| 单词 | allegorical |
| 例句 | The balconies of the old buildings hung over my head like dark branches in an allegorical forest of evil. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A less allegorical symbol may be found under Atlas and Justice, on the floor of the Town Hall. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Second, these were richly allegorical stories with plenty of incident and emotional impact but without extravagant, over-egged operatic acting to embarrass the English. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Putting political figures onstage in veiled or allegorical form is a trope as old as opera. Perspective | Opera plays its Trump card: Yes, the president is showing up in Verdi 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Because of this I suspect its allegorical potency will be perceived as a bit too mutable. How "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" uses Rebecca Romijn's Number One to place prejudice on trial 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z None who consider the possible allegorical parallels between the political machinations set more than 1,000 years ago and our fraught present should be dismissed either. "Vikings" kicks off its final season with its own "tender moment" in history 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Classic mime, movie horror, military formation all come into play in Synetic’s interpretation of the “Inferno” portion of Dante Alighieri’s allegorical epic poem “The Divine Comedy.” Synetic Theater takes us all to hell 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z This allegorical spectrum supports a handsome, virile framework intended to lift up and destigmatize. Perspective | On Broadway, ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’ and ‘Lackawanna Blues’ deliver stories that defy stereotypes 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z "I'm a Virgo" is an allegorical construction from the ground up, "I'm a Virgo": Boots Riley's incredible, ungentle giant swing at late capitalism 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Each has a more or less allegorical function: The narrator is the puppet master, while the central consciousnesses are those of his creations, mainly Alain, but barely differentiated, who look up to this “master.” ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z And the allegorical tendencies that marred Losey’s later films are held in check: “The Prowler” functions perfectly both as a gripping genre picture and a portrait of a society twisted by cruelty and greed. DVDs: Visions From 1951, Noir and Psychedelic 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z Their songs revolved around folky modal tunes, insistent drones and lyrics with biblical and allegorical overtones. Music Review: Counseling Women on Self-Respect Amid Tunes of Punky Rage 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z Bunyan’s allegorical City of Destruction — and also, perhaps, the Celestial City that is its antithesis — is incarnated by modern Los Angeles. Review: In ‘Knight of Cups,’ a Writer’s Flesh Is Willing but His Spirit Is Weak 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Orwell's experiences fighting fascists would shape his work, including the allegorical Animal Farm and the nightmarish vision of totalitarianism in 1984. Bloodstained Orwell scarves for sale 2013-09-24T09:04:32Z Coeztee’s allegorical portraits of apartheid in “Waiting for the Barbarians” and “The Life and Times of Michael K” elegantly fit in the modernist furrow plowed by Kafka, Camus, and Beckett. A Traitor to His Tribe 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z In “Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi,” Delacroix embodied Greece as a single allegorical figure. Eugène Delacroix at the Met: A 19th-century retrospective that evokes today’s turmoil 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Though quietly impressive, it's inevitably a lesser thing, lacking 's narrative force and allegorical power. The Interrupters ? review 2011-08-13T23:05:32Z Moshfegh's palettes are big and small, fictional realms that are often vague in a way that makes them allegorical almost, universal in their blurriness and yet at the same time meticulously rendered with specific details. The strange, savage universe of Ottessa Moshfegh's 'Eileen' 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Roth’s “Divergent” series, in particular, shamelessly rips off its allegorical, post-apocalyptic world from “The Giver,” while remaining barely within the realm of plausible deniability. “The Giver”: A lukewarm dystopia that arrives years too late 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Ambitiously allegorical, “Good Manners” dramatizes class and racial tensions in contemporary Brazil by creating contrasting worlds: rich and poor, black and white, high-rise chic and shantytown. Review: ‘Good Manners’ Is a Twisty Werewolf Tale From Brazil 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z “Dream images and delusions throw up information, often metaphorical or allegorical,” she added. Cracking the Codes of Leena Krohn 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Including portraits, still lifes, cityscapes and several of his most ambitious allegorical visions, it will warm the hearts of Beckmann’s fans and serve as an excellent introduction for those unfamiliar with his vigorously humane art. Art and Museums in NYC This Week 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Claudia Llosa's Berlin Golden Bear winner "The Milk of Sorrow" does both with its allegorical look at the damage wrought by political violence in Peru. 2010-01-11T03:31:00Z Each of her three allegorical canvases in the triennial is set in a pastoral outdoor environment, to contrast with “the internal mayhem” her subjects feel, Ms. Ellis said. Meet Six Disrupters at the New Museum’s Triennial 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Sargent transformed him into classical gods, goddesses and allegorical figures. Review | John Singer Sargent didn’t just paint the 1 percent. There was another, less-known side to his art. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z That is the silly question floating through “Passion Play,” a fatuous noir-flavored reverie with allegorical pretensions written and directed by Mitch Glazer. | 'Passion Play': Blow the Trumpet, Palooka, Life Is but a Carny Dream 2011-05-06T05:23:01Z One used video and sculpture “to create allegorical tales.” Solo in Paris 2014-05-02T18:00:32Z But it is ordinary life to which Mr. Erwitt has been most acutely attuned and where he finds moments of allegorical epiphany. Art Review: Captured: A New York Minute, or One in Havana 2011-06-09T23:00:29Z It helps us confront our persistent fears, as it has from the allegorical sci-fi of the Cold War to the terrorism thrillers of today. When TV Turns Itself Off 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z This follow-up, "Man Covets Bird," also deals with loss, but on a more allegorical level. A man, a bird - and the winsome pair who play them - yield a useful message 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z In his allegorical “Town Called Sadness,” hope comes from an 11-year-old in a parking lot, “in sagging socks,” standing and playing the French horn, “one hunch-shouldered child / clutching a little dazzling galaxy / of voluptuous metal.” In Patrick Rosal’s Poetry, Physical Exuberance Takes Flight 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Colors, costumes and cinematography err to the imaginative and allegorical, keeping the commentary crisp. Review: ‘Five Fingers for Marseilles’ Takes the Western to South Africa 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Both doctrinaire Catholics, both keen supporters of the Inquisition, they still had a marked taste for mythological and allegorical painting. Now Showing: Porn Fit for Spanish Kings 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The moves come from breaking and hip-hop, but the music is Baroque opera, and the words the moves illustrate are classically allegorical. This ‘Fairy Queen’ Connects the Dots Between Purcell and Street Dance 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Should we revise this clearly allegorical story about David and Goliath? Russell Brand absolutely demolishes Fox News over Ferguson coverage 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Online forums swelled with discussion of the film’s imagery as puzzled cinema-goers sought to unpick its allegorical threads. Parasite, Us and the movies' subterranean blues 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z But his fact-and-fantasy images of existential violence and degradation, past and present, are in an old allegorical mode. He Spoke Out During the AIDS Crisis. See Why His Art Still Matters. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Weber frames the movie with an allegorical vision that recurs throughout, that of unborn children descending to Earth or being returned to their aerie. Lois Weber’s Vital Films of the Early Silent Era 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Playwright Coble puts the increasingly prevalent urban encroachment by coyotes to excellent allegorical use. 'My Barking Dog's' two souls belatedly rediscover the natural world 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z To forgo any specific thoughts here about the new government is consistent with the allegorical realm Eggers capably constructs in the novel. A Road-Paving Job Takes On a Sinister Allure in Dave Eggers’s New Novel 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The National Archives is in a particularly difficult position, which can be seen in its basic architecture and the allegorical figures that broadcast its mission. Perspective | The National Archives used to stand for independence. That mission has been compromised. 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z “Faust”: Alexander Sokurov’s adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s allegorical drama about a man of medicine who makes a pact with the devil. Get active, stay healthy and safe | Weekend Preview 2014-01-08T20:42:34Z For all their surface conservatism, then, Shaw's paintings are a repository of imagined narratives as rich in their way as any pre-Raphaelite tableau or allegorical Victorian landscape. George Shaw 2011-02-13T00:05:02Z Naz’s predicament is positively Kafkaesque; and his attorney, Jack Stone, whose cunning is obscured by his raw, eczema-scarred feet, feels like a figure in one of Flannery O’Connor’s allegorical grotesqueries. “The Night Of” recap: The new, terrifying reality sets in 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z I just like telling stories with animals — it makes them seem sort of allegorical. “Tuca & Bertie” creator discusses codependent friendships and teases a "disaster" of a finale 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z Matt Osterman’s allegorical thriller, written by its star, Cleopatra Coleman, flirts with topicality on several fronts, commenting not only on drone strikes but also on agribusiness. Review: In ‘Hover,’ the Drone Tech Isn’t All There 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Four youngsters from east London, meanwhile, become allegorical characters from a Titian painting. Olympic exhibition opens at the National Portrait Gallery 2010-07-20T15:19:00Z To this she has created an allegorical narrative of a musical bird stabbed with violin bows by a thief meant to represent the modern drives of "speed, greed and media." Gloria Coates' great oddity on display at REDCAT 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z He won awards for several of his novels, but is best-known today for the allegorical children's book The Little Prince, the story of a pilot who crashes in the desert and meets the Little Prince. Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry commemorated by Google doodle 2010-06-29T10:27:00Z Two warring rural communities in the Soviet Union gather to watch a play that dramatises their dispute in allegorical form. John Mullan's 10 of the best: plays within plays 2012-05-25T21:55:09Z First, in the particularly chilly years of the fifties, anti-nuclear, anti-military freaks flocked to this form whose very fantastical nature provided an allegorical legitimacy for their questionable messages. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z The late Roth’s book proved “allegorical to what we’re dealing with now, and the vulnerable cohorts now are not necessarily Jewish Americans, although anti-Semitism has increased,” Simon said. Nazi cautionary dramas wade into political, factual disputes 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Some of the tapestry stories prefigure the Eucharist, such as the allegorical tale from Genesis in which Melchizedek, embattled king of Salem, rewards the victorious general Abraham with a feast of bread and wine. Wonders unfurl at Getty, Met tapestry shows on Rubens, Coecke 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z It’s an appealing idea, and one might replace Jeff Davis with Frederick Douglass and leave the allegorical figure of vindication right where she is, surveying the state’s capital from high atop her commanding pillar. Perspective | What to do when the Confederate statues come down? Leave the pedestals empty. 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z The result is sometimes verisimilitude first, emotions second, with characters taking a few episodes to develop into something resembling real people, rather than allegorical constructs. Review: ‘The Breaks’ Captures Hip-Hop in the ’90s, Music and All 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z The story shows Sweden’s infiltration by malevolent agents of a country called Liquidatzia, an allegorical stand-in for the Soviet Union. Review: ‘This Can’t Happen Here,’ the Film Ingmar Bergman Tried to Bury 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z A national arts campus designed for Havana in 1961-65 is almost allegorical in its promise and failure. MoMA and the architects of a Latin American design revolution 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The earliest stories, after all, were fables, allegories, shared aloud, and there is something of the allegorical to “Drunken Fireworks,” as well. Stephen King's 'Drunken Fireworks' -- available only on audio 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Following each of Martin’s just faintly allegorical tales, the six girls solemnly argue about its possible meanings in “interludes” that recall Platonic dialogues. Review | From the author of ‘Morning Has Broken,’ magical tales perfect for Valentine’s Day 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z It's fictionalized, and a more poetic approach to what I like to term as an allegorical story. Cliff Curtis on his "slow burn" Maori cop thriller "Muru" and how it's like "Avatar" 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z In the full work the sugar of the allegorical lovers is offset by the specter of an allegorical Death. Dance Review: Ballet NY Performs New Works by Medhi Bahiri 2012-08-10T23:17:57Z “Whether in an allegorical sense, as in ‘Night of the Living Dead,’ or in a metaphorical sense, like ‘Rosemary’s Baby.’ Review: The Giant Leap Forward of Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z And if the ending isn’t allegorical, it should be: Read literally, its implausibility would eviscerate the movie’s carefully tended mood of dreamlike surrender to a grief too great for anyone to bear. ‘Dirt Music’ Review: Damaged Lovers and Dreamy Landscapes 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z And the biggest risk would be a movie that dared to be interesting or original in its exploration of archetypal characters and their allegorical predicaments. | 'Thor': Have Golden Locks, Seeking Hammer 2011-05-05T15:52:08Z The confrontational and allegorical play is about a Black man and a white woman on the New York subway. Chris Chalk of ‘Perry Mason’ Takes a Deep Breath 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Arcimbaldo, a court painter to the Hapsburgs who specialised in allegorical figures and composite heads, was much admired by the early surrealists, especially Dali. Good enough to eat? - pictures of food will be on display at the Bowes Museum 2012-10-08T10:00:00Z While there is a fusty, archaic quality in his allegorical works, Hodler’s portraits are still resonantly alive. Art Review: ‘Ferdinand Hodler: View to Infinity,’ at Neue Galerie 2012-09-20T21:50:42Z Tarkovsky invests the withered tree with weighty allegorical references, but beyond that I found this scene to be film's equivalent of virgin forest. Clip joint: films within films 2010-05-05T12:12:00Z This absurdist, allegorical show begins promisingly, as we enter an actual loft space and watch several figures in Hazmat suits undrape the furniture. ‘Buzz,’ a New Play by Benjamin Kunkel 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Not everyone’s cup of tea but I went on an allegorical, surrealistic ride and was thrilled by it. Edgar Wright: ‘With Baby Driver, my oldest idea became my biggest hit’ 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z In the background, various allegorical figures represent the bad byproducts of carnal love. Bronzino's Medici portraits ? review 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z In the second volume of Coetzee’s allegorical fable, which began with his 2013 novel “The Childhood of Jesus,” Davíd and Simón forge new lives in a country where immigrants’ memories have been washed away. Paperback Row 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z But Kane’s obvious stylistic forerunner is Samuel Beckett, though she never veils desolation in allegorical trees or ashcans. Review: ‘Crave’ Is a Timely Ticket for a World on Fire 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z So yeah, I think this is a little bit of larger allegorical commentary on black women. Robin Thede leads yet another comedy revolution with "A Black Lady Sketch Show" 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z What began life as an allegorical adventure-fantasy about American exceptionalism and decline — and stayed that way in the 1986 film starring Harrison Ford — is now an action thriller of the slowly unfolding, tastefully photographed variety. Review: A New ‘Mosquito Coast,’ This Time With Narcos 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z In a virtuosic final section Greene describes how this will work by inviting us to climb an allegorical Empire State Building; on each floor the universe is 10 times older. Just a Few Billion Years Left to Go 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z “Lord of the Flies,” the allegorical tale of well-brought-up British boys who, left to their own devices on a remote island, devolve into savagery, had been published in England in 1954. Edmund Epstein Dies at 80; Gave ?Lord of the Flies? Wings 2012-04-07T21:31:02Z Alternately theatrical and intimate, with a palette of saturated pastels as complex as their narratives, his paintings especially depict a gay subculture at once conjured, allegorical and real. Your Last Chance to See One of New York’s Great Gallery Spaces 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Less claustrophobically allegorical than Mr. Lanthimos’s other work, it is cruel and funny, an elaborate period bonbon laced with poison. Strangeness and Daring at the New York Film Festival 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z But he steers clear of the allegorical tales he was telling last year that seemed like parables about regret. Dave Chappelle at Radio City Music Hall 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Gentileschi used representations of herself, both secular and allegorical, not only as painterly formats but vindications of her learning and sophistication. The Renaissance Women Who Painted Against the Odds 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z I dislike how he impresses people with few choices into his grotesque, allegorical puppet theater while maintaining his own godlike invisibility. Art Review: Behold the Anonymous Downtrodden 2011-06-02T21:57:17Z That sarcophagus is graced with allegorical sculptures for Day, a hulking, twisted male figure, and Night, a female body Michelangelo made so smooth and polished as to seem as if she shone in moonlight. Send in the Bugs. The Michelangelos Need Cleaning. 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z This may well be the most original and magical poetry anthology ever compiled, opening with an allegorical short story, then interlacing de la Mare’s highly personal commentary throughout. Review | The copyright has expired on thousands of books. Here are the best ones to read. 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Its blend of astute commentary and effective carnage might have raised hopes that “Election Year” would turn out to be a timely and cathartic exercise in allegorical satire. Review: ‘The Purge: Election Year’ Offers a Campaign Platform of Blood Lust 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Science fiction, he said, “makes tackling challenging ideas a lot more fun. You can get into the allegorical, plus you can have cool stuff like robots and aliens.” The Playwright Mac Rogers Explores Robots, Aliens and Allegory 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z We talk about it in more allegorical terms rather than in literal terms. "Dead to Me" creator on the show's secret to success: "I'm interested in genre-nonconforming" 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z The premises of the stories in “Why Visit America” are increasingly inventive and clever, often featuring some sort of reversal to our current social order, offering up allegorical commentary on who we are as Americans. All-American Stories by Walter Mosley, Matthew Baker and Ron Rash 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z In one of many role doublings, Mr. Balzer also sings Human Frailty, an allegorical figure Monteverdi seems to identify with Ulysses. Review: Boston Early Music Festival Makes Monteverdi Its Main Attraction 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Patristic exegesis comprises all the more or less allegorical methods by which St. Augustine and other church fathers interpreted the Bible. Perspective | I did not spend my summer binge-watching TV. Here are the books I loved instead. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z As the loose, stylized, funny, often poignant plot progresses, these allegorical characters seem to lose their moorings; in Soper’s world, even stock figures can’t be trusted to maintain their points of view. Review: A New Opera Puts Real Emotions in a Fantasy Garden 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z In Poussin's Dance to the Music of Time, this same allegorical figure with white beard and wings plays the lyre to which we mortals dance. The art of time-keeping 2011-03-23T14:48:36Z But the apparent absence of an overt allegorical or political message strikes me as an advance rather than a retreat. Best Movies of 2022 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Hunt conceived them to be carved into allegorical sculptures. Take a Virtual Tour of New York’s Museum District 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Under his direction the subjects are, above all, actors who function mainly as allegorical symbols. Art Review: Behold the Anonymous Downtrodden 2011-06-02T21:57:17Z This is one of the first major movies to use a circus troupe as the setting for an allegorical fable about the performing artist's complicated relationship to society and domestic life. "The Circus": Chaplin's little-known masterpiece 2010-07-14T01:01:00Z I became mesmerized with his project, how it resonated, its allegorical nature, its lack of dependence on one particular philosophy to conjure a complicated telling of the world in which we live. ‘He Raises the Bar for Me’: 4 Artists on the Influence of Bob Thompson 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z In this version of the tale, Orfeo and Euridice become pawns in the hands of capricious godly and allegorical characters: Venus and Amore, Pluto and Proserpina and personifications of Jealousy and Suspicion. Juilliard Stages an Orpheus Rarity From Opera’s Early Days 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Shame’s role in the first act as an equal point in the allegorical triangle surrounding the Lover might be true to the original poem. Review: A New Opera Puts Real Emotions in a Fantasy Garden 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Fortunately for my pocketbook, I already owned Rex Warner’s allegorical thrillers “The Wild Goose Chase” and “The Aerodrome,” the collected stories of A.E. Review | These two books will lead you down a rabbit hole to unexpected literary delights 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z You search for allegorical resonance, let alone 21st-century values, in vain. Horsepower ? review 2011-04-04T21:15:00Z The prisoner disappears, but his story’s allegorical power takes root. Review: In ‘Zama,’ Trying to Say Goodbye (Cruel) New World 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z “It’s interesting to consider the allegorical beach and the real beach,” Okshteyn said. Trisha Brown on the Beach: Catch a Wave of Dancing Bliss 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z This coin is considered the finest of them, with crisp, lustrous details still visible on the allegorical Lady Liberty’s flowing hair. $7.85 Million for U.S. Coin, and Extra for a Stamp 2010-05-24T00:31:00Z This is an allegorical mystery, not a biological whodunit. Theater review: 'On the Nature of Dust' is moms, daughters and monkey business 2010-05-19T22:36:00Z There is no clear before-and-after in this, but there are key episodes and an evolution from portraiture as a natural likeness to portraiture as a symbolic, allegorical and literary form. Analysis | At the Met, beautiful paintings that won’t love you back 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Young women stepping into their magical power is allegorical enough, in terms of the times that we’re living in. Zoe Lister-Jones on ‘The Craft’ and Women’s Power 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The problems arise when the film revs its allegorical engine and Phoenix tries to assemble a character from the tics and tropes he has been given. ‘Joker’ Review: Are You Kidding Me? 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z But eventually it became a much more goth, allegorical form. | Sterling Ruby on Making It in L.A., His New Show in New York and the Power of the Art Market 2014-05-12T21:20:58Z The historical context: When “The Consul” came to Broadway in 1950, Menotti’s libretto was timely indeed, despite its allegorical vagueness about date and setting. 5 things to know about Seattle Opera’s ‘The Consul’ 2014-02-12T20:32:09Z The musician and scholar George Lewis’s ambitious opera, “Afterword,” which tells an allegorical history of Chicago’s historic and still-formidable Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, will be staged on Friday night. Just the Right Time for a ‘Nondenominatlonal Leader’ in Music 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z The effect is to heighten events, to transcend history in favor of a more allegorical realm. In 'Dinner at the Center of the Earth,' Nathan Englander deepens and expands what he does so well 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Fans approach lyrics to their favorite songs much in the way cultural critics approach complex literature or allegorical painting. Pixies and the Surrealist continuum 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Designed by architect Paul Philippe Cret with allegorical statues and an ornamental battle map, the portico is visible for miles around. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The new Joker, who, in Christopher Nolan’s allegorical universe, is as much a symbol of entropy as a real human being, tries to convince Batman that he lives under an illusion of inviolate certainties. The Weird Agelessness of Don Draper 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z But here is “House of Darkness” anyway, a talky, allegorical horror film that delivers plenty of LaBute’s typically sharp irony and observations but little raison d’être. ‘House of Darkness’ Review: If You Prick Them, Do Bros Not Bleed? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Efforts have been made to find them an allegorical function. Tales of the unexplained: why these Monsters are entirely alien 2010-12-06T11:57:00Z On the highest terrace on the hillside above, on an island in a fishpond, Ammannati placed another fountain giant, an allegorical figure representing the Apennines. Art: In Florence, Revelations in Stone 2011-08-12T11:30:07Z From there, it opens into a more female-centric view of early America, highlighting the flesh-and-blood women who helped define liberty, freedom, democracy and other concepts so often depicted by allegorical female figures. Dolley Madison and Her Peers Ran Their Own ‘Pussy-Hat’ Brigade 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Wright’s agent and editor were looking for “another big fat work of literary naturalism, not a short allegorical novel about a man who takes up an underground existence in an unnamed city,” he added. Decades After His Death, Richard Wright Has a New Book Out 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z If Mr. Unsworth’s novels about the past were veiled allegorical tales about the present, then the veil was largely ripped away, he said, during the Margaret Thatcher era. Barry Unsworth, Historical Novelist, Dies at 81 2012-06-08T02:47:19Z An allegorical dance floor, the work maps the African diaspora and features verses from Hughes’s poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” Houston Conwill, Whose Sculptures Celebrated Black Culture, Dies at 69 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Women with arms outstretched like branches, the wind fluttering through the drapes of their veils, draw allegorical threads to tales of woodland nymphs in rapturous dance. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z What brought on this early attention to the geography of living things was, oddly enough, a shift from allegorical to literal interpretations of the Bible. Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z That last film, aware of the allegorical responsibilities inherited from “Joker” and “The Dark Knight,” at least gestured toward seemingly timely issues of law and order and societal malaise. Are the Movies Liberal? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z The challenge of outback noir is how to wield that allegorical power, how to use the containment and silences of small-town life to consider the other ways that Australian culture is contained and silent. Murder in the Brain-Broiling Heat and Red Dust of the Outback 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z After years of playing variations on a theme of Black masculinity, Williams gave one of his most haunted and nuanced performances in this pulpy, allegorical horror series. Where to Stream Michael K. Williams’s Best TV Performances 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Solibo’s death represents the allegorical death of a Creole oral tradition in the French Caribbean that leaves the stage clear for the new narrative form of the written word. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Every frame is dense with information, some of it in the service of the film’s allegorical intention, some of it there for fun. Christoph Waltz Drowns in Technocracy in ‘The Zero Theorem’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Oddest of all is the cult filmmaker Eugène Green’s elegantly hyperstylized “The Son of Joseph,” an allegorical nativity story about a rebellious Parisian teenager in search of his father. New York Film Festival: Determined Women and Uncertainty in the World 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Rasoulof resorted to allegorical stories in earlier work like “White Meadows,” so as not to “directly confront power,” he said. Defiant Iranian Directors Speak Out About Censorship, Onscreen and Off 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Still, although Italy is never mentioned, the locations — recognizably Palermo, Naples and Rome — are scarcely allegorical. ‘Illustrious Corpses’: A Mafia Thriller Heavy With Metaphors 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z In a fiery allegorical painting by Mr. Price, Old Glory appears to be losing its stars. From the Personal to the Political, 19 Artists to Watch Next Year 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Whiteness, in this sense, is defined by absence, the missing faces of people of color, with the exception of Native Americans, who are seen as allegorical types, melancholy embodiments of a prelapsarian America. Perspective | N.C. Wyeth painted the world full of beauty, resilience and adventure. And full of white people. 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Its Baroque references connect medieval France to the glittery splendor of 17th-century allegorical court masques. Review: A New Opera Puts Real Emotions in a Fantasy Garden 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z “In our show, there are groupings of pictures of his family members, portraits of artists,” Simpson continued, “but also more allegorical scenes of street life or more politically charged scenes that deal with national identity.” The ‘Slow Burn’ That Is Henry Taylor 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z His earliest pictures, of gay-themed allegorical narratives, felt like art in search of an era. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Is there an ancestor for all of these allegorical horrors? Apocalypse bow-wow: the new breed of arthouse animal horror 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z In 1532, the artist drew a “Head of Dante” as a preparatory study intended for an allegorical portrait of the 14th-century poet. Review: A Florentine Artist's Two Aesthetic Lives 2010-02-19T13:15:00Z “Grey Rock,” a simple and somewhat allegorical story, is less overtly political than any of these pieces. In ‘Grey Rock,’ a Palestinian Playwright Tackles the Ordinary 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z An allegorical figure, Death, who has been rendered all too obsolete by mass slaughters, squares off against Emperor Überall, pretty much a dead ringer for Hitler, if slightly more rational in the end. Review: Juilliard Opera’s Timely Double Bill 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z A similar allegorical spirit is evident in a 19th-century playing board called British and Foreign Animals: A New Game, Moral, Instructive and Amusing. Exhibition Review: ?In the Company of Animals? Opens at the Morgan Library 2012-03-02T21:47:25Z But it goes by fast and it appears to contain a message, unless they're being allegorical. New band of the day - Drenge (No 1,438) 2013-01-24T13:53:00Z But the novel’s allegorical potential is stifled by a narrator who explains too much. A Town Is Besieged by Children, Foreign and Violent 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z It's an inventive, allegorical meditation on obsession, revenge, religion and the limits of human control. Age of the Dragons: Moby-Dick without whales 2011-03-09T08:55:00Z I wonder if her work’s allegorical nature decided her palette. How an Afro-Cuban Visionary Made a Man’s World Her Own 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z During that same interview, Kubrick said something about 2001 that can be applied to The Shining as well, that a viewer was “free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning.” Room 237: Deconstructing Stanley 2013-03-28T09:45:57Z Like the first season of “The Terror,” which followed a doomed 19th-century Arctic expedition, the second invites allegorical connections between its central menace and its historical circumstances. ‘The Terror’ Summons the Ghosts of a Real-Life Horror Story 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z One recent allegorical exploration has been the relationship between Rick and Carl, a father and his son in teenage years, where Rick struggles as a single father to keep his son out of trouble. The Walking Dead Watch: “Internment” 2013-11-11T03:01:06Z The quest for a rebel pasha’s severed head serves as a darkly satirical symbol in this sly Albanian novel originally published in 1978, an allegorical fable about 20th-century authoritarianism. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z What they were pushing against seemed self-evident, if also sometimes allegorical: the Man, the establishment, the agents of official centralized power. Adjusting to a World That Won’t Laugh With You 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z In later years he continued to experiment with less color in his sensual canvases, allegorical still lifes and art-historical interpretations. The Week Ahead: Oct. 7 — 13 2012-10-07T07:30:05Z It is an allegorical 4,500-line poem telling the tale of when all the birds of the world gathered to try and find a just ruler. Kamin Mohammadi's top 10 Iranian books 2011-07-20T11:07:13Z The Marvel movies and others of their kind often produce an illusion of profundity, a slick, murky overlay of allegorical suggestiveness. ‘Avengers: Infinity War’: It’s Marvel’s Universe. We Just Live in It. 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z But such institutions, with their volatile mix of regimentation and youthful energy, have also provided fertile ground for allegorical, sometimes fantastical investigations of power, rebellion and human depravity. Review: ‘The Tribe’ Communicates Without Words 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Because these are two powerful and disturbing films that have an allegorical quality. Jessica Chastain: The dazzling redhead who's suddenly everywhere 2011-09-27T21:28:00Z When Beckmann arrived in New York it was not a propitious time for his kind of complex, allegorical, narrative painting. Review: ‘Max Beckmann in New York,’ a Belated but Full-Blown Homage to a German Modernist 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The allegorical fantasy about the struggle between good and evil was seen by many Muslims as blasphemous, leading to riots and calls for the novel to be banned. Author Rushdie writing memoir of years in hiding 2010-10-11T08:56:00Z McKibben, in his binary vision, ends up ignoring the compelling power of Orwell’s allegorical text, in which the exploited animals organize and carry out a successful revolution against Mr. Jones, the owner of Manor Farm. ‘Animal Farm,’ Bambi and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z In several, the setting is a sickroom, and in some the allegorical mode still dominates. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z The allegorical Part 2 deals with Faust’s redemption, Gretchen’s salvation and the ideal of the eternal feminine. | 'Faust': Botstein?s American Symphony in Schumann?s ?Faust? 2010-04-11T21:16:00Z But what the purely allegorical reading really misses, Crowley says, is that these pamphlets were published at a time when actual physical experimentation was already taking place. Reimagining a Shadowy Medieval Brotherhood That Probably Didn’t Exist 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Told with an allegorical ear, the story highlights the nature of inheritance and motherhood. A Visceral and Fabulist Short Story Collection Filled With Roots, Inheritance and Blood 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z This allegorical play pits an elderly professor against a nubile pupil. Theater Listings for Sept. 12-18 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z In 1890, the Boston Public Library invited Sargent to contribute allegorical murals to its interior. John Singer Sargent’s Drawings Bring His Model Out of the Shadows 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The ensuing adventure is witty and engaging, somewhat allegorical, thrumming with the histories of foreign wars and with memories of lives lost and childhoods cut short. Two Young Men Come of Age Amid Violence and Pathos Overseas 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z “Neither Heaven Nor Earth” is one of several movies at this year’s festival that use the supernatural as an allegorical window into real-world crises. At New Directors/New Films, a Glimpse of the Otherworldly 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z At his best, Mr. Englander manages to delineate such extreme behavior with a combination of psychological insight, allegorical gravity and sometimes uproarious comedy. Books of The Times: ?What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,? Stories by Nathan Englander 2012-02-09T23:41:45Z Its maw may be an allegorical representation of “Weltschmerz,” a German phrase that literally means “world pain.” In the galleries: City life, and the possible menace that lies beneath 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z A section of the show is devoted to the National Woman’s Party, and the suffrage campaign has its own processional images: parades of women costumed as allegorical Virtues and carrying banners with tweet-short slogans. The Art of Politics, in ‘Agitprop!’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Kubrick, who died in 1999, wrote "The Downslope" after the release of his allegorical war film "Fear and Desire" and before directing the World War I-set "Paths of Glory." Stanley Kubrick's historical drama 'The Downslope' to be film trilogy 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Moody, chilly, almost unbearably artsy and just over an hour long, “Fear and Desire” is an allegorical war film about four soldiers of an unidentified army, caught behind enemy lines in an unnamed war. ArtsBeat Blog: Channel Surfing: 'Fear and Desire' 2011-12-14T21:30:34Z This allegorical war, along with an impaired officer and a junior necromancer, are of the world of “On Sugarland,” a beautifully produced play that struggles to follow through on its ambitions. ‘On Sugarland’ Review: A Nameless War, and Too Many Wounds to Count 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the birth of André Le Nôtre, the royal garden designer, the High is borrowing mythological and allegorical figures designed for the Tuileries. Antiques: Roman Forum Church, Santa Maria Antiqua 2012-06-14T21:10:47Z The sulfuric churning — the torture and terror and ambivalence and uncertainty — of faith, or Catholicism in the work of Scorsese and Abel Ferrara always gets sunnily allegorical with Spielberg. 2004: ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and a Country at War With Itself 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z His “Dark Knight” entries in the Batman saga raised the genre’s allegorical stakes and dialed down the humor to an all-but-imperceptible whisper. Review: ‘Batman v Superman,’ Dawn of a Franchise 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z It takes the time-honored allegorical trope of a boat journey down a river into the wilderness, flecked with glints of reality. Fall preview: From ‘Florencia in the Amazon’ to ‘Dragon Rhyme,’ fantasy resounds in D.C. I’m not saying that this is not some enormous allegorical story, but clearly we live in uncertain times. ‘My family resisted the Nazis’: why director had to film Alone in Berlin 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z And, finally, there was “Ship of Fools” by Katherine Anne Porter, an allegorical work chronicling an ocean voyage and 50 or so of its passengers. The Best-Seller List 55 Years Ago 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z One historian reads the standing figures as allegorical embodiments of Africa and America. We Don’t Have to Like Them. We Just Need to Understand Them. 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z This classic allegorical book follows the lives and suffering of a group of English rabbits with an elaborate, human-like lifestyle. CJ Daugherty's top 10 secret society books 2013-01-10T14:58:14Z To some extent, “France” — the movie and its possibly allegorical heroine alike — is structured around the tension between the banality of television and the sacredness of cinema, and around the difficulty of telling them apart. ‘France’ Review: When the Journalist Becomes the Story 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z His writing takes on the great riddles of existence — freedom and consciousness, truth and illusion, suffering and transcendence — spinning them into shimmering, allegorical texts. It Took Nearly 30 Years. Is America Ready for Ben Okri Now? 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z But both protagonists are, finally, allegorical figures, and the films work most powerfully as morality tales. Film: Drive and Determination of Zuckerberg and Gekko 2010-10-02T00:56:00Z Welcome return for this multi-award-winning adaptation of Jean Giono's allegorical story about an old shepherd who devotes his life to the reforestation of a dry Provencal valley. Edinburgh festival 2011: Soak it up! 2011-07-17T20:29:01Z When the story is being allegorical, it can be dreary and more than a little condescending. Review: The Graying of Samuel L. Jackson 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z While the film is full of artifice and allegorical implication, it also presents itself as a quasiscientific look at human male pack behavior in the wild. Review: In ‘Chevalier,’ the Manly Games Played on the Aegean 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Consider, for instance, that this early-19th-century writer pioneered the New World frontier, sea adventure, spy, war-romance and polar-exploration genres; allegorical and satirical fantasy tales; and works of urban and rural realism. James Fenimore Cooper — not just your grandpa’s favorite author 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z En route to their ambiguous destiny, the travelers get lost in a mist-shrouded forest, where they are plagued by allegorical and possibly supernatural visions. "Season of the Witch": Nicolas Cage's ludicrous medieval mashup 2011-01-06T02:02:00Z With “mother!,” released in U.S. theaters on Friday, Aronofsky channels his fury with the state of the world into an allegorical story that reflects mankind’s selfish relationship with nature, gender, politics and religion. Darren Aronofsky on 'mother!' : 'We want to shake audiences' 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The film loses their humanity along the way, merely going through the motions and offering no allegorical insight. 'Monsters: Dark Continent' leaves the original far, far behind 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z “The Chemical Wedding” is full of outlandish set pieces—candles that walk on their own; a queen’s gown so beautiful it can’t be gazed upon—that might suggest an allegorical reading. Reimagining a Shadowy Medieval Brotherhood That Probably Didn’t Exist 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z They were mythical, allegorical, magical and sometimes terrifying, but they were also protectors and guides. Review | Cute puppies and octopus sex: A Japanese art exhibition reveals our fascination with animals 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Though trump-conservative.com aggregates many editorial cartoons in support of the president, a vast majority of these graphic works are left-leaning, with depictions that are allegorical and subversive, addressing immigration, class and the White House itself. Comic Books That Put the Pow in Political Power 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z By contrast, The Childhood of Jesus represents a return to the allegorical mode that made him famous. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-02-27T10:00:01Z Perhaps the bankers and speculators who ruined the economy are linked in some way to the punks and lowlifes who ruin themselves, and maybe Cogan is the allegorical double of Ben Bernanke. Movie Review: ‘Killing Them Softly,’ With Brad Pitt, From Andrew Dominik 2012-11-29T16:13:01Z Some readers will struggle to divine an allegorical meaning in “D.” Review | Michel Faber’s ‘D’ is a quirky adventure for readers young and old 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z But the fact that this story is really happening, and that we don’t know how it will end, doesn’t mean that it’s not a symbolic spectacle, or an allegorical fable. Trapped in a cave: A true story with mythic roots and symbolic power 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z But the allegorical significance of “This Is the End” may lie closer to home, in the creative exhaustion of its makers and the popular, profitable strain of humor they represent. Movie Review: ‘This Is the End,’ With Seth Rogen and James Franco 2013-06-11T18:01:14Z The allegorical intertwining of personal and world history can certainly work — “Reds” comes to mind. Review: A Netflix Legal Thriller Weighs Genocide and Guilt 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Gardens, of course, must be cultivated, and thus they are rich allegorical territory for storytellers of all sorts. Review: In ‘This Beautiful Fantastic,’ a Gardener Blooms 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z More than that, by depicting the principles of treatment at one degree of allegorical remove, the show makes plain how much more widely applicable, for addicts and non-addicts alike, the 12 steps might be. Stuck on repeat: what is Netflix’s Russian Doll actually about? 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s like a stop in an allegorical journey of life. Watteau’s Peacefully Bittersweet War Scenes 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z The play is "not allegorical", Miller adds with relief, although there are resonances for audiences living through new economic pressures. Jonathan Miller attacks West End trend of 'dumping' classic plays in a new era 2013-02-02T11:23:44Z France, naturally, is an allegorical figure of abundance at the center. Europe, in 9 Walks 2013-04-19T14:51:25Z Among the highlights was Jan Brueghel the Younger’s 17th-century allegorical paintings of the five senses. Christie’s to Sell Paul G. Allen’s $1 Billion Art Collection 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z The third Lifar ballet always associated with her was “Les Mirages,” an allegorical fantasy in which she was the Shadow, or conscience, of a questing hero. Yvette Chauviré, Ballerina and Symbol of French Culture, Dies at 99 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z What I think happens is that there is a critical reprimand for choosing mythic elements and allegorical elements in American theater. Why Thornton Wilder Matters in the Trump Era 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The influence of his allegorical realism was beginning to give way to more contemporary styles; the Abstract Expressionists were just gaining traction. Jane Wilson, Artist of the Ethereal, Dies at 90 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z But for myself, I was doing these little allegorical paintings, situations that I wished for. Illustrator Barbara Nessim: 'I was just steering my own ship' 2013-02-05T08:29:50Z Marlantes hasn’t written an allegorical polemic about contemporary business — his primary concerns are the romantic fortunes of the siblings and the shifting fates of the workers. Review | ‘Deep River’ bucks every literary trend, and that’s what makes it so charming 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z The same allegorical figure appears in another series, My Inner Life, done in 2008, comprising engravings and drawings coloured with gouache and watercolour. Louise Bourgeois: Moi, Eug?nie Grandet - review 2011-01-04T14:00:55Z "Pills and Potions" is an allegorical drawing that depicts Moliere Dimanche as the Monopoly Man "bouncing around from prison to prison." Through his art, a former prisoner diagnoses the systemic sickness of Florida’s penitentiaries 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Sacred Hunger, which dealt with the Atlantic slave trade of the 18th Century, was an example of the way Unsworth used allegorical stories set in the past to comment on the present. Booker Prize winner Unsworth dies 2012-06-08T10:23:46Z The titular hedgehog is allegorical and never appears in the prickly flesh. For Muriel Barbery, It’s Elves Who Are Elegant Now 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Niccol’s In Time, about a society where the human body clock simply stops if one runs out of cash, is another underrated allegorical study of societal polarisation between the haves and the have nots. After Blade Runner 2049, which sci-fi cult classics also deserve a sequel? 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z The salas reservadas offered art-loving kings and other nobles — though not queens; ladies were not allowed — a place to appreciate these paintings, both as allegorical lessons and as erotic stimulation, without directly contravening church teachings. Now Showing: Porn Fit for Spanish Kings 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Although the standard allegorical bases for mythical-quest movies are dutifully covered, the obvious similarity of “Percy Jackson” to the Harry Potter movies inevitably makes it feel somewhat secondhand. 2010-02-11T23:49:00Z “World-building” usually refers to how the makers of science fiction and fantasy construct their domains, populating them with imaginary creatures and allegorical meanings. ‘Parallel Mothers’ Review: Almodóvar’s Brutal, Beautiful World 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Animal Farm, ostensibly the tale of farm animals' revolt against their human masters, is an allegorical account of the Soviet Union's passage into Stalinism. Elton John working on Animal Farm musical 2010-07-26T10:29:00Z The Great Martian War This new import —an allegorical reimagining of the First World War — has humans waging a catastrophic battle against a race of extraterrestrials. Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk Shows: 'Crossbones' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z “I think they would see it in much more allegorical terms.” Apocalypse bow-wow: the new breed of arthouse animal horror 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The play was written as an allegorical critique of the mid-20th century rise of totalitarian regimes — Nazi, fascist, communist, nationalist — but applies to any doctrine invoked as a pretext for tyranny. The 99-Seat Beat: DACA drama, Lenny Bruce and new Nick Payne 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z With “mother!,” released in U.S. theaters on Friday, Aronofsky channels his fury with the state of the world into an allegorical story that reflects mankind’s selfish relationship with nature, gender, politics and religion. Darren Aronofsky on 'mother!' : 'We want to shake audiences' 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Lewis was an eminent literary scholar and a huge fan of the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser, whose allegorical epic "The Faerie Queene" must be reckoned as a major influence. "Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader": Narnia gets a religious makeover 2010-12-09T01:30:00Z “While the film is full of artifice and allegorical implication, it also presents itself as a quasiscientific look at human male pack behavior in the wild,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Friday: A Foo Fighters Concert and ‘Lady Dynamite’ 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Every word of the opera’s text comes from Nietzsche, but Mr. Rihm has strung the bits together to make an allegorical libretto. Music Review: Premiere of Wolfgang Rihm?s ?Dionysos? at Salzburg 2010-08-01T22:45:00Z The text is there to provide allegorical reference for Birk’s marginalia. ‘American Qur’an’ is an old/new masterpiece 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z On view here is a 17th-century copy of that work, illustrated by complex allegorical engravings. Review: The Morbid Anatomy Museum Presents a View From the Subconscious 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Safely inaccessible was “The Apotheosis of Washington,” a fresco on the Rotunda ceiling that shows the nation’s first president flanked by Liberty, Victory, Science, War and other allegorical figures. Curators Scour Capitol for Damage to the Building or Its Art 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Comedies, like the allegorical aspects of sci-fi films, can unexpectedly sneak in a larger message that audiences may not expect. South by Southwest film festival is serious about raunchy comedies 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The wanderings continue on “Tin Can Trust,” though now they are more allegorical than geographic. Critics' Choice: CDs From Los Lobos, Seu Jorge and Almaz, and Dr. John 2010-08-01T22:33:00Z Ammannati responded by designing a glorious composition of marble river gods and other allegorical figures, presided over by Juno, stylishly ensconced on an overarching stone rainbow, flanked by two peacocks. Art: In Florence, Revelations in Stone 2011-08-12T11:30:07Z Although “The Childhood of Jesus” and “The Schooldays of Jesus” are presented as allegories, they never yield any interesting allegorical meaning. Review | J.M. Coetzee’s ‘The Schooldays of Jesus’ raises more questions than it answers 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z The setting is a train, and the trimmings are allegorical and fantastical. A Lost Story by Sylvia Plath Contains the Seeds of the Writer She Would Become 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The allegorical story revolves around two neighboring fathers who trick their offspring, Matt and Luisa, into falling in love. Hal Linden returns to the stage for 'The Fantasticks,' the longest-running musical in history 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z In the background are flat monochrome sections or landscapes thick with deer and other allegorical animals that dissolve the documentation into reverie. Four Artists to Watch Now 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The last, which contained an allegorical female nude representing Truth, was derided at the Salon and destroyed by the artist. A Maverick Master, Revisited 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The solitary diner is an allegorical figure, too, a modern Everyman trapped in layers of systematic artificiality. Review: ‘Richard Estes: Painting New York City’ Features Works in Abstract Realism 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z “Humour and religion do not mix well,” she admits to her husband, but they’re well mixed in this story, which is largely a dissertation on the allegorical structure of Jesus’s life. Yann Martel’s ‘The High Mountains of Portugal’ is his best since ‘Life of Pi’ 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Still, he does reach a resolution of sorts, in the form of an allegorical novel he wrote in captivity, and finally smashes the spell held by his jailers on his imagination. Held Hostage in Syria, a Reporter Tells What It Took to Survive 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z In an allegorical garden, the Dreamer guides the Lover as she pines for a rose: “What a perfect symbol for a dream of love!” Review: A New Opera Puts Real Emotions in a Fantasy Garden 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Like that earlier novel, “Manalive” similarly touches on the allegorical but emphasizes, besides misdirection and surprise, its author’s mastery of social comedy. Review | The perfect book for this year’s coincidence, Easter on April Fools’ Day 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z I wanted it to live in a kind of allegorical space, where the events are set against much bigger economic and generational shifts. Sana Krasikov on the Rise of Group Morality 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z This allegorical song was one of several ballads in a nearly two-hour show in which Ms. Collins’s unblemished icicle voice evoked the kind of ethereal, far-sighted reflection that is her special artistic territory. Music Review: The Dreamer Caught in the Spotlight 2011-02-16T22:52:03Z After the beautiful and mysterious allegorical pastorals of his younger years it was for Philip II that he painted the Poesie – the series of works after Ovid that are a high point of western art. Christmas gifts 2012: the best art books 2012-11-30T08:00:03Z Rather than directly confronting the existential horror of our environmental catastrophe, McKay has taken an allegorical approach in “Don’t Look Up” with a world-destroying comet. ‘Don’t Look Up’ Review: Tick, Tick, Kablooey 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z From the advent of the Cold War to the fall of Saigon, no American movie genre was more relevant than the western, with its allegorical echoes of race, crime, conquest and American exceptionalism. In ‘Hombre’ and ‘Kid Blue,’ the Antiheroes Wear Stetsons Ride Tall on a Rebellion Frontier 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Seasoning this complicated soup are curious allegorical interludes about the relationship between a cricket and an ant. Theater Review: ‘The Golden Dragon,’ by Roland Schimmelpfennig 2013-05-21T21:38:22Z The original prologue and epilogue, allegorical paeans to the young Louis XIV, were replaced with shorter vocal pieces from Rossi’s catalog. Juilliard Stages an Orpheus Rarity From Opera’s Early Days 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Some scenes and story lines are more blatantly allegorical than others, and initially it’s hard to tell whether these whimsical movements are from a single character’s perspective or just a characteristic of the work. ‘Your Own Personal Exegesis’ Review: Blessed Be the Young and Lustful 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Though it styles itself as an allegorical satire of “man against monster,” it reminds us that Stalin was, after all, genuinely a man of the people. Arts & Leisure: ?Richard II,? ?Madness of King George? and ?Collaborators? in London 2012-02-12T06:00:50Z High up on the museum’s wings stand allegorical statues, carved in smooth neo-Classical style, of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Music. The Eyes Have It in Hew Locke’s Power-Challenging Show 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z As serious a position as that may sound, Arcimboldo captivated audiences not for his skillful likenesses but rather for his wacky and whimsical allegorical portraits. Inside Art: Arcimboldo Work Bought in Time for Exhibition 2010-09-16T21:45:00Z Even Wendy, who acts as an allegorical baseline against which the novel’s other women measure, only exists because another woman lost her mind. What if You Didn’t Know Who You Were? What if No One Did? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z In terms of whether we’re too old to be prancing around in allegorical spandex, no, I don’t think so. Q. and A.: Rockstar’s Dan Houser on Grand Theft Auto V 2012-11-10T01:05:01Z Though “Women Talking” is based on a novel that is based on true events, it has a distilled, allegorical quality that frees ideas to circulate in new ways. Breaking Out of the #MeToo Movie Formula 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z This would be vague or allegorical, if Cusk weren’t so perfectly specific. Rachel Cusk is returning fiction to its roots in storytelling 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z His background in drama is clear from the title track, an entertaining masque of a rap in which four allegorical evils compete for a place in hell in the presence of a priapic Satan. Akala: 'This country is not comfortable with intelligent young black people' 2013-06-01T23:05:01Z For all the film’s allegorical commentary on capitalism and morning-in-America self-deception, director Bennett Miller ultimately allowed the story to stay as it was: bizarre, bewildering and surpassingly sad. The best movies of 2014: ‘Boyhood,’ ‘Force Majeure,’ ‘Selma’ and more Shikasta's allegorical meaning also makes it an awkward fit within science fiction, a genre that tends to take its spaceships and alien visitations literally. Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z But Act III is often the chief problem of “Coppélia”: a series of ambiguously allegorical dances without narrative after two acts of character-led suspense. Dance Review: ‘Coppélia,’ Performed by the Bolshoi Ballet 2012-05-30T22:29:15Z Paul Georges’s often outsize, unabashedly grandiose landscapes, nudes, self-portraits and allegorical narratives have a terrifically sensuous, painterly flair. Art Review: ‘See It Loud,’ at the National Academy Museum 2013-12-26T22:02:57Z That’s exactly the place where—in light of Russell’s allegorical connection of Joy’s story to his own, of the creation of the Miracle Mop to the making of a film—it belongs. David O. Russell’s Self-Reflexive “Joy” 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z He wasn’t looking for an exterior allegorical gimmick. Arts & Leisure Preview: The Valhalla Machine 2010-09-17T16:10:00Z Yet there’s a strong sense in Murakami’s work that his allegorical instincts are secondary, the radiation of his characters’ inner sense of dislocation. Review | Haruki Murakami turns his gaze toward middle age 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z I climbed the massive stone staircase to the chateau’s third floor, passing statues of allegorical figures nestled in alcoves. In the Czech Republic, Moravia and Its Castles 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z These characters are clichés, but they are also allegorical figures. Review: In ‘Ready Player One,’ Spielberg Plays the Nostalgia Game 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Rehoboam is representative of a broader shift that “Westworld” makes in Season 3, from the allegorical to the more nearly literal. What Is ‘Westworld’ Without Westworld? 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Absence, addressed directly in the opening line, might almost be an allegorical figure rather than an abstract noun. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z She proposed an allegorical eco-feminist tome that she imagined would be in the vein of bell hooks. Jenny Slate Wrote a Book-Shaped Thing. What Is It? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Elysium, for all its visual and allegorical density, could use the input of that gifted filmmaker. Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium: Drab, Dreary and Dysto-pointing 2013-08-08T16:08:09Z Another says, “You look like an allegorical figure.” Shirley Hazzard’s Stories Observe Pain and Disappointment With a Witty Intelligence 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z As symbolism supplants narrative, the movie develops a dreamy, allegorical quality that dulls the action and dilutes the emotions. ‘Savage State’ Review: Escape to New York 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z In the first place, it isn't really about Jesus, except at some hard-to-pin-down allegorical level. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-03-02T11:01:01Z Catena was also the owner of a set of allegorical pictures by Giovanni Bellini, one of which, “Vanity,” is on loan here from the Accademia in Venice. Review: An Enigmatic Renaissance Master 2010-02-19T12:10:00Z The premise of "My Country" is that the allegorical figure of Britannia calls a meeting to listen to her people, and a passionate debate ensues. We need to talk about Brexit: Britannia hears her people in new play 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z I think because there are sort of allegorical elements to it. “I Was Destined to Write a Gladiator Game”: A Conversation with Suzanne Collins and Francis Lawrence 2013-11-20T10:45:11Z The show, “Rodin at the Met,” offers eerie moonlit allegorical scenes by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes that enliven Rodin’s sprightly bronze portrait bust of that painter. Rodin From Every Angle: A Cornucopia of Shows for the Holidays 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z In it we see allegorical figures of the ages of life, but the most compelling, and the painting's true heart, is the young woman in love. Nan Goldin, Tony Cragg and Robert Rauschenberg ? the week in art 2011-07-22T12:06:33Z The setting is allegorical rather than naturalistic: We never learn who is fighting whom, or what either side hopes to accomplish. The absurdity of war, center stage, in 'Seven Spots on the Sun' 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The architect Will Bruder, chairman of the prize jury, said: “He plays with metaphor, poetry and an understanding of his native Riga. It’s heroic, allegorical, and contains a power and conviction about its space.” Gunnar Birkerts, Architect, Dies at 92; Gave Shape to the Unexpected 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z ODDLY, even as Mr. LaChapelle was ignoring his career to tend to his organic farm in Hawaii, the market for his images, especially the allegorical ones notable for baroque, almost chrome-plated religiosity, vaulted. David LaChapelle: An Unexpected Life 2011-05-27T19:05:28Z The allegorical meanings — the battle of good and evil, the mystery of the Force — rest lightly on the jaunty surface of “A New Hope.” ‘Star Wars,’ Elvis and Me 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Not content to merely employ "Fishes" as a psychological assault, Calo and Storer impress the allegorical significance of this Christmas dinner through its guest star casting. "The Bear" hides crusts of meaning and trauma in an episode about the Feast of the Seven Fishes 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z His gifts lie in his sense of theater, his wit and timing and his understanding of the dramatic essentials of the stories he has transformed through contemporary, almost allegorical settings. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Nutcracker? in London, Four Different Versions 2012-01-02T23:38:52Z Is Melencolia I an allegorical portrait of the creative paralysis of da Vinci, the paragon of Renaissance art who Dürer aspired to emulate – flaws included? D?rer's Melencolia I ? a masterpiece, and a diagnosis 2011-03-18T10:52:50Z One of its real strengths is that it's very hard to categorise - it's not a period piece, nor is it in any way crudely allegorical. Man Booker Prize 2013: At a glance 2013-09-11T11:13:45Z People are still fighting about its stature and its allegorical meanings. Film: ?Inception? Criticism Raises Questions for Critics 2010-07-23T22:17:00Z Here, a figure she calls the Dreamer initially puts the character of the Lover through the various allegorical paces. An Eagerly Awaited Opera, Delayed by the Pandemic, Opens at Last 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Season 3, in particular, switched focus between an arc about Alfred and company’s European tour and a series of allegorical, anthology-style episodes that featured the main cast little or not at all. How ‘Atlanta’ and ‘The Good Fight’ Chose Chaos 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z But there is nothing dryly allegorical about Fuller’s execution. DVDs: Samuel Fuller, Eccentric Stylist of Poverty Row 2011-01-23T02:30:16Z The opera begins in something that might be a representation of some allegorical garden with dancey music. She Tackled Aristotle in an Opera. Next Up: Medieval French Couplets. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Mrozek, who began his career as a journalist and cartoonist, was known for mordant allegorical plays whose absurdism lampooned the political and social climate of the postwar Eastern Bloc. Slawomir Mrozek, a Leading Polish Playwright, Dies at 83 2013-08-28T14:58:53Z His allegorical 1939 novel, “On the Marble Cliffs,” is frequently read as a critique of Hitler. Review | A fascinating look inside the journal of a controversial German war hero 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z As the new brand ambassadors for Omega, the family was as perfectly sculpted as the allegorical figures of the four seasons, carved into the building’s facade. Kaia Gerber’s Dad Was a Model, Too 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z The play’s central characters make their entrances in a procession, carrying farm implements and suggesting allegorical figures from a Brueghel painting. Theater Review: Yael Farber’s ‘Mies Julie,’ at St. Ann’s Warehouse 2012-11-13T03:00:00Z The scene depicted on the memorial is of a serene classical temple, peopled with allegorical figures in Grecian attire and Christian saints and martyrs, flanked by soldiers, women and children in contemporary dress. Big Rethinking: Classicism in the U.K. After World War I 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z This ease of composition perhaps connects to the allegorical figure of the wanderer, often found in German romantic poetry and in Schubert's music. Poem of the week: Schubertiad by Fiona Sampson 2010-08-02T10:49:00Z The three-act opera, an allegorical fantasy, would seem a big enticement for a director. Joyce DiDonato Sings ‘Alcina’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z An outlandish, pointedly allegorical conceit is inhabited not by symbolic figures but by terrestrial oddballs. Review: In ‘Downsizing,’ Matt Damon Sweats the Small Stuff 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z “Where? Whatever … allegorical hellscape or dire prison block for the human soul they’re working through, the particulars don’t matter. They want to live there, you can feel it.” Jonathan Lethem Imagines a World Where Technology Stops Working 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z A Serbian Film might well be telling us that only someone a bit daft would try to make an allegorical film. A Serbian Film: when allegory gets nasty 2010-12-13T12:36:00Z This frustrating, almost allegorical inequality contours the whole tale. Review | In Neal Stephenson’s ‘Fall,’ there is life after death 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z The white-suited Mithraics, trotting across a desert landscape, invoke “Star Wars”; the harsh allegorical elements, “The Handmaid’s Tale”; the stylized speech and movements of the androids, the British series “Humans.” ‘Raised by Wolves’ Review: Ridley Scott Among the Androids 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z I am quite sure I failed to get any allegorical, existential meaning from the book, but it successfully terrified me, burning an image of Martin clinging to his lonely rock into my brain. The books that send me back to school 2010-09-06T09:15:00Z She said she was going for an updated and more oblique approach to the stone friezes traditionally sculpted into courthouse facades, often with an allegorical robed woman holding the scales of justice. Public art projects in Long Beach, Willowbrook win national award 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z In a garden, expertise was personal and anecdotal — it was allegorical — it was ancient — it had been handed down; one felt that gardeners across generations were united in a kind of guild. Guerrilla Gardeners Meet Billionaire Doomsayer. Hurly-Burly Ensues. 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Our guides are Marianne, the allegorical embodiment of France’s republican ideals, and Napoleon Bonaparte, the actual embodiment of the nation’s imperial ambitions. Review: ‘Francofonia,’ About World War II Foes Turned Allies, for the Sake of Art 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z I especially loved “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” long before I could fully appreciate the allegorical genius of a brilliant logician. Maria Popova: By the Book 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z In his new novel, “The Transmigration of Bodies,” Herrera pivots from border fabulist to noirish raconteur, bringing his considerable allegorical powers to bear on another facet of contemporary Mexican culture: Namely, its legacy of violence. In Yuri Herrera's hard-boiled 'The Transmigration of Bodies,' dirty work is providence 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Once Trump was elected, I said, “We do the black church later and Great Migration. We have to do Reconstruction, because of its allegorical implications for race relations and politics today.” Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z What I found fascinating about this book, after its remarkable premise, which both invites and strongly resists allegorical interpretation, and the cold beauty of its prose, was my own reaction to it. The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus – review 2013-04-30T11:41:04Z For all of his allegorical intent, Sultan was nevertheless unable to escape what he called the “deeper impulses” drawing him to make this work. How Larry Sultan Made His Father a Metaphor for Dashed American Dreams 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z The frontier and the battlefield were allegorical spaces where Cold War anxieties were played out, but they were also representations of the offices where more and more Americans spent more and more of their time. Even Superheroes Punch the Clock 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Auden, for his part, was wary of tidy summations of the work, or overtly allegorical analyses of it. Is ‘The Bassarids’ an Operatic Masterpiece, or ‘Strauss Turned Sour’? 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z In the closing days of World War II, the American publisher Alfred A. Knopf was pursuing English-language rights to Albert Camus’s novel “The Plague,” with its powerful and clear allegorical view of Nazism. Review: ‘Looking for “The Stranger,”’ the Making of an Existential Masterpiece 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z What follows is an extraordinary dream sequence, allegorical and allusive, in which the minister is Gabriel. Lois Weber’s Vital Films of the Early Silent Era 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The New York mental institution where most of the action takes place is hardly the allegorical hellhole of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” | 'It?s Kind of a Funny Story': A Coming-of-Age Tale, Set Among the Sad 2010-10-07T23:19:00Z An allegorical sculpture by a world-famous artist followed trails lined with some of the rarest and most expensive orchids in the world. Quality Control: a short story by Edwidge Danticat The moves never made him American, but they did widen his scope, attending to the allegorical burden and to the wisdom he found in Czeslaw Milosz and other Continental writers. How Seamus Heaney Became a Poet of Happiness 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z “Vixen,” with its allegorical pitting of woodland animals against their human oppressors, serves a charming, bestial foil to Mr. Puts’s vision of conflict. Crossing Cultures, and Genres, at the Glimmerglass Festival 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z The allegorical rhythms beat too loudly here to ignore. When the Holocaust Becomes an Obsession 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z So besides having her speak more like an adult, Cherry explained, the show’s creatives tried to make sure that any issues or problems Zuri encounters were allegorical to those that adults have to deal with. With 'Young Love,' Matthew A. Cherry wanted to depict parents in their 20s who are still figuring out life 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Coetzee’s allegorical ‘The Childhood of Jesus’ is not a book about the biblical Jesus but a refugee in a strange country. A new novel by Nobelist J.M. Coetzee, 83, is a masterclass in the 'late style' at its best 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z “I wanted there to be different allegorical vignettes that you could go in and out of — and you’re as much a spectator as the one being viewed.” For L.A.'s newest underground art experience, head down to the Metro Regional Connector 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z The 1945 allegorical novella has been a target of complaints for decades, according to the ALA. The 15 most banned books in America this school year 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z The villa's 2.75-metre-wide Caravaggio painted ceiling, commissioned in 1597, depicts an allegorical scene with the gods Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto representing the transformation of lead into gold. U.S. princess evicted from Rome villa famed for Caravaggio fresco 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z At one end of the room an allegorical mural represents Law; at the other, History. Rubenstein spent years preserving objects. Now he’s looking for meaning. 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Grant appeared to be making a literary reference to the allegorical Vanity Fair of sinful frivolity, but this seemed to be lost on model-turned-TV personality Graham. Rude or real? Hugh Grant's Oscars red carpet chat with Ashley Graham divides viewers 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Each becomes an extravagant operatic character, doing their own updated allegorical business in the dream garden. Review: Long Beach Opera's endearingly messy, profound 'Romance of the Rose' is an operatic triumph 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Working behind the camera for the first time, French actress Sandrine Kiberlain filters familiar subject matter through a unique lens, resulting in the simultaneously ominous and vibrant allegorical coming-of-age story that is “A Radiant Girl.” Review: As the world grows darker in 1942 Paris, 'A Radiant Girl' burns brighter 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z So nothing allegorical, just straight to the eye — what is the situation we're in and what do we do about it? "The Deluge" is a climate nightmare — and it’s based on reality 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Its 2.75-metre-wide Caravaggio painted ceiling, commissioned in 1597 and valued at 310 million euros, depicts an allegorical scene with the gods Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto representing the transformation of lead into gold. Princess in villa with unique Caravaggio faces eviction 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Like much of the writing that followed his 1980 novel “The Book of Jamaica,” “Lost Memory of Skin” blends a kind of gritty realism with allegorical and social concerns. Appreciation: Russell Banks was a giant rooting for the underdogs 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z This world may be rooted in soil, in fields where children run and play and in roads traveled by horse-drawn buggy, but it also occupies a slippery zone between the concrete and the allegorical. Review: Ensemble acting doesn't get much better than in Sarah Polley's brilliant 'Women Talking' 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z The vulnerable souls in this increasingly allegorical play are up for grabs as the forces of good and evil battle for control over them. Lynn Nottage on 'MJ' and 'sustaining the complexity' in her dramatic works 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Finally, I said, this is the time that I should write my allegorical, political novel, because it is an authoritarian situation. ‘First, survive. Don’t rush to jail. Then, write.’ 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Jacobs-Jenkins, the audaciously innovative author of “Appropriate,” “An Octoroon” and “Gloria,” puts his own playful stamp on an allegorical work that exposes the vanity of worldly ambition. Commentary: Four veteran stage actors discuss taking on risky roles later in life 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z His imagined worlds straddled between the moral grayness of John le Carré’s spy novels and the allegorical sweep of Miguel de Cervantes’s “Don Quixote.” Javier Marías, celebrated Spanish author, dies at 70 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Fifteen of Mexico’s states are represented with allegorical floats. More than a Mexican Independence Day parade, it's an East L.A. celebration of cultural pride 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z And some view it as expressing allegorical ideas about the processes of change and growth. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The two to the side are clearly allegorical, whereas the one on top is given individuality and freedom of expression. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Lewis, the British author of the allegorical “Chronicles of Narnia” series. Frederick Buechner, prolific novelist and theologian, dies at 96 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z The Table of Understanding, a metal surface inscribed with animals gathered around a watering hole, is allegorical — the Seattle Sensory Garden is a place for everyone to come together. The Seattle Sensory Garden makes nature accessible for everyone to experience, explore and appreciate 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z “I’m really interested in hyper-specific, allegorical imagery,” Chan says, “especially symbols and images drawn from communities that can be activated and put in conversation with one another.” This weekend, look up to the heavens: A kite 'gallery in the sky' will fly over L.A. 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The miniseries received 23 Emmy nominations, as well as critical acclaim for its allegorical depiction of the stages of grief, which continue to play a pivotal role throughout “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” Why 'WandaVision' fans will be 'heartbroken' by 'Doctor Strange 2' 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Each man is dressed in the clothing of his homeland, giving each allegorical significance as racial, rather than individual, representations. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z But if you wanted to make his case, you could do worse than point to the laborious enigmas and allegorical overkill of “The Pleasures of Dagobert.” Perspective | Venice takes a surreal turn, not for the better 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z While some of the stories are set in Ukraine, others are allegorical. Kapow! U.S. comic book stars raise money for Ukraine refugees 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z We ourselves become “disaster tourists” in a vision of America that’s downtrodden, allegorical and just the right amount of unearthly. The video game of 2022 so far: 'Norco,' a masterpiece of interactive storytelling 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Other Christians tended to see biblical descriptions as more symbolic or allegorical. Russia’s war on Ukraine has some Christians wondering: Is this the end of the world? 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The characters are not so much people as allegorical figures, representatives of justice, gone well or gone wrong. ‘Law & Order’ (still) hasn't changed. And that's exactly why it's lasted 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Teaching youngsters the allegorical and historic origins of the correfoc tradition is vital, she said, even if “99% of people don’t even know where the devil came from.” With COVID rules eased, Barcelona embraces festival’s return 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z This is a sort of allegorical game, of course, but — crucially — an internally consistent one. Why Sheila Heti's bizarre new novel is the most timely, urgent book of 2022 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z That film seemed to think it was critiquing public apathy toward climate change, like a “Day After Tomorrow” denuded of thrills and presented in allegorical code. Review: 'Moonfall' is stupid. That's mostly a good thing 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Lund’s allegorical novel imagines a boy with a Java sparrow living in his rib cage. 10 noteworthy books for February 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z But that allegorical dimension has since been temporarily eclipsed by the COVID-19 pandemic, whose rampant misinformation campaigns have caused hundreds of thousands of pointless, preventable human deaths. Review: ‘Don’t Look Up,’ but there’s a scattershot satire headed your way on Netflix 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z The 2.75-metre wide mural was painted in oil directly onto the plaster and depicts an allegorical scene with the gods Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto representing the transformation of lead into gold. Historic Rome villa with world's only Caravaggio mural is up for auction 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z The highly allegorical poem describes the relationship between two brothers from a royal family during China’s warring Three Kingdoms period that is taught in all of China’s primary schools about the importance of getting along. Elon Musk goes viral on Chinese social media with ancient poem post 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Sure, the story lines are over the top, but they can also be allegorical. For years, Black girls have been stuck on the sidelines of teen dramas. A new wave of shows is changing that. 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z “Dune” was always an allegorical novel; sci-fi’s ability to hold up a mirror darkly to culture is one of its primary aims. The Man Who Finally Made a ‘Dune’ That Fans Will Love 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Los Angeles Opera presents three screenings of Jordan Peele’s allegorical 2017 horror fable “Get Out” with live orchestra, with the film’s composer Michael Abels on hand to conduct his score. 13 spooky best bets for Halloween fun: Elfman and Eilish, haunts, kids’ stuff and more 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z It should be said that the characters do not feel fully human; they feel allegorical. Review: Is Jonathan Franzen too big to fail? 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z We see that the character Grace is an allegorical figure. ‘All’s Well’ in Mona Awad’s latest novel, a gripping reimagining of Shakespeare 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Patterson appears across the anthology but is only identified only as The Poet - an "allegorical anonymity" which he enjoyed. Emilia Clarke on the book that helped her to grieve for her dad 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z They were looking for another substantial work of literary naturalism, not a weird, short, allegorical novel about a man who flees into the city sewers.” Richard Wright's newly uncut novel offers a timely depiction of police brutality 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z “The bold colors, opulent gilded mirrors, crystal chandeliers, allegorical artwork, taxidermy and silk upholstered settees that decorate the mansion set a feeling of environmental submersion or time travel,” she said. Her convent fight with Katy Perry is legendary. Now restaurateur Dana Hollister lists for $40 million in Silver Lake 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z “There’s this allegorical perception of bees as being more like humans than most insects.” TikTok’s viral beekeeper is getting a lot of … buzz 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Just as last year’s beekeeping beauty “Honeyland,” “The Truffle Hunters” is a richly allegorical documentary of a vanishing agricultural pastime. Review: In ‘Truffle Hunters,’ an enchanting but beset world 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Why did we let them continue for four devastating years, like the blind, chained inhabitants of Plato's allegorical cave, unable to escape their isolation because, trapped by ignorance and darkness, they couldn't know the truth? Escaping the "Mussolini moment": Trump's enablers and the banality of evil 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z “Because the movie is sort of allegorical and heightened it really needed the person playing Cassie to feel completely real.” Rage, reckoning come to forefront in ‘Promising Young Woman’ 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z On Dec. 6, Balenciaga is launching the allegorical adventure game “Afterworld: The Age of Tomorrow,” which will double as a reveal for its fall 2021 collection. Video games are the new runway. Coveted fashion brands are loving it 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Afterworld: The Age of Tomorrow is an “allegorical adventure” set in the year 2031, in which “a hero avatar advances throughout distinct zones, motivated by tasks and interactions.” Balenciaga made a video game to debut its next clothing collection 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z "It's allegorical and it's purposeful as well," Barrish explained in a call with Salon. Ally of far-right Florida candidate Laura Loomer launches "Blood of Liberty" super PAC 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z And yet it’s moving and allegorical, lifted by wonderful acting. Review: ‘Jungleland’ treads old paths but still hits hard 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z With this allegorical juxtaposition the Iranian artist tackles gender politics: the men protected by society, the women left out in a hostile environment. From Warhol to Steve McQueen: a history of video art in 30 works 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z “Afterworld: The Age of Tomorrow” Launch date: Dec. 6, 2020 PC and mobile Free Quick look: Set in 2031, this allegorical adventure game doubles as a presentation of Balenciaga’s fall 2021 fashion collection. Video games are the new runway. Coveted fashion brands are loving it 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z “The Seven Acts of Mercy” is a complex painting that tries to compile into a single vertical plane seven distinct vignettes, allegorical counterpoints to the seven deadly sins. In Dark Times, I Sought Out the Turmoil of Caravaggio’s Paintings 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z The film is bookended with English author Eric Blair — better known as George Orwell — writing his allegorical novella “Animal Farm,” inspired by Jones’ reporting from the Soviet Union. Review: The truth will out in muddled political thriller 'Mr. Jones' 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Two female figures, each with one breast bared and serving as allegorical representations of justice and friendship decorate one of the walls of the Hall of Constantine. No crowds delight art lovers in Italy at re-opened museums 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z All is revealed in the secretive allegorical language and obscure, fantastical imagery of the fabulous Ripley Scrolls. Daily briefing: How desperate measures might shorten the coronavirus vaccine timeline — and at what risk 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Inside it, the first steps of his work are depicted in miniature allegorical scenes — incomprehensible to uninformed viewers, but packed with meaning for those in the know. Elixirs for times of plague and bullion shortage 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z “The Crucible “ Opera Santa Barbara shares its 2019 production of Robert Ward’s musical adaptation of playwright Arthur Miller’s allegorical drama set during the Salem witch trials in 17th century Massachusetts. Kevin Kline in 'Present Laughter': Your free quarantine must-watch of the day 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Suddenly, the allegorical nature of it isn’t nearly as allegorical: our relationship with loss and grief has now been altered. 'Like a glass of iced water to the face': filmmakers, artists and actors on Covid-19 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z The film, with its allegorical framework and starkly beautiful camerawork by Gunnar Fischer, was a watershed for moviemaking that aspired to high art. Max von Sydow, brooding star of Ingmar Bergman’s torment-ridden dramas, dies at 90 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z It was with this work that he began to fashion his distinctive, highly allegorical approach to design. The Architect Making Conceptual Art Out of Buildings 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z In the fifteenth century, alchemists developed elaborate sequences of allegorical illustrations that allowed informed readers to decipher basic processes. Elixirs for times of plague and bullion shortage 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z "Whatever one thinks about the merits of an issue before a court, there is no place for threats -- whether real or allegorical," the ABA said in a statement. McConnell to call out Schumer for controversial remarks directed at Supreme Court justices 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z In an election year, TV viewers will be hard-pressed to escape politics — past and present, literal and allegorical. Looking ahead: In 2020, we look to Mars, fake meat and the allure of wishful thinking 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z The kind of stories it chooses to tell are largely allegorical in nature. How real-world science sets The Expanse apart from other sci-fi shows 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Say “Animal Farm,” and many literary Americans will think of George Orwell’s allegorical novella about farm animals rebelling against totalitarianism in post-revolution Russia. Opinion | I am thankful for one hero dog, two pardoned turkeys and ending animal cruelty 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Their methods, disguised behind allegorical language and obscure, fantastical imagery, seem disconnected from those of modern science and medicine. Elixirs for times of plague and bullion shortage 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Above the arched windows, eight sculpted panels of heroic allegorical scenes represent the achievements of mankind: The rise of 'facadism' in London 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z “George Orwell: His Enduring Legacy” which runs to April, features posters and material related to “1984” and his 1945 allegorical novella, “Animal Farm.” George Orwell New Mexico exhibit bares ‘doublespeak’ legacy 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z According to the Department of Culture, the parade comprised more than 2,500 performers in “artistic projects,” allegorical floats and dance groups, and planners were expecting crowds of up to 2 million. Skulls, masks and dancers as Mexico fetes Day of the Dead 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z "The idea was to create an allegorical explanation of Brexit that uses metaphorical elements to represent the different aspects." The lighter side of the (former) Brexit deadline 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Circles and squares were consecrated with allegorical memorials. Urban warrior in Nikes and a hoodie leads charge against white orthodoxy 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z There are escape attempts, murder and a descent into more squalor, suggesting that, as with William Golding’s “Flies,” filmmaker Alejandro Landes is delivering an allegorical message of some sort. Review | Teen guerrillas run amok in the mesmerizing, maddening Colombian film ‘Monos’ 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Tolkien’s insistence that there is no “allegorical significance or contemporary political reference” in this specific parable, or in the book at large, seems laughable. If "Lord of the Rings" is a parable for trauma, what can it teach us now? 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Stretching across 10 minutes, “Fear Inoculum” finds singer and lyricist Maynard James Keenan focused on what he calls in one verse “my allegorical elegy.” California Sounds: Tool's first song in 13 years, plus new cuts from Yacht and Quitapenas 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z In 13 freely structured lines, the allegorical journey is stripped down to its essence. Poem of the week: Story's End by Kathleen Raine 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z To explore the underlying question of ownership, we move into the theater, where the peasants stage the allegorical morality fable that forms the bulk of the show. Review: It's rich versus poor in Antaeus Theatre's 'Caucasian Chalk Circle' 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z The novelty poll drew plenty of serious coverage and some screaming headlines, aided by the pollster’s allegorical spin on the findings and the never-ending need for news in a fickle 24/7 marketplace. Instant politics: Megan Rapinoe for president 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z But innovations and changing technology aren’t Davies’ focus here, even on an allegorical level. Russell T. Davies’ Years and Years is Black Mirror with a heart 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z The characters are allegorical rather than realistic, and as such, fairly stagnant. Review: At City Garage in Santa Monica, a king who won't accept the ultimate exit 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z It’s mostly allegorical, using familiar AI and robotics tropes to raise questions about human agency. In "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too," Black Mirror does teen comedy 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z This is all fun, yet still problematic, as such a hypothesis is based on applying modern theories to what were poetic and allegorical imaginings in the 14th century. Review | An astronomer’s poetic soul meets Dante’s scientific mind 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z The allegorical underpinnings of “The Lord of the Rings” have long been open to interpretation, which is a testament in part to their subtlety. Review: 'Tolkien' fails to open a window into the mind behind 'The Lord of the Rings' 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z The image is theatrical and allegorical while remaining thoroughly grounded in the everyday. Review: Graciela Iturbide’s legendary eye and arresting photos of Mexico 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z Their attempt to “tame” Ruth is where the film finds an allegorical dimension. Review | The excellent ‘Fast Color’ shows women of color with superpowers, literally 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Those frail, hopelessly mortal melodies, clinging on with dignified tenacity, became powerful allegorical elegies for both the horror and the enduring humanity of 9/11. 'I wanted to be David Bowie': music maverick William Basinski 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z But “The Wind” is ultimately more allegorical than literal. VOD reviews: ‘The Haunting of Sharon Tate’ is sleazy exploitation, but ‘The Wind’ is one to see 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z The work is widely considered allegorical — the subject’s bare breast and classical dress, in the colors of the French flag, alluding to the French Republic and the figure of Liberty. A Paris art exhibit renames paintings to put the focus on their black subjects 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z A few modest examples are on view, together with 150 photographic portraits, landscapes and allegorical subjects. Review: Before there was Photoshop, there was 19th century photographer Oscar Rejlander 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z This pushes the narrative into an allegorical space, even as we are up close and personal with the two on their trip from south to north. Dave Eggers’ new novel ‘The Parade’ explores America’s follies abroad 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Chess puts the reader in the shoes of those refugees, using science fiction in its best possible form: telling an allegorical story that provides insight into the world around us right now. Famous Men Who Never Lived is a powerful novel about alternate worlds and the plights of refugees 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Kirkus Reviews says that “Lee’s debut is a thriller with obvious allegorical connections to today’s political climate, but it doesn’t read as message-y; even those with genre fatigue shouldn’t regret giving it a try.” 11 new science fiction and fantasy books to check out this March 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Later in the poem, McCrae is told of an allegorical satanic figure called the boss, who peddles a grim, anti-creation story: Shane McCrae’s Poems to America 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Like most debates between scholars and fundamentalists, his gripe with flat Earthers comes down to whether the Bible should be seen as an allegorical or literal text. Flat Earthers find keep the faith at Denver conference 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z “These beautiful paintings that were allegorical, these beautiful woodworks, and sculptures, woodcuts. So, I was inspired.” Tough and universal: Remembering journey from Cuba 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z The essentials: In Julie Marie Myatt’s quirky new allegorical character study, inspired by the stories of prison inmates, actors give human shape and voice to household pets rescued from animal shelters. 99 Seat Beat: Romanian clowns, subversive sandwich artists and human pets populate new plays in L.A.'s small-theater scene 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Despite the outlandishness of his exploits, the stops on Wash’s journey have none of the allegorical quality of the towns featured in Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad.” “Washington Black” Reveals the Bonds of Both Cruelty and Compassion 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Although set in a supernatural milieu, Daniel’s allegorical tale subtly addresses not only past racial atrocities but also the present-day scourge of police violence against African Americans. The 99-Seat Beat: 'Time Stands Still,' 'American Saga,' 'Martians' and more 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Full of whimsy, fantasy and childlike wonder — elements that would otherwise feel overbearing or unforgivably ersatz – Miyazaki’s vision is also earthy and profound, even at its most allegorical. From ‘Children of Men’ to ‘Spirited Away,’ here are the 23 best movies of the 2000s. 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z “Before we started, I said, ‘Great literature usually has something like a giant shark representing in an allegorical way some part of the human psyche that needs to be battled. How the team behind 'The Meg' set out to build a better giant-shark movie 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Deadline reports the adaptation will be contemporary and highlight the "staggering relevance" of the satirical and dramatic power of Orwell's allegorical novel. Andy Serkis makes Animal Farm for Netflix 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z I think of these works as allegorical, so it’s a way to use an antique narrative but tie it to the present. Elliott Hundley's painting at the Broad puts ancient history under a modern magnifying glass 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z His paintings depict familiar allegorical scenes, landscapes, interiors, portraits, and more, newly infused with traces of folk art and indigenous African art, and subjects with black skin. 'Things are changing': unveiling Kerry James Marshall's pivotal monument 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z When I teach my clients how to coach others in their life — to ask those good questions — I often tell an allegorical story about my family’s dirty dishes. How a simple question can be transformative | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z In Aristophanes’ 2,400-year-old allegorical comedy, women of ancient Greece band together to withhold sex until their men stop their pointless armed conflict. In 'Lysistrata Unbound,' the women go to war against war 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z If they look a touch tired in the latest “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” it could be from all the allegorical baggage they’ve been carrying. In ‘Jurassic World,’ a dino-sized animal-rights parable 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The Crucible Arthur Miller’s classic allegorical drama about the Salem witch trials in the 17th century. The week ahead in SoCal theatre: 'Parade,' 'The Squirrels,' 'The Crucible' and more 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z They depict women wearing the burqa, either in somewhat allegorical compositions or engaged in everyday activities. Junghwa Hong's burqa portraits: Can an artist reveal the soul if she can't see the face? 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z In total, there were 66 allegorical or fictional female statues compared with 16 fictional males. Reality Check: Where are all the female statues? 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z She lets loose in the last quarter of the novel when the narrative becomes more dreamy and allegorical. Aminatta Forna’s novel ‘Happiness’ begins as a mystery, becomes a romance 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Or maybe they feel like they’re dealing with today in a more allegorical or symbolic way. It’s time for movies to be honest about our relationships — with our phones 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z But there’s such a monotonous, unimaginative tread of cruelty that it loses any shock value or allegorical heft. Netflix’s Altered Carbon misses the point of cyberpunk 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z The allegorical meaning of these sequences are as on the nose as Marina listening to Aretha Franklin singing “Natural Woman” on the car radio. Review | ‘A Fantastic Woman’ review: Transgender actress Daniela Vega makes a bright debut 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z “It’s an allegorical representation of death,” said Baum, “he reimagines death as a biker who is prepared to unleash chaos to the world.” 'He wanted to get a rise out of people' - the violent paintings of Leon Golub 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z George Orwell did that in his 1945 allegorical tale “Animal Farm.” Opinion | ‘Animal Farm’ hits pretty close to home these days 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z The Crucible Arthur Miller's classic allegorical drama about the Salem witch trials. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Jan. 7-14: The Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA and more – LA Times 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Clooney’s allegorical point — that the performative wholesomeness of the Lodge household is just as bogus as the self-proclaimed virtue of the racists terrorizing the black family next door — is an astute one. Review | George Clooney’s ‘Suburbicon’ bristles with rage and bitter humor 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Amaworo Wilson, who the judges said created a “fabulist and gritty dystopia that is nearly allegorical in its portrayal of the dispossessed.” ‘The Underground Railroad’ by Colson Whitehead wins 2017 Hurston/Wright award for fiction 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z But they are essentially phantom projections, sentient pawns in a vague but rigid allegorical thesis. Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman endure a crucible of suffering in 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z More can’t be revealed about how each one fits into this unashamedly allegorical action movie. Review | ‘Blade Runner 2049’ is a sequel that honors — and surpasses — the original 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z It might go lyrically off-piste to accommodate his grand allegorical vision, but as Maitreya insists: “These myths and legends continue to resonate inside all of us.” Why Terence Trent D'Arby became Sananda Maitreya: 'It was that or death' 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z In a sense, the novel is allegorical: It teems with quickly drawn characters who shed light on the multivalent nature of the global refugee crisis. Letters of Recommendation: ‘Twin Peaks,’ Screaming Karaoke and More 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z The four-minute mile is now an allegorical staple of the self-help literature. Opinion | Are Physical Limits All in Our Heads? 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Among the work listed are allegorical like “Self Denial” at the New Haven County Courthouse, “Inner Light” in Silver Spring, Md., and, of course, the Statue of Liberty. Inside the Push for More Public Statues of Notable Women 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Which, to me, was somehow more offensive, and also allegorical—using the rules as a shield to elevate yourself while hurting someone else. How I botched the whole conceded putt fiasco, why we can't quit LaVar Ball, and why this ump needs to lighten up - Golf Digest 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Oddly, Ryan Murphy has insisted for months that the season will have some kind of allegorical relationship to the 2016 presidential election. Killer clowns are taking over the fall of 2017 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Observing this lifestyle, one might ask, what character traits dispose one to engage in a weekday ordeal of near allegorical sacrifice? Extreme Commuting 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Its high-school setting, meanwhile, keeps the movie down to earth, avoiding the dark allegorical pretension that has plagued so many recent additions to the superhero canon. “Spider-Man: Homecoming” feels underdeveloped 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Working on the farm, I started to see white hazy streaks in the sky as allegorical shorthand for a host of 21st-century anxieties – about corruption, illness, and looming climate catastrophe and environmental toxins. My month with California’s conspiracy theorist farmers 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z I don’t know anyone who now thinks of pelicans as models of Christian self-sacrifice, or the imagined couplings of vipers and lampreys as an allegorical exhortation for wives to put up with unpleasant husbands. What Animals Taught Me About Being Human 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z An allegorical personification of disease; Mars as the embodiment of war; a woman wearing a blindfold and carrying a sword in one hand and a scale in the other, representing Justice. Picasso’s weapon against fascism: Why “Guernica” is the greatest of all war paintings 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Humanity’s stubborn adherence to outdated modes of thinking is just one of the concerns of Pelsue’s script, which focuses on compelling character snapshots and doesn’t get too bogged down in ponderous allegorical broadsides. Review: Clever satire ‘Wellesley Girl’ imagines a futuristic kind of democracy 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Vigalondo doesn’t evince the same cynicism and anger as that film reveled in so bitterly, but he’s also not one for easy allegorical equivalencies. Review | Anne Hathaway dominates the smart, wildly imaginative ‘Colossal’ 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Some of his best poems are pained audits of the damage he and those around him incurred as a result of his treating flesh-and-blood conflicts as clashes between allegorical opposites. The Illness and Insight of Robert Lowell 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z But you saw in them some allegorical meaning, right? The director of this movie about rats has some novel ideas about Trump and filmmaking 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z For Brooks, those 12 allegorical figures convey a profound truth. At the altar of American greatness: David Brooks, Trump and the Church of America the Redeemer 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z There are 16 hangars where the allegorical floats are built, overlooking a large elliptical square. Fantastic floats at the Carnival of Viareggio – photo essay 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z “It’s like they depoliticized them,” said Killer Mike, contrasting the reboot series with the allegorical first “Apes” films of the late 1960s and ’70s. Has Hollywood lost touch with American values? 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Tolle said that French was asked to design two allegorical figures — “one representing Miss Brooklyn, the other representing Miss Manhattan,” he said. ‘Miss Brooklyn’ and ‘Miss Manhattan’ Prepare for a Homecoming 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Every performance needs a fresh actor — just as, this allegorical play tells us, every regime needs fresh rabbits. No rehearsal? No problem. The vertiginous solo play ‘White Rabbit Red Rabbit’ 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Eerie allegorical French tale about an island where boys are raised by women and the biological imperative has taken a transformative turn. Every movie being released this holiday season, including 'Silence,' 'Star Wars,' 'Fantastic Beasts,' 'Elle,' and more 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z “It's allegorical to a lot of what's going on right now,” he added. NBC's 'Emerald City' gives Dorothy a gun and sends her off to a very different Oz 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z The other prostrates himself, back bent, head lowered, with his right arm outstretched over clusters of bananas and other produce offered as homage to the allegorical queen. Race, Colonialism, and the Netherlands’ Golden Coach 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z “Star Trek” did as “The Twilight Zone” did before it — it used the unique, allegorical power of science fiction to tell stories about race and class, privilege and corruption, love and loss. Ranking every 'Star Trek' movie and TV series from first to worst 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The game opens on a generic anti-terrorism mission in Dubai, which looks a little too much like something from similarly allegorical shooter Spec Ops: The Line. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is a competent game in a confusing world 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The allegorical narrative produces some plot points that feel too convenient. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z "There is this allegorical meaning for water ... where the cycle of life begins and ends." Mexico finds water tunnel under Pakal tomb in Palenque 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z A compact, allegorical sketch: we learn about a man, an artist, a husband, a father and grandfather, and a human being. The Mysterious Metamorphosis of Chuck Close 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Not only did this cocktail of uncertainty and tabloid speculation leave people divided, but it also left them frightened and vulnerable to allegorical news stories both at home and abroad. Britain’s Referendum Was Not a Triumph of Democracy 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z There is a deliberate placement of elements throughout each composition that provokes an allegorical element. Artist Dawn Black retrospective comes to D.C.’s Curator’s Office 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Yet, while the intended dramatic payoff proves a letdown, it doesn’t undo the allegorical power of the movie’s searing depiction of groupthink and its fallout. Bulgarian 'Viktoria' marks bracing debut for filmmaker 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The book contains numerous allegorical tales, including the claim that young Cassius Clay threw his Olympic gold medal into the Ohio River after being denied service at a segregated restaurant. Muhammad Ali: the man behind the towering social and political figure | Thomas Hauser 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z The Vegetarian’s US publisher calls the novel “a darkly allegorical, Kafkaesque tale of power, obsession and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her”. Kafkaesque: a word so overused it has lost all meaning? 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z "If someone sees an allegorical painting of three fancifully dressed people eating, call me and I'll come check it out," Nye said. Rembrandt painting found in New Jersey basement now in museum 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z In the 18th and 19th centuries, U.S. currency featured depictions of allegorical figures such as Lady Liberty, which leaders hoped would send an ideological message about the country's values. New images on coins and paper money reflect changes in the American psyche 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z It was written in an allegorical style traditionally used in China to criticise those in power, in this case in the form of an essay praising the seventh-century emperor, Taizong, for heeding a plain-talking courtier. Chairman of everything 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Somewhere in the annals of the world’s folklore—perhaps somewhere in the collected Brothers Grimm—there must exist some allegorical tale that lays bare the folly of what happened yesterday in Salt Lake City. Mitt Romney has a lot of nerve: The pro-torture, political scion and company killer thinks Donald Trump is the phony? 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Here was a blisteringly cinematic movie stuffed with allegorical meaning, with much to say about gender roles and power. An Oscar onslaught for ‘Mad Max’ blindsides Miller 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Do you intend the books to be allegorical or is it just more about representing feelings and ideas there aren’t words for? Jim Woodring: 'I am extremely interested in wrapping up Frank' 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z As in that 2013 movie about a rapacious Wall Street executive, DiCaprio delivers a commanding, physically daunting turn in “The Revenant,” as a man whose surpassing strengths and near-fatal flaws beg for larger allegorical meaning. ‘The Revenant’ stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a man fighting for his life 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Yes, because this one best reveals the human being who gripped fashion editors and consumers alike with ice-sharp tailoring and disturbing, allegorical runway shows. The Year’s Best Fashion Books 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Some portray historical figures, while others are allegorical depictions of loneliness or alienation. A Chinese Folk Artist’s Descendants Are Split by the Government’s Use of Their Family Legacy 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z “The attraction of something like ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ is basically allegorical. An Oscar onslaught for ‘Mad Max’ blindsides Miller 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Fuchs was renowned for his brightly coloured works that combined allegorical and religious themes. Artist Ernst Fuchs dies at the age of 85 - BBC News 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Row, who like Zink is white, takes guilt to an astounding allegorical extreme: The surest cure for white oppression is to eliminate whiteness. The Year We Obsessed Over Identity 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Using the subdued light of dawn and dusk, he sought to tell allegorical scenes and took wistful portraits. Making New Memories in the Aftermath of a Quebec Train Disaster 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z The film is allegorical, a vehicle for exploring themes of seeing and being seen, intimacy and sex, motherhood and interpersonal connection. 'Blind' lets struggling woman's imagination run wild 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Since then, passers-by have been drawn to the sound and sight of water at the fountains, adorned by allegorical figures of Beauty and Truth. Beauty and Truth Rejoin Patience and Fortitude at New York Public Library 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Escher’s art at its best, then, is not just surprising but also surprisingly readable, putting him in the company of the great allegorical printmakers such as Albrecht Dürer. The impossible world of MC Escher 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z There was an allegorical manufacturer, armed with a mallet and anvil, over whose left shoulder a gear wheel rose like the sun. Restoring a Bit of Old English Flair to a Skyscraper on 42nd Street 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z The judge wrote, “Sometimes her writing is blunt; sometimes it’s allegorical; but it’s always entertaining, informative and on point.” 3 news outlets win 2 best-in-show press awards 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z Towns seemed riveted by the allegorical tales about overcoming adversity, which took Cunningham by surprise. Two Parts to His Name, but Karl-Anthony Towns Is One Complete Player 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Handed the allegorical ball by Smith, he bolted madly for the end zone. Fighting to Reclaim the Future of Oakland's Young Black Men 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z The tomb is about three stories high, of mica-flecked gray granite, and topped with allegorical statuary. The Cabaret Beat 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Many American civic buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries are rich in allegorical or representational artworks whose meanings are largely lost on contemporary viewers. A Statue of Muhammad on a New York Courthouse, Taken Down Years Ago 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Sure enough, the Jan. 2, 1939, issue proclaimed that Hitler was Man of the Year, illustrated with an allegorical drawing of an “unholy organist” playing a “hymn of hate.” Elvis, Donald Trump and Other Reader Favorites for TIME's Person of the Year 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z “It’s an early example of the shift toward allegorical advertisement,” explains Nicholas Lowry, president of Swann Auction Galleries in New York. Travel Posters Seized By The Nazis Headed For Auction In New York [Photos] 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Perhaps the allegorical bas-relief over the entrance to 1 Rockefeller Plaza epitomizes the family’s own metamorphosis. Why Are Rockefellers Moving From 30 Rock? ‘We Got a Deal’ 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z |
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