| 单词 | dysfunctional |
| 例句 | A crew composed entirely of eight amped-up, overtly aggressive oarsmen will often degenerate into a dysfunctional brawl in a boat or exhaust itself in the first leg of a long race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “This dysfunctional thing? I won’t be a part of it. I can’t live this life with you. I refuse. You’ve made your decision. Good luck with your life. I’m going to live mine.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z What could be dysfunctional about a mother so spiteful that she intentionally undercooks her husband’s chicken, and a father so narcissistic he gets a face-lift at forty? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z And this touches me, somehow, even more than the presumptive lie about his assets: that this place he has described as so morbidly dysfunctional could amount to a real and compelling human community. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Our relatives regularly went to him for advice on their businesses, rocky marriages, or dysfunctional relationships with their children. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z If we’re a messed up, dysfunctional family, I guess this can go down as our single functional moment. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Now part of a shambolic, antisocial family, Fred and Bruho must confront not only their operating principles but their own dysfunctional partnership. Review: ‘Doomsdays,’ a Jaunt Into Strangers’ Homes in the Catskills 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Her mother was alcoholic, and her family life dysfunctional and difficult. Susie’s struggle in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z That feeling of being so bonded to your ally in a dysfunctional family that you might die without them. Delving deep for Norma's voice on 'Bates Motel' 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z In Eleanor's description of her father's dysfunctional career as a whaler – afraid of boats, he had to throw javelins from the beach – there's a hint of what Fulcher and Brown are capable of. Rich Fulcher: An Evening with Eleanor, the Tour Whore 2010-08-24T13:57:00Z In five theaters, its take ranked with this season’s other dysfunctional family stories, like “Nebraska,” but may not have had the surge the studio was hoping for. The Carpetbagger: On the Porch in ‘Osage County’ 2013-12-30T17:30:32Z Trouble is, in the wake of Viv's death, the team is a dysfunctional, grieving mess. Unreported World 2010-05-14T07:00:00Z His dad was gone, his mum fell in love with a crackhead, and home life was fairly dysfunctional. Plan B: 'I love directing. But does my art change lives? I don't think it does' 2012-06-07T19:00:08Z As usual on “Succession,” this is about the money, and the dysfunctional family competition in which the money keeps score. In ‘Succession,’ Democracy Goes Up in Smoke 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Antaeus Theatre Company presents a partner-cast staging of Tennessee Williams’ classic drama, about a dysfunctional Southern family, as the first show in their new venue. L.A. theater openings, March 19-26: 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z If these start-ups succeed, they may do more to upend our dysfunctional food system than perhaps any other innovation. Eat it without the guilt? The story of the world’s first 'clean' foie gras 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Rather, it features a dream team of writers — Woody Allen, Elaine May and Ethan Coen — sketching comic works about a subject that they have each famously covered in the past: dysfunctional families. The Week Ahead: Sept. 18 ? Sept. 24 2011-09-16T17:55:53Z It was dark and deeply dysfunctional, with the occasional punctuation mark of: “That gig was amazing!” I Quit a Famous Rock Band 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Most of the stereotypes people have about home-schoolers – dysfunctional zealots in homemade frocks or wild-haired heathen children on the other – never had anything to do with our lived experience. Home-schooling: You’re doing it too! 2013-09-14T18:00:00Z “They lack the muscle mass and physical coordination to begin with, and they don’t get any instruction in running first. The result is poor running mechanics on top of a dysfunctional and often aged body.” How I learned to love running It’s not because they are entitled, or weak, or dysfunctional. Perspective | The unreasonable expectations of American motherhood 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z For a while, The Avengers becomes a $200-million mass-market version of one of those indie films about a dysfunctional family whose members come home for the holidays and rip off all the old scabs. Marvel's The Avengers: A Superhero Roundup That's Almost Super 2012-04-25T12:25:56Z “I had a very privileged childhood, but I also had a dysfunctional family,” she remembers. In her debut memoir, notorious writer Cat Marnell apologizes for nothing 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Mobster Clan Down Under Gang boss vexed by dysfunctional family. Watch List: ‘The Straits,’ an Australian Series at Hulu.com 2012-12-14T22:58:41Z But by the time it was reincarnated as a short-lived musical in 1979, “Mama” looked plumb tuckered out, a sticky-sweet relic in an age obsessed with more dysfunctional domesticity. Theater Review: ‘I Remember Mama’ Reminisces at the Gym at Judson 2014-03-31T02:00:01Z The titular — and longest — story focuses on a young boy named Set growing up during World War I with an eccentric, dysfunctional family that wonders whether the boy has a soul. Best science fiction and fantasy of 2016 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z In fact, the dysfunctional silence persisted through most of episode three, as we watched ENB's artistic director Wayne Eagling attempt to choreograph the company's new Nutcracker in the brutally short period of just six weeks. The Agony and the Ecstasy: English Ballet's Black Swan? 2011-03-22T15:03:53Z Seattle playwright Leonard D. Goodisman’s new drama “Checkoff in the Sun” is a fragmented, postmodern version of the dysfunctional family play. ‘Royal Blood,’ ‘Checkoff in the Sun’ 2014-03-27T20:58:04Z I’m tired of feeling roped into other people’s dysfunctional relationships with food, tired of the default conversation around the joyful experiences of cooking and eating being so fraught with anxiety. Women: Stop apologizing for eating 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z A dysfunctional family tries — and fails — to find joy on a summer vacation in Straub’s wise and funny novel. The top 50 fiction books for 2014 In the dysfunctional world of celebrity gossip, the fertility of any high profile female over the age of 12 and under 70 is always up for public speculation. That’s the way love goes: How not to talk about sex, motherhood and Janet Jackson 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Donna Anna’s new fiancé, Don Ottavio, seems unsure of his place in this dysfunctional family. ‘Don Giovanni’ at the Met Opera and in Two Other Stagings 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Obsessed with his orphans, Sam loses perspective, alienates everyone and becomes all but dysfunctional. 'Machine Gun Preacher': goodwill gone amok 2011-09-29T20:00:08Z Nonetheless, “The Taste of Ashes” regularly calls to mind Philip Marlowe’s encounter with the dysfunctional Sternwood family in “The Big Sleep.” Review | Years ago I wandered into a used book store and a man named X handed me this gem 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z “Fleetwood Mac is well known for being a dysfunctional family ... and it was certainly much of the fuel for our material,” Buckingham said in January at the MusicCares ceremony in New York honoring the band. Go your own way: Fleetwood Mac will not tour with Lindsey Buckingham 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z “How I tried to interpret the reaction — though on some days it was difficult,” she said, “was that it was a manifestation of a really dysfunctional institution.” A Trailblazing Female Conductor Is Still Alone on the Trail 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z The dominant theory holds that C.F.S. may not have a single etiology but may instead be a dysfunctional state of the immune system triggered by one of several ailments. A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z “Succession,” HBO’s portrait of a dysfunctional media dynasty, won best drama at the 74th Emmy Awards on Monday night, the second time the series has taken the prize. ‘Succession’ Wins Top Drama at Emmys 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z A question that hovers over this book is whether the Freemans will learn from past horrors or become so dysfunctional that they merely relive them. Review: ‘We Love You, Charlie Freeman,’ Kaitlyn Greenidge’s Debut Novel 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z The performances were strong, the comic timing impeccable, the direction sharp, the idea – a sitcom about a dysfunctional workplace family of hairdressers – a nice one. Hollywood Me; Quick Cuts – TV review 2013-06-20T05:59:01Z The award-winning comedy about a dysfunctional family airs on Sky1 in the UK and ABC in the US. Modern Family cast in salary row 2012-07-25T09:05:43Z Americans should resuscitate virtue as a core principle of society and government, directing their energies at reforming everything — from campaign finance to a dysfunctional system of checks and balances — that undermines the public good. What America Owes to the Greeks and Romans 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z O’Hara, however, isn’t writing another play about a dysfunctional American family. 'Barbecue' at the Geffen finds a ferociously funny way into the subject of race and identity 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z “Everyone likes the idea of dysfunctional families,” she said, “especially for women artists.” Lush Morsels From an Artist’s Erotic Imagination 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z I discovered that dysfunctional families were the best... Reader reviews roundup 2013-06-14T08:00:00Z “One of capitalism’s primary goals is to turn us all into wallets, into predictable algorithms. And I’m an inconsistent, messy, dysfunctional human being. I feel like saying, ‘I don’t know, I’m a mess’ is resistance.” Sherman Alexie on his new memoir, his mother and politics as usual 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z The Mongoose World premiere of Will Arbery's fantastical tale about a dysfunctional Dallas family. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 21-28: 'The Mystery of Love & Sex' and more 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Never mind how this moment with Donald Trump is also reflected by many men who are dysfunctional and chronically frustrated and who don’t know how to properly approach women, and the lethally unhinged "incels." Has Trump wrecked our sex life? "Post-Trump Sex Disorder" is real, says sex therapist 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z But this saga of a dysfunctional southern California motorcycle club hiding deep, dark, deadly secrets has cultivated and maintained a vastly larger audience than the aforementioned award magnets. Sons Of Anarchy: 'don't touch the Harleys' 2013-02-02T08:00:00Z The meeting was told in a statement by the board that this amounted to a dysfunctional staff relationship. Poetry Society annual meeting ends in no confidence vote 2011-07-22T18:58:46Z Maybe the implication is that the younger set is doing better than their solipsistic, dysfunctional elders. Film: They Grow Up So Quickly, Don?t They? 2010-07-09T04:31:00Z Two issues predominate: the increasingly dysfunctional relationship between the two most powerful men in the government, and Iraq – the buildup to the invasion and then the fallout. The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq by Alastair Campbell – review 2012-06-21T07:00:01Z At its core, each iteration is about a dysfunctional family, something that touches everyone at some level. Why the world is ready for 2 'Snow Whites' 2011-08-15T18:34:53Z In this stunning and compassionate drama about loyalty, longing and a sensationally dysfunctional family, Dublin police Detective Frank Mackey is forced to return home when the body of his sweetheart, missing for decades, turns up. 14 best crime novels of 2010: Tana French, John le Carr? and more 2010-12-08T23:57:00Z At a moment when America looks a bit like an open wound, or at least like a dysfunctional family writ large, “Buzzing at the Sill” can feel uncomfortably timely. Peter van Agtmael’s Decoding of American Violence 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z But somehow there was a sense of magic to that last book, an optimism among the dark alleys and dysfunctional family relationships. A Timely Dystopian Thriller With Sexual Assault and Political Corruption at Its Core 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z IS and the global movement from which it sprang emerge as a sprawling, quarrelsome, frequently dysfunctional extended family. Inside account 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z “I acted like someone who was mentally dysfunctional,” he said. Big Player in Atlantic City, Undercover but at Home 2010-03-22T21:28:00Z These shows, like “Lady Dynamite,” often dealt with dysfunctional, single Los Angelenos, often on the fringes of the entertainment world, unable to commit to love. Maria Bamford’s Melancholic, Hallucinogenic, and Very Funny “Lady Dynamite” 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z In his meticulous portrayals of oil pump jacks, sewage treatment plants and steel refineries, he coolly — and sometimes humorously — evokes dysfunctional relationships between nature and industry. Rackstraw Downes?s Landscapes, at Three Sites 2010-07-23T21:42:00Z Not my dysfunctional mother and father, not my chilly old church. I left my heart in Jersey City: Lessons from a family funeral 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z My sister and I often go through the world with opposing beliefs — it's an opposition grounded in different modes of handling growing up in a dysfunctional family. Now that another black body has been laid to rest: George Floyd and the white gaze 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Blueberry Toast The Echo Theater Company presents Mary Laws’ new, darkly comic look at a dysfunctional family; contains graphic language and violence. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 11-18: 'Teatro Moz' and more 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z “The Glass Castle,” which spent more than 335 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list, details Walls’ poor and dysfunctional upbringing as she is raised by an eccentric artist mother and alcoholic father. Lawrence First-Time Producer with ‘Glass Castle’ 2013-11-12T16:03:09Z Madison’s first life was as a proponent of an enduring constitution for a consolidated, centralized republic to replace the loose and dysfunctional alliance of states created under the Articles of Confederation. James Madison’s Zigzag Path 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Establishing a solidly dysfunctional family drama before things get full-on freaky, Gavin Williams’s cautiously escalating script gives the audience an anchor and at least two reasons to care when the nastiness hits the fan. Review: In ‘Await Further Instructions,’ a Family Home Becomes a Battleground 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z We go through this very dysfunctional process by which we all desperately want to believe in a leader, a warrior if you like, who will lead us out of our current doldrums. Sharing is in our nature 2012-08-13T11:45:00Z "Dysfunctional" would fairly well sum it up, but dysfunctional in a way that is creatively fruitful and suffused with tender feeling. 'Dog and Pony's' grating personalities spoil the musical fun 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z “Did you know Boris Johnson has written a book about Churchill?” says Ray Davies, the legendary leader of easily the most literate and dysfunctional band of the British Invasion. How the Kinks turned a British history lesson into a rock masterpiece that still resonates 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z “Fleetwood Mac is well known for being a dysfunctional family... and it was certainly much of the fuel for our material,” said Buckingham. Bill Clinton repays a favor to Fleetwood Mac at MusiCares ceremony 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z “When you are writing in the studio, it’s like the people who are in the studio with you are a dysfunctional family,” he said. Pop: Benny Blanco, Hit Maker for Rihanna and Maroon 5 2013-01-05T05:03:03Z Family Guy, which is due to enter its 11th series in the autumn, follows the dysfunctional Griffin family, their friends and neighbours. Family Guy to perform at Proms 2012-06-14T10:04:07Z Poor tax collection, entrenched corruption and a dysfunctional state may lead one to ask how Greece was let into the euro in the first place. Ordoliberalism revisited 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z “It’s about the pain of growing up with dreams of being an artist while living in a dysfunctional society,” she said. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Finding Your Roots’ and ‘Mayfair Witches’ 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Within minutes of the programme starting it was clear that the Chawners were a dysfunctional family with severe emotional problems who need intensive psychological help rather than a TV crew in their front room. TV review: The Bill and Lorraine Kelly's Big Fat Challenge 2010-08-25T07:00:00Z Although Sergei still believes in Communist ideals, Soviet life under Brezhnev is so immobilized by bureaucracy that it is becoming dysfunctional. | 'Farewell': Emir Kusturica in Christian Carion?s Spy Film 2010-07-22T21:46:00Z But the central tale is of Tony and how everything affects him – gangster friends and enemies, mistresses, a family structure not so much dysfunctional as dystopian, and all the threads these lead to. The Wire re-up: season five, episode seven ? The Wire v The Sopranos 2010-03-29T23:15:00Z And I had a small publisher who said they’d like to publish this dysfunctional parenting guide, as it was labeled. ‘A Man Called Ove’ author Fredrik Backman reflects on the highs and lows of fatherhood 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z He emphasized that presenting and financing models for contemporary performance were dysfunctional, with too little money going to support too many shows, and too few artists making anything close to a living wage. Critic?s Notebook: An Auld Lang Syne Kicks Off an Artistic Diaspora 2011-06-29T22:12:53Z Instead, I get my slightly dysfunctional family and a crummy office holiday party. Should I Stay Silent During One Child’s Populist Taunt of Another? 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z And I think that, like The Simpsons and Family Guy, they are a dysfunctional family, but it's always all right in the end. Carol Decker's favourite TV 2013-03-18T12:00:00Z I’ve watched the movie dozens of times and yet when George finally realizes how, well, wonderful his bankrupt business and dysfunctional family really are, it gets me every time. Watch: The Best Christmas Films of All-Time 2011-12-23T09:57:53Z I knew the relationship was doomed, but it tapped into my own dysfunctional childhood with a bipolar mother, and I stuck it out. My son, the repeat offender 2013-01-24T18:16:00Z It naturally slows down as we age and becomes dysfunctional after dieting. What can you do to speed up your metabolism? 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z The story of his fraudulent act - and dysfunctional marriage - are at the heart of Big Eyes, as Talking Movies' Tom Brook discovered when he went to meet Tim Burton. Sizing up Tim Burton's Big Eyes 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Yet for all the work’s mystical trappings and metaphysical mumbo-jumbo, it is a humane, wise and moving story of the imperious god Wotan and his dysfunctional family, who bring about their own destruction. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Hailing Opera's Shakespeare, and Its Proust 2011-01-17T12:00:40Z Therapy, she said, had helped her untangle her dysfunctional relationship with the genre. Nashville Didn’t Make Room for Mickey Guyton. So She Made Her Own. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z If New Labour is obsolete it is not because of the personal defects of Gordon Brown, Blair's delusional moral certainty and incessant war-mongering or even the dysfunctional relationship between the two leaders. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z His nuclear family is equally chaotic, though less garishly dysfunctional than some of the collateral branches. ‘The Hand of God’ Review: A Portrait of the Cineaste as a Young Man 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z “Amerissiah,” a ridiculous story of a severely dysfunctional family, continues that tradition, and it certainly keeps you awake. | 'Amerissiah': The Amoralists Troupe at Theater 80 St. Marks 2010-06-07T21:10:00Z "That was marvellous!" he enthusiastically gushes after My Beloved Monster, a semi-funky paean to dysfunctional relationships. Eels ? review 2011-07-08T18:05:22Z This production is unusually strong in suggesting the dysfunctional dynamics that operate among Lear’s daughters. Theater Review: ‘King Lear,’ With Michael Pennington, Opens in Brooklyn 2014-03-28T02:00:01Z For a moment, Mr. Rogers played music critic: “I’ve made a hell of a career singing about dysfunctional families,” he observed. ArtsBeat: Bonnaroo: Final Thoughts 2012-06-11T08:36:58Z It’s also the movie in which the Leia and Han romance really gets underway, as messy and dysfunctional as it is, and everyone is forced to make hard choices. 25 Years Later, Return of The Jedi Deserves Another Look 2013-06-29T09:45:56Z Those are some fairly dysfunctional offices, thick with incident and intrigue and sex and therefore both a welcome escape from the grind of actual work and a space for dystopian projections. Even Superheroes Punch the Clock 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z The institutions in which ordinary people might place their trust, and to which they might commit their honest labor, were discovered to be dysfunctional and corrupt. Arts & Leisure: Urban Realist With a Humanist Streak 2011-04-13T13:29:51Z They would be the first substantial departures in the run of this show about an office of dysfunctional government employees in a fictional Indiana town. ArtsBeat: Rashida Jones and Rob Lowe Said to Be Leaving ‘Parks and Recreation’ 2013-07-31T21:53:15Z It implies a cliche or a rut and yet all humans are dysfunctional to some degree, whether it's the raging alcoholic or the guy who's just a bit self-defeating. Absolute beginners 2011-07-15T23:03:00Z A deliciously soapy reality show involving a dysfunctional clan with posh accents? Why can't we quit the royals? CNN's new series "The Windsors" show why they rule 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Guth's approach raises more questions than it answers, since we never understand why Lohengrin is so dysfunctional, or why someone in his condition would be sent on a holy mission. Review: Kaufmann triumphs as La Scala's Lohengrin 2012-12-12T13:42:19Z Less expected was her nomination for best actress in a comedy for "Maps to the Stars," David Cronenberg's biting Hollywood satire about a dysfunctional showbiz family. Golden Globes 2015: Moore, Murray, Ruffalo double up on nominations 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Enduring, let alone trying to understand, the dysfunctional dynamics between parents can be one of the toughest trials of growing up. My father believes the world is ending – and is abusive to my mother | Mariella Frostrup 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z For his movies, McDonagh has broadened the thematic focus from quarreling relatives to working stiffs — thugs, that is, whose business is to turn suspects into stiffs — who form their own kind of dysfunctional family. Seven Psychopaths: Smart, Violent, Crazy Fun 2012-10-11T12:00:26Z The first four trophies of the night went to the comedy series about a delightfully dysfunctional family. Emmy Awards: Live coverage 2011-09-19T00:12:00Z On top of all that, the company that owned the ship, Tote, was shockingly dysfunctional. A Disaster at Sea, Animated by 26 Hours of Black-Box Recordings 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z But in seeking clues to the mystery of Magritte, how should one weigh his dysfunctional childhood? Review | René Magritte was an enigma. A new biography tries to make sense of the genius. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Those who avoided the story have been content to relegate it either to unsavory tabloid fodder, the bizarre psychodrama of a dysfunctional family or the realm of “We’ll never know for sure.” In ‘Allen v. Farrow,’ looking for the last word on a notoriously unresolved story 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Over and over again, the buildings are demolished, and the patterned elegance of the choreography decays into dysfunctional, disruptive ugliness. Puz/zle – review 2013-04-25T17:02:05Z The area around Carditello is plagued by violent organized crime, fires and pollution, and subjected to the bureaucratic arrogance and capriciousness of a perpetually dysfunctional state. Review: Angels, Some of This Earth, in ‘Lost and Beautiful’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z And now in "The Book of Grace," Suzan-Lori Parks' diffuse, disappointing look at a dysfunctional family's major meltdown, she pulls off something quite difficult to achieve. Marvel a marvel in diffuse 'Book of Grace' in NY 2010-03-18T01:46:00Z Laughing and joking, they seem grounded, considering their reputation as music's most dysfunctional family. The Jacksons: 'People have tried to tear down our family name' 2013-02-21T18:57:00Z His own family is completely calm and normal, he says, not a bit like the dysfunctional nightmares of Mommy and It’s Only the End of the World. Xavier Dolan: 'If I didn't make movies, I would be a very angry man' 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z June and I protested when they killed off my on-screen son and dad because it was a missed opportunity to follow a really dysfunctional family. How we made: June Brown and John Altman on EastEnders 2012-12-10T17:28:13Z “I think in a very drawn-out scale, I think I’m on the spectrum,” he said, adding that he didn’t see being on the spectrum as dysfunctional but merely an “alternative mindset.” I'm Not Autistic, Says Seinfeld 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z In these dysfunctional times, joy is a high bar. Burned out and overwhelmed: should you embrace the joy of no? 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z But below the waterline, as in Gladstone Hall lies a collection of casualties, of dysfunctional families, unwanted, unloved and neglected children contained within barred windows and locked doors, with no escape. The untold story behind "Strawberry Fields Forever" 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z If you work in an organisation that is dysfunctionally addicted to email, no action that you take on your own is going to solve that; indeed, it may have serious downsides for you. Improve efficiency ? switch off your smartphone 2012-05-19T23:05:54Z Steele's character in the play — which is directed by Daniel Sullivan and moves to Broadway in October — exists as a beacon of normalcy in a dysfunctional family of overdramatic actors. Sarah Steele of 'The Country House' finds comfort in her characters 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z This Australian comedy takes the dysfunctional family theme to extremes. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Final Year’ and ‘Sando’ 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z When she did “King Lear” here last year, she presented Shakespeare’s violently divided royal clan as the dysfunctional family next door. Review: Domestic Doom, Fiercely Conveyed, in Ibsen and Strindberg Plays 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z He's struggled to write ever since, especially while balancing the demands of a dysfunctional English department and trying to escape the shadow of his much more famous writer-professor father who abandoned him. With a storyline about the adjunct crisis, “Lucky Hank” moves to the head of the class 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Four years before my diagnosis, it seemed like I was finally making progress toward publication with my third manuscript: a black comedy about a dysfunctional Chinese-American family. I wanted to publish a book before I died 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z And I know it sounds wild and kind of dysfunctional, even for me, but maybe, just maybe I waited too long. Watching Netflix's "Old Dads" reminded me why I should’ve had kids in high school 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Born in Newark in 1953, she grew up there and in East Orange in what she shrugged off in our interview, as a “regular dysfunctional family.” For Chakaia Booker, Whose Medium Is Tires, the Art Is in the Journey 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Everybody can relate to a dysfunctional family, regrets, transformation, laundry and taxes. How ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Helps to Heal Generational Trauma 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z US citizens seem unaware that what they call the world's greatest democracy is not only dysfunctional but run by big business, which buys politicians through political funding on an eye-watering scale. Letters: Politics and propaganda on the screen 2013-01-18T21:00:13Z “The only thing there is, is a family. And the nice thing is we, clearly, as Americans, do no have a monopoly on dysfunctional families.” The Carpetbagger: ‘The Croods’ Team Can at Least Count on 2 Votes 2014-02-14T19:30:53Z Today’s dread is a good deal more amorphous, a gathering cloud of unease about shaky economies, dysfunctional institutions, climate change: The skies are thick with ill omen. ‘Seeking a Friend for the End of the World’ and Other Apocalyptic Movies 2012-06-15T18:30:00Z Well, every one of the dysfunctional Bluth family around whose misadventures the show revolves is like that. Lucy Mangan on Arrested Development 2011-02-08T08:00:02Z And yet, like a dysfunctional relationship I just can’t end, the finale of season 3 showed up looking pretty and saying all the right things, and there I was, back again. Glee Watch: Long-Distance Relationship 2012-09-14T12:00:17Z Here, the set designers of four dysfunctional dramas describe what it took — and cost — to clutter things up. Making a Mess Off Broadway 2010-06-07T00:18:00Z Zoë Heller is another New York resident who found it impossible to resist the lure of the Big Apple, setting her study of a dysfunctional family, The Believers, in Manhattan. Impac shortlist led by Joseph O'Neill and Marilynne Robinson 2010-04-12T14:14:00Z When one questioner at Saturday’s event asked, inevitably, why LaBute seemed so obsessed with dysfunctional affairs and men behaving badly, the playwright noted that such human agonies are the currency of drama. Neil LaBute in Chicago: A bad-boy playwright, in profile 2011-01-10T00:36:19Z When you’re writing about relationships, the things that are easiest to write are the ones that are dysfunctional because it’s funny or interesting. Q&A: For McAvoy, Horgan ‘Together’ is an actor’s dream 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z We wonder why Congress is dysfunctional, why they're not doing the people's bidding, why everyone seems to hate them. Jack Abramoff, Eliot Spitzer: A tale of two swindlers 2010-05-06T16:01:00Z Former Utah Gov. , asked whether he was too moderate to galvanize Republican voters, responded with unusually strong language as he attacked the lack of trust in Wall Street and the dysfunctional government in Washington. Gingrich under fire in GOP debate 2011-12-16T04:04:00Z When the rink reopened two months early, Trump was the toast of New York, portrayed as the can-do maestro in a dysfunctional city. Trump left his mark all over New York. Some in the city would like to erase it. 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z And Another Thing Pavilion, Until Sunday Essentially, this is a comedy riff on the old dysfunctional double-act setup, set in a studio where everything is fake, including the presenters' personas. And Another Thing ? review 2011-07-12T18:00:01Z For years, he said, he’s watched an increasingly dysfunctional music business fail to mentor artists for the long haul. Lionel Richie Wants to Teach You How to Be a Real ‘American Idol’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Jean said he wants the Haitian people to "participate in the reconstruction," and that he will focus on the country's youth, and asking reconstruction donors to help the country's dysfunctional education system. Wyclef Jean says his Haiti candidacy a 'wild card' 2010-08-19T02:34:00Z To me, he was a sad, tortured figure from a dysfunctional family who had greatness thrust upon him through the abdication of his elder brother. Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z This year has certainly been awash with dysfunctional ones. Mother superior: it’s been a great year for on-screen mums 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The play, a Vertigo Theater Company production at the New Ohio Theater, might be described as a dysfunctional family drama, that staple of American stages. Review: Transgender ‘Street Children,’ Out on a Pier 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z It made mention of an earlier meeting with Baldwin and others that Costner described as one of the most "disorganized, dysfunctional" meetings he'd ever been part of. Costner testifies in suit over oil-cleanup devices 2012-06-08T02:34:10Z People keep telling her that show business isn’t going to change; just because it’s dysfunctional doesn’t mean anyone can do anything about it. Review | Michaela Coel takes the television industry to task in ‘Misfits’ 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Wisconsin may be a national poster child for dysfunctional politics and red-blue tensions, yet Barrett, a Democrat, is serving his third term, winning reelection twice with more than 70 percent of the vote. Milwaukee is the new Portland 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z “Hello. That’s all it means. It isn’t even my name. I’m just saying ‘Hello’ in Korean, but this dysfunctional family of entitled nitwits haven’t even taken the time to look beyond my basic courtesy. Meep meep! Screen stars with only one thing to say 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Typical Basilicata, I thought, a gorgeous, mind-bogglingly historic, slightly dysfunctional heaven on earth. Discovering the Ruins of Italy’s Ionian Coast 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z The high court may be divided, and its decisions sometimes unpopular, but it isn’t dysfunctional or impotent, and its opinions are at least grammatical and often inspiring. ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’: An affectionate comic opera look at the high court 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z The relationship is not as dysfunctional as it seems, he says. America and China’s long embrace 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Think dysfunctional family or simply the battles within ourselves. Inside Art: Schütte in Central Park, Arrechea on Park Avenue 2013-01-24T21:08:48Z "It's like a functional, dysfunctional family," jokes Hahn. Local Natives: 'better than ever' 2013-01-30T08:37:00Z At the beginning of the film, Star abandons her dysfunctional family in Oklahoma to join the mag crew as they drive to Kansas City and beyond. Andrea Arnold’s Immersive Cinema 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z They’re also extremely dysfunctional and comically selfish, casually using their faith as justification for misdeeds. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ and ‘Wall-E’ 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Most of his work involves disaffected and dysfunctional Americans perpetrating gory acts of violence upon one another in environments that embrace both blighted urban apartments and affluent suburban homes. Review: ‘Wolf in the River,’ Adam Rapp’s Latest Tale of the Dysfunctional and Dispossessed 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z “It just became a dysfunctional environment,” Ms. Smith said, of the company. How the Designer of Milly Broke Free 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z She is an adult woman in an open albeit totally dysfunctional marriage. "Succession": We have questions about Shiv's news 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z Published in 1994, it’s come to mirror our present dystopia in some extraordinary way, I assume by working from fundamentally dysfunctional aspects of our basic primate hardwiring. For William Gibson, Seeing the Future Is Easy. But the Past? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z It’s about growing up in a dysfunctional family, discovering her passion for music and the often awkward steps leading into adulthood. Rise of the female rock memoir 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z You begin to see a pattern forming throughout all the vignettes of ghastly horror mixed with callbacks to dysfunctional family life. Reviews: Fifa 15, The Sims 4, Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Murasaki Baby and Bayonetta 2 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z For more than 17 years, “The View” has been TV’s most dysfunctional family. ‘The View’: TV’s Most Dysfunctional Family 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z While the dollars are mind-boggling in these cases, anyone thinking about wealth transfer faces the same issues: dysfunctional families, potentially unequal positions in the family business, perhaps multiple marriages with kids from each. The big lessons from celebrity estate wars 2012-01-26T18:47:45Z A cheap-vodka-hangover version of “August: Osage County,” “Among Ravens” observes a dysfunctional reunion of family and friends from the perspective of a child. ‘Among Ravens,’ About a Holiday Gone Awry 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z The implications in these arguments are of systemic dysfunctional power dynamics in the ballet world that go beyond any single case. After a Choreographer’s Suicide, Ballet Confronts Tough Questions 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z “Run This Town,” a jagged, snappy procedural that splits its time between a downsizing newspaper and a dysfunctional city government, is a fictionalized account of an actual scandal. ‘Run This Town’ Review: What Happens When the Mayor Smokes Crack? 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z A jagged guitar riff accompanies lyrics about yet another dysfunctional family gathering from the esteemed singer-songwriter: “All I wanted was one perfect Christmas / all I got was some coal and some switches,” Phair sings. 5 Depressing Christmas Songs from 2014 That Will Totally Bum You Out 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z In her acting debut, writer-director Dabis plays an American woman reuniting with her family in Jordan to plan her wedding - and rethinking marriage as she copes with dysfunctional relatives. Sundance Day One: Fest jumps right in with 4 films 2013-01-17T17:16:04Z Things fell apart further when Ms. Banfield-Norris’s mother died, which also left Ms. Pinkett Smith with one less escape from a dysfunctional home. We All Need a Gammy in Our Lives Right Now 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z The powerful, dysfunctional and at times criminal family at the center of “Empire” share the last name Lyon, a fitting name for a fierce, squabbling, proud family. “Empire” state of mind: Lee Daniels’ new show is like “Game of Thrones” for the hip-hop world 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z So we had to make the relationship between him and Sonja the most dysfunctional, terrible relationship imaginable. Alan Partridge: a look inside his mind 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z Stylish and funny, it reflects a dysfunctional world like our own. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Millions of Americans are shocked, shocked to learn that the family showcased by a popular reality show is dysfunctional in ways outside the boundaries of the program's chosen and carefully scripted choice of dysfunction. Yes, TLC, as Duggar scandal shows, life surprises. Shocker? No. 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z We are here to talk about Crooked House, the Agatha Christie adaptation debuting on Channel 5, before its theatrical release, in which Close plays Lady Edith, a matriarch of a very dysfunctional family. Glenn Close: ‘You lose power if you get angry’ 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z As a confessional forum for dysfunctional and dispossessed Americans, Mr. Springer’s show may have since been eclipsed by the semi-scripted melodramas of reality television. Review: ‘Jerry Springer,’ Sacred and Profane, Triumphantly Sings Again 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z If you're looking to recreate their romantic/dysfunctional getaway, you may need to plan ahead. "The White Lotus": Here are the real hotels featured on the show, but can you afford them? 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z "Rock bands are big dysfunctional families, particularly if they last 25 years or longer. The lead singer and lead guitarist are usually the mother and the father," he said. Denis Leary is ready to rock FX once again 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z “Fleetwood Mac is well known for being a dysfunctional family... and it was certainly much of the fuel for our material,” said Buckingham. Bill Clinton repays a favor to Fleetwood Mac at MusiCares ceremony 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z The Lyons are an exquisitely dysfunctional family while at church. Empire: season two, episode four – Be True sends the Lyon clan to church 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Though decades past its heyday, La Peetch remains the charming, comically dysfunctional representation of Julia and Paul Child that the Childs knew. You can now rent (and cook in!) Julia Child’s Provence cottage 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z And Mr. Dargel sang his “What Might Have Been,” a characteristically quirky overview of dysfunctional relationships. Music Review: Celebrating Electronics And Energy 2011-05-24T22:12:03Z But the will was not present — and relations between the Philharmonic and Lincoln Center, its landlord, were too dysfunctional — to do much about it. After Decades, the Philharmonic’s Hall Sounds and Feels More Intimate 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Sadly, though, the squeaky wheel gets the oil in museums, just as it does in the dysfunctional family and the corporate office. A sculptor’s work, seen in two and three dimensions 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Lawrence adds that, after the first few episodes, "The show pretty quickly evolved into a dysfunctional family show." Don't leave Town 2010-04-14T13:39:00Z A fascinating study of a dysfunctional relationship and a brilliant black comedy. The best films for summer 2013 2013-05-26T18:05:00Z It will attempt to unseat four-time winner "Modern Family," ABC's dysfunctional family sitcom. Big screen stars bring new shine to Emmys, TV's top night 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z But when Washington’s dysfunctional, that means they’re not able to do as much. Walsh: GOP leadership afraid to fight 2011-10-01T22:33:00Z But zero-sum thinking is, in some ways, a logical response to a dysfunctional system that seems to lurch from one extreme to another, from coddling pain to nearly criminalizing it. ‘Dopesick’ Traces the Opioid Crisis, From Beginning to Blow Up 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z I needed a break from constant news, I was a little depressed, and I enjoyed observing a workplace more dysfunctional than mine at the time. The heart of Schwartzness: The roots of the "Vanderpump Rules" Scandoval implosion run deep 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z This kind of perspective gives the book an intimacy that raises the emotional stakes, especially when it comes to dysfunctional family dynamics. Review | A dual portrait of Herman and Joe Mankiewicz offers an intimate look at the Hollywood brothers 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z It was the time of the dotcom boom when a small number of clever, usually irreverent and often dysfunctional people invented great things and became billionaires overnight. Totally Wired: On the Trail of the Great Dotcom Swindle by Andrew Smith – review 2012-08-30T10:00:01Z They have good hearts and ultimately want to do the right thing — both for the galaxy and for each other — but they are also highly dysfunctional. Gillan's great point about "Guardians of the Galaxy" 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Its last act is essentially a single set piece about a severely dysfunctional family at dinner, with battling brothers fighting for the approval of a damaged patriarch. In ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre,’ Sympathy for the Devil 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Another day, another collection of socially dysfunctional misfits convinced they are the next Whitney Houston or David Blaine. Susan Boyle: What happened to the dream? 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z Talking Movies' Tom Brook reports on The Fighter, a boxing film starring Mark Wahlberg, which also offers a portrayal of a dysfunctional family. Mark Wahlberg plays The Fighter 2011-01-06T04:45:53Z As American politics looks increasingly dysfunctional, Mr. Friedman and Mr. Mandelbaum show great courage in casting aside conventional assumptions. Books of The Times: ?That Used to Be Us? by Friedman and Mandelbaum - Review 2011-10-02T21:07:08Z Rather than things being planned, considered and clearly articulated, the process is highly dysfunctional, unpredictable and often downright abusive. "Succession": how true to life is the TV series? 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Over the past five years, his videos skewering the country’s dysfunctional politics have helped an angry nation laugh it off. Your Son Will Come Out Tomorrow: Randy Rainbow’s Memoir of Love, Turmoil and Trump 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z His dysfunctional childhood looked a lot like my own. Hillbilly sellout: The politics of J. D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” are already being used to gut the working poor 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z The privileged teenage girls in this dark comedy, attending a dysfunctional, third-string boarding school in the countryside north of London, get caught up in a mass-psychogenic, contagious version of anorexia nervosa. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z When they hit the streets, the agencies that are supposed to step in and protect against the family abuse are equally depleted and dysfunctional. Rewind radio: Generations Apart; Richard Bacon ? review 2011-08-13T23:05:50Z The youngest of the seven mostly criminal and largely dysfunctional children his mother bore by the age of 19, Lionel works at “the very hairiest end of debt collection.” ‘Lionel Asbo,’ by Martin Amis 2012-08-18T00:06:07Z Besides, you can only sit through so many kick-lines and dysfunctional family get-togethers before the idea that you might be made to think as well as to feel tantalizes. ‘Fragments’ Review: Guest Lectures from a Famed Professor 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z She compares the place to “a summer camp for dysfunctional adults.” Conversations With Friends, in a Russian Jail Cell 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Barbecue A dysfunctional family’s get-together turns into an intervention for one drug-addicted sibling in the West Coast premiere of Robert O’Hara’s comedy. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 11-18: 'Teatro Moz' and more 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Rather than a sign of a dysfunctional relationship, such behavior can actually be interpreted as the sign of health, said Ronald Levant, a professor of psychology at the University of Akron. Quality Time, Redefined 2011-04-30T04:37:02Z The narrator is a young woman juggling three dysfunctional relationships: one with her husband, one with her lover, one with heroin. Times Critics Discuss 2021 in Books, From Breakout Stars to Cover Blobs 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z “Every show is new to me, even when, to my friends, it’s a revival,” said Ms. Ulman, who has a weakness for plays about dysfunctional families. Nice Work if You Can Get It: Being a Volunteer Usher on Broadway 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Sid and Nancy may have shortcomings as a movie about punk, but it's an intriguing and harrowing glimpse into a dysfunctional relationship. Sid and Nancy: an intriguing glimpse into a dysfunctional relationship 2013-03-06T17:50:00Z He would probably say it’s so dysfunctional, what is it about you that you feel that you don’t deserve someone better? The Carpetbagger: A Word With ... Gary Oldman 2012-02-17T17:14:51Z In the years since, Russell has gradually moved into the mainstream without abandoning his oblique approach to the world, his interest in self-questioning heroes and his fascination with dysfunctional families. Silver Linings Playbook – review 2012-11-25T00:05:31Z The trouble is that he is placing their relationship – faltering, distant, not quite yet dysfunctional – foursquare into the harsh glare of What Next? Jonathan and Julie Myerson on Blue Valentine: almost too painful to watch 2011-02-06T00:08:49Z Phoenix’s dysfunctional childhood, growing up in a rackety family who for a time belonged to the Children of God cult, has been well-documented. Keanu Reeves: ‘Grief and loss, those things don’t ever go away’ 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z And even the shaky, dysfunctional security he and Berner once enjoyed ends after their parents' arrest. Richard Ford's 'Canada': mistakes and missed chances 2012-05-30T21:37:09Z West Is West, the sequel to East Is East, takes the dysfunctional Khan family back to the Punjab. The Film Council's finest hour? 2010-09-16T10:48:00Z Over and over she put herself into dysfunctional relationships, trying to be one of the boys. Rock-Your-World Moments Fill New Music Memoirs From Tina Turner and a Disillusioned Hit Maker 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z He is then expected to turn his attention to the thorny issue of reforming English football's dysfunctional governance structure. Coalition agreement - the full deal at a glance 2010-05-20T14:13:00Z Mr. Nasheed, handsome and earnest, well dressed and well educated, seems at home in this world of global high politics, even as he is often exasperated by its dysfunctional aspects. Movie Review: ?The Island President?: Jon Shenk Documentary at Film Forum 2012-03-27T18:12:38Z It's undeniable that pretty much everything about our flatulent, jiggly, pimple prone, erectile dysfunctional bodies is ripe for comedy. "It's Always Sunny" star gets fat -- for laughs 2011-06-17T20:18:00Z As Nate and Robin contemplate adding to their dysfunctional brood, a get-together with the neighbors turns into a messy home birth. What’s on TV Tuesday: Trump’s Address to Congress and ‘O.J.: Made in America’ 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Brugger’s portrait of shameless, routine collusion between exploitative foreigners and dysfunctional dictatorships is depressing and undeniable. Movie Review: ‘The Ambassador,’ Directed by Mads Brugger 2012-08-28T20:47:59Z But his fans will still find hallmarks of his earlier films - there's plenty of irony and insight into dysfunctional families. Todd Solondz leans mainstream in 'Dark Horse' 2011-09-05T18:36:09Z And we never seem to escape our dysfunctional childhoods. 6 ways to keep the voices in your head from making your life miserable 2014-03-21T12:56:00Z Sidney, you are robbing our dysfunctional family of one of its most vital ingredients, and its only member still willing to lend me money. This Life: The Art of the Wedding Toast 2012-06-15T21:05:26Z He’s drinking too much, separated from his wife and embarking on a series of dysfunctional relationships. Elvis Costello has a new memoir, and it's even better than Bob Dylan and Keith Richards's books 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Selina: “What are you talking about? I’m used to dealing with angry, aggressive, dysfunctional men — ie. men.” “Live long and f**k off”: The 10 best insults and one-liners from last night’s “Veep” premiere 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z But there's increasing evidence – both anecdotal and empirical – that it has become dysfunctional. Improve efficiency ? switch off your smartphone 2012-05-19T23:05:54Z What might then have seemed dysfunctional or unhealthy now starts to seem like a rational career move. Clarke award: the rise of sci fi shows you can't judge a book by its genre 2013-05-02T10:19:04Z This creates a dysfunctional system in which early access is traded like a commodity. The Carpetbagger: The Film With the Broken Embargo 2011-12-05T16:13:08Z Its concerns are at once intensely particular — rooted in old customs and modern circumstances — and universally recognizable, since Turkish society is hardly unique in its dysfunctional gender politics. Critic?s Notebook: Modest Methods, Big Ambitions 2011-03-22T22:58:03Z He grew up in Victorville, 90 miles outside Los Angeles, “very poor in a fractured family that was dysfunctional on both sides”. Is Lakeith Stanfield the coolest actor of 2018? 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z And let's just pretend that dysfunctional little tale is just about skirts. Does Tide hate tomboys? 2011-08-10T22:01:00Z So thickly is this dysfunctional dynamic troweled on to the opening episodes that it not only feels fake, but oppressive. Flesh and Bone: great dancing, shame about the plot 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z The political goals of the surge, however — to push Iraq’s dysfunctional factions to reform and cooperate — never got far. Books of The Times: ‘Endgame’ and Iraq, by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor 2012-10-01T21:50:41Z But PETA’s truly dysfunctional obsession with women’s bodies is nothing new. PETA’s ridiculous new birth control stunt 2013-12-03T15:45:00Z The idea of Wotan and his dysfunctional family of gods as aristocrats losing their hold on power is not new. Review: In This ‘Ring’ Cycle, Gods Dwell in an Old Theater 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z So says Daneal Mosher, a single mom in a dysfunctional family haunted by ghosts of past, present and most likely future. 'October Country': Sympathy, but no hope, for dysfunctional family 2010-03-18T21:51:00Z Billy, born deaf, is the lip-reading outsider in a noisily talkative, borderline dysfunctional family of competitive egotists: father and mother are writers, brother Daniel is a would-be academic, sister Ruth an aspiring opera singer. Tribes ? review 2010-10-21T01:07:00Z Blood From a Stone A man pays one last visit to his dysfunctional family in Connecticut before moving across the country in the West Coast premiere of Tommy Nohilly's drama. L.A. theater openings for May 1-8: 'Honky' and more 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z "After" catalogs so many clichés in the dysfunctional family at its center that the film could be taught in a screenwriting class as a lesson in what not to do. 'After' could have used a lot more work before 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Later, things grow less enchanting — anchored in the realities, from dysfunctional to horrific, of Romania in the 1970s and ’80s. A Tale of Soviet-Era Bucharest Probes the Ties Between Writer and Muse 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z And despite a dysfunctional immigration system, it continues to be a magnet for talented and ambitious immigrants. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z The issue covers all kinds of couplings – mainly the dysfunctional and alienated, rather than the loving and rewarding kind – but one story stands out. Masturbation: literature's last taboo 2010-04-21T08:36:00Z The stalemate between West Bank and Israeli adversaries is akin to a dysfunctional romantic relationship — with both parties fiercely laying claim to the same Meatpacking District loft. 'Dirty Story': combative couplings in Intiman festival's opener 2012-07-12T15:38:04Z The new show will see the veteran actor as the host of an interview show, who shares his often unwanted guidance while dealing with a dysfunctional news staff, numerous ex-wives, children and an alcoholic assistant. Patrick Stewart to return to TV 2014-04-30T11:28:28Z It’s a story about power and about how people think power can fix things that are dysfunctional in their own lives. Danny McBride: Vice Principals Isn't A Story About Race 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z If you’re a fan of all things dysfunctional, British sitcom Black Books is perfect for you. 26 Streaming Shows You Should Get Addicted to This Winter 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z Quotas, to Mr. Raymond and his colleagues, are a symptom and a cause of the dysfunctional, antagonistic relationship between the police and the public, especially young, nonwhite men. Review: ‘Crime+Punishment’ Is a Tough Documentary About Police Abuses 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Many of these films deliberately mimic the tropes and stylistic tics of indie cinema – alienated teenagers, dysfunctional families, meditations on suburban soulnessness, self-consciously quirky humour, and a generous resort to shock tactics or the taboo . Reaching Nirvana 2011-03-04T21:30:00Z It reads, in part, “While we appreciate that in an adult context, the book may be harmless and even amusing, we have grave concerns about its effect on aggressive and dysfunctional parents.” Adam Mansbach: My year on the bestseller list 2012-12-12T01:00:00Z The Amtrak website boasts of “speeds up to 150 mph,” a figure worth boasting about in a region plagued by dysfunctional railways, though sluggish compared with its European and Asian cousins. Zippy Amtrak Train Gets Tangled in ‘the Swamp’ 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z But what he didn’t know back then was that the shoot was one of movie history’s most notoriously dysfunctional, plagued by technical problems and cast feuds. The ‘Jaws’ Shoot Was a Drama. Now It’s a Play. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Despite all the jokes, the whole spectacle sometimes felt as terrible and exhausting as a dysfunctional family gathering -- replete with emotional baggage and hurt feelings. The Year in Sanity: Jimmy Kimmel 2010-10-12T21:13:00Z In his comic series “Scorched Earth,” the main character, Tom, is a geeky, romantically dysfunctional guy who bears an obvious resemblance to his creator. Alt comics artists take us to our rough edges 2014-03-12T22:48:22Z Neither were sure the musical story, of a dysfunctional relationship between two sisters – another Disney first, unless you count an evil stepsister — would be a hit. The Carpetbagger: Beyoncé Doesn’t Faze ‘Frozen’s’ Songwriters 2014-01-28T19:43:49Z It just clicked in my head, the idea of one dysfunctional family portraying another. Rick Miller Talks About His ?MacHomer? 2012-03-25T01:30:03Z But he had one thing going for him: he was raised in a supremely dysfunctional family anchored by two parents who loathed each other. Making Tenn out of Tom 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z We had all of this momentum, and we'd finally got a system, however dysfunctional. Paramore: no more Misery Business 2013-01-26T06:00:00Z Ms. Weigel’s book operates from the totalizing assumption that larger social forces shape our personal intimacies; Mr. de Botton believes there’s enough war going on inside any individual love-seeker to match a thousand dysfunctional societies. Review: ‘Labor of Love’ and ‘The Course of Love,’ on Finding and Keeping It 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z It follows dysfunctional high school teachers joined in their immature exploits by the school's new librarian, played by Maria Thayer. TruTV makeover continues with first scripted comedy 'Those Who Can't' 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z How dysfunctional can one get, to rub one's healthy family in the rest of America's face? "American Idol" recap: Holy war 2010-03-03T13:04:00Z No list would be complete without a dysfunctional family. Simon Mason's top 10 fictional families 2011-07-29T10:37:00Z Eddie believes he's a member of the KGB, and falls for Sally, who eventually decides that her future lies beyond this dysfunctional world. Postcards from Dumbworld ? review 2010-10-22T21:31:00Z In fact, Life in Hell’s dysfunctional rabbits meant so much to Groening that he essentially invented The Simpsons to protect them. Why Matt Groening's new adult fantasy Disenchantment will find the fun side of hell 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z His songs brim with dysfunctional, even despicable, narrators, and even as his show plays with arena clichés, it also undermines them. The Weeknd concert at Chicago Theatre 2013-10-14T04:28:00Z “It may have seemed dysfunctional, but that doesn’t say anything about whether they loved each other,” Mr. Edmonds said. Production of a Lifetime: Whitney Houston and Clive Davis 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z Recently released from a psychiatric ward, a tormented teen girl returns to Hollywood and her dysfunctional showbiz family. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z When Claire's mother, daughter and sister pay a visit during family week, the dysfunctional group tries to bury more than a few hatchets. Spring and Summer Theater Listings 2010-02-21T00:33:00Z And the gags enhance, rather than detract from, the darker dimensions of "Suffering, Inc": the drudgery and fear eating away at underlings' souls in many a dysfunctional modern office. 'The Office' meets Chekhov in 'Suffering, Inc.' 2011-11-10T22:23:07Z “They are heavy, get in the way, reduce the space in your bag and are pretty dysfunctional over rough ground.” Readers Respond on Bags, Airfares and Global Entry 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z “There’s room on TV for a dysfunctional family you can laugh at,” said Matt Groening, the cartoonist who created America’s first successful prime-time cartoon since “The Flintstones.” Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Without pushing the metaphors too hard, Ms. Ruhl makes jokes both playful and profound about the dysfunctional family of the theater as a microcosm of the larger world. | 'Passion Play': Sarah Ruhl?s Play Within a Play at Irondale Center 2010-05-13T03:53:00Z ICU Circle X Theatre Co. presents the world premiere of Fielding Edlow’s play about a dysfunctional New York family facing the loss of a loved one. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 20-27: 'Drunk Girl' and more 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Eminently moving but never sentimental, Porter's powerful tale of a dysfunctional family at breaking point is plotted with the suspense of a well-paced thriller. In Between Days by Andrew Porter – review 2013-07-14T09:00:00Z “White Teeth,” about two multicultural World War II veterans and their dysfunctional families, was made into a television miniseries in Britain. Zadie Smith to Collaborate on a Screenplay 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Lavery’s great achievement here is in conveying how tenuous the line is between everyday tensions and jealousies and deeply dysfunctional acts. Theater Review: ‘Stockholm,’ by Bryony Lavery, Dissects a Marriage 2014-03-13T02:00:01Z Wotan and his dysfunctional family of gods look like characters out of “The Great Gatsby.” Music Review: A ?Ring? Made of California Gold 2011-06-16T22:15:29Z Wagner intended Wotan and his clan of gods to seem like an extended dysfunctional family, a notion Ms. Zambello’s concept gets across. Critic?s Notebook: To Seal a Director?s Reputation, Put a ?Ring? on It 2011-07-04T21:00:06Z And aesthetics were serious business to a dysfunctional government, for which all was show. Art Review: Fin-de-Si?cle Hothouse, Plush and Neurotic 2011-02-24T23:17:57Z Their version of political craziness is rooted in the faith that even a dysfunctional system has some logic, some coherence. Poking at Politics, Without a Stick, on Big and Small Screens 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z He’s such a revolting, dysfunctional mess, and he didn’t even treat me well. I had to punish myself 2013-05-01T00:00:00Z Having been a symptom of India’s dysfunctional politics, the felons are metastasising into its cause. Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Following the book’s success, Ms. Ehrenreich applied her immersive journalism technique to works about the dysfunctional side of the American social order. Barbara Ehrenreich, Explorer of Prosperity’s Dark Side, Dies at 81 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z The result was a slightly dysfunctional blend of toga dresses — which gave a streamlined spirit to scarf prints — and peasant blouses. Special Report: No Operatic Shout From the Heart 2010-09-24T18:06:00Z The workplace, where so many of us spend so much time, offers a rich trove of subjects for playwrights eager to move away from the dysfunctional family. In 'My Mañana Comes,' pay cut for restaurant workers turns friends into rivals 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z The pity-these-poor-spouses tone of “Prison Wives” is so often at odds with the dysfunctional nature of the relationships depicted that watching it becomes frustrating. 2010-02-12T23:17:00Z You wonder if he is scarred – or feels under pressure to profess being scarred – by repeated immersion into damaged, dysfunctional lives. Louis Theroux: ‘For all his awfulness, I admire Trump’s shamelessness’ 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z Even Congress, who we tend to consider our most dysfunctional leaders, ultimately cut major deals on health care, and the budget. Fixing the Leadership Crisis In Sports 2011-06-03T10:00:00Z Along with many other Americans, I am morbidly fascinated with the Hillary Clinton campaign and its dysfunctional relationship with the news media. The Duggars and Caitlyn Jenner are the “real news”: The reality that the Hillary Clinton media spectacle wishes desperately that you’d ignore 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z The full piece focuses on a dysfunctional family and its torments. Ailey dancers skip gala after inspiring opening performance 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z What the musical can’t really match is the depressive quirkiness of the dysfunctional family in the movie. Sunshine and Murder: The Movie-to-Musical Express 2013-11-20T14:00:41Z But for those like Amy and me who grew up with emotionally distant parents in dysfunctional homes, we can become anxious overachievers. The heavy mask of perfection in "Beef" speaks to many women’s fear of revealing their true self 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z The real story of "Black Widow" is one of women's liberation, and family — biological or not — in all its loving, dysfunctional forms. “Black Widow” challenges treatment of women without biological families as disposable 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z The sculptures that serve as props or sets are conceived in the same spirit of creative irrationality: Bock collages everyday household objects into dysfunctional machines or assemblages of whatchamacallits. Artist of the week 2010-08-04T16:33:00Z As well as Family Guy, a surreal, often crude cartoon sitcom about the dysfunctional Griffin family, MacFarlane devised its spin-off The Cleveland Show and the satirical series American Dad. MacFarlane croons Broadway tunes 2012-08-28T08:24:20Z I remember reviewing Joanna Hogg's acclaimed Britpic Archipelago, in which a fractured family spend a month in Tresco, indulging their complex emotional problems and generally having a terribly dysfunctional time, despite the spectacular scenery. We're all going on a ... 2011-07-30T23:04:12Z “We were all there together,” he said, “Grandma, Grandpa, my mom, my aunts. We were so dysfunctional, but not during the meals. That’s when we took a break from the dysfunction.” Sharing Moroccan Shakshuka With Mourad Lahlou 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z I’m not exonerating her of responsibility for her part in your dad’s dysfunctional behaviour, but it’s a common impulse to blame the other party. I think my dad’s girlfriend takes advantage of him. How can I get over my anger at her? 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z He also described the network as "America's most dysfunctional TV family". 2010-01-16T10:27:00Z I want to make really edgy dark dysfunctional comedies. "We need to laugh": "Hey, Viktor" is a much-needed send-up of Native dysfunction and Hollywood 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z I hate all those words – quirky, indie, and dysfunctional. Absolute beginners 2011-07-15T23:03:00Z This relationship, dysfunctional as it may be, clearly provides something he finds irresistible. I think my dad’s girlfriend takes advantage of him. How can I get over my anger at her? 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z The dysfunctional family were first created by cartoonist Charles Addams in the New Yorker magazine. Addams Family actor Pugsley dies 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z "One of the themes that we wanted to explore that was really the heart of the movie was the notion of this dysfunctional family," Ellison told Hero Complex. 'Terminator Genisys' producers on the film's 'robot dad,' 'dysfunctional' family 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z The setup is very Gervais: a south London phone shop where nothing much happens other than a few vaguely dysfunctional characters having a chat – but Gervais's stardust has gone awol on this occasion. TV review: Kids With Guns: Stacey Dooley Investigates 2010-10-08T05:45:00Z People aren’t present, but you get the impression that a profoundly disadvantaged and dysfunctional family lived here. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Also on tap is "Transparent," a dramedy about a dysfunctional Los Angeles family. Amazon is a rising star in Hollywood 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z The release of Garry Shandling's legendary naturalistic sitcom will delight fans, and it's heartily recommended to those new to the low-key adventures of the neurotic talkshow host and his gently dysfunctional backroom staff. This week's new comedy 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z It seems improbable that such a dysfunctional family could ever get along, but our thirst for resolution makes us delighted they will try. The Chooky Brae 2010-09-19T21:45:00Z It will offer loyal royal followers a chance to relive an era of pre-digital innocence — and to celebrate Elizabeth at 85, her dysfunctional family reunited and with a new dynasty to catch the camera’s eye. Exhibit on Cecil Beaton and the British Royal Image 2012-02-10T11:05:27Z Or he plays dysfunctional house with Elliot, a raging neighborhood bully. 2 quirky comedies have Seattle premieres 2011-09-22T21:28:06Z Yet even those who feel their relationship with Australia has become dysfunctional still appreciate aspects of it. 'A spoilt brat country': the Australians overseas who decided not to come home 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z And I do know people who have been in dysfunctional relationships who . . . it's not good. How John Turturro got his moves, from "Do the Right Thing" to "Gloria Bell" 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The question is whether she’ll be able to fledge from this dysfunctional nest or be smothered by it. Review | In Elisabeth Thomas’s ‘Catherine House,’ an exclusive university harbors sinister secrets 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z For most of the day, they do whatever they must to hustle their daily bread in the Congolese capital Kinshasa, one of the biggest, noisiest and most dysfunctional cities on earth. The scratch orchestra of Kinshasa 2013-05-09T17:29:43Z Promotional materials cite the long history of homosexual men dancing heterosexual roles in “dysfunctional” male-female relationships onstage. Dance Review: Burr Johnson at Danspace Project 2012-06-03T21:30:53Z The dangers of home-schooling are explored in the relentlessly dark Greek comedy "Dogtooth," about a family so dysfunctional they seem to live on another planet. 'Dogtooth': What planet is this dysfunctional family from? 2011-03-10T22:31:14Z "Pursuing a career as a rock or pop musician may itself be a risky strategy and one attractive to those escaping from abusive, dysfunctional or deprived childhoods," the authors wrote. ArtsBeat: Shorter Stairway to Heaven: Rock Stars Die Young, Study Finds 2012-12-20T19:21:36Z On a Friday, we landed back at J.F.K., an airport with a baggage claim system so spectacularly dysfunctional, you’re instantly transported from paradise to the brutalities of daily life. 2010-01-16T00:21:00Z Sherry is gamely trying to cope with her own life and also get her dysfunctional family household back to normal. 'Tigers Be Still' treats depression with wry humor 2010-10-07T20:44:00Z The song also marked the beginning of the sometimes glorious, sometimes dysfunctional reign for the Eagles, a band that would go on to sell more than 150 million records. Glenn Frey, ‘the one who started it all’ with the Eagles 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Ever fond of dysfunctional families, Silver dreams up a doozy here. Family resentments roar to the surface in 'The Lyons' 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z We usually aim for two guests, but our second was a casualty of the New York region’s dysfunctional transit system, so we went ahead with just the three of us. 2016 Dry German Rieslings: Graceful, Resonant, Delicious 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z "May in the Summer" stars Dabis as an Arab-American woman reuniting with her family in Jordan while she plans her wedding, amid doubts about her relationship and difficulties with her dysfunctional relatives. Filmmaker Dabis casts fresh Sundance face: herself 2013-01-19T22:01:06Z The rest of the gang are still trying to do their best, with all sorts of dysfunctional results. Thursday TV Picks: 'The Office' 2011-10-12T20:49:08Z Longfield described the youth courts as “chaotic and dysfunctional”, calling for a complete review and revealing plans for a project looking into the youth criminal justice system next year. Age of criminal responsibility must be raised, say experts 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Brotherhood is a chaotic but often tense and ingenious satirical by Will Canon about this college phenomenon, persuasively dramatised as a sinister, dysfunctional tradition of abuse, perpetrated by arrogant, self-hating males. Brotherhood ? review 2011-01-13T22:00:02Z Even though my relationship with my father was very dysfunctional, I’ve now grown to a point in my life where I have empathy for him, even though he wasn’t a great person. Ming Peiffer: Why Her ‘Usual Girls’ Audiences Got So Personal 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Largely neglected by her dysfunctional middle-class family and misunderstood by her teachers and classmates, Eun-hee is left to face the challenges of young adulthood on her own. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Dark’ and a Star-Studded Global Citizen Concert 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z I'm Jewish and from a typical dysfunctional American Jewish family. Review: ‘If I Forget,’ Clashing Currents in Jewish Identity 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z And with that, Bake Off's dysfunctional family is at it again, united even when disagreeing. Behind the scenes at The Great British Bake Off 2013-07-20T18:00:00Z Her plays about dysfunctional, middle-class families have had an innate charisma that has won her many fans. Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic 2013-03-10T07:00:00Z In her latest Inspector Lynley book, Elizabeth George presents a wildly dysfunctional family. Best mystery books and thrillers of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Decades of U.S. trade sanctions and a dysfunctional Soviet-style, centralized economy mean the aisles of Cuba’s shops are often glaringly bare. In Cuba, condom use stretches far beyond sex 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z DC LOL: the prime minister might be what a Harvard study calls a classic 'always on' professional dysfunctional. Improve efficiency ? switch off your smartphone 2012-05-19T23:05:54Z An insider's glimpse of an epically dysfunctional family, it is shot through with deep affection and tenderness. The Garden: Alessandro Imbriaco photographs one family's exile to Eden 2013-02-15T12:27:38Z Unless other voices and movements arise within the Republican Party to changes its character and course, our dysfunctional politics will continue.” Anger, fear, bigorty: The GOP’s elegant implosion 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z His save was over the top, but there’s a genuine dysfunctional family impulse behind it. ‘UnREAL’ Season 2, Episode 5: Somebody Do Something 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z While much of the internet these days seems like a dysfunctional family split along social and political lines, the door-crazed Instagram users belong to a harmonious community. The ‘Doortrait’ Artists of Instagram 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z In American movies, it sometimes seems, every unhappy family is unhappy in exactly the same dysfunctional way. Review: In ‘Alex of Venice,’ a Career Workaholic Learns to Shoulder Family Burdens 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z “I’m close to all my boys. We’re very family-like, which is ironic as we play such a dysfunctional family,” he says. Succession’s Brian Cox: ‘I was touched up by Princess Margaret’ 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z There are a number of strategies for dealing with dysfunctional middle-school cultures. How to Beat Trump, According to Experts on Middle-School Bullies 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z When I was in Angola, a lot of people who lived there couldn’t bear to look at it because it was so difficult, dysfunctional and improvisational. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z The relationship between his character and Ms. Bell’s is one of TV’s most enchantingly dysfunctional. Don Cheadle on Becoming Miles Davis 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Don't even get me started on the dysfunctional relationship between Kermit the Frog and the wretched Miss Piggy. Why Bert and Ernie shouldn't get married 2011-08-10T22:20:00Z Through these activities you would find a knowledgeable ally in the professional social services who would be on call when suspicions arise, crises erupt or dysfunctional behavior becomes dangerous. Is my brother a pedophile? 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z His dysfunctional relationship with Vera morphs from demanding and gauche to touching and demonstrative as each learns from the other. Disgraced; 4000 Miles; To Kill a Mockingbird – review 2013-05-25T23:06:06Z Jorma Kaukonen, the Airplane’s lead guitarist, wrote on his blog that she was “our den mother in the early days” and a voice of reason for “our dysfunctional little family.” Signe Anderson, Jefferson Airplane Singer, Dies at 74 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z A truly revolutionary movement would seek to overturn this dysfunctional system, but mindfulness only serves to reinforce its destructive logic. The mindfulness conspiracy 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z There’s a widespread obsession with adjudicating fault in the various dysfunctional relationships that modern society has developed with inanimate stuff. Do guns or people kill people? 2013-03-06T13:12:00Z Their lives are dysfunctional and they know it. The lie detector test that saved my marriage 2013-01-02T22:01:00Z Clearly this is insane, dysfunctional behaviour and suggests my relationship with music is deplorably control-freaky. Musicians and their obsessions 2010-12-09T21:46:00Z It is sad, but it's also very funny and you can't help but fall a little in love with Janie and her dysfunctional family. Why we are watching: Kerry Hudson 2012-06-23T23:05:17Z The relationship of royal watchers to the watched is hugely dysfunctional. The more dysfunctional the royals are, the more their fans love them 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z “I come from a really messed-up, dysfunctional family. My parents were always fighting, and there was never any money.” Love Rocks — And So Does a Walk Down the Aisle With Debbie Harry 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z More broadly, Mr. Nixon offers a stinging indictment of the C.I.A. and what he sees as the agency’s dysfunctional process for providing intelligence to the president and other policy makers. Review: ‘Debriefing the President’ Tears Into the C.I.A. 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Nicky Silver’s play is a shameless laugh machine, in which Lavin delivers sitcom zingers to her dying husband and two dysfunctional kids, all of whom appear to hate each other for no good reason. TIME?s Not-the-Tony Awards 2012 2012-05-01T15:50:28Z "I just imagine her, this person, going along with it and getting trapped in this weird world.... To me, is there any other kind of relationship than dysfunctional?" 'Big Eyes' the latest in Tim Burton's gallery of pop-art portraits 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z The play’s excruciatingly long first half plays out as a dysfunctional family drama in which Iphigenia is a budding pianist in an intellectual household. At Salzburg Festival, Directing Slow and Fast 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Sure there are some great dysfunctional family Thanksgiving comedies, from “Pieces of April” to “Home for the Holidays,” but even non-holiday-meal films are invoked. 12 best dinner table scenes on film: From the Griswolds to the Deetzes, here are Hollywood’s most memorable meals 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z The works often fall into the street-lit genre, stories that are set in a gritty landscape populated by thuggish men, devious women and dysfunctional families and are often drenched in violence. Prodigy’s ‘H.N.I.C.,’ Street Lit From Infamous Books 2013-05-31T21:16:57Z Some 20 million households tuned in every Saturday night to watch Archie Bunker and his dysfunctional clan hash it out. Why Did Los Angeles Become a Cultural Mecca in the Early 1970s? 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z “If you met some completely dysfunctional person who you could see was wearing the scars of such an experience, then you might not be surprised,” he explained. Private Trauma Gives Jessica Stern Insights on Terrorism 2010-06-29T21:43:00Z Some of the dialogue here could slide easily into pretty much any dysfunctional family sitcom of the last decade or so. Review: In ‘Of Good Stock,’ Alicia Silverstone Is a Sister in Distress 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z If the first "Terminator" movie was a love story and the second an action flick, what does that make "Terminator Genisys"? "A dysfunctional family" story, says producer David Ellison. 'Terminator Genisys' producers on the film's 'robot dad,' 'dysfunctional' family 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z It’s hard to argue with his analysis, although his book often reads like a laundry list of problems — from an imperial presidency to a dysfunctional Congress to a polarized public — without a coherent narrative. How Endangered Is American Democracy? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Certainly that dysfunctional relationship with his mother, from the second she’s introduced on screen it’s inappropriate. ArtsBeat Blog: Terence Winter Looks Back on the Mother of All 'Boardwalk Empire' Seasons 2011-12-12T06:28:56Z Does the world really need another dysfunctional family comedy? ‘Captain Fantastic’ isn’t a superhero film, but its originality saves the summer 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Many people I talked to cited the dysfunctional structure of Bosnia’s government as perhaps the largest roadblock to establishing a dynamic urban plan for Sarajevo’s future. Sarajevo’s Enduring Optimism 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z In keeping with the derelict domesticity of the work’s forlorn site, Prince focuses on vulgar tweets by and about dysfunctional families — sisters, cousins, mothers and aunts. International art invades the suburban Coachella Valley: The best of 'Desert X' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z I don’t buy that Washington’s dysfunctional,” the congressman from McHenry said. Walsh: GOP leadership afraid to fight 2011-10-01T22:33:00Z Julian Ovenden will surely take further his exploration of the dysfunctional Billy Bigelow in Carousel – though his Soliloquy is already off to a good start. A Celebration of Rodgers & Hammerstein 2010-08-23T11:03:00Z “The reader is pulled into the intimacy of a dysfunctional family whose unconditional love would make any truly dysfunctional family jealous,” Nadja Spiegelman writes in her review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z For example, a friend with a dysfunctional home life is an opening to discuss compassion. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to help a teenage daughter with a chaotic friend? 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z It might be true that in your relationship with him you’re enacting a dysfunctional pattern from your childhood, but it might also be true that you’ve simply gotten yourself into a romantic pickle. I Keep Making Out With the Father of the Kids I Babysit 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z In each, he has delved into his childhood, his dysfunctional parents, his strutting friends and his views on sex, all the while lampooning Irish lasses, Italian toughs and Latino attitudes. John Leguizamo focuses on Hollywood _ on Broadway 2010-12-30T02:01:06Z It’s a dysfunctional legacy that allows discord and resentment to flourish. Mum has died, dad is weak… our family is falling apart 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Amoral lawyers, inconsiderate doctors and dysfunctional detectives – let's be honest, they're more interesting. Six to watch: TV mavericks 2011-03-10T14:09:00Z The sitcom about a deliciously dysfunctional family won its second consecutive trophy for outstanding series and four other awards, including honors for onscreen husband and wife and . 'Modern Family,' 'Mad Men' win big 2011-09-19T05:08:01Z These days, the dysfunctional Roy family puts you less in mind of the Murdochs than the Trumps. 'I didn’t want to do an ITV drama': Matthew Macfadyen on making it big in the US 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Combining a heady cocktail of theft, blackmail and dysfunctional family relations with a touch of the Kafkaesque, this is a powerfully written and deeply thoughtful work. Noon by Aatish Taseer - review 2011-08-26T21:55:05Z The picks span genre and form — including a darkly enchanting collection of short stories, a delightful novel featuring a dysfunctional bride-to-be and a singing memoir chronicling both grief and, yes, taming a hawk. These Are The Best Books of 2015 So Far 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z In 1994, Oprah declared that she was done with “victimization” and negativity: “It ’s time to move on from ‘We are dysfunctional’ to ‘What are we going to do about it?’ Oprah Winfrey: one of the world's best neoliberal capitalist thinkers 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z Turner called it a “cruel and dysfunctional” response. Disabled man starved to death after DWP stopped his benefits 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Would I want to live in an edgy, lively but dysfunctional city? Vienna is cited as the world’s most livable city. Most exciting? Not so much. 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z West and Kardashian are mega-celebrities but they are also people, and parents, and there’s an argument to be made that peering into this dysfunctional one-sided pursuit is tawdry at best and unhealthy at worst. Perspective | Lessons Kanye West and Ben Affleck taught us on Valentine’s Day 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z By emphasizing that sex is about pleasure—not about proving your manhood or proving your love or placating or manipulating someone—we might help prevent a lot of dysfunctional behavior. 5 things everyone should know about sex and relationships 2014-05-01T10:50:00Z Nick Payne scored a big hit last year at the Bush with his first play, If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, about teenage angst and dysfunctional families. Review 2010-09-18T00:57:00Z It employs a familiar conceit — dysfunctional family gathers for holiday meal — and enlists recognizable actors to deliver it, but the result plays like a collection of ideas and jokes borrowed from other movies. Review: In ‘Love the Coopers,’ a Dysfunctional Family Sits Down to Christmas Dinner 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z I grew up in Florida, and I recognize how dysfunctional the state is. Oscar Isaac Learned to Love Blockbusters Again in ‘Moon Knight’ 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Clean eating – whether it is called that or not – is perhaps best seen as a dysfunctional response to a still more dysfunctional food supply: a dream of purity in a toxic world. Why we fell for clean eating 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z In delivering a knockout blow, he would save the misguided patriots from a dysfunctional congress and the horrors of a civil war that had been dragging on inconclusively. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Fresh Look at Benedict Arnold’s Treason 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z The film has a wise assumption: Many of us have dysfunctional relationships with our mothers, and the sooner we realize it, the sooner we can start laughing. The Best Movies For Getting Over Your Ex 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z “I thought it’d be more interesting if it’s these two dysfunctional black hosts who barely mentioned race.” Comedian Eric Andre: 'We don't tell guests a thing ...' 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z With the globe in peril and abject lunatics threatening to take over the asylum, it seems we no longer have the luxury of dissecting each other's colorful assortment of dysfunctional tics. "In Treatment's" darkest season yet 2010-10-23T23:01:00Z For those keeping count, that’s two boxes checked on your Christmas special bingo card: dysfunctional family relationships and an absentee parent. Smart Watch: We need hot Santa Claus, now more than ever 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z It’s a moving portrait of a dysfunctional family, one that maintains the mordant tone of Bechdel’s book while expanding boundlessly outward into physical space. Alison Bechdel on Fun Home, Her New Book and That Famous Test 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Somehow, despite the severed limbs, we find ourselves at home among the fenced yards, mature trees and dysfunctional families watching fireworks from rooftops. When the Past Can’t Be Buried: Debut Novels Dredge Up Old Ties 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z After weeks of peaceful protests, the civil society has pushed from power an old regime that much of the nation viewed as dysfunctional and corrupt, representing a continuation of old Soviet mentalities. My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z At an extraordinary general meeting held last Friday, it emerged that the problems centred around the "dysfunctional staff relationship" between Palmer and Fiona Sampson, editor of the society's Poetry Review. Poetry Society funding withheld 2011-07-27T08:32:20Z Just because elephants are starting to behave like dysfunctional humans, it doesn't follow that the reverse is true. Miss Lilly Gets Boned 2010-06-28T21:31:00Z Unlike the dysfunctional one depicted onscreen, this family unit works together perfectly. Review: 'Playroom' a family drama from kids' view 2013-02-06T02:46:05Z In “A Banquet of Consequences,” Elizabeth George presents one of the most wildly dysfunctional families you’ll find in fiction. Inspector Lynley returns in Elizabeth George’s ‘A Banquet of Consequences’ 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z At the beginning, Tess says “my problem is I keep going back” to a dysfunctional relationship. A Walk Through the ‘Barbarian’ Basement With Zach Cregger 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z The book “abounds with moments of dark humor, but the levity is balanced by Mabanckou’s portrait of a dysfunctional society,” our reviewer, Joshua Hammer, wrote. New in Paperback: ‘The Parisian’ and ‘Black Moses’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Start with the acerbic Party Down, which stars Glee's Jane Lynch and focuses around the machinations of a dysfunctional catering company. Is this a golden age for sitcoms? 2010-05-27T14:26:00Z The pandemic exposed widespread failures in America’s diffuse, patchwork unemployment system: dysfunctional websites, hours of on-hold phone calls and even physical lines for unemployment benefits that, for many, arrived too late. John Oliver: US unemployment chaos is 'the result of deliberate choices' 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z My first book was about my functionally dysfunctional family, but deep down it was really about accepting your own weirdness. Jenny Lawson on ‘Furiously Happy’ and when it is okay to call her ‘crazy’ 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z And family life, however strained or dysfunctional, is never without an element of comedy. ‘Fire in the Mountains’ Review: The Mother of All Struggles 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z The privileged teenage girls in “Oligarchy,” attending a dysfunctional, third-string boarding school in the countryside north of London, get caught up in a mass-psychogenic, contagious version of anorexia nervosa. A School Where the Student Body Is Obsessed With Student Bodies 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Simon Robson's Higgins is a fascinating creation: uncouth, intoxicated with his own genius and only capable of perceiving people as aggregates of interesting phonemes, like an Edwardian ancestor of television's dysfunctional diagnostician Dr Gregory House. Pygmalion 2010-05-18T20:29:00Z The heel had a bulbous, sculptured Brancusi quality, which was wholly dysfunctional and sublime. 2010-02-11T06:20:00Z It's partnered with DC Moore's The Swan, a diverting if less novel account of a dysfunctional working-class family assembling, after a funeral, in their local boozer in Lambeth, London. Double Feature 1 ? review 2011-08-04T21:30:05Z One person involved in the “Idol” production likened Mr. Lythgoe’s return to a family reunion — a “very dysfunctional” one, the person said lightheartedly. Rumors of Nigel Lythgoe?s Return to ?Idol? 2010-07-27T22:44:00Z You may think you’ve seen just about every variation on the dysfunctional family play. Review: ‘Hir’ Sorts Through a Family in Transition 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z At the same time Ms. Stenham — in “That Face” and her second play, “Tusk Tusk” — is proving to be a portraitist of epically dysfunctional British families. Mother Trouble in Polly Stenham?s ?That Face? 2010-05-29T02:30:00Z First it needs to definitely move past its grief and regard, with clarity, the many mistakes of its dysfunctional parent in order to avoid repeating them. Without Roseanne, who are “The Conners” now? 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Alfred Hitchcock abused actresses who worked for him, so openly that you can see his dysfunctional psychosexual power dynamics right onscreen. Charlie Rose, Louis C.K., Kevin Spacey: Rebuked. Now What Do We Do With Their Work? 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z The newest show on our list, Jesse Armstrong’s comedy-drama about a dysfunctional media dynasty already feels like a modern classic, full of magnificently malignant characters and devastating one-liners. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The friendships I developed in college and grad school were mostly dysfunctional and wisely shed. Reader Comments: Readers Write About Friendships -- Comments 2012-07-20T21:45:26Z While really fun to write about, she says, it is a bit dysfunctional of a way to live. Taylor Swift Has a New Song—Ex-Boyfriends Beware 2012-08-15T12:00:45Z I discovered that dysfunctional families were the best kind. The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall - review 2013-06-08T14:00:00Z Filled with acerbic one-liners, this dysfunctional family dinner film is delicious because it presents how people and families truly are, and it is never entirely heartwarming. Your family’s not dysfunctional enough? Here’s something to laugh about 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z It is full of familiar Birtwistle devices – dysfunctional ostinatos, shuddering chords, wiry knots of lyricism – on which the oboe etches its own melodic profile, and sometimes gets ensnared by the strings' manic clockworks. Nash Ensemble/Friend | Classical review 2010-03-26T23:00:00Z The unemployed, the lonely and the dysfunctional, addicts, criminals and failed fathers – the city’s underclass is their subject. Meet the new hotshots of American film-making 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z “Some in the profession no longer believe a dysfunctional family is the only cause,” Ms. Monks recalls being told, and all these years later her voice still breaks slightly with relief. The Carnegies: a Ghost Story 2010-08-12T00:28:00Z One tragicomic sequence in her “Archipelago,” starring Hiddleston, observes a family dither dysfunctionally over where to sit at a restaurant. A Filmmaking Life Gets a Sequel 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Some people do not understand our dysfunctional ways. Peter Bradshaw on film critics' favourite seats 2013-01-13T19:00:01Z Eventually, this toxic and dysfunctional relationship explodes into violence. Every Stephen Frears film – ranked! 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z The past couple of months have revealed just what dysfunctional families they can be. Ailey dancers skip gala after inspiring opening performance 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z While we imagine that we are free from paying onerous taxes for socialized national medical care, we are, in fact, “taxed” far more extensively by our current dysfunctional system. Joyce Carol Oates on Catastrophizing and Environmental Collapse 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Dear Amy: I am a teenage girl stuck in a dysfunctional household. Perspective | Ask Amy: Teen girl worries about family’s future 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z He follows me around and is dysfunctional and annoying. I had to punish myself 2013-05-01T00:00:00Z Where Public Enemy had crafted soundscapes that were echoes of the dysfunctional housing projects, NWA’s record is marbled with real gunshots, sirens and screams. How NWA came straight outta Compton and went mainstream 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z My older sister thought that if people knew about our parents’ illness, our family would appear broken or dysfunctional. 'The smell of booze was part of the fabric of my childhood': the hidden victims of alcoholism 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Every single literary critic in the traditional media seemed to agree that Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, his saga of a dysfunctional American family, was the novel of the epoch. Everyone's a critic now 2011-01-30T00:06:14Z The famously dysfunctional Davies brothers were just one issue. How the Kinks turned a British history lesson into a rock masterpiece that still resonates 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z His team, including US army captain Jason Amerine, a war hero turned whistleblower, audited the situation and soon found that the system to get back hostages was very dysfunctional and convoluted. Serial recap – season two, episode five: Meanwhile, in Tampa 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Even if the voices don’t annoy you, the concept of having to sit through someone else’s dysfunctional holiday arguments will. Here are the 10 most annoying Christmas songs of all time 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z But there is plenty in “Royal Blood,” the acting and the script, to justify spending an evening at West of Lenin with another dysfunctional family. ‘Royal Blood,’ ‘Checkoff in the Sun’ 2014-03-27T20:58:04Z The series — at once whimsical and humorously crude in tone — features a panorama of characters who form what Weitz described as "a dysfunctional family brought together by a love of music." 'Mozart in the Jungle' plays it close to home in the classical world 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Silva cranks up the tension as the atmosphere becomes more oppressive and dysfunctional. Film review: The Maid 2010-08-26T22:09:00Z Julia Hudson, the prosecution's key witness, described a dysfunctional marriage with Balfour that began with a 2006 wedding that she kept hidden from family for about two months. Tears, drama at Hudson murder trial 2012-04-24T03:15:00Z She’s since redeemed herself, but this is a dysfunctional family which created these children, who are really looking for unconditional love. ‘Pretty Little Liars’ Finale: How a Mystery Hid Its Villain 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Or Adam Sandler in Punch-Drunk Love: suddenly he wasn’t an adorably irritating man-child but a dysfunctional grownup prone to terrifying explosions of violence. Hounds of Love: why do comedians make such chilling villains? 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z And judging by the current climate at the company, the process will continue to be highly dysfunctional and challenging for all involved. "Succession": how true to life is the TV series? 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The Safdie brothers' fourth fiction feature is partly a study of dysfunctional brotherhood, partly a gritty-funny New York City crime caper. Pattinson Packs a Punch In Good Time 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Until, that is, yet another dysfunctional male arrives – her troubled husband with blood on his shirt and a look that says "I've done something terrible". Mayday; Story of Music – TV review 2013-03-04T07:00:00Z Large corporations are getting more entrenched, innovation seems to be waning and politics are dysfunctional. Can We Trust Economists? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Burroughs’s memoir recounts his dysfunctional upbringing — including his sexual initiation by a male former patient of his psychiatrist’s who was 20 years older. 20 Years of L.G.B.T.Q. Lit: A Timeline 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z The film, which will begin shooting next month, is about a dysfunctional family on a trip to Scotland for a big family gathering. Cannes Film Festival 2013 2013-05-16T20:23:54Z The witches may look ugly but they're also homely – the dysfunctional neighbours across the way. Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z The presidential debates, she observed, became a kind of master class in dysfunctional power dynamics. Want to be more assertive in life? This former dominatrix will show you how 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z None of this complication is at all surprising to those of us who grew up in more openly chaotic and disrupted or dysfunctional homes. Perspective | Ask Amy: Birth family reunion doesn’t go as planned 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Then again, those circumstances are depressingly recognizable to anyone dealing with a dysfunctional family. Even if Harry and Meghan "win" for Netflix, they lose 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Drugs create a tragic narrative within the album, turning loners into social dropouts, couples into dysfunctional business partners. Album review: Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange' 2012-07-13T16:35:00Z “Reading pushed me to discover worlds beyond my landscape, especially during dark times when my uncle was murdered and my family became dysfunctional with alcohol and grief,” he recalled on his website. Walter Dean Myers, celebrated young adult author, dies at 76 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Don't insist people magically put their depression or plain old aversion to "Love, Actually" for the dysfunctional sake of not ruining your own buzz. Forget tradition: Why not have a happy non-holiday instead? 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Viewed in this light, Ahmad’s leading role as a savvy businesswoman who knows how to game a dysfunctional system is mold-breaking. ‘Snabba Cash’ Depicts a Sweden Flowing with Money and Blood 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z And yes, they are very, very close and they are a bit dysfunctional. Q&A: Jeffrey Tambor Talks Transparent 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z The former Nickelodeon actor details her dysfunctional childhood and the resulting psychological distress she faced as an adult. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z But several years ago the orchestra went through a dysfunctional period, including lawsuits by musicians, accusations of vandalism directed at players and open factionalism, with Mr. Schwarz at the center of the discord. Ludovic Morlot Is Seattle?s New Conductor 2010-06-29T22:04:00Z “That Face,” about a dysfunctional family of four with plenty of money and plenty of emotional and behavioral problems, stars Laila Robins as an alcoholic and manic-depressive mother and Victor Slezak as an absent father. The Week Ahead: May 16 ? 22 2010-05-13T14:25:00Z Otherwise, their relationship, no matter how dysfunctional, is for them to resolve. My stepdad won’t stop watching porn in our house | Mariella Frostrup 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z For instance, Showtime's gritty hourlong "Shameless," which centers on a brood of dysfunctional Chicago siblings and their alcoholic father, this year was submitted in the comedy category after years of entering as a drama. Emmy ad blitz escalates 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z A common theme across those examples is the idea of a dysfunctional community that a person has to rise above in order to be successful. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z The judging panel said Noble's work was an "utterly compelling ongoing narrative" about a "dysfunctional" world. Pop-performance artist up for UK's Turner Prize 2012-05-01T17:31:04Z But it was also highly dysfunctional and highly dangerous. "My art is my activism": "Pose" star Billy Porter unleashes his passion and doesn't hold back 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z We couldn't tear ourselves away from Sarah Lund, the appealingly dysfunctional detective. The readers' room: What you thought of G2 this week. . . 2011-03-31T20:00:02Z Anderson, a musician and performance artist, praised the Cleveland facility - one of the leading transplant centers in the U.S. - and said hospitals in the couple's hometown of New York were "dysfunctional." Wife: Lou Reed recovering after liver transplant 2013-06-01T12:13:15Z The result is one of the most dysfunctional 15 minutes to appear on any channel, ever. Comedian Eric Andre: 'We don't tell guests a thing ...' 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z However, it is for her books about Mole and his dysfunctional family that she will be best remembered. Sue Townsend, British author of 'Adrian Mole' books, dies 2014-04-11T09:55:09Z The terms “inner child” and “dysfunctional family” became part of the nation’s lexicon and were widely assumed to be his creations. John Bradshaw, Self-Help Evangelist, Dies at 82 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Other pilots include "Transparent," a dark comedy about a dysfunctional family that stars Jeffrey Tambor and Judith Light, and "Bosch," based on best-selling novels about a Los Angeles homicide detective. Amazon asks customers to pick from TV pilots for show development 2014-02-06T21:01:51Z My point is, I was a committed, dysfunctional hippie in every sense. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Forget the Beatles. I’ve got a real moptop. 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Walter, on the other hand, has conveniently negated the notion that there was anything worth being loyal to in their dysfunctional family home. Arthur Miller's 'The Price' bursts into meaning at Mark Taper Forum 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z We couldn't tear ourselves away from Sarah Lund, the appealingly dysfunctional detective who in episode one is preparing to move to Sweden with her boyfriend. The Killing: in cold blood 2011-03-31T07:00:00Z Against his will, he’s been named chair of the ungovernable English department, “a funhouse of dysfunctional characters.” Review | Irritated by tweedy academic types? Read this wonderful campus comedy. 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Others think Natives are alcoholic, drug addicted, dysfunctional, nasty people. "We need to laugh": "Hey, Viktor" is a much-needed send-up of Native dysfunction and Hollywood 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z His father had dysfunctional relationships and rifts with all of his children at different times throughout his life. Perspective | Ask Amy: Where there is a will, there is no way 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z The relationship at the heart of “Hot Milk,” that between Sofia and Rose, is as dysfunctional as they come. Review: In ‘Hot Milk,’ by Deborah Levy, a Broken Life and a Frayed Maternal Bond 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z The former Nickelodeon actor details her dysfunctional childhood and the resulting psychological distress she faced during adulthood. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Not that there was much frivolity in James Goldman’s script; the gun disappeared but the two couples were still floridly dysfunctional. What Makes ‘Follies’ a Classic? 7 Answers and 1 Big Problem. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Down to his casually sexist brush-off, Don is the ultimate dysfunctional American patriarch: He can't resist his ego-driven compulsion to be a leader, but he balks at the responsibility it entails. "Mad Men" recap: Who is Don Draper? 2010-07-26T06:02:00Z Nearly a quarter-century ago, a teenage Mackey was primed to escape his spectacularly dysfunctional Dublin family for London. New in crime fiction: a brilliant Irish mystery, a new thriller about MI5, and J.A. Jance's latest Arizona-set story 2010-07-07T20:15:00Z The comedy about a dysfunctional family gathering for the holidays after their mother dies was economical to produce and carries a $17 million budget. Box Office: 'Doctor Strange' stays on top With $43 million, 'Arrival' impresses 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z We’re starting with a highly dysfunctional blended family and there will be a lot of questions as we move forward about who do you save? 'Fear the Walking Dead' Showrunner Breaks Down the Series Premiere 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z The reality is that she is emotionally detached, always angry, frigid, mostly frustrated and often dysfunctional. My wife is a female chauvinist pig | Mariella Frostrup 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z The partners' seriously dysfunctional families have been intertwined for decades, producing no shortage of resentments and grudges for Quirke and his policeman colleague to unravel. September crime fiction: UK authors on the case 2012-09-05T22:53:04Z I do not want to provide any more ammunition to this dysfunctional dynamic. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Protecting a child conceived with a donor egg from toxic relatives 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z In which socially dysfunctional nightmare could it ever be acceptable that such structures become unofficial commodes for the nation's lager and WKD-infused urine? Wendy Lewis is not the forces' favourite, but the veterans went too far 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z The three are presented as so dysfunctionally afraid of particular creatures that they need something akin to primal scream therapy, which they get from a psychologist in Sacramento named Robin Zasio. | 'My Extreme Animal Phobia': ?My Extreme Animal Phobia,? on Animal Planet - Review 2011-10-20T21:57:19Z The nightmarish society the novel portrays is dysfunctional and collapsing. Tadeusz Konwicki, Leading Polish Novelist and Filmmaker, Dies at 88 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z They don’t know the manifestations and symptoms of functional and dysfunctional relationships, so it’s tempting to be drastic and conclude that, at bottom, they don’t even know what a relationship is. Relationship listicle madness: All those “10 signs” stories are not going to change your life 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Silver is the author of acid-dripping comedies like “Pterodactyls” and “Raised in Captivity” about families that make the term dysfunctional sound positively benign. The Week Ahead: Oct. 9 ? 15 2011-10-06T15:27:01Z “We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional,” they wrote. Perspective | Our democracy is under attack. Washington journalists must stop covering it like politics as usual. 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Those words and deeds aren’t products of the dysfunctional 21st-century U.S. political culture; they are from the 1960s, popularly considered the heyday of activist government. Liberalism was never easy 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z “This makes for a very dysfunctional and unhealthy environment,” she added, “especially when the man in charge is reckless with his power.” Ballet Leaders Allowed Peter Martins to Act With Impunity, Dancers Say 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z I believe it’s incredibly dysfunctional when people try to live that fantasy, when people bring it into their lives and start treating other gay men poorly because they don’t measure up to this straight barometer. Ethical porn 2012-08-08T00:00:00Z Mr. David, whose dark comedy about a dysfunctional family dealing with death has played to mostly sold-out houses, despite tepid reviews, will leave the cast as planned on June 7. Jason Alexander Will Succeed Larry David in 'Fish in the Dark' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z And the Hammond family is meant to be as dark and dysfunctional as the Fisher clan in HBO’s “Six Feet Under.” Television: ‘Political Animals’ on USA Stars Sigourney Weaver 2012-07-15T00:28:02Z It survived intact as a relic of the Cold War, which may have essentially ended in the 1990s but lived on in the dysfunctional relationship between the United States and Cuba. Change in U.S. policy toward Cuba dismantles an artifact of the Cold War 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z And the back story of a childhood that was “dysfunctional to the max,” Mr. van Gelderen said. A Brother’s Crimes and a Sister’s Betrayal Make ‘Judas’ a Dutch Best Seller 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z In many ways, contemporary relationship dramas, with their interweaving stories based around domestic and family relationships, are the complicated, dysfunctional progeny of the early evening soaps. The Time of Our Lives: following in the footsteps of Offspring, Tangle and Love My Way 2013-06-14T04:55:02Z But Mr. Mac is also a playwright, recently represented Off Broadway with “Hir,” a well-reviewed comedy about a wildly dysfunctional family. Nathan Lane and Andrea Martin Will Star in New Taylor Mac Play 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z In “The Thick of It,” co-workers, because of their suffocating daily proximity, batter each other like members of a dysfunctional family might, cursing in a shared language of political acronyms and nonsense. Jesse Armstrong’s Savage Comedy in “Succession” Season 1 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Like The Cuckoo Boy, Deloume Road looks at children who just don't fit and at dysfunctional family relationships. Not the Booker prize: Deloume Road by Matthew Hooton 2010-09-21T11:34:00Z Like siblings in a dysfunctional family, these men are committed to the group but needle each other something fierce. 'Fury' treads on war movie expectations as Brad Pitt & Co. kill Nazis 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Given their background — they come from a complicated dysfunctional family with a lot of abuse — the real liberation was to quickly die, because life is unbearable, and go to heaven where everything is harmonious. "Four Daughters" seeks to understand radicalization by ISIS: "People can go to the side of darkness" 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Reasons to Live West Coast premiere of Meryl Cohn’s comedy about a dysfunctional family uniting in the face of adversity. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 19-26: 'Doctor Faustus' and more 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Director and writer James Gunn has an inimitably edgy, witty sensibility that is a perfect match for a story of outlaw misfits who form a dysfunctional but loving family unit. MCU: The Franchise of the 2010s 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Growing up, Morvan’s own family was incredibly dysfunctional and abusive, which led him to run away from home. Girl, you know it's not true: 8 major revelations from the "Milli Vanilli" documentary 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z He added, “but I don’t see it as dysfunctional. I just see it as an alternate mindset.” Jerry Seinfeld to Brian Williams: 'I Think I'm on the [Autism] Spectrum' 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Agamemnon, son of Atreus, has become Ezra Mannon, the patriarch of a haunted, preternaturally dysfunctional clan. Marvin David Levy, Opera Composer Who Became a Felon, Is Dead at 82 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z His love is grounding to me, and I need it, however dysfunctional it may be at times. I can’t stop cheating on my husband 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z He was credited with helping popularize concepts such as the “dysfunctional family” and “toxic shame” but was most associated with the term “inner child,” which became a catchphrase of the latter 20th century. John Bradshaw, self-help guru who led search for ‘inner child,’ dies at 82 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z As always, the dysfunctional family tensions are played both broad and genial, with Zahn's perennial goofball expression a source of constant pleasure. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up – review 2012-11-25T00:05:26Z She was so upset that she was dysfunctional for the next two or three days. I unleashed my freak! 2012-10-14T00:00:00Z Few people used the term “dysfunctional families” in the 1930s, but the Bergers of this play demonstrate that they existed. Theater Review: Odets’s ‘Awake and Sing!’ Family Is Alive in TriBeCa 2013-08-30T23:21:35Z Most of Ms. Snyder’s books were intended for readers 9 to 13 and delved into subjects like witchcraft, murder and dysfunctional families. Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Author of Eerie Children’s Tales, Dies at 87 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z In other fiction, a mildly exasperated yet uber-competent valet is an accessory frequently sported by the socially dysfunctional or semi-housebroken rich guy. What Donald Trump’s butler saw: behind the scenes of a real-life Xanadu 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Happy families are all alike; the dysfunctional family is dysfunctional in its own way. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z Rather, it’s a loving but fearless portrait of gay urban life at the turn of the century, seen through the prism of one dysfunctional love affair. “Keep the Lights On”: A gay breakthrough, and a great movie 2012-09-06T13:00:00Z With “Hotel,” Ms. Stenham retains her signature dysfunctional clan of warped teenagers and warping parents, but expands the view around them, to reveal an entire dysfunctional world. London Theater Journal: A Hellish Vacation 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Her film confronted pharmaceutical companies that suggested women were dysfunctional, and therefore needed some sort of medicinal or therapeutic help, if they could not climax during sex. Vibrators Carry the Conversation 2011-04-20T21:56:26Z Kazan played an alcoholic concert pianist, Dano one of three dysfunctional brothers. Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan on their new creations - an acclaimed film and a baby daughter 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z “Spencer” is a Christmas movie, in which a big, dysfunctional family gathers at the holiday to feast, exchange gifts and engage in peculiar traditions meant to provide “a bit of fun.” ‘Spencer’ Review: Prisoner of the House of Windsor 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z For anyone who’s seen her warm, smart performances in various rom coms or her complicated, pointed turn as an dysfunctional mother in “The Monster,” it’s seems deserved. Zoe Kazan: “I had a producer ask me on set once if I spat or swallowed” 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z But who would expect otherwise from a team that has worked together for a quarter of a century chronicling America's most comically dysfunctional family? 'The Simpsons' set to invade the Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z The rise in subscriptions follows the success earlier this year of new historical drama "The Borgias" starring Jeremy Irons, and dysfunctional family series "Shameless". Showtime adds 2 million subscribers, expands original shows 2011-08-04T18:31:47Z She was cast against type in this brash, uproarious Florida noir, giving a cracking performance as Charlotte Bless, the needy, dysfunctional peroxide blonde who starts up a pen-pal romance with a killer on death row. Nicole Kidman’s top 10 films - ranked! 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z The next thing we are working on is a small dysfunctional family comedy, which Alexander Payne is producing for Fox Searchlight. Jim Rash On Co-Writing The Descendants and the Future of Community 2011-11-30T09:58:48Z With popular rage against increasingly dysfunctional institutions swelling, ambitious patricians, determined to outflank their competitors, began to build a fervent base of support by making outsize promises. What the Fall of the Roman Republic Can Teach Us About America 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z For “Wolf in the River,” he has ventured into Dogpatch territory, where — it may surprise you to learn — disaffected and dysfunctional Americans perpetrate gory acts of violence upon one another. Review: ‘Wolf in the River,’ Adam Rapp’s Latest Tale of the Dysfunctional and Dispossessed 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z From Pakistan to Sweden to China, the American family that perhaps put the most fun into dysfunctional has delighted audiences - and confounded network and government censors - seemingly everywhere. 'Simpsons' invade the Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z But he renders dysfunctional relationships and teenage hopes and fears brilliantly, and the gruesome, community-shattering impact of foot-and-mouth is brought home with real power. Central Reservation by Will le Fleming – review 2013-06-21T17:39:00Z Season One saw Annie trying to balance a dysfunctional relationship with her musician boyfriend while trying to stretch her wings professionally. Seda reunites with Simon for Season 2 of 'Treme' 2011-03-23T15:57:08Z Are you also proposing to ban spoons, since those too could pose a grave threat to children in the hands of aggressive, dysfunctional parents? Adam Mansbach: My year on the bestseller list 2012-12-12T01:00:00Z Over the course of nine seasons, studio audiences laughed, while I watched the patterns of my highly dysfunctional family being played out scene by scene. The agony of rewatching "Everybody Loves Raymond" reminds me of my family's damaging dysfunction 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z They neglected her, scandalously, but loved her in their own hopelessly dysfunctional way. Breaking Night by Liz Murray ? review 2011-01-30T00:20:00Z At its heart are the Parsons, a dysfunctional 1950s American family. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z The focus on deficits reinforced the idea that poor families were dysfunctional, and it mainly implicated families that were African American or Latino. “How can I be a good father when I’ve never had one?” 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z It’s not a magical cure for a deeply rooted and culture-wide dysfunctional relationship with health and eating. Drinking ourselves to death 2012-07-10T16:10:00Z “Most families are functionally dysfunctional,” Barris said in a recent interview about the show with The New York Times. What’s on TV Friday: ‘#blackAF’ and ‘Selah and the Spades’ 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Young Griffin lives with his distracted mother, who dabbles in mosaics made from crushed eggshells, and a series of misfit boarders who compete with Griffin for food, which gives their dysfunctional household a Dickensian-lite atmosphere. ‘The Gargoyle Hunters,’ by John Freeman Gill: A love letter to New York City 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Early on, he says he doesn’t know how to make a relationship work, and that all of his follow the same dysfunctional pattern, detailing his phobia of commitment. This May Be the Most Polarizing Comedy Special of the Year 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z He summarized the plot for the class, beginning with the dysfunctional family described on the first page as having been “long been settled in Sussex.” Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Hunt, like Liddy, is a middle-aged man struggling with a flailing career, but he is also navigating a dysfunctional marriage. ‘White House Plumbers’ Revisits the Fringes of Watergate 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z What we get is further elaboration of the dysfunctional relationships at the apex of New Labour and more evidence of how they used the media to prosecute their deforming rivalries. The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Bill Clinton found greasy food and easy women irresistible, and right-wingers argued that he and Anna Nicole – both spawned by dysfunctional families from the southern underclass – were interchangeable. Anna Nicole: the opera 2011-01-02T00:04:04Z When he finally solves the case, he uncovers a situation so messed up and dysfunctional it surprises even him. The Grand National 2010-04-10T05:45:00Z But critics say the sheds can be cruel and dysfunctional and have given the city cover to mass evict homeless people living in sidewalk encampments that were community-run and preferred by some. California is moving homeless people into sheds – but is it right? 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Though avoiding criminally dysfunctional families or unwanted pregnancies, her cleverly plotted and amusing adventures deal frankly with emotional clumsiness, parental neglect, jealousy between siblings and a general sense of being an outcast. Diana Wynne Jones, Children?s Author, Dies at 76 2011-03-29T00:52:53Z A production of the Los Angeles theater company Sacred Fools, “Mom’s Dead” is a dark comedy about a dysfunctional family grappling with the death of its matriarch. Mom’s a Corpse. Dad Looks Mad. At Least the Light Is Nice. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z I also think there's a part of it here you have this group of people, oddballs mostly, a dysfunctional family. "Your worst nightmare is to lose your child": Amy Ryan on her new Netflix film "Lost Girls" 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z In other words, not everyone is on the same page, but that doesn’t mean that this clan is dysfunctional. Theater Review: ‘The Tempest,’ Presented by Shakespeare & Company 2012-07-30T22:19:52Z She said their TV marriage is rare because it’s a happy, healthy relationship, rather than dysfunctional. Tracee Ellis Ross: ‘Black-ish’ role is my life 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z If the authors had picked a thematic lane — kitsch, pure pageantry, dysfunctional family dynamics, monarchical history, the media’s celebrity obsession — one could begin to look for deeper meaning. Review | In time for Thanksgiving, Broadway serves up a turkey: ‘Diana’ the musical 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z “Fire and Fury” describes a dysfunctional and bitterly divided White House, but its most consequential allegations focus on the firing of James Comey. The Twenty-Five Most-Read New Yorker Stories of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z “Cow Country,” a 540-page satirical novel about a dysfunctional community college, landed with a thud when it came out in April. Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z August: Osage County – a sweepingly dysfunctional family drama – must be a hard act to follow. Tracy Letts: ‘Freedom of speech is under attack’ 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z But otherwise, they are just as embarrassing and distracting and dysfunctional. My tantric “awakening” turned me off sex 2013-03-17T01:00:00Z The of Winter's Bone looks like the intramural wrangling of one gigantic dysfunctional family. Film review: Winter's Bone 2010-09-16T21:42:00Z In the new film "Maps to the Stars," director David Cronenberg and screenwriter Bruce Wagner chart a course through a Hollywood hellscape populated by damaged and dysfunctional people. 'Maps to the Stars' an incendiary tour of Hollywood hell, reviews say 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Whatever its flaws, at least the plan does not rely on dysfunctional Washington to pass a new law. Good, bad and ugly 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z But whatever possibilities it might hypothetically have contained for a period of "healing" and "normalcy" — that word again! — have been systematically destroyed by the most dysfunctional presidential transition in American history. Home alone: A New Year unlike any other, tinged with grief and loneliness — and hope 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z “My books tend to be page-turners with dysfunctional family relationships at their hearts,” she says with characteristic bluntness. Janelle Brown on taboos, motherhood and her novel 'Watch Me Disappear' 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z But instead of sylvan Athens, we got muddy Rome, a city no one particularly loved until long after the Civil War, a city that is still a lazy symbol for everything dysfunctional in the Republic. Review | Philadelphia might have been a sylvan Athens. Instead, we got Washington, our muddy Rome. 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z The dysfunctional crew of a retro-futuristic space station is shaken up by the arrival of a new assistant captain who happens to be a woman. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The Stahlbaum family is hilariously dysfunctional, and the first act party inclines to drunken bad behavior rather than to courtly dances, childish games and sedate politesse. The Week Ahead: Dec. 5-11 2010-12-03T15:15:00Z While I agree that the capital-spending system for parks is dysfunctional, I hope that the city administration, can find a way to remedy... Mayor de Blasio’s Plan for Parks Needs to Grow 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z I don’t think the American people are upset because Washington’s dysfunctional. Walsh: GOP leadership afraid to fight 2011-10-01T22:33:00Z Here he is generous with previously undisclosed material, including details about the dysfunctional presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy, where he spent a few fraught months as press secretary. Best new audiobooks for that long summer drive 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Stupid Kid A young man returns to his dysfunctional family after 14 years in prison in Sharr White’s new dark comedy. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Sept. 17-24: 'Fixed,' 'The Red Shoes' and more 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z If not quite dysfunctional, it often proceeds in fits and starts. 2010-02-02T04:18:00Z And who better to turn his righteous patriotic anger against than the leftists who’d for so long been Hitchens’s loving but dysfunctional family. Christopher Hitchens’ last years: Islam, the Iraq war and how a man of the left found his moment by breaking with the left 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z I've done my best to shield them from the dysfunctional attitudes and anxiety that seem to be an expected part of performing the role of femaleness in our culture. I didn't teach my kids how to cook. Did I fail them? 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z But few writers are as well equipped as Mr. St. Aubyn to tackle the tragedy, a dark, twisted and violent family drama about a megalomaniacal monarch’s dysfunctional relationship with his heirs. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z On their honeymoon in Malta, where they were filming their first co-headlining film since 2005's "Mr. & Mrs. Smith": "Our dysfunctional honeymoon," he quipped to USA Today at the same Newseum event. Brad Pitt roundup: His wedding, his honeymoon, his kids 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z As a narrative, as a piece of drama, it’s pretty dysfunctional, I guess. ‘Everything was torn apart’: How director Thomas Vinterberg had to start his life all over again 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z The alien mother ship is a dysfunctional workplace staffed by three not-always-compatible species. Review: ‘People of Earth’ Returns for Affectingly Close Encounters 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z Theirs has long been a difficult and dysfunctional relationship, according to the court records and interviews with many people who know the family. Britney Spears Quietly Pushed for Years to End Her Conservatorship 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Spend some time with the hilariously dysfunctional Thorndens and you may get a new perspective on things. Perspective | 11 books to get you through Thanksgiving 2020 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z We expect, for instance, a pumpkin carriage — that goes along with Cinderella’s dysfunctional family of bullies and the transformation of a victimized wretch into royalty, right? A magical ‘Cinderella’ with a human touch 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z These days, "diversity" is a dubious word as politicians express their fear of a dysfunctional multiracial Europe. 1913: The World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson – review 2013-04-28T07:00:01Z It is rooted in childhood abandonment and psychological abuse, in broken homes and wildly dysfunctional relationships and addiction and compulsion and anger. Who’s the real insane clown posse? Trump fans give Juggalos a run for their money in “7 Days in Ohio” 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Cruelty and dysfunctional families are the stuff of fairytales. The Ugly Sisters – review 2012-08-07T17:45:01Z Naturally, his thievery is a symptom of a deeper malaise and it is one that Pat eventually traces back to his childhood, which was cold and dysfunctional. Philippa Perry: Couch fiction 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z It’s important, however, to recognize if your workplace is a “dysfunctional environment and you're not going to be able to change it,” she added. What burnout really means, and what bosses and employees can do about it 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z The Big Guy, a Republican donor upset with the outcome, plots his next political move while his family strains under its own dysfunctional dynamics and those of the country at large. 33 Works of Fiction and Poetry Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z What are we going to do with Bangladesh, for example, when the government is dysfunctional. Sweatshops still make your clothes 2013-03-21T15:36:00Z "But I don't see it as dysfunctional, I just think of it as an alternate mind-set." Jerry Seinfeld thinks he may be on the autism spectrum 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Purdum said in a statement that with Washington currently so "dysfunctional" it was inspiring to tell a story of how "Republicans and Democrats worked together." Book planned in 2014 about 1964 Civil Rights Act 2011-12-12T02:43:08Z A delightfully dysfunctional family tries to hold itself together in “Flowers.” What’s on TV Thursday 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z I’ve yet to meet any parent who embraced news of their child’s bullying or other dysfunctional behaviour with understanding and empathy. A girl put my daughter through hell, but her mother won’t listen | Dear Mariella 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen wrote on his blog that Mrs. Anderson was “our den mother in the early days of the Airplane,” a voice of reason for “our dysfunctional little family.” Signe Anderson, an original member of Jefferson Airplane, dies at 74 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z My digital follies provided comfort; the Internet is a haven for the emotionally dysfunctional. I was a troll on the white dude-bro Internet: The dark side of gaming, libertarianism, and guns 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Beirut has become nearly entirely dysfunctional, consumed by a garbage crisis that has spun out of control. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z For all its innovation, each episode of “The Wire” featured established characters, Baltimore, that dialogue, and a world-view about the humanity-crushing nature of dysfunctional, dying bureaucracies. “Anger Management”: Charlie Sheen’s crass comeback 2012-06-26T15:15:00Z “These are two people who watch over each other, without being cloying or dysfunctionally protective.” Maggie Daley dies 2011-11-25T03:08:00Z The tightly controlled rhythm of his life begins to fall apart when his needy, dysfunctional sister Sissy, played by Carey Mulligan, arrives for an unannounced visit. Film "Shame" brings sex addiction tale to Venice 2011-09-04T14:01:21Z We begin, of course, with Kanye and Taylor Swift, whose hideously dysfunctional symbiosis is fast turning them into the Bette Davis and Joan Crawford of pop. Kanye and Taylor: the Bette Davis and Joan Crawford of pop 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Passive-aggressive emails and constant meetings and stressful workloads may be universal, but they are also particular; every dysfunctional workplace is dysfunctional in its own way. Perspective | For 20 years, happy hour has seen us through work — and life 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z And it’s just one example of the dysfunctional way we run Medicaid today. "Ridiculous" Obama Administration Blocks Modest Medicaid Reforms in Illinois 2011-08-27T16:34:06Z "Being hated by the Americans somehow made me loved by the British. The world's greatest military alliance was clearly dysfunctional." 'The Dogs Are Eating Them Now' an unflinching account of Afghanistan 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Since then, a high percentage of black Oscar nominees and winners have played characters such as slaves, African despots, welfare recipients, dysfunctional mothers, drug-addicted musicians or drug-dealing cops. For blacks, mix of 'Help' emotions on Oscar night 2012-02-27T22:18:08Z Instead, he drew on the knowledge that all large organizations are dysfunctional in similar ways, and the gap between Olympic organizers' noble rhetoric and the messy everyday reality of planning such a big event. Olympic satire 'Twenty Twelve' hits close to home 2011-04-07T11:46:05Z Streep plays a Polish Catholic Holocaust survivor who finds herself in a Brooklyn rooming house after the war, in a dysfunctional relationship with a bipolar man, played by Kevin Kline. Who is the best Oscar-winning lead actress of all time? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Dana Sherwood’s “Banquets in the Dark Wildness” addresses the dysfunctional relationship between humans and animals. ‘Back to Eden,’ at the Museum of Biblical Art 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z As part of the plan, the administration also began to tackle the notoriously dysfunctional capital-spending system for parks, which can waste four years before getting around to creating even a simple dog run. Mayor de Blasio’s Plan for Parks Needs to Grow 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z In "No Land Is Her Land", a dysfunctional clan of Bhutan refugees cherishes an American dream as chimeric as the image of the "perfect family" that they somehow convey to their green card interviewer. The Gurkha's Daughter by Prajwal Parajuly – review 2013-01-25T22:55:01Z They are casualties of an apocalyptic drug war, a thriving human smuggling trade and, more broadly, a deeply dysfunctional relationship between the U.S. and Mexico. A better border is possible 2012-05-26T22:00:00Z The rebels’ hideout is filled with arcane and dysfunctional machinery. Fantasy worlds get an upgrade with alternate technology 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Brad Grey, the chairman of Paramount Pictures who was an executive producer on “The Sopranos,” said, “It was maybe a dysfunctional family at times, as all of ours are, but a family for sure.” Mourning the Loss of a Star as He Was Preparing to Return to HBO 2013-06-20T23:08:08Z For years, I may have talked to more people than anybody, thousands of interviews with people who had dysfunctional families, black and white and Asian and brown, and every walk of life and experience. An interview with Oprah Winfrey: ‘I come as one, but I stand as 10,000.’ 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z A post-Tarantino rush of dysfunctional Americana, full of lurid violence and dubious humour, it stands awkward comparison with some of Schrader’s more memorable films. Paul Schrader: ‘I’ve made some important films. Dog Eat Dog is not one of them’ 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z “The conversation that we have right now as a country about the future is pretty dysfunctional,” Ms. Goslins said. At the Smithsonian, an Architectural Treasure Looks Ahead 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z I wanted to write a book about terror and terrorism and anti-Semitism and how it pertained to a particular, dysfunctional Jewish family in the U.S.A. “Tell Me How This Ends Well”: Tricky gods, sex slaves and patricidal Jews 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z She described her films as most akin to documentaries, “but they’re totally dysfunctional — they don’t tell you anything. I call them depictions, closer to painting than cinema.” When Celluloid Is Both the Medium and the Message 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z “Gary and Selina cohabit a dysfunctional not-quite-romance: brutal, abusive, pathetic and unbalanced, but, at the same time, almost in spite of itself, soulful and affectionate,” writes Sam Anderson. 'Veep' Recap: Gary Antoinette 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Disowned in the past by her dysfunctional family and dumped by her indifferent husband, Sedona is surprised to discover that they’re all suddenly trying to get in touch with her. New fiction by Seattle-area authors, ripe for fall reading 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The White Stripes split earlier this month but it had always seemed as though the Strokes, "a dysfunctional family", in Travis's description, would be the first to go. The Strokes: no Spinal Tap 2011-02-27T00:03:00Z Ms. Kominsky-Crumb said that her parents had no patience for children, that her father made her feel ugly and that her upbringing was dysfunctional, a theme that she often explored in her comics. Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Pioneering Comics Memoirist, Dies at 74 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z The Square turns a contemporary art museum into a city-state of bizarre, dysfunctional and Ballardian strangeness. Prowling panthers, paranormal spies and vengeful ice-skaters: must-see movies of 2018 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Hill: There is no denying that by and large, our society has an obsessive and dysfunctional relationship with food. Should "food diaries" be assigned in schools? Experts point to potential dangers for youth 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z That’s the $32 billion question facing the federal monitor appointed to oversee New York City’s dysfunctional Housing Authority, fresh from its recent lead paint debacle. New York Has a Public Housing Problem. Does London Have an Answer? 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Given the apparent intention to make everything more relaxed, the pricing system is utterly dysfunctional. Beast: restaurant review 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z In prepared statements circulated later by his campaign, Boneham said he wants to run as the Libertarian candidate because he thinks Indiana voters deserve an alternative to "the dysfunctional state of our current government." 'Survivor' fan favorite to run for Ind. governor 2011-10-23T00:16:04Z The only thing Obiang and Mandela have in common is a dysfunctional family. 4 African leaders who learned nothing from Nelson Mandela 2013-12-10T13:30:00Z The novel toggles discordantly between dysfunctional family drama and crime thriller. Review: ‘Small Admissions,’ ‘Freebird’ and More 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Anna Brenner’s empathic direction brings this unflagging pessimist and his mystified wife to vivid life, and Mr. Henkle’s animations exquisitely capture the dysfunctional joys of suffering en masse. | Comic Book Theater Festival: It?s a Convention of Superheroes, Taking Over a Stage and a Nearby Van 2011-06-21T21:30:35Z The sock puppet — save this one for your theater trivia game — was named after the dysfunctional family at the heart of the O’Neill play: the Tyrones. 'Hand to God' Sets Broadway Closing Date 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The police were distracted, and, in any case, the government had become so dysfunctional that it was pointless to apply for a permit. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z The 72-year-old actor said he's proud of the black comedy about an aspiring dancer and her dysfunctional parents. Sorvino to debut film funded by Pa. taxpayers 2012-02-20T17:51:08Z The idea, he says, was to catch up to the larger Hilfiger family - "who is quirky, modern and slightly dysfunctional" - since 1985. Tommy Hilfiger embraces the buzz of pop culture 2010-10-19T20:02:00Z With her black nose and creamy coat, this unflappable woolen creature was mellowness personified while a pack of dysfunctional humans railed around her. Does Anything Awful Happen to the Cat in the Play? 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Taking the form of a faux documentary in the Christopher Guest tradition, the frequently laugh-out-loud film profiles a dysfunctional group of aging children of the night who happen to be longtime New Zealand flat-mates. 'Shadows' treats vampires with a light, bright touch 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z He’s certainly right when he frets that America is being torn apart by its dysfunctional media system, as he explained in an interview with the Atlantic to promote his new memoir. Perspective | What Obama gets right — and very wrong — about the media 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Her dysfunctional family comes to her aid, each bringing his own baggage. Actor-director Krasinski mines tears, laughs in 'The Hollars' 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Like many of the other characters in these two books, Eeyore is a slightly dysfunctional human adult masquerading as an animal. Cornelius Medvei's top 10 talking animals in literature 2011-01-06T11:32:27Z “He's got a dysfunctional family, and Hamlet has to become a man so fast,” Mr. Peal said in an interview, adding that his father died when he was 3 years old. Young Souls Portray the Wit of ‘Hamlet,’ With Brevity 2013-12-19T21:49:14Z "I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be," he said. Russell Means, Indian activist, actor, dies at 72 2012-10-22T13:45:10Z I have a tendency to intermittent recurring relationships with people who are also dysfunctional, so the girls involved don't talk to me for periods at a time. Foals: 'I built an enamel around myself' 2010-05-06T20:30:00Z If your old lady has more adventurous tastes, however, consider one of the many shows that feature utterly dysfunctional relationships between mothers and children. Joan Jonas, Roger Waters, and Mother’s Day Theatre Picks 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The video shows LaBeouf, 26, in a dysfunctional relationship with a woman and includes violence, drug use and nudity. A-list actors get edgy in indie music videos 2012-07-05T17:43:29Z In his final show, “The Lyons,” by Nicky Silver, he played Ben Lyons, a dying man in a dysfunctional family. Dick Latessa, Winner of a Tony for ‘Hairspray,’ Dies at 87 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z “It’s been dysfunctional to the extreme,” said Brian Van Nieuwenhoven, treasurer of the Samuel J. Tilden Democratic Club in the district. A month later, this New York City primary is still a train wreck and a warning to us all 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Pterodactyls Pop Up Theater Inc. presents Nicky Silver’s dark comedy about the demise of one peculiarly dysfunctional family. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Aug. 27-Sept. 3: 'Pterodactyls' and more 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Kraguly intensifies the focus to such an extent that the theme seems as vital and primal as humankind’s dysfunctional relationship with all of nature. Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures 2012-10-11T11:15:00Z A Firehouse Fights to Save Lives, and Itself Urban blight isn’t just a matter of widespread poverty, deteriorating housing, dysfunctional schools and street crime. Movie Review: ‘Burn,’ Directed by Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez 2012-11-09T01:50:28Z Despite the dysfunctional bickering of the U.S. governing class, the dollar is still the world's reserve currency. 'Debt: The First 5,000 Years': Mankind's millenialong obligation 2011-08-22T21:26:09Z Consisting mainly of three-dimensional objects, the exhibition focuses on comedic art’s structural properties like paradox, exaggerated scale and dysfunctional mechanics. ‘Puddle, pothole, portal’ at SculptureCenter in Queens 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z A: You mentioned Otis and Jean having a dysfunctional relationship, but they usually come back and repair things. Let’s talk about ‘Sex Education’ — and all the bad info we got as teens 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Then there's the Weiss family, a group that could redefine the word "dysfunctional." 'Maps to the Stars' a nightmarish tour of Hollywood narcissism 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z It is into this bizarrely dysfunctional situation that poor, gormless, innocent J stumbles. Animal Kingdom ? review 2011-02-24T22:10:02Z For the first half of “Haussmans,” directed by Howard Davies, I was purring in tickled contentment because the fine-tuned cast was so functionally dysfunctional. Critic’s Notebook: On British Stage, Baby Boomers Fare Poorly 2012-06-22T23:54:12Z And who should arrive at that very moment to complete this supremely dysfunctional family reunion? Review | In Sadie Jones’s “The Snakes,” parents are more venomous than reptiles 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Kindred Souls, Whoever They Are The glum, episodic and unbelievable “Arthur Newman” is the film equivalent of a dysfunctional computer sloppily assembled from discarded parts of other machines. Movie Review: ‘Arthur Newman,’ Starring Colin Firth and Emily Blunt 2013-04-26T00:31:05Z Nothing much, except that I begin to long for young plays that look beyond dysfunctional families or pre-teen sex and that take us into dark and unexpected places. Y for Young Writers 2012-05-29T12:06:50Z “So yeah, I think there’s something dysfunctional in the whole western world.” The Director of the Year's Most Sexually Explicit Movie Is On a Quest to Redefine Love 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z When I came to Britain from the US to head Penguin in 1978, the company was failing and dysfunctional, unsuccessful in economic terms and not in tune with what the public wanted to read. Peter Carson 2013-01-24T13:17:57Z This is not the underbelly of America or the dysfunctional racist American south. 'The mystery is enough': Susan Lipper on the Grapevine series 2010-10-13T11:07:00Z America could have very easily looked like a bigger, more dysfunctional European Union. Two of America’s Leading Historians Look at the Nation’s Founding Once Again — to Understand It in All Its Complexity 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z In this way, Donald Trump is the daddy of a dysfunctional United States family. Has Trump wrecked our sex life? "Post-Trump Sex Disorder" is real, says sex therapist 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z In a small, conservative north Yorkshire market town Beastie Boys sounded like nothing I'd heard before: snotty, urban, aggressive and more than slightly dysfunctional – every teenage boy's dream. My 10 favourite Beastie Boys tracks 2013-05-04T09:00:00Z This conflict provides a neat way of structuring the combat between Liam and Daphna, but the richness of the play is in the flamboyant vitriol of the language and the dysfunctional gusto of the characters. Chutzpah and humor temper message 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Food diaries, when used with intention and care – and with guidance from a trained professional – can be a helpful way to help one gain insight and shift away from dysfunctional behaviors. Should "food diaries" be assigned in schools? Experts point to potential dangers for youth 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z “I talk to friends about New Orleans like a dysfunctional romance,” she wrote. Don’t Call It Katrina 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Being socially dysfunctional and desperate were requirements for rolling with the cool crowd there. 9 Things We Learned From Jerry Seinfeld's Netflix Special 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z The problems in this highly dysfunctional, fractured, blended family are established in the pilot and those are the stories we're telling for the duration of the season. 'Fear the Walking Dead': Show runner Dave Erickson reveals new details 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z As a sitcom about dysfunctional televangelists, it is necessarily satirical, but at the same time it is crude and bleak and – sometimes – surprisingly big-hearted. Forget Friends! The 25 greatest overlooked sitcoms – from Lovesick to Younger 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z GP Fashion is this funny, dysfunctional playground for misfits. Guido Palau’s Good Hair Days 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The series, written by Zander Lehmann, follows the dysfunctional relationship between a bachelor brother living with his newly divorced sister as they navigate the dating world and attempt to raise a teenager together. Jason Reitman comedy series 'Casual' goes to Hulu 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z “It’s about loving isolation to the point that you become dysfunctional,” Bregman says. Perspective | How long will it take to overcome our pandemic travel anxiety? 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z |
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