| 单词 | distortion |
| 例句 | “In course!” he exclaimed, with a twang of voice and a distortion of features equally fantastic and ludicrous. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z In this interpretation, which we owe to Einstein, gravity is a distortion in the fabric of space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The ice was thick but clear, and in some places I could see twenty or thirty feet into it with only a slight waver of distortion. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I saw Mr. Rochester shudder: a singularly marked expression of disgust, horror, hatred, warped his countenance almost to distortion; but he only said— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z But these cases also tend to create distortions and bias. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Even on stealth-sensitive radar he would be no more than a barely perceptible distortion. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I try to remain calm, but the body conspires against that, tries to drown me in distortion. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The whole affair was a reminder of how our country’s distortions about race could be two-sided—that the suspicion and stereotyping ran both ways. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z A bobbing distortion began warping the leaves and blossoms. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z How did I know that someday—at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere—the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again? The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z However–and here’s the thing–people on the train would have no sense of these distortions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The identity of the distortion came to him slowly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He’d try to bring the night into focus, willing coherence, but the effort would only cause distortions. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z On top of that you must make allowances for distortions caused by variations in the Earth’s atmosphere, by intergalactic dust, contaminating light from foreground stars, and many other factors. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We did everything we could to rise above their lies and distortions, trusting that the way Barack and I lived our lives would show people the truth about who we really were. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I walked quickly down the hill to iron out the distortion. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They deliberately choose to foster distortions, always under the guise of patriotism, upon a people who have no means of checking the facts. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The connective tissue under the skin had been destroyed by the virus, causing a subtle distortion of the face. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I study the waterline’s ripple of distortion, wanting to capture it in my sketchbook. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z When I look at my drawing now, I can see a lot of the mistakes I made in getting the reflections and distortions right. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I’m supposed to write what she calls my “mental distortions” in a journal and then challenge them with more reasonable thoughts. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The Hamiltonian story required a distortion in the sequence of the exchange in order to preserve Hamilton’s posthumous reputation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Off to one side rose a feeble column of smoke—a thin, wavering distortion. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z This was patently untrue, but a justifiable distortion in the Jeffersonian scheme of things because motivated by an authentic urge to sustain the friendship. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The Burr story required a distortion of Hamilton’s honorable intentions in order to justify Burr’s fatal response. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Both these long sentences roll and gather powerfully, even allowing for the distortions of translation. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The officer on duty looked like he was experiencing a bit of chronometric distortion himself. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The result was a peculiar distortion of the field. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It probably occurred to me around this time that the vision people hold of the world to come is but a reflection, with predictable wishful distortions, of the world in which they live. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Every day he punched cards, punched and punched, trying to avoid instability, divergence, distortion. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z That distortion—the curvature caused by objects sitting on the sheet—is gravity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In the same vein, all the heroic portraits of the great men were romanticized distortions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Adams had spent most of his retirement years denouncing such contrivances as gross distortions of history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A convenient distortion, and the least of my offenses against veracity. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The greater the local mass, the more intense the local gravity, and the more severe the pucker, distortion or warp of space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “The convexity will cause some distortion. The reflections size should be off by a factor of—” “Would you speak English?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Laleh had acquired a bag of Sour Patch Kids while she browsed Terminal 4, and the combination of sugar and temporal distortion proved an incendiary one. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Absorbing these psychosocial realities created all kinds of distortions and difficulties that manifest themselves today in multiple ways. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Just like the sunflower field, this was not a genuine memory but the distortion of one. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I moved relentlessly over the evening, back and forth, straining to remember exact words, telling inflections, any subtle insults or kindnesses I might’ve missed, and my mind—quite willingly—supplied various distortions. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Jefferson’s drafting of the Declaration of Independence was a perfect example of such dramatic distortions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Disembodiment is a kind of terrorism, and the threat of it alters the orbit of all our lives and, like terrorism, this distortion is intentional. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z A voice materializes out of the distortion in his headphones, then fades, and he goes ferreting after it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The split-second jump cut in the feed would be masked by the momentary video distortion that occurred when the cameras switched into night-vision mode. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I guess what makes it funny to people is that it’s a gross distortion of something very familiar. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Underneath the distortion is a desire for pain. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z If only she would learn some theory, she would understand how her supposed antihelical features arose from the minor distortions needed to pack regular helices into a crystalline lattice. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Arid I don’t mean that as a distortion, like she always says I do. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z I thought about distortion, deflection, whirlwinds and weather. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z He raised his voice, which is typical when he needs to delay a second because he’s at a loss for his next distortion. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z When the group recognizes its group power, it can limit these distortions. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z But even this book’s distortions suggest a man whose story remains barely told, while few white singers of his day are without up-to-date biographers. In ‘Driving the King,’ Ravi Howard Imagines Nat King Cole 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Of course, the shelf of novels — romantic and satiric — about the super-rich is already crowded, but “Swing Time” may be the most perceptive one I’ve read about the distortion field created by fame and wealth. ‘Swing Time’: Zadie Smith’s sweeping novel about friendship, race and class 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z The songs are enlivened by subtle flourishes and small moments of upended expectations, like the guitar distortion that blossoms after the final chorus of the record’s centerpiece “Midnight Sun.” Nilüfer Yanya’s Music Is a Family Affair 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Details were authentic, but historical distortion was endemic. ‘The Untouchables’ TV Series: Old-School Gangster Trapping 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z But later critics, like Matt Zoller Seitz, appreciated the social criticism and weird ironies, among them the strange distortion that recording an event brings to it. Albert Brooks fans, rejoice! His genius films are coming to Netflix — and they feel more relevant than ever 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Some items in the show are still bolder in both their color schemes and their deliberate distortions of space and scale. Royal Nebeker: paintings explore the pull of Norway 2013-03-13T18:25:00Z Nearly a decade later, this distortion of reality has only grown worse, thanks in part to Donald Trump’s rise to power and his ironclad grip on an increasingly craven Republican Party. Perspective | Our democracy is under attack. Washington journalists must stop covering it like politics as usual. 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Like that record, the band, at its most indulgent on Friday, leaned so far toward distortion as to seem unnecessarily impenetrable. Foxygen knocks out a brave, raucous rock 'n' roll set at the Roxy 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z “Maximum distortion is what we call propaganda, manipulation,” Ms. Basinger said. ‘Selma’ Questions Are Nothing New for Historical Films 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Writers’ conferences can be a strange Hall of Mirrors, everyone looking at distortions of themselves. My Summer Waiting Tables at the Writers’ Retreat 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison’s masterpiece, “Beloved,” seared into our imagination the grotesque distortions of antebellum life. ‘Homegoing,’ by Yaa Gyasi: A bold tale of slavery for a new ‘Roots’ generation 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z “The Buried Giant,” like many of Mr. Ishiguro’s books, reflects his fascination with the ways individuals and societies grapple with the past — often through denial, distortion or self-delusion. Review: In ‘The Buried Giant,’ Ishiguro Revisits Memory and Denial 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z The distortions derive from a lunch shared by the city’s police commissioner and the city editor of The New York Times. ‘Kitty Genovese’: the untold story of a shocking 1964 murder 2014-03-10T06:59:41Z The network is making a mockery of legal injunctions and the web is full of lies, distortions and half-truths. Everything you need to know about the internet 2010-06-19T23:14:00Z Here you feel the organic shapes and mind-bending distortions of 1960s art and architecture as well as mirrors that recall Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” which became a psychedelic touchstone for that era. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z He’s a painter of uncanny talents, seemingly able to render any figure, shadow or distortion that pops into his feverish, apocalyptic mind. Five must-see art shows in September 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z And on “Coliseum” Mr. Okereke yelps some kind of declaration — “The empire never ended!” — at a pivotal moment, just before the volume cranks up, and the drums and distortion kick in. New Music: CD’s by Trey Songz, Bloc Party and Six Organs of Admittance 2012-08-20T21:58:57Z I mean, what’s rock and who cares, but I’m talking about materials: electric guitars and digital distortion and drums, rather than the untreated sounds of mandolin, fiddle, banjo, acoustic guitar and double bass. Music Review: Chris Thile and His Bluegrass Quintet at Caramoor 2010-07-05T21:56:00Z Frequencies move through four-on-the-floor bumps in that sweet spot of 125 beats-per-minute zone and do so minus any hint of distortion or aggression. Essential tracks: John Carpenter's 'Lost Themes' gives off eerie, futuristic sounds 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z “The Cursed Clock” opens the album with a nagging, plinking piano note that is soon joined — at the same pitch — by a sustained electronic tone seething with distortion, a precise irritant. Nine Inch Nails Faces the Pandemic With Hope, Despair and Noise 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Seemingly everyone here who has seen “The Square” has some complaint about omissions or distortions. Egyptian-American Filmmaker Captures Cairo’s Arab Spring 2014-02-07T23:01:46Z The other, "PlectrumElectrum," rocks hard and with great distortion, and it seems a kind of negation of "Art Official Age." Prince dazzles and baffles on two new releases 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Giacometti’s willful distortions transcend eccentricity and artifice, arriving in the realm of greater naturalism—as he moves beyond mere appearances to perceive and unearth something deeper, truer, more human. ‘Giacometti’ Review: Beyond a Retrospective 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z At the Markthalle, the melodic element was lost through overloading the PA with uncontrolled distortion, the basis of hardcore. Hüsker Dü: "Hardcore is bands with three initials" – a classic interview 2013-05-15T13:53:36Z The ode is deservedly and indelibly familiar, which enables us to appreciate the deflating distortions visited upon it in its latest incarnation. Art Review: I Just Popped Out to Play Beethoven 2010-12-09T23:57:00Z Mr. Auerbach’s singing, relaxed and cutting, often moves in a brawny falsetto; his guitar and electric bass parts, like his tight squalls of distortion, are thoughtful. New Music: New albums by the Black Keys and Swans 2014-05-12T22:08:25Z The famous distortions always have something to say about the exasperating business of having to coexist with one's body. Alice Neel: Painted Truths 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z "We consider this movie ... a distortion of our late martyr and reject the Zionist conspiracy against him after his death which everyone knows is a lie," he said. Family of Hamas figure seeks to block Israel movie 2012-05-20T17:01:04Z Instead, she turned it into a sound-effects machine, loading it up with distortion or reverb, and making it groan or buckle beneath the weight of her fingers. Concert review: St. Vincent at Metro 2011-10-06T06:48:00Z Watching the original footage of Vereen’s performance is a surreal experience: Vereen’s face, breaking up and splitting apart because of video distortion, is haunting. Revisiting Ben Vereen’s Misunderstood Blackface Inaugural Performance 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Sky-scraping the barrel … is the Shard an 'aggressive distortion of London's skyline'? Shard attack: why don't we rise up against this monstrosity? 2011-04-12T12:07:04Z Working with Soccer Mommy, he used reverb, distortion, synthesizer tones and guitar feedback, at every volume level from subliminal to overpowering, to create backdrops that can easily warp from sumptuous to menacing. Soccer Mommy Summons a ‘Tidal Wave’ of Feelings 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z And unlike many of the distortions floating around in social media, this one didn’t arise from malice aforethought, or result from anyone trying to perpetrate a scam or manipulate reality. The Biggest Fake News in Fashion 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Again, it opens well, with the dancers melded into strikingly sculpted shapes, but its fusion of vestigial ballet virtuosity and scrunched physical distortions tells us little about these men as dancers, or as personalities. Wayne McGregor/Random Dance – review 2012-11-23T15:47:17Z But “these people were also working on breaking down boundaries of sound, creating distortion, creating noise, working in dissonance,” Marshall said. A Choreographer Finds His Way, Getting Lost in the Stars 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z The EU's economic clout has created a legacy of distortion that favors their fleets over others. Illuminating dark seas: Why fisheries management must be more transparent 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z He hates to see a distortion of what it represents. On His Own, the Burgundy Iconoclast Laurent Ponsot Looks to Big Projects 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z That's how You Really Got Me became the first hit record to use distortion, which so many bands have cited as the beginnings of punk and heavy metal. How we made You Really Got Me 2013-06-10T17:59:01Z A transformation, not a distortion of the truth. The Story Is the Thing: On Lucia Berlin 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z The layered elements, De Patta declared, created “the excitement of optical effects such as magnification, reduction, multiplication, distortion and image reflection.” Antiques: Loving ?Lover?s Eyes? and Loving Cereal 2012-02-02T23:17:03Z He's underscored by piercing Trap hi-hats, two giant inflatable ecstasy pills being suckerpunched across the venue and a panoramic projection of digital distortion on every wall. SXSW music festival: Solange, Death Grips and Kendrick Lamar 2013-03-18T16:49:11Z To me, writing from Berlin, this view seems like a distortion. Hey British moaners: Germans want to be more like us 2013-05-19T18:15:12Z I kept seeing in the media these distortions, not just about the McDonald's case but about the civil justice system. "Hot Coffee" shows other side of "frivolous" lawsuits 2011-06-27T17:47:10Z Most people I know have complained about memory problems, provoked by difficult times and traumatic events, and compounded by the redactions and distortions of social media. Memory, That Unreliable Narrator: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z The first is typical: it’s an astigmatism, or distortion of the lens at the front of the eye, that is easily correctible with glasses. Seeing and Hearing for the First Time, on YouTube 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z He pushed the pop/noise/hook/distortion matrix further in a set that started with pure animosity — drone and dissonance — and ended up euphoric and spattered with brittle noise. Review: PC Music and Sophie in a High-Concept Extravaganza at BRIC House 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z But its plot, structure and characters have been appropriated, with only slight distortions, from more familiar Williams works, including “Suddenly Last Summer,” “The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore” and “Sweet Bird of Youth.” Theater Review: ?In Masks Outrageous and Austere? at the Culture Project 2012-04-17T02:00:12Z And horror fiction, as practiced by Malerman, Tremblay and a good many others, continues to serve as a bleak but appropriate vehicle for conveying the dangers and distortions of our increasingly incomprehensible age. Review | Two new horror novels make sense of our current dystopian reality 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z “But there has been so much bias and distortion and inaccurate reporting that no one can see reality.” Jeffrey Deitch Faces Critics at MOCA 2012-10-19T23:10:54Z “These billion years will end/They end in me,” he intones in “Garden of Stars,” as electronic tones go whizzing by and distortion flickers and crests around him like a cosmic radiation storm. On ‘ForeverAndEverNoMore,’ Brian Eno Sings for the End of the World 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Then you are most likely experiencing chillwave, the generic surge in post-Animal Collective bands who have as much time for melodies and electronic sounds as distortion and psychedelic drugs. This week's new live music 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z Past works have taken in trick mirrors, perspective distortions and bewildering spatial illusions. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z There is a slight dissonance, but not an unpleasant one; the effect is more like the distortion of memory. At 75, the Ojai Music Festival Stays Focused on the Future 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z He’s not about virtuosity as a guitar slinger so much as intensity, with a heavy attack that weds blues chords to metal distortion. Album review: Gary Clark Jr., 'Blak and Blu' 2012-10-22T17:36:00Z Here they are raised on nearly chest-high pedestals, diminishing the effect, but the distortions are noteworthy nevertheless because they are signs of the artists’ postmedieval modernity. Review: Donatello in a Valedictory Show at the Museum of Biblical Art 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Simple yet effective audio and visual distortions remind us that this is a kid in shock, someone with neither time nor means to process his bereavement. ‘Socrates’ Review: Surviving on the Streets of São Paulo 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Early in its career the Radio Dept. placed overlays of noise on its songs, but the band soon realized that it could be just as circumspect without the distortion. Music Review: Restraint Layered Over Scales of Expression 2010-12-03T01:08:00Z Yet Krenek’s understanding of race was limited by a lack of access to African-American artists, as well as by the racist distortions of the era. When Classical Composers Did the Fox Trot 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Veloso, though, tempered it with an acoustic guitar as the distortion gave way to what felt like an inhalation of ocean air. Caetano Veloso gigs the Hollywood Bowl; Bird and Banhart offer support 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z You don’t notice the distortions at first because of how subtly Ingres folded her parts into a configuration of interlocking ovals, giving the impression of perfect poise. Perfect Poise, Pulled From Jaws of Distortion 2010-12-30T22:46:46Z If that sounds like a drastic distortion of normal psychology, it isn't. Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church by Lauren Drain – review 2013-04-10T07:01:01Z St. Vincent is an exacting, proficient guitarist who shrouds her playing in layers of processed distortion. The Week Ahead: Oct. 30 ? Nov. 5 2011-10-27T18:15:00Z Beck, who died on Tuesday at 78, was also a master of electric guitar tones, of amplification and distortion. Jeff Beck’s 10 Essential Songs 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z The circular pool offers another reflective feature that plays with the distortions of depth and boundaries. The venerable Philadelphia Flower Show lets its hair down 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z He must also speak against the background of Bobby Previte’s exquisitely unnerving sound design and music, which ranges from primal percussion to ear-scraping high-tech distortions. Review: The Lists We Live by in Daniel Fish’s ‘White Noise’ 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z As we approached the painting, its monumental scale loomed over us with Thomasos’ distinct visual lexicon, an intense use of densely overlapping black and white lines that achieved a sense of spatial distortion. My Artist Ghost 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z The use of electronics — as canvas for, and distortion of, the voices — is widespread. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Kafka’s stories convey “the monstrously misunderstood distortions peeking out, in a way so horrible that you just have to laugh.” Why Are Jews Funny? 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Freedom is the line, and it is a foul distortion of freedom; freedom for the wolves, to paraphrase Isaiah Berlin, is not freedom for the sheep, even if they are nude. Porn is like meat. Ask how it is made before consuming it 2013-03-18T09:30:01Z Rather than an overly packaged, polished, and programmed product of committee creation, Live From Daryl’s House showcases talented people doing exactly what talented people do, without filter and without distortion. Daryl Hall explains it all to Salon: “Record company executives are the most backward bunch of idiots I’ve ever seen” 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Emmett shifts to a spherical lens to better capture the social and emotional distortion unfolding there. With 'The One I Love,' a relationship gets trippy 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z National Sawdust is shallow and high-ceilinged; Mr. O’Malley ran his guitar through four stacks of amplifiers and various distortion and sustain pedals. Review: Stephen O’Malley, Stretching a Guitar Chord to Its Limits 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Both are masters of manipulation in a controlled environment so the camera becomes more of a distortion than usual in the filming process. TV review: Inside Death Row with Trevor McDonald; Married in Britain 2013-01-17T22:00:15Z Then the synthesizers appear, throbbing and lurching, dropping out and plunging back in with dubstep impact, pushing distortion into the mix. The Playlist: Lana Del Rey’s Smoldering Return, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The power you ascribe to them isn’t just a distortion of reality; it’s a dodge. I Lost a Boyfriend. Then I Lost a Friend. Now I’m Angry. 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z It acknowledges that in Cody’s invention of Buffalo Bill and in his creation of “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West,” there was a fair amount of distortion. Critic's Notebook: Buffalo Bill Museum in Wyoming 2012-08-03T19:07:26Z His studio experiments with echoes and distortion verged on psychedelia and electronica. New Music: The Dude Sings 2011-08-15T22:07:21Z “I’m So Sorry” buries a solid blues song under a mountain of needless distortion. Imagine Dragons’ new album is good, even if no one will admit it 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z But it at least bypasses Jobs’ reality distortion field. Michael Fassbender on playing Steve Jobs: 'Was he flawed? Yeah! We all are' 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z The distortion between body and sound was evident. Dance Review: Daniel Linehan in the American Realness Festival - Review 2012-01-12T23:55:14Z His reality distortion field is so strong that he would view the last two fingers on your hand as the design flaw and not the iPhone 4 as having the design flaw. The weird new world of computer-animated news 2011-01-31T08:00:00Z Army colonel on the air recently, saying she barely had time to correct all of his “distortions.” Fox News defense reporter challenges war comments on air 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z The music sounded louder than it was because distortion blanketed the frequency spectrum, and the pitch kept heaving and sliding, a tempest of instability above a relentless beat. A Year of Concerts With Staying Power 2013-12-29T22:45:02Z To follow its wrenched syntax is to experience the frustrating dogleg lanes of consciousness, the distortions and failures of memory and self-narration. This Old Woman Has Some Important Things to Say, if Only You’d Listen 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z The lies that Kipling had in mind were the half-truths and distortions that the country’s politicians and opinion-makers had resorted to at a time of war, in order to stir up a blood-and-khaki belligerence. When Rudyard Kipling’s Son Went Missing 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Throughout Dossier K he is unsparing also about his work – "art is nothing other than exaggeration and distortion" – and about himself. Dossier K by Imre Kertész – review 2013-07-13T07:30:00Z In our own day, what survives of that worldview, which was always more of an ethos than a political ideology, is subject to distortion and caricature. Arts & Leisure: Urban Realist With a Humanist Streak 2011-04-13T13:29:51Z She did the same thing in her improvising: on a new piece, “Four Hours,” her use of distortion felt purely exploratory, as if she were troubling the waters to see what bubbled up. Music Review: Tomas Fujiwara and the Hook Up at Jazz Gallery 2010-04-30T20:54:00Z “Would she prefer it if I took her to an opera or two?” he sang mournfully, as if such a gesture would be a distortion of selfhood. Music Review: Sting?s Songbook at the Met, With Strings Attached 2010-07-14T20:35:00Z But I'm intrigued by the distortions which quirk the buoyant surface. Poem of the week: Time's Acquittal by Sara Coleridge 2011-01-10T10:49:35Z Coates' Fourth Symphony, for instance, refashions Dido's Lament from Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" into uncanny glissandi and strange harmonies in which lamentation becomes a ritual of memory as an act of distortion. Gloria Coates' great oddity on display at REDCAT 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z The angst and aggression in the lyrics of “Only Happy When It Rains” or “Stupid Girl”, the edgy clothes, the distortion on the guitars: It’s all exactly what was marketable at the time. Garbage?s Reunion Rock Record Feels More Like an Anomaly 2012-05-15T16:19:09Z In some ways, Ms. Fure’s vocabulary of dread-inducing noises is familiar: a panicky pulse, heavy distortion, muffled cries and amplified whispers, sustained dissonances. Review: An ‘Opera for Objects’ Makes Music Out of Fear 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Thick layers of guitar distortion hark back to an era when Sonic Youth ruled the independent underground. Putting the world's music blogs on the MAP 2010-10-15T11:52:00Z It’s a corona of reverb or distortion, or perhaps a sustained keyboard chord or a looped noise, or an unwavering one-chord strum. New Music: New Music From Caveman, Los Campesinos! and the Fall 2011-11-14T22:59:39Z Another, she said, is about “learning to love ourselves and deflect the distortions” that prevent people from doing that. The Growing Transgender Presence in Pop Culture 2014-03-12T22:38:10Z After taking an electronic-rock detour, this band has returned to its cocoon of guitar distortion on “The Hunting Party,” its sixth album, released last summer. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Jan. 23-29 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Yet his pictures did also get bolder – both in their use of paint, which became thicker and more textured, and in their distortion of forms. William Scott, the painter who made the everyday into a masterpiece 2013-03-02T08:00:10Z Historical distortion or defamation is covered by legislation. Carry on up the Kremlin: how The Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with the truth 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z To avoid the distortions that occur when the world is traced onto a flat canvas, the twins have built a concave metal easel that allows them to sketch directly onto the inside of a sphere. The Scan: Science Events: Unusual Vision and D.I.Y. Neuroscience 2014-04-28T17:45:47Z The D.C. artist methodically renders them in pencil, complete with the distortions introduced by the copying process. In the galleries: Brick by brick, a dark history emerges 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z In Ungirthed, we're told how "prostrate men … illuminate the worlds of the ghosts" over tunes which are like weird distortions of mainstream pop songs. Purity Ring: Shrines – review 2012-07-12T21:00:03Z It applies Auto-Tune and other gadgetry; it unleashes samples and distortion; it tucks phalanxes of overdubbed saxophones and backup vocals into its mix. The Best Albums of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z It is not the imagined conversations or small historical distortions that make “The Kennedys” both unsettling to watch and addictive. Television Review: The Power Brokers: Fathers, Sons, Dynasties 2011-03-31T20:00:05Z Some of the works feature the human figure, often with some macabre distortion or a portion peeled away to expose an eerily lifelike eye underneath. At 84, an Artist Tries Something New: Displaying His Work 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Due to camera lens distortion, the portraits are never perfectly square. My Chuck Close problem 2012-07-10T14:03:00Z If “dysmorphia” is a distortion of perspective, the treatment may simply be recognizing that the distortion is there, and surrounding yourself with reliable witnesses. SZA Almost Quit Music. Now She’s a Grammys Contender. 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Clearly, Beethoven had a more hopeless affliction – possibly nerve damage and certainly roaring tinnitus – but his reported descriptions of distortion and frequency loss now sound horribly familiar to me. My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z Misinformation and distortions about it were part of the soundtrack of his childhood. Review: ‘Blood at the Root,’ a Tale of Racial Cleansing Close to Home 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Inspired by African art — to which he introduced Picasso — he almost single-handedly revived European sculpture with a new bluntness and distortion of form. Art Review: Matisse at MoMA: Carving With Color 2010-07-15T16:01:00Z There are canny distortions of figures in his compositions, and subtle shadows and shadings in his color. 'Noah Davis: Savage Wilds': Trash TV as elegant art 2012-08-02T20:17:14Z On the track "Nowhere," that means a forward-pushing tune drenched in distortion, with synthesizer twinkles — something like bedroom punk rock. Review roundup: five local, late-summer albums of note 2011-08-19T19:01:15Z Subtle though they are, these distortions create a fuzzy, uncertain, alienating effect, just like the movie. Design: If There Were an Oscar for Film Titles 2011-02-21T03:00:04Z Macron, naturally, has dismissed the scandal as a distraction, a tempest in a teapot, and accused journalists of willful hysteria and distortion. Will Scandal Sink Emmanuel Macron? 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Others took exception not just to its sweetness but its distortion of history. How The Sound of Music led the way for the critic-proof hit musical 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The music opens up echoey hollows and a sudden stretch of loud distortion. The Playlist: The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar Join Forces, and 15 More New Songs 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z A Baudelaire of film imagery, Dod Mantle finds visual correlatives for the story by defining essences in terms of surfaces: mirrors in mirrors, reflections and distortions, seen underwater or from above. Danny Boyle’s Trance: You Are Getting Very Creepy 2013-04-05T18:53:54Z In my opinion these values are rightfully condemned, but they’re a distraction from—and contribute to a distortion of—an all-too-common problem that crosses ideological as well as class and race lines. What the Duggars should have done for all of their kids: Here’s how to respond to sexual abuse by a minor in the home 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Manson called the allegations “horrible distortions of reality.” Marilyn Manson denies Evan Rachel Wood’s abuse allegations 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z “Obviously my art and life have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality,” his post said. Marilyn Manson denies Evan Rachel Wood’s abuse allegations 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z “Town Crank” hurtles into motion, starting with dry, jittery acoustic guitar before mustering a full sonic barrage: a relentless electronic bass line, blasts of drums and distortion, orchestral flurries. Rosalía Issues an English Request, and 9 More New Songs 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z “Rumble” from 1958 is too scary to ignore, and Link Wray’s guitar tone taught countless future guitarists that menacing distortion can be had by merely poking a hole in your amp cone. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2015: 11 other acts that should be in 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Baroque trills and guitar distortion share equal space in their records. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-04T22:04:46Z “Decasia” seizes on those transitional moments, when the readable images of nitrate film are slipping into the many odd and curious distortions caused by the decay of the physical medium. ‘Decasia,’ Celebration of Decay, From Icarus Films 2012-12-21T20:58:44Z Another great distortion is the extent to which it ignores the collective nature of Parks’s ostensibly individual action. Rosa Parks’ activism wasn’t limited to a Montgomery bus 2013-03-15T16:57:00Z Sure, complex can be good, but simple’s often best when you have barrels of distortion and enough leather to befall an entire herd of cattle. 12 Amazing Songs With Just Three Chords 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Titled “Flux,” it lands somewhere between the sonic extremes of her previous work, marrying heavy distortion with sticky pop hooks. 66 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z One such friendship was with Ross Miller, a writer and a nephew of Arthur Miller whom he recruited as a surrogate to punish Bloom for her “serious and libelous distortions of reality” in “Doll’s House.” Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z An almost cartoonish vision of war transpired in silhouette, with marvelous distortions of scale as some combatants loomed like giants over others, even on occasion pinching their heads off. Review: An Immersive ‘Seeing You’ Sends Its Audience to War 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Lynott’s got a similar gnarl to his voice, and founding guitarist Eric Bell plays a mean slide guitar that he runs through thick distortion. Throwbacks: Vinyl and digital reissues of note for winter-spring 2015 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z In “Bells in Santa Fe,” as tension builds with repeated tones and looming distortion, Halsey ponders their tendencies to approach and avoid, with a reminder that “All of this is temporary.” Backed by Nine Inch Nails, Halsey Connects Past and Future 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Month of May, played with such ferocity and distortion tonight that it sounds like the Jesus and Mary Chain, points an accusing finger at prematurely jaded kids who stand there "with their arms folded tight". Arcade Fire ? review 2010-12-02T21:31:00Z The mirror deployed by the German Argentine photographer Annemarie Heinrich is a silvered sphere; capturing herself and her sister in it, she depicts the fun-house pleasures, and distortions, of being a woman made New. Women Who Shaped Modern Photography 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z But otherwise the works are highly diverse, with variations on Cubist and Surrealist distortion and segmentation as well as the classical representation of the early 1920s. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z And of course, because she says things that contradict the echo chamber lives they lead, they resent it and project their own distortions and lies onto her. Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks on the #MeToo Moment and ‘The Post’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z As the rescue workers collect the evidence from the pool, at first it looks — because of distortion and superimposition — as if they were walking upside-down underwater. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z This is the version favored by both Islamophobes and their partners in distortion, Muslim extremists — partners in bigotry and its correlate, ignorance. The Catholic Writer Garry Wills Explores the Quran 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z It’s not hard to imagine a vocalist taking on the track’s sinuous melody, though Mr. Hodge does a fine job himself, running his bass through a gluey haze of distortion. The Playlist: Thundercat Unplugs, Young M.A. Gets Remixed 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Gary F. Marcus, for example, a psychology professor at New York University and the author of “Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind,” says distortions in reasoning are unintended side effects of blind evolution. Reasoning, Scholars Say, Evolved Just as a Means to Win 2011-06-14T11:55:00Z Mr. Lindner served as resident colorist, feeding an electric piano through distortion pedals and other effects. Music Review: Donny McCaslin Group at Jazz Standard 2012-12-05T23:06:20Z Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, also involved extremists hunting for Ms. Pelosi, and in spite of abundant documentation has been treated by partisans as a tangle of mystery, indeterminacy and through-the-looking-glass distortion. The Responsibility of Watching 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z The lab’s first few tries were rejected; the fissures were erased but new distortions cropped up in their place. ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ Mended, Returns to Screen and Blu-ray 2012-09-28T18:57:28Z That Edwards and Troy mix needlecraft with distortion remains one of this superlative duo's plus points; subverting expectations from the off. Deap Vally: Sistrionix – review 2013-06-22T23:05:06Z His authority derives from his defense of facts, not their distortion. In Alex Trebek’s Reluctant, Moving Memoir, Life Is All About the Next Question 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Nearly all his paintings are the height of Mannerist distortion and unbalanced elegance, androgynous sensuality, with an astonishingly consistent perfection of hauteur and surface. For the Medici, the Last Great Picture Show 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z There are, in fact, too many distortions, evasions and baseless conspiracy theories to enumerate them all.” In ‘Truth,’ a News Team Tells Its Side of a ‘60 Minutes II’ Scandal 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z This causes us to deploy the common cognitive distortion of mind reading, in which we're convinced we know what someone else is thinking. “Generation Anxiety”: When my worry became a hidden dinner guest 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z The technology just helps capture and loop the tones of acoustic guitars, keyboards, percussion and voices, whether or not they’re fed through analog distortion gadgets; it’s as amoral as a microphone or an amplifier. Review: In Radiohead’s ‘A Moon Shaped Pool,’ Patient Perfectionism 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z And me being a kind of happy, upbeat person, when Mat told me that, I thought it was quite sad, even though I am drawn to his aesthetic, that distortion of nature. Britain Creates: when fashion and art collide 2012-06-26T20:00:01Z But dirty campaigning, distortion of reality and propaganda were there from the very beginning, as indeed she notes. The American Past: A History of Contradictions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The project uses two detectors, one located in Washington State and the other in Louisiana, to sense the distortions in space that occur when a gravitational wave passes through Earth. Everything you need to knew about the groundbreaking gravitational waves discovery 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z "Our favorite thing in the whole world was to sing together, sing harmonies and kick on our distortion pedals," Gordon said. Veruca Salt reunites to tell story of breakup, recovery in 'Ghost Notes' 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Must I renounce myself to show the landscape without distortion? Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XVII 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z The take is rough, with distortion, but there is magic, and history in it. Nirvana reissue is heaven for fans 2011-09-16T20:57:04Z Craft, here, encapsulates concealment and coercion, forgery and feigning, harmony and distortion. Songs and Sonnets by Paul Muldoon – review 2013-01-11T20:00:01Z Given the huge cloud of distortion enveloping the country, this is just what the doctor ordered. Perspective | Barack Obama’s summer reading list is everything we need right now 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z The pandemic underscored the distortions of personal witness: My pandemic was not yours, though surely both are true. New & Noteworthy, From Trump’s America to a Swedish Thriller 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z By 1980 he was painting scenes of hardscrabble life in the tropics, using wry distortions, a lush palette and a political sharpness that took Neo-Expressionism on a tangent all his own. The Week Ahead: June 6 ? 12 2010-06-03T21:26:00Z It’s such a distortion of the teachings of Jesus to say that what he taught us to do personally — to love our neighbors as ourselves, help the poor — can somehow be imputed on a nation. Jerry Falwell Jr. can’t imagine Trump ‘doing anything that’s not good for the country’ 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z As The Quote Investigator determined, this was actually a distortion of a well-known passage from one of Rand’s better-known novels, The Fountainhead: How Ayn Rand became an Internet superstar 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z A boyfriend back then gave her a Roy Orbison CD that was so well loved it became scratched to the point where a peak in “Only the Lonely” fell into distortion. To Go Big, Sloppy Jane Went Underground 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z At the time, that aesthetic was brighter and crisper than the sound of My Bloody Valentine, perhaps the most prominent name in shoegaze, which combined pummeling rhythms, searing walls of distortion and obsessive studio trickery. Shoegaze, the Sound of Protest Shrouded in Guitar Fuzz, Returns Again 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z It moved from contemplation to apocalyptic distortion to a sparse pianissimo before the song itself emerged, with all its odd, plaintive leaps. Music Review: Alternative Guitar Festival at Rockwood Music Hall - Review 2012-01-15T23:43:32Z That distortion says much about the Academy—much that the Academy wouldn’t like to acknowledge about itself. The Baffling 2016 Oscar Nominees 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z This song has all the classic hall markings of the genre: ethereal vocals, distortion breakdown and shimmering, layered guitars. Shoegaze: a beginner's guide 2013-01-23T15:42:23Z Like Jobs, Musk has a reality distortion field. What Makes Elon Musk Different 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Early on, Ms. Holmes seemed to absorb the example of Mr. Jobs in terms of reality distortion and her own mythmaking. The Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Holmes and the Black Turtleneck 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The resulting music comprises rock 'n' roll songs freckled with distortion and fuzz — see the soulful swagger of "You Get To Rome" and the needling power-pop gem "Just A Fool" — and introspective twang-folk. The secret to Jim James’ solo album “Uniform Distortion”: “Turn off your phone and open y... 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z “Mad Men” offers a far more commonplace milieu — the rat race — and finds comedy in the distortions of a rear-view mirror. Television: Changes for Fourth Season of ?Mad Men? 2010-07-16T19:01:00Z Seattle continued to be under siege by record-label scouts looking for the next batch of long-haired dudes playing guitars cloaked in distortion. Eddie Vedder on the cover of Time. Pearl Jam and Nirvana at No. 1. In the fall of 1993, grunge was king. 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The mood is what is rendered most effectively: delicate synth tones are set to echoing percussion and low-key distortion, and the melodies are melancholy. Mount Kimbie: Cold Spring Fault Less Youth – review 2013-05-23T20:40:02Z A transformation, not a distortion of the truth. The Story Is the Thing: On Lucia Berlin 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z The details and distortions of faces and figures are remarkably vivid and haunting: a blend of Blake and Bosch. At SAM, a grand show from London’s Kenwood, and Seattle collectors 2013-02-14T19:07:22Z Compared with “Real Gone,” an album full of songs that clanged, scraped and bristled with distortion and cryptic lyrics, “Bad as Me” climbs off the ledge. Arts & Leisure: Tom Waits?s New Album, ?Bad as Me? 2011-10-20T11:01:09Z Even in ballads as straightforward and acoustic as “A Little Bit More,” there are odd pockets of reverberation, and in the band’s more plugged-in arrangements, feedback and distortion well up alongside terse disclosures of emotion. New Music From Kathryn Calder, Buxton, Nadine Shah, East India Youth and Tal National 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z In search of a sound as organic as his subject matter, Elvrum recorded on to analogue tape, and the album crackles with warm-sounding fuzz and distortion throughout. Hidden treasures: The Microphones – The Glow Pt 2 2013-03-12T15:45:19Z And a play that is partly about recapturing lost time — and the illumination, distortions and redemption that come with retrospect — seems guaranteed to achieve a whole new level of resonance. 12 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2020 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z While the bass and drum parts from the demos were well developed, there was a translation process for Mr. Lindner, who used a total of nine keyboards with various distortion and effects pedals. On David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar,’ Turning to Jazz for Inspiration 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z The melody of horse-head fiddle, the rhythm of heavy drum, the echo of Mongolian throat singing and the distortion of guitar all create an expressive scene of pagan culture. February's best music from across the MAP 2013-02-15T09:17:22Z Guitars strummed steadily and microchips peeped incessantly in a 25-minute arc from clean tone to distortion. Music Review: New Kids: One Behaved, One, Eh 2011-05-27T20:51:08Z It dials back the guitar distortion and drumbeats and brings acoustic instruments into the foreground; it invokes folk-rock, parlor songs and waltzes. Black Country, New Road’s Perilous Triumph 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z In Shepard’s work, what is most wanted — family, home, identity — is most unmoored, prone to drift and distortion. Sam Shepard's dual-voiced farewell 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Their productions also infuse some mixes with noise; burbles and blotches of synthesizer distortion erupt on the edges of “Hard Feelings,” like the psychic storm behind the song’s attempts at a merciful breakup. Lorde Learns She Can’t Party Away Her Melancholy on ‘Melodrama’ 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z “I’ve never experienced this kind of distortion,” he told The New York Times last year, speaking about accusations that he was destroying the museum’s integrity with a program too obsessed with pop culture. Los Angeles Contemporary Art Museum’s Director to Leave 2013-07-23T20:46:02Z The same notions hold in her music, she said, where distortion, transformation and roughness reflected the questioning, arguing and doubting that motivate her creativity. Music Review: Looking Behind Curtains On a Gripping Journey 2011-05-26T21:42:30Z The haze was in much of the music itself: a lavish application of reverb and distortion, of feedback and noise, of watery keyboard sounds and echoey, indecipherable vocals. Critic?s Notebook: At CMJ Music Marathon, a Glut of Bands and a Haze of Music 2011-10-23T23:43:16Z Yet the scores somehow seemed all the more musically enthralling thanks to Fry’s ability to entice the viewer into making an effort to overcome the distortion. The Bowl is no Bayreuth. And with Wagner in Dudamel's defiant hands, that's not a bad thing 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Gunn’s use of music—with a soundtrack programmed by Edward O. Bland, the director-theoretician of “The Cry of Jazz”—and his distortion of it into sheer sounds, are as original as the images on display. Spike Lee’s Vampiric Remake 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z And this is where the big lie, the big distortion is. Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z Even the precise, vaporous reflections in the water record the optical distortions of events unfolding above. 'Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV': Splendid pomp and circumstance at the Getty 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z The book “conveys her perception of reality, as she rescues it from the flattening forces of her own distortions and other people’s expectations,” our critic Jennifer Szalai writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Loose with dueling guitars, big distortion and pounding drums, the band turns "Rules of Change" into a grungy track best described as Neil Young inspired. Neil Young's in protest mode on 'The Monsanto Years' 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Leonardo’s paintings are stuffed with ideas, with suppositions on perspective and distortion, on how the rounded surface of the eye influences perception. What Made Leonardo Such a Great Artist? Science, Says a New Book 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z But those distortions at least make a good story. Review: Broadway’s First ‘Funny Girl’ Revival Shows Why It Took So Long 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Seabrook is now the greatest sonic wild card in the band, often using echo and distortion and clawed strokes on the guitar strings to put a layer of filth over Mr. Opsvik’s arrangements. Music From a Distance? Eivind Opsvik Has Been Making It for Years 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The essay, Roussel’s only autobiographical statement, provides a key of sorts to his fabulous creations, particularly the revelation that many were inspired by puns and word games, distortions of language that prompted unexpected ideas. How Raymond Roussel Put the Impossible on the Page 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z I worry that we’re about to repeat earlier mistakes and create expensive market distortions that don’t produce much fundamental good. Why Grand Plans to Fix Fannie and Freddie's Foreclosure Mess Could Misfire 2011-08-31T14:27:01Z Swathed in her own reality distortion field, she dressed in black turtlenecks to emulate her idol Jobs and preached that the Theranos device was “the most important thing humanity has ever built.” How One Company Scammed Silicon Valley. And How It Got Caught. 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z And its puzzlelike construction and untrustworthy narrator act as distancing mechanisms: instead of becoming fully immersed in the characters’ stories, the reader spends a lot of time assembling clues and looking for distortions. Books of The Times: In ‘& Sons,’ David Gilbert Looks at Uneasy Family Dynamics 2013-07-28T18:50:19Z They focus on the three D’s -- doom, drone and distortion – and bring them raining down accompanied by tribal rhythms. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z Earnest vocals get giddily pitch-shifted and skewed by distortion and effects. Too Pop? Too Weird? A.G. Cook of PC Music Is Stepping Out on His Own 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z The Internet, he said, is “at least 80 percent garbage — lies, distortion, nonsense.” Ksenia Sobchak, the Stiletto in Putin’s Side 2012-07-03T21:56:57Z But he will also perform his Rock Concerto, in which he summons the spirits of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath with a gold-plated six-string electric violin and a healthy dose of distortion. Beyond Popping Corks, the Sounds of the New Year 2010-12-23T23:06:06Z Though she showed how her line and phrasing often reached new extremes, she never tipped the ballet over into the study in distortion it often becomes. Dance Review | Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Celebrating the Genius of Balanchine by Viewing It With Fresh Eyes 2010-03-08T06:32:00Z “We diminished the distortions of the losses,” he said. Antiques: Roman Forum Church, Santa Maria Antiqua 2012-06-14T21:10:47Z It’s difficult to decipher whether its aftershocks are coming from the source, or if my impressions of the event are products of distortion through the retelling and reselling of its history. Woodstock, a Utopia? Not for Every Generation 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The initial results of an international questionnaire published in June in Chemical Senses found that about 7 percent of the roughly 4,000 covid-diagnosed respondents reported experiencing a smell distortion. When coffee smells like gasoline: Covid isn’t just stealing senses — it may be warping them 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Joseph counters that he’s intent on ensuring that environmental policy be based on sound science rather than “distortions, exaggerations, and misinformation.” Can plastic bags save the planet? 2012-09-13T20:03:00Z As we know from remix culture, zombie movies and Heraclitus, what’s revived is never truly faithful to the original; it consists of the productive distortion the present permits. Riff: ?My So-Called Adulthood? 2011-08-07T04:15:28Z These distortions are reinforced by the structural system, an irregular network of steel cross-bracing that looks as if it were etched into the building’s skin. Architecture Review: Koolhaas, Delirious in Beijing 2011-07-12T12:26:40Z Even the reputation of a reputation is subject to distortion. David Foster Wallace and the Perils of “Litchat” 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z The latter picture is often cited as an example of the more extreme forms of Mannerist distortion. The Glories of Two Parma Masters 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z It’s a distortion of the events and people who served in Benghazi that night We don’t see Obama or Hillary Clinton directly, but the movie ticks many of the rightwing boxes. Fighting dirty: could Michael Bay’s Benghazi movie take down Hillary Clinton? 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Briefly looking to the future, Mr Wilson notes new, post-modern distortions. Neither holy nor a failure 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Brajkovic likens his approach to that of a famed painter: “I’m drawn to the blurred effect and distortion, twisting, rather like Francis Bacon, who created and then dismantled his subjects.” Sebastian Brajkovic Furniture on Display at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Hot peppers can cause the brain to release endorphins and dopamine, adding mild euphoria to the emotional distortion. Celebs Will Say Anything if You Blast Them With Hot Sauce 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z In her attempt to express rawness, she courts the distortion of extremes. Review: At Met Breuer, Dancers Try to Be Like Life, Too 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z As a result, mainstream culture still sees black motherhood as a distortion of true motherhood ideals, and therefore unworthy of the big screen. Motherlode Blog: Hollywood to Black Mothers: Stay Home 2012-06-19T01:02:47Z It warps sounds and spaces with distortion, reverb, filtering and hyper-close-ups on unexpected details; rhythms ricochet, small sounds loom, silences gape. The Best Albums of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Like other narratives that do the day-to-day work of supporting and reinforcing institutional white supremacy, the Blue Lives Matter movement is based on numerous lies and distortions. When the Punisher, a brutal comic-book vigilante, comes to your local police department, it can’t be good 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z We all need a mirror, sometimes to see the distortions, sometimes to see our true purpose. The Best Post Office Novel You Will Read Before the Election 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Alongside the reverb and distortion, and a newly expanded vocabulary of echoes, are glimmers of dulcimer, zither and accordion. New Music: New Albums by Aaron Neville and Widowspeak 2013-01-21T23:21:29Z Ms. Ireland’s imagination is so well calibrated that she manages, almost single-handedly, to correct for that distortion. Review: Marin Ireland, on Fire in ‘Summer and Smoke’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z We see the preteenage Paiman only in silhouettes projected on the fabric of a tent, which allows for clever distortions of scale. Review: Tackling a Major Taboo in ‘The Boy Who Danced on Air’ 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Impeccably researched and pithily written, Bellos’s book provides an important corrective to these kinds of distortions. The Legacy of ‘Les Misérables’: Charting the Life of a Classic 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z The musicians argue they are merely singing about their personal experiences, and that their reputation as a far-right band is a media distortion. A Rock Band Flirts With German Taboos, and Finds a Huge Following 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z They are rife with confounds, biases and all-around distortions. Review: In ‘Ordinarily Well,’ Peter D. Kramer Goes to the Antidepressant Ramparts 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Sculptor Ernst Neizvestny, whose works Khruschev derided as degenerate and "distortions of Soviet people's faces" emigrated to the West and found success in New York. Banned 50 years ago, exhibition reopens in Moscow 2012-12-06T12:16:54Z L. Lin Wood, an Atlanta attorney who said he had successfully other media outlets over similar accusations against Burke Ramsey, branded the program as a broadcast riddled with “lies, misrepresentations, distortions and omissions.” Lawyer for JonBenet Ramsey family vows to sue CBS over documentary 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z In the first, “Say Valley Maker,” he pondered his own burial, accepting and then transcending its finality: “I’m gonna phoenix,” was the final line, repeated against an upwelling cacophony of drums and distortion. Music Review: Bill Callahan Show at Jazz at Lincoln Center 2012-02-09T23:04:37Z The truth about Dworkin is everywhere, but so is the distortion of her work and of her politics. Why Andrea Dworkin is the radical, visionary feminist we need in our terrible times 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Merritt's labyrinthine catalogue contains experiments with everything from synthesisers to distortion, but here the minimal instrumentation and predominance of cello and Merritt's ukulele means the songs start to sound samey, even like a schtick. The Magnetic Fields | Pop review 2010-03-21T21:45:00Z And his belief that a successful MtyMx would help correct American distortions about Mexico were shared by Alan Palomo of the band Neon Indian, who was born in Monterrey and raised in Texas. MtyMx Expands Indie-Rock Frontier to Mexico 2010-03-09T23:19:00Z Conservatives are masters at using distortion and subterfuge to sell people on things they would never buy if properly labeled. 7 absurd things America’s kids are learning thanks to conservatives 2014-03-04T13:00:00Z Gary Clark Jr., a blues-rocker from Texas, made his songs slash and scream and erupt with distortion, communing with his guitar rather than telegraphing the music’s drama. Critic’s Notebook: Axl Rose and Kanye West, Heroes of Governors Ball 2013-06-10T21:53:47Z The dancers — 28 of them, in costumes of draping white fabric — processed onto the plaza as the violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain played a distortion of the national anthem on his electric instrument. On the Anniversary of 9/11, Lincoln Center Awakens With Hope 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Rock alchemists extol the germanium transistors in the distortion pedal Hendrix played at Monterey, casting this semi-metallic element as the golden key to the guitar god’s warm yet edgy sound. The 808 Heard Round the World 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z He brought dozens of musicians and singers into the studio to perform together, doubling parts for heft and impact and pushing mixes to the brink of distortion, to create his Wall of Sound. Phil Spector: Listening to 15 Songs From a Violent Legacy 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z “Film is very much a dance medium,” she told The New York Times in 1977, adding that it “presents many facets of dance: slow motion, fantasy of configuration, manipulation of space, distortion of time.” Elaine Summers, Who Meshed Dance and Film, Dies at 89 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z He declined to say which stories or to detail his distortions. At long last, Brian Williams is back — humbled and demoted to MSNBC 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z A blizzard of distortion, it sounds like someone thumping a defective Space Invaders machine in the middle of a five-lane highway in Tokyo rush hour. Readers recommend: discordant songs ? the results 2011-02-10T17:22:20Z Not to forget, really at the heart of all this was the simple greed of many players, triggered by the U.S. property boom, with all the attendant grotesque distortions that come with such manias. Watching Lehman Brothers collapse from the inside: A 2008 recruit on the bank’s final days 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Beneath the sludge and churning distortions, however, is a characteristically generous squaring-up to life's horror and humanity that is worth excavating. The Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends – review 2012-07-26T20:15:01Z Of the task of telling history right in the face of denial and distortion. Poet Elizabeth Alexander celebrates the power of a people’s voice 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z But, of course, it was style that left Nietzsche so vulnerable to distortion. A Life of Nietzsche Turns the Spotlight on an Idol Long Misunderstood 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Finally, the image of the pregnant man is freed of the distortions of comedy, horror and metaphor and presented simply as a human experience. Pregnant Men Were a Movie Punchline. Now They’re Horror Villains. 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z It’s almost like the medium of pop, you can’t hide in the distortion or abstraction of it. | Jason Pierce: Jason Pierce Fave CDs: Iggy Pop, Link Wray, Panda Bear 2012-02-24T21:37:29Z The resulting slug sculptures, manipulated to fit within the room, coexist with her paintings, which, as usual, depict ungainly yet attractive figural distortions. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z It's only 40 minutes long and it's got one very distinct sound: a very human sadness, filtered through washes of computerised distortion. Darkstar take dubstep forward again with North 2010-10-07T21:30:00Z For a while, he also experimented with pedal distortion, the better to emulate a shredding guitarist. Music Review: A Carefully Honed Image as a Master of the Ukulele 2011-01-22T00:26:37Z There’s nothing unpremeditated when he summons thick lava surges of electric-guitar distortion or when he plucks acoustic-guitar chords to ring in pristine solitude. Making Beautiful ?Le Noise? Together 2010-09-26T22:08:00Z “I’ve never experienced this kind of distortion,” Mr. Deitch said, “though if I say anything to counter” the tales swirling around him, an increasingly hostile art establishment will “just kill me more.” Jeffrey Deitch Faces Critics at MOCA 2012-10-19T23:10:54Z Best reunion: Ride powered sheets of jangled distortion that not only replicated the British band's seminal '90s Britpop classics, but updated the sound with even more density. The (highly biased) Coachella 2015 Awards: The best of the best 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Its distortions and stylization are more than a cool nod to pop culture or a simple grotesquerie; they highlight how awkward it is to be alive. Full-frontal absurdity: The world of Louise Bonnet's fleshy, surreal portraits 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z In effect, the newspaper’s complaint essentially accuses Eastwood and Ray of the same kind of distortion and character assassination that the movie suggests the news media engaged in when reporting about Jewell in 1996. What Clint Eastwood’s new movie gets very wrong about the female reporter who broke the Richard Jewell story 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z To discourage any kind of pocket-related distortion, they simply offered pockets that appeared practical but weren't. The reason dresses and jeans have fake pockets 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z At one point the sound system malfunctioned, with a squelch of distortion on every bass-drum kick. Music Review | Acrassicauda: A Scorpion From Iraq Trying to Sting in America 2010-02-24T21:34:00Z They usually sound like a wild rampage of 70s-like guitar riffs and distortions, especially on their new album Freak. March's best music from across the MAP 2011-03-14T11:24:55Z That the accompanying music is rife with raucous guitars and vocal distortion only magnifies the disorientation. R.E.M.’s “Monster” and the legacy of an unsung melancholic masterpiece 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The thick keyboards are on a setting reminiscent of Pink Floyd’s Richard Wright, and the guitar licks that come in after are reminiscent of David Gilmour’s distortion effects. Why Doctor Strange shares its psychedelic DNA with Pink Floyd 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Today, they come in the forms of advertising, corporate flimflam, political propaganda, moral panics, media distortions, metrics, statistics. Perspective | A portrait of Vincent van Gogh as a tormented soul 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z This simple arc is embellished with a complex system of patterning that includes, but is not limited to: doublings; posture morphing/mimicry; a succession of psychosexual paradigms; and distortions both spatial and temporal. “The Verificationist”: Donald Antrim’s unsung masterpiece 2012-06-17T16:00:00Z The parallels are particularly striking in their treatment of the human figure, with de Kooning’s works not just borrowing from Soutine’s poses and distortions, but also adopting his same sense of metaphysical space. Review | Gehry renovation at the Philadelphia Art Museum is stunning and sleek, but suits the old building 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z “Trouble in Mind” closes the album in a free tempo, barbed with distortion. Playlist: New CDs From Blk Jks, Deer Tick, Dr. Lonnie Smith 2010-06-04T20:27:00Z Pärt writes the distortion into the music as if to prove nothing remains pure. Dudamel makes Mozart and Arvo Pärt a matter of life and death 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z This was felt, ironically, to be a closer reflection of life itself, for straightforward stories are a distortion – or at least a heavy re-editing – of subjective experience. The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn – review 2012-07-27T07:00:02Z Their subtle distortions and quieter surfaces may indicate attention to Matisse’s bronzes from two decades earlier, but their everyday poses seem more typical of Degas. Art Review: ‘Calder: The Complete Bronzes’ at L&M Arts 2012-11-08T22:38:37Z Above it were slow-moving whooshes and buzzing gusts of distortion. Music Review: The Haxan Cloak and Robert Henke in Red Bull Festival 2014-05-12T14:44:09Z Analog electronic throbs and distortion loomed; the guitars had extra bite. Music Review: It All Comes Through in the Mix, Even the Kazoos 2011-03-08T23:21:59Z He's added rhythmic loops and distortion effects on his typically economical guitar playing that amplify the emotions of the music. Bahamas wants listeners to lean in to hear 'Bahamas Is Afie' album 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z He leaves the distortions, warping and strange croppings in place, focusing on images of rallies and unrest, unmoored from historical specifics. An artists' look at citizenship and democracy in a world turned upside down 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Using the figure in inventive scenarios, a certain kind of distortion. She Painted With the Hairy Who. Now She’s Going Big, at 79. 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Many of the starting points are the same — 1960s rock, distortion, the sense of drama in the use of halting guitars and percussion. New Music: New Albums by Dum Dum Girls and the Bangles 2011-10-03T22:39:47Z Not that his anecdotes, refreshingly free of rose-colored distortion and self-important promotion, lacked vivid imagery or incisive analysis. Looking at, listening to 1967's London scene 2011-03-20T12:45:00Z Ample space is especially important to the ever-stronger figurative sculptures Ray has made since 1990, works in which distortions of size, scale or proportion often have a visceral, even disturbing effect on viewers. Charles Ray: Radical Conservative 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Trading in swampy, muddled blues filtered through fuzzed-out distortion, it evokes that of early Black Keys but stretches out longer by adhering to a lazier pace. Dave Matthews Band Caravan music reviews 2011-07-08T05:00:00Z The title of Sol Hill’s show at Vivid Solutions Gallery, “Signal from Noise,” refers not to audio clamor but to visual distortion. In the Galleries: Exploring Cuba via the artwork 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Sometimes the production is intricate: for “Jenni,” Meek created distortion by striking a guitar that he had hung on a rope from the ceiling of a barn and had surrounded with amplifiers. The Ordinary Brilliance of Big Thief 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z But in the liberal enclaves Mr. Jones inhabits, they were treated as something like gospel: a moment of naked honesty in a campaign season filled with distortions. How Van Jones Became a Star of the 2016 Campaign 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z The other, by Mr. Cline, involved two stations of effects pedals, little temples of distortion. Music: Jeff Tweedy and Wilco Build a Festival at Mass MoCA 2010-08-16T22:44:00Z The strength and weakness of the piece is in its cartoonish distortion of reality. The Artist Man and the Mother Woman – review 2012-11-08T17:26:40Z All use guitar distortion effects, and have vocals that lean toward screams. Soundgarden, Sonics and Mudhoney to rock Seattle 2013-01-26T03:51:26Z In this world of glossy distortion, there isn’t a place for hazy shapes. 2010-02-12T22:27:00Z This clever manipulation set the stage for a similar campaign of distortion and misdirection by the chemical industry that continues to this day. Big Tobacco wins fire marshals as allies in flame retardant push 2012-05-08T05:00:00Z And who keep repeating certain stories, certain versions, or distortions, of a story so that people become fearful of the lie, instead of the demagogues spreading it.” ‘Every country has its fearmongers’ – Bryan Cranston on Trumbo and Hollywood’s blacklist 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Carter also called "Argo" a complete distortion of what happened when he accepted an honorary degree from Queen's University in Canada in November. Ex-Canada ambassador slighted by Affleck's "Argo" 2013-02-23T17:28:08Z Lawyers representing the institution recently requested that the documentarians remove 36 scenes from “The Outsider,” which the museum described as “inaccuracies and distortions.” 9/11 Museum’s 20th-Anniversary Exhibitions Become Victims of Cuts 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z The changing social sets in Oakland are, in this movie, creating not just ambiguity but distortion. Review: ‘Blindspotting’ Walks a Tense Line in a Gentrifying Oakland 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z And their invisibility leads to distortions in how an entire group is seen, gives the impression that people from across the racial divide are more fundamentally different than we actually are. Isabel Wilkerson Loves Books. That Doesn’t Mean She Treats Them Gently. 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z "Obviously, my art and my life have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality," Manson wrote in a statement shared on his Instagram. Marilyn Manson says Evan Rachel Wood's abuse allegations are "horrible distortions of reality" 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z The tentative answers offered by his music — full of allusions, distortion and whispers of the past — suggest that the grappling itself is a vital part of that identity. Whispers of an Italian-Jewish Past Fill a Composer’s Music 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Indeed, there's a fair degree of garage-rock revivalism in the Vaccines' detached swagger, punctuated by an occasional organ swell or squealing distortion. Lollapalooza Day 1 in review 2011-08-06T06:57:00Z That is, the torn portion of the canvas had to be gently coaxed back to its flat state, otherwise it would have a tendency to return to the distortion left by the accident. Damaged Picasso Returns to the Met After Repair 2010-04-20T15:28:00Z Overdriven and fried in melodic distortion, his fuzzed-out garage rock slams into the 21st century. Pitchfork Day 3: Vampire Weekend, Ty Segall, Kendrick Lamar (and Lady Gaga?) 2012-07-16T05:11:00Z What's most interesting in the book is how this stuff is backed up by scientific trials – and how extreme they show our cognitive distortions can be. Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova – review 2013-01-04T15:19:54Z But Matisse’s distortions had such a quality of rightness by this stage of his career that they lodge effortlessly in the mind. Baltimore loves Matisse. That’s one more reason to love Baltimore. 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z "The Maids," even with the distortions, resonated despite it all. Cate Blanchett brings an extravagant fierceness to 'The Maids' 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z The new album is a collage of elements familiar to Deerhunter fans - cacophony interspersed with tunefulness, guitar tones that range from scratchy to soothing and vocals that occasionally dissolve into distortion. New Deerhunter written during 'very dark' time 2013-04-30T14:47:10Z Clearly, it's a distortion of the animal care we provide 24 hours a day, seven days a week for this magnificent species. Lily Tomlin speaks up for elephants in documentary 2013-04-24T18:32:11Z Submerged within the ocean of distortion were melodies as soothing as lullabies. Album review: My Bloody Valentine, 'm b v' 2013-02-04T16:43:00Z Blending notions from the disparate sources seamlessly, “Fama” is rife with textural passages involving public image and self-appraisal, wedded to fiercely original music that bolsters impressions of reflection, illusion and distortion. Music Review: Talea Ensemble and Ekmeles at the Czech Center 2013-05-17T22:02:36Z Instead, these comic fugues on masterpieces of English literature turned out to be perfect fare for a mind wrestling with the distortions of jet lag. Stoppard Classics, Reborn for an Age of Uncertainty 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z But commonplaces are usually distortions created by looking in a rearview mirror, and this one is no exception. Thirteen Crucial Years for Art in Downtown New York 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The current state of America and the world is not some sort of spontaneous growth, but rather it is a distortion amplified over decades. “Maya” in my America: Illusions of truth about art, culture and immigrant anger 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The pictures are riveting in their spatial distortions, and it’s as if they were saying, “To hell with the idea of a single vanishing point.” David Hockney, Contrarian, Shifts Perspectives 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z He accused the BBC, which aired the allegation, of "disingenuous posturing", distortion and a failure to provide credible evidence. Worst aid 2010-04-24T23:06:00Z But some who know him or have studied his work dismiss that image as a distortion. Werner Herzog’s Fever Dreams 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Starting with the sound of surf, he methodically layers more cyclical sounds in waves, adding and subtracting alarms, distortion, chopping vibrations like those of helicopter rotors, low frequencies that resonate in your chest. Review: The Inescapable Vibrations of ‘Violet’ 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z A Marshall amp had a clarity, a punch, a low end and had a type of distortion that wasn’t around before Jim Marshall invented it. ArtsBeat: Kirk Hammett, Guitarist for Metallica, Talks About His Beloved Marshalls 2012-04-06T17:27:17Z Even the instrument seemed to protest, taking on an uncomfortable distortion during the concert’s latter stretch. Music Review: Beth Levin Plays Beethoven Variations at Bargemusic 2010-07-04T21:51:00Z Hindsight is often full of memory distortion, especially where music history is concerned. R.E.M.’s leap of faith: 25 years later, every curveball on “Out of Time” makes perfect sense 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z The songs were often abstracted, but “Maybe,” which closed the set, unfolded on deceptively simple terms: a quarter-note melody, played by Mr. Speed with sighing restraint, before an eventual onrush of distortion. Music Review: Three Bands, Floating Their Music on a Cool Breeze 2011-06-12T22:53:07Z Yet newspapers are exactly where, nearly every Oscar season, op-ed pages fill with indignant lamentations about the movies and their distortions of the truth. ‘Selma’ Questions Are Nothing New for Historical Films 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z That distortion is now the focus of several shows. ‘Rinehart’s Studio’ Puts a 19th-Century Sculptor’s Career in Perspective 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z There's a curious sense of distortion here that stems as much from the beholder's suggested mood as any overt games being played with perspective. Forests and mountains dominate 'Evergreen Muse: The Art of Elizabeth Colborne' at Whatcom Museum 2011-08-19T18:26:04Z “Both papers have serious flaws and distortions that were not simply ignored, but lauded in the reviews,” Sherkat wrote. Controversial gay marriage study provokes lawsuit 2013-04-20T16:00:00Z The Jesus and Mary Chain also mined the past, culling material from their ‘80s and ‘90s albums when they combined distortion and melancholy to mesmerizing effect. Concert review: Riot Fest at Humboldt Park 2012-09-17T05:46:00Z But she is also a sharp observer of class and the insidious distortion of language in advertising and politics. ArtsBeat: Supplying Brazil's Laugh Track 2011-08-04T12:00:43Z The former Times book critic draws on her extensive reading to portray an America that is creeping toward authoritarianism by way of the current administration’s distortions and manipulations. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z They pick things up, but how can they be expected to make sense of such manipulative distortions of reality? ‘My parents’ life was a charade. Mum hated every minute of it’ 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Numerous other outlets then picked up the news and spun it into headlines about McAvoy’s “secret” nuptials — a distortion that he sardonically batted down. With ‘Cyrano,’ James McAvoy Is Savoring a ‘Purer Form of Storytelling’ 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z “Heard It in a Past Life” was suffused with nature samples; “Surrender” uses distortion, which Rogers had hardly worked with previously. Maggie Rogers’s Higher Calling 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Toscanini is described as “very little dependent on literary culture and historical knowledge”; Vladimir Horowitz as “a master of musical distortion.” Virgil Thomson’s Enduring Critique of Classical Music in America 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z I examined my cognitive distortions, false beliefs, and flawed wiring. So many men are miserable jerks. I should know — I used to be one too 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Manson called Wood’s statements “horrible distortions of reality.” Home of Marilyn Manson searched in abuse investigation 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Alarmists might suggest that our willingness to indulge artistic liberties on the big screen has inured us to the far more consequential distortions that now plague a “post-fact” culture. ‘Jackie,’ art and accuracy in a post-fact world 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z A few steps away, a faceless human form almost carved into the paint by Bernard Dubuffet in 1952 offers a different version of the distortion of bodies in the postwar era. Art: Art & Design London Succeeds With an Outstanding Mix of Pieces on Offer 2011-10-14T13:00:17Z “Too Many Tears” snakes through a jungle of distortion. Album review: Alejandro Escovedo, 'Big Station' 2012-06-04T21:25:00Z In Picasso’s signature distortion of perspective, we see Roque at once from the front and in profile—a female enigma that captured the collector’s interest. Preview a private collection of Picasso prints, ceramics, and sculptures on sale today at Sotheby’s 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Reborn, he created more pictures of primordial forests irradiated by divine sunlight: gnostic revelations as compelling for their brusquely sensuous painterly application as for their nearly frightening, weirdly comical distortions. The Week Ahead: June 20 ? 26 2010-06-17T14:39:00Z He was an avant-garde filmmaker on the side, with a deep knowledge of expressionism and film noir, whose shadows, angles and distortions he introduced into his paintings. Robert Vickrey, Magic-Realist Painter, Dies at 84 2011-04-20T10:41:52Z Mournful minor chords, dissolving into distortion or receding into single notes and silence. Arca, Valued Facilitator, Steps Out Front 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z That comment contributed to the distortions surrounding the shooting, which occurred during a brief quail-hunting trip on a ranch in South Texas. Perspective | The thing Harry Whittington refused to lie about 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z When Alberich cursed the gods for robbing him of the ring, for example, Hammond-Stroud was able to combine vocal colour and verbal distortion to convey the scorn and twisted hatred of the character. Derek Hammond-Stroud obituary 2012-05-27T16:09:09Z The guitars add heft, distortion and some unison riffing; the tempos don’t rush. Fall Pop Music Preview: An Abundance of Rhythms and Styles 2013-09-09T16:03:09Z I am trying to recall that year, to find deep down some memories, even a few impressions on the basis of which I could reconstruct a misted-up past without too many distortions. 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z Ideas of phantom limbs, second skins and body distortions — the female body, in particular — also populate the work, taking cues from Dada and Surrealist imagery. A Feminine Dance Work, Made ‘in a Very Brutal Way’ 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z It was all I knew, but it is such a distortion of my own way of thinking because I am obviously not like my mum and dad. Brigitte Nielsen 2011-07-29T23:07:09Z Even when she runs her electric guitar through effects — warped echoes, peach-fuzz distortion — her shifts in texture never obscure her gestures. Review | Three guitarists head into the beautiful unknown. (Is it still jazz?) 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The band’s 1991 album, “Loveless,” is firmly in rock’s canon for its transporting use of distortion, which makes the quartet sound like they’re using 10 guitars instead of two. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Ellman, who dabbles in distortion and pedal effects elsewhere on the album, pushes himself further here, producing a track that’s startling in its surface disruptions. Review: Liberty Ellman Releases ‘Radiate’ 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z There is a key difference between framing issues and facts in a positive but politically-slanted light and engaging in a systematic campaign of distortion and disinformation designed to deceive the American public. The news media helped Trump win in 2016. Here's what needs to change for 2020 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z In a reading of the opera that some traditionalists may find a concept-driven distortion, Mr. Tcherniakov invents familial links between some of the characters, relationships made explicit in the program. ‘Don Giovanni’ at the Met Opera and in Two Other Stagings 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Manson, 52, called her allegations “horrible distortions of reality.” Marilyn Manson investigated in alleged domestic violence 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z What I find shocking is Moore’s dissemination of this gross distortion and slander. What Lorrie Moore Doesn’t Know About Jane Austen … and Other Letters 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z There’s a real pipe organ at the heart of this album, recorded in a church in Iceland; loops and layers, distortions and fragmentations do the rest. Pistol Annies, YOB, Deaf Center, Paul Simon 2011-12-17T02:43:15Z With a few decisive incisions, headshots of pin-up men and women are sundered and recombined in startling distortions of gender codes or facial features. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-29T00:06:24Z But all that cruddy distortion in Mr. Pike’s guitar sound and the dirt in his vocals: how do you enlarge or clarify that? | High on Fire: High on Fire, Metal Trio, Blasting the Blender 2010-04-11T22:11:00Z The link was quickly taken down, and West explained on Twitter it was because of a mistaken distortion on the track. Listen to a Snippet of Kanye West's New Song 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z It's there in the desolate emptiness of the Portisheadish Hold Back the Night, and in the distortion that makes a harmonica sound like a sitar on These Days are Mine. I Am Kloot: Let It All In – review 2013-01-17T22:05:01Z He ran his semi-hollow body guitar through variable distortion, yielding a gnarly tone but at a moderate volume, as if to preserve a zone of control. Review: Dave Holland Trio in a Bracingly Uncorked Evening at the Village Vanguard 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z So while Barocci holds an important place in art history as the missing link between the strained distortions of Mannerism and the dynamism of the baroque, he has left little impression on the public consciousness. Federico Barocci: divinity in the details 2013-02-16T09:01:00Z The Mapparium is a three-dimensional map of the Earth, free from any kind of cartographic distortion because, like the planet itself, it is a sphere. Perspective | This enormous glass sphere represents the entire world, as it was in 1935 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Her book, then, conveys her perception of reality, as she rescues it from the flattening forces of her own distortions and other people’s expectations. ‘Minor Feelings’ Rescues Personal Experience From the Expectations of Others 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z When the chorus arrives, though, the track quickly shifts, the women’s voices suddenly crowded with high-pitched distortions and croaking stops. Listening Booth: HAIM Returns with a Summer-Ready Dance Track 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z But the argument may resonate much less outside the Tory tribe, because it rests upon one big deceit, plus a handful of smaller distortions. George Osborne: paying the price of failure 2013-04-02T20:46:29Z It involves deep pulsations; excited provocation through sound and concept more than traditional technique; low-end frequencies rarely encountered in life; long sustained tones enlarged through overdrive; or distortion or just force of hands on instruments. Music Review: ‘Drone Activity in Progress,’ at the Knockdown Center 2013-05-03T21:54:26Z The sound can be deliberately lo-fi, particularly when he cranks up the electric-guitar distortion on “Well Well Well” and “I Found Out.” Half a Century Later, John Lennon’s ‘Plastic Ono Band’ Still Hits Hard 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Every element in the band — including a small acoustic guitar with objects stuck between strings and fretboard, keyboards, drums, and various homemade instruments, percussive and plucked — arrives masked with echo, distortion and warping. New Music: New Music by Passion Pit and Micachu & the Shapes 2012-07-23T22:18:24Z “In Europe they do not see the word as sacred and distortion is permitted,” Ms. Nottage said, explaining that directors trained there view “text as a piece of clay to do whatever they want with.” You Wrote the Play. Can You Let It Go? 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z So here are the districts' rules, jotted down so idiotic dummies in future generations — predisposed to spastic bullying or truth distortion — won't be able to pull a fast one on the rest of us. Style Invitational Week 1297: A different type o’ headline contest 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z But whether she uses the term “African American woman” or “Black woman,” machine distortions that mangle facial features and hair textures occur at high rates. Black Artists Say A.I. Shows Bias, With Algorithms Erasing Their History 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z Later, during the revelation that is "Bullet the Blue Sky," he shot melodic darts whose tips were drenched with distortion. U2 is still a can-do band, as its first Forum show amply proves 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Hahn let the music sing, shaping the lines with power and passion, but never overdoing the vibrato or introducing any interpretive distortions. A high-wattage evening: violinist Hilary Hahn with Seattle Symphony 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Electronic sounds melt into orchestral upheavals and guitar distortion; voices, natural and synthetic, loom from all directions. Brian Eno: Ambient Sounds, but Political, Too 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z It’s awash in good vibes underneath bad distortion and Albini’s a primo candidate to knock that out of the park. Cloud Nothings' Attack on Memory: An Aural Assault on the Heart 2012-01-24T17:59:07Z Some suggested that the distortions in El Greco’s figures were evidence of eye problems. Perspective | Compassion. Claustrophobia. Originality. Why El Greco inspired so many great modern artists. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Do you think reducing the live distortion would enable an audience to relate to you better? Hüsker Dü: "Hardcore is bands with three initials" – a classic interview 2013-05-15T13:53:36Z Myth carries with it ideals of character, and beauty, along with lies and distortions. Perspective | On Richmond’s evolving Monument Avenue, myth and ugly lies run deep 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z What else could explain his subjects’ beseeching eyes, their attenuated bodies, the strange distortions of space in his paintings and their bold, at times almost lurid, coloring? Perspective | Compassion. Claustrophobia. Originality. Why El Greco inspired so many great modern artists. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Simplification is distortion, and you can very quickly go too far. Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease 2012-09-26T20:31:00Z Age has thinned Jackson's incredible rasping voice, but White knows how to record it: with a hint of distortion, as if the microphone can't cope with its sheer force. Wanda Jackson: The Party Ain't Over ? review 2011-01-13T15:29:00Z Despite Ingres’s willful distortions and expressive color, he was understood to be the embodiment of the rational draftsman-painter; whereas Delacroix was believed to be an emotive and dramatic colorist—a painter, not a draftsman. ‘Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix’ Review: A Master off the Canvas 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z It’s that kind of thing, again and again: Awkwardness, character distortion and strain followed by almost enough laughs as to be worth it. ‘The Millers’: A pretend family on a road trip with too many detours 2013-08-07T18:20:50Z Mr. Mackey’s “It Is Time,” a premiere, dealt with shifting perceptions of time through clockwork machinations, fluid distortions and playful interaction with Mark DeChiazza’s video images, projected on an overhead screen. Music Review | So Percussion: So Percussion at Zankel Hall: Textures From Contraptions 2010-03-26T22:21:00Z Though the production plies the paranoiac distortions of Expressionism, it also uses the bright, mechanistic figures of Constructivism — including oversize three-dimensional letters spelling out brand and place names — rendered in eye-searing swaths of color. Review: A Mesmerizing ‘Hairy Ape’ Brings Existentialism to Park Avenue 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z It began as a counter to Fox News’ attempt to smear Stewart and “The Daily Show,” and expanded to delve into Fox News’ “lies and distortions.” “Even watching it is killing me”: Jon Stewart looks back at 16 years of Fox News insanity 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z President Donald J. Trump is just one result; a profound and polarizing distortion of American democracy is another. Whose Votes Really Count? 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Martin Margiela, a frequent and adept dabbler in size distortion, showed a spring 2000 collection of such exaggerated proportions that it brought to mind Lily Tomlin’s plight in “The Incredible Shrinking Woman.” The Next Big Thing in Fashion? Big Things 2014-04-23T22:56:50Z He liberally applied the distortion pedal to his licks, punctuated by wah-wah effects, and appeared on some of Davis' most experimental albums including Agharta, Pangaea, Get Up With It and Dark Magus. Jazz guitarist Cosey dies at 68 2012-06-11T09:04:04Z But it too is about the distortions of history and memory — not to mention the function and enduring value of art. Loving and Hating the Broadway Season: Our Critics Could Have Argued All Night 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Although clocking at 40 minutes, you will find just seven post-rock songs that go from slow psychedelic notes to big momentums of distortion, noise and epic choruses. August's best new music from across the MAP 2011-08-17T17:09:56Z I think this is a malicious distortion, either to continue to destroy this man or to sell newspapers. Galliano's outfit: anti-Semitic or just eccentric? 2013-02-13T19:11:14Z Private feelings were harder to justify because they were also enabling monstrous distortions of the truth. Reckoning with My Love for Prince 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z The news of a movie about the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo has poked a stick into the nest of right-wing wasps, who have responded with their usual venomous inaccuracies, distortions and half-truths. Ann Coulter’s perverted history: The right’s latest obsessive, venomous half-truths 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z But how can they be expected to make sense of such manipulative distortions of reality? ‘My parents’ life was a charade. Mum hated every minute of it’ 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Multiple transfers of the soundtrack had caused a build-up of noise and distortion. How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Chicago musician Guy, 76, has influenced many musicians over the past 50 years after pioneering the use of distortion and feedback with his electric guitar. Hoffman and Led Zeppelin honoured 2012-09-13T10:56:32Z He reveals the sort of desperate internal urgings and hungers which produce the "vehemence and distortion" in his writing - "I am somebody, a force, a necessity." From the archive, 1 October 1965: 'I am somebody', Henry Miller says 2012-10-01T06:30:00Z Letters, from my own experience, are often small, profound windows into a person: they are untainted by the distortions of time or memory. My aging parents smuggle medical marijuana 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z Only Arizona’s full legalization measure narrowly failed to pass, and that only after an opposition campaign of lies and distortions saturated the airwaves, bankrolled by a billionaire anti-marijuana zealot. Nervous about a Trump presidency? Me too. But at least I've got legal weed 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z On Treats, this weird metal pop sound felt raw, unpolished — at times you could barely make out Krauss’ voice over all the the distortion — and pretty extreme. Sleigh Bells Turn it Up on Reign of Terror 2012-02-23T16:59:55Z It's incredibly liberating – after stocking up on Stella and sarnies from Tesco, me and the boys watched the football results come in while filling the flat with loopy reverse delay and dainty distortion. Tonight I'm a rock'n'roll scribe: My stint in Sonic Youth, and other fun-packed fabrications 2010-04-08T14:10:00Z Meanwhile the sound system contributed its own bizarre distortions. A rising conductor makes an impressive L.A. Phil debut at the Bowl 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z The aim was realism in the inflatables’ corners and bevels but with distortion and accentuation in certain curves. A New Kind of Model: Giant, Inflatable, Aggressively Sexy 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Otherwise, she and percussionist Damon Cox stick to the basics, maximizing the potential of a guitar and stripped-down drum kit without overdoing volume, power or distortion. Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z Three of Lahti’s pictures gaze into shallows, where watery distortion and reflection make solids appear a little soft. In the galleries: An artist’s past, present and future 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z I am expecting creative distortion of my biography. A life in writing: Slavoj ?i?ek 2011-07-15T21:55:00Z But Sleigh Bells sound louder — as much through distortion as through volume — and it thinks younger, regularly glancing at adolescent aspirations and romances. Critics? Choice: New CDs by LCD Soundsystem and Band of Horses 2010-05-16T22:45:00Z In this song, Doug E. Fresh – a beat boxer who regarded himself as "the world's greatest entertainer" – depicts abortion as "mind distortion" and casts women who seek an abortion in a negative light. Roe v. rap: Hip-hop artists have long wrestled with reproductive rights 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z The Surrealists drew heavily from Freudian psychoanalysis to depict dreams and distortions of time and space in their photographs, as well as fear and death. Revisiting an Artist’s Provocative Photographs 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Interestingly, the study, which does not show the distortions of face and body, ranks among Bacon’s most strictly representational paintings — it may portray the art writer David Sylvester. Auctions: A Serious Moment for Contemporary Art 2011-07-01T13:30:36Z Bazan's loud guitars and slow songs are what "emo rock" was when people first started using the term, and looking back, emo rock was a good idea: sad guitar ballads doused in distortion. David Bazan Band plays Pedro the Lion's 'Control' 2012-12-13T14:15:43Z It progresses beyond mere distortions of the past to the promotion of a history in which those who took up struggle are robbed both of their actual role and their collective agency. Nelson Mandela vs. his hagiography 2013-12-21T16:30:00Z O’Brien’s spine was bent, so Hawkes used a foam device he dubbed the Torture Ball under his back to create a sense of distortion. Oscar-worthy: Actor John Hawkes Searches for Love in The Sessions 2012-10-17T12:00:39Z Every few songs, Mr. Sá would add distortion to his lead guitar, or fling some abrasive chord against the beat. | Caetano Veloso: Caetano Veloso Revives His Rock at Terminal 5 2010-04-09T22:46:00Z Throughout, they are reminded of the distortion that’s latent in all photographs. Art Review: Michael Snow’s Photographs and Other Works in Philadelphia 2014-02-06T22:40:04Z The distortions are often observed in people who are recovering from covid-19 and starting to get their sense of smell back, Turner said. When coffee smells like gasoline: Covid isn’t just stealing senses — it may be warping them 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z “Everyone remembers ‘1984’ as containing various parodies of official distortions,” he said. George Orwell’s ‘1984’ Is Suddenly a Best-Seller 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The main rot in the minds of "academic" liberals like yourself, is that you take your own distortion of the world to be somehow more profound than the cracker's. Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Somewhere between a mess and a thrilling flood of barely marshalled ideas – a sensation amplified by the recording, which keeps slipping into needles-in-the-red distortion – it's music that's almost wilfully difficult to get a handle on. Radiohead: The King of Limbs ? review 2011-02-24T15:30:01Z Manson responded to the claims, asserting that they were "horrible distortions of reality." Marilyn Manson's defamation suit against Evan Rachel Wood is a troubling legal move for #MeToo 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z It is the archaic first-past-the-post system and the decaying British political system that aid the Conservatism of England and all the political distortions and inequities in our politics and society that flow from that. English devolution: a view from Scotland 2010-04-23T12:25:00Z A heavy fog creates an interesting distortion of the lighting from a metro bridge in Kiev in this image made by Vladimir Tochanenko. In pictures: The Art of Building 2013 2013-12-09T01:03:44Z Then they recorded the track onto it, creating distortion and dropouts. The Blessed, Cursed Life of Bon Iver 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z “A Thousand Details” begins with piano, before upbeat rhythms and distortion overtake it completely. Trent Reznor's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: More than Just a Soundtrack 2011-12-13T11:58:10Z For example, due to the distortion, a freely moving object would be observed by the goldfish to move along a curved path. Book Excerpt: Stephen Hawking's 'The Grand Design' 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z When the dramatist's research uncovers lies and distortions, should he tell the truth and maintain his integrity or write what the government wants, so that his head stays attached to his neck? Spring and Summer Theater Listings 2010-02-21T00:33:00Z In exchange, directors are freer than ever to make movies without the distortions and the trivializations that the heavy hands of studio executives imposed. The Twenty-Seven Best Movies of the Decade 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The ingredients are distortion and percussion, in layers that clatter and lurch with unpredictably shifting attacks, for songs like “Rubbing Up” and “Nautilus.” 2010-01-10T23:10:00Z The binary fire-engine siren of the violin’s opening line grew multiple dimensions as the distortion created the illusion of spatial and acoustic depth. Critic’s Notebook: Monica Germino Melds Violin and Electronics 2013-06-16T21:51:17Z She knows how to pronounce these words, the narrator says, but their distortions are “her means of staking out a personality.” Speaking in Tongues: Novels in Translation From Around the World 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z In “Tradition,” Eliot explicitly rejects that formula, calling it “inexact”: “it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor, without distortion of meaning, tranquility.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z The film explores the way many people suffer by failing to recognize their own damaging distortions of reality. 'People V. The State of Illusion': making case for self-help message 2012-03-15T20:56:05Z It’s pitched two octaves above the original, run through various distortion and equalization effects and given a very short tail of reverb, creating a digital sound with a human core. The Inside History of ‘Where Are Ü Now’ 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z By purely acoustic means, the sounds that Ms. Lee sawed and rubbed from her cello evoked the clouds of distortion that Jimi Hendrix got from an electric guitar. Dance Review: Michelle Boulé and Okkyung Lee Perform at Mount Tremper Arts 2013-07-07T21:51:14Z But the duo isn't afraid to dirty its appearance, delivering words at an auctioneer's pace and filtering chords through cheap distortion. Lollapalooza ends on a high note on day two 2013-08-04T11:59:00Z The greater our distortions and omissions, the more the recollection of her performance corrects them. My granddaughter, the girl who refused to let joy into her life 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Such flamboyant gymnastics may seem like a distortion of Miller’s text, but van Hove’s choices emerge from a careful study of the play. A smoldering 'View From the Bridge' turns up the heat at the Ahmanson 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The first is all distortion: shot through a goldfish bowl, Terry's face stretches and blurs; the objects in her possession become sinking shapes. Five Truths brings new clarity to Ophelia's demise 2011-07-21T10:35:22Z The Gregorian chant is heard under dripping sounds and then, as the track “Friday Night in a Catholic Home” switches over to “10 Amp Waves,” aggressive digital distortion, slowed down and reverbed. New Music: New Music From Matchbox Twenty and Animal Collective 2012-09-03T21:42:33Z That track runs Mr. Lightcap’s acoustic bass through a black haze of distortion, but the result doesn’t feel like a gimmick. Playlist: Music From Kris Kristofferson, Jamie Lidell and ?Treme? 2010-05-16T14:06:00Z It can also be a disruptive force, as in “Northern Lights,” lurking in the margins only to pounce in a blur of distortion. Album review: St. Vincent, 'Strange Mercy' 2011-09-12T02:34:00Z Annie Gosfield, a New York composer and keyboardist, exuberantly exploits the inadvertent music of contemporary life: static, distortion, the clangor of industry and the siren song of space junk form part of her digital palette. Music Review: Moving Sounds Festival at the Czech Center 2012-09-16T22:18:00Z The usual hedging and filtering and softening and overall distortion that seems to happen automatically — even unconsciously — when black people attempt to speak about race to white people in public is absent. Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’ 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z The migration of a story from text to moving images has always been understood to involve a degree of distortion. Unexpected Lessons From ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z He's also a committed experimentalist, at home with atonal sound sculpturing and artful distortion. ArtsBeat: Winter Jazzfest: Worth the Wait for a Marquee Duo 2013-01-12T03:50:06Z This final five minutes of Vereen’s performance is anguished yet defiant, evoking the pain and exploitative power of blackface minstrelsy and the distortions of stereotype. Revisiting Ben Vereen’s Misunderstood Blackface Inaugural Performance 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The tapes include the distortions of a do-it-yourself recording project, with its prickly static and wandering amplification. Review: ‘Dana H.’ Maps a Harrowing Journey Into Hell 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The productions switch between sparse and deliberately cluttered, sometimes both at once, as guitar distortion or echo effects garble the vocals. New Music: New Music by Kevin Hufnagel, Jimmy Owens and Guided by Voices 2012-01-03T00:53:03Z At times, they needed more speed to mirror Mr. McGregor’s rangy, skeletal distortions; the stark setting also exposed the knottiness of the partnering. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, at City Center 2013-12-05T23:34:14Z In it, Michaela Mann posed strikingly on the floor in a golden unitard like a Far Eastern goddess, her slow-quick motions acquiring urgency from Nick Jaina’s guitar distortions but not developing much. Review: Satellite Collective Mixes Media and Messages at BAM Fisher 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z But it’s so overloaded with ideological distortion that this question doesn’t get raised in an intelligent way. Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z Lehman followed a formula in these portraits and foliate still lifes, but his strange deviations and distortions of space and the body keep the images fresh. What to see in L.A. galleries: Hot-button greeting cards, mesmerizing photograms 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z The music is as filthy as the name: a mix of noisy keyboards, blown-out drums and waves of distortion. Your week in Seattle music: Robyn, KISS, Kraftwerk and more 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z There’s a sassy swagger to “Woman with Green Hat,” its distortions of line and shadow suggesting a figure of captivating verve. Peggy Strong retrospective raises more questions than it answers about her career 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z But reducing him to “primarily a painter” is also a distortion, and one too in line with current, conservative market fashion. Art Review: Versatile Collagist, Dangerous Times 2011-03-31T22:05:39Z Whether it’s the minimalistic carnage of the Stripes, the lush instrumentation of The Raconteurs, or the mucky distortion of The Dead Weather, it all goes back to Mississippi Delta blues. Jack White's Blunderbuss: The Rock Raconteur Goes It Alone 2012-04-24T10:45:54Z In later sections this kind of body distortion becomes a comedy act in which one dancer tries to get another to move in a certain manner or direction. Dance Review: Andrea Miller’s ‘Sit, Kneel, Stand’ at Joyce Theater 2012-06-10T21:20:46Z But how can theater artists committed to reason, subtlety and dialectical thought stand a chance in a culture of distraction, distortion and deafening din? Shakespeare and the politics of our age: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z A. O. Scott, in The New York Times, praised it as “a powerful corrective to decades of distortion and forgetting.” Andrzej Wajda, Towering Auteur of Polish Cinema, Dies at 90 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Then, all at once, he stomps on the distortion pedal and the song blooms with bone-shaking noise — the most fitting eulogy for a musician who made as raucous a racket as Hawkins. Foo Fighters Are Shaken Yet Still Standing on ‘But Here We Are’ 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z But, reading his manifesto, you can make out, through the distortions of his raging mind, the outlines of mainstream American cultural values: Beauty and strength are rewarded. The Power of #YesAllWomen 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z During the late set at Birdland on Tuesday night he played seated, using his thumb rather than a pick, and with only the rarest applications of pedal distortion. Music Review: Melding Incongruities, as Only Those With a History Can 2010-10-13T21:47:00Z Feedback, distortion, avalanches of percussion and stray sound effects might appear in a song at any moment; the reassurance of familiar sounds and structures was joyfully undermined. Music Review: Wilco at Central Park SummerStage - Review 2011-09-25T22:40:39Z She adjusts them in different ways, with each result more pronounced but still accompanied by a hissy distortion, like a radio dial that doesn’t quite reach the right frequency. What Hearing Loss Feels Like in ‘Sound of Metal’ 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z And so began a vexing trend, for an island constituency all too familiar with popular distortions of Hawaiian culture. Music: Dear Grammy, Is It Hawaiian Enough? 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z In contrast to Drive Like Jehu’s distortion, Hot Snakes favored a clean guitar sound and short, efficient tunes, Mr. Reis said, “letting Rick’s voice and the attack of the pick carry the power.” Rick Froberg, Singer of Artful Intensity, Is Dead at 55 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z The muscular tension and fraught distortion of the figures in Stag at Sharkey's gives them an unexpected modernity. George Bellows: Modern American Life – review 2013-03-17T00:05:47Z As the microphone moved farther inside the trumpet, the amplified overtones shifted incrementally, producing some dramatic howls of distortion. Review: New Works Designed With a Daring Trumpeter in Mind 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z And maybe this is the time to say that the word distortion is kind of a misnomer for the sound of the HM-2. Black Breath at Saint Vitus 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z We gloss over the possible side effects, pain and distortions of cosmetic surgery. The Cruel Paradox of Linda Evangelista’s Fate 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z With obfuscations and half-truths, with distortions and snake oil, he brings about the changes. ‘Jalopies’: A touching look at aging, resilience | Theater review 2013-01-14T21:36:27Z Simpson then turns the drawings into sculptures made from mostly hard, humble materials like fiberboard: from three dimensions to two and back to three, with abstractions and distortions incorporated along the way. Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Throughout “Still Life with Bones,” Hagerty examines the language that surrounds political violence — its distortion by authoritarian regimes, but also its poetic use for mourning and resistance. In the Search for Latin America’s Disappeared, Memories and Evidence Entwine 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z This is why the Who’s early sound — with all the screaming feedback and distortion, the wrecked guitars and Moon’s frenetic drumming — was so aggressive and explosive. Books of The Times: ‘Who I Am: A Memoir,’ by Pete Townshend 2012-10-09T00:36:11Z Here transcribed for guitar and performed by Jiji, the “Light” version is patient, spare and echoey; “Heavy” is blurry with distortion. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z At least these short pieces traversed different moods with Ms. Smith producing an appealingly melancholic sound as well as an entertaining array of distortion effects. Review: Either/Or, at University Settlement, Is Inspired by Boredom and Writer’s Block 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z In the case of “The Raft,” the same distortions afflicting Genovés’s experiment—hubris, sensationalism, power, and manipulation—obscure Lindeen’s own message. “The Raft” Chronicles an Extreme Experiment with Human Nature 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Maloney's novel approach to temporal distortion extends to his online presence. Christopher Maloney: Why the X Factor star has staying power 2013-05-30T17:31:20Z The first recording, swathed in sheets of distortion, was nonetheless recognizable as a child’s voice — small, nervous, encouraged by his father — wishing a very Merry Christmas to whoever was listening. Wax Cylinders Hold Audio From a Century Ago. The Library Is Listening. 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z The artist he most profoundly influenced — Henri Matisse — was indebted to Cézanne’s investigations into how color and rhythm could provide stability, order and a controlled intensification of expression, even at the cost of physical distortion. 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 Sensibly, Mr. Frisell laid low, playing quietly and mostly leaving his effects alone, his digital loops and distortion pedals. Music Review: Two Saxophonists Step in as a Pair of Substitutes 2010-08-25T21:53:00Z In the afternoon, Juan Williams was attacked on “The Five” for daring to note that a CIA spokesperson declared the film’s depiction of the stand-down order to be a gross “distortion.” Fox News goes all out to save Michael Bay’s Benghazi flop “13 Hours” from its own lies and awfulness 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z It is natural, in times of stress, to view events through your own personal funhouse mirror, but you need to realize that this creates distortions. Perspective | Ask Amy: After Mom’s cancer diagnosis, daughter is afraid to visit 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z “It was clear the top layer of paint wasn’t by Vermeer. It was a distortion by a foreign hand against the intention of the artist.” A Vermeer Restoration Reveals a God of Desire 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson described her testimony in court as “mortifying” as trial lawyers put “distortions” of her private life on public display. Nigella Lawson: Court Appearance ‘Mortifying’ 2014-01-03T10:03:23Z My Cage homage – featuring feedback, distortion and samples of Simon and Garfunkel and Michael Jackson – is played at 33rpm and it lasts 4 minutes 33 seconds, so it's a nod to Cage's famous silent work. John Cage: musicians and artists on a legend 2012-08-15T17:51:03Z It’s different from the aggressive, barbed-wire distortion of shoegaze rock, murkier and more vaporous: present but not overwhelming, neither hostile nor welcoming, just a fact of the soundscape, a blur at the horizons. New Music: New Music From Caveman, Los Campesinos! and the Fall 2011-11-14T22:59:39Z Sometimes that expression is experimental, yielding extreme distortions that border on abstraction. Art Review: ?Naked Before the Camera? at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-03-29T21:57:05Z But good writers don’t look for impressedness in their readers — it’s at best another layer of distortion — and “greatness” can leave a book isolated in much the way it can a human being. Riff: How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself 2012-06-30T04:00:04Z The bigger distortions — perhaps necessitated by the fact that Ray Stark, who produced the original, was Brice’s son-in-law — avoid one. Review: Broadway’s First ‘Funny Girl’ Revival Shows Why It Took So Long 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z “If the victims and aggressors/Just remain each other’s others,” Mike Cooley sings against revving distortion. The Best Songs of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The opera’s ending comes awash in electric distortion. Music Review: ‘Dog Days,’ New Opera, at Peak Performances in Montclair 2012-10-03T20:58:42Z Thiel believes the new movie -- which he said "contains a lot of inaccuracies and petty lies and distortions" -- will nonetheless add to Facebook's influence. Facebook movie underscores cultural phenomenon 2010-10-01T22:25:00Z He went on to warn against the perils of hamming it up and other forms of actorly distortion. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Speaking the Speech, Trippingly 2011-03-24T17:53:23Z To conceal this fact he has to perpetrate a massive historical distortion. The Promise: an exercise in British self-exculpation 2011-03-04T14:40:36Z Virtually every instrument is caked in distortion, but not the warm, familiar fuzz of an overdriven amplifier. Tame Impala: Lonerism – review 2012-10-04T14:29:01Z The distortions of hope were especially heartbreaking: hospitals waiting for the injured who never arrived, posters seeking loved ones who never came home. The Children of 9/11 Come of Age 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z The right wing, in their distortion of him into a monster, set him up to fail, but so did the left wing, in their hopes of him as a messiah. Barack Obama, invisible president: To truly see him requires white Americans to see themselves 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z For Reed and Isenberg, the omissions and distortions in “Hamilton” are part of a larger problem with the way the Founding Fathers are portrayed in mainstream history, often as flawless, enlightened geniuses. Historians irked by musical ‘Hamilton’ escalate their duel 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z With hearing loss, however, the distortion created is arbitrary and destructive, rather than provocative. My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z “It became clear to me that unless we black people began to produce information for screen and television there would always be a distortion of the ‘black image.’ ” William Greaves, a Documentarian and Pioneering Journalist, Dies at 87 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Three songs use the old tapes, low-fi and youthful, and add a patina of whooshes and distortion to suggest the ravages of time and madness. Critics? Choice: New From Etheridge, Roky Erickson and Jacky Terrasson 2010-04-25T22:18:00Z All of this is a terrible distortion of education.” Testing is killing learning 2013-04-18T15:40:00Z The dominant public images of black people in American culture were, he said, “a plague of distortions,” comedic or abject. Charles White Was a Giant, Even Among the Heroes He Painted 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z She had previously experimented with this sort of deliberate distortion when blowing up dollhouse furnishings to life-size and supersized proportions for her 2019 Venice Biennale installation, “There Is No Such Thing as the Outside.” In Her Last Works, Kaari Upson Explores Vanity and Decay 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z A true reflection of Mr. Boulton’s life, after all, might look more like a fun-house mirror distortion of the Manhattan high life — with distentions in the areas of sex, drugs and ego. Up Close: Notoriety in a Tight Embrace 2010-06-09T23:12:00Z Many of these artworks have distinctive qualities that almost look like real images, but with odd distortions of space – a sort of cyberpunk Cubism. Give this AI a few words of description and it produces a stunning image – but is it art? 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z As in, they must correct for the distortion of the words they are translating from one language to another. Why you should be reading poet Layli Long Soldier 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z The newspaper made a habit of depicting the prophet Mohammed with a long nose, scraggly beard and turban, along with the bug-eyed distortions typical of all their caricatures. Is Charlie Hebdo racist? Or have critics been too quick to condemn it? 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z But what “Watchmen” nails, more than details of Greenwood’s history, is the way that history itself is so susceptible to manipulation, distortion, and erasure. The Great Achievement of “Watchmen” Is in Showing How Black Americans Shape History 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z That sort of distortion would have enormous consequences. How the Census Changed America 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z But Mr. Vu has more subversive designs, which become clearer on the album’s three originals, notably “Child-Like” and “I Shall Never Come Back,” which develop like ominous weather systems, with sculptured distortion and drones. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-28T23:15:55Z Yet, for all the historical references in “Joker,” it’s a blatant and brazen distortion of the most substantial historical elements at which it winks. “Joker” Is a Viewing Experience of Rare, Numbing Emptiness 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Of course, it’s a misconception that everything punk was just three chords syringed with a whole lot of distortion and anarchy. 12 Amazing Songs With Just Three Chords 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z More suggestive than depictive, Mr. Gurrin’s images — a distant prairie home subjected to slow, prismatic distortions; an industrial building standing placid amid simulated wind gusts — provided poetic counterpoint without distracting unduly from the music. Music Review: Momenta Quartet at the Stone 2013-01-09T22:51:07Z Goofy upbeat tones rubbed against distortion as the screens showed low-res digital nightmares. Unsound of the underground ? the festival that feels like a s?ance 2010-10-27T15:33:00Z On Thursday night at Maxwell’s here, the band played a shrewdly overdriven show, combining heavy-riff distortion with a rough-and-tumble funk delirium. Music Review: Garage a Trois, a Jazzy Jam Band, at Maxwell?s 2010-07-11T21:52:00Z Though the British guitar band called it quits in 1996, the thick layers of distortion and washes of melodies it made during its mid-1990s prime are likely still echoing somewhere in the galaxy. Ride's 'OX4,' Erol Alkan's 'Fabriclive 77' in Coachella groove 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z But across the ocean, America became seized by grunge’s fuzzed-out rage, and when that sound bounced back to Britain, one logical progression was shoegaze — heavenly clouds of distortion under soft, androgynous vocals. Shoegaze, the Sound of Protest Shrouded in Guitar Fuzz, Returns Again 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z That tension is visible again in the distortions Matisse began to reintroduce in the 1930s, and perhaps especially in his great “Large Reclining Nude” — sometimes called “The Pink Nude” — of 1935. Baltimore loves Matisse. That’s one more reason to love Baltimore. 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z He took a creative approach to stringing and tuning his guitars, and liberally applied the distortion pedal to his licks. Innovative blues, jazz guitarist Pete Cosey dies 2012-06-10T02:56:08Z “Sees the Light,” the second album by her band La Sera, was as fearlessly contradictory as the group’s self-titled debut; its surf-punk sheen crashed into aggressive distortion and its girl-group harmonies cooed of crushing isolation. Pop & Rock Listings for May 9-15 2014-05-08T22:39:49Z It is also that the play can expose the spin and distortions that are required by a mass media intolerant of ambiguity and weakness. The election, live on stage! 2010-05-06T15:04:00Z One of Mr. Coryell’s groups was called the Free Spirits, a testament to the energetic abandon and tasteful distortion he brought to jazz. Larry Coryell, dazzling guitarist who brought rock energy to jazz, dies at 73 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Presumably they were homemade at Kling Klang studios to the group's own design, for despite the volume, there was no hint of distortion to the sound. Extreme noise terror! What are the loudest gigs you've ever been to? 2012-11-08T15:34:27Z He pioneered the use of distortion and feedback with his electric guitar, a sound British musicians would embrace before mainstream American bands were ready to turn up the amplifiers. Hoffman, Letterman among Kennedy Center honorees 2012-09-12T16:37:08Z Human existence isn’t inherently good or evil; despite Gregg’s comic distortions — which are undeniably entertaining — the more subtle suggestion that courses through his book is that, compared with nonhuman animals, our existence is more extreme. Humans Know a Lot, This Author Concedes, and Most of It Is Useless 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Yet despite these cinematic distortions—or perhaps because of them—merely catching a glimpse of London on the big screen always made me want to go there. 2009-12-03T18:01:00Z “Who Sees You” kicks in with Colm O'Coisoig’s drums finally nearer the top of the mix where they belong, and the trumpet-like guitars try to punch through the distortion veil. Album review: My Bloody Valentine, 'm b v' 2013-02-04T16:43:00Z The "Classical" Symphony suddenly turned sly, sounding under Salonen like a buoyant distortion of the Classical style as apt musical representation for a revolutionary Russia in which there was no turning back. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z This was a case where this article in the New York Times enumerated a number of what it called inaccuracies and distortions in the Chavez documentary, and you responded. Oliver Stone: Our empire is in decline 2010-09-23T11:01:00Z I went into the sitting room, she was talking to Ola, the music was loud, on the verge of distortion, around them some people were dancing, I watched them until she looked at me. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z It was born of Mr. El-Dabh’s recording of the zaar, a traditional exorcism ritual, which he manipulated in the studio to yield echoes, reverberations and other distortions. Halim El-Dabh, Composer of Martha Graham Ballets, Dies at 96 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z More Lone Star swing than New York folk, his sound was electric but minus much distortion or aural antagonism. Bob Dylan opens three nights in Hollywood with grunts, grim themes 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z But there has been the indefatigable work of advocates like Schulman, whose work now involves preserving the memory of a movement at constant risk of distortion. A New Testament to the Fury and Beauty of Activism During the AIDS Crisis 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z All around him is pressure: wailing distortion, throbbing bass, drums pounding six beats to a bar. Albums From Terius Nash, George Strait, Cymbals Eat Guitars 2011-09-05T22:44:58Z When Griffin followed him, she said she needed to correct some of what Macgregor had said, “and I’m not sure 10 minutes is enough time because there are so many distortions.” Fox News defense reporter challenges war comments on air 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z |
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