| 单词 | get at |
| 例句 | I noticed right off that they ate more meat than I got at home, but then again the biscuits weren’t as good as my mama made for us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And if you were willing to go through all that trouble just to get a peek at me, I hope you got at least something out of it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “Why did you ask? I didn’t harpoon that shark, if that’s what you’re getting at. It got stuck in the net.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I had been breathing hard, straining, trying to get at him. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Some insect, maybe a grasshopper or worm, found its way to the center of the chicken run and all the chickens went crazy pecking, flapping, and scratching to get at it. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The grasses in the new paddock were thigh-high and lush, and the cattle plainly couldn’t wait to get at them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A reader can figure this out, but it’s hard work, like hacking through a blister pack to get at the product. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z What are you getting at? 8TH JUROR: This. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s get at it. Twice five; will that do? Three times five; will that do? Four times five; will that do?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z When Trashman was driven away from the fruit trees, he ripped open the Doberman cage to get at the steaks. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Cloaked and hooded, once, but the wolves had tom their clothing into pieces in their frenzy to get at the flesh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z What I’m getting at is, I’m kind of mean with the pot and pan. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I was able to deduce from their body language that they had made up and this made me pleased because it showed how much better I was getting at reading body language. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “I ain’t been paid yet, but from what I hear—” “What did you get at the inn?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He had taken Bear to get at me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Next I talk about the train work and how good I got at keeping on my feet, even wasted. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The young birds hatched out there and stuck their heads out through the holes to get at the worms and bugs the grown birds brought to them. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “She’s got at least a hundred of ’em, but she can tell you the story of how she got each and every one. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad set Grandpa Silas up in a bright, sunny room in one of the nursing homes since he needed more intensive medical care than he’d be able to get at home. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She’s got at least some pixie in her, if not some imp. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Mr. D, I think I know what Molly’s getting at. Since there are six people on the D.C. team instead of four, which of the alternates will you choose?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I told her that I wasn’t getting at anything, and that I just wanted to know how she felt. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z So he twisted and kicked and twisted again, but that hand wouldn’t let go; and since it was his right arm being held, he couldn’t get at the knife. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “And the New York Times gets a Pulitzer Prize for stealing documents....They’re trying to get at us with thieves. What in the name of God have we come to?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z My day started normal Or as normal as it ever gets at Meriwether College Prep. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z I would wish I could have gotten at least one A in school. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z These aren’t the knockoffs like I got at the swap meet either. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He couldn’t get at any more rocks to throw that way, but it sure didn’t keep him from dancing up and down in the air and screaming. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Hiskey’s story illustrates just how hard it was for Soviet spies to get at American secrets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Auntie Lin explains how mad she got at a store clerk who refused to let her return a skirt with a broken zipper. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z "What the hell's in that bag? I don't need anything. I'm just going the way I am. I'm not even taking the bags I got at the station. What the hellya got in there?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The more I talked, the better I got at it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “What is your addled poet brain getting at?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I thought for sure I’d get at least a thirty-nine with that extra credit problem about the two trains. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “I bet you get at least a C,” I whisper. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z If I could get at the pack, he thought. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been rusting away in the middle, but I was positive I’d get at least another semester out of the poor thing. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Kitchen has the bait bag and the lobster wants to get at it. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Their house was filled with those protective saint candles you get at the grocery store for a few bucks. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The only thing I keep in it is the gold baby ring that most Korean kids get at their one-year birthday. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Hoving has talked to many art experts whom he calls fakebusters, and they all describe the act of getting at the truth of a work of art as an extraordinarily imprecise process. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He was dark-haired with an afternoon shadow on his chin, which is what Dad says he gets at weekends when he has a day off shaving. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z While it is going on, it looks and feels like aggression: get at it, uncover it, bring it out, grab it, it’s mine! The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She went into the kitchen, where there was an electric stove and a refrigerator that no longer worked and was used to store glasses and dishes so Poppy couldn’t get at them. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Best to keep her answers vague until she knew what he was getting at. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z We just needed some time—something, as it turned out, we wouldn't get at all. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z His own men rushed forward as the Manderlys vaulted over the benches to get at the Freys. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “They won’t be able to get at the instructions until the time is right. But when they need them, the instructions will be there.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z ‘But what I’m getting at is this. When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Deadly dangerous; while the spirit’s in it, it won’t never stop, and when you let the spirit flee, it’s so monstrous angry it’ll kill the first thing it gets at.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z "But how am I going to open the door of the fridge to get at the cold chicken and all the leftovers? That's something I do every evening at home." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “Think of something you could never get at home. What do you want, an ice cream cake?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z And even then, some of them still tried to get at her. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z That’s the first thing lie gets at the grocery when he goes to the store, that and coffee. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The more I thought about it, the madder I got at the big yeller dog. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “You never see them in the ski brochures we get at church.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She was cutting one of the apples we had just gotten at the farmers’ market into teensy-weensy bites so I could eat it. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z We got at the end of the line for the elevator. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Closer to I felt like it. I think I would call what I did when Vivian was here and what I did just now artful lies. Lies to get at the truth.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if she’d done those nice things to get at me and my magic...she still did them. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z But I need all the practice I can get at this point. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He thought my Observations on Fashion exceeding Seasonable & we retired some miles down the Road and purchased him a Shirt out of some Negro cloth & some Breeches, which we got at a very fine Price. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z ‘I wish we could get at them while they’re in there. Still, never mind. Now’s our chance. Let’s see what we can do up this end of the garden while he’s busy down there.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Calling to the boy to give her his drum, she hung it on the branch of a tree in a place where he would not be able to get at it easily. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z What he was getting at was that people can be trusted to text a bit, to the point that they’re not a danger. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It gets at something fundamental about the way we think. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z They used to get at Benny and me up in the tree fort. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z It was a minor piece of luck, but I was glad for whatever I could get at this point. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “He let Harper and Gully get at him. You know. In actuality, I am worried over my cousin, manin. Both of you, I’m worried over. This Harp and Gully thing—the East Side Squad.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Then she gives us a look like we better get at it. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z “You know how I get at this point in the treatments, Conor—” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z She clawed one of the balloons my mother had gotten at the party store. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z There were two ways to get at the place, he said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm grumpy when I don't get at least eight. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I managed to pull down the bedspread and get at the pillows. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The hock-shop prospered on the weekly interest money and the suit benefited by being brushed and hung away in camphor where the moths couldn’t get at it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Director decides what news you get at Mobius and grants you access via the media units in your dwelling. All the answers you need will be given to you at the orientation.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z On my third try the bird paddled up to the sinking bait and plunged its head underwater to get at it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Sometimes I do that if I have to remember what to get at the store.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The boxes open from the outside so someone can get at the eggs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He screamed and thrashed, trying to get at me and at the same time trying to see if the others were watching. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, after he gave Spider a piece of candy he had gotten at a gas station, Nathan snuck out into the desert through his window. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The robot nodded, “That makes me feel swell, but what are you getting at, boss?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z She thought about begging further, and maybe even trying to work some tears out of her eyes so she could get at those precious cakes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Only such real, meaningful actions as those which are sincerely motivated from a deep sense of humanism and moral responsibility can get at the basic causes that produce the racial explosions in America today. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in a space suit, I was able to pry the access panels off the MDV and get at the six hydrazine tanks. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes please, Mr. Foremole. Do you think that you and your team could possibly move this pile of rock and rubble? There’s something we need to get at underneath it all.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z And clouds got at least ten different names, I say. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt that he had let things slip through his hands to such an extent that he could not get at them again. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The curtains are open, which means he can’t get at his writing paper. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I didn’t know what she was getting at. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z As Digory said afterward, the horrible meanness of getting at a chap in that way, almost made him sick. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z It’s a math workbook I got at school. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They wants to put their toes in my curly hair, and get at my money.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered, but did not feel, the stirring he sometimes got at church meetings. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Beneath the sketches stood a row of locked cabinets—bookshelves, Reynie realized, but locked so no one could get at the books. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “That’s the mystery. He said he couldn’t get at it. ‘Now it is lost,’ he said.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “She won’t be talking for quite a while. Besides, her skull is cracked, and God knows what that will do to her. What I’m getting at is, should I bring the sheriff into it?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Lorraine got at least four bags of peanuts, one cherry ice-cream cone, and a black-and-white soda. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Cursing, Theon found his tunic and breeches on the floor where he had dropped them in his haste to get at Kyra. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I remember. So what are you getting at?” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They'd been little more than ballast since Storm's End, and were eager to get at the foe, confident of victory. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Since when is she your girl? What are you getting at?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “What are you trying to get at?” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Then let’s get at those postulates in a hurry. The storm’s due tomorrow.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The wives pushed up against the sawhorses and then knocked them over to get at their men. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Then why in the name of God do you wear it here, where the Manchus can’t get at you?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “He got at them, in spite of all that I could do, and they took up with him. They behaved very queer all the time they were here: wilful, you might say.” The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Maybe I should get at least half of what you get, Sammy. After all, you’re going to have to bribe me to keep me from telling Junior Palmer that you blackmailed him.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Seriously, she’s got at least an extra five inches on her, not including heels. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Still I will try—again, I should get at least a seed crop. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He jerked at the chain and tried to get loose, not to get away from the dogs but to get at them—I mean, it was complete insanity. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Shannon was so fly, all the older dudes would try to get at her until they found out she was only sixteen. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Everything that was Gospel to her she got at home from her father. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It was a much better education than Pong had gotten at the prison and even rivaled some of the private schools in Chattana. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z His tack was quiet questions, to get at why I was so anxious. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He found Ghost outside his door, gnawing on the bone of an ox to get at the marrow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The wires lead into a small backpack she's got at her side. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She took a bite of a drumstick and then used a paper towel to squash a roach that had crawled out hoping to get at some of her dinner. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “Hannah left it on the kitchen table a minute, and the kittens got at it. I’m very sorry, Amy,” added Beth, who was still a patroness of cats. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z How could I let Dad get at me like that? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z So rich if I could get at the pack. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The pens are floorless to allow the birds to get at the grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z My cousin’s wife answers the door in Lezajsk, surprised and a little suspicious, but within thirty minutes I’ve made double what I could have gotten at the secondhand shops in Przemyśl. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The crows had stripped the flesh from the man’s face, and a feral dog had burrowed beneath his mail to get at his entrails. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Yes, I know them,” said Woundwort, “but they wouldn’t make officers. We need to replace Charlock and Mallow: that’s what I’m getting at.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah . . .” He waited for me to go on, as though he didn’t see what I was getting at. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She sipped her coffee and listened quietly as I explained how I had found out about Gimpy’s cheating, my own reaction, and the conflicting advice I’d gotten at the lab. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z For a moment Horace stood with his hands linked across his belly and debated silently the merits of opening the deceased man’s chest so as to get at the evidence in the heart and lungs. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The little bit of clean we got at Hildy’s house is already long gone. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Besides, I had to think of a way to get at least half of my dinosaurs back from Rufus. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The conditional probability of getting a 12 when you know you have gotten at least an 11 is Vs. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He ripped up a shoot growing out of the rotting trunk and started peeling away its bark to get at the green pith inside. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It was the closest, longest look I’d gotten at a wight since Dr. Golan. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z What they wanted was to get away themselves: but Polly couldn’t get at her ring and of course Digory couldn’t go without her. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z She couldn’t figure out what he was getting at. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “That’s what we mostly get at the falls,” the bartender said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Adam kept one letter from his brother, not because he understood it completely but because it seemed to have a covered meaning he could not get at. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Thank you. I’ll try to get at it this summer. Maybe some of it will come in handy when I teach Shakespeare again.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I hope I’ve got at least a touch of that insight, and that I’ll find an occasion to put it to good use. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Imagine all the hard work and fighting that Cluny was going to do, just to get at all this, and here was he having first choice. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z His hands strained unconsciously against the cuffs, wanting to get at his spectacles. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z It was, in fact, inferior to the Brasserie in every respect but one, which was that really very sizable shots of off-brand whiskey could be got at the bar for fifty cents each. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Gaea will throw everything she’s got at us to keep us from reaching Epirus.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “They couldn’t get at you any other way, so they went for your eyes. They’ve bewitched you, child.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I went to him, determined to get at what he really meant. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was twelve o’clock before I got any satisfactory hint of such a building, and this I got at a coffee-shop, where some workmen were having their dinner. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Remember that day in Cluck Bucket when I asked for a job and that guy was trying to get at you?” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Tell a story, or, if you were an Anansesem like me, bring a story to life in their presence, and they’d drop whatever they were doing to get at it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Lorraine is panting to get at the typewriter now, so I’m going to let her before she has a heart attack. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z The puzzle of the Hinckley shooting, of course, is how he managed to get at Reagan so easily. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I felt confused, I did not understand what he was getting at. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z If Hands’s pass was anywhere near Maniac, if Maniac could get at least two fingertips on it, the ball was good as caught. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone in fifth grade got at least one word wrong on his or her spelling test each week. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I dropped his three rocks back into the glove box and closed it, then climbed over the front seat to get at my sax case. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z She hits Malachy too and she tries to hit Michael but he runs to the other side of her round table and she can’t get at him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He even cut up some cantaloupe for us that he got at the market. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z An army officer hurried to get at the rear of the white line. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed that with his last effort he was still trying to get at me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Wherever it was, all the SIM got at first was an earful about our women problems. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Scarlet woman!” exclaimed the knight, and he tried to get at her. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z What Bunderson was getting at was one of the essential aspects of the case against Reggie but also about the nature of texting or using a phone while driving: Is it inherently distracting? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Get your backpack. You can get at least three math problems done during the commercials.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z I hadn’t exactly planned it that way, but the more serious things got at camp, the more I found myself needing to call up Rachel and get away, just for some breathing room. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z "I like him," I said, plain, unsure of what she was getting at. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Someone has got at this idiot and bribed him too. I tell you he’s seen me scores of times. Here. Will this make you remember?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He had brought his Owsla to get at these rabbits, knock them down and beat them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Gramps couldn’t figure what she was getting at, so he just told the truth. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “I always get at it. Ain’t everybody as clumsy as you.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Laudan’s arguments tell against Putnam’s claim that science gets at the truth, not against the claim that what marks science out is that it is reliable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I see,” he replied, then pursed his lips and looked down at his feet to ponder what Mom was getting at. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z All the dolls have stitches on their chins, like the ones Decca got at the hospital after a playground accident. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Gollum was tearing at his master, trying to get at the chain and the Ring. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z No. We need something we can control, something we know he’ll get at exactly the right time. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z “Don’t be. It’s been a learning experience, one I never could’ve gotten at Harvard.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The bacteria break down the cell walls of the grass and allow the cows to get at the protein and carbohydrates within. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z At first his father just looked at him, not knowing what his son was getting at. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because we found it. Because we can get at it.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Work doesn’t bother me,” Roza said, not sure what he was getting at. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z If that was what the coach had been getting at, he sure could have chosen better words. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I’ve been looking into it, and the academic standards are quite high, much higher than he’s getting at the comprehensive, I’m sure.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z They dragged Gawaine off and held him down, still struggling to get at his victim and finish the work. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt remembered a particularly nasty dinosaur with long claws and teeth and a willingness to burrow through rock to get at its prey. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Because it was clear to me that they had taken Bear to get at me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z We live in a world where the microbes are always trying to get at us, to tear us cell from cell, and we only stay alive and whole through diligence and fear. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But I knew what she was getting at. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I hated it when I didn’t know what she was getting at. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “I’on’t know,” Genie said, now giving in and falling down on his knees in the moist earth to get at the ripe pods growing down low. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I didn’t know what he was getting at. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was afraid somebody might try to get at them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks at me like he’s trying to figure out what I’m getting at. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I wasn’t sure what she was getting at. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “Well, longtime no see, Nathan,” Aunt Heidi says, clicking one of those free pens people get at banks, click click click. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Liberals, by contrast, insisted that social reforms such as the War on Poverty and civil rights legislation would get at the “root causes” of criminal behavior and stressed the social conditions that predictably generate crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Max’s presence during the trial had made him feel that somewhere in that crowd that stared at him so steadily and resentfully was something he could cling to, if only he could get at it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Oh, it must have so many wonderful things—if I could get at the pack and just get some of those things. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “I keep telling you not to hide that mop back there. Can’t nobody get at it.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z We have to get at least a foot in Milwaukee, but when things do shut down, it’s like a block party. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z A chance we never seemed to get at school. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z It was tied with string that Papa had gotten at work. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z If these results are valid—and it’s important to keep in mind that further research is under way and may either reinforce or modify these conclusions—the Interbreeders got at least some things right. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The rats were fighting; they were trying to get at each other through the partition. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Grandma began pulling on her cotton work gloves and mixing the baking soda we'd got at the store with the vinegar and water. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But couldn’t a rat get at the wheat anyway? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I’m not so sure about the easy part after the warnings I got at Merry Maids, but I figure my back should be able to hold out for a week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then it hit me what Mama was getting at. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew what Ruth was getting at, though; she wanted me to hang around with the kids who carried their Bibles class to class. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Some of the more agile ones tried climbing to get at her. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Without feathers, he looks malnourished and slight, like those little meatless game hens you get at the supermarket. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I knew what Dad was likely to be getting at, and I knew I wasn’t going to agree to it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He wrenched them apart, but still they struggled to get at each other. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It felt like he was getting at something important. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z After I moved them, she got at one end of the piano to help shove. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He did not really want to get at the horse. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He wanted ever so badly to read it; he would get at it the first opportunity and find out just what Jan had said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But I didn’t understand what he was trying to get at circuitously. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “I hope we get at least ten people at the auditions Wednesday,” I said to him, glancing over my shoulder at Maddie. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z You would even rob them of their souls if you could get at them.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in Harlem, he had often liked to get at something through this kind of indirection. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a little messy to get at them, and Mr. Coggin, the movie cameraman, was sick in a waste basket. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to get at the book, but Travis sheltered it completely. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z But I have no idea what she was getting at today. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z There are also framed newspaper pages and what looks like the sort of diploma certificate I got at fifth-grade graduation. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z I think I see what Keegan is getting at—humans have innate impulses toward violence, yet today we try to deny it—but the momentum of his presentation pushes in the other direction. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Big Ma didn’t yell about “a pair of unbroken broncos kicking and neighing to get at a plate of cookies.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “Oh, sure,” she said, and swung the rucksack off her back to get at her purse. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing the look on my face, he said, “I’m not saying no. I just don’t understand what you’re getting at.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Getting a job is more common, and 39 percent of poor people who are hired rise out of poverty, as against 3 5 percent who get at least a two-year college degree. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I want to be here, with Nick, where I can get at him. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be worth it But how to get at the inside of the plane? Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z There was never any of the hooping and hollering you got at football or basketball games. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “We need to find a way to get at them. In a way they can’t ignore.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “I seen you do more than that, kid. You saved Horse. You protected your girl. A killer woulda let her die on the docks so he could get at his enemies. But you didn’t.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Other tykes have eaten the oleander. It’s a danger, having a poisonous plant grow wild everywhere. They ought to pull it all up, not leave it where the tykes can get at it.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "That joker's trying to steal your wallet. Move your pocketbook to the front where he can't get at it." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Once the Germans captured the Volga River and destroyed the Soviet Union’s defenses, they could head north to get at Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z My grandfather stood directly behind her, waiting his turn to get at the grandchildren. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The hogs were gone now, but I could see their tracks in the sand around the rocks, where they’d tried to get at him from behind. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The first nickname I got at school came not from my classmates but from Catherine. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z All I have to hang in them is what I took out of Madoc’s estates and a few things I got at Target. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Oh, if I could get at the pack. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Velia looked at her twin sister for validation, not grasping the full meaning of what I was getting at. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z His big teeth crunched into calabashes to get at the food inside. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew his brother was getting at something, but he didn’t know what. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z All openings, even the small rear cargo hatch, were underwater so he couldn’t get at them without diving and coming up inside the plane. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “What he was getting at meant a lot to me,” Courtney says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Manny’s avatar switches weapons in quick succession, tossing everything he’s got at the enemy troops. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Kropp wrapped his in his waterproof sheet and put it under his head, but he cannot sleep because they run over his face to get at it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d been particularly pleased with the calendar, which I’d managed to get at the last Exchange, because word had been going round about it from weeks before. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t sure what he was getting at. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “I had a blue slush in my hand,” she went on, “the big kind you get at the movies. Strappy heels. It was summer. Do you like pretty shoes?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She hadn’t been squirming from nervousness—she’d been twisting her legs up to get at the licorice. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z All the stern talking-tos she’d gotten at the orphanage, all the wagging fingers and tight faces...they circled back around her like a whirlwind of shame. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z For my sister Deborah, Mom wrote that she was so beautiful, she would get at least one hundred cows when she wed. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Once Grammy leaves for work, I run up the stairs and get the Strong Shoulder jar I got at the tag sale and unscrew the top. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z But what would I be getting at home? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z "Well, the format is more familiar, because if you've seen Airport or Airline you pretty much know what we are getting at," says Lucas. Little Britain boys 2010-12-12T00:04:00Z This cozy downstairs space in a stunningly renovated 17th-century town house is a great way of getting at Rose’s terrific cuisine du marché without having booked a table the requisite many weeks ago. | Pret-?-Bouffer in Paris 2010-09-28T19:05:00Z The fourth episode gets at this, as the cast finishes an awkward table read for the fictional reboot. On TV, You Can Go Home Again. But It’s Weird. 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z The more you practise happiness, the better you get at it. Director Joe Wright: 'I go nuts if I'm idle' 2013-02-20T19:30:01Z So, they are not typically going to be as reliable as the service you would get at a resort while traveling shoreside. A complicated race to the best cruise Wi-Fi 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z All the while, the kind of cheesy inspirational music you always get at awards shows played underneath. The most remarkable thing about Caitlyn Jenner’s breathtaking ESPYs speech: A few years ago, it would have been unthinkable 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Tradition, generous portions, reasonable prices and treats you just can’t get at most other shops help. Rogue Dairy Queen to corporate: Shove off with your Grill and Chill! We’re selling the old favorites you won’t 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z He recommends maintaining a consistent bedtime, limiting caffeine and alcohol intake, removing visible alarm clocks, exercising and getting at least some exposure to daylight each day, if possible. Pandemic anxiety is making us sleepless, forgetful and angry. Here are tips for coping. 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Neither netted a statue at their respective awards ceremonies, but given the track record it was reasonable to expect the pop performer's third major TV feature to get at least a nomination for something. Anatomy of a shutout: Why the Emmys snub Beyoncé despite her continuing to innovate on TV 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z I think that the better I get at what I do, the better chance it has to speak to those outside my immediate circle. Chains Clink, Water Splashes: A Composer’s Beautiful Noise 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z But Shostakovich cuts through the grotesquerie to get at Katerina’s desperation. Met’s ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk’ Stars Eva-Maria Westbroek 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z This, I think, is what the artist Theaster Gates, in a powerful homily near the film’s end, is getting at. Perspective | The bright light shining on America’s best Black artists has a fascinating backstory 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z And glamour is, like it or not, part and parcel of the ideal Salzburg experience: an extravagance of imagination and achievement that surpasses what you can get at the Met or the Vienna State Opera. At the Salzburg Festival, Riches, Retreads and Notes of Caution 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z It used its music-business trappings — a Princeton dropout tries to manage his drug-dealing cousin’s budding rap career — to get at distinctly American ideas about ambition and identity. The Cast of ‘Atlanta’ on Trump, Race and Fame 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z The more you play with store-bought bouquets, the better you'll get at creating beautiful, budget-friendly designs that will light up your home. 9 ways to make grocery store bouquets look like $1 million bucks 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z The story is funny, colorful, and moving as Tower tries to get at the allure of killing one of the world’s most majestic animals. Weekend Reading: Shooting an Elephant, Again; the Naughtiest Song of 1909 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Wills charges only for labor and recommends that his customers buy the paint themselves using the 30 percent discount he gets at the Sherwin-Williams store. How to mend holes in, and then clean, a crocheted afghan blanket 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z But Bissell gets at the theme of ostensible economic anxiety as fuel for racism only in winks and nods. “The Best of Enemies,” Reviewed: A Tale of Interracial Friendship Only Slightly Less Offensive Than “Green Book” 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z What he got at the Kitano was a band balanced both within itself and to the dimensions of the room. Playlist: New CDs From El Potro de Sinaloa and Frank Kimbrough 2012-11-11T04:50:13Z What he's getting at is the relationship between subject and biographer, the one condemned to existence, in all its three-dimensional elusiveness, and the other determined to find a narrative. Hanif Kureishi's 'The Last Word' lacks a certain sense of voice 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z What Roden and Grant are really getting at is meaning itself: how it is made and transmitted and what becomes of it along the way. Two artists try to portray the indescribable at Pasadena Museum of California Art 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z And since he hasn’t left his humongous home in weeks and keeps the drapes drawn, there’s no normal way to get at him. Review: In Joe Ide’s ‘IQ,’ a Street-Smart Sherlock 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Recently, a friend traveling from the Netherlands smuggled some in for Ms. Pratiwi, but the chef usually hydrates a dry version she can get at her local Chinese grocery store. Ending the Ramadan Fast With an Indonesian Feast 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z I found it difficult to get at her: after sweaty midnights, then throughout those cold dawns I struggled to prise apart her thin and resistant white limbs. 2010-01-01T00:14:00Z But Laurens’s account of the 1881 exhibition where “Little Dancer” débuted gets at why the piece was so odd. Camille Laurens’s “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” Is a Fascinating Hybrid, and Obsessed with Obsession 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z But Paul seems to probe and question and flaunt and do a lot more buffoonery to get at Amanda. Paul Gross Joins Kim Cattrall in ?Private Lives? 2011-11-04T03:30:21Z It’s the last look we get at Dahmer as a human being. My Friend Dahmer: The Unspeakable Horror of Life in the 1970s 2012-03-28T10:45:09Z “It’s important to learn how to frame questions to get at the heart of an issue,” he said. Eastern Middle School knows what it takes to win big in C-SPAN’s StudentCam contest As the bill’s opponents wrote at the time, the “real aim of this bill is to get at the Indian lands and open them up for settlement.” David Treuer’s Rebellious New History of Native American Life 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Sure enough, everyone got at least a little sick. Say no to gloves: why I want my sushi prepared with bare hands 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z It's righteous and cutting and gets at something even more basic than a overtly politically minded song might. Kendrick Lamar releases scathing new single, 'The Blacker the Berry' 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Paige, meanwhile, is in the midst of her own teenage rebellion, turning to the Church for the answers she isn’t getting at home — much to her parents’ chagrin. “The Americans” star Holly Taylor talks Paige’s future: “Just make her a spy already!” 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The individual was being "got at" by corporations and politicians. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z Lewis’s dictum that “ ‘a man doesn’t call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line’ is what I’m trying to get at in my plays,” she said. Leslye Headland?s Play Cycle of 7 Deadly Sins 2010-07-18T02:52:00Z And I asked them about Eileen’s column and said, ‘One side’s saying one thing, we have another side saying something else. Isn’t there a way we can get at the truth?’ “Spotlight” and Its Revelations 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z This soup is a riff on a recipe I got at a Parisian dinner party from a friend’s sister. A beautiful soup to start the holiday meal, with a surprise in every bowl 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Can you help me get at least some compensation for this? Does Delta owe passengers when flight times are changed? 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Dear Miss Manners: What should one do when people meet-and-greet at the buffet table, becoming absorbed in conversation with each other and standing there, keeping others from getting at the food? Perspective | Miss Manners: A simple solution for the, ahem, ‘starving multitudes’ 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z Larger and heavier than a violin, the viola forces players to extend the left arm fully to support the instrument while simultaneously twisting it to get at the strings. Karen Tuttle, Violist and Teacher, Dies at 90 2010-12-25T04:40:31Z What it will do is potentially remove some choice away from people and certainly some deals that people get at the moment ... Grayling's rehabilitation speech and Clegg taking DPMQs: Politics live blog 2012-11-20T16:11:00Z Somehow, even with all the climbing and the shaking of branches there is always one beautiful, perfect, red apple in the top of the tree that I can’t get at. Gifts for the gardener 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Much of this gets at the frenetic evolution of technology. "I started making work when I was 20," says Klonarides. Moment of Friday: Artist Dara Birnbaum's 1970s Wonder Woman mash-up 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Though the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, the government’s minimum cash wage for tipped workers is $2.13 an hour, as long as they get at least $7.25 an hour total. Hooters server reveals how much she makes in tips in TikTok video 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z Even so, Field never truly gets at the fundamental, tangible value of being present, bodily, with our fellow human beings. You Had to Be There. ‘Encounterism’ Argues You Still Do. 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z The genius of this show is how it uses its high-concept–so to speak–premise to get at something universal. REVIEW: High Maintenance Deserves Its Buzz 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z This image gets at the recent transformations of Brooklyn and other boroughs. Bruce McCall’s “Brooklyn or Bust” 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z And the kid who sees dead people never brought it up for some reason! – because it gets at why the film moved so many people after giving them a few mild shocks first. The Sixth Sense at 20: the smash hit that remains impossible to define 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z What Fabre is getting at is the insubstantiality of even the most resonant moment, the way that we are all lost in the face of time. Dominique Fabre and the literature of nothing (and everything) 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z He gets at a grim reality: there is more money to made in tearing Detroit down, around 2011, than building it back up. Books of The Times: Watching a Once-Proud Piece of Detroit Disappear 2011-01-18T16:57:38Z I wouldn't be a journalist if I didn't get at the truth of it. Miriam O'Reilly case: winners and losers 2011-01-11T13:50:40Z To revise William Gibson’s famous observation: the future is already here—you’ll just need to buy a dongle to get at it. The Year in Nine Objects 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z But the phrase gets at something that I never much thought about as a high school student, and which only seems the slightest bit odd to me now: We never, ever worried about the girls. Perspective | We need to talk about why mass shooters are almost always men 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z If you want to get at the spirit of something, sometimes it’s important to use the techniques of a fiction writer. A Reality Check for Steinbeck and Charley 2011-04-03T22:00:12Z The Mona Lisa meme, however, gets at deeper psychological beliefs about art. Perspective | What Mona Lisa with her feet up says about art after coronavirus 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Graham was quite haughty to start with, but when we started working she understood what I was trying to get at – which wasn't her knickers. Peter Rand's best photograph 2012-07-11T16:25:04Z To get at Oscar, however, they must once more endure the debasing effects of Hollywood. Review | FX’s ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’: Another total knockdown, drag-out hit from Ryan Murphy 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Went over to see Nina after school and on the way the year nine “fan club” just got at it! 'Don’t pretend to be something you’re not': a letter to my teenage self 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Emojis represent concepts: the smiley face gets at the concept of “happy” and the heart gets at the idea of “love.” Should There Be an Emoji for Everything? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z What he was trying to get at, he says, was something else. Carrying the Fire 2010-08-27T23:02:00Z While “Transparent” seems likely to get at least a few nominations on Thursday, it remains to be seen whether other well-regarded new streaming shows such as “Daredevil” and “Bloodline” will benefit. Emmy Nominations 2015 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z If, on the other hand, you demonstrate what you are getting at in parodic form, you will probably get off scot-free. Craig Brown: The Lost Diaries 2010-10-01T23:05:00Z The show itself, which gets at the congenital nature of this nation’s gun love, has a contemporary resonance that has only grown with the years. The Pen and the Trigger Finger: Examining Gun Violence Onstage 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z She got at what made this band, for a cultural moment, click: its simmering sense of “repressed hysteria.” Books of The Times: ‘How Music Works,’ by David Byrne 2012-09-12T18:02:58Z That's what I'm trying to get at with the case studies: that male power isn't as powerful as the old style version of gender relations proposes. Laura Kipnis talks about power, anxiety and 'Men' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Do not redeem unless you are getting at least 1 cent in value per point. Meet the People Who Can’t Get Enough Hotel Points (You’ll Learn Something) 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z What Hussenot is getting at is history, both its presence and, in some sense, its collapse. 'The Spectators' illustrates the push and pull of city life 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Both shows put to use an arsenal of eclectic methods to get at the heart of a broad concept. ‘A Bid to Save the World’ at Source Festival What Guston was getting at with these words was just what he was getting at with his art, and it is profound. Perspective | Ford Foundation’s president is apologizing for the wrong thing 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z We might forgive some of the more swoon-worthy grand gestures of a story, but we need to believe what we see when we’ve all got at least a modicum of real-world experience with romance. The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: No 4 Phantom Thread 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z And yet, in a way, they are getting at something more essential. Queer Tango Brings Its Liberated Style to New York 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Both Guzman and Cleveland, who also works at the Washington School of Photography, emphasize getting at least some prints made of your photos. Ideas for displaying and managing your vacation photos And it's not hard to guess what Laura Wade's Posh is getting at. Theatre picks of the week 2010-04-02T23:12:00Z She sees another similarity between them: “We both use portraiture as a way of getting at something deeper.” Review | Olivia Laing’s ‘Funny Weather’ ponders the role of art during times of crisis 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z This gets at the sensuality that grips the Israelites as they await Moses’ return, but stops short of a sexploitation aesthetic that might throw off the opera’s equilibrium. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z How do you break it to the hotel — and get at least a partial refund? Perspective | When to change rooms in a hotel — or just check out 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z To get at this we quickly realised we needed to go beyond survey data. The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Your film gets at both the happiness we can pursue in our lives when we have freedom, as well as how we want to change the people we love. "Dual" director on a world where Karen Gillan duels her own clone for survival: "Karen is a maestro" 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z “Gone Girl” is fascinating because it gets at what is unsettling about coupledom: our suspicion that, in some fundamental sense, it necessarily entails victimization. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z That ratio is very different from what people get at the symphony, with roughly 100 players and 2,000 people. Esa-Pekka Salonen Says Tweak the Orchestra, Don’t Blow it Up 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z There is nothing more thrilling than when a writer, through her unique voice and sentences, gets at deep emotional truths through the connection of two humans with their hearts, minds and bodies. Review | The publisher of ‘Adèle’ asked me to endorse the book. I could not. 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z You might conclude that these scenes are just a more elaborate way to get at the same old comic self-deprecation. This May Be the Most Polarizing Comedy Special of the Year 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z That means talking about different sides of people, getting at their complexities, letting them express themselves in the multifaceted ways human beings express themselves. Brian Reed went to “S-Town;” all he brought back was this profound and unforgettable story 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z I want to be really deep and profound and be like, "That was what I was really trying to get at." Me Too founder on her healing memoir and creating change: "All of us contribute to rape culture" 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The more she empowered us to speak, the better she got at knowing how her emotional algorithm could supply us with books and feelings and tools for betterment. Oprah Earned This Museum Show. And It’s a Potent Spectacle. 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z To get at the most interesting and largest number of microbes, those found in the gut, he needs faeces. My life as a guinea pig for science 2013-07-27T23:05:16Z Although the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children get at least 60 minutes of activity a day, when recess is canceled and PE is online, that may not be feasible for many families. How to keep kids active as the weather cools and the pandemic rolls on 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z The clever, enigmatic lyrics get at the reclusive Chilton’s mysterious power, describing him, at one point, as an “invisible man who can sing in a visible voice.” Why Rock Criticism Was Essential to the Replacements 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z “You always get this, ‘Oh you’re wonderful,’ and all this, and the whole time you are thinking, if you only knew how upset I get at this child, how I really don’t like him sometimes.” Adoptive Families Say It Takes More Than Love 2010-04-16T21:28:00Z And they get at the same thing, essentially. Michael Pollan: Bad food is costing America its economic health 2013-12-08T19:00:00Z Mr. Britton, who was a counselor while the others were students, was drawn to that camp because it gave participants something he wished he’d gotten at that age. Asperger’s Are Us Comedy Troupe Jokes About Everything but That 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Each table was decorated with Election Night bingo cards, noisemakers, those little vats of bubbles you get at weddings. Election Day in the East Village: Singing Helps 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Another rapper-activist, Killer Mike — whose anguished speech to Atlanta was maybe the signal video of a week of unrest — got at this when Stephen Colbert asked him what white Americans could do right now. As Images of Pain Flood TV, ‘Where Is Our Leader?’ 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Brodsky was interested in the poet’s role in society, and these essays, which deal with politics, literature and his own personal experience of exile, all get at this question. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Other works in the show get at the exchanges that happen between the U.S. and Mexico — wall or no wall. A border wall rises in Oceanside — but this one is an art project, by Tijuana artist Marcos Ramirez 'ERRE' 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z “The lesson Fox News is getting at is very clear,” Stewart said. Jon Stewart slams Fox News over Ferguson hypocrisy: “Entirely unaccountable for their anger and divisiveness” 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z This last point, of course, reminds of why it is the satirists and comedians who often get at Trump coverage better than straight news. Donald Trump and the media: The problem isn’t too much coverage — it’s how this president i... 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Because comedy is intended at times to get at harder truths via provocation, comedians tend to bristle at any suggestion that a person might be earnestly offended by their jokes. From Joan Rivers to “Opie and Anthony,” comics on the defensive are a sad sight 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z But both groups are represented in the -- ahem -- body of the movie, and one of the most frequently asked question I get at Q&As is: "What's with you and the fat chick stuff?" Blogging "City Island": My fat-chick manifesto 2010-04-12T16:18:00Z Sitting at her desk in a plaid suit she got at Macy’s and a pair of high heels impractical for walking, she gazed at a graph showing the previous week’s web traffic. At Cosmopolitan Magazine, Data Is the New Sex 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Other, nonpolitical current shows get at bits and pieces of today’s climate. The Trump Administration Shakes ‘House of Cards’ Hard 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Instead he gets at how America makes sense of itself through the other. What We’re Reading This Summer 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Then you've got at least a fighting chance of shoehorning your way on screen as part of a specialist programme, before eventually becoming "the face of" ghosts or wool or glass-blowing. Screen burn 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z “I wouldn’t say that sushi is any riskier than a hamburger or fresh produce that I get at the grocery store,” Dr. Chapman said. Is Takeout and Delivery Food Safe? 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z “It looks like a cherry tomato, like the one I’d get at the food co-op.” There’s Another Tomato Plant in the East River 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z That gets at what might be the critical strength of the live experience: its potential for danger, that uncomfortable but fertile sense that something could go wrong. On Comedy: Appreciating the Comics Sean Patton and Ted Alexandro 2014-03-12T20:01:16Z But I think that little bit of text - "A friendship between college girls is grander and more dramatic than any romance…" – really gets at what Girls is going for, and why it's important. Girls season two review: surprises and disappointments 2013-03-18T15:24:16Z And those fans have shown themselves perfectly willing to use whatever means necessary – legal or not, as if we were all in our own Walter White-inspired morality play – to get at those shows. Is Breaking Bad the show that finally breaks how we watch television? 2012-07-16T16:23:25Z In this very polished show, her second at the Lisa Cooley gallery, she uses these things as a sort of wedge to get at the space between mediums. Art in Review: Erin Shirreff: ‘Day Is Long’ 2013-06-20T18:10:02Z William Carlos Williams wrote: "It is difficult to get the news from poems"—but it is possible to get at least a fragment of experience and a whole lot of feeling. What’s with all the viral poems? Why we turn to verse in a time of war 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z In some ways, the story gets at what we’ve suspected about the heartless, workaholic, algorithm-worshipping style of tech corporations, but this goes further. Amazon’s Orwellian “anytime feedback tool” makes defenses of the company’s “bruising” workplace culture hard to swallow 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z For Dubus, salvation lay in getting at the stories imprisoned within a reality that at first seemed merely brutal and mindless. 2011's best -- so far! 2011-07-04T15:01:00Z "This is something that you don't get at any other archaeological site today." Archaeologists restore ancient Roman temple in Israeli port 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z “Bend Sinister,” Vladimir Nabokov’s sinuous novel that shares both a title and verve with the Fall’s exceptionally twisty 1986 album, has a passage that gets at this a little closer to the bone. Perspective | Burrowing deep into many rabbit holes of Mark E. Smith and the Fall 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z All this embroiders the picture, as does Christine’s mental health and girlish bedroom, but none of this gets at why she pulls the trigger. Review: In ‘Christine,’ Why Did She Pull the Trigger? We Don’t Know 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Again, an ending followed by a beginning; Mr. Callahan seemed to be getting at something here. Music Review: Bill Callahan Show at Jazz at Lincoln Center 2012-02-09T23:04:37Z She also delivers a suddenly serious speech that crystallizes what Black may be trying to get at all along. Lewis Black's comedy 'One Slight Hitch' lacks his signature bite 2012-06-18T17:32:03Z How can I get at not only what is visible, but also things that may be invisible? Perspective | Compassion. Claustrophobia. Originality. Why El Greco inspired so many great modern artists. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z But “grandmother” — a technical title among the Sioux for women like Spotted Eagle — really got at the heart of what animates the protesters and their sympathizers. Why we must respect the sacred at Standing Rock 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z But it gets at something real, something important. Great Oscar debate: What is the real best picture? 2011-02-26T01:01:00Z But it also gets at a point about her that drives some people crazy, the notion that Oprah put the "O" into "ego." For some, Oprah's exit is good riddance 2011-05-23T13:01:00Z But even if there were any non-Spanish speakers in the crowd, they wouldn’t have had much trouble figuring what the singer was getting at. For Romeo Santos at the Patriot Center, it’s ladies first, as always She is also impressed by the artist’s use of aesthetic techniques to get at these stories in a way that isn’t overly didactic. Tomashi Jackson Harvests Histories From the Land of Plenty 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z All of this gets at the difficult nature of evaluating activist art: do we judge it on the way it looks? From narco-wars to urban basketball, making art out of activism 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Talking animals present a challenge to our humanist bearings, which is what Plutarch was getting at with his yapping pig Gryllus in his essay "On the Use of Reason by 'Irrational' Animals". It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z Gary had to stay in town and, like me, had no Thanksgiving plans, but he did have a turkey he got at work. A Thanksgiving Snapshot: Readers Share Their Holiday Stories 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z In yet another irony to this story, confronting a manufactured scandal offered Minhaj a groundbreaking opportunity to demonstrate, yet again, how effective his satire is at getting at the truth. Off with his head: The manufactured scandal over Hasan Minhaj 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z “Look at the fits of laughter that you get at a funeral, at a wake. It’s emotion, and in a way it’s relief that you’re alive.” Mavis Gallant, Short-Story Writer, Dies at 91 2014-02-18T19:55:45Z Tell me what you think he was getting at there. Nick Cave mourns: “I just think that he’s living in a new world” 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z “In his interactions with the loftiest of public officials or the meekest of private figures, he hoped and sought to get at the truth,” Chris Haley said. Late author Haley honored by Maryland city on 100th birthday 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z You can kind of see what he was getting at. Pyongyang goes pop: Jarvis Cocker unites the divided 2011-03-29T14:52:43Z What I’m trying to do is get at “Where does this work of art want to take me, and did I get there?” Behind the Byline: Meet arts critic Moira Macdonald 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z I thought it was going to be terrible because there would be no foreign visitors whatsoever, and it is true that we're not seeing the foreigners we normally get at this time of year. Andrew Lloyd Webber: 'I was wrong about summer theatre bloodbath' 2012-08-07T11:49:36Z I think he went through what he had to to get at those performances. Bowie and me 2013-02-23T08:00:24Z Part of their value is optics — they show reporters at least attempting to get at the truth by questioning those in power. Perspective | Trump-era press briefings are exercises in futility — and lying. But we need them anyway. 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Eotvos’s haunting score, which folds hints of pop and jazz into a Modernist idiom and boldly combines sung and spoken lines, gets at the emotions coursing within the characters and beneath the politics. Trump Has Changed a Night at the Opera, Too 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z “I don’t think I quite understood him then. I just knew that he was getting at something ludicrous about life,” Ms. Devers said. Edward Gorey Was Eerily Prescient 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z I think this article I wrote gives you a better idea of what I was getting at, which was to celebrate the idea of women being cast in traditionally male roles, not to scorn it. Someone Asked Tom Hardy if 'Mad Max' Was 'A Man's Movie' 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The comment suggests a degree of sexual freedom unusual for that era, but it also gets at the fraught relationship between artists and their support systems. Review | The tortured love life of Tennessee Williams, as seen through a novelist’s eye 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z They are made primarily of tapioca starch, but in addition to being grain-free, they are the reason my homemade pizzas are leagues better than anything we can get at a restaurant. Two classic Italian favorites meet in this satisfying, cheesy Pizza Pasta casserole 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z That contrast is at the heart of what the filmmakers were trying to get at: a father on a search for his missing daughter and wondering if he lost her years ago. How ‘Searching’ Uses Tech Devices as Narrative Devices 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z It gets at their grab bag of dance styles and vocabularies and the sense of masterly choreographic design producing its own diffusion, an orderly entropy. Review: A Tere O’Connor Dance That Ebbs, Flows and Weaves 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z “It’s the first piece of fiction that I’ve read that got at what the entire planet went through last year.” Apocalypse Now-ish (Cocktails, Anyone?) 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z There is a telling scene deep inside "Boyhood" that gets at the essential core of the emotional appeal of Richard Linklater's startling new film. 'Boyhood' a startling, intimate portrait of a child growing up 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Akoka and Gueret get at that tension by widening their focus to include their character’s lives, as well as glimpses of a wisely wary community. ‘The Worst Ones’ Review: The Gazes of Children 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z That might be what my dad was getting at. My dad said I wasn’t black enough. At last, I know what he meant | Raven Smith 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z “This is a much more collaborative version of what I’d get at an incubator in the city.” Oakland: Brooklyn by the Bay 2014-05-02T22:36:02Z For Platinum Elite members, remember that Fairfield Inns offer a mere 200-point arrival gift, not the 400 points you get at a Courtyard. Meet the People Who Can’t Get Enough Hotel Points (You’ll Learn Something) 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z I was trying to get at the root of the problem — for the benefit of womankind, and for myself. Modern Love: Sometimes It?s Not You, or the Math: Modern Love 2011-09-23T17:39:22Z They get in the way of your concentration when you’re trying to get at a story. Television: ?Leave It to Beaver? and Sitcom Craftsmanship 2010-06-25T21:35:00Z Honestly, I haven’t seen the film, so I don’t know how dire it does get at the end. Toni Collette brings life to the role of a dying woman 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Lanois said the project started as an all-acoustic album, but he began prodding Young to get at what was in his heart. Neil Young's new album, 'Le Noise,' reaches deep, climbs to new musical highs 2010-09-28T00:20:00Z The hysteria over ‘pumpkin spice’ has made it one of the most ubiquitous flavors of the season, but there are a lot of options to get at the warm, sweater-inducing feeling of autumn. Forget pumpkin spice everything: these are the real tastes of autumn 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z But a growing number of restaurants are trying to get at the root causes of inequitable pay by moving away from the tipped minimum wage. How to Make an Unloved Job More Attractive? Restaurants Tinker With Wages. 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Trouble is the show takes an age to set all this up, forgetting to include any actual jokes as it clumsily moves the pieces into place and reminds us what they've all got at stake. TV highlights 06/07/2012 2012-07-05T19:00:01Z Denying the accuracy of the scene he also stated: "I'm not even sure what it's getting at ... personalities are very wrong." Steve Wozniak attacks Steve Jobs biopic 2013-01-26T00:40:00Z The operatic setting, in two acts, highlights all the finagling and petty jealousies in the story but seems unable to get at the deep underlying emotions. Music Review: ‘Doubt,’ Adaptation Performed by Minnesota Opera 2013-02-03T23:24:03Z It’s probably for the best that Vince Gilligan didn’t go that route, but now he’s got at least one idea if Better Call Saul! doesn’t pan out. Watch Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul Reunite in the Hilarious 'Barely Legal Pawn' 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z This bad girl’s tricks rarely vary; for instance, once she turns up wearing the good girl’s clothes, it won’t be long before someone gets at least their feelings hurt. Albatross: Just Call Her Emilia Bad-Elia 2012-01-12T19:03:29Z Chaney also talks to experts about the movie’s inspirations and indelible influence, in order to get at the heart of why “Clueless” is still so universally beloved 20 years later. “Clueless” wasn’t supposed to be a hit: “I don’t think they necessarily saw a teen female audience as being much of a boon” 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z In order to get at that inexpressible thing, he has taken some liberties with Rumi’s work. The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z I was like, “How did this get at the highly regarded WPA with lines like, ‘Oh, Seymour?’” ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ at 40: The Plant That Conquered the World 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z “It’s a very traditional thing we eat at home,” says Leon, “and the egg gets at the idea of starting over.” In the Foothills of Los Angeles, a Celebration of Renewal 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z At the risk of oversimplifying, what Orwell was really getting at is the need to think for oneself. Considering George Orwell on the anniversary of his death 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z It's my personal belief that every gay man gets at least one diva to call his own. 'Tis the season to love or hate on Mariah Carey 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z All you get at the end is an interview with a survivor whose daughter died and a list of names. The Last Minute by Eleanor Updale - review 2013-02-03T12:00:00Z “The longer I do yoga, the worse I get at it,” she says in parting. Books of The Times: A Cynical Position Overcome With Yoga 2010-12-22T23:06:18Z A behind-the-scenes piece in Vox looking at the making of one masterful episode, “Clark’s Place,” got at the show’s immense amount of planning and attention to detail. “The Americans” will end, and that’s good news: Knowing when to close out a TV story is an underrated skill 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z The four items on her list include kicking the day off with a glass of water and some outdoor light, reading without distraction and getting at least eight hours of sleep. Ina Garten advises us to "drink more large cosmos" after reading Reese Witherspoon's wellness tips 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Memoir is the only second chance you ever get at life. Salon’s guide to writing a memoir 2013-01-20T23:00:00Z But they certainly deserve the viewing they’re getting at Zenith Gallery, which boldly bills the local African American artist as “The Last Washington Unknown Color School Painter.” Review | In the galleries: Disrupting and denaturing the concept of comfortable at home 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Potential foreign buyers may get at least a glimpse of the film as early as this month during the Cannes Film Festival. ‘Salinger,’ a Documentary Film 2013-05-08T21:24:06Z Her grandmother’s prayer book Years and years ago, my grandmother gave me this tiny, stapled little blue book, which she got at a funeral home in the 1980s. B.A. Parker Can’t Get Enough of K-Dramas 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z While the movie makes it clear that Dana and Charles are successful, it doesn’t always get at the labor necessary to get them there, both as a couple and as individuals. ‘A Journal for Jordan’ Review: Reflections on Love Built and Lost 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Tour budgets and contract negotiations get at least as much attention as songwriting and recording, and if that sounds dry, aspiring musicians could certainly learn a lesson or two. Rock Lives: This Season’s Pop Music Biographies and Memoirs 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z What Exley’s getting at are the rigors of maturity, in which, as I used to say to my children, you get what you get and you don’t get upset. Frank Gifford and 'A Fan's Notes' 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z We learn nothing about the reasons for secrecy, or what is at stake when governments protect knowledge, or when they try to get at knowledge protected by others. Review | The value of Trevor Paglen’s art may remain a secret 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z “You can do that onstage, but film offers you so many more tools to get at that.” Bryan Cranston takes his L.B.J. to TV in ‘All the Way’ 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z To break up all the black, I wore beige suede high-top Converse Chuck Taylors that I got at Selfridges in London. What I Wore: What I Wore - Kevin McHale of ?Glee? 2011-10-14T23:46:27Z The joke lands for me partly because it gets at something fundamental about the relationship between our personalities and our obsessions and how they manifest in our reading lives. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z High drink prices are a result of not just ingredients, but also talent and the search for experiences you can't get at home. Food - The Washington Post Twitter Facebook Rss Loading... It also gets at the bedrock theme of this string of novels. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Three’ 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z They just weren’t a part of what I was really trying to get at. Sharon Stone Is Telling Her Side of the Story 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z “It’s one of those big two-pounders you get at a roadside truck stop.” Matthew McConaughey Wrote the Book on Matthew McConaughey 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z “It was wonderful to give families the precious photo they couldn’t get at the mall because their babies were in the NICU.” Doctor brings smiles to thousands of anxious NICU parents by playing Santa 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Cale songs an appreciation rather than a tribute, and that word choice gets at the appealingly modest vibe of this record. Eric Clapton honors J.J. Cale with low-key style on 'The Breeze' 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Now a practicing psychoanalyst, Greg Bellow relies on his training to get at what he calls the “emotional truth” of his family’s life. ‘Saul Bellow’s Heart’: Son looks back at his father 2013-05-08T21:05:21Z This is what Sylvia Plath was getting at, too, more concisely and with less ironic humour, when she wrote: "The blood jet is poetry." EM Forster's work tailed off once he finally had sex. Better that than a life of despair 2010-06-13T21:30:00Z “Crime and Punishment” gets at the racial dynamics of spanking, which came up most recently in the Adrian Peterson child abuse case. black-ish Whips Up a Conversation About Spanking 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z The piece gets at the double-edged bargain we’ve made with technologies that are no longer futuristic. Robert Pruitt: Futuristic portraits gain a real edge 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z The split leeks are washed thoroughly, but because Kansas soil is less sandy, they're often not as dirty in the middle as leeks you may get at the store. The Thanksgiving dish my parents spend months preparing 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Not exploitative but just getting at the sort of hard truths of things. Moonlight's Tarell Alvin McCraney: 'I never had a coming out moment' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z How do you get at something that has already been done so perfectly? Herman Wouk on His New Book, ‘The Lawgiver’ 2012-11-12T20:06:04Z It’s just trying to get at that demonic, animalistic thing. My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z Nary does a cash cow the size of GoT go unmilked, so we’ve got at least one more Thrones TV show coming our way. 'Don’t let the tail wag the dragon': what we want from the Game of Thrones prequel 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z It's easy to see what he's getting at. Marc Webb: the latest director caught in Spider-Man's web 2012-06-21T20:00:01Z Parmesand: What ends up sprinkled all over the meatball sub you get at the beach. Style Invitational Week 1341: Portmanteautapping E to R 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z “Whenever he had nightmares about Warsaw,” Ms. Jessel recalled in an interview, “they involved Communists, not Nazis. He said in war you expected to die, but Communism got at your head, and that was worse.” Celebrating Panufnik, a Polish Composer in London 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z This is the point, of course, for James understands that the novel is most effective when it gets at layers, nuances, that mere facts resist. Marlon James' powerful mix of influences and cultures lands him the Man Booker Prize 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z This is what Young was getting at when he spoke of “rooms filled with people who don’t look like me.” Bradford Young, Oscar firsts and why inclusive film crews matter 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z “If the job of journalism is to get at the truth, they need to do a better job.” Michelle Wolf’s correspondents’ dinner set made Washington uncomfortable. But comedians have her back. 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z It gets at the glorious raconteur Ms. Reynolds clearly was, as well as how ill-suited for real life she might have been, at least according to her daughter. The Unsinkable Debbie Reynolds 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z An extreme low tide this week will expose a lot of Puget Sound and Hood Canal beaches for clams, oysters and the hard to get at geoduck. Very low tides will allow for excellent shellfish gathering in the days ahead 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z I got an Olivier award – but, more importantly, it felt like the coming together of the traditional training I got at Rada with a more physical, visual form of theatre. Kathryn Hunter, actor – portrait of the artist 2013-02-26T17:00:03Z He’s motivated a bit by money, a bit by boredom and, in the best hard-boiled tradition, a lot by a desire to get at the truth of the crime. Michael Connelly’s ‘The Crossing’: Harry Bosch goes to the dark side 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z By filling the frame with Ms. Steen’s features, he seems to think he’s getting at something truthful, as if the close-up were a direct route to honesty. | 'Applause': Even on the Wagon, Not Ready for a Close-Up 2011-01-20T23:00:19Z “If I’m not going to be able to use an invasion of privacy or a defamation claim, I might be able to get at it with that.” Threat of lawsuits can stymie, but also help documentarians 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z She was plagued by technical audio problems from the TV crew, and that didn't help the impression we got at home at all. 'American Idol' contestant rankings: Patrick's Power Ratings finals week five 2010-04-12T21:22:00Z “It gets at emotional truths that are comforting for us.” ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ Heals Cows and Soothes Souls 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z Maybe his appropriations matter so much because they get at the heart and meaning and origins of the entire tradition of Western art. The Supreme Court May Force Us to Rethink 500 Years of Art 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z It’s Bobby Draper, in season six’s “The Flood,” tearing at his bedroom wallpaper to get at the wallpaper underneath. Review: Mad Men's Time Machine Warms Up for Its Last Trip 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z A long New York Times story gets at some of this. "There It Is. You're Caught." The Jinx Gets Its Man 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z It gets at the simplicity and occasional gawkiness of Mr. Knausgaard’s prose. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Three’ 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z And that gets at the risk and benefit to Mr. Biden of a video highlighting that connection. A Biden-Obama Reunion Pitches a Campaign as Comfort-Food TV 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z As he and I talked, Andrés really tried to get at the heart of the philosophical question “what are tapas?” You’re getting it all wrong about tapas — starting with the meaning of the word 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z That gets at another core goal of Collective Liberty: apprehending traffickers, not the trafficked. D.C. start-up Collective Liberty uses technology and data to help police stop human trafficking 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z The music starts out spare and contained, but gradually builds with blistering, tinkering speed to get at, sonically, the urgency of not just one, but multiple generations that have faced oppression. Review: A Dance Searching for Harmony in an Unequal World 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z They’re all plot devices on the way to getting at the truth at the center of both shows — a love story, in two very different incarnations. The year in TV: How two young, raunchy comedies reinvented the small-screen love story 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z So figure we’ve got at least half a millennium’s worth of comic traditions operating here. ArtsBeat: Funny Then and There, Here and Now 2011-07-25T16:19:24Z And “polished” is what it gets at Seattle Musical Theatre’s home in Magnuson Park. ‘Altar Boyz’ rises and shines 2013-02-28T23:48:26Z Turner's movie tries to get at the interior state of imminent violence: simply, what it is like to feel trapped inside your own head. The Man Inside – review 2012-07-26T21:00:01Z But there are darker things I get at also. An interview with Harvey Fierstein, who plays Tevya in a touring 'Fiddler' 2010-05-19T22:55:00Z You get at once the feeling, so crucial to Robbins, of young people who have found a space in the busy city where they can be alone together. Television Review | 'N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz': Reimagining Jerome Robbins? ?Ballet in Sneakers? 2010-03-23T22:17:00Z Meyers’ bit was not only funny, it got at an issue that political scientists are starting to document – Trump’s deep connections to authoritarianism. If a Donald Trump joke lands on late-night TV, does anyone (who matters) hear it? 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Because as tempting as it is to debate Treadgold on his accusations of what happens in humanities classes, the simple truth is that he’s entirely wrong about the type of training students get at universities. We don’t need to “rethink college” — we need to rethink the arguments against it 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Apparently, another type of animal tried to get at the food and found itself caught in a very uncomfortable position. Woman finds squirrel wedged inside squirrel-proof bird feeder 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z What I was trying to get at was the emotional experience of watching a decade fly by, commercial-free, via Netflix and Amazon, and seeing things progressively suck a little bit less. Perspective | I watched 21 Marvel movies this month — and witnessed a decade of progress for women 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z “Folks that I’m talking to want to get at that root.” What’s the right reaction when a white stranger walks into a black church? 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Leary is trying to do something here that gets at the raunch and joy of the rock lifestyle but also offers a serious consideration of its consequences. Review: In ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll,’ Denis Leary Is an Aging Rocker 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Musk says she gets at least 100 requests a month from people who want to meet her son. Elon Musk’s Model Mother, Maye, Prepares for Met Gala Debut 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z Over three meals since the late winter, I rarely had any doubt what he was getting at. Restaurant Review: Fung Tu on the Lower East Side 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Through a very specific mileau and set of characters it somehow gets at something that is essentially American. The Knick: scalpel-sharp second season cuts away at Mad Men's status 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z That serves a narrative that people are trying to get at as well, like I’m reacting to the criticism of these films. The Director James Wan: If ‘Aquaman’ Doesn’t Work, Blame Me 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z A laconic though riveting musical storyteller, Mr. Clark was adept at getting at the heart of an experience or an event. Guy Clark, a King of the Texas Troubadours, Is Dead at 74 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z And charging the wireless Bluetooth version through its USB port is inelegant: You have to open the fabric headband to get at the wiring. Tools for Sleeping Well While Traveling 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Perrotta, who has seen all of his novels get at least optioned for adaptation, has been moving in this direction since “Election,” in which he introduced the now-archetypal striver Tracy Flick. Making ‘Mrs. Fletcher’: Arguing. Futzing. Spanking. Agreeing. 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Strout is playing with form here, with ways to get at a story, yet nothing is tentative or haphazard. Elizabeth Strout’s ‘My Name is Lucy Barton’ review 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z I think that the show is really getting at the core of this feeling that a lot of us can’t escape. In ‘Beef,’ Road Rage Is Only the Beginning 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z He’d cut you to ribbons in order to get at what he knew was right Aaron Sorkin And that, believes Aaron Sorkin, who wrote the scene, is the difference between Jobs and everyone else. Aaron Sorkin on the cult of Steve Jobs: ‘I hadn't seen anything like it since John Lennon was killed’ 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z “So there’s a quality and a thoughtfulness and a level of familiarity you might expect to get at a more upscale restaurant. But you’re getting it from a truck.” As the upstart food truck industry matures, where is D.C.’s mobile lunch scene headed? The feeder is designed with a metal grate covering it, so that birds can fit through and get at the food inside. Woman finds squirrel wedged inside squirrel-proof bird feeder 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z She gamely wandered the aisles — which smelled, in a turn towards caricature, like patchouli incense — and packed a basket of overpriced ingredients that we could have gotten at the Kroger down the block. Think tofu is tasteless? You probably haven't tried the small-batch stuff 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The picture may get at least a few people talking about him again. Review: Paul Butterfield’s Story Is Told in ‘Horn From the Heart’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z I wanted to get at least one question right. I won big on "Jeopardy!" So why does it still haunt me? 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Elizabeth Hardwick, in a 1953 essay, was in especially brutal form when she got at the bedrock hypocrisy of many intellectuals on this topic. The Story of Appalachia, With Plenty of Villains 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Perversely, I wish there were more new X-Files if there were to be any at all; the season promises to get at mysteries it doesn’t seem as though it’ll have time to solve. Review: 'The X-Files' Revival Fails to Find the Truth 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Baig, 30, who was born and raised in Chicago to parents from Pakistan, gets at that duality in her film. ‘Hala’ Is the Story of a Chameleon. It Reminded Me of Myself. 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Realism isn't the only way to get at difficult truth, and in certain traumatic cases it may be the least effective mode. 'Vietgone' is a journey of intersecting lives after the fall of Saigon 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Platters of caciocavallo arrived at each table, along with salad and giant fresh fava that we peeled to get at the tender beans inside. ‘Oh-Oh, Ay-Ay!’ Riding to an Italian Rhythm on the Transumanza 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Apple, for example, pushed back hard against a government demand to build a “back door” to get at information in the iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino attackers last year. Yahoo helps the government read your emails. Just following orders, they say. 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z What Hornby is getting at is the fine line between ambition and dissatisfaction, the way the things we want can't help but lead to compromise. Nick Hornby's 'Funny Girl' traces the road to stardom 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z And seeing as we’re getting at least three more Fast & Furious movies, it’s not a title she’s likely to relinquish any time soon. The Expendabelles: Dream-Casting the Upcoming Expendables Spin-Off 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z There’s a way that poetry is trying to get at something mysterious and strange and difficult to reach, and so sometimes people mistake that for a code or a riddle. Matthew Zapruder explains how you learned poetry wrong (but that's easy to fix) 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z I have an inexplicable love for the bendable plastic straws you sometimes get at coffee shops or with soft drinks, but we all know those aren't great for the environment. 4 tea-licious tools for enjoying better tea at home 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z What if we do want to get at those deeper assumptions? ‘There are no black people on GoT’: why is fantasy TV so white? 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z “There are other ways to get at that, to use a more neutral word,” she said. The Case for Redefining Infertility 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Even more occasionally, the vignettes get at something resembling real emotion. | 'Going Blind': Preparing for Sightlessness 2010-10-08T01:03:00Z But none of these tools and none of these studies have really been able to get at the complexity of female sexual response. Stop medicalizing female desire: Here’s what the scientific breakthroughs in sex science still don’t tell us about women 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z It may get at the same truths that art does, but the trip isn't nearly as much fun. Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel – review 2012-05-24T08:00:02Z In the past, these 10 shows would have gotten at least a B grade in my annual preview. Review | Fall TV 2017: 10 new shows worth checking out (and 5 you can totally skip) 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z “More significant was my perceived closeness to Obama — and that this was a way of getting at him.” Susan Rice has spent her career fighting off detractors: ‘I inadvertently intimidate some people, especially certain men’ 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z It gets at the central flaw with Romneycare’s next-of-kin: the federal law that will drive insurance premiums and federal deficits into the stratosphere. Romneycare Official: 'I Would Never' Try to Reduce Health Costs 2011-10-27T18:20:39Z The puppy had apparently gotten its head stuck inside the tin trying to get at the formula inside. Firefighters rescue puppy with head trapped in baby formula tin 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z “For us it was very much like, how do we get at what’s going on beneath the surface?” said Mr. Singer. Claire Foy’s Moment 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z “This is a direct way to get at the person who assaulted you.” #MeToo Cases’ New Legal Battleground: Defamation Lawsuits 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z But his work seems determined to say something, to get at something real and true. Deptford Goth: defo not a goth, and graduating beyond the bedroom 2013-03-15T14:00:00Z And we wanted to get at all of that. ‘City So Real’ Makes Chicago the Lead in a National Drama 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z The better you get at holding your boundaries, the more the child respects them, and the easier it all becomes! So, here’s the deal: How to respond to a 7-year-old negotiator 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Anyway, it’s a delight seeing women on the show and getting at least a passing acknowledgement of the fact that women can do drag too. RuPaul's Drag Race recap: season 12, episode 10: Send in the clowns 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z At times, ordinary men, women and children pressured by gangsters into playing extras clearly look traumatized, raising an ethical question about Oppenheimer’s efforts to get at unspeakable truths. ‘The Act of Killing’: a haunting take on Indonesia genocide 2013-08-01T22:56:25Z Luck said they are still trying to decide how to determine who goes first, as well as how many points the winning team gets at the end of overtime. XFL’s plans for upcoming season starting to take shape 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Wilson gets at the enduring power of the real in an origin story of sorts in which he describes being denied entry into a Dungeons and Dragons group as a kid and rebelling against fantasy. The Most Adventurous Comedy Right Now Is Also the Most Real 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Most of the time you’ve got at least five upper class women on the set as characters. Downton Abbey's Costume Designer on How to Dress Like an Edwardian 2012-02-19T21:00:25Z The cheeky, satirical, darkly funny series gets at you both in its story and in its proudly flaunted agenda—feminism, undiluted by shame, politeness, or conventional wisdom. Meet “Bitch Planet,” your new “bold, beautiful, and baaaad” subversive feminist comic obsession 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z I’m not even aiming for their funny bone when I proclaim, “In order to function at your mental and physical best, adolescents should be getting at least nine hours of sleep a night.” Motherlode Blog: What Do Students Need Most? More Sleep 2014-01-15T23:00:05Z The problem was how to find a way to get at something so evanescent and powerfully evocative. Spencer Finch Turned to the Heavens to Honor the Dead 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z “It gets at the core of our economic system and challenges the notion of capitalism as the way to organize our food economy,” Thapar says. For a new generation of farmers, accessing land is the first step toward tackling consolidation 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z “There are people who are going to be willing to dig a little deeper and really think about what we’re getting at,” Murphy said. In a New AMC Satire, a Sitcom Wife Gets the Last Laugh 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z I thought, this whole story is about getting at who this woman is. ‘Impeachment’ Focuses on the Women Behind Clinton’s Scandals 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z “All the bees are getting at you ’cause your honey is sweeter,” she sings. Playlist: Jessica Reedy?s Album, ?From the Heart? 2011-11-20T02:15:30Z “So she’s out and about. This was as safe as it can possibly get at this point. We can’t live in a bubble.” Broadway Is Back. Here’s What It’s Like for Theatergoers. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Can we really say that any single image can get at what our chaotic world is about? Seeing Double? So Do Great Artists. 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Maybe coming from a small and very gentrified city such as Brighton, where most of the secondary schools get at least a good rating from Ofsted, has distorted my view. State schools: are they failing our children? 2011-02-27T00:05:50Z If decadence were a crime, Ratino would get at least a few years. Review | A young chef goes for the buzz at Bresca 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z What Levy’s getting at is her own abiding sense of exile, which is, in the end, what “Things I Don’t Want to Know” is about. Deborah Levy on the writer's inner life 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z I think Auerbach gets at why: “Twitter sees its user base, whose growth is flattening, not as customers but as content producers. In which case, who are its customers?” Twitter's Problems, Newspaper's Problems And 'Big' Conversation's Problem 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Even when eating out, the first question you get at many restaurants is "can I get you tap, sparkling or still?" Drinking water used to be simple. Not anymore 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Werner Herzog, no stranger to applying fictional storytelling techniques to real world subject matter, got at this issue in a speech that he delivered to students in Milan after screening his documentary "Lessons of Darkness." In defense of film and TV "hoaxes" 2010-10-22T14:31:00Z “There’s been this growing desire to know who made this, how was it made? Crafting really gets at that.” Forget souvenir shopping; these destinations let you craft your own meaningful memento 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z But every once in a while you have a chance to write something that gets at the core of who you are, and with Sean's piece, it was that. Q&A with Ann Powers on 'Best Music Writing 2010' 2010-12-23T20:15:10Z “The Ground Breaking” is filled with moments like these — candid and self-aware, undergirded by Ellsworth’s earnest efforts to get at this history, and to get it right. A Skillful Narrative of Excavating the Truth About the Tulsa Race Massacre 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z But it was trying to get at something real about how life is lived and how people’s options are limited by their resources. It Was ‘Roseanne’ vs. ‘Roseanne,’ in a Polarizing Revival 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Kepler got at snow’s fleeting nature, and the essay itself was written as a Christmas present. Snowmaking is the most dangerous part of skiing 2013-02-23T13:00:00Z I still hate clutter and I don't like wasting money, which is all I think Brown was originally getting at. Why I love my unitaskers (with apologies to Alton Brown) 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z The doctors, he wrote, had quizzed him about his sex life and his childhood, a suggestion they were employing Freudian tactics to get at the root of his melancholy. JFK Library to show Salinger letter to Hemingway 2010-03-26T10:44:00Z Unfortunately, some painful tearing away of scars must occur to get at that original trauma, that stone that is lodged in your body. The lasting trauma of rape 2013-02-18T01:00:00Z But it might just get at something more profound: The idea that we should just acknowledge what this is — an awful, heartbreaking mystery — and let it go. Another JonBenét Ramsey movie? Yes, but this one is different. 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Which gets at the expectation heaped on black female artists and what they are expected to do or not to do. Kara Walker on the bit of sugar sphinx she saved, video she's making 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Now we all sort of know what Huff is getting at, but the worm in that apple is the sly "growing up". Sleepless in Hollywood: Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business by Lynda Obst – review 2013-07-06T07:30:00Z What the survey found above all is a strong link between the messages kids get at home and from the media and their attitudes about gender. Teen gender gap persists: Survey shows boys still hold sexist attitudes 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z “There has got to be a way for me to have a role on TV or in film that is just as normal as any other white actor. That’s what I’m trying to get at.” Adeel Akhtar: ‘I thought, Ah, there is a power to this’ 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z But he is an Academy member, so presumably, Mr. DeMicco said, they will get at least one vote. The Carpetbagger: ‘The Croods’ Team Can at Least Count on 2 Votes 2014-02-14T19:30:53Z The simplest and best answer I got at the event in Oxford was "for paying attention". Poetry's future 2010-06-18T07:30:00Z "Being the Ricardos" never quite gets at what makes Lucy tick even if Kidman does get into her determined mindset. Jokes aside, Nicole Kidman is commendable in Aaron Sorkin's mostly watchable "Being the Ricardos" 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z “Most people, when they think about dinner, say, ‘What can I get at the grocery store now and get going tonight?’” he said. Making Sous Vide Simplify Work for You 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The craziest the crowd got at Beige was putting a little extra mousse in their faux hawks, or popping the collars on their Marc Jacobs shirts. Beige Never Looked So Bright 2011-05-04T21:08:46Z What is hard to recreate, however, is the sense of adventure you get at a film festival, where the programme is dreamed up by a curator. Going out by staying in: where to watch the arts online 2010-07-25T20:31:00Z The only thing missing was a nice slow clap, of the type that showboating "rebel" characters used to get at the end of '80s comedies. A last hurrah for Kyra Sedgwick's brilliant kook 2011-07-12T13:13:00Z To get at this, we spoke to Gerry Canavan, a professor of American literature and popular culture at Marquette University; he is also the co-editor of “The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction.” How “Star Wars” changed the world: “It feels real in a way the stuff on ‘Star Trek’ probably doesn’t” 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z “We’ve been working on decolonizing and creating a horizontal redistribution of power that can get at structural racism for years,” he said. Asian Art Museum to Remove Bust of Patron. That’s Just a Start. 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Books are bought and sold all kinds of ways these days, and the better publishers get at reaching the ready reader sitting alone with an electronic device, the healthier their businesses will be. 6 wishes for books and publishing in 2015 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Though the certificates for free frozen margaritas you get at check-in offer a different impression, the hotel’s rooms are well appointed, clean and quiet. Road Trip: Cross-Country, by a Road Less Traveled 2013-07-03T21:39:09Z The song does get at his appeal, though. Video with commentary: "Acura Integurl" by Frank Ocean 2011-05-23T16:36:15Z So I’m happy you got at least the one, but I’m looking forward to Paper Boi getting his due. How Sterling K. Brown and Brian Tyree Henry Finally Got Seats at the Emmy Table 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z What I’ve tried to capture is the reality of flux, to keep art an open, incomplete situation, to get at the rapture of seeing.” Ellsworth Kelly, an Artist Who Mixed Abstract With Simplicity, Dies at 92 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z You can pay for everything with the wristband you get at check-in, which is also your hotel room key and your ticket to the theme parks. In Orlando or Anaheim for a Disney vacation? Explore the cities beyond the gates, too. 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z What Finley's getting at, of course, is morality, which has always been at the core of her work. Karen Finley, Banned Books Week and the responsibilities of art 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z It gets at a persistence of culture and place that transcends political entities no matter how they are styled. Review | The Met gives a long-overdue look at an African cultural powerhouse 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z I moved with my daughter into a tiny, cheap apartment and did minimum wage jobs, which were all I could get at that age. We’ve been children together, my daughter and me 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z That's something that I'm always trying to get at or explore. How cookbook writer Eric Kim found home through Korean-American food 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z In “Cumberland Gap” you get at the complicated reasons people find themselves in poverty or addiction, how those things aren’t just cut and dry things people choose. Jason Isbell’s got hope for the high road: “If you yell at people they’re going to stop listening” 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Their suicides do feel linked, if only because they were both amazing catalysts always getting at the beauty that other people didn’t see. Friends Reflect on the Designer Alexander McQueen?s Death 2010-04-03T04:11:00Z The nominators spread out their admiration quite widely: Of the 34 eligible shows, 29 got at least one nod, including the critically scorned “Diana.” The 75th Tony Awards: Here’s What to Expect 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z This, I think, gets at one of the most fascinating aspects of the relationship between these characters. ArtsBeat: Camelot Revisited: The Creators of 'The Kennedys' Speak Out 2011-03-24T14:07:03Z "You start with an emotional truth and you can use a world to get at that feeling," says Butler. Arcade Fire: 'It's a lot easier to get smaller' 2011-02-10T21:36:01Z Both seemed to get at illness and autoimmune disease, and I got really sick a couple years ago. Ben Marcus: Jonathan Franzen’s cultural commentary is really embarrassing 2014-02-10T01:00:00Z I think you can see what I'm getting at here. Anne Billson | Anime's female role models 2010-03-25T22:20:00Z So I think that those are tools that we like to employ, whether it’s the strange or the grotesque, to just kind of get at something fundamental about a topic. “I like that spot where fear and laughter converge”: Carrie Brownstein on how “Portlandia” takes on aging, “Transparent” and channeling Sleater-Kinney on set 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Law was inspired by Swezey to book early Burning Man locations at the intersection of three separate counties, where, he said, “the evil cops couldn’t get at you.” Hundreds of Punks Hit the Desert. The Modern Music Festival Was Born. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z So instead of counting beans or going silent, get at the bigger questions: Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A lack of empathy but an abundance of rage 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z These Iced Coffee Bars are reminiscent of the ones she and I would get at a little cafe called La Patisserie, which was a few miles from her house. Coffee fanatic? These simple iced coffee bars will become your new favorite breakfast or dessert 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z There are murmurs of assent, the sort you get at a dull board meeting. The Full Monty on stage: the boys are back in town 2013-02-10T16:59:01Z There is, however, a case in the film where a family must move to California from Chicago to take part in treatment they could not get at home. Ricki Lake on “Weed the People”: “It’s not about getting high, it’s about children dyin... 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z In that case, the employer must provide adequate sleeping facilities that allow the worker to get at least five hours of sleep. Work Advice: Does a bad forecast call for extra pay? 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z So the closest way to get at it is to involve the people in my life, to collaborate that way. ArtsBeat: Strange Bedfellows: Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann on 'This Is 40' 2012-11-14T13:44:31Z Shortness of breath isn’t the only worry at high altitude, where the number of oxygen molecules you get per breath is about half of what you get at sea level. How a lifelong obsession with snow leopards led me to northern India 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z With "Fire Island" I saw what Joel was getting at, and I wanted to push this family aspect even further. Behind the scenes of "Fire Island," from filming sexy rain encounters to endearing dance-offs 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z It was not clear what treatment she'll get at the Priory Clinic. Rep: Amy Winehouse checks into treatment program 2011-05-27T16:24:08Z The imagination leaps from there, tries to conjure weirdness in excess of weirdness, wonders how illegal things get at Item No. 8. Before it was cool: What I learned at the hipster sex party 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Race is at the core of Obama's story and, like any good storyteller, he heightens whatever opportunity arises to get at his main theme. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z She once climbed the fence at an Opryland Hotel to get at the pool. Lane Lovers 2011-02-02T23:00:00Z “I think that folks will be surprised that the way that we get at narrative in this opening iteration of our museum is through these two Black filmmakers,” referring to Micheaux and Spike Lee. The Academy Museum Finds Good Intentions in Messy Film History 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z His “Love Poem to Los Angeles,” published at the beginning of the year, gets at what many Angelenos find so hard to do: define a city that’s always changing. This poem sums up Los Angeles perfectly 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z I experienced a familiar mix of admiration, aspiration, and inadequacy—the same feeling I often get at the gym. Burning Calories at the Met 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z I wasn’t expecting the displaced sink, nor the need to pull up a large section of the floor tiles to get at the ancient pipes. A peperonata recipe straight from Rome | Kitchen sink tales 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z I get at least 30 schools writing to me each month. Telling tales 2011-06-07T14:03:00Z Jenkins: I think one of the things that Mr. Baldwin was getting at when he wrote the novel was that very idea, you know? Barry Jenkins: "'People in Korea don't want to watch black characters,' you can't say that anymore" 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z “And what I see under it is insecurity. I wanted to get at that.” At SXSW, Ethan Hawke and His 5 Favorite Jazz Recordings 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Political scientist Rogers Smith’s “Civic Ideals,” your first selection, seems to get at the heart of the way the law contributed to the construction of race in America. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z It regularly prompts me to step back and reassess my problems, to be grateful for the second chance I got at life. I was dragged under a bus by my hair 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Virtually all movies that reach the billion-dollar worldwide goal get at least two-thirds of the swag from outside North America. The Best Man: Gatsby Starts Big, Finishes Second to Iron Man 2013-05-12T20:08:16Z “The Skate” gets at both, as Ms. Childs runs a sly shell game with playfulness and poignancy. Review: ‘Bubbly Black Girl’ Lets a Smile Be Her Camouflage 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z It’s worth cleaving this oyster to get at the pearl. ‘Echo’s Bones,’ a Beckett Short Story Rediscovered 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Here the film comes the closest to getting at the difficulty of being a teenager and different, as well as the reality that love among the ruins is still possible. 'Maggie' has the zombie look but a deadly slow pace But he confessed that the kind of detail I was searching for was exactly what the historian clears away to get at the information he considers valuable. Janet Fitch on writing her new novel, 'The Revolution of Marina M.' 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Greengrass clearly wants to understand Breivik, to get at — much as Seierstad tries to do in her book — or even explain why someone like this exists, presumably as a political warning. Review: Looking Anew at a Norwegian Massacre in ‘22 July’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z One in four women will, over the course of her lifetime, get at least one false alarm from a mammogram. False-Alarm Medical Tests 2010-06-23T17:40:00Z The important thing is to get at the truth to get at justice, to get what happened in institutions, and to get the right answers for the future. Children's homes were 'supply line' for paedophiles, says ex-minister 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z A parody gets at the truth by parading truth's opposite: the reader is left to put two and two together. Craig Brown: The Lost Diaries 2010-10-01T23:05:00Z But I don't think either of those things are what Bellafante is getting at. Slate, New York Times to fantasy buffs: Grow up 2011-04-16T14:01:00Z But for all its overwhelming scale and frustrations, it was the kind of gesture one only gets at a show like EDC. EDC opening night: Cakes in the face and Disney remixes 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z They don't want the same old concert they can get at any old casino and when we're not around. Funny, yeah, but don't forget special 2011-06-09T19:33:00Z If you find yourself forgetting exactly whom you need to buy gifts for, you’ll want to get at least two of these memory games — including one for yourself. Books and Museum Treats for Art Lovers 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z "That would begin to get at the bigger picture and an even bigger story: All Americans are heavily reliant on a poor-quality, highly processed food supply that is damaging our health." Policing the grocery carts of poor Americans won't make for a healthier country 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z Perhaps the expectation of being given a dress just naturally follows from the expensive swag bags these celebrities get at awards shows. Celebrity Brides Attract Business for Dress Designers 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z But this only gets at a small piece of the show’s impact. ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’ Has the Most Exciting Comics (and the Silliest) 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Over the years, he has agreed to relatively few interviews, partly because of a deep suspicion about the ability of language to get at what art does in ways that don’t sound mortifying. Christopher Wool on What Brought a ‘Sunday Painter’ Back to Life 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z “The After Hours,” in which department-store mannequins institute a rotation where one of them gets to live along humans for a month at a time, gets at the same how-the-other-half-lives ideas as “Us.” ‘Us’ Reflects a Mirror Image of ‘The Twilight Zone’ 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z He understood what I was trying to get at, but in terms of my craft, I wasn’t there. 3 Young People to Watch in Theater This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z To get at this world, he spent time with seed collectors, nutritionists, farmers, trade groups, workers and former workers, community developers. Books of The Times: That Perfect Florida Tomato, Cultivated for Bland Uniformity 2011-07-05T21:04:11Z "People are moving around because of the tax credit," says Gayer, "but it's not getting at the underlying problem." The New Homebuyer Tax Credit Won't Die --Should It? 2010-07-01T22:54:00Z The humor and the horror aren’t opposed in these books—they work together to get at a core mystery. This Week in Fiction: Karen Russell on Balancing Humor and Horror 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z I always drain the coconut of its juices before trying to get at the meat part. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Coleslaw lovers can’t do without recipe 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z "Outside pressure was enormous," he told Reuters, adding that the Stasi especially targeted punk bands, believing it provided them with a way to get at leaders of a subversive youth culture. Archive immortalizes East German Punk rock scene 2011-07-20T11:09:05Z Martin Freeman, who had nice runs recently in “Sherlock” and “Fargo,” is the F.B.I. agent who, trying to get at Nick’s father, begins scrutinizing their start-up. Review: Inventing a Better Bitcoin in ‘StartUp,’ New on Crackle 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z In France, she was able to get treatment she couldn’t get at home, “and finally I stayed.” World music singer Dobet Gnahoré is coming to the Barns at Wolf Trap 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Somebody brought me one of my pieces they got at a yard sale for 75 cents. Artist Paul Marioni's home a real piece of work 2011-12-02T06:06:24Z At one point, he opines that people who are good at doing television "are probably sociopaths" and that the better he has gotten at it, "the worse and worse" he has become as a person. No happy trees here – HBO's "Painting With John" is a dark and dreamy contemplation of artistry 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z Every week, San Diego attorney Dolan Williams gets at least one phone call from a complete stranger who sounds angry or even desperate. Many are searching for vaccine mandate loopholes. These are the people trying to stop them. 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z This is not a souped-up show, a show that doesn’t spoof small-town life, that gets at the nuances, and it’s shooting its fifth season. On ?Friday Night Lights? the Other Side of the Tracks 2010-04-24T20:10:00Z In lieu of a restaurant review this week, I thought I’d demystify the process by which I work, using the questions I get at least once a week. Tom Sietsema’s FAQs: How does he do it? And then there’s the story, which gets at what made Rogers such an invaluable star. Watch That Lady and See a Star 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z “El Pedón,” as the piece was titled, gets at a long-running focus in the artist’s work: the economic, cultural and other exchanges that occur between the U.S. and Mexico. How artist Camilo Ontiveros acquired the belongings of a DACA deportee and what he did with them 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z “Also thematically. That’s a way to get at some of these stories so they’re all on the same playing field, whether you’re a famous musician or someone making music at home.” The challenge of presenting ‘African American music’: First, define it. 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z It made me understand that the process — the cooking and food in general — it's really not so much about the final dish you get at the dinner table. A taste of Tuscany: Chef Gabriele Bertaccini shares his grandmother’s recipe for eggplant parmigiana 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z Sex is one way to get at the specialness of Pompeii. Ovid's impotence shows why we can't let Pompeii fall 2010-12-13T13:35:00Z His last conversation with Bert gets at this, as his partner tells Roger that after all this time, he doesn’t see him as a leader. Could Mad Men Actually Have a Happy--or At Least Hopeful--Ending? 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Give it a sear to brown the crust, and it’s close to something you would get at a steakhouse. Making Sous Vide Simplify Work for You 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z How does he get at his own afterlife? David B. continues the secret history of 'Incidents in the Night' 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z No matter how much you philosophize about it, you won't get at the truth. CIA agent turned comics writer Tom King on making art in the era of Trump's "absurdity" 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Did either of you have particular traits that you tapped into to get at your character’s essence? ‘The Crown’ Has a New Diana and Charles to Tear Apart 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z “The Chosen,” in some ways, gets at what is tricky about the question of the representation of the American Jewish experience onscreen. Contemplating a Canon of Jewish American Films 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Grim, funny, lonely, at times even poetic, the new graphic novel “The White Donkey” gets at war in a way we’ve rarely seen. A more honest Iraq War story looks like this: “Sometimes the Marine Corps kind of sucks” 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z And finally, Hollywood's got at least one reason to cheer. Why Hollywood should be nervous about court pick 2010-05-11T03:12:00Z The questions that Rachel Held Evans posed in her lifetime were an attempt to do that — to get at the truth, or at least a truth. Review | Rachel Held Evans died at 37, but a beautiful new book captures her brave outlook 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z And celebrate all that stuff he gets at his Dad’s house; invite him to bring it over. How parents can survive — and even thrive — during the holidays 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z It's a tribute to The Thin Red Line that it got at least part of the way. Jonathan Caouette moves beyond the vanishing point 2010-10-01T11:18:00Z He’s got at least one celebrity friend intent on making that happen. Noted: Johnny Manziel Arrives at his N.F.L. Workout Dressed to Sell 2014-04-02T21:26:16Z “It’s a theme that’s so big, it’s daunting, and it’s hard to know how to get at it,” he said. Nothing to Hide and Nowhere to Hide It in Joshua Cohen’s Internet Novel 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z That caption gets at what makes Ms. Barry’s work so irresistible. Lynda Barry: ‘Everything: Part I’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Q: The book gets at some of the tensions that arose within the band and Chris’ issues with substance abuse, but the music is still very much the center. New Chris Cornell biography highlights Soundgarden’s role as grunge trailblazers 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z What I’m getting at is that your wife could easily loop you into this friendship just enough so that it dispelled your worry. Ask Amy: Husband worries about work spouse 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z That peculiar balance is what enables The Dilemma to get at some hard truths and some hard laughs. Hear me out: why The Dilemma isn't a bad movie 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z But for all that, it’s great news that there’s now a second way to get at Aizpitarte’s cooking, since it’s always an ordeal to land a table at Le Chateaubriand next door. | Le Dauphin 2011-03-07T17:04:58Z So you've got to shatter the superficial to get at the substantial. Cornel West: Is America ‘even capable of treating the masses of Black people with decency and dignity’? 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z “When you break down the economics and the quality, our classes are small, you get personalized team training that produces results you’re not going to get at a gym,” Mahlum said. A $40 fitness class? Yeah, that’s a thing. 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z It’s the first peek we get at the country over which T’Challa rules, the most technologically advanced nation in the Marvel Universe. 'Captain America: Civil War' Directors on the Post-Credits Scene 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z It gets at the systemic much more efficiently, through a brief montage or a tracking shot through the streets. ‘My Brilliant Friend’: A Fairy Tale of Youth Gives Way to Messy Adolescence 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z At his most exuberant, though, Deardourff rivals Kirby’s ability to blast the margins to get at an uncanny cosmos beyond the page. In the galleries: Looking back on a century of Iberian and Latin American works 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z On the other, it gets at not just the condition of modernity but humanity itself. Dominique Fabre and the literature of nothing (and everything) 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Jim, in the brief look we get at him, seems more feckless than despairing. This Week in Fiction: Alice McDermott 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z All of this gets at one of the critical points of the piece, which is the contentious historical relationship between white men and black women, one that is loaded with connotations of abuse of power. Art and race at the Whitney: Rethinking the Donelle Woolford piece 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z You really get a sense of a whole team of Allies really working to get at something restorative. A Father’s Legacy: Grim Footage of Concentration Camps 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z She brought rich tone and arching lyricism to her performance and got at the essence of this character: a harried, driven and fatalistic young man. 2010-02-06T05:43:00Z I was trying to get at something — I didn’t know what until it was manifest.” Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Painter, Dies at 83 2011-12-27T15:27:38Z I finally got some curry goat that was about as good as the curry goat I get at the Caribbean place around the corner from my Brooklyn apartment. I went on a freaking cruise 2012-12-09T13:00:00Z And that statement gets at a level of sloppiness that makes the Kellers’ pieces especially disturbing and galling. Kellers’ cancer writing shows how broken journalism has become 2014-01-17T18:12:00Z It gets at how “women are always trapped in reflection,” as society holds up an oppressive mirror. Interpreting ‘The Maids’ Through a Shifting Societal Lens 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z “But I couldn’t get at what was so heroic about them.” What About the Heroine’s Journey? 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z This image captures the mood of the music and gets at the king’s character. Music Review: ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’ at Metropolitan Opera 2012-11-09T21:13:05Z “All-American Muslim” gets at some of these conflicts when Samira surprises her parents with her decision to return to the hijab. Television Review: ?All-American Muslim? on TLC - Review 2011-11-10T22:30:33Z You certainly get at both his sound and his fury. "Somebody's got to wear the leather pants": Rick James doc filmmaker on the infamous rock star 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z It’s a confident rendition, though purists might prefer the sinus-clearing mustard greens you get at the store to this tamer pickle. ‘Shroom,’ reviewed by T. Susan Chang 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z But he is getting at something, and of course people can identify with that. "You" star Penn Badgley thinks his killer Joe has "too many sides .. and he needs to die" 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z “You’re home. There’s a nice thing about the slowness of it. You create an intimacy you never get at a fair. It’s very calm in that way.” First Virtual New York Art Fair Brings Low Energy but Solid Prices 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z I've got great faith that he's going to pull through all the problems he's got at the moment. Bobby Womack: 'I can sing my ass off, better than I could before' 2012-05-24T19:00:04Z “The point is that you can’t get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. ” Avedon at 100: Photos of Seduction 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z I think it’s the third episode that gets at why this attack happened. Sub Commanders: Talking With Last Resort's Shawn Ryan and Karl Gajdusek 2012-09-28T12:00:56Z But there’s a big gap between a customer who invests in his remote work space and one who rips the wallpaper to get at an outlet. What to Do When Laptops and Silence Take Over Your Cafe? 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z I didn’t become a writer to make money, I write to get at things like this, and when I can, it makes it worth it. Author Blake Nelson: Why YA Novels Make Reading Fun Again 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Still, that diagnosis is a little too blunt to really get at the problem. Why do we love a trainwreck? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Now the rest of the world's getting at them, and they're learning stuff and asking a lot more questions. Andrea Savage on "I'm Sorry" season 2: "Your whole life turns to s**t when your kid learns to read" 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z “He is as good as it gets at the craft of stand-up.” Stand-up guy: Mark Twain Prize recipient Jay Leno returns to his comedy roots “This is approaching what you might get at a coffee shop,” Peña said. How to hack your Keurig machine and get a better cup of coffee 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z These bags are not the big sloppy paper sacks you typically get at department stores. On the Runway Blog: Tailored Shorts for Summer 2012-06-01T20:00:30Z Matthew, what do you think Kenny is getting at in the play with Mark’s fixation on the unknowable? Matthew Broderick and Kenneth Lonergan Look to the Universe, Again 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z With a full year of rehab, though, he can still get at least three good years in the majors. Carolyn Hax: Getting past the toddler-comparison obsession 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Certainly it is the case that if you have restrictions and constraints, then you can't offer everything and you can't offer the variety of choice that you get at the moment. Grayling's rehabilitation speech and Clegg taking DPMQs: Politics live blog 2012-11-20T16:11:00Z This was a way of getting at that, and at what in that music got to me. The Discovery of Roscoe Holcomb and the “High Lonesome Sound” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z I was lucky because I knew from the age of nine that I wanted to be an actor, and that I haven't gotten at all jaded by it. From "Class of '09" to "Black Mirror" Kate Mara loves her range of roles: "The magic is still there" 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z You might also, however, hope for a show that's distinctive, or at least appears that way, and that's often what you get at this early stage. Perfecting the laughs 2010-08-09T11:09:00Z She wanted to get at corporeal experience from the outside. Nancy Spero: no pity 2011-02-26T00:07:34Z Kha uses playful artifice to get at an emotional truth: the fractured layering of identity. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Murphy does not abstract and skewer a song merely for the sake of being different, but to get at its inner meaning. Mark Murphy, jazz singer of freewheeling virtuosity, dies at 83 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z I'm trying to get at that unconscious manipulation of language. When two tribes meet: collaborations between artists and scientists 2011-08-21T20:30:01Z “I think you’re completely revealed, but it’s you threaded through the coordinates of this fiction. There’s no biographical detail to get at, but I think you’re ultimately revealed.” Rachel Weisz: 'My parents were refugees. Brexit feels like a death' 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z It was just a vibe that I was trying to get at, a sound I was trying to mix with hip-hop to try to see how far I could expand it. The Visionaries: Kanye West Talks About His Career and Album ‘Yeezus’ 2013-06-11T23:25:32Z But for a man who was always a “specter, a see-through,” she added, getting at who he really was is much more difficult, as he probably intended it to be. Gysin, In-Depth, at New Museum of Contemporary Art 2010-06-23T22:28:00Z I would have liked to have known more about the filming, maybe one of those how-we-made-it appendages you get at the end of a lot of natural history docos these days. TV review: My Life as a Turkey 2011-08-01T21:04:00Z However, that doesn’t mean Tveit automatically wins; he still has to get at least 60 percent of the affirmative votes. What to know about the 2021 Tony Awards 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Instead, everyone gets at least minimum wage and tips are divided equally among front-of-house cashiers and servers, who are usually paid more, and back-of-house cooks and dishwashers. When a girl meets a guy and they make pizza pie, that’s amore 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z One of the things I want to suggest is that this idea of American exceptionalism blocks the way to really getting at how the value gap does its work. “Democracy in Black”: A conversation about race in America with Eddie Glaude Jr. 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z For somebody who is not wonderfully keen on Walsingham this would be a clever way of getting at him. X-rays reveal hidden secrets of Tudor portraits 2013-01-03T17:44:00Z Randy Newman, in his indelible song “Kingfish,” gets at some of his folksy, if authoritarian, appeal: ‘All the King’s Men,’ Now 70, Has a Touch of 2016 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z It would have been nice, for example, if we had gotten at least a hint of the artistic sensitivity that Joe is supposedly turning his back on. The Root of All Evil: Glengarry Glen Ross and Golden Boy on Broadway 2012-12-11T16:00:50Z This is the stuff I want to get at.’ ” Music: Together Again for the First Time 2011-08-18T18:29:50Z You’re not getting at the deeper issue, which is somebody’s relationship with their traumatic memories.” Veterans hope MDMA can cure their PTSD: “It’s hard to talk about because it’s the elephant in the room” 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Ferd's efforts to get at this money included attempted kidnapping of his child and threatened blackmail when that child grew to become a success and brought the Ward family back to respectability. 'A Disposition to Be Rich': a financial scoundrel in the late 1800s 2012-05-16T18:48:05Z For the law to be upheld, the administration probably would have to get at least one vote from the court's conservative Republican appointees. Obama healthcare law faces high court hearing 2012-03-23T11:20:00Z But when it comes to Katie Roiphe, I believed then as I do now that what she was trying to get at was the irony of the whole phenomenon. In defense of Katie Roiphe 2012-09-04T19:52:00Z This is what the producers of “Roseanne” wanted to get at, sort of, from a sideways approach. Perspective | ABC wanted a contrarian on mainstream TV. Roseanne was never right for the job. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z “It’s the same material, but the way we get at it is a little different,” she said, noting how students have more choices in how they adapt the techniques. ‘It’s About Connections’: Alicia Graf Mack Remakes Juilliard Dance 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z I ask because the answer might get at what is so fascinating about the many handmade images of flowers and other botanical specimens in a wonderful display of rare old books at the Grolier Club. Art Review: ‘Gardening by the Book’ Celebrates Rare Botanical Volumes 2013-06-13T21:26:09Z He could get at least four more tricks from clubs, and perhaps five. Bridge: Putting On the Squeeze at the Honors Club 2010-09-26T21:25:00Z Ms. Gould’s intention is to get at issues of representation, and it’s crucial we believe Janice as a woman. Review: ‘Losing Tom Pecinka’ Challenges Audience to Get the Message 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Then, I screened “Six Cents in the Pocket” and, moments into it, I saw what he was getting at in the essay. A Filmmaker Trying to Break Free from Instagram Modernity 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z If an infestation is found, get at least three inspections and treatment proposals. Pest control services: Cost doesn’t mean quality 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z But this bare-bones synopsis of the movie hardly gets at its peculiar blend of blandly palliative wish-fulfillment and exuberant, nearly possessed fervor. The Sanitized Christianity of “War Room” 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Sorensen says, "place it in a convenient place in your garden — if it isn't easy to get at and to use, you will not keep it up." Gardeners share their tips and tricks for composting at home 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z We learned last season that Higgins, Jeremy Swift's long put-upon Director of Football Operations, has a charming home life full of the love and respect he didn't always get at work. The worst thing about "Ted Lasso" is Ted Lasso himself 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z Artists across the Continent and Russia distorted or splintered the forms of reality, trying to get at something newer and deeper. Art Review: Modernism From a World in Convulsion 2011-02-10T23:01:06Z The pitch that the Fraggettas received from Mr. Halkias was different from the ones they got at the other venues they had visited. Bittersweet Memories of Grand Prospect Hall 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z The Times critic Jennifer Szalai called the book “candid and self-aware, undergirded by Ellsworth’s earnest efforts to get at this history, and to get it right.” New in Paperback: ‘Oh William!’ and ‘The Great Mistake’ 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z “We are getting at these lasting effects,” she added of the study. Study links high levels of screen time to slower child development 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z He wanted to get at the strings underneath the hood. How the Harp Got Hip 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z It gets at his belief that great art should unbalance what the listener or viewer knows about the world. Nick Waterhouse deepens his love of soul and swing 2014-02-20T16:31:44Z Still, Wen delights in the reaction her surprise cameo got at the film’s premiere back in March, before Hollywood went into shutdown. How That Surprise ‘Mulan’ Cameo Happened 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z The America that Vian imagined in “I Spit” is a garish cartoon, but cartoons are a way of getting at the truth. Whimsy and War: Boris Vian’s Two Minds 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z All around us people seemed interested and amused in this fascinating exchange, except for Mr. Greenspan, who didn’t seem to understand what the heck I was getting at. Weingarten: Good grief. Gene goes to Ben Bradlee’s funeral Bocanegra is often referred to as an artist who crosses boundaries, which gets at what she does but maybe also insults artists, who are by definition boundary-crossers. Suzanne Bocanegra’s Haunting, Beautiful Clutter 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z To get at least three tricks from each suit, the odds slightly favor diamonds, by 85 percent to 82 percent. Bridge: Bridge: An Opening Lead Is Steered by the Bidding 2011-10-09T22:17:57Z The restaurant business is finally changing, she said, and female chefs are getting at least a bit more of the respect and attention they’ve earned. A Kitchen Visionary, Reimagining Dishes and a Woman’s Role 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Do you see this film as trying to break through that mythology and get at a certain truth? Oscar Nominee Michael Fassbender on the Problem With Picking Winners in the Arts 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The truth about him – hard to get at in that pre-internet age, and still not entirely illuminated in this film – turned out to be stranger than fiction. Searching for Sugar Man – review 2012-07-26T14:29:01Z "It's like those care packages you get at camp where people really spend time thinking about how to put it together," Hyde says of the objects that she and assistant director Amanda Vandenberg have collected. Museum of Broken Relationships puts heartbreak on display 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z But most white-collar workers get at least the occasional nice performance review, bonus, or thanks. “Hi, I’m right here”: An open letter to Paul Ryan about poverty and empathy 2014-03-10T23:00:00Z The Chilean production matches Christopher Columbus with Queen Isabella to get at issues of colonialism and conquest. Humanities Festival preview: Journey off the beaten path 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Zagar, in retelling the story, examines the ramifications of the cameras, books and movies generated by the case, but just when it seems the film is getting at something, it backs off. ‘Captivated’ Revisits the Pamela Smart Case 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z Because moviegoers know what they want to see before they see it, and promised nothing but guilty secrets, ethical angst and lying to loved ones — things most people can get at home for free. Box Office: Green Hornet Buzzes Over a Dilapidated Dilemma 2011-01-16T14:25:00Z In the kitchen, on a baking sheet so the candles wouldn’t drip on anything, was the gold-painted tin menorah I got at Sunday school. A Nineteen-Fifties Jewish-American Christmas Story 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The scene gets at the heart of the show’s Christmas philosophy: The holidays are complicated but friendship can get us through. Day 16: A “Community” Christmas 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z The book is “candid and self-aware, undergirded by Ellsworth’s earnest efforts to get at this history, and to get it right,” our critic Jennifer Szalai writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z A wall of record albums — some painted, some actual record sleeves — gets at the heart of his practice, which questions the real and the fake in mass media, politics and Colombian culture. Frieze New York, First Live Art Fair in a Year, Kicks Off at the Shed 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z The Legation Quarter of the city where expatriates under treaty protection tended to live was at the heart of the investigation, and an unusual joint Chinese-British police operation was instigated to get at the truth. Midnight in Peking by Paul French - review 2012-06-08T21:55:15Z My black bag with fringe I got at Project No. 6. | Jayma Cardoso: Beach Ready, Even in Rain 2011-08-19T22:44:18Z “I think the push for Adam is to get at the unconscious of contemporary politics. He’s looking for these wild unscripted terrains, beneath the surface of socially mandated discourse.” Adam Pendleton Is Rethinking the Museum 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z “Let’s start to change the equation here and do something that will actually get at the problem.” Senate extends payroll tax cut 2011-12-17T15:38:00Z What’s missing from the discussion of migrant issues that you try to get at in this series? With ‘The Trade,’ Matthew Heineman Puts a Human Face on a Divisive Issue 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z The portion size was that of a family-style entree you would get at some Italian restaurant. Happy Hour: It's deep-fried and $5 at Cheesecake Factory 2010-03-23T21:13:00Z A friend ordered a burger platter and, as Ms. Robicelli tells it, 15-month-old Atticus: nearly jumped over the table to get at the fries. Motherlode: Eat Your French Fries 2011-05-17T16:53:50Z These birds show an amazing ability to pick through a series of obstacles to get at a treat. Critic’s Notebook: The Lives of Animals, Disabled and Otherwise 2014-04-08T21:23:36Z What I’ve had in mind for a long time is how to represent tract housing, or identical McMansions—how to get at the texture or texturelessness of that kind of planned “community.” Ben Lerner on Adolescence and His Forthcoming Novel 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z She draws strength from female friendships: “In her own life, it was women who sustained her. All those coffee hours, the camaraderie of canasta, the support she got at church.” Review | Connie Schultz’s ‘The Daughters of Erietown’ captures four generations of women in a hardscrabble Ohio town 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z Could it be the longer we excuse lying to children, the worse we get at recognizing true things ourselves? We need to stop lying to kids about Donald Trump 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z The older man seemed at times to serve as the artist’s avatar, helping Mr. Lemon get at things that were too much for him to touch on his own. Dance Review: Grappling With Grief, And Then With Bodies 2010-10-15T22:57:00Z Likewise, in “Running,” the obsessive, scattered repetition of the vocal samples echoes the idea Mr. Scott-Heron gets at in his spoken recitation of a compulsive need to escape. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-22T00:00:27Z The menu of the younger restaurant, created by Cho’s wife, MyungEun, incorporates Korean street food, including grilled-meat skewers and seafood pancakes, and the sort of flavors the couple’s sons, 9 and 6, get at home. Bul offers modern Seoul food in Adams Morgan 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z “Lost in Space,” on the other hand, never stops to consider that viewers don’t like being underestimated or overestimated, and what I’m getting at here goes beyond industry ratings and parental guidelines. Review | ‘Lost in Space’ is adrift in that vast area between shows for kids and shows for grown-ups 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z “But litigation seems to be the only way to get at the truth.” Tavis Smiley sues PBS for firing him over sexual misconduct allegations 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Every night in Kiruna, miners blast their way through around 25 tons of explosives as they attempt to get at the valuable ore. Chasing after the northern lights in Swedish Lapland 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z If you bring up the messiness, you actually get at the truth.” Motherlode Blog: Two Documentaries on Bullying Take Different Approaches 2012-03-14T21:43:25Z “You get at an auction, and there are two people who want something, and it doesn’t matter what the price is,” he continued. Who’ll Start the Bidding? Learning the Ropes of Auctioneering 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Salon: The intersection of different kinds of music, is what I'm getting at. Hot seat: David Simon explains "Treme" 2011-07-04T12:05:00Z But doing fashion well means engaging in the challenging, complicated work of reaching far below the surface to get at our shared humanity. Perspective | The fashion industry gave Barbie an award. Does she really deserve one? 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Swanberg’s straightforward, deceptively clear narratives rework the very substance of filmmaking in order to get at its peculiarly obvious yet rarely questioned core: What is a story? “Win It All” and the Mighty Gambles of Joe Swanberg’s Moviemaking 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z “If you leave your moose out, the ravens will get at it,” the volunteer said. My Canada 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Either way, you get something you don’t get at a big theater. U District’s new Laughs club bets on rising, road-tested comics 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z The beginning of the day is always full of optimism because nobody's got at you. Portrait of the artist: Maggi Hambling, artist 2011-07-25T21:01:01Z One of the things I think is so true and tragic is the better I get at magic the less I'm able to see it, and I miss it. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z But typically all of the trailers and montages shown by studios get at least solidly polite clapping. 'Deadpool,' an Extra Witty Superhero, Has Comic-Con on Its Feet 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Spurling does, however, get at the qualities that made Buck a stirring writer, notably “an innate, abundant, emotionally exorbitant ability to enter imaginatively into other people’s lives.” Books of The Times: ?Pearl Buck in China,? by Hilary Spurling 2010-06-09T00:02:00Z Certain people probably tweaked their recipes so they are not exactly what you get at their restaurants. World Chefs: Schrager tracks best U.S. fried chicken recipes 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z This pathos gets at what the play does best: It understands and in some way forgives human limitation. Review: In ‘Terra Firma,’ a Wee Wet Country on the Brink 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The question is whether the viewer is in the mood to weigh what exactly "Black Narcissus" is getting at, and whether its dearth of relevance even matters. FX's stunning "Black Narcissus" remake leaves the viewer in a state of unrequited desire 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Science fiction is such a cool way to get at those feelings. Brit Marling on Writing, Anarchists, and the Need to Get Her Heart Broken 2013-06-01T12:00:23Z Which gets at the essential question: Is it the scooters that so irritate their detractors? The invasion of the scooter bros: A new tribe whizzes past the haters on Washington sidewalks. 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Over the top though the play is, it wants to get at something urgent about a spreading rot in American culture, fed by festering resentments around class, race and gender. ‘Garbageman’ Review: Just a Couple of Straw Men 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z I'm trying to get at a different thing, which is not necessarily the experience of being an insider there, but the experience of being someone who has moved through and has connected with Appalachia. "The Third Rainbow Girl" author on the true story of a double murder she didn't set out to write 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z One site I frequented back in my fanfic days made a point of trying to get at least one story for every conceivable romantic combination. Buffy the Vampire Slayer without Joss Whedon? That's been going on for years 2010-11-24T14:02:00Z You have to in order to get at what is driving that person. Viola Davis and Company on ‘Ma Rainey’ and Chadwick Boseman’s Last Bow 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z I tried to get at the idea that consenting to go back to the room is all you’re consenting to. On the Front Line of Campus Sexual Misconduct 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Often joined by family and friends, the conversations traveled beyond family anecdotes to get at the heart of what it means to bring recipes from our pasts into our present. Why it's so hard to recreate your grandma's chicken 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Apocryphal or not the story gets at the heart of “Messiah.” Music Review: ‘Messiah’ at St. Thomas and Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-17T05:15:05Z James was shaken by the attack, writing to a friend about “the vicious hag” who “got at me thrice over before the tomahawk was stayed. I naturally feel very scalped and disfigured.” Henry James, a Poohbah Who Painted With Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z “I knew what I was getting at 31: a great title,” Dean said in an interview with The Washington Post. John Dean, Watergate’s golden boy, is back in the spotlight 50 years later 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Tracing his evolution, the film gets at larger issues — about imagination, relationships and laughter. Movie Review: ‘Beauty Is Embarrassing,’ Directed by Neil Berkeley 2012-09-06T23:20:20Z Her theoretical experience of race is hitting up against actual experience, and the scene gets at something real when she claims that she doesn’t see Sandy’s race and he answers, “You should!” Girls Watch: White People Problems 2013-01-21T14:20:30Z Say what you like about soulless multiplexes, but – by adequately catering for those of us with longer legs – they do usually get at least one thing right. Cine-Files: Glasgow Film Theatre 2012-06-20T11:16:33Z Four additional images in the show, all untitled and amorphous, though two seem to be crawling with insects, are outliers here—what Sterne was getting at is a mystery. ‘Hedda Sterne: Printed Variations’ Review: Elevating the Everyday 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Every dinner is better with a bowl of fried rice, which is nothing like the oily carton you get at Chinese carryouts where subs and wings are part of the drill. Review | Queen’s English brings Hong Kong’s sizzle to Columbia Heights 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z The videos got at a kind of truth about Mr. Petty. Tom Petty, Classic Rocker? Sure. And Weird Video Star, Too. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z It refunded the $170 you spent for the room you never got at the Hotel Pennsylvania. Travel Troubleshooter | No room at the hotel, so why won’t Priceline refund his money? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z I think what Azeem is trying to get at is that there’s more than one way of being a Muslim, and he doesn’t necessarily fall into any of those dominant characteristics. 3 Young People to Watch in Theater This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z But I appreciate what you are getting at: How do you balance the truth with entertainment? True crime and punishment: “Serial” creators on the dark and difficult truths of their third... 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z “What I’m getting at is the DNA of Shakespeare’s words themselves, the way he formed those words with his pen on the page,” he said. Further Proof of Shakespeare’s Hand in ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ 2013-08-13T02:49:45Z I tried to get at the gym at 6:30 a.m. and thought it was my alarm. Emmys 2014: Seth Green 'thrilled' with 'Robot Chicken' nominations 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z And that gets at the seemingly small but invaluable thing that art always offers, not consolation or relief from our problems, but the possibility of action and engagement. Perspective | On a last walk through the National Gallery, I’m reassured by images of an uncertain future 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Lee summed it up: “Universe is that modern sushi that you get at Nobu. Miss World is filet of sole.” Miss World is the biggest beauty pageant you’ve never heard of. What’s it doing in Washington? 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Each story gets at least one, a wordless, full-bleed double-page spread that illustrates, extravagantly, either a large motif or an offhand moment from its story in richly textured paint. Showing the Indelible, Imperiled Bonds Between Animals and People 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z “The traditional sausage rolls you got at school were made from cartilage, and the stuff they swept up from the floor,” he told me, possibly joking. A Childhood Favorite Reimagined 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Other proven strategies for lowering risk include common lifestyle adjustments, such as quitting smoking, maintaining a healthy diet and getting at least 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise regularly. Americans should limit use of daily aspirin meant to prevent heart attack or stroke, task force says 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z "There is a window there of pure enjoyment, and then you have to get at it." Kristin Chenoweth: 'GCB' is 'not trying to be Shakespeare' 2012-05-04T03:15:05Z Smart, good, unhinged domestic stories: that's what I was trying to get at. Christopher Noxon on being a 'domestic first responder' and 'Plus One' 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z With super strong beaks, they crunch through the coral’s skeleton like it’s a candy apple in an attempt to get at the nutrients inside. That sand between your toes may start as rock. But it may also be fish poop. 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z It isn’t uncommon for a posthumously published book to get at least a bit of tinkering after the author’s death. Review | In ‘The City of Mist,’ a final word from Carlos Ruiz Zafón 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z It looked and tasted fine, like something you might get at a chopped-salad bar. Why Can’t You Get a Decent Meal at the Movies? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z It’s not a situation I’m familiar with, but I understand what she’s getting at. Does happiness in your 50s signal the end of ambition? 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Hanna Rosin’s “The End of Men” got at the problem quite eloquently. “Donald Trump is a 70-year-old f**kboy”: How our masculinity crisis helped Trump rise to political power 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z “There was like an electrical charge in the air that you don’t get at the Shubert Theatre.” Kids shine as Broadway’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ goes big 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The Zombie you were served at Bar A was very likely rather different from the one you got at Bar B. Mr. Berry uncovered the original 1934 formula. 11 Essential Drinks at 11 Great Cocktail Bars 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z What matters is that I get at least one hour of uninterrupted me-time. How 3 Startup Founders Bounced Back 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The whole thing gets at the tension inherent in the form. Artists Mint & Serf are trying to make graffiti ugly again 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z “Women left in droves. Because why are you going to read stuff that’s actively insulting to you, that you have to get at a specialty store where you’re not always welcome?” Can ‘Captain Marvel’ Fix Marvel’s Woman Problem? 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Lane's prose gets at how these women's perfections and imperfections mark them. Two women's lives dangerously collide in Harriet Lane's 'Her' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z And yet for me, it was the small illuminated page from the manuscript that encapsulated the reach and depth of India’s cultural heritage that this exhibition is getting at. SAM’s ‘Peacock in the Desert’ opens the doors of our perception to the marvelous 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z And that, Ryan says, is the heart of good film-making: “Really trying to get at the truth.” How to Teach Your Kid to Watch Video Critically 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z So I suggest you get at both problems by asking your mother-in-law what she means by her queries: “You always remind me — may I ask why?” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A colleague judges you for not having kids, and now you’re a pariah 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z But the message travelers are getting at the airport isn’t that clear. Practical Traveler: Are Scanners Worth the Risk? 2010-09-07T21:50:00Z Plus, if all else fails, the pumpkin carving kits you can get at any patch or grocery store in the fall have lots of one-use options that will be helpful for carving out a masterpiece. How to carve a pumpkin like a pro 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z But anyway, what I'm getting at is that at Christmas time, the Maritime Service held a big dance at the same Casino and Jimmie and I went. Avalon was home to bride 'Before She Was Marilyn' 2011-04-27T20:22:01Z What Gordimer was getting at is the faith that politics is part of existence, that the societies we create tell us a great deal about who we are. Nadine Gordimer offered a model of how to use books as social force 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z And I try to make sure they get at least one very, super traditional Christmas meal every year so that they can have something that's very particular to Norway. Christmas in July: Christopher Haatuft teaches Gordon Ramsay about reindeer and Neo-Fjordic cuisine 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z When you have a 4-4 fit in a no-trump contract, you will get at most four tricks from the suit. Bridge: Bridge: An Opening Lead Is Steered by the Bidding 2011-10-09T22:17:57Z Those stories get at the heart of why we travel. Meet the 52 Places Traveler for 2019 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z It's not the same show with the same mix of stories that you would get at 12:30. ABC's 'The Lookout' a new outlet for 'Nightline' 2013-06-10T12:03:10Z When he finished, Tudor said to Cage, “Whenever you want to get at that box of spices you have, let me know. I’ll help you.” Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories’ Series Ends With ‘memoir’ 2014-04-30T19:28:03Z Here, perhaps, she gets at the heart of the matter, for this is what literature necessarily does. Wendy Rawlings and the memoir she can't write 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z The premise is explained in the title, and everybody gets at least some of what they want. Review: In ‘Everybody Wants Some!!,’ Casual Sex and Casual Philosophizing 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z By this time the movie has gained some balance and heft, though we're not sure the characters deserve the curtain call they get at the very end. Gnomeo & Juliet: Garden-Variety Shakespeare 2011-02-10T23:15:00Z Mr. Weiser captured both the specific and elusive qualities of the poetic imagery in his compelling music, which sometimes breaks down a phrase and repeats the words, as if to get at the meaning. Music Review: New Amsterdam Singers at St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church 2013-05-24T21:00:10Z It gets at many subjects: love, loss, secrets, transparency. In 'Purity,' Jonathan Franzen confronts his — and our — demons 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Which gets at ideas of endangerment, neglect, contingency, risk. America Has a Problem and Beyoncé Ain’t It 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z It’s a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it’s such a personal thing. ArtsBeat: He's Created a Monster: Alan Ball Talks 'True Blood' 2011-06-17T14:49:32Z And while it’s fun to speculate about possibly phantasmic junkie songbirds, it doesn’t really get at the most pressing bit of final analysis. 'True Detective' Season 2 Finale Recap: In Search of a Better World 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z This means that they can be hard to get at the market, especially during grilling season, and priced as such. Summer is all about pork ribs — here are 5 seriously delicious recipes 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z It’s in these passages that Brockes gets at the undeniable but typically unspoken competitiveness among women when it comes to fertility. Two Books Explore the Front Lines of Infertility 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z An earlier story from The Cut tried to get at the way the term was evolving. David Foster Wallace was not a bro: Let’s not paint the writer with the same brush as his fans 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z I wanted to tell a story that got at the heart and soul of the meaning of being a Marine and going to Iraq. A more honest Iraq War story looks like this: “Sometimes the Marine Corps kind of sucks” 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Because we don’t go to the doctor, because we know what we’re going to get at the doctor – I’ve gone to the doctor for a sore throat, and he’s been like, “Lose weight.” Hannah Gadsby meets Roxane Gay: ‘Trolls get incensed by a woman daring to think she's funny. I'm very funny’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z And I realized these two men were avatars through which I could get at these questions that had been dogging me. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Two Adventurers on Very Different Missions to Borneo 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z The grandson of these stars of the Yiddish theater, Tilson Thomas is the first to get at this core inner dramatic and psychological essence of the Seventh. Hidden code of two great composers deciphered 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Yet Josephine's stage ability was obvious, and at 19 she accepted a contract to perform in Paris for far more money than she was getting at home. Connecting with a jazz sensation 2013-07-26T23:46:30Z And the more you do something, and I hate to put it in these terms, the better you get at it. Vince Gilligan: I’ve never Googled “Breaking Bad” 2012-07-23T20:47:00Z It has an interplay of textures like something you’d get at a fancy restaurant, but still retains the retro appeal of a slice of diner pie. A Retro Icebox Pie Gets a Vibrant Makeover 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z You might be trying to get at, for example, an aldehyde called vanillin. In a high-tech world, aged spirits still get much of their flavor from wood and fire 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Whenever we travel, I always get at least one haircut, because sitting in a barber chair in a small town is one of the greatest places to get information about interesting restaurants. ‘Roadfood’: Michael Stern reflects on more than 30 years of American eats Not only because it gets at the association — the socialism — that I’m interested in, but because soccer is a game played with the whole body, not just the feet. Simon Critchley on football, philosophy and his new book 'What We Think About When We Think About Soccer' 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z That’s the message that you get at the end of it. From ‘rage aria’ to ‘lovely duet,’ opera does justice to court, Ginsburg says 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z He’s willing to upend convention to get at the heart of the story. Atlanta Ballet’s high-tech ‘Nutcracker’ at Kennedy Center is one of the most entertaining out there 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z They weren’t aware we were going to go all the way – that was a bit of smarts on the producers’ part, so it was a completely natural reaction they got at the end. How we made The Full Monty 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z But both genres are deeply concerned with truth; it’s just about how we get at that truth that differs. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z It might be made up, but doesn’t that give it an element that somehow allows it to really get at the truth better than a documentary? American Crime: the first must-watch TV show of 2016 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z That line — one epiphany among dozens equally insightful — gets at the heart of this beautifully written, brilliantly observed and masterfully orchestrated novel. Alan Hollinghurst bears beautiful 'Stranger's Child' 2011-10-19T23:15:05Z “I don’t think there was a higher message for adults in there. … I really think the interactive part was what he was getting at.” 50 years later, ‘The Monster at the End of This Book’ is still selling — and inspiring authors 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z Once again “Friday Night Lights” poignantly got at the hardships experienced by the more troubled sector of the two Americas. 'Friday Night Lights' Watch: Of Tragedy and Resiliency 2010-06-19T18:49:00Z Because it gets at something everybody knows: the feeling that, in one way or another, we are the oddball. Comedy gold: Jackie Mason's A Night at the Opera 2013-02-07T13:10:00Z They were illiterate so there is a problem of methodology and how to get at the voices of these people. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Take comfort, the longer you parent, the better you may get at this. Perspective | How can I stop relatives from spoiling my 6-month-old? 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z But Leyendecker’s imagery gets at the very idea of untrammeled choice. J.C. Leyendecker: The ‘Arrow Collar Man’ Who Hid a Radical Idea 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z “Christmas at the Airport” really gets at the grown-up side of Christmas, the frustrations of travel and everything. Nick Lowe Embraces the Christmas Spirit 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Most of the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who got at least one shot of a Covid-19 vaccine in the past few months received a flimsy piece of paper. A Look at Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Passports,’ Passes and Apps Around the Globe 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z You can see what she's getting at in all three cases. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – full review 2012-09-28T10:30:01Z That's what I try to get at as a type of existential freedom that is not conditioned upon the white gaze or white racial supremacy or homo-antagonism, any of those things holding us down. “No Ashes in the Fire” author Darnell Moore on what it means to be “Black and Free in Ameri... 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z I want to ask you about something that is really important that you get at in such a unique and articulate way. "Faith is weaponized": Jill Duggar Dillard on how she felt controlled by her family 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z Will this fix the problem or do I need to cut away lots of drywall to get at the ducts and do some repair on them? How to repair a Thomas Kinkade musical Christmas tree sculpture 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Many viewers had a sense of what these series offered, is what I’m getting at. Why #Resistance TV shows are so hard to watch 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Family members, friends and colleagues talk about his need to understand the world, his habit of immersing himself in a subject, his wish to get at the truth about combat. Television Review: Junger’s Film ‘Which Way Is the Front Line From Here?’ on HBO 2013-04-17T22:06:41Z Although it doesn’t take a genius to get at your stuff, the good news is that the rate of burglaries is fairly slim: Only about 1 in 50 U.S. homes gets broken into each year. Simple and affordable ways to safeguard your home 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Also a secondary assortment of goofballs, dimwits and wingmen, each of whom gets at least one big play for the highlight reel. Review: In ‘Everybody Wants Some!!,’ Casual Sex and Casual Philosophizing 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z More troublesome is that the characters are thinly drawn, and what the show is getting at remains elusive. Review: In ‘Assembled Identity,’ They Laugh Alike, They Walk Alike, but They’re Not Twins 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Some people would probably say yes — same-sex marriage needs all the support it can get at a time when states like North Carolina are willing to ban it outright. For Some, the Beginnings of Gay-Wedding Fatigue 2012-07-21T10:01:00Z And I think we all know what he's getting at, eh readers? Readers recommend: songs about showing off ? the results 2011-02-24T16:38:51Z We really wanted to bring a visual experience to an audio experience that you get at a music event. New Music Experience 2011-04-15T10:07:58Z In our review of “Bruja,” Ellie Robins explains that how we think about dreams gets at the changing nature of self. Books: Food and the stories we tell, plus glam rock and YA in the age of Trump 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z “What I am trying to get at is a general, all-purpose experience — like those stretch socks that fit all sizes,” he once explained. A Fascinating Deep Dive Into John Ashbery’s Early Years 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z “It’s this great piece of punctuation that gets at the emphasis of how people really talk,” said Rachel Holliday Smith, a reporter for The City and an active participant in em dash Twitter. The Em Dash Divides 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Then in terms of ingredients, I've tried to build it around things that you can get at a grocery store or things that you're finding at a farmer's market. For Maya Kaimal, "deliciousness wins" when making everyday Indian cuisine 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z But they also seem to get at the experience of bereavement amid nature: the experience, maybe, of pausing to look at a night sky and letting an unfamiliar new solitude sink in. At the Aldrich Museum, the Coyote Takes the Lead 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z The challenge for both the movie and its stars is exactly how to get at that discord. With 'The One I Love,' a relationship gets trippy 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z A broader problem with the film, particularly in these days of polemical documentaries, is that it's hard to get at what, if anything, Morris wants to say in Tabloid. SXSW 2011: My Tabloid expos? 2011-03-15T17:39:42Z "This moment is an opportunity to peel back the surface and get at the secret heart of our relationship with Steve Jobs, his devices, our labor, and China itself," said Daisey in a statement. Steve Jobs' agony and ecstasy to hit NY stage 2011-10-06T22:40:25Z The tawdriness of watching George Conway drag Trump through the mud gets at so much of our psychology these days. Perspective | Kellyanne and George Conway’s tawdry love triangle with all of us 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z “We got these movie theatre seats, and it has chargers, and here is a little pedal bike and there’s an African chair I got at a flea market.” Pamela Adlon: ‘Better Things is about hope and love amid the darkness’ 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z And Danielle Orchard’s two irresistible oils, which deserve a show of their own, remix references from art history with Modernist tricks to get at the hidden-in-plain-sight double consciousness of the female experience. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Is it just a clever name for materialism, or is there something else you’re trying to get at? Buy less, do more: 5 reasons why experiences make us happier than things 2014-03-08T21:00:00Z That’s where theatre artists in particular can get at figurative truths, catching the conscience of kings by harnessing the unconscious freedoms of the stage. Theatre’s Superpower 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z What’s surprising is how efficiently “Halt and Catch Fire” gets at the moral purpose of the battle. 'Halt and Catch Fire' Recap: Can Geekiness Be Entertaining? 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z And yet to label Restrepo's work "drawing" doesn't get at the half of it. Art born of the drug wars: Camilo Restrepo on 'narco bananas' and pen-on-paper violence 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z There's no better way of getting at the subjectivity of an individual consciousness than through a skilful fictional narrative. What I'm thinking about … fiction's science lessons 2012-08-22T09:42:33Z So when we shot it, that’s what I was trying to get at.” "Midsommar" ending: Ari Aster and Florence Pugh disagree over that insane final twist 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z In moving quickly through scenes from “Heat,” “Her,” “Nick of Time,” “True Lies,” “Strange Days” and “Lethal Weapon 2,” among many others, Marshall gets at the basic contradiction of the Bonaventure’s relationship to Los Angeles. The wrong kind of time capsule: Notes on an afternoon inside John Portman's Bonaventure Hotel 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z And while it's true that most readers will be able to understand what you're getting at, it's still worth saying what you mean. Grammar rules everyone should follow 2013-05-09T13:56:00Z In every industrialized country except Canada, Japan and the U.S., workers get at least 20 paid vacation days. Americans are buying more gifts for themselves 2012-12-19T16:04:00Z Bangkok papaya salads do not come at you with a fire hose of heat, like the northern Thai som tums you’ll get at nearby restaurants. A Bangkok Kitchen Hides Inside a Chinese Restaurant in Queens 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z She wanted to get at the emotional complexities of her characters. Buzz Over Ayana Mathis’s ‘Twelve Tribes of Hattie’ 2012-12-10T22:42:33Z Does that get at the root of the problem? Roundup: Hong Kong protest art, Smithsonian redo, Hurricane Mama 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z “But what we’re getting at in this piece is the more unconscious things, the things that happen around your feelings and how you connect with people and whether or not there can be true intimacy.” Playing a ‘Game’ to Reveal Uncomfortable Truths About Race 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z We are all of us “temporal beings,” one BBC guest says, and dance is as good a philosophy as any for getting at the nature of being. 2010-01-09T03:33:00Z “One of the things I’m interested in is getting at a kind of intimacy,” Mr. Fish wrote in an e-mail, the day after that rehearsal. Daniel Fish?s Take on David Foster Wallace 2012-03-17T05:14:54Z But it didn’t really address what I was trying to get at. Perspective | I watched 21 Marvel movies this month — and witnessed a decade of progress for women 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Now, as for Wesselman-Pierce, arguably she deserves a moment of her own, and a much longer one than she gets at the end of "Catfish." Untangling the "Catfish" hoax rumors 2010-10-14T11:01:00Z Driving home after the big Beyblade brawl, I tried to get at the heart of my discomfort. Here’s why kids love Beyblades 2012-07-11T13:46:00Z "These people were breaking up bones to get at the marrow inside," he said. Bones from a Cheddar Gorge cave show that cannibalism helped Britain's earliest settlers survive the ice age 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z The vampire story gets at the heart of that. Justin Cronin?s ?Passage? May Be a Best Seller 2010-06-01T22:14:00Z Rush succeeds where she failed; he gets at the "more" there, talks it out and makes sense of it. Everything Must Go: Will Ferrell, at Home in Carver Country 2011-05-12T09:10:00Z But I knew what he was getting at: Was “Transparent” mainly for women? 2015’s Best TV: I Hate Top Ten Lists, but O.K., Fine, Here’s a List 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The seller's former landlord has sued the gallery that auctioned the late Beatle's suit for $46,000, trying to get at the proceeds to satisfy a rent debt. NYC landlord wants money from Lennon suit auction 2011-01-16T20:38:07Z All I’ve got at home is my mom and my old granny.” Review: ‘Beauty Is a Wound,’ an Indonesian Blend of History, Myth and Magic 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Writers can get at the same psychological nub by different means. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z The music she made in her later years, culminating in 1985’s Camera Obscura, got at something dangerous and deep. Nico 1988: the film about the Velvet Underground's doomed singer 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z The reality is more prosaic, but those myths were getting at something important. A Familiar Face at the Met, Now in His Own Light 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z She gave me a sterile cup, a thick white plastic bag like you get at the dentist, a form to fill out and a pen. My 20 minutes in fertility hell 2012-09-21T00:00:00Z So what I think they’re getting at — what irony is, and why it matters … What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z Before he got at that podium, there’s a whole world of drama that we were able to really depict in incredible detail.” ArtsBeat: ESPN to Show 'The Announcement,' Film on Magic Johnson's H.I.V. Disclosure 2012-02-10T14:13:14Z Each of these recent reality hits offer up new ways to get at the same results that people have been puzzling over for ages: how to find love. From "Love Is Blind" to "The Circle," the new breed of reality TV reformulates how we connect 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z My father is now 86, still going strong and occasionally enjoys an Irish get at my house. Savoring the Foods and Family Traditions of Summers Past 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z I wanted to get at both the boredom and flimsiness of it but also at its power—how your sense of self and scale might dissolve in that landscape of interchangeability. Ben Lerner on Adolescence and His Forthcoming Novel 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z If you ask 10 Indians which they prefer, you’ll get at least five different answers. The head of National Museum of the American Indian on what we should all know 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z "Reservoir Dogs" used the outline of a jewel-heist-gone-horribly-wrong story in order to get at what it was really all about: talk. Super sounds of "Reservoir Dogs": How this heist film changed indie soundtracks forever 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z “We get to the studio and he had like, candles with our names on it that he had got at Barneys. He’s like the sweetest dude of all time.” Ashlee Simpson’s New Reality 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Is that meant to reflect the psyche of the firefighter or is there something deeper you’re trying to get at? Denis Leary on the Return of 'Rescue Me' 2010-06-29T17:51:00Z At Glenstone, the cushy surroundings are simply the encasement — often a mask — for heavy, penetrating content that gets at the chaos of our everyday lives and subverts the very ethos of a billionaire-funded art space. In an endless news cycle, art at Glenstone both echoes and quiets the chaos 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Among the pieces of jewelry that Taylor purchased for herself was the Duchess of Windsor diamond brooch, which she got at auction for $620,000. Elizabeth Taylor's iconic jewels coming to auction 2011-09-07T11:50:12Z Before the series began, Christie’s told the Rockefeller family it hoped to get at least $650 million selling off the entire estate, which comprises roughly 1,500 lots. Rockefeller Art Smashes Records at Christie’s 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Goodall posted the exchange on Twitter and soon found he had touched a nerve: his message got at least 1.6 million views, about 8,500 retweets, and nearly 19,000 likes. As Brexit Looms, Musicians Brace for the Worst 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z All of this gets at the challenge of creating mixed neighborhoods that serve the needs of various economic classes. Roundup: Dallas urbanism and the shootings, a graffitist apologizes, essays on gentrification 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Much fuss has been made over the attention Ms. Sears got at Wimbledon. Singles Become Doubles 2013-08-30T21:03:03Z Tucked between the cheeses I got at Chizu were hazelnuts, honey, dried fruit, and chutney, which Steve explains the monger chooses based on the cheeses on the plate. 10 Tips for Building a Better Cheese Plate 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The reason, I think, is something Ms. Ruhl gets at in another essay. A Ghostly Father Sets Off a Cascade of Memories 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z But “perversely,” he added, it may also “get at that deeper truth of how these things do hold together,” and maybe why we, as viewers, need them to cohere. In ‘There There,’ the Actors in the Room Are Far Far From Each Other 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z This isn't like the lasagna that you'd get at a typical red sauce joint. Think beyond pie with our best savory pumpkin recipes 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z That seems to be what O'Reilly was clumsily getting at — questioning a corporation's motives in promoting itself as so very special and inclusive. O'Reilly's gay comment: Defamatory or just dumb? 2010-06-04T16:30:00Z Chris Beall, a veteran trek leader and photographer based in Katmandu, estimates that even now, Renjo La gets at most a hundredth of the number of hikers that flood the main base camp trail. Explorer: Everest Without the Crowds 2011-04-08T19:31:21Z The best part of my Thanksgiving is the evening drink I get at the bar at the all-you-can-eat Indian restaurant on the outskirts of town. Forget tradition: Why not have a happy non-holiday instead? 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z They get at a human truth he usually avoided. Avedon at 100: Photos of Seduction 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z He wages a ground war to get at the truth, which comes less in one single “aha” moment than as a slow drip of facts penetrating a tissue of lies. ‘Hack Attack,’ About a Rupert Murdoch Paper’s Trials, by Nick Davies 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z It’s not a question the audience usually gets at “The Iceman Cometh,” with its pickled human wreckage cowering inside Harry Hope’s dismal saloon. Review: Cheering Up Eugene O’Neill With Song, Dance and Puppets 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Her alto range and slow, sensuous delivery result in frequent comparisons to Cat Power’s Chan Marshall, which is not off the mark but doesn’t get at the deep, clenched anxiety in Ms. Van Etten’s music. ArtsBeat: Sharon Van Etten at South by Southwest 2012-03-16T07:35:24Z This one both plays up Rubio’s freshness and also gets at how he could be destroyed by GOP rivals. Marco Rubio’s fresh new font: A close read of the GOP’s most adorable campaign logo 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z For Graham and Noguchi, who created more than 20 works together, their artistic partnership was about distillation; they removed excess to get at something essential, each highlighting emotion through shape. Dance Review: Celebrating an Enduring Partnership 2011-03-18T23:15:10Z Mr. Alden said recently that his goal was “to try to get at how close memories and dreams are, how closely and weirdly and uncomfortably they sit with our present moment.” ?A Quiet Place? Of Dysfunction And Dystopia 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z But you would need multiple volumes to get at the breadth of her work, which began in the avant-garde of the 1960s and ’70s before moving to the world of ballet. Twyla Tharp and Her Body of Perpetual Motion 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z This rinse kills somewhere between 90-99 percent of bacteria, which probably is a higher kill rate than you would get at home. Hints From Heloise: Wash and wash again? 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Chronicling his experience with growing dreadlocks is simply a way for Ashe, a professor of English at the University of Richmond in Virginia, to get at this. Review: Bert Ashe ponders identity and perception in 'Dreadlock Chronicles' 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z At the minimum, suits deserve great lighting, and this they get at the first American outpost of the Dutch store Suitsupply, which is loud and bright, like a Walmart that never sleeps. Critical Shopper: Suitsupply in SoHo 2012-01-31T23:25:08Z They are social animals, so consider getting at least two. Choosing the best pet for your family Park throws everything he’s got at the screen: nefarious secret organizations, potty-mouthed mercenaries, a thoughtful scientist in a wheelchair, surprise twin siblings and, of course, gallons of blood and an elevated body count. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Ever seen those school penalty shootouts you get at football games at half time? Can it, armchair comedians, the joke's wearing thin 2013-02-12T17:34:12Z I think that was a personality type, and that was what I was getting at. Swept off her feet by a con artist: What Abby Ellin knows now about being "Duped" 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z This week’s “The Rings of Power” is the grandest in scale so far, with every major race and most of the series’s prominent characters getting at least some screentime. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,’ Season 1, Episode 5: Misty Mountain Hop 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z But these are only temporary solutions that don’t get at the root of the problem. Perspective | No, the floor is not an acceptable storage space 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Taylor Bradshaw, 20, a student from south London, welcomes the support he gets at ArtsEd, which offers a gym and a coach, but he understands the need to represent reality. What’s their beef? Why today’s leading men are driven to be buff 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z And now that we know how very little is at the center of this show’s moral universe, is the good worth getting at all? The Leftovers season finale: how much more gloom and grief can we take? 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z COLLINS-HUGHES You both use a tone of surreality to get at sometimes painful and sometimes enraging realities. Their Downtown Hits Are Now Sharing a Broadway Stage 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z For the Taste Campers, the weekend was an opportunity to try wines and spirits they can’t get at home. Maryland wines flash their potential at Taste Camp 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z There was no way to get at all of the mess. Motherlode Blog: A Hoarder's Daughter Yields to a (Little) Mess 2013-01-04T20:49:08Z And it’s one documentary about “popular culture” that gets at the potential in that devalued term for true-blue American ideals. ‘The Pleasures of Being Out of Step,’ About Nat Hentoff 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z If he doesn’t get at least a nomination, there is no justice. Charles Dance on Tywin Lannister's death and Benedict Cumberbatch 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z He added, in true Edison fashion: “I’ll do the trick myself if someone doesn’t get at it.” An Inventor’s Life That Was Incandescent Any Way You Look at It 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z It’s a grisly, but also a kind of funny, visual set piece that gets at the children’s nightmare spirit of the novel. ‘Miss Peregrine’ and Tim Burton: The Making of a Film Fable 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z "This is trying to get at the structural issues around addressing income inequality," said Massachusetts Democratic State Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier, who is sponsoring the bill there. Growing push to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z If it sounds like the spiel you get at management training seminars, it is. Sue Arnold's audio book choice 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z Have ever wondered how companies produce the seemingly endless fortunes found in the free cookies you get at Chinese restaurants? Meet the aspiring writers behind your fortune cookie messages 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z “That’s the horizontal redistribution of power that can get at structural racism,” he said. Asian Art Museum to Remove Bust of Patron. That’s Just a Start. 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z The more retweets a tweet in that group is getting at the moment, the brighter the lights. The ‘Daily Show’ Twitter library is just one of many art projects about Trump’s tweets 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z “It’s like this proof that he was able to get at some reliable and consistent approach to conjuring up this basic human emotion.” How a Somber Symphony Sold More Than a Million Records 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z "What the drama is getting at is whatever era we find ourselves in, we rush to judgement in the present," Bowker says. TV drama revisits 'optimism' of 1996 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z |
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