| 单词 | hardscrabble |
| 例句 | They skimmed up the sloping side, dodging a few boulders and hardscrabble trees, until they reached the top. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z But this hardscrabble place has brought me so much more than that. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z As a Russian, Boukreev came from a tough, proud, hardscrabble climbing culture that did not believe in coddling the weak. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Bullish in both appearance and temperament, they're the juvenile delinquents of the cow family, the hardscrabble cousins who sleep in trailers and fight like men. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Now that she was marooned in Boulder City, her few social companions consisted of the ill-educated and hardscrabble wives of sawyers and miners. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It’s around 2,600 square feet, and covered fully by hardscrabble brown dirt on one side, with nearly eight feet of land above the structure of the roof. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Outside of a few lakes, there was only hardscrabble ground and the soil wasn’t so deep for growing crops. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandmother was a part of this hardscrabble crowd: she had rented a three-room flat on Hayat Khan Lane, just a short walk from the station. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He was a rambler out of South Carolina and found his way to slave catching after a hardscrabble sequence: dockhand, collection agent, gravedigger. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z My father grew up in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, part of the city’s hardscrabble “river wards” that consisted of blocks and blocks of narrow row houses. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Now, it is time for me to hang up my crown as Manifest Huckleberry Queen of 1917 and trade it for the hardscrabble life of a journalist. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z They hovered—happily, I’d say—between the hardscrabble Philadelphia neighborhoods they came from and a more cosmopolitan life they aspired to. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Gabrovo is the Central Balkan version of the borscht belt, a hardscrabble, endearing city with a proud, headstrong populace and an impish streak. Christo’s Billowy Visions, Fleeting but Unforgettable 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Charming vignettes punctuate her memories of a hardscrabble childhood spent in a small rural community held together by dirt roads and a few stores. How acclaimed Chicago chef Iliana Regan found her bliss in the woods 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z These three hardscrabble Americans are played by British actors. ‘Jungleland’ Review: On the Outside, Looking Down 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z Landers’s paintings are imbued with that hardscrabble experience and populated by the many people who constitute his support system; the cousins who hang out at the local Shell gas station before and after parties. He Likes ‘Staying Under the Radar,’ but His Art Is Getting Noticed 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Free of charge and open to the public, this is an ambitious event in a hardscrabble community. In Transit: A Romani Festival on the Streets of Istanbul 2011-04-26T10:00:02Z The movie is about a pair of siblings, Louis and Delia, living in a hardscrabble rural town populated mostly by surly white people. ‘Delia’s Gone’ Review: A False Conviction in a Hardscrabble Town 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z As Kris starts to get a sense of direction in her hardscrabble life, Abe loses his. In "Bull," actor Rob Morgan continues the long history of the black American cowboy 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z We meet, again, hardscrabble poor folk and ambitious politicians; we find, again, creepy totems left at the crime scene and intimations of the occult. Review: ‘True Detective’ Circles Back, Flatly 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Because my dad was a coal miner, we lived rough and ready in the hardscrabble Yorkshire town of Barnsley. The coalition's attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z And their shared starting point, a vanished white girl, plays into a vicious colonial trope: purity, savagery and the quiet nobility of hardscrabble pastoralists. Murder in the Brain-Broiling Heat and Red Dust of the Outback 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Every so often a missing-child mystery arises from the foggy shores of a hardscrabble seaside town and lays claim to being the new “Broadchurch.” The Week in Arts: Alicia Keys, Mark Morris and an Expanded MoMA 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z By the standards of the Boroughs, a hardscrabble neighborhood since the Middle Ages, Moore, who was born in 1953, had a settled childhood. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Whether with big earrings, big tattoos, grungy clothing, stringy hair or streaked hair, unadorned complexions, or nontheatrical voices, they seem like they’ve been transplanted directly from hardscrabble settings into the movie. “American Honey” ’s Silent Youth 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z When Mokhtar daydreamed, “his mind drifted and allowed the possibility that maybe he was, like Harry, part of this hardscrabble world for now, but destined for something more.” The Coffee-Flavored American Dream 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z The legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog self-consciously idealizes the hardscrabble life of fur trappers using extraordinary footage of a remote Siberian village culled from a Russian television film. Arts and entertainment highlights for the week of Feb. 17, 2013 2013-02-13T22:06:22Z Shooting from the viewpoint of an illiterate street kid, Naderi employs a mature artist’s disciplined technique to celebrate a child’s new-minted vision of his hardscrabble world. ‘The Runner’ Is a Gem of the Iranian New Wave 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z The group show “Downtown 2021,” curated by the artist Sam Gordon, pays homage to this phenomenon by giving more than two dozen galleries their hardscrabble props. Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z On the other hand, there are the rustic, hardscrabble novels “Wildlife,” “Canada,” and the Montana stories of “Rock Springs.” Frank Bascombe’s Seafaring Foil 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Penelope Cruz headlines as the film’s avenging angel, a hardscrabble mum with a smear of blood at her neck. Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I can no longer hide’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Like most who came through hardscrabble American times, they didn’t have lots of money in the bank. Lonnae O’Neal: White readers talk back 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The book is filled with incident after incident of Skyhorse’s screwed-up, hardscrabble upbringing in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Brando Skyhorse’s memoir of surviving his wacky mother is harrowing and humorous Like many hardscrabble desert hamlets, it attracts those who by choice or necessity perch on society’s edges. How Much Hip Can the Desert Absorb? 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Towards the end of this intimate gig, Lucinda Williams announces she is about to cover Factory, Bruce Springsteen's dignified tribute to a father's hardscrabble working life. Lucinda Williams – review 2013-06-25T15:02:33Z Love, crime and cockeyed redemption meet on a hardscrabble housing estate in County Cork, Ireland, in a rare blend of heartbreak and humour. Irish charm 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Born in a Utah mining town, Jarvis came from a hardscrabble background and built his fortune from scratch. The Tea Party’s inspiration: A tax revolt that destroyed California 2013-09-15T13:30:00Z His father, Jamie, wasn’t a record collector: He reluctantly served in Vietnam before becoming an antiwar activist, then spent his final four decades as a hardscrabble logger. Bill Fay Was a Hidden Gem. One Musician Made Finding Him a Mission. 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Paul’s sartorial choices seemed more in line with the hardscrabble lives portrayed in the film, rather than the high-fashion looks of the red carpet. Sienna Miller and Anna Wintour Celebrate ‘American Woman’ 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Unlike most burned-out desk workers, Martineau quit his job to follow a 1,000-mile walking route through Ghana, Togo and Benin that took him into hardscrabble suburbs and desert communities. The best travel books of 2021 — so far 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z But it wasn't just hardscrabble circumstances that tempered the Man of Steel, Siegel's daughter said. Superman's 75th puts spotlight on Cleveland roots 2013-04-17T11:01:06Z The Kennecott Mines are a testament to the hardscrabble life of the last century’s miners — and to their existence in an extremely remote part of the Alaskan Territory. Touring Alaska in an R.V. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z In the 19th century, Sourland Mountain — named, some say, for the poor quality of its soil — had a reputation as a remote, hardscrabble, even dangerous place. Uncovering Lost Black History, Stone by Stone 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Likewise, British country singers seem to lack the hardscrabble upbringing common to American artists. U.S. country star Patty Griffin gets Londoners stomping 2013-11-18T13:57:30Z The film relates the tale as a detective story, but one that is also a sociological study — of a region that takes its Christianity seriously, and of individual families in a hardscrabble area. ‘Little Hope Was Arson,’ a Documentary of Texas and Religion 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Magical realist moments, such as floating above the ground, provide escape from a hardscrabble life of having to grow up too fast. The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Such was Shaver's 75th, celebrated in front of a posse of fans drawn to his hardscrabble songs about bad love, heavenly Texas, red hot mamas, divorce, divorce and divorce. Billy Joe Shaver shines during 75th birthday party at the Satellite 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z They chose not the fertile Hudson Valley, but hardscrabble Sullivan County in the Catskills, an area that agriculturally, he writes, “became as valued as Baltic Avenue on a Monopoly board.” The Best Wine Books Are Not Always About Wine 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Asawa’s mother got her hair permed for the first time and socialized with the other women at the camp, activities her hardscrabble farm life never allowed. The Japanese-American Sculptor Who, Despite Persecution, Made Her Mark 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z And then there are a handful of local labels inspired not by down-home hospitality but the region itself: hardscrabble, indefatigable and ever-changing. ‘Southern’ Is Not a Style 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z A highly improbable result would be a consistently funny and absorbing evening that revealed the flaws and disappointments afflicting these characters, and the rhythms of a hardscrabble livelihood in a blighted neighborhood. Review | It’s a hard-knock life, but often a funny one, in August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ at Arena 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z But much of the local culture seems, at first blush, hardscrabble and uninviting. In Frank Lloyd Wright Country, Architecture and Apple Pie 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Coming from a hardscrabble family, he was adopted by Sandusky and his wife and given a new life before he was, he says, abused by him. With Paterno-Sandusky doc 'Happy Valley,' unsettling cultural questions 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z The film takes a very retro view of privilege, aligning with the chef who longs for ye olde hardscrabble days of flipping burgers and the idealized, manic pixie dream sex worker. In defense of "The Menu" diners 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Luke McManus is a local who shot a moving clip for Lankum’s 2016 breakthrough single, “Cold Old Fire,” gratis; his new documentary, “North Circular Road,” is a musical love letter to hardscrabble North Dublin. What’s Driving a Fresh Wave of Irish Music? Tradition. 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z “Fanciulla,” a tale of hardscrabble miners during the California Gold Rush, is, I’m more convinced at each encounter, one of Puccini’s finest operas. Review: Jonas Kaufmann, Back at the Met, Is Good, Not Great 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z They form striking meditations on dignified, hardscrabble perseverance, a bit like updates on Arshile Gorky’s well-known painting, “The Artist and His Mother.” Art in Review: DEFINITIONS: Shalva Alkhanaidze, Natela Grigalashvili, Guram Tsibakhashvili 2011-09-29T21:51:41Z Shaver’s lyrics reflected his hardscrabble upbringing in Texas, where he lost part of two fingers while working at a lumber mill. Outlaw country artist Billy Joe Shaver dead at 81 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z It used to be a land of hardscrabble subsistence farming and fishing, as evidenced by the stone ruins of farmhouses abandoned decades ago scattered throughout the area. Frugal Traveler: Spain's Mediterranean Beaches Offer a Different Kind of Paradise 2011-05-24T19:52:36Z Betsy and Andrew, who both grew up summering inshore nearby, shared an appreciation for Maine’s hardscrabble mid-coast working class, the same weatherworn fishermen and farm folk Andrew nearly obsessively depicted. New Life for the Wyeth Legacy Five Miles Out to Sea 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s a far cry from the sometimes hardscrabble lives depicted in 1993’s “The Joy Luck Club.” ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Seeks Mainstream Success 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Her intricate paper-cut portraits and cityscapes, often affixed to walls in hardscrabble places, are meant to disintegrate in place, a refrain to the life around them. Swoon Blurs the Line Between Art and Activism 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z The restoration project launched last month is the first of its kind in hardscrabble Tripoli, Lebanon’s second largest city more often known in recent years for sectarian and other violence. Closed for decades, theater returns to Lebanon’s Tripoli 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Constant touring on the hardscrabble chitlin’ circuit honed their vocal chops. Dells vocalist Marvin Junior dead at 77 2013-06-02T22:17:00Z Rawlings spoke for the people she lived among, valuing their relation to nature and their tenacity in the face of a hardscrabble life. ‘The Yearling’ author’s homestead is a doorway to a quirky Florida subculture 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z She keeps, as a memento, the lump of mud her hardscrabble father was gripping when he died in the fields. The Love and Death of Caterina by Andrew Nicoll ? review 2011-08-19T21:55:07Z But, given the company’s history of challenging, hardscrabble shows, “Great Divide” is a fitting valedictory. Warped family dynamics with a touch of the outrageous in 'Great Divide' 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Combined, the bidding for control typifies the hardscrabble nature of the concert biz in Los Angeles. Big-name concert promoters wrangle for control of the Greek Theatre 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Young and Lasky vividly re-create the hardscrabble life of the Carters before music put cash in their pockets. The story of the Carter family, America’s musical clan 2013-01-18T22:20:45Z Before prison, from a young age, Michener led a hardscrabble life of wandering. On Alcatraz, the island’s prison gardens are in full flower 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z That success with the non-Welsh audience isn’t surprising, because beyond the dramatic but hardscrabble setting, “Hinterland” is just like a lot of other British cop shows, except slower and a little more formulaic. The British Cop Show ‘Hinterland’ Comes to Netflix 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z Yet, the town stays true to its hardscrabble roots. 36 Hours in Telluride, Colo. 2010-02-27T04:28:00Z Her parents divorced when she was a baby and she experienced a hardscrabble childhood on her grandparents' farm – they acquired young Bobbie's first piano from a neighbour in return for a dairy cow. Hidden treasures: Bobbie Gentry – The Delta Sweete 2013-01-15T12:24:59Z Tracing the story of Tike and Ella May Hamlin, "hardscrabble farmers" in Texas, it is a "searing portrait of the Panhandle and its marginalised Great Depression residents". Woody Guthrie novel to be published … with help from Johnny Depp 2012-07-10T12:11:03Z The mountain retains the hardscrabble appeal that larger corporate resorts lack. 36 Hours in Manchester, Vt. 2014-01-31T18:48:20Z The author ventures into the hardscrabble streets, jails and ghettos of 1970s Kingston and the crack houses of 1980s New York before revisiting a dramatically reborn Jamaica in the 1990s. Gang stories 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z In the Greenwich Village folk music clubs, Dalton stood out for her distinct point of view, matchless voice and hardscrabble spirit. The many mysteries of folk singer Karen Dalton, revealed 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Surprisingly, he sees those hardscrabble years through a scrim of nostalgia. Brunello Cucinelli: Life By Design 2013-03-28T14:25:42Z The key thing about the time period, though, is the transition taking place from a hardscrabble postwar society to the new, button-down London. Review: Nostalgia for a 1970s British Adolescence in ‘Cradle to Grave’ 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Hopkins grew up in a southern coastal town in Wales as the only child of Richard and Muriel, a couple who led a hardscrabble life running a bakery. Anthony Hopkins is welcoming old age by embracing his inner child 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Bailey grew up in the hardscrabble neighborhoods of London’s East End, during the final years of postwar rationing. The Rolling Stones, David Bailey and Taschen's big, pricey book 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z And I can testify that the U.P. also encompasses many delightful and flourishing smaller towns that are anything but “hardscrabble.” Sins of Commission (in Michigan) and Omission (in Spain) 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z She was a vivid chronicler of growing up hardscrabble in Butcher Holler, Ky. And she was one of the genre’s great vocal stylists, delivering heartbreak and sternness with equal aplomb. Remembering Loretta Lynn 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z He was joking, but years after those hardscrabble beginnings, somebody special is just who he's become. Singer Sturgill Simpson making noise as he straddles the country line 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The biennial’s hardscrabble approach — in contrast to Dakar or Bamako, which enjoy support from their culture ministries and significant foreign funding — was part of the appeal for Ms. Colard. On the Frontier, the Lubumbashi Biennial Makes Art From Obstacles 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z As de Bernières's deceptively simple novella showed, Red Dog became a powerful founding story for the tough towns that grew up around the hardscrabble mines of the 1970s. Red Dog: an audience with Australia's best friend 2012-02-09T20:00:01Z The play, like so many of Wilson’s dramas, takes place in a hardscrabble African American enclave of Pittsburgh, among people holding on by their fingertips. Review | August Wilson at his best is a gift. Arena Stage is giving you one. 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z The event he’s stuck on is one of out his own dreams: “The Last Ship,” a musical allegory set in Newcastle, the hardscrabble, post-industrial English seaside city of his youth. Sting, the tireless troubadour On Paramount+, Taylor Sheridan’s “Yellowstone” and “1883” have been enormously popular, with their blend of soap opera theatrics and hardscrabble frontier survival. In This ‘Billy the Kid,’ the Wounds Are Those You Cannot See 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z As Cotton details a hardscrabble romance in a strong, if occasionally chirpy voice, the track is enlivened by guitar twang courtesy of Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham and ostentatiously busy additional percussion. 12 Forgotten Classics by Women-Led New Wave Bands 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z He won the prize for “Shuggie Bain,” a gritty and lyrical novel about a boy coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow. S Africa’s Galgut, US author Powers lead Booker Prize race 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z But these stressors also explain why David inhabits other characters — the tough-shelled Dai, the jokester DJ — to cope with his hardscrabble life, or splits off into entirely different worlds we’re allowed to glimpse. Smart Watch: “David Makes Man” and “Lodge 49,” where fantasy and reality collide 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Fox, who grew up in hardscrabble circumstances in Columbia, S.C., was known for his familiarity with and detailed observance of the Southern way of things. William Price Fox, Southern Novelist, Is Dead at 89 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z Its hardscrabble apocalypse has antagonists, but they are not generally monsters. Review: ‘The Last of Us’ Is a Zombie Thriller About Single Parenting 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Only Brooks could make the May-December affair between a young female construction worker and her hardscrabble older co-worker in “She’s Tired of Boys” seems anything other than unbearably creepy. Garth Brooks: Country Music’s Square, Liberal Dad 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Hancock displays the hardscrabble lot of the travelling salesman, with phone calls to the home office made at parking-lot pay phones and lonely nights in shabby hotels. “The Founder”: A Fast-Food Visionary on Shaky Moral Ground 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Velez talks about anxiety and insecurities rooted in a hardscrabble childhood, but he doesn’t wallow in this. Four Stand-Up Specials That Showcase Hard-Working Comics 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z After that I spent an hour driving around the hardscrabble streets of North Scranton. Essay: Postcards From My Literary Staycation 2010-08-27T15:04:00Z The authors don’t romanticize their hardscrabble origins, as is so fashionable in certain literary circles. Book review: ‘Our Secret Life in the Movies,’ by Michael McGriff and J.M. Tyree Blunt, brilliant tales of hardscrabble lives, as captured by the Mississippi writer who died in 2004, at the age of 53. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z But when I read about Lenski’s Florida “crackers,” I thought they were the hardscrabble ones, deserving all my sympathy. A Lifetime of Reading Taught Min Jin Lee How to Write About Her Immigrant World 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z “Writers & Lovers” follows her hardscrabble quest for solvency and passion. Coming of Age, Whether She’s Ready or Not 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Vasquez's scratchy, yowling voice seamlessly suits the drifter protagonists and hardscrabble realities in the ensemble's tunes. Lollapalooza Day 2: Chief Keef, Frank Ocean, Chili Peppers and an evacuation 2012-08-05T07:02:00Z He knew the hidden details, and told vibrant, strangely funny stories featuring the grit and detritus of hardscrabble lives in the fetid South. Southern Scamps and Scoundrels in the Fiction of Larry Brown 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Despite her cynical eye and hardscrabble life, Dellarobia is nonetheless loyal to her region and sensitive to what a visitor calls “the condescension of outsiders.” Books of The Times: Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Flight Behavior’ 2012-11-18T22:17:53Z But how does an Oscar-nominated entertainment mogul stay connected to the hardscrabble lives of his characters? Empire’s Lee Daniels: ‘I always see myself as one step away from a flop’ 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z The debate, which made ample room for the candidates' hardscrabble biographies, had precious little time for the Black Lives Matter movement, economic inequality or the skyrocketing cost of higher education. First GOP debate was more like a reality TV show 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Unlike the hardscrabble characters in his new movie, Mr. Kwak is from a family of doctors. | 'Friend 2: The Legacy ': ‘Friend 2: The Legacy,’ Gangsters in South Korea 2013-12-12T23:51:22Z Michigan’s Upper Peninsula encompasses more than 16,000 square miles of northern hardwood forest, broken here and there by hardscrabble towns whose year-round population is slowly bleeding away. Even in Hemingway’s Woods, Sometimes a Man Needs to Cry 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z This fictional portrait depicts him as delusional, resentful, and power-mad—and the product of hardscrabble roots. For Filmmakers, Watergate Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z At an early moment in “Gaamer,” the main character, a young man named Koss, listens as a friend in their hardscrabble Ukrainian town tells him it’s impossible to attain greatness “in this hole.” For Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, a jailing with no light in sight 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z He’s also smitten with a vet at the London Zoo, but she fears that his aristocratic origins are too unlike her hardscrabble past for them to truly connect. Inspector Lynley returns in Elizabeth George’s ‘A Banquet of Consequences’ 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Still, they did both: Their four hardscrabble albums helped expand the form’s purview, not only with personnel but also with the politics of unions, feminism and civil rights. Alice Gerrard Didn’t Plan a Bluegrass Career. She Broke Its Glass Ceiling. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z His hardscrabble vagabond stories and baleful slide guitars were highlights on the soundtracks for “True Detective” and “The Wire.” Pop & Rock Listings for Dec. 11-17 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z In this hardscrabble world, the embattled man must “form that solid and adamantine fibre which will endure long and serious attacks upon it,” lest he be “wholly emasculated.” Lessons on Male Insecurity (and Indigestion) from Walt Whitman’s Men’s-Health Column 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z No up-and-coming playwright in New York City is living in the lap of luxury, but Larson’s digs were especially hardscrabble. ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’: A Musical Based on a Musical About Writing a Musical. We Explain. 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z She was a very accessible speaker — even her greatest speeches are very conversational, and they’re tied to her kind of homespun, hardscrabble roots. Holland Taylor Plays Ann Richards One Last Time 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z His hardscrabble early years on the South Side of Chicago are scary; his triumphs from the earliest points of his career onward are exhilarating; the racism he is obliged to endure throughout is infuriating. Review: ‘Quincy’ Captures a Lifelong Love Affair With Music 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Jenny Lawson’s first book,“Let’s Pretend This Never Happened” — a darkly humorous memoir about her hardscrabble upbringing in rural Texas — drew comparisons to David Sedaris and Chelsea Handler and was an instant bestseller. Jenny Lawson on ‘Furiously Happy’ and when it is okay to call her ‘crazy’ 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z While the group's hardscrabble tales may seem at odds with the day's problem-free attitude, the Truckers' rousing life-affirming set is as much--if not more--fun than any of those that preceded them. Dave Matthews Band Caravan music reviews 2011-07-08T05:00:00Z There aren’t many country-music superstars who emerge from hardscrabble lives in Glasgow, and that unlikelihood is both the appeal and the subject of “Wild Rose.” ‘Wild Rose’ Review: A Glaswegian Singer Walks the Line 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z For decades he supported himself and three daughters doing manual labor, unaware that his music — songs of protest and hardscrabble life rendered in a heartfelt tenor — had resonated in South Africa. Malik Bendjelloul, 36, Dies; Directed ‘Sugar Man’ Movie 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z After playing possum for awhile, Tara made her way into the camp proper, where she observed a group of hardscrabble women doing chores, educating their children and, eventually, trying to shoot her. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 6: Hey Look, Another New Group! 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Even the most experienced home cook could have trouble keeping up with the orders, let alone managing a line of hardscrabble kitchen jockeys. At long last, Filipino food arrives. What took it so long? 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z His mother, Rose, was a milliner who worked out of the family home in hardscrabble South Philadelphia, where Jack grew up shooting pool, rolling dice and playing the horses. Jack Klugman, Stage and Screen Actor, Is Dead at 90 2012-12-25T03:41:27Z Looking back on his own hardscrabble childhood, he recalled: “I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a little vagabond.” Perspective | It’s Christmas. Let the murder begin. 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z He’s far better on “Seen It All,” a duet with Jay Z about hardscrabble beginnings. New Music From Earth, Yob and Jeezy 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z But Shuggie’s almost maternal tenderness toward his emotionally volatile mother, and his love for her despite her failures, helps him endure their hardscrabble existence. How ‘Shuggie Bain’ Became This Year’s Breakout Debut 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Caro’s Lyndon Johnson series — read the first volume and keep in mind the fact that Johnson’s hardscrabble Hill Country youth is concurrent with, you know, the Jazz Age. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Erica Grieder on What America Can Learn From Texas 2013-05-01T14:00:56Z His hardscrabble vagabond stories and baleful slide guitars have been on the soundtracks for “True Detective” and “The Wire.” Pop & Rock Listings for Jan. 15-21 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z But the players, many of them teenagers from hardscrabble backgrounds, are often more sensitive than their sturdy frames suggest. ‘Last Chance U’ Travels to Oakland, Just Like the Players 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z By 1980 he was painting scenes of hardscrabble life in the tropics, using wry distortions, a lush palette and a political sharpness that took Neo-Expressionism on a tangent all his own. The Week Ahead: June 6 ? 12 2010-06-03T21:26:00Z In the new biopic "Get on Up," the singer's hardscrabble childhood sets the stage for a tumultuous fight to the top. Getting it together for James Brown biopic 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Money is also an issue for the characters of “Rise,” which is set in a hardscrabble Pennsylvania community where the local steel mill shut down a few years ago. Review | ‘Rise’ is a good-enough version of the old standby: Appealing kids put on a show 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z The world of auto racing, particularly in the American South, is fascinating: the machinery, the money, the hardscrabble origins of the drivers, who are often literal family as well as brothers in arms. ‘Blink of an Eye’ Review: A Racing Victory Coincides With Tragedy 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Hittman captures a hardscrabble Brooklyn isolation in an utterly ungentrified neighborhood that feels not so much suburban as subterranean; it’s a sepulchral film, smothered in nights and basements, shadows and silhouettes and neon-underlit interiors. Highlights from the 2017 Sundance Film Festival 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The critic Greil Marcus encapsulated Smith’s “Anthology” as a document of “Old, Weird America,” a wild and hardscrabble landscape that largely disappeared through cultural homogenization. How to Handle the Hate in America’s Musical Heritage 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Overnight, they can leap from hardscrabble poverty to the kind of luxury they avidly read about in local papers that chronicle the careers of Dominican big leaguers who have gone before them. 'Ballplayer: Pelotero' documents hard road of Dominican athletes 2012-07-12T18:17:03Z Guthrie played guitar and sang for people living a hardscrabble, Great Depression-era existence in Washington and Oregon. ‘Lost’ songs from Woody Guthrie’s time in the PNW found, rolled into double album 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z But the film takes a very retro view of privilege and class, aligning with the chef who longs for ye olde hardscrabble days of flipping burgers and the idealized, manic pixie dream sex worker. In defense of "The Menu" diners 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z It is almost as if in the Karr family, living in this hardscrabble place in Texas, such events, like the weather, are regarded as just the way things are. Review: ‘The Liars’ Club,’ by Mary Karr 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Along the Maricopa Highway at the southwestern end of the San Joaquin Valley, rimmed by hardscrabble hills and bobbing oil derricks, stretch miles of lush green groves bearing fluorescent mandarin oranges. Mandarin Oranges, Rising Stars of the Fruit Bowl 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Wintour said McQueen grew up in the hardscrabble East End of London not far from St. Paul's and never strayed far from his beloved London roots. Fashion greats remember McQueen in London service 2010-09-20T15:44:00Z His own Montana boyhood and hardscrabble upbringing with a widowed father are beautifully told in his classic memoir "This House of Sky." Ivan Doig's story of a bright boy, a Montana bar and a buried past 2012-08-23T18:49:03Z Crowell grew up in the hardscrabble suburbs of east Houston and has vivid memories of being taken to see Hank Williams on his father's shoulders. Emmylou Harris: 'I looked down on country' 2013-03-04T18:22:38Z At once amorous and flinty, a hippie dreamer and a resilient pioneer, Louisa joins Tilly in a hardscrabble effort to escape his ghosts: “Lean years. Love years. . . Let’s do this until we break.” Review | Salvatore Scibona’s second novel trots the globe yet misses nothing 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z With emotional delicacy and a lightly expressionistic visual style, Rockwell brings both Inez and New York to life, skillfully setting one woman’s hardscrabble personal story against a larger political backdrop. At Last Back at Sundance, Filled With Rocky Relationships and Glorious Writers 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Although the subjects are often grave and austere in their hardscrabble circumstances, they are never turned into victims. In Transit Blog: Lewis Hine Spotlighted in Paris Photo Show 2011-09-13T10:00:41Z The resilient heroine of the Meredith Willson musical “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” was always an upbeat go-getter, with an action-packed journey that took her from a hardscrabble Rockies mining town to the Denver upper crust. Review: ‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown’ Has Its Ups and Ups 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The book focused on the hardscrabble life of a Colorado woman who cares for her tyrannical and ailing father at the cost of an early romance. Kent Haruf, acclaimed novelist who chronicled small-town intrigue, dies at 71 Armed with a minuscule budget and a lot of PVC piping, they look to a NASA-sponsored San Diego competition as a way to move beyond hardscrabble home lives and tenacious Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. 'Spare Parts' cobbles together a crowd-pleaser 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Family life, he said, was cheery but hardscrabble. Chris Pratt Is a Superhero in 'Guardians of the Galaxy' 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z In the film, three women have been driven mad by the hardscrabble life and the brutal experiences specific to their gender. Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank admire the feminism in 'Homesman' western 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Featuring a lyrical flow over synthesized drums, it is an offshoot of Atlanta-style trap and speaks to the day-to-day struggles of hardscrabble hoods. Rap rhythm from Rio de Janeiro’s favelas causing a stir 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z She is earnest and yearning as young teenager Amy-Jo, wonderfully proud of her father but somehow made melancholy, as she'd have to be, by the hardscrabble circumstances of her life. Pain and pure love in the melancholic memory piece 'Low Down' 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z A gripping murder story and incandescent moral fable, set in hardscrabble Eastern Washington during the Great Depression. Adam Woog’s best mysteries of 2012 2012-12-07T00:24:05Z Chappel had a more hardscrabble life, probably spent entirely in Manhattan, and toward its end he painted scenes of everyday life in the budding metropolis of his childhood. Wild Waves and Quiet Streets: 2 Artists Working From Memory 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z He was the awkward son of hardscrabble immigrants, big-chested, bowlegged and with shovel-like hands that threw rocks and dirt to first base along with the ball. Metropolitan Museum Opens Huge Show of Baseball Cards 2013-07-11T21:15:02Z The origins for their rise from hardscrabble local act to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees began right here in Seattle. Before chart-topping success, Heart, playing Tacoma Dome next week, was a Seattle band kicking around the local clubs 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z It went from beautified bike path to hardscrabble one. Biking a Trail of History from Pittsburgh to Washington 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z In the story, Ms. Pressler explored the ambition and hardscrabble lives of the four women. ‘Hustlers’: The Story Behind the Headlines 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z It’s about a teenage girl who’s the only hearing person in her family, a hardscrabble Gloucester, Massachusetts, fishing clan. 10 things to be excited about at the movies this summer 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z These pressures aside, the workers we interviewed tended to see violence as a core aspect of a hardscrabble kitchen culture that has existed for generations. How did abuse get baked into the restaurant industry? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z He was born in Canada into an immigrant Russian Jewish family — “crowded, tense, loving, fractious” — and worked dozens of hardscrabble jobs as a teenager in Chicago. A comprehensive study of a Nobel laureate 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z The success of “The Waltons” owed almost everything to the actors and the characters they played, members of a homespun, hardscrabble rural family used to surmounting challenges through the old-fashioned virtues. Ralph Waite, Patriarch in TV Series ‘The Waltons,’ Dies at 85 2014-02-14T06:00:50Z The group turned June Carter Cash's "Ring of Fire" into a staple of rock radio, and Ness' hardscrabble youth inspired such hits as "Story of My Life" and "Prison Bound." A Minute With: Social Distortion's Mike Ness on travel 2011-04-20T16:57:09Z The Pulitzer-winning journalist’s first novel captures the lives of four generations of women in a hardscrabble Ohio town. 50 notable works of fiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Ma Loute is the scion of the Brufort family of small-time ferrymen and hardscrabble mussel-harvesters—as well as cannibals who kidnap, kill, and eat some of the bourgeois tourists whom they row across the bay. Bruno Dumont’s Self-Surpassing Inventiveness in “Slack Bay” 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z What attracts you to playing impulsive, hardscrabble young women who make poor decisions? "You Mean Everything to Me" star Morgan Saylor on this seductive cautionary tale: "I love bleakness" 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z With six nominations, the lyrical “Moonlight” has slightly deeper support; the hardscrabble “Manchester” has five, including one for Casey Affleck’s acting. What to Watch for at the Golden Globes 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Bush-era recession left the Walk of Fame a hardscrabble corridor of chintzy souvenir stands, drug bazaars and sex trafficking. Perspective | 25 years later, Dr. Dre’s ‘The Chronic’ remains rap’s world-building masterpiece 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z He sat at the head of the defense table beneath rows of massive brass chandeliers in a marble-clad courthouse built before the Civil War in this hardscrabble city about 45 minutes northwest of Philadelphia. Bill Cosby convicted on three counts of sexual assault 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z And its hardscrabble spirit is still alive in Bryant’s current nonprofit enterprise, Project EATS, an urban farming initiative which, since 2008, has been planting communal vegetable gardens in underserved neighborhoods in New York City. JAM, a Gate-Crashing Gallery, Expanded the Idea of Blackness 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Tsang has left his hardscrabble youth far behind, and he now flies to art events in Europe, Japan and the United States. Tsang Kin-wah Channels His Outrage in a New Show 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The celebrity memoir is very often a noisy thing: from shocking tales of hardscrabble childhoods to juicy, behind-the-scenes dirt on the rich and famous, it’s not a genre that is known for its subtlety. Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z On the Slow Roll and the QLine, as distinct from driving around in a car, you get the real hardscrabble feel of Detroit, pressed up against other eco tourists, sports enthusiasts and neighboring residents. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z We all have our best registers, our natural octaves, and Smarsh’s is the grounded, oral, anecdotal range of her hardscrabble Kansas kinfolk. She Grew Up Poor on a Kansas Farm. Her Memoir Is an Attempt to Understand Why. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z It was considerably colder, with a gloomy sky and constant mist, as he began another six or so miles through a hilly, hardscrabble neighborhood. Joe Sestak still wants to be senator — so he walked solo across Pennsylvania. 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z For one thing, the stories are set almost exclusively on Maine’s southern coast, where hardscrabble quotidian life keeps entrenching all manner of reckless behavior. ‘The State We’re In,’ a splendid new collection of stories by Ann Beattie 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z A hardscrabble murderer, Joe never went to college himself before assuming a position at a fictional English university. Of course Joe from "You" is an English professor – but how is he? We grade our antihero academic 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z The fillings often reflected their poor, hardscrabble lives: Root vegetables such as carrots, onions and rutabagas were mixed with occasional scraps of meat. Pasty cookoff: A family tradition, stuffed with taunts Executive produced by Jim Carrey, “Dying” also happens to be a period piece about the hardscrabble 1970s stand-up comedy scene in Los Angeles. “I’m Dying Up Here”: Showtime’s uneven drama flatlines 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z The normally extravagant musician, known for his extended tongue, demonic makeup and stage pyrotechnics, grew subdued as he described his early life in the hardscrabble town of Tirat Carmel. AP Interview: Simmons blasts Israel boycotters 2011-03-22T22:46:04Z News that his younger sister Cee is in peril from the depredations of a eugenicist doctor draws him back to the small Georgia town where they'd shared a loveless, hardscrabble childhood. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z Trumbo also felt a special bond with them, sharing a checkered education and hardscrabble upbringing. ‘Trumbo’ Recalls the Hunters and the Hunted of Hollywood 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z To offer a bit of regional folk wisdom gleaned from growing up in a hardscrabble land: “Some days you get the bear; some days the bear gets you.” Werner Herzog, chicken hypnotist 2012-08-28T20:54:00Z Moreover, these glorious images don't quite jibe with the hardscrabble lives. In Chloe Zhao's wandering "Nomadland," Frances McDormand journeys to an Oscar-worthy performance 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z The magnificent landscapes of the Anaconda mountain range in Montana present a pointed contrast to the hardscrabble mobile homes and their inhabitants in the eponymous city below. ‘Mickey and the Bear’ Review: Trapped in a Small Town, With Dad 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z The town is where Alistair MacLeod, Nova Scotia’s greatest writer, grew up, and from his spare, flinty short stories, you get a sense of how hardscrabble and demanding life there used to be. In Cape Breton, a Rugged Golf Getaway 2013-06-07T18:43:43Z Some who’ve worked with Hardy note a somewhat tortured personality and also point to a complicated past that includes, despite an upper-middle-class London upbringing, addiction and a hardscrabble existence in his teens and early 20's. In 'The Drop,' Tom Hardy was still on camera, and unbridled off it 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Where temperatures never breached freezing, where less than half of sea-level oxygen quenched lungs, where gale-force winds scoured the hardscrabble rocks littering the peaks. Mummified mice discovered atop sky-high Andean volcanoes 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z On the planet Ferrix, a hardscrabble galactic outpost populated by metalworkers and mechanics, the local band plays music by Nicholas Britell. Nicholas Britell finds the themes for outsized stories in this world and others 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Salaries averaging a few hundred dollars a month mean a hardscrabble existence for many. Putin’s Forever War 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z Now 18 himself, Bronny James had nothing like the hardscrabble childhood of his father, the only child of a single mother in Akron, Ohio. Who is Bronny James? LeBron’s oldest son has carved his own basketball path 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Now 18 himself, Bronny James had nothing like the hardscrabble childhood of his father, the only child of a single mother in Akron, Ohio. Who is Bronny James? LeBron’s oldest son has carved his own basketball path 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Around 3,000 Hebrew Israelites live in remote, hardscrabble towns in southern Israel. After decades of struggle in Israel, dozens of African Hebrew Israelites face deportation 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Around 3,000 Black Hebrews live in remote, hardscrabble towns in southern Israel. After decades of struggle for a place in Israel, dozens of Black Hebrews face threat of deportation 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Pone did not sing or rap in the Fonky Family, which sold hundreds of thousands of albums in the 1990s and 2000s with fiery raps about the hardscrabble streets of Marseille. A French Music Maker Lost His Voice. A Comedian Helped Get It Back. 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Subsequently, Mr. Song and his mother suffered malnourishment during a hardscrabble existence. On South Korean island paradise, residents ponder U.S. role in long-ago tragedy 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Many of the people are poor pensioners, like Ms. Rogatiya, who live in a hardscrabble Russian world that lies at an infinite remove from the glitz of central Moscow. Fear and Mayhem as Russia’s War Comes Home 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z In his many and widely read novels, Dickens sympathetically depicted the hardscrabble lives of poor, working-class, and middle-class urban dwellers, setting scenes in foundling homes, prisons, impoverished neighborhoods, and dark city streets. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z In the first hardscrabble round, the team ousted defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche in seven games. A resounding stick tap for the Kraken 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z James soon grew wary of sportswriters, most of them middle-aged white men turning his hardscrabble upbringing into a study in urban pathology. Like its superstar subject, 'LeBron' biography doesn't miss a shot 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z The hardscrabble streets of Jaba teemed with young Palestinians in black chanting against the Israeli occupation and firing into the air as they held the bodies of militants aloft. 3 Palestinian militants killed in Israeli raid in West Bank 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z She had grown up in the hardscrabble coal fields of West Virginia, where her father was a physician to miners and their families. Margaret Heagarty, Champion for Children’s Health in Harlem, Dies at 88 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z He lived in a van on the beach on the Northumberland coast as he chronicled his hardscrabble neighbors, “seacoalers” who subsisted by collecting waste coal washed up from the ocean. British photographs of the ’70s and ’80s showcase empire in decline 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z But for many Chinese people, the imperative to move past the pandemic and make a living in a hardscrabble society may, in the end, overshadow their grievances. China’s Covid Tsunami Recedes, Bringing Relief, Grief and Anxiety 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The graphic novel’s three parts spiral out of this central hub, tracing the fate of three different first-class wishes improbably on offer from the kiosk’s hardscrabble owner, Shokry. Review | What Egyptians wish for 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Fleming is based in the hardscrabble city of Burnley, which, in the context of historic inflation, has earned the notorious distinction of having the highest cost of living among cities and towns in Britain. In the city with U.K.’s highest cost of living, leaving home to stay warm 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Then there is his embrace of the rickety yellow school buses which drive the players around campus before the games as a testament to the program’s hardscrabble beginnings. Plaschke: Clay Helton, in his happy place at Georgia Southern, is still rooting for USC 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Vance, author of the hardscrabble memoir "Hillbilly Elegy," won Ohio's open Senate seat, defeating Democratic U.S. Factbox: Democrat Mark Kelly holds seat in Arizona's U.S. Senate race 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z His years in prison and hardscrabble beginnings likely built resentment against the political elites and those who enjoyed privilege after the Soviet Union’s collapse, Laruelle said. Mercenary chief vented to Putin over Ukraine war bungling 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z The police manhunt has stifled life for residents of the Shuafat refugee camp on the outskirts of Jerusalem, a hardscrabble neighborhood that has long seen neglect at the hands of Israeli authorities. Israeli police, Palestinians clash in east Jerusalem 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z But the hardscrabble Molina began to let his emotions show, even appearing to choke back tears while describing the past 19 years. Cardinals face future without Pujols, Molina wearing red 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Lynn’s career was remarkable for its storybook ascent from hardscrabble origins. Loretta Lynn, ever a ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter,’ dies at 90 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z But Mr. Inamori said his home was firebombed during World War II, forcing the family into a hardscrabble existence until the war’s end. Kazuo Inamori, Japanese mogul who became Buddhist monk, dies at 90 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z The clerkship was one more rung up from a hardscrabble beginning. From Yale to jail: Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes’ path 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z That was one of the core lessons of his hardscrabble youth that he took from the furious reaction of a rat he cornered on a stairwell in what was then Leningrad. A Cornered Putin Is More Dangerous Than Ever 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z For years, LePage’s defenders have called his blunt style an outgrowth of a hardscrabble boyhood marked by poverty, physical abuse and homelessness. Youngkin to boost Maine’s LePage despite racially incendiary rhetoric 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z His debut, “The End of Eddy,” was a hardscrabble portrait of growing up gay and poor in northern France. Review: A memoirist 'phenomene' is France's answer to Knausgaard — minus the narcissism 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z He achieved fame and fortune with his stagecoach stop in the hardscrabble Palouse region. In the hills of the Palouse, and in his life, pioneer Cashup Davis aimed high, no matter the risks 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z He is one of the country's 1.6 million motorcycle taxi drivers – the kind of young, hardscrabble entrepreneur Ruto promises to give loans to. Weary and wary, Kenyans gear up for national elections 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Short recounts Putin’s hardscrabble childhood in postwar Leningrad, his indifferent academic record, and the German and martial arts teachers who saved him from an unpromising future. Review | A biography that gives Vladimir Putin the benefit of the doubt 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z The development and testing of these new molecules is hardscrabble terrain, featuring frequent conflicts between the FDA and industry over how to measure an antibiotic's effectiveness — is it patient survival? As Big Pharma loses interest in new antibiotics, infections are only growing stronger 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z But Van Gogh decided to stay on because he was in love with the landscape, the local inhabitants and their earthy, hardscrabble lives. Perspective | In Van Gogh’s hidden self-portrait, thrilling questions about the artist 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z He proved that anyone — no matter how humble or hardscrabble your background — could rise to become president. Biden gives hope to imbeciles everywhere 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z A lifelong Republican, he practiced an intellectual and political conservatism that was shaped in part by his hardscrabble Brooklyn upbringing in the 1930s and ’40s. Ronald Berman, humanities endowment chairman, dies at 91 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Nonfiction | After a hardscrabble childhood that sparked her devotion to all creatures, Zaleski started a 25-acre animal sanctuary in New Jersey, where she cares for abandoned animals: dogs, cats, ducks, donkeys, even skunks. 21 books to read this summer Sanford told the The Associated Press in 2016 that he wanted his fortune to have a positive impact on children after his hardscrabble childhood in St. Paul, Minnesota. No state charge for billionaire Sanford in child porn probe 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z One of the Joneses’ 14 children, Larcenia, known as “Cissy,” tried to escape that hardscrabble existence by moving to New York City, where she met another North Carolina native and aspiring musician named George Floyd. Review | A moving portrait of George Floyd, his struggles and his legacy 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Baltimore’s hardscrabble Park Heights neighborhood is maybe five miles from stately Homeland, but when it comes to lived reality it is a world away. Review | A Black professor in Baltimore, bridging two worlds 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z In the horror-comedy “Tremors,” Ward paired with Kevin Bacon to play a pair of repairmen who end up saving a hardscrabble Nevada desert community beset by giant underground snakes. Actor Fred Ward, of ‘Tremors,’ ‘The Right Stuff’ fame, dies 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z One was Nick Rowley, a wealthy trial attorney from a hardscrabble rural background. Everyone wins in compromise to increase malpractice payouts — especially victims 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z They also recognized his hardscrabble origins growing up in Depression-era Pennsylvania, his frugality and his sense of humor. McConnell, Utah leaders honor ‘larger than life’ Orrin Hatch 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z It’s an amalgam of Lucia’s internal and external terrain, a hybrid of a hardscrabble life and an unruly dream. Review | A thoroughly modern meltdown in Met’s reimagined ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z “Very soon, we might have no teams here,” said Paul Brekke-Miesner, a historian of the Oakland sports scene who has lived in the city’s hardscrabble eastern flats for decades. Golden State’s Playoff Reappearance Doesn’t Quite Feel Like Old Times 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z On a recent sunny but bone-chillingly windy morning, one of the colorful vaccination trucks pulled into a desolate parking lot in front of a mall in the hardscrabble neighborhood of Gröpelingen. A German State Is Last in Almost Everything. But It’s No. 1 in Vaccines. 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z This time, he depicted Richard Williams and his unconventional strategy for elevating his daughters from a municipal park in a hardscrabble Los Angeles neighborhood to Centre Court at Wimbledon. Will Smith wins first Oscar for tenacious father in 'King Richard' 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Hope that greatness can emerge from a crowded and cluttered neighborhood two miles west of New York City, a place that fits the personality of its hardscrabble players. Plaschke: Saint Peter's rise as March Madness Cinderella didn't come easy 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z This was less the language of Kant than of fascist nationalist exaltation laced with Putin’s hardscrabble, brawling St. Petersburg youth. The making of Vladimir Putin 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Those who live in the forests endure hardscrabble lives as wildcat miners, loggers and subsistence farmers. The War for the Rainforest 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z He was a Mormon from a hardscrabble farm life in Idaho and Utah. Opinion | The ‘Candy Bomber’ showed that in wartime, kindness is a superpower 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z After a lull in the afternoon, artillery fire resumed Thursday evening in Stanytsia Luhanska, a hardscrabble town of dusty, potholed roads surrounded by farm fields, not far from the Russian border. ‘A whistling sound, then an explosion’: Shelling hits a kindergarten in Ukraine. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Immediately it was back to the hardscrabble normalcy of the place. ‘We need to go’: A burst of gunfire on Ukraine’s front line and echoes of wider risks with Russia 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Monday’s report comes as Mr. Biden — who often characterizes himself as a hardscrabble guy from Scranton, Pennsylvania — is increasingly vocal about support for labor unions and their role in society. White House proposes ways to bolster unions in the federal workforce, private sector 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z The consequences were enormous, reverberating far beyond the hardscrabble Northern Ireland city of Derry, known to British officials and many members of its Protestant minority as Londonderry, where the bloodletting exploded. 50 Years on, Bloody Sunday’s Wounds Are Still Felt 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z He left Naples for Milan, and the hardscrabble world of freelance journalism for a job at Sky Sport Italia. Behind the Curtain With Soccer’s Prophet of the Deal 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Here was a Black poet from hardscrabble Watts who didn’t simply decry L.A. as an urban wasteland or a long boulevard of broken dreams but saw in it something beautiful, unfinished, possible. Op-Ed: You may not know his name, but for me Eric Priestley was a poet laureate of L.A. 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z He was a man of kindness, generosity, and faith, who overcame a hardscrabble upbringing to offer smiling gifts to all of us. Dallas Frazier, writer of Oak Ridge Boys hit 'Elvira' and others songs, dead at 82 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z Capitol Rotunda as colleagues and friends gathered to pay tribute to a hardscrabble Democrat who rose from poverty in a dusty Nevada mining town to the most powerful position in the U.S. Former Senate leader Harry Reid lies in state at the U.S. Capitol 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Capitol as colleagues and friends pay tribute to a hardscrabble Democrat who rose from poverty in a dusty Nevada mining town to the most powerful position in the U.S. Former Senate leader Harry Reid to lie in state at Capitol 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z After a famously hardscrabble upbringing in Searchlight and a start in state politics, Mr. Reid was elected to the House in 1982 and the Senate in 1986. ‘Goodbye, Harry’: Reid’s Memorial Draws Warm Testimonials From Biden and Obama 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z Bright’s hardscrabble roots help explain his willingness to speak out, Lurie says. This scientist blew the whistle on Trump’s COVID-19 response—now he aims to stop future pandemics 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Avoiding budget deficits had been his North Star, given his hardscrabble youth. Bob Dole, Old Soldier and Stalwart of the Senate, Dies at 98 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Behind that mask, though, was a soft spot for — and a legislative record that supported — the underdog, with whom he felt a special kinship born of his hardscrabble young life and shattering war wounds. Robert J. Dole, longtime GOP leader who sought presidency 3 times, dies at 98 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z His hardscrabble career is beginning to show a signature: He can make big things happen late. Perspective | The magic of Taylor Heinicke is that he isn’t afraid 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z And, oh, the stories he could tell, beginning with his hardscrabble life growing up as an Edna, W.Va., miner’s son in Coal Camp No. 9. Perspective | Remembering Sam Huff, a fearsome player with an indomitable spirit 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z He insists on his work being judged on its artistic merits, not his hardscrabble background. Deep Underground, a Chinese Miner Discovered Poetry in the Toil 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Williams loved country and recognized a hardscrabble commonality in the lyrics. Warner Williams, master of the Piedmont blues, dies at 91 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z The hardscrabble region is in what’s known as Area C, the 60% of the West Bank that is under full Israeli military control, according to agreements reached in the 1990s. In brazen attack by settlers, Palestinians see larger threat 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z The limited series’ depiction of the hardscrabble poor may prove more controversial. Review | The already great ‘Maid’ is even better with mother-daughter stars Andie MacDowell and Margaret Qualley 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Later, sitting in a gleaming new workplace training center on the city’s hardscrabble east side, Mr. Brown pressed his case that he was running to safeguard “the future of my city.” India Walton Beat the Buffalo Mayor in a Primary. He Won’t Give Up. 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Sure, just about every state has a hardscrabble city with stories worthy of an award-winning cable series. Perspective | Move over, Florida Man — Maryland Man is coming. 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z One hardscrabble neighborhood is now known as “Little Haiti” because so many settled there. Haitian journey to Texas border starts in South America 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Starring Will Smith as Richard Williams, who guided his daughters from the hardscrabble courts of Compton to the pinnacle of the tennis world, the rousing, feel-good film earned cheers at its first showing. How Will Smith's 'King Richard' reveals Venus and Serena Williams' dad as a sports hero 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z A hardscrabble auto-rickshaw driver equips his vehicle with an oxygen cylinder and an oximeter to ferry poor patients to hospitals. Modi Is Worsening the Suffering from India's Pandemic 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Featuring a lyrical flow over synthesized drums, it is an offshoot of Atlanta-style trap and speaks to the day-to-day struggles of hardscrabble hoods. Rap rhythm from Rio de Janeiro’s favelas causing a stir 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z For about a year, the Tenacious Unicorn ranchers have called home a 40-acre plot of hardscrabble land about 20 minutes south of Westcliffe, the seat of rural Custer County, population 4,700. Ranch becomes haven for queer people in rural Colorado 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z Its author, a child of the hardscrabble Appalachians turned Yale law graduate and venture capitalist, is now being courted for a Senate run. JD Vance: Trump whisperer turned Senate hopeful 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z A review of Floyd’s 46-year life, most of which was spent in the hardscrabble neighborhood known as the Bricks, shows how his upbringing effectively cut him off from several pathways to middle-class stability. In George Floyd’s old neighborhood, Biden’s war on poverty faces a crucial test 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The desert facilities drew a hardscrabble lot who enjoyed “living on the moon,” said Charles Smith, a manager at the Iron Mountain water pumping plant in eastern San Bernardino County before he retired in 2019. He was the king of water in the desert. His abusive reign revealed a troubling culture 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z “This is hardscrabble country, man - our population is dropping, the demise of coal,” said Casey, an attorney and former chair of the state Democratic Party. Manchin, key Senate swing vote, boosts West Virginia’s hopes 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z “This is hardscrabble country, man — our population is dropping, the demise of coal,” said Casey, an attorney and former chair of the state Democratic Party. Manchin, key Senate swing vote, boosts West Virginia’s hopes 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z He shared a hardscrabble childhood with Marley in rural Jamaica and later in the Kingston neighborhood of Trench Town, where they discovered music and met Tosh, who had taught himself to play a homemade guitar. Bunny Wailer, one of the founders of reggae music, dies at 73 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z In Florida, hardscrabble local politics — and brazen self-interest — are also at play. Opinion | Running an election flawlessly just isn’t good enough for vote-suppressing Florida Republicans 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Their days are hardscrabble and physically demanding, their diets heavy on bananas, plantains and similar starches, and their bodies slight. Exercise vs. Diet? What Children of the Amazon Can Teach Us About Weight Gain 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z In some ways, the Boston of 2021 is unrecognizable from the city of just a few decades ago - with hardscrabble neighborhoods that once beckoned working-class immigrants now offering oases for the well-off. ‘Turning point’: Women of color increasingly leading Boston 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z In some ways, the Boston of 2021 is unrecognizable from the city of just a few decades ago — with hardscrabble neighborhoods that once beckoned working-class immigrants now offering oases for the well-off. ‘Turning point’: Women of color increasingly leading Boston 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z To win him over, Ms. Haaland will highlight her distinctive personal story and a hardscrabble background that could appeal to a West Virginian who identifies with his increasingly Republican state’s working class. Fight Over Deb Haaland, First Native American Cabinet Pick, Reflects Partisan Divide 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z His family lived a hardscrabble life in the town, situated in the Cuchumatanes mountain range. For a crematorium worker, COVID-19's mounting toll is measured in ashes and anguish 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Villagers supplemented their hardscrabble income by scavenging the rocky hills for the wreckage of war — empty shells, rusting bullets, anything with metal on it — that they sold for scrap metal. The Korean War emptied the town. Those who rebuilt it may now be rewarded. 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z While she is described by friends and foes alike as deeply driven, there is little evidence of a hardscrabble upbringing. Kelly Loeffler, a Wall Street Senator With a Hardscrabble Pitch 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Like any guide worth her salt, she provides context, sketching a brief history of the Acadian diaspora, explaining how Cajuns’ hardscrabble way of life is once again threatened. Our favorite cookbooks of 2020 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z When König visited her for the first time in Texas, Morriss showed him the creek, the large pecan trees and the horses on the hardscrabble ranch her mother inherited from her grandparents. In love and in limbo, a Texas rancher separated from her husband by immigration policy 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z When Lee learned of Anning’s story, how she worked in relative obscurity on the hardscrabble southern coast of England, he felt a deep and personal connection to her. How Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan's passionate romance 'Ammonite' is based in history 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Biden’s team is also expected to frequently highlight Tanden’s hardscrabble upbringing, according to people close to the nomination process who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations. Biden’s pick to lead White House budget office emerges as lightning rod for GOP 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Tyson’s serene world in 2020 bears no resemblance to his hardscrabble upbringing in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, where some of his philanthropic work is targeted. Mike Tyson fought for the first time in 15 years. So much had changed. 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z Billy Joe Shaver, a hardscrabble Texas singer-songwriter whose earthy and haunting lyrics helped inspire the “outlaw” movement in country music, died Oct. Billy Joe Shaver, singer-songwriter who inspired outlaw country, dies at 81 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z It was a just war in which the hardscrabble, newly established People’s Republic reluctantly stood up to American imperialists — and the Americans, richer but hardly tougher, were beaten. China, and Xi, commemorate the Korean War as victory over United States 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z They were about helping the young people in the hardscrabble neighborhood of Kalihi where he grew up get the attention they deserved. Lives Lost: Hawaii football coach who prepped kids for life 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z The Dodgers are clearly the better team player-for-player – and the best individual talent in Betts but the the Rays’ hardscrabble mentality will see them through. World Series 2020: will the Rays spring a surprise over the Dodgers? 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z In “Trump on Trial,” we learn of her hardscrabble upbringing in England, her becoming an “American by choice” and her training as a Russia expert. Review | The story of Trump’s impeachment, and what it says about our democracy 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Last month, another questionable encounter unfolded, this time on a highway near Kanpur, a hardscrabble industrial city in Uttar Pradesh. Hundreds of Police Killings in India, but No Mass Protests 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z His place in the vanguard of the 1960s campaign for Black equality had its roots in that hardscrabble Alabama farm. Remembering John Lewis, rights icon and `American hero’ 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z His place in the vanguard of the 1960s campaign for Black equality had its roots in that hardscrabble Alabama farm and all those clucks. Remembering John Lewis, rights icon and `American hero’ 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z In May 2012, they moved to a new compound near Payenzai, a remote Afghan village west of Kandahar, which consisted of little more than mud-walled houses, hardscrabble farmers and the Taliban. He was convicted of murder, then pardoned by Trump. His troops suffered a different fate. 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z About 70 miles from the city of Los Angeles, hardscrabble brown mountains loom far in the distance on clear days – the Tehachapi mountains to the north and the San Gabriel mountains to the south. 'The Confederacy of California': life in the valley where Robert Fuller was found hanged 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Her dramatic military story endears her to audiences, but her hardscrabble upbringing and life as a working mom are what help her connect. Tammy Duckworth Is Battle Tested. Could She Help Joe Biden in His Biggest Mission? 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z All through those precious months in Paris, you were the bathtub gin: hardscrabble, rough, a little bitter, but invigorating. We’ll always have the French 75: Gin + Champagne is the start of a beautiful friendship 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Life was already hardscrabble for the seven river otters known as the Zouk family. Coronavirus lockdown sparks a surprising backlash against otters in Singapore, the 'Otter City' 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z Ms. McCorvey lived by all accounts a violent, hardscrabble life before becoming the lead plaintiff for pro-choice lawyers seeking to overturn the Texas abortion ban. Pro-life allies of Norma McCorvey deny ‘deathbed confession’ she was paid to oppose abortion 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z At worst James is the single greatest success story in team sports, a child prodigy who not only overcame the hardscrabble circumstances of his youth but fulfilled every expectation that was ever foisted upon him. Michael Jordan burned bridges, LeBron James builds them. I know who I prefer 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Colombia’s largest wholesale market, Corabastos, sits in the hardscrabble Kennedy neighbourhood of the capital Bogotá – currently centre of the country’s outbreak. 'Hubs of infection': how Covid-19 spread through Latin America's markets 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z The Eddy sincerely seems like it wants to be a meandering tale that’s mostly about nothing, just hardscrabble music lovers feeling things and making self-destructive choices on a small scale. Netflix’s The Eddy is a can’t-miss trip to Paris — with one bad detour 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Ironically, my mom knew plenty about hardscrabble, but she kept the details pretty private. I hate Mother's Day because it reminds me of my failings as a daughter 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Republicans promote Judge Walker as a “drain the swamp” Washington outsider, who triumphed over a hardscrabble upbringing in Kentucky to reach the heights of American jurisprudence 11 years out of law school. McConnell Protégé Takes Center Stage in Fight to Remake Judiciary 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z A tense, tight, hardscrabble game between two cautious teams can be more compelling than a seven-goal thriller, if the stakes or the standards are higher. A Matter of Taste 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Tepito – a hardscrabble barrio in central Mexico City that houses a bustling street market – is also subdued. Lockdowns leave poor Latin Americans with impossible choice: stay home or feed families 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z This hardscrabble city, where nearly 80 percent of residents are black, has become a national hot spot with more than 7,000 infections and more than 400 deaths. Shoulder-to-Shoulder, These Detroit Workers Have No Choice but to Ride the Bus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z After a hardscrabble Glaswegian upbringing and student days that were, she says, “wild, absolutely wild”, she went to work at Marvel comics in the early 70s. Annalena McAfee: ‘I enjoyed writing this really rather unpleasant character’ 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z The crew work had to stop, and Van Allen could no longer keep up with the hardscrabble competition to secure and defend a place in the squats. The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z The newspaper describes the park as a hardscrabble community of 76 mobile homes. Dogs take a bite out of mail delivery in south Georgia 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z When the media fawns over Klobuchar, it's usually related to her above-average debate performances and ability to project the sort of hardscrabble Midwestern persona that coastal liberals assume heartlanders find authentic. Will Amy Klobuchar carry water for the "worst company in the world"? 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Ocasio-Cortez’s fame has long transcended the borders of her hardscrabble patch of the Bronx. Ocasio-Cortez faces 13 challengers – but can anyone unseat her? 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The speech uses her hardscrabble biography to explain how she became interested in the financial woes of the middle class and how she became focused on leveling the playing field for Americans. Biden, Warren battle for third place in New Hampshire 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z Interviews in Waterville, a hardscrabble former mill city on the Kennebec River, suggest that at least some of the goodwill that Collins built in Maine over decades still endures. Republican Sen. Susan Collins finds it’s lonely in the middle 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z Byrne’s hardscrabble back-story and arms dealing philosophy are illuminated too, as are the stories and motivations of others, including the Starks’ leader, whose background belies his leadership of the gang. Review: Dark times in East Long Beach as Joe Ide's IQ series returns 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z “He called their bluff,” said Dan, 35, a warehouse manager and Trump voter in this hardscrabble Rust Belt town. Trump’s address on Iran strikes a chord with Rust Belt voters 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z The rough terrain and hardscrabble agrarian life are now exacerbated by the increasing hostility between the two nuclear-armed neighbors. Shelling spreads misery in Kashmir, caught between two nuclear rivals 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Her campaign speeches are marked by descriptions of her hardscrabble childhood. Elizabeth Warren to hold private meeting with tribal leaders Sunday in effort to atone for past claims 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z But Speier turned to Hill’s hardscrabble upbringing in County Durham, in the north-east of England. 'Absolute fearlessness': women take impeachment spotlight and speak truth as Trump fumes 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Fiona Hill, the former National Security Council official who testified at the impeachment hearings on Thursday, was born in Bishop Auckland, a hardscrabble former coal town in County Durham, in the northeast of England. The Extraordinary Impeachment Testimony of Fiona Hill 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z The daughter of a coal miner and a midwife, she had a hardscrabble childhood in northeast England — a childhood that bred toughness, her friends say. Fiona Hill Viewed Serving Trump as Risky. Now She’s an Impeachment Witness. 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z His 2020 message portrays his middle-class upbringing in hardscrabble Scranton, Pa., as letting him relate to the white working-class voters across the Rust Belt who abandoned the party in 2016. Biden may have calculated Communion snub, political observer suggests 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Those concerns have been pronounced in Michigan, home to about 20,000 striking GM workers, and hardscrabble cities such as Flint, where numerous companies and families rely on auto manufacturing. GM and UAW reached a deal to end the strike. 46,000 workers still have to sign off on it. 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z She recently batted down a conservative troll who made an unsupported accusation that she had an affair with a much younger man by pivoting to her hardscrabble upbringing. Warren’s same-sex marriage quip captures what some find exciting — and others distressing — about her 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z From the outset of this deviously entertaining movie, which recently became the first South Korean film to win the prestigious Palme d’Or at Cannes, every detail of the Kims’ hardscrabble existence is on blunt display. Review: Thrilling and devastating, 'Parasite' is one of the year's very best movies 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Sao Goncalo, a hardscrabble suburb across the bay that carves Rio’s coastline, in recent decades became one of the state’s most violent areas. Special Report: A surge in killings by police roils Bolsonaro's Brazil 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z They praised his background rising from a hardscrabble Southern California neighborhood to a West Point graduate who led soldiers in the first Iraq war. Ducey appoints Montgomery to Arizona Supreme Court 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z King’s novella about a hardscrabble young gang trying to kill time during the holidays by embarking on a questionable quest ended up being directed by Rob Reiner. The best Stephen King movies … ranked! 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Rather than her usual firebrand stemwinder, she talked about her hardscrabble biography, including an anecdote about how she once struggled to control an unruly fifth-grade Sunday school class. Warren works to overcome hurdles with black voters in S.C. 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z It just didn’t require its participants to prove their bona fides by doing anything crazy like dropping out of college to go live in San Francisco crash pads or hardscrabble rural communes full-time. Woodstock glorified them. Tarantino barbecued them. In 2019, whither the hippie? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Broadacres is a culture coalescing on a hardscrabble strip of Las Vegas Boulevard North, near Pecos Road, blossoming like a flower growing between the cracks of a sidewalk. Marketplace builds community among Las Vegas-area Latinos 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z He is a former mayor of hardscrabble Newark, New Jersey, who ascended to the U.S. ‘Message isn’t resonating’: Cory Booker looks good on paper, struggles in Democratic polls 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z In 2154 the wealthy live in comfort and luxury aboard a space station, while the poor have a hardscrabble existence on the overpopulated and ruined Earth. TV Listings: Here are the feature and TV Films airing the week of July 28 - Aug. 3, 2019 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z He learned it in his hardscrabble youth spent in the Hill District, and he learned it from the recordings of artists such as Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, the Mother of the Blues. August Wilson was the blues, and Ma Rainey was his muse 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z A number of years ago, I joined a group of five teen-age boys from a hardscrabble neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. Finding Stillness in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters in the Age of Trump 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z His supporters argue that his hardscrabble upbringing in a middle class home in Scranton, Pa., still influences how he sees himself. Joe Biden earned $15.6 million in the two years after leaving the vice presidency 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z She released an announcement video focusing on her hardscrabble upbringing as one of seven children. Williams latest Democrat to jump into crowded US Senate race 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z That’s decent pay, especially in this hardscrabble area where living-wage jobs are scarce and a low unemployment rate masks significant structural problems in the labor market. Casualty of trade war: Chinese investments in U.S. grind to a halt, blocking new jobs 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Williams knows all about those struggles growing up in hardscrabble Trenton. Trenton’s ‘one-hand sewing man’ showcases at exhibit 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Biden supporters point to his hardscrabble upbringing as something that still influences how he sees himself. Once the poorest senator, ‘Middle Class Joe’ Biden has reaped millions in income since leaving the vice presidency 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Charlie first sold his produce with other hardscrabble farmers on the sidewalk by the Silver Spring Armory, demolished in 1998 for a parking garage. Opinion | An ode to Charlie Koiner, the last farmer of Silver Spring 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Roberts, a flinty, fastidious martinet with a hardscrabble background and a knack for making himself indispensable to powerful men, befriended Jones and took up the cause. Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Rubenhold offers an overdue corrective with this sympathetic account of the five women’s hardscrabble lives. The 20 books to read this summer 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z In the French film “Shéhérazade,” set in the hardscrabble Arab underbelly of Marseilles, love makes a young couple’s future seem hopeful, but the streets prove a rough garden in which to tend it. Review: Gritty French drama ‘Shéhérazade’ reminds us what we love about love 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z In a hardscrabble life, the suspension was not the only incident that made news. Seymour Cassel, mischievous character actor of independent films, dies at 84 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Finau’s hardscrabble beginnings and close family ties reminded Casper of himself. Tony Finau, on Another Masters Adventure, Carries Memories of an Idol 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Everywhere he pointed to changes in Newark as evidence that his unique brand of positive, uplifting politics could work in this hardscrabble city. ‘Newark’s Original Sin’ and the Criminal Justice Education of Cory Booker 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Little Boy is in many respects a challenging read about a hardscrabble experience. City Lights founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 'The US isn't ready for a revolution' 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, a hardscrabble city known for two things: coal and The Office. Joe Biden: can a veteran centrist win in the polarised age of Trump? 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z This was not anything too unusual in the hardscrabble corners of the Philippines’ capital. ‘This is Manila’: Another body and another cold case amid an expanding war on drugs 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Her characters were frequently hardscrabble frontiersmen with poetic souls, loggers and fishermen and truck drivers who “eat and drink like Henry VIII,” as she put it. Edith Iglauer, magazine writer and memoirist of Canadian life, dies at 101 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z In the east, Chinese-funded hospitals and schools rise from the hardscrabble countryside. In Central Asia’s forbidding highlands, a quiet newcomer: Chinese troops 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z She highlighted her hardscrabble upbringing and values of cooperation and camaraderie, saying, “We do not succeed alone” and promising “a better America.” In dissonant State of the Union speech, Trump seeks unity while depicting ruin 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Here it’s a hardscrabble life, the nearest neighbor may be a three-hour drive away, death from dehydration is a reality and checking in regularly with others is vital. Review: Jane Harper writes engrossing 3rd novel 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z When politicians tell their own stories, they often emphasize the hardscrabble parts, even if those took place long ago. Kamala Harris’s Choices 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Post reporters met with former employees for hours of interviews in a cramped apartment in Ossining, N.Y., a hardscrabble town next door, whose chief landmark is the Sing Sing state prison. Trump’s golf course employed undocumented workers — and then fired them amid showdown over border wall 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z He scrambles daily to do handywork and small remodeling jobs at homes in the hardscrabble desert town of Hemet, east of Los Angeles. AP Photos: Furloughed government worker juggles odd jobs 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z An electric talent who has been talked about since his midteens because of his potential and hardscrabble history, Tiafoe, ranked 39th, staggered through the end of last season. Reintroducing Frances Tiafoe, the New Mr. Upset of the Australian Open 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z No one doubts Smith’s fearlessness in the hardscrabble world of sports opinion. Stephen A. Smith keeps feuding with NBA stars, but he says it’s not on purpose 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z She linked her hardscrabble upbringing to her interest in seeking the White House. In Iowa, Elizabeth Warren accents a fight against Trumpism, without focusing on Trump 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z No matter how ingenious these makeshift homes are, however, they are inhabited by people who bear the scars of an unsettled, hardscrabble life. Across a diverse landscape, L.A's hidden homeless live hard lives in fanciful 'homes' 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z All of their December magic and hardscrabble swagger will be rendered pointless if they cannot defeat a division rival eliminated from playoff contention at M&T Bank Stadium. The Ravens will be hell to play in the playoffs. First, they have to make it. 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z The hardscrabble landscape and clay earth seemed to be perfect for only one thing — Christmas trees. A wildfire wiped out their Christmas tree farm and livelihood. Now they wonder what to do next. 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z “Yeahs” rippled across the room as the governor extolled the value and dignity of work, which propelled him from a hardscrabble youth in rural New Hampshire to the governor’s mansion in Frankfort. Where Government Is a Dirty Word, but Its Checks Pay the Bills 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z PTOLEMAIDA, Greece – If earthquakes struck in slow motion, the results might be visible in a place like the Greek village of Anargyri, a hardscrabble enclave in a black landscape gutted by coal mining. Sinking Greek village highlights nation's addiction to coal 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z PALMEIRAS, Brazil – Roy Funch, an American botanist who has lived and worked in Brazil's hardscrabble northeast for decades, long looked at huge cone-shaped mounds of mud in the distance and wonder. In Brazil backlands, termites built millions of dirt mounds 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z It’s an ethos with origins in the hardscrabble beginnings that Scott, 53, shared with his mother, brother and grandparents in North Charleston. Friends say Tim Scott’s opposition to Farr not surprising 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z OROVILLE, Calif. — A few hundred members of the frantic exodus from Paradise ended up here, in the large hardscrabble parking lot of the Church of the Nazarene. California fires: Diaspora from Paradise waits, anxiously, to return to devastated homes 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Many of these women could, perhaps, see something of their own hardscrabble lives in her — or celebrate her for eschewing what they had not been able to. The song of the spoon lady: Pain, perseverance and an unlikely journey to viral fame 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z But most interestingly the wash is where the desert leaks in — a canyon of scrub brush, hardscrabble plants and cracked earth smack in the middle of two well developed towns. Why did Jonathan Lethem turn toward the desert in 'The Feral Detective'? - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Ivan Doig’s memoir “This House of Sky” has always been a favorite — the beauty and the evocation of that hardscrabble life. ‘1,000 Books to Read Before You Die’ author James Mustich on what did (and didn’t) make the cut 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Republican Elizabeth Heng says she will be a new voice in Congress for a hardscrabble stretch of California’s farm belt. 2 young California women face different paths to US House 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z He turned pro and embarked on the hardscrabble life of a mini-tour player. Tony Finau takes a most improbable journey to Ryder Cup 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Born in White Center, he grew up in hardscrabble poverty; as an acclaimed poet, his work often focused on overlooked people and places. Seattle’s Hugo House — a gathering place for writers for 20 years — celebrates the opening of its new home 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Browning is the heart of the Blackfeet Nation, a distinctly Western town with calf-roping competitions, the occasional horseback rider ambling down the street — and a hardscrabble reality. Why are Native American women vanishing? And who’s looking for them? 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z But the government quickly scrapped the deal after an outcry by hard-line politicians and residents of the hardscrabble areas where many of the migrants live. African migrants reel as Israeli law cuts into salaries 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Following hardscrabble years that famously included stints as a railway porter and a waiter, he emigrated to the United States in 1956 and amassed a fortune as an investor and financier. How billionaire philanthropist George Soros became a favorite far-right target, especially in his native Hungary 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Having learned to code-switch between the fusty Dutch of the courtroom and the richly accented argot of her youth, she found it effortless to connect with the hardscrabble relatives of her criminal clientele. How a Notorious Gangster Was Exposed by His Own Sister 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z But there are nevertheless sharp social, economic and political differences between the industrial, hardscrabble Donbas region, where the fighting is raging, and the rest of the country. War in eastern Ukraine now seems a distant storm to Kiev 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Kennedy, a lawyer and family doctor, had a hardscrabble upbringing as one of seven children raised by a single mother. Mitt Romney up against state lawmaker in Senate primary 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Not all of the recipients live and work on hardscrabble farms. Farm bill targets food stamps — but not the well-off farmers who have been on the dole for decades 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Both men lost their fathers early and rose from hardscrabble circumstances to become governors. James Patterson and Bill Clinton's authorial debut is... awkward 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Only on guns, with which two of their members, 20-something brothers from hardscrabble South Philly, were obsessed, did the reds consider the type remotely justified. The primeval tribalism of American politics 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z He spoke from the mourning tent outside the family’s single-story home with a corrugated metal roof in the hardscrabble Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. He Played at Death in a Gaza Cemetery. Then He Was Buried There. 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z “We were definitely hardscrabble relative to my father’s economic position.” New Seattle NHL CEO Tod Leiweke, siblings overcame ‘real adversity’ early in life 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z It was that kind of day, a hardscrabble victory by a disliked competitor who doesn't care what anyone thinks. Disliked, unloved, whatever. Patrick Reed wins Masters without much support 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Born in the hardscrabble northeast, da Silva rose through the ranks of the union in the country’s industrial south. Brazil’s Lula creates standoff with defiance of prison order 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z The hardscrabble hills from which he emerged will now accept him home for all eternity. Georgia editorial roundup 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z This hardscrabble port city is less than three hours from Santiago by jet. Fast Chilean Growth Can Happen Again 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z Readers follow Mokhtar Alkhanshali’s journey from his childhood in San Francisco’s hardscrabble Tenderloin district to the verdant mountains of Yemen to the testing room for those aspiring to be expert coffee graders. Book recounts quest to revive coffee trade in Yemen 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Two years have passed since a shirtless man gripping a dark object jogged down West 64th Street as midnight approached in L.A.’s hardscrabble Harvard Park neighborhood. Mental illness or brain injury? Driven by voices to commit crime, Titus Young is in prison but still believes he could play in the NFL 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Every White House leads a trail to venues strange and varied: global summits, hardscrabble swing-state spots, a golf course in South Florida. Now on Stage, Stormy Daniels: A Strip Club and a Presidency Meet After Dark 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z New York City was considered too expensive, and Newark was seen as hampered by its reputation as a hardscrabble urban center. Amazon Names Newark and New York City as ‘HQ2’ Finalists 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z A last-minute delay in releasing the data Thursday won’t do much to boost investors’ confidence in its accuracy, following a string of admissions this month on padded data from the hardscrabble industrial north. Ignore China’s Silky-Smooth Growth Signal—Watch the Noise 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z San Juan County is a hardscrabble expanse in the state’s southeast corner, and home to some 16,000 people. For Native Americans, a ‘Historic Moment’ on the Path to Power at the Ballot Box 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Triangles Cafe’s first Yelp review describes a “surreal combination of young, just-off-the-plane Brazilians; established gay elders; children of ‘the ice storm’; prosperous guppies; hardscrabble bears; deep woods trannies; expat New Yorkers; and closeted married guys.” Connecticut LGBT community finds new home at Norwalk bar 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z It was probably a hardscrabble life, building doors and tables, but also likely digging ditches and building walls. How can you be Christian without caring for the poor? 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z One of the largest auto suppliers in Detroit is the Indian firm Sakthi Automotive, which is expanding its operations into a long-shuttered high school on the city’s hardscrabble southwest side. Indian Automaker’s Plant Is Latest Sign of Detroit Comeback 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The film, which Netflix hopes will be its first feature-film Oscar contender, follows two neighboring families - one black, one white - on a hardscrabble farm in 1940s Mississippi. In ‘Mudbound,’ Dee Rees crafts a Jim Crow epic of 2 families 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z The film, which Netflix hopes will be its first feature-film Oscar contender, follows two neighboring families — one black, one white — on a hardscrabble farm in 1940s Mississippi. In ‘Mudbound,’ Dee Rees crafts a Jim Crow epic of 2 families 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z But to hear locals in this former capital of China’s coal industry tell it, the bustling scenes of construction mask a stark disconnect between Xi’s bright promises and their hardscrabble reality. In China’s coal capital, a promise remains elusive 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z That means life in an underground metal band is frequently a hardscrabble, hand-to-mouth existence. Pornogrind and flying intestines: my journey into the labyrinth of underground metal 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z The plot follows a group of young men from a hardscrabble Adana neighborhood as they form a gang and methodically eliminate their rivals. Without Ottoman palaces or summer romances, a gritty Turkish crime drama finds an enthusiastic audience 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Leiweke’s younger brother describes a “hardscrabble life” that precluded both from attending college. With lessons learned, Oak View Group’s Tim Leiweke is doing it his way 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z For many who live in Rio’s hundreds of favelas, or slums, an already hardscrabble existence feels increasingly precarious. Millions return to poverty in Brazil, eroding ‘boom’ decade 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z But to hear locals in this former capital of China’s coal industry tell it, the bustling scenes of construction mask a stark disconnect between Mr. Xi’s bright promises and their hardscrabble reality. In China’s Coal Capital, Xi Jinping’s Dream Remains Elusive 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z Boyle Heights is a hardscrabble, overwhelmingly Latino community which sits across the Los Angeles river from the lofts and skyscrapers of downtown. Are white hipsters hijacking an anti-gentrification fight in Los Angeles? 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Every morning is filled with anxiety in this hardscrabble town so intertwined with the fortunes of its hulking coal power plant that a drawing of the facility is emblazoned on the community’s police force emblem. Coal country is finding little relief in Trump's climate actions 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z It’s a harsh, hardscrabble life, but Baker is determined to infuse it with wonder and its own brand of profane dignity. Review | ‘The Florida Project’: Willem Dafoe delivers his finest performance in recent memory 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z And, yet, it’s easy to sense a real purpose in him, perhaps because of his hardscrabble upbringing. Jumped off the Jason Day bandwagon, have you? The Aussie wants to make you regret it - Golf Digest 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Most were given access to rocky, hardscrabble lots - often on the worst soil - in the maritime province of Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia to mend historic injustice 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z There's a joyful hardscrabble gloss on every action, a feeling that all the days, weeks and months' worth of menial labor is slotting into a vast, harmonious machinery that's slowly spooling up. Stardew Valley for Switch Is the Farming Game's Ideal Home 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z It’s the tension between hardscrabble realism and buoyant fantasy — and the understanding that they are both, in fact, vital aspects of the same experience — that makes “The Florida Project” so powerfully unresolved. Sean Baker's 'The Florida Project' is a magnificent portrait of a joyous, troubled childhood 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Though Twain’s biographer later noted that there’s no analogue for “Shania” in Ojibwe, it was an exceptional bit of branding: Twain’s narrative is one of rare upward mobility from hardscrabble beginnings to first-name-only fame. Another country: can Shania Twain's new album prove her staying power? 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Through glitzy business areas, middle class suburbs and hardscrabble slums, the trail of destruction continued. 'I Am Sure She Is Under There, Alive.' On the Ground in Mexico City in the Hours After the Quake 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Forgotten America, where men and women lead hardscrabble lives marked by poverty, lack of opportunity, addiction and despair. Analysis | We need a smarter narrative about rural America 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z It flowed into fancy neighborhoods and hardscrabble communities where residents already were struggling to afford to stay in their homes. Irma hits Jacksonville, Fla., with its worst flood in a century 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Fans look at him and see a former plumber from a hardscrabble Dublin neighborhood who kicked and jabbed his way to greatness almost overnight. Spectacle or sham? Mayweather-McGregor is outside the box and we can't look away 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z The sessions for trainees undergo are in hardscrabble desert areas where Border Patrol instructors play a range of possible suspects, including people crossing the border illegally or as armed drug smugglers. ‘We Can’t Just Pull Out Our Gun’: Border Patrol Alters Training 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z When the lander’s robotic arm scratched at the hardscrabble soil in 2008, it found ice just below. Water ice found near Mars’s equator could entice colonists and life-seekers 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Now, Wal-Mart is rebranding itself as a company focused on the needs of its workers and the fate of small towns and hardscrabble cities. Walmart Academy trains better managers, but will they have a better future? 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Larson plays the adult Jeanette Walls who seems to have blocked out much of her hardscrabble youth as a rising magazine writer in New York City. Review: Love _ somehow _ shines through ‘The Glass Castle’ 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Now, Walmart is rebranding itself as a company focused on the needs of its workers and the fate of small towns and hardscrabble cities. At Walmart Academy, Training Better Managers. But With a Better Future? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Many of them, having grown up in hardscrabble circumstances, turned to football as a conduit to a college education and a prosperous life they wouldn’t have had otherwise. Column: Dark cloud lingers over football as season begins 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z We’ve all seen documentaries about The Big Competition, in which a hardscrabble team gets ready for the ultimate challenge. ‘Step’ director captures powerful women chasing their dreams 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Except public records show that a man matching his name and age had in recent years lived at an address in Detroit, in the hardscrabble African American neighborhood of Grandale. Kathryn Bigelow's 'Detroit' takes on a tragedy then — and now 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Yu comes from a hardscrabble stretch of the North China plain, the region once known as Manchuria. How to make $100,000 a month in China, live-streaming your life 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z Before an audience at Greece's Onassis Cultural Center on Saturday, the brothers spoke candidly about their hardscrabble childhood and said they felt humbled and obligated to help others who grew up poor. In emotional return to Greece, Antetokounmpo promises to help youth 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z In the hardscrabble neighborhoods he frequented, there was a way for young, uneducated men to earn sudden infusions of cash - dealing drugs. Obama commuted Topeka man who 2 US presidents helped lock up 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z The private Christian school that she attended, another that she sent her children to and a hardscrabble private religious school that she has long supported have dominated her time, money and attention. To Understand Betsy DeVos’s Educational Views, View Her Education 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z At the same time it must avoid further alienating defectors who voted for Trump in hardscrabble Rust Belt towns and fast-growing Sun Belt suburbs. Democrats have passion to run. But do they have a playbook for winning back seats? 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Banks: Mike grew up on a block that was not a good block — a hardcore, hardscrabble environment. 'Better Call Saul' stars Jonathan Banks and Giancarlo Esposito break bad a second time 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z But as days and months in Olympia tick by, lawmakers once again are running into the hardscrabble realities of divided government: Their most ambitious plans just don’t have the votes. Legislators look at compromise ideas to raise more revenue 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z Ironically, a long procession of truly talented Argentine golfers, including the powerful Angel Cabrera, were all former caddies who came from hardscrabble backgrounds. From the archive: Roberto De Vicenzo: ‘The choice I made’ - Golf Digest 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Instead, it is stuffed with the characters and stories of hardscrabble Augustown, a former hamlet on the outskirts of St. Andrew founded by slaves freed in 1838. A Novel of the Sacred and the Profane in Jamaica 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z In the hardscrabble communities nearby, these monuments are often derided as a “betrayal,” depriving them of potential jobs from energy extraction and other uses. Trump's national monument plan could easily fail — but he'll still declare victory 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z In the hardscrabble hills of Sichuan Province, the parents of the uranium miner Dylan Teng still work as farmers, growing rice and maize in a hillside hamlet where most families share the same surname. Is China the World’s New Colonial Power? 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z On one side of the titular bay lives a family of hardscrabble laborers; on the other is a vacationing clan of well-off, inbred nitwits. Bruno Dumont goes unexpectedly light with wacko French comedy 'Slack Bay' 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z The hardscrabble place also informed him in more overt ways. The existential brood of 'Lost City of Z's' Charlie Hunnam 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Though today Asheville conjures drum circles and microbreweries, Williams’s childhood in its Shiloh neighborhood was hardscrabble, to put it lightly. Roy Williams? ‘He Doesn’t Have an Accent. You Have an Accent.’ 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z In a press release announcing his candidacy, Hern touted his hardscrabble upbringing and how he worked his way up through the ranks of the fast-food industry. Tulsa business owner announces plans to run for US Congress 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The Neanderthals of El Sidrón Cave in northern Spain lived hardscrabble lives. Neanderthal tooth plaque hints at meals — and kisses 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Harrison’s narrative covers his childhood in the hardscrabble seaport, the heady days of Beatlemania and life after the breakup. Olivia Harrison reflects on the music and a book marking what would have been 'Quiet Beatle's' 74th birthday 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The genesis of Enochs’ career suggests he is well prepared for the art of the hardscrabble, the anonymity of the outsider. Joe Enochs: the US coach leading a charge in the German league 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Mr. El Aissami was born in Mérida, a hardscrabble Andes state in Venezuela’s west, famous for its tough mountain culture and dwellers known as “gochos.” Crime Accusations Have Long Dogged Tareck El Aissami, Venezuela’s No. 2 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Sure, you can imagine Nicholson's version as some American bigwig in a hardscrabble foreign place too. Jack Nicholson as ‘Toni Erdmann’: When right-minded ideas come out wrong 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z In theory, this should put an interesting twist on her relationship with Jewish CC, who is from a more hardscrabble upbringing. 'Beaches' is a misguided remake of the classic weepie on Lifetime 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Work in the impoverished, hardscrabble Hakka settlements was scarce, and jobs in Hong Kong’s nascent manufacturing sector were low paid. Preserving Hong Kong's Vanishing Martial Arts 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z For an entire album, Scott left the double entendres to one side, writing instead about hardscrabble and desperate lives, where escape is no more than a dream. AC/DC – 10 of the best 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z It was another American pride ad, in this case about the “hardscrabble” upbringing of Mr. Kasich paired with a catchy, pseudo-funk soundtrack. The Campaign Ads That Moved People the Most 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Here in the hardscrabble farming town of Sadki-Stroyevka, birds far outnumber people. Ukrainian Farmers, Poised for Growth, Stumble After E.U. Deal 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z In an uncharacteristic 90-minute speech on Thursday, the 77-year-old reflected on the path that led him to the Senate floor, recalling a hardscrabble childhood in Searchlight, a gold mining town south of Las Vegas. Harry Reid on leaving Senate after 30 years: 'I don't have any regrets' 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z It is no small irony, then, that it was an idealised and sanitised version of this hardscrabble childhood that would become Louisa’s most successful and enduring literary effort. Louisa May Alcott: a practical utopian from a divided US 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z The corner of the District he returned to was a hardscrabble patch of an ailing city tumbling toward the brink of bankruptcy. ‘Why would I leave? It’s my home.’ 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Hamilton, of Great Britain, is the prodigy with the hardscrabble upbringing who turned his electric talent into three world titles and a red-carpet, playboy lifestyle. Why Formula One’s Mercedes Is the Most Awkward Team in Sports 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The stakes over the fate of this hardscrabble community of shoddy trailers are high, not just in the international arena but also inside Israel. Even Israel says this Jewish settlement is illegal. Now comes the showdown. 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z It was not about race, he said, pointing to the powerful anti-establishment sentiment that Mr. Trump has stirred in hardscrabble neighborhoods, including those where minorities live. In New York, Deep Confusion Stands in Contrast to Elation After Donald Trump’s Win 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z During a recent interview with The Times, he explained that he wrote an autobiography in Russian because he wanted to inspire young people in his homeland who shared his hardscrabble background. Sergey Kovalev, a 'nasty guy' in the ring yet traumatized by tragedy 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z They said security forces had been searching for weapons in Shuafat, a hardscrabble neighborhood plagued by criminal gangs, when they opened fired at a vehicle that ignored warnings to stop and sped at them. Palestinian accused of negligent homicide in police shooting 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z YANJIAO, China — Artists in need of cheap, affordable studio space are often drawn to out-of-the-way or hardscrabble neighborhoods. Seeking Lower Rent, Chinese Artists Cut Path for Themselves Outside Beijing 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z The mining magnate’s ancestors immigrated to the country’s hardscrabble western reaches in the 1830s. The Land at Stake Is in Australia, but the Focus Is on China 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Her work is drawn from the hardscrabble life she lived growing up in Buffalo Prairie, Ill., before moving several years ago to Nashville with her husband, frequent songwriting collaborator and band mate Jeremy Ivey. This country singer's debut has even got Jack White excited 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Of course, in the hardscrabble mobile phone market, that’s still a big if. Google's New Phones Are Exactly What Android Needs Now 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Brentwood, a hardscrabble town of nearly 60,000 on Long Island, 40 miles east of Manhattan, has reached another crisis point. ‘They Keep Finding Bodies’: Gang Violence in Long Island Town Fuels Immigration Debate 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Foshay, located in a hardscrabble neighborhood less than a mile west of the university campus, sent more students to USC this fall than any other public or private high school. The urban Los Angeles school Foshay Learning Center leads way with most USC freshmen 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z These forces had conquered everything but a ribbon of hardscrabble land across the north. The Voyages Issue: Remarkable Journeys With Six Photographers 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z But Lisa, who works in a leather store in this hardscrabble town, shares the view of many Colombians when she says: “We cannot allow terrorists and kidnappers into politics.” Preparing for peace: inside Farc’s Colombian jungle base 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Hammons, 38, grew up in Sulphur and lived a hardscrabble life. Ex-Oklahoma football captain Hammons competes on Survivor’ 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Five years after the March on Washington, the Mall was the scene of a lesser-known protest: It played host to a hardscrabble tent city next to the Reflecting Pool. Four ways to experience the new African American Museum 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Haifa, 40, a Syrian refugee I met last year in a hardscrabble neighborhood in Jordan, typifies the life of purgatory that millions face. 3 Ways President Obama Can Help Refugees 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Juneau was brought up in the small, hardscrabble town of Browning, on the Blackfeet reservation at the edge of Glacier National Park. Meet the trailblazing Native American leading a surge in voter activism 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z First and foremost, though, Vance’s book is a memoir about growing up hardscrabble and white in clannish, insular communities in Kentucky and Ohio. Donald Trump Trump sees the invisible people 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z A sequel to Jason Miller’s fiction debut, “Down Don’t Bother Me,” “Red Dog” is set in the fictional town of Little Egypt, deep in the hardscrabble coal country of southern Illinois. ‘Red Dog’: A case of a pit bull in peril turns murderous 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z We scrambled up a hardscrabble path to the new police precinct that commands the hill like a medieval castle keep. Officials Spent Big on Olympics, but Rio Natives Are Paying the Price 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z There are some lovely Victorian town centers, and also hardscrabble hamlets tucked into the valleys that are comprised largely of low-slung ranch houses fronted by chain-link fences and rusted pickup trucks. An Economic Moment, Frozen in Time 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The text Beck has written to accompany the multiplicity of photos is often poignantly revealing, especially where he discusses his hardscrabble youth in postwar England. Jeff Beck celebrates his 50th anniversary with a politically aggressive new work 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z While many transients passed through Rush to work in the mines and live in tents or hardscrabble houses, the Hicks family was there to stay, said Erdman. Project gives view of history Arkansas ghost town hotel 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z In the difficult and hardscrabble world of African cycling, Froome found his calling. Chris Froome Wins Tour de France for the Third Time 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z Standard histories of the American spirit use a hardscrabble past to anticipate our glorious present, but Isenberg takes every opportunity to mottle that picture. White Plight? 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Merritt, who turned 30 last Monday, owns a trucking business, a daycare and is working on starting up a counseling center in his hardscrabble hometown of Portsmouth, Virginia. Merritt goes for gold again, then thinks about the future 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z Ann Williams believes her hardscrabble former steel town in Wales would survive Britain’s divorce from the European Union just fine. This British steel town got millions from the EU, but voted to leave anyways 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z As a legacy of his hardscrabble past, Tunc, who worked as electronics teacher at an Istanbul trade school for the past three years, was paying for his siblings’ education. Istanbul airport attack victims mourned, honored, praised 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z I’m a hardscrabble north-easterner, and I’ve spent the past eight years watching the man from Scranton blossom and mature before our eyes. I can't wait to see what Joe Biden does next | Mary Elizabeth Williams 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z Nzima immediately resigned from The World, and fled for his hometown of Lillydale, a hardscrabble hamlet a day’s drive from Johannesburg. This Photo Inspired the World to Fight Against Apartheid 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Studying to be a lawyer, Mr. Qannam, 24, is the son of refugees, broadening his appeal in the hardscrabble camps across the West Bank. Palestinians Elect a New President (on a Reality TV Show) 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z But her decision not to enlist was cemented while spending a year after high school volunteering with children in Sderot, a hardscrabble town on the border with the Gaza Strip. Israeli woman becomes longest jailed military objector 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z In the outskirts, struggling steel plants and glassmaking firms line roads winding along hardscrabble hills. Maoists still a force 50 years after the Cultural Revolution 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z The first release is “Trailer,” a country-rock song written by Petty that's about looking back to hardscrabble younger days, and a relationship that fell by the wayside. Tom Petty and Mudcrutch are together again — again 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z It was a hardscrabble career in which he won fame and admiration but no lasting wealth. Boxer struggles to remain hopeful after shooting, bad breaks 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z This hardscrabble Latino community, just across the Los Angeles river from the lofts and skyscrapers of downtown, is waging a vigorous and in many ways effective campaign against gentrification. 'Hope everyone pukes on your artisanal treats': fighting gentrification, LA-style 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Thus, Stanton officials have portrayed the coming tax battle as an existential fight between rich out-of-towners and hardscrabble locals trying to save their city from a wave of crime and blight. Orange County’s Political Divide Has Activists Seeing Red 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Tens of thousands of others on bridging visas are trapped in a dispiriting cycle of hardscrabble survival. 'We are the forgotten people': the anguish of Australia's 'invisible' asylum seekers 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Ten days ago, Sanders held an outdoor rally at a park in the hardscrabble Mott Haven section of the South Bronx. Can Bernie Sanders Upset Hillary Clinton in New York? 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Perhaps something about the hardscrabble immigrant psyche led to the tragedies? Piecing together adulthood from the fragments of a murder-suicide 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z On the hardscrabble lands of the American West, blood is spilled by the most innocent-looking of outlaws—the white-tailed prairie dog. Prairie Dogs Are Serial Killers That Murder Their Competition 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z After Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon Johnson, Democrat of Texas and a son of the hardscrabble south, seized JFK’s cautious civil rights agenda and turned it into a juggernaut. American crossroads: Reagan, Trump and the devil down south 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z But it’s the fruits of migrant labor sent home that explain how, in places like this, hardscrabble poverty is slowly giving way to development. An American Cure for Poverty: Remittances 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z As an adult, Owens usually described his hardscrabble youth in Oakville as beyond miserable — an endless cycle of poverty, hunger, and humiliation. How Jesse Owens' Childhood Shaped the Life Seen in 'Race' 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Moving on to the hardscrabble Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec, Francis condemned drug traffickers as “dealers of death” and urged Mexicans to shun the temptation of money, saying, “With the devil, there is no dialogue.” Pope had message of love for Mexico, tough love for powerful 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Moving on to the hardscrabble Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec, Francis condemned drug traffickers as "dealers of death" and urged Mexicans to shun the temptation of money, saying, "With the devil, there is no dialogue." Pope Francis wrapped up a five-day visit to Mexico with a message of love and compassion for the people of Mexico and the migrants who pass through it on their way to the United States 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z The night of the Baghdad attack, the new-old terror also struck Diyala Province, where nearly two dozen people were killed when an explosion ripped through a cafe in Muqdadiya, a hardscrabble farming community. Gains Against ISIS Bring More Deaths Elsewhere in Iraq 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z The beat-up bars and hardscrabble streets all stirred emotions for one of the UFC’s top lightweight contenders. Alvarez hopes win against Pettis launches him to title shot 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z |
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