“Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today—perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish—do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Another thing about the Academy—being gifted rarely extended to social skills. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Ben found approximations of it but the shooters at the other end of the court were only adequate, not gifted. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the nurse and I thought she did a lot of special things so I told her in a whisper I snuck in to the gifted and talented speech. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Call it the Youkilis factor; the gifted crew wasn’t exactly Fashion Week. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

It’s odd to hear; most of the Folk are musically gifted, but I like her tune better for being imperfect. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Terman's gifted children, in short, rarely ended up being as special as they initially promised to be. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see how you can write and act such splendid things, Jo. You’re a regular Shakespeare!” exclaimed Beth, who firmly believed that her sisters were gifted with wonderful genius in all things. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

In frustration, Regina registered Bobby in a school for gifted children. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We weren’t allowed to talk to the kids who weren’t in the gifted program, or maybe they weren’t allowed to talk to us. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Pa has told me in the past that I am blessed with a gifted imagination and he likes the stories I tell. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Carver School is full of gifted children, Anu," she tells me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m glad you think I’m gifted,” said Reynie, sensing an opportunity. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the third grade, after receiving a high score on a standardized achievement test, Chris was placed in an accelerated program for gifted students. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gifted young sculptor of Cyprus, named Pygmalion, was a woman-hater. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the sort of son every father secretly wants: big and good-natured and not awfully bright, fond of sports, gifted at backslapping and corny jokes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Yes, that was definitely the Scipio they knew, still the gifted actor. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Meecham children were gifted in the fine art of brooding. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just wanted to go downstairs and demonstrate to my exacting great-aunt what a gifted girl I was, how it would take no effort at all for me to become her star student. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“You girls are all so gifted. I did like that one, the colors are lovely. But what are all those eyes doing in it?” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Asked what it means to be in the gifted program, he had a ready answer. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Bobby really didn’t need Lombardy since their styles were so dissimilar. Lombardy was an enormously gifted, intuitive positional player but not a well-prepared player like Bobby. Bobby’s strength was the inexorability of his tactics.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Bill is a very nice fellow, amiable and full of knowledge, experienced on mountain trails, and with the inestimable bonus that he is a gifted orthopedic surgeon—just what you want in a dangerous wilderness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was a gifted investigator, but he’d recently washed out of the bureau for failing to file reports and meet regulations. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

With the convention drawing close, I worked with a speechwriter for the first time, a gifted young woman named Sarah Hurwitz who helped shape my ideas into a tight seventeen-minute speech. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The article claimed Mr. Freeman is a gifted genius who has devoted his life to education. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The minds of children are easily read, even gifted children like yourself, Reynard.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth had an outgoing personality and was a gifted writer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a talented, possibly gifted mathematician with a similarly independent mind, Dorothy Hoover was a perfect fit for the section, and in 1946 R. T. Jones invited her to work directly for him. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We were now attracting young, gifted lawyers from all over the country who are extremely skilled. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was the headliner, performing after six other gifted young pianists. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

But here his crucial intellectual shortcoming came to the fore: he was not a particularly gifted experimentalist. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Why not India, an extremely rich, mathematically gifted culture? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In addition to being quite social, however, you appear to be a gifted artist. Your portraits are”—she paused, rotating the drawing—“captivating. They show a depth of emotion well beyond your years.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I figured Auggie probably did most of the work, since, let’s face it, Jack’s never been what one would call a “gifted student,” but he was so happy to have gotten an A on it. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I wonder how a person with mental illness could also be "celebrated" and "gifted." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Now she was filled with Christ’s love, devoted to her community, a gifted member of the church. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He was a strong and gifted athlete, charming, smart, and immensely good-looking–"handsome almost to a fault," in the description of William H. Cropper, "an Adonis" in the words of another admirer. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She is a trained singer and gifted dancer who radiates energy onstage. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She might be the most gifted in her class, but she was still a student. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“By no stretch of the imagination or of standards of genius,” Sorokin concluded, “is the ‘gifted group’ as a whole gifted.’ Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

"Straight A's in Flushing's gifted program? You'll do just fine here, young lady. I'll enroll you in Advanced Placement for math, English, French, and physics." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ranee prayed to her gods, hoping that their gifted daughter, the sweet "Mishti" of her father's heart, would find someone else. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Frederick was a gifted translator who spoke eight or nine languages, but in America he had to take whatever job he could get. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“A tremendously gifted runner. Now that she’s back on her feet, we want to get her back on the track.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

When we told Mom and Dad about our reading groups, we paused before the word “gifted,” clasping our hands beneath our chins, fluttering our eyelids, and pretending to look angelic. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If you’d had a head start at home, you were rewarded for it at school, deemed “bright” or “gifted,” which in turn only compounded your confidence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Victory was gifted to him wrapped and beribboned, on a silver tray. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask Cordelia if she is gifted, but she puts her tongue in the comer of her mouth and turns away, as if she’s concentrating on something else. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He gifted a fortune to Mercy Raymond, on Block Island, just down the seaboard from us, filling her apron with gold and jewels simply because she’d been kind. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

After all, half of being gifted was just the fact that everybody expected you to be smart. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

In addition, they were each gifted a laptop and invited to be founding members of a teen advisory board for the Book Scavenger website. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Of these it is especially the so-called Aurignacians and Magdalenians who stand out for the gifted artists they produced and for the important role art must have played in their lives. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A most gifted magical historian and an old friend of Albus’s.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The results were somewhat startling: the highly gifted kids in the study weren't much more likely to become prominent intellectuals than normal kids. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Then he’d grab the Bull’s shirt collar in his skinny little hand, the one with the fingers of a gifted pianist, and shove him against the nearest tree. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The character was played by a gifted high school actor, someone talented beyond his years, the only student actor I would see anywhere who rivaled Truman’s best. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t any longer a gifted, powerful minister leading a community in a struggle for social change. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always thought you were a great student and a gifted writer. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Billy Dawes was not the only gifted actor in his family. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We think that starting all-star leagues and gifted programs as early as possible is the best way of ensuring that no talent slips through the cracks. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

With the help of teachers around the state, Terman chose some seven thousand gifted children, who have now been followed for almost sixty years. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately for cosmic justice, many gifted writers are scoundrels, and many inept ones are the salt of the earth. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And then: "Both of my daughters are talented, sir. And both must be placed in these gifted classes." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But of the six in the Good Boys cast, only Bobby is a truly gifted student. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Two years ago, when you first brought Adiah to me at the age of ten for evaluation, I told you that I believed she could possibly be a gifted daraja if given proper training.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And gifted, of course, with a proud heart, like all his line. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was supposed to be extraordinarily gifted, and she took all her classes in private with Sister Ailan. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Perry was not a gifted liar, or a prolific one; however, once he had told a fiction he usually stuck by it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scott Crutchfield, another gifted student ranked in the top ten who would end up going to Duke, said he had two to three hours of homework a week. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When people heard my name, they thought, Don’t try this at home! not gifted. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Back home in Maine, he’d been spoiled by his mother’s cooking; the women on her side were gifted. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She must’ve fought to believe that she was a normal person, just like everyone else, and not a gifted spiritist, linked to a legacy of magic. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

According to the consultant, Mrs. Grace V. Mirman, the challenge for the parents of someone "highly gifted" was to find ways to keep the child engaged and stimulated. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But only the truly gifted ever leave that stage of traditional competence and become creators in their own right. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why do we murder the spirits of our most gifted and talented young people? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba gifted me a new notebook just before he left for New York. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The school selected me as a safety patrol, and Mrs. Trojello, my teacher in the gifted program, encouraged me to run for Student Council president. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Yeah, she would fit in nicely there; she and those supposedly gifted white kids who think they’re better than everybody else. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

That’s the difference between qualifying for a gifted program and not. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I don’t care if they’re gifted and know every word in the dictionary, they still have to give credit for hard work. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the most gifted of lawyers, equipped with the best of family lessons, cannot escape the limitations of their generation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

While Nicholas went to a strapped public grade school in a perilous neighborhood, Christopher is in the gifted program of a school she handpicked on the middle- class side of town. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Had that big doofus scribbled my name on the gifted list by accident? Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“You have a gifted way of speech,” he said. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

But saving two children is not enough when God has gifted you with so much. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I was in my gifted class when I started hiccuping, which made the others laugh. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Regina knew that Bobby was intellectually gifted, but at first she didn’t consider him a “prodigy.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Taisin turned red, the color streaking across her throat and face, and she stammered, “M-my sister is gifted in her own way.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“For instance,” he continues, and I see that he’s in some kind of jazz sneaker, “I run a performing arts studio in Florida, for gifted children. Like my nephew, Shawn.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Rhonda was the most gifted child ever to take the tests. She did so well on everything else, she would have passed no matter what happened in the maze.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Let’s not forget how highly gifted the C group was. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I remember that my friends were wearing colorful leis and recently gifted jewelry. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He spent hours at the table making pictures, but interestingly, Vincent’s family did not think of him as a particularly gifted artist as a child, though he clearly showed prowess early on. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then she introduced Mrs. Cole to the gifted and talented students and said they were a very special bunch of children. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

How was it possible that so gifted a man had wound up in Lansing? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

One child Lareau follows just misses qualifying for a gifted program. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Yes, you have beautiful hands. You have the hands of a gifted pianist. We should put you in piano lessons. Li!” she called to Virgil’s mother. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Voldemort was sent to persuade people to part with their treasures for sale by the partners, and he was, by all accounts, unusually gifted at doing this.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I struggled with this dissonance—a whorish dress, gifted to a loved daughter—until the meal had been finished and the plates cleared away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In addition, they were each gifted a laptop and invited to be founding members of a teen advisory board for the Book Scavenger website. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And because we sang every day and Mr. Rice was a gifted teacher, we sang surprisingly well for children who had known little music in their lives. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a strange coincidence, is it not, that two such gifted children should be admitted to the Institute at the very same time, and that they should be such close friends?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I knew this about Julia Bishop: She was a miracle—artistic, imaginative, and gifted—and she also liked to mess with me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was twelve and going into the ninth grade of what would today be called a “gifted” program, while many of the other kids my age were just going into the seventh. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Surely God wouldn’t have gifted him with all this talent with no place to display it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Word had spread that one of his professors at Harvard—the daughter of a managing partner—claimed he was the most gifted law student she’d ever encountered. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“So that was what Mr. Benedict meant when he said you were more gifted than anyone realized. I thought he was just referring to your incredible stubbornness!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

A gifted French-horn player, as a teen he was a member of the American University Symphony but quit, according to Walt, after objecting to rules imposed by a high school band leader. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some students may be gifted or already familiar with the material, while others are challenged simply by the arrangement of the room. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Prince Dain gifted me the uniform, knowing I could walk in as I had done. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

All this occupied what had been the royal palace before the current queen’s grandfather built a finer one straddling the Eder and gifted this one to the Scholars’ Guild. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In London we were enrolled in different schools because Sunny's so gifted. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was an extraordinarily clever and gifted person, whose potential was limited because of her family’s meager resources. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people find him overly stern and frightening, but that is only because he was gifted with such keen judgment and purity of heart. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps some less gifted Order member had needed its assistance, and Dumbledore had acted as carrier? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

"Some of you are gifted in mathematics," he says. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Navy may have wanted a back door to William, but what they got in February 1923 was a gifted expert in her own right. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But a number of idealistic mountaineers continued to insist that a gifted athlete blessed with rare physiological attributes could, after a lengthy period of acclimatization, climb the peak without bottled oxygen. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It excited me that being “casi señorita” meant my piano teacher saw me as more than a gifted student. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“She gifted John a magic ax,” I recited. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Four months later, Colin's parents sent him to a preschool for gifted children. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“When you were in fourth grade, I may have been your boyfriend for about two weeks at a summer program for gifted children.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but I’ve changed already. I sneaked out and went to the gifted and talented assembly and now I’m ready to do something great for the whole world.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

These, the regular injections of poison I was gifted from strangers, were definitely the worst things about wearing a headscarf. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But sorcerers were just people who had gotten very good at their gifted magic. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

What drove the new program forward was the return of Lawrence’s gifted team of physicists from their wartime assignments. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And there was Billy, the proud master, watching his gifted disciple from the car, unable to get out because of the pain in his leg and the arthritis. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maeve soon discovered she was gifted at caring for the sick. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She’s determined to make us scholars—and not just the gifted among us, either. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we enrolled in West Virginia, she’d vouch for our scholastic achievement, and once our new teachers heard us read, they’d realize we were all gifted. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mike persevered, a coach’s dream who worked hard and became a gifted student of the game of football, just as he had in baseball with his father. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hers were exactly the right length to show that she was naturally gifted and had a strength of will to do something about it. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Renly had gifted him with a rainbow cloak and a suit of blood red armor, and named him one of his seven. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A gifted raconteur and an indefatigable drinker, Causey was a pilot of unimpeachable courage. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gifted physicist, Fuchs was well liked by his fellow scientists, though they found him difficult to get to know. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A work of unprecedented complexity for its time, it was carved by a remarkably gifted artist who makes us feel the visionary rapture of a bard as he sings his legend. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Come to think of it, I remembered the day all the nerds and brainiacs took the special aptitude test to see who got into the gifted program. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

The most gifted among them, who might possibly become nuclei of dis-content, are simply marked down by the Thought Police and eliminated. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Laura is an extremely gifted member of our church. A crucial member. As you could be.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Papa had only three books total, leather bound and heavy, which Babulya had gifted to him when he had converted to Judaism. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

This topic doesn't make me a gifted conversationalist, but at least it makes me adequate. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This one was William Cavendish, seventh Duke of Devonshire, who was a gifted mathematician and steel baron in Victorian England. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

To be sure, people sensed he was an oddball at the time, disconcertingly gifted, outspoken, irreverent - in short, a strange mix of child and sage. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Kaede had planned to tell her that she should not give up her lifelong dream for her; that she had proven herself too gifted in her power to not continue her training at the Academy. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Also, I insisted on choosing my own outfits, wearing dresses by Jason Wu and Narciso Rodriguez, a gifted Latino designer, for the photo shoot. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At a game like this, a gifted human player could always triumph over the game’s AI, because software couldn’t improvise. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think the school ever understood just how gifted Christopher was,” his brother Jeff says. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Man o’ War became a franchise of sorts for his owner, producing a long string of gifted runners whose winner’s circle visits made Riddle one of the most photographed men in sport. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Caroline. Caroline’s different. Everything’s always been for Caroline. Caroline the delicate, the gifted, the beautiful. Of course, we must all sacrifice our lives to give her greatness to the world!” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Schools for the gifted are few and far between. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Jutta, though she is two years younger, is the gifted one. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Now, because Jaja was in the new gifted student program at St. Nicholas, he attended after-school lessons. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“If you aren’t the most gifted person ever to have taken Mr. Benedict’s tests, I’m the queen of England.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’d also gifted me with a love for the sport and a passion for competing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Born into a life of sumptuous privilege–his grandfathers were dukes, respectively, of Devonshire and Kent–he was the most gifted English scientist of his age, but also the strangest. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A gifted artist and violin player, he was a radio expert and one of the Army’s best code breakers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My eyes couldn’t get past words like excellence, distinction, gifted, and especially Donovan Curtis. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Mantell was an excellent doctor and equally gifted bone hunter, but he was unable to support both his talents. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The kid’s about as gifted as a caterpillar. He brings home a B and it sets off six days of skywriting and fireworks.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Something passed between the two older girls then, a mutual understanding that didn’t need to be spoken—and Kaori, being a gifted person of second sight, had great appreciation for such things. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Are people "lowly gifted"? Or "medium gifted"? Or just "gifted"? It's possible that all labels are curses. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Eventually, a letter arrived saying that I had been accepted to a magnet school for gifted children. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“We are not all wired to be gifted artists.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I knew I’d never be part of the gifted and talented kids. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sure there was a proper ceremony that could help gifted mediums find lost items or people; she just didn’t know what it was. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

And I wasn’t insulted because I wasn’t gifted. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The idea was controversial, criticized as being undemocratic, as all “gifted and talented” programs inherently are. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"Sonia will be a wonderful addition to our ninth grade. Unfortunately, we don't have room in our gifted track or we'd put her there." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The new puppies were reportedly gifted to the 94-year-old monarch, and are believed to be the queen’s first not descended from Susan, the corgi she received for her 18th birthday in 1944. Names of Queen Elizabeth's new dogs revealed: report 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

The health of a genre depends, of course, on its ability to attract gifted new writers, and the past year has seen the emergence of several talented first-time novelists. Analysis | Just in time for Halloween, the best horror fiction of the year 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

The cast, too, is exceptional, comprising some of the most gifted comedians and improvisers around. Silicon Valley: the best and only comedy you should be watching 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

A gifted mimic trained in method acting, Landau had thoroughly researched the role. Oscar-Winning Actor Martin Landau Dies at 89 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

My brother and I began with a boxset of early Dylan gifted to us by our dentist, who was surprised we’d expressed interest. How I wrote a song with Bob Dylan: A 57-year collaboration about my home state of Wisconsin 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

A fringe member of the Impressionist circle, Caillebotte was a gifted painter in a more Realist manner. Will Global Jitters Dull the Glitter of New York’s Art Gigaweek? 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

Only 500 will be made: some will be given to celebrities to carry on the red carpet to draw attention to the issue, some sold as fundraisers and others gifted to domestic abuse survivors. Kerry Washington Carries a Purple Purse to Call Attention to Domestic Violence 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

She viewed it as a cuddly temptation for thieves to break into her car and recalls that she “gag gifted” it to a friend. The absurd allure of the Sharper Image, the uncle-gift emporium for uncles you barely know 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

At the center, though, is singer and guitarist Brittany Howard, an undeniable force equally gifted at song craft and vocal performance. Essential albums of 2015: Bjork, Kendrick and 8 others on the edge of pop 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Clearly, Baron Cohen is a smart, gifted and versatile actor; it's time for him to stretch his abilities and dictate to himself a new kind of challenge. Review: Baron Cohen's `Dictator' least-focused yet 2012-05-11T19:27:13Z

He was also a gifted athlete, at one point representing England in under-15 judo, and an even more talented student, acing his A-levels to get into Cambridge and study modern and medieval languages. Tony Slattery: ‘I had a very happy time until I went slightly barmy’ 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

He was a gifted versifier — even his harshest critics grant that at least — accomplished in just about every poetic form, and he was a formidable linguist. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: America’s No. 1 Literary Celebrity 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Richard Griffiths, the gifted actor who played a teacher to those boys, died earlier that year, so Bennett played the role instead. Dramatic Reading: A Memoir by the Director of ‘The History Boys’ 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

It’s easy to prefer the curation and control — another “Mr. Robot” preoccupation — we bring to our online identities, or that a gifted hacker brings to his mastery of lines of code and complex networks. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 2: Elliot Hits Undo 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

In the first movement, “Prophecy,” you hear a brilliantly gifted composer under the thrall of Copland, Piston and other 20th-century American symphonists. Review: Can a Busy Yannick Nézet-Séguin Do It All? 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

In all, the evening was a genuine coup for the orchestra and its gifted conductor. Music Review: Something Borrowed and Something New 2011-05-08T22:19:30Z

Lamarr, a star of Hollywood's Golden Age, was also a gifted inventor, although most people remember her face more than her intellect. “This is Paris” is a quixotic redemption story about what it means to be a human and a brand at once 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

It’s not unusual for in-demand theater makers to take on heavy workloads — and even the most gifted are likely to stumble from time to time. At Salzburg Festival, Directing Slow and Fast 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

"And the more you know Oprah the more spectacular you realize her character and her soul are, the more you appreciate what a wonderful gifted person she is." Winfrey, McCartney in DC for Kennedy Center Honors 2010-12-06T01:58:00Z

Redfyre’s pleasure comes to an abrupt end, however, when someone shoves the gifted trumpeter Juno Proudfoot down the steps of the choir loft. Missing Bodies, Missing Killers, Deadly Missed Opportunities 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

The book, by Michelle Meadows, tells the story of Janet Collins, a gifted dancer born in New Orleans in 1917, a time when many ballet companies would not accept a black artist. Review | Four new books to inspire young readers 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

But the notion of carrying a melodic “cell” through a whole work was unknown before Josquin’s time, and he was one of the most gifted experimenters with the concept. The Renaissance’s Most Influential Composer, 500 Years Later 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

One of them is Corey Burton, who is a really gifted actor. "Silly is healthy": "Animaniacs" star on laughing through throat cancer & finding a whole new fandom 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z

This was a big assignment for the gifted and game young tenor. The Metropolitan Opera Performs Donizetti?s ?Anna Bolena? 2011-09-27T12:51:23Z

Only a gifted director can do that and it’s why he deserved a director nomination and it’s why the movie deserves to win best film. Why Marriage Story should win the best picture Oscar 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

He is a gifted archer and a dashing enough young man, but there really is no contest. Movie Review: ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ With Kristen Stewart 2012-05-31T17:47:53Z

Somewhere along the way here, the two gifted principals of “Death and the Powers,” Mr. Machover and Mr. Pinsky, lost the gist of their own work. Abroad: The Arts Become Monaco?s Newest Luxury Goods 2010-10-13T14:32:00Z

My father was a gifted drummer, too, but also a heroin addict. 'I cried all night': homeless women on their first night on the streets 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

Symbolizing the start and continuation of a "sweet" new year ahead, honey cakes are often gifted from one family to another during the period between Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, to Yom Kippur. Why I'm making "comfort cake" this Yom Kippur 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z

He was an amazingly gifted technician, capable of defining the human face in passages of seemingly quick, vivacious brush strokes that convey both physical solidity and expressive fluidity. Art Review: Faces Still Alive, Centuries Later 2011-07-28T22:44:45Z

Lear toiled as a television writer throughout the repressed 1950s and early 1960s, becoming a gifted technical craftsman who mastered the form. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

But you will encounter younger, gifted, often American artists who look like the characters they are portraying and who put ego aside to be part of an integrated musical and dramatic statement. Music Review: City Opera Returns With Jonathan Miller?s ?Traviata? 2012-02-13T23:38:27Z

The painting was formerly owned by South Africa's wealthy Oppenheimer family and gifted to the university. Picture sale for African scholars 2012-10-17T08:11:59Z

In the case of the truly gifted, the answer is easy: We want them to. Review | The glorious history of movie musicals 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

The field’s current vitality springs from a potent combination of gifted young writers and recognized masters, many of whom are writing as well and prolifically as ever. Review | Horror novels are having a renaissance. Here’s what to read. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Whether gifted or slow at learning, helpless or disturbed, "pushing children can backfire; not pushing them can backfire too". Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love by Andrew Solomon – review 2013-02-10T07:00:09Z

Early encounters with Nézet-Séguin’s conducting gave me the sense of a gifted musician who tended to glide over the surface of scores instead of digging deep. The Met Chooses Yannick Nézet-Séguin 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Though a gifted public speaker, Conlon was unusually unprepared for his remarks and missed a real opportunity in not inviting Arlen onstage for a conversation. 'The Poet in Exile' at the Wallis lacks full picture of Walter Arlen 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Bearing the visual influence of illustrators and video games perhaps more than movies, the directors Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper envelop us in the world of a gifted girl who cares for her bedridden father. ‘Vesper’ Review: Seeds of Hope 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

I have brought it along or gifted it on so many occasions that I have truly lost track. Family casserole recipes link our present to our past, honoring all those who came before us 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z

Making lots of money is another, and why shouldn’t an exceptionally gifted actress get the gift of a big payday? ‘Tomb Raider’ Review: Buried by Absurdity 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

“He was gifted not only with his knowledge and experience, but in working with adolescents, penetrating their denials,” says Nancy Thorn, a therapist who mentored under Kirkland. Mike Kirkland of the Brothers Four dies at 82 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

Such children, it turns out, are often gifted, generous, great at making friends and compassionate. The question we came to dread: ‘Are you going for a second child?’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

And the only selling we ever see is when Draper and his dipsomaniacal gang pitch their ideas to the client — a performance at which Don is supposed to be almost mystically gifted. Ad absurdum and the conquest of cool: Canned flattery for corporate America 2013-12-22T12:00:00Z

Morris, himself a former percussionist, called Schick "a staggering percussion player, musical omnivore and gifted conductor." Percussionist Steven Schick plans a big bang for Ojai Music Festival 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

I enjoy learning languages, though I don’t think I’m particularly gifted. Orchestra conductor Marin Alsop: ‘I commute between the US and Brazil – the time zones almost line up’ 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z

There are significant challenges in parenting and educating many gifted children. Daughter refuses help with her ADHD, but parents are afraid she’s wasting her potential 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

Earlier in the story, Daedalus has tried to kill his rival, a gifted young apprentice, by pushing him from the Acropolis. Poem of the week: 'Time has disappeared/Lo temps s'es perdut' by Aurélia Lassaque 2013-02-11T11:28:12Z

While very gifted, she may have a period of self-examination ahead of her. Music Review | Grand Finals Concert of the Metropolitan Opera?s National Council Auditions: A Chance to Listen to the Future at the Met 2010-03-15T21:54:00Z

Mr. Sheeran is a gifted singer with a tender tone and a naturalistic way with storytelling, which made him an apt choice to tour with Ms. Swift. Ed Sheeran, Lighter and Wiser, Releases ‘x’ 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

This represents something of a dilemma for Abreu, mentor and father figure to all these wildly gifted young maestri. José Antonio Abreu on Venezuela's El Sistema miracle 2012-06-14T19:00:02Z

Check the acquisition dates on the works included: A great many came in with collections acquired in the 1940s and ’50s, including key works from the Stieglitz collection gifted to the museum by O’Keefe. Review | A somewhat nearsighted look back at American modernism 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Selections of the recently gifted art will be displayed in the exhibition "50 for 50" opening to the public Sunday. For its 50th birthday, LACMA gets $675 million in gifts 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

The concert was broadcast on radio nationally and proved to be the career launch of one of America’s most gifted composer-conductors. National Philharmonic brings its unique touch to a vintage lineup 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

He, the preternaturally athletically gifted, the baseball star unrivaled in town, who showed up to practice in a clean white uniform, even during the Pause. Review | ‘The Last Romantics’ is a sweeping family saga with a poetic streak 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

It takes a certain poet to be so gifted, in order to shape or reshape the different strands of his origins into this singular register and singular poetics. Ishion Hutchinson on his poetry and the inspiration of Lee 'Scratch' Perry 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

With gentlemanly charm, a calm, dignified demeanor and the most uncanny ability to remember people's names, he was gifted in the fine art of southern hospitality. As the weather warms, pay homage to Bucky with these tart, sweet cocktails 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

They know that he was the third President of the United States, that he wrote the Declaration of Independence, and that he was a gifted architect as well as a remarkable inventor. Breaking Ground at Monticello 2012-10-01T15:20:06.137Z

The students find the whole idea of the writer as a gifted truth-teller — as a kind of god — contemptible. For the Love of a Dog 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Five of the six singers in the winning, gifted cast are members of the Met’s young artist program. Music Review: ‘Così Fan Tutte,’ at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-11-16T23:12:47Z

At the tail end of 1989, mere weeks away from a new decade, audiences were gifted with an unusual Christmas present: the violent, foul-mouthed destruction of a much-loved movie couple. Casablanca to Starship Troopers: the movie breakups that hit our writers hardest 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

A word of caution to parents of intellectually gifted children who might be tempted to see language immersion as an alternative to gifted... Making Language Immersion Fun for the Kids 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

And yet this group isn’t nearly as clunky as it often appears. Will.i.am in particular is a gifted producer, and at this performance he made sure to show off different sides. Music Review: Black Eyed Peas Play Central Park Benefit Concert - Review 2011-10-02T21:57:48Z

So gifted was he that he received his first known commission at the age of 17. For Britain’s National Gallery, a Raphael Show Comes at the Right Time 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

“He is very gifted guy and was one of the more important people in the room putting this season together.” The Actor Michael Cera Is Now Writing and Directing, Too 2013-07-03T12:00:01Z

But so gifted is her storytelling, so deft and light her touch, that the reader ends the book with hope. A river runs through it 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Ms. Meade, a soprano whose triumphs include acclaimed performances in the title role of Bellini’s “Norma” at the Metropolitan Opera in 2013, shares a program with Mr. Pallesen, a gifted, fast-rising baritone. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Jan. 9-15 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

If this production lacked scenery and costumes, it offered expressive singing from a gifted cast. Review: Bellini’s ‘La Sonnambula,’ Sung by Promising Young Voices 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

The drama of the gifted child is, at least in movies, a gift that keeps on giving. Review: Kidman and Bateman Face Childhood Scars in ‘The Family Fang’ 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

At 19, he interned in the art department at Walt Disney World, but once his bosses learned that he was a gifted pianist, they let him perform for theme park guests. A Union Built in and on Stages 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cheung, a gifted orchestrator, creates a shimmering, shifting sound world, alternately ethereal and groaning, and as changeable as the weather of the city that inspired it. Music Review: Orchestra of the League of Composers at Miller Theater 2012-06-05T21:54:39Z

In Britain, the estimate is 5 to 10 percent; Turkey and India say about 3 percent of their students are gifted. The “rage to master”: What it takes for those scary-smart kids to succeed 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

“He was a most honorable, patriotic and gifted man,” Mr. le Carré wrote, “and we had wonderful times together.” ArtsBeat: What the Real George Smiley Thought 2014-03-05T20:49:01Z

Q: You’re a trained actor and gifted singer, with Seattle roles in “Rent” at the 5th Avenue, “Spring Awakening” at Balagan Theatre. Jerick Hoffer flips his wig for ‘Hairspray’ at 5th Avenue 2013-06-19T19:14:18Z

But he was deeply technically gifted, a master of syncopation, with a deftness that could render even the toughest talk exuberantly. How Takeoff and the Migos Flow Changed Atlanta Rap 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

“As a gifted documentary filmmaker and impassioned storyteller, Alanis brings awareness to vital Indigenous issues and is widely recognized as a national treasure because of her extraordinary body of work.” Toronto Film Festival to honor Villeneuve and Obomsawin 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

"We hope that with the help of gifted dogs we can better understand the factors that contribute to the manifestation of talent," she said. 'Genius dogs' are capable of learning words related to objects: Study 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

This series keeps it that way, which is a choice . . . as is hiring a famously gifted actor to play her and not giving her much to evoke. Hulu's new Sex Pistols series is a rock 'n' roll swindle that plays like edgy karaoke 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

They say it helps educators identify talents in students who were not designated as gifted. How to expand who gets gifted services

Still, setting aside the stilted advice and many linguistic clichés that reveal Hancock as a more gifted composer and improviser than a writer, there are rewards in the marrow of "Possibilities." Herbie Hancock's memoir recalls a creative life and all that jazz

Mr. Dirden is a remarkably gifted and charismatic actor, able to present ease and intensity at once, which helps the play’s own inequities land more gently. Review: ‘Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine’ Takes On Race 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

The 38 works on display, all from the museum’s collection, show Cameron ascending almost instantly from accidental hobbyist to relentless and gifted professional. Art Review: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-08-22T19:55:31Z

But later generations who settled in London married up and out, with Ashkenazis as well as gentiles; they remade themselves as British aristocrats, not all of them gifted in business. ‘The Sassoons’: A Family Romance at Global Scale 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

The performances featured gifted, engaging young singers from Le Jardin des Voix, a training academy that Mr. Christie founded 10 years ago. Music Review: ?Le Jardin de Monsieur Lully,? at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2011-09-26T21:49:55Z

Monáe is young and fearless enough to try anything, gifted enough to pull almost all of it off, and large-hearted enough to make it feel like a communal experience: Us rather than Me. Albums of 2010, No 1: Janelle Mon?e - The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III) 2010-12-17T00:05:02Z

"The Native American wizarding community was particularly gifted in animal and plant magic, its potions in particular being of a sophistication beyond much that was known in Europe." J.K. Rowling's story of wizarding in North America angers some Native Americans 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

There will be plenty of argument about why Sheen is in another TV show, but at least Anger Management reminds us of one reason: that he’s a gifted sitcom actor with sharp timing and delivery. TV Tonight: Anger Management 2012-06-28T11:43:48Z

Rather than trumpet his achievements, Blake used the media attention to critique the very idea of the gifted child, arguing that the label distorted public understanding of which human attributes were valuable. From IQ tests and sperm banks to "The Queen’s Gambit": a history of gifted children 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z

He was a gifted poet — his late book-length poem “The River in the Sky” is a dark masterpiece — who also wrote with vigor and sensitivity about poetry. Clive James, a Tireless Polymath Who Led With His Wit 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Let’s hope Wright can turn things around with this exuberant action comedy, which stars Divergent’s Ansel Elgort as a gifted getaway driver who races around to a soundtrack of pop classics. Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Heflin, a gifted actor whose tortured, interiorized performances helped pave the way for Method acting in Hollywood, plays an unusually extroverted character here. DVDs: Visions From 1951, Noir and Psychedelic 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z

She points to “a culture of specialness”: the use of spirituality to create this idea of being exceptional, supremely gifted. Manifesting, for the Rest of Us 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

Throughout history, when foreign leaders visited our presidents, they gifted them with something symbolic and often personal. They got him what!? A look into the art of presidential gift-giving. 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Even now, such discord has a way of receding when the youthful, gifted performers are freed to do what they do best: to move and to sing. ‘The Outsiders’ Review: Growing Pains Both Brutal and Poetic 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

U were one insanely gifted composer and writer. Celebrities Pay Tribute to Composer James Horner After Fatal Plane Crash 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Hardly anyone thinks of fashion as a pursuit for people gifted at living in the moment. | Fashion Diary: Thakoon Finds Intensity in the Present ? New York Fashion Week 2011-09-12T22:51:21Z

Last year this episode gifted us with the Wisdom of Donny Osmond, where Donny was dishing out tens like sweets and generally making a mockery of something we were already mocking to death. Strictly Come Dancing 2015: week three – as it happened 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

The people it hits hardest are not the people who are new to a company and not the people who are clearly gifted and moving up. dance: American Ballet Theater’s Director, Kevin McKenzie 2012-06-15T14:41:44Z

That was a relief to fans of this gifted artist, who had been struggling with vocal problems that included the surgical removal of a cyst from a vocal cord in 2009. Critic’s Notebook: Musical Chairs at the Met 2013-12-06T22:52:05Z

One of the bright lights of the New York City music community and a gifted drummer in his own right, Amendola approaches each camp with the generosity and patience of a great teacher. Playing "Twist and Shout" with Pete Best 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z

Nixon — a protégé of A. Philip Randolph, a socialist agitator, writer, and union organizer who founded the Brotherhood with the dual purpose of promoting workers’ rights and civil rights — was a gifted organizer and strategist. The amazing Rosa Parks story too few people still know 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

But do they remember their most gifted leader and his insights? One nation in one man: the portrait of Benjamin Disraeli 2012-10-03T14:52:44Z

She’s a gifted writer and storyteller with an unwavering command of her plot. Review | In Emily Temple’s ‘The Lightness,’ troubled teens fall hard for the promise of spirituality 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

Much rests here on Allison Torem, the gifted young actress playing The Girl, the struggling conscience of both the hotel and the play. The Hot L Baltimore: Still finding its rhythm 2011-04-04T01:29:39Z

The trailer depicts Winehouse as a bright, genuine and supremely gifted performer who shied away from the publicity her talent afforded her. In the Trailer for "Amy," Amy Winehouse Is "Just a Girl That Sings" 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Dear Miss Manners: When our daughter was born, seven years ago, my father-in-law gifted her with his mother's lovely diamond engagement ring. Perspective | Miss Manners: Even sporks need proper placement 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

The longtime musical director at the Ospedale della Pietà, a Venice home for foundlings, he trained many gifted girls for its acclaimed orchestra and choir. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

Aside from her presumption that her daughter is gifted, how is Zott’s approach to parenthood 50 years ahead of its time? She Moved From the Chem Lab to the Kitchen, but Not by Choice 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

Is Holiday a gifted autodidact, as one could easily believe after absorbing the elegant, spare prose of “Conspiracy” and its seemingly timeless message about human nature? Bringing Down a Media Empire 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

At his best, Jarvis wonderfully recaptures the antic, convivial spirit of “The Pickwick Papers” while illuminating its sources and paying eloquent tribute to the gifted, conflicted man who played an instrumental role in its creation. ‘Death and Mr. Pickwick’ asks if Dickens stole his famous first novel 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Any one of these gifted California architects would easily be a credible choice to design a museum whose mission is understanding and celebrating the exceptional, globally influential evolution of California art. Applause, and a caution, for the planned Museum and Institute of California Art 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

Her relationships with gifted but unreliable men who abused her trust left her emotionally shattered. She Reported From the World’s Combat Zones, at the Cost of Her Life 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Hoover, who leads the gifted program at River Bend Middle School in Sterling, wanted to know more about the archaeological work. For these teachers, summer break was chance to become students 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Seinfeld is known as a gifted joke writer, and he emphasizes his commitment with a shot of him sitting down surrounded by pages of his jokes. Meet a Looser, More Personal Seinfeld 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

Well, that is until Yoko Ono, Lennon's wife, gifted her husband's demos to his bandmates McCartney and Starr, who recently completed their late friend's work with the help of AI. Paul McCartney says Beatles final song "Then and Now" with late John Lennon is "quite emotional" 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z

Prodigiously gifted as both musician and mathematician, Babbitt taught mathematics at Princeton during the latter part of the second world war, when the faculty was depleted. Milton Babbitt obituary 2011-01-30T18:29:19Z

The museum was conceived by Rostropovich to honour his friend and the Soviet Union's greatest composer, who wrote two concertos for the gifted cellist. St Petersburg's homely tributes to Russia's great artists 2012-11-20T13:56:01Z

Regarded as one of ballet’s most gifted male dancers and an accomplished choreographer, Nureyev died in 1993 from AIDS. Russia's delayed Nureyev ballet to test Kremlin tolerance 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

A gifted psychic reluctantly agrees to contact the dead to help a teenage girl targeted by a supernatural entity in this horror prequel. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Ever since she burst into the concert world as a preternaturally gifted teenager, violinist Hilary Hahn has built a career by blazing her own trail. In a concert of old and new, Hilary Hahn enchants 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

Regarded as one of ballet’s most gifted male dancers and an accomplished choreographer, Nureyev died in 1993 from AIDS. Russia's delayed Nureyev ballet to test Kremlin tolerance 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

It also called Hadid, a previous recipient of the prize, one of the era's most gifted architects. Supreme Court Judge Breyer joins architecture jury 2011-09-14T17:16:03Z

But studio supervision, a useful form of quality control on mediocre filmmakers, risks diluting the distinctive qualities of unusually gifted filmmakers such as Trank, regressing to the mean without fulfilling the norm. "Fantastic Four" Should Have Been Great 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Frank Espada, who moved from Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, was a gifted athlete, a mechanic in the Air Force, a victim of discrimination and a protester who spent time in jail for his beliefs. The best poetry books for January take on race, current events, love and loss 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

Growing up in Philadelphia, he followed in the path of two abundantly gifted musical brothers: Robin, a trombonist, and Kevin, a guitarist. New Releases From the Decemberists, Hanni El Khatib and Duane Eubanks 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

SV: 28, that there's something both pristine and playful in the way these gifted musicians deliver the goods. Icicle Creek Piano Trio gives free CD-release concert at Town Hall 2011-03-03T20:37:03Z

Powers, his college-professor wife, Honoree, and their children had a beautiful life in Middlebury, Vt., until their younger son, Kevin, a gifted musician, began to exhibit symptoms of schizophrenia at age 17. One Family’s Story of Mental Illness and What Came After 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

He was a good student in a program for gifted children. Motherlode Blog: Was Your Child Born to Take Tests, or Born to Panic? 2013-02-06T18:21:36Z

We were naturally gifted, winning round after round. The Best of Tiny Love Stories 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

But this particular program didn’t offer these gifted musicians a lot of meat into which to sink their teeth. Strong group, light music: Eighth Blackbird at the Kennedy Center 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

George was a sweet, smart and gifted man. Edgar Wright, Alice Lowe, John Landis and Ben Wheatley on zombie king George A Romero 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

I was gifted copies of Ishmael Reed novels like “The Free-Lance Pallbearers” and “Mumbo Jumbo,” and those were really eye-opening. Questlove: By the Book 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

As singers and rappers, the members are gifted. K-Pop Superstars BTS Lit Up Citi Field’s Stage. Their Fans Did the Rest. 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

"But I don't think there is all that much that's so definitive, and a lot of it is just legend. Apparently, he was quite gifted at making his own legends about himself." Blackbeard epic 'Crossbones' has NBC crossing its fingers 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Around midnight on Tuesday the singer gifted fans who pre-ordered her highly anticipated pop offering “1989” with a new tune, “Out of the Woods.” Taylor Swift unveils latest instant smash 'Out of the Woods' 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Sports Illustrated called him “one of the most naturally gifted athletes in the sport” in 2015. Nigel Sylvester’s Ride Into Fashion Is No Stunt 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

Higher Purpose: Podrick is one of the few genuinely nice, honorable, loyal guys in Westeros who also is reportedly gifted in the sack. On "Game of Thrones," all men must die. Who will fall at Winterfell? 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

Working with the same crew, Findley again directs the gifted actress Mary Ewald, who last time unnervingly channeled Beckett as in a waking dream. Reviews: 'Pinter and Beckett,' 'An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein' 2010-05-20T20:13:00Z

Nureyev is viewed as one of the world’s most gifted male ballet dancers. Arrest of prominent Russian director hampers premiere of 'Nureyev' ballet 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

Joe Bonaparte, Mr. Numrich’s character, is an unlikely creation to say the least: a gifted violinist who also happens to be a champion boxer and who is forced to choose between the two callings. Seth Numrich of ‘Golden Boy’ Polishes His Boxing Moves 2013-01-14T22:11:05Z

"Alan Whicker belonged to that very exclusive club of gifted individuals who over so many decades consistently delivered memorable programmes for what is more usually such a transitory medium," Lord Grade said. Stars at memorial for Alan Whicker 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

Although she belonged to a generation of gifted ballerinas at the Paris Opera, she was set apart by a mesmerizing elegance that was never confused with chic. Yvette Chauviré, Ballerina and Symbol of French Culture, Dies at 99 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Though some “Dancing With Myself” contestants are gifted and highly trained dancers, the show makes a point of including charismatic competitors of all skill levels. Where TikTok-Like Dance Challenges Meet Network TV 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

“They might be traded, gifted, deeded, sold or mortgaged,” Dr. Berry said. Your Ancestors Were Slaves. Who Owns the Photos of Them? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

But more than being beautiful and gifted, Bergman turns out to be the perfect fit for this year's festival. Majestic meets 'Mad Max' in the maelstrom that's the Cannes film fest 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

He is an endearing hero: flawed, mischievous, but also curious and gifted, with an optimistic imagination. In translation: nine authors pick their favourite children's fiction 2013-06-28T17:29:01Z

This is a gifted young actor with remarkable range. One black kid, one white kid and the riveting friendship that unfolds onstage in 'Dutch Masters' 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

In total, one million books will be gifted on the night. World Book Night branded 'misguided and misjudged' 2011-02-10T16:28:49Z

And how much of this intoxicating book is history, rather than a gifted writer's invention? 'Doc': Mary Doria Russell's intoxicating novel of Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp and Dodge City 2011-05-11T20:59:05Z

Rob Lowry described his son as “very gifted intellectually” with an affinity for math and music, and overall, “a really cool guy.” Young man with autism pens viral employment letter: ‘take a chance on me’ 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

He — and others involved with gifted education — doesn’t address what I see as the biggest problem with gifted education: its ill-considered selectivity. Why gifted education doesn’t make sense

As opposed to the “West Side Story” actors, marooned with no book, these performers were gifted with a complete and coherent concert narration written by Comden and Green. The Trouble With Bernstein’s Broadway in the Concert Hall 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

In the read-through of the complete first act of “The Turing Project” on Thursday evening, those words glowed with intensity when Mr. Estabrooks, a gifted actor, delivered them. Critic’s Notebook: InsightALT, a Festival of Operas in Progress 2013-05-31T21:38:00Z

Evans is particularly gifted at depicting character, especially female protagonists. New Story Collections Reconsider History and Upend Tradition 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

Ideally, Palace Pompadour will be gifted to an arts institution, like the Getty Museum or the Hermitage, that “brings all of the assurances that it will be safe for a long, long time.” Inside France's $100 Million Palace Pompadour, A Royal Chateau Restored By A Press-Shy Philanthropist 2013-03-28T11:00:00Z

But it is a tight look at the pressures of being extraordinarily gifted but somehow undervalued. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

She plays the film’s title character, a gifted architect who goes missing from her family. Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge Show Their Sensitive Sides 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

“If I Stay,” which opens in August, stars Chloë Grace Moretz as a gifted cellist who survives a horrific car accident that takes the lives of the rest of her family. ‘Divergent’ Adapters Face a Delicate Balancing Act 2014-03-19T17:52:24Z

Drawing on the memories of friends who had known Leonardo, he insisted that not only was this polymath painter intellectually gifted and extremely handsome, but he was also blessed with great physical strength. Leonardo the ladykiller? 2013-04-16T11:27:51Z

But if DeJohnette has been an inspired accompanist, he has led a vibrant parallel life as a composer-bandleader, and a gifted occasional pianist. This week's new live music 2012-11-10T00:05:56Z

You don't realize how gifted with cool Willis actually is until you watch Travolta trying to be him. 2010-02-05T19:00:00Z

They also say that most kids are gifted an electronic device capable of streaming video between the ages of eight and 11. HBO's Sesame Street is the battlefield in the streaming wars for kids' TV 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

Dear Carolyn: My sister-in-law usually hosts parties and holidays, and she is very gifted at it. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Controlling spouse? For starters, visit a therapist — alone. 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

Peggy’s gifted but perhaps not brilliant; ambitious but perhaps not driven; empathetic and sympathizing but not all that warm; a quick wit but not funny; brave but not bold. Mad Men Watch: Loving You Is the Worst Way to Get to You 2013-05-27T14:34:11Z

Fortunately, Rachel is a gifted midwife, and as the only daughter in a sea of sons, Dinah becomes her assistant. Lifetime's 'The Red Tent' kept standing by leading ladies 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z

A gifted computer scientist, he, along with most of his colleagues, was something of a sociopath. A Life Spent Focused on What Computers Are Doing to Us 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

We all of us have to search for meaning and fulfillment in our lives, whether we're gifted or not. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

Lawrence Scott … moral dilemmas underpic much of his fiction Lawrence Scott was born on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, and was a Benedictine monk in England before becoming a teacher and an extremely gifted writer. Light Falling on Bamboo – review 2012-09-28T21:55:01Z

That Thanksgiving, we were gifted an adorable hand-me-down baby Santa suit, and as I stuffed my son’s chunky brown body inside, I felt giddy with nostalgia about my own childhood. In Search of Black Santa 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Holsinger doesn’t shy away from the moral questions implicit in defining what it means to be gifted without acknowledging that not all children start from a level playing field. What Wouldn’t a Parent Do to Get a Child Admitted to ‘The Gifted School’? 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

“In our part of Florida things were always being gifted a bullet just for the sake of it.” Review | 3 novels that aim for the heart of America’s love affair with guns 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

In any case, this novel feels more like a weary wallow in Hollywood scum than the sort of savage satire this gifted author is capable of writing. Book Of The Times: Book Review: ‘Dead Stars,’ by Bruce Wagner 2012-08-10T06:30:09Z

Overall, the work gives little reason to consider an old view of Lichtenstein, as a spectacularly gifted lightweight, inapt. Art Review: ‘Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective,’ at the National Gallery of Art 2012-10-18T17:25:34Z

Dusty does not fit that bill, gifted though she may be. Review: In a Gleeful ‘POTUS,’ White House Enablers Gone Wild 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Too many people recognize the incredibly gifted photographer simply as the muse to her more famous lover, Man Ray. The 10 books to read in February 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Literally and figuratively, the abundantly gifted and emotionally complex Welles lived large. Orson Welles, Wonderettes and more on Seattle stages 2012-12-07T00:52:52Z

As in “Prima Donna,” Mr. Wainwright, an immensely gifted pop singer and songwriter, brings a deep love of opera to “Hadrian.” Review: Rufus Wainwright’s ‘Hadrian’ Is a Step Forward, but Still Frustrating 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z

A gifted singer, she is remade in flashy style by a rapacious record mogul. Erica Kennedy, Music Writer and Novelist, Dies at 42 2012-06-19T00:18:34Z

It does, though, underscore how cemented in shtick McCarthy’s comic characters have become, and how much better this gifted actress deserves. ‘Thunder Force’ Review: Saving Chicago, One Mutant at a Time 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

That is all the poetry Barry Berkman is afforded in his final moments, along with the bonus of knowing, maybe, that he's being shot down with a gun gifted to Gene by Rip Torn. Bill Hader gives "Barry" his made-for-TV movie hero wish 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z

In fact, he may be the most gifted, and certainly the most diversely talented, meat man in North America. Foraging: Store Review: Oyama Sausage Company in Vancouver 2009-12-12T12:55:00Z

Richard was the most complete musician of his generation – lavishly gifted as a composer, performer and entertainer in a multiplicity of styles and genres. Composer Sir Richard Rodney Bennett dies aged 76 2012-12-25T14:46:08Z

But, although it's a pleasure to watch two such gifted performers, the play resembles the kind of improvised memory exercises actors do in rehearsal. Third Finger, Left Hand – review 2013-04-05T11:00:21Z

But lately Ash has been struggling in her gifted class. Young, Gifted and Searching for a Sense of Self 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

The waste this unblinking documentary outlines is of a different sort, the squandering of a gifted life cut far too short. 'Amy' tracks singer Winehouse's soaring talent, tragic demise 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

“In our part of Florida things were always being gifted a bullet just for the sake of it,” Pearl observes. A Florida Trailer Park Awash in Lethal Weapons 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

In this middle grade novel, an elderly camel brings two baby chicks to safety, distracting them with tales of her life as one of nine racing camels gifted by a Turkish pasha to the U.S. Newly Published, From Famous Manuscripts to a Bookstore in Egypt 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

Dad gifted the miles and upgrades he accumulated throughout his life – both before and during his AAirpass tenure – to dozens and dozens of people. My father had a lifelong ticket to fly anywhere. Then they took it away 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

He was just gifted and able to deal with artists in a respectful way. Indie-Label Folkie to Rock Patriarch 2011-03-06T01:45:27Z

“Thanks to Claire, I learned how to look closely at a picture through her gifted conservator’s eyes.” She’s one of the top conservators in the country, but she likes to be anonymous 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

I want instead to sit on a sunny field and admire the very gifted women - and, OK, some men, too - who will be taking my place.'' Barbara Walters to retire in 2014 2013-05-13T10:58:23Z

A review in The Times described the drama as “an uncommonly powerful, exciting and imaginative use of the screen by gifted professionals.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Below the Belt’ and a Juneteenth Celebration 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

He is also a gifted explainer, making difficult concepts easy to grasp for those of us with a lifelong lack of aptitude for the sciences. In ‘The Food Lab,’ the Science of Home Cooking 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

The event was a celebration of Scott Joplin’s “Treemonisha,” with excerpts from the opera performed by five gifted young singers, along with five dynamic dancers, accompanied by the pianist Bradley Moore. Critic?s Notebook: For City Opera, Spare Show May Signal Future 2011-06-07T22:00:29Z

Feldman became intrigued by profoundly gifted children and their cognitive development in the 1970s, and over ten years he closely tracked six extraordinarily gifted children. The “rage to master”: What it takes for those scary-smart kids to succeed 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

Musically, he and Mercury dovetailed brilliantly, but did he ever feel overshadowed and resentful of his flamboyantly gifted frontman? Brian May: Me and my animal passions 2012-09-28T23:06:37Z

To Ms. Frank, Heath was “dapper,” “charming,” “tough as nails,” “bubbling with ideas,” “a gifted, curious scientist”—anything but the monster some of his contemporaries believed him to be. ‘The Pleasure Shock’ Review: This Is Your Brain On Batteries 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

It follows an intellectually gifted elementary student as she navigates being the black sheep of her family and entering a school with a bully headmistress. The star of 'Matilda'? It's a constellation made of three vivacious young actresses 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

At 11, following comprehensive psychiatric and cognitive assessments, an educational psychiatrist appointed by my high school recommended that I attend a school for “gifted and talented” children. Go, Greta. Autism is my superpower too | Jack Monroe 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

A McLean parent who asked that I not identify her said that she is happy her daughters are not in the Fairfax County gifted centers because they are, for many children, a painful grind. Wild ideas for fixing gifted education

Next up was Rufus Wainwright’s “Prima Donna,” also at the Brooklyn Academy, the first opera by this gifted and popular singer and songwriter. Identity Shifts for New York City Opera 2012-06-01T14:12:32Z

A gifted pianist from an early age, he started out as an accompanist for dance classes. Minimalist Composer Julius Eastman, Dead for 26 Years, Crashes the Canon 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

My father is a gifted woodworker and his father was a skilled joiner. Grinling Gibbons: the wood-carver who took root in England 2010-09-08T09:51:00Z

She is particularly gifted at drawing complex female characters. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

Kai is a tough orphan from the provinces and a gifted pianist. Review: In ‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing,’ a Portrait of Souls Snuffed Out 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Sarandon was always a gifted comedian and seems more engaged here than the others, but really, so what? The Big Wedding: not even this cast could save such a weak script 2013-05-27T05:00:00Z

A gifted pianist, she founded the Da Capo Chamber Players, a pioneering ensemble dedicated to new music. At 80, Joan Tower Says Great Music Comes ‘in the Risks’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

There are very few people who can do what Baldwin does; he’s such an incredibly gifted, dramatic and comedic actor, and he really brings all of that together in 30 Rock. From a talking horse to the Dark Knight: Will Arnett ranks his own roles 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z

The persistence of feelings of inadequacy is a subterranean theme in the play, the latest from the gifted writer of “This,” seen at the same theater. Review: ‘Placebo,’ With Carrie Coon, Opens at Playwrights Horizons 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Here is a gifted actor unspoiled by proximity to fame who kept plugging away and stamped his authority in Kenneth Lonergan’s brooding masterpiece. Sexual harassment claims could have sunk Casey Affleck. Instead, he soared 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

For the gifted women in that family, the legacy must have been an ambiguous one. Poem of the week: Time's Acquittal by Sara Coleridge 2011-01-10T10:49:35Z

You know, when you go back and listen to the music, Rick was a very, very gifted songwriter and arranger and singer. Funk was the black answer to “Star Wars”: Take the trip with “Tales From the Tour Bus” 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Conducting three concertos from the keyboard, Mr. Kahane seemed less the star soloist than the empowering leader of a collaboration among gifted, eager artists. Review: ‘The public domain’ Beats the Heat and Humidity 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z

But this kind of exuberance has value too, especially for a singer savvy and gifted enough never to be boxed in. New Music: Music From Yeasayer, Tamia, Lionel Loueke and Divine Fits 2012-08-27T21:53:22Z

Middle school kids, Stanford says, are starting to notice their bodies–and that some students are more athletically gifted than others. How to Help Your Kids Stay Fit Even if They're Not Athletic 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

“May he be remembered for his devotion to Islam and innovation as one of the most gifted MCs of all time. We ask that you please respect his family in our time of mourning.” Malik B, founding member of The Roots, has died at 47 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

Even during their heyday, their ultra-conspicuous album artwork felt baroque, dynastic, and absurd, like medieval portraiture made by the hand of a Y2K-era Rembrandt gifted an early edition of the Adobe Creative Suite. Review | Like most sequels, ‘Savage Mode II’ is an underwhelming blockbuster 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

But given his glorious talent – he is, without question, the most naturally gifted male ballet dancer of his generation – his jaded attitude and cynical attitudinising are dispiriting. Coppélia – review 2013-07-13T23:05:57Z

Its function in the play, beyond the obvious reference to the drug trial, is fairly oblique — as is the way with this gifted writer. Review: ‘Placebo,’ With Carrie Coon, Opens at Playwrights Horizons 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

After many lean years, it’s a big surprise to behold what looks like a whole new generation of gifted young choreographers. City Ballet’s Season of Renewal 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

Michael's an incredibly gifted improviser but he doesn't know anything about football, so I had to explain the sport to him because his character's a big Tottenham fan. Christopher Guest on the future of Spinal Tap 2013-07-21T07:00:07Z

The gifted Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke writes and directs this riveting crime saga, which traffics in the tropes of gangster pictures, but does so with the empathy of an indie drama. ‘Disappearance at Clifton Hill,’ ‘Damsel’ and More Streaming Gems 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

Either way, you get to be with a good man, husband and father who is also a gifted writer with a deep flaw: Words sometimes fail him. Perspective | Ask Amy: Wife’s assignment gives husband writer’s block 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

It is obvious how significantly the elegant, intelligent, verbally gifted Macron differs from his American counterpart. Will Scandal Sink Emmanuel Macron? 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

The kind we all derive from the joy of being in a public space, together, sharing in the wonder at what gifted people get up in front of us to do. Perspective | Theater is a haven. But with the coronavirus, it’s become an incubator for our fears. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Can so narrow an ideal of character flourish in a society as abundantly and variously gifted as our own? The Limits of “Grit” 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

It was gifted to Didion, but there is no record of the details.” The Portrait Hung in Joan Didion’s Home. But Who Painted It? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

Phillips gifted viewers with an incomparably taut season of TV before he left the show at the end of Season 4. "Dexter: New Blood" is less of a revival than another stab at a satisfying closure 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z

The production has rough edges, including the strained performance of Mr. Stadelmann, a gifted actor who may have outgrown the adjective “boyish,” and an abrupt, unsatisfying ending. | 'Seven Minutes in Heaven': At Here Arts, Steven Levenson?s Play About Teen Desire 2010-06-13T21:49:00Z

In theory, gifted directors who are mostly new to should bring fresh, bracing perspectives to bear. Music Review: ?Don Giovanni? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-10-14T18:50:40Z

The program, which brings gifted student musicians to Tanglewood for eight weeks each summer to work with players from the orchestra, composers and other artists, began in 1940. Review: Tanglewood Orchestra Celebrating Its 75th 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

“They saw Basquiat as an artist who was profoundly gifted as a painter, but also very vulnerable in putting his own experiences and perspective in his art,” she said. The Broad Museum Reopens With a Celebration of Basquiat 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

Clearly the work of an intelligent and gifted person. How cleaning out my hoarder Mother-in-Law’s junk caused my own marriage to crumble 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

“You knew you were working for an in­cred­ibly strong, willful, gifted individual who was also a prodigiously inspired thinker.” It’s almost impossible to overstate Zelda Fichandler’s impact on American theater 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

As a deep thinker and gifted storyteller, Johnson is the right author to tackle the topic. How Do We Make the Long-Term Decisions That Matter? 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

Many of these men and women, now well past middle age, were “gifted” in the sense that they benefited from the gifts that were given to their parents, chief among them the G.I. Making Citizens’ Lives Better 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

There are a variety of gardening subscription services available to be gifted. Gifts to get for people that are impossible to shop for 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

Kelly was a gifted hoofer; Reynolds was primarily a singer, though she certainly kept up with Kelly. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling's dancing in 'La La Land': beautiful magic or overrated misstep? 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

So all hail this small white ball of genius, the most gifted and malleable comestible currently out there. Clip joint: eggs 2010-03-31T10:12:00Z

Notably, Ms. Minaj was one of the most technically gifted rappers on the bill, though her skill is a weapon she deploys selectively, not abuses. Music Review: Nicki Minaj Backs Out of Summer Jam 2012-06-05T18:57:16Z

Of course I was disappointed, not seeing people who I work with and love and are really talented and gifted, I wanted to see them all receive Oscar nominations and then go all the way. 'Selma' Actor Common: Don't Speak Out "Just Because It's Popular" 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

One formerly gifted child told the Daily Mail in 1995 about their experience. From IQ tests and sperm banks to "The Queen’s Gambit": a history of gifted children 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z

At the end of our chat, Norman gifted me with one last story. Norman Lloyd: Hitchcock's Saboteur Is a World-Class Raconteur 2012-05-26T23:41:42Z

Jenner’s tweet captured the uncanny slippage between the public self—Caitlyn Jenner, the newly minted celebrity—and the interior self, who, despite the expert surgeries and the gifted stylists, is continuous with Bruce Jenner. Caitlyn Jenner’s Big Début 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

She was also a gifted writer, using expertise learned as a painter and personal knowledge of art and artists to analyze and explain the work of others. The (Often Complicated) Lives of Artists 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

The criteria are not consistent, say critics such as consultant Andrew Rotherham, who has argued that the value of the gifted label has more to do with scarcity. How a small school for gifted kids in the D.C. exurbs gets big results 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

She, too, painted, and was a gifted photographer. Dame Beryl Bainbridge obituary 2010-07-02T12:46:00Z

“Strange Flowers,” Ryan’s sixth book, shows an exceptionally gifted novelist distancing himself from his characters. A Novel Follows ‘Strange Flowers’ in an Insular Irish Village 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

She is funny, smart as a whip and already clearly gifted in the area of visual/special reasoning, as many dyslexics are. Motherlode Blog: Can a Daughter With Dyslexia Learn to Love Words? 2012-06-12T14:26:38Z

He was a gifted writer, producer, arranger and musician, sometimes playing all the instruments on his songs. George Michael Preferred Music to Fame. The Doc He Made Does, Too. 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

"Margaret was a talented beautician and a gifted cook," this sparkling creature of the digital age said. Inspired by his dad, Lazarus Lynch's peach cobbler is the dessert you'll want to bake all summer 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z

Canada is like the gifted proselytizer whose sells a great idea, and Rhee like the tough sheriff brought in to clean up a bad town. 


Waiting for 'Superman' Review: Are Teachers the Problem? 2010-09-28T03:25:00Z

He is a famous actor and gifted Broadway star. James Corden and the Dangers of Likability 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z

Yes, the seven gifted and talented students of “The Fall” tell only one side of a complicated story. Review | If you imagined South Africa’s racial struggles ended with Mandela, think again. 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Perhaps another book might focus on gifted kids who are well-adjusted and who successfully manage their gifts. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

“Gina is a gifted strategist who excels at assessing the bigger picture,” Ms. Wallace said. BAM Taps Former Leader of Its Film Program as Its Next President 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Except, of course, Tillman isn’t exactly right when he says that weird is the new cool—it would be easy for him, being so gifted, to think so. “American Vandal” Season 2 Goes from Poop Jokes to Adolescent Dystopia 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

His wife, the violinist Toby Perlman, founded the Perlman Music Program, through which both continue to nurture gifted teenage string players. Itzhak Perlman, Violin Legend, Still Proves the Critics Wrong 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

I lost track of a gifted, reckless friend from California many years ago. Thomas McGuane on Small-Town America 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Adams also is an excellent conductor and a gifted orchestrator. Composer John Adams does double duty at Strathmore with BSO 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Pickles is obviously a national treasure gifted with magical ability to soothe, to make all things better. Smart Watch: “The Deuce” returns with more strut in its street tales 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

She is also gifted at distilling childhood problems into an engaging 20 or so pages, he says. His namesake had a terrible, horrible day, but Alexander Viorst is doing just fine

Smith's resultant performance won extraordinary reviews: "Like many gifted actors, she pulls off the apparently impossible: she makes detail dominate the stage," wrote Susannah Clapp in the Observer . From slappers to Hedda Gabler: the irresistible rise of Sheridan Smith 2013-03-18T18:12:48Z

The fate most feared by the toys — boxed up in the attic — was miraculously avoided when Andy gifted his beloved playthings to a young girl named Bonnie. ‘Toy Story’ lives on, but should it have? 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

He drew a bracing, fresh and urgent performance from his gifted, eager players on Thursday. Music Review: Chalky Chorus of Specters Who Dance and Crush 2011-08-05T22:45:16Z

Surely these gifted young players would bring a distinctive spirit to new music, but Wednesday’s show included only Mozart. New York String Orchestra Presents Mozart at Carnegie Hall 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

“There are so many gifted artists, particularly artists of color, who just aren’t given a shot,” he said over lunch this week in Greenwich Village. A Producer Spearheads a Collective to Help Hispanics in Theater 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

She says many don’t realise how gifted their children are until they begin education and socialising; while they fit in in their own, often intelligent, households, others notice their precociousness and impose identities on them. ‘I’m a human calculator’: what’s it like to be a child genius – or to raise one? 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

Plenty has been said and written about this gifted singer's flawless instrument-like technique and his intelligent makeovers of famous songs. Take Five: John Fordham's month in jazz – April 2013-04-19T09:33:10Z

The formal vocabulary of the equally gifted Tanguy is more truly organic, and later geological, in keeping with his lifelong attention to nature. Art Review: Calder and Tanguy, Together Again at L&M Arts 2010-05-13T21:39:00Z

We’re told he plays barrelhouse piano in bars, that he cuts loose on payday, that he’s a gifted and inveterate criminal. A Minister’s Troubled Son Takes Center Stage in Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Jack’ 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

As he grows up, Jean Patrick, a gifted track runner, meets constant challenges, such as bullying from his classmates. 'Running the Rift': a race for a Tutsi boy's life 2012-01-11T22:10:05Z

Many of the other competitors were gifted – maybe as many as in any season of the show – but they paired their impressive technique with little capacity for feeling. Critic’s Notebook: American Idol Winner Phillip Phillips Is Known for His Modesty 2012-05-24T06:17:26Z

Her brother, born Anthony Bart LoTempio, was musically gifted and sang onstage with Benny Goodman before he was 10 years old. April Stevens Dies at 93; Her ‘Deep Purple’ Became a Surprise Hit 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

That’s your best friend and mine, and through the transitive property, we were gifted each other, in a way. How Natasha Lyonne and Lizzi Bougatsos Became Best Friends 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

Ehrenreich is a gifted actor and possesses a rakishly appealing persona, but the character’s inner darkness is only hinted at.” ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’: What Do Critics Say? What Do You Say? 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

An especially gifted girl named Abra draws the attention of this murderous band and turns to Dan for help when it becomes clear they plan to kill her. ‘Doctor Sleep’ tries to reconcile the visions of Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick. But is that possible? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

The new album suggests that Bugg deserves a place next to Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys and Noel Gallagher of Oasis in the lineage of Britain's most gifted rock 'n' roll songwriters. Jake Bugg on beating follow-up blues 2013-11-14T06:44:40Z

Jones wasn’t that intellectually gifted, for one thing; he did have a “stunning charisma,” but his ideas were a flimsy synthesis of New Age tropes and spiritual Darwinism. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

He is so supremely gifted, and his mind is so fertile. Magic Man: A Q&A with Burt Wonderstone‘s Steve Carell 2013-03-08T13:00:42Z

Mr. Dudamel is a phenomenally gifted musician with the potential to change the public perception of what an American orchestra should be. At Avery Fisher Hall, Dudamel on a Joy Ride 2010-05-21T22:43:00Z

The clincher is that our singer is in need of new material and Miguel just happens to be a gifted songwriter. A Very Streaming Christmas 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

He’s a gifted kid with an exuberant streak, but on this evening, he’s troubled. Theater review: Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy’ at Studio Theatre 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

I feel incredibly gifted and blessed to have the opportunity to do what I love. That Intense New Character on ‘You’? Victoria Pedretti ‘Had the Tools’ 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

Ditto my sets of oddly-sized measuring cups and spoons, gifted by a thoughtful friend years ago. Why I love my unitaskers (with apologies to Alton Brown) 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z

Harrod is the perfect biographer for such a complex and gifted man. The Last Sane Man by Tanya Harrod – review 2013-04-12T08:59:01Z

But while stylistically impeccable, it seemed to speak the same language as the Rzewski: one that communicates a wealth of meaning without artifice, as spoken by a truly gifted artist. Sound worlds spinning from a single keyboard 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

This gifted storyteller’s first novel explores intricately intertwined lives in contemporary Zimbabwe. 9 Thrillers (One True) That Times Editors Think You Should Read This Summer 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Booking Vladimir Putin as her first guest was, on its face, both the sort of "get" news organizations live for and notionally a good match for a gifted questioner. Megyn Kelly Needs to Bring More Fox to NBC 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

Faris's timing is as good as ever, but having the gifted parodist play it straight for the most part — there's a fun bit with a fake British accent — seems like a waste of comic resources. Movie review of What's Your Number starring Anna Faris 2011-09-28T11:05:00Z

Sitting 12 rows from the stage, I clapped and yelled as loudly as I could for the gifted single mom whose performances had often been the highlight of an incredibly dull season. "American Idol" chooses the wrong winner 2010-05-27T12:29:00Z

When Gina fails to report back and doesn't answer her cellphone, Rita fears the worst, mobilizing her friend Daniel and her impossibly chipper, obedient and gifted 6-year-old son to trace the campers. New novels by Jane Porter and Elizabeth Sims are steeped in sense of place 2010-08-04T23:12:00Z

He’s a gifted magpie, but I can’t say he’s established a singular personal voice as a composer-lyricist the way the hallowed greats like Berlin, Porter and Sondheim did. Tony Nominations Prove the Musical Has Lost Its Voice 2010-06-11T04:31:00Z

He and Ms. Bowles never establish much in the way of romantic rapport, and even when the zanier aspects of the plot lurch into gear, this gifted comic actor never quite finds his groove. Theater Review: ‘Irma La Douce,’ Back on the Streets 2014-05-08T19:50:34Z

Variety called director and writer Finley “astonishingly gifted” while the Daily Beast said the film was “terribly funny, wild as a hell and aggressively grotesque.” Comedy-thriller 'Thoroughbreds' wows critics 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Author of such popular modern classics as "The World According to Garp," and "Cider House Rules," Irving is a gifted and intuitive story teller. 'In One Person': John Irving's novel of desire, two ways 2012-05-09T21:16:04Z

Many viewers are surprised to learn she was also a gifted poet, whose verses are as moving and relatable as lyrics by Bob Dylan and Neil Young. A Pioneering Photographer, Bare in the Back Country 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Nor who gifted it to me the second time, nor the third. Dani Shapiro: By the Book 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

It was inspiring to be so drawn into the performances of these gifted, dedicated musicians, mostly in their mid-20s. Music Review: A Voyage of Discovery As a New Hall Sets Sail 2011-01-27T20:55:02Z

In that sense, “Barry” may specifically be about the outgoing president, but it will carry familiar resonance to anyone who’s ever been young, gifted and a little bit at sea. ‘Barry,’ on Netflix, explores a pivotal year in the life of a young Barack Obama. 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The University of California, Santa Cruz, took similar heat when it accepted the Grateful Dead archives, 30 years of recordings, videos, papers, posters and other memorabilia gifted by the band, said university archivist Nicholas Meriwether. A huge collection of odd TV stuff needs a home 2012-12-24T11:31:05Z

Mrs. Coulter is a powerful female figure in a male world, Wilson noted, adding that she modeled the character’s image on the 1930s and 1940s actress Hedy Lamarr, who was also a gifted inventor. ‘His Dark Materials’: Witches, Quests and Talking Animals 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

There is something misty and depressing about seeing a gifted comic rehash material from 20 or 30 years ago, some of which he has already performed in an earlier solo, “Hammy and the Kids.” Review: ‘Kids in the Hall,’ Rehashed for Adults in a Theater 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

A gifted tenor with absolute pitch, Mr. Swingle also worked as a backup singer for such entertainers as Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour and Blossom Dearie. Ward Swingle, musician who made Bach swing, dies at 87 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Her first book, “Bird at My Window,” a critically praised novel for adults published in 1966, told the story of a gifted young black man crushed by systemic poverty and violence. Rosa Guy, 89, Author of Forthright Novels for Young People 2012-06-07T04:23:10Z

Still, it’s admirable to see young, gifted creators folding their own voices into a larger vision. Review: Eighth Blackbird Ensemble Plays Sleeping Giant’s Suite 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Two gifted originals in divergent pursuits — music and physics — come together in this Ford’s Theatre production, based on the true story of the friendship between contralto Marian Anderson and scientist Albert Einstein. Perspective | After a devastating lull, theater is coming back big 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

In the first recitative, “Comfort Ye,” Ms. Glover allowed the gifted young tenor Paul Appleby to shape the phrases with melting tenderness. Review: Jane Glover Conducts the New York Philharmonic in ‘Messiah’ 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

Indeed, Watson was the audience’s surrogate, the “normal” one, who would filter, explain and occasionally apologize for the exploits of his more gifted and eccentric pal. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Frenzied With Benefits 2011-12-15T16:58:57Z

Six gifted dogs were identified in the challenge’s first round, including Max from Hungary, Gaia from Brazil, Nalani from the Netherlands, Squall from Florida, Whisky from Norway and Rico from Spain. 'Genius dogs' are capable of learning words related to objects: Study 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

He was a gifted improviser on the piano, and directors would ask him to play something during rehearsal and then write it down incorporating their feedback: a little faster here, a bit more mystery there. Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

They created the most popular activist heroine in modern movies — and one of the biggest, most gifted and appealing stars in the world — and they make her sit this one out. Review: To Shill a Mockingjay - Part 1 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

But in so generously and honestly telling the truth of his life, he has again shown himself to be a master storyteller and a uniquely gifted writer. Comics and sci-fi powerhouse J. Michael Straczynski has an incredible origin story of his own 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

I was gifted a Keurig coffee maker, but used the refillable attachment, putting in my own ground coffee rather than the plastic cups. Can you afford to be green when you're poor? I kept a diary to find out 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

Early in the book, these lives are charged by the news that Crystal Academy, a public magnet school for “exceptionally gifted” children, will open the following year. How a Novel Can Unmake the Myth of Meritocracy 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

The right people are out there; there are so many gifted actors out there. Ben Affleck prefers "Company" of ensemble casts 2010-12-27T06:07:43Z

Cipher is reputedly the world’s most gifted and terrifying hacker, so much so that even the notorious Anonymous collective is afraid to mess with her. Wait, Who’s Fast, Who’s Furious? 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

A gifted orator and disciple of the late Oral Roberts – whom many consider the godfather of televangelism – he rapidly built a large national profile in the 1990s, counseling presidents alongside the likes of Billy Graham. Come Sunday: how one of America's biggest preachers became a pariah 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

One of these stories involves David Levine, the gifted caricaturist who gave The New York Review of Books its signature look. Books of The Times: ‘The Art of Controversy’ by Victor Navasky 2013-05-23T21:40:02Z

Jen, whose previous novels include “Mona in the Promised Land” and “World and Town,” is a wonderfully gifted writer. In a New Dystopian Novel, the Country is AutoAmerica, but Baseball Is Still Its Pastime 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

“I thought it was sophisticated and extremely feminine, and the silhouette was stunning. When Ronnie and Mara gifted me the dress, I was literally in tears.” Celebrity Brides Attract Business for Dress Designers 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

They are a tribute to a gifted abstract artist who was overshadowed by figurative giants like Bacon, Lucian Freud and David Hockney. Damien Hirst: From Artist to Curator 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

As a gifted orator and writer, Douglass could sometimes tell stories “long after the fact that sidestepped ambiguities or conflicts,” Levine writes. When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

"I hope in the future Andrei Zvyagintsev, a very gifted man, will make a film with the assistance of the Culture Ministry that will not feature this existential hopelessness," he said. Oscar-nominated 'Leviathan' ruffles feathers in Russia 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

We want your films about being young, gifted and broke.  The Intergenerational Foundation film competition in association with the Guardian and the National Union of Students 2012-11-14T16:00:48Z

Or Jason Statham, the comically gifted bruiser now promoted to the series’ lead, doing, well, pretty much anything? ‘Expend4bles’ Review: Band of Meatheads 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z

His first play is a success, and it's not long before he has a dazzling career as a gifted playwright. Lauren Groff's 'Fates and Furies' turns the struggles of marriage into art 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

T. Coraghessan Boyle loves to write about people in extremis: people who are odd, obsessive, strangely gifted, bizarrely damaged or just plain mad. 2010-02-11T22:46:00Z

You can always see the gifted, wounded child in this character even when she's running intellectual circles around more mature, well-adjusted or influential people. A last hurrah for Kyra Sedgwick's brilliant kook 2011-07-12T13:13:00Z

She seems gifted in the literal, God-fearing sense. Jackie Evancho and the Politics of Childhood 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

But this is as much about a generation of artists as it is about one extraordinarily gifted woman. 'Beautiful' makes a fetching Los Angeles debut at the Pantages 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z

A waitress in California was recently gifted $1,000 by a patron who learned she couldn’t work for a week when the restaurant abruptly shut down. Cracker Barrel waitress surprised with $1,100 tip after diners ask for restaurant's 'best' server 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

A common theme you will find is that gifted children are equally intelligent and intense. Son gets intensely angry in seconds, then feels bad about it later 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

Neurath recruited gifted researchers and analysts to work with him, including the mathematician Marie Reidemeister, whom he later married, but found it harder to find artists and designers to create the symbols. Design: Universal Symbols That Tell the Story 2011-02-13T19:30:05Z

He gifted the elegant furnishings to the Washingtons. Keeping up with the Washingtons: Historians just found evidence of the first sofa in Virginia 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Biss is one of our most gifted essayists, although her new book is not a collection of essays, at least not in the traditional sense. David L. Ulin's best books of 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Born in Yonkers, he was a gifted art student with interest in illustration when he landed in the East Village in the 1980s, plunging into the fringier depths of its cross-disciplinary subcultures. Art In Review: Gordon Kurtti Project 2013-07-11T21:05:11Z

Being gifted and going from opening move to checkmate in between homework and chores isn’t easy. Movie Review: ‘Brooklyn Castle,’ Directed by Katie Dellamaggiore 2012-10-18T22:56:33Z

It's not the least bit counterintuitive: good ones confirm the belief that we're gifted, which is what makes us put our writing out there in the first place. Hell hath no fury like an author scorned 2011-03-30T16:00:00Z

The gifted doughnuts will be delivered wrapped with a personalized message. Krispy Kreme will send you a dozen doughnuts for free this World Gratitude Day 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

It’s a style that worked for “True Detective,” but that HBO crime thriller had built-in buoys: two famous, gifted movie stars, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, a genre that all but promises resolution. ‘The Leftovers,’ on HBO, a Tale of Mysterious Disappearances 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Following the chart-topping commercial success of the Military Wives Choir, Malone's new venture targets gifted UK singers aged between 18 and 25. Malone begins hunt for youth choir 2013-04-23T10:20:56Z

It's inspiring to hear someone so young and so gifted. Superb Tchaikovsky, delivered by the Mariinsky 2011-10-20T17:13:40Z

Walker, a gifted composer, performer and professor who died last year at 96, was the first African-American composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for music. The art of programming a classical-music concert: Seattle Symphony brings together Dvorak, Walker, Szymanowski 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z

A gifted mimic, Hopkins saw plenty in Burton’s trajectory that he was desperate to emulate. Anthony Hopkins Makes It Look Simple. (And Maybe It Should Be.) 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

Ms Konnikova tells of hucksters masquerading as doctors, royals or moguls, all armed with a gifted imagination, a silver tongue and an ability to size people up. Fool me once 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

“I thought he was very smart, very funny and a gifted conversationalist,” Ms. Cunningham said. From Dating to Marriage, He Had a 5-Prong Plan 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Some of the best mentors I’ve ever had were people without kids who were exceptionally gifted at guiding their colleagues. 9 reasons not having kids is the best decision I ever made 2014-02-11T13:00:00Z

The story, set in London and Eastern Europe, centers on an aristocratic Englishman who falls for a mysterious, musically gifted young woman who has recently arrived in England, the publishers said. 'Fifty Shades' author announces steamy new 'Cinderella romance' 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Universally known as Babe, this gifted athlete was a dynamo who never met a sport she couldn't master, from basketball and bowling to swimming and tennis. 'Wonder Girl': the multifaceted sporting life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias 2011-07-20T20:43:03Z

These “gifted” animals from both the nocturnal and diurnal worlds must learn to trust one another and work together to prevent the resurrection of the legendarily dangerous Ant Queen. Fantasies for Young Readers, With an Eye on Today’s Fears and Divisions 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

I would like to report that walking across was a Zen activity, one that brought me closer to why so many gifted writers have been drawn to this city. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

The gifted works will be featured in an exhibition scheduled to open later this year. The Clark Art Institute Receives 63 Japanese Wood-Block Prints 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

A gifted composer and violinist, Pallett has worked on string arrangements for Taylor Swift, Arcade Fire and Grizzly Bear, among many others. Your week in Seattle music: Boston, Coheed and Cambria and more 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

This is a sensitive topic, particularly with parents of gifted children. How to expand who gets gifted services

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the music director of the Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra, deserves credit for consistently leading this richly gifted composer’s works with both organizations over the past few years. Review: A Composer’s ‘Lear’ Freshens a Shakespeare Evening 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

And about Dicky: One of my closest friends in college was a gifted athlete who became a crack addict and then got clean. Great Oscar debate: What is the real best picture? 2011-02-26T01:01:00Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian was a supremely gifted performer, liked and respected in equal measure. Paul Bhattacharjee and Cory Monteith deaths: is acting today just too tough? 2013-07-23T17:45:00Z

A gifted and obviously devoted Bachian, Ms. Ishizaka on Thursday performed the 24 preludes and fugues of Book 1 from memory and without major flaw. KIMIKO ISHIZAKA 2012-09-25T21:53:52Z

But the biggest mystery is why the FBI’s “most naturally gifted deep-cover operative” would drive the same suburban-dad car every time he goes undercover. TNT's New Spy Show Legends Stars a Hyundai 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Esmail wrote an overlong screenplay about a gifted hacker with debilitating social anxiety who falls in with a loose cadre of radical hackers intent on destroying the world’s largest corporation, E Corp. Looking Back on ‘Mr. Robot’ and a Season of Hacker Drama 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

Switching gears a little, I would be remiss if I didn't touch on your gifted singing. "My art is my activism": "Pose" star Billy Porter unleashes his passion and doesn't hold back 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

While Mr. Cura, an enormously gifted artist, has a loyal fan base, his singing can be erratic and has been variously received in recent years. 2010-01-12T23:25:00Z

Marzipan pigs — aka, almond paste and sugar shaped into hogs — are gifted around New Year's in Germany and Austria to symbolize good fortune. 15 New Year's food traditions from around the world 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

An extraordinarily gifted and versatile performer, they are setting an important precedent: an artist assigned male at birth working routinely on pointe in a classical ballet company. A Nonbinary Swan, on Pointe 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

Ten years ago today, the world lost a gifted artist and extraordinary humanitarian. Text of Jackson estate statement on 10th death anniversary 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

It's been nearly a decade since Mayer burst onto the music scene as the boyish-looking, uncommonly gifted musician on "Room for Squares," with hits like "Your Body Is a Wonderland." John Mayer: Pay attention to my music, not my love life 2010-03-25T21:45:00Z

Pitt is by far the best thing in the movie, and… a trophy for this handsome, gifted, risk-taking, socially responsible star. Second Annual Edition: If I'd Been Tweeting from Cannes... 2012-05-24T15:10:01Z

In 2000, the year after the women’s historic win, the Air Bud film franchise — in which an athletically gifted dog saves various sports teams — turned its focus to soccer. ‘Air Bud: World Pup’ Keeps Winning Fans for the 1999 World Cup Stars 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

To play a man who was singularly gifted as an artist, greatly misunderstood & mythologized as a human being ... "Gossip Girl" star to play Jeff Buckley in movie 2011-06-21T01:35:55Z

"You have to be incredibly strong and ambitious as well as gifted." Victoria Miro 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

Irwin was fresh from teaching a master class to Cornish students, calling them "a very gifted bunch." Rizzs goes to bat for the kids; Cornish puts on dramatic benefit 2012-11-20T04:52:03Z

For someone as gifted and lucky as Anthony, the initial impulse is to think the reason must be equal to his violence, to the pain he caused. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z

It was just beyond the comfort zone of these gifted youth, but the aspiration was moving. Conjuring Spirits at the Tap Family Reunion 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

Borrowing from Baudelaire’s description of the flâneur as a “kaleidoscope gifted with consciousness,” Beaumont calls the distracted walker “a smartphone endowed with consciousness.” Watching Writers Pace the Streets, and Seeing Symptoms of Social Ills 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

The author, a gifted critic, knew Freud well during the last decades of his life, and they talked frequently on the telephone. The Devilish Life and Art of Lucian Freud, in Full Detail 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

“It was amazing to witness how year after year his Circle in the Square paved the way for a parade of gifted actors to Broadway and Hollywood.” Theodore Mann, Off Broadway Producer, Dies at 87 2012-02-25T16:55:13Z

Nathan Fielder, a gifted deadpan comedian, offers brilliantly bad business advice to small companies willing to try anything, and they film the results. Summer Is Flying By. Plan Accordingly. 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

The gifted young woman “sees” and “hears” things that go bump in the night — things that pertain to her father’s death and other tragedies. Solid U.S. premiere of Conor McPherson’s ‘The Veil’ from Quotidian Theatre

Already a gifted artist, mandolin and flute player, singer and storyteller, Boshirullah had honed his talents as a boy in what was then Burma. For Rohingya Survivors, Art Bears Witness 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

James was an excellent listener and gifted storyteller. Auditioning for the Role of Boyfriend 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

“They” are museum curators and gallerists who are not interested in showing the work of Mr. Cenedella, a gifted painter and visual satirist. Review: ‘Art Bastard’ Depicts Robert Cenedella, a Rebel Artist 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Trifonov is an outstandingly gifted musician, and it will be exciting to see him continue to develop. Technique, musicianship: Daniil Trifonov has it all | Classical review 2013-04-10T17:00:37Z

How do you rank such technically skilled and diversely gifted pianists, who are still forming artistically? Critic’s Notebook: Exploring Bavaria and the Busoni International Piano Festival 2012-09-07T23:47:51Z

At a program for gifted students at Johns Hopkins University, a girl once asked Pearl whether she felt uncomfortable being around people who were different from her. Lonnae O’Neal: Wishing for more white faces in my son’s school day 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

To which anyone who has been paying attention — no disrespect at all to the gifted Mr. Berger — can only reply: Dude, please. Books of The Times: Jonathan Lethem?s ?Ecstasy of Influence? - Review 2011-11-08T23:22:25Z

Few composers are as interested in, or as gifted at, exploring the transitions and the middle ground between speaking and singing, which gives Soper’s works a familial relationship to book-based musical theater. Review: A New Opera Puts Real Emotions in a Fantasy Garden 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

As empires decline, their leaders become increasingly incompetent — petulant, ignorant, gifted only with PR skills of posturing and spinning, and prone to the appointment of loyal idiots to important government positions. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z

He’s a gifted composer as well as a musician, and has written songs and TV and movie scores as well as jazz standards. Herbie Hancock stretches out and enjoys the jams at Kennedy Center 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

But despite his reputation as both a gifted postmodern stylist and an unrepentant troublemaker, he remains relatively unknown in the West. He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

A gifted singer from girlhood on, she made her professional debut in the 1940s as a soloist on the radio show “Hymns of All Churches,” broadcast nationally on the Columbia network. Lili Chookasian, Opera Singer, Dies at 90 2012-04-12T17:31:06Z

It’s not long before “Chasing Rainbows” pivots to Hollywood, where Judy meets other freakishly gifted kids. ‘Chasing Rainbows’ Review: Judy Garland’s Happy Days 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

Waldman is particularly gifted at giving tangible reality to ethical dilemmas, so the reader shares Parveen’s bemused sense that there are no correct choices. A Novel Set in Afghanistan Challenges the Myth of the Good Occupier 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

“He’s an incredibly gifted comic actor,” said Vernon Sanders, executive vice president for programming. David Walton?s Latest NBC Show Is ?Bent? 2012-04-03T22:04:31Z

It reveals this artist to be not only a gifted storyteller, but a virtuoso of photographic technology. Zoe Leonard’s Messages Strike Hard — and Cast a Spell 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Though poetry was Aiken’s main mode of expression, he was as gifted as a critic, novelist and short story writer. Is it time to rediscover Conrad Aiken? 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kentridge and his team draw compelling performances from a gifted cast, artists who clearly embraced the production concept. Review: A Masterful ‘Lulu’ at the Met 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

His poems and notebooks find him making steady progress as a keen thinker about the world, as well as a gifted practitioner. "A Guide to the Labyrinth" is a portrait of Jim Morrison, the writer, in his own words 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

“She is gifted with a luscious round soprano that maintains its glow even in the softest notes,” da Fonseca-Wollheim wrote. Dropping Anna Netrebko, the Met Turns to a Ukrainian Diva 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

This gifted painter, who was apparently influenced by Leonardo, and who created a handful of masterpieces in the early 1500s before dying painfully young, is one of the most mythified of all artists. National Gallery's forgeries are the real deal 2010-07-01T14:45:00Z

Intense, gifted and affable in a hale-fellow-well-met kind of way, Branagh has gifts that work well on the stage, but work far less well on film. Kenneth Branagh: The star who forgot how to shine 2011-03-31T20:31:01Z

At the Jewish Museum, these three teachers’ works hang alongside those of the Vitebsk academy’s sometimes gifted, sometimes derivative students, whose pamphlets, posters, drawings and watercolors offer an absorbing view of politics and pedagogy. Flying Goats and Black Squares, Charging Into the Future 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Granted, it helps that she's chosen guests who are gifted public speakers. Hillary Clinton's new podcast ignores Trump and reveals her as a smart, compassionate interviewer 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

It was the latest of countless stories about the decline of a uniquely gifted and beautiful woman, once the golden girl of the music industry. Investigators seek answers to Houston's death 2012-02-12T23:12:20Z

Perhaps DC fans might even find themselves gifted the interconnected series of movies that the DC Extended Universe was intended to usher in, through a surprising route. A Batman v Joker movie could make Marvel's Avengers look like the Powerpuff Girls 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

However, there is a sliver lining here: Stewart, president or not, has already gifted us all the tips we need to live out our best lives, in the best nation in the world, no less. This 4th of July: 6 wise Jon Stewart tips for a more perfect union 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

Carrie, on the other hand, isn’t particularly gifted at piano or ballet, hasn’t inherited her mother’s good looks, and even miscalculates the humor in her letter to her best friend. This Week in Fiction: Tessa Hadley 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

The engrossing “Buried Alive,” by the gifted young composer Jeff Myers and the librettist Quincy Long, was inspired by Poe’s “The Premature Burial,” about a New York painter haunted by visions of death. Review: Fort Worth Opera’s ‘Buried Alive and ‘Embedded’ Conjure Poe’s Dark Terrain 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

Brown’s vivid biography captures the scion of an early American dynasty warts and all, arguing this sour but gifted man was the pre-eminent historian of America’s turbulent 19th century. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

If she hadn’t been so gifted, he confesses, he would resent it. | 'The Woodmans': Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Suicide 2011-01-18T23:30:09Z

The statement said Jimmy Ellis was "one of the most gifted actors of his generation". Z-Cars actor Jimmy Ellis dies at 82 2014-03-09T12:53:28Z

But if the orchestra and administration are willing to wait for the gifted Mr. Nézet-Séguin, so be it. Is Yannick Nézet-Séguin Worth the Wait at the Met? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Now he seems to be trying a comeback, if such a word is even appropriate for a gifted singer who has only made two albums in 17 years. ArtsBeat: Well-Rested D'Angelo to Give First U.S. Performance in 10 Years 2012-05-04T17:18:42Z

You love being around the most gifted people if you get the opportunity, and I honestly believe she's of that brand, of that ilk, whatever is a good word, you know? Songwriter Ashley Monroe finally has her moment 2013-03-04T17:50:10Z

“I played piano but I’m not particularly gifted. Movies felt endless to me, whereas music I could see myself getting bored of.” Riley Keough: ‘I had a bad reaction to authority’ 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Both are gifted physical comedians: Watch McCarthy, eyes agleam, driving a car with her entire body, and an injured Bullock trying to get through an automatic door. Summer just got funnier with ‘The Heat’ 2013-06-27T04:02:31Z

Granted, this kind of exalted navel-gazing isn't for everyone, but Persons is clearly a uniquely gifted filmmaker. 'General Orders No. 9': ode to vanishing beauty 2011-11-10T22:19:05Z

But do our gifted education classes do better at that than advanced classes already available to nearly everyone? Why gifted education doesn’t make sense

Touch Kiefer Sutherland plays the single father of a mute but oddly gifted boy, on Fox, this Wednesday night at 9, Eastern and Pacific times; 8, Central time. | 'Touch': In ?Touch,? Kiefer Sutherland Plays a Single Dad - Review 2012-01-25T00:38:52Z

The only possible better choice for a neurotic, gifted shut-in who’s always quick with a quip? 12 Hours Watching John McClane: The Diary of a Die Hard Marathoner 2013-02-14T20:44:04Z

The odds that any one person will be gifted with a superabundance of talent in both arenas are quite small. Moby describes his rise from small town to stardom 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Ramona Gonzalez still hovers under the radar, despite being a gifted songwriter with a knack for reconfiguring the smoothest sounds of 1980s rock ballads and 1990s R&B into alluring new shapes. Best albums of 2012: 40-21 2012-11-26T13:15:15Z

The actors in this Transport Group staging are all gifted artists, though none show much range from character to character. Theater Review: ‘Almost, Maine’ Is a World of Vignettes 2014-02-05T21:15:58Z

There's nothing quite as gratifying as spending 90 minutes in the company of a gifted storyteller. 'The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey' shines with humanity 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

She admitted, though, that there's one thing she's lacking - being musically gifted. Michelle Obama's dream job: Being Beyonce 2012-05-24T20:49:07Z

A gifted classical and jazz trombonist as a youth, he graduated from Crispus Attucks High School, then a segregated institution for blacks in Indianapolis. David Baker, Who Helped Bring Jazz Studies Into the Academy, Dies at 84 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

A gifted amateur race-car driver, he aims to go pro and leave the family farm in his rearview mirror. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: Ramin Bahrani Goes Big 2013-04-22T17:01:09Z

Miller is a gifted storyteller who establishes her authority by stacking details, setting scenes. The Irrepressibly Political Survivorship of Chanel Miller 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

Ms. Davis, a gifted film and stage actress, is quite persuasive and amusing as a Siberian Tiger Mom — she makes her children redo their homework and scorns the bland tastelessness of American potatoes. Hope Davis Stars in ‘Allegiance’ on NBC 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Bayley appears infrequently in this book, but when he does, he toddles on like a gifted silent comedian. Review: ‘Living on Paper,’ Seven Decades of Letters From Iris Murdoch 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

For more than half a century, Young Concert Artists has been presenting gifted emerging performers in New York. Best Classical Music of 2021 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

All signs point to yes, as Ali has swept the precursors this season for his work as the gifted pianist Don Shirley in “Green Book.” Oscars 2019 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Monroe gifted the Thunderbird to the son of her acting coach, Lee Strasberg, in 1962. Marilyn Monroe's 1956 roadster could fetch $500,000 at auction 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

We were just gifted the fact that Jane chose to set this story in a fictitious town in Victoria that we were able to create. Eric Bana on making Aussie thriller "The Dry" in his hometown and escaping "the comedy straitjacket" 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

He’s modeled for Acne Studios and Ralph Lauren, and his bedroom in his mother’s flat is full of gifted swag from fashion labels. Jimothy’s Flex Looks a Little Different 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

The student performers were also upset about being sorted into “gifted,” “honors,” and “double honors” castes, like members of a hotel rewards program. An Immersive Play That Transports You to a Chicago Public High School 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Pardlo has also struggled with alcoholism, and so has his younger brother, a gifted musician who briefly enjoyed a taste of commercial success. Review | How a young writer emerged from a troubled past to a Pulitzer 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

One is that form of solo show in which an abundantly gifted and versatile performer embodies myriad roles — male and female, young and old, lovable and repellent — with flair. Review: Rep's 'The K of D' is stronger on acting and atmosphere, than on spooky suspense or small-town reality 2011-01-22T01:06:04Z

"These gifted comedians, all in their 20s and 30s, were let off the leash and allowed to experiment with style and content, resulting in shows which have had an enduring influence on comedy worldwide." Pre-Python TV episodes rediscovered 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

The views were unmatched, and the cane sugar cookie that was gifted to us was incredible! How I overcame my fears as a fat traveler and fell in love with cruises 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z

Reviewing the concert, The Times called her a “richly gifted young artist,” adding, “Her work revealed a wealth of temperament and an inherent musicianship that presage a brilliant career.” Blanche Thebom, Mezzo-Soprano, Dies at 94 2010-03-28T02:25:00Z

Still, “it’s difficult to get Kish to admit she is in fact a real rapper or a gifted lyricist or little more than an average senior,” Jackson Connor writes in an interview with the Voice. The New Face of Rap: Young, Female and Ready to Blog 2012-05-30T10:45:30Z

Although a gifted technician, he never let any showmanship or spectacle get in the way of the story which, by modern standards, is a rarity. Hollywood pays tribute to Lumet 2011-04-10T10:38:11Z

It began as a project of the Kaufman Center’s Special Music School, a public school for musically gifted children from kindergarten through eighth grade. Music: Face the Music, Teenage Alt-Classical Ensemble 2012-03-25T02:43:04Z

His breakthrough film was “The Beat That My Heart Skipped,” a breakneck remake of James Toback’s “Fingers,” a pulpy crime story about a gifted musician in free fall. Review: ‘Dheepan,’ About Sri Lankan Refugees, Looks Like a Prophecy 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

He’s a gifted actor and I really think he should be playing complex roles like this. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: Ramin Bahrani Goes Big 2013-04-22T17:01:09Z

Whatever one thinks of his “Ring,” and opinion has been mixed, that he is an enormously gifted director cannot be denied. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z

Prodigiously gifted and bursting with vigor at the piano, Caine is the uncommon player who sounds just as deft on a deep groove, a classical minuet or a freely improvised odyssey. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Several of the brightest and most gifted among us couldn’t even hang on to those jobs. In praise of idle hands: Underemployed and unashamed in America 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Is it better to be experienced and battered or gifted but unformed? Why "The Voice" deserves to topple "Idol" 2011-05-04T13:05:00Z

I thought Robin was one of the most wonderful people- gifted, generous, and a real friend to everyone he knew. Singer Robin Gibb, Bee Gees co-founder, dies at 62 2012-05-21T18:34:13Z

Always a gifted evoker of images, he portrays his fans as brain-dead beasts clapping and chanting, mindlessly in awe of fame. Patton Oswalt, Morgan Murphy and Others Have Comedy Specials 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

“There’s still a lingering notion of Hurston as not quite serious, maybe gifted and intuitive, but not a sound scholar, not a respectable social scientist. But she really was ahead of her time.” A Work by Zora Neale Hurston Will Finally Be Published 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

Michael was a gifted and determined musical dynamo who became a star at the age of 19, first as a member of the British duo Wham! George Michael Preferred Music to Fame. The Doc He Made Does, Too. 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

The idea that composition was a male preserve haunted even those who were demonstrably good at it, such as the formidably gifted Clara Schumann, who said it was not a job for women. Notes from the musical margins 2011-03-13T00:04:00Z

The National are such a special group and are amazingly gifted in voicing all those human emotions without resorting to the capital letters and cliched sentiments so many bands can't help but use. Six Songs of Me: Andrew Evans of When the Gramophone Rings 2012-08-23T10:10:40Z

The violinist was partnered with crisp incisiveness by Sam Haywood, an evidently gifted young English pianist. Lightness and sparkle in Joshua Bell recital 2014-02-06T18:54:54Z

Mr. Robertson and his gifted players made this popular suite seem musically substantial. National Youth Orchestra Flexes Its Muscles at Carnegie Hall 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

Though the gifted young dancers created some magical sequences, during whole stretches crucial interactions between the singers in the cast got lost amid nonstop, often frenetic movement. At Salzburg, an Unlikely Operatic Trio of Women Finding Their Way 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

A perfect example is the stylish bistro Miles, helmed by a gifted international quartet who met at the Ferrandi cooking school in Paris. Bordeaux's Must-Visit Shops, Restaurants, and Hotels 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

“A really gifted girl. Her fine preparation should be a lesson to other young American singers. When the chance came, she was qualified.” Roberta Peters, reigning soprano of Metropolitan Opera and on TV, dies at 86 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Although most parents will boast about their gifted children on the playground, the fact is that being gifted is a special need. Daughter refuses help with her ADHD, but parents are afraid she’s wasting her potential 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

Which wasn’t fair: Sure, Ford stumbled a few times, but he wasn’t actually clumsy; he was a gifted athlete, a University of Michigan football letterman.  Letterman’s presidential montage fell flat: “Mad Men,” “SNL” and why our long national nightmare isn’t actually over 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

He attended Field high school in Mogadore, Ohio, where he showed himself to be a gifted athlete and musician. Jani Lane obituary 2011-08-12T14:02:20Z

“He was an incredibly gifted artist who was more focused on the music than any sort of lifestyle or celebrity. He was just a true, craft-focused, working artist.” 46 Years After His Death, the Producer Charles Stepney Shines Again 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

The gifted painter Bob Thompson, dead from drugs at 29, showed here. When Artists Ran the Show: ‘Inventing Downtown,’ at N.Y.U. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Jean is not the most naturally gifted musician. Music: Musician Wyclef Jean Running for President of Haiti 2010-08-05T17:06:00Z

She was a gifted person and sang like an angel. Family life 2013-04-27T06:15:02Z

At the end of the show on opening night, the lobby was dotted with gifted youths juggling, unicycling and indulging in other circus arts. Nanda's 'Jacket': comic martial-arts mayhem 2011-10-10T15:59:53Z

Recently, Bacon’s Moore Charitable Foundation gifted Audubon with money for a resource center that will focus on training advocates to fight heedless energy developments that would affect the environment, precisely what he did at Trinchera. Audubon Society Gala Honors Louis Bacon, Bette Midler Sings Birdie Tunes 2013-03-28T13:44:04Z

But Cage, one of the most gifted musicians of all time, never felt comfortable with the harmony on which Western music was said to depend. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

Nik, the beautiful, gifted musician, has ended up working in a grungy bar. Books of The Times: A Rock-Star Life Imagined, but Never Actually Achieved 2011-07-11T22:00:32Z

He’s been a longtime education advocate and gifted $1 million to the Capital Preparatory Schools network for a new Bronx location, which opened last year. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ charter school to move to larger campus 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

He is gifted and he has interesting things to say. The Remarkable Forgotten Life of H. T. Tsiang 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

The gifted have to learn how to fit well. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

The phrase “gifted generation” refers to the boomers, although with expansive actuarial boundaries. Making Citizens’ Lives Better 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

Noah, the son of grand slam tennis champion Yannick Noah, said although it is a sad story, he is proud of Cooke, a gifted player who motivated him to demand more from himself. 'Lenny Cooke' film is cautionary tale of squandered sports talent 2013-12-20T17:09:35Z

In 2012, she gifted him his own line under the auspices of her empire; this March, he showed it on the runway for the first time. Noir Kei Ninomiya: The Look of Strength 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

It's easy to forget that Leopold Mozart was a gifted composer as well as violinist, given his larger legacy as the taskmaster who groomed Wolfgang for early stardom. Seattle Symphony celebrates baroque dads 2012-03-01T20:54:05Z

During breakfast he got down on one knee, with a moonstone ring gifted to him for the occasion from a friend there. A Ride of a Lifetime to a Catskills Retreat 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

Jay-Z is one of those MC’s so gifted he often sounds like he’s tossing off his best lines as afterthoughts, the epitome of New York City cool. Album review: Jay-Z, 'Magna Carta ... Holy Grail' 2013-07-09T19:28:00Z

Hobbs tells the story of how terribly things went for Robert Peace, a gifted, charismatic black teenager from the ghetto who got a free ride to Yale. 50 notable works of nonfiction

Thomas won, he had beat system that tried to beat down on him and was gifted an opportunity to change the narrative. Welcome to America, where a Detroit man gets the cops called on him for "banking while black" 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

He became, in no small part, a gifted and satirical mayhem artist. Review: Harry Crews’s Sense of Menace in Writing and in Life 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

There are really gifted performers working who have not necessarily been through conservatory training who could strengthen the fabric of our theater if you reached out to them. Transgender Playwrights: ‘We Should Get to Tell Our Own Stories First’ 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

“Nardia is gifted with this gorgeous long instrument and very long limbs, but controlling this, especially for a dancer who started her training late, is not easy,” says Julie Kent, the Washington Ballet’s artistic director. She’s a ballerina, a Wilhelmina model and a college student. But for Nardia Boodoo, it’s not enough. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, down the road in College Park, the National Orchestral Institute — the annual training ground at the University of Maryland for gifted young musicians — is taking a different kind of look at orchestras’ futures. Desperately seeking relevance, orchestras grapple with existential questions 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

So last December, just for once, we gifted him with a sole-focus 21st birthday. On an action-packed Bahamas vacation, off the beach and into high gear 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Actually, I’ve noticed fewer attempts on the runway to evoke emotion, perhaps because we lack gifted designers but mainly, I suspect, because audiences no longer expect it from a show. On the Runway Blog: That Positive Feeling, and Why It’s Shared 2014-01-24T22:11:25Z

In these 11 stories by the gifted Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra, the protagonists are adrift, disillusioned and comically inept at love. Kelly Link’s ‘Get in Trouble’ and Five Other Works 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

As a gifted child singer and clarinetist, he once sang for Albert Einstein at Princeton, and as a boy he landed a performance with the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1953. Van Dyke Parks gives his 'final performance' on the piano 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Cortés is a gifted showman who relies on menacing, David Lynch-style atmospherics to conceal the fact that he’s a bigger huckster than De Niro’s blind psychic. Will Robert De Niro ever make another good movie? 2012-07-11T14:58:00Z

A gifted comic, she adds quirkiness and heart to what might otherwise resemble an assembly-line musical. Lessons shoehorned into 'Kinky Boots' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

It was the second film of a gifted young director, Joseph Losey, who had made his name in New York theater, and was produced by Paramount’s B unit on a tight, 21-day schedule. Video: New DVDs: Cassavetes’s ‘Too Late Blues’; ‘The Lawless’ 2012-06-10T04:23:01Z

And when he did shift between registers of strength, it was with less comfort than, say, his gifted ease in shaping long melodic lines. Review: A Singer’s Immense Sound Engulfs a Recital Room 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

In this past summer’s “Stranger Things,” a monster from another dimension pays a visit to a small Indiana town and a gifted young girl and a group of Goonie-like young boys must stop it. Captive in the suburbs: Like “Stranger Things,” Netflix’s “The OA” taps into the confines of the cul-de-sac 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Even the gifted Northern novelist Jonathan Franzen cited the original Atticus as the epitome of moral perfection in a New Yorker essay on Edith Wharton. Harper Lee and Her Father, the Real Atticus Finch 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, Rock, a smart and gifted social commentator finds the humour in the hurt: "What's more pain, a chemical burn or childbirth?" he asks a roomful of women getting their hair permed. Yeah, he said it 2010-05-28T23:04:00Z

In the Rachel and Leah tale, the handmaids are gifted to the daughters by Laban. Did you catch this hidden theme in “The Handmaid’s Tale”? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

"We do not know yet if these gifted dogs possess additional cognitive skills that are not common among other dogs." 'Genius dogs' are capable of learning words related to objects: Study 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

At the Alamo somehow everyone is gifted with instinctual use of sign language as soon as they enter. A theater chain wants to add jungle gyms to movie screens. It's a bad idea 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

He was a gifted writer who didn’t hide how hard he worked at it. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and Gary Gulman on Comedy and Depression 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

The advanced class, inspired by the Card-Giuliano study results, would be for parents who wanted their children in an intensive gifted program, even if their IQ levels were not high enough to qualify. Wild ideas for fixing gifted education

Its stumbled in the early 1960s after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors gifted it land in Hollywood and $1.3 million, plus a green light for construction. Academy Museum moves to production with City Council's green light 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Overlooked by voters in previous years, Donovan has finally been saluted for his accomplishments as a gifted lyricist and musician. Britain's Donovan inducted to Rock Hall of Fame 2012-04-15T01:11:10Z

And talk about bringing freshness to familiar repertory: The immensely gifted pianist Jan Lisiecki practically kick-started Mendelssohn’s youthful Piano Concerto in G minor into action on Friday with the Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Nine Concerts in Seven Days at the World’s Most Famous Concert Hall 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

There’s one piece that only exists in the catalogue: a photo essay on themes of psychic and physical holes, by the gifted, if gnomic, Aki Sasamoto, who is best known as a performer. A Visit to “Visitors” on Governors Island 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z

Eight of the stories are brought to life in English by his longtime translator, the gifted and eloquent Lucia Graves, who has always seemed to me like a true partner to the author. Review | In ‘The City of Mist,’ a final word from Carlos Ruiz Zafón 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

While he and his contemporaries are all gifted musicians — all men, but that’s another story — their ages are no fluke. Critic’s Notebook: Andris Nelson Is Latest of Orchestras’ Young Leaders 2013-05-19T21:50:33Z

Jon Stewart, Chris Rock and last year’s hapless duo of Anne Hathaway and James Franco are all gifted and interesting performers with an electric spark of relevance. Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott on the Oscars 2012-02-18T02:03:03Z

He was among the first radio personalities to recognize the market for salsa, identifying promising talent and mentoring gifted musicians. Polito Vega, Salsa ‘King’ of New York Radio, Dies at 84 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

It's a film everyone should watch who's involved in the debate over gifted children – in music, sports, academic subjects as well as ballet. Young ballet dancers: are we trying to catch a swan before it hatches? 2013-06-12T12:20:00Z

Another key thing was that quite early on, her record label decided one of the things that was missing from the story was showing how gifted she is as a musician. Bigger than Oprah 2011-05-19T16:12:31Z

And though he’s dedicated to the craft and body language of singing, he’s nowhere near as gifted at it as he is at playing the guitar. Music Review: George Benson Tours With ?Guitar Man? at Town Hall - Review 2011-10-23T21:40:26Z

When the romance turns dark, and the marionette Annette — gifted with a beautiful singing voice at birth — the movie slides into tragedy and, maybe, into the heart of artistic creation. Cannes: Adam Driver on singing, surrealism and ‘Annette’ 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Like Ewald he knows the mountains well and is technically gifted. The iron men 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z

However gifted or rebellious this man was, he remains mortal. ‘Prince Was Our True Artist’: Readers Share Their Memories 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

“Those things were gifted to Tacoma and to the Northwest so that we can see examples of Chinese art,” he said. Tacoma Art Museum auction of Chinese collection upsets donors 2013-03-04T03:46:43Z

And then there are the elements of an outfit that are not so easily tagged by brands: shoes borrowed from a roommate, T-shirts gifted during the rush process and “normal,” or everyday, jewelry. #BamaRush, Explained 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

For  he served, in a way, as the most gifted Second Unit Director: wrangling huge crowds of ornery men into tiny spaces, then getting them to deliver Tony Kushner’s dense dialogue with clarity and passion. Oscars 2013: Richard Corliss’ Picks – Best Director 2013-02-21T22:05:35Z

“He gave us opportunities denied to most Blacks in America and we gifted him with an indelible Memphis Sound that, together, we created at Stax Records.” Jim Stewart, Unlikely Entrepreneur of Soul Music, Dies at 92 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

Psychologists and educators say Taylor’s sort of intensity is almost always apparent in gifted and talented children. The “rage to master”: What it takes for those scary-smart kids to succeed 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

On his superb new album Bird Songs, a set of adventurous interpretations of Charlie Parker classics, the gifted American saxophonist demonstrates what he means, but keeps the mercurial source material explicitly displayed. Joe Lovano Us Five ? review 2011-03-30T18:15:00Z

It is great to see a fair number of comedians get their chance but the reality is truly gifted comedians are a rarity. Comedy Is Booming. I Can’t Wait for the Bust. 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Having built both Prometheus and Covenant around Michael Fassbender’s turn as a primly gifted “synthetic”, Scott is clearly concerned with the point where circuitry acquires a soul. Alien: Covenant – why Ridley Scott's facehuggers and chestbursters will never die 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

The words “gifted” and “talented” skate close to meaninglessness. How a Novel Can Unmake the Myth of Meritocracy 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

His artistically gifted kid brother, Rafael, walks out of the courtroom a free man. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2 Finale: Case Closed 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

Lennon published two works of stories, poems and drawings and was considered the most gifted with words, but he was murdered in 1980, at age 40. Dear Sir or Madam: Paul McCartney memoir due out in November 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

"My answer to that is to be young, gifted, and black," Boseman continued. Has "Black Panther" really changed Hollywood? 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Using unheard audio archives and a carefully curated collage of home movies, newsreels and TV interviews, this is a revelatory, strikingly emotional look at the complex, troubled, enormously gifted Marlon Brando. Sundance preview: Diverse lineup unspools in Park City 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

He is one of the most inherently musical rappers ever, a flexible vocalist gifted in complex verse but also fluent in soul serenade, rock shouting, reggae toasting and more. For Yasiin Bey, Once Known as Mos Def, a Comeback With the Finish Line in Mind 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

“I was very gifted to have spent so many years with so many people that touched me and moved me in a special way,” he says in the site’s introduction. Hollywood pro offers free inside look at the stars 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

Undoubtedly, some of the Cuban curios they purchase will be gifted to friends and family members. Spring breakers import Cuban rum, cigars and racist curios 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

He was gifted, shrewd and wealthy, a family man with four children, married to a woman he loved. A Bridge from Moscow to Paris: 130 Works of Modern Art 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

He also was a gifted entertainer, a born TV host, and his amiable and charming personality was often described as the key to his success as interviewer. David Frost, known for Nixon interview, dies 2013-09-01T15:31:08Z

Cantat is a gifted lyricist who explored the highs and lows of passion with majestic abandon. Bertrand Cantat is back. But should music fans boycott him? 2013-07-25T10:44:59Z

Rudian, who becomes an object of desire for the two young women, is selfish, bad-tempered, occasionally violent, but gifted. Ismail Kadare Grapples With the Supernatural 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Black and Latino students are suspended or expelled from school at inordinate rates compared with their White peers, and are also less likely to be placed in advanced classes or programs for gifted children. The prospect of more police at schools is no comfort for Black parents 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

“An artist can be extremely gifted and yet remain unsuccessful if he or she records the wrong music, or gets an image that confuses potential audiences.” Production of a Lifetime: Whitney Houston and Clive Davis 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z

Admittedly, it’s probably never uninteresting to be as gifted and celebrated and successful as Streep is. Meryl Streep's newfound politicisation fires up timely drama The Post 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

In the Netflix series, she plays a mother living in a small Indiana town whose son goes missing, just as an alien and a gifted child each escape from a secret government facility. 90s Icon Winona Ryder Is Making Her Comeback 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

As performed by a chamber ensemble and a small, gifted cast, the musical score was alluring and nuanced, with intricate ensemble numbers and long-lined melodic writing cushioned by lush orchestral harmonies and rippling figurations. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z

A gifted child or a sociopath, or a bit of both? Ender’s Game: Is This Boy ‘The One’? 2013-11-01T23:16:53Z

Directed and adapted by Gavin Hood, the film will star Butterfield as Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, a gifted child who is sent to a military school in space to prepare for an alien invasion. Activists call for Ender's Game boycott over author's anti-gay views 2013-07-09T10:41:39Z

The scene is among the many amateur video moments that help chart the development of one of the most gifted conductors to emerge on the classical music scene in years. Born to Conduct: Film charts Met music director’s ascent 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

So when Lou is gifted a mysterious guitar for her birthday, she decides to assume it’s from Dad, though there is no name on the card. In-Betweens: 2 Middle Grade Novels About the Costs and Benefits of Being 11 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

He knows, too, that many supposedly second-tier colleges are filled with gifted and fervent teachers and with talented students with a zeal for learning. Review: In ‘Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be,’ Frank Bruni Examines College Admissions Mania 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Chande, with a wonderfully fresh and lovely face, is a gifted stylist, but her material, though accompanied by philosophical statements about nature and empowerment, tends to be sweetly bland. Indian Dance and Music at the Drive East Festival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Here was someone who knew the redemptive power of music – who was not just a naturally gifted musician, but also a true music fan. Amy Winehouse: songs in the key of life 2012-07-22T17:00:12Z

He has been gifted a fresh uniform from the Wakandans, complete with wings and a jet pack that lends him a strength boost when he needs it, but that's about it. If only "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" had the guts and time to "get weird" enough for TV 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z

Other times, participants get lucky and get escorted by Nick Hennegan — a gifted and funny writer who has crafted modern Shakespeare adaptations. ‘London literary pub’ tour brings writers and writing home 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

They wield their cultivated image of being beyond reproach, a trait gifted them at birth, to inflict pain upon others. The “Sharp Objects” finale and the dangers of white women’s tears 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

The pianist Michael Brown performed Perle’s “Toccata” at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music on Wednesday evening, presented by the Concert Artists Guild, which promotes gifted young musicians. Music Review: From Michael Brown, an Evening of George Perle 2014-05-11T05:57:54Z

He was a gifted child, and in eighth grade he started going to school in the Valley, where he was awed by the affluence of “Encino, Tarzana,” he said. Mourning John Singleton, a Guardian of Black Cinema 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

Why wouldn’t a lavishly gifted young contralto shout her arrival from the rooftop? Avery Amereau Is a Rarity in Music: A Contralto 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Cline is an astonishingly gifted stylist, but it is her piercing understanding of modern humiliation that makes these stories vibrate with life. Emma Cline Knows First World Problems 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

They’re gifted at creating intimacy with the viewer, at making us believe. John Mulaney Punctures His Persona in ‘Baby J’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Nougat is often gifted in slabs, and gets wrapped in parchment or edible paper, ready to be cut into serving pieces. The perfect holiday gift: delicious, pantry-friendly nougat 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

Cory is a gifted football player, poised for a college scholarship, but Troy—a failed athlete—demands that he prioritize his after-school job over practice, effectively choking off the kid’s dreams. Review: Reverent 'Fences' Works So Hard...It Stops Working 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

Probably, though not admittedly, Cunningham started working with it because his once enormously gifted body, which had been the source of his ideas, could no longer serve as a laboratory. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

He’s serious and gifted, with an agreeably open, floppy-haired prose style. Books of The Times: ?Extra Lives?: Tom Bissell?s Video Game Manifesto 2010-06-22T22:53:00Z

His behavior is that of a sensitive, gifted lad who’s used to being the smartest boy in the kingdom, which also makes him its most misunderstood. Review: Michael Urie Puts the Madcap in Hamlet’s Madness 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

“Chetham’s is set up for extremely gifted instrumentalists,” Mr. Rattle said in an interview. Can a Star Conductor Finally Make It Work in America? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

None of these problems are insoluble, and the Cooper-Hewitt is preparing to tackle them under a new director, the gifted and genial industrial designer Bill Moggridge. A Quest for Meaning in a Dystopian Era 2010-05-16T15:30:00Z

Like Strauss in “Don Juan,” Mr. Adams is a gifted and imaginative illustrator in “City Noir,” his subject a Los Angeles partly borrowed from celluloid myth. Music in Review 2011-02-20T23:48:45Z

"And one time I got the chance to see the backstage machinations of these extraordinarily gifted voices," he said. Johnny Mathis — time for a full-scale comeback? 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Previously a gifted mimic of African-American singing styles, Chilton now sang like a Cambridge choirboy. Alex Chilton obituary 2010-03-18T16:24:00Z

Today, gifted character actors are just as likely to swing between leading and supporting roles. Why did Brian Tarantina get so many shout-outs at the SAG Awards? He was a truly great character actor. 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

The father-daughter conflict arises from their differing passions — music and sports — and Ives was a gifted amateur athlete and a composer of genius. Theater Review: Rattlestick Stages New ‘Charles Ives Take Me Home’ 2013-06-14T02:00:02Z

Lee was a remarkably gifted general, but he was also a traitor. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

Arachne, the gifted mortal woman who challenged Athena's incomparable weaving skills in Greco-Roman mythology and was turned into a spider-goddess for her impudence, takes a contemporary spin. New gallery adds another dimension with its spacious 'Abstract Sculpture by Women' 1947-2016 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

The strike was settled, the musicians made concessions in rehearsal rules, and a gifted new music director, the British conductor Andrea Quinn, soon came to the rescue. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z

It is a mistake to compress any gifted writer, perhaps especially Naipaul, down to his politics. V.S. Naipaul, a Writer of Many Contradictions and Obvious Greatness 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

In a few scenes, Mary shows off how gifted she is by discussing, writing and solving complicated equations — in one case in front of a professor from a college for math whizzes. How actress Mckenna Grace, 10, nailed her movie role as a math whiz 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

In Italy, suspicion fell at once on Starnone, gifted and prolific, working in a similar vein. Review | In Domenico Starnone’s ‘Trust,’ infidelity takes an unlikely form 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

It wasn't until I was a little bit older, and ready to appreciate it, that I truly understood what a gifted songwriter Laura Nyro was. Rumer's old music: Laura Nyro – American Dove 2012-05-24T08:28:43Z

So many times in our culture, our gifted, “bright and imaginative,” and sensitive children are not seen for the multifaceted people they are, especially when they are sandwiched into a large family. Their 5-year-old is aggressive and quick to blame. What to do? 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

A lot of pop artists are brilliantly polished in the studio by the producer, autotuned within an inch of their life but underneath it, she genuinely is a very, very talented and gifted musician. Bigger than Oprah 2011-05-19T16:12:31Z

This year’s series began on Wednesday with a free concert at the David Rubenstein Atrium featuring the gifted young singer, songwriter and actress Grace McLean and her band, Them Apples. American Songbook Series Reshapes the Canon 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

She is said to be a gifted mimic, especially of Putin. ‘The Chancellor’ Portrays Angela Merkel as a Droll Source of Sanity in a Mad World 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

There’s this nice idea that a gifted child out there is staying up, raptly watching, and will go on to edit film or become a great cinematographer. Review | Oscar keeps it shorter without a host, but something still needs to done about those speeches 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

Neyfakh is a gifted and trustworthy storyteller, with a gently wry tone; the details in his writing are lightly comic and well chosen, evincing empathy and amazement. “Slow Burn” Season 2, Reviewed: The Painful Lessons of the Clinton Impeachment 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

I didn’t really know Mrs. Murray — I wasn’t a troublemaker, I wasn’t gifted — but there she was, perched on the edge of my bed, filling my room with her pungent perfume. Why ‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret’ Still Matters 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

One observant parent describes another as the “quintessential Blond Bob. She’s on the PTA and she has a horrendously gifted daughter with a mild nut allergy. So she’s part of the Zeitgeist, lucky girl.” ‘Big Little Lies,’ by Liane Moriarty, reveals parents’ ugly secrets in quiet Aussie town

The next thing you noticed was her voice, which Penny Marshall, who died Monday at age 75, gifted her. Penny Marshall Did It Her Way, Yes, Her Way 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Andersen does not suggest that its main characters were specially gifted. Books of The Times: Kurt Andersen’s ‘True Believers,’ Haunted by the ’60s 2012-07-11T21:52:28Z

Where else would I start with two gifted actors? Table For Three: At Lunch With Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric McCormack 2013-07-26T15:41:22Z

Sen. Lee Rogers, the “Hunk of the Hill,” a man gifted with “Columbia Law School dazzle” but compromised by a “zipper problem,” is running for reelection in Pennsylvania. Review | Brian De Palma and Susan Lehman deliver a silly, fun pastiche of hard-boiled crime fiction 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Now this gifted British singer-songwriter is poised to command solo stardom: His debut album, “In the Lonely Hour,” will be released on Capitol in June. Pop & Rock Listings for March 21-27 2014-03-20T22:40:13Z

In Larsen’s gifted hands, puppetry becomes a multilevel metaphor for the role of art in a violent world. ‘I Am Radar,’ by Reif Larsen 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

But Mr. LaChiusa, also being a gifted composer with a deep purple streak, has set these speculations to music and let melody and imagination lead him into altitudes where caged songbirds can soar. Review: In ‘First Daughter Suite’: Unelected but Still Under a Microscope 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

Prodigiously gifted, Lowell won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for “Lord Weary’s Castle” — which includes the famous long poem “The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket” — and still another in 1974 for “The Dolphin.” Review | Kay Redfield Jamison puts Robert Lowell on the couch in an exhilarating biography 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

When his sister graduated from college, Mr. Walker gifted her about 4,000 hours of live music, including Phish and the Dead, on tape — “a significant portion of my analog collection,” he said. ‘Tapers’ at the Grateful Dead Concerts Spread the Audio Sacrament 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

From such a bleak background, a new jazz blossomed – and Ibrahim was one of its most charismatically gifted messengers. 50 great moments in jazz: Abdullah Ibrahim 2011-02-09T16:21:12Z

Mr. Margulies is gifted at creating complex characters through wholly natural interaction, allowing the emotional layers, the long histories, the hidden kernels of conflict to emerge organically. 2010-01-29T04:55:00Z

There are nine amazing, gifted gift wrappers from all over the country, and they're competing for 50 grand. Carson Kressley shares 3 gift-wrapping hacks anyone can master 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

Given the strictures of the museum’s namesake patron, Charles Freer, many of these works can’t leave the museum, which Freer gifted to the nation in 1906. Review | Even a year’s worth of Hokusai may not be enough to display his genius 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

“He is as transcendent a cultural icon as Frank Sinatra, as adventurous a self-made billionaire as Mark Zuckerberg, as gifted a poet as Walt Whitman.” Review | In Michael Eric Dyson’s new book, Jay-Z is the living embodiment of American ideals 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

“I feel like Alban is a really gifted partner. And when you’re good at something, you get into a positive feedback loop. As your confidence grows, your partnering abilities grow along with it.” How Dance Partners Create Chemistry Onstage 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

They are joined by distant juniors, gifted fellows of the music center. Tanglewood’s Archival Magic Still Casts a Spell 2012-06-28T15:03:28Z

Early on, Lee was identified as gifted — a rare designation in Korea — which meant extra hours of school. She was South Korea’s superstar ballerina. Now, she’s given it up to try to make it in America. 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

“We are honored to include at this event two of his iconic guitars from his brilliant and blazing career as one of rock’s greatest and most gifted guitar heroes.” Guitars played, partly made by Eddie Van Halen go to auction 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

Time passed, and one day while visiting home I once again came across the gifted copy of "In Our Time." The androgyny of being Ernest: A gender-fluid reading of Hemingway that upends his macho image 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

They were often considered to be hard workers and artistically gifted, of great value to their extended families and community. The 'two-spirit' people of indigenous North Americans 2010-10-11T11:28:00Z

The family, struggling financially, moved from one house to another in nearby towns, but Reynolds, their first child, benefited from the doting attention of cousins, aunts and uncles — all of them, it seemed, gifted storytellers. Reynolds Price, a Literary Voice of the South, Dies at 77 2011-01-21T06:23:00Z

A word of caution to parents of intellectually gifted children who might be tempted to see language immersion as an alternative to gifted education. Making Language Immersion Fun for the Kids 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

It was both a send-up of the genre and a competent example of its classic tropes, which was only possible thanks to Reynolds being simultaneously a traditionally handsome movie star and a gifted comic actor. How audiences can triumph in the battle for superhero movie supremacy 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

When the founders, once but no longer married, opened their first place six years ago, Emily gifted Matt a plastic planter in the shape of a dinosaur, which he displayed atop the restaurant’s copper oven. Emmy Squared finds diners opening wide for Detroit-style pizza 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

Women are not allowed to play, and Leda has never been encouraged, but her father had been a gifted violinist, and she had learned by internalizing every lesson he had lavished on her brother. ‘The Gods of Tango’: A gender-bending tale of music and love 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

“Jimmy was a bigger-than-life kind of guy, so naturally gifted with his music, his art,” Parnell said. Jimmy Manolides, a Seattle musician and art curator, dies at 76 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

The exhibition at the MEP pays tribute to this gifted photographer. The Vietnam war remembered in pictures ? review 2011-03-15T14:01:20Z

The French are presenting the text as a piece of their cultural heritage and focusing on Casanova as a gifted writer. Casanova at the National Library in France 2011-11-28T23:30:08Z

YouTube said in a tweet that he was a “gifted, passionate and endlessly curious creator.” Popular YouTube ‘King of Random’ dies in paraglider accident 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

She and her enduringly gifted co-stars definitely deserve the showcase that “Half Time” gives them. Review: Hip-Hopping With the Stars in ‘Half Time’ 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

With all co-stars, and with supremely gifted new co-stars, you just go places, you spark off one another, and somehow they nourish you, they make you better. “Two women out righting wrongs”: Lucy Lawless on what “Xena” fans might love in “My Life is Murder” 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

But it was the one which, as time passed, served as a permanent reminder not only of how gifted she is, but also how gossamer the line is between success and everything else. Natasha Lyonne, the original queen of the career capsize, comes up for air 2010-08-06T10:19:00Z

Theodore Roosevelt was gifted a badger by a girl in Kansas during a train stop. Willow Biden joins long and varied line of White House pets 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

None of those pairings quite worked and it's been depressing to see the spunky, appealing Aniston, who is a gifted comedian, flounder in movie after movie. Just Go With It? Jennifer Aniston Runs Away With It 2011-02-11T00:40:00Z

And the tales still told of talented but impecunious riders scrapping their way to the Classic on the back of some gifted nag discovered in a barnyard seem more than ever like myth. Where to Show Off Your $5 Million Horse 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

There is nothing that special about being exceptionally gifted. David Shenk's bright idea: Genius isn't in the genes 2010-05-01T23:08:00Z

Fellowes gifted us this by way of touching portraits of humanity, even within the smallest interactions. Best TV of the Decade, from 2010 to 2019 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

It is now expected to sell off a series of less significant buildings, including bungalows, byres and farm steadings gifted in wills, and lease other major properties to charities, trusts and private tenants. Scotland National Trust properties up for sale after review prompts reforms 2010-08-09T17:09:00Z

Rhonda Vincent It would have been easy for this impeccably gifted bluegrass singer to make her version of a gospel album in the studio, with a choice array of guests. Playlist : New Music From Baroness, Rhoda Vincent, Shintaro Sakamoto 2012-07-20T17:18:02Z

Some of those artists even gifted the couple their drawings of the two of them from those sessions. The Dress Code was ‘Fly and Gay’ 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

One of my favorite books, one I routinely gifted to friends. How ‘The Alienist’ Finally Found a Screen 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

The image of this green room, this quiet space, this “emerald closet,” is one of many gifted to the reader throughout “Beloved,” a slim book brimming with singular, poetic language. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

“Like her male prototype, ‘Superman,’ ‘Wonder Woman’ is gifted with tremendous physical strength,” Marston wrote in the press release announcing her creation. 7 Amazing Things You Didn't Know About Wonder Woman 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

In the second season of this French crime series, Tomer Sisley returns as the gifted but eccentric forensic pathologist Raphaël Balthazar. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Better Call Saul’ and ‘The Plot Against America’ 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

A white man learns martial arts in Asia, turns out to be quite gifted at them, then returns home to New York to fight crime and avenge his father’s death. ‘Iron Fist’ Actor, at Center of Whitewashing Debate, Asks Fans to Wait and See 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

This is especially a problem with the gifted Tom Hardy, an actor with presence to burn who is one of contemporary film's most sought-after talents. 'The Drop' settles into Brooklyn for a neo-noir crime tale 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

"Magical Universe" is a tender portrait of the artist as a weirdly gifted, wildly prolific and strange man. 'Magical Universe' enters one man's world of Barbies 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

But some who had gone through the gifted program offered another perspective. An Immersive Play That Transports You to a Chicago Public High School 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

The lesson is that a young, camera-ready conductor, even a very gifted one, means little without a youthfully adventurous orchestra that engages its community. Critic’s Notebook: Andris Nelson Is Latest of Orchestras’ Young Leaders 2013-05-19T21:50:33Z

Wicklander is a gifted surrealist drawing from a variety of inspirations. High jinks and mysteries from Seattle sculptors Takamori, Wicklander 2013-02-28T23:47:25Z

Oh, and he is also one of the most gifted jazz pianists and singers of his – or any – generation. A guide to Richard Rodney Bennett's music 2012-07-02T13:32:00Z

Still, in “Strange Powers” she manages to show us, sometimes directly but more often between the lines, both the rewards and the costs of working, living or just hanging out with her highly gifted subject. | 'Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields': A Musician Who Imparts a Glum Kind of Grandeur 2010-10-26T22:34:00Z

Dressed in fire-engine red and arrayed across two levels, a vast and gifted band helps urban music's two most enduringly dominant male stars steam through almost 40 hits in two and a half hours. Jay-Z/Justin Timberlake at Wireless – review 2013-07-15T11:29:14Z

He was not gifted — at least, not conventionally so. Perspective | A portrait of Vincent van Gogh as a tormented soul 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

For a gifted young astrophysicist, her puzzled use of the classically sexist Who-companion line – "But I don't understand!" – has to go down as one of its most definitive renditions. The Mind Robber: Doctor Who classic episode #4 2013-03-28T13:01:24Z

He will long be remembered as a technological visionary and a gifted businessman. Was Steve Jobs an Artist? 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Photograph: British Museum In the lakeside despotism that was 15th-century Mantua, the gifted artist Pisanello drew birds, beasts, the thrill of the hunt. Pisanello at the British Museum: a gory delight 2010-07-05T12:35:00Z

Variety called director and writer Finley “astonishingly gifted” while the Daily Beast said the film was “terribly funny, wild as a hell and aggressively grotesque.” Comedy-thriller 'Thoroughbreds' wows critics 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Less than a mile away was affluent Sherman Oaks, with its stately homes and two-car garages, where Khan-Cullors attended a gifted program in middle school. Black Lives Matter and the Intrepid Lives That Preceded It 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

A gifted musician in a family that forbids music, he is a bit like Remy, the “Ratatouille” rat whose kin were hostile to his artistic ambition, and like Mumble, the misfit penguin in “Happy Feet.” Review: ‘Coco’ Brings the Pixar Touch to Death 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

A gifted multi-instrumentalist, Sharp really shines on "It Wouldn't Have Made any Difference," accenting the song's heartfelt realizations about love's trials and tribulations. A Todd Rundgren tribute: "Someone/Anyone?" compilation lovingly covers "Something/Anything?" 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

“I work extra hard because I don’t think I’m naturally as gifted as some of my peers.” Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx looks back at lean, driving years 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

When Jay-Z was “just a skinny kid from Brooklyn,” he asked McDaniels to play his song on the show and later gifted him with a gold record. An NYC rap icon’s latest hustle: Hip-hop coordinator at the local library 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

It was hard to read them knowing she was gone, but it was also a powerful reminder of the wit and wisdom that made her such a gifted artist – and an irreplaceable friend. Arianna Huffington: 'Bernard Levin told me that going to bed with him was a liberal education' 2012-07-14T23:06:38Z

The music Mr. Lang wrote for the gifted Mr. Tao in this haunting scene is no Bach pastiche, but a cosmic rumination, with melodic fragments, circling inner voices and hazy harmonies. Review: In This One-Man Opera, It’s All in His Head 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

“He was more than a musician, an incredibly gifted musician,” she said. Renowned Oklahoma fiddler Byron Berline dies at 77 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

As Leonard Bernstein's father, when asked why he had opposed his gifted son's career, replied: "How did I know he was going to be Leonard Bernstein?" Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love by Andrew Solomon – review 2013-02-10T07:00:09Z

Danziger reads this important book, his voice and manner that of a gifted teacher — indeed, he taught school for 10 years after returning. Review | The 3 best new audiobooks to listen to in August 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

Clearly well read and gifted with extraordinary capacities for recall and synthetic analysis, he had a seemingly inexhaustible body of knowledge at ready disposal and fierce opinions about everything. Dr. Funky Butt and Me: My Friendship with the Real Donald Shirley 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

He was gifted the name Drumstick and, after winning a social media contest against the backup bird named Wishbone, was declared the National Thanksgiving Turkey. ‘I feel so good about myself doing this’: President Trump pardons his first turkey 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

The gifted youngsters typically respond with heightened enthusiasm and panache when veterans are in their midst, and that was surely the case here. Music Review: Jordi Savall and Juilliard415 at Metropolitan Museum 2013-01-27T23:12:18Z

Fortunately, this young genius is played by a gifted amateur, and “Jeopardy”-certified real genius, Thomas Horn. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z

Villa Mondriaan — the painter dropped the second “a” to become more international — provides a sense of the young artist as somewhat distracted and unfocused in school, but determined and gifted, especially as a draughtsman. Mondrian’s World: From Primary Colors to the Boogie Woogie 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

"I take this as an opportunity to work with truly gifted people," said Horn, who says he has yet to meet key executives at either unit. New Disney studio chief's instructions: make good movies 2012-06-01T03:27:49Z

Lacking the budget of previous opening ceremonies, Meirelles’s team made elaborate and inventive use of projections—a device that would have been corny in less gifted hands but that was splendid in theirs. The Olympics Opening Ceremony in Rio: Let the Games Begin 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

There is also Anise, a gifted healer who is unable to cure her own infertility. A Magic-Filled Island Where Life’s Struggles Rage 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

Post Malone is a melodically gifted misanthrope with a voice that always sounds like it’s running away. Post Malone Smears All the Genres Into One (Emotions, Too) 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

Irby, after all, is a preternaturally gifted nature writer who happens to have focused on the Great Indoors. Some Personal News From Samantha Irby 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Pullman is not Harrison Ford, obviously, but he is a gifted character actor persuasive as a guilt-ridden husband who maintains that he is innocent of murder. The TV Watch: ?Scott Turow?s Innocent? on TNT 2011-11-28T18:47:35Z

Ms. Gaitskill is such a preternaturally gifted writer that nearly every page of “The Mare” shimmers with exacting and sometimes hallucinatory observation. Review: In ‘The Mare,’ Mary Gaitskill Writes About a Girl Caught in a Domestic Swirl 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

I believe things are gifted to you or put in your path to notice, and this was a big one.” Texas Monthly: Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock Changes Style for New York Show 2012-10-28T06:48:04Z

A gifted, relentless self-promoter, he devoted his picaresque life to convincing people that he, as visionary truth-teller, would repeatedly rise from life’s devastations to triumph over the opprobrium of a blinkered society. Architecture’s Most Irredeemable Cad 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

It explores a futuristic universe where gifted young children are taken to military school early in order to train for warfare against alien invasions on their planet. 'Hunger Games' ushers in era of dystopian young adult films 2013-07-22T01:05:40Z

And in “Reading With Patrick,” Michelle Kuo details her relationship with a gifted, troubled student whom she met when she was a Teach for America volunteer in rural Arkansas. Fall Back Into the School Year With Books by, for and About Teachers 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

In his youth, he had little interest in movies at all, but he was a gifted student and was good at philosophy, literature, drawing, music, and theatre. Éric Rohmer’s Elusive Life, Revealed in a New Biography 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

One of the supreme singers of her time, she was also a prolific composer, whose music is slowly being salvaged from obscurity; a savvy entrepreneur; a gifted visual artist; and a highly respected voice teacher. A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

As shot by the gifted cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, Nocturnal Animals is beautiful—or at least arresting—every minute, and it sure isn’t boring. Review: Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals Looks Good But Says Too Little 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

McGregor may pass for a Newark Jewish sports hero who looks like a blond Viking – “Swede” being his nickname – but passing for a gifted director is a whole other story. American Pastoral: why can't cinema get Philip Roth right? 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

“Empire” has prestige, great music and gifted actors, but it is what it appears to be: “Dynasty” in the age of hip-hop. ‘Empire,’ a Terrence Howard Drama on Fox 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

A naturally gifted peasant warrior, Thomas was once given the job of guarding Estonians from invaders. Rise of the Guardians and other all-star supergroups 2012-11-29T20:00:01Z

She was a gifted songwriter and a superb pianist. In ‘Genius: Aretha,’ Respecting the Mind, Not Just the Soul 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

Notably, Nicki Minaj was one of the most technically gifted rappers on the bill, though she sees that skill as a weapon to be deployed selectively, not abused. Music Review: Nicki Minaj Backs Out of Summer Jam 2012-06-04T16:56:30Z

When a gifted young jazz musician holds one hero above the rest, it can be hard to see past the anxiety of influence. Review: Melissa Aldana Makes a Focused Statement in ‘Back Home’ 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

Gilbert, a gifted comedian, is granted one funny sequence as a bored California socialite whose exertions extend only to issuing orders to an unseen virtual butler. Review | You might think ‘panties’ in the title means the play’s funny. If only. 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Belmondo was also a gifted athlete who often did his own stunts. French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo dies at 88 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

They have a great chance but must be wary of Atlético, a canny and technically gifted team not to be underestimated, as Liverpool discovered. Live UEFA Europa League Football: The Final 2010-05-12T07:00:00Z

ICP's founders were all gifted practitioners of orthodox jazz who were looking for radical new inspirations to drag improvisers away from repeating their favourite licks. Take five: John Fordham's month in jazz – January 2013-01-24T14:39:00Z

On Monday night, Boyd awed America as he performed original song “My Baby’s Got a Smile On Her Face” – gifted to him by his coach. 'The Voice' Season 7 Winner Is... 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

After helping out Bradley and Rodney Mitchum a couple of episodes ago, he’s been gifted with a new BMW and a fancy new backyard jungle gym for Sonny Jim, complete with lights and music. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 13: Starting Position 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

There’s even a school named after Eklavya, a gifted archer who chopped off his right thumb to prove his devotion to his archery teacher. Film: India?s Epic Poems, Resonating in Modern Lives 2010-07-04T05:11:00Z

On Saturday, exactly 75 years later, the gifted young organist Christopher Houlihan performed Vierne’s six symphonies for solo organ at the Church of the Ascension in Greenwich Village, a marathon that took two concerts. Music Review: Christopher Houlihan at Church of the Ascension 2012-06-04T21:59:02Z

The fantasy trilogy focuses on a school for magically gifted students but with all the partying, romance and drama that accompany other American universities. These Are TIME’s Most Anticipated New TV Shows of 2016 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

My research looks into the question of "what next?" for so-called child geniuses like Beth Harmon, and how the "gifted" label affects their lives. From IQ tests and sperm banks to "The Queen’s Gambit": a history of gifted children 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z

"Crooked" sprinkles in bits of stories written by the clearly gifted wordsmith Laney, allowing glimpses into her fantasy life. Review: Teen deals with friendship, mom and other challenges in Schmeater's insightful 'Crooked' 2011-01-19T17:19:04Z

Her father was a gifted studio musician for 20th Century Fox; her mother was an artist; her godfather was Igor Stravinsky. Eve Babitz, a Glamour Girl Who Refused to Be Dull 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

This is such great screen villainy it makes you regret there wasn’t more of Voldemort all along and more too of his incarnations as another gifted boy wizard, Tom Riddle. | 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2': Childhood Vanishing in Swirls of Smoke 2011-07-14T01:03:02Z

Meanwhile, Merry turns out to be an ever more gifted con artist, who decides Yancy needs help when the book’s prime lunatic comes along. ‘Razor Girl,’ a Tale of Kidnappers, Reality TV Stars and Dodgy Seafood 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

Morlot is too gifted — and too serious — an artist to allow his Beethoven to remain for long at so rudimentary a level. Beethoven Loses to Piazzolla at the Seattle Symphony 2012-12-29T18:39:04Z

But she wasn’t particularly gifted in the basic day-to-day of running a business. James Truman, A Crown Prince in a New Kingdom 2013-08-16T21:00:35Z

But this did not interfere with his associations with much younger, very gifted, sought-after, beautiful women, then known without irony as “glamour girls.” The big “f**k buddy” lie: Campus hookups and the dark story of male sexual desire 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

A gifted but shy songwriter stuck with an unmarketable, pockmarked face, he’s released a handful of albums that earned him a small cult and a little money. In Don Lee’s ‘Lonesome Lies Before Us,’ a singer tries to make one last comeback 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Although gifted with prodigious technique, Chopin stood outside the “flying trapeze school” of pianism. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

He is one of the right’s most gifted and astute journalists, noted especially for his thoughtful writings on Europe. Did the Civil Rights Movement Go Wrong? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

The gifted tenor Russell Thomas was an appealing Steersman. Music Review: Deborah Voigt in Met?s ?Der Fliegende Holl?nder? 2010-04-25T22:14:00Z

For a photographer so gifted at winning the trust of her subjects, Ms. Greenfield rarely uses that confidence to illuminate their lives, preferring easy satire if not outright mockery. Lauren Greenfield Tries to Capture the Meaning of Money 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

Based on her initial outing, it's easy to see why this gifted and ingratiating performer is causing such a stir. Review: Pretty Yende debuts at Met in Rossini romp 2013-01-18T14:23:11Z

Those secrets must be gleaned from the gifted young actress playing Johnny's daughter. Somewhere: Sofia Coppola's Hotel California 2010-09-05T17:20:00Z

The main figure is Jim Thorpe, a gifted athlete whose football and track-and-field exploits amazed both his competitors and his spectators. A new book from the late Margaret Wise Brown and other best children’s books 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

Sexy, charismatic, musically gifted, but also self-destructive and remote.” ArtsBeat: Jeremy Jordan Added to Cast of NBC's 'Smash' 2012-06-15T12:56:45Z

A gifted singer, the young Mr. Lessac earned a scholarship to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. Arthur Lessac, Holistic Vocal Coach, Dies at 101 2011-04-18T06:00:03Z

Only a few supremely gifted – and courageous – individuals could have recorded the deaths of Miller or Reeves with the skill and power of Filkins or Finkel. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

Mr. Gelb’s commitment to promoting gifted singers who are also persuasive actors has sometimes been confused with the practice — deplored mostly in theory by opera lovers — of simply favoring looks over voice. Spidey Syndrome Invades the Opera 2011-05-21T23:00:26Z

This is not the whole story, however; Petterson is also a humorist, an observer of daily existence who is gifted not only with a subtle wit but with a real fondness for humanity. Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z

If you were young, gifted and odd, San Francisco was a good place to be in the years after World War II, when big changes were brewing in American art and culture. Art Review: Robert Duncan and Jess, and Their Wonderland of Art 2014-01-16T22:59:26Z

“I want him to be appreciated, because he was a gifted artist, because he was struggling, because he was gay, he was black. It’s just a beautiful story in and of itself.” The artifacts and stories that brought the African American museum to life 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

He was a gifted person and just operated this way. "You have to outwork everybody": Mo Amer on his Netflix immigrant comedy about hustling in Houston 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

But the home owner and middle-aged father of three is also a gifted storyteller, musician and character actor. From "Happy Endings" to "FUBAR," Adam Pally's goal is to "find the unexpected" chaos in each role 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z

“She is a respected leader and gifted communicator who understands that the arts can contribute to every aspect of teaching and learning on our campus.” Yale University Art Gallery Names Its Next Director 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

This long opening section, nearly a third of the novel, is charmingly written, if a tad too reliant on the boilerplate YA origin narrative: sensitive, supernaturally gifted misfits versus mean people. Charlie Jane Anders' 'All the Birds in the Sky' has the hallmarks of an instant sci-fi classic 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Rhetorical redundancy aside, Daario has a point: an inexperienced ruler in a foreign land—no matter how gifted—ain’t as intimidating without dragons at her side. Game of Thrones Watch: Dead Lords and Monsters 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

Both as an intelligent songwriter, but also as a gifted soloist, on piano and harmonica. Stevie Wonder: jammin' with the jazz set 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z

Knowing what a gifted storyteller she was, were you hoping she’d end up writing her own account instead of sharing her experiences with a reporter? She Stayed Silent When a Producer Turned Sexual Predator Went After a Friend 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

Always dressed elegantly, the gifted singer was a combination of baritone and lyric tenor and revered for his ability to sustain long notes. Hundreds honor iconic Mexican crooner at Miami wake 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

Much of the evidence supporting Mr Bower’s narrative of a gifted but shallow politician who over-promised and under-delivered appears, at first sight, compelling. The shredding of Tony Blair 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Nureyev, who died in 1993 from AIDS, was regarded as one of ballet’s most gifted male dancers and was an accomplished choreographer. Russia's troubled Nureyev production sweeps board at ballet awards 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

A gifted character actress, able to encapsulate patrician poise, suburban angst, bohemian disarray, uptight alpha, and everything in between, Clarkson, 59, has enjoyed a long award-studded career, encompassing film, theatre and television. Patricia Clarkson: ‘I’m a free spirit… this is the life I want’ 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

A few years ago, apparently based on some agreement that Americans were seriously lacking monograms, retailers decided that any gewgaw that could be mailed, toted or gifted was worthy of an emphatic initial or three. The art of holiday catalogues: Selling the $300 ax you never knew you wanted 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

For many, being gifted is laden with social, emotional and academic challenges. ‘I’m a human calculator’: what’s it like to be a child genius – or to raise one? 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

Also very grateful for his outstanding interpretation of "Midnight Cowboy" and so many other gems he gifted us during his amazing career. Toots Thielemans, Who Won Jazz Renown With the Harmonica, Dies at 94 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

A camera caught her confusion as she tried to find a place for a surprise Tiffany box gifted from the incoming first lady. Why do so many Americans adore Michelle Obama? She keeps it real (even at a funeral). 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

In “See What Can Be Done,” the gifted story writer and novelist Lorrie Moore has gathered what she charmingly and faux-modestly describes in her introduction as “34 years of, well, stuff.” From Don DeLillo to Marilyn Monroe: Lorrie Moore’s First Essay Collection 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

A gifted designer, Mr. Mendelsund is more alert than most to inflection and innuendos. ‘What We See When We Read,’ by Peter Mendelsund 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Kingston is a huge baseball fan and a gifted player in his league. The Art of Summer: Music of the Spheres (Whoosh! Thud! Crack!) 2011-07-20T15:27:07Z

Worst of all, he watches helplessly as others’ careers take off — not just that of his brilliant older friend, the poet Espen Stueland, but even less gifted latecomers like his friend Tore Renberg. Review: Book 5 of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental memoir 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

Hilgers, a longtime China-based journalist who met Zhuang while reporting on the unrest in Wukan, is a gifted writer and reporter whose talent for observation shines through the book’s opening chapters. Hustling in Flushing: A Chinese Immigrant Couple Struggles to Decode Life in Queens 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

She was not known as one of the gifted cooks in my family, but I will admit she had stiff competition. Coffee fanatic? These simple iced coffee bars will become your new favorite breakfast or dessert 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

A stylish presence in the city’s art and social justice worlds, Ms. Hunt, 36, weaves a connecting thread among the city’s cultural institutions, media gatekeepers and gifted, if overlooked, artists. A Publicist and D.J. Who Nurtures Underrepresented Artists 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Depp, who is gifted at accents to begin with, is no stranger to Boston speech. ‘Black Mass’ Resurrects Boston’s Long Memories of Whitey Bulger 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

Narrator Gary Tiedemann, a gifted bilingual voice actor, delivers the Spanish phrases with melodic grace and approaches the entire, psychologically astute tale with empathy. Review | David Sedaris and Tracey Ullman voice one of this month’s best audiobooks 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

I forget everything now, but then I was gifted with nearly total recall; I remembered book titles, names of publishers, names of opera singers, names of operas. The Bonds Between Sex and Books 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

The playing of these gifted musicians more than makes up in excitement energy what it may lack in finesse. Opera & Classical Music Listings for May 23-29 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

The women clash over everything from where to bury the children to the musical education of Jane’s young niece, a gifted violinist who has bonded with Becca’s grandfather, an ailing virtuoso. New Books by Ivan Doig, Ayelet Waldman and Lily King 2010-07-14T22:50:00Z

“Such an approach explains how it is that a gifted architect can sometimes almost disappear.” David Chipperfield Wins Pritzker Prize 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

But he was also a gifted director in his own right, with a particular interest in the fantastic. DVDs: Another Trippy Rabbit Hole 2010-02-27T03:01:00Z

And Twenty One Pilots have quietly become a gifted arena act. Review: For Twenty One Pilots, Time to Shine on a Stage of Dreams 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Always seeking his father’s approval but never getting it because he’s not as musically gifted as his brothers, Andre goes off his meds thinking it will give him sharper focus. How to catch up with … Empire 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

For children like this, the "gifted" label was useful, enabling special provision, often informally or from voluntary groups, and new peer networks. From IQ tests and sperm banks to "The Queen’s Gambit": a history of gifted children 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z

Elysium, for all its visual and allegorical density, could use the input of that gifted filmmaker. Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium: Drab, Dreary and Dysto-pointing 2013-08-08T16:08:09Z

Expect plenty of witty repartee with her equally gifted sidekick, singer Kelly Hogan. Who are the must-see Pitchfork bands? 2011-07-12T23:15:00Z

“We had to give 110 percent,” said the artist, who attended gifted and talented programs and a rigorous Jesuit high school. Hugh Hayden, Surrealist Sculptor, Addresses the Education Debate 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

He was a gifted mimic who wrote that the way to imitate the soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was to pretend to try to kiss the behind of a hummingbird in flight. Clive James, a Tireless Polymath Who Led With His Wit 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Fortunately, we have been gifted with the new documentary "The Lost Weekend: A Love Story," which affords us with a window into 18 months of Lennon's life writ large on the public stage. May Pang opens up about John Lennon's "Lost Weekend" in her "love story" documentary 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

“One of the most gifted students I have ever had,” said the poet Mark Strand, who was one of his professors and is now on the Columbia faculty. Lorin Stein, the Paris Review?s New Party Boy 2011-02-25T19:58:16Z

“She was an extraordinarily gifted artist who by the sheer force of her talent and will catapulted herself to the most rarefied heights of the international opera world,” her family said in a statement. Opera singer Maria Ewing, wife of Peter Hall, dead at 71 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

It was gifted to me and now I'm gifting it to everyone. "People don't know this history": Shannon Lee on the Chinatown Tong Wars in Bruce Lee's "Warrior" 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z

The baritone crooner Todd Murray, and Gay Marshall, a gifted interpreter of Édith Piaf, filled out the bill performing songs that elaborated the show’s theme of reckless doomed romanticism. Review: ‘Morphium Kabarett’ Explores a Gay Man’s Erotic Life 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

Each girl meets an end appropriate to her character: a tubby girl is assaulted by a flying watermelon; the musically gifted Melody is devoured, in the film’s most bravura sequence, by a bloodthirsty piano. DVDs: The Devil Inside and the Demon in Disguise 2010-10-23T05:00:00Z

Pride was a gifted baseball player, and after Jackie Robinson broke the major-league color line, in 1947, he resolved that the sport would be his escape from laboring in the fields. What Country Music Owes to Charley Pride 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

Instead, it presents a biography of an artist and musician who was both spectacularly gifted and unconscionably misdirected. Review: A Reverent Elvis Doc Separates the Trailblazer From His Tragedy 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

These and the other gifted artists in this show combine native heritage with modern sensibilities, producing art bound to please contemporary audiences. Tlingit masters on show at Stonington Gallery 2011-09-22T21:28:08Z

The collection has now been gifted to Princeton. Rare book collection worth $300 million largest gift ever to Princeton 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

From childhood, then, George Herbert was known to many of the great and gifted of his age. Book review: ‘Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert,’ by John Drury

Established on the estate of collectors Julian and Elizabeth de Cordova, the property was gifted to the city of Lincoln with the stipulation that it become a public museum dedicated to art. Looking for art alfresco? Head to these U.S. sculpture gardens — or find one near you. 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

Afterward, in mourning, everyone agreed that Will had been a gifted lawyer. The Season Finale of 'The Good Wife' 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

In her hands, it’s not hard to imagine these songs as the creation of an especially gifted — if occasionally bloody-minded — indie singer-songwriter. Eleri Ward Captures the Longing at the Heart of Sondheim’s Work 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Though Carell and Rudd are both saddled with characters that just aren't as interesting as many they've played in the past, the movie benefits from having drawn many gifted comedians to supporting roles. Cast rises above indignities of "Dinner" 2010-07-16T21:38:00Z

Both are gifted bilingual narrators and deliver the many Spanish phrases with musical grace. Review | A thriller set in Trump’s America is among the best audiobooks of the month 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Little is for certain in these unnerving short story collections by three of the most gifted writers in contemporary literature. Unnerving short stories by Hilary Mantel, Margaret Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates

Hakeem is the opposite, gifted but selfish and irresponsible. ‘Empire,’ a Terrence Howard Drama on Fox 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

A gifted cultural historian with a scholarly sensibility, he is perhaps less suited to the role of investigative reporter. A (Kafkaesque) Legal Battle Over the Author’s Papers Is at the Heart of ‘Kafka’s Last Trial’ 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Schubert, though a gifted pianist, succumbed to the technical challenges of the “Wanderer,” his most symphonic and virtuosic piece for keyboard. Music Review: Paul Lewis Shows Schubert?s Depth at 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-10-19T22:26:57Z

But court documents filed in connection with the case reveal that ambitious art swindles like this one depend on far more than an ingenious con operation or a gifted imitator. Selling a Fake Painting Takes More Than a Good Artist 2014-05-02T21:48:29Z

Then she was introduced to Jimmy Rowles, a gifted jazz pianist who had played with the greats but who had a drinking problem. Carol Sloane, Jazz Singer Who Found Success Early and Late, Dies at 85 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

In “Running in Place: How Bill Clinton Disappointed America,” published in 1996, Mr. Reeves called the 42nd president “the most gifted politician of his generation.” Richard Reeves, Columnist and Author on Presidents, Dies at 83 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

Portrayed here by the gifted Rebecca Brooksher, Anna comes across as a blunt-spoken, unmistakably American woman and a confused person trying to make sense of a world that has bruised her badly. Theater Review: David Auburn Stages ‘Anna Christie’ in the Berkshires 2013-08-26T21:24:04Z

It's not the horror of Tchaikovsky's sexual demons he's choreographed – it's the trauma of a gifted dancer trapped in a dire ballet. Peter Schaufuss Ballet: Swan Lake – review 2012-07-24T12:11:18Z

ICE celebrates the solstice — yes, there’s a pun — with a look back at albums released by its exceptionally gifted players over the past year. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Every revelation registers in the gifted Amalric's gaze: infinitesimal physical mutations, emotional detonations. 'The Blue Room' a tantalizing mystery of lovers on trial 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Lincecum grew up 20 minutes from downtown Seattle in the middle-class suburb of Renton, Wash. He comes from a long line of physical and athletically gifted men. T Magazine: Little Big Man 2011-03-11T18:01:47Z

The Vitrine from London provides New York’s first look at the hugely gifted Jonathan Baldock, who can apparently do just about anything with felt. Review: At NADA Art Fair, Collecting for Pleasure, Not Status 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Nézet-Séguin is a gifted Mozart conductor, and his treatment of the finale — witty and nimble — could have been the overture to one of that composer’s operas. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

The first three, beginning with “The Birchbark House,” follow the life of Omakayas, a young Ojibwe girl who is a gifted healer. Indigenous Stories for Young Readers 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Not being gifted at languages but always very punctual, we often found ourselves in the wrong place at the right time. Which book is greater than The Great Gatsby? 2013-05-08T15:29:01Z

Cookie is also a gifted baker, and this skill, combined with King-Lu’s entrepreneurial gumption and that pilfered milk, brings about a fateful change of circumstance. ‘First Cow’ Review: The Milk of Human Kindness 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

He was, the author contends, “a gifted writer who was trapped by his own expectations”. The grammar of hard facts 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

“Such a gifted & bold actress. From her brilliant & tender performance in The Last Picture Show, while playing high strung Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show I became a lifelong fan.” Mel Brooks, Ed Asner, others pay tribute to Cloris Leachman 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

The stakes for David are evident in her gifted class, the only one in the school in which David is surrounded by mostly white students. ‘David Makes Man’ and the Matters of a Young Black Life 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Nothing if not versatile, de la Mare was also an equally gifted poet and anthologist. Review | Revisiting a forgotten children’s book by one of the 20th century’s most distinctive writers 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

She observes that if a writer as gifted as Dawn Powell had been male and Ivy League, her work would never have been allowed to drift for so long out of print. In Lorrie Moore’s Nonfiction, the Sounds of an Intellectual Having a Good Time 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

The quandary in which Teddy Thompson, one of the most gifted singer-songwriters of his generation, finds himself is symptomatic of the confusion and uncertainty that pervade the crumbling record industry. The Artistry Is Apparent, So Where?s the Audience? 2011-02-06T22:52:21Z

There is also a bear on the premises, Grizzles, embodied by the show’s very gifted composer and sound designer, Chris Giarmo. Tina Satter’s ‘Ancient Lives’ Is at the Kitchen 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

And he's a funny, likeable, immensely gifted and present guy who has grown more poignant and wise in middle age, and yet remains addicted to risk. At the Royal George, the world according to John Leguizamo 2011-02-06T13:40:10Z

Mr. Kunkel, a wry and gifted critic and a founding editor of the serious-minded magazine n+1, joins the storied pantheon of good and great prose writers without much flair for drama. ‘Buzz,’ a New Play by Benjamin Kunkel 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

We believe Big Boi is a tremendously creative and gifted artist and wish him well on his upcoming solo album. Music: A Rapper?s Long Battle to Go It Alone 2010-07-02T18:28:00Z

Mr. Black added, “Glenn’s gifted and innovative leadership is essential to MoMA’s evolution.” Glenn Lowry, MoMA Director, Will Continue Through 2025 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Her voice has an unusual color and a very wide tessitura, gifted for the most intimate caress and for the deafening shriek. A Singer From Everywhere Arrives Here 2010-10-21T21:15:00Z

When that pianist is the supremely gifted but calculatingly inscrutable Evgeny Kissin, it is a choice that brings one to the concert hall with a specially keen curiosity. Evgeny Kissin – review 2012-11-22T17:43:55Z

But this album, Mr. West’s fifth, is a reminder of how single-minded he is and how musically gifted; it’s easily his most florid record, and also, oddly, one of his most stark. The Purpler the Bruise, the Sweeter the Song 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z

Her stepmother Mary was a gifted artist, the daughter of the illustrator of Winnie-the-Pooh, EH Shepard. From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z

Like Stephen Shore, he is a brilliant photographer who also happens to be a gifted and incisive writer. Writing and photography ? is a picture really worth a thousand words? 2010-08-04T05:00:00Z

If you follow the website’s instruction you are gifted with the “power of sight.” Watch the latest “Game of Thrones” teaser and receive “The Sight” 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Unless white actors can portray Dr. Martin Luther King, the casting of a black Joan of Arc - no matter how gifted the actress is - is political correctness run amok. Joan of Arc, Superstar? Not to the Woman Playing Her 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

And Mr. McIntyre is a highly gifted choreographer, with broad appeal. Dance Review: Trey McIntyre Project and Korean Dancers at BAM 2012-11-15T23:01:15Z

Among them, there may be gifted children who simply don’t respond to this kind of conditioning, children whose potential can’t be expressed through such narrow notions of character and success. The Limits of “Grit” 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Marc Neikrug, the festival’s artistic director, manages to find and present gifted musicians and composers who live in the Southwest. Music Review: Santa Fe Celebration Includes New York 2011-08-12T22:22:50Z

A less gifted writer might have made this material too whimsical or sentimental. Newly Released Books 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

Now her hosts hoped that she would be known "as a 'gifted architect' and not as a 'gifted woman architect'". A stage of her own: Elisabeth Scott and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre 2011-01-29T00:06:16Z

But though the second-largest island in the Mediterranean has autonomous status, its people are as gifted and gregarious hosts as those I’ve encountered on the mainland. A Tour of Sardinia, Full of Discoveries 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

Which one is better for making art: living in the city among gifted friends or isolating on an inconveniently located island? A Rare Look at Rauschenberg’s Second Act 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z

Dweeby and friendless but gifted in the sciences, Paulie, who is graduating from high school early, fixes his sights on the robotics lab of a reclusive professor. ‘Paulie Go!’ Review: Coming of Age, Whimsy Included 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z

His best-known book, Out Stealing Horses, won the International Impac award, Richard Ford has called him "a profoundly gifted novelist", and critics often remark on the beauty of his prose. Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z

“My son/ Is gifted with divine insights, he sees/The secret architecture of the world . . .” Clymene observes in one subtly ringing phrase. A bold production of ‘Phaeton’ from Taffety Punk Theatre Company 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Though George Clooney may be the movie star in Disney’s Tomorrowland, Britt Robertson is the hero, starring as a gifted teenager who discovers a way to transport herself through time and space. 11 Movies Starring Women That Will Rival Summer Blockbusters 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

As the decade continued, she took greater control of her career amid personal turmoil, embracing hip-hop and soul and becoming a more gifted interpreter and songwriter. Review: Mariah Carey's Collects All of Her Hits on '#1 to Infinity' 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Along with the similarly gifted Carol Lipnik, whose blues song “Hope Street” he sang, Mr. Keckler is one of the brightest lights of what is called, for lack of a better term, alt-cabaret. Review: Joseph Keckler Shares Operatic Overtones and Tales at Pangea 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

"The world has lost a truly great and gifted musician." Rock guitarist Alvin Lee dies at 68 2013-03-06T22:57:16Z

This summer has been bookended by two movies, both based on young adult best sellers and starring gifted and ambitious actresses, about smart, independent-minded teenage girls finding love in the shadow of death. ‘If I Stay’ Weighs Teenager’s Prospects After Horrific Crash 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

"Now – more than ever – the need to support the supremely gifted chefs, mixologists, event planners, and small businesses located right here in our own backyard is extremely evident to us," he wrote. South Beach Wine & Food Festival returns to Miami with COVID restrictions 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

Milo’s historical portrait of this gifted woman ahead of her time implores us to consider whether things are different now, but the only honest answer is: not different enough. 'The Other Mozart'? Her name was Maria Anna, and she dazzlingly comes to life onstage 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

The collection includes a first-edition copy of Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about World War I, "One of Ours," that she gifted to her mother. Part of unfinished Cather novel added to archives 2011-05-12T17:50:12Z

Thank you New York Times for letting us hear this vibrant and gifted voice of Ms. Yende's. ‘I Could Barely Sing a High C’: Pretty Yende Finally Conquers Lucia 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

As the title character, a gifted boy from a Miami housing project, Akili McDowell established one of the performances of the year. The Best TV Episodes of 2019 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

She was a gifted seamstress who earned her family's keep with her Singer sewing machine. T Magazine: Back to Bernalda 2012-11-15T14:01:25Z

And neither delves too deeply into the mind-set that made him such a skilled fantasist about “notional” agents, invasion plans and armies that did not exist: in other words, such a gifted liar. Books of The Times: ‘Double Cross’ and ‘Agent Garbo’ 2012-08-08T22:28:33Z

The good news is that the answer to all three questions is yes: Director and writer Nicolas Pesce is gifted at creating subtle moods and then punctuating them with memorable visuals. "The Grudge" sequel is cursed by mediocrity 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

But there’s little doubt, reading Moss, that you’re in the hands of a sophisticated and gifted writer. ‘Summerwater’ Makes an Intimate Study of Social Class Out of a Long, Rainy Day 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

He was truly gifted and always laced his film with profound humanity. Jonathan Demme, Oscar-Winning Director, Is Dead at 73 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

As a singer, Mr. Simpson is gifted but in an unflashy way, yanking his drawl into sharp shapes when it’s called for, but mostly content to let his dusty luster do the heavy work. Sturgill Simpson’s ‘Metamodern Sounds in Country Music’ 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

A while ago, I was gifted a Canon camera, which got me excited about photography. A Collector’s Favorite: Dark but Strangely Peaceful Beauty 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

“There is a crossbreeding of ideas. Many of the people here are gifted photographers, painters, sculptors and a handful of theorists.” We watch artist Harry Gamboa Jr. stage a fotonovela at the site of L.A.'s demolished 6th Street Bridge 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

Find me a “Breaking Bad” fan who claims they slept well after the end of “Ozymandias,” and you’ve found  an incredibly gifted liar. 'Sons of Anarchy' 'Greensleeves' recap: eyes open 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

Bill Harris’s play finds B, a profoundly gifted black saxophonist, at ends as ragged as his fraying pinstripe suit. | 'Cool Blues': A Jazzman Encounters His Life and Death 2011-03-30T22:00:46Z

He’s as intuitively gifted with melody as Nelly, who, 15 years ago, rode a soft debut single about hard things into the Top 10, and stayed there for a few years. Fetty Wap’s Tweaked Sound Yields Hit in ‘Trap Queen’ 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

People mocked her, saying, "Crack is whack," so much that her addiction drowned out the fact that she is one of the most gifted songstresses ever. Jamie Foxx's performance in "They Cloned Tyrone" adds to his legendary body of work 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z

In King’s most frightening books — like this one, about the abduction of psychically gifted children — the evil is perpetrated not by supernatural creatures, but by ordinary people like you and me. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

In Grand Prairie, Tex., a town between Dallas and Fort Worth, recruiters from University of Texas of the Permian Basin scout gifted young folkloristas the way their colleagues check out football prospects. The Prom-Like Intensity of High School Folklórico 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Burton’s story is not unusual: An exceptionally gifted girl, traumatized by her parents’ divorce, finds refuge in the extremes of disordered eating. She Ate and Ate, and Never Felt Satisfied 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

I’m not the gifted genius who writes the songs. Mandy Patinkin Has Found a ‘New Life Partner in Music’ 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Any attempt at reviving Britt and Kato was always going to have to amount to a drastic revision, even more so with gifted comic-actor Rogen, known for playing slacker roles, in the hot seat. The Green Hornet looks pretty Kick-Ass 2010-12-23T14:24:11Z

Imagine you were accidentally placed in a school for the gifted. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘Unlikely Heroes’ 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

The closeted, oak-lined spaces provide an intimate backdrop for a recital by one of the most technically gifted and charismatic instrumentalists of the age. Alina Ibragimova/Quay Brothers ? review 2011-07-06T18:15:01Z

Alarcón, who also happens to be a gifted journalist, couples narrative experimentation with imaginative empathy. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Decker studied and pursued serious percussion lessons from such gifted players as the Indiana Symphony’s Paul Berns and Chicago Symphony’s Vadim Karpinos, among others. After ‘daunting’ auditions, newest Seattle Symphony players make the cut 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

It all started when her grandmother enrolled the four-year-old Fellows at a dancing school in South Carolina, where the child proved to be a gifted dancer, singer and mimic. Edith Fellows obituary 2011-07-07T17:11:50Z

The groom’s mother is the dean of students at the Ingenuity Project, an advanced math and science program for gifted and advanced students in Grade 6 through 12 in Baltimore. Angelia Tyler, Michael Fletcher II 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

It’s exciting to read the work of someone who is so clearly gifted. A Novel of Infidelity and the Art World, on a Crowded Canvas 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

The sculpture was gifted to the Art Fund by the Frink estate and her gallery, the Beaux Arts, with the proviso that it went on display and not into storage. Elisabeth Frink's Birdman finally captured by gallery 2010-06-06T23:02:00Z

But that’s what’s so wonderful about it: just two gifted performers singing their hearts out, with no distracting cadres of dancers careening about behind them. Theater Talkback: Charles Isherwood on His Favorite Tony Performances 2012-06-07T20:15:02Z

Bless her heart, but Princess Diana really was and still is the ultimate distraction — naturally gifted at drawing attention, derailing dreams and dismantling the institutional narratives that surrounded her. Review | The Charles and Diana saga weighs heavy on ‘The Crown,’ but Gillian Anderson’s Thatcher is a triumph 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Perhaps most notably, Damon Albarn gifted fans an entire new album, The Fall, on Christmas Day. Click to download: Gorillaz, Radiohead, Yeasayer and more 2011-01-06T23:00:01Z

He said everything for a wedding is gifted if you’re famous. Celebrity Brides Attract Business for Dress Designers 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

At the heart of this rich, complicated story is Mateo, a gifted child whose mother has the disease and dies shortly after his birth. ‘Christodora’: A powerful novel about the AIDS crisis and its legacy 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

Braun was transformed by the arrival of a gifted young architect, Dieter Rams, in the design studio. Design: A Brush With Mediocrity 2010-02-22T03:37:00Z

Academically gifted, he dropped out of school at 14 to knock about with a knife-carrying gang. Peter Mullan: the swot who lost the plot 2011-01-19T21:31:00Z

Mr. Myers was gifted enough to be accepted to one of Manhattan’s best public schools, Stuyvesant. Walter Dean Myers, children’s author, dies at age 76

“In Crystal,” Rose thinks, “whose kid wasn’t gifted?” How a Novel Can Unmake the Myth of Meritocracy 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

Cinema Empire is the last of five historic cinemas still standing in Tripoli’s Tell Square, which encircles a clock tower gifted by Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II in the early 20th century. Closed for decades, theater returns to Lebanon’s Tripoli 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

He quoted Nina Simone: “To be young, gifted and black,” and put the moment in context. Chadwick Boseman, who embodied Black icons, dies of cancer 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z

Though Stern's shuffles through the scrapbook of contemporary fusion references can sound a bit automated, he's a gifted guitarist with a ballad sensitivity to go alongside his raw power. This week's new live music 2011-03-19T00:06:11Z

That honor went to his mathematically gifted older brother Bruce, with whom Brian had to compete as a kid. ‘Brian De Palma’s Split-Screen’ review: A long-awaited reassessment 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

Rose, 33, is one of dozens of gifted performers taking part in the Moisture Festival, Seattle’s grand circus-arts bash that celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. A talk with aerialist Jonathan Rose, part of Moisture Festival 2013 2013-03-15T18:55:01Z

For a gifted comic, that tension between outside and inside is like a well-composted garden. Review: The Haywire Hospitality of ‘At Home With Amy Sedaris’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

I do not mean to knock the handiwork of a gifted thinker and a precocious mind. Review: ‘Homo Deus’ Foresees a Godlike Future. (Ignore the Techno-Overlords.) 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

The protagonist of Archer, the filthy and brilliant animated comedy which begins its fourth season in the UK this week, Sterling is an immensely gifted, immensely attractive secret agent. Life of spy: the return of Archer 2013-07-12T13:00:00Z

The “Eat, Pray, Love” author returns with a novel set in the 18th and 19th centuries as it follows the gifted and complicated Whittaker family around the globe. 43 new books for fall 2013 2013-08-24T21:21:11Z

"We considered dogs with the ability to learn object names as uniquely gifted in this specific field." 'Genius dogs' are capable of learning words related to objects: Study 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lethem used to feel that Mr. Wood was “the most apparently gifted close reader of our time.” Books of The Times: Jonathan Lethem?s ?Ecstasy of Influence? - Review 2011-11-08T23:22:25Z

She recently gifted one to Ms. Grande, who included it in her show on “Why Try,” the night’s one unmitigated disaster, obscuring her voice and disrupting her performance. Ariana Grande, a Pop Princess, Leaves Nickelodeon in the Rearview Mirror at Madison Square Garden 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

And my earlier generations were gifted by the princely state of Jaipur to another royal household called Jhunjhunu in the faraway desert. Pakistan singer Mehdi Hassan dies 2012-06-13T15:29:06Z

“What got to me was his phrasing, how he sang and also his sense of timing,” he said, “which are two things you can’t really learn. You’re gifted with that.” Chronixx Is Taking His Jamaican Reggae Worldwide 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

He was a gifted pianist who sometimes played publicly, and he wrote music criticism for The Nation. A Study of Edward Said, One of the Most Interesting Men of His Time 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

An astonishingly gifted artist whose range and talent astounded me. What did Robin Williams mean to you? 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

Turner was the most gifted, and most celebrated sea and landscape painter of his time — and perhaps of all time. Review: ‘Turner,’ a Portrait of a Most Dazzling and Disagreeable Artist 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Elevated by well-judged performances, clever structure and an ingenious production design, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” sticks the landing with grace worthy of its gifted protagonist. Best movies of 2019: A compelling mix of new and established voices 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

He’s also a gifted raconteur, as he makes clear in a rollicking, uninhibited and refreshingly raw memoir, aptly titled “Out Loud.” Review | Mark Morris bares his soul in a refreshingly raw and inspiring memoir 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

A musical roller-coaster ride through the African American experience is a journey well worth taking at MetroStage, thanks to four gifted vocalists, five skilled jazz musicians and a good idea. In MetroStage’s ‘Shake Loose,’ nothing’s left unsung 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

In this riveting work, Mr. Hertzberg, 24, demonstrates that a gifted young composer can be inspired by masters and still speak with a vibrantly personal style. Review: The Composers Concert, With David Hertzberg and Other Young Masters 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

In equal measures intelligent, playful, ambitious and moving, the program, performed by three gifted sopranos, illuminated the shape-shifting power of the human voice. Music Review: Resonant Bodies Festival at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn 2013-09-06T22:26:20Z

At the age of 12, Pharrell was sent to a school for gifted children where he met Chad Hugo and they formed the Neptunes. Pharrell Williams' early life to be made into movie musical 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

They were gifted nearly 70 minutes of blissful possibility, before a Croatian equalizer erased the confidence and left a familiar dread in its place. A tale of two losses: from hopeful to heartbroken in the World Cup semi-finals. 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

Getting to that city was a lifelong dream, partly because of the many celebrated artists buried in the Père Lachaise, the world’s most famous resting place for the gifted and dead. Review: In ‘Forever,’ Dael Orlandersmith Finds Comfort in a Cemetery 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

Are you saying that you’re so edgy and principled and gifted that only an accident of birth kept you from being Dalton Trumbo? Aaron Sorkin’s masturbatory falseness: Sony’s stolen emails, “The Newsroom” and a bankrupt NYT op-ed 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

With a minimum of genre pandering–only one Footloose dance imitation–and with the help of his gifted young ensemble, Hughes shows there is a life form after teenpix. 25 Great Movie Reviews by Richard Corliss 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

And to feel that way, as one of the most beautiful and gifted men to have walked the surface of the earth, surely can’t be pretty. Review: Spacey Meets Shannon, and Prez Meets King, in Elvis & Nixon 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

He is, was, the most gifted and distinctive producer in the history of pop-rock. Phil Spector’s Greatest Hit 2013-03-21T09:45:43Z

At the edge of the parking lot, the troupers were gifted with fresh lettuce and red onions — a strong, sobering shotgunner for the ride home. An idyllic farm dinner for Stewardship Partners 2013-07-30T03:06:47Z

Dramatic Directing Prize for her film “The Kindergarten Teacher,” a remake of the 2014 Israel film of the same name about an educator’s obsession with a gifted student. Women Dominate Sundance’s Winners List 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

The book begins with the story of two gifted boys who attended Harvard at the same time, in the early 1900s. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

A gifted director especially expert in run-and-gun action movies, Espinosa offers a few strong action sequences, but he's become bogged down in this film's extensive narrative and larger societal themes. 'Child 44' a passable thriller set in 1953 USSR 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

We know he’ll solve them, because he’s a dogged and gifted detective. Beyond Chucky: Frightening Alternatives for Halloween TV 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

However gifted or rebellious this man was, he remains mortal. ‘Prince Was Our True Artist’: Readers Share Their Memories 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Why wouldn't a woman as gifted as Plath become terminally depressed and end in suicide? Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z

He was not only a gifted player, but he had the ability to grasp the entire score. SSO's Schwarz goes out with fanfare: 18 new pieces by U.S. composers debut this season 2010-10-07T19:38:00Z

The weekend's first Pyramid stage highlight is Haim, a trio of Californian sisters gifted with warmth, charisma and infectious songs that suggest cloudless west coast skies. Rolling Stones steal Glastonbury from other debutantes – review 2013-06-29T23:56:12Z

She also is a gifted interpreter of musical comedy. Deborah Voigt, Meet Ethel Merman 2010-07-22T19:27:00Z

Howard Markel — physician, professor and gifted writer — tells the story again, setting scenes and shrewdly capturing the main actors’ characters and motivations. Review | Three great new audiobooks for your holiday drive 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

The gifted singer and actor was in the seats as a teenager to watch her in "Hello, Dolly" during a pivotal moment in his life. Broadway's Telly Leung gets jazzy in his solo CD 2012-12-06T13:39:16Z

No matter how gifted the raw material, Ms. Erlanger added, creating a coherent narrative for a budding star whose every appearance is another opportunity for brand building requires strategy. Lupita Nyong’o Gains the Ultimate Prize With a Beauty Contract for Lancôme 2014-04-11T21:45:53Z

Imagine living in a primarily Black neighborhood and being gifted a tall white, blonde doll with multiple outfits and career choices. Why I'm passing on the "Barbie" movie: My daughter already receives enough unintentional whiteness 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

In the post, which received nearly 30,000 upvotes from other Redditors, the bride shares that her new husband’s parents gifted them “a week in an all-inclusive hotel” for their honeymoon. Bride claims groom's parents booked same hotel as couple's honeymoon spot, demand to spend every day together 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

And there is Quvianaqtuk Pudlat, a gifted late bloomer who worked as a water truck driver and a sport hunting guide before moving to drawings of Sandhill and Whooping cranes sinuously flowing across the page. Making Art on Top of the World 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

The female is emerald, and the male is turquoise with a black mask; through binoculars he is a tiny piece of sorcery, like something a gifted child has drawn with crayons. T Magazine: Send in the Clouds 2011-11-18T13:08:53Z

It marks the debut of a gifted young writer. ‘Know My Name,’ a Sexual Assault Survivor Tells the World 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

On camera, Williams was preternaturally gifted, cutting a handsome figure with a serious but easygoing manner. ‘Brian being Brian’: A unique storytelling ability connected Brian Williams with viewers, but it also led to his downfall 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

Matt Damon is returning to the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he played a mathematically gifted custodian in the 1997 hit movie "Good Will Hunting," to deliver the commencement address. Bucket list? Matt Damon returns to MIT for commencement 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

When the romance turns dark after the birth of the marionette Annette — gifted right away with a beautiful singing voice — the movie slides into tragedy and, maybe, into the heart of artistic creation. Adam Driver on singing, surrealism and ‘Annette’ 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

Here, though, young viewers won’t chat with pop stars but with authors, other guests and a rotating crew of musically gifted hosts, the Rainbows, who include Joseph and Wager. Take a Look: ‘Reading Rainbow’ Goes Live, With New Friends to Know 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hipps is as adept as a gifted playwright at setting a scene. Review: In ‘The Adventurist,’ an Executive’s Search for Meaning and Small Raptures 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

Three months ago, Hengesbach’s mother gifted them “Hamilton” by way of one of the Pantages’ season pass ticket packages — whose guaranteed admittance to “Hamilton” apparently outweighs its lofty price. At the first 'Hamilton' performances, the party is just getting started 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

A natural pairing this month combines two engaging autobiographical shows written by gifted actors looking back on their childhoods. Theater to Stream: ‘Broadway Backwards’ and Starry Readings 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

It’s thanks to such a gifted storyteller as Whitaker that this forgotten chapter of American history can finally be told in all its vibrancy and glory. Harlem Wasn’t the Only Place With a Renaissance 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Fragrant and melodically rich, they were good matches for this orchestra, which is particularly gifted at conveying atmosphere, as in the nocturnal glow of “Die Mainacht” and the rippling delicacy of “Gondellied.” Budapest Festival Orchestra Plays Avery Fisher Hall 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

As a precociously gifted schoolboy Achebe thrived in the colonial education system and enjoyed reading the English literary canon, even if Africans rarely fared well in its stories. Chinua Achebe: A life in writing 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z

Gifted students in those same gifted classes made no gains compared with their peers in regular classes. Wild ideas for fixing gifted education

As if being a gifted composer, pianist and conductor were not enough, the young Matthew Aucoin is also a poet. Review: Paul Appleby Performs ‘Merrill Songs’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

It's the tale of a gifted young actor who became trapped in the smooth screen persona prescribed for him by his employers, and how he broke from it by embracing controversy, art and Europe. Dirk Bogarde: the rebellion of a reluctant pinup 2011-03-24T21:59:00Z

The book’s legacy seems destined to be one of observation, not character — though when the observer is this gifted, is that really any wonder? Elif Batuman turns her gifts to fiction in 'The Idiot' 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

He was a wonderfully gifted musician who wrote a series of hits and helped put Swansea on the music map in the 1970s. Musician given first city honour 2012-11-22T08:04:54Z

“Jess is unusually gifted in so many ways,” Mr. Mayer continued. Jessie Mueller, as Herself, After a Starry Night 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

As she recounts in “Grit,” she realized that her most hard-working students outpaced the ones who seemed naturally gifted at math. The Limits of “Grit” 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

The Israeli writer Amos Elon once described him as both an Israeli hero and a “gloomy, lonely, gifted man.” Assi Dayan, Israeli Actor and Filmmaker, Dies at 68 2014-05-03T02:18:39Z

His death, after a long period of self-enforced seclusion, comes at a time when it is difficult to imagine anyone as eccentric – and as eccentrically gifted – finding a place in contemporary pop culture. Captain Beefheart obituary: rock's father of invention 2010-12-19T00:08:01Z

Still, there were gifted singers among the students in my music theory classes, many of whom could barely read music when they arrived. When a Critic Put on the ‘Best of All American Operas’ 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

It might be an unusually gifted "bubble sculptor." Bottoms up for martini trapezes in always surprising Moisture Festival 2012-03-08T22:04:06Z

In addition to being a fight movie, “Creed” is a quiet, sweet love story about two people who happen to be young, gifted and black. Oscars So White? Or Oscars So Dumb? Discuss. 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Monahon is clearly a gifted comedy writer, and a sweet stage presence, too. Review: In ‘Jane Anger,’ Revenge Is a Thorny Uphill Climb 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

Feffer’s unmannered acting style — that of a gifted amateur, not a professional who disappears into a role — works well for him. ‘Interrogation’ at Capital Fringe festival: A new meaning for captive audience

I was once gifted a zookeeper experience that involved feeding aardvarks and then sitting with them while they were sleeping. My travel sketches: 'Some drawings remind me how the sun felt on my skin' 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

With earth’s population of eight billion living longer, receiving more education and connecting worldwide, gifted young people are appearing everywhere in every human endeavor: science, business, sports and even literature. Sally Rooney’s Riposte, Ralph Nader’s Candidacy and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

He's a good-looking, gifted, amusing man, less impaired than the French author with locked-in syndrome who wrote The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, but pretty immobile. The Sessions – review 2013-01-20T00:05:59Z

Susie was everything an egg donor should be: kind, beautiful, smart, a gifted artist and, at 28, practically at the peak of her fertility. Modern Love: A Brother?s Need, a Sister?s Gift 2010-07-16T16:53:00Z

And one comes away from “Obit” grateful that the paper has at its disposal a team of humane, gifted people who make commemorating the dead a lively, lasting art. Review: ‘Obit’ Follows the Team That Writes Death Notices for The Times 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

And I’ve been basically gifted with cinema school, being on that show, with my crew. Robin Wright: 'Trump – he took all House of Cards' good ideas!' 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

Mine stretches from "highly gifted" in some people's eyes, to "nutter" in others. The Quarry: Iain Banks – digested read 2013-06-23T19:00:02Z

Yet even the most gifted of authors, with unlimited resources, would have a difficult time writing about this campaign — it’s hard to imagine anything more stunning than what we already know about its central figures. Maureen Dowd’s Latest Book on Everything Hillary and Donald 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Even the most gifted composers have been insecure about the merit of their works, with Rachmaninoff among the self-doubting contingent. Music Review: Clarion Choir in Rachmaninoff’s Vespers 2014-01-02T22:39:23Z

Watching gifted chefs try to come up with a winning fast-casual formula can be a depressing sight. Can There Be Joy in Fast-Casual? Rowdy Rooster Says Yes. 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Begley is a gifted literary critic but does not deploy his knife skills to great effect here. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z

A woman in Scotland is thanking a local community for helping her find a long-lost bracelet she was gifted by her late cousin. Woman reunites with cherished bracelet she lost a year ago: 'It's a miracle that it's back with me' 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

Still other entertainment industry developments should be remembered for what they gifted to viewers, or the demonstrative hubris they exemplify, or any number of reasons. Wait, that happened this year? A reminder of the TV events that 2020 erased from our memories 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

A deceptively slender book, “Beast” cements Kings­north’s reputation as a furiously gifted writer. ‘Beast’ cements Paul Kingsnorth’s reputation as a furiously gifted writer 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

A gifted singer who once dreamed of going pro, Sam now spends her nights sleeping on the couch and her days reading essays under fluorescent lights at a test-grading center. Review: In ‘Somebody Somewhere,’ Home Is Like No Place 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Three are by contemporaries working in color, and one by a gifted amateur recording America’s diversity in the early 20th century. Four Not-to-Miss Photography Shows 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

One noteworthy exception is Jim Shepard, an outrageously versatile and gifted fiction writer who is deeply at home in a ­research library. Review | ‘The World to Come,’ stories by Jim Shepard 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

In 1976 he wrote and directed Sweet Sounds, a documentary short about gifted music students that Merchant produced. Merchant Ivory film composer dies 2012-11-13T12:03:43Z

That doesn't discount that Budraitis is a genuinely gifted artist, whose theatrical explorations may eventually yield more revelatory discoveries. Review: Budraitis solo show at On the Boards poses many questions but answers very few 2011-02-05T00:02:04Z

Because your son is both gifted and ADHD, we need a contract that emphasizes the agreed-upon rules and building trust through the son’s increasingly trustworthy and appropriate behavior. Perspective | Our 9-year-old has an unhealthy obsession with online games. What can we do? 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

She wants that second star and thinks the gifted Hassan can help her get it. REVIEW: Does The Hundred-Foot Journey Deserve One Michelin Star or Two? 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

On a jazz scene brimming over with dazzling young drummers, Sanchez stands out as one of the most extravagantly gifted. Drummer Antonio Sanchez's group Migration makes Seattle debut at Jazz Alley 2010-03-29T04:01:00Z

Not only was Mr. Galliano seriously gifted, with technical skills and a romantic sensibility that suited Dior’s femininity, he brought to Dior a spot-on sense of vision. Paris Fashion Week: John Galliano Exits the Way That He Entered 2011-03-02T22:09:23Z

I'd worry less about whether it's appropriate to serve or save a gifted bottle, and listen instead to what you want to do with it. How to keep your cool while playing host (it's possible) 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

Bob, a gifted liar and cheat, doesn’t always have the courage of his lack of convictions; sometimes his eyes betray shame and remorse. Television Review: Two Lives, Two Loves, One Con Man 2010-09-19T17:08:00Z

Lombardo especially admires Escandón’s sense of physical scenery and family history, which she calls “rife with nuance and detail and the telltale signs of a gifted writer who knows her material well.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Reviewing “Mame” in The New York Times, Stanley Kauffmann wrote: “The hazard with young performers is that either they look coached or, if they are gifted, are show-offs. Young Mr. Michaels is neither.” Frankie Michaels, Who Won a Tony Award at 11, Dies at 60 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

A gifted singer as a child, she was performing with the children’s choir of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem by the time she was 6. Diahann Carroll, Actress Who Broke Barriers With ‘Julia,’ Dies at 84 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

The famous shoes, now nearly 80 years old, were gifted anonymously to the National Museum of American History in 1979. Dorothy's Ruby Slippers Get a Rescue Fund on Kickstarter 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

“Look at the work that awaits you!” she said in a speech to young writers, calling them “young, gifted and Black” — inspiring the Nina Simone song of the same name. The Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

The gifted and versatile Michael Sheen unleashes the wonderfully weird performance we always knew was in him as Aro, the sinister leader of the Volturi. Review: `The Twilight Saga' ends with real bite 2012-11-14T17:42:12Z

I'm gonna miss every second working with this obscenely gifted group of creators and artists. Ryan Reynolds is taking a sabbatical from acting 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

The Armstrong edition, which was gifted to him by the BBC after he recorded the programme in 1968, was donated courtesy of the research collections of the Louis Armstrong House Museum. Louis Armstrong Desert Discs online 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

He recently gifted me his used laptop — which he did spend money on, getting it cleaned up — for Christmas, after buying himself the latest upgraded laptop. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: They’re happy having just one child. Their friends are not. 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

He’s 13, artistically gifted, socially awkward, in the throes of first love and discovering his sexual identity. 6 Y.A. Love Stories to Add to Your Reading List 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

“It is because we are less gifted than Mitchell. The idea that reporters are constantly resisting the temptation to invent is a laughable one.” Review: ‘Man in Profile’ Studies Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Few pop singers have been gifted with a voice as glorious as Whitney Houston's, and even fewer have treated their talent with the frustrating indifference she did toward the end of her life. Whitney Houston 2012-02-12T02:03:31Z

Or what if the son in the business gets gifted the business? The big lessons from celebrity estate wars 2012-01-26T18:47:45Z

A gifted athlete, he won a silver medal in the backstroke at the Maccabiah Games in the late 1960s. Review | Peter Sacks is one of the most compelling artists in America. But he didn’t find his voice until late in life. 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

A gifted, restless man overcomes adversity and wrestles with demons, testing the patience of those who love him and earning the audience’s admiration through sheer talent and force of will. | 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll': Andy Serkis Stars in Ian Dury?s Punk-Rock Story 2010-05-04T22:55:00Z

My little Einstein Topics: , , , Profoundly gifted children, , , IQ, , , One sunny afternoon this past February, I found myself waiting with my 5-year-old son, Jack, and his friend Oliver outside a lecture hall at Stanford University. My little Einstein 2013-02-13T00:00:00Z

Laing, a gifted amateur photographer and artist, photographed her daughters many times in and around their home. Iris and Janet, 1914 - picture of the day 2013-05-07T13:31:55Z

"I thank everyone for including me on this short list of extremely unique and gifted filmmakers." Spielberg earns 11th Directors Guild nomination 2013-01-08T22:16:06Z

At Oxford, I came under the influence of The Spectator, then edited by Charles Moore, one of the most gifted English journalists of his generation and now Margaret Thatcher’s biographer. Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Wolfe’s pyrotechnics wouldn’t have mattered had he not been a brilliantly gifted social observer and satirist. Tom Wolfe Kept a Close, Comical and Astonished Eye on America 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

But within that quietness lie some beautiful performances, particularly by Garfield and the gifted Mulligan. 'Never Let Me Go': Dark secret lurks behind youthful relationships in this unusual sci-fi film 2010-10-07T21:36:00Z

Many of the members were highly gifted, including the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, author of “The School for Scandal,” and the historian Edward Gibbon. The Friday Night Gab Sessions That Fueled 18th-Century British Culture 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Schumacher would hold no power over me -- or anybody else, most likely -- if he weren't a gifted, serious and passionate filmmaker who clearly loves what he does. "Twelve": On the intoxicating badness of Joel Schumacher 2010-08-05T13:01:00Z

These won’t be gifted, because I’ve been dipping into them almost every night to enliven various soups, stews and pasta sauces. Urban gardening: Work slows, but doesn’t stop, when October rolls around

Items can be picked up in restaurants, sent to your door via touchless delivery or gifted to a friend or loved one. Red Lobster selling famous Cheddar Bay Biscuits in holiday gift boxes 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

Lionsgate, the studio behind "The Hunger Games" called Hoffman "one of the most gifted actors of our generation." Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman dead of suspected drug overdose 2014-02-03T00:14:00Z

The groom’s mother teaches kindergarten to fifth grade in the supplemental and gifted education programs at the Roberge Elementary and Woodside Elementary schools in River Vale. Dana Knopp, David Wolf 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

When Chuck Brown gifted Washington with a style of dance music that didn’t allow his band to break for interruptions, applause or air, he named it go-go because the beat just “goes and goes.” How long can go-go keep going? 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

In a review in The New York Times, Charles Isherwood wrote that Mr. Terfel “may be the most richly gifted singer ever to undertake the title role.” Bryn Terfel Returns to the Metropolitan Opera. (Sort Of.) 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

But very few of them will realise that this pop icon is also a gifted jazz musician. Stevie Wonder: jammin' with the jazz set 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z

At this point, it is not an exaggeration to say he is the LeBron James of baseball, a gifted freak meeting all expectations, if not exceeding them. Bryce Harper: Baseball's Next Big Star or Future Flameout? 2011-07-05T05:35:00Z

Later he was the celebrity with a tendency to run his mouth and overstay his welcome – never as cool as his hero and mentor, Jay-Z, or as prodigiously gifted an MC as Nas. Kanye West's 'Yeezus' an uneasy listen 2013-06-16T20:37:00Z

Only 27, the gifted New York City Ballet soloist has already choreographed 15 ballets for that company as well as the Miami City Ballet and the L.A. 'Ballet 422' peeks behind curtain at birth of a Justin Peck ballet 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

The unlikely host and artistic director, the gifted conductor and musical theater archivist Rob Fisher, was not the person you would expect to oversee such a project. Music Review: ?In Perfect Harmony? in Lyrics & Lyricists at 92nd Street Y 2012-03-25T21:32:16Z

Despite a few fumbles, Mount steamrollers the action to a satisfying conclusion, thanks in large part to his youthful and comedically gifted performers, who deliver the laughs with plenty of heart. 'Against the Wall' at Theatre West 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Don't let that deter you, however: Blacker is a gifted writer with a sympathetic eye for detail and nature, a disarming frankness about himself and a cheery inability to escape a foreign culture. Travel books for your Christmas wish list 2010-12-18T00:08:01Z

But Mr. Rogosin was a gifted filmmaker, as is Mr. Costa. Review: ‘Al Di Qua,’ Homelessness Through an Artsy Filter 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

Attilio Piccirilli, the eldest and most gifted of the six brothers, did Lincoln’s head and hands himself. In the Bronx, finding hidden ties to Washington 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Marra is a gifted writer with the energy and the ambition to explore the lives of characters whose experiences and whose psyches might seem, until we read his work, so distant from our own. Dissidents reemerge in ‘The Tsar of Love and Techno’ 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

The publisher and editor Robert Giroux called Mr. Reeve “one of America’s most gifted and individual poets.” F. D. Reeve, Poet and Translator, Dies at 84 2013-07-08T02:48:30Z

Peoria, a gifted, cynical and reckless careerist given to drug-and-alcohol binges and avid indulgence in Bangkok nightlife. Review: ‘The Last Magazine,’ by Michael Hastings

Mr. Tcherniakov is one of the most gifted directors of our time, but this was not his most viscerally affecting work; its substantial pleasures were intellectual ones. Critic?s Notebook: Where Opera Is Stretched Yet Unbroken 2011-07-05T21:30:26Z

He was an aspiring musician with a beguiling backstory — a peripatetic childhood in a notorious cult with hippie-idealist parents and four gifted younger siblings. River Phoenix died 25 years ago. He’s still slipping away from us. 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

In a statement, Glenn D. Lowry, MoMA’s director, called Chéroux a “gifted curator and a beloved colleague whose leadership of our photography program through an exceptionally difficult period was exemplary.” MoMA Photo Curator Departs for French Foundation After 2 Years 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

"The Daily Show" gifted Bush with many such standing headers, most memorably the Iraq war graphic "Mess-O-Potamia." Jon Stewart was born to bash Obama 2010-06-22T18:25:00Z

The other is my mom, who not only gifted me with my love of books but also puts novels down as fast as she does a gin and tonic. Why Seth Meyers Loves Having Authors on His Show 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

This book reconstructs the glamorous world that was created by the two men in the fine old house—one of the prettiest in England—which became a magnet for the famous, gifted and beautiful. Pride and promiscuity 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Things have been going well of late for the gifted and eager performers in JACK, who first played together as students at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester in 2003. Four Guys Named JACK 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z

In the spring of 1950, Burroughs took a class on Mayan codices with Professor Barlow, who was, apparently, a gifted teacher. The Complicated Friendship of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert Barlow, One of His Biggest Fans 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Breslin nabbed an Oscar nomination at just 10 years of age for her assured performance in “Little Miss Sunshine,” and Prattes is a gifted dancer. Review | ABC’s ‘Dirty Dancing’ remake is just going through the motions 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

In his new Netflix special, "Baby J: A Wide-Ranging Conversation," the gifted comic affirms that nothing his online detractors could ever do will rival his own powers of self-destruction. John Mulaney's "Baby J" is the latest cancellation comedy reframing a controversial narrative 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z

In a more just world, Mahershala Ali, one of America’s most gifted actors, would have played the lead in at least a dozen films by now. Mahershala Ali Finally Gets the Leading Role He Deserves 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

SAT Information about academic, emotional and social needs of gifted children, 8:30 a.m. Community calendar 2012-02-02T00:47:04Z

This being an “X-Men” movie—the ninth in the series, if you count spinoffs—the gifted youths in Xavier’s care are not merely math wonks or promising linguists. Apocalypse Now: Bryan Singer’s New “X-Men” Movie 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Most of Mr. Ross’s characters, it turns out, are similarly gifted storytellers — or liars, as the case may be. Books of The Times: Tall Tales From Gifted Storytellers 2011-06-20T22:00:07Z

And the crew erupts in jubilation: no cartographic fools, they understand the huge importance of the document they’ve just been gifted: The Mapmaker's Conundrum 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

But he is also alopecia'd, epileptic and, as we later learn, preternaturally gifted with electronics, able to read radio transmitters by merely laying on of hands. Reif Larsen's 'I Am Radar' transmits narrative magic 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

Last year this episode gifted us with the Wisdom of Donny Osmond, where Donny was dishing out tens like sweets and generally making a mockery of something we were already mocking to death. Strictly Come Dancing 2015: week three – as it happened 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

McQueen, who was born in West London to Grenadian and Trinidadian parents, is one of Britain’s most gifted and garlanded Black filmmakers. In ‘Small Axe,’ Steve McQueen Explores Britain’s Caribbean Heritage 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

Eminem continues to attack the hypocrisies and contradictions that allowed him to leapfrog equally gifted artists. Review | Post Malone is the perfect pop star for this American moment. That’s not a compliment. 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Here, after all, was a gifted news media pioneer who served as a presidential campaign whisperer to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. ‘Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes’ Review: Portrait of a News Exec 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Its characters, all of whom are dressed in glorious, lunatic regalia created by a gifted costume designer named Machine Dazzle, are described in the text as analogues for various commedia figures. | 'The Walk Across America for Mother Earth': Protesters Armed With Wigs and Sequins 2011-01-21T03:01:21Z

“Morandi is a very gifted guy, and we beat him up,” she said. Tacoma ‘Sun King’ sculpture comes out of storage 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Hazel is the protective elder sibling, the reluctant leader, the responsible half of the team; Fiver is the gifted but erratic visionary whose talents are key to everyone's survival, but who lacks charisma or diplomacy. Elizabeth Wein's top 10 dynamic duos in fiction 2013-06-20T12:33:58Z

Mr. Faber is a genuinely gifted storyteller, however, and his novel gains resonance and tidal force in its final third. ‘The Book of Strange New Things,’ by Michel Faber 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

Jamal is possibly the ideal candidate — he is both musically gifted and levelheaded — but Lucious cannot accept that his son his gay. ‘Empire,’ a Terrence Howard Drama on Fox 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

A gifted lyricist, she wrapped the hints up in words that got pretty. Transgender Punk Music from Against Me! Is Honest, Impressive 2014-01-22T16:52:52Z

The 18th and 19th centuries, however, did not offer many career paths for musically gifted women. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

A gifted journalist who has written frequently for the New Yorker, Cep has imposed order here by providing biographical portraits of three figures: Maxwell, Radney and Lee. Review | Harper Lee tried to turn a murder trial into a true crime masterpiece. What happened to the book? 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

Mishaps and hilarity ensue, as one might expect from the gifted couple who, early in their careers, gave us that immortal classic, “The Baby Is Disappointing.” Review | What to read in April: A critic’s pick of books that aren’t on the bestseller list 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

Two gifted young musicians, twins named Charlotte and Sonja, dazzle crowds playing their instruments in a vaguely Victorian traveling circus alongside their sort-of adoptive mother, a tattooed lady named Tatty. Top 10 YA Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

A Milwaukee radio station gifted Super Bowl tickets to a police officer who was injured in the line of duty. Milwaukee police officer shot in the line duty gifted tickets to the big game 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

Félix, a gifted philosophy student, died last year of cancer at the age of 23. Claude Lanzmann: the man who told the story of Shoah 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

At the time, it was problematic to accept a black intellectual who was so prodigiously gifted on his instrument, and yet so uncompromising. Holding out for a hero: Soweto Kinch on Joe Harriott 2011-07-21T21:30:01Z

“David had rarely worked with a parent who did not describe her child as ‘gifted.’ Two Novels on the Complexities of Revisiting Past Loves 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Best of all, he gifted us with the handsomest savior in the DC Universe, Eagly. In the end, "Peacemaker" is the villain-turned-hero worth crossing the TV galaxy for 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

She was off to the races, and proved to be not just gifted, but also enterprising. For Lorna Courtney of ‘& Juliet,’ New York Has Always Been Her Stage 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

The Lopezes are Oscar winners, too, having gifted the world with “Let It Go,” one of the most ubiquitous songs of 2014. The Agony, Absurdity and Ecstasy of the Oscar for Best Song 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

A smile crosses his face, and one of the most gifted orators in a nation of silky speakers starts stumbling along a potholed sentence. Boris Johnson, London’s lively mayor, writes about Churchill and muses about his future

Early intelligence comes with a heavy helping of crazy in “The Prodigy,” a horror movie about a gifted youngster who is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Bojack Horseman’ and ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Powell and Pressburger’s story of a preternaturally gifted dancer who must choose between Art and Love is a dance film that is also considered a cinematic benchmark. ‘The Red Shoes’ Takes the Stage 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

In a statement, Auslander praised his new star: "Steve's range is astounding -- he is a comedy legend, a gifted satirist, and he possesses the unique combination of talents this role demands." Steve Coogan to take Philip Seymour Hoffman role in 'Happyish' 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

Someone had gifted me one for the march, enclosing a little pamphlet that explained pussyhats would be a way to reappropriate the language Trump had used to shame us, while also aesthetically uniting the rally. I felt the love – finally – at the Women's March, but what do we do tomorrow? 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

He suggested what he called a junior varsity version of gifted services. Why gifted education doesn’t make sense

“One of the truths about Perelman is, I think, he was the most gifted pure writer in American English in the 20th century,” Gopnik said in a phone interview. S.J. Perelman was a master of comedy. Nearly a century later, his work still delivers laughs. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

Kit is an 18-year-old boy who is somewhere on "a spectrum that stretches from 'highly gifted' at one end to 'nutter' at the other"; the words "obsessive compulsive behaviour" and "Asperger's" are bandied about. The Quarry by Iain Banks – review 2013-06-14T06:28:54Z

Not an option with two such gifted, celebrated veterans. Christopher Plummer remembered: 'It was a privilege to stand so close to greatness' 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

While her productions enlist some of the most gifted choreographers, directors and musicians in Salvador, the concepts, many of the songs and the significant choices are hers. Brazil’s Outspoken Daniela Mercury Is a Swirl of Ideas and Songs 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

There is a glut of talented, technically gifted writers and editors. Why is New York's literary crowd suddenly in thrall to Hungarian fiction? 2012-07-13T21:30:01Z

There is no doubt that Mr. K was a remarkable man and a gifted music teacher. Book Excerpt: Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations 2013-10-01T16:54:05Z

He touched the minds and hearts of legions of gifted students over the years, creating an enduring, indelible legacy in all the music making that will continue into the future. Seattle-area community members pay tribute to some of the cultural figures we lost in 2020 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z

“A woman blessed with beauty both physical and vocal, she was in addition a very gifted actress,” Plácido Domingo once wrote. Virginia Zeani, Versatile and Durable Soprano, Dies at 97 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

Is there a more gifted or versatile translator working today than Frank Wynne? He Was a Prominent Holocaust Survivor. But His Story Was a Hoax. 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

Some astrologers are naturally gifted, while others rely on software programs to do their divining. The Heart Said Yes; the Hindu Horoscope Said No 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

I had the pleasure of meeting this gifted young man on the set of House of D. Such a loss. Friends and Fans Mourn 'Star Trek' Actor Anton Yelchin 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

Of course, Mel is an undeniably gifted actor and director, and 'The Beaver' is one of his most powerful and moving performances. Jodie Foster: I won't "abandon" Mel Gibson 2010-09-22T02:42:00Z

“I created a heroine in Lalani, who isn’t particularly gifted in any way,” Kelly said. The best children’s books of 2019 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Two new middle grade novels examine the privileges and pressures of being “gifted,” as their protagonists struggle to reconcile their true selves with the faces they show the world. Young, Gifted and Searching for a Sense of Self 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Even with the deeply gifted Mr. Whishaw saying these words with passionate sincerity, they feel less like declarations of love than of ideals. 2010-02-17T03:22:00Z

Walt isn't as cold and smooth as Michael, nor is he as gifted a mastermind. "Breaking Bad" 4x6, "Cornered" 2011-08-22T09:23:00Z

He’s very gifted and very present and profoundly, almost pathologically generous — truly, really. For ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble,’ Claire Danes and Jesse Eisenberg Say I Do 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

One of the most popular and gifted artists on the international concert circuit, the Grammy-winning, celebrated violinist Hilary Hahn is no stranger to performing new music expressly written for her. Hilary Hahn unpacks new works in Seattle 2011-10-13T21:55:04Z

One gifted nurse smiled diplomatically when I brought him up, saying he gets some things right, others not as much. How Can Standup Succeed in a Fragmented Culture? Nurse Blake Has One Answer 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z

Davíd, a gifted but difficult child, doubts his new circumstances; his persistent questioning of Simón forms the grist of a philosophical dialogue tinged with intimacy. Paperback Row 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

We want to know them, these gifted, driven physical achievers. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice – reviews 2012-09-28T21:45:04Z

But is the Emerald City also earning a rep as a hub for gifted playwrights and compelling new plays? Move over, coffee: It's playwrights' day in the sun in Seattle 2012-09-05T22:38:04Z

Did she just decide that Vincent was the gifted one and put all her energy into his success? Motherhood in all its complexity 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

Only Stella, gifted in all forms of escape and wonderfully inscrutable to the end, is permitted the mystery and self-contradiction that allows for the fullness of personality on the page. Brit Bennett’s New Novel Explores the Power and Performance of Race 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

In a telephone interview on Tuesday, she said: “Richard was as gifted a technician and inventor as he was an artist. He really breathed life into photographic reproductions.” Richard Benson, Photographer and Printer, Dies at 73 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

The script makes her a gifted pianist, so she doesn't lose that music connection even if she only sings on camera for a few moments. Miley Cyrus all grown up in new movie 2010-03-31T02:33:00Z

Despite the emergence of countless powerful, gifted women in the genre, radio — still the all-important arbiter of taste in Nashville — seems to think that playing one woman an hour is more than enough. The Chicks Are Done Caring What People Think 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

A reality constructed by gifted songwriters but inhabited uniquely by her. Barbara Cook at the Wallis: Still doing what she does best 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Sacks is an extraordinarily gifted writer whose intelligence, compassion and skill on both the sentence and tension level rise to meet her ambition. Review | Rebecca Sacks’s ‘City of a Thousand Gates’ is a kaleidoscopic debut that illuminates the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

I’m sure working with student players, who are gifted and eager but need lots of help, hones a conductor’s technique. Surprise, You’re About to Conduct the New York Philharmonic! 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

As a Christmas present, Tate said she and her husband gifted their daughter with a new laptop. Mommy blogger takes heat for posting about daughter despite girl's protests 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z

Anyone who saw the original "Step Up" from 2006, the movie that put Tatum on the map, knows what a gifted dancer he is. A look at Channing Tatum's 5 films this year 2012-09-14T00:46:04Z

Under the astute eye of the director, Rachel Chavkin — one of the most gifted working today — the show remains a witty, inventive enchantment from rousing start to mournful finish. Review: ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,’ on the Heels of ‘Hamilton’ 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

The gifted young New Orleans trumpeter Christian Scott played a short support set. George Benson/Christian Scott – review 2012-07-03T14:52:43Z

Nevertheless, if Griffith's career has always trodden a fine line between gifted observational songwriting and dull mainstream country-pop, this show falls firmly into the latter camp. Nanci Griffith – review 2012-07-30T14:27:41Z

Calhoun deftly moves 21 gifted performers around the stage while they belt or harmonize their way through Frank Wildhorn’s generic tunes. Cast makes the best of entertaining but generic tune of ‘Freedom’s Song’ 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

At the same time, he becomes close—platonically close—with Jill, a student whom he considers gifted. The Existential Genius of Late Woody Allen 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Ferdinand was part of an England squad known as the golden generation – supremely gifted individuals who underachieved as a team. Rio Ferdinand: ‘I used to drink 10 pints then move on to vodka’ 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

The question is not which editors will be gifted with a Condé Nast interest-free real estate loan or a king-size mink blanket, but which ones will be able to keep their jobs. Perspective | What André Leon Talley says about fashion says a lot about how fashion has changed 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

See for yourselves how we are very reliant on the goodwill and passion of gifted individuals. Arts and the new coalition government 2010-05-21T23:07:00Z

Incredibly smart, gifted, voluble apes, but apes all the same. Invasion of the dumbasses 2011-08-11T20:32:01Z

He is stranded there when he is gifted by his country’s ambassador to Elizabeth. A Rich, Old-Fashioned Spy Thriller Set in Elizabethan England 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Alexis captioned the video: "My husband’s father passed away before our daughter was born. For his birthday I gifted him with a portrait made of his dad holding our daughter." Woman's emotional gift to husband showing newborn with his late father goes viral 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

The study found that fourth-grade students with high state test scores, but not high IQ scores, made significant gains in reading and math compared with similar students not in gifted classes. Wild ideas for fixing gifted education

The difference is that "Deadwood" didn't have an ending until David Milch finally gifted the world with its closing chapter in 2019. "Dexter: New Blood" is less of a revival than another stab at a satisfying closure 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z

Heller and Salzman, both law professors, show themselves to be gifted teachers. Who Owns the Space Behind Your Airplane Seat? 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

Segel and Diaz are gifted and game comedians, with a lot of audience appeal. Gags, hilarity ensue in satisfying ‘Sex Tape’

Callie is a devoted and gifted curler, and her athletic precision sliding stones is what first clues Max in to the fact that this is a deceptively sophisticated sport. All’s Well That Ends Well: Fall Romance Novels 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

His diction, focus and tone are those of a caustically gifted word man; his metrical dexterity is everywhere apparent. Bob Dylan on the Page: Poetry and Prose to Match Any American Writer 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

"We were young and gifted and looking way the hell black," Woodard said. Winfrey, `Beasts' actress honored at Essence lunch 2013-02-22T04:18:09Z

In a later episode, Abbott launches a gifted program whose students get to watch baby chickens hatch. ‘Abbott Elementary’ Is Gifted and Talented 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Not every gifted athlete displays greatness off the playing field. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Summer Hoyland left the street a blonde, gifted pianist and returned a brunette, sadly robbed of all musical talent. Neighbours: 25 years on it's still the perfect blend 2012-07-13T13:20:03Z

In Jamison’s able mitts, however, it was kind of a genius move, proving the cute college mailman is a gifted, sensitive singer, not just a showman, and highlighting his exquisite falsetto. 'The Voice' recap: The Top 5 top themselves -- twice 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

A man stuffed with paradoxes, Sorkin is one of modernity’s most gifted phrase-turners and a person given to occasional bouts of very bad writing. Aaron Sorkin’s masturbatory falseness: Sony’s stolen emails, “The Newsroom” and a bankrupt NYT op-ed 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Twice a year I hold sessions for gifted children. Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

In a sing-song opening theme, Mr. Taylor actually says of Rog, “He went from the Alabama gifted program to that trailer in the sticks.” Television Review: ?Rocket City Rednecks? on National Geographic Channel 2011-09-27T22:19:41Z

Crowell has also taken the opportunity to reclaim some of the songs he gifted to other people. Emmylou Harris: 'I looked down on country' 2013-03-04T18:22:38Z

This isn’t a free offering gifted to fans on a whim, it’s a full-fledged record on iTunes released under the Cash Money label. Does Drake's surprise album foretell major changes in his future? 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

He's got a lot of learning ahead, but he's a special, gifted player. Last chance to see original Emerson String Quartet in Seattle 2012-09-26T21:56:03Z

By high school, the gifted pianist was composing songs. Carole King’s musical odyssey 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

Yet when it takes hold of a gifted artist—Théodore Géricault, in this case—it becomes something more than a simple component of human nature. ‘Mutiny: Works by Géricault’ Review: Equine Passions and Anxieties 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

It isn't, and the linguistic transition can impede identification of and appropriate responses to gifted kids. Making Language Immersion Fun for the Kids 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

The prevailing tone is, as a result, a bit official, sententious and uplifting, redolent of an extended St Patrick's Day speech by a gifted American politician. TransAtlantic by Colum McCann – review 2013-06-01T07:30:01Z

Riccardo Muti chose Mason Bates and Anna Clyne as the current Chicago Symphony Orchestra resident composers because both are, in his view, gifted young composers whose works breathe an accessibility and vitality all their own. Bates, Clyne bringing fresh vibe to CSO's new music series 2011-03-16T16:56:31Z

This is memorable work from a gifted writer whose next moves we should await with very keen interest. This Is the Way by Gavin Corbett – review 2013-02-20T09:01:01Z

I often joke with my white Muslim friends that they are like the vampire superhero Blade, known as the “Daywalker,” gifted with “all of our strengths and none of our weaknesses.” I am not the Tsarnaevs 2013-04-22T15:19:00Z

I could brag about the time Carl, a gifted amateur magician, cut me in two at a “Car Talk” fundraiser, but that would be half-hearted. Carl Kasell’s retirement will wait wait no longer

A waitress at a Mexican restaurant in Arkansas was left stunned when two regulars gifted her a 2019 Buick as a tip. Waitress given 2019 Buick as tip: 'I took it as a gift from God' 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

It may well be that with time this gifted artist will grow into a memorable Butterfly. Soprano Martinez tries out "Butterfly" wings 2010-10-23T18:16:00Z

She called him a "very gifted actor" and added that he has "fantastic hair." Patrick Duffy embraces flawed Bobby Ewing on 'Dallas' 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

In both their recordings and in concert, this gifted vocal sextet uses "fun gadgets" that include a loop station, delay pedal, phase shifter and other sound-bending devices. Electronic, a cappella Radiohead? Sonos goes there 2010-12-16T05:01:05Z

Paul Dano plays Wilson young and gifted, wobbling between genius and madness as he records Pet Sounds. The best films of 2015 (so far) - US 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

Many gifted children struggle because elementary and middle school are easy. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

Then he soared off on the unexpected fast-bop theme that the band burst into, with the gifted Will Vinson's piercing alto-sax leading. Jonathan Kreisberg – review 2013-03-13T18:21:20Z

And we’ll be introducing one of the most diverse, accomplished, lavishly gifted advisory boards in publishing — my jaw drops every time I look at the list. The Offing, a new online literary magazine, launches in Los Angeles 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

The video arrived like a burst of magic, a rap hit gifted to the world in embryonic state. Desiigner’s “Timmy Turner”: A Viral Freestyle Finds Full Form 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z

He was a gifted caricaturist, for example, and a journalist and editor who wrote for dozens of little magazines and newspapers. The Wild of Nadar, an Early Photographer Who Knew How to Give a Party 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

His last occupation, for which he also proved immensely gifted, was as a part-time carer. Tony Banfield obituary 2010-07-27T17:31:00Z

Rolls-Royce gifted the bespoke vehicle with the plate attached, to Breast Cancer Care for a year. Pink Roller celebs start cancer trip 2013-04-18T11:38:15Z

He was a truly gifted singer and a musical inspiration. Celebrities Mourn Singer George Michael: 'He Was Such a Brilliant Talent' 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z

Bush-Kraft said she believed that Miller had gifted the art to Kraft. Frank Miller Sues Widow of Comics Magazine Editor for the Return of Artworks 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

After conquering practically every other big outdoor stage this year, the astonishingly gifted young bluesman Gary Clark Jr. went home to Austin, Tex., and a crowd that claims him as its own. The Best Concerts of 2012, as Seen by Times Critics 2012-12-26T23:38:02Z

It is possible to believe Miller is a gifted artist and to be concerned for their welfare while also recognizing that they have a history of creating troubling, unacceptable, or unsafe situations for other people. Hollywood's "list of excuses is endless": Enabling bad behavior, from Bill Murray to Jeff Garlin 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

I am really, really gifted in my dreams, much more so than I was in my actual practice. Valentino, Sarah Jessica Parker and New York City Ballet 2012-09-19T23:57:10Z

That Kodak is being persecuted — for being young, gifted and black — was a repeated refrain. Review | Kodak Black, mired in controversy, is a tough act to reckon with 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Nureyev is viewed as one of the world’s most gifted male ballet dancers. Arrest of prominent Russian director hampers premiere of 'Nureyev' ballet 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

Alderman is a gifted, witty writer and The Lessons is a sharp, insightful overview of a journey that starts out hopeful and ends horrible. Val McDermid's top 10 Oxford novels 2010-09-24T09:37:00Z

Mr. Carter had a fast-paced, irreverent style and was a gifted mimic. Jack Carter, acerbic comedian and longtime TV fixture, dies at 93 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

But he also exists amid a gifted company who lay bare the numerous contradictions of an infinitely rich play. Review: Paul Mescal Electrifies in a Revelatory ‘Streetcar’ 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

After touring France in the early 1950s, he was hailed as one of the country’s most gifted young stage actors and was soon offered film contracts. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Star of Celebrated European Films, Dies at 91 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Three years ago, I was gifted with a copy of the then-new novel “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” for my birthday. Welcome back, Bridget Jones: Still relatable after all these years 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

A dauntingly gifted filmmaker who too often can’t get out of his own way, Mr. Noé seems determined to extol his own daring. Review: ‘Love,’ Gaspar Noé’s Romance Told Through Sex 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

That sequence is performed with antic grace by the gifted Jason Tam as Xander, a nerd who has lived most of his life with his head in a computer screen. | 'Lysistrata Jones': ?Lysistrata Jones? at Walter Kerr Theater - Review 2011-12-15T03:05:04Z

The chief difficulty appeared to lie in his disdain for those less gifted than he — which, by definition, meant very nearly everyone. Paul Zukofsky, Virtuoso Violinist and Literary Executor, Dies at 73 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

This may be the year your loved ones truly appreciate being gifted luxurious soap, shampoo or hand lotion. Gifts that keep on giving: These retailers offer one-for-one deals or make financial donations 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

Honest, humble, loyal, complicated, as grateful for his success as he was unaffected by it, as respectful as he was respected, as generous as he was gifted. Doctors spent 40 minutes trying to revive 'Sopranos' star Gandolfini 2013-06-21T00:55:46Z

The truth is, both my kids are gifted. When One Twin is More Gifted Academically 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

The set design, by the gifted Michael Yeargan, nimbly jumps among locales, and includes a turntable that cleverly evokes the spinning of an LP. Review: In ‘These Paper Bullets!,’ a Chance to Twist and Shout 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

The relationship between this instinct and the desire to be heard is embodied in the story of her writing desk, gifted to her by a woman whose ex-boyfriend tried to kill her for leaving him. How Rebecca Solnit Found Her Voice 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

Almost every season at the New York Philharmonic, gifted artists in their 20s, sometimes even younger, are soloists in concertos. Music Review: The Pianist Paul Lewis Makes His Philharmonic Debut 2014-04-11T21:43:04Z

Claudia Seymour, the club’s president, said that art aficionados were somewhat accustomed to gifted sons following in the footsteps of creative fathers, “but to go on to a third generation is really remarkable.” A Family of Painters Is Having Its Moment 2011-06-07T03:00:06Z

Linked tales about a young, intellectually gifted boy, his older brother and their efforts to raise themselves in a low-income housing project in the mid-1980s. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

In “Victory City,” a new novel by Salman Rushdie, a gifted storyteller and poet creates a new civilization through the sheer power of her imagination. Salman Rushdie Has a New Book, and a Message: ‘Words Are the Only Victors’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

The show's gifted and talented student body, much like the cast of the show's spiritual predecessor, "Welcome Back, Kotter," was intentionally diverse. "Head of the Class" and the man behind the '80s comedy's progressive, even radical agenda 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z

He was gifted son of a Welsh miner whose escape to Oxford helped him become a man of erudition, insight and self-knowledge, as well as a hell-raiser. Burton diaries' passion and shame 2012-08-15T11:56:58Z

While not a terribly inventive lyricist, Collins turns out to be a gifted storyteller and a likable narrator of his own audiobook. Phil Collins Wants You to Know He Isn’t Dead Yet 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

But that kind of prescience is probably too much to expect of most military men, then or now, however "gifted". Under Every Leaf by William Beaver - review 2012-05-18T08:00:03Z

Particularly well captured is that streak of selfishness, often masquerading as self-sacrifice, that seems so prevalent among the gifted and the driven. The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen – review 2013-07-28T07:30:00Z

O’Toole is a gifted narrator with a knack for illuminating the significance of well-known people and events. Woodrow Wilson Achieved a Lot. So Why Is He So Scorned? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

I had that very day been gifted such a track – a song named Beauty, which appeared on the Shivers' debut album Charades, released in the autumn of 2004. Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll 2010-07-15T19:40:00Z

“All American Girl” succeeds primarily as a showcase for a gifted performer. Gifted performer, but 'All American Girl' has simplistic worldview 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

She was beautiful, socially gifted and an astute businesswoman. Woman of the world 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

The art being gifted to the nation adds up to about £25m of work. Saatchi donates gallery 2010-07-01T13:03:00Z

Rhoden is not only an inventive and fearless choreographer, he’s also a gifted traffic cop. Review | ‘Ballet Across America’: Sporadic gems with a new twist​ 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

“She was so gifted, she understood my father’s creativity like no one else,” Fulvia Ferragamo says, recalling how her older sister at first resisted their father’s recruitment efforts but eventually caved. T Magazine: Women of the House 2014-05-02T19:45:16Z

It was the thing that I was most naturally gifted at. Bieber's 'Sorry' video? JLo? Janet? Meet the choreographer behind the moves, Parris Goebel 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

It’s a tour de force from a gifted writer. 10 books to read in November 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

I knew you’d written for Esquire, but I had no idea you were such a gifted, natural, amazing like I’m dog-earing-pages-and-underlining-sentences good writer. “I’m the parent who wants their kids to have sex”: Mary Louise Parker talks poetry, nudity, one-night stands and her brilliant new book 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

He's a spectacularly gifted musician, shifting with ease from a slide-guitar instrumental to dynamic, soaring solos. Shuggie Otis – review 2012-11-21T14:04:27Z

Played with hangdog miens by the gifted Mr. Dossett and Mr. Sills, these men soon betray their bosses and switch sides. Review: ‘War Paint’ Recalls Two Cosmetics Titans 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

Lançon, a gifted critic, was hit by at least three bullets, one of which tore off most of his jaw. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

By there’s at least one gifted solo artist. TIME's Review of The Dark Knight Rises: To the Depths, To the Heights 2012-07-16T16:59:05Z

One might see Ms. Halvorson as a gifted salvager, rummaging through the odds and ends of American experience and finding plenty that’s suitable — even desirable — for painting. Art in Review: JOSEPHINE HALVORSON: ?What Looks Back? 2011-11-03T21:37:59Z

She was gifted, but not a prodigy, and there wasn’t enough money to send her to a fancy conservatory like Oberlin College, her first choice. The Diva Departs: Renée Fleming’s Farewell to Opera 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

It was an inane, knee-jerk question, given that Hitler employed one of the most gifted documentarians in history -- and certainly one of the most significant women in film. It's time to release Looney Tunes' racist cartoons 2010-10-15T20:01:00Z

This could in turn create openings for gifted performers who have avoided them in the past. ‘Bridgerton’ Takes On Race. But Its Core Is Escapism. 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

According to his mother, Ann Scott, he was a gifted young student with a precise sense of language. Julius S. Scott, author of ‘The Common Wind,’ dies at 66 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Anderszewski’s approach stops just short of mannered; his interpretation might even sound pretentious in the hands of a less gifted performer. Music Review: Paavo Jarvi Brings Schumann to Alice Tully Hall 2010-08-03T22:52:00Z

As longtime Random House editor Jason Epstein once observed, Rosset was "a gifted and courageous publisher and a terrible businessman." First Amendment crusader Barney Rosset dies 2012-02-22T17:03:09Z

It makes Beyoncé's self-produced documentary – in which she comes across as the most beautiful, loving, gifted but struggling woman in the world – look humble. The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson, introduced and edited by Harry Mount – review 2013-05-22T13:00:01Z

A literary critic and gifted essayist, Moustafa brings his formidable skills as a reader of texts to his analysis of contemporary political culture. “All Muslim life in America is seen through the lens of terrorism” 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

Baker wryly predicts his film will end up remembered best as the first movie of the scarily gifted Brooklynn Prince. The Florida Project’s Sean Baker: ‘I wanted the kids to be the kings and queens of their domain’ 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

"CalArts' next generation ranges from gifted students to young professionals such as animators, storyboard and character artists and up-and-coming directors and show creators, as well as independent filmmakers and artists," Pierce added. CalArts animation alumni help generate $1.5 billion at 2014 box office 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Clinically gifted, she was passionately committed to her patients and the profession: she chaired committees with acuity and kindness, and an irrepressible sense of the absurd. Letter: Bernardine Bishop's passionate commitment to psychotherapy 2013-07-24T15:43:46Z

This is what you expect from a gifted literary spirit, and on the whole is very refreshing. ‘Becoming Freud’ Recounts the Psychoanalyst’s First 50 Years 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

Only 19 when we first encounter him, Mr. Westman’s Hamilton exudes the arrogance, impudence and impatience of a gifted, ambitious adolescent on the brink of adulthood, on the rise and on the make. Review: ‘Hamilton’ Conquers London (King George Slays, Too) 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

Maroulis, the former "American Idol" contestant who earned a Tony Award nomination for "Rock of Ages," proves a gifted singer if not the most nuanced of actors in the title role. Review: 'Jekyll & Hyde' overwrought, in a good way 2013-04-18T23:35:09Z

Even the Marine Corp Band’s spokesperson took pains to call Beyoncé a gifted singer whose musical ability had nothing to do with the performance. Mariah Carey and the Art of the Disaster 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

It’s a lot, it’s definitely a responsibility, but I accept it because it was a role that was gifted to me. Zendaya: I'm Not a Role Model 'Because I’m Not Playing a Role’ 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Fortunately, Old Sage sous chef Matt Woolen is “a gifted baker.” Meet the new burger at The Old Sage 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

Both are generously gifted singers who invest themselves in music with a commitment that never flags and an emotional intensity that can scorch. | 'An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin': ?An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin? - Review 2011-11-22T03:01:03Z

A small vintage-looking popcorn machine modeled on those found at county fairs was gifted to them by an old family friend. Couples spill the real ‘I Dos’ and ‘I Don’ts’ of wedding registries 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Thus, they are honoured for having two spirits, and are seen as more spiritually gifted than the typical masculine male or feminine female. The 'two-spirit' people of indigenous North Americans 2010-10-11T11:28:00Z

I was also “gifted” jewellery, bottle openers, cups … many specially crafted with the BM logo. The crazy world of Burning Man – festival survival guide 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

“He really is one of the most gifted conductors of today. On top of that, he is an unbelievable ambassador for opera, and classical music in general.” ‘We’re Like Athletes Here’: The Maestro With a Gym Habit 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

Subtly and without affectation, Thomas challenges a visitor to measure up to some of the most gifted and popular thinkers and artists of the not-so-distant past. Hank Willis Thomas opens a 'Black Righteous Space' at the California African American Museum 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

You’ll be educated, yes — about increasing secularism, the Celtic tiger, human rights — but you’ll also be wildly, uproariously entertained by a gifted raconteur at the height of his powers. The 10 Best Books of 2022 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

The three works on the program — two by Artistic Director Paul Lightfoot and his partner, Sol Leon, and one by the gifted Crystal Pite — may change the way you view your world. Review | Dutch masters of dance: Rebellious perfection 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

“I want instead to sit on a sunny field and admire the very gifted women — and OK, some men too — who will be taking my place.” There will never be another Barbara Walters 2013-05-13T14:47:00Z

Wilson doesn't traffic in stereotypes of female scientists but plays instead a woman, as abrasive as she is soft, who just happens to be astonishingly gifted in math and science. Tony Awards 2015: Yet another British invasion of America 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

My grandfather, Bill Bolland, was a gifted professional musician who was principal trombonist and musical arranger with the Joe Loss Orchestra. Family life: Grandfather's big band experience, How Debby Harry won over Dad, and chocolate cake 2013-06-01T07:00:12Z

He highlights the distinctive manner and method that Mary, a gifted and outgoing mimic, has to master in order to be in movies at all. What to Stream This Weekend: The Best Version of “A Star Is Born” 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Mendelssohn wrote the piece in 1847, shortly after the sudden death of his beloved older sister, Fanny, also a gifted composer and her brother’s artistic confidante. Music Review: Quatuor Ébène Plays Schumann and Errol Garner 2014-02-23T21:46:20Z

Among the most preternaturally gifted saxophonists working today, Irabagon puts few limits on his expression. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

In “The OA,” a fable-like iteration of the resurrection theme, the heroine has perished many times over, blind in one incarnation but gifted in another with an extraordinary second sight. The Dead Get a Do-Over 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

There will always be gifted, visionary boys and men, the work seems to say in this new staging, but their futures are hardly assured. Review: After 36 Years, a Malcolm X Opera Sings to the Future 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z

The license for the design has been gifted to a small Wisconsin reproductive health nonprofit, which collects proceeds from sales through online retailers like Zazzle and CafePress. ‘In This House’ Yard Signs, and Their Curious Power 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

I turned the pages with interest — Mr. Vásquez is a gifted writer — but without special eagerness. Books of The Times: ‘The Sound of Things Falling,’ by Juan Gabriel Vásquez 2013-07-30T17:03:23Z

One of my favourite scenes features father and both sons sobbing together after a misunderstanding over a garish painting of a bull, gifted to Frasier by Marty. John Mahoney: Frasier's 'cranky' dad was the stove at the heart of the show 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

A gifted pianist, he moved to England as a teenager to attend boarding school. Daniel Cat?n, Composer of Operas in Spanish, Dies at 62 2011-04-12T02:28:20Z

He was a gifted teacher and festival leader, activities that naturally flowed to the podium. This Conductor’s Mozart Isn’t for the Faint of Ear 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

The guitarist composed the 17 typically genre-mingling tracks in seclusion, but this gifted band fires up the contemplativeness of the originals with a sympathetic energy fuelled by both classical and improv approaches. F&M playlist 2011-07-28T21:50:01Z

This is a gifted philosopher and historian of science doing philosophy with octopuses. Exploring the origins of consciouness, cephalopod and human, with Peter Godfrey-Smith in 'Other Minds' 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Not a naturally gifted artist, he worked really hard at it. Where Van Gogh the pastor became Van Gogh the painter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

But beyond the host’s shaky efforts at comedy and likability, the Oscars gifted us with some incredible moments — moments that elicited terror and disgust and a newfound distaste for the word “squishy. ” The most uncomfortable moments from this year’s Oscars 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

They perfectly inhabited the gifted, devoted, anxious dancers they were portraying, not merely because they were these things themselves, but because they were that good. The high school musical that might have saved me: Watching a high school production of “A Chorus Line” in middle age showed me how much I missed 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

In many Buy Nothing groups, it’s common for members to share updates on items they’ve been gifted, along with expressions of gratitude. ‘Buy Nothing’ groups: A place to share goods, services — and gratitude 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

Their solidarity is endangered when Ms. Swinton’s character, Emma, whose husband owns the business with one of her two sons, embarks on a headlong secret affair with the son’s best friend, a gifted young chef. Film: New Directors/New Films Offers ?I Am Love? 2010-03-30T21:33:00Z

In Stormzy’s opinion, the singer Frank Ocean is the “most gifted songwriter of my generation.” How Stormzy Crafted His Latest Album, ‘This Is What I Mean’ 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the 'Oh, how banal.' An inspired evening with Arcade Fire at KeyArena 2010-09-30T19:52:00Z

Pop/Jazz Ben Ratliff When you notice a gifted jazz musician moving past his clear gifts into deeper, harder-to-explain territory, it can make you feel lucky. The Week Ahead: May 1 ? 7 2011-04-29T16:20:02Z

She is also gifted with greater psychic powers. Books of The Times: Samantha Shannon’s Fantasy Novel, ‘The Bone Season’ 2013-08-26T22:00:29Z

Alam’s two previous novels, “Rich and Pretty” and “That Kind of Mother,” have proved he’s gifted with an acidic wit, one he uses to break down contemporary life at the cellular level. What Happens When a Vacation Goes Wrong — and Not in a Funny Way? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Describing a delicate Victorian writing desk gifted by a friend, she imbues the object with a strong sense of her intellectual life and credibility as a writer. Review | Rebecca Solnit, who inspired the term ‘mansplaining,’ explains herself (sort of) 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Both are gifted but volatile, often dealing with suppressed emotions and memories of trauma by cutting off those who can help them most. Jessica Jones recap, episodes 1-7: what do you make of Marvel’s newest TV hero? 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

“We are losing a gifted conductor,” he wrote. Austrian Conductor Dies After Collapsing Onstage in Munich 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z

A principled, outspoken, young and gifted Black man, Asim often finds himself either misunderstood or reprimanded by teachers, co-workers, friends, family, bandmates and romantic interests. Review | In ‘Boyz n the Void,’ a ‘malcontent with an allergy to authority’ finds freedom — and confusion — in the punk rock scene 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

A gifted athlete, he attended Japan Athletic College, in Tokyo. Kazuo Ohno obituary 2010-06-07T17:40:00Z

And those whose brains show more connections when they hear their moms’ voice are more socially gifted than those whose don’t. What Happens in Kids' Brains When They Hear Mom's Voice 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Instead, it’s Isabelle who occupies center stage, where she offers a sort of how-to class on being the parent of a gifted child. Review: ‘Mother of the Maid,’ a Lesson on Raising a Teenage Saint 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

Which is a shame, because Mr. Bieber is developing into a gifted vocalist, far less reliant on technology than he was two years ago. Pop: Justin Bieber’s Album ‘Believe’ Comes Out Tuesday 2012-06-14T12:00:00Z

Stories about gifted liars usually end with them getting caught in their own tangled webs, but "Cell 211" avoids being judgmental about it. 'Cell 211': Guard becomes locked in a web of lies in powerful prison drama 2010-09-30T20:43:00Z

He’s also an adventurous thinker in terms of style and content — not always the case even with gifted writers. Review: In ‘The Christians,’ a Schism Over Fire and Brimstone 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

But the movie doesn’t shy away from portraying Mr. Buffett, now 86, as something of a remarkable human computer, gifted with numbers and less so with interpersonal relationships. ‘Becoming Warren Buffett’ Goes Beyond a $74 Billion Fortune 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

Declared gifted, the family were able to find a public school where he excelled. From IQ tests and sperm banks to "The Queen’s Gambit": a history of gifted children 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z

The key to understanding Parker, who's also a gifted singer, is that he's a dedicated entertainer who sincerely believes in funk's power to transform and heal. Take a walk on the funky side with Maceo Parker at Seattle's Jazz Alley 2010-03-15T21:31:00Z

The day before, the she was gifted a cheese wheel. The other side of concert etiquette: Miranda Lambert, tempers and why everybody is so provoked 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z

“The world has lost a truly great and gifted musician.” Rock Guitarist Alvin Lee, 68, Dies 2013-03-07T06:06:58Z

I am writing to put in a plug for his FATHER--and my! the relations between these two gifted men must have been pretty fraught. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

Roth is required not only to be precociously studious, but also, ideally, to be show-off gifted. The Scientists: A Family Romance - review 2013-01-14T07:00:01Z

Being in the presence of all these great artists who so generously gifted their time and their brilliance to me was extraordinary. "I'm a Scottish witch, I think": Shirley Manson on the prescient lyrics in Garbage's dark new album 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, I'm a little afraid of the beautiful aluminum Bialetti Moka Express maker that was gifted to me some years ago. The icy ginger Americano that inspired my adventures in at-home espresso 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

For what Mr. McCraney, the extravagantly gifted author of the “The Brother/Sister Plays,” is doing here is tearing down the warm and cozy house of feel-good African-American family portraits. Review: In ‘Head of Passes,’ Phylicia Rashad Is a Matriarch With Worries 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

The late Washington Post music critic Paul Hume once called Mr. Scribner “one of Washington’s finest musicians and one of the most gifted choral conductors in the country.” Norman Scribner, who founded D.C. Choral Arts Society, dies at 79 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

Parents, students, teachers and scholars would learn much about how gifted education works best. Wild ideas for fixing gifted education

Should a gifted artist be spared at the expense of another doctor, if the artist is callous and the doctor decent? Richard III; The Doctor's Dilemma; The Fire Garden – reviews 2012-07-28T23:06:10Z

A: Anxiety is a problem that affects many of our children, and gifted children can also be anxious. Perspective | Using logic to help a child cope with anxiety is, well, illogical 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Trump gifted Mr. Cohn with knockoff cuff links. Matt Tyrnauer: Chronicler of Trump’s Mentor Roy Cohn 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

Alan Leeds, whose time as Brown’s tour director overlapped with Mr. Stubblefield’s period in the band, remembers him as a gifted but not terribly ambitious musician. A Living Legend Tries to Make a Living 2011-03-29T14:02:02Z

But they are singularly gifted and singularly total people in the degree of commitment that they have made. Twyla Tharp and Her Body of Perpetual Motion 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

My parents gifted me with a real awareness, a political awareness and caring that they showed us. Ani DiFranco: ‘It was very hard in the beginning to put my inconvenient truths into song’ 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

This deeply gifted actor is a specialist in good ol’ boys of deceptive simplicity. Theater Review: ?How I Learned to Drive,? With Norbert Leo Butz 2012-02-14T03:01:00Z

This was, after all, the age of the devilishly gifted violinist Paganini and of piano wizards with outsize egos that divided critics and fans. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Whatever happened to the expression 'given to us' rather than the awkward 'gifted'? A Take on Shepherd’s Pie, Straight From the Farm 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Following a magnetic, gifted artist might be an even better way to get into the field than seeking out performances of masterpieces. Perspective | A beginner’s guide to enjoying classic music. No snobs allowed 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Given the choice between a gifted but unpredictable sad sack like Perry and a rich and vivacious piano-virtuoso stoner like Camilla … well, it’s not going to be an easy decision, is it? ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: The Smoking Gun 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

She later gifted Morton with the documents she used to build her case. A Baltimore house once owned by Frederick Douglass has become a history lesson 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z

A few years ago, we had the Tiger Mom, who raised gifted musician daughters using methods that struck many readers as cruel. How parents of talented children hold the line between supporting and pushing 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

It would be quite something to have a father so gifted in horrible evocation. The Crumb Road by Maitreyabandhu – review 2013-07-05T17:30:00Z

Some have applied, he said, but didn’t meet the standards of the guild, which promotes gifted young performers. Music Review: Lysander Piano Trio Performs at Weill Recital Hall 2014-04-08T22:14:34Z

He's affable but very cagey, and thus 100% believable as a gifted politician. "The Killing": A murder mystery with brains and soul 2011-03-31T12:32:00Z

Lila is gifted but a child of parents who can’t afford to pay for her education, one of the few avenues for a working-class girl to escape her limited circumstances. Smart Watch: “My Brilliant Friend” and “Escape at Dannemora” mark the start of awards (ba... 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

The writers have always gifted Dinklage with fertile material allowing him to display a range of emotional tones. “Game of Thrones” recap: “The Dragon and the Wolf” is a satisfying end to an uneven season 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Aykroyd issued a statement on Monday calling Mr. Ramis “my brilliant, gifted, funny friend,” adding, “May he now get the answers he was always seeking.” Harold Ramis, Who Helped Redefine What Makes Us Laugh on Screen, Dies at 69 2014-02-24T21:55:57Z

NPR's "All Songs Considered" has praised Smith as an "amazing storyteller," but like other gifted singer-songwriters he has yet to break beyond a small, passionate following. Sound of the White Buffalo can be found between tenderness and a growl 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Can these two gifted artists avoid the usual pitfalls? Sliding Toward Tap, and Taking Risks, at American Ballet Theater 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

By now, we liked the concept of overnight stays because it gifted us with the ability to see more. Betting on a shore thing: Four megaship veterans try cruising on a smaller scale 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

The sunset seemed to match perfectly the airborne, chiming music created for the occasion by the gifted composer Michael Friedman. Review: ‘The Tempest’ Stars Sam Waterston and the Weather at Delacorte Theater 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

“Upper-class women gifted in music were turned from any thought of such a life plan because of the stigma attached to those who appeared as performers on the public stage.” Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

As gifted as Soul was, he also put in the work. The legacy of Soul One, a steward of Seattle hip-hop culture, lives on 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

This was the gifted French pianist's Chicago debut, and I look forward to hearing more from him. Under Gatti, French National Orchestra focuses on style, color 2011-04-14T17:25:00Z

Hugh, as gifted a diplomat as he was a musician, protected the image of the “Graceland” performers as a unified troupe, and, despite centuries of old tribal wounds, made sure that we were united. Paul Simon on Mandela’s Role in ‘Graceland’ 2013-12-13T22:42:19Z

A superstar scientist and a gifted athlete, Molly seems made for a solo mission. Review: In ‘Spaceman,’ Floating in a Most Peculiar Way 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

Like some of her other female relatives, Annie is gifted with “the know-how.” Beware the purple fields in Lori Roy’s eerie ‘Let Me Die in His Footsteps’ 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Johnson is a gifted writer, always worth reading on the topics of race and privilege. Review: Mat Johnson’s ‘Loving Day’ Takes a Satirical Slant on Racial Identities 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

I play Mr. Benedict, and I gather these four really gifted kids. Q&A with Tony Hale: Playing Mr. Benedict and Gary Walsh and the time an asthmatic named Buster inhaled his mother’s smoke 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

He would not be the first, or even the most gifted, of Indian designers in recent decades to skirt the clichés afflicting Indian fashion. Suket Dhir, Men’s Wear Designer, From Delhi to the World 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Whereas Obama proved a gifted speaker with comic timing, Trump’s first dinner is likely to be a more awkward affair. ‘Vanguard of opposition’: SNL adds Spicer to satire’s resurgence under Trump 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Thomas is the most gifted and effective educator about music for the general public since Leonard Bernstein. After 25 Years, San Francisco’s Maverick Conductor Moves On 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

The beaten Pat: A contest judge after reading hundreds of entries from folks who think instructions are for the less gifted. Style Invitational Week 1191: Mess With Our Heads 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

McDowell – gifted, vibrant actor though he is – once said he would rather hit a home run than win an Academy Award. Malcolm McDowell: 'I have no memory of doing most of my films' 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

Fortunately, Bernheimer is a gifted, resourceful architect, familiar with the obstacle course of affordable development, including challenging sites. The Housing Situation Is Dire. But Progress Is Still Possible. 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

He also joined his high school choir, though he didn't consider a career until his senior year in a program for gifted music students at Youngstown State University. Tenor Brownlee shows race no hurdle to his career 2010-04-30T10:39:00Z

For Ri'chard, whom La Marre called "an incredibly gifted performer and a good dancer," "Chocolate City" was his first major role since "Coach Carter" 10 years ago. Robert Ri'chard and his abs have prominent roles in 'Chocolate City' 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

But the revolution has gifted viewers quality, choice and convenience in what has been called a golden age for television. How big tech became the new titan of television 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

It's not something that I'm specifically gifted with. Walter Koenig: "Star Trek" is a welcome respite from the infamy of the Trump administration 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Iris, as it turns out, is a gifted speaker and actress, the winner of many a contest for elocution, poetry and dance. ‘Lucky Us,’ by Amy Bloom, America’s Victor Hugo

Also, did I mention that when you "return" a book on the app the image of the book spins away into the horizon and you're gifted with digital flowers? Ronan Farrow's voices (and other audiobook delights) helped me get through this year 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

We are privy to only scant flashes of Kayleen’s horrible home life, but it’s enough to chill, and the gifted Foster conveys every beat of Kayleen’s emotional agony. Emotional heft and humor at the heart of Rajiv Joseph's 'Gruesome Playground Injuries' 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

But what gifted youth need is guidance from the gifted who figured out how to be graciously protean, pragmatic flourishers. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

The publisher announced the decision Wednesday, describing the book as the coming-of-age story of a gifted young man whose search for meaning leads him to New York, England, Paris and Korea. Newly found Pearl S. Buck book is to be published 2013-05-23T15:00:10Z

Because many are gifted actors, they are also skilled at making the answers seem fresh each time. Coaching Stars to Avoid a ‘Racist Against Whites’ Moment 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

Harris was a gifted basketball player as a young man, and helped start a Negro League baseball team, too. Pa. exhibit showcases legendary black photographer 2011-11-27T22:31:04Z

Biden also gifted Reid with the confirmation that four Black women were among the list of candidates being vetted to be his pick for Vice President. Cheers to a solid launch for MSNBC's "The ReidOut" – but from here on out, it's time to get tougher 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z

“We just thought the gifted kids were stubborn,” said Murphy, my bathroom confidante, who turned out to be much more self-assured and talkative than her character. An Immersive Play That Transports You to a Chicago Public High School 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

The most eclectic of music theatre composers was not only a gifted wordsmith and lyricist, but also had a truly original compositional voice. Here’s to the ladies who lunch: One of Sondheim’s greatest achievements was writing complex women 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

But in the hands of a gifted novelist or a clever illustrator, prison, grief, infidelity — even the end of the world — have their pleasures. Newly Released Books 2010-12-16T06:34:36Z

She was included in an educational experiment – one that Gordon Brown had also participated in – to fast track gifted children. Val McDermid: a life in writing 2011-08-12T21:55:20Z

Campbell is the most gifted political PR man of our time. Christmas reading for the rich and famous: what do you recommend? 2012-12-21T15:09:13Z

His mother is the head of the lower school at Open Window School, an independent school for gifted students in kindergarten through eighth grade in Bellevue. Jamie Haas, Adam Brown 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z

The duplicitous Burr may be the most Shakespearean figure in the pageant, a gifted man tormented and ultimately undone by his failure to make himself matter. ‘Hamilton’ Review: You Say You Want a Revolution 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

They come in a variety of sizes and are as unique as the person to whom they are gifted. The best online flower delivery services 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z

This recording remains an impressive debut by a highly gifted young group, and generous to boot, with 73 minutes of music. Recording review: Dover Quartet’s homage to its mentors 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

And while we eagerly await a new season of last year’s break-out comedy news program, Oliver and his team gifted us with a thirst-quenching clip. John Oliver on “50 Shades of Grey”: Trailer as “erotic as watching someone drop an unpeeled carrot into a shopping bag” 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Baltar is gifted a character arc to die for, a Shakespearian trajectory which sees him ultimately overtaken by a genuine religious conversion, and defining himself via self-sacrifice, love and courage, blah blah. Larry David to Lisa Simpson – life lessons from TV's top role models 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Barred by race from the major leagues as a gifted young athlete, he bitterly disses breakthrough black players like Jackie Robinson and thwarts Cory's ambitions. Theater review: Seattle Rep's staging of 'Fences' hits it out of the park 2010-04-01T20:18:00Z

JHD – as his friends knew him – would confess in later years that he thought himself insufficiently gifted to be a character actor, and insufficiently good-looking to be a star. John Howard Davies obituary 2011-08-24T17:45:22Z

The gifted Smith Quartet excel in a wide range of modern repertoire from Feldman to Crumb. Smith Quartet 2010-04-25T21:15:00Z

Myers was gifted enough to be accepted to one of Manhattan's best public schools, Stuyvesant, and unsteady enough to drop out. Walter Dean Myers, 73, a hero to young readers 2011-03-04T14:51:12Z

He was a gifted mandolin picker and was known to strum a banjo, but it was on fiddle that he became a celebrated sideman. Johnny Gimble, Who Fiddled His Way to Fame, Dies at 88 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

She’s a very gifted plotter with a keen sense of timing. Review: In ‘Disclaimer,’ by Renée Knight, Secrets Wind Up in Print 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

The narrative is rich in memorable characters, including Albert “Baby” Bell, the notorious criminal strongman who served as Beck’s mentor, and No Thumbs Helen, the gifted pickpocket who became Beck’s first common-law wife. ‘Street Poison’ review: Why rappers owe a debt to writer Iceberg Slim 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

And it was, ‘Oh, he’s no drama, he’s easygoing, but really gifted.’ Ailey’s New Secret Weapon: The Heroically Unmannered James Gilmer 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

She may have been the most purely gifted poet of the 20th century. The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

When Mr. Calleja emerged on major stages, about 10 years ago, he seemed an enormously gifted but vocally uneven artist. Opera Review: Zeffirelli’s ‘La Bohème’ Staging Still Elicits Sighs and Awe 2014-01-15T22:43:27Z

Mr. Payton, a ferociously gifted trumpeter originally from New Orleans, has spent much of his career sidestepping expectations. Music Review: Words and Music: A Jazz Trumpeter Plays, Sings and Blogs 2011-03-02T22:19:39Z

Supporters who showed up to the witch hunt hunt were gifted with orange caps featuring jack-o’-lanterns on the front, and “Keep America Great!” on the back. The Trump campaign held a Halloween ‘Witch Hunt Party’ and tortured a metaphor to death 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

“And that’s not what the book is about. For me, it’s about the pain and cost of being so gifted.” ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Tries a Risky Play: Betting Chess Can Be Good TV 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

While some sisters survive in memory only, others, like one gifted by the Scouts to Kenosha, Wis., to mark the city’s 100th anniversary, were saved by designation as historical landmarks or significant public art. What the saga of Chieftain Blue Sparks’s desk has to teach us 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

One of the most gifted jazz pianists and singers of our generation ... A guide to Richard Rodney Bennett's music 2012-07-02T13:32:00Z

They tend to be witty, gifted instructors, rapping readers’ knuckles with rulers so attractive the knuckles hardly mind. In Love With Language, but Not Necessarily With Each Other 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

The daughter of a gifted singer, Sutherland studied piano and voice with her mother, and made her singing debut in a concert performance of Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" in Sydney in 1947. Opera great Joan Sutherland dies aged 83 2010-10-11T17:15:00Z

Spurred by a rivalry for his father’s love with his new stepmother who is a talented cook, he grows up to be a gifted chef. The Week Ahead: June 5 ? 11 2011-06-03T18:16:25Z

But Mr. Bezmozgis is such an astute and compassionate observer, a meticulous historian and a gifted stylist that, even when suspense and momentum seem to be lacking, the pages still tend to fly by. Books of The Times: One Jewish Family in 2 Worlds, Outsiders in Both 2011-04-10T19:00:16Z

But Maguire's set tonight seems stilted, and more middle-of-the-road than is strictly necessary for a vocalist so gifted. Plan B; Clare Maguire ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

Amalia, gifted with foresight, has a shadowy past, a legendary right hook and a habit of ditching her walking dresses mid-brawl, because a long skirt can really spoil a roundhouse kick. Laura Donnelly’s Week: ‘Dora the Explorer’ and a Poetry Prescription 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

In many an episode, the baddies used some mixture of brute force and alchemy to exert control over less physically or magically gifted Eternians. He-Man: Most powerful Gen X unifier in the universe 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

Although Seddiqui intended to frame a photo of his Seattle latte masterpiece, he claims his final product was so bad that the Vivace folks instead gifted him a cappuccino cup as a memento. Writer, cross-country traveler visits Seattle and Spokane on his cultural tour of the United States 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

Khan-Cullors grew up poor in Los Angeles, and attended a gifted program in a middle school in Sherman Oaks, a nearby affluent neighborhood. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

“I thought of myself as lucky, actually, that I wasn’t gifted in that way, because gifted people often can’t deal with their gifts,” Ms. Bennett said. Tracie Bennett as Judy Garland in ?End of the Rainbow? 2012-03-30T15:00:00Z

Of Puerto Rican heritage, he was a gifted Hunter College High School student and theater major at Wesleyan University — and an expert freestyle rapper and ardent hip-hop fan. Salsa and rap musical 'In the Heights' ? coming to 5th Avenue ? lifted creator to early stardom 2010-09-23T20:24:00Z

In fact, it takes the “female detective leads a gifted man to help solve crimes” model and just adds an extra man. Houdini & Doyle: new show can't free itself from shackles of old formula 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Stephen King and LeBron James declared they wouldn't pay for the blue check that comes with a Twitter Blue subscription, but Elon Musk gifted them with one anyway. "What a sad, muddled place this has become": The madness of Twitter's blue checkpocalypse 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Anyway, truly gifted actors have a way of making Shakespeare’s verse sound like thoughts sprung immediately from the minds of the characters to their mouths. Too Much Shakespeare? Be Not Cowed 2013-09-12T18:18:17Z

Whitney Houston was an incredibly gifted vocalist whose first two blockbuster records featured her interpretations of tunes written by other people. Yes, Beyoncé is a “real artist”: Stop challenging the authenticity of her work 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Hersey wondered why primers couldn’t at least feature the talents of gifted children’s-book illustrators, and he listed Dr. Seuss among their ranks. How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

Aurora is awakened a century later, and the story continues to unroll in the present day, with the stage set for battle between Caradoc and the now supernaturally gifted Leo for her hand. Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty – review 2012-12-16T00:05:50Z

“Chances are he has a lot more to offer, like a gifted child,” Ms. Geller said. The Secret Price of Pets 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

The eldest of nine children, stranded in “a wilderness of hunger” for attention, Moore waited until her 70s to mine the interior life of her mother, the “gifted, complicated” Jenny McKean. New in Paperback: ‘Thinking Inside the Box’ and ‘The Mountains Sing’ 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

A gallery of gifted actors do parade through “The Artist,” but are there for little more than stunt appeal. The perfect double bill: Classic Hollywood from “The Artist,” Chaplin 2012-06-26T12:10:00Z

A serious and gifted writer himself, Obama is widely known as a voracious reader. No more reader-in-chief: After Obama, Trump the nonreader amounts a real national loss 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

I was a gifted student and had received scholarships, which gave me access to bougie black society. From overlooked extra to Spike Lee star: how I beat Hollywood's colorism 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

Responding to Sir Michael Wilshaw's concerns about bright pupils, following the abandonment of the gifted and talented programme, Mensa says such children "should be provided with the appropriate resources to learn and achieve their potential". Is this parade of 'genius children' a really stupid idea? 2013-06-15T19:00:03Z

“One of my mother’s best friends gifted us miniature Christopher Radko ornaments every year,” he said. For this year’s Christmas tree decorations, embrace the unexpected 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

That's not the way for a gifted comic actor to spend his summer vacation. Paul Review: E.T. With a Potty Mouth 2011-03-17T16:05:00Z

Many of these directors, some not nearly as technically gifted as Aronofsky, have travelled entire odysseys of acclaim and misfortune since then, while he is treading similar water. Black Swan is enjoyable enough, but what its director needs is a good action movie 2011-01-15T00:05:53Z

There is at times a sloppiness unbecoming such a gifted and precise writer, as when she collages the diary of a Black U.S. Review | Amanda Gorman’s ‘Call Us What We Carry’ is as powerful as ‘The Hill We Climb’ 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

Instead of the crushing he anticipated, he was reintroduced to the world as a gifted dramatic actor. Bob Odenkirk on ‘Better Call Saul’ and the Return of Gus Fring 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

Her turn on The Sopranos was my first look at this gifted and talented actor. Who We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Weinstein 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Alfaro wrote "Mojada," a new play rather than a refinement of "Bruja," imagining Medea as a magically gifted seamstress instead of a healer, and setting it in Chicago's Mexican American immigrant community. Luis Alfaro's 'Mojada' draws on Greek tragedy, Mexican American immigration 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

Jonathan Lethem is among the most gifted novelists alive, and it has killed me to have to review his last two novels, including this year’s “The Feral Detective,” without enthusiasm. Times Critics Discuss the Year in Books, From Triumphs to Disappointments 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

He’s a gifted talker, but often, to punctuate a point he’s making, he’ll stab at your shoulder or jolt your arm. JR’s Street Gallery Comes Indoors 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

Not to knock “Modern Family,” which does what it does just fine, but with her pure white-knuckle vulnerability, Clifford has gifted us with one of the greatest female characters in television history. Let us praise Claire, the true hero of "Fleabag" 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

Eisenberg is a gifted, even fearless screen actor, but as a writer, he’s a dud. Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘Bream Gives Me Hiccups’ is no masterpiece 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

A gifted artist, Vishneva seemed loath to draw any attention to her considerable athleticism, as though this would betray the ballet's spirit. ABT's 'Sleeping Beauty' at Segerstrom a lush return to tradition 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Instead, he said, Mr. Nagy should be appreciated for his overall qualities as “a phenomenally gifted dancer and a great artist.” Ivan Nagy, Star of American Ballet Theater, Is Dead at 70 2014-02-26T01:29:55Z

"It's a great honour to put this special project into the hands of such a gifted writer and iconic director," said Nathan Kahane, president of Mandate Pictures, who will executive produce the film. Spike Lee confirmed as director of Oldboy remake 2011-07-12T10:43:35Z

Hill’s breakneck novel hurtles impressively through the life of a football prodigy, a gifted linebacker who turns pro. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Don’t City Ballet’s Balanchine classics and these gifted young dancers deserve the fine-tuning that Mr. Dowell brought to Ballet Theater’s Ashton? Ashton and Balanchine: Compare and Contrast 2010-07-01T22:36:00Z

He got away with it because he was gifted — not just a born writer, but also a good musician, linguist, athlete, raconteur, and a diverting companion. ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,’ by Zachary Leader 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

I was identified by my teachers as a relatively gifted student. Jay-Z is ‘Robert Frost with a Brooklyn accent,’ a Georgetown professor writes in his new book 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Indeed, most of “Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life” feels like piecework, the creation of a gifted professional fulfilling an assignment, his own or the publisher’s, in a professional but dispassionate manner. Book review: ‘Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life,’ by Peter Ackroyd 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Chang himself was gifted enough to become a professional erhu player with the Shanghai National Symphony Orchestra by the time he was 16. Seattle Chinese Orchestra helps East meet West in April 20 concert 2012-04-11T22:31:05Z

This could leave the door open for a Scanners-like showdown between the gifted candidates who decide to choose different paths, like Eight and Eleven. Stranger Things 2: just as potent a second time? Discuss with spoilers 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

Burnham is gifted at mocking the performative liberal sanctimony of the moment as well as corporate attempts to exploit it, such as his very realistic YouTube ads that pop up below. Does a Comedian Really Need an Audience? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

Next came “Oscar Night,” a tribute to Mr. Pizzarelli’s blazingly gifted longtime pianist Ray Kennedy, who died in May. Review: John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, Feeling Deeply, at Café Carlyle 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

At home, Dujuan is a gifted healer who speaks three languages, and he is a gentle comfort to his mother. ‘In My Blood It Runs’ Review: ‘I Want to Be an Aborigine’ 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

She has always been a gifted self-publicist, inviting endless magazines and newspapers into her country house and appearing on the front of Hello! with Daisy when she married Goffey in late 2008. The Saturday interview: Pearl and Daisy Lowe 2011-04-01T23:05:38Z

He was a gifted liar with a sharp intelligence and heartbreaking mix of cunning and naiveté. ‘The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff’: to protect or punish 2013-05-30T19:47:16Z

The city also instituted a program called Design and Construction Excellence to entice gifted New York architects willing to suffer the city’s bureaucratic swamp, squabbling agencies, broken procurement processes and notorious late payments. Three Sunny New Libraries Are Neighborhood Lifelines 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

Siskind, who also directs, skillfully helms her gifted young cast in an emotionally engaging evening that is certainly heartfelt. 'All My Distances Are Far' dives into the turbulent waters of teenhood 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

He calls this grab bag, which includes Benjamin Franklin, Damon Runyon and James Thurber, “a strange collection of geniuses, worldly failures, drunks, misfits, cripples and gifted idiots.” Books of The Times: Laughing Matters: Discuss 2010-12-07T23:00:00Z

Sang is an uncommonly gifted interviewer: formidably grounded, fluid, quick with responses and also keen to steer conversations toward more intriguing topics. Zach Sang, the Ryan Seacrest of the Youth, Wants to Save Radio 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Foster, the endearing goof of the duo, is a gifted mimic who can differentiate between the contrasting adenoidal yowls and yelps of the lead vocalists of the genre with remarkable precision. | 'Power Balladz': Head-Banging Anthems at Midtown Theater 2010-08-20T02:01:00Z

The opera’s gifted librettist, Matthew Jocelyn, grasped what Shakespeare scholars have come to understand, that there is no single definitive text of the play. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Brian Morton, a gifted, compassionate novelist, has, over the course of five elegant novels, explored the moral complexity inherent in storytelling. A Son Looks Back on Life With an Irascible and Beloved Mother 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

She was not the most naturally gifted writer — Susan Sontag and David Foster Wallace were among her detractors — but she played her hand exceedingly well, and she came along at the right time. Kathy Acker, Drawn to the Margins, Pushed Literature’s Boundaries 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

While I played, a man approached my mother and told her I was gifted. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Here this still-young, extravagantly gifted composer grabbed the dramatic moment and met it with energy and originality. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

See more of Entertainment’s top stories on Facebook >> Director Dave Solomon keeps the tone low-key yet consistently dynamic, while his gifted young performers struggle — and often succeed — in making sense of their murky motivations. Making love, not war: 'The Dodgers' relives the drama of the Vietnam draft 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Cora was herself a gifted writer and musician, and gave her girls an impressive literary and musical education. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

And the wonderful James, a stand-up comedian gifted with crisp timing and flawless delivery, made Ava a breakout without overpowering her co-stars. The joy of "Abbott Elementary" is in its lesson about working hard for a fulfilling purpose 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

Whitney Huston was a gifted talented beautiful woman with a golden singing voice... Pop-music queen Whitney Houston dies at 48 2012-02-12T04:19:04Z

Maybe it was more his celebrity than his talent at play, but Tesfaye is a gifted singer who managed to mostly nail his material despite the technical issues. The Weeknd brings midweek Saturday-style fun to KeyArena 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Separate and delightful interviews with the McCabes and Costa-Jacksons reveal the extent to which sibling dynamics help drive the development of gifted artists growing up under the same roof. Sister acts: Musical siblings share the spotlight at Seattle Opera, Meany Theater 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

“Howard became kind of a character actor,” said Cronenberg, who suggested that the emotion Shore is especially gifted at evoking is “the strange and terrible sensuality of loss.” Before he won Oscars for his music, composer Howard Shore helped kick off SNL 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

“Obviously, he’s a super gifted physical comedian,” says Fey. At 95, Dick Van Dyke is still the consummate showman. And he’s desperate to get back onstage. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

Converse was not the most gifted vocalist or guitar player, and her voice had an air of formality that befitted the age. Connie Converse: The first singer-songwriter 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

For one thing, Roiphe is a sharp and lovely writer, a gifted stylist with an ear for the pace and rhythm of sentences. In defense of Katie Roiphe 2012-09-04T19:52:00Z

Another: His gifted improvisations on the piano, despite never having taken a music lesson. Before ‘Elvis,’ Improv Students Exchange Ad-Libbed Vows 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Hefner — or Hef, as he is known to just about everyone — is famous for bestowing presents of plastic surgery on his many girlfriends and may well have gifted himself. How Hef Got His Groove Back 2011-02-06T07:48:01Z

I thought it suited the dancers because they are so rhythmically gifted and quick to pick things up. ArtsBeat: Roots in New York, but Stretching to Europe: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet at Joyce Theater 2012-05-15T17:47:12Z

Marcellus is a singer, a soulful and gifted one, but at one point, he too contributes some tap. Review: Jacob’s Pillow Is Back, With a Tapping Tour of the Grounds 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

One of its themes is the mysterious combination of luck, ambition and prejudice that keeps some hugely talented musicians in the shadows while others, perhaps less gifted, become big stars. Movie Review: ‘20 Feet From Stardom’ Explores World of Backup Singers 2013-06-13T23:57:32Z

Of the American directors of so-called New Hollywood, Cimino was by far the most visually gifted. Postscript: Michael Cimino, 1939–2016 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

He is presented as a gifted and civic-minded politician facing "the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression." Historians question White House presidential bios 2011-04-05T13:26:27Z

The Belle Isle Nature Center, where the whole family clamors for a chance to feed the white fallow deer, descendants of the original population gifted to the Isle from French President François-Félix Faure in 1895. In Detroit, Belle Isle Aquarium is a forgotten gem for fish aficionados 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

A collection of 31 short stories, some previously published, some new, by the gifted Seattle author. Alexie, Evison, Wilson are Pacific Northwest Book Award winners 2013-01-07T21:40:18Z

Fashion has always been a blood sport, especially in Paris, and the most gifted and fragile talents could be monsters at heart. News Analysis: Why Was the Designer Raf Simons Dismissed? 2012-03-04T01:03:30Z

Despite his large canvas, Rich is a gifted portraitist of his three main characters. A Novel of 1918 New Orleans, With Murder and All That Jazz 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

Gray brought the invigorating ease of a gifted downhill skier to his autobiographical monologues, the best of them “Swimming to Cambodia,” made into a film in 1987 by Jonathan Demme. Books of The Times: ?Journals of Spalding Gray,? Edited by Nell Casey - Review 2011-10-17T21:27:58Z

A gifted pianist as a child, he was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia when he was about 12; his principal teacher there was Isabelle Vengerova. Jacob Lateiner, Pianist and Scholar, Dies at 82 2010-12-14T07:30:19Z

Bird really shows you how ludicrously gifted Parker was, how his mind worked on a completely different level, but also how much he got lost in self-loathing, and how addiction made everything fall apart. The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

Writers, even the most socially gifted and established, must be outsiders of some sort, if only because their job is that of scrutiniser and witness. What drives writers to drink? 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z

With apologies to the laundry list of gifted folks I’m overlooking, here’s a sampling of the best new horror currently on offer. Review | Horror novels are having a renaissance. Here’s what to read. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

“Daryl is an incredibly gifted young actor,” Grant wrote in an email. Daryl McCormack Has More Than Luck on His Side 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

Harrold is one of the most imposingly gifted trumpeters in jazz today. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

When I read comic books, they were more likely to be the ones about Archie and Veronica than those about the gifted caped-and-body-stockinged figures that boys with bristly imaginations were supposed to gobble up. My Stephen King problem 2012-07-06T14:42:00Z

Jacob, a gifted French poet and painter, palled around early-20th-century Paris with modernism’s greats — Picasso, Apollinaire, Cocteau. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

“I know him to be not only one of the most gifted, original and impressive directors in the country, but also a deeply kind and thoughtful leader who commands huge respect in the theater community.” Donmar Warehouse Names Michael Longhurst as Artistic Director 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Christian Burse, a gifted 17-year-old Black dancer who will become an apprentice with Complexions Contemporary Ballet this fall, said she values the skills and connections she has built at competitions and conventions. Sequins and Soul-Searching in the Competitive Dance World 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Until we do, more stories are sure to follow about the tragic death of yet another gifted woman. Motherlode Blog: Whitney Houston, My Mother and Addiction 2012-02-14T16:58:23Z

When my friend, a massage therapist, learned I was pregnant last winter, he gifted me a stunning large, clear piece of quartz he had bought during a recent crystal-foraging trip to Brazil. ‘Healing’ crystals are having a pandemic moment. But science says they’re just pretty stones. 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

A few years ago, David gifted me for Christmas this book because I am so interested in this transition and in this complete surrender of power in a way. Zazie Beetz Grew Up With Shel Silverstein and Nina Simone 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

I think in many ways he was at a unique moment — but he was a uniquely gifted human being. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

The federal government in the early 1970s “brought the plight of gifted school children back into the spotlight,” the association’s history says. How a small school for gifted kids in the D.C. exurbs gets big results 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Hadad is a gifted singer, able to belt out those long, deep notes on mournful songs such as “Cucurrucucú” like the best balladeers. Astrid Hadad, 'Lady Gaga of Nixtamal,' is part of thrilling start to PST's performance fest 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

At this point, it is not an exaggeration to say he is the LeBron James of baseball, a gifted freak meeting, if not exceeding, all expectations. Bryce Harper: Baseball's Next Big Star or Future Flameout? 2011-06-24T09:00:00Z

The most compelling moments on the second season of the History Channel’s “Top Shot,” which concluded in April, involved the saga of the golf instructor Jay Lim, a naturally gifted shooter and a teddy-bear-soft competitor. Television Review: War May Be Hell, but a Competition Show Awaits 2011-07-12T22:11:32Z

“Your writing is how I found out about you. You are a gifted Baltimore writer. How could you not love this place, man? How?” Black history bulldozed for another Starbucks: Against the new Baltimore 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

I don’t think we’d gotten stale, because the people we had were so gifted and at their peak. Lorne Michaels Discusses the ‘Year of Reinvention’ Coming to ‘S.N.L.’ 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

Acceleration is a powerful intervention, with effects on achievement that are twice as large as programs for the gifted. Motherlode Blog: The Redshirting Debate Continues 2011-09-26T17:12:38Z

We knew that Turlough would bring it to life brilliantly, which he does because he's a brilliant comic actor, but he's also really gifted at playing the kind of emotionally devastating stuff as well. "Sanditon" boss on that heartbreaking finale, a curious "Bridgerton" connection to and Season 3 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

Was Mr. Rios a gifted artist as a child? Marco Rios: ‘"S” Is for Sincere, Formerly Formally “F” Is for Fake’ 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

"I wouldn't say she is particularly gifted as an actress," James Agee wrote in The Nation in 1944. Elizabeth Taylor, legendary actress, dies at 79 2011-03-23T13:57:00Z

But some are incredibly gifted and they’re so far away from the rest of the world that they’re perfectly happy with it. Q&A with Barry Gibb: Loving country music, the feeling before going onstage and why he can’t watch the Bee Gees documentary 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

With her gifted director Scott Wittman, Ms. Ebersole seems to share a telepathic kinship in which multiple personalities reveal themselves as one number segues into another. Music Review: This Bowl Of Cherries Offers Food For Thought 2011-01-12T22:13:24Z

My best friend is a gifted musician who is an addict — been to rehab five times — and he just can’t deal with his gifts. Tracie Bennett as Judy Garland in ?End of the Rainbow? 2012-03-30T15:00:00Z

Ernst was sent to a school for artistically gifted children in Leningrad. Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian Sculptor Who Clashed With Khrushchev, Dies at 91 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

To start with, in Gheorghiu the performance had a soprano with a beautiful voice who is also a gifted actress. Review: 'Adriana' a treat at Covent Garden 2010-12-05T12:31:00Z

It is a finely honed, understated performance certain to enhance Gleeson's global appeal beyond that of a gifted character actor. 'Calvary' could mark a signature role in Brendan Gleeson's career 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

He is immensely gifted in a small number of areas and deficient in many more. My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z

And then fans discovered it on DVD and gifted each other, so we really feel it was such a fan-driven franchise. Kal Penn Explains How 'Battle Creek' Differs From All Those Other Cop Shows 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

"Mankell is a deceptively gifted writer," Queenan wrote, "who uses the plebian mystery format to address the disintegration of Swedish society, the horrors of old age, the very meaning of police work." Henning Mankell is gone, but he leaves enduring legacy with Wallander novels 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Gombrowicz, played by the gifted actor David Pittu, was 35 and mostly unappreciated as a writer in his native country when he was sent as a sort of cultural ambassador to Argentina. Theater Review: John Guare’s ‘3 Kinds of Exile,’ at Atlantic Theater Company 2013-06-12T02:00:12Z

If Mr. Krämer’s direction is backed by experience, the gifted conductor Philippe Jordan, the Opéra’s new music director, has youth on his side. Review: A Promising Start to 'Ring' Cycle 2010-03-23T17:10:00Z

She’s a gifted filmmaker, and it’s shocking that so few of her works are readily available on home video, whether DVD or streaming. Movie of the Week: “Outrage” 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

For all the problems I have with this show, just like Studio 60, it proves again that line by line, Sorkin is one of the most gifted dialogue meisters on TV. Dead Tree Alert: Blowhardball: The Not-So-Special Comment of HBO’s The Newsroom 2012-06-21T12:53:34Z

But as Chu's film reveals through home movies from Bieber's small town outside Toronto, early YouTube clips and interviews with the people who discovered him, he's preternaturally gifted, freakishly poised and incessantly hardworking. Capsule reviews: 'Justin Bieber,' 'Cedar Rapids' 2011-02-11T12:37:23Z

Still, this final testament probably isn’t the best place to begin with this gifted director, who has been too frequently overwhelmed by the image he created for himself. Video: When DeMille Parted the Red Sea 2011-04-01T21:39:04Z

At present, we are gifted with artists who exude conviction in the face of adversity. Is Rap Finally Ready To Embrace Its Women? 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

She is a master at it and is particularly gifted at transitioning from foreground to background. Oils that are different, yet complementary, at Prographica 2014-04-03T20:49:48Z

The death of Matthew Perry was sad for all the reasons it is sad when a gifted, nimble, charming performer who has shared his struggles dies too young. The First of Our Friends to Go 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z

It was like an afternoon with Bob and Roberta Smith's less gifted mates. Tate Modern's birthday was a soulless celebration 2010-05-17T10:49:00Z

But as they hunt for sustenance, they keep an eye out for Javi, dead or alive, and are gifted with blessings from Lottie to see them back safely. "Yellowjackets" goes full on Norman Bates in its primal, elemental return 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

If I am not willing to declare him a great writer — he is all of 42 — he is an exceedingly gifted one who can move in any direction he wishes. Review: ‘All That Man Is,’ and a Lot He Is Not, in David Szalay’s View 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

He's also one of the smartest, most inventive, most gifted funny guys around. 'Alphabetter Juice': Roy Blount Jr. riffs on words, in all their sonicky glory 2011-05-19T19:55:04Z

Ms. Radvanovsky, an intelligent and gifted actress, used the orchestral postlude after the murder to chart her character’s course from stunned numbness to horror at what she has done to frantic perusal of her options. Opera Review: ‘Tosca’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2013-12-12T23:23:47Z

Even so, her career dips to a new low with “Eloise,” a horror movie of such ineptitude that it invites sympathy for even its least gifted participants. Review: ‘Eloise’ Has the Usual Haunted-Hospital Clichés 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z