| 单词 | grotesque |
| 例句 | It felt grotesque and unnecessary, but she didn't object. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The summit proper, a slender rock fin sprouting a grotesque meringue of atmospheric ice, stood twenty feet directly above. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Scarlet splotches glistened on his cheeks as if he had been made up for some grotesque stage show. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But the majority, who are in the clutches of drink or morphling or illness, look grotesque in their costumes, depicting cows and trees and loaves of bread. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z All my magazine reading and overheard remarks fell at once into a grotesque but understandable pattern. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s even proposed that the grotesques in medieval art may have been influenced by Ad Herennium s advice on the use of outlandish images to nail an idea in memory. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z She heard a high-tension crackle and hum from the lights, whose cables swung in the wind, scattering the rain and throwing shadows up over the rocks and down again, like a grotesque jump rope. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I knew this because they were skulking in the bushes outside the detention room, making grotesque faces at me through the window. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z For a moment he had an odd desire to laugh at the grotesque thick boots. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Francie looked and saw, not the baby’s foot, but a grotesque thing in a big, worn-out shoe. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z What few trees they saw were stunted, grotesque things growing sideways out of cracks and fissures. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It can be argued, for instance, that war is grotesque. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z That idea escalates to its macabre zenith in Nazi Germany in the 1940s, where human eugenics is used to justify grotesque experiments, culminating in confinement, sterilization, euthanasia, and mass murder. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Francie thought the revolver looked like a grotesque beckoning finger, a finger that beckoned to death and made it come running. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And still the robot’s hands formed the stirrup, nor did he betray the slightest atom of surprise at the grotesque figure into which Powell had been converted. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He lunged forward in grotesque spurts around the clearing. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The worst of it was my mouth, a grotesque blob of purple and red, all bruise and stitches. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The flickering flames of a pitch pot threw wavering, grotesque shadows upon the walls. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The nearby gym was occupied by fellows either practicing basketball or boxing calisthenics and the walls echoed with thuddings, bouncings and whistles blowing, like a grotesque sound track. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was aware of the other players around him, hel- meted and grotesque, creatures from an unknown world. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One man pressed an open hand to his jaw, drawing his fingers across, pulling at his lips, making them grotesque. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t easy, because Hassan’s upper lip was a grotesque mesh of swollen, raw tissue. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Harry looked over Hermione’s shoulder and saw an unrecognizable face lying on Bill’s pillow, so badly slashed and ripped that he looked grotesque. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Then they inched the grotesque dead thing up the rock and toppled it over on top. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The explosion in the mortar pit that had killed twelve of his buddies played out in his head again and again, grotesque and graphic. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z There’s something grotesque about their grins, fixed for thirty years. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She would much rather remember them alive than on grotesque display in their Sunday best. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She looked at the grotesque eating equipment Alexandra had put by his plate. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I couldn't sleep all night; a fog-horn was groaning incessantly on the Sound, and I tossed half-sick between grotesque reality and savage frightening dreams. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z They dressed as Mister Crimson or the Lost Bride, or wore the grotesque, goggle-eyed mask of the Madman—all characters from the Komedie Brute. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He became a doctor, and he treated poor people in the daytime, and he wrote grotesque novels all night. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z None of the baroque ecstasy, none of the grotesque compulsion. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It was grotesque to watch, which was, of course, the point. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The fiercely anti-Semitic Der Stiirmer newspaper—with its grotesque caricatures of Jews and its slogan, “The Jews Are Our Misfortune”—had been temporarily removed from newsstands. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The woman then aborted spontaneously, and the nun who assisted at this grotesque delivery came away from the experience with blood on her hands. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The simple type was based on dots and lines, while the complicated type was based on glyphs—grotesque faces. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Demeaning posters appeared in both Polish and German, depicting us as grotesque, filthy creatures, with large, crooked noses. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Out of the locket’s two windows, out of the eyes, there bloomed, like two grotesque bubbles, the heads of Harry and Hermione, weirdly distorted. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was blue and swollen, grotesque, but the real horror was the mother's eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This part of it would have been comical if the results were not so grotesque. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The dead mammals were heaped together, a grotesque pile of decayed animal parts. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Twisted and turned, the camera perched precariously beside his ear, he felt like a circus grotesque. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But my pride gets in the way of agreeing to such a grotesque lie. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Above him loomed a grotesque fat man with a forked yellow beard, holding a wooden mallet and an iron chisel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The light tortured him and Ben turned his head toward the lit-up back wall where he saw the grotesque silhouette of his head. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As though invisible strings were tied to Snape’s wrists, neck, and knees, he was pulled into a standing position, head still lolling unpleasantly, like a grotesque puppet. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z "Speaking for the grotesques," he said, "I beg to differ. Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There were always two boys who did a grotesque dance together, mimicking the girls and bumping into them rudely. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, Emenike and two other boys had lured Hadome into the toilet and beat him up, Hadome’s eye swelling so quickly that, just before school was dismissed, it looked grotesque, like a big purple eggplant. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Mrs. Poe purchased clothing for the orphans that was in grotesque colors, and itched. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z And everything he loved, everything he had shown the visiting elf was turned into a grotesque cartoon, a bloody comedy of violence. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Would she have to learn the grotesque details of our suffering? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The grotesque hypocrisy slapped me as it does all Negroes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In an instant, the hissing, burning gas vapor lit the grotesque scene. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a grotesque creature, and he’d never seen a fighter survive its attack, but it was also a living thing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Their eyes shone with fevered madness, and each had a uniquely grotesque, disease-ridden shape. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Do I dare disturb the universe? was now a grotesque jumble of unconnected letters. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He still kicked his scaly feet even as Nergal's throat bulged to grotesque proportions. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He held the reins in his left hand and carried his right arm in a white silk sling, but otherwise looked as grotesque as Sansa remembered from when he had visited Winterfell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I don't think she can read, but her brown hair swings over the page as her eyes follow the curling vines and grotesque beasts that run up and down the margins. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The beast shook as he transformed himself back and forth between his goatherd self and the grotesque form of the fiendish chupacabras. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z No one even dared to look at his grotesque face. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “I can’t help it, Ben,” Mary Anne smiled with a grotesque sweetness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The knight's leg was trapped, the arm he'd used to break his fall twisted at a grotesque angle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Nine fearsome, ugly, half-naked, fifty-feet-long brutes lay sprawled over the ground in various grotesque attitudes of sleep, and the sound of their snoring was indeed like gunfire in a battle. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Holding on to the top of the stand with one hand, she made a grotesque pass at the pole with her pelvis and sighed, “Oh.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Floating in the sea of black, we were forced to witness the massive and grotesque deaths of thousands of people. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z What was it the guy on the Common had said the other day, his chin resting on the Volkswagen like some grotesque John the Baptist? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The story was so revolting and grotesque Hazel had always shut her ears when they told it at Camp Jupiter. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Somewhere in the vast flock, a variant was born with a grotesque beak capable of cracking seeds. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Under the grotesque, magnificent shell with a face like Quasimodo’s, there was shame and self-loathing which had been planted there when he was tiny, by something which it is now too late to trace. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “The outfit—grotesque. And that earring. Oh, my.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Even a traveling side show would have rejected her, since her freak quality lacked that important ingredient—the grotesque. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z A woman not five feet tall, with a grotesque, protruding stomach, was wheeling an old black baby carriage down the street. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The chains holding Brer Fox forced his legs to walk around me like a grotesque puppet. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z High above them, floating along in midair, four struggling figures were being contorted into grotesque shapes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z They lay where they had fallen, their limbs in grotesque positions. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z His mouth filled with the taste of lemonade, and his face became grotesque, as though he really were being stretched on the torture engine called the rack. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Oily black scales bristling with barbed spikes covered its grotesque body. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The effect of the overlarge eye against his otherwise handsome face is both grotesque and amusing. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I simply cannot tell you how awful they were, and somehow the whole sight was made more grotesque because underneath those frightful scabby bald heads, the bodies were dressed in fashionable and rather pretty clothes. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z The result is a grotesque, semi-feline mask, which now squints at us distrustfully. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He lost patience entirely with the whole grotesque and incomprehensible melee. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I mean, it’s not like we’ve got some dictator guy telling everybody they have to, I don’t know, like, wear polyester all the time or something grotesque like that. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Once, I started with terror at a ratcheting upon my foot, to find a horseshoe crab trundling past in search of a pool, its saber-tail and lobed armor grotesque in the extreme. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Hammered the stage where the night riders performed their grotesque pageants and the wheeled platform that delivered the doomed men and women to the air. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I sprang up, grabbed it, and then, in a fumbling and perhaps grotesque offering to Phineas, I chinned myself. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea of this creature solemnly lecturing him— him—about the social order was really too grotesque. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z "Even if the boy does live, he will be a cripple. Worse than a cripple. A grotesque. Give me a good clean death." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Three years of wartime propaganda—racist headlines, atrocity movies, hate slogans, and fright- mask posters—had turned the Japanese face into something despicable and grotesque. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z When first he came to Dragonstone, the army of stone grotesques had made him uneasy, but as the years passed he had grown used to them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, when she came to die, which she did eventually, looking more grotesque than ever, as she deserved, his thoughts were abruptly arrested, and he was chilled by the expression on her face. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z But the grotesque part, he said, was her jewelry. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He studied one by one the grotesque carvings of dwarfs that decorated the roof bosses, and the corbels finishing the doorway. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Whether any of the nephews shared Yezzan’s fondness for cripples, freaks, and grotesques was far less certain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She envisioned a grotesque creature stalking forward in the moonlight, tongue darting between serrated teeth as it eyed easy prey. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z And there on the small screen was the burnt house, and the crowd, and something with a sheet over it and out of the sky, fluttering, came the helicopter like a grotesque flower. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “The irony of this is so grotesque it is rather charming,” he wrote in his personal journal. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I don’t know,” the chaplain wailed softly in a quavering voice, squinting with grotesque contortions of anguish and incomprehension. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The shadows of the goal posts sprawled on the field like grotesque crosses. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of those reports were a nightmare--grotesque, circumstantial, eager and untrue. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Most of the stylists they interview on television are so dyed, stenciled, and surgically altered they're grotesque. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z At her forecastle stood a grotesque figurehead, some worm-eaten wooden eminence with a constipated look and a scroll tucked up under one arm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They limped about in crippled, teetering circles; on their backs they frantically scriggled paraplegic legs; on their sides, twisted into grotesque agonized shapes, they arched and jerked and quivered. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If not for Percy, those grotesque hags would have carried him away. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z As the maddening laughter continued, each whirling object suddenly contorted, enlarged, ballooned, stretched, shrank, into all sorts of grotesque, shifting monsters, all of them attempting to swallow me up. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Another night of Stew Beef making dynamic subtleties with his drum and living, sculptural, grotesques in the dance. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z It’s a hard-hitting, sometimes grotesque, often violent and erotic spectacular. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The falling snow had covered almost all of it, but part of one gargoyle still poked above the drift, its grotesque face snarling sightless at the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A collection of grotesque wooden masks rested on a shelf. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z A blaze of glittering lights brightly illuminated the water and the grotesque scene. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Near Hrothgar’s hall stand the images of the Scyldings’ gods, grotesque faces carved out of wood or hacked from stone and set up in a circle, eyes staring inward, gazing thoughtfully at nothing. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a grotesque thing in the safe room. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The sound is so grotesque that Mary collapses. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Making a grotesque, mocking face, Nancy clapped hands over her ears. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mascara started streaming down her face, which made her look like a grotesque clown. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It was a plain wooden santo with no name, and, contrary to the other carved or plastic saints, it was grotesque. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “It wouldn’t make me feel real good to be the cause of your grotesque weight gain,” she said, and puffed out her cheeks in a chubby way. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z "However sincere the lesson, the result is likely to be grotesque. Still, I know what it is to love a brother, Lord Snow. I will give Bran whatever small help is in my power." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They looked even more grotesque now than when they were awake. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They mark special occasions, write horrible poetry, sketch things that are beautiful or grotesque, or just rant. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Reporters flooded the funeral and made photographs of the dead boy’s grotesque face. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They were grotesque, like useless young men in a depression. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Kira stared in dismay at his grotesque but accurate imitation of death. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The Prince of Winterfell had been a graceful dancer, but Reek with his missing toes would be grotesque. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It pained my insides to see, once again, the twisted, scowling white faces with open mouths jeering, clustered about my friend’s head like bouquets of grotesque flowers. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought he was a creature covered in matted fur, his face grotesque and contorted, with giant fangs and bloody eyes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The garments had frozen into grotesque shapes and didn’t want to come in through the window. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I gaze at them, but they no longer seem grotesque. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It all seemed grotesque to me, and presently I said:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The reflection staring back at me from the looking glass appeared grotesque and strange. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps once they had been lions, but now they were twisted and grotesque. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Being in a swarm of a billion locusts is a surreal experience – but not, as you might expect, a grotesque one. 'Hippos snapped my last boat in half': Planet Earth II's hairiest moments 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z “He was another grotesque man who has this insane ambition,” Mr. Taylor said of Richard III, Shakespeare’s hunchbacked protagonist. Robin Lord Taylor on His Charismatic ‘Gotham’ Penguin 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z The grotesque humor of Mr. Wagner’s script feels less like a distancing gesture — hey, let’s laugh at these freaks — than a route toward empathy. Review: David Cronenberg Dissects Hollywood in ‘Maps to the Stars’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z She concluded: “The debate was a grotesque travesty of democracy. Trump did to Hillary, the moderators and the viewers what he did to that chair and insulted us all the while.” Samantha Bee rips Donald Trump for 'rape culture banter' in leaked video 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Formed in 1984, the Grammy-nominated band rose to fame in part because of its elaborate, over-the-top and grotesque costumes and showmanship. Gwar frontman David Brockie died of heroin overdose 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z The movie is an exquisitely made grotesque that crawls up your leg. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2013-02-28T02:07:11Z Gilroy noted that for him, Gyllenhaal's gaunt look in the film reduces his face to angular planes that catch light in different ways, shifting between handsome and grotesque. 'Nightcrawler' a different look at Gyllenhaal and L.A. 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z For such dialogue to work, it has to be delivered with either grotesque comic flair or the kind of audacious sincerity that dares you to go ahead and laugh. Theater Review: ?In Masks Outrageous and Austere? at the Culture Project 2012-04-17T02:00:12Z His cartoons delighted readers even when they dealt with less grotesque or taboo subjects. Sam Gross, 89, Dies; Prolific Purveyor of Cartoons, Tasteful and Otherwise 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z She acts this out—both in this book and also on her award-winning Comedy Central Show, “Inside Amy Schumer”—in order to purge our shame through performing the grotesque. Reading Amy Schumer: The powerful missed message in “The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo” 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z That monster first appeared through his individual gnarly body parts, which swirled around the stage before assembling into a suitably grotesque creation. Music Review: From Wily House Cat to Lord of the Manor 2010-10-03T22:17:00Z Where there was grotesque overproduction, they brought next to no production at all. The Drums: The Drums 2010-05-27T14:29:00Z “When you make shows about true crime,” he says, “especially now when it’s become so popular, you have a responsibility not to show something grotesque and sick. You leave that to Quentin Tarantino.” 'We're all car-crash snoopers now': the truth about the TV true-crime wave 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Ricky Drummond is effortlessly earnest as our meek hero, Melvin, an aspiring earth scientist who gets dropped into a vat of contaminated goo and emerges as a grotesque creature with superhuman strength. Review | Rorschach Theatre’s ‘Toxic Avenger’ musical oozes B-movie camp 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Even she, however, does not escape grotesque caricature. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The royal family said it was considering legal action for a "grotesque and totally unjustifiable" invasion of privacy in the same country where William's mother died while fleeing paparazzi. Topless photos of UK's Kate draw royal scrutiny 2012-09-14T11:46:03Z The home was filled with the previous resident’s belongings, a grotesque sea of possessions, clothes, books, broken furniture, all of it soiled and worthless. Detroit: A city in foreclosure 2013-02-14T21:06:00Z “Why even try to understand the human condition if humanity revealed itself as grotesque, dark, not worth it.” Salman Rushdie’s Prose Joins the Circus in ‘The Golden House’ 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z His grotesque nature is so vile that it borders on unbelievable. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 12: Deal With the Devil 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z If you think about your student loans in the usual manner – “crushing”, “demoralizing”, a “financial tragedy of grotesque proportions” – you would be correct, but that line of thinking will kill you. How I learned to love my $95,000 student debt 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z This Argentine writer’s stories are propulsive and mesmerizing, laced with vivid descriptions of the grotesque and the darkest humor. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z In these sweetly grotesque beasts you see visual beauty — in the beaded patterns if not the comically ugly critters — admirably united with human goodness. Cooper Hewitt Triennial Offers a Bold Look at ‘Beauty’ 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Much of this book seems grotesque, but don't be fooled into thinking it's not real. The Cook by Wayne Macauley – review 2012-12-13T08:55:01Z But Condo fuses to this aesthetic cartoon gestures, grotesque faces, infantilized heads and gruesome caricatures. Review | George Condo is not as complicated as he thinks he is 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The latter is usually played for the grotesque – Sunset Boulevard, The Graduate – while the double standard of ageing allows older men to exude a sex appeal not offered to their female counterparts. Time's finally up for Hollywood's Lolita complex 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z The tantrum-throwing Japanese general who leads the final crackdown is a grotesque caricature of a military martinet. Movie Review: ?Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale,? by Wei Te-Sheng 2012-04-26T23:32:16Z “The question is: Has Amis created anything more than this bravura black comedy? Are his monsters more than cartoon grotesques?” Martin Amis’s ‘Zone of Interest’ Makes European Publishers Squirm 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Compare that to The Farm’s rural people, who play like country grotesques imagined by a writers’ room of Ivy Leaguers. Back to the Land: NBC’s The Farm Spinoff Failed, But Networks Shouldn’t Abandon the Country 2013-03-15T13:53:56Z I look at pictures now and the reality seems to contradict the memories I have of being a grotesque ogre. Modern Love: Chubby, Skinny, Accepting — Modern Love 2013-01-03T22:44:01Z I felt that I should at least get to stab someone brutally or do something absolutely grotesque. Actor David Thewlis on the ‘Fargo’ Season Finale, V.M. Varga and Greed 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z The party is pounding with the angular, glassy electro-pop that Sorrentino loves, and the bronzed men and women are unearthly rather than grotesque. Cannes 2013: The Great Beauty - first look review 2013-05-21T07:10:06Z Asleep or not, they are dreaming, but their dreams are nightmares that are, by turns, inventive and liberating, grotesque and suffocating. ‘Petrov’s Flu’ Review: Roaming a Grim, Rowdy Underworld 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z So is his sense of Chekhov as a social satirist, whose characters are closer to the quirky grotesques of Charles Dickens than we usually realize. On the London Stage, Love Doesn’t Just Hurt, It Kills 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z “Murder House,” “Asylum,” “Coven,” “Freak Show,” “Hotel” and “Roanoke” are witty, grotesque expansions of horror Americana with a healthy dose of urban legend tossed in for good measure. Bring on the witching hours: “AHS: Apocalypse” and the sisterhood that will save us 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z If any good can come out of Cuccinelli’s grotesque misreading, it’s a renewed attention to “The New Colossus” as a whole, beyond just Lady Liberty’s rousing, oft-quoted request to “give me your tired, your poor.” Perspective | Don’t let the Trump administration vandalize Lady Liberty’s inspiring message 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The romance also features a grotesque and queasy plot point regarding Alita’s cyberbiology: because of damage that she suffers in battle against the stereotypical villains, Dr. Ido has to overhaul her body. “Alita: Battle Angel,” Reviewed: A Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron Robot Film with Too Much “Titanic” in Its DNA 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z As for Phoenix, his performance is hindered by a grotesque set of directorial choices. “Mary Magdalene,” Reviewed: A Sludgy, Trivial Attempt at Revisionist Christian History 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z The following season was awash in dark humour, severed limbs and a parade of increasingly grotesque miscreants. Justified: Timothy Olyphant on Elmore Leonard and the golden age of TV 2013-04-27T05:00:00Z How perhaps it was not the grotesque that shook you but that the taxidermy embodied a death that won’t finish, a death that dies perpetually as we walk past it to relieve ourselves. A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z The movie’s very idea of jazz is a grotesque and ludicrous caricature. “Whiplash” Gets Jazz All Wrong 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Here, the Games are still a miserable spectacle, a poor version of the lavish, grotesque extravaganza they will become. A ‘Hunger Games’ Prequel Focuses on an Unlikely Character 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Translation is a tricky business, but did this grotesque analogy sound O.K. in Italian? Two Young Men Come of Age Amid Violence and Pathos Overseas 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z One register is busy, surrealistic, grotesque: a Brobdingnagian nude woman swarmed with small figures in chaotic sexual poses; mummy-like forms, zippers up their thorax; body parts free-floating or severed; truncheons; bizarre machinery. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Its appearance in “Apocalypse Now” is no less grotesque, although there it serves to satirize American bombast and arrogance. A Closer Look at Wagner and #OscarsSoWhite 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z He is too whiny, racked and self-righteous; only fate didn't make him his screen namesake, the grotesque Henry Potter of It's a Wonderful Life. Harry Potter and the end of a pop-culture phenomenon 2011-07-12T18:59:01Z What once seemed like bad behaviour that women were expected to bear has been revealed as oppressive, grotesque and often criminal. 'I felt I was being punished for pushing back': pregnancy and #MeToo 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Which is not to say that Packer feels comfortable among hunters, whose capitalist necessity renders them no less grotesque, in his view. What We Mourned When We Mourned Cecil 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z His early work tended to be whimsical, grotesque and obsessively detailed, a style that carried over to his woodcuts, which supported what he calls “my sculpture addiction.” ‘The Cardboard Bernini,’ a Film About James Grashow 2013-05-13T18:45:22Z Yet the sad, grotesque aspects of these final scenes are balanced by a sense of the miraculous that seems credible and hard won. Books of The Times: ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,’ by Rachel Joyce 2012-07-29T21:26:22Z By following the attenuation of moral responsibility that political leaders depend on, Yapa demonstrates the grotesque process that encourages otherwise good, reasonable people to perfect methods of maiming and blinding peaceful protesters. A novelist’s soul-searching rewind to the 1999 eruption on Seattle’s streets 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Some cartoonists draw our Commander-in-Chief in grotesque fashion, some creepily infantile; once, he was depicted as a literal dumpster fire. Trump in 2018: A Cartoon Review 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z And that leads to another form of performance, where white people deny the grotesque aspects of their heritage, or else detach from them with self-deprecating wokeness. The Racial Spectacle of DNA Test Result Videos 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z With its hard-to-reconcile juxtapositions of the beautiful and the grotesque, “The Salt of the Earth” embodies the contradictions of the documentary form itself. The DOC NYC Film Festival Returns 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Pavlensky is known for dramatic, even grotesque acts of protest. Russian Artist Is Charged Over Fire at Central Bank Building in Paris 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Corddry wears grotesque clown makeup and blood-drenched scrubs, yet when he shows up we are happy to see him; he uses his chipper unpredictability in pursuit of subversion and sly satire. Rob Corddry and the Healing Power of Laughter 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z The myth is a grotesque comedy, the play a much more sparkling one. Review: A Playful ‘Pygmalion’ From Bedlam? Bloody Likely 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Some of the tales woven loosely together in this novel, which won the Man Booker award for translated fiction, border on the grotesque, but they are enlivened by the author’s humor and optimistic voice. 50 notable works of fiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The choreography, credited to Fabian Aloise, is brilliantly dynamic, its exaggerated sexual innuendo rendered grotesque by the dancers’ distorted, over-it facial expressions. A Paris Cabaret Makes Way for ‘Cabaret’ 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Each character, inhabiting a rung on an ascending ladder of power, is very clearly defined but without grotesque caricature. Review: An Elephant’s Ghost Stalks the World in ‘Mlima’s Tale’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z To him, however, the thought of a cheese-covered lobster was grotesque enough to close the conversation. Consider the lobster thermidor: In defense of mixing seafood and cheese — sometimes 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Stonehouse's "Devils and the Dead" series of paintings on old black-and-white studio portraits, many with internal captions, similarly skews the familiar, playfully prodding it into the realm of the odd or grotesque. From Fred Stonehouse, haunting portraits and visual poetry 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Maybe the inconvenient truth is that after seven seasons not even Greg Nicotero’s genius with modelling increasingly grotesque zombie walkers is enough to captivate. Dead serious: what The Walking Dead needs to come back to life 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Glam fashion was an almost literal scream, an embrace of the grotesque that somehow made men dressed as space aliens the new sex symbols. Growing Up Gay to a Glam Rock Soundtrack 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z To show how busting up big businesses into smaller parts was once a veritable American tradition, he charts how antitrust law emerged in response to the grotesque inequality of the 19th-century Gilded Age. A Look at Competition in Business Urges Us to Think Small 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z After a few more minutes of the grotesque sniffing, I pull a pack of tissues out of my bag and proffer them in the man’s direction. My week as Bette Davis: 'My fierce brows are begging to be raised' 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z Beardsley had discovered a simple style by which he could deliver complex images of the grotesque. The Faith Behind Aubrey Beardsley’s Sexually Charged Art 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z They’re each as enticingly grotesque as a caricature by Goya or Daumier, thanks in part to their distinctively disheveled coifs. Review: In an Energized ‘Iceman,’ the Drinks are on Denzel 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z It’s an account of Los Angeles, a corrupt judicial system and a grotesque miscarriage of justice. Christopher Eccleston: 'I don't watch TV – it's too hard to suspend disbelief' 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z These floating palaces are, as she demonstrates, grotesque microcosms of our stratified world. Review | A famous ship gets a stormy send-off in ‘The Last Cruise’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z The advertising widget has a flair for the grotesque visual illusion. Lost in the Digital Swamp, Link by Link 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z At the museum, two of Leonardo’s grotesque profiles hang in close proximity to selections of Arcimboldo’s most celebrated bodies of work: the “Four Seasons” and “Four Elements.” Art Review: Several Obsessions, United on the Canvas 2010-09-23T21:44:00Z I can do certain grotesque characters the others wouldn’t touch. Terry Gilliam and the Time He Shared a Crew With ‘Star Wars’ 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z It's a fatally miscellaneous scene in a movie that shifts from farce to grotesque to melodrama to straight-to-video action flick, without pretending to make sense or reassuring us that we're having a good time. "Super": The sad-sack superhero indie reaches its insane apex 2011-03-31T00:31:00Z The very solid selection here includes vernacular Southern pottery — dark stoneware jugs ornamented with grotesque faces — and a pair of snazzy textiles. Portraits of Elvis and Dreamlike Visions at the 31st Outsider Art Fair 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z An army of grotesques emerges, moving slowly like the zombies in Shaun of the Dead. How I lost my festival virginity to Howard 2010-08-21T23:09:00Z Well, what if I told you that Empire called it a “grotesque miscalculation that disrespects the memory of those who perished in one of the darkest episodes in recent history”? Nope? £7 for Shia LaBeouf, £47 for Emma Watson: the A-list films no one saw 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Phrases like “wonderfully grotesque” and “energetically seedy” appeared in rave reviews. Helen Hanft, Master of Camp Way Off Broadway, Dies at 79 2013-06-06T03:05:01Z Pooh Bear and his pals in the Hundred Acre Wood have been mutated from the cuddly animals of childhood imagination into grotesque and cannibalistic monsters. ‘Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey’ Review: Willy-Nilly Killy Old Bear 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z It’s not just Joe who sees the world in a grotesque and entitled way. Review: Lifetime’s ‘You’ Lets You Stalk the Stalker 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z I knew people didn't wash their chicken, or any meat for that matter, but witnessing it was an entirely grotesque experience. Washing meat is cultural, yet mandatory 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z He gave an added twist to the woodwind droops, snarls and swoops in the closing “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath,” making the whole deliciously grotesque. Mariss Jansons Leads the Bavarian in Berlioz and Shostakovich 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z We also saw a grotesque Halloween costume and a high fashion dress made purely from spray-on fabric. The 13 most buzzworthy fashion statements of 2022, ranked 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z Little by little, with long stares, an old man’s shuffle and strange phrasing, Mr. Carell transforms the character from a figure of ridicule into something truly grotesque. Steve Carell and Channing Tatum in ‘Foxcatcher’ 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z To see them animated gives them a whole new layer of the grotesque, especially the drippy trails of paint that seem to follow him wherever he goes. 'Made in L.A.' best in show: 5 must-see pieces at the Hammer biennial 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z After years of being set up to expect grotesque catastrophe, the last thing you expect from Always Sunny is heartfelt sincerity. Rob McElhenney: 'I was fuelled by privilege, ignorance and testosterone' 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z These two – the spooky, smiling gothic grotesque and the strong, unsung, unseen feminist – break though the book's official structure and remain in our imaginations long after the fevered story is done. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z From The Young Ones to The Inbetweeners, there’s a long tradition of young men being grotesque, or just gross, in comedy. Derry Girl Saoirse-Monica Jackson: ‘Yes, we have a harsh sense of humour’ 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z I will not soon forget some of her grotesque images. Where the Sick Get Sicker and the Sane Are Driven Mad: Behind Bars 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Another is to go the Full Littlejohn and regard it as another instance of the grotesque power of the "PC brigade", before wondering, in satirical mode, what next. The hobbit race row raises a big question: can a one-legged man play Tarzan? 2010-12-05T22:30:00Z It’s no surprise that critics are divided over the question of just how complicit Red Sparrow is in the grotesque system of sexual subjugation it depicts. Jennifer Lawrence: the fascinating subversion of Hollywood's sweetheart 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z It features three grotesques, monsters from a horror film who have somehow got existentially excluded from the main gory action, like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's play. Film review: Trash Humpers 2010-06-17T22:35:00Z McLaren takes it further by hinting that we all perform in life as if on stage, and he offers some of Dickens' larger-than-life characters as a series of white-faced grotesque turns. Great Expectations – review 2013-02-07T14:35:48Z Then a grotesque figure the girls call Mama appears in the shadows. What’s on TV Monday: ‘People of Earth’ and ‘Conan’ at the Apollo Theater 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z It's grotesque because the anti-abortion movement targets and harms women of color so disproportionately. Young women were the "foot soldiers" of the anti-abortion movement and "morally bankrupt" Trump 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z He later admitted, “Words have weight and meaning, and the word I chose was grotesque.” Tatum and Hill’s bro-mophobic “22 Jump Street” press tour 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z But the products of his grotesque imagination, which fixed on anything smelly, phony, hollow, haphazard, askance or asymmetrical, remain testaments to humor’s revelatory power. The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z As Sorrywatch notes, she did not, however, apologize directly to the employee she insulted, or acknowledge her particularly grotesque class and body shaming technique. Watch out, tantrum throwers like Britt McHenry, you’re being recorded 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z I didn’t pay attention in Nutrition 101, but my guess is that King Ezekiel was subtly trying to slay his oppressors with this grotesque pork. The Walking Dead: season seven, episode two – The Well 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z When he sent me a 26-page essay to edit, I glanced through it and quickly assessed that it was another grotesque love letter to me. I'm an editor, not your mistress 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Suspiria serves its audience a buffet of atmospherically grotesque sights and invites us mainly to feast on their beauty. The horror? How Suspiria leads the way for arthouse scares 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Played by Rylance, she could easily seem grotesque, but in a performance of incredible finesse and intelligence, he creates a character that exerts her power through wit and intelligence, not looks. Stephen Fry's Twelfth Night: this all-male affair is no one-man show 2012-10-01T15:13:40Z And if we’ve learned anything from the rise of Silicon Valley, it’s that the unkempt look is, in fact, fully compatible with grotesque forms of corporate greed. Review | Hipster style at its most annoying 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z If, for some reason, you want to watch only one episode, watch “Teddy Perkins,” a grotesque instant classic that is a 40-minute horror comedy. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z At early performances audiences were shocked by its dark expressionism, its emphasis on the grotesque, the shaven-headed dancers, white-painted bodies and contorted, eerily slow positions. Dance Review: From Japan, a Reminder That We Are Dust, and to Dust We Return 2010-10-06T21:44:00Z The ordeal spurred Chardiet—who, as Pharmakon, is a veteran of the New York noise scene—to write “Bestial Burden,” an album about the corporeal and grotesque. Your week in Seattle music: Brandi Carlile, Cold War Kids and more 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z The alligator handbag – grotesque, fascinating, meaningless, ugly – seemed like an apt metaphor for the entire experience. On the run with my dad 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Around them swirls a carnival of riotous color and grotesque creatures, rendered in a dynamic mix of blocky pastel marks and smooth gouache strokes. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z But now, evil property developers seek to bulldoze in favour of a grotesque development of luxury flats. Got any change? Why cinema struggles with homelessness 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Mattie isn't cowed by witnessing a grotesque hanging in the public square -- one during which an Indian convict is publicly humiliated -- but we may well be. "True Grit": A ferocious heroine in a classic western 2010-12-22T02:01:00Z While some butoh dancers later came to embody an almost impenetrable stoicism, and others grotesque horror, Ohno expressed something more ethereal, feminine and ecstatic in his reveries. Kazuo Ohno obituary 2010-06-07T17:40:00Z DRUGS, sex, greed, grotesque behavior: it could only be opera, right? Far From Valhalla: A Tabloid Star Is Joining The Sisterhood Of the Fallen 2011-02-13T01:06:18Z Mr. Mizuki was admired by generations of Japanese animators and won fans abroad with his style, which combined a love of the grotesque with sympathy and breezy humor. Shigeru Mizuki, Influential Japanese Cartoonist, Dies at 93 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z The result is one of the most grotesque films I've ever seen, a movie that literally left me staring in shock with my mouth agape for much of its running time. Sia's directorial debut "Music" is a baffling and patronizing cringefest of ableist minstrelsy 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z To the extent such a grotesque “standard” has any currency in our culture, it denigrates real people and drives them into further isolation. Review | In ‘Disfigured,’ a writer explores the damaging ways fairy tales shape our view of the world — and ourselves 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z As the “bone breakers” illustrated, flexing can be freak-show grotesque, like Houdini breaking out of a straitjacket, arms bending as arms should not bend. Dance Review: ‘Flex Is Kings Live,’ at the Dumbo Arts Festival 2012-10-02T22:16:57Z Like his greedy citizens, Mr Yan sometimes fails to put a brake on grotesque excess. Build, and they will come 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z "I said the high executive salaries were utterly grotesque," he says. Cheers for Frears 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Finally Jaime leaves, on a mission to assassinate the hated Chilean general Ibanez, a mission which ends in grotesque failure, but leads to an epiphany. Cannes 2013: La Danza de la Realidad (The Dance Of Reality) - first look review 2013-05-18T13:58:59Z Tom Wingo is a middle-aged former high school teacher who can no longer outrun the demons of the “grotesque family melodrama” of his childhood. 50 States, 50 Love Stories 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z It should be funnier, but aptly enough, the pilot fails by also clumsily trying too hard, pushing what should be lighthearted portraits of insecure, inadequate mothers into grotesque caricatures. The TV Watch: ?I Hate My Teenage Daughter,? on Fox 2011-11-29T23:19:39Z To use the “Brokeback Bachelor” term knowing its repercussions is grotesque. The 'Brokeback Bachelor' Stunt Proves ABC Is Behind the Times 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Unfettered by law or conscience, the greedy executives of Consilience devise ever more grotesque ways to extract profit from their alternating prisoners and suburbanites. Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Heart Goes Last’: A satire of unbridled capitalism 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z “Trump is such a grotesque rapacious morally bankrupt soulless monster that he has awakened the first serious set of social movements I have seen in my lifetime,” Jarecki says. Shake, rattle and Rolls: across America in the shadow of Elvis 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Overwhelmed by “a grotesque surge of pride,” she keeps up the correspondence with him, wondering what his story is. ‘Life Form’: a fan’s notes to a novelist 2013-02-06T23:32:45Z The “Pierrot” projections emphasized the work’s severe astringency rather than its absurdity and grotesque playfulness. Music Review: Schoenberg?s ?Pierrot Lunaire? by Chicago Symphony 2012-02-26T21:30:51Z But the role also calls for Braddock to struggle with communication, find relationships difficult and see his parents' poolside LA life as grotesque. Was Stephen King right to hate Stanley Kubrick's Shining? 2013-04-06T07:03:01Z Falwell portrayed abortion, and by implication anyone connected with it, as grotesque and inhumane, using detailed descriptions of mutilated body parts in his pitch to followers. The religious right is neither: The real history of how decades of radical, violent rhetoric led to the Planned Parenthood shooting 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z He reads deeply in Southern literature and finds something “odd and evasive” in it, a lingering on the grotesque while avoiding “the bald facts of Southern life,” notably racism. Review: In ‘Deep South,’ Paul Theroux Takes an Eye-Opening Road Trip 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Are the Chapmans being similarly cruel when they make images of seemingly innocent children and then inflict their grotesque subversions, as in the new Giant Fun series? How the Chapman Brothers became the brothers grim 2010-08-03T20:31:00Z Her Sex Pictures, however – which are currently on view in an exhibition which compares them with the works of the surrealist Hans Bellmer and other such engineers of the grotesque – do not feature her. Why I'm seduced by Cindy Sherman's Sex Pictures 2012-11-26T12:02:00Z More than a few of the objects verge on grotesque and maybe ugly and will push at the limits of your taste, which is always healthy. The Met Museum Sees More Clay in Its Future 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z Twenty-seven years after Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings, Anita Hill recalled that the most wrenching part of her testimony was not being asked by an all-white, all-male judiciary committee to repeat Thomas’s graphic and grotesque comments. One Year of #MeToo: The Legacy of Black Women’s Testimonies 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z This season will go after “Westworld,” “Mad Max,” “Black Mirror” and more in its grotesque and crass fashion. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Walking Dead’ and ‘Encore’ 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z 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 Hucknall's phone rings – his ringtone is the Laurel and Hardy theme – just as he's bemoaning the "grotesque karaoke culture" of modern Britain. Mick Hucknall: 'I feel a bit like the antichrist' 2010-12-02T21:30:00Z There is something grotesque about “The Devouring” in the way that a lot of luxury is grotesque if you really think about it. At These High-End Dinner Theaters, Classics Come With Crudités 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Wolff is, to borrow a recent phrase in the news, a sort of perfectly grotesque Boswell to Trump’s Johnson. From ‘Fire and Fury’ to Political Firestorm 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Unquestionably, the law under which Wilde was tried was grotesque and brutal, and his punishment savage; he thus correctly falls into the category of martyr, though Ambrose seems rather scornful of him in this capacity. Heroes and Exiles: Gay Icons Through the Ages by Tom Ambrose | Book review 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z The shootings were a grotesque shock, not merely because American journalists are rarely the targets of such violence, but because there is no precedent for such a thing happening on a live telecast. WDBJ: A small newsroom, struck by violence, covers its own tragedy 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z O’Connor walked that line throughout her short career — she died in August 1964 of lupus at the age of 39 — between the real and the exaggerated, the natural and the grotesque. Happy birthday Flannery O'Connor, avatar of the Southern grotesque 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z From the refuse of war and scraps of charity, Sarat and her fellow survivors manufacture a grotesque simulacrum of normal life, but their efforts are constantly interrupted by fresh outrages. ‘American War’ follows today’s vitriol to a dystopian future 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z It's a modern horror, one that seems plausible, and this is by far the most unsettling piece of the trio of films, grotesque and disturbing. What the fuzzy animals of Netflix's "The House" can teach "Don't Look Up" about climate anxiety 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z If you regard them as grotesque, pitiable or in some way “other” — which is to say exactly as they are filmed — perhaps you should examine your conscience. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Love,’ First in a Trilogy Directed by Ulrich Seidl 2013-04-25T23:55:47Z The scheming is amplified, the evil is cartoonish, the violence grotesque. Game of Thrones despises you. And that’s why you love it 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Thereafter, he claimed he would meticulously prepare the bathroom for the purging session, getting it all just how she liked it, along with other grotesque nonsense that I do hope he took money for. Meghan has given birth to a raft of royal experts 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z As we left one of the rooms, he pointed past a dozen curiously vibrant fabrics to a wall of grotesque photographs. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z Talking about adventure today is utterly grotesque and repulsive. Prehistoric Cave With a Hornet on the Wall 2011-04-23T23:31:38Z He painted skeletons engaged in all manner of activity and put people in grotesque masks, often influenced by those he'd seen in Japanese prints. Object Lesson: When James Ensor turned to skeletons and satire 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z It must be strange to live in a Midwest town that is home to nefarious conspiracies, secret experiments and a portal to an alternate dimension populated by grotesque monsters. These Kids Know ‘Stranger Things.’ But What’s Stranger Than Growing Up? 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Again, things are nuanced and it's pretty grotesque to grope especially an underage child who doesn't quite know what's happening to them. Fry: Drugs different to abuse cases 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z When characters invoke destiny, they sometimes have happy outcomes in mind, but every gray-shadowed, elegantly grotesque frame points in the opposite direction, toward death and other sorrows. Review: Arturo Ripstein’s ‘Bleak Street,’ the Story of a Mexican Murder Case 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z It will be, he said "all tits and bingo, gay vicars, the typical tabloid fare, funny but grotesque". National Theatre to stage play about phone-hacking scandal 2013-07-18T15:48:19Z The results are often menacing if not grotesque, and they blur the line between documentary and fiction. | Hooray for Nollywood 2010-04-07T18:21:00Z But Conlon's conducting also was alive to the desolate tragedy, the tender lyricism, the flashes of grotesque humor and circusy burlesque. Conlon serves Shostakovich suite to the max with CSO 2011-04-22T17:40:00Z Decay is more deliberately the subject of a wonderfully creepy 17th-century Italian vanitas bust in white and yellow marble of a grotesque skull outfitted with wig and armor. Art Review: Portraits From 16th Century and Sculpture at Sperone Westwater 2012-01-26T23:39:20Z Heidecker is known for creating grotesque characters and unsettling situations that explore what he once described to Marc Maron as the “garbage” of modern life. The Kind of Comedy That Can Hurt Trump 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.” Tom Morello keeps punk-rock spirit of Woody Guthrie alive 2012-05-09T21:39:00Z The images are grotesque but not quite gory. ‘Scary Stories’ Gave Me Nightmares as a Kid. Thank Goodness. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Indeed, her range extends far beyond the adorable grotesque of "The Miss Firecracker Contest," and in "Abundance" she takes on the expansionist spirit that brutally settled the American West. 'Abundance' of plot twists hard to believe in Western wives tale 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Set in a decadent pre-revolutionary France, it exposes the gap between rich and poor in its portrait of designer-obsessed ugly sisters and their mum, all of whom torment little Cinders with grotesque results. This week's new dance 2010-12-11T00:07:00Z There is an unfortunate tendency to transfer that sense of the grotesque onto the artist himself. Review | Yes, Toulouse-Lautrec was an alcoholic cabaret creature. But his art ranged far beyond the demimonde. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Sorrentino shares Fellini’s taste for odd, sometimes grotesque human faces and physiques. ‘The Hand of God’ Review: A Portrait of the Cineaste as a Young Man 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z In today’s climate of widespread home foreclosures in which most banks refuse to modify the terms of mortgages, the movie offers a grotesque funhouse reflection of this scarily Darwinian environment. Movie Review | 'Repo Men': Jude Law?s Hands-On Approach to Health Care Reform 2010-03-19T00:10:00Z The songs are hypnotic and grotesque, heavy with the force of the unconscious, celebrations of morbid triumph. Music Review: Rap?s Pied Piper, Lil B, at Santos Party House 2010-07-26T22:36:00Z Hollywood filmmakers have always taken on history, sometimes with insight, sometimes with grotesque inaccuracy, and usually with an unquestioning faith in their own access to the past. Three Boldly Personal Visions of Black History in a Great New Film Series 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Cora, so observant and determined, makes a perfect witness of this grotesque realm of gentility floating on blood. Oprah’s book club pick: ‘The Underground Railroad,’ by Colson Whitehead 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z The artwork’s return to view raises the question of to what extent visitors will see the painting, with its grotesque — some say sexist — depiction of the female form, in a different light. Sacred or Sexist? After a Brazen Theft, Seeing de Kooning in a New Light. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z 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 Their comics are really grotesque in different ways, so that was a huge influence on me.” The Origin Story of the Depressingly Good “BoJack Horseman” 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z There was a display of photographs, including many grotesque images showing emaciated prisoners in tattered stripes, mounds of discarded clothing, slave crews working on pointless exercises. Fear and Loathing in Trump’s America 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z “It’s a grotesque, soul-destroying environment to live in,” he writes. Review | In recent memoirs, musicians reveal glamorous tantrums, plenty of drug use and the double-edged sword of fame 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z “Gorgeous,” a new exhibit at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, explores the line between the exquisite and the grotesque. The Culture 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Patsy is getting more and more grotesque; there is nothing inside her at all. So You Thought ‘Brexit’ Was Disruptive. Here Comes ‘Ab Fab.’ 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z It’s like plastic surgery for the personality: one false self is replaced by another, equally and oppositely grotesque. Monica Lewinsky and the Shame Game 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z A critic for The Worker and the Theater called it “a grotesque dancification of everyday life.” ‘Bolt,’ at Gallery for Russian Arts and Design in London 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Everyone around Sally is a grotesque: her co-workers, her parents and David, who’s less a person than a collection of warning signs. Review: ‘Sally4Ever’ Sends a Black-Hearted Valentine 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Over the decades she has forged an expressionistic vernacular, painting playfully grotesque, vividly colorful tableaus of humanoid creatures, their gnashing teeth, flicking tongues and groping fingers reminders of our baser instincts. Jacqueline de Jong Paints It All 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Instead, he corralled members of his staff for a photograph that, in its nightmarish awkwardness, revealed all the ineptitude, cowardliness and pettiness for which the whole charade was a grotesque cover. Perspective | Trump’s photo with his loyalists was a vulgar mess. And Ivanka brought a handbag. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Over the course of this cheerfully grotesque tale, it becomes clear that he was right, if not in the ways he hoped. An Ex-Jesuit Who Wrote Tales of an Ironic God 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Fine and popular artists have been producing comical, grotesque and weird images of people at least since the days of Leonardo da Vinci. Art Review: ?Infinite Jest? at the Metropolitan Museum - Review 2011-09-15T21:19:50Z In her first museum retrospective, the artist and fashion muse Rachel Feinstein presents fanciful works with a core of steel — a balance of the whimsical and the grotesque. Things to Do in N.Y.C. This February 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z “Her voice, laconic, flip, with an edge of cruelty, is always entertaining, and in the medieval setting of Lapvona, she’s able to indulge her interest in the grotesque.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z With broad, sometimes slashing brushwork, this series stretched the female figure in grotesque ways, giving her features that include gaping eyes, fang-like teeth and enormous, sagging breasts. Sacred or Sexist? After a Brazen Theft, Seeing de Kooning in a New Light. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Dolly Mixtures sees Conti accompanied by an eclectic mix of well-realised grotesque dummies who are less sidekicks, more nightmarish reflections of her subconscious. This week's new live comedy 2013-05-11T05:00:21Z Several of the stories, which occasionally border on the grotesque, focus on issues of preservation and decay. Review | ‘Flights’ is a beautifully fragmented look at man’s longing for permanence 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z However, Comyns's brilliant eye for the grotesque is nowhere more perfected than in The Vet's Daughter, a masterly example of suburban gothic meets magical realism. Sisters By a River; Our Spoons Came from Woolworths; The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns – review 2013-07-28T09:30:00Z “I realize that there is even something grotesque in saying ‘Forgive me,’” Newman says. A Posthumous Memoir Reveals Paul Newman in His Own Words 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z The celebration of the dead that followed was only moderately joyous, hardly grotesque, far from frivolous and essentially defiant. A Venezuelan life force for the Master Chorale's Day of the Dead program 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Maria Lassnig, an Austrian painter whose fierce devotion to self-portraiture — in lacerating, darkly funny, often grotesque ways — led her through decades of obscurity to a celebrated late-flowering career, died on Tuesday in Vienna. Maria Lassnig, Painter of Self From the Inside Out, Dies at 94 2014-05-09T05:29:35Z In that she has been proved wrong, perhaps because of the seeming incongruence of that life with the often grotesque characters and startling scenarios she conjured in her fiction. University Acquires Flannery O’Connor’s Papers and Effects 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Shostakovich looms large in the grotesque waltz of the second movement. Music Review: A Breathless Boccherini, an Unnerving Shostakovich 2010-11-23T23:40:00Z The second movement of his String Quartet No. 1, for instance, calls for playing of “grotesque melancholy.” Review: Summoning Erwin Schulhoff’s Zest for Life 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, you recognize that grotesque luxury and crushing poverty co-exist on Earth, but you don’t worry you’ll “explode” when you read about a celebrity’s “exhausting” schedule of starring in too many films in a row. Carolyn Hax: Find a lesson in the enviable lifestyles of others 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Beautiful young blondes were invariably needed for grotesque experiments or Satanic rites, while square-jawed heroes would rescue these lightly clad damsels at the very last moment. Review | The best horror novel since ‘Dracula’ and other scary reads for Halloween 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z She worries that “any reasonable person would have her arrested” for such a grotesque idea, but of course the Every executives love it. Review | You won’t find Dave Eggers’s new book on Amazon. That’s the most interesting thing about it. 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z If Tarantino isn't entitled to make , how is Samuel L Jackson entitled to take the role of the house slave, Stephen, in the film, a grotesque caricature that he plays with bitter relish? Django Unchained: tackling Lincoln-era America on film 2013-01-25T06:59:01Z Or, at the far end of the temperamental spectrum, should they preserve the artistic impulse — underscoring complexity and refinement — unsullied by the low and grotesque values that now dominate the social discourse? What can artists do when the world turns ugly? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Bryson captures the alienating shift in perception that attends a return to civilization from an extended stay in the wilderness, and uses that weird lens to inspect the more grotesque aspects of American society. Why the Most Popular Hiking Memoirs Don’t Go the Distance 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z And, oh yes, one of the actresses — playing a cosmetically reconstituted older woman — was wearing grotesque taped-on lips, made of apple skin. Banned in Belarus, but the Shows Go On 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z The entrance gates to a world of grotesques seem to open up. Nick Laird on the fitful nature of inspiration 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z The value added to this grotesque shlock was SkyMall’s enthusiastic descriptive copy. Remembering SkyMall, the in-flight catalogue at the apex of commercialism 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Who or what, in the final reckoning, is the true grotesque — the absurd, unhappy princess, those desperate to get close to her, or the system propping them all up? Beauty, Bad Temper and Scandal in a Riveting Look at Princess Margaret 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z The comedy is grotesque and blunt — Craig spends one episode with a dead snake nailed to his palm — but sneakily smart. Waking Up From the American Dream 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z In the first scene, Purves’s Falstaff is shown not as the usual gorging grotesque in a fat suit, but as a careful master chef, sensitively relishing his creations — and with, at best, a dad bod. A Festival Has a Monumental Premiere (and Some Other Operas, Too) 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z But then Nguyen turns the screw another rotation, and the grotesque scenes of abuse in the Auteur’s movie lead into an extended examination of torture in real life. ‘The Sympathizer’: A cerebral thriller about Vietnam and its aftermath 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z In an interview, he once claimed, “If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.” The Faith Behind Aubrey Beardsley’s Sexually Charged Art 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z But often there is a narrator, a stand-in for the author, who explains how their grotesque behavior is a logical response to a society that discourages expressions of individuality, self-reflection and personal ambition. Books of The Times: Cruel Stories of Youth: Numb, Violent and Aimless in Japan 2011-02-07T17:18:05Z In a recent memoir, William P. Barr, Trump’s last attorney general, called the legal effort to overturn the election results “a grotesque embarrassment.” Andrew Giuliani is test-driving his father’s legacy in New York 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z Sometimes by making something grotesque you actually see the essence of it. “I like that spot where fear and laughter converge”: Carrie Brownstein on how “Portlandia” takes on aging, “Transparent” and channeling Sleater-Kinney on set 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The presence of statuettes, carved grotesque decoration, and sometimes even dogs, fills the lower half of his pictures with sets of other eyes, looking in diverse directions. Bronzino's Medici portraits ? review 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z Particularly grotesque are his accounts of government-sponsored extermination campaigns against the wolf, the coyote and other predators abhorred by Western cattlemen. Can the American West Be Saved? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z But in traveling from my heart to my tongue, my feelings drift, mutating into grotesque, prickly shapes. Criticism Is My Love Language 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Yet far from being monstrous or grotesque, it's an oddly serene and benign presence. At Davidson Galleries: Robert E. Marx's curious creatures 2012-09-27T00:00:08Z It was a way to be useful at a time when being an actor felt like a grotesque whimsy. Steve Buscemi: ‘I feel I haven’t fulfilled my true potential' 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z His career shows Lenù a grotesque mirror image for her own attempt to transcend — an attempt shared by Lila, though she stays at home. ‘The Story of the Lost Child,’ review: Elena Ferrante’s final — key — volume 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z The end result is a grotesque cartoon in which Orton is deprived of any real sense of danger. What the Butler Saw ? review 2012-05-17T11:01:56Z Now, they are shouting it, turning it into a kind of grotesque carousel around their territory. Amexica: on the frontline of the Mexican drugs trade 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z Lucas and Walliams are great comedy actors and in this series have created an ambitiously crowded universe of grotesques. Come Fly With Me: ready for the return trip? 2011-02-01T11:58:51Z Some loathed its quirky outlook, but there was no disputing the imagination of Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt’s sticky-back-plastic comedy, full of memorable grotesques and endlessly quotable skits. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The hallucinations he suffered after the accident led him to identify even more strongly with an artist taken up with grotesques and horrors, and in 2004 he produced a long-planned book, Goya. Robert Hughes 2012-08-07T01:48:31Z These early works, in which male figures are rendered as sack-like grotesques, bleeding and blurring into abstract backgrounds, suggest a kind of torment, but torment leavened by humor. Review | The new David Hockney exhibition shows why he was such an art-world rebel 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z The problem is that in Bobby those traits are magnified to a grotesque degree. This Week in Fiction: Colin Barrett on Anhedonia and Writing Poetry 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Readers familiar with that film will understand what I mean when I say that Wrobel goes “full parakeet” in some of the grotesque scenes scattered throughout “Darling Rose Gold.” Review | The Gypsy Rose Blanchard case gets another twist in the novel ‘Darling Rose Gold’ 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Our health, humaneness, and tax dollars should not be "traded off" for disguised and misguided efforts to increase profits for the private sector especially through grotesque inhumane treatment of animals. Animal Welfare at Risk in Experiments for Meat Industry 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z The roof – of the Guardian letters column at least – falls in on Mrs W whenever she complains of grotesque creatures with lobster-like claws which they use to break people's necks. From the archive, 31 August 1976: Who loves you Doctor? 2010-08-31T09:01:00Z At one point, Bella thinks, “O changelings of the world: we go up and down the ladder in this circus called life, and we are more entertaining than clowns, more grotesque than freaks.” This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on Fairy Tales 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z And all because some grotesque excuse for a human being had gone into a business that has historically encouraged, profited from, ignored and rewarded sexism and misogyny. Hollywood on the Brink 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z One is a towering 2005 sculpture by Thomas Schütte of three grotesque male figures swathed in blankets and peering malevolently in all directions. Art Review: When Repression Was a Muse 2011-07-21T22:30:28Z This is the best part of the movie, partly because Ostlund allows the characters to behave like people, rather than just grotesque ciphers in his cynical morality play. ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review: Don’t Worry, Be Happy 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z As they squabble or reminisce, we see in them grotesque emblems of humanity in various states of decay, but still clinging to life, and to one another, because that is what humans do. Suspending Disbelief in a Savage ‘Endgame’ 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z The young writer finds a father figure in the “immensely vitalizing, manipulative genius,” a Champagne-and-caviar-loving bon vivant, mired in despair, exposing the brutal and grotesque in his work. Six New Books, Including One by Christopher Buckley 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z He spent millions of his own dollars on the film, much of which went to a billboard that menaced Los Angeles for five years after its disastrous release, adding to its mysterious and grotesque allure. Perspective | ‘The Room’ is the worst movie ever made, but I’ve seen it a hundred times — without irony 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Not that Hen feels deprived; she loves her work creating “grotesque, surreal tableaus” to illustrate children’s books. Going Rogue With Marilyn Stasio 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z “There is something empowering about that, but also really grotesque.” On the Runway Blog: Such a Doll 2013-05-31T20:26:55Z The impact had sent him sprawling, his lower legs twisted up on either side of his body in a grotesque and unnatural shape, like an action figure cast aside by a careless child. The Dovekeeper and the Children’s Intifada 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Monsters are given characteristics — the way they talk, behave, look or move — that are meant to seem threatening or grotesque, Smith noted. Scary Is How You Act, Not Look, Disability Advocates Tell Filmmakers 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z “We think it’s ridiculous and grotesque and really slows things down.” Cannes Film Festival Director: Red-Carpet Selfies Are 'Ridiculous and Grotesque' 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z All the Norman Rockwell icons of an idealized America are twisted and made grotesque. American Horror Story's Freak Show clowns and creeps absurd as ever 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The sum of these parts is one of the many grotesque creatures in “Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration,” at the Museum of Modern Art. Art Review: ?Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration? at MoMA 2012-03-29T22:25:34Z Particularly grotesque is the enthusiasm with which Purdue peddled its pills. The Worst Drug Crisis in American History 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z “Bodybuilding culture is some grotesque subculture that is a product of modernity,” he wrote. The Lindy Way of Living 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z It’s strange and grotesque and riveting to look at food like this: how a knife moving through fruit creates a weeping wound, or the way pasta dough stretches and glistens like skin. In Praise of “Chef’s Table” ’s Wild Overuse of Slow Motion 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z His drawings were comical but rarely bitter or grotesque. Nick Clegg as a cartoon figure - it's fun but does it really hurt? 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z Every ritual involves a lot of ugly nudity, and a lot of the more grotesque nudity is augmented by body suits. Zombies are the incompetent ‘Lords of Salem’ 2013-04-19T17:59:31Z Baby Jane, of course, grows up into Bette Davis in Robert Aldrich's classic slice of American grotesque, which started a trend for casting ageing actresses in campy gothic horror movies. Only God Forgives: Kristin Scott Thomas and other big-screen Barbies from hell 2013-05-30T17:00:01Z "Nevertheless, we owe major apology for grotesque, offensive cartoon," Murdoch tweeted. Murdoch apologises for Sunday Times' cartoon depicting Binyamin Netanyahu 2013-01-28T21:04:35Z There, the officers hear, and pretend to share, grotesque expressions of racist hatred; they observe plans for violent hate crimes, which they attempt to thwart. “The Miseducation of Cameron Post,” Reviewed: An Empathetic But Unimaginative Tale of Gay Conversion Therapy 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Joffrey was a grotesque exaggeration of the insufferable rich kid at your high school — privileged beyond imagining but still petulant and mean, obnoxious and insecure, and indifferent to the value of anything or anyone. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: What a Wonderful Wedding 2014-04-14T02:00:12Z A playwright with an abiding and sometimes grotesque interest in the female body, Clare Barron comes to Playwrights Horizons with a drama about a preteen dance competition. 10 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Sometimes, on “No Shape,” Hadreas evades the grotesque by abandoning the body altogether. Perfume Genius’s New Album, “No Shape,” Is Full of Sunlight 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Stretched across panoramic wide-screen, the eye-popping film portrays 1920 Vienna as a pullulating Old World metropolis, its buildings reeling at canted angles, its streets hosting grotesque violence. ‘Hinterland’ Review: Murderers Among Us 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z If your appetites extend to the bleak and grotesque, you'll want to seek it out. Best of Cannes: Russian horror movie "My Joy" 2010-05-22T16:30:00Z It is hard to imagine a more telling and more grotesque form of a weak ego than resorting to gender as a basis for dismissiveness in politics. Donald Trump, the compulsive misogynist 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z And that without the Scots and Welsh this grotesque world would strengthen even further. English devolution: a view from Scotland 2010-04-23T12:25:00Z It concerns a grotesque incident and its aftermath. Ian Rankin on The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 2010-08-16T14:31:00Z Procedurals like “Bones” on Fox or “Criminal Minds” on CBS keep a light touch as they showcase ever more grotesque and disturbing images of violence. | 'The Killing': A Thinking Woman?s Detective 2011-04-01T20:18:51Z The Witch plays obsessive, fetishistic games with the children, forcing them to participate in a grotesque doll's tea-party before tying them up and submitting them to depravities which Scarlett leaves to our imagination. Hansel and Gretel – review 2013-05-11T23:06:01Z The images metamorphosed from sweet to grotesque, from abstractions to human figures that were multiplied again into Busby Berkeley patterns. Review: Panda Bear’s Bloops and Swirls Usher In Another CMJ Music Marathon 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z He gives it a grotesque, human face — or rather a series of faces, most memorably Tilda Swinton’s, almost unrecognizable in prosthetic teeth and oversize glasses. In ‘Snowpiercer,’ the Train Trip to End All Train Trips 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison’s masterpiece, “Beloved,” seared into our imagination the grotesque distortions of antebellum life. ‘Homegoing,’ by Yaa Gyasi: A bold tale of slavery for a new ‘Roots’ generation 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Some 20 million people lost their lives, many of them in grotesque ways. Books of The Times: ?Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom,? by Stephen R. Platt 2012-02-06T22:05:43Z They knew it was coming, but seeing it — it was grotesque. 'Mad Men' stars remember biggest bombshells hurled at them on series 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Another, rather grotesque story Monk relates, shows how much he has succeeded in that aim. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Kaschei, traditionally a nondancing grotesque who despotically holds his realm in terrified thrall, is here a vain, highly mobile figure of bizarre glamour with black robes, green gloves and green headdress. Dance Review: Ratmansky’s ‘Firebird,’ for American Ballet Theater 2012-06-12T22:16:25Z The tottering women whom he personified onstage, his body twisted and grotesque, were both forces of nature and fragile creatures with flapping shoes and skewed wigs. Obituaries: Kazuo Ohno, a Founder of Japanese Butoh, Dies at 103 2010-06-02T03:25:00Z The program, using archival footage, notes some grotesque experiments that Soviet scientists were doing way back when, which included creating a two-headed dog and trying to reanimate humans. Hogzilla and Other Halloween Programs 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Colbert said a few days later that such criticism amounted to a “shameful and grotesque insult” to the memory of those who died in the Jan. 6 attack. ‘Late Show’ Staff Arrested at U.S. Capitol Complex Won’t Be Prosecuted 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z The case is grotesque even by the extreme standards of South Florida.” Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z “This grotesque chain of stupidity, evil, desperation is beginning to test my competence and above all my patience.” ‘Arabian Nights’ in Portugal Looks at a Gloomy Nation 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z This was the era of that notorious quarterly, the Yellow Book, and of the grotesque Pierrots and courtesans depicted in its pages by Aubrey Beardsley. Review | The ’90s are having a literary moment. That is, the 1890s. . . 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z So does the invitation to rub elbows with Ms. Lowe’s grotesque creatures. Art in Review: Molly Lowe: ‘Sorry, Excuse Me, Thank You’ 2014-03-27T20:24:39Z Lacking teeth, one in 10 baby turtles reach the sea before they’re picked off by predators — a spectacle that Tennessee Williams transformed into the grotesque poetry of “Suddenly Last Summer.” ‘Journey to the South Pacific’: a fresh, lyrical peek under the sea 2014-01-23T22:26:03Z It is a marriage made in performance heaven, for those who believe, or creepy hell, for those who think the Stones on stage is more grotesque than beautiful burlesque. The Rolling Stones will reign supreme until there is a new counterculture 2013-03-31T00:06:28Z Her screenplay for “Malignant” is “Knots Landing” but grotesque; for “M3gan,” it’s “Small Wonder” but nasty. A Doll That Wears Sunglasses With Attitude? Oh, ‘M3gan’ Is a Gay Movie. 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Hurt played a Victorian-era Englishman whose grotesque disfigurement led to his years of exploitation as a carnival freak. John Hurt, British actor who played desperate, eccentric characters, dies at 77 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The intermezzo teetered nicely between lyricism and the grotesque. Classical Philharmonia/Maazel/Trifonov – review 2012-12-14T17:30:01Z And while “Something Sampled” is a bright fantasy, much of “Flexn” is closer to a nightmare, drawing on flex’s grotesque side. Street Dancers Tackle a Ballet Project and the Armory Stage 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z The new slices everyone loved were tiled with a grotesque number of little cupped pepperonis. Arrivederci, Little Italy 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z It has potential to be brutal and grotesque and sublimely beautiful. 2010-01-31T06:12:00Z "Have you never considered how you and your immediate family would feel if you were described as 'grotesque' and 'ghastly' in public?" she wrote. TV review: Country House Rescue 2012-06-14T20:00:06Z "There's a scene in the film where Students for Life does a 'Black Pre-Born Lives Matter' rally ... It's grotesque because the anti-abortion movement targets and harms women of color so disproportionately." Young women were the "foot soldiers" of the anti-abortion movement and "morally bankrupt" Trump 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Gillian Flynn’s bestselling novel “Gone Girl” is a work of impressive engineering that mounts a series of grotesque gargoyles above its entrance, like a medieval cathedral advertising all the lurid sins that require expiation within. “Gone Girl”: A dark marriage drama becomes a “battle-of-the-sexes” debate 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z “Bruno was grotesque. We talked about him like he was an agent.” James Gray and Joaquin Phoenix Reunite in ‘The Immigrant’ 2014-05-09T12:00:01Z Woven through the 11 interconnected tales is a thread of the grotesque, the macabre, the mournful. Review: `Revenge' filled with haunting prose 2013-01-29T21:01:05Z "It’s also chic. I love insects and the feeling of a cabinet of curiosities. They’re usually a tiny bit grotesque, often beautiful, and always unexpected." Miles Redd Decorates an Eclectic Houston Mansion 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Yes, some details were kind of grotesque and exaggerated. "We Keep the Dead Close" author Becky Cooper's on the ritualistic murder that shocked Harvard 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z The grotesque debilitation of the duchess’s final years are far more memorable here than transgressions made during her prime. Books of The Times: Anne Sebba on Duchess of Windsor, Scotty Bowers on Himself 2012-02-05T22:22:14Z They’d grown long and powerful, practically simian, in a way I found grotesque but fascinating. The Mirror: Jenny Allen, an Off Broadway Actress, on Gel Nail Polish 2012-03-15T22:17:07Z The show is grotesque, didactic, and indulgent—“Gossip Girl,” minus the wit, crossed with “Go Ask Alice.” Weekly Culture Review: How to Name a Scandal, “Anne of Green Gables,” and More 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z “Worse than being bitten. Truly grotesque. But then, she thought, oh right. Here’s my chance.” If You Thought ‘Cat Person’ Was Dark, Wait Until You Read the Rest of the Book 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z And the coiffures, each individual, were almost all grotesque, with vast, isolated curls and quiffs. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Gala, With Costumes by Valentino 2012-09-22T00:16:05Z Before that debacle, however, he was one of the first senior officials to embrace the idea of a smaller nuclear arsenal governed by a less grotesque doctrine. Nuclear Nightmares 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Tomlin, who mused often about false female standards of beauty, dusted off the deliciously grotesque Madame Lupe, the "world's oldest beauty expert." Review: Lily Tomlin plays off a packed house of happy fans at the 5th Avenue 2011-01-31T00:31:02Z It also quotes recent descriptions of him as an “original if grotesque native artist of the camera” who was “driven by some fairly extreme psychological factors” that increase market appeal. Raising the Profile of Columbia’s Art 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z No — I’m not referring to that grotesque caricature, “Chief Wahoo,” the Cleveland Indians baseball team uses as its mascot. My life as a Cleveland Indian: The enduring disgrace of racist sports mascots 2014-04-13T15:30:00Z McDonagh's zanies are grotesques devoid of decency or basic deductive skills. 'The Lieutenant of Inishmore': Brutal slapstick, with a clear message 2010-10-25T23:39:00Z He is the grotesque embodiment of how Westworld debases a man over time, and “The Bicameral Mind” laughs heartily at his demise. ‘Westworld’ Season 1 Finale: Wake From Your Sleep 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z The storytelling mode is emphatically quirky in a Southern grotesque way that is recognizable though not especially authentic. 'Waitress' serves up a slice of star power in Jessie Mueller 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Foreboding images abound — crawling lizards, mysterious lights in the sky, a funereal assembly populated by grotesques — along with occasional ambient droning on the soundtrack and moments of mild humor and raw gore. Movie Review: ‘The Rambler,’ Directed by Calvin Lee Reeder 2013-06-07T03:06:40Z “There was something a little grotesque and excessive about it. She parodies people, but she also wants to be like them.” Why Did Instagram Pause This Play? Its Creators Still Don’t Know. 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z “Coming Up Roses” suggests a grotesque hybrid of elements from “Sunset Boulevard,” “Gypsy,” “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Lolita,” fused with the lowdown neorealism of a film like “Winter’s Bone.” Movie Review: ‘Coming Up Roses,’ Starring Bernadette Peters 2012-11-09T01:36:08Z More and better education, we like to believe, will solve climate denialism, overcome bigotry and even mitigate our grotesque income inequality. Is Meritocracy to Blame for Our Yawning Class Divide? 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z If all this weren't loony enough, he takes a photograph of the whole grotesque affair and presents the image as a work of art. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-22T23:06:30Z Elegant, spare 12th century church built as the headquarters for the Knights Templar, it’s full of dignified medieval effigies and grotesque stone heads sticking their tongues out at you. The other London underground: See the ancient city that lies beneath the modern metropolis 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z A previous work by Prebble, “Enron,” an overly loud and grotesque satire of a vast American financial scandal known by that title, opened to huzzahs in London and to Bronx cheers on Broadway. Review | You can’t find the love of your life by taking a pill. But what if you could? 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z The combination of soprano, alto, tenor and baritone instruments produces an amazingly broad range of effects, from “sublimely beautiful timbres,” as Mr. Levy puts it, to “really grotesque, amazing sounds.” Week Ahead: May 30 ? June 5 2010-05-28T15:11:00Z Mutant wasps wreak havoc at a country-estate garden party in "Stung," a homage to those 1980s creature features that reveled in grotesque details. 'Stung,' about mutant wasps, is a throwback to 1980s B movies 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z These shows depict depravity and grotesque images of wealth and exploitation – but as a critique – and that's what people crave in this modern era of TV. Why "The Idol" being canceled is causing so much joy 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z Indeed, the stories owe as much to Chekhov’s tales of oblique yearning as to Flannery O’Connor’s portraits of Dixie grotesques. Mary Ward Brown, 95, Award-Winning Short Story Writer, Dies 2013-05-22T22:29:16Z Cynthia Macdonald, whose idiosyncratic blend of humor and the grotesque made her a distinctive voice on the American poetry scene, died on Aug. 3 in a nursing home in Logan, Utah. Cynthia Macdonald, Poet Known for Humor and Ability to Shock, Dies at 87 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z The Borgias’ political machinations provide an undoubtedly grotesque spectacle, a fine subject for the dell’arte all’improvviso, which has long been a creative touchstone of Fo’s. ‘The Pope’s Daughter’ review: Dario Fo’s novel defends the Borgia clan 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Morrison discovered the grotesque tools of torture, and the story she told exposed as never before the sexual violence that sustained America’s “peculiar institution.” Perspective | In the Va. governor’s race, ‘Beloved’ is reduced to its most explicit parts. That’s obscene. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z She refused, and he followed through on his threat, setting off a chain of grotesque events. Amanda Todd’s “jailbait” blackmailer exposed 2012-10-16T20:55:00Z It’s a grotesque lesson in a culture of silence. Review | Geling Yan’s twisty thriller ‘The Secret Talker’ begins with a creepy but alluring text 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z It feeds an insatiable curiosity about how the other half — or, in current parlance, the 1 percent — lives, and what it shows us is gorgeous, grotesque and disconcertingly human. Movie Review: ‘The Taste of Money,’ Directed by Im Sang-soo 2013-01-25T01:23:02Z He poked fun at his weight, adding: “I am a lover of animal fat in all its grotesque proportions. . . . Call 911.” Book World editor Nora Krug: The Pat Conroy I met was determined to live well 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z In Relic, the horror is steeped within the darkened hallways and candle-lit, labyrinthine interiors of the family home, with tension culminating into heightened, grotesque territory. Relic: Australian director Natalie Erika James on dementia, horror and her Sundance hit 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z What matters in this debate is that the asymmetry between the two sides is so grotesque — there is no other word. Artwork Taken From Africa, Returning to a Home Transformed 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The more I think about it, the more I love how grotesque Hannah has become. ‘Girls’ Finale: Is It Just Us, or Did the Show Get Better? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z His portraits of Viennese cafe “types” — the clumsy waiter, the morose writer, the street tippler helping himself to drinks from an outdoor table — are grotesque but funny. Art in Review: ?Postcards of the Wiener Werkst?tte?: ?Selections From the Leonard A. Lauder Collection? 2011-01-06T22:11:22Z This is the uplifting way to interpret the grotesque response to Thunberg. Perspective | Greta Thunberg weaponized shame in an era of shamelessness 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z An exploration of power, madness and grotesque paternalism, the movie refuses any easy answer. Critic’s Notebook: Highlights of the Sundance Film Festival 2013-01-24T23:19:23Z What follows is a parade of grotesque images. 'Banned in 46 countries' – is Faces of Death the most shocking film ever? 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Lieberman notes that “Squid Game” is “very disturbing — more for its grotesque close-ups of dying people who are desperate for money than for the actual violence we see in the games.” You don’t like violence but want to watch ‘Squid Game.’ These tips can help. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Capitalism, in a far more grotesque form, lies at the heart of the cynical crime thriller “I Care a Lot” starring Rosamund Pike as a predatory legal guardian. Perspective | At a perilous time, the Toronto International Film Festival captured the zeitgeist 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z I went into this show expecting the grotesque and perhaps even the gratuitous, especially once I passed a sign in the theater warning the audience about the nudity and the play’s content. Review: In Clare Barron’s ‘Shhhh,’ Staging a Memoir of the Body 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Mr. Andriessen doesn’t do anything very different in “Theater of the World,” which, to be precise, he classifies not as an opera but as a “grotesque stagework” in nine scenes and just under two hours. Review: ‘Theater of the World’ Journeys With a Polymath 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z The cathedral’s animal grotesques could fill a zoo. A cathedral like none other: Moon rock and Darth Vader blend into Gothic architecture 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z And it’s the hazy past — evoked in lyrically fragmented increments — that explains their disaffection in the face of the grotesque and their ingrained, conflicting instincts both to survive and to accept death passively. In Philip Ridley’s ‘Mercury Fur,’ It’s the World’s End, and the Party’s Here 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Shards of humor, along with the absurd and the grotesque, jostled with no effort at cohesion in this strange container of a dance, which featured recordings of Bach and the delicious 15th-century “Agincourt Carol.” Dance Review: 'Retrospective Project I': 4 Decades of Eiko & Koma 2010-05-28T22:51:00Z In one of several grotesque symbolic portrayals of that breakup, a grinning, sharp-toothed nude woman holds a ticker pulled bleeding from a human torso. Review | In the galleries: A pictorial stew examines the seamy side along the corridors of power 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z The spivs and grotesques now running the country might have stepped whole from his pages, whipping up nationalism while discreetly betting against the pound and arranging second passports. Why The Third Man is an essential primer for no-deal Brexit 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z It has his antic visual trademarks — jittery action and flickering projections reminiscent of the grotesque battlefield prints of Otto Dix and George Grosz — but was notably humane and emotionally true. The Met Opera’s New Season: What Our Critics Want to See 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The lesson is that if we did something to fix the grotesque maldistribution of income in the modern United States, everyone would benefit. The myths of happiness 2013-03-31T21:00:00Z It's not often that a mainstream movie focuses on an eccentric subset of the population without turning them into grotesques or cute little goofballs. The Big Year: Not Just for the Birds 2011-10-13T17:05:00Z Ms. Jolie’s performance is similarly bifurcated, with a controlled physicality that, just when it seems to be edging into catwalk blankness, springs to weird life with grotesque facial contortions and spidery movements. Angelina Jolie Stars in ‘Maleficent,’ From Disney 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z It’s a risky joke, in obvious bad taste, but the show commits fully to it, recognizing that reality is already plenty grotesque. The Best Jokes of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z It is a mixture of the grotesque and the serious and the sad.” Slawomir Mrozek, a Leading Polish Playwright, Dies at 83 2013-08-28T14:58:53Z Similarly grotesque sentiments are expressed repeatedly — almost ceaselessly it seems — throughout “Dance of Death.” Theater Review: ‘The Dance of Death’ by August Strindberg 2013-04-19T21:15:39Z Victorians, anyway, would have found it utterly surreal and grotesque: an inversion of reality, a trip behind the looking glass. Cameron and Clegg: the improbable coalition 2010-05-12T15:22:00Z But for every bikini, for every batted eyelash, Gaga introduces intimations of the grotesque, the repulsive. Feminist icon? 2010-09-17T07:00:00Z Playing the game, she says, involved "a burdensome degree of denial, anxiety and awe… It was wasn't like playing a game, more like being confronted by a grotesque virtual reality." Fatima Al Qadiri uses the sounds of videogames to evoke the horrors of war 2012-11-24T00:02:00Z Regardless of size — and many of her works are on a superhuman scale — Bhabha’s sculptures, with their grotesque tenderness, exude an understated intensity that compels equally hushed observation from their viewers. An Artist Who Works Alongside Giants 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z More and more, this play was looking like a lopsided melodrama about grotesque Southern schemers fighting for their slices of a dying patriarch’s estate, with an overextended father-and-son ontology lesson for a second act. Review: Sienna Miller Coaxes New Life From an Old ‘Cat’ 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z The video is grotesque — screaming rabbits, bloody skin —and probably worth avoiding. | The New Owners of Fashion Week and New Homes for Rihanna, Burberry and Acne Studios 2013-12-20T23:29:18Z A book of interviews with Bacon, “The Brutality of Fact,” for instance, helped Cage define his attraction to intense, even grotesque performance — “that which is not obviously beautiful,” he says — rather than naturalism. Nicolas Cage faces off with a new foe: Himself 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Zhang has taken the basic botched-murder plot of "Blood Simple," along with its grotesque slapstick elements, and translated it from one kind of movie -- and one kind of world -- into another. "A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop": "Blood Simple," Hunan-style 2010-09-03T19:31:00Z The more visceral parts that, in part, made the essay so memorable were omitted: specifically Teague’s role in the grotesque art of wound-packing and the physical horrors that accompanied it. When Some Critics Reject the Film That’s About Your Life 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z A grotesque X Factor/Big Brother mutant of a reality TV show, it is a pan–Arab offering based in Lebanon. The Saudi housewife who spoke out 2010-04-12T10:00:00Z She was a little grotesque, a raddled caricature of a fading beauty. Portraits of the artists 2011-03-05T00:07:22Z The Web site and its wares are only occasionally as grotesque as the ad. From Grunt Style to “Warcore,” Civilians Are Embracing Military Fashion 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z There are reminders here of other comedies of the grotesque: “Strangers With Candy,” “Napoleon Dynamite,” the character spoofs of Chris Lilley, the more vicious bits of “Glee.” Review: In ‘Haters Back Off!’ a Cringe-Worthy Star Is Born 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z “Here, the Games are still a miserable spectacle, a poor version of the lavish, grotesque extravaganza they will become.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Elliot Rodger earned the fame and infamy he wished for through his act of violence, and now everyone can read about his grotesque ideas. The Power of #YesAllWomen 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Her pictures are edgy, awkward, candidly unflattering, frequently humorous or grotesque. Alice Neel: Painted Truths 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z Not to forget, really at the heart of all this was the simple greed of many players, triggered by the U.S. property boom, with all the attendant grotesque distortions that come with such manias. Watching Lehman Brothers collapse from the inside: A 2008 recruit on the bank’s final days 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The material objects Zhadan describes with an almost grotesque precision—wooden icons of Christian Orthodox martyrs, a Manchester United pendant, a pair of Bosch electric scissors—serve as missing words amid laconic dialogue. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z So successful was he that he was actually paid money to desist by agents of the increasingly grotesque King George IV. Steve Bell on The Worship of Bacchus by George Cruikshank 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z There was enormous social pressure to engage in what is obviously a folly: to begin adulthood by lying, by making up fraudulent histories, by pretending that you’re independent, by grotesque and unoriginal conspicuous consumption. Your wedding's been cancelled by the coronavirus lockdown? Good 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Democratic republicanism is the best form of government when it is functioning well, but instant, majoritarian mob rule is one of the most grotesque when it is moving fast. Ben Sasse: By the Book 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z When a woman corresponds with a priest about dolls, a hope for connection inching toward the grotesque suffuses their exchanges. Love’s Perils, Trauma’s Wounds: New Story Collections 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z In an improvisatory form concerned with conjuring inner worlds — the source of often grotesque, unsettling movement — surfaces are a controversial starting point. Review: Becoming Kazuo Ohno, a Bold Copycat Tribute to a Butoh Master 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z As if purchased from a catalog of avant-garde clichés, this 96-minute performance piece from the Danish company Fix&Foxy sets out to unsettle the audience with a perplexing text and grotesque visuals. Direct from Edinburgh: Theaters Are Closed, but a ‘Zoo’ Is Open 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z He watched television, and he made the parody listings website TVGoHome that held a mirror up to the medium, like a tailor saying: “Look, Sir, Madam, look how absurd and grotesque you are.” Charlie Brooker: 'Happy? I have my moments' 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z The fountain in the middle of the piazza is a simple, two-tiered Renaissance affair with a few leering grotesques and a constantly flowing spigot from which the dogs of the district drink pure Roman water. Next Stop: In Rome, Monti Is a Quiet Treasure 2011-07-01T17:00:00Z Remarkably, the obituaries for Dahl in the New York Times and The Washington Post made no mention of these grotesque public statements. Perspective | Roald Dahl was anti-Semitic. Do we need his family’s apology now? 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Although this is a deliberately absurd reworking, it is nonetheless touching, melancholic and grotesque. My fair fräulein: an Eliza Doolittle for the 21st century 2012-08-14T19:00:04Z If those eyes in that now famous National Geographic cover spoke so eloquently of a forsaken nation's plight, then what did this grotesque wound say about the state of the country in 2010? Bibi Aisha, victim of the Taliban's political strategy 2010-12-05T00:06:00Z But the word has existed since at least 1947 to mean "the bizarre or grotesque acts performed by a carnival or circus geek". Oxford English Dictionary adds new sense of tweet to its Big Data 2013-06-20T12:04:39Z And yet, somehow, this grotesque group portrait had a sweetness to it as well. The Charming, Disgusting Paintings of Tala Madani 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z On the set of his next major movie, “Catch-22,” a grotesque contest ensued as to who was the director, Nichols or one of his stars, Orson Welles. Let Us Now Praise Mike Nichols 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z It’s a shocking moment, comic and grotesque and, yes, wholly understandable — like everything in this novel about the pain of motherhood, the actual scars left on the skin and the soul. Review | Kristen Arnett’s ‘With Teeth’ gives voice to a parent’s darkest thoughts 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z One of the pirate crew is a grotesque caricature of an African who does indeed more closely resemble a gorilla than a person. Riff: How to Read a Racist Book to Your Kids 2012-06-16T04:00:05Z One panel is meant to commemorate the abolition of slavery in France in 1794, but, to Niang and other observers, it perpetuates grotesque racial stereotypes. The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French National Assembly 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z The comic timing of the cast members was commendable as they accentuated the amusingly grotesque flaws of their characters without resorting to mere caricature. Music Review: Objects of Operatic Desire: Abundant Money and Men 2011-04-28T21:35:05Z “Things, in a grotesque sense, are back to normal,” one character thinks. Dread, War and Ambivalence: Literature Since the Towers Fell 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Though grotesque is the swelling, The discomfort she’s quelling With a couple of shots of tequila. Style Invitational Week 1348: Same Difference 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z It's a huge work, largely culled from beauty-product adverts, that manages to be both whimsical and grotesque – a way of confronting issues of race in an unhectoring manner. Ellen Gallagher: wigs, waterworlds and Wile E Coyote 2013-05-07T18:30:10Z A starburst of fantastically inventive offence, Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s crude animation combined grotesque hilarity with a deceptively serious purpose. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Matthew Groves also conjures up questions about materiality and form but through the creation of magical, grotesque figures. ‘Clay? V’ at Kirkland Arts Center has all kinds of answers 2014-04-17T20:28:59Z But as wild as the act could be, as grotesque as it could be, it was also about love. Kiki and Herb Will Be Back Where They Belong for Christmas 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Sandoval is rightfully catching the bulk of the ire for his shameless web of lies, but Schwartz's feckless little rebellions are grotesque in their own way. The heart of Schwartzness: The roots of the "Vanderpump Rules" Scandoval implosion run deep 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z Toobin shot back: “You bet it is, Wolf, and it is a grotesque abuse of power by the president of the United States.” Perspective | Jeffrey Toobin went ballistic about Trump and Comey. It was great TV. 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z We don’t know much else about them, which makes their preoccupations more intensely absurd and also more grotesque. | 'Autoerotic': When Sex Is Loneliness Multiplied 2011-07-21T21:47:40Z They summon their urban life with a novelist’s ear for the telling grotesque detail — in accounts of apartment building lobbies where everything looks and smells like soup, or diners where the coffee is always gray. Review: ‘Oh, Hello on Broadway’ Stars an Even Odder Couple 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Most grotesque and curdling are the visceral depictions of early 17th-century Britain – the squalor, inequality and religious eugenics. The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z And Vice is frequently very funny, full of the same sort of grotesque, antic farce seen in McKay’s straight-up comedies such as Anchorman and The Other Guys. Why Vice should win the best picture Oscar 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Liberals will talk about gun control, with America’s grotesque worship of the Second Amendment. Perspective | We need to talk about why mass shooters are almost always men 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z The heart of the novel is an expedition deep into the outback that’s ostensibly a search for the murderer but is in fact a grotesque hunt for aborigines. Review | Two Australian boys seek revenge for their parents’ murder in this blood-soaked tale 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z On stage he wore a grotesque red mask, foam dinosaur-head shoulder pads and reptile feet. ArtsBeat Blog: Lead Guitarist of Metal Band Found Dead on Tour Bus 2011-11-04T17:25:59Z As disturbing as that scenario is, the case becomes even more grotesque as Bosch and Lourdes close in on this monster. Bosch is back in Michael Connelly’s masterful ‘The Wrong Side of Goodbye’ 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z The accompanying, grotesque photo illustrations of celebrities with adult heads and diapered baby bodies probably didn't hurt. Mindy of "Emily in Paris": Nepo baby done good 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Throughout the works are elements of the human body — a wooden hand here, a set of legs there — for effects that are both comical and grotesque. Watts to Joshua Tree: A tour of Noah Purifoy's Outdoor Museum 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The morning of my wedding, I woke up looking grotesque. On My Wedding Day, Wishing I Looked Like Someone Else 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z But in her attempts to “follow his moral logic,” she entertains his tortured excuses and grotesque fantasies. In ‘My War Criminal,’ the Bad Guy Controls the Conversation 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The “memorial” was a grotesque Frankenstein’s monster made of desecrated graves. From Poland to Lithuania: A Writer’s Search for Her Jewish Past 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z In Mr. Farrelly’s “Truth or Dare,” Halle Berry and Stephen Merchant enact a blind date in which they goad each other to grotesque extremes of plastic surgery. Movie Review: ‘Movie 43,’ Crude Vignettes With Big Stars and Directors 2013-01-26T00:08:39Z The public one tends to be an ornate glass conservatory where visitors delight in the seasonal displays, tropical plants and the abrupt appearance of the beautifully grotesque corpse flower. A $1 million donor’s request to Brookside Gardens: Build a greenhouse before I die 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Intriguingly grotesque shapes of Sequoiadendrons resulted from a fortuitous pruning error, affecting the growth pattern. 2009-12-01T05:00:00Z In his flawless Japanese he negotiated on my behalf as I stood there – my face a grotesque mask. My worst holiday: Guardian writers on breaks that nearly broke them 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z They quickly became gray and torn and then almost grotesque. My year with Amy Winehouse: What I learned watching her through paparazzi lenses 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z The lizards, rodents and other creepy-crawlies that populate its desert landscape are far more grotesque to behold than traditional Disney fauna, but their ugliness only adds an extra frisson to the film’s charming anthropomorphism. Film: All Creatures Great and Lizardy, and Humans, Too 2011-03-18T21:35:47Z They are, in any case, a parade of grotesques drawn equally from children’s book archetypes and media-fed caricatures of the American middle class. Movie Review: ‘The Odd Life of Timothy Green,’ Starring Jennifer Garner 2012-08-14T22:10:05Z When a country ignores its poets, things are grotesque, eccentric, fail of their full returns. Antjie Krog: Should Should power listen to poetry?| World Writers Conference 2012-09-26T09:47:23Z And that something is, to put it very mildly, man's grotesque inhumanity to man. WG Sebald film takes journey to cliff's edge 2012-02-08T14:59:42Z All Nazi camps were diabolical, but Terezín was singular in ways both redemptive, at first, and later grotesque. Terez?n: music from a Nazi ghetto 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z Critics and many adults over 30 years-old were appalled, calling the movie disgusting, repulsive and grotesque. Grosser, gross-out pranks for "Jackass 3D" 2010-10-13T21:25:00Z I’ve wrestled with the nightmare of decay, the grotesque sucking of flies and tunneling of worms and the gnawing of rodents, and decided it’s still preferable to cremation. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z Baldwin describes Doris Day and Gary Cooper as “two of the most grotesque appeals to innocence the world has ever seen”. 'We can't wait for Hollywood to change' - the directors reframing black history 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z You could almost take it as a wilfully grotesque screw-you, a knowing parody of what Blur's detractors thought Parklife sounded like, were it not for the fact it seems so self-conscious and joyless. Blur: 21 – review 2012-07-26T14:30:01Z He died in 1715, leaving behind almost 500 accounts of the wondrous, eerie and grotesque, some derived from oral narratives. Review | The perfect book to help celebrate the Chinese New Year 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z As for the A-plot, Liz’s pursuit of her billionaire admirer—Eastbound and Down’s Steve Little, a fitting addition to 30 Rock’s cast of comedy grotesques—probably doesn’t hold up to close scrutiny. The Morning After: Happy Leap Day! Edition 2012-02-24T15:19:47Z Brightly colored and often sparkly, Hall’s stuffed fabric objects initially appear more suited for a pre-K classroom than do Cleveland’s playfully grotesque dolls. Review | In the galleries: Erika Cleveland’s ‘Healing Dolls’ are playful in their duality 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z If Charlie Hebdo sought the truth, it did so by treading the path of the grotesque, littering the ground with jokes, often cheap and silly ones, as it passed along. Shooting the Jesters 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The scherzo underwhelmed too, its ghostly sides missing elements of the grotesque. Michael Tilson Thomas and San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z She choreographs graceful ballets from a cast of grotesque sculpted creatures. Unpacking and Decoding the World of Animation 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z As the show develops, though, it becomes increasingly clear that Falstaff is merely the most grotesque version of the self-serving characters in the world of these plays. London Theater Journal: A Double Double Bill 2010-07-28T15:51:00Z She is dumb — she doesn’t know what the Internet is! — crude and physically grotesque, and also loud and needy. | 'Jack and Jill': Adam Sandler in ?Jack and Jill? - Review 2011-11-10T23:57:03Z The owners of Delicious Foods, a grotesque and sickly white couple up at the big house, hover like a pair of ghosts from the mid-19th century. Novel will make you think twice about those beautiful fruits at the store 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z These and Adult Swim’s other fake infomercials share a similar, demented sensibility: contemporary television entertainment transposed back to the days of carnival grotesques and turned into the stuff of addled nightmares. Looking for Meaning in “Too Many Cooks” 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z There was something grotesque if not downright alarming about the portraits on the wall. Alison Mosshart of the Kills Makes Jarring Paintings 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z He's better at the idealism; for the realness, he favors wobbly closeups that often render his characters' faces unintentionally grotesque, and he works too hard at signaling the dinginess of Patti's surroundings. A Jersey Girl Dreams Big 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The reflexive instinct would have been to play it straight and offer a sober rendering of the grotesque avarice that had ruined millions of lives. Adam McKay went from Ron Burgundy to Dick Cheney, and it actually makes perfect sense 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Trump is its ideal subject, an erratic grotesque with an id like a vacuum of need. A New Book Argues That Trump Is Television in Human Form 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Throughout, the author’s eye for gleaming edges and the textures of flesh provides much to admire — objects and bodies in particular have a forceful and occasionally grotesque presence on the page. A Thriller Set in Jacobean England Delves Into a Notorious Murder 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z But instead of being yet another chatty, naturalistic couch play, the show throws itself into the grotesque, when the essence of whiteness manifests in a burst of body horror as surreal as it is funny. ‘White on White’ Review: American Grotesque 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z The Queen of Halloween hosted her 21st annual Halloween bash dressed as a grotesque earthworm with husband Tom Kaulitz accompanying her as a fisherman. The 13 most buzzworthy fashion statements of 2022, ranked 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z He said he knew he was “helping to create some of the most grotesque content on the planet,” but justified it by saying it was only for a short time. The Best Half-Hour of Comedy in 2020 Is About … Scaffolding? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z So does a certain grotesque quality that Schulhoff courts even in the expressive markings of some of his movements. Review: Summoning Erwin Schulhoff’s Zest for Life 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z His identity was unmistakable, even with the grotesque hole through his right forehead. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z The world as seen through Bruce’s bloodshot eyes is a surreal phantasmagoria that grows more grotesque as his sanity deteriorates. ‘Filth’ Stars James McAvoy as an Insane Detective 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z “It is gross, grotesque, gruesome and horrible throughout,” he wrote. Looking Back at Günter Grass's Life and Work 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z I dislike how he impresses people with few choices into his grotesque, allegorical puppet theater while maintaining his own godlike invisibility. Art Review: Behold the Anonymous Downtrodden 2011-06-02T21:57:17Z The last sequence of colour photos in the death album were not grotesque. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z Sometimes these were functional, more often they were just decorative, but almost always they were grotesque. Gauguin: It’s Not Just Genius vs. Monster 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z She believed it meant women in her age group were "grotesque on some level," and told her husband "It's over." Meryl Streep covers Vogue magazine for first time 2011-12-12T07:16:03Z Not just bricks, but punches, and worse: Astbury's story is by turns picaresque and plain grotesque. The Cult: 'We're the Fulham of rock music' 2012-08-23T19:00:03Z The moments of zany genius the show accesses are weighed down almost immediately by the grotesque. Always brash, “South Park” gets brave: From kids with guns to the P.C. principal, this was their most compelling — and self-aware — season 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z In “Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream,” Headley reimagines the Minotaur myth, as a magician and a witch plot to trap one of the lovers in a grotesque maze. Three science fiction and fantasy books we love, November edition 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Shar winks: a grotesque compression of one side of her face. NW by Zadie Smith – extract 2012-08-17T21:55:12Z So the stories here exist in this little air bubble of activity beneath a sea of nihilism, dazzling and grotesque, where “I love you”s are elicited under penalty of death but have real meaning. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z But the unequal social scaffolding built around Natasha is overshadowed by the grotesque peculiarities of the character herself, and Denisova’s mesmeric rendering. Review: A Bracing Trial by Zoom in ‘State vs. Natasha Banina’ 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z It is the exquisitely horrible and obscene story of a doctor whose son is killed in an accident and who takes the corpse to the supernatural burial ground nearby – with grotesque results. Royals, rogues and Rudolf Nureyev: the best films of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z His paintings are mostly identified for their thickly-painted and swirling depictions of grotesque animals and humans. Missing Appel artworks recovered 2012-02-15T12:44:10Z The last one was to the Burj Al Arab hotel, a grotesque temple to tacky ostentation in Dubai. Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots' 2012-06-10T19:00:05Z The characters are middle-class suburban grotesques, their strivings and self-delusions treated with a mixture of compassion and contempt. ‘Bad Tales’ Review: Suburban Dysfunction, Italian Style 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z The fear caused nightmares, which in turn inspired paintings and drawings of grotesque landscapes and faces. World War I — The Quick. The Dead. The Artists. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Ms. Brown’s acrid palette and stylized, often grotesque figures signal a departure from her earlier, more sedate realism. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Centuries of grotesque, open-mouthed gargoyles are poised on a wall overhead, as if prepared to spew venomous rainwater. Critic?s Notebook: Quai Branly Museum in Paris Glorifies the ?Other? 2011-11-25T23:47:39Z His presence is comforting; he seems like an island of sanity in a sea of grotesque chaos. 'As a black woman I'm always fetishised': racism in the bedroom 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Along the way he gives us chilling, Grand Guignol scenes involving a ghastly subway accident and a grotesque industrial-arts class accident. Books of The Times: Maximized Revenue, Minimized Existence 2011-03-31T21:14:33Z Picasso’s version, a straight-backed figure with milk jars for bosoms, is more grotesque than tender. Art Review: Who?s the Voyeur Now, Picasso? 2010-08-26T22:37:00Z He’s the lead grotesque in a series created by Julia Davis, the British comedian responsible for comedies of bad manners including “Hunderby” and “Camping.” “Sally4Ever” and “The Bisexual,” Reviewed: Women in Crisis, In and Out of the Bedroom 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z It was grotesque and gorgeous and, as so often in his work, turned the world inside out. Just don't call it a freak show 2010-04-30T23:07:00Z The network specializes in series that marry elegant cinematography to spooky setups and grotesque crime scenes. Television Review: On the Scent of Psychopaths: Penetrating the Criminal Mind 2011-02-15T22:51:38Z Again — the whole thing was grotesque on her part. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Cousin got engaged at your wedding. It ended your friendship. Now she has covid. 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z It’s not an obvious feminist element, since it’s the beast who’s supposed to be grotesque. Beauty and the Beast: feminist or fraud? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z But for my money “The Boy Next Door” goes well beyond unintentional humor into grotesque catastrophe, and finally into something more like sadness. “The Boy Next Door”: Why J-Lo’s erotic thriller is a disaster 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Director Simon Brand devotes so much running time to fear-mongering and grotesque stereotypes that a last-ditch effort at moral ambiguity and a critique on muckraking barely register. 'Default' a hostage thriller that demands little attention 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z His villainy is like a gargoyle — inert and thoroughly grotesque. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z “Southern Cross the Dog” often verges on stream of consciousness; it is filled with disturbing and disorienting characters and grotesque situations; the point of view frequently shifts. Books of The Times: ‘Southern Cross the Dog,’ a Novel by Bill Cheng 2013-05-21T21:36:57Z Their mother, Myriam, discovers this grotesque scene upon her return home to the family’s small apartment in Paris. Review | Worried about your nanny? Here’s a novel in which your worst nightmare is realized. 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Set in a contemporary East London churning with dark shadows and inexplicable savagery, this digitally shot, visually murky movie is a muddle of tones ranging from the grotesque to the queasily comic to the absurd. | 'Heartless': Out of the Dark Shadows, Arty Toil and Trouble 2010-11-19T06:13:00Z He never loved his own people too much to be able to see what was grotesque and silly and consequently most human in them. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z The image shows a fish with its mouth being held open, showing a grotesque parasite. Fish caught with live, tongue-eating parasite in its mouth 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z Shadowy figures in animal masks commit grotesque acts of violence. 'Kaboom': A polymorphous sex comedy/murder mystery/sci-fi freakout 2011-02-24T20:39:04Z Better that, surely, than hot-housing the thing all the way through its life, like a paranoid tiger-mom administering to some grotesque, pampered adult. ‘Like a paranoid tiger-mom’: how control-freak authors took over Hollywood 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The point, obviously, was to have the team always lose and thus infuriate her grotesque ex, Rupert. ‘Ted Lasso,’ Season 3, Episode 1 Recap: Can the Center Hold? 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z His grotesque, stage-hijacking Engineer came across as the flaming, smoking soul of corrupt capitalism, rather in the mold of another uneasy but immortal cultural stereotype, Charles Dickens’s Fagin. Review: Return of the Little Copter That Wowed in ‘Miss Saigon’ 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z “This movie is over the top and grotesque in all the definitions of the word, and the imagery is heavy-handed,” Eggers admits. The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers on storms, seagulls and spraying Robert Pattinson with a hose 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Demanding that young people kidnapped as children and held captive for months or years justify their inability to escape is the apex of victim blaming, and it’s grotesque. Bill O’Reilly at his most odious: Everything Fox News gets horribly wrong about rape culture and sexual assault 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z And we haven’t even begun counting the villains, a rogues’ gallery of grotesques who evoke virtually every monster and murderer from myths and movies alike. ‘Legion’ Season 1, Episode 5: Running With the Devil 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z What was once the traditional kickoff to the holiday shopping season has in recent years morphed into a grotesque spectacle. Black Friday is the worst: Shopping is ruining Thanksgiving — but at least one retailer is pushing back 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The marble show, a wicked romp through a couple of millennia of objects, figures and portrait busts, is riddled with alternating intimations of decadence and purity, the Classical and the grotesque. Art Review: Portraits From 16th Century and Sculpture at Sperone Westwater 2012-01-26T23:39:20Z A film about a series of hilariously grotesque murders on a B-movie film set certainly isn’t going to be to everyone’s taste. My streaming gem: why you should watch Terror Firmer 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z I have my issues with the violence in “Game Of Thrones” in general, but there is something especially grotesque about violence that doesn’t even tell you anything, or doesn’t try to do something. Feed Ramsay Bolton to the dogs already: “Game of Thrones”’ biggest villain should be more interesting than this 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Often a grotesque spirit of belonging exists between them. Look at me: why attention-seeking is the defining need of our times 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z It is a grotesque, mesmerising scene, and easy to imagine on a loop as a work of video art in a well-curated exhibition. Iranian film-maker Mohammad Shirvani takes aim at weighty issues 2013-04-23T15:31:08Z Since these illustrations accompany rabbinical commentary, their invocations of the grotesque seem almost mischievous. Critic?s Notebook: Put Yourself in the Story of Passover 2011-04-17T23:21:25Z “Alice” bears a thematic as well as stylistic resemblance to “Invaders”: both use spatially distorting techniques inherited from German Expressionism to view a cold, grotesque and foreboding adult world through the eyes of a child. DVDs: Another Trippy Rabbit Hole 2010-02-27T03:01:00Z The seething city strikes Butler as grotesque — “New Orleans, they say, is not even American” — but he’s determined to get it running again, and quickly. ‘Secessia’ is Kent Wascom’s vivid portrait of 1862 New Orleans 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Or is he, as one YouTube commentator reckons, "a grotesque testament not only to the current state of rap music but also to the steady, inevitable decline of western society"? Grab your spatula! Could 'based' Lil B be the next big thing? 2011-02-19T00:06:00Z In these universes, taste has been supplanted by technology, a development that is equal parts grotesque and nutritionally expedient. We asked an AI to draw its favorite food. The results were bleak 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z That fascination with the grotesque comes through in much of his best work. The Faith Behind Aubrey Beardsley’s Sexually Charged Art 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z But each of Ms. Sheehy’s efforts is an extravagant, compressed world unto itself, at once beautiful and grotesque, natural and willfully made. Art In Review: Sandra Sheehy: ‘Music From a Garden at Dusk’ 2013-01-10T22:36:10Z It’s sometimes silly and sometimes grotesque, not unlike a carnival itself. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z With 68 episodes over three seasons, the stories range from the grotesque to bizarre and campy – basically anything to suit your mood, and if you're not interested, you can easily skip to the next one. From "Los Espookys" to "Paper Girls," here are 8 spooky streaming shows you may have missed 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z One that’s in the show, a latex cast of Thek’s nude body covered with a school of latex fish, is a ruin: once poetic, now grotesque. Art Review: Believing Is Seeing (Or, the Meat Of the Matter) 2010-10-21T21:30:00Z They weren’t afraid to experiment with sounds that were nearer to the grotesque than the beautiful. Missy Elliott’s “Supa Dupa Fly” Came From The Future 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Between the two, more than two billion dollars is up for grabs, as if the prizes had been adjusted for our era of grotesque income inequality. Watching Lottery Drawings in an Age of Plutocracy 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Like, even before the grotesque button of the sketch was revealed, it was still doomed by the couple’s oddly muted cha cha. Cleveland Cavaliers hastily pull video that shows fan body-slamming woman for wearing other team’s gear 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The forms are whimsical, grotesque and thoroughly surreal, like indeterminate body parts crudely butchered and strung up like hams. What is the 'women's aesthetic'? The gallery show '3 Women' offers some answers 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Her parents find her grotesque, “like a rag doll sewn together from cast-off parts.” Marisa Silver's 'Little Nothing' is fierce, mysterious fairy tale 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Sandler has made worse movies, but never one as grotesque as this. 'That's My Boy': Father doesn't know best in Sandler raunch-fest 2012-06-13T22:50:05Z The grotesque and murderous beast wreaks murderous havoc. South Park's Al Gore apology contains an inconvenient truth: it's funny 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z “Margin Call” is both a thrilling spectacle of damage control or the anatomy of a grotesque act of free-market savagery. 'A Most Violent Year,’ With Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z A bit smaller, and the fruits would get lost; larger, and they would be grotesque. Veronica Ryan’s Uncanny Objects 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z “It’s completely wrong and grotesque,” he said in a telephone interview on Wednesday. Two Versions of ?War of the Buttons? Open in France 2011-09-14T22:15:45Z That said, I worked very hard not to establish Edie as a grotesque character. A Word With: Jami Attenberg and Samuel D. Hunter: Obesity, With Jami Attenberg and Samuel D. Hunter 2012-12-12T22:15:59Z Anderson's grotesques speak to walls, embrace pillows, and shout their private thoughts to empty cornfields. A brief survey of the short story part 51: Sherwood Anderson 2013-07-24T15:15:19Z Terry Jones an underrated, understated performer, while Terry Gilliam - the sole American in the group - is a master of grotesques. Dead parrots and lumberjacks please Python fans 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Gary is spared the scaffold and tasked with mopping up the tragedy’s bloody aftermath: a sublimely grotesque mountain of corpses. In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z Several envision the grotesque, unbearably anxiety-inducing baby that the film revolves around. Exploring David Lynch’s Paintings and Drawings 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z It’s not often that a mainstream movie focuses on an eccentric subset of the population without turning them into grotesques or cute little goofballs. The Big Year: Not Just for the Birds 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z Structured as a grotesque revue, the show is partly set at a cooking show, with scenes ranging from execution via electric chair to the crunching of an ortolan’s bones. Theater Listings for April 24-30 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z There are no benevolent white belles and polite gentlemen in “Emancipation,” no trace of the grotesque plantation fantasies so beloved by old Hollywood. ‘Emancipation’ Review: Will Smith in a Brutal Journey 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z There are these great moments of civilisation, of science, but they try to be bigger and better than they are, and when they fall, they resort to grotesque public execution. Amexica: on the frontline of the Mexican drugs trade 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z Very big and perfectly groomed, she was beautiful and grotesque at the same time. The Fierce and Seductive Men of Flamenco 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z But Falstaff's presumption in attempting to woo Mistresses Ford and Page transforms them into cheeky schoolgirls performing pat-a-cake, and Ford into a grotesque contorted by jealousy. The Merry Wives of Windsor 2010-08-20T20:30:00Z Roberts’s casting would have been perceived as grotesque even in 1994. 'No one will know the difference': studio wanted Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z "No. There would be something grotesque about that. But then, I still say I couldn't refuse him anything, so make of that what you will." The boor's head 2010-05-21T23:03:00Z The story opens with a bloom of grotesque comedy: A 15-year-old orphan named Des Pepperdine is in a relationship with an older woman. 'Lionel Asbo': from brothel to brawl and back in dystopian England 2012-09-13T20:25:05Z But the movie’s decontextualized and disturbingly ill-considered use of Fascism is reductive and finally grotesque. ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ Review: Puppets and Power 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z So that she can have some dignity and also, yes, the idea that she can have desire, and it is not something grotesque and demented. How Sofia Coppola reinvented Clint Eastwood’s creepiest film 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Timothy B. Tyson, author of “The Blood of Emmett Till,” says the grotesque image of the black teenager murdered in 1955 by whites in Mississippi was a crucial part of the civil rights movement. Photo of Salvadoran refugees shows power of still images 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Or a literally Kafkaesque symbol of our broken, grotesque humanity. Warren Ellis' 'Normal' is a fast-paced dystopia about a burned-out futurist 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Free of the constraints of family-friendly primetime entertainment and back in their usual habitat of the live comedy circuit, the pair can let loose the more gothic and grotesque side of their act. This week's new comedy 2011-03-05T00:07:44Z Painting landscapes of grotesque fantasy surrealism, it was probably inevitable that the sequels and spin-offs to 1982’s A Nightmare on Elm Street became increasingly ludicrous and special effects-heavy. Wes Craven: professional scaremonger who rewrote the horror film rules 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Alas, this grotesque became a trailblazer for a whole class of “fancy” hibiscus that seem to outdo themselves in terms of unnatural hues, jarring color combos and sheer weirdness. The sultry plant that will break your heart 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Reassuringly likable characters and predictably loathsome villains balance hideous deaths, grotesque corpses and murderous conspiracies. ‘NCIS: New Orleans’ Begins on Tuesday on CBS 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the notion of mother and man-child together on the lam is a grotesque exaggeration of maternal solicitude. The Sad Lessons of the “Affluenza” Teen 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z The editors also shrewdly liken the book’s dramatis personae to the exuberant grotesques in George Grosz’s contemporary paintings and caricatures. Review | Claude McKay abandoned ‘Romance in Marseille’ because it was too daring. He was just ahead of his time. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z But this “Government Inspector,” which uses a freewheeling but spiritually faithful adaptation by the American dramatist Jeffrey Hatcher, reminds us of the cathartic value of exaggerating the already grotesque. Review: In ‘The Government Inspector,’ Dumb and Dumber, Deliciously 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Second, I wanted to create this grotesque form because I needed something to keep the film together and I didn’t want to use just one protagonist or a group of protagonists. Russia and Ukraine Have Long Been This Filmmaker’s Subject 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z He is interested in how life was still “grotesque and distorted, sick and crooked, undignified and humiliated.” Review: Knausgaard Becomes a Writer in a Sick, Crooked World 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z While acknowledging that, like many of Self's books, it is "largely a combination of the dryly comic and grotesque," Thorne also detected "a new stateliness". Critical eye: reviews roundup 2012-08-24T21:45:09Z Taylor's stories of disaffected 20-somethings, by turns funny, grotesque and moving, are most of all gloriously unpredictable. A quick look at 2010 in short stories 2010-12-30T09:00:05Z “Divine is a great example of that: a man who has the power of being something quite contradictory, both female and male, both glamorous and grotesque.” We took John Waters to a John Waters art exhibit in Baltimore 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z They are the work of Dana Schutz, the 35-year-old American painter who has gained a reputation for her colorful, grotesque creatures that are whimsical, absurd and often a bit horrifying. Inside Art: Israel Museum Receiving a Work by Gerhard Richter 2012-01-12T22:30:37Z The results aren’t gory or grotesque, but they’re nonetheless fleetingly yet significantly moving, simply because there are humans present, facing the end. The Empty Astonishments of “X-Men: Apocalypse” 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z For Anderson these "grotesques" are not monsters to be feared, but creatures to be pitied and loved. A brief survey of the short story part 51: Sherwood Anderson 2013-07-24T15:15:19Z It’s a bizarre, grotesque and dreamy sketch, one that has more in common with “Twin Peaks” than “Key & Peele.” Tim and Eric Figure Out How to Do the Wrong Thing, Perfectly 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z Instead of having a secret identity that was amazing and saved people, I had a secret identity that was a twisted grotesque monster bent on destroying me and all those who cared about me. I wrote my way to true love 2013-02-14T01:00:00Z The fiction always comes out so horrifically defective, so hideous a betrayal of all your hopes for it – a cruel and repellent caricature of the perfection of its conception – yes, understand: grotesque because imperfect. David Foster Wallace on 'The Nature of Fun' 2012-11-16T11:00:02Z He is Igor to the villain’s Frankenstein, an Untermensch underling with his own grotesque personality based on a certain unattractive appearance. Richard Kiel's Jaws: the Bond villain whose bark was worse than his bite 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z What the novel lacks in plot it makes up for with grotesque, ruthless details, following an aging dictator as he terrorizes his unnamed Caribbean country. The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Simultaneously funny and grotesque, “Wax Museum Strangler, Coney Island, N.Y.,” features a wax museum tableau of a killer choking his hapless female victim. Finding Alchemy and Art on a Coney Island Scary Ride 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Each neighbourhood works on their own grotesque creations, which are paraded through the streets, accompanied by traditional gamelan bands and drumming, and burnt to much jubilation. Bali’s New Year’s Day – time to stay in, turn off the lights, and keep quiet 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z I liked the ragtag and grotesque dimensions of the assembling. ArtsBeat: 'Big Love' Watch: Women Under Pressure 2011-01-24T20:55:46Z Suddenly my impression seemed like a grotesque representation of the actual man. Dana Carvey Remembers George Bush, From Muse to Friend 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Schmidt gets into grotesque verbal tangles and has to take back half of what he says; every social encounter teeters on the edge of humiliation. David Denby: “Third Person” and “22 Jump Street” Reviews 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z It’s a lavishly grotesque role, and Adams attacks it with her usual precision and conviction. Best supportive wife: how female characters fare at the Oscars 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Waging endless war — on Afghanistan, on Iraq, on terror — yielded nothing so definitive as peace or victory, and instead simply fueled a “grotesque subtext” to which Trump proved to be remarkably attuned. ‘Reign of Terror’ Brilliantly Traces the Course From 9/11 to President Trump 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Motherhood, at least the way it is depicted on cable networks like MTV, TLC and even FitTV, is a menacing, grotesque fate that is mostly ill-timed. Television: ... And Baby Makes Reality TV 2011-01-21T17:40:59Z Mr. Mayer brings dazzling virtuosity and playfulness to jaunty pieces like “Le Banjo: Fantaisie grotesque” and “Pasquinade: Caprice.” Classical Playlist: Bach, Biber, Gottschalk and More 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z It is a fairground mirror that reflects the faults of the liberal mainstream in grotesque forms. Why leftists and 'revolutionaries' are not the best feminists 2013-02-03T00:06:08Z All the time I wondered, why do these grotesque items of chronoporn still exist? Less is more: the age of minimalism 2011-02-11T07:59:01Z Some wear grotesque masks that bring to mind hucksters on sidewalks handing out promotional material for fantasy-theme restaurants. | 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark': Good vs. Evil, Hanging by a Thread 2011-02-08T03:01:17Z From the antisemitic posters that line the streets two images continue to haunt him: a Humpty Dumpty grotesque and a mocking beak-nosed caricature that becomes his aggressive alter ego. Gainsbourg 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z And the way the Olympics exist in a grotesque linkage or synergy with the international finance capital is so obvious. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z In fact, there is the grotesque possibility that Orwell, had he been living and writing now, would not have won the Orwell prize, the political writing award set up in his name. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z But, by this time, the grotesque has become mundane. A Movie That Dares to Humanize Jihadists 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z This archive of images, I hoped, would provide a necessary antidote to the scourged backs, the glassy, tear-filled eyes, the bodies stripped and branded or rendered grotesque for white enjoyment. An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Despite its often grotesque violence, “The Living Dead” is, in the end, about something unexpected: the quality of mercy. Review | George Romero’s posthumous epic, ‘The Living Dead,’ reads like a definitive account of the zombie apocalypse 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z The plague doctor costume, which featured a grotesque beak stuffed with aromatic herbs designed to ward off “bad air” from plague sufferers, was accused of stoking terror. The Medical Mask Becomes a Protest Symbol 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The characters look like grotesques, even when their humanity is exposed. Sin Sangre (Without Blood) 2010-08-30T15:37:00Z His head was ugly but nothing really grotesque like Quasimodo or a person who had been tragically crushed to death by a steamroller, with googly eyes and extruded viscera. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: What if we were all measured by an awesomely low bar? 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z And rather like photographs of contemporary theater seen in newspapers today, which almost always render actors as ridiculous figures, Lautrec’s celebrity imagery often touches on the grotesque. Review | Yes, Toulouse-Lautrec was an alcoholic cabaret creature. But his art ranged far beyond the demimonde. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Known for its grotesque masks, the band won a Grammy in 2006 for best metal performance for the song "Before I Forget." Police: Slipknot bassist found dead in Iowa hotel 2010-05-24T21:57:00Z In the book’s opening encounter, Maggie takes grotesque action on a flawed premise — but that first action is never revisited or questioned once Maggie learns better. Heart-Hammering Science Fiction and Fantasy Thrillers 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z They include doctor's instruments and carpenter's tools, drinking tankards and kitchen stuff, and carvings made by those onboard, full of grotesque invention and fine-wrought eccentricity. Mary Rose's Tudor treasures deserve this revelatory new museum 2013-04-09T14:59:45Z What viewers might find uncomfortable is not just the grotesque nature of materialist impulses, but rather that those same impulses are very much at play in their own lives. America exports its addiction to bling across the globe; Lauren Greenfield captures it with her camera 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z A popular Victorian idea, this is a display of tree stumps and roots presented as a form of grotesque sculpture. Perspective | Why the shade garden is so underrated — and how to create your own 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z His $40,000 a day entitles him to all the grotesque privileges the park has to offer and perhaps more, because he seems to enjoy benefits beyond what a normal guest is granted. ‘Westworld,’ Season 1, Episode 5: The Search for Meaning 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z The most glaring flaw, though, is the ending, which is so horrific and unearned as to be grotesque. ‘Giants Being Lonely’ Review: Indie Filmmaking Being Twee 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z As you enter Davidson Galleries, three jauntily grotesque “jesters” greet you so vividly at the door that you half expect them to speak. Tip Toland’s cheery, startling ceramic ‘jesters’ hold court at Seattle’s Davidson Galleries | Art review 2012-11-16T23:21:05Z "Societally, our net preference is watching grotesque queer death over queer love," Rickun says in a Twitter thread. The promotion for "Bros" was botched. But its ordinary rom-com trappings may also be to blame 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z A parent killing their own child is our most grotesque taboo. Analysis | Why are there so many stories about parents killing kids? A new movie treats it as comedy. 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z “It’s so beautiful,” she added, just yards from an installation by the Dutch artist Mette Sterre that featured a grotesque rubber sea monster. The Art World Came to Kosovo. What Happens When It Leaves? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Depicted here, the gathering is as grotesque as one might fear. ‘The Mad Women’s Ball’ Review: A Shock Within the System 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The correspondence is a grotesque, intimate look at total commitment to Nazism, horrific evil interspersed with the banality of upper-middle-class life. Following the Trail of a Nazi Mass Murderer Who Was Never Caught 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z "Stoker" is an exquisitely made grotesque that crawls up your leg. Review: Park Chan-wook's lurid melodrama 'Stoker' 2013-02-28T02:01:08Z For now, more than ever, it's tempting to view Lanthimos's gloriously grotesque, off-kilter pictures as an ongoing autopsy of contemporary Greece – a portrait of a nation on the cusp of collapse. Why is Greece's finest young director making London his home? 2012-11-11T18:00:01Z The night nursery is slightly more benign with grotesque monkeys. Stairway to heaven: Jimmy Page’s castle is his home 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z The man who approaches Dorothy in this particular hotel bar meets a violent — and frankly grotesque — end, and what follows is one of the most uniquely fun and campily gory books in my recent memory. Why Can’t Women Be Serial Killers, Too? 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z So I think that those are tools that we like to employ, whether it’s the strange or the grotesque, to just kind of get at something fundamental about a topic. “I like that spot where fear and laughter converge”: Carrie Brownstein on how “Portlandia” takes on aging, “Transparent” and channeling Sleater-Kinney on set 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z But he’s moved to action by a grotesque act of brutality, after a man who decapitated five black children with a chain-saw gets acquitted by a jury. ‘Friday Black’ Uses Fantasy and Blistering Satire to Skewer Racism and Consumer Culture 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Jodorowsky’s reputation for extremity and surrealist inventiveness is upheld by grotesque, horrifying and comical images that seek out zones of maximum sexual, social and political sensitivity. ‘The Dance of Reality,’ Jodorowsky’s Comeback Film 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Virginia Woolf described his masterpiece, “Hydriotaphia,” a survey of funerary customs, as “a cathedral where the organ goes plunging and soaring and indulging in vast and elephantine gambols of awful yet grotesque sublimity.” I Can’t Afford These First Editions, but I Buy Them Anyway 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z But Mr. Klein is arguably the first photographer to treat the aging process lyrically, from time to time injecting an element of the grotesque. The Photographer and Auteur Steven Klein Loves to Shock, but Surreptitiously 2011-11-24T10:45:04Z The terrifying and grotesque game show returns for its ninth season, with Ludacris serving as host. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Walking Dead’ and ‘Victoria’ 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z When they have dragged themselves unhappily into consciousness, and the thirst for that first drink begins, they assemble into a grotesque tableau of human decrepitude. Review: ‘The Iceman Cometh’ Revived, With Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Nuclear terrorism, nuclear war in the Middle East or South Asia, or grotesque accident — all are unfortunately plausible. "Countdown to Zero": Valerie Plame Wilson's new anti-nuke crusade 2010-07-23T01:02:00Z A coven scene featured a plethora of naked witches, their grotesque bodies lending a nightmarish quality to Macbeth's corrupt ambition. Roman Polanski's 'Macbeth' revisited by Criterion Collection 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z The grotesque, unedited news footage can still be found online. Family, investigator question 'pizza bomber' movie 2011-08-07T17:05:11Z He covers his face in shaving foam for no obvious reason in one film, and puts on a grotesque wolf mask and daft voice in another. The many lives of James Franco 2011-02-20T21:29:01Z Handily, Ocasio-Cortez is a woman of color in America, so there’s no shortage of grotesque assumptions and biases in the collective psyche to mine. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins the rigged conservative shame game — by refusing to play 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The attempt to rescue disability from its long history of grotesque discrimination and tragic victim status had tipped over into a glorification of disability in some circles. The ballad of my son's struggle 2013-06-17T18:07:00Z Our antihero begins to understand that “by a grotesque reversal his vulnerable flesh now lay outside his skeleton.” Ian McEwan’s Political Satire ‘The Cockroach’ Offers a Reversal of Kafka 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z A tremendous piece of tireless reporting, The Brothers doesn’t offer easy answers, but it fills in the missing context around an otherwise inexplicable act of grotesque violence. Top 10 Nonfiction Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z But give the ladies credit — they are way, way ahead of the notoriously grotesque Westboro Baptist Church. One Million Moms overreaches again 2012-07-25T17:05:00Z Take the piggy bank: Once a simple symbol for savings, it’s been transformed under Trump into a Daliesque container of grotesque impossibilities. Analysis | ‘The buck stops with everybody’: How Trump twists cliches to do his bidding 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z He is a grotesque vision of rampant, unbridled capitalism. Perspective | ‘Dune’ has long divided the science fiction world. The new film won’t change that. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z But “The Hardy Boys” was also the first place he encountered racism on the page: While reading one mystery set in Egypt, he was jarred by the narrator’s “grotesque” description of a person of color. Jonathan Escoffery Has a Reality He’d Like to Share 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z To be fair to me, I hadn't called her grotesque, the headline writer had, but I had used the other G-word. TV review: Country House Rescue 2012-06-14T20:00:06Z A connoisseur of grotesques, he painted glorious, glowing angels. A New Biography of the Renaissance Genius 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Norman Mailer once compared Mr. Crews to Dickey, and there was some of O’Connor in his grotesques. ArtsBeat: Reading Crews, a Novelist as Swaggering as His Characters 2012-03-29T20:51:44Z Most dramatic are the sudden pauses, like the abrupt silence that follows the Officer’s grotesque death. Manhattan School of Music Symphony - Review?The Penal Colony? by American Opera Projects - Review 2011-10-03T22:40:28Z An enormous, somewhat grotesque clot of dyed rope, fiber, macramé and embroidery 10 feet high, this dark crusty form intimates a burned-out planet until you recognize its one spot of bright color as a pupil. Review: In ‘Fatal Attraction,’ Piotr Uklanski’s Unblinking Gaze 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Even though he’s a malign grotesque, there is, I think, that poignant core to him. This Week in Fiction: Colin Barrett on Anhedonia and Writing Poetry 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Or, rather, the two of them were—but were they actually murderous or merely absorbed in a grotesque fantasy? Weekend Reading: Riding the Rails, Children Who Kill 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Officials said the royal family was considering legal action for a "grotesque and totally unjustifiable" invasion of privacy in the same country where William's mother Princess Diana died while fleeing paparazzi. Topless photos of UK's Kate draw royal scrutiny 2012-09-14T11:32:16Z Sherman isn't always grotesque, but her photos are rarely less than disturbing. Cindy Sherman models for MAC, the makeup company of outsiders 2011-07-31T19:00:02Z The film’s tricked out tankers are grotesque works of art. “Mad Max: Fury Road”: Where feminist revenge fantasy meets old school redemption quest 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z “I look on the grotesque,” O’Connor wrote, “as the normal human condition after the fall.” University Acquires Flannery O’Connor’s Papers and Effects 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z The creature that was framed in the doorway was absolutely grotesque! Your stories: Scheherezade's Task by Cleopatra 2013-02-08T14:59:23Z And he was also fascinated by stories – especially those which are a little bit curious and sometimes grotesque. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z Another bloated his chin to make him look like the grotesque cartoon from a well-known Internet comic, or “rage comic,” called Forever Alone. Anonymous strikes back 2012-06-03T13:00:00Z That may sound like inappropriate, even grotesque, praise. Ronan Farrow's high-wire act: Why it matters that "Catch and Kill" is such a page-turner 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z So there is a grotesque illogic in this song. Christian Gerhaher: Summiting Mount Mahler 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z It is the opposite of the grotesque and the visionary, modes in which unruly imagination runs riot over rational wisdom. Art Review: Sophisticates? Sketchbooks 2011-05-26T22:23:15Z Today, however, fame has become a grotesque version of itself as people are becoming famous for what can be considered basic human behavior. It’s the future, everyone’s famous: From the A-List to the “Z-List,” fame isn’t what it used to be 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z I stress, this is not simply a retread of the grotesque notion that the first world war was won "on the playing fields of Eton". 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Recently these have included a series of grotesque murders in which the victims — most of them Chinese — have been mutilated and their bodies chopped into quarters. Review | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar returns to his other passion: Sherlock Holmes 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z But these stories became grotesque in real life. 'This is small talk purgatory': what Tinder taught me about love 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z She showed that while it’s grotesque enough to hate, to hate without any degree with geographic, historic, or cultural accuracy takes a person to a super achiever level of grotesque. Miss America brushes off the bigots 2013-09-16T14:25:00Z It's grotesque and obviously dangerous once you go down that sort of Stasi hole. Homage to Harold Pinter 2011-08-07T20:31:01Z The "New American Dream" music video doesn't lack for imagery that is equal parts trippy and grotesque — a turtle shell-clad McConnell feasting on Trump's face is one of the more benign images. President Trump devoured by Mitch McConnell in John Cameron Mitchell’s strange music video 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z He went there all right: the outcome was brazenly, even ecstatically, grotesque, and a milestone of multiplex provocation. Cannibalism, bad dates and ice skating: the best movie moments of 2017 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Partisans for both sides deliver apocalyptic broadsides that manage to be grotesque without sounding all that different from what we hear every day. Review: ‘The Pumpkin Pie Show,’ Night of the Voting Dead 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z But objecting to the grotesque scenes in Mr. Lemaitre’s books would be like going to the Galápagos and complaining that there were too many turtles: futile and beside the point. Review: In ‘The Great Swindle,’ Pierre Lemaitre Spins a Dark Postwar Tale 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Sunset scrambled up, her long, top-heavy body looking grotesque on her short legs. Read Madeleine L'Engle's "Summer Camp," which kickstarted the "A Wrinkle in Time" author's career 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Luc’s relentless pursuit of Red is raucously violent and ostentatiously grotesque. ‘Lucky Day’ Review: A Revenge Film That Won’t Grow Up 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The production of "Khrustalyov, My Car," a grotesque narrative centered on Stalin's final days, endured multiple delays due to Russia's post-Soviet economic meltdown. Acclaimed Russian film director Alexei German dies 2013-02-21T14:35:11Z Shadowy figures in animal masks commit grotesque acts of violence that leave behind no evidence. | 'Kaboom': End of the World? Maybe. First, Sex. 2011-01-27T23:23:13Z After being bombarded by fingers, they become engaged: “Together we will be grotesque.” Review: In ‘Thunderbodies,’ War, Sheeple and Psychedelic Muumuus 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z What I like is, they’re leaning into the grotesque at times, but then at other times it’s monochromatic and beautiful. Aidy Bryant’s Week: Music and More Music, With a Side of Garbage 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z It's hard to know which part of the show made him look the most grotesque. Where does Come Dine With Me go after its Coronation Street special? 2010-12-07T12:16:00Z But the show is “consistently eye-catching, sometimes in burnished, picturesque ways and sometimes disorienting, grotesque ways.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Life of the Party’ and ‘Gilbert’ 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z The stories of the grotesque failure of the Bush administration to seize a historic opportunity to better relations after the 9/11 attacks and of Iran's nuclear programme are deftly told. Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy – review 2013-03-25T10:00:01Z In “Walden,” Thoreau writes of a starving, exhausted man lost in the woods whose loneliness is relieved by “grotesque visions” that he takes to be real. | 'Letters From the Big Man': ?Letters From the Big Man? Stars Lily Rabe - Review 2011-11-10T21:57:13Z They display her hallmark style — grotesque, often violent, and layered with art-historical references and sideways cultural comment. Kara Walker Takes a Monumental Jab at Britannia 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Despite what you might believe about that festival, audiences there generally flock to lighter fare, and few seemed to appreciate that "My Joy" had a bleak, grotesque, near-perfect poetry in its soul. "My Joy": Nightmare voyage into the Russian heartland 2011-09-30T22:01:00Z “The film is ironic and grotesque,” Mr. Rosi told him, “and I feel you have both.” With Turturro, Italy Knows No Bounds 2010-03-03T00:09:00Z A whole other line of modern westerns address the Native Americans once presented as whooping menaces – grotesques to be wiped. Under fire: how cinema's new breed of cowboys are taking aim at the old west 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Your imagery can be fanciful, but there are also elements of the sinister and grotesque. Rachel Feinstein Unveils the Darker Side of Fantasyland 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z It was another case of I’ll do a grotesque character – skull split open, wearing awful stuff – because the others wouldn’t. How we made Monty Python’s Life of Brian 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Filmmaker van Heijningen, a Dutch commercial director making his feature debut, is content to wallow in grotesque special effects. 'The Thing': a warmed-over creature feature 2011-10-13T13:55:23Z So did parts of the program opener, Strauss’s “Don Juan,” which a late-19th-century critic once faulted for its “abnormal and hideously grotesque proportions.” New York Philharmonic in First Parks Concert of Summer 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z His King Kong bit with a streak of the grotesque gets guffaws, though it doesn’t wear so well in repeats. Teatro ZinZanni deals the casino-themed ‘Lucky in Love’ 2013-06-20T21:55:06Z Some are grotesque and cartoonish, others are vibrant and more abstract. 'I'm not a quirky 17-year old any more': what Arrested Development's Alia Shawkat did next 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Don’t even get me started on gargoyles, the more grotesque and fantastical the better. In the French city of Poitiers, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s influence is everywhere 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The Southern novel she celebrated takes unusual, extreme, even grotesque, behavior as its starting point. We Still Live Within the Mediated, Alienated World of “The Moviegoer” 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Sono’s films may be grotesque or ridiculous, and careen wildly from slapstick violence to religious passion and existential crisis. “Why Don’t You Play in Hell?”: A delirious, hilarious work of Japanese pop genius 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z He travels through three distinct planes of the afterlife: First, the “worm’s-eye view,” a realm of “pulsing, pounding darkness,” where “grotesque animal faces bubbled out of the muck.” Dr. Eben Alexander’s so-called after-life 2012-11-26T16:00:00Z For example, many de Kooning canvases from the 1940s — quasi-abstract paintings that are darker than much of what he’d done before and have an almost grotesque quality — have rarely been exhibited. De Kooning Retrospective Is to Open at MoMA 2011-09-13T17:57:51Z Children who visit the gallery will get some protection from the Chapmans' more grotesque imaginings. How the Chapman Brothers became the brothers grim 2010-08-03T20:31:00Z Clicking these links feels like taking a tour through the internet’s id — each grotesque screenshot and gender stereotype that manages to override our thinking brains and reduce us to pure click monsters. Lost in the Digital Swamp, Link by Link 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z The novel follows the ageing Generalissimo through his last day on earth as his assassins circle, showing him as a grotesque character whose failing body is no bar to his preening machismo. Mario Vargas Llosa: Five essential novels 2010-10-07T15:55:00Z Many thought they were grotesque and an abuse of animals, despite the poster insisting that none had been killed deliberately for the collection. Genius or grotesquery? The arrestingly strange world of Walter Potter 2010-10-08T17:37:00Z Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler's architect, likewise merged art, industry and technology — but to grotesque ends. 'Paintings of Moholy-Nagy' gives only a taste of the artist's eclectic body of work 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The imagery is often grotesque, the atmosphere claustrophobic. ‘The Wolf House’ Review: A Different Kind of Quarantine 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z And when a naked old woman materializes from the shadows, it’s especially jolting, not just because we initially mistake her for Ms. Cielecka, but because such a grotesque transformation seems possible. ‘4:48 Psychosis,’ a Polish Adaptation of Sarah Kane’s Play 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z All of this striving — absurd, tragic, grotesque and beautiful — can feel like too much. Review: ‘The Master,’ From Paul Thomas Anderson 2012-09-13T15:23:48Z It is also safe to say that his talent for grotesques is largely what made him. Nicolas Cage: 'People think I'm not in on the joke' 2013-07-20T08:00:00Z The brutal killings of several longtime characters are upsetting because we’ve grown attached to them, but they don’t have the slightly grotesque, galvanizing comic charge we’re used to. Review: A ‘Killing Eve’ That No One Was Asking For 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Terry Jones is an underrated, understated performer, while Terry Gilliam — the sole American in the group — is a master of grotesques. The men of Monty Python prove they’re (mostly) still a gas in live London shows So I really wanted to inhabit her properly and attract an actress with a character who is not a grotesque. "Tom Jones" finale highlights all the women he did wrong: "Actions have consequences" 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z This is not a writer who flinches from the grotesque. Review | C Pam Zhang’s ‘How Much of These Hills Is Gold’ brilliantly reimagines the cowboy narrative 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z More playful are Metivier's "associates": smaller fragments of faces that are mischievous grotesques. Boxers, weathered heads, politics ? all in ceramics at IMA Gallery 2012-03-22T20:12:04Z She also chided his habit of greeting her with a kiss on the hand, a habit she called “grotesque.” ArtsBeat: PEN Festival Panel Gives Christopher Hitchens Mixed Grades 2012-05-01T16:40:11Z In its most basic and classic form, wrestling channels the grotesque and the spectacular. The power and the glory of Dusty Rhodes: The “American Dream” who transcended pro wrestling’s racial divide 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Bean’s approach is to enlarge the already grotesque to the point of explosion, to multiply by at least a factor of two. Richard Bean’s ‘Great Britain’ Opens at the National 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z “He functioned like a Fellini, sensing the glamorous and the grotesque.” William Klein, Who Photographed the Energy of City Life, Dies at 96 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z I love the grotesque nature of being human. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Eat Only When You’re Hungry’ 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z In “Beetlejuice,” some sumptuously grotesque orchestra music was punctuated by captivating, amplified choral howls. Review: ‘Danny Elfman’s Music From the Films of Tim Burton,’ Macabre Yet Sweet 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Fraser is authentic and human in a movie that unfortunately chooses to focus on more grotesque, and admittedly fatphobic, elements of the overweight character's story. Salon's totally (possibly) infallible Oscar predictions: Who will win? And who should win? 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z At one point, Fanning’s character stares into a mirror and sees a grotesque monster peering back. | A Shocking Short Film About Body Image, Starring Elle Fanning 2013-12-12T20:28:43Z While the era’s grotesque caricatures are well known today, she said in an interview, the more tolerant artworks have remained largely unexplored. Not All Medieval Sacred Art Was Anti-Semitic 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Possibly the day players essaying those stock grotesques, who retain the air of being hungry for work. Review: In ‘Cabin Fever,’ the Flesh-Eating Virus Strikes Again 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z And when you watch the trailer do you, too, think of medieval artists’ fumbling attempts to draw cats, which often resulted in a grotesque mashup of human faces and feline bodies?” Box-office flop "Cats" gets a re-release 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z In the movie “Brazil,” the main character’s mother purchases repeated plastic surgery until she becomes something grotesque, a symbol of our vanity gone monstrous and absurd. Not Quite “Brazil”: Meg Ryan, plastic surgery and my mother’s augmentation 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z “Nothing is too arcane or technical or grotesque for her, and it all finds its way into her fiction.” Margaret Atwood, Digital Deep-Diver, Writes ‘The Heart Goes Last’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z She becomes McCarthy's Painter, just as McCarthy himself became a grotesque and scatological version of Willem de Kooning in his hilarious video. Elaine Sturtevant: queen of copycats 2013-07-01T17:21:50Z His clownish, abstract, cartoonish and grotesque works reflected his bent for provocation. M.T. Liggett, 86, Folk Artist and Provocateur, Is Dead 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z But there was still a celebration, before the evening took its grotesque turn. Waiting for the Female Future at Wellesley 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z John Fetterman, according to one line of grotesque and specious Twitter speculation, struggled with depression because his wife wouldn’t stop seeking the spotlight. Perspective | How Gisele Fetterman became the right wing’s favorite super villain 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The cartoons discussed in “Wild Minds” often contained misogyny and racism that veered from casual to grotesque — after all, a “wild mind” could also be a sexist and bigoted one. ‘Fantasia,’ ‘Snow White,’ Betty Boop, Popeye and the First Golden Age of Animation 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z “American Standard,” named after a toilet brand, riffs for pages on lines from T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” while churning through contemporary concerns like gerrymandering, immigration, and grotesque politicians and their media platforms. Five Poets Who Find Music in the Personal, the Political or in Music Itself 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z “NOS4A2” is full of chills and cliffhangers, but it never turns needlessly grotesque. Books of The Times: ‘NOS4A2,’ a Novel by Joe Hill 2013-04-28T20:53:12Z In fact, it is all something of a grotesque marvel. Nevermore 2010-07-07T20:31:00Z In a particularly grotesque touch, the Russian authorities then prosecuted him posthumously for perpetrating the fraud he had uncovered. Red sky in the morning 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Wade’s portrait of Sayers, one of England’s most private writers, perceptively illuminates her fierce independence, her complicated relationships and her often grotesque novelistic imagination. The Power Women of Mecklenburgh Square 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z She’s in a book club named for Flannery O’Connor, though its members generally dislike O’Connor’s work, thinking her characters “grotesque” and “miserable.” In ‘The Kingdoms of Savannah,’ Oddballs Circle Around a Murder Mystery 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z A series of small-scale “Quarantine Paintings” addresses violence in Minneapolis and Kenosha, grave-digging at the Hart Island potter’s field, as well as grotesque doings of the Trump family. In 177 Portraits, an Artist’s Homage to His Bed-Stuy Muse 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Or as Ms. Negga put it, when discussing her character on the phone, “It would have been really unfaithful and quite grotesque to have made her any different.” ‘Loving’ Aims to Speak Softly to History 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z The draw here — besides dropping in at the storied Royal Court — is to see how measured or grotesque the actors' portrayal of ugly Americans will be. My theatrical busman's holiday in London: what am I missing? 2010-08-16T08:35:00Z Compared favourably by critics to The Sopranos, Underbelly is thrilling television; the carnival of grotesques that was Australian criminal royalty at the time is never less than compelling. Imported gems 2010-04-20T12:59:00Z It wasn't difficult to deliver a grotesque and harrowing picture. Mice, Mullahs and the Begging Mafia; All Songs Considered – radio review 2013-06-07T06:00:08Z The cellos were unctuous in the Scherzo, part of a kaleidoscope of sickness and sourness that never became grotesque; the violas seemed to feed off the heat of the brasses. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Gives a Master Class at Carnegie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Alluding to antique paintings representing Jesus’ deposition from the cross, it resonates with the often brutal, grotesque and nearly hallucinogenic realism of artists like Hugo van der Goes and Matthias Grünewald. Art Review: Behold the Anonymous Downtrodden 2011-06-02T21:57:17Z They’re extraordinarily diverse in style and subject, and include naturalistic figure studies, anguished martyrdom scenes and mischievous grotesques. Art Review: Spanish Draftsmanship That Leaps Off the Page 2010-10-14T21:52:00Z She looks at her pendulous body, gorgonzola dolce, grotesque with gravity, stretched by too many leaden epithets and reckons Frank got lucky. Heartbreak by Craig Raine Digested read 2010-07-12T23:05:00Z It’s grotesque: Trump sends tweet after tweet, With supremacist comments replete. Style Invitational Week 1348: Same Difference 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Set up as a grotesque beauty salon, it includes stations for haircutting, makeup, nail art and tattooing. Mutant Salon at Commonwealth & Council: Let the demented makeover begin 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Contemporary illustrations of Cyrano show him to be relatively well-endowed nasally but never quite reaching the grotesque extremes we find in Rostand. Beyond Cyrano de Bergerac’s nose – the real man behind the swashbuckling hero 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z On the drama front, TNT’s “Animal Kingdom” really aimed for a “Diet ‘Sons Of Anarchy’” vibe and mostly hit it — it’s physically and emotionally violent, bordering on grotesque. What You Should Watch to Catch Up on This Summer’s Shows 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z "Killing" illuminates military tactics, political gamesmanship and the grotesque seductiveness of high-tech weaponry. Sebastian Junger reflects on friendship, war and peace 2011-06-09T22:27:00Z The story — a kind of grotesque fairy tale — takes place in the walled Republic of Urbs-Ludus, whose citizens adore giant hotels and “fantastical coiffure.” A sneak peek at ‘P---y,’ the soon-to-be published novel about Donald Trump 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z In fact, there’s little in “The Sandman” that isn’t grotesque. Review | Oh, the horror! Why it’s hard to look away, even when a book is full of gore. 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The costumes are glitzy and glammy and sometimes a little grotesque, easier to place in the world of vaudeville or of P. T. Barnum than in that of the Carter Administration. Backstage at the Ringling Brothers Circus, 1977 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z At the hands of lesser artists, anticomania often sank into grotesque melodrama. Art Review: At the Louvre, Vivid and Varied Imaginings of Antiquity 2010-12-03T16:11:00Z A vinyl floor piece about grotesque, desperate bodies and a gallery wall touching on the many meanings of war, end up, in their vivid austerity, simply places to pose, which plenty of people did. Barbara Kruger: Infinitely Copied, Still Unmatched 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Freeze-framed in the pink and orange hues of the city's streetlights, four lads seem lost in some grotesque, alcohol-fuelled mime show that is both disturbing and hilarious. Mass Photography: Blackpool Through the Camera ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:47Z “In Freud’s simple-minded taxonomy, an old woman, or a fat woman, can only be grotesque.” Lucian Freud, Stripped of Fame and Scandal 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z It is used to demonstrate the unpredictable object, the startling contrast, the grotesque event with the unexpected fall of direct light amid shade. Manet's portraits: the artist on the knife-edge of photography 2013-01-12T09:01:01Z Other passages could have been less polite: the cries of “kreuzige” even more terrifying and the horrifyingly jovial account of rolling dice for the distribution of Jesus’ tunic more grotesque. Music Review: Berlin Philharmonic Performs a New ‘St. John Passion’ 2014-02-28T03:15:50Z In a grotesque Melchior Lorch etching, the furry, donkey-eared man spewing snakes, scorpions and vermin from his mouth, a pig riding on his shoulder, also wears a papal crown. Martin Luther broke Europe in two, and Albrecht Dürer painted it back together 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z As Joan Acocella writes in her book on Morris, he descends “farther and farther into some consuming inner state, both grotesque and ecstatic.” A New Incarnation of Mark Morris’s Singular Dance 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z A remarkable iron door-knocker forged in late 17th century France has a so-called “grotesque” mask inspired by Italian Mannerism. An Auction Brings to Light a French Collector With an Eye for Ignored Beauty 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z Long scenes of driving through Paris offer a feast of urban textures along with ample views of injury, infirmity, and the daily grotesque. What to Stream This Weekend: Agnès Varda’s Chronicle of a Parisian Pop Star’s Dread-Filled Afternoon in “Cleo from 5 to 7” 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z It's a first-person narration, which always presents a challenge, but more than that it's written in a baroque vernacular, at once basely imbecilic and highly articulate, endearing and grotesque. Money; Lost; Damages 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z Nightmare on Elm Street had the brilliant idea of the demon haunting one’s dreams – that grotesque figure in a hat, burned face and clawed glove. Wes Craven: the mainstream horror maestro inspired by Ingmar Bergman 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z But visions of total unplugging also seem a bit grotesque. The Case for Covering Your Ears in Noisy Times 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z But perhaps nothing exemplifies Schulhoff’s taste for the grotesque — and his sense of humor — as his work for solo contrabassoon titled “Bass Nightingale.” Review: Summoning Erwin Schulhoff’s Zest for Life 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Painted in 1888, its parade of masked grotesques ushering the Savior into the city amid boisterous scenes of wild depravity is a subjective howl in the face of conformist complacency. LACMA's 'Expressionism in Germany and France' an edifying mix 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Each story concentrates on a different "grotesque" who inhabits the town, people whose lives have become distorted through an inability to communicate. A brief survey of the short story part 51: Sherwood Anderson 2013-07-24T15:15:19Z The zombie kid is creepy, a cheap and easy shot at the grotesque. The eternal sadness of the child vampire 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z But “Psycho” opens up new, grotesque seams in the trope. Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z That groundedness in the soil of natural life is, perhaps, an implicit admission that the treatment of African Americans has been so bizarre and grotesque that fantastical enhancements are unnecessary. Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Beauty is best appreciated buried in the grotesque. Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z This kind of interplay between opposites — the unnatural and the natural, the grotesque and the spiritual — powers the show. Art Review: A Man of Contradictions, With a Collection to Match 2011-02-03T23:00:07Z The two women's end scenes explore their feelings of being unloved; the three men's are violent – one a moment of grotesque, elemental aggression against a pregnant woman. Gillian Wearing: A nose for the truth 2011-08-29T20:30:01Z Yet, Gill is bothered by the way in which Dunn lingers insistently on the more vivid and grotesque details of physical deformity. Katherine Dunn has died; the 'Geek Love' author once took the world by storm 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z With the other, physicality and sound were explosive, loud, funny, excitingly grotesque. Dance This Fall: Indian Mythology and Ballets by Women 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z In recent months she has consistently accused public figures of grotesque crimes, many of them originating from the deepest and darkest bowels of the Internet conspiracy world. The downfall of “Roseanne”: How ABC’s attempt to normalize Trump-era racism backfired 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z The Chapman brothers are renowned for their controversial and often grotesque models and depictions in a variety of media. In pictures: Chapmans at the Serpentine 2013-11-28T17:25:21Z But despite the usual eye-popping lineup of elegant Wilsonian grotesques, this time it’s your ears that keep you awake, anxious and often enthralled. | 'The Threepenny Opera': ?Threepenny Opera? With Berliner Ensemble at BAM - Review 2011-10-05T16:50:18Z The startling and grotesque metamorphosis that ends “The Latinist” might have earned the approval of Ovid himself. Review | ‘The Latinist’ is the perfect suspense novel to kick off your reading year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Pandemonium, of grotesque and tragic dimensions, did erupt in the Cinema 16 multiplex in Aurora, Colorado, late Thursday night, with a toll of 12 dead and 58 wounded. The Dark Knight Rises Survives the Darkest Night in U.S. Movie History 2012-07-24T14:19:19Z There are 13 guests, of differing nationalities, many of them slightly grotesque or misshapen, though that’s hardly true of the lovely Tanith, to whom Rex is quickly attracted. Review | The best horror novel since ‘Dracula’ and other scary reads for Halloween 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z There's a vanity and a regality, but there's also something completely grotesque. Resurrecting "Hellraiser" Cenobites as part of "an interrogation of how we negotiate our desires" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z He found it grotesque when TV producers rang up with lucrative offers to revisit Vietnam on camera. Vietnam War reporter Michael Herr, who helped write ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ dies at 76 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z But it’s grotesque to turn that process into a monument to one man’s professional advancement. ‘The Outsider’ Review: Inside the Making of the 9/11 Museum 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z The term fits that definition only if you understand that he means the human comedy in all its grotesque and happy-sad variations. ‘Li’l Quinquin,’ a New Mystery by Bruno Dumont 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Meanwhile Schwitters’s Ur-sounds have inspired vocal writing full of odd gasps, shrieks and consonants that take on a grotesque life of their own. Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Dujardin calls some of these fictional constructions “memorials,” but it’s hard to tell what they’re commemorating beyond a grotesque banality or shrunken, apologetic sublime. A grassroots, handmade Venice Architecture Biennale from Alejandro Aravena 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z It was, according to Mr Beckman, “grotesque and almost literally unbearable”. Queen, thief, wife, lover 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The ingenuity in Mr. Spacey’s performance is that he becomes a grotesque mirror of the behavior of his rivals. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Finding Truth in Phoniness 2011-07-12T18:22:25Z The stories are unrelated except for the formidable presence in all five of Lazar Ristovski, a stocky 58-year-old actor whose multiple roles add up to a grotesque composite Serbian everyman. | 'The Optimists': Best of All Possible Worlds: When Life Gives You Mud, Take a Mud Bath 2011-07-27T22:21:43Z It was with the grotesque irony of the Rondo-Burleske third movement that the performance moved on to a higher plane. LA Philharmonic/Gustavo Dudamel ? review 2011-01-30T17:46:00Z Both films are grotesque horror thrillers of no artistic interest, audiovisual spew that, in the absence of their subjects—and their display of actorly virtuosity—would slip quickly down the drain of the movie market. “Ma” and “The Perfection,” Reviewed: Two Horror Movies Crassly Exploit #MeToo 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z But the show lingers in the back streets of your imagination, like a grotesque act of violence glimpsed through the window of a speeding train. London Theater Journal: Finding My Way in the Dark 2010-07-27T18:42:00Z It looks at first glance like a skinned animal, but is a beer bottle rendered grotesque and muscular-looking by the intense heat of the nuclear blast that devastated Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. Shomei Tomatsu obituary 2013-01-14T15:10:46Z “The paps had always been grotesque people, but as I reached maturity they were worse,” he says. 11 Takeaways From Prince Harry’s Memoir, ‘Spare’ 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z A free-speech absolutist, she asks, “How is it possible that today’s academic left has supported rather than protested campus speech codes as well as the grotesque surveillance and overregulation of student life?” From Camille Paglia, ‘Free Women, Free Men’ and No Sacred Cows 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Their outsize contours and often grotesque angst call to mind the monsters common in toys and cartoons in the ’80s, when Houseago was young. The Season's Most Captivating Outdoor Sculpture From Carol Bove, Olaf Breuning, And More 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z For the overwhelming majority of the paying operatic public, Thicknesse's caricature of "considerable sections of the audience" as "socially ambitious" and "conspicuous spenders" is grotesque and even offensive. Love opera. Don't fall into the trappings trap 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z He embraces his disease by making a wild, grotesque joke of it, even when he’s in pain. Review: An ‘Angels in America’ That Soars on the Breath of Life 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z He reluctantly agreed, but the new line was even more grotesque and she begged him to revert to the old line. "Spider-Man" producer Laura Ziskin dies of cancer 2011-06-13T06:37:02Z The more distorted and grotesque the face in the freeze-frame, the better. Chrissy Teigen becomes a Golden Globes meme: Why we’re obsessed with women’s cryfaces 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z In a letter from the archives from 1963, she takes one of her readers to task for thinking of the “grotesque” as something exceptional. University Acquires Flannery O’Connor’s Papers and Effects 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z “I told them to think of a black family walking into the opera, and seeing themselves shown onstage in this grotesque fashion,” Mr. Millepied said. Blackface at the Ballet Highlights a Global Divide on Race 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z He takes it from sounding very naive to grotesque within seconds, then back again.” Well-traveled pianist Yefim Bronfman to return to Seattle 2012-12-06T22:14:14Z This version also features a few more stock redneck grotesques than did the first one. Review: In ‘Cabin Fever,’ the Flesh-Eating Virus Strikes Again 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The first half is barbed and biting, an outrageous comedy of American grotesques. Michael Douglas on Liberace, Cannes, cancer and cunnilingus 2013-06-02T20:00:00Z A postprandial segment found Sedaris-as-Sedaris sporting a hideous rash—one of many visions that call to mind a Cindy Sherman grotesque. “At Home with Amy Sedaris” Is a Homemaker’s Talk Show as Dadaist Carnival 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z And more recently, FX's "Louie" has trained a gleefully grotesque eye on the physical and emotional deteriorations and regrets that accompany aging. Ted Danson gambles comeback on "CSI" 2011-09-21T16:22:00Z There is no set way that any victim should be expected to respond to such grotesque privacy violations, because we shouldn’t expect these horrifying crimes to happen. Jennifer Lawrence: Not the nude photo hero we deserve, but unfortunately the one we need 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z The audience reaction to Downfall was serious reflection about the Hitler dictatorship and its grotesque finale. Carry on up the Kremlin: how The Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with the truth 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The painting, “In the Land of the Dead, Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow,” is an 82-foot-long explosion of colorful, cartoonishly grotesque figures and motifs appropriated from Japanese and Chinese history. Dragons, Saints and a Sexy Nurse: The Art of Takashi Murakami 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Lewis and James avoid the trap of a sneering portrait by making Sue a 3D grotesque, with impressive attention to comic detail. This week's new comedy 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z Played with amusingly grotesque hauteur by Ms. Steen, Benedikte, who fantasizes that she and Philip have always been in love, provides the movie’s heartiest laughs. Movie Review: ‘Love Is All You Need,’ Starring Pierce Brosnan 2013-05-02T23:44:26Z Even some of the grotesque murder scenes are imaginatively rendered. ‘Sightseers’: Script takes too many wrong turns 2013-06-13T21:15:59Z Richard Bean, who said the new play would be 'all tits and bingo, gay vicars, the typical tabloid fare, funny but grotesque'. National Theatre to stage play about phone-hacking scandal 2013-07-18T15:48:19Z The types and tropes were all there—mean girls, jocks, bullying, upper-middle-class ennui, idiotic or abusive parents, delusional teachers, a bad-boy crush—but they were relentlessly amplified, turned into grotesques. “Heathers” Blew Up the High-School Comedy 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z I later learned that a rat had died in an air vent and this was the grotesque result. Rats in our house, rats in our streets: For New York rodents, so much depends on real estate 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z The real villain, of course, is ManBearPig, the grotesque human/ursine/porcine hybrid that mauls hapless townsfolk who continue to deny its existence because doing so is so darn inconvenient. “South Park” blames climate change on Grandpa’s selfishness and it’s barely a metaphor at... 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Her art — a grotesque cyberpunk visual vocabulary and disjointed, shape-shifting music — has commanded the attention of rebels across fashion, music and art. Arca Once Made Electronic Music. Now She Builds Worlds. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z In hallucinations and encounters connected to bugs, she defines her own existence as both a survivor and a human grotesque. The past returns in Guadalupe Nettel's 'The Body Where I Was Born' 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z The writers didn't need to make up Bill O'Reilly's famously surreal shower fantasy about "that falafel thing," it remains simultaneously hilarious and grotesque. From Harvey Weinstein to the new #MeToo movies, true justice still remains in the realm of fantasy 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Composed in memory of Mr. MacMillan’s mother, who died in 2008, the concerto derives its considerable emotive impact from graceful and grotesque elements juxtaposed with a dreamy illogic. Music Review: A New Scottish Concerto, Dressed Up and Dreamy 2011-03-03T21:49:11Z The choruses, male and female, are masked and more grotesque. | 'Lysistrata': When the Puppets Called a Sex Strike 2011-02-08T23:43:08Z In each case, a British socialite — a stylish woman — lent her skills and her aura, the currency of her social class, to the task of prettying up what was, by most accounts, a grotesque operation. Always Well Groomed 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z And the band’s hilariously grotesque armors will be on full display. Fake blood and real meat: GWARbar gets ready to open in Richmond Bart scores one good point by reminding us that Hugo's Quasimodo is a young man who happens to be deaf and disfigured, rather than a Laughtonesque grotesque. Quasimodo – review 2013-03-25T18:32:00Z Images of packed Spring Break beaches and New York City restaurants are bandied about Twitter with grotesque fascination. The Unending Anxiety of Coronavirus Content 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Hurried readers may not have realized that “grotesque head” did not refer to the ambiguous human mask at the bottom of the ring. An Auction Brings to Light a French Collector With an Eye for Ignored Beauty 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z The tableaux in some pictures are stagier than in others; a few push, uncomfortably, toward the grotesque. How the Guggenheim Got Its Groove Back 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z In a 1960s series, he photographed women gripping mirrors that obscured their faces so that their other body parts were reflected in startling, sometimes grotesque arrangements. How many legs in this photo? The strange, surreal photography of Heather Rasmussen 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z It hurls us into the chaotic inner world of someone who’s lost her foothold on an increasingly grotesque reality. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z In The New York Times Book Review, Nicholas Confessore wrote: “Grim and grotesque, the stories accrete across the pages like the radionuclides lodged in the bodies of those who survived.” Svetlana Alexievich Is Rare Nonfiction Winner of Nobel 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Akin may deserve credit for not flinching from the grotesque; other serial-killer-adjacent entertainments, like “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Zodiac” or “Mindhunter,” tend to concentrate on the cerebral mechanics of crime solving. ‘The Golden Glove’ Review: Honka, Portrait of a Serial Killer 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Underground comics, often referred to as Comix, which Spiegleman himself cut his teeth on, in particular revel in the grotesque, the political and the profane. “The blasphemy of ideas”: Why everyone should read this graphic novel in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Their enormous, architect-designed or exquisitely renovated digs in East Hampton and Coral Gables and Jackson Hole and the Provençal countryside are grotesque in a different way and on a grander scale. The New Gilded Age: A bigger con job than the first one 2014-04-26T16:30:00Z Whatever Durst’s culpability, “The Jinx” became, by the miniseries’ end, a grotesque concatenation in which vigilante investigation was queasily merged with commercial sensationalism. Robert Durst’s Grotesque Confession 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Over the years, children have been prevented from seeing some of these gleeful grotesques, the Chapmans' art hidden behind screens to protect the innocents. How the Chapman Brothers became the brothers grim 2010-08-03T20:31:00Z “It’s a history that is very complicated, a mix of tragedy and the grotesque, like all histories,” he said. The French Literati and the Arab World Do a Complicated Dance 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z If you squint, you might see pathetic, grotesque versions of characters Mr. Cunningham has already conjured with great tenderness in his previous novels. Review: ‘A Wild Swan,’ Michael Cunningham’s Scabrous Antidote to Happily Ever After 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z That attack, carried out by an apparent right-wing extremist, had been the subject of grotesque jokes and lurid, baseless speculations from some of his wife’s political enemies. The Responsibility of Watching 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z While there are enough grotesque images to satisfy most horror fans, the most terrifying shots of this movie are Post-it notes Edna places throughout the house, reminders that say “take pills” or “flush.” The Horror of Isolation 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z They are like genres pushing at each other in the film, and this is a way to represent the grotesque of tragedy and of seriousness. "France" director Bruno Dumont on Léa Seydoux, digital media and how the "fake can generate truth" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Those other characters you play on the show, along with past ones like Jerri Blank on “Strangers With Candy” and others, are heavily made up to the point of being grotesque at times. Amy Sedaris Is Excited for the Emmys. She Just Has to Find a Rabbit Sitter. 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z These Bosch-like accounts are grotesque and whimsical, painting landscapes of destruction from the basic vocabularies of both contemporary culture and ages-old apocalyptic imagery. Review: In ‘Escaped Alone’ Fears Small (Cats) and Large (Apocalypse) 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z At Liverpool Playhouse, Philip Wilson presented a grotesque, historical fashion parade in which Mephistopheles took the form of a sharp-suited drug courier. Faustus doctored as Marlowe gets a monster-inspired makeover 2013-02-28T12:47:03Z Drake wears a T-shirt with a Jim Crow illustration on it; his face is painted like a minstrel, his smile wide and grotesque. How Pusha T’s “The Story of Adidon” Viciously Undercuts Drake’s Celebrity 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z It doesn’t change his duplicity and grotesque, willful behavior and callous insensitivity. Another Catholic sex abuse cover-up 2013-01-22T21:13:00Z The club and lion skin, however, deform the perfection of his physique, making him seem out of proportion and slightly grotesque. National Gallery of Art offers rare chance to see ancient Greek bronzes 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z How grotesque to be so spoiled by Michael Haneke's continued brilliance that you find yourself looking around speculatively for something else on the horizon. Cannes 2012 roundup: why the jury's Amour for Haneke was an anti-climax 2012-05-28T10:01:04Z Ms. Lane’s gasping, grasping portrait unmistakably belonged to that gallery of creatures Williams identified as monsters, people made grotesque by success and humiliation, and a tribe to which he admitted he too belonged. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Monsters and Ghosts 2013-07-11T15:00:18Z Let me say right off the bat that there is absolutely something grotesque about highlighting what makes a true crime story "compelling" to the disinterested consumer. “Making a Murderer” returns with a new Steven Avery lawyer to obsess over: Kathleen Zellner 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z "You, with your several flesh" evokes a disturbing, almost grotesque image, with the nymphs like lumpy outgrowths of Diana, flesh of her flesh, and multiplying the threat she represents. Poem of the week: Actaeon by George Szirtes 2013-07-22T11:16:36Z With Obama, I think people were leaning more towards the actual likeness and less grotesque caricatures. When a cartoonist becomes a hero: Rob Rogers on losing his job for making fun of Donald Trump 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z The same sense of wounded decency clearly informed Clooney as he edited “Suburbicon” in the wake of Trump’s election, when he cut the story’s more lighthearted scenes and doubled down on its more grotesque contours. ‘Suburbicon’ is the latest film that uses horror to process the realities of 2017 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Known for its grotesque masks, trashing sound and aggressive, dark lyrics, Slipknot released its self-titled debut in 1999, and it sold about 2 million copies. Paul Gray, Slipknot Bassist, Dead at 38 2010-05-25T04:45:00Z His impressions of them are done with full-bodied gusto and a grotesque physicality. Louis CK Performs at Madison Square Garden 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Her art depicts the beautiful and the grotesque, earthly landscapes and sci-fi dystopias, human bodies and cyborgs — in a style that fuses art-making traditions with high-tech contemporary techniques. An Artist in Pursuit of Balance 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Sometimes they are lovingly observed; sometimes they are grim and comic caricatures – never more so than in the grotesques of the 1949 work The Cripples. LS Lowry at Tate Britain: glimpses of a world beyond 2013-06-24T17:26:28Z These sometimes funny, sometimes scary stone carvings are called grotesques and gargoyles. A cathedral like none other: Moon rock and Darth Vader blend into Gothic architecture 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z He has a surrealist's eye for the grotesque and the absurd. Deutsche Börse photography prize 2012 – review 2012-07-14T23:06:08Z The paintings and prints of this 18th-century "satirist" are full of grotesque and bigoted caricatures that have no place in today's society. Hogarth and Scarfe offend humanity … and that is why they are great 2013-01-30T14:19:02Z Even more grotesque, if that is possible, is a murder scene that a detective played by Wes Bentley arrives to investigate. Dear Ryan Murphy: Please, stop! 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z "We do some quite brave, bold, physical, comedic things in a grotesque mode - it's not your lovely straight Winslow Boy narrative where the audience is gathered into a naturalistic reality." Hitler satire arrives in West End 2013-09-25T07:29:10Z As to the future, Mr McCants wonders if IS’s grotesque brutality will prove its undoing. Inside account 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The tone, too, is weirdly chaotic, sliding from philosophical conversation to moments of grotesque absurdity. Review | Banned in China, Sheng Keyi’s ‘Death Fugue’ is a pungent political satire 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Sure, we usually laugh at their grotesque images, so different from those reliable reflections found above the bathroom sink. Review: ‘Signature Plays’ Triple Bill Reveals Truth in the Mirror’s Lies 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z On further examination of the corpse he is horrified to discover it's not actually a child but rather a crude assembly of body parts arranged in a grotesque parody of a human form. Sean Bean to star in Frankenstein 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z We know only that they have sophisticated technology and that they use humans as slave labor by attaching grotesque biomechanical "harnesses" to their spinal columns. Close encounters of a tired kind 2011-06-19T21:20:00Z If many Maya gods look grotesque, even monstrous, at least one, the Maize God, does not. Can Art Ever Be Innocent? 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Set in a fictional fief somewhere in medieval Europe, Moshfegh’s fifth novel follows a disfigured village boy who manages, through a grotesque and amoral sequence of events, to become the lord’s son and heir. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Once upon a time, or so we’re told, the princes were charming, the villains were grotesque, and distinguishing between them was as simple as examining their manners and their minds. The Age of Creepiness 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z José Clemente Orozco tried to outdo Goya in grotesque newspaper cartoons. ‘Paint the Revolution’ Offers Mexican Muralist Muscle and Delicate Beauty 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Terry Jones is an underrated, understated performer, while Terry Gilliam - the sole American in the group - is a master of grotesques. Dead parrots and lumberjacks please Python fans 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Here we see graceful, wonderfully solid nudes; sheets of grotesques and caricatures; and frequent studies of Hopper’s own earnest face and his hands. Art Review: ‘Hopper Drawing,’ at the Whitney Museum 2013-06-06T21:44:48Z In his 1960 book Synchronicity, Jung wrote that there is “sometimes quite grotesque coincidence between a man’s name and his peculiarities”. Can our names inspire our choices in life? 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug make-up team have transformed Fry into the grotesque Master of Laketown, a role the actor has described as "fascinating". VIDEO: Hobbit hair scare for Stephen Fry 2013-12-07T00:57:28Z She believed it meant women in her age group were "grotesque on some level," and told her husband, "It's over." Meryl Streep covers Vogue magazine for first time 2011-12-12T16:39:22Z That last one may disturb you, but that’s food for you — most appetizing at its most grotesque. Can Food Help Women Resist the Patriarchy? This Novel Says Yes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z One of the things I’ve always enjoyed about “Game of Thrones” is its ability to evoke real emotion over scenarios that, on paper, are weird and grotesque. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap: Calamitous Ambition 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z I won’t say more, because to do so would spoil the film’s grotesque joys. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z You have to align yourself in one way or another with her desire for him, and yet you're looking at these really grotesque images. Resurrecting "Hellraiser" Cenobites as part of "an interrogation of how we negotiate our desires" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Jokes can be corny, but self-consciously so; almost always, they bear a vague but unmistakable stamp of something more grotesque. On ‘Beef House,’ Family Sitcoms Get the Tim and Eric Treatment 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z They were nearly identical to those I saw wielded by diablos cojuelos, the gorgeously grotesque “devils” that populate the Dominican Republic’s most famous Carnival, used to ceremoniously belt onlookers. Frugal Traveler Blog: In Rural Portugal, Ancient Villages, Homemade Delights and the Science of Mooching 2012-01-10T20:23:21Z Although the aliens Mr. O’Neill depicted were demonic, contorted and grotesque, the objection was not to any particular image, but to his entire style. Kevin O’Neill, Comics Artist With a Taste for the Lurid, Dies at 69 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Photograph: Murdo Macleod He is known for his scabrous and grotesque fiction and for once taking heroin on the prime minister's plane. Will Self in talks to become Radio 4 writer-in-residence 2013-01-18T17:02:38Z There was grotesque subject matter and mundane subject matter. Music Review: Face Paint and (Playful) Fistfighting for This Tribe in Brooklyn 2010-06-15T23:02:00Z Bleak and funny, grotesque and beautiful, clever if not exactly consequential, the piece meditates, lightly, on the differences between a play and a movie, on presence and the past, on the real and the ideal. ‘What If They Went to Moscow?’ Review: Chekhov, Sliced and Spliced 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Even in the late 1960s, when his work was decidedly more grotesque, many of his paintings were of people. The Face on the Canvas and Other Mysteries 2011-03-11T15:35:16Z That old-world of Havana is in fact the grotesque indictment of the dreadful mismanagement of Cuba, it is a vivid example of the grinding poverty and soul-destroying hopelessness of life under a Communist dictatorship. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Directed with sophistication and love by her son, David Mambouch, it covers her career, her revolt against conventional beauty, her love of the awkward and grotesque, her political principles and struggles. The Dance on Camera Festival, When Dance Is Only on Camera 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z A grotesque and unique place within the history of the , at any given time it housed 60,000 people, most of whom were transported to Auschwitz. Terezín: the Nazi camp where music played amid the horror 2013-04-05T16:41:48Z It's as if the artist needed the fixed certainties of the photographs to anchor his wayward, grotesque figures in real life. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z It's a stark, haunted piece, inspired by butoh, the Japanese dance form that uses ritualised, often grotesque, body language to evoke dark hinterlands of emotion and instinct. Bartabas: dances with horses 2011-02-21T21:31:00Z The sentence is both gorgeous and grotesque; she knows that lived experience is more unruly than the stories we tell to contain it. In ‘Jell-O Girls,’ a Dark Family History Behind a Candy-Colored Dessert 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z “We want to deal with grotesque level of income inequality in America,” he said. Bill Maher just endorsed Bernie Sanders, explains how he makes GOP “heads explode” 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z He’s right—it is grotesque, and gorgeous, and ours. Going to Graceland 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z “You’ll know their work already from ‘Antiques Roadshow’ or the V&A Museum,” a librarian explained, as he showed me a Wally Bird, an owl-shaped tobacco jar in the style known as “grotesque.” A Journey Across London on the Elizabeth Line 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z The local artist tries on a variety of media, styles and demeanors, from caricature to expressionism and from pretty to grotesque. Review | In the galleries: Art, interrupted, in ‘Carte Blanche,’ curated by Adah Rose Bitterbaum 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Some of the interviews are fascinating, like a grotesque tale from the dating site Grindr. ‘The Human Symphony,’ From the New York Neo-Futurists 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z In their eyes, my itchy, weepy, rash-covered existence is sadly deluded and grotesque. Nothing like “Duck Dynasty”: My life as a female hunter 2014-01-31T00:00:00Z Surveying the array of objects, from the elegant to the grotesque, “it was clear that Yanukovych couldn’t identify which things were valuable and which weren’t,” Mr. Roytburd said. Ukrainians Turn to the Arts in a Time of Upheaval 2014-04-29T21:46:47Z But as beautiful as these animated scenes are, there are also plenty of moments of the grotesque: characters and objects with purposely uneven or asymmetrical designs, scenes with projectile ectoplasm and rotting parts and disembowelment. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Courage the Cowardly Dog’ 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Ms. Finn points to Greek mythological figures like Scylla, Lamia and Medusa who were all female, grotesque, destructive and, most tellingly, barren. Fertility Is a Matter of Age, No Matter How Young a Woman Looks 2011-08-31T20:39:17Z "It was a Llyn Foulkes show — those paintings of men with bloody heads. He really interested me because of the grotesque." Why artist Fred Tomaselli talks back to the New York Times 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z And any illusion of perfection ends with their heads, grotesque hybrids of human and animal forms, with protruding horns, sealed-up mouths and burning eyes. Art Review: Jane Alexander’s Work at St. John the Divine 2013-04-25T20:34:53Z Ig’s first couple of posthorn encounters verge on the reflexively grotesque, so it takes a while for Mr. Hill’s inventiveness to show. Books of The Times: A Devil Who Takes the Side of Angels 2010-02-25T00:18:00Z But the excellent cast is up for it, and, as Frank explains, trying to explore “our entire cultural identity politic through a grotesque carnival of murder” gets pretty complicated. Review: With ‘Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery,’ Lloyd Suh Takes on a Legacy 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z The edge that the movie takes off McCarthy’s humor finds its substitute in occasionally grotesque comic violence—which is, in turn, moralized by Bradley and Susan’s mission. Set Melissa McCarthy Free 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Nor is the rescue of Park Hill a grotesque extravagance: demolition and rebuilding would not necessarily have been more cost-effective and it would have been environmentally profligate. Sheffield's streets in the sky 2011-08-20T23:04:08Z And yet for all the sometimes grotesque imagery, and Mr. Cumming’s visceral performance, on an emotional level this “Macbeth” never truly draws blood. Theater Review: Alan Cumming in ‘Macbeth’ at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-08T20:59:33Z Both also borrow extensively from the German Expressionist Max Beckmann: Ms. Culprit uses his expedient black outlines, mildly grotesque figuration and distinctive palette of saturated colors. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z But collaborate they did, bolstered, he says, by their continuing immunity and convinced that their grotesque re-enactments would make them even more heroic to many in the country. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z She’s sparing her constituents the drama of an investigation and grotesque news cycle, realizing that they deserve good governance, not a distracting scandal. Perspective | What actually mattered in the Katie Hill scandal — and what didn’t 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z But the grotesque, ghoulish aesthetic she devises, while effective in places, can seem just baffling and quirky in others. Drama, in German, in the Shadow of ‘Leopoldtstadt’ 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Wade presents each surreal encounter as a manifestation of the heroine's trauma – the Mad Hatter's tea party becomes a grotesque travesty of the funeral wake introduced at the beginning. Alice 2010-06-25T20:30:00Z On Wednesday, the paper of record took to task the grotesque national tone in yet another of its quaint attempts to, you know, look at it from all sides. Your rage is justified, and it's not "vituperative" 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z |
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