| 单词 | half-century |
| 例句 | She told Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “The hardships of the last half-century are forgotten.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Two of the most potent social campaigns of the past half-century were the civil rights movement and the feminist movement, which demonized discrimination against blacks and women, respectively. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In the last half-century or so, sensibilities have changed, and the old practice now strikes us as lopsided. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next half-century, the concerto reigned supreme, and its godfather, or archangel perhaps, was composer-violinist Arcangelo Corelli. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The classical architecture of the White City made such a profound impression, Sullivan claimed, that it doomed America to another half-century of imitation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Before independence, the Portuguese had a palm-oil plantation here, cleared out of virgin jungle a half-century ago. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Here we are more than a quarter-century after the prophesied date and more than a half-century after the prediction, and we can check to see what happened. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Roman Ideals When the Romans set up their Republic nearly a half-century earlier, they rose up against the Etruscan kings. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He was sixty-eight years old but announced, “I intend to live for more than half a century, and at the end of that half-century London will be trembling lest Chicago shall surpass it....” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They are part of a shared cultural inheritance of the past half-century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She was still as vigorous as ever, though, despite the fact that she had celebrated her half-century mark the previous winter. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Jacobs' memory for the people and places of a half-century ago is positively creepy. 'Grease' gets its grit back 2011-04-23T15:21:37Z As many awards and accolades as Wonder has collected over the last half-century, he still doesn’t sound as though he takes any of it for granted. Stevie Wonder: Grammys all-star tribute is 'emotional' moment 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z A half-century ago this week, the 1964 World’s Fair opened in Flushing Meadows, Queens. Art Review: Warhol Shows Open, on World’s Fair and on Jackie Kennedy 2014-04-24T12:00:01Z Finding himself in demand a half-century after he first sang in front of an audience, Mr. Scott was grateful but philosophical. Jimmy Scott, Singer Whose Star Rose Late, Dies at 88 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Granger, who died Sunday at 85 in Manhattan, spent more than a half-century in American and Italian movies, in TV dramas and on and off-Broadway. Hitchcock's Dark Dreamboat: Farley Granger (1925-2011) 2011-03-30T16:55:00Z Allen Toussaint, one of the key architects of New Orleans R&B, rock and soul music over the last half-century, plays a rare small-theater date Monday night. Allen Toussaint launches Lyric Theatre concert series tonight 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z After watching a half-century of his legendary coolness, you either believe that 73-year-old Sam Shepard has the right stuff or you don’t. ‘It’s him, it’s sort of him’: Sam Shepard’s ‘The One Inside’ toys with fact and fiction 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Now -- with the 50th anniversary of JFK's brief reign upon us, and the half-century mark coming up on his 1963 assassination -- we will soon be neck deep in Kennedy sludge. The coverup continues: The Kennedys in Hollywood 2011-04-01T14:01:00Z In the case of Vietnam, a half-century may have been required for emotions to cool sufficiently for Americans to see Hue, and the Tet offensive of which it was a part, in dispassionate terms. The Beginning of the End in Vietnam: An Account of the Battle of Hue, by the Author of ‘Black Hawk Down’ 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Characteristically, though, the man who titled his current album Old Sock is making little fuss about reaching his career half-century. Eric Clapton – review 2013-05-22T16:15:33Z Tom Jones, the hitmaker whose work dates back more than a half-century, continues to draw fans and make interesting recordings. What’s new, Tom Jones? The hitmaker is still finding more things to sing about. 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z A half-century later, “The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime” arrives as the capstone to a lifetime of thinking, writing and teaching. Harold Bloom takes on 12 American greats in ‘The Daemon Knows’ 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z In part, they went up because, for a half-century from Roosevelt to Jimmy Carter, the flow of federal entitlements was essentially progressive. Cranky Guy: Nixon's Still the One 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z Who was this pathfinder of the sea and sky — as Hughes insisted, “a far more ‘modern’ artist than any of the French Impressionists” a half-century later? Review: Mr. Turner: A Sour Man With a Painterly Genius 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Right now, a half-century after his death, might be a significant turning point. A New Focus on Eric Dolphy, in Washington and Montclair 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z They had gone on a few dates a half-century earlier. Delia Ephron Writes Her Way Through Cancer to a Happy Ending 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z That has had Mr. Burns keeping an eye out for places in the fast-changing city that still look more or less as they did a half-century ago. For ‘Public Morals,’ Edward Burns Exhumes the ’60s From Manhattan Streets 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z At last, a half-century on, someone has found the time. Mingus, Monk and Mailer: W Eugene Smith's Jazz Loft photographs 2010-05-12T11:51:00Z Q: You're the first historian, and the first individual unit director, in more than a half-century, to become secretary. Lonnie Bunch, the Smithsonian’s first black leader, on the challenge of making it ‘a place that matters’ 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Yet more than a half-century later — when she died Monday, at 89, of respiratory disease in Santa Maria, California — she could still be remembered as the Jackie Robinson of breast fixation. Remembering "The Two and Only" Jane Russell: 1921-2011 2011-03-04T09:05:00Z Mr. Charlip’s half-century of work cut across a wide spectrum of art forms, aesthetic registers and audiences. Remy Charlip, Dancer and Children’s Author, Dies at 83 2012-08-18T20:07:08Z And if the social concerns it addresses — urban dislocation, loss of community, family frictions, the plight of the elderly — are familiar now, Foote roots them back a half-century. Review: 'The Trip to Bountiful' is a poignant journey 2010-05-14T20:54:00Z And in representing three generations of this family, Mr. Bezmozgis is able to condense more than a half-century of the pre-glasnost Jewish experience. Books of The Times: One Jewish Family in 2 Worlds, Outsiders in Both 2011-04-10T19:00:16Z Dahvi Waller’s double-barreled story of the fights for and against the Equal Rights Amendment went a half-century into the past and found today. Best TV Shows of 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z A half-century after its release, the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” is a relic of a vanished era. The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ at 50: Still Full of Joy and Whimsy 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Nearly a half-century later, audiences don’t need to be told who Mr. Morton is. Joe Morton of ‘Scandal’: From TV Villain to Stage Activist 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z I needed a cane for my back pain, probably from sitting hunched over a typewriter or computer for the last half-century. Modern Love: Age Is No Obstacle to Love, or Adventure 2013-09-12T18:12:17Z But over the past half-century or so, systems have been devised to create higher yields by growing coffee in full sun on large plantations. The basics of coffee labeling 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Donna Douglas, who played the shapely, blue-eyed daughter of the suddenly wealthy mountaineer Jed Clampett on “The Beverly Hillbillies,” the wildly popular television sitcom of a half-century ago, died on Thursday in Baton Rouge, La. Donna Douglas, the Fairest ‘Beverly Hillbilly,’ Dies at 82 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z “This is a movie that’s a half-century old and the fact that people are still fascinated, arguing about it and debating it and that it influenced many directors and filmmakers is nothing short of incredible.” Christopher Nolan’s Version of Vinyl: Unrestoring ‘2001’ 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z And it’s a well-plotted tribute that does justice to a composer, conductor, pianist and theorist whose influence looms peerlessly large over the past half-century of music. Review: A Pierre Boulez Tribute, Eight Months Late 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z True enough and not exactly breaking news for those of us readers who’ve lived through the past half-century of postmodern fiction. ‘A God in Ruins,’ by Kate Atkinson 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z A half-century ago, on a spring night in New York City, 35-year-old Marilyn Monroe — literally sewn into a sparkling, jaw-droppingly tight dress — stood in a spotlight on a dark stage. The Night Marilyn Sang to JFK: Rare Photos 2012-05-18T07:17:53Z It was a spontaneous show of gratitude not only for Coleman's still remarkably vivacious playing on the night, but for the previous half-century of unswervingly independent creativity he represented. Great moments in jazz: Ornette Coleman defines the Shape of Jazz to Come 2010-07-23T15:02:00Z Habanos dominates the global market for hand-rolled, premium cigars except in the United States due to Washington's half-century trade embargo against Cuba. Cuban cigar sales rise, defying flat luxury goods market 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z For those who experienced it firsthand, and for those who binge reproductions of it on prestige serials a half-century later, the ’70s remains an understandably satisfying era to fantasize about. Review | St. Vincent gets trapped in ’70s revivalism on ‘Daddy’s Home’ 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z For the first time in his nearly half-century career, James Taylor topped the Billboard 200 Wednesday with his latest record, "Before This World." James Taylor: How sweet it is (to finally have a No. 1 record) 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z A half-century ago, “the middle class was stronger,” and the political parties “weren’t as far apart as they are now. Society, generally, was less unequal and less polarized than now.” How the dusty old op-ed pages became the red-hot outrage-generating machine of 2020 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Hollywood has been trying, fruitlessly, to make a movie about Janis Joplin almost since she let loose that rendition of “Ball and Chain” at Monterey nearly a half-century ago. A Janis Joplin film finally shakes the kozmic blues 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Filled to the janky rafters with a half-century of capitalism’s castoffs, it suggests the ruined brain of an addled man or the ruined conscience of a country. Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z But no one was expecting this acknowledgment from Reege, whose energy, good-natured feistiness and gift of gab seem limitless, even now, after more than a half-century in television. Who will take Regis Philbin's place on morning TV? 2011-01-19T04:52:00Z The creatures celebrate their own half-century this year and will appear in a BBC1 show to mark the milestone which will unite Matt Smith with his predecessor in the role of the Doctor, David Tennant. Daleks RSVP Doctor Who's 50th anniversary special 2013-07-21T23:02:00Z “Some of the most substantial and rewarding art of the last half-century.” Mark Turner and Ethan Iverson’s jazz? It sounds like Stravinsky and the blues 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z As much as Crawford likes to talk about embracing the future, he wouldn’t have spent a half-century at the GPO if he did not feel that there are some things better left unchanged. Few may be hanging on Congress’s every word, but the GPO is still printing them She spent the next half-century working steadily at her art and exhibiting frequently, but she never developed a marketable artistic signature. Hedda Sterne, an Artist of Many Styles, Dies at 100 2011-04-12T02:27:12Z A half-century ago Californians clashed with Hell’s Angels at Altamont; now they shout “emoluments!” at congressmen in school gymnasiums. This is California in the era of Trump 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z But this isn’t a memoir, it’s a dissertation — a weirdly dry one, given its lurid topic — on how the occult has informed a half-century or so of popular music. Book review: ‘Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll” At one moment he complained that his memory wasn’t as strong as it had been, but he was also telling anecdotes from a half-century earlier with ease. Days Before Dying, Stephen Sondheim Reflected: ‘I’ve Been Lucky’ 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z The writer, producer and host Avery Trufelman has a grand theory about why the same basic clothing items — oxford button-downs, chunky sweaters, pressed chinos — have remained wardrobe staples for the last half-century. Best Podcasts of 2022 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z In the half-century since that Monday evening just after Thanksgiving, countless other parties have evoked, interpreted or outright copied Capote’s ball. 50 Years Ago, Truman Capote Hosted the Best Party Ever 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z If “50 Years at Pace,” a multi-site extravaganza honoring a half-century in the art business, is not in the essential viewing category, it is partly because it loses points for vanity. Last Chance: The Pace Years: When One Gallery Is Not Enough 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z It also sets up an intriguing, dynamic friction — one that gets all but lost in the charming but surprisingly soft-focus movie, the latest in the half-century career of Ken Loach. 'Jimmy's Hall' is a subdued story of Irish activist Jimmy Gralton 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z In any case, Holyoake refined and defended his thought about secularism across more than a half-century of published work. Secularists are not atheists 2012-09-09T16:00:00Z The exhibition at June Kelly surveys a half-century of Mr. Harsley’s own estimable art. Art In Review: ALEX HARSLEY 2012-06-14T19:18:54Z “These programs are representative of a half-century of gratifying musical collaboration,” wrote Clemens Hellsberg, a violinist in the orchestra and its president. Music Review: Lorin Maazel Leads the Vienna Philharmonic 2012-03-05T23:22:05Z Considering the festival’s half-century life span, I started thinking about two films in the program that would be unimaginable a few decades ago, inundated and informed as they are by the technologies of modern life. New Directors/New Films Turns 50 With a Bracingly Eclectic Lineup 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z A half-century later, "Bitter Tears" is getting another shot at recognition through "Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited," a new version recorded by a group of country and Americana stars. 'Look Again to the Wind' revisits Johnny Cash's 'Bitter Tears' 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z The initial three words — minted by Richard Nixon a half-century ago this week — are printed in sloping pink cursive. All eyes are on Wisconsin, the state that’s gearing up to define the presidential election 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z This painter has, for more than a half-century, been wickedly, gleefully diagnosing America’s social and political maladies. 23 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Brook wrote those words nearly a half-century ago in “The Empty Space,” his much cited 1968 bible for spartans of the theater, and he continues to practice what he preaches. Hugh Jackman in ‘The River,’ One of Several Compact Shows 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z “I have done a lot of work,” she said, speaking by phone from her apartment and studio near the Sorbonne in Paris, reflecting on more than a half-century at the easel. Distinct Prisms in an Ever-Shifting Kaleidoscope 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Its setting is the Bastoy Residential School, a reformatory for “maladjusted” boys, 11 to 18, that operated for a half-century until the 1950s on an Alcatraz-like island. | 'King of Devil?s Island': Stellan Skarsgard in ?King of Devil?s Island? - Review 2011-11-17T22:54:18Z Like the memorials to the Civil War a half-century earlier, World War I memorials were spread out across the country. America is chock-full of World War I memorials, so why build another one? 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z He knew Strauss personally late in that composer’s life, and he was among the conductors responsible for the great surge of interest in Mahler’s music a half-century ago. Classical: Memories of Georg Solti as His Orchestra Comes to Town 2012-10-14T01:23:11Z Is there anything in his cultural and arts legacy to compare with the huge strides made by Lyndon B. Johnson more than a half-century ago? A master of pop culture had little to do with the ‘high’ arts 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z What may have changed most about op-eds over the past half-century isn’t the form itself but the audience for it, he said. How the dusty old op-ed pages became the red-hot outrage-generating machine of 2020 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Its frescoes were painted a half-century later, mostly by anonymous masters, except for a certain Marcu, who inscribed his name to the left of the entrance. Cultured Traveler: Romanian Church Murals Offer Colorful Lessons 2010-06-18T16:50:00Z This was a promotional tour, and after a half-century in the business, he knows how to do this. Harrison Ford Loves His Craft. ‘1923’ Tested His Limits. 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z It has thus been left to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Music Center's most prominent resident, to lead as well as properly celebrate the half-century anniversary. L.A. Phil's vision of Grand Avenue as a shelter for new work, ideas 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z “Tomatoland” is at its most potent and scathing in its portrayal of South Florida’s tomato growers and their tactics over the past half-century. Books of The Times: That Perfect Florida Tomato, Cultivated for Bland Uniformity 2011-07-05T21:04:11Z The almost half-century gap between Taylor’s latest album and his arrival on the list with Sweet Baby James in 1970 surpassed the 43-year-wait endured by rock band Black Sabbath for the same milestone. James Taylor Gets First No.1 Album, 45 Years After His Debut 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Even this year's Oscars ceremony will feature a tribute to the Bond movies to mark their half-century. Dench: Skyfall snub 'a great pity' 2013-01-10T17:09:20Z She may not run as fast as someone a half-century younger, but she is running all the same and keeping herself, in the eyes of those who marvel at her prowess and resolution, forever young. An Octagenarian Laces Up Her Sneakers for the New York City Marathon 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z George Jones, Admired and Copied Country Singer, Dies at 81 George Jones, the definitive country singer of the last half-century, died Friday at a hospital in Nashville. George Jones, Country Singer, Dies at 81 2013-04-26T14:38:56Z The shining precedent on those performances is Mr. Bennett’s nearly half-century bond with the pianist Ralph Sharon, who died in March at 91. Review: Tony Bennett and Bill Charlap in ‘The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern’ 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Hughes tries to cover all the big issues in Gorton's half-century in politics, resulting in a scattershot narrative. 'Slade Gorton': U.S. senator, octogenarian policy wonk 2012-01-18T21:16:04Z For Trump has become the apotheosis of a half-century of the GOP's radicalization, an out-of-control Frankenstein who might destroy its very creator. How the Republicans wound up with Trump: E.J. Dionne explains in 'Why the Right Went Wrong' 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z He also brings several of them together, movingly, for reunions that, they say, are their first in the half-century separating them from the events. A Hitchcockian Re-Creation of the First Modern Mass Shooting 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The public assessment of Arthur Russell, from near-footnote to new-paradigm master, is one of the most curious stories in music of the last half-century. Inside the Trove of the Genre-Buster Arthur Russell 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z “It was never a millstone,” Lewis, now 79, says of the tune he was forced to revisit at every gig for a half-century. In the year jazz went avant-garde, Ramsey Lewis went pop with a bang 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Davis, 86, chose to end his more than half-century affiliation with the magazine more than two years ago. Magazine's 1st MAD men get a rare reunion 2011-11-12T15:31:12Z A half-century later, Broadway is still trying—and failing—to catch up with the Beatles. What’s Wrong With the Broadway Musical? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z The solo singer marked his return with a set list of 38 songs that spanned a half-century of his career, including such Beatles hits as “Hey Jude” and “Lovely Rita.” Names & Faces: Jessica Simpson marries Eric Johnson, former ‘Scandal’ star arrested A half-century later, the label evokes nostalgia, a degree of pride and some impatience. When the Washington Color School earned its stripes on the national stage 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z For a half-century after his glory days, Curtis was still displaying his craft, appearing on TV shows and in minor films. Remembering Tony Curtis: The Best of Everything 2010-09-30T22:15:00Z The city began to languish when the trade route moved to the Panama Canal in the early 20th century, and it remained in a state of disrepair for more than a half-century. Next Stop: A Comeback on Chile’s Coast 2013-06-28T18:55:55Z Over the next half-century the Dominican Republic-born fashion guru became a household name, and designed exquisite gowns for several First Ladies and the cream of Hollywood society. Gallery of Celebrities Wearing Oscar de la Renta 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z The arrival of the first-ever Screamers release, almost a half-century late, seems to tie a bow on the band’s saga — but it may reopen it more than anything else. Screamers, a Missing Link of Los Angeles Punk, Is Missing No More 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z In the world of American musicals he is indisputably the best, brightest and most influential talent to emerge during the last half-century. | 'Sondheim on Sondheim': Barbara Cook and Vanessa Williams at Studio 54 2010-04-23T02:50:00Z But he had a long and substantial career in letters of the sort that was far more prevalent a half-century ago than it is today. Vance Bourjaily, Novelist Exploring Postwar America, Dies at 87 2010-09-03T05:00:00Z "Realism," Ochoa shakily claims, "took hold in art and literature by the mid-1900s" — a half-century after Strindberg, Ibsen and Chekhov liberated the theater from melodrama. 'Stella!' is a backstage portrait of acting guru Stella Adler 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z But nationhood is now being reaffirmed after a half-century of Indian activism. ‘Nation to Nation,’ at Museum of the American Indian 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Once almost exclusively white, male and Western, the institutions have become increasingly diverse in the last half-century. When Dennis Prager conducts Santa Monica Symphony, there's no avoiding politics 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Nor, in the Asian galleries, do we learn of the explosion of interest in Western classical music in the last half-century, and the growth of Japanese and South Korean piano manufacturers. Museum Review: The Musical Instrument Museum Opens in Phoenix 2010-04-24T00:46:00Z Nothing evidences this more than the expansion of the humanities over the past half-century, the very expansion Epstein and others attack. Conservatives killed the liberal arts 2012-09-14T23:08:00Z The Broadway production ended with a flashy display of video images, showing almost a half-century of history that King was not going to live to see. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘The Mountaintop,’ at TheaterWorks Hartford 2013-04-27T01:27:27Z More than a half-century later, the poet Charles Baudelaire gave new definition to the passionate wanderer-spectator. The Flâneur Discovers Paris, a Step at a Time 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z More than a half-century later, “Titanic” director James Cameron attempted a similar dive, but fell 27 feet short. A mini-tour of Washington sights you’ve probably never noticed 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z A half-century ago Thursday the first episode of “Star Trek” aired. Live long and prosper: 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The L.A. art-world fixture is about to reassert himself as one of the city's most productive and experimental artists of the last half-century. Ed Moses, 90, prepares nonstop for a new survey at Bergamot Station 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z A half-century later, “M*A*S*H” has had the last laugh, or lack thereof. ‘M*A*S*H’ at 50: War Is Hell(arious) 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z More than a half-century ago, Mr. Newhart became famous through stand-up routines that were one-sided telephone conversations in which his comic partner was neither seen nor heard. Bob Newhart, Master of the One-Sided Conversation 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Nearly a half-century down the line, however, Plant, at 66, is far more concerned with nuance and subtlety than in the explosive and orgasmic eruptions that were once his stock in trade. Robert Plant aims for nuance in album 'lullaby and … The Ceaseless Roar' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The next day I saw a documentary about the photographer Don McCullin, whose pictures of wars and disasters have informed so much of our understanding of the world over the past half-century. All that bloody mayhem and we're still supposed to take Django Unchained seriously? 2013-01-25T17:00:01Z On Sunday, CBS announced Mr. Safer’s retirement in a special episode of “60 Minutes,” airing highlights from his half-century with the network. Morley Safer, longest-serving correspondent for CBS’s ‘60 Minutes,’ dies at 84 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Wasn’t this always his long game after a half-century of public service and a third, exhausting, seemingly never-ending bid for the White House? Lovely, little Delaware — long famous for corporations, chickens and credit cards — is ready for its big moment 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z So it’s a relief to welcome a Russian classic, “The Seagull,” first presented in 1896 by Anton Chekhov, who died nearly a half-century before Putin was even born. Putin, Chekhov and the Theater of Despair 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Next weekend will provide another veteran star in a solo turn, as Robert Redford, 77 and in movies for more than a half-century, battles the elements alone on a boat in All Is Lost. Gravity Soars, Captain Phillips Sails, Grownups Rule! 2013-10-13T21:40:10Z A half-century after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, this four-part series looks back at a turbulent year. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Fourth Estate’ and ‘The Break With Michelle Wolf’ 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z A repository for bodily fluid, it was first patented in 1867, a half-century before the commercial tampon arrived, and even a decade before the pad. Menstrual Cups in Museums? It’s Time. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Bruce Dern reveled in industry praise for his "Nebraska" after a half-century career, saying: "A bunch of you seem to have gotten together and to have said, 'Bruce Dern can play.'" Hanks, Bullock, Streep honored in Palm Springs 2014-01-06T14:35:32Z Not for another half-century would pink be restored to a semblance of its former self, a hue both fancy and frivolous enough to be whipped into a ball gown by the couturier Charles James. A Big Bold Show Wants You to Rethink Pink 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z He just couldn’t shoehorn all his ideas into a half-century. Gucci’s 600 Years of Inspiration 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z But all things must pass in pop music, and Spector hit his peak nearly a half-century ago — as distant from today as Irving Berlin’s “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” was from 1963. Phil Spector’s Greatest Hit 2013-03-21T09:45:43Z That young man became the champion for the wine industry over the next half-century and influenced everything that is happening today. The oldest-vine wines in Washington come from Snipes Mountain 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z A half-century later, all of it — her extraordinary clarity and imperfect femininity, her unstinting account of the struggle to reconcile art and life — still lands. Beyond the Cruel Facts of Her Life Are Truths That Cut Deep 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Mirella Freni, an Italian soprano whose uncommon elegance and intensity combined with a sumptuous voice and intelligence to enthrall audiences for a half-century, has died at age 84. Famed Italian soprano Mirella Freni dies at age 84 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z Riesling was more plentiful than chardonnay in the state a half-century ago, covering 450 acres. U.S. Riesling production ranks second worldwide One comes from a major producer in Monterey County celebrating a half-century of grape growing; the other hails from a coalition of independent wholesalers bucking the trend of consolidation. Here’s a $15 California cabernet that proves quality can also be budget-friendly 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z While noir is an honored tradition in crime fiction, Gran takes the form to dark places rarely seen since Jim Thompson and David Goodis were writing more than a half-century ago. Review: Sara Gran's latest is bleak noir tale 2013-06-18T13:54:16Z Bullard’s production features some superb performances from a uniformly excellent ensemble; there is, I suspect, a good half-century between its youngest and oldest members. 'The Big Meal' at ATC delivers 2011-02-09T05:16:16Z There are glimpses, and often considerably more, of nearly every major Latin rock figure of the last half-century. ‘Break It All’ Celebrates the Oppositional Energy of Latin Rock 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Following the publication of new regulations for travel to Cuba on Jan. 16, Americans may travel there more easily than at any time in the past half-century. The Latest on Travel to Cuba 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z But when Copland’s music graced a CBS broadcast a half-century ago, it was in an entirely different idiom. Asking Whether Copland’s Abstruse Works are the Exception or the Rule 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z A half-century before, my grandfather sold his last plates to Associated; one was the aquatint “Builders of Babylon.” My Grandfather Was a Famous Artist. He Also Made Greeting Cards. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z "Hello dere," of course, has been Allen's signature for more than a half-century. Comic Marty Allen is 94, but who's counting? He's laughing 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z For a half-century, she stayed current by taking topical roles in films dealing with social justice and women’s rights. Faten Hamama, Actress Hailed as ‘Lady of the Arabic Screen,’ Dies at 83 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z But they eventually settled into tending Holstein dairy cows at Meadow Ridge Farm, which became their home for the next half-century. Familiar Ground 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z For more than a half-century, first as a pioneering standup comedienne, then as a defiant survivor, she spoke skewed truth to power, and in doing so became her own potentate and garishly fossilized icon. Remembering Joan Rivers: As If She'd Let Us Forget Her 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z A half-century later, the National Cherry Festival, celebrating its 90th birthday this year, was born. Where Foodies Should Go in 2016 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Much of it depicts the world of a century or half-century ago, but compared with the Mesozoic it’s quite familiar. “Life Story,” Virginia Lee Burton’s Picture Book for the Ages 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Her death was announced by Magnum Photos, the photography cooperative to which she belonged for more than a half-century. Eve Arnold, Photographer, Dies at 99 2012-01-06T18:47:18Z At least, he says, that’s what he thought when he became a San Diego TV host almost a half-century ago. Regis Signs Off 2011-11-18T13:51:02Z But Mr. Taylor’s decision released an outpouring of lyrical musicality in many modern-dance works of the last half-century: not just his own, but those by Twyla Tharp, Mark Morris and more. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-14T22:08:35Z It arrived from Madrid a half-century before, just one of countless acoustic guitars, African drums, flutes, banjos, sitars and other instruments collected, bought and sold at the store since his grandparents founded it in 1958. Ben Harper and his mom roam the store that was a childhood home 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z A half-century on, bossa nova is as familiar a musical style as the blues or the waltz. Blame it on ‘Jazz Samba’: Bossa nova craze started in D.C. The tiny portraits, which Ms. Simpson found in flea markets and on eBay, date back more than a half-century. Art in Review: LORNA SIMPSON: ?Gathered? 2011-06-30T21:45:27Z This is an amazing transformation in a region where, a half-century ago, commentary about racial civil liberties was often made with hoses, truncheons, jail cells and knotted ropes. Museum Review: National Civil Rights Museum to Reopen After Reconstruction 2014-04-01T20:53:41Z More than a half-century ago, Ezra Jack Keats published “The Snowy Day,” his groundbreaking picture book that featured an African American child. ‘We need diverse books,’ they said. And now a group’s dream is coming to fruition. 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Looking back over his half-century career, The Wrap asked Roth which of his books he considers to be the best-written, and the author picked Sabbath's Theater, "which a lot of people hate", and American Pastoral. Philip Roth picks his best novels 2013-01-17T14:43:49Z I looked around: All along the white walls were shelves crammed with skeletons from the past half-century of his work: wood casings, sagging bellows, and mangled keyboards that looked like irreparably crooked teeth. He’s the Brusque Mr. Fix-It for Mexico City’s Accordions 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Why the Chipmunks still command an audience more than a half-century after their initial incarnation on novelty records defies explanation, but they do; the first three movies each earned a nine-figure box office gross. Review: ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip’ Features a Trip to Miami 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z And for the last half-century and more, Fidel Castro. Sure, It’s Castro and Cigars, but Cuba Is Coral and Crocodiles, Too 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Across much of the visual evidence of the band’s existence in the past half-century — music videos, public appearances, late-night talk shows, the interiors and exteriors of each album — the ancient equation is apparent. Perspective | ‘The Sparks Brothers’ digs into the cult of the rock duo. A deeper dive is even more fulfilling. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z But she outlived him by more than a half-century. Luise Rainer, ’30s Star Who Won Back-to-Back Oscars, Dies at 104 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Or what about a boxed set of nearly every Bond film that’s been released over the last half-century? ArtsBeat: Twenty-Two Is Quite Enough: Comprehensive James Bond Boxed Set Is Planned 2012-01-11T13:59:30Z With all this in mind, Creede Rep’s origin story feels even more unlikely, a half-century odyssey fueled by cockeyed optimism, can-do perseverance and disparate folks figuring out how to live together. Friday Night Footlights: How Theater Bonds a Colorado Town 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z Think of it: a half-century playing the same part. Perspective | From Twain to Deep Throat, Hal Holbrook left an indelible mark on American entertainment 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z The most interesting artists go right for the big, uncool existential stuff, which is what Bruce Nauman does in a transfixing half-century retrospective that fills much of MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z This was true, too, of the famously reclusive Salinger, who retreated to Cornish, N.H., the small town where he lived in seclusion for more than a half-century. Books of The Times: A Biography From David Shields and Shane Salerno 2013-08-25T21:13:01Z While much of his most powerful work was made in the 1950s, it wasn’t truly rediscovered until nearly a half-century later. Movie Review: ‘In No Great Hurry,’ a Documentary About Saul Leiter 2014-01-02T22:50:41Z A half-century before Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” and a century before Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarian doctrine, he has come up with the simple expedient of maximizing public good by eliminating any sentimental concern for the individual. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z And after a half-century in our pop-culture consciousness, they each displayed a surprisingly enduring appeal. A year for enduring pop culture icons to shine 2012-12-19T18:34:09Z Through a half-century of sexual upheaval, monogamy has been a curious stalwart. Polyamory Works for Them 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z The festival in Philadelphia a half-century later was not about artist determination: The events were booked by the nonprofit Ars Nova Workshop, which has presented experimental music around the city for 17 years. A Revolution in Jazz? An Avant-Garde Festival Makes History, but Not Community 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z A half-century after her last “Points West” column, Didion’s questions remain acute as ever. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Instead, it is built around the figure of Jamie Morton, who first meets Jacobs in the early 1960s as a boy of 6 and falls in and out of his orbit over the ensuing half-century. Faith and magic get a 'Revival' in new Stephen King novel 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z More than a half-century after Mills delivered his speech, design has become both more pervasive and less responsible. How “Good Design” Failed Us 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z The ceremony Wednesday honored a nearly half-century in films as well as the 80th birthday of the actor, who won an Oscar for "Tender Mercies." Robert Duvall's lasting impression in Hollywood 2011-01-05T23:17:14Z But he’s not afraid to capitalize on the franchise’s half-century mark. Forever Captain Kirk: William Shatner opens up about “fandom frenzy” and 50 years of “Star Trek” 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Flynn says that over the past half-century a linguistic gap has opened between American parents and their children. Are We Getting Smarter? by James R Flynn – review 2012-09-28T09:02:01Z The half-century milestone will also be celebrated in the band’s native Liverpool, where 13 cross-disciplinary art commissions — one for each song on the album — have been scheduled for May and June. The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ Is Getting a 50th Anniversary Reissue 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z But she pioneered the blurring of news and entertainment for a half-century without losing her authority. The TV Watch: Barbara Walters’s Career Mirrors the Trajectory of TV 2013-05-14T01:27:11Z If you were an avant-garde composer about a half-century ago, the answer to the question of where you’d spent your summer vacation was, more likely than not, unassuming Darmstadt, Germany. Review: A Birthday of the Darmstadt Avant-Garde 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Over more than a half-century, he deftly navigated the music’s continually shifting boundaries. Chick Corea, the Master Mixer of Jazz’s Past and Future 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z To celebrate a half-century of making dances, Twyla Tharp has done one of the most difficult things a performing artist can do. Twyla Tharp’s unceasing quest to reveal truth in human movement 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z It’s two friends, who have known each other for more than a half-century, saying goodbye. Perspective | Michael Nesmith invented country rock. Or maybe something even better. 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z Morrissey, who surprisingly has yet to collect a Bafta award for his work, is comfortable to reflect on reaching his half-century - and what the next phase of his career might entail. David Morrissey in the driving seat 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z In all, Mr. Killen contributed to more than 60 albums in his half-century career, including about a dozen in which he was the featured artist. Louisa Jo Killen, Folk Singer With a Booming Tenor, Dies at 79 2013-08-26T02:29:11Z A half-century ago the argument to run highways through the city sounded more than a little like the case now being made against bike lanes. Critic?s Notebook: A Bike-Lane Perch for the Urban Show 2011-11-07T19:50:40Z Most works are from the last dozen years or so, although a good number span the prior half-century. 'Hard Edged' art at California African American Museum widens perception of black artists' work 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z For much of the last half-century, there has been a powerful resistance to images of suffering in America. Perspective | Trump spoke of images he’d ‘never seen before.’ Now there are mass graves in New York. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Informality and immediacy are vivid ways to remake a world; and Adcock's style has not dated in the half-century since her debut. Glass Wings by Fleur Adcock – review 2013-06-28T17:10:01Z “Whenever I deviated from that principle over the following half-century and published halfheartedly, things did not go well.” In ‘Avid Reader,’ a Celebrated Editor as Shepherd and Alchemist 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z “Some of the most substantial and rewarding art of the last half-century.” Perspective | Putting tap where we wouldn’t expect it 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Regardless of which leather banquette Mr. Lauren eventually settles into, his coordinates in American culture at large have remained pretty consistent for a half-century or so. A Ralph Lauren Restaurant, the Polo Bar, Comes to New York 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z He has a penetrating mind and a pumalike style; he’s among the most consistently interesting writers of the last half-century. Review: In ‘Deep South,’ Paul Theroux Takes an Eye-Opening Road Trip 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Jarmusch’s hair began to whiten when he was in his mid-teens, round about the time that the Cuyahoga caught fire, with the result that he barely seems to have changed over the ensuing half-century. Jim Jarmusch: ‘I’m for the survival of beauty. I’m for the mystery of life’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z Elsewhere on the main floor, you could find plenty of dealer and publisher booths stacked with all sorts of comics literature, some dating back a half-century or more. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z Aldredge attributed her more than half-century career to an accidental encounter in Manhattan with Geraldine Page, who was about to star in Sweet Bird of Youth. Theoni Aldredge obituary 2011-01-27T17:08:08Z Because it gave rise to three pop-cultural currents that flow in the blood of adults and kids a half-century later. A Failing Grade to X-Men: First Class 2011-06-02T17:35:00Z “That’s the Kentucky hug,” she said, reassuringly, as I gasped from the bourbon’s heat, still powerful after a half-century. Urban bourbon: A whiskey lover’s jaunt through Louisville 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Running more than a half-century in London’s West End, it is the longest continuously performed play in history. The Village’s ‘Mousetrap’ isn’t so snappy | Theater review 2013-01-24T23:05:16Z I’m 57 now, and I’ve put in over a half-century of loving women, learning about them, depending upon them and, in the last 30 years, writing about them. Marc Cherry on ‘Why Women Kill,’ ‘Golden Girls’ and Felicity Huffman 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Honoring a half-century of Grateful Dead music, the band’s four surviving members will reunite for three shows this summer in what is being billed as their final performance together. The Trip Is Ending: Dead Will Play Final Shows in July 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z But until now no one knew much about the nearly half-century it spent lost in obscurity in the U.S. Fresh Details Reveal How $450 Million da Vinci Was Lost in America—and Later Found 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z But this landscape has changed greatly over the last half-century, much as the country’s economic, demographic and cultural landscape has, and in many of the same ways. The Big Five Orchestras No Longer Add Up 2013-06-14T12:00:01Z Whether it was a Wings track, recent solo material or any of the 20-plus Beatles songs, it was easy to hear the past half-century of popular music in the melodies and harmonies. Paul McCartney thrills L.A. crowd with hits, tales 2010-04-01T00:20:00Z Having more than a half-century of history behind generative art helps soothe the skeptics, he said, adding, “Discussions with traditional collectors have been easier.” Can an Art History Frame Help Expand the NFT Market? 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z He has also led some of the most widely acclaimed ensembles in the past half-century of American jazz. Henry Threadgill’s Musical Spring Is Varied and Extreme. Like He Is. 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z But in 80 movies across a half-century he was equally at home on mean city streets, in smoky jazz clubs and, as Vincent van Gogh, amid the flowers of Arles in the south of France. Kirk Douglas, a Star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Dies at 103 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Its setting is the Bastoy Residential School, a reformatory for "maladjusted" boys, 11 to 18, that operated for a half-century until the 1950s on an Alcatraz-like island. 'King of Devil's Island': Oppressed boys rise up against reformatory 2012-01-26T21:16:04Z More than a half-century of performing has made Simon a true master of the stage. Paul Simon takes graying fans on world tour 2011-04-25T05:21:26Z She may have been one of the first in the country to seek rhinoplasty, but even after it was botched, she was striking a pose for the next half-century. Before Amy Schumer and her “160 pounds and can catch a d*ck” swagger, we had this amazing sex-positive feminist role model 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Incredibly, the symphony was the first Philharmonic world premiere composed in its hometown, which suggests how much European influences dominated the New York musical scene during the Philharmonic’s first half-century. Review: A Safe Start to Alan Gilbert’s Final Season With the Philharmonic 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Comparisons with Arthur Penn’s 1967 film, “Bonnie and Clyde,” are pretty extraneous a half-century down the road, but, really, it’s hard to ignore the contrast. Television Review: ‘Bonnie & Clyde,’ a Special on A&E, History and Lifetime 2013-12-05T22:04:55Z But look past Singapore’s shiny veneer and you’ll find a compression of Chinese, Indian, Malay and other heritages reaching back far beyond the city state’s half-century history as an independent nation. 36 Hours in Singapore 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Gardner joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences more than a half-century ago when he first became a producer. Hollywood producer Arthur Gardner dies at 104 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z And a half-century later, he was walking through a re-creation of it, a permanent exhibit called Vietnam Experience. Outside Charleston, three acres of Vietnam live in South Carolina’s Lowcountry 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The most famous artist of the last half-century is presumably a popular draw. Museum admission should be free: The state of art in 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Over the next half-century, Mr. Trumbull became known as one of the film industry’s most innovative visual effects masters. Douglas Trumbull, Visual Effects Wizard, Dies at 79 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z In a way we know, because he said it all a half-century ago. REVIEW: 'Selma': The Film of the Year — But 1965 or 2014? 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Covering a half-century of work by some 70 artists, largely from Europe and the United States, it considers the interrelationship of humans and machines. The Week Ahead: July 15 — 21 2012-07-13T15:03:38Z It has made him one of the most consequential conservatives of the past half-century. Patrick Buchanan Reveals Himself to Be the First Trumpist 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z The film, which the two men also wrote and directed, chronicled a half-century of Czech history, culminating in the Prague Spring uprising of 1968. Robert M. Fresco, Filmmaker and Writer, Dies at 83 2014-02-21T00:46:14Z Something has been happening to Caroll Spinney lately that hasn’t happened in his half-century in show business: He’s getting recognized on the street. This Is What It's Like to Play Big Bird on Sesame Street for 45 Years 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z He’s been in the public eye since getting his first Motown deal more than a half-century ago, when he was an 11-year-old billed as Little Stevie. Stevie Wonder brings new life to ‘Songs in the Key of Life’ at Verizon Center concert They are only part of Peet's sweeping narrative of a half-century of social change, in which the superpowers are revealed as just as inept and vulnerable as the rest of us. Fiction for teenagers ? reviews 2011-07-21T10:40:28Z Over the next half-century, his comedy revolved around his family, and — as his target audiences increasingly escaped the New York area for Florida — aging and retirement. Freddie Roman,Who Brought Catskill Comedy to Broadway, Dies at 85 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Keeping up with the large, at times chaotic, Effinger clan over a half-century is not consistently rewarding. Drama, in German, in the Shadow of ‘Leopoldtstadt’ 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z First aired a half-century ago, it's a panel game show that features two contestants who compete to match the answers from six celebrities in filling in a missing blank. It's going to be fun and games for Alec Baldwin as he joins Steve Harvey and Michael Strahan for ABC's summer prime-time game-show block 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The he said/he said history of Simon and Garfunkel’s half-century collaboration is well known, and Hilburn supplies enough examples of their kvetching to wear down any reader. Review | Paul Simon: The musical genius who gave voice to the sound of silence 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Edith Shiffert, an American poet whose work was profoundly influenced by the half-century she spent in Japan, died on March 1 in Kyoto, where she had long made her home. Edith Shiffert, a Poet Inspired by Nature and Her Life in Japan, Dies at 101 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z "Holler" certainly doesn't shy away from the social issues that preoccupied Hansberry a half-century ago. In Tupac Shakur's 'Holler If Ya Hear Me,' an unlikely Broadway trip 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z One of the remarkable things about Kenneth Clark’s series is that, a half-century later, people are still talking about it. Review: Anodyne ‘Civilizations’ 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Q: Are you unsettled by the rapid changes of the past half-century? Lit Life: A Q&A with David Guterson 2011-10-24T01:45:04Z In a career spanning more than a half-century, Mr. le Carré wrote more than two-dozen books and set them as far afield as Rwanda, Chechnya, Turkey, the Caribbean and Southeast Asia. John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z These are exquisite seances in line with the sonic traditions she pioneered a half-century ago, but suffused with the darkly tinted wisdom of a life entering its winter. Jane Birkin is back with a new album, but her presence is everlasting 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Love it or hate it, the notion of a zombie apocalypse has played a small but persistent part in modern popular culture for more than a half-century. Review | George Romero’s posthumous epic, ‘The Living Dead,’ reads like a definitive account of the zombie apocalypse 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z For much of the past half-century, CBS has been an after-thought in the mornings, a distant third-place broadcast that changed names, formats and personalities as often as an impatient designer changes paint. ‘Today’ fares better than CBS after loss of male anchors 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Whatever the medium, Mr. Graham seemed more interested in exploding genres than fitting into them, making forays into painting, performance art, sculpture and music in his half-century career. Rodney Graham, Conceptual Artist Who Starred in His Work, Dies at 73 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z He became a champion of American Indian art, a mutualism that continued for the next half-century. Met Museum spotlights American Indian art 2012-01-17T16:44:17Z In this sense, the story of Clarence Thomas is the story of the last half-century of American politics. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z There are thousands of audio and video recordings, in formats that reflect the evolution of the music industry over a half-century, from reel-to-reel tapes and cassettes to digital audiotapes and, finally, computer hard drives. Lou Reed Archives Head to New York Public Library 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Ms. Turner embarked on her half-century career in the late 1950s, while still attending high school in East St. Louis, Ill., when she began singing with Ike Turner and his band, the Kings of Rhythm. Tina Turner, Singer of Explosive Power, Is Dead at 83 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z None of it was deliberate, but organic, Hillman says now, explaining how he went through a half-century of performance simply pursuing the music that he loved, from bluegrass to folk to country to rock. Chris Hillman’s musical life from Bryds to Burritos and more 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z "Apollo," crafted in 1928 by a then-24-year-old choreographer, is a brief work of rare beauty; a delicate calling card for what the next half-century of Balanchine would bring. Dance review: PNB's 'Apollo & Carmina' 2012-04-16T20:05:08Z When it was built a half-century ago, the Ebony kitchen was at the heart of Black American food culture in the media. The Ebony Test Kitchen, Where Black Cuisine Was Celebrated, Is Reborn 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Willard appeared in more than 700 films and television movies and episodes over a half-century. Fred Willard, Who Played Characters ‘Gloriously Out of Their Depth,’ Dies at 86 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z Electric keyboards are more to the liking of most young composers and have been for a half-century. The proof is in: The pipe organ is still the king of instruments 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z “Spider-Man” may be the only Broadway show of the past half-century to make international headlines regularly, often with the adjective “troubled” attached to its title. | 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark': 1 Radioactive Bite, 8 Legs and 183 Previews 2011-06-15T02:30:06Z That performance is by Tippi Hedren, who turns up in a secondary role in a film otherwise populated by actors a half-century younger and ends up being the most memorable thing in it. Movie Review: ‘Free Samples,’ Directed by Jay Gammill 2013-06-07T02:39:29Z What makes the spectacular railroad even more amazing is that it was almost lost for good a half-century ago. Who needs a railroad museum? You can ride these circa-1870 rails yourself. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z More than a half-century later Mr. Mekas’s Utopian vision appears to have come true in some respects, as do-it-themselves filmmakers from North Hollywood and digital cinema masters from Turkey prove. Manohla Dargis’s Top Films of 2012 2012-12-15T00:37:44Z Now 86, McNeely, who has lived for nearly a half-century in a studio in Westbeth, the artists’ housing complex in the West Village, was in high spirits when I visited her the other day. After Decades of Silence, Art About Abortion (Cautiously) Enters the Establishment 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Coppola made his bones with that crime epic, which won three Academy Awards, including best picture, made untold millions of dollars for Paramount Pictures and influenced a half-century of filmmaking in the process. Restoring ‘The Godfather’ to Its Original (Still Dark) Glory 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z In this festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music honors the label’s output and half-century anniversary with three weeks of performances from its alumni. Pop/Rock Listings for Sept. 12-18 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z But remember, these are antiquated representations, born a half-century ago, of the corrupt values of a fraying postwar British establishment. Review | The best of the Kennedy Center’s Broadway series? Game over, it’s ‘Tommy’! 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Over its subsequent half-century run, “Star Trek” has spanned 13 movies, including a new installment, “Star Trek Beyond,” which opened in July. “Star Trek” in the age of Trump: Why we need to embrace its 50-year mission now more than ever 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z For a half-century, the Festival has been one of the city’s great gifts to its residents and visitors, and among the best reasons to spend a muggy summer in New York. Into the Woods in Central Park: al Fresco Enchantment 2012-08-10T21:45:00Z Over a half-century, Ms. Nelson performed in classical and contemporary works in New York and at regional theaters around the country. Novella Nelson, 78, Dies; Brought Authority to Myriad Roles 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z So the “Jeb!” logo emerged against the backdrop of more than a half-century of commerce among art and politics and visual representation. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z It is this reality of entrenched, powerful and moneyed interests that Democrats faced in 2008, when a newly elected Barack Obama resolved to make good on his party's half-century dream of providing universal coverage. Steven Brill's 'America's Bitter Pill' tackles healthcare mess 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z An appreciative roar went up from the crowd that turned out the other night at this “gypsy tea dance” to celebrate Ms. Rivera’s half-century career, all but engulfing her as they cheered. In Sequins or Mufti, Chita Rivera Makes a Big Entrance 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z With a half-century of work under his belt, often made under the most impossible circumstances, Rudolph feels he has the right to scorn the “independent movie” as we’ve understood it since the rise of Miramax. Alan Rudolph: 'People just don't surrender to my movies, ever' 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Desert Trip tacitly raised the question of what keeps a musician in broad demand for a half-century. Review: At Desert Trip, Rocking Beyond the Hits With a Vengeance 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Disregard how Cruz ignores that Big Bird was promoting the measles vaccine a half-century ago. ‘Sesame Street’ Was Always Political 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z Marilyn Monroe passed away a half-century ago Aug. 5, a murky death that remains one of Hollywood's most tantalizing mysteries. Fifty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe's star power still shines 2012-08-01T21:39:03Z The Century shot back, running editorials denouncing Mr. Graham as a Madison Avenue-style huckster leading a “monstrous juggernaut” that threatened to “set back Protestant Christianity a half-century.” A Religious Legacy, With Its Leftward Tilt, Is Reconsidered 2013-07-23T20:45:51Z Quentin recounts it to Shreve in a trance, there at Harvard, almost a half-century later, the two of them becoming through a form of transubstantiation not themselves but Henry and Bon. Riff: How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself 2012-06-30T04:00:04Z Celebrations in libraries, bookshops and cinemas around the country marking the half-century since the novel was first published on 11 July 1960 have sent the modern classic riding high in the bestseller lists once more. Soaring sales 2010-07-09T08:33:00Z Actress Helen Wagner, who played mild-mannered Nancy Hughes on the CBS soap opera "As the World Turns" for more than a half-century and spoke its first words, has died at age 91. 'As the World Turns' matriarch Wagner dies at 91 2010-05-03T01:59:00Z Many flesh-and-blood executives share similar misgivings about pilot season, which after more than a half-century remains a sacred but extravagant custom of the TV biz. Few TV pilots will land on next fall's schedule 2011-05-06T13:01:05Z The fund is celebrating its 50th anniversary and chose Kander to honor since he is also celebrating his half-century of creating art. John Kander not slowing down after hitting 85 2012-05-31T16:04:16Z One might imagine that in nearly a half-century as a publicist in New York, Zarem might have had an anecdote about one Donald J. Trump. Remembering a relentless publicist, never too proud to beg 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z On this tour, the company presents over a half-dozen works spanning a half-century, with several by Nettleford, who died in 2010. Dance Listings for March 20-26 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z But Meredith still performs her motherly role, pretty much as June Cleaver did a half-century ago. | 'The Beaver': Leave It to the Beaver to Do All the Talking 2011-05-06T07:53:01Z It's sobering, then, to recall that during its first half-century of existence, from the 1950s until the ascendance of slanted channels such as Fox News and MSNBC, TV news strove for fairness and objectivity. Ted Baxter pursued fame over journalism – but unlike today’s pundits, he didn't corrupt the news 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Like pretty much every kid from the past half-century, I saw “Mary Poppins” the movie as a very small child, and grew up singing “A Spoonful of Sugar” and “Let’s Go Fly a Kite.” P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins books are full of dark delight 2013-12-04T21:52:38Z Taken as a whole, the paper’s coverage of the last half-century of exercise recalls the old joke, Samuel Johnson by way of Oscar Wilde, about second marriages: a triumph of hope over experience. The Eternal Treadmill of Fitness Trends: From Hot Pants to Hot Mess 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z But made more conspicuous in the book is their place at so many historic moments of that half-century, from the JFK inaugural to the 1963 March on Washington. Peter, Paul and Mary forever: CD, PBS special, book continue folk trio’s legacy West is entitled to mock the N.B.A. logo’s “featuring the silhouette of a player who was a star a half-century ago.” This Season’s Books on Sports: A Roundup 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Demolishing Penn Station seemed expedient to politicians and other people a half-century ago, when only a noisy bunch of architecture buffs and preservationists pleaded for its reprieve. Paul Rudolph Building in Goshen, N.Y., Faces Threat 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z A half-century later, Mr. Spielberg is asking the same question. Review: In ‘Bridge of Spies,’ Spielberg Considers the Cold War 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z A half-century old, the new Ford remains a singular gift to the city. A 21st-Century Renaissance for Ford Foundation Landmark 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The half-century old center is the world's largest arts complex. NY Lincoln Center to consult on China arts center 2011-04-29T03:39:08Z Chamberlike and willowy, suffused with melancholy, it reflects her sly noncompliance with jazz and classical conventions, which has been a prevalent theme of her half-century career. Carla Bley, Still Improvising and Inspiring as She Turns 80 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z A half-century in the industry, Field is still a scrapper. Sally Field’s relentless quest for respect: ‘The roles I cared about deeply I had to fight for’ 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z With a half-century of historical perspective and Margolick’s help, we can now see the full potential for creative collaboration between the politician of promise and the dreamer. The Tragedy of 1968: What Might Have Been if King and Kennedy Had Lived 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Rather than losing faith in the traditional Bond by jolting 007 into gritty modernism, the Broccoli team is simply showing the adaptability that has sustained the series for a half-century. The James Bond Films at 50: A Golden Franchise for the Ages 2012-10-05T12:00:58Z Moses will be remembered as an L.A. art world fixture, one of the city's most productive and experimental artists of the last half-century. Ed Moses, 'Cool School' painter who helped forge L.A.'s art scene, dies at 91 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z It is being implemented thanks to the technology fruits of a half-century of the military-industrial complex. Four ways your privacy is being invaded 2012-09-11T13:44:00Z The Ailey company begins its annual winter residency on Wednesday with a gala featuring “Cunningham Centennial Solos,” a compilation of excerpts from a handful of Merce Cunningham works that span a half-century. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z A half-century ago, with Pierre Monteux a distant memory as music director and Charles Munch a recent one, the Boston Symphony was one of the greatest ensembles in the world in French music. Music Review: Boston Symphony’s Two Nights at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-13T21:25:01Z His multifold career — as experimental film- and video-maker, composer, musician and sound artist — still looks radical and prescient a half-century after it began. Art In Review: TONY CONRAD: ‘Doing the City: Urban Community Interventions’ 2012-09-27T20:03:03Z Hip-hop is a half-century old this year and one artist that has provided a treasure trove of sample material for some of the most significant tracks in the rap canon is Ahmad Jamal. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z They tried to save America, and they were killed by the Saurons who have kept our country in a permanent state of fear and war for the past half-century -- virtually my entire life. The coverup continues: The Kennedys in Hollywood 2011-04-01T14:01:00Z Mr. Thomas uses the course, simply called “Bob Dylan,” to put the artist in context of not just popular culture of the last half-century, but the tradition of classical poets like Virgil and Homer. Bob Dylan 101: A Harvard Professor Has the Coolest Class on Campus 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z She has rejected almost all interview requests for the past half-century and, despite keeping an apartment in New York City, has not been a presence on America's literary circuit. Harper Lee sues agent over copyright to To Kill A Mockingbird 2013-05-04T22:35:05Z Even so, debate about long-term health consequences rages on, as it has for a half-century. Seth Rogen Is All Fired Up 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Jimi Hendrix only released four official albums during his lifetime, but the Hendrix vault from the last half-century of albums, books and films could fill a library. An introduction to Jimi Hendrix, Seattle’s own international music icon, through books, movies and music 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z He rode the wave of the sexual revolution, and then spent the next half-century dressing like a theater nerd whose headwear was furnished by an “Anchors Aweigh” postproduction tag sale. Perspective | Hugh Hefner was a feminist (if you believe feminism is pretty women having sex with you) 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z “Absolutely not,” Mr. Idle said with a laugh, when asked if the group had any plans to commemorate a half-century of dead parrots, cheese shops and silly walks. For Eric Idle, Life’s a Laugh and Death’s a Joke, It’s True 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Monroe passed away a half-century ago this Sunday, a murky death that remains one of Hollywood's most tantalizing mysteries. 50 years on, Marilyn's star power shines bright 2012-07-31T19:03:15Z This is the writer who conjured up Slippery Jim DiGriz, a k a the Stainless Steel Rat, a raffish con man who starred in a dozen books over a half-century. Harry Harrison, a Prolific Writer of Satiric Science Fiction, Dies at 87 2012-08-18T02:52:27Z This Congress has been one of the most ineffective of the past half-century. Editorials from around Ohio 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z A half-century later, they ambled into a suite at a luxury hotel on the River Thames to talk about their new film, “The Irishman,” with so many of those uncertainties put to rest long ago. De Niro and Pacino Have Always Connected. Just Rarely Onscreen. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Ware also quotes Art Spiegelman, who once described “Peanuts” to him as “Schulz breaking himself into child-sized pieces and letting them all go at each other for the next half-century.” In a Collection of ‘Peanuts’ Tributes, the Gang Is All Here 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Days before the pandemic froze the world, Jane finished what is probably her last appearance on Broadway, more than a half-century since her sensational debut in “The Great White Hope” opposite James Earl Jones. The lasting testament of Jane Alexander 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Sendak, among the most honored and adored children's authors, ranks with Dr. Seuss as a revolutionary force of the past half-century. Recalling Sendak's 'dark and clear-eyed view' 2012-05-08T19:49:11Z Brooklyn Academy of Music honors that label’s output and half-century anniversary with three weeks of performances, as part of the Next Wave Festival. Pop Listings for Sept. 26-Oct. 2 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Only one thing remains constant, however, in Mr. Apted’s half-century in film. ArtsBeat: An Interview With Michael Apted 2010-12-10T17:27:00Z The Museum of Modern Art’s 1982 de Chirico survey barely made it to the late 1920s, or a half-century before his death, in 1978, at age 90. A Sumptuous Surrealist Moment in Manhattan 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Jones spent a half-century with the folk festival, held every summer in Rhode Island, as well as with its companion, the Newport Jazz Festival, and other events produced by Mr. Wein. Bob Jones, Behind-the-Stage Force at Newport Festivals, Dies at 86 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z “Some of the most substantial and rewarding art of the last half-century.” So long, Michael Scott. Here comes Steve Carell, Serious Actor. 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Bruce L. Castor Sr. practiced for nearly a half-century at Ballard Spahr, one of Philadelphia's most prestigious firms, where he worked in family wealth management. Bruce Castor is a magnet for controversy. Naturally, he’s Trump’s impeachment attorney. 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Evans, who was discovered a half-century ago by the actress Norma Shearer while poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel, had a brief acting career before morphing into one of Hollywood’s more colorful producers. 2010-02-11T08:28:00Z It’s why most of the really funny sidekicks of the last half-century have been fictional or outright spoofs. Does the Job of Talk-Show Sidekick Even Make Sense Anymore? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z The answer, as unfolds in Jones’s film and as is evident in the last half-century of movies, has several parts. The Book That Reinvented Hitchcock 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z A half-century later, his commentary is still wrenchingly relevant. Bakari Sellers wanted his memoir to spark tough talks about race. We’re already in the middle of a conflagration. 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Over the last half-century, whenever and wherever the U.S. military “deploys,” often to underdeveloped towns and villages in places like Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq, it arrives very much in the spirit of those sci-fi aliens. We are the empire: Military interventions, “Star Wars” and how we’re the real aliens 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z There was a time, a half-century ago, when such rough-hewed, kinetically charged, politically aggressive theater was common in New York. Motus’s ‘Nella Tempesta’ Evokes Shakespeare’s Stormy Play 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The space agency wants its new Artemis moon-landing program to be sustainable — with the ability of astronauts to stay for long periods — unlike the Apollo program a half-century ago. The moon has more ice than scientists thought, new studies say 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z It presents a half-century of tragedy and turmoil in as a series of mordant comic vignettes. 'The Time That Remains': Darkly comic tale chronicles mortality and survival in Nazareth 2011-03-31T20:38:05Z “Outside the Spacecraft: 50 Years of Extra-Vehicular Activity,” at the National Air and Space Museum, celebrates the half-century anniversary with a display of spacesuits, moondust-darkened boots, gloves and tethers, among other early equipment. Celebrating 50 years of floating in space at Air and Space Museum 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z For students, the house will be a resource center for learning about one of the most influential architects of the past half-century, as well as a space for lectures and studio work. Michael Graves’s Residence, Rejected by Princeton, Set for Sale to Kean University 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Fast forward through more than a half-century of near invisibility, to 2020, when the Goldberg gallery showed two Gaylors at the Winter Show. Wood Gaylor, Quietly Dazzling, Helped an Art World Invent Itself 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Over a career that spanned almost a half-century, this pioneering stand-up saved countless artifacts, including notes, set lists, scrapbooks, tickets and clothing — even the signs he liked to steal from the theaters where he played. George Carlin’s Belongings Find New Home at National Comedy Center 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z A half-century in theater brought him major roles in plays by Albee, Strindberg, Turgenev and Noel Coward, and a couple of Tony Awards for his mantel. Robot & Frank: An Endearing Showcase for Langella's Star Turn 2012-08-16T14:29:17Z The architect designed some three dozen pools during her nearly half-century career. Taking a Dip in History: A Pool Party at Hearst Castle 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Loach has spent the past half-century making films that shake with anger, and is just about to release his angriest yet. Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z At one point, in fact, the pianists marveled at how their careers initially interlocked a half-century ago. At Corea and Hancock’s performance, crowd-pleasers and timeless classics 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Only I didn’t want to focus on the tragic and morbid details of Parsons’s death, as so many people have done for the past half-century. The Legend of Gram Parsons, in 12 Songs 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z But a half-century later, jet packs actually exist. How to Survive the Apocalypse 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z For all the great achievements of independent filmmakers, and black independent filmmakers, in the last half-century, their unmade films are the modern cinema’s holy spectres. The Front Row: “To Sleep with Anger” 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z As“Star Trek” has evolved over its half-century history into a monolithic and omnipresent institution, it can be easy to forget its scrappy origins. Can ‘Star Trek’ Chart a Way Forward? 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z "Caged Bird" is among the most widely read and widely taught memoirs of the past half-century, memorably documenting her rise from the rural, segregated South to international fame. Maya Angelou to receive honorary book award 2013-09-05T13:17:17Z Today, sitting in his living room nearly a half-century later, he slips into a thick, German accent. How the Fonz takes care of a plant smuggled out of Nazi Germany 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z That half-century point is also an occasion to start constructing a hip-hop canon. Best and Worst Moments From the 2023 Grammys 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Thursday marks 50 years since Jagger played his first gig with a band called the Rolling Stones, and the group is marking its half-century with no letup in its productivity or rock `n ` roll style. Rolling Stones celebrate 50 years on stage 2012-07-12T12:49:08Z Ken now joins Barbie in her fifties as she celebrated her half-century two years ago. Barbie's man Ken celebrates 50th 2011-02-03T07:46:16Z In the documentary “That Click,” she said that being photographed by the same man who had photographed Ms. Monroe a half-century earlier had been a moving experience. Douglas Kirkland, Who Took Portraits of Movie Stars, Dies at 88 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z The filmmaker Albert Maysles, one of the crucial artists of modern documentary filmmaking—or, simply, one of the most important filmmakers of the past half-century—died on Thursday night, at the age of eighty-eight. Postscript: Albert Maysles, 1926-2015 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Michals shoots expressive portraits of expressive people: find Philip Roth, René Magritte, Meryl Streep and more in this compilation of a half-century of work. Inspiring, transporting and just plain gorgeous coffee table books 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Philadelphia also has strong holdings of Paul Cézanne, who was born in France a half-century before Duchamp, and who epitomizes much that Duchamp rejected. Seeing Double With Jasper Johns 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z As Morris Louis brilliantly did a half-century ago, Greg Minah pours acrylic pigment on canvas. In the galleries: The roots of these gardens run deep 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z That spot of rain wasn’t the only throwback to Wolf Trap’s opening a half-century ago. Review | Wolf Trap celebrates 50 years of arts in the wild — so what’s another rainstorm? 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z He snipped the pink fabric with aplomb, continuing a tradition from a half-century ago, when Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the eldest daughter of Teddy Roosevelt, performed the honor for the Embassy Row Hotel. Opening a new hotel is never easy. Try doing it during a pandemic. 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z He’s been in the business 37 years and hopes to wrap things up when he hits the half-century mark. Woodside/Braseth Gallery to move across town 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Few stars shine so bright a half-century after their lives were snuffed out. Marilyn Monroe 50 Years Later: In TIME and Out of Time 2012-08-03T12:00:58Z Like every artistic discipline, documentary film has experienced its share of formal sea changes, especially over the past half-century. In the Golden Age of documentaries, the medium could use more artistry 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The major reason Mabou Mines has endured for a half-century is that it has always drawn like-minded people who thrived on experimentation. At 52, Mabou Mines Is Still Testing Boundaries 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z But the emergence of Black Lives Matter proved that the work of Black Power a half-century earlier was unfinished, that fantasies of a post-racial America were both premature and sadly short-lived. Review | Before Black Lives Matter, Black Power’s revolutionary art 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z POSSIBILITIESDuring more than a half-century in the public eye, Herbie Hancock has been acclaimed as a jazz pianist and composer and an explorer of new musical forms. Book review: Herbie Hancock’s ‘Possibilities’ The film, to be broadcast Monday on HBO, pokes behind the fastidiously maintained facades of some of the most celebrated beauties of the last half-century. Supermodels as They Age Is Focus of Documentary 2012-07-25T20:13:12Z This unbending conviction was by no means inevitable, Dionne argues: At every major juncture in the past half-century the party chose to galvanize its base with this path over moderate options. How the Republicans wound up with Trump: E.J. Dionne explains in 'Why the Right Went Wrong' 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z A half-century ago, hundreds of black-owned businesses including jazz and blues nightclubs thrived in the Fillmore, then nicknamed "Harlem of the West." SFJazz Center opens, bringing swing to West Coast 2013-01-24T12:01:06Z First aired a half-century ago, it's a panel game show that features two contestants who compete to match the answers from six celebrities in filling in a missing blank. It's going to be fun and games for Alec Baldwin as he joins Steve Harvey and Michael Strahan for ABC's summer prime-time game-show block 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z A half-century later, as a Catholic Democratic president in favor of abortion rights, he still seemed to have an awkward relationship with abortion. Perspective | This is what the beginning of the end of the Roe era feels like 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Richards told the BBC that his biggest regret in the last half-century was the drowning death in 1969 of Brian Jones, but that on the whole the band's career has been "an incredible adventure." Rolling Stones celebrate 50 years on stage 2012-07-12T12:49:08Z For more than a half-century, Lewis — the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington — has been a champion of nonviolent protest. Best graphic novels of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Who was this pathfinder of the sea and sky — “a far more ‘modern’ artist,” Hughes insisted, “than any of the French Impressionists” a half-century later? Mr. Turner at Cannes: Portrait of the Artist as a Boar 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z In a conversation in his dressing room, he reflected on his half-century at the Met. After 50 Years at the Met Opera, Paul Plishka Retires (Again) 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Despite all the backtracking and roundabout routes that Lincoln and his party followed, however, they never abandoned the central tenets of the antislavery constitutionalism that had developed over the previous half-century. Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Of these larger-than-life figures none seemed more important than Woodward, one of the most celebrated reporters of the past half-century. She said, he said: journalist accuses Woodward of ‘breathtaking betrayal.’ 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z By doing so — and by documenting his long demonstration on dozens of records — he became one of the most influential figures in the last half-century of improvised music. Steve Coleman Plays His Sax at the Stone 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z “Acting was of primary importance to me,” said Mr. Grey, who is 86 and best known as the devilish Weimar-era Emcee in the stage and screen productions of “Cabaret” a half-century ago. How Do You Say ‘Tradition’ in Yiddish? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z After all, theater insiders and outsiders are still loudly calling for improved representation more than a half-century later. Alice Childress Finally Gets to Make ‘Trouble’ on Broadway 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z But “At Last,” the soaring ballad she first committed to wax in 1960, was her signature number, the one that followed her like a sweet lost child for a half-century. A Voice of Gold, a Life of Pain: Etta James, 1938-2012 2012-01-20T22:06:06Z The half-century anniversary marks the band’s creation in Palo Alto, Calif., but its timeline is crowded with other significant dates. In the Bay Area, the Grateful Dead will live — and twirl — forever 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Of the hundred or so Jin tombs uncovered in Shanxi Province in the past half-century most were equipped with what amounted to sculptured home theaters. Art Review: ‘Theater, Life, and the Afterlife’ at China Institute 2012-05-31T22:11:08Z For the past half-century or more, moviemaking has been demystified—and reinfused with another mystery, that of the studio director as artist. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Not that he didn’t face and overcome plenty of dark moments over the succeeding half-century, beginning with the first and probably darkest, his beloved father’s suicide when Hillman was just 16. Chris Hillman’s musical life from Bryds to Burritos and more 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Hardly anyone, it seems, wants to admit the truth: nearly a half-century of financial, political and social gains are being reversed, perhaps permanently, and the post-civil rights era may come to resemble Reconstruction’s fleeting progress. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z It was likely they would succeed: Motovidlak has a half-century of on-the-water experience as well as a high-tech fish finder that scans the bay. Are striped bass doomed? Some conservationists are worried. 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z The suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary people helped define American conversation for a half-century. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Scholarship has also moved on in the half-century or more since Fischer's day. Michael Gove's history wars 2013-07-13T07:00:05Z The New York art dealer Eugene V. Thaw, who died in January, assembled a remarkable collection of drawings over the last half-century. From 12th Century B.C. to 2017, Art in Startling Variety 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z After a lifetime of careful self-deracination, I felt suddenly tied to a place, to a time, to a particular field in much the same light as Burchfield painted it more than a half-century earlier. Perspective | I grew up in Upstate New York. It took the art of Charles Burchfield to help me rediscover the beauty of its winters. 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z More than a half-century after his death, Humphrey Bogart remains an iconic star and an enduring symbol — celebrated at college film festivals and revival movie theaters, and immortalized on a United States postage stamp. Books of The Times: Talent Is What Made Him Dangerous 2011-02-14T23:29:12Z There, he and the White House’s Latin America expert, Ricardo Zuniga, launched an ambitious attempt to end a half-century rift with Cuba. Ben Rhodes: ‘Obama has a serenity that I don't. I get more exercised’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z This much seems only fitting for a film about the Krays, the truth of their story forever lost somewhere in a half-century of hearsay and tabloid exclusives. 'The Krays were glamorous guys' 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z But a half-century into the movement’s existence, its map is being redrawn with a vengeance. New Exhibitions Explore Pop Art’s Foreign Agitators 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z The show’s 28 tonally subtle black-and-white photos, some vintage, some newly printed, tell a half-century story of cultural turmoil and change that the world at large still knows little of. Kazuo Kitai’s Record of a Japan in Transition 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The half-century of experience can be heard in the wit and beauty of Mr. Plummer’s verse-speaking, and the care with which he shapes both a soliloquy and the role as a whole. Christopher Plummer in Stratford, Ontario 2010-07-09T04:28:00Z Kreamer emphasizes the singularity of the exhibition as appropriate to the museum’s half-century anniversary celebration and mission. Works from Cosby art collection to be shown at National Museum of African Art As a composer, Newman not only has seen changes in how music is played over the last half-century but also has strong views on evolving tastes in contemporary music. Anthony Newman ready to 'wow' on Disney Hall's 'Hurricane Mama' organ 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z But conventional wisdom has been overrun by Warhol's rise as the most influential artist of the last half-century. Alas, mere 'Shadows' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z He lived a half-century and appeared onstage many times. African Americans long fought for the right to serve their country 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z How will the talk show format, forged over the past half-century on broadcast TV, translate to an on-demand network? Netflix Signs Comedian Chelsea Handler, Expanding Battlefront With HBO 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Relatives of accused communists slaughtered there nearly a half-century ago thought it was safer to forget since the killers still lived among them. Film Gives Indonesia View of Bloody, Obscured Past 2013-10-04T13:50:53Z They date back more than 2000 years but have suffered dramatic attrition in the last half-century through ever more intensive farming and land management. Heritage Lottery money helps Cumbria's threatened hay meadows 2012-12-13T15:00:00Z Over a half-century later, she is staying true to her word. In Paris, Young Theater Makers Swing Big 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z I agree with the half-century of cognitive science that concludes multitasking is a comforting fiction. Shock! Horror! Do you know how much time you spend on your phone? 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z It’s likely that you’ve encountered a Tsutakawa sculpture while traipsing through Seattle’s public streets, parks and plazas at some point in the last half-century. For years, Gerard Tsutakawa’s sculptures have shaped Seattle’s landscape. Here’s how — and what else is coming 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z A half-century later, Black Panther is finally stepping into the spotlight. Why Black Panther's Debut in Captain America: Civil War Is So Important 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Certainly, Schubert's symphony, which took more than a half-century to find a place in the repertory, was daring in its own time, not least for its technical difficulties. Riveting Schubert and a sparkling debut at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z She starts by presenting the myth she wants to dismantle — the heroic tale of biology’s triumph in the 1980s over a half-century of vulgar Freudianism. Mental Illness Is All in Your Brain — or Is It? 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z A lofty claim, though one befitting a reigning interpreter of this repertoire: Gardiner, 80, a scholarly flag-bearer of the historically informed performance movement for a half-century, has virtually set the standard in Bach’s sacred music. What Is John Eliot Gardiner’s Musical Empire Without Him? 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z The card on display depicts Cicotte a few years before the baseball crime for which he would spend the next half-century apologizing. Metropolitan Museum Opens Huge Show of Baseball Cards 2013-07-11T21:15:02Z The Plain Dealer, where Scott worked for a half-century, reported that a niece, Linda Scott, said her aunt died early Monday following a long illness. Jane Scott, longtime Ohio rock critic, dies at 92 2011-07-05T01:01:04Z But the real coup was casting and trusting Redford, the lone star who brings to the job all the vigor of his 77 years and all the acting wisdom of a half-century in films. All Is Lost: Robert Redford’s See-Worthy Adventure 2013-10-17T03:30:42Z “Some of the most substantial and rewarding art of the last half-century.” Forget the cliches. The director behind the new ‘Beetlejuice’ musical is known for breaking the rules. 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z While that celebratory epithalamion, “The Whitsun Weddings,” has been voted the most popular English poem of the previous half-century, I myself would have opted for “Aubade,” Larkin’s last and most terrifying meditation on death. Book review: ‘Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love,’ by James Booth Reaction to the death of Larry King, whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conversation for a half-century. Reaction to the death of Larry King 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z In the last half-century, Ken Burns has become among the most prominent chroniclers of American history — so maybe it was only a matter of time before his attention panned to Ben Franklin. What’s on TV This Week: A Pair of New Docs, and ‘Killing Eve’ 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z A half-century later, shortly before Dolci died, the painter was still at it, wrapping a wistful, alabaster-skinned Salome in a spectacular, 17th century cerulean-blue and crisp white court ensemble adorned with gold thread and pearls. Santa Barbara's 'Botticelli, Titian and Beyond' a quirky gem 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z The tremendous expansion of the art market over the past half-century has been naturally accompanied by countless Moses-type critics, denouncing its spectacles of conspicuous consumption and calling for moral and political corrections. Art Review: Hyman Bloom’s Rabbi Paintings at White Box 2013-08-29T22:07:24Z And I’ll probably be back north next year — because nearly a half-century of reviewing hasn’t left me hobbled by cynicism. Cranky Guy: Why I Skipped the Toronto Film Festival This Year 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z Woodstock and all it symbolized signaled that the supremacy of pure melody after a half-century of dominance was seriously under siege. Music Review: ‘Jerome Kern: The Song Is You’ at the 92nd Street Y 2013-05-05T21:56:21Z For the ensuing half-century, candidates would attempt, with varying degrees of success, to speak the visual language of their moment. Perspective | Ocasio-Cortez, Hegar and the art of making your political ad feel like an uplifting movie 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z In “The Gatekeepers” Whipple, a Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, chronicles how the role has shifted in the last half-century, and what it has meant for the successes and failures of each administration. New spring nonfiction dips into social issues and politics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z It’s one of thousands of such miniatures from around the world displayed in the Potomac, Md., home of Flores, 74, who has spent a half-century amassing his collection. His collection of miniatures from around the world fills 16 rooms. And he’s not done yet. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z And “how did this guy remain a constant presence in popular culture for 50 years and not, for one instance in that half-century, seem like ... our pal?” Books of The Times: ?Jagger,? by Marc Spitz - Review 2011-08-30T21:29:48Z Nearly a half-century ago, Black Sabbath began as a blues band. Goodbye, for Good, to Black Sabbath 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z But the real coup was casting and trusting Redford, the lone star who brings to the job all the vigor of his 76 years, and all the acting wisdom of a half-century in films. All Is Lost: Robert Redford Is Our Man 2013-05-23T10:30:57Z More than a half-century of Washington scandals later, Americans absorb disillusion with every morning sip of Starbucks coffee. | 'Born Yesterday': Daffy Blonde Gets Wise to Washington 2011-04-25T02:01:07Z We bump and laugh and one of the truly unique American acting powerhouses of the past half-century beams back at me. Kathy Bates: 'I told Clint that after 50 years, I feel like I've hit the big time' 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z A half-century later, Trump wrote “The Art of the Deal.” How Trump got religion — and why his legendary minister’s son now rejects him 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z “I think you have to keep on searching,” Birkin says, reflecting on the meaning of this last half-century as an immortal. Jane Birkin is back with a new album, but her presence is everlasting 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z There had been nothing quite as disruptive in the design world as the Memphis collective since Walter Gropius opened the doors of the Bauhaus over a half-century earlier. How the Memphis Design Movement Made a Comeback 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Among a handful of the most important and admired artists of the last half-century, he has already been the subject of plenty of writing. What is an artist? Peter Plagens' 'Bruce Nauman' illuminates 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Complementing the narrative is a treasure trove of footage that’s been locked away for a half-century. 'We knew we had something extraordinary': looking back on Woodstock, 50 years on 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z When Sam Shepard died on July 27 the world lost one of the greatest playwrights of the past half-century. Rural America: Where Sam Shepard’s roots ran deepest 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Amid the fuss that will accompany the 50th anniversaries of the first hits by the Beach Boys and the Beatles later this year, another significant half-century probably won't get a look-in. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons – review 2012-06-27T16:53:50Z “She was one of the most influential plants people of the last half-century,” said Andi Pettis, director of horticulture for the High Line in New York and one of the symposium’s speakers. A garden movement loses a leader 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z For this summer’s half-century anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots, substantial displays of art produced in the long wake of the uprising are filling New York City museums and public spaces. 25 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Their work “Wet Clutch,” performed outdoors in a cozy community garden, honors feminist pop-culture icons of the past half-century through dance and video. Dance Listings for July 17-23 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The result, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” was published in 1960, and for nearly a half-century afterward the Browns and Ms. Lee kept their secret. Michael Brown, Whose Industrial Musicals Gave Wings to ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 93 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Over the course of a protean half-century career in film, television and theater, Mr. McCowen’s greatest triumphs were on the stage, often in classical roles. Alec McCowen, British Actor Who Played Saint and Fool, Dies at 91 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The only other brand to make the leap so effectively and completely from commodity to identity in the last half-century is Apple. How Nike Won the Cultural Marathon 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z “The Contenders — 16 for ’16” dissects some of the most fascinating presidential campaigns of the last half-century. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘The Shallows’ and ‘Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove’ 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z It was nothing like the half-century of police shows that came before it. ‘The Wire’ Stands Alone 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Hailstork is also too infrequently heard, despite a prolific, half-century career. Review: The Philharmonic Departs From Business as Usual 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Bruce Chatwin’s “In Patagonia,” for instance, is probably the most influential travel book of the past half-century. Michael Dirda’s holiday book picks 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z He teamed with the 38-year-old composer Iain Bell on “Stonewall,” which premieres Friday at the Time Warner Center’s Rose Theater in a five-performance run that ends June 28 — exactly a half-century after the events portrayed. After a 50-year wait, ‘Stonewall’ opera was written in weeks 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z She’ll be fondly remembered by her fans of a half-century, and those cursing YouTube for a stalwart pop singer of a vanished age. Remembering Lesley Gore, a '60s Queen of Teen Angst 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z The compendium of a half-century of work ranges from autobiography and travelogue to reflections on South African history and the great leaders of her time. Nadine Gordimer: 5 Essential Reads from the Award-Winning Author 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z It also calls for slicing off the top of the parking garage below the square, allowing the park to be flush with the sidewalks around it for the first time in more than a half-century. French landscape firm wins Pershing Square competition with call for 'radical flatness' 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z It is the lot of the beautifully famous and famously beautiful: They become part of our dream life, the hardiest of them thriving in the dream world of the cinema for a half-century or more. Catherine Deneuve: A real dream of a woman 2011-04-08T18:48:00Z After a half-century in the spotlight, Philip Glass continues to intrigue. With world premiere of his thrilling 12th Symphony, Philip Glass continues to intrigue 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z We’ll leave you, then, with two quotations, uttered a half-century years apart by two very different writers. Weaned on Hollywood endings, Americans now face a messy one 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z There is historic justice in trying to rectify a crime committed a half-century ago that galvanized the architectural preservation movement. Architecture: A Proposal for Penn Station and Madison Square Garden 2012-02-08T16:59:06Z The Emerson String Quartet, a renowned chamber ensemble known for its lively, nuanced playing, announced on Thursday that it would disband in 2023, after nearly a half-century. Celebrated String Quartet Will Disband, Ending 47-Year Run 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Blade Runner serves as a record of how our dystopian fears have evolved over the past half-century. ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’: what Blade Runner 2049’s dystopia tells us about 2017 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z HE WAS known as “the Maestro,” and for more than a half-century, he was the dean of the American wine industry. Mentor-winemaker André Tchelistcheff helped make Washington a major player 2014-05-09T04:00:00Z A onetime intellectual enclave, Lastarria lost much of its luster over the last half-century as more modern suburbs rose farther away from the center, luring Lastarria’s wealthier residents. In Santiago, a Regal Old Neighborhood Opens Its Doors 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z And finally, there's the work of such theatrical poets as Samuel Beckett and Sarah Kane; possibly two of the most influential dramatists of the last half-century. Poetry in Motion: why poetic drama has something new to say 2011-03-02T13:10:18Z Good slime — the fun-gross, freely chosen slime that seeped into the lives of normal Americans and their kids nearly a half-century ago — is also having a moment. Slime is everywhere. It’s everywhere. Slime is everywhere. 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z While Ms. Steinem, 82, has clocked a half-century as an activist, journalist and feminist leader, “Woman” is the first time she has produced and hosted a TV series. Gloria Steinem Brings Feminism to Vice TV 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Times, tastes, fashions and spectacles have changed in the past half-century. Music Center's 50th-anniversary gala amps up energy to a fault 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Nearly a half-century after the novel’s release, it is still regularly on school reading lists, though it’s also frequently banned for some of its content. Daniel Keyes, “Flowers for Algernon” author, dies 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z At a deeper cultural level, her journey is yet stranger and more wonderful, embodying as it does a half-century of global feminism and the evolutionary arc of modern India. Gimlet Eye: Indian Artisan Is Advocate for Women 2010-07-21T20:10:00Z In a career spanning almost a half-century, Mr. Wein wrote for Batman, the Flash, Superman, the Justice League of America and numerous other comics series. Len Wein, Influential Comic Book Writer, Dies at 69 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z The time we allot ourselves to appreciate him en masse grows more distant and diffuse over the crawl of a quarter- or half-century. Perspective | The best way to honor Beethoven’s 250th? Listen to every note he ever wrote. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z More than a half-century ago, the park hosted the 1964 New York World’s Fair, whose theme was “Peace Through Understanding.” Around the World in an Evening at the Queens Night Market 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z And, for that matter, how would Ms. Hohoff have felt about the decision, more than a half-century later, to publish a prototype of “Mockingbird”? The Invisible Hand Behind Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z “Significant parts of it will be on display almost all the time for the next half-century at least,” Mayer said. More Than 200 Philip Guston Works Are Headed to the Met 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z It is evidently a muse that can keep a playwright vital and engaged, even during a packed half-century of productivity. Alan Ayckbourn’s Latest, ‘Arrivals & Departures’ 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z He is one of the most important playwrights of the last half-century, savagely deconstructing the American zeitgeist in innovative language charged with vernacular speech and weighted by existential dread. The real Sam Shepard behind the man we think we know 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Nearly a half-century later, Mr. Smith is still carrying the torch for Rockefeller. Richard Norton Smith Dissects Nelson Rockefeller 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z We are taken back to the late 1800s, to the beginning of a cholera outbreak that will overrun this fictional Caribbean city over the next half-century. The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z With my own half-century mark eerily visible on the horizon, could Mr. Buettner, who has spent the last 10 years unlocking the mysteries of longevity, offer me a midcourse correction? My Dinner With Longevity Expert Dan Buettner (No Kale Required) 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z Two passionate women, a half-century apart, saved it. Nancy Sweezy, Savior of Jugtown Pottery, Dies at 88 2010-02-26T04:44:00Z And, more plausibly, lovers rekindle their passion after a half-century apart. Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2014-04-18T01:58:28Z Eric loves and misses his car as intensely as Kirk Douglas cared for his aging horse in Lonely Are the Brave a half-century ago. REVIEW: The Rover Goes Weirdly Western Down Under 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Tolstoy said he regarded Mr. Rasputin as the best writer of the past half-century. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Ford tried hard to catch gm a half-century ago. 2010-02-11T16:40:00Z It’s a beast, perhaps a half-century old, and crazy loud. On a remote Russian peninsula, a vodka-fueled adventure 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z "No one likes to throw a party more than we do, but after almost a half-century on the road, it's time for one last blowout with our friends and family . . . our fans," said Fred Schneider. Glitter down the Atlanta Highway – the B-52s are setting out on their final dance party! 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Simon’s catalog includes some of the most popular songs of the last half-century. Paul Simon Sells His Entire Songwriting Catalog to Sony 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z The show, billed as "Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead," comes in celebration of their half-century as a band. Grateful Dead original surviving members plan final shows in July 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Starting with Abraham Lincoln in 1861, beards were popular with presidents for a half-century. Paul Ryan’s Beard Triggers a Style Debate 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z A half-century after he began his ascent to the pinnacle of the music world, Gordy is looking to produce one last showstopper. Motown founder readies for 'last major endeavor' 2013-03-08T17:31:19Z And when I think about him on that stage now, I am mature enough to acknowledge that he put on one of the best rock ’n’ roll shows of the last half-century. Kyle Mooney: The First Time I Was Upstaged at a Talent Show 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Spanning more than a half-century, and centered on the life of a Maine orphanage doctor and an orphan he raises as a son, the show debuted at Seattle Repertory Theatre in the 1990s. Review: Part 2 of 'Cider House Rules' is Book-It at its best 2010-09-23T20:23:00Z Jacobs’ victories over Moses in the planning battles of the 1950s and 1960s are, after all, now a full half-century old. A new documentary leaves Jane Jacobs trapped in the rubble of old arguments 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The larger “Star Trek” enterprise has been boldly going on for a half-century, and more hours of television and cinema than I possess the Googling acumen to tally. Review: ‘Star Trek Beyond’ Sticks to Its Brand. That’s Not Necessarily Bad. 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Bond squints and says, “Maybe too long,” Is a half-century too long a career for a movie secret agent? Skyfall: Bond and Bardem Go Boom 2012-11-09T13:00:22Z His words were prophetic, but could he have imagined that the world a half-century from his time would be so thoroughly animated? Unpacking and Decoding the World of Animation 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Schwartz, professor of sociology at the UW, dispenses advice and tips on how to look for and find Mr. or Mrs. Right — even past the half-century mark. N.W. history, America in the Middle East, dating after 50 2014-02-24T15:57:52Z Building a New Narrative A little over a half-century ago Abu Dhabi was a Bedouin village with no literary or scientific traditions to speak of, no urban history. Critic?s Notebook: Building Museums, and a Fresh Arab Identity 2010-11-29T19:10:00Z Written more than a half-century ago, it is composed of three short movements. Pop stars to stage silent X Factor protest 2010-12-06T12:49:00Z I know Nussbaum is highly regarded, but if she were a man, she’d take her rightful place as one of the greatest philosophers and thinkers in the last half-century. Why Michael Eric Dyson Would Demote ‘Heart of Darkness’ From the Canon 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z All of this activity comes more than a half-century after Fleetwood Mac formed, and nearly 45 years since the group first reached the U.S. Why Fleetwood Mac's music resonated so deeply in 2020 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Some perceived it as criticism of the reigning king, Louis-Philippe I; the morning after Hugo's play opened at Paris' Comedie-Francaise on Nov. 22, 1832, the French government imposed a ban that lasted a half-century. Sin City Duke: Met moves `Rigoletto' to Las Vegas 2013-01-23T18:25:11Z The rub: More than 1,700 volumes remain shelved in the retired government lawyer’s nearby home, his collection lovingly amassed over a half-century. We’re drowning in old books. But getting rid of them is heartbreaking. 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Farrell's portrayal of the fast-decaying Majestic Hotel and England's even more rapidly crumbling rule in Ireland surely adds up to one of the best books of the last half-century, let alone 1970. Lost and found: why JG Farrell's Troubles deserved its belated Booker win hands-down 2010-05-21T11:07:00Z So each big messy thornbush is a live nursery for a baby oak, and this field of low scrub will be dotted with massive trees in a half-century. Returned to the wild: A 3,500-acre estate outside London is ruled by nature 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Two years ago, Mr. Spencer turned 50; Ms. Martinez celebrated her half-century birthday in February. Boss Hog’s Punk Rock Revs Up as It Hits Middle Age 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z After Vietnam and Iraq, and with American troops still in Afghanistan, the interventionist scenario has less appeal than it did a half-century ago. Then and Now: Hollywood Remakes as Election-Year Players 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z But the film’s most fascinating thread tracks his prickly, protean relationship with Nelson Mandela and how the two became “uncomfortable partners” in abolishing almost a half-century of official oppression. ‘The Other Man,’ F. W. de Klerk’s Role in Ending Apartheid 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Yes, Mozart was among the most performed composers at the Proms in their first half-century – but he achieved that prominence through the inclusion of countless operatic arias and concertos, rather than his symphonies. The Proms are richer than ever – even without Mozart's symphonies 2012-07-26T17:30:01Z Mr. Davis, who often said that he considered dance an agent of social change, performed, choreographed, taught and otherwise evangelized for the dances of Africa and the African diaspora for more than a half-century. Chuck Davis, Who Brought African Dance Traditions to America, Dies at 80 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z A half-century of revolutionary work displays the firmness of Baraka’s beliefs and the heat of his fury. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z It sounds like today’s news, but these were the headlines of 1968, a year of widespread unrest and change that helped shape our world a half-century later. In 1968, protests were a call for peace and for violence 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z The wraparound archive also doubles as a half-century document of unbroken community activism, which persists even as the community changes. Expanding the Scope of ‘Latin American Art’ 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z In the past half-century, directors have tried to shake up the art form simply by recasting standard works as provocations. Opera’s Disrupter in Residence, Heading to Bayreuth 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Advising at the end, “We’ll try to please you every day,” this wizened presence could well be speaking for a director who has devoted a half-century or more to wanting to do precisely that. Theater Review: Peter Hall Makes a Dusky Return to Illyria 2011-01-25T12:00:03Z The passing years became decades, and then a half-century. Carmen Herrera, Cuban-Born Artist Who Won Fame at 89, Dies at 106 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Indeed, one would be hard-pressed to find a review, magazine profile or news article over nearly a half-century that did not identify him as the author of “Roses.” Frank D. Gilroy, Who Had Smash Debut With ‘Subject Was Roses,’ Dies at 89 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z “Some of the most substantial and rewarding art of the last half-century.” Hotshot teacher-writer Paula Vogel is again at the head of the class 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The pair have also collaborated on and off over the intervening half-century in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, the Stills-Young Band and other projects. Neil Young tops bill for Stephen Stills' autism benefit this weekend 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z There has been mounting expectation the group would celebrate their half-century together in concert. Rolling Stones to announce 50th anniversary gigs, says music site 2012-08-30T18:12:51Z The name stuck; a half-century later, cruise-ship schedules would announce meetings for Friends of Dorothy, or FOD, as a delicate way of indicating, without frightening the straights on board, that gays were welcome to socialize. Oz Revisited – Part 3: A Parable of Empowerment 2013-09-18T15:30:10Z But if he were, his trademark concept over the last half-century might have been devising hugely ambitious public installations that are virtually guaranteed never to be realized. Robert Irwin’s Big Visions, Barely Seen 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z He is 70 now, and when I asked him what, if any, big changes had occurred during his half-century there, he could think of only one. The Tipsy Diaries: Getting a Kick From Piano Bars 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z They expressed a passionate connection to the film’s story, ”inspired by true events,” of a woman looking for the son that the Church stole from her a half-century before. Philomena at Venice: Reserve an Oscar for Judi Dench 2013-08-31T18:35:02Z His family and friends said Kelly died Sunday in Dublin after an acting career on stage, film, TV and radio that spanned a half-century. Irish character actor David Kelly dies at 82 2012-02-15T13:29:24Z Jon Vickers, a Canadian tenor whose voice — titanic and yet delicate — was regarded as one of the finest sounds to fill an opera house in the past half-century, died July 10 in Ontario, Canada. Jon Vickers, acclaimed Canadian operatic tenor, dies at 88 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z A half-century later, you wouldn’t expect that to be possible. Let’s Play ‘Underground Railroad Game’: A Lacerating Comedy on Race 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z In the south of the city, the immense Librería Gandhi, which just celebrated a half-century since its opening, has served as a substitute university for multiple generations. Read Your Way Through Mexico City 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z The books launched the I Can Read series in the late 1950s and propelled millions of children into reading during the last half-century. Else Holmelund Minarik obituary 2012-07-19T14:10:50Z Many of the displays look like they haven't changed since the place was built more than a half-century ago. US history museums struggle to update exhibits 2011-11-06T21:46:04Z Mr. Buffett hasn’t stopped touring in his nearly half-century as a performer, but it had been a long time since he did a last-minute set at a bar. Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z As a piece of social history, though, the memoir is fascinating because my mother is traversing the same social circles I do, only a half-century earlier. Cultural Studies: Sharing Her Secrets 2011-03-24T21:13:59Z “This is the story of the next half-century,” Foer told me, “as we become effectively cyborgs.” First: The Twitter Trap 2011-05-18T20:53:46Z Park said he may give his trophy to his grandmother, who has been watching "As the World Turns" for more than a half-century on CBS. Emotional end for `As the World Turns' on Emmys 2010-06-28T15:39:00Z David Stubbs Farewell to that question mark-shaped building that has loomed large over British TV this past half-century or so. TV highlights 22/03/2013 2013-03-22T07:00:07Z Over a half-century of this trio’s nonrepresentational art, things get funkier and funkier. Review | In the galleries: Tracing a generational progression in abstract art 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z It is a byproduct of the fact that Grinnell’s surface is 40 percent smaller than a half-century ago. Twilight of the Glaciers 2011-07-29T19:50:35Z Beginning with his 1927-32 tenure as band leader at the Cotton Club and continuing for a fertile half-century, Ellington operated from an intellectual aerie he hoped would filter down to the mass audience. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z African-American history is a natural focus in a season that coincides with the half-century anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The New Season 2013-09-08T16:55:20Z It presents a half-century of tragedy and turmoil as a series of mordant comic vignettes. | 'The Time That Remains': In Nazareth, Human Comedy as Wind Rustles the Olive Branches 2011-01-06T23:52:20Z Obama was not the first American politician to discover a lurking Irishness; in the past half-century, finding one’s Celtic roots has been something of a Presidential tic. Rediscovering Obama’s Irish Roots 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Their friendship eroded as well, which is the subject of James Mann’s “The Great Rift,” his latest exploration of the personalities that shaped American national security policy over the past half-century. Dick Cheney and Colin Powell: The Odd Couple 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The seeds of this discontent had been planted a half-century earlier, in 1861. Stories of revolution in Russia’s St. Petersburg 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z I met Ms. Morrison about a half-century ago and have talked with her on and off through the years. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Redford and Christie, whose movie careers began exactly a half-century ago, still exude the glow of independent icons; their confrontation toward the end of the film is a kind of summit meeting of liberal celebrity. Robert Redford's The Company You Keep: Old Radicals Die Hard 2012-09-07T01:08:30Z The half-century anniversary comes at a time when the Voting Rights Act has been weakened by the Supreme Court’s Shelby County decision, in 2013, which invalidated a central section of the law. The Fight for Voting Rights, Fifty Years Ago and Today 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z As a result, the musical’s evolution can be seen as a mirror of American society over the last half-century: what has changed and what hasn’t. 50 years of 'Cabaret': How the 1966 musical keeps sharpening its edges for modern times 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z The spring of 2019 will bring another glance backward — and forward — with the half-century anniversary of the Stonewall uprising and the start of the Gay Liberation Movement. A Good Year for Younger Artists, Immigrant Citizens and Outrage 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The artist-in-residence program at the Studio Museum in Harlem is an institution — an early-career incubator whose alumni list, in annual cohorts of three, reads like a canon of a half-century of Black American art. Studio Museum in Harlem Names Artists in Residence 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Next year will be a half-century since the death of JFK. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z More than a half-century later the industry baddies that Selznick pinpointed are now usually called marketers, and junk continues to be made, along with some great films. Now Playing: The Usual Chaos 2011-03-11T05:30:59Z There have been bumps in the road — moguls on the slopes — but yes, the Bond franchise has lived on, lucratively and babe-lusciously, for more than a half-century. ‘Bond, James Bond,’ Through the Years 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Made with old-vine fruit harvested a month earlier than most wineries pick and aged only in old wood, the wine is an elegant statement of the way wine was made a half-century or more ago. Their goal: Wines that taste more like Chile and less like everywhere else 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z The exhibition also celebrates the May 26 publication of a similarly-titled book, “Alice Trumbull Mason: Pioneer of American Abstraction,” that is, astoundingly, the first monograph on Mason — nearly a half-century after her death. Alice Trumbull Mason: America’s Forgotten Modernist 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z The debate over the nature of reality has been growing in intensity for more than a half-century; it generates conferences and symposiums and enough argumentation to fill entire journals. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z At her death, Professor Ward had been at work for a half-century on a biography of Blake. Aileen Ward, Scholar and Biographer, Dies at 97 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z He’s spent the last half-century both rich and famous, more or less. At 75, Tom Jones has a new book, a new album — and a new take on life 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z As a tale of naval derring-do, Walsh and Piccard's journey to the deepest spot in the world's deepest ocean is all the more nerve-racking for the half-century old technology they relied on. Dive for Avatar 2011-01-18T07:59:02Z It’s started the same way for the last half-century: with a curriculum. How ‘Sesame Street’ Started a Musical Revolution 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The director Andy Billman feels the pain of fans in Cleveland, the only major American city with three or more sports franchises to have failed to win a championship in the last half-century. What’s on TV Saturday 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z The tune remained a fixture for the next half-century. Richard Trentlage, who wrote ‘I’d love to be an Oscar Mayer wiener,’ dies at 87 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z The Mead paper corporation left town, and, most recently and most devastating, so did National Cash Register, which in its prime a half-century ago employed 30,000 workers here. A Dance Troupe Thrives in Dayton 2010-12-16T06:30:04Z Beyond the treats it offers fans, “Get Back” is a fly-on-the-wall look at the creative process of a band still popular a half-century after it ceased existence. ‘Get Back’ series dispels, and confirms, some Beatle myths 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z On the contrary, the educated classes of both Europe and America joined ranks to spend much of the next half-century attacking Wegener's "delirious ravings" and trying to demolish both his hypothesis and his character. Has the science in Ice Age 4 gone adrift? 2012-07-16T07:00:04Z But after signing the papers for a cabin in his home state, Indiana, in the early 1990s he learned that it had been the backdrop for a deadly love triangle a half-century earlier. Stephen King and John Mellencamp?s ?Ghost Brothers? Musical 2012-04-01T04:17:15Z The long-running Off Broadway musical “The Fantasticks” will close in June, the producers announced on Tuesday, ending a chapter for a show that has been on New York stages for much of the last half-century. ‘The Fantasticks’ Is Set to Close Off Broadway in June 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Michael Bennett may have made the dance steps for “A Chorus Line” indelible nearly a half-century ago, but Signature Theatre had no intention of retracing them for its new revival. Without Michael Bennett’s choreography, is it still ‘A Chorus Line’? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z But their trajectories intersected again a half-century later on “The Fabelmans.” Judd Hirsch Can Tell You a Story or Three. ‘The Fabelmans’ Is Just the Latest. 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z A half-century ago, a single wage earner could support a family. America’s miserable economy may be ruining your love life 2014-02-16T01:00:00Z Kudirka revisits the Coast Guard vessel he had jumped to a half-century earlier and energetically points out what happened and where. ‘The Jump’ Review: A Seaman’s Story of a Daring Escape 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, he didn’t, but as a consolation prize, he invited me inside the ground-level museum, a showcase of cosmetics spanning more than a half-century. Dallas is the most affordable go-to travel destination for 2015 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z As evidence for this budding political sensibility, she points to the little-known fact that the territory of Utah granted women the right to vote in 1870, a full half-century before the federal constitutional amendment. How the Women of the Mormon Church Came to Embrace Polygamy 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The group is marking its half-century with no letup in its productivity or rock `n ` roll style. Rolling Stones celebrate 50 years on stage 2012-07-13T18:58:15Z Over a half-century, he directed more than 40 movies — or pictures, as he called them — including critical and popular triumphs as well as misfires that are largely ignored here. Review: ‘By Sidney Lumet’ Puts the Director in Front of the Camera 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z But that half-century also produced the golden age of Hollywood movies and the Great American Song Book, so I'd say it's pretty much a wash. The Adjustment Bureau: Matt Damon's Battle of the Angels 2011-03-04T17:00:00Z One valentine in The New York Times called "Iron Curtain" a "gleefully ridiculous new musical" that deliberately makes "this nutty story about a blundering theatrical team look and sound like something from a half-century ago." Russians will romp in the '50s-style Village Theatre musical 'Iron Curtain' 2011-03-10T22:41:04Z More than a half-century later, the locals and out-of-towners continue the custom. Travel: Mountain View, Ark., Folk Music Capital of the World Forever a sideman in the great New Orleans tradition, Nocentelli forgot all about his unfinished solo project for almost a half-century. Leo Nocentelli’s long-lost folk-funk album sees the light of day, 50 years later 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z So it’s no surprise that jazz musicians a half-century later would cover rock, hip-hop, music from all over the world — the pop tunes of today. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z The man is Stan Lee, chief dreamer-upper of those muscular dudes a half-century ago in the pages of Marvel comics, making a cameo appearance in Marvel’s The Avengers. Marvel's The Avengers: A Superhero Roundup That's Almost Super 2012-04-25T12:25:56Z What’s more, it follows one main idea through nearly a half-century. Books of The Times: ?Drift? by Rachel Maddow of MSNBC Traces American Militarism 2012-03-28T22:36:04Z Last week both were honoured with half-century performances, the Britten on the exact date in Coventry Cathedral, the Tippett a few days earlier as a triumphant, if hot conclusion to this year's Brighton festival. War Requiem; King Priam; Caligula – review 2012-06-02T23:05:59Z The Karate Kid has some nifty martial maneuvers, but at its heart is the bond forged by two child actors, raised in dramatically different circumstances half a world and nearly a half-century apart. 'The Karate Kid' Review: Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith Do Kung Fu Fighting 2010-06-11T09:10:00Z It flourished in the 1920s and ’30s, a mere half-century after the abolition of slavery, amid a nationwide revival of the Ku Klux Klan. The dazzling Harlem Renaissance that flowered nearly a century ago celebrated in Ohio 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Pauline Kael called it overwrought and rather silly, a judgment that looks even more apt a half-century on. ‘The Ipcress File’ Review: In the Footsteps of Michael Caine 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z More than a half-century later, the story of “Ford v Ferrari” still resonates among racing fans as one of the greatest against-the-odds victories of all time. In ‘Ford v Ferrari,’ a Race With Plenty of Real-Life Characters 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Until this week Mr. Papaliberios had reasonably considered the “21” Club a second home, as well as his final destination in a restaurant career spanning a half-century. The ‘21’ Club Isn’t Dead. Yet. 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z The photos, from the first official photographer to the Royal Court of Benin, document a half-century of the court’s pageantry, people, rituals and social events, and examines the early history of West African studio photography. Fall exhibits feature hubcaps, Virgin Mary, and African photography and art For many, the greatest in the last half-century: "Tree of Life". Golden Globe Awards Winners Include ‘Boyhood’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Like his grim cultural outlook, Mr. Wuorinen’s compositional process has remained mostly the same for the past half-century. He Has Fans, Fame and an Acclaimed ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera. So Why Is Charles Wuorinen So Cranky? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z It’s another 9 a.m. on another Wednesday, and a half-century after he began teaching at Georgetown University, the 75-year-old accidental cult leader is outlining his ideal narrative format to yet another class. His class is famously tough. ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Westworld’ wouldn’t exist without it. 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z She made her professional opera debut in Prague, and it was there she met her husband of more than a half-century, actor Walter Surovy. Mezzo-soprano opera star Rise Stevens dies at 99 2013-03-21T21:20:11Z Such has been the half-century balance of “Fiddler,” with the musical about a devout milkman struggling with changing traditions proving to be an unstoppable force. To life! ‘Fiddler’ is 50, lyricist Harnick is 90 Even hardened human rights activists and dissidents view the changes of the past year as the country's most significant in the half-century since the military took power. US documentary pries lid off isolated Myanmar 2012-03-16T01:06:11Z Yet the impression left by the art of Walker and Ligon and other artists of the past half-century isn’t so much anger as a deeply focused intellectual critique. ‘200 Years of African American Art’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Q. We’re almost a half-century now into organized collaborations between art and technology. ArtsBeat: 'Seven on Seven' Collaborators Discuss the Meeting of the Digital and Art Worlds 2012-04-13T18:51:08Z A product of the counterculture that swept through Britain in the early 1960s, Mr. Farren sounded a raucous, anti-establishment voice for a half-century. Mick Farren, British Rock ’n’ Roll Renaissance Man, Dies at 69 2013-08-01T03:34:55Z The club was shuttered in 1951, and for a half-century, the two-story jewel box had nearly been forgotten — with some exceptions. Aby Rosen Is the Life of the Party 2013-05-29T19:51:55Z Her half-century of documentary work and portraiture made Mark, who died in May at age 75, one of the most important photographers of her era. New art photo books explore the famous and 'unfamous' among us 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z A half-century later, when federal troops broke the Pullman railroad strike, labor leaders in San Francisco refused to participate in the city’s official July 4 celebrations. I hate the Fourth of July 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z I see Édouard Manet’s truly radical image of the nude Olympia, painted a half-century before “The Bathers” and still razor-sharp, as nothing in Renoir ever is. Art Review: Artist in Retreat: ?Late Renoir? in Philadelphia 2010-06-17T21:18:00Z |
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