| 单词 | calamity |
| 例句 | The Tijuana horsemen, long accustomed to calamity, wrote off the horses, picked up, and went on. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Argument was fruitless once the name of Santini was invoked, both boys knew that, and both knew that if they continued to milk the issue they were merely inviting calamity. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I would like to see whoever caused this calamity killed before I go,” said Freya. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z About five years before, most of his subjects had fallen before a terrible calamity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Booth’s achievement is described in the Richmond papers as “the most deplorable calamity, which has ever befallen the people of the United States.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z A month later came a much more serious calamity. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “But, my dear knight, how could yours truly foresee a calamity of this nature?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The innocent yellow train that was to bring so many ambiguities and certainties, so many pleasant and unpleasant moments, so many changes, calamities, and feelings of nostalgia to Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z We have in the past been forced into reluctant change by weather, calamity, and plague. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Windstorms, lightning fires, landslides, volcanic eruptions, and other natural calamities knock down trees and open up the forest, or prevent open country from turning into forestland. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He will involve us all in calamity and chaos without measure. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We enter a time of calamity! and people were turning toward us. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He wondered what other calamities he was yet to learn of. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Each calamity makes Lourdes feel her own sorrow, keeps her own pain fresh. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The magnitude of this calamity was so far beyond anything I’d ever imagined that my brain simply shorted out and went dark. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I found myself wondering how many atoms from the same calamities out there in the universe our bodies shared. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Sharpe and Mr. Gitney both felt considerable trepidation at the onset of what promised to be the most mischievous of calamities. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Not a ray of alleviation of the present calamity breaks in our city from any quarter,” he wrote to Julia. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “My son, fear the Lord and the King, and meddle not with them that are given to change, For their calamity shall rise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruin of them both?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z It began like any other calamity that strikes the poor but quickly took on the characteristics of a divine punishment. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked across the street at herself—as seen, remembered, and conjured by the dreamer—and she didn’t see obscenity, or calamity, or godspawn. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Across the Charles, the calamity was bright and confusing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z That, Bundy said, or an all-out invasion of North Vietnam, which would probably draw in the Chinese army and turn into an even bigger calamity. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The peril of being trapped within the city, without hope of change until some calamity, weighed heavily upon me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z My life has been 101 calamities with at least half of them in the marriage department, but finally I got lucky in love, with Remy Fairley. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He packed Us scanty traps, not understanding what had happened, but feeling that he had escaped calamity by a hairbreadth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z How can one assay the total impact of the unprecedented calamity that gave rise to the world we live in? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And he had touched Violet now, and Link, and Marty, and from all of them, it was coming, We enter a time of calamity! Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z All this calamity surrounded Helmuth, but he stayed in the city and made daily door-to-door visits, cautiously walking deserted streets and abandoned alleyways “with a trembling heart.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z And whatever extraneous influence the tannery may have exercised, the calamities of the land belong to it alone, born of wind and rain and weather, immensities not to be tempered by man or his creations. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z A foolish son is the calamity of his father. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Since I know it is all for Christ's good, I am quite content with my weaknesses and with insults, hardships, persecutions and calamities. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I was broadcasting across the scatterfeed, going, helplessly, We enter a time of calamity! Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was these calamities that transformed my people into slavers,” Galazza Galare had told her, at the Temple of the Graces. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The lines in his face look as if each one were put there by a distinct calamity rather than a slow accumulation of sorrow. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten days later, Joe Rantz sat again on a train, looking out through the fly- specked window of the coach, watching a fresh new American calamity begin to unfold. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We would probably have gone on and discussed the war and agreed that it was in reality a calamity for civilization, and perhaps would have been better avoided. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z And lam the calamity that will change these slavers back into people, Dany had sworn to herself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But I cannot find my voice to do anything about these future calamities, because it is someone's idea of inspirational to release the bobbing weapons. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I felt a kind of kicking in my face and I discovered it was my mouth, which was saying the time of calamity thing, but at the top of my lungs. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not sure whether they will be up to the challenge, considering the extent of the damage, but they have worked miracles in the past. I’m sorry this calamity befell us during your stay.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The table was at serious risk of suffering that social calamity known as the “awkward silence.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He could not have fallen victim to any other sort of calamity. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Events she herself witnessed foretold her cousin’s calamity. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In wandering round the shattered walls and through the devastated interior, I gathered evidence that the calamity was not of late occurrence. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Forager societies were hardly immune to natural disasters, and suffered from periods of want and hunger, but they were usually able to deal with such calamities more easily. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z T Ihe calamity which cast the world into flame occurred early on an April morning, when all was still black night. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z If this were true, then wars were not calamities into which amiable innocents were led by evil men. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “No big Magnolia mystery after all. Just another homegrown calamity claiming a thousand small green lives. Faith.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z To these people the war is simply a continuous calamity which sweeps to and fro over their bodies like a tidal wave. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But the calamity could be postponed, at least for a while, if the sun was fortified for its battles with the stars. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Finally he realized all that urgent loud noise was coming from outside his dreams in the real world, heralding another calamity, no doubt, and with a fatalistic whimper the volunteer awoke. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But all of that—city and angel and calamity—seemed worlds away right now. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And six tiny kittens, not much bigger than the mice Calamity was such a calamity at catching. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Her name wasn’t a compliment so much as a joke; as a mouser, she was a calamity. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Church,” he says, “when you sow injustice, you reap calamity. When you sow hatred and selfishness, racism and fear, you reap destruction and chaos!” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “It must be our contribution to the prevention of a terrible calamity.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Many historical calamities, from deadly wars to ecological catastrophes, have resulted from this over-hasty jump. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was about this time that a constable put his head round the door to give news that seemed at one with the calamity of the night. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z His ears leaned sidelong off his head like holstered pistols, and above them waved a calamity of black hair that mortified him. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The throng of reporters, mostly Japanese, wanted a neatly scripted version of the calamity, replete with villains and heroes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z A tiny error in judgment or a speck of delay in deciding on a course of action might mean the difference between safety and calamity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Occasionally, bands wandered outside their turf and explored new lands, whether due to natural calamities, violent conflicts, demographic pressures or the initiative of a charismatic leader. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the swirling calamity of our kiss, as we parted our lips and explored each other’s tongues, I turned completely inside out. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Yet I still didn’t have any sense that calamity was around the comer. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He was a veteran, meeting every calamity with a cheerful steadiness. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When Hurricane Ivan hit coastal Alabama and blew chaos and calamity into Marsha's life, she thought things were as bad as they could get. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z What we had here was worse: a triple calamity fallen on the house of these poor parents. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She was used to seeing their transparent silhouettes gliding down the hallways of her parents’ house, making noise in the wardrobes and appearing in people’s dreams to predict calamities or lottery prizes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As in: If JB hadn’t been acting so silly and playing around, he would have cut one lock instead of five from my head and avoided this calamity. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z We must settle the question of slavery’s extension now,” he told his daughter-inlaw, “otherwise it will stamp our National Character and lay a Foundation for calamities, if not disunion.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Cal caught a feeling—a feeling of calamity, of destruction in the air, and a weight of sickness overwhelmed him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The dragon destroyed the magistrate's palace, causing chaos and calamity before disappearing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z It gave Chicago a light to hold against the gathering dark of economic calamity. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The topic had been the prophet Job and how his patience and devotion to Allah had persevered, no matter what calamity had befallen him—even when his body had been covered with painful sores. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z At dusk the drums of calamity began; their grave, throbbing rhythm came clearly through the night, throughout the night, each beat, each tattoo, echoing the mighty impotence of our human endeavour. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The product of demographic calamity, the newly created wilderness was indeed beautiful. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “A thought came into my mind, that if the contents of the Essay were true, it was time some person should see these calamities to their end.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It was obvious to Macon that Freddie now had news of another calamity. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The problem at the root of such calamities is that humans evolved for millions of years in small bands of a few dozen individuals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Seldom a week goes by without some calamity or other,” Lottie thinks. Books of The Times: Colum McCann’s ‘TransAtlantic’ Explores Ireland and U.S. 2013-06-27T20:27:10Z That disaster, which was followed by other calamities, including a cholera outbreak, left an estimated quarter-million people dead and more than a million temporarily or permanently homeless. Movie Review: ‘Fatal Assistance,’ About Relief Efforts in Haiti 2014-02-28T00:10:21Z Hotel Modern recasts the characters as rats that have survived a calamity, and the singers occasionally wear and carry rat masks, while the film sequences recount scenes of devastation and brutality. One Opera, Three Acts, Three Different Stagings 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z By the conclusion of “The Broken Heart,” several of the principal characters have met dire ends, in at least one case literally from the titular calamity. Theater Review: In ?The Broken Heart,? Tainted Love, Onstage at the Duke 2012-02-14T23:28:52Z That journey is especially fraught when one’s private trauma is smothered beneath the country’s general calamity. Review: ‘Before, During, After,’ by Richard Bausch For real calamity, Richard Horne is your man, and “A Is for Armageddon” is his illustrated catalog of all the ways you and the world might bite it. Newly Released Books 2010-12-16T06:34:36Z His diagnosis of calamity is enough to guide us. A New Life of Malcolm X Brimming With Detail, Insight and Feeling 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Giving a strong precedent for Chaplin Keaton Lloyd Alley, Silverlake is now officially home to The Music Box Steps – scene of Laurel and Hardy’s unforgettable piano-shifting calamities in the 1932 movie. Silent witness: the Hollywood alley with the five-star reviews 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Missing a thing or two, or assigning him a chore or two, is not a calamity; on the contrary. Full-time employee misses being a full-time mom 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Maybe that calamity was climate change, maybe a nuclear disaster; its cause is unclear and, at this point in history, hardly needs to be specified, since the disaster possibilities before us are so richly abundant. In ‘The Council of Animals,’ the Fate of Humanity Comes Down to a Vote 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z As a result, this isn’t just a book to read — it’s a book to return to, a book that will provide perspective and consolation at times of heartbreak or calamity. Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z On the walls of her Berlin apartment, Tara Reddi, an art dealer, has arranged a collection of ex votos, votive offerings customarily associated with divine intervention in calamities. We’re Holding Tight to Our Good Luck Talismans 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z What is it with the production of fossil fuels and calamity? Stiff upper lip or man on the edge? How movies see real-life heroes 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The calamity of 9/11 ends up factoring in too. 'But Always' turns romance into a syrupy mess 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z In Davis’s stories, the mundane and the fathomless appear together on the same street, and calamity is always close at hand. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Back home, Karen, the former astronaut's wife, tries to comfort a current wife, and we watch the dark skies and wait for any news on the latest calamity the astronauts have gotten themselves into. With an Elon Musk-like villain, “For All Mankind” launches a new season into orbit 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z The episode was quite a departure for the series, which usually spends its hour giving us a few more tidbits about Jane Doe’s back story while the F.B.I. team averts a calamity in pulse-pounding fashion. ‘Blindspot’ Season 1, Episode 13: His Name is Jonas 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z His sprightly new songs contemplate seasons and cycles, calamities and survival. The Week Ahead: Jan. 23 ? 29 2011-01-21T16:42:50Z Her private life was a calamity, which only proved how valiant she was, onscreen, at putting on a good show. The Matchless Presence of Doris Day 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z When the future is uncertain, all calamities seem equally proximate. How should you deal with stress in 2020? First, ditch the meditation 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z Once Tsukuru has suffered his high school calamity, he moves on to Tokyo to attend college. Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Later, he grapples with a variety of existential questions and calamities. Review | ‘The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write’ and other best poetry of the month 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z After each of those calamities, there was ultimately a widening of the circle of opportunity, and that’s what has made the country a great country. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z From this disconnect, he found inspiration: he travelled around the world to sites of historic calamity—from Rwanda and Auschwitz to Chernobyl and Dealey Plaza—to document their afterlives as destinations of so-called “dark tourism.” The Allure of Dark Tourism 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Despite the calamity, the story ends on a hopeful note. Superman Turns 80. The Red Trunks Still Fit. 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z It’s a cynical view of faith, one which removes the mystery and terror from life’s unforeseen calamities, and instead frames survival as a matter of calling into the correct belief system. ‘On a Wing and a Prayer’ Review: Faith as Flight Insurance 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Old-Fashioned Chocolate Fudge is the recipe everyone at C.I. mentions as the ultimate kitchen calamity — a project that, despite sound intentions, a proven methodology and rivers of brow sweat, wound up on the scrap heap. Cook’s Illustrated’s Christopher Kimball Believes Cooking Is Ultraserious Business 2012-10-14T16:30:31Z “National sins,” they wrote, “have always been followed by national calamities.” How Fugitive Slaves Exposed the Idea of the ‘United’ States as a Lie 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Yet it’s a tragedy devoid of the greed, courage, sacrifice, betrayal or violence whose glamour mitigates calamity in more grandiose narratives. A little rain must fall: the tragic secret of a musical movie masterpiece 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z This is theater of the unexpected; it is theater of calamity; it is theater according to the gospel of Taylor Mac. Taylor Mac brings 24 decades of delirium and music to Los Angeles 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z The threat of calamity hung in the air, but only a fool would doubt Brazilians’ ability to throw a lively party. Why the Rio Olympics opening ceremony matters 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Albee explained himself as a kind of herald, perhaps a modern Cassandra warning the theatergoer of inevitable personal calamity. Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z It can be a little bit of a calamity — but it's all in good fun, because we're just making a music video. Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne: We're the only band "used to playing in space bubbles" 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z The specter of calamity is especially worrisome for open-air events in urban environments — including the Austin City Limits music festival, which begins Friday in a Texas park and is now undergoing renewed security assessments. In Las Vegas, Concert Security Met a New Threat: Aerial Assault 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z It’s all delicious calamity, gulped down quick as an alcoholic slushy under a yellow sun. What exactly is a beach read anyway? Summery, sexy — or sexist? 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z It is also an environmental calamity, spoiling the ground around and below the roads. Review: In ‘Evanston Salt Costs Climbing,’ Co-Workers Weather the Storm 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z But starting back in 2013, a series of calamities almost derailed these time-honored traditions. Marionettes at Play 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z So there was perhaps some renewed interest in the excesses of the doomsday preppers, each of whom is expecting a different type of calamity: economic collapse, nuclear war, biological attack. ArtsBeat: Channel Surfing: 'Doomsday Preppers,' After the Hurricane 2012-11-14T04:00:36Z Fast forward to the present, and Padalko said that her news program “deliberately” did not post her recent chopper calamity to YouTube, for the sake of discretion. News anchor catches tooth as it falls out during live broadcast 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z A typical quatrain: Wailings & tears & great howlings & screams At Bayonne & Foix & near to Narbonne: O what dread changes & calamities Before Mars has completed several rounds. Books of The Times: Prophecies by Nostradamus and Climate Central 2012-07-23T20:56:24Z Scouting Out a Paradise: Books, Music and No Adults Wes Anderson makes films about small worlds in which big things happen: love, heartbreak, calamities, death. Movie Review: Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom,’ With Bruce Willis 2012-05-24T22:46:29Z The sympathetic young actor Jacob Lofland lights up the American independent movie “Little Accidents,” an earnest, schematic, pocket-size drama about three people struggling under the weight of a calamity. ‘Little Accidents,’ an Independent Movie by Sara Colangelo 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z The immigration of a century ago was at least somewhat orderly, with its processing centers and its record-keeping, even though people were sometimes fleeing persecution or calamity. Antwerp to Ellis Island: Journey of a Lifetime 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z The result is calamity and misunderstanding, which O’Hanlon recounts as jungle slapstick. These epic travel disasters will take the edge off your wanderlust 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z It turns out both her parents were alcoholics, partly explaining, at least in her mind, why even before the calamity, she was one messed-up kid. A troubled teen in flight from a nuclear meltdown 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Either it's a cultural calamity, in which yet another generation of young women is served a nutritionally poor diet of McMusic laced with lies about intergender relations. One Direction – review 2013-04-06T23:06:21Z But, Burns pointed out, the gay community mobilized in response to every calamity. Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z In Lee’s telling, Sept. 11 is not just a matter of terrorism but also the opening act to decades of calamity and uproar. Is 9/11 a Day, or Is It an Era? 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Everyone in town is conversant with these calamities, the figures involved and the attendant risks of speaking to the police. Review | Make room for ‘Big Girl, Small Town’ 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Two volumes would seem excessive, but Luce’s pathological need to invent and reinvent herself, her restless, acquisitive drive to conquer new worlds and her cascading calamities end up providing plenty of vivid material. Book Review Podcast: The Life of Clare Boothe Luce 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Using a metal detector, he found remnants of the calamity, including a horse’s bit. On a General’s Trail, Summoning America’s History 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Some 2,300 years ago, Chinese sage Mencius wrote, “When heaven sends down calamities, there is hope of weathering them; when man brings them upon himself, there is no hope of escape.” Review | In the galleries: Images focus on the future of the planet 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z The question is whether it’s drip, drip, drip or a calamity in the making. ‘Flash Boys’: skimming fortunes on a rigged Wall Street 2014-04-04T20:58:57Z The U.S. government establishes a bipartisan panel to investigate; people settle on the phrase “Sudden Departure” to refer to the event, and they prepare for further calamities that, for some reason, never arrive. The Leftovers: Tom Perrotta's Rapture 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z As an eleven-year-old, Henry was involved in—and excoriated by his neighbors for—a calamity. “Castle Rock,” Reviewed: A Grab Bag of Stephen King Tropes Is Freshest When It Confronts the Real World 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z It takes actual physical calamity — and a life-endangering wildlife encounter — to break them down sufficiently to the point where they can help each other face what's next. "Booksmart" and the art of losing control: A platonic rom-com's lessons cross generational lines 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z And again, for the record, not every day teetered between calamity and catastrophe. Teaching ate me alive 2012-09-15T19:00:00Z Both books help young readers understand calamities in our past, offering valuable lessons on how they inform our present and future. Review | Best new children’s and YA books to read this month 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The film's final scenes haven't yet been written; whether the story ends happily or in calamity depends, in part, on these urinals. Simon de Pury: the Mick Jagger of art auctions 2010-04-18T20:30:00Z In fact, Fogerty recalled at an awards ceremony in Beverly Hills on Tuesday that he has suffered greater calamities. John Fogerty philosophical after Nashville floods 2010-05-19T08:51:00Z It could be the number of pieces he needs to slurp up any calamity Sally's offspring could possibly create. The Hard Sell: Plenty 2012-09-28T23:05:00Z Mildred’s imperfections rage on screen, compelling viewers to rubberneck as we do with most calamities. ‘The messier, the better’: The righteously angry women who dominate this year’s Oscars 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Though cruisers surged through town, there were no calamities or crises. When Americans land in trouble abroad, these expats step in 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Physical calamity is certainly no stranger to comedy. Subway Accident Is Fodder for Liza Dye’s Comedy Routine 2014-05-06T20:12:37Z The reflection between Sarat’s private ordeal and the country’s vast, ongoing calamity is sustained by a series of intercalary chapters: excerpts from history books, news reports, memoirs and speeches. ‘American War’ follows today’s vitriol to a dystopian future 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z A typical Hollywood production would require someone to have an argument or misunderstanding prior to the wave hitting, just to heighten regrets and increase the sense of calamity. The Impossible: Naomi Watts Keeps This Disaster Film Afloat 2012-12-20T10:45:08Z It’s a horror movie, a fairy tale contorted into a calamity. Taylor Swift Goes to a Darker Place: Discuss 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z The story opens with calamity: During a terrible storm on the Lockless plantation, a horse-drawn carriage crashes off a bridge into an icy river. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z It is stunningly well-paced, starting with "a great bellow from upstairs – a cry of despondency so deep that it sounded less a response to a single calamity than like grief over a whole life". Big Brother by Lionel Shriver – review 2013-05-25T08:01:30Z At one point during that dream dinner, someone refers to fears that fans would not return after a certain calamity. Theater Review: ‘Bronx Bombers’ at Circle in the Square 2014-02-07T03:00:14Z In June, the financially strapped state government of Rio de Janeiro received $850 million in emergency federal funds after declaring a “state of public calamity” that it said threatened its ability to meet Olympic commitments. Why you should care about the Olympics, even if you don’t care about the Olympics 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Environmental and economic calamities never remain geographically confined, as the filmmakers detail in sections that focus, if superficially, on China, Africa and South America. | 'Surviving Progress': ?Surviving Progress,? Based on Ronald Wright Book 2012-04-05T23:07:51Z This distillation is not limited to material things that one carries across the final calamity. Understanding apocalyptic events through literature 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z As infamous as it is now, it’s easy to forget that the calamity seemed to drift to international attention as if by accident. An Enthralling and Terrifying History of the Nuclear Meltdown at Chernobyl 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z There were other calamities, too, from which Bowie, ever the escapologist, managed to flee unscathed, and even with his reputation—or his catalogue of hits—enhanced. David Bowie in the Movies 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The book spends much of its time trapped in the drowsy, malevolent bardo of its heroine’s increasingly sinister confinement, every hour a slow drip of impending calamity. A Cabin in the Woods, Intermittent Wi-Fi and a Dead Landline 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z It takes place in the movie’s first few minutes, so it’s giving nothing away to say that the calamity cuts short Dominika’s dance career. In ballet, injuries are all too real 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Almost every year some sort of crisis or calamity threatens to dim the event or challenge the winners to find an appropriate response. The TV Watch: Master of Ceremonies, Not Civility 2011-01-17T05:43:03Z “The Amish Project” examines the effect of a modern calamity on a traditional, sequestered community. Review: Finding Their Inner Goddesses in ‘The Convent’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z In calamity, “people just become themselves. But ever so much more so,” she wrote in “Rat Bohemia.” A New Testament to the Fury and Beauty of Activism During the AIDS Crisis 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z In the end, the Metropolitan Opera and two of its unions agreed that to avoid the calamities that have silenced swaths of the classical music world, they would have to scale back. In Met Opera Deal, Both Sides Give 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z The linked performances of stars like Lewis and Sophie Thatcher, as Natalie, suggest a continuum between past and present, while also indicating how the crash and the calamities that followed changed these women profoundly. ‘Yellowjackets’ Leans in to Savagery 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z It’s a great film, but it was also a money pit, and a grievous financial calamity for the filmmaker. The Misplaced Nostalgia for Movies Like “The Graduate” 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Though it's never clear just what calamity has ruined the landscape - a meteor? a nuclear war? - the knights bravely carry on as long as they can. 2 updated visions of Wagner's last opera 2011-02-21T13:16:05Z So unedited was she that you mourn her absence especially acutely now, for her voice would surely help cut through the political hypocrisies and calamities we’re living through. Review | Jayne Atkinson brings Gov. Ann Richards back to exuberant life in ‘Ann’ 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Gravity is about two astronauts facing calamity in outer space. In pictures: Oscar best film nominees 2014-01-16T16:35:00Z A riot is neither a solution nor an unforeseen calamity but a problem brought to the surface: a manifestation of social angst and official failure. Why the Specials' Ghost Town is still the sound of a country in crisis 2011-08-09T15:42:04Z As the calamities — earthquakes, rescues, communication failures and a last-minute celestial chemistry experiment — compound, the only shock of the new is that it’s the same as the old. ‘The Wandering Earth’ Review: Planetary Disaster Goes Global 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z "Today there is an opportunity to avoid calamity, with sufficient international focus and pressure brought to bear on both southern and - particularly - northern leaders." George Clooney in Southern Sudan over war worries 2010-10-06T14:52:00Z “A benefit of writing is that it makes one less susceptible to the numerous irritations and calamities of the world beyond the desk,” Dyer writes. In ‘The Last Days of Roger Federer,’ Geoff Dyer Ponders the Twilight 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z That seemed odd, given the calamity that had just befallen him. It took a dog to make me a better human 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z The calamity of the stone stack, in our anxious times, seems admittedly minor. People Are Stacking Too Many Stones 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z It is a brave soul who reanimates one of the most beloved soaps of the 80s, not least within recent memory of the ratings calamity that was the Dallas reboot. Dynasty: a camp classic rebooted for the 21st century 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z But if the calamity is staring us in the face, so, too, is the solution. Perspective | A native plant guru’s radical vision for the American yard 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z With the calamity apparently caused by North Korea taking umbrage at Seth Rogen’s The Interview, the mood around the corporation towards another shock-tactic comedy may not have been one of giddy excitement. Is it cos I is wack? The rise and fall of Sacha Baron Cohen 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z You can compare it to any great calamity. Writing the Play His Curiosity Led Him To 2011-01-27T23:00:09Z Rendered in world-historical terms in the 1997 documentary “When We Were Kings,” here it’s depicted as a career calamity for Foreman: his first loss, one he took hard. ‘Big George Foreman’ Review: Not the Biopic a Two-time Champ Deserves 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Now my mowing life has moved into something clouded in calamity and odd transgressions. He liked to mow his own lawn. Until the ‘helpful’ neighbor came along Eventually, you realize that the reason your calamity is being treated as a mere inconvenience is that that is what it is. Slowing Down, Finding Hidden Paradise on St. John 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z By crafting rich poems that respond to 19th-century phrases — “In the latest fashion,” “The calamity was not serious” — Beasley seems to free expression from time and other restraints. The three best poetry books for June 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z They may give views of two characters, as when Ma is inside the shack beckoning to Cash outside; or additional perspectives of a single calamity, such as when Addie’s coffin is lost in a river. As I Lay Dying: James Franco Does William Faulkner 2013-05-22T08:40:13Z It should be free of calamities, of course: the puddle upon which you slip and sprain your ankle, the overflowing toilet bowl, the broken stall door that leads to the embarrassing intrusion. Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z It’s essentially a pageant of man-made calamity, the mingled one-note tales of rich and poor voyagers headed to America with storied pasts or grand hopes. Voices raised ebulliently, passengers of ‘Titanic’ head for the deep 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z “Just like any natural calamity, it happened without foresight, while they were having tea on the small terrace of their room, looking at the peaceful river bathed in the morning light.” Books of The Times: No Safe Harbor for Travelers in ‘The Other Language’ 2014-03-30T21:47:39Z If the calamity of those deaths weighed on the family it doesn’t register in “Mozart’s Sister,” which unfolds at the end of a long tour that began in 1763 when Wolfgang was 7. | 'Mozart?s Sister': The Other Child in Papa Mozart?s Musical Troupe 2011-08-18T23:26:03Z The calamity also birthed the Shetani, a monstrous creature that has terrorized the city ever since. 4 New Y.A. Fantasy Novels Full of Dark, Enchanting Twists 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z So is his apparent belief in the inevitability of calamity. Keith McNally Stirs the Pot 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z Like the Old Testament Job, Chanda struggles under the weight of all these calamities, but she doesn't buckle. Life, Above All: A Frank Capra Vision of a Devastating Plight 2011-07-14T09:20:00Z Your children's childhoods as you watch them unscroll are always indexed to your own, visibly and invisibly, their incidents and pleasures and calamities snarled with your own. Maps and Legends, Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon | Book review 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z The frosty body language between Castorf and the two women at a pre-opening press conference did nothing to dispel fears that the festival was headed for another public row, and possibly an artistic calamity. Oil-themed Wagner 'Ring' catching fire for his 200th 2013-07-27T22:17:20Z Then there are the accidents and calamities that come standard with showbiz. Horror stories of that holiday favorite "The Nutcracker" 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z I continued on my odyssey, learning from each calamity. 'I wanted to explore my own pleasure' – how I rebooted my sex life 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z But this quirky anecdote then leads to calamity: Ms. Sheldrick had been wrong. Books of The Times: ‘Granddad, There’s a Head on the Beach’ and Other Summer Reads 2012-05-24T22:43:29Z We see this calamity take place in shadow-play as the show begins. Review: ‘The Last Two People on Earth’ Offers Soft-Shoe Après Déluge 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Charging from one calamity to another, at the mercy of escaped prisoners and marauding looters, our six run the gantlet of a tradition that tells us that only one is likely to emerge alive. Movie Review: ‘Aftershock,’ Directed by Nicolás López 2013-05-10T01:11:55Z As each day brings more COVID-19 cases, more deaths, more strain on our healthcare system resources, the White House cannot even mention the calamity by name with its small token tree. There's no comfort & joy in Melania Trump's bleak and impersonal Christmas decor 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z Who knew he died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, racing toward the calamity out of unquenchable curiosity while others were fleeing for their lives? Review: ‘Placebo,’ With Carrie Coon, Opens at Playwrights Horizons 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z The record's stealthy first half feels like roaming a ghost town in the aftermath of some unexplained calamity. Boards of Canada: Tomorrow's Harvest – review 2013-06-06T20:15:01Z I remember trying to fight everything, trying to save everyone from every calamity. BBC Sound Of 2015: George The Poet 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z It’s a warm film about paranoia, an amiable one about calamity, an optimistic one about catastrophe. Jacques Rivette’s Thirteen-Hour Experimental Film 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Sandbagging in the Shadow of the Mississippi An environmental calamity cannot be easy to wrangle onto the stage. | 'On the Levee': Tamping Down a Flood at the Duke on 42nd Street 2010-06-29T02:37:00Z David Lewis' Seven Year Twitch, a comedy of marital calamity, is new at the Orange Tree in Richmond. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-05-17T14:35:33Z That means resisting the urge to prevent personal calamities. "The Adam Project" digs into the essential sadness of Ryan Reynolds' heroes 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z Jews will reflect on these two historic calamities along with many others. Frederick Douglass, July 4th, and remembering Babylon in America 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z It’s smart short-term strategy, but it’s doing damage to our lexicon, and setting the path for an American calamity if she loses. A tale of two populisms: Do you want to live in Donald Trump’s New York or Bob Dylan’s America? 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Why create an unreal version of the calamity that had hypnotized us into muttering, “It’s unreal”? Perspective | How 9/11 altered the fiction landscape in 13 novels 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z In the general calamity, it’s been easy to overlook the enormous implications this move will have for restaurants, streets and neighborhoods. 9 Ways Outdoor Dining Will Change New York 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z The millions displaced by that calamity couldn't have foreseen the "purification" of peoples that was to accompany the quest for national identities. Mehdi Hassan's songs live on as Pakistan and India unite in mourning 2012-06-14T12:47:46Z Jack, on the other hand, is a calamity, and Mr. Perry, who has spoken about his own alcohol and drug addictions, doesn’t try to make the picture prettier than it is. Review: In Matthew Perry’s First Play, a Chandler Gone to Seed 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z So I think you are wholly justified in denouncing this work as a hideous aesthetic calamity. I am named in a terrible book 2013-01-16T01:00:00Z Calamity onscreen can be edited out; calamity onstage is an inescapable shadow. What “Fences” Misses About Adapting Plays for the Screen 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z “Fear of Death” deals with the biggest issues yet — environmental calamity, American anti-exceptionalism, individual obsolescence, middle-aged mortality, and how it will feel when the green space of our graveyards gets sold to some high-rise developer. Tim Heidecker found fame through absurdist humor. His new album ‘Fear of Death’ is no laughing matter. 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z But history shows that in the wake of calamities, human life often loses out to economic imperatives. As states weigh human lives versus the economy, history suggests the economy often wins 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z It’s time to address the calamity that is Penn Station. Architecture: A Proposal for Penn Station and Madison Square Garden 2012-02-08T16:59:06Z Other real calamities — economic, domestic terrorism, natural disasters — seem to have taken over that part of the cultural subcortex where fear is stored. The Media Equation: TV Justice Thrives on Fear 2011-05-22T22:00:04Z Caligula was an embarrassing calamity, but it was at least fun to make. Malcolm McDowell: 'I have no memory of doing most of my films' 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Chapter by chapter, we shift back and forth, from the ever-swelling calamities at the academy to the absurd machinations of Hollywood. Review | Emily M. Danforth’s ‘Plain Bad Heroines’ mixes up a delectable brew of gothic horror and Hollywood satire 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Across the Atlantic, Germany was suffering its second economic calamity in less than a decade. What the 21st century can learn from the 1929 crash | Larry Elliott 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z In the film, Howard Bryant, an writer, calls the years since the mid-’90s a period of simultaneous “renaissance and calamity,” in which record attendance is set against the steroid scandal’s shame. Baseball Continued: Between Rebirth and Calamity 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z Didion famously drew her own inspiration from William Butler Yeats's "Second Coming," which brings the calamity of history's tipping points brutally to life. Andrew Bird narrates the "Inside Problems" that plague our atomized age 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Then she straddled the car, finally collapsing on the hood as a woman riding by on a bicycle did a double-take, wondering perhaps if she had spotted a true calamity or someone famous. The Stylist B. Akerlund on Her Looks for Beyoncé and Other Stars 2013-12-19T01:04:06Z By contrast, the 1 percent and the other global plutocrats and oligarchs are planning for the future and what they see to be an inevitable calamity. As billionaires prep for the apocalyptic "Event," what happens to everyone else? 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Mallon’s 10th novel tracks a love affair between two Texans who get together while working for George W. Bush’s administration as the calamities of Iraq and Katrina unfold. New in Paperback: ‘Spies of No Country’ and ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z The current crop of novels handles the dark subject matter more delicately, focusing on character development and relationships against the backdrop of a global calamity. ‘Station Eleven’ Joins Fall’s Crop of Dystopian Novels 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Swenson does a service simply by capturing the daily demoralization of existence in such a place: “It was hard to tally the net effect all this institutional calamity had on your average Clevelander,” he writes. Exonerated for a Murder They Didn’t Commit 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Zeke’s wife, Eliza, who works in the Vault, fears the consequences of the illegal letter, and she sets in motion a series of events that leads to calamity. ‘Bats of the Republic’ review: Two intertwined and echoing stories 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z NBC would like to think that the post-baby boomers are molded not by war or economic calamity, but by their parents’ breakups. Television Review: NBC Rolls Out ‘About a Boy’ and ‘Growing Up Fisher’ 2014-02-21T23:28:58Z The fashion sense adds to the pleasure as this deft cast comically flutters and stings against Roper’s backdrop of looming national calamity. Review | ‘She Rode Horses’ gallops through the housing collapse 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z For me, growing up in a household where feelings were rarely discussed, journaling was a lifeline — a way to process the big emotions and ordinary calamities of childhood. Perspective | How (and why) to start a journaling practice with kids 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z A hundred thousand people die, on a godforsaken peninsula; a hundred years later, to take advantage of that calamity, one kid tells someone else, half a world away, to decapitate another human being. Why Do We Remember Gallipoli? 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z Five years and several personal and professional calamities later, Franco’s Zeroville made its theatrical debut – on one screen in one theater in New York. Zero stars: is James Franco's starry Zeroville the worst film of 2019? 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z But though his excitement is infectious, the more I see of it the more nervous I can't help feeling, for if ever there was a recipe for hubristic calamity this must be it. Working Piers 2011-01-17T08:00:05Z Its layers of rising figures in ostinato patterns, quickly changing meters, percussive passages of nearly breezy swing feel, along with others possessed of stark calamity, call to mind elements of musical history in unexpected ways. ‘It’s Anthony’s Time’: A Composer Gets His Due 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Whether either belief system offers meaningful comfort in the face of calamity is left for us to ponder. Television Review: In ‘Questioning Darwin,’ No Easy Answers 2014-02-09T20:21:21Z Andrews’s Gothic novels of family calamity, is a case of truth in advertising. ‘The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart’ Review: The Right Kind of Melodrama 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z The rest of the novel examines the impact of this calamity on the two sets of grieving parents and on young Monsoor. ‘The Association of Small Bombs’: A novel of terror based on the author’s life 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z The world still felt like a calamity clown car. When the World Feels Like a Disaster, ‘9-1-1’ Is on Call 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z She said it related to “the political moment: something about a moment of hubris and potential calamity.” Putting Art on a Pedestal in London 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z The production is so full of vivid life that the prospect of calamity seems incredible, recalling the overhyped storm warnings on television. Review: ‘Pike St.,’ Where One Woman Speaks for All 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z A failure in any one area can lead to calamity. Danger in numbers ? can mega-gigs ever truly be safe? 2011-07-20T20:31:00Z For Judd, embodied by Jason Bateman with his usual air of beleaguered responsibility, a family reunion following a marital calamity is a nightmare. Fractious Family Mourns in ‘This Is Where I Leave You’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z But while Netrebko’s career continued to skyrocket, calamity struck Villazón: He began to crack on some high notes, a tenor’s lifeblood. A Tenor’s Met Career Seemed Over. Not So Fast. 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The storm is just the first of several calamities that will darken this comic novel as it shifts into dystopic tones. Review | Lydia Millet’s ‘A Children’s Bible’ is a blistering classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z But none of these changes have been justified in terms of character, only calamity. Review: Sisters Plot Their Escapes From ‘Napoli, Brooklyn’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z This time the lovers—one soaring up toward fulfillment and fame, the other hurtling down from celebrity toward incipient calamity—are played to dramatic and musical perfection by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. ‘A Star Is Born’ Review: A Brilliant Reincarnation 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z “Divorce” and its contemporaries — “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” “The Affair,” “Scenes From a Marriage” — suggest that divorce is not necessarily calamity or deliverance. Stand by Your Man? On TV, as in Life, There Are Alternatives 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Yes, the Japanese villagers rendered homeless by the calamity were often so calm and self-possessed that their constant offers of cookies and candies embarrassed the foreign journalists who sought to interview them. Waves of Destruction, Physical and Spiritual, Buffet Japan 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z It was a pop-culture calamity, a soulless, passionless film whose only real effect was to smudge the happy memories of the three originals. Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace 3D ? review 2012-02-09T21:45:00Z Their union is born of calamity as Lucien rescues Marie-Ange from a violent attempt to overthrow Duvalier, an effort that ends up disappearing her father and her siblings. Inside a House in Queens, a Dark Side of the Immigrant Story 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z For Mr. Koolhaas, the architecture is, like 1970s New York, a kind of revelation, calamity and unfolding experiment. Why Rem Koolhaas Brought a Tractor to the Guggenheim 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Flying into Cancun is a breeze from most cities, and there are tens of thousands of beachside rooms from which to watch the calamity, or lack thereof, unfold. End of the world 2012-06-12T14:58:00Z Oliver considers the election of Donald Trump to the presidency this year “a giant calamity.” John Oliver Bids Farewell to the Year on 'Last Week Tonight' 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z The sound failed—O calamity!—in the final scene. “The Godfather” at the Philharmonic 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Sprinting back to the table, she trips and sprawls headlong onto the sidewalk, the full calamity of her fall blocked from the camera’s view by a parked car. Movie Review: ‘Frances Ha,’ With Greta Gerwig 2013-05-16T21:27:33Z A strange narrative sleight of hand associates Godzilla with nuclear calamity but muddies the actual causal relationship. Godzilla review – big, scary monsters but no bite in satire-stripped remake 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Some of the work here is overly literal, but that points to the difficulties of creating nuanced art in the middle of a calamity. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z “The Bleeding Edge” isn’t an anti-medical film, but a look at calamities caused when the obsession for profit overwhelms an industry. Review: In ‘The Bleeding Edge,’ Victims of Medical Devices 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Skeptics forecast calamity for retailers and commercial real estate. Challenging Mayor de Blasio Over Times Square Plazas 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z “In the end,” Mr. von Trier said in a 1996 interview, “Justine thanks God for his goodness in letting her survive all the calamities — after which she is struck by lightning and burns to death.” The Oscars: Manohla Dargis Looks at the Overture to ?Melancholia? 2011-12-30T17:03:44Z Given that she was a calamity in financial management, that proved difficult. ‘Little House on the Prairie’ and the Truth About the American West 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z E Nesbit, too, predicated her stories on calamity; everything that happens in The Railway Children is a result of the children's father's imprisonment. Book doctor: Are children's books darker than they used to be? 2013-06-24T16:30:35Z Largely, they are almost interchangeable windup dolls, programmed to bump their way through an obstacle course of calamity and bad karma. ‘The Old Woman,’ With Willem Dafoe and Mikhail Baryshnikov 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z After the French newspaper Le Monde ran a story Thursday describing the cockroaches as the “latest calamity” to hit Naples, he threatened legal action against anyone he said was unfairly harming the city’s reputation. Naples’ giant cockroaches 2012-07-13T13:54:00Z The most dramatic early example was a product of personal calamity. Growing, Faltering, Changing, Growing: Lessons From Kay WalkingStick 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Changed by his brush with death, and swaggering over his promotion to maid, Gary begins to sense even bigger possibilities for advancement in the midst of calamity. Review: Taylor Mac’s ‘Gary’ Finds Hope and Humor on a Pile of Corpses 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z The further she pushes boundaries with her clients, the steeper the potential for calamity escalates. Nicole Kidman is ready to Goop you now in Hulu's hollow "Nine Perfect Strangers" 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Pericles flees for his life, marries Thaisa, the daughter of King Simonides, and has a daughter, Marina, loses them both, endures multiple calamities, and then is eventually reunited with his family. The Continual Riddle of Shakespeare’s “Pericles” 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z It also inaugurated a lifetime so filled with calamities of all sizes — “rabies, broken bones, typhoid fever, the loss of a king, the death of an infant” — that Edith began to believe her family cursed. Books of The Times: The Arrogant Years ? By Lucette Lagnado ? Review 2011-09-08T22:27:21Z In 1933, aged 18, he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, passing through a Europe on the brink of calamity. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper – review 2012-10-12T21:55:11Z “I wanted to write a play about the stories we tell each other in the face of calamity—the pretty lies and the brutal truths,” Burns told the . Steven Soderbergh Making NYC Theater Debut with School Shooting Play 2014-01-17T16:12:12Z Even so, as Lorraine’s choices double down on those of her mother, the pileup of calamities will propel audiences from the theater with a fuller understanding of the need to self-medicate. | 'The Arbor': A Playwright?s Legacy, Kindled by Addiction and Neglect 2011-04-26T22:56:00Z But the underlying motivation for regular rentals may be the shoppers’ high, the pressure of cultural expectations and the curious and inexplicable belief in the certain social calamity of re-wearing party clothes. Rent the Runway means you can always wear something new. Should you have to? 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z The bad Moses displaced hundreds of thousands of poor people and foisted other calamities on the city. How to Transform Penn Station: Move the Garden 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Like a hard-up version of a 1970s disaster movie, “Last Passenger” drops a disparate group of people in the path of a calamity, then watches as they wriggle to escape. Movie Review: ‘Last Passenger’ Is Set on a Runaway Train 2014-04-24T23:48:54Z We also examine the thrills and calamities which result when writers of literary fiction turn to horror. Guardian Books podcast: Lauren Beukes and Joe Hill on horror writing 2013-06-07T15:39:11Z We’re stuck, as we usually are, projecting our own sympathetic sorrow on the calamities of others. Review | Maggie O’Farrell’s ‘Hamnet’ reimagines the life and death of Shakespeare’s only son 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z That kind of seeing — the old, original bliss — proved irrecoverable, as calamity continued to hammer Gorky down. Arshile Gorky’s Art of Bliss Remembered 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Anger and why-me-ism are beyond her; she even forgives the husband who, unable to deal with the calamity, fled. Review: In ‘Mary Jane,’ a Young Mother Faces Her Worst Fears 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Famine and disease haunt the living, but not even the dead are spared the calamities of Yemen's two-year-old civil war. Ancient mummies rot as Yemen war vexes even the dead 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z However aghast and pained he is at the mounting calamities in his brother’s life, there is a part of him that not so secretly reveled in being the survivor. Books Of the Times: ‘The Splendid Things We Planned,’ Blake Bailey’s Memoir 2014-02-23T22:48:06Z This seemed like a good moment to bring up the subject of a three-point calamity that shaped the young Ms. Allred. The Avenger: Gloria Allred 2010-06-18T22:27:00Z The story is, in part, an allegory for the fallout from the nuclear bombs dropped by the United States during World War II — where Akira represents the bomb and Tetsuo is the dreaded next calamity. Why the pioneering Japanese anime ‘Akira’ is still relevant 30 years later 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Potential crisis and calamity, those are the attractions. ArtsBeat: Channel Surfing: 'Ice Pilots NWT' 2012-03-05T12:30:48Z Around the Arctic, the pattern was consistent, and scientists were building the case that polar bears were the first in a long series of future calamities attributable to global warming. Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z The villagers, masked white, already mourning the calamity, march slowly on the compound, swinging lanterns. Review: ‘The Woman Warrior,’ by Maxine Hong Kingston 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “The Convent” is in some ways the inverse of that, examining the effect of a sequestered community on a modern calamity. Review: Finding Their Inner Goddesses in ‘The Convent’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z While the ideal is an orchestra that plays 52 weeks a year, he added, “it’s not a calamity” to use freelancers. Survival Strategies for Orchestras 2011-05-25T18:35:56Z For the 62-year-old composer and England's first distinctive musical voice in two centuries, victory represented the conflict's final, irreversible calamity. Yo-Yo Ma is marvelous during a strange night at Hollywood Bowl 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z The war, after all, is a great scrambler of human beings, a calamity as adept at forging relationships as breaking them apart. Review | Sarah Winman’s ‘Still Life’ feels like a Saturday night among old friends 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Faithful, fast-paced, and largely entertaining, this new Rocky Horror Picture Show is neither the calamity fans like myself were fearing nor the triumph that we were all hoping for. The Rocky Horror Picture Show: dammit Janet, it doesn't quite work 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z What fearsome calamity could wreak that kind of damage? Books of The Times: Life After Apocalypse in Justin Cronin?s ?Passage? 2010-06-06T21:22:00Z From there we continued, with some calamity, to Chicago. | Personal Journeys: A Cross-Country Drive With a Guru 2012-05-20T05:44:06Z The chapters devoted to the arrest of the parents and how the children cope with the calamity form the beating heart of the book. Canada by Richard Ford - review 2012-05-25T09:00:01Z About to turn 84 years old, and after 50 years as a published author, DeLillo wants to clarify a universal calamity: mortality. In Don DeLillo’s New Novel, Technology Is Dead. Civilization Might Be, Too. 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z The Times once described one of her matches as “mesmerizing, like any passing calamity.” The Particular Drama of Simona Halep 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Emanuel used safety pins, hooks and stitches to secure the train and make sure calamity didn't strike. Diana's dressmaker: Kate's style will be different 2011-03-18T12:46:04Z The gravitational pull of Rigoletto’s moral calamity was no match for Bernheim’s Duke, who, operating on another plane afforded him by wealth and position, ignored any force that tried to contain him. Review: At the Met Opera, a Tenor Arrives in ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z That is all to say, Harding’s novels frequently feature characters taking quiet steps through calamity. Paul Harding Captures the Quiet Side of Calamity 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z The true calamity of clean eating is not that it is entirely false. Why we fell for clean eating 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Bock does not entirely avoid the schematic or the sentimental in depicting the temperamental changes that take place as Emily reckons with her calamity. | 'A Small Fire': A Sense of Touch, a Sense of Life 2011-01-07T03:30:20Z This novel follows two teams of scientists, one studying life in the Arctic and the other working to stave off calamity. New & Noteworthy, From Russian Satire to the Comet Apocalypse 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z He does stage a moment of wild, fiery calamity between the two parents, now childless, but this high drama reveals nothing about who they are or why they’re still stuck together. Books of The Times: ‘Hikikomori and the Rental Sister,’ by Jeff Backhaus 2013-01-29T22:33:33Z It ends with an exhilarating, disorientating whoosh as the camera suddenly reverses away from the scene, as if recoiling from imminent calamity. The Fighter ? review 2011-02-03T22:00:02Z The film opens, like a disaster movie, on the last moments before calamity strikes: in 1981, on Fire Island, whose habitues are enjoying a sun-drenched weekend of sexual freedom. REVIEW: The Normal Heart 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z It’s a tragic narrative, filled with calamities, yet never somber or dreary. Novels by Kathleen Alcott, Vu Tran and Alaa Al Aswany; a Memoir by David Payne 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z To cite the most unusual element: Many a musical could be described as a car crash, but I can’t think of any in which such a calamity figures as a dramatic turning point. Review: ‘On Your Feet!’ Rides the Rhythm of the Estefans 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Confined by circumstance, it is mostly without passion, lacking the swollen strife of the grandest operas; there are no turbulent love affairs, no corrosive jealousies, no religious ecstasies, no unfathomable calamities. A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z A crazy Scottish man preventing calamity by pushing a button. Jacking it in 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z And now this story of passion, of growth, of turmoil and confusion, of triumph over so many calamities – of my grandparents' undemonstrative but trustworthy caring – is a musical. The Color Purple: A story of thanks 2013-07-12T18:30:00Z The director, Rory Kennedy, only lightly explores the science behind the calamity, and the film never stretches beyond a layperson’s knowledge. ‘The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari’ Review: A Seismic Tragedy 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Helpless in the face of these environmental calamities, many of us are probably feeling a measure of “solastalgia.” Plays of Helplessness, and Hope, as the Planet Burns 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z As calamities and political conflicts around the world accumulate, and it is ever more tempting to throw up your hands, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival is fighting the tide of cynicism and despair. Film: Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Lincoln Center 2010-06-11T04:51:00Z For Hong, the wreckage behind every unmade film is a virtual screenplay for every one that gets made, every personal calamity is a potential triumph of art. The Hong Sang-soo Retrospective Is a Must-See 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Cultural Emergency Response will need to help “create the infrastructure” for countries threatened by natural calamities to be prepared, Ms. Letschert said. When Culture Is Threatened, They Come to the Rescue 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z It’s a promise that Foer will deal seriously in calamity and death and another grim rewrite of a millennia-old Jewish story. Jonathan Safran Foer’s ‘Here I Am’ chronicles troubles at home and abroad 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z It keeps its focus on one particular event within the initial calamity: the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince collapsed, and thousands of inmates escaped. Television Review: Lawlessness and Need Survive in Shaken Haiti 2011-01-10T22:59:12Z Welcome to the fictional borough of London called Diston, "Where calamity made its rounds like a postman." 'Lionel Asbo': from brothel to brawl and back in dystopian England 2012-09-13T20:25:05Z Because Pryce kept his financial calamities such a secret, his wife had no way of knowing that they couldn’t afford it. Mad Men Watch: Farewell, Lane 2012-06-04T10:50:32Z “Oh, it’s so heavy…” Tedeschi cried out in the chorus, giving artistic emphasis to the exhaustion that is inevitable when hearing the bad news of climate crisis and man made calamity. The inspiring poetics of Tedeschi Trucks Band 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z These “gift calamities,” as George describes the appearances of Charles and Francesca, just occurred. | 'The Woodmans': Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Suicide 2011-01-18T23:30:09Z The moment of "stopped time" will be drawn out into calamity, terror and a long, long aftermath. 'The Round House': Louise Erdrich's novel of a brutal assault and its aftermath 2012-10-10T21:57:03Z My first thought was a calamity caused by global warming. On the Runway Blog: Marc Jacobs: Left Undernourished By the Final Course 2013-09-13T21:14:46Z As the cast sings in an epilogue, this show is all about “the thrill of the kill — romance, blood, calamity,” adding drolly, “That’s entertainment!” Critic’s Notebook: ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ and ‘Murder Ballad’ 2013-05-23T02:00:01Z Across two decades, a move to Wyoming, three children, several books by Fuller and eventual financial calamities, the warp and weft of their life together frays and eventually unravels. ‘Leaving Before the Rains Come’: the latest chapter in a life chaotically lived 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The only lessons I had as a child were piano lessons, and believe me, the $3 my determined mother forked over to Mrs. Donohue every Saturday morning for two years was a musical calamity. Generation B: It?s All Downhill From Here 2010-03-25T23:02:00Z He’s still an unparalleled choreographer of outrageous calamities that exist somewhere between coincidence and fate. John Irving’s ‘Avenue of Mysteries’: One writer’s beginnings 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Parents, at least in the United States, often frame most of what they’re doing with their children as the avoidance of calamity. We choose to be anxious, stressed, afraid: “We set ourselves the goal of trying to avoid things that are utterly out of our control” 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Whether a real cat or simply an overdetermined metaphor, the animal or actually the quest instigates a series of calamities that leaves one man badly wounded and the other professionally disgraced. New Directors/New Films Festival Highlights Bold Narrative Experiments 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z But in another sense, the sheer repetitiveness of the calamities that befell Rome only serves to underline the book’s most urgent message. What the Fall of the Roman Republic Can Teach Us About America 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z After years visiting the aftermath of suicide bombings, covering natural calamities and being embedded with military forces, Barker grew tired of seeing bodies. 'The Taliban Shuffle' more relevant with bin Laden death 2011-05-06T19:32:00Z Even for a city like New Orleans, which has been bouncing back from calamities viral, meteorological and otherwise for three centuries, the last couple of years have been rough. In New Orleans, Time-Tested Charms and Some Bright New Baubles 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z And then, if Wright and his collaborators have their way, it should feel like a calamity, with that dream broken and exhausted and deferred. Can’t Repeat the Past? An Immersive ‘Great Gatsby’ Thinks You Can. 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z The rehearsal period for the premiere of “The Threepenny Opera” is the stuff of theatrical legend: calamities worthy of a screwball comedy. ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z That layers additional calamity upon the ending of Joel and Ellie's cross-country odyssey. "Last of Us" creators on the finale, a game "genetic connection" and what they won't do in Season 2 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z A few words of pained regret are muttered; a larger coffee cup is quickly secured, and with an apologetic look and minimal spillage, the calamity is averted. Hugh Grant contemplates the complexities of a film actor’s life 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z So the old argument has proved false: open borders don’t necessarily spell calamity for the music’s foundations. 2010-01-08T03:22:00Z Technological change and the calamity of 9/11 yielded new tools for mass surveillance and the incentive to use them. In Edward Snowden’s New Memoir, the Disclosures This Time Are Personal 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Herzog has published a handful of nonfiction books, including “Of Walking in Ice” and “Conquest of the Useless,” an account of the calamities that befell the production of “Fitzcarraldo.” Werner Herzog’s Fever Dreams 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Murakami was thrown into contemplation about life, death and art’s role in the midst of calamity. Wildly popular exhibition of Takashi Murakami’s art opens Saturday in Vancouver, B.C. 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z This subtle urgency opens our own awareness, lens-like, upon the implied human task, larger than any single calamity — that of attending to relentless change, loss, finitude. Review | In Joshua Henkin’s ‘Morningside Heights,’ a married couple copes with an unexpected illness 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z An initial version, starring Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, was dumped after a series of calamities meant shooting had to stop. In a film festival far, far away, Cannes puts art over commerce 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z A calamity can also be an opportunity, for ambitious politicians, and not least for a second-term president, now liberated to think decades ahead. Critic's Notebook: In L’Aquila, Italy, Lessons for Rebuilding From Storm 2012-11-30T17:51:12Z Bleaker than the 1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical film it inspired, Stong’s book connected perfectly with the dark, nostalgic mood of a country struggling through economic calamity. As Life Spins On, the Midway Beckons 2010-08-28T05:01:00Z The suggestion seems to be that when calamity happens, we don’t always know what hit us. ‘Sea Change’ and allusions to climate change among artworks at local galleries in January 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z "And it's about family and friendship, and the peculiar calamity of fame," she said. Diana, Princess of Wales inspires Monica Ali's latest novel 2011-01-05T20:48:55Z He shepherded the banks through calamity with a firm but gentle hand. ‘Crashed’ Connects the Dots From 2008 Crisis to Trump, Brexit and More 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z With volcanoes there is usually enough advance warning to avoid calamity. Natural Disasters Explained at Natural History Museum 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z People are predisposed to think that things are worse than they are, and they overestimate the likelihood of calamity. Better and better 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Intermingled with these everyday interludes, though, are the jarring segues to Leonard, appearing in front of the closed curtain and reciting a litany of environmental calamities. Review | Four fine actresses bring order to a world undergoing climate change in Signature’s ‘Escaped Alone’ 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The twist was the burned-out backdrop of foreclosed farms and post-2008 economic calamity. Under fire: how cinema's new breed of cowboys are taking aim at the old west 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z There’s an almost comical amount of calamity in “Bargain,” the latest offering in the push from Paramount+ into a robust South Korean streaming market that exploded with the popularity of Netflix’s “Squid Game” in 2021. Sex, Thugs and Kidneys: ‘Bargain’ Bids to Be the Next ‘Squid Game’ 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Many Indians were so desperate to escape the calamity of their lives under Spanish rule that they attempted suicide by trying to choke on dirt. The way we left Cuba 2012-12-31T18:00:00Z Their cleareyed assessments of the latest Mets calamity, their meticulous descriptions — they are not homers, nor do they do shtick — even the cadences of their voices add up to can’t-miss talking baseball. A Summer of Buzzing Bugs, Tunes or Mets’ Losses 2013-08-29T21:54:01Z Came out of the movie theater in a cold sweat and breathing hard as if we'd just witnessed and barely escaped an existential calamity. Review: ‘Network’ With Bryan Cranston Is Convulsive, Immersive and Still Mad as Hell 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z And that it was an attack, not simply a calamity? Exhibition Review: 9/11 Exhibition at New-York Historical Society ? Review 2011-09-07T21:28:42Z Late in his life, Philip Roth occasionally joked that he had two great calamities ahead of him: death and a biography. What Happens to Philip Roth’s Legacy Now? 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z “The basic impulse, this growing need for so many people to move because of political calamity and environmental catastrophe, and the rise of nativism and tribalism — those things were quite clearly happening,” he said. Global Migration Meets Magic in Mohsin Hamid’s Timely Novel 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Do you find yourself thinking of different kinds of natural calamities? Lauren Groff on Florida and Natural Disasters 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Because the calamity here is women’s loss of faith in themselves, Mother Abbess aims to address it through a revamped and female-oriented cosmology. Review: Finding Their Inner Goddesses in ‘The Convent’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z While calamities such as floods, communal riots, and terror attacks did not deter them, when COVID-19 hit India last year, it threw a spanner in their works. Mumbai’s dabbawalas delivered thousands of lunches a day — lockdown changed everything 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z The impulse to look to stage plagues is understandable: Finding a fictional sibling to real calamity gives ours the hue of a fable, with a clear meaning and villain, and thus means to a cure. A Plague on Your Houses: Reading Covid-19 Into Disease Onstage 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z The story doesn’t so much commence as sidle in with modest, loosely staged and played scenes filled with minor calamities and seemingly unfreighted exchanges. ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette’ Review: She’s Hiding From Herself 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The various calamities are staged with panache, and the special effects involving killer squirrels and those fearsome pygmies the Oompa-Loompas are highly ingenious. Critics divided over Charlie merits 2013-06-26T10:57:40Z Dahlia exhibitors may be a small band of aging brothers and sisters, but no calamity seems too daunting. The showy dahlia stages a comeback, but for these enthusiasts it never went away 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z The same tone prevails in “Top 10: Bible Weather,” an awkward mix of biblical natural disasters and recent meteorological calamity on Saturday on the Weather Channel, served in “listicle” form. More Networks Jumping on the Biblical Bandwagon 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z After a calamity has been established, we jump back to a chapter called “Six Months Before the Trivia Night.” In ‘Big Little Lies,’ Liane Moriarty Finds New Complications 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z With “Winter Wedding,” now in a revival ably directed by David Willinger at Theater for the New City, he pillories the familial calamities of matrimony with cynicism, absurdist flair and relish for whoopee-cushion humor. | 'Winter Wedding' : The Funeral Party Ran Off; Now Go Chase It Down 2011-05-16T22:30:07Z A sense of imminent calamity is what contributed to the Spice Girls' success. Spice Girls: What I really really really want 2012-06-28T12:07:34Z To be abandoned by your husband is bad news; to be abandoned by your best friend a calamity. My husband has left me and our kids to start a relationship with my best friend 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, word comes of poverty and calamities ravaging townsfolk and tenant farmers, foretelling the anti-English Troubles to come. Solid U.S. premiere of Conor McPherson’s ‘The Veil’ from Quotidian Theatre One can build a logical argument that our innate reality denial, coupled with our runaway technological achievements, virtually guarantees that we will be facing global calamities on a scale never before seen. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z Chiarelli looks back on that time — scrambling to make sure all the set pieces were finished, then dealing with a calamity of malfunctions during the early shows — as one of the craziest in his life. PNB’s Stowell/Sendak ‘Nutcracker’ takes a final bow 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Dayton finished the thought: “She was having this relationship that, if found out, could be a calamity for her career in tennis and her sponsorships and just her general image.” A ‘Battle of the Sexes’ Rages On, More Than 4 Decades Later 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z In the calamities besetting the Primrose family, as in the rural displacement poignantly described in “The Deserted Village,” Clarke sees a reflection of England’s exploitative treatment of the Irish. ‘Brothers of the Quill’: How an 18th-century hack found his literary footing 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Combine apathy for animals with the lack of justice for one of the most overlooked minority groups in the country, and it’s a potential recipe for future calamity. The ‘emotional support’ debate is tougher than you think 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Other calamities follow: a tsunami, a shipwreck and a downed helicopter. How Washington became the nation’s busiest training ground for scandal PR 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Chamblee remains a kindly blank slate as Traci, who isn’t as traumatized by the calamity of Mike’s disappearance as we might expect. Fading into the woods with D’Amour’s mysterious ‘Cherokee’ 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z It’s a common practice for highly compensated executives to reduce their pay when calamity strikes. The Kennedy Center is facing more hard choices. Its president explains why she’s forgoing her salary. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Mostly using poetry by the German writer Ulla Hahn, Shepherd calls “On a Clear Day” both “a plea for compassion toward our fellow human” and an outcry against environmental calamity. Review: Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra Gets Ambitious at Carnegie Hall 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z We don't see much actual calamity in director Vic Armstrong's picture, described in the production notes as dealing with a "biblical event," which sounds like a sales initiative. Review: 'Left Behind' 0 stars 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z He’s the animal spirit of a political movement that’s draining the middle class, breaking the joists of civil society and pushing the planet toward ecological calamity. Review | In Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Unsheltered,’ Trump is just the latest threat to Earth’s survival 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z The Enemy Of Wisdom Suppose we manage to avoid the worst calamities. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z That would be a calamity for hundreds of cities around the world…… All of the sudden these words don’t seem so extreme. Sandy recovery: Walls won’t stop superstorms 2012-11-06T19:20:00Z This calamity — which would have affected Jeannot and Rose as well — is occasionally mentioned but never really incorporated into the emotional structure of the film. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘2 Days in New York,’ Starring Julie Delpy and Chris Rock 2012-08-10T06:23:01Z The carnage Nick witnesses and inflicts would be enough to shatter most men, but his trauma is exacerbated by a calamity off the battlefield. Review | For ‘Gatsby’ fans, 2021 will be the start of remakes. First up: ‘Nick’ 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z So often her line was a variation on “Oh, no!” upon hearing of the latest calamity experienced by everyone who actually got to leave the house: “Oh, Mike.” In Florence Henderson’s Carol Brady, a reassuring (and vanishing) sense of adulthood 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z After the attacks, he recalls, strangers on the street made sorrowful eye contact, and the communal acknowledgment of the calamity gave him a brief a sense of belonging. Review: In ‘Blind,’ Perception and Fantasy Converge in a Writer’s Mind 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Whatever it was, the calamity neither destroyed nor made him stronger, but sent Nietzsche into a long decline that ended with his death in 1900. The Turin Horse – review 2012-05-31T20:30:03Z As victims of abuse or calamity, they care for each other gently, warding off memories of better — and worse — times. Review | Ishmael Beah’s memoir revealed the realities of child soldiers. His fiction shows the humanity of homeless kids. 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z One startling and sad anecdote describes his experience when a truck drifted into his lane and he remembers thinking that it would be better to let calamity strike. Review: In ‘Career Suicide,’ Laughing When It Hurts 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Throughout, the bedrock of Lisa’s emotional support remains her almost desperate love of music, which sustains her in the face of calamity, confusion, loss. ‘The Pianist of Willesden Lane,’ a Jewish Girl’s War Story 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z It's also popular in the real world, and grows more insistent whenever a predominantly male elite plunges us all into some new calamity. Women rule the world ... but only if it's Made in Dagenham 2010-10-04T10:53:00Z “What are the odds?” is a question that reverberates darkly throughout this play, as one calamity after another befalls its hapless, good-willed, ill-starred characters. | 'Sons of the Prophet': ?Sons of the Prophet? at Laura Pels Theater - Review 2011-10-21T02:14:08Z As a medieval historian, I am charmed by the advice that early travelers wrote down to spare their successors from calamity. What tips for traveling have changed since medieval times? Surprisingly few. 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z No sooner has Old Lucas concluded this peroration than the waters have indeed risen and swept him away, as calamity threatens. | 'On the Levee': Tamping Down a Flood at the Duke on 42nd Street 2010-06-29T02:37:00Z “This is theater of the unexpected; it is theater of calamity; it is theater according to the gospel of Taylor Mac,” she writes. Essential Arts & Culture: Frida as opera, Julius Caesar continued, Taylor Mac's day-long songfest 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z So they viewed all calamities, like earthquakes, accidents, volcanic eruptions, epidemics, and floods, as a punishment by that same being. This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief 2014-01-04T19:00:00Z “Composers, poets and artists always feel useless in the wake of calamity,” he told The Times in 2001. Ingram Marshall, Minimalist Composer of Mystical Sounds, Dies at 80 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z This is a calamity for everyone, not just the wealthy. As California wine country burns, it’s the people, not the vines, that are suffering 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z At the same time, the calamity underscored how central restaurants are to the city’s identity, economy and mental well-being — just as the widespread closings are doing now. New Orleans Restaurants, Used to Disasters, Reckon With Something Worse 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z The rest of us have other calamities worth paying attention to. Is CNN's "Giuliani: What Happened to America’s Mayor?" a matter worth pondering right now? 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Triumphant in the belief that one calamity, in an escalating series of them, has been mitigated, she pumps her fist and cheers, “We kill problems like they’re babies.” Armando Iannucci Gets Lost in Space in “Avenue 5” 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z But a series of business calamities — rendered here as the screw-up of the single feckless and alcoholic school pal he’d put in charge of his finances — forced him to pick up the gloves again. ‘Big George Foreman’ Review: Not the Biopic a Two-time Champ Deserves 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Roberts draws this medical disaster in quick strokes, following the lives of her many central characters while sketching the calamity circling the globe. The apocalypse, as imagined by Nora Roberts 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z The play takes a more compelling turn just at the end, exploring what we do after a calamity and how we might, with care and pain, rebuild our boardwalks and our hearts. Review: ‘Fire in Dreamland’ Is a Parable of Love and Licorice 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z If calamity proves a catalyst for change, “the greatest story ever told … may well have a happy ending”, he concludes in The Uninhabitable Future. BirthStrikers: meet the women who refuse to have children until climate change ends 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z The audience cheered her robustly as she walked on stage to introduce the film, in which she plays a Nasa astronaut coping with a calamity in space. Toronto 2013: Reporter's diary 2013-09-12T13:42:39Z Zemeckis's last picture before his long stretch with animation was Cast Away, in which FedEx official Tom Hanks endured one of cinema's most spectacular aerial calamities before finding himself marooned on a Pacific desert island. Flight – review 2013-02-03T00:07:01Z French history, especially during the 18th and 19th centuries, is an object lesson in the interconnection of calamities. Perspective | I returned to the National Gallery seeking comfort. But art no longer feels like an escape. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Topping them all is this completely unforeseeable calamity in Pulp Fiction. Clip joint: unexpected deaths 2013-04-11T09:03:52Z But the problem with spending so much to insure against disaster is that the odds of calamity are fairly long. Is pet insurance worth it? 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Having fled to San Francisco to start anew, she is oblivious to the calamities that have stripped her of her station. Woody Allen’s Distinctive Female Characters 2013-07-17T12:00:01Z But in its peculiar juxtapositions of raucous comedy and righteous anger, soaring lyricism and simple prose, it certainly reflects a vision of the Great War as a calamity that shattered civilization for good. | 'The Silver Tassie': War Changes a Man, and a Play 2011-07-27T22:15:20Z The Lone Ranger – despite manifest problems and a scathing reception in the US last week – is not quite the flat-out, jaw-dropping calamity that some would have had us believe. The Lone Ranger – review 2013-07-10T23:34:53Z Because Pryce kept his financial calamities such a secret, his wife had no way of knowing they couldn’t afford it. Mad Men Watch: Farewell, Lane 2012-06-04T10:50:32Z In 1985, however, a calamity impacted the cartel, the Mexican government’s conviviality with it – and US complicity in that relationship. Mexico: How arrest of the last don heralds ruthless new drugs era 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z “The Night Shift” averaged more than 6.5 million viewers over eight episodes and returns on Monday night for a 14-episode second season detailing the medical and romantic calamities of its fictional San Antonio hospital. ‘The Night Shift’ Dispenses a Familiar Prescription 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z As the scale of the calamity sank in — and state and federal officials kept increasing limits on public gatherings — the ASC team changed its emergency plan again and again. Perspective | The virus is already pushing small theaters to the brink. One Shakespeare theater hopes it can make it back. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z “The kodak has been a sore calamity to us. The most powerful enemy that has confronted us, indeed,” Twain wrote, in the voice of the king. The Long, Vital History of Bystander Recordings 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z It is simple, relatively cheap to run, and designed to withstand physical calamity and human interference. Dispelling myths around the Arctic Circle’s famed ‘doomsday’ seed vault 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z If America has a Victor Hugo, it is Amy Bloom, whose picaresque novels roam the world, plumb the human heart and send characters into wild roulettes of kismet and calamity. ‘Lucky Us,’ by Amy Bloom, America’s Victor Hugo "I saw this calamity coming, but no one was interested," he says. V.S. Naipaul hangs up travel hat after Africa book 2010-10-27T21:07:00Z So Babe could have told these sheep that when farm animals go to urban areas calamity follows. Review: In ‘Shaun the Sheep Movie,’ a Flock Heads to the City to Find Its Farmer 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z We rookies were too busy trying to avoid calamity to think about that during our lesson. Urban Athlete: Olympic-ish Sport for Tyros Like Us 2014-02-06T22:52:50Z Lest readers succumb to the thick aura of calamity that clings to this sad story, Todd offers up charming scenes of local life, including the spring lambing. War Wounds: Crime Novels From All Kinds of Battlefields 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The 14 tracks evoke the mystery of bats’ nocturnal escapades, the languor of their hibernation and the existential calamity of the collapse of their habitat. Vilified for Virus, Bats Are a New Album’s Seductive Stars 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z The play welcomes and models that complexity: Written during World War II, it reflects calamity in both story and style. Five Broadway Revivals Give a Tour of Our Theatrical Past 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The idea of togetherness runs through the songs on the album, which suggest we’re all together in a worldwide calamity and tenuously together, on a smaller scale, in romances and families. Critics? Choice: New CDs by the New Pornographers and the Hold Steady 2010-05-02T20:55:00Z Three hours long, with a single set, chamber orchestrations, an episodic romp through historical calamity and philosophical absurdity, it is a demanding adventure. Review: A soaring, witty 'Candide' at 5th Avenue 2010-05-28T21:42:00Z “Closer to the Moon,” a fictionalized tale about a weird chapter in Romanian history, tries hard to slap a smiley face on a calamity. Review: ‘Closer to the Moon’ Recounts a Bizarre Bit of Romanian History 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z These calamities were accompanied by the harrowing illnesses, surgeries, agonies, suicidal breakdowns, panics, depressions and drug-induced psychiatric disorientations that dogged Roth for much of his life. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z All three share a biting social commentary and a post-apocalyptic setting: A train circling a frozen earth ravaged by a climate calamity, carrying a population of human survivors who are divided by class. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Snowpiercer’ and ‘Resident Alien’ 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z There was nothing buffoonish about Hulot; by and large, he was more likely to be bemused witness to society’s folly than to cause calamities himself. Jacques Tati’s Playtime: life-affirming comedy 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The cause of the calamity is an environmental breakdown enabled by the human failure to do anything about climate change. Movie Review: ?4:44 Last Day on Earth,? With Willem Dafoe 2012-03-22T22:34:19Z Hi, Carolyn: My brother lives on the edge of financial calamity. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When the sins of the son are visited upon the parents 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z It also brought to mind an unnerving question: would you be ready if calamity struck? Worst case scenario: the ‘preppers’ gearing up for cataclysm | Alex Moshakis 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z A young man from Syria's battle-ravaged city of Aleppo won the annual "Arab Idol" singing contest late on Saturday, then prayed to God to end calamities in his country. Syrian wins Arab Idol contest, steers clear of politics 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z The downtown staple of avant-garde and rock opens with the beautiful calamity of the Bang on a Can Marathon, 24 hours of exceptional experimental music. Summer Stages 2012-05-17T19:59:09Z It would have been, really, a calamity if we had spent two and a half years making this brilliant show and no one saw it. ArtsBeat: Camelot Revisited: The Creators of 'The Kennedys' Speak Out 2011-03-24T14:07:03Z He agrees that children shouldn’t be shielded from calamity. Michel Gondry: 'I wanted to bring out Jim Carrey's sadness' 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Undoubtedly, the narrative impulse kicks in hardest when our view onto the truth is most prejudiced — in the aftermath, say, of a calamity, a childbirth or a collapsed marriage. Review | With ‘Kudos,’ Rachel Cusk completes a literary masterpiece 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z The latest episode of The New Yorker’s “Annals of Obsession” video series centers on doomsday preppers—people who aim to equip themselves with the skills and materials they would need to survive a world-ending calamity. What Drives Doomsday Preppers 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z In 2012, following that calamity, my editors at The New Press asked me if I’d be interested in writing one on the increasingly unnatural nature of natural disasters. How the world breaks: An intimate look at recent global natural weather disasters 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Success, on the whole, is so much less interesting than calamity. Cannes 2012 diary: day three 2012-05-18T14:59:42Z An explanation offered after a calamity – "you make my wife cry, and I don't like it" – sounds tinny and baseless, since he gives no outward sign of caring whether his wife cries or not. Big Brother by Lionel Shriver – review 2013-05-25T08:01:30Z The station broadcast live aerial coverage of major news events, including earthquakes, fires and freeway calamities. TV helicopter news coverage pioneer dies in Calif. 2012-12-07T16:51:08Z Yet the fact that it took an unplanned calamity – Kevin Spacey’s professional downfall – for that to happen makes her the exception that proves the rule. Best supportive wife: how female characters fare at the Oscars 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z We share everything else: home, finances, friends, vacations, life-threatening calamities. The Best of Tiny Love Stories 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Since the first soap operas — so named because their advertising sponsors often manufactured detergents and other household products — aired on radio in the 1930s, their plots often involved romance, jealousy, deceit and family calamity. Agnes Nixon, writer who created ‘One Life to Live’ and ‘All My Children,’ dies at 93 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z His last big-budget movie, “Dark Shadows,” was a box office misfire; his last outing as a producer, “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” was closer to a calamity. A Strong Opening for a Film by Tim Burton, Who Needed a Win 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z The most recent heyday in the United States for calamity films appears to have been the late 1990s, before the terror attacks and a series of wars took their toll. Achoos of Death Are Film?s Scourge 2011-08-08T22:45:32Z Stress has gotten the better of her, culminating in a smartphone-era calamity: A video of her breakdown at work went viral. ‘Job’ Review: A Stress Test That Feels Like It’s Life or Death 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z The vision of failure and calamity nonetheless yields its own compensations, of bonds re-forged through the ravages of exhaustion and defeat, suggesting a longing for comfortable normalcy. Jacques Rivette’s Thirteen-Hour Experimental Film 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z The invasion was the prelude to a calamity for Iraq's cultural heritage. Arm museum guards to prevent looting, says professor 2011-07-10T13:12:23Z It’s been frequently noted, on and off the comment section of these recaps, that “Homeland” seems lately to be joining “24” in serving up implausible plot twists, comic-book-quality characters and laughably unlikely calamities. 'Homeland' Recap: Saul's Cry to Carrie 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z The Vietnam war was raging and there were calamities such as the slayings in Los Angeles by Charles Manson and the murder by Hells Angels at the Rolling Stones' Altamont concert. Black Sabbath on the occult, God, cocaine and reuniting for new album 13 2013-06-06T16:35:50Z Is the organ’s drone the source of the calamities going on in the orchestra, pushing them to a humane resolution? The Proms, BBC’s Classical Music Festival, Is All the More Important as Austerity Looms 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z More interesting is the community at the center of this calamity. Christopher Bollen's 'Orient' a literary thriller with wit and style 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The show is about three adult siblings who, following individual and collective calamities, return home to their family’s Louisiana sugar cane farm. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Queen Sugar’ and ‘Atlanta’ 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z By the third or fourth calamity, I took to gritting my teeth and covering my ears. Review: In ‘Spaceman,’ Floating in a Most Peculiar Way 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z They do, in a succession of grisly deaths that show the writers at their most inspired, with bone-crunching calamities and lots of drowning, including several mercy killings. | 'Sanctum': Plunging Into the Deep, Hoping for a Way Out 2011-02-04T00:24:27Z But historically, New York has battled back after recessions and calamities by dreaming big. Moynihan Train Hall: It’s Stunning. And, a First Step. 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Jeevan asks himself the same question, often, and usually in the service of keeping this child calamity dropped into his lap happy. HBO Max's must-watch "Station Eleven" brings comfort and joy after the eerily familiar apocalypse 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z But it was in the reports of dire conditions in detention centers on the U.S. border with Mexico that he finally found his narrative path to humanizing an immigration calamity from the inside. Perspective | An actor, once undocumented, got cast as a border detention guard. It was a revelation. 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Both films have been accused of painting some of the calamities of American life, past and present — poverty, slavery, racism, environmental disaster — in unduly optimistic colors. The Oscars Issue: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ Shares Something With ‘Lincoln’ 2012-12-28T16:51:45Z There is one person tasked with making sure calamity doesn’t happen. ‘The Nutcracker’: Fairies and tulle onstage, total nuts backstage 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z I see a mom confronting calamity and saying to the kids, well, Kids, OK, this is not a setback, this is going to be an adventure! Must I repay the jerk? 2012-11-29T01:00:00Z The entire family is steeped in devastating, contemporary American calamity. In Barbara Kingsolver’s New Book, a Family Teeters on the Brink 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Is there any version of Black paradise that doesn’t come with an asterisk — some great calamity, mishap or even death? Onstage, Paradise for Black Characters Often Comes With a Price 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z As the adults act immaturely, a lonely boy named Ira sits in a tent outside, musing about past and future calamity. Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen and Oliver Butler of Debate Society 2012-09-30T04:20:07Z Along with the serial calamities afflicting the production itself, each of the trio is going through a crisis of his or her own. William Boyd’s Madcap Burlesque Revisits the Summer of 1968 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Intriguingly, given their circumstances, everyone looks remarkably healthy – with dentistry apparently unaffected by the calamity – and stylishly attired, too. TV highlights 29/03/2013 2013-03-29T07:00:04Z How many more terrorists are we creating, he wonders, when we inadvertently kill a child in the effort to stop a far worse calamity? Director Gavin Hood on the nature of (and the need for) modern warfare 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z A dark tale of humanity facing calamity as nature, from menacing mushrooms to strutting voles, goes on the rampage. The best theatre for spring 2013 2013-04-01T06:00:00Z “Economic calamities — financial panics, hyperinflations, depressions, social conflicts and wars — have always triggered crises of confidence, but they have not come close to wiping out the cumulative gains in average living standards,” she writes. Books of The Times: ?Grand Pursuit? by Sylvia Nasar - Review 2011-12-01T22:20:40Z It is a feeling borne of nearness to calamity, but that, of course, is felt by anyone living under threat of violence, be it infrequent or constant. What it would be like to live in violence 2013-04-18T20:20:00Z The calamities that befall him are described with a gritty, elemental power that masks their contemporary relevance: climate change and the social consequences of extreme economic stratification, in particular. An immigrant learns to ‘Pay as You Go’ in beguiling debut novel 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z For Hezbollah, fully entering the Israel-Hamas war would risk dragging Lebanon — beset by economic calamity and internal political tensions — into a conflict it can ill afford, fueling domestic opposition to the group. How Lebanon’s Hezbollah group became a critical player in the Israel-Hamas war 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z Instead of a business calamity, however, consumers from across the nation have supported the region by eating more fish. Japanese consumers are eating more local fish in spite of China’s ban due to Fukushima wastewater 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z That clear round number was a psychologically daunting threshold that hadn’t been breached since July 2007, the start of a great calamity. The Bond Market, a Sleeping Giant, Awakes 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z This week, Mr. Biden is steering American involvement in two overseas wars and monitoring the continuing calamity of a speakerless House of Representatives, and there is another government shutdown crisis looming next month. On the Agenda for Australia’s State Visit: China, Trade and a U.S. Marine Band 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z If you’re like me, you purchased a policy sight unseen assuming that you and your possessions are protected in case of a fire, flood, storm, water leak or other calamity. Making a homeowners insurance claim? Get ready for a big surprise 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z And then, with just 13 minutes left, one of those moments of calamity that have characterised Chelsea far too often punctured the atmosphere of elation and transformed it into nervous tension. 'Positivity amid acute pain for improving Chelsea' 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z Biden also wants to avert a humanitarian calamity in Gaza where authorities say thousands have already been killed in Israeli bombardment over the last week. Biden Israel, Jordan visit: Who will he meet? What are his goals? 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z The Pac-12 has thus far avoided the calamities it experienced last year with horrifying frequency. Pac-12 midseason awards: Michael Penix Jr., Whittingham, Elliss lead way 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Biden also wants to avert a humanitarian calamity in Gaza where authorities say more than 2,800 people have already been killed in Israeli bombardment over the last week. Biden Israel, Jordan visit: Who will he meet? What are his goals? 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z And an Israeli siege has caused shortages of food, water and fuel, drawing warnings of a humanitarian calamity. Israel Invites Biden to Visit as Gaza’s Crisis Worsens Under Siege 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z “Because of the scale of this calamity, there has to be a reckoning. Israel must respond,” Greenberg said. The Israeli public finds itself in grief and shock, but many pledge allegiance to war effort 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z More than seven decades after the Nakba, Palestinians still lament the calamity that resulted in their displacement and blocked their dreams of statehood. Palestinians in Gaza say Israeli bombardment feels like new 'Nakba' 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Known activities of the Indian military include operating two helicopters donated by India and assisting in the rescue of people stranded or faced with calamities at sea. Maldives president-elect says he’s committed to removing the Indian military from the archipelago 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z City's European Cup campaign the following season was a calamity, going out in the first round to Turkish side Fenerbahce and only finishing 13th in the league. 'One of Manchester City's most important figures' 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z There’s also the question of how to engender innovation and hoped-for breakthroughs - in medicine, disaster prediction, energy efficiency and more - without exacerbating inequities and misinformation or, worse, enabling runaway-robot calamity. AI is on the world’s mind. Is the U.N. the place to figure out what to do about it? 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z There’s also the question of how to engender innovation and hoped-for breakthroughs — in medicine, disaster prediction, energy efficiency and more — without exacerbating inequities and misinformation or, worse, enabling runaway-robot calamity. AI is on the world’s mind. Is the UN the place to figure out what to do about it? 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z What happens when humanity finds itself in an existential calamity but is unable to agree on the most basic facts about reality? Think this summer was bad? It might be the best one you and I will ever see 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Alam, an Egyptian construction worker in Derna for three years, said he had lost 10 of his friends in the calamity. Libya floods sweep away migrants, and their hopes 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z But insurance is the safest bet against personal calamity, climate-induced or otherwise, so we need insurers to remain in the market. Column: Home insurance and climate change have collided — and we're all going to pay for it 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z "But now that some of the cities are experiencing this natural disaster, this calamity, we could see that the lack of a unified centralised government is actually affecting the lives of people." Libyan rivals 'co-ordinating over flood relief' 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z The United Nations has called the deadly floods a "calamity of epic proportions". Libya floods: 5,300 dead amid calls for humanitarian support 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z As with many economic calamities, adolescents and young adults were especially impacted, having to support themselves on low wages that were hard to come by. A Painter of Japan’s ‘Lost Decade,’ Finally Found 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z And there’s still four months to go on what’s looking more like a calendar of calamities. US sets record for expensive weather disasters in a year — with four months yet to go 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z He said that the state's priority was "to cure the serious wounds this calamity has left". Four more bodies found after Greece storm, raising toll to 15 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z Faced with calamity, we banded together, danced in the mud, and partied until dawn. Commentary: How dancing through rain and mud helped relight the lost fire of Burning Man 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z Governor Eduardo Leite declared a state of public calamity and canceled statewide parades meant to celebrate Brazil's Independence Day on Thursday. At least 39 dead as cyclone hits Brazil's southernmost state 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z This month, federal prosecutors announced the arrest of two men in connection with Catherine’s shooting, a relief to her parents, who have struggled for months to come to terms with the calamity. A toddler’s long, slow road to recovery after a shooting 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z |
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