| 单词 | first half |
| 例句 | “You played a first half that sucked so bad, I just wanted to make you run laps all season,” Luma told them afterward. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z We spend the first half hour figuring out who is who and what they speak. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d never played poker before, only backgammon, and for the first half hour he lost again and again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The first half was instrumental, with only a horn playing the melody, and then a woman started singing along in the second half. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “Sí, sí, Capitán,” the clever Eduardo shouted back—even though he planned to obey only the first half of that order. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The two dueled for the first half of the game, but Bobby clearly had the advantage after that and he won on the thirty-ninth move. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z With a locked-down supply of drugs, I managed to wipe out the rest of October and the first half of November. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z In the first half Ben scored eighteen points. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The first half is full of facts about evolution. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z I had scored three points in the first half and my man, Brothers, had scored twelve. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z He now stressed, however, that for the first half of the summit day he wanted everybody to climb in close proximity. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Trevor finished the first half of his sandwich and looked over at me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z It was only by a horrible effort of will that I had dragged myself through the first half of the year. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z By the time the first half ended, Winchell had thrown nine passes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first half of last year I prayed for a full-length mirror, and the second half I praised the Lord we didn’t have one. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The first half of the school day passes routinely. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z In the first half of the nineteenth century, owners of whaling ships amassed fortunes from oil and built the still well-preserved Federalist and Greek Revival mansions on upper Main Street. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z During the first half of the twentieth century, the incidence of violent crime in the United States was, for the most part, fairly steady. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Maya was getting the ball a lot, more than in the first half, and she was making things happen. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew from the first half hour, though, that I was seeing only surfaces. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Permian had scored on all four of its possessions the first half. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In the first half of 1942, the terrible machinery that formed the horrific Nazi death camps was grinding into action, beginning to exterminate hundreds of thousands, and eventually millions, of men, women, and children. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The first half went by fast and we were behind 28—16. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “Then he’s going to think he got me to play hard by keeping me out the first half,” I said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “Mainly, ’cause they ignorant,” he added while unlocking the first half of the casket. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Permian scored twice more in the first half to go ahead 21-0. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Seven and one heading into the bye week ain’t too shabby. That’s quite a first half to our season. Now we need to sustain it. No letdowns.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z They’d spent the first half of the meet-and-greet outside, while the other members were inside, and then inside, while the other members were outside. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z For the first half hour I obediently herringboned up a small slope, pushed off with my poles and coasted straight down. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The first half of the school day passed without incident. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The first half of practice time would be for homework and tutoring. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Way to wig out within the first half a minute, Jupiter. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z At the end of the first half it was Carver 31 and Latimer 23- Ice, with me steady on his case, had still scored 15 points. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the story is told first and best by Pindar in the first half of the fifth century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He was overjoyed that he’d pulled himself out of the abyss in which he’d found himself in the tournament’s first half, but devastated that he hadn’t won first prize. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She also kept her laptop balanced on her knees when, as a special treat before bedtime, she let them watch the first half of The Lego Batman Movie. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z A tune that gradually snaked upwards in its first half might gradually snake downwards in its second. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z By the end of the first half, the Thirteens had taken eight shots on goal and missed all of them. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Throughout the first half of the 1790s, the closest approximation to a self-evident truth in American politics was George Washington. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Again we fell farther and farther behind as the first half went on. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z During the concluding decades of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries the idea of microbial control was slowly taking form. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The second half started out the same way as the first half ended. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z The story of how Fischer went into a swoon in the tournament’s first half, tying for last, yet ended up in the penultimate round tying for first with Spassky, has been told many times. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to watch the first half of the game with Mom and Annie and her dad, but Mr. Finkle said the crowd might start a riot if they saw me before halftime. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the first half went the same way. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z I scored my fifth TD just before the first half ended. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z For the first half hour, the lake crossing was routine. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The sense of expectation grew as the first half came to a close. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z She would keep him hidden on defense for the first half or so of a game, then switch him to offense as the other team tired. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The heat, which had turned him laggard in the first half, no longer seemed to affect him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Brothers got a breakaway jam and made some nice passes but at the end of the first half it was Carver 34 and Trinity 20. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Niccolo Paganini was one of a new wave of superstar musicians in the first half of the nineteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “It’s the first half of the alphabet. That’s all that matters. Just look at all those fools still waiting in line!” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I didn’t start again but I was in the game during the first half. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z The whole first half was Carver, and everybody in the stands was going crazy. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z We were down 6 points, then we were down 9, and then 12 with a minute to play in the first half. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z It is the subject of one of his most famous odes, written in the first half of the fifth century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, my locker had to have been cleaned out during the first half.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z What can happen is that Babe Ruth could hit .300 the first half of the season and Lou Gehrig only .290, but Ruth could bat two hundred times to Gehrig’s one hundred times. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The score remains 7-3 at the end of the first half. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tomorrow. Dad will drop you off on the way to work, and you’ll stay for the first half of the day. Then he’ll pick you up around lunchtime. How does that sound?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z I shiver with cold for the first half hour, until my blood gets moving and the sun crests the hills. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Ice didn’t do anything great in the second half, but then he didn’t have to, the game was really over in the first half. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z She reads the first half of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea so many times, she practically memorizes it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It was fine with him if the Brits wanted to burn themselves out in the first half of the race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Rather than come out, he managed to set it in the defensive huddle and played both ways the entire first half. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Ha. If you forget about the first half.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The first half hour or so focuses on the pre-arena events, the reaping, the chariot ride through the Capitol, our training scores, and our interviews. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z We scored only one run that inning, and we walked onto the field for the first half of the third inning with a sense of doom. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z One bell sounds the first half hour after the watch begins; two bells mark the next half hour, and so on until...Yes, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They are the great intellectual achievements of the first half of this century. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This process, the first half of calculus, is now known as differentiation; however, Newton's method of differentiation doesn't look very much like the one we use today. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The first half of 1943 brought crying spells, loneliness and the gradual realization of my faults and shortcomings, which were numerous and seemed even more so. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z During the first half of the season, Babe Ruth hits for a higher batting average than Lou Gehrig. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If a nurse on the next shift calls in sick, Mom can be “held over” to work the first half of the three-to-eleven shift, and someone else gets called in to cover the second half. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z France, England, and other countries skirmished throughout the first half of the eighteenth century, and roughly a quarter century after Newton died, a full-scale war erupted. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z His trick was to sit with the horn in his lap for the first half of a piece, then start at the beginning and, tooting double time, hit the last note right with the others. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The first half was not yet halfway over. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Then I get benched for the entire first half. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z A tune that moved from chord-base I to chord-base V in its first half would travel back from V to I in its second. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z After the first half hour or so I realized that he was not listening at all. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z By the end of the first half, Antoine had run for about fifty yards, but nearly all of his passes had been dropped. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lloyd Webber is a fine melodist, but in the first half no tune is allowed to settle, with the exception of the frequently repeated Love Changes Everything. Aspects of Love 2010-07-16T20:29:00Z The first half of “Set You Free,” especially, is vintage Allan, which is to say pretty deeply scarred. Critic’s Notebook: New Country Albums From Gary Allan and Randy Houser 2013-01-27T23:05:49Z In the first half of Wednesday’s concert, Mr. Adams conducted Respighi’s glittering, shamelessly flashy “Feste Romane” and Ravel’s dazzling Piano Concerto in G, with the splendid English pianist Imogen Cooper as soloist. Music Review: ‘City Noir,’ by John Adams, at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-13T21:21:56Z The first half of “Animalkind,” on the wonders of the animal world, offers a torrent of stories and research findings. How Humans Can Coexist With Other Animals 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The first half of this book, which is well paced, covers the five days of the title. Books of The Times: ‘Five Days at Memorial,’ by Sheri Fink 2013-09-03T21:27:44Z He began a strangely skewed Liszt first half with three works from the composer’s pilgrimage series by bringing a deliberate slowness to character pieces inspired by Petrarch Sonnets 104 and 123. In Vadym Kholodenko, talent and tragedy mix 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z But the extraordinary narrative begins with murals — a fact that has made for some difficulty in a larger understanding of the achievements of Mexican art in the first half of the 20th century. Thrilling new exhibition shows modern Mexican art is bigger than murals 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The first half of “The Memory of All That” extends and formalizes that search and includes materials from another investigation, this one conducted by the F.B.I., whose files on her father Ms. Weber requisitioned. Books of The Times: When Granny Met Gershwin, and Other Gossip 2011-07-25T18:39:38Z Op 59 No 2 offered a fiery, weighty counterbalance to the first half. Artemis Quartet 2010-09-17T21:01:00Z Only the first half was presented on Tuesday, and it ended on a truly shocking note of suspense. ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Begins Previews in London 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The first half of the book, titled “Fates,” is about what Lotto thinks. Review: Lauren Groff’s ‘Fates and Furies’ Features a Wife Who’s Full of Surprises 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z In the role of Metternich, who dominated European politics for much of the first half of the nineteenth century, is Barry Humphries. Immortal Beloved: beating Beethoven into Meat Loaf 2010-07-01T15:01:00Z With Tambuco at play, there was little concern about authenticity in the first half. International music fest compares Latin, Asian sounds with Tambuco and Toshio Hosokawa 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Like Full Metal Jacket, this film’s first half is where the real goodies are: if truth be told, the fireworks tail off towards the back end as Alex successively re-encounters his victims. Stanley Kubrick's best films – ranked! 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z The first half of the teaser includes one of his more subdued prayers, while the second half lets loose with one of his impassioned sermons. First Teaser for ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Is Released 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z In effect, the first half of this book tracks what Skal calls “the growing storehouse of images that would fuel the nascent dream ultimately given form as ‘Dracula.’ ‘Something in the Blood’ offers plenty of speculation about ‘Dracula’ author 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Ohlsson performed the scherzo in the first half of the program, which sounded significantly less committed than the preludes in the second. 2010-02-06T07:43:00Z Mr. Levine is scheduled to lead two of the three operas in the first half of next season. Fabio Luisi Can’t Cover for James Levine in Next Met Season 2012-10-15T22:28:50Z The performance of the Sibelius Violin Concerto that ended the first half proved less settled of execution than that of the Golijov. Conlon serves Shostakovich suite to the max with CSO 2011-04-22T17:40:00Z Chicago-based saxophonist and clarinetist Ken Vandermark's long-running quintet played the first half of a spectacular double bill, also featuring Norwegian/Swedish quintet Atomic – and it was like hearing several decades of evolution in an hour. Vandermark 5/Atomic 2010-09-21T20:45:00Z The first half of the trail is flat, the only “hill” a bridge over the Chickahominy River just before it joins the James. On the Virginia Capital Trail, bike through 400 years of history in 52 miles 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The production dragged, particularly in the first half, with almost everyone saying everything interminably slowly. Twelfth Night and Jesus Christ Superstar – reader reviews 2012-09-28T14:43:44Z The Canadian rapper was scheduled to spend the first half of July touring the UK, appearing in London, T in the Park, and Ireland's Oxegen festival. Drake cancels British and European tour dates 2010-07-02T11:41:00Z In the first half, Strauss's most refined tone poem, Don Quixote, took a little while to gather the measured momentum and pristine exactness its neoclassical undertones demand. LSO/Previn ? review 2011-01-18T22:31:01Z This is the work of both producers: Mr. Martin and his team handle most of the album’s rowdy first half, and Mr. Antonoff is dominant on the more emotionally focused second half. Taylor Swift Is a 2017 Pop Machine on ‘Reputation,’ but at What Cost? 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The first half airs tonight; the second half airs next Tuesday. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Fosse/Verdon’ and ‘Destroyer’ 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z My mother went gray young, too; she dyed her hair back to its original black for the first half of my childhood. Some young women embraced their gray hair during the pandemic. They might not go back. 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z I will only take a phone call interview or other requests after I get through the first half of the day. Ryan Seacrest Is Just One Man, He Can Only Do So Much in This Life 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z After the musical adventures of the first half, however, Dvorak’s genial quartet was something of a letdown. Review: The Hazy Mysteries of Love at Lincoln Center 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The record's stealthy first half feels like roaming a ghost town in the aftermath of some unexplained calamity. Boards of Canada: Tomorrow's Harvest – review 2013-06-06T20:15:01Z While the first half is a more conventional historical/chronological account, it is in the second section that the author breaks new ground, as he focuses on Burke's place as a thinker. Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet by Jesse Norman – review 2013-05-19T09:00:02Z Rather than opening with Goetsch as a child, the first half of this memoir chronicles how the author wrestled with gender confusion and a self-described “addiction to cross-dressing” early in adulthood. Three Memoirs That Re-examine Challenges in Life and Identity 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Enter "Super 8," which takes place in a quiet Ohio industrial town in the first half of 1979. `Super 8' message: Technology not our friend 2011-07-02T13:16:05Z Two more things drive this book through its involving, if not electrifying, first half. Becky Masterman’s ‘Fear the Darkness,’ With Brigid Quinn 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z That sparked the question that would dominate the subtext of the first half of the show: What was making him so nervous? Inside the Minds of Two Expert Improv Comedians 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z The first half, devoted to songs by Schumann, left no doubt as to the health of Mr. Terfel’s voice. Music Review: Entertaining, Edifying And Reassuring Listeners 2010-11-19T06:05:00Z Teddy is surrounded by far less appealing characters in "A God in Ruins," particularly in the first half of the book. Kate Atkinson moves backwards through a life in 'A God in Ruins' 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z The lawsuit was settled in his favor in 1971, but the first half of his career was effectively over. Seijun Suzuki, Director Who Inspired Tarantino and Jarmusch, Dies at 93 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Its changeable emotions seemed to emerge organically from the five Liszt works on the first half of the program, and its lyrical impulses led sensibly into Chopin’s Sonata No. 2 at the end. Review: Marc-André Hamelin Connects Past and Present in Kaye Playhouse Recital 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z More than once, the Investigator is referred to as like "a tramp" – and his downwardly mobile progress through the first half of the novel is reminiscent of K's cinematic cousin, Charlie Chaplin's little tramp. The Investigation by Philippe Claudel – review 2013-02-07T09:00:02Z After she read it again, she told me, she remembered all the first half, but not the second. A Literary Dinner Party? Anne Enright Would Prefer Lunch 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z As if to demonstrate such a sentiment, separation from, not engagement with, the world around us was the major tendency in conservative American Protestantism during the first half of the 20th century. With God on Their Side: How Evangelicals Entered American Politics 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The story is told in two parts: the first half of the opera is about Tatyana growing up; the second about Onegin doing the same. Eugene Onegin: unchain my heart 2013-01-02T19:30:04Z From the opening, Mr. Boom’s direction is uniformly uninspired: A reporter’s prison interview with Shakur frames the movie’s first half, and Mr. Boom blocks and shoots his scenes with dismal stolidness. Review: ‘All Eyez on Me’ Is Uninspired. Tupac Shakur Was Anything But. 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z We did get an hour and a bit of it in the first half of the Deathly Hallows - we were minutes off seeing them toast marshmallows and sing campfire songs. The Harry Potter mini movie: what's the story? 2012-12-12T13:00:00Z Pay close attention: Developments that seem irrelevant or vaguely implausible in the first half of the novel are blazingly revelatory in the second. ‘Fates and Furies’ review: A masterful tale of marriage and secrets 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The first half of the movie largely centers on the life that Raphaël makes with Juliette as she grows from a curly-head moppet into a bold young adult who’s at once dreamy and pragmatic. ‘Scarlet’ Review: A Father and Daughter Endure 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z The first half was given over to a striking series of curios. Prom 12: Academy of Santa Cecilia/Pappano – review 2013-07-21T13:08:06Z “The delivery date is in the first half of next year, and that is sooner than it might seem,” Mr. Bannenberg said. No One Needs a Superyacht, but They Keep Selling Them 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z And happy day: Part Two of the six-hour-plus saga at Center House is even better than the first half. Review: Part 2 of 'Cider House Rules' is Book-It at its best 2010-09-23T20:23:00Z After a light-hearted first half, the film takes a plunge into darker drama in the second, when ET is captured and quarantined. ET: The Extra-Terrestrial: No 7 2010-10-21T10:48:00Z "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn," the fourth movie in the vampire franchise, will be split in two, with the first half scheduled for release on November 18, 2011, distributor Summit Entertainment confirmed on Thursday. Fourth "Twilight" film will be split in two 2010-06-11T02:33:00Z In the battle of the Somme more than half the Accrington Pals were dead within the first half hour. The Accrington Pals; Di and Viv and Rose; One Monkey Don't Stop No Show – review 2013-01-27T00:06:22Z It’s reserved for descendants of slaves owned by Thomas Spalding, who controlled most of Sapelo for the first half of the 19th century. Georgia’s Sea Islands: A destination worth the paddle 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z As such, the first half finds the two actors playing young versions of their characters, with their wrinkles and jowls obliterated by CGI. Has Hollywood’s ‘de-ageing’ gone too far? Martin Scorsese thinks so 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The concert's first half — a solo recital by virtuoso pianist Taylor — featured three pieces by America's first great concert pianist, Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Jacaranda unleashes a tribute to composer John Adams that goes a little bit 'Berserk' 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z The first half, in which he was joined by Alexander Toradze and Leonidas Kavakos as soloists, was the better of the two. Valery Gergiev 60th birthday gala – review 2013-05-24T16:47:23Z The first half, made up of nineteen connected pieces, continues a serial essay—an open-ended work with refracting images and motifs—the first part of which appeared in 2007’s “An Elemental Thing.” The Unclassifiable Essays of Eliot Weinberger 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z His deep appreciation for American roots music – the blues, country and gospel songs that emerged in the first half of the 20th Century – was immediately apparent. Greg Kot: Music behind myths of Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson 2011-05-03T18:47:25Z The pool that so dominated the novel’s first half is nearly absent from the second. Julie Otsuka Dives Into the Underground World of the Community Pool 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z While writers from the two nations used such terms at roughly the same rate through the first half of the century, their writing styles began to diverge in the 1960s. Literature isn’t as “moody” as it used to be 2013-03-21T21:45:00Z The principal characters alone required 1,500 wardrobe changes in the first half of production. ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ and the Ballad of Making Rock ’n’ Roll TV 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z The best main-slate films I’ve seen in the first half of the festival offer a simultaneous escape from the news cycle and an immersion in the fine grain of the now. Strangeness and Daring at the New York Film Festival 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z An Adventure In Space And Time is set in the first half of the 1960s and focuses on the people who created the sci-fi show, which celebrates its 50th anniversary next week. Who drama 'a wonderful tribute' 2013-11-13T11:46:43Z He promises it will come in the first half of 2019. Eighth and final season of “Game of Thrones” slated to debut on HBO in the first half of 2019 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Much of the first half of the story is squandered on the basic banter of beautiful people, shot through Araki’s Skittle-colored visual style and hipster sensibilities. Review | Gregg Araki’s ‘Now Apocalypse’ is so preoccupied by sex that it forgets to have an apocalypse 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z The first half of the album, before “Breadwinner,” is loosely about hope, particularly the hope that the relationship’s collapse may in fact be an illusion, or at least stoppable. The Kacey Musgraves Divorce Hour 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z All of that made the first half of the program likably lively and anything but threatening. An L.A. Phil reminder that but a mile, and fate, separate Disney Hall from skid row 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z The practice of embellishing the Hebrew Bible was widespread and highly developed on the Iberian Peninsula in the first half of the 13th century. An Illuminated Hebrew Bible Has a New Home 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z The anthology is, in a way, mapped against the first half of McQueen’s life. Steve McQueen unveils an anthology of racism and resistance 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z The siblings’ ascent takes up the first half, but then CeCe become more or less a supporting character in the second, when BeBe flirts uneasily with crossover fame. Review: Music trumps storytelling in 'Born for This,' the BeBe and CeCe Winans story 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z The first half of this parenting memoir is just that thing of beauty. Review: ‘Catastrophic Happiness,’ a Comedy of Manners About Bumpy Child-Rearing 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z The directors don't exactly overlook the miserable parts of Turner's life either, devoting the first half of "Tina" to her early career and raucous blaze she created as the dancing front of the traveling revue. HBO's celebratory Tina Turner doc gives her the final word on the woman behind the iconic name 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z But for the first half, audience members will move with the dancers as they progress along the shore. Trisha Brown on the Beach: Catch a Wave of Dancing Bliss 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z "The Electrical Life of Louis Wain" spends much of its first half on the courtship between Louis and Emily. Benedict Cumberbatch charms as a cat-loving genius in Amazon's showy "Electrical Life of Louis Wain" 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z More recently, that number jumped 22 percent in the first half of 2012 compared with the same period last year. Volunteer Trips: Is Your Family Ready? 2012-08-10T18:45:32Z Though the production features two grisly executions and several bloody apparitions, it is strongest in its more prosaic moments, especially in the first half. Theater Review: ?The Witch of Edmonton?: A Supernatural Subject with Human Urges 2011-02-04T17:00:53Z As the series returns on Sunday for the first half of its final season — the second half arrives next year — we look at that altered landscape. ‘Mad Men’ Enters Its Final Season in an Altered World 2014-04-11T21:56:36Z The first half of "Hard Feelings" is exciting, surging forward on acoustic guitar and bowed strings, with Olson pushing his smooth tenor voice to higher heights. Review roundup: five local, late-summer albums of note 2011-08-19T19:01:15Z The University of Maryland Concert Choir got a workout on the first half with the Part and Stravinsky, one all intuitive emotion, the other a beautiful cerebral tangle of sound. Review | The BSO gives them something to shout about with an edgy program 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Eisenberg, who as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network established his screen character as the impatient misfit always too smart for the room, spends the first half of Night Moves speaking barely at all. REVIEW: Night Moves: Political Thriller at a Slow Boil 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Towira’s shooting style is efficient and relatively unadorned in the first half. Review: ‘The Island Funeral’ Goes on a Restless Road Trip 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z This preoccupation with inequality and its psychological damage lingered among American writers of the first half of the 20th century. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The festival’s Stripped/Dressed format requires choreographers to divulge something about their working process in the first half followed by a complete performance in the second. Review: ‘Actual Size Plus,’ Sally Silvers’s Hitchcock-Inspired Work 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z It has its moments, most of them in the first half, when the emphasis is on movement rather than mayhem. ‘Climax’ Review: A Party That Assaults the Senses and Scrambles the Brain 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z That indulgence is a problem across the record, but mostly in its vulgar first half. Justin Timberlake Overreaches on His 20/20 Follow-Up 2013-10-02T09:45:12Z The U.S. premiere of the Italian’s violin concerto, “Duende: The Dark Notes,” was the major work on the first half of the Friday program. Susanna Mälkki brings more news to the Los Angeles Philharmonic 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z For much of the first half of the evening, the listener was wrapped in a cocoon of consonance, rocked by undulating arpeggios and drip-fed bittersweet melodies. Review: Locrian Chamber Players, With Music Wrapped in Temporary Mystery 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Christie’s auction sales of items such as handbags, wine, watches and jewels were actually down 13 percent in the first half of 2017, compared with the period a year earlier. Live Auctions End at Christie’s South Ken. Will Online Sales Fill the Void? 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z The first half of the book establishes the credibility of the witness, as it were. William Peter Blatty talks literature, life after death and lousy movies 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z The first half offered two dance suites: one by Bach, the other a sort of “iPod shuffle,” as Mr. Denk put it. Music in Review: ‘Science Fair,’ Jeremy Denk and the Emerson String Quartet 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z In the show’s first half, blood seeps up from beneath the stage. Times Writers Share Last Chance Theater Picks 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z And he provided glowing, sensitive accompaniment for the soprano Renée Fleming, who sang Strauss’s “Four Last Songs” in the first half and five other selections after intermission. Review: Renée Fleming Teams With the Met Opera Orchestra in Tender Strauss Songs 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The bifurcated four-hour show relegated most of the awards to an all-business first half, which was viewable only on the Paramount+ streaming service. ‘Moulin Rouge!’ and ‘Inheritance’ Take Top Honors at Tony Awards 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z For most of the first half of the 20th century, the quality of football in Brazil was below that of Argentina and Uruguay. World Cup: 'Golazo!' author on soccer passion in Latin America 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z The other pieces on the first half were all short pieces with associations to individuals. Humble virtuoso Mark Robson's piano weaves his highly personal tales 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z This lauded actress often rises above her material, and she does so repeatedly in the first half of the film, with desperation but brittle pride as she loses her home and security. Movie Review: ?Tyler Perry?s Good Deeds,? With Thandie Newton 2012-02-25T00:20:20Z Mob will air later in the first half of the year. AMC Sets Date for Don Draper's Return in the Final Episodes of 'Mad Men' 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z Jackie Kennedy, who displayed poise and grace in public after Kennedy's death, had requested that the interviews, conducted in the first half of 1964, be kept sealed for an indefinite amount of time, Hyperion said. Book to reveal unheard Jackie Kennedy interviews 2010-04-13T22:43:00Z Mr. Stella was one of the first American painters to focus on urban, industrial themes and his renderings of the bridge in the first half of the 20th century became hallmarks of his career. An Urban Painter’s Fantastic Floral Visions 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z During the first half of the 20th century it was sung by many famous singers, among them Renata Tebaldi, but always in cut versions, and never with the big aria that opens act three. A bite of William Tell 2011-07-15T22:55:03Z The first half of “Cuz,” which stumbles and falters in places, is capped by an explosive reveal of Michael’s killer that comes across as delayed for melodramatic effect. A Lamentation for a Life Cut Short 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z The first half of the program, titled “Morning, Evening, Earth and Sky,” opened with “Morning Greeting,” a short, cheery work by Robert Baksa. Music Review: New Amsterdam Singers at Church of the Holy Trinity 2010-06-06T22:16:00Z As Ben Ratner, one of the East Palestine locals who appeared as extras in "White Noise," told CNN, "The first half of the movie is all almost exactly what's going on here." The eerie parallels between Netflix's "White Noise" and the Ohio train derailment disaster 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z The first half documents work in a Serbian copper mine whose employees toil daily, sometimes for years, in an environment where “it is always night,” as one says. Review: In ‘Good Luck,’ Miners in Serbia and Suriname Share a Cinematic Link 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The first half of the program reached its flashiest peak just after Ms. Wu and Mr. Bax romped through Brahms’s Hungarian Dance No. 5. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - Review 2011-09-27T20:58:03Z In the first half of the recital, Perahia conveyed a sense of pianistic perfection to a series of small pieces by Haydn, Mozart and Brahms. Pianist Murray Perahia scales the Everest of Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' in a momentous performance 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Her privileged life and her career as a prosecutor constitute a more complicated narrative than the one contemporary readers may expect of an African-American woman who lived during the first half of the 20th century. The Real-Life Heroine Who Inspired a Character on ‘Boardwalk Empire’ 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z The first half features their trademark macabre illusions, packed with invention, spectacle and the occasional eruption of blood and guts. This week's new live comedy 2012-06-01T23:06:09Z But a well-designed program showed off the group’s full range; Baroque repertory made up the first half, with a sequence of Romantic and contemporary pieces leading back to Bach in the second. Music Review: Visitors Lift Up Their Voices to Bach and More 2011-05-24T21:09:19Z The main work on the first half was Dvorak’s popular “New World” Symphony. Review: Alan Gilbert Leads One Last Dance in Central Park 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z In the first half, Anderson shares her own experience and how it led to the writing of “Speak.” Laurie Halse Anderson shocked readers with a book about rape. She’s at it again. 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Yes, that's a worry everywhere as the modern world figures out what to do, and Long Beach Opera abandons the first half of an opera evening. Suzan Hanson brings immediacy, authenticity to Long Beach Opera's 'La Voix Humaine' 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z The film is arguably better in its first half before JR goes to Yale. In George Clooney's coming-of-age flick "The Tender Bar," Ben Affleck provides the gooey center 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z As befits Nucky Thompson’s opulent digs, there was a lot of place-setting going on in the first half of the season. Taking It Personal: A Look Back at Boardwalk Empire Season Three 2012-12-05T15:27:34Z Emirates earlier this month posted a profit of $225 million for the first half of its fiscal year. Boeing gets $18 billion order for 777 2011-11-13T11:49:00Z What was the first half of Season 6 about? Robert Kirkman on ‘The Walking Dead,’ Glenn’s Story and the Arrival of Negan 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z I wished for the same tightness in the first half of the book, where West is trying to layer in too many anecdotes and pop-cultural references when her own opinions would suffice. Here Comes Lindy West, and She’s Holding a Broom 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Other women, particularly homeopaths, organized locally and focused on lay practice through the first half of the twentieth century. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z In the first half of the 20th century, coal was used to heat homes. Inventions can happen by accident. Play-Doh, penicillin and canned whipped cream are examples. 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z “The film’s first half is too slow and too long,” said Variety. Vertigo is not the last word in misogyny, but a feminist deconstruction of it 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The film's buoyant first half gives way to an episodic, slower third quarter that's decidedly light on needed twists and complications. 'Buen Dia, Ramon' conveys cheerful tidings 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z It helped that the first half of the program, especially, was squarely in his wheelhouse. Review | Elder, NSO put ‘worth’ in Butterworth 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z After all of the bristling energy of the first half of the program, the second half was Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” another feat of bristling energy of a rather different sort. Review | Bernstein, Slatkin and Slava: NSO looks to its past, brightly 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Teicher and company made space for that: After the first half, titled “The Show,” and an intermission, the band returned and audience members were invited to an onstage social dancing experience called “The Jam.” Review: Lindy Hopping Into the Present With Caleb Teicher and Co. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z The first half of the novel is a slow and steady building of trust. In This Genre-Bending Novel, You Better Believe the Monsters Are Real 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z But in making this point it loses its focus, with the result that it's hard to follow the individual lives, and the first half becomes little more than a diverting parade of toilet jokes. Thursday - review 2013-03-01T14:02:00Z The first half of the pub is a grocery. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z I even discovered one called Collusion, a word that reverberated through the political echo chamber for the first half of the year. Perspective | The 12 best bargain wines of the year will set you back as little as $10. How can you resist? 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z “This Is Us” ends the first half of Season 1 with a journey to a Christmas Eve past. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘This Is Us’ and ‘Barbara Walters Presents’ 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Then my husband sulked through the first half of breakfast as Bruce rudely monopolized her with a discussion of his symptoms. 2010-01-07T05:37:00Z Her flowing red gown in the first half, her shimmering cream one after intermission, her grand manner and her huge voice made her seem 10 feet tall. Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov raise roof in power operatic performance at the Broad Stage 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The first half of 2013 has been a slow period for Australian cinema, but MIFF’s bounty of local film premieres – 10 in total – should give the year's supply a shot in the arm. Melbourne international film festival 2013: 10 things to see and do 2013-07-24T02:23:00Z The first half is a cautiously dread-inducing tour de force as the suspicious interlopers parse the shiny, happy members for signs of a darker version of paradise. 'The Sacrament' proves to be a mystery 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z British television viewers sometimes remind me of the England football team that refused to enter the World Cup in the first half of the last century because they already knew they were the best. Is this a golden age for sitcoms? 2010-05-27T14:26:00Z Attendance at the Uffizi in Florence for the first half of the year is up almost 5 percent over last year. European Museums Straining Under Weight of Popularity 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z While the first half of his life had been dominated by backbreaking work, the second half was more contemplative. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z The first half is heavy on anger, a vicious map of accusation and vitriol levelled against her disloyal partner. Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” Is a Revelation of Spirit 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Of course, Chani is a major character in "Dune" by Frank Herbert, but since the movie only covers the first half of the book, she barely shows up. Zendaya promises she’ll have a bigger role in "Dune: Part 2" 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Where the first half of the book is brilliant, the second can be frustrating. G force 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The first half of the performance, the opera's prologue, was especially engaging. Small opera group offers engaging 'Ariadne' 2011-08-14T14:11:08Z This third season will cover the first half of George RR Martin's third book, A Storm Of Swords. TV highlights 01/04/2013 2013-04-01T05:59:02Z The earlier Prom, a replay of the Last Night of the 1910 season, seemed nigh-on interminable, with 11 short pieces in the first half alone. Ulster Orchestra/Watkins; BBCCO/Daniel 2010-09-06T11:05:00Z After the tumultuous events of the first half of 1968, the group returned to the airwaves with an anthem to the power of positive thinking. In the turmoil of 1968, music failed to seize the moment 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z I was able to get the ball in the pot a few times in the first half. Why LeBron James Is Failing in the Finals 2011-06-10T11:00:00Z Eight singers participated in the program whose first half was devoted to Gilbert and Sullivan and included five numbers from “The Mikado.” Music Review: ‘W. S. Gilbert and Broadway He Inspired’ at 92nd Street Y 2013-01-13T21:05:53Z ‘Summer Shorts Series A’ Exercises in ethics, and some plain old exercise, mark the first half of this “Summer Shorts” festival from 59E59. Theater Listings for Aug. 14-20 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z These energy spasms were welcome and necessary after heavy rains spoiled the first half of the day-long festival. Trillectro music festival proves it can keep up with the big boys The choir was the Mariisnky Theatre Chorus, whose idiomatic Russian was a bonus, but who often sounded oddly underwhelming in the Albert Hall in a first half comprised of intriguing rarities. Prom 22: BBC Philharmonic/Gianandrea Noseda ? review 2011-08-01T10:12:14Z There was spiky abstraction in the first half of the set, along with some poetry by Mr. Grimes, delivered with authoritative clarity by Ms. Myers. Vision Festival Celebrates Jazz, Both Past and Future 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The first half of Mr. Bocelli’s program was devoted to straightforward classical and opera selections. Music Review: Star Tenor Starts a Tour, Minus the Muppets 2010-12-03T17:16:00Z That would’ve been his title for the first half of the documentary. Treasure trove of George Harrison music unwrapped 2012-04-20T20:22:00Z Ms. Streep plays the title character, a real-life figure who was a patron of the arts in New York in the first half of the last century but also fancied herself a singer. Review: ‘Florence Foster Jenkins,’ Singing So Wretched It’s Legendary 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z For the first half of the concert, Goldfrapp played nine of the 10 songs on “Tales of Us,” omitting “Thea,” the one song on the album with a booming dance beat. Music Review: Goldfrapp Brings ‘Tales of Us’ to Beacon Theater 2013-09-11T21:10:00Z For the first half hour of its set, the band looked to be having some pretty serious monitor problems onstage. 5 Seconds of Summer strikes a punk pose at the Forum 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z A triangle is a sturdy shape, and it holds up well for the first half of this 75-minute play. Review: ‘Wide Awake Hearts’ and the ABC’s of Infidelity 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z This material has been hashed over many times in previous books, and in the first half of “The Recovering” Jamison brings little that’s new to this discussion. Leslie Jamison’s Memoir Finds Its Footing in Sobriety 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z He has also helped boost “This Week’s” ratings; it usually finishes second behind the first half of CBS’ “Face the Nation” but ahead of “Meet the Press” on NBC. Diane Sawyer steps down as ABC News anchor; Muir, Stephanopoulos take new roles The first half of the film is uplifting, but sensitive souls may need guidance when the film soon gives way to reality and how the ecosystem is threatened and delicately balanced. Something for everyone: The best movies to stream in April 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z But in the first half of Season 7, Betty's restlessness began to manifest itself in new, possibly healthier ways. Women of 'Mad Men' make a strong impression amid their fight for change 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z The first half is off-putting in other ways. Leslie Jamison’s Memoir Finds Its Footing in Sobriety 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z For the first half of the Santa Rosa Symphony program I sat in the middle of the orchestra section. Critic’s Notebook: Weill Hall at Sonoma State University 2012-10-02T22:15:15Z Especially in the first half, the program offered some of the Baroque era’s choicest morsels, including selections from “Orfeo” and from Lully’s “Phaeton.” ArtsBeat: Star-Studded Early Music in Toronto 2011-03-04T20:30:25Z The B-minor scherzo that finished the program’s first half offered tangles of feeling seen from a great height: It was up to the listener to undergo them, not the performer. Review | A pianist offers the shape of emotion and brilliance 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z But I want also to remember the first half of the Snowflakes’ waltz. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: A First Trip to the Apollo 2010-12-21T12:00:55Z What's off-putting, especially in the first half of the 90-minute piece, are some technical flubs and the undisciplined mugging and camping of the young ensemble/chorus, who cover a slew of minor roles. At ArtsWest: Andrew Jackson as hard-rocker-in-chief 2012-09-21T17:05:04Z All of these songs come on the first half of this album, which is impressively bracing. Critics? Choice: New From Etheridge, Roky Erickson and Jacky Terrasson 2010-04-25T22:18:00Z When the group walked onstage on Wednesday for the program’s first half, which consists of music only, the bounce in their steps was bracing. Review: Creating Contrasts With yMusic, Marcos Balter and Dance 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Her fear, exhaustion and ferocious maternal determination dominate the first half of the movie, and Ms. Watts moves through these emotional states with instinctive grace and an intensity that is never showy. Movie Review: ‘The Impossible,’ With Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor 2012-12-21T02:00:13Z Part espionage tale, part coming of age/coming out novel, Knecht’s narrative requires a lot of setup, which gives the first half of her story a cumbersome stop-and-start rhythm. Review | Forget about 007. This heroine has her own brand of spycraft. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Once we’re allowed into her mind, once we understand the kind of trauma that might drive a person to neediness, or to rage and vengeance, the first half becomes far darker. Love May Be Time’s Fool in Fates and Furies 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The nightmarish first half — set in a sludge-gray, off-the-grid prison with a portable human incinerator — unfolds with unnerving levels of patience. What Does It Mean to Live in Ukraine? Filmmakers Offer Their Answers. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z During the first half of the fall and winter season diggers will get 41 digging dates at Long Beach and Twin Harbors, 19 days at Mocrocks, and seven days at Copalis. Final approval of upcoming coastal razor clam digs to be announced soon 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The first half of the film is anchored by accounts of maltreatment, and also explores the uncomfortable history of eugenics in the United States; the second half looks at the modern-day push for justice. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Black Narcissus’ and ‘My Psychedelic Love Story’ 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z That is only the first half; and although the second part, showing the 18-year-old orphan exacting his revenge, is marginally less gripping, it is still powerfully moving. The Orphan of Zhao – review 2012-11-09T01:02:50Z The first half of season seven ended with Don saving himself once again, engineering the sale of SC&P to McCann-Erickson. Review: Mad Men's Time Machine Warms Up for Its Last Trip 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the museum assiduously bought, sometimes straight from artists’ studios, a type of American painting and sculpture known as geometric abstraction. Art Review | 'Constructive Spirit': History Lesson in Abstraction, Cutting Across the Americas 2010-02-19T05:50:00Z The actors now take turns reading from letters, transcripts and news accounts without milking the expressive techniques so gaily demonstrated in the first half of the play. Review: Peter Brook Asks the Ultimate Question in ‘Why?’ 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Tedious scenes of fighting in the first half of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, designed to prefigure that ending, come at the expense of fleshing out the character of Sharon Tate. Tarantino's gruesome revenge fantasies are growing more puerile and misogynistic | Caspar Salmon 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z In the first half of the year, the online travel planner Expedia found its air traffic rise 20 percent to Madrid and Barcelona, and 33 percent to Dublin. Where is Safe? Travelers Seek Havens in Wake of Europe Attacks 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z On the first half of the concert Thursday evening at David Geffen Hall, Janine Jansen was a radiant soloist in Brahms’s Violin Concerto, renewing that war horse with subtly ardent playing. Review: A Tale of Two Women at the New York Philharmonic 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z The two were equal partners in the first half of the program, where both Beethoven and Franck in their respective sonatas gave as great a role to the piano as to the violin. Itzhak Perlman, Rohan De Silva performed in perfect partnership | Classical review 2013-02-20T17:30:17Z And then I spent another 30 to 40 minutes with it at the Hammer this month, where I caught the first half hour of "Dr. Oz." Object Lesson: Robert Heinecken's filtered television at the Hammer 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Included on the program’s first half were four delectably folksy trifles for string quartet by Tsintsadze, a Georgian cellist and composer who died in 1991. Music Review: Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert - Review 2011-12-19T23:04:37Z Ms. Groom, the curator, has done her best work in the first half of the show, which she has staged mostly in a single large gallery that allows for cunning juxtapositions. Gauguin: It’s Not Just Genius vs. Monster 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z The first half was a delight and the cast did its best to work with what is a tired plot line. Review: ‘Anastasia,’ a Russian Princess With an Identity Crisis 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z The ramifications of this poverty are everywhere apparent in the play’s first half, set in 2008 in a ramshackle hut with scattered bedding on the ground and no modern conveniences whatsoever. At La Jolla Playhouse, 'Last Tiger in Haiti' still finding its footing 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Much like last week’s episode, “18 Miles Out” began at a frenzied clip, this time with the kind of zombie swarming scene we haven’t seen since Shane sacrificed Otis in this season’s first half. The Walking Dead Watch: 18 Miles Out 2012-02-27T13:45:51Z This former ABC series changes its channel and its tune in this sneak preview of the first half of its two-hour Season 5 premiere. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Nashville’ on CMT, and Jingle Ball 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Shooting wraps up in the first half of August. Seattle provides a backdrop for new film about 2001 City Council race 2010-07-30T05:38:00Z Denk’s reading was impressionistic rather than forceful, and for the first half the whole orchestra sounded rather muddy and indistinct in a piece that should be neither. At a moment of transition, NSO offers the old-new: 20th-century classical works 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Musical-theater lovers whose affections stop short of absolute obsession will find much pleasure and more food for thought in the first half of “Look, I Made a Hat.” Books of The Times: ?Look, I Made a Hat,? Stephen Sondheim Lyrics - Review 2011-12-08T23:09:14Z "After a shocker in 2011 and a poor first half in 2012, the celebrities are making a comeback this autumn," he said. Jamie Oliver tops Christmas book charts 2012-12-18T16:27:20Z It never fully recovers from the fact that the dramatic highlight – Morton's cruelly forensic cross-examination of the boy, Ronnie – happens in the first half. The Winslow Boy – review 2013-03-20T18:47:25Z Through Anning, Ray Davies darts through the first half of Britain’s 20th century. How the Kinks turned a British history lesson into a rock masterpiece that still resonates 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The first half of each program is informal, as artists describe their inspiration to the audience, and the second half features the complete work. Dance Review: Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith Explain Their Work ‘O(h)’ 2014-03-02T23:10:48Z James Conlon, conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, was unable to disguise the fact that the first half sprawls. El Ni?o 2010-08-16T08:45:00Z The first half of thedrama ranked third on the list of most streamed non-English shows the week that it was released. From Chris Rock live to a Waco siege docuseries, here's what's new on Netflix in March 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z If the production’s first half is more captivating than the second, it’s because the music is more alluring. After another brave attempt, Sondheim-Furth musical 'Merrily We Roll Along' remains a rutted road 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Luckily the first half of 2013 brings both an interesting array of new shows and the much-anticipated return of some old favorites. Girls, games and golden boys: what to watch on US TV in 2013 2013-01-04T16:14:02Z As the exhibition title suggests, the prints are from the Shin-Hanga, or “new prints,” movement of the first half of the 20th century. View Stunning Japanese Woodblock Landscapes at the Chrysler Museum in Virginia 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z This all played out in the first half of June. The Supreme Court's John Roberts Changed His Obamacare Vote in May 2012-07-01T17:01:02Z Graeber hopes the first half of the 21st century will see a similar shift. The Democracy Project: a History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber – review 2013-03-28T16:10:18Z Rogers’s Tony-winning play about secret peace talks between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization that led to the Oslo Accords during the first half of the 1990s. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Oslo’ and Specials Honoring George Floyd 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Toscanini spent the first half of his long career immersed in opera, working tirelessly in Italian houses. Gustavo Dudamel Hasn’t Conducted Much Opera. That’s OK. 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z The next guide, with star rankings, is set to be published in the first half of 2022. Casa Dani, From a Celebrated Spanish Chef, Opens in Manhattan West 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z His life, which spanned the first half of the 20th century, was largely unheralded. John Singer Sargent’s Secret Muse 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z After Mr. Stram’s smiling Ives has receded, Ms. Nowlin barrels into view, in coaching attire, and proceeds to browbeat her team — the audience — for their poor performance in the first half of a game. Theater Review: Rattlestick Stages New ‘Charles Ives Take Me Home’ 2013-06-14T02:00:02Z Tim Blake Nelson, as the slack-jawed family patriarch, sports a hideous set of prosthetic gums that for the first half of the film render him almost completely incomprehensible. Cannes Film Festival 2013 2013-05-21T19:48:29Z In the first half of 2014, eight Hollywood films debuted in China the same day as they opened in the U.S., compared with just three in the first half of 2013. China box office grows 22% in first half of 2014 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z The first half of Jenkins’ picture has a quietly pleasurable power, largely because at that point it seems to be trying to bust the expected template. Can We Build a Better Blockbuster? Wonder Woman Points a Way Forward 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z In a way, “Undun” sounds like a continuation of the brooding first half of “How I Got Over.” Album review: The Roots, 'Undun' 2011-12-02T16:25:00Z More than 40 years after their breakup, the Beatles managed to top one chart during the first half. Adele, Lady Gaga power music recovery 2011-07-07T01:47:16Z The first half of that statement is honourable, the second makes it sound like he wants to be, erm, an honorary black man. The Quentin Tarantino race debate isn't black and white 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z An installation focused on domestic life in the first half of the 1800s features agricultural implements, ceramics, housewares, recipes and more. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction Opening in the wake of Bannon’s departure from the White House, the movie spends much of its first half following the impish figure as he takes his newfound celebrity on the road. "The Brink" review: Steve Bannon finally looks like a loser — Sundance 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z It was packed with oddities and surprises, most notably three sonatas by Dario Castello, a remarkably inventive but virtually unknown composer who flourished in Venice during the first half of the 17th century. ArtsBeat: Early Music Festival: Quicksilver at Night 2011-06-17T14:20:15Z The first half of the 28-board final featured many difficult deals. Bridge: Tough Deals Aplenty at Grand Nationals in Atlanta 2013-08-04T21:25:28Z In the book's first half, the reader comes to know Lotto's vanity and his confidence in the world as he has narrated it. Lauren Groff's 'Fates and Furies' turns the struggles of marriage into art 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Tourist revenue in the first half of 2014 was $3 billion, down 25 percent from a year earlier, the government said in August. Egypt tourism could fully recover in 2015: minister 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z The first half of the film is dedicated to stories of what the 90s generation went through. Get on one, comrade! The story of Russia’s post-Soviet rave scene 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z That could have sufficed for the recital’s first half. Review: Dvorak’s ‘Poetic Tone Pictures’ Makes Its Carnegie Debut 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Jack himself attributes the "muddled first half" of Love Never Dies to its assorted book writers. Blood, sweat and tears can still produce great musicals | Response 2010-03-30T23:05:00Z In the first half of the pilot, the origins of their meeting are relayed by Noah to someone who seems to be a police officer, anxious to know how "the whole mess" began. A taut, gripping inquiry into 'The Affair' 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Eliot once declared that Paul Valéry “will remain for posterity the representative poet . . . of the first half of the twentieth century — not Yeats, not Rilke, not anyone else.” Review | On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth, a celebration of verse 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z By the end of the show’s first half, which takes place in mostly in bars and boîtes in 1920s Paris, those sounds will be clinging to your mind like cigar smoke. | 'The Sun Also Rises (The Select)': For Whom the Glass Is Always Half-Empty 2010-09-16T22:25:00Z No matter how pleasing the product, tasting-room marathons tend to get a little dull after the first half dozen sips. T Magazine: Baja Fresh 2012-11-15T20:00:49Z “We read a lot about women freezing their eggs, but that’s only one half of the story: the first half, where there is still hope and optimism.” Hope or hype? The chilling truth about freezing your eggs 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z But the capacity crowd — perhaps thirsty for lightness after the heavy first half — drank it up. Review: George Shangrow memorial added to Seattle chamber fest's Eastside opener 2010-08-05T20:34:00Z In the "Last at Bat" tour, Meat Loaf will perform his greatest hits in the first half of the show such as "Dead Ringer for Love" and "I'd Lie For You". Meat Loaf says he really is on his final tour 2013-04-02T11:02:33Z This was one of the artistic triumphs of the first half of the 20th century. Behind Picasso’s Curtain, the Ballet That Got Away 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The first half of the record is shot through with dread about the modern age, with Butler lamenting the palliatives — television, medication, algorithmic-generated content — that don’t seem to make us any happier. How Arcade Fire Found a Way Back 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z I think the U.S. will get a goal in first half, then the game will open up. Inside The USA Vs. Slovenia Matchup 2010-06-17T23:00:00Z I might go a little further: The first half of the movie treads the boundary between mildly irritating and completely unbearable. Review: ‘The Walk,’ High-Wire Bravado at World Trade Center 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z It is too long, particularly in the first half of what the company describe as "explicable exposition expounded", but it has a driving energy. Oedipussy ? review 2012-02-09T17:55:01Z Crais, one of the masters of modern crime fiction, unwinds his plot slowly at first, devoting the first half of the book to developing the relationship between the two damaged but determined partners. Review: Robert Crais' `Suspect' is action-packed 2013-01-22T17:46:06Z The Wagner was a substitute for Strauss's Four Last Songs that went unexplained, though perhaps the Strauss would have overemphasised a certain valedictory theme that seemed to run through the first half. William Lyne birthday gala – review 2012-11-30T17:56:42Z Dard Hunter, an Ohio-born acolyte of the Arts and Crafts movement, spent much of the first half of the 20th century proselytizing on behalf of meticulously handcrafted papers. Can a Papermaker Help to Save Civilization? 2012-02-17T21:39:00Z But I always think it's interesting to examine what the first half of the year looks like, and later to compare it to the second half. Halfway through 2012: Your favorites? 2012-06-26T17:34:18Z More thoughtful analysts note that as a U.S. colony in the first half of the 20th century, the Philippines assimilated countless American traits, including our primary language. At long last, Filipino food arrives. What took it so long? 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z All but two of the cities on our list saw above-average rates of population growth in the first half of the last decade. Tomorrow's Real Estate Trouble Spots 2010-04-27T17:00:00Z He insisted Saturday he'll be back next year when Fox resumes coverage of the first half of the season. Jeff Gordon interested in joining 'Live' with Kelly Ripa 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z “They were Arabs from Yemen during the first half of the 11th century,” she said of the original settlers and rulers, who arrived at the time of the Moorish occupation of Andalusia, in neighboring Spain. The Other Algarve 2013-07-19T16:35:02Z Concert promotion giant Live Nation Entertainment says ticket sales for the Top 100 bands are down 12 percent in the first half of the year. Live Nation says ticket sales down 12 percent 2010-07-15T17:39:00Z All that said, the first half of Season 5 is perfectly fine. Review: ‘Arrested Development’ Chases Its Past, Slowly 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Its first half is abstract, theoretical: an exploration of the meaning and means of theater itself. Review: Peter Brook Asks the Ultimate Question in ‘Why?’ 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The first half of that list is below. Upstream Music Fest lineup announced — and it’s huge 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Ms. Wang, who changed from a short black dress she wore in the first half of the program to a long lime-green one, seemed determined to inject some energy into the proceedings after intermission. Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang Play Brahms and Respighi 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z When she asked him to elaborate on the troubles his team had been facing in the first half, he would answer only with one word, “Turnovers.” In Praise of Doris Burke, Basketball’s Best TV Analyst 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Much Mexican music of the first half of the 20th century was dominated by a national identity rooted in the rural. Juan Gabriel was a songwriter who knew how to channel the struggles of modern life and the hurt of the wounded 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z In addition to postwar art, the collection includes plein air, Social Realist and important early Modern paintings from the first half of the 20th century, especially in Southern California. A storied art collection shrouded in mystery will anchor new UC Irvine museum 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z But in the first half of this season, she’s often faded into the background of the struggle between Nucky and Jimmy and the Commodore. Boardwalk Empire Watch: Do the Right Thing 2011-11-07T13:07:05Z "While the second half was quite good, I thought the first half was boring," said Lee Dong-ju, 23, an office worker. Heroic tale of 'The Admiral: Roaring Currents' is a hit in South Korea 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Edmundson devotes the first half of “Self and Soul” to several ancient exemplars of courage, compassion and contemplation, to those who, rejecting a safe and secure passage through life, consecrated themselves to some greater task. ‘Self and Soul’: Mark Edmundson’s biting critique of modern complacency 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z But even with the differences between the two halves, the emotional temperature is never totally clear-cut: There is a sense of spectacle in the spiritual first half, and peace within the storm of the second. Review: In New Batsheva Work, Dance It Once. Then Repeat With Variations. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z It implies that theatre just isn't a fulfilling enough experience in itself, and prompts memories of distractingly disengaged seat neighbours who sat lazily digesting through a first half or loudly rumbling through a second. Have you got the guts for an edible performance? 2011-01-31T18:29:33Z The first half of Saturday’s program comprised three disparate works for violin, clarinet and piano composed within 15 years of one another, from 1910 to 1925. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2012-10-09T22:16:43Z The Illinois State Board of Education warned that a similar payment scheduled for the first half of June also will fall short. Quinn: Sales tax windfall could pay for schools 2012-02-28T22:47:00Z But the first half is more precisely observed and, of course, acidly opinionated. ArtsBeat: Page-Turners for the Presidential Campaign 2012-01-11T15:43:32Z The first half of the concert reminded you of Mr. Branca’s achievement on paper. Review: Glenn Branca’s Symphonies Resound With the Power of the Here and Now 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z He was with the writers of “Black-ish,” on ABC, for the first half of the first season before decamping to “The Nightly Show.” Larry Wilmore’s big night: Late night’s elder statesman steps up in tonight’s career-defining role 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z The stock charge is that a punchy first half is followed by a preachy second. Into the Woods 2010-08-17T22:30:00Z Rzewski took the stage for the first half, playing two recent solo works, “Winter Nights” and “Flowers.” Pianist Frederic Rzewski, Del Sol Quartet perform at Library of Congress 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Belafonte sings the first half nearly a cappella with his voice leaping like a field holler, punctuated by choked guitar chords like sledgehammer strokes. Work, Love, Dignity and Play: 10 Key Harry Belafonte Songs 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The first half dispenses exposition in a cumbersome manner. 'Merchant of Venice' set in post-Civil War America? That's Aaron Posner's 'District Merchants' 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z This slick documentary about the mixed martial arts fighter Michael Bisping spends a lot of its first half putting up a kind of cinematic “Tough Guys Only” sign. ‘Bisping: The Michael Bisping Story’ Review: An M.M.A. Fighter Speaks Out 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z The play, based on Mark Haddon's 2003 award-winning novel, was nominated for eight awards and picked up several in the first half of the glitzy awards ceremony at London's Royal Opera House. Helen Mirren crowned top actress at top UK theatre awards 2013-04-28T19:03:10Z The result is a really decent revival, but not a thrilling or distinctive one, although after a slow first half the production does finally burst into vivid, raging life just as Willy is slipping away. Death of a Salesman 2010-05-07T21:35:00Z This sensibility is a perfect match for “The Color Purple,” a portrait of African-American women coming into their own in rural Georgia during the first half of the 20th century. Review: ‘The Color Purple’ on Broadway, Stripped to Its Essence 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z At the end of the first half of the show, he made a joke about his hair, so I thought, “OK, now he has made the joke, so I can go ahead.” Q&A: Jane Lynch, ‘Hollywood Game Night’ 2014-01-31T23:48:54Z That’s Edgar — the dutiful son of Gloucester and duped brother of the ambitious, illegitimate Edmund — whose shucked self is allowed to end this production’s first half and begin its second. Theater Review: Frank Langella, Roaring at Defiance in ‘King Lear’ 2014-01-17T03:00:02Z He was such a multihyphenate talent in the first half of the last century. Richard E. Grant on sex, power and playing an entitled man similar to the "Teflon-coated" Trump 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z There are sly references to the debate in the first scene of “Kanata — Episode 1 — The Controversy,” but the first half of the production sets up promising characters. Review: In Robert Lepage’s ‘Kanata,’ the Director, Too, Plays the Victim 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Through the first half of the 19th century, wealthy New Yorkers lived in private houses. ArtsBeat: Life in the Rivers, Streets and Skylines of American Cities 2013-06-27T19:23:37Z Mr. Li’s impressive technique served him well in Beethoven’s “Appassionata” sonata, which concluded the first half of the program. Music Review: George Li, Pianist at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-11-02T22:39:01Z For the first half of a new book, maybe you want your back against the wall. T Magazine: The Writer’s Room 2014-02-14T17:37:13Z The first half of the show features performers in identical, gold body suits, slithering on the ground and representing the masses. Cirque du Soleil brings the circus to Africa 2011-03-10T15:31:05Z In the first half, the love story is pleasantly engaging. 2010-02-05T18:55:00Z Hemon calls it all back in the first half of his book, beginning often with an object, sometimes a lost object. Nowhere man 2013-02-23T08:00:16Z The space was not unlike that of many homes built in the first half of the 20th century: a chopped-up, semi-finished dark place. A flood pushed this family to create its dream basement, spa included 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z For the first half of the summer, entertainment will consist of comedy shows, and the indoor club will be sit-down only. Is the Montauk Party Over? 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z The first half of the novel recounts Pasha’s two trips to Brooklyn, one year apart. ‘Panic in a Suitcase’ by Yelena Akhtiorskaya 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z The concert’s first half was disjointed, shifting styles and attitudes seemingly at random. Review: Lady Gaga, the Flashy Provocateur, Battles Lady Gaga, the Raw Voice 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z We put that onscreen, and we don't shy away from the fact that our female leads in the first half of the show are coerced and manipulated into doing the will of adult men. "House of the Dragon" will not "depict sexual violence" 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z It didn’t hurt that the mix in the great hall was vastly improved, the tepid mulch of the first half replaced by a sharper clarity in the second. Concert review: Bryan Ferry at the Civic Opera House 2011-10-12T06:03:00Z It worked, and Transport Minister German Cardona pledged to invest about $21 million to pave the first half of the road. Not just in the movies: In “Chi-raq” the sex strike is effective — in real life, well, it’s complicated 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The first half liter of it sold in an online auction for 4,150 pounds to a collector of special whiskies. Strange brews as UK whisky distillers cash in on gin boom 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z In the first half of the year the company reported rising sales, profit and income. Prada plays with classic clothing cliches to create contemporary looks 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Morlot says he’s following an early 20th century model of programming, where the weightier fare — usually a symphony — is on the first half of the program and the lighter fare is on the second half. Composer Elliott Carter’s symphonic gift for the SSO 2013-01-31T23:01:18Z The first half of the massive Upstream Music Fest + Summit lineup includes some names you already know, and others you’ll discover. Upstream Music Fest lineup announced — and it’s huge 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z In the first half of 2012, I threw myself into working all day, every day, on a book called “The Infinite Wait and Other Stories.” My happiness is worth more than fart jokes 2014-02-02T01:00:00Z Within its first half hour the sparkling, if somewhat message heavy, “Roseanne” reboot touches on every major social problem in America today, including the one resulting from the recent presidential election. A ‘Roseanne’ for Our Times 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The first half presents the story as a kind of dumbshow. 'The Tempest Replica': dazzling dance, stage wizardry in Seattle 2012-10-24T19:31:05Z Some of the same brilliance that marked the Mahler shone in Beethoven's Emperor Concerto in the first half. LPO/N?zet-S?guin - review 2011-01-21T18:05:38Z The 1987 novel won the Booker Prize and is now shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker Prize, an award for the best title in the prestigious competition’s first half century. Review | What got lost in one writer’s garden 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z The ensemble opened the first half of the program with Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro” Overture and the second half with Verdi’s “Luisa Miller” Overture. Music Review | Sondra Radvanovsky and Dmitri Hvorostovsky: Sondra Radvanovsky and Dmitri Hvorostovsky at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-02T22:01:00Z This set of episodes continues plot arcs from the first half of the season, including a missing person investigation and an attempt to build a wall on the Mexican border. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Arrested Development’ and ‘I Am Richard Pryor’ 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The first half of the evening is devoted to performing his new album, All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu, in its chronological entirety – and as a "song cycle" during which clapping is forbidden. Rufus Wainwright 2010-04-14T22:00:00Z But the evening’s highlight was the first half, which consisted of nine excerpts from Ms. Cash and Mr. Leventhal’s musical adaptation of “Norma Rae,” the 1979 paean to unionization that earned Sally Field an Oscar. What Makes a Songbook American? Justin Vivian Bond and Rosanne Cash Have a Few Answers 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The controversy over the handling of Elian's future takes up just over the first half of the documentary, and it's telling is pretty stylish. HBO's "537 Votes" uses the Florida recount to explain American politics' descent into bloodsport 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z The filmmakers spend the first half of the movie introducing the town of Bacurau; they drop you in the middle of it — without an evident story — then nose around its streets and secrets. ‘Bacurau’ Review: Life and Death in a Small Brazilian Town 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Experts say Thanksgiving fares are usually least costly in September or the first half of October. It’s Not Too Late to Save on Holiday Airfares 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z A posting on the website said the Pottermore Shop would not open until the first half of 2012, later than expected. UK studio tour aims to conjure Harry Potter magic 2011-10-02T23:14:12Z Brahms's Four Piano Pieces, Op 119 closed a pensive first half, the first Intermezzo full of descending steps sliding like rain down a window, the closing Rhapsodie playful but still dark in mood. Murray Perahia ? review 2011-04-03T21:45:01Z Now, nobody's saying, `Hey, Russ is singing two songs in the first half and I'm not,' or `the light wasn't on me.' Real 'Jersey Boys' to embark on national tour 2012-05-15T07:02:09Z The first half was all Francis Poulenc; the Clarinet Sonata, the Élégie for Horn and Piano, and the Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano. Review | Ensemble 4.1 dazzles at Phillips concert series 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z While Yamashita's buoyant sense of humor and wicked wordplay are fully on display with these Austen tributes, it's a treat that is made sweeter by first traipsing through the first half of the collection. The best and boldest new must-read books for May 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z It was also a callous one, which the movie’s first half overlooks a little, as various surviving habitués of the club bathe in a warm nostalgic glow in interviews. Review: Against the Odds, ‘Studio 54’ Sheds Light on the Club 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The first half of the recital concluded with a highly expressive, poised reading of Beethoven’s Sonata No. 31 in A flat, whose Adagio sounded particularly lovely. Music Review: Christian Zacharias, Pianist, at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-15T22:43:05Z She spends the first half of the day sobering up from the night before. Got Sober. Got Married. Got Shafted. 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z In the first half, each masterful chapter focuses on one of Rosaleen’s children at a different time. Anne Enright draws a rich, Irish family saga in ‘The Green Road’ 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z But it's true that a lot of bands from the first half of this century, contemporaries of Arctic Monkeys, didn't become the headliners they promised to be. US veterans dominate summer festivals in year of the reunion 2010-04-06T17:50:00Z The first half, the physical transformation felt pretty standard for my own physique. Why "Big George Forman" star Khris Davis refused to wear a fat suit 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z The first half strategically reveals episodes from Moses’ dark past, and establishes his relationships with his eccentric fellow islanders as they pressure him to take the buyout. New Books by Yasmina Reza, Michael Crummey and Megan Mayhew Bergman 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z The first half of the Nov. 13 back-to-back episodes actually includes an onscreen message that Spilo received an official warning from producers. From "Survivor" to D.C., women are showing up strong on TV, but does patriarchal America care? 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z While providing a panoramic view of the Sienese arts of the late 14th and first half of the 15th century, the show is somewhat overwhelming, the captions and wall panels offering inadequate guidance. Review: A Sculptural Showcase in Siena 2010-06-18T15:30:00Z Still, there’s much we can glean already from the first half of “Dragon,” from “Thrones” and from Martin’s other books without spoiling the series too much. ‘House of the Dragon’: Is Larys Strong the New Littlefinger? 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z On the other, black men loiter silently, their nonengagement with the women enforced by a weary security guard and an unwritten code that Teresa spends the first half of “Paradise: Love” learning. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Love,’ First in a Trilogy Directed by Ulrich Seidl 2013-04-25T23:55:47Z The first half of the program was Minimalism of the mostly meditative variety but still all over the place. To introduce a newly discovered John Cage work, CalArts makes much of 'Minimalism means' 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Rachel Shteir quotes Kerouac’s sentence prominently in “The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting,” her new book, which is prickly and intelligent in its first half before collapsing, like a heat-stricken marathoner, in its second. Books of The Times: Sticky Fingers, Used in Service of a Covetous Nature 2011-06-28T21:45:44Z The first half of the special is strong, filled with surprising bursts of dark poetry and strange characters, like a postman in Europe who buries the mail of an entire town. Four Stand-Up Specials That Punch Above Their Weight 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Relayed through letters and notes in the first half, and Laura’s voice-over in the second, the many micro-stories that make up the narrative seem to take on lives of their own, crisscrossing and diverging unexpectedly. ‘Trenque Lauquen’ Review: Lose Yourself 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The first half of the program was dedicated to that history. Dance Review: The Sacred Art and Ritual of Hawaiian Hula Warm Up a Cold Night 2011-03-27T22:07:04Z The first half of this book is an agonizing slog. Books of The Times: Barbara Ehrenreich’s ‘Living With a Wild God’ 2014-04-15T13:00:01Z “Grey’s Anatomy,” more than other U.S. medical drama, demonstrated the toll of COVID-19 on patients, health workers and the public in storylines across the first half of season 17. As ‘Grey’s’ returns, Wilson says it has connected viewers 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Proceedings were briefly interrupted at the end of the first half when Lee's old pal, the comedian Richard Herring, invaded the stage ripping up Lee's book. Laminated loneliness of the blind author 2010-08-20T18:09:00Z All this action unfolds in the film’s leisurely first half hour, at which point the drama kicks in. With “The Salesman,” Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi creates another spellbinding domestic drama 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Joy's confinement is elegantly rendered by Van den Berg in the first half of "Find Me." Laura van den Berg's 'Find Me' captures a memorable apocalypse 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z His is the kind of talent that provided the yeast for the blossoming of the Broadway musical in the first half of the last century. Nathan Lane, Hamming It Up As Few Can 2010-05-26T17:15:00Z After teasing the audience with an arthouse-inflected diffusion of narrative for its first half, “Clean” goes full grindhouse in the second. ‘Clean’ Review: Taking Out the Trash 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z The first half of “Stew” is dominated by comic broad strokes and rapid-fire dialogue as the characters banter with practiced zest. Review: ‘Stew’ Takes Deeper Emotions Off the Back Burner 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Played in succession in the concert’s first half, works by those composers proved that “Latin American” is useless as an indication of style. Music Review: American Composers Orchestra Presents ‘Border Vanguards’ 2014-04-07T20:43:21Z The first half of the film covers the immediate aftermath of the attack—the tears, the recriminations, and the eventual collaring of a culprit, Pavel Dmitrichenko, a dancer with a grudge. The Power Plays at the Bolshoi, On Film 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z At the interval, before the quintet, it was hard to imagine anything more musically compelling than the superbly textured performance of Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht sextet that occupied the first half of the concert. Janine Jansen string sextet ? review 2012-05-18T10:37:27Z A haunting first half can’t offset the absurd ending of “I Think We’re Alone Now,” a post-apocalyptic tale with a late plot twist that feels as if it comes out of left field. Review: ‘I Think We’re Alone Now’ Finds Peter Dinklage at the End of His World 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z The first half of the book is a true crime story told through primary-source documents. Lincoln’s assassination: Terrorist plot or crackpot conspiracy? 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z This is religion not as sense but as sensory charisma, and during the first half of the show, Kay exposes its dangerous appeal. Rosie Kay Dance Company – review 2013-03-15T17:33:37Z The first half of the book belongs to Simon’s parents, who must adapt to the unimaginable. Review: ‘The Heart’ Offers Portraits in the Race to an Organ Transplant 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Its first half performs an erudite vaudeville routine, in prose so unrelentingly pregnant that it ends up effete. Final Demands by Frederic Raphael 2010-04-17T23:10:00Z David Krauss, the Met’s principal trumpet, said in an interview: “There was some tension in the first half of the first rehearsal back. And by the second half, it was back to business as usual.” Yannick Nézet-Séguin Is New York’s Conductor Now 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z In a blog posting on the site Friday, "Pottermore" management said registration would be open to everyone from the end of October, and the online store would open in "the first half of 2012." Harry Potter e-book sales postponed until 2012 2011-09-30T20:29:08Z The best passage shows how the modernising autocracy of Shah Mohammed Reza – brutal, cynical, in a desperate hurry – all but overran even traditional Iranian towns in the first half of the 1970s. The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah | Book review 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z The book’s first half, Scenes from a Marriage, is narrated in the third person and takes the form of a diary. I Love Dick: the book about relationships everyone should read 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z In the first half of the work, the opposing groups move toward consensus; in the second, they split apart. Elliott Carter, Composer of the Avant-Garde, Dies at 103 2012-11-06T03:06:19Z In this, his third collection, Kirsch reflects on the work of August Sander, the German photographer whose haunting portraits captured the people and tensions in his homeland during the first half of the 20th century. Poets reflect on Ferguson, Obama, war and matters of the heart 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Read more here In our critics’ opinions, these are the best shows of the first half of 2016. The best TV of 2016 so far 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z With “The Runaway,” a lot of people talk about Kanye, but the first half is classical music. Kyle Abraham Wants You to See Another Side of Misty Copeland 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z On Monday, the Recording Industry Association of America released sales numbers for the first half of the year. The Weeknd Dominates Billboard Chart, and Streaming Is Surging 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z The novel’s title and first half describe the last moments of Leila’s consciousness as she crosses from life into death. After Her Heart Stops Beating, a Woman Continues to Think 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Nearly all examples of opera seria composed during the first half of the 18th century, including Handel’s, are mostly constructed from “da capo” building blocks. Is This the Best Opera Singer You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z And withholding her, in much of the novel’s first half, makes a point that perhaps does not need such lengthy elaboration. “Fleishman Is in Trouble” Turns the Marriage Novel Inside-Out 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z "My life is half over and I played a sloppy first half, man." Chicago sound familiar to 'Mike & Molly' star 2011-06-02T15:16:00Z Ordinarily, when the first half of a piano recital consists of two substantial works such as Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue followed by Beethoven's A flat Sonata Op 110, it demands full critical focus. Angela Hewitt – review 2013-05-08T16:37:00Z You may combine two first halves or second halves, or put a second half first in your new word. Style Invitational Week 1078: Hyphen the Terrible — neologisms plus winning parodies Serious news and politics dominate the show's first half. Fox News' hit `The Five' marks 2-year milestone 2013-07-08T18:02:25Z Ford got away with only being semi-kakutanied as, while declaring Canada "deeply flawed", she called its American first half "strong and persuasive". Critical eye: reviews roundup 2012-06-15T21:55:16Z Earlier this year, Cillian Murphy told me how he, Hemsworth and Holland spent the first half of filming learning to row, getting muscular in the process. Thar she blows! Cinema's most spectacular whale hunts 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z And that's saying something considering that the first episode features a pro-sports celebrity who ends up being the funniest thing about the series – and he's gone after the first half hour. Showtime's "Moonbase 8" has all the right stuff for glory but never gets off the ground 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z The great Flemish painter who dominated European art in the first half of the 17th century was sociable and connected, charming and erudite. Review | Rubens had it all — fame, fortune, good looks. But you can’t hate him. 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z The program will not, as one would expect, present Vivaldi’s complete “Four Seasons” in the first half followed by post-intermission Piazolla. Send 2016 on its way with ‘Four Seasons,’ Seattle Symphony and 2 tango dancers 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z The first half, which starts Sunday, is basically a prelude. Review: ‘The Comey Rule’ and What a Fool Believes 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Most of this production’s excitements, like that scene, are in the first half. Theater Review : ‘Richard III’ Emerges Outdoors on the Lower East Side 2013-08-06T19:47:32Z That backdrop sets the tone, too, for the two pieces in the program’s first half: “When the Wolves Came In” and “Hallowed.” Kyle Abraham’s Abraham.In.Motion Echoes a Max Roach Album 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Mary dominated the first half of the 20th century. Tops in tags: Noah, Sophia are favorite baby names 2014-05-10T04:00:00Z Questions of what he knows about and wants from the odd, triangular Durant family form the central tensions of the book’s first half, while the second revolves around what, exactly, there is to know. Megan Abbott’s Latest Crime Thriller Links Ballet and Sex 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z For the first half, not much happens: his dreampop-meets-indiepop chugs along pleasantly enough, with the lovely Move Out recalling the early Teenage Fanclub. Banjo or Freakout: Banjo or Freakout ? review 2011-02-17T21:59:01Z After the first half's wistful look at lost friends and family, the second half of Vendange Tardive scowls at the diminution of daily existence by sensationalist journalism, climate change, politics and oil. Vendange Tardive by Peter Reading - review 2011-03-05T00:07:13Z The charms of the first half of the evening were overt and readily accessible. Review: Passel of Frenchmen fit into symphony's evening 2010-06-11T18:48:00Z The first half of the season was about wanting to change, and deciding to change. 'Mad Men's' Matthew Weiner discusses 'bittersweet' midseason finale 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z This is the first half of the season finale for Fox's big singing competition. TV Picks: 'American Idol,' 'Dancing with the Stars' 2012-05-21T19:07:04Z According to Nielsen “Scandal” is the highest rated scripted drama among African-Americans, with 10.1 percent of black households, or an average of 1.8 million viewers, tuning in during the first half of the season. ‘Scandal’ on ABC Is Breaking Barriers 2013-01-16T23:09:54Z But the works in the first half of the concert showed that despite their commonalities, their musical styles diverge widely. 2010-02-16T22:01:00Z Musical director and keyboardist Jake Null anchors a small, flexible orchestra comprising guitar, bass and drums driving the rowdy first half of the show, plus violin and cello prying open your heart in act two. Musical ‘Dogfight’ has bite, while ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ lacks affection 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z That all takes place in the first half of the film, which is engaging. Review: In ‘Twinsters,’ Separated-at-Birth Twins Tell Their Own Story 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Very few of the songs on “untitled,” especially in its first half, have much in the way of the traditional verse-chorus-verse structure. Kendrick Lamar’s Latest Restless Innovation 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z Still, I miss the brave Mom who was my hero for the first half of my life. Ask Amy: Professionally it’s best to protect for the downside 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z The evening's first half, if rather curiously programmed, displayed his fierce energy and fine sense of colour and dynamics. RLPO/Rivas ? review 2012-05-18T16:42:08Z Instead, the first half of Mr. Trifonov’s recital, comprising short works by Stravinsky, Debussy and Ravel, was almost entirely concerned with color. Music Review: Daniil Trifonov Returns to Carnegie Hall 2014-02-07T22:28:20Z The first half is the more interesting, suggesting that Mr. Goldman writes better about himself than about Mexico City. ‘The Interior Circuit,’ by Francisco Goldman 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z The Bournonville technique — developed at the Royal Danish Ballet in the first half of the 19th century — is particularly difficult for any dancer not brought up in that tradition. The Trocks, an All-Male Dance Troupe, Balance Camp and Skill 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z The first half is set in Terezín in the present-day Czech Republic. The Devil's Workshop by Jáchym Topol – review 2013-07-05T15:00:01Z Mr. Hübbe trained and spent the first half of his career at the Copenhagen company before joining City Ballet in 1992. ArtsBeat Blog: H?bbe Signs On for Five More Years at Royal Danish Ballet 2011-10-14T15:30:39Z Those qualities characterised the two sonatas in the first half of his programme, Mozart's D major work K284, and the earliest of the three in A minor that Schubert produced, D537. Francesco Piemontesi – review 2012-11-08T17:26:49Z There are clearly two main talking points in the first half. TV review: UEFA Champions League Final: Bayern Munich v Chelsea 2012-05-20T15:00:02Z The show’s first half highlights artists who work with public records to disclose conspiratorial networks great and small. How Conspiracy Theories Shape Art 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Total Football proves to be a disaster during the first half of the team’s match against Arsenal, with Richmond players colliding all over the field. ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 3, Episode 7 Recap: Restaurant Week 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Merlin's rise in underlying revenue compared with a stronger 8.1 percent reported for the first half. Merlin eyes 'Dungeon' expansion as U.S. visitors embrace gore 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z My choice, though, is a more subtle gibe from the first half, when Juliette, defeated by Audrey’s strident practicality about sex, says, “Forgive me, I think I hear the soufflé falling.” ‘The Affair’ Season 3, Episode 3: Noah and Juliette 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Even in this oddly unconvincing first half, though, her voice was suffused with warmth, if not much pointed specificity. Review: A Soprano Showdown, and a Winner 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z In the first half of the song, he’s singing, but his affection is starting to curdle; it’s a serenade to a woman who’s listening to other things. Drake, in Search of an Enemy Besides Himself 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z In Lee's version, much of the first half focuses on the 20 long, arduous years that Doucett is held in captivity, going through a vast roller-coaster of emotions, from suicidal depression to homicidal anger. 'Oldboy' serves up gritty revenge for Thanksgiving audience 2013-11-28T00:33:26Z The cramped first half, mostly in the Singh apartment, is crudely unfunny. Movie Review: In ‘Total Siyapaa,’ Mishaps Overshadow a Romance 2014-03-09T19:33:53Z Brown’s first collection of poems is inspired by a real-life government-run residential hospital that opened in 1910 and was, for many of its residents in the first half of the century, a house of horrors. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z In conversation, Lin and Morgan have both described this movie as essentially the second half of the previous film, which actually does explain why the first half drags while the final climax rocks. Every 'Fast & Furious' Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z Schumann songs made up the first half of the program: the somber “Poems of Queen Mary Stuart,” the cycle “Woman’s Love and Life,” and three from “Myrtles.” Music Review: A Mezzo Keeps It Simple, and Makes It Profound 2011-04-15T21:19:40Z The first half of the program employs nimble acrobats and the most affecting and intricate puppetry I have ever seen. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z The first half of the show is only the two of us. They’re just a typical Michael Jackson-, Hendrix-, AC/DC-covering cello duo 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z The first half of “Foil” is great, and that bridge you mentioned, Henry, was the first time I audibly laughed. REVIEW: The Fun in "Weird Al" Yankovic's New Album, Mandatory Fun 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Jodphurs in black and sable brown shaped the silhouette of the collection's first half, with oversized earrings like horse-blinders complementing high riding boots. Equestrian styles on show in Paris fashion week 2012-03-04T23:49:09Z The acoustic first half of “Little Black Submarines” provides the only respite, which puts an unfortunate focus on Auerbach’s tossed off lyrics about break-ups and letdowns. Album review: Black Keys, 'El Camino' 2011-12-07T04:17:00Z In the first half, when most of his inventions clocked in at an uncannily precise five minutes, he often seemed to be rolling a boulder uphill. Music Review: Keith Jarrett in a Solo Concert at Carnegie Hall 2012-01-26T22:29:27Z A report published last month by the French database Artprice.com said that China was the world’s largest auction market in the first half of 2016, with $2.3 billion in sales. How Sotheby’s Found a Path to Higher Profits 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z But it was only at the end of the first half of the program that the singing really caught fire. The Voce Series, With French Songs, at the Schimmel Center 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z As that story is usually told, for the first half of the 20th century the innovative centre was Europe, before the old world was overtaken in the aftermath of the second world war by America. The other modernism 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The first half is a long and desultory sit, but in the second, the orchard blossoms exquisitely, speaking not only to the time of its creation, but also to contemporary Russia and more universally, too. Theater Listings for Feb. 26-Mar. 3 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Despite all this plenty, the first half of “Bunk” serves largely as the warm-up act to Young’s main attraction: the celebrity cheats and liars of our own era. Liars, hucksters and fake news are nothing new: a history lesson in hoaxes 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Knowing the forensic details of a magic trick does not do that trick any favors, and there’s little magic to be found in the first half of this film. Protest music?s odd conservative turn 2012-05-21T15:38:00Z He is already committed to another musical with Broadway ambitions, “The Honeymooners,” which will probably have a development workshop in the first half of 2015 before a world-premiere run at Goodspeed Musicals in September. 'King Kong' Musical in Search of a Director as Rando Says No 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z She disappeared from the radio in the first half of the eighties, going a few years without releasing a new album. Tanya Tucker’s New Album Might Be the Best of Her Long, Underrated Career 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z If the first half, “Arrows,” simmered slowly, the dreamlike “Errors,” which began after a brief blackout, boiled over with Ms. Sweeney’s fantastical tale about that mountain lion. When the Body Is a Canvas, Accented With Paint or Peanuts 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z The memory of their affair hangs like Spanish moss over the first half of the book. Battle of the Sexes? For This Voracious Heroine, It’s All-Out War. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z The approach works best in the first half, in which Dantès, the hero, spends several years unjustly in prison fomenting his revenge. The Count of Monte Cristo 2010-04-23T20:30:00Z On Saturday, for the first half of her recital, she brought poise and sensitivity to two early Brahms ballades, and then offered a rhapsodic, poetic performance of Schumann’s fantastical, challenging “Kreisleriana,” a 35-minute suite. Review: Yuja Wang Tackles Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier,’ Assured to a Fault 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z The first half of "Evil Dead 2" was basically just a remake of "Evil Dead" anyway. Remaking "The Evil Dead": A conversation 2011-07-14T17:15:00Z The first half of “Falsettos” focuses on the tangle of Marvin’s relationships. Broadway's fall revivals: Why big stars can't make up for a lack of artistic vision 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The first half of the performance was mainly opera — and not the usual star turns. A rare opera moment: Plácido Domingo and Renée Fleming at L.A. Opera show what might have been 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z The zoo, which is open to the public every day except Dec. 25, said it would close the first half of Tuesday for Bao Bao's departure. Bao Bao the panda leaving National Zoo for new home in China 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Vinyl single and LP revenues jumped more then 40% in the first half of this year, amounting to almost $150 million. Music Streaming Revenues Overtake CD Sales In The U.S. 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z The songs form a rigid narrative of music, pictures and choreography — much of the show’s first half is a mini-act moving from Bono’s neighborhood, to his bedroom, to Northern Ireland, to the Berlin Wall. My five nights with U2 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z “The soloist generally played the first half, but I’d stay and listen. . . . I got along with him, respected him, loved him. He was very supportive of me, also.” Jazzed up about music education, Marsalis comes to Castleton 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z For much of the first half of this intelligent melodrama, Mary remains silent, pensive. ‘After Love’ Review: The Other Woman 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z The first half is in real time but as the story progresses, we spend more time with her memories and dreams, and I experimented more in the second half. "Waikiki" filmmaker: "Hawai'i is marketed as a paradise . . . but things are only getting worse" 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z IMS says total sales of testosterone drugs fell 6 percent in the first half of 2014 from the same period the year before. Safety Concerns Slow Sales of Testosterone Therapy 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z By the time we get to the end of this first half, he will have been exposed to a number of reasons for the rebellion. Can Tony Gilroy Bring New Hope to ‘Star Wars’? 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z In its first half, when it's content to plunder favorite Western tropes, the movie provides some vagrant pleasures. Cowboys & Aliens: Two Great Genres, One Mediocre Movie 2011-07-28T22:05:00Z "For the first half, when Luciano is living his life, I played the part well," says Arena. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z With 1:28 left in the first half, Noah drew his first technical for arguing official Scott Foster's foul call as he defended Andrea Bargnani on a drive. Bulls down Raptors in OT 2012-03-25T03:28:00Z For the first half of “UpDating,” two daters converse while blindfolded. Analysis | ‘Love Is Blind’ acknowledges that dating is too visual. But it doesn’t offer a real solution. 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z When I play at Carnegie Hall next season, the first half will be about 60 minutes from the “Debussy Rameau” album. For This Pianist, Every Album Is an Essay 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z In her review in The Times, Janet Maslin called the book’s first half “tough-minded and clear,” but expressed disappointment in the “simple romance” of what followed. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on 'Americanah' 2013-06-06T14:50:36Z But they are yet to offset the slump in DVD and Blu-ray sales, which fell 8.1% in the first half of the year. Harry Potter and The Kings Speech fail to halt DVD sales slide 2011-08-01T11:46:45Z “Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore,” at the Jewish Museum, samples the extraordinary trove of European art amassed by two American spinsters in the first half of the 20th century. Art Review: What They Loved and What They Bought 2011-05-06T06:15:06Z The evidence is in the exhibition’s first half, which is devoted to the creation of Holmes and the nature of his era. Exhibition Review: A Sherlock Holmes Exhibition Stops in Ohio 2014-02-14T23:25:09Z Lasting over half an hour, it's one of the most substantial requiems of the first half of its time. Richafort: Requiem, etc – review 2012-07-19T20:58:01Z Lego's profits rose strongly in the first half of 2014, helped by the success of its Lego Movie which has stormed box offices in the US and UK. Rise of the bricks - Lego Movie lays foundations for big profit rise 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z She elicited similar depth from the exasperated “Lionsong,” and from the gravely determined “Notget,” which ended the first half in a martial clamor, electronics rumbling through the hall. Review: Björk at Carnegie Hall, Heartbreak and Pathos 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z And Sotheby’s consolidated sales — which include artworks sold at auction, from inventory and in private transactions — were up 2 percent for the second quarter and up 4 percent for the first half of 2017. Sotheby’s Investment in Change Brings Mixed Earning Results 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The first half is a parade of glamorously hedonistic tableaux, whose use of video — unusual in a Carsen production — is more of a dramatic device than a gimmick. Robert Carsen Is Opera’s Most Reliably Excellent Director 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z And late last night, Death Grips surprised the music world by dropping the first half of that double LP, titled “the powers that b.” Björk featured on a surprise new album from Death Grips 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Michael Gira was also the only singer of the festival’s first half who was superherolike enough to best the heat, his voice howling and his body contorting. Music Review: Dancing Under the Sky 2013-07-22T22:01:52Z In the first half works by Boccherini and Philip Glass ventured down to the underworld; in the second half, Stockhausen and Mozart reached for the stars. Music Review: The Knights Open the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts Series 2013-06-26T21:56:37Z Here he plays the original version of the Second Concerto, rather than the much-abbreviated version edited by Alexander Siloti in which it was generally heard through the first half the 20th century. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos Nos 1?3; Concert Fantasia; etc | CD Review 2010-03-25T22:00:00Z Download sales fell for the first half of 2013, according to a recent report by Nielsen SoundScan, but streaming is on the rise. Spotify Losses Grow, Despite Successful Expansion 2013-07-31T21:40:43Z Considering that Sanders gave only two briefings in the first half of the year, Trump’s press secretaries are now two for 2019 in doing what had been routine in previous administrations. What kind of White House press secretary calls her boss’s critics human scum? Stephanie Grisham. 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z The group said sales of high-definition Blu-ray discs increased 13.3 percent in the first half, but that was not enough to offset a sharp decline in the sale of traditional DVDs. Hollywood extends slow turnaround in home video sales 2012-07-29T17:06:08Z The answer lies in Shepard's full life story, which constitutes the first half of the film — and turns out to be particularly edifying. 'Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine' adds insight to tragedy 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Visitors in the first six months of this year topped 130,000, compared with 101,200 in the first half of 2012. Italy’s Artistic Upstart, the Maxxi Museum, Strives to Make a Splash 2013-07-22T21:59:15Z In the first half of Frozen, audiences watch Elsa suppress her ice powers until a supreme second-act song called Let It Go. ‘I must have watched it 50 times’: a Frozen dad prepares for the sequel 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Six months later, Levy is invited back to the studio to review the footage of her responses, effectively replaying bits from the documentary’s first half with commentary from Levy and Alexandrowicz. ‘The Viewing Booth’ Review: Do You See What I See? 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The lineup on the first half of the concert included a lively riff on the nostalgic melodies of “Bad Boys” and an enigmatic, melancholy version of “The Izu Dancer.” Music Review: Movies as a Form of Music 2010-12-19T22:31:25Z Such a battle of perspectives was particularly popular in the Freud-besotted plays of the first half of the 20th century. Review: ‘Really’ Compares the Fixed Image With Life’s Flux 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z The first half of the play, culminating in that funeral scene, is great, nasty fun, even if, at the heart of Manhattan, it’s preaching to the choir. Review: Can Trump Survive in Caesar’s Palace? 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z For the first half of the decade, these big cities produced jobs. America's Growing Towns 2010-03-30T22:30:00Z This directness of approach also kept the late quartet in communion with the two early quartets, Op 18 Nos 6 and 3, performed in the first half with the same poised motion and honeyed tone. Artemis Quartet - review 2011-01-23T18:18:53Z Through her concert’s uncompromisingly grim first half and its wary, stunned second, Ms. Wang charted wholly dark, private emotions. Review: Yuja Wang Plays Dazed Chaos, Then 7 Encores 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Releases from the likes of Disclosure, Daft Punk and Calvin Harris helped its sale figures overtake R&B in the first half of 2013. Dance music overtakes R&B sales 2013-07-05T14:25:45Z The first half of the book reminisces on their friendship; the second is devoted to exhaustive accounts of their text exchanges, Delvey’s fraudulent banking practices and, ultimately, the trial. True Life: I Got Conned by Anna Delvey 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Many pieces in the show from the first half of the 20th century were made expressly as tourist souvenirs. Art Review: A Storied Paradise, Tempered by Reality 2011-05-30T21:33:34Z Berthold's production also modulates successfully from a comic first half to a sombre second, and is well acted. Holding the Man 2010-05-05T20:30:00Z In the first half, the Philharmonic, led by the guest conductor Andrey Boreyko, will perform the Polonaise from ’s opera “Eugene Onegin,” the Symphonic Dances from Bernstein’s “West Side Story” and Ravel’s “Boléro.” Shanghai Symphony and Philharmonic to Play Great Lawn 2010-07-12T22:15:00Z The group knows its way around a heavy-metal riff but doesn’t chase after fusion labyrinths or prog-rock fantasias, beyond an occasional chord progression, like the one in “Pilgrims”, a highlight of the first half. Music Review: Widespread Panic at Radio City Music Hall 2010-07-25T21:43:00Z For the first half of “Haussmans,” directed by Howard Davies, I was purring in tickled contentment because the fine-tuned cast was so functionally dysfunctional. Critic’s Notebook: On British Stage, Baby Boomers Fare Poorly 2012-06-22T23:54:12Z One of the more revealing moments came early, when Kevin Frazier asked series creator Lee Daniels why the first half of season two felt like a creative stumble. Empire at the Paley Festival: why fans nearly faint when stars are in the room 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Though charming, the first half of the book is imperfect, with a comically evil father figure and an unnecessary subplot about a character’s past life as a thief threatening to derail the story. A Multitude of Hauntings 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z The first half of the book focuses on the details of the investigation and court proceedings. The book 'Adnan's Story' and what it tells us about 'Serial' 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Such were my impressions watching the highly adrenalized first half of the British-born revival of Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” which opened on Saturday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater. Review: Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville Lead a Hard-Run ‘Long Day’s Journey’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Gradually, connections emerge between the overt narrative of the show's first half and the meditation-in-movement in its second. Review: 'Dark Matters' at On the Boards is spellbinding dance 2011-02-18T17:57:04Z Tuesday was another night, another homicide in a year in which hundreds of Chicagoans have been gunned down; the murder rate for the year’s first half is up an alarming 38 percent over last year. Chicago hip-hop war of words turns violent 2012-09-06T05:40:00Z It’s anything but a straightforward retelling of two lives, with the first half focused on Thomas and the second half, Beulah. Rita Dove's collected poems should put her back in the center of the American conversation 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z But her function remains the same as in previous Perrys: to bring comic relief to the first half of the film and, in the second, to impose order on the domestic chaos. Madea's Big Happy Family: Tyler Perry's Drag Ball 2011-04-24T14:05:00Z My time was 5:46, placing me in the first half of the finishers. Move Over, Penguins, Marathon Coming Through 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Hermès International said last month that its profit rose 55.2 percent in the first half compared with a year earlier. Watching the Catwalk, and Clicking ?Add to Cart? 2010-09-13T23:42:00Z As of Sunday the first half of the equation has been settled and … let’s say the reviews were mixed. Who Is Sophie Turner Without Sansa Stark? We’re About to Find Out 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z “American Coffee” floats on sustained organ chords for its first half while Hval recounts her mother’s fears and her own. Jenny Hval Makes Ideas Sing 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z This is the first half of “Sheets Deprived of Wind,” Hull’s two-part show for the small gallery space. A Klansman with a megaphone: Steven Hull's sordid art laments troubled times 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z He ended the first half with Prokofiev’s brief, brilliant Toccata, Op. John Lill draws out all the moods, power of the piano 2014-05-01T17:50:27Z A wordy first half, satirising late-18th-century theatrical customs, is followed by a hilarious rehearsal of Mr Puff's awful tragedy about the Spanish Armada. The Real Inspector Hound/The Critic 2010-07-11T20:30:00Z The movie is backloaded, but even the comparatively tame first half illustrates Keaton’s gift for comedy that pushes jokes one step or many steps past their intuitive stopping point. Now’s a Good Time to Give Silents a Try. Start With These Comedies. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z The first half of the novel gives you the first half of each of five tales, leading up to the sixth; in the second half you get the second half of each of those tales. David Mitchell Brings His Novelistic High Jinks to the Swinging ’60s 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z The first half is fun, but the second half is golden, mining absurd humor, breathless tension, and movie-magic triumphalism from an onslaught of minor crises. ‘Final Cut’ Review: A Feeble Rise of the Living Dead 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z For the first half of her set, the performer segued from song to song as quickly and precisely as she cycled through contrapuntal riffs. Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley supply Drinks at U Street Music Hall 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Family members and neighbors seem close to one another in “Before the Fall,” the first half of “Homeland,” although their houses are separated by concrete walls. Review: ‘Homeland: Iraq Year Zero’ Chronicles a War-Torn Family 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z But none of the principal winds played in the first half of the concert, yet the blend and tuning were exemplary. Guest conductor Markus Stenz pulls the BSO into an unknown but elite realm 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z As in Corrie, large-scale dramatic twists – of which there are three-and-a-half – derail the detail; there is a stretch in the overlong first half when the play feels artificially extended. The Accrington Pals; Di and Viv and Rose; One Monkey Don't Stop No Show – review 2013-01-27T00:06:22Z Ms. Astanova also failed to imbue the slow movements of either the Tchaikovsky, performed in the first half of the program, or the Rachmaninoff, played after intermission, with any sense of lyricism. Music Review: Lola Astanova With the Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2013-01-26T01:04:56Z The Seattle Symphony’s current program vividly evokes the sea in its first half, with works by Sibelius and Britten. Seattle Symphony vividly evokes the sea in works by Sibelius, Britten 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z The second half features a lively dance set to to Jean-Philippe Rameau, and in the first half, there are bird sounds and a spare composition by Morton Feldman. Review: William Forsythe Takes Dance to a Quiet, Uneven Place 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z The program was British in the first half and French in the second, with the British part being about the loss and rekindling of Empire. Yo-Yo Ma is marvelous during a strange night at Hollywood Bowl 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z We were fortunate enough to film things mostly sequentially for the first half of the film, so we stayed in character together on set. Matt Bomer won't let go of HBO 'Normal Heart' role — 'he changed me' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The first half, essentially, is college, back in the days when it was generally accepted that education was about much more than learning things. The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Prefacing Mahler's Rückert Lieder with a group of Hugo Wolf's Goethe settings, the first half had its cautious moments. Renée Fleming/Maciej Pikulski – review 2012-12-10T18:50:49Z For much of its first half, though, the production undercuts itself with cartoonishness: Antigone’s sister talks like a Valley Girl; Antigone’s brothers feebly face off with krumping and pelvis-thrusting flamenco; musicians play kazoos. Review: ‘Antigona’ Is Noche Flamenca’s Teeming Take on the Greek Tragedy 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Much of the first half of this engrossing drama is setup. Benedict Cumberbatch is a tense & meticulous spy in Cold War thriller "The Courier" 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Chesterton wrote in the first half of the 20th century. 5 plot-twisting tales in 'Sidney Chambers' collection 2012-07-25T21:47:06Z The two works on the first half of the program, after all, were composed in the 1920s. Music Review: Riverside Symphony?s Musical Roots at Tully Hall 2010-06-10T22:24:00Z He ended the first half with Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata, though his refined playing, even in the onrushing final movement, brought nothing particularly fresh to this staple. Music Review: Murray Perahia Plays at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-11-06T22:27:16Z For the first half of the 20th century bands from putatively different traditions implicitly understood their common origins and points of crossover. Music Review: Bluegrass and Jazz Bands, With More in Common Than You?d Think 2011-07-24T22:29:53Z Such dynamics dominate much of the first half. Review: A Mission Against All Odds in the Wartime Thriller ‘Anthropoid’ 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z During the set’s first half, at least, Mr. Unno vanished into the act of accompaniment, playing so tentatively that he almost seemed to be asking for permission. Music Review: Jimmy Cobb Expands His Act at Village Vanguard 2013-08-22T21:37:37Z Sam Marlowe, writing for theartsdesk.com, dubbed it "as bland and sugary as cheap confectionery", while the Daily Mail's Quentin Letts pinned blame on a first half that was "as slow as cold treacle". Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has mixed reviews but announces extension 2013-06-26T10:28:21Z The first half of the concert was more sedate. Proms 63 and 64: BBCNOW/Roth; Early Opera Company/Curnyn 2010-09-03T11:17:00Z On Tuesday the latest recipient of this honor, Kyle Abraham, unveiled “The Watershed,” the first half of what he’s been working on throughout that two-year, generously funded residency. Kyle Abraham Debuts ‘The Watershed’ at New York Live Arts 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z “It’s a much smaller fair, but it felt right for the first half of the year.” Art World Sets Plans for 2021 Fairs (in Pencil) 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z This week’s wrapped the first half of Season 8. House Watch: The Fall Finale Edition 2011-11-29T14:15:22Z The first half of “Other Names for Love” is the best half. In This Debut Novel, Family Ties Bind, Even From Afar 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z When I read your memoir, the first half is a nightmare. Table for Three: Cyndi Lauper and David Byrne Discuss Creating Hits, On and Off Broadway 2014-03-14T23:21:20Z Mr. Steinbach’s 80-work retrospective wends its way through art by others, revealing rarely seen Minimalist drawings and paintings from the first half of the 1970s. Art Review: Haim Steinbach’s and Helen Marten’s Solos at Bard College 2013-08-01T22:21:00Z Disappointingly, this shift from a relatively hard-core first half to a second bogged down by desultory dramatic beats significantly lowers the stakes. ‘Against the Ice’ Review: Snow Buddies 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z For that first half hour of the morning, speaking to my mother takes me home. My first hour: five high flyers reveal their morning routines 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Morone says that the first half of the 20th century was “cheerfully bipartisan” as “great identity issues” around race and immigration were put aside. Are We More Divided Now Than Ever Before? 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z After presenting the first half of “Intimate Apparel” to Met and LCT leaders, they decided the work leant itself to chamber music. Composer Ian Ricky Gordon premieres 2 operas in 5-day span 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Film festivals are full of people who skedaddle after the first half hour – there are so many movies to see that some viewers will bolt if they aren’t riveted from the get-go. Swiss Army Man: Daniel Radcliffe’s flatulent corpse prompts Sundance walkouts 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Who else but Mr. Serkin would think that a first half containing Josquin and Sweelinck, Bull and Nielsen — let alone a second of Dowland and Byrd, Mozart and Schoenberg — could possibly work? Peter Serkin’s Peoples’ Symphony Concert 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z The funky emphases of the book’s first half recall William Gibson’s line about the future being here, just unevenly distributed. What if, Instead of the Internet, We Had Xenobots? 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z While there are important figures who accomplished giant symphonic outputs in the first half of the 20th century — Sibelius, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, principally — the field thins out during the second half. Music Review: Beating the ‘Curse of the Ninth’ 2014-02-04T13:01:10Z The continuing resurgence of consumer interest in vinyl was reflected in the 40.4% increase in units, from 2.9 million in the first half of 2013 to 4 million so far this year. Music streaming up, sales down in first half of 2014 -- SoundScan 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Photograph: Murdo Macleod Andrew Marr's latest book is "a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the 20th century" – and it's currently lying all over a road in Berkshire. Andrew Marr books block road 2010-09-22T10:53:00Z There were three encores: Mr. Anderszewski played Bartok’s Three Hungarian Folksongs after the concerto in the first half of the program. Music Review: Paavo Jarvi Brings Schumann to Alice Tully Hall 2010-08-03T22:52:00Z The series, which returns next season, uses images, narration and dramatic readings along with music in the first half of each concert. 'Beyond the Score' helps symphony-goers appreciate works from inside out 2011-05-18T23:17:04Z In the first half of the 20th century, it was owned by Henry du Pont, a scion of one of the nation’s wealthiest families. The House That Calvin Klein Built 2013-08-30T21:08:57Z Six Daysby Philip Webb I think ages nine and up should read this book because if you are any younger you will not understand the first half of the book. Six Days by Philip Webb - review 2012-11-24T15:00:00Z Ms. Wohl structures the first half of “Make Believe” as a series of 13 brief scenes that dissolve time and genre and keep you guessing. Review: In ‘Make Believe,’ Four Children Meet Their Inner Adults 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Most of the first half is taken up with the story of Charlie's impoverished family, relieved by inserts of a garish TV spectacle showing the winners of the golden tickets. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – review 2013-06-25T22:00:01Z David Feinberg’s “Eighty-Sixed” is unique in that the whole first half is a joyous celebration of gay life in the city, from bathhouses to gay bars to bedrooms. Readers Share Their Favorite Books of 2022 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z The full set list included, in the first half: “China Cat Sunflower,” “I Know You Rider,” “Estimated Prophet,” “Built to Last,” “Samson & Delilah,” “Mountains of the Moon” and “Throwing Stones.” The Grateful Dead Close Out Their Final Concert With Music and the Words 'Please, Be Kind' 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z He and the inspired orchestra brought richness and majesty even to the wrenching, torturous first half of the second movement. Bavarian Radio Symphony Performs Brahms and Ligeti 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Where I like to spent the first half of the day. If my ideal writing day existed, this would be it 2010-06-09T10:57:00Z Sleek, suspenseful and thoroughly surprising, “Workforce” unfolds in its first half as a gritty Kafkaesque drama about exploited workers. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z For the first half, I sat in the orchestra section, and it was not an altogether happy experience. Gemma New test-drives the Long Beach Symphony with an interesting, ambitious program 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z For the first half of that concert, she “looked like a nun,” she said, in a long black dress. Yuja Wang, Pianist and Fashion Plate 2012-04-08T03:23:10Z When I went along to find out, I realised I'd never seen anything like it before – and judging by the nervous atmosphere during the first half, neither had the rest of the audience. Cracking up: can mental health make good comedy? 2010-04-22T14:14:00Z The Muhly, though, presented as the finale of the first half, was long and empty, a rather pedestrian setting of three strong poems by C.P. Classical artists show that when it comes to new music, pop may be better 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Unusually, the sublime and sacred first half was shared between Renaissance composers and the 20th century’s Durufle, alternating from one to the other with each piece. The King’s Singers rule with vocal artistry 2014-02-16T22:25:25Z “I love the first half where you change up the groove, but it still keeps all the momentum,” he told them. Bicycle Diaries: Cruising With the ‘American Utopia’ Family 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Domingo's voice sounded a bit husky in the first half of the 2 1/2-hour performance before opening up after intermission. Domingo, having turned 70, returns to Met Opera 2011-02-13T20:35:16Z The second portion of the novel — which relies on the third person — is funnier than the first half: more reminiscent of Nora Ephron’s “Heartburn,” say, than Ms. Didion’s “Play It As It Lays.” Books of The Times: Jenny Offill’s ‘Dept. of Speculation’ 2014-01-29T20:35:18Z Between the first half of the current season of "Billions" and the second, which resumes this weekend, actually billionaires have just been doing the most. "Billions" resumes within a pandemic that made the rich richer, making its cruelty more relevant 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z In the first half of the book, which contains most of the straight-ahead biography, Jamison finds rich examples from Lowell’s life to illustrate how mania influenced and enabled his poetry. How much did Robert Lowell's manic-depression affect his poetry? A new biography tries to find the answer 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z While the first half of the program features performances that combine African forms with hip-hop and modern dance, the second will focus on traditional Ghanaian dances. Living the Golden Life: DanceAfrica Welcomes Ghana to Brooklyn 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z This vibrant medley – the first half, Hot Stuff, won a Grammy for best female rock vocal, believe it or not, thanks to Skunk Baxter's guitar solo – addresses two subjects. Remember Donna Summer: listen now to five classic songs 2012-05-17T20:33:10Z The first half of Mr. Brooks’s program features older works, including a short film, “Rapid Still,” and a duet from “Motor” that indicate he is trying hard to fill an evening. Dance Review: ‘Big City’ by Brian Brooks Moving Company 2012-06-04T21:13:32Z For the first half of “This Time Tomorrow,” nothing much seems to happen. Review: In ‘This Time Tomorrow,’ a Family Will Be Upended 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The five young actors who play the accused in the first half of the series were horrified to learn details of the case and hope it can lead to changes in the judicial system. ‘When They See Us’ actors revisit the Central Park Five case 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z This was not the case in the first half of the 20th century when a series of polio epidemics affected hundreds of thousands of children across the world. A jab for Elvis helped America beat polio. Now doctors have recruited him again… 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z We search for pieces of French art from the first half of the 20th century to exhibit and sell in Moscow, as well as Russian impressionism and Russian modern art. A Russian Art Dealer Sets Sights on London 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Netflix could certainly use the good news: The streaming service has piled up subscriber losses through the first half of the year, and the quality of its programming slate has come into question. Emmys 2022: What to Expect and How to Watch 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z The first half of their story is about how war warps everyday life; the second half, a tale of globalization and its discontents. Review: In ‘Exit West,’ Mohsin Hamid Mixes Global Trouble With a Bit of Magic 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Where the first half of the memoir delves into her professional influence, the second is devoted to reclaiming her Midwestern roots, primarily through her mother and grandmother’s homemade dishes and “housewifely arts.” Chef Amy Thielen explains her love for rural and urban, highflung and lowdown in 'Give A Girl A Knife' 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z The Tourism Council of Thailand estimates cancellations will cut earnings in the tourism industry by 83 billion baht in the first half of 2014. Martial law threatens new blow to beleaguered Thai tourism 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z The most significant English sporting novel of the first half of the 20th century is probably Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Literary giants at play 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z “The Americans,” one of TV’s best dramas, aired what felt more like the first half of a double final season. The Best TV Shows of 2017 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z What I did miss, in the production’s first half, was any sense of what set Otello apart. Debating ‘Otello,’ Blackface and Casting Trends 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z He also helped establish the art credentials of photography in the first half of the 20th century. Review | I used to think Ansel Adams’s photographs were boring. This exhibition changed that. 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z "Mad Men" ends the first half of its seventh and final season. TV This Week May 25-31: 'All-Star Comedy Tribute to Don Rickles' 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Also, in the first half of the year, the company will introduce self-parking fees at select hotels — prices to be determined. There goes tradition: Las Vegas Strip casinos start charging for parking 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Over the first half of Saturday afternoon, artists such as Iggy Azalea, YG and Capital Cities did their best to rile the crowd despite a shadeless heat that hit nearly 90 degrees. Budweiser Made in America fest: A scorching day, a barrage of branding 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z The first half of the Broadway season has been, at best, a disappointment. Broadway’s Second Season: 10 Shows to Watch For 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z I have tried during the first half of this trip to emphasize that the decisions I make and the things I do should never be a boilerplate “how to travel” manual for everyone. Midway Through His Year, Our 52 Places Traveler Answers Readers’ Questions 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z But some Southern speakers in the late 19th century began to pronounce "pen" and "pin" identically, with this merger generally spreading throughout Southern American English in the first half of the 20th century. Do accents disappear? 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z By the end of the first half, with Germany leading 5-0, Slate already declared the match the worst World Cup game since 1974. Twitter feels sorry for Brazil after Germany crushes the World Cup host 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Tudyk deftly dispenses both deadpan stares and comic apoplexy, and through the first half of its initial season, the show was consistently clever and astringently funny. When a Break From TV Brings More TV 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Like the first half of “The Bobby Brown Story,” some signposts of Brown’s fall from grace, resulting from numerous run-ins with the law, are already known to many people. Bobby Brown on “The Bobby Brown Story,” mental health, and being in “the R&B ‘Lord of the... 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z There was really only one American political party with a solid record on civil rights in the first half of the 20th century, and it was the American Communist Party. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z The surprise of the show, partly disappointing and partly hopeful, is that the first half — without Mr. Abraham and focused largely on the work of other choreographers — is stronger. Review: Kyle Abraham, Looking Gorgeous While Stuck in Place 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Oh, and she spent the first half in a black gown, billowing above the bodice, and the second in white — shiny satin throughout, a dream of a diva. A Day of Divas 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z For the first half of the film’s admirably economical 67 minutes we are immersed in the daily challenges of showing movies on the margins. | 'A Useful Life': Death of an Art House Means a Start to a Life 2011-01-12T22:24:02Z For the first half of the twentieth century, surfers in Southern California were few and far between. Surfing in the Age of the Omnipresent Camera 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Curry, who is now co-anchor with Matt Lauer of the first half of the weekday "Today" show, was judged too busy for both jobs. Lester Holt new host of 'Dateline NBC' 2011-09-19T14:46:08Z There were lots of great numbers during the first half of the Tonys, and even a few in the second half. The Best and Worst of the 74th Tony Awards 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z By the end of the first half, everything is on a high. Loserville – review 2012-06-30T23:05:40Z But the first half, vulnerable and deep and often gentle, was the more special. Review: Cecil Taylor’s Mysteries Don’t Resolve at the 88th Key 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z They include his description of Ivan the Terrible, whose rule conventional histories divide between a dynamic first half and descent into madness following the death of his beloved first wife, Anastasia Romanova. The Myths That Made, and Still Make, Russia 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z The first half of the show seemed to have nothing but gorgeous gilding decorating stagy costumes, from velvet rompers to glamorous capes. Fashion Review: Raf Simons at Jil Sander and Tomas Maier Redefine Sensual 2012-02-26T18:29:25Z For the first half of my life, I exclusively ate at dumps like corner stores and sub shops where the food is fried and boxed behind nicked bulletproof glass. How learning to plate food changed how I felt about cooking at home 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z “Brothers” is dense with plot in the Bollywood way: two long, operatic flashbacks in the first half provide the back story. Review: ‘Brothers ... Blood Against Blood,’ Set in the Mean Streets of Mumbai 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Constructed in 1937, it is considered an exemplary lido, an open-air swimming venue of the sort developed all over Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. I’m Not Going To Dismaland 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The movie’s giddy first half zips along more smoothly than the second, which sputters when the story takes a short, awkwardly managed detour into tragedy. Review: ‘Trainwreck’ Delivers the Full Amy Schumer Experience 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Their White Swan solos in the first half, though, were another matter. Gustavo Dudamel gives Misty Copeland the royal treatment in the Hollywood Bowl's classical opener 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z The uncertain feeling in the set’s first half probably had something to do with all the free improvisation that cropped up within the tunes. Music Review: Tony Malaby?s Novela at Jazz Gallery - Review 2011-12-19T22:05:11Z The first half of the film, its most compelling stretch, focuses on Johnson’s wheeling and dealing to get the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed. Review: Bryan Cranston Shines as Lyndon Johnson in ‘All the Way’ 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z He spent his first half of his life at sea, and the second half of his life writing about the first half of his life? "It was a life changer for me": Andrew McCarthy on his Brat Pack origins and a recent 500-mile walk 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z To sum up the evening: lots of sound and fury in the first half; some signifying in the second. Review: Passel of Frenchmen fit into symphony's evening 2010-06-11T18:48:00Z The first half of the Snow dance was the most unusual I’ve seen, with the Flakes shimmying their hips, arching in backbends and fluttering hands voluptuously down their bodies: snow as luxurious sensuousness. Critic?s Notebook: The Smallest Dancers Steal Their Own Show 2010-12-22T23:06:19Z The program Mr. Gilbert conducted on Wednesday evening tilted toward energetic brashness, with Bartok’s biting Second Violin Concerto on the first half and Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony on the second. Music Review: Renderings Energetic and Brash 2011-05-06T05:00:07Z Sometimes you think, we need lighting for this, and then it ends up in the first half of the program, and you’re like, that’s crazy! A Dancer Brings His Rocky Mountain Laboratory to New York 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z There's a good deal of fun in the attempt, however, especially in the first half when the play is in flamboyant comic mode. Ghost of Anton Chekhov inhabits 'The Country House' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The same pair present Bernstein's late song-cycle Arias and Barcarolles in the first half, in which Schoenbergian references and musical theatre collide unconvincingly rather than interact. Trouble in Tahiti | Opera review 2010-03-29T21:30:00Z It shows, as the Monstars take a commanding lead in the first half. Space Jam at 20: 'The perfect movie' or one of modern cinema's biggest follies? 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z And comparisons were easier than in the first half, when new pictures were measured against the colossal video sales for “Avatar,” which was released to home markets in April 2010. For Home Entertainment Industry, a Bright Spot 2011-10-30T22:44:49Z That was the beginning of an eventful, sometimes satisfying episode, the first half of what is being billed as a two-part fall finale. 'Sleepy Hollow' Recap: A Weird Night That Seemed Strangely Familiar 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z During his time in France, he participated in the Surrealist movement, and over the course of his life, he “assimilated and recreated all the avant-gardes of the first half of the 20th century,” Ruy-Sánchez says. D.C. exhibit showcases artwork inspired by writings of Octavio Paz But much of the movie’s first half is turbid, naive and dead-serious, an awkward collection of clichés from pulp fiction, ladies’ division. Titanic, TIME and Me 2012-04-04T20:24:41Z But where a certain restraint was wanted — especially in the all-Muhly first half — the British organist sounded as though he most belonged. A British organist reaches America by way of Reykjavik 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z The star initially postponed the first half of her concert tour two weeks ago because of severe back pain from what she thought was sciatica; however, further tests discovered it was actually cancer that spread. Olivia Newton-John Puts Tour On Hold after Cancer Diagnosis 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z That was just the first half of a program by Dorrance Dance, making its triumphant debut at the Vail International Dance Festival. Review: Hot Feet and Cool Bodies at Vail 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The views are especially radiant in the first half of October, when the fiery autumn colors at this elevation usually reach their peak. 36 Hours in Boone, N.C. (and Environs) 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z But in a play in which the title character's raging appetite drives the first half of the play, a big gut is an unmistakable asset. It's a tame 'One Man, Two Guvnors' at South Coast Repertory 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Throughout the first half of the shoot, we got to be pretty good friends. Wayne Wang Still Isn’t Satisfied 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Where the previous season dragged — it was more like the first half of a season, all prelude — this one opens with a sense of things closing in. Review: Both ‘The Americans’ and the U.S.S.R. Will End. Can This Marriage Be Saved? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z It was only in the last lines of Mendelssohn’s “Reiselied,” the last song of the program’s first half, that Mr. Pisaroni finally unleashed the magnificence of his voice at full tilt. Luca Pisaroni in Concert at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z That edition restores a lot of the exposition and character development in the first half of the comedy that had been trimmed from the two-hour release version. A second look at Steven Spielberg's '1941' 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z If the first half of Robson's recital was strange; the second half was stranger but also more fulfilling. Humble virtuoso Mark Robson's piano weaves his highly personal tales 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z If there were constants running through the recital’s poised first half and galvanic second, they were Matsuev’s razor-sharp articulation, suppleness of phrasing and unerring sense of the way a musical argument unfolds. Pianist dazzles in Strathmore recital 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z In its first half, we learn of Rodriguez, seeing photos of him — always in dark glasses, as befits an elusive creature. 'Searching for Sugar Man' enthralling doc about singer Rodriguez 2012-08-23T20:53:04Z The first half is dedicated to the genius of the big three. "American Idol" book misses the right notes 2011-01-20T05:42:17Z Three years ago, only 69 percent of contemporary works priced above 1 million euros found buyers, whereas 84 percent were successfully sold in the first half of 2011, the report said. 38th International Contemporary Art Fair in Paris 2011-10-23T22:32:00Z In the first half of this year, turnover at auction sales in Hong Kong increased 47 percent compared with the same period in 2019. At FIAC Art Fair, Ambitions Are High. Can Sales Keep Pace? 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Travelers from the Middle East comprised just 3.6 percent of nonresident international arrivals to the U.S. in the first half of 2016, according to U.S. Tourism industry debating impact of Trump travel ban 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z The first half of the dance also seems terribly dated, its contractions and balances along one diagonal or the other a standard rearrangement of clichés specific to Ailey and those borrowed from earlier sources. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at City Center - Review 2011-12-04T23:22:16Z The first half of the book is dominated by high politics and chewy as a result. Bang! A History of Britain in the 1980s by Graham Stewart – review 2013-01-17T08:00:02Z Two years later, the game is finally here — or at least the first half of it is. Video Game Review: Broken Age Fulfills Dreams of Freedom 2014-01-29T20:44:13Z Haynes slowly assembles the band in the first half of the documentary, and this allows viewers to learn about Reed going to and playing in gay clubs, because, he acknowledged, they were more interesting crowds. Apple TV+'s new Velvet Underground film is an irresistible portrait of extraordinary provocateurs 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Joe Moshenska, a specialist in the Renaissance period at Cambridge University, digs up the first half of that life story, focusing on the voyage to reclaim his honour. Forgotten hero 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Occasionally overeager – when Romeo fights Tybalt in the first half run-through, he has to check he hasn't broken his friend's nose. Raising the curtain on the new am-dram 2012-12-15T21:00:00Z The book’s first half feels like business as usual. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z There are so many characters, kingdoms, and battles introduced at the same time that the first half of the program is a blur of dirty faces and leather armor. Of Kings and Prophets: where the Bible meets Game of Thrones 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z This year a Gate festival of plays by Beckett, Harold Pinter and David Mamet, entitled “BPM: The Relish of Language,” is also running through the first half of October. Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z But of course, the movie only adapts the first half of Herbert's novel. "Dune: Part Two will have “much more Harkonnen stuff” 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z After a general sense of vocal unease in the first half, the performance seemed to settle in, gaining some confidence after intermission. Review: The Met Opera Is Handel’s House in ‘Agrippina’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z The first half of the book builds to a fuller account of the climactic event in the story’s past, and I wondered whether there would be enough narrative momentum left for the second half. Review | ‘The Final Revival of Opal & Nev’ is a dazzling debut full of unforgettable characters 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z It led in the first half of the voting, which was decided by professional juries from each country. Ukrainian Singer Jamala Named Winner of 2016 Eurovision Contest 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z It had multiple writers, which gives it a funnier touch for its first half, and a far more conventional Hollywood Horror finish. 'Paranormal Activity 2': Poltergeist frights pack less punch in polished sequel 2010-10-22T16:24:00Z But it won’t suit everyone: It took discipline and work to stick to the no-sleep routine in the first half of this flight. I just took the world’s first 20-hour flight: Here’s what it did to me 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The show's cast was signaled to go on from Hollywood right after the whistle blew to end the first half. Super Bowl wasn't always the audience magnet it is now 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z When X closed out the first half of the concert with the rockabilly-goth of “The World’s a Mess, It’s in My Kiss,” the crowd of punky-fiftysomethings and their revivalist kids sang every last lyric. X returns to 'Los Angeles' at the Roxy 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z And in the production’s first half I worried that Letts might be hoping to fill the vacuum left by the death of Simon, the lucrative master of the breezy comedy of anxiety. ‘Linda Vista’ Review: A Womanizer Who Devastates as He Charms 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z I found the first half of Bean's play pugnacious and entertaining. The Heretic - review 2011-02-11T00:20:01Z The first half of the final season of will premiere on AMC this spring. AMC Orders Bonus Episode of Mad Men, Splits Final Season in Two 2013-09-17T18:32:34Z For the first half of his set, he was received enthusiastically but looked catastrophically bored, playing a largely characterless set of electro with bits of Nirvana and MC Hammer mixed in. Music Review: United States of Bass, at Santos House Party 2013-05-24T21:39:44Z This was the case in the first half of Friday’s program, when Mr. Welser-Möst conducted Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony. Review: The Cleveland Orchestra Plays Strauss With Abundant Color 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z For the first half of Christmas week, United Airlines has invited comfort animals to seven of its hub airports nationwide. If you’re stressed about flying, these four-legged therapists can help 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z The first half of TransAtlantic features non-fictional stories about great men, united by theme but not by narrative. TransAtlantic by Colum McCann – review 2013-06-01T07:30:01Z So much of Don’s identity is wrapped up in never seeming as desperate as he was for the whole first half of his life. | Mood of Desperation 2010-10-11T14:39:00Z All that was almost but not quite enough to make a listener forget the appeal of the first half of the program. Music Review: Tenebrae at Church of St. Mary the Virgin - Review 2011-11-08T23:32:06Z The movie spends its first half in brawny highlands humor — fighting, carousing, spit takes, guy stuff — and a lot of Scots stereotyping, as if they were Australians or something. Brave: The Princess and Her Unbearable Mom 2012-06-21T15:06:48Z But then I got on the bus, and for like the first half hour or something, I was just... shocked. Pulled off a bus by Border Patrol: Mohanad Elshieky on ICE, comedy and "peak white liberalism" 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Inevitably, the patriarch dominates the first half of the book. Groomed to Be President 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z "We continue to look forward to closing our deal in the first half of the year." FCC puts reviews of mergers on hold 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Scott returned as the sole violinist in Brahms’s A Major Piano Quartet, but the glowing, unified sound of the first half did not. Touring Marlboro string quartet delights in first half of program 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The new law increases the fare to $50 for the first 20 minutes from $34 for the first half hour — the first increase in more than 20 years. New York City Carriage Rides to Increase in Price 2010-04-15T17:03:00Z The first half of the book plays out like a somewhat meandering tragicomedy of minor calibrations and recalibrations. Second Thoughts in the Second City 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z The greatest hits set that follows plays out chronologically, ironically given the first half of the show. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night three: Trans-Europe Express 2013-02-10T11:36:08Z In the first half of the twentieth century, people increasingly spent their leisure time at home, rather than at theaters, circuses, sporting parks, and fairs, as in the past. TV makes us fat! 2013-09-07T22:00:00Z As the backdrops for dramas by writers like W. Somerset Maugham and S. N. Behrman, such rooms figured prominently on Broadway during the first half of the 20th century. Theater Review: Richard Maxwell’s ‘Isolde’ Explores Primal Instincts 2014-04-13T22:03:33Z In the first half they face away from each other; in the second they curl inward, in fetal position, toward each other. Dance Review: Poetry of Stillness, in a Moment Stretched to Infinity 2011-03-31T00:00:16Z The ensemble returned to the American theme of the first half of the program with a passionate rendition of the last movement of Dvorak’s “American” Quartet. Music Review | Ying Quartet: Barber?s Centenary Celebrated at Morgan Library & Museum 2010-03-11T05:24:00Z During the first half, all I could think was that I had finally found a contemporary film to which I could take my 93-year-old mother-in-law. Love ‘La La Land’? Hate It? So Do We. 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Harry Potter fans widely praised the first half of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the much-anticipated two-part play in the saga created by J.K. Here's How the 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' Audience Reacted to the First Preview 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The more generous explanation centres on the fact that that period, taken together with the first half of the 1940s, represents a kind of nadir in human affairs. The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Indeed, the tale of the paintings’ journey to the northeast gallery of Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum encompasses the history of European tumult in the first half of the 20th century. Centuries-old paintings, a Russian aristocrat, an obscure Nazi past: Why nothing about the Norton Simon 'Adam' and 'Eve' case is simple 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z It’s written as a guide to the Americas by a newly arrived European, and what amazed me was the first half, on the geography, geology and wildlife of his new home. Randall Munroe Loves Outdated Views of the Future 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z The appeal of the first half of the production comes largely from the portraits painted by Burton and Mandell. Arthur Miller's 'The Price' bursts into meaning at Mark Taper Forum 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z The incident provided one of the few dramatic moments during the first half of the program, the last in the society’s 40th-anniversary season. Music Review: Chamber Music Society in Its Season Finale 2010-05-24T23:32:00Z Its first half is a tale of ham-fisted management that’s lively enough to invite comparisons to those modern classics about failure. 'Eccentric Orbits' chronicles the stunning failure (and improbable revival) of the Iridium satellite phone 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z While Ted was an easy character to write off in the first half of the season due to his absenteeism, his story in the second half might be different: the agency needs him. The Mad Men mid-season finale: so what happens next? 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z For the characters of the AMC drama, that era is the 1960s -- the first half of the final season ended soon after the moon landing in July 1969. 'Mad Men' kicks off farewell tour with ad spot during Oscars telecast 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Another way of putting this would be to say that the first half of belongs in the tradition of the Victorian novel, whereas the second half shows Lawrence moving towards modernism. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z But in the first half of 2014, newly registered murals popped up infrequently. L.A.'s mural ordinance is beginning to reveal its effects 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z Today, however, at least 35 buildings in the center of the city alone from the first half of the 20th century are being rehabilitated, said Kathleen Crowther, the president of the Cleveland Restoration Society. Cleveland, a City Repurposed 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Much of the first half of the play is spent trying to establish an alternative version to Shakespeare's famous tragedy. 'Dunsinane' at the Wallis held back trying to land big message 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The first half was given over to French song – Poulenc, Debussy, Duparc – and at times it was possible to discern a pulse in her tone and a tendency to flatten notes when singing softly. Karita Mattila/Ville Matvejeff – review 2013-04-05T14:46:00Z The band spent the first half of the set on older and newer material, avoiding familiar tunes from 2008's brilliant "Bitte Orca" album, the one that brought mainstream attention to this long-standing Brooklyn band. Dirty Projectors adopt 14th-century musical style in eclectic Seattle set 2010-10-01T19:32:00Z For us to get 19 points in the first half — there was that feeling where your heart drops. Princeton-UCLA: Reflections on an Historic Upset 2011-03-16T10:05:00Z The first half, with 10 episodes, will begin as previously announced on Aug. 25. Mary J. Blige to star in first of several “Power” spinoffs 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z The first half of “The Lyons,” which never leaves Ben’s hospital room, is tighter and more satisfying. | 'The Lyons': ?The Lyons,? by Nicky Silver, at Vineyard Theater - Review 2011-10-12T02:05:01Z There is a moment towards the end of the first half of Inspector Sands' latest show that is as charged and heart-breaking as anything you will see on the stage. Mass Observation – review 2012-07-08T14:41:48Z But the switching between white and black actors in the same roles is what keeps the audience laughing pretty much continuously for the first half of this comedy. 'Barbecue' at the Geffen finds a ferociously funny way into the subject of race and identity 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z There are two options here: Let restaurants die, or fund them to stay afloat through the first half of 2021. Looking ahead: The top food and agriculture stories for 2021 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z All these were evident early on, in the Purcell of the first half. Music Review: Juilliard415 Plays ?Fairy Queen? and ?F?tes d?H?b?? 2012-01-31T23:26:55Z Millions of hemlock trees died at the hand of the leather-tanning industry in first half of the 19th century, when the Catskill region prospered as its epicenter. A 140-Year-Old Hemlock Was Lost. Now It Has New Life as Art. 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Most of it looks a lot like Marvel, at least in the first half of the movie, which was directed by Sam Raimi from a script by Michael Waldron. ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ Review: Nothing Out of the Ordinary 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z In the first half, the singers’ personalities were sublimated to the music. The King’s Singers rule with vocal artistry 2014-02-16T22:25:25Z A fine account of Barber’s roiling “Dover Beach” ended the concert’s first half on a note of dramatic urgency. Music Review: Nathan and Julie Gunn With Pacifica Quartet at Zankel Hall 2013-04-24T21:51:23Z Where the first half of the program showed Mozart and Haydn at their most engaging, the second half highlighted each composer’s ingenuity. Music Review: Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall 2013-06-03T20:02:26Z And during the first half of its run, it did have certain timeless qualities. Should comedy worry about its shelf life? 2011-03-14T14:30:00Z If the first half of "The Simpsons'" endless run has held up, it's because of the characters and stories, the timing of certain lines and sight gags, and the phenomenal voice work. Will future generations understand "The Simpsons"? 2011-03-08T16:05:00Z The mood shifted dramatically again for the concluding piece on the first half of the program. Music Review: Hearing ?Spring? as Summer Fades 2010-09-05T22:32:00Z Hage’s childhood played out against the first half or so of the Lebanese war. A Bawdy Novel Considers the Tragic Absurdities of Lebanon’s Civil War 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z After only a few hundred yards, the trail turned steeply upward, climbing 200 feet in the first half mile, then immediately downhill before gradually climbing again. A Cool Glide Through Maine 2012-02-17T20:45:41Z In the first half of the book, Salesses redefines craft terms like plot, conflict, tone, character and setting, arguing that each needs to be understood in its sociocultural context. For More Inclusive Writing, Look to How Writing Is Taught 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Given the ensemble’s full-blooded, dynamic playing of the two concertos after intermission, the first half of the concert, led by Ms. Kazovsky as first violinist, seemed curiously restrained. Review: Parlor-Style Mozart From the Ariel Quartet 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Writers who missed out on the pitch sessions can attend the first half of the writers' day, which takes place at King William's College on 28 September. Chance for writers to pitch own work 2013-09-19T17:02:43Z In his early career, which forms the first half of this two-month retrospective, Bertolucci seems to have lived for danger. This week's new film events 2011-04-01T23:06:04Z The first half focuses on Raphaël, a huge, lumbering man with a jutting brow and hands the size of hams. Cannes Film Festival 2022: Politics Mixed With Moments of Grace 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z It’s not a coincidence that those songs show up on the record’s first half, which is uniformly more upbeat and likely to be the pool from which future singles are drawn. Pop Goes Katy Perry: PRISM Promises Hits 2013-10-22T14:08:45Z The ensemble played the work at the end of the first half of its program and again as the finale, a sensible approach to programming a complex new work. 2010-02-15T00:46:00Z From the opening of the first restaurants around 1860 until the first half of the 20th century, becoming a chef was not an attractive profession. How chefs became rock stars: The shifting attitudes toward restaurant work 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z I suspect this is why the episode heavily leans on The Paternoster Gang to hold the first half of the script together. 'Doctor Who' Series 8 Premiere Review: Deep Breath 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Throughout much of the first half, Dunn sits behind a colorful pulpit camouflaged like a plant; he wears a green top and bottoms dotted with tiny leaves. Review: Dancing With the Flowers and Douglas Dunn 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Perhaps fittingly, given its title, the second half of the novel — the trip back from the House of the Dead — has more narrative momentum and suspense than the first half. Into the Woods 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Somehow, this plot description conforms to the experience of watching the film: for about the first half, the exposition is explicit and stepwise, and the director, Robert Schwentke, can’t do much with it. The Apocalypse Will Be Like High School 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z The version produced by high schools is an authorized abridgment that essentially consists of the musical's first half. 'Into the Woods' has a bewitching popularity — and presents issues 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z South by Southwest dominates Austin for the first half of March, but CIMMfest shouldn’t expect to do the same in Chicago, Black says. CIMMfest takes step in bigger direction 2013-04-11T18:32:00Z In his catalog for the show, he praises Colborne as "one of the most interesting, original, and accomplished artists active in Washington State during the first half of the twentieth century." Forests and mountains dominate 'Evergreen Muse: The Art of Elizabeth Colborne' at Whatcom Museum 2011-08-19T18:26:04Z Halfway through the show, the first half being virtually unmemorable, there appeared about three models wearing dresses styled as if they were made of rolled-up carpets, with long fringe along the edges. | Fast Fashion: Mystery at Martin Margiela 2011-09-30T19:06:55Z I find it hard to be enthusiastic about the rest of the first half, purely on account of the choice of music I find temperamentally alien. Review: Israel Philharmonic plays familiar Mahler with unfamiliar lightness 2011-02-27T20:30:05Z It's the story of two Mennonite missionaries working in rural China in the first half of the 20th century who get caught up in the crumbling of a more than 2,000-year-old dynasty. Bo Caldwell reads 'City of Tranquil Light' at Seattle's University Book Store 2010-10-05T20:24:00Z In the first half there were four chamber works, three written when Britten was in his early 20s. Music Review: Chamber Music Society at Alice Tully Hall 2013-05-12T21:55:55Z For at least the first half of Bruce Norris’s “The Low Road,” which opened at the Public Theater on Wednesday night, the answer is an exuberant yes. Review: A Boisterous ‘Low Road’ Finds the Potholes in Capitalism 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Glenn’s is-he-or-isn’t-he-dead arc was the most polarizing subplot of the first half of the season, with many viewers unhappy with the trickery. ‘The Walking Dead’: What to Remember Before Sunday’s Premiere 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Awkward because its first half, an incisive comedy of false friendship, has little to do with its second half, a ragged tragedy of Lear-like madness. A First-Time Visitor Inhales Stratford’s Theatrical Perfume 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z The first half of the concert featured two world-class soloists in superb form; the second half, remarkably, was better still. Music Review: Soloists Take or Share the Spotlight as Needed 2010-12-05T22:13:00Z The first half of “The Stranger” depicts a shabby idyll. ‘The Stranger,’ Made All the More So in the Person of Mastroianni 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z For its first half Mr. Pendleton’s “Ivanov” draws lusty energy from its highly animated variety. Theater Review: ‘Ivanov,’ With Ethan Hawke, From Classic Stage Company 2012-11-12T03:00:00Z The first half of the film is a long, slow setup. Benedict Cumberbatch is intimidating in Jane Campion's exquisite and potent "Power of the Dog" 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z The first half is set in Manhattan during the 1960s and the second half in Europe 20 years later. A War Reporter Finds Refuge by Switching to Fiction 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z One brutal truth emerges from Nielsen SoundScan’s report on trends in the music industry for the first half of 2014: Today’s consumers are far more interested in seeing and hearing pop music than buying it. Music streaming up, sales down in first half of 2014 -- SoundScan 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z That the first half nevertheless offered moments of excitement was entirely because of the energetic performance of Augustin Hadelich, who threw himself into the virtuosic solo violin part with a passion bordering on impatience. Music Review: Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Leads the New York Philharmonic 2012-10-20T02:50:07Z The first half of the sixth and final season of "Vikings" begins with a two-hour premiere Wednesday, Dec. 4 at 9 p.m. on History. "Vikings" kicks off its final season with its own "tender moment" in history 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z The "Late Show" host spent 10 minutes at his desk during the first half of his show recalling Williams and their early days together in the late 1970s at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles. David Letterman pays emotional tribute to Robin Williams 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z The first half of the concert, meanwhile, was given over to Verdi's Overture to Luisa Miller and Mozart's G Major Piano Concerto, No 17, K 453. Hall?/Elder - review 2011-02-27T17:47:54Z This was certainly the case in the first half of 2018, when I visited Eastern state parks. Rich in Surprises and Secrets, There’s a State Park Waiting for You 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Her mood changes as frequently as her costumes and, in the first half, she is wickedly funny. Review|Theatre|Antony and Cleopatra, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon|Michael Billington 2010-05-10T23:18:00Z Their friendship, prickly at first, grows warmer over the first half of the novel. They’re Political Adversaries, and They’re in Love 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z And the contrast between the chilly impersonality of the Avalon and the anguish of its human cargo lends the first half of the movie a desperate poignancy. Review: Two ‘Passengers’ Trapped on a Spaceship Find Love Amid Despair 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z For me though the first half was much stronger than the second half. apooley didn't see this version of Mormon, but one of its American stagings instead: I saw it in Seattle in January. Reader reviews: what you thought of The Book of Mormon 2013-03-25T15:12:51Z After loathing her for the first half of the season she grew on me steadily. Game of Thrones: season two, episode ten – Valar Morghulis 2012-06-04T13:19:00Z David Hallberg, as her partner, was somewhat vacant in the first half but grew expansive and relaxed — and wonderfully silly — on point. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bright Stream’ at the Met 2012-05-30T21:28:34Z There is no chimerical spin to his throws, but he has precision aim and cruises through the first half of the game with a series of nines, a spare and a strike. Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The first half of their conversation can be found here. ArtsBeat: More Todd Haynes on My Morning Jacket Concert Film 2011-05-03T19:48:06Z The quality isn't always high: the first half is scrappy, and there's much generic mockery of local towns, as well as duff gags like the one about his brother's reaction to Manford's hypochondria. Jason Manford – review 2013-07-22T17:49:08Z The first half of the program ended with Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D flat, which the pianist and scholar Charles Rosen once described as “the least respectable side of Liszt.” Music Review: Steven Lin Shows His Confidence in Recital 2014-02-12T22:13:35Z He began to write these stories in the first half of the 1990s, which coincided with our return home to Russia. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 'last stories' will appear in English at last 2011-07-23T23:07:17Z Most troubled musicals collapse after the first half. Such glorious decay: The musical 'Grey Gardens' at the Ahmanson 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z The first half of the show is often pleasantly interrupted by other artists — in reality or spirit. Looking Twice at Renoir and O’Keeffe (Ida, not Georgia) 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z We light first half of the piece before lunch. Twyla Tharp’s Premiere Week: The Stage Ship Sails 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The great Beat poet traveled to Communist countries in the first half of 1965, Cuba and Poland among them. New & Noteworthy 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The embrace of folkloric music by Bartok and other Hungarian composers further nudged Mr. Jarrett toward a dark quality — “a kind of existential sadness, let’s say, a deepness” — powerfully present in the concert’s first half. Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z In 1946, we missed a bus stop and the first half of Laurence Olivier’s adaptation of Henry V, so the narrative explaining the battle of Agincourt became quite mysterious. Vanessa Redgrave: 'I've sung the High Noon theme song by heart all my life' 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z In the larger works in the first half, Bell and Denk tended to overpower Isserlis, whose choice to play on gut strings limits his dynamic range. Review | Can three musical stars shine in constellation? Bell, Isserlis and Denk in concert. 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z The first half of the program offered more American fare, beginning with the world premiere of Christopher Rouse’s gothic “Prospero’s Rooms” followed by Bernstein’s Apollonian “Serenade,” with Joshua Bell as solo violinist. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-04-18T21:42:45Z In the play’s first half, Ms. Proske doesn’t seem to have decided how seriously she should take Webster’s mad, bad world. Review: In ‘The White Devil,’ Pick Your Poison 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z "Simpsons: Bart of Darkness": While most of this episode parodies "Rear Window," the first half of the cartoon chronicles the Simpsons' air-conditioning and its lack of function. 5 summer heat scenes to make you love winter 2011-02-24T16:01:00Z The tracks from the first half of his career through the “Black Album” classic “99 Problems,” backed his claim of hip-hop supremacy. Justin Timberlake and Jay Z at Soldier Field concert review 2013-07-22T14:57:00Z You’re going to spend the first half of your life planning your wedding and the second half regretting it. | 'Daydream Nation': Picking Up Extra Credit, and Teacher, After School 2011-05-06T05:30:05Z The first half featured Kaplan performing his “New Dances of the League of David,” a collection of recently commissioned pieces inspired by the 18 dances of Robert Schumann’s “Davidsbündlertänze.” Program by pianists Kaplan and Andres has promise but needs work 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z I've experienced this firsthand, courtesy of a guest who watched the first half of Season 3 with me and reflexively muttered, "So hot!" each time Geralt entered a room before wailing, "Whyyyy?" Contrary to what Liam Hemsworth doubters suspect, he'll make a fine lead in "The Witcher" 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z The first half of section three, "The Kill" consists of a day-by-day account of the crimes, their clumsy coverup, and the confusion that follows. Richard House's 'The Kills' challenges what a thriller can be 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Back then, in the first half of the 20th century, it was ballet that required fantasy sequences to seem plausible in a musical. Ridiculous! Fabulous! On Broadway, Tapping in Quotation Marks 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Paddle8, which reported total sales of $17.8 million in the first half of this year, claims about 60,000 registered members and employs nearly 100 people at its new Manhattan offices near Cooper Union. Trying to Shatter Ceiling in Online Art Auctions 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z “Girl” is a boardinghouse drama, a gathering-of-archetypes genre that was popular in the first half of the 20th century. Review: In ‘Girl From the North Country,’ Rolling Stones Gather Regrets 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z But you should be frustrated, because the reasons why you aren’t allowed to screen the second half of this double bill is why the first half got made. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z A more sober critic might mutter about the show's soap-opera narratives, the excessive length of the first half and the occasional plot contrivance. Sunshine on Leith 2010-09-16T21:31:00Z The first half sets out some rather obvious points about insults, with abundant examples. A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt – And Why They Shouldn't by William B Irvine – review 2013-07-10T08:00:00Z New York magazine's Bilge Ebiri says "Woman in Black 2" is a "dour, drab, dark movie, enlivened by some moderately effective chills in the first half but ultimately undone by its downbeat aimlessness." 'Woman in Black 2' haunted by horror cliches, reviews say 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z On Friday, April 14, the first half of a complete retrospective of his work begins at Film Forum. Frederick Wiseman: The Filmmaker Who Shows Us Ourselves 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z It's spellbinding for the first half of its 40 or so minutes, eventually bringing in one too many cute pop scores. Intensity, drive energize Hubbard dance program 2011-03-18T17:19:00Z Chloral hydrate, used as a sedative for the first half of the 20th century, left patients feeling sapped and sluggish. Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z He called the program "True Life Stories," the title of five highly personal meditations for piano by Mark-Anthony Turnage on the first half of the program. Humble virtuoso Mark Robson's piano weaves his highly personal tales 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z This is true to Boyd's concept, which is to play the first half as comedy and the second half as tragedy; and, on the whole, the former comes off better. Review|Theatre|Antony and Cleopatra, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon|Michael Billington 2010-05-10T23:18:00Z The first half of the song was droning and driving, and the second half was part Jamaican, part Eastern European, minor-key chords pulsing on the backbeat. Concert review: Flexions at the Crocodile 01/19/11 2011-01-20T18:04:05Z He missed the first half of this season following emergency surgery after a fall on vacation last August. Met Opera conductor Levine withdraws through 2012-13 2011-12-09T22:48:52Z The first half of the evening — “Lewiston,” a melancholy family reunion set at a bedraggled roadside fireworks stand — operates within a small space even by Mr. Hunter’s miniaturist standards. Pull Up a Seat. Two Plays, Dinner and Western History Are Served. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The first half consisted of the world premiere of a 10-minute work specially commissioned from an emerging composer. Review: The New York Youth Symphony, Empowered at Carnegie Hall 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z The Nash Ensemble's current season at the Wigmore Hall is being spent among the green hills of British music from the first half of the last century. Maltman/Nash Ensemble – review 2013-02-25T16:00:00Z The songs in the show’s first half examine the happier side of love. Music Review: Maude Maggart Explores Love at the Oak Room 2010-04-14T21:17:00Z The music in the first half of Trespass was really b****cks, but otherwise the music was excellent. Reader reviews: your take on Timon of Athens and Metamorphosis Titian 2012 2012-07-20T14:00:00Z Japan, traditionally a strong market for digital sales, reported flat digital revenues in the first half of 2009, with CD sales falling more than 20 percent, due to mobile piracy and the economic downturn. 2010-01-21T13:10:00Z For the first half of the 19th century, that role was severely limited. Review | The Library of Congress: ‘The book Palace of the American People’ 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z In these Week 1467 results we tour the first half of the year, from everything from foal names to elaborate video parodies. Style Invitational Week 1471: Tour de Fours XVIII — B-I-D-E with us 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z In that spirit, while “The Americans” is one of the best dramas currently airing, I’m at peace with it not getting nominated for what really played like the first half of a double-length season. Our TV Critics Debate the 2017 Emmy Award Nominations 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z The first half of the set, typified by Chuck D drawing links between 2012 track Hoover Music and recent revelations about American government surveillance, is taut and thrilling. Public Enemy – review 2013-07-26T16:24:39Z In the first half of 2009, domestic hotels lost $1 billion in revenue from canceled meetings alone, the travel trade group said. 2010-02-02T06:07:00Z The company, known for humorous ads, used straightforward pitches for its new Bud Light Platinum in the game's first half. Resilient Chevy, Chrysler ads win at Super Bowl 2012-02-06T05:16:58Z The first half of “The Watsons” largely follows Austen’s original material, lifting much of its dialogue directly. Jane Austen’s Unfinished Novel Comes to the Stage 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Thone's Titus is so stoic and disengaging in the show's first half that his segue into manic grief feels abrupt rather than cumulative. Seattle troupe mounts a spooky, lean, all-women 'Titus' 2012-09-13T20:30:07Z “Russia was converging with Italy, industrializing as fast as Japan, and overtaking Spain in the first half of the 20th century,” he wrote in a note. Red October: Russia of 1917 and 2017 closer than might be expected 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z This is an epic new adaptation of the classic SF novel by Frank Herbert from 1965 – the first of two projected movies that will cover only the first half of the book. Dune, Bond and Top Gun returns: Films to look out for in 2021 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z The young Cuban group took the stage for the first half, concluding its North American tour marking the release of its new album, “Mozart in Havana,” with the American pianist Simone Dinnerstein. Review | Simone Dinnerstein, Havana Lyceum Orchestra join forces with NOI orchestra 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z The first half of the program included two older Bowen McCauley works with choreography a bit too prim for the music. Bowen McCauley Dance celebrates 20 years with new and vintage pieces 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Under Mr. Mazarra, "The Walking Dead" broke numerous ratings records, drawing nearly 11 million viewers for the Dec. 2 episode that concluded the first half of its third season. ArtsBeat: 'Walking Dead' Gains a New Season But Its Show Runner Becomes Latest Casualty 2012-12-21T18:13:12Z And as long as we’re talking translation, the first half of the title is the Unangan word for Alaska’s rocky coast, meaning, “land against which the action of the sea is directed.” Review: Warming Up to the Frozen North in ‘Alaxsxa / Alaska’ 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The first half is barbed and biting, an outrageous comedy of American grotesques. Michael Douglas on Liberace, Cannes, cancer and cunnilingus 2013-06-02T20:00:00Z His show, or at least the first half, was surprisingly dark, sleek and ruffle-free. On the Runway: A Somber Show at Christian Siriano 2011-02-11T02:03:36Z Two problems: The clichés in the first half don’t really prepare us for the clichés in the second half. Chaplin on Broadway: High-Wire Act 2012-09-12T12:00:34Z Is the first half the "true" version or the student's account? Richard House's 'The Kills' challenges what a thriller can be 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z If Schumann's Mass was a rarity, then the first half of the programme stuck to more familiar territory, with two works by Brahms. SCO/John Storg?rds 2010-05-07T20:50:00Z It's rare but refreshing to see a soloist from the first half of a concert sit among the audience for the second. Gerhardt/Philharmonia/Salonen 2010-05-26T21:15:00Z Reichardt and Raymond give their story the “tent” structure of movie epics like Lawrence of Arabia: the first half leading up to a daring military operation, the second half trailing down in division and disappointment. REVIEW: Night Moves: Political Thriller at a Slow Boil 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z For sheer virtuosity, one of the most eye-catching works is a rectangular panel from the first half of the 20th century displayed in a case of Chinese ceramics. ‘Dramatic Threads: Textiles of Asia’ Review: The Very Fabric of Asian Societies 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, the first half was a welcome exercise in turning the screw – not in tension, but in something The Walking Dead has been sorely lacking in recent years: excitement. The Walking Dead season eight, episode one – Mercy 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z In the first half of the show especially, the films, which are rarely more than eight or nine minutes long and visible through very wide doorways, form alluring vistas. Art Review | 'William Kentridge: Five Themes': Anger and Angst, Explored With Animation 2010-02-25T22:41:00Z Between the Cage, which opened the concert, and the Feldman, which closed the first half, Tom Chiu, the Flux Quartet’s first violinist, offered a palate cleanser of sorts. Music Review: Flux Quartet at Bargemusic for John Cage Centennial 2012-07-20T21:10:20Z The first half sees some riotous set pieces as the company prepare for their performance. Napoletango ? review 2011-08-08T17:17:38Z Contrasting the divertimento character of everything in the first half, the group returned after intermission to essay one of Brahms’s greatest, and darkest, chamber works, the Piano Quartet Op. Violist Miles Hoffman, American Chamber Players are solid at Kreeger 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Sawyer's arc in the first half of "Lost" this season was wrenching to watch, the complete undoing of a man who lost the love of his life, and Holloway was never, ever better. Emmy nominations: Who got snubbed? 2010-07-08T15:30:00Z The first Gilded Age occupies the first half of Fraser's book; the second half examines our present situation, which he calls "America's second Gilded Age." 'Age of Acquiescence' examines America's second Gilded Age 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The duo concluded the first half of the program with Schumann’s meandering Sonata No. 2, a work of turbulent surges and lyrical interludes rendered here with conviction and dramatic contrast. Review: Alexi Kenney at Weill Recital Hall 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z “In the first half of 2019, we have a lot more programming and there’s not one show that we have aired that I wouldn’t have aired, you know, two years ago or five years ago.” Perspective | HBO needs new stuff and lots of it. Get ready for more fantasy stories set in parallel worlds. 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z In the first half he shows Julian going to Athens in search of enlightenment and meeting the mystic Maximus, who urges him to combine the wisdom of Christianity with that of paganism. The best theatre for spring 2011 2011-04-05T19:00:02Z For much of the first half the plot seems directionless. 'Halt and Catch Fire' Recap: Can Geekiness Be Entertaining? 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z Open between late May and September, the first half of this loop road is gravel, accessible to most cars. Top 10 national and state parks in Oregon 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z A governing spirit of the first half of this fascinating exhibition is Lady Anne, who grew up in a 17th-century household with distinguished literary associations. Exhibition Review: ?Shakespeare?s Sisters? at the Folger Shakespeare Library 2012-02-23T23:43:59Z The show’s digital set design, mostly black and blood red in the first half, warmed up along with him. Music Review: Peter Gabriel and Orchestra at Radio City Music Hall 2010-05-03T23:48:00Z I’m assuming that at least some of the audience must have felt a bit confused as well, wondering what happened to that rip-roaring floor show of the first half. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Stratford-Upon-Avon Edition 2011-07-22T21:16:12Z Georges de la Tour's paintings of Mary Magdalene meditating at night, which date from the first half of the 17th century, return again and again to the beauty of candlelight. Candle-lit theatres belong in the past 2013-04-23T14:20:39Z He ended the first half of the program with his own piece “mar’eh,” a violin concerto that glides on gossamer wings for an unbroken 22 minutes, never touching land. Getting to know — or at least trying to — Matthias Pintscher at an L.A. Phil concert 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z A procedural that was really two procedurals conjoined, the first half of each episode focused on the investigation of a crime, the second on the prosecution of the accused. Sam Waterston Is Still the Face of ‘Law & Order’ 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The first half of the album is pure vengeance. Review: On ‘Formation’ World Tour, Beyoncé Through ‘Lemonade’-Tinted Glasses 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Filtered through a reader’s knowledge of its origins, the first half of “The Invisible Bridge” looks much more deliberate in its exaggerations. Books of The Times: Destinies Found and Lost in Julie Orringer?s ?Invisible Bridge? 2010-05-19T22:08:00Z To see Atticus portrayed as reflecting the racism that might be expected of a white Southern man in the first half of the 20th century is to acknowledge realities that those narratives rarely do. Atticus Finch a racist? There goes the ideal 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z For the first half of the ceremony, I was sweating over the fact that “A Strange Loop,” which had been nominated for 11 awards, hadn’t won anything. Best and Worst Moments of the 75th Tony Awards 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Fortunately, the night went on so long - there was only one award presented in the entire first half hour - that there was time enough for DeGeneres to recover. Ellen's bid for best Oscar host 2014-03-03T08:07:42Z Mr. Brown sings the first half as Lil Dicky, puerile as they come, and Lil Dicky raps the second half as Mr. Brown, alluding to his criminal history and alleged gang ties. The Playlist: Pearl Jam Kicks Up a Fury, and 9 More New Songs 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Prokofiev’s Violin Sonata No. 1, the opening work in the program, set the tone for the first half. Music Review: Defining the Art of Gravity With Strings and a Bow 2011-11-10T23:08:05Z The first half of next year is expected to be rich with critical and commercial successes. Looking Ahead: Culture Picks for 2013 2012-12-27T23:05:33Z The performance of Glazunov’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A minor that concluded the first half of the program also proved underwhelming. Case Scaglione Leads the Philharmonic and Joshua Bell 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Throughout the first half, I kept turning around and telling the upperclassmen to shut up, not realizing that Crimson Key was sponsoring the movie.” Film: Attitude Adjustment: How Harvard Views ?Love Story? 2010-08-22T01:13:00Z The first half of Goode’s typically thoughtful program was devoted to Viennese classical masters. Review | Pianist Richard Goode plays a deeply satisfying concert at U-Md. 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z He proceeded to play the first half of "Something" on it, subbing a sweet falsetto for the famous post-chorus guitar lick, before the band crashed in. Paul McCartney thrills L.A. crowd with hits, tales 2010-04-01T00:20:00Z Ms. Chai wore a pale blue gown with satin top and billowing skirt for the first half of the program and a slinky dress and black high-heeled boots for the second half. Music Review: Jenny Q Chai at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-11-05T23:29:28Z It's not only the celebrity magazine with the highest circulation -- 3.5 million in the first half of 2010 -- but the one with the most diversified base of agency partners, paying the most for exclusive snapshots. People magazine iPad app delayed by paparazzi 2010-08-18T07:53:00Z This is the case with “American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe,” a tame, by-the-book selection of around 120 works by American artists from the first half of the 20th century. Art Review: ‘American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe’ Opens at MoMA 2013-08-22T22:04:13Z It's an intriguing rather than an eventful first half. TV review: UEFA Champions League Final: Bayern Munich v Chelsea 2012-05-20T15:00:02Z So in the first half of the film the insurgent Christian mob draws pagan blood, and the beleaguered pagan elite, including Theon and Orestes, meets the threat with savagery. | 'Agora': Rachel Weisz in a Tale of Ancient Egypt 2010-05-27T22:24:00Z The center added more guard dogs, but in just the first half of 2014, records show, 21 lambs were killed. Animal Welfare at Risk in Experiments for Meat Industry 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Theirs are the faces we see in the first half of “Halftime in America,” before the music swells and heroic resolve sets in. Clint's Chrysler Ad: From the Director of Pineapple Express 2012-02-07T18:04:53Z But perhaps even more remarkable were the lives of this country’s first black millionaires, some of them born in the first half of the 19th century, decades before the Emancipation Proclamation. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: America’s First Black Millionaires 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z He spent the first half of the season trying to make his monthly nut by training other fighters and doing odd, illegal "muscle" jobs for a local crime boss, and ... So long, "Lights Out" -- you coulda been a contender 2011-04-05T14:01:00Z She spends the first half of the book explaining how civil wars have started in a number of places around the world, including the former Yugoslavia, the Philippines and Iraq. ‘How Civil Wars Start,’ a Warning About the State of the Union 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z That, in part, is because Parks — in the first half of the book — isn’t writing as a traveler but as a long-distance commuter. ‘Italian Ways’: a not-quite-travel book on Italy’s railroads 2013-07-24T22:09:41Z It also marked a departure from the muralists who were heavily inspired by civil conflicts that dominated the scene for most of the first half of the 20th century. Francisco Toledo, artist who injected new life into Mexican... 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Two of the sonatas framed the first half of this programme, sharing, along with the Bartók they sandwiched, a sense of insistence. Leif Ove Andsnes – review 2013-04-10T17:20:01Z The first half of the show continues with sculptures of pharaohs, priests and dignitaries, leading up to and beyond Tutankhmun's brief reign, which began in 1333 B.C. 'Tutankhamun' in Seattle: artifacts both dazzling and humble 2012-05-25T05:42:18Z Having Mr. Markgraf sing the first half, and Ms. Cooke the second, would be simplistic. ‘As One’ Has Its Premiere in Brooklyn 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z In the first half of the 1990s, she was unstoppable; in the second half, very close to that. Review: Mariah Carey and Her Can’t-Look-Away Debut in Las Vegas 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z But some sense of anticlimax was perhaps inevitable, after Mr. Wosner’s transcendent achievements in the first half. Shai Wosner and the Parker Quartet at the 92nd Street Y 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Rather than diving headlong into the jungle, the first half is essentially a claustrophobic gothic horror story. My streaming gem: why you should watch The Most Dangerous Game 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z She published the first half in her native Iraq in 1995, but the deteriorating political climate soon forced her to leave. Poet Dunya Mikhail fled Iraq — but still carries home with her 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z The first half of one of her missives tended to be a flurry of questions addressed to her correspondent. Review: ‘Living on Paper,’ Seven Decades of Letters From Iris Murdoch 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z For about the first half hour of festivities, Christmas is a wonderful time. The 13 best standup specials on Netflix 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z With some twenty seconds left in the first half, Princeton called a play dubbed "center-forward." Princeton-UCLA: Reflections on an Historic Upset 2011-03-16T10:05:00Z The first half of "Measures" has considerable energy thanks to the editing skills of veteran Anne V. Coates, but then the picture is dragged down by too many turgid confrontations and predictable epiphanies. 2010-01-22T03:30:00Z Attendance figures for the first half are due out later this month. Hollywood film franchise fatigue drives down global ticket sales 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z To judge by the premiere, it will be something like the first half of a network late-night show, minus the interviews and musical guests. Hannibal Buress blasted Bill Cosby, now asks 'Why?' on own Comedy Central show 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The few pitch inconsistencies on the first half of the program were less bothersome than the indifferent playing. Music in Review: ‘Science Fair,’ Jeremy Denk and the Emerson String Quartet 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z "The back pain that initially caused her to postpone the first half of her concert tour, has turned out to be breast cancer that has metastasized to the sacrum," Tuesday's statement said. Singer Olivia Newton-John says breast cancer has returned 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z This may all sound a bit precious, but even when nothing happens — a description that applies to the first half of the book — Duchovny’s tone makes the ride a pleasure. David Duchovny’s hilarious new novel hits a home run 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The afternoon started off badly with periodic one-second audio outages through the first half of Act I, which a spokesman for the distributor, Emerging Pictures, attributed to a faulty cable at the house in Milan. ArtsBeat Blog: Watching a La Scala Opening on the Big Screen 2011-12-07T23:05:49Z Yet at CBS' request, Nielsen still reports ratings for the first half hour to advertisers and the media. Squabble highlights Sunday news shows competition 2012-09-16T13:15:09Z The Strauss shared the first half with the A minor Quartet by the virtuoso violinist Fritz Kreisler. Music Review: ?Quartet Variations? at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 2012-03-15T21:53:02Z I chose to stay put in the new Annex for the first half and move to the Warehouse for the second. The L.A. music scene as seen through Berio's Sequenzas 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z In its more relaxed first half, “Passengers” allows room for needling satire of the airline industry. Review: Two ‘Passengers’ Trapped on a Spaceship Find Love Amid Despair 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Concluding the first half of its summer tour in Washington, the seven members of the Music in the American Wild ensemble showcased six composers’ nature-inspired works, commissioned to celebrate the National Park Service’s centennial. Music in the American Wild plays mockingbird 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z They are typically small, built by the owners from simple materials, and seem to date to the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. An artist captures the ‘ghost voices’ of abandoned houses 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Brands, a two-time Pulitzer finalist, has turned to the generation of American political leaders who arrived in the wake of the founding fathers and dominated the first half of the 19th century. New & Noteworthy 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z After spending the first half of the season giving Castle Black a thorough once-over, the last of the Five Kings decides it’s finally time to head down to Winterfell. 'Game of Thrones' recap: "Kill the Boy" 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Throughout the first half of 2015, I watched the atrocities of Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, Charleston, and Sandra Bland largely on the sidelines, save for a social media post here and there. I am a white person against Trump: White people need to stop laughing and start taking responsibility 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The trio offered a rarity in the first half, Dvorak’s Trio in G Minor, his second, from 1876. Familiar with their music and with each other 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z By the time people see us talking, the first half of "You's" fourth season is going to be out, the first five episodes, and people will be digesting it. "You" star Penn Badgley thinks his killer Joe has "too many sides .. and he needs to die" 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Even so, the first half offered music by six composers working in a variety of styles. Music Review: The neoLIT Ensemble?s Women?s Works at Bargemusic 2010-05-30T22:02:00Z The first two parts of this staggering undertaking, celebrating the songs from the first half of the 20th century, are being presented at New York Live Arts in association with the Under the Radar Festival. Taylor Mac’s ‘A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: 1900-1950s’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The film's first half plays out as a prolonged, perfectly managed tease. Antonio Banderas: Almod?var and me 2011-07-29T21:59:00Z The dancers won't be there, but Sergei Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances will be, played by the LSO on the shows' first halves. Take Five: John Fordham's month in jazz – July 2012-07-25T10:18:00Z "Surviving Jeffrey Epstein" airs over two nights, with its first half debuting on Sunday, Aug. 9 at 8 p.m.and its conclusion airing at Monday, Aug.10 at 9 p.m. on Lifetime. It's time for Ghislaine Maxwell's reckoning in the "Surviving Jeffrey Epstein" docuseries 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z Mr. DeJohnette and the bassist Dave Holland didn’t miss a beat, but the abruptness of the shift underscored a feeling of haste and vagary in the first half. Music Review: Honoring Herbie Hancock?s 70th, at Carnegie Hall 2010-06-26T00:35:00Z Although it took five years to turn what is essentially the first half of her book into a documentary, the timing of its release is perfect, Dr. Harris said. The Making of ‘High on the Hog,’ Bringing Black Food History to TV 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z The first half features an ostinato bass, perhaps alluding to the passacaglia finale of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony. Review: Semyon Bychkov Leads the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Laurent uses key film clips, music and interviews to tell this story, and the mixture succeeds for the film's first half. 'Two in the Wave': Recapturing moments of the French New Wave 2010-08-19T21:04:00Z The first half of the exhibition includes symbols of imperial power and portraits of key members from the Romanov Dynasty, which ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917. In Transit Blog: At Prague Castle, Treasures of the Czars 2012-01-12T11:00:59Z Last week, the first half of this Canadian sitcom’s series finale brought viewers to tears. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Schitt’s Creek’ and ‘What You Gonna Do’ 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Siddiqi confirms that the young Obama, a high school pothead, "was lighthearted and fun-loving for the first half of our cohabitation and grew serious later". Barack Obama and his wild, drug-taking roomie 2012-10-03T15:08:57Z It's the big one, as the Pandorica opens and all hell breaks loose in the first half of the two-part season finale. Doctor Who: The Lodger ? Series 31, episode 11 2010-06-12T18:30:00Z But it was hard to escape the notion in the first half of the program, featuring some of the young competition winners, that this was the essential criterion for both participants and judges. Dance Review: Here, Some Promising Young Dancers, There, Some Well-Seasoned Pros 2011-03-23T21:29:04Z Set in Brussels and divided into two sections, the movie enjoys a zippy first half structured around Gino’s fun-loving gang of miscreants and a thrilling bank robbery. Review: To Catch a Thief, Drive a Fast Car in ‘Racer and the Jailbird’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z It dedicated the first half of its Sunday night program at Walt Disney Concert Hall to premieres of new piano accompaniments for choruses from five of Adams’ music theater works. John Adams' operatic essence and Stravinsky's inner pagan revealed through pianos and chorus 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z After being elected as the director of the village committee at the end of the first half, he seems to undergo something like a change in sides. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Halliday only teases at the inner life of her female protagonist in the book’s first half; it blooms, unexpectedly, in the second. One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Indeed, the first half of “The Book of Dust” reads like a thriller. Philip Pullman’s ‘The Book of Dust’ is an enthralling prequel to His Dark Materials 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The first half of this season was a considerable boost from the meandering travels of the second half of last season. 'The Walking Dead' recap: 'Coda' puts an end to one story 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z There are far better uses for this organ and, as McVinnie showed in the first half of his program, this organist. A British organist reaches America by way of Reykjavik 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z He later returned with Ms. Demyanenko for the first half of “Blue Room.” Dance Review: Elena Demyanenko and Dai Jian Collaborate 2014-02-16T21:32:46Z The first half of the two-part series airs at 9 p.m. Monday TV Picks: 'Clinton: American Experience,' KCTS 2012-02-18T00:27:01Z Last week the Empress ran the totally nifty results for names of businesses or products that contained anagrams: The letters in the first half of the name were scrambled to make the second half. Style Invitational Week 1393: Another go at anagrams (O groan at a rash magnet?) 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z His answer arrives on April 9, when PBS will premiere the first half of his four-hour documentary on America after the Civil War. Gates hopes to enlighten Americans about Reconstruction 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z But events in the first half of this season, which included being driven from the relative sanctuary of a prison, changed things for the character. Norman Reedus on living in the skin of ‘Walking Dead’s’ Daryl 2014-02-07T22:21:39Z Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe, to grace them with their full names, offered a Halloween-themed program, the first half themed “Dance” and the second “Night,” that was also fiercely musically ambitious. Slickness as transgression: Piano duo pushes boundaries 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z The Tribune was not founded byColonelRobert R. McCormick, owner and publisher of the Tribune for much of the first half of the 1900s, after whom McCormick Place is named, and who died in 1955. Chicago, capital of Ill.? NATO goofs in video 2012-05-03T20:22:00Z Changing the conversation on hate After researching and writing the first half of this piece, I went home to think through what else needed to be said. Playing for Michelle Obama 2012-06-11T21:25:00Z Unlike the first two "Glee" albums -- which collected musical highlights from throughout the first half of the show's season -- "The Power of Madonna" focuses on one episode. "Glee" nabs top of album chart with "Madonna" 2010-04-28T20:21:00Z The first half will commence on Sunday, Jan. 24 at 10 p.m. Check Out an In-Depth Sneak Peak of the New 'X-Files' 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z The novel’s first half puts the reader in Marcos’s shoes with a long series of procedural scenes. What if the Meat We Ate Was Human? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z “We felt people needed to know in the first half of the show what a brilliant person this is, who he was, why he’s important, and make that emotional connection with him,” said Jones. Get-up-and-dance ‘Fela!’ coming to Seattle May 28-June 2 2013-05-22T23:12:41Z The first half of the book swells with promise and interesting ideas, but by the middle, it grows soggy with sappy characterizations. Best new science fiction for summer 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z The first half of season two was very, very, very…slow. Watch The Walking Dead's Midseason Premiere Trailer 2012-01-27T16:51:31Z That lends an intimacy and trust to the film that glosses over the very narrow scope of its testimonials, making it difficult to ignore the whiteness of its perspective in the film's first half. HBO's "The Janes" spotlights the abortion activists who operated like a spy ring pre-Roe v. Wade 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Harry Partch’s “Genesis of a Music,” at least the first half. You Won’t Find Mark Morris at the Multiplex 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Fired up by its kinetic Danish conductor, Thomas Dausgaard, this versatile ensemble performed the musical selections in the first half without breaks, drawing a dramatic arc that proved emotionally satisfying and intellectually stimulating. Music Review: Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Nina Stemme at Alice Tully Hall 2013-04-26T22:53:14Z Revenues from the four highest-grossing films accounted for 44 percent of overall proceeds from about 100 homegrown movies screened in the first half of this year. China's movie market booms with local content, cinema expansion 2013-08-22T06:11:08Z Certainly, the first half of this 75-minute production — enacted by toddler-size Bunraku puppets manipulated by a visible team of performers — would seem to suggest a rarefied variation on such rowdy fare. Review: A Harrowing Puppet Show, ‘Demolishing Everything With Amazing Speed’ 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Christie’s expert Alex Rotter said the rarity of Hopper’s paintings, and the resurgent interest in overlooked American artworks from the first half of the 20th century, led the house to give it “a masterpiece estimate.” Art Market, Hoping the Good Times Keep Rolling, Prepares for N.Y. Sales 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z In the first half of the program, the five string players presented Max Reger’s rarely heard “Lyrisches Andante,” which moves in expansive, wistful gestures. Music Review: Marlboro Chamber Ensemble in Peoples’ Concert Series 2014-04-09T21:19:01Z Strategy We need a holiday … Joker gets journalistic ammo The first half of the film follows a group of United States marine recruits training in South Carolina. Full Metal Jacket: history unzipped 2010-06-24T08:46:00Z In the first half, the choreographer reframes American modern dance so that in the second, he can go on to become Paul Taylor. Dance Review: Aligning His Planets for Another Star Turn 2011-03-04T23:15:49Z Reading from a lectern onstage, she narrates the first half of this show, a retrospective of her first seven years of making dances. Review: 10 Glimpses of Twyla Tharp the Minimalist 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z After intermission, Ravel’s early A Minor Sonata provided the perfect astringent foil to the more thickly textured Central European works of the first half. Review | Piano-violin duo brings mature eloquence to Phillips Collection 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Bruch’s “Scottish Fantasy,” a luxurious work for violin and orchestra, closed the first half of the program. | New York Philharmonic: New York Philharmonic Unleashes Operatics Hidden in Brahms 2010-04-10T00:10:00Z In the first half, especially, Mr. Dodin emphasizes the dilatory and digressive. Review: In ‘The Cherry Orchard,’ the Myopia of an Aristocratic Family 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z The first half of the program also included “Scottish Legend” and “Phantom,” romantic pieces for solo piano by Amy Beach, the first American woman to achieve renown as a composer of large-scale works. Music Review: What Henry (Could Have) Heard: Night at the Frick 2010-10-13T21:42:00Z Ferragamo’s profits and sales for the first half of this year were both up more than 30 percent, to $62.1 million on sales of $621 million, according to a public filing. Talking With Massimiliano Giornetti of Ferragamo 2011-09-28T18:52:00Z In the first half of that year, a large number L.G.B.T. women — who aren’t easy to find on TV in the first place — were killed off on an array of shows. A Cult Show’s Recipe for Success: Whiskey, Twitter and Complex Women 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z According to the report, after two years of “healthy correction,” global auction turnover of contemporary art grew 14 percent in the first half of 2017, signaling a “new period of prosperity.” London Auctions Are on the Rise, but a Big Failure Casts a Shadow 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Focus on the flagging relationships takes up much of the episode’s first half. 'I Am Cait' Episode 5 Recap: We v. Them 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z He excelled only when called on to be earnest and emphatic — and it was in the Wagner and Beethoven in the first half of the program, oddly enough, that his weaknesses were most apparent. Conductor Fisch, National Orchestral Institue excel at the emphatic 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z The glamorous but naive Katherine is taken up by the intellectual, self-indulgent, Goldman family, and has her heart broken in a series of vivid, comical vignettes – and that's just the first half of the novel. Kate Clanchy's top 10 coming-of-age novels 2013-05-22T09:52:36Z The writing staff seems to be ditching story threads that didn’t work from the first half of season two. Fall of Empire: show's big return is a lesson on how not to run a record label 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z After an uncomfortable first half dotted with stifled high notes, it was announced that he was suffering from allergies. Music Review: Renée Fleming in ‘Otello’ Revival at the Met 2012-10-10T21:37:14Z With an opera singer’s theatricality, he held the stage in the romantic expansiveness of Owens’s “In time of silver rain” and ended the program’s first half with a victorious high C. Review: Lawrence Brownlee Makes Room for Black Composers 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z The first half flew by with exuberant numbers, including “Percussion,” a four-part section in which the dancers respond to instruments; the zippy trio “Big Noise from Winnetka”; and the galvanizing conclusion, “Dancin’ Man.” Forget About Jazz Hands, This Fosse Show Is About Dancin’ 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z The villains in this first half are the Polish guards. TV review: The Sinking of the Laconia and Martin Clunes: Man to Mantas 2011-01-07T08:00:03Z The result, at least for the first half, is almost comically exciting, one fist-pump adrenaline rush after another. Album review: Fall Out Boy's 'American Beauty/American Psycho' 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z The first half is dominated by sharp, silly satires of the moment, like a visually precise and hilarious song about social media vanity, “White Woman’s Instagram,” and a commercial for a woke brand consultant. Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’: A Comedy Special and an Inspired Experiment 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z For the first half of this remarkable documentary, you’ll wonder how the filmmaker even shot it. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z Einstein's Egypt He describes how he prepared for the role in the first half of 2009, before filming began. The new Doctor 2010-04-02T08:04:00Z Chords Unfold and Soar, Evoking Birds and Bells Works by two -winning composers of similar aesthetic bents were featured in the first half of the Lark Quartet’s program at Merkin Concert Hall on Thursday evening. Music Review: Lark Quartet Performs a Jennifer Higdon Work 2010-04-23T22:46:00Z The first half of the park was finished five years ago, Phase 2, the other day, featuring a marshy new island and a spectacular viewing platform facing Manhattan. 3 Lush Parks Drastically Remake the East River Waterfront 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The novel went through several iterations; at one point, Flynn said, the entire first half was just Nick, without Amy’s diaries. ‘Gone Girl’ author talks twists, turns and a marriage’s icy heart 2014-04-09T20:04:06Z And he says “the first half of the 18th century was a thrilling time to be young, white, male, wealthy and Virginian.” Books of The Times: ‘Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power,’ by Jon Meacham 2012-11-20T22:57:50Z In worldwide earnings, teen heartthrob band One Direction leads the pack with $107.7 million during the first half of the year. Rolling Stones lead a record midyear concert revenue report for 2015 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The first half is inspired by watercolors; the second half by sculptures. Dance Review: Russell Maliphant’s ‘Rodin Project’ at the Joyce 2012-12-07T20:43:01Z But it was unusually lopsided, with the first half devoted to a single work, L-E-V’s “Killer Pig.” At Fall for Dance, Flamenco, Clowning, Classical Moves and a Bit of Homicide 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z In scenes set in a fictional high school, the play’s first half often paints a broad picture of insecure teenagers coping with everyday humiliations such as bullying in a locker room. Review | ‘Columbinus,’ re-creating the 1999 Colorado high school shooting, remains disturbingly relevant 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The chilly, rainy weather, which during the first half of the program turned the Great Lawn into a sea of umbrellas, may have kept the crowd a little smaller than 60,000. Critic?s Notebook: Andrea Bocelli, Philharmonic and Friends in Central Park 2011-09-16T17:41:13Z In the first half, her characters sing of revenge, fear and the frustrating battles fought inside troubled minds. CD reviews: Joyce DiDonato looks at war, peace and the Baroque 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Their comic timing is sharp, and when they haul the ranting Coriolanus off stage at the end of the first half you can still hear his tantrums behind the scenes. Coriolanus – review 2012-05-25T09:40:46Z With plans to release two albums in the first half of the year alone, Norah Jones expected to be busy this spring playing for live audiences. Norah Jones Enjoys a Weekly Christmas, and Sweating to the (Not So) Oldies 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Just one album, the runaway hit “Frozen” soundtrack, has sold more than 1 million copies during the first half of this year. Music streaming up, sales down in first half of 2014 -- SoundScan 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z For the play’s first half Mr. Redmayne brilliantly sustains his portrait of a man on the verge of not only breaking down but also breaking into pieces. Arts & Leisure: ?Richard II,? ?Madness of King George? and ?Collaborators? in London 2012-02-12T06:00:50Z In the first half of the song, he’s a little kid who’s scared of the dark and he wants to escape somewhere. Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Futurelab's restrained doodling with shadows and moving lines didn't do much damage to the first half of the program. Esa-Pekka Salonen-led L.A. Phil explores revolutionary nostalgia in French program 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z I’ve said for years, the first half is a murder mystery and the second half is a moral mystery in the episodes that really work. Dick Wolf on 'Law & Order' and His New Book 'The Ultimatum' 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Significantly these series were mostly broadcast during the first half of the decade. The new Upstairs, Downstairs is more period than drama 2010-12-27T12:00:00Z The novel’s first half is loosely centered on the experiences of the real-life illustrator Robert Seymour, who conceived “Pickwick” as a series of pictures linked by short descriptions. ‘Death and Mr. Pickwick’ asks if Dickens stole his famous first novel 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z But it was going through my mind as I watched the first half of Juliana F. May’s “Family Happiness” at the Abrons Arts Center on Saturday. Review: Dispassionate Traumas and Choral Dream Songs 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z The first half of the program centered on Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet from 1785, part of the set of six he dedicated to Haydn. Review: Quatuor Cambini-Paris Revisits Neglected French Composers 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z In its first half, Bartlett beautifully combines domestic and cosmic issues. Review 2010-08-05T00:48:00Z There was more Schumann in the first half, in which his overture to Schiller's Die Braut von Messina preceded Beethoven's Triple Concerto. LPO/Eschenbach – review 2012-11-15T17:59:00Z Like so many prodigies, Hamlisch spent the first half of his too-brief life compiling a brilliant résumé and the second half replaying it. Nobody Did It Better: Memories of Marvin Hamlisch, 1944-2012 2012-08-07T21:50:31Z Mind you, Mr. Weiss, 30, also describes the first time he saw Ms. Mounsey perform what would become the first half of their show as “extremely terrifying” and “an absolutely chilling experience.” Despite Scary Buzz, Director at Under the Radar Says Don’t Worry 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z In the first half of this year, American Media sold 112 million copies of its magazines on the newsstand, taking in $420 million in revenue. Reality TV?s Instant Stars Populate a Magazine 2011-11-14T00:10:31Z Schwartzman recasts much of Goddard’s work as pieces of evidence in what becomes, for the first half of the movie, a suspenseful crime drama sorting through the discrepancies between texts and police interview footage. Roll Red Roll: behind the chilling documentary on high school rape 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Most of the first half was devoted to Baroque music, specifically Purcell, played in a style that embraces the spirit of the period-instrument world. Music Review | St. Luke?s Chamber Ensemble: A ?Magical History Tour? on 2 Routes 2010-03-04T22:57:00Z Collins opts for both, going all in on comedy in the first half and making a daring turn to tragedy in the second. ‘Seagull’ Review: Blurring the Lines of Fiction 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z If the first half was like looking at the stitches of street dance, the second, in which Mr. Harris presented several short works that bled from one to the next, was its couture collection. Rennie Harris Puremovement and ‘A Batalha do Passinho’ 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z The first half of Breaking Bad’s last season felt like a strong setup to an end run–the elements involving Walt and Skyler’s home life, especially, have been devastating–albeit one with some odd pacing. Breaking Bad Watch: Flush of Recognition 2012-09-04T11:34:18Z For its first half, “Heathers” is skillfully sloppy fun, as it arranges the cool kids for vivisection with dopey blue jokes and prancing choreography by Marguerite Derricks. Theater Review: ‘Heathers: The Musical’ Brings Back Guilt-Free Mayhem 2014-04-01T13:23:48Z One of the most fascinating chapters in American art from the first half of the 20th century is also among the least known. See how Japanese American photography from 1920-1940 is still 'Making Waves' 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Mike denies any knowledge of the cops’ deaths in the first half of show — both to the detectives and to Stacey — and admits everything to Stacey in the second half. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: I Broke My Boy 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z It was by far the best show I saw on TV in the first half of 2014. Emmys 2014: Crime, comedy and overdue attention 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z For the first half of the show, Cheng surveyed Riley’s notated piano music. Essential Arts & Culture: Pondering the Pritzker, dancing with Joffrey and touring with TMZ (and living to tell) 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z The first half of the program offered by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, a trim, distinguished German period-instrument ensemble, featured works more of peppy utility than of striking originality and inspiration. Music Review: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Jeremy Denk at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-20T22:02:00Z This all happened in the episode’s first half, which was an Alison chapter. ‘The Affair’ Season 2, Episode 7: The Prize Turkey 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Related Topics: All-TIME 100, Music, , Populist Get this album For American pop music in the first half of the 20th century, the core collaboration was between Jewish songwriters and black singers and styles. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z Throughout the first half of the 20th century the aesthetic known as Modernism defined elite music and art, and in modernism the hallmark of art was stylistic development. What "Yesterday" — and everyone else — forgets about the Beatles 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z The characters wore modern-day civilian dress, and sets were almost nonexistent: a couple of shards of antiquity in the first half, nothing in the second. Review: Vivaldi’s ‘Catone in Utica’ Gets a Rare Staging 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z At times there’s too much in “Both Your Houses” — there’s talk of politics, human nature and government duty, and a hint of romance — not to mention a rambling start and an overlong first half. Theater Review: ‘Both Your Houses,’ at Metropolitan Playhouse 2012-10-03T18:55:02Z After a powerful first half, later scenes offer diminishing returns. Review: ‘Blood Stripe’ Finds a Woman Back From War, and Still Fighting 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Silverman’s control of the tone in the first half, along with the hilarious but grounded work of the cast throughout — Ms. Skraastad needs her own sitcom, pronto — serves the play’s intentions beautifully. Review: In ‘Hurricane Diane,’ the Perfect Storm Hits Suburbia 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z The austere dissonances of the octet’s second movement, as well as the performance’s exuberance and rhythmic bite, seemed, in the group’s thoughtful programming, an outgrowth of the first half of the concert. Music Review: The Knights Chamber Orchestra at Bargemusic - Review 2011-09-18T21:30:07Z The musical nods to that time are heaviest on the album’s first half, which is almost sugary in its commitment to the synthetic. On Khalid’s ‘American Teen,’ Songs of Young Love and Technology 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Most of the giddy first half of “Parasite” involves our heroes putting one over on Mrs. Park, whose family lives in coddled splendor in a stunning modern mansion. They’re Actual Supporting Actors, and Oscar Should Take a Look 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z The success of the Lego Movie helped boost the profits of the Lego company by 12% in the first half of this year. Tetris to become movie blockbuster 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z The first half of the program also found the orchestra in excellent shape for two movements of Debussy’s “Images,” followed by Janáček’s Suite from “The Cunning Little Vixen.” Violinist Augustin Hadelich earns a rafter-rattling ovation from a Seattle Symphony audience 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z It is delivered at the end of the first half of a performance that is drawn in lightning. Review: Jealousy and Lies in a No-Exit Theater of War in ‘Othello’ 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z We were disappointed but not surprised, especially after walking past the Palace Theatre as patrons were pouring out from the first half raving about the play. How Much Magic Can ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Make on Broadway? 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Both works on the first half of the program seemed apt pairings for Mr. Hersch’s piece. Review: A Dark, Haunting Work by Michael Hersch Gets a Premiere 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z For the first half of the novel, these two contradictory yet strangely harmonized accounts of the marriage’s decay command most of the attention. “Gone Girl”: Marriage can be murder 2012-06-04T00:00:00Z The first half of the war drama is strongest. "1917" is a luminous, ferociously intense "single-take" wartime experience 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z The first half of the program was less promising on paper and more engaging in practice. Review | Looking for the District’s orchestra highlight? Go to Maryland. 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z “Blindspot” was one of NBC’s success stories in the first half of the TV season, and on Monday night it came back after its winter hiatus as fast-paced and preposterous and addictive as ever. ‘Blindspot’ Season 1, Episode 11: Can You Land This Plane? 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z It’s hard to reconcile the Matt of the first half of the story with the quickly jettisoned dead weight of the second. A Star of Y.A. Literature Returns. This Time, She’s Talking to Adults. 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z The first half is so wonderful, crystalline and true, it seems churlish to complain. Country Girl by Edna O'Brien – review 2012-09-29T23:05:14Z Also gentle: the palpable pleasure that ensues, at the end of the show’s first half, when audience members are invited to come down and join the cast in dancing. ‘Cannabis!’ Review: Preaching to the Partaking Choir 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z If the program’s first half was about refinement and restraint, then the second half was about unleashing the fury in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. Pianist Khristenko helps Fairfax Symphony finish season joyously 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Ms. LeGon was the rare female tapper who distinguished herself as a solo performer in the first half of the 20th century. Jeni LeGon, Singer and Solo Tap-Dancer, Dies at 96 2012-12-17T03:55:09Z The first half recounts his childhood in Louisville, Ky., his beginnings in professional boxing and his conversion to Islam. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘What’s My Name’ and ‘Still Laugh-In’ 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z But the first half of the program proved unconvincing musically. Music Review: Andrew Tyson at Merkin Concert Hall 2013-01-24T22:22:23Z In his portrait studio and out in the world, Otis Noel Pruitt used his camera to bear witness to the soul and soullessness of Columbus, Miss., in the first half of the 20th century. ‘From the Dustbin of History,’ a Photo Archive of the Jim Crow South 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Still, what works so well for “The OA” in the first half is not enough to overcome its weaknesses in later episodes. Netflix’s ‘The OA’ and the hypnotic allure of weird TV 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Concert attendance fell 12 percent in the first half of 2010, compared with the same period a year ago, according to trade magazine Pollstar. Cheap concert seats due after cruel summer of 2010 2010-12-26T20:32:11Z It loses momentum in its first half and is burdened with dialogue that seems to have been whittled from the twigs. In ‘Saints & Strangers,’ a noble attempt to tell Thanksgiving’s grimmer truths 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z It's a remarkable turnaround from the bleak days of the first half of 2009. Rolling Ahead 2011-03-03T23:00:00Z Nor is he especially known for the early music that made up the full first half of Gould’s program. Goodyear makes iconic Gould program his own 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z The concert program was odd: a bit of this, a bit of that in the first half; a lot of Handel in the second. Music Review | Juilliard415: Juilliard415 Is Attuned to the Baroque at Tully Hall 2010-04-04T21:47:00Z “Russia was converging with Italy, industrializing as fast as Japan, and overtaking Spain in the first half of the 20th century,” he wrote in a note. Red October: Russia of 1917 and 2017 closer than might be expected 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z The first half of the concert featured the Cello Suites Nos. Istvan Vardai Plays Bach at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z The movie’s first half is better shaped than its second, and there are narrative lacunae here and there that suggest some late-breaking editing busywork. ‘Morbius’ Review: The Other Bat, Man 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Oates employs multiple points of view to tell this explosive story, and — at least for the book’s first half — this technique effectively illustrates how the incident reverberates through different constituencies in the town. Book review: ‘The Sacrifice,’ by Joyce Carol Oates, inspired by Tawana Brawley case 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z As the title indicates, "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1" is an opening salvo, the first half of the two-part finale to the blockbuster franchise based on Suzanne Collins' dystopian book series. 'Mockingjay -- Part 1' is stretched thin but holds, reviews say 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Tagovailoa looked out of sorts in the first half: rusty and uncharacteristically hesitant, even a little nervous. Seven Turning Points from the Year in Sports 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The exhibition looks at the kimono from the first half of the 20th century, when this traditional garment began to modernize, with weavers introducing synthetic dyes and patterns inspired by Art Deco and Abstract Expressionism. Datebook: Japanese tattoos, kimono and an African American collection 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Although Browder writes well in the first person, the first half of the book might be slow going for anybody but entrepreneurs or those fascinated by how entrepreneurs build their fortunes. ‘Red Notice’: corruption and murder in the new Russia 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z The first half of “Boy Hood,” his collaboration with Trombone Shorty and PJ Morton, retrofits trap aesthetics for a meditation on the simple joys of childhood in New Orleans. Why the Grammys Couldn’t Resist Jon Batiste 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z The first half of this shortish novel – its 280 pages have very generous margins – introduces Bucky in the middle of a summer polio epidemic, a life-changing event before a vaccine was developed. Nemesis by Philip Roth 2010-10-02T09:03:00Z Her best sculptures consolidated ideas in European Modernism that had already developed in the first half of the 20th century. Claire Falkenstein's strangely contradictory sculptures 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z Recognition at last for one of the most intriguing and forward-looking British composers of the first half of the 20th century. Top of the Proms 2011 2011-07-07T20:30:02Z The show's first half chronicles how Martin dispensed with traditional representations of spiritual consciousness embedded in the natural world. Survey of Agnes Martin's powerful yet meditative work draws a straight, vibrant line to Zen 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The firm reported rising sales and profits for the first half of 2018 after losing ground to some rivals in recent years, and revenues at the Miu Miu offshoot also progressed. Sequins meet denim for mischievous Miu Miu at Paris Fashion Week 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z After a midseason break, this show is back on Wednesday to tie up loose ends from the first half of the second season. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Princess’ and ‘Password’ 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z After recording the first half of the record in Dre’s home, the nascent Death Row Records established a nerve center in a Hollywood that had lapsed into pure Babylonian decay. Perspective | 25 years later, Dr. Dre’s ‘The Chronic’ remains rap’s world-building masterpiece 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Barack Obama was president, and certain elements in the first half of the book already seemed out of date. ArtsBeat: Noah Hawley Talks About His New Novel, 'The Good Father' 2012-03-21T15:29:13Z At the time, Christie’s described it as “a porphyry mortar, Italian, probably first half of 19th century” and estimated it to sell for up to 30,000 euros, or about $40,860. Form, Function and Beauty Span Eons in Met Acquisitions 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Such was the case on July 20, when Christie’s, which is registered in London, announced 2.9 billion pounds, or about $4.5 billion, of auction and private sales for the first half of 2015. Sotheby’s and Christie’s Jostle for Sales 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z The first half depicts the characters in desperate pursuit of their desires; the second half deals with the queasy fallout of fulfillment. Stripped-down staging brings clever moments in this long, long journey 'Into the Woods' 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z “Infinity War” is the first half of the final installment in the series, and it concludes with a premonition of finality. ‘Avengers: Infinity War’: It’s Marvel’s Universe. We Just Live in It. 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z The successful first half of the double broadcast fooled me into thinking the show’s writers and producers had at last seen the error of their past ways. The Best and Worst of the 74th Tony Awards 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Through most of the first half of the film, Josh looks like he’s stumbled into the wrong movie. New man becomes new dad – the very hard way 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z The first half of “Waves” is dominated by the teenage boy as he’s swept up in the tragedy, while the second part centers on how that tragedy affects his younger sister. Men Are in Trouble and Hollywood Wants to Help 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z What that is becomes clearer when, in the second half of the 100-minute play, Levant finally sits down for the live broadcast, after proving himself merely tiresome for the first half. ‘Good Night, Oscar’ Review: Sean Hayes With Demerol and Cadenzas 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Of the soloists, Swanson was the only one who attempted to get into character for the operatic first half. Review | Choral Arts hits the mark with a serious Rossini 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z Christian Tetzlaff joined the orchestra for Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1, which followed the Schnittke on the first half of the program. Work by Schnittke and Haydn at Mostly Mozart 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z The story of an overbearing football dad, however, feels derivative, and Lilette’s mom also does not quite work in the first half of the season. Review | ‘Rise’ is a good-enough version of the old standby: Appealing kids put on a show 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z I found myself rooting for them through a concert the first half of which, in particular, I can’t say I enjoyed very much. Emerson Quartet inspires affection, which it needed Thursday night 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z A nail-biter through the first half, Buffalo pulled away in the second. How Damar Hamlin’s Recovery Allowed Us to Breathe 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z The imagery and audacity of Silver Swan's first half is well worth the price of a ticket, but you leave the work feeling slightly short-changed. Clod Ensemble: Silver Swan – review 2012-11-27T13:02:24Z During the first half, lasting some 70 minutes with minimal breaks between pieces, Mr. Trifonov focused mostly on neglected — you might say orphaned — works by Beethoven and Schumann. Review: Trifonov, in Risky Program, Doesn’t Fail to Thrill 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z You clapped for one ballerina doing 32 fouetté turns in the first half? American Ballet Theater Celebrates 70th With Gala 2010-05-18T17:04:00Z Gone was the dime-store Hunter S. Thompson manifesto he had recited, losing much of the Detroit crowd in his first half hour on stage. Sheen's show gets makeover 2011-04-04T03:34:00Z As of last week, it planned instead to have a relatively fixed first half and a varying second one — separated, for the first time on a U2 tour, by an intermission. U2’s Flight to Now (Turbulence Included) 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Taken in all at once, it’s almost overwhelming, and things got even more convoluted in the first half of the season premiere on Monday. ‘Jane the Virgin’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: ‘Chapter Twenty-Three’ 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z But novels like Money and films like The Ploughman's Lunch reflect the upheavals that shaped the first half of her years in power. Margaret Thatcher's mark on books 2013-04-09T14:00:02Z It uses vintage film clips and other archival material to flesh out the assertion, describing the world of the first half of the 1900s through teenage eyes. Movie Listings for March 21-27 2014-03-20T22:36:36Z She sold 40 masks in the first half of July and 82 over the second. Hold on to Your Masks 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Nelsons devoted the first half of this program to Wagner, starting with a staple: the Overture to “Tannhäuser.” Andris Nelsons Begins Tenure Leading Boston Symphony 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z The first half of Go Giants is taken up with poems that range from Ireland to Rome and beyond and exhibit Laird's sharp eye for the details and textures of contemporary life. Nick Laird: a life in writing 2013-01-04T22:55:01Z For the first half Ms. Fleming took her audience into the artistic circle in Vienna in the early years of the 20th century that centered on the composer Alexander Zemlinsky. Music Review: Expectations Are Made to Be Upended 2011-01-12T22:00:01Z “I was promised Roger would evolve, but within the first half dozen episodes, he had a couple of heart attacks.” John Slattery’s turn from adman to ink-stained wretch 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z These forced marches were a common sight in the first half of the 19th century. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z For the first half of the film he's a brilliant cyberterrorist who can destroy a building on the other side of the globe by simply nudging his mouse with his elbow. Q: What do Skyfall, The Dark Knight Rises and a hamburger have in common? A: See below 2012-12-09T19:59:01Z The first half of this eight-CD boxed set, which was assembled from multiple label catalogs, amounts to an authoritative digest of their studio output, much of it beautifully remastered from 78-r.p.m. records. Reissues: ’50s Moxie, ’60s Soul and ’90s Hip-Hop 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z "Both Sides of the Blade" spends much of its first half establishing the characters and their backstories. Juliette Binoche is torn between two lovers in Claire Denis' potent "Both Sides of the Blade" 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The play spends the first half of its 105-minute running time spelling out the details of the study, and the potential missteps that led to an unexpected outcome. Review: In ‘Queen,’ the Numbers Don’t Always Add Up 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Some of the first half of the program, which also included Dupré’s “Cortège and Litany,” Franck’s “Prelude, Fugue and Variation” and Cochereau’s “Berceuse in Memory of Louis Vierne” sounded more tentative. Music Review: French, but Conversant in Many Genres 2011-05-09T21:14:58Z Even so, there were moments in the first half when I wished Mr. Honoré had gone further, or at least not relented. Review: Mozart Reimagined in a Violent, Racist World 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Carrie spends the first half of the episode shielding the President-elect from her would-be assassins and the second half dealing with the aftermath of the attack. Homeland season six finale recap – America First 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Especially in the first half, Ms. Copeland was terrifically in the moment, reacting freshly to each turn in the story. Misty Copeland’s Down-to-Earth Debuts in ‘Don Quixote’ and ‘Giselle’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z For the first half of our history, July 4 called us to fulfill our national destiny. I hate the Fourth of July 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z The first half depicts Mireille's imprisonment, and she weaves these details with memories of what she repeatedly calls "before." Roxane Gay's 'An Untamed State' gives torture survivor a voice 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The newspaper reported that officers spotted people leaving the crowd but that their voices remained calm through the first half hour. Police radioed ‘crushing-type injuries’ as concert continued 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z This is another way of saying that the first half of Mr. Kolker’s book, which relates the stories of these women’s lives, is riveting and often heartbreaking. Books of The Times: Robert Kolker’s ‘Lost Girls’ Delves Into Killings 2013-07-16T16:45:32Z However, weaker Chinese economic growth and a boat accident last year led to a drop off in Chinese arrivals in Thailand in the first half of this year. Bangkok tops Paris, London as world's most-visited city: MasterCard 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z The first half of the concert prefaced Brahms's First Piano Concerto with the world premiere of Jonathan Lloyd's Old Racket. BBCSO/Davis – review 2013-04-15T17:13:40Z Through the first half, she might have been the youngest: fierce, sulky, funny. ‘Rosas Danst Rosas’ Revisits a Choreographer’s Early Work 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z On an additional sour note, the ushering staff at Strathmore seems to need a refresher course on late seating; patrons were allowed to trickle in throughout the first half, a continual annoyance. Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra offers enthusiasm, but program is lacking It's Robert Grainier's story, but it's equally the story of the place, the Idaho Panhandle, and ultimately a capsule of the first half of the 20th century. 'Train Dreams': Denis Johnson's novel of the Idaho Panhandle 2011-09-14T21:50:04Z In the first half of the twentieth century, these sequences were as perfunctory as the opening pages of a book. Why Netflix's 'skip intro' feature is bad news for classic films 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Some of these were distorted by the uneven amplification, which assigned a greatly exaggerated role to one particular viola throughout the program’s first half. The Knights Play Stravinsky and Bartok in Central Park 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z The only hitch to the evening was Yende’s last-minute changes to the first half of the program, leaving many in the capacity audience at sea as to what she was singing. Buzzed-about South African soprano Pretty Yende at the Kennedy Center Even so, the reader will stay riveted through the first half of the book, with "What'll happen next?" constantly hanging in the air. Book review: "Coral Glynn" peeks behind the facade of an English manor 2012-04-19T20:15:05Z Having raised a host of big issues in the first half, he loses sight of them in the second. The Heretic - review 2011-02-11T00:20:01Z The book dissipates a good deal of its energy, especially in its first half, pivoting between the stories of the shopkeeper, her family, Mahmood’s estranged wife and their sons, and that of Mahmood himself. ‘The Fortune Men,’ a Novel That Remembers a Man Wrongly Sentenced to Death 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z The first half of the show, drawn mostly from the 1960s and ’70s, takes “displacement” to mean serial or peripatetic motion: textbook Minimal and Conceptual art, in other words. Art Review: At the Met, ?Between Here and There,? Photographs 2010-07-08T21:35:00Z The writer and performer Taylor Mac spent the first half of the 2010s developing an epic project, “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music,” that covered 240 years’ worth of American history. ‘Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music’ Review: Wish You Were There 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z But she seemed distant, and the first half of the concert often felt unsatisfying. Music Review: Karita Mattila at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-11T22:22:47Z And when at the first half’s conclusion, he tells Othello, “I am your own forever,” that terrifying, double-edged pledge of loyalty lands with muffled impact. Review: A Cool-Tempered ‘Othello’ for Warm Central Park Nights 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The more stimulating first half, however, finds her reveling in the material and multicultural possibilities of paper. Art Review: ‘Zarina: Paper Like Skin,’ at the Guggenheim Museum 2013-01-31T21:46:37Z “The Vapors” brings back to life three real characters from the first half of the 20th century, and tells the story of their connection to the lavish casino from which the book takes its title. Summer Reading Suggestions, Handpicked for Your Taste 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z If the first half of “The Kitchen” depicts the women’s rise, the second half shows how they maintain their pole position. Haddish, McCarthy and Moss take charge in "The Kitchen," which gleams through the grit 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The first half of the book focuses on social skills like how to greet someone, how to stand up for yourself, how to show gratitude and how to apologize. 2 Graphic-Style Guidebooks to Calm Kids’ Social Butterflies 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z The first half consisted of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto with Hélène Grimaud the confident soloist, though her tonal range was on the forceful side, with little sense of the work's grace. LPO/Jurowski ? review 2010-12-06T22:00:00Z That the first half hour is at least palatable. David Cross brings “social justice warriors” and the right together: “Through their hatred of me, [they] bond” 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z A short first half included orchestral bonbons from Tchaikovsky’s “The Sleeping Beauty” and “Swan Lake,” with Gomes and Copeland each curiously taking a brief turn as the White Swan. Gustavo Dudamel gives Misty Copeland the royal treatment in the Hollywood Bowl's classical opener 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z The first half sweeps through Shakespeare’s comic play: Titania fights with Oberon over her page. Balanchine’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z The first half of “Murder to Excellence” is among the most explicitly political music either has made. Arts & Leisure: Two Titans Share The Seat of Power 2011-08-09T19:00:08Z But nowhere else is this dualism so transporting as in the first half of “L’Allegro.” Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-06T22:07:00Z The first half of the ride is a gentle ascent along the benchmarks of human communication throughout the centuries, from cave drawings to the printing press. ‘Silicon Valley’ Season 3, Episode 5: The Scrappy Innovator 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The first half of the piece is a collection of choreographed miniatures: Mr. Phillips banged the base of an ax on the floor ominously. Dance Review: Keely Garfield?s ?Twin Pines? at Danspace ? Review 2012-01-23T22:08:42Z The premiere season, especially its first half, was a marvel of world building in which the character building was an afterthought. An Alternative America Hits Home in ‘The Man in the High Castle’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z In the work’s first half, they individually and collectively pay tribute to childhood idols and reflect on their queer identities. 12 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The second, more briskly chronological half of the book is stronger than the thematic sections of the first half, where the structuring principles are more elusive. Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-Century Britain by Lucy Lethbridge – review 2013-03-25T08:00:09Z He was unhappy in his work and otherwise; the words “crisis” and “suffering” come up often in the first half of Ms. Larson’s account. Books of The Times: ‘Where the Heart Beats,’ John Cage Biography, by Kay Larson 2012-07-22T21:59:58Z But the storm is affecting trade winds that usually keep the islands cool, so hot, muggy weather is expected through the first half of the week. How hurricane threat shook up Hawaii 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z In dispensing with secrets that brought tension to the first half of the season, the episode set up a new phase of the story in which the alliances and conflicts are out in the open. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 5: Taking the Long Way Around 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z The first half of this biopic is gamely shouldered by a smart, knowing performance from Crowe; while the second half is pure blood sport as Belcher’s bouts are braided together with his tumble from grace. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Pantomime dominates the first half, but Act II culminates in a breathtaking pas de deux for the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier. Dance Listings for Dec. 18-24 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z While this approach was seemingly meant to further the narrative momentum and immerse the audience in the mood, in the first half of the recital it made the songs blur together, dulling their impact. Music Review: Meeting, Marriage and Then Trouble 2011-05-22T21:03:46Z On “Normal People,” Rooney co-wrote the first half of the 12 episode series; for “Conversations With Friends,” she was involved in casting, and read over early scripts. In ‘Conversations With Friends,’ It’s Complicated 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, Screen Daily reported South Korea's box office hit a in the first half of 2013 with 98.5 million admissions. Korean festival brings hits to London 2013-11-06T16:36:22Z The first half featured the youthful, adorably vigorous BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble, along with Bambara Drum and Dance Ensemble, from the Bronx, in “Unchained,” a scintillating arrangement of West African dances. Review: DanceAfrica Festival Bids a Percussive Farewell to Chuck Davis 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z While the singers perform ably, they are often sabotaged by the cheap and obvious stage business required of them, especially in the evening's first half. Baroque opera in burlesque house 2013-03-21T16:06:09Z The first half of the concert, while enjoyable, lacked a certain spark. Music Review: Another Merry Christmas With the ?Brandenburgs? 2010-12-20T23:03:32Z It’s funny, I used to always wait for the really dramatic second half, because the first half of the movement floats around E flat major, gives different permutations of it. Does the Pressure of a Pandemic Transform a Cellist’s Bach? 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z I made it through the first half of my forty treatments with very few side effects, and then around September 1, fatigue began to set in. Cancer battle delays next Vince Flynn thriller 2011-10-05T22:31:08Z Ehnes, who also is the festival’s artistic director, introduced the premiere and two other Howard works in the first half in a manner as articulate and adroit as any television commentator. Seattle Chamber Music Society debuts an ear-boggling piece by a ‘Dark Knight’ composer 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Two weeks ago, Brit quintet Foals released "Total Life Forever," the first half of which contains the most exciting music of 2010. Wolf Parade's 'Expo 86' builds slowly to immense crescendo 2010-06-28T23:19:00Z Midway through the first half he charged toward the goal, a sudden blast of power and agility, and passed to a teammate, who scored. Can This Man Make Lacrosse Sexy? 2010-10-13T21:24:00Z I signed up for and started training for my first half marathon in three years. Life after social media: What I discovered after deleting all of my accounts 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Her memoir re-creates the horror of the aftermath, the days so jarring and revelatory, the first half barely progresses six months. Columbine killer’s mother: ‘The greatest mercy I could pray for was . . . for his death’ 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z In “I Invented the Modern Age,” Richard Snow, a former editor of American Heritage magazine, focuses on the first half of Ford’s career — the creative half. Henry Ford: industrial radical, entrepreneur, idea man 2013-06-26T22:23:45Z Historians of the first half of the 20th century take little pleasure in today’s renewed interest in their subject. Are We Traveling the ‘Road to Unfreedom’? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z In its first half, the film, written by the “Kingdom” creator Kim Eun-hee, operates as a stirring war flick composed of intricate swordplay and elaborate strategies by opposing sides. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z In a report, S&P said Deluxe's revenue dropped 8% in the first half of the year and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization declined 32 %. Deluxe Entertainment names David Kassler its new CEO 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z In particular it presented, at the end of its first half, the Odissi dancer Sujata Mohapatra, who — as Saturday’s performance proved — is one of the great dance soloists of our time. Dance Review: Performers Showcase Classics at DanceFest India! 2013-07-01T21:42:40Z The first half of the book is filled with drawings of plants; scholars call this the “herbal” section. The Unsolvable Mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Mustachioed hipsters may be happy to learn that facial hair spent the first half of the 19th century as the marker of rabble-rousers, artists and derelicts. A Corporeal History of the 19th Century 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The first half was standard gala fare — duets from “Swan Lake” and “The Nutcracker,” the “Le Corsaire” pas de trois — and the performances were committed, careful, entirely respectable. What’s Chinese About Chinese Ballet? 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Roughly the first half of the year is dominated by state-level competitions, and the second half by the four-tiered national league; games for both are usually on Wednesdays and weekends. Brazil, Where the Beautiful Game Struts 2013-04-12T18:36:34Z This first half, unfortunately, is as bumpy as some of those races across the Andes and the Pampas; whoever translated the author’s German into English had a tin ear. Books: A Time to Turn Pages Instead of Corners 2012-12-09T04:17:17Z The first half of the program also included an indifferent rendition of Mendelssohn’s “Fair Melusina” Overture. Music Review: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-16T19:24:56Z They became a popular touring and recording act during the first half of the 1970s, getting around the country in a converted Greyhound bus. George Frayne, aka rock star Commander Cody, dead at 77 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z What to pair with Schumann’s “Dichterliebe,” the classic first half of this recital from a fine tenor? 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The first half of the concert promised just as much but delivered rather less. Conlon serves Shostakovich suite to the max with CSO 2011-04-22T17:40:00Z And it’s true that the assaults of the first half of the series inform the rebellion in the second. Women Now Rule Westworld. But Was It Worth It? 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Because he's sharing the orchestra with Folds, who plays the first half of the shows, Costello notes that each musician is restricted to about an hour's worth of music. Elvis Costello looks at the orchestral possibilities in Bowl shows 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Lawrence was there to promote the first half of the final “Hunger Games” movie, “Mockingjay Part One,” but they don’t spend much time discussing the movie. Jennifer Lawrence discusses wanting to get a “platonic colonic” with Josh Hutcherson on “Late Show” 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z The first half of “The Collected Schizophrenias” spirals around the human rights of mentally ill people. Exploring Her Own Experience of Psychosis 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Last week, the Phil opened its summer season with a Russian first half and then went all-Russian with Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev two days later. Sprightly Rachmaninoff maintains a run of Russians at the Bowl 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z I read the first half with a frenetic intensity, though as the book went on, with a mild annoyance, too. Review: Dan Vyleta’s ‘Smoke’ Is a Supernatural Take on a Victorian Novel 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z The program included three short works in the first half, by Stravinsky, Jolivet and Haydn, followed by a dramatic interpretation of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" in the orchestration by Ravel. A brilliant 'Pictures' at the symphony 2012-02-10T18:00:05Z The focus in the first half of “Big Dance: Short Form,” directed and conceived by the husband-and-wife team of Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, was on movement-heavy works choreographed by Ms. Parson. Review: ‘Big Dance: Short Form’ Delivers Traditional Repertory With a Party Midway 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Henry VIII’s portraits from the first half of the century? Lace, That Most Coveted Textile 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z “In ‘Law & Order,’ in the first half, you always think it’s that person, but it’s not,” she said. Review: Open Chat Windows and Closed Cases in ‘Citizen Detective’ 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z For the first half of the company's history, he was its artistic consultant. L.A. Opera opens 30th season with Plácido Domingo staying busy 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z You see, the audience at each performance is divided into three, as is the playhouse, which has been rearranged into separate but equal mini-theaters for the play’s first half. ‘Scenes From a Marriage,’ Adapted From Ingmar Bergman 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z I spent the first half of the year working on the album, which pretty much consumed my whole life. Kevin Parker, Tame Impala: stars of 2012 2012-11-24T14:26:01Z For much of its first half, Woody Allen's latest London-based film seems to be shooting fish in a barrel. 'You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger': Woody Allen's new concoction of interesting characters 2010-10-07T19:33:00Z This time, the first half of the show will be magic, and the second half will be music. Rob Zabrecky returns to Steve Allen Theater with magic, music 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z He wrote the first half quickly, up to a scene where the Man is confronted with a symbolic keepsake. Hugh Jackman Returns to Broadway in ‘The River’ 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Flanking that piece in the concert’s first half were two works from the remarkable series of concertos Feldman composed from 1970 on. Music Review: Janacek Philharmonic Ostrava Plays Morton Feldman 2012-11-07T23:12:27Z Don't be put off by the first half. Reading group: Bogged down on Swann's Way? 2013-02-07T14:01:15Z Eve and Villanelle still can’t quit each other, of course, but their paths rarely cross in the season’s first half. Review: A ‘Killing Eve’ That No One Was Asking For 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Remp says he was painfully shy for the first half of his life. Social gatherings can ease shyness 2010-12-06T15:44:00Z “Mapping all trials suggests that the real moment of evolution was in the first half of the 19th century,” with the advent of plea bargains that resulted in many more convictions, Mr. Hitchcock said. As the Gavels Fell: 240 Years at Old Bailey 2011-08-17T22:30:15Z The first half of the program included “Hymns From the Western Coast” for saxophone and choir by the Estonian composer Tonu Korvits, set to Swedish translations of Estonian folk songs. Review: Hints of Eternity at Trinity Wall Street 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z A pleasant but cautiously played first half paired two sonatas — Debussy’s only one for violin, and Mendelssohn’s in F — that struggled to make an impact in the cavernous Fisher Hall. Music Review: In a Finale, Comfort Trumps Provocation 2011-06-06T22:06:28Z For the first half of the 20th century, the island was popular among prosperous Greeks, Jews, Armenians and Turks, for whom it served as a kind of Hamptons. A Turkish Idyll Lost in Time 2011-07-08T19:03:11Z It justifies the tone of the first half. Q&A | Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, still a Seattle band 2011-10-20T15:41:06Z Details we learn casually in the first half return menacingly in the second. Review: In ‘Prima Facie,’ Jodie Comer Makes the Case 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Given that the first half of “Gone Girl” is structured as a mystery, this unreliability presents a problem because it throws everything Amy says into doubt. Ben Affleck in David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z For the first half of the 20th century, the life expectancy for American males hovered in the 50s and low 60s. The secret history of America’s ailing presidents and the doctors who covered up for them 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z The first half of the program included Rossini’s “La Danza,” a whirlwind tarantella rendered with flair. Music Review: Vittorio Grigolo Performs Solo Recital at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-03-10T04:56:04Z The book’s first half tells the story of Zimmerman’s marriage and its dissolution. Zonked on Vicodin in the Corner Office 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Another 30 or so are planned for the first half of 2015. In Miami, Luxury Know No Limits 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Everyone in the starting lineup played great in the first half of the season. Baseball fans elect true all-stars 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z The highlight of the first half of the program was their evocatively rendered collaboration in Duparc’s “Invitation au Voyage.” Music Review: Natalie Dessay Performs Chansons and Lieder at Carnegie Hall 2014-03-14T22:15:57Z During the first half of his long and productive career he was a figurative painter; then around midpoint, when many artists are set in their ways, he turned to abstraction. Art in Review: John Heliker: ‘A Tribute’ 2012-06-07T22:50:50Z The band started tentatively, lading the show’s first half with late career singles that felt much like conventional rock songs — “The Only Hope for Me Is You,” “Boy Division.” My Chemical Romance, Reunited and It Feels So Bruised 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z “The Walking Dead” wrapped up the first half of Season 6 in an episode that saw the zombie swarm finally arrive inside the walls of Alexandria. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 8: We Must Protect This House 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z A wealth of new information about Catherine’s background and character came from re-examining letters, memoirs and other archival materials from the first half of her life. A Hermitage Amsterdam Show Looks Closer at Catherine the Great 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The first half is a selection of pieces from the Années de Pèlerinage, while the second is devoted to the monumental B Minor Sonata. Edinburgh festival 2012 preview: the best shows and hottest picks 2012-07-29T18:31:01Z The first half of this program offered two Stravinsky works not played that often in concert. Music Review: San Francisco Offers Stravinsky and Offenbach 2013-06-24T21:37:07Z The first half was made up of what used to be known as “light classics,” music once featured on your parents’ or grandparents’ record collection from Reader’s Digest or Time Life but now sadly neglected. Long-neglected music gets a fresh L.A. Phil spin at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Digital album sales comprise 38 percent of all album purchases for the first half of the year. Digital album sales up; Adele's `21' still No. 1 2012-07-06T01:15:08Z Adele's "21" was the best selling artist album of the year so far in 2012, mirroring its performance as the biggest seller from the first half of 2011 a year ago. British album sales fall 14 percent yr-on-yr in first half of 2012 2012-07-02T16:04:20Z Not long after the first half ended — with the game tied at 35 — Newson parked himself on the sidelines at the 50-yard line, and the band made its way to the field. After 25 years, one last halftime show for Howard’s marching band director 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Glenn and Abraham’s brutal deaths set a gloomy tone for the first half of the season, which was primarily about Rick and friends grieving the loss and being victimized by Negan and the Saviors. ‘The Walking Dead’ Is Back: 7 Questions for the Second Half Premiere 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z In the book’s first half Pullman delves into the authority the Magisterium has accumulated over this alternative version of Britain. Philip Pullman Has Made a Career Building New Worlds. He’s Not Done Yet 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z In the first half of the 20th century, its biggest customer was China. The Secret Art History on Your Money 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z For the first half, at least, this is a tale of conquest. Review: A Wu-Tang Clan Documentary Captures the Group’s Wild Self-Invention 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z The first half was a mishmash of this and that, the most enjoyable number being the sole a cappella offering of the choirs, “She Moved Through the Fair.” From ‘Danny Boy’ to uilleann pipes: A showcase of Irish music 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z It is interesting for me to see that the boxing event occurred at the end of the first half of the film, and after that it was completely something else. Boxing movies deliver a punch in 'The Bleeder,' 'Bleed for This' 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z "In the first half of the last century, gymnasts wore gear that looked and fit more like casual baggy clothing than competitive gear," Strotbeck said. Olympic gymnasts sound off on the evolving leotard: 'Power and prestige goes with those leos' 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z The first half was simply a lushly green tree seemingly still but with barely perceptible changes in color. Messiaen's ode to Utah's national parks is a multimedia wonder at Disney Hall 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Having decided that the first half of the address should identify the user and the second the computer, he looked for a symbol to indicate that he or she was literally “at” that machine. Design: Why @ Is Held in Such High Design Esteem 2010-03-21T15:52:00Z After a deliberately hazy and meandering first half – one that lulls both reader and characters into a false sense of security – the second part of the novel barely breathes. Rereading Stephen King: week two – Salem's Lot 2012-06-11T10:58:12Z The novelist Frederick Forsyth had a crack and then Ben Elton took over, working with the composer and the lyricist, Glenn Slater: four hands rather than two, and it shows in a muddled first half. Why are we snooty about musicals? 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z The first half of my life has been an amazing education. Lenny Kravitz: ‘I don’t see myself as cool. Generally I’m goofy and ridiculous’ 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z In some ways, the film, helmed by the music video director Calmatic, is two movies, its first half mostly understanding where the charisma lies in a comedy like this. ‘House Party’ Review: A Rager Gone South 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z The first half of the concert also benefited. Lincoln Center Still Has Mostly Mozart, but What Is It? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The company raised £8.7 million from such sales in the first half of 2014, a 71 percent increase on the same period last year. Auction Houses Seek a Competitive Edge 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z The first half continued the trajectory established at the end of last year’s story, but abandoned the show’s sometimes maligned case-of-the-week structure, leaving it, for better or worse, mired in its own mythology. 'Hannibal' Recap: Do You See? 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z I spent the first half of the summer working on what amounted to the tax arbitrage desk. Watching Lehman Brothers collapse from the inside: A 2008 recruit on the bank’s final days 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Weepiest moment: During the competition’s first half, each finalist selected a dance for a repeat performance. Dancing with the Stars, Season 13: And the Winner Is? 2011-11-23T13:45:02Z His mother, Ms. Clooney, was one of the great popular singers of the first half of the 20th century. Miguel Ferrer, Celebrated as a Film and TV Tough Guy, Dies at 61 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z During its heyday in the first half of the 20th century, The Chicago Defender was America’s premier black newspaper. Review: The Reporter Ethel Payne in ‘Eye on the Struggle’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Following the first half of Lucia’s “Mad Scene” in the final act, which culminated in a glorious high E-flat, the ovation lasted five minutes. Joan Sutherland, Opera Soprano, Dies 2010-10-11T16:29:00Z His account begins in the first half of the 19th century with the west already approaching ascendancy in east Asia, India and the Muslim world. From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra – review 2012-07-19T07:00:02Z Having put these two works together for his first half, Ohlsson delineated all of their varied moods to perfection, with all of his familiar mastery of touch and phrasing. Familiar mastery from Garrick Ohlsson 2014-01-16T19:07:12Z In the first half of this decade, he’s released four top 10 singles and two #1 albums, with features on dozens of other minor hits. Review: Chris Brown Has Hits, But Mostly Misses, on X 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z “I have every desire in the world to be educated,” Monsieur Jourdain announces, beaming, and most of the play’s first half is taken up by his antic efforts to achieve that. Review: Rich, Crude and Craving Acceptance in 17th-Century France 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z And for the first half of his “True West,” he imbues the most prosaic details with mounting tension worthy of Hitchcock. Review: Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano Go Mano a Mano in the Riveting ‘True West’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z And he is clearly on her side in the first half of the piece. Letters to the Editor 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z The pieces of the first half were imposing in different ways, but each finally felt monolithic: cold slabs of research. Review: Glenn Branca’s Symphonies Resound With the Power of the Here and Now 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z The arrangement also made the piece, which ended the first half, an ideal counterpart to the relaxed, supple reading of Debussy’s Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp that closed the program. Music Review: Presenting a Shiny Gem in an Unusual Setting 2010-02-23T23:37:00Z His delivery in the first half was on the careful side, though he gained in confidence after the interval. Rolando Villaz?n ? review 2010-12-08T21:45:00Z If Loomis Todd spends the show’s first half celebrating her remarkable life, she spends the second half dismantling it. Review: ‘A Woman of the World’ Dwells in Possibility 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Imhoof puts viewers on the ship for the film’s first half and details a sea of refugees sleeping cheek-by-jowl, losing shoes, being fingerprinted, and examined for medical issues are evocative and fascinating. Six new films that could be Oscar contenders for Best Foreign Language Film 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The first movement of Debussy’s “Ibéria” featured castanets and some Spanish flavor, with the mood remaining on the sedate side throughout the first half. BSO at Strathmore skips the uncommon music in season preview 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Ax ended the first half with “L’Isle Joyeuse,” keeping the dance reined in at first, then building slowly to the ecstatic final outbreak. Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z That’s designed that way for a reason so that at least, the people that walk out will have laughed just the first half hour. David Cross brings “social justice warriors” and the right together: “Through their hatred of me, [they] bond” 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z The first half of the program also included Kreisler’s arrangement of Corelli’s Sonata “La Follia,” its Baroque character romanticized with robust piano chords and its trills played with languid elegance by Mr. Beilman. Review: Benjamin Beilman Goes Beyond His Violin Bonbons 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z The first half of the show seemed to be organized by such songs, with corresponding visuals. Music Is Coming: “Game of Thrones” Live at Madison Square Garden 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The first half of the movie sees Batman as the captain of the most powerful dodgeball team ever assembled; the one scene Snyder showed the reporters depicts Bruce Wayne recruiting Barry Allen, a.k.a. What We Learned From Reports of a 'Justice League' Set Visit 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Antaeus’ practice of partner-casting shows means that every performance will have its own variables, and compressing Inge’s three acts into two makes for a long first half, the early scenes leisurely to a fault. William Inge's 'Picnic' finds the universal in a small Kansas town 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z In the first half of the 17th century, the Dutch East India Company was thriving, establishing the Netherlands as an influential commercial force. In the Netherlands, a foray into cocktail history 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z I say that O’Neil is the star of the first half because when the script finally stops building up its inane and uninteresting mythology, we shift perspective over to the titular turtles. TMNT first look review – what the shell is this? 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z The music in the concert’s first half was sympathetic and duly elegant but also vaguely unsettled, even a bit labored. Music Review: Keith Jarrett Opens CareFusion Festival at Carnegie 2010-06-20T21:35:00Z Her father spends the movie in white, 25-piece suits and a dastard’s dark mustache, like he’s starring in the first half of “The Colonel Sanders Story.” 2004: ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and a Country at War With Itself 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z A year later, the first half black, half Hispanic Spider-Man would appear in their comic books. Childish by name 2012-02-08T08:47:38Z Oh, and the concert had a first half, too: an instrumental arrangement of Valentin Silvestrov’s tender choral “Prayer for Ukraine” and a rare, excellent rendition of Prokofiev’s Third Symphony, from the late 1920s. Review: Yunchan Lim, Teenage Piano Star, Arrives in New York 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Most of “Buyout,” the third-to-last episode of the first half of Breaking Bad‘s final season, was concerned with setting up the “how” of the story as it approaches its midseason finale. Breaking Bad Watch: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? 2012-08-20T12:00:18Z What made Drake singular upon his arrival, and for the first half of his career, was his insistence that those two impulses were not only related, but necessarily intertwined. For the First Time, Drake Runs From His Feelings 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Vibrant scenes that slyly mirror each online activity depicted in the first half of the book reinforce the point. A New Technology Age: When the Technology Is Books, and the Age Is 3 to 7 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The first half, at more than 90 minutes, is overlong, while the second – a mere 25 minutes – felt too hasty. The Winter's Tale – review 2012-05-30T17:10:17Z Finally, it was time to record the aria — or at least the first half or so, since each cylinder can hold only a little more than two minutes of music. Romancing the Horn: Opera Stars Record Like It’s 1900 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Much of the movie’s first half is made to make you anxious about the family’s prying neighbors and the encroaching front line. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Humans’ and ‘Rectify’ 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z She thinks it's all over ... first half: 1, second half: 0 A good watch for the first half at least, but its 1940s agenda really cramps Lady Hamilton's style. That Hamilton Woman: a tale of two halves (for better or for worse) 2011-01-06T09:07:00Z Directed with a low thrum of anxiety by David Fofi, the first half is queasily enjoyable. Theater Review: Lyle Kessler’s ‘Collision’ at Rattlestick Theater 2013-01-23T23:19:08Z During a recent interview at Lincoln Center, the jazz trumpeter and composer Etienne Charles noted that the musical legacy of San Juan Hill was particularly rich throughout the first half of the 20th century. The Syncopated Sounds of Old San Juan Hill at the New Geffen Hall 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z This two-part finale marked the closing chapter in the first half of the Buffy story; it was the last of the old guard. Demons, death and dynamite dialogue: the 20 best episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z In the first half, black sculptural costumes by Eleanor O’Connell transform the dancers into spirits: They haunt the space, in which blinding lights — like surveillance beams — cut through a perpetual haze. Review: The Body, Vibrating, Is ‘What Remains’ 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z The first half of the race was relatively pleasant but after 17 miles he had a dramatic collision with the famous "wall". 'Where I'm where I've always wanted to be' 2012-06-16T23:05:17Z For much of its first half, “Bombay Velvet” hums with the kind of energy found in movies by the 1970s American directors Mr. Kashyap seems to admire. Review: ‘Bombay Velvet’ Is a Bollywood Ode to American Gangster Movies 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Still, the first half is full of entertaining scenes spun with the quick-witted spirit of Rosalind Russell. Review | In Elizabeth Gilbert’s ‘City of Girls,’ a young woman discovers the joys of sex 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z But this was a Brahms 4th as vital and fresh as anything on the program’s first half. Review | Noseda ends his NSO season with 3 B’s, and a bang 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z In the program’s first half of 18th-century music, the quartet also used bows like those used when the music was created — lighter in tension and not as wide in contact with the string. Musicians strive for authenticity by bowing to the past 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z If the first half boasts a shimmering ingenuity and ominousness, the second half goes down in a Hindenburg of repetition and falsity and tedium. Review | If a rich liar asked you to ghostwrite his memoir, would you do it? 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z It’s impossible to imagine a line this fancifully dead in the first half. Review: With ‘The Correspondence,’ a New Contender in the Ring 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z The first half of the AMC drama's final season explored a role reversal of sorts for the duo. Jon Hamm and others share their favorite scene partners 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z She wrote the first half of the script very quickly as a light comedy and then put it in a drawer for a couple of years, not sure where to take it. Jennifer Westfeldt: Not just Don Draper's other half… 2012-06-02T23:05:57Z The final season will air Wednesday and Thursday nights for the first half of its run in January, and weekly on Thursday nights for the second and final half of its series run. The fall of 'American Idol' as hitmaker reaches an inevitable end 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z And, within this fixed frame, there’s a worrying elision of the “real” conspiracies investigated in the show’s first half into the out-there conspiracy “theories” in the second half. How Conspiracy Theories Shape Art 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z For the play’s first half, Mr. Redmayne brilliantly sustains his portrait of a man on the verge of not only breaking down but also breaking into pieces. | London Theater Journal: Porcelain Portrayal of a Fragile King 2012-02-03T15:48:00Z The first half, “Frankie and Johnny ... and Rose,” unveiled on Friday, feels every bit as stale, and it indicates a diminution rather than a growth of artistry for Ms. Stroman. Dance Review: At City Ballet, a New Work Looks to Ellington for ?That Swing? 2011-01-30T23:49:35Z The first half of the season sets the tone and the world of the show, and it’s heavier on the mechanics of the investigation and the pretrial preparations. What to Watch to Prepare for the Emmys 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The Verdi songs are not well-known, and for his German set Brownlee offered five songs by Joseph Marx, who was active in the first half of the 20th century. American tenor shows skill and soul in D.C. recital Courtesy of the estate of Edward Bawden The first half of the 20th century was a halcyon time for British public art. Bawden and battenberg: the Lyons teashop lithographs 2013-07-12T12:00:00Z It’s an incredible ballerina role; she goes mad and dies, leaving the ordinary world in the first half only to return as a wili in the spectral world of the second. Emerging Through the Fog of a Pandemic With ‘Giselle’ 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z If the emotional depth is less apparent as disappointment mars the festivities in the longish first half, the increasingly aggressive antics, the musical interludes and the neo-Wildean wit tickle us into thought. 'Cloud 9' is a time-tripping feminist classic nimbly done by Antaeus Theatre Company 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z In the first half of the program, a piece written last year by an emerging New York composer preceded Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 18. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra explores Mozart by way of Sacred Harp, Haydn by way of flamenco 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z James finished with eight points and four assists in 17 minutes and also helped shift momentum late in the first half. Without Rose, Bulls make statement 2012-02-17T05:56:00Z On Friday they were in matching capes: pale blue for the first half of the show, then tomato-ish with a lightning bolt print for the second half. Review: Lucius, a Band Willing to Test Itself 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Not if this show has any hope of fulfilling the potential it showed in the first half of the season. "True Blood" recap: Warning signs 2010-08-30T12:30:00Z In the first half of 2011, the figures show a continued slump. UK film production hits the doldrums 2011-08-01T23:05:23Z In the first half black swans appear in a river onstage meant to represent the Styx, and a dancer floats by like a cadaver. DANCE: Choreography With Real Swans 2012-06-03T04:30:53Z A letter of such unrepentant nastiness, it immediately causes the reader to recast the first half of the book. Facts not what they appear in Barnes' novella 2011-10-26T21:52:03Z Staging for the first half will be considerably more spare, yet rich in Seattle Symphony history. Mendelssohn fans: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg in Seattle May 18-19 2012-05-17T19:59:12Z So if you look at, particularly, the first half of this season, that's what you get. ArtsBeat: 'Walking Dead' Man Walking: An Exit Interview With Glen Mazzara 2013-02-05T13:04:20Z The first half of the program was less memorable, although competently rendered. Music Review: Thomas Hampson Sings Schumann, Uncut, at Alice Tully 2010-04-12T22:36:00Z The paperback title is the first half of the "Dark Angel" saga. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: 'Uncanny X-Force' Does Double Duty 2012-06-22T20:27:04Z Any questions what the big blow-out confrontation of the season's first half will be? 'The Walking Dead' recap: Don't mess with Daryl and Carol 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z The first half of Nagy’s obituary details an overview of his life and lists family members who survived him. After coronavirus death, Texas man's obituary blasts people who don't wear masks 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Instead, the first half of “Clock Dance” skates through the decades of Willa’s life, from childhood to motherhood to widowhood. Review | ‘Clock Dance,’ Anne Tyler’s 22nd novel, feels familiar — for better and worse 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The first half of the concert will be devoted to interpretations of the five pieces on Out of the Cool, Evans's great 1960 studio album, with the second featuring material from his later career. Purple hazer: the many lives of Gil Evans 2012-11-07T18:07:54Z The first half will be released on Nov. 21. Watch: The first full-length “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay” trailer is finally here 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Through the first half of her hourlong performance, Ms. Smith honored the spirit of Mr. Genet. Patti Smith, in Surprise Appearance at MoMA, Says What’s on Her Mind 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Those elements turn the album’s first half into a nearly perfect mood piece. Album review: Kate Bush, '50 Words for Snow' 2011-11-18T17:35:00Z Much of the first half of the documentary profiles Nims, who has a "driven" personality. "14 Peaks" and "Torn" deliver intense, brutal yet ultimately rewarding mountain-climbing experiences 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z In the first half of the documentary, Putin reveals he does not have bad days because he is “not a woman”. Oliver Stone on Vladimir Putin: ‘The Russian people have never been better off’ 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z The first half of the book is primarily about truth and knowledge, matters of metaphysics and epistemology. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z But never for a moment in the gripping performance of Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto, which took up the first half of the concert and provided the more finished and wholly satisfying musical experience. LSO/Pappano – review 2013-05-19T16:30:01Z Though Ticciati's account offered little in the way of revelation, its robust constitution made a fine contrast to the deathly pallor of the first half. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Ticciati 2010-04-15T20:45:00Z "The best things in life are free," Robert Morse sang in his literal swan song as agency elder Bert Cooper to close the first half of the seventh season. 'Mad Men' open for business again in Part 2 of final season 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z In August, Digital Entertainment Group said consumer spending on home entertainment was flat in the first half of 2014, compared with last year. Disney's Movies Anywhere service comes to Google Play 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Particularly in the recital’s first half, featuring Mendelssohn’s Violin Sonata in F from 1838 and Grieg’s Third Violin Sonata, Bell’s opulent and rhapsodic playing proved utterly disarming. Review | Finding escape from despair in Bell’s Romantic recital 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z But for at least the first half of the movie, he does nothing that even hints at serious criminality. Pick of the week: "Down Terrace" 2010-10-22T11:01:00Z If the Buddha is the dominant presence of the show’s first half, nature is the big personality in much of the rest. Masterpieces of Japanese Art at the Met 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Rice gained 60 yards on 21 carries while the Ravens' defense allowed Arian Foster to rush for 95 yards in the first half and 132 for the game, and didn't sack Yates once. Ravens hold on to beat Texans, advance to AFC championship game 2012-01-16T04:56:00Z They drew many followers in the period of religious revival, the Second Great Awakening, in the first half of the 19th century. Dance: ?Angel Reapers,? About Shakers, Returns to New York 2011-11-27T05:00:12Z In the first half of the year, consumers spent $8.4 billion to rent, buy or stream movies, a 1.4 increase from last year. Hollywood extends slow turnaround in home video sales 2012-07-29T17:06:08Z The play’s excruciatingly long first half plays out as a dysfunctional family drama in which Iphigenia is a budding pianist in an intellectual household. At Salzburg Festival, Directing Slow and Fast 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z I spent the first half or more of my career in the ivory tower writing technical philosophy, but I recognised very early that academic philosophy is a very narrow part of the field. AC Grayling: 'How can you be a militant atheist? It's like sleeping furiously' 2011-04-03T20:00:01Z All of those design details were just right for the art the museum was collecting in the first half of the 20th century. In Santa Fe, a New Museum Brings the Local Art Scene Up to Date 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Two excellent sonatas filled the first half, beginning with Cello Sonata, Op. For cellist Alban Gerhardt, a strong start but a weak second half 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Every year, National Tap Dance Day is celebrated on or around May 25 — the birthday of Bill Robinson, the most prominent Black tap dancer of the first half of the 20th century. Review: Bill Robinson’s Rags-to-Riches Tap Tale 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z The film depicts changes in Egyptian society's acceptance of its Jewish minority in the first half of the 20th century. "Jews of Egypt" film passes censor after delay: director 2013-03-20T17:48:28Z The first half of this program was an homage to François Couperin, the French Baroque composer, harpsichordist and organist. Music Review: Britten Sinfonia Makes American Debut at Alice Tully Hall 2012-02-23T23:53:29Z I burned through the first half of the book in such a fever that I lost sleep, I missed meals. Review | ‘My Dark Vanessa’ is being described as ‘Lolita’ for the #MeToo era. It’s more than that. 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Still, if the first half can turn a mirror on you, the second half will shatter it. What Happens When a Vacation Goes Wrong — and Not in a Funny Way? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z The first half of the book has been leaked to family members, who come to Jake with their own counternarratives, accusations of omissions and misrepresentations. Review | Joshua Ferris pokes wicked fun at the suburban patriarch in ‘A Calling for Charlie Barnes’ 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Both ABC's "Good Morning America" and NBC's "Today" show featured him in their first half hours. Sheen says he wants a raise to return to show 2011-02-28T13:57:11Z The story of those desultory decades occupies the first half the book. The story behind the woman who helped make healthy eating cool 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The first half of the program also included “Three Poems in French” for soprano and string quartet by Mr. Kim, a Californian of Korean heritage who died in 1998. Review: Musicians From Marlboro, With Works by Mozart and Fauré 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The first half of the program was equally amazing. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z As a result, much of the first half of “Casebook,” with blow-by-blow accounts of Miles’s detective work, becomes numbing. Books of The Times: In ‘Casebook,’ Mona Simpson Explores a Family 2014-04-14T21:15:11Z That’s the time signature for at least the first half of this album: two rope turners and a jumper. What’s Beyoncé’s Definitive Album? 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z The languid pace of the first half of “The Truth According to Us” fits its steamy August setting. A sizzling summer story: ‘The Truth According to Us,’ by Annie Barrows 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z A screen hangs at the back of the stage, and throughout the first half, most of the five dancers appear both onstage and on screen in new filmed dance segments. Dance Review: Morphoses, at the Joyce Theater 2012-11-08T22:23:04Z She was also the favourite of her father, an actor whose mercurial, alarming presence dominates the first half of the book. Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing by Jane Dunn – review 2013-04-20T08:00:48Z The first half of the couplet applied more to Suckers, which played a staunchly idiosyncratic opening set. Music Review: Local Natives and Suckers Perform at the Bowery Ballroom 2010-05-09T21:50:00Z For the first half of the film's admirably economical 67 minutes, we are immersed in the daily challenges of showing movies on the margins. 'A Useful Life': As movies fade out, a life gathers light 2011-06-30T19:38:03Z “Certainly, the first half of Broadway, as it developed, was without question the economic engine of the city,” Professor Leadon said. Untrodden Broadway: The Hidden Gems of a World-Famous Street 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Koh's program put the first and third sonatas together on the first half of the program, common-sensically withholding the most impressive and dramatic and longest — the C-Minor Sonata, Opus 30, No. 2 — until after intermission. Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner play in the transforming spirit of Beethoven 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The global box office has so far failed to sizzle this summer, with ticket sales down 6% in the first half of 2019 as misfiring Hollywood sequels give cinemagoers a case of franchise fatigue. Hollywood film franchise fatigue drives down global ticket sales 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Alas, a good chunk of the film's first half depicts Augustine and Iris' arduous trek through the Arctic tundra, and it is not tense but sleep-inducing. With "Midnight Sky," George Clooney directs a visually arresting post-apocalyptic yawnfest 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Caveat emptor, then, regarding the book’s first half. Book World: Mary Beard’s “Laughter in Ancient Rome” reveals history of humor The first half of the concert was before lunch, then there was a break to eat, and he decided to have oysters. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z The show's first half dutifully re-creates the new album, featuring songs by other artists in new versions dramatically reconfigured for a symphony orchestra. Gabriel's orchestral show slowly builds momentum 2010-05-05T01:55:00Z “I cried through the first half,” she said. Carmen Cusack Puts ‘Her Pain and Her Joy’ Into a Leading Broadway Role 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z More than any other city, Manchester was made by industrialization, its population more than quadrupling during the first half of the nineteenth-century as would-be workers sought jobs in rapidly multiplying cotton mills and factories. The Unjustly Overlooked Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Through the first half of 2011, GM reported $3.5 billion in North American profits, which would entitle workers to $3,500 in profit sharing. The Secret To Lower Labor Costs At GM 2011-09-20T21:16:18Z After a first half that’s Baroque in costume and music, the hoofer and his crew are supposed to shed social masks for a more contemporary, more authentic second act. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend: Savion Glover, “A Strange Loop,” and Freddie Gibbs & Madlib 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z The first half of the song was just odd, as she started off on the stairs, singing into the back of the stage. "American Idol" recap: Glambert to the rescue 2010-04-14T12:15:00Z The whole first half of the season was, for me, demoralizing. The Princess and the Poconos 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z This narrative of the first half of Augustine’s life conjures the intellectual and social milieu of the late Roman Empire with a Proustian relish for detail. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Much of the first half involves jokes about her weight and appearance, which don’t register as defensive, because she frames them as someone else’s perception of her. In ‘Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo,’ Tart Words on Men, Women, Sex and Herself 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The bulletproof Belgian pride prevailed over the scoreless first half. A tale of two losses: from hopeful to heartbroken in the World Cup semi-finals. 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The aforementioned dishes are found in the first half of the menu. As delicious as ever, Marcel’s buffs its shine 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z It sustained the French stage for much of the 19th century, was plundered by Ibsen and Shaw, and fed the west end for the first half of the 20th century. No fogey 2010-06-09T14:09:00Z The first half of the concert was essentially a warm-up with a short video tribute to Dudamel, who made his U.S. debut conducting the L.A. Spring bursts to life in Dudamel-conducted 'Carmina Burana' 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z After the first half of the hike, you reach a small camp in a three-story house seemingly in the middle of nowhere. In the Dominican Republic, the Most Photogenic Town You’ve Never Heard Of 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Because that was the sensation I wanted to capture in the first half of the novel; this feeling of a relentless river, that goes on and on. A Selfless Man: David Peace Talks About Bill Shankly and 'Red or Dead' 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Minchin can’t figure out how to interest us musically or lyrically in the situation of a character who is meant to be shallow and disagreeable for the first half of the show. With a heroic performance by its injured star, 'Groundhog Day' limps through opening night 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z In the first half Ruby Wax, accompanied by singer-pianist Judith Owen, offers a confessional cabaret about the conditions that led to her mental illness. Ruby Wax: Losing It ? review 2011-02-25T19:34:08Z The economy expanded in the first half of the year at its slowest pace since the recession ended in June 2009. Stocks drop as optimism about jobs fades 2011-08-05T15:39:00Z |
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