There’s no indication that Henrietta questioned him; like most patients in the 1950s, she deferred to anything her doctors said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Edsel, the Ford Motor Company’s famous flop from the 1950s, failed because people thought it looked funny. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

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

Built in the 1950s, it has white metal awnings and is framed in tall green trees. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The government’s Public Distribution System, which had fed most North Koreans since the 1950s, collapsed. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It goes well right next to the shelf with my vintage 1950s Kodak Medallion 8 camera. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

I have often wondered what I might have become in life had society’s doors been more open to me—a child and youth of color—in the 1950s and 1960s. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1950s Wallerstein worked for a chain of movie theaters in Texas. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Though hybrids were introduced in the thirties, it wasn’t until farmers started using chemical fertilizers in the 1950s that corn yields really exploded. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The following day I went up to Harlem, an area that had assumed legendary proportions in my mind since the 1950s when I watched young men in Soweto emulate the fashions of Harlem dandies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now I feel like some 1950s cheerleader wearing her boyfriend’s letter jacket. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He started smoking one recently as part of this whole 1950s, Father Knows Best retro kick he is on. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the development of interstate highways in the 1950s, meatpacking and shipping could take place in plants located closer to the farms where livestock was raised. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the early 1950s, for example, Weisberg ran a drama troupe in Chicago. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 1950s Westinghouse Frigidaire with rounded edges and a silver pull handle in one corner. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In the 1950s and 1960s, civil rights activism and new federal laws inspired the same resistance to racial progress and once again led to a spike in the use of Confederate imagery. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The 1800s section and the 1950s high-rise were connected by sort of a tunnel, maybe six yards wide and probably half a football field in length, or it seemed that way. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the late 1950s, White learned that Hollywood was about to shoot a movie, The FBI Story, starring James Stewart as a crime-busting agent, that would feature a segment on the murders of the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I tell Heather she should push the fashion envelope just a teeny bit to be an ironic reflection of the 1950s, you know, innocence and apple pie. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Monod and Jacob had compared notes and found, to their astonishment, that both were working on two aspects of the same general problem, and they had combined some parts of their work in the 1950s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Later in the 1950s, William slipped into depression again—and not for the last time. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

All we know for sure is that she had retired from work completely by the early 1950s. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Hello, young man,” my father says like it’s the 1950s. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In the 1950s, when Bobby frequented the establishment, the Bureau was particularly active, hoping to supply information to the House Un-American Activities Committee. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Not only was the group all black, it was also the only stand-alone all-female professional section left at the laboratory, and by the late 1950s, that had become an anachronism. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Images crystallize ideas—and the image of a double-helical molecule that carried the instructions to build, run, repair, and reproduce humans crystallized the optimism and wonder of the 1950s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But the air force, which was the agency charged with space exploration in the late 1950s, refused to consider any woman for astronaut training. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the 1950s, small cotton farming was becoming increasingly less profitable, even with the low-wage labor provided by black sharecroppers and tenants. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There is no question that the historic civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s owed its existence to the summer of 1919, when organized black resistance to white abuse first became a reality. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Between the late 1950s and the 1970s, however, it was the physiology of genes that dominated scientific inquiry. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

By the late 1950s, the main focus of the espionage war was moving from the streets of Berlin to the upper reaches of the earth's atmosphere. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, it was in the 1950s, after racial segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional in Brown v. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the early 1950s, federal and state authorities finally cracked down on the group. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The whole time, I’m thinking about what my mom and Nattie and I are going to do, and I’m panicking that Nattie would even think of doing the vuvv 1950s hookup. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Parts of Maplewood literally looked like a stand-in for a 1950s movie set, particularly the downtown area with its restaurants, cafes, bakeries, and bookstores. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In the early 1950s, the Cold War took an unexpectedly lethal turn. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Things had gotten a little better in recent years, but anything that happened to the rest of the world between the 1950s and the 1990s never really made it here. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Slavin was born a hemophiliac in the 1950s, when the only available treatment involved infusions of clotting factors from donor blood, which wasn’t screened for diseases. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

His vernacular makes him sound like he has just awakened from the 1950s. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Until the 1950s, when it became a civil service post, the job was a political appointment, often bestowed on men who knew nothing whatsoever about running a prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1950s rural areas suddenly awoke from their trance and discovered that kudzu was eating them alive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There is no such thing as an old Levittown family, with the town having sprung up in the 1950s, but Krause’s family was there from the beginning. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

One of the things that people remember about Weis- berg’s Friday night salons back in the 1950s was that they were always, effortlessly, racially integrated. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman is huge and blond and puffy like a 1950s beauty queen gone to seed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had only referred to his race in two ways—as African American and black—terms that had become popular after the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Yet in the 1950s, a civil rights movement was brewing, emboldened by the Supreme Court’s decisions and a shifting domestic and international political environment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Michael’s totally into it. We’ll learn all the old 1950s terms, like you did.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

During the 1950s and 1960s, the time of Bobby’s initial and then most intense ascent, an expenditure of just $5 was considered burdensome by both mother and son. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"McCarthyism" became a catchphrase for the hunt for communist subversives, a frenzy that would engulf the United States for the rest of the 1950s. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The West might not be directly accountable for all of Iran's drama, but they definitely stirred the pot back in the early 1950s. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The rhetoric of “law and order” was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to generate and mobilize white opposition to the Civil Rights Movement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Despite the park’s nonconformity, during the 1950s organized tournaments and other games were played there almost every day, even in winter, with players wrapped in mufflers and hats, awkwardly moving their pieces with gloved hands. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The jaws of the widest C are 3,950 feet apart, an expanse so big that scientists did not recognize the ridges as constructions until they took aerial photographs of the site in the 1950s. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the early 1950s Anaheim began to feel much less rural and remote. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Cambodia prospered and was self-sufficient. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in his usual Henry Huggins style, like a 1950s paperboy. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

In other words, the strains of HIV that were circulating back in the 1950s were a lot different from the strains of HIV that circulate today. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the South of the 1950s, all blacks were not equally black. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winnie, who had been protesting the government’s policy regarding women’s passes since the 1950s, rightly refused to carry the hated document. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They think that’s all we paint. You know, they get kind of stuck on a thing. Like how they think ‘traditional’ human music is 1950s rock and roll. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Beginning in the 1950s, scientists developed hybrid strains of wheat, rice, maize, and other crops that were vastly more productive than traditional varieties. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the late 1950s, school desegregation was the most immediate threat to white middle-class Southerners. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wilkins was plowing methodically through his work in the early 1950s when he was interrupted by an unwelcome force. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

More precise dates did not come in until the 1950s, when Willard F. Libby, a chemist at the University of Chicago, invented carbon dating. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the 1950s and 1960s, when we went to Western governments seeking contributions to the ANC, we were turned down flat. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1950s, professionals were reliably Republican; today they lean Democratic. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In the 1950s, they both watched the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy with dismay. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

The National Party accepted the most hidebound of 1950s cold war ideology and regarded the Soviet Union as the evil empire and communism as the work of the devil. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Meanwhile, throughout the 1950s oceanographers were undertaking more and more sophisticated surveys of the ocean floors. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The point is that when blacks socialized with whites in the 1950s in Chicago, it didn’t happen by accident; it happened because a certain kind of person made it happen. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only did the system allow Roosevelt and Churchill to communicate in perfect security, but it remained in use and unbroken into the 1950s—an astonishing record. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Scorned when it was first erected in the late 1950s, it is a brilliant, if idiosyncratic, creation by one of the most original architectural minds of the century. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, his no-compromise policy on racial slights of any sort would have a direct and indirect influence on the civil rights actions of the 1950s and 1960s. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Generationally, though, he could seem older than his chronological age—more a child of the 1950s than the 1960s. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

As additional proof from other laboratories and experiments accumulated in the 1950s, even the most hidebound skeptics had to convert into believers.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“And...oh gods! Audrey Hepburn! I know this movie. Roman Holiday. But that was from the 1950s. How—?” “Oh, my dear!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One was nostalgic for the 1950s, the other for the 1950s. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cross the river to the north, and you arrive at the King’s College labs, where Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins began their work on DNA crystals in the early 1950s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

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 chart below shows a breakdown of two categories of Jamaican professionals—lawyers and members of parliament—in the early 1950s. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The story begins in the early 1950s when a bright young geologist named Eugene Shoemaker paid a visit to Meteor Crater in Arizona. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She’s out of the car before I am and heading toward the first bookmobile—an Airstream trailer from the 1950s—which is across the gravel and across the field. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But after the war, posters from the 1950s showed only boys dreaming of flight. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The blue-collar factory jobs that had been plentiful in urban areas in the 1950s and 1960s had suddenly disappeared. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The halfway technology that was evolving for poliomyelitis in the early 1950s, just before the emergence of the basic research that made the vaccine possible, provides another illustration of the point. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1950s, there was rarely a slow workday for Dorothy Vaughan. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But the shift in attitude and in public responsibility at the laboratory were as distinct in character as the golden age of aeronautics of the 1950s would be from the space-age 1960s. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Columbia was then — as it is now — one of the largest mail order clubs in the world, and Wunderman had handled the company’s advertising since it was formed in the 1950s. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the 1950s the government accused them of being spies and executed them,” Jonah says, his hair swinging around him as he speaks excitedly. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the 1950s, most of Langley’s test data was still processed by hand; the NACAs entire research operation had evolved with the women’s work as its engine. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

By the 1950s there was maybe one a year. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The fact to keep in mind is that in the 1950s “blacks” made up about 80 percent of the Jamaican population, outnumbering coloreds five to one. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And all along the sides of the plaza are kids from the high school—I recognize some of them—dressed like it’s the 1950s because that’s when Bye Bye Birdie takes place. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

A few years before, Ann had taken to slipping out of the house with a wild group that included French—wild by the standards of rural North Carolina in the 1950s, anyway. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It had been built in the 1950s and was designed as a co-op, meant to ease a post-World War II housing shortage for black working-class families. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Early in the 1950s black community leaders in the South began to organize boycotts of concerts and public events that imposed segregated seating. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Like many civil rights lawyers, I was inspired to attend law school by the civil rights victories of the 1950s and 1960s. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the end of the 1950s, when the American space program looked as uncoordinated and spindly as a foal, predicting that the United States would best the Soviets might have seemed like a fool’s bet. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Later, after a hot shower and with the suit on, I looked like an Ivy League kid from the 1950s. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In the late 1950s, White contemplated writing a story to document the case. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Unlike the United States, the Soviet government expected women to work outside of the home, and by the 1950s, many Soviet women were pursuing scientific and technical careers. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

When Dorothy and the other West Computers signed up for computation classes in the 1950s, they registered to attend at Hampton Institute. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She seems like she’s playing a part—an extra from an old-school Disney cartoon or from a period movie set in the 1950s that called for secretaries. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like a slower, 1950s version of the real city across that cool bridge we cabbed over last night. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the late 1950s, a woman often went from her parents' home to a home with her husband. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

He stood up and yelled, “Go get ’em, Tiger!” with 1950s irony while my mom clapped and whooped next to him. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

When my grandparents moved to the United States, in the 1950s, the South Bronx had already begun its transformation from a majority Jewish borough to one dominated by blacks and Latinos. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It had been Johnson, as a senator in the late 1950s, who had pushed the Space Race. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1950s, the choreographer Merce Cunningham became an early exponent of what would become the Theater of the Absurd, alongside the playwrights Beckett, Ionesco and Pinter. Review: Merce Cunningham’s ‘Crises’ Opens Dance at the New Whitney 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

By the 1950s and ’60s, it was among the busiest in the world. Fairways Where Golf Becomes the City Game 2011-04-07T20:59:26Z

She’s so desperate for the structure and stability of the 1950s. Kate Bosworth on the delights of playing the villain: “We wanted to turn it so the Hitchcock blonde would be the psycho rather than the victim” 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

The UK has been suffering a prolonged national identity crisis since the 1950s, in which resistance to European integration became a crucial unifying factor. Eurovision: it's time to stop laughing at foreigners 2013-05-17T11:47:54Z

Those red-hot early Beatles sides were a natural link to the driving rock of the 1950s. Meet the critic who panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ then discovered his speaker was busted. He’s still not sorry. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Evangelical sports ministries took off later in the 1950s, followed by the U.S. yoga boom in the late 20th century. Making sweat feel spiritual didn’t start with SoulCycle – a religion scholar explains 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

Situated in a mostly North African quarter of the same name, the market is a chaotic jumble of vintage luggage, Depression-era scrap metal, 1950s radios and rusted French street signs. 36 Hours in Bordeaux 2010-06-17T21:43:00Z

But in the 1950s, Ms. Follett, who after early success left New York, was still looking for a receptive place to land. When Artists Ran the Show: ‘Inventing Downtown,’ at N.Y.U. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Found-object assemblage was the first large-scale Modern movement to emerge in the city in the late 1950s. Noah Purifoy's smoldering work of art, 'Watts Riot,' is a powerful reminder on the 50th anniversary 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Not because the town is overwhelmingly white, and he is the Muslim son of parents who came to this country from Pakistan back in the 1950s. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

This tart recipe was also appealing to him because he grew up watching his mother cook from The Betty Crocker Cookbook in the 1950s. Amanda Hesser's beloved peach tart has one unlikely crusader 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s and ’60s, a group of Black, largely self-taught painters sold colorful landscapes of Florida along the state’s roadways, often right out of their cars. At These American Museums, You Can Travel the World 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

Examining his little-known forays into mosaic in the 1950s, it is like a spotlight that illuminates all around it, specifically his last decade, when he wrestled his opposing stylistic elements into their finest expression. Hans Hofmann’s Murals Add a Blast of Color to a Muted Legacy 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

In 1950s Appalachian Kentucky, mourning haunts the lives of two African-American girls, Audrey and Caroline Audrey’s father dies in the Korean War, and she lives with her grandfather and alcoholic mother. Susan Minot’s ‘Thirty Girls,’ and More 2014-02-26T21:15:54Z

He’d been a fan since the 1950s and thought my father was greater than this or that playwright and on and on. Daisy Foote on Being a Playwright Like Her Father 2012-08-03T20:06:29Z

Have we eliminated the threat of gun violence to the point that youths actually feel much safer in school and on the streets now than even in the 1950s? My half-brother scares me 2013-03-20T00:00:00Z

Arriving in 1950s Kansas City chasing two escaped convicts, he quickly finds himself tangled in a complicated web of criminal activity that extends to include the local police. Why has Timothy Olyphant become TV's go-to lawman? 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z

The construction of the building's roof was a challenging puzzle in the late 1950s and early '60s.  Getty Foundation launches effort to conserve modern architectural gems 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

"Beat Generation" takes its name from the group of writers whose works raged against the conformity and consumerism of the 1950s. Kerouac's only play premiers in Mass. hometown 2012-10-10T17:58:08Z

"Don't make yourself look cheap" was the advice given by many a mother to a daughter bent on cosmetic makeover at the end of the 1950s. Glamour versus feminism? Just look at the images in the media we all adore 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z

Boomers in 1964 seemed to be nearly as apolitical as teenagers had been in the 1950s. Everything you know about the 1960s is wrong 2012-11-24T14:00:00Z

As a young African-American woman in the 1950s, she was drawn to social activism; she met and married a like-minded teacher, Melvin Metelits, with whom she had a son, Michael. ‘Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project’ Review: A VCR Obsession 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

The painting of our family was done at the height of the atomic war scare of the 1950s. No Artists Outshine Others in This Egalitarian Collection 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Germany has been influencing our set designers ever since Brecht's Berliner Ensemble changed the face of British theatre in the 1950s. The artists' artist: set designers 2011-07-20T21:31:01Z

At a time when 21st Century journalism is under intense scrutiny, along comes The Hour to remind us how things were changing on TV in the 1950s. News junkie 2011-07-19T07:24:39Z

The untitled project is set in London’s fashion world in the 1950s. These are TIME's Most Anticipated Movies of 2017 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Abstract Expressionism has had a lot of attention, but the New York art world of the 1950s was a complicated place of many barely tangent circles. Art and Museums in NYC This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

There's this huge treasure trove of rhythms and sounds that are within rhythm and blues from the 1950s that — you can see it everywhere you play it,'' he said. Music Match: If You Like Bill Haley and His Comets, Try JD McPherson 2013-08-13T13:00:01Z

It seems fitting that the 1950s, a period of conformity and affluence, would inform a downtown night-life scene that could be described the same way. The Happiest Hour in Greenwich Village 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Old Master Wang predicts his sons will not take these traditions with them, but completely assimilate into a 1950s vision of white America and baseball. 'Flower Drum Song' author C.Y. Lee eyes San Gabriel Valley for new stories 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

Growing up in Quincy, Mass., in the 1950s and ’60s, I played mostly in the streets. Generation B: It?s All Downhill From Here 2010-03-25T23:02:00Z

The oil-on-plywood painting encapsulates the Greek Cypriots’ armed uprising against British colonial rule during the latter half of the 1950s that culminated in the Mediterranean island’s independence. 45 years on, ‘lost’ masterpieces see light in split Cyprus 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

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

Trained in classical music and jazz, Mr. Swingle began the group almost as a lark in Paris, where he had lived off and on since the 1950s. Ward Swingle, Who Made Classical Music Jazzy, Dies at 87 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

To that end, moving the story to the 1950s, when proper young people refrained from premarital sex, and setting it in an amusement park, where the couples are on vacation, work well. Review: As James Levine Sues, the Met Opera Opens a New ‘Così’ 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

"The Rum Diary": Johnny Depp goes to the Hunter S. Thompson well again with this adaptation of the writer's novel about an American journalist in 1950s Puerto Rico. Weekend Preview: Seattle Weavers Guild Sale 2011-10-26T21:12:08Z

Collins, 63, said he became fascinated with the Alamo story when he was growing up in the 1950s watching the television series "Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier" starring Fess Parker. Phil Collins donates his Alamo collection to spot of its genesis 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

That got him hooked on the music that had emerged in the 1950s by loosely combining R&B and the raw energy of hillbilly music. They became MTV stars by playing rockabilly. Now, 40 years later, the Stray Cats are ready for a comeback. 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

By the early 1950s, Dean's band had its first national hit in "Bummin' Around." Singer, sausage businessman Jimmy Dean dies at 81 2010-06-14T03:14:00Z

Jeffrey Schwarz’s documentary portrait “Tab Hunter Confidential” is as mild-mannered and blandly likable as its subject, the blond screen heartthrob who in the 1950s embodied the quintessential pretty boy next door. Review: ‘Tab Hunter Confidential,’ About a Heartthrob 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

“I have a distinct memory of a friend who is now one of the great vintage dealers in the world calling me crazy for spending $30,000 for an early 1950s Omega Speedmaster,” he said. Watches Are Yet Another Easy Way Rich People Make Their Money Into More Money 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

These two ballets capture the adolescent New York body language of the late 1950s in ways that make it both historic and mint-fresh. Review: City Ballet’s Spring Season Includes ‘N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz’ 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

Newly restored, it is set in the early 1950s against the backdrop of the anti-Semitic “doctors’ plot,” in which a group of doctors, most of them Jewish, were accused of conspiring against the Soviet state. 6 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

In the 1950s, dozens of streetcar routes were replaced with buses in San Francisco. In San Francisco, visitors and locals ride the rails as they did a century ago 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. McCullin started taking photographs in the 1950s in a working-class area of North London. A War Photographer Is Celebrated as an Artist, to His Dismay 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

"Memphis," the rhythm 'n' blues musical set in the American South in the 1950s, won four Tonys, including best musical. "Red," "Memphis" win big at the Tonys 2010-06-14T03:39:00Z

The filibuster is well known for being a tool of segregationists trying to block various civil rights bills in the 1950s and 1960s. Black voters in West Virginia are tired of being invisible 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s. Under the surface of Eisenhower’s era 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

During the second world war, Renee helps with the war effort in the skies, and now, as America enters the space race in the 1950s, she is determined to be the first female astronaut. The Astronaut's Chair – review 2012-09-28T10:48:18Z

One of the most eye-catching rooms is the one with dozens of 1950s and ’60s dresses in every color imaginable, displayed on mannequins in a wide arc. History of a Dress, Chinese Style 2010-08-30T12:10:00Z

In the early 1950s, she headed west in search of a singing career, spending two years as a nightclub attraction in Honolulu, where she met Holiday and Louis Armstrong. Abbey Lincoln, 80, jazz singer, songwriter, actress dies 2010-08-15T04:14:00Z

"In the 1950s, Ian Fleming wrote several episode treatments for a James Bond television series," said Jessie Grimond, the author's great-niece. Horowitz to write new Bond novel 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

The others, in Paris and at the company’s home in Geneva, envelop the clientele in an identical citrus scent, and in all three, the piped music is as suave and alluring as 1950s Monaco. Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

At the height of his career, in the 1950s and '60s, Husky was considered unmatched as a country music showman. Country great Ferlin Husky truly "Gone" at 85 2011-03-17T23:01:00Z

He created “Rick O’Shay” in the 1950s while living in New York. Stan Lynde, ‘Rick O’Shay’ Comic Strip Creator, Dies at 81 2013-08-07T17:20:04Z

It shows how the band was shaped by American radio and television in the 1950s and early ’60s, before escaping the suburbs for Manhattan. Review | How Steely Dan made its mark on music — and shaped an American cool 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Etta James sang professionally nearly her whole life, and could stock a long shelf full of memorable records: gritty blues songs in the 1950s, hits in a broad range of styles in the ’60s. A Voice of Gold, a Life of Pain: Etta James, 1938-2012 2012-01-20T22:06:06Z

Mr. Fo studied painting and architecture in Milan before joining a theater group in the early 1950s, originally as a set designer before beginning to write and perform. Dario Fo, Italian playwright and ‘jester’ who won Nobel Prize, dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s she waged guerrilla warfare against the wearing of "paper-nylon" petticoats, designed to give a sticking-out effect to the skirts of summer dresses. Glamour versus feminism? Just look at the images in the media we all adore 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z

Almost any list of “Classic American Sitcoms” will demonstrate the importance female-led shows have had throughout the years, all the way back to I Love Lucy in the 1950s. Does the Fall TV Lineup Finally End the ‘Are Women Funny’ Debate? 2012-10-03T12:00:32Z

With one of the most golden voices of any genre, a clenched, precise, profoundly expressive baritone, Jones had No. 1 songs in five separate decades, 1950s to 1990s. George Jones, country superstar, has died at 81 2013-04-26T14:36:09Z

Then there’s the classic Guston of the early 1950s, when he joined the Abstract Expressionist bandwagon just in time to generally rank among the movement’s first generation. Philip Guston’s About-Face, in a Bracing Show at Hauser & Wirth 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

He began performing folk and rock in the late 1950s, but then graduated from the Vancouver School of Art in 1958 and moved to Toronto to work as a commercial artist. Ian Tyson, Revered Canadian Folk Singer, Dies at 89 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

Reynolds Woodcock, a couturier plying his trade in London in the 1950s, has a habit of sewing secret messages into his garments. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z

Though 3-D ended up being more of a fad in the 1950s, the widescreen format was embraced by the international film community. Academy's 'This Is Widescreen' series salutes big moment in film history 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Gabor, a sex symbol of the 1950s and 1960s, was watching her favorite television game show when she tumbled out of bed while trying to answer the telephone. Zsa Zsa Gabor hospitalized for leg complication 2011-03-03T00:52:00Z

Raised in the 1950s, among the first artists to come of age in the era of television and mass media, Ms. Sherman is part of the “pictures generation,” making works that combine Pop and Conceptualism. Arts & Leisure: MoMA to Showcase Cindy Sherman?s New and Old Characters 2012-02-16T12:00:00Z

This ghetto became Little Vienna, filled with Yiddish theaters, cafes, synagogues and schools, until the Communists expelled the Jewish residents in the early 1950s. In Shanghai, Preserving Buildings Takes Work 2010-05-01T10:03:00Z

This being the early 1950s, their father Manuel, a baker, isn’t thrilled about either girl’s activities. ‘Invisible Life’ Review: Sisterhood Is Stronger Than Patriarchy 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

In the late 1950s, Fred led a group of anti-big bang physicists who finally showed how the heavier elements originate in stars. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Not just for his influence on poetry and New York’s downtown art scene from the 1950s into the 21st century, but also because his artistic life was nothing short of Zelig-esque from the get-go. Three New Memoirs Offer a Glimpse Into the Writer’s Mind 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

I’d read extensively in science fiction, speculative fiction, utopias and dystopias ever since my high school years in the 1950s, but I’d never written such a book. Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

For a few years in the 1950s, when bebop innovation was thick on the ground across the West Village, Café Bohemia was one of the central havens. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

When the show segued to television in the early 1950s, he sought out spunky Los Angeles youngsters who wouldn't be intimidated by a TV studio. Obituary: Talk-show pioneer Art Linkletter 2010-05-27T04:12:00Z

Cayre is an independent art adviser specializing in the 1950s to today. Computers and Painting’s Identity Crisis 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

His children played a big part in his life in the 1950s. Inside Art: London Picasso Show Is a Family Affair 2010-07-01T22:30:00Z

“Person to Person” has nostalgia built in, being a revival of the seminal celebrity-chat program first hosted by Edward R. Murrow in the 1950s. ArtsBeat: Prime-Time News and the Ghost of JFK 2012-02-09T19:00:34Z

The star of 1950s films "Moulin Rouge" and "Lili" was in the hospital last month to have her leg amputated because of a gangrene infection. Zsa Zsa Gabor returns to hospital in Los Angeles 2011-02-01T19:45:40Z

Her first story documented fashion shows in the 1950s in segregated Harlem, New York before moving to London in 1962. U.S. photojournalist Eve Arnold, 99, dies in London 2012-01-05T19:40:59Z

In Paris in the 1950s, their romance continues with Zula recording a record, but they also fight. Six new films that could be Oscar contenders for Best Foreign Language Film 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

When he was in Yale Law School in the late 1950s, he founded a satirical magazine called Monocle. Books of The Times: ‘The Art of Controversy’ by Victor Navasky 2013-05-23T21:40:02Z

He returned in the late 1950s to immerse himself in the American civil rights movement. James Baldwin: Pessimist, Optimist, Hero 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

This week's treats include two 1950s albums: Christmas in Cleveland, a collection of local high-school choral groups, and Christmas with the Stars, which features two Judy Garland numbers. Click to Download: Christmas mixes and 2011 tips 2010-12-09T21:00:00Z

Encompassing 27 blocks along Biscayne Boulevard, the stretch was vibrant in the 1950s but fell into disrepair, with its once family-friendly motels renting rooms by the hour. Five Places to Go in Miami 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

It stemmed from his early years as a junior high school music teacher in New York before immersing himself in the folk-music revival of the 1950s and 1960s. Milt Okun, music impresario who spanned pop, folk and opera, dies at 92 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

There was no gun control movement as we popularly understand it in the 1950s. America’s favorite handgun 2012-09-23T15:00:00Z

He also played with the Baker's Dozen group on their highly successful BBC radio series, Let's Settle for Music, during the 1950s. Harry Klein obituary 2010-08-04T17:08:00Z

Cricket fascinated Bacon, and beginning in the 1950s he would attend matches. Inside Art: A Bacon Cricketer With a Back Story 2010-10-08T05:15:00Z

But mostly, it sounds like a hybrid of Mr. Glass’s signature sound and 1950s film music; in fact, much of it sounds more like a soundtrack than Mr. Glass’s actual film scores. Music Review: Rock and Classical Collide With Bowie and a Score by Radiohead Star 2011-05-22T21:15:09Z

Over the next few hours Mr. Ferkioui poured out the story of how he once had been part of a famous chaabi conservatory and musical troupe in the 1950s. Algerian Chaabi Musicians Reunite in the Band El Gusto 2012-10-12T18:21:46Z

Tahari said he aimed to update some classic, good-time 1950s shapes. Black, white and printed all over at Fashion Week 2012-09-11T16:16:13Z

He wouldn’t see the works that influenced him most deeply until his Greenwich Village years in the 1950s, when he fell in with a circle of avant-garde artists, musicians and intellectuals. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

After a heyday in the 1950s, rose production in Tyler has cooled. The Rose Queen of Texas 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

A revival in the 1950s cemented its place in theater history. In This Show, Mack the Knife Is a Woman 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

In the 1950s and early ’60s, he and his wife lived in Manhattan. An Artist’s Maine Menagerie, as Enduring (and Elusive) as Wildlife 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

It’s set chiefly in Des Moines in the 1950s, when America was perfect except for the threat of nuclear annihilation, racial oppression, the birth of unbridled consumerism and little Billy’s mother’s cooking. The best audiobooks for your summer drive, sorted by length — and who’s in the car 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

After its increase in popularity in the 1950s, then another surge in the 1980s,  the use of contemporary 3-D picked up again in the early 2000s and seems like it’s here to stay. A Film Series Celebrates 3-D and Its Glasses 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

But really Ms. Rose, 23, is indebted to a host of older styles: lite country of the 1970s, classic country of the 1950s, insular indie rock from a few years ago. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-14T23:23:56Z

If this sounds antiquated, it’s because this character’s essential Bond-ness is still stuck in the 1950s. Spectre Fails to Create a Powerful Bond Girl 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

The four Marciano brothers were born in Algeria and Morocco but grew up in 1950s Marseilles, France, in a devoted observant Jewish family. Maurice and Paul Marciano, of Guess Jeans, Plan a Museum 2013-08-25T21:32:30Z

Fences 30th-anniversary revival of August Wilson's Pulitzer- and Tony-winning drama about a 1950s family man and onetime star player in baseball's Negro Leagues. L.A. theater openings, Aug. 16-23: 'Assassins,' 'Fences' and more 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Though an oft-repeated story says it was invented in New Orleans in the early 20th century, the drink didn’t enjoy wide popularity until the 1950s. You May Sound Silly, but Don’t Be Afraid to Order a Grasshopper 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

As an adolescent in the 1950s, he would have known the world of the Osbornes and the local Irish communities in the countryside and how they interacted — or didn’t. John Banville’s New Murder Mystery Starts Like a Game of Clue 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

Russell had largely given up acting by the end of the 1950s. Jane Russell: Mean! Moody! Misunderstood! 2011-03-01T22:00:01Z

The episode: one where Sam is thrown into the body of a 1950s New York taxi driver. From Rosa Parks to Van Gogh: when TV takes on real-life figures 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Dolores Wilson, Met Soprano, Dies at 82 Dolores Wilson, a soprano of the 1950s who later sang in Broadway musicals, died on Sept. Dolores Wilson, Met Soprano, Dies at 82 2010-10-05T00:10:00Z

Sondheim has been fascinated by the Mizners since he read about Addison, an architect, and his flimflamming brother Wilson in the New Yorker back in the 1950s. ‘Road Show’: A journey into the ‘get-rich-quick’ 20th century 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Beginning in the late 1950s, Mr. Vaughan was the artistic director of the Phoenix Theater, an Off Broadway company whose occasional Broadway productions included Mr. Vaughan’s “Hamlet.” Stuart Vaughan, Director and Shakespeare Expert, Dies at 88 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

The audience for it had vanished by the 1950s. The great, and entitled Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T21:11:12Z

Jefferson’s memoir, meanwhile, offers candid and often ironic commentary of her upbringing in an affluent African American family in Chicago during the 1950s and ’60s. Paul Beatty, Margo Jefferson win National Book Critics Awards 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

After breaking out as half of a satirical comedy duo with Elaine May in the late 1950s, Nichols found his niche as a director and proved equally adept at theater, television and film. Mike Nichols: Six of the late director's memorable movies 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

It’s there, on a beach, that this former 1950s motel opened in late June after being sold last year and reimagined. In Search of a Crowd-Free Summer Getaway? Try These 6 Hotels. 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z

Francis, a stunningly beautiful blonde with a prominent beauty mark, appeared opposite such stars as Spencer Tracy, Paul Newman, Robert Taylor and Glenn Ford in some of the most popular films of the 1950s. 'Forbidden Planet' star Anne Francis dies at 80 2011-01-03T16:26:09Z

Her most famous role was in the 1950s seaside drama Wish You Were Here in 1987. In pictures: The career of Roger Lloyd Pack 2014-01-16T13:54:55Z

Despite the absence of an organized industry in the past, the region’s film history dates from the late 1950s. Promising Times for Filmmakers in the Gulf 2010-12-08T19:00:00Z

Her commitment to each moment is as formidable as Lena’s old-school moral core, which is sorely tested in the rapid change of 1950s Chicago. Review | A plump ‘Raisin in the Sun’ at Arena 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

Water World At the government’s request, the tribes that populate the remote Indonesian island of Sumba stopped hunting heads in the 1950s. T Magazine: Water World 2010-11-19T20:34:00Z

"Go Set a Watchman," which is set in the 1950s and features characters from "To Kill a Mockingbird" some 20 years older, is scheduled to be published on July 14 by publisher Harper. 50 years on, new book from 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Troy, a married middle-aged sanitation worker scraping by in 1950s Pittsburgh, is one of the most memorable characters in Wilson’s 10-play cycle chronicling 20th century African American life. Casey versus Denzel: Oscar's lead actor race is a dramatic study in contrasts 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

He played the beleaguered, neurotic star of a 1950s television comedy show in Neil Simon’s “Laughter on the 23rd Floor” and the slobby Oscar Madison in a revival of Mr. Simon’s “Odd Couple.” Nathan Lane, Hamming It Up As Few Can 2010-05-26T17:15:00Z

Page was the top-selling female singer of the 1950s with more than 100 million records sold. 'Tennessee Waltz' singer Patti Page dies at 85 2013-01-02T19:54:03Z

At the beginning of the exhibition, works from the 1950s show Warhol in transition from commercial to fine art. Review: A ’60s View of Warhol’s Soup Cans, at MoMA 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Belafonte had his commercial peak and his most prolific recording years in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the crest of the folk revival. Work, Love, Dignity and Play: 10 Key Harry Belafonte Songs 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Concurrently, in these unpredictable sexual times, there are frequent throwbacks to the 1950s, when "nice" girls didn't, and innocence/ignorance was the prerequisite, either simulated or real, of the virginal bride. From private passions to sexting: how Britain's sex life has gone public 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

But if they nevertheless have not gotten their due, it is because Still turned his back on the commercial gallery system in the early 1950s and rarely exhibited his work thereafter. The New Season: New Museums: Crystal Bridges Among Anticipated Openings 2011-09-18T04:00:09Z

Hadn’t people seen him, dressed like a 1950s lounge act, complete with a pompadour? The Tear-Stained Confessions of Sam Smith 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Desi Goudstikker, the art dealer's widow, did not trust the Dutch government of the 1950s to deal justly with a formal claim to the Cranach paintings and other important works, so she never filed one. Norton Simon dealt setback in Nazi-looted art case 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

I sat in the back row of the Stratford balcony in the 1950s many times to see Olivier's Macbeth and Titus, Gielgud's Lear and Prospero and heard every syllable. The thrust of the problem for the RSC's new stage 2010-11-24T10:28:00Z

One was particularly striking: Mutu’s mother was a young girl when her family was moved into concentration camps designed by the British to suppress the Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s. An Artist With Roots in Nairobi and New York Imagines a New Destiny 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

But by the 1950s employers were desperate to hire office workers, teachers and nurses. Women of a Certain Age, Gail Collins Has Your Back 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

When Sameen Rushdie was a child in India in the 1950s, she unpacked a tiffin at school every day. A Classic Indian Cookbook Returns, This Time for Americans 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

How were you able to create music that appealed to all audiences during the 1950s and 1960s, when rhythm and blues and pop music was racially classified? Dionne Warwick Is Ready for an Encore 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

Jefferson’s upbringing in 1950s Chicago was almost idyllic. Top 10 Nonfiction Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Carol” Like “Brooklyn,” this portrait of a shop girl in 1950s New York is suffused with the production values and visual grammar of a delicious melodrama of the era. The best movies of 2015: ‘Spotlight,’ ‘Love & Mercy,’ ‘Creed’ make the top 10 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

In the 1950s, the Eckes were able to get the plants featured on TV and in magazines, and they caught on across America. Poinsettia and toucan design wins Holiday Wrapping Paper Contest 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

In the 1950s, studios used to employ “fixers” who would hide celebrity scandals at any cost to make sure that actors’ images remained untainted. 'Authentic' YouTube Stars Clash With Hollywood at the Teen Choice Awards 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

Plus, he’s a black man in 1950s America, a state of being that needs no more explanation. Review: Reverent 'Fences' Works So Hard...It Stops Working 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

There's a story from the 1950s about the US ambassador to the Soviet Union being given a wooden US seal by some Russian schoolkids. An intelligence expert's view on The Americans 2013-06-16T18:00:04Z

Director Robert Carsen, who has set the tale of Shakespeare's roguish knight in the 1950s, wanted to introduce a horse to reflect English society. VIDEO: Horse makes opera debut in Falstaff 2012-05-14T23:16:45Z

Her wartime experience led her to become a social worker in the early 1950s, but she soon tired of government obstinacy. New York’s Poet of Light and Letters 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

She also taught and appeared in plays at Workshop West, which she helped found in the late 1950s. Betty Garrett, actress in film, TV, Broadway, dies 2011-02-13T11:55:09Z

Swimply is a modern variation on “Queen for a Day,” the 1950s and 1960s Cinderella game show that bestowed a night on the town and avocado-tinted appliances on a lucky woman. Heaven is renting someone else’s pool 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

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

It keeps its primary focus on detailing the valiant — and in this telling, triumphant — movement of resistance to racism of the 1950s and ’60s. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Did anyone in the 1950s, the era that inspired Byrd’s throwback business, worry about calories? New ice cream shops in Washington offer three different takes on frozen treats

When the Cold War gained intensity in the 1950s, Robeson became a prime target for the F.B.I. and was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Review: Daniel Beaty as Paul Robeson in ‘The Tallest Tree in the Forest’ 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

West Side Story Musical Theatre West stages the classic tale, inspired by Shakespeare's “Romeo & Juliet,” about star-crossed lovers in 1950s New York; with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 7-14: Bernadette Peters and more 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

I grew up in Ohio in 1950s and 1960s and although it wasn't a popular thing my own family ate a lot of frozen vegetables and fruit. Finding Produce in Alaska’s Long Winter Takes Wiles and Luck 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

In the 1950s he was an early member of Sun Ra’s Arkestra, then he performed in bands led by Max Roach, Herbie Hancock, Abbey Lincoln and Stanley Turrentine, among many others. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

"This was the 1950s," he says, "everything exciting was going on outside the world defined by parents and school." M John Harrison: a life in writing 2012-07-20T21:55:12Z

“The late 1950s were the start of a very good economic period for Italy,” Mr. Damiani said. Creating Golden Opportunities Amid Austerity 2012-11-27T15:59:55Z

Kids in pictures taken on the beach in the 1950s, with ribs showing, look famished to modern eyes. The truth about obesity: 10 shocking things you need to know 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

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

Ceramics has come a remarkably long, raucous way since the early 1950s. The Met Museum Sees More Clay in Its Future 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z

The actors carry scripts; props and gestures are kept to a minimum; and there are microphones hanging from the ceiling to simulate a 1950s studio. All That Fall: the Samuel Beckett stage play that isn't 2012-11-07T19:00:01Z

It was set in the 1930s, not the 1950s. If You Love ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ You’ll Love These Books 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

As that series recounts, it was by reading a 1950s comic book, “ Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story,” that a young Mr. Lewis became interested in the civil-rights movement. ‘Run’ Follows Award-Winning Graphic Novel ‘March’ in Civil-Rights Chronicle 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

After the war he studied at the Actors Studio before moving to California in the early 1950s. Joseph Sargent, an Emmy Winner Who Directed ‘Pelham One Two Three,’ Dies at 89 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Married three times, the actress shared a husband with Elizabeth Taylor when Eddie Fisher left Reynolds for her violet-eyed rival in a 1950s scandal. Debbie Reynolds due out of hospital after bad reaction to meds 2012-10-10T19:20:31Z

The four drawings from the 1950s were made with blunt pencils on plain sheets of paper. Bob Law drawings find poignancy in simplicity 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Of the nearly 6,000 houses built in Flint in the early 1950s, fewer than 100 were open to African-Americans. Two Views of Flint’s Water Troubles: One a Close-Up and One With a Wide-Angle Lens 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

A subversive and innuendo-laden movie that sent up the nuclear-family entertainments of the 1950s, "Vacation" became a huge hit upon release, then spawned four sequels and countless imitators. Will the new 'Vacation' make Clark Griswold proud? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

This poem came to mind as I read “Capote’s Women,” the story of the high-society women of the 1950s and ’60s who were befriended, and then betrayed, by Truman Capote, their sinister mate. How Truman Capote Betrayed His High-Society ‘Swans’ 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Inspired by Eugène Delacroix’s 1834 Orientalist masterpiece, “Women of Algiers,” this was one of a number of works Picasso produced in the 1950s and 1960s in response to earlier artists he admired. A Picasso Is the Center of Attention at Christie’s Auction 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

Markel and Pham’s account opens with a double-page portrait in grays and browns of the famous men who dominated each field, from politics and humanitarianism to physics and sports in the 1950s. Hillary’s new star turn: heroine of children’s books 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The actor began her stage career on Broadway in the 1950s, amassing credits that eventually included Neil Simon’s The Last of the Red Hot Lovers and Terrence McNally’s Bad Habits. Doris Roberts, Emmy-winning star of Everybody Loves Raymond, dies at 90 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

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

Consider the major American novelists who emerged in the 1950s—Bellow, Updike, Mailer. David Foster Wallace’s importance of being earnest: Irony, Generation X and the sheer joy of language 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

Almost out of desperation, he turned to comedy, billed in the early 1950s as Don “Glass Head” Rickles. Don Rickles, lightning-fast launcher of comic insults, dies at 90 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

A block from the beach, opened in the late 1950s and retains the same mid-century style. Details: Visiting Wildwood, N.J.

Hu’s films are personal takes on several critical turning points in modern Chinese history, especially the persecution of independent thinkers in the 1950s, the famine that followed it, and the Cultural Revolution a decade later. Excavating Chinese History, One Harrowing Film at a Time 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z

Kruger is known for glamorous, red-framed montages that begin with slightly archaic black-and-white photographs that emit a well-behaved 1950s air. Barbara Kruger: A Way With Words 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

This is, after all, just a comic novella set in an alternate 1950s — nothing to do with the real world. Science fiction: ‘The Madonna and the Starship,’ by James Morrow

China Machado, who also began modeling in the 1950s, is half Chinese, half Portuguese. HBO doc tells behind-the-scenes stories of models 2012-07-27T19:38:10Z

Mr. Otto first became known for his tent structures, used as temporary pavilions at the German Federal Garden exhibitions and other festivals in the 1950s. Frei Otto, German Architect, Wins Pritzker Prize Posthumously 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

Very few of the houses have changed from the 1950s. 'Grease' gets its grit back 2011-04-23T15:21:37Z

The new songs rove from U2’s arena anthems to celestial ambient hymns, echoes of 1950s rock and glimpses of disco and new wave. U2 Offer ‘Songs of Experience’ to a World That’s on Fire 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s, Miller had teamed up with Elia Kazan to pitch it to Hollywood, but when studio executives demanded that the union bosses be communists, Miller scrapped the project. 7 Decades Later, Arthur Miller’s ‘The Hook’ Comes Home to Brooklyn 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

A prolific writer, two of Pohl's better known works were "The Space Merchants," written in the early 1950s with Cyril M. Kornbluth, and 1978's "Gateway" a winner of the Hugo Award for science fiction writing. Science Fiction writer Frederik Pohl dead at 93 2013-09-03T23:11:28Z

He served in the British Army’s Royal Dragoon Guards and worked in advertising in the late 1950s before he started making documentaries and television commercials. Hugh Hudson, Director of ‘Chariots of Fire,’ Dies at 86 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

The scale is the opposite of epic, in fact: the film is based on Mary Norton's 1950s Borrowers novels, in which miniature people live like mice under the floorboards. Arrietty ? review 2011-07-28T21:05:07Z

I finally zeroed in on a two-bedroom beach cottage, of maybe 1950s vintage, on a famous surfing beach. VRBO.com listed it for about $300 a night, rented by the week. How to create a perfect beach getaway on Oahu’s North Shore 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

He would make more recordings in the 1950s, mostly with the Royal Philharmonic on the Westminster label, but his health declined, and he would never again appear with the New York Philharmonic. The Conductor Who Whipped American Orchestras Into Shape 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

AP: You wrote about your band’s experiences traveling the country in the 1950s, when many venues and hotels were segregated. Duke Fakir details the Four Tops musical bond in new book 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

The master tinkerer became a star in the 1950s, scoring a pair of No. 1 hits, “How High the Moon” and “Vaya con Dios” with then-wife Mary Ford, and a regular television spot. The Holy Grail of the electric guitar? Not exactly. 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

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

You see the “X” in “comix” going back to “Peanuts” in the 1950s, when Charlie Brown and his friends went to the newsstand. Letters to the Editor 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

He noticed a framed letter from Phil Silvers, a comedian of the 1950s. Judd Apatow, an Autograph Geek, Hunts for Memorabilia 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

Like the United States, Egypt did not have a permanent national-scale ballet company until the 1950s, although it had a grand opera house in Cairo. Magda Saleh, Influential Egyptian Ballerina, Is Dead at 79 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

As late as the early 1950s, overnight street parking was illegal. It’s a Crumbling Road to Despair. Can New York Fix the B.Q.E.? 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1950s and became a staff engineer for RCA Records. Al Schmitt, Grammy winning engineer and producer, dead at 91 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

He works under the name Pablo Nouvelle, out of a love of the French cinematic nouvelle vague of the late 1950s and early 1960s. New band of the day: Pablo Nouvelle (No 1,321) 2012-08-01T17:34:48Z

He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Manhattan School of Music in the late 1950s. Eddie Bert, Trombonist and Jazzman, Dies at 90 2012-09-30T23:41:50Z

In the 1950s, Price developed a style that broke country tradition by using drums to back a fairly slow but driving 4/4 bass-line that became known as the "Ray Price Beat." Country music legend Ray Price dies at 87 - family spokesman 2013-12-17T01:10:07Z

McCrory is playing Celia, a fractious 1950s housewife who spent the second world war driving ambulances and now fritters away her days playing tennis and seeking real eggs for an omelette. Helen McCrory: 'Attack yourself ? don't get lazy' 2010-06-01T21:00:00Z

The 1950s saw a greater move into pop, with Max Bygraves and Ruby Murray. 80 years of Abbey Road 2012-06-09T23:04:05Z

The French heritage house looked to the 1950s for a collection of crisp, belted pantsuits and high-waisted shorts paired with jaunty toques and sensible sandals. Mexican masks, retro futuristic suits hit Paris 2010-06-25T21:59:00Z

The Grand Illusion kicks off a series of 1950s classics with Joseph L. Mankiewicz's "Suddenly, Last Summer," adapted from the Tennessee Williams play and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift. Harry Potter rules at Cinerama 2011-06-23T20:46:04Z

Born in 1923 into an aristocratic German family, he began his career as a magazine cartoonist in the 1950s. German humorist "Loriot" dies at 87 2011-08-23T11:38:09Z

If Atticus is a racist in the newly published novel, which Lee wrote in the 1950s before she wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird," what else might be true about him — and us? Atticus Finch a racist? There goes the ideal 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

The story, "The Man Who Was Wanted," was found among Conan Doyle's papers in the 1950s. 'Lost' Sherlock Holmes tale probably isn't Arthur Conan Doyle's, expert says 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Hamilton-Byrne first became attracted to eastern religions and mysticism when she took up yoga in her mid-30s in the late 1950s. Growing up with The Family: inside Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s sinister cult 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

He was a very sick individual, infamous in the 1950s for making furniture out of dead bodies. James Franco: why I recreated Psycho 2013-06-09T18:30:02Z

In 2002 he was named an Honorary Freeman of the City of York, an honour he received at a venue in the city where he once used to play trumpet in the 1950s. Bond composer Barry dies aged 77 2011-01-31T13:19:53Z

After all, it is set in the 1950s when many steam trains were still running. In Pictures: Magor model village 2013-06-24T07:04:02Z

The sex appeal was also turned up in the odd play of sheer paneling on the house's signature 1950s gowns, in blushed nudes and inky jewel tones, that are shaping this fall's look. Dior hems plunge, Lanvin celebrates at Paris shows 2012-03-03T02:46:04Z

It is there in the music, of course, but also in a personal presentation only marginally less startling and radical today than it would have been in the repressive and homophobic America of the 1950s. No Prince Without the King 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

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

And it is as relevant today as when she first stepped on a runway, in the 1950s. China Machado: A Breakthrough Model Until the End 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

“Two of the works from the 1950s are paintings that Ellsworth had never been willing to part with,” Ms. Temkin said. Inside Art: Dia Foundation to Sell Works to Start Acquisition Fund 2013-06-27T20:21:13Z

Back in the 1950s, a locomotive steamed along the same southeast corridor as this bullet train. A Writing Retreat by Rail, From Paris to the Côte d’Azur 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Little Richard made most of his definitive recordings in the 1950s, when he was an absolute revelation. Little Richard: An Ecstasy You Couldn’t Refuse 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

It was the mix of arts and styles at Black Mountain that inspired Lou Harrison in the early 1950s to explore Baroque period tuning and Japanese court music while finishing his 12-tone opera, "Rapunzel." How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

The veteran actress' career dates back to the 1950s when she appeared on the "I Love Lucy" TV series starring Lucille Ball. "Dukes of Hazzard" actress Peggy Rea dies, age 89 2011-02-11T01:45:44Z

But no worries, you can also still score a 19th-century country pie safe, a vintage typewriter or a 1950s Russell Wright platter. Destination Design: Ellicott City

Their achievements, though modest, are a reminder that the civil rights triumphs of the 1950s and ’60s followed decades of lonely struggle by a dedicated cadre that included Southern women of both races. The Daughters of the Confederacy Who Turned Their Heritage to Political Ends 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

Built for Edna Wilma Simons, a light opera star from Kentucky, by her first husband, it had last been remodelled in the 1950s. The best towns and small cities in the US: Missoula, Montana 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

I mean when I first read the script, I was like, it's about a woman in the 1950s who becomes a stand-up comedian in New York, is there a really a broad audience for this? Rachel Brosnahan thought she was bad at comedy until "Maisel" came along 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Reynolds, known for her wholesome looks, starred alongside Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Fred Astaire in cheery song-and-dance musicals of the 1950s and 1960s. Debbie Reynolds, with SAG lifetime award, says she 'ain't down yet' 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

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 Meyer discovered the painting’s whereabouts in the early 1950s, he sought its return. Why two American museums are fighting to keep art stolen by the Nazis 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

The 1950s vocalist Yao Lee croons a wistful Chinese pop song about the presence of the past. ‘Goodbye, Dragon Inn’: The Last Picture Show in Taipei 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

In her prologue Warner wrote of the realities of growing up as a convent-educated Catholic in the 1950s. Kathryn Hughes: rereading Alone of All Her Sex by Marina Warner 2013-03-23T07:00:15Z

My father and uncle bought the Traymore in the 1950s, and we moved to Atlantic City for a while. Laurie Tisch, Collecting the Giants, of New York and Modern Art 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

He also performed in the first two episodes of the 1950s TV series "Lassie," before handing the role to his son, Lassie Junior. Legendary film dogs 2012-02-24T10:55:58Z

The house was actually built in a Chicago suburb in the 1950s but was taken apart piece by piece, carted 600 miles and then painstakingly reconstructed, in 2007, by Tom Papinchak, a local contractor. In Frank Lloyd Wright Country, Architecture and Apple Pie 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

That was particularly clear in the 1950s and 1960s, when growers successfully lobbied for a new peach laboratory in Byron, Georgia, to help combat peach tree short life. Peaches are a minor part of Georgia’s economy, but they’re central to its mythology 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

“Far from Heaven” was directed by Todd Haynes, who drew on Douglas Sirk films of the 1950s like “All That Heaven Allows” for inspiration. ArtsBeat: 'Grey Gardens' Team Will Make a Musical Out of 'Far From Heaven' 2010-12-17T19:17:58Z

More than 50 years ago, in more repressive times, children dressed in more gender-neutral colors until it was no longer marketable for retail companies in the 1950s. We're long overdue to rethink pink: It's time to move away from gendered baby clothes 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z

About the same time, the Drifters, a vocal ensemble that formed in the early 1950s with the soulful Clyde McPhatter as lead singer, were dissolved by their manager, George Treadwell. Ben E. King, soul singer of ‘Stand by Me,’ dies at 76 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

A selection of portraits of the Royal Family from the 1950s are also included. Bowie portrait in Snowdon show 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

Scott is set in the late 1950s in a hidebound Scottish village, where a small-town newspaper staff is trying to drag its readership into the modern world. Three things we love this week 2013-01-03T21:36:57Z

The story begins in the 1950s when computers, restricted up to then for military use, were introduced to universities and laboratories. Design: London Portrays Past and Future of Digital Art 2009-12-14T11:34:00Z

Appearing onstage in crinoline-lifted dresses and bright red lipstick, the sisters seem plucked straight out of the 1950s. The New Sound of Muscle Shoals 2012-12-25T13:20:15.353Z

Las Vegas in the 1950s and ’60s had the Rat Pack. Move Over, Rat Pack and Brat Pack: Here Comes the Snap Pack 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

His color warmed up considerably in the three years he spent at the American Academy in Rome beginning in the late 1950s. Lennart Anderson, Painter Who Put Modern Twist on the Masters, Dies at 87 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

His agent spent much of the 1950s trying to persuade him to write for children, which he finally did at age 40. African cats and American espionage – Roald Dahl's letters due in 2016 2013-07-25T09:10:30Z

People may forget that during the late 1950s Carnegie almost went the way of the old Penn Station. Carnegie Hall and the Jewels of Midtown: Stroll the History 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

The synopsis calls The Tree of Life an "impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950s." Long wait over as Terrence Malick film hits Cannes 2011-05-15T22:43:33Z

The first thing to understand about Cinerama, one of the gimmicks developed to help movies compete with television in the 1950s, is just how large an image it could produce. Long Before Imax, the Curious Tale of Cinerama 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

The Everyman, in conjunction with Northampton's Royal and Derngate theatre, will also present The Hook, a previously unseen Arthur Miller drama about corruption in New York's docks in the 1950s. Educating Rita to return to Liverpool 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

“They discovered that concept later on, when it began airing on radio in 1930, and then on TV in the 1950s.” The First Oscar Ceremony Lasted 15 Minutes. What Happened? 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

According to the text that appears onscreen prior to the first episode, “Mad Men” is a “term coined in the late 1950s to describe the advertising executives of Madison Avenue. They coined it.” Ad absurdum and the conquest of cool: Canned flattery for corporate America 2013-12-22T12:00:00Z

In the 1940s and 1950s, Christian faiths were attracting many converts in West Africa. Mormons confront a history of Church racism 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

Astounding, for a British housewife in the 1950s – no one in the family can explain it. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z

In the 1950s, N. W. Ayer started lending jewels to socialites and starlets for the Academy Awards and the Kentucky Derby. How Americans Learned to Love Diamonds 2013-05-03T20:08:21Z

“That beautiful atoll of Diego Garcia, right in the middle of the ocean,” is how Stuart Barber described it in the late 1950s. “24′s” phony history exposed: The dark history of a CIA “black site” 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Wigan began his career in England in the 1950s as a talent agent after he graduated from Oxford University. 2010-02-15T12:51:00Z

And Schuman’s hearing was acutely tuned toward Europe in the 1950s, as he worked in various capacities for the State Department. Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z

In the early 1950s he entered the heady world of New York television, most of it broadcast live with small budgets, restricted rehearsal time but an invitation to innovate. Sidney Lumet, giant of American cinema, dies at 86 2011-04-09T23:07:05Z

In the 1950s she was hired to photograph Joan Crawford, who wanted to promote her new movie, “Autumn Leaves.” Eve Arnold, Photographer, Dies at 99 2012-01-06T18:47:18Z

He edited crime fiction at Dell Books in the 1950s and wrote "entertainments," detective novels, now cult favorites, including "Epitaph for a Tramp" and "Epitaph for a Dead Beat." David Markson, postmodern master, dead at age 82 2010-06-07T16:34:00Z

His heyday, he says, was in the 1950s when wide-screen CinemaScope was introduced with an early form of surround sound. My wonderful life in cinema 2011-02-15T20:00:02Z

Back in the late 1950s, my friends and I would regularly camp out in my back yard. ‘Flying Saucers Are Real!’: Womack’s new book looks at the heyday of UFO lore 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

It feels like a relic, not just of the 1980s, or the 1950s, but also of the 2000s, when men on the internet were first gathering around ideas about how to present themselves. Prep Is Everything at Rowing Blazers. But Is Prep Alone Enough? 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Digital 3-D has become so common that it’s rare to see stereoscopic features presented as they were in the 1950s: on film, generally with two simultaneous projectors, one for each eye. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Or perhaps you’ll hit upon one of the two “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” episodes from the 1950s directed by the unknown Robert Altman. A Case of Retro TV Overload 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

In 2010, he painted a ceiling of the Louvre museum, the first artist given the honor since Georges Braque in the 1950s. Celebrated American painter Cy Twombly dies at 83 2011-07-05T19:26:09Z

Smiley’s new novel follows an Iowa family, from the years after WWI through the early 1950s, from the family farm outward into the increasingly complicated world. Fall books: 37 new titles to add to your reading list 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Female cheerleaders, in fact, were deeply controversial—even banned—as late as the 1950s. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z

In the 1950s, Fabray starred with Caesar, one of the shining stars of television’s Golden Age of the 1950s, in his “Caesar’s Hour” sketch comedy program. Nanette Fabray, winner of Emmy and Tony awards, dead at 97 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z

Records of the generations of families who lived in Weeksville are available, from its early days until it faded by the 1950s. Weeksville Black History Site Hobbled by Dip in Donations 2013-12-20T23:11:21Z

The season's next production - also to be directed by Lloyd - is Harold Pinter's The Hothouse - set in a 1950s mental institution. McAvoy shares Olivier award doubts 2013-04-22T10:41:11Z

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

"Million Dollar Quartet" encores hits from the 1950s, the rockabilly kind, with more zest and zeal. A Broadway update, on the eve of the Tonys 2010-06-13T13:39:00Z

That woundedness was what Frank Sinatra brought out so acutely in his watershed recordings of Rodgers and Hart standards like “It Never Entered My Mind” for Capitol Records in the 1950s. | 'Ten Cents a Dance': Music, Memories and Regret 2011-08-15T22:20:09Z

All the parts are there — he recorded his album live to tape, on vintage equipment, with producers obsessed with 1950s soul. Review: Leon Bridges Reveals Classic Soul and Something More Personal 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

The drug thalidomide was licensed in the 1950s to help expectant mothers deal with morning sickness. Five documentaries to watch in 2014 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

In the late 1950s he was the lead singer for the Crests, fronting hits like “Sixteen Candles,” “Trouble in Paradise,” “The Angels Listened In” and “Step by Step.” Johnny Maestro, Brooklyn Bridge Singer, Dies at 70 2010-03-26T05:56:00Z

Hamilton House, though its luxurious triplex apartments and doctors’ offices were relentlessly subdivided in the 1950s, remains the most atmospheric of the old Sassoon properties. The Man Who Changed the Face of Shanghai 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Having reached a high of about 50,000 visitors a year in the 1950s, the number has slipped to about 20,000 for many years now. art: Changes at the Hispanic Society of America 2011-11-13T05:00:15Z

In the meantime, our Mr. Mooney slithers into the pub, bringing the disharmonious vibe of a swinging, sexed-up London into this frozen outpost of the middle-class 1950s. Review: A Criminally Enjoyable ‘Hangmen’ from Martin McDonagh 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

On their NBC series in the 1950s, the comics imagined a “television referee” who would halt a terrible show the way a boxing official would call a fight. Recalling Bob and Ray, Who Paved the Way for Today’s Deadpan Humor 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

The affection for J.P. is keenest among baby boomers, the generation plunked in front of their black-and-white sets in the 1950s, when J.P. J.P. Patches' last public appearance is Saturday 2011-09-15T16:30:53Z

She says that she and her husband resembled a stereotypically 1950s American couple, and that they managed their marriage “mainly by not talking about things, instead of talking about them.” ‘In the Company of Rose’ Review: A Singular Woman and a Life Well Lived 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

Looks and feelings notwithstanding, Mr. Ingle is a clean singer, enamored of 1950s pop. Music Review: Never Shout Never at Irving Plaza 2010-04-28T22:56:00Z

The individual booths are mostly eclectic, although a few specialize in, say, Victorian bedroom furniture or 1950s windup toys. Treasure Hunting Along the Old Canal 2011-07-07T21:28:24Z

Swinging London cinema began the year after, when Philadelphia-born Richard Lester, who had been working in Britain since the 1950s, channelled the Fab Four’s pop energy into A Hard Day’s Night. Blown up – how cinema captured the dark heart of the swinging 60s 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Also worth noting: About four hours north of Eastwind Oliverea Valley is a sister property, Eastwind Lake Placid, which opened a few months ago in what was once a 1950s motor inn. 5 Cozy Hotels Where Winter Is a Treat 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

They're among the cartoonists who put MAD on the map in the 1950s. Magazine's 1st MAD men get a rare reunion 2011-11-12T15:31:12Z

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

The decline of mento had, in fact, begun during the late 1950s when electricity started to become widely available in Jamaica. Oldest swingers 2010-07-24T23:05:00Z

Stars and starlets sought his services, 1950s scandal sheets bruited his name and Mike Wallace grilled him on TV. Review | James Ellroy’s new novel is an unabashedly retro tale of Hollywood’s sordid side 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s, such difficult and almost incomprehensible experimental poems went almost unnoticed. Edoardo Sanguineti obituary 2010-05-26T17:23:00Z

During the second half of the 1950s the Platters toured the world as "international ambassadors of musical goodwill," a tag created by Mercury, their record label. Herb Reed of vocal group The Platters dead at 83 2012-06-05T18:12:43Z

“It’s still stuck in a Mad Men culture from the 1950s,” says Felperin. Cannes festival adapts to #MeToo era – but gender issues remain 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

A contemporary of Berry's, Ron Isley of the Isley Brothers, spoke at the dedication and praised Berry as rock and roll's leading pioneer in the 1950s. Statue honors music legend Chuck Berry 2011-07-29T19:38:10Z

According to Vidal, the New York Times waged a campaign throughout the 1950s to obliterate him as a novelist by refusing to review his work. Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z

She was born in the Depression and came of the age in the 1950s. “It was like an overdose of porn”: Chris Offutt reflects on writing about his family’s big secret, after his father’s death 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hamlisch, who affectionately remembered being allowed to stay up past midnight when Mr. Lewis hosted the Academy Awards in the 1950s, was nonetheless honest about the status of the project. Jerry Lewis Directing a Musical ‘Nutty Professor’ 2012-07-18T12:00:00Z

From the 1930s to the 1950s, his political views evolved from Communist to anti-Stalinist Trotskyist and on to pacifist, anarchist and what he called “anarcho-libertarian.” Michael Wreszin, Biographer of American Radicals, Dies at 85 2012-09-16T00:41:10Z

It’s about a woman who comes back to a small town in the 1950s and she falls in love with a man who is deaf. The star of 'At Home at the Zoo' on the risks and growing rewards of being a deaf actor 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

By the late 1950s he began to star in Broadway productions, and soon made his move to Hollywood. "Columbo" actor Peter Falk dead at 83 2011-06-24T18:42:21Z

They just had to walk to the back, past the manicures being given in the front to match the bar’s 1950s beauty-parlor décor. Inside the Brutal World of Comedy Open Mikes 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

An unseen Arthur Miller drama about corruption in New York's docks in the 1950s will have its world premiere next year. Miller drama set for world premiere 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

Vidal spent the 1950s working as a screenwriter for television and the movies, writing over 30 original scripts and notching up two Broadway hits: Visit to a Small Planet and The Best Man. Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z

The title of Ms. Larson’s book, taken from an essay Cage wrote in the late 1950s, refers to the blood pumping we inevitably hear when we try to experience what we call silence. Books of The Times: ‘Where the Heart Beats,’ John Cage Biography, by Kay Larson 2012-07-22T21:59:58Z

But when his best friend Hector is arrested, Standish decides to take action against the oppressive power of the "monstrous Motherland" - an alternate version of 1950s England - where he lives. Carnegie medal winner Sally Gardner attacks Gove 2013-06-19T11:49:00Z

He moved to the remote Italian island of Ischia in the early 1950s, and based himself in Italy for the rest of his life. A guide to Hans Werner Henze's music 2012-10-29T16:23:35Z

As a boy growing up in the 1950s, what did I see and hear that might confirm Abbott's implication that men were somehow better then? Yes, the men of my father's generation were better at being men 2013-05-17T19:01:02Z

Set against the retro, 1950s clothes with full skirts and bosoms to the fore, the designer Marc Jacobs put Vuitton in perspective. Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: A Fountain of Bag Creativity 2010-03-10T18:54:00Z

In the 1950s that group became one of the first jazz bands to play for concert-hall audiences around the world. Jon Batiste and Wynton Marsalis Prize John Lewis, and Each Other 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Chinese-themed landscapes will also blend with all the traditional areas and attractions that Walt Disney laid out back in the 1950s. Tomorrowland: how Walt Disney’s strange utopia shaped the world of tomorrow 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

She studied in the 1950s at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and lived in Paris, where she met André Breton, Benjamin Péret and other founders of the Surrealist movement. Maria Lassnig, Painter of Self From the Inside Out, Dies at 94 2014-05-09T05:29:35Z

Danny Bennett’s direction also helped; his father remained in his musical lane, singing the same classic songs that had brought him to fame in the 1950s. ‘Conan,’ ‘Goodfellas’ and MTV: How Tony Bennett Revived His Career 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z

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

“Arab nationalists in the 1940s and 1950s openly called for unity schemes between Arab states that would overthrow boundaries widely condemned as an imperialist legacy.” Heading towards disaster 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Steeped in American roots music, 1950s cool jazz and the musical openness of Don Cherry, it never feels settled but almost always seems centered on a search for shared comfort. Ron Miles Headlines the Village Vanguard, at Last, as the Club Reopens 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

Many Morrissey fans, myself included, pay homage to him by wearing our hair like his, or by invoking the 1950s style typically associated with Morrissey and his band. You Look Like a Morrissey Fan 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z

From the 1950s he was based in London, working as a journalist and writing for radio, as was the young VS Naipaul. Jan Carew obituary 2012-12-21T16:59:30Z

Sherwin, the author of a book on the legacy of Hiroshima, argues that President Eisenhower’s threat to use “massive retaliation” in the 1950s also moved no needles, though it did ramp up the arms race. Coming Close to Nuclear Holocaust 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Taking us from her early days with the Abbey Theatre, through her ill-fated relationship with JM Synge to her sad declining years in 1950s London, this heart-rending story is beautifully told. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

So Palmer had a brainwave: shoot on videotape, which had steadily improved since its invention in the 1950s, reaching the point where it could conceivably handle being blown up to cinema-sized screens. Tony Palmer: he's with the band 2013-07-28T18:00:00Z

Ms. Lennon, then Cynthia Powell, met Lennon when he was a student at the Liverpool College of Art in the late 1950s. Cynthia Lennon, the First Beatles Wife, Dies at 75 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s, Japanese officials paid handsomely to export a teahouse for display in the courtyard of the Museum of Modern Art. 4 Books That Reflect on Faces, Fragments and Torments 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

Ms. Dederer suggests that her own 1950s approach to domesticity was a direct result of her mother’s flight from conventional family life. Books of The Times: A Cynical Position Overcome With Yoga 2010-12-22T23:06:18Z

That’s not exactly a shocking statement coming from a woman in 1950s America. With ‘Lucy and Desi,’ Amy Poehler Gets to the Heart of a Marriage 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

Picasso was taken with the monotypes, and in the late 1950s he finally had the opportunity to buy some of them. Art Review: Who?s the Voyeur Now, Picasso? 2010-08-26T22:37:00Z

The group have since written more works of historical , all with political intent, including 54, set in Europe and the US in the 1950s, and Manituana, set in the 18th century. Altai by Wu Ming – review 2013-06-01T08:02:25Z

Freed, who hosted a Cleveland radio show in the 1950s, introduced R&B to white audiences at a time when music was segregated on the airwaves as well as at live venues throughout the country. The Ashes of the Man Who Coined the Term 'Rock 'n' Roll' Will Be Removed From Rock's Hall of Fame 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

Georges Moustaki was introduced to Edith Piaf in the late 1950s and started to write songs for the Parisian star. French singer-songwriter Georges Moustaki dies following illness 2013-05-23T17:50:06Z

It all started way back in the late 1950s, when Avant, then a manager for a New Jersey lounge, caught the eye of legendary jazz manager Joe Glaser, who took Avant under his wing. My streaming gem: why you should watch The Black Godfather 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Singh was at the pinnacle of his prowess and fame as a wrestler when he started working in films in the 1950s. Dara Singh, 83, Bollywood Star and Wrestler, Dies 2012-07-15T03:20:52Z

Illuminated 1950s movie signs and vintage cars decorate the site. Summer nights: the US drive-in cinemas still packing ‘em in 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

“I think it would be transformative as far as what we think of as black orchestra music in the 1950s and ’60s.” Perspective | A forgotten voice for civil rights rises in song at Georgetown 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Thom Browne, who designs the Black Fleece line for men and women by Brooks Brothers, was honored for his fashion design that evokes the late 1950s and early 1960s. First lady, Smithsonian museum honor top designers 2012-07-13T23:46:07Z

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

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

He earned his bachelor’s degree in music education from Dillard University in New Orleans in 1955 and taught at Xavier University Preparatory School until enlisting in the Marine Corps in the late 1950s. Ellis Marsalis, Jazz Pianist and Music Family Patriarch, Dies at 85 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

But fans remembered him most for his many TV appearances from the 1950s onward. Actor-comedian Orson Bean, 91, hit and killed by car in LA 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

It's an homage to 1950s roller derby and the pugnacious athletes who competed, fought, loved and lost. Review: 'The Jammer' is bouncy, roller derby fun 2013-01-23T02:31:06Z

Among his many short-lived journalistic stints, Hunter S. Thompson briefly worked in the late 1950s for a bowling magazine in San Juan, Puerto Rico. After 17 Years Away, Director Bruce Robinson Returns With The Rum Diary 2011-10-27T17:45:54Z

Mr. Watanabe didn’t overemphasize the 1950s hourglass shapes of his black leather jackets; he eased off the shape just enough to keep them contemporary. On the Runway: Junya Watanabe Takes Leather for a Ride 2011-03-05T19:55:45Z

Set in a world in which feds and crooks, both equally coldblooded, work in equivalent skyscraper offices, “Underworld U.S.A.” globalizes the post-Kefauver Committee mob films of the 1950s. Sam Fuller and Fritz Lang: Audacious Auteurs of Noir 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

He never did become a star solo stand-up performer, however, but in the late 1950s found his forte writing and acting in TV situation comedy. Eric Sykes 2012-07-04T11:46:45Z

Wilson’s play, first performed in 1983, centers on a former Negro League baseball player and his family in 1950s Pittsburgh. Viola Davis Wins Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

As this shows, dads have usually drawn the short straw in Britcoms from the 1950s on – unlike their sensible wives or drily witty teenage spore. The Untold Great Fire of London 2010-06-30T07:00:00Z

English cathedral music in the early 1950s languished in the doldrums, and its dissemination through radio, television and records lay in the future. Stanley Vann obituary 2010-06-03T17:02:00Z

That virtually all the artists went to France in the 1950s, some deciding to stay permanently, was a double whammy. 'Kinesthesia' exhibit in Palm Springs spotlights kinetic art in breathtaking new dimensions 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

As interpreted by a slender, fragile-looking Mr. Harris wearing casual attire, he is a skittish, faintly androgynous man-child of the sort that Robert Cummings played in his 1950s sitcom, but less predatory. Music Review: A Bachelor, Five Couples and All Their Tuneful Discontents 2011-04-08T23:21:13Z

The image — a poignant record of 1950s segregation in the American South and a treasure in the Met’s Gilman Paper Company Collection — appears in “The Americans,” Frank’s landmark book first published in 1958. Curators’ Choice on Art and Politics 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

In the national racial tumult of the 1950s and ’60s, it’s likely that Americans in California and Illinois were happy to see pretty white faces on their TV screens, too. Op-Ed Contributor: Racial Politics and Miss America 2013-01-16T00:57:43Z

But the rarest of the rare from that “golden age” of the 1950s and ’60s continue to command exceptional prices. Selling the Romance of the Road 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

With the impact of Christian Dior's New Look in the 1950s, class and elegance were in, and glamour started to look tacky. Glamour versus feminism? Just look at the images in the media we all adore 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z

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

Designed for pop-up weddings, this 1950s Kenskill teardrop trailer has a vintage neon sign that says, “Sure.” Let the Wedding Come to You 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

If you prefer history that’s raw, detailed and down-to-earth, two new collections of EC war comics from the 1950s will nicely scratch that itch. The Dirty Details of War 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

As Ms. Haglund put it: “Miss America is never going to go back to the 1950s era of the silver screen. But what can it be for the 21st century?” Here’s What You Didn’t See on Miss America 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

Here's five of the best, from the demure 1950s version to the freewheeling 21st-century incarnation. June Cleaver to Gloria Pritchett: 5 great TV moms 2012-05-12T22:16:04Z

When he brings up skiffle, the 1950s musical precursor to the British Invasion, he is primarily interested in how Lonnie Donegan’s skiffle version of “Rock Island Line” appropriated Lead Belly’s. Books of The Times: He Heard America Singing 2011-01-30T17:14:05Z

This was the Greenwich Village before youth counterculture took root in the late 1950s. Pete Seeger’s New York Roots 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

But more immediately, by marrying a civil engineer, Sibilla will bear witness to a massive dam construction project in the 1950s that kills local workers and floods a town. Review | ‘The Old Drift’ is a brilliant literary response to generations of bad politics 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

It’s a condemnation of the stringent sexual mores of 1950s Hollywood, a glimpse into the life of an increasingly reclusive Hughes and purveyor of one of the sweetest original love songs in recent movie memory. Here Are TIME's Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2016 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

But the weepy story at the heart of “Bride Flight” is trumped by its sumptuous depiction of New Zealand in the 1950s and ’60s. | 'Bride Flight?: Three Friends, Each on a Journey 2011-06-09T22:21:07Z

In the 1950s, a Mexican shop on International Street would put up a huge blackboard to transmit the World Series as nogalenses watched the games excitedly from the United States side. Two Cities, Two Countries, Common Ground 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

When East Germany went modernist itself, in the late 1950s, it placed great significance on its ability to mass produce light, synthetic, vaguely futuristic goods, with the ubiquitous Trabant a source of state pride. When is an East German plastic eggcup a piece of communist nostalgia? 2012-07-09T15:17:32Z

Now its general manager, Mr. Jennings, 35, said that in the past two years, customers’ demand for candy-colored rotary phones from the 1950s and 1960s has skyrocketed. Too Much Screen Time? Landline Phones Offer a Lifeline. 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

“Back in the 1950s, the Rutgers tomato was the greatest thing, because of its productivity and its flavor, and with the Campbell’s soup plant being nearby, everyone was growing them.” 'They were out of this world': The quest to resurrect America's best tomato 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

Many Pittsburghers of a legal drinking age in the 1950s fondly remember his commercial for Iron City Beer. Slim Bryant obituary 2010-07-27T17:32:00Z

In the 1950s the US was telling itself a mythic, grandiose, heroic story about the second world war and GI Joe saving the world. Censored gay sex in From Here to Eternity restored for new edition 2011-04-05T15:20:59Z

One of the new design schemes included the elegant Egg and Series 7 chairs, designed in the 1950s by the Danish architect Arne Jacobsen. Design: How to Ruin a Great Design 2011-03-13T19:30:07Z

He told the tale a thousand times: He was playing a dance hall in Twist, Ark., in the early 1950s when two men got into a fight and knocked over a kerosene stove. B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The immaculately made lithographs in the Arizona artist’s “The Innate Thread” offer some information about her childhood, and the status of women, in the 1950s and ’60s. Review | In the galleries: Kathryn Polk’s images withhold as much as they reveal 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

What would the 1950s have made of him, as a poster boy? Fancy that: the golden age of the sexy geeky leading male 2012-07-27T21:59:00Z

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

In the 1950s “Regina” arrived at New York City Opera, with revisions that restored some sung lines that had been spoken on Broadway. Susan Graham, Opera’s Sweetheart, Tries Something New: Being Nasty 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

What does Stockhausen do in the 1950s, when one needed to construct a new world after the European self-destruction? Beethoven the Avant-Gardist: A Pianist Makes His Case 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

In the early 1950s, he was an announcer and game show host for programs such as “What’s in a Word?” Mike Wallace, ?60 Minutes? Star Interviewer, Dies at 93 2012-04-08T14:57:40Z

The novel was inspired by a historical incident, when three planes crashed over eight weeks in Ms. Blume’s hometown, Elizabeth, N.J., in the 1950s. Book Review Podcast: Judy Blume's 'In the Unlikely Event' 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

His father’s boat was seized during the wartime internment of Japanese nationals; Mr. Kojima left the fishing industry when he returned to Steveston in the 1950s and went on to coach Canada’s Olympic judo team. The Best Asian Food in North America? Try British Columbia 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

In the early 1950s, he went to Hollywood with the actress who was briefly his first wife, Constance Smith. Bryan Forbes: British writer, actor and film director 2013-05-09T07:27:27Z

Since the 1950s, Mayhew has painted invented landscapes in an increasingly unnatural, sometimes acid palette that can sting and soothe the eye in equal measure. At 99, the Painter Richard Mayhew Is Still Upending Expectations 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Recreational fish landings in the 1950s, 1980s and 2000s in Key West, Florida. Callum Roberts' Ocean of Life is a manifesto for marine management 2012-06-07T06:30:01Z

The exhibition will include 22 paintings, from the 1950s on, and is billed as an opportunity for reappraisal of the sometimes controversial artist. Summer Arts Preview: NGA puts the varied works of Hubert Robert on display 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

He served in the Korean War and acted in bit parts in television shows throughout the 1950s before landing a regular role as a police sergeant in the 1961 ABC series “The Asphalt Jungle.” ‘Laredo’ actor William Smith dies; played cowboys, brawlers 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z

My relationship with it began in the early 1950s, when I was at Cambridge and I used to look at the Ximenes crossword, the Azed's predecessor, every week and I would be completely lost. Azed: a giant among crosswords 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton It has become almost de rigueur of late to update bel canto comedies to the 1950s or early 60s. Il Turco in Italia | Opera review 2010-04-04T20:30:00Z

It was changed to “Grand Rapids Art Museum” in the 1950s. Art history surprise at old house in Grand Rapids 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

It isn't an opera, and nor is it like the Hollywood musicals of the 1950s and 60s, in which people talk relatively normally before emotion overwhelms them and they burst into song. Michel Legrand puts his Umbrellas up indoors 2011-03-17T22:10:01Z

The residence, which sits on a sprawling 83-acre property about 35 miles east of Manhattan, remained in the Roosevelt family from the time it was built in 1886 until the 1950s. Theodore Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill Reopens After Renovation 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s, as the government emptied the island’s offices and hospital, the ferry was abandoned at anchor. Antiques: Eames Trove to Be Sold at Wright Auction House 2010-04-01T22:41:00Z

As well the sale is offering a typed manuscript with Welles’ handwritten directorial notes for a proposed television adaptation of Citizen Kane in the 1950s. Orson Welles' manuscripts for Citizen Kane go to auction in California 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

So-called race records were selling in the early 1950s, but not widely. Review: ‘Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ’n’ Roll,’ by Peter Guralnick 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

She became part of the folk music revival in Scotland in the 1950s and ’60s, playing in dance halls and hotels and, later, at folk festivals. Elizabeth Stewart, Champion of Scotland’s Folk Music, Dies at 83 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

It's a smart selection, giving the movie a narrative arc and lending Cleary's family saga, begun in the 1950s and finished in the 1970s, a sense of the contemporary. 'Ramona and Beezus': Beverly Cleary Novels Hit the Big Screen 2010-07-23T19:45:00Z

Instead, he wrote songs that aim to evoke but not mimic the progression of pop music as it developed through the 1950s. In 'Recorded in Hollywood,' Dolphin family's lore crosses over into R&B history 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

The show brings together 60 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and illustrated books made mostly from 1920 to the early 1950s, all but a handful from the museum’s collection. Miró’s Greatness? It Was There From the Start 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

It profiles a boxer before a match in the 1950s. Amy Schumer: By the Book 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

I thought of the opening to Robert Redford's excellent 1994 movie Quiz Show, in which a 1950s car salesman, showing off a gorgeous automobile, flinches at the eerie sound of Sputnik's Telstar bleeping. Film review: Double Take 2010-04-01T21:25:00Z

In 2003 Mr. Barnet again changed course, returning to abstraction and resuming the engagement with bold shapes, vivid color and dynamic compositions that characterized his painting in the 1950s. Will Barnet, Painter, Dies at 101 2012-11-13T23:34:33Z

She first graced television screens in the 1950s following a role in the musical "Carousel" in 1949 and other musical theater hits including "South Pacific" and the title role in "Fanny." 'Brady Bunch' mom Florence Henderson dies aged 82 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

He recorded two first-rate albums with Monk in the late 1950s, “Brilliant Corners” and “In Orbit.” Clark Terry, jazz virtuoso with Basie, Ellington and ‘Tonight Show,’ dies 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Holt composed “Lemon Tree” in the late 1950s, based on a Brazilian melody, and the catchy tune soon became popular among folk singers. Will Holt, folk singer who wrote ’60s hit ‘Lemon Tree,’ dies at 86 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z

Whether it’s a home from the 1950s, ’60s or ’70s, the houses are overhauled and updated while still respecting the nostalgia of their era. Perspective | Q&A: Maureen McCormick of ‘The Brady Bunch’ and designer Dan Vickery on how to update old homes (Feb. 25) 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Paul West, an ebullient pianist, singer and humorist who entertained several generations on Seattle's lounge scene from the 1950s forward, died Monday. Entertaining musician, ad man Paul West dies 2011-12-15T03:24:40Z

On the day of the interview, I arrived a squat 1950s ranch house hidden on the west side of the 5 freeway. Frisky moms, Porsche-demanding kids: A Santa-for-hire's Christmas in Los Angeles 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

The Tchaikovsky classic, last performed in Pyongyang in the 1950s, was staged last summer and again this February to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Russia-North Korea treaty of friendship and bilateral cooperation. North Korean Opera Draws Acclaim in China 2010-07-28T11:49:00Z

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

Though Mr. Schoenherr planned a career as a painter, in the late 1950s he began a long association with Astounding Science Fiction magazine, later known as Analog. John Schoenherr, Children?s Book Illustrator, Dies at 74 2010-04-15T02:42:00Z

Founded in Los Angeles in 1950, the Mattachine Society ultimately included chapters around the country, and in the 1950s and 1960s was the nation’s leading gay organization. The long, winding road to marriage equality: From the Mattachine Society to ACT UP to “Ellen,” they all helped make it possible 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

"I think they are sort of doing a 21st century version of what Disney did in the 1950s, when they went from being just an animation studio to doing live action," Hulett said. DreamWorks Animation sale could help it at box office, analysts say 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

By setting the story in a quasi-historical Spain evoking both the 1950s and Havana, the Seattle Opera production sidesteps many of those stereotypes. Seattle Opera’s ‘Carmen’ is tremendous fun until it’s horrifying — as it should be 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

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

As a teenager in San Francisco during the late 1950s and early 1960s, Mr. Douglas found himself incarcerated at the Youth Training School in Ontario, Calif., where he got involved with its printing shop. Fifty Years Later, Black Panthers’ Art Still Resonates 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

Drawing on the playwright's experiences doing National Service in the 1950s, the play was not a game-changer in itself, but its author went on to write one that certainly was. Game-changing theatre: how John McGrath did it slowly but surely 2012-05-28T11:18:43Z

During the character’s upbringing in the 1950s, the youngster is chastised for wanting to wear women’s clothing. Broadcasting LGBT stories to Red State America: Groundbreaking trans casting on network shows could save lives 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Guided by his own ideas and instincts, he transformed 20th-century culture in the 1950s. Review: A Reverent Elvis Doc Separates the Trailblazer From His Tragedy 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Some things were just plain unacceptable even when buttoned-up 1950s prudery was beginning its retreat. Older men, young girls: a common theme of 70s pop – but still wrong 2012-10-06T23:06:39Z

“Pleasantville”-style spoofs of 1950s suburbia have been done to death. ‘Hello Tomorrow!’ Review: It’s Only a Paper Moon 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

By the 1950s the Sacred Grove was quickly disappearing. In Sacred Grove in Nigeria, Worship and Connection 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

In the early 1950s, Ms. Morgan turned her attention to the theater. Priscilla Morgan, Cultural Matchmaker, Dies at 94 2014-04-03T05:01:14Z

The movement was, in a way, an attempt to turn back the clock on the social and judicial reforms of the 1950s and ’60s — and a remarkably successful one at that. Sharon Tate: Unwitting victims’ rights martyr 2013-04-02T20:02:00Z

Take my mother-in-law, who grew up on a farm in the 1950s and was sentenced to many years of making meals for a large group of hungry people, mainly ungrateful brothers, every day. "Lessons in Chemistry" understands the assignment: Never forget that cooking is vital work 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z

The only similar model, found in the 19th century, was destroyed in a fire on board a ship in the 1950s as it was travelling on loan to Germany. British Museum exhibition examines legend of El Dorado 2013-07-04T17:01:25Z

By the 1950s he had become the highest paid scriptwriter in Britain. Obituary: Eric Sykes 2012-07-04T11:18:49Z

She loved dining out with my father, Lee Gertner, and would sometimes incorporate what she tasted in her own cooking, like broiling lamb chops medium-rare instead of the leaden well-done of the 1950s. What My Mother’s Cooking Taught Me 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

This makes the heroes' Blackness in 1950s America a clapback in itself, a state that contains many stories, mostly triumphant and much of it in confrontation with terror. Should a horror anthology like "Lovecraft Country" be expected to speak to any particular moment? 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z

Erraught comes off like a character in a historical drama from the 1950s, all creamy-white skin and pert ripostes and wide-eyed freshness. Review | Likability is one thing. Artistic communication is another. 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

Yet as new medicines developed in the 1950s, therapeutic bathing declined, and business dried up. Soaking up history in Arkansas’ Hot Springs National Park 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Little’s black paintings “take Frank Stella to a whole different level,” she continued, referring to the older artist’s minimalist black monochromes from the late 1950s that were seen as groundbreaking. James Little, Unapologetic Abstractionist Painter, Catches the Limelight 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

The novel tells the story of Milo's life, from a solitary 1950s childhood in the woods of northern Michigan through his academic years of feverish productivity and being awarded the prestigious Fields Medal. Ethan Canin's 'A Doubters Almanac' is a blazingly intelligent novel 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

Ska was born as Jamaican dance music, first played in the 1950s, that combined the Caribbean sounds of mento and calypso with the imported R&B that was popular in Black America at the time. The ska revival is here, but ska never really went away 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

Set during the Salem witch trials, Miller's play draws parallels with his experience of McCarthy's anticommunist investigations in the US in the 1950s. Hobbit star Armitage set for Old Vic 2014-04-15T16:59:13Z

“The shoot revisited what it was like when Paul Newman was coming on the scene in the 1950s,” Mr. McKenna said. For L’Wren Scott, Her Identity Was by Design 2014-03-19T20:42:30Z

But he was best known for “The Americans,” a montage that countered the 1950s myth of bland prosperity and opened vast new possibilities for photography, shifting the paradigm from the portrait to the snapshot. Groundbreaking photographer Robert Frank dies at age 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Neel moved on through husbands and lovers, living on welfare well into the 1950s. The weird world of Alice Neel 2010-07-07T20:30:00Z

It is his extraordinary photographs of a nomadic gang of Chilean street children in the 1950s that stayed with me. Les Rencontres d'Arles 2013 – review 2013-07-06T23:07:32Z

“The same issues that Childress deals with, or dealt with in the 1950s with ‘Trouble in Mind,’ have always been bubbling beneath the surface. Alice Childress Finally Gets to Make ‘Trouble’ on Broadway 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Skirts: Long and slim, short and A-line, blanket wrap, 1950s full. The Trend Chart 2010-03-15T17:50:00Z

But it was the 1950s, the hotel’s “dollhouse” era, when hundreds of young, aspiring models and actresses found their way to the Barbizon, that Bren most enjoyed exploring. Waking up to New York: secrets of the world's most famous women-only hotel 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z

It features key works by vital 20th century figures such as Louise Bourgeois, who is represented by sculptures from some of her earliest one-woman shows in New York in the early 1950s. Sneak Peek: Inside the mega new Hauser Wirth & Schimmel gallery in downtown L.A. 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

He and his wife, Mary, were living with their three children in a 1950s traditional-style home in Indianapolis. Modernist Magic in Indiana 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z

By Knoll’s estimate, more than five million copies were produced in the 1950s. Makers: Who Made That Butterfly Chair? 2012-03-09T20:59:00Z

The motherlode of these clone shows can be found in a pair of comedies that began in the 1950s on either side of the Atlantic. Simon Amstell, Larry David and the rise of the 'sim-com' 2010-08-29T20:30:00Z

Badu said the video was a bid to awaken interest in a 1950s term called 'groupthink' in which a person is afraid to express themselves for fear of being ostracized by the wider public. Singer Badu causes stir with nude video at JFK site 2010-03-30T19:19:00Z

Inside, lipstick-red walls are covered with framed black and white photos, mostly of American film stars from the 1950s and ’60s. Overnighter: In Kutna Hora, Near Prague, Contemporary Art Amid Medieval Charm 2010-11-15T18:15:00Z

Ms. Shetterly reminded Mrs. Johnson of her persistence in the late 1950s, when she successfully pressed her supervisor into admitting her into traditionally all-male meetings. On Being Black Female Math Whizzes During the Space Race 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

As Sean Mullin’s documentary points out: As a catcher for the New York Yankees, Berra was awarded Most Valuable Player three times during that team’s remarkable dominance of the game in the 1950s. ‘It Ain’t Over’ Review: When Yogi Berra Saw a Strike, He Hit It 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

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

Steward’s tales of frequent sexual encounters as a teenager and undergraduate in Woodsfield and Columbus, Ohio, in the 1920s and ’30s are a counterpoint to the aggressive persecution of homosexuals during the 1950s McCarthy scare. Samuel Steward?s Life in ?Secret Historian? 2010-07-26T00:00:00Z

ReAct’s production, directed by David Hsieh, captures the ethos of America in the 1950s and proves that some, but not all, things are timeless. Love is no ‘Picnic’ in ReAct’s production 2013-07-08T18:36:09Z

From the sublime to the cheerfully ridiculous, there was the stuffed duck that served as Groucho Marx's prop on his 1950s game show "You Bet Your Life." Hit 'Antiques Roadshow' keeps on trucking for PBS 2013-07-01T21:56:15Z

No, the 1950s Variety In the first season of “The Hour,” Ben Whishaw, playing the dogged young reporter Freddie Lyon, tells an interview subject, “I’m not here to hurt you — I’m from the BBC.” Television Review: ‘The Hour,’ With Dominic West, on BBC America 2012-11-27T23:57:23Z

Mac takes on the 1900s through the 1950s in dual three-hour parts at New York Live Arts as part of the Under the Radar Festival. Taylor Mac is a MacArthur genius. If you don't know about his 24-hour extravaganza, here's why you should 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

He has also eschewed the retro 1950s soundtrack an audience might expect for this play. White Lies star writes theatre score 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z

She initially made her mark in the early 1950s as a comedian — first at Le Ruban Bleu, the Village Vanguard and other nightclubs, then on television, on “The Red Buttons Show” and other variety series. Pat Carroll, TV Mainstay Turned Stage Star, Dies at 95 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

The history of the American musical, from the 1950s on, was all but packed into the frame and consciousness of one balding, bearded, tirelessly imaginative, peerlessly inspirational figure. Perspective | Thank you, Hal Prince, for giving me some of the most transcendent nights of theater I’ve ever known 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

TV series starting in the 1950s and appeared in movies with some of Hollywood's biggest stars. Actor Harry Morgan of TV comedy 'M*A*S*H' dies, 96 2011-12-07T18:38:39Z

The Prada finale was a long luxurious mink coat with ample collar and cuff like the ones the Hollywood divas used to wear in the 1950s. Large coats a mainstay for next winter from Milan 2013-02-21T22:50:18Z

Apparently some of them had — a few guests could even recall having attended Tate’s exhibits in New York in the 1950s. Never forget David Bowie masterminded "the biggest art hoax in history" 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

He captured models in period clothing to match the eras of Manhattan structural landmarks dating from the 18th century to the 1950s. Bill Cunningham, photographer of New York street fashion, dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z

While at Iowa she married a fellow art student, Paul Brach, and they moved to New York in the early 1950s. Miriam Schapiro, 91, a Feminist Artist Who Harnessed Craft and Pattern, Dies 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

It was black and white, just like the 1950s movies, the same special-effects quality. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Sequel to ‘The War of the Worlds’ 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

Bennett had emerged in the early 1950s as a youthful prodigy and hardcore modernist. A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett 2011-07-22T22:55:02Z

This is, after all, a film for which the 1950s is the present-day. Film review: The Illusionist 2010-08-19T21:52:00Z

Mr. LaChiusa has a wide musical vocabulary, and he deploys it deftly in numbers that subtly incorporate the styles of different eras and cultures, from the 1920s to the 1950s. Theater Review: ‘Giant,’ With Brian D’Arcy James, at the Public Theater 2012-11-16T03:00:12Z

Lewis hosted several telethons in the 1950s, both with Dean Martin and as a solo performer, for what would become the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and started hosting the annual Labor Day broadcasts in 1966. Jerry Lewis Telethon Will Return With Kevin Hart 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

With a writing career beginning in the early 1950s, Cleary directly challenged such a notion. Cleary refused to teach kids how to be good — and generations of readers fell in love with Ramona 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

As a piano student at the Moscow Conservatory in the 1950s, Kapustin immersed himself in the canonical piano literature. A Composer Shows the Way to Give Classical Music Swing 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

We settled near her cozy 1950s Aga and she explained the British walking system. Slow Travel: Walking in Wales 2013-05-24T17:03:36Z

By the 1950s, mainstream interfaith discourse increasingly positioned the freedom of individual conscience against “totalitarian” and “godless” Communists. Can interfaith dialogue cure religious violence? 2013-05-01T21:23:00Z

As open floor plans became popular in the 1950s, kitchens emerged into plain view. Social media "pantry porn" becomes all the rage 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z

Through the conservative years of the 1950s, the church had become closer to mainstream American life than probably any period in history, before or since. Voices of America: A Cold-War Mormon Moment 2010-08-20T17:04:00Z

The Young Vic will also be staging Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, a tale of obsession and betrayal set in 1950s America, in April 2014. Anderson to perform in Streetcar 2013-09-27T12:18:55Z

It’s the late 1950s; the other girls at Wainscotia State are aghast that Adriane doesn’t wear rollers in her hair at night. A Dystopian Thriller From Joyce Carol Oates 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Much of the technology and methods used for Maine scallop aquaculture originated in Japan, which has been cultivating sea scallops since the 1950s. Sea Scallops Farmed in Maine Aren’t Just Sustainable. They’re Helping Their Habitat. 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

During his four visits to New York in the 1950s, Brinnin acted as a promoter for Thomas as he toured the city, reciting his work. Rhys Ifans to star as Dylan Thomas 2014-05-05T12:22:37Z

Having studied in Australia, where he was influenced by his discovery of Cézanne, Peebles returned to New Zealand in the early 1950s and began to abandon representational painting. Don Peebles obituary 2010-05-02T17:23:00Z

‘Reggae’s Gone Country’ The secret history of Nashville takes a detour through Jamaica, where country and western music was a radio staple in the 1950s, and where Kenny Rogers is an unlikely hero. Playlist: New Music From Breathe Carolina and Widowspeak 2011-09-03T00:14:47Z

Mr. Lipton had fallen for it as a boy in early 1950s Brooklyn when the first wave of 3-D films arrived in theaters. Lenny Lipton, ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ Lyricist and 3-D Film Pioneer, Dies at 82 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Tufeld's career included announcing for the 1950s radio show "Space Patrol." Dick Tufeld, voice of 'Lost in Space" robot, dies 2012-01-25T22:22:21Z

In the 1950s, the average chief executive made 20 times more than their employees; now, chief executives earn 361 times more — about $13 million per year at the country’s top corporations. Why does everybody suddenly hate billionaires? Because they’ve made it easy. 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

In an old black-and-white photo my father is looking into the camera, smiling, a bit like a 1950s Indian film star. What’s in my name: tales that cross continents and generations 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

The same current of social paranoia that runs through “Indignation” is palpable in the Todd Haynes films “Far From Heaven” and “Carol,” studies of homophobia in the 1950s. Review: ‘Indignation’ Offers a Precisely Rendered, and Repressive, 1950s America 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s and some of the ’60s, it was often the case that if you were a hero at Newport, you were a hero in jazz generally. Critic’s Notebook: Festival, Now 59, Welcomes Several Generations 2013-08-05T21:42:43Z

This portrait of 1950s America is like none you've ever seen, and it's unsettling — but the minute it was over, I wanted to watch it again. 'The Master' is a strange and mesmerizing tale of two men 2012-09-20T20:46:07Z

Portuguese immigrants populated the area between the 1950s and early 1970s, and although the neighborhood is gentrifying and becoming more ethnically diverse, Portuguese language is still heard on the street. Toronto’s Little Portugal showcases the Iberian Peninsula nation’s distinctive aesthetic 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

The abbey, founded in 1128, has been tied to commercial brewers since the 1950s when local brewer Maes asked the monks to use the Grimbergen name and emblem on its “abbey beer”. Belgian monks resurrect brewery after two century break 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

Debuting at a time of nostalgia for the seemingly innocent 1950s, the sitcom was set in Milwaukee and soon became a hit. Erin Moran, actor who played Joanie Cunningham in Happy Days, dies at 56 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

In 2002, Barry was named an Honorary Freeman of the City of York, an honour he received at a venue in the city where he once used to play trumpet in the 1950s. Obituary 2011-01-31T12:25:26Z

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

The Hammond B3 organ became a favorite in jazz circles in the 1950s, with Jimmy Smith, who had numerous hit albums on the Blue Note label, leading the way. Joey DeFrancesco, Reigning King of the Jazz Organ, Dies at 51 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Ferlinghetti was known for his City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, an essential meeting place for the Beats and other bohemians in the 1950s and beyond. Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Bush, the national character became more belligerently and defensively straight than at any time since the 1950s. Why "Glee" is the new "Rocky Horror" 2010-10-19T15:45:00Z

Malaria grew resistant to the drug by the 1950s. New wave of drug-resistant malaria threatens millions 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

When he was a critic in the 1950s, Mr. Godard wrote, “The cinema does not query the beauty of a woman, it only doubts her heart, records her perfidy” and “sees only her movements.” Anna Karina Recalls Her Life in Film With Jean-Luc Godard 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Despite taking place in the 1950s, Masters of Sex may be the most progressive show on TV when it comes to women and sex. 21 TV Shows That Revolutionized Female Sexuality 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

She also appeared on Broadway in the comedy “The French Touch,” directed by René Clair, before returning to France, where she worked steadily through the 1950s. Madeleine Lebeau, ‘Casablanca’ Actress, Dies at 92 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Born on June 25, 1924, Lumet served as an Army radar technician in World War II, then worked as a stage actor in New York and before directing acclaimed live TV dramas during the 1950s. Prolific American film director Sidney Lumet dies 2011-04-10T00:09:53Z

In the 1950s, Mouly notes, congressional hearings were held on what lawmakers saw as a possible connection between juvenile delinquency and comics. Perspective | Don’t be afraid to let children read graphic novels. They’re real books. 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Born in 1925, he began making films and studying anthropology in the 1950s, becoming the founding director of the Harvard Film Study Center in 1957. Critic?s Notebook: Retrospective of Robert Gardner, Ethnographer, at Film Forum 2011-11-10T23:39:04Z

That half-mile long mural, which tells the history of California from prehistoric days through the 1950s, is about to double in size, enhanced with lighting and a 90-foot viewing bridge. A Judy Baca Moment: ‘My Work Has Been Good for a Long Time’ 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

He went to the Sorbonne in Paris and in the 1950s worked for a time on Wall Street. Michael White, Colorful Impresario With a Taste for the Outlandish, Dies at 80 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

The singer's Top 10 Mayhem album seems even to be making 1950s styles cool, with teenage girls in the audience sporting variations on the Imelda look. Imelda May ? review 2011-02-13T22:31:00Z

With Penelope’s help, he edited a fine literary magazine called World Review during the early 1950s. Michael Dirda reviews ‘Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life,’ by Hermione Lee 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

The 1950s play is at last getting its Broadway premiere, and thank goodness; the piece has so much to say about race relations in America, it could have been written last weekend. Perspective | After a devastating lull, theater is coming back big 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

“Ghost Stories” doesn’t stray from that venerable format, which was appropriated by television in the 1950s. London Theater Journal: Screams! Thrills! Chills! 2010-08-04T20:31:00Z

Born in Detroit, he made his way to New York in the 1950s to pursue acting. Actor Seymour Cassel, frequent Cassavetes collaborator, dies 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

Invented along the beaches of Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s, the quietly swaying Brazilian music became a worldwide phenomenon a decade later and has never gone away. Blame it on ‘Jazz Samba’: Bossa nova craze started in D.C.

For the Mad men of 1950s New York, it was briefcases and fedoras. In Silicon Valley, Socks Make the Tech Entrepreneur 2012-02-03T22:33:48Z

Both sides disagree about Kirby's working environment in the 1950s and 1960s when he, along with Stan Lee, conceived many of Marvel's most popular characters. Judge issues rulings in estate's superhero battle 2010-12-01T13:34:00Z

Only the highest praise can be heaped on its scintillating staging of Cheryomushki, or Paradise Moscow, Shostakovich's comedy-satire on Soviet attempts at providing affordable housing in the 1950s. The Firework-Maker's Daughter; Hallé Orchestra/Elder; Cheryomushki – review 2013-03-31T00:07:03Z

It begins with a haunting corridor of Expressionist works from the late 1950s, some of them memorials, like the sculpture of a deformed hand subtitled “Monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto.” Art Review: Alina Szapocznikow’s Sculptures at MoMA 2012-10-11T21:47:25Z

Both were important steps in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s. For Rosa Parks, standing up to injustice started when she was a kid 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

Hoyle’s model enjoyed some backing in the 1950s. Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party 2012-11-25T19:00:00Z

But Mr. Lucas and Mr. Wheeldon have set the story just after World War II, rather than in the early 1950s of the film, to create a more plausible context for Lise’s decisions. Christopher Wheeldon Directs ‘An American in Paris’ for Broadway 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

In 2015, the city installed an inconspicuous plaque on one of the limestone buildings that went up when the neighborhood was rebuilt in the 1950s, christening a covered shopping promenade the “Passage Claude McKay.” A Legless Black Man Comes Into a Windfall in This Biting Satire 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

For much of its history, Carnegie Hall was a major draw for popular music, including landmark rock concerts starting in the 1950s, and Mr. Perelman said it was time to reclaim that legacy. Ronald Perelman, a Mogul With Muscle, Takes Over Carnegie Hall 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

In the late 1950s, primates became the focus of studies on the linguistic abilities of nonhuman animals, particularly chimpanzees. The ‘Talking’ Dog of TikTok 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

But by the 1950s, workers started moving to the new so-called “Dream City” of nearby Kahului, home to today’s international airport. On Maui, classic old meets laidback new in Pa‘ia 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

The Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra played the 1950s violin concerto “Serenade.” Leonard Bernstein at 100: Why the music world is making this the Year of Lenny 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Nimrud was excavated by a series of archaeological missions since the 19th century including in the 1950s by British archaeologist Max Mallowan, who was accompanied by his wife, detective novelist Agatha Christie. Drones fly over ancient Nimrud to help secure Assyrian ruins 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

With no blueprints to consult, conservators worked from old photos and the memories of tenants from the 1950s and ’60s. Heads Up: The Mandarin?s House in Macao, Now Restored, Opens to Visitors 2010-03-19T20:37:00Z

Johnny Depp played Wood, the enthusiastic but inept 1950s filmmaker, who befriends and employs Lugosi. Martin Landau, Actor Who Won an Oscar for ‘Ed Wood,’ Dies at 89 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

His subsequent work on westerns in the 1950s and ’60s was acknowledged in 2006 when he was presented with a Golden Boot Award by the Motion Picture and Television Fund. Leslie H. Martinson, Director of Prime-Time TV for Four Decades, Dies at 101 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

According to the group's website, the elder Gardner was born in Tyler,, and moved to in the early 1950s. Coasters lead singer Carl Gardner dies at 83 2011-06-14T09:43:00Z

Born in Philadelphia, Penn studied at the famed Actor's Studio in New York, and began his career in television in the 1950s directing live dramas. Director Arthur Penn dies at age 88 2010-09-29T17:27:00Z

“At Home” combines “The Zoo Story,” Albee’s one-act from the late 1950s, with a prequel that he wrote more than four decades later. The star of 'At Home at the Zoo' on the risks and growing rewards of being a deaf actor 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

The expansive campus, built in the 1950s, looks a bit worse for wear, but it is about as close as you can come to a museum of modernist architecture, warts and all. Seeing Mexico City, Guided by Architects 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s, Jacobs says, this border was a kind of no-man's land, filled with dubious establishments like the Cork and Bottle Club and the Riviera Club. 'Grease' gets its grit back 2011-04-23T15:21:37Z

At a time when much of high fashion is highly influenced by image, whether iconic photographs from 1950s couture or new manipulated digital images, Mr. Simons's debut essentially asks people to trust their own eye. On the Runway Blog: Raf Simons Starts Triumphantly at Dior 2012-07-02T16:03:41Z

He said he'll continue serving as national Muscular Dystrophy Association chairman, as he's done since the early 1950s. Labor Day telethon to be last for Jerry Lewis 2011-05-17T02:58:56Z

Thanks to labour-saving devices, and, well, it being 2015 and not the 1950s, women are reportedly spending on average 20% less time on chores than they were 30 years ago – and it’s affecting our waistlines. Parents vote Miley Cyrus and Nicki Minaj as the worst role models for children 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

I wonder what Philip Johnson, who designed the garden in the early 1950s, might say. Critic’s Notebook: MoMA’s Plan to Demolish Folk Art Museum Lacks Vision 2014-01-13T23:00:16Z

She's following some 1950s cycling guides, starting off in North Devon. TV review: Danielle Lineker: My New Stepfamily 2010-07-21T07:00:00Z

The British-born director's career ran from the 1950s to the early 1990s. Director Andrew McLaglen dies at 94 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

The attorney general's report, filed Thursday with the ICC, said it investigated ComEd's infrastructure in 12 towns and uncovered decrepit utility poles, equipment choked by vegetation and transformers dating to the 1950s. Report: ComEd should pay customers for damages caused by outages 2012-01-29T06:00:00Z

It will feature a substantial essay by the art historian Abigail McEwen, of the University of Maryland, who is finishing a broader history of Cuban art in the 1950s. ‘Concrete Cuba’ Visits a Quieter Period of Latin American Modernism 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

When the brand arrived in the country in the 1950s, it awakened a nationwide infatuation. A Taste of Indian Nostalgia Finds an Eager Audience 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

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

There was plenty of wit, as in “Touche’s Salon,” which shamelessly dropped names to evoke a 1950s gathering at Mr. Latouche’s penthouse: Kenward Elmslie, Poet and Librettist, Dies at 93 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

Belafonte recalled the difficulty they faced despite their immense fame in New York City, where some of the most exclusive buildings would not allow either one of them to live in the 1950s. Belafonte recalls Horne’s activism as Solange is honored 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

Despite often being considered a Christmas staple, they've only been around since the 1950s. A brief history of Yorkshire puddings 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

Some of these objects are also available in another fabric, H55, which was designed by Elissa Aalto, the architect's second wife, in the 1950s. T Magazine: Artek's abc Collection 2013-01-21T17:36:56Z

In the late 1950s, she cut her first feature film, “Odds Against Tomorrow.” Dede Allen, Pioneering Film Editor, Dies at 86 2010-04-19T04:26:00Z

Its galleries highlight Russian art primarily from the 1950s forward, and its visitor-friendly amenities include a bookstore and cafe. Friday’s Travel News and Tips 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

As with the later Maniac, Fukunaga and co-writer Chase Palmer put a lot of their own childhoods into the screenplay, updating the novel’s setting from the 1950s to the 1980s. Cary Fukunaga: exclusive interview with the new James Bond director 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Keillor talks for nearly two hours straight in his warm, familiar baritone, reciting limericks and poetry, reminiscing about growing up in Minnesota in the 1950s, about the joys and pitfalls of his advancing mortality. Inside Garrison Keillor’s attempted comeback after his #MeToo downfall 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

He wrote for most of the shows that presented hourlong original dramas in the 1950s, including “Studio One,” “Philco Television Playhouse” and “Goodyear Playhouse.” Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z

For me the 1950s didn't seem especially austere, nor the 60s wild and liberated, nor the 70s sludge-brown – and none of the subsequent decades seems official or even convincing in comparison. Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z

Just as actors left their studios in the 1950s, artists have become bigger stars than their galleries. Damien Hirst Leaving Gagosian Gallery After 17 Years 2012-12-15T01:05:37Z

The concept, which means "Road to Happiness," originated in the 1950s with the brand's French hoteliers, who offered travel itineraries with stops that included properties and sights from Paris to the south of France. In Transit Blog: Road Trip, French Style, In the United States 2012-10-04T17:00:34Z

She appeared periodically in cabaret performances, from the 1950s until 2010, but her career revolved around Broadway. Tammy Grimes, ‘Unsinkable’ Broadway star and Tony winner, dies at 82 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

She’s not out to clobber you with speed or skill or projection — she hangs back but arrives at the notes responsibly, without a big show, incorporating careful 1950s cool but authentic modern cynicism, too. More Than Tools: Sometimes Instruments Inspire 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

A trip to India in the 1950s opened Menuhin’s eyes to another world — cultural, spiritual and physical. 'The Menuhin Century' is now: Why the violin master is still the sound of hope and peace 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Stein became part of the writing staff of Sid Caesar’s classic 1950s comedy-variety series “Your Show of Shows.” Joseph Stein, Author of ?Fiddler on the Roof,? Dies at 98 2010-10-25T22:10:00Z

The term she coined, “doo-woppy,” to them means “the 1950s, the wild colors, the retro, the oldies music.” Once in jeopardy, doo-wop buildings now imitated 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

Le Carré, who worked for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and 1960s, also doubted the credibility of Fleming's smooth protagonist. Was James Bond just a "neo-fascist gangster?" 2010-08-17T12:53:00Z

From the late 1950s through the early 1980s, the name Ingmar Bergman was virtually synonymous with art-house cinema. Viewing Ingmar Bergman Through a Glass Less Darkly 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

During the 1950s it served Mexican as the hangout for Mexican and Texas politicians, including President Lyndon Johnson and Maverick County Judge Roberto Bibb, conniving the different ways the Mexican vote would be delivered. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z

Prison thriller set on a 1950s Norwegian borstal island. This week's new films 2012-06-29T23:05:18Z

Between the 1930s and the 1950s, however, city and state governments, spurred by the growing public awareness of the ubiquity of abortions and the subsequent moral agitation, all but eliminated this option. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z

Despite its 1950s modernist exterior, the Four Seasons Ritz Hotel Lisbon has glamorous, traditionally styled interiors, which include an excellent restaurant favored by Grange, especially for lunch on its lovely terrace. Lisbon Insiders Reveal the City's Best Restaurants, Hotels and Shopping Destinations 2014-02-27T05:00:00Z

What is her purpose, other than to play the 1950s version of a dissatisfied housewife and to be the rival to Virginia? 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Some Ties That Bind 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

In one watercolor, believed to be from the 1950s, soft-edged triangles of navy and plum jostle with floral motifs in thickly daubed black. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

In the early 1950s, she married Tosh Angelos, a Greek American sailor. Maya Angelou, writer and poet, dies at age 86

I loved the exhibition, and regret only that it gives the impression that Cornell forsook dance in the 1950s and 1960s. Dance This Week: New Books and Exhibitions 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

His work has been shown at a steady succession of New York galleries since the 1950s, including the venerable Midtown Galleries and, most recently, ACA Galleries, which continues to represent him. At 99, the Painter Richard Mayhew Is Still Upending Expectations 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

With his older brother Carter, Mr. Stanley rose to musical prominence in the 1950s as a member of the bluegrass band known as the Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys. Ralph Stanley, bluegrass master, dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

SAT Rides in vehicles from the ACM Collection, vehicles vary, selection from antiques and prewar classics to the 1950s, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Queen Elizabeth II's younger sister, the late Princess Margaret, was a 1950s fashion icon, her easy glamour contrasting with the queen's tasteful-but-conservative style. Prince Harry emerges as cool, fun face of monarchy 2011-04-03T12:03:10Z

Based on the research of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, in the 1950s, the forthcoming Showtime series “Masters of Sex” offers us sex in all its clinical glory. | The Joylessness of Sex on TV 2013-05-28T13:30:29Z

Doctors in the 1950s were concerned only with harvesting the cancer cells — a selfishly banal act — while Deborah and her family struggle throughout the story to grasp the basic science. Review | In ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,’ science gives way to an emotional process 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

Inspired by a long standing fascination with Cubism, Nevelson started making works of collage in New York in the 1950s. New York’s Pace Gallery shows early Louise Nevelson collages 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

However, while back in England in the 1950s he worked in the theatre there, and became a regular at the Montague Jeffery shop. Errol Flynn's 50-year-old 'debt' 2013-06-21T13:37:44Z

The movie’s depictions of poverty and social injustice have the potential to be wrenching, in the tradition of neorealist Italian pictures of the 1950s or, more pertinently, the early work of Satyajit Ray. Review: In ‘Beyond the Clouds,’ a Brother and Sister Struggle in Mumbai 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

In the U.S. in the 1950s, blondes were the ultimate Aryan ideal. Paglia on Taylor: "A luscious, opulent, ripe fruit!" 2011-03-24T02:58:00Z

In the mid 1950s Williams moved to London to work on what would become his Bafta winning The Little Island, which he funded by working for newly launched commercial television companies. Richard Williams: the master animator 2013-04-19T17:59:00Z

In his spare time, he began writing for magazines in the 1950s and published his first novel in 1958. Stephen Birmingham, author of ‘Our Crowd,’ other bestsellers, dies at 86 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Tourism in the Antarctic began with a trickle in the 1950s, but the industry remained exclusive and expensive. Tourism in Antarctica: Edging Toward the (Risky) Mainstream 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

She danced as a tiny elf in Hotpoint commercials in the late 1950s, until she was fired for getting pregnant. Mary Tyler Moore: a true cultural icon who changed the face of television 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

But as the 1950s gave way to the 60s, pop stars had grown more prominent, and politicians had started dancing to their tune. Elvis and Nixon, Reagan and Jacko, Jagger and Blair … when pop stars and politicians collide 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1950s and ’60s before joining the faculty at Stony Brook in 1967. Louis Simpson, a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet, Dies at 89 2012-09-18T00:04:57Z

Foy, 33, won a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for her portrayal of Britain’s monarch in the 1950s and 1960s. Claire Foy to get £200,000 after gender pay row on The Crown – reports 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

The Golden Door in Escondido, Calif., around since the 1950s, is slightly more gentle, more luxurious. Q&A: Finding the Spa Experience for You 2013-05-24T17:14:38Z

Piston’s piece occupies a 1950s American version of the same neighborhood. Hear 7 of the Best Works From a Neglected Era of American Music 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

One of the great virtues of Sagamore Hill is that it stayed in family hands from the time it was built in 1886 until the 1950s, when the nonprofit Theodore Roosevelt Association took it over. Theodore Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill Home Cries ‘Bully!’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

In the early 1950s he was also musical director of Little Golden Records, which made widely popular recordings for children. Mitch Miller, Maestro of the Singalong, Dies at 99 2010-08-02T16:28:00Z

The 1962 version was released on "All Alone," Sinatra's update for his own label, Reprise, of his famous "suicide songs" concept albums for Capitol in the 1950s. The secret Sinatra past of Bob Dylan's new album 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

Some time in the 1950s, in a Kellogg's laboratory, some scientists eagerly gathered round a bowl. Truthfulness in advertising? Who knows ? it could just catch on 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

There was a spate of surgeries on the air in the 1950s, mostly shot by a single camera and aired in prime-time documentaries, he said. ABC's Sam Champion being operated on live on TV 2010-05-11T22:31:00Z

In the 1950s, people may have thought they were marrying for love, but the gender divide was more of a chasm. Marrying your best friend is a cliche, but a good one for women 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

The National Park Service of the 1950s adopted “The Outermost House” and “Cape Cod” as justifications for establishing a 44,000-acre national seashore of secluded beaches and mysterious bogs in coastal Massachusetts. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

As you sink into the spectral parade of images of the 1950s American Southwest, you may wonder at times if you haven’t, in fact, fallen asleep. ‘Lula del Ray,’ a Spectral Parade of Fantastical Images 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Reunited with her “Safe” director Haynes for an artfully colorful melodrama, Moore plays another 1950s housewife — this time, a creature too good for this world. Julianne Moore: 8 roles to remember 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

Roughly half the pictures are vintage 1950s pinup images of young black women alluringly posed in domestic settings. Art in Review: LORNA SIMPSON: ?Gathered? 2011-06-30T21:45:27Z

One more thing: the exhibition here comes primarily from the collection of Munari’s dentist, whom he met in the 1950s. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Commercial cultivation began in Nantucket in 1857, and by the 1950s the island’s Milestone Bog was the world’s largest contiguous cranberry bog. Nantucket cranberries – painting the Massachusetts island red 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

Classical music was an easy target: in the early 1950s radio transmissions were purged of Sanskrit words and the names of Hindu deities. Mehdi Hassan's songs live on as Pakistan and India unite in mourning 2012-06-14T12:47:46Z

Then they cut that down and created 1950s American suburbia. Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen and Oliver Butler of Debate Society 2012-09-30T04:20:07Z

From as early as the 1950s, the Hot 100 incorporated data such as radio airplay figures – including streaming data could be seen as a natural extension of this. Robert Hardy pulls out of Gielgud theatre's production of The Audience 2013-02-26T16:36:16Z

The densely crosshatched pages pay homage to Otto Dix’s psychologically shaded portraits and the classic monster magazines of the 1950s. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

During the 1950s and 1960s, bishops from around the U.S. began referring abusive priests to church-run medical centers, so that they could receive evaluation and care without disclosing their crimes to independent clinicians. The Catholic Church’s grim history of ignoring priestly pedophilia 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

The frozen landscape not only recalls 1950s Hollywood “northwesterns” like “The Far Country” but the German “mountain films” of the 1920s and ’30s. ’68 Rides Again: The Return of Sergio Corbucci 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

Later on, social historian David Kynaston jumped his audience forward a few millennia to the 1950s. Hay festival 2010: Wednesday at Hay 2010-06-03T11:58:00Z

Holmes County Board of Education, which, after years of obstruction by many states through the 1950s and 60s, ordered that racially segregated schools must immediately desegregate. Two Documentaries on School Integration Offer New Views of an Old Problem 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z

Until the 1950s, the normal method for film credits was to present names and titles on cards, or against an unmoving backdrop. Saul Bass's film titles celebrated in Google doodle 2013-05-08T00:16:17Z

He produced variety shows in the 1950s and made a splash in 1958 as the director and producer of “An Evening With Fred Astaire.” Bud Yorkin, innovative TV producer and director, dies at 89 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

College football and baseball had been the top two sports throughout the 1950s, but the tide started to turn after the 1958 NFL championship game between the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants. A look at the seminal broadcasting moves that define the NFL 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

Early in the 2000s I had written, to commission, a television mini-series set in 1950s Ireland and America which, it had become clear, was not going to get made. John Banville on the birth of his dark twin, Benjamin Black 2011-07-22T21:55:11Z

But as a kid, he had seen, over the shoulders of his grandparents, reruns of the original “Perry Mason” series from the 1950s and ’60s, which starred a bluff Raymond Burr. In ‘Perry Mason,’ Matthew Rhys Plays Defense 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

King's book splits its timeframe between the 1950s and the 1980s, and shows how the losers grow up, move on and are then summoned back to Derry to finish what they started as children. Summer readings: It by Stephen King 2011-08-04T09:05:35Z

And that battle has barely begun in the series setting of the late 1950s. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: For Virginia, Work = Love 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

From the 1950s to the ’90s, the socialite captured casual moments with some of the biggest names in entertainment. New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From Boxing to Hollywood Candids 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

A screening of fashion shows, from the haughty grandeur of the 1950s, through the cheeky 1960s to the flower-power 1970s, captures the breakdown of a class-ridden society in the “swinging London” years. A Celebration of Dressing Up 2012-05-21T12:30:29Z

Years later, in the late 1950s, Preston would make a similar choice, staying behind in Paris when his wife took his children home to the US. 'Truth is funnier than anything': the life of Preston Sturges told by his son 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

Young swains of the 1950s preparing for their first prom could avail themselves of a popular tuxedo model called the Tony Martin. Tony Martin, Debonair Pop Baritone, Dies at 98 2012-07-30T20:29:58Z

The grain elevator was built in the 1880s and expanded in phases in the 1920s and 1950s. Carlton is redefining Willamette Valley wine country with high-quality grapes and extensive renovations 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

The artist, whose breakthrough depictions of American flags and targets in the 1950s jolted painting away from abstract expressionism, is focused on new projects, not retrospectives. Jasper Johns Isn’t Done Yet 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

Miranda Leaver, an Internet entrepreneur and former Detroit area resident, recently bought two rings through etsy.com — one aqua and one orange, colors especially popular in the 1950s and ’60s. Design: Your Earrings Remind Me of Grandma’s Gran Torino 2013-08-23T20:48:30Z

Its vernacular steps and attitudes came from the 1950s and ’60s. Review: From Twyla Tharp, 2 New Pieces for Her Anniversary Tour 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

The Hungarian-born star of 1950s movies "Moulin Rouge" and "Touch of Evil" spent five days in the hospital, in this latest round of treatment. Zsa Zsa Gabor celebrates 94th birthday after hospitalization 2011-02-07T02:07:30Z

The moment seemed right for a caffeinated beverage, so I looked for one of the neighborhood’s old-fashioned kissaten establishments, with wonderful old neon signs and narrow upstairs rooms that date back to the 1950s. In Tokyo, Following Elders to Bargains 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

Beginning in the 1950s, the artist and graphic designer began mailing his flyers, posters, and collages to notable figures in the art world, among them MoMA staff members including curator Dorothy Miller. Explore Ray Johnson’s Most Experimental Graphic Design 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

By the late 1950s, when he wrote the “Catalogue,” the musicalized chattering and trilling of the birds was fundamental to Messiaen’s compositions. Review: A Pianist Pays Homage to Birdsong 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

"Up until the 1950s, a woman wasn't even considered properly dressed unless she was wearing a hat and gloves." Hats off! Britain's royal wedding stirs hat fever 2011-04-18T10:11:11Z

In the 1950s, the US air force began sponsoring research into how the biological clock worked. The foul reign of the biological clock | Moira Weigel 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

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

While on a year abroad from the Sorbonne in the late 1950s, studying English in Oxford, she drifted into the ambit of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil: a life in theatre 2012-08-10T14:31:00Z

My house – once ours – is full of kitsch Lynch prints, 1950s bombshells and Art Deco nudes. A letter to … my ex-husband, who preferred pornography to me 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

In its understated, contemporary hyper-realism, “The Gabriels” feels as revolutionary in a way as van Hove’s minimalist “View From the Bridge” was, in its attempt to upend expectations for 1950s naturalism. The Kennedy Center sets an inviting table for ‘The Gabriels’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Their outpouring of springtime sheaths, cocktail frocks, camp shirts and circle skirts, all emblems of late 1950s bourgeois chic, seemed worthy at times of Suzy Parker, their collections like outtakes from a Slim Aarons shoot. | Trendspotting: The Late 1950s Look Is Hot: Trendspotting 2011-09-28T18:05:42Z

Appetite for New and Next New Maybe we don’t need to be reminded that the American art of the late 1950s and ’60s moved with ferocious speed. Art Review: At Acquavella, Art From Robert and Ethel Scull?s Collection 2010-04-15T21:53:00Z

They started performing together before they were teenagers, in the late 1950s, looking to R&B vocal groups like the Mills Brothers and then, like countless others, to the Beatles. How the Bee Gees Stayed Alive 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

But HBO’s ongoing adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels isn’t just set in Italy in the 1950s; it’s dug in there, intimately aware of every stairwell, courtyard and apartment in its working class neighborhood. The 18 Best TV Shows for Vicarious Travel Thrills 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

It's evidently an impactful show: the scene a kind of 1950s salon, all peacock feathers and sculpted fronds in plaster urns. Lana Del Rey, Mikal Cronin, The Bad Plus: this week's new live music 2013-05-11T05:00:15Z

He returned to the Midwest to study at the Art Institute of Chicago in the early 1950s with the painter Paul Wieghardt, a student of Paul Klee’s at the modernist Bauhaus school in Weimar, Germany. Claes Oldenburg Dies at 93; Pop Artist Made the Everyday Monumental 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z

His Chicago years began in the early 1950s at the University of Chicago, where Nichols found his first real friends and a sense of belonging. Mike Nichols, directorial superstar with an eye for the 'real thing' 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The so called "white flight" from the city centre began in the 1950s and, soon, as Sugrue puts it, "an increasingly black city was surrounded by a ring of communities that were all white". Detroit in ruins: the photographs of Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre 2011-01-02T00:02:03Z

In the summer, its adjoining beach bars are adorned with rainbow flags – the gay community has supported Asbury as a cheap holiday alternative to Fire Island since the 1950s. Greetings from a new-look Asbury Park 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z

"Call the Midwife," a six-part series set in 1950s London that was a hit in Britain, will kick off PBS' new season at 8 p.m. PBS fall schedule offers U.K. hits, US history 2012-05-15T22:46:04Z

A performer since the 1950s, he broke ground as the first African-American comedian to be called over to the couch for a conversation on “The Tonight Show.” Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s and ’60s, Rollins’s lyrical, buoyant playing established him as one of the most respected tenor saxophonists in jazz history. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Nik, as he was known, was ahead of his time when he began, in the 1950s, to use lights, props and costumes to transform his dancers into otherworldly shapes. The Week Ahead: Dec. 26 ? Jan. 1 2010-12-24T14:55:53Z

On television in the early 1950s, Ms. LeGon appeared several times on “Amos ’n’ Andy,” but over all her career was stymied by the racial bias that governed Hollywood for much of its history. Jeni LeGon, Singer and Solo Tap-Dancer, Dies at 96 2012-12-17T03:55:09Z

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

The trouble with double system, and one of the reasons for its short life span in the 1950s, is that it’s a bear to operate. ?Classic 3-D,? Straight From ?50s, at Film Forum 2010-08-12T22:45:00Z

First, in the prosperity-obsessed climate of the 1950s, the tooth fairy began compensating children with cash for the alleged trauma of losing a tooth. This Life: Act II for the Tooth Fairy ? This Life 2011-12-09T18:52:47Z

QMy son lives in a brick house built in the 1950s. How to remove paint residue from bricks 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Moore began to play guitar again in the early 1990s at the behest of Carl Perkins, another Sun recording star from the 1950s. Scotty Moore, guitarist on Elvis Presley’s groundbreaking Sun Sessions, dies at 84 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

The Hungarian-born Gabor is well known for her roles in 1950s movies "Moulin Rouge" and "Lili," but perhaps even more famous for her lavish lifestyle and a string of wealthy husbands over the years. Doctors to amputate actress Zsa Zsa Gabor's leg 2011-01-14T19:43:33Z

Wrapped around the center is a ribbon of parks in what was once the Turia River, which was diverted in the 1950s after severe flooding. 6 Places in Europe Offering Shelter From the Crowds 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

Sales in theatres fell in the 1950s when the spread of television hit cinema attendance. Popcorn boom points to 'third golden age' for America's favorite snack 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Flavia de Luce is an 11-year-old in 1950s England, first encountered in Bradley's "The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie." New in crime fiction: Benjamin Black and Jacqueline Winspear 2010-04-07T23:22:00Z

Many of its painters had hit their peak in the 1950s, leveling off or declining thereafter. Art Review: When Art Dallied With Poetry on 53rd Street 2011-01-20T22:51:36Z

Her subjects present themselves to her, and to us, posing as they want to be seen in a way that brings to mind Malians in the 1950s sitting for the photographer Seydou Keïta. Portraits That More Than Meet the Eye 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

Lanzmann liked receiving his guests in his kitchen, probably unchanged since the 1950s. Claude Lanzmann: the man who told the story of Shoah 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

Terence Rattigan’s “Separate Tables,” two one-acts cobbled into one evening at Theatre 40, is a prime example of 1950s theater at its most retro: chatty, discursive and often busy to a fault. 1950s tales of loneliness and redemption told with conviction in 'Separate Tables' 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

“We never stopped Bible study,” said Lee Bennett Jr., the church historian, who has been a member of the church since the 1950s. 200 Years Later, Charleston Honors Denmark Vesey’s Attempted Uprising 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

One of these men in the 1950s was Arthur Bell, City Ballet’s first black dancer — Ashton was referring to Rimbaud’s time in Africa — and the Sarasota production continues this, with Ricardo Rhodes. Dance Review: Frederick Ashton Festival in Sarasota Honors a Legacy 2014-05-01T23:32:34Z

The book takes place during the 1950s, which was a time of political uncertainty, poverty and violence in Ireland. "Last Storyteller" Delaney knows how to get attention 2012-02-02T19:15:19Z

Mr. Frühbeck, who began his career in the 1950s, drew admiring notices to the end of his life. Rafael Frühbeck, 80, Dies; Made the World a Podium 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Broadacre City was Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision of a utopian metropolis, an orderly version — some would say omen — of the suburban sprawl that would ultimately spring up around American cities starting in the 1950s. Models Preserve Wright’s Dreams 2014-03-09T21:57:12Z

And the film’s two principal actors, both veterans of French cinema whose careers date back to the 1950s, inhabit their characters with a raw, fearless honesty. Love ages and endures in ‘Amour’ 2013-01-24T21:53:59Z

The seeds of “Dream House” were sown in Los Angeles in the 1950s, when Mr. Young was spending time with the jazz musician Warne Marsh, who spoke of wanting to buy his own club. A ‘House’ Finds a New Home 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Rock ’n’ rollers of the 1950s and ’60s portrayed themselves as outlaws; it went with the territory of a music that was then still new and outwardly rebellious. ‘The Hard Stuff’ Review: Motor City Mayhem 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

The story: Wes Anderson’s latest follows the staging of a play about the goings-on in a small desert town in the 1950s. The Best Films of 2023, So Far 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

The gallery’s seven works are examples of 1950s sculptures she called “Suns,” wire thickets twisted around curved metal armatures. Claire Falkenstein's strangely contradictory sculptures 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

What made me want to belatedly seek it out was Edward Norton’s press tour for Motherless Brooklyn, the bumpy but enjoyable 1950s private eye tale he starred in, adapted and directed. I’ve never seen … Chinatown 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

As with EC in the 1950s and Marvel in the ’60s, a singular sensibility — in this case Mr. Oliveros’s — presides over a Drawn & Quarterly age of comics. 25 Years of Drawn & Quarterly, Champion of Female Cartoonists 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

It opens with dancers in 1950s austerity dress, guilelessly competing in sack races, and egg and spoon. Dance GB – review 2012-06-20T17:21:13Z

The marred reputation of the networks after the quiz show scandals of the 1950s had set them on a course toward regaining credibility. Critic?s Notebook: How We Picked Our Presidents, 1960s Style 2011-07-05T00:23:31Z

In the late 1950s, about the time Mr. Martinelli was born, his father and grandfather decided to kick up production of their sparkling juice and market it as a “delightfully nonalcoholic” alternative to champagne. The Holidays Are for Martinelli’s 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

Some nerds are British . . . some nerds live in the 1950s and some live in 2016. Young actor gets his big chance to be a song-and-dance man 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

Originally, the Cavendish was planted en masse to replace the Gros Michel banana, the previously ubiquitous cultivar that succumbed wholly to Panama disease in the 1950s and 1960s. The common banana is trash and likely to go extinct: Try eating these alternatives instead 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z

Don't worry — tour entire house doesn't have to be an homage to the 1950s. A newbie’s guide to mid-century modern in your home 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z

U.S. online retailer Gilt Groupe said on Friday that the lifeboat, replicated from real rafts used between the 1920s and 1950s, is among props from the movie up for sale next week. "Life of Pi" movie lifeboat for sale at $40,000 2012-11-17T01:15:45Z

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

As recently as the 1950s, overnight street parking was still illegal in New York. New York as a Biking City? It Could Happen. And It Should. 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

It’s a smart move, since much “historical” art from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s is now being shown in contemporary galleries anyway. 30 Must-See Artists at the Armory Show 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

In the early 1950s, he was an announcer and game show host for programs such as "What's in a Word?" CBS correspondent Mike Wallace dead at 93 2012-04-08T14:45:00Z

Andrew Garfield plays Robin Cavendish, a tea broker in 1950s England who’s stricken with polio at age 28. 'Breathe' Movie Review 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

There are those in the pro-life movement who lament the demise of 1950s morals, but it is hard to find anyone in favour of other laws that resulted from the same impulse. Multiple choice 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

My mother, young and beautiful, a 1950s housewife, in her apron at the stove of our tiny kitchen. The one ingredient that has sustained me during bouts of leukemia 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z

A further problem is that the company uses Graham’s own revised version of the choreography, adjusted, from the 1950s on, to accommodate her own decline. Dance Review: Martha Graham Company in Old and New Works 2014-03-23T22:39:40Z

Some of Brecht’s greatest plays were written in exile, but they would not be performed in his homeland until the 1950s. Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht

This fourth annual event brings pinball and arcade fans and collectors from across the country to Seattle Center for three days of games from the 1950s to today. The Northwest Pinball & Gameroom Show at Seattle Center 2011-06-02T21:33:29Z

This works, usually, although setting herself the task of summoning up 1950s Chicago in a few pages leads to some shoehorning. The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes – review 2013-05-05T09:00:01Z

In those days, the late 1950s, adoption agencies were mostly run by religious organisations. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z

She was doing just that when bandleader Johnny Otis found her singing on San Francisco street corners with some girlfriends in the early 1950s. Legendary blues singer Etta James dies in Calif. 2012-01-20T16:40:14Z

The book, he added, will revisit some of the best-known characters in American literature and film, and a subject that was timely and critical in the 1950s. Harper Lee's second book sparks eager anticipation 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

If a pair of George II-style consoles topped with French terra-cotta sphinxes on either side of the living room fireplace set the formal tone, the 1950s neo-Cubist painting above the mantel gently tweaks it. Donna Livingston 2010-08-01T04:00:00Z

Lorraine Hansberry’s play, set in 1950s Chicago, centers on a struggling working-class black family anxiously awaiting a $10,000 insurance check and the ensuing squabbles over how to spend it. LaTanya Richardson Jackson cheered at elegant tea 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

To compete with the Strip, officials in the late 1950s began to modernize downtown with new facades and parking garages. Zappos’s CEO is helping revitalize downtown Las Vegas. He took me on a whirlwind tour. 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

The pages of 1950s National Geographic are given new life in a line of porcelain dessert plates from Mottahedeh. Mottahedeh Teams with National Geographic on a Set of Fierce Dessert Plates 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

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

But Clooney has also directed hits, like his 1950s newsroom drama Good Night, and Good Luck, which earned several Oscar nominations. Here's looking at me: Does Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea qualify for Hollywood’s Hall of Vain? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Raised in Jackson Heights, Ms. Passloff was, in her words, “part of the old gang” — a new generation of artists working downtown in the 1950s and ’60s, a time when choreographers were redefining dance. Catching Up With One of the ‘Old Gang’ That Reinvented Dance 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

The youth culture of the preceding decade seemed to have failed: to anyone watching the TV, Britain still looked trapped in the 1950s. The bizarre lost world of 1970s cabaret pop 2010-10-07T21:30:00Z

The original Freshmen, whose singers all doubled on at least one instrument, enjoyed immense popularity in the 1950s and early ’60s. Bob Flanigan, Four Freshmen Founder, Dies at 84 2011-05-17T04:00:08Z

In Detroit, Dr. Edgar Bass Keemer Jr. provided abortions from 1938 through the 1950s, ensuring that black women had access to safe abortion care regardless of their income. Whitewashing reproductive rights: How black activists get erased 2014-02-25T00:00:00Z

A conservator at The Phillips Collection, a private institution, suspected something was underneath the "The Blue Room" as early as the 1950s when he noticed inconsistencies in the brush strokes. Who's hiding in Picasso's 'Blue Room'? 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Interest in D'Eon has seldom waned with biographies every 20 years or so between the 1830s and 1950s. Portrait mistaken for 18th-century lady is early painting of transvestite 2012-06-06T14:16:21Z

The Southern Miss Americas of the 1950s and ’60s embodied the Southern “way of life” and justified its defense, however strident. Op-Ed Contributor: Racial Politics and Miss America 2013-01-16T00:57:43Z

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

The exhibition relied on a series of drawings by child survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, that had been commissioned in the 1950s by Mr. Tamotzu, a Japanese artist. On College Campuses, a New Role for Students: Museum Curator 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

The sentiment is most compelling in her 12 meditative “net” paintings, evolving in a dozen drawings from the late 1950s and early 1960s. Yayoi Kusama at the Broad: Lots of mirrors, not so much artistic reflection 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

“La La Land” does nod nostalgically to musicals of yore — but a genre that peaked in the 1950s isn’t exactly a bankable one. ‘La La Land’: How one of the best movies of the year almost didn’t get made 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

In the 1950s, they were finally cataloged, prompting a cottage industry of historical research, Dr. Kohn said. From 25,540 Paper Fragments, How Darwin Himself Evolved 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Miller has often been maligned as a maestro of 1950s schlock ... Conductor Mitch Miller dies at age 99 2010-08-02T18:27:00Z

The scientific discourse about the potentially toxic role of dietary fat and cholesterol on human health started in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when scientists discovered how to analyze fats in the lab. Let them eat more fat? Researcher argues that a balance of types of fat is the key 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z

The kidnapping and murder of a young ' woman in a sleepy 1950s Middle America hamlet send the intertwining lives of three good ol' boys into a tailspin in "The Aviation Cocktail." 'Aviation Cocktail' doesn't quite fly 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

The Abstract Expressionists opted for exuberant abandon in the 1950s, just when American society in general was beginning to offer all kinds of new economic possibilities. Art Review: ?Real-Surreal? at the Whitney - Review 2011-10-27T22:50:36Z

Under ever-tightening control in 1950s Poland, Panufnik became, as he later said to his wife, “a stuffed dummy ... they opened and shut my mouth for me.” Celebrating Panufnik, a Polish Composer in London 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

By the twenty-first century London’s best restaurants are as good as Paris’s but not in the 1950s. Garlic with Everything 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

He came to national attention in the late 1950s with his model for a new United States Embassy in Bangkok. John Carl Warnecke, Designed Kennedy?s Grave Site, Dies at 91 2010-04-23T02:09:00Z

“When the 1950s came to an end the big band and R&B sounds gave way to jazz. As the 1960s continued, jazz turned into soul,” he writes. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

Don't miss the harrowing Maralinga sculpture about the British atomic bomb tests on Aboriginal lands in the early 1950s. Five Reasons to Visit Perth 2012-05-09T05:20:00Z

Its plot functions mostly as a way to cram a variety of 1950s studio-system genre flicks and scenery-chewing actors into a dizzy pastiche. The Man Who Would Be Han Solo 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Inside a New York City Center studio, at a rehearsal for the Encores! revival of “The Light in the Piazza,” two young lovers in 1950s Italy were meeting for the first time. Revisiting ‘The Light in the Piazza’ Through an Asian American Lens 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z

He spent the second half of the 1950s doing Shakespeare with the Old Vic Company in London. John Wood, Actor Known for Nimbleness, Dies at 81 2011-08-11T04:16:36Z

But the all-inclusive — which dates to the 1950s — is evolving. Tesla? Caviar? Boots? At These Resorts, Everything’s Included 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

When “Mad Men” began, Don was the handsome man in a gray flannel suit who superficially embodied the 1950s ideal. 'Mad Men' finale recap: There's no place like om 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

She accompanied her first husband to Japan in the 1950s for his U.S. Jean Battey Lewis, dance critic for The Post, Washington Times, dies at 91 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

Japanese films in the 1950s often dealt with the ravages of nuclear war; all those Godzilla flicks were expressions of Japanese horror at what had befallen their countrymen at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Invasion of the dumbasses 2011-08-11T20:32:01Z

Those show her in poses and wearing styles that evoke American and European movies of her childhood in the 1950s and 1960s. Art as a mirror of selfie culture? That's 'Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life' 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s Mr Smith, who tests theories of auctions and supply and demand on students under laboratory conditions, was marginalised by the mainstream. The worldly wonks 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s, she staged and choreographed musicals in Italy. Mary Anthony, Choreographer and Teacher of Modern Dance, Dies at 97 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

By the late 1950s, figurative painting was giving way to Abstract Expressionism. Bernard Perlin, Painter of Varied Styles, Dies at 95 2014-01-29T04:49:47Z

Between the 1950s and the 1970s, this style coalesced into three World Cup trophies in four tournaments. With the 2016 Summer Olympics just a year away, what Brazil can learn from World Cup 2014 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

Since the field of cultural studies got its start in the 1950s, academics have been investigating what different pop cultures have to say about society. Netflix: Is mainstream content squeezing out the daring plots viewers originally fell for? 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

Wright designed the 1950s home for his son and daughter-in-law. Benefactor buys Wright-designed home in Phoenix 2012-12-21T01:46:04Z

To this end they attend a finishing school, Hereford Hall, which of course isn't even a real school, more a makeshift Stepford Wives academy from the 1950s set up in a stately home. Ladette To Lady needs to forget some of its reality TV etiquette 2010-07-21T12:28:00Z

Set in 1950s east London, Call the Midwife has a distinctly different kind of British sensibility that is more loose and gritty than the escapist Downton. PBS seeks Downton-esque Brit hit with Call the Midwife and Mr Selfridge 2013-03-29T17:04:00Z

It was in the 1950s, when more and more Japanese films were shown in the west, that Yamada became known internationally, but only through a small proportion of the scores of films she made. Isuzu Yamada 2012-07-11T14:39:36Z

By the late 1950s, Belafonte had become an international singing sensation. Perspective | Harry Belafonte’s biggest hit? The song of freedom. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

In a letter to the Vatican in 1998, the late Rev. Father Lawrence Murphy admitted abusing some 200 deaf boys over two decades beginning in the 1950s. Film defrocks church hierarchy over handling of sex abuse 2012-11-16T12:32:11Z

Their lavish curlicue lettering echoed, robustly, that of Warhol’s advertising work of the 1950s; their style often evoked German Expressionism by way of underground comics. Tabboo! Paints a Valentine to New York City 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

To channel the budding stand-up comedian, played delightfully by Rachel Brosnahan, you’ll need a dress worthy of an 1950s Upper West Side housewife, er, divorcee, a vintage microphone and lots of chutzpah. 8 last-minute pop-culture Halloween costumes for 2018 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

Studies have found that live global coral coverage has declined by 50 percent since the 1950s and is expected to decline by about 70 to 90 percent in the next 20 years. Locals are working to restore coral reefs in beloved travel destinations. You can help. 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Regardless of the tension between the two philosophies, everyone agrees: Museums are changing, perhaps at the fastest clip since the introduction of rudimentary audio guides in the 1950s. How museums are adapting to 'selfie culture' 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

Dolores Hart was a vivacious, quick-witted blond starlet when she charmed Hollywood in the 1950s and early 1960s. Nun famous for kissing Elvis prays for miracle 2011-12-24T04:08:04Z

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is a wonderful new show worth watching for its love letter to 1950s New York with artists looking to make their... ‘The Shape of Water’ and ‘Big Little Lies’ Lead Golden Globe Nominations 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

There one of her students was the young sister of James Baldwin, whose writings were instrumental in turning Ringgold’s painting — mostly Impressionistic landscape through the 1950s — in a political direction. Faith Ringgold’s Path of Maximum Resistance 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

The exhibition ends with a study of surveillance, ranging from pictures of a Soviet spy operating in the 1950s to military night vision images taken in Iraq. Tate Modern takes sneak peek through camera lens 2010-06-01T13:18:00Z

Municipalities throughout the country introduced the then-exotic geese into local parks as the urban renewal projects of the 1950s created ideal goose habitat. Dogs may be recruited in war on Portland goose poop 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

After being blacklisted in the communist scare of the 1950s, Rogovin dedicated his life to photography. Photographer Milton Rogovin dies at age 101 in NY 2011-01-18T23:16:03Z

Mr. Bosley is probably best known for his decade, beginning in 1974, as Howard Cunningham, the gruff but reliably kind father of teenage children in 1950s Milwaukee in the nostalgic situation comedy “Happy Days.” Tom Bosley, ?Happy Days? Dad, Dies at 83 2010-10-20T01:32:00Z

Irving Goldberg was one of nine children in a very poor immigrant family; his son changed his name in the early 1950s. Frank Gehry: Dizzy heights 2011-07-05T20:30:03Z

The last major restoration work was in the 1950s, when 15 coats of varnish were carefully removed. Greenwich's Painted Hall shipshape after restoration 2013-05-02T15:14:40Z

When they ask Collins, he assures them that he found his circumstances, growing up in New York City in the 1950s, really quite ideal. The rise of the only child: How America is coming around to the idea of ‘just one’ 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

So the American sporty street style had primary colors inspired by the American visual artist Ellsworth Kelly, who lived in Paris in the 1950s. Fashion Review: Stella McCartney 2011-10-03T18:27:47Z

And these we're talking about very early 1950s taffeta ball gowns by Christian Dior , puff ball gowns in pink by Balenciaga. The Farmer's Wife Of Vintage Fashion 2010-07-14T20:45:00Z

In the 1950s and early ’60s, museums were different institutions from today, uncrowded and quiet, like libraries. An Art Critic Is First Inspired by Words 2013-08-14T22:01:50Z

In the 1950s, it was common for big Hollywood names to sign multi-picture contracts with a single studio. The Coen Brothers' Next Film Is About a Fixer in 1950s Hollywood 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Throughout the 1950s Mr. Goldblatt studied photography while running his family’s business, a men’s clothing store. Art Review: David Goldblatt?s South Africa Photos at Jewish Museum 2010-07-01T21:52:00Z

A more suitable case for study in the 1950s would have been the seismic influence of The Three Stooges on the juvenile delinquency that flourished at the time. The Three Stooges: When Slapstick Meets Sentiment 2012-04-12T17:00:17Z

Sophie Okonedo may not have been the first person you think of to play the very American role of Ruth Younger in 1950s Chicago for a revival of “A Raisin in the Sun.” Meet 4 breakout winners from the Tony Awards 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

He wanted to make a wildly ambitious movie about race and sex and class and music in America through three decades, the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. Baz Luhrmann Is Ready for Rhinestones, Cadillacs, Dr. Feelgood and a Svengali 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

A good question for a literary quiz would be to ask which American author and critic set his first novel at Oxford University in the 1950s. Wilfrid Sheed obituary 2011-02-21T19:01:03Z

Be that as it may, The Quiet American had insight into the frailties of the early 1950s CIA and the untenability of US intervention in Vietnam. The top 10 classic spy novels 2013-06-26T10:37:16Z

He bought much of the art in the foundation’s collection in the 1950s in Munich, which was at that time a hub for dealers who had had relationships with the Nazis. Max Liebermann’s Heirs Compensated for Nazi-Looted Painting 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

The same problems of alignment and consistent illumination that dogged the Cinerama presentations of the 1950s and early 1960s also troubled the restorations. Long Before Imax, the Curious Tale of Cinerama 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Abandoned in the 1950s, it was stripped of its religious art, with only its altars, confessionals and baptismal font left behind. Classical Epiphany 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But its old rival, the ruddy, broad-shouldered B.M.O.C., is showing at least one sign of life: the varsity jacket, the 1950s favorite that turned up in a slew of fall fashion collections. Trading Up: This Championship Season 2011-04-07T00:52:23Z

He chose the name, which means “don’t speak,” from his parents’ warning about expressing his opinions outside of their home in 1950s China. ‘Pow!’ a Nobel Laureate’s view of a small Chinese village 2012-12-20T22:52:09Z

“A Call for All Demons” is a tune that Sun Ra first recorded in the 1950s, and on Mitchell’s album it serves as the opening invocation. glaive Showcases His Less Hyper Pop, and 13 More New Songs 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

Wagner came from humble roots in Michigan and worked his way up the A-list with 1950s war films and westerns. Natalie Wood: reinvestigating the mysterious death of a movie star 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Born in 1946, in Floral Park, Queens, Mapplethorpe grew up a white, middle-class Roman Catholic kid in the conservative, homophobic, racially divided America of the 1950s. Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

They included a zanily lopsided top hat that was named Champain, after a futuristic 1950s Miami Beach hotel. Front Row: A Head Full of His Dreams 2010-10-13T21:10:00Z

These were qualities that Judd himself, at least when he was starting out, would not have wanted applied to his work, which in the 1950s was painting. The Many Moods and Pleasures of Judd’s Objects 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

As vaudeville theaters began to close in the 1950s, Mr. Benson moved to Las Vegas, where he lived for 35 years. Irving Benson, comedy veteran of burlesque, dies at 102 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

The 3-D fad of the 1950s wasn’t exclusively a Hollywood phenomenon. 4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Still, there were times when it was easy to date the work’s intense psychology to the 1950s. 2010-02-15T22:28:00Z

Whereas, in the 1950s, you could pick up an issue of Batman, read it, and then the next issue of "Batman" would not really continue the story. Stan Lee has departed our universe, having “surpassed his wildest dreams” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

She briefs us on the history of the area, explaining that it was an active mining community from the 1870s to the 1950s. Loving Las Vegas, from its glittering Strip to its alluring desert 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

“Johnnie Ray had a big hearing aid in the 1950s in order to perform,” she continued, referring to a partially deaf singer whom she name-checks in the piece. A Theater Duo’s ‘Last Gasp’ Doesn’t Look Like the End 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z

In the 1950s, the age of marriage in the U.S. for women was about 19 or 20. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z

Since the 1950s, ping-pong tables have dotted China's landscape, planted proudly in railway stations, city parks and flaxen fields so that workers and ploughmen could perfect their backhands. Next Time You're in ... Hong Kong 2010-04-29T14:25:00Z

He remembered a day when he brought her to a set that replicated the West End nightclub Café de Paris, and Rigg remarked that she had seen Shirley Bassey perform there in the 1950s. Edgar Wright on ‘Last Night in Soho’ and the Trap of Nostalgia 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is a wonderful new show worth watching for its love letter to 1950s New York with artists looking to make their mark in a tough city. ‘The Shape of Water’ and ‘Big Little Lies’ Lead Golden Globe Nominations 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

From the 1950s onwards, they began renting vacant fish and chip shops in small towns and villages. Chow mein and chips: a brief history of the British Chinese takeaway 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

“Soldier, Spectre, Shaman” also glances at Japanese art from the 1950s, and focuses on how bodies were depicted in the years after the bomb. ‘Soldier, Spectre, Shaman,’ an Alternate History at MoMA 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Their popularity grew, and they even became a focal point of the folk music revival on college campuses in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs dies at age 88 2012-03-29T00:37:20Z

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

"I hope that the lawsuit will get people to start to question why the longest-running dating franchise on network television dating show is being produced as if we're in the 1950s segregated South," she said. Suit brings attention to 'The Bachelor' and race 2012-04-27T15:24:35Z

Zelizer’s masterly 1998 work, “Taxing America,” focused on one of those old Southern Democrats, Wilbur Mills, who chaired the powerful House Ways and Means Committee from the 1950s through the 1970s. When American Politics Turned Toxic 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s, Motley traveled to Mexico to visit a nephew and made many return trips, creating paintings of life there too. Artist Archibald J. Motley Jr.'s Jazz Age imagery on display at LACMA 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

But in the 1950s and into the 1960s, he made his reputation doing interviews, hosting ABC’s The Mike Wallace Interview and an early incarnation of the show Biography. Grand Inquisitor: Mike Wallace Dies at 93 2012-04-08T16:39:21Z

Plus, he is a film star playing a film star, a gormless, 1950s version of himself, in a film that is partly about the surreal production-line nature of Hollywood’s golden age. George Clooney interview: ‘Donald Trump is a xenophobic fascist’ 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Grandin grew up in the 1950s, when doctors still put autism down to a "lack of bonding" with the mother. Claire Danes's secret diary 2011-04-01T23:03:12Z

But what interested Lapine about Grant, Luce and Huxley was that they were flying high back in the uptight 1950s, unlike his own parents, who would have been their peers. Up, Up and Away: The Trippy Tales Behind ‘Flying Over Sunset’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

In the 1950s, Vladimir Nabokov asserted, not entirely playfully, that “reality” is a word that should only ever have quotation marks around it. ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’ Review: Is This All Just a Simulation? 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

There is also a chief’s coat from the Athabascan people with floral beaded designs, rawhide fringe and red felt ties from the 1950s. As One Alaskan Museum Closed, a Native Heritage Center Prospered 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

"They sing with a new confidence," Köhler said, making a comparison with the feeble, anxious sound of the choir he remembered from the bleak 1950s. Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z

The second Christopher, which is in Turing's house in the early 1950s, is a smaller, modernized version of the first one. 'Imitation Game' needed to imitate Alan Turing's code-breaking machine 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

A sequence where Sylvie is hanging out on the rooftop with Robert is a tribute to the 1976 film “Sparkle,” about a 1950s singing group of sisters. With ‘Sylvie’s Love,’ Eugene Ashe Returns With a Big Hollywood Romance 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

Singleton appeared on dozens of TV shows in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, including "Perry Mason," "My Three Sons," "All in the Family" and "Hogan's Heroes." `I Love Lucy' actress Doris Singleton dead at 92 2012-06-29T09:31:04Z

Shot in documentary style, in natural light, with a constantly moving hand-held camera, “Breathless” overthrew the polished aesthetics of 1950s French film, introducing a B-movie rawness and energy. Raoul Coutard, Cinematographer of the French New Wave, Dies at 92 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Cage and Cunningham began working together in 1942; Rauschenberg and Mr. Johns became, with them, an artistic quartet of close friends in the 1950s. Jasper Johns Speaks of Merce Cunningham 2013-01-08T00:07:44Z

But she told reporters she was used to the company of her older brother and cousins and preferred music from the 1950s and '60s. Rejected "Idol" Andrew Garcia rejects "boring" jibes 2010-04-15T19:42:00Z

Especially after the 1950s, once the show found belated success in the United States with a long-running adaptation by the composer Marc Blitzstein. Review: ‘The Threepenny Opera’ Returns Home, Liberated 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z

British director Jonathan Miller famously reinvented "Rigoletto" for his 1982 staging at the English National Opera, moving it to Little Italy in the 1950s. Sin City Duke: Met moves `Rigoletto' to Las Vegas 2013-01-23T18:25:11Z

When the Shah of Iran visited India in the 1950s, he was told that to visit Delhi without eating at Moti Mahal was like visiting Agra without seeing the Taj Mahal. The secrets to making two of India’s most famous dishes, from the family that invented them 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

This is why we have drawn generations of collectors from around the world to the fair since the 1950s. In Transit: At London Antiques Fair, Something for Everyone 2011-03-20T10:00:38Z

The work would also still be set on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1950s. Tony Kushner Plans a Trump Play, and a New ‘West Side Story’ 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

Throughout the 1950s it was one of the highest-rated shows in the fast-growing television medium. Jayne Meadows, actress and chatty wife of Steve Allen, dies at 95 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

Ms. Fickett found steady work in television in the 1950s and ’60s, appearing in “Armstrong Circle Theater,” “Kraft Theater,” “The Untouchables” “Have Gun — Will Travel,” “Naked City” and other series. Mary Fickett, a Pillar of ?All My Children,? Dies at 83 2011-09-12T23:58:43Z

Riffing on the idea of the 1950s shirt dresses, the designer Anna Molinari opened with fun full-skirted dresses in pretty mimosa prints on a black background. Special Report: Fashion: Festivals, Fabrics and Fun as Milan Fashion Spring 2012 Ends 2011-09-26T17:09:51Z

He called her “the Pink Lady” and said she was “pink right down to her underwear,” an appallingly sexist statement even for the 1950s. Perspective | Trump says he’s the victim of a witch hunt. These politicians were treated worse. 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

The use of neon lights became wildly popular as a new advertisement method during the 1950s, when the economy of the city started growing and a consumerist society quickly developed. Hong Kong’s fight to save its neon shimmer – a photo essay 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

While it’s no longer true to say that Havana is “stuck in the 1950s,” an argument can be made for La Isla — perhaps the 1850s. A Cuban Island That Has Played Both Paradise and Prison 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

In the late 1950s, Hughes explains, Bellow helped his “closest friend,” Jack Ludwig, get a job at the University of Minnesota, where Bellow himself was taking a position. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

I'm not convinced it ever truly did stem from one, really, with its mix of 1950s formality and oddly polite Victorian parlour game, yet it was a gentle, endearing illusion. Some radio voices never age. Sadly, their owners do 2010-08-04T08:52:00Z

Only a small handful of the newspaper pictures in The Newspaper Picture were released after the 1950s, and the years between the introduction of sound and the rise of television were clearly the genre’s heyday. Film: The Newspaper Picture: A Genre Explored at Film Forum 2010-04-08T21:41:00Z

Who says a condiment can’t be the color of a 1950s rain slicker? Perspective | Gene Weingarten: The continuing saga of the beleaguered customer-service rep 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Jones was a purist who lamented the transformation of country music from the family feeling of the 1950s to the hit factory of the early 21st century. George Jones, country superstar, has died at 81 2013-04-26T14:36:09Z

The 1,650 people studied in the research were non-Hispanic, white men and women born between the 1930s and 1950s who were taking part in a broader U.S. government-funded study involving health and retirement. What do you want in a spouse? Genetic similarity may help 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s, Richard Heffner was a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley and the host of a radio news program called “History in the News.” Civil discourse is highly endangered these days. But not on this TV show. 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

Matera is famous for its sassi — its cave churches and cave dwellings, which were lived in until the 1950s but evacuated after Levi’s book. Discovering the Ruins of Italy’s Ionian Coast 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

To American audiences, Mr. Sinden is best remembered for a series of movie roles in the 1950s. Donald Sinden dies; multifaceted British actor of movies, TV and stage

He also was one of the few people to win Oscar, Tony, Emmy and Grammy awards in a career that first blossomed with a comedy partnership with Elaine May in the late 1950s. Award-winning American director Mike Nichols dies at 83: ABC 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

There is also, of course, a 1950s soundtrack, in which period vocalists like Jo Stafford and Doris Day sing of love, loss and matrimony. Theater Review: ‘The Best of Everything,’ Based on Rona Jaffe’s Novel 2012-10-07T21:51:27Z

By the early 1950s, Mr. Pace was meeting with considerable success as a second-generation Abstract Expressionist, known for dark, energetically worked abstractions achieved through a distinctive blend of brushwork, drawing and staining. Stephen Pace, Painter and Abstract Expressionist, Is Dead at 91 2010-10-07T06:21:00Z

When train transport fell into disuse in the 1950s and ’60s, a movement began to transform those abandoned industrial corridors into recreational space. 8 Rails-to-Trails Adventures in the U.S. 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

The Cycle-in Cinema is like a 1950s drive-in but without the cars. Pop-up cinemas: top 10 tips for creating your own 2011-08-22T16:06:12Z

Disney representatives declined to comment, but Depp has said the film will be a "sort of rock `n' roll version of the Lone Ranger" with his Tonto offering a different take from the 1950s show. New Tonto, familiar feelings for Native Americans 2012-07-25T17:20:14Z

Television was new in the early 1950s, and a Philadelphia station began showing a version of a teen dance party in the afternoon. Dick Clark's biggest impact was personal 2012-04-19T01:46:07Z

Tawney, who passed away in 2007, began weaving and drawing in the 1950s and was a friend and contemporary of Agnes Martin. What is the 'women's aesthetic'? The gallery show '3 Women' offers some answers 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

Yes, the town’s Civil War “reenactments were reinstated back in the 1950s in response to mandated integration,” but that doesn’t mean those nostalgic battle skits have anything to do with slavery. The most unsettling, must-read novel this year: ‘Welcome to Braggsville’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

He recalled growing up on the southern outskirts of London with still bombed-out buildings and his baby orange juice rationed well into the 1950s. Peter Frampton at 60: Do you feel like I feel? 2010-05-11T18:58:00Z

His 1996 novel, “La Cour des Grands,” about a young Frenchman’s adventures in the United States of the 1950s, is to be published in Britain this month as “The Great and the Good.” Michel Déon, Novelist Who Tapped the French Experience, Dies at 97 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

Bold decisions by the Finnish government in the late 1950s and ’60s to support the arts have borne fruit in other fields. The Finnish National Ballet at 100 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

His look was at its best in the late 1950s and ’60s, when it pushed against the boundaries of traditional attire. Perspective | Little Richard would have been the first to say his style was fabulous. He was right. 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

In the late 1950s, she attended Peace College for women in Raleigh, N.C., and in 1984, she published a terrific short story in the Iowa Review also called “Old Lovegood Girls.” Review | Gail Godwin has been writing novels for 50 years. Her latest proves she has no intention of coasting. 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Many representations of the 1950s are not authentic ones. James Lee Burke: By the Book 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

Kirschenbaum grew up in Brooklyn and became an opera enthusiast after her previous obsession, the Brooklyn Dodgers, decamped for Los Angeles in the late 1950s. Opera’s Biggest Fan Leaves Behind a Sprawling Time Capsule 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

The film is scheduled to open on 96 screens in the United States and four in Canada, all in 70-millimeter projection, a premium format associated with extravaganzas of the 1950s and 1960s. Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ Resurrects Nearly Obsolete Technology 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

In the late 1950s Kar contributed photo stories about life in London to Tatler magazine as well as capturing portraits of cultural celebrities in Germany and Armenia. In pictures 2010-12-15T13:56:18Z

Oversize boyfriend sweaters like woolly sweat tops partnered either pants or full 1950s skirts. Special Report: Reveling in Mix-And-Meld 2010-03-04T12:53:00Z

Emerging from “the stuffy sickroom of button-downed 1950s America,” Robbins found that place in the turbulence of the 1960s. ‘Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life,’ by Tom Robbins

It’s worth noting that that story, which involved boys in search of a dead body, was set in the 1950s. Review: With ‘Stranger Things,’ Netflix Delivers an Eerie Nostalgia Fix 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Whether it is the first is hard to say since so much of the television output from the 1950s and early 60s does not survive. Newly unearthed ITV play could be first ever gay television drama 2013-03-16T00:01:20Z

In the 1950s, as a student at nearby DePauw University, she joined the Young Republicans club. She Taught New York to Sing 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, he was a ubiquitous presence, recording extensively and performing as a member of early-music ensembles; as a soloist with orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic; and in recital. Russell Oberlin, Renowned Countertenor, Is Dead at 88 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Your episode about the polio crusade of the 1950s, and Jonas Salk’s discovery of a vaccine, now seems very timely. Jill Lepore’s New Podcast Is a Murder Mystery: Who Killed Truth? 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

Painter Jacob Lawrence’s epic 30-panel series “Struggle: From the History of the American People” was exhibited twice after its creation in the 1950s, then never again. Exhibit of iconic Jacob Lawrence series, reunited for first time since 1958, opens at Seattle Art Museum 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

Uhry's "Love With the Top Down" makes us privy to the conflicting emotions of two young people before and after a sexual encounter in 1950s America. 'In Your Arms' a pleasing, sketch-heavy dance-musical at the Old Globe 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s Joseph Kerman, the critic and musicologist, dismissed the century between Monteverdi and Gluck as “the dark ages of opera,” and music lovers had no way of knowing better. ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z

Whereas Marty McFly is flung back to the 1950s and tasked with making sure the younger versions of his parents fall in love — how else will he exist in the future? From mall cops to sex buddies: 14 times movies about the same thing came out at the same time 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

As late as the early 1950s, with Pollock and de Kooning ascendant, they were still fixated on de Chirico. Art Review: Surrealist Partners in Painting, but Don?t Call Them a Team 2011-06-09T21:07:50Z

Mimicking the world of the hit period comedy, the downtown pop-up looks like a 1950s deli, and items are priced appropriately, with sandwiches named after characters from the show going for 99 cents. Carnegie Deli pop-up already has 6,000-person waiting list 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

"He was embraced by both Eisenhower and Khrushchev in the 1950s and the only musician to have a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan." American classical pianist Van Cliburn dies at age 78 2013-02-27T19:27:55Z

She alternately made her base in Seattle, Los Angeles and New York through the 1950s, working with such acclaimed musicians as Jones, Hampton, saxophonist Gigi Gryce and trumpeter Art Farmer. Ernestine Anderson, Grammy-nominated jazz singer, dies at 87 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

Finally, Famine looks at the effect of the great Irish famine of the 1840s and alludes to the widespread hunger in Ireland in the 1950s. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-06-22T23:06:40Z

But then, animal skulls he photographed in the mid-1980s are little better than images of robotic, painted women that made him so famous in the 1950s: chilly, remote and somehow remorseless in their isolation. A photographer squanders his talent in fashion and magazines 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

One might find a storage cabinet from a 1950s doctor’s office that’s been painted white or a modern-looking rocker made from a gray fiberglass 1960s chair. Where Cervantes Once Lived in Madrid, Eclectic Boutiques Abound 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Instead the exhibition places Winfrey and her show squarely in the context of the America of her youth in 1950s rural Mississippi, examining how that America helped inspire her. The importance of being Oprah: media personality at centre of exhibition 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

A few years ago Mr. Sikand’s family conducted a search for men born in the 1950s and 1960s with that name. Pran Sikand, Villain of the Bollywood Screen, Dies at 93 2013-07-17T00:31:08Z

But by the end of the 1950s, with society fragmenting, cinema would rapidly lose faith in the essential incorruptibility of British institutions. Stop or we'll shoot: British cinema's portrayal of the police 2011-08-11T21:10:00Z

There is something of both definitions in this novel, which offers a broad swath of Lottie’s life: from her 1950s Michigan upbringing to her complex and loving blended family in upstate New York. Modern Mothers and Daughters, in Three Novels 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

But unlike the American painters to emerge in the 1950s, his approach was in the western tradition of working from life and brought about with painstaking slowness, rather than unleashed virtuosity. Lucian Freud obituary 2011-07-21T21:08:42Z

“Beer was really popular in the 1950s in Japan and whiskey sales were down. The Japanese like drinks that are light in alcohol.” It’s Highball Season. Here’s Where to Try Some of the Best in the U.S. 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Ms. Singleton appeared on dozens of other TV shows in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, including another Lucille Ball program, “Here’s Lucy,” “Perry Mason,” “All in the Family” and “Days of Our Lives.” Doris Singleton, ‘I Love Lucy’ Neighbor, Dies at 92 2012-06-30T03:45:49Z

SAT Slider cooking competition and tastings, 1950s rock and roll music, glassblowing demonstration, 6:30 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-03-25T16:35:26Z

Interim designer Bill Gaytten seems to have pleased the fashion crowd by revisiting Dior's iconic New Look, including reworked 1950s bar-suits. Dior impresses and Versace dazzles in couture 2012-01-24T00:17:19Z

He left the entertainment industry to run a bed-and-breakfast establishment with his wife, Sonia, whom he had married in the 1950s. Louis Marks obituary 2010-10-07T17:24:00Z

“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 early 1950s, Mr. Dubin helped shape early television by directing shows like “Tales of Tomorrow,” a science fiction anthology series, and “Two Girls Named Smith,” a comedy series starring Peggy Ann Garner. Charles S. Dubin, Television Director, Is Dead at 92 2011-09-10T00:48:55Z

Diller, who broke into comedy in the 1950s, created an indelible persona with her distinctive braying laugh, cigarette holder, teased hair, outlandish costumes and a fictional lout of a husband nicknamed Fang. Phyllis Diller dies aged 95 2012-08-20T23:48:01Z

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story Bio-musical about the 1950s rocker features more than 20 classic songs. L.A. theater openings, July 6-13: 'The Orphan of Zhao' and more 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

"Picnic" was one of Inge's four consecutive Broadway hits during the 1950s, which included "Come Back, Little Sheba," "Bus Stop" and "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs." Review: This 'Picnic' basket has a sexy drifter 2013-01-14T01:33:12Z

The first office park opened in Mountain Brook, Ala., an upper-class white suburb of Birmingham, in the early 1950s as commuters became uneasy with simmering racial tension in city centers. The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

Ever since her inception in the 1950s, Barbie was the epitome of beauty and femininity, even though no one actually looked like her. The final blonde: My ongoing journey to decolonizing Barbie from my dress-up 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z

Side One kicks off with “Rock This Town,” driven by a slap bass line straight out of 1950s Memphis and a video that highlighted their distinctive look. They became MTV stars by playing rockabilly. Now, 40 years later, the Stray Cats are ready for a comeback. 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Swann was married briefly to Mina Belle Packer in the 1950s. Frederick Swann, Master of the Pipe Organ, Is Dead at 91 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

In the 1950s Dodge made a pink and lavender coupe called La Femme. Cars Women Love 2011-04-25T21:30:00Z

Beginning in the 1950s in Motor City, a.k.a. Three children’s and young-adult books we love, November edition 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Chesterton’s stories about a crime-solving priest in the Cotswolds in the 1950s, reaches its 10th season with an 11th on the way. 30 Shows to Watch This Summer 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

He did not intend the photographs for exhibition, and he abandoned photography entirely in the early 1950s. T. Lux Feininger, Photographer and Painter, Dies at 101 2011-07-14T00:41:06Z

The average pantry today has about 40 spices, compared with fewer than 10 in the 1950s, according to Laurie Harrsen, a McCormick spokeswoman who works on the company’s influential annual Flavor Forecast. Sriracha has moved into the American mainstream: What hot Asian ingredients are next? 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

In the 1950s and ’60s, it was an industrial site of train tracks, grain elevators and a handful of small ponds. Tour the Old Steel Town at the Center of ‘Lackawanna Blues’ 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

The after-hours tour opened with a Robert Frank shot from the 1950s, when the city was still a powerhouse; wound through gradually dimming streets; stopped at jazz clubs; lingered in punk and hip-hop spots. The Best Art of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

The televised Oscars last featured just two hosts during the 1950s, but those shows were split between a Hollywood emcee and a New York counterpart. Martin, Baldwin give stars comic one-two punch 2010-03-08T06:07:00Z

He tried to penetrate Hollywood in the late 1950s but was told he could be an elevator operator or, at best, a dancer. Perspective | Melvin Van Peebles was my father, too 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

As for those colorful 1950s Chevys you see in pictures of the suddenly trendy forbidden island, they’re back in the tourist section of Havana, 335 miles away. Can one man’s Cuban road trip fix 56 years of cultural disconnect? 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore In 1950s Belfast, the lonely spinster of the title is taken to the cinema on a date. Ten of the best visits to the cinema 2010-05-14T23:32:00Z

I wished it were the 1950s so I could lie about my connections or get discovered in a malt shop. Leaving Los Angeles 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z

Andrews fronted the moderately successful group Lee Andrews & the Hearts in the 1950s. “I love you”: Questlove pays tribute to father — who died Wednesday at 79 — in heartbreaking Instagram post 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Grauman was one of the busiest television directors in the 1950s through the mid-1990s and learned the business through trial by fire. Walter Grauman, prolific television director, dies at 93 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Richmond toured with Harry James, Les Brown and Ray Anthony in the 1950s and, when not on the road, picked up work wherever he could find it. Bill Richmond, Longtime Colleague of Jerry Lewis, Dies at 94 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Freilicher, for a brief period in the late 1950s, produced landscape paintings strongly influenced by Color Field painting, but she could not banish imagery from her work. Jane Freilicher, Lyrical Painter of Long Island Light, Dies at 90 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

But her acclaimed 1950s technique — pouring turpentine-thinned paint and soaking her canvases — was not the conclusion of her vivacious style. Within Walking Distance of La Biennale Paris 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

But in 1950s America, the easiest and maybe even the only path open to a young black woman who wanted to make her living out of music was the one marked blues and jazz. Hadley Freeman's 10 awesome women: from Katharine Hepburn to Miss Piggy 2013-04-22T15:38:00Z

But it also recalls the Technicolor biblical pageants of the 1950s and early ’60s, bland and solemn spectacles that invited moviegoers to marvel at their favorite stars in sandals and robes. Movie Listings for Dec. 19-25 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Constitutionally restless, he shopped through styles, and in the 1950s shifted to gestural abstraction, then the vanguard mode. After a Tempest, Philip Guston Shines in a Show True to His Spirit 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

They were top secret when built in the early 1950s to house the RAF's first atomic bomb, codenamed Blue Danube, using a special grit-free surface to prevent the risk of sparks. A-bomb store and monks' kitchen on risk list as threat to heritage grows 2012-10-11T23:01:03Z

But the minds behind the new album said the new tracks won't lose the qualities that made them hits in the 1950s and '60s. Retooled Elvis album marks a new take on the King 2010-10-18T15:00:00Z

He grew up in Richmond, VA, literally on a Blacks-only playground in the late 1950s. "Citizen Ashe" gives a spry look at the evolution of a legendary tennis great on and off the court 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

In the early 1950s, he tried to find work in high-end Los Angeles law firms, but his Ivy League degrees and two-year stint in the military failed him, he told the Jewish Journal years later. Roger Mayer, movie executive and noted film preservationist, dies at 88 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

Set in 1950s and 1960s North Carolina, the narrative blends elements of murder mystery, romance and nature writing with a coming-of-age story about a girl named Kya who grew up alone in the marshes. Questions About An Unsolved Murder Linger Over ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

The song’s chord progression could have come from the 1950s, but its production is as contemporary as its brittle attitude. Miley Cyrus and Brandi Carlile’s Raw Duet, and 9 More New Songs 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

Martha in "Virginia Woolf" was an “ugly” woman, something the Taylor of the 1950s would never have been allowed to take on, and a part fundamentally offensive to her view of herself. Elizabeth Taylor, from beauty icon to punchline 2011-03-23T22:30:00Z

But that aura faded during the 1950s; to many it seemed a relic by the time it was revived for the company’s 1972 Stravinsky festival. Dance Review: ‘Apollo,’ ‘Orpheus’ and ‘Agon’ at City Ballet 2012-09-19T21:19:09Z

In “Watchman,” set in the 1950s in the era of the Brown v. Review: Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Gives Atticus Finch a Dark Side 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

This plain, but comfortable and clean four-storey hotel, in business since the 1950s, is popular with Mexicans and foreigners alike. Mexico City: what to see plus the best bars, restaurants and hotels 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

He recounts how his discovery of musique concrète composers in the 1950s validated, for him, his own teen experiments with tapes. ‘Making Waves’ Review: How Sound in Cinema Moves Us 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Early on, you may think it’s some kind of satiric homage to a 1950s nightclub act. Theater Review: ‘Lady and the Champ,’ With Jake LaMotta 2012-07-23T22:24:21Z

From the 1950s to the 1970s, the split between public and private sector house-building was roughly equal. Home truths: architects tackle the housing crisis 2012-07-11T17:15:59Z

I trace it back to the 1950s, when certain social scientists started lamenting over the decline of the family. Let?s Hear It for Aunthood 2011-09-17T01:51:44Z

But, in the late 1950s, two of her English friends persuaded her to return, sensing it was key to her recovery. 'She was like a second mother': the German woman who saved our Jewish family history 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

Roberts' father made a living in the 1950s selling men's cologne, belts and suspenders. CEO Brian Roberts bulks up Comcast for the future 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

During his research into Haggard in the late 1950s, Mr. Cohen received an unexpectedly generous gift from one of Haggard’s daughters in England. Morton Cohen, Scholar of Lewis Carroll and His Wonderland, Dies at 96 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

He made his fortune in the 1950s as an audio pioneer. Businessman Sidney Harman dies in DC at age 92 2011-04-13T14:28:09Z

Not just before the Americans arrive, but that suddenly there will be new imported goods rather than the lovely 1950s and 60s items people still use today.” Cuba sees record bookings as tourists rush to see it before it changes 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

The Griffith researchers said cave art in Sulawesi was first discovered in the 1950s, with at least 242 caves and shelters containing such imagery documented since. Indonesian cave art is earliest known record of 'story telling', researchers say 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

It's still doing what it did when Richard Hamilton and the Independent Group were here in the 1950s: putting forward stuff you might not see elsewhere, with a certain courage and indifference to the mainstream. The ICA must be saved | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-17T10:58:00Z

I was working at a public radio station in Louisville, Kentucky on election night — a blue dot in a state that has reliably voted Republican since the 1950s — when the results began to roll in. From "Hillbilly Elegy" to "Fried Green Tomatoes," Hollywood has a rural perception problem 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

Phil Davis was a writer on “Truth or Consequences” a radio game show that migrated to television in the 1950s, and “This Is Your Life,” another radio-to-television series. David Davis, a Force Behind Memorable 1970s Sitcoms, Dies at 86 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

Atmosphere A cross between a tavern and a 1950s nightclub where Walter Winchell would have gone. From Burgers to Sundaes, the Loyal Plays to the Crowd 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

“L.A. Confidential” was so alive with 1950s tabloid atmospherics and finely drawn characterizations, and so confidently directed through its thicket of plots, that it transcended period piece nostalgia. Curtis Hanson, director of crime drama ‘L.A. Confidential,’ dies at 71 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

In Prose’s latest novel, set in the 1950s, a young editor is hired by a New York publisher to spiff up a terrible novel about Ethel Rosenberg. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

Steel was cheap and abundant enough in the 1950s to use in classrooms and small houses as well as major civic buildings. An Appreciation: Architect Donald Wexler made Palm Springs modern 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

With the Marrakech show, Dior also paid homage to the late Yves Saint Laurent, who took on the brand’s creative reigns in the late 1950s and was inspired by North Africa throughout his career. Dior lights up Marrakech with fashion show and floating candles 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

She spent much of the 1950s studying in Paris. Anita Brookner, Booker Prize-winning author of ruminative novels, dies at 87 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Both had joined a steady procession of 1950s recording stars who certified Dolphin's of Hollywood's clout by stopping by to hobnob with its customers and promote their releases. In 'Recorded in Hollywood,' Dolphin family's lore crosses over into R&B history 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

But much lighter passages abound, too: It was the 1950s in America, after all. Taylor Mac’s ‘A 24-Decade History of Popular Music,’ 1930s-1950s 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Invention didn’t cease, but in the 1950s new instruments, and particularly electronic ones, were the purview of the avant-garde and of commercial music. Instrumental mayhem in the name of Bach: Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile and company 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

Both men maintained a long silence about their lives together as partners in the 1950s and ’60s. Art Review: Sexuality in Modernism: The (Partial) History 2010-12-10T23:38:00Z

The late 1950s, blurring into the ’60s, are to contemporary art what the 1910s and ’20s were to modernism: a fertile era that is still being revisited by curators and dealers. Lessons in Modernism at the Tefaf Fair 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

His theory — immediately accepted by most, but not strictly proven until the 1950s — was that neurons are in touch without touching. A Deep Dive Into the Brain, Hand-Drawn by the Father of Neuroscience 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

And it was a nice, jolly cinephile flourish to open the festival with the Coen brothers’ comedy of 1950s Hollywood, Hail, Caesar!. Berlin film festival 2016 roundup: serious gems and stylish risks 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

Civilians explored their own options, beginning with the 1950s fad of backyard bomb shelters. The one percent plans to ride out the end of the world in style 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

It is the work of Cuban artist Kadir Lopez Nieves, who is restoring the vintage signs of the cinemas, hotels and cabarets that lit up Havana’s nightlife in its 1950s heyday. Cuban artist switches Havana's neon lights back on 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

“That’s what led me to this part, with the 1950s comic book figures,” he adds, gesturing at the bubbling white cloud filled with enraged faces and contorted mouths. Why you should see Hugo Crosthwaite's L.A.-inspired mural — before he destroys it bit by bit 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

Instead, Mr. Valli did away with his signature 1950s silhouettes and frilly embellishment and took a step forward, at least to the 1960s. Special Report: Fashion: Taking the Long View 2010-10-04T18:40:00Z

If you were a certain kind of female Hollywood performer in the 1950s, you pushed corniness. The Unsinkable Debbie Reynolds 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

“The look was modern when it was created in the 1950s and is beautifully preserved in Hollywood films of that time,” said Rosetta Getty, a fashion designer with a progressive following. What Happened to Risk on the Red Carpet? 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Back in the 1950s, idealism was running high and a group of scientists and engineers gathered at The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Stuart Clark's top 10 approachable astronomy books 2010-08-18T09:22:00Z

They got more of it in “Allegro,” “South Pacific” and “The King and I,” which continued to expand the boundaries of the musical into the early 1950s. Review | The secret to Rodgers and Hammerstein’s remarkable partnership 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

True, his genre is different: reality TV thrives on conflict, surprise and rough edges rather than the white bread smoothness and polish of 1950s television, Reagan’s natural milieu. You're hired! How TV carried Reagan and Trump to the White House 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

After losing his scholarship to Harvard in 1938, he also briefly moved into his brother’s apartment at 118 East 11th Street, opposite Webster Hall, where he would headline in the early 1950s. Pete Seeger’s New York Roots 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

“Magic City” offers a rich and seductive evocation of the late 1950s that is a little too enthralled by its own good looks. Television Review: ?Magic City? on Starz Is Set in Miami Beach, Circa 1959 2012-04-06T00:24:34Z

After surviving World War II, the company was faced with growing competition from rivals in Hong Kong and Singapore, so Shaw moved to Hong Kong in the late 1950s to modernize the company. Hong Kong movie mogul Run Run Shaw dies 2014-01-07T14:02:11Z

"If you go back to the 1950s and you look at the 550 Spyders, they won races against cars that had a lot more horsepower or were a lot heavier," he says. Porsche's High-Performance Hybrids 2010-04-19T23:00:00Z

She does, of course, go on, and suggests: “let’s take some pity/on the creepiness of how women were treated/in the 1950s.” Sharon Olds, Laureate of Sexuality, Scrutinizes the Body in ‘Odes’ 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

That might have made sense in the 1950s, but in the real world women make up half the workforce. Women Flip the Script on Hollywood 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

They started going to London's new wave of Indian restaurants in the late 1950s, when curry was far from widespread, and they've stuck with it ever since. Love music love food: pop will eat itself 2011-07-15T22:00:00Z

He was appearing at a club in the early 1950s when he caught the attention of the singer Guy Mitchell, who introduced him to Mitch Miller, the influential executive at Columbia Records. Jerry Vale, crooner of the 1950s and '60s, dies at 83

The jumper dress is another 1950s look, which Prada revisits, even for evening, not to mention the many coat dresses in the collection. Large coats a mainstay for next winter from Milan 2013-02-21T22:50:18Z

The company’s Views of Paris wallpaper—a Saul Steinberg design from the 1950s—depicts the Louvre and the Bastille, while New York New York pictures the Chrysler Building and Brooklyn Bridge tucked between towers. AD Loves: Schumacher’s Cities Wallpapers 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

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

It was there, in the late 1950s, he met blond bombshell Diana Dors, the film star who became known as Britain's answer to Marilyn Monroe. 'Family Feud' TV host Richard Dawson dies at 79 2012-06-03T15:54:05Z

The 1950s and 1960s saw the introduction of even more antibiotics, vaccines for polio and measles, the CAT scan, heart and kidney transplants, and coronary bypass surgery. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z

In the 1950s, he was working in Washington at a cramped strip club called the Wayne Room when he hit on a formula that became his stock-in-trade: He became a heckler from the stage. Don Rickles, lightning-fast launcher of comic insults, dies at 90 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

He started out in the late 1950s playing piano, first in Los Angeles and then in New York. Sy Johnson, Arranger Who Worked Closely With Mingus, Dies at 92 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

But only in Belgium has it been ingrained in the DNA of most youngsters since the 1950s. Spielberg's Tintin gets seal of approval 2011-10-13T15:12:53Z

This not being the 1950s, I wondered how a jazz singer had achieved such cultural prominence. Russell Brand on Amy Winehouse: 'We have lost a beautiful, talented woman' 2011-07-24T22:14:47Z

Scott began his recording career in the 1950s. Jazz singer Jimmy Scott dies at 88 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

For a quarter-century beginning in the 1950s Birgit Nilsson of Sweden hurled their battle cries and curses with the thrust, edge and metal of so many Viking spears. Music: Katarina Dalayman in ?G?tterd?mmerung? at the Met 2012-01-22T02:23:06Z

Tony Dow, who became a star at 12 as Wally Cleaver, the barely teenage older brother on the popular 1950s and ’60s comedy series “Leave It to Beaver,” died on Tuesday. Tony Dow, the Big Brother on ‘Leave It to Beaver,’ Dies at 77 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

By the early 1950s she was living with Warhol as muse and collaborator. Meet Warhol, Again, in This Brilliant Whitney Show 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

The late 1950s were the heyday of the drive-in, with more than 4,000 of them across the US. Summer nights: the US drive-in cinemas still packing ‘em in 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

Phillips – who worked as a record executive, music producer and disc jockey – is credited for playing a vital role in the emergence of rock’n’roll in the 1950s, largely by discovering Presley. Leonardo DiCaprio to play music pioneer Sam Phillips in new biopic 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Amid the underlying cultural anxiety of the 1950s was an ebullient sense of hope espoused in a growing middle class, and nowhere was this better captured than in the picture magazine Look. A New Book Showcases Nostalgic Photography From the 1950s 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

An architectural monograph, in progress since the 1950s, was finally published a few weeks ago. Antiques: A Decades-Long Study Is Finally Published 2010-12-30T22:05:55Z

Leonard, who first wrote westerns when he gave up his advertising agency job in the 1950s before moving on to crime and suspense books, suffered a stroke on July 29. U.S. crime writer Elmore Leonard dead at 87 2013-08-20T14:45:48Z

Mr. Gilbert served briefly in the British army in the 1950s. Martin Gilbert, preeminent Churchill biographer and Holocaust historian, dies at 78 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

The paintings are done in a geometric abstract style that Ms. Jaffe adopted in the late 1960s, abandoning the gestural brushwork with which she began her career in the early 1950s. Distinct Prisms in an Ever-Shifting Kaleidoscope 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

A former Brooklyn Rapid Transit power station built in 1904, it was decommissioned in the 1950s and became a punk squat decades later, playing host to raucous dance parties and graffiti on practically every surface. The Batcave, a Graffiti Landmark in Brooklyn, Grows Up 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

The somewhat tamer African Dip drifted away from fairs around the 1950s, after states banned them. The Last of the Dunk Tank Clowns 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

The mountain’s elevation is a key reason the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, the national center for ground-based nighttime astronomy, chose this site in the 1950s as its primary base of operations in the United States. Arizona’s Kitt Peak Observatory offers a perfect sight-line to the stars 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

They concentrate on duets, reviving the close-harmony country tradition of the 1950s and sounding at times like an elder version of the Everlys. Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale: Buddy & Jim – review 2013-01-10T22:30:01Z

The oil on plywood painting encapsulates the Greek Cypriot armed uprising against British colonial rule during the latter half of the 1950s that culminated in the island’s independence. 45 years on, ‘lost’ masterpieces see light in split Cyprus 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

The divergence, he argued, dates to the early 1950s, when black civil rights activists, including W.E.B. A new mission for Amnesty International: Bringing human rights home

Universal Limited Art Editions led a revival of printmaking in America back in the 1950s, and the publishing house continues today to collaborate with renowned artists on prints and books. 16 of the week's top entertainment events 2012-02-01T22:22:04Z

The notion of steamy desire festering away behind white picket fences has been a staple of American film and fiction since “Peyton Place” scorched the best-seller lists in the in the 1950s. Theater Review: Thomas Bradshaw’s ‘Intimacy’ Makes Sex Neighborly 2014-01-30T03:00:17Z

Yet they also reveal Ms. Rockburne’s interest in mathematics, inspired by meeting Max Dehn at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where she studied in the early 1950s. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

The 1950s, for example, saw the addition of such words as "antibiotic" and "clone." New words to live by 2011-09-06T15:45:04Z

He headed out to Hollywood where he became a hardworking character actor starting in the 1950s. Bing Russell's grandsons explore his 'Battered Bastards of Baseball' 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

In an effort to help reverse damage to the planet, she tells his story, from his 1950s boyhood on a South Indian coconut farm to his political and professional ascension. 14 New Books Coming in May 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

She was a staple of nightclubs and television from the 1950s - when female comics were rare indeed - until her retirement in 2002. Humorist Phyllis Diller dies at 95 in Los Angeles 2012-08-20T20:27:41Z

His said his late father Jaswant, was hailed as the "pioneer of Indian cinema" and first brought Bollywood films to Britain in the 1950s. How did Bollywood reach Birmingham? 2013-06-28T05:20:36Z

The 1950s television series “You Are There,” had TV newsmen report on dramatized historical events. ‘The Uprising,’ a Masterpiece of iPhone Cinema 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

The suburban ideal of the 1950s, according to “The Organization Man,” was supposed to be “classlessness,” but the opposite ideal is the brick-to-the-head message of the dominant suburban form of today. Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 2014-04-13T11:00:00Z

The book itself, full of drug-infused, sexual stories about life in the 1950s, was banned in cities like Boston and Los Angeles. Shock ‘n’ Roll: 7 Controversial Band Names 2013-10-25T09:45:45Z

When the building adjacent to the college, at 1516 N. Lake Shore Dr., went up for sale in the 1950s, Thorek persuaded the college’s foundation to purchase it to create a surgical hall of fame. Chicago’s creepy cabinet of curiosities 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s he appeared on “Lux Video Theater,” “The Philco Television Playhouse,” “The United States Steel Hour” and “Kraft Television Theater” and starred in and occasionally directed two sitcoms. Jackie Cooper, Film and Television Actor, Dies at 88 2011-05-04T23:30:04Z

But Renaud is continuously dissatisfied with Monk’s answers to his questions: about not being understood by French audiences in the 1950s, about his wife Nellie’s role in his life, about being avant-garde. ‘Rewind & Play’ Review: Thelonious Monk Dazzles Even When an Interview Falls Flat 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

Since the group was held together by little more than a hostility to the 1950s, it was dissolved by the end of the 60s. Edoardo Sanguineti obituary 2010-05-26T17:23:00Z

Or is the genre still able to do interesting things with its 1950s paradigm of hard science and spaceships zooming between the planets? Christmas gifts 2012: the best science fiction 2012-11-28T14:05:04Z

These books described a more recent period in Southern history, that of the 1950s and 1960s, yet when it came to attitude, very little, it appeared, had changed since the 1930s. Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird': It lingers, but not in the way he expected 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

In the late 1950s, after a couple of years of military service, he went to work as a designer at a flooring company in Pennsylvania. At 84, an Artist Tries Something New: Displaying His Work 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

The dockyard housed a British naval base until the 1950s – Bermuda is still a British overseas territory – but now serves as a sort of cultural and shopping complex for cruise ship passengers who dock nearby. Hurricane Season, Bargain-Hunting in Bermuda 2010-09-22T03:01:00Z

They are but a fraction of 75,000 celebrity negatives and slides Greene shot in the 1950s and 1960s that are going on sale July 27 at Profiles in History in Los Angeles and online. Auction selling copyright with Monroe negatives 2013-07-11T20:39:17Z

This miniature castle, said to be the smallest in Europe, was built of concrete in the 1950s and then abandoned. The best secret beaches, pubs and places to stay in the UK 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Turner embarked on her half-century career in the late 1950s, while still attending high school in East St. Louis, Ill., when she began singing with Ike Turner and his band, the Kings of Rhythm. Tina Turner, Singer of Explosive Power, Is Dead at 83 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

I’ve watched an evangelical Mormon film from the 1950s that was set out to dissuade teenagers from drinking beer. Ewen Bremner: 'They should let Irvine Welsh script the Tiger King movie' 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

The story of an attractive American family finding terror in a new home credibly wedded Edgar Allan Poe’s twitchy, stiff-necked dread with the fetid, swampy atmospherics of a 1950s EC horror comic. ‘Pet Sematary’ Review: An Unsettling New Take on a Stephen King Classic 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Then there's Buchanan and Goodwin, my find of the week – 1950s cut-up merchants who construct an Wellesian Martian invasion, only with every other line delivered by popular songs of the day. Readers recommend ? the results: songs with jokes 2010-09-02T22:31:00Z

Frazer started playing character roles in various television series and films in the 1950s. Actor Frazer, Capt. McNeil on 'Kojak,' dies in NYC 2011-12-19T02:01:10Z

Lewis says he'll continue as the association's national chairman, a role he's held since the early 1950s. Jerry Lewis retiring from MDA telethon in Sept. 2011-05-16T21:40:10Z

Mr. Brook, one of the great forces in world theater since the 1950s, is back to tell what is essentially the same story, or at least an epilogue to it. Review: ‘Battlefield’ Explores the Silence After the War 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

The sweet variation became popular in the 1950s and ’60s, when American foreign aid after the Korean War introduced inexpensive wheat and sugar to the country. The Warm, Sticky-Sweet Resurgence of Hotteok 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

MAGA! — the 1950s and early 1960s marked a period of segregation, the Cold War and the Big Bad Closet. Last exit to romance: The strange alchemy of LGBTQ romance and the books that give us hope 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

Taylor, who died from heart failure in 2011 aged 79, became one of the most recognizable Hollywood actresses in the 1950s, famed for her beauty and violet eyes. Helena Bonham Carter goes glam to play Elizabeth Taylor 2013-06-05T23:24:12Z

The actress turned comedian began her career in the 1950s, but soon became known for her biting wit in her standup comedy, becoming an inspiration for many more funny women. Watch Joan River's 60 Years of Work in 2 Minutes 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

By the late 1950s Americans were used to watching Hollywood movies on their TVs. The New Season: How Digital Is Changing the Nature of Movies 2012-09-06T16:55:25Z

Parents in general are spending more time with their children now than they did in the 1950s and '60s, but even so, many want more hours with their little ones. Motherlode Blog: What the Most Successful Parents Do Before Breakfast 2012-06-22T09:30:56Z

Billy lives in a small town in Vermont in the late 1950s and attends a prep school called Favorite River Academy. 'In One Person': John Irving's novel of desire, two ways 2012-05-09T21:16:04Z

The ascendance of rock-and-roll and her struggles with a vocal-cord problem largely sidelined her by the late 1950s. Kitty Kallen, silken-voiced pop singer of ‘Little Things Mean a Lot,’ dies at 94 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

In the 1950s and ’60s, Mr. Harrison drifted between studies at Michigan State University and the “Beat” scene in Boston, where he met Jack Kerouac, and New York City before returning to rural Michigan. Jim Harrison, author of ‘Legends of the Fall’ and other books, dies at 78 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

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

He performed on local television in the early 1950s and did close-up magic at Billy Reed’s Little Club on East 55th Street. Harry Lorayne, Dazzling Master of Total Recall, Is Dead at 96 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

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

Set in the 1950s, this little novel by Paul Gallico is my favourite fashion book of all time. Sophia Bennett's top 10 stylish reads 2012-07-12T07:00:00Z

These represent some of the highest prices paid for comics of the so-called Silver Age of the 1950s and 60s. ArtsBeat: Collector Sense Tingling: Comic-Book Sale Yields Powerful Prices 2012-07-27T12:42:10Z

Partly through his example in the late 1950s and early ’60s, jazz became less beholden to the rules of harmony and rhythm, and gained more distance from the American songbook repertoire. Ornette Coleman, Jazz Innovator, Dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

The music offers a stripped-down twist on the sound that made McLain a linchpin of an important, but largely regional, musical movement from the 1950s through ’70s that came to be known as swamp-pop. After Four Decades, the Swamp-Pop Singer Tommy McLain Rises Again 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

The unfinished memoir reaches back to Mr. Jordan’s childhood in Albany, Ga., in the 1950s, a time when the South was in the middle of tumultuous changes on attitudes about social mores and race. Rebirth of Book by Aide to Carter 2013-07-26T21:47:53Z

By the end of the 1950s Freud's fraught personal life contributed to a visual restlessness, and he began standing to paint, letting the raked perspective exaggerate the anatomies of his subjects. Lucian Freud obituary 2011-07-21T21:08:42Z

Mr. Peng said that he devised the recipe for a banquet in the 1950s. Peng Chang-kuei, credited as creator of General Tso’s chicken, dies at 97 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Daniel Day Lewis plays that man, a dressmaker in 1950s London named Reynolds Woodcock, in what he has said was his final screen performance. What’s on TV Sunday: Country Music Awards and ‘The Walking Dead’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

Their work fed directly into the explosive success of the French New Wave in the late 1950s: critics such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol transferred their ideas directly to the screen. A short history of French cinema 2011-03-22T12:27:30Z

As an art student at Bard College in the late 1950s, she was suspended for painting herself with her legs open, while it was standard for female students to model naked for male peers. Challenging Boundaries With Her Naked Body 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Feeling stifled by his American milieu’s oppressive propriety, Steward embraced a new creative outlet in the early 1950s. Dramatizing the Story of a Gay Mid-Century Tattoo Artist Who Was So Much More 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

While much of his most powerful work was made in the 1950s, it wasn’t truly rediscovered until nearly a half-century later. Movie Review: ‘In No Great Hurry,’ a Documentary About Saul Leiter 2014-01-02T22:50:41Z

Life magazine had no temerity about devoting a major series in the 1950s to “Man’s New World: How He Lives in It.” Books of The Times: Alan Brinkley Tells Henry Luce?s Story in ?The Publisher? 2010-04-19T21:35:00Z

He traces his connection to Latinos to the same era, the late 1950s, when he was building a business as a concert promoter. Get those dedications ready: Art Laboe is coming back to L.A. radio 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z

The first act is set during Mussolini’s regime in the 1930s, the second act in the relatively prosperous 1950s, the third in the 1990s. Romeo (and Juliet), How Many Art Thou? 1 Ballet Score, Many Stagings 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

Literacy is taking root across these deep green mountain valleys — it’s now around 60 percent, compared to 3 percent in the 1950s — giving rise to a surprising underdog literary scene. A New, Flourishing Literary Scene in the Real Shangri-La 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

The El San Juan Hotel, Curio Collection by Hilton, known for its opulent lobby crystal chandelier from the 1950s, reopened in December after extensive renovations and repairs. 36 Hours in San Juan 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

I don’t know what I expected — some sort of 1950s magic. The Joy! The Embarrassment! Stars Remember Dates at the Movies 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z

He explained he first became interested in the Alamo after watching the 1950s TV series Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier. Phil Collins donates Alamo hoard 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

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

One day in the early 1950s, a friend told him of an opening at the D’Oyly Carte. John Reed, Master of Gilbert and Sullivan?s Patter Songs, Dies at 94 2010-02-28T04:19:00Z

Mr. Swann was well known in New York as organist and music director at Riverside Church in Manhattan, where he began playing in the 1950s. Frederick Swann, Master of the Pipe Organ, Is Dead at 91 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

When the concept of Eurovision was about to be launched in the late 1950s, we television hacks were taken on a brief tour of the national services taking part. Robert Robinson obituary 2011-08-13T12:28:49Z

The stylish accessory would have matched the 1950s decor perfectly. At the Caribbean Motel, doo-wop the night away

In the 1950s, Henrietta Lacks’s genes were famously used and her genome was sequenced without doctors getting the consent of her or her family. Perspective | A medical school class thought the Hippocratic oath fell flat. So they wrote their own script. 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z

Tina’s canvases and prints depict a swanky, glamorous 1950s and early ’60s lifestyle that could only have existed in one’s imagination. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z

"Spencer's ear for a great melody is filled out with a pop-baroque orchestration reminiscent of a 1950s Disney film" – Kruger magazine. New band of the day - No 765: Spencer McGarry Season 2010-04-13T14:36:00Z

We also toured two small developments based on 1950s styles, their yards devoid of greenery — just rocks and colorful swaths of recycled rubber. Indian Wells tennis tournament draws fans — and top players — to Palm Springs 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

RAY SCOTT: Scott began calling Packers games in the 1950s and was the voice of the Lombardi dynasty of the 1960s, when CBS had crews dedicated to specific teams until 1968. A look at iconic announcers in NFL history 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

Jack Robinson took this self portrait in New Orleans in the early 1950s. On Set with Celebrity Photographer Jack Robinson 2012-01-18T15:18:12Z

To establish her point, she recounts his early attempt at an artistic career and the role of art and artists in the tumultuous time from World War I to the early 1950s. The Great Art Stolen by Hitler 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

In it, he recalled meeting his longtime idol, Frank Sinatra, in the early 1950s at Lindy’s Restaurant in New York City, a magnet for show business talent. Jerry Vale, Crooned Smoothly of Love, Is Dead at 83 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Subsequent years found him functioning as the patriarchal head of a metaphorical Superfamily and a transformative avatar of identity fluidity in the 1950s and ’60s, and a successful Super-Yuppie in the 1980s. Why Superman Deserves More Respect 2013-02-21T17:39:34Z

“The Rifleman,” the popular 1950s Western television series, was one of Gardner's best-known works. Hollywood producer Arthur Gardner dies at 104 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z

But the economic boom of the 1950s occasioned a new freedom in Italian art. A New Italy, Imagined by Artists and Demagogues 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

Conway’s novel, set in the 1950s, features a beautiful aging actress with a handsome younger husband and a good chance of landing a leading part in Hitchcock’s next movie, “Dial M for Murder.” One Whodunit Nests Inside Another in ‘Moonflower Murders’ 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

Bennett, 90, has been performing for almost seven decades, first topping the charts in the 1950s with a number of Columbia singles. Tony Bennett will receive Library of Congress’s Gershwin Prize, in a break with tradition 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

Not only that, but  the equipment is old, some of it dating back to the 1950s. There’s nothing like train travel for tossing together people who’d never otherwise meet 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Bing, who was friendly with Chagall, had tried to get him to design a production for a ballet in the 1950s. A Chagall Curtain Needs a New Home With a Tall Ceiling 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z

“Folksong Festival” was open to any artist, many of them blacklisted during the Red Scare of the 1950s, and Mr. Brand said he blocked many attempts by New York mayors to censor his programming choices. Oscar Brand, folk troubadour and radio host for seven decades, dies at 96 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

Among the tracks on the album was a reworking of the 1950s rock song “Summertime Blues” with antinuclear lyrics. Music: Japan's New Wave of Protest Songs 2011-06-30T11:22:09Z

He stumbled on art almost by chance in the early 1950s, while studying at Syracuse University and heading, he thought, for a life in music. Art Review: Rafael Ferrer at El Museo del Barrio 2010-06-10T21:56:00Z

I remember deciding at one point to drink as glamorously heavily as the crowd of young radicals in Doris Lessing's 1950s Salisbury: disappointingly it made me sick and I had to abandon that plan. Author, author: Tessa Hadley 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

In the late 1950s the family moved to Los Angeles, where Tony graduated from high school. Tony Gleaton, 67, Dies, Leaving Legacy in Pictures of Africans in the Americas 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Knowing that today’s appetite for prime abstract paintings appears boundless, Sotheby’s expects a 1927 Mondrian that has not been on the market since the 1950s to be a star of its June 23 auction. Inside Art: Sotheby’s Sales Feature a Mondrian and a Bacon 2014-05-08T20:43:32Z

In the 1950s, when the estate burned down, the McKeans salvaged chunks from the ruins and reassembled them in Florida. The David Parr House’s Hidden Gem in Cambridge, England 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

When the guys finally do kiss, it might as well be the 1950s for all the heat they generate. 'Burning Blue' treats 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' era awkwardly 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s, as the region struggled economically, vignerons were permitted to sell more “primeur” wine to generate quick cash flow from each harvest. Thanksgiving means nouveau wine — and not just from Beaujolais 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

They particularly enjoyed dining on gray seals, a denizen of the rocky New England-to-Mid-Atlantic coastline that by the 1950s had been all but wiped out by hunters. Discovery Channel looks to regain its bite with its favorite franchise 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

By the 1950s, with television spreading through the suburbs, the crowds at Coney Island started to diminish. Coney Island: The Cyclone! The Hot Dogs! The Art! 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Neither pinkish nor orange; a 1950s Revlon red, retro and primal. At Ivy Baldwin Dance’s ‘Oxbow,’ only the dancing is static

By the 1950s, though, the idea of vertical integration was passé, and the company--along with every other carmaker--decided it was better off buying raw materials like steel from outside suppliers. Hyundai Rolls Its Own 2011-02-23T23:00:00Z

Did you do a lot of background research on the culture of the 1950s to prepare for the role? ArtsBeat: A Date With 'Density': Lea Thompson on Her 'Back to the Future' Experience 2010-10-26T13:36:00Z

In addition to photographs of the city from the 1950s, the exhibit also features 12 works Grosz made earlier in his career. Exhibit shows Grosz's take on Dallas in '52 2012-05-18T20:25:15Z

An extension of the kitchen at the rear of the house, tacked onto the maid’s porch in the 1950s, is gone. Theodore Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill Home Cries ‘Bully!’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

The three female leads are in bright dresses — fuchsia, royal blue, canary yellow — cut in a 1950s silhouette with the eau of ladies who lunch. Review: What Does Ballet Need Now? Not Retro Fantasy. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

This was the 1950s when her generation of Jews was desperately trying to fit into the American ideal of slimness. I wasted decades feeling fat and ugly 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

Mitchell, the widow of Oscar-winning composer Jay Livingston, played Lucy's friend Marion Strong in three episodes of Lucille Ball's 1950s sitcom. I Love Lucy actress Mitchell dies 2013-11-14T09:19:59Z

Hollywood posters and memorabilia from the 1950s hung from the walls, and a giant picture window looked out at the green spine of the pre-Apennine mountains running northwest toward Florence. A Honeymoon Through Italy 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Goldwasser wove past mountains of boxes to sort through albums of rare calypso records from the 1950s. Six Decades After the Banana Boat, Harry Belafonte’s Archive Sails Home 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

A vast number filling the hall had not even been born when he was at his screen-star peak, the 1950s and ’60s. Kirk Douglas, a Star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Dies at 103 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

The roots of the Kennedy Center date back to the late 1950s, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill calling for the creation of a National Cultural Center. Perspective | At 50, Kennedy Center can no longer be a cultural island 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

Now he is making his New York debut at the Manhattan Theater Club with “REGRETS,” about a man who flees Hollywood in the 1950s to get a divorce in Nevada. The Week Ahead 2012-03-03T22:06:02Z

The music I'd been so interested in in the 1950s had moved far away from audiences and I hated that. A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett 2011-07-22T22:55:02Z

The five-year-old collective, which moved into the area about a year ago, was named after Alfred Hecht, a British frame maker and gay rights activist in the 1950s. Scene/Seen: In Israel, Galleries With a Kibbutz Soul 2011-02-11T12:30:05Z

A few years earlier, in the late 1950s, Lichtenstein was himself making brushy, rough and jumbly abstractions, but even then he never quite let go. Roy Lichtenstein: too cool for school? 2013-02-18T18:15:39Z

At Columbia University in the 1950s, I took classes in philosophy and art within Oriental Studies, a word you would not use today — and that was when I began studying Buddhism. John Giorno on His Most Precious Possession 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

The other “guest eds” were similarly misled: the 1950s was not an era of oversharing. Cultural Studies: Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes - Cultural Studies 2013-05-03T22:54:52Z

His first big job after he moved to London was with the Vic Lewis Band, a popular touring ensemble, with which he made his first visit to the United States, in the late 1950s. Andy White, Drummer on the Beatles’ ‘Love Me Do,’ Dies at 85 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

“It’s almost hard to imagine a relationship like that starting in the 1950s.” The new film ‘RBG’ reveals how Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a meme — and why that’s so surprising 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

For those coming of age in the Deep South of the 1950s, both custom and law were breathtakingly different. Older men, young girls: a common theme of 70s pop – but still wrong 2012-10-06T23:06:39Z

Capote was the star, but the photo shoot was just as much a portrait of daily life in 1950s Brooklyn. Spare Times for Nov. 6-12 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

He went for 1950s and `60s silhouettes, some of which had very small waists, while emphasizing hips and shoulders. Freedom in fashion startups for up and comers 2012-02-17T19:57:11Z

From the late 1950s right up to before Natalie’s death in 1981, the Wood sisters could be seen arm in arm all around town, in high spirits and beautiful clothes. Lana Wood, Natalie’s Little Sister, Has Plenty to Say 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

"Memphis," a tale of segregation and integration set in the American South in the 1950s, won four Tony Awards in 2010, including best musical. Adam Pascal to join Broadway's 'Memphis' in Oct. 2011-09-06T14:58:09Z

It was as a beat poet in the 1950s that he got involved in underground cinema. Farewell Taylor Mead: Warhol muse and saint of the avant garde 2013-05-10T14:16:18Z

To slightly underwhelming applause it was, again, "interim" designer Bill Gaytten who closed Dior's ready-to-wear show in a balletic display of lowered 1950s hemlines that missed the exuberance of January's couture offering. Dior hems plunge, Lanvin celebrates at Paris shows 2012-03-03T02:46:04Z

Whatever the case, almost all the more than 440 known drawings probably date from the 1950s to his death in 1963. The mystery of an artist only deepens: The remarkable drawings of Martín Ramírez at DTLA's new museum 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

His latest book, The Prisoner of Heaven, is a follow-up to The Shadow of the Wind, again set in Barcelona but with the action now moved on into the 1950s. Live webchat: Carlos Ruiz Zafón 2012-06-18T10:39:12Z

Ms. Tribe’s film is a dramatization of the real-life story of a man who, after experimental surgery to cure epilepsy in the 1950s, lost the ability to remember any new information beyond a 20-second span. Art Review | Whitney Biennial: At a Biennial on a Budget, Tweaking and Provoking 2010-02-25T22:21:00Z

In the 1950s, the construction of Interstate 95 split the neighborhood, and Jackson Ward fell into decline. Surfacing: ?Harlem of South? Revived in Richmond, Va. 2011-10-28T18:55:22Z

And in the 1950s and 1960s her father, like other preachers nationwide, was a civil-rights leader, an ally of Dr. King. In a Hometown Send-Off, Aretha Franklin Belongs to Everyone 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

The hundreds of nuclear bombs detonated at Yucca Flat since the 1950s were mostly set off underground. Review | Should museums mount exhibitions with a moral agenda? Absolutely. If they do it well. 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

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

The 86-year-old was one of Spain's leading novelists of the 1950s and 1960s, devoting his work to the country's social situation at the time. Poet Bonald wins Cervantes Prize 2012-11-30T10:19:51Z

Met officials put a priority on the skylights — large glazed panels in the greenhouselike roofs at the Met that were installed 77 years ago and were given a major overhaul in the 1950s. Old Masters in New Places as the Met Lets in the Light 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

One print on a pajama-top dress featured the image of a hotel and its pool - probably Miami in the 1950s. Katie Holmes is newest Fashion Week design star 2012-09-12T21:59:14Z

He’s not an artist of whom we speak of his “late” period; since the 1980s — he began making dances in the 1950s — he hasn’t changed or shown the least desire to want to try. Review: Paul Taylor Jump-Starts His Season With a Frisky Burl Ives 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

“I see a lot of old, familiar faces at my concerts, and at this point my audience includes several generations because I have been performing since the 1950s,” says Campbell. Glen Campbell includes Seattle on final tour 2012-11-27T00:48:05Z

Beginning in 1929, it follows the life of Harrison Shepherd from his sensitive teenage years in Mexico to fame in 1950s America as the reclusive author of Aztec swashbucklers. Kingsolver wins Orange prize 2010-06-09T19:37:00Z

Beginning in the early 1950s, Gene Boyd, the Star’s owner, and several friends held jam sessions, with Mr. Boyd fiddling when he wasn’t cutting hair. Where the Hills and Hollows Are Alive With Music 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Its premise is that youth pop culture doesn’t originate in the 1950s with James Dean, but that there are hidden histories and forgotten biographies before, which the book unearths. | Filmmaker Matt Wolf on the Origins of Teenage Culture 2014-03-11T21:24:59Z

Leaving Home Canadian playwright David French’s classic drama about a working-class family in 1950s Toronto. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 1-8: 'Seussical the Musical' and more 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

In two representations of the Crucifixion from the 1950s the literally torn and gouged clay and the figuratively tortured flesh of Jesus become one. Art in Review: STERLING RUBY AND LUCIO FONTANA 2011-09-22T22:00:09Z

When Ms. Gooden, 73, was growing up in the 1950s and ’60s, her parents avoided talking about the camps or the internment. In Japanese New Year Dishes, a Family Connects With Its Past 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

They visited Aspen, Colorado, where in the 1950s Walter Paepcke, a Chicago industrialist, founded the Aspen Institute, attracting America’s cultural elite to the town long before Aspen became a metaphor for something that involved Prada. Next-generation Utah ski resort built by crowdsourcing 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

London’s Gay Hussar, where generations of Labour M.P.’s have been spooning up chilled cherry soup, chicken paprikash and other once-exotic Hungarian fare in caricature-covered Soho surroundings since the 1950s, is, frankly, dowdy. | Under the Spell of Old Restaurants 2013-12-07T00:32:45Z

His last residence was in Cape Coral, Fla. Maestro begin his career in the 1950s with The Crests, whose hits included "16 Candles." Singer Johnny Maestro dies in Fla. 2010-03-25T12:11:00Z

The 1950s were dotted with hits such as "Rags to Riches," "Blue Velvet," and in 1962 he released what would become his signature song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco". Tony Bennett makes nostalgic return to Italian roots 2012-07-23T13:58:38Z

That notion was crystallized by the Shakespeare Theatre Company in February, when it took on the rarely revived “The Amen Corner,” a gospel play from the 1950s by James Baldwin. Perspective | Best theater of 2020: Sondheim’s birthday, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Mary Neely, ‘The Amen Corner’ and more 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

Keys, a Minnesota academic, started to investigate the health benefits of Mediterranean eating in the 1950s, after a visit to Naples. What actually is the Mediterranean diet – and does it work? 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

The term was coined in the 1950s by psychologist Leon Festinger, who illustrated it with the example of a UFO cult shattered by the unfulfilled prophecy of an alien visitation. The real Men in Black, Hollywood and the great UFO cover-up 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Bunnett and Muir began collecting in the late 1950s, swapping duplicates with other collectors all over the country. UK's largest collection of memorabilia from musicals left to the V&A 2010-12-15T19:31:57Z

In the preblockbuster 1950s foot traffic was light and the number of guards small. 2010-01-15T06:06:00Z

In 1982 the British director Jonathan Miller moved "Rigoletto" to Manhattan's Little Italy in the 1950s for the English National Opera. Met abandons Bondy `Rigoletto' for Vegas version 2012-02-24T00:15:09Z

Then in the 1950s all these square-topped buildings raised the horizon line. The East River Waterfront Dazzles. Take a Virtual Tour. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

Ms. Murphy was seen frequently on television shows of the 1950s and ’60s, among them “Lux Video Theater,” “Robert Montgomery Presents,” “The Virginian,” “Ben Casey” and “The Fugitive.” Rosemary Murphy, 89, Emmy Winner, Dies 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

The actress, who gained supermom status for her gentle portrayal of June Cleaver in the 1950s television series, died Saturday after a long illness. Barbara Billingsley, Beaver Cleaver's TV mom, dies 2010-10-16T21:28:00Z

Throughout the 1950s, she and her husband were featured often on European television, and her image appeared in magazines worldwide. Lotte Hass, Pioneering Diver Known for Beauty and Bravery, Dies at 86 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

“It’s totally unexpected; there is everything from gestural studies from the 1950s and ’60s to pastels of sailboats on the Hudson River.” Inside Art: Dan Flavin at the Morgan, Public Art in Washington 2011-12-22T20:45:08Z

Hoyle reminds us every time he picks up his trumpet, the high lyricism and blues-touched sensibility of his instrumental work a link to the Chicago bebop scene of the 1950s and after. From Mahalia tribute to Penn & Teller's pianist, a rich weekend in Chicago jazz 2011-05-19T11:40:00Z

Many of the drawings - all from the 1950s - feature subjects that the artist selected and traced from newspapers and magazines. In Pictures: Andy Warhol - Early Drawings 2013-01-21T11:14:14Z

Most recently, the architect helped a client in West Hollywood install and build a landscape around a 1950s "Structure Nomade" created by French architect and industrial designer Jean Prouvé. Moment of Friday: Jeff Allsbrook digs Iwan Baan's TED Talk on DIY design 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

“Beaches,” directed by Garry Marshall and released three decades ago, was a curio even in its own time: a pastiche of 1950s tear-jerkers that was set, strangely and uncomfortably, in the 1970s and ’80s. Review: They’ve, Sob, Remade ‘Beaches’ 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

The items were originally donated to the council in the 1950s. Elgar score found in council HQ 2012-02-14T12:52:01Z

He took up acting in the 1950s at the Paris Conservatory, where one of his teachers, Pierre Dux, famously told him that his career as a leading man was doomed because of his looks. French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo dies at 88 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

There’s an unexpectedly timely episode on the polio epidemic the 1950s, and the eerily familiar political debates it spawned. Jill Lepore’s New Podcast Is a Murder Mystery: Who Killed Truth? 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

The memoir includes a story about a gig in the 1950s he took in a small theater outside Chicago, where he and his band were forced to play behind a curtain. Bobby Rush Lived the Blues. Six Decades On, He’s Still Playing Them. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

Also being inducted is 1950s R&B group the “5” Royales, who will receive the Early Influence Award. Lou Reed, Green Day, Joan Jett and More Join the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2015 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Mass-produced dolls with more realistic images of African-American children weren't made until the 1950s. Black cloth dolls growing in collector popularity 2012-07-28T18:16:04Z

The story was inspired by her teenage years in Elizabeth, N.J., in the 1950s, when the city was devastated by a bizarre series of plane crashes within the span of a few months. What Judy Blume’s Books Meant 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

Five missing episodes from classic 1950s radio series Hancock's Half Hour are to be re-recorded and aired on BBC Radio 4 later this year. Missing Hancock's Half Hour to air 2014-04-08T15:55:20Z

“Name That Tune,” a competition show created in the early 1950s and rebooted in the ’70s and ’80s, challenged contestants to identify songs played by musicians onstage — sometimes using only a few notes. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Mr. Mayor’ and ‘Tiger’ 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

Even future Monster addition from the 1950s, The Creature From the Black Lagoon was portrayed by multiple actors. Universal's 'The Wolf Man' Was The Iron Man Of His Day 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

In another room two hours later, the focus shifted to Dr. Frederic Wertham, a psychiatrist who in the early 1950s led a campaign against violent comics. Comic-Con 2014: Focusing on Halo, an Anticomics Crusader and 'The Maze Runner' 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

It returns to the 1950s rural Iowa of her second novel, Gilead, examining the same events from a different perspective. Impac shortlist led by Joseph O'Neill and Marilynne Robinson 2010-04-12T14:14:00Z

By the late 1950s he was off the air, a victim of changing tastes as well as personal problems. Sid Caesar, Comedian and One of TV’s First Stars, Dies at 91 2014-02-12T22:07:12Z

Discovered in the 1950s by Josephine Cobb, an archivist at the Library of Congress, it remains the only undisputed image of Lincoln at Gettysburg — seemingly taking his seat on the platform hatless, his head bowed. A Lingering Gettysburg Battle: Where Did Lincoln Stand? 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

The framework will be familiar to anyone who remembers 1950s drama. The Devil Inside Him 2010-05-12T20:30:00Z

Instead, these songs — many rooted in the sounds of the 1950s — succeed because of their utter certainty, stacked with indestructibly saccharine harmonies. The Grammy Gems You Won’t Hear on ‘Music’s Biggest Night’ 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

He began on TV behind the scenes, as a page for "The Tonight Show" in the 1950s. Regis Philbin, legendary TV host, dies at 88 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z

He remembered passing up a Grant Wood painting as well as refusing to pay $300 for a Jasper Johns in the late 1950s. Roy R. Neuberger Dies at 107; Applied a Stock Trader?s Acumen to Art 2010-12-25T04:31:59Z

Eventually, he became a renowned outsider artist — a term used for those who were self-taught and working outside mainstream institutions — who rose to prominence in the 1950s. Hidden Stash of Valuable Drawings Found in Walls of Artist’s Home 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

The exhibition, which runs through May 8, looks at Dine's sculpture from the late 1950s to recent years. 'Jim Dine: Sculpture' looks at pop artist's career 2011-02-01T17:04:54Z

His grandmother was forcibly removed from her reservation in the 1950s and sent to boarding school. Forrest Goodluck: the Native American actor ripping up the rulebook 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Make way for a bunch of awards for a comedy about a white Jewish woman trying to reinvent herself in 1950s New York! Review | At this year’s Emmy Awards, the talk about diversity doesn’t quite translate to trophies 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Only the set closer, “Mess,” was different, with a nervous quality that recalled how the yelping, swinging vocals of the 1950s have been updated in modern British music. Music Review: Charli XCX at the Knitting Factory 2012-03-11T22:00:12Z

Both of the characters are uprooted by the Japanese invasion of China, which began in 1937, and end up reuniting in Hong Kong as refugees in the 1950s, their families in China now dead. Wong Kar Wai's 'The Grandmaster': an exile story told through Kung Fu 2013-08-21T02:17:07Z

Mau Mau rebels who fought for Kenya’s independence in the 1950s hid out here, and you can peek into their caves. 36 Hours in Nairobi, Kenya 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The Texas native chronicled the lives of Hollywood and Broadway stars, along with moguls, models and the wealthy, starting in the 1950s. Longtime New York gossip columnist Liz Smith dead at 94 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

"I'm not talking McCarthy," she responds with a dismissive laugh, referring to the witch-hunt of Communist sympathisers led by US Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. Maxine Peake hails her sporting hero 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

After three years, however, Mr. Pesce left college and enlisted in the Army in the late 1950s. Victor Pesce, Painter of Minimalist Still Lifes, Dies at 71 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z

The zigzag roof vaguely conjures up 1950s roadside diners. In Haiti, Battling Disease With Open-Air Clinics 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

Gaylynn Baker, 85, started her acting career at 19, when she moved from small-town Texas to New York City and joined the chorus on “The Steve Allen Show” in the 1950s. ‘Grandfluencers’ Are Sharing a New Vision of Old Age 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

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

In the late 1950s/early 1960s, before Dr Martin Luther King Jr became more prominent, Hamer and Baker created the framework he was able to eventually build his leadership out of. 'Cops only tackled me and my friend': why a dark skin tone makes activism dangerous 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Klein’s paintings were exhibited in the early 1950s in Paris, Brussels and Milan, where an architect commissioned him to create a black-and-white room divider with six interchangeable panels. After a Storied Career, a Nonagenarian Photographer Returns to New York 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Up there with the most iconic movie moments of all time, Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr's extramarital frolics in the surf left 1950s audiences hot under their collars. Clip joint: Kisses 2013-02-13T17:00:10Z

He was a fixture in Las Vegas’s casino lounges, starting in the 1950s at the Sands and continuing through the 1990s, when he performed in the Starlight Room at the Desert Inn. Buddy Greco, Singer Who Had That Swing, Dies at 90 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

A trackless system keeps riders spinning in their 1950s Italian microcars in an elaborately choreographed dance. Hogwarts, West Coast edition: New Harry Potter theme park set to open in California 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Most of the Academy's choices in the 1950s are considered conservative at best today, while the genre movies of that decade were mostly ignored. Academy often misses Hollywood's greatest films, actors 2013-02-22T22:09:23Z

United States, which for a time in the 1950s and 1960s was the fastest and most advanced ocean liner ever built. T Magazine: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 2012-08-06T21:00:59Z

In his “Notes on Painting,” from a journal Hopper kept in the 1950s, he wrote: “The dreamer and mystic must create a reality that you can walk around in, exist and breathe in.” Edward Hopper’s Fantasy Island 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z

And throughout the 1950s she caught nearly every important event in the career of the charismatic prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Art Review: ‘Candid,’ Photos by Homai Vyarawalla, at Rubin Museum 2012-08-23T22:02:45Z

The title character is a friend of the narrator’s who, in the 1950s, came down with a mysterious, debilitating rash. Theater Review: John Guare’s ‘3 Kinds of Exile,’ at Atlantic Theater Company 2013-06-12T02:00:12Z

If there’s a misconception about the French New Wave, the extraordinarily fertile and inventive period of Gallic cinema associated with the late 1950s and the ’60s, it’s that it somehow ended. Film Series in NYC This Week 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Ray Bradbury: 1950s comics’ illustrated man In 1951, EC Comics started stealing Ray Bradbury’s work. Ray Bradbury: 1950s comics’ illustrated man 2012-06-21T00:00:00Z

The man’s fedora and the silhouette of his clothing suggest that it’s the 1950s. Review: Hard-Boiled Play in ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

An architectural mishmash of brick, concrete and stone, much of it was destroyed by a fire in the 1950s, and it soon became part of the half-tamed landscape. Music Shows With a Brooklyn Feel, but Getting to Them Is a Hike 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

He worked for a New York publishing house in the 1950s before auditioning for a play on a whim, which led to his performing career. 'Laugh-In' star Arte Johnson dies at age 90 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

“American Horror Story: Freak Show” followed the lives of a troupe of sideshow performers in 1950s Florida. Rose Siggins, Actress on ‘American Horror Story,’ Dies at 43 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

The residence halls date to the 1950s and 1960s, and administrators say they now require significant, expensive renovations. Its Georgia O’Keeffe Is Worth Millions. And Its Dorms Need Updating. 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

From the 1950s on, many of America’s best artists took to treating “hot” subject matter with deadpan cool. 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

At its most stylish it has a big-foot flair, though there’s also evidence of a tailored post-austerity modesty that lingered through the 1950s and then was gone. ‘Garry Winogrand,’ a Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

The Ruth who sets off to Hampstead is small, fragile and dowdy in a headscarf – just like 1950s Britain, over which austerity still hangs like a horsehair blanket. The Thrill of Love – review 2013-02-27T18:06:27Z

Think of a 1950s bowling league on skis. On Maine’s Slopes, Plenty of Elbow Room 2013-01-04T18:54:04Z

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 nearly 250 images in “A Photographer Found” offer a cross-section, ranging from New York in the early 1950s to Chicago in the late 1970s, in both color and black and white. The strange case of Vivian Maier 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

He assembled what is considered by many to be a premier collection of traditional Chinese painting, a project started in the 1950s and accelerating after his 1963 emigration to the United States. 'Alternative Dreams: 17th Century Chinese Paintings From the Tsao Collection' at LACMA 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Here, people who have known or observed him since his hat-making days in the 1950s turn their gaze on him. What It Was Like to Be Photographed by Bill Cunningham 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z

In his last year, when he was fighting illness, he had a chance to direct a film about the Italian director Roberto Rossellini's visit to India in the 1950s. Mani Kaul obituary 2011-07-14T17:33:24Z

Located in Hough, a residential neighborhood where many displaced African Americans were relocated during 1950s urban renewal projects, the Cleveland museum, in many ways, exemplifies the promise and pain of Black history museums. Black history is vital to understanding racial injustice. But the museums holding that history are under threat. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

As a friend of Picasso’s during the 1950s, while the artist was living in the south of France, Mr. Richardson saw more than most. ‘Picasso & the Camera,’ John Richardson’s Latest Show 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

In the language of 1950s sitcoms, he might be described as a “henpecked husband.” Movie Review: ‘Better Living Through Chemistry,’ or at Least Better Loving 2014-03-13T23:05:47Z

Then in Episode 3, we ended up using a projector screen because it kind of felt like the 1950s, especially with the McCarthy stuff, like men in back rooms smoking, a projector. Why the Final Girl and horror have always felt queer: "We've got to find our way to survive" 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

“I still can’t stand the sound of those 1950s harmonies — like a drink you got drunk on as a teenager, just the smell of it brings back the nausea.” A Memoir by Viv Albertine, Punk Rocker 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The novel takes place in rural North Carolina in the 1950s and tells of a young woman who cares for her murdered sister's twins. 'Cold Mountain' author Frazier releasing new novel 2011-03-22T22:46:04Z

You can travel back in time with displays about everyday life, from the Victorians to a kitchen from the 1950s. Family-friendly museums for half-term 2011-02-15T14:18:00Z

He made the leap into television in the early 1950s, becoming one of the medium’s most familiar faces through a stream of character roles over five decades. Actor Richard Anderson, boss of 'Six Million Dollar Man,' dies 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

And when TV came in, in the 1950s, it was a help in making people aware of opera, he said. Live and high-def: 2 nights at the Metropolitan Opera's 'Boris Godunov' 2010-11-28T05:01:00Z

For years in the 1950s, Ms. Evans was a fixture at the Place Pigalle, a burlesque house in Miami Beach. Dixie Evans, Who Brought ‘Monroe’ to Burlesque Houses, Dies at 86 2013-08-11T00:49:34Z

With jazz’s identity solidifying as an art music in the 1950s, Armstrong became especially unfashionable to the critical establishment. Louis Armstrong’s Life in Letters, Music and Art 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

In a typical Cuban home kitchen, you’ll find tools from the 1950s like pressure cookers and rice cookers, broken utensils, dull knives, and mismatched china. A recipe for Cuba's national dish, ropa vieja, or rags, from the new book "Cuban Flavor" 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images The manual Play in a Day was the bible for generations of budding guitarists in the 1950s and 1960s. 2012 review: notable deaths in music 2012-12-24T09:00:08Z

Scientists have been culturing animal cells in artificial environments since the 1950s, initially focusing on studying developmental biology and cancer. Lab-grown meat techniques aren’t new — cell cultures are common tools in science 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

Many of the musical numbers performed by characters onstage are not 1950s songs but a pastiche of pop music of all eras, including by David Bowie, Nirvana and Fiona Apple. It’s Jessica Lange’s Show on ‘American Horror Story’ 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

"Concrete Poetry: Words and Sounds in Graphic Space" traces an international movement from its beginnings in the early 1950s through the '70s. Turning rhyme for the ears into rhythm for the eyes: It's 'Concrete Poetry' at the Getty 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tsang arrived in Hong Kong as a teenage refugee from Guangdong, a southern province bordering Hong Kong, in the 1930s, and began his urban painting in the 1950s. Art: King of Kowloon Finally Gets Respect 2011-05-04T12:58:39Z

It wasn’t until the Harlem Renaissance, and then after World War II, in the 1950s and ’60s, that Black theater would have its time in the spotlight. A Black Theater Flourished in New York. 200 Years Ago. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

The new program is a return to City Ballet’s history of touring, especially its frequent travels in the United States in the 1950s through the early ’80s. City Ballet Creates A Troupe For Touring 2011-01-06T22:45:21Z

Participation by minority women was not allowed until the 1950s, according to an Associated Press story that ran in The Washington Post the next day. In 1983, Vanessa Williams became the first black Miss America 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

As a boy in the 1950s growing up with comic books, Reid can barely fathom that he now works for Seattle’s most reputable comic-book company. Comics come to life at Fantagraphics Follies | Bumbershoot 2013 2013-08-29T05:28:27Z

In the 1950s, soft pastels and neutrals proved to be the most successful: Sky Blue and Calypso Red just couldn't compete with Sea Mist and Cameo. Formica turns 100 2013-01-17T10:18:40Z

Slow cookers first became available to the American consumer in the 1950s; it wasn't until the the early 1970s that the company was purchased and rebranded as "Crock-Pot," after which its popularity grew exponentially. This cult-favorite 1960s dish is still wildly popular — but why? 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z

His latest solo show is largely devoted to the earlier conceptual and language-based projects he made under his own name from the 1950s through the ’70s. Art in Review: Brian O’Doherty: ‘Connecting the...’ 2014-03-27T20:24:49Z

It's a film which is at once dated and backdated: the British kitchen-sink genre this superficially resembles conjures up the monochrome image of the late 1950s and early 60s. Cemetery Junction: Film review 2010-04-15T11:30:00Z

Mr. Westenberger, who divides his time between Olive and New Orleans, describes the house that the two friends own together: I grew up in a 1950s neighborhood in New Orleans. House Tour: Olive, N.Y. 2011-07-28T23:50:37Z

In department stores in the 1950s, his grandmother refused to give up her place in line to whites. Books of The Times: ?The Last Holiday: A Memoir? by Gil Scott-Heron - Review 2012-01-09T23:31:50Z

Wisdom specialized in family friendly slapstick comedy in the 1950s and 1960s. British comedian, actor Norman Wisdom dies at 95 2010-10-04T22:40:00Z

A few years after the invention of bossa nova in Brazil, in the late 1950s, there appeared a wave of samba-jazz groups, often piano trios. Review: The Rio 65 Trio Resurrects the Barreling Sounds of a Samba-Jazz Band 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

The filmmaker Todd Haynes, who directed the 2002 movie “Far From Heaven” as a homage to the 1950s Technicolor melodramas of Douglas Sirk, here pays opulent tribute to the written word. | 'Mildred Pierce': Battling the Depression for an Ungrateful Daughter 2011-03-24T11:00:00Z

The couple had lived for many years at Cremona, a 978-acre estate in Mechanicsville, Md., whose 40-odd buildings long groaned with paintings, prints and other work made covertly from the 1950s to the 1980s. Norton Dodge, 84, Economics Professor and Art Collector, Dies 2011-11-12T06:23:51Z

Plenty of Goldberg’s preliminary sketch-work is on display, along with his animated shorts from the late 1910s and a clip from a 1950s television show in which he demonstrates a putative perpetual-motion machine. Pootwaddles and Dunklewimps: Rube Goldberg’s glorious cartoons at MoPOP 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

Network television in the 1970s was taking its first steps away from the sanitized, taboo-heavy sensibilities of the 1950s and ’60s, tentatively embracing a new social and political frankness. Austin Kalish, a Writer of ‘Maude’ Abortion Episode, Dies at 95 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

In the early 1950s, Mr. Rugolo was a staff composer and arranger for MGM studios and the West Coast musical director of Mercury Records. Pete Rugolo, Arranger and Composer, Is Dead at 95 2011-10-19T04:53:00Z

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

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that in the 1950s urban renewal forced 4,500 residents to move out of Southwest. Do posh waterfronts make a city world-class? D.C. is betting hundreds of millions on it. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

The communal experience of radio, where families gathered in living rooms for a broadcast, had its heyday from the 1930s to the 1950s, before the expansion of television. Lawsuit Says Charity Leader Hired His Former Personal Trainer for Key Role 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Topham Picturepoint When Elisa Segrave was sorting through her elderly mother's possessions, she found a hoard of diaries, dating from the 1930s until the 1950s, which she had no qualms about reading. The Girl from Station X: My Mother's Unknown Life by Elisa Segrave – review 2013-07-18T13:29:51Z

Mr. Harnick met Mr. Bock in the late 1950s, and the two quickly realized they could work together despite their different temperaments. Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Lyricist, Dies at 99 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

Schulze thinks his status as a West German meant he was probably treated better than others at Hohenschoenhausen, where physical violence was widely used in the 1950s before psychological interrogation methods took over. The spy who loved me? West German recalls Stasi manipulation, imprisonment 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

During the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the Woodruff family experienced difficult times, with some white families avoiding the store, Mary Woodruff said. Visitors to this Virginia pie shop want more than dessert. They want to meet the 103-year-old pie maker. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

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

It comes when you take sound and fury in his writing of the 1950s at face value. A guide to Pierre Boulez's music 2012-07-16T15:49:00Z

It’s one of the many meta moments in “Magpie Murders,” a Russian doll murder mystery that sets a 1950s fictional detective story inside a contemporary inquiry into the death of the author who wrote it. ‘It’s a Labyrinth’: A Meta Detective Story Comes to the Screen 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

But as he discovered when he auditioned for the Indianapolis Symphony in the 1950s, few orchestras were open to him. David Baker, Who Helped Bring Jazz Studies Into the Academy, Dies at 84 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

His 1950s ledger subtly reveals the stresses of touring. Antiques: Do-It-Yourself Comes to Collector Publishing 2010-02-19T06:03:00Z

Throughout the 1950s Vaughan was busy in theatre while his television career took root. Peter Vaughan obituary 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

Like his previous efforts, the new tracks are finely wrought soundscapes, samples from heavy metal bands and spoken word performances to 1950s folk recordings and classic funk drum parts from the disco era. ArtsBeat Blog: DJ Shadow Talks About His Latest Sonic Collages 2011-10-04T15:59:54Z

A deep disappointment runs through the heart of the novel as the Finch family struggles with personal conflicts brought on by the social upheaval of the 1950s South. In Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman,’ a less noble Atticus Finch 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

Lloyd worked steadily as a TV actor and director in the early 1950s, but the political liberal found his career in jeopardy during the Hollywood blacklist period aimed at communists or their sympathizers. ‘Saboteur,’ ‘St. Elsewhere’ star Norman Lloyd dies at 106 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

A veteran of directing live television dramas in the 1950s, Mr. Penn made his film directorial debut with "The Left Handed Gun," a 1958 revisionist Western starring Paul Newman as Billy the Kid. 'Bonnie and Clyde' director Arthur Penn dies at 88 2010-09-30T21:11:00Z

"He hit hard from the start with his short films in the 1950s and when the Nouvelle Vague arrived, he was sort of a big brother." Alain Resnais, director of 'Hiroshima, Mon Amour', dies aged 91 2014-03-02T15:58:47Z

There is a palpable sense of stasis there, accentuated by the area’s most striking landmark, a carpet showroom with an immaculate 1950s facade. Bites: Restaurant Review: Sotto in Los Angeles 2012-04-06T19:37:00Z

But she also prizes his 1950s duets with Ella Fitzgerald: “I love the way that he transitions from singing into playing,” she said. Louis Armstrong’s Last Laugh 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Staples began singing with her father and siblings as a member of the Staple Singers, performing at civil rights marches in the 1950s and at Kennedy’s inauguration. The Kennedy Center Honors: How sweet it is to be loved by the nation 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

He created a series of wood sculptures in the 1950s he called "obos," after the rock cairns that Himalayan travelers build along mountain passes. '70s George Tsutakawa fountain finds its way back to Seattle 2012-03-23T03:11:30Z

His native language was English, but he first became an acting and singing star in Japan, where he took language lessons while performing in the 1950s. James Shigeta, 85, Leading Man in ‘Flower Drum Song,’ Dies 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

Get a yuletide high with Harold and Kumar, traipse after Buddy the would-be elf or weep at a Christmas soup kitchen in 1950s Brooklyn. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’ and ‘Brooklyn’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

With a whimsical sense of humor softening its satirical bite, it reminded him of the films produced by London’s Ealing Studios in the 1950s, like “The Lavender Hill Mob” or “The Ladykillers.” In ‘The Duke,’ Jim Broadbent Puts an Eccentric at the Center 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

Up until the 1950s, families with six or more children still lived in caves in the Sassi, along with their livestock, and without electricity, running water or sewers. The 52 Places Traveler: Two Versions of the Slow Life in Central and Southern Italy 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

I’m guessing the person you are imagining doesn’t look like Daphne Oram, with her cat-eye glasses, demure dresses and respectable 1950s librarian haircut. Amplifying the Women Who Pushed Synthesizers Into the Future 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s, when Larry Sultan was growing up in Los Angeles, it seemed that every middle-class father was shooting home movies with a Super 8 camera. A Photographer Turned the Tables on His Parents to Learn About Himself 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

He was a household name to generations of Americans through his appearances on late-night television talk shows from the 1950s onward and on the college circuit starting amid the 1960s counterculture. Irwin Corey, comic who styled himself the World’s Foremost Authority, dies at 102 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

But my association with the head-to-tail books is probably the same as many other people's – the Ace Doubles that were prevalent from the 1950s to the 1970s. T?te-b?che books make a speculative return 2011-07-28T10:57:58Z

Some of these films are lost; others survive only in black-and-white prints made for television in the 1950s. Technicolor at 100: Saturation and Subtlety in Filmmaking 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

In the prosperous flush of the 1950s, that romanticism became an end in itself. My generation, living on the road 2014-04-20T23:59:00Z

“Jackson in the 1950s was the democratic hero. He gave voice to the working man, the small farmer. He was the first frontier president. Now we look at Jackson and we think ‘Indian killer.’ Smithsonian’s popular ‘Hall of Presidents’ to close for renovation, reopen in fall 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

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

Focusing on their childhood in 1950s Naples, she writes unsentimentally of poverty, violence, familial conflicts and organised crime. Freud, Nietzsche, Paglia, Fanon: our expert guide to the books of "The White Lotus" 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Martin became known in the 1950s and '60s, when a decade-long sojourn in New York cemented her reputation as a singular, slightly unclassifiable painter. What the world misunderstands about artist Agnes Martin and how her biographer unearthed her story 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

Distracted from both the lugubrious scenario and a collection assembled, in part, from scraps of fabrics and 1950s deadstock, I began scrolling through my feed. Gucci’s Alessandro Michele on His Job Prospects 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

But she did not love Hollywood, and in the 1950s she startled the town when she abandoned it to live in Paris with a new husband, though she kept her American citizenship. Olivia de Havilland, a Star of ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Dies at 104 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s, Welsh captain Cliff Morgan said that the singing at matches put a yard on every stride, and 20 yards on every kick. Welsh male voice choris: a vocal minority 2011-02-01T21:30:01Z

Jean moved back to town at some point in the 1950s and took an apartment. My backup mom 2013-02-27T23:30:00Z

He moved to London in the early 1950s to pursue acting and also worked as a bartender. Ronnie Corbett, One of ‘The Two Ronnies,’ Dies at 85 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

For 19 years, during most of the 1950s and 1960s, White served as the hostess and commentator on NBC's annual broadcast of Tournament of Roses Parade. Remembering Betty White, America's grandmother and the first lady of television, dead at 99 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

When he was first offered the costarring role in "Happy Days," a series about teenage life in the 1950s, he turned it down. 'Happy Days' dad Tom Bosley dead at 83 2010-10-19T19:15:00Z

The lighting is so portentous and the isolation and hopelessness so exaggerated that these scenes have always reminded me of Technicolor film stills from a 1950s melodrama — a kitschy imitation of life. For Gregory Crewdson, Truth Lurks in the Landscape 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

And this scene looks at how two brothers came up with fast food to begin with in their San Bernardino, Calif., burger restaurant in the 1950s. John Lee Hancock Narrates a Scene From ‘The Founder’ 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

In fact, you should probably find a time warp back to the 1950s. Over 60 and dripping in sequins — these women refuse to be invisible 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

As late as the 1950s that statement certainly held true. It’s got that swing 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Working with the Old Vic theater company in the early 1950s, he appeared in a variety of roles, including Laertes to Richard Burton’s Hamlet. Robert Hardy, British Actor Who Played Churchill Often, Dies at 91 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

After settling in Los Angeles in the late 1950s, the group drew praise for its unusual sound, which featured melody lines played by tenor sax and trombone in unison. Wayne Henderson, a Founder of the Jazz Crusaders, Dies at 74 2014-04-10T00:02:26Z

By the time the 1950s rolled around, the company had employed extensive branding techniques to keep the momentum going. Rising design star: Naz Sahin 2012-05-17T21:42:00Z

By reviving the 1950s tradition of the outdoor Beaulieu jazz festival, promoters Jazz FM and their partners may find they have invented the British jazz world's Glastonbury. Love Supreme festival – review 2013-07-07T13:55:03Z

“In the 1950s and 1960s,” he writes, “doctors and academic medical centers enjoyed so much prestige and authority that they often operated virtually unchecked from outside supervision. The notion of ‘informed consent’ was ‘nonexistent.’ When a Black Man’s Heart Was Transplanted Without Consent 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

North Dakota has had three oil booms; the most recent one, which started around the end of the last decade, is much larger than those of the 1950s and the 1970s. In North Dakota, Boom, Bust and Oil 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

One of the world’s oldest open-air museums, the site’s exhibits include examples of early Viking-era cottages and cooking sheds, as well as reconstructed Oslo buildings from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. A U.S. traveler’s urge to see Norway is all in his genes 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Artist Richard Hamilton was a member of the Independent Group, formed in the 1950s by a group of artists and writers at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Private Pop Art collection on show 2013-11-23T08:27:25Z

Mr. Ligon, a full-throttle singer with a powerful voice reminiscent of Wilson Pickett’s, founded the Mighty Clouds of Joy in the 1950s with several classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles. Joe Ligon, Gospel Singer With the Mighty Clouds of Joy, Dies at 80 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

“They asked some established composers and some young unknown and up-and-coming composers, and each was given a theme to write about. My brother’s was the 1950s housewife.” Beyond ‘Rent’: 4 Glimpses of the Unheard Jonathan Larson 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Zell likens it to the U.S. in the 1950s, when a large nation self-sufficient in everything from food to fuel was creating an economically powerful new middle class. The Optimist 2011-01-26T23:00:00Z

I’ve found that there is a cut off point in jazz history — it’s driven by the introduction of high fidelity audio recording in the late 1950s. To know Bowie, Kendrick and Gaga, you have to know your jazz: “There is an artisan movement going on in music now just as there is in food” 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

In some respects, Ms. de Fontenay’s crusade is a measure of the changes in French society since her arrival at Miss France in the 1950s. Segr? Journal: A Pageant Icon Turns Her Back on Miss France 2010-11-18T09:00:00Z

Mr. Russell, who converted to Catholicism in the 1950s, saw the film as an attack on the corrupt union of church and state. Ken Russell, Controversial Director, Dies at 84 2011-11-28T11:22:23Z

She entered the business in the early 1950s, when there were few female editors and even fewer Asians. Longtime publishing editor Genevieve Young dead at 89 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

The more current protest music is not noticed as much as the music of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s because music is increasingly a more individualized experience. New generation of music central to protest 2011-11-13T20:16:03Z

Hughes’s “A Line Doesn’t End With Me,” at the Athenaeum, might appear familiar to fans of the Washington colorists who came to prominence in the 1950s. Review | In the galleries: A sizzling exhibit crackles with creativity 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

Fitfully in use since the 1950s, it was the title of the ensemble that played on John Barbirolli’s 1963 record of string music by Elgar and Vaughan Williams. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

She relies on self-deprecating one-liners about cooking, cleaning, fashion, and marriage that play into, rather than challenging, 1950s patriarchy. The true story behind the Midge Maisel-Sophie Lennon rivalry 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

The Girl and Hitchcock are about productions of specific films in the late 1950s and early 60s, based on nonfiction works by people who knew Hitchcock. Hitchcock – review 2013-02-10T00:05:00Z

That vision changed Ginsberg’s life, and Blake became a touchstone figure for many radical American artists of the 1950s and his destroy-all-tyrants radar continued to burn through the 1960s. The Best Art Books of 2017 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

“He decided to do this and never turned back,” said Nina Lamb, who was then married to Mr. Holzman and became an important member of the Elektra staff in the 1950s and ’60s. Indie-Label Folkie to Rock Patriarch 2011-03-06T01:45:27Z

The earliest of these 1950s artist-run galleries were downtown, on or around 10th Street, east of Fourth Avenue, where rents were cheap. When Artists Ran the Show: ‘Inventing Downtown,’ at N.Y.U. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” then in the 1950s, his masterpiece, the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. ‘The Hobbit’: overstuffed but jaw-dropping | Movie review 2012-12-13T03:01:34Z

Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Records, oversaw a series of recordings that made his label a central player in the rock-and-roll revolution of the 1950s. Notable nonfiction of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

The room is half of a simple white set by Simon Daw; the other half shows the family kitchen, evoking the 1950s, the era in which Mr. Pita decided to set the work. Edward Watson and Arthur Pita Create ‘The Metamorphosis’ 2013-08-30T20:48:52Z

Previous tokens retired in the 1950s included a lantern, a purse and a rocking horse. Cat replaces iron in Monopoly game 2013-02-06T14:27:46Z

As history, Goldberg's book is lots of fun, running through the Russian Revolution, the Weimar Berlin night life, Indian independence, 1950s Hollywood and 1960s counterculture. Michelle Goldberg's book 'The Goddess Pose' paints vivid picture of yoga pioneer Indra Devi 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

The ending of French colonial rule in North Africa in the late 1950s brought thousands of exiles to Corsica. Corsican Wines Speak a Language of Their Own 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Set behind the scenes of an excruciatingly dire musical receiving a test-run in 1950s Boston, it is at once silly and sublime. Curtains – review 2012-08-03T17:27:29Z

Guns were also featured heavily in the Western TV shows of the 1950s. Hollywood’s love of guns increases the risk of shootings – both on and off the set 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z

At its heart are the Parsons, a dysfunctional 1950s American family. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z

The actress’s monologue plays over scenes of documentary footage filmed in India from the 1920s to the 1950s, which was recently uncovered in an archive in Bristol, England. Recognition, at Last, After Decades Decolonizing Art 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

I mean, as you probably know, up to the 1950s, there was this thing called the "American wake." Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Neither element derives from 1950s New York School painting, but the strong black shapes recall Robert Motherwell. In the galleries: At Osuna, scarlet makes a splash amid Hamami’s black-and-white 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

“Snow” is set in 1950s rural Ireland, during a freak blizzard. Review | John Banville’s new novel begins, like a game of Clue, with a body in the library 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

The show gathers 60 pots made between the 1950s and the ’70s: slim-necked, round vessels in a profusion of colors and textured glazes. Adding a New Name to the Canon in Clay: Doyle Lane 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

That put him at the center of the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s, in all its idealism, earnestness and contradictions. Pete Seeger, 1919-2014: A Folk Revivalist Who Used His Voice to Bring Out a Nation’s 2014-01-29T02:31:11Z

Beginning in 1950s, you see Mr. Davis’s dense compositions, abstract with a realist core, start to untangle. Museum & Gallery Listings for June 17-23 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

This was the 1950s, when the posture movement still held sway. Don’t slouch, young lady 2014-04-13T00:00:00Z

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

The walls were packed with antique reads, first editions and other rare finds — including the Flair magazines from the 1950s I was frantically searching for. A vintage stack of magazines took her to back another world 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

He had been reading David Lehman’s “Last Avant-Garde,” about the New York School poets of the 1950s and ’60s, and wondered why there wasn’t a contemporary school. Rhyme or Reason: Alex Dimitrov?s Wilde Boys Salon, for Poetry or Maybe a Hot Date 2011-11-02T23:03:56Z

After earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from New York University, Mr. Gutman joined the faculty of the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan in the 1950s. Robert W. Gutman, Biographer of Wagner and Mozart, Dies at 90 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

She's starting to promote the paperback edition of her novel "In the Unlikely Event," set in her native New Jersey in the early 1950s. Judy Blume has many projects on her mind, from a new bookstore to social media 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

The Texas native chronicled the lives of Hollywood and Broadway stars, along with moguls, models and the wealthy, starting in the 1950s. Longtime New York gossip columnist Liz Smith dead at 94 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

One British study searched the medical literature going back to the 1950s for evidence to support the use of soft drinks in gastroenteritis. Got gastro? Here’s why eating bananas helps 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

In the 1950s the American look was casual — a college girl. Review: Grace Kelly: A Legacy of Wholesome Elegance 2010-05-03T11:30:00Z

The heyday of the printed scarf was the 1950s and the early ’60s. Queen’s Favorite Scarf Prints on the Runway 2012-05-28T18:54:07Z

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

The song’s blunt lessons of humility and self-worth are expanded here into a fuller narrative that’s based on some other events from Parton’s “dirt-poor” girlhood in the Great Smoky Mountains in the 1950s. Who can make a faith-based, all-white Christmas special seem fine ’n’ dandy? Dolly Parton, of course. 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

"I am a 1950s housewife for all intents and purposes," she said. Latch-Key Kids 2010-05-26T23:05:00Z

In the 1950s, the Thwaytes family sold a genuine Caravaggio, The Musicians, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Sotheby's sued over Caravaggio claim 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

But for others, the "Lone Ranger" represents a lingering sore spot - one that goes back to the 1950s television version of Tonto, who spoke in broken English, wore buckskin and lacked any real cultural traits. New Tonto, familiar feelings for Native Americans 2012-07-25T17:20:14Z

After touring France in the early 1950s, he was hailed as one of the country’s most gifted young stage actors and was soon offered film contracts. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Star of Celebrated European Films, Dies at 91 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

There's been a nostalgic streak to rock and pop music for decades; there was a 1950s revival in the early 70s. Alexis Petridis finds an alternate music universe 2010-08-04T21:45:00Z

Two of the monuments commemorate civil rights history of the 1950s and 1960s. President Obama Designates National Monuments to Civil Rights History 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

He developed a passion for skiing and competed for Britain in the giant slalom in two Olympic games in the 1950s. 'Windmills of Your Mind' singer Noel Harrison dies at 79 2013-10-22T18:16:07Z

He organized meetings of Rand’s supporters in the 1950s, including Alan Greenspan, who later became chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Nathaniel Branden, lover and disciple of novelist Ayn Rand, dies at 84 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

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

For a man trying to prove he was no witch, these arcana are the equivalent of someone accused of dissidence in 1950s Russia writing passages from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four on the cell wall. Black arts 2010-04-13T12:15:00Z

“Other photographers in the 1950s had a suspicious view,” he said in a phone interview. George Zimbel, Photographer of Marilyn Monroe and J.F.K., Dies at 93 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

That was not a view shared by millions of people across the world who bought prints of Chinese Girl from Woolworths in the 1950s. Chinese gold 2013-03-20T18:07:48Z

A tall and shapely blonde, Ms. Palmer was in almost immediate demand on live TV shows of the early 1950s. Betsy Palmer, actress and TV personality who became a horror film villain, dies at 88 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

As the public came to depend on the grounding wisdom of his saxophone sound in the late 1950s and ’60s, Coltrane kept shifting and expanding it. Lost John Coltrane Recording From 1963 Will Be Released at Last 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

“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

Kelli O’Hara plays the central role of the 1950s housewife who finds her orderly life suddenly fraught with peril. The Week Ahead: July 15 — 21 2012-07-13T15:03:38Z

Even growing up in the 1950s, ethnicity played no great role in my attitude toward movie stars. Irish America and the siege of Hollywood 2010-07-11T21:29:00Z

Mr. Taylor began his career as a jazz producer in the 1950s, and in 1960 he founded the Impulse! label, which would become the home of John Coltrane and other stars. Creed Taylor, Producer Who Shaped Jazz for Decades, Dies at 93 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

Luscious black-and-white photographs of 1950s night life in Léopoldville, now Kinshasa. Exploring a Century of Art From Congo 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

Get in touch with 1950s bathing trends with The Vintage Cosmetic Company’s Totally Pampered Gift Set, which comes with an adorable makeup headband, polka dot shower cap, body polishes and two makeup removing cloths. Best beauty buys under $70 from Ulta and more 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

Most importantly, throughout the 1950s, as violence between the French authorities and Algerian nationalists intensified, Camus found himself endlessly compromised. Algiers: a city where France is the promised land – and still the enemy 2013-01-27T00:06:03Z

Beginning in the 1950s, the artist and graphic designer began mailing his flyers, posters, and collages to notable figures in the art world, among them MoMA staff members, including curator Dorothy Miller. Explore Ray Johnson’s Most Experimental Graphic Design 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

“Nature Boy” is moody and deals mostly with interlocking love duets, while “Elemental Brubeck” is an energetic ode to Mr. Lubovitch’s memories of doing the jitterbug as a teenager in the 1950s. Dance Review: Movements in Jazz, With Pollock and Coltrane 2010-03-01T22:27:00Z

She is most often referred to as a rhythm-and-blues singer, and that is how she made her name in the 1950s with records such as "Good Rockin' Daddy." Versatile, powerful R&B singer Etta James dies at 73 2012-01-21T01:20:04Z

Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Airby Richard Holmes Falling Upwards begins autobiographically at a village fete in the early 1950s. Falling Upwards by Richard Holmes – review 2013-04-22T07:00:01Z

Its point of access is the small unassuming “weed pot,” a frequent accent in modern California interiors starting in the late 1950s. They Hold Weeds, and an Artist’s Sublime Vision 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

Anyone who sees the operetta now will hear more of his lyrics than audiences did in the 1950s. Capturing the Short, Glamorous Life of a Forgotten Broadway Lyricist 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

But why would Monroe, in the early 1950s, imagine her fetus in the form of a C.G.I. baby? The Empty Spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s Fantasy Fetus 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

The late 1950s was a challenging time for newcomers to the musical stage. Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Lyricist, Dies at 99 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

But the world intruded, particularly in the 1950s and ’60s, as the Cold War ramped up and a nuclear standoff seemed imminent. The Case for Covering Your Ears in Noisy Times 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

After all, in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” she plays a 1950s housewife turned stand-up comedian, for which she has won a pair of Golden Globes. What the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Wears Offscreen 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

He was preparing to host his traveling show, “Midcentury Stereopanorama,” for which the audience, arriving shortly, had paid $15 and been promised the chance to “see the 1950s in Astonishing 3-D!” Virtual Reality Before There Was Virtual Reality 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

At this time, in the early 1950s, Gego dropped architecture as a profession and began to focus on painting, drawing, printmaking and, soon, on sculpture. Gego: Drawing in Space at the Guggenheim 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

Things calm down at the center in the few paintings from the 1950s and early ’60s. Giorgio Morandi Creates a Universe on a Tabletop 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Mary Hinkson, one of Martha Graham’s most important leading dancers, whose performances from the 1950s through the early ’70s were filled with unbridled dramatic power, died on Wednesday at her home in Manhattan. Mary Hinkson, a Star for Martha Graham, Dies at 89 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

It was the first overseas commission for the revered Indian folk artist Nek Chand, who in the 1950s began secretly creating a 12-acre garden in a public forest in the state of Punjab. The little museum that couldn’t ... 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Although set in the 1950s, it’s really an old-fashioned World War II film and a paean to the “greatest generation.” Review: ‘The Finest Hours’ Stars Chris Pine, Leading a Mission Against All Odds 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

“La Luce Vita,” an exhibition opening January 14 and 15 at Galerie Kreo’s Paris and London locations, respectively, spotlights the playful and stylish lamps produced in Italy and France from the 1950s to the present. Lights Fantastic 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

They were so clearly chosen to represent diverse identities that they could form a modern counterpart to the studiously multiethnic fighting unit familiar from 1950s war novels and films. Exhibition Review: ‘WWII & NYC,’ at the New-York Historical Society 2012-10-04T23:36:35Z

Each workman’s product “contained something of his spirit and soul,” Mr. Kindig told an interviewer in the 1950s. Created by Hand: Lock, Stock and Barrel 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

She made her name in the 1950s as Off Broadway came to prominence, in plays like “The Misanthrope” and Chekhov’s “Ivanov,” and throughout her career she performed in regional theater productions. Sada Thompson, Actress Known for Maternal Roles, Dies at 83 2011-05-06T04:38:16Z

What we're looking at – at least in a British context – is the cumulative result of social and demographic changes that go back to the 1950s. Is the age of the critic over? 2011-01-30T00:07:09Z

Growing up in a family that was "targeted and discriminated against" in the 1950s and 1960s for his father's alleged political crimes made Ai Weiwei particularly sensitive to injustice, his mother said. Chinese artist felt detainment coming, wife says 2011-04-06T15:35:10Z

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

The fabled Caneel Bay Resort, a magnet destination since the 1950s for those who could afford it, is still in ruins and hundreds of people have lost their jobs. In the U.S. Virgin Islands, returning to a changed but resilient St. John 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

It was trucked Friday night from Kennedy Airport to Times Square, where the same model plane was featured in an eight-story billboard in the late 1950s. Vintage plane, soon to become bar, tours Times Square 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

The previously secret file, released Friday by Britain's National Archives, shows that MI5 investigated the silent film star in the 1950s at the request of U.S. authorities, who had long suspected him of communist sympathies. British spies stumped by Charlie Chaplin mystery 2012-02-17T00:02:10Z

It was there she met her future husband, and she continued to travel and perform with Nat throughout the 1950s. Nat King Cole's widow dies at 89 2012-07-12T11:21:30Z

It wasn't until the 1950s, by now fronting the Ina Ray Hutton Show on TV, that she got the girls back together, winning an Emmy in the process. Ina Ray Hutton: the forgotten female star of 1930s jazz 2011-07-07T20:30:02Z

“Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive” includes about 450 works ranging from the 1890s through the 1950s, featuring architectural drawings, models and photographs. For Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th, Tours, Exhibitions and Tattoos 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

One thing is certain: the 1950s took a while to pass into the limbo of lost time. October 1962: the month that modern culture was born 2012-09-29T22:12:23Z

In the 1950s, he served pheasant under glass to a friend for Thanksgiving; in the ’70s, a favorite recipe was linguine with caviar. Think You Know Andy Warhol? Here Are Five Truths That May Surprise 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

In the late 1950s, as America welcomed Jack Kerouac’s 120 feet of spontaneous typescript, a different kind of scroll was underway on the West Coast. Unearthing Rick Barton, a Boho Bard of North Beach 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

Pepitone was Monroe's maid from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. Ex-maid to Marilyn Monroe dies in NYC at 86 2011-06-09T00:23:08Z

The cookware was also promoted in movies and on television shows in the 1950s and ’60s. Celebrating 100 Years of Pyrex 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor met while filming Cleopatra in the late 1950s, and both were married. Allied: what happens when a film gets eclipsed by gossip 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

For this novel, Garmus learned chemistry from a 1950s text written several years before the novel’s setting, to avoid anachronisms. Beneath Its Pink Cover, ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ Offers a Story About Power 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

The saxophonist, 85, is also one of the genre’s last remaining figures to have come of age in the 1950s, when jazz was a popular music as well as an intellectual one. Wayne Shorter, Jazz’s Abstruse Elder, Isn’t Done Innovating Yet 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Twin Peaks is a town that reflects the previous decade’s nostalgia for the dream of the 1950s, when America was allegedly more innocent and pure. “Twin Peaks”: Can a classic succeed at being happening again? 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

Nearly every character is a 1950s cliché, or an idiot: the flibbertigibbet matron of the house, the clueless neighborhood pastor, the racist nerd who represents the outraged neighborhood association. Low Comedy, High Concept 2012-04-24T10:50:07Z

They rarely intersect, forming a shuffled, syncopated anthology, a variation on the multi-director omnibus films that were a staple of Italian cinema in the 1950s and ’60s. Movie Review: Woody Allen’s Latest, ‘To Rome With Love’ 2012-06-21T12:00:00Z

Cut to the council offices of the late 1950s, and bow-tied men with toothbrush moustaches and drawing boards and anglepoise lamps, their voices grave as they exhorted efficiency and logic and sharper pencils. Rewind TV: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry; The Secret History of Our Streets; The Apprentice 2012-06-09T23:05:47Z

By the 1950s, however, restaurant owners had begun hiring belly dancers to perform. A Wriggle in Time: Historical Artifacts of Belly Dancing 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

In the late 1950s one of the centres for this new sound art was Italian Radio's Studio di Fonologia in Milan. You are the synthesiser: John Cage's experiments with the human voice 2011-03-17T21:59:01Z

But 1950s Hollywood was awash in manly Westerns and past its gynocentric prime; it would never make a movie called A Queen and Four Kings. Eleanor Parker: More Than Just the Sound of Music Baroness 2013-12-11T03:11:54Z

In the late 1950s, he began agonizing over his biggest commission to date: a series of murals for the new Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram Building in Manhattan. Mark Rothko and Selling Out in the Art World 2010-03-26T20:43:00Z

Was the music Evans made in the final years before his death, in 1988, the equal of his celebrated work in the 1950s and 60s? Purple hazer: the many lives of Gil Evans 2012-11-07T18:07:54Z

He had all of our songs from the 1950s and 60s on his iPod. Jeff Tweedy produces new Mavis Staples album 2010-06-08T10:40:00Z

An early criticism of "Mrs. Maisel," about a mother and housewife turned aspiring comic in 1950s and '60s New York, was that the children of the main character weren't around very much. Feminism has come to "Mrs. Maisel" – dad feminism, that is 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

In the early 1950s he adopted his stage name in remembrance of Beatrice MacLeod, his drama teacher at Ithaca. Gavin MacLeod, ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ and ‘Love Boat’ Actor, Dies at 90 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z

The production was directed by Arthur Laurents, who wrote the book for the original musical back in the 1950s. Is This the Breakout Star of Virtual Fitness? 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

The scrolls were discovered in a series of caves in the late 1940s and early 1950s by Bedouin shepherds. One of earliest known copies of Ten Commandments sees the light of day 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

He embraced the cause of CND during the late 1950s and was later involved in the movement for peace in Vietnam. James Stevens obituary 2012-08-02T09:00:02Z

Finally, Kirk sets up Mingus’s “Haitian Fight Song,” written in the 1950s in the midst of the civil rights movement. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

Both the yellow-diamond clip brooch with onyx stripes and the bracelet with marquise-cut emerald eyes were made in the 1950s by Cartier. A Set of Cartier Tiger Jewelry Once Owned by the Duchess of Windsor Is Up for Auction at Christie’s 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Ms. Totter’s film career largely ended in the 1950s, but she later had several recurring roles on television, including as Nurse Wilcox on “Medical Center” in the mid-1970s. Audrey Totter, Actress in Noir Films, Dies at 95 2013-12-17T16:24:11Z

Families were much poorer in the 1950s, but they stuck together. The new merry-go-round 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Braben became a full-time comedy writer in the 1950s, and produced scripts for many of the comedians of the time, including fellow Liverpudlian Dodd. Eric and Ernie's writer Braben dies 2013-05-21T11:01:22Z

Jess and Duncan met in San Francisco in the early 1950s. Jess, Robert Duncan: a collaboration both romantic and artistic 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Scully began working at photography magazines in the 1950s and was hired to be editor of Modern Photography in 1966. Julia Scully, Influential Photography Editor and Memoirist, Dies at 94 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z

Founded in the late 1950s, Cafe Wha? was a former stable that Mr. Roth personally helped renovate, laying a new floor and bringing in friends to help decorate. Manny Roth, colorful owner of New York’s Cafe Wha? club, dies at 94

A painter and sculptor, Mr. Hopkins was part the circle of New York artists that in the 1950s and ’60s included Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline. Budd Hopkins, Abstract Artist and U.F.O. Author, Dies at 80 2011-08-25T03:59:54Z

A new series of Great Expectations and 1950s drama Call the Midwife. Lark Rise to Candleford: the end is nigh 2011-02-11T12:11:00Z

The black-and-white 1950s sitcom is named after a perfect town with perfect people — one that starts to lose its glossy veneer once David and Jennifer bring reality into the frame. What’s on TV Tuesday: Gabriel Iglesias and Super Bowl Commercials 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

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

We woke to the sound of rain hammering down and headed through the downpour into La Crosse, an engaging university town that seemed stuck in the 1950s. Mississippi yearning 2010-12-04T00:05:15Z

But even with the hours he put in, he said, he was never able to persuade the Hueys to let him see the third floor, which has been closed since the 1950s. In Omaha, Farmers and Chefs Are Good Together 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

When computers arrived during the 1950s and 1960s, the idea of logical, rational workflows got an extra push through the acceleration of data processing, followed by the development of computer-based forecasting and materials planning systems. Super Storm Sandy wiped out some restaurants for months but one midtown pizzeria served days later 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Guardian As a child, Tobias Wolff rode shotgun across 1950s America with his single mum at the wheel. Tobias Wolff: 'I still feel as though I'm faking it' 2011-08-25T09:32:10Z

Most were born in the 1950s and ’60s, when revolutionary Cuba was still young. The Havana Biennial Is Running at Full Throttle 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Some of Mr. Fo’s earliest works from the 1950s, such as “A Madhouse for the Sane,” were bold satires of Italy’s political life, in which fascist sympathizers from World War II were still active. Dario Fo, Italian playwright and ‘jester’ who won Nobel Prize, dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Dr. Taylor, as he preferred to be called, was the first black to lead a television studio orchestra in the 1950s. Jazz musician Billy Taylor dies at 89 2010-12-30T03:02:00Z

He has been at this for a long time, ever since the 1950s when his Springfield, Massachusetts, home had a welcome invasion of musical émigrés from the South that got him into music. Taj Mahal, still rocking, "feels" the blues 2012-07-12T10:53:43Z

It’s not only cushy homes on display, but also idealized locales where New Yorkers work, like the 1950s Bowery studio of the painter Mark Rothko in the Broadway play “Red.” Living Rooms: Onstage Spaces to Lust For 2010-04-29T21:42:00Z

Or maybe it was the clever transfer from feet to blazers of a zigzag espadrilles pattern and the use of 1950s wallpaper-style prints on tops. Special Report: Fashion: A Moment to Enjoy 2011-06-21T10:38:38Z

Since the early 1950s, it has been traditional to perform these 14th-century religious dramas in the open air, among the ruins of St Mary's Abbey in York. York Mystery Plays: God and his friend the devil 2012-08-07T17:10:55Z

The museum, which acquired the works in the 1950s, declined to comment because the case is being litigated. Lawsuit Against MoMA Highlights Timing Issues in Claims of Nazi Looting 2011-08-23T16:57:53Z

The updated cars were originally built between the 1920s and 1950s and offer overnight accommodations ranging from private bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms to bunk bed-like berths with privacy curtains. Monday’s Travel News and Tips 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Even in the heyday of cultural diplomacy, the 1950s, the government’s efforts to promote American art abroad occasionally ran into controversy at home. U.S. to Send Visual Artists as Cultural Ambassadors 2010-10-25T22:37:00Z

Decked out in 1950s leisure wear, they were shooting a scene for their upcoming film, “My Policeman,” based on Bethan Roberts’s stunning 2012 novel. The Novel That Inspired Harry Styles and Emma Corrin’s Upcoming Film 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

One of the agency’s first great successes, starting in the 1950s, was Ms. Williams. Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell, 91, Dies; Redefined Beauty 2014-03-13T05:15:42Z

His models in gray flannel suits each sat at a 1950s metal desk pecking away on a manual typewriter. Perspective | The message from the Paris runways is simple: Buy a suit and get to work 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Each of its six episodes is a walk through LGBTQIA+ history, taken a decade a time starting in the 1950s. Eclectic docuseries "Pride" walks viewers through queer American history one decade at a time 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z

It followed two young single women working at a Milwaukee brewery in the 1950s. Cindy Williams, Star of ‘Laverne & Shirley,’ Dies at 75 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

The 300 drawings from the 1950s are a revelation, and they will be published for the first time next week. Andy Warhol's unseen early drawings unveiled next week 2013-01-20T16:31:01Z

Brown moves through her life in 1950s LA with that sense of disappointed expectation, the shallowness of all things and its flip side, the sudden flights of joy and inexplicable wonderment that underpins the novel. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z

There was a faint perfume of the 1950s in the belted calf-length dresses. Special Report: Fendi Takes the Long View 2010-09-23T18:09:00Z

From the 1950s until its closing in 1966 the castle was the destination for what Mr. Shaver calls the Mannheim Express. Touring Castle Williams on Governors Island 2012-08-02T19:28:27Z

Although Dean was best remembered as a sex symbol, Mr. Scott argues that his work onscreen showed him to be “one of the great method actors of the 1950s.” ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'East of Eden' 2011-01-10T23:23:52Z

Presenting 65 works from the 1950s through the 1970s, it’s partly intended to reveal what the MoMA show overlooked: the extent to which Latin American artists contributed to the Op and kinetic art movements. Op Art Through a Latin Lens 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

“A Journey,” the Sony Classical debut album of South African soprano Pretty Yende, kicks off with a throwback to the 1950s. CD reviews: Hitting high notes in the opera canon 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

In the 1950s and ’60s, most of the men were domestic fishermen. How the famous swimming pigs of the Bahamas came to be 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

In the late 1950s, having relocated to New York and taken their place among the constellation of talents associated with the Brill Building, they emerged as perhaps the most potent songwriting team in the genre. Jerry Leiber, Prolific Writer of 1950s Hits, Dies at 78 2011-08-23T01:24:26Z

Ferlinghetti, now 98, is best known for his poetry collection, “A Coney Island of the Mind,” and the bookstore became a center of literary counterculture in the 1950s and ’60s. Emma Straub becomes the latest author to open a bookstore 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

That seemed a long way from the 1950s elegance of the last season, but it made for a credible collection in muted colors and with rich textures. Fashion Review: Dries Van Noten Works Pieces of a Chinese Pattern 2012-02-29T18:49:13Z

At the start of his career, critics attempted to link him to both the Beats and Britain’s Angry Young Men of the 1950s. A Toast for J. P. Donleavy 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

It is a bright, windy day in Paris and a maze of cordoned-off streets beside the Seine have been hauled back into the 1950s. ‘It’s about a woman finding her voice’: Mrs Maisel star Rachel Brosnahan on great roles – and controversial men 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

This 1950s Egyptian epistolary novel is told by a young woman looking back on the misery, patriarchy and middle-class life that surrounded her upon her return from boarding school. Newly Published, From Musical Masterpieces to the End of Trump’s Presidency 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

Paper decorations and string are easy to make, and they will give your house a vintage 1950s aesthetic. Hoping for a Spooky Halloween? We Have Some Suggestions 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s, the pianist Beryl Marriott heard him in a skiffle band and invited him to join her traditional Gaelic band, beginning a long association. Dave Swarbrick, British Folk Fiddler, Dies at 75 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

But so did television in the 1950s and ’60s, and no one would have called TV a great tool of emancipation. Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z

It was so against the grain of American life in the 1950s. “We’ve become a food culture” 2012-11-19T12:45:00Z

In some manuscripts from the late 1950s and early 1960s on view at Dia, words are composed in thin descending lines; in others, blocks of repeated words are stacked like bricks. Carl Andre’s Epic Sculptures, United at Dia:Beacon 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

She also helped to bridge the cultural and racial divide that existed in 1950s America. Etta James remembered by Reverend Al Sharpton 2012-12-22T23:15:01Z

Mariela in the Desert For its inaugural production, Angel City Theater Ensemble presents the L.A. premiere of Karen Zacarías’ mystery drama about an artistic couple in 1950s Mexico; for mature audiences. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 30-Nov. 6: 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' and more 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

After they married, in the late 1950s, Ms. Guyse stopped performing and became increasingly involved with a Jehovah’s Witness hall in Queens. Sheila Guyse, Singer and Actress, Is Dead at 88 2014-01-16T01:10:00Z

In the 1950s, as young engineers, he and Bernard Kardon, his partner then, invented the stereo receiver. At 92, Still Grabbing the Brass Ring 2010-08-13T21:53:00Z

Growing up in the housing projects of Staten Island in the 1950s, the daughter of a German mother and a Panamanian-Chinese father, Nunez was an imaginative child who turned to books for solace and escape. With ‘The Friend,’ Sigrid Nunez Becomes an Overnight Literary Sensation, 23 Years and Eight Books Later 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Things get infinitely less interesting as soon as these 1950s New York delinquents are transplanted to a dreamy never-never land for the work’s concluding “Somewhere Ballet.” Dance Review: City Ballet in ?West Side Story Suite? at Koch Theater - Review 2011-10-02T22:22:45Z

In the 1950s, there were more than 100 of these anthology series, including such long-running stalwarts as “Kraft Television Theater,” “Philco Television Playhouse,” “General Electric Theater” and “Playhouse 90.” A Beginner’s Guide to the Golden Age of Live Theater on TV 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

Such differences existed between dancers in Cunningham’s day even in the 1950s. Review: Merce Cunningham’s Work, on Film, Then in the Flesh 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

The starting point for elegant ginger coats, double-breasted suits and graphic knits was the cinéaste Jacques Tati and his Mr. Hulot character of the 1950s. 2010-01-25T15:07:00Z

The story unfolded in Alabama during the racial turmoil of the 1950s, not the Depression of the 1930s. Harper Lee Lawyer Offers More Details on Discovery of New Book 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

For much of the 1950s he performed in clubs in St. Louis, Las Vegas, New York and elsewhere. Will Holt, Who Wrote ‘Lemon Tree,’ Dies at 86 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

“One side of the book is fascinating to me because of the specific time period, the 1950s, but there’s also something that’s very timeless about it,” she said. ?Dexter? and ?Persephone? in Julia Stiles?s Second Phase 2010-07-18T03:12:00Z

Niamh Cusack, in sensible tweeds and a voice as undernourished as the one the Queen deployed in the 1950s, is a perfect counterpart. Cause C?l?bre; Rocket to the Moon ? review 2011-04-02T23:09:47Z

Outdoor recreation started around the 1950s with the arrival of winter skiers and mountaineers eager to summit the high peaks. No snow required: Exploring Italy’s Dolomites during the offseason 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

She, along with her two glamorous sisters Eva and Magda made several appearances on radio and television shows in the 1950s and 1960s. Ailing Zsa Zsa Gabor to spend final days at home 2010-08-17T13:56:00Z

Had he survived, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have been there, walking, talking, listening, present, as he was for countless body-on-the-line campaigns for social justice in the 1950s and ’60s. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Albers observes of Mitchell’s situation in the 1950s that “women artists were considered women first and artists second.” Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives 2011-07-08T15:56:48Z

To restore them, he must shave a metre or two off the facades to conform with a 1950s law designed to widen streets, he said. 'Blindsided by the beauty': architects struggle to save Cairo's... 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

The fresh, natural glamour of the “Grace Kelly Look” - as Women’s Wear Daily branded it in the 1950s - has lived on. CANNES WATCH: Lively soars, Kidman talks lows 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

But if you’re one member of a motley crew of characters in 1950s Lackawanna, N.Y., well, then, you might say it takes a boardinghouse, and a generous woman, to keep everyone in line. ‘Lackawanna Blues’ Review: A Soulful Master Class in Storytelling 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Try this horror-tinged mystery novel, about a 1950s debutante named Noemí, who travels from Mexico City to an imposing rural mansion to rescue her cousin Catalina from the mysterious Doyle family. Are Mushrooms Our Friends? 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

But that didn’t get in the way of coaching the Lafayette High School football team to undefeated — and unprecedented — seasons in the 1950s. His players, in their 80s, bid fond farewell to their 100-year-old coach 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

It combines all the old-fashioned hard-boiled tropes with a detailed description of 1950s New York, and adds murders, magic, a coven of Satanists and a voodoo priestess. Review | Fantasy noir combines the best of two genres. These are the books that do it well. 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z

In a segregated Atlanta, Grant Park was off-limits to black citizens into the 1950s. A Victory for the Civil War ‘Cyclorama’ 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Her books recalled her work and life in the East End of London as a midwife in the 1950s. Ratings high for Midwife finale 2012-02-20T15:53:29Z

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

Throughout the late 1950s, the young maestro remained the most thrilling voice on the planet, teaching his students how to howl into the universe. Perspective | Life is a scream: Remembering Little Richard, the self-described king, queen and architect of rock-and-roll 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z

She starred in a string of films in the 1950s and 1960s, including “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, “Charade” and “My Fair Lady”. 'Intimate Audrey': Hepburn exhibition opens in Brussels 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s, when the city was recovering from the destruction of the second world war, locals began throwing beach festivals to draw visitors and spur the economy. Spaghetti in a cone: a miracle of physics, a genius food delivery system 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s, after gaining recognition as an abstract painter, the artist caused a stir with six huge “Woman” paintings that are numbered as such, in addition to several smaller canvases like “Woman-Ochre.” Sacred or Sexist? After a Brazen Theft, Seeing de Kooning in a New Light. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

Surely, some Hollywood studio in the 1950s made a prototype of the sprightly if erratic comedy "You May Not Kiss the Bride." 'You May Not Kiss the Bride': Comedy lacks old Hollywood magic 2012-09-20T20:48:14Z

He learned to play piano in the 1950s and 1960s on his brother’s brown, unimpressive upright. For this piano man, the regular crowd no longer shuffles in 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Today he is represented by the Alexandre Gallery in New York, where a show of works on paper from the 1950s is on view through next Saturday. ?Will Barnet at 100? at the National Academy Museum 2011-10-09T04:00:20Z

It's a hangover from the 1950s, when the Nouvelle Vague's unique and sophisticated aesthetic was admired all over the world. Cyrille Falisse on film in France 2011-03-23T22:16:01Z

In the show, which wrapped up its first season on Sunday, Lovecraftian terrors appear in 1950s Jim Crow America, where a Black family faces racism, wizardry and mystifying beasts. The Unintended Racial Horror of ‘Lovecraft Country’ 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Pollard had been a familiar face on television since the late 1950s. Michael J. Pollard, Character Actor in ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ Dies at 80 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

The self-correcting mechanisms of liberal institutions are shown to work in the end, and social responsibility prevails over baser instincts, something that happened a lot in the 1950s. Arts & Leisure: Urban Realist With a Humanist Streak 2011-04-13T13:29:51Z

Even dancer Gene Nelson was featured in this 1950s classic, "The West Point Story." Will Hollywood grow up for boomers? 2010-08-02T19:34:00Z

Once upon a time flower arranging was the preserve of the 1950s housewife accessorising the kitchen table, perhaps with help from doughty members of the Women’s Institute. Blooming on Instagram ... why Gen Z has taken to flower arranging 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

He will face competition from his fellow Brit Daniel Day-Lewis, who plays a dressmaker in Phantom Thread, a drama set in London’s 1950s couture world written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Oscar nods pour in for The Shape of Water in year coloured by #MeToo 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

In the early 1950s, the two men became close to Johns and his then lover, the painter Robert Rauschenberg. Marcel Duchamp's gift to New York 2013-01-06T17:59:01Z

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

But the Comet does look very nice in this old footage – loads of legroom, starched white linen and silver cutlery, a nice 1950s air stewardess with a trolley-load of tea and cakes. A Great British Air Disaster; Beat the Ancestors – TV review 2013-02-25T07:00:18Z

Gabor was one of three glamorous sisters who stole the Hollywood limelight in the 1950s and 1960s, and starred in movies "Moulin Rouge", "Lili" and "Touch of Evil." Zsa Zsa Gabor returning to hospital 2010-08-13T21:22:00Z

DuPont developed the first acrylic fibers in the 1940s and trademarked them under the name Orlon, but the fibers were not widely used until the 1950s. How to remove a stain from a cherished old baby sweater 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Filling, starchy vegetables like plantains, name, malanga and yautia are not profitable crops, but they were staples long before the arrival of mainland restaurant chains in the 1950s. Local Food in Puerto Rico Finds Energy in Recovery 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

Imagine the book equivalent of a gorgeous film noir, set in 1950s Dublin and crackling with mysterious women, hard-drinking investigators, long-held secrets and fog so thick you could spoon it out of a stew pot. What our writers love this week 2011-01-19T22:47:04Z

James Shigeta, an actor who challenged social boundaries when he emerged in the late 1950s as one of the first Asian-Americans to play leading roles in Hollywood, died on Monday in Los Angeles. James Shigeta, 85, Leading Man in ‘Flower Drum Song,’ Dies 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

At the time, the paper called it “a moral disaster that began in the 1950s and continues to the present day.” The Story Behind ‘Woman in Gold’: Nazi Art Thieves and One Painting’s Return 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

Owner Darlene Bakke scours estate sales, charity shops and thrift stores for threads and accessories from the 1950s through the 1990s. Amazon chose two locations for its new headquarters. Now, we go explore them. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

These are the works of artists of the New Sacred Art movement, who started embellishing the grove in the 1950s. In Sacred Grove in Nigeria, Worship and Connection 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Among the strong historical exhibitions on view is a project conceived by Yves Klein in the 1950s but unrealized until now. Independent Projects Unveils New Art Fair Concept: A Show 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Though the film is set in 1950s London, the ups and downs experienced by the designer are just as relevant today. Daniel Day-Lewis Makes an Appearance at His Own Film Party 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

For me, it’s 1950s jazz, a nice bath and a solid hour of reading. How Anya Taylor-Joy Learned to Soothe Herself 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

I remember running around the living room of her house, one of those 1950s minimalistic box-shaped mansions in the affluent Mexico City neighborhood of Colonia Florida. “He would have been ashamed to learn that his own son was this weak, this cowardly, this unpatriotic” 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

It came to refer to artists and writers of the 1950s and 60s who tried to depict every aspect of working class life. Not flushed with success 2011-07-18T07:59:05Z

Featuring pieces from the pair's trove of 1950s Scandinavian and Indonesian furniture, and Southeast Asian artworks, the club looks as hip and as laid-back as its 30-year-old owners. The Best New Bar in Bali 2011-06-16T14:45:00Z

By the early 1950s, Mr. Norman was singing with the big bands of Stanley Black and others, as well as appearing on radio and onstage in variety shows. Monty Norman, Who Wrote 007’s Memorable Theme, Dies at 94 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z