| 单词 | comically |
| 例句 | Lady Constance stood and attempted to control her great round skirt, which bobbed around her comically. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I thought it was now time to end the scene, which was becoming too comically grave, so I went towards the door, simply saying:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Todd Solondz’s Welcome to the Dollhouse, and a string of comically bitter teen movies from Hollywood, pop culture has been trying to get this message out for years. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Waistcoats, striped trousers, moth-chewed chambray shirts with tall collars and comically long sleeves. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Others offered less charitable impressions, dubbing Harvey "a bloated alcoholic with the manners of a comically corrupt cop." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As far as I was concerned it was comically out of reach for someone like me, but he insisted that it was not, so I applied. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They tumbled, balanced and gyrated, cavorting comically across the laden tabletops without upsetting as much as a single sultana. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Her mouth drops open comically, like a cartoon, and her big round eyes get even bigger and rounder. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It had struck her as comically officious then, hearing his full name uttered. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z To the biochemist Phoebus Levene, one of Avery’s colleagues at Rockefeller University, the comically plain chemical composition of DNA—four bases strung along a chain—suggested an extremely “unsophisticated” structure. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z At once, Katie rose into the air, not as Ron had done, suspended comically by the ankle, but gracefully, her arms oustretched, as though she was about to fly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z But the smell of something burning causes them to bolt naked from the bed, rushing comically to the kitchen, laughing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z These horns look comically small, as though they come from animals you could kill with your bare hands. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In the center of the plate there was a comically large red button embossed with a single word: OFF. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She spread her hands and rolled her eyes comically, funny Lucy Ricardo washing her hands of a disaster. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I assume he's hunched over somewhere writing songs into a comically undersized notebook. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z She appears to be at ease with the comparison, looking comically askance at Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He pecked at a bit of the syrup, but didn’t seem to like the sticky feel of it on his beak, and shook his head comically. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He was aware that his home phone was tapped and his house watched by comically conspicuous security men, who would sit for hours in the front seat of a parked car with the motor running. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Let me help you here, sir,” the ticket seller said, in that comically contrived “white” accent that uneducated people liked to put on. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “You’re so mean!” she said, comically frowning, and snapped the curtain shut. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The hare’s ears flopped comically as he shook his head. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I said comically, standing up and slapping my knee. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “I do not like this idea,” Bouain said, frowning hugely, almost comically. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In a way this was Finny’s view, except that naturally he saw it comically, as a huge and intensely practical joke, played by fat and foolish old men bungling away behind the scenes. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something comically brooding about his face. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Let’s hope I don’t goof up,” says Tim, comically bending his sword and shooting me a worried look. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z As if on cue, Haymitch falls off the stage, and they groan comically. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z And he’s a terrible singer—just cringingly, comically bad. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z It was not the size or demeanor of the bears that troubled me—they looked almost comically unaggressive, like four guys who had gotten a Frisbee caught up a tree—but their numbers. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Helene has a hand clapped over her mouth, her eyes comically wide as she grasps for words. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z They sat gaping, party hats perched comically on their heads. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z His comically arched brows and broad gestures made me smile, and the injured look he then assumed caused me to laugh until I was weak. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I was only a month into the semester, but even so I knew a scholarship was comically out of reach. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Twins, by Jupiter!” was all he said for a minute, then turning to the women with an appealing look that was comically piteous, he added, “Take ’em quick, somebody! Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The farm wagon stood outside; the patient oxen, oblivious to how comically out of place they looked on a city street, chewed their cuds contentedly. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She soon returned, and even the comically squeaky tone of Margaret’s voice could not conceal the sternness of her mistress’s reply: Under no circumstances would Lady Constance venture outside that evening. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z In the poem, the Dragon's difficulties with its imaginative context are comically and engagingly drawn. Poem of the week: Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock 2010-10-20T12:52:00Z Still running — deadline Monday night, April 3: our contest inviting you to be comically pedantic. Style Invitational: Who’s kidding whom? Give any two people a child 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z She was presenting herself as a glamorous movie star gamely playing a comically pathetic woman, and it didn’t work. The TV Watch: Guests Overstaying Their Welcome 2010-09-24T22:51:00Z And if you like comically irritating “S.N.L.” characters of a different vintage, Cecily Strong appeared on Weekend Update as The Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started a Conversation With at a Party. Daniel Craig Hosts ‘S.N.L.,’ but Elizabeth Warren Steals the Show 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Some of his magazine advertisements are comically dated. Review: ‘Everything Is Design’ Showcases Paul Rand, Master of Brand Identity 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z As theater, it's remarkably bad—heavy-handed, comically melodramatic, hackneyed. My night in Judgement House, the church play about hell that made me a teenage born-again zealot 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z "They gave me a recording of a farmer and before I would go to work I would listen to this sentence: 'That's a nice shiny apple,'" Astin said, comically drawing out the sentence. American actors with the best onscreen British accents, from Peter Dinklage to Renee Zellwegger 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Who is “you”? Seated in profile, Ms. Rosenblit doesn’t address audience members directly at first, except for a few comically furtive glances. Review: A Choreographer Makes a Holistic Mess 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Much of the charm of these segments is the discovery that the celebrated intellectual was once a young woman who could sound so comically desperate to impress upon her journal her world-weariness. Theater Review: ‘Sontag: Reborn,’ at New York Theater Workshop 2013-06-07T02:00:01Z With the combination of sharp writing and comically savvy female hosts, “Saturday Night Live” this season has been unusually rich in funny, provocative female-focused moments. Television: Anna Faris and Other Female Hosts on ?Saturday Night Live? 2012-02-26T03:04:12Z The extraterrestrials are comically understated: just cute fluffy balls called “pouffes.” ‘Save Yourselves!’ Review: Alien Invasion in the Smartphone Generation 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z I mean he’s sort of almost… he’s comically anti gravitas. Why “Angels in America” endures: “Without gay people, you can’t tell the story of America” 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Not to mention the comically corrupt Nixon-channelling President Logan, the saint-like black Democrat President Palmer and the multiple Big Oil interests behind terrorist attacks. Jacking it in 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z One event seemed almost comically belated, the other tragically premature. Good Night, Sweet Prince 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The topic, with its built-in yearning, is lodged almost comically deep within Jamison’s wheelhouse. Leslie Jamison and the Anxiety of Authorship 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z In many ways the absolute archetype of buttoned-up Merchant Ivoryism – almost comically so. Emma Thompson's best films – ranked! 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z But what people really come for is the comedy, and it’s as sharp as ever, relying on the cast’s dry delivery and ability to play things both comically and tragically at the same time. Casual season two focuses on friends – with benefits 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z A veteran of the Upright Citizens Brigade troupe and a regular online presence with his irreverent, blatantly theatrical and comically abrasive man-on-the-street interviews, Mr. Eichner is no bland facilitator. Television Review: ?Funny or Die?s Billy on the Street? on Fuse - Review 2011-12-21T22:59:39Z Bachelors in comedies tend to party in groups that are alternately festive and comically, even flat-out pathetic. FILM: Babies to Heroes: A Field Guide to Big-Screen Men 2011-07-27T12:00:10Z Enrigue has called the tennis duel a metaphor of geopolitical confrontations, but it’s more riveting as the comically desperate, hung-over contest between two artists with lowlife habits who fancy each other. Álvaro Enrigue’s ‘Sudden Death’ hits history around like a tennis ball 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Rather it’s the plain, old-fashioned, over-the-top mockery that shows a White House hopelessly out of control, compromised, flaccid from the get-go and comically inept. Our president is a TV addict. It’s going to get the best of him, but he’ll never get the best of it. 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z As my companion noted several times, the communal space décor is somewhat comically gingham-heavy, but then some people really like gingham. Hotel Review: Hotel Peter & Paul, New Orleans 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z I’m saying it comically, but it did seem ironic. Hollywood sexism hurts more than careers: “Traditionally women have used fame as a platform” 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z At the same time, anxiety about the value of what Sotomayor characterizes as “comically arcane” research is almost always near the surface of statements valuing “majestic” knowledge and expertise. What makes the ideal university? Six values that power higher education at its best 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Yet in the face of mushrooming homeless encampments and grainy videos of police shootings, that kind of architectural excess seems more comically misguided than offensive. For architecture in 2015, the world's 'soft targets' prompt a reevaluation 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Also, Alex carries a comically oversized old-time microphone with him everywhere he goes, a way to visually telegraph his job to viewers. Podcasts Get the Hollywood Treatment, Complete With Zach Braff 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z This debut novel — a comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago — pulls the feat off “not just generously, but seemingly without effort,” Tommy Orange writes in his review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z With help from her spoiled husband, her kooky sister-in-law and a comically righteous nun, Paulette teaches young women the keys to being a good wife: obedience, discretion, economy, tolerance for mediocre sex. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Hallway carpets with comically giant indigos and carrot-orange walls conspire to create a visual jungle. Six New (and Affordable) Boutique Hotels in New York 2010-06-18T21:58:00Z Two musicians occasionally punctuate the action with a glockenspiel or the comically forlorn bleat of a horn. Coriolanus – review 2012-05-25T09:40:46Z This much is true: Fruitcake is almost comically heavy — all that dried fruit bound by a soupçon of cake batter, redolent with spices, brandy and rum. It’s October, but you need to start your Christmas fruitcake engines. Now. 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z They were remarkable performances: angry, erudite pieces delivered in a comically pompous voice that mocked its own pretensions. Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z “Romantically Challenged” is comically challenged, and while that is puzzling, it’s not intriguing at all. | 'Romantically Challenged': Alyssa Milano as a Lovelorn Single Mom With Pals 2010-04-18T22:48:00Z Allen played a comically macho dad on Home Improvement for eight seasons, and he just began his sixth year of paying a similar reactionary stick-in-the-mud on Last Man Standing. Same role, different show: what happens when TV actors get stuck in a rut 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Last week I saw one trundling helmeted children, and another with a dog, happily tail wagging in the breeze and wearing, comically, a scarf and flying goggles. Why I love … cycling 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Even though Dior had become comically stiff and pretentious, the French took it seriously. Paris Fashion Week: John Galliano Exits the Way That He Entered 2011-03-02T22:09:23Z Introductions at past holiday gatherings have been comically convoluted for Judy Bowman. For Some Married Same-Sex Couples, Official Status Enhances Celebrations 2013-12-13T22:08:30Z His rapping, such as it is — very much in the mold of the Streets, or after-hours Drake, or Barry White intros — is almost comically erotic: intense eye contact, gratuitous detail, oily and damp. The Weeknd’s ‘Avatar’ Anthem, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z The flowers’ terror, and love, are telegraphed comically yet absolutely by large glass eyes. Art Review: ‘Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore’ at N.Y.U. 2012-09-06T22:07:05Z Despite the flash of humor when Bill lost patience with the lawyer, his thread was notably, almost comically somber, right down to the cello leitmotif that accompanied it. 'True Blood' Recap: The Sickness and the Cure 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z This view of Los Angeles as a familial, welcoming city — as Moby put it, a great place to fail — is comically at odds with the traditional view. Los Angeles and Its Booming Creative Class Lures New Yorkers 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z In many ways, "Familiar," a play that comically explores what a high-achieving immigrant family renounced for American success, would seem an easier fit for commercial Broadway. Danai Gurira's 'Eclipsed' — a harrowing tale of women and war in Africa — is a promising sign of Broadway's future 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z “I have tried to give a great deal of latitude to Donald Trump in his run for the Presidency,” Erickson wrote in a comically imperious attempt to justify rescinding Trump’s invitation. The war to be clown-king of the GOP circus: Erick Erickson’s spat with Donald Trump exposes the conservative movement 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Her comically incensed response to the announcement was a sketch in itself, testimony to the outsized characters she embodies on her own show. The best and worst noments of the 2021 Emmys 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z The photographs marry the human subject and the technological apparatus to comically nightmarish effect. Art Review: ‘What Is a Photograph?’ Opens at the I.C.P. 2014-01-30T23:57:35Z On the page, the directions seem comically controlling. A Master of Winter Writes His First Opera: ‘The Snow Queen’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Ochs, lightly and comically wounded by Octavian’s sword, is usually cast as a fat and ungainly older man. Savor Renée Fleming in “Der Rosenkavalier,” at the Met 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Finding these underlying vectors of energy is one of the great pleasures of Rubens, whose work is almost always not just successful, but also almost comically successful, with a virtuoso energy that overwhelms suspicion. Review | Rubens had it all — fame, fortune, good looks. But you can’t hate him. 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Alice Neel’s comically frank depiction of her unclothed self in all its corpulent, octogenarian splendor is a good example. Art in Review: Joan Semmel 2011-05-06T06:15:06Z His father, Arthur Gardner, is a comically omnipotent spin doctor capable of conjuring up diseases for drug companies, killing newspaper exposes and selling the public on going to war. Glenn Beck's Thriller Mixes Romance, Tea-Party Politics 2010-06-16T08:30:00Z It was the brick replacement for the comically named Katzenjammer Castle city hall, nearby at Third and Yesler, located in what is now City Hall Park. See Seattle City Hall, ca. 1908 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The film is still steeped in existential angst, but it comically portrays the actor's obsession with fame. Inarritu leaps off the ledge with 'Birdman' 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Videos of the singer serenading some of his celebrity female guests are almost comically intimate. As Objects Fly Onstage, Stars Become Part of the Audience’s Show 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z Like the springtime asparagus we know, which pops up somewhat comically, the sotol plant flowers with a tall and lanky stock that juts up from the low shrub. 3 must-know Mexican spirits worth a spot on your bar cart 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Other songs are almost comically on the nose: “Sad Girl” is one of two songs about a patient mistress. ‘Ultraviolence’ is the set of songs Lana Del Rey was invented to sing Yes, in this case, it’s a comically executed Indecent Proposal scenario, but really this story is about more than that. The Morning After: Happy Leap Day! Edition 2012-02-24T15:19:47Z Yet, despite the danger, the sequence retains a comic edge: Vicky’s boyfriend arrives as if straight out of Dazed and Confused: comically high and unable to make any kind of sensible call in an emergency. Making a killing: what's behind Halloween's box-office success? 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z In turn, Captain Holt remains comically unreadable, equally poker-faced in moments of elation, rage and despair. "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" returns with an appropriate awkward hello to its farewell season 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z All this highly controlled pizzazz contrasts comically with Rourke’s life as the artistic director of a small London theatre, the Donmar Warehouse, “where we walk to rehearsals and make our own tea”. Josie Rourke: 'I was fighting to put a period in a period movie' 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z First, there's some clumsy comedy over sharpshooters trying to identify the terrorists among the comically clad runners. Four Lions 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z David Baddiel called him a "man who, comically, played all the right notes, in the right order, all the time," on his . Eric and Ernie's writer Braben dies 2013-05-21T11:01:22Z He's occasionally pulled out of his inertia by a comically sycophantic public relations woman to answer ridiculous questions from foreign journalists at a press conference and to submit to a photo shoot. Somewhere ? review 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z Where the first trailer for the film showed off Eisenberg’s comically druggy persona, the new one goes deep on both his relationship with co-star Kristen Stewart and the full extent of his super soldier abilities. Watch Jesse Eisenberg Make Jason Bourne Funny in 'American Ultra' Trailer 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z The messages, made in classic sign-painting tradition on the sides of a parking garage, are goofily, comically uplifting: “Euphoria Is You for Me.” Frame: Graffiti Art of the City, From the Bronx to Brooklyn 2013-08-29T18:14:40Z The disharmony in the Schisa household is comically banal — an all-but-unseen sister monopolizes the bathroom; an aristocratic landlady bangs on the ceiling with a broom — until Saverio’s infidelity cranks it up to melodrama. ‘The Hand of God’ Review: A Portrait of the Cineaste as a Young Man 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Better are James Colby as Cat’s comically exasperated captain, and Ally Walker as her knowing, broken mother. ‘Taxi Brooklyn’ Features Savvy Cabby and Curt Cop 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Cummings' big brown eyes widen in a comically dismayed expression as Tara begins to realize the show isn't really about helping people. Review: New play tweaks TV's addiction to ratings 2013-06-05T00:18:07Z Institutions — schools, companies, governments — are comically and also lethally useless. It’s Bong Joon Ho’s Dystopia. We Just Live in It. 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Her face was powdered white with bright rouge dollops on her cheeks, and she never, or at least not in the last few decades, left home without wearing a comically shaped hat. On the Runway Blog: Designers Gather in Milan to Remember Anna Piaggi 2012-09-22T00:00:36Z Peele’s furious, comically precise lampooning targets two intersecting strains of racism. “Get Out”: Jordan Peele’s Radical Cinematic Vision of the World Through Black Eyes 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z For much of the series, Kim has been comically adherent to the rules, serving as the true north of Jimmy’s malfunctioning moral compass. We are all Kim Wexler: “Better Call Saul” and the painful realities of mid-career crisis 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z He’s most known as the cuddly snowman in “Frozen,” while she famously played a comically unhinged love interest in “Wedding Crashers.” Love bites in ‘Wolf Like Me’ with Isla Fisher and Josh Gad 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Only a lumbering berk like him would suggest holding it in the country’s most comically out of touch room. From Bran Stark to Boris Johnson: TV heroes and villains of 2019 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z The result was a final scene that, instead of feeling triumphant or soaring, landed at comically predictable camp. “Game Of Thrones” recap: Nobody puts Dany in a corner 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The kids show up; Meadow's comically bad parking; Anthony Jr still in a sulk. James Gandolfini: his best Sopranos scenes, in clips 2013-06-20T13:34:00Z The first section is a jittery collage of gender stereotypes, poses from classical statuary and romantic scenarios, all twisted into comically awkward balances. Dance Review: ?You?re Me,? From Faye Driscoll, at the Kitchen 2012-04-15T21:02:33Z Somehow it’s fitting that these comically rude yet beautiful objects should come at the end of the exhibition. Dan Colen Creates an Elegy for Dash Snow 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z In these sweetly grotesque beasts you see visual beauty — in the beaded patterns if not the comically ugly critters — admirably united with human goodness. Cooper Hewitt Triennial Offers a Bold Look at ‘Beauty’ 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Eddie’s insistent affection and optimism is comically at odds with Ani’s dry deadpan. ‘Cost of Living’ Review: Worth Its Weight in Gold 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z For all her equanimity, Vicky, a born-and-raised New Yorker with little rural experience, is almost comically frightened of the great outdoors. Movie Review: ‘In Our Nature,’ Directed by Brian Savelson 2012-12-07T01:21:09Z In a show crowded with genius, Ms. Shawkat always manages to stand out, partly because you can always see her working the angles even when comically flailing. Review: ‘Duck Butter’ and the 24-Hour ‘for Real’ Relationship 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z “And yet,” she wrote, “almost comically, I wanted to date only one particular person.” 10 Ways to Love Better 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z It includes the comically creepy “Vinegar Works: Four Dances of Moral Instruction,” based on books by Edward Gorey. Joan Acocella: The Trey McIntyre Project Says Farewell 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z For the most part, though, Dyer’s gifts as a noticer and a writer become fully apparent when he lets himself get deeply, comically weird. Geoff Dyer Takes to the Streets With Garry Winogrand 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Here, Gary Shteyngart comically recounts an impromptu product demonstration he gave on the 6 train. Why Google Glass Broke 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z When they do that, they tell their own migration histories — Schaal reaching way back, comically, in her maternal ancestry. A Show Reminds Young Audiences: We All Got Here From Somewhere 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Kunitz seemed to draw such energy from the garden that he became almost comically blithe to his advanced age. The symbiotic relationship between poets and the garden 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z As the outdoor opera rehearsal got underway here, they were playing a round of golf, wielding comically outsize clubs and singing about Eisenhower, Kennedy and their swings. ‘Cubanacán’ Imagines When Che and Fidel Compared Golf Swings 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Her character marks encouraging progress for the show; it suggests that in “Silicon Valley,” a woman can be every bit as comically weird as a man. 'Silicon Valley' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Datageddon 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z The rest are comically arch, like “American Hustle,” about grifters trying to get by, or “Inside Llewyn Davis,” about a folk singer who just can’t win. The Carpetbagger: What to Look for in the Golden Globe Nominations 2013-12-12T11:00:24Z According to Deadline, the theme for the upcoming season is comically "The Good, The Bad and The Cuddly." Anti-masker Rudy Giuliani's surprise cameo on "The Masked Singer" prompts judges to walk out 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z The Providence dinner party features tense moments that illuminate both the Bloom marriage and Evelyn and Roberta’s relationship, but the scene also comically conjures personal foibles and social awkwardness. Review | The drama of saving refugee children in 1939, and a journey that’s just as moving and meaningful today 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Playing off Eno’s heightened sense of language and pacing, Oliver Butler opts for comically stylized direction in this production by the Theater for a New Audience. Review: ‘Gnit’ Seeks Itself in a Mist of Magic and Mischief 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Back when “swag” was merely “style,” Downey acquired a comically expensive ascot collection to seemingly prove Oscar Wilde’s adage that “a well-knotted cravat is the first serious step in a man’s life.” Robert Downey Jr. hasn’t just made it all the way back, he’s made it all the way to the top I Must Be Jesus comically and gloriously combines depression, a Welsh male voice choir and Rossiter's apparent childhood belief that he must be Christ. Martin Rossiter: The Defenestration of St Martin – review 2012-11-29T21:30:03Z Here was “Bobby,” who lumbers around New York on comically tall stilts and whom Mr. Heller first featured on social media exactly one year earlier. The ‘Unofficial Talent Scout’ Who Celebrates New York’s Colorful Side 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z His more general attacks in "Politics" on what he perceives to be bad style are often outright ridiculous, parading a comically arbitrary collection of intolerances. My problem with George Orwell 2013-01-17T15:49:30Z Show business is known for its comically unbalanced ratio of supply and demand: Hordes of young, aspiring actors and filmmakers scrap over every grunt-level Hollywood position. Violence. Threats. Begging. Harvey Weinstein’s 30-year pattern of abuse in Hollywood. 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z By contrast, Ms. Lyons is down-to-earth, approachable and almost comically self-effacing. Jenna Lyons, the Woman Who Dresses America 2013-01-18T22:17:58Z Though the work’s structure is comically recursive, eventually the visions point more insistently toward one subject and one style. Review: ‘A Room in India’ Overflows With Astonishing Visions 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z There are some gross but comically effective reveals and the movie's fish-out-of-water scenes are horrible and funny at the same time. The Change-Up: Body-Swapping, Plus Fake Boobs and F-Bombs 2011-08-04T16:15:00Z All are almost comically impressed by his obsessive pursuit, which this documentary assumes requires no distinction from the grunt work of countless researchers or academics. | 'Mark Lombardi: Death-Defying Acts': ‘Mark Lombardi: Death-Defying Acts’ at MoMA 2012-09-12T21:43:09Z He also featured in “Scotch Boutique,” the first of the show’s “comically specific store” skits. Best in Show: Watch Fred Willard’s Most Memorable Roles 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z She is also comically wrong about almost everything, including career advice. Television Review: Lena Dunham?s ?Girls? Begins on HBO 2012-04-12T18:49:02Z The parallels are comically human: the small but pugilistic cactus, the cheerfully plump one, the tall but diffident wraith. Martin Creed: Down Over Up; Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project; Joan Mitchell 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z Like its predecessor, the deceptively elegant “All the Little Lights,” this album — a blend of Greenwich Village folk, soft-rock and Celtic music undertones — is almost comically plain-spoken and direct, like folk caricature. Jack White’s ‘Lazaretto,’ About Controlling and Letting Go 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z She writes frothy romps with vast rosters of mainly comically exaggerated characters. Ian Rankin: By the Book 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z I think that his cruelly comic, or comically cruel, vision of humanity is at play here in a dominant way. This Week in Fiction: Discovering an Unpublished Story by Langston Hughes 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z In “Happy Hour,” Barnes immerses audiences in a comically awkward office party. Everyone needs an editor, even choreographers. Now, they’re finally welcoming more voices in the studio. 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Stram, too, is delightful — and comically ebullient when Sir Oliver has cause for joy. Review: ‘The School for Scandal’ Is Full-Throated Satire 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Overruling his generals, he broadcast a decree Gallicchio sardonically calls “almost comically evasive” because it omitted the words “surrender” and “defeat.” The Debate to Use Atomic Bombs Against Japan 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z The purest form of comically misplaced condescension is the simple sentence “I am a genious,” of which there are 51,000 examples. ‘I am a genious’ and other cluelessly ironic spelling errors 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z The material in the wrong hands could come off as inane, but Nicholaw, who co-directed and choreographed "The Book of Mormon," found the most comically adroit hands for each of the principal roles. Take note of these four musicals for a Tony, then vote for 'Fun Home' 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z In terms of villains, blaxploitation films often featured resolutely evil racist white caricatures, along with comically duplicitous black sycophants eager to sell out the race for their own personal gain. The return of blaxploitation: why the time is right to bring back Shaft and Foxy Brown 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z And then she proceeds to talk, often quite comically, for another 50 minutes. Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette”: The stunning Netflix special that made Louis C.K.’s comedy irr... 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z So when Nekrotzar, the persona of Death, emerges as if from the underworld, we first see the comically menacing face of this character, played by the formidable bass-baritone Eric Owens, as a ghoulish video image. Music Review: The Philharmonic?s Challenge: Merely the End of the World 2010-05-28T18:13:00Z It’s perhaps a measure of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s genius as well as his enigma that the volume of writing about him is almost comically disproportionate to the volume of writing by him. Wittgenstein’s ‘Private Notebooks’ Shed Some Light on an Enigmatic Genius 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z In spite of a comically hellish childhood, Frank Grimes managed to obtain a degree in nuclear physics. From ER to The Sopranos: what were the most shocking TV deaths? 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Even at his most comically unhinged, he was beatific. Gene Wilder Showed That Anxiety Could Be Hilarious—and Tender, Too 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Their mix of bad luck and poor choices sends them into a situation that seems comically dire. Haves and have-nots 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z In the 1990s, he became known for sculptures involving comically distorted faces and bodies of people projected onto stuffed dummies. Review: Tony Oursler’s Grand Illusions, Science Left at the Door 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z He’s parlayed a prepossessing personality into comically self-deprecating performances as himself on the TV shows “Entourage” and “How I Met Your Mother.” It’s O.K. With Ralph Macchio if You Call Him the Karate Kid 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z The war between the two musics was comically unfair. SXSW 2010 post #14: The Dutchess and the Duke at Beauty Bar 2010-03-21T20:16:00Z James’s ghost stories aren’t really cozy or humorless; they can be quite grisly — a necromancer tears out the hearts of small children — and many of the characters are comically Dickensian. Review | ‘The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom’ beautifully demonstrates the evolution of a genre 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Sam — not an orphan but with comically clueless parents — has some problems with authority, both male and female. FILM: Babies to Heroes: A Field Guide to Big-Screen Men 2011-07-27T12:00:10Z That volume, dense with misfits and often comically poisonous thoughts that act as coagulants, read as if the author were playing many games of blitz chess at once. A Sleeping Beauty Hopes Hibernation Is the Answer to All Life’s Problems 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump has also appeared in dozens of other viral GIFs, comically slapping hands with Jeb Bush, swatting away opponents with his hands and, of course, making countless funny faces. Political GIFs Are the New Sound Bites This Campaign Season 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The window offered comically little resistance to the wind. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z Still, O’Keeffe found herself swiftly, comically, awkwardly bundled back over the threshold by Rossellini, who on a late September afternoon in the middle of a pandemic had no crew to attend to wayward sheep. Socially Distant, Except for the Dogs, Sheep and Chickens 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z His voice only becomes comically vivid in the impersonal text onscreen. Stand-Up Sets Where You Can Choose Your Own Adventure 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Beatty opened the envelope and after a comically extended pause, bemusedly handed the card that was inside to his presenting partner Faye Dunaway, who announced “La La Land” as the winner. Winner by upset: Jimmy Kimmel nails his first Oscar outing, but was overshadowed by a fantastic gaffe 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z In his comically impulsive and self-deprecating turn, Wood's ironic breach of the fourth wall became a special moment. Review: 'Macbeth,' 'Tempest' among plays staged for free at parks around the Sound 2011-07-19T04:48:06Z None of this would work comically or otherwise if we didn't believe that Louie loves his children. Louis C.K. is a boldly honest TV dad on 'Louie' 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z This live, chirping bird, the only replaceable component of Edward Kienholz’s 1964-65 assemblage “The Wait,” animates a comically morbid tableau of old bones, faded photographs and musty wallpaper. Art Review: A Haunting Tour, One Room at a Time 2011-01-20T22:19:28Z Later, as she came into her final form, we see her be dumped, albeit comically, into a pile of teddy bears and children's play toys when Cady attends an outdoor school program. Fearsome and fierce? How robot doll M3GAN become a queer icon 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z In these 11 stories by the gifted Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra, the protagonists are adrift, disillusioned and comically inept at love. Kelly Link’s ‘Get in Trouble’ and Five Other Works 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z “This week, the June 12th summit between the US and North Korea was suddenly back on after Trump met with a North Korean envoy who brought him this gigantic, comically oversized letter from Kim Jong-un.” John Oliver: 'as infuriating a president as Trump is, he'd be an even worse Moses' 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z In between, Navalny makes his case for an alternative to Putin while often comically sifting through the details of his near death. Ukraine war recasts ‘Navalny’ as a prequel to Putin’s aims 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z I am not sure which of these things bemused Gizzi more; perhaps he found the pairing itself comically incongruous. Peter Gizzi, a Poet of Sound and Time 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z The encounter with Fitzgerald himself goes on from there to a dialogue of a comically Beckettian absurdity that resulted in a fast friendship. A Brilliant, Unknown Memoir About Classic Hollywood 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The case against the tailor, Franz Müller, was almost comically flimsy; he remained well within doubt’s shadow. Newly Released: New Books Include ?Out of Oz? and ?The Boy in the Suitcase? 2011-11-16T23:05:14Z The page turns were almost comically fast, as if the pianists were speed- reading their way forward. Chamber-music fest: a little dessert, double helping of piano 2011-07-07T19:27:04Z Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, blithely utters the line after one of his employees has been brutally mauled by a tiger, making him seem comically indifferent to the man's suffering. Joe Exotic channels the spirit of America’s 19th-century tiger kings 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Delicately meticulous even when comically coarse, “Krapp’s Last Tape” collapses when pushed. 'Beckett 5' at the Odyssey: five plays, two hours, one sinister ending 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z In the next, he will comically hump one of those machines where you put in a dollar and try to grab stuffed animals with a giant claw. Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z A soulful presence, Mr. Phoenix excels at playing characters who often struggle to express themselves one tormented or comically inarticulate word at a time. Review: Woody Allen’s ‘Irrational Man’ Explores Life’s Randomness 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Here, it’s the titular cloud that provides the connective tissue, as it hovers over the school for days, bringing all sorts of bad mojo to the comically unflappable students and staff. ‘Wayside School’ Is Back, With Payoffs to Jokes That Began 40 Years Ago 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z But “The Substitute,” crucially, is not about Lucio’s pedagogic brilliance or the transformative power of books; the scenes of him lecturing in class are almost comically uninspired. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Clean and modern, with a comically minimalist aesthetic, it manages to be both comfortable and chic. In a Quiet Corner of Italy... Trieste 2011-04-29T19:35:37Z A small town with a comically higgledy-piggledy central piazza, it’s like Assisi these days: in danger of seeming quaint or cute instead of beautiful or picturesque. Tuscany as Henry James Knew It 2010-06-24T20:43:00Z It tells of how one generation of American radicals confronted and comically misunderstood the next. The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Their relationship is conveyed in one chapter that is mostly about their earliest dates, during which they seemed comically mismatched. ‘Maybe I Do Have a Story to Tell’: Kal Penn on His Memoir 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z “Note to self: waterproof mascara!” she quipped while getting comically drenched by a storm she was covering. What Wendy Rieger learned from Washington 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z An oddly comforting theme runs through these comically gruesome, gruesomely comical specials: That the worst thing you can imagine may be better than the life you're already living. TV Picks: Foo Fighters, twins, Simpsons, 'Web Therapy,' more 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Even with such a facile gift for branding, she is almost comically bad at selling things. Critic’s Notebook: M.I.A. and Pharrell Williams Each Have Books by Rizzoli 2012-11-27T23:19:57Z Entrances and exits, as from an odd, high-set door, are both comically and dramatically surprising. Review: In Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Broken Story,’ Wit Comes Full Circle 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z The only other furnishings were a tiny desk, a low gumdrop-like cube serving as a chair, and a wooden bar that held comically oversize clothes hangers. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: Hi Matic in Paris 2012-07-06T16:23:59Z He is comically adorable, and his tininess makes visceral the siblings’ vulnerability. Review: ‘Make Believe’ Has a Cast of Children, but No Fairy Tales 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Statham, best known as an action star, plays the would-be superspy whose bravado hides the fact that he’s comically terrible at his job. This Is Why Spy Is Such a Triumph for Melissa McCarthy 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z At first, Johnson is depicted as an amusing, comically inept figure dodging unpaid hotel bills, buying groceries at bottom-market prices and concocting cons so egregious there are no laws against them. ‘BS High’ Review: Greed and Football 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z But he told the Chicago Tribune they "see things the same way, comically, professionally and romantically." Big band singer Margaret Whiting dies in NJ at 86 2011-01-12T22:42:15Z A socialite's kidnapping goes comically awry in the 2013 caper "Life of Crime" based on an Elmore Leonard novel. TV This Week March 22 - 29: Katy Perry Concert on EPIX 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z There may not have been anything as much fun at the movies this year as watching Michael Shannon as a corrupt, comically reckless cop disgusted by his ignoble two-wheeled prey. AP critics pick the year's best movies 2012-12-14T21:29:02Z In the season two finale, set aboard a comically extravagant yacht, he finally regains a scrap of control. Succession's 10 best moments: from Boar on the Floor to excruciating phone sex 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z His “Twenty-Four Word Notes” comically riffs on the proper meanings, uses and misuses of two dozen words. ‘Both Flesh and Not’: essays by David Foster Wallace 2012-12-27T19:23:07Z The portrayal of Melville in “The Whale” is almost comically divergent from that in “Melville in Love.” Do you know the truth behind Herman Melville’s ‘Moby-Dick’? 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Only his weapon gives him an advantage, and even that turns out to be comically fragile. DVDs: Hot and Sticky Grindhouse, Classics and Homages 2010-10-03T01:53:00Z Mostly, it provides a stage for Ms. Bullock, who at first comically skulks about wearing an aggrieved grimace, a smart coat and Didion-esque sunglasses. Review: In ‘Our Brand Is Crisis,’ the War Room Goes to Bolivia 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Their visits to him at his home in the south of France — Alex exulting, comically, in the foreignness of the place names — become cozy beachside idylls for the tight-knit bunch. ‘Sea Wall/A Life’ Review: Quiet Tragicomedies of Love and Loss 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z But in the opera that sweet, strange meeting is replaced by a comically hypermasculine wrestling match. Music Review: ?Heart of a Soldier? at San Francisco Opera - Review 2011-09-11T17:17:57Z From the play’s wordless opening scene in this Primary Stages production, Teddy is comically, endearingly O.K. with his subterranean surroundings, rooting around amid rusty tools for a bowl for his cereal. Review: Tim and Tyne Daly Are Dysfunctional Siblings in ‘Downstairs’ 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z More nutty than scary, Stokes calls on the spirits of “Single White Female” and “Obsessed,” adding twists that are simultaneously predictable and comically unsettling. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z What’s the distance between an outsized boast delivered sincerely and an imagined excessive boast delivered comically, but with a straight face? The Playlist: Justin Timberlake Stays Funky (for Now), and 9 More New Songs 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z In a sci-fi future where everything is ruthlessly, comically optimized by advanced tech, the Womb Center offers digitally monitored, egg-shaped pods that will carry one’s baby to term. ‘The Pod Generation’ Review: Motherhood, Optimized 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z By the time he hit his 50s, Picasso was a whiny, tiny monster, almost comically self-centered and petty, casually abusive with his family, friends, employees and sycophants. 10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z He's like an earnest, comically deranged motivation speaker. 'The Dilemma': Happy days upended for couples in Ron Howard infidelity comedy 2011-01-13T02:33:04Z Guilds were hardly perfect – the Meistersingers were almost comically Teutonic in their earnest love of musical rules, and guild traditionalism sometimes put them behind artistic developments. Can unions save the creative class? 2013-03-18T16:25:00Z Physically unimposing and almost comically frugal, Mr. Cunningham was as much a character as anyone he photographed. Bill Cunningham, photographer of New York street fashion, dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Yes, “Rudolph” is hilariously steeped in ignorance and, if you have a warped sense of humor, comically dark. It’s not just “Rudolph”: Holiday TV specials are mostly creepy, weird or depressing as hell 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z At its center, perched on a thick marble cylinder, is a comically undersized bronze of William Penn, the city’s founder, who presides over an almost invariably empty plaza. Remembering Robert Venturi, the Close Reader of Architecture 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z With his tortoiseshell glasses, suspenders and comically tousled brows, Mr. Jamison has something of the country squire about him. In Frank Lloyd Wright Country, Architecture and Apple Pie 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z The book is full of anonymous notes and secret meetings — some to exchange privileged information, some to preserve social standing, some a combination of both — that come across as comically self-serious. Review | Can a thriller also be a feminist social critique? Lisa Lutz gives it a try in ‘The Swallows’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Roupenian artfully, at times comically marshals Margot’s hesitation to create tension and suspense in a story that deals with power, sexual consent, gender norms, the limits of knowledge and that durable narrative theme: female paranoia. At Last Back at Sundance, Filled With Rocky Relationships and Glorious Writers 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z He also comically addressed the rumors stoked by the brief absence of what he called "the hub around which the republic turns." In return to air, Colbert honors ailing mother 2012-02-21T04:55:19Z With their big moon eyes and comically large ears and cute round bellies that they yearn for people to tickle! "Baby Chimp Rescue" is just as adorable as you expect, and surprisingly emotional as well 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z Rella, all wide eyes and popped eyebrows, is the man as hyperbole, comically outsized. Review: Blood Runs Too Thick in ‘Doctors Jane and Alexander’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z There's a comically endearing take on The Tortoise and the Hare, with a geeky tortoise and a hyperactive, harebrained rival. The Boy Who Cried Wolf – review 2013-07-24T17:26:52Z It exhaled, and the breeze wafted a comically sour plume from its blowhole into our faces. Great white sharks abound at a marine sanctuary just off the San Francisco coast 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Cleverbot often sounds comically delusional or defensive: “Are you a robot?” it asks itself. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z At other times, she can be comically self-deprecating. Garance Doré, the Style Blogger, Snatches the Spotlight 2014-05-07T21:18:59Z But in Portland, a city where the lines often blur between it and “Portlandia,” its comically twee IFC TV counterpart, the seriousness of this craft endeavor seems fitting. Heads Up: Bringing the Wine to Portland, Ore. 2013-08-29T19:58:37Z 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 The movie was an opportunity to wrestle — usually comically, sometimes physically — with his own exaggerated mythology. Nicolas Cage faces off with a new foe: Himself 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Best employed a battery of catch phrases in the role, as well as memorable laugh that was comically villainous. James Best, actor on ‘The Dukes of Hazzard,’ dies at 88 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z He let himself go physically and seems to have lost his fastball, comically. 'Hall Pass': a rude, crude Farrelly Brothers comedy 2011-02-24T20:38:07Z Making this a good idea is the comically excessive amount of wine served with the evening's tasting menu. After a Day of Golf, Scotland's Peat Inn 2010-03-25T10:25:00Z It had a comically grouchy face, but stonefish — the world’s most venomous — are no joke. Diving Thailand’s Andaman Sea, by day and night 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z And once again, we invite readers to comically misinterpret what The Washington Post was saying — and not just by writing letters to the editor. Style Invitational: Mess With Our Heads 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z When it arrives, something seems comically amiss, but Don and Tony suppress their misgivings and present it to members of the congregation, who in turn override their doubts and accept it as holy. Jared Hess’s Bitter Religious Satire, “Don Verdean” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z And then there’s the dance — the comically sexual bust down, in which he yanks at the waistband of his pants while studiously gyrating. Meet Blueface, the Self-Aware Rapper Who Knows He’s More Than a Meme 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z There are also the comically raunchy tableaux of Michael Kirwan, which are reminiscent of the work of Paul Cadmus and R. Crumb. | The Secret History of Homoerotic Illustration 2014-03-27T16:00:16Z And Kutcher occasionally triumphs over the burden of being too cute to be taken seriously, or even comically. Killers: My Husband Is an Assassin (in a Very Bad Movie) 2010-06-05T02:35:00Z Ever since the agency's erroneous call, a decade earlier, that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction, the CIA had instituted an almost comically elaborate process for weighing certainty. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z “There’s a lot of things going on tonally with the show,” Mr. Hudgins said of a series where characters can be coldhearted, bracingly violent, then comically pride-filled. ‘Shut Eye’ Lays Its Tarot Cards on the Table 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z In the section titled "Dante," Holly Chou is effervescent as a mid-term replacement instructor who becomes comically enraptured by the romantic ideals of her more seasoned colleague, Angelina. Students kickin' the old school in 'Office Hours' 2010-10-01T18:32:00Z And it’s true that protesters are comically, even aggressively, disrespectful toward our current President. The Perils and Possibilities of the Never-Ending Protest 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z "Rock 'n' Roll is a tough career, however cynically or comically it is portrayed by its detractors," Townshend said in the statement. Pete Townshend says 2012 memoir a "rite of passage" 2011-05-17T22:16:05Z He also writes and directs his comically anarchic shows, which start selling out at some performances around Easter. The best pantomimes for Christmas 2010 2010-11-22T08:00:00Z One doesn’t necessarily expect much going into a slapstick stunt animal comedy, and yet even by these softened standards, the director Larry Yang’s “Ride On” cooks up an egregiously, almost comically bad movie. ‘Ride On’ Review: Jackie Chan, Back on the Horse 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z His tales and prologues are full of self-deprecating humor, placing him in scenarios where he plays the outsider comically humbled and embarrassed by his ignorance. Review: ‘Katsura Sunshine’s Rakugo’ Offers Stand-Up Comedy Without the Standing 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z From the stairs the adventurers stepped onto the High Line’s first stage with almost comically stunned looks, like mountaineers beholding base camp at Everest for the first time. The High Bridge, a Scenic and Serene Cousin of the High Line 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Her manipulations also give the works a surreal charge, an impression reinforced by their counterparts: five comically large ceramic sculptures of smoking pipes, arrayed around the galleries. Women, divorce and art that turns shame into celebration at Gavlak gallery 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z This endurance was emphasized comically with multiple false endings. Jan Martens Brings Cheeky Dances to the Abrons Arts Center 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z "He was wearing make-up and his hair was all coiffed," she recalls, with a series of comically dramatic hand gestures. The gospel according to Diane Birch 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z Instead, like many of Ms. Colvin’s greatest hits, the book is candid about her heartaches but also comically self-deprecating. Texas Monthly: Shawn Colvin Releases ‘Diamond in the Rough,’ a Memoir 2012-06-10T00:54:23Z "I don't know that Michael J Fox had done anything prior to that Curb episode where he got to comically play up the whole subject of his Parkinson's," says Weide. This is the End: why actors love to play themselves 2013-06-06T18:00:00Z The typically self-contained comic betrayed a bit of nervousness, stumbling over a few lines in his monologue as he looked back comically. After 22 years, Leno gave 'Tonight' his farewell 2014-02-07T20:58:39Z It was the tail end of breeding season, and fat pups weaned from their mothers were marooned awkwardly on the beach, comically rotund balloons resting on their sides. A Lighthouse to Call Your Own 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z "High School" has a lot of the same elements as your "classic" stoner comedies — stolen weed; a comically vengeful drug dealer; a selfish, blissed-out character whose poor judgment threatens a straight-arrow's college future. 'High School': At least Brody's talent isn't wasted in stoner comedy 2012-05-31T20:18:04Z Certain features and flaws would be exaggerated comically, and just so no one missed important details, we’d label them with arrows and quick descriptions around the periphery of the drawing: “Huge pimple.” I hated the girl in the mirror 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z We’re made to expect violence at any time, though, and when it happens it’s swift, unnerving and sometimes comically macabre. The world has a really bad hair day in ‘The Blondes’ 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z It’s the sense that he is playing chess to everyone else’s lame checkers moves — he is simply faster, funnier and on firmer, more principled ground than his adversaries, who are at best, comically flimsy. Lil Nas X, Clapback Champ 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Though Verdi’s Falstaff clings to the trappings of aristocracy, he is a deluded, debt-ridden and comically pathetic character. In Carsen’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Met, Verdi Through a Postwar Lens 2013-12-07T10:08:48Z By turns comically vulgar and hatefully sexist, all are presented in this raw and incendiary show, “Women Words, Phrases and Stories.” Chelsea Galleries, Like a Box of Chocolates 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z People go about their daily routines while comically, sadly dressed up as Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. William Pope.L sets the U.S. flag waving at the MOCA/Geffen 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Moreover, while the film shows them marching in a single file, and sliding on their bellies, they are also seen comically slipping and also zipping through water and “flying” back up on to the ice. “Drew! Barry! More Power!”: The 10 best penguin movies ever made 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Many of the questions they place in the hat are comically harmless. Unlike the shows that came before it, "Insecure" has always been about hustling one's way to success 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z In the play, by former "Daily Show" writer David Javerbaum, the Almighty comes to Earth by taking over Parsons' body and delivers comically ornery commentary on contemporary life. Summer promises to be hot on Broadway with three big openings 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Tennessee is the latest example of a state where a drug testing program yielded almost comically poor results. 5 reasons drug testing welfare recipients is profoundly stupid 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z The three are best known for their work on the cable series “Eastbound and Down” and “Vice Principals,” comedies about comically hideous men doing dumb awful things. The Summer of Josh Brolin Continues, on Netflix 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Faced with a comically inept staff, they now have to share the house with a rube-ish family of five. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z In a comically ethereal voice, she answered, “God willing, if I’m alive.” Selma Blair Wants You to See Her Living With Multiple Sclerosis 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z At which point Shiv and Kendall, regressive and cutely avoidant, as if retreating to the safety of a nursery, mock the question by answering it in comically squeaky voices. The Trash-Talk Pyrotechnics of the “Succession” Finale 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Fatbikes – so named because of their comically thick tyres – are the latest trend in cycling. Fatbiking in California: could the cycling trend be as big as snowboarding? 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z But standing next to this scientist Kim Wallen, it was clear that that was not at all true — almost comically so. The truth about female desire: It’s base, animalistic and ravenous 2013-06-02T00:30:00Z "Cultural catalyst" is comically grandiose, yet not inaccurate. A fitting headstone for Tony Wilson's grave 2010-10-26T19:00:00Z But he answered every question posed, his lanky frame bent slightly forward, his responses serious one moment, comically provocative the next. You’ve Got the Wrong Idea About Martin McDonagh 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The most vividly lovable person here is Fermín, a master of comically flowery rhetoric, who claims that "obstetrics, after free verse, is one of my hobbies". The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón – review 2012-06-28T07:00:01Z Can important life lessons be drawn from comically humiliating sex? On Finally Watching “Girls,” a Different and Better Show Than I’d Been Led to Imagine 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z “Looks like the toad overestimated the height of his living room ceiling,” Margo smirks to Todd, who chuckles at the comically oversized tree their weird neighbor hauled home on top of his station wagon. Sympathy for Todd and Margo: Clark Griswold’s childless yuppie scum neighbors are holiday heroes 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z There is something comically wrong about the ability of such sweet faces to deliver such adult words. Out of the mouths of babes: what do you do when your child starts swearing? 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Her grandparents cherished opera; her mother loved the American songbook and taught her children those comically bloody lullabies. Linda Ronstadt’s Borderland 2013-12-27T17:32:15Z Plenty of shows focus on women who are unlikely heroines; Olive is an unlikely heroine who at first is almost comically unlikable. Frances McDormand Stars in ‘Olive Kitteridge’ on HBO 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z So a historically comically blunt you would offer a fudge cheesecake recipe to your mom as, “Let’s try for gag-free gluten-free.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Such sweet sorrow, an aging mom loses her baking touch 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z These figures conjure jubilant trick-or-treaters, comically armored avatars or rock fans leaving a concert. Richard Prince’s New, Late Style Is One of His Best 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Considering that this is an issue which involves much more than Gore's individual feelings and ambitions, it was a necessary approach — and a comically effective one. “South Park” blames climate change on Grandpa’s selfishness and it’s barely a metaphor at... 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Most of the threatening situations resolve comically, and we’re reminded that the robbery is a victimless crime. Review: ‘Good Girls’ Offers Equal Time for Antiheroines 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z It becomes an occasion for brief speechifying, but the schoolteachers, Pat and Bar, are also comically clueless and mild. Books of The Times: New Comic Novels From Dave Barry and Tim Dorsey 2013-01-16T20:43:01Z It was Creme who, after lending his comically high falsetto to Donna, The Dean and I and Rubber Bullets, came closest to being 10cc's frontman, at least in the early days. 10cc: 'It was a tragedy we didn't stay together' 2012-11-22T20:00:04Z And, at the Critics’ Choice Awards, he wore a chocolate satin suit with a comically oversized soft-peach bow at the hip, a fanciful caricature of a cummerbund. Billy Porter Won the Oscars Red Carpet Before It Even Began 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z In hindsight, that critique seems wildly, comically off base. The Man Behind ‘A Man Called Ove,’ Sweden’s Latest Hit Novel 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z One problem is that Mr. Rogen, however comically inclined, has become overexposed, and there’s just something too familiar and predictable about this voice coming out of that body. | 'Paul': Calm Down, People; He Comes in Peace 2011-03-17T22:06:17Z They were idiosyncratic, comically tough to satisfy and mostly had to do with money. Aretha Franklin Didn’t Want You to See This Movie. But You Must. 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z After a string of comically awful relationships, Peggy winds up with Stan, the Harry to her Sally, the guy she once detested but who gradually became her confidante and, ultimately, her soulmate. 'Mad Men' finale recap: There's no place like om 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z That is to say, a word man befuddled by and comically resigned to his fate. Review: In John Irving’s ‘Avenue of Mysteries,’ a Blur of Aphorisms and Magical Events 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z The Doctor may often be a doofus, or absent-minded, or grumpy, or display all sorts of other comically undesirable behaviour. But the modern Doctor is not the irascible, self-centred William Hartnell of those early episodes. Review: 'Doctor Who', Episode 802, 'Inside The Dalek' -- Peter Capaldi (Almost) Takes Charge 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z As host of Funny or Die's "Billy on the Street," which airs on Fuse, Eichner aggressively and comically interviews passersby about pop culture. On Twitter, a peanut gallery mocks the Oscars 2013-02-20T18:45:09Z But then the poker-faced, psychologically astute and comically adept Smith is a specialist in bizarro male behavior. Review: Hero of 'All My Children' broke up but can't let go 2010-06-03T17:52:00Z Alma and Baya, in their little pod, live according to the dictates of their sacred books, the instruction manuals — though they have confidently, comically misinterpreted a significant piece of advice contained therein. Review: When a Stranger Knocks at the Airlock 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z So this gave her a chance to share more clerihews from Week 1133, with their ingenious rhyme combined with comically bad meter. Style Invitational Week 1139: 64 different ways to lose! 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Like many who claim to encounter the divine, trippers often come back with knowledge comically difficult to convey. A Strait-Laced Writer Explores Psychedelics, and Leaves the Door of Perception Ajar 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Though decades past its heyday, La Peetch remains the charming, comically dysfunctional representation of Julia and Paul Child that the Childs knew. You can now rent (and cook in!) Julia Child’s Provence cottage 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z He's also comically waving his pistols at them in some scenes but mostly it's the charisma holding them hostage, not the threat of taking a bullet. "The Good Lord Bird" is a zany, rollicking ride through the mania of abolitionist rebellion 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z Why are so many of the interiors almost comically dark? Confusing 'J. Edgar' more sketch than portrait 2011-11-09T20:22:04Z Not unlike the blank black squares that flooded Instagram last summer, sex strikes are uniquely, comically out of touch and ineffectual, purporting to make a very public sacrifice that no one really asked for. Withholding sex is not the answer to abortion bans: The spectacle of celebrity "pro-choice" activism 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z The movie is almost comically effective; given a conceit that seems as simple as an eighth-grade algebra equation, it creates a sense of constant, electrifying, excruciating surprise. The Twisted Appeal of “Don’t Breathe” 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z It was a compilation of mass shooters’ video manifestos, but set to comically upbeat music. 'This is small talk purgatory': what Tinder taught me about love 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Only the vocals are less Tony Hadley than Lawrence from Denim meets someone goth with a comically deep and husky voice. New band of the day – No 1,314: Leverage Models 2012-07-23T15:38:34Z As Wallach toggled between the stage and notable supporting film roles, often as the heavy, Ms. Jackson remained a stalwart of the New York theater scene, excelling in comically neurotic and offbeat parts. Anne Jackson, theater stalwart who teamed onstage with husband Eli Wallach, dies at 90 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Another was a celebration of Prince Andrew’s almost comically doomed marriage to Sarah Ferguson. Review: ‘Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life’: Cursed by Beauty 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Catherine is refined yet comically crude, abruptly announcing at one point, “I’ve really got to take a dump.” Louise Linton Has Made a Movie 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z In interviews, he was comically pointed about the effect of suburban and commercial architecture on the concept of its inhabitants. Lewis Baltz, Photographer of American Landscapes, Dies at 69 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z When Ms. Okano fished out a piece of beef, she would suggest seasoning it with one or more of an almost comically large assortment of condiments and purées that she makes herself. A Rare Treat on Delancey Street: A Chef Who Cooks for You 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Those who chose to rap in the eight bars took more thematic latitude, with vividly detailed verses about sex and violence comically juxtaposed against Jean’s earnestness. How Big Can a TikTok Duet Get? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z In the final scene of the first act, Gene, having comforted two distraught characters in a row, comically declares, “You’re so upset! You’re all so upset!” ‘Seagull’ Review: Blurring the Lines of Fiction 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Credit, in part, the vividness of the dialogue, which is naturalistically profane and comically aggressive but also thematically valid. Review: Fathers, but Not Yet Men, in the Prison Drama ‘Shook’ 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z She has several of the classic markers of outsider status, including a trailer park address and comically bad hair. | 'Spork': Life on the Fringe 2011-05-26T23:49:14Z Then it’s definitely taller, comically so — but right when it becomes bizarre enough to laugh out loud, there’s a sudden cut to Harding wearing a spooky demon mask that takes your breath away. Aldous Harding’s Gloriously Peculiar World of Songs 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z There’s even a comically half-baked collaboration with Pharrell Williams, whose considerable star power is one more element that failed to attract attention to this record. Mary J. Blige has a new album out. Has anyone noticed? 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z The inference seems clear at first: this is a comically "Freudian" emanation from the unconscious of the figure on the couch – except that this initial schematic response won't exhaust the collage. Brian Dillon on John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery 2011-01-29T00:06:00Z At the same time, the media portrayed gay men as comically effeminate and "gym trim," he said. 'Where the Bears Are' strikes a comic chord with a gay subculture 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z There was no case there, and they’ve never been able to make it The Republicans’ first attempt to weaponise Benghazi fell comically flat. Fighting dirty: could Michael Bay’s Benghazi movie take down Hillary Clinton? 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z The new Rich Gang mixtape fully heralds the arrival of its brand of yacht rap, brimming with luxurious production that’s almost comically gentle in tone and approach. New Albums From Weezer, Sam Amidon and Rich Gang 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z In a prologue, we've seen how Danny, then sporting a comically oversized nose, learned that the woman he was about to marry 20 years ago was just after him for his money. 'Just Go With It'? Sandler and Aniston should have said no 2011-02-10T18:11:03Z And though he writes comically about his publishing history, it is clear that, beneath the retelling, his were dark creative struggles, shot through with affronts and humiliations. Alasdair Gray: 'There isn't much time. Better get on with it' 2012-11-18T00:08:01Z A tissue sticks relentlessly, comically, to a man's shoe. 'Life in a Day': a dazzling kaleidoscope of YouTube moments 2011-07-28T19:27:07Z And Allende’s description of a TV astrologer paints a comically precise picture: “She looked like Eva Perón, with a few extra pounds.” Isabel Allende’s ‘Ripper’: tracking a San Francisco killer 2014-01-22T22:37:43Z Still running — deadline Monday night: Our contest to pair a TV show with a comically fitting song. Style Invitational Week 1104: HOW’s this? Compare 2 things with the same abbrev. 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z "Other cities are available," piped one of the team comically. A week listening to ? Capital FM 2011-04-12T10:17:42Z The resulting video from Jimmy Kimmel Live is, unsurprisingly, comically disheartening. Marvel and History Fans: Watch This Rough Jimmy Kimmel Clip 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The movie’s opening stretch, which breezily tracks Linda and George’s fall from Manhattan grace — from her comically bad pitch meeting at HBO to their packing up and hitting the road — is a pocketsize cautionary tale. Movie Review: David Wain?s ?Wanderlust,? With Jennifer Aniston 2012-02-23T23:24:45Z Soft-spoken and sweet, he’s also comically polite: at one point a busboy arrived to clear his plate, and although he was very much not finished, he simply allowed his breakfast to be whisked away. The Guy Under the Seats Rises Again 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z It is another painful case of a movie trying to maintain political correctness while comically breaking the rules. Movie Review: ‘Why Stop Now?’ With Melissa Leo and Jesse Eisenberg 2012-08-17T15:07:21Z Though the eyes do their part, exceptionally expressive, it is the naturalistic look when he's speaking that separates Paddington from all the comically bizarre talking CGI animals that populate movies and TV. 'Paddington' brings irresistible bear to life 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z An example was Mr. Pascal’s comically inflected “Memory” from “Cats,” a song he mischievously described as that show’s “one redeeming quality.” Review: In ‘Acoustically Speaking,’ a ‘Rent’ Duo Returns 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z He’s “bearded and bleary eyed after months of breakdown and catastrophe,” secluded in his Los Angeles estate, where his only companions are twin guard dogs and a comically excessive home security system. Review | Jim Carrey the actor-writer deconstructs Jim Carrey the character in ‘Memoirs and Misinformation’ 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Death is a frequent subject here, often comically, which might strike some as odd, but youngsters have much darker senses of humor than adults tend to believe. A Comedy Special for Kids That Gets Their Dark Sense of Humor 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z For Caro, it was the matchmaker scene, in which Mulan comically and spectacularly fails her “good wife” test, and the avalanche, a key battle scene in the original. Mulan, a Most Adaptable Heroine: There’s a Version for Every Era 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Some critics contend that such measures are condescending — even absurd in a comically Euro-liberal fashion. Some genital persuasion 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Black sets the pace with his shopworn shtick, while Robbins clearly enjoys another chance to play a comically egomaniacal government official. HBO’s ‘The Brink’: In a global crisis, the satirical missiles are mostly duds 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z In this case, she comically juxtaposes high culture’s fetishizing of rural life with the drudgery of rural reality, simultaneously skewering the trends of high culture in both contemporary America and eighteenth-century France. Suzanne Bocanegra’s Haunting, Beautiful Clutter 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Some of the cat’s most comically absurd escapades are entirely consistent with the look-and-say method, minus the terrible literalness that Hersey decried. How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z He had an uncannily quick fluency in the deeply nuanced surrealist humor that is associated with a loose confederation of comically ironic nihilists often referred to as “Weird Twitter.” Meet 17-Year-Old Indonesian Rapper Rich Chigga 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Swift's ardent fan base also took to the platform to celebrate the news, albeit comically. Taylor Swift's "Eras Tour" concert movie fends off demons, sending "The Exorcist: Believer" packing 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Squatting on their perches, they spout unexpected bits of literary philosophy, then revert to hooting and bouncing up and down in comically ape-like excitement. Review: 'All in the Timing' has wordplay and wit 2013-02-13T19:03:10Z As a way to prove himself to his citizens, Sheriff Bill sets out, somewhat comically, to find Frank Griffin’s gang, while an egocentric Taos newspaperman, A.T. Review | Netflix’s gory but glorious ‘Godless’ is the Western we’ve all been waiting for 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z I find myself looking up absolute nonsense only tangentially related to my work, fuelled by obsessions and whims and characterised by topic-hopping, bad spelling, squinting, forum lurking and comically wide-ranging search terms. The internet: is it changing the way we think? 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z It’s a con-artist film — poor family connives its way into jobs serving a younger, wealthy quartet — and the con rides an elevator from comically to tragically desperate. The Mystery of the Oscars: How Do You Really Vote for a Script? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z The insight would seem almost comically unlikely if it came any sooner. Review: Making a Beautiful ‘Case for the Existence of God’ 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z That didn’t translate into her work being kind — a word that’s almost comically incommensurate with her acerbic narrative voice, the performative “I” she would insert into her essays and profiles. Janet Malcolm, a Writer Who Emphasized the Messiness of Life With Slyness and Precision 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z It makes you think of Alan, ineptly faking his response in some similar situation before being comically caught out. Steve Coogan: forever Partridge? 2013-04-15T15:29:00Z Full of deftly choreographed shootouts and comically macho stand-offs, Jack Ryan is diverting claptrap just as long as you disengage your brain. Jack Ryan: John Krasinski’s eyebrows out act John Krasinski 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z The fullness of her admission, the almost comically ingratiating manner of her interrogators, and the doleful, coercive shape of the encounter give the proceedings a fascinating dramatic impetus. Review | Reality Winner’s arrest transcript becomes a scintillating Broadway show in ‘Is This a Room’ 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z The associations were clear: hairlessness suggests powerlessness, a comically pathetic quality. Breaking bald 2012-07-24T18:30:00Z The opening scenes with their comically generic locations, like the bookstore with a sign that just says “books,” get the movie off to a puckish start. Movie Review | 'Easier With Practice': On the Phone, Alienated and Indulging 2010-02-25T23:33:00Z In 2010, Bill Oakley, an executive producer on the show at the time, told The New York Observer: “$9 was picked as a comically cheap fare,” he said. ‘The Simpsons’ Has Predicted a Lot. Most of It Can Be Explained. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Here the violin’s jangling figurations serve to bolster the text’s notion that Jesus’s blood renders the enraged rattling of hell’s chains as comically useless: There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z But when she pans back to apply her approach to all women, her conclusions are often comically infantilising. Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg 2013-03-13T11:18:53Z He gawps comically in the gloom, purely astonished to find the festival underway and the whole place full of people. Waiting for the Sea – first look review 2012-11-09T17:05:27Z Another perched comically on all fours on a small tree branch midstream. On a remote Russian peninsula, a vodka-fueled adventure 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z It's an audience-friendly version of the play that at times comes off as comically ingratiating. A big 'like' for Caryl Churchill's 'Love and Information' 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Even when Rae, 21, was focused more intently on her social media presentation — she’s now often comically late to trends on the app — she always appeared to have her eyes somewhere beyond the phone. TikTok Made Them Famous. Figuring Out What’s Next Is Tough. 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Though charming, the first half of the book is imperfect, with a comically evil father figure and an unnecessary subplot about a character’s past life as a thief threatening to derail the story. A Multitude of Hauntings 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z I felt instead that our lives were comically, even cosmically, distant. Back to school, with a baby: What living in a Harvard dorm taught me about being a mother 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Another filmmaker might have comically eviscerated that lie, or at least smacked it around. Review: ‘I Feel Pretty’ Doesn’t Even Go Skin Deep 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z At times, as on “Highway 61 Revisited,” he sounded less like Bob Dylan than someone doing a comically bad Bob Dylan impression, complete with nasally wheezes and froggy croaks. Review | A Bob Dylan concert is still as challenging as ever. But why try to change him now? 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Candy is a doer and a planner, at times comically so, although the harvest gold filter coloring the visuals flushes away one's will to laugh. Review: Here's the true crime of Hulu's "Candy" 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z These comically avant-garde early efforts were carried off with a pointedly un-fashion-y sense of presentation. Who Wore It Better: Art or Commerce? 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z A quirk of circumstance that feels comically ordained. The Doors defined California cool in the ’60s. How does their legacy stack up 50 years later? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z The reasons for this are obvious enough: The shoes complement the tight skirts that Ms. Adams also wears in bad weather and hostile terrain, and also sink comically into muck, sand and other nasty stuff. 2010-01-08T03:34:00Z Some didn’t even include photographs, just comically unhelpful sketches barely above the skill level of a bad courtroom artist. While everyone else is decluttering, I’m keeping the books that made me a traveler 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Premise: People at an old folks' home "comically" mis-hear the message about Chevy's new compact car. Super Bowl advertising hits and misses 2011-02-07T14:33:00Z Sparring with Gig Young, who played a comically wolfish character, Mr. Jones had “the right blend of sturdiness and lightness,” New York Times theater critic Howard Taubman wrote. Dean Jones, boyish-looking leading man of Disney films, dies at 84 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z They’re also extremely dysfunctional and comically selfish, casually using their faith as justification for misdeeds. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ and ‘Wall-E’ 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z “Rossini has given you moments that clearly land comically because he was such a comic genius,” Ludwig said he told the singers. Lend Me a Jukebox Opera. Yuks and Tenor Required. 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z Several here feature comically repulsive beasts of the Apocalypse and all kinds of urgently scrawled textual annotations. Review: The Morbid Anatomy Museum Presents a View From the Subconscious 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z They comically navigate the blue-collar world by doing manual jobs such as farm work. This Is Paris: Hilton documentary puts the reality in reality TV 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z With this in mind, let us hope these two comically irreconcilable parties continue to pursue their cosmically divergent strategies to the wildest extremes imaginable. Maggoty Lamb ponders British rock journalism's Hollywood potential 2011-03-23T15:48:13Z This unbruised, masculine presumptuousness continues on the album closer, “Get Out Of My Car,” a comically loathsome but likable statement of late-night purpose. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-03T22:17:00Z Yes, but he is also poor, comically exaggerated and determined to steal cheese. Can Speedy Gonzales stick it to Donald Trump? 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Eventually, I seized control of myself and looked back up, right into the eyes of the suits, who looked comically suit-like and uncomfortable. Perspective | With embarrassing stories like these, he belongs on Mount Blushmore 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z It is all, we might say, a joke on her own characters, who think that they are making their own story but are comically doomed to imitate the story of others. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z Against the backdrop of this history, the freshman’s lies would seem comically transparent were they not also painful. Books of The Times: ‘Bobcat and Other Stories’ by Rebecca Lee 2013-06-26T21:01:10Z Only “Heart and Soul,” sung with both by Danielle Herbert, breaks completely free of convention, jauntily staged as a cabaret act, with Herbert plunking away on a comically small toy piano. Review: ‘Hoagy Carmichael’s Stardust Road’ Takes the Path Too Well-Traveled 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Another high point is Dead Confederates, a comically macabre account of a plan to loot ornaments from the graves of Confederate soldiers. Burning Bright by Ron Rash – review 2012-08-04T23:05:30Z In the world of myth, she is the Great Goddess, but comically reincarnated as a nanny who “pops in” to turn-of-the-century London. ‘Mary Poppins’ creator P.L. Travers is even more fascinating than her fiction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The insistence on making everything grimmer and grosser is almost comically complete. Review: In Amazon’s ‘ABC Murders,’ John Malkovich Is a Sad Poirot 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Kay also delivers the political literature to the members of her book club, mainly elderly women, who become comically enthusiastic acolytes of violent revolution, spouting Mao’s aphorisms and eagerly, if obliviously, anticipating bloodshed. Woody Allen’s Secondhand Sixties Radicalism 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z This is a comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, but it’s also social commentary at its finest, woven seamlessly into the work, never self-righteous or preachy. A Comic Coming-of-Age Novel Laced With Social Commentary 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, and partly due to Chalamet's comically sharp yet sensitive performance, she's the easiest to root for in Essex's freshman class. "The Sex Lives of College Girls": Here's to the girl who tries our patience, but in the best way 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z A hard-core eccentric embodied by Bill Camp, he is at his most comically unsettling when he speaks of “the smell of corpses,” and takes a long, savoring sniff. Battered but Unbowed: How Beckett Speaks to a New Era 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z The fast-paced British play freely imagines meetings between the prim queen and the steely Iron Lady, and they don’t agree on much — not even, in this comically self-aware show, whether there should be an intermission. Review | Thatcher and the queen square off in ‘Handbagged’ 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z What links the chapters, as they are called, is the sense that the characters are stuck in nightmares that have their own comically horrific — or horrifically comic — absurdist logic. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The result, at least for the first half, is almost comically exciting, one fist-pump adrenaline rush after another. Album review: Fall Out Boy's 'American Beauty/American Psycho' 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z The bird is the size of a jay, but on this frigid morning in Aspen, Colo., he had puffed out his feathers for warmth in comically plump style. The Quiet Thrill of Winter Wildlife Viewing 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z In three hours of listless dolor, Matt Reeves’s oppressively dour “The Batman,” which came out this spring, turned its hero into a comically emo Bat-adolescent. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z "The result is a set of delightfully fun and comically contrasting shots. Sweeney looks like a classic ingénue, wrapping herself in a fur stole outside of the Hollywood Wax Museum," W Mag's Carolyn Twersky wrote. What is high fashion's obsession with cheap eats? 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Blown up to respectable portrait size, they are exhibited alongside powerful sculptures of female torsos and comically curvaceous tobacco pipes. Women, divorce and art that turns shame into celebration at Gavlak gallery 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The film’s title is an apt description of its commitment to lightly exaggerated, comically inflected realism. Movie Review: Lake Bell Stars in Her Directing Debut, ‘In a World’ 2013-08-08T22:02:17Z An early fight scene features some whimsical ricochets reminiscent of “Tears of the Black Tiger,” but done without the comically self-conscious astonishment. The Stifling Decency of “Captain America: Civil War” 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z There’s one small corps of five in red, another in blue, and the two are variously differentiated, opposed and subdivided; their body language is now spaciously formal, now comically tense. Review: Pennsylvania Ballet, at the Merriam Theater, Shows Exuberance and Panache 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z "The Night Dad Went to Jail," Melissa Higgins: It sounds like a country song, but it's actually a children's book about a dog with comically sad eyes whose father is arrested. 10 bizarre children's books that somehow actually exist 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z “He’s a character who is comically naïve to this whole world.” Podcasts Get the Hollywood Treatment, Complete With Zach Braff 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z X is a comically, absurdly and finally maddeningly digressive narrator, a human Internet of hyperlinks that lead everywhere but have no real purpose. In Joseph O’Neill’s ‘The Dog,’ a depressed lawyer in Dubai won’t stop talking When Tracy learns that she's actually being set up for dismissal, she frantically lobbies to keep her job, throwing herself on Roger's mercy – and onto his desk for a comically steamy tryst. Not-so-nice corporate shenanigans in Echo Theater's 'One of the Nice Ones' 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The song includes Matlock’s favorite country obscurities, which carry domestic strife into the comically surreal. Music Review: Linda Purl Sings at the Metropolitan Room 2010-06-10T22:16:00Z But there are many wonderfully spontaneous moments, especially a scene in which they share their worst fears about the future, and their fantasies turn from grim to comically ridiculous. Movie Review: ?Declaration of War,? Directed by Val?rie Donzelli 2012-01-26T23:30:42Z In his earlier films, he comically dramatizes a puckishly exuberant religion, in which sweet but giddy joys mesh with steadfast faith, humiliation and self-abasement with ecstatic devotion. Jared Hess’s Bitter Religious Satire, “Don Verdean” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z On the one hand, two men fighting over their favourite records is comically pathetic. Astonishing Archie – review 2012-11-21T18:15:47Z He was a vigorous performer, sometimes comically so, shaking his head side to side fast enough to make a wall of beard and jowl, or flapping his arms maniacally, as on “Tears of Joy.” Music Review: A Quick Study of Status (Fine Watches Set to Rap) 2011-03-06T22:43:04Z The resulting self-portrait is comically proud and self-mocking, in equal measures creative and blocked, productive and frustrated, forward-moving and nostalgic, haunted both by past tragedies and by a new one at hand—his grave illness. Movie of the Week: “Caro Diario” 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z For the first few months I was a comically inept parent. Modern Love: Across the Threshold of Fatherhood 2010-06-18T17:38:00Z The Coens have created a gem with their latest film, a western portmanteau of tales from a comically picturesque old west, conceived with humour, warmth and visual flair. The Coen brothers’ films – ranked! 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The company, to its credit, comically exploits the vertigo. Stripped-down staging brings clever moments in this long, long journey 'Into the Woods' 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z In “Dear President Mr. Herbert Hoover,” the divine Nancy Anderson vents the spleen of a paranoid inmate awash in comically wild grievances and hallucinated threats. Perspective | A cool musical where? The autumn season of plays at American Shakespeare Center is a rich one. 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z It’s a frolicsome opener that segues into a series of often episodic scenes — some of which seem pointedly extraneous to the action — dealing with Hiro’s comically disastrous homecoming. A fractured family tries to piece itself together in 'Kentucky' 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z After a comically disastrous meal, the tone turns melancholy, as Garland laments her unhappy life and her hosts reflect on theirs, as closeted partners in pre-legalisation 1960s Britain. Is Hollywood still in love with the suffering ‘gay icon’? 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z “Okay, partners,” says one of the comically earnest therapists in the evening’s lengthy second part. Review | ‘Slave Play’ is a funny, scalding, walk along the boundary between black and white in America 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z What I loved about the book, it’s very comically tragic. Film: Joel Schumacher on ?Twelve,? Starring 50 Cent 2010-07-23T21:51:00Z In the distance are the two volcanoes that emerge, blue-black, from Ometepe; condensation clings to their cones, the clouds like powdery white hairpieces knocked comically askew. | Nicaragua 2012-11-16T14:00:37Z Framing Harriet’s crisis with Ben as mere ambivalence feels comically absurd. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z But who would expect otherwise from a team that has worked together for a quarter of a century chronicling America's most comically dysfunctional family? 'The Simpsons' set to invade the Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z There on a leaf, with its bulging orange eyes, neat green body and comically big tangerine feet, sits a Costa Rican tree frog. It’s a jungle out there: Costa Rica with kids 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z But Regina is not the sharpest scalpel in the operating room, and it’s only after a comically drawn-out pit stop for cheese puffs that she learns that she forgot to grab the latest biohazard bag. ‘12 Hour Shift’ Review: When a Bedside Manner Includes Murder 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z It follows him closely for around 200 pages, through a few comically calamitous days in 1978, as he travels through western Ireland to an island off its coast, bought on a lark 11 years earlier. Review: In ‘Beatlebone,’ an Imagined Trip With John Lennon 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z His adenoidal Willie is comically repulsive, all animal urges clothed in shabby relics of refinement. Review: In Beckett’s ‘Happy Days,’ a Woman Buried Deep by Inertia 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z In the video for “Pretty Ugly,” Whack magnifies her features absurdly; for “Fruit Salad,” a song about self-care, she pedals comically on a neon-green stationary bicycle. Tierra Whack Stretches the Limits of One-Minute Songs 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z After each duel, they would use both arms to indicate their choice of winner; an undecided judge would comically cross his arms across his torso to point both ways. Detroit Jit, a ’70s Street Dance Reborn and Revved Up 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," a macabre musical about a social climber who comically bumps off the members of an aristocratic family, took home the Tony for new musical on Sunday. Tony Awards 2014: 'Gentleman's Guide' wins best musical 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z A larger-than-life textile exhibit from the Mexican artist Marcela Diaz was particularly enjoyable, and included a comically large hammock woven from coconut fibers. In Omaha, a Progressive Approach to Free Time 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Adriana Zabala, with a light, clear soprano, made both Sister James’s almost comically sweet innocence and her late acquisition of backbone believable. Music Review: ‘Doubt,’ Adaptation Performed by Minnesota Opera 2013-02-03T23:24:03Z Scott-Reed gets some especially striking vignettes, running the gamut from a furious-at-God grieving mother to a comically grumbling woman who is little more than a walking cloud of complaint. Visions of Heaven (and how to get there) in C.S. Lewis’s ‘Great Divorce’ 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z A comically oversize net looks as if it’s been allowed to sag in the middle from neglect. ‘Real Tennis’ May Be Obscure, but It Has Fans in Britain 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Jackson is an autodidact and a noisy libertarian, continually — often comically — ranting about the government, insurance companies, people who game the system. Books of The Times: America?s Health Care Crisis Visits Families, and Stays 2010-03-01T22:49:00Z Joan, a quintessential New Yorker, is comically immune to its charms. Battle of the Sexes? For This Voracious Heroine, It’s All-Out War. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Cut to the comically guilty look on Mary’s face. Sex and That ’70s Single Woman, Mary Tyler Moore 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Gerwig is perfect as a jilted New Yorker on the rebound, comically obsessing over food, sex, shoes, age, you name it. This week's new films 2012-07-20T23:05:00Z Kosloski is a picturesque yet repellent Madame whose bursts of egalitarianism are comically short-lived. Class, power and a plot to kill: It's Jean Genet's 'The Maids' 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z The reaction to Martin Scorsese’s portrait of Wall Street excess has been comically similar. Hedonistic high of ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ provokes debate 2014-01-08T20:45:52Z And so the release of an actual fourth Scream movie on the same weekend as our one-year anniversary felt almost comically serendipitous. 'I barely breathed': Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson, Steve McQueen and more on their most memorable moments at the movies 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Compared to the war Teddy’s life is otherwise almost comically uneventful, but Atkinson finds in it fathomless depths of human experience and pathos. Top 10 Fiction Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z There’s comically deflating contemporary language, too, as when Jamie Campbell Bower’s Marlowe snarls, “I’m still in the research phase.” ‘Will’ on TNT: A Punk-Rock Shakespeare, Striving and Stage-Diving in the Big City 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z It was catchy, and just the right degree of comically exasperated. It’s a TikTok! No, It’s a Song! Drake and the Viral Feedback Loop 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z An early high point on Tuesday was a comically lubricious “Honeysuckle Rose,” part of a Fats Waller medley. Review: Marilyn Maye, at 88, Celebrating the Moment 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z He was eating a comically large plate of linguine and fried veal. Breathing New Life Into Pop Songs with Choir! Choir! Choir! 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z He has even constructed himself a comically giant highchair to have meals in. TV highlights 03/08/2011 2011-08-02T20:59:00Z Over time and outwardly disparate scenes — Astrid buys a used bicycle, comically harangues a filmmaker and visits her son’s teachers — a hazy yet moving mosaiclike portrait of this lonely, melancholic woman emerges. ‘I Was at Home, but …’ Review: In Grief, What Dreams May Come 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Meanwhile he has been active on his blog, and last week he joined , quickly establishing a tone: garrulous, unguarded, comically profane. Music Review: Words and Music: A Jazz Trumpeter Plays, Sings and Blogs 2011-03-02T22:19:39Z The year 2014’s “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour” used a high-strung dentist to comically explore serious ideas about religion, love and family. Review | Joshua Ferris pokes wicked fun at the suburban patriarch in ‘A Calling for Charlie Barnes’ 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z But it prompts a worrying notion: that the imperative to Know Thyself inevitably collapses into baffled histrionics and will always be comically futile. Review | For Dana Schutz, a new show after her controversial painting of Emmett Till 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z And Noah is comically pained each time he has to explain that he’s working with alien automobiles to prevent Armageddon. ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Review: Here Come the Grease Monkeys 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z In several scenes, characters comically repeat words — in one scene it’s “potato” — as if stranded inside a Beckett wasteland. ‘The Greasy Strangler’: Just Maybe the Weirdest Movie Ever 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z The lonely neurotic at the center of Nathaniel Rich's comically bleak novel, "Odds Against Tomorrow," is nervous for a reason. Fears drive satirical 'Odds Against Tomorrow' 2013-05-08T17:26:12Z In mine, the bull is comically enraged at being left out of a card game, flips a table, runs around like a maniac, then, for the grand finale, sits on a whoopee cushion. Never buy off-brand Silly String and other lessons from mascot boot camp 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z A former New Dealer, an academic, an internationalist, he was the type who offended Cohn, but he was almost comically irreproachable. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z It also works as an art-world allegory, an almost comically melodramatic indictment of everyone involved — deluded artist, reptilian dealer and callous public alike. What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Instead we spy on an artist who races around like a mad scientist, and who seems comically befuddled by technology. ‘Walking on Water’ Review: The Artist Christo Thinks Big, as Usual 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Teremok, a low-key purveyor of Russian staples, is almost comically ubiquitous in Moscow; a map of its locations shows a city Dalmatian-spotted with kiosks and restaurants, all boasting the company’s signature red nesting-doll logo. A Russian Fast-Food Chain Tries Its Luck in America 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z He turns them over to observe them coolly, neutrally and often comically from all sides. In Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Serotonin,’ the Provocative Beat Goes On (and On) 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z With her comically enlarged eyewear, Edna could see what was coming, and she knew that the only thing that separated her from them was being in on the joke. Perspective | With devastating quips, Dame Edna foretold a vacuous era of fame 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z And she believed that the comically self-important Malvolio, in “Twelfth Night,” was a mocking reference to Shakespeare himself. Katherine Duncan-Jones, Who Cast Shakespeare as a Boor, Dies at 81 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z There are pickle varieties to awe any fermentation fan, as well as some comically large loaves of bread, which in turn are just past crisp green plums selling for just 3 lira per kilo. The Other Side of Istanbul 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z He complains of lawyerly bloat in government, producing “rules that were comically complicated and so long,” though his own long book seems to suffer from a mild version of it. The Cry of the Centrist: In ‘Tailspin,’ Steven Brill Bemoans a Polarized America 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z The witnesses’ descriptions of whatever happened are usually comically distorted, as in a game of telephone, so that everyone’s understanding of Trivia Night is at best half-wrong. In ‘Big Little Lies,’ Liane Moriarty Finds New Complications 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z They were comically feminine, like tiny iced drag queens. Are cleaning gurus sweeping an epidemic under the carpet? 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z As portrayed by the show, Carrie’s bipolar disorder was a necessary component of her almost comically exaggerated effectiveness as a spy. ‘Homeland’ Season 7: Once Again, It’s All Up to Carrie 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z As he belted the drag rock anthems from “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” the late-1990s show that is still ahead of its time, his body language was broadly, sometimes comically, emotive. Music Review: Alan Cumming at Feinstein?s at Loews Regency 2010-04-28T20:31:00Z As Mark Antony, Ray Fearon ripples with eloquence and is quite comically persuasive: he makes you aware of his manipulation even as he cajoles – and in doing so makes you the more manipulated. Julius Caesar; The Physicists; Wah! Wah! Girls – review 2012-06-09T23:08:07Z The stage directions remain comically bland; the best virtual readings render them as captions or dispense with them altogether. In Virtual Readings, Less (a Lot Less) Is Sometimes More 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z One banner’s hand-painted message seemed to comically invoke Mr. Shaw’s quasi-religious career itself: “Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth.” Jim Shaw, From Trash Bins and Swap Meets, a Prodigious Body of Work 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Long-held trombone tones alternated with comically brief solos for voice, which rippled through members of a vocal quintet. Review: Revisiting a Luxuriously Gonzo Side of John Cage 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z But the only components are mostly natural light falling on almost comically abbreviated natural forms, always with the Metropolitan Museum of Art — one of Western painting’s many meccas — glimpsed in the background. Daniel Heidkamp 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Internet memes such as Tay Zonday's Chocolate Rain or rapper Reh Dogg's comically sincere Why Must I Cry got passed around the office, but Chairlift's gorgeous Evident Utensil not so much. OK Go find more viral success ? but not real success 2010-03-18T23:05:00Z “Duplicated many million times on the bank note will be a line in praise of reading that, comically, could only be used by someone who didn’t mean a word of it,” Mr. Mullan wrote. ArtsBeat: Jane Austen Bank Note Earns Huzzahs and Nitpicking 2013-07-26T19:42:31Z But the show is oddly paced, and in some places almost comically lurid and hammy: At times it seems as if it were made in the 1980s. Television Review: ‘The Assets,’ a Mini-Series About Aldrich Ames on ABC 2014-01-01T21:59:51Z It is comically plausible, and concretely evoked; the surrealism lies in the systematic elaboration of the image. Revisiting Roberto Bolaño — ‘the Visceral Realist’ 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z The lack of time to introduce and interact with this array of characters regularly leads to a comically surreal air as guests are introduced without any explanation as to their presence. Paula Deen Network: folksy, extremely unhealthy and definitely not racist 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The album closer, "Get Out Of My Car," is a comically loathsome but likable statement of late-night purpose. Country crooner Toby Keith has a new CD, without the old attitude 2010-10-04T23:08:00Z Mr. Letterman’s final Top 10 list, titled “Things I’ve Always Wanted to Say to Dave,” featured a sequence of celebrity visitors, each delivering a comically dismissive riposte to the host. Closing Out a Late-Night Era, Letterman Goes for Laughs Instead of Tears 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z A tall glass of wine, filled close to the brim, comically rests by her side. For Kristen Bell it's always wine o'clock in new psychological thriller spoof "Woman in the House" 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Her parents, now a bit comically helicoptery, once held her as they watched their city under attack. Mo Willems and the Art of the Children’s Book 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z “Exactly,” Raekallio said, sitting down at the second piano and demonstrating a comically lumpy trill. Close at Hand with the Pianist Igor Levit 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z That seems comically disingenuous: who really welcomes an open-ended layoff from their regular employer? Paul Weller: the upsetter 2010-08-26T20:30:00Z In conversation, he would repeat some of the more comically extreme opinions that course through his books, like the belief that everything in the world is either French or German. In Life and Music, Ned Rorem Was Unwaveringly Himself 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z In one of the exhibition’s most beautiful paintings the serene, long-haired bodhisattva Manjusri, a spiritual benefactor drawn in flowing lines, sits in meditation next to a comically ferocious, recumbent lion. Art Review: Spiritual Seeker With a Taste For the Satirical 2010-12-23T22:15:17Z Damon, uglied up with slashing facial scars and a comically abject mullet, plays Jean de Carrouges, a nobleman down on his luck who makes ends meet by fighting on behalf of the king. ‘The Last Duel’ Review: A Medieval Epic in the Age of #MeToo 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z The male characters are almost comically weak: the married man who cheats, the deadbeat beatnik who can’t tell Marx from Hegel, the insecure co-pilot who demands to be called “first officer.” | Television: ?Pan Am,? ?Playboy Club? and ?Whitney? New on TV 2011-09-16T15:26:17Z Old Minyo was at the same time a legendary philanthropist, embodying the city’s prideful image as comically cheap and heroically generous. | Abroad: Take My Bulgarian Joke Book. Please. 2010-10-27T17:57:00Z Stores are comically large, requiring you to walk a football field in length from gadgetry to produce. Shopping in stores is a misery. Can wine, yoga and ‘storytelling’ make it fun again? 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The scenes where each of them comically crawls around the side of the stage while miming bewildered eavesdropping are masterfully executed. Review: Buoyant, zestful 'Much Ado About Nothing' 2013-02-20T00:16:04Z Or Jason Statham, the comically gifted bruiser now promoted to the series’ lead, doing, well, pretty much anything? ‘Expend4bles’ Review: Band of Meatheads 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z The camera swoops in for a close-up of Dicky’s comically startled face as he yells “What?,” the tight, drumlike skin punctuated by the dark O of his mouth. The Oscars: Christian Bale Summons a Fallen Man?s Delusions 2010-12-31T18:45:24Z How comically reserved Madonna now looks, hundreds of hours of Kardashian keeping-up and tens of millions of dollars of product lines later. Lamar Odom on life support is the most tragic twist yet in the unending Kardashian drama 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Men and women are shuffled between floors, where they work for the comically named Bureau of Lateral Substitutions or toil on projects like Peaceful Uses of Atomic Weapons and Forceful Implementation of Peace Treaties. Shirley Hazzard’s Stories Observe Pain and Disappointment With a Witty Intelligence 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z And what we have learned about her seems to be comically conflicting. "Yellowjackets" gives us more of Misty's origin story in "Digestif" 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Frog is the straight guy and Toad is the comically cantankerous half of the duo. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z That #CancelColbert happened midway through my course at Georgetown — called “Satire” — was comically exciting for me. How whites should talk about white privilege: (Hint, it’s not like Tal Fortgang) 2014-05-07T11:45:00Z GoldieBlox gained widespread attention last month for the video, which showed girls building a comically elaborate Rube Goldberg machine while singing about their engineering skills. ArtsBeat: Beastie Boys Continue Copyright Battle With Toy Company 2013-12-11T18:46:10Z Vaidehi is up against a lot: The first scenes of “Badrinath” remind us comically, but baldly, that baby boys are still considered assets while girls are liabilities. Review: In ‘Badrinath Ki Dulhania,’ Boy Meets Girl (and Learns to Respect Her) 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z When they started writing together, Berman and Bernard circled around each other and realized that they were both being “comically polite” as they talked about their ideas and politics. We live in uncivil times. Two former White House social secretaries offer a cure. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z So nefarious was Mesrine that he rather comically resorted to wearing numerous disguises throughout his criminal career. Like 'Mesrine: Killer Instinct'? Scarecrow suggests other Vincent Cassel movies 2010-08-26T22:25:00Z Yet, there, Allen comically overcame that nihilism by means of the sheer force and exuberance of personality. The Existential Genius of Late Woody Allen 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z His comically inelegant works look as if they were created by a manically inventive but not especially skilled handyman in his basement workshop. ‘Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony,’ at the Noguchi Museum 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Not for nothing does the performance sound — the occasional cataclysm apart — distant, inert and at times almost comically disunified. A Requiem So Big That Performing It Takes a Multitude 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z Nathan Rutherford isn't that awful, but in a comically stupid rant he does declare Rutherford Falls to be situated on land that belonged to his forebears. Yes, Native American culture exists, and "Rutherford Falls" digs into our collective "blind spots" 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z In “Going Clear,” Lawrence Wright describes L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, as “comically self-important, a parody of himself.” Nxivm Had a Cult Leader Made for the Internet 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z And his description of the dumps he fought in early in his career is comically vivid. Theater Review: ‘Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth’ at Longacre Theater 2012-08-03T02:00:00Z Operating under the comically direct name Listen to Music Outside in the Daylight Under a Tree, the series featured Leaving artists and friends of the label. Chill Vibes, Minus the Wind Chimes: It’s a New Day for New Age Music 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z The heart of the play is Jordan’s floundering attempts to find the right guy, at which he is comically inept. Review: In ‘Significant Other,’ a Young Man Pines as His Pals Pair Off 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z And their conversation is comically flat — like “Frog and Toad” without the bonhomie. Jon Klassen Meets Samuel Beckett in a Hilariously Dark Picture Book 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z His up-to-date yet comically euphemistic answers are a riot. ‘The T Party’ at Forum Theatre: Natsu Onoda Power’s witty exploration of gender identity 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z The Odd Couple Neil Simon’s classic about two comically mismatched roommates. L.A. theater openings, March 1-8: 'Circles' and more 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z For that matter, the title “Captain Fantastic”—which is comically but intentionally misleading—even suggests, with a self-aware bravado, Ross’s precise calibration of the movie to his audience’s counter-superheroic expectations. The Counter-Superhero Calibrations of “Captain Fantastic” 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z In other interviews, though, he notes that he sometimes ate raw vegetables: radish, broccoli, a comically a large carrot which you can see in many of his Twitter photos. The appeal and allure of the rotisserie chicken guy 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Third, another paradox: this public phenomenon is obsessively, even comically, secretive. We still need books to make sense of Wikileaks 2011-02-02T14:38:09Z To the Cody family, crime is a way of life, the only one they know, and Michôd makes their milieu hideously and comically convincing. Animal Kingdom ? review 2011-02-27T00:05:24Z Ripped from the headlines, and involving two of Daisey’s areas of consuming interest — theater and politics — the material seems ripe for his comically lacerating provocations. ‘Scott and Andy and All the Boys’ Review: Ripped From the Headlines 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z She began making films in the 1970s, some comically autobiographical and others that explored tortured conceptions of the female form. Maria Lassnig, Painter of Self From the Inside Out, Dies at 94 2014-05-09T05:29:35Z It kicks off with the likes of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Arrested Development” and the American “Office”: series with comically obnoxious or oblivious protagonists. How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z And above them, like cathedral spires, rose the stacks, shelf after shelf, carrying a book for every card below, books ranging in subject from the majestic to the comically arcane. What makes the ideal university? Six values that power higher education at its best 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z They’re also almost comically simple, emphasizing plain rhyme schemes and repetition. Critic’s Notebook: He’s Acting Out; It’s on Purpose 2013-07-10T21:52:21Z It’s almost comically terse, but coming from Louis C.K., it’s part of the promise he offers his fans: Unvarnished art that speaks for itself with one single no-frills price. Surprise! Louis C.K. drops new must-see comedy “Horace and Pete” with no warning 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Will Adamsdale as her feckless partner, Justine Mitchell as the alcoholic Mary and Stuart McQuarrie as the comically Anglophile Ben also adjust, more or less convincingly, to the rhythms of American life. Detroit ? review 2012-05-16T17:24:50Z The comically slow pace fostered a steady, low conversational burble that was lacking on the richer, faster Western European trains. Personal Journeys: All Aboard the Orient Local 2014-04-23T21:47:59Z In recent years, the so-called Bechdel Test has become a litmus test for movies’ feminist cred—even if the bar it sets for female representation is almost comically low. This Test Measures How Hollywood Treats LGBT Characters 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z “There’s no one who addresses those little aggravations as well and as comically as Tom does.” Tom Scharpling Plans Podcast of ‘The Best Show’ 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z It is black humour at its most comically caustic. Artist of the week special: Tjorg Douglas Beer, Annette Kelm, Jonathan Meese 2011-03-16T18:25:57Z But there is a significance to this comically grandiose assertion of identity that the casual visitor might miss. Art Review: ‘Judith Bernstein: HARD’ at the New Museum 2012-12-20T23:01:31Z They range from the crass and moronic, via the comically arcane, to the serious and brilliant. The best books on the Beatles 2012-09-26T07:00:15Z And it takes a very talented actress to play a gung-ho camp director who isn’t foolish or comically annoying. Television Review: NBC’s ‘Camp’ Is as Much About the Grown-Ups as the Kids 2013-07-09T21:26:32Z “It was right before everything ended. Woodstock, Altamont, the Manson murders. It was a movie to comically go against the hippy values.” John Waters: ‘A new kind of anarchy is going to happen next’ 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Journalist Evan Davis, who chaired the judging panel, said Demick's book was a gripping and moving account of a country "all too easily comically typecast by massive parades of coordinated flag-wavers." Book about secretive NKorea wins UK literary prize 2010-07-01T20:09:00Z Many of my favorite moments in “Always Be My Maybe” involve comically frank exchanges about money. What “Always Be My Maybe” Gets About Making an Asian-American Rom-Com 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Reviewing her part in the action, Ms. Lau, a k a Susie Bubble, the creator of Style Bubble, a comically irreverent fashion blog, backpedaled furiously. An Eye for Detail, and Plenty of Pop 2010-12-09T00:09:00Z That’s the problem with making art with the latest technologies: The medium quickly comes to seem almost comically outdated. Perspective | Nam June Paik predicted the Internet, YouTube and Instagram. But he was more interesting as an artist than as a prophet. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z “Have you seen Mean Girls?” she asks, comically, “or the season of Project Runway where everyone gangs up on Michael Costello?” The Nigerian artist who is exploding the myth of the ‘authentic African experience’ 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Faced with the unexpected opportunity to sell their property to the government for an agricultural college, the older Denhams comically dither, unable to decide whether to stay or to surrender their home to "the barbarians." Review: 'A Picture of Autumn' is bitersweet 2013-06-11T00:37:09Z The tale begins comically with minor skirmishes over itineraries and the parents’ eating and nap schedules. He's big in L.A.'s small theaters: Tom Jacobson, master of puzzles, surprises and brain-teasers 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z But there’s plenty of gold to choose from — particularly those first five years, featuring the original, comically peerless ensemble and such immortal characters as the Coneheads, the Blues Brothers and Roseanne Roseannadanna. The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Given what a small world the retirement home is, it's inevitable that other residents hear what Yehezkel is up to and start to comically importune him about getting in on the action. 'The Farewell Party' a comically delicate balance to the end 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z It’s slow, dark rock — comically wounded, intensely focused, brilliantly recorded — for a suitelike 40 minutes. Redrawing Rhythmic Strategies 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z But the comically agile Wu puts such spin on her line readings that she conveys much more about the character–her sense of humor, her vulnerability, her protectiveness. Review: Fresh Off the Boat Has the Makings of an American Original 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z After she leaves for good, James comically demonstrates that he can dance, too. Trinity Irish Dance Company Review: Those Flashing, Percussive Feet 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Nicolas Heller, with “Bobby” and his comically long stilts — one of the characters Mr. Heller has featured on his social feeds — at Village Revival Records in Greenwich Village in New York. The ‘Unofficial Talent Scout’ Who Celebrates New York’s Colorful Side 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z We packed big tents on company streets around a chuck wagon where a massive man in comically wide blue kersey trousers served up cold cuts and shoofly pie. My Civil War: Re-enacting in the days of 9/11 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z “Harry Rag,” their only song about a drug other than alcohol, comically skewers the Sixties worship of toking as some kind of cultural talisman. Kinks' Ray Davies is turning 70. Why it matters. 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z The two-person serving is a comically large platter with an entire large lobster, two whole fish and a pile of conch, fried plantains and rice. Personal Journeys: Quiet in the Caribbean 2014-01-22T17:41:04Z In this earlier play, written in 1938, he tackles it comically. When We Are Married ? review 2010-10-28T11:04:00Z The episode then visits in rapid succession — always comically — a formidable range of issues Andre encounters as a result of this duality. ‘black-ish,’ a New ABC Comedy, Taps Racial Issues 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z You’ll notice an anthropomorphic aspect to many pictures, which suggest comically abstracted faces and figures. Art Trek: A Critic’s Guide to the Best of the Lower East Side 2014-04-03T22:41:10Z And yet, the comically brief teaser suggests that the more things change, the more they stay the same. 'Jurassic World:' Teaser to trailer aims to clone original's success 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z A troupe of exiles recites and dramatizes the story, comically interrupted by the occasional electrical blackout. Review: 'Caucasian Chalk Circle' jabs at injustice 2013-05-31T00:10:08Z Andre 3000 appears on this song, but it’s Lloyd who sets the wistful mood, pining after a woman who’s left him for someone else with comically profane laments. New Music: New CDs by David Weiss and Lloyd 2011-07-05T00:30:51Z Either way, Machado called it “liberating” to be in a show about Latinos that wasn’t afraid to be comically sinister and eye-poppingly gory. In ‘The Horror of Dolores Roach,’ the Empanadas Are to Die For 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Cassidy has stolen the church’s communion wine, is rather rude to the disfigured Eugene, and continues to comically avoid direct sunlight without anyone really noticing. Preacher recap: season one, episode two – See 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z Over the course of the story, the time frame subtly, at times comically, shifts, as does the relationship, which — like Swinton’s twinned performances — proves devastating. In Toronto, Films by Women About Women, but That’s Where the Similarities End 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Crystal Moselle’s spiky, dreamy, rambling, sometimes comically dainty coming-of-age story about skateboarding teenage girls, much of it shot run-and-gun-style on New York’s streets, returns for a second season. 26 Summer Shows, No Mask Required 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z You could be forgiven for almost flinching at breaking news alerts at this point – our politics is so woefully scandal-ridden, our leaders are so comically terrible. I need a hero: finding courage, defiance and joy in the dark days of 2019 | Josephine Tovey 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Because my wife and I so repeatedly read these favorite picture books aloud — comically, exhaustedly, occasionally inebriatedly — to our children, their words and images have worn grooves into our minds. Critic’s Notebook: A Splendid Little Book Club Has Ended Its Run 2013-04-24T21:59:48Z But the massive spread of meat, pastas and fried seafood — captured in the film during a comically long tracking shot — did require one modification. ‘Ping Pong Summer’ showcases an Ocean City that hasn’t changed much since 1985 First there’s Jacques Lipchitz’s towering gray “Lesson of a Disaster,” 1961-1970, in which an almost comically cheery phoenix feeds her young atop an elaborate tower of flames, hoops and globes. The Unforgettable Meets the Unimaginable at the Winter Show 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z For good measure, Kimball also called Stern’s screen presence “consistently, comically wooden.” KCET's 'Cool Spaces!' offers earnest, enthused tour of new architecture 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z She is trying to socialize herself, and though both Bella and the engineer are patient in support of this project, the gap between her understanding of the world and theirs is comically and disturbingly extreme. Movie Review: ?Attenberg? Is Athina Rachel Tsangari?s Debut Feature 2012-03-09T00:17:23Z As fizzy French pop tunes fill the air and a comically outré painting of a naked Emily watches over them, the women laugh and share over drinks. Review: Smother Mother Meets Femme Fatale in ‘A Simple Favor’ 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z As a comically meek foley artist adrift in a claustrophobic world of flamboyant Italians, analogue technology and gruesome sound effects, Jones conveyed the horror the audience never actually saw. Toby Jones: dial H for Hitchcock 2012-12-09T18:59:01Z In short, for having a really, comically terrible time. Redmond O'Hanlon: A life in books 2011-03-28T06:59:01Z Worsley’s comments about pulp writing in the 1930s are comically superficial. “The Art of the English Murder” is a great read, but light on historical sources The last time I fell in love this fast, I was holding a baby kitten that grew up into my 14-year-old, comically overweight, incontinent cat. Thank you, Kate Spade, for making women feel “quick and curious and playful and strong” 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Quite comically, there were adults, friends of my parents, who didn’t realize the race was this random thing and didn’t warrant a book. An Unlikely Victory in an Unforgiving Horse Race 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z The effect is riotously charming and comically odd, like a Dadaist hurdy-gurdy. Comic sights, mysterious sounds at Martin Kersels show 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Will Keen, as the newcomer, is both comically vulnerable and aggressively edgy and Louise Ford as the deceived wife exudes a cardiganed emotional containment. Quartermaine's Terms – review 2013-01-30T01:07:38Z The subsequent investigation lurched from a coincidence here to a strained subplot there, gradually revealing a comically elaborate revenge plot on the part of a former F.B.I. agent. Season 2 of ‘The Bridge’ Starts on FX 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Director Michael Michetti’s clarity and focus leave no doubt about the extent of both characters’ comically antisocial repression, though the alternating monologue format of the script’s first third poses a pacing challenge. 'My Barking Dog's' two souls belatedly rediscover the natural world 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Instead of regarding Jay as the comically pretentious and melodramatic cliche that he is, “Katerina” presents this young man as a singularly tragic hero. Review | James Frey’s ‘Katerina’ is a million little pieces of narcissism and may be the worst novel of the year 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Track one, Call Me Up, is comically woozy, like OutKast's Miss Jackson on downers. New band of the day (The Child of Lov No 1,483) 2013-04-02T15:54:59Z Rooney is almost comically talented at keeping the lovers in her novels frustrated and apart. Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’ Explores Intense Love Across Social Classes 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z He stops and dips in a spoon that looks comically small in his hands, takes a taste, then adds more salt. They were brought to America as kids — then sent back to a country they barely know 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Even then, Mr. Arron said, he was struck by the work’s theme, which seemed “almost comically simple.” Music Review: Drawing on Fond Childhood Memories for a Pairing of Beethoven and Berio 2010-12-20T22:56:51Z This is surely delusion; The New York Times, in the late 1800s, described his script as “an unutterably dreary, romantic play,” and here it’s comically inscrutable. Review: ‘The Black Crook’ Inspires Its Own Alcohol 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Rob continues to hate his job making ads for a comically evil pharmaceutical firm. ‘Catastrophe’ Adds a New Wrinkle to Its Ribald Love Story: Children 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z The comically self-important characters include mustachioed stallions in bell-bottoms and mullets, gypsies, firebirds and sea people caught in a watery, slow-motion slugfest. Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Little Humpbacked Horse’ is rowdy fun at Kennedy Center 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z He heaves, gurgles – loudly, comically, like a bad actor. Magic, meth and mayhem: behind the year's most mind-bending documentary 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z It’s a bold play, one that seems either comically or pitifully implausible, especially when compared with big-budget Oscar campaigns financed by the likes of Harvey Weinstein. Mya Taylor is the face of this year’s most improbable Oscar campaign 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Almost comically so, though after four hours the joke wears a little thin. Doctor Who 2013-04-01T09:36:00Z “With a sense of timing that is either brilliant or comically disastrous, a cathedral to journalism is about to open its doors in Washington,” wrote Alan Rusbridger, the legendary editor of the Guardian. Perspective | The Newseum opened as the journalism industry tanked. No wonder it’s in deep trouble. 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z In Week 1220, we asked you to be comically pedantic in correcting or clarifying some statement or voicing some peeve. Style Invitational: We beg you to differ — it’s our compare/contrast contest 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Fitzgerald's first piece for the magazine, "A Short Autobiography", comically told his life up to 1929 through a catalogue of cocktails. F Scott Fitzgerald's 1936 piece finally appears in print 2012-08-10T21:54:00Z Kazemi has a way with off-kilter alignments — showing crossed legs and even slightly crossed eyes — that make her characters comically endearing. A Scheherazade for Our Times 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z The musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, in which a poor man comically eliminates the eight heirs ahead of him for a title, leads the field with 10 nominations. Rylance gets Tony nomination double 2014-04-29T15:42:35Z A sparkling new apartment complex features a comically long driveway, two-thirds of a mile, separating it from the community. The battle for Alabama’s soul 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z In the last episode, a fringe character sums up what Beth has learned about life in a single, comically banal sentence. ‘Life & Beth’ Review: Further Inside Amy Schumer 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z He has sparse, innocent teeth and comically teeny pinpoint eyes. The Screening Room: “Undiscovered” 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Loud, clipped chords surged back from the depths behind the altar virtually intact, filling rests and almost comically tripping up the next chords. Review: New York Philharmonic’s Memorial Day Concert 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z The director, Rachel Klein, has him playing the role as if he were carved granite, comically stiff and emotionless. Theater Review: ‘Around the World in 80 Days,’ at New Theater at 45th Street 2013-06-06T20:56:30Z A running gag, for example, has Snow White comically misspelling the simplest words, even though she is part of Scroll Club so one assumes that she can at least read. ‘Once Upon a One More Time’ Review: Cinderella, Liberated (Again) 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z He’s good, and it’s good, and all that goodness—narrative as well as ethical—makes it tough for McCarthy to cut comically loose. Set Melissa McCarthy Free 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Film’s first African-American star so perfected his comically lazy character that it became a widely offensive stereotype that halted his career. ‘Fetch Clay, Make Man’ examines alliance between Muhammad Ali, Stepin Fetchit The narrator says things like, “While writing the previous paragraph . . .” or “I strayed a little in the previous two sentences . . . ” or even the comically pedantic, “I reported in the fourth most recent paragraph that. . . .” Review | The relentlessly introspective vision of Gerald Murnane 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Later, the artist added the doctor's son Niccolò, who peers over his father's shoulder comically. A picture of health: art's warts-and-all view of doctors 2013-01-08T15:54:05Z |
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