And as was not uncommon when he was thus afflicted, he dwelt upon a possibility that had for him “tremendous fascination”: suicide. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thousand-yard stare of intoxication, I thought, and as I watched her with an idle fascination, it occurred to me that, yeah, I was a little drunk, too. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mark watched in fascination as a large, square-shaped hatch on the bottom of the Berg began to open, pivoting on hinges to lower like a ramp. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He was impervious to the fascination of the mustelidae, and hoped someday to kill a weasel, if not a stoat. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some stared at the afflicted child with morbid fascination, but most turned away. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, without warning, his feverish activity was interrupted and was replaced by a kind of fascination. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A mark of mystery, and a source of fascination for those who viewed the family from afar. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson herself was another source of fascination. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dennis Hoagland said that in our time there were only two or three worth talking about, for complexity, fascination, depth of involvement: JFK, Watergate, the attempt on the Pope. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though for most guys I was little more than an object of ridicule, occasionally I became an object of fascination. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There can be no doubt, however, about his fascination with light. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy was held by a curious fascination. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all the while the blonde continued dancing, smiling faintly at the big shots who watched her with fascination, and faintly smiling at our fear. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet from the outset the fascination with private detectives was mixed with aversion. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Why else does mountaineering retain its deep fascination? Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I watch with fascination as children with oily black hair, wearing old, dirty clothes run up to our cyclo in their bare feet. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here I've set out to throw my anger into the world's face, but now that I've tried to put it all down the old fascination with playing a role returns, and I'm drawn upward again. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I listened I had been so torn between humiliation and fascination that to lessen my sense of shame I had kept my attention riveted upon his intense face. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Understandably, the sight of Johnny wielding a broom, carrying charcoal, firewood, water, had not quickly lost its fascination for his erstwhile slaves. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But how to do justice to the changes that had made her into a real writer at last, and to her chaotic swarm of impressions, and to the disgust and fascination she felt? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Every old prison I’ve seen since, from the Tower of London to Philadelphia’s massive and abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary, has inspired a similar fascination. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how much of my fascination with her crept into what I was saying, but I guess a lot of it did. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our space becomes very popular because both children and adults have a fascination with Buttercup. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He was all nerves and fascination and bashfulness and a deep, stirring hope. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I can remember as a child reading with breathless fascination the Mars novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the kitchen window his shamed, downcast eyes fell upon a curiously shaped stone, a stone of such fascination that he squatted down and picked it up and turned it over in his hands. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just after he found this one, while he was sitting on the floor watching in fascination as the creature crept up his arm, a couple of workers came by and saw him. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Carlos, Bijan, and Jacobi were watching our conversation with great fascination and I was annoyed with all of them. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The big kid, Frank, sat forward, staring at her in fascination, as if she’d grown a third eye. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But then, unless the fascination is too powerful, there comes the point when keeping still is discarded and the rabbit, as though breaking a spell, turns in an instant to its other resource—flight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi nodded, her eyes locked on a display of pots and pans as if it were an object of fascination. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I watch in fascination as the clear water becomes gray and then black as the detergent does its work. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a strange fascination with disembodied hearts. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Berlioz’s temperament was, to be sure, suited to the fascinations of nineteenth-century opera - doomed love, death and destiny - even if it was not so well suited to the patient, collaborative process of putting on operas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Sansa found it hard not to stare; his face was so ugly it held a queer fascination for her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The reason was that they could not stop staring—with a curious mixture of fascination, fear, and uneasiness—at Mr. Curtain in his green-plaid suit, silvery glasses, and demonic wheelchair. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

From those early days began my association with rich people, my fascination with their secret. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calder understood the man’s fascination with connecting things that didn’t seem related, and he admired the way Fort challenged the experts. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

In her fascination with the dead man Ophie had completely forgotten about her mother sitting next to her on the trolley. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I start to say, my fascination coming out as a hoarse croak. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, what if he started looking at her the way so many other people did, with a mixture of fascination and confusion and repulsion? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The flow of goods across the seas, buoying and depressing the wages of men, held a fascination. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Your city has been my fascination since I was five years old, playing Tizerkane in the orchard, and felt its name...plucked from my mind.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Gradually, I became aware that my mind had gone haywire in a similar fashion, and I observed my own slide from reality with a blend of fascination and horror. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

There is a note of fascination in his voice. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When they woke up, with the sun already high in the sky, they were speechless with fascination. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Jethro listened with fascination to the new names of men and places. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs Phelps, who had been watching her with fascination for the past few weeks, now got up from her desk and went over to her. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“A previous caretaker of this preserve had a fascination with naiads.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Some ran when they saw the scythes come out, but just as many stayed, their fascination overcoming their terror. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

With architecture and construction such a fascination in Chicago, cornerstone ceremonies became extravagant affairs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The things in the walls, and the many things beneath my feet, which I have always had a weird fascination for. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

At last he knew what Dumbledore would have seen when he looked in the Mirror of Erised, and why Dumbledore had been so understanding of the fascination it had exercised over Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

These drives fueled the American fascination with cowboys, but the work was hardly romantic. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The idea of murdering Orr was so ridiculous that he began to consider it seriously with queer whimsy and fascination. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He knew it was a sickness, that his fascination for it was unwholesome, even depraved. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I told him about Mo's fascination with botany, and how he recorded every flower he found. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Bo watched with fascination as they tried to entice the passersby. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Amari and the other prisoners in her boat watched, however, in horrid fascination as the two women—a mother and daughter— tried in vain to swim back to shore. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

This led to a global fascination with 1980s pop culture. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But Helene has always had a particular fascination with the holy men—it's no surprise that she hoped they'd come to graduation. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Not a lot, but enough to keep a dreamer from idealizing the object of his long fascination. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But I’d miss everything about him—his fascination with horses, the way he could fix chariots or crumple metal with his bare hands, or tie bad guys into knots. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like others, I looked upon her with fear and fascination. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

That fascination has infested me today like the wood-eating bugs that slowly lay waste to our house. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Julia had come across to his side; together they gazed down with a sort of fascination at the sturdy figure below. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I stare at the Father with fascination, and wonder at how he could stay so white under our hot sun. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas watched in sick fascination as the Griever twitched uncontrollably, spewing the yellow oil in every direction. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Both she and Steven watched in fascination as blood began to well out of Matt’s cuts again. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at that dirt in fascination, thinking how odd it was that I had never seen it before. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katherine, a tiny blond with both her father's ponytail and his fascination with prodigies, sat watching him quietly. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She stared at my agonized smile, and her little daughter stopped crying when she saw Otto, her eyes widening in fascination. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Pythagorean fascination with whole-number ratios in musical harmonies seems clearly to be based on observation, or even experiment on the sounds issued from plucked strings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next term’s tuition, new clothes, freedom from my debt with Devi I saw Denna looking at the trays with the same fascination, though hers was somewhat more glassy-eyed than mine. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Miyax had seen this game in Barrow, and she watched the flying figures with fascination. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hatred of, and fascination with, any hint of disorder or decay. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fascination with my ability to speak English had led to many other topics. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed fascinated by me in a way that felt familiar but also entirely new, and I wondered if his fascination would wear off, like it always did in these kinds of situations. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But like every other fascination Toby cultivated, Lily was ultimately temporary. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I stared at her in fascination, unsurprised that time had left her intact, because she was exactly as I’d seen her in my dreams. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias stared in horrified fascination at the broad slimy path that had been left in the mud by the snake. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The godchild left very pleased, and Felicia’s fascination with coconuts began that day. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minya had watched it all with wide eyes and sick fascination. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Those ten sepia-toned photographs were what had started Lefty’s fascination with the city. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Now that the dangerous fascination of the spear was gone, Matt’s group of young admirers dispersed. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The class looked at him in a kind of horrible fascination. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So what was her sudden fascination with Cap? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Was it, as a number of interested scientists believed, just the human fascination with patterns? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra watched Will tending this one with fascination. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You hold great fascination for them,” said Vikus, indicating the people in the windows. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She saw in him a metamorphosis his senior year, a fascination with vocabulary and literature and trying to write essays with perception and clarity. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its developer was Ernest Lawrence, who had shared his boyhood fascination with electric gadgetry with Merle Tuve, his schoolmate and friend from across the street in a compact South Dakota town named Canton. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Camp Greyhound has been the subject of investigative reports and a source of fascination for the city at large. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The men who were working along the rows felt possessed by a strange fascination, menaced by some invisible danger, and many succumbed to a terrible desire to weep. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Eventually, Kepler came to feel that his fascination with the circle had been a delusion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abbey watched in fascination but I felt kind of weird, so I turned away and pretended to be enchanted by the scummy aquarium. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

When I tired of my needlework, which was often, I pored over this book with ever growing fascination. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Nate stared with a mix of fear and fascination, like the time he found a scorpion in his hammock. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

I look on in fascination as he weaves my data into what we already have of Ren’s, an algorithm right before my eyes, fashioning it into the equivalent of a noose. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Eisenhower listened in fascination, but tactfully schooled his visitors in the realities of international arms policy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

For a moment we all watched it in fascination. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alfred peered at the dead baby with studious fascination. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes were laced with something dark—almost a sick fascination. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Parish priests recognized and encouraged my fascination with the liturgy. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bartender watched her with fascination, his gaze fixed on her lips long after he’d finished pouring Marmalade’s drink. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

This is partly because of the inherent fascination with the subject. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Piper had been watching with horrified fascination, the way she might watch a car wreck in progress. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mark watched in sick fascination as they got to their feet, frantically whispering to each other, seeming to obey.The people were bloody and filthy, but they started to act in an organized fashion. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Because of his love of words, in a strange way, it was the language difference—English English versus American English—that started Branwell’s fascination with the au pair. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Jon Snow was staring at him, a look equal parts horror and fascination. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He stared at it in fascination for a long while, until he finally dared to pick up the long-handled spoon and, with a sigh of ecstasy, plunge it into the cream. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, his fascination with the bones of old Indians was not matched by an equivalent interest in the sensibilities of living Native Americans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I can understand your fascination in our sustenance production, considering your background in botany,” he says. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thanks to his fascination with plastic, something I discovered when the shower curtain was riddled with tiny bite marks, my bedroom now had the honor of housing his litter box. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She had not been selected for this job by a committee that had perceived her fascination with fish. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He remembered the sort of terrified fascination with which he had watched them out of the comer of his eye. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Squire recognized that readers would want to know about the thing that made Sing Sing increasingly famous as an object of fascination and horror: the Death House. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly I sat, torn between anger and fascination, hating myself for obeying. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the noise made by the plumbing and the sight of the water gurgling down the drain was a source of fascination to the boys. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Nhamo saw with fascination that he used a knife and fork instead of his fingers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first young Aureliano understood only the risk, the immense possibility of danger that his brother’s adventures implied, and he could not understand the fascination of the object. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

My fascination was both evident and unwelcome, and was nothing he hadn’t been subjected to a million times before. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Desdemona, filled with embarrassment at her sudden nakedness, looks down at the object of the captain’s fascination: a heavy ship’s rope disappears inside her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Although Dad’s driving was fraught with peril, there was a strange fascination in its brushes with death and its dramatic, traffic-stopping scenes. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

They demanded that Mom and Dad open anything that was locked, while we children sat on our beds, staring in paralyzed fascination. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caleb and my father stare at both tattoos with the same look of fascination and shock but say nothing about them. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was much fascination and amused talk about them among the nurses. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The Trunchbull was sitting behind the teacher's table staring with a mixture of horror and fascination at the newt wriggling in the glass. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatius watched with fascination the elaborate process of gums, tongue, and lips that ever\\ piece of sandwich set into motion. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fascination with Pet was overshadowed easily by his fear of Pet’s power, of the death chafing just inside it. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He ridiculed their devotion to the machine as “a mania for gadgets or a post-infantile fascination for scientific meccano games.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The more I thought of it the more I fell into a kind of morbid fascination with the possibility. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was an arresting fascination in his voice, like the movement of wind and light on a meadow, and as its rhythm entered into his hearers the whole burrow became silent. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as the two boys watched from their covert looking post, the thing that held their fascination the longest was the fact that they had advanced to within striking distance of a police car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I find whatever you do a source of perpetual fascination. But never mind me. What are you going to say to these people who are coming?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Everyone spoke of it like murder or treason, with fascination and revulsion. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Voldemort raised his hand to silence her, and she did not speak another word, but eyed him in worshipful fascination. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Fear of other people’s judgments, their questions, their hostility, their fascination. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She was beginning to fall victim to a morbid fascination with things from beyond the grave. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I watched with a sick fascination, knowing part of the story, yet a part of me fighting against its sad inevitable conclusion. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood watching it in fascination, as it moved blindly, in jerks, a sly, hesitating exploration. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tesla, who did at least as much for electricity as Thomas Edison, had a quasi-romantic fascination with pigeons. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was almost feral in her fascination as she watched Pima slice chunks from the orange. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

First class today was an elective he’s taking out of a combination of morbid fascination and academic curiosity: The Press and the Presidency. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A few of the Yearlings stare at the execution platform with a frightened sort of fascination. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Sarai followed them in a state of fascination, and they went into a tiny shop tucked under a bridge, leaving their creatures at the door. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I walked up to the marsh, a place that had held such fascination and fun and fear for me, and placed my feet at the edge of the water. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Years before Colonel Aureliano Buendía had spoken to him about the fascination of war and had tried to show it to him with countless examples drawn from his own experience. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Any fascination could mark a newborn: melons, rabbits, wisteria, rope, and, more than a shed snakeskin, a wild woman is the worst of all. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some specimens are reported to be large and heavy enough to create audible footsteps in a quiet room,” I read with simultaneous fascination and horror. On the Maine island of Islesboro, searching for a spider she wasn’t sure was real

One of the stranger fascinations of the book is the way it inadvertently uncovers the sheer oddness of pre-punk Australian pop and rock. Robert Forster: me and my bridge 2010-07-14T20:31:00Z

Lost art exerts a fascination all of its own. Lost art comes back to haunt us 2012-06-06T12:10:18Z

As the West’s entanglement with China has deepened since the 1990s, so too has fascination with the Opium War, and every China-watcher will want to read Stephen R. Platt’s fascinating and beautifully constructed new book. The Opium War and the Humiliation of China 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

The unquenchable fascination with “parenting” helps explain why NBC has a series called “Parenthood,” and why so many comedies focus not on children, but on the crushing difficulty of raising them. The TV Watch: ?I Hate My Teenage Daughter,? on Fox 2011-11-29T23:19:39Z

Learning about the derivation of plant varieties through generations of crossbreeding accentuated his longstanding fascination with his own genetic origins. His Paula Deen takedown went viral. But this food scholar isn’t done yet. 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

Among other things, this picture freshly demonstrates that a conventionally structured documentary can pack the fascination and wallop of an expertly executed fictional thriller. ‘The Lost Leonardo’ Review: Art, Money and Oligarchy 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

She gets some of the funniest lines and delivers them with a dry, peppery mien that gives one hope that she’ll survive Harker’s visit and her unnatural fascination with the lore surrounding Dracula. Netflix's "Dracula": Put a stake in it – it's not well done 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z

"He occupies a unique place in American sports and American culture, and this is truly a rare moment in his life. The controversy only brings more fascination to the film." Kobe Bryant calls the shots on his Showtime documentary 'Muse' 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

Toying with spatially separated sounds is not a new fascination for composers. Surround Sound? You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

The red priestess practices the same form of magic that resurrected Dondarrion and has shown a fascination with Jon Snow all season; could their fates be intertwined in some fashion? Is He Really Dead? And Where Does 'Game of Thrones' Stand for Season 6? 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

The history of the device is an ongoing source of fascination. Vibrators Carry the Conversation 2011-04-20T21:56:26Z

“I think they were held to their work by a degree of fascination, of sober delight, that we can no longer imagine,” she writes. Marilynne Robinson’s Essays Reflect an Eccentric, Exasperating, Profound and Generous Mind 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

He began appearing in his own work in the 1990s, pursuing his fascination with circular time through looped film footage. Artist of the week 96: Rodney Graham 2010-07-16T09:28:00Z

And the young filmmakers vacillate between fear, fascination and opportunism. | 'Super 8': Hey, Guys, Let?s Make a Monster Flick 2011-06-09T15:28:58Z

As the fashion industry continues its fascination with clothes that bear evidence of a human hand, eccentric imperfection and the luxury of simplicity, Detroit has a particular selling point. Can a high-end boutique prosper in Detroit? John Varvatos has a vision. 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

Our fascination with your married life propelled you into the super-league. Mika meets Dita Von Teese: 'I've had to work hard to stay like this' 2012-10-11T18:00:02Z

There are not one but two chapters on what he calls “nanny fascination,” which sounds about right to me. I’ll Have What She’s Having: Books for Better Sex and Better Relationships 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Anna is an object of fascination because she appears to survive, even to thrive, in a world defined by hierarchy and deprivation. "The Wonder": Netflix’s story of "fasting girls" shows us starving bodies remain a public spectacle 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

It initiated a lifelong fascination with public transport. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z

He discovered his fascination with weeds in his 20s, when he was working in an outer section of London that presented "wildness in the city." 'Weeds': Richard Mabey's tribute to the planet's peskiest plants 2011-08-03T20:49:03Z

Ms. Pessl seems to take it as a given that this book, like its absent genius, warrants fascination. Books Of the Times: ‘Night Film’ Is Marisha Pessl’s New Novel 2013-08-14T20:32:22Z

No small part of the fascination is that he is openly gay, twice elected in what he has sardonically described as “flyover country.” A Memoir From the Young, Gay Mayor of South Bend Running for President 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Landing a White House job is a highly competitive sport, and who manages to get those jobs has always been a subject of fascination. A common thread among many Trump press staffers: They’re related to other Trump staffers 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

As far as I know, Calvino didn’t travel widely or have any great fascination with the further world. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z

"I'm 64," he said of his fascination with the 1836 battle. Collins hands over Alamo artefacts 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

That explains the title of the movie, though not the character’s fascination with motors, which predated the accident, or the bloodthirstiness that drives her adult self. ‘Titane’ Review: Auto Erotic 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

This fascination finds its fullest expression in his Masks series. Brian Dillon on John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery 2011-01-29T00:06:00Z

The making of new maps – both of narrative and of land – is one of Macfarlane's enduring fascinations. The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane – review 2012-05-31T07:00:02Z

Almond’s exhibition suggests that a fascination with time and space, and with the heavenly bodies that help us measure both, is, well, universal. Darren Almond's Ghostly Photography at London's White Cube Gallery 2014-01-30T05:00:00Z

Rudnick shares in the overwhelming fascination with the British royal family and weaves in references to Brexit, Buckingham Palace and “The Great British Bake Off.” Writer Paul Rudnick scores with a witty, regal romance novel 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

“At first you watch in fascination, like when you get a new intern, then not so much,” he confided with a roll of his eyes. Model Casting: Countdown to Fashion Week: Model Casting About for Character 2013-08-28T20:39:01Z

Observing him backstage at Town Hall in Seattle, his humble fascination with this new role as “author” was apparent. “Are You Anybody?” Salon talks to Jeffrey Tambor about his new book 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

His fascination with the craft, he says, came from sitting in the audience, not standing on the stage. In his dad’s footsteps, Michael Gandolfini finds his own way 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

What these books share is a fascination with memory, identity, with the tension between obligation and desire. In Ishiguro's 'The Buried Giant,' memory draws a blank 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

These representations speak to our larger cultural baggage around waiting, particularly America’s fetishistic fascination with virgins. Sheldon and Amy will finally get it on: How this “Big Bang Theory” storyline breaks new TV ground 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

They might have made a more-complete single Champagne, though consumers would have lost the pleasure and fascination of comparing the two different expressions. Champagne Seeks to Discover Itself in Single-Vineyard Wines 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

His current obsession, he says, is "making replica pieces in bronze or birch plywood" of objects that hold a particular and personal fascination for him. 'I'm often at a loss for words' 2011-03-06T00:02:02Z

But the greatest fascination of the book is to have so many poems trying to make one feel better about being alive. Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday life chosen by William Sieghart – review 2012-06-09T23:05:36Z

And the fact that the fictional director denounces the current preoccupation with 'child abuse' adds another twinge of fascination. Cannes 2013: Venus in Fur - first look review 2013-05-25T10:04:14Z

My friends in the city tend to treat this obsession with equal parts fascination and bewilderment — "Don't you feel bad?" one asks. A Thanksgiving hunt to remind ourselves that dinner means death 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

That fascination with how things came to be permeates “Making Marvels.” Science, Splendor and ‘Dresden Green’ to Impress a Sovereign 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

His apparent fascination with stuff once culturally marginal and now squarely in the mainstream seemed deliciously synchronous with my own. Inside the Insta-Cover Games 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Last month, the Bob Dylan Center opened in Tulsa, Okla., offering researchers unparalleled access to Dylan’s archives and peeling back the layers on his songwriting process, long the object of study and fascination. Digging Into Bob Dylan and Lou Reed’s Archives 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

Six years after her untimely death at the age of 48, Whitney Houston has become a subject of renewed fascination, and deeper appreciation. “Whitney” director on Houston’s untold story: “Whitney had been abused, and it took a hug... 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Before then, I never had any fascination with paranormal activity. Foo Fighters Made a Horror Film. Because Why Not? 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

His father was shot in the back and killed, but that did nothing to dim Matthews’s fascination with guns. Bang: The troubled legacy of toy guns 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Cinema’s most wanted men remain elusive, but the fascination of their lives has been watered down by generations of copycats, doppelgängers and descendants. Gotti, Escobar, Manson: Hollywood's problem with real-life criminals 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

As the success of “Downton Abbey” displayed, there’s a global fascination with the British royal family and aristocracy. In ‘The Crown,’ a Young Queen, but a Young Woman, Too 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Sonnet 76: Shakespeare’s sonnets have always inspired particular fascination because they’re supposedly the writings in which the elusive man most reveals himself. Shakespeare on drugs: The secret narcotic history of the world’s greatest playwright 2014-04-23T15:15:00Z

Even after her death, the tabloid gossip and fascination with the princess did not really wain. "Spencer": how Diana became the popular culture princess 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

“Just how far,” you think, with equal measures apprehension and fascination, “is she willing to go?” Review: A Blistering Billie Piper Unravels Brilliantly in ‘Yerma’ 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

The magnetic drive motoring one hand is itself an object of fascination. Berkshire Tour: Formalism Relaxes, Handcraft Goes Digital 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

France’s new president, the youngest in the history of the country, has been an object of fascination ever since he unexpectedly came to power. New & Noteworthy 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Much of the fascination with Rabe's play, which concludes its run at the Pershing Square Signature Center on Sunday, is the slipperiness of its style. Four political dramas that play around with form 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

The ballet “Le Corsaire” is a splashy pirate adventure, told through a 150-year-old lens of chivalry and a fascination in Orientalism. St. Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Ballet revises the pirate-tale classic 'Le Corsaire' 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

She goes on to consider the bargains celebrities strike for fame, and examines why they’ve always been objects of keen fascination: Before the Kardashians there was Antony and Cleopatra. New in Paperback: ‘Who Is Rich?,’ ‘The Stars in Our Eyes’ 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Isn’t that a cruel peculiarity of America’s fascination with gun violence? Right on target: “Tower” tells the painful story America’s first mass shooting beautifully 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

To some, my accent was even an object of fascination. The all of “y’all”: On finally embracing my voice, country twang and everything 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

Whatever the struggle of the moment, the bears hold a visual fascination throughout — their ungainly, baggy figures suggesting nothing so much as an ill-fitting animal suit. Movie Review: Disney’s ‘Bears,’ Set in Alaska 2014-04-17T23:20:07Z

Otherwise known by its original South Korean name of mukbang, the phenomenon has become a source of fascination for Wilson. Table for one: how eating alone is radically changing our diets 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

The fascination of Mozart’s violin, then, remains in the object itself. Critic’s Notebook: Musical Relics From Paganini and Mozart, Still Sending Blessings 2013-06-19T21:45:34Z

The British fascination – or obsession – with crime has been a subject of curiosity for everyone from Dickens to Orwell but are we now saturated with it at the expense of the victims? When true crime films prove to be guilty themselves 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

But once they landed, they explored with such a deliberate approach — hitting the same local institutions no matter where they went — that one can’t help wondering whether there were fascinations, and insights, that escaped them. What Two Writers Found When They Bought a Plane and Touched Down on Main Street, U.S.A. 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

Ms. Lee’s reticence did little to diminish, and perhaps increased, the fascination surrounding her, both before and after “Watchman.” Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

“I have had a fascination with death that I think might be considered genetic,” she has said, adding, “My father had the same affliction, I guess.” Sally Mann’s Haunted South 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

He has no idea how to drive, and as he jerks and careens across Portugal — usually in first gear — he’s an object of fascination and assault. Yann Martel’s ‘The High Mountains of Portugal’ is his best since ‘Life of Pi’ 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

It’s notable that their relationship, while dramatically charged, is powered by mutual fascination and respect, rather than romance. Rebecca Ferguson on Mission: Impossible – ‘Tom says he makes the films for the audience. I don’t’ 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

The divine state of fascination came upon me quickly, like a cloud of narcotic exaltation. My houseplant garden is a tiny national park Donald Trump can never destroy 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

I suspect it's these attitudes as much as a fascination with the first-century BC Egyptian queen that inspired David Nixon to create Northern Ballet's latest narrative work, Cleopatra. Cleopatra; Henri Oguike Dance Company ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:20Z

A repressed intelligence analyst and a glamorous, childish killer have a mutually thrilling crush on each other, playing out their fascination, attraction and jealousy in life-changing and potentially lethal ways. The 30 Best International TV Shows of the Decade 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

Mr. Dornan, given the job of inspiring lust, fascination and also maybe a tiny, thrilling frisson of fear, succeeds mainly in eliciting pity. Review: In ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Movie, Sex Is a Knotty Business 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

The play's ambiguity is at the heart of its fascination for modern audiences. Faustus doctored as Marlowe gets a monster-inspired makeover 2013-02-28T12:47:03Z

Long after the initial debates have faded, the deft use of puppetry in Mr. Minghella’s conception retains its fascination. Music Review: ?Madama Butterfly? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-12-08T22:28:07Z

Thanks to Gen Z’s fascination with all things Y2K, it has been revived and reimagined for a generation newly ready to go out after spending some of their prime years staying in. The return of the going-out top 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z

It was an early fascination with gemstones, in fact, that set Purkayastha on his path to truffles. How a Texas Teen-Ager Became New York City’s Premier Truffle Dealer 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

The fascination with houseplants has begun to spawn all manner of specialists. You Can Pay People to Style Your Houseplants 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

There was no lightning bolt moment while she was there — just the sense of fascination that a writer learns to lean into. The Back Story Behind ‘Transcendent Kingdom’: Yaa Gyasi Is a Solid Friend 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

A lifelong fascination with art had begun, and as Perenchio rose in the entertainment industry — ultimately becoming chairman of Univision Communications — he used his wealth to amass some of the world's greatest art. Major LACMA art donation will add dimension to museum's collections 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

It signals a history of perversity in art, a perennial fascination with barbarity and horror that the Chapmans are happy to perpetuate. Jake or Dinos Chapman - review 2011-07-14T15:05:56Z

And it is perhaps this fascination, with the interface between technology and transcendence, that is the real clue to his interest in 3D. Interview: Martin Scorsese 2010-11-21T00:06:00Z

In his brilliant analysis of minstrelsy, social historian Eric Lott has dubbed this paradigm “Love and Theft,” which unpacks the curious fascination — and envy — white people have had from the start with black culture. Analysis: Macklemore apology for win over fellow rapper raises race issue 2014-01-29T05:32:49Z

Observers first noticed Trump’s fascination with Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, in which Tom Hardy’s hulking, masked brute seizes Gotham, when the president stole one of the villain’s lines for his 2017 inaugural speech. Why is Donald Trump obsessed with Bane in The Dark Knight Rises? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

It’s telling that Hollywood’s fascination with movie presidents coincides with a trend throughout the 20th century that resulted in increasing concentration of executive power. Perspective | Trump’s exit may be too late to save the presidential movie 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

Personality to me is the ultimate fascination — how we're all so different, and yet we're very much alike in many ways. Joyce Carol Oates on memory and personality: An interview 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

And, says the director, it's an innate fascination in human nature and the essence of life that drives his film-making. Linklater's epic journey into Boyhood 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

His current fascination is Jerusalem — specifically, what its variegated musical traditions and its place in the European musical imagination tell us about the city’s fraught history and, perhaps, its destiny. Music Review: Jordi Savall?s ?Jerusalem? at Rose Theater 2010-05-04T21:05:00Z

She touches on the general fascination that existed in the 18th and 19th centuries with criminals, and writes at length about the language they used. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z

His portraits are driven by desire and fascination. Man Ray does glam – the week in art 2013-02-08T16:01:44Z

The film’s philosophical perspective is developed from Robert Macfarlane’s book Mountains of the Mind, whose eloquent words on our fascination with mountains are heard throughout. Mountain: a movie that reaches new peaks of cinematography 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

I understand that I'm known for playing these kind of guys and that there's a real fascination for them. De Niro plays mobster for laughs 2013-11-22T07:35:46Z

Robbins’s fascination with the way dancers move when no one is watching seems to have rubbed off on Mr. Schumacher. Troy Schumacher Prepares His First Work for City Ballet 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

That youthful fascination feeds into Titchner's work in his new solo show, Be True to Your Oblivion, at Walsall's New Art Gallery. Home of Metal turns the Midlands up to 11 2011-07-10T20:30:02Z

"Base Notes" is a stand-alone novel that draws upon Donnelly's father's fascination with scents, and her own deep research into "scent culture," famous barbers — and perfumer murders. When love and perfume lead to "a side hustle in murder for hire" 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

A transgressive figure like Graham Greene used to quote Browning's fascination with "the dangerous edge of things" with approval. Dickens, Browning and Lear: what's in a reputation? 2012-05-17T13:17:32Z

French art in the 19th century is rich and strange, including not just the genius of Monet, but the fruity fascination of Gérôme. Jean-Léon Gérôme: orientalist fantasy among the impressionists 2012-07-03T11:28:41Z

He recalls staring with pride and fascination at the elegant bookcases his father crafted for a wealthy white man, and then, a few weeks later, how his father was hung by another group of whites. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Unhappy surprises 2010-10-11T05:01:00Z

Most of Britten's observed objects of sexual fascination were aged between eight or nine and 16 or so. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z

That realization gave Gilpin a window into her character and the public’s fascination with this young woman in the background on their television. Julia Roberts returns to TV in Watergate-era series ‘Gaslit’ 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Like Stella, Gubbiotti has followed his fascination with shapes and patterns right off the rectangular picture plane. Review | In the galleries: Artists join forces to adorn a wall that will come tumbling down 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

The pianist Dave Burrell sat onstage at Roulette on Wednesday, his sizable frame stooped over the keyboard with a combination of studious grace and earnest fascination. Jazz Giants Dave Burrell and Archie Shepp Retrace Their Five-Decade History 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

All the telltale Varvatos touches were on display, from the looping scarves to the lived-in layering and a fascination with detail. Special Report: The Forecast? Variable and Partly Stylish 2010-06-20T16:13:00Z

Recording the album coalesced all of Mouse on Mars’s recent fascinations. Mouse on Mars at M.I.T.: A Symposium Becomes a Dance Party 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Nonetheless, you leave "Cooking in Progress" with respect for a man who followed his vision, and with fascination at the idea of food as artistic expression. 'El Bulli' makes you hungry for something else 2011-12-01T21:50:11Z

Look no further than critics’ punching bags Journey and Toto becoming cool or the way the Yacht Rock phenomenon has transformed overly earnest ’70s and ’80s soft rock into a beloved cult fascination. Year of the Monkees: How the once-maligned “Pre-fab Four” came out on top — and cemented their legacy 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

This is still used for Crown Court trials, and guided tours with shiver with horrified fascination. Yesterday was Lancashire Day 2012-11-28T15:45:59Z

Stanislas de Quercize, the company’s chief executive, also referred to the underlying sensuality, epitomized by the author Vladimir Nabokov and his dual fascination with butterflies and young girls. 2010-02-03T04:30:00Z

I'd also recommend visiting the Paul Bowles wing of the American legation: there's a certain fascination in seeing his battered suitcases in there, rich in labels. Beat and dust: Tangier's tang of history 2010-11-23T13:26:00Z

We watch in fascination as he orders food in rudimentary Mandarin and slides into an empty spot. Delving into the hutongs of Beijing, chopsticks at the ready 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

What can you say about the appeal of and our collective fascination with British class period drama? "Mothering Sunday" director on challenging politics through intimacy: "Nudity levels out classes" 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, which is released on Netflix on 12 June, is the newest entry in cinema’s decades-long fascination with the trauma experienced by US soldiers during the Vietnam war. From Platoon to Winter Soldier: 10 of the best Vietnam war films 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

Even if you are otherwise not interested in Cirque du Soleil — hi, I get it — this is still an example of that special kind of fascination that’s born when skill meets passion. What You Should Watch This Week if You’re Missing a Favorite Show 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

The worldwide notice given this past month to the re-attribution to Rembrandt of a small painting at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum is a testament to the fascination the Dutch artist still holds for us. Review | In ‘Young Rembrandt,’ Onno Blom tries to piece together the artist as a young man 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

Conversely, there is something like love, or at least romantic fascination, within Mr. Shawn’s blatant hostility. | 'Marie and Bruce': There?s Room for Everyone Aboard a Marital Misery Tour 2011-04-06T03:00:05Z

For years, Kyle understood their fascination with transgender fiction, and with trying on women’s clothes, not as gender dysphoria but as a sinful addiction. Kyle is transgender. It took 30 years and a pandemic for them to realize it. 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Hirst is the son of a used car salesman, which might explain his fascination with wealth. Damien Hirst at Tate Modern 2012-07-09T14:15:00Z

They began exchanging messages, and soon bonded over art and architecture, including a mutual fascination with the artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini's failed 1665 visit to Paris to design the east front of the Louvre. A Shared Love of Art, Architecture and the Italian Spritz 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

It would be disingenuous not to acknowledge that Kholodenko had to be an object of a certain sensationalist fascination for much of the audience Saturday. In Vadym Kholodenko, talent and tragedy mix 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

But adult fascination with kids’ literature isn’t just a matter of nostalgia. Books for Young Readers in The New Yorker 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Getting to the root of people’s fascination with fiction and fantasy, Mr. Gottschall said, is like “mapping wonderland.” Next Big Thing: Literary Scholars Turn to Science 2010-03-31T22:36:00Z

But the true fascination of Michelangelo lies in what he did with his fame. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z

Inspired by a lifelong fascination with science and lecture visits to MIT, Oxford and Harvard, the long-gestating “Dark Matter” is a concept album about the cosmos. Your week in Seattle music: Joan Baez, Flying Lotus and more 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

We are watching a sort of fascination at work. The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas, by Isaiah Berlin – review 2013-07-23T11:27:37Z

I just read “Fifty Shades of Grey,” and I know I’m really late to the party, but it’s women’s fascination with dark and dangerous men. Bigfoot, sexy? Erotica author explains 2014-01-23T00:00:00Z

But my fascination went beyond stereotypical Gen X malaise, never mind that the outside world would assume that time and culture moves everyone along at the same pace and call me a Millennial. Sitting in front of David Berman's old apartment in the middle of the night 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Matters soon turn awry when the young woman develops a fascination with Mandragorass, the property's rightful owner. Chapman brothers to film adaptation of The Marriage of Reason and Squalor 2013-05-20T15:44:41Z

The fascination of Wright’s book lies partly in the way it matches our instinctive understanding of the interior richness of other people. The Forgotten Novel That Inspired Homesickness for an Imaginary Land 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Crime is an enduring fascination for humans,” said Mr. Badinter, who is working on an opera based on the novel “Crime and Punishment.” Paris Gawks Again at the Guillotine 2010-05-07T11:44:00Z

The Japanese dream was over, perhaps, but the fascination with Japan was not. Van Gogh Never Visited Japan, but He Saw It Everywhere 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

The other fascination of returning to the pilot or premiere after watching the finale, though, is that it reverses the way in which a drama normally works. Television re-runs: only 235 episodes to go 2011-03-06T22:46:00Z

I don’t tend to keep my own paintings, but these relate to the Morris relief, which is part of my fascination with shiny, bright plastic design objects. An Artist’s Life in Objects, From a Warhol Print to a Postmodern Lamp 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

The actor said that he felt close to the Apple founder as they shared a fascination for "tech space". Ashton Kutcher landed in hospital after following Steve Jobs's fruitarian diet 2013-01-28T13:35:36Z

He had a long fascination with New Orleans as a rich, cultural, and historical reservoir for an American story, and he has a deep love for New Orleans. Jeffrey Wright preens in 19th century New Orleans 2010-11-23T03:01:00Z

Both were finished in the year preceding his death and reflect his lifelong fascination with the circus. Picasso and Léger Works on Paper Are on the Block 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

My own mother will turn 101 in a few weeks, to my fascination and amazement. Chicago woman to join elite ranks of supercentenarians 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

“But if they were younger women, they would say the rangoli was better, reflecting the fascination with color and changing notions of beauty.” The Art and Ritual of Rangoli 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Was this assailant pursuing some fascination with the Poussin code? Why Poussin's Golden Calf was a sitting duck at the National Gallery 2011-07-18T13:11:13Z

Cuba had long been a place of distant fascination for me. In Cuba, as an uncertain future inches closer, it’s still a step back in time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

The Beatles disbanded just 15 months after the rooftop concert, but our fascination with them and their music continues unabated. Get Back: The Beatles rocked the rooftop 50 years ago 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

“Have a smoldering fascination with exotic or poisonous snakes?” it seems to say. Critic?s Notebook: Writhing, Hissing and, uh, Biting 2011-04-28T21:48:38Z

This is just a small fragment of Lai’s extravagant narrative, whose charm and fascination lie in its countless subtle details and improbable propulsive thrust — as in “A Thousand and One Nights.” Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z

I was a 13-year-old North Carolina middle-school student then, and secretly followed the coverage of what became a Cultural Event with an uneasy fascination. Review: Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto Enter Sniping in ‘The Boys in the Band’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

And for some, I think, the fascination is mingled with fear. Motherlode: Why Caylee's Death is Personal 2011-07-06T12:29:29Z

Beyond our usual, morbid fascination with the inner lives of the wealthy, beautiful, otherworldly being that is the celebrity, why do we care? Why do we even care which celebrities bathe? An investigation 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

Given Stegner’s lifelong fascination with the American West, a landscape simile seems appropriate. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

In wartime, she went without bathing for weeks; she felt morbid fascination in front of ruined train tracks and gassed German corpses; and she took home a few creepy battlefield souvenirs. Over There: Daughters of Liberty 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

The film, Mr. Aster’s debut feature, is engaging, unsettling and unpredictable, generating a mood of anxious fascination punctuated by frequent shocks and occasional nervous giggles. Review: In ‘Hereditary,’ the Horror is Slow-Cooked and Homemade 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

He also had a long fascination with the Middle Ages, monastic traditions, languages and all manner of arcane knowledge. Umberto Eco, best-selling author of ‘The Name of the Rose,’ dies at 84 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

The chorus line emerged from a time of regularized movement, from the fascination with moving parts and precise timing of the machine age. Perspective | The Rockettes, still kicking after 85 years. Here’s why we love them. 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

The fascination with the harmonics lasts only so long. David Lang, Michael Gordon and So Percussion toy with minds 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

These images are among Leonardo’s most mysterious, combining many of his interests, including his lifelong fascination with geology. Special Report: The New Art Season: The Renaissance Flowers Again 2011-09-07T10:30:06Z

The never-ending fascination with 1970s New York night life takes a more tangible form at Night Fever, a temporary bar and gallery that opened last November at the Museum of Sex. At the Museum of Sex, a Bar Where You Can Boogie Oogie Oogie 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Having written eight novels, and lectured for eight years at the University of Kent, she has developed a fascination with the way that she thinks "beginning writers" go about becoming good ones. Monkeys With Typewriters by Scarlett Thomas – review 2012-10-13T23:05:32Z

But this tome is not about depth — it’s about fascination. Is Rihanna’s ‘Visual Autobiography’ a Triumph or a Tease? 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

But his fascination with Prometheus began not in the wild but in his Santa Monica apartment. Artist still pines for Prometheus, the Methuselah of bristlecones 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

She became a model and a nightclub fixture, an androgynous, warrior-like figure of great fascination and novelty. Grace Jones has been a star for 40 years, and there’s still no one quite like her 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Yet, the Met’s Modern department might turn into the Tate of Fifth Avenue, with all that that implies about the British fascination with post-colonial cultures and a desire to dismantle Western-centric versions of art history. Becoming Modern: The Met’s Mission at the Breuer Building 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

The Museum of London's exhibition will look at the interplay between Holmes and the city, a source of fascination for the fictional detective. Show will study Holmes and London 2013-06-25T11:27:10Z

Ever since my son was a baby, he’s had a fascination with airplanes, peering up at them through his long eyelashes, and drawing contrails in the sky with white finger paint. The journey to confront my rapist 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

Clean eating is an extension of our cultural fascination with minimalism, which is to say curation, which is to say conscious consumerism. Moon Juice’s haute healing: What aspirational lifestyle diet books are really selling 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Much of the fascination with this case stems from an as-yet unanswered question: Why was a gazillionaire going to a random strip mall massage parlor anyway? Robert Kraft Awaits Your Judgment: ‘I Am Truly Sorry’ 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

That helps to explain our fascination with Rihanna, before and after “Anti.” Is a Rihanna album without hits still a Rihanna album? 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

The fascination with Dion endures in part because her Cinderella story never grows old. 25 Years After ‘Titanic,’ Quebec’s Love for Céline Dion Will Go On 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

But when they finally met, fascination allowed her to be fully present. After Two Dating Apps and 98 First Dates, Something Was Different About the 99th 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

The filmmaker Ronni Thomas will, when he presents this illustrated lecture about the fascination with 3-D macabre during the Victorian era. Weekend Miser: Events Inspired by the Written Word 2010-07-29T21:57:00Z

In her fascination with the man and his legacy, Berman lets him tell his story in an on-screen interview that consumes most of her film. A Hugh Hefner Documentary: Airbrushed 2010-07-31T06:45:00Z

In contrast, the public’s fascination with traditional organized crime has seldom been greater, as witnessed by a stream of TV dramas, from “The Wire” to “Narcos.” Natural Born Killers: Italy’s ‘Baby Gangs’ Blast Through Roberto Saviano’s Debut Novel 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

The associations went beyond the general subject of the American fascination with firearms. ArtsBeat: Discovery's 'American Guns,' After Aurora 2012-07-26T16:20:05Z

One of the evening’s fascinations is the disparity between Ms. Scott’s bubbly, wide-eyed stage personality and her visceral theme. Music Review: Sherie Rene Scott at 54 Below 2012-10-17T21:42:46Z

Her mother, Virginia Sanchez, who features prominently in the book and the play, is a renowned santera, who instilled love and respect for their Taína-Lukumí-Boricua legacy, as well as a fascination with words. How Her Ancestors Reignited Her Return to Theater 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

Retreating from his earlier fascination with people as unique psychological entities immersed in social space, he turned instead to a more private vision. Review | Degas had a gift for conveying the truth — even when he was making it all up 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

We spoke to Cole from his home studio about his rousing new “Standards” album, the economics of culture, how musicians age, the pros and cons of crowd-funding, and his longtime fascination with David Bowie. Lloyd Cole’s Dylan epiphany: “I thought that gentlemen of a certain age shouldn’t make certain records” 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

There weren't any blind children at our school so it was this big fascination for me: "What do you mean this musician can't see?"I loved music from a young age. Corinne Bailey Rae: Soundtrack of my Life 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z

No other artist in history exerts such fascination. Leonardo da Vinci: art's mystery man 2011-07-13T15:38:22Z

At the heart of Mr. Taborn’s enterprise is a fascination with pure sound. Lonely Voyage of Player,Piano and Audience 2011-07-02T04:00:25Z

The filmmaker, who won an Oscar for “The Big Short,” talks about his latest movie and his long fascination with the former vice president. Golden Globes Honor ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ ‘Green Book’ 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

One of the founders was Mr. Sagan, who himself had a lifelong fascination with the question of extraterrestrial life. Suspicious Minds 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

That fascination is partly due to Michael Halling’s subtle, intriguingly contradictory performance as Jefferson. Review | ‘Jefferson’s Garden’ blooms with contradictions at Ford’s 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

If “The Artist” revels in gimmickry and occasionally oversells its charm, it also understands the deep and durable fascination of the art it embraces. | 'The Artist': ?The Artist,? by Michel Hazanavicius - Review 2011-11-24T13:00:00Z

The appeal he is making to the crowd, as he is getting them to laugh, is to consider this almost reflexive fascination, and to deny even a germ of it in themselves. George Carlin’s Shocking Prescience on the Nights Before 9/11 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

While the two shared a willed remove from the demands of everyday life and a fascination with a style unencumbered by bourgeois strictures, Saint Laurent was fixated on the bygone, and she was not. 19 Things About Betty Catroux 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Finally, there is Mr. Viola’s fascination with water. My Bill Viola Video Marathon 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

When Lewis is sent away to the archipelago of Heligoland to work on the destruction of munitions, he almost knowingly allows Lubert and Rachael the space needed to indulge their increasing fascination for each other. The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook – review 2013-05-31T09:00:02Z

I also think that his skill as a typeface designer fits in with the current fascination with type design. Designer for the age of austerity 2012-06-25T00:00:00Z

For me, the virus was an anxious fascination, a woozy thrill. The year of no Halloween 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

Despite its overwhelming barrage of information, the piece isn’t pedantic, or out to prove anything about conspiracies other than their endless fascination. Review: ‘Real Enemies,’ at the BAM Harvey Theater, Sheds Light on Conspiracies 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Growing up just outside of Seoul in Anyang, South Korea, she developed an early fascination with the interplay between form and space. Myung Eun Cha’s Avant-Garde Loungewear 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

The Boston Herald deplored its “wearisome repetitions” but noted the “certain weird fascination that it exerts.” What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

"But I found myself searching through what I've got here, to address some fascination with life — or need from life." Photographer captures curious power of common items 2012-01-13T18:22:42Z

The 52 lots also include a letter defending Darwin’s ideas about evolution, a manuscript capturing Newton’s fascination with alchemy and a book explaining Einstein’s understanding of relativity. Stephen Hawking Auction: Bid on an Invitation to a Party for Time Travelers 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

For as imagined by Docter and his cohorts, these outer reaches of the mind are filled with numerous areas of fascination. Pixar's 'Inside Out' makes emotions appealing 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

“One of my biggest fascinations was boring me.” On the Runway Blog: Fivestory, a New Midtown Boutique, Chooses Carefully 2012-04-13T19:26:32Z

More than once, as she spoke of her fascination with the mystical, she stopped herself. Retrospectives of the Filmmaker Nina Menkes 2012-02-19T03:37:17Z

Still, for true fans, the fascination is undeniable. Original Gatsby Film Payout to Fitzgerald: Less Than You’d Think 2013-04-29T18:23:44Z

Paramount Pictures Motion pictures and airplanes were invented around the same time, so it’s no wonder that a history of the medium is also a history of its fascination with motor-powered flight. Flights of Fancy: 10 Great Airplane Movies 2013-08-12T09:45:58Z

Certainly there are further layers of fascination to be observed in the originals, not least the three pieces on display at the National Gallery. ‘Degas’s Little Dancer’ Spotlights a Seminal Sculpture 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

Two wines made with the same grape grown in vineyards not too far apart can differ dramatically in flavor — that’s one of wine’s compelling fascinations. Toast la dolce vita at brunch by popping open this bottled Bellini cocktail 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Part of the fascination of Brahms's works lies in the tension created by an emotional power that threatens to burst the bounds of his classical structures. LPO/Masur ? review 2011-02-08T18:15:10Z

America's fascination with crime is evident on the list, as Anthony is closely followed by former football player O.J. Casey Anthony, Marilyn Manson top list of creepy celebs 2011-10-27T12:41:04Z

Who is using the platform this way is a matter of much fascination in the art world. Instagram Takes on Growing Role in the Art Market 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

There’s little tragedy in a large corporation’s declining market share, but there’s a lot of fascination in watching the fissuring of a hegemony. The Twilights of Air Jordans 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

In “The Guardians,” an uncommonly beautiful drama by Xavier Beauvois, work itself is a strong part of the fascination. ‘The Guardians’ Review: A Sumptuous Dramatic Harvest 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

Along with the 1999 hits “The Sixth Sense” and “The Blair Witch Project,” the popularity of “The Ring” represented a shift from the fascination with teen-slasher fare that had dominated the previous three decades. ‘The Ring’ at 20: Millennial Horror That’s Still Infecting Movies Today 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z

His fascination for historic and cultural figures also led him to acquire their clothing. Is Nazi Loot Amid His 6,000 Oils, Some Grenades and Napoleon’s Toothbrush? 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

Almost 40 years after their first hits, Petty makes a valid case for America's continued fascination with the boomers' legacy. Tom Petty and Steve Miller: boomers with something to prove 2010-06-10T20:55:00Z

And just like the proud human rights framework we now treasure, his fascination with totalitarianism was also inspired by the second world war. Pinter's Hothouse will never cool down 2013-05-09T10:45:25Z

Part of the fascination with the High Line is that it is more than just a pretty place. After High Line?s Success, Other Cities Look Up 2010-07-14T15:54:00Z

But there is something about tennis that may explain why fans harbor a certain fascination with the romantic companions of their favorite players. Singles Become Doubles 2013-08-30T21:03:03Z

I’ve been able to maintain a childish fascination with it for almost 40 years. An Exit Interview With the Man Who Transformed the Oxford English Dictionary 2013-04-24T02:14:01Z

Ironically, many believe Salinger's quest for privacy actually stoked far more fascination. JD Salinger's secret life exposed in new documentary 2013-05-18T12:04:10Z

“The fascination with the female universe, he’s constantly paying homage to that.” Pedro Almodóvar and His ‘Cinema of Women’ 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Watch out, says Adrian Searle - even from a great height, they exert a strange, hypnotic fascination. Nam June Paik: Watch with Buddha 2010-12-19T21:30:02Z

Ms. Letinsky, who grew up in Manitoba, said her interest in food sprouted from her fascination with still lifes, which she said were overlooked and considered as “B movies” of their time. Laura Letinsky’s Food Photography 2012-10-09T22:53:17Z

To the child, neither the images nor the man’s fascination with them are comprehensible, yet his desire to return to that cramped, decaying space is too strong to ignore. Review: In ‘We the Animals,’ Three Brothers Rush Toward Maturity 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

She performed “Honey,” which had been a topic of great fascination since early 2017, when it played, in unfinished form, during the end credits of an episode of the last season of “Girls.” “Honey,” Reviewed: Robyn Has Returned, and She Has What You Want 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

But as long as there is a fascination with glamorous, powerful or even wayward women, it is likely that Antoinette will continue to command our attention for a long time to come. Marie Antoinette — extravagant French queen has long been a symbol of female excess 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z

The book is not a narrative, but a platter of diversions and fascinations made by someone with a deep knowledge of East Asia in the 1600s. ‘Mr. Selden’s Map of China’ charts a fascinating course, circa 1600 2013-12-31T22:37:14Z

What did not come along on this tour is the famed gold death mask that most people associate with the boy king and that captured the public's fascination in the 1970s. King Tut's treasures return to Seattle beginning May 24 2012-05-17T16:49:04Z

His recent work — a flurry of productivity after an extended silence — has embedded his fascination with the cosmic and ephemeral dimensions of time in individual stories. Review: ‘Voyage of Time,’ the Cosmology of Terrence Malick (the Short Version) 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

“I’ve always wanted to be in an Italian movie,” she said recently, recalling her lack of fascination with the American films she saw growing up in Essex, England. Helen Mirren Hits the Road 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

Less compelling are details of Hancock's fascination with technology, which fed his career with the funk-fusion band the Headhunters and beyond. Herbie Hancock's memoir recalls a creative life and all that jazz

As Hovhaness’s initial fascination with Armenian music expanded, his curiosity led him further and further afield, first to India, where he lived in 1959 and 1960, then Indonesia, and finally to Japan, China and Korea. ?American Mystic? Marks Alan Hovhaness?s Centennial 2011-11-04T20:26:09Z

I cannot understand the fascination and obsession of so many people in this country, from all shades of the political spectrum, with these weapons. Review: ‘On the Exhale’ Addresses Grief and the Attraction of an Assault Rifle 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Her fascination with animation, like Disney’s, focuses on its boundlessness. Unpacking and Decoding the World of Animation 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

Liang’s “The Infinite Ocean” was like a living prayer, from the large, glowing sun fixed overhead to Liang’s devotional fascination with the curves and arcs of the dance body stretched to extremes. Review | Sleek modernism in the San Francisco Ballet’s new works 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

I grew up with America’s favorite purple dinosaur, Barney, but developed a deep fascination with real dinosaurs in elementary school. In Virginia, the dinosaurs still roam — sort of 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Part of our fascination with the idea of superhuman resistance to illness is the way we view health itself. The secrets of people who never get sick 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

For their part, the aspiring singers respect Kazaras' judgment, experience and fascination with details. Peter Kazaras, veteran of all opera trades, steers Seattle Opera's young artists 2011-03-30T02:35:05Z

My theory: The fear and fascination with deadly animals is from a mix of guilt and rationalization. Why we're fascinated by animal attacks 2010-08-18T11:01:00Z

All the resulting imperfections add to the sense of history and decay that, increasingly, seems to be her abiding fascination. Through a lens darkly 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

He developed his fascination with horses as a kid in Buffalo during what was arguably the sport’s heyday, following the exploits of horses like War Admiral and Citation. Me, My Dad and American Pharoah 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

For no urgent dramatic reason, Waller-Bridge does one conspiratorial monologue to camera – about her fascination with sex – while on the lav. Girls, Insecure and Stranger Things: how bathrooms became TV’s safe space 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

But despite one-child families becoming far more common, our fascination with their implied unusualness endures. The truth about only children: are they more insular and confident? 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

And Mendelssohn’s fascination with Baroque music — captured in this Bachian, if broad-boned, Prelude and Fugue — made his appearance here seem thematically apt, if peripheral. Music Review: Baroque 4x4 Festival at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church 2012-08-28T21:04:06Z

Ultimately, Knievel's appeal was a combination of the ghoulish fascination of his stunts and a reluctant admiration for his daring, Montville said. Evel Knievel: showman, rogue, reality TV Star 2011-07-20T09:27:20Z

That fascination with the grotesque comes through in much of his best work. The Faith Behind Aubrey Beardsley’s Sexually Charged Art 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

Then there is the fascination with colonizing Mars. Kimbal Musk takes the tech entrepreneur ethos and applies it to food 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

In “Spineless,” her memoirish, witty, insightful work, she explores her fascination with ocean science and the detours in her life — academic, professional and personal — that led to an unexpected and happy obsession with jellyfish. Wild Animals Gallop, Swim and Scamper Their Way Through These Books 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

But it’s his fascination with women and his ability to conjure memorable female characters that remain constants. Pedro Almodóvar and His ‘Cinema of Women’ 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

These books span the entire history of mankind's fascination with space. Stuart Clark's top 10 approachable astronomy books 2010-08-18T09:22:00Z

His fascination with hats lasted throughout his career. Bill Cunningham, Unpublished Photos 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

“It has a wonderful fascination to it, uncovering where the real jewels are, but they’re hidden.” | Below the Line: The Oscar-Nominated Editor of 'Moneyball' Deconstructs a Scene 2012-02-08T18:00:35Z

Juan Gris’s “The Man at the Café,” of 1914, a painting adorned with scraps of glued-on newsprint, might seem like a surprising fascination for Cornell, who was neither a painter nor a Cubist. These Shadow Boxes Are Striking. The Story of Their Origin Is, Too. 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

But the simple precision of the hand-drawn characters and of the watercolor world they inhabit provide visual coherence and establish an atmosphere of fascination as well as dread. Review: ‘Birdboy,’ a Disturbing Animated Feature from Spain 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

In Greece, they were objects of romantic fascination. The Real Amazon Warriors 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Besides, part of the fascination of the classical genres of Indian dance is that the view keeps changing. Review: At Indian Dance Festival, Subtleties in the Sway of a Torso 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

It is admiration, fascination, respect for someone who is passionate and good at their job. On ‘Killing Eve,’ Jodie Comer’s Villain Is Delightfully Dangerous. Here’s Why. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Rein thinks the current fascination with high-intensity exercise is linked, firstly, to the false assumption that exercising faster gets better results and, secondly, to the bragging rights that come with saying: “I’m busy.” The slow, steady rise of 'conscious movement' 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

The show’s audience, and its one-time ratings dominance on A+E, was as much about morbid fascination as it was about identification. The “Duck Dynasty” American dream: A cynical self-parody of Southern whiteness, whistling Dixie while Jindal’s Louisiana crumbles 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

I’m very fascinated by the collective fascination with con men and scam artists, and there’s some crossover there with P.T. Hugh Jackman Is Having Fun Playing as ‘Arrogant as You Possibly Can’ 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z

I would hazard that if you are going to see “Cats” the movie, you should see it like this, with a hundred or so people around to share in your fascination and horror. Mission Impawsible: How Much ‘Cats’ Can a Person Take? 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

It will certainly go down as one of the great works of 20th-century drama, a scathing endgame for American values and emblematic of Shepard’s lifelong fascination with the harrowing fragility of family bonds. Sam Shepard’s plays eulogized the American West’s pioneering spirit 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

It’s grandly entertaining, artfully lurid stuff, and not remotely shy of its own horniest impulses: Park’s fascination with bodies, and how we pleasure and abuse them, gets an acrobatic workout here. Does Moonlight prove that gay cinema has to be sexless to succeed? 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

F for Fake is a minor work in some ways, but there is fascination and poignancy in seeing Welles's elegant retreat into this hall of mirrors. F for Fake – review 2012-08-23T20:45:01Z

It just shows a pattern that the public's continued fascination with the controversy surrounding domestic abuse and abusive relationships is a problematic and borderline abusive relationship within itself. The year's worst Halloween couple costume, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, indicates a disturbing trend 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z

Nazi Germany – and in particular its chief mastermind – have long held a fascination for readers of world history. The year’s unlikeliest bestselling author: Hitler 2014-01-09T15:54:00Z

He spends much of the hour-long show ridiculing his own fascination with fame and his insatiable need to be loved. Simon Amstell’s Ego 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

The rising fascination with royal history may be the reason that explains this gamble. Auctions: Century-Old Vandalism of Islamic Art, and Its Price 2011-04-15T12:00:27Z

What strikes me is how the commercial theatre of yesteryear acquires an archaeological fascination over time. London Wall – review 2013-02-05T17:38:00Z

The ways that surging adrenaline and reawakened memories ignite elderly legends when they reach the spotlight is one of the peripheral fascinations of witnessing live . Mose Allison ? review 2011-08-05T15:12:59Z

The enduring American fascination with underdogs who hit the big time is found everywhere in its sports writing. Sports writing just isn't our field 2010-06-15T09:59:00Z

It begins with gouache paintings made while she was still living in Japan in the 1950s, compact, vivid works that suggest a fascination with cells, with the thickness of skin and the underlying dermis. Perspective | An exhibition of the beloved Kusama with everything but Kusama herself 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

But at the heart of the story lies Fonda’s bewildered fascination at the sight of a renewed Stanwyck. What I'm really watching: golden age Hollywood comedies 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

The public festivities reflected Britons' continuing fascination with the royal family, which despite its foibles remains a powerful symbol of unity and pride. History in the making: Kate, William are wed 2011-04-29T11:43:13Z

Part of this fascination also stemmed from the experiences of his family during World War II. His paternal grandparents were assimilated Austrian Jews who survived thanks to forged documents that disguised their identity. In His New Book, Daniel Kehlmann Says Hello to a Cruel World 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

Performances like these, Ms. Greif said, tap into her fascination with performance artists like Marina Abramovic, who is known for putting herself in extreme situations that push the limits of physical endurance. Ariadne Greif’s Searing Moment in Opera Cabal’s ‘Atthis’ 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

The couple is the object of fascination: He is a successful Wall Street trader, she is the daughter of offbeat socialites, and together they amass a huge fortune. 18 New Works of Fiction to Read This Spring 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

Brad Pitt stars as Achilles in the 2004 film Troy which represented another example of contemporary fascination with classical tales. Why the tale of Achilles and his lover still has the power to move us 2012-06-02T23:06:04Z

There’s a fascination when somebody is different and they find a way to break through. The Women of ‘The Dropout’ Want to Humanize Elizabeth Holmes 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

The simple beauty of the clothes in District 12, for example, recalls fashion's never-ending fascination with vintage work wear, authenticity and Americana, which is seen in "heritage" brands such as RRL and L.L. 'Hunger Games' fashions come to fiery life 2012-03-21T00:41:50Z

Others have speculated about the particular fascination with true crime among female audiences, which is striking when you consider how most victims in these stories are women, brutally slashed by spurned lovers or cheating husbands. “Only Murders” makes us question the ethically murky joy we derive from true crime 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

“You have to go back to look forward,” said Oscar de la Renta, as he explained his fascination with the Art Deco and Art Nouveau periods. Special Report: Sleek, Simple-And Ever So Streamlined 2010-02-18T12:49:00Z

Years of watching dancers prepare their roles were a boon when he moved into conducting, and he never lost his fascination with rehearsals. In ballet, conductors are the dancers’ guardian angels 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

The horror is rooted in the unknown, but this strangeness also sparks curiosity and fascination. Gray Matter: The Critique of Pure Horror 2011-07-17T04:49:00Z

Tough enough to push a fascination with military styles — from the fall men’s wear unveiled in Milan this week to the windows of the Gap — to new levels of ferocity. 2010-01-21T08:08:00Z

He had a fascination for women's shoes – the brighter the colour the better. Artist Piet Mondrian in London: the forgotten years 2010-06-25T13:00:00Z

Adapted from a boastful, semi-apologetic memoir by the renegade stock trader Jordan Belfort, the film oscillates between disgust at its selfish, obnoxious, amoral protagonist and giddy fascination with his exuberant, unabashed greed. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

We recently talked to the artist about his process, his pet preferences, and his enduring fascination with Charles Schulz. Ivan Brunetti’s “First Date” 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Just how common it is, however, and who is using the platform in this way is matter of much art world fascination. Instagram Takes on Growing Role in the Art Market 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

He ran away and was essentially homeless for several years in his late teens, developing a lifelong fascination with social outcasts, with whom he identified. Books Of the Times: ‘Fire in the Belly,’ on David Wojnarowicz, by Cynthia Carr 2012-07-19T21:57:47Z

Bands like Weezer and Green Day, fronted by sensitive but angry boys who railed against everything from the Iraq War to the injustice of getting rejected by cute girls, became my fascination. On transfeminine anger 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

I was put here to observe and build upon my fascinations. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

Mr. Carmichael spent some time as the chef at Mr. Chang’s Má Pêche in New York, and the two men share a fascination with the place where texture and umami and sensuality meet. Momofuku Seiobo Champions Caribbean Food With Australia’s Bounty 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

As I’ve since learned, she’s a hero, or an object of fascination, to many people, which is why she periodically takes a star turn in culture, as she is doing now. My Hero, Emily Dickinson, Outlaw of Amherst 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z

A few days later comes the solstice and the first Bartram’s Garden concert, presented by Ars Nova Workshop — an opportunity to explore his sound in open space, a longtime fascination for him. Steve Coleman, a Jazz Outlier, Rides a Wave of Acclaim 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

It’s almost a teenage, morbid fascination with what these young men went through, which was so horrific. Kit Harington on the 'Teenage, Morbid Fascination' Behind His Latest Role 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

“For me, it was the fascination of something new, and a chance to view and participate in what happens on the business side of arts presentation,” Ms. Fleming said in an email. How Do You Raise $3.47 Billion? Ask These Guys. 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

In this “post-deferential” world we live in, Mr. Bruce writes, “We still have a fascination for, and seek out, the illusive excellence of living; a style that was emblematic of the period.” Books of Style: Holiday Reading, Some Homework Required 2012-12-12T23:23:53Z

You Could Google Her NANTUCKET, Mass. ON this island of faded gentility, Wendy Schmidt — tall, blond and whippet thin — has long been a figure of some fascination. Nantucket Benefits From a Google Long-Distance Marriage 2012-08-29T20:34:37Z

Yet while we tend to label our fascination with every item they wear as part of the Insta-condition, a symptom of influencer culture and an increasingly visual world, really, it was ever thus. Before ‘The Crown,’ Revelations About the Actual Crown 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

The British label’s 3-D show, a first, was just the latest proof of the public’s renewed fascination with the visual technique. Special Report: The Big Bang -- in 3-D, of Course 2010-02-25T18:50:00Z

Ruskin wrote somewhere of his own boyhood fascination with the whorls on floorboards and the patterns on the carpet, as he played on the floor with a bunch of old keys for a toy. Rachel Whiteread: Through the eyes of a child 2010-09-06T20:31:00Z

“Code of Flag Behavior,” published a year later, reflected a fascination with the Pop Art strategies of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Tom Wesselmann. David Antin Dies at 84; Poet Created a New Performance Style 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Kirkland suggested that the appeal of the book also stems in part from our fascination with vampires and their ever-shifting presentation in Western art and culture. How Bram Stoker’s Dracula Became ‘Dracula Daily,’ and an Internet Sensation 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

It’s what has always propelled our fascination with true gothic crime on the screen, from “The Thin Blue Line” to “Unsolved Mysteries” to the entire “Investigation Discovery” channel. Obsessed with “Making a Murderer”: Why Netflix’s engrossing documentary on crime and corruption became a break-out hit 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

Raised as a Baptist, he regarded with fascination the old African beliefs that exist like a palimpsest behind the Christian institutions there. John Edmonds and the Allure of Africa 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

At Sunday’s concert, the fascination was purely musical, and substantial. Music Review: Karlheinz Stockhausen Seen in a Different Light 2010-05-04T21:25:00Z

Mr. Barrow’s fascinations generally run toward mathematical, geometric and psychological models that shape modern life. Mark Barrow and Sarah Parke’s Homespun Abstractions 2012-11-11T22:48:11Z

The exquisitely carved peacocks and birds of paradise decorating the pipes allude to Messiaen’s fascination with birdsong. Music Review: French, but Conversant in Many Genres 2011-05-09T21:14:58Z

A new fascination with flatpicking technique developed into a study of old-time music when she learned about the Black string band tradition concealed beneath the whitewashed narrative of what was once sold as hillbilly music. Amythyst Kiah Found Her Powerful Voice. Now She Has a Sound to Match It. 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

At 30 minutes, “Critical Mass” slightly outlasts its initial fascination, but it remains a thrilling exploration of physical possibility. Dance Review: Lyon Opera Ballet Offers a Premiere by Rachid Ouramdane 2014-02-26T22:22:22Z

“Among my middle-aged peers — my female and gay male peers, mostly — she was still an object of fascination,” writes Vanessa Grigoriadis, who follows with an interesting anecdote. TV's changing view of the change: The menopause conversation is getting better, finally 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

The latest installment in The New Yorker’s Annals of Obsession video series features a group of specialty-coffee experts and explores the fringes of the fascination. The Rise of Coffee-Connoisseur Culture 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

And in this play, first seen in 1981, he takes his fascination with the English sense of detachment to unusual lengths. Quartermaine's Terms – review 2013-01-30T01:07:38Z

Pattinson's famously handsome face is on-screen in every scene, but "Twilight"`s young fans may be surprised and confused by a film that explores Cronenberg's fascination with physical, social and psychic violence. Pattinson leaves vampires behind in 'Cosmopolis' 2012-05-27T11:46:05Z

Both she and Melville would go on to greater things, and there is undeniable fascination in this early, imperfect commingling of their talents. Review: Jean-Pierre Melville’s ‘When You Read This Letter’ Is a Vexing Noir 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

There is no doubt that twins hold a fascination for many novelists. Penelope Bush's top 10 teen twin books 2013-03-28T16:29:47Z

After the volcano Kilauea erupted on the island of Hawaii this summer, tourists began flocking there to witness the blistering spectacle, highlighting humans’ unending fascination with earth’s ancient, fiery pits. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘All American’ and ‘22 July’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

It is also the ultimate rebellion against the Yoruba dictum, a huge battle of a book, and to read it is to watch in fascination as Soyinka indulges in it. The Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka’s First Novel Since 1973 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

There, Ulises is treated as either an unwelcome outsider or an object of cultural fascination. ‘I’m No Longer Here’ Review: A Boy Adrift 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

The back-and-forth with Shostakovich is part of the fascination with Ustvolskaya’s place as one of the few Soviet women to gain prominence in the international music world. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

Personally, I see our horrified fascination with Lubitz and the crash as a metaphorical displacement, almost a distraction. Terror in the Alps: Behind the dark allure of the Germanwings disaster 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

The British novelist Beryl Bainbridge had a lifelong fascination with tragedy — what she called “an interest in death” and what one reviewer cattily summarized as “the Beryl Bainbridge school of anguished women’s fiction.” Beryl Bainbridge: The writer who used tragedy as an entry point into farce 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

This fascination has again been reignited on a mass global scale at the prospect of the release of Spencer. "Spencer": how Diana became the popular culture princess 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

His fascination with nature began when his father brought flowers home from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, where he was from. Bill Cunningham, Unpublished Photos 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

To the Mughal emperors who ruled India from the early 16th to early 18th centuries, they were objects of fascination. Art Review: ‘Yoga: The Art of Transformation’ at Sackler Gallery 2014-01-02T22:01:19Z

I thought perhaps I could learn more about Baker’s passionate relationship with France — and its mutual fascination with her. Exploring the France That Josephine Baker Loved 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Among the dishes that explain the fascination with the brand is the simply billed “tiradito.” Review | At the 38th iteration of Nobu, the pretense tastes awful 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

The talk shifts to Lost, and Abrams's continued fascination with magic – in this case, the magic that occurs when an audience's engagement with a show turns it into something bigger than originally conceived. JJ Abrams: 'I called Spielberg and he said yes' 2011-08-01T19:30:01Z

Equally bleak in subject matter, David Means's The Spot continues his ongoing fascination with the forsaken and destitute. A quick look at 2010 in short stories 2010-12-30T09:00:05Z

The English diarist Samuel Pepys had a fascination with dancing, if not quite a passion for it, logged in the journals he kept from 1660 to 1669. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Dance Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Raising Debussy’s early fascination with Indonesian gamelan, he cited two brief passages in the String Quartet in G minor and had the Ebène players demonstrate them. Classical-Music Station Sponsors a Week of Chamber Works, On and Off the Air 2011-04-06T21:30:07Z

How engaged viewers will be depends on their capacity and fascination with the lives of the ultrarich, gorgeous and discontented. “Big Little Lies” puts a basic cable story into a prestige package 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

This current fascination may attest as well to a saturnine swing in the sociopolitical consciousness. Outing Death 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

Plus, he had a fascination with mortality and death, with time running out, that I have definitely inherited. George Shaw 2011-02-13T00:05:02Z

Independent filmmakers who search for financing for their projects are likely to have met unusual characters with deep pockets and a fascination with movies. What’s Missing from “Foxcatcher” 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

This fascination is shameless and enduring, fitting into themes of aging that build throughout the book. Chills, Thrills and Spills: How Alex Honnold Conquered El Capitan 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

At this point it was clear — to understand the fascination, I'd have to speak with someone who doesn't peddle used body parts. How much would you pay for John Lennon's toilet? 2011-01-06T00:44:04Z

The British royal family has long been a source of public fascination, captivating mere mortals in Britain and beyond with a passion for all things Windsor. A Road Map to Shopping Like a Royal in London 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

Mark W. Moffett, the author of “Adventures Among Ants” and a student of the eminent biologist Edward O. Wilson, shares his mentor’s fascination with the lowly creatures. Armchair Traveler: Book Review: Adventures Among Ants 2010-06-10T18:38:00Z

This timely , led by former Heat editor Sam Delaney, ponders this fascination and explains the practical consequences for the players in this wretched industry – ravenous paparazzi, devious journalists, and their increasingly paranoid and litigious quarry. TV highlights 30/08/2011: The Great British Bake Off 2011-08-29T22:00:00Z

And it’s hard not to secretly adore villain Yubaba, whose aged face and bejewelled hands and wrists hold a strange fascination. The best animated films for grownups 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

But there's an undeniable fascination in the project, even some inspirational value, in Stone's conversations with a half-dozen leaders of nations struggling to emerge from under the shadow or boot of the U.S. Oliver Stone and Hugo Chavez: A Love Story 2010-06-27T14:15:00Z

But its fascination with empirical nitty-gritty comes at the expense of deeper character development and emotional resonance. Review: In ‘Queen,’ the Numbers Don’t Always Add Up 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

Some people may not want to read about these creatures, but for many they hold a sinister fascination. Book review: Philip Kerr’s ‘The Lady from Zagreb’ 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

As far as its box-office take goes, another unknown is whether exhibitors across the board will take advantage of the public's fascination with 3D to further increase ticket prices. "Dragon" poised to slay box-office competition 2010-03-26T02:10:00Z

But, for all its fascination, I'm not sure their story can quite bear all the symbolic weight placed upon it. Road Show ? review 2011-07-06T17:00:02Z

And as the legendary comic told IndieWire, sometimes that even means indulging in some newfound online fascination. Norm Macdonald on ignoring his own rules, and why he’d invite Louis C.K. on His Netflix talk show 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

He trained as a pianist, making a couple of recordings, but his fascination was always with the magic men of the podium. To the Conductor Claudio Abbado, the Orchestra Was a Collective 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

But he thinks it's the human element that gives the dispute its special fascination. Court seems to boost claim to 'Adam' and 'Eve' at Norton Simon Museum 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

“We need to redirect our gaze” to the white spectators, Ms. Rankine said, to ponder their fascination and their actions. Claudia Rankine on ‘Citizen’ and Racial Politics 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

The first is a fascination with the weird and fantastic. The best young sci-fi novelists 2013-04-15T11:51:22Z

And this, in part, explains the fascination of a book that looks at ideas of where we might go when we shuffle off this mortal coil. The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins – review 2013-01-06T00:06:53Z

In that interview Mr. Rihm, discussing the limitations of conventional opera and his fascination with ambivalence, states that “nothing is so obstructive to music-theater as a perfect literary text.” Music Review: Premiere of Wolfgang Rihm?s ?Dionysos? at Salzburg 2010-08-01T22:45:00Z

Any brief summary of this ingenious new novel is bound to be unsatisfying, but here is the premise: A wealthy couple, the Rasks, are the object of fascination in 1920s New York. 14 New Books Coming in May 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

The occasion made tabloid headlines in England; Ms. Goulding is a frequent subject of fascination in the British gossip news media. Ellie Goulding’s Cordial Breakup With Electronic Dance Music 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Yet he has spoken about his fascination with photos of Germans thrilled by the horrors they were witnessing – something seemingly explored in The Fall. Jonathan Glazer: 'Nazism took hold like a fever. It's happening again' 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

There's a strange fascination to this process and it led me to consider the link between performance and drawing. Tim Etchells on performance: learning your lines 2010-10-26T14:53:00Z

This exhibition, curated by Cornelia Homburg, argues that they were in fact deeply engaged with more poetical sensibilities, including Symbolism, and cultural, literary and philosophical connections between the arts, including the prevailing fascination with synaesthesia. Phillips Collection’s Neo-Impressionism exhibit captures movement’s escapist mood

“Having her be happy and relaxed and occupied, it takes that stress off of me,” Sanchez said of her daughter’s fascination with Coco, who reminded her of their own dog, Peanut. LAX’s therapy dogs help stressed passengers one pet at a time 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Even as I oscillated between delight and trepidation, fascination and boredom, I didn’t want to leave. ‘Ann Liv Young in Jail’ for Crimes Against Performance 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

A bit of an acquired taste and an example of Silverman’s fascination with Japan, the dish presents like Jell-O made savory with mirin and white soy sauce and garnished with peppery nasturtium leaves. Review | Little Pearl is the easiest route yet to Aaron Silverman’s whimsical food 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

In “Triumph of the Wall,” the first-time filmmaker Bill Stone all too faithfully records his morbid fascination with a stonemason’s attempt to build a 1,000-foot wall on a Quebec estate. Movie Review: ‘Triumph of the Wall,’ a Documentary by Bill Stone 2013-05-30T23:30:55Z

It's fitting, then, that Arcade Fire should share this fascination so much as to name their third album The Suburbs. Arcade Fire discover beauty within the darkness of The Suburbs 2010-07-22T16:13:00Z

It is tempting to exaggerate the enduring fascination of the ill-starred English colony. ‘The Secret Token’ Review: America’s First Unsolved Mystery 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

As Vecchio grew up, Hahn made her into an object of fascination for readers of The New Yorker. Getting to the Bottom of a Mickey Hahn Mystery 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

Because of my fascination with animals and also the inspiration through my work as a vet, my stories reflect my own interests. Gill Lewis: 'Our own survival depends upon protecting our environment' 2013-05-15T11:39:59Z

Concurrent with all of this, however, was a burgeoning fascination with West Germany. My Krautrock adventures: Faust’s albums were the greatest recordings ever made by anybody — how could I keep them to myself? 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

The fact that most of us don't know, of course, surely accounts for some of our fascination with the travails of monarchs. 'The Madness of George III': Not always good to be king 2011-04-22T19:19:07Z

And Soderbergh realizes McCraney’s intricately conceived negotiations with an air not of astonishment but of energized fascination—and he delivers the characters’ passionate energies with a mighty sense of swing. “High Flying Bird,” Reviewed: Steven Soderbergh’s Boldly Creative Look at the Politics of Sports 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

He worked on a steam engine in the railyard, and I watched him with fascination. Born in Mexico, the chef Eddie Hernandez now calls Atlanta home, where he breaks every cooking rule 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

It was his fascination with our ability to lie to ourselves that first brought Oppenheimer to Indonesia in 2001. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

Much of McCarthy’s earlier work is set in the American South and Southwest, and hinges on his fascination with good and evil and humanity’s bottomless capacity for violence and vengeance. Sixteen Years After ‘The Road,’ Cormac McCarthy Is Publishing Two New Novels 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

He conveys a great fascination with Chinese culture and history. Books of The Times: Dumplings With the Kitchen God 2010-12-08T23:25:00Z

Bolivian politics might seem like an obscure fascination, but Mountford became familiar with the country while writing about economics in neighboring Ecuador for a think tank. ‘The Dismal Science’: a dark brew of angst and economics 2014-01-22T22:35:56Z

Isaac Fitzgerald’s fascination with tattoos began when he was in high school; upon graduating, he set out to get his first ink. How Isaac Fitzgerald got chefs to spill their stories for 'Knives & Ink' 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

The piece emerged from Yang’s fascination with the novelist Marguerite Duras and her “childhood naïveté towards the colonialism that she lived through” in French Indochina, said Joo, who met Yang in 2004. Haegue Yang’s Radical Art of Obscure Delights 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

The 19th century had a similar macabre popular fascination, the penny dreadful. Penny dreadfuls were the true crime podcasts of their time 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

The fascination with wine begins with the land, which year after year has the potential to produce something different and original from the same vineyard. Five Wine Books to Give This Holiday Season 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

This tests the average person's fascination with the film industry and its history by forgetting the reason Hollywood exists – which is to generate entertainment. As "Godfather" origin stories go, "The Offer" is so bad it's criminal 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

The Getty will focus on other aspects of Mapplethorpe's aesthetic: his "disciplined studio practice and his fascination with classical form and the fine photographic print." Getty Museum and LACMA to combine for two-venue Mapplethorpe show 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

But while members of Mr. Benjamin’s celestial trio function as guides to a tragedy — they’re described in the epilogue as having “cold fascination with human disaster” — Haydn’s angels relate a story of triumph. Review: Haydn’s ‘Creation’: The Birth of All, With High Hopes at Mostly Mozart 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

Does anger hold a particular fascination for you, and why? With ‘Three Billboards,’ director Martin McDonagh shows his softer side 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

But the detached, enigmatic text keeps our sympathies distant, and implicates our own fascination with disaster as much as it does the patriarchy it shows in action. Review: ‘Written on Skin,’ an Opera of Love, Betrayal and a Little Cannibalism 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z

I admit to a certain sick fascination with how his brand of cynicism sells. Transformers: A 'Moon' to howl at 2011-06-28T05:19:00Z

The objects of that fascination are lethally destructive and scarily unpredictable, but, for the Kraffts, the danger was part of the allure. ‘Fire of Love’ Review: A Volcanic Romance 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

“I think some of it is because they are right from his brain and fingers to us,” explained Jen Flanz, an executive producer at “The Daily Show,” about the fascination with the president’s tweets. The ‘Daily Show’ Twitter library is just one of many art projects about Trump’s tweets 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

The result of all this dedication was a gorgeous yard that was a source of both fascination and mild jealousy among our neighbors, who would wave from their morning or evening walks. I was a serial houseplant killer, until I stopped making these five mistakes 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

She was fascinated by the mind’s shadowy realms, and this fascination no doubt contributed to her decision, in the late 1940s, to pursue therapy. The Many Faces of Patricia Highsmith 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

You liken the media to politicians here, but also tackle celebrity culture and our fascination with selfies and autographs. "France" director Bruno Dumont on Léa Seydoux, digital media and how the "fake can generate truth" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

There’s some irony in this, in that one of Alexander’s quirks is his never explained fascination with all things Down Under. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: short on drama but lots of fun – first look review 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Like a cinematographer racking focus, Mr. López was frequently able to draw the ear from one fascination to the next. Review: An Artist’s Transporting Sounds (Blindfold Optional) 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

In “Brilliant Light,” Oliver Sacks explores his childhood fascination with chemistry and science. Sunday Reading: Personal Histories 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z

Over the centuries, this fascination has only increased, perception colored by successive contemporary lenses. In the French city of Poitiers, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s influence is everywhere 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Her fascination with animals began early, when as a child growing up in Ohio she scanned newspaper classifieds to find puppies and horses for sale. At Home on the Farm and in E-Books 2011-05-18T22:06:11Z

Mr. Slimane attributed his longstanding fascination with androgyny in part to the ambiguities in his first name. Hedi Slimane, Designer Turned Photographer, at the Top of His Game, Again 2011-11-09T23:26:41Z

The book was such a huge international best seller that Mr. Koch is demonstrably not alone in his fascination with all things loathsome about humanity, and “The Dinner” did tell a propulsive tale. Herman Koch Returns With ‘Summer House With Swimming Pool’ 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

Few classical recordings have aroused as much fascination as Glenn Gould’s 1981 take on Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. Glenn Gould’s Bach Score Surfaces, Scrawls and All 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

It’s all there — the fascination with the art object, with authenticity and artifice, with looking. Ben Lerner Imagines ‘Different Futures’ in His Novel ‘10:04’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

I talked to Sylvie the other night about her fascination with cowboys and other things. Rock journalist Sylvie Simmons on her new album — “a lovelorn expanse of tumbleweeds and warm reverb” 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

Twenty-seven years ago, the brilliance of Christoph Hässler, known as Stohead, emerged from his fascination with the calligraphic aspect of graffiti — called tag — using single strokes to form continuous letters, at times illegibly. Within Walking Distance of La Biennale Paris 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

The case has so many of the ingredients of true-crime fascination that it hardly seems real. The Case of the Artist and the True-Crime Documentary 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

I think a real appreciation for directness and honesty, a real fascination with all the medical processes. ‘Prostate Dialogues’ storyteller John Spelman gets personal — but not in a ‘TMI’ kind of way

The Amis family spent a year in Princeton, N.J., a sojourn that introduced Martin to America, with which he maintained a lifelong fascination. Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

I'm certainly not alone in harboring a fascination with murder. Why Jack the Ripper and other serial killer narratives endure 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

The museum was established by Robert Opie, a compulsive collector whose fascination with everyday things began on a railway station platform. The Museum of Brands, Notting Hill, London 2012-09-28T21:45:02Z

Disappearance stories always provoke strong reactions and reliable media and public fascination — there’s a longing to unravel them and find some kind of conclusion, even if it’s a painful one. The Malaysia mystery isn’t an episode of “Lost” 2014-03-18T18:28:00Z

In what ways does your fascination with New York come out in your music, especially on this album? Dev Hynes: New York’s Last Bohemian on the City and His New Album 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Cleanly written, with a measure of sympathy and perhaps a little understandable mystification beneath the sober writing, “Dreadful” inspires a curious combination of fascination, pity and revulsion. Books of The Times: David Margolick’s ‘Dreadful’ Explores a Gay Novelist’s Anguish 2013-07-31T21:30:19Z

He was not an experienced playgoer—actually, this was his first time—and he watched the performance with blank-eyed fascination. Theatre for Babies 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

The end of “Peaky Blinders” signals the end of a certain era of British imports, a post-“Boardwalk Empire” period drama fascination. Best TV Shows of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

These are titles that fail to offend only because of their blatant offensiveness, and illustrate Bizarro's fascination with the vulgar, smutty, distasteful and crude. Bizarro fiction: it's terribly good 2010-07-16T14:20:00Z

As the ABC series “Scandal” suggests, there’s a fascination with off-the-books problem solving. Television Review: ‘Ray Donovan,’ on Showtime, Stars Liev Schreiber as a Fixer 2013-06-27T21:32:46Z

Mr. Punke’s surprising path started with his fascination with the historical West. ‘The Revenant’ Author Michael Punke Has a Day Job 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

As streaming platforms have made media both more accessible and social, fans have turned their fascination into full-on lifestyles. What Do Marvel Characters Eat? Pop-Culture Cookbooks Have Answers, and Rapt Audiences. 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

He taught courses on literature; Joseph Conrad, especially, was an endless fascination to him. A Study of Edward Said, One of the Most Interesting Men of His Time 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

This April will draw our fascination to a close as the final season airs. Roberto CoinVoice: How to Accessorize Like Your Favorite Mad Men Character 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

But as much as admiration, Gala provoked a mix of fear and fascination. Gala Dalí’s Life Wasn’t Quite Surreal, but It Was Pretty Strange 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

And this shift might be part of yet another one of West’s fleeting fascinations. Kanye West’s True Salvation on “Jesus Is King” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

Northerners’ fascination with humid climes gets bent in “Queer Tropics,” an eight-artist survey that includes painting, photography, video and multiple varieties of collage. Review | In the galleries: Images in ‘Weather the Storm’ are both reassuring and ominous 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

"The seductive vampire is, by definition, a source of irresistible fascination," Cameron said. How "Bram Stoker's Dracula" ushered in our thirst for the "sexy killer" 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

In the field of psychology, discussions of nostalgia come and go on the tides of scholarly fascination. The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z

And in a society as obsessed with celebrity as ours, where people claw their way to a camera or a microphone and serial killers breed fascination rather than disgust, someone should have remembered something. Where are the women Kerouacs? 2013-03-13T22:28:00Z

Far from lessening my curiosity about the past reception of art, it deepens my fascination. Perspective | Compassion. Claustrophobia. Originality. Why El Greco inspired so many great modern artists. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

That has its own abominable fascination – but it doesn't really seem worth following them. Looking back at the Lost Booker: Muriel Spark 2010-05-13T14:52:00Z

The law, of course, was of intense fascination for her when it was conveyed by theater. Perspective | Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave her life to the country — and her heart to the performing arts 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z

This national habit explains much of our continued fascination with the as-seen-on-TV version of the rich. Binge the rich! Window-shopping the lives of rich folks, this week on TV 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

As he grapples with his fading memories, he focuses on a former classmate, Ben-Zion Elefantin, and on his own fascination with archaeology. 15 New Books to Watch For in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Accordingly there are a multitude of novels, TV shows and films which seek to explore that fascination. Where are the good volcano novels? 2010-04-21T13:26:00Z

The rococo Versace Mansion in the heart of South Beach remains an icon of fascination. Versace Mansion Reborn as Miami Hotel 2010-03-23T21:00:00Z

For Officer and his wife, Kendall, the fascination with old vineyards began when they started their winery label, Carlisle Winery & Vineyards. What defines ‘old vines,’ anyway, and why are they worth preserving? 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z

A less well documented English obsession, in fact one of which I've only recently become aware, is our fascination with ghosts. Why are the English obsessed with ghosts? 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z

Fan claims such as these stem from the most dangerous branch of pop culture’s continuous fascination with the so-called “Yoko Effect” and its desire to connect female partners to actions they may not comprehend. Ariana Grande, Mac Miller and the demonization of women in toxic relationships 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Among other fascinations, we learn that Chad, the young man who plays Jimmy in the sleeve photos, had to go to court halfway through the shoot for stealing a bus. TV highlights 29/06/2012 2012-06-28T19:00:01Z

That period may be one of public television’s bottomless wells in the nonfiction genre and an endless source of fascination for history buffs and reenactors. PBS wants its own hit drama, but ‘Mercy Street’ lacks more than just a British accent 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

“Untraceable,” his first spy thriller after four novels that were more autobiographical in nature, shares some of le Carré’s fascination with secret worlds and the nature of evil. Raised on Le Carré, He Wrote a Thriller Dipped in Poison 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

A great book for children who are fascinated with bad guys, whether you approve of that fascination or not. Motherlode Blog: The New Reader’s Back-to-School Booklist 2013-08-21T13:56:02Z

Combining the sort of conspiracy theory that made Dan Brown rich with the endless fascination of Jerusalem, Raff and Kring set their story at the nexus of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. ABC's 'American Crime,' USA's 'Dig' up the ante on Thursdays 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Instead of pity and concern for the targeted party, celebrity harassment produces in fans feelings of both fascination and schadenfreude. The New Celebrity Diet: Cyberbullying 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

“There’s a morbid fascination that exists in so many elements of culture … which makes it all the more of a spectacle.” Discretion, not CGI: how Philip Seymour Hoffman was kept in the Hunger Games 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

A recent crop of books explores this fascination, suggesting that the current boom in the market for brand-name contemporary art — for all its occasional blips — is not going bust any time soon. Insiders Dish on the Art Market 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

His father was a musician and Royal Marine boxer with a fascination for futuristic housing prototypes. Thomas Heatherwick: the new Da Vinci of design 2012-05-18T09:00:00Z

Given his evident fascination with Hollywood string-pullers, friends cannot help speculating about a second act for him. Graydon Carter, the Last Impresario 2014-02-28T22:40:19Z

“We didn’t expect the fascination. Everyone was interested in it.” Thirsty for Wisdom of the Body, Finding It in Dance 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

His fascination with prehistoric artifacts dates from his boyhood in Carmel, Calif., where he found Native American archaeological fragments in the hills above town. At Abmeyer + Wood: the wizardry of William Morris 2013-06-20T21:54:25Z

It may seem less of a big deal in Britain, but in the US, public fascination with the OJ Simpson story isn’t going anywhere. 'And the Oscar will go to' … who shall win the 2017 Academy Awards, and why 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Her fascination with physical vision extends to the interpretation of what is seen: She thinks about how a sight is “constructed and enabled and reinforced” by its context. Jenny Xie Explores the Subversive Power of the Concealed and the Overlooked 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

"There's a different relationship with cars in the US and a fascination with customisation that's much greater than in the UK," she continued. Top Gear to have spin-off in US 2010-04-21T11:48:00Z

“And there’s a unique tone: a mix of goofiness and melancholy,” often registered in the mix of horror, disgust and rapt fascination with which Goodweather greets the monstrous things he sees. Corey Stoll enjoys ‘The Strain’ of series stardom 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

The admission, with its implication that he very much tried, is telling, given Johns’s obsession with replicating everything, and his evident fascination with the paradoxes at the heart of sameness and difference. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: A seminal artist’s career is celebrated and illuminated in two cities 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

Every English-speaking visitor to India watches with fascination the facility with which contemporary Indians switch from Hindi or Gujarati into English, and then back into a mother tongue. A global tongue 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z

His mother, who is now 49, says her son rocketed through his studies with a fascination for stories. Texas student uses photos to feature immigrants 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

Does the idea of a machine that’s as smart as you are inspire fascination? Critic?s Notebook: Actors and Their Roles for $300, HAL? HAL! 2011-02-08T22:25:38Z

Unsurprisingly, there is also a frequent fascination with lists and catalogues: in "Marilyn's Auction House", the larger-than-life cultural icon is reduced to an itemisation of her surviving possessions. Poetry ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:06Z

“The Suit” reflects Brook’s long fascination with Africa. Peter Brook on his ‘Suit,’ tailored for its Seattle dates 2014-03-12T19:32:39Z

While more grounded in the conventions of realism, “This Land Was Made” demonstrates Sampson’s fascination with how social constructs shape imbalances of power. For Her New Play, Tori Sampson Revisited Her ‘Black Power Household’ 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

His fascination with camera images and passion for the cinema meant that film and photography became an integral part of the fine art course at Leeds. John Jones obituary 2010-12-23T18:05:04Z

But space — which, along with time, is a constant source of fascination in Greenberg's works — is a crucial part of the complexity of this exceedingly fine play. Three stars for drafty 'Three Days of Rain' at Viaduct 2011-05-25T21:37:21Z

Thus began Johns’s career-long fascination with signs and symbols — not as a subject for representation, but as a goad to pure painting. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: Blockbuster exhibition reveals a brilliant but bleak legacy 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

The fascination of the show lies in predicting which date will get lucky. Have You Been Watching ? Dinner Date? 2011-07-28T13:36:00Z

The van Meegerens can also draw on the continuing fascination with World War II and the Nazis’ looting of Europe. So Valuable, It Could Almost Be Real 2013-12-31T23:14:12Z

This wide-ranging fascination with the fruits of historical study may, as Mr. Christie surmises, be partly because “the kids see a new opportunity to earn a living.” Early Music Is Enjoying Its Moment 2011-03-06T01:45:27Z

Is his fascination with the dark side of humanity the result of any traumatic experiences in his own life? LOLs with Haneke: I confess to the director about creating his cat-lover Twitter parody 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Her fascination, she said, has only intensified with time. Keeping Cool, Fashionably 2011-07-20T21:59:08Z

However, their academic fascination with the candy started somewhere much closer to home. The science and spectacle of microwaving Peeps 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

Her execution was so clear that the fascinations of the Bharatanatyam genre itself were objectively evident. Dance Review: Rama Vaidyanathan at Skirball Center - Review 2011-10-30T22:25:49Z

The best actor Academy award has always had a totemic fascination. Who is the best Oscar winning lead actor of all time? 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

The group hasn’t formed a bond yet; Bobby — RZA — is the only one linking the crew together, binding them with his dream, his lust, his hunger for and fascination with music. "Wu-Tang: An American Saga" is more than '90s nostalgia 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

This morbid fascination with the suffering of the young and beautiful is not new. "The Wonder": Netflix’s story of "fasting girls" shows us starving bodies remain a public spectacle 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

Photograph: HO/AFP/Getty Images She thinks that, for her, the fascination may have started long ago, when she was a small child, and another Scottish serial killer was on the prowl. Myra Hindley: a new chapter 2012-06-19T19:29:01Z

Quiet and watchful, the object of their fascination leans on her gnarled knuckles, straw clinging to her mat of ginger hair. | 'N?nette': A Meditation on Captivity, Featuring an Orangutan 2010-12-21T23:56:41Z

That same fascination remains as “Trading Spaces” reopens for business in Simi Valley, Calif., where two sisters, Michelle and Melissa live next door to each other — so already it’s a little weird. Review | ‘Trading Spaces’ returns to TLC, as comfortable as an old sofa 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

In her work, she brings a perverse sensibility to the baroque kitsch fantasy-land where she grew up, along with an historian’s fascination with various art forms. Rachel Feinstein and John Currin, Their Own Best Creations 2011-03-11T21:40:24Z

Part of Pharus' fascination for us is that he's a victim who's determined to be a contender. 'Choir Boy' melds music and message at Geffen 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

Labor history has long been a fascination of his. ‘Spamtown, USA’ Looks at a Bitter Strike Through Children’s Eyes 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

They are "my two loves", objects of a mesmerised fascination he strives mightily to conceal. The Round House by Louise Erdrich – review 2013-05-18T06:59:01Z

From as early as he can remember, Ford had a singular fascination with style. Tom Ford: ‘I wore a suit on set. It's a uniform… I feel weak in trainers’ 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Through Kidman's sheer force of nature, she transforms Grace, a character whose function is ultimately to unearth these residents' hypocrisy, into something more than just a symbol or mechanism of von Trier's ideological fascinations. "Good, honest folks": 20 years later, controversial "Dogville" has become frightening prophecy 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z

The show's well-heeled characters are just the latest examples of TV's fascination with the lifestyles of rich and the famous. Six to watch: TV's rich list 2012-05-29T14:42:01Z

An exhibition of monumental wood sculptures by Brzezinski reflects the artist’s fascination with trees and her adoration for the environment. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction

At heart, “The Chemistry of Tears” is about an intertwined rage and fascination with technology, which is how the BP oil spill finds its way here. Books of The Times: ?The Chemistry of Tears,? a Novel by Peter Carey 2012-05-21T03:47:19Z

Any ick factor is quickly replaced by an almost clinical fascination. Third visit still a charm for 'Body Worlds' 2011-03-18T17:38:00Z

In his photography, he depicted violent graffiti as the scars of war, and developed a longstanding fascination for how young men became enamoured with war. On the front line: a documentary tribute to Tim Hetherington 2013-01-29T11:25:02Z

The script reveals a fascination with the Oxford dictionary definition of the word "escritoire", as you might expect from two ambitious autodidacts. Where does all the best comedy come from? Death and war 2012-07-06T21:30:01Z

His "Brave Ones" pictures aren't the only evidence of his fascination with the way people in his country carry the past with them. T Magazine: Zwelethu Mthethwa's 'Brave Ones' 2013-01-31T14:00:59Z

For Schweblin, our fascination as a society with horror stories reflects a loss: a waning connection to “sublime” moments in art and life that “disarm everything inside us,” she said. For Latin American Women, Horror and Fantasy Capture Everyday Struggle 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

"The fascination for writing historical novels is that things were different but they were the same," he told the BBC in 2011. Booker Prize winner Unsworth dies 2012-06-08T10:23:46Z

Long before he glided down that golden escalator at Trump Tower in 2015 to announce his presidential candidacy, Donald Trump was an object of media fascination. Perspective | Journalists, it’s time for a cold-turkey breakup with Trump 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

“Kitchen” was meant to be the vehicle catapulting Warhol’s new fascination, Edie Sedgwick, to stardom, but she couldn’t remember her lines and sneezed her way through a lot of it. | 'Gob Squad?s Kitchen (You?ve Never Had It So Good)': ?Gob Squad?s Kitchen,? Inspired by Warhol, at Public Theater 2012-01-24T03:01:11Z

On Mr. Adams’s “1989,” Ms. Swift is an object of study, of fascination, of inspiration, of worship. Teaming Up, Together (Drake and Future) or Apart (Ryan Adams and Taylor Swift) 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

With its non-linear structure and final act aha moment, and its fascination with the slippery nature of identity and memory, Following announces with remarkable clarity the career that would follow. From Memento to Interstellar: our writers pick their favourite Christopher Nolan films 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

DelGaudio is one of several magicians enjoying a resurrected fascination with magic. Derek DelGaudio's 'In & of Itself' fills in the blanks — and the seats — at Geffen Playhouse 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

An occasional lyric in English showed a fascination with “the future,” a favorite Oorutaichi phrase. Music Review: Oorutaichi Performs at Japan Society 2012-11-18T22:25:21Z

In concept, “UnREAL” is TV-show as remora, hoping to capitalize on lurid fascination with, and skepticism about, reality programming. Lifetime’s ‘UnREAL’ Traces the Cracks in Reality TV’s Fourth Wall 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

He was a past president of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and advocated on behalf of aging actors who must contend with Hollywood’s fascination with youth. Marvin Kaplan, character actor who won laughs in ‘Adam’s Rib’ and ‘Alice,’ dies at 89 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

His fascination with border frictions saturates his scholarship application. Texas student uses photos to feature immigrants 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

Much of the fascination comes from the way “The Village Bike” upends expectation. Theater Review: 'The Village Bike' Explores a Woman's Desire 2011-07-12T13:00:05Z

But his fascination with colour, somewhat aloof in the past, has also produced the thesaurus paintings of the past decade. Richard Hamilton: The Late Work; Mel Bochner: If the Colour Changes – review 2012-10-13T23:06:10Z

It might be anything from lace to a Dutch barn; the fascination is with the act of making, which parallels the poet's own craft. Judging the Forward prizes for poetry: my verdict 2013-07-08T13:00:01Z

You can understand the mutual fascination of these two, each of whom is more than a little monstrous. | 'Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky': Jan Kounen?s Tale of Artists in Love 2010-06-10T23:28:00Z

While working in a hospital as a surgical tech, she was recognized and bore the brunt of her coworkers’ simultaneous fascination and disdain. Our porn double standard: Bree Olson slut-shamed after leaving adult industry while James Deen gets more work than ever 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

I thoroughly enjoyed the show, but it was definitely thinking-cap theater, involving long monologues about the fascinations of prime numbers, jokey allusions to string theory and more. It?s Been a Gloomy Summer on New York Stages 2010-07-28T17:57:00Z

Our fascination comes mostly from spotting, amid the narrative shrapnel, flashes of future works and roads not taken. Roberto Bolaño Recenters His Mythic World 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

But Eve approaches each new X-rated discovery with fascination and newness, and the entire world becomes a laboratory of choices and query. The sexual frustration of "Mrs. Fletcher" 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

In the second book, which I like even better than the first, the writer catches the mixture of disgust and strange fascination that little boys feel at the prospect of little girls. In translation: nine authors pick their favourite children's fiction 2013-06-28T17:29:01Z

Callahan is entirely worthy of Banks' fascination, and his underground status keeps him thriving outside the mainstream. 'Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film': Musician is still a mystery 2012-09-06T20:24:12Z

I trace my fascination with Lee right back to the moment she ascended as a television star in the early 2000's, when I was a perpetually awake new mother. Sandra Lee makes dinners on TV for people raised on TV dinners 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

But his spell abroad in no way lessened his fascination with the diaspora. Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Amirpour's fascination with macabre storytelling can be traced to her first experiments with film, a slasher short shot with her dad's camera when she was 12. 'A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night' has a definite bite 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Apatow decided to take the chance, hoping to marry Wiig’s sharp sense of character and fascination with minute human details to the broad, bawdy set pieces and fail-safe physical comedy he is known for. Can Kristen Wiig Turn On the Charm? 2011-05-01T08:30:02Z

It's a mix of fear and fascination, underpinned by the belief that Native Americans were less than human. Little house of maybe: "American Masters" on fact, fiction and the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

This season that fascination churned out a collection of romantic rockers. Special Report: Fashion: Rockin' On 2011-06-19T11:37:02Z

But when she meets a physics teacher in Tokyo, their shared fascination with light helps draw Fuyuko out, helping her confront her past — and her desire to change her life. 18 New Works of Fiction to Read This Spring 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

Mixed heritage is a continuing fascination for Ms. Wales Bonner, who describes herself as mixed race. London Men’s Wear Shows Reflect on Race and Masculinity 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

Michaels, meanwhile, has become an object of fascination as a kind of controlling, unyielding producer king. The Nine Lives of “Saturday Night Live” 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

But in tying his movie to a book written by a journalist unable to acknowledge her error, Mr. Vanderbilt’s fascination led him astray. When Journalism Catches Hollywood’s Eye 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Best known as a science-fiction writer, not a scientist, Whiteley brings a fascination with the alien aspects of nature to this more informal survey. Are Mushrooms Our Friends? 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

They’re in a B.D.S.M. club — a real one whose clients served as extras — so the onlookers watch in fascination and shout excitedly as the two men attack. Twenty Years Later, ‘Irreversible’ Still Shocks 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

Their shared fascinations include goofy earworm videos by Parry Gripp, musicals like “Rent,” “Avenue Q” and “Hamilton” and television shows like “Game of Thrones” and “Project Runway.” Out of ‘The Real World,’ a Relationship That Has Endured 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

“There are many prejudices about certain countries,” he says of our fascination with these places. From Chernobyl to concentration camps: why the morbid fascination with places of death and disaster? 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

Kristen Radtke’s memoir, “Imagine Wanting Only This,” tells a story of the young writer’s growing fascination with ruins and abandoned places, as she attempts to come to terms with death. Writers Recount Stories of Grief and Joy in Illustrated Panels 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

George Balanchine never concealed his fascination for ballerinas. " is woman," the choreographer famously pronounced. English National Ballet ? review 2011-03-24T22:00:02Z

Yes, Ms. Gill’s latest work demanded a lot of trust and attention from viewers, but it exerted a fascination strange and rare. The Best Dance of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Their unusual bond is part of their fascination. Fashion Photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin Polish Their Brand 2013-12-31T20:40:47Z

Yet it’s not only a fascination with the past, or the fantasy of achieving some sort of artistic completeness—the idea that every note Mozart wrote must be heard—that motivates Joseph. A Small Step Toward Correcting the Overwhelming Whiteness of Opera 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Why does this topic hold so much fascination for you? Liz Phair's "Horror Stories" chronicles the real ghosts that haunt us 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Zummo is best known for the macabre tableaux that reveal his fascination with corruption and death: small theatres where lifelike figures lie contorted, dying of plague while bodies decompose around them. Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-23T15:00:01Z

Despite his fascination with the past, Jones was a resolute modernist both in his verse and his art. Reviving the Art of David Jones 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

We know Odenkirk’s character lives, but the main fascination surrounds the nature of his transformation. Smart Watch: “Better Call Saul,” “The Sinner” and more top TV picks of the week 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

In fact, his fascination with horizons was born in New England in 1955, when he visited the Atlantic coast. Einojuhani Rautavaara, Composer, Dies at 87; His Lush Music Found Wide Appeal 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Walter, who is at the peak of her powers as an actor, is, here and throughout, a magnificent source of fascination and energy. Women Beware Women; Bingo 2010-05-01T23:11:00Z

Akiho combined this fascination with his love of the steel pan, an instrument he began exploring during a period spent in Trinidad. Metal pipes, a cigar box and more feature in ambitious multimedia concert of Northwest composer Andy Akiho 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

This fascination with appearing and disappearing forms is pushed into three dimensions in a series of small sculptures made from everyday objects or constructed with fragments of junk, then bronzed and painted. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

In many ways, its popularity hinges on our seemingly bottomless fascination with all things prison-related, even as the couples themselves try to move on and put all of that jailhouse nonsense behind them. Prison Romances, Standing the Test of (Hard) Time and Cameras 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

The main fascination seems to be the residents' utter lack of choice and opportunity. A Russian Novel by Emmanuel Carr?re ? review 2010-10-15T23:15:00Z

Murder on the Home Front was silly hokum, a sort of Foyle's War-goes-CSI, except it shared a fascination with mutilated naked female bodies that would not have looked out of place in Hannibal. Rewind TV: Hannibal; The Apprentice; Life of Crime; Murder on the Home Front; Great Artists in Their Own Words – review 2013-05-11T17:00:05Z

Nevertheless, the sheer ambition of "Raised By Wolves" and the brand-name visionary behind it may be enough to claim a portion of the audience's fascination for these 10 episodes. Ridley Scott's new series "Raised by Wolves" imagines a bleak future for humanity – and android moms 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

The partnership between Bell and Chilton held a fascination that, to me, was as essential as Jagger/Richards or Lennon/McCartney. McGee on music: Big Star's Alex Chilton was a guiding light 2010-03-23T14:26:00Z

The Macedonian fascination with the Iranian monarchy probably extended beyond art. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z

Spence saw how a group of young men who were children of superyacht owners often encourage this fascination with their way of life. Superyachts and bragging rights: why the super-rich love their ‘floating homes’ 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

The number six held a special fascination for him because it could be rendered as two groups of three or three groups of two, or sliced asymmetrically into four plus two. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

It is a rather feeble liberal-humanist note to end on, but there is fascination in this story of an idealist, torn in two by history. The Reluctant Fundamentalist – review 2012-08-29T12:02:00Z

Formalist drama with spiritual overtones, in which an actor's fascination with a Lisbon nun fuses with her portrayal of one. This week's new films 2011-01-22T00:06:21Z

Death was not a fascination or a stylistic conceit but an all-encompassing, almost soothing aspect of his music. Lil Peep and the Dilemma of the Posthumous Album 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

Along with his work, Sawada himself is frequently presented as a subject of fascination: a mostly nonverbal artist who works intently from an internal vision. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

It also tracks his deepening fascination with the origins, glory days, decline and revival of circuses from ancient times to the 21st century. ‘The Ordinary Acrobat’: a daring young man’s circus obsession 2013-03-07T20:46:22Z

Interest in young British artists was at its height, the ceremony was televised, and the fascination around the prize kept building. Gillian Wearing: A nose for the truth 2011-08-29T20:30:01Z

I like to think that much of our fascination with this topic arises from our heritage as practical problem-solvers — the curiosity that drew our ancestors toward danger in order to begin puzzling ways around it. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z

It is full of hair and nipples, fingers and tongues and, above all, boys' fascination with their own erections. Melvin Burgess: a life in writing 2013-04-11T06:00:03Z

This is in part due to western society’s fascination with appearance, and medicine’s bias towards drugs and surgery. Food for thought: the smart way to better brain health 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Goldwyn was familiar with Mr. Jeffs’s polygamist beliefs and his fascination with Nazism. Tyrannical Captor of Under-Age Wives 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z

At times her descriptions seem gratuitously to indulge the same morbid fascination that has long drawn people to these objects. Yes, Books Were Bound in Human Skin. An Intrepid Librarian Finds the Proof. 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

But his work exerts an odd fascination on me: for it brazenly mixes calculation and naïveté, Christian values and chitlin-circuit earthiness, rowdy jokes and the most convulsive melodrama. Madea's Big Happy Family: Tyler Perry's Drag Ball 2011-04-24T14:05:00Z

Morandi’s fascination with elusiveness likewise transforms his works into acutely observed instances of life’s mysteries. One artist is from Italy, the other from New York; what happens when worlds collide? 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

On a recent visit, crowds converged around each nasty little Bosch beast, attesting to the enduring fascination of devils. For Hieronymus Bosch, One Helluva Homecoming 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Popular culture’s fascination with — and derision for — the pomp and preening baked into awards shows can’t but extend to the women fixed in the cameras’ glare. On the Golden Globes Red Carpet, Fighting Back in Black 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

Smith admits as much, writing of her “fascination for melancholia” and the poetic potential that resides in her “numinous malady.” The Theology of Patti Smith 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Simon Annand David Mamet has always had a fascination with the con, the double cross, the dupe and the deception. This week's new theatre 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

This level of fascination blocks any competing thoughts or worries from bubbling to the surface and allows for a quiet focus that not only ameliorates anxiety but benefits us cognitively as well. My houseplant garden is a tiny national park Donald Trump can never destroy 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

And why do you think we as a nation, culture, society, have a fascination with serial killers? Elijah Wood on playing the "best friend" of Ted Bundy: "He continues to endure as a fascination" 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z

I suggest that a fascination for Durst’s guilt or innocence dissipates considerably the farther one gets from Page Six and the 212 area code. ‘The Jinx’: Served just how we like it these days — in pieces 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

As the American academic Michael Mackenzie pointed out, "the camera's fascination with the athletic body cannot be differentiated in any meaningful way – on stylistic grounds – from subsequent sports photography." The shameful legacy of the Olympic Games 2012-06-14T19:00:08Z

The current fascination for all things disco has spilled over into clubs. Disco gets lucky 2013-05-31T08:58:13Z

The best ones have a rare, almost alchemical combination of our fascination with crime, the ever popular underdog story, and our love of twisty, complicated plots. Scarecrow Video recommendations for 'Tower Heist 2011-11-03T13:01:07Z

But "The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ" is a far more direct exploration of the foundations of Christianity and the church as well as an examination of the fascination and power of storytelling. Pullman risks Christian anger with Jesus novel 2010-03-28T18:42:00Z

Instead, he listens as this Brooklyn-raised photographer recalls a childhood fascination with the work of his father, a psychoanalyst who saw patients in the family basement, and a stint with the band the Speedies. 'Gregory Crewdson': Zooming in on photographer's 'dramas' 2012-11-21T22:34:09Z

Other aspects of Kip — his youthful fascination with EST, his frequent, contentious and expensive divorces — are my own invention. The unexplained death of “fracking king” Aubrey McClendon and a writer’s peculiar bereavement 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

For many of us the queasy fascination with “Jersey Shore” faded faster than the rush of a 6 Hour Power energy drink. ArtsBeat Blog: New York Fringe Festival Report: 'Jersey Shoresical' 2011-08-26T20:23:38Z

Like her fellow recently reactivated pop icon David Bowie, the fascination that Fältskög still commands is as much to do with narrative as nostalgia. Abba's Agnetha Fältskög returns – and unravels the mystery of her silence 2013-03-13T17:33:45Z

But not all readers will find the author’s fascination with Augustine infectious. O come all ye faithful 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

At The Noguchi Museum in Queens, see his prolific work, illuminated innovatively, thanks to Noguchi’s fascination with light. Things to Do in New York: A Free Culture Fix, Thanks to Your Library Card 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

The explanation for this, I think, is that there is a natural human fascination with the possibilities of stamina, both as a participant and an observer. Endurance performances: Why length matters in the theatre 2012-06-19T07:23:01Z

Plenty of food-service-employees-turned-TikTok-creators have tapped into this fascination to go viral. The biggest mystery so far on Peacock's “Poker Face” is Damian's special Subway sandwich 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z

Fold in the Irish dramatist’s fascination with the spiritual and the occult, as seen in his oft-produced “The Seafarer” and “The Weir,” and you have the full recipe. Solid U.S. premiere of Conor McPherson’s ‘The Veil’ from Quotidian Theatre

They are part of his fascination with mirrors — and he also likes that the balls are common suburban garden décor. Loving Art to the Moon and Back 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

The concert concluded on a vivacious note with a dynamic reading of Debussy’s exuberant “Ibéria,” which reflects the fascination of French composers of the period with the Spanish idiom. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-10-16T19:53:31Z

What do you think accounts for our fascination with the Civil War? Coming to the Festival of Books: Scott Martelle 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

This neatly encapsulates the postmodern fascination with the ersatz and the phony, suggesting there is no authentic reality, but merely a succession of imitations designed to gull us into believing in them. Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age by Jonathon Keats – review 2013-06-28T07:00:00Z

The real case caused outcry at the time, the media displaying a volatile fascination with the far right and the underworld criminal classes. Film review: The Girl on the Train 2010-06-03T22:10:00Z

The Color Fetish Of constant fascination for me are the ways in which literature employs skin color to reveal character or drive narrative. Toni Morrison in The New Yorker 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Our collective fascination with fresh, clean starts has always been integral to the self-help industry and to reality TV in particular — who doesn’t love a makeover? How hoarding and tidying up defined the decade 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

As Judith Flanders shows in The Invention of Murder, the current fascination with certain murders has a long historical precedence, and it goes back further than the Victorian era. The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders ? review 2011-01-30T00:15:52Z

"I never lost my fascination with this land that I was born into," she reflects. Not so black and white: South Africa on stage 2013-07-20T23:06:08Z

It's been 20 years since the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, but the continued fascination in the O.J. TV ratings: 'Dateline' O.J. Simpson special tops Wednesday 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

I would think it takes an intense fascination to get through all the dreck that you have consumed. Bill James, True-Crime Obsessive, on the Genre’s Enduring Importance 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

If becoming the object of your fascination is impossible, falling madly in love is the next best thing. Review: Becoming Kazuo Ohno, a Bold Copycat Tribute to a Butoh Master 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

The exhibit explores Kahlo's fascination with Mexico's indigenous women and her penchant for richly embroidered ethnic frocks, flowery headpieces and ornate silver jewelry that earned her a photo shoot with Vogue magazine in 1937. Dresses that hid Frida Kahlo's pain come to light decades on 2012-09-28T20:33:43Z

This is arguably a rather cerebral and indulgent reverie, but there is fascination, and something genuinely disturbing, in every frame. Film review: Double Take 2010-04-01T21:25:00Z

He had a fascination with totalitarian regimes and was moving in a crowd that included these strange beatnik occultists, but also far-right politicos. Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lagerfeld is an object of public fascination in the Selfie Age, too recognizable to walk the streets or attend a party without incident. Karl Lagerfeld on Fur (Yea), Selfies (Nay) and Keeping Busy 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

You can see Gatiss's fascination with horror and the bizarre in the show – there's a little bit of Tales of the Unexpected and HG Wells and that old Conan Doyle vintage in there too. My TV hero: Alexander Armstrong on Mark Gatiss 2011-07-25T19:00:06Z

More specifically Debussy’s fascination with East Asia, especially Japan, is a catalyst for programming. Music Review: Chelsea Music Festival Features Debussy and Cage 2012-06-17T22:11:49Z

The enduring fascination with the case is, of course, fueled by ’90s nostalgia and the feverish draw, much accelerated since 1994, of watching a celebrity behave badly. Tonya Harding, Tragic Muse? More Works Explore a Skating Scandal 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

And the fact that Ms. Lohan is once again a welcome guest on talk shows – and not just the tabloids – is a testament less to the actress’s resilience than the public’s enduring fascination with failure. ArtsBeat: Lindsay Lohan, Talk-Show Host 2013-08-06T14:58:23Z

The works — two paintings and three sculptures — continue her fascination with cultural and aesthetic sampling, using the pieced-together patterns and textures of boucherouite as a leitmotif. The Artist Testing the Limits of Ceramics 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

The main fascination, of course, is observing the process itself. Summer TV: It's even hotter inside these reality shows, where contestants play with fire 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z

Having developed his fascination for space through the logos and gizmos of consumer culture, evolving media and new technology, he has turned his attention now to computer pixels. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z

The news media in New York, where she lives, have broadly covered her exploits with drugs, usually with rubbernecking fascination or outright disdain. Future Tense: Celebrities Behaving Well 2014-03-07T21:36:13Z

In recognition of Runciman’s fascination with the supernatural, chapters are headed with quotations from Arthur Waite’s “The Key to the Tarot”. Shades of Byzantium 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

“Set Fire to the Stars” barely skims the surface of characters you wish had been given more dimension, but as a snapshot of postwar academia and its pretensions, it exerts a creepy fascination. Review: ‘Set Fire to the Stars’ Unleashes Dylan Thomas on America 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Early India's fascination with sex is not limited to architecture but also spills over into literature beyond the "Kama Sutra." Defending that "Oppenheimer" sex scene as a Hindu woman who delved into my religion's sacred truths 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

But his fascination with Christmas was many layered and included deep nostalgia for what he increasingly thought of as his idyllic childhood. Authors choose their favourite short stories 2012-12-21T22:55:14Z

Langhorne sees it as his duty to continue the evolution of Mid- Atlantic cuisine, which was halted prematurely — by war, by industrialization, by America’s fascination with cuisines far older than its own. Why this chef plans to avoid lemons and olive oil 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Partially it’s because the movement Tarantino is promoting is aligned with people of color and, as O’Hehir notes, Tarantino himself shows a real fascination with black culture in his movies. Quentin Tarantino is Fox News’ piñata: The real reason why Bill O’Reilly and the police hate him 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z

His main fascination with Knüpfer’s “Venus and Cupid” seems to be the spilled chamber pot at Venus’s side. The Koons Collection 2010-02-26T22:48:00Z

In an introduction to Vikki Tobak’s new visual history of hip-hop, “Contact High,” the musician Questlove writes about his fascination with the split seconds that precede and follow the mesmerizing instant captured in a snapshot. Perspective | Nicki Minaj and a stack of pancakes? These rare images capture another side to hip-hop. 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Ah, Americans and our fascination with dancers from the great European houses. The Week Ahead: July 15 — 21 2012-07-13T15:03:38Z

Another explanation for the fascination with DID could simply be that actors love it. From Split to Psycho: why cinema fails dissociative identity disorder 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Moore and Kutcher were married for six years and their 16-year age gap made them the subject of constant media fascination. Demi Moore "smoked something" before convulsions: 911 tape 2012-01-27T18:56:41Z

But "Love Is Blind" joins a new breed of reality show – most of them of the dating/romance variety – that hold a particular fascination for the audience. From "Love Is Blind" to "The Circle," the new breed of reality TV reformulates how we connect 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Theyare straightforward arrangements, but they signal the start of a lifelong fascination with folk music, which would generate some of Berio's greatest works. Stockhausen: Tierkreis; Piano Piece IX; Berio: Sequenza III; Four Popular Songs – review 2013-07-11T22:00:01Z

Goransson spent most of his youth in his family’s basement, teaching himself how to use a drum machine and a digital eight-track recorder, and nurturing another fascination: soundtracks. How Ludwig Goransson Became Directors’ Secret Musical Weapon 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

But they shared a fascination with organic shapes, mythic themes and the emotional power of strict simplicity. The painful truth about those Noguchi stage designs 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Here and elsewhere, her music, in addition to its fascination with the natural world, exudes inventiveness with a welcoming personality, rousing energy and torrents of joy — not to mention an infectious groove. Gabriella Smith’s Music Marvels at Nature With Grooving Joy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

A photograph of a modern glass-and-steel house built in 1962 for the engineer and sculptor André Bloc focuses on a big exterior spiral staircase, emphasizing Mr. Parent’s early fascination with movement. Architecture Review: A Paris Tribute to an Almost-Sideways View of the World 2010-03-09T23:26:00Z

The paper is a reflection of fashionable Europe's fascination with the Middle East, which led to a style known as turquerie, an Orientalist mode with a Turkish focus. The Aesthete: Printed Wall Coverings 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

That is why the ready-made will never lose its fascination. Is ready-made art more powerful than painting? 2013-02-28T16:14:23Z

Mirza's winning installation features his usual fascination with sound, incorporating deliberately malfunctioning electrical equipment. Haroon Mirza scoops Northern Art prize 2011-01-20T19:01:42Z

But her father encouraged her interest in art and her mother, meanwhile, made sure there were plenty of books about the house, and inadvertently stoked a fascination with Americana still visible in her artwork today. A life in books: Lauren Child 2010-10-04T07:00:00Z

I got better at letting go of relationship baggage but couldn’t let go of my fascination with shamans. Driving the Stake Through Emotional Vampires 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Yet there was a fascination to following Sorescu’s words — his terror, his gallows humor, his pain and his resignation — set to the searing cries and spasms and dark drumbeats of Hersch’s music. Review | Facing death, affirming life: Classical music’s yin and yang in one weekend 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

Perhaps he really is bewildered by all the fuss and fascination he inspires – and perhaps he's right to be. Psycho, genius ... fraud? 2010-07-26T07:00:00Z

The fascination with genius, ambition and the creative process — and the project of making high culture accessible to a popular audience — continued in Mr. Russell’s later fictional features. Ken Russell, Controversial Director, Dies at 84 2011-11-28T11:22:23Z

Oddly enough, my publishing misfortune spurred a fascination with Nabokov that continues to this day. Review | Nabokov unplugged: A new collection of his essays delivers unvarnished opinions 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Pop culture’s fascination with fusion goes beyond a process that sustains robotics and machinery; our culture’s collective dreams of safe, unlimited energy have even been epitomized by some of our heroes. Fusion? We’ve Seen This Movie Before. 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

Weil, who first visited Russia as a 14-year-old exchange student in 1991, shortly before the Soviet Union fell, depicts the land and its people with affection, fascination and an unsparing eye. Modern Russian fable superbly drawn 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

It started with a fascination for corsetry and crinoline skirts and the pain that women would put themselves through to be seen as beautiful. Juno Temple's teenage obsessions: 'Brandon Flowers was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen' 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Or those people with a morbid fascination for perverts? Tiger, Tiger: What is the point of reading this memoir of abuse? 2011-03-27T00:05:57Z

During her lifetime, Jackson’s offbeat novels, combined with her fascination with witchcraft, ghosts and haunted houses, made her a difficult figure for reviewers to place. ‘Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life’ 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

As a child star, Mr. Bale has said, he was an object of both fascination and ridicule among schoolmates, and he still seems a little embarrassed to be an actor. Film: Letting His Role Do the Talking 2010-12-03T15:53:00Z

Mr. Milch is hoping that the initial opaqueness of track subculture will give way to fascination. Television: HBO?s ?Luck,? Starring Dustin Hoffman 2012-01-25T15:29:12Z

But the film captures his appreciation of light and fascination with everyday life on a street in Oslo. ArtsBeat Blog: A Different View of Munch at Paris Exhibition 2011-09-21T17:58:27Z

"The Sessions" similarly has a fascination with intimacy - and similarly, it means well. Review: `Sessions' tells feel-good, low-key tale 2012-10-15T22:38:11Z

The other took place at Trinity Church on lower Broadway on Monday evening, and it held particular fascinations. Music Review | Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra: At Trinity, Andrew Parrott Leads a Full-Bodied ?Passion? 2010-03-16T21:46:00Z

Did Degas spark the film director’s fascination with stairs as a bridge between two worlds, even heaven and hell? National Gallery show spotlights Degas’ plucky, mysterious ‘Little Dancer’

Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont is renewing his fascination with Batman with a cameo appearance in "The Dark Knight Rises," which will get its first public showing in his home state. US senator from Vermont has role in 'Batman' movie 2012-07-03T15:37:08Z

My fascination with the politics of clothing size began in 2004 when I worked at A&F corporate as a merchant in their outerwear division. Is Abercrombie & Fitch the enemy? Or is it us? 2013-05-30T15:28:00Z

His turf is the bloody, romantic realm of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and the ballet “Giselle,” with their fascination for dark, supernatural forces and the entwining of love, fear and death. ‘Sleepy Hollow’s’ Headless Horseman: Spring dance leaps out of ballet’s box 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

She exerts a spooky fascination on general audiences, too, partly because hacking is still taboo. Lisbeth Salander: Bringing Back Leather and Spikes 2012-02-01T21:36:05Z

Truffaut's early films manifest L'Enfant sauvage's fascination with motion and stasis. Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood 2011-02-19T00:05:31Z

Such imagery evokes our fascination with how others see and how ultimately we can never share their vision. | 'Bluebird': He?ll Take You Anywhere You Want to Go 2011-08-23T02:01:00Z

So Percussion offered a pair of works that shared a fascination with the noises produced by found objects, including paper. Music Review: So Percussion at Gary Snyder/Project Space 2010-05-09T21:48:00Z

The discoveries also, as the exhibition suggests, fed the 19th-century Romantic fascination with Nature’s wild powers. Exhibition Review: When the Dead Arise and Head to Times Square 2011-03-03T23:15:11Z

Connecting these together was a long fascination with what he called the "kabuki theater" of local L.A. news. 'Nightcrawler' a different look at Gyllenhaal and L.A. 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Santosh became a source of endless fascination: I thought he was Indian, but he spoke English with a French accent, chatted with his parents in Creole and said he was from Africa. In Mauritius, Secluded Beaches, Verdant Hills and Harmony 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

What’s another cinematic fascination of yours that we may have overlooked? 29 movies in, Brian De Palma still won’t play by Hollywood’s rules 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

The partners, who in conversation don’t finish each other’s sentences so much as escalate one another’s tangents, also shared a fascination with what they perceive as the unsettling underbelly of corn-pone culture. ‘The Heart, She Holler’ Is Back on Adult Swim 2013-08-30T17:10:24Z

You read the dozen pages describing the battle with appalled fascination. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-06-22T21:55:12Z

The dance is anchored to Colker’s fascination with the rugged landscape. Review | Muddy bodies and dusty beauty in Deborah Colker’s ‘Dog Without Feathers’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

This came after a summer of fascination with the Women’s World Cup, reading The Worst Witch books and liking Wonder Woman. ‘I must have watched it 50 times’: a Frozen dad prepares for the sequel 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

Philadelphia rock band mewithoutyou saw an uptick in media attention recently due to the music press’ sudden fascination with the so-called “emo revival,” but the group has been making inventive post-hardcore music for years. Your week in Seattle music: OneRepublic, Allen Stone and more 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

“There’s a lot of curiosity and fascination around espionage items right now,” he said. K.G.B. Museum Closes; Lipstick Gun and Other Spy Relics Go on Sale 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

A cult fascination with religious relics and their supposed supernatural properties began shortly after the establishment of Christianity. Relic hunter: A missing Christian relic, the fall of Nazi Germany and a mystery that flummoxed historians for centuries 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

He also confesses to a fascination with the occult and questions of Englishness. Dr Dee: An English Opera ? review 2011-07-09T23:06:01Z

“Neurons of mine move in a new rhythm/And more and more and more and more and more,” he sings, with fascination and dread. 15 Songs We Almost Missed This Year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

So why has it inspired so much fascination and so many think pieces and social media conversations? How the abuse of Britney Spears led to the GOP's war on women 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

Incarceration may be a primal human dread, but it also has its fascination, even a peculiar attraction. Lesley Glaister's top 10 books about incarceration 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z

He also describes angels as having “cold fascination with human disaster.” Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

In a Magritte-inspired bowler hat, umbrella in hand, Brent Carver is a wonderfully novel Jaques, dispensing with the usual sighing gloom in favor of an almost perky fascination with the absurd ways of the world. Christopher Plummer in Stratford, Ontario 2010-07-09T04:28:00Z

Yet even the most hackneyed plots reveal a perverse fascination with fate, and perhaps a witty critique of the entire business of love. In These Elegant Comics, Love and Darkness Collide 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Q: Talk about your fascination with bodily functions. Meet the Daniels. Their new movie is about a farting corpse. 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

She advises in a preface that the rest of us skip past the how-to sections, but I reserve the right to regard them with fascination. ‘The Art of Memoir’ review: Mary Karr’s advice for telling your life story 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

And every year I have to find a new angle to cover it, because there is a limit to the public’s fascination with Juggalos, as my book sales and bank account both unfortunately attest. 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

And, in her case, the fascination keeps building. Nine things cruise newbies need to know before walking the gangplank 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

The young rock god and jazz elder hit it off, the mutual fascination leading to talk about playing together. The muse who changed Miles 2010-09-04T23:05:00Z

The infamous British stiff upper lip is something Maté has watched with fascination over the years. How dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

“I was tired of seeing Manson as the bogeyman of our generation, and with the constant fascination with Sharon Tate,” he says. Behind the bloodshed: the chilling untold stories about Charles Manson 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

As summer approaches, he describes, with horrified fascination, how liquid oil still buried in the marshy soil oozes up to the surface. The truth behind the spin: What BP doesn’t want you to know about the Gulf oil spill 2014-05-04T15:00:00Z

She’s not wrong, as judged by television’s continuing fascination with middle-aged male bellicosity. Review: On ‘Mad Dogs,’ an Amazon Series, Male Bellicosity Rules 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Certainly the lives of the Schnabels hold as much fascination for a certain subset of New York as that reality-show family. One Turbulent World Readied Her for Another 2011-03-23T20:23:22Z

One of the fascinations of Michael Ritchie's movie is not simply the grim business of slowly but surely selling out. What the Robert Redford film The Candidate teaches us about Nick Clegg 2010-04-21T09:53:00Z

Mr. Olowu discussed his early fascination with textiles as a child in Lagos, and with the idea of “something that is made flat coming to life” when draped on the body. The Anti-Power Couple: Duro Olowu and Thelma Golden 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

The earlier self-portrait, Mr. Wardropper said, is deliberately aged, probably reflecting Murillo’s fascination with antiquity, while the one at the National Gallery is in a more pristine state. Frick Collection Acquires Murillo Self-Portrait 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

My fascination with materials has continued to grow – and with it my collection of samples of them. Mark Miodownik: an obsession with materials 2013-05-24T15:53:00Z

Cinema’s fascination with illegal border crossings between Mexico and the United States is given a totally fresh take in Rigoberto Perezcano’s delicately poised film. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z

But to the children he is a fascination and delight. Helping Children Understand Death 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Show Me a Hero” extends its fascination for flawed humanity to the gritty projects, where characters are not merely anecdotes. ‘Show Me a Hero’: How one mayor won (and lost) the ugliest fight in Yonkers 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Even before he moved to this country, Mr. Amis nursed a fascination with it in his fiction and journalism. Literary Brooklyn Gets Its Leading Man 2012-06-22T20:21:18Z

This, as much as the power of her novel, has fueled an ongoing hunger, a fascination with both the author and her reticence. Mixed feelings on Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

He says it’s more a case of coming to have a wincing fascination about some of its content. Neil Strauss: 'My thinking was: If this woman’s going to be naked with me – I must be OK. It doesn’t last’ 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

That fact filled me with both fascination and despair. Review | ‘We Are Not Like Them’ continues an important conversation. We shouldn’t look away. 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

There’s no way to judge how characteristic the images are, but there’s no denying their grim fascination. Television Review: PBS ‘Frontline’ Looks Inside a Notoriously Closed Country 2014-01-13T22:37:40Z

Imitative skills are essential in a place where storytelling, and the caricaturing of your fellow citizens, is what transforms a seemingly uneventful backwater into a soap opera of endless fascination. Review: A One-Man Funeral With Many Lives in ‘I Hear You and Rejoice’ 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Close's fascination with faces was partly in perverse reaction to a contemporary critic who asserted that an artist could not paint portraits and consider himself modern. 'Chuck Close: Life': The Northwest native painter who brought the portrait back to modern art 2010-05-26T23:49:00Z

Their shenanigans are a hymn to infantilism, to the fascination that babies, and some older males, have for their own waste products. Jackass 3D: Now You Get Sprayed 2010-10-15T17:10:00Z

Given Shakespeare’s dramatic fascination with the relations between fathers and their offspring, and with the complicated questions of lineage and inheritance, the casting choice looked less like nepotism and more like a fruitful artistic convergence. Rebecca Hall’s Complicated Inheritance 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Harbutt’s early fascination with magic and the elusive line between perception and reality steered him toward journalism and its documentary role, first as a writer. Charles Harbutt, Photojournalist With an Eye for Art as Well as News, Dies at 79 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Both want more, and circle each other with increasingly reckless fascination. Killing Eve: how my psycho killer was brought to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

Carolee’s unapologetic fascination with her childhood drawings makes me think of Jill Johnston’s line about Agnes Martin, that “a great woman may be a woman more interested in herself than in anything else.” The Re-Enchantment of Carolee Schneemann 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

Q: I find that people have a bottomless fascination with authors. Q&A: Tom Nissley on his ‘A Reader’s Book of Days’ 2013-12-13T21:47:59Z

The fascination may be as old as murder itself, “but now people are acknowledging it instead of hiding in their houses watching four hours of ‘Forensic Files’ by themselves.” ‘My Favorite Murder’ co-hosts Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark are expanding their empire 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

The difficulties have intensified over the centuries for would-be-denizens willing themselves to release their fascination with what popular society suggests is significant. Secrets of the convent: Will millennials become nuns? 2013-12-15T19:00:00Z

Appreciation — and demand — for their work has grown in the last decade or so, she said, as a global fascination with South Korean art and artists has taken hold. Exploring a Transformational Period in Korean Art 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

In the 1960s, toward the end of Hollywood's fascination with biblical epics, De Laurentiis planned a series of Old Testament drama, beginning with Genesis, to be directed by the great French minimalist Robert Bresson. In Remembrance of Erratic Film Producer Dino De Laurentiis 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

It's this mix of my German background and Michelle's Haitian roots, as well as my passion for contemporary art and Michelle's fascination with fashion. T Magazine: Having It All 2012-11-02T22:41:30Z

No one will ever satisfactorily explain the human fascination with horses. ‘Mutiny: Works by Géricault’ Review: Equine Passions and Anxieties 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

Estrada’s fascination with jazz eventually brought her to the nearby city of Xalapa, where she studied in a university jazz conservatory while she was still in high school. Silvana Estrada Arrives With a Devastating Album About Heartbreak 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

Holed up in Los Angeles, he developed his interest in the occult – the Kabbalah, the writing of the English satanist Aleister Crowley – and his fascination with various esoteric writings by obscure Nazi pseudo-philosophers. Who is David Bowie? A guide to the V&A retrospective 2013-02-16T19:59:00Z

The enduring fascination Diana commands in the United States was in evidence on the latest cover of Newsweek, which showed a computer-generated image of Diana at 50, strolling next to William's bride. Time to speculate: Princess Diana would be 50 2011-06-30T10:22:08Z

In the era of film noir, and the woman’s picture, a morally compromised woman could be an object of psychological speculation rather than lurid fascination. Sexpionage! Why filmmakers can't resist a honeytrap 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

As U.S.-Cuban relations continue to improve, and travel to the island becomes easier, art world fascination with the region is mounting. In Havana, following a USC museum director in search of great Cuban art 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

From his first days at the shop, he loved working with books, but he also developed a fascination with the stories of the customers, and how they dovetailed with the stories in the books. Island Books creates a reading oasis on Mercer Island 2010-06-28T03:36:00Z

Bernhardt may have been an object of extraordinary fascination, but nothing about her was passive. Before Taylor Swift or David Bowie, There Was Sarah Bernhardt 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

Another fascination throughout is how close to nondance vocabulary Mr. Morris stays. Mark Morris’s ‘Words,’ a Premiere at Fall for Dance 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

The show, says Lee, is a reaction to the “complete fascination with newness — new for new’s sake.” Essential Arts & Culture: Chicago architecture biennial, 'The Red Shoes' hits L.A. and more PST: LA/LA 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

I think that's why he continues to endure as a fascination. Elijah Wood on playing the "best friend" of Ted Bundy: "He continues to endure as a fascination" 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z

Much of the queasy fascination that the film exerts is the result of her uncanny ability to play against any imaginable type. | 'We Need to Talk About Kevin': ?We Need to Talk About Kevin,? With Tilda Swinton - Review 2011-12-08T23:38:55Z

He also had a reckless fascination with firearms. George C. Nichopoulos, doctor who prescribed drugs to Elvis, dies at 88 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z

In delving into the realm of natural disasters I was indulging in a fascination that most of humanity seems to share. Where are the good volcano novels? 2010-04-21T13:26:00Z

They are also given to brooding violence: they’ve killed several chickens and display a dangerous fascination with fire. Books of The Times: ?Nightwoods,? by Charles Frazier - Review 2011-09-21T21:53:25Z

Smith, who rose to fame as Oprah Winfrey's personal chef, said the American public loves personalities, so chefs - and athletes and movie stars - might as well tap into that fascination to do some good. Art Smith: stars can make healthy eating sexy 2011-02-26T21:59:09Z

All while a “helpless white minority,” as we’re informed by a title card, looks on with mortified fascination. Perspective | A new era of incivility in Congress brings ‘The Birth of a Nation’ full circle 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

Part of his fascination with the area is its maritime history. Possessed: Christian Liaigre Is a Minimalist With a Taste for Ornate Coconuts 2012-10-19T23:12:24Z

The art movement that dominated the 20th century is looking for ways to have an impact on the new millennium, now that its founding features like a fascination with mechanics have been challenged. Minimalist Matters 2012-09-23T17:51:45Z

The painters also shared this: Their work aspires to, and at times achieves, “the sublime” — “a term,” Plumly once wrote in an essay, “of breathtaking, soaring, awe-inspiring fear and fascination, a traveling word evoking out-of-the-body.” Review | Poet Stanley Plumly takes a lyrical look at John Constable and J.M.W. Turner 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

They were as surely a testament to a widening fascination with body modification in its most eye-popping extremes: allover tattoos, subdermal implants, piercing, stretching, scarring, branding and the like. Piercings and Eye-Popping Tattoos: Fashion’s Latest Canvas Is the Skin You’re In 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Their music centres around love, passion, joy, fascination, imagination and lust. Dilla made very sensual music. J Dilla: the Mozart of hip-hop 2011-01-27T22:15:00Z

Here, in the place where he was born, his fascination with the landscapes and the people never flagged. Footsteps: In Pennsylvania, Exploring Wyeth’s World 2013-05-24T17:13:58Z

On the other hand, Mr. Serra does wax nostalgic about his boyhood fascinations, especially the shipping industry. Richard Serra Is Carrying the Weight of the World 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

That may sound like a caricature of masturbatory performance art, but most of the work sustained interest, even fascination. Dance Review: ‘Duchesses’ at Invisible Dog Art Center 2013-04-26T21:28:03Z

Whitehouse was enamoured not only of their exquisiteness – the fragility of their decoration and the skill involved in crafting them – but also of the optical fascination of the interaction between flame and glass. David Whitehouse obituary 2013-03-24T17:49:40Z

In “Ordinary Witnesses” Mr. Ouramdane furthers his fascination with interviews, layering memories. Rachid Ouramdane?s ?Ordinary Witnesses? at New York Live Arts 2011-09-18T04:00:33Z

What prompted your fascination with Cuba and the creation of this documentary? "Havana is . . . the fantasy of Americans": Filmmaker on capturing the "utopia" of Cuba in new doc 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

Schreier established herself as an expert on Hollywood costumes — her other fascination. How a little girl’s ‘pretty dresses’ became one of the most significant gifts to the Met 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

“There’s a fascination with the history of sidesaddle.” These women want to bring back sidesaddle riding. Is that okay? 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

It's a strange fascination we have with men like Nick. Ben Affleck gets the manipulated man's every twist and turn right 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

His fascination with crime was also influenced by his reading of penny dreadfuls from America and by Edgar Allan Poe’s stories of crime and detection. The civilized crime fiction of Charles Finch 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

Paintings in this show reflect this simultaneous fascination with and distrust of history. Sun Xun’s Art Show Evokes His Upbringing in China 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

A fascination with skeletal remains haunted the collection, the mesmerizing patterns creating a trompe l’oeil effect on streamlined clothes, many tailored, but also high-protection outerwear worn with balaclavas and more than a hint of menace. 2010-01-20T05:21:00Z

Simon Barnes’s “The Meaning of Birds” is a book of essays that explore the biology of birds and our abiding fascination with them. The Passion and Peril of Birding 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

But that was always part of the lady’s fascination. John Epperson Returns, in ‘Lypsinka! The Trilogy’ 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Petkanas delivers a meticulous dissection of our endless fascination with the modish, bewitching women who refuse to let us in, and upon whom we project our fantasies, desires, even our hatred. Books Are the New Black 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

She said the Benton painting was emblematic of Simon's fascination with storytelling, while other pieces show his appreciation for wit and humor. 'The Simpsons' memorabilia, art collection from Sam Simon heading to auction 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Armstrong is divorced now; like motherhood, separation became an unexpected topic of fascination among Dooce readers. Heather Armstrong: the original mommyblogger? 2013-07-25T15:31:00Z

Wrote Benjamin: “Nothing highlights the fascination of unpacking more clearly than the difficulty of stopping this activity.” Why 'unpacking' is a perfect — and perfectly overused — metaphor for our cultural moment 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

And in addition to their own work it was about what their fascinations were. Laurie Anderson?s Heart, Politics and Processors 2010-06-25T16:17:00Z

But 36 years have not dimmed Taylor's fascination with the process. How do I become ... a bellmaker? 2012-12-20T10:42:22Z

These women were not winsome objects of fascination briefly capturing the popular imagination, but doyennes of resourcefulness and stamina. The Big, Bold Life of the Woman Who Brought Us the ‘It Girl’ 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

But a botched stab at the title role was the beginning of Glenn Close’s enduring fascination with “Albert Nobbs.” Arts & Leisure: Glenn Close as a Man in ?Albert Nobbs? 2011-12-09T13:00:00Z

He refuses to let his image be disseminated, likening himself to Banksy, J. D. Salinger and Daft Punk, who inspire fascination by hiding their faces. Review: ‘The Young Pope’ Is Beautiful and Ridiculous 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

His mind, as revealed in his notebooks, is a source of endless fascination, just as his few surviving paintings are infinitely enigmatic. The secret of Mona Lisa's smile lies in Leonardo's painting 2012-10-04T13:00:08Z

The Meg is what Sharknado would be if it was made with any money or talent, and it is ultimately what will propel our weird fascination for knowingly silly shark films to the next level. The end of Sharknado: saying goodbye to the silliest movie franchise ever 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

I can imagine the fascination of “Endless Summer” held for landlocked teenagers across America, but in my Southern California high school of the mid-1970s, the movie’s laidback aesthetic had a life-imitates-documentary quality. Perspective | The beautiful lie Bruce Brown and ‘The Endless Summer’ told us about surfing 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

For something of more immediate artistic interest, how about the shows’ fascination with the violent deaths of women? ‘Special Ops: Lioness’ Review: Zoe Saldana Does Strong and Silent 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z

But it is his dark lyrics, particularly his fascination with the fault lines of personal relationships, that define him for many fans. Love is not light and fluffy for singer Richard Thompson 2013-02-19T17:00:08Z

Earlier installments in his symphony cycle capture his fascinations with mortality and the afterlife, as well as purely autobiographical anguish. Music Review: Daniel Harding Conducts New York Philharmonic in Mahler 2011-12-03T00:28:20Z

Webb’s fascination with them as aesthetic pieces may be a rebellion against her privilege and class, which rigorously separated beauty from utility. Critic's Notebook: The Art of Collecting Collections 2011-05-19T21:00:31Z

“Zoo” is expertly made and fits the current fascination with dystopian what-if scenarios, but it’s basic. Review: ‘Zoo’ Is a James Patterson Novel Brought to TV 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

Her fascination with apian life and the little-known techniques of beekeeping give rise to the most memorable scenes in the novel, as when Silvia learns to harvest royal jelly from the hive. A Buzzworthy Debut About a Mysterious and Secluded Artists’ Retreat 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

We have a fascination with the tiny fraction of people who stand on the other side of the line that separates life from art: the grand master, the prima ballerina. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z

IT’S unclear if humans are any more fascinated with animals than they ever have been, but it’s safe to say that the visual manifestations of this fascination are on the rise. Animals Continue to Fascinate Humans: Films Prove It 2012-03-31T06:36:09Z

To borrow words from Stephen Jay Gould: “Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.” A Virus Upends the World in a Sweeping New Novel 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

And they all count on something uncertain: a tireless fascination with big movie stars that continues decades after their last films. Visited Bedford Falls Lately? 2011-07-09T03:53:02Z

I understand the fascination as much as the next person. Q&A: Mad Men‘s Elisabeth Moss On What’s In Store For Peggy Olson 2013-04-05T22:39:31Z

They wanted to pay tribute to a woman who exemplified compassion in a field that can so easily descend into a ghoulish morbid fascination, an objective Garbus would also come to adopt. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: the story of the search for the Golden State Killer 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

Everything at Matthew Marks Gallery in Beverly Hills gives infectious form to Price’s fascination with details and the wide-eyed delight he found in his surroundings. At 'Ken Price: Drawings,' life's little details in broad strokes 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

She said her fascination follows a long history of artists inspired by space. Sarah Brightman plans on upcoming space journey 2013-05-06T11:43:10Z

I had this fascination for how songs are put together and so would really listen to how Earth, Wind & Fire would orchestrate a song. Sarah Connolly: from triumph to tragedy 2013-06-21T12:01:00Z

David J's fascination with the dark and sinister has led him into the world of musical theater. Former Bauhaus bassist David J to play Tractor Tavern 2012-05-31T22:58:48Z

What unites these disparate projects is a fascination with what a body can do, how it can grow and suffer, be nurtured and reimagined, serve as a symbol and take action. This Young Artist’s Works Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Alive 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

As is happening with Williamson, the memes themselves fueled viral fascination with Trump. Marianne Williamson’s fans made her the ‘orb queen’ of the 2020 campaign 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

And when a standup does something that seems at odds with his persona, the public’s fascination is intense. The Most Adventurous Comedy Right Now Is Also the Most Real 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

She continued: “‘Tiger, Tiger’ forces readers to experience Curran simultaneously as the object of a little girl’s love and fascination and as a calculating sex offender.” Margaux Fragoso, Memoirist Who Wrote Hauntingly of Sexual Abuse, Dies at 38 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

The family’s unending feuds, tragedies and intrigues are the stuff of fascination among South Koreans. Samsung: The Tech Monster That Conquered the World 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

These do-overs find a filmmaker competing with nobody’s reputation but his own, and for viewers they yield the fascination of watching an artistic personality exerted twice upon the same material. A Director?s Toughest Competition 2011-03-11T05:40:21Z

There also is the growing fascination with an elite group of women who have more occasions than most to wear hats: young aristocrats, royals and posh socialites. Hat Makers With Attitude 2011-10-03T18:23:15Z

Gomes says it's part of the fascination with "Boardwalk Empire," but also a nod to Resorts' own history. AP: NJ casino adopting 'Boardwalk Empire' theme 2010-10-07T12:42:00Z

But this tests the average person's fascination with the film industry and its history by forgetting the reason Hollywood exists – which is to generate entertainment. As "Godfather" origin stories go, "The Offer" is so bad it's criminal 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

Berry's fascination with poetry began in childhood: she would hide in the loo, reading poetry books, to get away from her rowdy siblings. Cicely Berry, voice coach to the stars 2011-07-24T21:15:01Z

It is in part the lingering fascination with them as colorful personalities that fuels interest in "Million Dollar Quartet." 'Million Dollar Quartet': the jam session that shook up Broadway 2012-05-10T20:33:05Z

Exactly why the painting is the source of such fascination is difficult to explain, since very little is known about the painter and even less about his subject. Girl With The Pearl Earring: what's the story behind the famous painting? 2013-01-25T18:21:00Z

But his growing fascination with deviance — a form of outsiderdom, after all — soon began to tar him. Colin Wilson, Author of ‘The Outsider,’ Dies at 82 2013-12-12T17:03:34Z

And part of that privacy was to conceal a particular fascination with young, young girls. Documentary 'Salinger' explores author's life, long hidden from view 2013-09-05T22:19:38Z

On “Let’s Dance Raw,” his follow-up to his 2012 solo record “How To Live With A Phantom,” Sakamoto keeps up the fascination with mysterious forces. Slash, Mia Doi Todd and the Juan MacClean drop new albums 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

As U.S.-Cuban relations continue to thaw and travel to the island becomes easier, art world fascination with the region is mounting. Essential Arts & Culture: Trump v. Shakespeare, LACMA in Venice, Beyonce's think tank 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

“Escape at Dannemora,” airing Sundays at 10 p.m. on Showtime, joins a long line of TV and cinematic works about prison, an oeuvre with which Americans hold a strange fascination. “Escape at Dannemora” is no “Shawshank Redemption” — and that’s on purpose 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

When we think of horror stories, both fictional and true crime, the assumption is that the draw is violence and a fascination with it. "We all want to be the final girl": Sady Doyle on true crime, slasher films and surviving patriarchy 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

The fascination of Cézanne lies in the overwhelming emotion that threatens to explode at any second from the white rocks of a hillside, the steely imperturbability of a peasant's face. Paul C?zanne at 172: Google Doodle celebrates a (still) life 2011-01-19T11:49:42Z

He has the same fascination with the art of language that that great Baroque poet had. Reynolds Price, a Literary Voice of the South, Dies at 77 2011-01-21T06:23:00Z

There is a macabre fascination to seeing blood spilled onstage. The Pen and the Trigger Finger: Examining Gun Violence Onstage 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

With strong feelings of suspicion, mistrust, fascination, and resentment I watched her and the dog disappear through the doorway. The eye surgery I never should have seen 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z

The laserlike focus on Mr. Day’s peculiar fascination by all the sketch’s characters — even in the midst of the explosion’s debris — was a neat bit of commitment from the writers. ‘Saturday Night Live’ Jabs at Trump, Michael Flynn and Matt Lauer 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

He writes not only about how they live and are faring, but about their history as a subject of fascination and exploitation. Updated field guides, other titles lure readers outdoors 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

But there’s also the special fascination of life in an improvised state: How do they manage to send mail abroad? 5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

It's been almost four years since Prince's death, but fascination about the artist, the man and his mythology endures. How Minneapolis made Prince 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

Tapping into a fascination with a hi-tech future, the stories coupled great global tales of good and evil with a modern sensibility and were unmissable flights of fantasy for millions of young viewers. Gerry Anderson: Obituary 2012-12-26T20:44:21Z

Popular fascination with the tragic princess remains a tempting market for some merchants, whose birthday wares include: - The Diana 50th birthday bear by Steiff from the Danbury Mint. Time to speculate: Princess Diana would be 50 2011-06-30T10:22:08Z

That discovery and a brewing fascination with world politics and international affairs were the genesis of "Diplomacy," the board game he would create years later as a history student at Harvard University in the 1950s. Allan Calhamer, creator of game 'Diplomacy,' dies 2013-03-03T02:01:05Z

Howe’s letters and journals may hold the greatest fascination. Her truth marches on 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

The E! network, which will air the program starting July 26, unveiled the title and a trailer Wednesday amid the public's fascination with the Olympic gold medal-winner's transition. Caitlyn Jenner's new reality show is called 'I Am Cait' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

What's behind this enduring fascination with – and thinly veiled disdain for – some Southern American accents? TikTok, #BamaRush and the irresistible allure of mocking Southern accents 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

As a teenage revolutionary with a fascination for the early-70s counter culture, McDermid "wanted to be in England", despite her only experience of it being a week's holiday in Blackpool. Val McDermid: a life in writing 2011-08-12T21:55:20Z

The hallmark of this fascination is its depth. My houseplant garden is a tiny national park Donald Trump can never destroy 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

Lastly, in the downstairs gallery, Ashanté Kindle’s circular paintings of hairstyling strips and acrylic on wood panel expound on her fascination with Black people’s hair. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in August 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

All of this, with projections of vintage tinted photographs of the doomed ship, conjure a sense of the momentous glamour that is part of our continuing fascination with the Titanic story. A sweeping 'Titanic in Concert' at 5th Avenue 2012-04-14T18:21:04Z

Instead, Decker and Moss approach Jackson as if she were a character in her own fiction, which is to say as an object of pity, terror, fascination and awe rather than straightforward sympathy. ‘Shirley’ Review: A Writer as Scary as Her Stories 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

But there is a fascination in hearing about the logistics of the riot and just how surreal events were for the prisoners. ‘Attica’ Review: Reflections on a Riot 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

The one place in the film where process itself, its inherent fascinations and transformations, prevails is on the set of a TV studio. David O. Russell’s Self-Reflexive “Joy” 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z

Indeed, he also shares the great naturalist's good-natured curiosity, so there's real fun and fascination to these descriptions of a new world. Back to the Hugos: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov 2011-01-06T15:34:14Z

Both Las Vegas attractions expect to lure hundreds of thousands of visitors each year driven, at least in part, by the nation's unquenched fascination with the silver screen mob bosses of "Goodfellas" and "The Godfather." Las Vegas embraces mob roots with new attractions 2011-03-30T09:46:06Z

He attributes his fascination with birds to his childhood on the Brittany seaside. DANCE: Choreography With Real Swans 2012-06-03T04:30:53Z

Though it hardly qualifies as escapist reading, its fascination with historical detail and celebration of raw courage make it hard to resist. Books of The Times: ‘Granddad, There’s a Head on the Beach’ and Other Summer Reads 2012-05-24T22:43:29Z

Chryssa’s first blush with Times Square ignited an abiding fascination with the way language’s delivery can be augmented, and her earliest work with light seeks to exploit its complicity in that process. New York’s Poet of Light and Letters 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

Inspired by a long standing fascination with Cubism, Nevelson started making works of collage in New York in the 1950s. New York’s Pace Gallery shows early Louise Nevelson collages 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

The McConaughey-O'Rourke relationship is one of growing fascination in political circles, if only because they are by far the two most recognizable names being discussed as potential gubernatorial candidates. Matthew McConaughey is flirting with a run for governor. But his politics remain a mystery 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

The documentary “Tim’s Vermeer” is about many things — art history, technology, painting technique, beauty — but ultimately it’s a beguiling study of fascination. ‘Tim’s Vermeer’: Chronicling a 5-year obsession 2014-03-06T20:15:40Z

A fascination with posteriors — both human and feline — isn’t the worst thing about “CHIPS,” but it’s up there. Review: In ‘CHIPS,’ Blown-Up Cars Overshadow Buddy Cops 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

I won't deny watching Peary's movie at a festival last year with a certain queasy fascination, but then I suppose I am the target demographic. Movie critics: Shut up already! 2010-04-15T19:55:00Z

His fascination with movie promotion led him to study advertising and then journalism at the University of Washington. Robert Osborne, Turner Classic Movies host and film historian, dies at 84 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

Uncle Rufus seems gruff at first, but Louisa’s fascination with the lush rainforest — the birds’ songs, the giant bluish-green trees and other unusual sights, sounds and smells — helps her adjust to this temporary home. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘Music for Tigers’ 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Ballard's fascination with Freud – he called him, only half-playfully, "the great novelist of the 20th century" – and Freud's artistic progeny, the surrealists, resulted in the domination of his work by symbolism and febrile mental states. A brief survey of the short story part 26: JG Ballard 2010-06-10T15:24:00Z

Gertrude Stein was clearly a touchstone for Johnson, and "Not Nothing" delves even further into his fascination with word play and the meanings pregnant in any combination of symbols. A movable feast of words in Ray Johnson books 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Bukowski’s poetic fascination with his women and his own bad behavior is less interesting to us than to him, and Ms. Careless never becomes more than a hybrid vision of sex, comfort and betrayal. Dance Review: A Boozy Word Slinger and His Obscure Objects of Desire 2011-04-24T22:07:38Z

Yet the sonata also bears a tenuous link to Scelsi’s later fascination with the implications of single, repeated tones. Music Review: Pianist Revels in Scores That Dare the Ear 2011-01-04T21:28:00Z

The following spring, my son, Evan, who was then about twelve years old, expressed a fascination with professional wrestling. Editing Donald Trump 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

She made no secret of her fascination with “genius and talent.” Lillian Ross, celebrated New Yorker writer, dead at 99 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Deller has long had a fascination with the energy and symbolism of British parades, staging his own alternative pageant of Boy Racers and Big Issue Sellers and Unrepentant Smokers at the Manchester festival in 2009. Jeremy Deller's visions of England 2013-06-01T22:00:01Z

She later enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design to study photography, but her music fascination endured. Up Close: Talking With Veronica Vasicka, Founder of Minimal Wave 2012-04-11T21:05:26Z

That reality television has a rubbernecking fascination with failures of one sort or another is unsettling. ‘Botched’ and ‘Abby’s Studio Rescue’ Begin on Tuesday 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

He finds love at his boardinghouse, enrolls at Oxford and enlists in the army during World War I, and, all throughout, shares his fascination with language. What’s on TV Sunday: The Golden Globe Awards and ‘Tolkien’ 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z

She inspires disgust, fascination, obsession, sin; she is sexual in that religious way that doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with sex: she is constantly and thoroughly moralized. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z

Because what makes “Travesties” so deeply engaging — and hilarious and touching — isn’t its flashy erudition but its author’s rapt fascination with the workings of the human mind and its enduring relationship with art. Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Library in ‘Travesties’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

Tetzlaff’s intellect is in constant motion; the fascination of this performance was noticing where his attention fell. At the Kennedy Center, Eschenbach casts the NSO in standard but staunch roles 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

All that is not so much behind him as central to the fascination he exerts, an appeal irresistible enough that the comedian Ubaldo Pantani has made of career of hilarious Elkann impersonations on TV. On the Runway Blog: ‘A New Typology of Custom Design’ for Lapo Elkann 2013-06-23T20:53:14Z

My interview subject, now a grandparent herself, had a hard time understanding the fascination young people have with the social worlds contained in their phones. Over the holidays, try talking to your relatives like an anthropologist 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z

Faintly saucy drawings, based on Niemeyer's many decades of fascination with the female form, decorated the walls. Serpentine's star pavilions 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z

There's something volatileand magical about a corpse - inert but accusatory, charged with guilt,loss and fascination with our own mortality. Clip joint: Corpses 2012-08-02T08:39:54Z

There is something more here than mere lingering fascination with the Nazis. Artworks labeled degenerate in Nazi Germany are N.Y. hit

We can just as easily respond with indifference, morbid fascination — or worse. The Responsibility of Watching 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z

The fascination with true crime in pop culture is interesting to me. "Dear Damage" author on when your family's tragedy makes headlines 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

But, he added, the first inklings of Mr. Warlikowski’s mature style were already clear in those 1990s shows, particularly an enduring fascination with “perverse, unobvious, not straightforward situations, where one person inflicts pain on another.” A Director Brings Cerebral, Sexy Style to Opera Classics 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

Still, Neruda’s life remains a source of fascination, and his work remains vital. Review | The messy, brilliant life of Pablo Neruda 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

It's not my reality, but I think it relates so much to our fascination today with celebrity culture that it's fascinating to see another side of it. Sofia Coppola: Not just for girls 2010-12-23T18:01:00Z

Model-making was an architect requirement in those days before 3-D, so my fascination was professional as well as curious. Letters from magazine readers 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

It's a collector's item that may, at the very least, revive interest in Hamilton's novels with their Dostoyevskyan fascination with the dispossessed. The Duke in Darkness – review 2013-04-26T09:29:53Z

For Parsons, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” is a natural choice, given the artist’s longstanding fascination with the magical arts. Alan Parsons, prog rock Prospero? 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

Part of the particular fascination of le Carré's papers is that they reveal – in a way that nothing written on a computer could – his detailed working methods. John le Carr? gives his literary archive to Oxford's Bodleian library 2011-02-23T20:21:46Z

The casting of Taylor and Burton in Coward's comedy about a divorced couple running into each other in France while honeymooning with their new spouses played on the public's fascination with their own tempestuous relationship. Liz Taylor and Richard Burton reunited in BBC4 drama about last performance 2013-06-04T23:02:01Z

The last century will be known for our fascination with chemicals in every aspect of our lives. A Reckoning With an Imperfect Science in ‘Blue Dreams’ 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

I think I prefer the coolness of a padded bathroom; it suggests an almost absurd fascination with style. On the Runway: Marc Jacobs: The Beautiful People 2011-02-15T03:14:29Z

Wally’s fascination edges into obsession when she learns that the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor is going on the block at Sotheby’s, where she worked before her husband forced her to quit. Movie Review: Madonna?s ?W.E.? With Andrea Riseborough and Abbie Cornish 2012-02-03T00:14:32Z

It was not only duty that prevented me from joining her, but also a morbid fascination with catastrophe. Movie Review: ‘Charlie Victor Romeo’ Depicts Doomed Flights 2014-01-28T23:18:30Z

Like almost all of McGregor’s ballets, it shows his fascination with technique as a system or technology: What are its principles? Review: At the Royal Ballet, a Landscape and Soundscape With Dance 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

Turner's fascination with the extraordinary, evanescent architecture overhead, of the "parapets and turrets, batteries and bastions" that the balloonists saw, strikes a chord with us all. Flight of fancy: how aviation changed art for ever 2012-08-17T21:55:08Z

The long linen with the faded image of a bearded man is the object of centuries-old fascination and wonderment, and closely kept under wrap. Public to get latest peek at Shroud 2010-04-09T18:26:00Z

But there's also a commentary on society's perverse fascination with reality television. Amnesty teen takeover: Sara Grant's top 10 books that entertain and inspire 2012-08-22T11:19:10Z

But the offset press — and, later, inkjet printers — fueled his fascination with using new mechanical forms to recreate photographic images. Richard Benson, Photographer and Printer, Dies at 73 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

If such contrasts create fascination, other distinctions can be damaging. The Rise of the ‘Bromosexual’ Friendship 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

Yet he is an increasing object of fascination and study. Decades in the Broadway biz, and still we want more of Stephen Sondheim

“Its fascination with Brandon becomes a kind of credulity, a willingness to accept uncritically the mystifications of a proven liar,” he wrote. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

Gossaert is almost Warholian in his fascination with surface, a rich observer of the physical world who hesitates to go beyond. Jan Gossaert's Renaissance ? review 2011-03-04T10:52:10Z

“Looking back on my youthful addiction to tennis, I find it not much different from my fascination with the market,” Mr. Neuberger wrote in his autobiography. Roy R. Neuberger Dies at 107; Applied a Stock Trader?s Acumen to Art 2010-12-25T04:31:59Z

He’ll talk about his childhood fascination with the “Ring,” the many productions he has seen and heard, and the three different “Rings” he has produced in Seattle. How to get even more out of Seattle Opera’s ‘Ring’ cycle 2013-07-25T22:42:24Z

“The ongoing fascination with this young woman and her prospects is proof of the ongoing power of royal association in an era when the power of the monarchy was apparently dwindling.” Pippa Middleton Goes Out on Her Own. But She’s Not Alone. 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

Given her fascination with the visual world, it is no surprise that she formed a deep friendship with the Seattle photographer Mary Randlett. ‘A Poet’s Revolution’: a new biography of Denise Levertov 2013-07-05T21:33:23Z

“I was always struck that in practically every other place we’d go in, there was a side room where they were selling Nazi stuff,” he said — evidence of “the fascination with the lost cause.” Television: Old-Time Stuff Is Not Forgotten 2011-05-27T18:40:43Z

But she finds a way to indulge that fascination without the exploitation inherent in the books’ production. Yes, Books Were Bound in Human Skin. An Intrepid Librarian Finds the Proof. 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

We chatted with the director by phone about the challenges of walking the line between art and commerce, and his ongoing fascination with dark themes. Director Denis Villeneuve walks a fine line between art and commerce 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

It’s a noble goal, to refuse to feed our fascination with the deranged teenage killer or provide the convenient horror movie plot. How the Parkland Shooting Led to a Generation’s Political Awakening 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

In spite of its generic title, “A Serbian Film,” directed by Srdjan Spasojevic, has already provoked scandal on the festival circuit and fascination from devotees of extreme cinema. | 'A Serbian Film': Torture or Porn? No Need to Choose 2011-05-12T22:28:36Z

“I want the work to look like it’s slipping and sliding and has life,” Shechet told me, articulating her career-long fascination with the natural entropy of her materials and capturing the energy of her process. Arlene Shechet Creates Beauty Out of Chaos 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Cityscapes, whether large and small, epic or intimate, seem to hold an inordinate fascination for him. New York City views 2010-07-31T23:04:00Z

Today, it remains controversial as one of the central icons of Orientalism, the Western fascination with the exotic other, often a colonized, exploited and violated figure. Review | In Paris, a major Delacroix exhibition that continues to explore his genius 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

I really had this fascination with her and her diary, and it seemed like a cool project. Chloe Sevigny: LGBT community’s made “huge strides” 2012-07-11T12:00:00Z

The second season's episodes play to a separate sort of fascination than those of the first season. "Couples Therapy" is back with "something almost miraculous" born from our shared crisis 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

One critic has compared him to the minimalist Donald Judd because of his fascination with structure and form; another to Marcel Duchamp, master of the droll artistic one-liner. Passport Photos and Online Porn: The Dizzying World of Thomas Ruff 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Part of the fascination with the property comes from its unusual provenance. The House That Calvin Klein Built 2013-08-30T21:08:57Z

The counter and walls of this self-service restaurant reflect Conceptual art’s fascination with language, information and short sentences, and seem to jibe with my long-held suspicion that Conceptual art is the new folk art. The Art of Summer: Painterly Experiences Where They?re Least Expected 2011-08-24T12:01:01Z

Such shows cater to our dark fascination with monstrosity or theatrical shamelessness. "The Ashley Madison Affair" is another doc where the audience is an accessory to the true crime 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

Some of them were designed to make us laugh, topmost being the strange social media fascination with what was going through Drogon’s reptilian brain as he watched Dany and Jon make out. "Game of Thrones" recap: It's a reunion! The dying can start any day now 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

What could explain the sudden fascination of my political cabal for these type of characters? Why the left loves Martin Scorsese movies – especially right now 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z

This smashup of our national obesity crisis and our fascination with all things celebrity offers something for them and us. Celebrities weigh in on struggles 2010-06-08T20:37:00Z

“There’s a fascination with it, but there’s no discussion.” How 2 Jewish Sisters Built a Cultural Oasis During World War II 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

That fascination has produced works of camp, wildly homophobic characters and, occasionally, refreshing representation. ‘Alone With You’ Review: An Anniversary for One 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Then Forsyth found an editor who understood that the story’s fascination lay not in de Gaulle’s fate but in the complex chess game between a determined assassin and the French leader’s formidable security team. In ‘The Outsider,’ Frederick Forsyth shares his life of intrigue 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Norman has ploughed this terrain for much of his career, and brings to his subject both a deep fascination with the ecology of rock'n'roll plus a sharp eye for its absurdities. Best biographies of 2012 2012-11-29T17:00:01Z

Precocity is a shock, a fascination and a curse. Music Review: Jackie Evancho at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-11-08T22:48:51Z

Besides Ratmansky’s urge to challenge himself by creating a large-scale dramatic work, he was also moved by a more private passion — his fascination with classical art. Alexei Ratmansky’s Epic Ballet Arrives in a Changed World 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

It is Harold’s grandfather who bestows on him a fascination with, and reverence for, the Lakota tribe of North and South Dakota, and who suggests that his Lakota name could be “Boy of Many Nows.” Meet ‘Harold,’ a Dreamy Third Grader With a Lot on His Mind 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

But our fascination with artificially created humans reaches much further back than that — at least to Pygmalion in Greek mythology. Review | The robot revolution is coming: Will there be any room left for us? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

It was Jerome’s idea to tap into the growing fascination with space travel. Jerome Albert, Who Helped Bring Space Age to Coney Island, Dies at 74 2012-03-17T04:31:48Z

I read "The Heavy" with fascination and an increasing understanding of how complex a problem faces each individual family dealing with childhood obesity. Motherlode Blog: An Interview with Dara-Lynn Weiss, Who Put Her 7-Year-Old on a Diet, and Wrote a Book About It. 2013-01-15T14:07:08Z

But most of the Cumberland, Md., native’s art appears to flow from what calls his “childhood fascination . . . with building blocks.” In the galleries: Remapping the boundaries of drawing 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

This fascination with intelligent evil is most apparent in a new main character, who has no analogue in the original: a sharkish sociopath, a genius of the long con and the longer monologue. Emily Nussbaum: The Minnesota Noir of “Fargo” 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

And not only owing to the almost uniform fascination of his subjects. Emmanuel Carrère’s Disconcertingly Personal and Utterly Gripping Prose 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Below, Mr. Hargrove, who lives in Dallas and has chased storms himself, talks about his fascination with this story, the many adventures he cut from the final book and more. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Dangerous Journey Into the Heart of Tornadoes 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z

"Its frequent repetition fastens it upon the victim with a fascination almost irresistible." Once a cure for deviant behaviors, Kellogg's Corn Flakes continue to be a blueprint for all cereals 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

Once rediscovered in the 15th century, the book inspired the Renaissance fascination with ancient buildings. Leo Hollis's top 10 books about cities 2013-04-26T07:37:40Z

It was one of the middling films that characterized Mr. Mazursky’s last several years as a director, but it spoke to his fascination with social customs. Paul Mazursky, director of ‘Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice’ and ‘Harry and Tonto’ dies at 84

Hollywood’s fascination with its own image isn’t necessarily an artistically limiting one. La La Land and Hollywood's everlasting love affair with itself 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Unlike the similar case of Britney Spears, who was a subject of tabloid fascination as she rampaged through Los Angeles post-divorce, there’s not even symbolic insight to be gained here. The Amanda Bynes Story Isn't a Story At All 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

The fascination with calendar girls has spawned a handful of workshops instructing members in the art of the steamy pose. A Sly Wink to Pinups of the Past 2012-05-21T14:58:01Z

Wood’s death, however, still looms over this glowing retrospective, especially in light of renewed media fascination and accusations of foul play. 'A short but vibrant life': revisiting the life and death of Natalie Wood 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

In his book, he explores his own lifelong fascination with it, as well as the eternal dynamic between magician and audience. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

Swafford’s voice is genial and conversational, that of a friend who loves to tell you about his fascinations: the foibles of court life, logistical problems of the musician. ‘Beethoven,’ by Jan Swafford 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

“The Inventor,” debuting Monday at 9 p.m. on HBO, is but the latest examination of massive fraud to draw the public’s attention and fascination. Elizabeth Holmes' all-American scam: HBO's "The Inventor" reveals the science of the con 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

Wiseman’s influence is apparent in Simon’s fascination with public spaces and lengthy conversations. A New Subject for a Veteran Documentary Maker: Herself 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

Carpenter's fascination with the organ began as a child, when he saw a picture of the instrument at New York's Rainbow Room in an encyclopedia. Cameron Carpenter: rhinestone cowboy 2010-05-20T22:30:00Z

Its ideas are unified by the author’s genuine fascination with his material and his eagerness to follow it wherever it leads, even when it goes half-mad. Books of The Times: The Weird, Wide World of Bugs in Hugh Raffles?s ?Insectopedia? 2010-03-24T23:08:00Z

Last seen on the market in 1878, the painting represents the culmination of the painter's fascination with Rome. Turner tipped to fetch up to ?18m 2010-03-26T15:47:00Z

In a way, the play looks back to Plato's allegory of the cave, to Prospero in The Tempest, and forwards, by three centuries, to Pirandello's fascination with the shifting boundaries between art and reality. The Illusion – review 2012-08-27T17:00:14Z

Many New Yorkers kept returning to it in fascination and awe: something only possible because of the stylistic immersion with which Ballet Theater’s dancers committed themselves to Ashton’s work. American Ballet Theater Performs Ashton’s ‘Cinderella’ 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

In “Flux Gourmet,” this lifelong fascination with sound is shared by the central group of “sonic caterers.” Welcome to Peter Strickland’s Worlds 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

Ms. Meckseper’s dazzling surfeit of reflective surfaces takes the animal fascination with shiny and runs with it. Art Review: In West Chelsea, Sculptures Speak in Dialects 2010-06-01T22:51:00Z

“As a girl from Kentucky,” Ms. Whelan said, “this book literally opened the door to my fascination with New York City, ballet and Balanchine.” ?A Very Young Dancer? and the Life That Followed 2011-11-17T12:00:00Z

"Notes for the Ship's Log," has always been a major fascination. Poem of the week: Stowaways by Lawrence Sail 2011-01-31T10:20:36Z

But more than “Lost,” the new show calls to mind the entertainment media’s current cycle of fascination with postapocalyptic survival stories. | Television: The New Season: ‘Revolution’ on NBC 2012-09-09T19:57:24Z

“There’s a real fascination I still have with its structure,” said Mr. Borgo, who keeps the cube on his desk. Possessed: Family Lines Meet in a Cube 2011-04-01T17:19:29Z

And both films reflect Allen’s lifelong fascination with charming rogues. ‘Broken City’ Is Directed Solo by Allen Hughes 2013-01-12T15:00:00Z

Our fascination with the unclean is not new. London's New 'Dirt' Exhibit Celebrates the Value of Filth 2011-04-12T08:45:00Z

When her parents suggested the children keep travel diaries, she began a lifelong fascination with collecting recipes. Q&A: Q&A With Allegra McEvedy 2012-02-03T20:09:44Z

Back at the party at the Swiss chalet, as Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” played, Mr. Berggruen talked about his fascination with which governments work and which don’t, about his interest in East and West. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, ‘Sustainability,’ ‘Mindfulness’ and Cocktails 2014-01-24T22:19:50Z

I watched in fascination as team after team did its best to frighten the audience. Using Dance to Connect With Locals 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

Even the Florentine Ghiberti was susceptible to their fascination, writing of Martini and Memmi that “they were gentle masters, their paintings done with great diligence, and most delicately finished.” Review: A Sculptural Showcase in Siena 2010-06-18T15:30:00Z

His enduring fascination with the country is reflected in this exhibition of about 120 drawings, watercolors and oil paintings, many of which showcase Sargent’s landscape work. At Museums and Auctions, Private Treasures Are Unveiled 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

Placed prominently at the entrance to the exhibition, its depiction of European traders as odd, strangely attired creatures reveals both fascination and befuddlement—an apt metaphor for such exchanges. East meets West 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Sitting in downtown’s Grand Central Market recently, he spoke about Corbett and our enduring fascination with the Civil War. Coming to the Festival of Books: Scott Martelle 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

“The people we were working with were primarily dancers, not actors, and I didn’t want to fall into the trap of this being a fascination with polygamous lifestyle.” Finding Depth in Fela?s Women 2009-12-17T15:17:00Z

The note is also a nod to Hanks’s lifelong fascination with typewriters, which he collects. Tom Hanks sends espresso machine to help White House press fight for truth 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

The theatrical component of Mr. Estrada’s works is partly a result of his fascination with ancient Mexican cultures. Music Review: Julio Estrada, at Miller Theater, in ICE Composer Portraits 2013-05-17T21:03:20Z

In fact, it is precisely this fascination with defining space through light, with mapping atmospheres of sun and shadow, that is the great Venetian gift to European painting. How Canaletto and the Venetian artists light up the National Gallery 2010-10-15T11:19:00Z

Humanity’s fascination with gods has informed culture since the beginning of memory itself. A divine interlude in the tunnel of love: "Watchmen" and the intersection of comic books and faith 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

“She’s wondered with the sort of detached fascination of the comfortable elite, how dire the conditions of their lives must be wherever they come from, that this is the better option.” Writing About the Border Crisis, Hoping to Break Down Walls 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

But even if, after the play has finished, you return to your comfortable skepticism, as you watch it Ms. Hall’s drama has an eerie fascination. ‘Our Lady of Kibeho,’ a Katori Hall Drama Set in the 1980s 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z

Over a coconut milk smoothie at Café Gratitude, the trendy vegan restaurant on Larchmont Boulevard here, Maude was describing the rather intense fascination she has inspired on Twitter, where she has over 62,000 followers. Maude Apatow Is Growing Up Writing 2012-08-24T22:19:51Z

“It’s the fascination with shapes that gets to me.” Artists works show how their gardens grow: The seeds of creativity 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

In 1988, Valerie revealed that "at the time of our marriage I was dismayed to learn that my husband had forbidden the future publication of his correspondence, because I appreciated its importance and fascination". Valerie Eliot 2012-11-12T16:41:09Z

She traces that fascination to her childhood experience in lucid dreaming, and in her backpack, along with her Jodorowsky book, she carried a sketchbook with semi-surrealistic drawings. Music: Up From the Underground, Into the Light 2010-02-19T20:16:00Z

His collages were deeply rooted in a fascination with mythology and the occult; an obsession shared by Duncan, whose adoptive parents were Theosophists. Jess, Robert Duncan: a collaboration both romantic and artistic 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

Aside from the Hollywood fascination of the case, the protracted trial is also highly unusual in being a rare example of a libel battle reaching court. Johnny Depp praised Amber Heard's 'heroism' in his drugs battle, court hears 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

A special fascination attaches to the early work of celebrated dramatists: you invariably get a first sketch of their lifelong obsessions. The Young Idea ? review 2011-02-16T18:17:47Z

I watched in fascination and horror, my heart pounding furiously. When I became a junkie 2012-11-14T21:48:00Z

“Four Decades” will mark these moments while examining Barney’s enduring fascinations, including family. Photographer Tina Barney Gets a Retrospective In New York 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

The great naturalist is revealing a little-known side of himself: his love of archaeology – and his fascination with Silbury Hill in Wiltshire. David Attenborough's big dig 2010-10-25T21:01:00Z

There’s a deep fascination in many of us about a past self that could exist only because someone else believed in her. Intense girlhood friendships are “excellent practice for surviving the heartbreak … of future love affairs” 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

“The Buried Giant,” like many of Mr. Ishiguro’s books, reflects his fascination with the ways individuals and societies grapple with the past — often through denial, distortion or self-delusion. Review: In ‘The Buried Giant,’ Ishiguro Revisits Memory and Denial 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Well, we did do something similar a few years ago with Buster and his fascination with aliens, so … Marc Brown on the End of ‘Arthur’ and His Favorite Fan Theories 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z

But the roots of her awareness and fascination with life’s darker shades also reach back to that terrible Argentina of her youth. Reveling in the Eerie and the Spooky, but Finding ‘True Horror’ in Real Life 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

In this meticulously researched work, Rhodes brings his fascination with engineers, scientists and inventors along as he presents an often underappreciated history: four centuries through the evolution of energy and how we use it. A History of the Energy We Have Consumed 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

I’ve only just started it and can so far confess to fascination and pleasure; the wealth of detail and the measured tempo are up to the Shakespearean complexity of Welles’s character. What We’re Reading This Fall 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

He would sit in the hills and read philosophy books imagining the broader universe, he says, a fascination that led him into academia and all the way to 'Oumuamua. Harvard’s top astronomer says an alien ship may be among us — and he doesn’t care what his colleagues think 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Yet sitcoms that have tried to co-opt that fascination, like ABC’s “Man Up!,” have mostly failed. Television Review: ‘The New Normal’ and ‘Guys With Kids’ Begin on NBC 2012-09-10T21:56:20Z

It gave her, she now reflects, a fascination with the secret lives of men. The Charming, Disgusting Paintings of Tala Madani 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

I don’t have kids, but I do have a fascination with sassy mom merch. The Quiet Protests of Sassy Mom Merch 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Victoria's embellishment is just a symptom of a glaring issue in the industry — rich people's fascination with being self-made. Why do some celebrities pretend to have struggling, working-class backgrounds? 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z

I ate it with the same disorienting fascination one experiences when watching a convincing celebrity impersonator. Where to find the best vegan dining in Manhattan 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

In it Mr. Platel showcases his fascination for distorting everyday actions. Dance Review: Distorting Everyday Actions, With Movements Awkward and Active 2010-10-20T21:14:00Z

Even after her death, the power and fascination of her stare remains. Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z

This is why “Harold” holds a particular fascination for comedy fans. Steven Wright, Master of the One-Liner, Tries His Hand at a Novel 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

On this point, Trebek is remarkably direct: Even if he can’t quite understand the public fascination with his life, he knows he means something significant to the culture, something soothing and in short supply. In Alex Trebek’s Reluctant, Moving Memoir, Life Is All About the Next Question 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

She developed a fascination with cartoons and greeting cards as a child and knew from an early age that she wanted to be an artist. An Artist Who Works Alongside Giants 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

“There’s been a lot about them, and now there’s a lot more. While people’s fascination has always been pretty high, maybe there is a natural limit to that.” Has Prince Harry’s Confessional Tour Run Its Course? 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

As an attractive woman who came to prominence at a relatively young age, she has been an enduring fascination for Washington gossips, linked romantically to liberal VIPs such as Keith Olberman and Larry Summers. Laura Ingraham was ‘Trump before Trump.’ But is she made for TV? 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

Why do you think there is such fascination with this era? T.C. Boyle: Older, still effortlessly cool 2012-09-07T15:05:00Z

Mariam Haji draws on Middle Eastern fascination with Arabian stallions in her work The Victory "I am referring to the boundless nature of the sea," he explains. Arab art on view at Venice Biennale 2013-08-15T07:00:06Z

A new London exhibition explores that fascination, displaying everything from mummified Egyptian cerebral matter to slices of Albert Einstein's brain in the story of our quest to understand what's inside our skulls. Brains! London exhibition looks inside our skulls 2012-03-27T16:31:04Z

Cameron's dive last year saw him travel directly downwards for two hours and 36 minutes in an expedition inspired by the same fascination for ocean exploration that fed into his films Titanic and The Abyss. James Cameron donates Deapsea Challenger submarine to science 2013-03-26T12:32:23Z

She understood memes years ago – the fascination with heart-shaped potatoes in The Gleaners and I is very now – and Faces Places is a riposte to celebrity culture, promoting “ordinary” people as photographic subjects. Agnès Varda, the queen of the meme 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

The Disney fascination with the sooty heroine, the Prince and the glass slipper goes back to Walt’s earlier days as a cartoon producer. Cinderella Review: Disney Rekindles Old Magic 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Once he was elected, the media’s fascination turned to utter obsession. Perspective | Journalists, it’s time for a cold-turkey breakup with Trump 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

As a self-portrait of the artist at sunset, Babe exerts a certain fascination. Theater Review: ?In Masks Outrageous and Austere? at the Culture Project 2012-04-17T02:00:12Z

Recent gallery shows in D.C. and elsewhere confirm that contemporary artists, national and international, still pursue that fascination with geometry. When the Washington Color School earned its stripes on the national stage 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

But despite the scandals that plagued his name, Lentz remained a figure of fascination and admiration amongst several of his followers. “The Secrets of Hillsong”: The 8 major bombshells from FX's new Hillsong Church docuseries 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z

But recently watchmakers have broken free of the spell, shifting their attention from the visual fascination of the tourbillon to the tuneful appeal of the minute repeater. Minute Repeater Watches Again Gain Favor 2012-03-09T11:58:37Z

There should be resentment, jealousy, emulation, curiosity, fascination, and a wider web of connections—history, tradition, lore, anecdotes, all sorts of indirect experience that looms as large in selfhood as do domestic routines and comforts. The Curse of the Pixar Universe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

A month in France as a high school exchange student left me with a permanent sense of entitlement about crossing my sevens and zees, plus a fascination with the French Revolution. Celebrate Bastille Day with a low-effort and big-flavor take on the classic French canelé cake 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z

Isherwood died in 1986, but the couple's influence on each other remains an enduring subject of fascination among their fans. Don Bachardy puts honest face on fame in 'Hollywood' 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

As Greek and Latin studies decline in the Western education system, admiration for Roman sculpture and the fascination with its rediscovery in the Renaissance age — which changed the course of European art forever — keep rising. When Roman Statues Play Pranks 2010-06-18T15:00:00Z

Yet this did not prevent him from treating them with a sympathy and fascination far removed from the "enormous condescension" of a dogmatic Marxist posterity. Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century – review 2013-03-20T11:59:01Z

HOLLYWOOD’S collective fascination with the silent-film era is hitting a peak with “Hugo” and “The Artist,” each a homage to a bygone time. film: Silent-Movie-Era Tributes From the Past 2012-01-06T21:36:22Z

Bertino has a longtime fascination with “creatures that were supposed to be someplace else,” but end up thriving in an environment “not suited for them.” 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

As the club’s sommelier decanted the wines, our host explained his fascination with Screaming Eagle. Is a wine that costs four digits worth it? There’s only one way to find out. 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

The results are so singular it is little wonder Kahlo remains a figure of fascination. Frida Kahlo Is Having a Moment 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

He was inspired mostly by his own fascination with Russian hockey. ‘Red Army’ Charts Rise and Fall of a Soviet Hockey Team 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

With this project, my biggest inspiration came with knowing of Ms. Midler’s fascination with it. | Manolo Blahnik 2011-02-28T23:11:14Z

"My fascination with owning houses," she confides in 1998, "comes from the desire to make where I live beautiful, comfortable; a place where everything works." Alice Walker's "Gathering Blossoms Under Fire" and the rare gift of Black women's published journals 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

Many of the subjects of recent Bugle episodes hint at the kinds of stories that Oliver will tackle on television—for example, his fascination with the Indian politician Narendra Modi. John Oliver's 'Last Week Tonight' 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z

She quickly realized she was not the only one with a graveyard fascination. This woman bakes recipes she finds on gravestone epitaphs: ‘They’re to die for’ 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

Behind him, a dozen or so teenage Italian tourists are watching with fascination, the atmosphere more like an international summer school than a hotbed of underground delinquency. A working life: The graffiti artist 2011-07-22T22:02:15Z

His dances, though, are much more than studies in absurdism; at their heart is an ardent fascination in human energy, rigorously expressed. Review: Compagnie CNDC-Angers Dances Cunningham 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Besides deploying the key elements of his architectural idiom — flat planes, saturated colors, falling water, light and shadow manipulated with godlike ease — it also engaged his fascination with landscape design and lifelong love of horses. Finding Mexico City, and Luis Barragán, Again 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

The aesthetic cult, that art of “strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions,” as Walter Pater called it, has lost much of its fascination. Hanging With the Wits and Dandies of the Belle Époque 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

But a shared fascination with film led the friends to do several years of research, much of it at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences library in Los Angeles. Damien Bona, Creator of ?Inside Oscar,? Dies at 56 2012-02-10T00:29:17Z

The 100-year anniversary of the arrival of these rugged explorers is a reminder of our continued fascination with a region that remains in many ways as remote, exotic and evocative as it ever was. 45 Places to Go in 2012 2012-01-06T17:44:12Z

Stockwell, while playing with themes of consumer waste, refers to the "toxic exquisiteness" of her hi-tech raw materials, hinting at the double-edged fascination her best work generates. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

Bong's film exerts an awful fascination as we see Do-joon following a pretty, frightened schoolgirl home down a dark alley one night. Film review: Mother 2010-08-19T21:07:00Z

Still, each fresh example from the new team in town offers its own fascination. Perspective | Tracking the special treatment media get when they play nice with the White House 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

“For a few weeks, or during the course of the fascination with the news cycle, you’re going to continue to see a sales spike,” said Bill Werde, editorial director of Billboard. Whitney Houston?s Death Leads to Surging Music Sales 2012-02-15T23:13:57Z

“That really cemented my view of the story, my fascination with the actual experience of it.” ‘Dunkirk’ director Christopher Nolan excels at building suspense. Here’s how he does it. 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

This is all fascinating, but it’s a clinical fascination — a constant prompt, in the show’s words, to “question the nature of your reality.” ‘Westworld’: A Show That’s Amazing but Not Necessarily Good 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

Tell me about your fascination with wild animals. Mysterious Seattle street artist NTG opens up a bit about his work, new exhibition 2011-04-15T00:37:43Z

The disappointment of leaving one story is immediately quelled by our fascination in the next. Review | Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Station Eleven’ was a huge hit. Now she’s back with a different apocalypse. 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

She shrewdly notes that our fascination with vanishing is only heightened by the “hypervisibility of our age.” ‘Playing Dead,’ a Disappearing Act for the Fraudulent-Minded 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z

Another is that the Titanic holds a special fascination for middle-aged men. Critic?s Notebook: TV Documentaries for the Titanic?s Centennial 2012-04-04T22:10:23Z

The emotional impetus propelling the movie is the intrinsic fascination of crime and non-punishment, the terrifying allure of violent crime itself, like a real-life horror film. The Blinding Cinematic Whiteness of “Black Mass” 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

“Some of us live as fake news,” she said, noting that her experience as an object of media fascination increased her empathy for those whose stories are inaccurately depicted. There Is Life After Campus Infamy 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

The fall season, opening on Wednesday, certainly offers a range of unfamiliar fascinations. Leaping From the 19th Century to the 21st in Eight Weeks 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

His remarks and his choice of material revealed a fascination with paradoxes and riddles. Music Review: Norbert Leo Butz in Cabaret at 54 Below 2012-08-06T22:54:10Z

My fascination is partly a result of seeing these places portrayed in popular films, from “Jaws” and “Terminator 2” to “Back to the Future Part II” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Timeless Portraits of L.A.’s Arcades 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

It also helped make him a figure of fascination, resentment and envy. Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

McElwee has a consuming fascination with the process that brings Hollywood’s astronomically costly products to hometown audiences. Review | A rare look at 60 years of newspaper advertising for motion pictures 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z

This fascination served me well when I eventually became the U.I. designer on the Dead Space franchise. Your First Video Game Crush 2013-08-07T16:07:55Z

Lady Gaga I regard with a mixture of horrified fascination and respect for her arch cultural commentary. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z

Watching Tom Ripley or Israel Rank literally “get away with murder” is part of the fascination of these smoothly urbane narratives. ‘The Deadly Dowager’: A new look at one of the great villains of modern literature 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

More reliable, perhaps, is Keaton’s account of the writing of Annie Hall, which grew from Allen’s fascination with Keaton, her mother and sisters. Woody Allen and his sisters 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Written at the height of his dramatic powers, The Crucible is one of the four great plays in which Miller's ever-present urge towards didacticism is tempered by a passionate fascination with human frailty and contradiction. The Crucible – review 2013-06-28T00:38:00Z

Her dialogue with artists like David Smith and Jackson Pollock is but one fascination. 12 Galleries to Visit Now in Chelsea 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Photograph: ITV Even with America's Hardest Prisons and several other imitators available virtually 24/7 on the cable channels, the US penal system still exercises a peculiar fascination this side of the Atlantic. TV review: Inside Death Row with Trevor McDonald; Married in Britain 2013-01-17T22:00:15Z

In terms of women's fascination with true crime, this is something we debated a lot in the series, and talked to a lot of people about this. Director of HBO's Golden State Killer docuseries on its sequel: “The struggle is the story” 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

It explores his fascination with the small rituals of domestic life, zooming in on the corner of his kitchen where scraps of food are collected each day. Simon Roberts puts political England in the frame 2010-04-12T15:49:00Z

The singer-songwriter, actor and director, who died in 1991, is still a subject of fascination, especially in Paris, where Ms. Gainsbourg, for a time, considered turning his house into a museum. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin and the Possibility of a Serge Gainsbourg Museum 1460-05-22T05:00:00Z

Segel deserves acclaim for a performance that is as revelatory of the unexpected depths of this hitherto bro-centric actor as it is of Wallace’s self-effacing fascination. How “The End of the Tour” Nails an Entire Profession 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

"In the five minutes and 17 seconds that have survived, we can see his fascination with urban life," the catalogue tells us. Edvard Munch: a head for horror 2012-06-25T17:30:01Z

He seems always to follow the demands and fascinations of his ideas, rather than pouring them into templates. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Ms. Hamilton ascribed a renewed fascination with Japan in part to a rejection of trend-chasing in favor of looks perceived as authentic, that hold up over time. Paying Homage to Japan?s Raw Edges 2010-10-07T00:18:00Z

The 1980s are a period of fascination for Hynes, with strong elements of the decade’s sound marking his catalogue. Review | Blood Orange wows sold-out crowd at Lincoln Theatre 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z

Abrams' science fiction drama "Revolution," though the networks have tried and failed over the last few years to replicate the magic of "Lost," the other Abrams-produced show that launched TV's science fiction fascination. And the winner is? The sitcom, as networks add new shows 2012-05-17T18:57:45Z

Baggs responds with tender fascination to a stream of water in the same way as a neurotypical person might to a human face or speech. In praise of flat places: On queerness, landscapes and understanding our desires 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

Much of this later work emerged from his fascination with and measured affection for American popular culture, or at least those aspects of it that embody a “nobility of usefulness.” Fraught and Fabulous: Art That Shows a Passion for Democracy 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

But the Hunterian Museum, with a collection that bridges the worlds of art and science by illustrating the history of surgery and people’s fascination with their own anatomy, provides a thought-provoking setting. Suffering for their art 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

He's exaggerating, but it provides the Pompeii-like fascination of seeing the intimate objects of the daily life of centuries ago, in some cases barely changed. Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth – review 2013-06-01T23:05:24Z

He explores the enduring fascination of the French revolution, the backdrop of his latest novel, The Last Banquet. Guardian Books podcast: Rebecca Miller and Wu Ming rewrite history 2013-07-19T12:46:47Z

Mr. Trump has held a long fascination with Hollywood. Too Much Politics Led to the Oscars Mistake, Trump Says 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Is it more than simply a Warholian fascination with the surface of things? Gary Hume: 'I couldn't hold down a job. That's why I became an artist' 2013-05-18T21:00:01Z

And in that way “Masters of Sex” fits into a larger pattern on television, a shared fascination with a past that hasn’t really been examined quite so thoroughly and consciously before. ‘Masters of Sex’ Starts Second Season on Showtime 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

But like all good fiction, this horror story has a basis in reality: our contemporary, sometimes ghoulish fascination with true-crime podcasts. Penny dreadfuls were the true crime podcasts of their time 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Each piece featured, in some way, captures Mr. Anderson’s fascination with irregularity in form and standard. A Fashion Guide to Miami Art Week 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Salonen's new interest in Debussy's opera was related to his fascination with the way the beginning of the 20th century mirrored that of the 21st century. In a tumultuous world, conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is focusing more on the present 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

Curator Carlos Basualdo in Philadelphia and Scott Rothkopf at the Whitney stress the idea of doubling, or mirror images, and Johns’s fascination with horizontal and vertical bifurcations. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: Blockbuster exhibition reveals a brilliant but bleak legacy 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

But the fascination wears off just as it should be peaking, with his involvement in the Cause. Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master: There Will Be Boredom 2012-09-01T18:40:38Z

Livingston remains mystified about Trump’s fascination with her film. Analysis | The newly relevant relationship between Trump and ‘Sunset Blvd.’ 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

That loss of control may be part of the fascination with the road picture; the streamlined story is undoubtedly the other. 'Exodus,' 'Unbroken,' 'Wild' take the road-trip movie on new paths 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

Ms. McNicol said she sees a link between the publishing world’s “fascination with youth” and the surge of such books from the fashion, cosmetics and other glamour industries. Who Will Be America’s Next Top Mentor? 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Abby's intimate, sometimes bawdy, insider's look into a world the typical diner doesn't get to see, how she got there -- and more importantly, why she stays there -- was a fascination for me. Tech savvy or troglodyte? I've come a long way, baby 2010-07-28T20:27:00Z

The names and designs of the lures and fishing flies offered their own fascination. A fly-fishing high on Montana’s pristine Gallatin River 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

And I’m not sure how many of us got the answers we wanted, which may partly explain the current fascination of non-Korean-Americans with Korean-Americans. | 'My Korean Deli' 2011-03-15T19:34:55Z

Those few lines cast some light on the dark motivations that underlie Danny Lyon's ongoing body of brilliantly challenging – and unapologetically problematic – work, and on our continuing fascination with it. Caught on camera: Danny Lyon's Like a Thief's Dream 2011-01-11T15:22:50Z

Opened in 1998 on the site of a former limestone quarry, the Armin-Wolf Arena, named after a local sportswriter and baseball booster, reflects Germany’s burgeoning fascination with America’s pastime. Hidden Gems of Europe 2012-10-12T20:14:25Z

But Bakewell takes a primarily European perspective, looking at the familiar, and often unfamiliar, dead white guys with fascination and sometimes irreverent intimacy. For Sarah Bakewell, Nothing Human is Alien 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ackerman was already a collector of movie memorabilia, and had long had a fascination for objects from a bygone era. Mr. DeMille, I’m Ready for Your Booze Stash 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

For the moment, no coherent pattern emerges from the many disparate styles, but together, they reveal a fascination with figuration across the peninsula. Review: 'Routes of Arabia'' Exhibition at Louvre Is Startling 2010-07-23T11:56:00Z

Life might be very hard to deal with right now, but for 110 minutes you can forget everything while you stare at the screen in terrified fascination. The best new movies you can watch from home in March 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

It's especially good as an account of human frailty in the face of nature's pitiless immensity, the fascination of the abomination, and, the horror. Joseph Conrad's science fiction novel 2011-01-14T10:19:56Z

Nonfiction’s profusion of details has an intrinsic fascination that fiction risks emptying out. Kind of Clichéd: How the Miles Davis Movie Could Have Been Better 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

O sparks something else inside others, which allows the novel to explore a spectrum of racial attitudes — from sympathy to fascination to outright revulsion. Tracy Chevalier’s ‘New Boy’ illuminates the peculiar trials of our era 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

By the time he reaches the point of being able to think “That’s my girlfriend” about Maya, she has become not only a love object but also one of scientific fascination. Books of The Times: ‘The Unknowns’ Is Gabriel Roth’s Debut Novel 2013-07-10T20:23:36Z

We regard them with a fascination that sometimes mutates into affection, sometimes into superstition and fear. Movie Review: ‘Tokyo Waka’ Examines the Urban Lives of Crows 2013-08-27T19:59:22Z

Hornby has explored similar fascinations in his criticism: "Songbook," a collection of essays about 31 iconic rock songs, or the column "Stuff I've Been Reading," which he has written for the Believer since 2003. Nick Hornby's 'Funny Girl' traces the road to stardom 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

That Warhol and Capote were kindred sideshow attractions may make you nostalgic for an era in which artists and writers were considered worthy of mass fascination. The Pain of Fame, With Sondheim, Warhol and Capote as Guides 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Early Pop paintings of multiple dollar bills, S&H Green Stamps and Coca-Cola bottles announce a career-long fascination with ideas of currency, circulation and exchange. Review | Warhol said he wanted to be ‘a machine.’ Two new shows prove he was anything but. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

When I was younger I read the classics, including, for a while, a fascination with Russian writers, and lots of books about economics. The Nobel-Winning Economist Who Wants You to Read More Fiction 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Part of his appeal was the ease with which he entwined highbrow references with frankness, sincerity and a fascination with popular culture. Carlos Monsiv?is obituary 2010-06-24T18:04:00Z

At Syracuse University, Davis earned a degree in English and developed a passion for literature and jazz, and a fascination with military history. Raiders owner Al Davis dies at 82 2011-10-08T16:27:00Z

And this may be part of the reason that the mystified meta-discourse Ms. Didion deplored — the fetishizing of means over ends, of form over content — exerts an ever-stronger fascination. ?Moneyball,? ?Ides of March? Contain Inside Information 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z

In Toronto, it is arrives as a reminder that a growing cinematic fascination with solitary moments is not confined to American films like “Wild” and last year’s “Gravity.” Toronto Festival 2014: The Downey-Duvall Show 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

It is Mr. Doerr’s relentless fascination with memory and with the way memories are destroyed, eroded, drowned, faded or eaten away. Books of The Times: Anthony Doerr?s ?Memory Wall,? Fleeting Yesterdays 2010-07-28T22:07:00Z

Young boys with a fascination for nose-thumbing macabre vitality and a head full of thoughts jolted into feverish life. Paul Morley Showing Off ... Wild Beasts 2010-09-03T16:03:00Z

His shows reflected his fascinations, not his inner life. Garrison Keillor: the downfall of a beloved figure accused of misconduct 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

What these composers share is a near-nerdy infatuation with rhythmic complexity, a harmonic and melodic directness, a fascination with poetry, a sentimental side and a love for trick endings. 4 emerging composers' works shine in L.A. Phil Green Umbrella

His fascination with the drone — as a foundation, as a provocation, as something to get lost in — has been one recurring motif. Critic’s Notebook: Two John Cale Programs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-01-20T23:06:32Z

Finally, in college, my fascination with Japan led me to study its language and, one summer, to work in Tokyo. A Gay Pilot Reflects on What Travel Means to Queer Folks 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

Like them, he shows an anthropological fascination with marginal characters. Animal Kingdom: A Cool and Creepy Crime Drama 2010-08-14T06:50:00Z

And it was convincing in presenting the way he established the vocabulary of the house: the extravagant yet trim femininity of the “New Look”; his lush color palette; his fascination with flowers, filigree and tarot. Fashion Returns to the Museum 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

Chansley's outlandish costume – consisting of American flag-themed face paint, a hat made of bison horns and coyote skins, a shirtless, tattooed torso and brown pants – was met with fascination and ridicule. Strange costumes of Capitol rioters echo the early days of the KKK — before the white sheets 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

LaTocha traces her fascination with the land to her Alaska childhood. Her Art Reads the Land in Deep Time 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Thus the tabloids’ fascination with lithe male actors and their zaftig, or conventionally shaped, wives. Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall? The Fascination of Odd Couples 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Jatahy's interest in the content of the play is ultimately matched by her fascination with the play's status as a cultural artifact. 'Julia' updates 1888 classic with passionate acting, stunning staging, modern observation 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Enjoy!” There’s something like excitement or fascination or contentment or vicarious transcendence at the heart of why we like sports. Sports fandom doesn’t have to be miserable 2013-04-15T16:45:00Z

And Cage, whose mopey weirdness retains its fascination, earns another paycheck to help pay off his multitude of tax liens. The Sorcerer's Apprentice: So-So Summer Fun 2010-07-15T03:45:00Z

In their version of limbo, spirits watch over the still-breathing with fascination, revulsion and mild judgment mainly because there isn't much else for them to do. Between "Ghosts" to "Not Dead Yet," it's starting to look like TV is having a season full of spirits 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z

Kate, a registered nurse, is not the same regular gal with the weird haircut who first provoked America's weird fascination. Kate Gosselin is "freaked" about unemployment 2011-09-07T22:08:00Z

Perhaps that sense of a lost world was part of the Romantic fascination with the palace as well. Exhibition Review: Temptations Found in Gardens of Islamic Delight 2011-05-20T23:27:00Z

Those are the only works you can’t take photos of, but you don’t need to: they are online at lindaueronline.co.nz, along with an explanation of the fascination the Maori themselves have with the portraits. Frugal Traveler Blog: In Auckland, New Zealand, a Frugal Trifecta 2012-03-20T17:25:56Z

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

When he writes that one of the icebound scientists was “mesmerized by its character; its power; its spectacular unsettling sounds — sometimes cracking like gunfire, sometimes shrieking as it split and cleaved,” we understand the fascination. Arctic Explorers Trapped in a Frozen Hell 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

In the Morgan show a brief section is devoted to Dickens’s fascination with mesmerism, and his pride in his abilities to hypnotize his wife and friends, along with others plagued by afflictions. Exhibition Review: Morgan Library?s ?Charles Dickens at 200? - Review 2011-09-22T21:48:27Z

Grateful for their new friendship, Rory reveals a treasured secret to June: Her bedroom overlooks the pool of the movie star Everett Price, whose beautiful daughter, Vivian, is an object of intense observation and fascination. In the Canyons of Southern California, a Rocky Coming-of-Age 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

However, a fascination with rap music prompted him to move to Brooklyn, New York, to pursue his dream. Guru obituary 2010-04-21T16:33:00Z

For Sherman, her fascination with feminine roles meant that she would build an entire B-movie-noir homage around a version of herself as female stereotype. Fort Worth’s Modern Museum of Art hosts exhibit of ’80s New York art

This decade’s fascination with angry, complicated women has uprooted some of our expectations about what it means for a female character to be likable. Mad women: how angry sisterhood is taking over the small screen 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

His second boyhood fascination was another student at the school, after a liberally minded headmaster admitted a handful of Jews. An Old Man’s Youthful Fascinations Animate Cynthia Ozick’s New Novel 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

The narrator — who may or may not be entirely the same person as Binet — nurses a lifelong fascination with the story. Assassination Fascination: A Review of Laurent Binet's Prize-Winning HHhH 2012-04-25T10:45:49Z

But fluids were also an obsession for Wagner, whose fascination with wounds is remarkably close to some of the darker passages of Bjork. Why is MoMA featuring an exhibit showcasing Bjork’s pretentiousness? 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

But for me the great fascination of “Cornelius” is Cornelius, a prototype for a kind of divided self that would be resurrected many times and in many forms in the British theater. Theater Review: ‘Cornelius’ Is Revived at 59E59 Theaters 2013-06-12T21:15:07Z

Paganini’s strings were the subject of intense fascination. Critic’s Notebook: Musical Relics From Paganini and Mozart, Still Sending Blessings 2013-06-19T21:45:34Z

A second factor added to the fascination of the piece. Auctions: Glamorous History Drives Divine Surprise 2011-11-18T12:30:13Z

He has also become an object of fascination for more than his music, as the Saweetie clip encapsulated. Jack Harlow Knows What He Wants. And Where He Stands. 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

These fascinations first emerged in a play she wrote in high school, inspired by her correspondence with a prisoner who was jailed for murdering a man who had repeatedly robbed his gas station. Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z

During the 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II, through times of turbulence and peace, celebration, controversy and scandal, the monarchy has been an object of fascination. 9 Books to Read About Queen Elizabeth II 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Will Hunt taps into our deep fascination with what lies beneath the surface of things by exploring, quite literally, what’s going on beneath the surface. A Deep Dive Into the ‘Underground’ World of Caves and Tunnels 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Egypt had been a locus of fascination for Europeans, especially the French, since Napoleon’s short-lived military conquest at the close of the 18th century. Much About This Artist Is in Doubt. Not His Talent. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Brody, energized now, enters into Scott’s passion with the mixed fascination and fear of a man who may be throwing his life away but is happy to be doing something decisive at last. David Denby: “Third Person” and “22 Jump Street” Reviews 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Though her books vary in their subject matter, style and tone, they are bound by recurring themes: her fascination with transformation and the unseen realm, with myths and archetypes. For Hilary Mantel, There’s No Time Like the Past 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Is there fascination, power — virtue, even — in dullness? Review: ‘The Crown’ and the Burdens of a No-Drama Queen 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

They reveal, however, his lifelong fascination with the eclectic and the iconoclastic. Schulhoff: Works for Solo Violin and Piano - review 2011-02-10T22:45:01Z

Is it any wonder, then, that a year like this has coincided with a fascination, bordering on obsession, with the Danish concept of hygge? Hygge Is Where the Heart Is 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

She is in between worlds, just like Solomon, who does odd jobs and develops a fascination for Chuyao, whom he clearly sees as a kindred spirit. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

Jim relates, with a sense of fascination and amusement tinged with sympathy, what took place at dinner — some of which echoes what we know from the play, some of which doesn’t. Review: ‘Desire,’ Six Plays That Second-Guess Tennessee Williams 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

After all, our understandable curiosity and fascination with the exotic — that which is different from what we are used to — sends us abroad by the hundreds of millions every year. Wintry Scenes From a Swedish Wonderland 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

With the knowledge accrued from those interrogations, I corralled Pam, my best friend at the time, into sharing my fascination. A Ship Sinks, and a Boy Is Enthralled 2013-08-21T16:31:12Z

There are plenty of people with a fascination for exploring the ocean depths. Explore the Ocean Depths in a Homemade Submarine 2011-04-14T14:15:00Z

The reason this market holds such a fascination for publishers is that it is nothing like as saturated as that for chick lit, whose readers are growing up. Mum lit: a chore thing 2011-04-06T19:00:00Z

He’s a Polish writer and journalist, looking with a kind of appalled fascination at his country’s southern neighbor and finding that life there can often be, well, Kafkaesque. Mariusz Szczygiel’s ‘Gottland’ Sees a Surreal Czechoslovakia 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

While the public fascination with celebrities, mothers and celebrity mothers is as glaringly obvious as Mariah Carey's nude magazine covers, that idolatry usually comes with a heavy dose of romantic BS. Pregnant Tina Fey's feminist dilemma 2011-04-07T18:49:00Z

The show makes a really interesting comment on the nature of celebrity, the fascination with trying to understand people’s lives. A Faux Matt LeBlanc in Showtime?s ?Episodes? 2010-07-23T20:18:00Z

The work reveals the artist's fascination with perspective. Prickly customers: Martin Creed and Richard Wright in Edinburgh 2010-08-04T20:31:00Z

Which brings us back to fashion and our fascination with what first ladies choose to wear and not to wear. A New Exhibit on First Ladies Plays Down Their Fashion Choices 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

The self-abnegating spectacle of “All” is completely in character with Mr. Cattelan’s well-known ambivalence about himself, his talent and his art, and his oft-cited fascination with failure. Art Review: Maurizio Cattelan at the Guggenheim - Review 2011-11-03T22:20:09Z

Mr. Ruby’s fascination with clothing goes back to childhood. This Artist Is Calvin Klein’s Latest Muse 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

He has always seen the wider fascination with Shakerism’s material history as a way for the world to better understand Shakers. A New Set of Tastemakers Finds Inspiration in Shakers 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z

He also appears in that show as Dr. Mengele, speaking about his fascination with "degenerative" human types. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Defying Expectations Off Broadway 2013-01-24T17:37:58Z

“And I will walk onstage at Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, Tenn., and become an object of great fascination to almost no one,” he said, reading from the book. Nick Cave’s ‘The Sick Bag Song,’ an Epic Poem Composed on Tour 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Picked by Obama “because it fed my lifelong fascination with space”, the iconic PBS documentary was the most widely watched series in the history of American public television for a decade. Barack to the future: what can we learn from Obama's sci-fi movie list? 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Here are his continued fascination with social upheaval and his spectacular gifts at evoking it. Review | New York City Ballet’s knockout punch is delivered at Kennedy Center 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Could the current fascination for all things Schwarzenegger be a simple case of absence making the heart grow fonder? He'll be back ... but will we regret Arnold Schwarzenegger's movie recall? 2011-04-08T16:10:28Z

We’re given hints that Cott’s halfhearted roué of a Gaston is capable of seeing beyond his hidebound role as the toast of Paris, in his fascination with science and newfangled inventions. ‘Gigi’ skips uncertainly onto Broadway 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

It is not difficult to understand the fascination. With ‘Turn,’ AMC goes from meth and zombies to 1776 spies 2014-04-02T23:42:25Z

The fascination with Northern Europe, more particularly Germanic lands, was lasting. Review: The Foundations of Russian Culture and Art 2010-03-05T14:00:00Z

"The Raven" offers particular fascination in the difficulties of cultural identity. International music fest compares Latin, Asian sounds with Tambuco and Toshio Hosokawa 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

The idea stemmed from a longtime fascination with how and why people rally around belief systems, and the ceremonies that hold those systems in place. Witches of America: how I became immersed in a growing movement 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

The great love scene is played in the anteroom of an opera box, where the Guardsman pays court to the Actress after he has professed his fascination over tea at her home. | 'The Guardsman': In the Berkshires, Revisiting Molnar?s ?Guardsman? 2010-07-19T21:49:00Z

Americans are fascinated by serial killers, and American culture usually depicts them in ways that play to this fascination. Following the Bloodlines 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

His death at 57 of cancer did not end the romance or, at least, the public's fascination with it. Lauren Bacall's voice resonated with women 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

Part of Hitchcock's enduring fascination is the way he hid his neuroses and pathologies in plain sight, up on the screen. Toby Jones: dial H for Hitchcock 2012-12-09T18:59:01Z

Images of packed Spring Break beaches and New York City restaurants are bandied about Twitter with grotesque fascination. The Unending Anxiety of Coronavirus Content 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

A modest industry of medical speculation has grown up around the subject, evidence of our fascination with what cut down great creative artists in history. After Mozart?s Death, an Endless Coda 2010-08-24T17:50:00Z

He grew up in New Jersey and Southern California and showed an early fascination with technology, which led, while he was still a teenager, to his entry into the recording business. National Jazz Museum Acquires Savory Collection 2010-08-16T19:08:00Z

The case closed, but the story – its fascinations, its implication of obsession – continued to ripple throughout the national consciousness. A Wilderness of Error: the year's most troubling true crime series 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

All her books reflect a fascination with "joining the dots to see how a country implodes". Aminatta Forna: a life in writing 2013-05-03T17:00:02Z

Croke, who lives outside Boston, spoke with Reuters about her fascination with animals, the aim of her latest book and her secret agenda. Vicki Constantine Croke on special animal and human ties 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

It has a particular fascination with North Brother Island in the East River, an extraordinary place, but rather far, at least as city geography goes, from Jackie Robinson Park. Theater Is in the Streets of New York, if You Listen 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

But it took more than 50 years after that first exposure to prehistoric cave art for Mr. Herzog to be able to act on his childhood fascination. Prehistoric Cave With a Hornet on the Wall 2011-04-23T23:31:38Z

Both cases have a horrible fascination that comes through despite some repetitious, circular storytelling. | 'Find Our Missing': ?Find Our Missing? on TV One ? Review 2012-01-17T23:24:38Z

“Dollface” is a chaotic mess staged as if it were a community theater free-for-all, but this oddly endearing show exerts a cumulative fascination. | 'Dollface': Stop Me if You?ve Heard This One ...Oh, You Have? 2010-12-28T22:31:59Z

Few modern celebrities have been more in the white-hot light of public fascination than Aniston. Jennifer Aniston: 'A lot of guys are narcissists. They think every woman wants to sleep with them' 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

She alternates compare-and-contrast images of czarist life and peasant labor, and lingers, as if in appalled fascination, over extended shots of court processions, with male and female nobles dressed in Tenniel-worthy attire. The Art of Politics, in ‘Agitprop!’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

As close as I felt to my father, I didn’t end up sharing his fascination with science. Long aftermath of a mass shooting: Remembering my father, killed in 1991 at the University of Iowa 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Stack tends to swallow his words, and Ms. Huppuch’s voice strains, but you believe their mutual fascination and the disaster it incites. In ‘Love in the Wars,’ Achilles Battles an Amazon Queen 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

The case’s lurid details fed public fascination, and the coverage sparked a further debate about the nature and morality of journalism itself. Errol Morris Takes on MacDonald Murder Case 2012-08-29T12:00:21Z

The fascination with death and its accouterments tends to be cyclical. The Subject of Death Plays a Part in Popular Culture 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

In this category is Joe Fig, whose meticulous models of famous artists’ studios are driven by an enduring fascination with the working lives of creative people. Art Review: Alternative Worlds Where Even McMansions Are Tiny 2011-06-16T23:06:49Z

So he returned to his fascination with female identity, embodied by his mother, who is a doctor. | Francesco Vezzoli's Temple of Obsession 2011-02-09T19:30:37Z

Not only does the moment underline the fascination of Lecter, but it also subverts classical music’s wonted role as signifier of the good. Perspective | When classical music becomes another character in a movie 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Shayne Oliver, the chief creative force behind Hood by Air, has been quick to exploit that fascination. Piercings and Eye-Popping Tattoos: Fashion’s Latest Canvas Is the Skin You’re In 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

The subject has an obvious fascination, especially when it creeps up to modern times. Radio review: One Hundred Years of Secrecy 2011-08-16T20:30:03Z

The idea for the story stemmed from one of the writer’s longtime fascinations. With Walking Dead Behind Him, Comics Creator to Debut Fire Power 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

After the 1977 law ending censorship in Spain, he made several erotic low-budget films, which demonstrated a fascination with the manipulation of images and sexual symbolism. Bigas Luna obituary 2013-04-07T16:53:09Z

Our fascination with witches has long surpassed witchcraft being a crime punishable by death. Witch ways: knowing your heart’s desire is modern witchcraft 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

Nail polish is, of course, less on our minds than the fascination with how a person chooses to display herself. T Magazine: Editor's Letter 2012-10-19T20:25:37Z

This period has been a source of fascination for the US, which overcame initial reluctance to join the war under Franklin Roosevelt. Churchill 'in the year of Trump': Darkest Hour feeds America's love for Winston 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z

It uses one of the premier strategies of Conceptual Art — nothing but the facts, sorted — but achieves a new level of visual fascination and glamour. Review: ‘Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld’ Studies Perceptions Shaped by Photography 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

He is well into the writing of the second volume in the series, so his mind is still focused on vampires and what he sees as the origin of the fascination with them. Justin Cronin?s ?Passage? May Be a Best Seller 2010-06-01T22:14:00Z

By the time the new novel begins, his fascination has reached obsessive levels, and the Hush has become both his physical and his spiritual home. Review | ‘The Hush’: Murder, madness, magic, betrayal and obsessive love 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

There was a fascination to the day, as recent, violent events became a heritage pageant. The art of Thatcher: images of the battling baronness 2013-04-09T08:00:03Z

All the while, the NFL, aided by the Internet's fascination with fantasy football, boomed. The NBA Lockout: All About Timing 2011-10-07T09:00:00Z

Her body was among her abiding fascinations: at one point, she weighed more than two hundred pounds. The Playful Provocations (and Erotic Kaftans) of the Lebanese Artist Huguette Caland 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

“I am fascinated by the movement on, and off, the screen,” Baldwin declares and shares his fascination at the age of 7 with “the straight, narrow, lonely back” of Joan Crawford in “Dance, Fools, Dance.” Finally, a Screenplay by James Baldwin 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

We are convinced that she is fascinated with the play of her teenage mind; this fascination is not, alas, contagious. Books of The Times: Barbara Ehrenreich’s ‘Living With a Wild God’ 2014-04-15T13:00:01Z

Spoiler alert: After covering all the key aspects of our nation’s fascination with firearms in “Jordan Klepper Solves Guns,” Jordan Klepper does not actually solve guns. “Jordan Klepper Solves Guns” answers crucial questions (unrelated to guns) 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

But there is about Hitler personally and about the Nazis in general a sort of cultism that attracts fascination. A life in writing: Ian Kershaw 2011-08-17T11:00:01Z

A fascination that is sure to push the true crime genre to even greater heights in years to come. Penny dreadfuls were the true crime podcasts of their time 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

That fascination is something I’m unpacking via the stories I am drawn to. Damon Lindelof on ‘The Leftovers’ Finale, the Show’s Future and His Afterlife Obsession 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Only later, when I was enjoying vegan enchiladas and a smoothie purchased at a thrumming downtown restaurant, did I turn back to my fascination with Aspen and its extensive cycling. Aspen’s other million-dollar asset: Cycling 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

And it's true that A&E's fascination with extreme and upsetting behavior does point to a tabloid mentality, at least on the part of network executives looking to beef up ratings. "Hoarders'" unforgettable rat episode 2011-01-11T15:30:00Z

It took the period’s fascination with China and Islamic cultures to absurd lengths. An 18th-century Parisian garden of delight can teach us much about what not to do today 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

For those who followed fashion during his halcyon days in the 1990s and early aughts, his pieces were the stuff of cult fascination. Helmut Lang Returns! Or Does He? 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

The country's fascination even extends to academia: The University of Melbourne's "Eurovisions" course introduces students to Europe "through the prism of its biggest annual media extravaganza". Australia's affection for Eurovision pays off 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Ordinarily, our concerns about the unfair compromises of married life seem entirely separate from our unseemly fascination with lurid, violent, Gothic victimization. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Another architectural feat is a soaring spiral staircase of solid concrete that’s a nod to Dalí’s fascination with the double-helical structure of DNA. Heads Up: Florida?s Newest Dal? Museum 2011-01-28T19:55:07Z

The fascination with astronomy and space travel may not be the national craze it was way back when we earthlings were making our first forays into the vast unknown. ‘Boy at the Edge of Everything’ takes lonely tween to the stars 2014-03-20T21:42:06Z

Attenborough recorded one of his trademark voiceovers — warm, calm and full of contagious fascination for the natural world — for the new BBC and Discovery series “A Perfect Planet,” which arrives in early January. From his home, Attenborough shows viewers ‘A Perfect Planet’ 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

Although his work celebrated life in all its color and intricacy, death was always a subject of fascination for Mr. Castro; skulls, both animal and human, were a common motif. Terry Castro, a Proud Outsider in the Jewelry World, Dies at 50 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Nassar’s early retirement was received in Brazil with a sort of fascination tinged by a hint of offense. Why Brazil’s Greatest Writer Stopped Writing 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

Vowell's new book, "Unfamiliar Fishes," carries on her fascination with the stranger corners of American history. 'Unfamiliar Fishes': Sarah Vowell's sad but scintillating history of Hawai'i 2011-03-16T22:23:04Z

The film swerves dizzily between fascination and revulsion, and it is perhaps a little too entertaining for its own good. | 'The Devil?s Double': Straight From Uday Hussein?s Inner Circle 2011-07-29T00:16:46Z

“The enduring fascination with what is, rationally, a small part of the history of Soviet-American relations can’t be explained by whatever material the spies produced. The fascination is with the spies themselves.” Sunday Reading: Spycraft 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

David Potter, a classics professor at the University of Michigan, compares the current sexual fascination with Olympians to the erotic allure of Roman gladiators. Sexiest Olympics ever? 2012-07-29T01:00:00Z

They ask that we keep a respectful distance from the objects of our fascination. Seeking the Real David Hockney Through Fact and Fiction 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

His fascination with the architecture, design and ambience of Tokyo’s urbanity is apparent in the pilot episode, which sets the show’s visual tone. ‘Tokyo Vice’ Revisits a Faded Underworld 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

Instead, the film never rises above morbid fascination for a family trapped on the road to nowhere. 'October Country': Sympathy, but no hope, for dysfunctional family 2010-03-18T21:51:00Z

Yet Scorsese was able to consider the scene with an artist’s empathetic fascination for those viewers who would empathize with Henry’s admiration, and who find alluring the gangster dream of cruelly exerting power. Scorsese’s Achievement with “GoodFellas” 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Discovery’s interest speaks to the enduring news media fascination with the scandal, which seems to inspire a new television special every 5 to 10 years. Robert Redford to Produce a Documentary About Watergate 2012-04-02T22:05:31Z

Just what you'd expect from a man who showed such zest for life, such fascination and enjoyment for its possibilities. Reading group: Wind, Sand and Stars – brilliantly uplifting 2012-11-09T15:57:26Z

El Batout's fascination with war began when his family fled their home city of Port Said to Cairo in the summer of 1967, at the outbreak of war with Israel. Film shows Egypt's "Winter of Discontent" spark hope 2012-08-13T13:33:17Z

SUN Opening day of new PG-13 rated exhibit exploring fascination with horror films with artifacts, interactive exhibits and screening rooms, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Community calendar 2011-09-28T21:16:04Z

Scheel refers to the film “Arrival” and the alien’s intentional resemblance to cephalopods, in fact, to illustrate the fascination, lack of understanding, and mild unease humans harbor for creatures like Heidi. From fat bears to "Nature": TV displays our complicated feelings about the natural world 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Hetherington developed a fascination with the way young men become enamoured of war, and the powerful bonds it creates between them. Picture of the week: Tim Hetherington 2013-07-26T15:30:03Z

Oleg, 14 when the spying began, shared the fascination of Soviet teenagers with Western rock music. Review: In ‘The Billion Dollar Spy,’ David E. Hoffman Recalls a Cold War Spy 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

Her fascination with burlesque proved to be as farsighted as her interest in vintage fashion. Liz Goldwyn, Hollywood Royal Family Member, Takes to Filmmaking 2014-01-12T02:48:43Z

In the memoir, Mr. Adams relates his fascination with fractals — complexly involuted forms that we find buried in the shape of things like trees, coastlines and lightning bolts. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

People are intrigued by the whole idea of famous people dying in threes, but the dying on the same day, it's a whole other level of fascination, I think. Mo Rocca on "Mobituaries," celebrity deaths and what we get wrong about Billy Carter 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

By engaging what the Kaplans call "fascination," a form of attention where you just can't help but notice everything around you, a short nature break restores the capacity to pay attention when effort is required. Hotels With The Most Beautiful Views 2010-03-31T21:00:00Z

As the authors explain on the Washington Post’s PostEverything blog, Nixon revealed his odd fascination while leaking news of the pandas’ impending arrival at the National Zoo to Washington Star foreign editor Crosby Noyes. Richard Nixon: A man transfixed by panda sex 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

At a preview on Wednesday, Lozano-Hemmer – tall and enthusiastic, wearing a bright orange T-shirt – explained his fascination with crowds and the recording of people, a theme which runs through much of his work. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: visitor virtuoso 2010-09-17T22:01:00Z

But for whatever reason, the idea of exhuming the unsolved murder of Colorado pageant queen JonBenét Ramsey continues to transmute revulsion into fascination. Attack of the clones: Four new JonBenét Ramsey shows jump on the true-crime TV bandwagon 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

She stalks the boundary between art and medical science, a fascination that got her shortlisted for the Turner prize in 1997. The best visual arts in spring 2011 2011-04-05T18:59:01Z

It matches his previous novels in scope and length and carries on the author's fascination with old New York. Novelist Helprin spins a good yarn in life and art 2012-10-03T19:06:52Z

The film's fascination is not with how it will end -- Von Trier makes that clear in the opening shots -- but how the two sisters cope differently with impending doom. Film of cosmic chaos, end of Earth wows Cannes 2011-05-18T10:55:55Z

Is it almost as if, for millennial men, a suit holds the fascination of an “aha” moment? Joseph Abboud: ‘Trying to Get Boys to Dress Like Men’ 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

There’s solace and fascination in that — the chance to be less alone in our own relationships just by seeing what someone else is going through in hers. Her marriage was the jewel in her blog universe. Then she found out her husband was cheating. 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

In his latest series, Showtime’s “The Curse,” created with the “Uncut Gems” filmmaker Benny Safdie, Fielder has stopped playing himself but has kept the same fascination. ‘The Curse’ Series Premiere Recap: The Cameras Are Rolling 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z

This is the price of admission we pay for a lifelong fascination with the case. ESPN’s ‘O.J.: Made in America’ is nothing short of a towering achievement 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Long story short: our kale fascination is no accident, and it’s traceable from restaurant kitchens to cable television to our Instagram feeds. From black chicken to burnt toast powder: Your foodie trends come straight from the Guy Fieris of reality TV 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

In Pacific Rim he appears to have delivered a film that exhibits a fondness and fascination for old-skool monster movies, something that is bound to get geeks hot and bothered. Pacific Rim v Transformers 4: clash of the giant robot movies 2013-01-11T16:36:26Z

The podcast came at a time when people’s fascination with Watergate – and the parallels with the behaviour of the current occupant of the White House – was at its peak. Monica Lewinsky on Slow Burn: the thrilling hit podcast rips into the scandal 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

The returns of its dance motifs and its range of geometries deepen its fascination. Review: Richard Alston’s ‘Carmen’ in Fort Lauderdale 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

“They exert a particular fascination, these books. It’s like watching something burn.” Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

The Olympics are a source of fascination for some in Beijing and a reflection of the direction of development in the country. We Put Hong Kong on the 52 Places to Go List. Things Got Complicated. 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

For Natalie, her fascination with vinyl that was pretty far outside the  listening range of the typical pre-teen started more than a decade ago. Wild Belle a brother-sister combo on the rise 2012-09-11T04:53:00Z

And there is the cinema, the fascination of early Italian movie actresses like Anna Magnani. Manolo Blahnik: The Shoe Sculptor at 40 2012-02-22T18:05:25Z

Tangier has long been a source of inspiration and fascination for writers from all over the world, among them Paul and Jane Bowles, whose association with the city is perhaps the best known. Read Your Way Through Tangier 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

As for the Miser and others who would have been stuck in steerage, the museum’s $5 admission price makes the show an ideal option for commemoration, as well as morbid fascination. Weekend Miser: ?Titanic at 100? at South Street Seaport Museum 2012-04-12T21:48:43Z

On several occasions, she has brought up her fascination with “American Idol,” which she used to watch with her daughter, and said that she wished opera singers were among the contestants. The Diva Departs: Renée Fleming’s Farewell to Opera 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Setting the template for future wellness influencers everywhere, Jackson's fascination with nutrition arose from his own history of poor health, and experiments with alternative practices. How did "granola" became a personality trait? 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z

Such a film would either embody a deeply immoral fascination with its topic, or it would count on the obscene neutrality of its style to engender dismay and horror in spectators. Zero Dark Thirty: Hollywood's gift to American power 2013-01-25T16:00:02Z

Dreamlike passages coloured by Beethoven's new fascination with the sustaining pedal led into spikily precise episodes in which Schiff's arms went up and down like the hammers inside the piano. Andras Schiff – review 2013-03-05T18:18:27Z

Mr. Zuckerberg’s efforts have made him the object of fascination and emulation among a subset of millennials in and around the tech industry. For These Guys, Mark Zuckerberg Is a Lifestyle Guru 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z

The heels, as usual, are a source of admiring fascination. The XX Factor: How Working Women Are Creating a New Society by Alison Wolf – review 2013-04-26T08:30:01Z

“And I think there is this universal kind of fear and fascination of flying.” Archie Panjabi leads the cast of Peacock’s show ‘Departure’ 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

Yet for most of us, the scandals in Moscow haven't tainted our fascination with the dancers on stage. Your biggest Bolshoi ballet moments – open thread 2013-07-29T10:30:08Z

Cooke was born in Blackpool in 1908, but his fascination with America began in the early 1930s when he studied at Yale and Harvard as a Commonwealth Scholar. Radio 4 to embrace online future by unlocking its past 2012-10-13T13:24:56Z

Mattie describes an unsatisfactory meal at a boarding house and scenes of horrific violence with the same blend of almost scientific fascination and emotional neutrality. Reading group: True Grit – a reliable narrator? 2012-11-15T12:49:37Z

Language was a lifelong fascination for Rabassa, whose father was Cuban and mother from New York City's Hell's Kitchen. Gregory Rabassa, translator of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, dies 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

With the aid of a famed Soviet swimming coach, Henry scrapes a place on his nation's team for London, where he shrewdly exploits the media's fascination with lovable losers. Taking Part/After the Party – review 2012-07-31T17:32:58Z

In real life and in stories, there's always been such a fascination with extreme religious cults and what goes on there. No damsels in distress here – Krysten Ritter on her new cult-horror series: "These are tough girls" 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Luckily, the tech industry controls the means of production for excuses to justify a fascination with its shiny surfaces and twisted logic. A Tech Insider Stylishly Chronicles Her Industry’s ‘Uncanny Valley’ 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

There is also a fascination with the milieu, in which speculators, owing to tulips’ value at the time, would bid on bulbs, prizing rare varieties and creating a soaring market that ultimately crashed. Review: ‘Tulip Fever’ Delivers a Wilted Period Piece 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

The fascinations with Murdoch, the succession and so on. What the fraught "Elizabeth & Margaret" relationship can tell us about Prince William and Harry 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

“Thanks to the computer, I was involved in a well-defined courtship, a neat little space in which he and I were both safe to express the panic and the fascination of our mutual affection.” Sunday Reading: The Birth of Tech 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

He starts the book with his childhood fascination with the skin of a giant sloth, which his remote ancestor brought back from a cave in Patagonia, and he searches for this sloth skin. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z

When such media fascination is involved, victims become barnacles attached to a once-magnificent sinking ship. Rape is not a “fashion violation” 2012-11-16T18:36:00Z

Even if we don't always understand, we never lose a sense of urgency in Chihiro's quest and a fascination in her surroundings. Spirited Away: No 8 2010-10-21T10:47:00Z

But from the first look of a bestial mohair coat slicked with resin, the show started its twin fascination with texture and color. Special Report: Fashion: Surface Attraction 2011-02-27T17:05:09Z

Mark's fascination with the lost art of mezzotint led him to explore this most arduous way of making a printing plate. Dorothea Wight obituary 2013-06-10T11:48:42Z

“Maybe this is too geeky, but I like things geeky,” Ms. Crenn said of her fascination with this unconventional science museum that is considered one of the best in the country. Where a Michelin-Starred Chef Goes in San Francisco 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

A fascination with China took him there for several years. A Brussels workshop aims to make sure you never eat cheap chocolate again 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Is it any wonder that the Supreme Court is an object of fascination, with several of its justices now enjoying celebrity status? ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’: An affectionate comic opera look at the high court 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

At least, in Millican's case, observational material seems to spring from a fascination with the commonplace, and a genuine desire to share it. Millican's way 2010-08-26T15:48:00Z

For his part, Nolan spent five seasons of “Person of Interest” exploring the possibilities and dangers inherent to artificial intelligence, and his fascination with the subject continues with “Westworld.” Violence and empathy in “Westworld”: “That’s not the point we want to make, that it’s okay if they’re a robot” 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

He also strove, of course, to make us have fun, and whether it was by inspiring laughter or sharing his fascination with history, he had a gift for sharing his passions with others. Terry Jones dies at 77 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

Some of the most legendary works in history are lost – and their lost-ness is part of their fascination. Now you see them: the eternal allure of lost art 2012-07-01T18:31:01Z

Both The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto explored faith with a visceral fascination and while it’s sublimated here through the prism of a war movie, it produces distinctive results. Why Hacksaw Ridge should win the best picture Oscar 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

This fascination endures into adulthood and is supplemented by other disruptive and dangerous behaviors. ‘Nitram’ Review: Slouching Toward Infamy 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

But he has to be honest, he said, folding his arms on the kitchen table: He doesn’t understand the public’s fascination with his daughter. Snooki?s Time on ?Jersey Shore? 2010-07-23T21:47:00Z

What does our enduring fascination with robots and artificial intelligence say about us? Why are we obsessed with robots? 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

In fact, the show speaks as much to the fascination many Europeans have with American popular culture as it does to the special role that Paris has played in nurturing that culture as a civilization-in-exile. The Beats’ Countercultural Ferment Still Bubbles, in Paris 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

The reliefs, which often included cavities, lined with dark velveteen, attracted fascination and speculation. Lee Bontecou, Acclaimed Creator of Wall-Mounted Art, Dies at 91 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

“The fascination with him today is really a bit special,” Mr. Werner said. At the Museum of London, the City That Sherlock Holmes Knew 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

The story of the 2009 recording, made in the three-dimensional audio format known as ambisonic, shows Reed’s lifelong fascination with technology, as well as his mix of toughness and sensitivity. ‘You Don’t Become Lou Reed Overnight.’ A New Exhibition Proves It. 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z

This timely history delves into America’s enduring fascination with the apocryphal, touching on everything from P.T. New in Paperback: ‘Notes on a Foreign Country,’ ‘The Seventh Function of Language’ 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Stephen Holden Corruption and decay under the glossy surface of affluence: it’s an old story that never loses its fascination when well told. The Week Ahead: Sept. 5 ? Sept. 11 2010-09-01T16:50:00Z

And the approaching 100th anniversary of the sinking has merely magnified the Titanic's fascination. Titanic's legacy: A fascination with disasters 2012-03-31T22:31:05Z

Born in 1951, Ms. Godard said her fascination with images was inspired by her taciturn father, who took scores of family photos and home movies. The Cinematographer Agnès Godard on ‘Sister’ 2012-09-29T22:53:01Z

But humanity, not machinery, lies at the book’s heart: Gabrielle’s Angel Worm is as much the result of her parents’ marital break-up as of her fascination with computers. Forget-me-not 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

She keeps returning to the lives of mixed-race people: the scrutiny they face, the fascination, congratulation, suspicion and scorn. ‘New People’ Riffs on Race and Love, With a Twist 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

Fired by his fascination with the language and a much-abused dictionary, he undertook a guidebook for outlanders to Loch Earn and what he called “your Lordship’s delicious estate.” An Unintentional Scottish Masterpiece 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

If this is all just a performance, a way of stoking the public’s endless fascination with their relationship, it’s a wild feat of storytelling. Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” Is a Revelation of Spirit 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Such apparent contradictions are a potent source of fascination. Review: Ohad Naharin’s ‘Last Work’ Isn’t 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

I think it also taps into a kind of fascination, fear maybe, we have with randomness. Mo Rocca on "Mobituaries," celebrity deaths and what we get wrong about Billy Carter 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

By the end, they could be said to have an ardent fascination with human achievement. Review: Haydn’s ‘Creation’: The Birth of All, With High Hopes at Mostly Mozart 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

She begins last November’s New Yorker essay on her life-long fascination with take-out meals with an anecdote about believing the doorbell only rings when dinner’s delivered: “Family legend: I am four.” What Lena Dunham’s personal essays reveal that “Girls” doesn’t 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

It seems like only recently that people in their twenties became the focus of sustained cultural fascination, or self-fascination, but perhaps that’s always been the case. Meryl Streep’s Twenties, and My Own 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Eastwood has always had a stubborn libertarian streak, and a fascination with law enforcement that, like Jewell’s, is shadowed by ambivalence and outright disillusionment. ‘Richard Jewell’ Review: The Wrong Man 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Horwitz reckoned with the legacy of the Civil War all his life, fearlessly, long before battles over Confederate monuments and the press’s fascination with the resurgence of white nationalism. Tony Horwitz, a Historian Who Reckoned Fearlessly with the Legacy of the Civil War 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

But the attempt remained an object of fascination. A Look Back at Evel Knievel: A Daredevil Unafraid to Fail 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

She credits those lakes with sparking her fascination with insects. Dragonflies, Beetles, Cicadas — What’s Not to Love? 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Don Buchla, a pioneer and maverick of electronic music who had a lifelong fascination with the ways that humans, technology and sounds interact, died on Wednesday at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 79. Don Buchla, Inventor, Composer and Electronic Music Maverick, Dies at 79 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

Scripps executives believe there is more room for foodies to get their fix, a feeling shared by industry watchers given Americans' continuing fascination with food. Food Network spawns edgy, young Cooking Channel 2010-04-23T18:08:00Z

Its creepy feeling is ameliorated, and eventually replaced by, an empathetic fascination. ‘Family Romance, LLC’ Review: Werner Herzog’s Comfort for Hire 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

It includes many renderings of workhorses and laborers from his post-“Raft” trips to England, which indulge his longstanding fascination with equine themes while revealing an almost Dickensian interest in London street life. Museum & Gallery Listings for July 25-31 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

"The generation who had immigrated to England to work in that period after the second world war would return to Jamaica wearing these Clarks, and people developed a fascination," Ranx says. Vybz Kartel puts Clarks footprint on Jamaica 2010-06-24T20:30:00Z

Britain’s royals attract huge fascination and there is particular interest in Harry and former U.S. actress Meghan, who are officially known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. 'It's magic': Prince Harry and Meghan show baby son to the world 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

In thinking about that, I was obsessed with the long Western fascination — in lots of places, including literature — with people who wanted to go in and become part of the tribe. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Two Adventurers on Very Different Missions to Borneo 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z

Inside the smooth fascination of “The Lady and the Dale” is a tragedy that hasn’t fully emerged. ‘The Lady and the Dale’ Review: The Con Artist and the Car 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

During a recent family dinner, I watched in utter fascination as my boys shoveled down their meals at record speed. Want to get your kids to stop inhaling their food? Science has your back. 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gadenstätter has spoken of his fascination not only with the sounds of contemporary music, but also with those of everyday life, including advertising, movies and noise. Classical & Opera Listings for May 22-28 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

At art college, her fascination with words resurfaced, and she found herself writing the first of her wordscape descriptions, of the film Top Gun. Fiona Banner: fight and flight 2010-06-21T20:30:00Z

He retained a love for Russia, in particular its vodka, but his most compulsive fascination, aside from writing, was with maps. Alan Sillitoe obituary 2010-04-25T14:15:00Z

There is a level of ambiguity built into the text that gives it some interest beyond the fascination of the abomination. Not the Booker prize: Pictures of Lily by Matthew Yorke 2010-10-08T13:49:00Z

Devoid of any fascination with the death-or-immortality dilemma, the mythology merely functions as shorthand in an underdeveloped story. 'Blood Ransom' vampire tale is a bit anemic 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

The 2016 half-hour anticipates and even exceeds that cult hit, sharing a fascination with deranged fantasy lives, pranks gone wrong and the fine line between desperation and bluster. Rediscovering an Ambitious Sketch Comedy That Never Caught On 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

This extreme flatness could be achieved only because humans had mastered precise manufacturing; and so, his fascination with the subject began. Under Modernity’s Hood: Precision Engineering 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

At once global and local, he is an old soul tuned to modern fascinations, mixing Asian and Western styles that fit as well into cinema as they do the concert hall. 'Crouching Tiger' composer Tan Dun will give L.A. Phil a martial-arts workout 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Assange remained the subject of media fascination, but now the profiles were tempered with doubts about his motivations and questions about his alleged links to the Russian government. How Julian Assange went from First Amendment hero to partisan figure in the eyes of the public 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

His oeuvre is notable for an enduring fascination with the stuff of mainstream moviemaking: sex and violence. Paul Schrader, the writer of ‘Taxi Driver,’ shifts gears with ‘First Reformed’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

His continued stay in Iceland, where he recorded his most recent album, Pale Green Ghosts, was predicated on two factors: the presence of GusGus's Birgir Thórarinsson, the album's producer, and Grant's fascination with the language. John Grant – review 2013-05-18T15:00:03Z

Vestiges of the founders’ fascination with the classics persisted into the early 19th century among many other Americans. What America Owes to the Greeks and Romans 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

Blippi has orange glasses, orange suspenders, an orange bow tie and a gleeful fascination with raspberries, dental hygiene, aquariums, the color blue and countless other subjects. How to Tell ‘Blippi’ From ‘Little Baby Bum’ 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

In it, you mention your childhood fascination with “The Invisible Man.” Jill Lepore’s New Podcast Is a Murder Mystery: Who Killed Truth? 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

Here was philosophy, a fascination with different religions, professionalism in art, and a tremendous skill playing the violin and teaching it to generations. Herbert Whone obituary 2011-08-03T18:33:10Z

I would even to so far as to say that my fascination with that show was what got me first interested in television production and how shows were done. Remembering Dick Clark: TV host dies at 82 2012-04-18T20:24:00Z

The popularity of "Game of Thrones," for example, ignited a fascination with dragons among teenage girls. Enough already with the white warrior woman worship 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

It is a similar feeling to ripping through a true-crime novel, or a “blind items revealed” gossip column: there is a fascination in reading about people’s stupid, brutal, and scandalous behavior. The Legacy of Robert Evans, a Vexing Hollywood Legend 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

So, too, with this swirling, panoramic vision of two women’s lives, separated by more than 500 years, impossibly connected by their fascination with the mystery of existence. Book review: ‘How to Be Both,’ by Ali Smith

Perhaps my fascination for it is why I’ve been a test driver for 10 years; I’m one of the longest-standing in Formula One. 'Your ego has to be left at the door': the secret life of the understudy 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

After Elisabeth was killed by an anarchist in Switzerland, in 1898, she became an object of fascination throughout the Hapsburg Empire, and her image appeared on commemorative coins and in memorial pictures. An Empress Ahead of Her Time Is Having a Pop Culture Moment 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

But, at its best, an admirably short, 80-minute evening generates a pleasurable suspense and conveys Dahl's peculiar fascination with human cruelty. Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales - review 2011-01-25T00:52:54Z

But the fascination about the shroud "goes beyond history and archaeology," Lambatti acknowledged. Public to get latest peek at Shroud 2010-04-09T18:26:00Z

In other words, fulfill the public’s fascination with celebrity and the mystique of the White House — most of it will die down as the Administration progresses.” Michelle Obama didn’t like to discuss her clothes, but they spoke volumes 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

But his blownup rose prints, in blues and tangerine pinks, were forced to carry the load of the collection, and they just didn’t hold enough fascination. | Fashion Review: Peter Som, Richard Chai, The Row, Cushnie et Ochs, M. Patmos, Jason Wu, Kimberly Ovitz, Wes Gordon: Fashion Review 2011-09-10T01:07:02Z

Still, examining the 18th-century fascination with the East through 21st-century eyes is an interesting way to move beyond mere stereotype in presenting some of the repertoire. Review | The In Series adapts an opera about a crazy, juvenile ruler to the standards of our time 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

One strand that connected virtually all the works was a fascination with stark contrasts in both dynamics and tempo. Music Review: Steven Beck at Bargemusic in Here and Now Series - Review 2012-01-06T22:54:07Z

Indeed, the 21st century fascination with the antihero has made cheering on bad guys a veritable hobby. Sympathy for the devil: how The Handmaid's Tale finally goes too far 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

Tyler surveys it all with a mix of fascination and mild contempt. Is Vermont becoming the Napa Valley of beer? 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

A fascination with pandering to crowds has animated Mr. Kindler’s entire career. Andy Kindler Gives the Funny Business Its Annual Review 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Brandsen said that she still commands fascination: “Ninety-eight to ninety-nine percent of the seats” for each performance of the ballet were sold in 2016, he said. Femme Fatale, Fallen Woman, Spy: Looking for the Real Mata Hari 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

The only reason to consider skin-bound books, then, would be to indulge some twisted fascination with the depths of human wretchedness. Yes, Books Were Bound in Human Skin. An Intrepid Librarian Finds the Proof. 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

That has not kept if from being an object of fascination. ‘Mystery of Edwin Drood,’ Dickens’s Unfinished Novel 2012-11-25T00:40:06Z

Their careers were rooted, in part, by their fascination with Ali and boxing. Muhammad Ali: Drawn, Painted and Photographed 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

But I like to think I woke his fascination with fashion. Front Row: Uniqlo Gives the Polo Shirt a Makeover 2013-04-17T22:49:49Z

Irvin said his fascination with Monte Cassino dated back to his school days, when he had been taught by a history master whose brother had died there. Costly WWII battle to become film 2012-08-03T14:03:25Z

One of Jackson’s other primary fascinations is the human body — his, in particular — its limitations and ultimately its degradation. T Magazine: The Artist With the Race Car in His Studio 2013-09-13T22:03:10Z

A young boy, after surviving a plane crash that orphaned him, weathers public fascination as he tries to find a way forward. 50 notable works of fiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Part of the fascination of singing competitions is the lovely, flawed idea that you can use them to extrapolate the current and future states of . Music Review: Metropolitan Opera Auditions Select Five Singers 2012-03-19T21:51:55Z

In real life, coming out or not – much like True Blood’s civil rights allegory– is a divisive question: is the pop-cultural fascination with vampires an opportunity to build alliances and enlighten the world? Interview with a real-life vampire: why drinking blood isn't like in Hollywood 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

In Mr. Acconci’s case, the work grew out of an experience as an aspiring poet and fiction writer whose fascination with the physical space of the page eventually led out into the world. Vito Acconci, an Artist as Influential as He Is Eccentric 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Morse, for instance, credits his interest in Neumann’s art to a shared fascination with what he calls “the emergence of the unexpected.” Spring Arts Preview: In the galleries 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

But the latest burst of Tate fascination seems largely traceable to “Mad Men.” Does Sharon Tate Hold a Clue to the ‘Mad Men’ Finale? 2014-05-09T20:14:44Z

The result is an upbeat crossover set that continues Erraji's fascination with fusing different styles while playing an extraordinary range of instruments. Hassan Erraji: Awal Mara 2010-09-02T21:45:00Z

This fascination, of course, escalated, leading me to an actual paint company and the two most tactile and hypnotic videos I’ve ever seen. What You Should Watch: ‘Transparent’ and ‘Poldark’ 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

According to Jan Bondeson of Cardiff University, who spent five years writing a book on the lad's fascination with the Royal Family, he broke into Buckingham Palace at least three times between 1838 and 1841. Revealed: Britain's first celebrity stalker 2011-02-02T14:36:42Z

Lucas is notorious for his hard-line stance against a certain subsection of hip-hop’s fascination with drugs and materialism. Review | Joyner Lucas has a heavy-handed message, but makes it look good 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

“The public fascination with auction records had begun,” Mr. de Pury writes. Insiders Dish on the Art Market 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

More than that, though, and more than escapism, one wonders if there isn’t an element of gleeful pity in a viewer’s fascination. Filthy rich: our tortured love affair with wealth porn 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

Authors and bloggers reacted to the essay with fascination and horror. Novelist under fire after admitting to 'stalking' critic 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Burton’s first movie project, now his latest, fits into his career-long fascination with warped domesticity. Tim Burton's Frankenweenie: A Re-animated Delight 2012-10-04T12:00:18Z

“Shhhh” reminded me of one of your earliest plays, “Dirty Crusty,” and its fascination with the body as a site of both pleasure and disgust. Clare Barron on ‘Shhhh’ and How Playwriting Is Her ‘Kink of Exhibitionism’ 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

There was excitement when Lucasfilm announced “Solo: A Star Wars Story” back in 2015, and fascination when the company said it had hired the “Lego Movie” jokesters, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, to direct. ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’: What Do Critics Say? What Do You Say? 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

We carry laptops instead of spears, but we’re not so far removed from our past that fear and fascination with bears has completely evolved out of us. Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z

And so it was that Mexico's fascination with its "long nasty history" acquired, in this revolutionary period, a pathological dimension. Mexican modernism and the politics of painting 2013-06-29T07:59:01Z

He explains that it's only comparatively recently we've come to take pleasure in frosty weather, and examines our perennial fascination with Arctic explorers. Guardian Books podcast: Winter, kitchen technology and the joy of paper 2012-12-14T15:06:55Z

The fascination with female strength was a subtext for many designers as they considered what ultimate power would look like draped around the shoulders of a woman. How women reclaimed their place in fashion’s spotlight in 2016 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

Its fascination with Brandon becomes a kind of credulity, a willingness to accept uncritically the mystifications of a proven liar. ‘My Old School’ Review: An Impostor Makes the Honor Roll 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

The two books under review here ride the wave of this newfound fascination with Nietzsche, although neither engages directly with the complex legacy of his reception. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

It takes talent and originality to transform real, average bodies into objects of fascination. Bill Cunningham: An Enigma in a Blue Sanitation Worker’s Jacket 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

A tightly focused exhibition opening Tuesday at the Philadelphia Museum of Art takes Mr. Tillmans’s fascinations and runs with them. Disparate but Connected 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

He was also, despite his fascination with the future, an old-fashioned humanist in lot of ways. In our paranoid Tea Party age, the benevolent alien Overlords of “Childhood’s End” are a tough sell 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

"Guys and Dolls" emerges from another stream: her fascination with music, most of it also classic. For Mary Zimmerman, overseeing 'Guys and Dolls' at the Wallis, it starts with imagination 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Strip malls and trailer parks drift past the car windows, a rainstorm patters on the roof, and Crystal’s whimsical voice-overs — and her fascination with mermaids — position her as a childlike liability. Movie Review: ‘Sun Don’t Shine,’ Directed by Amy Seimetz 2013-04-26T02:09:24Z

The audience is entitled to wonder if some of the ambiguity and restraint of Hausner's film was contrived to get official permission for these sequences, but even that possibility has its own subversive fascination. Film review: Lourdes 2010-03-25T22:25:00Z

I can't say I understood much of his ideas back then, but I understood enough to be mute with fascination. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Author Rebecca Stott on 'Darwin's Ghosts' 2012-08-08T16:44:34Z

Actor Rupert Everett will share his lifelong fascination with Oscar Wilde, the subject of his new film, “The Happy Prince,” starring Colin Firth. Live on SalonTV: Ralph Nader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paul Greengrass and more 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

My own fascination has been fueled by Amy Kelly’s masterful 1950 book, “Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings,” which drew on contemporary chronicles to craft a history as entertaining as a novel. In the French city of Poitiers, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s influence is everywhere 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

A little corner of a cabinet devoted to Brahms, a darling of the Gesellschaft, holds special fascination. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Vienna’s Musical Giants’ Brings Artifacts to Carnegie Hall 2014-03-11T21:56:53Z

Fletcher, whom Josh has been ignoring in his fascination with Jamie, picks B: “You’re an old man with a young man’s hat.” REVIEW: While We're Young: Can Ben Stiller Be a Happy 20-Something? 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

Dodgson makes a sound case that Kesey’s fascination with magic and performance — and tremendous drive — are key to his later literary success and counterculture status. Ken Kesey bio: Journey from farm kid to Merry Prankster 2013-12-24T21:27:41Z

Here, there’s extra fascination, also unsettling, as your attention is drawn away from the electric Kennedys to Ben and Tony, right by their side. Ben Bradlee: the ground-breaking editor who helped bring down Nixon 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

One consistent source of fascination, at least for now, stems from Spotify’s being based in Europe, which means some recordings unavailable in America are readily accessible. Spotify?s Classical-Streaming Service Takes Baby Steps 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z

Average intelligence, very real struggles with social navigation, and joblessness are far more prevalent among those with Asperger's  than cute personality quirks like wearing unmatched socks or exhibiting an endless fascination with trains. Motherlode Blog: Our Sons Are Not Future Killers 2012-12-18T20:51:24Z

Short films made primarily for online consumption often share particular areas of fascination. Best short films on the web 2010-12-19T00:04:08Z

Her parents moved to New Jersey when she was 5, and her fascination with the stage began soon thereafter. Sada Thompson, 1970s TV mom, dies in Conn. at 81 2011-05-08T22:25:08Z

Your appreciation of diverse expertise would explain your recent fascination with mushrooms. | Q&A: Jeanne Gang, the Chicago Architect ? Q&A 2011-09-29T00:04:54Z

The case, however, continues to draw fascination and is still being pursued by a few group of investigators, Cooper enthusiasts and true crime buffs. The 6 most surprising "D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!" revelations from Netflix's docuseries 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z

But too narrow a fascination with the goods obscures the Shaker message of a life lived in the service of God. A New Set of Tastemakers Finds Inspiration in Shakers 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z

Though both novels are set in contemporary England, their fascination with obsession and ruin was a harbinger of Mr. Unsworth’s later work. Barry Unsworth, Historical Novelist, Dies at 81 2012-06-08T02:47:19Z

It's tempting to speculate that this urge to forge a family – and her lifelong fascination with migration – has its roots in Mnouchkine's own past. Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil: a life in theatre 2012-08-10T14:31:00Z

What the world gets up to when most of us are asleep has long been a source of fascination to film-makers. TV highlights 30/08/12 2012-08-29T19:00:25Z

In this context, Station to Station is actually of especial fascination because the Thin White Duke was the last of Bowie's alter-egos, and the album represents a sloughing off of those skins. Dame theory 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

This sense of experimentation — coupled with her fascination with placing the human form in elusively symbolic narratives — led to these fierce yet fragile figures in the prints. Art review: Warashina works show women on the edge of ... you decide 2010-05-27T20:20:00Z

Fraser’s fascination with the idealism and ambition she saw in her parents’ political friends would lead her to books about Cromwell, the Gunpowder Plot and the 1832 Reform Bill. Antonia Fraser’s ‘My History’: The biographer and mom of six looks back 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

Given the current fascination with the history of folk, the timing couldn't be better. AL Lloyd: An Evening with AL Lloyd 2010-08-19T21:55:00Z

Tell me about your fascination with multi-colored pastas? Mateo Zielonka on pasta, multi-colored doughs and demystifying the notion of homemade pasta 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z

It would seem the media doesn’t fully understand its own fascination with Hagerty, either. Marilyn Hagerty is the restaurant critic we either love or loathe. Why?

Love ranges from just fascination to something almost spiritual. Barbara Orbison, widow of Roy Orbison, dies in LA 2011-12-07T08:01:06Z

“Just keep telling the story,” says the director character in Wes Anderson’s latest film, “Asteroid City,” which takes a stylized look at midcentury America’s fascination with space and interstellar communications. A Time Capsule of Human Creativity, Stored in the Sky 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

There's a brilliant sense of playfulness about much of her work, a fascination with virtuosity and wordplay which makes it instantly attractive. This week's new live music 2011-04-08T23:07:52Z

Unsuk Chin's Graffiti was also strong on atmosphere, and its use of a phantasmagorical sequence of refined or complex textures gave it consistent sonic fascination. LA Philharmonic New Music Group/Dudamel/Adams – review 2013-03-15T17:33:23Z

At the time of Monroe’s first pregnancy in the film’s version of her life, fetal imagery was a rudimentary fascination. The Empty Spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s Fantasy Fetus 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

His fascination with instruments is evident in his evolution of sound. How SInger-Songwriter Dan Croll Is Shaping the ‘New’ Liverpool Sound 2013-04-10T17:00:12Z

George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, had unlimited funds, a fascination with Egyptology and a weakness for paranormal phenomena. Behold, King Tut, in All His Majesty and Mystery 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

He once was a co-producer on a Broadway play, the beginning of a long fascination with theater, right after graduating from Wharton. Trump Scorns the Pop Culture World He Once Cultivated 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

In a previous interview with Salon, Elizabeth Wolff, director of the "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" documentary series on the Golden State Killer, said she's pondered this seemingly gendered fascination. “Only Murders” makes us question the ethically murky joy we derive from true crime 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

One was a fascination with entrepreneurs, expressed most famously in Joseph Schumpeter’s 1942 account of the “creative destruction” of business failure and creation. Can We Trust Economists? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

The Canadian media never lost their fascination with her, and she was gamely coaxed into deliciously oversharing interviews now and again. Justin Trudeau’s mother, Margaret, was like the Princess Diana of Canada — with a happy ending 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

The ongoing, morbid fascination with all things Kennedy is an aspect of American culture I find perplexing and somewhat dispiriting. Review: ‘Chappaquiddick’ Revisits a Grim ’60s Kennedy Scandal 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

But what made the moment an object of fascination is its seeming novelty. Caught in a bad bromance? We should be encouraging man hugs, not mocking them 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

The performers seem more positioned than directed, and the movie’s fascination for a contemporary viewer derives from their self-presentation. Lost Culture on Found Film 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Our fascination with her spill, and others like it,  embodies our complicated relationship with women. Our figure skating obsession: Why America loves watching women fall 2014-02-20T21:45:00Z

And his fascination with women is inflected by a sympathy that might be called feminist. | 'Le Amiche': A 1955 Antonioni Movie Gets a Film Forum Run 2010-06-17T21:57:00Z

The book, perhaps reflecting the ongoing fascination with “To Kill a Mockingbird,” became a bestseller. Alice Lee, sister of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ author Harper Lee, dies at 103

Thanks to TikTok fashion, celebrity street style and Gen Z's fascination with the Y2K aesthetic, the accessory — which was a divisive trend circa the '90s — is acquiring a new generation of fans. Why are so many fast food brands obsessed with bucket hat merch? 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z

The phenomenon of body fascination and horror was not invented with YouTube. The primal appeal of pimple-popping videos: Our obsession with gross anatomy has deep roots 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

For the most part artists use Instagram like the rest of us: as a document of everyday fascinations, a bit scrubbed up for public consumption. Cindy Sherman Takes Selfies (as Only She Could) on Instagram 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

This novel brought together and dramatised preoccupations that had been present in his fiction from the beginning, such as the hypocrisy of Christianity and the fascination with power. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z

“I have a fascination with a kind of anarchy onstage,” he said. He Changed ‘Oklahoma!’ But ‘Oklahoma!’ Hasn’t Changed Him. 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

The 2009 study tells the story of rent strikes and ill will between old and new people while depicting the pleasure and fascination of living in Monti, changing though it may be. Next Stop: In Rome, Monti Is a Quiet Treasure 2011-07-01T17:00:00Z

Both podcasts and penny bloods satisfy a lurid fascination in all that is dark and violent. Penny dreadfuls were the true crime podcasts of their time 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Millions of us have witnessed the wealthy become wealthier during the pandemic, but our fascination with shows like "Succession" and "Billions" isn't likely to ebb in response. "Billions" resumes within a pandemic that made the rich richer, making its cruelty more relevant 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

Witty, gregarious and intellectually inquisitive, Bass executed each project in a seemingly simple, yet expressive style that reflected his fascination with constructivism, modernism and surrealism. Design: Saul Bass Made the Title Sequence Into a Film Star 2011-11-06T14:09:04Z

“He was fascinated by my own fascination with snails,” Lentine says. The symbiotic relationship between poets and the garden 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

When it was unearthed in 1801, during the early days of the American republic, it became something of a celebrity, a tourist attraction and a source of infinite fascination for American and foreign naturalists. Perspective | What do Thomas Jefferson, a mastodon skeleton and Alexander von Humboldt have in common? The answer is locked inside the Smithsonian. 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

Were you surprised that the early fascination with “Mad Men” centered on the midcentury sets and costumes? Growing Up on ‘Mad Men’: A Conversation With Matthew Weiner and Kiernan Shipka 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

“Making a Murderer” is at its best when it taps into our collective fascination with the grisly details of a story that may read like fiction, but isn’t. Netflix takes a page from “Serial” in gripping documentary series 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Can you explain your fascination with this idea of hiding in plain sight? Netflix's existential "Shine Your Eyes" searches for a man who "inhabits the world of fiction" 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

“Scientology is such a subject of fascination for people,” Mr. Gibney says off camera. Review: Alex Gibney Takes On Scientology in ‘Going Clear’ 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Breaking out of gender stereotypes lent them a new power as performers and earners, but also made them objects of erotic fascination for men and women. Ladies as gents 2010-05-13T21:15:00Z

First, it’s about taxonomy and organization of knowledge, one of my great fascinations. A Tour of a Writer’s London Sitting Room 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

Typical and emblemetic of postwar Japanese popular culture, the dress conflates a traditionalist taste for ritual with a fascination for the electronic networks of the urban environment. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-22T23:08:10Z

She said this approach and the record’s fascination with hindsight is influenced by her recent interest in somatic, or “body-based” therapy. Pop Is Obsessed With What’s Next. So U.S. Girls Revisited Her Past. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

At the same time, bebop — an insurgent, often frenetic strain of modern jazz, typified by virtuosos like the alto saxophonist Charlie Parker and the pianist Bud Powell — was a source of endless fascination for him. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

As Marty’s cabaret show mixes with stray memories from his life, we gather that his Typhoid Mary fascination began in childhood, with a school report. Review: In ‘Typhoid Mary,’ Showtime for a Dying Patient 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

Marilyn Monroe was a figure of fascination whose allure went far beyond any fascination with her figure. In 'Marilyn Forever,' Monroe yearns to be merely herself 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

All of it drove people to their TVs, laptops and phones in horror and fascination. Trump predicted news ratings would ‘tank if I’m not there.’ He wasn’t wrong. 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

A fascination with all things Arctic came raging back in the 19th century. ‘Icebound’ Takes Us Back to the Arctic, in All Its Terror and Splendor 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

Callas, a symbol of chic, remains an object of fascination extending even beyond opera fans. What a Hologram of Maria Callas Can Teach Us About Opera 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

Given the originality of her oblique style, near-documentary fascination with large families and taste for depicting provincial inertia, Ms. Martel both excites and confounds viewers. Lucrecia Martel: A Director Who Confounds and Thrills 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

The 56-year-old admits “It’s not so nice,” being the subject of tabloid fascination. but she’s taking control of the narrative with a new authorized biopic and a documentary debuting on Lifetime on Saturday. Wendy Williams subject of juicy new biopic and a documentary 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

Greene films their performances with an apt blend of fascination and terror, of awe and fear. What to Stream This Weekend: Three Action Movies 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

And it's why, as the Sanchez Deadspin story illustrates, it's such an endless source of uneasy fascination. Much ado about Mark Sanchez's teenage fling 2011-02-10T16:20:00Z

But her fear of sex develops into a neurotic fascination and horror of dust and dirt of all kinds, a condition that escalates into agoraphobia and paranoid episodes. Repulsion – review 2013-01-03T21:10:01Z

The contrast between the size of some of the works and their light and airy appearance is part of their fascination. For This Korean Artist, Memories Are a Medium 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

Flawed female characters continue to exert a fascination. From Nico to Tonya Harding, women’s true stories are being told on film at last 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

It was during his long sessions experimenting in the workshop that he developed a fascination for mechanical processes – particularly the amazing things that can happen when stuff goes wrong. Artist of the week 176: Raphael Hefti 2012-02-09T13:32:00Z

A fascination with sound and its expressive and alienating properties informs their works. Critic’s Notebook: George Benjamin’s ‘Written on Skin’ Caps Tanglewood Festival 2013-08-13T21:39:43Z

Many have noted a kinship between cult T-shirts by Vetements, fashion’s runway fascination of the moment, and those in the Purpose collection. Buying the Shirt Off Justin Bieber’s Back 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

The spectacle of a talent so hamstrung inspires both morbid fascination and acute embarrassment. On Video: Buster Keaton’s Talkie ‘Free and Easy’ Comes to DVD 2014-03-23T19:49:40Z

“Other than fascination with a brutal crime, what would be the real, responsible storyteller reason to touch this story?” Danish crime show turns lurid procedural trend on its head 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Nevertheless, "Loki" sparks markedly less of the level of curiosity and fascination that marks the start of "WandaVision," and little of the essential excitement woven throughout the premiere of "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier." "Loki" is an enjoyable, aesthetic romp that feels smaller than the God of Mischief deserves 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

The boys walked around the facility carrying tennis rackets almost as big as them, and Frances quickly developed a fascination with the game. Perspective | I once lost a tennis game to Frances Tiafoe. I was 24, he was 13. 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

With a lacuna to fill about Vermeer’s life, authors, filmmakers and other artists have fed the growing fascination through creative speculation. The Fullest View of Vermeer Still Leaves Plenty to the Imagination 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

But despite their apparent morbidity, the collection more reveals Bourgeois’s deep fascination with the workings of the human mind. The Psychology of Louise Bourgeois, at Cheim & Read 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

The collection made me think of my own fascination with the urban gardens of New York. Roberto CoinVoice: What Do New York City's Most Beautiful Gardens And Jewelry Have In Common? 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

Her work is rooted in a fascination with "really good everyday use things," she explains. | Carina Seth Andersson 2012-12-12T14:15:41Z

He called Salon from London to talk about his fascination with Nixon, “The Simpsons,” and why he doesn’t watch American sketch comedy. Legendary comic Harry Shearer: Nixon was the last great tragicomic character of our time 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

Even if you don’t recognize the majority of the unidentified clips assembled here, or the quotations that divide and guide them, the fascination they exert is all their own. Review: ‘The Thoughts That Once We Had,’ a Cinematic Flight 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

These fortunes are cause for admiration, loathing and, most of all, fascination — especially now, when we’ve elected a billionaire president who is himself consumed by his Number. How ranking the world’s wealthy became a business 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

In the first section of the novel, Wani was a beautiful, alluring object of fascination; now he is Nick's occasional sexual partner. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 2011-07-22T21:55:09Z

But the fascination revolving around this particular dollhouse is a product of the give-and-take between an era's cultural climate and the story told by the material produced in that time. How Barbie influenced our real-world Dreamhouse goals 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z

In the mid-1980s, Henry Lee Lucas was a star – at least in the context of America’s exploding fascination with serial killers. He was America's most deadly serial killer – but it was all a lie 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

As the obsession with digestive health dovetails with the fascination for fermenting, kimchi, sauerkraut and pickled things will work their way into new territory. A Peek at Your New Plate: How You’ll Be Eating in 2019 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

The song’s American debut came because of that new-wave fascination with Teutonic culture. Missed the ’80s? Nena, and ‘99 Luftballoons,’ Alights Live in America 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

The fascination with the stars, and what’s up there, has always had that effect on us. Prometheus Star Michael Fassbender on His Robotic Role and Why He Believes in Aliens 2012-06-06T10:45:25Z

The show also floats along on the fascination of guessing just who is, or isn’t, in on the game. They Talk About Porn in This Show. Audience Participation Is Encouraged. 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

So I think there's been a lot of fascination about that — also, there's really only been one Zodiac letter that's been cracked, and that was cracked early on. "The Most Dangerous Animal of All" asks what if your dad was the Zodiac Killer? 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

The exhibition at the Whitechapel is the latest in a series of shows that demonstrated new fascination with the subject. At Malevich Exhibition, a Journey of Ideas 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

There is still a fascination in seeing the care that goes into the placement of paintings and the upkeep of floors and walls. Review: ‘The Great Museum,’ a Stroll Through the Kunsthistorisches in Vienna 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

She added: “The ability to simultaneously provoke a sense of fascination and awe before the unknown gives this art its multidimensional character.” A Flood, a Boxcutter and a Son’s Pursuit to Keep His Father’s Legacy 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

It could seem as if Frank threw his Leica into the world and let it catch what it could, which happened, without fail, to be something exciting—fascination, pain, hilarity, disgust, longing. The Shock of Robert Frank’s “The Americans” 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

And at least from our point of view, being in L.A., there has been a complete fascination with the new. Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee on the Chicago Architecture Biennial and how 'newness becomes a disease' 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

That was as pointed as Ms. Anderson got during the two performances, which were largely a miscellany of her works and fascinations, old and new, hit and miss. Music Review: Laurie Anderson Gets Political at River to River Shows 2013-06-20T22:39:21Z

Asked if he sees the fascination with Monroe enduring for another 50 years, Schiller said a lot depends on whether communications remain a visual medium much as it has in recent decades. After 50 years, Monroe remains strong celeb brand 2012-08-03T12:52:12Z

In his work of literary criticism, “The Sense of an Ending,” Frank Kermode wrote about the relationship between literary endings, character deaths and the longstanding human fascination with apocalyptic fantasies. The End of Endings 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

In Carter’s hands, this unlikely marriage yields plenty of humor, joy and fascination. The Playlist: Ashley McBryde’s Loner’s Lament, and 10 More New Songs 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

The exhibition becomes a celebration of play, inspiring fascination, reviving wonder. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Noah’s Ark,’ at Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles 2014-04-21T21:43:03Z

What’s glorious about Shakespeare, and a source of our fascination, is his consistent inconsistency — as well as our enduring uncertainty about who he was. The Algorithm That Could Take Us Inside Shakespeare’s Mind 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

This fascination with the death throes of minority languages in remote regions seems linked to a wider contemporary anxiety over the degradation of the environment. Vanishing Languages, Reincarnated as Music 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

In a baroquely Catholic country, death is not so much a fascination as a collective obsession. Enrique Metinides: photographing the dead for Mexico's 'bloody news' 2012-11-21T14:26:53Z

Some kids, he explains, never get over their fascination for the paranormal. 'Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart,' by Christopher Fowler 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Man Ray clearly felt otherwise, and much of the fascination of this exhibition is tracing how what one might call the “value added” of art changed the meaning of models he represented. Man Ray inserts the human factor into the equation 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

There is also fascination in how Gallagher's songs defy the laws of physics to become more than the sum of their meagre lyrical parts. Suede/Noel Gallagher | Pop review 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

The fascination rubbed off on me because we were both in awe of women who could wear six-inch heels and teeter across the street as if they were walking on water. Bill Cunningham, Unpublished Photos 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination — and an entertainment — for everybody. Special Report: Fashion: Gone Global: Fashion as Art? 2011-07-04T18:13:03Z

His enigma may be the secret of his inexhaustible fascination. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

But insects also exert a queasy fascination — they’re so alien, and so ubiquitous, that they become ideal subjects for scientific study, and for books. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

“I love the industrial thing,” Abramcyk says of his fascination with American industrial design after World War II. | Tiny's and the Bar Upstairs 2011-04-15T19:20:58Z

Edith lost her sight as a girl in an explosion in Germany, and some of the fascination she stirs arises from how independent she seems. ‘Buddy’ Review: Who’s a Good Pup? This Pack of Lifesavers 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

In program notes for the Met performance, Mr. Johannsson acknowledges the new resonance that the term has gained recently as public fascination — and anxiety — with the airborne drone has grown. Johann Johannsson’s ‘Drone Mass’ Bridges Ancient and Modern at Temple of Dendur 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

The fascination increased once she became first lady, in part because she didn’t dress like the stereotypical Washington matron in boxy suits, nude pantyhose and sensible pumps. Michelle Obama didn’t like to discuss her clothes, but they spoke volumes 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z