| 单词 | distort |
| 例句 | Sometimes the view of change is distorted by a change in oneself. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice sounds deep and distorted in this cavern. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z What might have been a simple cry of the word “No” is distorted into something greater by the wind as Celia screams. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z With their distorted, lice-infested figures and captions of hate, they made it seem permissible, even proper, to attack a Jew even if he differed from the poster portrayal. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Opening her eyes, she had seen his face—no, not his face, a ferocious stranger’s, pale, distorted, twitching with some insane, inexplicable fury. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z While everyone knows that prison can warp or distort the personalities of prisoners, few stop to consider how it can do the same to those who work inside. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I caught a glimpse of his face in the moonlight, caked in mud and distorted with fury, then I reached for his flailing arms and held on tight. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “At least forty people...lie dead..., their bodies burned and distorted.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z But inside the quiet young scholar there existed a second, unsuspected personality, one with stunted emotions and a distorted mind through which cold thoughts flowed in cruel directions. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z We don’t often think about the role of time in life-or-death situations, perhaps because Hollywood has distorted our sense of what happens in a violent encounter. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z But they marched up like a phantom company, grey distorted figures in a mist, only dreams of fear with pale flames in their hands. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He was so short that Alex’s first impression was that he was looking at a reflection that had somehow been distorted. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The voice sounds so crackled and distorted from the speakers that there are parts I can’t understand. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The voice was faint and distorted, as though impeded by something like a bubble, some mucus in her throat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In my sketchbook I tiy to draw my ankles distorted by pond water, but they don’t look warped and interesting. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She tried to count the days since she was first arrested, but her loneliness, the darkness, and her fear distorted her sense of time and space. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Up at the top of the map, distorted into odd, huge shapes, were Australia and New Zealand, also member provinces of the Region. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z They crackle, distorted by the microphones, but I know my father’s voice; I can hear it shift at all the right times, lift in all the right places. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I stare straight ahead at the reflective metal decorations lining the stairwell, at the distorted reflections of Ollie and me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Some rotate in stately elegance; others spin so feverishly that they distort themselves to oblateness. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Crow stiffened as she stared at her distorted reflection in the shining silver. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z This last piece of physical business has been so distorted by the press over the years that it has entered the “Bobby Fischer Urban Legend Storybook” as proof of his “insanity.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He was a man of perhaps sixty, frail and bowed, with a long, benevolent nose, and mild eyes distorted by thick spectacles. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z By the time the body was discovered, its features had been distorted well beyond recognition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z His works wrenched and distorted, as if painted through neurosis. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The walls were lined with bookshelves containing badly preserved volumes with the bindings crumbling and flaking, or distorted with damp. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Or we can try, in an immediate and practical way, to fix the flawed snap decisions that distort the course of justice. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Through the water in the glass, I see a distorted image of one of Peeta’s hands. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z A blubbered and distorted face confronted her; the creature was crying. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z To those watching by the first line of cabins Blake’s face distorted in surprise and worry, that of a man stumbling into a kingdom of hornets. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Unlike most mortals, she could see through the Mist—the magic veil that distorts human vision. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Miss Lilian’s favorite piece, the Moonlight Sonata, floated through the darkness, eerie, distorted, out of tune. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Galactic collisions distort the shape of an originally spherical cluster and may also contribute to the genesis of spirals and irregulars from ellipticals. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The more massive the object that is sitting on the sheet, the more the sheet gets distorted, and the larger the dimple around that object. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But her voice seemed to slow down, stretched out and distorted all crazy in my ears. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z His face was huge, shiny, and pink, every feature distorted by Hermione’s jinx. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In another instant, his mouth was distorted into a horizontal figure-8, and he was crying mightily. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z “It’s just makeup, Fred,” I said, my voice a little distorted from my chin being pressed up into the air. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The sun was low, burning gold through the trees, casting our shadows before us on the ground, long and distorted. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z One other noteworthy event occurred while Galileo was a medical student in Pisa, although the story has been considerably distorted and embellished down the centuries. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The muddy river distorted and widened, kept us helpless in the groove of its central channel, pulling and pulling. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The memory was milky and distorted, like I was glimpsing someone else’s dream. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z At forty- four, Linda seemed, by contrast, a monster of flaccid and distorted senility. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Clouds of smoke unfurled beneath the wide green rims as the leaves darkened and withered in the flames, their words becoming faint distorted lines before they turned to ash. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, in both cases, science was deliberately distorted to support state-sponsored mechanisms of “cleansing.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Her voice, faintly distorted over the crackling intercom, was neutral. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z They study me with faces too distorted in the curved glass to recognize. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “Why, what’s wrong with it?” said Harry, grabbing a spoon and squinting at his distorted reflection. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z For a variety of reasons, both blacks and whites distorted the nature of this black success story and its significance to other African-Americans. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Imagine we live in a three-dimensional universe, locally distorted by matter into a fourth physical dimension that we cannot perceive directly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “No?” the man roared, his face so distorted with anger he looked more like an animal than a man, his teeth glittering in the flickering torchlight. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z But this picture would wildly distort your understanding of the population that had been sentenced to prison during the past ten years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She talks about me distorting, but look at her. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Voices echoed down the passage ahead of them, but they were too distorted to understand. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Light through the open transom fell on the ceiling fan, casting distorted shadows of the four motionless blades against the opposite wall. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And if the patient is having heart trouble, the pattern will be distorted. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z My swollen face and mouth were still distorting my speech. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Then Dad lifted Mother from the station wagon and I saw her face—her eyes, hidden under dark circles the size of plums, and the swelling distorting her soft features, stretching some, compressing others. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Over the next week and a half telegrams shot from city to city, engineer to engineer, until the story became somewhat distorted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The night was bleak and rain streaked the windows of the train, distorting the lights beyond, until the lights were gone. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z What’re you trying to distort. . . 11TH JUROR: He said fifteen. 3RD JUROR: How does he know how long fifteen seconds is? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the scream of light from the big bang, stretched and distorted into a whisper's hiss. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Should you fail to do what Capricorn asks, should it occur to you to stumble over the words on purpose, or distort them so the guest Capricorn is expecting does not come, then...” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The difference in tangential velocities deflects or distorts it. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The accounts of the initial encounters between Indians and Europeans are windows into the past, even if the glass is smeared and distorted by the chroniclers’ prejudices and misapprehensions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Ripples in the faceplate of her head bubble distorted the view, as if she was in a house of mirrors. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For Plato, the sublunary world was a distorted projection of the world of essences. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z My memories were distorted by twenty-five intervening years. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Faces of my teachers, distorted with my exhaustion, saying over and over, “Sparrow is going to repeat eighth grade” and “Sparrow hasn’t done work in months” and “What’s wrong with your daughter, Ms. Cooke?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Mom filters other people’s lives through her distorting lens. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The television screen flickered; its picture grew distorted. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z But she did know that the square white door was distorted by tears and that her body shook with something that felt like rage and also felt like sorrow. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She drove to the birth in dark glasses, trying to peer through the waves distorting her vision. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I heard Mr. Jordan’s vague, distorted sounds of victory. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z And there the ginger smell was sharp, sharp enough to distort dreams and make the sleeper believe the things he hungered for were right at hand. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z In Cuba, everything seemed temporal, distorted by the sun. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she set her sights on the front gates, and as she got closer and closer a new band started up and distorted music swallowed us all whole. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Listen to this: “The dynamic interstices of the Harlem sub-culture have been oversimplified and distorted by Malcolm X to meet his own needs.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Planets, stars, and everything else sit on that sheet, distorting it slightly. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The heat rising from the oil burner chimneys across the highway distorted and magnified it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Olive saw his goggled face and the slip stream caught his word and distorted it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Nok's father's mouth distorted into a frown and he looked over his shoulder at the West Side with contempt. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z It was the distorted black space around what had really been. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z That he distorted life, bent it, for the sake of gain, was a measure of his loss at his father’s death. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Hector only scowls, the flames of the bonfire further distorting his expression. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The palace grounds beyond looked distorted, as if we were peering through frosted glass. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Her hands flapped overhead, her mouth a dark hole, a distorted circle of abuse. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z She could only twist and copy and distort things that already existed. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Her face was horribly distorted, her lips blue. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Wintergreen, who also wanted to be a general and who always distorted, destroyed, rejected or misdirected any correspondence by, for or about Colonel Cathcart that might do him credit. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Then images appeared in my mind, weak and distorted, as if the transmission were being disrupted at the source. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Out of the locket’s two windows, out of the eyes, there bloomed, like two grotesque bubbles, the heads of Harry and Hermione, weirdly distorted. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The news reporter, meanwhile, had vanished from the distorted picture, replaced by a cheerful-looking weather forecaster, but it continued to be the child’s voice they heard. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z It barely even registered that the music, distorted by the narrow corridor into thick, echoing noise, was “Scar Tissue,” one of my favorite tunes. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z There was a movement—everything was vague and distorted through the rippling water—and the door opened. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Dispute over Copernicanism was distorted by the intervention of the theologians, but the dispute over physics could take place without such interference. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He had been a special now for over a year, and not merely in regard to the distorted genes which he carried. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I thought too much driving had distorted my vision or addled my judgment, for the dark earth below seemed to move and pulse and breathe. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z His face distorted with pain, he grabbed her by the hair and hauled her in front of him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Beside me, the student's eyes swam with a distorting cataract of tears, his features rigid as though he struggled within himself. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z His words distort the scars on his face—a slice across the bridge of his nose, and another jagged mark that goes from his ear to the bottom of his chin. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “It is true,” said Archimedes reflectively, “that all the corvidae have a distorted sense of humour.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I was lying on my bed, where I’d been for two weeks, when she appeared in the doorway, wavy and distorted, as if I were looking at her through a pool of water. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Her face—as beautiful as a blooming flower to him now—was distorted with a new kind of torture, the tissues serenely swollen, her half-closed eyes misty and unseeing with the stultifying languor of desire. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The windows and my grogginess had distorted their features. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The blurred child staring back at me looks hollow and distorted, not at all like the little girl in Phnom Penh whose neighbors called her “ugly.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The children started, screamed; their faces were distorted with terror. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He takes off his glasses and tucks them in his shirt so I can see my distorted reflection in the mirrored lenses. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z In the peripherals of my vision, the Hebrew letters on signs seemed to change, distorting into an alphabet I had never learned. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z McNeish pried nails from Endurance’s distorted decking and made a stockpile of scrap lumber, including the lumber that had been meant for the expedition's winter hut. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The accent was strange and guttural, the speech distorted. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was then I realized how cruelly I had judged her, how my perception of her had been distorted, because I’d been looking at her through my father’s harsh lens. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “No way to be sure. For all I know, this is a unique occurrence. Her memories of mortality are apparently distorted, if she retains them at all.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Squares on the floor become trapezoids in a painting; everything gets gently distorted, but it looks perfectly natural to the viewer. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And Kino heard the music of the pearl, distorted and insane. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z In memory, distorted by a child’s sense of time, it had always seemed the length of a Shakespeare play. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, the configuration of the galaxies can be distorted severely. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We see her desperately clasping her hands before her, her face distorted with the tension of the moment, then suddenly, dramatically, she lifts her hands high and closes her eyes. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z The terrific acceleration of the saucer as it left Earth twisted Billy’s slumbering body, distorted his face, dislodged him in time, sent him back to the war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z With a distorted countenance he stared into the water. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z P.M. spoke, though his words were distorted by the spoon in his mouth. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z His face had a strange elasticity: It would be slack and expressionless one minute, only to twist suddenly into a gaping, oversize grin that distorted his features and exposed a mouthful of horsy teeth. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Fear made her seem ill; it distorted her body lines, made her appear as if someone had broken her and then, with malice, patched her together badly. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z A single scream, so loud and distorted that it didn’t seem to come from a human throat, tore the night. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The statues threw horrible distorted shadows onto the ceiling, because all the light in the room came from the front. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z But old attitudes and distorted stubborn impressions of my father outlived Arnold Perl and James Baldwin. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We recognize the smooth distorted faces, the helmets; they are French. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face was distorted as she stamped her high heels and screamed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He stared at me—we were so close that I could see my distorted reflection in his large Ray-Bans. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She never had to learn things in a distorted way. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z None of our ancestors, as far as I could tell from our distorted history, had ever been shackled and considered chattel, bred and traded like cattle, as the ancestors of the American black had been. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Her skirt seemed to gather in a distorted picture of the dragon in the window—or not really distorted, but an image that was alive. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I told her what I'm really thinking, without worrying about how I should say it, without distorting my actual feelings to avoid making her angry. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Kehaar’s speech was so outlandish and distorted at the best of times that it was only too common for the rabbits to be unsure what he meant. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She seemed unaware of what she did now; in the dim nocturnal light from outdoors Irmgard’s face had become distorted, astigmatic. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “It has distorted her appearance savagely. Her mind remains human and intact, but her body is that of a beast and will remain so until the splendor is extracted from her.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Even when Stravinsky borrowed from Russian ethnic folk music, which he did in several of his Diaghilev ballet scores, he did so in order to distort it through some mischievous prism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Chian smiles, distorting his scar, and claps his gloved hands together. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z These fellows whose bodies seemed—what had one of my teachers said of me?—"You're like one of these African sculptures, distorted in the interest of a design." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The ghost’s face distorted in a silent scream of agony, but his eyes looked bored, even a little annoyed, as if the scream was just an automatic reflex he couldn’t control. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Nothing warped seemed bizarre any more in his strange, distorted surroundings. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It’s as if the air is rippling in tiny visible waves, distorting the sharp edges of the wood and a goblet of wine someone has set there. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Who a person becomes later in life, how he lives, how he dies, clouds people’s memories of him, spinning and skewing—distorting—their portraits of him as a child. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I go up the stairs, my face, distant and white and distorted, framed in the hall mirror, which bulges outward like an eye under pressure. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Aspects settle temporarily and then vanish into distorted shadows once more, never remaining steady for more than a moment. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Her body was swollen and distorted and he couldn’t look at her without wincing inwardly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z You saw the flash, then heard the crack, then saw the smoke ball distort and thin in the wind. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The ice reflected his distorted shadow and the beam of wandlight, but deep below the thick, misty gray carapace, something else glinted. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Instead of making her clients beautiful, she distorts them. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Also, you’ll find out soon enough that John distorts—when he isn’t out-and-out lying. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z He reminded me of Wab that day back at the Four Winds: distorted somehow. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Iofur’s armor was in a pitiful state by this time, the plates torn and distorted, the gold inlay torn out or smeared thickly with blood, and his helmet gone altogether. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They point to the current composition of state prisons as “proof” of this imagined fact, ignoring that sentencing practices distort our understanding of who is placed under state control and why. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A little later he came back on and rasped in a slow, horribly distorted voice, “Hi, my sweetheart. I hope you’re tucked up in a nice warm bed. How are you doing?” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z A thin ray of sun struck the prisms of a candelabrum on the mantelpiece, throwing brilliant, trembling shards of light that were distorted by the slant of the dormer walls. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Barack, for his part, took it more in stride than I did, having already seen in Springfield how nasty politics could get and how the truth was so often distorted to serve people’s political aims. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Now that we were away from Camp Half-Blood, the Mist had distorted his face again. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z A thick, blobby form, multiple arms, two big glaring eyes distorted by the glass into huge saucer orbs, the stuff of nightmares. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z All of them gasped and grimaced as the potion hit their throats: At once, their features began to bubble and distort like hot wax. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was a map of the world, and it wrinkled and distorted itself hotly and went—flimpf— and was gone like a warm, black butterfly. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Some remaining windows, ones in which the colored glass had shattered, were now paned in a thick, ordinary glass that distorted the view through bubbles and ripples. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Life gets blurry, distorted, stretched out, balled up. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As we change our perspective, we see their apparent shapes distort severely. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother and Father have a distorted sense of normalcy. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The Godel solution and the cosmic string space-time start out so distorted that travel into the past was always possible. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound the bell made was nearly as excruciating as the White Noise, its pitch stretched and distorted by the dream. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The green swirls of the gazing ball must be distorting it, making it look worse. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I sent out members to mingle with crowds and try to discourage any further violence and sent an open letter to all the press denouncing them for "distorting" and inflating minor incidents. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They created dark ness in the middle of day, and shadows that distorted the path and made him stumble from time to time on roots and rocks. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z She still occasionally dreamed of his distorted face and the guttural screams. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face was distorted with pain, as if the Minotaur were still squeezing her neck. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The glass windows I pass reflect a distorted vision of myself—face elongated, dark jeans stretched too long, black gloves, beat-up boots, faded red scarf wrapped around my black hoodie. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Now returning, as changed to my friend as my town was to me, I distorted his picture, muddied his memory. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In the morning a rumor ran through the town, distorted here and there, added to, but by afternoon the story clarified. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z At The Maids, a housecleaning service, I am given something called the “Accutrac personality test,” which warns at the beginning that “Accutrac has multiple measures which detect attempts to distort or ‘psych out’ the questionnaire.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared at the empty asphalt, the heat distorting my vision. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The shadows before him bent and became distorted. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z In the distorted cosmology of the Afrikaner, the Nationalist victory was like the Israelites’ journey to the Promised Land. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Blood erupted on the woman’s skin, and the creature screamed, fury distorting its face. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Harris and Watkins wrote letters to editors complaining they’d been quoted out of context, their story sensationalized to “distort, misrepresent and terrify.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The Party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort it and dirty it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The images were being distorted before they reached the telescope. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The following year, in July 1955, a return match in Moscow was even more distorted in favor of the Soviets: The Americans lost again, this time 25–7. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The voice coming from the shivering, twitching body sounded distorted. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Through the plastic, behind the dirty lumps, the doctors face slid into a distorted smile. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z For about ten seconds, I catch a distorted glimpse of Thresh's picture and then he's gone. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Probably the ruffians of that time so marked innocent people as a cruel joke and the practice had persisted down through the centuries to be distorted into a meaningless Halloween prank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who own a Hippogriff, for example, are bound by law to enchant the beast with a Disillusionment Charm to distort the vision of any Muggle who may see it. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As if the world had become horribly distorted while she was among the trees. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Even as she said this, her face was distorted with as much agony as horror. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Sometimes she tried to think of other things, even unpleasant ones, to drive the pain and the distorted fingers from her mind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Genes, phenotypes, selection, and evolution were bound together by cords of relatively basic laws—but it was easy to imagine that these laws could be misunderstood and distorted. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z My own reflection, unspooled and distorted in the dark liquid, was a stranger to me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But even though I wasn’t looking at Diego, I felt the pull of him, the way he distorted everything around him so I didn’t know what was right or real anymore. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z All around me the JumboTrons blare their colorful campaigns, the sound of their ads distorted and jolty from the city speakers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The heartburn brought tears to his eyes, so that his image of Campbell was distorted by jiggling lenses of salt water. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z As the bricks appear and move outward, they distort the cell, causing it to bulge and change shape, and finally the cell pops—it bursts and dies. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there are others where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing, or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high-colored magical confusion takes permanent hold. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Their separate stares, captured forever in distorted laughter, met and locked at the point of the hall where the vicious cold centered. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z They shouldn’t have been able to fit inside those human-sized doors, but as the Cyclopes got close, their bodies distorted and shrank, the Doors of Death sucking them inside. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The general rise in affluence had obscured the traditional class markers and distorted the old class-based political alignments. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Faces are distorted, arms strike out, and the beasts scream; we just stop in time to avoid attacking one another. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The illustrations were done in black and white—distorted, rubbery figures clutched each other or screamed. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Even when I quote them accurately, I profoundly distort my parents’ words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, he found a new route and started to jog along it, his wandlight waving, making his shadow flicker and distort on the hedge walls. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z They look weird, stretched out, as if distorted through some sort of circus mirror. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The laugh's distorted, but the fact that it registered at all means I must be regaining my hearing. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The silence hissed in her ears and her vision was faintly distorted—her hands in her lap appeared unusually large and at the same time remote, as though viewed across an immense distance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He noted the distorted look of Kelly’s right eye as it appeared through his watchmaker’s loupe. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I saw faces, bloated and distorted, rise up from the murky surface. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z They wouldn’t simply reason that as vulnerable as the Nation of Islam was to distorted rumors and outright lies, we needed nothing so little as to have our public spokesman constantly denying the rumors. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They listened to a country radio station turned up so loud that the twangs of steel guitars were distorted in the Hearse's old speakers. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The cut-glass panes of the living room cabinet prism my reflection into a dozen distorted pieces. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “Taking something real and sort of stretching it out like a piece of taffy into a thing that’s true but distorted. You know. Like old lady Henley’s face-lift.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Just as space gets distorted close to a massive object, time does, too. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The only light came from the hall, and Coraline, who was standing in the doorway, cast a huge and distorted shadow onto the drawing room carpet—she looked like a thin giant woman. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z I set my hands on the lab table, letting it cool my palms, and look at my distorted reflection in the brushed metal. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z For one moment I glimpsed howling, sweating, red-and-white faces, distorted into hideous masks of hatred and cruelty, a sea of demon heads that bobbed restlessly outside our store. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The images in them were distorted and two-dimensional; gigantic, flat knights peered out of tiny, misshapen castles. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He scanned the other faces—some were too swollen and distorted in death to identify. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She could tell that her communiques were being distorted by influences beyond her control and that the message received never resembled the one she had sent. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, of course, we both know how these stories get distorted...all these whispers of a prophecy...of you being ‘the Chosen One’...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z A buttermilk white eye distorted by the light rays. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z This mammoth icecap presses down so heavily that it actually distorts the shape of the earth. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z They are created from the most ‘natural’ ratios, even taking into account the distorting fix of Equal Temperament. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z After Gatsby's death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes' power of correction. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z And suddenly I knew something was wrong and distorted and out of drawing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I glance at a silver plate on the wall, which shows only a distorted and blurred image of myself. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “How could I be better for any of this?” he asked, horrified at how distorted and liquid his words sounded, as if he were speaking through the blowhole of a whale. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The German Expressionist influence has vanished, replaced by torrents of garbled digital imagery and washed-out color schemes distorting light’s brilliance and the shadows it casts. From tragic to magic: what's the best Disney remake so far? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Art may be a mirror of life, but it is often a badly distorted one in mainstream American cinema. Report Finds Wide Diversity Gap Among 2014’s Top-Grossing Films 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z But he also thought the court was distorting the Copyright Act to forbid it. Aereo founder blasts Supreme Court decision 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Shook’s production isn’t as stark as it seems at first; behind the implacable beat and the distorted guitar, electronics and other instruments lurk like unwanted memories. Lou Reed’s Folky Velvet Underground Demo, and 9 More New Songs 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z When the figures didn't stack up, they distorted them. Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio by Gareth Williams – review 2013-07-17T15:02:02Z Two one-star reviewers on Amazon have labelled the book “biased” as a result, one of them noting that the passage about Trump and Muslims was “totally wrong and unnecessary, distorted and misleading.” How Educational Children’s Books Are Explaining President Trump 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Apparently, the bodice-ripping template of endangered heroine plus rescuing hero followed by perfect consummation is distorting readers' ideas of what they can expect from real-life relationships. Does what you read affect your sex life? 2011-07-08T12:29:11Z At times, this pig in a china shop suggests a descendant of Alex from “A Clockwork Orange,” and he is sometimes filmed as such, with distorting, wide-angle shots. ‘Filth’ Stars James McAvoy as an Insane Detective 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Flash forward to 2009, as music blogs alighted with a wave of new acts like Neon Indian, Washed Out and Memory Tapes that used clouds of reverb to distort 1980s-esque electronic pop. The Week Ahead: May 2 ? 8 2010-04-30T18:18:00Z The strangeness of seeing oneself distorted in literature – and indeed of not seeing oneself at all – was part of my own childhood. Chinua Achebe: The man who rediscovered Africa 2013-03-22T14:45:00Z And for longtime fans of "Porgy and Bess," Seattle Opera finds new hues and nuances in the beloved opera without distorting it. Seattle Opera's new "Porgy and Bess" something to savor | Opera review 2011-08-01T04:46:04Z For the opening number, I'll Be Lightning, he leaps from guitar to drums to piano, sampling sequences of notes and looping them through his effects pedal to craft a distorted one-man symphony. Liam Finn ? review 2011-07-22T17:42:08Z This week the Museum of Modern Art is displaying its collection’s print — with the scruffy look and distorted audio — before its restoration. ‘Shadows in the City’ Review: A Sleazy Slice of 1980s No Wave 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z He was deliberately distorting the proportions of his figures in obedience to what Maloon calls “a ‘higher’ logic of composition.” Review | Want to go deep inside a great artist’s mind? MoMA’s Cézanne exhibition is the one to see this summer. 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z The book’s supernatural elements are creepy rather than cheesy, and Ms. Bauer is insightful about people, their bereavement and the way it distorts them. Samantha Hunt’s ‘Mr. Splitfoot,’ and More 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z She keeps subtly reconfiguring herself to match the distorted mirror he holds up. Theater Review: ‘A Doll’s House,’ With Hattie Morahan’s Frantic Nora 2014-02-28T03:00:01Z The first drawback of anger is that it destroys your inner peace; the second is that it distorts your view of reality. “This is just a test”: Prod-5806 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z How have you negotiated the reality of those years with your role in "Stranger Things" and the heavy nostalgia and grossly distorted view of the Reagan years it depicts? Matthew Modine on America's love affair with guns & what people get wrong about "Full Metal Jacket" 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z After surveying their distorted bodies and their impossible reflections in mirrors, my eye wanders off to the framing apparatuses of lavish curtains and valance. Morris Hirshfield Rises Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z At this stage there are remnants of childish freedom in Marie-Angèle, despite the religiosity and materialism that will distort her life as she grows to adulthood. Ignorance by Michèle Roberts - review 2012-05-25T21:55:01Z As electronic dance music has scaled up from clubs to stadiums and outdoor events, big and simple effects have asserted their place: the bass drops of dubstep, the distorted hooks and chants of electro house. Review: Electric Zoo, a Menagerie Designed for Dancing 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z Their features are described in seemingly stippled tonalities, nearly photographic but subtly distorted and rendered more expressive, that suggest graphite or even lithography. Art in Review 2010-03-04T22:24:00Z In an age of reality television, journalistic fakery and political mendacity everyone knows that words and images can distort and mislead. Critic’s Notebook: Four Days of Films at Telluride 2012-09-03T22:16:36Z The results, however, have always remained remarkably consistent: that rush of strong, usually queasy emotion that comes from reading intense and ugly comments, that distorted sense of reality. Does reading the comments affect your judgment? 2013-03-04T21:00:00Z But in Los Angeles and San Francisco, liberals are divided into hyperlocal factions that war over hyperlocal issues, and the meaning of “progressive” has become distorted. Where America’s Fight for Housing Is an All-Out War 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Modernity's brutal simplifiers may repress and distort our capacity to live together, but do not, cannot, erase this capacity. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z As we walked across, the distorted sound of carnival music wafted over from Pedroland Park, giving the whole place a quasi-nightmarish vibe. This S.C. roadside attraction is garish, tacky and un-PC — but I stopped anyway 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z To present complex information from a three-dimensional world clearly in two-dimensional format, the surveyor must abstract and distort. 'The perfect combination of art and science': mourning the end of paper maps 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Each story concentrates on a different "grotesque" who inhabits the town, people whose lives have become distorted through an inability to communicate. A brief survey of the short story part 51: Sherwood Anderson 2013-07-24T15:15:19Z His distorted, frequently comic paintings exhibit a deep engagement with art history. 10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z It’s brilliant, in retrospect, that we met Jared at a carnival, where things are not what they seem, and where funhouse mirrors distort expectations. 'The Americans' Recap: Season 2 Ends With an Answer (Jared) and a Question (Paige) 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z There’s a better “Time Is on My Side” and a more rabid “Last Time,” and there’s a good “Little Red Rooster” I didn’t know, with distorted slide-guitar trills. Boxed Sets of CDs and DVDs for 2012; Critics’ Picks 2012-11-22T21:24:13Z The book is, among other things, a fascinating meditation on the malleability of identity in the online age, on the ease with which the truth about individual lives can be publicly distorted. Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James Lasdun – review 2013-02-16T14:00:01Z Lackluster compounds are evaluated in ways guaranteed to make them look good, Goldacre writes, then prettied up even further with distorted claims of efficacy. A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid Crisis 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z However, Bush also experiments with different lead vocal treatments, manipulating her voice into a distorted spirit form on "Leave It Open" and leaping between upper and lower ranges on "Sat In Your Lap." Kate Bush's bewitching "The Dreaming" turns 40 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z I believe the word used wrongly distorts the world. Postscript: C. D. Wright, 1949-2016 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Neel liked, she said, the “plasticity” of pregnant women’s bodies, conjuring both her own distorted forms and her endless demonstrations of oil paint’s malleability. It’s Time to Put Alice Neel in Her Rightful Place in the Pantheon 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z “It was becoming alarmingly clear that the facts were distorted intentionally — by Rosenhan himself,” she writes in “The Great Pretender.” Her Illness Was Misdiagnosed as Madness. Now Susannah Cahalan Takes On Madness in Medicine. 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z The best are the Monk ballads “Ugly Beauty” and “Crepuscule With Nellie”: slow and distorted, filthy and graceful. Playlist: Albums From Las Malas Amistades and Cooly G 2012-07-13T16:43:05Z This inevitably distorts rather than enhances our appreciation of great work. Let Rembrandt's self-portrait leave Britain 2013-07-17T15:21:26Z At times distorted guitars made way for resonant ones for a few pensive moments. Music Review: Sleigh Bells? ?Reign of Terror? Tour at Terminal 5 2012-02-19T21:34:52Z As a distorted voice addresses various medical ailments and worries, two strobe-fast video sequences of a vulnerable male body in motion play in hectic rhythms against each other. The Henry's Gary Hill retrospective continues to challenge eyes and ears 2012-08-17T21:10:05Z We now have innovative cosmetic procedures and technologies which distort our idea of realistic bodies further. Let's celebrate the art of the glow-down 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z People talk easily about modelling and mirroring, and we model and mirror on the game—a distorting, unreal mirror perhaps, but we do. In Defense of the Super Bowl 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Farhadi shows that anatomising relationships is vivisection: painful and possibly even distorting. Cannes 2013: The Past – review 2013-05-17T11:16:07Z Ugh this article distorts the facts so much it is beyond pathetic. Alec Baldwin Skewers Trump. And Supports Allen and Toback. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z I thought that would create an interesting distorted reality that would tell my audience right from the start that they’re in a different world with different laws from a geopolitical point of view. Denis Villeneuve Proved to Us He Loves 'Blade Runner' More Than Anybody 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z But it's not only Southerners who distort the South. John Murry: 'We praise self-destruction' 2013-06-04T18:00:01Z Things in turn which created a more distorted economy and a more unequal society. Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z "Kids grow up with a distorted view of what celebrities, who have major touch-ups, really look like," Alvord told Fox in an email. Parents offended by school picture retouch trend: 'It's hurtful' 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z But those faces are also distorted and squished into bubbles that float over monochromatic Chinese landscapes. Female Factor: Bringing a Woman's Touch to Chinese Art Scene 2011-01-20T12:30:05Z In “Explanation,” the same expanse of tiles serves as both floor and ceiling, as figures in at least four different sizes perch at wildly distorted tables. Mernet Larsen probes perception and experience 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Harvey’s vocals rise out of a kind of bleary skiffle, with the strumming of Autoharp or distorted electric guitar above rudimentary drumbeats. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-14T23:38:13Z Together, they weave gentle song lyrics and artfully distorted figures into surreal vignettes on the stubbornness of pessimism. ‘Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: A Mix of Whimsy and Dread 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Perhaps it was the distorting backdrop of the sculpture, but the scene took on a dreamlike quality. At 37 feet tall, Jeff Koons’s flower-draped ‘Split-Rocker’ demands a whole lotta love 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z “Music can bond families together. It can repair families, marriages, and torn, distorted minds if you just stop and listen.” Exonerated Texas man finds solace in music 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Waters, Wolf and most of the Chess Records roster played rough, distorted sounds. B.B. King built a bridge to the blues for the world 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Nestor’s heroics in a crack-den bust — which appear in distorted form in a YouTube video — similarly threaten to ignite racial tensions in the wake of accusations of police brutality. Books Of the Times: ‘Back to Blood’ by Tom Wolfe 2012-10-18T12:00:00Z It’s called “A Year and a Day,” but the lyrics to that song aren’t on the lyric sheet and I’m using a real distorted mic, so it’s not really clear. Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z Beginning in his hometown, New Orleans, Smith visits nine places that memorialize or distort their link to the legacy of slavery, from Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello to the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan. How America Remembers— and Distorts — Its Slavery Past 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z But anyone who believes that people of color are inherently immune to the power of whiteness, or are incapable of being conquered by it or distorted by it — well, nobody believes that. America’s first white president 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Heritage Keepers relies on fear, shame, distorted information and biases. Science or sex: Which does the right hate more? 2012-06-24T00:00:00Z This Wonderland is not the proto-psychedelic playground of the 1951 Disney animated version, but a distorted, claustrophobic environment populated by menacing, bizarre figures. DVDs: Another Trippy Rabbit Hole 2010-02-27T03:01:00Z I don't think there's any way we can say the arts scene has been distorted by corporate money; what distorts the arts scene is not having any money. Crude awakening: BP and the Tate 2010-06-30T20:31:00Z “Musique Non Stop” also supplies the main soundtrack; its mechanized sound and distorted voices, like its animation, are of a piece with Kraftwerk’s robot aesthetic. Nam June Paik at the Whitney: A Work of Dizzying Complexity 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Ohr crumpled and contorted his clay into beautifully distorted forms and slathered them with bold glazes. A George Ohr Vase Is on the Block 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z In 2013, researchers at the University of Alabama published a meta-analysis of existing studies, arguing that the scientific evidence of the correlation between breakfast and obesity has been distorted. Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? Well, it depends 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z And unlike so much contemporary opera in English, the music doesn’t distort the natural emphases of speech. ‘Sweeney Todd’ and ‘The Crucible’: Not New, but Darkly Up-to-Date 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z In 1910, when another inventor, Lee de Forest, broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, hundreds of New Yorkers gathered at listening centers to put on earphones and hear the crackling, distorted voice of Enrico Caruso. Kinds of Silence 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z In these distorted reflections we see Surrealism as an all-pervasive approach to artistic freedom, where Europe has no monopoly on your desires. Getting a Grip on Unreality 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z “He’s using a radically distorted or fragmented approach to storytelling to show a number of different scenes at once. The idea of Cubism was to represent multiple time sequences on one single canvas.” Trying to Save a 1950s Mural of 1800s Chelsea From Demolition 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z When the trial was remembered, it was distorted in telling ways. Michael A. Ross's 'Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case' 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Beyond the review’s general tone of condescension and occasional misogynistic sniping, Moser gives only a scanty and distorted notion of the book’s contents and instead spends most of his review debunking points Briggs never made. Letters to the Editor 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z “My mind is a little mentally distorted right now,” she said in voice as creaky as a haunted-house staircase. Bella Thorne, the Ex-Disney Star, Chillaxes With Yarn 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z And there are other, more serious and lasting implications of “All the President’s Men”—the book and the movie—and its distorting influence on the canonization of the Post and, especially, of Woodward. William Goldman Turned Reporters into Heroes in “All the President’s Men” 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Maybe coming from a small and very gentrified city such as Brighton, where most of the secondary schools get at least a good rating from Ofsted, has distorted my view. State schools: are they failing our children? 2011-02-27T00:05:50Z Sullivan reached for a bigger rock ’n’ roll sound on the swampy blues of “Tom Cat” and the distorted “Amos.” Jim Sullivan, a Rock ’n’ Roll Mystery That Remains Stubbornly Unsolved 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Sanín declined to speak to The Times on the record, saying that her views had been distorted and that, for now, she believed that continuing to try to explain herself would be counterproductive. A Writer’s Post and its Consequences Divide Latin American Literary Circles 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z In too many pictures from the region, they are dim figures in the background, unlit to the point of being shadows, their faces blank or distorted. The Forgotten Mountains of Darfur 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z “The World Doesn’t Require You” reminds us that having to fight racism has a strange way of distorting everything one touches. First He Imagined a Town Founded by Rebel Slaves. Now He’s Exploring the Lives There. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Always committed to exploring the possibilities of his instrument, he even uses a wah-wah pedal to create a gloriously distorted effect. Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-26T17:44:00Z But the news in this production is the way iconoclastic Spanish director Bieito has reinterpreted - some would say distorted - the story of a noble wife risking her life to save her unjustly imprisoned husband. Munich's hit 'Hoffmann,' far-out 'Fidelio' 2011-11-28T14:46:10Z Do I think the internet giants, like Google, represent the super-highway to material that actually does distort young minds about sex? Never mind Page 3, internet porn is what damages young minds 2013-06-13T14:44:47Z In this haunting reimagining of the old tragedy, Haddon provides a blistering critique of the way money distorts the moral atmosphere, choking off dissent and rendering dazzled outsiders incapable of seeing what’s happening. Review | Mark Haddon’s ‘The Porpoise’ sounds like homework. It’s actually fantastic. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Grooms and Ms. Gross’s distorted rendering of the city in papier-mâché, vinyl and fiberglass spoke to the precariousness of urban life, the impermanent character of the city at any given moment. Art Is Fleeting, but Red Grooms Is Forever 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Full of twisted, distorted shapes and set to discordant orchestral music by Webern, it was part of the 1959 ballet “Episodes.” Drop a Fly in a Glass of Milk. What Do You Get? A Knotty Dance. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z “It was a photo my mom had found, but it was so distorted, we wouldn’t tell for sure whether it was her,” Gad said. A stranger called. He had photos of her family from the Holocaust era. 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z The use of video as a means of capturing and distorting past and present lives is also terrific throughout. Review: Children Growing Very Old in ‘Before Your Very Eyes’ 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z But perhaps best known to modern audiences are his large reclining figures of women, often distorted and with holes cut through the stone or wood. Dark side of sculptor Henry Moore on show in London 2010-02-22T20:22:00Z Dreamy and delicate, brimming with romantic yearning, even the most urgently distorted moments of “Painful,” like the searing riffs of “From a Motel 6,” are rendered tenderly, with a measured restraint. Yo La Tengo’s model career: This is how to survive as an indie rock band 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Following Trump until July 2018, the book explores how the president’s attacks on the free press, the Justice Department and his political enemies distorted factual evidence and shored up his power in unprecedented ways. Review | 3 books to help young readers understand our times 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z The message was simultaneously terror and power, harshness and grandeur: “The palace of despair,” she called it in the even more aggressively distorted “Panoptikon,” released on her self-titled second album in 1984. Diamanda Galás Gives Voice to Unbearable Pain, Once More 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z She’s soon swaddled in distorted funk tones suggestive of Prince – as seen through a shattered mirror. Aphex Twin's 'Syro': A labyrinthine EDM gem 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z While some teachers accused of misconduct had remained on the job, the ad distorted several aspects of the emotional issue. Campbell Brown goes after teacher tenure in transition from journalist to advocate She plays this tidy and serene Satie-like miniature aggressively, messily distorting tone and time, the heavily amplified harpsichord adding a palate of unexpected new sound effects. Patricia Kopatchinskaja shows her astonishing artistry on 'Take Two' and 'Chiaroscuro' 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z I don’t feel I distort their message or content. YouTubers at the mercy of the algorithm: “The idea is to post content, not have an interesting... 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Mein’s figurative sculpture “Le Songe,” or “The Dream,” represents a distorted squatting female form that appears to be metamorphosing into another organic mass, something of a modern-day Daphne. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Belgian Artists Making an Impact, at Home and Beyond 2011-10-13T11:00:13Z He puts a big magnet on top of a television, and the picture is distorted into an abstract form that looks like a Brancusi or an Arp. Nam June Paik: Watch with Buddha 2010-12-19T21:30:02Z In small groups you are ushered below into fog and distorted guitar buzzing. Performance Art Review: Brian Rogers’s ‘Hot Box’ at Chocolate Factory 2012-09-20T21:32:33Z “Mangling and distorting and cutting up bodies expressed the trauma and anxiety that I was carrying and that I knew others were carrying,” she said in a 2019 interview. An Artist With Roots in Nairobi and New York Imagines a New Destiny 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z To show that she was not distorting the historical backdrop, Deer used archival footage throughout the film, in one case inserting an actor into the Mohawk protesters in a 1990 news clip. An Indigenous Canadian Director Channels Traumatic Memories Into Film 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Things get sillier in the activity wing, where we pose for a digital camera that takes purposely distorted photos and practice Leonardo’s famous mirror writing technique. Leonardo’s spirit lives on in his hometown of Vinci, Italy 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z And it devotes virtually no time to Williams’s childhood, beyond saying that “he was born into a hate-filled parental drama” and briefly outlining the facts that would be so creatively distorted by his plays. John Lahr’s ‘Tennessee Williams’ Fleshes Out the Playwright 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z We edit, we distort, we censor; we select, we discard, we reshape, until memory becomes myth. Review: In ‘Marjorie Prime,’ Lois Smith Connects With the Past 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Her earlier hits stuck fast to an economical formula of big choruses and distorted guitars: you would be hard-pushed to argue that Party in the USA et al weren't efficient examples of trainer-bra powerpop. Miley Cyrus: Can't Be Tamed 2010-06-24T14:31:00Z Sometimes, adaptations purposefully distort familiar situations from a textual source for the purpose of their new narratives. Supply and Demand Harmed Hannibal Lecter and 'Go Set A Watchman' 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z For the video – premiered here – rapidly edited images of Merz performing the song are intercut or laid over beautifully distorted shots of acrobats. New music: Merz – Goodbye My Chimera 2012-11-13T15:11:19Z It’s when you try to distort reality, to maneuver it into accommodating your particular point of view, your particular bigotry, your particular whatever — that’s when you run into problems.” Alex Trebek Is Still in the Game 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Namely, that to counteract preconceptions of the star players as squabbling hysterical celebrities with skewed value systems and distorted morals, they had to don the camouflage of trust. In Court, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Dress to Suggest 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Whatever remains of the 19th-century pictures is decayed and distorted, evoking history’s retreat and analog media’s vulnerability. Review | In the galleries: Three local artists explore the transient nature of identity 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z What are the most garishly distorted or misinterpreted study or report? Don’t panic, bacon lovers: Why the new report on cancer and processed meats doesn’t mean a total pork ban 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z And in the double-stopped opening of the Beethoven, his vibrato was so wide that it distorted the harmonies. Review: Orpheus’s Shifting Glimmers From Angled Glass 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z "Those toys with faces were banned under the premise of apostasy and idolatry. These are myths. They are not Muslims, they are distorting Islam," Taha said of Islamic State. Dolls, teddy bears return to eastern Mosul after Islamic State 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z On You Really Got Me, I recorded the guitar on two channels, one distorting and the other not. How we made You Really Got Me 2013-06-10T17:59:01Z But however distorted, Putin’s comments — and his war — were impossible to forget on Friday. Putin Says Tchaikovsky Is Being Canceled. The Met Opera Disagrees. 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z His art is a homegrown American Expressionism that transmutes bile, violence, and a sense of permanent crisis into frenzied, distorted images and hectic moods. What “Feud” Misses About Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and the Art of Movies 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z As is often the case in movies structured this way, though, the elements distort rather than illuminate each other. Movie Review: ‘Saving Mr. Banks,’ With Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson 2013-12-12T15:00:18Z Then he starts playing, his guitar sounding not so much distorted as corroded, while Sarth Calhoun pounds away at a computer. Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio 2010-04-20T20:30:00Z Each arrangement was a gradual envelopment, absorbing and blending one instrument after another, cushioning percussive or distorted sounds amid sustained ones. Music Review: The National at Radio City Music Hall 2010-06-17T22:16:00Z There is no better antidote for the box we’ve put ourselves in, in this age of distorted politics, than any of Dylan’s music of that early period. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z And they became almost proudly derivative, particularly of the big, distorted riffs and melodic phrasing of early Weezer. New Music: Music by the Very Best, Twin Shadow and Jeff the Brotherhood 2012-07-16T22:34:10Z The announcement portends a year filled with distorted buzz — and sporting events jamming a new anthem called “Play Ball.” AC/DC unveils 'Rock or Bust,' announces Malcolm Young's departure 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Similar to how Lo, the protagonist of Summers’s novel “The Project,” is slowly sucked into a Christian cult, “I’m the Girl” follows Georgia as she is indoctrinated into a distorted facsimile of feminism. Girl Hunter or Girl Hunted? 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z In “Orlando,” her vocal part includes distorted Baroque vocalizations, with extensive ornamentation. A Female Composer Makes History With ‘Orlando’ in Vienna 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Earle, in full rasp showing the wear and tear of tobacco, screams, “I’m fixin’ to die / I reckon I’m going to hell,” over distorted guitar and fiddle. Steve Earle’s outlaw heart 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Ideas and fixations elevate and distort in these stories. A Master Storyteller From 19th-Century Brazil, Heir to the Greats and Entirely Sui Generis 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z These days, many people think the press was against the war and distorted the coverage — that simply wasn’t true out in the field. WATCH: Veteran ABC cameraman reflects on his decade spent documenting Vietnam War 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z But Whitehead “applies a master storyteller’s muscle not just to excavating a grievous past but to examining the process by which Americans undermine, distort, hide or ‘neatly erase’ the stories he is driven to tell.” Pulitzer Prizes: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z However, leaving aside the distorted grunge of the title track, you can't imagine many actual bikers wanting to listen to such deliciously groovy sounds. The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Stu Phillips – Hells Angels on Wheels 2013-06-12T09:43:40Z Their exaggerated use of pattern and distorted angles of perspective reflect not only the influence of post-impressionism, but also of popular contemporary design. Another world, another time 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Hamm explained in an interview that “Black Mirror” aims a distorted lens at society to show “where it’s probably going, which is further — and maybe further than we want.” Jon Hamm Stars in ‘Black Mirror’ Christmas Special 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z The overall arc and momentum sometimes felt distorted, but Ms. Lim’s intellectual analysis and emotional engagement resulted in fresh, vigorous interpretations. Music Review: H J Lim Performs Piano Sonatas at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-05-21T04:01:15Z On first listen, the deceptively titled Treats is anything but, with cacophonous, heavily distorted guitar riffs shredding through beats that explode and crackle as if purposefully mixed too high. Sleigh Bells: Treats 2010-08-05T22:25:00Z The disturbing twists are matched by music that shifts from feathery and layered to distorted and dirty. Album review: The Weeknd, 'Echoes of Silence' 2012-01-12T22:32:00Z “It’s developed in a negative way and become distorted.” Los Tigres del Norte Breaks Boundaries 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The ensuing tensions don't so much inform as distort the action. A Midsummer Night's Dream 2010-04-13T21:35:00Z But push too far past bedtime–get punchy, get wired–and things change, reality distorts, rules get broken. David Letterman, Infinite Jester 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z "The problem with radiocarbon dates of this antiquity is that it only takes a tiny trace of contamination from modern organic material to distort results," said Higham. Bones from a Cheddar Gorge cave show that cannibalism helped Britain's earliest settlers survive the ice age 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z “I realized years later what I was doing was the facades of buildings, distorted, because I rode my bike all over the city,” Gillen said. Ann Gillen: Sculpting in Plain Sight 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z "My only option is to sit idly by while others continue to distort my character, or fight to restore my good reputation that was wrongfully destroyed.It's an uphill battle," Knox wrote. Amanda Knox calls out new Matt Damon movie "inspired" by her story: “Does my name belong to me?” 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Within a few moments, Mr. Cooper — without makeup or prosthetics — will have slowly and painstakingly distorted his form and features beyond recognition. Bradley Cooper in 'The Elephant Man' on Broadway 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z The songs never felt distorted to fit the narrative, with Dean Buck conducting a substantial, agile, well-balanced orchestra. Review: LoftOpera Brings Mischief, and a Crowd, to Berlioz and Mahler 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z The band Cults expanded the distorted cello of Mr. Russell’s “Being It” into a rock-guitar roar; “You Can Make Me Feel Bad” turned from a taunt into a cozy group-sing. Review: ‘Red Hot + Arthur Russell’ Pays Funky, Introspective Tribute to a Composer and Musician 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z The very performance of parts of the press in distorting his arguments is yet another reason why the Cameron charter represents an unjustified act of faith in the familiar promises to behave better next time. Letters: Cameron's lost nerve on press regulation 2013-03-17T21:00:03Z Connors’s bruising guitar and Clarke’s distorted bass drift into psych-rock territory — but even when the keyboardist lays back a bit, his steady chords remain the heartbeat of the ensemble. Chick Corea: Hear 12 Essential Performances 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z They sounded great when the guitar distorted, and they were louder than anything else out there. ArtsBeat: Kirk Hammett, Guitarist for Metallica, Talks About His Beloved Marshalls 2012-04-06T17:27:17Z Slow, booming and distorted, Salem's music combines thudding beats with droning chordscapes, an uneasy sound indebted to two uneasy bedfellows, the cough mixture-addled mixtapes of DJ Screw and the fuzz of guitar rock. This week's new live music 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z The Electoral College has distorted American politics throughout the country’s history and, as Wegman shows, if it didn’t already exist, no one would think to invent it. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Much of Mr. Sun’s work has to do with the way politics and history are distorted. A Chinese Artist Consumed by the Idea of Inevitable Change 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Simply shifting a production from one house to the other could distort the intended stage picture, like trying to watch a DVD on a television set to the wrong aspect ratio. On the Way to the Met, a ‘Meistersinger’ Is Stranded in Europe 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z The photographs feature real subjects — mucous, cuticles, newspaper clippings — often captured at microscopic levels to create a fossilized, distorted effect. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z They say profit-making companies should not be in charge of such sensitive family matters, and warn that the introduction of the profit motive into child protection may distort the decision-making process. Privatise child protection services, Department for Education proposes 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Ultimately, the problem with “MJ” is not its ethical stance but the way that stance distorts its value as entertainment. Review: In ‘MJ,’ No One’s Looking at the Man in the Mirror 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Baldwin wrote about American racism — about the lethal and insidious power of whiteness to distort the nation’s ideals and threaten its humanity — with unequaled vigor, humor and insight. The Best Movies of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The current system is distorting our natural inclinations. Love in the time of layoffs 2012-08-03T20:12:00Z After decades of Hollywood erasing, distorting and degrading black bodies in the name of entertainment and self-serving uplift, the lens has finally widened with a new sense of urgency and agency. Has there been an ‘Obama effect’ in Hollywood? 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z “The Cabinet” is a kind of echoing chamber in which the comic, heartbreaking and terrifying bounce against, amplify and distort one another. Memory, That Unreliable Narrator: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Official policy documents, even secret ones, are often coloured by the biases of their drafters, whose aim may be to distort or exaggerate a leader’s preferences in order to promote the interests of a faction. Still in the shadows 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z It also resulted in vociferous pushback from the “End of Empire” team, who maintained that they never filmed Darbyshire and have criticized “Coup 53” for allegedly distorting the details of Darbyshire’s involvement in their film. Perspective | Actors in documentaries used to be taboo. Now they’re the stars. 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The banjo is gone and electric guitars reign, as announced in the album’s first moments with the keening, distorted solo that opens “Tompkins Square Park.” Review: Mumford & Sons Lose the Twang in ‘Wilder Mind’ 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z From shop window reflections to billboards and TV screens, his images layer and distort a landscape of small-town high streets, city squares and motel bedrooms; straightforward social commentary it is not. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-26T23:05:08Z The billionaire investor and oracular philosopher Warren Buffett echoes the point: My luck was accentuated by my living in a market system that sometimes produces distorted results, though overall it serves our country well. How Fox News created a new culture of idiots 2012-10-28T12:00:00Z But at any moment, the tracks are likely to flaunt their artificiality: adding samples or sound effects, distorting her voice, suddenly deploying a big bass drop. Billie Eilish Redefines Teen-Pop Stardom on a Haunted, Heartfelt Debut Album 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z "It is a mirror which reflects back, more or less distorted, that view of the past which the onlooker takes there," Chippindale says. Stonehenge enjoys a moment in the sun at summer solstice 2012-06-21T09:04:49Z The other is the album’s centerpiece: “The Beast,” whose lustful snarl translates into layers of distorted electric guitar. Laura Marling?s British Folk CD ?Creature I Don?t Know? 2011-09-04T04:25:17Z For one thing, composers from outside the field often have a distorted understanding of what opera actually is. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z The author will wear disguises and have his voice distorted to protect his identity, reports the New York Times. SEALs Turned Authors: A Military Reading List 2012-08-24T15:46:58Z The animated elements distract us from the music at times and even distort Shostakovich’s intent. ?The Nose,? and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera 2010-03-11T19:52:00Z He joins a group of stranded mutants and becomes the storyteller, every night, around the campfire, he tells them distorted, half-forgotten versions of Greek and Hebrew myths. Wu Ming's top 10 utopias 2013-05-29T12:00:01Z The reconfigured version of “public” advanced by marketized models of education is severely truncated and distorts our understanding of why public education is important. When public schools answer to markets 2012-07-29T18:00:00Z Tax breaks distort market choices, argues a prominent libertarian, Daniel Mitchell, of the Cato Institute, a thinktank funded by the conservative philanthropist Charles Koch. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Their fifth album Vivos is swarmed by distorted guitars, vocal effects and, of course, a great set of songs. February's best music from across the MAP 2013-02-15T09:17:22Z But after a quarter of a century the Troubles have become a way of life, and they've shaped and distorted the three generations of the McVeigh family who share the same council house. Shadow Dancer – review 2012-08-25T23:08:02Z “Song of the Wind” is a video self-portrait that distorts his face with kaleidoscopic effects. Review | In the galleries: From artist Timothy Johnson, a heady exhibition 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Their distorted volumes and perspectives challenge comprehension and confuse inside with out and two with three dimensions. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z That is the consequence of works that objectify the body, emphasizing distorted shapes and fragmentation over individual interpretation. Boston Ballet performs ‘Bella Figura’ at the Kennedy Center Online communication hasn’t really democratized our discourse in a neutral way–it’s distorted our discourse in favor of drama and conflict. The scifi fans are alright: I saw the future at the Hugo Awards — and it will never belong to the toxic right-wing trolls 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Overheard During a short film of fuzzy street footage and distorted sound: "Bit mainstream for my tastes." I'll Be Your Mirror ? review 2011-07-30T23:06:05Z Mr. Williamson found President Richard M. Nixon a particularly inviting target for caricature, distorting him a few degrees more than editorial cartoonists did. Skip Williamson, Underground Cartoonist, Dies at 72 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The problem with so much access is that it can be seductive, distorting. Review: In ‘Destiny and Power,’ George H.W. Bush Epitomizes a Vanishing G.O.P. 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Another problem with our reluctance to think about or analyse failure – whether our own or other people's – is that it leads to an utterly distorted picture of the causes of success. Happiness is a glass half empty 2012-06-15T22:00:43Z He claimed that the book was distorted, revealed family secrets and put his family in danger, to the extent that his two wives both fled the country to live in exile in Canada and Norway. Author ordered to pay damages to wife of Bookseller of Kabul 2010-07-27T09:43:00Z It was more romantic Icelandic strings and the beats on this album are distorted, they sound like volcanoes. Björk Is Your Tour Guide: Her Stories About the MOMA Exhibit 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Four songs that further blur British producer-songwriter James Blake's sound, the tracks on "200 Press" mix ethereal, fuzzy beats with distorted, syrupy vocal hooks and layers of subtle percussion. Arresting beats of James Blake, Steve Gunn, Miguel 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z There are flickers of the early Blondie hit “Heart of Glass” here — the driving, distorted guitars, the quickstep drums. The Playlist: Kendrick Lamar Backs Up His Boasts 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z His pronouncements are distorted and yanked out of context by acolytes and enemies alike. Books of The Times: Looking at Limbaugh in Zev Chafets?s ?Army of One? 2010-05-23T21:50:00Z What sabotages the show are stretches of distorted amplification, at a volume and level... Review: 'Jesus Christ Superstar' ... I don't know how to love it 2011-05-22T02:56:47Z But her voice also stuttered like a skipping record, the bending of her body distorting the sound, revealing pain. Taking a Dance Vacation at Rockaway 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z It is full of quotes like the above, and of speculations about how translation interacts with, distorts and intensifies reading: “This is a translation!” she writes, of her own book. Did He Really Say That? On the Perils and Pitfalls of Translation 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The defense case continued on Friday with testimony from Elizabeth Loftus, a professor at the University of California, Irvine and well-known expert on memory who testified that memories could be distorted over time. Harvey Weinstein rape trial appears headed for early conclusion 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z But there IS a mindset that pervaded climate science over the years and distorted the thinking of many, in a manner that is regrettable, but understandable. Review: ‘Merchants of Doubt,’ Separating Science From Spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z It is hard not to think that Darwin, worrying that someone would scoop him, subconsciously distorted Wallace’s paper into something that didn’t overlap much with his own thinking and, therefore, didn’t threaten him. Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z Kent, the auteur of the spooky 2014 breakout hit “The Babadook,” struggled with the reactions as well as the media’s coverage, which she said distorted how Australians received the film. When Rape Onscreen Is Directed by a Woman 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z It’s three-chord rock sung with cynical conviction and barricaded with layer upon layer of distorted guitars and additional noise, like the sizzling whistle that opens the track and squeals throughout. The Playlist: Taylor Swift and the Jesus and Mary Chain Offer Different Shades of Teases 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z It doesn't visibly distort so much as surreptitiously bend the view. Getty's Josef Koudelka retrospective is grim yet riveting 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z It was a set full of stomping drumbeats and distorted guitar riffs carrying mostly declarations of woman trouble and other mental distress. Music Review: Black Keys and Arctic Monkeys at Madison Square Garden 2012-03-13T22:19:08Z In some scenes, anger seems to hover over characters, as threatening as the movie’s permanently dark skies; at other times, it erupts, flushing faces and distorting voices. ‘Lost Girls’ Review: Honoring the Gone Girls, With Sorrow and Rage 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Because we are increasingly viewing life through our phone lens, I think our lives, in a way, are becoming distorted. Is Instagram changing the way we design the world? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The resentments that boil over in the play reflect some of the distorted priorities that white standards for physical perfection have imposed on the rest of the world. Review | Mean girls are at home in Ghana, too 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z In particular, the vocal twisting, distorted, blurred and robotised Britney, giving the eerie impression of a record that had swallowed up its own singer. Britney is capable of a cult hit. Hold It Against Me fails to deliver 2011-01-13T22:14:01Z Within these series, the coders looked for what the study finds to be distorted depictions of crime and justice with regard to race, gender. Are crime shows slowing justice reform? Here's the insidious storytelling bias miseducating viewers 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z It’s a comedy that holds up a mirror to society, but one of those fairground mirrors that twist and distort. Sorry to Bother You: is this the most shocking anti-capitalist film ever? 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z But I think it's just an example of just how badly and cruelly and crudely they're distorting the work because they don't really have an argument. Ibram X Kendi responds to Sen. Ted Cruz 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Drums, bass and guitars all overload and distort, pounding away in a relentless two-minute surge. My Chemical Romance’s Prog-Emo Surprise, and 12 More New Songs 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z The photo is then distorted, stretching or contracting like a digital fun-house mirror. Hands-On Math Lessons (No Homework Required) 2013-08-29T21:33:42Z More centrally, it is about how trauma changes memory, sometimes shattering and distorting it. ‘Revoir Paris’ Review: Recovering Fragments of Memory 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Perhaps my being English distorts my reading here, but I see something else at the novel’s core, a critique of Englishness itself. Was There a Murder on the Mayflower? 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Stardom has strange acoustical properties that variously amplify, suppress and distort the frequencies of the personality involved. Non-stop action: why Hollywood’s ageing heroes won’t give up 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Farrelly must also contend with criticism from the pianist’s relatives who say the film distorted his character. Who Will Be Nominated for Best Director? 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show, crisscrossing the land, holds up a distorting sideshow mirror to the hopes and fears of small-town America. Darkness in literature: Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes 2012-12-14T11:56:29Z However, the young Ms. Green is more than just a nostalgic, flannel-era fabulist; her singsong hooks are conduits to lyrics of shrewd self-awareness and insouciant honesty, and her distorted guitars have palpable strength. Pop & Rock Listings for April 10-16 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The drums kick in, then the bass, then the guitar gets distorted . . . and then it all gets quiet. I'm not like them, but I can pretend (Obviously, this is an essay about Kurt Cobain and Nirvana) 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z She stayed on as a groove materialized, setting up “Red Before Orange,” a ballad not unlike some proto-smooth-jazz records by George Benson — at least up until the distorted solo at its melting center. The Nels Cline Singers Play New Music at Le Poisson Rouge 2014-05-05T16:43:42Z Achebe describes with marvelous clarity – in the essays of Morning Yet on Creation Day and Hopes and Impediments — how he began to write partly in response to distorted Western views of Africa. Remembering Chinua Achebe 2013-03-22T17:48:00Z “If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self,” she added. New York Fashion Week: Allison Williams Is Standing Out From the New Girls at Fashion Week 2012-09-15T01:25:39Z Human rights advocates were outraged, arguing that the exhibit distorted facts and omitted crucial context. ‘The Report’ and the Untold Story of a Senate-C.I.A. Conflict 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z “Warning Sign” is a hushed, hazy song that maps interpersonal tensions onto musical contrasts: quiet and loud, sustained and rhythmic, dulcet and distorted. Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro’s Love Trilogy, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z The rush of publicity propelled her into a mainstream that she wasn't ready for and that wasn't ready for her, distorting what might have happened to her if she hadn't been given the attention. Paul Morley Showing Off ... Ms Dynamite, M People and Portico Quartet 2010-09-03T15:56:00Z Gibson then cuts, distorts, pitch-shifts, stretches or compresses the samples into shimmering cinematic soundscapes, and sings atop them in his soft, pleading croon. How Fred Again.. Turns Digital Bricolage Into Dance-Floor Weepers 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z All the while the veteran vocalist Joan La Barbara read from “Unpacking My Library,” Walter Benjamin’s classic essay about collecting books, her voice distorted and deepened to the point of unintelligibility. Music Review: Zeena Parkins and Ne(x)tworks Ensemble w/ JACK Quartet 2012-09-11T21:56:55Z “But a balanced treatment of an unbalanced phenomenon distorts reality.” Perspective | The media never fully learned how to cover Trump. But they still might have saved democracy. 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z “Shame’s Triple Aria Transformation,” performed with dramatic conviction by Devony Smith, distorts the voice with screechy, serrated effects. Review: Conjuring the Splintered Self With Electronics and Voice 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Designed to be projected on special handcrafted projectors augmented with colored gels, filters, wheels and lenses that distorted the image, it was originally a film performance that lasted six hours. Carrie Brownstein, Carly Rae Jepsen and Others on First-Time Cultural Experiences 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z It is distorted by the sheer force of competitive will. Connections: Triathlon Training With Chopin in Mind 2010-07-15T22:35:00Z Takotsubo syndrome takes its name from a Japanese octopus trap that resembles the distorted shape of the left ventricle of a heart affected by TTS. Happy events can cause potentially fatal rare heart condition 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z “It’s such a weird thing for young people to look at distorted images of things they should be,” she said. Star Wars actor Daisy Ridley: social media is bad for mental health 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z When station directors were interviewed by Radio Broadcast magazine in 1924, they asserted that women sounded “shrill,” “nasal,” and “distorted” on the radio, and claimed that women’s higher voices created technical problems. A Century of “Shrill”: How Bias in Technology Has Hurt Women’s Voices 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z One of the most important lessons Bronzino learned was the expressive foreshortening of torsos, arms and hands, seen obliquely as if in a distorting or convex mirror. Bronzino's Medici portraits ? review 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z And yet it is one of the least understood and distorted subjects in American history. Were the Founders Against Slavery All Along? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Through various electronic manipulations she has made it sound like a synthesizer, or a distorted electric guitar, or simply short blasts of noise. Ukulele Crazy 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z “Lighting within the attraction combined with flash photography may distort and misrepresent the colour of our wax figures, which is something our sculptors are unable to account for at the production stage.” Beyoncé’s Wax Figure, Criticized as Too Light, Is Now Absent From Madame Tussauds 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z How much irrational fear, hatred and incomprehension has been stoked by ingesting a near-steady diet of distorted reflections of our black friends, neighbors and co-workers? Perspective | ‘Black Panther’ is a revelation but also a reminder of what we’ve been missing 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z As she mourns a lost child in “Baby Birch,” at first alone with her harp, other instruments, including a distorted electric guitar, float in like glimmers of what might have been. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-22T13:57:00Z A track called “Secret Hobbies” lurches and then lunges through a haze of distorted overtones; on “Legion” the glacial crush of doom metal gives way to something sweaty and spasmodic. Playlist: Making Mischief Along With the Melodies 2010-02-27T03:47:00Z Novelists who know how books are written, changed, translated, edited and distorted are in a unique position to counter the literalist argument. Michael Arditti: why I write fiction about faith 2013-07-26T10:47:00Z She collaborated with Beck on her last studio album, IRM, and his influence looms over these ethereal, distorted symphonies. Charlotte Gainsbourg – review 2012-07-22T15:44:50Z But the relaxing-classical Muzak is still here, cut for cheap effect with distorted electric guitar or the screams and booms of rockets and explosions. Review: Slow Poses and Clouds of White Powder 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Cute harp seals are neatly woven into the compositions, suggesting the wild disparities of social media feeds, and one painting roughly mimics the composition of Picasso’s “Demoiselles,” with its shifting, jarring perspectives and distorted figures. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z But — in one of the script’s effective literary touches — real-life anxieties further distort those fictional realms, including by foregrounding the hostility of Wonderland folk. Review | Constellation’s ‘Children of Medea’ spins a dreamscape family portrait 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z However people do understand context, and although distorted through a colonial lens, Indigenous people do see themselves mounted as colonial trophies, disingenuously and eternally posed as the antagonist in the settler's story of origin. Cultural taxidermy, not appropriation: the trophies in sports no one wants to talk about 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Behind her, the production deploys distorted bass lines, salvos of drums, bleary Mellotron notes and down-tuned guitars, all battering just under her voice, clawing at her. Soccer Mommy Summons a ‘Tidal Wave’ of Feelings 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z In “House of Glass,” the band revs up to barbed, dissonant punk as the deadpan singer notes that he’s just “Another mirrored image/Corrupted and distorted.” Cage the Elephant Returns, Suspended Between Rowdiness and Regret 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z They take existing images and noises and distort them with synthesizers and glitch boxes. Review | In the galleries: Pulsating dramas of light and sound 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z The figures are rendered like the gentle beauties of traditional Chinese art, only their pretty faces are distorted with pain and anger. Female Factor: Bringing a Woman's Touch to Chinese Art Scene 2011-01-20T12:30:05Z At Original Thinkers you’re speaking on a panel called “Remember Us Please,” about images, especially photography, and how they record or distort history. Keris Salmon’s haunting canvases pair plantation photos and slave diaries 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z The ear is drawn to the immediate, and focus on the incremental shifts between the larger blocks is distorted. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Such cases are all too real, but fixating on them distorts our understanding of what abortion ordinarily is. ‘Scarlet A’ Wants Less Shouting About Abortion and More Talking 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z The second-largest picture, 1982’s “Pearls and Lace,” appears looser, but that is because it depicts shapes and reflections distorted by water. In the galleries: Where the wild things are 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The crimson-toned art work captures a distorted vision of Freud, who like Bacon was one of postwar Britain's leading artists. Francis Bacon painting auctioned for $37 million 2011-02-10T22:45:10Z And, distorted and unleashed, it allows cancer cells to grow, to flourish, to adapt, to recover and to repair: to live at the cost of our living. Cancer: The new normal? 2011-01-17T17:35:24Z It's not our intention to rewrite them, but to add a deeper relationship and character development to them; to enhance rather than to distort. Why we're putting the 'missing' sex scenes back into Charlotte Brontë 2012-07-17T14:30:04Z The Columbia Journalism Review, in one of several critiques of Solomon, wrote in 2012 that he “has a history of bending the truth to his story line” and “distorting facts and hyping petty stories.” How a conservative columnist helped push a flawed Ukraine narrative 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Above all, the movie confronts a political and historical paradox that exerts its distorting force in French laws and mores: the illusion of color blindness that’s central to the French national self-image. “Ouvrir la Voix”: A Radically Frank Documentary About the Experience of Black Women in France 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z And how they put it together and edit it, and what you see is a little distorted because people would say things like where's the treatment? Dr. Drew is worried about the "impact of pornography" and reveals his COVID-19 fears 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z The email obtained by The Morning Call is the second to surface from McQueary in which he claims the facts of his involvement are distorted. McQueary on alleged rape: 'I did stop it' 2011-11-15T21:09:00Z Watching an older film without its opening titles is like erasing history itself, or at least radically distorting it to fit present viewing habits. Why Netflix's 'skip intro' feature is bad news for classic films 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z He makes endless loops, a very meditative type of music that gives you a distorted sense of time. Meltdown 2012 – Marina Abramovic: 'Artists can do whatever they want' 2012-07-29T23:05:00Z In the ungovernable transcendence of Bette Davis’s “pop-eyes,” he saw his own eyes, and his mother’s, both distorted and the same. Can we Trust the Beauty of Barry Jenkins’s “If Beale Street Could Talk”? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z The witnesses’ descriptions of whatever happened are usually comically distorted, as in a game of telephone, so that everyone’s understanding of Trivia Night is at best half-wrong. In ‘Big Little Lies,’ Liane Moriarty Finds New Complications 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z “He obviously has an agenda, goes directly to surreptitious reporting methods and has a history of distorting facts or context.” Is it okay for James O’Keefe’s ‘investigative reporting’ to rely on deception? 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z His hit songs included the use of auto-tune, which synthesized and distorted his voice for a futuristic sound that led him to the top of the charts. T-Pain Singing Without Auto-Tune Is the Most Confusing Thing You’ll Hear Today 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z I'd hear the same stories repeated, distorted, reinvented and retold in different voices, with different endings. Walking tours are the real fringe theatre 2010-12-20T11:38:27Z Mo told Der Spiegel, adding that since he won the Nobel, his critics "use magnifying glasses to look for my flaws and they even distort the meaning of my poems". Mo Yan dismisses 'envious' Nobel critics 2013-02-28T14:43:20Z The choreography, credited to Fabian Aloise, is brilliantly dynamic, its exaggerated sexual innuendo rendered grotesque by the dancers’ distorted, over-it facial expressions. A Paris Cabaret Makes Way for ‘Cabaret’ 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z “Secessia” opens and closes with descriptions of mirrors — mirrors that reflect as well as distort. ‘Secessia’ is Kent Wascom’s vivid portrait of 1862 New Orleans 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Her plain-spoken, self-effacing portraits of modern life are pleasantly distorted but never so messy that the lyrics get lost in the fray. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z This dark and angry comedy is like an extended, horrifyingly high-stakes game of Gossip, in which a word is whispered into a successive series of ears and emerges distorted beyond recognition. Critic?s Notebook: Richard Nelson and Jonas Hassen Khemiri?s Takes on 9/11 2011-09-21T22:01:28Z The figures for the two most popular songs are then reduced to prevent huge hit singles distorting the album chart. Brit winners dominate revamped chart 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Dazed confusion distorts her fine features, and soon she’s reaching in desperation for the vodka bottle. Review: ‘Miss Julie’ Resets a Celebrated Drama in Putin’s Russia 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z “I see the park as a system of arteries reflecting and distorting urban life,” Ms. Fernández said. The Glow Coming to Madison Square 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Purists might object that balance and volume are distorted, just as in the Met broadcasts it’s hard to discern the size of a singer’s voice. Critic?s Notebook: Orchestra Arrives On Big Screen 2011-01-10T23:01:21Z The piece makes self-reflexiveness audible as a distorting force, something that jumps in the path of communication, and yet the voice that emerges from the mechanical duet is beautiful and full of texture. A Début Novel of Elderly Millennials, Afflicted with a Selective Strain of Self-Awareness 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Then I wrote that letter kind of explaining why I wanted the distorted version. The secret to Jim James’ solo album “Uniform Distortion”: “Turn off your phone and open y... 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Across the three plays in which he appears, Shakespeare gives you not just a picture of how someone's mind can become distorted, but also how he's a master of duplicity. Richard III: Shakespearean actors rake over the remains 2013-02-04T19:00:02Z “Locked Down,” with its down-cold James Black drum rhythms, distorted Fender Rhodes keyboards and free-range, organically farmed reverb, is a useful test case. Spring Performance: Music: Dr. John Plays Three Weekends at BAM 2012-02-24T20:50:19Z Family and community, which are good things, can then be distorted into aberrant relationships with family members and inbreeding. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z In some places, these appear like the fluttering horizontal lines produced by an old television tube, as if we are getting a distorted picture beamed over fickle airwaves. Review | Mark Bradford turned a bloody Civil War battle into art that will haunt and entrance you 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z But after an industry uproar that such deals were distorting the picture of fan demand and skewing the charts, Billboard changed its rules two years ago to prevent most such deals from affecting chart positions. Bad Bunny Has the Biggest Week of 2022 on the Chart, for Now 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z In his 2003 Atlantic piece, Kennedy wrote: “At its best, every profession — law, science, medicine, journalism — is a search for the truth. But personal bias can distort and pervert that mission.” Robert Kennedy Jr.’s belief in autism-vaccine connection, and its political peril Louisahhh's louche vocal is set off by some incredibly satisfying counterpoint melodies, distorted horns going off like sirens and a repeated descent into a deep and compulsive groove. F&M playlist 2011-08-25T20:30:00Z “It’s not surprising that these monuments have distorted the past,” she added. They’re White, Male and on Their Pedestals, for the Time Being 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Then, by 2016’s “Puberty 2,” distorted guitars and a precisely measured lyrical map that pinpointed desire and desolation became synonymous with her music. Review | Indie artist Mitski expresses songs with voice and legs 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z But when the distorted strumming starts, the explosive breakup is inevitable. Paramore Steps Into a New Era, and 8 More New Songs 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z All these elements are distorted, possibly parodied, but also intensified. Last Chance: Philippe Halsman?s Jumpers at Laurence Miller 2010-05-23T23:30:00Z The artist distorts these formal portraits, whether transforming them into flickering video specters or adapting them for viewing through retro 3-D glasses. In the galleries: Elvis and E.T. meet an ancient Asian art form 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z To watch Polanski's films is to be reminded of what produced their dazed brutality, those early experiences of the oppression of the weak that stole his innocence and distorted his sense of things. The dazed brutality at the heart of Roman Polanski's films 2012-12-28T22:55:16Z It's surprisingly good fun and encourages you to capture a new face for each game, leading to an amusing collection of friends' slightly distorted noggins to pump full of cartoon lead. Games special: Nintendo 3DS launch 2011-03-26T00:06:00Z It is not a matter of greed, but of distorted incentives leading to unsettling behavior. Two Leading Intellectuals Analyze What Ails America 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Computers stretched and distorted each pavilion and courtyard to capture shade from the south and prevailing breezes from the north. Zaha Hadid’s Desert Think Tank: Environmental Beauty and Efficiency 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z It's a form of pessimism that is limiting people's lives and over time will distort education provision as funding and opportunities follow an increasingly narrow pathway. Creative education: is now the time for realism or optimism? 2013-06-17T10:06:55Z Corruption might distort or discolor that view, but redemption always remains a possibility. My Sister, My Daughter: Behind the Scenes of a Great American Film 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z On-the-nose moments like that — there are many — sometimes left me feeling that “Mary Page Marlowe,” however gorgeously acted, might not be hiding much of anything in the switchbacks of its distorted chronology. Review: ‘Mary Page Marlowe’ Lives an Ordinary, Extraordinary Life 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Artists across the Continent and Russia distorted or splintered the forms of reality, trying to get at something newer and deeper. Art Review: Modernism From a World in Convulsion 2011-02-10T23:01:06Z The probe launched by EU regulators in Brussels cited EU laws forbidding state aid that “distorts or threatens to distort competition,” except under exceptional circumstances. Spain props up soccer amid crushing austerity 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z You can picture Gober — whose best-known sculptures use familiar but distorted objects to conjure some of the perils of childhood — paging through obscure auction catalogs and haunting thrift shops. Review: Robert Gober Conjures America 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Nutrition scientists are angry with the press for distorting their findings, politicians for failing to heed them, and the rest of us for overeating and under-exercising. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z In sports, Americans have a set of analogies, images, tropes, and conceits, through which we understand ourselves, even when those metaphors, like Obama’s, woefully distort the reality we’re trying to describe. CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z Hexagonal screens, which filmed the concert as if were a black-and-white movie, further distorted the sense of time and place. Arcade Fire revel, dance and rebel at the Forum 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z For the research center, computers programmed for energy conservation did the same, distorting the hexagons, a rational process producing woozy but climate-efficient forms. Zaha Hadid’s Desert Think Tank: Environmental Beauty and Efficiency 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z In her paintings, collages, mixed media and installations, she challenges commonly held beliefs about history and identity, as she does with her distorted maps of the United States, many of which are on view. At These American Museums, You Can Travel the World 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z What sabotages the show are stretches of distorted amplification, at a volume and level of echo that obliterate the lyrics, and therefore, the narrative. Review: 'Jesus Christ Superstar' ... I don't know how to love it 2011-05-20T01:30:14Z Reign of Terror is expected to be similar, combining heavy metal riffs, pep rally chants, video game beats and dreamy vocals to create a distorted, messy sound that no teenager’s parents will enjoy. Music Monday: 15 Albums to Look Forward to in Early 2012 2012-01-09T15:30:27Z Sounds went hollow, my vision distorted, and I couldn’t breathe. I was a hostage at the 2018 Trader Joe's shooting. Here's what I know now about trauma 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z His shuffles and boogies had lean, steely syncopations, and his lead-guitar lines presaged Detroit music in his wake: distorted and jabbing against the beat. Music Review: Mitch Ryder, Death and Gories Come to Lincoln Center 2010-08-01T22:30:00Z “Grindr has really distorted peoples’ understanding of what average or normal is, and the fact that people can ask if six or seven inches are too small — it’s jaw dropping,” Woo said. Penis politics: Sex, size and stereotypes in the gay community 2014-01-12T18:00:00Z As the album’s producer with keyboardist Patrick Sansone and engineer Tom Schick, Tweedy uses the band’s Northwest Side recording studio as another instrument to complement, enhance and distort the musicianship. Album review: Wilco, 'The Whole Love' 2011-09-22T04:29:00Z Neither its satire of criminal celebrity nor its tragedy of sullied innocence nor even the sonic pleasure of its catchy score escapes the distorting gravity of its oversized intentions. Review: In ‘The Harder They Come,’ Innocence Lost to a Reggae Beat 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z I see myself reflected in the jury's eyes and it is like looking in a fairground mirror distorting me almost but not entirely beyond recognition. Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty – review 2013-06-08T08:31:01Z “My basic design statement is to add character through new elements that repeat, distort and attract in their own right, leaving the architectural elements untouched,” Richani explains. Stylish Screens 2010-03-01T00:00:00Z “We got caught in a hurricane of distorted media in a sense with headlines,” Mr. Forte said. Springsteen Tribute Band Pulls Out of New Jersey Inauguration Gala 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Landscapes are distorted, inverted, flipped and skewered with digital editing tricks, often rendered in unnatural formations and positioned as if defying gravity. Exclusive First Look at Bon Iver's Digital Deluxe Edition 2011-11-28T09:58:38Z “I remember watching the scene and being immediately struck by the distorted phone filter on the psychiatrist’s voice — and her voice had the same filter,” he said. How Real-Life and Fictional Horror Seeped Into ‘The Black Phone’ 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Christenson said that reality TV is like “a fun-house mirror”: an image of us as a society, but one that is distorted. Watch What Happens When Real Housewives Don’t Wear Masks 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z One synthesizer mimicked, distorted and chased instrumental lines played by flute, clarinet and violin soloists; another provided digital samples; and a mixing board in the audience swirled sounds around the hall through loudspeakers. Music Review: International Contempory Ensemble at Rose Theater 2012-08-06T22:19:56Z There are so many bad examples of multicam sitcoms and I get why people’s image of it is a bit distorted or negative. Lil Rel Howery and Jerrod Carmichael Think You’re Wrong About Multicamera Sitcoms 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z And there's an ambient thuggishness in the way the market for creative work is being distorted by theft. Who makes money out of Spotify? 2010-04-18T21:30:00Z But it’s the darker side that kicks off the album, with the opening track “Brenninsteinn” blending a distorted bass and heavy percussion. The Dark and Dreamy Rock of Sigur Rós 2013-06-18T15:18:52Z All the attention lavished on them can distort the ecology of an art form, even while bringing encouraging news about its survival. Joey Alexander, an 11-Year-Old Jazz Sensation Who Hardly Clears the Piano’s Sightlines 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z The show includes Impressionist masterpieces and 20th-century post-Impressionist works, in which artists like Klimt and Klee distorted the garden theme in their own artwork. What's on This Week Around the World 1458-12-10T05:00:00Z First, a distorted, disorienting alternate world — “the imaginary world” — lies parallel to our own “real” world, and it can be accessed only through portals in the woods. Review | Twenty years after ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ Stephen Chbosky delivers a thrilling surprise 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z In “Spiral,” his catchphrase — “I want to play a game” — is delivered in a digitally distorted voice that sounds like what a perverse and unforgiving psycho would sound like. What to Know About ‘Spiral’ and the ‘Saw’ Franchise 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z The solution is a return to these purer times, before immigration distorted the populace and introduced conflicting visions of the good life. Why the 2016 election cycle could be the start of a totalitarian strain in U.S. politics 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z He opened his show Wednesday with clips of Republicans reacting to the news of his departure, many of them accusing him of distorting facts. Here's Why Jon Stewart Is Leaving 'The Daily Show' 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Because I began writing from this distorted place, the first 5,000 words kind of gushed out; it was almost like automatic writing. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Tossing and Turning in ‘Insomnia’ 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z In the quiet of those 10 days, you see how much your mind distorts the reality you perceive. My exhausting meditation retreat: 10 days of Vipassana, silence and spiders 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Certainly German philosophy was distorted by madmen just as Christianity has been in the past, but atheists fool themselves if they try to differentiate the two. What Hitchens got wrong: Abolishing religion won’t fix anything 2013-12-07T12:30:00Z Throughout, Adès marvelously distorts the Dies Irae motif that has been used throughout the history of Western music as death’s awful sound. Thomas Adès and the L.A. Phil find life in the Dance of Death 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z At her best, programmed beats, distorted guitars and synthetic instruments only sharpen the twang in her voice and the brashness of her attitude. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z When Diz rambles about his past, Millie tends to roll her eyes and swat the air, as if his distorted memories were swarming like flies. After 60 years, this R&B singer’s wife said it was time to retire. Then came his final show. 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z She’s also interested in Cal’s fundamental sense of right and wrong, and how badly he thinks it has been distorted by the culture wars in America. Tana French’s Irish Western Features a Retired Lawman and a Missing Boy 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z On “Hospice” the production was distorted and frantic. Antlers, fully mature now, to play Neumos | Concert preview 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z The magazine said the image, which was drawn by Barry Blitt, was intended as a satirical comment about some of the distorted right-wing attacks on the Democratic senator. Cartoons that courted controversy 2013-01-29T13:04:18Z Does the journalistic principle of neutrality doom you to the bland and ultimately distorting vocabulary of “both sides” and “racially tinged”? In ‘Antisocial,’ How the Alt-Right Went Viral 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z There was a pizza delivery and a declaration that “We made history” by mass retweeting a selfie – a somewhat distorted view of what constitutes an historic event. Oscar’s 10 most memorable moments 2014-03-03T13:30:00Z If the Bible was distorted to justify African enslavement, which I assume you reject, do you ever question the limits of scriptural interpretations to understand the state of affairs today? "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z What sets Khan’s novel apart is the braiding of Aliya’s story with Pakistan’s history in the late 1970s, a murky, violent period that shapes and distorts her world. A young woman caught between Pakistan and the West 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The novel’s pockets of sentimentality are offset by streaks of viciousness, accurately reflecting how we tend to remember our pasts: happy times bathed in a distorting glow, miserable times diminished and disowned. In This Novel of Female Friendship, Birds of a Feather Drift Apart 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Similarly, Lessig’s chapter on the media, in which he examines technology meeting market forces, reinforces the sense of dysfunction that flows from distorted incentives. Two Leading Intellectuals Analyze What Ails America 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z The show effectively dramatizes how he keeps changing the script, misquoting people, distorting the truth, roping his colleagues into his fantasies, bending everything into his own psychodrama. Dance Review: ‘All of a Sudden,’ by Jack Ferver, at Abrons Arts Center 2013-05-03T20:04:05Z And while general rhythm was good overall, the few problems all involved longer notes being slightly too short, distorting the metrical feel of a phrase. Review | Fledgling Verona string quartet is fast off the mark at Kennedy Center 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z As in many classic musicals, the authors of “The Prom” begin by holding a distorting mirror up to the theater itself. ‘The Prom’ Review: Bringing Jazz Hands to the Heartland 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z In the meantime, those people whose faces go unrecognized, or who, like my friend with the sparklers, are the objects of distorted memories, must practice forbearance. Circa Now: Nice to Meet You ... Again 2013-06-28T20:32:17Z Even at his most beatifically distorted, Exley’s the wrong man for that job. Books of The Times: A 9-Year-Old Fan of ?A Fan?s Notes,? Finding Truth in His Own Fiction 2010-09-29T20:52:00Z “Farewell, OK” opens the album with Costello shouting through a distorted rockabilly boogie. Elvis Costello & the Imposters Are Still Blasting Away 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Since I was listening exclusively to punk at the time, it was this voice, with its distorted screech – the vocal equivalent of scraping a plectrum down guitar strings – that caught my attention. My hero: Bj?rk 2011-07-22T21:55:12Z As Mr. Monush writes in his blog, “I was staggered by the number of times the Scrooge tale had shown up in the media, either done straight, or distorted, updated, spoofed, rethought or referenced.” Spare Times for Children for Dec. 21-27 2012-12-20T23:12:15Z Where the history of the massacre wasn’t obscured, he found it distorted, deformed by conspiracy theories or attempts to both-sides it. A Skillful Narrative of Excavating the Truth About the Tulsa Race Massacre 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z “There are elements that he’s taken from many, many parts of the spectrum. To characterize his politics in a simple way would be to distort it.” How America’s most famous farmer can appeal to left, right and center 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Tata’s photographs distort real-world images, in part by overlaying patterns from envelopes designed to cloak their contents — an analog form of encryption. Review | In the galleries: A colorful survey of Washington artists 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z A decade after his group Company Flow and label Definitive Jux were releasing records comprised of distorted melody lines and walloping sub-bass, there's a whole generation of rappers doing the same. El-P: Cancer for Cure – review 2012-05-24T20:15:01Z But it also insists the money spent must show a justifiable return and not distort the free market. Spain props up soccer amid crushing austerity 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z In addition to shielding the agent’s face, NBC was also supposed to distort his voice. What happens when a whistleblower returns to work after a decade’s fight 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z “It’s not our intention to rewrite or distort them but to create a whole new experience, enhancing the novels by adding deeper relationships, character development, and the ‘missing’ scenes for readers to enjoy.” Brontë Bondage: Classic Literature Gets 50 Shades of Grey Treatment 2012-07-18T17:31:18Z The ominous sound of doom emanates out of a heartbeat, distorted guitar, and film noir saxophone. In “The Crossing” Alejandro Escovedo has crafted a rock n roll immigration epic poem 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z He hasn’t been able to go full-on totalitarian dictator, but as far as somebody who is completely ruining America’s reputation and distorting young people’s view of what excellence is, I mean, he’s shockingly awful. Van Jones: “There was only one white guy in Hillary Clinton’s ad — and it was Donald Trump” 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The actors on the right side of the frame are distorted and slightly soft. The All-Stars of ‘Star Wars’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Sisson’s work focuses on fictional depictions of abortion, not on urban legends, but from that she has picked up on a lot of common misconceptions about abortion that can distort how people understand the issue. Baby born clutching IUD? Free abortion vacations? Nope — but such urban legends are very useful to the right 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z The brand's marketing tactics played on women's insecurities and ultimately, distorted one's idea of healthy body image. The 7 most shocking Victoria's Secret revelations from Hulu's "Angels and Demons" docuseries 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z But “St. Vincent” veers the other way: toward the brittle, the shallow and the distorted, while the beat gets earthier. New Music: Beck’s New Album Is ‘Morning Phase’ 2014-02-24T22:48:45Z But because the same taste also rules journalism, advocacy and policy, it distorts the criminal justice system. The Killers of the ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gang and the Cops Who Went After Them 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z It’s front and center here, and so on the nose that it distorts the face around it. Review: In ‘Evanston Salt Costs Climbing,’ Co-Workers Weather the Storm 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z These changes aren't enough to distort or taint the basic premise. Paranormal Activity 2 ? review 2010-10-22T10:53:00Z Marrying the sinuosity of contemporary dance to a fractured postmodernism, the McGregor style was distinguished by its rattlesnake speed, flickering detail, and extreme and often distorted physical articulation. Ballet's rock star 2011-01-02T00:03:05Z At Penn State, the football staff operated under its own distorted code of honor. Jerry Sandusky’s guilty — and so are we 2012-06-25T13:59:00Z Irma sends up the film by distorting its dialogue, thanks to her role as translator for the film's female protagonist. Irma Voth by Miriam Toews ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:09Z But football hasn’t just distorted our academic priorities. College football’s plantation problem: The violent game — and billion-dollar industry — where black kids take all the risk for none of the profit 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Museums, of course, do everything they can to frustrate such forces, and art restorers bring sophisticated tools to bear: hot air pens, heated spatulas, low-pressure suction tables that relax distorted canvases. Spanish capital en ruinas 2013-02-19T16:42:00Z Most of the stories in “The Folded Clock” are this small and this large: social quandaries that, through Julavits’s distinctive, distorting lens, become moral quandaries. In ‘The Folded Clock,’ Heidi Julavits takes you inside her real/fake diary 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The best works are two distorted heads — made of red soil, or black paper pulp embedded with rose quartz or metal beads. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Researchers say selfie-lovers should be aware that snapping a picture with the camera close to your face distorts the proportions of your features. Does my nose look big in this? Plastic surgeons reassure those worried by selfies 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z It worked because the amplification did not distort the essential truth of the characters. Rewind TV: Martina Cole's The Runaway; Bored to Death; Spiral; Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands 2011-04-02T23:09:39Z To be saluted for posing as some version of oneself, however distorted that version may be. Death for a reality star, but reality TV goes on 2013-04-04T13:58:09Z Such deals, long criticized for distorting the charts, may soon fade in importance on the weekly rankings, after Billboard’s latest rule change takes effect next month. Big Sean Ends Taylor Swift’s Reign on Album Chart 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z “Saxophone Song” rode a frenzied uptempo swing, with a breakdown for distorted violin and wordless vocals; “Suspended in Gaffa,” originally a waltz girded in oompah, became a rush of metric shifts and chromatic frictions. Music Review: Tangled in a Dreamscape With Friends in Tow 2010-09-23T21:21:00Z The result is a composition with uncanny depth, indicated by subtly distorted elements. David Hockney Plays with Perspective in an L.A. Exhibition 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Maps are also used as propaganda tools, distorting certain features or pushing particular messages. X marks the spot 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z So it's understandable economically but it distorts your film. A Minute With: Danny Boyle and his hypnotic "Trance" 2013-04-03T14:14:03Z “That has gone, it doesn’t work anymore. The Russian view has become narrower and narrower. Now it is completely biased, propagandistic and distorting.” For This Museum, Russian-German Collaboration Got Awkward 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z Feeling a "sustained, distorting euphoria", for example, he speculates that "there's been a chemical accident while he slept – something like a spilled tray of drinks, prompting … a kindly cascade of intracellular events." Charles Fernyhough: Is memory just a leaky reconstruction? 2013-04-26T17:50:01Z But even as the lyrics detail troubled thoughts, the music staves off self-pity with distorted tones, obstinate drumbeats and unhistrionic vocals. Cage the Elephant Returns, Suspended Between Rowdiness and Regret 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z You will see me distraught and distorted and know that you have made me so, and not know how to stop it or how to help. I had an affair while my husband had dementia 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z And the explanation that results is marked by an appalling minimization of the most dangerous administration in our lifetimes and a highly distorted portrait of Trump supporters as victims. Why Do Trump Supporters Support Trump? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Along with Ehnes’ superb technique, Kernis says he especially admires his “adaptability and personality. James plays Mozart so beautifully, with such warmth, but doesn’t distort the music. I think of him as a classicist.” Seattle Symphony unveils a new, custom concerto 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Johns took this seemingly anguished pose and amplified, fractured and distorted it by adding various patterns and combining the image with its reverse. Jasper Johns Stays Divinely Busy 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z L.A.’s No Age make punk rock in only the most nominal sense these days: Their guitars are still distorted, but the noise is just a means to a very pretty end. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z But sometimes what we hear has been distorted. A wave of recent TV series focus on child deaths. Is it all too morbid — or a sign of our times? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The track is industrial, with brute-force drums and distorted guitar, insisting that limits are being pushed; variations of a four-letter word pop up in the lyrics. Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers’s ‘Red’ Duet, and 14 More New Songs 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Death, like a black hole, distorts everything around it. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z Lipsky’s assignment is to pry, distort and betray, to use Wallace’s words and the details of his existence as material for his own dubious project. Review: ‘The End of the Tour’ Offers a Tale of Two Davids 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z At a stroke, she revealed not only quotidian ’grams of sunsets and lunches, but also more than three dozen distorted selfies, deformed by unnatural smudges, copious flares and kaleidoscopic reflections. Cindy Sherman Takes Selfies (as Only She Could) on Instagram 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Constructing a giant telescope is difficult, however, because a 30-metre mirror made of normal reflecting material starts to bend and distort under its own weight. Space race: the new generation of super-telescopes 2011-01-09T00:06:17Z We hear them before we see them, often through a filter that distorts and mechanizes human voices. Review: In ‘The Treasurer,’ a Son Remembers Mama, as She Forgets Everything 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Bodily proportions and scenic perspectives are wildly jumbled and distorted, and the rules of gravity are sometimes gleefully ignored. Savage style: two artists who tackle serious subjects with eccentric wit 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The face of the dominating figure is oddly distorted, with one eye squinting, mouth hanging open and head torqued to the left. Davidson Galleries: Artists play mind games using sharp skills 2012-07-18T18:52:03Z Russell’s cello is often amplified, and occasionally moves into distorted timbres that are easy, now, to hear as forerunners of 1990s indie rock. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Sometimes we see the world extruded and distorted, not through Bacon's eye, or through the medium of paint, but through the distorting lens of a glass of booze. Love Is the Devil: the view from the art world 2012-11-09T09:00:00Z The great and lasting result of her labors is how punishingly she demolishes shoddy claims and biased inferences that have distorted our understanding of Shakespeare’s life. A Scholarly Analysis of Shakespeare’s Life That Reads Like a Detective Story 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Chemical carcinogens, on the other hand, activate or inactivate genes by mutating DNA, and thus distort growth-controlling genes. Cancer: The new normal? 2011-01-17T17:35:24Z Barton's book, The Jefferson Lies, purports to "correct the distorted image of a once-beloved founding father", arguing that Jefferson was an orthodox Christian who did not believe that church and state should be separated. Glenn Beck set to publish book on Thomas Jefferson 2012-08-20T13:38:30Z "Field" featured electric guitar played ragged and distorted, as a disarmingly effective segue between pulsing techno and a beat borrowed from southern American hip hop. SXSW 2011 post #11: Mount Kimbie, Sharon Van Etten, Odd Future 2011-03-20T22:46:03Z Two years ago, a review published the Journal of Affective Disorders Reports similarly noted "a potential association between FA and distorted body image and disordered eating." Food allergies are on the rise — are they causing an increase in eating disorders? 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z Instead, she unleashed her virtuosity in intricate vocalizations and gleeful explosions of noise, electronically distorted, which she drew from all manner of instruments, objects and body parts — even the knees of a front-row listener. Review: Claire Chase Explores the Flute’s Possibilities 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z The potential is strong for such government intervention to significantly distort the conventional insurance market, as it has done with Medicare and Medicaid. Report: Obamacare's High-Risk Pool Spending Doubles Government Estimates 2012-02-26T01:05:16Z “Make My Head Sing ...” blasts those qualities away from the first notes of its opening song, “Oblivious”: loud, slow, unaccompanied, heavily distorted guitar chords, soon joined by an equally slow and deliberate drumbeat. New Music: New Rocordings by Riverside, Jessica Lea Mayfield and August Alsina 2014-04-14T21:25:54Z It was more that in comparison my life looked to me like a fun house mirror, some distorted and smeared version of what I thought I’d been heading towards for years. That waitress who thinks she can write: Waiting tables and crafting a novel in the infamous MFA town 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z The facts were so distorted that it frightened HBO into making that hasty decision. A Minute With: Dustin Hoffman on his directing debut 2013-01-23T10:04:28Z A one-time measurement, the current testing mania, for example, is unfair and distorts the reality of lifelong learning. Letters: A Free-Range Approach 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z George Orwell, himself a genius at political satire, noted that Swift “possessed a terrible intensity of vision, capable of picking out a single hidden truth and then magnifying it and distorting it.” Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The beautiful and brutal blend of distorted guitars and strings — at times combative and others, cooperative — is the perfect complement for the highs, lows, and mixed emotions of the lyrics. In “The Crossing” Alejandro Escovedo has crafted a rock n roll immigration epic poem 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Although there’s no precise definition for TDS, it can basically be described as experiencing a hatred of the president so strong that it distorts reality. Donald Trump’s version of an insanity defense: His critics are insane 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Popular culture is popular for a reason; even the most forgettable and disposable works touch on matters of authentic psychological urgency, despite distorting and falsifying and debasing them. “Fifty Shades Darker”: Not Even the Sex Has Personality 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z During recitative passages, the sounds of period instruments in the ensemble are enhanced, distorted and layered over with electronic sounds, the work of the sound designer Mark Grey. Review: A Baroque Opera Muddies Lines Between Him and Her 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z At other times, he distorts it in ways that both retain and warp the dignity of the original. Review: Artists breathe rambunctious new life into faded treasures at Seattle's G. Gibson Gallery 2011-03-31T20:39:09Z Choreographically, it juxtaposes limber dancing with moments of distorting subversion, as dancers strut, hobble, jerk around, and pull quizzical faces at the audience. Scottish Ballet ? review 2011-08-28T17:00:01Z The camera is every bit as acrobatic: it whirls, indulges in extreme soft-focus, distorts Stephen’s vision through a wide-angle lens. The Theory of Everything review: My Left Brain 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z But she added: "The aim is to not distort but to enhance the competition. It's a robust, vibrant market which I think the BBC contributes to, not distracts from." BBC Trust boss backs licence fee 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z This experience of time deceleration through fear is well-established, and — provided you feel frightened — time can distort even in a non-life-threatening situation. What does it really feel like to fall out of a building? 2013-05-25T22:30:00Z The number one comment on that opinion piece about women dealing with sexism is full of fallacies of thinking and distorted thinking patterns. Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks on the #MeToo Moment and ‘The Post’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z “Errant beliefs,” “revisionists” “distort the teaching of the Scriptures.” Does that sound like freedom of religion? Radical right, radical hypocrisy: Same-sex marriage masterstroke exposes extremist agenda 2014-04-29T11:43:00Z In “The Misinformation Age,” two professors of logic break down the mechanics of false beliefs, focusing mainly on ideas held by scientists, to show how even the most well-intentioned beliefs become distorted and spread. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The white noise generated by similar releases circulating in the market can distort tracking data, industryites agreed, and summer is chockablock with youth-seeking films. Family flicks firing up summer box office 2010-07-13T05:31:00Z Trump doesn’t understand or respect the delicate balances built into our constitution and feels no compunction whatsoever in distorting them out of all recognition. Is Donald Trump "crazy?" Wrong question 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z The staging, in particular, of the drag shadow-play the family puts on for Isaac conveys keenly the distorted role-playing that substitutes here for the bedrock comforts of home, such as dependability and love. Review | Taylor Mac’s play ‘Hir’ shows an America that’s groping in the dark for its moral identity 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Stuart Neville writes about contemporary Belfast, but everything he says about the present is coloured by the city's history and the way lives have been distorted and disfigured by the Troubles. Val McDermid: addicted to crime fiction 2013-07-11T11:35:00Z But some days, my sense of smell is distorted and everything in my orbit smells wrong — of day-old cigarette stubs, heavy and chemical. Will Fish Sauce and Charred Oranges Return the World Covid Took From Me? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z By anecdotes I mean subtle exaggerations, slightly embellished stories, and willfully distorted scenes. Chris Cleave: what happened when authors and book bloggers met for lunch 2011-02-21T12:56:34Z Opening track Harm in Change thrillingly layers clean piano, distorted keyboards, crisp percussive snaps, low-end drum rolls, inarticulate female moans and a vocal that grows more urgent by the minute. Toro y Moi: Anything in Return – review 2013-01-17T22:14:02Z To isolate something, to shear it from its context, is to distort it; by gathering stories from the past, Abdurraqib situates A Tribe Called Quest within the fullness of history and memory. An Intensely Personal Tribute to A Tribe Called Quest 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Since its publication in 1862, Victor Hugo’s masterpiece has been pirated, doctored, distorted, bowdlerized and flat-out betrayed by publishers, translators, filmmakers and musical impresarios from around the globe. 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Mark Grey’s keen sound design kept acoustic and electronic sounds and amplified voices mostly in fine balance, a handful of unruly distorted climaxes aside. Music Review: ?Klinghoffer? Returns, to Be Debated Anew 2011-06-17T22:32:42Z This is the theme Storm works on best, the distorting cycle of poverty, the complex ways being poor keeps you poor. Moses Storm and the Case for Pretentious Modern Stand-up 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z A Bacon Cricketer With a Back Story The Francis Bacon that Dr. Paul Brass knew was altogether different from the raucous, hard-drinking artist whose canvases depict distorted figures screaming to be freed from their frames. Inside Art: A Bacon Cricketer With a Back Story 2010-10-08T05:15:00Z The performance in excellent Disney acoustic sung by a rapt Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Latvian Radio Choir were just as distorted. Dudamel makes Mozart and Arvo Pärt a matter of life and death 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Aneesh Patel observed, “In the big nightclubs, they spend thousands on interiors, toilets, whatever, but they have sound systems that distort all the time, and everyone thinks it’s normal to leave with your ears ringing.” Listening Clubs Tantalize Audiophiles in London 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z He toys with sparseness, then a new pitched percussion chord leads to a subtle electric guitar declaration; it’s lightly distorted, yet not driven in an overly obvious way. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Wall messages are constantly changing, new ones replacing old ones, old ones covered up or distorted by the elements. Burhan Dogancay, Artist Inspired by Urban Walls, Dies at 83 2013-01-21T04:18:59Z Button often portrays mannequins as seen through shop windows whose glass distorts and layers the image. In the galleries: Artists illustrate the evolving principles of geometric painting 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Everything is writ just a bit larger now, without distorting the finely drawn lineaments of each character. In ‘Hamilton,’ Javier Muñoz Puts a Different Spin on the Title Role 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Sonically, it is epic — an hour and 16 minutes of sounds that are at times ambient, at times rollicking, often digitally distorted — as dense as it is beautiful. Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner and Nico Muhly on making space music for a hard time on Earth 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z The spheres — about a foot in diameter — will reflect and distort the industrial surroundings. Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Narcissus Garden’ Is Coming to the Rockaways 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Over three floors you’ll explore a distorted holiday landscape that looks as if a gaudy Christmas lawn display had exploded. 8 Holiday Shows for Various Tastes 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z “It does feel like martial arts, the concept as it’s been distorted through a Western lens, is used to pigeonhole us, to make us feel smaller and to mock us,” Yu said. Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi’ jabs, flips Asian American film cliches 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z “Alternative Power to the People” is an aggressive, pseudo-instrumental, with vocals more like oddly distorted grunts. The Dandy Warhols' This Machine: The Indie Rockers Go Goth 2012-04-25T16:00:53Z Their relationship serves as a Rorschach test for Melchor’s narrators, whose actions reveal not only the details of the crime but the fears, resentments and unacknowledged lusts that condense around it like a distorting mist. A Mexican Novel Conjures a Violent World Tinged With Beauty 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z In his video introduction, the peacock – through a distorted vocal filter – heavily implied that he was a once-beloved entertainer who’s now on the outs. The Masked Singer: the year's strangest TV show is already here 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z And it’s one that forces us to reckon with the reality that some individuals have no shame about distorting the facts with bluster and bullying. Review: Denial Takes on the Bullying Bluster of Liars 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Part of the reason, she said, is a kind of distorted, post-9/11 flag-waving, combined with a heavy dose of news fatigue. Perspective | Middle East civilian deaths have soared under Trump. And the media mostly shrug. 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z In a world beset by celebrity culture and distorted by the bulimic dynamics of social media, we need more than ever to pursue things precisely for themselves. Perspective | The bright light shining on America’s best Black artists has a fascinating backstory 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Jade sees the world as a horror film, wearing “slasher goggles” that color and distort her vision. Read It and Scream 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z In “On the Hunt” she evokes, transforms and distorts the musical associations of horn calls with hunting and the Romantic hero. Music Review: New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-28T21:41:06Z He tended to distort phrases, producing choppy, uneven lines. Music Review: A Piano Tour of Schoenberg?s Career 2011-06-16T22:11:12Z That's more of a compliment than it might appear: it's Boyle's intention to make us rethink a character "distorted" by cinema, and "give him back his voice". Frankenstein: Man or monster? 2011-01-17T21:44:01Z Those along a chain of command, who might have stepped in to prevent it, were both intimidated by its scope and already accustomed to distorted truth and micromanaged messages. Review | ‘The Loudest Voice’ really sticks it to Roger Ailes, who is still dead and doesn’t care what anyone thinks 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z To illustrate that theme, the Kings engage in a clever bit of parallel construction: “End” is a distorted mirror image of the show’s pilot. Embrace “The Good Wife”’s final slap: A happily-ever-after ending would have been the show’s biggest betrayal 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z White said the designers pushed Optimus' face as closely as possible into riders' perspectives without the robot general's noggin appearing blurry or distorted. 'Transformers' roll out in Universal Studios ride 2012-05-21T15:10:09Z Only, he's a bad cypher, and the images are distorted; the alien, presented with the horrors of Earth, takes over his body and forces him to murder on its behalf. Rereading Stephen King 2012-07-17T11:00:32Z Because it’s the most extreme, distorted view of a person, of a personality, of a situation. “I like that spot where fear and laughter converge”: Carrie Brownstein on how “Portlandia” takes on aging, “Transparent” and channeling Sleater-Kinney on set 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z We met at university when I had a distorted view of what sex should be like. I’ve faked every one of my orgasms over the past four years | Dear Mariella 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z Williams was the most important architect of the nineties’ hip-hop visual aesthetic, which relied heavily on the distorting effects of the fish-eye lens. Missy Elliott’s “Supa Dupa Fly” Came From The Future 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z “These nights, I don’t know how I survive,” Ben Gibbard repeats on the first track, howling over a distorted gnarl of guitar. 75 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Risk was palpable, and yet classical form was never distorted. Dance Review: Ethan Stiefel’s Farewell to Ballet Theater at the Met 2012-07-08T22:20:06Z “Everything got recorded way, way, way too hot and it was distorted as hell,” Spot told Jim Ruland, the author of “Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records.” Glen ‘Spot’ Lockett: The Punk Producer’s 10 Essential Recordings 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z During the performance, stationed amid the audience at a table littered with tape decks and electronic effects, Mr. Swanson injected distorted rehearsal fragments and other sounds, and swirled the mix throughout the space with loudspeakers. Music Review: Yarn/Wire Plays Percussion and Piano at Issue Project Room 2012-03-25T21:49:50Z The film is one of the great documents of the art form, which it both honors and distorts, exalts and diminishes and even, at times, unintentionally insults. A Classic Jazz Documentary That Honors and Insults the Art Form 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The cold war invaded and distorted private lives, which is why it fascinates novelists. Ian McEwan on Sweet Tooth – Guardian book club 2013-07-13T09:29:00Z The contrasting colors and shapes were designed to attract the attention of menacing strikes, and then to distract them, because the fragmented pattern distorts the goalie’s silhouette. Design and the World Cup: Best and Worst 2010-06-27T22:00:00Z As their tempers rose, each seemed to be battling not so much the other as the distorted image of himself that his opponent represented. Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. Had Much in Common 2012-08-01T22:15:55Z Here and on other occasions, Ms. Wohl is guilty of distorting her characters’ natural behavior to rope in a big laugh. ‘American Hero’ Finds Comedy in a Fast-Food Franchise 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z For them, sex is not a just a compulsive physical act, but a distorted lunge at a human connection. Love is the mother of all addictions: Compelling as nicotine and heroin — and just as hard to kick 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z "I find that offensive on a number of levels, that I would for some personal reason distort the way I am spending licence fee payers' money," said Hunt. Miriam O'Reilly case: winners and losers 2011-01-11T13:50:40Z The bold use of graphics, primary colors and distorting, wide-angle lenses give “Zazie” a zippy, Pop Art look that has no parallel in Malle’s career. Video: A Tragic Actress?s Twilight, Burning, Not Dimming 2011-07-17T01:23:02Z If Christian conservatives ran things here, our society would be hobbled and distorted and modern freedoms denied. A gloriously crude topless 'jihad' from a Femen activist 2013-04-05T15:18:20Z Just as you can have many different actors play Hamlet, you can have many different ways of looking at a show without distorting it. ‘I Was Skeptical.’ How Sondheim Agreed to Change ‘Company.’ 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Those distorted guitar chords went on to rearrange the sonic architecture of the 1960s – but frontman Ray Davies's lyrics also heralded something new and profound. The Kinks: They really got me 2010-12-20T21:59:01Z Maybe the relationship of the reviewer to the black experience is the haze that distorted the view. Review: In an Obama Biopic, the Audacity of Hagiography? 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Lopez throttles the bass, plucking and bowing it with relentless fervor; Mr. Baczkowski, who’s based in Buffalo, uses effects pedals to amplify, distort and detonate the sound of his tenor saxophone. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z That said, no one is well served by wild speculation that distorts the historical record—or, for that matter, ascribes a piece of music to a woman on the grounds that it lacks maturity. The Search for Mrs. Bach 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The most effective remedy would be to show Bully in class, so it could provide a clear mirror of distorted values to young victimizers and their victims alike. Bully: A Punishing Movie Your Kids Must See 2012-03-29T10:45:20Z In his sculptures of fungi and foliage, Marc Robarge enlarges and sometimes distorts. Review | In the galleries: Crossing the line between aesthetics and science 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z And what of the way lobbyists and private interests distorted Fannie Mae mortgage programs in ways that worsened the housing bubble? Books of The Times: ?That Used to Be Us? by Friedman and Mandelbaum - Review 2011-10-02T21:07:08Z Before that, there are other curious factors that distort time. What does it really feel like to fall out of a building? 2013-05-25T22:30:00Z Mr. Heller called the cases “a distorted overreaction pandering to the current hypersensitive climate where innocent commonplace gestures are now misperceived and mischaracterized as offensive.” Cuba Gooding Jr. Is Accused of Unwanted Sexual Touching by 14 Women 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z There are those who would say that a strict adherence to the facts is crucial," he said, "but fiction by its nature distorts reality while nevertheless reflecting it. Sharon Dogar fights back over 'sexed up' Anne Frank novel 2010-06-22T10:38:00Z The wheeze of Bacon's asthma and a doomy score by Ryuichi Sakamoto provide the soundtrack, and bare swinging light bulbs and distorting mirrors take us into the claustrophobic spaces of Bacon's paintings. Love Is the Devil: the view from the art world 2012-11-09T09:00:00Z It's a discussion that, within the publishing industry at least, tends to be distorted by that deeply conservative question: "How do we all keep making a living from this thing?" China Miéville was the star turn at the Edinburgh International Book festival 2012-08-24T14:52:58Z “Did you ever read my words, or did you merely finger through them for quotations which you thought might valuably support an already conceived idea concerning some old and distorted connection between us?” A Timely Collection of Vital Writing by Audre Lorde 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z When he distorts rhythms with a rubato or an extra push, he does so with the utmost discretion. Cellist Carter Brey’s restraint speaks volumes 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z “Divine” is a two-parter of longing and leering: trance arpeggios and a female voice are suddenly exchanged for distorted guitar as he cackles, “Can I lick your ice cream?” Playlist: Falling in Love, Longing and Leering 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z There's history, noir, drugs, surrealism, politics, sex, literature, crime, Vonnegutian science fiction and a dark, distorted Svejkish air about the protagonist.For all its fine aspects, I read it at one remove. Tips, links and suggestions: Tell us about the books you are reading today 2013-01-08T15:28:03Z Clark’s guitar doesn’t always sound like a guitar – it is distorted, smudged, sometimes altered beyond recognition. Album review: St. Vincent, 'Strange Mercy' 2011-09-12T02:34:00Z Yet they hint at photographic origins, as distorted though some digital prism. Review | In the galleries: Creating a world of her own 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z If a time comes when incompetent or hapless women are humorously depicted as often as their male equivalents, then the distorting fairground mirror of comedy might at last be reflecting a just world. Homer Simpson isn't a positive role model for kids? Eat my shorts… 2013-06-15T23:05:26Z Those people are not mere abstractions, faces on a TV screen whose personhood and life experiences are transmitted via the mass media…and often in a distorted and inaccurate way. Black America is so very tired of explaining and debating 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z That story's great fame has had a distorting effect on the rest his work, abetted by every ignorant commentator – and there are plenty – who has identified it as typical. A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant 2013-05-24T09:56:31Z Last year, in acknowledgment that these practices distorted the charts’ “intended goal of accurately reflecting consumer intent,” Billboard stopped counting sales from those deals on its chart. Adele Is No. 1 With a Huge Week, but Without a Million in Sales 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Just as Burns and Novick diminish Hemingway's heroism in the face of fascism, and provide cover for the FBI's violation of his civil rights, they also distort his larger political history. Ken Burns' vicious Hemingway smear: PBS series totally ignores writer's lifelong leftist politics 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z Arceneaux understands this impossibly complicated history, and his work illuminates the spectacle of performance without losing sight of the psychic toll exacted upon those who portrayed such distorted caricatures. Revisiting Ben Vereen’s Misunderstood Blackface Inaugural Performance 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z All three films take up the vexing, evergreen problem of the media’s power to shape and distort reality, and they offer progressively more dire diagnoses of the state of the collective psyche. Arts & Leisure: Urban Realist With a Humanist Streak 2011-04-13T13:29:51Z The difference is that, this being a work of theater, Ms. Barron and Ms. Evans have full license to distort surface reality to show what’s happening within. Review: ‘Dance Nation,’ the Power and the Terror of Girls at 13 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Not until close to minute four does a quivering, distorted guitar enter, hesitantly at first. Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper’s Wholesome Team-Up, and 10 More New Songs 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z In this collection, the singing begins immediately, with Carl Adamshick, who writes, “A low, quiet music is playing — / distorted trumpet, torn bass line,/ white windows.” ‘Poem-a-Day’ review: Your guide to befriending poetry in 2016 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z “Once” features another rarity in a Broadway show: amplification that enhances rather than distorts the music. Theater Review: ?Once,? With Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, at Jacobs Theater 2012-03-19T02:00:10Z At one point, a dancer in a long-snouted mask capered in front of what might have been a visually distorted car park. Dance performance as a high-tech journey into the esoteric 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z In Hermesdorf's hands, ordinary movement is distorted into a kind of prowess. Velocity Dance: A mix of rap, Cyndi Lauper, daring ? and a need for tightening 2011-10-29T17:29:03Z As soon as one starts doing that, history is distorted, and the capacity for self-criticism stunted. Perspective | N.C. Wyeth painted the world full of beauty, resilience and adventure. And full of white people. 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Violins screech with the fervor of a distorted guitar, and Appalachian jigs ripple and ramble with freewheeling delight. Lollapalooza Day 3: Jack White, Florence + the Machine, At the Drive-In and the amazing Amadou and Mariam 2012-08-06T06:00:00Z Melodies emerge from a grid of electronic glitches, Auto-Tuned vocals and distorted percussion. Album review: John Cale, 'Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood' 2012-10-02T17:48:00Z The collection also includes work from Swiss Surrealist sculptor Alberto Giacometti and — a rarity for American collections — Francis Bacon, the iconic British painter known for his unsettling images of distorted bodily forms. Seattle Art Museum gets major gift: A prized modern-art collection estimated at $400 million 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z The sound of Mr. Dunne’s feet is also processed electronically, distorted, multiplied, looped. Dance Review: For Colin Dunne, Life After ?Riverdance? 2011-10-21T21:30:31Z Even shorter-term bingeing can seem like a major commitment, because there is a distorting effect of receiving a large chunk of content at once rather than getting it piecemeal. Future Tense: Binge Media Culture Finds a Receptive Audience in Americans 2014-05-02T23:01:27Z “The People V. O.J. Simpson” is very aware of how public image creates and distorts narratives; what better contemporary reminder than teenage Kimberly Kardashian, already wise to the ways of celebrity? Kim Kardashian’s origin story works: “The People v. O.J. Simpson” translates the trial for a 21st century audience 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z How is it possible to maintain friendships inside and relationships beyond the distorting pressure of the prison walls? Inside ? review 2010-11-22T22:01:00Z But in creating an orderly horizontal sequence of pitches, certain intervals — the vertical harmonic relationships between two notes played simultaneously — are distorted so they no longer ring true. Players Are Wanted for Ben Johnston’s Works. Some Sacrifice Is Required. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The works looked polished yet handmade, whole yet distorted. Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Plath isn't the only figure whose real achievement has been obscured or distorted by the non-literary agendas of commentators after the fact. Reading group: Art and autobiography in The Bell Jar 2013-01-09T13:29:56Z The internet is not a silver bullet for loneliness – indeed, it may distort our natural behaviour and our understanding of what friendship is. We just clicked: why I set out to find a new group of friends online 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z In some ways the Confederacy appears as a distorted mirror image of the North. Exhibition Review: ?Discovering the Civil War? at National Archives 2010-04-29T21:21:00Z “The Clay Bird” was initially refused a censor’s certificate by the Bangladesh government on the grounds that it gave a distorted image of the madrasa system and might inflame passions in that majority Muslim country. Tareque Masud, Bangladeshi Director, Dies at 54 2011-08-24T22:26:52Z The first step was to twist free from the modern bourgeois worldview, or for that matter, from any framework or ideology that risked distorting the experience of reality. The Men Who Reinvented Philosophy for Turbulent Times 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z The vocal line captures, but doesn't distort, the poetry's alliterative sensuality, figural details bleeding into the strings' quietly chattering commentaries. Arditti Quartet/Jake Arditti - review 2011-02-06T17:46:12Z Even when he works with straightforward plays, as in his production of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” that opened in October in Sofia, Bulgaria, sentences tend to be distorted in artificial ways. At 80, Robert Wilson Holds On to a Singular Vision for the Stage 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z The implication is that getting high did not distort his personality but from one perspective turned him into who he really was. | 'Horsedreams': ?Horsedreams,? at the Rattlestick Theater - Review 2011-11-18T03:02:40Z Still, what was left was hardly conventional: Whirlwind, from 1975's Siren, pitches the hiccups, tics and weird stresses than constituted Bryan Ferry's vocal style against a ferociously distorted, effect-laden guitar and reedy garage-rock organ. Roxy Music: The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982 – review 2012-08-02T14:30:02Z Glib treatments of World War II have done real harm, she says, distorting our understanding of the past and consequently shaping how we approach the future. ‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z In one, critic Jane Hu asked, “How does one write an immigrant story when the story’s very premise was designed to be distorted?” Review | Anthony Veasna So’s ‘Afterparties’ is a bittersweet testament to the late author’s talents 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z It’s harder — because we are all implicated — to admit that online existence distorts our sense of truth and compromises our autonomy. Review | Picking apart the Internet: An exhibition that addresses the elephant in the room 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z It’s better to take it in as an experience: to be awed by the beauty of the pictures, and stunned by the inventiveness and passion with which Lynch distorts and destroys them. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 8: White Light White Heat 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z It creates a distorted idea of what it takes to attain success and what financial milestones are actually achievable if you are starting from zero or less. The New 30-Something 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z It also distorts our understanding of how time affects us. Perspective | It’s not enough for Facebook to own your images. It wants to own your mortality, too. 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Hired experts speculate and possible witnesses testify, their backs to the camera and their voices distorted; much of it is persuasive, but none of it is evidence. ArtsBeat: Channel Surfing: 'The Injustice Files: At the End of a Rope' 2012-02-21T19:02:23Z “I’m trapped inside the distorted mindset of a warrior,” Brennan admits. How men recover from war 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z In nine succinct movements, with titles like “Remote,” “Mysterious” and “Forceful,” this work weaves glancing — and distorted — references to piano trios by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and others into his own intricate, emotionally focused language. Review: Anne-Sophie Mutter Pays Tribute to Previn at Carnegie Hall 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z And yet the apprehended city floats before the reader with a limpid and oneiric grace: a self-portrait in a constantly distorting mirror. Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner – review 2012-07-05T10:00:02Z In the name of fact and objectivity, it distorts and lies. Heeding the lessons of James Joyce's "Ulysses," a century later 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Social-science research has shown that intensive news reporting on certain diseases can distort public perceptions of their severity and the chances of contracting them. Media goes overtime on Ebola coverage, but not necessarily overboard I wanted to look at a mirror that had a very distorted view.” Director Pablo Larraín is this awards season's double threat with 'Jackie' and the poet caper 'Neruda' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z They are protective of a man whose views were often misunderstood or distorted in an effort to neutralize him and the movement, they said. Peniel E. Joseph on His Biography of Stokely Carmichael 2014-03-03T21:52:52Z Do they seek to manipulate and distort reality? Duty to warn: Shrinks can’t say that Donald Trump suffers from a mental disorder — but we can 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z Similarly weird pictures of children by Loretta Lux are at Yossi Milo, but they are in color and slightly distorted digitally. Art in Review: Aipad Photography Show New York 2010-03-19T08:08:00Z It’s a comforting story that all racists are open and immediately identifiable, but also a distorting one. New Southern Fiction By Percival Everett, Wiley Cash and Andrew Siegrist 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z A face distorted, almost unrecognisable, bloodied and swollen. The brutal death of Baha Mousa 2013-05-03T10:53:56Z For reasons of not looking as if you’re trying too hard, another convention of TikTok is that the music clips often sound secondhand, slightly distorted, as if taxing the limits of a smartphone speaker. ‘It’s hard to put the brakes on it. We doubled down’: Charli D’Amelio and the first family of TikTok 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z At first FKA twigs is accompanied only by a few piano notes, but other sounds waft in, acoustic and distorted and electronic, among them a forebodingly calm whispered beatbox beat. The Playlist: Taylor Swift Wants to Start Over, and 7 More New Songs 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z May is a month of rapid plant growth, and netting early may constrict and distort this annual spurt, according to Stanton Gill, a University of Maryland extension specialist. The cicadas are coming. But gardeners need not panic. 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z I am surprised by the distorted images that show up in panoramas, like the ones above, as a result of my moving the camera, moving myself, and moving the subject. Making Dance: Fifty Years and Counting 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z But their riposte to accusations they were too "laid back" was Over and Over, its taut groove toughened with distorted beats. Readers recommend: songs about repetition ? the results 2011-03-17T16:30:02Z Shorn of a lot of its music, and packed into about two uninterrupted hours with no intermission, the show distorts the opera in some significant ways. At Seattle Opera, a much different look at ‘La traviata’’ 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z "Them Changes," the searing funk track from Los Angeles bassist Thundercat, features a crawling rhythm and a freaky bass line both dirty and distorted. Thundercat continues his run on 'The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam' 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z He airily proposed that Bruckner had become “the dupe” of editors driven by “an all-consuming and very distorted Wagnerian perspective.” Still Searching For Bruckner?s True Intentions 2011-07-09T04:30:28Z The result: stripped-down beats, meticulously layered synth patterns and distorted guitar. Fujiya & Miyagi combine electronica & rock 2012-01-26T21:22:04Z The lasers were tightly coordinated with the music, with shapes expanding on each wallop; distorted tones got dotted lines, clearer tones got straight ones. Music Review: The Haxan Cloak and Robert Henke in Red Bull Festival 2014-05-12T14:44:09Z In other works, the eye must hold two thoughts at once: The subject of “The Curtain” is half drawn across a dark nighttime window; its cheerful geometric pattern is distorted by its lavish undulations. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Albert Einstein began to explore the way a massive star might distort the fabric of the universe around it. Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes - review 2012-12-12T07:00:00Z Would I not also spare those close to me the pain of seeing their lives, or some aspect of their lives, fictionalized, distorted, exploited? Philip Roth’s retirement lesson 2013-02-12T12:39:00Z The rest of the pieces were worked on using secondhand photographs and some educated guesswork about how much the images distorted the originals. The Secret Stunt Doubles of the Art World 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Viewers familiar with similarly distorted objects made by Robert Lazzarini, among others, will be unimpressed. Art Review: ‘Lightness of Being’ Group Show at City Hall Park 2013-08-22T22:01:07Z This work of apparently seamless stainless steel is aptly named: floating like a cloud and appearing to offer an invitation to enter, the sculpture reflects and distorts the world around it. Source Code ? review 2011-04-02T23:08:39Z But another previously unreleased song, the enigmatic “Grey Riders,” breaks free of the genre; it starts as a fiddle-topped cowboy trot but soon lashes out with Mr. Young’s distorted guitar and his wild hound-dog howl. Playlist Jon Pareles: Wistful Country, Politics and a Hint of the Divine 2011-05-25T19:02:17Z The new track keeps to The Strokes’ signature guitar sound with Julian Casablancas’ tiny, distorted vocals. The Strokes Just Released Their First New Song in Years 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z “Object of Terror” is more music of distorted surfaces. L.A. Phil's Reykjavík Festival begins with music of the Earth and singing in teacups 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z The head is also oddly distorted — flattened in such a way that it resembles a digitally manipulated three-dimensional photograph or a hologram. Critic?s Notebook: Sculptural Surprises Grace the Streets 2011-08-18T22:26:28Z Then some turntable scratching ushers in a shift toward the synthetic: pulsing keyboard parts, voices chopped into samples, the guitar suddenly distorted and stuttering. Sonic Tomfoolery and Rhythmic Savvy From Systema Solar 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z It’s impossible to tarry with these spirits — some comic, some tragic, all grotesquely distorted — without reflecting on the pathetic concerns, desires or offenses that each of us allows to eclipse our time on Earth. ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ arises from a tragic footnote in American history 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Loaned from private collections, the distorted or crucified figures and sinister interiors anticipate Bacon's later paintings, and are shown alongside Three Studies. How Picasso helped British art turn modern 2012-02-13T19:38:09Z But two new indie horror films are generating buzz too, even though they were made for next to nothing and are driven by distorted audio, disorienting cuts and other defiantly experimentalist techniques. Two Experimental Horror Directors Discuss the Thoughts Behind the Frights 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z The amplification of the offstage priests in the Judgment Scene was distorted, resulting in weird sibilants blaring from above the proscenium. Review: ‘Aida’ Gives a Taste of the Met Opera’s Bad Old Days 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Ms. Buchloh-Kollerbohm crowded the group into a small corner to show us some “sickness masks” from Nigeria, with distorted features that gave them the appearance of someone who has suffered from leprosy or a stroke. I Went Naked to a Museum, and It Was … Revealing 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z A master of disguises, she frequently changed her hair color, and sometimes used distorting dentures and other theatrical tricks. Remembering a Woman Who Was a Leader of the French Resistance 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z The images are flat and distorted, but the plants are recognizable. With re-creation of 1500s garden, a reminder of when herb knowledge was a survival tool 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z About 1 in 10 flowered, and when they did, they were early and distorted. Gardening mistakes are inevitable, even for the experts. Don’t let them mess with your mojo. 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z But the study's lead author, Vytenis Babrauskas, said in an interview that the industry has grossly distorted his findings and that the amount of retardants used in household furniture doesn't work. Fear fans flames for chemical makers 2012-05-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Scott helped produce the determinedly sloppy “Woo,” with dark, distorted production akin to his hit “Antidote.” Review: Rihanna, Blissfully Adrift, Juggles Styles on ‘Anti’ 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Of course, while it's funny to see yourself looking distorted in a funhouse mirror, Cregger observed it's just depressing when that becomes an accurate reflection. The "Whitest Kids U Know" — a cult classic comedy group whose sketches eerily foresaw the Trump era 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z For Nichols, that distorts the structure of the variation, how its choreography fills the stage. Easy Does It: Bringing Old-School Wisdom to City Ballet 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z I was so used to driving and flying, the shape of the continent had been distorted. From Montreal to Minnesota, by Inland Sea 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z He finds today's rhythms — distorted by the blur of the Internet and a confessional, look-at-me generation — hilarious and bewildering. Andrew Dice Clay enjoys another roll, with help from Woody Allen 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Everything in my field of vision wavered and was distorted as if seen in a curved mirror. Timothy Leary’s liberation, and the CIA’s experiments! LSD’s amazing, psychedelic history 2013-12-14T21:00:00Z But this peacefulness derails as the narrator details Laika’s cruel demise and the image begins to distort, as if the camera were making a forced re-entry. ‘Space Dogs’ Review: No Dogs Go to Heaven 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z As with the racist fiance, it’s time for your girlfriend to seek treatment for an anger so profound it’s distorting her judgment. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A girlfriend’s anti-male outrage is a relationship dealbreaker 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Would it feel like their cultures were, once again, being borrowed and distorted to make someone else’s point? Review: ‘The Minutes,’ an Official History of American Horror 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z In their nasal inflection, they distort and mispronounce a series of words, a quirk that Kroll attributes to their “talking to each other more than they talk to anyone else.” The freshest comedy act today: Two old New Yorkers pranking people with tuna sandwiches 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z But he also says he feels there's a bigger issue that goes beyond his personal involvement, about the potential fall-out from a film being promoted as factual that he feels distorts the historical account. Why one crew member quit the anti-abortion “Roe V. Wade” film, featuring Jon Voight and Stace... 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z In the 1990s, he became known for sculptures involving comically distorted faces and bodies of people projected onto stuffed dummies. Review: Tony Oursler’s Grand Illusions, Science Left at the Door 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The tune persisted for another minute and a half before ending with distorted muffs. Arcade Fire covers Jane's Addiction, 'Beverly Hills Cop' theme at Forum 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z The water had distorted Hazel’s features so beyond recognition that she could be identified only by her clothes and the gold fillings in her teeth. Hazel’s brutal murder was all but forgotten. Until she inspired ‘Twin Peaks.’ 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z There are sequences that seem intended to emphasize the ugly, alienating qualities of skyscrapers that ignore or distort Sullivan’s principles. Review: ‘Tall’ Is a Little Movie About How Buildings Got So Big 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z When gender exposes or distorts the issues in play. In Cosby Trial, Treatment of Women by Powerful Men Has Its Day in Court 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z And his customers’ stories — about their families and losses and fears — turn out to be a series of distorted but illuminating mirrors of Jimmy’s conflicted nature and troubled history. | 'Bluebird': He?ll Take You Anywhere You Want to Go 2011-08-23T02:01:00Z Here’s a traditional Afghan melody in modern guise: distorted, multitracked and surrounded in effects, yet still speaking from its home. Shawn Mendes and Tainy’s Summer Breeze, and 12 More New Songs 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z “My sound is big, heavy and a bit distorted because it has to overlap the guitar,” he said in a 2000 interview. Dusty Hill, Long-Bearded Bassist for ZZ Top, Dies at 72 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Has the game’s popularity, and the media attention and money that it attracted and that have in turned further fueled that popularity, irreversibly distorted the purity of the original game? Basketball, the musical 2012-12-16T16:00:00Z Sometimes their paths get so distorted that they enter the inner solar system. What really wiped out the dinosaurs: “It’s only when you have large aggregations of dark matter that it can have this enormous effect” 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z He compares the flashing lights and distorted sounds he experienced to "Dante's Seventh Circle of Hell." Interview: 'I Am' filmmaker Tom Shadyac steps back to explore the big picture 2011-02-24T22:46:46Z Philosophically I like the idea of rent control, but it distorts the availability of available housing because there’s only a fraction of the available stock on the market. “The genie is out of the bottle”: Why San Francisco’s Airbnb backlash won’t chill the sharing economy 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z It probably doesn’t help that the mass media is also clogged with narratives that portray mothers in profoundly distorted ways, as tireless martyrs or negligent monsters, as Carol Bradys or Joan Crawfords. I don’t have to be a perfect dad: The gift I’m giving myself this Father’s Day 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z To cultural and gender studies he bequeathed the enticing idea that the judgmental look or predatory gaze of others shaped and commonly distorted a person’s sense of who they were. Freedom fighter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Lincoln, in Booth's distorted vision, was a money-grubbing Yankee hostile to the gracious suavities of the gallant south. Age of Assassins: A History of Conspiracy and Political Violence by Michael Newton – review 2012-11-18T00:05:09Z In “Black Skinhead” he snarls, “I’ve been a menace for the longest/But I ain’t finished, I’m devoted,” over a track that switches between a blunt glam-rock drumbeat and a distorted synthesizer line. Music Review: ‘Yeezus,’ Kanye West’s Raw and Jolting New Album 2013-06-16T18:25:47Z What do you think the effect is on society of these distorted set of values? William H Macy: 'Even the bad sex I've had was pretty good' 2013-01-17T19:00:00Z She’s got this insincere kindness upfront, but then I get wind of the gossip … the things I speak in love that get distorted, twisted, turned and then gossiped about. Is my brother a pedophile? 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z In some cases, A.I. technologies seem to ignore or distort artists’ text prompts, affecting how Black people are depicted in images, and in others, they seem to stereotype or censor Black history and culture. Black Artists Say A.I. Shows Bias, With Algorithms Erasing Their History 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z I want it to feel like film, and intervene with the digital-camera sharpness and clarity and electric buzz, soften that and the let the colors distort and maybe play with some double-exposure images. ArtsBeat: More Todd Haynes on My Morning Jacket Concert Film 2011-05-03T19:48:06Z Religion, he argued, brainwashes children, oppresses women and gay people, stymies science, distorts thinking, and deforms morality. ArtsBeat Blog: Have a Little Faith? At NYU, The Debate Rages On 2011-11-16T20:55:51Z In the last years of his life, Renoir’s figures are bronzed and even more outrageously distorted, proto-Botero. Looking Twice at Renoir and O’Keeffe (Ida, not Georgia) 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Everyone knew that they, the Soviet people, lived in a veritable funhouse of a giant isolated world unto itself, in the parallel reality of that endless hall of crazily distorted mirrors. Life Under Alternative Facts 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z He distorted me into the person I am. You changed me: how my English teacher taught impeccable writing 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Just as gravity distorts space, an important collector distorts aesthetics. Steve Martin on writing, art and 'An Object of Beauty' 2010-12-11T06:00:00Z And yet, as Williamson notes, the distorting miasma of vitriol that Twitter emits has seeped into almost every public forum. Perspective | Twitter is no place to consider abortion — but a novel might be 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Golems fascinate me because they hold up a distorting mirror to humanity; they're a godsend to authors, a wordless comment on the temptations and pitfalls of playing God. Why golems are precious 2010-08-27T08:56:00Z There's a distorted sense of scale at work in both China's oppression of 1 million Uyghurs and Muslims and its censorship of an outspoken mascot. The rise and fall of Bing Dwen Dwen, Beijing's insidious Olympics mascot 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Said breakbeat is swiftly buried beneath a thrilling mass of sound: grinding bass, under electronic noises that variously recall whistling, the clanking of bottles and horror-film strings distorted almost beyond recognition. Fuck Buttons: Slow Focus – review 2013-07-18T14:30:01Z The celestial monstrosity absorbs all but a remnant of light, leaving a vague, distorted suggestion of what once was on the horizon of the black hole. When refusing the hour saves the day 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” has its strengths, but unlike it, Okoye’s deeply researched opera offers singers ample opportunity to engage with our national past while being liberated from the burden of embodying distorted stereotypes. Let’s Make the Future That the ‘New World’ Symphony Predicted 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z His production is menacing and to-the-point, deploying distorted drums with military precision. Turnstile Knows Hardcore’s Rules. That’s Why It Can Break Them. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z I guess my perspective on fan reaction is distorted because I don't scour the Internet for objective appraisals of the show. An interview with the dean of "Community" 2011-09-28T22:30:00Z Like a hall of mirrors, though, this twisted feedback loop of validation distorts the perspective of everyone who participates in it. "The Sandman" and the American Dream: Donald Trump is the Corinthian 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z Still, there’s plenty to be said for stories about tight-knit worlds that work by their own distorted rules, no matter how remote. How Broadway Imagines Africa 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z “I loved that we were shining light on what is often a neglected or distorted area of study. And I liked being a leader.” Poet Elizabeth Alexander’s memoir of love, loss, art and glorious food 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Painstakingly precise in its detail, the image is also subtly distorted, as if seeing the building through a fish-eye lens. Z. Vanessa Helder: a Northwest artist rediscovered at Tacoma Art Museum 2013-09-08T14:16:08Z He digs into social media, how the left and right are their own cults and the distorting dangers of technology. ‘Small Talk’ Review: The Art of Meaningless Banter 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Expect pictures that play with depiction and perception — employing windows and other reflective surfaces in ways that reflect and distort. Datebook: A SoCal artist pair, a doc about a culture-war artist, Rivera and Picasso 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z But “The Great Pretender” leaves open the possibility that Rosenhan did more than distort and omit facts that undermined his thesis. Her Illness Was Misdiagnosed as Madness. Now Susannah Cahalan Takes On Madness in Medicine. 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z But it turns out that ABC’s editing distorted what Walensky really said. A Rochelle Walensky interview sparked outrage. But the CDC says ABC omitted crucial context. 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z It was a cut above most others I have seen, mostly because it wasn't trying to sell some distorted, sentimental vision of a British and Olympic ideal. TV review: Immortal? A Horizon Guide to Ageing; Knockout Scousers: True Stories; Line of Duty 2012-07-17T23:45:01Z Combining the earnestness of a journalism professor and the sarcasm of a satirist, Mr. Stewart routinely charges that Fox’s news anchors and commentators distort Mr. Obama’s policies and advance a conservative agenda. Jon Stewart of ?The Daily Show? Takes On Fox News 2010-04-23T22:21:00Z Behind him drums and bass pumped in machinelike overdrive amid a gnarl of distorted guitar. Music Review: Iceage?s Punk Sound and Fury at Mercury Lounge - Review 2011-08-24T22:03:06Z “It was a distorted portrait, more about his death than his life,” Goldberg explained. Nirvana’s manager breaks his silence on Kurt Cobain 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z A medley of lights and sounds and speech, distorted and enhanced, then began. Andrew Schneider’s ‘Youarenowhere’ Is at the Coil Festival 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The fantastic Diane Young offers manic, distorted drum rolls, hiccupping rock'n'roll vocals subjected to the kind of electronic manipulation familiar from chopped-and-screwed hip-hop, bursts of filthy guitar. Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City – review 2013-05-09T14:30:01Z True crime, such as books about the Krays, also goes down well, though James says he fears the distorting effects on young criminals of titles that glamorise violence. Memoir reveals prisoners' book preferences 2010-10-27T13:57:00Z I picture the walls of Hallberg’s New York apartment so covered with pushpins that they distort the Earth’s magnetic field. ‘City on Fire’ review: A vibrant, kaleidoscopic vision of ’70s New York 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z This is a crowded party of gestures with twitches, kicks and distorted torsos. Dance Review: Slapped, Stamped and Delivered 2011-02-23T23:12:03Z Complaints about the naysayers who have “distorted angelic reality”? Books of The Times: Exotic Creatures and the Humans Who Chase Them 2010-03-01T06:01:00Z Issues like subjectivity, the unreliability of memory, the power of narrative to distort—in other words issues related to the act of storytelling—are of special interest. An Answer to the Novel’s Detractors 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Hungry’s distorted drag is interested in the deep wells of the self, a dream sequence that expresses the alien within. Beyond the Drag Event Horizon 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Moore despaired of Watchmen’s effect on the comics industry, which he described as “like being in a hall of mirrors in a funfair, where you can only see ugly, distorted reflections of yourself”. Auteurs assemble! What caused the superhero backlash? 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z There is a tension, though, between the book’s argument and its world-building, a kind of background static distorting its otherwise clear lines. When a Sinister Enemy Attacks New York, the City Fights Back 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Improper editing can distort, confuse or even present the opposite of what an interview subject said or intended to say. A Rochelle Walensky interview sparked outrage. But the CDC says ABC omitted crucial context. 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z She said a man approached her holding a “rather distorted” portrait of her, according to the statement. Marina Abramovic Attacked by Aspiring Artist in Florence 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z The figures’ primitive, angular proportions are wildly distorted, echoing ancient Iberian sculptures Picasso had seen at the Louvre, and the two women on the right have faces reflective of African masks that the artist admired. Review | How Picasso’s she-devils changed art forever 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Not how people shape history, but how history shapes us, how it distorts our stories, what it calls upon us to do. Janet Fitch on writing her new novel, 'The Revolution of Marina M.' 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Bond denounces the patriarchy; Orlando is alarmed by the rise of nationalism, as President Trump’s likeness and voice are distorted until nearly unrecognizable; and a chorus of children warns “Our planet is in danger!” Review: An ‘Orlando’ Opera Is a Milestone, but No More, in Vienna 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Because these characters often don’t question their basic realities, I think that more distinctly reveals the ways in which their worlds, both speculative and realistic, are distorted for the reader. Mary South on Content Moderation and Trauma 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z When there are references, they are oblique or distorted, and they tend to follow Hwang’s story in inverting the original material, asking us who the Butterfly in the story really is. Review: ‘M. Butterfly’ Metamorphoses Again, as an Opera 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z There is an alternate reality to his portraits and scenes, with toothy grins, distorted physical proportions and backward text. He Likes ‘Staying Under the Radar,’ but His Art Is Getting Noticed 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Outbursts of distorted guitar and bass drum become more frequent, and more violent, as the story progresses. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z The images are distorted, incomplete portraits, yellowed as if from the distant past, and that elusiveness clashes marvelously with the palpable physicality and daunting weight of their support. What to see in L.A. galleries: Betye Saar, Tom Knechtel, Kay Sekimachi 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Son and grandson reflect, like a distorting mirror, the fraught relationship of father and son. ‘Sins of a Father’ Resuscitates a 1991 Film Starring Alan Bates 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z JC: My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. Jimmy Carter and Jacqueline Woodson on Race, Religion and Rights 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Single Peach Blossom recalls the buoyancy of Mr E's Beautiful Blues, as Everett takes time to smell the flowers atop a flatulently distorted guitar riff. Eels: Wonderful, Glorious – review 2013-02-03T00:05:22Z From an angle — say someone else is holding the device and you are trying to see the picture from the side — the image appears distorted, if not a bit disorienting. 3-D Without Glasses? Try the New Nintendo Handheld Game 2010-06-15T19:48:00Z Even during my childhood, its greenery and pristine lakes distorted the reality of its gradual decline. Past Into Present: 4 Journeys That Changed Us 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z The accompanying paper trail that shows bills of sale, liquidation papers and letters, they add, was later fabricated or distorted to mask illicit dealings. Lawsuit Against MoMA Highlights Timing Issues in Claims of Nazi Looting 2011-08-23T16:57:53Z These panels reappear here and there in the galleries, refracting light, disco ball fashion, and creating distorted images of quite different works from other decades. Jim Hodges at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z His keyboards squirm, chatter and moan, distorted voices checking in from the next galaxy. Album review: Killer Mike, 'R.A.P. Music' 2012-05-18T17:33:00Z Geffen sounds clear, clean and straightforward; there’s nothing distorted or echoing, no weird balances or flabby resonances. How the Philharmonic’s New Home Sounds, From Any Seat 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z But the effect is to distort Riley and misrepresent the way we form social relationships: through performances and masks that one tries on, as much for oneself as for others. The Curse of the Pixar Universe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z To add or omit anything would distort the dialogue. Experience: I'm a translator for terrorists and criminals 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z More crucially, though, the drawing-out of Dana gives audience members the chance to reflect on what they might know about trauma, and what threats of violence do to distort someone’s natural reactions. Review | A harrowing hostage story is told with stunning subtlety in Broadway’s ‘Dana H.’ 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Not only do they serve as circular counterpoints to the angular shapes beneath, but also as little lenses, refracting and distorting the grid of pixels into more organic forms, each one a tiny rainbow kaleidoscope. From drops on a computer screen, Valerie Green creates tiny kaleidoscopic worlds 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Amid Prince’s vocals, keyboard chords, distorted lead guitar and a chatty bass guitar, Davis wedged in his recognizable chromatic sprints and tangent harmonies. Prince’s Vault Reveals a Brilliant Trove With ‘Sign O’ the Times’ 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Relationships with sponsors distort the arts in two ways. Crude awakening: BP and the Tate 2010-06-30T20:31:00Z But in some of the slower movements in both works, the music seemed distorted by her ponderous tempos and mannerisms. Philippe Entremont Conducts; Simone Dinnerstein Performs; Music by Ezequiel Vi?ao 2012-02-03T23:02:08Z Technology on “Blonde” distorts his singing, and usually that’s alluring — like David Bowie in one of his alien phases. The Lonely Toil of Frank Ocean: Is It Art, or Denial? 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z I believe it is immoral for adults to distort the reality of war to children. Alice Walker: By the Book 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Even when insensitivity isn’t intentionally malicious, it can still have distorting effects. “Amish Mafia”: Is there really such a thing as an Amish thug? 2012-12-12T19:08:00Z It was an ugly, ugly time, one that changed the way he looked at the world, not just figuratively but literally: the gimlet-eyed investigator is also given to “visions,” drug flashbacks that distort his perceptions. True Detective Watch: Seeing Things 2014-01-20T10:30:16Z Using the computer program Max/MSP he distorted and dispersed digital samples of traditional Asian music in a manner meant to suggest psychedelically enhanced perception. Music Review: Sarah Cahill and Carl Stone at the Stone Space 2010-08-04T22:28:00Z Circling through two or three chords, using sparse arrangements and a fast-strummed, slightly distorted vintage guitar, the songs gathered a nervous energy, compulsively telling all. Music Review: Scrambling and Personalizing the Rock Timeline 2011-07-17T22:10:21Z That may be true, but it’s a reading that obscures an arguably more important divide in left opinion that some feel has distorted public debate. Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z More troublesome, Professor Ross and others agree, is when small infractions become big infractions; when context gets lost and facts are distorted, or it becomes difficult to discern between the two. What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In? 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z The cold war, in which whoever was not with us was against us, had already distorted western views of Asia and Africa. The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z Matt Wolf’s film, w hich plays Monday on PBS’s “Independent Lens,” is about Stokes’ paranoid but visionary compulsion to create a mammoth VHS archive of history as depicted, filtered and distorted by media. New this week: Neil Young, ‘Miss Juneteenth,’ Padma Lakshmi 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Painted with wide brushes in high-keyed hues, her expressionistically distorted pictures of partly unclothed people project existential angst with happy exuberance. Art Review: The Uncluttered Look Has Its Day 2011-03-03T23:30:06Z Stalwart British brass answered the rowdy distorted guitar in “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”; “She’s Leaving Home” is a stately waltz set to a harp and parlor orchestra that might have accompanied high tea. The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ at 50: Still Full of Joy and Whimsy 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z In my own experience," he says, "you work out that the job is going to give you a fairly distorted diet, so I go to see films with the missus at the weekend. Sex, violence and swearing on film: 100 years of the BBFC 2012-07-26T18:59:03Z The lyric is enigmatic enough to invite plenty of speculation — Is it about distorted body image? Taylor Swift, 30-Something, Is Revising Her Own Love Stories 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z “Don’t shrink or distort the classical referents, don’t lose that old-school charm — you are talking to history.” Forsythe Coaches Boston Ballet in ‘The Second Detail’ 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Enclosed in a simple card sleeve, the vinyl carries just 20 seconds of music: ambient electronica, with a distorted voice reciting the numbers "nine, three, six, five, five, seven". Does Boards of Canada's record-store clue point to new album? 2013-04-22T10:39:26Z Today’s moviegoers are as likely to see their world – however distorted – reflected back at them as they are to be entertained. La La Land, Hidden Figures and films that squeezed happiness out of 2016 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z By now the setup is familiar: a bunch of young men — boys, really — playing sweet, slightly distorted classic melodies. Music Review: Sweet, Dreamy Nibbles From Band With Teeth 2011-01-19T23:34:30Z These functions include elevating everyday people into larger-than-life characters, distorting reality, and altering perception, both literally and figuratively. Explore 50 Years of Contemporary Photography in a New Exhibition in Philadelphia 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z In “Woody’s Airstream,” he goes to town with the distorted reflective surfaces of a recreational trailer. February gallery shows ponder architectural possibilities 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z "These are dramatic drawings with distorted perspective: he creates highly ambiguous spaces," said Kierkuc-Bielinski. Piranesi works drawn together in London for first time since 18th century 2013-02-14T18:13:07Z They also can distort their own memories with inferences and guesses about past events. Harvey Weinstein trial hears from expert on unreliable memories 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z They are distorting an Israeli idealism he still holds dear. David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair' 2010-08-28T23:03:00Z Both scenes employ a distinctive formal trick, the former using mirrors to distort perception and the latter panning left and right to simulate a shot-reverse shot conversation obscured by train seats. Unbreakable at 20: the film that finally took superheroes seriously 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z The dolls’ faces were distorted for maximum “uncanny valley” effect. 'The Leftovers' Recap: In the Finale, a Showdown 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z What of the perversely distorted view of American chattel slavery where somehow it was "poor whites" who had it "worse" than black human property? Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z What is worse, the foreshortening of the pointing arm has also been distorted. Germaine Greer: The debate over Mona Lisa's identity 2011-02-20T22:30:00Z Knightley’s figure was controversially distorted on the poster for King Arthur in 2004: Her breasts were edited to look bigger than they are in real life. Keira Knightley Posed Topless to Protest Photoshopping 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Ditching their previous band's smooth edges in favour of something gauzier and more distorted, they went into the studio with Newfeld and created Give In, their debut album with City Slang. New music: On An On – The Hunter 2013-01-28T16:40:53Z So here’s a prediction: wherever interest from the super-wealthy begins to distort prices and restrict availability, broader interest will not follow – at least in the long run. Disco drinks to pre-mixed Manhattans: what we'll sip in 2018 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z We're all aware of the lethal dangers that happen when our history is overlooked, when the truth is distorted, when our story is not told in its entirety. "It's blood memory": Jurnee Smollett on how the horrors in "Lovecraft Country" are felt in real life 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z Across this scene drifts Lynch's singing voice, high-pitched, largely distorted and croaking like a wizened fairground barker. David Lynch: The Big Dream – review 2013-07-11T20:30:00Z Sometimes the industry distorts the studies or will use them to promote some of their own products. The only way to defeat the food industry: Cook more 2014-01-01T21:00:00Z Perhaps it was the distorted guitars that instantly recalled ’80s hair metal or the fact that there was hardly a quiet moment in his set, but Chesney’s brand of country music hardly sounded like it. Chesney keeps fans buzzing with 2-hour parade of his hits 2013-06-02T22:11:24Z Mr. Rother, using a laptop for electronic loops and often giving his guitar a distorted edge, rarely played conventional lead guitar lines; they were more like razor-edged planes of sustained sound, slicing across the beat. Music Review: Michael Rother and Hermeto Pascoal at Damrosch Park 2010-08-08T22:13:00Z Already in the pipeline before the pandemic, many of these novels may have struck at the right moment, given a boost by a widespread distorted perception of time. Gotta get back in time: The current explosion of time travel novels goes beyond sci-fi and fantasy 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Perhaps most striking are the strange contraptions that look like standing spotlights, but in place of the bulbs, there are faces, distorted by transparent but thick molded lenses. At 84, an Artist Tries Something New: Displaying His Work 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Perhaps his dual citizenship in Britain and the United States sensitized him early to the distorted attitudes toward King George’s forces. O’Shaughnessy’s ‘Men Who Lost America’ wins $50,000 George Washington Book Prize These two debut novels explore the danger and wonder of art, its capacity to distort and illuminate the world. Down the Rabbit Hole 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z In “Energy Grid,” a mixed-media piece, a nude humanoid form is warped and distorted in an undulating mesh of lines that evokes some kind of force field. Review: Kirkland exhibit asks, Is connectivity really bringing us closer together? 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Pedants may object that the chase sequences and plot twists distort the facts, while thrill-seekers may complain that the politics get in the way of the explosions and firefights. Movie Review | 'Green Zone': Matt Damon Searches for That Casualty of War, Truth 2010-03-11T23:32:00Z Rather than trumpet his achievements, Blake used the media attention to critique the very idea of the gifted child, arguing that the label distorted public understanding of which human attributes were valuable. From IQ tests and sperm banks to "The Queen’s Gambit": a history of gifted children 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z It was one sign that while awards shows are inevitably distorted, incomplete and open to argument, the Latin Grammys this year struck a satisfying balance of longstanding traditions and genre-stretching possibilities. At the Latin Grammys, Youth and Age Were Both Welcome 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z News from the coasts was always slow to arrive, often distorted by the time it reached us. Screw the sisterhood! I’d rather screw your boyfriend 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z "What thin creations these characters are — and how distorted they are by the stilted prose and characterizations," Seghal wrote. Inside the cancellation of "American Dirt" (and its book tour) 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z I believe it will distort events and subtract from public understanding. Assange slams WikiLeaks film in letter to actor Benedict Cumberbatch 2013-10-10T02:47:29Z The six episodes of this adaptation’s first season artfully capture the story in warm, soft tones that lend a dreamlike quality, distorting the line between the real and the imagined. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ and ‘Ibiza’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Like most of Mr. McDonagh’s Irish settings, Inishmaan is such an uneventful place that the most humdrum gossip inflates into big, distorted news. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Daniel Radcliffe as Cripple Billy 2013-06-27T17:08:49Z This has a lot to do with what we have been conditioned to think of as "natural" as opposed to unnatural within our already distorted food system. In a world of ultra-processed food, here's why I am sold on lab-grown chicken 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z Black Mirror generally offers up terrifying visions of a future distorted by technology, but here it explores its potential to unite people and create a new type of community. Spielberg's Ready Player One – in 2045, virtual reality is everyone's saviour 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Her goal is to link recent global movements for racial justice and historical reckoning with the longer-term question of how people understand, distort, correct and build on the “whole wide world of the past.” The Controversy Over Statues and How We Commemorate the Past 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Mulaney douses the grim with prepubescent charm, distorting the lines between the ironic and the sincere; in turn, he proves that maybe that line never really existed. John Mulaney on Finding New Material and Why He's No Comeback Kid 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z American audiences that know him for his uncharacteristically sweet turn in “Philomena” or his role as the miniature Roman soldier in “Night at the Museum” movies may have a distorted view of his talents. Movie Review: ‘Alan Partridge,’ Starring Steve Coogan 2014-04-03T22:44:42Z Maybe Ellis is one of very few novelists who can truly surrender to the gaze of his creations – however distorted their view might be. Psycho, genius ... fraud? 2010-07-26T07:00:00Z There he must finally confront the uncomfortable facts of his own convoluted identity, and that leads inevitably toward unearthing his country’s purposely distorted history. Review | Peter Carey’s new novel is a strange ride through Australia’s racist past — and present 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z “Jonathan,” a lament about a trip to Coney Island with her ex-boyfriend, is backed only by a ghostly loop of a brushed snare, distorted and faded in the background. Fiona Apple's The Idler Wheel...: Painful, Raw Parts That Form Something Beautiful 2012-06-18T16:24:15Z Groff is too sophisticated to regard the wife’s perspective as the “true” one; Mathilde’s experience is distorted by its own, different myths. ‘Fates and Furies’ review: A masterful tale of marriage and secrets 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The performers lie Bianchi down on a mattress next to them, and the atmosphere turns trippy, with loud distorted club music. Review: To Revisit a Sexual Assault, She Drugs Herself Onstage 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z The follow-up record, “Hour of the Dawn,” is released this week; its brashly distorted first single, “Losing to the Dark,” bodes extremely well for the album. Pop & Rock Listings for May 9-15 2014-05-08T22:39:49Z But even in its dismantled condition, “Tilted Arc” continues to distort Mr. Serra’s reputation, fostering an image of an artist who set out to taunt the public. Richard Serra Is Carrying the Weight of the World 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z PK14 come across as more Brooklyn than Beijing, their sound a melange of distorted guitars, tortured vocals and driving drums, heavy and dissonant. China in your hand: the lowdown on Chinese pop 2012-12-25T22:20:21Z The human wastage in The Charnel House, for instance, is so distorted it barely looks like a figurative image at all. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z “You spend time with them, you get to like them, so you could argue you’re getting a distorted view.” Louis Theroux: ‘For all his awfulness, I admire Trump’s shamelessness’ 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z “You always think things don’t do justice to you until you realize that maybe your own image of yourself is a little bit distorted compared to what the world sees,” he says. How an artist captured Fauci’s career in a genre-defying new portrait 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Two of the top 10 are dystopian novels, nightmarish visions of governments determined to distort and destroy independent thought. Analysis | New York Public Library’s most checked-out books say a lot about what we read and why 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z His critique of Hollywood’s long history of ignoring and distorting black lives has altered the way we look at movies. ‘Da 5 Bloods’ Review: Black Lives Mattered in Vietnam, Too 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Likewise with The Haunting, the sets were purpose-built to look slightly off, and filmed with distorting lenses. Re-possessed: exploring Hereditary and Hollywood’s love of the haunted house 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z “I KNOW,” she nearly screams, her voice distorting on the line. 'I love fame': how Caroline Calloway survived being cancelled 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z It took 10 years for everyone to realise that being digital meant you could really mess with and distort and rearrange things. Tom Ellard of Severed Heads - what I'm thinking about 2013-03-14T04:31:17Z I was like, "I love your image, but I want this really dirty, distorted version." The secret to Jim James’ solo album “Uniform Distortion”: “Turn off your phone and open y... 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z When reality is distorted by authoritarian propaganda, cynicism can be impossible to distinguish from sincerity, and opportunism can masquerade as righteousness. ‘Donbass’ Review: War in Ukraine, the Prequel 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z “But if people attack me and distort my record, we will respond,” he added. Bernie Sanders to Seth Meyers: If Clinton campaign attacks, we will push back 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z It's this quality, of a simmering, barely controlled violence that disrupts and distorts all of Shepard's families, that is at the heart of much of his best work. Sam Shepard bares his soul 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z Holter, with a keyboard and a string quartet, was opulent and delicate – but Hecker and Lopatin created a huge, swelling, apocalyptic din, where orchestral samples were mangled and distorted with laptop noise. When the church turns into a pub 2012-12-27T08:00:05Z Cox's voice is distorted and roughened throughout: it's paisley pop played through a garage rock-filter. Deerhunter: Monomania – review 2013-05-09T21:25:01Z The only letdown was the evening's opener, "Shape": a bauble of a thing "about distorting a typical body shape," McIntyre has explained, "and then taking that new shape seriously." Review: Trey McIntyre Project is physical and precise; witty and intricate 2010-03-19T16:44:00Z These have been crumpled, and fixed in their squashed state with resin, so the text and partly representational imagery are distorted. In the galleries: The beauty of nature, in all its horror 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z They buff Spears’ chirpy voice until it’s just another serviceable part – distorting it, smudging it, making it skip -- in a big, gleaming machine. Britney Spears debuts new single, 'Hold it Against Me' 2011-01-10T19:15:34Z Vidal and Buckley were authentically important and interesting writers and thinkers, but sitting under the lights they were, above all, celebrities, signifiers of their own distorted individuality. Review: ‘Best of Enemies’ Recalls Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.’s TV Battles 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z I get bored of using my fingers or a fork and a knife or chopsticks, and I get bored of peering into the bowl of a spoon, watching my nose distort. Body of work: Women writers on disordered eating, writing the body and the book launch diet 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z They culminate in “Pinkville,” which Mr. Frumkin considered Mr. Saul’s masterpiece, and identify the artist as an equal opportunity abuser prone to distorting and maligning figures both real and imagined, admired and vilified. Review: ‘Peter Saul: From Pop to Punk,’ a Firebrand Willing to Offend 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The result is a dramatic exploration of the distorting forces of memory, envy and art. Review | Susan Choi’s ‘Trust Exercise’ invites you to recall the highs and humiliations of adolescence 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z But, he added: “When played together they were perfect for the emotion and the message. It was distorted and it was beautiful.” William Brohn, Who Made Broadway Orchestras Sing, Dies at 84 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z But something smears across the lower part of the painting, grisly and absurd: looked at from the correct angle, this distorted image reveals itself as a skull. A world of discovery is tainted by a dark shadow in Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors 2012-08-21T10:36:01Z It was distorted, and he allowed himself to be persuaded that Saddam was a greater risk than he actually was. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z The degree to which entertainment media reflect or distort reality is an enduring question in communication and media studies. Why are sitcom dads still so inept? 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Kanye West shares the production credits on “Illuminati” and leaves his imprint with distorted vocal effects, a hard kick drum and a rubbery bass line. 6 Songs Offer Preview of ‘Rebel Heart’ Album 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z I imagine he would have regarded the indignity of his voice being distorted on the tape as more damaging than the distorted politics. Adam Mars-Jones: my lunch at the Dorchester with Gore Vidal 2012-08-03T07:00:37Z But the distorted faces and bodies of Höch’s paintings and collages are also here, disrupting the mood. Hope and Dread Are Infused in ‘Berlin Metropolis’ 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z I think he had gifts which have been distorted and perverted ... Myra Hindley: a new chapter 2012-06-19T19:29:01Z Edwards' dazed, distorted tracks come from a techno tradition "shot through with melancholy, or at least unease," Sherburne said. Underground music hero Delroy Edwards fosters an above-board approach 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z It’s OK to distort your map by reducing the distances between places — throw accuracy out the window! How to Make an Illustrated Map in 8 Steps 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z It is gardening on a distorted scale where size is immense but time is short — the Keukenhof is only open for two flower-packed months from the 21st of March until the 19th of May. Chasing Rembrandt’s Tulips on Two Wheels 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z It is discomfiting to stand in front of a man whose face is distorted by rage and know that one’s own face must look much the same. The search for my inner ‘hero’: a modern masculinity retreat 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Instead, he has made a historical film in which the historical element is so grossly distorted as to detach the hero from humanity. “First Man,” Reviewed: Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong Bio-Pic Is an Accidental Right-Wing Fetish Object 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z An overture, powered by distorted electric guitar and staccato strings, accompanies this sooty B-movie-style image. Review: A B-Movie Starlet Becomes an Opera Diva in ‘Acquanetta’ 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z A distorted vocal repeatedly intones "on me" until one suspects the protagonist of paranoid self-obsession. Readers recommend: songs about eavesdropping ? results 2011-07-14T12:18:29Z It offers its own distorted view, which reflects the views of many of its supporters but in reality it is not respected by many people outside the UK. MPs criticise World Service cuts 2011-04-13T01:02:25Z It’s an erasure firmly rooted in a film culture that, from its inception, has made a practice of denigrating and distorting black bodies, while elevating whiteness as its falsely “universal” standard. ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ and Hollywood’s enduring problem with whitewashing 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z “By hovering over the park in a horizontal band, Fata Morgana becomes a ghostlike, sculptural, luminous mirage that both distorts the landscape and radiates golden light.” Teresita Fernández’s New Installation the Largest to Date in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Van Halen's sound was loud and distorted but also clear and focused. With his signature guitar style, Eddie Van Halen changed rock music 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z His three siblings dismissed the possessions — worn silver dollars, mail-ordered precious stones, a gold Cross pen, four gold-painted robin eggs — as worthless, "evidence of his distorted view of the world." A legacy of 400 pulp porno novels: Chris Offutt's revealing 'My Father, the Pornographer' 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Then there are the acoustics of the cube, where music can sound muddy and distorted. Scene/Seen: Prague: What's New in the Cube 2011-01-07T13:00:08Z But this will require abandoning the old distorting illusions and fantasies of a power that Britain never quite possessed. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z He distorts the record with diabolical effectiveness, accusing Constance of letting prisoners escape and of attempting to set lunatics free. Review | In ‘Miss Kopp Just Won’t Quit,’ being one of the first female sheriff’s deputies is tough business 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z It features compressed and distorted images, such as the texture of an animal's fur, or the pavement. Experimental film "Erēmīta" is an inventive & vivid celebration of our pandemic hermitage life 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z For extra credit, remember that the play, which was first staged in 1955, distorts Frank’s original account somewhat into a hopeful, transcendent vision of human nature rather than a document of history’s horrors. In ‘Cyclorama,’ Former Classmates Confront an Extra Problematic Drama Teacher 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z In other words, “The Waverly Gallery” is very much a group portrait, in which everyday life is distorted to the point of surrealism by the addled soul at its center. Review: Elaine May Might Break Your Heart in ‘Waverly Gallery’ 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z But satire finds it just as easy to distort the improbable encounter, which produces a different ideological conclusion. The big picture: Conservative candidate Margaret Roberts campaigns in Dartford 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z Falling somewhere between gritty hardcore and distorted jungle, Rico Nasty’s “Intrusive” scrapes like metal through a meat grinder. Sky Ferreira’s Dazzling, Defiant Return, and 11 More New Songs 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z But the beauty of the novel is in the cracks that distort the plot. Review | In ‘Hell of a Book,’ an author and his imaginary friend go on a book tour 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z “The lower frequencies distort violently making it impossible to find pitch,” Lewis added. Hearing loss causes Huey Lewis to call off 2018 concerts 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z But the overall message I think would have been distorted. Katie Couric vs. Big Food: She’s a “strong feminist,” but not an “activist” 2014-05-06T22:59:00Z The oil-on-canvas piece comprises tormented and distorted figures - human and animal - and represents the horrors of mechanized war. Picasso's "Guernica" undergoes medical check 2012-02-24T11:01:05Z As a state historian, Mr Jang was allowed to read banned portions of the country’s unvarnished history, the better to distort it. Binding minds 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z An experimental artist, Samaras began working with Polaroid in 1969, pushing its colored emulsion dyes to create multifaceted and sometimes distorted portraits, a process that became known as "photo-transformations." Adams, Samaras set records at NYC Polaroid auction 2010-06-22T16:01:00Z Without a selfie stick, the subject’s face is almost inevitably distorted, seen too close and with unflattering proximity. At museums, selfie sticks poke holes in the idea of anything goes 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z What thin creations these characters are — and how distorted they are by the stilted prose and characterizations. A Mother and Son, Fleeing for Their Lives Over Treacherous Terrain 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z On “Boys & Girls” the guitars buzz, distort and feed back while Ms. Howard belts. Alabama Shakes? Unvarnished Soul on Shiny New Album 2012-04-06T21:51:01Z Their 2016 debut, “I, Gemini,” was a frenetic album of distorted, twitchy pop with song titles like “Eat Shiitake Mushrooms” and “Chocolate Sludge Cake.” Let’s Eat Grandma’s Electro Pop Is Glittery. Its Subjects Are Weighty. 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z But obviously when people rallied around the book and recognized that he was distorting my work, and of course, Judge Jackson would go on to be confirmed, I was fine. Ibram X Kendi responds to Sen. Ted Cruz 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z In the medieval “Saint of the Foxes” the crow recognizes a distorted memory of his old friend, the priestess Fox Cap. A book-length historical fantasy about a crow? It’s not as birdbrained as that sounds. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z There was barely a moment of relief from the sheer loudness, which distorted his opening set of three Liszt songs. Music Review: Brian Mulligan and Lisette Oropesa at the Morgan Library 2012-04-02T22:10:13Z “The Good Fight,” also produced by the Kings, operated on the theory that chaotic times require a distorted filter, and a grab bag of unusual tools. How ‘Atlanta’ and ‘The Good Fight’ Chose Chaos 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z The world does ultimately invade these distorted dark notes, once the orchestra takes on more body. Susanna Mälkki brings more news to the Los Angeles Philharmonic 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z I don’t mind the way a few musicians play parts of the music onstage; I do mind the way instrumental lines are transposed up or down, dynamics are altered and ensembles are distorted. Review: Joffrey Ballet’s New ‘Nutcracker’ Leaves Some Tradition Behind 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z The orthochromatic film used in the twenties distorted natural shades: reds and yellows showed up dark and blues hardly showed at all. Hollywood Costume – dressing the part 2012-10-12T21:55:14Z The panes were thick, the glass distorted in several places. Sarah Ruhl and Rebecca Taichman on Conjuring ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the band shout the title in distorted voices, as though singing through telephones, and the guitars crunch and wail in a parody of guitars that crunch and wail. Weezer is the absolute worst: Is Rivers Cuomo just trolling us all? 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The feminist light she shines on these events never distorts their original shape; it only illuminates details we hadn’t noticed before. Review | The original nasty woman is a goddess for our times 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z When I first watched the scene, I was most unnerved by the way their talk mashed everything together, suggesting that there were only two sides to the question—a bizarrely distorted premise. “The Newsroom” ’s Crazy-Making Campus-Rape Episode 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Having been both bolstered and confined by religion and custom under the old order, the oldest human institution was transformed, distorted and sometimes destroyed by what followed. Behind closed doors 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z It turned out that elephant roars and lion growls, when distorted properly, could heighten tension and draw out emotion in such scenes. Lion roars and a busted grape: How editors and mixers built the sounds of this year’s Oscar movies 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Jon Spencer sings, “I’m gonna break,” and the driver brakes; then a distorted guitar riff starts, commingling with the faint reverberations of a police chopper overhead. How Edgar Wright used music to transform the heist movie with ‘Baby Driver’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z As memories fade, she said, people become more vulnerable to “post-event information” including media reports that can distort what they remember. Harvey Weinstein trial hears from expert on unreliable memories 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z “In the soft obscurity, Agnes’s face appeared smooth and distorted — her forehead wide, swallowing her feverish eyes, her mouth protruding beneath her nose,” the student observes. In ‘White on White,’ the Traditional Landlord-Tenant Pact Is Ruptured 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Jónsi Birgisson's vocals are as delicate and airy as ever, but now glide over distorting guitars, trumpets and what sounds at one point like a drunk man slurring into a cardboard tube. Sigur Rós: Kveikur – review 2013-06-13T21:00:01Z He claims that distorted footage of one of his taped games in the film was altered. It Could Be Game Over for a Onetime King of Donkey Kong 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Through a spokesman, Meghan and Harry decried the stories as “distorted several-year-old accusations” packaged together as part of a “smear campaign” intended to harm their reputations ahead of their interview with Oprah. More Than You Need to Know About Harry, Meghan and Oprah 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z As is often true in Shakespeare’s comedies, the principal theme is reflected in distorted form by the activities of a parallel set of clownish types. | 'Love?s Labor?s Lost': ?Love?s Labor?s Lost? at Public Theater - Review 2011-11-01T02:01:01Z “The quality is terrible, but we liked how distorted and confusing and chaotic it was,” Mr. Williams said. ?The Select (The Sun Also Rises)? and Its Sound Effects 2011-09-09T14:41:20Z We have distorted our history to fit the Myth of the Lost Cause and it is thishistory which explains our obsession with the Civil War. Lies I learned as a Southerner: Racism, the Confederate flag and why so many white Southerners revere a symbol of hatred 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Breathe Carolina, a band from Denver, made electropop that Warped can love: with two vocalists, yearning and screaming; with synthesizer tones that used dubstep’s distorted buzz; and with occasional blasts of metallic guitar. Music Review: Warped Tour Returns to Nassau Coliseum 2012-07-22T22:51:26Z As a siren wails and their faces distort, their stomachs fill with fluid that rushes to their mouths and erupts. Museum Show for David Lynch, Who Began as a Visual Artist 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z There is as much affection for found totems of saccharine girlhood as there is anger or rejection, as much unsatisfied yearning in her distorted images of conventional femininity as there is trauma or shock. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Metal offends those who loath its cacophony and distorted guitars, who disapprove of metallers' sometimes raucous bacchanalia, who are shocked by its use of the "dark side" symbolisms. Why Ai Weiwei and heavy metal are a perfect match 2013-03-11T13:59:02Z However, the film “Green Book” is a destructive lie that distorts and softens the murderous history of white racism in America while minimizing the suffering of oppressed people. "Green Book": Black survival tool or white lie? 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z Like “Bleach,” it featured songs that alternated between bludgeoning, distorted guitars and sweet, catchy melodies. Nirvana’s “Nevermind” Made, and Unmade, Alternative Culture 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z That sense of sound and spirit merging also pervades the next scene, set around a distorted, outsized chair. Eva Yerbabuena/Farruquito – review 2013-03-18T12:50:00Z Because market prices do not reflect these externalities, all prices in the economy are distorted, including the price of labor and the prices of the machines that replace human labor. I got slimed by Marco Rubio: The massive debate fail shows off his ignorance 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z So how do you resolve the question of what is genuinely an "unfolding" of the original vision and what is an arbitrary elaboration that distorts that vision? Christian Beginnings by Geza Vermes - review 2012-07-11T07:00:02Z Continuing to gather strength, I decided sue the BBC and the production company Lion TV for libel following the screening of a sequence of events that I can only describe as distorted and untruthful. How Castaway made my life hell 2010-08-11T19:00:00Z Costumes with lives of their own distort and extend the body. Review: Momix’s ‘Alice’ Is a Rabbit Hole (or 22) Too Far 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Suzan-Lori Parks’s jazz fugue of a play, which closes on Dec. 18, presents a haunting, sepulchral parade of images that have distorted and swallowed up the history of African-Americans. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z “We’ve started to see how the virtual and digital world can distort things,” Anderson adds. Perspective | Fashion shows are now 12-hour live streams. Or movies starring mermaids. Or mailed to you in a box. 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Instead, the actor is called upon to contort his body, and Gilbert creates a magnificent illusion, twisting his arm, hunching his body and distorting his mouth. STAGEright’s ‘Elephant Man’ a potent, powerful show 2014-03-13T20:20:36Z There are municipal politics, race politics, immigration politics, newspaper politics, class politics, and the distorting powers of YouTube and reality TV. 'Back to Blood': Tom Wolfe's Miami novel falls victim to stylistic excess 2012-10-17T18:38:09Z We spoke to him about his former hometown, television coverage of urban unrest, media ownership, and how it all distorts our vision of reality. Our police-state fantasy: Why TV news coverage of Baltimore “seems to make people comfortable with the idea of martial law” 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z The images illuminate a nation's racial divide and how African Americans viewed themselves against the distorting gaze of caricature and prejudice. 'Through a Lens Darkly' tackles a photographic divide in America 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z Auerbach dished out distorted guitar lines with a skip in his step, bouncing on the balls of his feet and shaking his head like a Muppet. Concert review: Black Keys at the United Center 2012-03-20T14:36:00Z And if we’re stumbling through life with such a distorted understanding of our social circles, where does that leave all the other received wisdom about friendship’s importance? Are your friends really your friends? | Oliver Burkeman 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z The answer — depicted in touching flashbacks and distorted supernatural flourishes — is heartbreaking. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The padding distorted the lines of the hips, backs, shoulders and chests. Renegades and Radical Bodies in 3 New York Exhibitions 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z But it’s not them; it’s a distorted version of them. The Master’s Joaquin Phoenix on Animal Inspirations, Curb Your Enthusiasm and the Pleasures of Discomfort 2012-09-13T12:00:22Z Mr. Davis’s paintings were mostly figurative works depicting blacks in surreal landscapes, sometimes with their features distorted or smeared in a manner reminiscent of Francis Bacon. Noah Davis, California Figurative Artist and Founder of the Underground Museum, Dies at 32 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z The problem is that the race to the Oscars now so profoundly consumes everyone’s attention that it has distorted the perception of what’s actually available. Arts & Leisure: Film Favorites of A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis in 2011 2011-12-14T13:13:18Z Done in Picasso’s extreme distorted manner, the print rose to an extravagant $5.12 million. Auctions: Bidders at Christie's Open Pocketbooks, but With a Clear Eye 2011-11-02T12:30:11Z The film projections are often grainy and the sound distorted, yet the cinemas are packed. Burkina Faso stages Africa's film festival with a conscience 2013-03-01T11:24:52Z NBC has said that Farrow distorted how the network handled his reporting. Time’s Up Blasts Gabrielle Union’s Ouster as Reality Show Judge 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Prince Albert and his sisters — who are virtually next-door neighbors of Cannes — are boycotting the festival this year in protest of the film, which they say distorts the facts of their mother’s life. With a low-key opening night film, the Cannes Film Festival gets off to a subdued — but promising — start. “Contrary to distorted reporting, no one at that press conference addressed a question to me about the racial makeup of the jury,” wrote Streep. Meryl Streep blames 'distorted reporting' for 'we're all Africans' row 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Yet there’s nothing tentative in the music, which saturates the frequency spectrum with ballooning bass lines, cloudlike synthesizer chords, hefty drum-machine accents and arena-scale distorted guitar. Playlist: New Music From Washed Out, Buddy Guy and Natalia Lafourcade 2013-08-09T18:39:31Z "And when you look at that history, you see that we've been distorted and dehumanized in every way possible. And dehumanization always leads to violence." "Disclosure" director Sam Feder on the trans TV experience: "People don't know what they don't know" 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z In mounting his passionate attack on Silicon Valley, Levine often distorts the arguments of his opponents. Free Ride by Robert Levine ? review 2011-08-18T11:24:01Z Elizabeth Loftus, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, told jurors that people’s memories can become distorted after the fact and testified that strong emotions around a memory were no guarantee of its accuracy.. Highlights from Harvey Weinstein's rape trial 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Recorded speech, usually muffled or distorted beyond discernibility, served as binding material throughout most of the roughly half-hour piece. Music Review: Pauline Oliveros and Olivia Block Find the Unconventional 2013-09-15T22:03:58Z Her voice is distorted and slightly computerized in the verse, before giving way to a soaring chorus. Katy Perry Releases Surprise Single For 2016 Rio Olympics 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z “Our experience is that if people don’t see what is really happening inside prisons, the imagination fills the void and people get pretty distorted ideas,” said A.T. Will prisons ever open up to journalists? 2013-01-02T16:53:00Z They weren’t flashy, but they had value, and were a quiet reminder — like Mr. Owens’ fog and Mr. Simons’ switcheroos — of how distorted our world has become. Welcome to Now, Courtesy of Rick Owens 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Even so, I have rarely seen a play that so effectively embodies the way external forces — in this case, immigration policies in the United States — distort the inner lives of actual humans. Review: In ‘Sanctuary City,’ Slamming the Door on the Dream 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z We admitted that our values have become distorted and that the streets is a game you cannot win. Hustlers Anonymous 2012-10-15T22:38:00Z The enveloping roar of distorted guitars and overdriven amps. Perspective | You call it a root canal. I call it a bittersweet symphony. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z His own longtime Southern-rock jam band has a gravity to match either of them, with brawling, distorted riffs and lyrics full of bleak insight. Where to Catch Music and Comedy on New Year’s Eve 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z What would you say to critics who might argue that it’s stacking the deck in an argument like this to decide when a religion’s beliefs are being “distorted” and when they’re not? The Blame Game: Karen Armstrong Talks About 'Fields of Blood' 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Sometimes it lends the feeling of living in a Dali painting, with familiar features of governance and life in Washington distorted by daily crisis. Book review: ‘Washington Journal,’ reporting Watergate, by Elizabeth Drew On the night I went the claques were so fervent that verdicts were distorted. Back to the Apollo, Uptown?s Showbiz Incubator 2011-02-07T15:09:18Z Cognitive biases distort the way we think all the way along the line. Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova – review 2013-01-04T15:19:54Z We unconsciously distort our view of things so they seem to be necessary and true. 6 ways to keep the voices in your head from making your life miserable 2014-03-21T12:56:00Z With burnished corners and a semi-gloss finish, it’s the perfect surface on which to project your fears and fantasies — even before you notice the corner, which is distorted into a ridge of horrifying ripples. 12 Galleries to Visit Now in Brooklyn and Queens 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Conrad may have his thumb on the scales when he weighs up the characters of the two composers, but even allowing for distorting emphases, Wagner is thrillingly repellent. Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad – review 2013-02-19T12:10:12Z Her command of minutiae is impressive, as is her enthusiasm for even the most minor aspects of Anne’s frequently distorted story. Books of The Times: Once More, Revisiting Anne Boleyn Yet Again 2009-12-17T16:42:00Z But as my colleague Christopher Hawthorne points out, the new design seriously distorts the previously elegant shape, which resembled a painting by Jean Arp. Cylon Base Star update: Peter Zumthor's drive-thru LACMA plan 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z One electric guitar chord is strummed in what seems to be 4/4 time, repeated, distorted and topped with additional noise for the first full minute of “Back to the Radio.” Florence + the Machine’s Conflicted Coronation, and 12 More New Songs 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z The former supplies the album's most thrilling moment – a sudden drop after a slow build, into massively distorted metallic guitars – a moment so good you suspect the entire song was constructed to deliver it. Foals: Holy Fire – review 2013-02-07T15:30:01Z On occasion, Mr. Gold’s interpretation takes on the vicious aspect of a nightmare in which you see your past at its distorted worst. Review: Dismantling ‘The Glass Menagerie’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z But I suspect it is because you are a teenager, and you think the way a teenager thinks — with a distorted view of your actions and their attached consequences. Ask Amy: Teen girl is ready to have a baby, but is her guy? 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z In “Alien Faces 4,” the careful layering of mismatched facial features creates a beautifully distorted visage. Wangechi Mutu: An Imagined World Made Possible 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z But the band has also let guitars distort and drums kick into the foreground, or pitted rock instruments versus orchestra. New Music: The National, Mike Pride and Hush Point Release Albums 2013-05-20T21:46:46Z First up is the reveal of those two paintings by Cobain in Seattle, both showing distorted, Expressionistic figures that owe something to Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. Never-before-seen Kurt Cobain paintings to surface in Seattle 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Instead of noodling away on vintage Strats, the primary instruments at their disposal were a zither and a bedspring in a box, played with a bow, processed through a modular synthesizer to distort the sound. The Knife: 'Music history is written by privileged white men' 2013-03-23T06:00:00Z Griffith’s placement in the museum is emblematic of the bind it faces: To give him prominence would generate criticism, but sidelining him distorts the true arc of American cinema. The Academy Museum Finds Good Intentions in Messy Film History 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Those stories serve as raw material, distorted over time and replayed on an incessant loop as Ms. May drains and fills in her choreographic terrain. Review: ‘Adult Documentary’ Is Dense and Difficult, Including the Carpet 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z We have to try and work out what is really going on as we see everything through Gregory's distorted perspective. Charlie Higson's top 10 horror books 2010-09-08T10:53:00Z She declares herself hostile to photography, to cinema, to images of every kind, arguing that they distort and “freeze” experience. ‘The Disappearance of My Mother’ Review: Son’s View of a Model Parent 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z This harrowing scene embroiled Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal in a political firestorm; they were accused of distorting the role torture played in locating Osama bin Laden. ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ ‘The Hobbit,’ ‘Les Misérables’ | New DVDs 2013-03-18T21:47:22Z But the beds, tables and lamps are eerily unreal, and the projections are partly distorted, as if to indicate gaps in youthful memory. Review | In the galleries: Printmakers’ works are anything but two-dimensional 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z When the music advances towards its inexorable conclusion, White's movements becomes distorted and hobbled, a piercing parallel of Nijinsky's retreat into madness. The Oracle – review 2013-06-02T15:30:01Z The études, some fast and virtuosic, others spare and introspective, unfolded to beautiful and haunting effect in a haze of pitch-bending, echoes, distorted rhythms and eerie timbres. Review: Dan Trueman’s ‘Nostalgic Synchronic’ Takes Cage Into the 21st Century 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The Wallflowers Glad All Over Columbia A distorted sense of entitlement is the common affliction of rock star offspring, but Jakob, son of Bob, seems never to have believed the world owes him anything. Jakob Dylan: 'Writing songs is a trade like anything else' 2012-09-30T19:00:06Z He is interested in how life was still “grotesque and distorted, sick and crooked, undignified and humiliated.” Review: Knausgaard Becomes a Writer in a Sick, Crooked World 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z With an acrid, lightly distorted sound and a habit of subtly stirring psychedelia and country rock into his dexterous improvising, Scofield has been one of jazz’s leading guitarists since the 1970s. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Her voice is raspily matter-of-fact and her guitar delivers a blunt, distorted riff — grunge with a twang — as bass and drums thump along. The Playlist: Beck Wows, the Avalanches Collapse and Kanye West Finds a Few Champions 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z At each of these points, the signal can be distorted or somehow diminished. Is 'The Beatles in Mono' necessary? Yes and no. 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z All well and good, but these consensus selections give a distorted view of the year in film. Simply the best of the rest 2010: films the critics forgot to mention 2011-01-10T16:45:33Z They have the ability to distort an election, Kerry said, to change the minds of undecided voters based on who they think has the best chance of winning. After a ‘gut punch’ in Iowa, a surreal feeling surrounds Biden’s campaign 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z “Nocturnal,” about a femme fatale with a “desolate interior,” explodes out of a skulking bass line with distorted guitar and shards of dissonant piano. New Music: Grace Woodroofe, Tim McGraw, Richard Galliano - Review 2012-01-23T23:00:11Z Eventually the feather boundary gets distorted, then destroyed altogether. Review: 'little hunger,' 'Entwine' need to cook a little longer 2010-05-28T16:49:00Z The man had been dead for an hour and 40 minutes, and he had taken a shot to the head, so the face was swollen and distorted. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z For Mr. Hardy, this is his latest opportunity to break bad and distort his face. Tom Hardy to Star in ‘Venom’ 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z But the influence of German expressionism is absent, there's no hard-boiled narration, no angst-ridden hero, no distorted camera angles, no nightmares, no ominous shadows, no flashbacks. The Big Sleep ? review 2011-01-02T00:05:12Z Marina Adams stays on canvas but also stretches her forms, distorting them like textiles. Art We Saw This Winter 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z I read its central chapters on Logaras beach from where the early evening view of Naxos, across the bay, carves almost too clear, distorting distance with light; a constant play of real and mirage. Summer readings: The Magus by John Fowles 2011-07-31T09:00:00Z He reads something to us but his voice is distorted by synthesizers and I can't understand him. The Last Concert: Indie Icons LCD Soundsystem Bid a Brilliant, Bizarre Adieu 2011-04-04T10:15:00Z “Dear Evan Hansen,” about an adolescent with social anxiety whose life changes after a classmate kills himself, explores the ways in which social media amplifies and distorts communication and community. Tony Awards 2017: What to Expect 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z It did not disappoint: classic v-shaped glass, three speared olives distorted through a bracing cold sea of gin. Two years later, I’m still measuring life in Martini glasses 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z In this example, you can see how your entire perception of what happened — and you were a witness — is completely distorted by your point of view. ?People Who Eat Darkness?: The disappearing blonde 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z Now there is a new generation of adults who remember Sept. 11, 2001, through the lens of their early youth — some details in sharp focus, others distorted and blurred. This was 9/11 if you were a kid 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Kraftwerk's Hall of Mirrors is nominated by suzi, who says its protagonist "steps into a hall of mirrors and falls in love with his own reflection – but suddenly the picture is distorted". Readers recommend: songs about mirrors – results 2012-08-16T09:11:32Z White does the crying and lets his distorted guitar do the talking on “High Ball Stepper.” Review: Jack White goes country on second solo CD 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z With their highly polished or intricately worked surfaces, his orbs all offer unexpected – and beautifully distorted – reflections of their settings and anything that happens in them. Walter de Maria's all-seeing eye 2011-02-20T21:59:00Z “This absorbing, stirring novel,” Gaiutra Bahadur writes in her review, suggests “what history might look like when written from people’s memories rather than enshrined in textbooks that silence or distort the truth.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z But his fear kicks into paranoia when he begins having visions of a monstrous wolf man, a distorted memory of a childhood costume. ‘Hypochondriac’ Review: A Mother of All Breakdowns 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z As Hilton tries to stop the man, his reality began to distort and twist, leaving him in a sunken place between terror and doubt. Read It and Scream 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z The telling of Southern history through food, they argued, simplifies history in a way that creates a distorted, unrealistically happy view of the region, without enough academic rigor. A Powerful, and Provocative, Voice for Southern Food 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z “JFK,” in addition to all the other crass pop-culture productions intent on dissecting and distorting her life, must have been terribly disorienting. Going to the Movies with Jackie Kennedy 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z ‘Do people remember only what they can endure, or distort memories until they can endure them?’ A Capital City, Still Haunted by Its Past 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z It is a head-trip: a satire about borderline personalities in the distorted TV realities of today. Did Hans Rausing read my book? 2012-07-22T19:00:07Z Bandleader Elliot Bergman designs, builds and plays his own; electrified, amplified and distorted, they sound like grungy steel drums, simultaneously dark and bright, rhythmic and melodic. Nomo brings unorthodox, electrified Afrobeat to Tractor Tavern 2010-06-24T19:32:00Z Photography promises to preserve moments forever, but Soomin Ham prefers distorted or decayed images — visual metaphors for misplaced memories and lost lives. In the galleries: Wells & Barnes offer many seats, but no place to sit down 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Critics also say Miranda’s portrait of Burr is horribly distorted and argue that Hamilton’s sister-in-law, Angelica Schuyler, was in no way a feminist, as she is portrayed in the musical. Historians irked by musical ‘Hamilton’ escalate their duel 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The sugar crystals become something that distorts or “sugarcoats” history, the way it’s distorted or whitewashed or marginalized. Edgar Arceneaux’s labyrinthine ‘Library of Black Lies’ invites endless interpretation 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z When Mr. Scott takes a solo, his trumpet starts at a whisper and grows more distorted. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah Continues to Break New Ground 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z It’s important to keep in mind that action scenes on the page are stylized and distorted, artificial representations of a real experience. Building the alternate-universe New York: Novelists Seth Fried and K Chess in conversation 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Doesn’t the constant need to entertain necessarily distort your message? The gentrification of “Sesame Street”: Cashing out, once and for all, from the radical notion that the urban working class are people, too 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Yes, tango is inherently dramatic and scintillatingly musical, but its whole emphasis can be distorted by rendering it theatrical or exhibitionistic. Dance Review: Gabriel Missé and Analía Centurión Dance Tango 2013-08-12T21:40:10Z In 1967 he released the acclaimed album "Are You Experienced?" and soon was touring internationally, gaining fame for his innovative, heavily distorted guitar style. Jimi Hendrix, George Handel: On the street where they lived (in London) 2010-08-25T23:00:00Z Some of these were distorted by the uneven amplification, which assigned a greatly exaggerated role to one particular viola throughout the program’s first half. The Knights Play Stravinsky and Bartok in Central Park 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z In some cases, he finds that cruel windbags like Thiel have distorted what were once good ideas. ‘What Tech Calls Thinking’ Might Really Be Something Else 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z A ritual in which Angela “coughs up” a baby trapped in a tiny balloon and holds it up in front of a totem, with distorted images of fetuses flashing behind? At the Holland Festival, Many Shades of Strange 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Lead single "Dark Space" is above — a rush of distorted guitar and trade-off male/female vocals. World premier: "Dark Space" by Seattle's M. Women 2011-09-15T20:33:42Z When I started listening, something interesting happened: I saw that my approach to religion had been distorted. Toxic atheism drives people apart 2012-10-21T16:00:00Z Ms. Staats was further hampered, at the performance I saw, by a headset microphone that distorted her voice without seeming to amplify it. Review: In ‘The Last Class: A Jazzercize Play,’ Clutching to the Past 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Afropunk’s work on “Black Messiah” often went until 4 a.m., including time spent deciphering the dense, distorted vocals for a lyric booklet. D’Angelo’s ‘Black Messiah’ Was Released in a Rush 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Bryan Jr., a billionaire energy executive, has filed a suit alleging that the group’s board is illegally stocked with left-leaning academics who want to distort authentic Texas history. Will America Be Ready for Its 250th Birthday? 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z The picturesque world they inhabit is a distorted mirror of our own, where people routinely defy gravity and have odd physical characteristics. ‘Ruben Brandt, Collector’ Review: Stealing Inspiration From Great Art 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Ms. MacMillan, who also wrote “Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History,” also warned about how easy it can be to draw malign or politically convenient lessons from a misremembered or distorted past. Margaret MacMillan Discusses Causes of World War I 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z His stories don't presage the Holocaust; to read them as if they do distorts both them and him. A brief survey of the short story part 30: Bruno Schulz 2010-12-03T10:09:00Z Computerized techniques transformed and distorted acoustic sounds and blended recorded noises with in-the-moment playing by the quartet. Kronos Quartet Plays Laurie Anderson’s ‘Landfall’ at BAM 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z That’s Falstaff, a man who never lived through anything that, in the retelling of it, he couldn’t tweak, distort and invert to his own greater glory. London Theater Journal: A Double Double Bill 2010-07-28T15:51:00Z Brutal, distorted vibrato guitar with a niggling violin sounding pleasingly hornet-like. Readers recommend: songs about superheroes ? results 2011-07-07T13:32:47Z There were descriptions, from Michael Brown Sr., among others, about how distorted and “disrespectful” they thought the accounts in the media were of the victim’s life and death. A Chorus Remembers Michael Brown in ‘Antigone in Ferguson’ 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z In the first place, its illicit nature will both shock the reader into paying attention and prevent sentimentally-false sympathy from distorting his judgement. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z “You wake each morning and forget where you are, who you are, and when the world outside shows you your reflection, it’s ugly and distorted; you’ve become a scorned, unwanted creature.” Review | Patricia Engel’s ‘Infinite Country’ focuses on the psychological pain of a family split apart 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z It constantly mixes distorted and manipulated sounds with natural ones, and it deliberately veers away from pop familiarity. The Blessed, Cursed Life of Bon Iver 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z While this theatrical collage, adapted and directed by Vladimir Shcherban, uses Pinter’s writings to address abuses of power in Belarus, it never twists or distorts its source material to do so. | 'Being Harold Pinter': Political Theater, Brought to You by the Politically Powerless 2011-01-06T23:29:42Z “Alice” bears a thematic as well as stylistic resemblance to “Invaders”: both use spatially distorting techniques inherited from German Expressionism to view a cold, grotesque and foreboding adult world through the eyes of a child. DVDs: Another Trippy Rabbit Hole 2010-02-27T03:01:00Z Swollen, distorted, painted in bruised mauves and imprisoned in triptychs, the figures in Francis Bacon’s art are among the indelible images of the 20th century. Review | Francis Bacon was an elusive figure. A new biography presents novel details of his iconoclastic existence. 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z As he did in “Bird Box,” Malerman focuses on the limitations and psychological pressures of lives distorted by the constant threat of a violent end. Review | Two new horror novels make sense of our current dystopian reality 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z He also thought the court was distorting the Copyright Act to forbid it. Broadcasters cheer as Aereo loses Supreme Court fight 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Whether speeding and distorted or slow and ethereal, the Messthetics have a remarkable cohesion. To Make the Messthetics, Mix a Reunion With One Virtuosic Newcomer 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Play them back any faster or slower and the soundtrack would distort, rendering them ridiculous. Five silent movie myths: from damsels in distress to Benny Hill chases 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Marinated wedges of heirloom tomatoes have a pumped-up, distorted flavor, like tomatoes run through a wah-wah pedal. Eleven Madison Park Explores the Plant Kingdom’s Uncanny Valley 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z That image was distorted to achieve an organic half-tone quality, turned upside-down, and finally layered several times with other textures. ArtsBeat Blog: Getting Noticed at the Fringe: 'The Disorientation of Butterflies' 2011-08-23T17:20:29Z He added: "Generally I try to define and translate in images the intention, tone and message that the director wants without distorting it." The Skin I Live In 2011-08-09T08:25:49Z Many of the points Spufford makes against Dawkins are valid, but if he is right in saying atheist polemicists caricature religious faith, so does his condescending truculence toward atheists distort their argument. An Essayist Searching for Alternate Worlds 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Their distorted, synthy compositions carry a strong emotional undertow, not least because the vocals are so reminiscent of the Cure's Robert Smith. Tim Jonze On Shuffle … Experimental music 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z On the contrary, in Mr. Khemiri’s play, directed by Erica Schmidt, words take on a dangerous, distorting life of their own. Critic?s Notebook: Richard Nelson and Jonas Hassen Khemiri?s Takes on 9/11 2011-09-21T22:01:28Z Very much Pimm's all round, until you realise the distorted sample repeated throughout is saying, "Carving my initials on your forehead". This week's new tracks 2012-06-01T23:06:02Z The languid vibe of “Shame Shame” is a new register; the elastic rhythm of “Cloudspotter” allows more space for those distorted guitars to breathe. Foo Fighters Wanted to Rule Rock. 25 Years Later, They’re Still Roaring. 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z On Friday, jurors heard from Elizabeth Loftus, a professor at the University of California, Irvine and well-known expert on memory who testified that memories could be distorted over time. Weinstein accuser's agent expected to testify in New York rape trial 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z With its dark shadows, and faces distorted in convex mirrors, it looks like a scary movie, which is what it is. The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows 2013-03-27T16:21:00Z Trends are slippery things that consistently resist our best attempts to define them — particularly these days when any “-core” can go viral on TikTok, distorting our ability to determine what has mass popular appeal. Searching for the ‘Vibe Shift’ at Coachella 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Plus, his audio frequently ran into the red, distorting his tracks more than intended. In its third home, Trillectro festival finds its strongest beat yet 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z What might be considered objective truth is utterly distorted. In ‘Forest Dark,’ Nicole Krauss Plays With Divided Selves 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Women drawing pictures of themselves that were so distorted. Table for Three: For Two Female News Anchors, Morning Has Broken 2013-08-23T16:13:40Z "Kama Sutra II" is on some druggy Neptunes vibes — futuristic R&B with distorted melodies and grainy textures. Download this: "Kama Sutra II" by Stevie and Sam 2011-07-28T13:33:07Z Its heroine retreats to her distorted idea of ballet and swans when she can’t deal with real life, but the swan aspect is entirely incidental. Dance Review: ‘Swan Lake’ by Australian Ballet at Koch Theater 2012-06-17T22:05:37Z Studies show women face overwhelming pressure to be thin — exacerbated by social media — which can lead to distorted body image and even disordered eating. Naked with strangers, finally unafraid 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Earlier that day, President Obama visited a Mosque in Baltimore to talk about religious freedom and to attempt to “correct the record on hugely distorted impression of Muslim Americans.” “Absolute zero on the f**ks-given scale”: Larry Wilmore applauds Obama’s mosque visit, mocking the “secret Muslim” myth won’t die 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z The thing that really blew my mind is the last tune on the record, which in the Masada parlance we call “events tunes” — where the composition is a series of distorted or seemingly unrelated phrases. A Word With: Pat Metheny and John Zorn: A Word With: Pat Metheny and John Zorn 2013-05-19T21:41:39Z Mostly, it was rock turned to 11, any glitz eclipsed by distorted darkness. Rock in Rio USA is a ball of confusion 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z “We were getting a very distorted, very biased view of the facts, and we were hoping that the court would be impartial.” Dutch Court Rules Against Jewish Heirs on Claim for Kandinsky Work 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Calder’s sculptures tend to be joined at subtle angles, and missing those would have distorted the size of the models. The Secret Stunt Doubles of the Art World 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Like Japan's Guitar Wolf, the Jim Jones Revue imagine that rock'n'roll didn't really need to evolve after 1956; it just needed to get much, much louder, and wildly more distorted. The Jim Jones Revue: Burning Your House Down 2010-08-26T22:30:00Z The Louds couldn’t know then that the camera distorts reality in the least flattering direction, adding 10 pounds not just to the body but also to the soul. | 'Cinema Verite': The First Airing of Dirty Laundry 2011-04-21T22:02:46Z Ms. Soares is abetted by musicians from São Paulo who describe their music as “dirty samba”; they spike traditional samba with distorted guitars, pushy drums and unruly electronics that underline how indomitable Ms. Soares remains. The Best Albums of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Too often, young people hear a distorted view of other faith traditions. To be religiously illiterate in this world is foolish and dangerous. Tony Blair: 'To be religiously illiterate is foolish' 2010-08-02T21:00:00Z Working mostly with photographic media, Rachel Guardiola depicts and distorts topography. Review | In the galleries: Probing our relationships with living systems 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z In the science show, the charge is muted and persistent, but the case is made only by distorting history and facts. Critic?s Notebook: To Each His Own Museum, as Identity Goes on Display 2010-12-28T23:04:19Z “I Feel Pretty” is practically a feature-length version of that Dove ad in which a forensic sketch artist illustrates women’s distorted ideas of their own looks. ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Claire has a lack of autonomy as a woman and all of her sexual experiences have been distorted. “Shame and despair turn out to be her superpower”: New ballet drama “Flesh and Bone” digs deep into incest, shame and the body in the elite dance world 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z First up is the reveal of those two paintings by Cobain in Seattle, both showing distorted, Expressionistic figures that owe something to the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. A New Player in the Art-Fair World: Kurt Cobain. 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z She also dawdles a little behind the beat on some numbers, as Holiday sometimes did, without ever distorting the shape of the music. Theater Review: Audra McDonald in ‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill’ 2014-04-14T02:00:01Z If Picasso can deconstruct a guitar, why shouldn’t opera distort diplomacy and pervert personality? A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z Where the Bolshoi’s influence was most apparent was the frenzy that distorted his line in his final series of jumps. The Bolshoi Ballet’s ‘Giselle’ in Washington 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z The more lenses through which one views the subject, the more distorted that subject becomes. As 'True Story' weaves a web of ambiguity, whom can we believe? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Even that imaginary power distorted his perspective, and made him part of the experiment. Inside “The Stanford Prison Experiment”: Six days in a fake prison, and how they changed the world 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The video, obtained by The Sun newspaper, showed a masked person in a dark hoodie holding a crossbow and addressing the camera with a distorted voice, saying they wanted to “assassinate” Queen Elizabeth II. Police probe video linked to Windsor Castle Christmas breach 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z “I’m very interested in peppering the work with potentials, moments of narrative that keep giving some anchors for meaning,” Mr. McGregor said, “but using those to distort perception.” 2010-02-06T04:38:00Z But now there’s a ghost Quinn, one severely diminished – one with distorted vision, slurred speech, mashed memory and klutzy motor skills. Homeland recap: season six, episode one – Fair Game 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z The important words all land on the right beat; the grammar is never distorted to squeeze over a melody. Sheldon Harnick, Musical Theater’s Great Marriage Broker 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Visceral almost by definition, vernacular video has its own wildly spontaneous visual vocabulary — light smears, hyper kinetic movement, jolting angles, inadvertent “artifacting,” in which the image is distorted when a visible anomaly is introduced. ‘The Uprising,’ a Masterpiece of iPhone Cinema 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z And he asserts that "politicians are obliged from time to time to conceal the full truth, to bend it and even distort it, where the interests of the bigger strategic goal demand it be done." Michael Howard: 'Tony Blair was a brilliant politician. But, ultimately, he was a failed prime minister' 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z In an article in Variety, Mr. Bernays accused Mr. Denker of inaccurately rendering his uncle’s personality as driven and prone to displays of anger and of distorting relationships within the Freud family. Henry Denker, Author in Many Genres, Dies at 99 2012-05-23T03:05:41Z The prize for nonfiction went to Clint Smith’s “How the Word Is Passed,” which examines the way America has memorialized and distorted the legacy of slavery. National Book Critics Circle Names 2021 Award Winners 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Abramson’s stories are fractured and distorted, and all the more intriguing for that. Review | In the galleries: An ambitious collage of works by regional photographers 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Just like the minute repeater, the tourbillon — a gyro device to counter the distorting effect of gravity on vertical timepieces like clocks and pocket watches — serves no useful function in a wristwatch. Minute Repeater Watches Again Gain Favor 2012-03-09T11:58:37Z “The seductive power of the conventional narrative is one of the most distorting forces in political journalism,” she wrote. Perspective | In debates, gaffes and viral moments are entertaining. But they shouldn’t steal the show. 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z De Zotte is a true locals’ bar that captures all the vibrancy and character of Amsterdam, but is not distorted by catering to stereotypes for tourists. Probably the best bar in the world: readers' travel tips 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z As our reviewer, Carol Anderson, put it, Phillips’s timely account exposes white supremacy’s capacity “to distort and destroy, not only lives and accomplishments, but historical memory, the law and basic human civility.” Paperback Row 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z This is where Gladwell’s insistence on theory can be distorting, rather than clarifying. Who’s Lying to Us and Who’s Telling the Truth? Malcolm Gladwell Has Some Ideas 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z “It’s a backlash to the way fashion has distorted human beings, you know, images with no pores, no body fat and rib cages being removed.” A Party Crawl in the Name of Art 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z The authors show how the event’s racist underpinnings have done so much to establish and distort the identity of their home state. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z The Larry Sanders Show focused on a fake chatshow with real guests; Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm featured numerous guest stars playing distorted versions of themselves and pretended to offer glimpses into a comedian's life. This is the End: why actors love to play themselves 2013-06-06T18:00:00Z “I used nice, distorted sounds to make it very dramatic, so I made the strings sound huge and the bass line very large,” he said. An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z "There were also a few slender Armenian girls in skintight jeans, amply rouged, with silky long hair, wearing stiletto heels and tank tops, fake breasts distorting fake logos. . . . Yes, here they were, my people." 'There Was and There Was Not' crosses Turkish-Armenian divide 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z According to him, the established churches had distorted and polluted God’s messages over time. Blood vows: Joseph Smith, Mormonism and the invention of American polygamy 2014-04-20T17:00:00Z In the case of “Lohengrin,” later history actually illuminates this unsettling opera; changing a word out of an excess of sensitivity distorts it. Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin’ Uses the Word ‘Führer.’ Keep It There. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z The electronic-sounding clicks, buzzes and tones are modulated and distorted by one’s touch, whether stroking or pressing, sustained or staccato. Sergei Tcherepnin makes music with his viewers 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Once and again, the White Gaze distorts black humanity. A 10-year-old boy? An 84-year-old grandmother? Police brutality will not end in America until cops stop perceiving blacks as monsters 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Bowlt said Russians now take pride in Diaghilev, but he warned that new twists in ideology could distort this appreciation. 2010-01-26T04:38:00Z Ugh this article distorts the facts so much it is beyond pathetic. Alec Baldwin Skewers Trump. And Supports Allen and Toback. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z What’s more, how many men have had to overcome a distorted version of masculinity that allows only a narrow, hyperbolically violent form of emotional expression? Amid calls for gender equity in Hollywood, the stakes are high. 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z A looped, gently distorted harp adds another layer. The Playlist: Thom Yorke’s Chilling Ballad, and 13 More New Songs 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z In place of the makeup table’s mirror, there is a television monitor, which plays video of Vereen’s lost performance, which becomes increasingly distorted as we watch. Revisiting Ben Vereen’s Misunderstood Blackface Inaugural Performance 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z “The minuscule portion of art funding that comes from the federal government does not support the arts in any meaningful way; rather, it distorts the art market toward what is politically acceptable,” she said. Arts Groups Draft Battle Plans as Trump Funding Cuts Loom 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z And there is cultural baggage around the menopause that can distort matters: while some depression is related to hormonal upheaval, some may be a result of the disparaged position menopausal women believe they are in. What science doesn’t know about the menopause: what it’s for and how to treat it | Rose George 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z This is partly due to blatantly false information they received from Andrew Wakefield who published studies with distorted data that linked the MMR vaccine to autism — there is absolutely zero link. John Oliver debunks anti-vaxxers’ myths 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Sign you are a lazy proofreader: You don’t notice that autocorrect changed several words, distorting your intended message. Style Invitational Week 1299: OK, hivemind! A contest with new Scrabble words 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z “But the film does not distort the issues, it simply loses some detail.” Exposing Injustices, the Real-Life Kind 2011-07-29T03:43:03Z Now, after the coins are cleaned, he runs them through a machine that flattens, distorts and blurs them so that they are less immediately recognizable as currency. Newly Minted Work by a Change Artist 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z The show was a pulsing mess of distorted guitars and barely discernible vocals. Big & Rich loud and manic 2013-08-18T01:53:39Z Historical film footage of tap-dancers is often less than ideal: the images grainy or full of wavy lines, the sound muddy or distorted, the camera sliding all over the place. Dance Review: Syncopated Tap Rhythms Tattooed Onto the Floor 2011-07-10T21:39:12Z "He reveals something of absurdity and stupidity. He distorts the features to satirize." Object Lesson: When James Ensor turned to skeletons and satire 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z That would be his riff-based arrangements, adapted from brass band protocols and often, as on “Suburbia,” featuring blasts of distorted guitar. Critics? Choice: New Music From Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson 2010-04-18T23:21:00Z As in “Junk,” Akhtar’s most recent play, “Homeland Elegies” attends closely to the distorting power of money and debt in modern society. Review | Ayad Akhtar’s play ‘Disgraced’ won a Pulitzer Prize. Now ‘Homeland Elegies’ shows what that success cost him. 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Decisions about saving money, for instance, are heavily distorted by impatience, which helps explain why so many struggle in retirement. Humans Are Impetuous and Shortsighted. Can We Change? 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z And 14 years as a "reality" star has completed distorted his sense of humanity and the real world. Kimmel, Covfefe, ‘Wonder Woman’: Washington’s Views on Pop Culture in 2017 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z That personal history made her especially attuned to how stories can clarify as well as distort what a person is going through. The 10 Best Books of 2022 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z That distorted perspective lives on in the language we still use. ‘Lakota America’ Puts the Tribe of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Front and Center 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Here are just a few of the ways in which popular political narratives distort the contemporary realities of Southern life in historical context. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z In the UK, it’s less of a movement than a frenzied pack of victims of the crazily distorted, government-aggravated madness of the property market. Could you live in a tiny house? 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z Voices shouted around me, but they sounded muffled, distorted, and distant. U.S. soldier finds his identity as a gay man while serving in silence 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Like Alice down the rabbit hole, my world had distorted and warped. I lived “Orange Is the New Black” — now I’m going to watch it 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z I didn't want it to distort what was important, so finding that balance was tricky. Oscar documentary shorts: A guide to "St. Louis Superman" and "Walk Run Cha-Cha" 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z As Campbell pours out a distorted and urgent guitar line and bassist Ron Blair guides the rhythm, the singer moves into his chorus: "I've got a few of my own," he confesses. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, an L.A. band, stare at 'Hypnotic Eye' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z “Politicians never did s— for me except lie to me, distort history,” he rapped. After Cuba anniversary trip, Jay-Z and Beyonce cleared of potential U.S. sanction violations 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z The colors are bright and swirling; the audio is amplified and sometimes distorted. At SXSW, a Woman Who Had a Stroke Turns Director 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z It’s a glowing, intimate portrayal of two Black bodies just as they are — but also reveals, with an exaggerated pelvis, a sideways buttock and other details, just how setting them to paper distorts them. David Hammons, Body and Soul, at the Drawing Center 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The pandemic that distorted the season also distorted the awards process. In a Chaotic Tonys Season, It Was an Honor Just to Open 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z After the sale, a private dealer, expressing a sentiment shared by some of his colleagues, carped about the perspective that “distorted” the bridge, as he put it. Auctions: Uptown From Wall Street, a Bull Market 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z I don’t think she distorts the professors’ words, exactly, but she definitely emphasizes the more bizarre aspects. This Week in Fiction: Elif Batuman on Writing Fiction vs. Nonfiction 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z And while the audience will be able to piece together the plot’s timeline, Zeller’s relentlessly subjective approach places us slap-bang in the middle of Anthony’s distorted memories. ‘The Father’ Review: A Capricious Mind 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z It sounds distorted, slightly warped—ventriloquised almost, as though piped in from somewhere else. Extract: C by Tom McCarthy 2010-08-06T08:53:00Z Now they were present, but distorted, she found. Toni Morrison on Her Last Novel and the Voices of Her Characters 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Any artistic or aesthetic intervention would distort that feeling. On Instagram, the Artist Ai Weiwei Focuses on Refugees 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z But the truth is they are distorted mirrors of one another. 'SNL' Alum Ana Gasteyer Talks About Playing Shoshanna's Mom on 'Girls' 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z He distorts one of her moans until she sounds like a devil doll, augments it with cavernous piano tones and layers of distant Lorde's whispering in the background. Friday essential tracks from Captain Beefheart, Lorde, more 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z How does the "Green Book" movie distort and misrepresent what life was actually like for black people traveling by car in Jim and Jane Crow America? "You needed the Negro Motorist Green Book more in the North and the West" 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Fashion Week always has a distorting effect on people’s perceptions, designers included. | Fashion Review: Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, Theory - N.Y. Fashion Week 2011-09-15T03:49:48Z And do we really believe that ideology will have less of a distorting effect on intelligence gathering, policy decisions or the perception of reality, under Obama or any future president? Cannes: Naomi Watts on Valerie Plame 2010-05-20T17:30:00Z The more distorted and grotesque the face in the freeze-frame, the better. Chrissy Teigen becomes a Golden Globes meme: Why we’re obsessed with women’s cryfaces 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s a noisy, low-fi stomp with just about everything distorted, vocals included, and it’s equally rowdy and desperate. SZA and Phoebe Bridgers’s Team-Up, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The defense case continued Friday with testimony from Elizabeth Loftus, a professor at the University of California, Irvine and well-known expert on memory who testified that memories could be distorted over time. Weinstein to call more defense witnesses as his rape trial nears end 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Instead, you just see her face distorted in a fish-eye, as she tearfully says good bye to her sister and father. Why The Shallows is better than The Birds 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z A few incomplete or distorted lines were fixed with sound-alike actors. How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z A great ooze of brown emanating from the wafer’s base heads toward a green mound — wasabi with a twist — that suggests a distorted Buddha or perhaps an actor in a kimono about to sweep offstage. Review: ‘Ron Nagle: Five O’Clock Shadow,’ Delicacy and Tension on a Small Scale 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Did a simple scale suddenly leap in the middle so that natural order was convoluted and distorted? My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z Classics on arrival, they were turbid and distorted records that didn’t use too many lyrics and didn’t much care about you hearing the ones they did. Yo La Tengo: Indie rock’s standard-bearer is still changing the formula, 30 years in 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Composed of a single row of speakers spanning the length of the floor, the audioscape was a collage of distorted street noise. A sneak peek at the Broad museum draws an enthusiastic crowd 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Its ideas can be muddled, and it’s been accused of distorting the facts about kamikaze pilots in a way that excuses Japan’s wartime extremes. The New York Asian Film Festival Returns 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z The former addresses female archetypes in film; the latter, distorted body image. Women, art and inequality in the gallery world: Sprüth Magers exhibition fuels an old debate 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z When she does look at it, her reflection is distorted, like a mirror in a fun house. Four Takeaways from Rihanna’s New Lingerie Spectacle 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Dr. Wu, an assistant professor of media, culture and communication at N.Y.U., argues that in the rush to embrace data, many researchers ignore the distorting effects of the platforms themselves. Is Everybody Doing … OK? Let’s Ask Social Media 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z In one sense, this is a good thing, because it limits the government’s power to distort the market. Could Private Insurers Make Traditional Medicare More Efficient? 2012-08-21T04:07:16Z “I’m saying that people should be warned when they see it that it’s a distorted view of history.” Metropolitan Opera to Present ‘Klinghoffer’ Monday in Spite of Protests 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z It’s a fun-house mirror, one that reflects our moment bigger, caricatured and distorted, but that somehow feels true to life. The Fashion Closet, Seen From Inside and Out 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z “We are trying to address them, not for the sake of distorting the image of Iraqi society, rather to remind audiences that we must look inwards and educate ourselves,” he said. Iraq's racy TV in Ramadan revives an industry - and draws censure 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Some European commentators, from early frontier explorers to modern anthropologists, also were influenced by their own homophobic prejudices to distort native attitudes. The 'two-spirit' people of indigenous North Americans 2010-10-11T11:28:00Z Sometimes there are chords, but Mr. Hince often plays just single notes or a guitar so distorted it registers more as texture than as harmony. Music Review: Two Musicians at One With the Basics 2011-08-09T22:22:16Z Instead of losing yourself in the "open water" of the title, you find yourself distracted by the implied off-canvas presence of another observer who distorts what you see. Creatures with a purpose: the heightened 'naturalism' of Skagit Valley painter Robert McCauley 2010-12-30T20:48:04Z You also write that the Crusades were influenced by “a distorted Christian mythology.” The Blame Game: Karen Armstrong Talks About 'Fields of Blood' 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z In previous shows like “Out of Time” and “Edges of Light,” Mr. Dunne has manipulated these intricate rhythmic patterns by dancing barefoot on a variety of surfaces or distorting the sound through electronics. ‘Riverdance’ Was Years Ago. Colin Dunne Makes Quiet Music Now. 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z For a few minutes, the guitar and vocals were barely distorted. Everything about veteran indie-rock group Low is emotionally constrained 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Her increasingly distraught efforts to speak gradually infect the company, who disintegrate into a violent tangle of distorted movements and cries. Tibetan choreography master seeks the unknown in others 2010-05-20T06:36:00Z This is, like “Hamlet,” a tragedy at once public and intimate, an examination of how the impersonal violence of the state can damage and distort individual lives. Review: ‘Wormwood’ Confirms That Errol Morris Is Our Great Cinematic Sleuth 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z One overlong passage saw Ms. Anderson’s speaking voice distorted and transformed into the unctuous bass of a cartoon priest. Kronos Quartet Plays Laurie Anderson’s ‘Landfall’ at BAM 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z The family unit begins to waver and distort, bent by the weight of the lie. ‘Had I Catfished My Wife?’: A Debut Midlife-Crisis Memoir 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z The effect is doubly distorting—the perky, groomed boy suddenly looks squeezed, even deformed, by the pressure of an unflattering, psychologically revealing image. David Cronenberg’s Horror Portrait of Hollywood 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z No more distorting and divisive red and blue state maps of pre-determined outcomes. ‘Veep’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ Echo Our Politics, as Farce and Tragedy 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z This entertaining little show expands on the Surrealists’ diversion, rustling up other examples of distorted or disjointed figuration from MoMA’s permanent collection. Art Review: ?Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration? at MoMA 2012-03-29T22:25:34Z In Max Payne 3, Health's distorted guitar feedback and pummelling drums swell to savage crescendos as soon as any shootout starts, like some bloody post-punk opera. Are video game soundtracks the new concept albums? 2012-05-28T13:56:00Z Hallucinations and disordered thinking among the characters is now distorting our reality as viewers, and this makes even the most out-there guesswork seem curiously plausible. Mad Men season six: Megan Draper as Sharon Tate, and other theories 2013-06-06T15:59:56Z Mr. Rafman made them by distorting a digital photograph of a Greco-Roman bust and rendering the resulting images in stone, using computerized machinery. Review: ‘Image Object’ Looks at the Relationship Between the Virtual and the Physical 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Space is big and empty, stations are confined, weightlessness is baffling, durations are distorted, and relationships are skewed. Movie of the Week: “Mission to Mars” 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z At work you will become more motivated, assertive and efficient via a mixture of desperation, exhaustion and a distorted perspective on what you can achieve. Having a baby will simplify your life 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z The song starts as choppy, programmed, trap-flavored R&B, but segues into fusion rock with overdriven keyboards and distorted lead guitar. The Playlist: Harry Styles and Beth Ditto Take the Plunge and Go Solo 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z And that’s without the distorting effects of lighting and even makeup. Faking it: how selfie dysmorphia is driving people to seek surgery 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Some scholars have accused their colleagues of not sufficiently pushing back against white nationalists who have appropriated medieval symbolism and weaponized a highly distorted version of medieval history. Medieval Scholars Spar on a Modern Battlefield: Twitter 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z All of those kinds of things, what I generically call “rent seeking,” are things that distort and destroy our economy. Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z “The collection is about everything, all the time,” the designer announced, referring to her distorted zigzags and crazy woven patterns shown with a frenetic, upbeat energy. Fashion Review: Sarah Burton Shows McQ, the Alexander McQueen Second Line 2012-02-21T18:19:33Z He also was driven by a desire to desensationalize a story that he thought had been distorted in the tabloids. In Hamptons, Ammon Twins Put Horror in Perspective 2012-11-14T22:17:45Z Gianni Versace’s family isn’t exactly thrilled with this depiction of his lavish lifestyle and eventual murder on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion: “distorted and bogus,” they said in a statement. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘American Crime Story’ and ‘Riverdale’ 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Yet Mr. Fish’s approach is surprisingly respectful, almost always clarifying instead of distorting the original sense and sensibility of “Oklahoma!” Review: ‘Oklahoma!’ Preserves a Classic While Adding Punch 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Yves Tumor’s distorted beats, including the ominously funky “Noid,” might be more suited for a dark club, but it was one of the more adventurous highlights of the weekend. Review: Highlights from Capitol Hill Block Party 2019 — the year of Lizzo 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z They used an electronic keyboard known as a Mellotron, distorted guitars, hip-hop-style percussion and de-tuned instruments — including banjos and bass harmonicas — to give a modern effect to sounds from the period. What’s a Kanye West song doing in a TV show about slavery? 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z He blows hard and makes notes distort and whinny; he made the tarogato sound taut, narrow and ready to explode. Music Review: Peter Brötzmann and Jason Adasiewicz at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-09-06T21:59:32Z British satirical art anticipated not so much modern comedy as modern art; it's one thing to set Gillray against Gerald Scarfe, but a really imaginative exhibition would show his distorted figures alongside Picasso's Three Dancers. Rude Britannia at Tate Britain: no laughing matter 2010-06-15T13:50:00Z But our primal selves are hard-wired by experience and hot emotion, which distorts and limits our view of things, sometimes magnifying threats and opportunities. How a Writer With a Ph.D. in Psychology Became a Poker Champ 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z The show of ugly children, distorted landscapes and other oddities, along with a book with the same title, were the brainchild of the artist Jim Shaw, a longtime collector of the horribly wonderful. Loving the Lowbrow (It Has Its Own Hall of Fame) 2010-09-02T22:25:00Z What is missing is any clear indication of a widespread attempt to falsify and coordinate findings on a scale that could hold together a global cabal or significantly distort the record on climate change. 7 ways to shut down a climate change denier 2013-12-18T13:00:00Z “The media played a part in really distorting the relationship between her identity and the disclosures,” says Hawkins. Chelsea Manning doc debuts with its subject imprisoned again 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z They show how memory distorts our view of our own pasts, and how blind we are to the trajectory of futures, especially as we act impulsively. The anxious, disappointing world of Jeffrey Eugenides 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z “She distorts certain words, which, I mean, it’s comedy gold.” Rita Moreno Mixes Up a Carnival in the Kitchen 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z On Sunday night, he was the crowd’s voice: his distorted “we are the youth!” warbles spoke to their collective jubilation. If you’re not a teenager, don’t try to understand Lil Yachty 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z As my companion remarked, the motto seemed to be “We wouldn’t dream of distorting your creations by actually dancing in them, Mr. Valentino!” Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Gala, With Costumes by Valentino 2012-09-22T00:16:05Z Removing the distorting influence of money from a labor system would result in work for work’s sake, harmonious social relations, and a comfortable surplus of necessary goods. I worked hard for no pay — and I dug it 2013-02-10T23:00:00Z It is how our protagonist imagines an ambulance might have looked, distorted by Kunzru's narrative of Chinese whispers. Hari Kunzru's Memory Palace 2013-06-18T09:36:00Z At the press of a button, she can distort the register of her violin, or access entire ranges of keyboard sounds that once required multiple instruments. Laurie Anderson: music for dogs and Obama 2013-02-13T20:00:01Z Photograph: Rory Carroll for the Guardian Government denials about any cancer-causing fallout unravelled in the 1980s, when lawsuits uncovered internal AEC reports showing scientists and bureaucrats downplayed and distorted evidence. Hollywood and the downwinders still grapple with nuclear fallout 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z While it may be occasionally eye-opening, it inevitably distorts the bigger picture. Review: ‘Bolshoi Confidential’ Peers Down the Centuries and Past the Pirouettes 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Yamhill is not reflected through a rearview mirror, distorted by a removed author’s guilt, resentment or nostalgia. Chronicling a Community, and a Country, in Economic Crisis 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z It’s a movie about the 1970s and about our own time, and about the ways those two eras serve as each other’s distorted mirrors or diabolical doubles. Depravity, class war and the 1 percent: Tom Hiddleston shines in brilliant dystopian fable “High-Rise” 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Much of that growth stems from a distorted twist on the famous Field of Dreams quotation: if you arm them they will raid. Do Not Resist: new film shows how US police have become an occupying army 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Whilst there is a case for public broadcasting the BBC, as a vast market distorting behemoth exceeds that case by many times. MPs criticise World Service cuts 2011-04-13T01:02:25Z "People who practice racism are bereft, there is something distorted about the psyche." How racism found my son on Fortnite 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z The UK-NZ agreement also takes steps to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies, in recognition that government support for the coal, oil and gas industries distorts prices and discourages climate action. A new trade deal ostensibly delivers cheaper foods — but does little to avert climate change 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z The planet's gravity distorts the moon's rock crust and causes it to heat up. Is there life on moons? 2013-01-13T00:05:45Z The latest book suggests that our desire to return to a “more natural” world distorts our views of motherhood. Cultural Studies: Elisabeth Badinter Defends the Imperfect Mother 2010-06-04T19:00:00Z Have Americans’ powers of perception become totally distorted? Michael Bay’s “apolitical” Benghazi movie: Every kind of American delusion and stupidity in one package! 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Other video installations in the show distort the viewer to an even greater degree. View 31 images of yourself in Gary Hill’s ‘Dream Stop’ 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The "Mona Lisa" of Moravia, the earliest known sculpted head, has the eeriest of faces, distorted, poignantly realistic. These faces from the ice age give the lie to our idea of civilisation 2013-02-08T07:00:11Z Sontag was alert to the ways reality can be distorted — in photographs, for example, or with metaphorical language, falsifications that numb our responses. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The columns were roundly criticized as distorted and inaccurate by U.S. diplomats during their testimony before the House’s impeachment hearings. John Solomon columns on Ukraine ripped in newspaper’s internal investigation for conflicts and distortions 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z "Freak" uses a grungier distorted sound to showcase the band's longstanding philosophy of not caring what anyone else thinks of them. Review: Kiss' new album 'Monster' is scary good 2012-10-08T16:26:10Z As his subjects moved, the water distorted the images. Summertime in America, Beneath the Surface 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Through the distorted bubble glass of its walls I spied an enticing climbing playground on the South Bank, a few minutes’ walk away, and bookmarked it for a return trip. A Mother-Daughter Test: London, Together 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Similarly, to ignore the living, dancing bodies of the early 20th century distorts the picture of that time. Amelia Gray's 'Isadora' is a heavenly celebration of women in charge of their bodies 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Trained as an anthropologist, as well as an artist, Sircar is interested in how ideas arise, spread and are distorted. In the galleries: Paintings that are both ephemeral and vivid 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Bach’s chorale prelude is picked apart, distorted and transformed in a series of dissonant gestures that, now heated, now wispy, create an irresistible smoky turbulence. Review: Bach, Revisited Series Features Ensemble Signal 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z In “Arcane,” the disfigured Silco is the kind of tortured soul whose distorted dreams become lifelong obsessions — not unlike the Batman villain Two-Face, for example. ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Beats and the Universe of ‘Dune’: What ‘Arcane’ Is Made of 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z She peers at a distorted fun-house image of herself in a hand mirror and thinks, “I look like a 50 yr. old businessman!” and “How many calories in a cheese enchilada?” Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Pioneering Comics Memoirist, Dies at 74 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Frequently, it is bearing either false, or severely distorted, witness. Review: Christopher Plummer Dominates ‘All the Money in the World’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z Wispy vocals are further distorted to sound even smaller and more vulnerable, creating a bittersweet dancing-through-tears vibe on “These Streets Will Never Look the Same.” Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z It is the literary equivalent of a house of mirrors, refracting and distorting shards of Hong Kong’s recent past, especially the suppression of the 2019 protests. ‘Owlish’ Is a Darkly Fantastical Parable About Totalitarianism 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Yet the sum effect here is not distorting but illuminating, setting off a steady chorus of “Eurekas” in your head. Review: ‘DruidShakespeare: The History Plays’ Is Complete With a Crown Fit for Many Kings 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z As Waters explains, she seeks “innovative ways to distort reality to the point where marginalization is impossible.” Tariqa Waters, a force in Seattle’s arts community, expands gallery, curates vibrant show at BAM 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Sure, but the issue isn’t whether or even how information is disseminated – it’s about lying and distorting the record. Politics is a “blood sport”: Roger Stone on his CNN ban, the “real” Donald Trump and the billionaire’s scheme to lure delegates 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z In writing ancient history, Carroll ultimately eschews the search for the historical Jesus, knowing well that his belief, like all belief, distorts this subject more than most. 'Christ Actually' argues for belief through imitation 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z It gives artists powers to, among other things, prevent their names from being used on works that have been mutilated or distorted. Peter Doig Says He Didn’t Paint This. Now He Has to Prove It. 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z And none of Mr. Valiente’s dancers distorted the tango with high lifts or acrobatic extremes. Dance Review: ?Tango y Vida? at Chase Latino Cultural Festival 2010-08-02T22:00:00Z Coldplay's ninth studio album "Music of the Spheres" acts as a paean of sorts to space rock, the hypnotic, often distorted sound most commonly associated with Pink Floyd. Coldplay has lost its way 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z If we are going to look back, we ought to take the opportunity to uncover more of the picture rather than allow the story to be further distorted. Woodstock, a Utopia? Not for Every Generation 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Nobody called Argo Ben Affleck’s vanity project, even though he distorted real-life political history to make his own character look more heroic. Here's looking at me: Does Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea qualify for Hollywood’s Hall of Vain? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z What’s interesting is to have a character whose prism was a bit distorted. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Showrunner Breaks Down the Series Premiere 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z It distorts the complexity of the human soul. Joyce Carol Oates, writer – portrait of the artist 2012-08-14T19:59:01Z They were ringers for the real-life models who stalked the Hood by Air men’s runway in January, right down to their elaborate tattoos and the uncanny grillwork distorting their grins. Piercings and Eye-Popping Tattoos: Fashion’s Latest Canvas Is the Skin You’re In 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z The next tune, “I Had Me a Girl,” which was produced by the rock and hip-hop maven Rick Rubin, is built around Mr. Williams’s wailing vocal, a distorted electric guitar and pounding drums. From the Civil Wars, an Aptly Named Album 2013-08-02T19:03:21Z Many of them are human-sized and possessed of human speech, their behavior a distorted mirror held up to that of Homo sapiens. 'Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction' yields writing of strangeness and beauty 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z “Skip This Track” goes retro, with neat but distorted analog-flavored bass and old-fashioned canned handclaps. New Music: New Albums From VCMG, Brad Mehldau Trio and Henry Cole 2012-03-12T22:32:55Z “We have a distorted sense of how we judge potential in our society,” says Nicks. In ‘Homeroom,’ an unprecedent school year caught on film 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z That decorous age, with its bourgeois pieties and hypocrisies, was viewed in the distorting mirrors of a criminal underclass, which in turn was meant to reflect the socially corrupt Germany of the 1920s. | 'The Threepenny Opera': ?Threepenny Opera? With Berliner Ensemble at BAM - Review 2011-10-05T16:50:18Z The artist’s pictures of adolescent women, some of them apparently self-portraits, used to feature scraped flesh and distorted features and proportions. Review | In the galleries: ‘Sea of Change’ exhibition sets the voyage on a different course 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z But the transcription here is not merely distorted. Whispers of an Italian-Jewish Past Fill a Composer’s Music 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z It’s a tender sentiment, but the song crackles with an undercurrent of jangly, distorted guitar and palpable anxiety, as Jacklin frets that a love so pure is doomed to be lost. Britney Spears and Elton John’s Mash-up, and 8 More New Songs 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The article prompted a lengthy, scathing rebuttal on the Koch company website, which accused Ms. Mayer of distorting the facts. A New Book Looks at the Koch Brothers' Role in Politics 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Upon his return home, reality and fantasy increasingly collide, and Elliot’s distorted perspective slips into outright lies to friends and documentarians alike. Review: ‘Kung Fu Elliot’ Documentary Follows a Martial Arts Enthusiast 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z For all its uncertainties, "Urbanized" may open your eyes to the deliberate way some cities are designed — and the accidental ways in which others become distorted. 'Urbanized': sprawling views on urban planning 2012-01-05T21:44:04Z |
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