| 单词 | brainy |
| 例句 | From then on, we have what sounds like one of those exaggerated fairy-stories of success, but in reality it was the result of tremendous hard and brainy work by those two friends. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “My brother’s the brainiest kid I’ve ever met, but that clearly doesn’t translate to street smarts.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In Hawaii, Barack’s intense and brainy side receded somewhat, while the laid-back part of him flourished. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Of particular interest to a brainy, idealistic youth such as Farmer, Virchow helped define the field of medical anthropology—the study of human health and disease and public health care systems. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “I like that in a woman. But burn me and Clark there’ll spackle the wall with your brainy bits.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Just another brainy, quiet girl, the kind who always turns in assignments on time, always aces tests. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z His school is a private school for brainy boys, though not an expensive one: you get in by passing tough exams. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He’s the brainiest guy I know and is built like he could be a linebacker, even though he hates sports. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z But I had a striking sense that if I’d had a son, he would, at the core, be a lot like this brainy, combative oddball sitting in a musty apartment in a small Idaho town. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Why couldn’t even the strong, brainy, cold-proof Neanderthals survive our onslaught? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not much. I just need you to talk to that brainy gal from Michigan for me. The tall one on the Midwest team.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Some of their briefings with the brainy fellas had happened upstairs, though she was not invited to attend those meetings. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z When I say, "Oh, that was so predictable," it sounds brainy and farsighted. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In middle school, Sasha was brainy, shy, and introverted, the kind of kid who is easy to overlook. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The day was soon coming when the world would see if her best, if the brainy fellas’ best, if NASA’s best, was good enough. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z How could he ever have thought that wedge of hair was anything but brainy? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Rachpaul, you are a brainy young man, but there’s some things you’re keeping to yourself. Which is very dumb. I want to help.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Tommy refused to be snubbed and, cupping his ear to the carton, shouted, “What’s that? No kidding! You’re crazy about me. Inside that answer machine all those brainy cells are rooting for me to win.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z And even if she was brainy she was an old sourpuss. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z "A girl doesn't get a man by being brainy," Mrs Wormwood said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “Visit sick people, stuff like that. I would’ve been good at it, too. Not the brainy part—not sermons and all that—but I’d be okay with the people part.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere between super popular and well'liked: not brainy, not jocks, not rich, not druggies, not mean, not goody-goody, not huge, not flat. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Three adults sat in the front row looking extremely brainy. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z All the brainy people in the audience, like Grace’s father and the district superintendent, chuckled. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z She asked with the highest respect for the natures of the brainy fellas she worked with, and she asked knowing that she was the right person for a task that needed the finest minds. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He didn’t believe in brainy Martians, though he recognized the premise of a winning story. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z As much money as Hamp has made, and still makes, he would be broke today if his money and his business weren’t handled by Gladys, who is one of the brainiest women I ever met. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Human beans is not understanding them at all. Not even their brainiest prossefors is understanding them. Has you seen enough?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The adventurous “Pirate Laureate” and the brainy “Back to Methuselah” are both long, twisty fantasies and — not terribly common in the theater — second installments. Avast! Sunny pirates, a frosty ‘Frozen’ and a forecast from Shaw 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z As Detective Munch, Mr. Belzer was brainy but hard-boiled, cynical but sensitive. Richard Belzer, Detective Munch on ‘Law & Order: S.V.U.,’ Dies at 78 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z When Christopher Nolan was promoting this film last fall, the "Dark Knight"/"Inception" director promised a more heartfelt, less cerebral movie than his usual brainy blockbusters. Christopher Nolan's bold, offbeat 'Interstellar' 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z And there was me – call me Sid the Sexist – thinking they just got three beautiful brainy women in because it fits with the Venus theme, even if it's not quite their subject. TV review: The Transit of Venus: a Horizon Special and All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry 2012-06-05T22:15:01Z It's his words - playful, brainy, heartfelt and often fired out in hot-potato exchanges - that do the heavy lifting. A big story developing on HBO's 'The Newsroom' 2012-06-20T09:16:04Z The brain behind the brainy rock band the Decemberists is changing course, putting his musical pursuits on hold to write a trilogy of children’s novels with his wife, Carson Ellis, an illustrator. ?Wildwood,? a Book by the Decemberists? Colin Meloy 2011-10-11T17:28:57Z Now into its sixth series, Only Connect continues to provide a pleasingly brainy alternative to the lobotomised quiz show fare on terrestrial TV. Catch-up TV guide: from Homeland to The Town 2012-12-15T00:05:19Z It’s the kind of place where two people could fall in love — a current that’s almost invisible in this hot-tempered, largely brainy rendition of the play. Review | Theater J, still roaming across D.C., revives ‘Talley’s Folly’ 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Those are the most audience-friendly features of “Witch” and “Rameau’s Nephew,” respectively, two brainy and ambitious but ultimately exasperating productions built on historical texts. ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ and ‘Witch’: Ambitious shows that miss the mark 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Asked for a catchphrase for the new fellowship, Vartan Gregorian, the president of the Carnegie Corporation, suggested “brainy,” and emphasized the real-world nature of the winners’ projects. New $200,000 Carnegie Fellowships to Aid Researchers in Humanities and Social Science 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Crime fiction and the movies offered Sherlock Holmes as the ultimate aloof, brainy hero. For Leonard Nimoy, Spock’s Hold Made Reaching Escape Velocity Futile 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z His producers helped him see that the show needed to be about 25 percent education and 75 percent entertainment, instead of the brainier show he had envisioned. Andrew Zimmern’s Nonstop Road (and Food) Show 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z “It’s sort of the brainier program of the seven we’re putting together this season,” says Lee. Emerald City Music: ‘Where art and audience collide’ in Seattle 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Writers for the country’s brainy national feuilletons have branded the show a “failure,” a “disgrace,” “catastrophic,” and worse besides. The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever. 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Because the “Gilmore Girls” communication style was based around snappy, brainy dialogue, it would be far too easy for the show to rely on cultural references or twee gestures at the expense of depth. The genius of “Gilmore Girls”: When your writing is this good, you can always go home again — even to Stars Hollow 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Well-meaning Gortimer, brainy Mel and overenthusiastic Ranger throw themselves into the mysteries thrust upon them with the spirit of early teenagers, for whom the discovery that the world is profoundly weird is entirely unsurprising. REVIEW: An Amazon Kids' Show Far Better Than Normal 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z “The Old Drift” is an intimate, brainy, gleaming epic, set mostly in what is now Zambia, the landlocked country in southern Africa. ‘The Old Drift’ Is a Dazzling Debut Spanning Four Generations 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z But I enjoyed this brainy, well- constructed piece far more than I expected to, and the audience clearly did, too. Composer Stephen Hough, accomplished on paper and in the concert hall 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z “Luck” began as one of the most promising television collaborations in ages: the brainy, off-kilter writing of Mr. Milch, the creator of “Deadwood,” matched with Mr. Mann’s vivid and viscerally cinematic producing style. | 'Luck': ?Luck,? Starring Dustin Hoffman on HBO 2012-01-27T12:00:00Z Boys played war and got the brainy idea to convert the stage into a bike ramp. Out of Desert Dust, a Miracle on a Shoestring 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z In other words, Mr. Banks is a brainy and boastful rapper, which leads to some stratification in his audience, some there for the attitude, and some for the intricate punch lines. Music Review: Lloyd Banks Performs at Nokia Theater 2010-04-30T22:56:00Z “When you look at the last 50 years, how much music is there which is considered, by the broad audience, too brainy, where you feel there’s a disconnect?” A Composer Finds the Old in the New 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z As a famously brainy electronic musician — and a descendant of literary royalty — Moby had plenty of lodestars he might have looked to while writing his first book. Moby goes where Brian Eno, and his ancestor Herman Melville, went before 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Greene will remind you of the brainiest kid in your physics class but one who also happens to be an excellent tutor. A Scientist Puts Things in Perspective 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z In the farcical “Cloned!,” the brainy star of “Basic Instinct” is the essence of hot to a young nerd named Wally, a brilliant scientist whose other biggest crush is himself. New York Musical Theater Festival Report: 'Cloned!' 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Could interactions like these lead, over many thousands of years, to the octopus becoming a brainier species? The smart arms of the octopus 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z “The Hummingbird Project” may be too committed to its popcorn mechanics to double as a truly brainy exposé, but it pays other dividends. ‘The Hummingbird Project’ Review: They’re Running Cable and Chasing Money 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Ro also has a penchant for making lists, like a brainier, snarkier Bridget Jones. 'Red Clocks' imagines a dystopia that feels eerily close to home 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z As Mr. Sampson tries to get brainier, the program gets less plausible. ‘Hack My Brain,’ Self-Improvement on Science Channel 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z But people who know Ms. Miller, 53, insist that, besides being brainy, she has always been very, very funny, and in person she is direct and disarming. Rebecca Miller Is Brainy, and Very, Very Funny 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Set in the world of Manhattan academia, it’s both brainy and delightfully daft. ‘Maggie’s Plan’ director has created a comedy about our ‘contemporary confusion’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z It’s rare that very brainy sci-fi packs a genuinely emotional, or even just sensationalistic, wallop. ‘Synchronic’ Review: Twisted, Trippy Trips Through Time 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z “These are very brainy people,” she said after her class. Davos Fellows Get Theater Arts Training at Columbia 2010-07-09T23:27:00Z He was also the brainy one, coming top of his class throughout primary school. Rylan Clark on The X Factor, death threats and being seen as a fame-hungry diva 2012-12-16T20:00:00Z In brainy, loosely linked chapters, O’Gieblyn eloquently dissects our tech-obsessed culture’s elevation of data and quantification over qualitative experience, detecting in our relentless turn toward machines the remnants of a more humane, even spiritual reality. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Some of those same movies continued to break down gender stereotypes by depicting bold, brainy women who didn’t need a man’s love to make them whole. With ‘Turning Red,’ a Big Red Panda Helps Break a Glass Ceiling 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z In the interest of holidays, we’re letting some others do some of the heavy lifting in this post — which salutes brainy Lisa Simpson, the foil for her oblivious family members and neighbors. 12 Days of Simpsons, Day 8: 3 great salutes to Lisa 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z In The New York Times Book Review, Katie Roiphe called it “as complicated, brainy, inventive and satisfying as the finest prose memoirs.” ArtsBeat: Alison Bechdel Talks About Drawing, Writing, Family and Shame 2012-05-10T15:27:03Z She was a talented artist and a musician who went to summer camp with brainy, arty kids from Brooklyn and the Bronx. The One Thing We Couldn’t Talk About 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z The "animal" bit of the title relates to the fact that alongside Gee's brainy side – a scholarship to Oxford, a PhD, all those books – is another which is entirely taken up with the body. My Animal Life by Maggie Gee 2010-05-14T23:31:00Z Ms. Babitz’s 1972 “confessional novel,” long out of print and newly reissued, looks back on her youthful misadventures in Los Angeles, including at Hollywood High, where she was brainy but bored. Review: New Novels by Paul Murray, César Aira and Others 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Bruno Courrèges, the village's brave, brainy and only policeman, has his hands full. Crime fiction: new books by Garry Disher, C.J. Box and Laura Lippman 2011-08-10T22:07:04Z Yesterday, we reported that Stephen Fry was set to play Mycroft, Holmes's even brainier elder brother. Jared Harris nabs Moriarty role in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes sequel 2010-09-29T12:33:00Z Still, Poolhouse looks to be a uniquely hip yet brainy building of new bridges. Chicago-based Dal Niente pops up in new L.A. music series called Poolhouse 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Along with the singer Geddy Lee and the guitarist Alex Lifeson, he helped pioneer an audacious strain of brainy, intricate hard rock that perhaps borrowed more voraciously from Ayn Rand than the blues. The Misfit Awesomeness of Neil Peart and Rush 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z “Rick and Morty” is one of the funniest, brainiest, and most philosophically dense comedies on TV, let alone on Adult Swim. A "Rick and Morty" guide to 9 essential episodes to get schwifty for Season 4 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z She’s a brainy brunette wallflower, a fraying nerve barely held together by tightly plaited milkmaid braids. Review: At ‘Camp Siegfried,’ a Nazi Summer of Love on Long Island 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z They adored that he could be so brainy and yet also indulge in dopey scatological jokes like “The Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment.” David Foster Wallace and the Perils of “Litchat” 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Their mantra has drawn a sophisticated, brainy crowd, but its premise is simple: In the digital age, the bookshop should be a refuge, an information overload in its own right. London Bookstores Go Rogue as No Wi-Fi Zones 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z The brainy and angular Prokofiev is not an easily embraceable piece. Review: At the symphony ? Leila Josefowicz, 'Mother Goose' and some pixie dust 2011-04-08T22:03:05Z “For an unknown designer like me, it’s wonderful to be in the spotlight,” Mr. Auclert said, “but at the same time it’s not about the brand. It’s brainier than that. “ Brigitte Macron’s Stylist: Man of Mystery 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Martinez’s approach is as brainy as it is entertaining, as political as it is personal. A Poetry Collection That Opens Up Like a Cabinet of Curiosities 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z The least interesting section is “Cycles of Nature,” where Munch’s ideas — that the animate and inanimate are united in a single continuum whether by spirit or material — turn brainy, dissolving into narrative and didacticism. A Less Anxious Edvard Munch 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z But brainy bright young talent is, wherever you find it, brainy bright young talent. 4 emerging composers' works shine in L.A. Phil Green Umbrella This raucous reboot of “The Ugly Duckling” fable ends up nestling uneasily between bratty and brainy. Theater Review: ?Lucky Duck? at the New Victory Theater 2012-03-19T22:05:17Z "Their lyrical palette is so rich," he said of the famously brainy jazz-rock group. Music producer Mark Ronson scores his own hit with 'Uptown Funk' 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z If the program occasionally shows its seams or a ragged edge, that’s a price I would willingly pay for an hour or so crammed with wit, playfulness and brainy beauty. Review: In ‘Platform 2015,’ the Beauty of Ragged Edges at Danspace Project 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z They all feature the brainy Jack offering some version of “I’m just an analyst” right before he leaps into action. Jack Ryan Returns, This Time on Amazon 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Now, Nguyen returns to the scene of that triumph with an even brainier sequel called “The Committed.” Review | In ‘The Committed,’ Viet Thanh Nguyen continues his Pulitzer Prize-winning story 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z For something a little brainier, try the Maya ruins in Campeche, Mexico, our No. 27 pick. Near or Far, Head South to Escape the Winter 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z The result was a visual feast that might also be read as a reminder to MoMA’s brainy curators that pleasure is its own form of knowledge. Best Art of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z “The Social Network,” which opens commercially on Friday, is an up-to-the-minute Darwinian fable about the survival of the brainiest that rushes headlong on a tsunami of snapping verbiage. Critic?s Notebook: Film Festival Gains Life From Reality 2010-09-28T23:03:00Z Jeron is the brainy one, continually exasperated at his friend’s loose grasp of language. ‘When January Feels Like Summer’ Returns 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z It’s a breezy “Cloud 9,” and Kahn’s kind of theater: brainy, precise and delightfully showy. Michael Kahn on a dreamy ‘Cloud 9’ at Studio Theatre 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z His masterfully constructed plays are brainy, incisive and humorous. Ayad Akhtar: On Muslim identity, and life in America Over the course of a dinner out, she turns so hostile it is almost exhilarating, the good girl, the brainy girl, for once saying exactly what she thinks. The Heroines in Curtis Sittenfeld’s First Story Collection Are All Grown Up 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z The characters you tend to play are brainy and dangerous. “Trump is kind of scary. I get the feeling he might actually pull it off”: Michael Shannon on “99 Homes,” the economic collapse and the eroding American Dream 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z When the author shacked up with Susan Sontag’s son, and his brainy mom, in 1976, three was not company. T Magazine: Suddenly Susan 2011-02-25T17:39:23Z Read more: A holiday story collection by YA fiction stars will delight readers of all ages ‘The Marvels’ review: More brainy whimsy from the author of ‘Hugo’ Rainbow Rowell on ‘Stars Wars,’ the Bible and why she’s winking at you 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Out of curiosity, I consulted Google Maps’s new bike software on my computer, to see if its brainy algorithm would match my battle-tested sense of directions. Google Maps Add a Feature for Bike Riders 2010-08-10T20:44:00Z In an essay titled “Life Cycles,” she traces the path of a brainy upper-middle-class kid raised by “parents with big problems” but recites the entire life in a dreamlike first-person plural. ‘Hallelujah Anyway’: Anne Lamott’s conflicted message for a conflicted nation 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The music — brainy, hyperactive, overloaded, bitterly absurd — is a ferocious counterattack. black midi Bristles at a Bleak World With ‘Hellfire’ 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z While it also contains the quirky sense of humor and brainy science fiction of the original movie, it infuses its own unique thematic elements into the series rather than simply copying what worked in 1997. In defense of "Men in Black: International" 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z The vacation forever changes their brainy 17-year-old daughter, Frances, nicknamed Baby. Theater review: ‘Dirty Dancing — the Classic Story on Stage’ at National Theatre Totally brainy too, of course, even if this is not exactly the right field for her. TV review: The Transit of Venus: a Horizon Special and All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry 2012-06-05T22:15:01Z People think I’m all brainy, but it’s just that I’m alone and I have so much time to think. At Home With Mark Hogancamp: In a Tiny Universe, Room to Heal 2011-04-06T23:25:26Z Whales and dolphins — both members of the cetacean family — are among the brainiest beings. Among brainy sea creatures, killer whales are some of the smartest 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z His brother and twin sisters, mum and dad are all super brainy. The Book Bunch - group review selection 2013-02-06T09:00:00Z It’s instructive to see it now in the light of their subsequent influence as collective creators of brainy, physical, contemporary theater. Review: ‘The Medium’ Is Less a Message and More a Museum Piece 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z This passage is a favorite of brainy conservatives—and you can see why. The Book That Predicted Trump 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z In truth, they are the musings of a designer who stepped away from creating clothes and decided to challenge her brainy imagination using fashion as her medium. Perspective | At Paris Fashion Week, designers reworked the tuxedo and explored the meaning of color. And, oh yeah, Kanye showed up. 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z And it is amazing how potent and entertaining the Spider-Man myth continues to be: the bullied brainy teenager whose weakness and unpopularity are somehow alchemised into super-powers. The Amazing Spider-Man – review 2012-07-04T11:42:32Z It spoke with the seductive urgency of a good-looking someone telling you a brainy secret. Dan Brown's Inferno: a tall writer offers his historic review 2013-05-14T06:01:01Z But the show doesn’t approach the atmospheric menace of “Darkness” or the brainy precision of “State.” Review: A Defense Lawyer With Hidden Motives in ‘Undercover’ 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Shailene Woodley is delightful as the brainy and beautiful classmate whom he first sees as a rebound relationship before realizing the emotional damage he’s capable of inflicting. Stream These 15 Great Titles Before They Leave Netflix in July 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z But in recent years, this little big town has emerged from its brainy, introverted shell to offer a livelier mix of cultural offerings, plus an exploding food scene. 36 Hours in Boston 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z The brainiest character is arguably Elgin, who works at Microsoft and leads the design team for what, the book says, is Bill Gates’s favorite project. Books of The Times: ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette,’ a Maria Semple Novel 2012-08-06T18:53:15Z And the cracking of a safe that’s bigger than a building brings a level of brainy pleasure I haven’t felt since “National Treasure.” Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Galapagos Art Space gives brainy types another chance at love, with its Nerd Nite on Friday. Weekend Miser: A Classified-Ads Site for Lonely Scribes 2011-11-17T22:47:06Z Actor Russell Johnson, 89, who played the brainy Professor in nearly 100 episodes of the 1960s classic TV comedy series “Gilligan’s Island,” died Thursday morning at his home on Bainbridge Island. Russell Johnson of ‘Gilligan’s Island’ dies on Bainbridge 2014-01-16T21:08:19Z The result is simple, brainy and utterly addictive. Let's roll: the best board games for Christmas 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Maybe you think Matilda Wormwood is the best because she is so brainy. Who are your favourite fictional heroes? 2012-10-02T13:33:19Z It was pretty smart to make Penny the "normal" character through whom the audience can enter the abstruse, brainy realm the guys occupy. Kaley Cuoco gets a bang out of 'Big Bang Theory' 2012-11-14T13:51:12Z As it happens, the movie is not just a brainy meditation on how communication affects cognition, but also a deeply poignant, heartfelt rumination on memory, connection and love. It’s all in the wording: ‘Arrival’ raises profile of linguists, making them almost cool. 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z As a fatherless, brainy teenager, he found a heady, male-centric blend of activism and spirituality in the Nation of Islam. The Power Pastor: How A.R. Bernard Built a New York Megachurch 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z He gravitates to funny boys and brainy girls. My son’s Internet rendezvous 2014-02-04T00:00:00Z Homeland Security enlists some brainy misfits in the new series "Scorpion." TV This Week Sept. 21 - 27: 'The Good Wife' on CBS 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z It feels like it gave up being brainy a while ago. Sherlock is slowly and perversely morphing into Bond. This cannot stand 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z The coming weekend is relatively light for wide releases, with brainy sci-fi Looper facing only American political comedy The Campaign and franchise entry Resident Evil: Retribution. ParaNorman scares away the competition at UK box office 2012-09-25T17:05:59Z This brainy, batty novel moves between the 1816 gathering that produced “Frankenstein” and modern Memphis, where a transgender man attends a convention on artificial intelligence. 50 notable works of fiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Dense with puns, discursive musings and conceptual jokes, his act moves like a one-man screwball comedy in which his silly and brainy sides bicker. Patton Oswalt, Morgan Murphy and Others Have Comedy Specials 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z The brainiest players -- not unlike the brainiest writers, painters, musicians -- often think themselves into inaction, breaking down every aspect of their style, their approach, until they lose connection to the flow. 'It ain't over till it's over' and other lessons from Chairman Yogi Berra 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z "The idea was 'inventive' but not too brainy." Spoon digs back in after hiatus with new album, band member, label 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z The brain behind the brainy rock band the Decemberists is changing course, putting his musical pursuits on hold to write a trilogy of children's novels with his wife, Carson Ellis, an illustrator. A dark lyricist turns to tales for children 2011-10-13T18:19:41Z The entire show is in many ways a giant, brainy artwork unto itself. ‘Production Line of Happiness’ Is a ‘Making Of’ Special 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Part brainy researcher and inventor, part inspired artist and creator, Trisha Brown is one of the great explorers of postmodern dance, with a distinctive body of work that is often off the wall – sometimes literally. Step-by-step guide to dance: Trisha Brown 2010-10-13T13:07:00Z This slightly meta moment is the first of many in a film that skillfully navigates vulnerability, brainy insights and artistry. ‘Stutz’ Review: An Actor’s Tribute to a Therapist 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z But the opera, based on Mr. Maher’s play of the same name, swamps the original’s dry, brainy wit without providing that most important, elusive quality: enough variation in the variations. Theater Review: ‘The Hunchback Variations’ at 59E59 Theaters 2012-06-11T02:00:00Z About being typecast in brainy parts, Mr. Cumberbatch said, “Not such a bad fate if it’s true, but I don’t think it is.” Benedict Cumberbatch Acts Clever Again in ‘The Imitation Game’ 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z “In the years that followed, he behaved in ways that continually shocked me despite their near constancy,” Nicole writes of her brainy husband. Is Nicole Krauss’s new novel an act of literary revenge? 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z Andy Serkis returns as Caesar, a brainy ape who leads his species and negotiates their interactions with the few humans who survived a deadly virus. 'Planet of the Apes' climbs to top of U.S. box office charts 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z A good television soundtrack captures the voice of a series, and the voice of “The Leftovers” is brainy, irreverent but sincerely spiritually questing. ‘The Leftovers’ Leads Television’s Musical Golden Age 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z He’s brawny, brainy, multiethnic and racially ambiguous, an action star who’s visually relatable to many international audiences at once–the movie star of the future. Vin Diesel: The Film Star Of The Future 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z The review critiques “The Late Wedding,” a bold and brainy but tedious play that is receiving its D.C.-area premiere from the Hub Theatre. Review | Hub Theatre’s ‘The Late Wedding’ is daring, but tends toward tedious 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Holding the fort in the name of… well, himself really, Norman Mailer struggles manfully to fend off a gang of marauding brainy women including Susan Sontag, Germaine Greer and Diana Trilling. Game, set and spats… a grand slam of tennis movies 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The presence of a Punch doll in the nursery gives brainy Detective Arthur Bryant ample room to expound on arcane puppet lore. Crime fiction: new works by Thomas Perry and Cara Black 2012-03-07T22:57:05Z Less brainy was May’s decision to walk around the stage alone, save for his guitar, lasers and smoke, for a brutally long solo that started off stagnant and remained inert. Adam Lambert leads a cross-generational Queen through the hits at Merriweather Street crime, of all things, might have been what caused the brainy composer Milton Babbitt to abandon his Concerti for Violin, Orchestra and Synthesized Sound in 1976. Review: Milton Babbitt Inspires a Focus! Festival Tribute 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Lately, they have been catching the eye of the literary elite, earning praise that sounds as extravagantly brainy as the thesis-like articles that The New Inquiry uploads every few days. New York?s Literary Cubs 2011-11-30T23:21:40Z A fat, brainy kid who got beat up in grammar school, Lipsyte majored in English at Columbia University and wanted to be a novelist. Former New York Times sportswriter pens memoir 2011-05-02T11:35:11Z “They’re all a little brainy,” she said with an apologetic grin. Netta Yerushalmy’s Cabinet of Dance Curiosities 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z It’s like a Jason Bourne thriller, except brainy and believable. Review | For the inside dope on how the CIA works, ‘The Quantum Spy’ can’t be beat 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z But Cooper avoided the brainy angle; the work, he told me, is more “emotion- and sensation-based.” How Dennis Cooper Creates Fiction from GIFs 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z But here it feels like he's just trying to maximize the violence because it's so much more fun for him than the brainy stuff. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z This kind of passionate, brainy almost-nihilism has held up rather well, at least to my aging ears and sensibility. Riff: Riff: The Iron Lady as Anti-Muse 2011-09-25T04:33:02Z Ms. Marrero is the find, giving her blunt, brainy character an appealing pithiness. Review: Inventing a Better Bitcoin in ‘StartUp,’ New on Crackle 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Being brainy, bulky and gay must have made her feel like a misfit pretty much everywhere she went. Modern Is Modern Is ... 2011-06-03T20:27:28Z It’s no great secret that Sorkin has an abiding fondness for legal matters and for brainy, rat-a-tat dialogue. Aaron Sorkin finds a heroine after his own heart in ‘Molly’s Game’ 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z "Apes," a sequel to 2011 franchise reboot "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," stars Andy Serkis as Caesar, a brainy ape who leads the interaction with humans in a battle for dominance. 'Apes' rules U.S. box office for second weekend 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z He's joined by Felicity Jones' brainy medic Dr. Sienna Brooks as ally and intellectual sparring partner. Tom Hanks sees US election warning in thriller 'Inferno' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z In the sequel to 2011's "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," Serkis plays Caesar, a brainy ape who leads his species and negotiates their interactions with humans. 'Dawn of Planet of Apes' marks digital lib for actors 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Little Matilda is a brainy, imaginative 5-year-old with crassly philistine parents who vastly prefer their dunce son to their intellectually precocious daughter. Glitz, girl power vie for 2013 Tonys in a bumpy season 2013-06-08T15:42:35Z It’s a series of brainy notions: lyricism is held in check by cerebration. Review: Mark Morris’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Verhoeven made a brainy R-rated action film that put his own spin on the violence, always making it frightening and personal. 'Total Recall': Not as memorable as the original 2012-08-02T01:37:04Z ‘The Marvels’ review: More brainy whimsy from the author of ‘Hugo’ Three children’s and young-adult books we love, November edition 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z The brainiest and most bookish memoir, by Fry, outperformed all the others. The year's bestsellers 2011-01-01T00:05:26Z Seriously brainy people are always vulnerable in public life, sometimes partly their own fault – think Oliver Letwin – sometimes victims of their own intellectual honesty. Jimmy Carr and the crowded moral high ground over K2 tax avoidance 2012-06-21T15:28:43Z All of this suggests that Swiss cowboys can be both brainy and brawny. The Week Ahead: Jan. 2 ? 8 2010-12-31T15:49:43Z The work is not entirely dark: The brainy choreography uses humor as a path toward catharsis. 39 Dance Performances to See This Fall 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Feluda is the ideal investigator: sharp eyed, alert, witty, resourceful and brainy. The Feluda Stories by Satyajit Ray - review 2012-08-16T08:00:00Z There’s surprise in the way that the recognizable signatures play against the brainy, wrong-footing rhymes. Review: ‘Gone Missing,’ Now a Poignant Reminder of a Life Cut Short 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z But I suspect that none of those other writers could have gathered together a book that’s as good as “Pulphead,” Mr. Sullivan’s brainy new collection of essays. Books of The Times: ?Pulphead,? by John Jeremiah Sullivan ? Review 2011-10-27T22:16:57Z They rarely mention it openly, but they have been created as sweet, fusty holdouts against pointless violence and cogitation-free thrillers, endearing throwbacks to a time when this genre was brainy and pure. 'Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart,' by Christopher Fowler 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z He was not the first to discover that the stage is a good outlet for exhibitionism and that comedy, in particular, operates like an equivalent to boxing for a brainy boy "with issues". Russell Brand: messiah or very naughty boy? 2013-06-15T23:05:40Z She speaks for anyone who ever tore feverishly through a Reacher thriller and marveled at its brainy, brawny hero when she rejects any reasonable explanation for the desk’s defect. Books of The Times: Lee Child?s ?61 Hours,? a Jack Reacher Thriller 2010-05-13T21:31:00Z This screwball road movie of dirty jokes and bad manners pairs Russell Brand's brainy madness with the sardonic shtick of Jonah Hill. The Week Ahead: Tom Petty, Joe Cocker, 'Cider House Rules' on stage are arts highlights 2010-06-02T22:29:00Z Rose Greene, In De Wulf’s brainy Irish sous-chef, has just come across a forgotten technique for making drinking sodas with whey left over from making yogurt or cheese. | A Pilgrimage to a Plate 2014-02-11T15:01:44Z Luckily, I was already proficient in this language, as the doted-on daughter of a brainy father with whom I spent hours in conversation. How ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ and My Work Friends Made Me an Honorary Millennial 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Actually, a dinosaur does not eat Goldblum’s brainy and brawny mathematician character, but chaos certainly reigns in the movie and its myriad sequels because of de-extinction. Would bringing back extinct animals turn out as badly as it did in ‘Jurassic Park’? 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z It is a shame: with her de-haired scalp, Swinton brought an unashamedly brainy dimension to the role, in one of Marvel’s more entertaining recent efforts. Tilda Swinton's performances – ranked! 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Christgau is among America’s first and best rock critics, a brainy and sarcastic writer I admire, who, as a skinny longhair, personified The Village Voice’s influential music coverage for more than three decades. Review: Robert Christgau Reflects on His Career as a Rock Critic 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z In another time, a pushy, brainy young Norman made his way to Europe's art metropolis: Poussin would make Rome his base until his death 41 years later in 1665. Cy Twombly and Nicolas Poussin: the odd couple 2011-07-06T15:00:01Z Octopuses, famously brainy, are a frequent motif of Ms. von Bonin’s, and the stuffed one here is composed of a dozen fabrics, from floral patterns to neon-printed flags acquired in Japan. ‘Cosima von Bonin,’ Swimming Against the Tide 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Beloved by indie rock aesthetes for its crafty hooks and brainy lyrics, the band went on to release four albums and even toured with Coldplay. With 'The Voyager,' Jenny Lewis feels the album magic 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Lloyd was the brainy horticultural wiz and master of one of England’s most picturesque and interesting gardens, set in the grounds of a medieval manor house named Great Dixter. From the horticultural greats, garden guidance for all of us 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z It's not that The Killing of a Sacred Deer isn't brainy or ambitious. Colin Farrell Finds Darkness in The Killing of a Sacred Deer 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z At the same time, a lot of men see her as the perfect girlfriend: pretty but still approachable, brainy yet able to knock back whiskey and hold her own in a game of Assassin’s Creed. Anna Kendrick on ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ and Not Trying Too Hard 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z He's a brainy filmmaker, a student of his craft who's well-acquainted with well-worn cinematic tropes. 'Contagion': Hair-raising thriller keeps its cool 2011-09-07T21:42:09Z Eventually he decided to book concerts by groups he actually liked, and the first was Tortoise, the brainy post-rock Chicago band. Flouting the Mainstream, Forgoing a Corporate Stamp 2010-09-02T21:50:00Z All of which is to say that is precisely the kind of brainy, ambitious, grand-scale adventure Hollywood should be making more of. Inception: Whose Mind Is It, Anyway? 2010-07-14T22:00:00Z All those stunning color plates, brainy essays about the spectatorship of consumption and meticulously compiled back matter. New Print Technologies Help Art Books Survive in a Digital World 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Actually, like Tom Townsend, the brainy Princeton freshman in “Metropolitan,” Stillman’s 1990 movie about young preppies navigating Manhattan’s débutante scene, he used to seriously dislike her. Whit Stillman Pays a Visit to Jane Austen 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z It's full of bright, evocative observations, and always leaves you feeling just that little bit brainier. Radio head: Freakonomics Radio 2011-02-16T08:00:03Z The heartfelt outpourings of this brainy, driven, hypersensitive, self-conscious introvert deserve to be standards, but still aren’t. Music Review: Jason Robert Brown at 54 Below 2012-09-13T21:56:24Z We were a small staff of four running the GeoBee, the other nationwide contest for brainy children. Go ask Alex: How I learned Alex Trebek really does have the answers 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Marcus’s style — brainy but fevered, as if the fate of Western society hung on a chord progression — is nearly impossible to mimic without sounding portentous and flatulent. Books of The Times: ?The Doors,? by Greil Marcus - Review 2011-11-15T21:52:12Z Like her other stage pieces, “Rose” is high culture and low, talky but agile, brainy but — and! — feeling. Review: A New Opera Puts Real Emotions in a Fantasy Garden 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z At their best, Junior Boys evoke the soulful, brainy dance-pop of fellow club geeks Hot Chip, albeit without that band's winning ways with killer hooks and melodies. Junior Boys – review 2012-08-22T17:00:01Z In this brainy, seriously funny novel by the author of “Where’d You Go, Bernadette,” a Seattle woman confronts private school parents, a husband’s secret life and more. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z “Gnit” is brainy and full of rhetorical magic, but with more dimension and greater relevance it could be spellbinding. Review: ‘Gnit’ Seeks Itself in a Mist of Magic and Mischief 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z As 5-year-old Charles Wallace, the brainy boy swept into the control of a pernicious alien entity, Ken Ivy almost made me forget that he’s a decade-plus too old for the part. 'A Wrinkle in Time,' live onstage: A celestial romp aimed at kids 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Nelson’s brainy, affecting, genre-crossing books have earned her a deserved reputation as a sui generis amalgam of poet, memoirist, theorist and critic. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z One of Kaag’s previous books, “American Philosophy,” was a charming, brainy and equally personal account of time he spent reveling in a philosopher’s remarkable and nearly abandoned private library in New England. He Questioned the Meaning of Life. William James Answered. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z He’s adept at aphorism, brainy humor and dreamlike sequences. Lars Iyer’s ‘Wittgenstein Jr.,’ Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘F’ and More 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z The Black-owned weekly newspaper New York Amsterdam News once described her as “one of the brightest and brainiest of the undiscovered teevee personalities.” She Was Oprah Before Oprah 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z The city also ranked well for brainy locals and bookstores—and you can find both at BookPeople, the city’s nerve center for readings and book signings. These Are the Friendliest Cities in America 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z In the opening scene, he leaves an adolescent Searcher behind to fulfill this destiny, while Searcher — a meeker, brainier type — stumbles upon pando, a glowing, grapelike crop with the power to fuel entire cities. ‘Strange World’ Review: All Too Familiar 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z The word “bro” once evoked blithe white-guy gregariousness, but in interviews, and in the frequent online videos he broadcast from his darkened lair, Shkreli seemed brainy and somewhat awkward, like an evil genius. Everyone Hates Martin Shkreli. Everyone Is Missing the Point 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z This week’s contest developed from a recent brainstorm in the Style Invitational Devotees group on Facebook, where the power of 1,500 brainy brains is frittered away day after day. Style Invitational Week 1263: Playing the short game 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Such shows tend to be brainy and bookish. Art Review: MoMA?s ?Original Copy,? Photos Meet Sculpture 2010-07-29T21:15:00Z Jeron’s the brainy one, continually exasperated at his friend’s loose grasp of language. ‘When January Feels Like Summer,’ at Ensemble Studio Theater 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z The clearest, though by no means brainiest, articulation of the look was Mr. Theyskens’s lanky blazers and cardigans with skinny jeans that borrowed on the hip-hop style of letting your britches sink below your bottom. | Fashion Review: Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, Theory - N.Y. Fashion Week 2011-09-15T03:49:48Z They explained at dinner the evening before our tour that the island’s government is only partly independent of our own, as our guide, the gregarious and brainy Carlos Medina, affirmed the next day. While cruising, learn more by tapping the power of plugged-in local guides 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Well, they certainly picked two of the brainiest. Schiaparelli and Prada Connected With Women?s Inner Feelings 2012-04-11T22:01:05Z In school he is both the brainiest and the poorest; he earns money by completing his wealthy peers’ homework for a fee. ‘Dead Kids’ Review: A Flashy Portrait of Teen Angst Gone Awry 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Kelley, we learn, is not only volatile but also extremely brainy. David Walton’s ‘Superposition’: When physics collides with sci-fi 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Even you acknowledge this when the live studio audience doesn't laugh at one of your brainier opening punchlines. "The Problem with Jon Stewart" has a few issues, but nothing that a little tough love can't fix 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z In other words, it’s a perfect fit for PBS’s “Mystery!,” where the brainy, postmodern “Sherlock” is the outlier. Review: ‘Arthur & George’ and the Longest Case Ever 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Dad was the brainy one, but Mum was the ambitious one – she was a wonderful homemaker but she made it quite clear to me and my two brothers that we were to do well. Judy Finnigan 2013-02-22T13:00:01Z Where the original had some intelligent things to say about prejudice, racial stereotyping and our treatment of animals, Burton's version seemed to lose the brainy stuff amidst all the fighting and explosions. Should we rise up against the Planet of the Apes prequel? 2010-06-24T16:15:00Z The house's zany, brainy designer Dai Fujiwara said he'd looked for inspiration back to the summers of his youth, which he spent his splashing around in rivers and streams, unsuccessfully stalking trout. Paris menswear designers break out Jesus sandals 2010-06-24T21:37:00Z Ms. Fisher is brainy and salty and hilarious, and she’s frank and eloquent in describing being bipolar. Review: Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, at Home in ‘Bright Lights’ 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z The young actress played two roles — Patty Lane, a bouncy American teen, and Cathy Lane, her identical, brainy Scottish cousin who comes to live with the Lanes in her Brooklyn Heights home. Patty Duke, child star, Oscar winner and advocate for mental health, dies at 69 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Of those choreographers, Cunningham and Ms. Brown were among the brainiest. Trisha Brown, Choreographer and Pillar of American Postmodern Dance, Dies at 80 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The frontman Patrick Stickles is a vivid, scorching howler, and this album, the group’s second, is a rowdy soundtrack for brainy bar brawls. The Purpler the Bruise, the Sweeter the Song 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z In the “Fantastic Four” movies, he was the brainy shapeshifter Mister Fantastic. Ioan Gruffudd plays revealing role in ‘Forever’ 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z The fact-checkers by now must look like extras from “The Walking Dead,” relentless in their pursuit of brainy material, yet desiccated by the toil, a shell of their former, vital selves. Perspective | Kristen Welker saved ‘the show,’ but let’s not ever forget that TV debates need to change 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Dear transforms him into a standard-issue, brainy, emotionally arid megalomaniac, with sneering lines that verge on camp. | ?Frankenstein?: It?s (Gasp!) Alive, Not to Mention Peeved 2011-02-24T19:09:14Z It has a professor teaching the sport to three brainy students, dutifully explaining "we have a left guard and a right guard, but no Kierkegaard." Famed comedy club seeking laughs in Chicago's past 2011-11-05T14:53:08Z This goes double for the brainier candidates, like Warren, who might be tempted to pick apart Trump’s arguments. How to Beat Trump, According to Experts on Middle-School Bullies 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z As she did playing a brainy, atrocity-obsessed teenager in Sarah DeLappe’s “The Wolves,” Ms. Perkins manages the tricky task of suggesting the inconsistencies of a character in the process of formation and deformation at once. Review: Sexual Assault as Both History Lesson and Satire 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z That’s the charm of Finch’s style and Charles’s own manner of sleuthing — a brilliant display of brainy deduction, followed by a self-deprecating witticism or a philosophical bit of wisdom. Murders Most Foul 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z The series was created by Neil Cross, whose previous work includes the brainy crime drama “Luther.” John Malkovich Plays a Pirate in NBC’s ‘Crossbones’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The brainiest luggage, or maybe the most boastful, is Planet Traveler’s Space Case 1. Suitcase GPS? Scented bags? Collapsible sunglasses? The latest travel gadgets. 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z It was lead singer/guitarist Ezra Koenig’s brainy but slyly emotive lyrics that got a lot of the attention. Rostam's long-awaited debut solo album "Half-Light" is out today 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z It doesn’t hurt that Mr. Macron is a youthful piece of brainy eye candy. From President Macron, a Lesson in Style 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Always wunderkinder of virtuosity, Cunningham’s dancers had to be as intellectually brainy as they were physically smart. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z The occasion was brainier, if less glamorous, than a 007 premiere: the 50th anniversary of The New York Review of Books, the literary institution that began during a citywide newspaper strike in 1963. ArtsBeat: Old Friends Help New York Review Celebrate 50 Years 2013-02-06T18:26:41Z Essays comparing the Great Detective to Mr. Spock, Hermione Granger and other brainy characters. Review | Forget trendy bestsellers: This best books list takes you off the beaten track 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z "Transference," he added, might've been a bit too brainy, with woozy, densely textured songs that didn't play especially well onstage. Spoon digs back in after hiatus with new album, band member, label 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Mind you, "Safe" is not, by any means, brainy. 'Safe': Evil people behaving very badly get a good, hard pounding 2012-04-26T15:43:04Z Ms. Faris, who plays an ambitious and brainy girl, connected with another similarity between “Take Me Home Tonight” and the Hughesmovies. Film: Growing Older Isn?t the Same as Growing Up 2011-02-20T02:01:26Z Dramatist Akerley, who is also Longacre Lea’s artistic director, writes idiosyncratic, brainy plays that demand concentration and reward an appreciation of mystery. Reality TV, ghosts and an exorcism make for an engaging ‘Interstellar Ghost Hour’ 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z He solves brainy medical mysteries, and his doses of lacerating wit are softened by a compassionate bedside manner. Critics' Picks: Grant Wood's painting 'Arnold Comes of Age,' 'Monroe' on DVD and Queen Elizabeth II 2012-05-30T23:18:04Z “I now say that brainy youngsters are trending urban and urbane, away from your grandfather’s office parks.” The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z But some of Warhol’s greatest influences were powerful, brainy women. Think You Know Andy Warhol? Here Are Five Truths That May Surprise 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Other than being sort of brainy, I don’t think I had anything in common with Miranda. Table For Three: Allison Williams and Cynthia Nixon Talk About ‘Girls’ and ‘Sex and the City’ 2014-01-17T20:33:07Z It’s like listening to your two funniest friends who just happen to be having a brainy conversation about literature. Serial takes on Cleveland’s criminal court system – podcasts of the week 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The architects then hooked up all the systems—heating, cooling, lighting, shades, humidity, audiovisual, computers and telephone—to a brainy computer hidden in a closet off the bar. Simply Sustainable 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z With “The Tragedy of Arthur” Mr. Phillips has created a wonderfully tricky Chinese puzzle box of a novel that is as entertaining as it is brainy. Books of The Times: Bogus Shakespeare in a Fake Memoir. Really. 2011-04-27T16:15:14Z After the brilliant and intellectual bebop innovations of Monk, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach, in the nineteen-forties, hard bop tried to bring that brainy material back into a more local and humble perspective. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z In addition to traveling for shows, Mr. Thomas, 43, performed his brainy sleight-of-hand at bars and restaurants in the Buffalo area. What if They Could Make the Pandemic Go Poof? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z A surprising bit of repertoire for these brainy critical darlings? Regrouped TV on the Radio hits the road with new songs 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z You sense different layers of reality in her choreography, but they’re so interwoven with absurdity and brainy patterning that her pieces look elegantly hermetic, good-humoredly private. Review: A Low-Key and Witty Premiere by Pam Tanowitz 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z It was as early as the mid-18th century that the area began to build a reputation as the brainiest bit of London. Victorian Bloomsbury by Rosemary Ashton – review 2012-12-14T22:47:01Z Waits, 26, rates his childhood as "standard" and recalls high school in San Diego as a social playground where he was torn between his brainy acquaintances and those making the boozing, cruising scene. Tom Waits: 'I'm a night-owl reporter' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-08-07T16:41:06Z The Harry Potter author addressed the criticism surrounding the selection of British actress Noma Dumezweni for the role of the brainy Hermione Granger, who was portrayed by Emma Watson for eight films. J.K. Rowling Slams ‘Bunch of Racists’ Over Black Hermione Criticism 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z Because one thing is certain, whatever the chronology: Our brainy, idiotic species will create a technology that either enslaves us or wipes us out altogether. ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Review: It’s Hasta la Vista All Over Again 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Each week, he and his brother Hank make videos in which they talk sort of to each other and very much to everybody about whatever subjects appeal to the brainy minds at the time. It’s John Green’s world now — and that’s a good thing 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The brainy, highly imaginative speculative fiction writer publishes a novel set in “multiple futures” in America. Fall books: 37 new titles to add to your reading list 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s called “Phalaris’s Bull: Solving the Riddle of the Great Big World,” and in it Mr. Friedman seeks to mix philosophical musings and autobiographical vignettes into a brainy, insightful 80 minutes of theater. Review: ‘Phalaris’s Bull,’ or How a Man Comes to Terms With Life 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Her brainy and frazzled women are at the ends of their wits. Review: Nell Zink’s ‘Nicotine’ Is Hard to Put Down, Despite Its Unruly Plot 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z "It's Academic" tests brainy high school students' knowledge on an array of subjects. Host of 'It's Academic' quiz show in DC retiring 2011-11-03T13:05:24Z The daughter of a Jewish chicken farmer, the brainy native Californian was ambitious in a tough, male-dominated field — while also being a single mother. 5 great gift books for performing-arts fans 2011-12-15T21:11:25Z Belle is a brainy bookworm in a town of the narrow-minded; like Ariel in The Little Mermaid, she wants to escape, singing of “adventure in the great wide somewhere.” Beauty and the Beast in 3-D: Still an Enchantment 2012-01-12T17:33:27Z Giardina alerts you to the rituals of the classic socialite’s faith as Hester, glamorous yet restrained, instructs her son Colin’s brainy and leggy new fiancée, Anna, on understatement, deflection, the art of toning down. Manners and politics collide in Arena Stage’s ‘City of Conversation’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z It’s even shorter than Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow,” the granddaddy of all brainy, darkly comical postmodern novels. ‘Book of Numbers,’ by Joshua Cohen: TMI? 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z In the 1950s, “Businessweek wrote this article about how work goes on in an atmosphere attractive to ‘brainy youngsters,’ ” Mozingo says. The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The beloved quiz show hasn't been quite the same following the death of kind, witty and brainy host Alex Trebek from pancreatic cancer last November. "Jeopardy!" finally taps LeVar Burton as a guest host, heeding the wisdom of concerted fan campaign 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Catherine toils over the automaton with the help of her brainy but flighty assistant Amanda. 'The Chemistry of Tears': the mournful mechanics of a broken heart 2012-05-16T18:45:09Z Part of Ms. Brown’s work was brainy and scientifically experimental; another part investigated the sensuous side of dance. Trisha Brown’s Work Recalled in Governors Island Exhibition 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Duchamp, of course, favored art that offered evidence of ideas rather than craft, of brainy thinking rather than technical facility. John Baldessari: An Artist in a Class by Himself 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z “He had pretty bizarre social skills, but he was a magnet for brainy musicians. I think that he was, at heart, an amazing casting director.” Anton Fier, Drummer Who Helped Shape a Downtown Scene, Dies at 66 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z The chances of Charlie being good are extremely high, with that combination of posh/brainy/commercial that Neal Street does so well and in the face of testing logistics. Sam Mendes: life is sweet 2013-04-19T22:00:00Z Rushdie’s style once unfurled with hypnotic elegance, but here it’s become a fire hose of brainy gags and literary allusions — tremendously clever but frequently tedious. Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ is a shambling ‘Don Quixote’ for our deceptive era - The Washington Post 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z She and her friend, Curtis, encounter a world of warring creatures — think coyotes dressed in Napoleonic uniforms, talking birds and one brainy rat. Book Excerpt: Diving Deep into Portland?s Enchanted Forest 2012-03-30T10:45:34Z He is a brainy, driven man, inquisitive about everything. One simple dish changed the course of this visionary chef’s life: Scrambled eggs 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z In her latest brainy, seriously funny novel, private school parents, a husband’s secret life and more confront a Seattle woman. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Brawny enough for a hefty screen presence, brainy enough to be exploiting the full range of global opportunities. A brave new world of non-US film stars 2012-06-05T15:44:49Z Documentaries have always enjoyed pride of place during the summer season, offering brainy diversion from the superheroes dominating the big screen. Perspective | This summer showed us that all kinds of movies can become hits on their own terms 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z At once.”Inevitably the Sherlocks rescue the girl with the aid of their brainy mule, Dinah. We?re Holding Your Plot Device. If You Want It Back, Send Us ... 2011-07-02T01:33:02Z The voice throughout is not the voice of Hudes at 13 or 16 or 26, but of the mature artist using the brainy, gutsy idiolect that she eventually developed to recall the girl she was. ‘My Broken Language’ Review: Piecing Together a Life of Many Dialects 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z I felt brainy when I was 12 and figured that out. For ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Fans, an Audiobook That Celebrates Madeleine L’Engle 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Their off-kilter humor and surreal wordplay bounce from the brainy to the outrageous as they topple bling and booty clichés. Top albums of 2011 2011-12-02T23:08:00Z For decades, the ex-CIA man has been quietly writing brainy, powerful espionage novels. From Shanghai, Paris and Mississippi: new mysteries 2013-07-11T17:50:57Z Martha, who strives to keep Jacob from self-destructive decisions, is the star of the novel, brainy, frisky and loyal. An attack on a World War II photograph leads to revelations in ‘My Darling Detective’ 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z You’ll need a glossary to get through the late David Foster Wallace’s brainy, brawny collection of previously published essays, “Both Flesh and Not.” ‘Both Flesh and Not’: essays by David Foster Wallace 2012-12-27T19:23:07Z Now, we have zany, brainy “Nicotine,” her third novel since 2014. ‘Nicotine’: The new zany-brainy novel from Nell Zink 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Being a brainy weirdo, I was drawn to books — such as "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" — that depicted girls who are marginalized for being too clever or independent. Hey, right wing ghouls! Hands off the Scholastic book fair! 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z But over the last 18 years, Mr. McHenry has taken on a more low-profile role in the House, working behind the scenes and earning a reputation among other lawmakers for brainy wonkishness. Who is Patrick McHenry, the interim House speaker? 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z But his young protagonists are invariably clever, precocious kids that are in some ways stand-ins for the director, who grew up a brainy child of divorce with a Super 8 camera in hand. What it’s like to get a Wes Anderson education, from ‘Rushmore’ to ‘Asteroid City’ 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z For the brainy young girl referred to by her neighbors as “The Mad Scientist,” death is presented as a disease that she wishes to cure. Review: 'The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster' reimagines 'Frankenstein' with little thought 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z The academic freedom is mirrored by a student body that feels free to express itself, say students and faculty, who describe New College as a haven for brainy kids who are high-achieving and intellectually curious. A college in upheaval: War on ‘woke’ sparks fear in Florida 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Princeton’s bonding period over a season of Zooms and tournament watch parties fueled the Tigers’ growth into this season’s brainy basketball bullies of March. Princeton Tigers add to their March Madness lore 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z These “small” brainy films are the nominees that gave this year’s Academy Awards a reputation for featuring a raft of movies that no one saw. Opinion: Oscar's 2023 polarized picks — moody and cloudy vs. box office flamboyance 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z He was crowned Britain's brainiest kid aged 12 in 2002, beating thousands of other kids on the TV show. Mensa: What happens when 'child geniuses' grow up 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z The appeal of Duchamp’s work for Levine, Sallick said, was that it “was both brainy and funny. And that was Aaron. It was the irreverent humor in Duchamp’s work that appealed to him.” Perspective | Duchamp distrusted collectors. He would have loved Aaron Levine. 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z “Acceleration days” — two extra days of school over winter break — were a no-brainer for the brainy Kimberly Sanchez, a senior at the Maywood Center for Enriched Studies. 72,000 L.A. students show up for school on first day of winter break 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Some backups are happy to hold a clipboard and collect checks, content to be cast as a brainy understudy and to look good in a ball cap. After almost a decade ‘in the shadows,’ Geno Smith has found the spotlight 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z And a growing body of research suggests that farmed species are brainy beings: Chickens can anticipate the future, goats appear to solicit help from humans, and pigs may pick up on one another’s emotions. Why Did the Chicken Cross the Barn? To Sign Up for the Scientific Study. 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Britain's brainiest kid went on to achieve three maths degrees including one from Cambridge, and is currently studying for his PhD. Mensa: What happens when 'child geniuses' grow up 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z Loh is a poet with a wide grin, brainy and sensitive, eager to chat about philosophy, politics, art and music. Dubbed torture, ID policies leave transgender people sterile 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Another element of “Dr. No” that Everett readers will find familiar: a brainy, solitary, melancholic Black protagonist, content living in his own mind until some mess comes knocking at his door to hijack his life. Will Percival Everett’s 23rd novel finally bring him fame? He really doesn’t care. 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Her raw, quirky, brainy lyrics, idiosyncratic diction and powerfully expressive range mean that nobody in the universe sings quite like her. Review: Angst, anguish and Alanis. How 'Jagged Little Pill' plays at the Pantages 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z After years of watching a parade of stodgy leaders in the Kremlin, Western leaders practically swooned over the charming, vigorous Gorbachev and his stylish, brainy wife. Gorbachev, who redirected course of 20th century, dies at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Growing up in working-class Black Los Angeles, Desiree Cormier Smith was the brainy Catholic school kid who knew she wanted a career in public service, “but I didn’t know what was possible,” she said. From South Los Angeles to the State Department, fighting for social justice 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Yitian’s bitter father cannot understand his brainy son’s ambitions except as a rejection. Past and present heartbreaks collide in Belinda Huijuan Tang’s debut ‘A Map for the Missing’ 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z The rare event provides new clues about how these brainy mammals organize their complex societies, and may help predict what may occur if climate change pushes populations together. Dolphin Strangers Met in the Bahamas. Things Went Swimmingly. 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z There’s nothing inherently interesting about putting a character — or an actor as good as Portman — in a cape and helmet, and it’s frankly depressing to see brainy scientist Jane reduced to a hammer-throwing catchphrase machine. Review: A not-so-mighty 'Thor' sequel is painless but pointless 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z They consulted data, too, with a full analytics department and a brainy video room. Analysis | The ‘new Nats’ have added more iPads and staff to make data more accessible 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Calling the sequel “even brainier,” he warns, “If you haven’t read ‘The Sympathizer,’ you’ll be hopelessly lost, so don’t even think of jumping in here. 6 new paperbacks to add to your spring reading list 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z He’s a brainy little fellow with two tails who worships Sonic and whose special power is the ability to fly using his twin tails as helicopter rotors. ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ review: Jim Carrey — and, weirdly, Seattle — are part of the fast-paced action 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z But keeping these brainy and often bizarre animals in captivity — particularly octopuses — presents both ethical and logistical challenges. The Search for a Model Octopus That Won’t Die After Laying Its Eggs 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z A pilot program launched in Stockholm by start-up Corvid Cleaning uses food-dispensing robots to train the brainy birds to pick up cigarette butts. Science News Briefs from around the World: April 2022 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Beale launches the dramatic journey as Henry Lehman, the eldest and brainiest of the three brothers, just as he’s getting off the boat in New York. Review: A stunningly staged 'Lehman Trilogy’ critiques and romanticizes American capitalism 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z As Brown-Nagin describes it, “Marshall wasted no time in offering the beautiful and brainy Baker the internship she sought.” Review | A Black lawyer who dismantled barriers, for herself and many others 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z At the same time, they shimmer and wobble before your eyes, as if in a heat haze generated by the extravagant amounts of human labor and brainy sophistication that went into them. Review | Is acclaimed sculptor Charles Ray losing his magic touch? 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z We recall the brainy graduate of Vanderbilt University, the University of Virginia Law School and Oxford University’s Magdalen College; the relatively progressive Democrat who ran for the U.S. Opinion | Our Foghorn Leghorn Republican senator little resembles his former Democratic self, but in Louisiana we know the type 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z There’s some of the brainy energy of Joni Mitchell’s “Blue” here, though it’s filtered through the homey wisdom of Carole King’s “Tapestry.” Review: There are many heirs to her throne, but Adele is still queen of the ugly-cry ballad 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Plus, he’s sharp to the point that the Tampa Bay Rays — one of the brainiest outfits in baseball — hired him to be a special assistant in the front office this past season. Who should replace F.P. Santangelo in the MASN booth? Here are 10 suggestions. 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Though they lack nerve cells, sponges have some of the same specialized genes for synapses that brainier creatures possess, studies have shown. Sponge innards suggest how nerve cells evolved 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Smith thought the idea of a sleeping placozoan was silly—until the jellyfish and hydra studies drove home that sleep was not just for brainy creatures. ‘If it’s alive, it sleeps.’ Brainless creatures shed light on why we slumber 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The brainiest organization in baseball suddenly looks like the most foolish. Plaschke: What were they thinking? Massive brain cramp dooms Dodgers in NLCS Game 2 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z His characteristic brew of Yiddish jokes, brainy comics and incisive argumentation is a pleasure to read, even when the subjects are technical and mathematical. Review | The power of rational thinking in a world that seems unreasonable 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z There’s a coziness to these descriptions, which encourage an introverted community of brainy hobbyists to feel warmly connected and perhaps even a touch romantic. 'The Enigmatist' creates a magical sense of togetherness at the Geffen Playhouse 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Under the youthful, brainy tandem of General Manager Andrew Berry and Coach Kevin Stefanski, the Browns appear to be elite in all three categories. Analysis | What to know from NFL Week 1: The Browns are legit, but Patrick Mahomes still rules 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z And let Zaila do whatever brainy thing she wants to do next without having to save academia. Perspective | For exceptional Black women like Simone Biles, greatness is never enough 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z That chance to field questions and come up with some kind of brainy answer or give them a straight answer… it was a ball. ‘My Three Sons’ star Barry Livingston talks ‘Hollywood Museum Squares,’ favorite William Frawley memory 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z This is entirely appropriate, since one of the key points of this expansively brainy cinematic essay concerns the limitations of human vision, perception and understanding. Review: ‘All Light, Everywhere’ brilliantly interrogates body cameras and the ethics of the surveillance age 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Once the defiant moniker of the brainy social outcast, nerd is now claimed by anyone with a deep affinity for some area of knowledge. The Black Nerds Redefining the Culture 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Croney explained to Salon that scientists already knew that pigs were quite intelligent, so the remarkable find here is not that our four-legged porcine friends are a brainy bunch. Scientists have successfully taught pigs to play video games 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Mother, father and daughter enforce their bonds by briefly taking in a bubbly, brainy kid out of foster care. Review: In an eerie Cherokee novel, the ghosts and the grieving have their say 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z In the summer of 2020, one of my pandemic projects was to record an audiobook version of “Her Beautiful Brain,” my memoir about my beautiful, brainy mother, who died at 74 of Alzheimer’s disease. Funding Alzheimer’s research is as critical as fighting the stigma 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z The brainy birds performed just as well as chimpanzees and orangutans across a broad array of tasks designed to measure intelligence. Young Ravens Rival Adult Chimps in a Big Test of General Intelligence 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z It gives license to be Black and awkward, Black and brainy, Black and free. The Black Nerds Redefining the Culture 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z That’s some heady company, and there are moments in the film that deserve to be mentioned in that rarefied air, quality-wise, but the comparison is really that it’s brainy, fragmented and narrowly focused. Review: 'Minor Premise' is a major mind maze 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Osman may be the one who provides all the missing Pointless answers but he's not involved in setting the questions and claims he's not as brainy as people think. Richard Osman: 'I wish I were cooler but I'm not' 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z A decade ago, a brainy Air Force doctor named Dan Wattendorf helped push rapid pandemic response further to the top of DARPA’s priority list. How a secretive Pentagon agency seeded the ground for a rapid coronavirus cure 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z The spacecraft Perseverance — set for liftoff this week — is NASA’s biggest and brainiest Martian rover yet. NASA’s next Mars rover is brawniest and brainiest one yet 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z The spacecraft Perseverance - set for liftoff this week - is NASA’s biggest and brainiest Martian rover yet. NASA’s next Mars rover is brawniest and brainiest one yet 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z "I'm probably a bit brainier than he thought I was - dare I say it!" she says. 'I'm a bit brainier than he thought I was' 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z Joel was featured in countless newspaper and magazine articles, which invariably described him as a regular kid who happened to be brainy. Joel Kupperman, once-famous ‘Quiz Kid’ of radio and TV, dies at 83 of coronavirus 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z If we’re supposed to be six feet away from one another, how does a trio of brainy high-schoolers confer on the finer points of Euclidean geometry, DNA chemistry or Medieval history? Perspective | Here’s a tough question: How do you keep ‘It’s Academic’ on the air in a pandemic? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z She was brainy and shy, her hair long and dark. The nation’s first unemployment check — $15 — and the love story that led to it 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z When the justices take the bench, their questions reflect intense preparation, mastery of the record and sheer brainy competence that is not always apparent in the other branches. Latest Question for Supreme Court: How to Rule on a Crowded Docket During a Pandemic 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z A brainy classmate helps a cocky juvenile delinquent find the right path in life. Movies on TV this week: March 8 - 14: 'All the Presidents Men' 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Those people included his former longtime crew chief, Chad Knaus, who is widely considered one of the brainiest crew chiefs in the garage. Logano, Hamlin, Bowyer hope to end Fontana drought in Auto Club 400 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z That slippery slope from brainy to gamesmanship to cheating exists in every sport. Perspective | Baseball has a problem, and the Astros are only a symptom 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z He hopped to his feet, glared at the brainiest sideline in football and tapped his helmet three times. Tyrann Mathieu knows exactly what you’re planning to do next 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Scrabble combines language, strategy and numbers into a multifaceted contest that appeals to brainy folks like these. Seattle’s Scrabble Club is definitely not ‘Words with Friends’ — but there are words, and friends, and some supersmart competitions 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z We also liked this brainy article in Nature about “systems thinking”. Where does change come from, and is it finally coming on climate? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z But Wurtzel grew up beautiful and brainy; there was no shortage of men, love, sex and adventure for her to write about, often in graphic, navel-gazing detail. Race, literature, lovers ... and fake breasts: my chats with Elizabeth Wurtzel 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z One of the brainiest rap debuts of 2019 emerged from the mind of Mavi, a 20-year-old MC who spends his daylight hours bouncing around lecture halls of Howard University studying neuroscience. 4 concerts to catch in the D.C. area over the next several days 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The show is a vibrant menagerie both brainy and dazzling, stretching from the psychedelic figuration of painter Tom Allen to the multimedia artist Cauleen Smith’s Super 8 still lifes that grapple with art history. Night + Market + art = Le Maximum, Venice’s newest gallery 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Good Girls Get High A pair of brainy high school seniors worried about their low social standing decide to get stoned. 'Frozen 2,' 'Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker' and 'Little Women' lead the holiday charge 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z And oh, how Yoav tries and tries throughout “Synonyms,” a searing, maddening, explosively brainy movie about the mutability and immutability of the self that, appropriately enough, never stops changing shape. Review: Nadav Lapid's ‘Synonyms’ is a brilliant, corrosive portrait of a man without a country 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Mammals were warm-blooded, so they needed lots of energy, so they needed plenty of food, so they needed more smarts, which is one reason why they were generally brainier than dinosaurs. A Science-Based Origin Story for a Planet-Changing Species 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Jensen, the dealer, was quiet, introverted and brainy. The China Connection: How One D.E.A. Agent Cracked a Global Fentanyl Ring 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Lucas Hnath is a brainy playwright, whose intellectual fireworks are stimulating but sometimes fail to hit anywhere below the neck. 7 best bets for theater in fall 2019 in the Seattle area 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The five books he has published thus far have all been global bestsellers, and he has spawned a genre that might be called brainy populism. Malcolm Gladwell: ‘I’m just trying to get people to take psychology seriously’ 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Nussbaum’s essays are at once brainy and so well written that I found myself stopping not only to ponder the ideas but to savor her prose. Review: Author Emily Nussbaum sees the big picture on the small screen 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The loss of the publication leaves digital media a little less brainy. Closing of Pacific Standard and Topic Shows Perils of Depending on a Rich Patron 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z "You got these brainy people to look at our problems," Thompson says, "and the price wasn't that much, it was a buy." Jason—a secretive group of Cold War science advisers—is fighting to survive in the 21st century 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z She faces comparisons to Hillary Clinton, and questions of “electability”—concerns that running another brainy, older white woman against Trump would be a mistake. Can Elizabeth Warren Win It All? 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, I suspect some bold doctoral candidate is currently straining her eyes somewhere in front of a laptop right now, trying to do intellectual justice to Nwandu’s fiercely brainy, and fiercely visceral, play. Why you must see the extraordinary, painfully poetic ‘Pass Over’ at ACT 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Preppy, bespectacled and wearing a worried smile, he resembles every brainy undergraduate’s favorite American studies professor. Aaron Sorkin talks 'Mockingbird' and disavowing the white savior role 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Ester knows it, too, but these brainy books are not all brain. Reason Gets Lovesick in Lena Andersson’s Fiction 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z In the book, the brainiest of the brothers recites the poem as a repudiation of organized religion. Review | A conservative prescription for modern social ills 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Although the Terminator movies involve time paradoxes and anxious warnings about the rise of artificial intelligence, few would ever accuse them of being brainy. This weekend, watch Game of Thrones’ Lena Headey fight Terminators 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Powers, 61, is known as a brainy novelist, but “The Overstory” tested even his intellectual capacity: Its central characters are trees. Pulitzer Prize: 2019 Winners List 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z But solving equations using symbols is rare air, so far only achieved by famously brainy animals such as chimpanzees and African grey parrots. Bees ‘get’ addition and subtraction, new study suggests 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z This fiercely brainy and sharply funny play is cast by lottery each night, meaning the cast has to memorize the whole thing — without knowing who they're playing that night until shortly before the performance begins. Everybody is everybody in ‘Everybody’ at Strawberry Theatre Workshop 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z He was smart, winsomely geeky, and uncommonly kind, and he had a thing for brainy women. The Philosopher Redefining Equality 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z As comic-based superheroes go, he’s as far from upright Superman and brainy Batman as it’s possible to get and still claim kinship in the DC universe. ‘Aquaman’ sinks under weight of endless battles 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Ayad Akhtar’s “Junk,” a brainy play about the financial industry, traces back to that moment when greed replaced value as the engine of our economy. Times critics reflect on how the Great Recession affected theater, music and the arts - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z He has a springy energy that reminded me of an actor playing a brainy young inventor. The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z It’s not so much that “Everybody” is a fiercely brainy, challenging story about death with a take-no-prisoners sense of humor. Everybody is everybody in ‘Everybody’ at Strawberry Theatre Workshop 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z It’s also true that the higher you are on the income ladder, the more intelligence matters – the income difference between a brainy and less-brainy engineer is bigger than between a smart and less-smart laborer. It's time to abandon the cruelty of meritocracy | Steven Pearlstein 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z If we measure brains as a function of body size, however, humans are the brainiest species on Earth, followed closely by dolphins. Don't Brag About Your Large Brain, President Trump 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z The knock on him has always been that he’s too witty, too brainy, too playfully word-drunk on snappy banter. Stuck inside of Stockholm with the Nobel blues again - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The New York Times once called him “one of the brainiest and most professional members of the Foreign Service.” Ambassador’s home is on the market for first time in 60 years 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The London-based company of Britain’s brainiest choreographer leaps across the pond for a three-date run of one of its most ambitious works. ‘Dear Evan Hansen,’ LA Phil’s centennial season and 71 more arts events to check out this fall 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z In other words, it’s not just brainy mathematicians, beautiful supermodels and elongated basketball stars who benefit from inherited traits and capabilities. It's time to abandon the cruelty of meritocracy | Steven Pearlstein 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z The big reason Jack Ryan is more brainy than brawny is that Clancy’s crises demand heroes who know things and can calmly think their way out of any potential trap. In The Hunt for Red October, Alec Baldwin is the definitive Jack Ryan 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z But her affect and persona are what made her brainy, insightful videos popular. The Oscar Wilde of YouTube fights the alt-right with decadence and seduction 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z It was trade publication, the Bookseller, that first noted the rise of what it called the “brainy backlist”. How the ‘brainy’ book became a publishing phenomenon 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Not strictly a meme, but the owning of top brainy historian Simon Schama deserves its own special place in the World Cup memory bank. The World Cup in memes – from Mexican grandma to Fern Hawkins 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z It was portrayed as a liberation to have the chance to be everything all at once, brainy and gorgeous. ‘We believed we could remake ourselves any way we liked’: how the 1990s shaped #MeToo 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The baseball player and coach, who played 15 seasons for a handful of major league teams, including the Washington Senators in the early 1930s, came to be known as the “brainiest guy in baseball.” Review | Paul Rudd plays a Jewish baseball player who becomes a spy — and yes, he is a real person 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The San Francisco Chronicle reports university system colleagues knew William Howard Hughes Jr. as a personable, brainy number-cruncher for the system's vast health benefits program. Alleged Air Force deserter worked for University of California, report says 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z The San Francisco Chronicle reports university system colleagues knew William Howard Hughes Jr. as a personable, brainy number-cruncher for the system’s vast health benefits program. Air Force deserter worked for University of California 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z The San Francisco Chronicle reports university system colleagues knew William Howard Hughes Jr. as a personable, brainy number-cruncher for the system’s vast health benefits program. Air Force deserter worked for University of California 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z AI processors, they believe, will create their own demand; they allow firms to develop cleverer services and devices, which will collect even more data, generating a need for even brainier chips. Artificial intelligence is awakening the chip industry’s animal spirits 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z How can older women, even fiendishly brainy, internationally celebrated feminist academics, expect respect from, in particular, younger women, if they spout embarrassing, offensive, outdated claptrap? Germaine, your shock-jock musings just alienate today’s young feminists | Barbara Ellen 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z To proceed with big defense contracts could drive away brainy experts in artificial intelligence; to reject such work would deprive it of a potentially huge business. How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z But these manufacturers aren’t just grafting on brainy gadgets to raise the prices. Does Smart Luggage Really Make Travel Easier? 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Today, however, many of the brainy people who once might have been teachers instead become doctors, lawyers or professors. Pay Teachers More—but Make Sure They Earn It 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z FRI Neuroscience professionals discuss research, favorite stories and myths, brainy jokes, answer questions, 7:30 p.m. Community calendar: La Conner Tulip Parade, April Pool Day, Seahawks 12K Run and more 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Clooney is a serious woman who uses style to contradict the stereotypes associated with the brainy, righteous realm of human rights work. Perspective | Amal Clooney in Vogue, and the art of revealing absolutely nothing 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Sunday’s episode “No Good Read Goes Unpunished” found Marge Simpson sitting on brainy daughter Lisa’s bed reading a book titled “The Princess in the Garden.” Simpsons’ Apu controversy reignites culture war 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z She gave her blood-analyzing device the brainy but simple name of “Edison.” The ‘trust me’ theatrics of tech’s T-shirts and turtlenecks 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z He'd written a knockabout comedy but got sloppy with details and seemed to have run short of ideas, especially in segments involving the rough wooing of a brainy, independent woman. Amy Freed helps Shakespeare with a rewrite. The result: 'Shrew!' 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z There’s a brainy cluster of Democrats under 50, and that’s reflected in an interesting bit of trivia. Opinion | Democrats Are Primed for 2018 and Looking Pretty in 2020 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z The New York Times reviewed his live show back in 2011: “both brainy and entertaining.” "Peer-reviewed rap" and more: five sources of music about science 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z There is a brawny, brainy populism to her high artistry, reflected in the everyday women she likes to play. Laurie Metcalf Was Hiding in Plain Sight 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Among many, the allure of Barack Obama’s brainy nuance had given way to a longing for a more muscular certainty. Opinion | Trump Shows Us the Way 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z Barry Sherman was born in Toronto in 1942, and though he didn't excel at school early on, it was clear he was a brainy child. The mystery of the strangled billionaires 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z It’s a busy novel, and a brainy one, built more on character than plot. New novel ‘Red Clocks’ presents a not-that-far-fetched dystopia 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z In evolutionary terms, it seems, humans are now brainy enough. Data from half a million people show that natural selection has not stopped 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Both are impeccably composed, thrillingly brainy talkathons that revel in public spaces as essential in the human quest for beauty, community and knowledge. 'Call Me by Your Name,' 'The Florida Project' lead Justin Chang's 12 best films of 2017 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z He was the hottest coach on the market, one of the most innovative coaches in the game, a bold and brainy football outlier. UCLA goes all in on Chip Kelly, and it's a gamble 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z How will auto insurance companies handle an accident claim based on a brainy car driving itself into a ditch or off a freeway ramp? Waymo’s Autonomous Cars Cut Out Human Drivers in Road Tests 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Chicago’s win was built on better fundamentals, brainy trickery, novel strategies and the Nats’ guilt in a half-dozen sins worthy of defeat. Perspective | In the cold gray of the day after, Nats’ shortcomings are subtle but all too clear 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z Wieters, the brainy fellow from Georgia Tech, the calm center of every team on which he has played, suddenly found himself spinning like dirty laundry in the tumble cycle. Perspective | An unforgettable night, at once ugly and beautiful, ends the Nationals’ season 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z So he decided to keep Sylvia alive, as art — a drawing, a brainy girl character who both is him and is not. Super Awesome Sylvia was a role model to girls in science. Then he realized he is a boy. 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The Sun tabloid wrote that she was judged “too brainy to be jailed.” Oxford student who stabbed boyfriend gets suspended sentence 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Simons is the sort of brainy, arty designer beloved by the “liberal elite” that the president professes to hate. From Melania Trump to American nightmares – what caused a stir at New York fashion week? 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Could I in theory shackle myself to the exquisite but extreme femininity of Valentino or the brainy and powerful but occasionally obtuse look of Céline? The One Piece of Clothing Every Woman Should Own 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z He relished, as he put it: “Sticking a little streetwise Chicago intelligence to those perfectly modulated, brainy British aesthetes.” Clancy Sigal obituary 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z With Homo erectus, scientists see a shift to a taller and brainier hominin who spread across Africa, into Asia, and throughout parts of Europe. Quest for Clues to Humanity's First Fires 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z When you think “successful computer engineer,” the stock photo that springs to mind is pretty much what Williamson looks like — bespectacled, unrepentantly geekish, brainy, wearing a button-down shirt. The secret origin story of the iPhone 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z There is no such rapport between the flamboyant Mr. Trump and the brainy, button-down Ms. Merkel. Blind Spots in Trump’s Trade Tirade Against Germany 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Bridging the divide between brawn and brainy is something he excelled at in high school. Martellus Bennett develops children’s wear, mentors NFL players about design 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z The attractive Hope works hard to sell the brainy Cassie but, as written, is undermined by her character’s lack of intellectual dimension and contextual credibility. You may need AP physics to keep up with mind-bending sci-fi thriller 'Displacement' 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z He was brainy in the ways of living, and when he put his mind to it he could figure out how to do just about anything. New monuments honor Virginia residents forced from homes 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z In the White Stripes, White was part creative director and part brainy impresario. Jack White’s Infinite Imagination 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Of all Seattle author Stephenson’s brainy and challenging books, “Seveneves” is my favorite. Closing the book on 34 years in The Seattle Times newsroom 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Hooded: Or Being Black for Dummies Tru, a street smart teen from Baltimore, decides that Marquis, a brainy prep-schooler, has forgotten his roots and pens him a manual. - The Washington Post 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z It was shaped by its founders to be brainy, combative and profitable. Apple Adds to Qualcomm’s Troubles, Filing Lawsuit Over Rebates 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The analysts were uncool: brainy, fussy about their independence and socially introverted. Opinion | Will John Brennan’s controversial CIA modernization survive Trump? 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z My mother was a beautiful, brainy woman from Spearfish, South Dakota, who by her early thirties had established herself in New York as the nationally known Elizabeth Toomey. Behind the Cellar Door 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z But unlike previous Lego interactive products, where the pieces must be kept separate, Lego encourages children to use the brainy Boost components with their other creations. Lego Bricks Come Alive 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z He had always felt that way, since he was a brainy, sensitive kid playing basketball in his driveway, staring at the sun, suddenly terrified of what would happen when it burned out. Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead? 2013-03-27T04:00:00Z The main issues mostly involve Rory, who started the series as a quiet, brainy introvert who loved to read and didn’t need a social life because her mother was her best friend. The ‘Gilmore Girls’ revival backlash proves why TV reboots are rarely a good idea 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z For his intended audience, his work will feel brainy and well-sourced – but only in the way that Gingrich is a high school dropout’s idea of an intellectual. For haters only: watching Steve Bannon's documentary films 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Younger women tell me Rory was their permission to be brainy, ambitious, and a little bit of a snob. Our little corner of the world: the Gilmore Girls get a fan festival 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Mrs Wilkinson said she didn't think things "would ever return back to normal" and it had shocked men that the women "were brainier than they thought they were". Woman's Hour at 70: 'Hooray for being a housewife' - BBC News 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Its theme was the comeuppance of the capital class by the hand of brainier, laboring professionals. The New York Tale of Donald Trump’s Accountant 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Martin, 51, was brainy and not very talkative. A ‘Sad Case’ Suspect, Scared Pale as Police Swarmed His House in N.S.A. Case 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z But the brainy fashion musing was never unapproachable - as it can tend to be - because Philo delivered it in a tasteful color palette on soft silhouettes and voluminous lengths. Kardashian shares Givenchy spotlight with Malik, Hadid 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z The collection was a brainy mix of geometric prints and new poly-blend knitwear that borders on indestructible. At Milan Fashion Week, Clothes Weren’t the Stars 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z This animated 3-D chapter, fine for kids 6 and older, is funnier and brainier than its 2012 predecessor, “Continental Drift.” Family Filmgoer reviews ‘Ice Age: Collision Course’ 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z There's the brainy former speaker of the House, who has been tinged by scandal but tested through fire. Pence, Flynn, Gingrich Are Trump’s Finalists for Vice President 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z One thing, at least, is clear: It’s time to find a new insult for your less brainy friends. Parrots, songbirds pack more neurons into their forebrains than most mammals 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z “He was the kind of guy that once you got past the chatter, you realized how brainy he was,” Mitchell said on 980. A Redskins Hall of Famer once tried to convince Muhammad Ali to serve in the military 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Truth: Hyenas are brainy as well as brawny. Hyena Myths Busted: Are They Really Hermaphrodites? Diamond, who lives in Port Washington, played socially awkward but brainy student Samuel "Screech" Powers on "Saved by the Bell," which ran from 1989 to 1993. 'Saved by the Bell' actor Dustin Diamond back in jail over probation 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z A bird not previously known to be brainy, the great-tailed grackle, is extremely nimble at solving new puzzles, a new study shows. Watch Clever Birds Solve a Challenge From Aesop's Fables 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z "I don't think even some of the brainiest men in the world would understand the name of the stuff they've been doing but they've been working on me all week." Leicester City: The science behind their Premier League title 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z A similar balance of soft and substantive, of mainstream yet upmarket, may be just the thing Colbert's brainy "Late Show" needs. Can Stephen Colbert get his 'Late Night' groove back? 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Diamond, who lives in Port Washington, played socially awkward but brainy student Samuel "Screech" Powers, memorable for his dark and wiry hair, on "Saved by the Bell," which ran from 1989 to 1993. Actor Dustin Diamond released from jail early for good behavior 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Of his relationship with Barker, Corbett said: "We liked each other very much and Ron, I suppose was the brainier of the two of us as far as theatrical knowhow because of his writing skills." Obituary: Ronnie Corbett - BBC News 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z ‘At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails” may come dressed in a seductive title, but Sarah Bakewell’s book about the people and ideas behind the existentialist movement is both breezy and brainy. ‘At the Existentialist Cafe’: Hanging out with Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir and more 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Fans of Greenaway’s work — a mix of the brainy, the controversial and the grotesque — won’t necessarily be surprised by any of this. ‘Eisenstein in Guanajuato’: Russian filmmaker finds love in the New World 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z That’s the last time the sport paid much attention to Ivy League schools, renowned for brainy students far more than brawny athletes. SNYDER: By banning tackling, Ivy League could take path toward reforming football 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z But on its own merits, it's a remarkable fusion of visceral fantasy and brainy cinema. 'Goosebumps' goes all meta with R.L. Stine's juvenile horror series 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Half the candidates were brainy tacticians in headsets, the football equivalent of Sheldon from “The Big Bang Theory.” Ben McAdoo Is Replacing, Not Replicating, His Boss With the Giants 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z It chronicles the overlapping lives of a dozen or so brainy New Yorkers, several of whom dull their anxiety and despair by self-medicating in diverse ways. Tim Blake Nelson on the Upper West Side 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z The refined, brainy Fulbright was influential in Washington, but in Arkansas, as the challenger’s polling showed, he was perceived as aloof and highly vulnerable. Dale Bumpers, Arkansas politician and barbed wit of the Senate, dies at 90 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Do you finally believe this country's most breathtaking college football player is the one with an ordinary build, from a brainy school, with a teenage slouch and a child-like smile? Stanford's Christian McCaffrey shows the rest of the country what it missed 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z It looked like a brainy version of a video game. Sheridan schools participate in Hour of Code 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z The Partnership brought in coaches to retrain teachers, and began recruiting brainy and passionate instructors from Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education, the religious counterpart to Teach for America. The Catholic School Revival 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Christopher Lloyd played Doc Brown, the kooky scientist who made it okay to be weird, brainy, and ideological — a sharp contrast to the archetype that Michael J. Fox played on television in Family Ties. Why do we love the DeLorean? 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z The movie has familiar Sorkinisms — rapid, brainy dialogue, a ticking clock, behind-the-scenes maneuverings — but is the writer's most structurally daring film script. 'Steve Jobs' gets as much attention for Aaron Sorkin as for Steve Jobs 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z That means we’ll hear about brainy, classy Bud Black, a prototype tactician who’s good with pitchers. After parting ways with Matt Williams, Nationals need to find a true leader 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z At training camp, the lifetime quarterback realized he wouldn’t be allowed to play this “brainy” position, due to an unwritten agreement in the NFL that restricted black players. Memoirs by seniors offer lessons worth sharing 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z “Compete with the boys,” Obama said, as she encouraged each schoolgirl in front of her not to be afraid of being the brainiest kid in school. Michelle Obama to girls: No boy is enough to 'stop you from getting your education' 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Or with one of the N.F.L.’s best and brainiest quarterbacks shouting at everyone and no Jet flummoxed beyond comprehension. Baffling Colts, and Maybe Fans, Jets Go to 2-0 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z After moving to a new town with his single mom, a brainy teen befriends his elderly neighbor, an ex-CIA assassin with months to live. Films being released from September through November 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z It's brainy stuff, but without an explanation for the apparent paradox, some of the most basic laws we think exist in the universe are at stake. Stephen Hawking believes he’s solved a huge mystery about black holes 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Mum said I was the brainy one, so I should focus on my schoolwork. Daisy Lowe: I’ve been single for a long time, so I’m not as sexual 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z That freedom, combined with the chance encounters that are possible in a small city full of brainy folk, means that much of Cambridge’s genius is off-balance-sheet. Getting to Cambridge 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z War and peace, life and death, policy failures and injustice: serious topics treated with a social conscience and a distinctive brand of granular, brainy reportage. William Finnegan: 'I was reluctant to come out of the closet as a surfer' 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Ted Cruz -- The brainy Texas senator needs to remember this is live TV, not a conservative legal argument he might have made before the Supreme Court in a past profession. Don't be like a sighing Al Gore. Here are some GOP debate dont's 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z The profilers, as they were known, were later made famous by Thomas Harris’ “The Silence of the Lambs” as brainy crime fighters who combined street smarts and psychology to nab the worst criminals. The FBI built a database that can catch rapists — almost nobody uses it 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z In giving historical context to the poisonous nature of our oft-bemoaned political discourse, "Best of Enemies" showcases brainy bloodsport with humor, nostalgia and, appropriately, a lacing of melancholy. 'Best of Enemies' showcases brainy bloodsport 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z It did not hurt, but it is more likely that the policies of Mr Carney’s predecessor, the brainy but fusty Mervyn King, began to pay off. Cruising, for now 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z However, the greatest intellectual rival to the brainy apes may be a noisy scavenger with a sharp beak, bright eyes and a brain about the size of a walnut: the crow and its corvid relatives. Who ya callin’ bird brain? 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The show, which seems to get just about everything right about the tech world gold rush, centers around six brainy dudes and a startup. How a mole in the tech sector is helping shape the look of 'Silicon Valley's' women 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Having a white Stetson on the list would seem like a no brainier. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z McConaughey plays another scientist character — a community college science professor — following last year's brainy space epic "Interstellar." CANNES WATCH: McConaughey, Van Sant film greeted harshly 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z McConaughey plays another scientist character - a community college science professor - following last year’s brainy space epic “Interstellar.” CANNES WATCH: McConaughey, Van Sant film greeted harshly 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z And it is possible that someone brainy will think of a way to subvert the current usage of “said no one ever” and move the joke along. No one should ever say 'said no one ever' | Emma Brockes 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Others who have met Cruz in private settings say he comes across as a brainy politician whose most hardline statements seem like popularity-seeking varnish that will eventually be scraped away. Why Ted Cruz is wowing some of Wall Street's money-men 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z A military brat, he was born in Japan and moved at a young age to Texas, where he was one of the brainy kids in high school, taking advanced-placement biology, statistics and calculus. Robert Griffin III is eager to talk small and play big 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z Behold the first page of the April 22 Sports section in all its breathtaking, brainy beauty. Bravo! Winner! Winner! Winner! 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The ads promote “brainy” typewriters that are supposed to eliminate some typing errors made by dippy-looking secretaries, who presumably lack the brains to avoid them in the first place. A Brief History of Secretaries 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z And the box office potential for this brainy comedy should make that a no-brainer. 'Paper Towns' Star Nat Wolff Could Lead Tribeca's 'Ashby' To Box Office Success 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Last Friday, he was in town from London for the New York premiere, and I sat down with him at the Bowery Hotel to talk about this brainy, highly enjoyable movie. The Inner Lives of Robots: Interview with filmmaker Alex Garland 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z In March, a Slovakian company called AeroMobil gave a talk about its working prototype at brainy carnival South by Southwest. Flying Cars Are Coming! But Do You Really Want One? 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z That involves the delicate job of meshing the very different cultures of the streetwise agent and the brainy analyst, who reads secret dispatches, pores over intercepted communications, absorbs news media accounts and digests it all. C.I.A. Officers and F.B.I. Agents, Meet Your New Partner: The Analyst 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z In his relatively brief time as a national politician, Cruz has shown himself to be brainy, driven and ambitious. Cruz tests the limits of conservatism in his run for president 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Mr Jindal is obviously brainy: he was running Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals, an agency with 13,000 staff, at the age of 24. Bobby Jindal’s parsimonious pitch 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z It is not unusual for parents to comment that their children are brainier than they are. Are humans getting cleverer? 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z There’s a brainy sleekness to this production collective’s clinical new album, and some mischief, too. Month’s best music: Metro Boomin, Jib Kidder, Colleen Green and more 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Whether he's skewering Jesus or a Supreme Court justice, he is frequently sacrilegious in ways equal parts brainy and accessible. Forget Neil Patrick Harris: Our Suggestions for Oscars Host 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Hollywood and top engineers are crowdsourcing ideas for a TV series with a female MacGyver, the brainy 1980s small-screen secret agent who used little more than a paper clip to solve tricky problems. Wanted: ideas to engineer a female MacGyver TV series 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Kendrick is not your typical fairytale Cinderella - she’s brainy and thoughtful and not exactly sure Prince Charming is all he’s cracked up to be. Star-studded cast reflects on challenge of adapting Sondheim 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z His brainy persona and penchant for using analytics fell flat with fans who interpreted his explanation as a coach who outsmarted himself. Marc Trestman era a coaching experiment that blows up on Bears 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z Even Watson, the brainy IBM computer whose intelligence the company wants to apply in complex applications like medical diagnoses and automated call centers with interactive speech recognition, will soon reach fundamental limits, he argues. Innovators Of Intelligence Look to Past 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Marvel announced Thursday that the “Sherlock” star, long rumored for the part, will add another egotistical intellect to his already brainy filmography. Cumberbatch to play Doctor Strange for Marvel film 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s smart, but not brainy; dumb, but never inane. ‘Penguins of Madagascar’ movie review: Delightfully silly star turn for the quartet If Miegakure can live up to ten Bosch's ambitions, it will be more than just another brainy diversion—it will be the realization of a century-long intellectual quest. What to do, see, and read this weekend 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z “Loud and brainy, partisan and thoughtful, he puts his stamp on every debate in which he participates,” read his profile in the Almanac of American Politics. Bill Frenzel, Minnesota Republican and fiscal authority in the U.S. House, dies at 86 The team's brainy reputation won a place in pop culture decades ago when late comedian George Carlin read the scoreline "MIT, 3 to the 4th power." 'Don't think, just play': MIT engineers football success 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z “I saw how it was possible to write a character who was both visceral and brainy,” Ford tells me, citing these as the traits he shares with Frank. Richard Ford: Heart of the Country |
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