To reestablish his links to the black community after graduation, he accepted a scholarship from the Urban League to pursue a master’s degree in social work at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Renaissance was the time when Western Europeans lost their awe of the Ancients and realized that they had as much to contribute to civilization and society as the Greeks and Romans had contributed. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

We’ve got to apply our Western ideals and teach the East to recognize them. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laboratory tests showed that the bones could be fifteen thousand years old—possibly the oldest human remains in the Western Hemisphere. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

With the benefit of hindsight it marks the beginning of the end of Western European musical aloofness and the emergence of Russia as a major cultural presence. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s going for a visit, is it?” said the Western Union man. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But the process of inventing new ways of fusing Western and Non-Western music continues today in countries all over the world. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The Western Market was a great square of beaten earth surrounded by warrens of mud-baked brick, animal pens, whitewashed drinking halls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Scraping noises; and then, like the gates of the Western Paradise, the trap door would open, lowering into the basement an almost intolerable beam of light. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing new jeans and a clean Western shirt and he'd even trimmed his beard. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

More modern Western music, on the other hand, does not sound pleasant using Pythagorean intonation. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe knocking on doors was a silly Western rule that had no place in our house, but right then I’d kill for some privacy. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The more I flipped on, the more I knew: Morgenstern wasn’t writing any children’s book; he was writing a kind of satiric history of his country and the decline of the monarchy in Western civilization. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Many shed their tribal cloth and embraced Western culture, a way of life over 350 years of white oppression had deluded them into believing was better than their own. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One way to sum up the new scholarship is to say that it has begun, at last, to fill in one of the biggest blanks in history: the Western Hemisphere before 1492. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The detractors asserted that the movie was an example of Western propaganda that sought to erase the fact that Cleopatra was an African woman. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is no accident that in the entire Western Hemisphere, the greatest localized concentration of addicts is in Harlem. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The elevator attendant claims they have the fastest elevators in Western civilization. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Western scholars have written histories of the world since at least the twelfth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In fact, the use of these traditional rules for Western music is now so widespread that it is sometimes called common practice. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The main thing, though, was that tooled-leather Western saddle he toted, which like I said was ornamented with silver. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It was kind of ironic that as anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States and the rest of the Western world increased, the media’s interest in my story grew in tandem. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They’re not like Westerns, where you know who the bad guy is supposed to be. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The United States defied the blockade with a massive airlift of supply planes that flew over Soviet forces and directly into Tempelhof Airport in the Western sector of Berlin. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At that time some hundreds of bombs were dropped on industrial centers, chiefly in European Russia, Western Europe, and North America. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Between them, they have come up with the two major reasons why Western Civilization is about to collapse. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

In Malawi, graves are not just six-feet-deep open pits like those dug in Western countries. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

We made a variety of mistakes in the Western Areas antiremoval campaign and learned a number of lessons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

St Mark’s basilica revealed to Monteverdi a new world of possibility; as far as I know, this is the only example in Western music of a building changing the course of history. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A complete answer to that question would be long and complex, since Western music, like any living language shared by many different communities, has many "local dialects." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Anticipating this ruling, the army’s Western Defense Command had already announced that the mass exclusion orders of 1942 were being rescinded. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was this a schism too far for the already reeling Western tradition to handle? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Go to any Western college campus and you’ll find that Asian students have a reputation for being in the library long after everyone else has left. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Anicius Boethius was a powerful courtier who was among the finest medieval Western mathematicians, which makes him worth noting. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

An American flag identified the post office, a frame structure next to a drugstore that served also as the Western Union office. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sir, the school you are running is Western and infidel, it said. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Following his helicopter evacuation from the Western Cwm, Beck had his right arm amputated halfway below the elbow. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“But you don’t need to come now. I’ve got a hundred and twenty bucks of birthday money in my wallet. I saw a Best Western a ways back.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“That’s supposed to make me love them? Their precious ‘Western civilization is a disease, Percy. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a cook wagon in the middle of the field, something I’ve only seen from drawings about Western life. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

John Wayne Westerns were my favorite films, and I took all the best parts from his movies and made them one big story. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Western music, being more orientated towards harmony than its non-Western counterparts, gradually formed hierarchies among the twelve notes, so that the listener's ears latched on to a 'home' in the sound. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Wynn wore dark jeans and a white Western shirt with bright yellow panels surrounded by brown piping, paired with matching brown leather boots. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

In Paris and Western Europe, the story was “essentially a one-day sensation,” with the West German press handling it “as if it were in the Chicago gangster tradition.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother then made a remark about how Western Civilization was in a decline because people of my generation knew how to nitpick but not how to write a B & B letter. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The clicking noise of telegraph machines at the Western Union seemed distant. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But before I knew it, our entire party was sitting around the campfire like a gang of renegades in an old Western. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It took an Italian monk, immortalised as Guido of Arezzo, to crack the code in around ad iooo and give Western music its unique system of notation, still in use today. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And Western Biological sells bugs and snails and spiders, and rattlesnakes, and rats, and honey bees and gila monsters. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hadn’t heard. They must have sent the news out over the Western Union.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

To this day, Handel’s music is cherished with unqualified, familial warmth by all Western musicians, belonging not to one nation’s musical history but to all. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

That is one of the things that makes it instantly recognizable as Western music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

We saw our first Western together, Rio Bravo with John Wayne, at the Cinema Park, across the street from my favorite bookstore. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Egypt’s rising industrialization was one of the reasons why the Western powers were so anti-Egypt, it was showing other African countries what they should do, the scientist said. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t we have a cheerful, simple morality here in Western Civilization: expect perfection, and revile the missed mark! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1700's, Western Europeans became very interested in the ancient classical style, which was imitated by many artists, sculptors, and architects. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Naturally, with my Western education, I found such an explanation preposterous; I decided to “test” the diviner. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its opening theme, albeit not instantly hummable, consists of twelve notes: it uses all twelve notes of the Western scale without repeating any of them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The epistemological sloppiness that, in Western culture, characterizes references to experience before the Scientific Revolution is not a necessary characteristic of pre-scientific societies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“What about the stupid politicians in the Western House of Assembly that the police had to use tear gas on? Tear gas! And their orderlies carried their limp bodies to their cars! Imagine that!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Just as we might call Dunstaple’s contemporary Geoffrey Chaucer the father of English literature, so we should call John Dunstaple the father of the triad, and therefore of the Western harmonic system. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Zero clashed with one of the central tenets of Western philosophy, a dictum whose roots were in the number-philosophy of Pythagoras and whose importance came from the paradoxes of Zeno. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Western Europe has evolved or acquired about 40 languages just in the 6,000-8,000 years since the arrival of Indo-European languages, including languages as different as English, Finnish, and Russian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since the music is not organized by the familiar rules of Western music, many people have trouble appreciating atonal music without some help or study. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I knew that important places moved around with Western Civilization, like Mount Olympus being over the Empire State Building, and the Underworld entrance being in Los Angeles. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“A man with a Western education like yours could provide great service to our country,” continued the commanding voice. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They decided to change it, because they think a “more classic” Western will sell better at the box office. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Before 1989, you could have an Eastern policy or a Western policy, but it was hard to think about having a “global” policy. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Berlin was the ultimate prize of the war, and Stalin wanted to get there first, before the Germans gave up the battle or the Western Allies stormed into the city themselves. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Jordan, while a modern Middle Eastern state, was not an easy place for a woman used to Western freedoms. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

In a Western, someone always says, “This town ain’t big enough for the both of us, Sheriff.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

There is not a warhorse in all of Westerns that will stand against them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There are food carts on every corner, selling everything from ripe mangoes to sugarcane, from Western cakes to French crepes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A major invasion of Western Europe was still a year away. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pythagoras’s doctrine became the centerpiece of Western philosophy: all the universe was governed by ratios and shapes; the planets moved in heavenly spheres that made music as they turned. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Frankie began coming to Western Biological when he was eleven years old. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see platforms crowded with people wearing drab Western clothes, with spots of bright colors: little children wearing pink and yellow, red and peach. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, like a grizzled extra scurrying out of the bar just before the climactic final shootout in a grade B Hollywood Western, Bud dropped a dollar onto the table and hurriedly split. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well... those gods are still alive. They kind of follow Western Civilization around, living in the strongest countries, so like now they’re in the U.S. And sometimes they have kids with mortals. Kids called half-bloods.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Since the Western calendar was created at a time when there was no zero, we never see a day zero, or a year zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

What they don’t know is what I’ve noticed: When Amu wears Western clothes, he gives sermons on topics conservatives like to hear about, and when he wears Eastern clothes, his topics appeal to liberals. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The next morning—Monday, May 13—I left the tents at first light and walked two and a half miles through the deep cleft of the Western Cwm to the lip of the Icefall. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The resulting, long final chord of The Song of the Earth - Western music’s symbolic ‘home’ of C major, naturally - was described by the mid-twentieth-century English composer Benjamin Britten as being ‘imprinted on the atmosphere’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The chief preaches and revers the achievements of the Angkar, the philosophy of the government to build this perfect agrarian society where there are no crimes, no deceit, no trickery, and no Western influence. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Western Union man is standing at the cash register in his blue uniform and black-brimmed cap. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He came by just at dusk and crossed the street and went through the opening between Western Biological and the Hediondo Cannery. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time of Columbus the Western Hemisphere had been thoroughly painted with the human brush. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now Doc of the Western Biological Laboratory had no right to practice medicine. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Century Village is not like any other place in Western Civilization. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Western Canada was not, because it was buried beneath two massive, conjoined ice sheets, each thousands of feet deep and two thousand miles long. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then she unfolded a yellow Western Union form from her pocket and began reading out the numbers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Who introduced the idea of zero to the Western world?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There’s Maggie, the dog we got after my level nine Westerns, and then there are her puppies Lily, Atlas, and Bella, who were bred at the same farm where we found Maggie. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Xhalal’s extended family was broken up, sent to a variety of Western countries that had offered to accept refugees from Kosovo. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But in Western agriculture, the opposite is true. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In June 1940, France, having suffered devastating losses in battle, signed an armistice that allowed the German army to occupy much of Northern and Western France. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He came with Momma at Christmas, dressed in embroidered Western shirts and pointy-toed leather boots. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

By Western standards, Fort Hare’s worldliness may not seem like much, but to a country boy like myself, it was a revelation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, the Japanese people are understandably concerned about maintaining their traditions in the face of massive Western cultural influence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been in thirty-eight dramas, twelve crime pictures and comedies, eleven thrillers, eight action films, seven Westerns, six war movies, four documentaries, three horror flicks, two sci-fi films, and a musical, among others. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We saw Rio Bravo three times, but we saw our favorite Western, The Magnificent Seven, thirteen times. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The black diaspora was not just our own world but, in so many ways, the Western world itself. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t hear what the Western Union man says. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She stood there stupidly, staring at them, her arms hanging loose at her sides, like a gunslinger in a Western showdown. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The article was accompanied by a list of the ‘hundred most important books of Western Civilization.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had just returned from cleaning the Western Union and Pat’s Pets. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Claude Debussy was so intrigued by the Javanese dancers and musicians at the 1899 World’s Fair in Paris that he developed techniques for evoking the exotic sounds of the gamelan on a Western piano. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And as we walked down the walkway and got closer to the house, I saw this house had been built in the Western style. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the music books you'll find on the shelf are about Western music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The sun was way, way up in the sky, and the whole thing was like high noon in a Western. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

To handle the growing traffic from Western climbers and trekkers, new lodges and teahouses are springing up across the Khumbu region, but the new construction is especially evident in Namche Bazaar. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They forced the workers to back down and sidelined the union in Western Pennsylvania for two generations. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

For instance, the type found in Florida went by the Latin name of Athene cunicularia floridana and had darker feathers than the Western variety. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Western “love” concept, you take it apart, it really is lust. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of customers from the Bear Flag mistook Western Biological for a rival house and charged up the stairs whooping with joy. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For someone who grew up listening to Western music, Non-Western music will have a recognizably exotic sound. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Western ankles won’t do what Muslim ankles have done for a lifetime. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Boukreev’s refusal or inability to play the role of a conventional guide in the Western tradition exasperated Fischer. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Much Asian and Arabian music has a larger number, as a result of which it often sounds exotic and ‘out of tune’ to Western ears. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The Far Western restaurant was about nine miles from downtown Santa Maria. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Mothers and fathers rushed off to Western Union offices to send congratulations to their sons back east. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The poets were pale emasculates, and Western men held them in contempt. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our traditional wedding ceremonies are nothing like the standard Western nuptials. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He wore a Western suit jacket with a vest that closed too tightly around his stomach, but his pants were very loose. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Libby, if I don’t pull this off and make it back home by tomorrow night, I’m dead. Like, my parents will never let me leave Western Pennsylvania again.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Gender and race bias in the judgment of Western art music performance. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I finished cleaning the Western Union after it had opened and was late for school. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Arabic astronomy was highly sophisticated, and at least the equal of any Western astronomy until Copernicus—indeed, Copernicus may well have used technical solutions devised by Arab astronomers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She would be her normal gracious self and they would drink wine and talk about his book and her new zinnias and Igbo-Ukwu art and the Western Region elections fiasco. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Similar to Western Symphonies, these raga performances can last up to 1 hour. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Now, it seemed, Russia itself was being portrayed as a ‘primitive’ society, lodged in the Western mind as an archaic peasant culture. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As the Jews pitted their Western sensibilities against their Eastern Bible, the same battle was under way in the Christian world. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

True, he belonged to that category of people whose ancestors had inhabited the Western Hemisphere for thousands of years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I think rather that it came in response to a middle-class crisis of faith in North America and Western Europe. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the shore of the Western Sea, it had access both to the easiest sea route northward and to plentiful trade with China. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

They were more like present-day privileged Western students trawling the developing world and writing blogs about how the world’s poorest people enabled them to broaden their horizons. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But polyrhythm conceived from scratch by a composer, written down on the page, imposed on the Western symphony orchestra, player by player, was an utterly novel concept. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In Western music, the grouping of notes into families began with the Ancient Greeks, who gave each of the note-families, which they called tonoi or harmoniai, the name of a certain tribe or locality. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There was another tray with salt, pepper, and ketchup in case we had ordered the Western breakfast. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was soon to become the basis of the most influential philosophy in Western history—the Aristotelian doctrine that would live for two millennia. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In a wave of strikes in Western Pennsylvania, box makers, steelworkers, laundrywomen, and machinists all won higher pay. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, she returned several times to Europe, toured South America and the West Indies, and was one of the first Western artists to appear in Japan after the war. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

When the world assembled here, on this elevated ground overlooking Berlin, in 1936, it would behold the future not just of Germany but of Western civilization. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When microbes arrived in the Western Hemisphere, he argued, they must have swept from the coastlines first visited by Europeans to inland areas populated by Indians who had never seen a white person. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

However, since the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans did not have zero, the Western calendar does not have any zeros—an oversight that would cause problems millennia later. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe they have lots of videos of old Westerns. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

There were some poorer kids too, but even they had some Western, urban ways about them. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

One more or less appalled New York writer that year noted that “if Stanford had not been using a clumsily-built Western shell they might have won.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Much of the music that is popular today cannot really be classified as completely Western or Non-Western. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The Greeks began a process that became unusually pronounced in Western music: emphasis on a VIP class of performers whose brilliance was intended to strike awe and enchantment into the hearts of the ordinary listener. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I am helping you clean the Western Union.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Very far out in the Western Reach, where dragons are as common as mice.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Henry Schacht, a veteran industrialist now with Warburg Pincus, was brought in by Lucent, the successor of Western Electric, to help manage it through this crazy period. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Cuneiform writing, the remote ancestor of the Western alphabet, was invented in the Near East about 5,000 years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could hardly count my Western trip a failure,” he wrote, “for I had seen Chicago.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In Western culture, we predominantly use the major and minor scales. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Where could Western music go once - as it seemed at the end of the nineteenth century - all possibilities of the existing system of twelve notes and key-families had reached saturation point? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Joseph Stalin, the Soviet premier, called desperately for the Americans and British to launch an invasion of German-held Western Europe. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the 1500s CE, the total population of what we now call the Western Hemisphere was about one hundred million people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

This is so ingrained, that it is almost impossible to unlearn this Western cultural norm. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But generally during this era, throughout the Western world, the nature of criminal punishment was undergoing profound change. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, most live-born Western infants survive fatal infections as well and reproduce themselves, regardless of their intelligence and the genes they bear. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most Western tonal music is based on major and minor scales, both of which easily give that strongly tonal feeling. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Alexandria was the greatest city the Western world had ever seen. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hence it may have been Africa that gave birth to the languages spoken by the authors of the Old and New Testaments and the Koran, the moral pillars of Western civilization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Doc strolls from the Western Biological Laboratory and crosses the street to Lee Chong’s grocery for two quarts of beer. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It became the dominant philosophy in the Western world. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In fact, Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The wire of the streets, when it wants to, is something like Western Union with the F.B.I. for messengers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was fascinated by canned food simply because that miracle of Western invention was never allowed in my house. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The boys could sit in front of their door and look down across the track and across the lot and across the street right into the front windows of Western Biological. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With exquisite delicacy and tact,” Sullivan said, “Jefferey, at a meeting of the Committee, persuaded Daniel, come to Judgment, to add the Western men to the list of his nominations.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In those days, very few Africans had Western houses and they were considered a mark of great wealth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their terms, I was speaking for Western education, which was against Islam, in their opinion. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Long after Dad had forgotten about the revelation in Isaiah, and Mother was again hefting plastic jugs of “Western Family 2%” into the fridge, I would remember the Weavers. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Which movements are different from those found in Western children’s songs? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Triads are the chords around which every harmonic, or chordal, journey is structured, in virtually all the Western music written between the early fifteenth century and our own time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

From the side, he might have passed for human—until he turned, and Percy saw that his upper body was split into three different chests, each one dressed in a different-color Western shirt. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Longtime visitors to the Khumbu are saddened by the boom in tourism and the change it has wrought on what early Western climbers regarded as an earthly paradise, a real-life Shangri-La. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“But the gods can’t die now, right? I mean, as long as Western civilization is alive, they’re alive. So . . . even if I failed, nothing could happen so bad it would mess up everything, right?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The equality granted to women was not the kind envisioned by contemporary Western feminists—men and women were not treated as equivalent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Any reader steeped in the history of Western civilization would be forgiven for assuming that African food production began in ancient Egypt’s Nile Valley, land of the pharaohs and pyramids. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Baba paid for the stylish Western clothes I wanted, store-bought or Ma-made, but his eyes always lit up at the sight of Ma in a sari. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Erickson and Balee belong to a cohort of scholars that in recent years has radically challenged conventional notions of what the Western Hemisphere was like before Columbus. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I thought of Western democracy and freedom, I thought of the British parliamentary system. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With motivation like that, you can bet I hit all my routines at the Region 3 Championships that spring, placing first on floor and second all-around, and qualifying for Westerns. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Most standard music dictionaries and encyclopedias also focus almost exclusively on Western Classical music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The old man had the look of Westerns about him, and the brown-skinned one must weigh twenty stone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

No, Dany thought, and the Usurper’s dogs will learn that, when I return to Westerns. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One thing is for sure: Schoenberg and his fellow-travellers in the redesigning of the Western note system were not courting a mainstream audience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

After cleaning the Western Union, Roberto and I drove up Broadway to school, just like before. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Which brings us back to our Parisian composer, Perotin, and his great legacy to Western music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to lie in bed like an invalid while Luke was out there planning to destroy the Western world. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Because Sony bought transistor licensing rights from Western Electric at a time when the American electronics consumer industry was churning out vacuum tube models and reluctant to compete with its own products. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That they had virtually all come from lives of obscurity and poverty is in itself remarkable and a phenomenon rarely witnessed in Western music before the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The new arrival was a young man in Western dress, but the color of his skin suggested he was from this city. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still nobody was whipping any one on the Western front. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“The true Western spirit of hustle,” said Poirot with a smile. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I am half a world away from my kingdom even here. If I go any farther east I may never find my way home to Westerns." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Imagine it, a utopia on the Western plains, safe enough to withstand any shambler attack.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Flux’s Time Suck bucked after them like a marshal chasing stagecoach robbers in the old black-and-white Westerns Grandma liked. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was a single chair in the room, carefully positioned in the precise place that Dragons tone occupied off the coast of Westerns, and raised up to give a good view of the tabletop. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Many Western children's songs, folk songs, and pop songs are in this category. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

You can order anything living from Western Biological and sooner or later you will get it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any standard music theory book or course will introduce the basics of Western music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Cain must have learned about the Wyrdmarks in the White Fang Mountains—that cursed borderland between Adarlan and the Western Wastes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Red China after World War II closed its doors to the Western white world. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mayan system made more sense than the Western system does. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the early morning I cleaned the Western Union and Betty’s Fabrics. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the city's Western sector had only a month's worth of food and fuel supplies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Descriptions of the red car’s occupants, provided by witnesses who had noticed them loitering in the area where Otto Ziegler’s body was discovered, had been circulated through the Midwest and Western states. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

You find in your Western civilization that when a man’s wife’s physical beauty fails, she loses her attraction. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best thing about the story was the photographs—anglers wading knee-deep in blue Western rivers lined with tall cottonwoods, rows of snowy mountain crags visible in the distance. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all his exposure to the best minds of the Western world, he allowed only the narrowest interpretation to touch him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is snowing in the riverlands, in Westerns, she almost said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They were the only Western force to fly on the Eastern Front, and they were stationed right by the 125th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But the producers liked my audition, and they’ve given me a role in their upcoming Western/ Now, I know what you’re thinking. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He crossed the lot, crossed the street, and disappeared between Western Biological and the Hediondo. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Western communication has what linguists call a “transmitter orientation”—that is, it is considered the responsibility of the speaker to communicate ideas clearly and unambiguously. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Other Western mathematicians didn’t change the word so heavily and called zero cifra, which became cipher. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

So, in places like Australia and the Americas, not only do most of the people speak European languages, much of their music also sounds Western. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He forms two lines, with blue-clad French soldiers dug in on one side and gray-clad Germans attacking mercilessly on the other, just as they had fought on the Western front during the Great War. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

As for the horses, they were from Europe; except for llamas in the Andes, the Western Hemisphere had no beasts of burden. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some Western states even find glory in half-forgotten murders and bank robberies. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As sociologist Bruce Western has shown, the notion that the 1990s—the Clinton years—were good times for African Americans, and that “a rising tide lifts all boats,” is pure fiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Western civilization eventually had to make a choice between Aristotle and the Bible, which says that the finite universe sprang forth from the void and prophesies its ultimate destruction. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

By the end of the week I’d managed to squeeze into introductory courses in English, American history, music and religion, but I was stuck in a junior-level course on art in Western civilization. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Concealed at the top of Figure 19.2 is our first surprise, a big shock for Eurocentric believers in the superiority of so-called Western civilization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The result, with the arrival of Western technology, is that the more entrepreneurial societies are now exploiting Western technology to overwhelm their conservative neighbors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

With a craft knife and ruler, he dissected the first page of the Book and reassembled it in the traditional Western languages order—left to right, parallel rows. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Removing the Western clothing in which the body had been on display, Sheik Hassoun washed the body with special holy oil. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the sound of traditional Western folk music, look for collections of folk music from England or Australia, sea shanties, or American cowboy songs. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“We talked about physics,” Oppenheimer recalled, recognizing that Ernest’s intellectual interests were narrower than his own and that he might not be especially receptive to wide-ranging symposia on Eastern philosophy and Western art. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Some of the scales that sound "exotic" to the Western ear are taken from the musical traditions of eastern Europe, the Middle East, and western Asia. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

America and its Western allies, in contrast, saw Stalin's intransigence as the actions of a new Hitler, someone bent on undoing all they had fought and died for. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Smuts spoke about the importance of supporting Great Britain against the Germans and the idea that England stood for the same Western values that we, as South Africans, stood for. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I ever return to Earth, I'm going to buy a nice little home in Western Australia. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

France at that time was flooded with Egyptian artifacts, stolen by Napoleon and later made available to Western scholars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To the Western Union closest to the Minneapolis bus station.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Unlike the Western universe, the Hindu cosmos was infinite in extent; beyond our own universe were innumerable other universes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Miners in Western Pennsylvania lost what little leverage they had gained and any hope of a new pay increase to cover the spike in prices over the last few years. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“Pages and cupbearers. If die Great Masters make objection, explain to them that in Westerns it is a great honor for a child to be chosen to serve at court.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The subject he had taught in Indianapolis was Contemporary Problems in Western Civilization. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other great composers of Western music lived during other periods: Bach and Handel were Baroque era composers, for example; Brahms and Wagner, Romantic53 ; and Ravel and Debussy, Impressionist. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I was standing in the Westerns section when a guy next to me, sipping Coke from a 7-Eleven cup, pointed to The Magnif­icent Seven and asked me if I had seen it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

To Western ears, it seems strange that the flight engineer would bring up this subject just once. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The Egyptian civilization’s lack of zero was bad for the calendar and bad for the future of Western mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But many other musical traditions around the world are not based on Western scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

For example, an American Vela satellite detected an intense double flash of light from the vicinity of the South Atlantic and Western Indian Ocean on September 22, 1979. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We used the proceeds to pay admission to the King’s cinema, on First Avenue, where our appetite for bloody murder movies would be satisfied by a Western or gladiator or secret agent movie. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer lies somewhere between witchcraft and Western medicine. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He means to take me back to Westerns and sell me to my sister. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Still, she finished repeating the Western Union numbers before she continued braiding, the phone lodged between her shoulder and ear. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I finished cleaning the Western Union and headed for school. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

If I were a dragon, I could fly to Westerns, she thought when he was gone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And it is His will that we survive, that we keep alive the flame of Western civilization in this dark continent ruled by religions of the anti-Christ. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first place I’d lived that was Western, not African, and I felt I was entering a new world whose rules were not yet clear to me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Rome had collapsed, and Western civilization seemed but a shadow of Rome’s past glory. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Evolutionists believed that the Eastern and Western Hemispheres had developed in concert. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Today, segments of Western society publicly repudiate racism. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

To my oxygen-depleted mind, the clouds drifting up the grand valley of ice known as the Western Cwm looked innocuous, wispy, insubstantial. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

No longer were the Western art of geometry and the Eastern art of algebra separate domains. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It’s generally thought of as a place even more desperate than the Western frontier. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bob says Westerns are nothing like real life. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Because of the PAC’s anticommunism, they became the darlings of the Western press and the American State Department, which hailed its birth as a dagger to the heart of the African left. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some older recordings, the singing would be re-recorded by a Western chorus, which took away from the experience of hearing the song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But in this case it is easy to find the first cause—Western science got started because the Renaissance happened. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Western Union man put his glasses back on. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Many musical styles have been invented that mix Western and Non-Western traditions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In a Western, you can tell who the good guys are and who the bad guys are, and the good guys always win. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Unlike Western cities, Tiwanaku had no markets—no bazaars full of shouting, bargaining, conniving entrepreneurs; no street displays of produce, pottery, and plonk; no jugglers and mimes trying to attract crowds; no pickpockets. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He looked like an Indian on horseback in an old Western movie, attacking a wagon train. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Accomplished ballroom dancers, sluggards who knew neither traditional nor Western dancing, all joined in the indlamu, the traditional Zulu war dance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, Reich employed a method of driving music along through constantly evolving reiteration, which was quite alternative to the tried and tested Western formulas perfected over several hundred years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The United States and other Western nations demanded the abolishing of South Africa’s Draconian security laws, which allowed for detention without trial. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rivera where to find the cheapest hair salon and the best Goodwill and how to get to the nearest Western Union. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The height of violence for us was on the weekly television Western imported from Hollywood and dubbed clumsily in Spanish. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Oh, my dad is the all-powerful evil Titan lord who wants to destroy Western Civilization. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma that dealt with the murders of the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was not a cartoon, not a romance, not a Western. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“And Western Civilization along with it, if we don’t stop him. But we will stop him. You will not be alone in that fight.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the mid-fifteenth century, Western music was a dynamic, confident art form. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“He’s a classical music person but loath to admit it in public because it’s such a Western taste.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Pittsburgh office of Western Union received the cable at 9:10 P.M., and a blue-suited messenger raced through the cool spring night to bring it to Ferris. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The lights are off and Malcolm is already asleep in the bed next to her when she hears the voices in the Best Western hallway. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

If you were delivering telegrams for Western Union in New York you’d be earning twenty-five dollars a week and living in luxury. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

For the infinite had already begun to gnaw at the roots of Western thought, thanks to Zeno of Elea, a philosopher reckoned by his contemporaries to be the most annoying man in the West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I just hated Western toilets and never used them till I had accidents. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Every police agency in the Western Hemisphere clamored that no test would detect its presence, in an instance of illegal entry here. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“By the Western Gate. Why do you ask?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

America, of all the Western nations, has been best placed to prove the uselessness and the obsolescence of the concept of color. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

At last Aeneas was told in a dream that the place destined for them was a country far away to the west, Italy—in those days called Hesperia, the Western Country. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt worse when I remembered that I had to clean the Western Union and be at school on time to welcome the incoming freshmen at the school assembly. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Aegon's carpenters had shaped it after the land of Westerns, sawing out each bay and peninsula until the table nowhere ran straight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

‘The King of Gondor and Lord of the Western Lands,’ said Gandalf; ‘and he has taken back all his ancient realm. He will ride soon to his crowning, but he waits for you.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Reading also enabled me to sense something of the shape, the major concerns, of Western thought. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given that the Ice Age made Europe north of the Loire Valley uninhabitable until some eighteen thousand years ago, the Western Hemisphere should perhaps no longer be described as the “New World.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I had read many Westerns, of course, doing research, and had even written several, had indeed won the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America three times for Western novels. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

So while they’re ignoring me, they comment on her perfectly arched eyebrows; almond-shaped eyes; tall, straight Western nose; and oval face. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went on to have a celebrated career as a Soviet intelligence instructor and was sought after as an expert on Western espionage tactics. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty ships would be enough to land a small army on . the shore of Westerns. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He thought he was the handsomest guy in the Western Hemisphere. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

"I simply happen to find Eastern philosophy more satisfactory than Western. Since you ask." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Her own voice is very small in that room of the Best Western. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

"When does your ship return to Westerns, Captain?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Doc is the owner and operator of the Western Biological Laboratory. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Red Cross was responsible and independent, an international organization to whom the Western powers and the United Nations paid attention. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I had read all those books and seen God knows how many Western films and knew that people had used packhorses. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was a paradigm of Western influence gone wrong. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

NOTE: You may find the terms "Western" and "Non-Western" to be too Eurocentric, but they are very well entrenched, so you'll need to know what they mean. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Fuller based his work on the principle he had learned at Case Western, the belief that if conditions were to improve for poor people, they themselves would have to implement the necessary changes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They are what makes Western music sound familiar and easy to understand. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I’m hoping for a romance, or maybe a Western. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see a Western Union window here.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Because Western Australia is on the opposite side of Earth from Idaho. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a cruel irony, ballet commentators back in Russia were irked by Western reviews of the Stravinsky- Nijinsky ballets, which used adjectives such as 'barbaric’, ‘primitive’, ‘wild’ or ‘savage’ in almost every paragraph. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I saw a woman wearing a long black fur coat and dark Western clothes, very fancy. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The value of Western Union’s shares fell by five percent. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At the same time that he was force-feeding us tribalism we were learning other ways of life, modern ways, from mingling with children whose parents had shed their tribal cloth and embraced Western culture. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Western music is very melodically and harmonically oriented, with a continuous rhythmic pulse. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The colossus of Wagner is an inescapable reality of late-nineteenth- century music, indeed of recent Western civilisation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Beyond that, what was the population of the Western Hemisphere in 1491? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One day, I hope, her immense contribution to Western music and the courage of her determination to pursue music at the highest level against all odds will be properly recognised. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Doors burst open all along the walls, and skeletal warriors marched in, hundreds of them, from every time period and nation in Western civilization. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

After a period in which the Western world had enjoyed order, tranquility, unity, and oneness with its True God and Trinity, there appeared winds of change which spelled evil days ahead. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But generally during this era, throughout the Western world, the nature of criminal punishment was undergoing profound change. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the afternoon with English for You and Me, learning how to diagram sentences—as if there was some reason why anyone in the Western Hemisphere needed to know how to do this. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Negative numbers had long been useful to algebraists—even Western algebraists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The difference, however, is that wages and rents in Bangalore are less than one-fifth what they are in those Western capitals. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Almost one out of ten people died from a sickness that in Western societies was just a childhood annoyance. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She says she has sent the money through a female immigrant who lives with her, because the woman gets a Western Union discount. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But “Indian” was not a category that Tisquantum himself would have recognized, any more than the inhabitants of the same area today would call themselves “Western Hemisphereans.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Afrikaners were dumbfounded; to them the award was another example of the perversity of Western liberals and their bias against white South Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zero conflicted with the fundamental philosophical beliefs of the West, for contained within zero are two ideas that were poisonous to Western doctrine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We drove by a sign too fast for me to read it, but Rachel said, “Western Museum of Mining & Industry.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She can hear the steady thump of it as she gazes out, waiting for the familiar headlights of her mother’s Honda Civic to turn in to the Best Western lot. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

For Western musicians, an introduction to ragas, that is neither too vague nor too technical, does not seem to be available as of this writing. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In the early months of World War II, San Francisco’s Fillmore district, or the Western Addition, experienced a visible revolution. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Couldn’t Odenigbo then be said to adore the Western culture that produced classical music?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If he wanted to combine his love of medicine with anthropology, recording his observations, testing his academic theories, he thought, there was perhaps no better laboratory in the Western Hemisphere. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Every honest man in Westerns will turn his head and spit at the mention of the Night’s Watch.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Out of the chaos and confusion, the evenly spaced octave was born and we have lived with that huge shift in Western music ever since. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There is so much to tell about the Western country in that day that it is hard to know where to start. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I come from a country where people are more likely to visit sangomas—shamans, traditional healers, pejoratively known as witch doctors—than they are to visit doctors of Western medicine. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When he finally spoke, he talked about the chaos in the Western Region. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

So while cartography and navigational instruments taken in isolation are neutral devices, in practice they are part of a package of technologies that ensured Western global dominance for five hundred years. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Several other companies, such as the Great Western Spinach Growers’ Association and the Energetic Breakfast Oats Company, wanted him to recommend their product, too, and offered him large sums of cash. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

"You speak the Common Tongue well, Arstan. Are you of Westerns?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a Western that was also a romance. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The whole stream of Western philosophy has now wound up in a cul-de-sac. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This latter distinction was made on the curious premise that Africans did not naturally like bread, which was a more sophisticated or “Western” taste. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They taught reading and writing and arithmetic; they also taught Christianity and other Western ways of thinking. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we saw a Western, and after that a spy adventure—‘Five Fingers.’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of landing on Brisbane, Skylab broke up, with some parts falling into the Indian Ocean off Western Australia. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Caesar’s scheme, in turn, remained the standard in the Western world for some 1,600 years, forming the basis of the Gregorian calendar we use today. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But it was not a Western; it was baton-twirling lessons at Ida Nee’s house in Ida Nee’s backyard. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

A Gulf & Western infrared Eye-View Monitor was set up just off to the left, carefully calibrated to track the fovea movements of each subject. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the Renaissance to the present day, most Western music has tended to be tonal. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

One hundred seventy flights transported 19,000 troops from the United States to Western Europe. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been uncomfortably cold since leaving camp, having underdressed in anticipation of the solar-oven effect that had occurred every other morning when the sun hit the Western Cwm. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Get to the nearest Western Union station tomorrow morning,” I said quickly. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

This is what drove Maimonides, the twelfth-century rabbi, to write a tome to reconcile the Semitic, Eastern Bible with the Greek, Western philosophy that permeated Europe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Frantic to escape the new violence caused by it, blacks, called Exodusters, streamed out of North Carolina heading for Western states. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Through the north-facing window, she could glimpse the Best Western that was kitty-corner to the courthouse. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

As the collar of the average Western worker made its journey from blue to white over the course of the last century, the value of the persuasive arts for career advancement has grown in proportion. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Even though China actually had the biggest economy in the world in the eighteenth century, it was Western countries, companies, and explorers who were doing most of the globalizing and shaping of the system. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Already the Soviets maneuvered for control of Europe, where their espionage networks held the advantage over America and its Western allies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In contemporary Western society, buying a magazine on astrology—at a newsstand, say—is easy; it is much harder to find one on astronomy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal one dead white person. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

These supposedly “Western” clothes marked them as identifying with infidels in the eyes of Fazlullah’s followers, so, for their safety, he had the boys switch to the traditional tunic and pants of the shalwar kamiz. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Come now, Percy. What you call ‘Western civilization.’ The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It could in fact be the single most important invention in all Western music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The final result covered almost fifteen acres and was the largest earthen structure in the Western Hemisphere; though built out of unsuitable material in a floodplain, it has stood for a thousand years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Below, the steep gray ice of the Lhotse Face dropped 4,000 vertical feet to the floor of the Western Cwm. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Lanky, with a loping gait, and dressed in what some Europeans thought was Western or Texan clothing, he was described as being “laconic as the hero of an old cowboy movie.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the hut in which we slept, there was no furniture in the Western sense. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are all examples of Western music, and are all more like each other than they are like a Navajo lullaby, a Chinese opera, or a west African praise song. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

From the bergschrund at 23,000 feet that marked its upper end, this great river of ice flowed two and a half miles down a relatively gentle valley called the Western Cwm. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But there was a striking difference between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres: the degree of interaction between their great cultural centers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Of course there’s a Western Union window here. All bus stations have a Western Union window.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was not seen as an unusual request from a senior KGB official like Yurchenko, who regularly toured the city to meet secretly with agents he was running against the CIA and other Western powers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Allied occupation consisted of Western soldiers, mostly Americans, who were stationed in Japan to restore order and tell the Japanese people how to make a new government. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The supernatural link between aesthetics, ratios, and the universe became one of the central and long-lasting tenets of Western civilization. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But amaMfengu were an industrious people, and because of their contact with Europeans, they were often more educated and “Western” than other Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You might even say they are the source of it, or at least, they are tied so tighdy to it that they couldn’t possibly fade, not unless all of Western civilization were obliterated. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was a moment, just a moment, like the hesitation in a cheap Western movie just before the gunfight starts. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The route took us up the gently sloping floor of the Western Cwm, the highest box canyon on earth, a horseshoe-shaped defile gouged from the heart of the Everest massif by the Khumbu Glacier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A city which has become the pivot of the Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern poles of the nation. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

With the help of high-speed communications, stringent training, and standardized forms, these young Indians can fairly rapidly be converted into basic Western accountants at a fraction of the cost. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

But her name remains hallowed among union people in Western Pennsylvania, and her spirit lives on whenever someone stands up for the American ideals of equality and justice for all. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Other types of music, such as traditional Western African drumming, may have very complex meters that can be difficult for the beginner to identify. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The Radio Mullah continued his campaign against anything he deemed un-Islamic and Western. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

These scales are often borrowed from Non-western traditions, but are then used in ways typical of Western music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Now this tea shop was the only building in all that town which had an upper floor, except the Western Pagoda, which stood five stories high outside the West Gate. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

This list is by no means exhaustive, but it does provide a wide range of commonly used instruments from Western and world cultures. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But he wasn’t just interfering with health care and speaking out against girls’ schools—he was also threatening barbers who offered so-called Western haircuts and destroying music stores. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Zero never worked its way into ancient Western numbers, so it is unlikely that the omicron is the mother of our 0. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It draws its comedy from the fact that what, to Flanders and Swann’s twentieth- century Western audience, is a commonplace, is heresy to the cannibals of the song. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Figure 5.33: Much Western music is harmonically pretty simple, so it can be very useful just to know I, IV, and V in your favorite keys. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She has done all the things one can do in a Best Western while she waits. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

His second step was to bring in a Western firm—a subsidiary of Boeing called Alteon—to take over the company’s training and instruction programs. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

As construction continued, Oppenheimer was often seen strolling the streets of his growing town in jeans and a Western shirt, his thumbs tucked into his belt. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Failing a quiz did nothing to undermine my new devotion to an old creed, but a lecture on Western art did. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Callers arrive at Western Biological to see Doc, and he crosses the street to Lee Chong’s for five quarts of beer. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His chests each wore a different color Western shirt—green, yellow, red, like a stoplight. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was a member of the Advisory Board in the Western Native Township, an elected body of four local people who dealt with the authorities on matters relating to the townships. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the entangling personal motives, the debate is one of the oldest in the Western philosophical tradition, between nomos and physis. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Palestine, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of the Western Auto the men started a game of pulling alongside us and yelling things out the window, mostly things we couldn’t make out because our windows were rolled up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Western Biological was right across the street and facing the vacant lot. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twelve days later The Savage of Surrey had been released and could be seen, heard and felt in every first-class feely-palace in Western Europe. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

For classical music as a whole, the 1920s were marked by deep fissures in the previously unchallenged prestige of Western ‘art’ music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But there existed in the Western world an element that baffled and frightened the Communist party: the prevalence of self-achieved literacy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He owned half- a-dozen Western suits, and I spent many an hour carefully making the crease in his trousers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slam my laptop down, abruptly ending my Skype call with Stella as Barb and I stare at each other in a classic Old Western standoff. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

This list comprises the basic elements of music as we understand them in Western culture. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

We turned and I saw that he had the dark features of a Pashtun, but he was wearing Western clothes. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

If a Christian is stopped at the airport for trying to bring a gun on a plane, is the Western world notified that a Christian was arrested today and is being questioned? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe I had bought into the Western depictions of what it meant to fall in love. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Through that window he could watch his Western Star graving in the graving dock. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought comes that Western civilized, scientific, technologic society is a standing proof of human progress, in having risen above such imaginings. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They incorporated Western dyes into their weaving, became silversmiths and ranchers, and now drive trucks while continuing to live in traditional dwellings. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

To wear a false name galls me, but nothing else would save me, or get me dear across the width of Orgoreyn to the coast of the Western Sea. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

"He told me he was going to the Western Market, in search of wine." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If you live in a Western culture, it can be difficult to find recordings of non-Western folk music, since most Western listeners do not have a taste for it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The twelve-note octave as we know it became a firm fixture of Western music after the publication in 1722 of J. S. Bach’s forty-eight preludes and fugues for the 'Well-Tempered Keyboard’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

No one would lightly adopt such a name in contemporary Western society. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And now a fairy—the Queen Mother of the Western Skies!— was flying toward the Master Archer. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I came here, I swore I wouldn’t do any Westerns. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Western Union office in San Francisco was overwhelmed with hundreds of congratulatory telegrams for the Howards, including those from Bing Crosby, A1 Jolson, and Fred Astaire. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not go back to sleep, so I got up and headed for the Western Union. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She thought that maybe—just maybe—Western Civilization was in a decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He claimed that this medical aid was not meant to help; he said it was a ploy by Western countries to harm Muslim children. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But, eventually, they permitted me to stay, and I discovered the great African patriots who fought against Western domination. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since its homeland includes the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of Western civilization and animal domestication, ancient peoples must have experimented extensively with onagers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Annabelle stands at the window and watches the arc of headlights as her mom and her brother leave the Best Western parking lot. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Contained in that 170-year- old architectural hodgepodge are many aspects of the modern history of prisons in the Western world. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is still in front of the Best Western, where it is very easy to be optimistic. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Figure 4.47: The chromatic scale includes all the pitches normally found in Western music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Because of this, most traditional and popular Western music uses major or minor scales rather than the chromatic or whole tone scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Once a month, it’s reserved for me and any potential business meetings I might have. I thought you might prefer some Western food, at any rate.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

North Korea would have lost the Korean War and disappeared as a state without the help of the Chinese, who fought the United States and other Western forces to a stalemate. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Western Biological deals in strange and beautiful wares. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prendergast’s father got him a job delivering telegrams for Western Union, which the boy held for a year and a half. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Rahim Khan knew of a fellow in Peshawar who specialized in weaving them, sometimes for Western journalists who covered the war. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Daario would soon be at her side once more, and together they would sail for Westerns. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We’re taught that Western civilization originated in the Near East, was brought to brilliant heights in Europe by the Greeks and Romans, and produced three of the world’s great religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Being born poor in the U.S. gives you disadvantages unlike anything in Western Europe and Japan and Canada.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

For bin Laden, who despised the Western influence on the Middle East, his religion, Islam, influenced his political beliefs. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It was designed in the Western style, a long strand, each bead the same size and of an identical pinkish tone, with a heavy brooch of ornate silver to clasp the ends together. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that there is also a big difference in how number-naming systems in Western and Asian languages are constructed. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

One possible explanation for this may be that the Western branch of Christianity took certain elements of its note-family system from the Eastern Byzantine system of modes, called Oktoechos. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Trash trundled past like tumbleweeds in old Western movies. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame in 2004. African-American cowboy crooner Herb Jeffries dies 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

Westerns reveled in gunfights, saloon brawls and cavalry charges. ‘Masters of Sex’ Starts Second Season on Showtime 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

When the Berlin Wall tumbled in 1989, its Western side was covered with graffiti art. Canvassing the City: From the Berlin Wall to North Hollywood 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

Still, in the end it is a woman – Linda Corcoran – who leads the Great Western Chorus of Bristol to a record-breaking eighth British title. The secret of barbershop: harmonise, project ? and smile! 2010-07-27T21:29:00Z

In addition to his Emmys, he's also a Grammy and Peabody Award winner, he holds honors from the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and The Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University. LeVar Burton has a shaky "Jeopardy!" debut, but he's still very much in this game 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

This is not just rooted in the Western condition. Style icon André Leon Talley on navigating the fashion world: “My armor is my self-invention” 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

It's amazing that since I came of age in the late '60s, to now, the self-image of women in Western countries has been transformed. New doc "9to5" spotlights the women who rose up against sexism and harassment at work in the 1970s 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

In “Of Beards and Men,” the historian Christopher Oldstone-Moore plumbs the many meanings of facial hair in Western history. ‘Of Beards and Men’ review: The hairy truth about shaving through the ages 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

It remains fairly pristine even as it kicks up enough dust to confound the highway patrols of several Western states. Barry Newman, Star of the Cult Film ‘Vanishing Point,’ Dies at 92 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

Interlaced throughout “School Girls” is a note of poignancy: for these girls, the pageant is not an example of female exploitation or marker of shabby Western values. Review | Mean girls are at home in Ghana, too 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

If it works, it may herald a new venture in the stagnant world of Western department stores. In Venice, Duty-Free Shopping Takes on a Whole New Look 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

According to the World Wildlife Fund, there are fewer than 900 mountain gorillas and about 100,000 Western lowland gorillas in the world. A passion to save gorillas makes one 11-year-old a ‘hero’ 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

Then the second part would be analyzing what the Dalai Lama is, the role of the Dalai Lama, why is there no Western equivalent of the Dalai Lama. Russell Brand on His New Show, Television Sidekicks and All That Salty Language 2012-06-28T12:00:11Z

So I went looking for lodging in one of the nearby towns, Minturn, an old mining settlement that feels authentically Western, because it is, not like a commercially fabricated Swiss village. Vail, the Thrifty Way 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

The pilot project, which began testing in scattered Western outlets two years ago, recently completed expansion to all McDonald's California outlets from San Diego north to Bakersfield. McDonald's asks, TV with that? New channel on menu 2012-09-26T19:04:12Z

And at a time when Latin and French dominated Western literature, Chaucer wrote in the vulgar vernacular of Middle English, the slang of its day. | ?The Canterbury Tales Remixed?: ?The Canterbury Tales Remixed? at SoHo Playhouse ? Review 2011-12-16T23:28:53Z

Western Bridge was conceived as a project rather than an institution, its own temporary nature the key to its continuing energy. Western Bridge exhibit looks at the fleetingness of time 2012-03-15T21:02:07Z

The young artists were confined at the Carrolup River Native Settlement, a government institution in Western Australia. Colgate to Give Aboriginal Art to Australian University 2013-05-07T21:58:20Z

"The Western ways of health and nutrition are surely not the answer for melanated people and apparently not for anyone else either." Cosmo Setepenra, a.k.a. Baton Rouge police shooter Gavin Eugene Long, revealed his 'laws of the universe' in three self-published books 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

Although phone calls between colleagues on both sides continue, Russian museums are otherwise sealed off from Western influences and partnerships. A Blockbuster Exhibition, Ripped in Two by Russia’s War 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

This history emphasises that the capitalism upon which Western wealth was built was not particularly laissez-faire. A grand tour 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

For Wide Open School Margaret Wertheim will lead three workshops on the history of Western scientific thinking about space from Descartes to string theory, asking how do mathematicians and physicists conceive of space? Making space: where art meets physics 2012-06-13T17:07:50Z

Made in China, the bowl is decorated with Western sailing ships under construction, probably taken from technical drawings, but with a delicate, inescapably Chinese landscape backdrop. Special Report: Asian Art: How Maritime Routes Led to Cultural Exchanges 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z

Mr. Greenhill, her former manager, marveled that Ms. McCaslin, who had made a career singing of Western imagery and themes, turned out to be, as he said, “a true Native American artist.” Mary McCaslin, Folk Singer Who Lamented the Lost Old West, Dies at 75 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

The Western tradition of the isolated heroic genius toiling away in a lab or study is based on myth as much as fact, she added. Innovation Far Removed From the Lab 2011-02-10T00:12:30Z

He also turned out such series as the Francis Tucket adventure books and Murphy Westerns. Gary Paulsen, celebrated children’s author, dies at 82 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. McMurtry himself ultimately likened it, in terms of its sweep, to a Western “Gone With the Wind.” Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

In 1967, the term “Arabic literature,” for most Western readers, meant two books, the Quran and “The Arabian Nights.” Denys Johnson-Davies, Translator of Arab Writers, Is Dead at 94 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

The installation, titled “Short Cut,” by Dan Webb, was part of the 2010 Hill Climb renovation, extending from the elevator to Western Avenue. 7 hidden-gem attractions to check out at Seattle’s Pike Place Market 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

The authors, speaking to promote China's top literary award - the Mao Dun Literature Prize - said modern Chinese literature still does not attract many Western readers despite the country's global economic presence. Chinese writers call for more translations 2011-08-26T11:11:09Z

But maybe it’s fitting that the best track has been used for a contemporary Western, even if is shot in New Mexico, not Italy. Weekend Listening: Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi's Rome 2011-11-11T19:12:50Z

As she approached, Cattelan leaned forward, in a climate-controlled room that housed one of the most physically fragile works in all of Western art, held out two fingers and said, ‘‘Cigarette?’’ A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z

And though rampant with provocation, Can lacked the self-conscious guile of much Western experimentalism. Holger Czukay, 79, Influential Rock Experimenter, Is Dead 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

It’s Stegner’s ability to perceive that common thread, and to hear the counter-individualist strains in other Western voices, that makes him hard to classify. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

McNeill countered that they were very much part of one story, one of "contacts and "exchanges" and the triumph of Western innovation over the stagnation of Muslim and Chinese culture. " William H McNeill, prize-winning world historian, dead at 98 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Every July, about a million cowboy hat-wearing visitors come to Alberta in Western Canada for the Calgary Stampede, a 10-day festival of exhibitions and competitions, as well as one of the world’s largest rodeos. At the Calgary Stampede, music takes a qualified ride 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

That's why we hate them or fear them, mostly, in Western culture. In praise of flat places: On queerness, landscapes and understanding our desires 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

Sibisi In African performance, the naming of things isn’t didactical, and you could say that by trying to do so you play into Western hierarchies of high art and low art. Finding a Voice (and Bodies) for an Untold South African Story 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

“A Pilgrimage to Eternity” is also a stunningly comprehensive history of both Christianity and Western Europe. Timothy Egan Makes Room for the Holy Spirit 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

So does the reminder that there was a time when much of the Western world united in the face of catastrophe. Review: ‘Come From Away,’ a Canadian Embrace on a Grim Day 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

His interest in Western art is primarily formal, to judge from this presentation. Art Review: ‘Revolutionary Ink’: Wu Guanzhong Paintings at Asia Society 2012-07-19T21:09:29Z

The concert, which mixed Asian and Western classical music, was followed by a dinner that celebrated the Year of the Tiger. East Meets West at Lincoln Center 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Ikeda says the Tokyo String Quartet, with four Japanese musicians playing Western classical fare, was initially met with confusion in America. Tokyo String Quartet to make last Seattle visit 2013-04-12T19:35:10Z

The center houses the Western Australia Museum, the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, along with two theaters and a library. Next Stop : Catching Perth’s Wave in Western Australia 2014-02-27T20:21:56Z

He worked in a Western Electric plant and rode with a motorcycle club. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

The special relationship in fact prescribed it: Washington pressed Britain to involve itself in Europe to enhance America’s goal of bolstering Western Europe as a self-sustaining “pillar” in the Cold War. Britain and the U.S.: A Forced and Unequal Marriage 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

In 1811, Latrobe dreamed that, “The days of Greece may be revived in the woods of America, and Philadelphia become the Athens of the Western World.” Review | Philadelphia might have been a sylvan Athens. Instead, we got Washington, our muddy Rome. 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Sex and commerce intertwine in ways that are sometimes familiar to Western viewers and sometimes totally alien. Art In Review: JULIKA RUDELIUS: ‘Rituals of Capitalism’ 2012-08-09T20:27:20Z

“Our families lived by this through the Western influence, and it is why a lot of our records are well preserved.” Hawaii’s Next Wave of Natural Skin-Care Brands 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

The dynamic of the U.S. being an instigator and Western powers being an instigator, that always existed. The ‘Black Panther’ Sequel That Never Was 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

Change, many Saudis say, is inevitable because market forces will oblige the powers that be to adapt to a huge population under 25 and a growing middle class educated abroad and steeped in Western values. | The TV Watch: Saudi Arabia: Ramadan TV Gently Pushes Saudi Boundaries 2012-08-20T02:22:34Z

At the same time, with government determination to build culture as a form of national power, and willingness to spend on the effort, Chinese officials are happy to import Western cultural expertise. New York Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony Become Partners 2012-11-14T03:00:00Z

The privileged Western mind, obsessed as it is with the ACA, boggles at this decision: selling your own child to support your family or to give her a chance at a better life! “The Wrong Light”: Sex, lies and the story of Mickey Choosetha 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

Allowing for the fact that few mainstream Western writers have much insight into such characters, Mr. Hayes does what he can to breathe life into the ideas of hatred and vengeance as life-altering motivations. ‘I Am Pilgrim,’ by Terry Hayes 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

What caused a violent conflict between Sherpas and Western climbers on Mt. The Twenty-Five Most-Read New Yorker Archive Stories of 2018 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

And the palace we stayed in cost about half what you would pay in your typical Best Western. How my family of four pulled off a Portugal trip during the pandemic 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Invited: Being American and trying to buy your way into something to which you weren’t invited might be the definition of boorishness for the entirety of Western Europe. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Pointers for engaging a friend’s needling fiance 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Selling art abroad through brokers in Western Europe guaranteed a steady stream of cash. Stasi Art Seizure Leads to Court Case Involving New Yorkers 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

The founder and master of the New College of the Humanities in London, Grayling offers a witty, learned, authoritative survey of philosophical thought in both the Western and Eastern traditions. New & Noteworthy, From Philosophy to New York Architecture 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

In the war of movies about heroic CIA operatives fighting Islamic bad guys in Western Asia, the nicer one took the big prizes at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 70th Golden Globe Awards. The Golden Globe Awards: Big Wins for Argo and Les Misérables 2013-01-14T09:59:52Z

Soon, another Leonard Western, "Valdez Is Coming," became a star vehicle for Burt Lancaster. Best-selling author Elmore Leonard dies at 87 2013-08-20T14:32:52Z

It’s one of the best bookstores in Western North Carolina. This tiny North Carolina town is an Asheville alternative for the crowd-weary 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

She graduated from the University of New Mexico and received a master’s degree in business administration, health care management from Western Governors University, an online program based in Salt Lake City. Adrienne McGill, Brian Adams 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z

After striding into a sleekly designed Dallas home in his Western blazer and cowboy boots, he sits down and begins deal-making. 'Dallas' returns to city it made famous 2011-12-10T22:16:04Z

The 65-piece "Winnie" orchestra is a conventional Western ensemble, but the music, sung in English and Xhosa, borrows themes from protest and other South African songs. New opera tells Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's story 2011-04-27T17:31:07Z

Sheeler died last week at his home in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, according to Case Western Reserve University, where he taught journalism and media writing. Pulitzer-winning reporter winner Jim Sheeler dead at 53 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

That impacts how they behave, she claims, something Western liberals, who worship at the altar of cultural relativism, don’t want to recognize. Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Muslim Men and Western Women 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Unlike most store-bought apple cider doughnuts, the boxes on TJ's store shelves are specially made by a family-owned bakery in Western Massachusetts. 9 Trader Joe's apple products to pick up this fall 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

They see the advantage that, maybe if I get involved in vaulting, they’ll also try Western riding later. Equestrian Vaulting Gains Fans in the Northeast 2010-03-25T21:44:00Z

As for the Philharmonic, a 2011 European tour showed little advance over the 1950s, focusing again on Western and Central European composers. Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z

The composer uses a familiar Western orchestra to accompany the sheng, but includes 37 different percussion instruments from around the world. Seoul Philharmonic introduces beauty of the sheng 2012-04-17T19:11:03Z

Western intellectuals deserve their usual share of the obloquy. Martin Amis on Lenin’s Deadly Revolution 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

But under questioning, Sarkozy’s housing minister piously declared that Paris’s “ghettos of the rich,” as its most conservative Western arrondissements are called, will not be exempt from their public housing quotas. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z

Next up, in the Western Conference Finals, was the young, surging Oklahoma City Thunder, and Cuban knew the media wanted to inject him into the storyline. The Mavs' Big Winner: Mark Cuban's New Image 2011-06-17T09:15:00Z

“It’s quite expensive to travel abroad, not only to far Western countries, but also around Asia.” Golden getaway: cost, safety prompt more Chinese tourists to stay closer to home 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

While many programs focused exclusively on Afghan culture or Western music, it embraced both, preparing hundreds of young artists, many of them orphans and street hawkers, for careers in the performing arts. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

This program, to be hosted by the principal dancer Daniel Ulbricht, will be an exploration of ballet through the centuries, including excerpts from “Swan Lake” and from a contemporary interpretation of a Western classic. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 16-22 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

While “The Red Hotel” primarily documents the lives of Moscow-based Western correspondents between 1941 and 1945, chafing under Stalin’s control, it also lays out dilemmas, incentives and dangers that have faced generations of their successors. How Stalin’s Control of Foreign Reporters Helped Shape Russia Coverage Today 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

The practice’s many adaptations — and its commercialization — can easily veer into the territory of being appropriative, said Fred Myers, a professor of anthropology at New York University who specializes in Indigenous groups in Western Australia. Wearing Paint Instead of Clothes on the Streets of New York 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z

He then directs her to a nearby Best Western. Hotel worker refuses to give room to guest that called him a racial slur: 'It's above me now' 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

Which is not to say that all Lam’s cookbook authors are white and Western. How Francis Lam, son of immigrants, became the voice of America’s food culture 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

Before the 1700s, religion was the sole method of interpreting human experience in the Western world. "Benedetta" is the latest in a history of sexy nunsploitation that dates back to Enlightenment 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

Even the proscenium arch has Western African carvings in it. ‘I Want to Live in That Room’: Designers on Their Broadway Sets 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

"Queen Cleopatra" provides decent coverage of commonly known facts about the ruler while playing up the qualities about her that have fascinated Western authors, artists and eventually Hollywood. The question isn't why cast a Black Cleopatra but rather why not profile another African queen? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

As early as graduate school she was mingling African and Western idioms. Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

"All of the great movements in Western art are present." Impressive exhibition tells the story of Latin America in pictures 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

Her first book offered an often-flattering juxtaposition of the Western literary ethos of personal liberty against the totalitarian fundamentalism of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Why this Iranian-born writer fears for America’s soul 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

Whenever political tensions flare between Iran and Western countries, pundits enjoy reminding their viewers what a hellhole they think the country is. Smart Watch: “Insecure,” “Disenchantment,” and more top TV picks for this week 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

He has been — with well-articulated reservations — an outspoken defender of the West and its values, a position almost unheard-of among playwrights, and even less so now that the words “Western civilization” require a trigger warning. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

And the “Crazy Trousseau Robe,” of quilted silk and lace with metallic embroidery, hints at the unconventional life of its maker — a thrice-married Western frontierswoman who was one of the earliest female railroad telegraphers. Art Review: ?Women Only? Exhibition at American Folk Art Museum 2010-04-15T22:04:00Z

Soon he challenged the system of equal temperament that has dominated Western music for centuries. Players Are Wanted for Ben Johnston’s Works. Some Sacrifice Is Required. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

For anyone with community music experience — or even anyone trained in the even-tempered world of Western classical music — this was entirely new territory. Sprawling Across New York, a Solstice Music Marathon 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

It also speaks to Western Christianity's long tradition of demonizing queer, Black, Jewish, Indigenous and other people. Lil Nas X’s dance with the devil evokes tradition of resisting, mocking religious demonization 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z

"The judge, the police, everyone behaves as if they are in a Western country." Iran state TV says Oscar win victory over Israel 2012-02-27T13:29:08Z

Rare birds With Western fringe, the sharp cut of the 1940s and the languid drape of the 1930s — it seemed like there was a lot going on at Vionnet . Special Report: Fashion: Reflecting on the Future 2011-01-25T18:18:38Z

"Black Is King" zooms between South Africa and Western Africa as well as leaping between New York, Los Angeles, and locations in London and Belgium. "Black Is King" continues Beyonce's immortalizing of the Black American experience through art 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

It’s a time of intense loneliness in the Western world. Hair Salons Reopen, and Americans Rush Back 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

It’s equally, as described by IndieWire critic David Ehrlich, “a wonderful and demented Western about the perils of rampant modernization”. 'Bacurau' shines spotlight on a feverish Brazil at Cannes 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

For his valedictory production as Shakespeare Theatre Company’s artistic director, Michael Kahn has chosen to take us back to the dawn of Western drama. Review | Michael Kahn turns to a timeless play from ancient Greece to send off his career 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

Each of the originals perpetuates the myth of the Native Americans as a vanishing people, doomed to disappear, a fiction that usefully underpinned and fueled another myth, that of Western “Manifest Destiny.” A Cree Artist Redraws History 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

As he battles an evil ancestor and tries to save his mother’s life, the story combines rollicking, sentimental action with incessant references to Western pop music and other cultural streams. Offerings From Boutique Streaming Services 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

It was true to the five seasons that preceded it, true to Walter White’s obsessions and pride, and true to what Breaking Bad is at heart: a Western. Breaking Bad Watch: Say Hello to My Little Friend 2013-09-30T04:37:59Z

She performed at the park until 1987, but continued to appear in special events, such as Walt Disney's Wild West, a 1995 retrospective at the Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles. Disney legends die within a day of each other 2011-06-05T20:54:07Z

That was what Barbara could offer at the last remaining department store in the only mall in Hermitage, a city of 16,000 in Western Pennsylvania. First, this town lost its Macy’s. Then Sears. Now, all eyes were on J.C. Penney. 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

Traditional among Cape Malay families in the Western Cape, these spice syrup-infused, coconut-dusted doughnuts use mashed potatoes, which many believe are the secret to their bouncy softness. 26 inventive recipes to use leftover mashed potatoes 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

What books about China would you recommend to a Western audience? Why Gish Jen Hasn’t Read One of the Most Acclaimed Books of 2019 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

In the “making of” short, Ms. Dash said she also decided a “typical male-oriented Western narrative structure” was not appropriate for the film. Julie Dash Made a Movie. Then Hollywood Shut Her Out. 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Across the Western world, we now have a sense that it is wrong to use power, influence, age or authority to extract sex from someone who doesn’t have those attributes. Eric Berkowitz on sex and society 2012-07-09T11:45:00Z

His sharp attack was apparent in “Hallelujah”; later that night, in “Western Symphony,” George Balanchine’s endearing 1954 homage to the Wild West, he showed some spunk, loosening up to find the cowboy within. Review: Taylor Stanley Rises in City Ballet’s ‘Hallelujah Junction’ 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Still, Desmornes said maybe the pandemic carried a message for the world - one difference between voodoo and Western medicine is that it seeks meaning in illness. Haiti voodoo leaders prepare temples for coronavirus sufferers 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z

Yet she paints in a detailed, naturalistic Western mode. In the galleries: Expect the unexpected as two artists engage in a ‘Surreal Dialogue’ 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Still, Western Washington residents are keenly interested in the area. Central Idaho is more than a ski destination. Here’s how to find world-class stargazing 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

Leftist activists, Muslim converts and a former U.S. senator were interviewed by a stream of Iranian state television camera crews, which introduced them as Western “professors, researchers and critics.” ‘Argo’ just another insult by Hollywood, Iranians say 2013-02-19T06:28:19Z

In Nigeria the couple’s affectionate gesture was unacceptable public behavior; keeping a dog, an animal reserved for practical use in much of Africa, as a pet was scorned as a foolish Western custom. Art Review: ?Through African Eyes? at the Detroit Institute of Arts 2010-04-15T22:09:00Z

Another advantage is its relative affordability, especially in comparison to its Western cognates. The Koreans at the Top of the Art World 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

His chief legacy was orchestrating the distribution of banned Russian-language works as well as Western books never before translated into Russian. Isaac Patch, who led CIA-financed program to distribute books in the Soviet Union, dies

The choir actually began changing how Western listeners heard harmonies far earlier than the ’80s. An ’80s rock star, a beat boxer and a Bulgarian folk choir walk into a studio 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Westerns are a difficult genre to sell to audiences on a large scale these days. Violence and empathy in “Westworld”: “That’s not the point we want to make, that it’s okay if they’re a robot” 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

"It was very painful for all of us," said Dozier, a professor at Western Washington University. Girls Rock! Seattle Summer Camp shines spotlight on young music-makers 2010-07-24T04:01:00Z

A small locomotive circles a mile-long track past a mock Western town, through a tunnel and over a truss bridge. In Southern California, ride the rails on a kid-friendly scale 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

He was also at the helm for multiple episodes of classic TV Western series Gunsmoke, Rawhide and Have Gun - Will Travel. Director Andrew McLaglen dies at 94 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

It is one of four regions represented, the others being the Creole Coast, the North States and the Western Range. The powerful culinary imprint that’s missing from the African American Museum 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

But they’re never boring or jaded or rueful or apologetic, after the fashion of way too much Western cinema. “Why Don’t You Play in Hell?”: A delirious, hilarious work of Japanese pop genius 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

When he found out the truth, a lifelong suspicion of the rules of Western harmony and musical notation began. Ornette Coleman, Jazz Innovator, Dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

We are thinking about booking a tour through Western Europe, perhaps in Italy. In Transit Blog: Q&A: Guided Tours Through Europe 2011-09-27T14:53:18Z

In the buildup to the reopening of its newly expanded building last October, the Modern announced a philosophical reorientation that broadened its focus to a global, rather than just Western, history of modern art. The Word at MoMA Is ‘Rotation, Rotation, Rotation’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Compare him with other stars who found their footing in early TV Westerns, and see what made Garner a natural for the small screen. James Garner: Tribute to a Marvelous Maverick 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

It tips the cultural scales a bit, leading the two traditions to meet in the middle rather than on Western music's home turf. In 'Uproot,' Jace Clayton takes a worldwide tour of the digital underground 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

The Jameses, who began collecting Western art when they skied out West, are well aware of that challenge. More Money Can Mean More Museums, Just Look at Florida 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Qian’s captivating singing combines the trembling, nasal-toned quality of Chinese opera with the more penetrating richness of Western classical styles. Review: A Powerful Opera of Eastern and Western Allure 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

The park at Seattle’s waterfront is open daily, from 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset, 2901 Western Ave. Info: www.seattleartmuseum.org/visit/osp. Land of the free: No-cost activities in and around Seattle 2013-06-26T22:29:21Z

Due to an urbanized, Western lifestyle, however, the once-limited definition of what could be classified as a lota has evolved and expanded. Plastic watering jugs are the new, preferred instrument of posterior purification in America. Secrets of the Muslim bathroom 2012-07-10T01:00:00Z

Throughout Western countries, salt and pepper shakers are commonplace on nearly every kitchen or dining room table. Your salt and pepper shakers have a surprisingly spicy history 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

"Sexual Personae" discusses the decadence and enduring influence of paganism in Western culture. Freud, Nietzsche, Paglia, Fanon: our expert guide to the books of "The White Lotus" 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Cultural productions are carefully scrutinized by government censors in China, and the the play, about a tyrannical king, is the first presentation of Shakespeare by a Western theater company in the Chinese capital. ArtsBeat Blog: English King to Have Brief Reign in Beijing 2011-11-15T16:00:48Z

As a young man in prison Malcolm steeped himself not just in black history, Mr. Marable writes, but in “Herodotus, Kant, Nietzsche, and other historians and philosophers of Western civilization.” Books of The Times: Stripping Away Myth and Finding Multiple Masks 2011-04-07T13:56:45Z

Darwinism, Western mores, loneliness, the economy, the will to war: Mr. Shadyac and his significant minds consider all this and more in what sometimes seems like an enthusiastic teacher’s stream-of-consciousness lesson to a restless classroom. | 'I Am': ?I Am? by the Director Tom Shadyac 2011-03-18T06:03:02Z

The hope is that Western Washington residents will fill the void left by all those distant travelers who won’t be coming. Thanks, coronavirus. Will Seattle’s tourist-dependent businesses survive the lost summer season of 2020? 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

Some moviegoers have said this about Martin Scorsese's newly released masterful Western epic "Killers of the Flower Moon." Actually, I don't need (or want) intermissions during long movies 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z

Ms. Wong grew tired of entertaining Western audiences with racist clichés and dropped out of films. Review: In ‘China: Through the Looking Glass,’ Eastern Culture Meets Western Fashion 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

In part, this was spurred by the internationalization of the art world, and an influx of artists from countries and cultures that were never part of the Western tradition. Review | They were once outsiders, but now are embraced as American artists 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

Especially given Western architectural histories; copying is hardly something new to the field. What’s the Eiffel Tower doing in China? 2013-05-19T14:00:00Z

But back to the House of Atreus, home to the archetypal unhappy family of Western drama and a birthplace of sexual complexes, at least according to Freud. London Theater Journal: The Greeks All Over Again 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

He cooks in his cowboy hat at his Lonesome Dove Western Bistro where he redefines urban and Western flavors. 40 Things I Love About Texas 2010-06-02T17:24:00Z

The stated goal: “reviving and systematizing Arab music so that it will rise upon an artistic foundation, as did Western music earlier.” In 'Uproot,' Jace Clayton takes a worldwide tour of the digital underground 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

His life seemed an ideal mix of modern Western convenience and ancient tradition connected to the rest of the world only by a disdain for European Union regulations. Frugal Traveler Blog: In Lapland, Yoiking Around the Reindeer 2012-08-07T18:01:27Z

A basic conflict between “Western” and local populations influenced the production of imagery and art in the region. At the Met, the artistic riches of India’s Deccan Plateau 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

With the former Portuguese colony thought to be home to some of the world's biggest untapped coal reserves and enough natural gas to power Western Europe for more than a decade, the pickings are rich. Soap operas give Brazil the edge in Mozambique rush 2012-12-21T15:35:14Z

“Everything that’s happening everywhere in Western society is happening in this island, but it’s happening for the first time,” he said. Gonçalo Tocha’s ‘It’s the Earth Not the Moon’ Looks at Corvo 2012-07-11T22:42:05Z

Western and Oiler raised the two anchors and Gary stood with one foot on the transom and hauled on the starter rope. ‘The Passenger’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

However, ideas of the superiority of Western culture can do lifelong harm and inculcate hatred of one’s origins. Letters to the Editor 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

The Danish film Terribly Happy, the story of a sheriff with a mysterious past who moves to an insular small town, is, at heart, a Western in the tradition of High Noon. Hollywood Goes to Sweden 2010-02-18T17:04:00Z

And someone with Penelope Longstreet’s political views and multicultural concerns would be most unlikely to proclaim herself, without irony, a defender of “Western values.” | 'Carnage': Roman Polanski?s ?Carnage,? With Jodie Foster - Review 2011-12-15T15:59:53Z

For Western audiences, Arabic literature in translation is an invaluable counterpoint to media reports and sweeping politico-cultural theories, exposing us to the breadth of the region’s creativity and the depth of individual experiences. The Novel After the Arab Spring 2014-05-09T04:00:00Z

Blending elements of Western kitsch, traditional Latin American handicrafts and pre-Columbian burial customs, the piece somehow invoked both ritual solemnity and carefree, even erotic pleasure. The Textile Artist Employing Centuries-Old Practices and Pop Culture Imagery 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

This is the old story of a war that was never not, from a Western ideological perspective, a colonialist enterprise. The American Vietnam War Is in the Spotlight, Again 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

He was an architect of the Marshall Plan, which helped revive the economies of Western Europe after World War II and helped undermine Stalin's belief that the West would turn against itself. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z

The newspaper quoted sources saying this was probably linked to U.S. and European sanctions over Ukraine because a businessman hit by the Western measures is linked to three of the TV channels in question. Coca-Cola takes ads off four Russian TV channels 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

“We were staying across the river from the venue in like a Best Western or something and the air was so bad that the air in my hotel room was bad,” Gibbard said. Brandi Carlile and Ben Gibbard on the trials of touring amid COVID-19, extreme weather 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

It remains stunningly itself, indifferent to Western notions of success. Modern Love: A Forgotten Prayer, Answered ? Modern Love 2011-12-29T18:34:09Z

These ignited an interest in Cubism that led him to conclude that that style’s multiple views were perhaps closer to actual perception than the single vanishing point of Western painting. Art Review: Recent David Hockney Work at the de Young in San Francisco 2013-12-23T23:10:14Z

"The grand narrative of Western ascent," as Ferguson describes it, is dazzling, to be sure. Niall Ferguson's 'Civilization': They're gaining on us 2011-11-23T19:21:45Z

Emblems of both Spanish history and Western art, the paintings amply reveal Goya’s unrivaled skills as a master of dramatic action, textures and atmospheric effects, the painterly attributes that unite much of the Prado’s collection. 2010-02-10T19:52:00Z

“My father started making jeans in the ’70s for his friends,” Mr. Pisch said of his father’s life in Communist Czechoslovakia, “because Western jeans cost a month’s wages.” Heads Up: A Jersey Shore Rebound 2012-06-15T18:42:22Z

Nobody wrote music like this in 1968, not in the Soviet Union, not in Western Europe. An American Leads the Odesa Philharmonic to Berlin 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

There also is no charity law, which means that businesses and private individuals do not — unlike in many Western countries — get tax breaks for sponsoring art events. Scene/Seen: Georgian Artists, Doing It for Themselves 2011-06-10T12:30:06Z

“People in London, in Hackney where I grew up, will watch ‘Concrete Cowboy’ thinking it might be a Western and go, ‘Oh man.’ ‘Concrete Cowboy’ shows Philadelphia’s Black cowboy culture 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

He recounts the antics of Western gold and silver prospectors whose outlandish conduct was immortalized by Mark Twain. ‘American Fun’: diligent worker bees vs. party animals 2014-04-02T23:33:12Z

It predates the tonal system, with its varieties of major and minor scales, characterizing much of what we recognize as Western music today. Breathing life into 700-year-old music 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

One of their collaborations, “Theme for an Imaginary Western,” became a staple in the repertoire of the band Mountain. Pete Brown, Who Put Words to ‘Sunshine of Your Love,’ Dies at 82 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

“In many ways, the Mafia took over from the Western as the great American epic,” said Robert Thompson, pop culture professor at Syracuse University. From 'Godfather' to 'Irishman', Mafia is gift that keeps on giving 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

Marriage—the white kind—was a transaction essential to statehood, one for which Theressa was bought and then left to wither at Western State Hospital. Two Broadway Shows Dismantle the American Myth 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

He also graduated from Stanford and received an M.B.A. from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Sharisse Kimbro, Clemont Austin IV 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rakowitz proposed “A Color Removed” in a lecture at Case Western Reserve University in April 2015 but the project went mostly dormant. An Artist Honors Tamir Rice, One Orange Object at a Time 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

He added: “Zeng invents a new painting style, which is between the Eastern use of line and the Western use of color.” Special Report: Asian Art: The Plight of Nature 2011-05-26T18:00:08Z

Nowadays, my parents prefer to research Western dinner options in New York magazine or the Zagat guide, and to eat at Chinese restaurants that don’t show up on Yelp. The Accidental American Genius of Guy Fieri 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

The club’s stark landscapes and portraits of lonesome cowboys are a source of pride for Ms. Davis, a Tucson native, who like her husband, Brett, is a flesh-and-blood ambassador for modern Western life. On an Arizona Road Trip, Miles of Family Firsts 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

Another popular location was a drive-in restaurant at Imperial Highway and Western Avenue. Get those dedications ready: Art Laboe is coming back to L.A. radio 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z

He wears an embroidered linen peasant’s shirt, rather than a Western dress shirt, and a stablehand’s lace-up boots, rather than a more upscale slipper. For Josh Groban, a Boot Camp for Broadway 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

At least one photo editor has praised her work in the past for creating an aesthetic that was neither aping Western magazines or Japanese and South Korean ones. Chinese fashion photographer in Dior controversy apologizes 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

And in fewer than 30 pages it offers as good a summary of the Western canon as can be found anywhere. Voyages of discovery 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

“You pick any spot in the Western Ghats,” said Rajah Jayapal, an ornithologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society in India, “and you will see no less than 300 species.” India, Through a Birder?s Eyes 2011-01-14T20:30:41Z

Differing attitudes about the erotic in Eastern and Western cultures and the debasement of sex in modern commerce are certainly worth further investigation. Art Review: Rubin Museum Show of Contemporary Tibetans 2010-08-19T21:54:00Z

Considering the proliferation of Chinese-born composers in Western concert music, perhaps it was inevitable that their paths would cross. Music Review: Prism Quartet and Music From China at Weill Recital Hall 2012-02-05T22:14:10Z

Customers who contacted Western River Expeditions for the 2018 sold-out June and July departure dates often made immediate requests for similar dates in 2019. If You Want to Raft the Grand Canyon, Prepare to Sign Up Far in Advance 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

So who is the Best Western Premier for? Heads Up: Haiti, An Unlikely Location for Luxury 2013-05-22T16:36:30Z

The Western Highlands Artisan Trail has only 20 stops, but the route covers four counties with sites that are hours apart. Satisfy your food, beverage or cultural craving on a Mid-Atlantic trail 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Around that time, Mr. Richter began producing what remains to this day the most extraordinary succession of abstract pictures in Western art. Art: Gerhard Richter, Grand Master of Our Time 2011-10-28T12:00:09Z

In depicting real Black women and girls, Ms. Walker said she was looking to redress the dominance of whiteness in both Western art history and mainstream British history. Black Artists Look Beyond ‘Protest Art’ at British Shows 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

Sam Fuller plays the director of the Western in which Kansas is the stuntman, with Sylvia Miles as his script supervisor. | Art and Film Luminaries Salute Dennis Hopper at Paris Photo Los Angeles 2014-04-28T22:50:55Z

There are what he calls the "Atlanticists," which are the seafaring nations such as the United States and the United Kingdom and most of Western Europe. Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

“Perry Mason” could have fallen into the HBO tradition of taking a genre staple — the mob story, the Western — and updating it or rethinking its premises. Review: ‘Perry Mason’ Returns, Hard-Boiled and Warmed Over 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Among Morricone’s memorable music for movies was the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and the haunting songs in the epic “Once Upon A Time In America.” Rome renames music hall after Oscar-winner Ennio Morricone 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

The Texas metroplex’s Preston Road and Ohio Drive locations will be participating, while the California city’s Western Avenue and Sunset Boulevard locations will be doing the same. Pizza Hut offers free ‘Nothing But Stuffed Crust’ in 2 cities for menu item’s 25th anniversary 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

He is an artist for whom Americanness truly matters, as much as the tradition of Western classical music — both heritages treated not with nostalgia, but with awareness and affection. John Adams, an American Master at 75 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Too bad, though, that their music sounded so indebted to Hollywood or Eurovision: East Asian sounds and melodies all arrived as if through a Western filter. Dance Review: Downtown Dance Festival and Battery Dance Company 2012-08-12T22:01:26Z

So did new kinds of art, much of it with roots outside Western traditions. In the Art World, Globalism’s New Spin 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Barbados boasts one of the oldest synagogues in the Western hemisphere, built by Sephardic Jews who first settled in Barbados in 1628. How breadfruit matzo balls became a staple for the Barbadian Jewish community 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Traditionally the two are exhibited separately or, in the case of Western pieces in China, mostly not at all. Cultural Revolution 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

But before he could make a single film, Gulf + Western hired him in 1966 to run production at Paramount, which was a new acquisition. Robert Evans, a Maverick Producer of Hollywood Classics, Dies at 89 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

The Western epic Red Dead Redemption, by Rockstar Games, had been considered the front-runner for Game of the Year. ArtsBeat: Mass Effect 2 Takes Top Prize at Interactive Achievement Awards 2011-02-11T15:44:47Z

The hike levels off from there as it meanders through a lush forest of Douglas firs and Western hemlock interspersed with some Western red cedar. Enjoy last-hurrah hike of summer on rehabbed Oyster Dome trail 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

Western publishing also overlooks a vast body of non-English writing in a country where more than 150 languages are spoken. Nigerian authors look West to gain their fame 2012-01-26T11:21:09Z

He served in Palestine and returned to the Western Front in France toward the end of the war. Siegfried Sassoon’s World War I Diaries Become Available Online 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

By the time of the 1973 oil crisis, at a meeting of the North Sea Oil Group, the Getty Oil Company could be compared favorably with Western nations. Self-Portrait Of the Oilman As Collector 2010-12-26T02:23:54Z

These days, in his newer paintings, Mr. Hockney is exploring the concept of “reverse perspective,” which poses yet another challenge to the accepted story of Western painting. David Hockney, Contrarian, Shifts Perspectives 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

I was born in 1973, and my mom had some involvement with a Western guy at that time — her pregnancy was not accepted, and she had to give me away. The Battle of ‘Miss Saigon’: Yellowface, Art and Opportunity 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

There was an old-timey Western, in which Mr. Trump promised to rid the country of “bad hombres” from across the border. Was That a Presidential Debate or a Pitch for Trump TV? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

The vast majority of the musical literature — Western, as well as non-Western — was intended as an expression of spirituality. White Light: Is It Driven by the Soul or by Sales? 2010-11-22T22:47:00Z

“Physical health and moral virtue are not synonymous in Western culture, but they are closely related,” Mr. Kriegel wrote in an essay included in his 1991 collection, “Falling Into Life.” Leonard Kriegel, 89, Dies; Wrote Unflinchingly About His Disability 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

He penned a few Westerns, to be sure, but deviation and violation of convention were inherent to his career. Cormac McCarthy – the greatest Western writer ever – didn't actually write Westerns 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

In his 1936 Western Union telegram to his 3-year-old daughter, Faulkner wished her "plenty of ghosts, goblins, witches and cats and owls on Halloween." Christie's to auction rare Faulkner collection 2010-06-18T17:27:00Z

His name is largely forgotten today, but during his lifetime he became one of the first campaigners for Western wildlife and national parks, and a pioneer ethnographer. Buffalo, the Pawnee and an Old Story on a Trip Across the Plains 2012-06-22T16:48:50Z

Hanawalt recently released her third book, “Coyote Doggirl,” about a pink coyote who rides through an endless Western landscape on a quest for revenge. The Origin Story of the Depressingly Good “BoJack Horseman” 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

He's also serving as a musical ambassador through upcoming appearances with Western artists such as Bill Frisell and various blues musicians at the centennial celebration of Howling Wolf at Chicago's Millennium Stage in June. Seattle's Sub Pop takes on the world with new Next Ambiance imprint 2010-03-15T23:54:00Z

“With bold colors, embellished shapes and thick brush strokes, he blends Chinese folk art and the iconography of the Western Middle Ages and Modern Art.” Searching for a Jesus Who Looks More Like Me 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

At the time, I'm ashamed to say, I had not seen Western Approaches, Pat's genuine masterpiece. Pat Jackson obituary 2011-07-12T18:12:54Z

In August, Russia declared a one-year embargo on meat, fish, dairy, fruit and vegetables from the European Union, the United States and other Western nations in retaliation for economic sanctions over Moscow's actions in Ukraine. Young EU farmers struggle as Russian sanctions bite 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

The force of the Far East rising in the fading splendor of the Western world was shown also by the choice of striking Asian models, until recently unseen on couture runways. Fashion Review: Chanel's Kinetic Look at a New World 2013-07-02T17:11:40Z

The gray-faced square majority, alarmed by the infiltration of Western decadence, relentlessly stalked these rebels. Movie Review: Russian Musical ?Hipsters? From Valery Todorovsky 2012-02-23T23:58:22Z

Western civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys of Dachau, and I was too infatuated to see it. "The Sunset Limited": How to turn Cormac McCarthy into bad TV 2011-02-10T15:55:00Z

That phrase, of course, is “Just be yourself” – the motto inscribed on the family crest of late-capitalist Western individualism. “Just be yourself” is cruel, fraudulent advice to give young people 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

Trump himself has no speaking part in this dark, sometimes seriocomic, take on Russia’s malevolent role in the turmoil besetting Western democracies. Review | John le Carré’s new thriller takes aim at Trump, Brexit and the Russia mess 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

They don’t capture the true sound of Farsi, its soft, easy rhythms, its heavy-hearted notes, often so grating to Western readers. She Dared to Write Poetry About Sex. Iranians Loved and Hated Her for It. 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

“The Sisters Brothers,” from 2011, which established his impish reputation, was a slapstick facsimile of a Western, populated by fantastically inept outlaws. The Stealth Absurdism of Patrick deWitt’s “French Exit” 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

The main hotel — Fortecia Rus, a functional modern establishment — belongs to him, as do a series of nicely renovated houses that are available, at Western prices, for long- and short-term rentals. Driving Russia’s Revived Golden Ring 2012-08-31T19:01:44Z

The Getty and the Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America jointly announced the settlement Monday. Legal settlement with Armenian church lets Getty Museum keep prized medieval Bible pages 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

They demonstrate her considerable skill as a painter and expand the Frick’s Western European-inspired collection into the customs and aesthetics of cultures far beyond the aspirations of Pittsburgh’s Gilded Age patrons. Pittsburgh Report: Five Places for Healing Through Art 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Much of the history of Western art has been a history of men creating images of women, especially white and young; Ms. Dunham is doing her part to recast that image, its production and consumption. 6 Ways ‘Girls’ Changed Television. Or Didn’t. 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

There’s an anticolonial movement going on that focuses on making art and literature and everything for Africans, and ignoring the Western audience. Kehinde Wiley, Spoiler of Artists 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

Strong characterisation and unforgettable scene-setting underpin this brilliant coming-of-age novel set in the Western Highlands of the early 1970s against a backdrop of terminal decline for the regional railway. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z

In October of last year, Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza with a prop gun while filming on the set of the suspended Western film "Rust." Alec Baldwin shuts down claims that he's not complying with ongoing "Rust" shooting investigation 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

Why, after starring in the Buell Westerns, did this smooth dude get so few later movie roles? Remembering "Bronze Buckaroo" Herb Jeffries, the First Star of Black Western Musicals 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

Yet Petipa was one of history’s great survivors; he outlived all the Western ballet masters of his youth and middle age. The Ambiguous Sexism of Marius Petipa, Ballet’s Towering Master 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

It’s a formidable cast for a first feature, though Samuel, the brother of the musician Seal, has shot shorts, including an earlier Western called “They Die By Dawn.” Giving the Western some swagger in ‘The Harder They Fall’ 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z

And once the Western was gone, there was no vehicle to say, ‘You don’t shoot people in the back’ and such.” George Lucas: To feel the true force of ‘Star Wars,’ he had to learn to let it go 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

What you will find instead is an impassioned critique of Western society, a relentless assault on contemporary complacency, shallowness, competitiveness and self-regard. ‘Self and Soul’: Mark Edmundson’s biting critique of modern complacency 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

"One WTC will be the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere." Will One World Trade Center really be the tallest building in the west? 2013-05-02T10:32:00Z

In a sense, Hackman's "Morning Peak" lies in Louis L'Amour country, a place where the conventions of the Western novel are as welcome as a man of honor and a pretty young lady. 'Payback at Morning Peak': Actor Gene Hackman revisits the West ? as a writer 2011-07-31T04:10:29Z

Although Western tourists are becoming more common, it seems that Western women traveling solo are still a bit of a novelty. The queen of the desert in the Arabian Peninsula 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

In places, though — and especially in his very late, most abstract work — his Western studies and oil-painting background show through. Art Review: ‘Revolutionary Ink’: Wu Guanzhong Paintings at Asia Society 2012-07-19T21:09:29Z

District Court in the Western District of New York issued a preliminary injunction last month preventing the state from enforcing its ban on advertised and ticketed shows. Piano Bars and Jazz Clubs Reopened, Calling Live Music ‘Incidental’ 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

The titillating ensemble name notwithstanding, this batch of time-tested Western European carols, most in English, a couple in standard Latin, others in Middle English and Medieval Latin just for fun. Holiday music: Seth MacFarlane, Downton Abbey, Idina Menzel, more 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

As one of the Dalai Lama’s most famous — and oldest — Western pals, Dr. Thurman is still his best and most passionate apologist. 50 Years of Marriage and Mindfulness 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

Western Europeans continued to largely shun the small North African country in the wake of two massacres of tourists in 2015. Tourists Return to Tunisia, but Slowly 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Now Related is undertaking phase two of Hudson Yards, the Western Yard. Hudson Yards Promised a Park. They Didn’t Mention the Giant Wall. 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

The residents of Las Vegas, Phoenix and other Western cities cling to life, dreaming of rain that never comes. Imagining a thirsty future in Paolo Bacigalupi’s ‘The Water Knife’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

White Western history often does a great job of centering itself. Sam Gilliam ‘Took a Step Most People Didn’t Understand Was Possible’ 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

Middle Eastern and Indian traditions filtered through a Western lens were the theme of “Eastern Wind,” a program heavy in world premieres, which the American Composers Orchestra offered at Zankel Hall on Friday. Review: American Composers Orchestra Concert Tilts Eastward 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

“A month later, all of a sudden, it started to get a lot of play in the press,” Dr. Duffin, a professor of music at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, said in an interview. Meet Your Art Twin: A 400-Year-Old With an Oily Complexion 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. Garrow finally found a home for the article in Standpoint, a right-of-center magazine that describes its core mission as defending the values of Western civilization. His Martin Luther King Biography Was a Classic. His Latest King Piece Is Causing a Furor. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

What they do is, they sing their own stuff in a Western setting. With Open Ears, Indian Ragas and Western Melodies Merge 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

What’s more, Capitol Hill also houses Foreign National, which our happy hour expert Tan Vinh calls the best new cocktail bar in Western Washington so far this year. 5 things to do this weekend: Fremont's final film, Pokémon and more 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

In both series you play a Western soldier confronting a menace originating from the former Soviet Union. 'Battlefield: Bad Company 2': Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Shifts Momentum in This War 2010-04-07T21:46:00Z

There will be no one from China — China, a billion people and terrific cooks! — and not one Chinese chef cooking Chinese food and not playing with Western haute cuisine ever gets attention. Americans ‘need to stop being defensive about their food culture’ 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

As they fight through a warren of glass-walled labs, video-game style, they stumble upon a level filled not with Western robots but with Eastern ones—Samurai World! “Westworld” Season One Finale: Violent Ends 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

At the same time, he was swept up in the radical student politics of the day and became acutely aware of his own position as an outsider in a Western environment. Vivan Sundaram, 79, Dies; a Pivotal, and Political, Figure in Indian Art 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

Twice a year, the Rabbi of the Western Wall oversees the collection of thousands of notes to ensure there’s always room for more. Spring cleaning for Western Wall's notes to God 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

In essence, the viewer is forced behind the barrel of a repeating rifle and it is from that position, through its gun sights, that he receives a picture history of Western colonialism. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

Sorenson remembers that it was across the street from one important local hub, the drugstore, and next to another, the Western Union office. A Model and Her Norman Rockwell Meet Again 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

While this was horrifying enough, I couldn’t help but notice that he didn’t direct his message to “Americans” or the “United States” or even “the Western world.” The hate crime I survived 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

"Deadwood" would do to the Western what "NYPD Blue" did for the police procedural — and then some. The future tense of joy: "Deadwood" creator David Milch recaptures memory in "Life's Work" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

The scene is as Western as Western can be without the tumbleweeds. Justified Watch: It Beats Angry 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

Do you think of your work as Japanese, or more in line with Western literary traditions? The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

In 1957, in the depths of the Cold War, she became the first ballerina from the Western Hemisphere to appear as a guest artist in the Soviet Union. Alicia Alonso, Star of Cuba’s National Ballet, Dies at 98 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Journalists are hunted and attacked regularly, though almost never in cosmopolitan Western capitals where free speech is a given. Charlie Hebdo killings highlight the increasing targeting of journalists 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

The musicians played in a park where the militants once trained child soldiers and the music, a mixture of Western and Iraqi classical, wafted along the banks of the Tigris River. Artists emerge from ruins of Mosul to reclaim Iraqi city's cultural... 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Designed to illustrate the influence of Chinese culture on Western fashion, the show is spread over three floors. Review: In ‘China: Through the Looking Glass,’ Eastern Culture Meets Western Fashion 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

He leaned past Western and twisted shut the valves on the gas bottles. ‘The Passenger’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

But as a stout defender of Western values, and with his easy mastery of third-world civilizations, Chandu is a forerunner of Indiana Jones. Presto! Pulp and Poetry: ‘Chandu the Magician’ and ‘Stranger on the Third Floor’ 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Her death from respiratory failure came 70 years after Hughes had put her on the path to stardom with his controversial Western "The Outlaw." Screen siren Jane Russell dies 2011-03-01T15:30:00Z

For Western readers much of the story will be unfamiliar. Sacred and profane 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

“In the Western world it is enough just to be an artist, but not here,” said Ali Dehbashi, the editor of a cultural magazine, Bukhara. The Saturday Profile: An Iranian Filmmaker Tiptoes Around the Censors to Explore Risky Subjects 2011-05-07T01:56:05Z

And yet here we are again with a Euro-chic baby concentration camp costume and an unbelievably bizarre justification from the company: “It was inspired by the sheriff’s stars in Classic Western films.” Zara’s boggling blunder: Why can’t fashion designers resist the siren song of Holocaust iconography? 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

He soon found a peculiar niche: dirtying up the Western canon with the louche energy of an East Village dive bar. The Musical Eccentric Who Turned Tolstoy’s Pierre Into Every Seeker 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

The task, Attia writes, is tending “all of the wounds accumulated throughout the history of Western modernity.” Berlin Biennale Wrestles With Big Issues (and Itself) 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

That great escape quite likely stopped the Nazis from total victory in Western Europe and paved the way for the Allies’ victory five years later. Was Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk” whitewashed? And if so, what does that mean? 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

The lengthy story further claimed, “Looting, often with bulldozers, is now the militant group’s second-largest source of finances after oil, Western intelligence officials say.” Propaganda video may be a cover for Mosul Museum looting 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

The screenings are reminiscent of the Soviet era, when the only way to see most Western films was to get access to a pirated version. In Echo of Soviet Era, Russia’s Movie Theaters Turn to Pirate Screenings 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

The Rubells’ Capitol Skyline hotel, once a Best Western, is now a popular three-star hotel where hipsters congregate on weekends around the pool. Corcoran Gallery?s Deal Raises Hope and Eyebrows 2010-04-14T22:27:00Z

The arrival of "House of Cards" has caused something of a stir in Iran, where American programming is extremely rare, and where authorities routinely denounce Western pop culture as decadent and un-Islamic. Watching 'House of Cards' in Tehran, to hard-liners' delight 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Gary Mills, who hails from Western Australia, was a Japanese translator before making the transition to wine. Australian Wine Today: Fresh, Crunchy and ‘Smashable’ 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

The rising regencycore fashion trend is a branch of the more popular royaltycore and princesscore subcultures, which are highly inspired by Western European fashion worn by royalty in the Arthurian times and Tudor period. TikTok fashion trend inspired by ‘Bridgerton’ brings historical subcultures to mainstream 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

Western states are littered with fossil sites if you know where and how to look for them. Finding fossils, on your own dig (or in a monument or museum) 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

“In Western democracy, these questions of outsider-ness, or otherness, are pervasive,” Mendelsohn said. ‘The Outsider’ Brings a Faceless Terror, and Stephen King, to HBO 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Yet it’s thanks largely to these shows that, starting in the 1990s, the planetary scope of contemporary art, previously unknown to the Western market, including curators, finally became visible. Documenta Kassel: Using Art as Their Witness 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

The twist that will jar Western audiences in this Sundance festival audience award winner based on events that took place in 1996 is that she is charged with murder. Horror of Ethiopian bride abduction shown at Berlin festival 2014-02-14T10:59:49Z

The group, whose day jobs range from lorry driver to construction manager and nurse, set up camp and get into character, ready to provide crowds with an idea of life on the Western front. For some history enthusiasts, World War One tributes go further 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

He was present in Japan starting in the early 1960s, and in 1979 became the first Western designer to stage a fashion show in China. French fashion designer Pierre Cardin dead at 98 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

The telegram ledgers were taken by Eckert, who would later become president of Western Union, when he retired from the War Department in 1867. Huntington Library sets out to decode thousands of Civil War telegrams hidden for a century: 'It's mind-boggling' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Maybe his appropriations matter so much because they get at the heart and meaning and origins of the entire tradition of Western art. The Supreme Court May Force Us to Rethink 500 Years of Art 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

He brings a hard-fought gravitas to this old gunslinger character, his familiar face sharpened by weary eyes and deeply set lines reminiscent of old-school Western stars like Randolph Scott and Audie Murphy. ‘Miles Ahead,’ ‘The Exiles’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

He’s managed to carve out a niche market among the area’s overworked and overscheduled residents who for whatever reason don’t make it to quintessential fly-fishing regions such as Western Maryland, Pennsylvania and the Chesapeake. Perspective | Fishing for winter fun? 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

Dido is archaic, Eastern, stylized; the Sorceress is modern, Western, coarse. Dance Review: ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ From Mark Morris, at Mostly Mozart 2012-08-23T22:03:45Z

Braden, 32, is a graduate of Garfield High School and Western Washington University who also studied at the Seattle Film Institute. Garfield High grad wins Internet Cat Video Film Festival 2012-09-02T04:41:23Z

Despite it only having one CD to its name, it's still your best bet for catching Koreans co-mingling with Western music. Pyongyang goes pop: Inside North Korea's first indie disco 2011-02-21T16:57:31Z

Such an undertaking might include more film and more history, and a little less Western art jargon. Art Review: ‘Modernist Art From India: Approaching Abstraction’ at Rubin 2012-06-21T21:10:16Z

But as workers their lives are equated to a fraction of what their Western clients’ lives are considered. Sherpas inexplicably blamed for mounting Everest accidents 2013-05-31T16:52:00Z

Q: You collaborated with many high-profile Western artists in the past. Ravi Shankar still making magic sitar music at 91 2011-09-23T19:38:53Z

In the latest screed reflecting government views, the influential Party journal Qiushi accused prominent academics of discrediting the country by spreading Western values. China classrooms must 'keep out' Western values 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

The Islamic Republic of Iran now owns this trove of Western modernism, which is widely held to be the best collection outside Europe and North America. Sending its fabulous collection of Western modernism abroad 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

Called "bourekas films" - the Israeli equivalent of spaghetti Westerns - they dealt with ethnic stereotypes of European and Middle Eastern Jews. Israeli film industry is a surprising powerhouse 2012-01-27T12:14:20Z

These spirits showcase the differences between African countries and spotlight local ingredients and methods that go into creating them, telling a deeper story of regionality and countering Western tendencies to view Africa as one place. The delicious, diverse world of spirits from the African continent 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z

The overlapping Western Design Conference, Sept. 4 to 7, focuses on western-made or -themed furniture, fashion and accessories, including custom cowboy boots, bicycles made of wood and handmade saddles. In Jackson Hole, the Rugged and Refined Meet 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

In classical Western architecture, these figures generally support balconies or roofs. Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Neither “Nutcracker” has anything to do with the original — though multiple Western “Nutcracker” productions preserve core features of what Tchaikovsky, Petipa and colleagues intended. Review: Mariinsky Ballet in ‘Raymonda,’ Searching About for a Perfect Suitor 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

I would have thought that Christian Bale’s character, a Western hero in the midst of a Chinese tragedy, would have been especially problematic. Carpetbagger Blog: Zhang Yimou and the Challenges of Filming in China 2011-12-21T16:44:15Z

The irony is that by the time Deng Xiaoping initiated the economic reforms that would usher in sexual openness, licentiousness had been rebranded as Western “spiritual pollution.” China’s schizophrenic sexual revolution 2012-12-23T14:00:00Z

Western Spaghetti was made over two painstaking months. Best short films on the web 2010-12-19T00:04:08Z

He attended Western Michigan University and decided after taking a few freshman philosophy courses that he was an agnostic. Up Close: Millennials in Church - Up Close 2011-11-02T21:30:43Z

We can also recommend a handful of first-rate thrillers, one of the most quotable comedies of the 21st century and a Kevin Costner Western that’s neither “Dances With Wolves” or “Yellowstone.” Stream These 10 Titles Before They Leave Netflix in August 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

In the early 2000s, several record labels, notably Finders Keepers in Britain, began reissuing records from that time, bringing the music to a Western audience, he added. One of Turkey’s Hottest Rock Bands Has an Unlikely Source 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

In an interview that year with The New York Times, the sheika suggested that establishing art institutions might challenge Western preconceptions about Muslim societies. Qatar Uses Its Riches to Buy Art Treasures 2013-07-22T20:40:50Z

The South Central and Western parts of the U.S. appear to have a hankering for green bean and broccoli casseroles. Thanksgiving casserole preferences vary state-by-state 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Hosokawa emphasizes his interest in Western experimentalism, traditional Japanese musical forms, as well as in calligraphy — which he has used as a metaphor for his own compositional approach. The Thrill of a Contemporary Classical Concert, Captured on Disc 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

For her Made-in-Italy Kiza label, she incorporates patterns from her Bantu tribe, as taught by an elder sister, into her Western tailored silhouette, the influence of the Italian family who raised her. Milan fashion gives small opening to Black Lives Matter 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

For decades, the only pop cultural examples of Natives were in stereotyping Westerns. How Robbie Robertson's hidden Indigenous and Jewish heritage influenced The Band's mournful songs 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z

Dugin sees America, Europe and the UK as basically agents of this decadent, Western, materialist, individualist, atomizing culture, "the me culture." Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

She melded a passion for modern Western art with a devotion to traditional India. V. S. Gaitonde’s Art Gets a Guggenheim Retrospective 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

We found the fabric at the Western Costume fabric shop. 'Hunger Games' fashions come to fiery life 2012-03-21T00:41:50Z

The Western intelligentsia, snug in its echo-chamber, has done a dismal job of understanding what is going on, either dismissing populists as cranks or demonising them as racists. A perfectly timed book on populism 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

"Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles" captures L.A. as it transforms from rural Western outpost to full-on postwar urban/suburban center knitted together by traffick-y freeways. 'Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles': Rick Prelinger's new film of old home movies and studio outtakes 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

The writer and actor Wallace Shawn and the director and actor André Gregory, playing versions of themselves, discuss theater, art, electric blankets and Western civilization over a meal. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ and ‘The Syndicate: All or Nothing’ 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Most of the works in this exhibition pay homage to those masters, but do so in her unique fashion, one that weaves together Eastern and Western traditions. Terry Furchgott’s bright, bold women at Lisa Harris Gallery 2014-05-01T18:18:51Z

The objects reveal different aspects of Hindu, Muslim and Western European traditions. Review | ‘Peacock in the Desert’ offers a rare look at Indian art and a royal court 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

And scholars have also pushed for a broader conception of the Middle Ages, looking beyond the traditional focus on Western Europe to encompass the Middle East, North Africa and even China, Japan and the Americas. Medieval Scholars Spar on a Modern Battlefield: Twitter 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Dangdut’s influences have changed over the years to include everything from American and British rock to salsa, house and remix, and styles of dance today are shaped by MTV and Western pop stars. Forget Gaga; Indonesia wild for own raunchy shows 2012-05-30T13:48:00Z

Laviolette writes that as Western culture became increasingly individualistic in recent decades, both drivers and travelers have grown warier of sharing rides. Thumbs up for three new books that capture hitchhiking’s adventurous spirit 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Women, by the way, are still spiritually second-­class citizens in Mormonism, though the same is arguably true in most other Western religions, so maybe we shouldn’t harp on them too much. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z

But Russia's economy is now two years into a deep economic slump, hit by Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis and a collapse in global oil prices. Russia's $30 million center for acrobatic rock'n'roll, sport of Putin's daughter 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

Throughout Western Europe, Locke’s thought moved quickly throughout literary and philosophical circles, where its political implications were not missed. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

“For so long, Haiti has had to fight the stigma of being the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere,” she said. Black Women Make Waves in Hair Care 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

The resulting Syrian-Armenian restaurants have taken Yerevan by storm, providing an uptick in spice and complexity with a mix of Syrian classics and Western Armenian dishes. A Crash Course in Armenian History 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Herbert Marsh and his colleagues at the University of Western Sydney found that some Australian boys who physically bullied others became victims of bullying months later. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z

Trained in the Jaipur Gharana musical traditions as a child, Falu, 37, is known for what she calls “Indie Hindi,” a blend of classical Indian melodies and contemporary Western pop music. Singer-songwriter Falu goes back to Bollywood 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The Convergence, with its promises of everlasting life, is a seductive dream, just as Charles Maitland’s assessment of Western entanglement in far-flung lands is seductive. Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

The militant group said it targeted her because she promoted “Western thinking” and criticized the Taliban’s behavior. Shot Pakistani Teen Malala Yousafzai Writing Book 2013-03-28T14:21:44Z

“Iphigenia” won’t be the first time he has paired the quartet with a Western orchestra. How Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter Realized His Dream: an Opera 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

As immigrants, we got to understand the cultural zeitgeist of the Western world. An oral history of how Alex Trebek became America’s most beloved game-show host 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

He represents the Berkshires area district, in Western Massachusetts. Alicia Christoff, Adam Hinds 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z

Today, vastly expanded and known as the Prado, the museum is one of the world’s great repositories of Western art. A 7-Hour, 6-Mile, Round-the-Museum Tour of the Prado 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

The British-born comic, who now lives in Western Australia with his wife and three children, is in the UK promoting his new novel. Elton inspired by Gove Blackadder quote 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

Costner has played an assortment of Western protagonists, but Sheridan's wealthy rancher is a second skin enabling him to play against type. With "1923," the "Yellowstone" universe grimly enlists Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z

In many cases, their factories and plants and mines were about to close when the Bechers shot them — a few were already abandoned — as Western economies made the switch to services and design and computing. Photography’s Delightful Obsessives 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Perhaps it was the change of perspective, something I discovered again last December when I sat in a room at a Best Western in Gallup and gazed past truck rigs idling in a snow-dusted lot. My Life in Hotels 2011-12-02T14:36:36Z

Though Western Europe’s highest peak offers plenty of skiing year round for those willing to hike for it, lazier mortals have far easier options for finding snow in early spring. 12 Months of Skiing, From Chile to China 2012-12-07T17:07:45Z

They constitute, to my mind, some of the richest and deepest meditations on art, beauty, mortality and subjectivity in Western literature. Review | Two centuries after John Keats’s death, his famous odes are still sparking new discussions 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

A few minutes later, I was hiking my way through a thick swath of towering Douglas fir and Western red cedar trees, boughs draped with hanging moss. Whistler’s Slopes and Après-Ski Charms, the Cheap Way 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

It’s the main venue for most Seattle Center events, including Sunday’s Seattle Bot Battles amateur-robot competition by Western Allied Robotics hobby club. Fun times at Seattle Center 2013-04-03T22:34:37Z

He's about to release his debut EP on Transparent, the label that brought us the magnificent Washed Out, the Smith Westerns, Active Child, Yuck and, of course, Perfume Genius. New band of the day ? No 758: Lonely Galaxy 2010-03-31T15:58:00Z

The Senegalese are known for their friendliness and hospitality — two qualities I witnessed in most everyone I met on a trip to Dakar last month — but their relationship with Western cameras is reserved at best. On the Streets of Dakar, a Kaleidoscope of Style 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

The group least likely to be pleased with these series is biblical scholars, said Timothy Beal, a professor of religion at Case Western Reserve University. Television puts more faith in religious-themed projects 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

Alexie is a sharp and self-aware Native American writer and filmmaker, and he didn’t necessarily mean to suggest that a Chinese person raised in America wouldn’t gravitate toward Western themes. When White Poets Pretend to Be Asian 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

For decades, the concerns of those who cherish Western culture have been openly ridiculed and dismissed as racist. Bannon molded Breitbart into a far-right sledgehammer. How it will be wielded in the Trump era? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

The net effect left some Western critics enraptured and others bewildered. Kaneto Shindo, Filmmaker, Dies at 100 2012-06-01T15:03:10Z

And here we are, standing on what was once the tallest skyscraper in the world, and we’re looking up at the new tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere. Brian Unger on ‘the Big American Story’ 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

The entire subject of the “Made in Italy” label is entwined with the countries that the La Scala/Tod’s collaboration hopes to impress, primarily China, where the majority of Western clothes are now made. Special Report: 'An Italian Dream' of Shoes and Dance 2010-09-24T18:03:00Z

Almost as old as Western appropriation are critiques of such appropriation, often made by Westerners. How a small D.C. record label became a hotbed of modern Ethiopian sounds 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Cormac McCarthy's name is bound to the Western genre with good reason. Cormac McCarthy – the greatest Western writer ever – didn't actually write Westerns 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

“The fact is the South embodies much that’s at the core of Western civilization,” Mr. Genovese said in an interview with The New York Times in 1998. Eugene D. Genovese, Historian of South, Dies at 82 2012-09-30T00:04:16Z

They met in Port Hedland, Western Australia in 1998, when she was a student nurse and he was a graduate teacher. How we stay together: 'The secret is just not leaving' 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z

He braked his Western 100 in front of a villa with a half-demolished back patio. California’s Marrakesh: A Country Club That’s Chic Again 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Offshore balancers, he says, believe that only a few areas of the globe are worth fighting to protect, with the Western Hemisphere paramount among them. A Foreign Policy Realist Challenges America’s Zeal for Intervention 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Artists could travel freely and had some exposure to what their Western peers were doing; renegade movements were tolerated, if not widely promoted. Art and Design: Sanja Ivekovic, Croatia?s Monumental Provocateur 2011-12-25T05:07:04Z

Locke also advocated a return to African aesthetic principles, not as a counternarrative to Western racism but as a means of exalting African forms and techniques. The Philosopher Who Believed That Art Was Key to Black Liberation 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

So, reading Homer today admits you to a club that spans the history of Western culture. Book review: ‘Why Homer Matters,’ by Adam Nicholson 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

Mexico closes its borders to American refugees, and the military of the Greater Korean Republic eventually invades and occupies Western states. Video Game Review: Defending America, the Underdog 2011-03-24T22:00:11Z

It's like All Quiet on the Western Front, Heart of Darkness and The Grapes of Wrath squeezed into one budget edition. Céline's journey to the cutting edge of literature 2013-06-15T11:01:00Z

He seems to be creating a body of work about freakish homemade microcultures — in a country whose rich literary patrimony lies at the basis of Western civilization. film: Yorgos Lanthimos?s ?Dogtooth,? a Family Parable 2010-06-24T22:17:00Z

Sam’s life was an epic first to last, a movie that starts as a Western and ends as a spy thriller. King of the banana republic 2012-06-03T21:00:00Z

But as a fairy tale jampacked with action, romance, comedy, tragedy, drama, music, dancing and Western pizazz, it's a painless entree to the archetypal Bollywood style. 'Kites': a star-crossed love story, Bollywood style 2010-05-20T20:10:00Z

It also contains one of the Coens’ glorious monologues, a riff that extracts from the casual Western bunk of fireside chat, a nugget of authentic principle—a frontier foreshadowing of the philosophy of pragmatism: Review: The Coen Brothers “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” Is Six Giddy, Cruel Twists on the Western 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Kochai has created an exciting and true voice, a young American proudly telling stories of his Afghan grandparents, of his cousins and brothers, without the need for Western approval. Two Young Men Come of Age Amid Violence and Pathos Overseas 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

The term “belly dance” itself is a Western one. Why I can’t stand white belly dancers 2014-03-04T23:59:00Z

It is worth noting that “Abendland” means “evening land” and is sometimes used to mean “the West,” as in the German historian Oswald Spengler’s famed study of Western culture, “The Decline of the West.” Movie Review: ‘Abendland,’ a Documentary by Nikolaus Geyrhalter 2012-07-26T22:43:14Z

Whitney Chadwick’s fact-packed critical survey of art by women was a monument in the field of feminist Western art history when it first appeared in 1990, and an important corrective to centuries of neglect. Best Art Books of 2020 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

Perfectly timed to coincide with Spandau Ballet’s current reunion tour, “Soul Boys of the Western World” is a cheekily self-serving account of the English group’s rise to glory in the 1980s and its later dissolution. Review: ‘Soul Boys of the Western World’ Revisits Spandau Ballet 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

Star professors were either master thinkers introducing new rigor and glamour into a tweedy profession gone stale, or theory-addled tenured radicals taking a hatchet to the masterpieces of Western culture. What Is Literary Criticism For? 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

Americans own an estimated 89 firearms per 100 citizens, nearly double the rate of the next-highest Western nation, which is Switzerland. Weinstein, Tarantino and the standoff over movie violence 2014-02-01T19:30:00Z

It’s not about Wyoming specifically, but about the great undifferentiated Western country where an amazing mix of people — trappers, fur traders, Indians, missionaries — came together in the early 19th century. Lynne Cheney: By the Book 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

The answer is, once more, often in the doings of various “others” — children, the woodcarving sculptors of Central Africa or people living on the margins of Western society, sometimes in psychiatric hospitals. Review: A Strange and Wonderful View of Outsider Art 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Some other interesting items: construction was stopped because poor little Hope Island couldn't sustain the weight of what became the largest brick structure in the Western Hemisphere, and the fort began to break apart. West of Key West, an Under-the-Radar National Park 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile the music commutes between baroque and minimalist, between Asian and Western. Dance Review: Meredith Monk at St. Mark’s Church 2012-11-20T22:38:02Z

The rules are meant to counteract an "obsession" with Western holidays at the expense of Chinese ones, an official at the city's education bureau told Xinhua. Christmas banned by Chinese university, says it is kitsch 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

Instead, they said, “the photograph evokes themes of greed, innocence and the motif of the cherub in Western art.” Lawsuit Accusing Nirvana of Sexually Exploitive Imagery Is Dismissed 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

Soon director Daniel Barber, who previously made the Michael Caine revenge thriller “Harry Brown” as well as the Western short “The Tonto Woman,” was attached, casting was moving forward and the film moved into production. Toronto Film Festival: 'Keeping Room' a window into women, Civil War 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

But the truth is—for better and for worse—that, no, most of us, even in the most free of Western societies, are not Charlie. The Life-Giving Defiance of the Charlie Hebdo Cartoonists 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

This was the situation while Western reporters were guests of the Soviet government, then determined to cultivate a positive wartime image in the United States and United Kingdom. How Stalin’s Control of Foreign Reporters Helped Shape Russia Coverage Today 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

With his military collapsing on both the Eastern and Western fronts, Hitler has ordered a suicidal last stand of total destruction. Movie Review: ‘Fury' Has Brad Pitt Killing Nazis Again 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

For much of the Western’s history, Black people seldom made it on screen, and when they did, they were usually subservient background characters. Giving the Western some swagger in ‘The Harder They Fall’ 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z

Westerns are set in an era with which Americans feel comfortable, with everyone having a gun and gunslingers taking the law into their own hands. Hey, cowboy 2010-04-25T23:06:00Z

Some Western cultural institutions have demanded that artists condemn Putin as a condition for performing. Russian and Ukrainian Pianists Meet in Texas at Cliburn Competition 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

Western Union is like a hulking, geologic mass — an entire urban block extruded in brick. Brooklyn Bridge, Star of the City: Here’s a Tour 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

He is credited with establishing a dialogue between James I of England and the ruling Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu - and with helping the Shogun become de factor Emperor, by advancing Ieyasu's knowledge of Western warfare. England’s samurai takes the stage 2013-01-31T15:34:21Z

Laying the blame on an encroachment of so-called cancel culture and sanctions imposed in response to the war, he claimed that Western countries were “attempting to erase a thousand years of culture” in Russia. When Ukrainian Music Wasn’t Under Threat, It Thrived 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

Advertisement Their wry vérité style, which occasionally borrows images from Western media, “plays in a very, very sophisticated way with the history of filmmaking, subverts it, toys with it and advances it,” Ms. Kuoni said. Syrian Film Collective Offers View of Life Behind a Conflict 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

Expect Western twists on classic dishes, such as soft-shell crab served with a tomatillo base or elk striploin with wild mushrooms. Aspen’s other million-dollar asset: Cycling 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

She grew up in a pop culture vacuum, forbidden to watch television or listen to Western music. Up Close: An MTV Star?s Side Gig at the Hester Street Fair 2010-07-07T21:19:00Z

And yet, August still promises plenty of worthwhile titles, from a delicious Western saga to sharp short stories to a genre-defying memoir. The 10 books to read in August 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

But in 1918, Lenin appropriated the paintings and the palace, as the pillar of the newly created State Museum of New Western Art. A Bridge from Moscow to Paris: 130 Works of Modern Art 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

“His impact on the history of Western civilization is incomparable.” Review | In Sue Monk Kidd’s ‘The Book of Longings,’ Jesus has a wife — and behold, she’s so woke! 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

Through his books, speeches and media commentary, Kagan became a leading conservative voice in the otherwise liberal field of history, supporting military action abroad and adherence to the Western canon at home. Donald Kagan, leading neo-conservative historian, dead at 89 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

Just last month, Mr. Prager posted on Twitter that “the news media in the West pose a far greater danger to Western civilization than Russia does.” Santa Monica Symphony Roiled by Conservative Guest Conductor 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

Western nations typically have scores or even hundreds. Is trauma handed down through generations? 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

His under-loved last film, “The Lost City of Z,” tracks an early-20th-century explorer who travels far into the Amazon carrying the sins of Western civilization with him. ‘Ad Astra’ Review: Brad Pitt Orbits the Powers of Darkness 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

The title of another of his major books, “The Western Canon,” is also a kind of planted flag. Harold Bloom, a Prolific Giant and Perhaps the Last of a Kind 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

“It actually diminishes Western culture and tradition,” Ms. Diego wrote, saying that she had been shocked by the art world’s response to Mr. Trump’s election. London Gallery LD50’s Alt-Right Show Should Be Its Last, Critics Say 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

Mr. A matched her in a pristine Western suit. Deported and 9,000 Miles Apart, but ‘You Stay With the Person You Love’ 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Trent Blizzard and his wife, Kristen, who run the Modern Forager website, where they share resources and recipes, sell burn maps of the Western United States for the morel-inclined. Mushroom Boom: How to Plan a Foraging Adventure on the West Coast 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

The compelling narrative has been that as more Western women travel farther afield, the more they are at risk. Women Alert to Travel’s Darker Side 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

If anything, it’s a great excuse to order its great lamb burger and what might be the best shepherd’s pie in Western Washington. 10 best bars for World Cup viewing in the Seattle area 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Controlled by a computer program and using specially treated steel mesh material as a screen, it shows shifting, multicolored images of feathers meant to symbolize the dawn of justice in Western civilization. Public art projects in Long Beach, Willowbrook win national award 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

The author is most at ease when discussing Western architecture. Building societies 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

In grainy footage midway through the film, a reporter asks Paul McCartney, “What place do you think this story of the Beatles is going to have in the history of Western culture?” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Beatles’ and ‘Fences’ 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z

David Brion Davis won the nonfiction prize for "The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation," the final book in a trilogy about the history of slavery in the Western world. 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award winners announced 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Many people, at least in Western democracies on most days, can live their whole lives without encountering extreme violence. Why Parents Worry More About Sex than Violence in the Movies 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

The property is one of a small but growing number of ranches where guests are willing to pay a premium to experience Western life in a far earthier way than at a standard dude ranch. Journeys: Ranches Where Guests Do Everyday Cowboy Work 2010-07-09T16:48:00Z

Throughout, Adès marvelously distorts the Dies Irae motif that has been used throughout the history of Western music as death’s awful sound. Thomas Adès and the L.A. Phil find life in the Dance of Death 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

It served one important purpose, though, he said: “Shaking things up” and driving Western museums to re-examine their collections. A New Museum Director’s First Challenge: Which Exhibits to Give Back 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

We know the tales of Greece and Rome; they’re the foundation of Western literature. Review | ‘The Perfect Nine,’ by perennial Nobel Prize favorite Ngugi wa Thiong’o, is a mythic look at his culture’s origins 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

The book dwells rather too long on the Western classical tradition, and gives short shrift to popular forms like jazz, blues and hip-hop. Voice-overs 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Much of the work is political, a category that often means — as in Western art today — the politics of personal identity. Japan’s Fukuoka and South Korea’s Busan: Sister cities a hydrofoil ride apart

“It’s true that we pay attention to what the stories might say about social relations in Western countries,” Jean-Pierre said, referring to their work in general. The Dardennes Explore Their Theme in ‘Two Days, One Night’ 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

In the mid-19th century, the British photographers Samuel Bourne and Charles Shepherd began selling and exporting images of Indian landscapes to a Western public hungry for the country’s exotic beauty. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

There’s a race called the Western States 100 that’s in my first book, Ultramarathon Man, and there’s a lottery to get in. Dean Karnazes: 'When you’re struggling, that’s when you feel most alive' 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

Like the book, it is both a tale of espionage and the story of a friendship and a betrayal that is as personally devastating for Elliott as the political betrayal is for the Western powers. In ‘A Spy Among Friends,’ B.F.F. Betrayal at an International Level 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

Any film requires insurance coverage and any policy for a Western would hit upon the use of horses, other animals and firearms. Potential legal woes mount after ‘Rust’ shooting tragedy 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Despite the hardships, Moscow has historically been a highly coveted assignment, and an essential outpost for Western media organizations. How Stalin’s Control of Foreign Reporters Helped Shape Russia Coverage Today 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

The tiles depict early-1900s Asian and Western engineering feats like trains, bridges and telephone systems. The Cairo Geniza, Under Piecemeal Restoration 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

This bacteria tends to be low in the Western diet but abundant in the Mediterranean diet. Colds, flu and COVID: How diet and lifestyle can boost your immune system 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

When owner Garrett Krugh arrived in Kalamazoo to study business at Western seven years ago, the coffee scene left something to be desired. You’re going where? Kalamazoo is tired of your Creedence Clearwater jokes 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

THE late 1970s were marked by high oil prices and faltering Western economies. Sending its fabulous collection of Western modernism abroad 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

The show was the first prime-time Western to be broadcast in color when it debuted in 1959 and ran 14 seasons. 'Bonanza' producer David Dortort dies at 93 2010-09-08T15:19:00Z

The first line of one of the oldest poems in Western literature, Homer’s “Iliad,” begins with the ancient Greek word for anger, or superanger: wrath. Review: ‘A World of Emotions’ in Greek Art Unmasks the Stony Faces 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

The filming of the new reboot, "Man of Steel," left Plano after 14 days of shooting in the Western suburb and is expected to film in Chicago Wednesday through September 17. Superman movie sets up shop in the Loop 2011-09-07T11:14:00Z

NW at Western Trail, Albuquerque 505-899-0205 nps.gov/petr/index.htm Three trails explore petroglyphs left by ancestral Puebloans and the Spanish on volcanic rocks on the western side of Albuquerque. A monumental journey through New Mexico 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

The timing of Inscape was perfect, because just as its renovation was wrapping up, his former neighboring tenants at 619 Western were scrambling to relocate. Seattle reinvents its artists colony 2012-04-29T05:08:07Z

Mr. Alam maintains that his photographs differ from those of Western photojournalists. Using His Camera as a Witness and Weapon 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

A recent Mainichi newspaper survey showed that 34 percent of people said they used mostly gengo, 34 percent said they used both about the same, and 25 percent mainly the Western calendar. Updating software, shaping history: New imperial era name looms... 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

Very pleasant hotel mixes lots of Western touches in the rooms and public spaces with all the modern conveniences and comforts; rooms include a refrigerator and microwave. Yellowstone during the pandemic: Reliably magnificent 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Still, a potential concern for Arab authors writing for an American audience is how to portray Arab patriarchy within a Western milieu of Islamophobic and anti-Arab stereotypes. Review | In Etaf Rum’s ‘A Woman Is No Man,’ the prison of domesticity is hard to escape 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Christie’s, for its part, is building a new headquarters in Hong Kong and has been hosting non-selling exhibitions to promote Western art in Asia. Powerful Auction Veterans Aim New Company at Asian Market 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

Compton made one more feature, “Buckeye and Blue,” from 1988—a Western, starring Robyn Lively in the role of a young woman who commands a crew of train robbers. Juleen Compton, a Director and Actor Whose Career Was Tragically Overlooked 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

The juxtaposition of Western genres with Chinese culture is part of the allure of "Black Coal" and "No Man's Land", though the challenge of making movies there is also clear. Chinese directors master Nordic noir, shoot-'em-up Western 2014-02-13T15:12:54Z

Many in the audience were British Indians, who came to his show to hear what India was like today, Das said, whereas Western audiences wanted to learn something new about Indian life. They’re Comedy Stars at Home. At Edinburgh Fringe, They’re Nobodies. 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

Rendered as a cartoon cutout, Clark sits on a bulbous rock formation in a desolate Western landscape, his shirt open to reveal his Superman costume. Art Review: Llyn Foulkes Retrospective Opens at the New Museum 2013-06-20T23:05:46Z

The “Sketches” announced the author’s distinctly “Western” — as opposed to Russian — belief in “moral progress, freedom and democracy,” and earned him an ardent international following. How Modernity Came to Europe 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Justified from the beginning has been a kind of modern-day Western. Justified Watch: It Beats Angry 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

It reads instead like a series of magazine advertisements — or, looked at another way, as evidence for Western decadence that might be posted in a fundamentalist state. A Gorgeous Center for Photography, Far From Picture Perfect 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

The struggle over property in slaves focused largely on the fate of the Western territories, but it also inflamed conflicts over the status of fugitive slaves. How the Dispute Over Runaway Slaves Helped Fuel the Civil War 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Western dress is encouraged, and those attending on Friday and Saturday will get a free straw hat. Spare Times for Sept. 19-25 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

There's no denying that there are smart books within the Western genre, but nothing up to snuff with McCarthy. Cormac McCarthy – the greatest Western writer ever – didn't actually write Westerns 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

An even bigger reason may be that religion in general, and fundamentalist religion in particular, is a major sore spot in Western culture, a source of tremendous vulnerability and anxiety. Atheism, Islam and liberalism: This is what we are really fighting about 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

They were detained at the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites. Comic Sarah Silverman's sister detained by Israel 2013-02-11T12:31:05Z

The marbles epitomize Classical Greece and its influence on Western civilization. Letters: It?s All About Context 2010-05-13T13:16:00Z

That brilliant 23-year-old drama, which made this playwright's career, explores how Western men have long been vulnerable to the seductive mysteries of the beautiful, er, women of the east. Four stars for Goodman's 'Chinglish' 2011-06-27T20:36:00Z

Ricci translated Euclid into Chinese, demonstrated Western clocks to the Chinese and created a method for representing Chinese using the Western alphabet. 2010-01-20T05:23:00Z

The family emigrated to Western Australia, but in adulthood Céleste found her way back to Paris as a translator. For These Characters, Foreign Cultures Are Just Another Consumer Good 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

The two were married Dec. 4 by the Rev. Richard Kirchherr at the First Congregational Church of Western Springs in Western Springs, Ill., where they live. Mutual Admiration Forged Their Immediate Connection 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

With the talent and tenacity to transcend cultural differences, Hui He is a trailblazer and a harbinger of the rise of Western opera in the world's most populous nation. Soprano He Hui Is Blazing a Trail for China's Opera Singers 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

This, the artist is saying, is how African artifacts were long shown in Western natural history museums: alongside animal and plant specimens. We Need to Talk About Colonialism, This Artist Says 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

The episode on memory, for instance, takes Wilson to a convention about the multiverse theory, led by amateurs out of a Best Western conference room. The delight of HBO's bizarre docuseries "How to With John Wilson" is found in the detours 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z

Combining a university education with motherhood, Phyllis Klotman earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Western Reserve University, as it was then known, in the early 1960s, followed by a doctorate there. Phyllis R. Klotman, Scholar and Archivist of African-American Cinema, Dies at 90 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

This year, production is expected to exceed a million metres – the biggest production run for 15 years – every centimetre hand-woven at homes in Scotland's Western Isles. Harris tweed returns to global boutiques after islands' renaissance 2012-11-09T16:45:33Z

“If the French and other Western collectors had not preserved this art, what would be the understanding of Khmer culture today?” he said. Expert Opinion or Elaborate Ruse? Scrutiny for Scholars’ Role in Art Sales 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

As Firefly’s reach expanded — it’s now distributed in three states and Western Canada — the majority of the staff became paid workers. Firefly’s fanatical fermenters aim to help you feel better 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Mary has tried Western medicine, and it has failed her. ‘The Answers’ Runs Down the Rabbit Hole of Love 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

This may sound very American and Western and like a cowboy song. What if I flunk the gaokao? 2013-03-08T01:00:00Z

Each of these attacks was covered in the Western press, but the ways in which the loss of lives were covered varied greatly. Why is it so threatening to say Muslim lives matter? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

Even when Dr. Ken’s traditional Korean parents come to dinner, everyone pointedly uses modern Western cutlery; there’s not a single embarrassing chopstick in sight. Paging “Dr. Ken”: A TV show that should be one small step forward for Asian-Americans feels like two giant steps back 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

The station itself features 13 local shops and restaurants and 600 pieces of Western art curated by a local gallery. Refurbished Stations From Denver to Tokyo 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Weinstein opened the talk by plugging Tarantino’s forthcoming bloody Western flick The Hateful Eight. Harvey Weinstein Talks Quentin Tarantino, Sony Hack And TV Division Sale 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the most obvious evidence of my Western upbringing was my unapologetic admission that I sprinkled sugar on my grits. Black recipes matter, too: Why I wanted to break the Jemima code 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Pinault was referring to the retail revenues from an influx of tourists, including Central European and Asian shoppers, across the Western world. Special Report: Fashion: A Global Code 2011-06-24T17:12:31Z

The Daily Mail appears to have been the first major Western publication to suggest the virus had a human origin. The media called the ‘lab leak’ story a ‘conspiracy theory.’ Now it’s prompted corrections — and serious new reporting. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

I wanted to find ways to make Western desserts, but with Indian flavors in them. For Maya Kaimal, "deliciousness wins" when making everyday Indian cuisine 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z

“Japanese people rely too much on Western food every day,” Murata said. Michelin-starred Japanese chef fears loss of simple, traditional food 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

The Westgate attack, of course, struck at the heart of all that — at the very symbol of Western commerce and consumption that marked life for both expats and upwardly mobile Kenyans alike. In Nairobi, a feeling of otherness in a place he considers almost like home

"However, Chinese entertainment figures are subjected to higher standards of morality than their Western counterparts." China prosecutor approves arrest of Jackie Chan's son on drug charge 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

New York City’s Methodists outnumbered that church’s largest Western conferences, and the city supported numerous denominational publishing houses and many tract and missionary societies. F.Y.I.: Answers to Questions About New York 2011-04-22T21:09:10Z

He said, "It's Western swing music," and I said, "That's interesting." "I'm not quiet, but my voice still warbles": Amanda Shires on her new album and owning her strength 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z

In some formidably parched places across 10 Western states, including Nevada, the horses prove their hardiness by surviving and reproducing. Wild Animals Gallop, Swim and Scamper Their Way Through These Books 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

The incident left the group shaken – it had been sudden and unexpected – and we walked in near silence along the Western Docks canal, a spruce but deserted residential estate. TS Eliot's The Waste Land 2012 – a multimedia walk 2012-07-30T11:14:00Z

“It might be the most difficult instrument in the Western world to learn,” he concluded. The Pedal Steel Gets Its Resurrection 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

Over the years, Christianity began to have an influence over the institution of marriage, “Christianizing” some of the harsher variations of it found in Western Europe. Jesus would back gay marriage 2012-09-16T12:00:00Z

Where does Western women's superiority complex toward women of color around the world come from? “Put the fangs back in feminism”: Author Rafia Zakaria on how feminism loses relevance to whiteness 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

I was teaching an introductory course to Western culture — Sophocles, ‘The Confessions of St. Augustine’ — and I added ‘Virginia Woolf’ to the list as soon as I got back. ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ Returns for an Anniversary 2012-09-29T23:00:21Z

In the community garden where I grow veggies from my own Western European past, I do the same thing, but with parsnips, gooseberries and scarlet runner beans. Asian vegetables enrich and extend the autumn garden 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

Western societies are not, even now, the paradise of skepticism and rationalism that they believe themselves to be. Unmournable Bodies 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

As domestic and global box offices slump, China — slowly and suspiciously opening itself up to Western influences — becomes the new frontier: a great lake of virgin moviegoing imagination, a vast untapped resource. Hollywood Came to China; It Was Epic. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

ABC has a project called "Gunslinger" in development for 2012, as well as a series titled "Hangtown" that is described as a combination of a crime drama and a traditional Western. Westerns saddle up for TV comeback 2011-11-03T12:33:02Z

Sadat joined a protest Sunday by aid groups and others demanding that Western governments do more to help those left behind and put pressure on the Taliban. After escape, Afghan director mourns her ‘lost country’ 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

Putin also gets a visit from Tony Blair, which suggests Western support of him, and Putin refuses to engage in televised debates with his opponents, which helps his campaign. The man who filmed Putin’s rise: “Compromises I made, we all made…led us to this deplorable... 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

There are new vocabulary words and customs to master, and hosts in ryokans that cater to Western tourists double as cultural guides. Journeys: Seeking a Japanese Guesthouse Experience, Closer to Home 2012-06-22T15:52:40Z

‘Why are you playing Western music rather than your own music?’ Tokyo String Quartet to make last Seattle visit 2013-04-12T19:35:10Z

A woman who vandalized rock formations at Western national parks is sentenced. Roundup: Christo's new floating walkways, national parks vandal sentenced, poop sculptures in Europe 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

The “Fictions” show features the marble bust “Why Born Enslaved!” by the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, which examines Western sculpture in relation to the histories of trans-Atlantic slavery, colonialism and empire. Museums Change Their Approach to Showing White Male Artists 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Car horns, jackhammers, rivet guns, workmen yelling, New Yorkers speed-walking to get somewhere — maybe the noisiest spot in the Western world. In Search of Silence 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z

“I’ve seen him before, but this show was more for Western people,” she says, adding that she’s been a fan for 25 years. A Japanese Rock Star Sets His Eyes on America 2013-11-14T15:50:29Z

Across the 1970s, the figurative children of their 1960s achievements battled it out on the Western record charts, vying for attention and acclaim among a sea of talent. Paul McCartney singles box set tells riveting story of a brilliant musician with something to prove 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z

Our African, European, Hispanic, Southern, and Western cultures are kneaded, patted, and baked into our breads. 40 Things I Love About Texas 2010-06-02T17:24:00Z

I also noticed that Western writers are grappling with the refugee crisis and the West’s complicity and response. Times Critics Discuss the Year in Books, From Triumphs to Disappointments 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Luis Monreal, the managing director of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, says organizers hope to "present to our Western public the pluralism of the Islamic cultures." Aga Khan's Islamic treasures go on show in Berlin 2010-03-16T12:18:00Z

Western Massachusetts explodes with the arts every summer, and these two institutions are vital to that scene. 50 Essential Summer Festivals 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

And it’s fertile ground to seed: The Blackest nation outside of Nigeria, Brazil was the last country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery, in 1888. After 22 Years, Gayl Jones Returns 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

Of course, context matters; in “Black Friday,” we are looking at a Western phenomenon transplanted to the rising cities of the Gulf, a mass diversion with additional imperialist baggage. ‘Black Friday’ Shares Sophia Al-Maria’s Vision of Gulf Futurism 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

“It was the most beautiful,” she said of the walls, whose ornate carvings reveal the intermingling of Eastern, Western and Byzantine motifs. Berlin’s Museum Tours in Arabic Forge a Bridge to Refugees 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

Musically, too, her appearances are among the richest in the opera, weaving together ethnic instruments with Western strings in an alluring and innovative way. ‘Dr. Sun Yat-sen’ in the American Premiere at Santa Fe Opera 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

The photographs are unremarkable to a Western eye, but have outraged parts of the Iranian establishment which have hit back. Iranian veil site gets half million 'likes' and state TV rebuke 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

Illegal in several Western nations, the leaf is immensely popular in the region, giving the chewer a mild amphetamine-like high. Coffee faces a double threat to its existence in eastern Ethiopia 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

Despite his own willingness to communicate with the government, Noguchi, at the beginning of 1945, received a letter from Western Military Command requiring him to report to Manzanar for a second round of confinement. The Japanese-American Artist Who Went to the Camps to Help 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

“The Lost Time Accidents” is an expansive, sprawling — at almost 500 pages, sometimes meandering — circumnavigation of the meaning of time to the 20th-century Western world. Review: ‘The Lost Time Accidents’ asks the big questions about where we are 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Younger Nagas generally are more interested in assimilating into Western consumer and entertainment cultures than in connecting to their precolonial roots. Art Review: Naga Peoples Made Beauty From the Ugly in Northeastern India 2013-06-27T21:18:57Z

The clash was covered by Western media, and the duo began to receive more press coverage, including by Playboy magazine in 1974. Soviet Pop Art Duo Reunites for First U.S. Retrospective Since Their Breakup 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Westerns get made only because some powerful director, producer or star wants to pay tribute to the sagebrush sagas he loved as a kid. Despicable Me 2 Makes Minions-Meat of The Lone Ranger 2013-07-07T20:34:25Z

Western dealers, collectors and curators have swarmed to China over the last decade, and Chinese artists have been producing great quantities of work designed as much for Western as for local consumption. Art in Review: ?CATCH THE MOON IN THE WATER?: Emerging Chinese Artists 2011-07-14T22:30:44Z

“In Japan I was a child model because of my Western looks,” she says. A young playwright's quest to ask difficult questions about race, class and gender 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

The flightless, aquatic birds first started showing up in Simon’s Town on the Western Cape in the early 1980s as boat traffic around their natural habitat increased. Waddling into view are the stars of Netflix’s ‘Penguin Town’ 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

Ahkami manufactured the small artifacts to illustrate how motifs and objects from ancient Persia have been incorporated into Western life and art. Review | In the galleries: Renee Stout’s fiery visions draw inspiration from Jimi Hendrix 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Born in what is now Lebanon, Gibran moved as a child to the United States, where he drew and painted in a Western style while writing books in both English and Arabic. Review | In the galleries: A century apart, Khalil Gibran and contemporary artists explore questions of home and displacement at MEI Art Gallery 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

I get the impression that in the Western world it isn’t so easy to go to the other side; you have to go through some trials to get to the other world. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

Italy was the first Western country to impose a national lockdown, on March 4, which suspended all businesses. With Most Weddings Still on Hold, Italian Designers Struggle 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

“It is a wonderful idea,” she said of restoring the Museum of New Western Art. Pushkin Director Departs After Bid for President’s Support 2013-07-05T21:17:51Z

The road narrative may be the most fundamental American legend, grown from our history of pilgrimage and Western expansion. Wild and the Rise of the Lone She-Wolf 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

“Bond outwits the Russians rather than outmuscles them, and effectively scuppers the Soviets’ designs on Western destabilization.” When Russia was the villain: How this moment echoes the era of Cold War spy novels and ‘Rocky IV’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

But Westerns often carry high production budgets; and this quintessentially American genre doesn’t often attract moviegoers abroad, where the box-office gravy is. A Chilling Way to Die at the Box Office: Make a Western 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

Who, I wondered, could criticize the devastating finale of “King Lear” or “A Farewell to Arms”? Those scenes are among the most moving in Western literature. Perspective | What book has the most disappointing ending? Readers have many opinions. 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

At that time it was interpreted as a comment on the inherent futility of those recent Western adventures in the third world. Books of The Times: On a Fool?s Mission in a Dying Colonial World 2011-06-29T22:32:48Z

Solar was one of the "big four" characters of Western Publishing's Gold Key line in the 1960s, which included Magnus; Robot Fighter; Turok, Son of Stone; and Mighty Samson. Comics: "Doctor Solar" returns triumphant 2010-09-15T04:16:00Z

On Saturday I felt this most with the ensemble of the “Western Symphony” final movement, staged by Susan Pilarre with exhilarating rhythmic play. School of American Ballet’s New Graduates Onstage 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

That is against the Western principles of freedom of speech and many other fundamental values that we take pride in ourselves. A Conductor on Why He Stayed in Russia After the Invasion Began 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

Boredom, especially with "Western Society," which stretches close to the two-hour mark without intermission, becomes preponderant. Gob Squad jesters reel in REDCAT audience with mixed results 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

From the beginning I was thinking of a non-Bollywood audience, a Western indie audience, but at the same time making a very culturally rooted film. Avoiding Sectarian Violence to Tell a Story That Refused to Go Away 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

But from this dull social gathering Gob Squad extracts a kind of history of Western civilization. Gob Squad jesters reel in REDCAT audience with mixed results 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

The shorter blade is slightly more curved at the tip and the shape borrows aspects of a Japanese santoku, so it’s wider than a Western chef knife, a useful feature. An American-Forged Knife With Japanese Influences 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

While Western countries in general are low–context, America is almost always cited as the illustrative example of the low context communication extreme. So, you’re hiking across rural Britain? Walking the walk is the easy part. 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The forerunner of the Western harmonica, the sheng player similarly produces notes by inhaling and exhaling. Seoul Philharmonic introduces beauty of the sheng 2012-04-17T19:11:03Z

Such subversions are actually in the Western mainstream, or at least one rivulet of it. Review | In the galleries: The American character, as molded by 11 female artists 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

“And not taking a Western white cube gallery and putting it into the city.” In Hong Kong, a New Exhibit Creates a ‘Space for People to Feel’ 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

This stuck-in-amber hotel bar in a Best Western hotel appeals to a broad cross-section of Orlando, from retirees to young professionals to a drinking club whose members wear identical captain’s hats. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Orlando, Fla. 2011-03-03T21:24:16Z

For centuries, this was the vessel for the highest achievements in Western music, and it needed no help or externalities. Review | Shift festival illustrates a clutch shortfall in today’s symphony culture 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

Widely judged a musical and political success, the historic two-week visit by the "Fabulous Philadelphians" helped initiate the return of Western culture to China at the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. Philadelphia Orchestra, China announce partnership 2011-09-22T19:07:07Z

I was 19 years old and finishing my second semester of college at nearby Western Kentucky University. I was a teenage bride 2012-08-15T00:00:00Z

"The characters were harder and meaner, it was a tough place, so Sergio Leone was a huge influence on my passion for Westerns." Denzel Washington says 'The Magnificent Seven' like being a kid again 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

Shot in Abu Dhabi, it plays on the Western tradition of Orientalism, which imagines the Middle East as an exotic zone of magic and eros. A Video Artist Playing With Themes of Orientalism 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

From this first encounter, Waliya resists both her in-laws and the wiles of their Western nation. A Novel of Culture Clash Grapples With the Grief of a Suicide Bomber’s Family 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Most Western museums have also installed expensive and complex climate control systems to help preserve the works in their care. As Energy Costs Bite, Museums Rethink a Conservation Credo 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

His biggest goal in Brussels, he writes, was to fuse the United States and European Union into “an unstoppable Western bloc to counter malign forces and authoritarianism around the world.” The quid pro quos of Gordon D. Sondland 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Usually, global auction houses sell Western masters like this in New York or London, not in Hong Kong. Picasso Is Springing Up in Asia 2010-12-07T13:44:00Z

On-demand television is one of the more obvious symbols of Western prosperity and consumer ease. | The TV Watch: Saudi Arabia: Ramadan TV Gently Pushes Saudi Boundaries 2012-08-20T02:22:34Z

Where the Big Birds Fly Airlines in the Middle East and in Asia are buying Airbus and Boeing jets at a quick pace, making up for a dip in purchases by Western carriers. In Transit Blog: Morning Walkabout ? 5/2: Middle East Jet Spree, Plane Headaches and More 2012-05-02T15:44:39Z

He had some minor successes in the 1950s and `60s in writing Western stories and novels, a couple of which were made into movies. Best-selling author Elmore Leonard dies at 87 2013-08-20T14:32:52Z

There will be no fast trains connecting American cities, but a network of levitated superconducting trains will be under construction in Western Europe and in Japan. Science fiction’s 2012 2012-08-05T16:00:00Z

The implied sexual roles, equivalent to the Western gay terms “top” and “bottom,” are strictly enforced. Boys in Love 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Still, the watch market is in growth mode as an increasing number of buyers from China, India, the Middle East and Russia join Western collectors. Special Report: A Cut Above: Watches: Collectors' Items Bring Spectacular Returns 2011-03-24T12:37:02Z

Welcome to two of Western Montana’s best small ski areas with big terrain. Big ski country: For fresh powder, jumps and local beer, hit the slopes in Montana 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

And sometimes I say, Why I become Western music musician? Ozawa: A pioneer who dedicated his life to Western music 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Part is that rarity in Western culture, a genuinely popular classical composer — popular, at least, with the public at large. Review | The BSO gives them something to shout about with an edgy program 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

Backers say the law will protect traditional values, similar reasoning given by Russian lawmakers whose "anti-gay" law prompted some Western leaders to boycott the Winter Olympics hosted by President Vladimir Putin in Sochi. Gays fear new law will drive them out of Kyrgyzstan 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

Korwar’s work highlights other double standards when it comes to Western perspectives on Eastern music. Beyond the Stereotypes, a New View of Indian Music 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

Once we dried off from our first dive of the day, our two diminutive female Thai cooks brought out a multicourse breakfast of Thai and Western dishes. Scuba Diving in Thailand: A Balancing Act 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

It may also be the fate of those who study and teach about "the Western tradition." Students kickin' the old school in 'Office Hours' 2010-10-01T18:32:00Z

“All the Pretty Horses,” a reflective Western that cut against the grain of his previous work, won a National Book Award in 1992, and “The Road” won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007. Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

In its early days, the group was often referred to in Western news media as “a band,” but it has always worked across artistic mediums. Review: Scream Along With Pussy Riot 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z

Within walking distance from every Chicago apartment I ever lived in sits a timeworn joint called John's Pizzeria Ristorante & Lounge on Western Ave., which stays open till 1 a.m. on Saturdays. A love letter to Chicago’s tavern pizza, interrupted 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

Hutchins, 42, was shot Thursday on the New Mexico set of the Western “Rust.” Woman shot on film set remembered as gifted cinematographer 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

Westerns, he said, glamorize “the worst aspects of the imperial drive of the United States” — brutality against nature, genocidal racism, “the whole macho thing, the place of women, the frivolous violence, it goes on.” A Debut Novel. A Tiny Press. A Pulitzer Finalist. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

In “Once Upon a Time,” Pitt played the laid-back stunt double and fixit man Cliff Booth to Leonardo DiCaprio’s fading TV Western star. Brad Pitt wins supporting actor Oscar for 'Once upon a Time in Hollywood' 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

With this being the dominant lens, it’s no wonder that the Western audience conflates everyday Gazans and West Bank residents with Hamas militants terrorizing both their own civilians and Israelis. In 2023, nobody knows how to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2013, Anthony Bourdain did 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z

Quite a list, proving that any claims that that Western was dead at any time over the past two decades aren't accurate. The "Yellowstone" effect: Welcome to the new era of TV Westerns 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

And now, Jeremias is launching cultural seminars to introduce travelers to the Western Galilee, his beloved region. In a walled port city in northern Israel, a chef is driven by his impeccable taste 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

He relished the idea of campaigning in the Midwest, he says now, and offered to live out of a bus that would spend all its time in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa. Sherrod Brown thinks he could have helped Democrats win in 2016. But what about 2020? 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

After the 1968 student uprisings in Western Europe, young Yugoslav artists were even less interested in official art channels, or in conventional art making. Art Review: Sanja Ivekovic?s ?Sweet Violence? at Museum of Modern Art - Review 2011-12-15T23:26:19Z

But demand remains weak in the established markets of North America and Western Europe. Design: Furniture Designers Are Shifting Focus 2010-04-11T14:52:00Z

Pacific Crossing: Brahms by Way of Seoul Western classical music has long flourished in Korea: where Western missionaries go, music tends to follow. Music Review: Korean Symphony at Carnegie, Brahms via Seoul 2010-06-02T21:50:00Z

But the sultan also presided over the adoption of tough Islamic law in 2014, which raised concerns among tens of thousands of non-Muslims, including Western expatriate workers. Your gilded chariot awaits: Brunei sultan celebrates 50 years in power 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, now in its 35th year, draws thousands of ranch workers and Western enthusiasts to this small city. Work Songs of the Cowboy Poets 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

Billed as the first Chinese movie to star a major Western actor, the country has high hopes it will snag an Oscar. China unveils rare star power of Oscar entry 2011-12-11T13:31:11Z

So I scrapped a Western ski trip and fled north over ominous, blizzard-crazed thoroughfares, undertaking a New England version of British Columbia’s famous “Powder Highway” pilgrimage, which passes through that region’s deep-snow country. ‘Snow Snow Snow’ at Jay Peak, Stowe and Stratton in Vermont 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Experts at both auction houses interpreted the results against the background of Western economic sanctions on Russia over Moscow's annexation of Crimea and its support for armed pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Art vs politics at London auctions of Russian paintings 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

Starry Starry Night, for example, carries vintage treasures, including top hats and ball gowns; Timorous Beasties, not a far walk away on Great Western Road, has exquisite wallpaper and textiles. 36 Hours in Glasgow 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

But Cage, one of the most gifted musicians of all time, never felt comfortable with the harmony on which Western music was said to depend. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

“Strategic emptiness,” he wrote, was a Western problem — and a sign of intellectual sloth — that telegraphed a fear of the other. You May Be Surprised to Hear That Restoration Hardware Is Doing Great 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Last month, the burning of copies of the Koran on a military base triggered violent protests across the country and a spate of insider attacks against Western soldiers. Shooting raises questions about war's course 2012-03-11T22:17:00Z

He named the indigenous shrubs, manzanita and ceanothus; told us about the red soil; and shared tidbits of Western history. Riding the Rails to the Summer of Love 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

If you think of Western culture, literature, painting, music, the bulk of it was done by people who were white in one form or another. Carnegie Hall Counts Down to Its Reopening 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

He moved to Rinehart & Company, then joined with others to form a short-lived publishing house that specialized in the work of writers from the Western United States. Henry Carlisle, Aided Oppressed Writers, Dies at 84 2011-07-15T03:31:57Z

Unattached to any Western movement or style, and undervalued in his home country in his time, he was a man of conflicts, cultural and personal. An Art Critic In Africa: Salif Diabagat? and Other Artists Struggle in Africa 2012-04-15T04:10:00Z

RiRi went straight to the source for was was literally the biggest look of the evening, tapping a Chinese couturier rather than putting a Western interpretation on Eastern fashion. Met Gala 2015: Celebs did their 'China: Through the Looking Glass' homework 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

In the past, he's cited his own books, the Bible and "All Quiet on the Western Front" as his favorites. Donald Trump plugs a book called 'Reasons to Vote for Democrats' on Twitter. But there's a catch 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

The shoot lasted for three weeks, with Schneider, as he recalled in an essay about directing “Film,” following Keaton’s every “shambling gait,” shooting “more 180-degree and 360-degree pans than in a dozen Westerns.” When Samuel Beckett Tried to Capture the Power of the Movies 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

He and a British cameraman obtained some of the first inside views of the communist country, then closed to Western journalists. Morley Safer, longest-serving correspondent for CBS’s ‘60 Minutes,’ dies at 84 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

The orchestra has many traditional Chinese stringed, reed and percussion instruments, though this one was fortified with quite a few Western strings. Mei Lanfang Jingju Troupe Begins a Rare Tour 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

The title of Uruphong Raksasad’s “Agrarian Utopia” evokes the romance of rural toil, and also the political ideal, present in various Western back-to-the-land movements, of life lived close to the soil. | 'Agrarian Utopia': A Rural Struggle for Subsistence, Rooted in Dignity 2011-06-09T22:28:00Z

Based on a Karen Russell story that in turn owes a debt to the apocalyptic Westerns of Cormac McCarthy, the opera riffs on a detail of American history. Review: An Opera Reaches the American Dream’s Brooding Heart 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

Finally published in six volumes by Oxford University Press in 2005 as “The Oxford History of Western Music,” it is an endlessly informative, often opinionated page-turner — all 4,272 pages of it. Music’s Towering Intellectual, With an Appetite for Trouble 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z

Targeting them all means understanding Asian tastes and tapping Seoul Auction’s experience selling Western art in South Korea for more than a decade. Special Report: Contemporary Art: On the Block in Hong Kong, a Modern Mix of East and West 2010-06-15T11:30:00Z

Rather than adding to, and reinterpreting, an existing visual vocabulary, Onorato and Krebs this time sought to capture a world still largely unfamiliar to the Western popular imagination. Road Tripping Through Eurasia 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

For those who are keeping tally, that's four books down — McCarthy's opening volley — and not a single Western to be seen. Cormac McCarthy – the greatest Western writer ever – didn't actually write Westerns 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

But just as in Western astrology, it is a fun topic of conversation to ask a person their sign, and who else shares their sign. Is it the Year of the Rabbit or the Year of the Cat? This Lunar New Year, the answer is both 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z

All Quiet on the Western Front 13: German soldiers in World War I look up and watch their ace pilot battle a flying doghouse. Style Invitational Week 1304: What if you could wonder . . . whatever? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

With "Western Society," the audience is reminded of the exact date of the performance, suggesting that today's rendering will be significantly different from tomorrow's. Gob Squad jesters reel in REDCAT audience with mixed results 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Charles Napier was born near Scottsville, Ky., on Apr. 12, 1936, and became interested in acting after performing in plays while at graduate school at Western Kentucky University in the early 1960s. Charles Napier, Actor Who Played Strong Men, Dies at 75 2011-10-07T00:33:02Z

Presumably intended as a compliment, this erasure of Boulogne’s name not only subjugates him to an arbitrary white standard, but also diminishes his truly unique place in Western classical music history. His Name Is Joseph Boulogne, Not ‘Black Mozart’ 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

A committee will review the book later this month; until then, it's been replaced with Erich Maria Remarque's World War I novel "All Quiet on the Western Front." Parents want 'Of Mice and Men,' 'Kite Runner' removed from high schools 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

And yet she somehow still remains, according to one academic, among the Western “orphans of women’s history,” many of her papers lost or ruined, a result of her “haphazard archival habits.” A Century Before Hillary 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Nyege Nyege rejected the mainstream, Western music industry’s presentation of “African music,” which tends to neatly divide into sleek modern pop or more traditional sounds relegated to the “world music” section. A Cutting-Edge Music Festival in Uganda Keeps the Beat 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

In the premiere, Evans travels to Western Australia to attach tracking mechanisms to white sharks so he can monitor their aggressive behavior. TV highlights: The final four perform on ‘So You Think You Can Dance’

If other viewers fix it, he said, seeing those messages “will be a first for Western audiences.” Whitney Saves Douglas Davis’s ‘First Collaborative Sentence’ 2013-06-10T03:02:24Z

By midnight, strangers had swept my husband, Dave, and me — the only Western faces in the smoky bar — into alcohol-fueled conversations that, with the language barrier, often devolved into comical pantomime. Next Stop: Uncovering the Secrets of Fukuoka 2012-08-24T18:40:22Z

Some praise the movie fervently with comparisons to classic Westerns. What Ethan Hawke Gets Wrong—and Right—About Superhero Movies 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

“The origins of cool are grounded in the performance of relaxed calm to cover the loss of belief in Western civilization.” Boldly Saddling Up 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

You write early on that the Western conception of the term “religion” is “idiosyncratic and eccentric.” The Blame Game: Karen Armstrong Talks About 'Fields of Blood' 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

The gaze of the Western reader, who lives at the bright center of mass culture, is supposed to shine into every darkness on every continent. Letters to the Editor 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Working conditions at many Chinese manufacturers that supply Western companies are considerably inferior to those at Foxconn. Apple, Foxconn to revamp worker conditions 2012-03-29T20:23:03Z

I’ll admit that I’m not one of those theatergoers who hear the words “Ziploc” or “Best Western” and bust a gut, but this show is never going to duplicate the success of “Love Letters.” What would a theater critic write to the creator of 'Letters From a Nut'? Well, let's start with ... 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

By the 1950s, the old Denver & Rio Grande Western’s narrow-gauge lines had become a historical oddity and the railroad started to look at abandoning it. Who needs a railroad museum? You can ride these circa-1870 rails yourself. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Westerns got less racist and more violent in the fifties, darker versions of the same conquest, but I didn’t watch many. This Week in Fiction: Robert Coover on Our National Disdain for the “Intellectual” 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

If you look over the rest of McCarthy's oeuvre, Westerns are nowhere to be seen, are in fact completely absent during his early and later career. Cormac McCarthy – the greatest Western writer ever – didn't actually write Westerns 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

Ritual objects like these were decisive for the development of Western modernist painting, and a Cameroonian crest was even shown at MoMA in the 1930s, as a “sculpture” divorced from ethnography. 16 Art Exhibitions to View in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

And South Korea is a flourishing market for Western visitors, as the discovered in its Seoul concerts in 2008 and last year. Music Review: Korean Symphony at Carnegie, Brahms via Seoul 2010-06-02T21:50:00Z

Mr. Wilson founded the center in 1992 in a former Western Union building. Kanye West Will Perform at a Benefit for the Watermill Center 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

It was Lawrence’s time here that first drew Western tourists to Wadi Rum, although inhabitants date to prehistoric times. Camping with the Bedouins in southern Jordan 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

He sought to modernize kabuki, which dates back 400 years, and to introduce Western audiences to the colorful art form through packed performances in New York, Paris and Berlin. Japanese actor who took Kabuki to the world dies at 57 2012-12-05T05:00:23Z

“My science fiction is completely different from Western science fiction or what most people would consider ‘hard’ science fiction,” he said. Ni Kuang, Prolific Hong Kong Novelist and Screenwriter, Dies at 87 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

Instead of the abandoned Asian woman killing herself over the Western man, it’s the self-important, overly romantic, willfully blind Western-masculine symbol Gallimard who is driven to his doom by the manipulations of his Chinese “Butterfly.” By chance, meeting the disgraced ‘M. Butterfly’ diplomat whose lover misled him 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

They portray controversy over the legislation as a Western media creation. “God loves Uganda,” hates gays 2013-04-01T22:41:00Z

Its attractions include such Western favorites as rodeos and horsemanship competitions, as well as a small animals exhibition featuring rabbits, pigeons and exotic birds. As Life Spins On, the Midway Beckons 2010-08-28T05:01:00Z

Assange, 40, claims a Western intelligence contact warned him that the American government, angered by WikiLeaks' release of secret documents, was considering dealing with him "illegally" through rigged drug or sex allegations. WikiLeaks chief denies sex allegations in memoir 2011-09-22T15:16:08Z

Initially, the company — the Western Marine & Salvage Co. — stored them in Widewater, Va., and towed them to Alexandria to dismantle. In Mallows Bay, a ‘ghost fleet’ of wrecked ships is very much alive 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Three properties in the Berkshires, in Western Massachusetts, are offering ski-and-stay packages with savings of up to 30 percent. The week’s best travel deals around the globe 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Russia fought together with the Western Allies in World War I, but huge casualties led to extreme war weariness by the time the czar was deposed in February 1917. Did the U.S. Try to Assassinate Lenin in 1918? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

While the cause of RA remained a mystery in the Western world, Ayurvedic doctors believed this autoimmune response resulted from a build-up of toxins in the system. Allergic to myself 2012-08-13T23:59:00Z

At the Los Angeles Opera in April “Die Gezeichneten” became the first Schreker opera to receive a stage production in the Western hemisphere. Music: Franz Schreker?s Opera ?Der Ferne Klang? at Bard 2010-07-25T01:32:00Z

But you don’t need a Ph.D. in Spaghetti Western Studies to detect the mythic and pop-cultural influences on this fever-dream farrago. Django Unchained: Tarantino Frees the Slaves 2012-12-12T16:04:56Z

And though it may not be the most wrenching interpretation of this pillar of Western literature that you’re ever likely to come across, it more than capably gets the job done. A well-played, compact ‘King Lear’ at Folger Theatre

“Western” was an eerily beautiful, cryptic tale of cop harassment in the Deep South. | “Sexy Brooklyn Mommy” and the Return of Broadway’s Funniest, Funkiest Storyteller 2014-03-10T20:00:24Z

Using disability or disfigurement as shorthand for evil goes back centuries in Western culture, said Angela Smith, director of disability studies at the University of Utah. Scary Is How You Act, Not Look, Disability Advocates Tell Filmmakers 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

I thought it would be entertaining, and I'm a big fan of spaghetti Westerns and classic samurai films. Bourdain book goes graphic: Chef playfully skewers foodie culture 2012-07-10T04:59:47Z

The title Cowboys & Aliens — suggesting a merger of the cowboys-and-Indians Western genre with science fiction — triggered the salivary glands of some very important film people. Cowboys & Aliens: Two Great Genres, One Mediocre Movie 2011-07-28T22:05:00Z

It’s a stunning drive through vast, deserted expanses of brush, cactus and coppery rocks, as spare and sprawling as Monument Valley: the perfect setting for an Empanada Western. In Argentina, Wine, Art and Altitude 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

And despite a very big reveal around halfway through the film, it's not clear if the film quite realises that in both the Western and the sci-fi worlds, the real aliens are the womenfolk. Cowboys & Aliens ? review 2011-08-18T14:00:01Z

What Walsh calls “this intrusive relationship between grand and personal narratives” can reduce reading, particularly among Western audiences, to its least interesting question: Is this for or against the party? The Varieties of Chinese Repression 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Marine paintings are particularly bound up with fantasies of power and dominance that are fundamental to the European and Western sense of self. Review | NGA’s exhibit of Dutch marine art skates over issues of slavery and colonialism 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

"Chinese people's knowledge of Western authors still far outweighs Westerners' knowledge of Chinese authors," said Liu Xinglong, author of the winning book, "Heavenly Mission," about the perseverance of teachers in poverty-stricken rural areas of China. Chinese writers call for more translations 2011-08-26T11:11:09Z

Western audiences had to weigh the moral compromise of attending such propaganda events against the rare, perhaps never to be repeated opportunity to see truly great artists, themselves pawns of the regime. 2010-02-03T21:58:00Z

First there were complaints Watters looked too Western to represent her country. Miss World boss plans Fiji trip after fiasco 2012-05-18T07:46:04Z

We made our way to Union Station, the city’s rail hub and the largest railroad terminal in the Western United States. In Los Angeles, Ditching the Car for an Eco-Friendly Trip 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

"At the same time, we wanted to raise awareness of Eastern cultures for a Western audience." 'Celebrate Asia!' mixes Stravinsky, Shankar at Benaroya Hall 2011-01-13T21:10:12Z

A spokesman for buyer RFD-TV, a cable company in Omaha, Neb., that bought Trigger said they hope to build a Western museum around the horse. Trigger's taxidermist now busy with TV werewolves 2010-07-22T21:21:00Z

Yet things didn't really take off until the release last May of "Metamodern Sounds," whose title nods to "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music," Ray Charles' landmark crossover disc from 1962. Singer Sturgill Simpson making noise as he straddles the country line 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Martin Scorsese's nearly four-hour-long Western tale of the brutal, bloody and greedy Osage murders is a cinematic feat. “Killers of the Flower Moon’s” central love story illustrates the pitfalls of interracial dating 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z

The bearded diva’s achievement was hailed by many as a gain for diversity and tolerance but condemned by nationalist politicians in Russia as evidence of Western degeneracy. AP PHOTOS: Eurovision delivers decades of songs, spectacle 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

He enlisted at the very start of World War I, and won the Military Cross for brave, perhaps even suicidal, exploits on the Western Front. ‘The Sassoons’: A Family Romance at Global Scale 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

That's left Tasmania's organic farmers nervously eyeing a recent landmark court case in Western Australia. Even in isolated, pristine Tasmania, pressure to allow GMO farming 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Even though monogamy is mandated throughout the Western world, infidelity is universal. Take that, monogamy! We’re actually hard-wired for polygamy, which helps explain why so many cheat 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

After moving to Nashville, Mr. Dickens hired members of the Western swing artist Paul Howard’s band and named them the Country Boys. Jimmy Dickens, an Outsize Country Singer, Dies at 94 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

The Rolling Stones in March because the first major Western rock band to perform in Cuba, playing a free, outdoor concert for an estimated 500,000 people. Placido Domingo in Cuba ahead of first Havana concert 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

“This is like a ‘Real Housewives’ cake,” she said, making it clear that there was no bigger compliment in the Western world. A Birthday Party With ‘2 Dope Queens’ and One Jon Stewart 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

Fox also secured an additional bonus: the only Western TV interview with Putin, this one conducted by newsman Chris Wallace. After Putin summit, Trump once again anoints Fox as favored network 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

In this tale based on an actual Manchurian plague, much is still unknown about the transmission of the disease, even to the various Eastern and Western doctors. Review | A doctor races to contain a plague in Manchuria — but the bodies are vanishing 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

Craft beer is now such big business that both Western Michigan University and the local community college recently announced degree programs in sustainable brewing, beginning this fall. You’re going where? Kalamazoo is tired of your Creedence Clearwater jokes 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

It's not even that fun to comment on it anymore, because I really think she's soul sick in ways that Western medicine can't do anything about. "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Kate's suffering 2010-04-13T12:14:00Z

The décor reflects Ms. Wang’s sense of Shanghai style with Western touches. Empellón Taqueria Opens an Outpost on the Upper West Side 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

At the time it had the highest rate of HIV infection in Western Europe. The ‘Trainspotting’ junkies are back, but it’s more than drugs that are eating at them. 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Their home base is the Pioneer Saloon, on the ground floor of the old Pioneer Hotel, which today stands as the Western Folklife Center. Work Songs of the Cowboy Poets 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

But the president’s smug invocation of the Western symphonic heritage also pressed a sore spot for me as a music critic. Trump Is Wrong if He Thinks Symphonies Are Superior 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

Western Michigan University is beginning to share data with outside researchers about its Seita Scholars Program, which serves emancipated students. A farm and restaurant program that helps foster kids succeed 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

Next door three boys practiced the Western flute as a teacher supervised. Afghanistan National Institute of Music Students to Tour U.S. 2013-02-01T21:18:01Z

Two years later she became an ensemble member with the company, where her credits include "The Playboy of the Western World," "The Glass Menagerie" and the title role in "Hedda Gabler." TV: It's a living for Plimpton 2011-03-18T17:20:00Z

Western America has become an occupied wasteland of the Korean military, devastated suburban tracts and pockets of crazed survivalists. Video Game Review: Defending America, the Underdog 2011-03-24T22:00:11Z

Compared to Western auctions, it is another universe.” Special Report: A Cut Above: Watches: Watch Market Recovery Passes Antiquorum By 2011-03-25T07:01:20Z

Meanwhile, Junior’s other major production of the year, “All Quiet on the Western Front,” was to fill theaters and conquer at the Academy Awards. ‘King of Jazz’ now playing — once again — in living Technicolor 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

How to make something quintessentially American, Graham mused, without evoking “a mural in a Middle Western railway station”? How to convey “gentleness without sentimentality” and “the simplicities of a telescoped day,” from morning to nightfall? Martha Graham Studio Celebrates ‘Appalachian Spring’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Along the Western Front, the fixed nature of entrenched warfare led to mass destruction on every level. How poppies, strong and fragile, became a symbol of WWI devastation 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

Loughery and Randolph write that she was also galvanized by James’s skeptical view of the Western ideal of progress, which, he argued, merely prioritized social conflict and commercial success. Was Dorothy Day a Saint or a Subversive? 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

But there are myths in every culture, and literature is not simply a Western pursuit. Review | ‘The Perfect Nine,’ by perennial Nobel Prize favorite Ngugi wa Thiong’o, is a mythic look at his culture’s origins 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

Echols' "goth" style, taste for heavy metal and, particularly, interest in Western ceremonial magic made him a bull's-eye in a crime with the appearance of ritual in an era of "Satanic panic." Former death row inmate channels experience and magic into his art, on display at Copro Gallery 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

While their swords reproduce the Western model, the pearl-studded leather strips hanging from their belts and their armlets are royal costume fittings worn by the emperors of Sasanian Iran and their early Islamic successors. Review: The Foundations of Russian Culture and Art 2010-03-05T14:00:00Z

It overweights the rural vote, the Southern vote and that far Western vote. Fran Lebowitz on Trump: "No one in New York thinks he's a New Yorker" 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z

Performance artists had been in the vanguard of China’s art scene as it opened up to Western ideas and values in the 1980s, testing the limits of the law and social norms. In China, performance art feels the chill from official disapproval 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

Jasanoff, a Harvard professor, explores how Conrad’s novels grappled with Western imperialism and sought to expose its many hypocrisies. New in Paperback: ‘The Dawn Watch,’ ‘The Complete Stories’ 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

After he returned to Hong Kong, he encouraged the translation of classical Western works like Shakespeare and Chekhov into Cantonese, as well as the commission of new local plays. Music: Chinese Opera Gets a Modern Edge 2011-07-18T11:30:06Z

Western viewers won’t have too much trouble following along, even though the story is told in the elliptical, fragmentary style typical of science-fiction anime. (Very) Adult Animation About Mixed-Up Kids 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

Election season is over but Western Washington is still a battleground. 98.9 The Bull vs. 100.7 The Wolf: How do Seattle’s country radio stations stack up? 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

The latter was the year when the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative went into effect, for the first time requiring passports for Americans returning by air from Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean and Bermuda. State Department Expects a Rush of Passport Renewals in 2016 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

Talmadge, the Associated Press’s bureau chief in Pyongyang and the only Western reporter regularly in the reclusive country, is used to it. Eric Talmadge is the only Western reporter regularly in North Korea. Here’s what it’s like. 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

His father is a senior scholar at the Center for Healthcare Research and Policy at MetroHealth, a teaching hospital at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland. Mia Lopez, Joshua McCormick 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

He also praises her, with tongue only partly in cheek, as “Pioneer of Arts and Letters, Champion of the Voiceless and Redemptive Savior of the Western world.” Review: Stockard Channing Is a Mother to Remember in ‘Apologia’ 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Anoushka is a more understated player than was her father, but she is a remarkable virtuoso and fluent improviser, able to bring a hint of more modern Western elements to her style. Zubin Mehta's L.A. return gives Shankar raga a proper home and makes Strauss hero's journey personal 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

Why do Western artists appropriate content and iconography in this manner? Van Gogh Never Visited Japan, but He Saw It Everywhere 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

“The Harder They Fall,” which is currently playing in theaters and debuts Wednesday on Netflix, is filled to its Stetson brim with affection for Westerns. Giving the Western some swagger in ‘The Harder They Fall’ 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z

"True Grit," a Western remake about a young girl's brave quest to track down her father's killer, received 10 nominations despite performing poorly in key critics awards. "King's Speech'"gets royal treatment at Oscars 2011-01-26T01:58:48Z

However, Einstein's diaries lay bare how entrenched racism and xenophobia was in the United States and the Western world, whether one believed they were immune to such intolerance and prejudice or not. Albert Einstein was known for speaking out against racism, his travel diaries reveal racist views 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Her career since then: Soo’s most recent stage role was Off Broadway, in “Tumacho” — a supernatural Western comedy that ran for less than a month before the pandemic shuttered live performances. Where You Can See the Stars of ‘Hamilton’ Now 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

The forces behind Western Bridge are Ruth and Bill True, astute collectors and active supporters of the arts. Tapestry in Seattle cathedral weaves history and mission 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z

Of the domestic mid-distance trails, the CT attracted us with its fantastic scenery and a promise of a gentle introduction to “Western backpacking.” I hiked the Colorado Trail for nearly 500 miles. I was awed by the mountains the whole way. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

The Keeping Room straddles genres: it has been branded a feminist Western, but it’s also a home-invasion thriller, a historical drama and a character-driven rumination on the human toll of slavery. Brit Marling on Feminist Civil War Movie 'The Keeping Room' and Writing Honest Roles for Women 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

Before that, she was director of the Western Region, National Trust for Historic Preservation. Smithsonian Museum of American History Names Woman to Top Post 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

This Western has the first shootout in which I expected the duellists to burst into bel canto.” Stanley Kauffmann: The Old Master of Movie Criticism 2013-10-09T23:03:45Z

“They also resonate strongly with the Western tradition of landscape painting, from Turner to Twombly.” Bright Prospects: Jessica Warboys 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

So much of today’s B-movie output consists of Xeroxed action movies and unimaginative horror that it’s easy to forget how the Western was once a key corner of that world. ‘Miles Ahead,’ ‘The Exiles’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

“To continue to evolve, and to maintain the sacred traditions of the different arts … that’s what Tlingits would have been doing regardless of a Western imposition or not. It’s what I do with poetry.” Tram conductor gives Tlingit lessons on ride 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

The Coen brothers' Western remake True Grit has 10 nods while The Social Network and Inception have eight each. King's Speech leads Oscars pack 2011-01-25T17:34:34Z

“Now his appeal would be addressed to the decaying and lying Western democracies.” Music: Musicians Sound Out for Russian Prisoners 2011-07-07T11:00:05Z

Today, he laments, Western liberals heap scorn on nationalism, which they dismiss as a divisive and sometimes racist impulse. Modern Political Ideas 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

When a terror attack leaves the troupe unable to return home, they struggle to prepare a new work, intermingling Western performance with traditional South Indian forms. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Set in Rye, on the Sussex coast, and in the trenches of the Western Front, the novel gathers itself around Beatrice Nash. The best new audiobooks for your summer vacation 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

When “Pepper” came out, Time magazine declared it “a historic departure in the progress of music — any music,” while the London Times called the release “a decisive moment in the history of Western civilization.” Meet the critic who panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ then discovered his speaker was busted. He’s still not sorry. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Attached to “The Western Canon” is an appendix listing the works of some 850 writers that Professor Bloom thought would endure in posterity. Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

Western Jews lived in capitalist democracies defined by immigration, assimilation and mobility of labor. ‘Rooted Cosmopolitans’ Review: Of Persons and Peoples 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

There’s an audience that loves this series and the Clancy oeuvre in all of its guises with the same amount of gusto as old Westerns. “Jack Ryan” returns, still clinging to an outdated action movie ethos 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Part photojournalism, part nature doc, part cinéma vérité, part Western, the film defies categorization. The Terrible Beauty of Richard Mosse’s Portrait of the Amazon 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

We embrace the idea that here are all of these modalities — some very Western and very typical. Salon gets Goopy to delve into the wacky, vulva-friendly world of Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

In the years since the 1994 genocide, Rwanda has become a favorite of Western donors. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

He dispatched “Adam” and “Eve” to his country estate near Berlin, which was filled with masterpieces by a who’s who of Western art history — from Rubens to Renoir. Centuries-old paintings, a Russian aristocrat, an obscure Nazi past: Why nothing about the Norton Simon 'Adam' and 'Eve' case is simple 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

But the sultan also presided over the adoption of tough Islamic law in 2014, which raised concerns among tens of thousands of non-Muslims, including Western expatriate workers. Your gilded chariot awaits: Brunei sultan celebrates 50 years in power 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Goulian wasn’t merely a dainty hothouse flower; in Hook’s mind he stood for the decline and eventual rout of Western civilization. Books of The Times: Why Be a Tree Stump When You Can Soar? 2011-05-18T00:52:01Z

The sumptuous musical about the life of a Western teacher in a Siamese court features a “blissful” cast and “eye-popping” sets, according to reviewer F. Kathleen Foley. Essential Arts & Culture: A Shakespearean year, a wondrous 'El Niño' and dogs, dogs, dogs! 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

In the Western United States, where irrigation is the norm, native grass will perform better, says master gardener Mike Hauser, who works with the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension. How to have a lush yard without using too much water 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

When Ashton made “Monotones,” his Royal Ballet was the only Western troupe dancing “La Bayadère”; American Ballet Theater became the second. Frederick Ashton’s Masterly Pas de Trois 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

For his forthcoming Tchaikovsky recordings he chose the Czech Philharmonic, which for him combines a Western mindset with a Slavic soul. From refugee to maestro 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

"He wanted to push it away from the center and Western conventions. He could run off and do those explorations in the score. It was fun." James Horner's music, James Cameron's film visions intertwined 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

“It’s the same in Western children’s literature,” he said. Little Sugarcoating in Cao Wenxuan’s Children’s Books 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

Despite the camp décor, the Botanist advertises himself as “straight-acting” on his online profile, which piques the interest of Jones, then a student at Western Kentucky University. The Power and Hurt of Growing Up Black and Gay 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

The Trump International Hotel on Columbus Circle was known then as the Gulf & Western Building, and Chelsea was still less than fashionable. Books of The Times: Ann Beattie?s ?Walks With Men?: Secrets of the ?80s 2010-07-01T21:59:00Z

Western news outlets have published a rogue’s gallery of yachts and their extravagant amenities: cavernous wine caves, antiaircraft defense systems, amphibious shuttles to carry Land Rovers to shore. Yacht justice: A new front in the war drags Russia’s oligarchs into the spotlight 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

One of the discoveries I made in writing The Wonderbox is that in the past people in Western culture were so much closer to death than we are today. How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z

A keening erhu melody floats over Western string and woodwind chords. Music Review: New Works Enliven Spoleto Festival USA 2012-06-04T22:14:32Z

I remember you said one time that you would love to be in a Western, even if you got killed in the first scene. Trace Adkins' talks country, canines and movie casting 2011-11-14T19:24:27Z

Make an appointment to browse through Four Winds Gallery’s collection of Western tribal arts and crafts, then have dinner at the new Mill Haus Cider Co. taproom. 5 detours to try on the way to Mount Rainier before winter ends 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

Like many earlier Westerns, the Cowboys & Aliens novel is a political morality play on horseback. Cowboys & Aliens: Two Great Genres, One Mediocre Movie 2011-07-28T22:05:00Z

But for anyone interested in the First World War, the effort is well worth the exposure to a side of the war that is often given short shrift in Western histories. Review: ‘The End of Tsarist Russia’ by Dominic Lieven 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

But the summit is being held as Sunni Arab powers and Shi'ite Iran increasingly jockey for influence in the Middle East, split along sectarian lines over Syria's crisis and Western sanctions on Tehran. Iraq hosts Arab summit, seeking regional role 2012-03-29T13:31:04Z

In the context of the Cold War, Western governments granted these hijackers political asylum. D.B. Cooper, the changing nature of hijackings and the foundation for today’s airport security 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cuno said foreign nations should instead agree to trades and exchanges that would allow Western museums to keep disputed antiquities rather than routinely return them. Islamic State Destruction Renews Debate Over Repatriation of Antiquities 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

Yet on May 4, 1961, from the Western Skies Hotel in Albuquerque, with production already under way, he wrote a troubled letter. Kirk Douglas’s Film ‘Lonely Are the Brave’ 2012-07-28T22:47:18Z

His 2005 essay in the British literary journal Granta, “How to Write About Africa,” eviscerated timeworn Western tropes about Africa and African writing. A Provocative Satirist Left a Pervasive Legacy, Influencing African Writing 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the oldest holiday on the Western calendar, it dates back to 837, when Roman Catholics began honoring all saints, known and unknown, on the first day of November. Southern Journal: All Saints' Day 2011-09-16T21:20:02.017Z

"We have different strands of programming for the Breuer. One will be Modern and contemporary; one is looking beyond the familiar Western canon." Teaching an old Met contemporary tricks: Museum director Thomas Campbell on launching Met Breuer 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

“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

This is a serious work, the product of reflection as well as research befitting a distinguished professor of Western European history at Oxford. ‘Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny’ sheds new light on the storied emperor 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Golden State returns to the finals for the first time since 2019 after defeating the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference finals last Thursday. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Julia’ and the MTV Movie & TV Awards 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

The set featuring Western instruments and styles was more uneven, though the violinist Mari Kimura’s deconstructions of two Bach melodies had ferociously guttural power. Music Review: Strum, Pluck, Rescue, Rebuild 2011-04-11T21:45:04Z

Tinariwen mixes African, Arabic and Western styles to produce haunting, rhythmic music whose lyrics recall the hardships of life in the desert and of political struggles. In Transit Blog: Fables and Fantasy Infuse 40th Hong Kong Arts Festival 2012-01-30T11:00:26Z

“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” he asked in a cringe-filled interview with the New York Times. What the heck does Steve King do all day? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Nearby, two pictures painted, or rather carved in oil paint, by Pierre Soulages in August 1956 and August 1959 are reminders that the most powerful Expressionist abstraction in Western art struck deep roots in France. Fair Swamped by Second Raters 2010-03-12T12:30:00Z

Mr. de Sarthe, whose next show will feature the glossy pop photography of David LaChapelle, said he did not distinguish between Western and Eastern artists. Art: Chinese Master, Modern Brush 2011-03-31T12:30:05Z

It was my dream as a kid to be an actor because I used to watch Westerns. "Bloody Oranges" star on playing a French political beast & "a revolution in this notion of revenge" 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

He blames the expansion of the humanities outside of “traditional” Western subjects to include areas such as African-American Studies for declining student numbers. Conservatives killed the liberal arts 2012-09-14T23:08:00Z

Ms. Mathlouthi, 31, grew up in Tunisia listening to Western rock and to the 1960s folk revival, drawn to its spirit of protest. Music Review: Emel Mathlouthi at the French Institute’s Tunisia Festival 2013-05-23T21:52:42Z

Western ballet began as large-scale public display by the court, but Cambodian ballet began as private palace entertainment. Dance Review: Royal Ballet of Cambodia at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-05-03T22:54:41Z

His costume is the best —  a Western formal waistcoat and billowy Turkish pants —  topped by a walrus mustache and fez. Abducting Mozart's 'Abduction From the Seragilo' to another time 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

On its release in Britain, “All Quiet on the Western Front,” directed by Edward Berger, received rave reviews. ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Leads BAFTA Nominees 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

Like her, Njinga's story has relevance at a time when the public is divided between honestly confronting the role slavery played in Western culture and "moving past" it by erasing it from textbooks. With "African Queens: Njinga" a previously overlooked history spectacularly springs into action 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

There were so few — if any — Western tourists here that the island felt like a rare discovery. Next Stop: Nikoi Island Offers Splendid Isolation 2010-04-29T21:58:00Z

Ms. Holecek thinks that people don’t automatically associate the origins of incense with India because of the Western commercialization of the product. The Rise of Incense 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

Devotion to relics is by no means peculiar to Western cultures; Africa and Asia offer many variations on it. Art Review: The Spiritual Network 2011-03-24T22:13:08Z

To a degree, that suits Khemiri’s aim of exploring Amor’s shattered sense of self as a Muslim in a Western city during a moment of terrorist violence — a first-rate subject for a play. Feeling guilty when the bomb goes off in ‘I Call My Brothers’ 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

There is no descriptor that can cage his style, let alone as cliched a category as the "Western." Cormac McCarthy – the greatest Western writer ever – didn't actually write Westerns 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

I happened to speak with Hernan Diaz the morning after McCarthy died, who accurately noted that McCarthy had "Westerns with horses and Westerns with pickup trucks." Cormac McCarthy – the greatest Western writer ever – didn't actually write Westerns 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

Naming anonymous artists for institutions or locations of where their work is preserved is a convenient shorthand for Western scholars but symptomatic of a reflexive mental habit of appropriation and classification. At the Met, the artistic riches of India’s Deccan Plateau 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

The city was also full of Western classical music, a tradition Jamal learned from his piano teacher, Mary Cardwell Dawson, who would later found the National Negro Opera Company. A Pair of Ahmad Jamal Live Albums Capture an Innovator in His Prime 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

The city soon became a gateway for Western classical music in China. In China, Rejuvenating a Classical Music Heritage Linked to a Jewish Community 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

While Ukrainian artists navigate the complexities of working with Russians of any stature, Western opera houses have been focused on a handful of high-profile stars entwined with Russia’s government. A Year Into War, Russian Artists Still Must Navigate a Tricky Path 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

If you view Western Spaghetti from a distance, you might mistake it for a cookery video on how to make pasta with tomato sauce. Best short films on the web 2010-12-19T00:04:08Z

The comically slow pace fostered a steady, low conversational burble that was lacking on the richer, faster Western European trains. Personal Journeys: All Aboard the Orient Local 2014-04-23T21:47:59Z

The "wonderful Western anthology," as Nelso describes it, opens with him making an entrance any actor would dream of — riding on a horse and singing a song. Tim Blake Nelson, Coen Brothers muse, “never expected to have a career as a film actor” 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

Western Europe looks orderly and harmonious by contrast, even amid its recent resurgence of social problems and economic crisis. “Borgman” is a deeply disturbing look at the dark side of suburbia 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

The Mongols in days of yore stunned their Western foes with poisonous gases. Man and Things 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

With Iran emerging from a long stretch of Western domination, artists were in the mood to shape a distinctively native aesthetic. Six Artists From Iran at Grey Art Gallery 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Where some listeners faulted him for playing out of tune, others praised him for exploiting a chromatic range far greater than the paltry 12 notes the Western musical scale offers. Von Freeman, Fiery Tenor Saxophonist, Dies at 88 2012-08-19T05:50:05Z

“The fact that the Western world has been forced to deprive itself of the opportunity to see classical ballet the way Bolshoi is dancing saddens us,” the statement said. Now Playing in China: Putin-Aligned Artists Shunned in the West 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

A half dozen people who say they are his descendants live here, including Bill Garlow, who owns the Best Western Sunset and the Best Western Ivy, an occasional hangout for Kanye and his employees. Kanye, Out West 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

This workshop’s elegant creations, costing thousands less than they would in Western Europe, include evening dresses and men’s velvet blazers using Marconi fabric. Five Places to Go in Pristina 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The step is likely tied to heightening economic woes in Iran because of government mismanagement and Western sanctions over Iran's nuclear development program. Musicians: Iran's national orchestra disbanded 2012-10-29T13:34:07Z

When these figures were conceived, the Scramble for Africa was on full-bore, with Western nations barbarously slicing up and devouring a continent. Review: ‘Kongo: Power and Majesty’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

If you’re not playing with Western models of haute cuisine, you don’t count in that field. Americans ‘need to stop being defensive about their food culture’ 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

For example, a character who becomes Jack’s main suspect appears in the first episode’s opening scenes as a young boy who survives a bombing by Western jets in Lebanon. Jack Ryan Returns, This Time on Amazon 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

The wares include casual and dressy kurtas and saris in bright colors as well as Western pieces such as dresses, button-down shirts and swimwear. Five Places to Shop Around Mumbai 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

It's exciting to get some Westerns back in the world. A Minute With: Thomas Jane and his role on "Hung" 2011-09-28T09:01:56Z

Actually, I think Ireland is interesting right now in that it's one of the few Western European countries that doesn't have a far-right political party, for example an anti-immigrant political party. Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Indeed, men, fueled by hatred for the Western world, flew those planes with innocent civilians onboard deliberately into buildings with innocent civilians in them. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z

“Western” inevitably carries genre overtones — cowboys and Indians, outlaws and railroad bosses, Zane Grey and Clint Eastwood — as well as political implications. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

Now, Lum sees how his grandmother’s wish reflected differences in what he calls Western and Eastern wish systems. Yoko Ono’s ‘Wish Tree’ at the Hirshhorn is branching out. This year, your wishes can be virtual. 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the painting is a pivot point where the flatness of Western abstraction merges with the smooth surface of the hijab. Art that forces us to reconsider what we think we know 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

The technical language fell away as he wrote his more popular books, like “The Western Canon” and “Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human,” but the structures of thought that underlay that rhetoric did not. Misreading Harold Bloom 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

And design increasingly reflects the cultural diversity both of its established Western markets and expanding ones in Asia, Africa and Latin America, where a new generation of designers is emerging. Design: Design Gets More Diverse 2011-03-20T22:30:06Z

The trio of vaunted hometown rock bands bolstered a Western Washington contingent that already included prolific instrumental surf-rockers The Ventures and music icons Quincy Jones, Ray Charles and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Soundgarden is nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. We break down why the band should make the cut — and why it might not.  2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

I say all this because it is through a very particular lens — liberal, American, not to mention atheistic — that I read and utterly enjoyed Samantha Harvey’s latest novel, “The Western Wind.” A Rich, Beautifully Rendered Mystery Evokes 15th-Century England 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

She graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Mass., and received a master’s degree in English from Western Connecticut State University. Heidi Howland, Cameron Akbari 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

He conforms to no Western ideas of the occult. Books of The Times: ‘Alif the Unseen’ by G. Willow Wilson 2012-06-24T18:21:35Z

More than gifted writers or tools of Western power, they understood what Edmund Burke understood when he launched his struggle against the French Revolution. The Plight of the Political Convert 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

This “Western Front” places its faith in big set pieces and powerful images. ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Review: The Spectacle of War 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Local designers, no matter how good their guanxi, don’t have much of a chance in China’s frenetic retail scene, where Western brands have their pick of locations and managers. T Magazine: Year of the Couturi?re 2010-12-01T17:25:00Z

The Spirt of the West Cowboy Gathering features rodeo events, a Rodeo Cowboy Reunion, Western Gear and Art Show, fiddle contest, performances and kids' activities, Thursday-Feb. 17 of the week's top entertainment events 2012-02-08T22:58:11Z

As a result, small-scale fishers in the Western Cape province joined forces with prominent NGOs and academics. South Africa’s small-scale fishers have been marginalized since apartheid 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Western culture and society pose more health risks to migrants and refugees than they do to host nations, according to a World Health Organization study. Western lifestyles pose risk to migrants' health, says WHO report 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

American cultural hegemony looms over her childhood in the province of Bulacan, north of Manila, where she tries to emulate the Western inflection of the English she hears on TV and in pop music. From the Philippines to Harvard, Boyhood to Womanhood, a Coming-of-Age Across Borders 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

His work is not something that is just a replica of Chinese architecture or just a replica of Western architecture. Architecture: Wang Shu of China Advocates Sustainable Architecture 2012-08-09T15:29:52Z

How much do your Middle Eastern clients differ from your Western ones? Talk: Peter Marino Likes Playing Bad Cop 2012-03-09T20:36:00Z

The paintings explore, in his words, “parallel cultural histories,” as modernism breaks with Western traditions. The Biggest Breakout Stars of 2019 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Boise State will upgrade on its conference affiliation this season, moving from the Western Athletic Conference to the Mountain West. 5 Scandal-Free Story Lines for the College-Football Season 2011-09-02T09:00:00Z

Improvisation, also a vital skill until the mid-19th century in Western classical music, is an integral element of both folk and sacred music in Georgia and further complicates transcription. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z

“He really is the fulcrum on which Western art hinges,” Gascoigne said. Famed British seascape by J.M.V. Turner up for auction 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z

In another condemnation of Western art history’s paintings of nude-women-by-men paradox, Berger famously notes: “Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.” There’s a lot more to a selfie than meets the eye 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

Chinese companies bring far more of their own people to work in menial jobs than Western companies would ever do. Empire of the sums 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

And at night, your ears may ring with the howls of wolves: about 1,000 grey wolves live in Wisconsin, about a third of the endangered Western Great Lakes population. Six of the best US national trails – chosen by experts 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

And police — for the first time ever — denied a permit to one of the many Western stars passing through, citing security. Forget Gaga; Indonesia wild for own raunchy shows 2012-05-30T13:48:00Z

Only Sun Xun seems oblivious to the anxiety of Western influence. Art in Review: ?CATCH THE MOON IN THE WATER?: Emerging Chinese Artists 2011-07-14T22:30:44Z

Canvases include painted versions of maps, a timeline and a Best Western logo, since a hotel occupies the site where Mr. Diao’s family lived; that family included his grandfather, a retired Chinese Nationalist Party general. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

These tales defined the early canon of Western literature and showed that despite heroism and resilience man was hostage to elements beyond his control. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' an apocalyptic tale as old as man's existence 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Interestingly, the costume has elements of Charlie in it — it's retro, cool and plays into her Western aesthetic. "She goes chic very fast": "Poker Face" costume designer on creating Natasha Lyonne's iconic outfits 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

If the Eastern side seems more attractive psychologically, the Western side — in this exhibition, anyway — boasts the more compelling objects, many of them tiny and weird. Art Review: At the Rubin Museum, ?Remember That You Will Die? 2010-05-06T20:57:00Z

The top Western is "Dances With Wolves," which grossed roughly $184 million domestically. What "True Grit" has in common with "The Blind Side" 2011-01-10T03:26:47Z

Sunday is considered the family-oriented day, and so the big, sometimes chaotic parade from Great Western Road to Ladbroke Grove happens on Monday. In Transit Blog: London's Notting Hill Carnival Still on Despite Recent Rioting 2011-08-21T10:00:50Z

There are exquisite Western baked goods in many neighborhoods along with a version of white bread that is like your childhood supermarket loaf died and went to heaven. A tourist in Tokyo Q&A: Toilets, menus and naked bathing 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Set in Arizona, 1882, the film is both a homage to and spoof of the traditional Western cowboy films. MacFarlane mines comedy of death on the frontier in 'A Million Ways' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Perhaps it is fitting that the only city in the Western Hemisphere to commission a Hadid skyscraper, Miami, was the place where she died of a heart attack this morning. Postscript: Zaha Hadid, 1950-2016 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

The museum, which offers free admission to the public, focuses on African American history and culture, with an emphasis on California and the Western U.S.  California African American Museum names George Davis as new executive director 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

This reverential approach is perfectly understandable when dealing with the very pinnacles of Western art. A venerated pianist puts sonatas on a pedestal at Strathmore 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Bill, was my outstanding informal teacher on poetry, plus both Western and Sinitic calligraphy, and traditional Asian manners for many years. By the Book: Gary Snyder 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Between the 15th to 17th centuries, there was an increased concern about demons in Western Europe. Exorcisms have been part of Christianity for centuries 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z

The center’s auditorium, with its terraced seating and capacity of 1,800, may seem commonplace to concertgoers in Western Europe, the United States or Japan. Poland’s Concert Hall Revival 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

In the Middle East, it’s a fluffy mound of parsley, with relatively minimal amounts of that ingredient, bulgur, that seems to dominate Western versions of the dish. The summer fruit that will make your tabbouleh a picnic star 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

But “Fargo” the TV show has moved more toward representations of good and evil in the abstract, which accounts for why it paid homage to Westerns on Monday. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 6: Defending the Common Man 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Given how many Benin Bronzes are in Western museums, it seems likely some requests made under those policies would be accepted. This Art Was Looted 123 Years Ago. Will It Ever Be Returned? 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

He met his future wife, Sarah, in his teens at the University of Western Australia. Tim Minchin: the man who waltzed Matilda 2013-03-31T00:06:26Z

Years later, the revolution happened, or tried to happen, and when the Muslim Brotherhood took over, and Western news outlets began publishing stories that claimed belly dancing was a dying art. Why I can’t stand white belly dancers 2014-03-04T23:59:00Z

He was a wildly versatile singer, songwriter and performer, with an affinity for a variety of styles — outlaw country, ballads, the Bakersfield sound, Western swing, jazz and more. Merle Haggard and ‘Okie From Muskogee,’ the Hit That Helped and Hurt Him 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

She marveled at how Heller, by simply following his whims, had managed to construct a survey that covered large swathes of 20th century Western art history. How Drake’s $100 Million Bet Saved the Long-Lost Art Carnival Luna Luna 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gunay hinted at a shift in the balance of power between his country and Western nations eager to pursue science, history and culture in the cradles of civilization around the Mediterranean. Turkey Presses Harder for Return of Antiquities 2011-05-25T20:25:47Z

Very early on, I knew I wanted this story to have a more nuanced approach to the parent-child relationship than you’re used to seeing in Western media. ‘I Don’t Take a Single Second for Granted’: Asian and Asian American Nominees on the Oscars 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Western wind, when wilt thou blow,The small rain down can rain.Christ, if my love were in my arms,And I in my bed again. Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z

But it is also a reminder that such fits can be found outside the Western canon. In a New Take on ‘Gaslight,’ a Heroine Finds Her Own Way 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

He fell particularly hard for Léonin and Pérotin, two of the first named composers, who in Paris in the late 12th and early 13th centuries pushed Western sacred music into polyphony. Reconstructing Kyiv, One Synth Wave at a Time 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

As Django Unchained was about to hit theaters, he announced he would be skipping the movie, and followed up with a tweet explaining why: “American Slavery Was Not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western.” Hollywood at war: when film-makers feud with each other 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

On the back of a blue collared shirt he has stenciled the names of all the bands he plans to see over the next three days, from the Foo Fighters to the Smith Westerns. Lollapalooza Day 1 in review 2011-08-06T06:57:00Z

And for many Western curators China was still a far-off country. Documenting history 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

“We want to show the world that Iran is open to debates, we want to break the Western cultural embargo against us,” said Talebzadeh, who was one of the organizers of the conference. ‘Argo’ just another insult by Hollywood, Iranians say 2013-02-19T06:28:19Z

Nkoloso’s education and military service receive short shrift in Western reportage from the sixties. The Zambian “Afronaut” Who Wanted to Join the Space Race 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

“I thought this was one of the three biggest lessons from the last thousand years of Western history . . . but here we are.” The Stylish Socialist Who Is Trying to Save YouTube from Alt-Right Domination 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

“This kind of thing didn’t work in Westerns,” he warns Bear. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 6: Defending the Common Man 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

In his compositions, Orellana often uses his inventions alongside choral singing, taped environmental sounds and Western instruments. To Express the Sound of a Country’s Soul, He Invented New Instruments 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

Readers do not expect a year’s new crop of novels to eclipse the Western canon. ‘Destiny,’ ‘Alien Isolation’ and Other Coming Releases 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

It disdained divisions between Western and Non-Western art; high and low and art and craft. Pattern & Decoration: A Movement That Still Has Legs 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

Filipino food is a centuries-long tangle of Eastern and Western traditions, from early exchanges with Chinese traders to the reign of the Spanish conquistadors. Angela Dimayuga’s 10 Essential Filipino Recipes 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

Geographically, the exhibition is focused on the established graphic centers of North America and Western Europe. With a Big Boost From Technology 2011-10-17T11:00:16Z

The extraordinary lives of the Soongs were made possible by a confluence of globalization, modernization and Western penetration of an ancient, tottering empire. The Famous, Feuding Siblings Who Helped Shape Modern China 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Movies like Boots Riley’s crazy-wonderful-mess-of-a-comedy “Sorry to Bother You” and Kelly Reichardt’s breathtaking revisionist Western “Meek’s Cutoff” demonstrate how limited resources can coexist with fearless ambition. Perspective | In praise of the messy, misunderstood masterpiece (and in search of the next one) 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

In Western imaginations, she notes in an email to me, the '90s animated version cemented the cultural connection between "Asian" and "martial arts." Why onscreen martial arts is important to Asian Americans – even if we don't practice it ourselves 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

Lara Goldman, owner of Romantic Travel Belize, contends that doomsday is a primarily Western construct reinforced by Hollywood and Internet conspiracy theorists. Field Notes: Amid Talk of the Mayan Calendar Ending, Getting Married Is a Beginning for Many Couples 2012-12-21T21:12:34Z

But any "shocking" content, according to its makers, says more about Western stereotyping than actual cultural beliefs. Arab road trip movie tackles taboos 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

One response to looming “white extinction anxiety” is to produce white babies—many more white babies—principally of Northern and Western European ancestry. Alt-right women and the "white baby challenge" 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z

Cuba is unique in the Western Hemisphere for its near-total lack of coastal development, he explained. A Cuban Island That Has Played Both Paradise and Prison 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Western culture also praises and rewards transgender people who match cultural ideals for how feminine or masculine they appear. Transgender people don’t all want to look like Barbie or Ken 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Still, it remains the norm in most Western theaters. How to Birth a New American Theater 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

New accusations of Pakistani collusion with the Taliban will likely further strain ties between Western powers and Islamabad. Taliban "poised to retake Afghanistan" after NATO pullout 2012-02-01T13:22:02Z

Through meta-textual moments and manipulations, Peck creates his own counterbalance to the dominant Western version of history, forcing viewers to think about the narratives, both popular and academic, they’ve been fed all their lives. In ‘Exterminate All the Brutes,’ Raoul Peck Takes Aim at White Supremacy 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

One of these characters, an amoral spa receptionist named Phoebe, shows up for a date at a sophisticated Western restaurant after making a list of things to remember. Books of The Times: Tash Aw’s ‘Five Star Billionaire’ Captures China’s Changes 2013-08-01T20:48:21Z

The success and failure of Kochai’s and D’Avenia’s novels, respectively, both published for Western readers, depend on their regard for that audience. Two Young Men Come of Age Amid Violence and Pathos Overseas 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

In Westerns and musicals, he says, “the same thing happens — you find ways of displacing your anxieties and putting them into this other form. It’s not as threatening, and certainly it’s not as polemical.” Aliens as immigrants: How ‘Arrival’ became the latest political sci-fi film 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

By the end of 2015, it will be operating 22 properties in eight Middle Eastern countries, including a second property in Mecca, a 1,200-room Best Western Premier hotel. In Transit Blog: In Mecca, a Hotel Boom 2013-09-06T20:22:53Z

She moved to the D.C. area from Western Maryland and after college worked for C&P Telephone . A $1 million donor’s request to Brookside Gardens: Build a greenhouse before I die 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

The actor says the TV hat is too Western for Leonard's taste and notes that the onscreen character dons it much more often than the book version. Olyphant: Leonard says hat not `Justified' 2011-02-08T23:20:15Z

Colonialism and the Western art canon flattened non-Western cultures into monoliths, Ms. Sung said. Coloring in the Margins: Pacita Abad 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

The town enjoyed a brief heyday in the fifth century as the capital of the Western Roman Empire, protected by marshland and neighboring the powerful port of Classe. Ravenna, Italy, Glittering Still 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Western Ghats: Goa and Kerala The Western Ghats is a mountain chain that runs nearly 1,000 miles parallel to the Arabian Sea, from just above Mumbai to the tip of the Indian peninsula. India, Through a Birder?s Eyes 2011-01-14T20:30:41Z

White women’s “care” and commitment to Western notions of civility helmed the mass removal of Indigenous children from their communities in Australia and North America from 1880 to 1940. Review | Ruby Hamad’s essay about White women’s tears went viral. ‘White Tears/Brown Scars’ delves deeper into performative victimhood. 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

Now he was back in the game, determined to cast unknowns as the young leads in a Western tale of Billy the Kid and Rio, the girl who nurses the wounded gunfighter back to health. Remembering "The Two and Only" Jane Russell: 1921-2011 2011-03-04T09:05:00Z

Takemitsu maintained a lifelong skepticism about combining traditions of his country with Western classical music. Haunting Unpredictability 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z

It has played a significant role in Western superstition and it has developed into an irrational fear for most as the date swings around every year. 13 surprising facts about Friday the 13th: Demystifying the superstitious date 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z

“It’s cool to actually be changing the place I live,” said Jose Vasquez, a soft-spoken senior at Western International High School. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

In a unit on Christopher Columbus, Deville said he spends time creating a vision of the Western Hemisphere prior to European contact and does not diminish the violent ways Native Americans were treated. Teachers reimagine US history lessons with eye on diversity 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

They blend easily into Western society and find it relatively easy to obtain foreign work visas - often sponsored by their ever-growing family networks. Pope to visit a land of disappearing Christians 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Besides training in music theory and Western and Afghan instruments, the school offers its 141 students the ministry’s curriculum, which includes religious and Koranic studies. Afghanistan National Institute of Music Students to Tour U.S. 2013-02-01T21:18:01Z

It is the fifth most common form of cancer in the US and the third leading cause of cancer-related death in the Western world, according to the World Health Organisation. Domingo makes New York appearance 2010-04-06T09:57:00Z

It inspired a generation of avant-garde Chinese artists, who until 1979 had almost never seen Western art, to find their own way to challenge orthodoxy. Ripe for reassessment 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

An American ballet master with a native’s eye for the American scene, he was at heart Western. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater 2013-05-13T21:54:43Z

This may be illusory — sometimes misery just compounds — but it is deeply baked into how the Western world conceives of the season. Perspective | Joe Biden warned of a ‘dark winter.’ Why does living in it feel so . . . unreal? 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

It claims to show how a millennium-long Golden Age of Islamic science lasting into the 17th century anticipated the great inventions and discoveries of the Western world. Critic?s Notebook: To Each His Own Museum, as Identity Goes on Display 2010-12-28T23:04:19Z

China, with its legions of concertgoers and skepticism of Western ideals, has emerged as an attractive market for Russian artists aligned with Mr. Putin. Now Playing in China: Putin-Aligned Artists Shunned in the West 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

If you’ve been puzzled all your life by the fair-haired, blue-eyed Jesuses of Western culture, then Sleiman’s broad-shouldered, Mediterranean messiah is a step in the right direction. ‘Going Clear,’ ‘Killing Jesus’ and the enduring mysteries of faith 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

But even as Clinton and Gillard look to empower women across the world, they recognize that there are still equality gaps in the Western World as well. After Boko Haram: Hillary Clinton Promises Education For 14 Million Girls 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Given how sensitive any such information would be, “it would be prudent” for Western intelligence services not to leak information like that in the first place. Kim Jong Un appears to be alive after all. So why did CNN and other news outlets report he was on his deathbed? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Western film historians eventually mentioned him alongside Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa. Andrzej Wajda, Towering Auteur of Polish Cinema, Dies at 90 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

And here Brazil is in the Western box! Opening Up an Elite Brand to the Masses 2010-09-24T20:40:00Z

A series of 12-inch square “Bruised Grids” simultaneously reproduces and dismantles another emblem of Western art. Jutta Koether: ‘Champrovent’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

This is never more true than when the Catholic Church, a cradle of much of Western music, has something to celebrate. Music fit for a pope 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

A seasoned veteran of the sometimes bruising battles for more truthful and artful representations of South Asians on Western screens, she has made several acclaimed films about India and its diaspora. ‘A Suitable Boy’ Finally Finds Its Perfect Match: Mira Nair 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

What hold does a very simple, 85-minute Western—made at a cost of just $720,000 in a cinematic era that had no shortage of other Westerns to choose from—have on us today? The Tao of Cooper: Why High Noon Still Matters 2012-07-24T12:00:28Z

Mr. Chen studied Chinese classical dance and the use of acrobatics, martial arts and dance in Chinese opera before arriving in New York, and at Juilliard he learned about Western modern dance techniques. H.T. Chen, Choreographer of the Asian Experience, Dies at 74 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Now look: I do not want to make the p.c. argument that Native Americans should not be portrayed as violent in a Western, particularly a tribe that was at war with the expanding U.S. TV Weekend: AMC?s Hell on Wheels Gives ?Em, At Best, Heck 2011-11-04T14:34:56Z

Western governments, too, help underwrite ensembles’ foreign tours. China’s newest export hit is classical music 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

"He was very emotional, saying he was happy to be part of the chain of the Jewish people," said Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rabbi of the Western Wall, who conducted the ceremony. "Scream" star Arquette has bar mitzvah in Israel 2012-06-11T16:41:12Z

She could have assembled a program of Japanese music, something not in tremendous supply in this festival’s high-profile classical music offerings, which are skewed mainly toward Japanese performers’ interpretations of the Western canon. Music Review: Calligraphy Made of Sound 2011-03-24T21:49:11Z

The National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, commonly known as the Egg, has 15 operas in its current repertory, the vast majority of them Western. Opera Review: East Meets West at Macao Festival 2011-10-25T11:30:08Z

Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo are now the most expensive cities in the Western Hemisphere, by some measures. Frugal Traveler Blog: For a Brazilian Vacation, 7 Rules to Save By 2012-09-11T20:13:18Z

Earlier — in July — American troops and Western allies departed the Bagram Air Base — leaving the Kabul airport as the only potential departure point for all those still in Afghanistan. Honor Carvings owner aims to keep memories of 13 fallen Americans alive 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

But she is writing as much about wealth and class, about work and privilege, as about horses and the Western landscape. 'Boleto': a young horse trainer's ticket to a high-stakes world 2012-06-13T20:20:05Z

Three hundred years ago, residents of Western civilizations tended to cook, socialize, and even sleep in close, unprotected quarters. Why a city block can be one of the loneliest places on earth 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

“You simply can’t do two things and do them well,” she told Western Clippings. Lupita Tovar, Star of Spanish-Language ‘Dracula,’ Dies at 106 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z

Many characters — especially the women — seem to harbor Western values yet must succumb to societal pressure, keep up their Kurdish appearances and follow through with fruitless arranged marriages. Jano Rosebiani's pedestrian explorations of Kurdish culture 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

The Islamic radical message, especially on social media, was further honed by Anwar Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni imam whose command of English and understanding of Western sensibilities widened extremist recruiting circles. ISIS and its increasingly sophisticated cinema of terror 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Think of every Western movie you've ever watched, then consider: The darkest of them are soft, pink cotton candy compared to what actually occurred in lawless frontier towns such as Los Angeles. Frontier justice was brutal in Los Angeles, and 'Eternity Street' gets to the heart of the matter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

In an opening scene set in Paris in 1932, McPhee voices frustration with Western classical music and declares his intent to return to Bali. Music Review: Moved by Music of the Tropics, A Composer Moves to Them 2010-10-16T01:00:00Z

His father drove a milk truck; his mother was a Western Union clerk. Jack Larson, who played Jimmy Olsen in TV’s ‘Superman’ series, dies at 87 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

The original Colorado ski train was created by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad in 1940 to carry members of the Eskimo Ski Club to the mountain. On a Colorado Ski Trip, Planes, Trains, No Automobiles 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

Nostalgia is the Western's fuel, which explains why it keeps resurfacing at inflection points in our culture. The "Yellowstone" effect: Welcome to the new era of TV Westerns 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

This was also the year that I published “A Grain of Wheat,” my third novel, which I wrote soon after reading Conrad’s “Under Western Eyes.” The Contradictions of Joseph Conrad 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

In a quietly startling way, Harry looks like a lot of other men in the Western world who work office jobs and goof around with their kids in the backyard on the weekends. Analysis | Prince Harry’s rejection of fashion is a fashion statement of its own 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z

There are a number of Viking-related spots in the Western Highlands. On the Nordic Trail in Scotland 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

The Inca empire was devastated by Western imperialism. A Latina Disney Movie Princess? The Wait Isn’t Over 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

Of all of Russia’s museums, the Hermitage — founded in the 18th century by Catherine the Great, a German princess who became Russia’s empress — has had the greatest ties to Western Europe. A Blockbuster Exhibition, Ripped in Two by Russia’s War 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

Exotic or strongly national characteristics were esteemed over similarities to Western models. Opera Review: Ivan the Terrible's Bride Under a Modern Moscow Sky 2011-04-26T14:30:04Z

Then Skylark walks into a North Korean grocery store constructed to fool Western tourists. The Interview Review: Much Less Compelling Than the Events It Inspired 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

“His vehicle is a Western classical instrument,” she said, “but he’s manifesting all of these sounds and experiences that he has as a Black man in America on this instrument.” Abdul Wadud’s Cosmic Cello Music Gets Another Moment in the Sun 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

Various commemorative events are planned for Nov. 11, the day in 1918 when fighting ended on the Western Front. Director Boyle calls on Britons to mark Armistice Day with beach art 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

She came to the attention of Western audiences as a Bond girl in 1997 movie "Tomorrow Never Dies", as well as films like director Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". For Michelle Yeoh, "The Lady" is role of lifetime 2011-09-13T17:24:54Z

And there’s no undiscovered masterpiece; “Western Road,” a previously unreleased song, is just a blues pastiche. How Pop and Jazz Revisited the Past in 13 Boxed Sets 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

There are now 4,576 confirmed cases of the disease in the Western Hemisphere, according to the Pan American Health Organization, and more than 165,000 suspected cases. Nasty mosquito-borne virus could be headed for US 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

“The train is a social experience,” the goodwill ambassador said, after sharing with us his 12-day Western train adventure with his grandkids, “especially compared to the plane.” On the train, you gain space but may lose time

Most Saturdays from May to October, I work at our local farmers market in Western Massachusetts for Indian Line Farm. How to make good food choices for your family while staying sane 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

The biggest movie Japan had seen at the time, in terms of budget, production and box-office takings, it was also an enormous influence on Western cinema, as well as enormously influenced by it. Akira Kurosawa: 10 essential films for the director's centenary | Ben Walters 2010-03-23T13:14:00Z

The profits they bring in, largely from a Western market, are permitting members of the collective to reverse, on a local level, the crippling ecological and economic effects of long-term colonialism. Review: African Art in a Game of Catch-Up 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

And if you look over the rest of McCarthy's oeuvre, Westerns are nowhere to be seen, are in fact completely absent during his early and later career. Cormac McCarthy – the greatest Western writer ever – didn't actually write Westerns 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

Do his heritage and global perspective imply an innate responsibility to challenge Western ideas about the world’s second-largest continent? Africa is not a country — and it’s not all misery and poverty, either: What America can learn from Trevor Noah 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

In jargon-free prose, Mr Wenar argues persuasively that Western consumers are blinded to the fact that international trade still operates according to the “law of the jungle”. Corrupted bounty 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Ironizing and aggrandizing basic life by reaching into the Attic, as it were, is one of the most enduring habits in the Western canon. An Epic Takedown 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

He played the role of Mr. Manifest Destiny, a loudmouth bully who took what he wanted — Western land, Native American lives — on behalf of the People. Presidential Portraits: Staring History in the Face 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Those include Mr. Ciccarello’s museum as well as the James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art, which houses a collection of Western art largely by living artists. More Money Can Mean More Museums, Just Look at Florida 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

Why buffalo and not beef, as is common throughout Texas, which would seem to fit within the Western geography? The powerful culinary imprint that’s missing from the African American Museum 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

Chocolate is widely regarded as the most commonly craved food in Western society. Perspective | Want to stop craving chocolate? Here are two options. 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Though many composers meld Asian and Western elements in their music, Mr. Huang does so with such confidence and elegance that you hardly notice the mingling. Review: The Rare Problem of a New Opera That’s Too Short 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

Though a critical difference between their designs and Western graphics is that they are intended to be read instinctively, as is the Chinese custom, not rationally. Design: Looking at China as a Creator, Not Manufacturer 2011-07-10T13:20:00Z

He graduated from Western Connecticut State University and is a candidate for a master’s degree in public administration from the University of New Haven. Ashlee Eason, Corey Paris 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

Beyond that, the film doesn’t particularly examine the price of Western superstardom. Review: ‘He Named Me Malala,’ on a Taliban Target and Nobel Laureate 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

“Life of Pi” also won for its score, which blends Indian and Western instruments and influences, plus cinematography and visual effects. ‘Argo,’ ‘Pi’ split honors 2013-02-25T06:12:59Z

It’s interesting that she was able to create that space, given the traditional Western clichés about composers working in Soviet society. She Wrote for the Piano’s Extremes: Bronfman on Ustvolskaya 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

The boss was also horrified to discover how little brand awareness there was for Best Western, despite the company apparently having spent £1m on a TV advertising campaign nobody remembered seeing. TV Review: Victorian Pharmacy 2010-07-16T05:45:00Z

Scott’s “Blade Runner” envisioned Los Angeles in 2019 as a sprawling urban metropolis infused with Eastern and Western cultures. Replicant or human? 'Blade Runner 2049' reignites existential debate 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Western European and American buyers are now joined by Russian oligarchs and secretive Asian and Middle Eastern millionaires – or billionaires – keen to create art collections. Christie's sale dazzles public with 33 centuries of masterpieces for four days 2010-06-14T14:46:00Z

K-Pop doesn't need to translate itself to Western audiences, but sometimes the old pop virtues hold up everywhere. Girls Generation, CN Blue and BTS close out KCON 2014 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

We have focused on the main offensives on the Western Front in France, during which U.S. soldiers helped bring to an end this war of attrition. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

It features disco, Western choral music and Native American field recordings from the Dust Bowl era. Nina Simone and Ritchie Valens Songs Added to National Recording Registry 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

His writing, with its Western landscapes, noir-inflected dialogue and biblical inclinations, proved to be catnip to filmmakers, including the Coen brothers, Ridley Scott and Billy Bob Thornton. Stream These Five Cormac McCarthy Film Adaptations 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

In a market dominated by spirits from North America, Asia, and Europe, Idowu's efforts expand Western palates and illustrate that there is still so much to learn about the African culinary landscape. The delicious, diverse world of spirits from the African continent 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z

Japanese prints captivated the imagination of Western artists from Impressionists to Whistler and O'Keefe. Review: SAAM's show of woodblock prints is awe-inspiring 2010-04-02T21:02:00Z

Its distinctive "orb" label guaranteeing its origin in the Western Isles and hand-woven production technique was first licensed by act of parliament in 1910. Harris tweed returns to global boutiques after islands' renaissance 2012-11-09T16:45:33Z

And their responses were central to the development of figurative art in the Western world. A Greco-Roman Tour of Myth and Nature 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Western Yunnan Crossing Bridge Noodle opened in March just half a mile away, on a block of rowhouses fronted by fire escapes, occasionally interrupted by shops with signs almost entirely in Chinese. For This Soup, Some Assembly Is Required (and Provided) 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

It is about a criminally insane schoolgirl and three hapless Hong Kong schoolboys who become tangled in a web of terrorism, bombings, animal abuse and a final encounter with gun-wielding Western bad guys. Movies: Bringing a Wealth of Cinematic Knowledge to the Screen in 3-D 2011-07-11T13:00:05Z

Today about 60,000 people speak it, most of them concentrated in the Western Isles, and all of them bilingual in English. Why I'm saddened by Scotland going Gaelic 2010-12-11T08:00:00Z

Western European nations put this legislation in place years ago. Tips for Keeping That Post-Vacation Feeling 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

District Court for Western Washington, reveals recent efforts by both sides to purchase the band’s recordings and other assets outright. Chris Cornell’s widow Vicky Cornell sues Soundgarden over buyout bid 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

It’s an old Western town that grew up around salmon fishing and the lumber industry. The best way to witness Alaska’s stunning seascapes? Take a cruise along the Inner Passage 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

The music itself is a challenge to perform, and the Western Wind, which first performed this song in New York in 1971, sang it with poise and clarity. Review: The Western Wind Performs ‘L’Amfiparnaso’ at a Distance 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

And it’s true, for African art and for Western art. Artwork Taken From Africa, Returning to a Home Transformed 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

“The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”: Sergio Leone concludes his spaghetti Western trilogy with this one. 2016’s pop culture-versaries: The films and albums celebrating milestones this year 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

She was the second Western woman to study Zen in Kyoto, part of the inner circle of the famous mystic G.I. ‘Mary Poppins’ creator P.L. Travers is even more fascinating than her fiction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

This last bit begs a question: If we are still so great, is all the hand-wringing over China's rise and the future of Western civilization even warranted? Niall Ferguson's 'Civilization': They're gaining on us 2011-11-23T19:21:45Z

Ms. Grill, who grew up in Western Springs, Ill., outside Chicago, worked her way toward abstraction gradually. Distinct Prisms in an Ever-Shifting Kaleidoscope 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Set in 1930s rural Virginia, the film is essentially a Western with tommy guns. Cannes 2012: Reporter's Diary 2012-05-19T10:54:30Z

On December 22, she will appear on screens across America opposite Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon in the Coen brothers' Western "True Grit." Young actress comes clean about "True Grit" 2010-12-09T23:04:00Z

“We watched ‘Blue Velvet’ and then the whole ‘Twin Peaks’ series, which brought in that Western element.” Brand to Know: A Men’s Wear Line With a Nostalgic Bent 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

He won his first professional acting job in the 1940s, when the live radio program “The Lone Ranger” cast him as the voice of Dan Reid, nephew of that Western’s intrepid title character. James Lipton, ‘Inside the Actors Studio’ Host, Dies at 93 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Is there a reason you decided to start the collection off with a Western story? Meet Chanelle Benz, whose debut book is 'The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead' 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

She is an avid reader whose tastes include science fiction, Westerns, fantasy, romance and literary fiction. Uncommon ground: Beverly Jenkins, diverse romance and American history the way it really happened 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

They combine the themes and patterns found in Persian myths, miniatures, and carpets with motifs from Western pop culture, cartoons and graphics. Amir H. Fallah Feels the Pull of His Iranian Origins 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

In scores of major structures built in a dozen countries, Mr. Isozaki absorbed and reinterpreted Eastern and Western traditions, fluently importing and exporting architectural influences. Arata Isozaki, Prolific Japanese Architect, Dies at 91 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

The college on the hilltop was originally called the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute. Grammar and Punctuation in Hiram, Ohio 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Letters from Western pilgrims to Dakshineswar are interleaved with lessons on the basic tenets of Hinduism and the steps toward nirvana. ‘The Cauliflower’: The life of the Hindu mystic Sri Ramakrishna 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

The food on European trains seems to be flourishing in Central and Eastern Europe, he said, while dining cars have become a rarity in much of Western Europe. Dining in Style, at 90 Miles an Hour 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

We pulled into the Best Western for refuge, the only hotel for almost a hundred miles. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z

Although Putin has derided the demonstrators as Western stooges, he has also sought to soothe public anger by promising to relax his grip on the political scene. Gorbachev to Putin: Leave power peacefully 2011-12-24T17:27:00Z

The painting shows Camille Monet striking a playful pose and wearing a blond wig to emphasize her Western identity, according the the museum. Boston art museum cancels kimono event after claims of racism 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

What I find especially interesting in his work is the way he combines Middle Eastern ornamentation and language with Western music, so that his work has that kind of non-Western plus Western sound. A Composer Not Afraid to Mash Things Up 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z

Emulating Western culture and practices would prompt admiration and antagonism; Russians have defined their culture in imitation and opposition ever since. The Myths That Made, and Still Make, Russia 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

Art historian Stella Paul’s insightful new book “Chromaphilia: The Story of Color in Art” tells fascinating tales of this fundamental element throughout Western history. Where yellow means go, and go now: LACMA's standout show on '60s Dwan Gallery 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

The religious and mystical associations of this Western Argentine region are noted periodically, perhaps to a greater extent than the payoff requires. Review: In ‘The Desert Bride,’ a Maid Hits the Road in Argentina 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

He is known for melding Eastern and Western traditions in music and is a professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City's Conservatory of Music and Dance. Details on the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners 2011-04-19T00:29:08Z

In late January, he said, President Trump was back on the phone, discussing the job of assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, the position responsible for promoting United States interests throughout Latin America. Friends No More? Jorge Pérez and Donald Trump 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

The women dress in bright, ankle-length frocks — and often spend afternoons sewing traditional Rarámuri dresses — despite pressures from the people of mixed race who comprise most of Mexico’s population to assimilate with Western style. Traditional Dresses as Resistance 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z

Saturday will be a sad day for the Seattle art scene — the last day of the last exhibition at Western Bridge. Provocative Sodo art gallery Western Bridge to close 2012-10-19T03:49:06Z

How do you hope a Western audience will respond to the story? 'Dendera': Yuya Sato on his fable about old women battling a bear 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Western Sahara, bordered by Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the Atlantic Ocean, was a Spanish colony until November 1975 before Morocco annexed it and sent more than 300,000 civilian settlers into the territory. Bardem shows plight of Saharawi in film documentary 2012-05-21T20:49:24Z

A famous centrally located cafe and restaurant serving a mixture of Western and Chinese dishes. A scenic spin through the hills of southwestern China 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

For the Western Ghats, Mumbai and Bangalore are the closest international airports; from those cities, take local flights or trains. India, Through a Birder?s Eyes 2011-01-14T20:30:41Z

And Western museums hold a small number of objects that, in the 16th and 17th centuries, traveled from Africa to Europe as souvenirs or gifts, landing in Medici palaces and cathedral treasuries. Review: ‘Kongo: Power and Majesty’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

She graduated and, in May, received a degree in dental medicine from Case Western Reserve University, and she also received a master’s degree in human nutrition from Columbia. Nandini Sharma, Karan Chhabra 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

Inside: A glowing fire, polished wood bar, floor-to-ceiling windows and antler chandeliers complete the Western mountain aura. If you can only eat three meals in Aspen, Colo., make sure they’re here 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

"But I can say it's something we want to explore — China is huge into Western pop culture," he said. Popular culture can't seem to get enough of rural Americana. 2011-02-02T19:58:31Z

There is also a lengthy sequence in which Susan imagines herself and Christopher as outlaws being hunted down by a posse dressed in Western garb. In ‘Landscapers,’ True Crime Meets Hollywood Fantasy 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

Bruges also is one of the most beautiful cities in Western Europe, a place that has been called the Venice of the North. Belgium’s beautiful Bruges: Old-world Europe in the present 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

Two unforgettable characters stand at the center of this Western, set in an 1870s Arkansas of hand-built towns and dry horizons. 'True Grit': The Coen brothers' solid, faithful retelling of the classic Western 2010-12-21T18:25:57Z

A generation of Chinese opera composers have come of age in the West, making for a new genre that draws from both Eastern and Western operatic traditions. Essential Arts & Culture: A new museum on the National Mall, Arthur Miller reimagined, the 'Vermeer' of L.A. 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

Union Station, the largest passenger train station in the Western United States, was completed in 1939. Art Deco Los Angeles 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

But it's well worth the risk given the rapid growth in the world's biggest Internet market and growing appetite for Western movies. "Desperate Housewives" streaming to China 2011-08-08T20:38:44Z

This bizarre and one-sided article portrays the closing of 619 Western as a win. Seattle reinvents its artists colony 2012-05-01T00:09:52Z

Rather, they were eager for Morocco to modernize; any Western attention paid to the country’s more “primitive” arts was a hindrance to that mission. The Sheltering Sound: Paul Bowles’s Attempt to Save Moroccan Music 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

“We were inspired by some Western tendencies, like Michael Jackson, or shows like ‘Riverdance,’” he said. For Russians Tired of ‘Swan Lake,’ a Contemporary Alternative 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

“Power Dressing” puts a certain kind of Western feminism in perspective. Special Report: Fashion: Political Style of a Different Kind 2011-02-11T12:37:02Z

The festival in Western Sahara, meanwhile, has a political dimension, drawing attention to the Sahrawi people’s struggle for independence from Morocco. Cinemas in Africa – from cramped shacks to screenings in the Sahara 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

As if his name weren't enough -- Weerasethakul has occasionally invited Western journalists to address him as "Joe," in recognition of our total tongue-tied defeat -- it's called "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives." Cannes this film festival be saved? 2010-05-12T18:12:00Z

For Ladakhi youngsters, tourism has become a career of choice, exposing them to Western aspirations, and a major source of jobs and income. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one

He developed what he called the "both ways" educational philosophy, which utilized both Western and Aboriginal teaching techniques. Yothu Yindi frontman Mandawuy Yunupingu dies at 56 2013-06-03T02:14:07Z

Jones told me, an attitude as refreshing as his wines and reflective of a Western frontier spirit — the spirit of Paso Robles. The California wine region whose appellation got an upgrade 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

He went on to become the valedictorian of his Class of ’85 at Whitman College and began working at Western theaters like the Utah Shakespeare Festival and the Pioneer Theater Company. Patrick Page, Onetime Green Goblin, on Playing in ‘Cyrano’ 2012-09-23T04:38:14Z

But unlike cosmopolitan Casablanca, or Tangier, which, being a short ferry ride away from Spain, had the chaotic transience of a border town, Marrakesh has stayed both exciting and accessible for Western travelers. A New Taste of Marrakesh 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

For Western readers, what’s more shocking is the unapologetic sexism against which the heroine rebels. A woman going mad, and a radical refusal, in ‘The Vegetarian’ 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

They began by gazing out confidently from the peaks of 19th-century Western civilization and claiming everything that was closer to nature than to culture as their domain, including fossils, wildlife and non-Western peoples. Critic?s Notebook: Quai Branly Museum in Paris Glorifies the ?Other? 2011-11-25T23:47:39Z

If Western popular culture has a common idiom, a force that binds us all, the stories contained in Marvel comics are probably it. He Read All 27,000 Marvel Comic Books and Lived to Tell the Tale 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

The commonality of faith and ritual that had unified Western Christendom was replaced by a cacophony of competing creeds, each denouncing the others as impostors or worse. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

My chest tightens up a little, suddenly corseted, and my vision tunnels like one of those old Western photos in which everyone is grim-faced. Desperately Seeking Hope and Help for Your Nerves? Try Reading ‘Hope and Help for Your Nerves’ 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

It is too early to speculate what went wrong during the filming of the Western movie "Rust." Hollywood’s love of guns increases the risk of shootings – both on and off the set 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z

With apparent glee, he recalls how they were routinely branded by critics as "the end of Western civilization, sleazy and low-brow." TV game-changer Fox marks 25th year Sunday 2012-04-21T17:48:09Z

But there are widespread misconceptions about Indian comics, Varma said, including incorrect notions that Indians prefer Western heroes, or that Indian comics aren't complex enough for film. Bam! Pow! Indian comics clamor to make their mark 2011-03-04T16:48:17Z

For the first time on the international scene, China beat America in what had been almost an exclusive Western preserve until a decade ago. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Buyers Wonder, Will It Appreciate Over Time? 2011-02-24T13:00:03Z

This stereotype persists even as casual sex has become increasingly normalized and gender equality has risen in the U.S. and much of the Western world. Why do women still get judged so harshly for having casual sex? 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

As a student of both Western and Eastern literatures and cultures, I benefit from the cultural differences in the readings of apocalypses. Understanding apocalyptic events through literature 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

The admission of the first Western musician had a profound impact on the group, which, for the first time, felt free to express internal disagreements by switching to English. Tokyo String Quartet to make last Seattle visit 2013-04-12T19:35:10Z

Most Western art museums have a Jerome or two. Perspective | In real life, Jerome was a combative intellectual. Artists made him lovable. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Thus a list of Western crimes committed against children. The Perfect Children of ISIS: Lessons from Dabiq 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

Over the years, "Eurovision" has expanded from a small group of six Western European nations to over 40 competitors from all over Europe, plus Israel and Australia. How Eurovision helps define Europe’s boundaries (and why Ukraine will likely win) 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

There’s one in black, the Western color of mourning, and two in white. Review | In the galleries: Artistic reflections on what mortality leaves behind 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

The Edo period ended after Japan was humiliated by demands from a militarily superior West – the black ships of Commodore Perry wrested concessions from a country that had once confined Western traders to offshore islands. When Japan Had a Third Gender 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

Though Sheridan’s Westerns look different from the genre’s classics, they share that central tension. In “Wind River,” Taylor Sheridan makes another new-looking western with a traditional spirit 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

He would employ only graduates of élite universities, and recorded in his memoir the sting when someone assumed that his own alma mater, Western Reserve, was a college on a reservation. Ted Peckham's 'Gentlemen For Rent' 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Although Greek drama and poetry are the foundations of Western culture, few people read or study poetry anymore either. Review: ‘Phaedra(s)’ Goes Psycho With Isabelle Huppert 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

While the Western powers were at pains to describe their naval movement through the strait as routine, a view echoed by the Revolutionary Guards, they also stressed its symbolism. EU bans Iranian oil, Tehran responds with threats 2012-01-23T12:51:00Z

Wasson is a seductive predator, and Cooper excellent as a courtly version of the grizzled gunslinger from old Westerns. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: Four-score and Seven Corpses 2012-06-21T13:40:09Z

And it does so while playing around with narrative genre, combining elements of science fiction, Westerns and daredevil action-adventure. How "Toy Story" changed everything – in its first eight minutes 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

It’s an idea that’s very resonant with Buddhist and some Chinese philosophy ideas, as well as ideas in Western religion. My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z

It helped that he lived in Paris from 1948 on and that his gestural abstractions, which drew on Eastern and Western sources, enjoyed great success in Europe and the United States. Zao Wou-Ki, an Abstract Fusion Master 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

It was an age of warfare against the Turks, full of the tensions between the Muslim and Western worlds. Muslims, Christians and Mozart: Seeking Harmony at the Met Opera 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

He tells the prime minister: “Russia has now pinned all her hopes on swamping Western Europe with her natural gas and thus becoming, through our energy dependence, our effective masters.” Review | At 80, Frederick Forsyth has produced a classic thriller that’s also eerily relevant 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Western Exhibitions http://westernexhibitions.com/christian/ A. Breed is a national writer, based in Raleigh, N.C. In artist's show, creation merges with destruction 2013-02-22T13:55:08Z

For example, the Best Western Passage House Hotel in Devon, England, starts at $60 a night, including taxes — a savings of 50 percent. This week’s best travel deals 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

With Gate 1 Travel, save nearly 30 percent on the June 22 departure of the Canadian Rockies & Western Canada package. Travel deals: Free night on Mexico’s Riviera Maya and a Great Lakes cruise sale 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Robertson received the Golden Boot Award in 1985, and was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers and the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. Actor Dale Robertson dies in California hospital 2013-02-28T01:41:08Z

This one took place at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Ohio before a small audience of each candidate's family and staffers. The traumatizing terror of Trump's debate performance: We just witnessed an assault on democracy 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

“Really, the transformation that needs to take place is not only in Western publishing — it’s also in Africa itself,” Galgut told The Associated Press, citing a dearth of publishers and booksellers. Booker winner Damon Galgut laments South Africa’s gloom 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Cissé’s languid but mindful pacing and his indifference to Western film language conventions on space and time transitions also contribute to the movie’s distinction. Exploring Afrofuturism in Film, Where Sci-Fi and Mythology Blur 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Prudence, who proudly boasts that she’s better educated than either Chilford or her fiancé, Chancellor, exudes a proto-feminist awareness of women’s subjugated position in both African and Western culture that seems distinctly anachronistic. Theater Review : Pascale Armand in ?The Convert,? by Danai Gurira 2012-02-06T23:02:27Z

Debt is still a huge burden on the Western economies, and politicians are arguing about how to deal with it. Fresh thoughts 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

You can’t “get” Buddhism, in the Western sense and certainly not in one paragraph or even one book. Books of The Times: Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman’s ‘Dude and the Zen Master’ 2013-01-06T23:01:49Z

I think one of the things that is true of Western civilization now is the huge disequilibrium between the day-to-day comfort that we feel, and the threat that we know is based in reality. Marilynne Robinson talks religion, fear and the American spirit: “The left, at a basic level, lost courage, because they don’t know how to deal with the proclaimed religiosity of the other side” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

Carolyn Drake, who lives in Istanbul, presents pictures documenting the lives of the Uighurs, people of Turkish descent who dwell in Western China and whose culture and language are at risk of extinction. Art Review: The Fully Engaged Lens 2011-05-12T21:57:40Z

“Paleo looks to ancestral wisdom—whether from cave-dwelling Paleolithic ancestors or remote native populations untouched by Western disease—for guidance on what to eat and how to live,” says a basics article in Paleo Magazine. 2014: Our year in trendy diets 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z

The deliberate imperfections, irregular surfaces and up-and-down hemlines strike style watchers as an antidote to overexposed and overtly commercial Western styles. Paying Homage to Japan?s Raw Edges 2010-10-07T00:18:00Z

Now it is home to a Best Western Premier, the first of several of the hotelier’s upscale branded properties that are planned throughout the Caribbean. Heads Up: Haiti, An Unlikely Location for Luxury 2013-05-22T16:36:30Z

Her resulting project, “Record of Cherry Road,” is the subject of a new photography exhibit at N.Y.U.’s Gulf and Western Gallery. Photographing the Invisible 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

In 1517, Martin Luther published his Ninety-five Theses, which inaugurated a massive schism in the Western church, one that he likely never intended. The Hidden Life of a Forgotten Sixteenth-Century Female Poet 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

But the overall transition from figuration to abstraction is not presented here as a linear progression of the kind we are familiar with from Western art. Art Review: ‘Modernist Art From India: Approaching Abstraction’ at Rubin 2012-06-21T21:10:16Z

An area called the Western Yard, from 11th to 12th Avenues, is still in development, but is expected to have several restaurants, mostly casual. Hudson Yards Welcomes the Chefs 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

But at the schoolhouse, the children wore uniforms of white shirts and dark shorts, so it’s clear that Western culture is influencing their community. Q&A: The Drama of Namibia’s Dunes 2012-09-07T15:47:41Z

Western officials were insisting that the mission of bringing stability to Kandahar was succeeding. 'The Dogs Are Eating Them Now' an unflinching account of Afghanistan 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Parker was a longtime friend of Ronald Reagan, whose Western White House was not far from the Parker vineyards. Fess Parker, TV's `Davy Crockett,' dies at 85 2010-03-18T21:03:00Z

While The Western Book Of The Dead doesn’t feature anything quite as significant as Robert Chambers’s book, there are a few telling texts on show. True Detective: season two, episode one recap – The Western Book of the Dead 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

They met 24 years ago while at university in Western Australia, introduced by a mutual friend. How we stay together: 'I’ve got your back. Whatever happens, I’ve got your back' 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z

The last five years have been good to Dubrovnik: as it has opened to Western tourists, its number of visitors has climbed steadily — around 10 percent a year — since the global recession hit in 2008. 45 Places to Go in 2012 2012-01-06T17:44:12Z

Davalos also seems, at moments, to be seriously pondering the clash of the two conflicting worldviews that have long dominated Western civilization. 'Wittenberg' is an intellectual workout with Hamlet, Faustus and Luther 2010-11-22T23:29:00Z

“I felt that I was pursuing something: the people’s feelings, the earth’s rhythms, a traditional style and the formal principles of modern Western art,” he wrote in a 1982 essay. Wu Guanzhong, Leading Chinese Painter, Dies at 90 2010-06-29T23:12:00Z

Japanese Note: Okinawa is moving one block north and east, onto Western Avenue, later this spring. Thank heavens: Okinawa Teriyaki serves up platters of celestial food 2011-02-17T21:27:27Z

I look forward to the day when The Times and other Western publications celebrate the richness and complexity of Vietnamese, and of all other languages, by showcasing them in their original formats. Read Your Way Through Hanoi 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z

That person will initially be flown to Perth in Western Australia before meeting up with the rest of the "Oprah" travel party in Sydney. Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban set for Oprah's Oz show 2010-11-24T02:02:00Z

"There is a small upper class, the so called creamy layer, who can enjoy the benefits of Western media and lifestyle," he said. Bollywood gets racy with 'Jism 2' 2012-08-02T12:04:10Z

Mr. Ratmansky, regarded as one of ballet’s most important creative figures, introduced major Western choreographers into the repertory and revitalized old standards. Dance Review: In London, a Triple Bill From the Bolshoi 2010-08-02T21:06:00Z

Some were dressed in the traditional attire of Sri Lanka’s mountainous central region while others wore Chinese or Western clothes at the main ceremony in the central Colombo area. Fifty Chinese couples marry in mass ceremony in Sri Lanka 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z

Linga draws a mostly male crowd that’s both Khmer and Western and seems to signal a newfound openness for gay Cambodians. Next Stop: Siem Reap, Cambodia, Welcomes Gay Travelers 2010-03-19T18:51:00Z

Neither the Mormons nor the Wobblies fit comfortably in narratives of Western development dominated by cowboys, railroad men, ranchers and other boomer archetypes. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

Western Australia's Water Corporation estimates 30% of sewer blockages are due to fats, oils and grease. Why shouldn’t I pour oil or paint down the sink? And what should I do instead? 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

Not only did “The Wild Bunch” immediately become one of the greatest Westerns ever made; it also rejuvenated a cinematic genre that Stratton calls “the hoariest of them all.” Review | How ‘Wild Bunch’ director Sam Peckinpah made one of cinema’s great Westerns 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

The designers Dan and Dean Caten smartly kept the outfits focused on the gunslinger style and didn’t dilute the collection with every Western reference in the fashion handbook. Special Report: Fashion: Taking It Out West 2011-02-28T18:43:44Z

Growing up, the members of Chai hadn’t been exposed to much Western music. Chai, a Band With an Ethos, an Aesthetic and a Sound All Its Own 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

I got in this business to make Westerns. A Minute With: Horror king John Carpenter on "The Ward" 2011-06-08T12:59:45Z

But that Western code has ranged far beyond Helena—and far beyond the U.S as well. The Tao of Cooper: Why High Noon Still Matters 2012-07-24T12:00:28Z

And I told her about the religious pressure, and the constant clashing of Eastern and Western ideals when it came to sex. Modern Love: Eating the Forbidden Ham Sandwich 2011-05-05T21:28:33Z

She founded her Japan-based nonprofit Music Sharing to bring Western classical and traditional Japanese music to young people in Japan and developing regions of Asia. Midori’s career started with a fleeting moment. It’s evolved into a lasting legacy. 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

His bid fits into Beijing’s soft power diplomacy, though Western capitals fret about China controlling an agency that shapes internet and media policy. Drained of cash and riven by rivalries, UNESCO seeks leader to revive fortunes 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

If Native Hawaiians appear less than lukewarm toward the notion of “progress,” consider this: In the century after Captain James Cook arrived in 1778, Western diseases killed off 90 percent of Maui’s local population. A Maui vacation in three acts 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

In Western astrology, each person’s astrological chart includes 10 planets, each with its own sign, and 12 houses into which each of the planets fall. A New Dating App Asks: Do Our Stars Align? 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

He seized on the climbing endeavor, which he called “Project Possible,” as a way to highlight the contributions of Nepalese mountaineers, who are more than the Sherpas to Western expeditions. ‘14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible’ Review: Climbing at a Breakneck Pace 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

We want to tell all tales from our perspective — science fiction or historical dramas — freed from the Western framing. With ‘Neptune Frost,’ How to Make an Afrofuturist Sci-Fi Musical 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

At least in Western literature, it seems old women are rarely the protagonists of stories. 'Dendera': Yuya Sato on his fable about old women battling a bear 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

A Harvard University scholar, Stephen Greenblatt, was a finalist for "The Swerve," his story of the Renaissance-era rediscovery of Lucretius' "On the Nature of Things" and the Latin poem's influence on Western thinking. Adrienne Rich among National Book Award finalists 2011-10-12T16:50:09Z

The stabbing occurred just after 8 p.m. in front of a liquor store in the 200 block of South Western Avenue in the city's Near West Side. Man fatally stabbed outside Near West Side liquor store 2012-03-12T11:46:00Z

With these changes, the two sides of the board no longer represented the units in an army; they now stood in for Western social order. In "The Queen’s Gambit" and beyond, chess holds up a mirror to life 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z

“Others might see maritime painting as a really wonderful way of looking at gentlemen’s leisure, or a certain aspect of Western ingenuity and know-how,” Mr. Wiley explained. Kehinde Wiley on Painting the Powerless. And a President. 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

There is more of that in Western notions of the sacred than we’re likely to acknowledge. Perspective | Great cathedrals burn, collapse and crack. Notre Dame can survive this. 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

During her time at Amazon, Uriu was researching and experimenting with invasive species and how that translated into Western attitudes about foreignness. What’s it like to be an Amazon artist in residence? 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Other Western nations — France, Britain, the Netherlands — aggressively followed its lead. Review: ‘Kongo: Power and Majesty’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Scott’s “Blade Runner” envisioned Los Angeles in 2019 as a sprawling urban metropolis infused with Eastern and Western cultures. Replicant or human? 'Blade Runner 2049' reignites existential debate 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

One of my main goals in this project was to restore Erasmus’s place in the Western intellectual tradition. Letters to the Editor 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

Such distress is made particularly manifest in anxieties around one folklore staple – the zonbi, known most familiarly to Western audiences as the zombie. How did the zombie become so white? 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

A box of countries labeled “Western” had lower child mortality rates, while a box of countries labeled “Developing” had higher child mortality rates. Opening Up an Elite Brand to the Masses 2010-09-24T20:40:00Z

In general, he speaks with the antique diction of mid-19th century Western fiction, but he also knows what would become of Billy’s acquaintances many decades later. Billy the Kid died young, but the myth can’t be killed 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

This is a little acronymic joke, a label for those modern societies that are Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2013-01-18T21:00:07Z

She wrote back ignoring most of what I said, emphasizing that she was not a scammer – and including her Western Union details. The internet scammer who loved me (not) 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

Unkrur said the break-in occurred after her son briefly left the home near the intersection of Western and Armitage avenues about 3 p.m. Photo from stolen laptop may lead to arrest 2011-12-28T01:04:00Z

That was followed in 2005 by the rights to the rest of the Western Hemisphere. Special Report: Watches: Upstarts Get a Big Stage 2010-03-17T20:30:00Z

Westerns roam the landscape of history, and that topography is ever-changing and constantly contested. The "Yellowstone" effect: Welcome to the new era of TV Westerns 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

This Western “rescue” fantasy and the would-be saviors it creates were duly debunked by the Columbia professor Lila Abu-Lughod in her book “Do Muslim Women Need Saving?” These Are the Faces of Muslim Women Throughout History 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

The bride’s father, who works in Seattle, is the federal public defender for Western Washington. Jill Filipovic, Ty McCormick 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z

It is, surprisingly, the first major retrospective devoted to a painter who was among the most renowned in Florence during one of the greatest moments in the history of Western art. Piero di Cosimo, a misunderstood master, at the National Gallery of Art 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Hollywood heartthrob Matthew McConaughey took a break from romantic comedies in "Killer Joe", a comic modern-day Western about a cop who doubles as a hitman. Venice film festival wins on points, lacks knock-out 2011-09-09T13:29:02Z

Tao Ye doesn’t think in terms of Eastern or Western where his art is concerned. Dance Review: TAO Dance Theater Performs 2 Meditative Works 2014-02-21T23:02:01Z

In the capital, women wore Western clothing, young people went to the movies and listened to music. How an emergency room pediatrician became a global best-selling author 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

In many Western schools, hijabs on young girls are controversial. Gap back-to-school “hijab ad” ignites social media 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

After all, the only alternative Western role model was Margaret Thatcher. Hillary Clinton and Theresa May Herald a New Age in Power Dressing 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

That the American road system is a crowning achievement of Western civilization is too little appreciated. | Pursuits: Guy Trebay on the Joys of Driving 2012-05-20T05:34:44Z

Western culture, by way of literature, film, and television, is conditioned to romanticize the lot of the orphan: Think of Batman. "Party of Five" reboots the '90s classic with a family orphaned by deportation 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

Irish, a Celtic language closely related to Scottish Gaelic, is the oldest spoken language in Western Europe, according to Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, a professor at Concordia University’s School of Irish Studies in Montreal. ‘Bursting Proud’: Ireland Cheers Paul Mescal for Embracing Irish Language 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

Excerpts lifted from landmarks of Western literature, running from the epic tradition of Homer and Milton to the high-modernist experiments of James Joyce and T. S. Eliot, are read in voice-over. | 'The Nine Muses': ?The Nine Muses,? by John Akomfrah - Review 2011-10-05T22:07:26Z

In Scottsdale, Ariz., the Phoenix suburb that describes itself as “The West’s Most Western Town,” a new attraction is in the works. In Arizona, an Aquarium Blooms 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

While the core repertory is Western, the theater also promotes the creation of original Mongolian works and keeps close ties with Mongolian composers. Music and Dance: A Bastion of Classical Repertory on the Asian Steppe 2011-06-07T11:30:06Z

Hu Xiangqian, a charming performance artist, has fun with the problem in a video in which he excitedly describes works by Western Conceptualists that he has read about but not personally experienced. Art in Review: ?CATCH THE MOON IN THE WATER?: Emerging Chinese Artists 2011-07-14T22:30:44Z

They expected a swift victory by Christmas, but got bogged down on the Western front in the worst kind of mechanised slaughter that the world has ever seen. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z

A. I don’t hear accents as I used to, either Southern or Western or New England or New York. Q&A: Where Garrison Keillor Gets ?Carried Away? 2012-05-19T00:30:02Z

On Saturday, March 3, she plans to turn the Crocodile’s dance floor into a kaleidoscopic sea of bodies in motion while DJs bump Bollywood hits and the occasional Western club jam. The Hindu festival of Holi hits Seattle clubs 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

Arrnaud says the key tension in his films is between his Western intellectual origins and the emotional life of nature. Jean-Jacques Annaud: 'People who make films are in danger every day' 2013-05-30T19:00:01Z

The event received little attention in the Western press except for an account on WQXR’s blog. New York Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony Become Partners 2012-11-14T03:00:00Z

“When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice,” Beard writes. From Ancient Myths to Modern Day, Women and the Struggle for Power 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Dr. Gay studied at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis and advocated Freudian techniques for historical scholarship, rejecting fears that the field would be reduced to formulas about childhood desires and neuroses. Peter Gay, historian who wrote about Freud and the Enlightenment, dies 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

There is a more Western sort of philosophical interest as well. Art in Review: PETER CAMPUS: ?Calling for Shantih? 2010-12-09T23:20:00Z

The impresario Diaghilev, Fokine and others presented them only in Paris and other Western cities. Dance Review: Mariinsky Ballet Dances Fokine at Kennedy Center - Review 2012-01-23T22:57:43Z

There are some recently acquired objects in the remix, though DAM’s usual attractions — among them Western art with its Taos School superstars, and Latin American art, which covers four millenniums — remain largely the same. What a Museum Wants to Be in the 21st Century 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Western poetry owes its very existence to spoken or sung heritages from many places, in particular Greece and Scandinavia. Poetry in Performance in New York 2011-10-06T22:17:39Z

It’s a long way from Perth, in Western Australia, where he grew up and attended a small modern Orthodox Jewish school, which does not by default set one on the path to pop stardom. Troye Sivan Is a New Kind of Pop Star: Here, Queer and Used to It 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

This year’s show features some 15,000 animals, Western art exhibitions and a Wild West show. In Transit Blog: Cowboy Poetry and Rodeos 2014-01-24T20:12:02Z

While growing up in Beirut, Mr. Sinno found Western pop culture to be a lifeline. A Lebanese Rocker Caught in a Human Rights Incident Over Rainbow Flags 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

There are plenty of other trout fishing options around Western Washington where 340,000 trout are being planted in 47 local lakes. Beaver Lake near Issaquah to be planted next week with 2,400 trout averaging three pounds apiece 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

In 1943 she graduated from Western College for Women in Ohio, now defunct. Ann Marcus, Writer for ‘Mary Hartman,’ Dies at 93 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

“This is perhaps the most costly work among all artworks, both Chinese and Western,” Ai Weiwei said. Ai Weiwei: A retrospective of his works

Tune in for very different versions of the neo-folk movement sweeping the Western world. Fleet Foxes, The Head and the Heart on Letterman 2011-09-26T16:13:20Z

Following the war, what was called the Red Zone, a swath of 460 acres across the Western Front, was declared off-limits for habitation. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

He argues that secularism is associated with Modernization, but both phenomena are highly rooted in Western religion. Europe is not a secular paradise — and Americans should be careful when embracing this myth 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z