. You're hired! How TV carried Reagan and Trump to the White House 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

But in other ways, Roth perhaps rightfully saw 1940s America as a place where several conventional criteria would have to be met if highly unconventional ideas were to land in the White House. A Different Kind of Dystopian Novel 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

In his review, Scott Bauer said the album almost feels like a “radio serial from the 1940s.” New this week: ‘Clickbait,’ Sturgill Simpson and Addison Rae 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

One former Eger client ended up in jail; he reworked 1940s Viennese catalogs to create fake provenance trails for mediocre paintings. Antiques: Vintage Auction Catalogs With Personal Provenance 2014-01-30T22:37:18Z

It tells the story of a family from after the first world war until the late 1940s – and clocks in at five hours uncut, though the National will trim it to under four. Season revealed 2013-01-30T16:33:11Z

In 1940s New Jersey, a wife kills and dismembers her abusive husband, assumes his identity and carries on living as a man. New in Paperback: ‘Directorate S,’ ‘The Friend’ 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

My mother-in-law, who made road trips to King Fong with friends when she was a high school student in Lincoln in the late 1940s, was not unhappy with her chow mein. In Omaha, Farmers and Chefs Are Good Together 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

She wears a belted, tailored dress reminiscent of the late 1940s or early 1950s. Books of The Times: A First Wife Can Be So Stolid and Clueless and Plain and Pregnant 2011-02-27T22:49:34Z

But as its two leads told me, it almost accidentally being a quiet, meditative film set in the 1940s that is actually about the much noisier world around us today. Stars of Malick's "A Hidden Life": When saying no is "enough to change the world" 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Looking exquisite in 1940s fashions, Moore’s Sarah was both fragile and steely, speaking with a breathy rapture that pulled us to her. Julianne Moore: 8 roles to remember 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

In the late 1940s, Hunter had been scandalised by a Soviet film in which a human being was induced to share the same automatic reactions which Pavlov had evoked in dogs. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z

An essay could be written about the occasions, big and small, that occupy the collective unconscious of the average American who came awake in the 1940s. ‘Let Me Tell You,’ by Shirley Jackson 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

George Gershwin died in 1937, and it wasn’t until the early 1940s that Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” ushered in the deluge of Christmas pop songs that has continued unabated. Music Review: ‘A Gershwin Holiday’ at Feinstein’s 2012-12-04T20:20:07Z

Rauschenberg, who died in 2008 at 82, began making art in the late 1940s, while studying with Josef Albers at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Decoding Robert Rauschenberg 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. McDonald now plans to focus on a small roster of designers, especially Art Smith, a Cuban-born jeweler who ran a workshop in Greenwich Village from the 1940s to the ’70s. Antiques: A Sotheby?s Catalog With Some Juicy Details 2011-02-24T22:29:12Z

Here at Salon, we are definite fans of “The Crown,” which chronicles the life of Queen Elizabeth II from the 1940s to modern times. What's new on Netflix in November, from "The Crown" to "The Irishman" 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

During World War Two he entertained the troops with his band and despite the demise of the variety scene in the late 1940s, he bounced back with The Billy Cotton Band Show. Billy Cotton: A life less ordinary 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Eastwood, 81, said he grew up in the 1940s and 1950s with his own impressions of Hoover as a heroic figure. "J. Edgar" turns tables on FBI keeper of secrets 2011-11-08T21:12:18Z

Her passion for organic design was enhanced by her study of Asian craftsmanship in the early 1940s. Zurich Exhibition Portrays Life and Work of French Designer 2010-07-11T18:30:00Z

Mandel was among the last of the great songwriters to emerge in the pre-rock ‘n’ roll era, his career dating back to the 1940s, and he enjoyed a long and diverse career. Johnny Mandel, the Oscar- and Grammy- winning composer, dies 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

He played the oboe with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for several years in the 1940s before going to London to perform with the Sadler’s Wells Opera orchestra and to study conducting. Charles Mackerras, a Wide-Ranging Conductor, Dies 2010-07-15T13:33:00Z

In the 1940s the family moved to New York, where he taught himself to play accordion, violin, saxophone and clarinet and studied percussion at Juilliard. Johnny Pacheco, an idol in world of salsa, dies at age 85 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

But the crucial stuff is this: As the Japanese Imperial Army bore down on China in the 1940s, the country’s treasures were packed up and hidden away for safekeeping. A foodie’s stinky-tofu tutorial in Taiwan 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

It’s mostly about the fashion world of the late 1940s through the early ’60s, when Cunningham was a hat designer and party crasher in Manhattan. Bill Cunningham, Style Maven, Leaves Behind a Memoir and It’s ‘a Real Dilly’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

But the works that stood head and shoulders above the rest were Carl Barks’s “Donald Duck” and “Uncle Scrooge” comics from the 1940s through the1960s. ArtsBeat Blog: Jeff Kinney's Favorite Books From Childhood 2011-11-15T14:36:14Z

Richard Attenborough’s role as the elder statesman of British cinema has somewhat obscured his prolific, often brilliant work both in front and behind the screen, in a film-making career stretching back to the early 1940s. Richard Attenborough – a career in clips 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

Last week, WDOK, a radio station in Cleveland, said it would stop playing the Christmas song “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” written in the 1940s by Frank Loesser. Princeton Singers Abandon a ‘Little Mermaid’ Song Over Kissing Concerns 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

Kirby - who wrote some comic books as well as drew them - died in 1994 at age 76 after a career stretching back to the 1940s. Comic book legend Jack Kirby's heirs settle with Marvel 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

The rose and cognac tributes of an anonymous man in black - dubbed the "Poe Toaster" - are thought to date to at least the 1940s. Poe fans holding last vigil for mysterious visitor 2012-01-18T13:46:08Z

That made it “the most bombed place on earth in the early 1940s, with some 16,000 tons of Axis bombs dropped” over Malta’s fewer than 100 square miles. Malta, the island nation just below Sicily, is an increasingly popular stopover 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

In Kenya, country music’s popularity dates to the 1940s and crosses classes, but is especially pronounced in the central highlands, the country’s farm belt. Country Music Finds a Home Far From Home, in Kenya 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Stevens, who first made his mark on the Broadway stage in the 1940s, became a versatile and ubiquitous presence on television in the ’50s. Warren Stevens, Busy Character Actor, Dies at 92 2012-03-30T05:36:52Z

Newer additions include the first commercially produced Moog synthesizer and the theremin, the electronic instrument that provided the insect-like buzzing on the "The Green Hornet" show produced in Detroit in the 1940s. Silenced musical treasures languish in Mich. vault 2012-01-15T20:18:09Z

“Hot Chocolate” was among the more than 1,800 short films called Soundies that Ellington and hundreds of other entertainers made in the 1940s. The Swinging, Jamming Musical Charms of 1940s Soundies 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the most powerful pages of “The Ministry of Truth” quote Orwell in the 1940s describing a state of public affairs all too familiar today. Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

This season those elements were still on full display but with retro references to 1940s pinup girls on a Pacific island vacation. Fashion Review: Stuart Vevers at Loewe and Vivienne Westwood on the Catwalks 2011-10-02T18:59:00Z

Guys and Dolls The classic musical comedy based on Damon Runyan's tales of gamblers, gangsters, showgirls and others in 1940s NYC. L.A. theater openings, Aug. 23-30: 'Climax' and more 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

She describes this period as "the most eventful single decade in British imperial history up to the 1940s." 'Liberty's Exiles': the American colonialists who opposed the Revolutionary War 2011-04-27T21:54:03Z

“On the outside, Betty is this 1940s blond bombshell, but the closer to you get to her, you realize she’s so strange, theatrical and smart,” Flahive said in a telephone interview. How ‘GLOW’ Helped Betty Gilpin Embrace Her Inner Weirdo 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

The revival by Classic Stage Company, where Mr. Doyle is the artistic director, will be the first production in New York since the 1940s. ‘Carmen Jones’ Is Back, and Its Director Knows What You’re Thinking 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The amusement park area boasted in the 1940s and 1950s the highest concentration of tattoo shops in the U.S., the museum says. Tattoo you: Freddy Negrete, the black-and-gray style and an L.A. museum's new interactive exhibition 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Paul and his wife Mary Ford enjoyed a string of hits in the 1940s and 1950s that included "Mockin' Bird Hill" and the influential "How High the Moon." Les Paul guitars, items fetch $5 million at auction 2012-06-10T22:04:00Z

Most current comics cost $2.99, but pristine specimens of some vintage titles such as Batman from the 1940s can trade on the collector's market for $5,000 or much more. Comic books are passion beyond investment 2010-12-01T05:16:00Z

The French state’s own catalog of the works offered starting clues, with brief summaries of the history of paintings through the 1940s. A Reporter in France Helps to Return Art Taken by the Nazis 2014-01-30T13:00:01Z

Pierre Boulez emerged in the late 1940s in Paris as a combative modernist, the brash new leader of the avant-garde. Review: Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich in All-Boulez Program 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

Nicol notes that the "rootless, transient" gumshoe became a quintessentially noir character, inspired by the 1920s pulp fiction of writers such as Dashiell Hammett and embodying the "desolate, uncertain world" of the 1940s and 50s. The Private Eye: Detectives in the Movies by Bran Nicol – review 2013-07-26T17:15:00Z

Some coveted designs — like the 1940s- and 1950s-era brass and copper pieces by the sculptor Alexander Calder — sold for four-figure prices 10 years ago. ‘Wearable Sculptures’ Become Collectibles on Their Own 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Ramey left Kentucky for the U.S. capital in the 1940s to help with the war effort during World War Two and represented the District of Columbia when she was crowned Miss America. Venus Ramey, war bond-selling, gun-toting Miss America of 1944, dies at 92 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

Roberts concurred: “The dialogue is so sharp and exacting, it’s like a 1940s movie.” How George Clooney and Julia Roberts Quietly Became the Tracy-Hepburn of Our Time 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Albert Sheldon Pennoyer's 1940s painting of locomotives blasting their way through the snowy landscape to some viewers surely was a celebration of progress, of man's taming of the land. In 'Tahoe: A Visual History,' realism and idealism intertwine 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

Davis’s starting point was in bebop, the revolutionary jazz of the 1940s associated with saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. Here’s how Miles Davis and Nina Simone were alike and different 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

The striking brunette won best actress Oscars for "The Heiress" and "To Each His Own" in the late 1940s, and was Oscar-nominated for "Gone With the Wind," "The Snake Pit" and "Hold Back the Dawn." Olivia de Havilland, "Gone With the Wind" star, dies at 104 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

Sanders, Hollywood’s suavest cad of the 1940s, typically delivered his lines with a silken, self-satisfied purr and was much appreciated by Sirk for his sense of supercilious irony. ‘Lured’ and ‘A Scandal in Paris’: Douglas Sirk’s Costume Capers 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

With Capitol Records and RCA, she became a jukebox queen in the late 1940s and 1950s with such hits as “Wheel of Fortune,” “Bonaparte’s Retreat,” “Side by Side” and “The Rock and Roll Waltz.” Kay Starr, ferociously expressive singer who had pop hit with ‘Wheel of Fortune,’ dies at 94 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

And 1940s fashion, of which we see a lot in this show, is very in for autumn/winter this year. Stylist Gabrielle Teare on Glamour of the Gods 2011-07-18T20:46:00Z

He moved to France in the late 1940s to evade racism, but he returned home often, and he helped to articulate the pains of the civil rights movement. James Baldwin, Born 90 Years Ago, Is Fading in Classrooms 2014-04-24T11:30:01Z

Leather as a gay subculture traces its roots back to the appearance of US biker gangs in the 1940s and 50s. Why is the gay leather scene dying? 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Set in the 1940s, the story unfolds in the Hollywood of big studio stars, with its attendant glitter, swimming pools and palm trees. ‘The Hollywood Daughter’ of Kate Alcott’s novel learns to speak out against intolerance 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

After meeting at the museum, families will board subway cars that transported city travelers in the 1940s through the 1960s. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 1-7 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

After moving to Chicago in the 1940s, he doubled as a musician and a street preacher, delivering sermons and pamphlets alongside Black Muslim converts and Christian evangelists. Earth Couldn’t Contain Sun Ra’s Ideas. His Arkestra Is Still Exploring Them. 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

The result echoes both the handwritten titles of the Italian neo-Realist films of the late 1940s, and the Milanese shop signs of that period. The Artistry of Inconspicuous Quality 2010-05-02T18:00:00Z

The Cold War politicians who launched the Red Scare's infamous House Un-American Activities Committee in the late 1940s also feared the power of movie stars to alter the way people thought and acted. Hollywood, right-wing powerhouse 2011-08-31T19:30:00Z

She got her start on Broadway in the early 1940s, settling into one of those careers that allow an actor to segue from plays to musicals and back again. Elaine Stritch: There was nothing like this dame

This walk-up frozen custard spot dates back to the 1940s. Venturing beyond the beer and brats in Milwaukee 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

She was desperate to measure herself against the best white women in the world in a game that was segregated in the US until the 1940s, a fact that "horrified" Wilson when she found out. Love Game: serving up equality 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

Others, like “Oh, Changbai Mountain!” and “Snow Over an Expanse of Forests,” build on the rich markings of the 1940s works. Art Review: Fu Baoshi, China?s Master Modernist, at Metropolitan Museum 2012-01-27T00:09:56Z

And he’s become fascinated by a collection of mysterious photographs taken by his mother in the early 1940s in Nice. Review | Emma Donoghue’s ‘Akin’ sends an odd couple to France 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

By the 1940s it had made her one of the country’s richest women, with 24 houses and one of Nigeria’s first automobiles. 7 of the most amazing women you’ve never heard of 2014-01-20T20:00:00Z

"The Lady's not for turning", an allusion to Christopher Fry's creaky 1940s verse-drama, The Lady's Not For Burning, bears the marks of a script-writer's midnight desperation. Margaret Thatcher's mark on books 2013-04-09T14:00:02Z

It’s hard to date the chair, but I would guess 1940s to 1960s. Reupholster or replace? It’s not an easy answer. 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

I loved how Mr. Gaultier took archetypal fashion shapes, like the strong 1940s shoulder or the lavishly draped sleeve, and made them more extreme. Paris Couture: Gaultier's Dragons 2010-07-07T16:54:00Z

He accepted practically any role, especially from the 1940s on, when he was no longer under contract. Review: 'The Entertainer' depicts old Hollywood 2013-01-14T18:38:08Z

An old-fashioned Zenith radio, of the kind Ernest Hemingway listened to when he lived outside Havana in the 1940s and 1950s, sits on a stand, broadcasting different types of music as you twist the dial. Sure, It’s Castro and Cigars, but Cuba Is Coral and Crocodiles, Too 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

For understandable reasons, there are hardly any promoting travel in the 1940s, but things pick up again in the ’50s. Art Review: ?Art for All? at the Yale Center for British Art 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z

In the late 1940s he helped found the Atlanta Negro Voters League. Mattiwilda Dobbs, Soprano and Principal at Met, Dies at 90 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

In the 1940s, Ms. Yang found unexpected success as a playwright in wartime Shanghai with a series of witty comedies. Yang Jiang, Chinese Author and Translator, Dies at 104 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Starting in the early 1940s, Monk became a major architect of the style known as bebop — and, immediately, an iconoclast within it. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s, President Franklin Roosevelt asked Hollywood studios to make their films more appealing to South Americans, to promote U.S. values and combat the growing influence of Nazi politics south of the border. Are we ready for a gay Disney princess? We may be closer than you think. 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Smith, now in his early seventies, has been visiting this cemetery since the late 1940s. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z

“Jackie Robinson in the 1940s is the symbol of black masculinity,” the historian Yohuru Williams notes. Review: ‘Jackie Robinson,’ on PBS, Covers More Than Race and Baseball 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

Guys and Dolls The Oregon Shakespeare Festival stages the classic musical based on Damon Runyan's stories of various shady characters in 1940s NYC. L.A. theater listings, Nov. 29-Dec. 6: 'Guys and Dolls' and more 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

Set in the 1930s and 1940s, “Mank” was always intended to be a period piece. Perspective | The ‘difficult genius’ trope was always problematic. Now it’s obsolete. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

Coppola won most of his five Oscars for "The Godfather" series of movies about Italian American Corleone crime family in the 1940s and 1950s. "Godfather" director Coppola to get lifetime Oscar 2010-08-25T21:41:00Z

Anthony Mann is mostly remembered today for his sprawling psychological westerns that spotlighted a darker, less puppyish James Stewart, but he earned his stripes in the 1940s with a series of tightfisted noir titles. Movie Listings for April 18-24 2014-04-17T22:55:56Z

As a female politician in the 1940s Luce was a rarity. A woman of substance 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

In the 1930s and 1940s, the neighborhood became a thriving sex quarter with rampant crime. Photography: Rare Glimpses of Iran’s Lost Underworld 2014-03-20T14:32:28Z

Given the context of the late 1940s, "Miracle on 34th Street's" success should not be surprising. "Miracle on 34th Street" reminds us that home ownership was once an elusive dream for many Americans 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z

Born in Brooklyn in 1917, she began her career dancing at the famous Cotton Club in Harlem and made her way to Hollywood in the early 1940s. Lena Horne and "Stormy Weather" 2010-05-10T16:48:00Z

Black Beauty, the automotive star of the cliff-hanging “Green Hornet” movie serial of the 1940s, scorched Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles as the car of the series’ masked hero. Was Green Hornet?s ?Beauty? the First of All Supercars? 2011-01-09T04:47:00Z

For Polanski, the crux of the book is an experiment set up to test whether human beings are innately good or – as the events of the 1940s suggested – incorrigibly evil. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z

Moody began recording in the late 1940s after serving in the military during World War Two, and he continued to write and perform music well into the 2000s. Jazz great James Moody dies of cancer, age 85 2010-12-10T20:16:00Z

At the Saturday farmers market, which dates to the 1940s, local produce runs the gamut from kale to heirloom tomatoes to Honeycrisp apples. You’re going where? Kalamazoo is tired of your Creedence Clearwater jokes 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Willy is white; Troy is an African-American, enraged at an oppressive system that essentially barred blacks from competing in major league sports until the 1940s and ’50s. August Wilson and the long awaited triumph of “Fences” 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

From there we jump back to the 1940s and see Kampen as a child, headed out on a day trip with his parents and sisters, not a swastika in sight. How a Boy in Rural Iceland Became a Tool for Global Fascism 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

You need only listen to what they’re saying, in hypnotic Southern accents to realize that whatever exists between them, it doesn’t have a chance of survival in the early 1940s. Review: ‘He Brought Her Heart Back,’ Adrienne Kennedy’s Beautiful Nightmare 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

The best New York memoir, an ebullient and exquisitely written account of Greenwich Village in the 1940s during the immediate post-war period. Edmund White's top 10 New York books 2011-01-12T12:24:11Z

In the 1940s, Cage developed a concept of inserting small objects of different materials between the strings of the piano to create a plethora of sounds. A pianist with a penchant for the unusual 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

Despite the unification that began in the 1940s of these competing systems, many people still refer to them by their former names. Facts change, people don’t 2012-09-25T15:42:00Z

Ruth Duskin Feldman, who died on May 18 at 80, was a regular panelist, and perhaps the best known of the comparatively few girls, on “The Quiz Kids,” the torrentially popular show of the 1940s. Ruth Feldman, a Quiz Kid Who Later Distilled the Experience in a Book, Dies at 80 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

It’s a modest show: not many more than 50 comics, from the 1940s to the present, each presenting Tibet in its own way. Exhibition Review: ?Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics,? at Rubin Museum 2011-12-29T23:59:17Z

When the house was built in the 1940s, it was surrounded on three sides by a screened porch. What to do when an open floor plan leaves a room feeling disjointed 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

The residents, many who graduated in the 1940s and 50s, encouraged the youth of today to always “do your best” and “pay attention to your teachers.” 'Back to school' advice from Iowa senior citizens goes viral 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

We get youngsters wanting 1940s ballads and old people whose minds are musical museums. From afrobeat to zouk: the Mauritanian home of rare African sounds 2012-06-03T12:49:52Z

Murray was an organizer of sit-ins and participated in bus protests as far back as the 1940s, and co-founded the National Organization for Women. Pauli Murray Should Be a Household Name. A New Film Shows Why. 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

His manuscripts were stored in steel trunks that remained in a son’s house until the 1940s, when they were transferred to the Cambridge University Library. From 25,540 Paper Fragments, How Darwin Himself Evolved 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Shazam first appeared in Whiz Comics No. 2 in 1939, quickly becoming one of the most popular comic book characters of the 1940s. Shazam Is Back. Wait, Who Is He Again? 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

A 1940s Atlanta nightclub called the Top Hat was one of the spots that vividly captured Mr. Adams’s imagination. How an Artist Learned About Freedom From ‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Woody Guthrie’s folk ballads from the 1930s and 1940s often commented on the plight of the working class. The soundtrack of the Sixties demanded respect, justice and equality 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z

After the war he used veteran’s benefits to pay for acting lessons at the Pasadena Playhouse, where he performed during the late 1940s before moving to New York in 1952. Alan Sues, a ?Laugh-In? Cast Mainstay, Dies at 85 2011-12-02T21:56:27Z

Others are so-called “high-functioning”, a sub-group that includes those with Asperger syndrome, the condition named after the Austrian paediatrician who in the 1940s worked with a group of children he famously termed “little professors”. 'All my life suddenly made sense': how it feels to be diagnosed with autism late in life 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z

At each end of the 1940s, both before and after “The Big Rock Candy Mountain,” Stegner published books mainly set in Utah, where he had lived during his high school and college years. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

Starting in the 1940s, Glazer was a writer and editor for Commentary and The New Republic. Sociologist and intellectual, Nathan Glazer, dead at 95 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

As recently as the 1940s, cervical cancer was a major cause of death for American women. Alabama: black women die of cervical cancer at more than twice national average 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

They had scarcely been looked at since they arrived from the Soviet Union in the 1940s. Antiques: ?40s Propaganda Posters: Soviet Morale Boosters 2011-07-28T19:57:01Z

And there are a couple of surprisingly naughty gags — so was that acceptable then, or did they get through because 1940s editors weren't dirty-minded enough? Comics: Looking at 'Cover Run' and 'Archie' 2011-02-08T16:06:04Z

Her father spent his childhood in Aleppo, Syria, where his family, who were Maronite Christians, helped to hide a Jewish tailor from persecution in the 1940s. A Philosopher and a Scientist Share a Bench 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

The bat, a gift from Ruth to a friend in the 1940s, was bought at auction in California by an unidentified buyer, SCP Auctions said. Babe Ruth 500th home run bat sells for more than $1 million 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

He was famous in the 1940s, but exerted a large influence in the 1970s. Why Philip Guston Can Still Provoke Such Furor, and Passion 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

Is your grandma acknowledged as a lovely person with a record of being on the right side of every social argument since the 1940s? Game of Thrones: is Angela Lansbury heading for Westeros? 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

This patriotic squirrel came from our collection of 1940s and 1950s newsreels. The Federal Government’s Latest Project: Squirrel GIFs 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Our home for a recent weekend was Holly, a beautiful, bottle-green bow-top caravan, built in the 1940s as a home on wheels and hand-painted with prancing horses, gold scrollwork and the obligatory lucky horseshoe. Bedding down in a gypsy caravan in a Scottish field

It's the CIA equivalent of the 1940s joke about a meeting of the American Communist Party where everyone turns out to be an undercover FBI agent. Killers: My Husband Is an Assassin (in a Very Bad Movie) 2010-06-05T02:35:00Z

The pencil-on-paper drawings of the 1940s, such as "Love Letter," surprise merely by being so literal and sweet. Review: Howard House's second Henry show offers a window onto artist's emergence 2010-03-15T04:01:00Z

Gather ye rosebuds and clench ye bumcheeks, for here we be in 1940s Suffolk, where there be dark rumblings in the cornfield. Lightfields: a supernatural chiller that assumes all its viewers are idiots 2013-02-23T11:50:42Z

A reprise of an exhibition organized by the Department of Cultural Affairs in the late 1990s, this group show features the work of seven African American photographers working in Los Angeles since the late 1940s. Datebook: Abstraction and architecture, African American photographers 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

If doomed to repeat one’s life over and over again during the 1940s, who wouldn’t try to kill Hitler? The five best science fiction/fantasy books of 2014

People we first met as students in the 1940s return in new guises: A writer is famous, then forgotten, then the subject of scholarly revival; the teenage David turns into a father, then a grandfather. Scandal Puts a Gay Father in Prison. What of His Gay Son, a Generation Later? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Neruda was forced into exile after criticizing the Chilean government in the 1940s. Ute Lemper Brings Neruda’s Poems to 54 Below 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

For his Book Find Club, which he started in the early 1940s, he selected Mailer’s sensational and profane debut novel, “The Naked and the Dead.” George Braziller, independent publisher who gave early boosts to literary greats, dies at 101 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

He began his career as a page, then a tour guide, at NBC in the early 1940s, when the network’s business was radio. James Sheldon, Director Whose Career Reflected TV’s Evolution, Dies at 95 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Then, in the next breath, he is lamenting how his family is still fighting for their land, which was seized by the government in the early 1940s to make way for an airfield. Savannah, Both Sides 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

The golden age of pinball was, the museum tells us, from the 1940s through the ’60s — roughly when these electrical and mechanical contraptions reflected the cutting edge of gaming. Museum Review: The Old Bing, Bing, Bing, at Full Tilt 2011-06-30T18:07:38Z

All of this figures prominently in eight forthrightly titled “Variant/Adobe” paintings from the late 1940s — the core of the show. Homage to Mexico: Josef Albers and His Reality-Based Abstraction 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

The series looks and sounds like a western from the 1940s, and that’s not a compliment. Review: ‘Texas Rising,’ a Mini-Series on Alamo Aftermath With Dialogue to Forget 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Meryl Streep hits more than a few sour notes — intentionally — as a music-loving socialite in 1940s New York who doesn’t understand how terribly she sings. What’s on TV Tuesday: Lin-Manuel Miranda in ‘Drunk History,’ and Dolly Parton on ‘The Voice’ 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

But my favourite plot strand involved the real-life character of Mary Frances Gerety, the copywriter who dreamt up the advertising phrase "a diamond is forever" for De Beers in the 1940s. The Engagements by J Courtney Sullivan – review 2013-07-20T13:00:06Z

On swimsuits it tends to add a 1940s starlet vibe, as well as overall texture. Ruching or not, here she comes 2011-05-11T15:58:03Z

At least this is what scientists from the 1940s began to suggest with increasing confidence. Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party 2012-11-25T19:00:00Z

That conflict has become all too familiar in Boyle Heights, which has been known since the 1940s as a mostly-Latinx enclave. Foodie tourism and protests: LA’s gentrification battles play out in Netflix's Gentefied 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z

In her early days as a student hanging around the bars of Greenwich Village, New York, Fran was at the heart of the emerging Beat scene of the 1940s. Fran Landesman obituary 2011-08-10T15:37:01Z

Men wearing fedoras with the brims pulled low rush past women with hair swept into 1940s "victory roll" styles, their high heels clattering on boardwalks. 'Manhattan' traces a culture of secrecy, nuclear anxiety 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Born in Pordenone, north-east Italy, he began his career in the 1940s, working in the art department and directing documentaries. Damiano Damiani obituary 2013-03-10T13:15:01Z

It was also part of MoMA’s attempt, which would accelerate in the 1940s, to give American architects more curatorial attention. A new look at the architecture of John Yeon, unsung master of Pacific Northwest modernism 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

The Lois Lane statue is modeled on actress Noel Neill, who played playing the female reporter with a crush on Superman in movies and on television in the 1940s and 1950s. Metropolis unveils statue of Superman's Lois Lane 2010-06-13T17:16:00Z

He studied piano at Oberlin College in the late 1940s but dropped out. John McClure Dies at 84; Produced Classic Records 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

The same day she met with Huisenga, Gooding called the East Sac County High School in Lake View, Iowa, which had replaced the school that Huisenga attended in the 1940s – Auburn High School. Texas 98-year-old WWII veteran receives high school diploma 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

Its winning formula — vintage 1940s tropical décor, extra-flattering lighting, big booths and round tables, and great French-Vietnamese food that is made for passing around — is perfect for parties of 6 to 120. New York Fashion Week: Where to Roost During Fashion Week? The Line Starts Here, Here and Here 2011-02-09T18:50:57Z

As an absurdist 1940s radio play, done on a shoestring budget, it worked surprisingly well. My favourite film aged 12: Gold 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

Roach got into TV production in the late 1940s, but the studio went bankrupt shortly after he sold his interests in 1955 to his son Hal Roach Jr. Hal Roach's film legacy explored in Hollywood Museum exhibition 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

His film career began in the late 1940s, but he was told by casting agents that he was “too tall and foreign-looking” to play Englishmen. Christopher Lee, famous for villainous roles, dies at 93 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

By the time he started touring America in the early 1940s, his flair for improvisation and a good pull quote emerged after he claimed he'd only play "classical music with the boring parts left out". Liberace: the 10 things you need to know 2013-06-07T11:27:40Z

This was one of the signature looks of Jack Pierce, a legendary Hollywood makeup artist best known for his monster work from the 1920s into the 1940s at Universal Studios. Paul Ryan, meet Eddie Munster 2012-08-15T12:00:00Z

She had “the most sensual mouth of any lady in the movies”, Gregory William Mank wrote in his book Women in Horror Films, 1940s. Patricia Morison, star of Broadway and Hollywood, dies aged 103 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z

Her novels spanning the 1940s to the 1960s depicted the devastation of rural, war-torn Spain from a child's perspective. Cervantes winner Matute: A child's view of Spain's Civil War 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

While the New York company doesn’t attract the media hype surrounding today’s “It” shoes, the brand was synonymous with footwear innovation in the 1940s and 1950s. 2010-02-16T13:30:00Z

Inspired by the palette of the Mediterranean landscape, Picasso began making ceramics in the South of France in the late 1940s. See Amazing Examples of Picasso’s Ceramic Works 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

There follows a seven-page chronology of artistic development on the New York scene from the 1940s to 2006 illustrated with pictures in the sale. Auctions: Stellar Auction at Sotheby's for Some Classics of Contemporary Art 2011-05-10T11:30:05Z

Ken Durham looked at the picture you sent and identified yours as a 1940s Victor Topper. How to restore a laminate countertop 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

He visited Brancusi in his studio in the late 1940s and saw versions of his “Bird in Space” and “Endless Column” there. Art and Design: Ellsworth Kelly?s Wood Sculptures in Boston 2011-11-27T05:07:13Z

In the 1940s and 50s, with the rise of such charismatic performers as Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, country music came to seem more and more like men's business. Kitty Wells obituary 2012-07-17T11:27:20Z

In the 1940s, dealers including Mr. Ege dispersed its 309 pages, and Dr. Davis has tracked down a third of them. Yale Buys Collection of Scattered Medieval Pages 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The results are still lifes the way that José Clemente Orozco’s 1940s paintings of disassembled dive bombers are: studies in the purposeful malice of supposedly inanimate things. Art in Review: LEE LOZANO: ?Tools? 2011-02-10T23:26:08Z

In anticipation of Michael Douglas’s turn as the flamboyant pianist in HBO’s Behind the Candelabra, I went down a rabbit hole of clips of Liberace’s performances from the 1940s through the ’80s. Liberace: Our Favorite YouTube Moments 2013-05-26T09:45:58Z

When my girls went fishing for the first time, my dad scanned a magical photo showing him fishing with his father in the 1940s. This Life: Our Plugged-in Summer 2011-08-12T20:39:56Z

In 1937, the doctors tested their new technique on a person and by the 1940s the procedure had been introduced to America and Britain as a treatment for depression. Sylvia Plath in New York: 'pain, parties and work' 2013-02-02T14:00:01Z

It begins in the late 1940s, when the German clothing industry, like much of the country, was still devastated by World War II. T Magazine: Made in Germany 2011-08-03T21:22:52Z

Stritch was born in Detroit and began her Broadway career in the late 1940s. Elaine Stritch: How to Be a Broadway Diva 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

A familiar photograph shows Chase and Kerouac hamming it up on the campus at Columbia University, where they met in the 1940s. On the Road by Jack Kerouac ? iPad app review 2011-07-22T08:00:01Z

His start in the music business came as an accordionist at a tavern near Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., where he was stationed in the 1940s. Singer, sausage businessman Jimmy Dean dies at 81 2010-06-14T03:14:00Z

What was subversive in the 1930s became abrasive or explosive in the 1940s. Astaire The Artist, Even in Blackface 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z

Designer Betty Jackson used a variety of fabrics and techniques to update the 1940s look in her spring and summer 2011 catwalk show Saturday. Sienna and Savannah Miller design catwalk show 2010-09-18T20:16:00Z

It’s a long story, flaring up in the 1940s, when the British divided the subcontinent into Hindu-dominated India and Muslim-dominated Pakistan. A Family Ski Adventure in the Himalayas 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

The eldest of four children, she was born into a rarefied 1940s, upper-middle-class world of debutantes and weekend horseback rides. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

He lived first in England before settling in the 1940s in New York and studied chemistry with the intention of becoming a baker. Frederic Morton, wartime refugee and then chronicler of Austria, dies at 90 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

He won his first professional acting job in the 1940s, when the live radio program “The Lone Ranger” cast him as the voice of Dan Reid, nephew of that Western’s intrepid title character. James Lipton, ‘Inside the Actors Studio’ Host, Dies at 93 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

In the late 1940s, the Exposition Park museum finally hired a director with an art background: James Henry Breasted Jr., the son of a well-known Egyptologist and an art history academic from UCLA. Behind the greatness of LACMA stand many great women 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Their music captures the sound of 1940s and ’50s Cuba, when the country was one of the world’s most glamorous destinations and an epicenter of music and culture. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

They date from the late 19th century and early 20th century, and are thought to have been taken from a northern Arizona reservation in the 1930s and 1940s. Paris auction house sells Hopi masks despite tribe's objection 2013-04-12T16:23:01Z

In the 1930s or 1940s it was hard to imagine that a musical performer, although vastly popular, could fashion himself or herself into this kind of cultural and political personality. What "Yesterday" — and everyone else — forgets about the Beatles 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

At the time, except for the choruses founded in the 1940s by Robert Shaw in New York and Roger Wagner in Los Angeles, choral groups relied on amateur enthusiasts. Gregg Smith, Choral Leader Who Elevated Standards, Dies at 84 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

The artists, largely self-taught, started becoming known in the 1940s, when the Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince, which offered studios, classrooms and galleries, was founded. Art in Review: ?Haitian Masters?: 1950s-1980s 2012-04-05T21:18:00Z

The avocado-colored trailer serves as a culinary transition until de la Vega’s restaurant opens in the adjacent 1940s bungalow in January. | Austin Eats 2010-09-17T23:15:00Z

In the 1940s and into the Cold War a decade later, Warbucks fought the Communist conspiracy, sometimes using his own mercenaries to go beyond what the government was willing to do, Heer says. Annie comic ends, but the redhead's fate uncertain 2010-06-12T16:17:00Z

He was a prolific radio comedy writer providing scripts for shows such as Educating Archie and The Good Show in the late 1940s and 1950s. Eric Sykes dies aged 89 2012-07-04T10:17:20Z

In the 1940s, amid Europe’s migration crisis, hundreds of thousands of refugees passed through Lisbon while fleeing Hitler’s brutality. In Portugal, uncorking some unexpected culinary delights 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s, Forster had gotten to know the young Nick Furbank, as he was known throughout his life, who was then at Cambridge, and they became friends. P. N. Furbank, Biographer of E. M. Forster, Dies at 94 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Mount Eden was purchased and planted in the early 1940s by Martin Ray, an iconoclastic, pioneering winemaker whose name, like his mentor Paul Masson's, lives on in brands under different owners. From 2018, Indelible Messages From the Past 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Here, from the mid-1940s, a mention of Bing Crosby’s horse; there, from the late 1940s, an appearance by Humphrey Bogart’s seedy character from “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.” DVD: On DVD, ?Essential Bugs Bunny Collection? 2010-10-08T22:10:00Z

A neo-Cubist abstraction, it is aptly likened in the show's catalog to De Kooning's celebrated paintings of women from the late 1940s and early 1950s. LACMA exhibit on John Altoon shows his jazzy, seductive touch 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

He started his first magazine, Your Physique, in the 1940s and in 1965 created the Mr Olympia competition, the premiere bodybuilding contest. Fitness, bodybuilding icon Joe Weider dies in Los Angeles at 93 2013-03-23T21:22:14Z

A journalist who was born in Paris and educated in London, Poirier knows that we expect many things when we consider the mythic figures who populated Paris in the 1940s. Eavesdropping on Beauvoir, Sartre and Their Circle of Friends 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Ruff, who doubled on bass and was also classically trained, met in the Army in the late 1940s, went their separate ways in pursuit of education under the G.I. Dwike Mitchell, Pianist With Missionary Zeal, Dies at 83 2013-04-19T03:00:57Z

They detail how workers tackled the rat population which occasionally infested the gallery in the 1940s. 2010-02-04T11:09:00Z

In the Mood: A 1940s Musical Revue Big Band-era celebration features singers, dancers and a live band. L.A. theater openings, March 6-13: 'Cloud 9,' 'Sex With Strangers' and more 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

She thinks it's all over ... first half: 1, second half: 0 A good watch for the first half at least, but its 1940s agenda really cramps Lady Hamilton's style. That Hamilton Woman: a tale of two halves (for better or for worse) 2011-01-06T09:07:00Z

In the 1940s her mother begged on the streets for food; when an American soldier gave some chocolate to Loren, she didn’t know what it was. Frozen in Time: Sophia Loren, London, June 1960 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z

Jones said Foot did great things for the city, helping to rebuild it after the second world war and representing it passionately as the MP for Devonport in the 1940s and 50s. Michael Foot portrait to be auctioned for Plymouth memorial fund 2013-07-18T21:12:18Z

Stump estimates the old metal sign is 70 to 80 years old and some of the hand cancellation stamps date from the 1940s. Old Indiana post office lives on at DC museum 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

Bombs: first utilised by the US military to seek out German landmines in Africa in the 1940s. Truffles, ghosts and now malaria: things dogs can sniff out 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

The stories connect through a special doll, Miss Kanagawa, who encounters four girls at different times from the 1920s to the 1940s. Summer reading: nature's delights, the nature of friendship and life lessons for children and teens 2011-06-17T18:43:57Z

Wright wrote this chilling and powerful novel in the 1940s but was never able to publish it in full. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

At No. 2 is volume 8 of "The Batman Archives," which reprints tales of the Dark Knight from the 1940s. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: Futuristic Foodies 2012-07-13T19:08:27Z

We are far from the golden age of the 1930s and 1940s, when Edgar Bergen and his puppet Charlie McCarthy were so beloved that Bergen was given an honorary Academy Award. What Do 525 Ventriloquists Do at a Convention? Ask Their Dummies 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s — to pick a random decade from the sport’s golden years — crowds of 20,000 routinely showed up on weekdays and 35,000 or more on weekends. Belmont Awaits Its Annual Return to Glory 2011-06-09T23:00:12Z

Farmer has been growing this variety every year since the 1940s because he likes its old-time taste and to honor and remember his father, who was killed in an accident in 1945. A once-famous, long-lost corn variety returns from the dead 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

A specialist in land surveying compares aerial photographs from the 1940s to determine whether a parking lot may have covered over a mass grave. ‘Tantura’ Review: Unearthing the Past 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

“Italia Arabia” looked at the influx of artists from the Middle East who flocked to Italy in the 1940s. Art Reoriented, a Curator Duo, is in High Demand 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

By the 1940s, Parsons was running Thelema’s California branch, consulting with Israel’s rocketry program and making an enemy of an American government subsumed in McCarthyist paranoia. Science and sex cults: rocketeer Jack Parsons hits the small screen 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

This new book surfaces uncollected, sometimes unpublished, poems from throughout Ginsberg's writing life, spanning the 1940s through the '90s. What do poets Kevin Young, Lucia Perillo and Allen Ginsberg have in common? 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

From the 1940s to the 1960s, some U.S. blood collection centers paid for blood, often attracting destitute donors who were unconcerned about passing along diseases. 'The Red Market:' Scott Carney's expos? of the worldwide traffic in blood and body parts 2011-06-29T23:02:12Z

Back in the 1940s and 1950s, physicists made the same mistake as the Barenaked Ladies and tried to explain the cosmic presence of all the chemical elements from the big bang theory alone. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

In interviews for the archivist Jeff Gold’s recent book, “Sittin’ In: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s,” Quincy Jones and Sonny Rollins each remembered the city’s postwar jazz clubs as a kind of oasis. Where Jazz Lives Now 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

From the 1940s to the 1980s all of the aforementioned groups mobilized on behalf of secular causes, the most prominent being separation of church and state. Secularists are not atheists 2012-09-09T16:00:00Z

They make themselves felt alongside the influences of his friends Picasso and Masson, and works by Gorky, Rothko and Pollock he encountered in his trips to New York in the late 1940s and 50s. Joan Mir?: A fine line 2011-04-11T20:30:01Z

At the Brooklyn Navy Yard the Bldg 92 museum is now showing shipbuilders’ 1940s tools and jewelry made from warship scrap metal. Antiques: Olympics Memorabilia in London Auctions and Museums 2012-07-12T22:41:56Z

In the 1940s, the crotch area was more droopy. Emmy-nominated designers celebrate TV costumes 2012-07-31T22:46:04Z

The style’s afterlife in India lasted into the late 1940s and early ’50s, and paved the way for modernism after independence in 1947. Discovering Mumbai’s Art Deco Treasures 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

The Empire State of mind continued a few blocks away at the Gale South Beach, an Art Deco-style hotel with 1940s flourishes that opened in December. South Beach for the Local Crowd 2013-01-25T23:11:47Z

Monsters and Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s Through May 26 at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Review | When artists confronted the horrors of war with monsters and dreams 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

The installation “An Ear to the Sounds of Our History” offers a clue, sampling Ms. Hayes’s extensive collection of spoken-word records, which date from the 1940s to the ’80s. Art Review: Sharon Hayes Solo Show at the Whitney 2012-06-28T22:07:34Z

“I really want to write a film about a gay English mathematician in the 1940s who commits suicide in the end,” he said. On the Oscars red carpet: Gawking, quick conversations and tequila 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

The first three volumes of his so-called black notebooks, dating from the early 1930s to the early 1940s and containing anti-Semitic passages, were published recently and renewed the debate about his true beliefs. Spare Times for April 18-24 2014-04-17T23:15:56Z

Gillespie, a great entertainer as well as an incredible musician, leads an edition of his prime-era, late 1940s Bebop big band. Dizzy Gillespie: Remembering a Jazz Legend 2013-10-21T17:01:15Z

After graduating from Wilkes University with a bachelor’s degree in education in the late 1940s, Edie moved to New York City. Edie Landau, Film Producer Who Was Ahead of Her Time, Dies at 95 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

Marc Blitzstein’s “Airborne Symphony,” for example, was a hot work in the 1940s and is now an alluring rarity. Music Review: Little Orchestra Society Takes Flight at Tully Hall 2010-04-27T22:12:00Z

No surprise she drew on 1940s hunting clothes to deconstruct the women's line. Feminine twist on classic menswear at Fashion Week 2011-02-14T20:56:25Z

One of his whimsical period numbers, made in 1987 but set in the early 1940s, it's a compilation of daft, funny vignettes about working-class Brooklyn life during the so-called golden age of radio. Is Black Music; Downtown Soulville: a week in radio 2013-01-17T17:00:01Z

In the 1940s, for example, the Republican Party pushed hard for a federal fair employment law. Can You Be Black and Republican? 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

In the late 1940s, joining a wave of aspiring painters moving to New York, Mr. Jenkins used the G.I. Paul Jenkins, Abstract Expressionist Painter, Dies at 88 2012-06-17T15:10:16Z

His first poems appeared in student publications in the 1940s, according to his Nobel Prize biography. Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet and Nobel laureate, dies at 83 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

He also served in the Third Army, where, more than a decade earlier in the 1940s, Eisenhower was chief of staff to the commander. Review | The new Eisenhower Memorial is stunning, especially at night. But is this the last of the ‘great man’ memorials? 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

Bearden’s canvases from the 1940s — which deftly juggle aspects of Social Realism, Cubism, folk art and Renaissance painting — are less-original rehearsals for the collages. Visions of Life, Built From Bits and Pieces 2011-03-31T23:00:12Z

He performed on the groundbreaking “Birth of the Cool” recordings with Miles Davis and Gerry Mulligan in the late 1940s. Gunther Schuller, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who bridged jazz and classical music, dies at 89 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s and 50s, they campaigned to pass laws restricting the use of the flag solely to historical and commemorative purposes. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

Visitors sit around a 10-foot-high, semitransparent cube to watch scenes of Mondrian working interspersed with vignettes of 1940s New York City, to the background of the music he loved. The Hague paints the town red, blue and yellow in honor of artist Mondrian 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Founded in the 1940s and only recently inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Oak Ridge Boys, ages 67 to 72, show no signs of slowing down. The Oak Ridge Boys and their famous baritone are still going strong 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

He began his film career as an actor, playing a number of supporting roles in British films in the 1940s and 1950s, but he soon found more success in screenwriting, and later directing. British director Bryan Forbes dies at age 86 2013-05-09T12:28:09Z

“They were very popular in Germany, and many American soldiers brought them home during World War II” in the 1940s. Nutcrackers invade historic Sully home in Chantilly 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Many of his works are built on his experiences of life in Peru in the late 1940s and 1950s. Nobel winner Mario Vargas Llosa rules out Peru presidency rerun 2010-12-06T20:07:00Z

Mr. Rockwell’s portraits of Americana in the 1940s and 1950s were quite popular, but largely limited to white, Anglo-Saxon subjects who were friends or acquaintances of the artist. Reimagining Norman Rockwell’s America 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

When Paul's spacecraft crashed back in the 1940s, the government kept him prisoner in Area 51, where he remained until he escaped into Graeme's and Clive's care after a road accident. Paul Review: E.T. With a Potty Mouth 2011-03-17T16:05:00Z

In the 1940s a group of farmers and speculators set up a cooperative, building an abattoir that produced both meat and leather. Bird-Watching 2010-05-20T18:20:00Z

She was a teenage thrush in 1939 for Glenn Miller, who led the most popular big band in the country, and replaced Lena Horne with Charlie Barnet’s swing orchestra in the early 1940s. Kay Starr, ferociously expressive singer who had pop hit with ‘Wheel of Fortune,’ dies at 94 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Fredell Lack, an Oklahoma-born violinist and teacher who in a long international career that began in the 1940s was known for intimate interpretations of works by the Romantics, died on Aug. 20 in Houston. Fredell Lack, Admired Violinist and Teacher, Dies at 95 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

From the 1920s through the 1940s, harmonicas were very popular in the United States. Can one harmonica work magic for 3 kids living in troubled times? 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

There was an indeterminate temperature at that time, which I liked: All of the rigidness of the 1940s was there, but there was also a searching for new forms of regulation. ‘Carol’ director talks about the roots and relevance of his latest film 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

The exhibition includes more than 60 works, many of them clustered in the late 1940s, when abstract expressionism was taking form. Review | In the shadow of Picasso and Matisse, Paul Klee offered Americans something new 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

From June 11 through Aug. 13, his gallery is offering about 60 pottery pieces made between the 1910s and 1940s, including vases, bowls, lamps, candlesticks and bookends. Over There: Daughters of Liberty 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Alongside partner Dean Martin in the late 1940s, Lewis, then in his teens, became a sensation, experiencing the kind of early comedic success that remained unparalleled until Eddie Murphy’s rise in the 1980s. Analysis | The two sides of Jerry Lewis 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

After last week’s “breakthrough,” Chris is faced with the challenge of a 1940s foxtrot, where he is playing a sailor on shore leave. 'Dancing With the Stars' Recap: Top 7 Dance Through the Ages 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Christian missionaries converted the Kelabits in the 1940s and clamped down on alcohol consumption. Personal Journeys : Back to Borneo, and an Eden at Risk 2014-02-21T19:03:43Z

He recently read a book about literary life in 1940s Dublin and fancies writing something in a similar vein, about the writer's place in 21st-century America. Tobias Wolff: 'I still feel as though I'm faking it' 2011-08-25T09:32:10Z

Fabray’s singing and comedy talents were put to good use in the 1940s in Broadway musicals such as the hit “High Button Shoes” opposite comedian Phil Silvers. Nanette Fabray, winner of Emmy and Tony awards, dead at 97 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z

Which comedy provided the source material for the 1940s Broadway musical Kiss Me, Kate?a. Friday quiz: Bardolatry 2010-04-30T12:25:00Z

She produced very detailed depictions of the countryside for about 10 years in the 1930s and 1940s. UGA museum to exhibit works of Alabama artist 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Miss Albanese, who became a United States citizen in the 1940s, received the National Medal of Arts from President Bill Clinton in 1995. Licia Albanese, Exalted Soprano, Is Dead at 105 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

“While his contemporaries in bluegrass were experimenting in swing in the 1940s and ’50s, Sprung was expanding the acceptable banjo repertoire to include — in addition to swing — ragtime, pop and classical styles as well.” Roger Sprung, Banjo Virtuoso of N.Y.C. Folk Scene, Dies at 92 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z

Four sharecropper cabins sketched in the 1940s by Samella Lewis have a mean, shutdown and abandoned look. Art Meets Its Soundtrack Deep in ‘The Dirty South’ 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

The mottled drips on the bookends inevitably bring to mind Pollock’s mature work, but he did not master the art of splattering paint until the late 1940s. Antiques: ?40s Propaganda Posters: Soviet Morale Boosters 2011-07-28T19:57:01Z

I collected King Penguins, Batsford books on the countryside, and the Britain in Pictures series produced by Collins in the 1940s and 50s. Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile 2012-06-29T21:55:18Z

Not sure how we got them, probably packing for corned beef and oranges being shipped to England in the 1940s from the US, maybe? Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ and His Most Excellent Adventure 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

He could rattle off the lyrics, chart positions and B-sides of seemingly any notable record going back to the 1940s, and lovingly sing their hooks in a nasal whine. Seymour Stein, Record Industry Giant Who Signed Madonna, Dies at 80 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

Kerry absorbed his father's passions, and his youthful love of architecture was centred at first on Wren, Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh, before travel led him in the late 1940s to Rome and to Borromini. Borromini: the first architect 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z

Some are based on UFO enthusiasts from the 1940s. Where confusion is the goal: Tony Oursler's first solo L.A. show in 10 years 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Here, you could hear dishy stories about legends like Bernstein and Poulenc, or get feedback from a living composer on music written in the 1940s. In Life and Music, Ned Rorem Was Unwaveringly Himself 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

Using vintage Panchromatic lenses from the 1940s on a digital camera helped in creating vistas that are stunning without seeming to show off. 'Mr. Turner' an unblinking portrait of British artist J.M.W. Turner 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Older music, including records from the 1940s and 1950s, “just seemed really familiar with me,” she said. Celeste, a Young Singer With an Old Soul, Makes Her Move 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

Her Infinity Net paintings and Accumulation sculptures are deservedly classics of global stature; her Japanese work of the 1940s and early 1970s are treasures still underknown. Art Review: Yayoi Kusama at Whitney Museum of American Art 2012-07-12T21:34:04Z

A onetime family business with roots dating from the 1940s, Gant was best known as a standard of collegiate prep wear of the 1960s. | Gant Rugger: Gant Rugger ? Critical Shopper 2011-10-05T22:02:05Z

It is easy to understand why it happens in light of the severe repression against interracial labor movements during the 1940s. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

Born in Columbia, Missouri, Smith would begin acting at age 8, playing small uncredited roles in 1940s films including “The Ghost of Frankenstein” and “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.” ‘Laredo’ actor William Smith dies; played cowboys, brawlers 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z

The Hollywood version compressed the Depression-era drama into a soapy 1940s murder mystery. | 'Mildred Pierce': Battling the Depression for an Ungrateful Daughter 2011-03-24T11:00:00Z

And all of this is filtered through a pictorial style that evokes classic magazine illustrations from the 1930s and 1940s. Jennifer Lawrence’s New Vogue Cover: a John Currin Painting 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

Jean is a seemingly dark, unconventional type of woman from the 1940s. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z

That piano ended up at the home of his sister, Ruth Ellington Boatwright, in the late 1940s; Mr. Ellington’s nephew Stephen James used to play underneath and eventually took lessons on it. Damien Hirst Returns to Gagosian Gallery 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

“Us,” which evokes being “with, against, and up against another” in the city, recalled for me 1940s film noir scores. Review: Wynton Marsalis’s Urban Symphony for the Philharmonic 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Ms. Patterson’s career in movies and television began in the late 1940s and continued into the early 1990s. Neva Patterson, Actress in ?Affair to Remember?, Dies at 90 2010-12-17T08:15:07Z

He worked as a field research assistant in the South for civil rights groups in the 1940s, was a photo intelligence officer during World War II and afterward worked as a newspaper reporter. George C. Stoney, Documentarian, Dies at 96 2012-07-15T05:57:17Z

Splurge on sterling silver mint julep cups, or get the race's annual glassware, a popular collectors' item for Derby fans since the 1940s. Where to Shop: Kentucky Derby Weekend 2012-05-01T15:50:03.460Z

A Thorn in the Family Paw Garry Michael Kluger’s new drama follows a married couple from the 1940s to the 1990s. L.A. theater openings, May 29-June 5: '42nd Street' and more 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

“Here I am creeping up to 90 and feeling like a million dollars,” said the London native, who first appeared onstage in the 1940s. Angela Lansbury wins first Olivier Award; 'Sunny Afternoon' is night's biggest winner 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

Shot mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, they reveal a chapter in Seattle cultural history that was hidden from most of the city’s inhabitants at the time. MOHAI exhibit of Al Smith’s photographs shows vibrancy of Seattle’s Central District and African-American community 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

His heyday was the 1940s and early ’50s, when the accumulated sorrows of the Depression and two World Wars imbued Americans with a sense of solidarity and common purpose. Rockwell Paintings at the Smithsonian American Art Museum 2010-07-01T16:28:00Z

Using the 1940s New York waterfront as inspiration, he said that his collection took these “salty, crusty guys, cleaned them up and translated them into the present.” | The Top Five Fall/Winter 2014 Men’s Wear Shows in New York 2014-02-14T22:00:19Z

Written in the early 1940s as a relief for O’Neill after the heavy lifting of “Journey” and “Iceman,” “Hughie” lasts only an hour in performance, and it has the poetic single-mindedness of a short story. Review: In ‘Hughie,’ With Forest Whitaker, Two Desolate Lost Souls 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The work has been updated from the 16th century — seemingly to the 1940s or ’50s, the stage wrapped in dark-wood paneling — but gently and without provocation. Review: A Starry ‘Don Carlos’ Brings Verdi, in French, to Paris 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

An array of photographs, objects, and clips from television and film from the late 1940s to the mid-’70s show how the civil rights movement gained traction through the mass media. The Week Ahead: May 16 ? 22 2010-05-13T14:25:00Z

His affinity for young people is not confined to his books, and Salinger's biographers closely track his history of intense attachments to teens, from Oona O'Neill in the 1940s to Joyce Maynard in the 1970s. New biography claims more Salinger books due out 2013-08-25T17:08:53Z

The rose and cognac tributes of an anonymous man in black are thought to date to at least the 1940s. Poe fans plan last vigil for mystery visitor 2012-01-17T18:45:08Z

In Manhattan from the 1940s onwards, artists had an empathy for pop music, or its artier manifestations, and vice versa. Band of art brothers: does great music inspire great art? 2010-09-21T15:36:00Z

Mirga-Tas’s extended family has lived in the settlement since the 1940s. The Roma Artist Sewing a New History for Her People 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

The story is of Seretse Khama, heir to the kingship of an African people, who was attending school in Britain during the late 1940s. Review: ‘A United Kingdom’ With Love That Tested Racial Tolerance 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

He led the so-called “ghost band,” which performed the music of the popular 1940s bandleader, for eight years before settling in Florida. Buddy DeFranco, jazz clarinetist whose career lasted more than 70 years, dies at 91 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z

The early 1940s was a period when many American composers were exploring complex methods and procedures, especially 12-tone technique. Harold Shapero, 93, American Neo-Classical Composer, Dies 2013-05-22T03:58:50Z

It incorporates Fisher Flour sacks that date from the 1910s to 1940s, when it was common for images of black people to appear on foodstuffs and domestic items. 'Mixed Greens' quilt exhibit pieces together heritage, eco-consciousness 2011-08-04T20:03:17Z

Beckett, I think, was very aware of the historical context of what he was writing about, in the 1940s.” ArtsBeat: Wait Ends for a Yiddish Version of ‘Godot’ 2013-08-16T18:23:22Z

Along with Graham and de Mille, the long list of those who taught and performed there includes Doris Humphrey, who directed its dance center in the 1940s. 92nd Street Y, a Storied Home of Dance, Gives It More Space 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

But the converted warehouse built in the 1940s is at the end of its natural life. Seattle Opera has big plans for its new headquarters at Seattle Center 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

Along the base are pieces of old machinery, including a slide projector, a boom box, an answering machine and a trunk “with everything you need for a 1940s New Year’s Eve picnic,” Mr. Hoffmann said. Hoarders’ Loot Onstage in ‘The Capables’ 2013-07-26T21:47:42Z

Those Hollywood types recreated 1940s Belgium to such an extent that De Standaard critic wrote in admiration that "the sidewalks and facades of Brussels are recognizable." Spielberg's Tintin gets seal of approval 2011-10-13T15:12:53Z

That rally was organized by the Heterodoxy Club of New York, founded in 1912 and lasting into the 1940s. 10 Under-the-Radar Art Shows to See Now 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

One memorable repair job, Mr. Lopez said, was an Ebel watch from the 1930s or 1940s that had been damaged and then sat in a drawer for years. In Paris, a Kind of Watch Repair Cooperative 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

Popular cinema of this sort in Mexico hasn’t typically received the same respect as classics of the industry’s Golden Age in the 1940s and 1950s. From Mexico, a Caped Crusader Who Wrestled Like No Woman Before Her 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z

What started out as an engine for popular American dance music hasn’t had much to do with dance floors — or pop culture — since the end of the 1940s. January in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

In the 1940s section the Jews are members of Irgun, the terrorist group responsible for several atrocities that continue to haunt Israel's self-identity, while the Arabs are depicted as peace-loving and long-suffering victims. Rewind TV: The Promise; Mad Dogs; Outcasts ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:33Z

By the 1940s the town is celebrating its founding with a play about a local 6-year-old ghost who says, “I’ll never leave you.” Newly Released Books 2011-01-19T21:24:02Z

The collection rotated around very strong shoulder lines, fitted waists and round hips, with some designs recalling the glamor of the 1940s. Bottega Veneta plays in Milan an ode to rigor and elegance 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

Some ended up in the hands of a Philadelphia jeweler and coin dealer who sold nine of them in the 1940s. He Owns World Famous Stamps and a Prized Coin. Now He’s Selling. 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

The Busy Bee Café, a half-mile from the stadium, has been around since the 1940s, and remains a reliable practitioner of the Southern staple known as the meat and three. A Game Plan for Eating Well in Atlanta 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

In the 1930s and early 1940s, eight to 12 films could be nominated in any given year. EXPLAINER: What’s changed with Oscar’s best picture category 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

Born into an immigrant family in New York's Bronx, he began working on print work for film adverts in Hollywood during the 1940s. Saul Bass's film titles celebrated in Google doodle 2013-05-08T00:16:17Z

Supposedly, though, the butternut itself wasn't bred until the 1940s by a Massachusetts man named Charles Leggett, according to Bill Kerr at Farmer's Weekly. Butternut squash: Everything you need to know about preparing fall's consummate gourd 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z

Two decades later, in the 1960s, Gov. George Corley Wallace Jr. of Alabama was one of the most effective practitioners of the politics of division Wright had described in the 1940s. A Racist World, Described by Those Who Knew It 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

Throughout the 1940s Still traveled to teaching jobs around the country, sometimes accompanied by Lillian and the children, and other times by Patricia, who eventually moved with him to New York in the 1950s. Clyfford Still Museum in Denver 2011-11-20T05:00:34Z

In pursuit of that goal, the writers deliberately traffic in clichés, following the blueprint of countless musicals and war movies of the 1940s or thereabouts. Theater Review | 'Yank!': Stealing Kisses Before ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell? 2010-02-25T03:48:00Z

Steam trains, mechanical contraptions, winsome kids in 1940s short trousers: it's all there. Martin Scorsese's Hugo ? what's your verdict on the trailer? 2011-07-15T10:35:25Z

He found his way into the fashion world in the late 1940s, working on the staff of well-known designer Cristóbal Balenciaga. Andre Courreges, 92, French fashion designer known for miniskirt, dies 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

Anderson and Ward grew up together in Berkeley, Calif., and formed a business in the late 1940s to pitch cartoon ideas to television. Creator of Rocky and Bullwinkle dies 2010-10-25T04:24:00Z

In the late 1940s, Barnhill, a stout, white-washed house, on the Scottish island of Jura in the Inner Hebrides, was exactly what George Orwell was looking for: a remote retreat unreachable by vehicle. A tour of Orwell’s Jura, where he wrote 1984 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z

Malick was raised in Texas in the 1940s and '50s, and as anyone who ever spent time there will tell you, Texas is very much a Southern Baptist part of the United States. Your guide to Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" 2011-07-02T16:54:00Z

“The Heron,” Bassani’s masterpiece, takes place on a single Sunday in the late 1940s, when Edgardo Limentani, a Jewish landowner who spent the war in Switzerland, goes shooting for birds in the Po delta. The World War II Tragedy of Italy’s Jews, Preserved in Fiction 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

Throughout the six decades of work on view, Rauschenberg returns to a tension he felt since his student days at Black Mountain College, in the late 1940s. Review | Robert Rauschenberg: A clear-eyed views of chaos, or just chaos? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

And just about every other comics genre and trope from the 1940s onward. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z

A conservative, he probably never regretted creating the newsreels for Thalberg, especially since he went on to direct several B-movies in the 1940s and 1950s, and dozens of episodes for TV series. ‘Mank’ and Politics: What Really Happened in 1934 California 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

Browne’s four Paul Pine novels — now gathered together in “Halo for Hire” — are quite consciously written in the wise-cracking, tough-guy mode of Chandler’s fiction and 1940s Humphrey Bogart films. Review | Years ago I wandered into a used book store and a man named X handed me this gem 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

Shaw's original idea was not to write about the 1940s at all. 'Manhattan' traces a culture of secrecy, nuclear anxiety 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Another role was the clown, as seen in 1940s Aunt Jemima figures and postcards of black kids eating watermelon. Art Review: ?For All the World to See,? on Civil Rights Era 2010-05-20T21:48:00Z

She was in great demand throughout the 1940s and remained popular even as another singer, Lata Mangeshkar, became the dominant playback singer of the 1950s. Shamshad Begum Indian Film Singer Dies at 94 2013-04-28T02:28:14Z

"Tappan art teacher Mary Rowland Fisher checked this social studies curriculum book out from the Ann Arbor Public Library sometime in the 1940s," the library’s posts explained. Michigan library book gets returned 70 years later: 'Consider it waived' 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z

During the 1940s, Szell conducted regularly at the Met, including two acclaimed “Ring” cycles. Gustavo Dudamel Hasn’t Conducted Much Opera. That’s OK. 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

Now 90 years old, Mr. Lewis has been performing since the 1940s. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

When the first sets were rolled out as curiosities in the 1940s, spectators gathered in bars to watch boxing matches. The Twitter Watch Party Is Over 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z

The intentional proximity of “Madame Butterfly” to an opera depicting the incarceration of a Japanese-American family in the 1940s is aimed at providing a second perspective for audiences. Cultural controversy swirls around Seattle Opera’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

In the late 1940s and 1950s he often played the part of a hard-boiled photographer doing tough-guy stuff in Hollywood movies. Weegee the Famous: The Master of Down-and-Dirty Street Photography 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday, many organizations will celebrate what happened in 1776, but this museum will focus on the 1940s. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

And the 1940s saw the rise of the Air Mail, a honeyed daiquiri topped with Champagne. Shake Up Your Evening Cocktail With Some Honey 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

In London, “Dylan Thomas in Fitzrovia,” a weeklong festival devoted to his time in London in the 1940s and ’50s, began on Monday. A Dylan Thomas Centennial in New York 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Q: Were you aware of the Oak Ridge Boys and their history going back to the late 1940s before you joined in 1972? The Oak Ridge Boys and their famous baritone are still going strong 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Arranged chronologically, the sentimental journey through Mr. Cash’s life is punctuated by music selections available through iPads and headsets, including 1940s tunes the musician considered influential from the Grand Ole Opry to the Texas border. In Transit Blog: A Museum Named Cash 2013-06-18T21:10:13Z

In the 1940s, the canvas was glued to two pieces of plywood in an effort to strengthen the linen. 'Gross Clinic' painting undergoes its own public surgery 2010-05-13T23:44:00Z

In the 1940s, John Cage and Merce Cunningham were young artists at the start of a collaboration that would radically alter and expand ideas of music and dance and how they might go together. Review: Who Can Commune With Cunningham and Cage? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Part of the exhibit’s title, “Scandal Sandals,” refers to sandals with lacing up the calf that the brand’s founder, Herman Delman, created in the 1940s. 2010-02-16T13:30:00Z

Sometime in the early 1940s, before he became the choreographer who shaped American movement, Jerome Robbins made a little home movie on a New York rooftop. Review: An Aching Ode to Jerome Robbins’s Lost New York 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

There are harrowing scenes in which a blowtorch is applied to the torso of one suspect, and another is subjected to a 1940s version of waterboarding. | 'The Army of Crime': The Resistance in France, and Missak Manouchian?s Role 2010-08-19T21:14:00Z

Along with all the people pouring into Taiwan in the late 1940s, there was something else: crates. A foodie’s stinky-tofu tutorial in Taiwan 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Many of their contemporaries followed Piper and Ravilious in using watercolour to capture the trauma of the 1940s. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z

In an acting career that began in the 1940s, he also appeared in the Alfred Hitchcock films The Trouble With Harry and Topaz. Dynasty star John Forsythe dies 2010-04-02T19:38:00Z

Q: This film takes place in 1940s England. Is ‘The Little Stranger’ a ghost story or an allegory about Donald Trump? 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

But De Havilland - who played a significant role in Gone With The Wind - won two statuettes later in the 1940s for To Each His Own and The Heiress. Oscar-winning actress Fontaine dies 2013-12-16T09:01:09Z

The lots in Saturday’s auction were mostly manufactured between the 1890s and 1940s, by American companies including Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers. Antiques: A London Apartment Done Up in French 2010-04-22T22:32:00Z

“If I wanted a song, I would ask you for a song,” she says with a flash of beastly bossiness just shocking enough to be advantageous to a 12-year-old girl in 1940s England. Review: Instead of a ‘War Horse,’ This Time a Lost Cat Opens a Child’s Eyes 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

The grid as a form gets an impressive pre-Minimalist workout in 1940s room dividers made of cellophane and horsehair by the incomparable weaver, printmaker, art historian, philosopher, teacher, theorist and life-student Anni Albers. At MoMA, Women at Play in the Fields of Abstraction 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Maybe our moody weather makes the shadowy visual textures of such brooding Hollywood crime tales, churned out in the 1940s and early '50s, so appealing. Noir classic steps out of the shadows at ACT 2011-10-20T18:50:11Z

Maureen O’Hara, the spirited Irish-born actress who played strong-willed, tempestuous beauties opposite all manner of adventurers in escapist movies of the 1940s and ’50s, died on Saturday at her home in Boise, Idaho. Maureen O’Hara, Irish-Born Star Who Played Strong-Willed Beauties, Dies at 95 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

By the late 1940s he had developed his mature style and settled on the themes that would engage him for the rest of his life: love, death, sex, grief, aging, alienation and religious faith. George Tooker, Painter Capturing Modern Anxieties, Dies at 90 2011-03-29T20:32:21Z

The dining room’s palette is inspired by a 1940s businessman in a gray suit and white shirt. House Tour: Warwick, N.Y. 2011-06-30T22:48:16Z

The Henry Moore Foundation owns the house and farmland where the artist lived from the 1940s until his death in 1986. Henry Moore, Auguste Rodin meet in English field 2013-03-19T17:50:18Z

By the 1940s, the use of redistribution to ensure that everyone had a basic standard of living was accepted by most Chicago economists. Going off the rails 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

“I was really struck with the designs and costumes he did starting in the early 1940s,” Barron, senior curator of modern art, said of these lesser-known aspects of Chagall’s oeuvre. Marc Chagall reveals his theatrical side in LACMA's 'Fantasies for the Stage' 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

But rather than the delicate roses Dior was known for in the 1940s in 1950s, dresses and suits were adorned with creeping vines, thistles and thorns. Dior's transient garden sets the mood for Paris Fashion Week 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

"In the 1940s and '50s, songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein were rooted in European operetta," says Reineke by phone from Detroit. 'Broadway Rocks' pairs Seattle Symphony with hits from the New York stage 2010-07-08T20:42:00Z

She lived in Hollywood in the late 1930s and early 1940s, in apartments and rooming houses. Paula Fox looks back on a wayward life 2011-05-05T10:32:09Z

There are several moments of humor - yes, even "Death of a Salesman" does have jokes - and some of Miller's wry observations in the late 1940s may bring a smile of recognition. A deeply relevant 'Death of a Salesman' emerges 2012-03-16T05:31:08Z

But she’s as riveting as the heroine of a 1940s film noir: her luster, her urgency and her enigma exert equal force. Dance: An Illuminating Swan, Then a Pure-Dance End 2010-02-17T23:34:00Z

Karyn Parsons travels back to 1940s South Carolina in “How High the Moon” Mary Amato weaves stories and songwriting together in Lucy McGee series 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

Italian-Americans were not legally considered white until sometime in the 1940s. The peak of Sinatra’s power: “Every Sinatra performance was acting. His greatest performance was as himself” 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

It is less common in landscape, though one relevant predecessor may be the downbeat, ghostly barns and churches painted in the 1940s by the American regionalist George Ault. Maureen Gallace’s Restrained Palette of House, Sea, Sky 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

The flaming rat case from the 1940s is a staple of tort law and law school classes. Ralph Nader builds his dream museum. Of tort law. 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

Now, Hulu is bringing back the series — which was itself a throwback to the rebellious sensibility of classic Warner Bros. cartoons from the 1940s and ’50s — in new episodes that will be released on Friday. ‘Animaniacs’ Is Back, Still Zany and Totally Insane-y 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

She found some early success as a teenage singer with Otis’s band in the 1940s and made several recordings that never quite took off. Ernestine Anderson, Grammy-nominated jazz singer, dies at 87 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

I remember hearing the Weavers on the radio in the late 1940s at my grandmother’s house. The Byrds' Roger McGuinn on His Special Bond With Pete Seeger 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

White, who had claimed to be “militantly single” since a marriage in the late 1940s, weakened in her resolve. Betty White, an ageless TV star, was America’s sweetheart 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

The sole previous English edition, with Brod’s edits, was issued in the late 1940s. The Kafka You Never Knew 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

His pictures of Manhattan in the 1940s are distinctive. Rudy Burckhardt: ‘Subterranean Monuments: A Centenary Celebration’ 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

She used this on her 1940s dining chairs. How to upcycle furniture for a one-of-a-kind look 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Reflecting on his career, Mr. Hanson said he wished he could have entered the business in the 1930s and 1940s, at the height of the Hollywood studio system. Curtis Hanson, director of crime drama ‘L.A. Confidential,’ dies at 71 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Untangling burrs from his dog’s fur after an Alpine hunting trip prompted the Swiss engineer George de Mestral to develop Velcro fabric fastener in the 1940s and 1950s. A Compendium of Everyday Genius 2010-08-15T16:53:00Z

It got its start as a working-class black neighborhood, before being gentrified in the 1940s. If there’s a Trump bump for restaurants, Georgetown is first in line 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Take a listen to “Notations,” a series of orchestral movements Mr. Boulez wrote in the 1970s, based on piano miniatures he’d done in the 1940s. Sampling the Work of Pierre Boulez 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

That painting, of the duke astride a rearing horse, was destroyed by fire in the 1940s but a sketch of it is in the Kimbell Art Museum in Texas. Newly found Rubens portrait of King James I lover unveiled in Glasgow 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Sandals evolved into peep-toe evening shoes, a style that stayed strong through the 1940s. Peep-toe boots let them all hang out 2010-10-20T17:34:00Z

In the 1940s a German biologist fashioned a mechanical model of a pterosaur from balsa wood, wire, tissue paper and a rubber-band motor, and flew it at a professional conference. Exhibition Review: Natural History Museum Explores the Wonders of Pterosaurs 2014-04-10T14:00:02Z

In the 1940s Mr. Martin was to popular song what Fred Astaire was to dance. Tony Martin, Debonair Pop Baritone, Dies at 98 2012-07-30T20:29:58Z

These instruments, popularized by Black churches starting in the 1940s, will be played every Saturday during the exhibition. Poetry, Power and Loss in Theaster Gates’s Survey 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

It’s probable that Bausch, here and elsewhere, intended to restore to dance some of the poetic ambiguity that was so striking and baffling in Graham’s choreography in the 1940s. Dance Review: Pina Bausch’s ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ From Paris Opera Ballet 2012-07-22T20:20:07Z

Living next to his family was the brother of Norman Granz, who owned the jazz label Clef Records and promoted concerts in the 1940s and ’50s. Mo Ostin, Music Powerhouse Who Put Artists First, Dies at 95 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

Christopher Trumbo was an expert on the 1940s House Un-American Activities Committee investigation into alleged communist infiltration of Hollywood. Son of blacklisted Hollywood writer Trumbo dies 2011-01-12T14:41:07Z

Russell, best known as the buxom star of 1940s and 1950s movie, died of respiratory problems at her home in Santa Maria, central California, according to Etta Waterfield, her daughter-in-law. Actress Jane Russell dead at 89 2011-03-01T00:36:50Z

Over the past century, scholars have debated whether “Merchant” should be staged at all, particularly after the play was deployed in Germany in the 1940s as Nazi propaganda. Review: A ‘Merchant of Venice’ That Doubles Down on Pain 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

In addition, Ms. Sheppard is known mostly for her work on 1940s period films like “Schindler’s List” and “The Pianist,” so the latest nomination is doubly beneficial: “it means I’ve broken the barrier,” she said. Clothes and Character: 'Maleficent' 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

"Jazz was popular music in the 1940s," says jazz musician Tim Richards. Jazz moves to stay 'relevant' 2012-07-03T07:44:48Z

Although this show reaches tentatively into the 1940s, it gives no sign of the coming triumph of Abstract Expressionism, but you might not miss it. Art Review: ‘Fine Lines,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2013-04-18T21:31:41Z

Audiard said the power of B movies - from 1930s horror films to 1940s film noir thrillers - is that they said something about the crisis-ridden world around them. Jacques Audiard praises B movies at Cannes 2012-05-20T11:04:10Z

Critical applause may help the film, a drama about the man who created Wonder Woman in the 1940s, to find a video-on-demand audience. Young Audiences Flock to ‘Happy Death Day’ 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z

By the end of the 1940s he had a fan club of 15,000. Richard Attenborough, Actor, Director and Giant of British Cinema, Dies at 90 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

James M. Cain left Los Angeles in the late 1940s and his fiction was never the same. When noir blew up! 2012-12-12T18:03:00Z

However, Michael Billington, in the Guardian, said "Compared with the crisp brilliance of his plays of the 1930s and 1940s, the plotting seems loose and the dialogue flabby." Relative Values divides critics 2014-04-15T10:40:09Z

Though its meaning is innocuous now, back in the 1940s, it was used to describe something much darker. Why do we call hit movies "blockbusters"? 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z

Chiuri said in a press release she was also inspired by Italian Surrealist artist Leonor Fini, a friend of Christian Dior, the late founder of the house in the last 1940s. With swirls and cages, Dior goes surrealist for Haute Couture week 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

What was Betty like as a girl in Detroit, Michigan, in the 1940s? Author explores early life of her famous mom, Betty Shabazz 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

The program opened with Martinu’s “Three Madrigals,” written for the violinist Joseph Fuchs and his sister, the violist Lillian Fuchs, who both performed frequently at Town Hall in the 1940s. Review: Lise de la Salle and Members of the Knights, Traveling Through Time 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

When her contract expired in the 1940s, she began to work less and less in films and later took up painting. "Titanic" actress Gloria Stuart dies 2010-09-27T18:42:00Z

We heard from a swift observation project, set up by David Lack in the 1940s. Saving Species 2010-09-01T07:00:00Z

She was one of a number of artistic and political emigres who arrived in Mexico in the 1940s. Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington dies at 94 2011-05-26T15:35:13Z

His father, George, a pathologist, loved jazz and blues and purchased one of the first reel-to-reel tape machines in the late 1940s. Steve Miller cracked the code of 1970s radio. But he’s still raging against the music industry. 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Racial tensions also escalated that summer in Northern cities, where millions of Southern black Americans had been flocking since the 1940s. Everything you know about the 1960s is wrong 2012-11-24T14:00:00Z

There’s the Joni, which looks like a chest of drawers; the Patsy, inspired by lunch pails women took into the work force in the 1940s; and the Diana, an accordion sculpture. At Gabriela Hearst, Cashmere and the Carlyle Are Close at Hand 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

In the 1940s and ‘50s, food scientists and marketers promoted vitamin- and additive-enriched foods, advertising their longer shelf lives and vague “nutritional benefits.” Your vitamins aren’t really vitamins: Why our quest for nutritional perfection is making us sick 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

The show begins in the late 1940s with its dapper protagonist eager to open a record shop in Hollywood and name it Dolphin's of Hollywood. In 'Recorded in Hollywood,' Dolphin family's lore crosses over into R&B history 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Opera Moderne oddly decided not to include any of his music from the 1940s or ’50s or works by the blacklisted Copland, Blitzstein or Morton Gould. Music Review: Opera Moderne Completes Its ‘Red Scare’ Series 2012-06-17T22:12:58Z

Milton Drake was a lyricist of “Mairzy Doats” and other popular songs in the 1940s, and Arnold Drake became a noted comic book illustrator. Ervin Drake, songwriter of ‘It Was a Very Good Year,’ dies at 95 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Director Andre Engel and his team move the action from a small Russian village of the last century to Little Odessa - the Russian enclave of New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Janacek opera in Vienna depressingly enjoyable 2011-06-18T11:27:10Z

Actually, in the early 1940s, Imogene Coco was a veteran in the entertainment business. Treasures: Valuing a handwritten note from TV great Imogene Coca 2011-05-04T18:29:09Z

One particular memory of Bucky stands out to Steve, after this revelation: the day of his parents' funeral in the 1940s. Actually, “Eternals” isn’t the MCU’s first love story — “The Winter Soldier” is 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

By the 1940s, he was writing arrangements and performing with such stars as drummer Buddy Rich and such unlikely musicians as saxophonist Alan Greenspan, the future chairman of the Federal Reserve. Johnny Mandel, the Oscar- and Grammy- winning composer, dies 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

“We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers,” declared Bayard Rustin in the late 1940s. Review | A powerful lesson about the March on Washington and other best books for kids this month 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

He was a lifelong stammerer, and this challenge led him to leave Cambridge, where he had taught in the late 1940s and early ’50s, to work in London as a librarian and an editor. P. N. Furbank, Biographer of E. M. Forster, Dies at 94 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Nature writer Rutherford Platt, writing in the 1940s, said the best way to distinguish a slippery elm from an American elm is by the winter buds — the trees look too similar in growth. There’s a lot more to winter trees than meets the eye 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

These works, with “Rodeo,” formed the core of the company’s repertoire in its early years in the 1940s and ’50s. A sparkling start to American Ballet Theatre’s D.C. engagement 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

The actress broke free from the racially stereotypical roles often given to black actresses when she began her career in the 1940s and continued to act into her 90s. Stage, screen actress Ruby Dee dies at 91: family 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Overlooking both Hope Town Harbour and the Atlantic, this casual resort was originally built as a private home in the 1940s. Exploring the far-flung natural beauty of the Bahamas’ ‘out’ islands 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Beginning in the late 1940s, he imported a wide range of brands, including Delahaye and Austin. Design: Wright’s New York Showroom, Now Just a Memory 2013-06-21T22:11:34Z

He was also in the vanguard of electronic composition, creating pieces in that medium as early as the 1940s. Halim El-Dabh, Composer of Martha Graham Ballets, Dies at 96 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

That painting, of the duke astride a rearing horse, was destroyed by fire in the 1940s but a sketch of it is in the Kimbell Art Museum in Texas. Newly found Rubens portrait of King James I lover unveiled in Glasgow 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

The device has been used in other films, including “Dark Passage,” another 1940s noir, and Kathryn Bigelow’s “Strange Days,” but rarely to the extent that it was deployed in “Lady in the Lake.” Film: Turn on, Tune in to a Trippy Afterlife 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z

These rooms may lack the opulence of the Southwest Chief’s predecessor, the “Super Chief” – whose lavish veneered interiors charmed LA-bound Hollywood stars in the 1940s – but they are quiet and comfortable. Views you don’t get on the freeway … across America by train 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

The jazz saxophonist Lester Young, the first musician to wear sunglasses while performing in nightclubs, coined and popularized the term in the early 1940s. Museums Special Section: In Washington, 100 Examples of the Epitome of Cool 2014-03-19T20:36:17Z

He also showed some leather puffer jackets that were fused with 1940s style pockets. On the Runway Blog: Town and Country From Pedro Louren?o 2012-03-05T21:35:06Z

The first dinosaur fossils at the Missouri site were found in the early 1940s, uncovered by a family digging a well. Fossils discovered in Missouri may lead to big find, scientist says 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

Dickson’s book reveals some little-known history about the Army and American society in the 1930s and early 1940s. The Herculean Effort to Build an American Army 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Alonso, who is 90 and nearly blind, danced in the American Ballet Theater in the 1940s and 1950s, but returned to Cuba after the revolution and took over the Cuban National Ballet. Cuban ballet to start U.S. tour next week 2011-05-28T00:53:19Z

Though its emphasis is on Danish pieces from the 1940s to the ’70s, including pieces by celebrated furniture designers such as Hans Wegner, it also sells candles as well as ceramics and artwork. Five Places to Shop in Singapore 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

But an onstage sound-effects nook is the chief attraction of the show, set inside a 1940s radio station that is broadcasting the tale of the self-sacrificing every­man George Bailey and his rescuing angel, Clarence. Sound effects star in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play’ 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

After years of soaring popularity, Mr. Sinatra, a velvet-voiced baritone, saw his career slide in the late 1940s. George Michael Wrestled With Fame. Frank Sinatra Had Some Advice. 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the largest reduction operation in human history arose off the coast of Peru in pursuit of the Peruvian anchoveta. Fool’s gold: what fish oil is doing to our health and the planet 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

A Return to the Long Beach Home Companion 2014 Long Beach Playhouse sends up local politics, in the style of a 1940s radio show, in its annual fundraiser. L.A. theater openings, June 15-22: 'Houdini,' 'Oedipus' and more 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

In the 1930s and 1940s, comic books were read by millions of people in America. Stan Lee has departed our universe, having “surpassed his wildest dreams” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

There are visitors, mostly musicians relishing the opportunity to play a piece from the 1940s or ’50s and receive feedback from its composer. At 95, Ned Rorem Is Done Composing. But He’s Not Done Living. 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

On view until May 28, it’s a groundbreaking survey of a dozen artists working in San Francisco and New York from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. A groundbreaking show to confront the gender bias in art: 'Women of Abstract Expressionism' 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

As the film follows the Chess brothers from the 1940s to the late ’50s, it plays fast and loose with time. | 'Who Do You Love': Leonard Chess: Starting Rock ?n? Roll, Sort Of 2010-04-09T00:03:00Z

The discovery of the Wollemia recalls the find of another fossil tree, the dawn redwood, which resurfaced in the wild in China in the 1940s. Perspective | Meet the Wollemi pine, the ‘dinosaur tree’ brought back from the dead and threatened once again 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

I grew up in another world, in the 1940s and 50s, when cigarettes served not only as a comfort for the lonely but a powerful social glue. Why are the poor blamed and shamed for their deaths? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

With the rise of such book-based shows in the 1940s as “Oklahoma!” and “Carousel,” however, the leads were more or less unknowns. ArtsBeat: Does Music Trump Story? More Answers to Your Broadway Questions 2010-12-08T23:05:00Z

Music is a connective thread through this exquisitely structured novel, with teenage sisters working as itinerant teahouse singers in the 1940s, and descendants becoming a composer and a violinist. More fine fall fiction 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Most fans of Raymond Chandler associate the author with his hardboiled mystery novels and Philip Marlowe, his tough 1940s private detective with a taste for nicotine and alcohol. Unpublished Raymond Chandler work discovered 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

In the 1940s, Sekula made small abstractions favoring the grid structure, saturated colors and a lyrical, delicate sense of line. 11 Galleries to Visit Now on the Upper East Side and in Harlem 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

This collection is made up of overtures and excerpts taken from studio sessions and concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the 1940s and 50s. Toscanini Conducts Wagner – review 2013-06-20T17:30:00Z

As the men toast the nationalization of the mining industry in the 1940s, they imagine a utopian socialist Britain that will honor workers as fully dimensional individuals of unlimited human potential. 'The Pitmen Painters': Miners discover their inner artist 2012-04-30T23:31:04Z

Though she was considered one of the most glamorous stars in her heyday in the 1940s and 50s, her opportunities were curtailed due to racism. Belafonte recalls Horne’s activism as Solange is honored 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

His ambition, though, soon collided with government policies, enacted in the 1940s and early 1950s, that prohibited homosexuals from working for the government or many private employers with a federal contract. The Brilliant Astronomer Who Devised New Tactics to Fight Anti-Gay Bias 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s and early 1950s, entrepreneurs sprung up all over the country, offering in various ways to bring a TV signal into towns that weren’t able to get one. An Appraisal: Sid Caesar Was a Force in New Industry 2014-02-14T22:51:38Z

I hold the second of two huge creaky hinged windows overhead while my son clips each corner to chains hanging from the ceiling — a crude but effective ventilation solution in place since the 1940s. Summer on the lake: ‘It’s as Canadian as ice hockey’ 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

He studied at the New England Conservatory and the Curtis Institute of Music and in the early 1940s was a member of the Galimir Quartet in New York. Arthur Winograd, Hartford Symphony Music Director, Dies at 90 2010-04-28T02:53:00Z

In northeast England near Newcastle upon Tyne, the Beamish Museum is a huge, 300-acre “living museum” which emulates life in this region during the 1820s, 1900s, and 1940s. Time-traveling at Europe’s open-air museums 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

He got his start on radio with husband and wife team Eddie & Pearl in the late 1940s. George Jones, country superstar, has died at 81 2013-04-26T14:36:09Z

Josiah E. DuBois Jr., a lawyer with the United States Treasury Department in the 1940s, is the hero in this nonfiction comic about his efforts to help Jewish refugees in Europe. 8 Comic Books to Get You to Spring 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

An early 1940s DC memo mandated that superheroes don’t kill, but here Supes and Batman directly and indirectly pile up a body count in the hundreds if not thousands. The Real Reason 'Batman v Superman' Was Doomed 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

I played only jazz from that period, the 1940s, and that kept my creative blood up. Jonathan Ross meets Jim Steranko, his comic-book hero 2010-07-20T23:10:00Z

It is also meant to be a celebration of "British cool" from the 1940s to 1980s and there will also be a carefully curated schedule of events combining art, design and fashion. Faces reform for Vintage at Goodwood festival - with Mick Hucknall 2010-05-25T19:05:00Z

Nonetheless, as an introduction to the economic debates taking place in London and Washington in the 1930s and 1940s, Mr Rauchway’s work could not be bettered. FDR for beginners 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

After World War II in the 1940s, the National Football League ordered the song played before all its games. Perspective | The national anthem reminds us how much Americans need to work together 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

Apparent in the 1940s and obvious by the 1970s,  the dynamic, growing multicultural milieu of Los Angeles was the undeniable wave of the future. 'Zoot Suit' writer Luis Valdez: How Gordon Davidson changed my life, and American theater, forever 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Then there'd be the faded green and red paper rope, and plastic 1940s' stars that slot into one another; and then fragile blown-glass balls, fewer each year. Inventing the Christmas Tree by Bernd Brunner – review 2012-12-14T08:00:01Z

About 6.7 million acres of forests are lost to fire each year — a fraction of the amount during the 1940s when the campaign began. Smokey Bear, nearly 70, gets a millennial makeover 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

At just 690 square feet, my apartment is relatively small, but it dates back to the 1940s, when apartments were laid out with grander proportions. Why every small home should have an empty space 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s, it was the main source of non-dairy fat in the US diet until it was replaced by vegetable oils, particularly soya bean oil. Coconut oil: are the health benefits a big fat lie? 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

He studied architecture at M.I.T. in the 1940s and was affiliated with the museum’s art school. Enough to Cause Art Lovers to Swoon 2010-11-20T19:38:00Z

He studied art at Hunter College in New York in the 1940s and ran a studio selling illustrations to comics and science fiction magazines before turning to writing. Sci-fi author Harry Harrison dies 2012-08-15T16:40:07Z

Miller is actually a second-generation astrologer – her mother studied the craft back in the 1940s. Astrology superstar Susan Miller: 'I can really respond to people online' 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z

They were old friends, having been introduced by Ms. Rodgers in the late 1940s or early ’50s, and Mr. Prince had been the producer of “West Side Story.” Stephen Sondheim, Titan of the American Musical, Is Dead at 91 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

Apparently, when the Edinburgh festival was conceived during the 1940s, the idea was pitched at Oxford, too. Isy Suttie: My Edinburgh 2011-08-10T20:45:01Z

She bought paint chips for 1940s vehicles on eBay so the prop department could match the shades accurately. 'Manhattan' traces a culture of secrecy, nuclear anxiety 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

She began reviewing for Dance in the late 1940s and, from 1951 to 1971, was the magazine’s associate editor and principal critic. Doris Hering, Dance Critic and Champion, Dies at 94 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

The California historian Kevin Starr has written that in the 1940s, the city’s ethnic diversity was its “most salient feature.” Critic?s Notebook: San Francisco, the Crossroads of the Avant-Garde 2011-05-06T05:30:06Z

Chandler’s novels and James Ellroy’s “L.A. Quartet” covered the same city and era — the 1940s and 1950s — but neither offered any real insight into the black side of town. Walter Mosley’s ‘Charcoal Joe’: Easy Rawlins is back 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

When Dr. Bruckner puts him under hypnosis, he learns that David might have been Melinda Wells, a 1940s jazz singer, with whom the doctor promptly falls in love. ArtsBeat: Harry Connick Jr. to Star in Broadway's Reincarnated 'On a Clear Day' 2011-03-01T16:43:36Z

Q: Was the Roosevelt White House the most difficult to document, because it dates to the 1930s and 1940s? ‘The First Lady’ re-created over 100 years of White House interiors 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

According to a museum news release the show will demonstrate that Still was on to pure abstraction in the early 1940s, in advance of his colleagues Pollock, de Kooning and Rothko. The New Season: New Museums: Crystal Bridges Among Anticipated Openings 2011-09-18T04:00:09Z

The initial plan for Bolivia, drawn up by an American in the late 1940s, did not have high hopes for poor peasants of the southern Altiplano and the harsh environment they lived in. What your organic market doesn’t want you to know: The dark truth about quinoa 2014-04-24T11:50:00Z

There is much food for self-contemplation on the part of the generation that came to maturity in the 1960s, and it’s a popular theme among British novelists born in the 1940s. He’s 19. She’s 48 and Married. When They Play Doubles Tennis, It’s a Match. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s she joined a theater group in Mumbai and eventually started acting in films. Indian actress and dancer Zohra Sehgal dies 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Check the acquisition dates on the works included: A great many came in with collections acquired in the 1940s and ’50s, including key works from the Stieglitz collection gifted to the museum by O’Keefe. Review | A somewhat nearsighted look back at American modernism 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

“This piano was tuned by my father in the 1940s,” he told us. House Tour: Warwick, N.Y. 2011-06-30T22:48:16Z

He recalled when he first met Mr. Villella at the School of American Ballet in the 1940s. Jacques d’Amboise: Apollo at 83 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

They're lighter than meringue, usually revolving around what I assume to be childhood preoccupations of the 1940s, but are now just archaic curiosities: marble games, soapbox derbies, radio quiz shows, etc. Comics: Not crazy about 'Arkham Asylum: Madness' 2010-09-07T20:59:00Z

Its building, by James Ingo Freed, was acclaimed from the first; its allusions to 1940s Brutalist architecture and evocations of an industrial enterprise going about its horrific work do not descend into cliché. Exhibition Review: ‘Some Were Neighbors,’ at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 2013-04-25T22:05:38Z

A dozen 1940s guest huts, originally used by Los Alamos scientists and infested by mice, remain off limits. Delicate Chinese Albums for Wealthy Show-Offs 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Like Alfred Kinsey's reports at the end of the 1940s and early 50s, the Kama Sutra tries hard to turn passion into science. Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure, translated by AND Haskar ? review 2011-03-25T13:00:01Z

Now, the ascendency of the picturehouse is over: cinema admissions stand at little more than a 10th of their 1940s level. Film-makers have lost the art of making a long story short 2013-04-08T10:48:51Z

“And I just didn’t understand why a 1940s nurse would do that.” Kate Beckinsale Says Michael Bay Was ‘Baffled’ by Her Looks 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

A flu vaccine wasn’t developed until the 1940s. In 1918, It Wasn’t the Coronavirus. It Was the Flu. 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

In the late 1940s he was a host for two local television shows in Buffalo. Stuart E. Hample, Humorist and Cartoonist, Dies at 84 2010-09-24T05:18:00Z

He helped usher in a revolution in the musical form, which had not undergone such a jolt since the beboppers of the 1940s made the big bands seem passe. Larry Coryell, dazzling guitarist who brought rock energy to jazz, dies at 73 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Guests born in the 1930s and 1940s receive 40 percent off; 1950s and 1960s get a 30 percent discount; 1970s and 1980s receive 20 percent; and 1990s get 10 percent. Travel deals: Sale fares to South Africa and birthday discounts at a N.H. hotel 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s he recorded all these great jazz and blues musicians at their homes and on their front stoops, people like Dizzy Gillespie and Ray Charles and Charlie Parker. How did Judd Apatow learn comedy? He asked questions 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The visitors in question were rats which infested the central London gallery in the 1940s. 2010-02-04T11:09:00Z

In the 1940s, there were 56 million sheep in the United States. Ham or Lamb? The Easter Choice May Be Changing 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

Cage had been supplying artful tones since the 1930s, but in the 1940s he began thinking about the music that could be plucked from the air. John Cage Recital? Take the A Train 2012-08-08T15:24:32Z

You play into some tropes and stereotypes in the film, such as the 1940s era hard-boiled cop and reporter, but also the small-town folks, like the sheriff in New English. “Abattoir” director Darren Lynn Bousman serves up horror with noir ambitions 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

As an encore, Trifonov played more Prokofiev: the Gavotte from his “Three Pieces From ‘Cinderella,’” based on his 1940s ballet. Review: The National Symphony Spotlights Forward Thinkers 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Whether in the hothouse environment of an arts school or in Iraq in the 1940s, adolescents struggling toward adulthood offer moments of tenderness and amusement. Newly Released - Coming of Age Novels 2010-05-19T22:12:00Z

Many of Weegee’s iconic shots — guilty bodies, distraught bodies, naked bodies, curious bodies, sleeping bodies, bodies watching movies, crowds of bodies, mostly from the late 1930s and early 1940s — focus on spectators. Weegee the Famous: The Master of Down-and-Dirty Street Photography 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Williams’s score is generous and rollicking and inscribed in the old symphonic tradition of 1940s Hollywood as surely as George Lucas’s film. Perspective | As a classical music critic, I used to think the ‘Star Wars’ score was beneath me. I was wrong. 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

In art and in the nation's social and political life, tribalism had long ruled the day — most plainly in the Regionalist movements of the 1930s and 1940s. Surprises abound in the illuminating 'Leap Before You Look' at UCLA's Hammer Museum 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

He began his career in the late 1940s, after changing his professional name to Bryan Forbes, playing a number of supporting roles in notable British films including An Inspector Calls and The Colditz Story. Bryan Forbes, acclaimed film director, dies aged 86 2013-05-08T22:04:26Z

Mrs. Nixon began writing scripts for radio serials in the 1940s and created her first TV soap opera, “Search for Tomorrow,” in 1951. Agnes Nixon, writer who created ‘One Life to Live’ and ‘All My Children,’ dies at 93 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Until the 1940s, when it was converted to a dwelling, the house was a small barn. House Tour: Woodstock, N.Y. 2010-10-07T21:16:00Z

In the 1940s, Viennese artist and architect Frederick Kiesler began work on “Endless House,” his ever-changing vision of a “polydimensional” dwelling. A MoMA Exhibition Explores the Concept of “House” 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Instead she revives an anecdotal curio from 1940s New York. The Society of Timid Souls by Polly Morland – review 2013-07-12T09:00:01Z

While Wegener wrote treatises on the subject the “stabilists” on the other side held sway in the scientific community until the 1940s. Two Books Consider Earthquakes and Their Human Tolls 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

It occupies the site of San Juan Hill, a vibrant Black neighborhood before the First World War, the birthplace of Thelonious Monk, which during the 1940s attracted increasing numbers of Puerto Rican migrants. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

BECKET, Mass. — Jacob’s Pillow, the oldest dance festival in the United States and always eclectic and international in taste, began in the early 1940s. In the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Archives, a Magical Past and Present Unite 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

So his production, first presented in 2014 at the Festival Hall in Baden-Baden, Germany, has hints of shadowy, fatalistic 1940s films. In Met’s ‘Manon Lescaut,’ Classic Love Story Gets Noir Twist 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Ellis was an early disciple of Charlie Christian, whose deft improvisations, built on long single-note lines, established the template for modern jazz guitar in the 1940s. Herb Ellis, Jazz Guitarist, Is Dead at 88 2010-03-31T03:52:00Z

“There were the artists and then there were the ‘dames,’ ” Krasner said of New York in the 1940s. Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives 2011-07-08T15:56:48Z

Artists in 17th-century Holland painted cheeses, lobsters and glasses of wine in sumptuous still lifes; Picasso did the same for rancid mutton heads in starving 1940s Paris. Unearthed ? artist Daniel Spoerri's banquet from 1983 2010-06-07T19:00:00Z

It was Greenwich Village that made him, in the early 1940s, the musician who would champion the American folk music revival. Pete Seeger’s New York Roots 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

The two artists were born the same year, 1912; they met in the late 1940s and became close friends. Inside Art: Connery, Pissarro, Seydoux: Dealers in a New Partnership 2012-09-06T20:21:24Z

Among the books stacked in my 1940s Hillcrest apartment were the seven Chandler novels, which I repeatedly reread because they now seemed so much less fantastical. Impersonating Philip Marlowe 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Penicillin arrived in the 1940s, and resistance to it swept the world in the 1950s. Read this and you may never eat chicken again 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Smith grew up in Pennsylvania, then New Jersey, in the 1940s and 1950s. Patti Smith: punk poet queen 2013-05-25T08:00:00Z

It was not until the 1920s that German art historians began to reassess Borromini, and only in the 1940s that his genius was revived and restored. Borromini: the first architect 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z

That belonged to Bessie Gibbs, a cheerful soul who owned the inn from the 1940s through the 1970s. Like a good scare? Here are five haunted hotels with stories fit for true-crime files. 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Time ebbs and flows, from the 1970s to the 1940s, to before and beyond, the present careening into the past, the point of view shifting continuously from consciousness to consciousness. Book review: ‘Shark,’ by Will Self: Postmodern novel in a psychiatric community

On the one hand, there is Leo Kanner’s autism, first described in the US in the late 1940s. Is my autism a superpower? 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

But it is left with the same basic problem that has been undermining Russian ballet since the 1940s or earlier: choreography that is at best unremarkable and at worst dismaying. Mikhailovsky Ballet, Full of Stars at Lincoln Center 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Well, the 1950s and the 1940s were even more so. Are iPhones Bad for Kids? 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

By 1971, Alexis Smith was long retired from Hollywood, where her aloof, glamorous aura made her a star of the 1940s. Casting a ‘Follies’ of the Future, With Beyoncé and Ben Platt 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

The 2CV was conceived in the 1940s as an inexpensive vehicle that would tempt French farmers away from using a horse and cart. Ready, set, slow! British Citroen 2CV enthusiasts stage 24-hour race 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

Other habits were equally staid: when British soldiers were fighting Japan in Burma in the 1940s, they were disadvantaged because they refused to try the local rice, and would only eat canned "British" food. John Lennon and Yoko Ono: the image that defines the second Elizabethan era 2012-05-31T13:06:07Z

They wanted to be true to the details and atmosphere of the 1940s. Author explores early life of her famous mom, Betty Shabazz 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Ker's 1940s matinee idol looks and voice lend themselves perfectly to the character; if you're looking for intelligent comedy and classy performance, this show would be hard to beat. Edinburgh fringe comedy roundup 2011-08-13T23:06:07Z

Evan Konecky, who lives in Seattle, was equally thrilled to receive an unexpected message from Brown, explaining that she had found a letter addressed to Konecky’s mother from the late 1940s. She’s a thrift store detective of sorts — she buys mementos and returns them to their rightful owners, free of charge 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

The story of the German émigrés who poured into Hollywood in the 1940s fleeing Nazi persecution makes for compelling reading. Review: Songs of Exile With Matthias Goerne 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Rodgers and Hammerstein injected social consciousness into their musicals in the 1940s, as in the racism theme that pervades “South Pacific.” Ripping tragedies from headlines and making them sing 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

In the early 1940s France was home to a large population of North Africans, including thousands of Sephardic Jews. How a Paris Mosque Sheltered Jews in the Holocaust 2011-10-03T22:59:15Z

A starring role is not in the stars for someone like Camille in 1940s Hollywood. Review: ‘Hollywood’ Gives Movie History a Sudsy Rewrite 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Demand for the Barbizon’s tiny single rooms grew throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Waking up to New York: secrets of the world's most famous women-only hotel 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z

The environment here is impacted by botched attempts to exploit the geothermal field for energy — first in the 1750s, and most recently in the 1940s. Hot times visiting Iceland’s geothermal sights 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

He’s the most charismatic actor the company has, and his dreamy lyricism brings back the 1940s, or at least the men in the movies of that era. Dance Review: City Ballet Classics, Including ?Agon? at Koch Theater 2012-02-19T22:21:20Z

So it was not surprising that her holiday show played out like a U.S.O. tour from the 1940s, or a televised special from the 1950s: contained, polished and perky. It’s Beginning to Sound a Lot Like Christmas 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Byatt spoke about her next novel, which will cover a period not yet charted in her fiction: the 1930s and 1940s. AS Byatt says women who write intellectual books seen as unnatural 2010-08-20T18:37:00Z

“Super colonies” of wading birds are forming in Everglades National Park for the first time since the 1940s. At national parks and zoos, it’s prime time for baby animals 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

With wavy hair and luminous skin, Ms. Gray had the looks to play one of film noir’s leading ladies in the 1940s and ’50s. Coleen Gray, Who Played Film Noir Naïfs, Dies at 92 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

New in paperback: 11 interrelated stories about the mystery of childhood, from the perspective of a child of profoundly deaf parents living in Manhattan in the 1940s and 1950s. Local books: Alex Kuo's new poetry and fiction 2011-05-02T20:29:05Z

Charles arrived there in the 1940s from Michigan, and his migration from the industrial Midwest to Southern California was part of a larger cultural and aesthetic shift. | 'Eames: The Architect and the Painter': ?Eames: The Architect and the Painter? - Review 2011-11-17T23:03:05Z

He began performing in the 1940s, when the clubs and theaters along the District’s U Street corridor were known as the “Black Broadway.” Buck Hill, saxophonist and D.C. ‘local legend,’ dies at 90 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Inspired by Indian philosophy and composed in the late 1940s, the hourlong sequence of short pieces ranges from the audaciously dissonant to the sublimely simple. The Week in Arts: Clairo, John Cage and Shia LaBeouf’s ‘Honey Boy’ 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

The study was conducted by financial services comparison website Go Compare, and totted up the casualties in the best-performing Hollywood films since the 1940s. Guardians of the Galaxy tops list of deadliest films with 83,871 fatalities 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

You guide him on his journey from lowly flatfoot to first-class investigator as the game weaves compelling stories and characters throughout a series of murders and crimes in 1940s L.A. Game On: 'L.A. Noire' arresting 2011-05-31T19:24:04Z

After her dance career ended, she pursued writing and editing, becoming fiction editor at Seventeen magazine in the 1940s. Jane Sherman, 101, Dancer and Writer 2010-03-20T05:57:00Z

Stern notes that New York is where interior design, “previously characterized by a certain dilettantism,” largely earned its laurels as a profession from the 1940s to the ’70s. A Design Tour From Your Armchair 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

“Until Hitler’s Last Hostages are acknowledged, freed and returned,” she concludes, “the moral stain of the 1930s and 1940s remains in Germany.” The Great Art Stolen by Hitler 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

The choreography is reminiscent of other stylized, jazz-inflected Robbins pieces from the 1940s and ’50s, like “Interplay,” “NY Export: Opus Jazz” and “Moves.” Royal Ballet Debuts Liam Scarlett’s ‘The Age of Anxiety’ 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

The design is simple, little changed from the first Leica rangefinders of the 1940s – why mess with a good thing? Leica M-E - why it's worth the money 2012-12-28T13:53:16Z

With that, he decided on the name of his invention, and in the early 1940s, Griswold-Nissen Trampoline and Tumbling Co. was opened in Cedar Rapids. Bounce so hard 2012-07-28T13:00:00Z

In the 1940s it was sung by anti-Communist protesters as well as by striking laborers. ‘God Bless America’: 100 Years of an Immigrant’s Anthem 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

A Venezuelan law protecting the bird since the 1940s hasn’t stopped the sales. In Venezuela, an endangered songbird gets a boost from coffee 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

The first is that of the father, craggily good-looking just like his son, who in the 1940s and 50s found some fame as an artist. Robert De Niro's thawing continues with HBO doc about late artist father 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s, though, Jane was just a regular kid who was fascinated by animals. ‘Me . . . Jane’ offers a musical look at a famous scientist when she was just a girl 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

African American film-maker Julie Dash’s riposte to the genre – the acclaimed short 1982 indie film Illusions, about a 1940s Hollywood actor who is passing for white – offered a fleeting but serious addition to the genre. 'Passing for white': how a taboo film genre is being revived to expose racial privilege 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

The stories and images create a complex portrait of 1940s Washington. These Turkish brothers found their calling in D.C., championing the Black music scene 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

Some memory loss does accompany aging, and baby boomers, that huge swath of Americans born in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, are getting older and more forgetful. Lost keys, forgotten names, unretrievable words: 7 ways to explain those senior moments 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

The film was tailored to Crawford, and designed to call back memories of her 1940s persona, the striking silhouette, the “shopgirl” roles that made her famous. ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Episode 6 Recap: Midnight Descending 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

Mrs. Fichandler grew up in Washington attracted to progressive politics in the 1930s and 1940s. Zelda Fichandler, Arena Stage co-founder and matriarch of regional-theater movement, dies at 91 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

That remained a somewhat isolated incident until the late 1940s and 1950s, when several people hijacked airplanes to escape from Eastern Europe to the West. D.B. Cooper, the changing nature of hijackings and the foundation for today’s airport security 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z

With more than 50 works made by Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler and others in the 1940s and ’50s, this exhibition celebrates the often overlooked female artists of this pivotal American movement. A Nationwide Guide to Art Exhibitions This Spring 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

This version of the choreography is dated 1972, but Balanchine is revisiting the 1940s. Dance Review: Revivals Eclipse the New for City Ballet 2010-06-01T21:08:00Z

My plays in the 1940s and 1950s were relatively conventional in their construction, because my mind was relatively balanced. Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z

Photograph: SNAP/Rex Features "Exotic" is the epithet most frequently used to describe the series of Technicolored escapist movies produced by Universal Pictures in the 1940s. Turhan Bey obituary 2012-10-10T17:06:20Z

From the 1940s to the early ’60s, he argued 32 cases before the court, winning most. Review: In ‘Marshall,’ a Legal Pioneer Gives History a Shove 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

He wrote largely for radio in the 1940s, achieving recognition for a show based on Bible stories, “The Greatest Story Ever Told,” which he wrote for nearly a decade. Henry Denker, Author in Many Genres, Dies at 99 2012-05-23T03:05:41Z

“Music overcomes a lot of things,” he writes, “but not the segregation of Mississippi in the 1940s.” What Country Music Owes to Charley Pride 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

But he was always inspired by cheap, dopey film serials from the 1940s and earlier. The Rise of Skywalker trailer – five things we learned 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

From the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, Murphy and Reagan joined with conservative groups around the nation in an effort to overturn the most important liberal achievement of the twentieth century, the New Deal state. Hollywood, right-wing powerhouse 2011-08-31T19:30:00Z

Ms Kent, 92, one of Britain's biggest TV and film stars of the 1940s and 1950s, died in hospital on 30 November. Inquest ordered into film star death 2013-12-11T11:00:24Z

In writing her biography, Ms. Cohen-Solal made use of “The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art,” a work of criticism written by Rothko in the early 1940s but not published until a decade ago. With a Big Sale Looming, a New View of Rothko 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Turhan Bey, Actor With Continental Charm, Dies at 90 Turhan Bey, whose dark good looks, swept-back hair and soothing, Continental voice brought him fame in swashbuckling films of the 1940s, died in Vienna on Sept. Turhan Bey, Actor, Dies at 90 2012-10-11T16:25:55Z

The third central character is Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife in the late 1940s who feels suffocated by her life. 20 Years of L.G.B.T.Q. Lit: A Timeline 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

Yet between that time and the 1940s, a series of trials and tribulations all but crushed Irish whiskey, dropping the number of commercial distillers in the country to three. Irish whiskey was once on the verge of collapse. Now, it’s booming. 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Today, no U.S. toy company would dare advertise its guns as “just like real,” but from the 1940s to the 1980s, toymakers competed to market the most realistic looking, sounding and feeling weapons. Bang: The troubled legacy of toy guns 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

The mammoth, once-opulent buildings of marble and timber were initially abandoned in the 1940s during the first Indochina war and then again in the 1970s when the Khmer Rouge took them over. Cambodia, in and Around Kep, Open but Undeveloped 2012-03-02T23:24:36Z

It sounds like it came from another era, like something a modernist composer portrayed in a 1940s Hollywood film would write. Dvorak's 'New World' and a new piano concerto for our times at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

It is hard, admits Gran, to find modern songs that have melodies to match the tunes from the 1940s. A world where the Beatles never existed inspires new Danny Boyle film 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

“To the extent that the Eames style of the 1940s and 1950s was ‘progressive’ and ‘avant-garde,’” Kirkham wrote, “Ray was certainly as responsible as Charles.” Ray Eames, Out of Her Husband’s Shadow 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

In the book, which spans the 1940s to the 1980s, a woman in North Carolina named Azalea “Knot” Centre battles alcoholism, various estrangements and her fraught romantic relationships with men. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

The shirts apparently hit the mainland not long after, however, and by the 1940s, they had become a fashion staple. Hawaiian shirts are making a comeback 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

Ruscha had missed, too, the arrival of mobsters like “Bugsy” Siegel in the 1940s, and, in the 1950s, the production of the movie “Sunset Boulevard” and the television series “77 Sunset Strip.” Ed Ruscha’s stunning Sunset Strip art project lets you tour its full length, east to west — and back in time 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

In the 1940s Mr. Kleibacker studied journalism at the University of Notre Dame and worked briefly as a newspaper reporter in Alabama before moving to New York. 2010-01-08T06:17:00Z

A truly faithful filming of Cain's novel would have been impossible in the 1940s, given the strict Hays Code. Noir classic steps out of the shadows at ACT 2011-10-20T18:50:11Z

“The bridge was built when Chano Pozo and Dizzy started doing their thing — even before that,” said Mr. Henriquez, referring to the historic collaboration in the late 1940s between that Cuban percussionist and Dizzy Gillespie. In Havana, Jam Sessions With a Master Trumpeter 2010-10-10T21:33:00Z

The museum sits across the street from the former Girls Latin School where O’Grady was one of very few Black students in the late 1940s. Lorraine O’Grady, Still Cutting Into the Culture 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

As far back as the 1940s and 1950s, classically trained opera singers like Mario Lanza and Eileen Farrell were recording popular songs. Classical Crossover for the Win 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

That leaves just the Shelborne South Beach, a 1940s Deco gem, which is using the art fair to unveil a $20-million white-on-white renovation, with back-to-back parties and exhibitions in its lobby, and three new restaurants. Where to Party at Art Basel Miami Beach 2011-11-25T21:45:43Z

In fact, when American children first started trick-or-treating in the 1930s and 1940s, kids received "everything from homemade cookies and pieces of cake to fruit, nuts, coins and toys," according to History.com. The Halloween candy that debuted the decade you were born 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

The collection includes two floors of drawings and paintings Picasso produced while staying in or near Antibes in the 1940s. On the French Riviera, Fitzgerald Found His Place in the Sun 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

The show looks at black monochromatic art from the 1940s to today: painting, sculpture, sound, film and video. Art May Clash With Commerce in the Crown Building 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s Foss had already done two cantatas for voice and orchestra, “Song of Anguish” and “Song of Songs,” that were also on biblical texts. Eight Ways of Looking at a Singular Composer 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z

She began singing in nightclubs in the 1940s, whenever she wasn’t appearing in Broadway musicals or in touring shows. Julie Wilson, captivating singer of cabaret, dies at 90 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

For Lady Tremaine, Cinderella’s stepmother, Ms. Powell drew on 1940s movie stars’ styles. Two Films, One Designer: The Costumes of ‘Carol’ and ‘Cinderella’ 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

The book is set during the 1940s and the place, though the name of a real town, is actually based on her mother’s hometown, close to Charleston. Karyn Parsons travels back to 1940s South Carolina in ‘How High the Moon’ 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

In the late 1940s, Edwards created the popular "Richard Diamond, Private Detective" radio series and wrote for other radio shows. "Pink Panther" director Blake Edwards dies at 88 2010-12-16T20:24:00Z

Garrett, who was also a member of the Communist party in the 1940s, had taken time off to bring up their two sons. Betty Garrett obituary 2011-02-13T18:19:53Z

Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk were among the regulars at Minton’s Playhouse in the 1940s, and the spot is often credited as the birthplace of bebop. 36 Hours in Upper Manhattan 2014-02-20T19:20:26Z

The fourth novel from the 1940s is “The Horizontal Man,” by Helen Eustis. ‘Women Crime Writers’ review: Well-known and unfairly forgotten favorites 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

"Americans in the 1940s were more likely to look toward Europe when thinking about the war," she wrote. Why America preferred to forget about the Pacific war ? until now 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z

Narrow passageways of stairs led down to a muddy, roaring river; these “gudels,” a sign explained, “gave access to the river for washing clothes, disposing of slops waste” and were used until the late 1940s. Slow Travel: Walking in Wales 2013-05-24T17:03:36Z

He used to talk about the “good old days” in the 1940s when a cup of coffee or a loaf of bread cost just 10 cents. Thanks, "Avengers: Endgame," for showing us inflation 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

Giving full voice to the liquidity of paint has gone in and out of style since it was liberated in the 1940s by the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, Janet Sobel and Norman Lewis. At 7 Art Galleries, the Ecstatic Flow of Paint and the Stories It Can Tell 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

An online archive of films showing snapshots of typical life in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s has been completed. 30s and 40s film archive completed 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

Francis Henry Taylor, a director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1940s and ’50s, described the museum as no less than “the midwife of democracy.” Anti-Trump Protest Pushed Its Way Into a Minneapolis Museum 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Heels from the 1940s show innovation, specifically the use of reptile skins and fabric as a replacement for war-rationed leather. Yakima shoe show strolls through history 2011-02-12T04:44:01Z

His closest precursor in this regard was Marcel Duchamp, with whom he had become friends in the early 1940s. As if by chance 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z

As the 1940s and the 10-year run of Horizon both draw to a close, the tone of Taylor’s book darkens. Review | A tale of the free-spirited women who tangled with Orwell and other literary lions 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

His classic collection of stories The Martian Chronicles, written in the 1940s, imagined man's experiences on Mars telepathic Martians who lived there. Curiosity Martian landing point named after Ray Bradbury 2012-08-23T12:05:05Z

Another, Anzac, was so beloved by an officer, Walter Moulder — they’re here in a 1940s photo — that Patrolman Moulder visited Anzac every summer after the horse had been retired to a Catskills farm. Spare Times for Children for April 19-25 2013-04-18T22:11:56Z

Back in the 1940s and ’50s, a guy named Homer Smith made cheese in these naturally occurring caves, and these caves are still there. Q&A: Tami Parr, Northwest cheese historian 2014-01-03T20:03:20Z

With that in mind, her collection of seven pieces, debuting April 9, nods to 1940s French furnishings and 1970s glam, and puts an emphasis on sizes and shapes that aren’t readily available in the market. The First Look at Sara Gilbane’s Charming Furniture Line for the New Traditionalists 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

The record deal necessitated a move to Southern California, and by the late 1940s the couple were comfortably ensconced in tony Cheviot Hills on L.A.’s Westside. On the trail of Yma Sumac: The exotica legend came from Peru, but her career was all Hollywood 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Coca-Cola, which had worked with Loewy in the 1940s and ’50s to design its visual culture, contacted him to make sustainability a platform on which to restructure its organization and identity. Bruce Mau: A Designer Puts Life on the Drawing Boards 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

Used by the American military in the 1940s and 1950s to send coded messages, it looks like an oversize, boxy typewriter with rotors rising above the lid like a mechanical brain. ‘Decoding the Renaissance,’ at the Folger Shakespeare 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

His large-format studio portraits from the 1940s to the 60s are of individuals, families and suited professionals, and he often used ornate backdrops and extravagant props such as Vespa scooters and flashy cars. Self-publish or be damned: why photographers are going it alone 2010-06-04T11:50:00Z

The noted hospitality designer drew inspiration from the 1940s and ’50s when creating each of the distinct spaces for the different cuisines. Platea Is Madrid’s Latest Culinary Destination 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

From the late 1920s until the early 1940s, Art Deco was at the height of its popularity in the city. Art Deco Los Angeles 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

As far back as the 1940s, Disney had tried and failed to update Hans Christian Andersen's dark fable. Frozen-mania: how Elsa, Anna and Olaf conquered the world 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

A nostalgic but far from rose-tinted memoir about growing up in 1940s Mississippi, where the eponymous jack russell helps a boy overcome his shyness. Dog weepie movies – ranked! 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

It draws power, expressive and historical, from the work song “No More My Lord,” recorded in a Southern prison in the 1940s. Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Debuts Two New Works 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

Her parents managed to shield her, for a time, from some of the racial challenges they faced as African Americans growing up in the 1940s. Tracy K. Smith named new U.S. poet laureate 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

FRI-SAT The story of George Bailey, told as a 1940s radio broadcast. Community Datebook calendar 2011-12-15T20:59:07Z

In the 1940s, with little hope of getting published, he was writing all the time. Celebrating Charles Bukowski, 'poet laureate of L.A. lowlife' 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

From there, drive north 15 minutes to The Vintages Trailer Resort, centrally located in wine country, for a fun lodging experience in one of more than 30 classic travel trailers from the 1940s to 1960s. What’s new, what’s novel in Oregon’s Willamette Valley wine country 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

In the late 1940s, then a prelaw student at the University of Dayton, he visited New York. Tom Aldredge, Character Actor, Dies at 83 2011-07-26T04:54:34Z

His career began with the famed Ealing black comedies of the late 1940s and early ’50s, and ended with three “Indiana Jones” films for Steven Spielberg. Douglas Slocombe, ‘Indiana Jones’ Cinematographer, Dies at 103 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Carmen Cusack, who earned sterling notices for the San Diego run, will reprise her role as a North Carolina magazine editor at the center of love stories set in the 1920s and 1940s. Steve Martin-Edie Brickell Musical 'Bright Star' Sets Broadway Opening 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Remember, by the late 1940s, being a former Nazi in America really wasn’t a problem. How Nazi scientists and their wind tunnels ended up in D.C.’s suburbs 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

She appeared on Broadway in the 1940s, including a small role in the musical "Oklahoma!" and in off-Broadway and summer stock productions. 'As the World Turns' matriarch Wagner dies at 91 2010-05-03T10:50:00Z

The genre was popular in the 1940s and 50s, when segregation was rife and the “one-drop rule” – which deemed anybody with even a trace of African ancestry to be black – prevailed. 'Passing for white': how a taboo film genre is being revived to expose racial privilege 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

It seems to break down the character's trajectory by decade and location, from Pennsylvania in the 1940s to Korea in the 1950s to "NY-wife-secretary-advertising" in the 1960s. 'Mad Men' exhibit sheds light on Don Draper's origins -- and future? 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Sanora Babb, with whom Ellison had a brief but passionate affair in the early 1940s, affords one of the few occasions for a literary exchange with a woman writer about literature and politics. Ralph Ellison’s Letters Reveal a Complex Philosopher of Black Expression 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

The city's backroom deals and money laundering schemes gained worldwide notoriety because of criminal legends such as Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, who ran the Flamingo hotel in the 1940s and named it after his mistress. Las Vegas embraces mob roots with new attractions 2011-03-30T09:46:06Z

This intricately layered story within a story centers on the 1940s London childhood of the biracial protagonist, Michael. Three great new children’s books 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

With knowledge gained from the wartime development of radar, astronomers in the 1940s moved for the first time to view the cosmos outside the realm of visible light. Black and light 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Last year Russia accused Ukraine of politicizing the competition by choosing as its entrant a Crimean Tatar named Jamala whose song decried war-time deportations of Tatars under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in the 1940s. Ukraine mulls ban on Russia's Eurovision entry 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s the family moved into a public housing project not far from the Dew Drop Inn, a celebrated nightclub. Harold Battiste, Musician, Mentor and Arranger, Dies at 83 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Popular psychological and sociological works of the 1940s and 50s lamented the decline of American vigour. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z

I am very different from most photographers because I started in the 1940s, when you couldn't get hold of a lot of film. Photographer Dorothy Bohm's best shot 2010-04-07T21:05:00Z

She wears one of her favorite outfits, a 1940s pencil skirt and a men’s waistcoat belted and worn backward. Review | Rebecca Solnit, who inspired the term ‘mansplaining,’ explains herself (sort of) 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

It is the 1940s, and informality seems rare even within families or between friends. Spies by Michael Frayn 2012-06-01T21:51:01Z

Part avant-garde animator, part optical alchemist, part mystic, part psychologist of perception, Mr. Belson made more than 30 short films between the late 1940s and 2005, all of which defy ready classification. Jordan Belson, Experimental Filmmaker, Dies at 85 2011-09-11T09:36:30Z

The chance to see a double bill of classic 1940s film noir is too good to pass up, and that's what Landmark Theatre's Anniversary Classics Series is offering on Monday. Landmark's Anniversary Classics Series screens noir gems 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Guy Anderson and Mark Tobey, for example, freely experimented with the signature motifs and techniques of Native American design in their early paintings from the 1940s. In making art, Haida culture is revived 2013-11-25T23:26:01Z

In Miami, Stoller accented the colors and curves of 1940s automobiles parked on the open levels of a whitewashed-and-red garage by Robert Law Weed & Associates. Critic’s Notebook: Ezra Stoller’s Photographs at Yossi Milo Gallery 2013-02-05T16:28:57Z

The more dubious version of the margarita’s origin story is that it was first served by a bartender in Galveston, Texas, to singer Peggy Lee in the 1940s, National Geographic reported. Where was the margarita invented? 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z

This was in the 1940s and 50s, when the had resumed its pioneering service after the wartime shutdown. Mary Malcolm obituary 2010-10-14T17:49:00Z

In the early 1940s, a few young guys — Thelonious Monk, Charlie Christian, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker among them — invented the new music. The Harlem Jazz Club Where the Spirit of Billie Holiday Lives On 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

The subjects facing the camera included some of the pop culture sovereigns of their day, the 1940s and ’50s: Tyrone Power, Carl Sandburg, Leopold Stokowski. Art and Museums in NYC This Week 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Vincent Korda urged Mr. Adam to study architecture, a background that would later prove useful for production design when he entered the film industry in the late 1940s as a draftsman. Ken Adam, who made Bond villain lairs and ‘Dr. Strangelove’ War Room, dies at 95 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

He appeared in more than 150 films and television shows during a career that began in the 1940s. Batman butler, actor Michael Gough dies 2011-03-17T19:03:12Z

The exact number of patients isn't known, nor the amount of children, though there's evidence of children that he fathered being born from the 1940s to the 1980s. HBO's unflinching "Baby God" corrects pop culture's tendency to treat fertility fraud lightly 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

Carl C. Cole grew up on the 300 block of I Street SW in the 1940s and ’50s, in a neighborhood of close-knit black families he can recall easily by name. Do posh waterfronts make a city world-class? D.C. is betting hundreds of millions on it. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Week 1117, parodies on the news: To the 1940s song “Cruising Down the River” Cruz can make you shiver when you’d otherwise be warm; He rants, berates, pontificates, creates a verbal storm. Style Invitational: Dead letters — our annual obit poem contest 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

That scene sets the tone for this atmospheric novel that, if it weren’t for the ever-present cellphones, might very well have been written in the 1940s. Best mysteries and thrillers to read this month 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Doctors had been persecuted for performing abortions in the 1940s and '50s, which meant that fewer skilled practitioners would be willing to risk their careers for the procedure. "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" gives us a refreshing take on abortion, but how realistic is it 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

There was a company, Plitt Segal, that had been around since the 1940s. Anna Sui, Fashion’s Favorite Daughter, Gets Her Day in the Sun 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

But this is not the 1940s Blitz - it’s World War I, more than 20 years earlier. UK museum looks at epic, intimate sides of WWI 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

The staging is inspired by black-and-white Italian comedies of the 1940s and '50s, and is to feature the tenor in the title role.  Placido Domingo teaming up with Woody Allen for L.A. Opera's new season 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

The majority of the works date from the 1940s, when the two artists, both born in 1912, were maturing rapidly. Art in Review: Harry Callahan and Jackson Pollock 2011-04-01T01:53:45Z

That play was “Zoot Suit,” named for the swaggering dress favored by Latino men in the 1940s. 'Zoot Suit': How Latino theater born in the farm fields changed L.A. theater forever 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

The regular evocation of this prophecy reminded me of what happened on the other side of the lake in the 1940s, in Port Radium. A Remote Canadian Lake and Its People: Protecting a Last Refuge 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Kaplan had struck out in the late 1940s for Los Angeles, where he happened upon an acting role in a play by the French comedic master Molière. Marvin Kaplan, character actor who won laughs in ‘Adam’s Rib’ and ‘Alice,’ dies at 89 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

The CIA put considerable effort into dissuading representations of its very existence throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Washington DC’s role behind the scenes in Hollywood goes deeper than you think 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

This year, the book "The Simon and Kirby Library: Crime" collecting the duo's work in the 1940s and 1950s, made the New York Times bestseller list, Saffel said. Captain America co-creator Joe Simon dies at 98 2011-12-15T22:44:54Z

Mikolasek rose to prominence and prosperity in the 1930s and 1940s by treating patients with natural remedies, scrutinizing their urine for signs of illness. ‘Charlatan’ Review: The Miracle Worker 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

It’s a double time warp: the 2010s looking back on the 1980s looking back on the 1940s. Dapper as Ever, Kid Creole Dresses Up His Songs for a New Musical 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Isherwood was gay, but while he was writing “The Berlin Stories” in 1930s and 1940s he couldn’t very well admit that. 50 years of 'Cabaret': How the 1966 musical keeps sharpening its edges for modern times 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

The point of that single cover is a tongue-in-cheek image of 1940s pinup girl, which is the total opposite of Kate’s style. ArtsBeat Blog: New Book Covers the Covers of the 1980s 2011-10-13T18:45:07Z

When that attitude began to change in the 1940s and 1950s, it wasn’t just because the libretto contained that word. Op-Ed Columnist: In ?Porgy and Bess,? Variations on an Explosive Theme 2012-01-22T04:49:04Z

Yet, cinematically speaking, the 1940s and early 1950s produced some of our most neurotic, haunted and self-divided protagonists. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z

In the 1940s, a Blair descendant lobbied President Franklin D. Roosevelt to buy the property as a guesthouse for visiting dignitaries. For 40 years, presidents have spent Inauguration Eve at Blair House. Will Trump? 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

In 1940s Los Angeles, Maria works as a producer for a foundering film studio after fleeing Italy years earlier. 13 New Books Coming in August 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

In the early 1940s, a government body called the Works Projects Administration took 59 distinct measurements of 15,000 women. The History of Why It's Impossible to Find Clothes That Fit 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

In the hall of fame, machines range from 1930s and 1940s models up to modern ones. Top 10 things to do in Las Vegas 2011-02-21T19:24:04Z

Dr. Kenneth Clark and Dr. Mamie Clark created the legendary doll test in the 1940s, asking Black children if they would prefer playing with a white or a Black doll. Why I'm passing on the "Barbie" movie: My daughter already receives enough unintentional whiteness 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

That’s the title of a movie that Bertolt Brecht thought up when he was exiled in Hollywood in the 1940s. ‘Last Christmas’ Review: Ho, Ho, Humbug 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

An accomplished bassist, the New Orleans-born Levy performed with such jazz greats as Stuff Smith, Billie Holiday, Erroll Garner and Billy Taylor in the 1940s before joining pianist George Shearing's original quintet. Groundbreaking jazz manager John Levy dies at 99 2012-01-24T02:01:09Z

Her career in movies and TV ran from the 1940s to the 1990s and included more than 100 appearances. "Affair to Remember" actress Neva Patterson dies 2010-12-16T19:31:04Z

Conducted with the National Geographic Society, the project will compare findings with those documented by Cousteau in the 1940s. Cousteau's spirit to live on in centennial events 2010-06-08T19:00:00Z

The new documentary “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story” shows how hard and how long she struggled to escape it — including through her invention in the 1940s of a groundbreaking communication system that underlies modern encryption. Review: ‘Bombshell’ Tells the Amazing Story of Hedy Lamarr, the Star and Inventor 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

In your mind, you had a picture of the small plane that hit the Empire State Building in the 1940s. New York Fashion Week: Fashion Week, Ten Years Later: A Bond Forged in Tragedy 2011-09-07T01:27:28Z

Millions of similar victims of violence who were made homeless by World War II paid the same compliment to the free part of the Old World in the 1940s and early 1950s. Tales of an aging WWII refugee: “We can’t turn our backs on the refugees of today” 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

Helen Sung/Benny Green On two different new trio records, two jazz pianists in early middle age with fluent and streamlined styles draw tight lines around jazz from the 1940s to the ’60s. Playlist : At Midcareer, Some Astonish, Some Explore 2011-04-29T18:39:43Z

Achebe himself first read some of the better-known examples of these “colonialism classics” as a secondary school student in the 1940s. Chinua Achebe: The man who rediscovered Africa 2013-03-22T14:45:00Z

Mathis maintains that racial bias never affected him growing up in the 1940s and ’50s — not until he toured the South, but again, he shies from the details. Johnny Mathis, the voice of the ’50s, was always ahead of his time. Now he’s ready to talk about it. 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

In the early 1940s, Mr. Randolph founded a madrigal group, the Randolph Singers, which performed in New York in Town Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall and elsewhere. David Randolph, 95, Conductor of Many (Speedy) ?Messiahs? 2010-05-15T04:42:00Z

They existed from the 1920s to the 1950s, not the 1940s. On a Civil Rights Trail, Essential Sites and Indelible Detours 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

Henderson presented a sleek collection of red, yellow, black and gray high-collared dresses and separates, inspired by 1940s German and Soviet military. Vancouver's Seth Aaron Henderson wins top prize on 'Project Runway' 2010-04-23T17:12:00Z

The abstractions recall elements of Kandinsky’s late paintings of the 1930s and early 1940s. The 'Maverick Modernist' you don't know but should: Peter Krasnow at the Laguna Art Museum 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

A prominent figure in the New York art world of the 1940s and 50s, he painted landscapes, still-lifes and portraits, using a mix of abstract and expressionist styles in the boldest colours. De Niro: I can’t face reading about demons that haunted my artist father 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z

The building was turned into a student center for Hunter in the 1940s. A Trove of Lincoln Artifacts Heads to Auction 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

A handful of museums in the United States own batches, sometimes donated by original owners who wanted to dispose of evidence of 1940s sympathies for besieged Communists. Antiques: ?40s Propaganda Posters: Soviet Morale Boosters 2011-07-28T19:57:01Z

Via flashbacks, the narrative bounces about significant points of the 1940s, including the Nazi occupation of Norway. ‘Out Stealing Horses’ Review: Old Man, Take a Look at Your Life 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s, scientists developed the first cure for tuberculosis, the drug streptomycin. Three Books That Track Diseases, Drugs and the World They Made 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

He'll be singing a selection of popular songs from the 1940s and 1950s, according to the ensemble. Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is helping the Boston Pops kick off its spring concert series 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

By turns flinty and tender, devotional and irreverent, haunted and enraptured, Cash’s poems — which date back to the 1940s — proved as multifaceted and emotionally far-reaching as the man himself. Johnny Cash’s Poems Get a Second Life as Songs 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s, the Supreme Court rejected the first three challenges to the incarceration, before finally ruling that the government had no legal right to imprison a loyal citizen. Hawaii’s fight against Trump’s Muslim travel ban has long roots of resistance 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

Film production was flourishing in the late 1940s, and Los Angeles became a destination for writers, set designers, hairstylists and other “artists with open minds,” as Mr. Bowers put it. Scotty Bowers and His Sexual Tell-All of Old Hollywood 2012-01-27T22:08:45Z

He and Magnani worked together in vaudeville in the 1940s, and seeing them interact, especially in a scene where they pretend to be slumming movie stars, is a treat. 'The Passionate Thief' as laugh-out-loud funny now as in 1960 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Aznavour began his career peddling his music to French artists of the 1940s and 1950s such as Edith Piaf, Maurice Chevalier and Charles Trenet. French singer Aznavour dies at the age of 94: media 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

The Dyker Height Christmas Lights website states the tradition may have gotten started in the 1940s. Spectacular Christmas lights have put this New York neighborhood on the map 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

In the 1940s and ’50s, City Center served as a popular, affordable alternative to Broadway theater, the Metropolitan Opera House and Carnegie Hall. City Center to Embark on $75 Million Renovation 2010-03-16T21:53:00Z

Granting extensive time to a Black woman journalist in support of "Hollywood," which is in part about a fictional Black starlet in 1940s Hollywood, is a good look, nothing more or less. The problem with Ryan Murphy, a potent Hollywood advocate with a habit of crossing the wrong lines 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z

She was at medical college, which was quite rare for a woman in the 1940s; probably rare in England never mind pre-Independence India. Family life 2012-11-17T00:05:03Z

In any other year, that statement would have sounded uncontroversial; it has, after all, been integral to the notion of auteurship since it was first expounded in the late 1940s by André Bazin. The end of the auteur? 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

After such a stunning reception in the 1940s, why hasn’t this novel become a college staple? Tayari Jones: In Praise of Ann Petry 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

Afterward Mr. Anderson talked about the English painter Bridget Riley and Kyoto and the 1940s, but the lingering impression left was one of royalty lost — and, perhaps, regained. Rick Owens, Talking Doom 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

The related exhibition, “Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television,” examines the influence of art on television from the 1940s to the 1960s. Bang on a Can Teams Up With the Jewish Museum 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

The idea of a company of professionals hundreds or thousands of miles from Broadway uniting to start a serious theatrical venture was largely alien before the 1940s. Zelda Fichandler, Arena Stage co-founder and matriarch of regional-theater movement, dies at 91 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

That fire is, of course, consuming the Loman family as Miller explores the nastiness behind the Norman Rockwell painting of the American Dream in late 1940s Brooklyn. A deeply relevant 'Death of a Salesman' emerges 2012-03-16T05:31:08Z

During the McCarthy era Mr. Seeger’s political affiliations, including membership in the Communist Party in the 1940s, led to his being blacklisted and later indicted for contempt of Congress. Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94 2014-01-28T06:32:10Z

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, even as Calder’s international acclaim was growing, his works were still not highly sought after, and when they sold, it was often for relatively little money. Alexander Calder in 1941, at the Pace Gallery 2011-10-18T15:27:51Z

A photo taken in the bathroom of Stettheimer’s midtown studio in the 1940s shows the drawing resting on the edge of a vanity table. Why Were So Many Stettheimer Art Works Up for Sale? Not All Were Real 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

Shelley Stamp, a film professor at University of California, Santa Cruz, says that horror films were marketed to women as early as the 1930s and 1940s. Carrie at 40: why the horror genre remains important for women 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

She turned her back on Hollywood in the 1940s after roles in two successful films because she loved opera so. Mezzo-soprano opera star Rise Stevens dies at 99 2013-03-21T21:20:11Z

Vanessa Sanchez and the group La Mezcla, from San Francisco, mix modern tap and zapateado to celebrate the women of the Zoot Suit Riots of the 1940s. 5 Things to Do This New Year’s Weekend 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

A mother and her young son living in Harlem in the 1940s are ground down by poverty and the bitter racism and constant predation in their neglected neighborhood. Two Novels by Ann Petry, a Writer Who Believed in Art That Delivers a Message 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

He spent the war years entertaining troops and by the late 1940s had worked his way from regional repertory theaters to the London stage and his first film roles. Donald Sinden dies; multifaceted British actor of movies, TV and stage

His first major job was with the orchestra led by Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers in the early 1940s. Marty Napoleon, 93, Dies; Jazz Pianist Played With Louis Armstrong 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

It also contains manuscripts and correspondence dating from the 1940s to the 1960s, including a letter in which Kerouac teased Ginsberg about his promiscuous epistolary habits. Emory Acquires Trove of Rare Jack Kerouac Material 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Did Lange, and later Ansel Adams, invade the privacy of the people they photographed in the 1940s? Perspective | If America fails its people again, what will the catastrophe look like? 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

By the late 1940s, Dr. Bohm was working for a petrochemical company and traveling frequently. Dorothy Bohm, a Roving and Enduring Photographer, Dies at 98 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

She moved to New York in the 1970s and made her theatrical debut as a band singer in “The 1940s Radio Hour” and appeared off Broadway in “Manhattan Music,” “Swingtime Canteen” and “Heebie Jeebies.” Mary Cleere Haran, Cabaret Singer With a Big-Band Style, Dies at 58 2011-02-06T03:15:10Z

The men wear khaki uniforms and red berets; the women, 1940s summer dresses. ‘Oh, I’ll Show You’: Paul Taylor and Alex Katz’s Long Collaboration 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

A bouquet was made to replicate the flowers Courtney carried when she was married in the 1940s. 97-year-old serves as matron of honor at great-granddaughter's wedding 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Her early paintings and sculpture, in the 1940s, had mostly been abstract, in keeping with the tone of the times. Mary Fuller McChesney, Bay Area Artist and Historian, Dies at 99 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

And it's certainly the case in his new book, , set on one of the Pacific Channel Islands between the 1880s and 1940s. TC Boyle: 'It's a godless world, without hope' 2012-10-13T23:06:05Z

Writing English lyrics for Spanish melodies, Mr. Drake scored his first big hits in the 1940s with “Tico-Tico” and “The Rickety Rickshaw Man,” which sold more than a million copies. Ervin Drake, Composer of Pop Songs, Dies at 95 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

He displayed his gifts at mimicry on the Major Bowes “Amateur Hour,” a popular radio show, and began working in nightclubs, adopting the stage name Jack Carter in the early 1940s. Jack Carter, acerbic comedian and longtime TV fixture, dies at 93 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

The regional crime series, in which place informs character, motive and method, is perhaps the truest contemporary descendant of the hard-boiled 1940s and ’50s crime films I adore. In the Country of True Crime 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

“I wanted this house to be more important than the Farnsworth House,” he says, referring to the steel and glass home designed in the late 1940s by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Plano, Ill. They restored a famous architect’s first house. What happens when he comes to visit? 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

The education system exploded in the 1940s and 1950s. California education’s painful decline 2012-10-02T17:01:00Z

Bullock pursued photography as a hobby at first but went pro in the 1940s, doing commercial work while experimenting on the side. Review | In the galleries: Finding the unknown within what is known 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

Discussion of political and social aspects of Seattle’s civil rights in the 1940s, 3 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-05-29T22:18:16Z

Maybe it's because many designers are taking hints from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s in their designs. Lauren Hutton revisits 'American Gigolo' for Bottega Veneta 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Soulages attracted attention in the late 1940s with a series of bold calligraphic works on paper using walnut stain or, on occasion, tar on glass. Pierre Soulages, Leading French Abstract Painter, Dies at 102 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

Nazis take an English village in this 1940s reissue. This week's new film releases 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z

In the 1940s, African-American architect Paul Williams designed the hotel's looping handwritten script logo and redesigned the Polo Lounge, which had previously been called El Jardin. Beverly Hills Hotel marks 100 years of swank 2012-05-07T13:13:12Z

They date to a 1940s library book checkout card that he signed in high school, before heading home with a biography of Andrew Jackson. Antiques: Elvis Presley Auction; Books on Depictions of Slaves 2012-08-02T21:55:34Z

In 2007-08, an elaborate retrospective of her career, from the 1940s onward, was displayed at the Tate Modern in London, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Artist Louise Bourgeois dies in NYC at 98 2010-05-31T20:51:00Z

Each leaf bore the name of one of the many thousands murdered when the Nazis exterminated entire Hungarian Jewish communities in the 1930s and 1940s. Swapping a boat for a bus to explore Prague, Vienna and Budapest 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

The piano was purchased by the Butler family of Buffalo in the early 1940s and for years was displayed in the Butlers' opulent mansion in the city. Rare Ruhlmann piano to be auctioned in NYC 2013-02-14T12:29:13Z

My mom’s handwriting is a messy version of the formal cursive they taught in northern Wisconsin public schools in the 1940s. A Mother’s Cookbook Shares More Than Recipes 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

Vincent Kartheiser will shift from the 1960s to the 1940s when he portrays Billy Wilder in “Billy & Ray” at the Vineyard Theater this fall. Vineyard Theater Casts Its Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

FRI-SAT The story of George Bailey, told as a 1940s radio broadcast, 7 p.m. Community calendar 2011-12-08T00:22:09Z

Not only was the 3-D better and more pronounced in films from the 1930s and 1940s , but even the sample from 1915 was. Letters to Calendar 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

The flower spread to England, and in 1889 the businessman and politician Samuel Mills Damon brought the anthurium from London to Hawaii, where they were widely propagated from the 1940s onward. An ‘It’ Flower for a Feminist Moment 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

So "vacation" was in the title very early on, starting in the early 1940s. "You needed the Negro Motorist Green Book more in the North and the West" 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

Hard bop and cool jazz shared a pedigree: They were both variations on bebop, the challenging, harmonically intricate music that changed the face of jazz in the 1940s. Horace Silver, 85, Master of Earthy Jazz, Is Dead 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Johnstone never married, but from the 1940s shared her life with Francis Davies, a classical pianist who eventually divided his time between Australia and Europe. Gwyneth Johnstone obituary 2011-01-06T19:02:23Z

The Troy survived into at least the late 1940s. The view from First Avenue and Virginia Street, circa 1910 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

In his 1991 poem “You Can Have It,” he recalled a time in the 1940s when he worked for a bottling company, and his twin brother had a job shipping ice: Philip Levine, U.S. poet laureate who wrote of working life, dies at 87 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Better, then, to divorce the series inspired by James Herriot’s autobiographical novels from its 1940s Yorkshire setting. Peaky Blinders take Chicago! Which British shows deserve a US spin-off? 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

Chiuri said in a press release she was also inspired by Italian Surrealist artist Leonor Fini, a friend of Christian Dior, the late founder of the house in the last 1940s. With swirls and cages, Dior goes surrealist for Haute Couture week 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

The original Green Lantern has no cosmic connection: Alan Scott was a 1940s crimefighter armed only with a disco collar and a supernatural magic ring. After Chris Pratt’s galactic triumph, which other sitcom stars should become heroes? 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

For decades beginning in the 1940s, the region was ravaged by war; archaeologists started to build on her work only in the ’90s. Footsteps: In Laos, the Lady and the Jars 2012-07-13T16:23:26Z

Also last year, at Christie’s in New York, stuffing was spilling out of leather cushions on a 1940s Molesworth sofa that brought $50,000. Antiques: Vintage Thomas Molesworth Furniture Heads to Auction 2013-09-05T20:00:56Z

Jesse went for crime novel and film noir inspiration, and Seth hewed to a 1940s' Russian and German military focus. 2010-02-12T23:07:00Z

“Skylight,” a manuscript penned in the 1940s and stranded in an editor’s drawer for almost 40 years, has just been published in translation. Book review: ‘Skylight’ by Jose Saramago 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

More fluffy fur showed up as the arms of tops and jackets, giving the show a whiff of the 1940s, while the quilted satin alternatives added a sporty element to the mix. Special Report: Fashion: Taking Charge at Kenzo 2011-03-07T19:23:37Z

They seem to represent the ongoing history of families whose lives were disrupted in the 1940s. Review | In the galleries: Artists talk through their hats 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

A marked Northwest Coast Indian art influence is evident, too, in the formline echoes of his ceramic sculptures from the late 1930s and early 1940s, especially “Seated Figure” and “Black and White Dancer.” At the Frye: an amazing sculptor you didn’t know about, and a treasured cartoonist 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Sullivan has set the play in upstate New York in the 1940s, adorning the scene changes with jitterbugging couples flinging their limbs in the air to the strains of big-band music. Theater Review: A ‘Comedy of Errors’ Unfolds in the ’40s, With Fedoras 2013-06-19T02:00:01Z

A 1940s first-floor addition to the back of the house holds the family room, with built-in cabinetry and a small kitchen and dining area. House Tour: New Hope, Pa. 2011-03-31T20:43:13Z

The Philharmonic played a number of concerts there in the 1940s, including the 1949 performance in which Bruno Walter led the orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, the “Eroica.” New York Philharmonic Discusses Temporary Home at Hunter College 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

During the late 1940s and early 1950s, “solitary self-expression” was in fashion among artists, Ms. Harrison said, making Rivers, with his borrowings, a renegade and a precursor of Pop Art. | Long Island: ‘Larry Rivers: Collaborations and Appropriations’ Is at Stony Brook University 2012-10-27T04:59:07Z

Angel’s Flight A detective searches for a missing girl in 1940s L.A. in this mashup of comedy, burlesque and film noir. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 4-11: Patti LuPone and more 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

The front door was spared because Mr. Iacono loved the metal Pepsi sign attached to it, which he thinks dates from the 1940s. At Lucali, Pizza for the A-List and the Landlady Upstairs 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Conn said that Buck’s work began to drop off in quality during the 1940s, and that the books that came afterward were not “consistently as interesting, with a few exceptions.” A Pearl Buck Novel, New After 4 Decades 2013-05-21T21:00:02Z

Because “It’s a Wonderful Life” assumes something that society assumed in the 1940s and sometimes continues to assume to this day: A wife is supposed to sacrifice, buck up, make do, slog through. Perspective | Mary Bailey is the true hero of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

According to Laurie Dodge, director of marketing and development for the Association of Junior Leagues International, recipe books as fundraisers first became popular in the early 1940s. How a 50-year-old community cookbook became a mainstay in almost every Cajun kitchen 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

My understanding is that women were attending Harvard classes as early as the 1940s and by the early '60s both college presidents were signing the diplomas. ‘Outlander’ Season 2 Finale: I Believe You 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z

The best films from the 1930s and 1940s are both entertaining and uplifting, and united by a clear moral vision: good will prevail over evil, but it's going to take a while. Hey, cowboy 2010-04-25T23:06:00Z

Career: Staff photographer for Look magazine in the late 1940s before turning to film-making. Stanley Kubrick: film's obsessive genius rendered more human 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

After the factory closed in the 1940s, demolition debris was simply mounded on the beach. Collectors Find Historical Value in Broken Glass 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

The war siphons off the estate’s male work force in the 1940s; later that decade, the Colonel dies and “the after-dinner boisterousness” is silenced. Inside the Estate that Inspired ‘The Philadelphia Story’ 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

The library there contains more than 900 patterns designed by the Tilletts dating back to the 1940s, including several created in collaboration with Design Works. Some of Jackie O.’s Favorite Fabrics are Back on the Market 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

“It’s not by accident that it was not published back in the 1940s,” his grandson, Malcolm Wright, said in an interview. Decades After His Death, Richard Wright Has a New Book Out 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s it spawned a musical, Carmen Jones, and there have been dance versions, not just Matthew Bourne's The Car Man, which transplanted it to 60s America, but also Carlos Saura's flamenco one. Daniel Kramer: Carmen, I've cracked you 2011-01-12T21:31:00Z

Since the 1940s, the racial politics surrounding “Carmen Jones” have been fraught. ‘Carmen Jones’ Is Back, and Its Director Knows What You’re Thinking 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The Breakers served the American war effort in the 1940s, becoming the U.S. The Breakers Palm Beach 2013-01-08T14:50:11.017Z

From the 1910s through the 1940s, he spoke mysteriously of his “friends” who could acquire artifacts in the countryside, while he angled spotlights on stone Buddha heads and opalescent jade bowls for sale. Antiques: Notes From the Dealer C. T. Loo, and Pens of a Certain Age 2012-09-06T21:10:10Z

McCallum, who acted alongside his wife Googie Withers in a series of films in the 1940s and 1950s, had reportedly been suffering from leukaemia. 2010-02-03T09:16:00Z

The number of buildings in Mount Vernon Triangle that are designated as historic; they date from the 1870s tothe 1940s. Street Smart: Silo in Mount Vernon Triangle, by way of Tehran 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

The annotated versions of Orwell’s diaries revealed an antisemitic and homophobic bent and evidence that during the 1940s he provided a list of suspected Communists to the British government. Peter Davison, Orwell Scholar on a Monumental Scale, Dies at 95 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

As in musical comedies dating at least to the 1940s, Dawn and Becky embark upon romances that provide comic diversion from the more weighty travails of Jenna. Review: Jessie Mueller Serves a Slice of Life (With Pie) in Sara Bareilles’s ‘Waitress’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

The State Department had bought about 150 paintings and, in the 1940s, planned to send them on propaganda world tours. Antiques: ‘Art Interrupted’ Exhibition Ends Tour in Georgia 2014-01-23T22:58:12Z

If the cable channel had balked again, Milch might have transposed the series to medieval England or 1940s Tijuana or on the planet Noo-Noo. "Deadwood" rides again 2010-12-12T00:01:00Z

Just finding a street where there weren't so many wires, overhead wires that we had to paint out for 1940s Newark, where the Roth family grew up and where our family is situated. "Democracy is never perfected": David Simon on his new HBO series and the 2020 "s**tshow" election 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

Six actors play 25 characters in the show, which takes place in a 1940s radio station and features live sound effects, some of which are recreated in the video. ArtsBeat: In Performance: ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ 2013-12-24T13:00:24Z

There's something very 1940s about Adaline's look, cinched trench coat, cloche hat. 'The Age of Adaline' a stylish affair of the heart and chance 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

He became director of the company in the late 1940s after Boscoe moved to London, before moving to the US in 1954. Bond villain Geoffrey Holder dies 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Rare birds With Western fringe, the sharp cut of the 1940s and the languid drape of the 1930s — it seemed like there was a lot going on at Vionnet . Special Report: Fashion: Reflecting on the Future 2011-01-25T18:18:38Z

But it builds considerable emotional force across its two hours, and its scrupulously researched depictions of 1940s cityscapes and lifestyles are engrossing. From Hiroshima to Tule Lake, Films About Japan and America 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

Two marvelous drawings from the 1940s by Jackson Pollock suggest his awareness of Indian sand painting and rock petroglyphs. Art Review: ?Kindred Spirits? at Peter Blum Gallery in SoHo 2011-12-22T23:13:25Z

Despite the company’s desire for ABT Across America to echo the troupe’s transcontinental tours of the 1940s and ’50s, it was a much less grueling affair. On the Road With Ballet Theater. Who Needs Red Velvet Seats. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s, they take off from documentary realism to reach the heights of noir extravagance, before falling back into a gently unexciting worthiness. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z

She appeared on Broadway in the 1940s including a small role in the musical "Oklahoma!" and in off-Broadway and summer stock productions. 'As the World Turns' matriarch Wagner dies at 91 2010-05-03T01:59:00Z

These cells were in use until the late 1940s and early 1950s, when they were remodeled and replaced. Outside Chicago, historic Old Joliet Prison is open for tours — at least for now 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Fabray’s singing and comedy talents were put to good use in the 1940s in Broadway musicals such as the hit “High Button Shoes” opposite comedian Phil Silvers. Nanette Fabray, winner of Emmy and Tony awards, dead at 97 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z

Hurricane Relief Benefit Fundraiser in the style of a 1940s radio show. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Sept. 24-Oct. 1: 'Wicked Lit,' 'Resolving Hedda' and more 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z

His great-grandfather Chester Hanford, once the dean at Harvard College, was admitted to a mental institution in the late 1940s after experiencing acute anxiety. Stossel Family Problems Spelled Out in New Releases 2013-12-22T22:15:52Z

In the 1940s, most architecture firms would not hire a woman. Ruth Adler Schnee Wins the 2015 Kresge Eminent Artist Award 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

After graduating from Grinnell College, where he was captain of the tennis team, he worked for Cosmopolitan and other magazines in the 1940s and early `50s. A memoir by Kerouac's agent, Sterling Lord 2013-01-24T13:11:12Z

Serialization is novel in musical presentations these days, and Trinity’s program synopsis toys with the cliffhanger aspect, as in, say, a radio drama from the 1940s or ’50s: After Five Years of Bach, Trinity Church Takes On Handel 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

She sang in the early 1940s with the Priority Ramblers before forming the Weavers with Seeger, who died last year. Folk singer Ronnie Gilbert, founding member of the Weavers, dies at 88 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

“Sam is like a storyteller, and it was so interesting to hear what was happening in Cairo in the 1930s and 1940s,” she said. Art Reoriented, a Curator Duo, is in High Demand 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s, the Columbia Basin Project flooded the region to create an enormous lake. For summer fun in Potholes State Park, just add water (and sand dunes) 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

Listen to McCartney deliver the 1940s tune “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive” and it’s easy to imagine him soft shoeing his way through a song-and-dance routine. Paul McCartney's Kisses on the Bottom: Songs Your Grandparents Should Know 2012-02-16T09:58:04Z

It sounds like it could have been made in the 1940s. Celebrating 90 years on air: the best moments of speech radio 2012-11-13T11:12:21Z

“The fact that she was nominated for best new artist, for music that she started writing in the 1940s, is just unbelievable.” He recorded his Nana’s songs. Now, at 95, she’s nominated for a Latin Grammy. 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

The walls’ only décor were a few framed black and white photographs of an old leather briefcase, the bay and pilings in fog and a 1940s telephone. In San Francisco, the Classy Renewal of a Gilded Age Hotel 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Of the four dances, two were choreographed by Graham in the 1940s and two were by contemporary choreographers responding to her work. Martha Graham at VPAC: Dance as bridge from past to future 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

“He was suspicious of characters like me,” Irving Howe recalled of a genteel Princeton literary scholar he knew in the late 1940s. ‘A Voice Still Heard,’ a Collection of Essays by Irving Howe 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

Semar guided her viewers through the preserved scrapbook, which included photos and love letters that date back to the 1940s. Granddaughter goes viral for remembering grandma's 1948 dating life 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

Some may chide her, not without cause, for overreaching; yet the emotional impact of her deep-diving images — especially the astonishing clips from the “race films” of the 1940s and earlier — is profound. Review: ‘The Rape of Recy Taylor’ Takes a Deep Dive Into Systemic Injustice 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

The place opened in the 1940s as an “amusement arcade” in an era when Skee-Ball represented the apex of arcade fun. The Last of Manhattan’s Original Video Arcades 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

Or the quiet chat about war-time childhood between a grandparent and child over a 1940s record player on display. The Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award 2010-10-18T14:18:00Z

I would answer first, glibly, by saying that predictions of the demise of classical music started in the late 1940s. An Orchestra Veteran on Music’s Post-Pandemic Future 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

“We’ve got records at the University of Glasgow going back to the 1940s and they do cast doubt on the evidence at the time.” Victory in a Battle Over a ‘Whistler’? 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Left to herself, Her Maj would probably prefer songs from the shows of the 1940s and 50s, or perhaps one of the madrigals she learned to sing as a child. Is this the Queen's ideal playlist for her diamond jubilee? 2012-02-08T15:45:00Z

He and wife Mary Ford enjoyed a string of hits in the 1940s and 1950s that included Mockin' Bird Hill and How High the Moon. Les Paul guitar auction makes $5m 2012-06-11T11:22:47Z

They’re snapshots of her mother and grandmother taken in the late 1940s when they left their native Poland for America. Zoe Leonard’s Messages Strike Hard — and Cast a Spell 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Yet in the 1940s, the painter Francis Bacon spent three productive years there, developing his best-known pictorial theme: the “screaming” popes, inspired by a Velázquez portrait. How France and Monaco Inspired Francis Bacon 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

On Thursday, Artcurial held a sale of cars from Prince Albert II’s collection, with 1930s roadsters and 1940s Dodge Army trucks, in Monaco. Antiques: Classic Vehicle Auctions and a Lucie Rie Biography 2012-07-26T21:17:22Z

Christopher Lee, the courtly British actor who died at age 93 this week, was a prolific performer who made more than 275 movies during a screen career stretching back to the 1940s. Christopher Lee dies: Six of his sinister villain roles 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Lizabeth Scott, whose deep, throaty voice and sensuous good looks helped her reign as a queen of Hollywood’s darkly anti-romantic productions in the 1940s and 1950s, died Jan. 31 at a Los Angeles hospital. Lizabeth Scott, sultry femme fatale of Hollywood’s film noir, dies at 92 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

Shot mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, they reveal a chapter in Seattle cultural history that was hidden from most of the city’s inhabitants at the time. MOHAI exhibit of Al Smith’s photographs shows vibrancy of Seattle’s Central District and African-American community 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

After the 1940s it might also materialize, badly chopped and cropped, on television. Out There in the Dark, All Alone 2011-04-10T01:20:47Z

B & H Dairy, the East Village kosher dairy restaurant, 1940s lunch-counter culture. The East Village, Home of Punks and Poets: Here’s a Tour 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

The Israeli artist-musician converts drawings to sound and then back, using software derived from a machine introduced in 1940s Russia. How are these things not like the others? 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

The handsome boxed set includes not just his book but also reproductions of seven maps of Champagne’s subregions published in the 1940s by Louis Larmat. The stuff of the best 2017 wine reads: Everyman advice, a con man, a legendary region 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

Trained in both neurology and psychiatry, Heath left a promising career at Columbia University for the delights of Louisiana at the end of the 1940s, before topectomies proved disastrously ineffective. ‘The Pleasure Shock’ Review: This Is Your Brain On Batteries 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

The more generous explanation centres on the fact that that period, taken together with the first half of the 1940s, represents a kind of nadir in human affairs. The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

Tappers like Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Ginger Rogers are icons of America’s economic and military strength of the 1940s and 1950s. It’s got that swing 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Directed by actor Billy Bob Thornton, 2000's "All the Pretty Horses" is another moody slow burn, but it's also unusual in that it's a Western taking place in the 1940s. Lots of good Westerns before 'True Grit' 2010-12-23T21:23:04Z

The father began playing accompaniments at Havana's famous night clubs in the 1940s. Cuban pianist Bebo Valdes dies in Sweden at age 94 2013-03-22T20:24:15Z

“Pure Painting” spans half a century, beginning with figurative abstractions of the 1940s and extending into representative works of his last years. A Vienna Museum Mounts a Monumental Look at Robert Motherwell 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z

Jazz great Glenn Miller and his orchestra broadcast from Hotel Pennsylvania in the 1940s. Hotel Pennsylvania to be renovated, not razed 2013-03-07T20:29:12Z

This is an accurate portrait of Mississippi in the 1940s, and it illuminates one of the difficulties in writing about the era today. Review | John Grisham’s new novel wades into Mississippi’s racist past 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

A third picture shows a crumpled snapshot of a woman, dressed in a 1940s outfit, walking along a street. Why digital photographs won't be around forever 2011-08-13T23:05:54Z

In the late 1940s, Francisco became a fruit importer and moved his wife, children and several extended family members to Aruba’s capital. On an Island Hunt for Pieces of My History 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

But a street sweeper wielded a broom that could easily have been from the 1940s, if not the 1640s. ‘God Was on Vacation’: A Visit With a Long-Lost Cousin in Romania Is a Holocaust Lesson 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Sondheim has never written typical musicals – the kind made famous in the US in the 1940s and 1950s – he writes about the human condition, with layer upon layer of depth. Is Stephen Sondheim the Shakespeare of musical theatre? | Michael Ball 2010-03-29T15:41:00Z

The museum’s exhibits are found throughout this sprawling network of concrete tunnels used as a bomb shelter in the 1940s and as a fallout shelter thereafter. A cycling trail through Poland and Germany — and Soviet-era history 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Pleasantville is one such landscape: a middle-class development of the 1940s, when African Americans were not welcome in other neighborhoods. Attica Locke channels bitter political memories into 'Pleasantville' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z