| 单词 | illuminating |
| 例句 | Light flowed in from the back window, illuminating the couple, highlighting the tension in their passionate embrace. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z From an uncovered window high overhead, a little daylight made its way down the curved staircase, illuminating thousands of dust motes dancing in the dim air. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Rows of oil lamps made the room bright, and each of the men had his personal torch behind him, illuminating stacked and scattered papers that lay on the table. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The canvas is taut and nearly translucent—sunlight filters through the material and seams, illuminating the largest candy stand of all. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Light from the house streamed through the lattice-patterned doors, illuminating the enclosure like a lit lantern. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Red lights appeared in the deep, but they sucked in more light than they gave, illuminating nothing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He held it in front of him with both hands, like a sword, fully illuminating his face. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The metal lamp swayed above like a pendulum, illuminating hollow faces, throwing shadows throughout the carriage. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Dad’s medical journals can be just as illuminating as Grandma’s bible. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z His fingers flew as he typed in his password, the blue-white screen of the laptop illuminating his pale face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Light filters in weakly through a bank of high windows, illuminating the dust I kicked up when entering. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Silver moonlight spills through the window, illuminating the floorboards. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Books and other artifacts sat behind glass, with special lights illuminating them. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of the other stylists have tried to steal Cinna and Portia’s idea of illuminating their tributes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Chandeliers with Pleiades Corp’s signature color, royal purple, illuminating the faces of actors in fancy clothes, holding martini glasses and smiling as they stared out at a fake nebula. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Twig asked as she flicked on the basement lights, illuminating our favorite hangout spot for the past few years. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There were two floodlights illuminating his garden, and lights were on in the front windows of the house, though not in the study. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes Papi pauses as he walks by, the reddish light illuminating his tense face. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Then recognition filled the woman’s face, her broad smile illuminating the darkness, and Tally felt herself smiling in return. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Words for him were like weapons designed to pierce the pages or explode above them in illuminating airbursts. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A great white light seemed to shoot out of it, illuminating the room. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Lightning cracked, illuminating a hole in the hull overhead. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z To produce that single illuminating experiment, a thousand nonilluminating experiments have to be sent into the trash; it is battle between nature and nerve. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But the third came to life, its glow illuminating the large room so brightly that Mark turned off his flashlight. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z There was Golpalott’s Third Law, stated word for word as Hermione had recited it, but not a single illuminating note in the Prince’s hand to explain what it meant. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z In the dark, the straw walls and roofs combust into yellow and orange flames, illuminating the red faces of girls running away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The fading light of day shone through the cave’s opening, barely illuminating the darkness around us. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Then you told me, two years later, that on the night that Voldemort returned to his body, he made a most illuminating and alarming statement to his Death Eaters. ‘ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The sunlight shone through the doors, illuminating the Champion’s splattered blood like stained glass. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Jacob looked at them, hard, and then, like a flash of lightning illuminating the sky, he understood. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z In 1993, we had invested an immense effort in illuminating how poverty twists the lives of children. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Flames rippled beneath his skin, illuminating his skull. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The wait time was excruciating, and Maya rolled over onto her side, the blue light from her phone illuminating everything in the room. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Velia and I walked all the way up the hill, the bright morning light illuminating our steps as we trampled through the brush. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The setting sun was illuminating each blade of grass. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z A ray of wintery sunlight fell across the classroom, illuminating Lupin’s gray hairs and the lines on his young face. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Dawn was just breaking the sky into pale gray, illuminating the floating docks and the distant mist-shrouded structures of drowned Orleans. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z There was a large metal gas lamp hanging above the entrance, illuminating a brass knocker shaped like the head of a dog with a ring in its mouth. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The fire took up Mark’s entire field of vision now, the flames close and high and illuminating the night. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The painted ceiling bellied overhead like a sail, and down below the green desk lamps glowed, illuminating faces bent over books. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The shifting light catches and releases the brightness of his shirt, the grey of his hair, illuminating the disapproving glare on his face as he watches the Carousel over his daughter’s shoulder. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The fire blazed high as he spoke, illuminating the faces of the audience. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Sitting on a milk crate in the middle of the night with a flashlight illuminating what at this point is a paint- blasting project, I laugh too. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The boy from District 1 ignites a tree branch for a torch, illuminating the grim determination on all their faces. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z For Lutheran Pietists like Bach, illuminating the Gospel was paramount, as were metaphors of light and transparency. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z By five-thirty the entire house sparkled, with scented candles that Twinkle had picked up in Hartford illuminating the items on the mantel, and slender stalks of burning incense planted into the soil of potted plants. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I entered to discover the room darkened except for a single small lamp illuminating the stage of the microscope at which he was working. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was at that very moment that I knew with certainty we would always be one, together forever, protecting our loved ones, braving the wind and illuminating the sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Here, the results of recent molecular biological studies are illuminating in linking germs to the rise of food production, in Eurasia much more than in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He fumbles for the switch on the sconce nearest the door and it flickers to life, illuminating the room in front of him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The side of his face was silhouetted in the dying firelight, which passed through the fine fuzz on his jaw, illuminating each thin strand. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Flames tipped the tops of slim white tapers, illuminating rough walls muffled by tapestries and old portraits in which the painted eyes of their subjects glinted like chips of glass. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes when she had nightmares, a thunder and lightning storm would rise up out of nowhere, illuminating the sky like a lullaby created just for her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Though the light of sunset is orange, creeping across the floor and illuminating my face from below, I have never looked paler; the circles under my eyes have never been more pronounced. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z For a moment the candle flame flared high, illuminating the glen, and the girl, and the chain, unbreakable, that ran from her wrist to his. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The blinding light was illuminating the grass around him.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z We paused a moment to marvel at how the rising rim of gold sun silently announced itself by illuminating the sky with brilliant, broad streaks of pink, purple, and orange. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The headlights creep through the tall stalks, illuminating a leaf here, an ear of corn there. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z But for Josquin, chordal harmony was too useful a tool in illuminating the text to worry about its effect on the modes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It soared high, a red shooting star illuminating an endless snow-filled sky. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Father stands in my doorway, the soft yellow light from the hallway illuminating his face. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z "Intelligence is essentially a banal trade of sifting through huge amounts of random information in a search for a single enlightening gem or illuminating link," he wrote. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We were all spending the night at Morgan’s, and her mom had exiled the boys to the guest room after an illuminating game of Truth or Dare. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Koffi watched in wonder as they populated, illuminating a path down the hall to her right and around a corner. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The emergency light above that section of the back wall snapped back to full glare like a spotlight, illuminating the enormous black ψ painted there, along with a very clear message: GET OUT NOW. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Dialectical materialism seemed to offer both a searchlight illuminating the dark night of racial oppression and a tool that could be used to end it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Another clap of thunder shook the windows, and the stormy ceiling flashed, illuminating the golden plates as the remains of the first course vanished and were replaced, instantly, with puddings. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z They zigzagged across the park in blinding flashes, illuminating the terrified faces of poxies and demons alike. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I turned my head to see blue-and-red police lights illuminating the street and a crowd gathering outside. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z A streak of light from the front flowed past me, illuminating dusty weeds, debris and outbuildings some distance to the rear. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In the abbeys all the monks were illuminating the initial letters of their manuscripts with such a riot of invention that it was impossible to read the first page at all. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He struck a match and lit a cigarette, briefly illuminating his face. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They scan the beach, illuminating shells and sleeping gulls, then focus on her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Firelight flickered on the wet cave walls, illuminating the buffalo head, the man’s body, skin the color of brick clay. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I follow his voice and find him standing by the opposite wall, his flashlight illuminating another Troll Hole. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z As the woods give way to the clearing, I see paper lanterns hanging from tree branches, illuminating the pond. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z She had nothing witty or insightful or illuminating to say; instead, she just shifted her weight from one foot to the other, avoiding the stares her students gave her. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z All around us, the field lights up with small fires illuminating the faces of women squatting by them to prepare meals. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A full moon hung high in the sky, illuminating the parking lot. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When she looks up at him, his soft blue eyes are bright in the afternoon sunlight that shines through the windows, illuminating the speckles of sawdust in the air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Or maybe it’s an effect of the stark white light, illuminating just her face. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z As the wispy charcoal clouds moved over them the stars throbbed, illuminating a vibrating halo of the darkness. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Far to the southeast, along the India-Nepal frontier, colossal thunderheads drifted over the malarial swamps of the Terai, illuminating the heavens with surreal bursts of orange and blue lightning. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z A bit of light crept in around the edges of the closed blinds, illuminating the shape in the bed. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I thought it vaguely illuminating that the Negro Griffin’s sweat felt exactly the same to his body as the white Griffin’s. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun eventually rises, its light slipping through the cracks and illuminating Peeta's face. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But before she left the kitchen, she flipped on the lights, illuminating the room. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Mismatched candles burn merrily on every available surface, illuminating the sleeping doves in their cages hanging amongst sweeping curtains of richly colored tapestries. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The lights in the stadium finally turn on, illuminating the space with blinding brightness. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z About halfway down the steps, my face runs into a hanging chain and I pull it, illuminating the hideout with a flickering fluorescent bulb. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The greenish light still seeped from the marks on the floor—marks Cain had etched with his own blood—illuminating the creature who stared at her with those starving, relentless eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Harry forgot everything else: He sprinted out from under the Cloak, running bent double to avoid the curses illuminating the whole hall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The sun was shining into the kitchen, illuminating everything: Ulysses's whiskers, the typewriter keys, her father's upturned and smiling face, and her mother's astonished and disbelieving one. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z Its narrow beam traveled from black trunk to black trunk, illuminating the ground. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The only thing illuminating her was the blue night-light in August’s bedroom. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The rosebush clusters bloomed joyously, their blushing white crowns illuminating the darkness we had endured for so long. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It was an illuminating insight: a scientist could understand the present and the future by examining the “battered relics” of the past. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z And finally she saw it as if the moon was illuminating it just for her: a barn slanted to the left. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Light pours through the window, illuminating his bald spot. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It flared and flamed, illuminating the inside of the hall. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z She walked into the kitchen, where Dill stood behind the cake, candlelight illuminating his face. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z There were sparkling lanterns hanging from the branches, illuminating the clearing where dozens of finely dressed men and women were dancing, their bodies as graceful as blossoms bending in a spring breeze. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Two torches burned on either side of me, barely illuminating a long, damp corridor. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z But when they did, their grimaces of pain turned suddenly to broad white smiles, smiles that decades later would flicker across old newsreels, illuminating the greatest moment of their lives. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The sun lights him up from behind like a saint, illuminating his hair and the tips of the grass and leaves. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The grooves of the trapdoor began to glow, illuminating our faces. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z What makes the Maori-Moriori collision grimly illuminating is that both groups had diverged from a common origin less than a millennium earlier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He crouches over his table, a single pool of light from a swinging metal lamp illuminating the large sheet of paper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The woman flashed her light at a couple on a bench, illuminating them for the split second it took to confirm that they were pretty. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The curtains on the windows are tied back, and moonlight flashes through the trees, alternately illuminating and hiding his face. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The next morning brought the sun, brightly illuminating not only the road, but also Amari’s spirits. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ahh, nice try, Stella,” I say, laughing as a bright light comes on, illuminating their faces. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Lightning splits the sky, illuminating the battlefield for a tantalizing moment. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Their beams pierce the dark, illuminating the interior of our car in shifting strobes. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z There was only the face of the guard, his M-16 by his side, the floodlights coming from every angle, illuminating the faces of Zeitoun’s fellow prisoners, all drawn, exhausted, half-mad with fatigue and confusion. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The machine shop was no more than a dozen yards away, its lights illuminating the gate and the path. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The porter reached into the opening, where he found a torch in the shadows and set fire to it, illuminating a tunnel of dry stone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Instead, as though alive itself, it poured in a thin yellow slab of brightness from under the door, illuminating the dust and splinters of the hall floor. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z When she doesn’t hear back from him, she becomes certain, with the surety of the white light illuminating her brain, that El Li'der is to blame. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In the distance, Lawrence could see the glow of spotlights illuminating the spindly hundred-foot-tall test tower from which the plutonium “gadget” was suspended. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The deep hunger in those childish ideas was like a flash of lightning illuminating the whole dark inner landscape of Bigger’s mind. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z When I peeked below the glasses to watch bits of the performance without AR, there was nothing particularly imaginative or illuminating about this “Parsifal.” Review: Wagner Would Have Liked AR, but Not This ‘Parsifal’ 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z But on both sides of the aisle, dancing kept popping up during this election, in strange yet illuminating ways. The Election Brings Dance to the Streets for a Collective Roar 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z The piece dove into many more of the show’s issues, and if social media reaction was any indication, it was an especially illuminating — and upsetting — read. Analysis | Secrets from the ‘Bachelor’ franchise are spilling out, and they could change the show’s future 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Bourne’s version is quite lovely when he’s illuminating what he knows best: the raucous communal life of the whole troupe of Lermontov’s dancers. Review | Matthew Bourne’s ‘The Red Shoes’: Lovely when focused on what he knows best 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Rather than criticizing the film for what it is not, I appreciate what it offers: a clear, illuminating reflection of the world that I grew up in, a world that few outsiders see. ‘The Big Sick,’ South Asian Identity, and Marriage 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z Two illuminating recent books manage to convey a similar sentiment, focused on the uninhibited love of science and math, while still gracefully incorporating the thorny topic of women in science. Ladies Who Launch: Women Who Opened the Door to Space Exploration 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z “Cobra Kai” offers the young tough-turned-old deadbeat a chance at redemption while illuminating the reasons behind his behavior all those years ago. ‘Karate Kid’ Revisited: This Rivalry Is Not Quite Ready for a Body Bag 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z “A hug can feel too intimate to some people, especially now, in an era when we’re illuminating how women feel on a daily basis.” Is the era of hugging over? Some people sure hope so. 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Even better is when you realize that only two directors picked a certain movie, thus illuminating unexpected connections. The World’s Greatest Directors Have Their Own Streaming Lists 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z On one hand, I find this question really illuminating. Are men more violent? 2012-07-29T18:01:00Z But with a few exceptions, Public Kitchen doesn’t explore the city’s food in a coherent or illuminating way. Lost in New York at Public Kitchen 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z But no matter how thick the orchestra textures, the conductor made adequate space for Aimard’s illuminating French clarity and precision. Beethoven speaks, boldly, with help from a French pianist in his Hollywood Bowl debut 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z In this way she intertwines individual, social and legal history in a manner that is mostly illuminating. The Secret 53-Year-Old British Case That Could Have Legalized Trans Identity 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z As well as illuminating modern Indonesia, the process says much about history, its representation and its victors. The Act Of Killing, This Is The End, Despicable Me: this week's new films 2013-06-29T05:00:11Z But it is redeemed by often illuminating intensity as it grapples with an unresolved French and European quandary. How France Became a Dangerous Place to Be a Jew 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z As “Leonardo Live” proves, when the subject is an art exhibition, the commentary takes over, and we are swamped with fancy, sometimes illuminating window dressing. Critic?s Notebook: ?Leonardo Live? Puts London Exhibition on Screen 2012-02-15T17:15:05Z Sometimes, though, the identity impulse is illuminating, as in the Nordic Heritage Museumin Seattle, which gives a Scandinavian angle to the settling of the Pacific Northwest. Critic?s Notebook: To Each His Own Museum, as Identity Goes on Display 2010-12-28T23:04:19Z A deeper look at the answer can be both illuminating and frighteningly simple. We need a new way to talk about guns: Blame, rage and UCLA 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Odyr’s images of animals casting off their bonds and then living with the results of their revolution are painterly and evocative, both loose and illuminating. The Graphic Novel Versions of Literary Classics Used to Seem Lowbrow. No More. 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Outlets that base their reporting on helpful, illuminating details like data, input from accredited experts. Fox News: 25 years of making everyone's lives progressively crappier 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z "To start with a book would be more honest and illuminating than a movie," the director told MTV News. Basic Instinct director plans film about Jesus 2010-04-13T12:18:00Z As “The Blue Room” continues, and Julien’s tribulations do, too, his remembrances flicker on and off the screen like a guttering flame, illuminating some events and obscuring others. Mathieu Amalric Takes On ‘The Blue Room’ 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Generally, the times when he’s most illuminating are not in interview settings. John Oliver: ‘Maybe Brexit is a great idea. There’s absolutely nothing to suggest that’ 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z You might see a moon rising behind the leafless trees, illuminating what the inimitable nature writer Annie Dillard once called a “twiggy haze.” Escape From the City: 9 Winter Outings That Fight Cabin Fever 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z That anecdote is presented as neither formative nor illuminating. ‘Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?’: for fans of Noam Chomsky 2013-12-12T21:02:16Z The results are stimulating and illuminating — and also just plain old goofy fun. New in science fiction: the dreams and visions of outsiders and misfits 2012-03-28T19:31:05Z But illuminating passages like these are all too rare. ‘Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth’ by John Szwed 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The film, directed by Nick Read, is full of sumptuous images — it’s more attractive than illuminating — yet despite the tabloid-bait subject matter provided by recent scandals, it’s surprisingly short on drama. Review: ‘Bolshoi Babylon,’ Russia’s Famed Ballet Troupe in a Scandal’s Glare 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z He has the illuminating experience of finding a French D.J. who says he has dreamed of visiting the Bronx his whole life, because his role model is the Bronx D.J. Books of The Times: ‘Rebel Music,’ by Hisham D. Aidi 2014-04-23T21:51:25Z Yet I couldn’t help wishing it had spent less time anticipating Grahame’s death and a little more illuminating her life. Review: ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool’ Shares a Last-Gasp Romance 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z It remains one of the most illuminating documents of the artistic process in any medium, and is thankfully still available, unlike the criminally scarce Brownlow and Gill “Hollywood” series. The perfect double bill: Classic Hollywood from “The Artist,” Chaplin 2012-06-26T12:10:00Z “The Night Dances,” directed by Ms. Wieder-Atherton, is played atop a simple elevated platform with lights illuminating the performers. Review: ‘The Night Dances,’ With Charlotte Rampling and Sonia Wieder-Atherton 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z But Mr. Gold’s production never succeeds in illuminating the eternal questions the play explores about the liberation of the caged spirit, as opposed to antiquated ones about the emancipation of an oppressed wife. | 'A Doll's House': A Nora Who Could Text All Her Discontents 2011-07-25T22:00:10Z "His candid portrait – vigorous, illuminating and sometimes shocking – allows Jamaica to speak for itself," they said. Ian Thomson wins ?10,000 Ondaatje prize 2010-05-25T11:24:00Z A cerebral and illuminating pianist, especially in contemporary repertoire, he’s not a player who dazzles you with pianism per se, instead reaching through the music to find expression and communication. Review | Even a great orchestra needs a great conductor: Concertgebouw pales at Kennedy Center 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Photograph: Magnum Photos It struck me, too, while looking at the 10 images by Cartier-Bresson around which this illuminating show revolves, that the same sense of silence was a recurring motif in all his work. Henri Cartier-Bresson: who can beat the master of monochrome? 2012-11-07T14:58:41Z Thomas Doherty’s illuminating new “Show Trial” presents readers with the tumultuous state of labor relations in the American film industry that led to several investigations into Hollywood, culminating in 1947. Review | When Hollywood caved to the House Un-American Activities Committee 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z David Herskovits, Target Margin’s founding artistic director, leads his company in multiyear explorations of classic texts that can yield mind-bendingly illuminating results — and recently did, with an immersion into the plays of Eugene O’Neill. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z “Reagan: The Life” contains little that will surprise professional historians, but lay readers will find it illuminating. The great storyteller’s story 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z One of the most illuminating conversations I’ve ever had was with a high school basketball star in Texas. Sports Stories That Transcend Sport 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z The real shortcoming of “Teach” isn’t its lack of teeth; it’s that the camera-in-a-classroom approach, a favorite of documentarians trying to say something about schools, is rarely very illuminating. Television Review: Davis Guggenheim Goes to School With New Film 2013-09-05T20:28:12Z Certainly a lifetime of taste is more illuminating than whatever one read last week. The Virtues of Shelf-lessness 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z The two Wright sisters told illuminating stories of the prejudice they suffered as Anglo-Indians before coming to Yorkshire from India. Manningham gets English Heritage guide 2010-06-25T10:23:00Z No wonder we find this little insect so illuminating, so magical. Humans love fireflies, but we haven’t made life easy for them 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the characters making the arguments are so shallowly drawn that their exchanges are as informative as one of those CNN panels of campaign surrogates, and they are about as illuminating. Surprise! Newt Gingrich’s thriller ‘Treason’ features a bumbling female president 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z But in the meantime, scholars have provided an illuminating examination of her life and significance. Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Filmed over several years, “Marx Can Wait” starts with toasts and table-talk, and then gravitates toward the black hole of Camillo’s death, in the process illuminating the legacy of a difficult and fascinating family. ‘Marx Can Wait’ Review: A Director Digs Into His Brother’s Death 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z But from a historical perspective, it’s fascinating and illuminating. ‘For a New World to Come,’ Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z If only it was more insightful and illuminating, on a human scale. New play 'Sextet' explores link between misery and art 2010-10-21T17:11:00Z As most of the sun is obscured, the quality of the light begins to change, illuminating the landscape in a manner unlike any you have ever seen. Why I chase eclipses 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z “We hope it will be illuminating,” Timothy said. Film: Animators Amok in a Curiosity Cabinet 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z It’s also more admirable in theory than it is illuminating in practice. Review: In ‘This Time Tomorrow,’ a Family Will Be Upended 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z But in the hands of two of the craft's best, the most ordinary of moments become illuminating, penetrating. 'Love Is Strange' and profound with Lithgow, Molina paired 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z It is nimble and surefooted, illuminating, and above all, entertaining. With “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence," CNN has its "Succession" 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Instead, it is as manipulative as it is illuminating. Exhibition Review: A Golden Age in Science, Full of Light and Shadow 2010-12-09T23:34:00Z The individual works of art and the illuminating groupings within the exhibition are like theatrical acts, offering views of his processes. Review: Picasso show lives up to the hype, and more 2010-10-07T21:38:00Z Our review, by the science writer James Gleick, calls it “a thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science,” one that raises thorny philosophical questions. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Think of unstructured time as negative space in a painting, illuminating what is otherwise hard to see. Beyond the summer book list: How to cultivate a childhood reading habitat 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Candlelight flickers up the walls, illuminating the drooping tongues of gargoyles. In search of a very British, and rural, kind of horror 2013-02-05T11:33:50Z Avishai's conversational study mixes memoir, historically contextualised analysis of themes such as Jewish identity and psychoanalysis, and sparely illuminating comments from Roth himself. Non-fiction roundup – reviews 2012-08-24T07:00:04Z And we’ve missed sharing illuminating new experiences among other people who are experiencing the same thing at the same time — feeling and growing alongside one another. ‘Blue,’ an opera on police violence named best new opera, opens in Seattle soon 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z It is impossible not to think, reading this illuminating and compelling biography, that Pearl Buck had the last laugh. Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck's Life in China by Hilary Spurling 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z It’s illuminating to view this swathe of the United States through Mim’s one good eye. Best new children’s books 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z To this end, the book's epigraph is illuminating. Caught on camera: Danny Lyon's Like a Thief's Dream 2011-01-11T15:22:50Z And trusting that in itself is inherently funny or illuminating. Tobias Menzies on playing Prince Philip: "I didn't feel I was ever going to get a call from him" 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z You may argue your way through it, and also take issue with some of its contextual artworks — this show is nearly half non-Sottsass — but it is an invigorating, illuminating experience. A Polymathic Italian Designer, With Muses and Friends 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Fine saxophonist and Hayes scholar Simon Spillett provides the typically illuminating album notes. Tubby Hayes: Little Giant Steps – review 2013-03-07T22:45:01Z There may be some gaps in our collective knowledge, but a trio of novels steps into that void, beautifully illuminating Korea’s past in ways that inform our present. Review | Three novels about Korean history give context for current events 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Dance as ritual is Mr. Battle’s forte, but the ritual in “Awakening” remains puzzling, and not in an ultimately illuminating way; the pieces, polished as they are, amount to a tenuous whole. Review: Alvin Ailey’s ‘Awakening’ Projects a Sense of Fight-or-Flight 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z "Lestat's blood was giggling inside me; teasing my senses, illuminating the District with overwhelming detail, as if I'd walked my entire life as a dead man," Louis says. How Anne Rice's alcoholism influenced "Interview with the Vampire" 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z And yet while it sometimes falls into patterns of swooning sameness, “Chéri” also contains passages in which fleeting emotion is captured in precise, illuminating movement. Theater Review: Alessandra Ferri and Herman Cornejo in ‘Chéri’ at the Signature 2013-12-09T03:00:11Z Thant Myint-U has titled his reflective and illuminating new book “The Hidden History of Burma,” even though he gently suggests that the country’s past wasn’t so much obscured as it was hiding in plain sight. ‘The Hidden History of Burma’ Traces the Vanishing of Hope 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z These and other illuminating tidbits are revealed in a new study looking at the traits and behaviors of dating app Zoosk's 27 million users. Dating analysis charts romantic behavior, state by state 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z But the sole public statement on the matter from Steven Spielberg, who directed another of the film’s segments, remains illuminating. ‘Twilight Zone: The Movie’ and the Deadly Accident That Plagued It 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z Boo's nonfiction book, set in a Mumbai slum, also is a story of a boy and his harsh and illuminating education in the consequences of crime or perceived crime. Erdrich wins National Book Award for fiction 2012-11-15T04:18:08Z It was illuminating, but as I wandered around, a number of unsettling thoughts gripped me. Essay: Postcards From My Literary Staycation 2010-08-27T15:04:00Z Some are written in the now rather old-fashioned obscurantist style of academia a quarter century ago; others are incisive, helpful and illuminating. Wandering from the straight path of clarity, it’s still full of powerful art 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z At times, the individual and collective narrators seem to step on each other’s toes, covering the same events and recollections in a manner more repetitive than it is illuminating. Imbolo Mbue’s ‘How Beautiful We Were’ Exposes the Human Cost of Capital 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z But while the abandonment of enchantment is often illuminating, occasionally it ties Schwarz in knots. Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z It is illuminating to put it side by side with Tarantino’s movie – a model village of meticulous nostalgia built by a man who was six years old at the time. Peter Fonda: the elegant rebel who set the counterculture in motion 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z It might sound weird, but the more I researched it — it was more illuminating than I expected. 24 Tense Hours in Abraham Lincoln’s Life 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Normally when he’s onstage, Harvard turns off his hearing aids, because it is a deaf world he is usually illuminating. In ‘Mockingbird,’ a deaf actor finally gets his wish: Not to be defined solely by deafness 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Before you shudder, rest assured that Clarke isn’t doctrinaire or heavy-handed in this; she simply supplies an illuminating, hitherto absent context. ‘Brothers of the Quill’: How an 18th-century hack found his literary footing 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Even so, the balance generally on display throughout the roster still provided an illuminating counterpoint to, say, the Academy Awards, where the monochromatic nature of the nominees this past year led to an #OscarsSoWhite hashtag. Emmys 2015: 'Empire,' 'Transparent' nods signal new age of TV diversity 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Still, the peaks Mr. Zorn achieved were compelling, and the whole exercise provided illuminating access to the impulsive workings of a limitless, tireless creative mind. Music Review: John Zorn at the Miller Theater - Review 2011-12-11T21:43:46Z In the modern works that followed, Ms. Chase and her collaborators showed a consistent knack for illuminating communicative strands within knotty conceptions. Music Review: Claire Chase Playing Flute at Weill Recital Hall 2010-04-23T22:34:00Z Their halting attraction is sweet, but it’s in the brief glimpses of Robert’s unstable passions that the movie finds its true subject, illuminating with touching honesty the heightened joys and terrors of madness. Review: Saving Dad, and Finding Herself, in ‘My Name Is Emily’ 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z I have a subconscious wish to see in one illuminating flash how another person figured out her story so I can gain some insight into mine. I’ve been on a diet since I was four. Can I finally make peace with my body? 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z Their newest product is Illuminaughty, an illuminating scrub that leaves an “everlasting glow” and smells like coconut and jasmine, according to its product page. Are You Being Kind to Your Butt? 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z O’Toole is a gifted narrator with a knack for illuminating the significance of well-known people and events. Woodrow Wilson Achieved a Lot. So Why Is He So Scorned? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Quammen — like the journalist Laurie Garrett in her illuminating and encyclopedic book “The Coming Plague” — shows in these pages that the reality of the virus is horrifying without any apocalyptic embellishment. ‘Ebola,’ a History by David Quammen 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z At one point, Banfield Norris shared her frustration with the entire scandal, illuminating the issue of racial inequality. Lori Loughlin’s daughter Olivia Jade on college admissions scandal: "I don’t deserve pity" 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z For those looking to understand more about Prince’s musical life in his final years, Ms. Hill’s larger story is illuminating. Popcast: Prince’s Fateful Flight and Judith Hill’s Story 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Straddling five decades, “Love, Love, Love” offers its own illuminating take on the ebb and flow of political idealism and indignation. Arts & Leisure: ‘Denial,’ ‘Bofors Gun’ and the London Revival of Rage 2012-06-17T00:00:31Z The second half was given to Fauré's second piano quintet, an illuminating choice considering the increasing affinity between his style and Watkins' own. Huw Watkins Day – review 2013-02-12T17:38:44Z An equally illuminating show at the museum grounds the proto-Minimalist abstract paintings of Josef Albers in the geometric grandeur of Mesoamerican monuments in Mexico. Art for the Holidays: A New York Visitors’ Guide 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Rather, he said, illuminating the president in unexpected shades is somehow even more useful. Perspective | You think your job has baggage? Try playing Donald Trump or Fidel Castro. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z It’s been an illuminating week for Harry Potter fans. J.K. Rowling Shoots Down Fan Theory About Dumbledore's Past 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Much of what Lahr has to say is illuminating, though the cogency of his interpretations is marred by overconfidence. The shame and glory of Tennessee Williams in John Lahr's new book 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The white supremacist spouts the usual vitriol, not really illuminating anything so much as confirming a stereotype: If it speaks with a Southern accent, it must be a racist. Theater Review: ‘Handbook for an American Revolutionary’ Is a One-Man Show 2013-07-23T02:00:02Z At Wine School, we find it fascinating and illuminating to ponder the nature of wine’s appeal. The Beauty of Saumur Champigny, Not Always Appreciated 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z But the real miracle, according to this illuminating “All’s Well,” is that love keeps happening between men and women. | 'All?s Well That Ends Well' : Flawed Man Draws a Good Woman 2011-06-26T22:27:12Z Despite a sweet scene between Ms. Copeland and Raven Wilkinson, a black ballerina who performed in the 1950s, the film isn’t particularly illuminating about race and ballet. Review: ‘A Ballerina’s Tale’ Chronicles the Rise of Misty Copeland 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Lower, rightly, disputes this, though in a sparse and not especially illuminating way. When Genocide Is Caught on Film 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Not that such descriptions do justice to the extraordinary images sampled in Molly Bernstein’s illuminating documentary. Review: ‘An Art That Nature Makes,’ an Illuminating Look at Rosamond Purcell 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z They campaigned to change the nature of American politics, and here is where Axelrod's story is unintentionally illuminating. Political consultant David Axelrod delivers in revealing 'Believer' 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z For the purposes of this illuminating and sometimes maddening book, the history of Brooklyn is a series of experiments with unpredictable and uneven results. A New History Celebrates Brooklyn’s Heights, and Depths 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Yet, with the help of illuminating descriptive labels lifted from Mr. Roberts’s book, those here cumulatively bring to mind a panoramic vista that’s as entertaining as it is edifying. ‘A Brief History’ Depicts City’s Story at Historical Society 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Or, to be more illuminating, Mr Betjeman giving his impression of the popular poet baffled by his own success but determined to enjoy himself none the less. From the archive, 18 July 1960: The first Lake District Festival is launched 2012-07-18T06:30:00Z As dance historian Janice Ross writes in her illuminating biography, “Like a Bomb Going Off ,” a grateful Plisetskaya praised him as a “daring master who rejects even the least conspicuous clichés in art.” ‘Like a Bomb Going Off,’ by Janice Ross 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z For me, at least, this documentary was an illuminating, inspiring, painful and highly necessary trip into the past. How AIDS activism changed America 2012-09-22T17:00:00Z That line appears more than once in “Jaco,” an illuminating, compassionate new documentary, and its hubris comes across as both playful and deeply serious. ‘Jaco,’ a Documentary About the Jazz Musician Jaco Pastorius 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z The actors speak the recursive, perplexing lines quickly, illuminating little. Review: ‘Hand Foot Fizzle Face’ Explores Futility and Disconnection 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The use of hacking as either a plot element or illuminating ingredient is minor at best. ‘Amnesia,’ Peter Carey’s New Novel 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z But it isn't exactly expansive or illuminating, and it leaves you with few options beyond wisecracking as you die, the way one character so memorably does in both these movies. "A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop": "Blood Simple," Hunan-style 2010-09-03T19:31:00Z Short solos join group pieces in this fun, imaginative and occasionally illuminating showcase of contemporary dance as seen through the uninhibited lens of young budding artists. Dance Listings for Jan. 30-Feb. 5 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z That the face is often that of a Mohawk underscores Ms. Krieger’s dedication to illuminating American Indians’ contributions to many New York buildings. | 'Sky Boys' : A Boy and a Building Help Shape Each Other 2011-02-22T22:02:27Z It forms an illuminating extension to the major South African survey “Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and Bureaucracy of Everyday Life,” now at the International Center of Photography. Art In Review: ‘DISTANCE AND DESIRE’: ‘Encounters With the African Archive, Part I: Santu Mofokeng and A. M. Duggan-Cronin’ 2012-09-20T20:15:51Z In this Australian series, photographers and filmmakers take viewers behind the camera lens, illuminating the natural and cultural context around iconic images they capture. A world of small-screen adventure: Here are the best travel TV shows for streaming 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z This is what Kylie Jenner got so spectacularly wrong that her gaffe ended up illuminating our own questionable rules when it comes to violence against women as entertainment. Perspective | America already binge-watches violence against women. Kylie Jenner just took a selfie while doing it. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z But when the rain turned into fog after nightfall, the firework display was held as planned, its costly flares and sparkles vanishing into the cloud cover, illuminating the sky with indistinct, dissipated light. I’m Not Going To Dismaland 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z In all of them Tóibín's focus is laser-incisive, illuminating complexities and contradictions of behavior in prose that couldn't be more shrewd or clear. In 'The Empty Family,' Colm T?ib?n's penetrating eye sees all: straight, gay, past, present 2011-01-12T22:50:04Z Fear of death expresses itself most commonly as self-pity, and self-pity does not lead to illuminating or fierce autobiography; it leads to therapy. Greg Baxter's top 10 memento mori 2010-07-21T11:15:00Z Two illuminating Radio 4 documentaries focused on flawed, larger-than-life characters who battled their demons and lost. Desert Island Discs; Robert Winston's Musical Analysis; Ziggy Stardust Came From Isleworth 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z The new Polin Museum, too, with its inventively illuminating survey of the thousand-year history of Poland’s Jews, seems a monument of atonement. In Poland, Searching for Jewish Heritage 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Beginning on a snowy school day in 1970s Omaha, the reliably wizardly Ware tracks his characters backward and forward across time, letting us into their innermost lives while also illuminating how they all connect. The Best Comics of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z It may be educational and instructive, illuminating and entertaining — all worthy and beneficial outcomes. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z Maybe I missed the illuminating 90 seconds in Bruno and A Million Ways to Die in the West and Gigli that made them seem clever and ingenious and morally uplifting, and not stupid and offensive. I missed a crucial moment in Jurassic World. Have I misjudged every movie? | Joe Queenan 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Photograph: Paul Allitt As director of Kettle's Yard between 1992 and 2011, Michael Harrison, who has died of cancer aged 65, transformed this delightful Cambridge gallery into a dynamic and illuminating space for contemporary art. Michael Harrison 2013-05-12T12:13:50Z Each game has a placard illuminating a bit of its history, but none sit behind glass or in exhibitions. Heads Up: Pinball Museums Light Up Around the Country 2010-12-17T20:45:23Z Sensitive and illuminating, they do not ignore the tragedy’s scope. 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z But the pairing of the leads was especially illuminating, partly because of Ms. Murphy’s poignant and regal Odette. Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Swan Lake’ Adds Drama to Romance 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z When the feminist strands bump up against the more conservative, Law and Order strands, I think it’s really interesting and illuminating and revealing, and that’s all there in Ann Rule’s work. Why are women obsessed with true crime? Rachel Monroe has some answers 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z As the former front man of Power Station said those words, the sun shot through a clerestory window in the chapel, illuminating his face. Kim Fowley's Hollywood funeral draws stars, L.A. music insiders 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z From my bag I produced a handful of Ikea tea candles and set them on ledges around the cave, illuminating the lush mosses and ferns. November is hot-spring season in the wild woods 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z In the best segments, the emergency functions as a kind of allegory, illuminating something about the characters called to handle it, a technique Minear practiced on shows like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel.” When the World Feels Like a Disaster, ‘9-1-1’ Is on Call 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z In April, the museum will have an exhibition at the Tate Modern spotlighting artworks created by Mr. Tovey, the army veteran, and including workshops on homelessness and a display of objects illuminating the homeless experience. Museums With Ideas, Goals and Sometimes Art. But Walls? No. 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z An illuminating new work of history called “The Social Life of Books,” by Abigail Williams, describes the public’s obsession with reading aloud — and together — in 18th-century England. The book is dead. Long live the book festival. 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z The real story about the explosive relationship between Maggie and Noah is episodically revealed with Scottoline illuminating the landing strip of revelations and truths in a deliciously slow and intense way. Review | Lisa Scottoline’s deliciously distracting thriller ‘After Anna’ 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z There is much illuminating biographical material on both Brian Epstein and George Martin and keen insight into why they became essential to the Beatles’ success. Books of The Times: ‘Tune In,’ Part 1 of a Beatles Biography, by Mark Lewisohn 2013-12-11T21:46:20Z This book is unlikely to change minds, but it is illuminating. The Year’s Best Wine Books 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Sure enough, the arc was sweeping majestically along the coast toward us, illuminating the beaches and hills and fluted cliffs along the way. Explorer : Mud, Leeches and Stunning Beauty in Tasmania 2013-01-25T17:51:24Z Programming algebra, however, is not necessarily linear, and none of these things added up to an illuminating performance of one of Mozart's lesser-played concertos, a piece for connoisseurs who marvel at its craftily hidden delights. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra explores Mozart by way of Sacred Harp, Haydn by way of flamenco 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z In the context of this program, it works best as illuminating contrast. Review: Black Grace, From New Zealand With Incredible Speed 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Bennett illuminatingly imagines the Queen being at first daunted by Jane Austen: so far distant in terms of rank, she is unable to appreciate the – to her – relatively small social divisions between Austen's characters. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett – review 2012-05-29T11:00:22Z The movie is to Callas what last year’s “Jane” was to Jane Goodall: A documentary that revitalizes history through primary sources, to illuminating, at times enthralling effect. Review: Demystifying a Diva in ‘Maria by Callas’ 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z This 10-acre site is illuminating, and not only because of its more than 1,200 huge lanterns. Holiday Nights, Merry and Bright 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z It's a lazy strategy that, shockingly, proves illuminating. The political life of David Ben-Gurion 2011-12-28T21:47:05Z Removing that diagnosis was a milestone moment, and it was followed by an outpouring of theorizing about how old ideas may be applied in newly illuminating ways to the psychology of being gay. The Couch in Rainbow Colors: ‘L.G.B.T.-Affirming’ Therapy 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z The critical perspectives are not always terribly illuminating. | 'Mark Lombardi: Death-Defying Acts': ‘Mark Lombardi: Death-Defying Acts’ at MoMA 2012-09-12T21:43:09Z But it ultimately crumbles under the weight of its own scruples, illuminating the difficulties contemporary music faces in claiming political relevance. ‘A Gun Show’ Raises Questions Beyond the Music 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Mr Sebestyen deserves praise for illuminating a low point in modern history. The cold war’s first chill 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The point of such lists—their pleasure and their limit—is the element of self-portraiture; they’re far more illuminating about their authors than about the movies in question. Choosing the Best American Movies 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z The lives of two friends who grew up in a northwest London housing project diverge, illuminating questions of race, class, sexual identity and personal choice, in Smith’s energetic modernist novel. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z The sex in I Want Your Love is plentiful, explicit and unsimulated but also illuminating in terms of numerous characters' relationships with one another. New-wave queer cinema: 'Gay experience in all its complexity' 2012-10-04T18:59:01Z Yes, there are documentaries such as Capitalism: A Love Story, or Cleveland Versus Wall Street, but they are designed to be pedagogical without being particularly illuminating. The problem with money in the movies 2010-10-07T21:30:00Z It’s an evocative exchange, one that the Harvard legal historian Tomiko Brown-Nagin showcases to illuminating effect in “Civil Rights Queen,” the first major biography of Motley, a decade in the making. ‘Civil Rights Queen,’ the Story of a Brave and Brilliant Trailblazer 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Shots of sunset walks, watering holes and birds flying in formation are more decorative than illuminating. 'I Am': Rare feel-good documentary explores happiness and the meaning of life 2011-02-24T22:43:41Z You half expect costumed docents to guide you through, illuminating life chez Churchill. Home & Design: History helps breathe life into a Georgian manor in Virginia It seems to me it’s the whole purpose of art — that rare feeling of control, illuminating — life is all right.” Theater Review: ‘Dear Elizabeth,’ a Sarah Ruhl Play 2012-12-10T22:49:38Z Sober, none of the music was more interesting, effective, illuminated or illuminating in this space than it would have been elsewhere. At the Sonic Sphere, a ‘Whoa’ Moment (and Some Music) 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z It’s a little on the technical side, but it’s so incredibly illuminating. What Is Driving Vladimir Putin? 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Philibert opens on a whirl of faces and voices, with illuminating words like Japan, earthquake and Strauss-Kahn cutting through the commotion. Movie Review: ‘La Maison de la Radio,’ by Nicolas Philibert 2013-09-03T20:09:03Z A reception area leads into the main gallery spaces, which are situated around the building’s original curved hallways, with gentle backlighting illuminating the rotating installations. A New Spa in Italy Has an Art Gallery Upstairs 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z It’s an illuminating exercise in both self-reflection and groupthink — and an example of how, as audiences emerge from personal hibernation, theater is seeking novel kinds of visceral engagement. Review | Ann Dowd, the twisted Aunt Lydia of ‘Handmaid’s Tale,’ beguiles in a new take on Ibsen’s ‘Enemy of the People’ 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Irene is a sympathetic, attractive, purposely opaque character with a quick mind and tongue, a richness of character that Hall’s filmmaking and Thompson’s performance convey in exacting, illuminating detail. ‘Passing’ Review: Black Skin, White Masks 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Her latest book, Women & Power: A Manifesto, brings an illuminating historical perspective to the contemporary abuse of powerful women. Hillary Clinton meets Mary Beard: ‘I would love to have told Trump: “Back off, you creep”’ 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z In “Words Without Music”, the 78-year-old composer’s illuminating and at-times diffident memoir, Glass describes his musical journey, which began at Baltimore’s Peabody Conservatory, where he took flute lessons starting at age 8. ‘Words Without Music’: A look inside Philip Glass’s creative genius 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Fiber-optic lighting shines through fragments of glass in the composite walls, illuminating a hallway. Striking Images 2010-03-01T00:00:00Z And though, as Mr. Dorfman noted, his dances, with their text and “physical metaphors,” don’t require explanation or demystification, much of his commentary was illuminating. Dance Review: David Dorfman Dance, With an Expanded Company 2014-03-26T22:05:03Z For “Street Philosophy,” Dyer has taken a hundred of Winogrand’s photographs, arranged them “roughly chronologically” and provided illuminating context — biographical and historical — for each. Geoff Dyer Takes to the Streets With Garry Winogrand 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Strips of color fill the cube, eventually flowing outside it and ultimately illuminating the walls and the audience — who find themselves inside a Mondrian painting in progress. The Hague paints the town red, blue and yellow in honor of artist Mondrian 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z She's adept at illuminating how certain periods and places — the forging of the American Colonies, the rise of industrialization — lent themselves to powerful turning points in female community and collaboration. 'The Social Sex' is an entertaining but uneven history of female friendships 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z While this posed certain challenges for the show, it ultimately made for an illuminating and suspenseful episode. Making the "Only Murders in the Building" nearly silent episode 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Their talk is terrific, too, illuminating and fond. Antony's Meltdown – review 2012-08-11T23:06:00Z The result is a thorough and illuminating biography that, with any luck, will lead a new generation of readers to MacDonald’s own remarkable work. The plucky author behind the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Artificial Intelligence, the joy is in watching the brave new world come into focus, illuminating just how close today's society might be to that spooky futuristic society. Review of Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman 2011-10-07T15:30:00Z Most illuminating was the pairing of Hanna Bass and Samuel Rodriguez; the lovely Ms. Bass, in particular, fastidiously performed the steps, and her magnetism came down to how, in doing so, she revealed her spirit. ABT Studio Company Offers ‘Le Corsaire’ Excerpts 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Sometimes they’re even used for cinematically counterintuitive purposes, like illuminating a quest for the divine. 'Knight of Cups:' Why Terrence Malick is at the top of his game 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z He offered a few critiques, but more often he paused to share stories and historical tidbits, illuminating the lineage and theory behind the movements he was teaching. At Rennie Harris’s Hip-Hop University, Teaching the Teachers 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Last week, Billboard ran an illuminating article about the process by which a band or individual musician gets elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Cheap Trick is one of the best rock bands ever — why aren’t they in the Hall of Fame? 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Trip Advisor also has an airline review page, and a Twitter search using a hashtag with the airline name can also be illuminating. How to Check the Safety of a Charter Airline 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z But strangely, given Mr. Akhtar’s earlier work, it didn’t feel newly illuminating. Loving and Hating the Broadway Season: Our Critics Could Have Argued All Night 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Some of Levine’s most persuasively illuminating performances happened to revolve around compassionately confronting the frailties, foibles and outright crimes of Mozart’s characters as they are coaxed into an examination of inner lives. On the Met's James Levine, and the age-old debate of separating the art from the artist 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z She tries to do something similar here, but in this film the commitment to romance is not an illuminating factor, but a fatal miscalculation. Review: ‘Where Hands Touch,’ Set in Nazi Germany, Is a Disturbing Misfire 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z As much as we think we know about these famous people, finding out about what they don’t know about themselves is more illuminating. The stealthy politics of "Finding Your Roots" 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Instead, he's bent on illuminating the power of ancient myth: Greek, Irish, Japanese, you name it ... much of it as brutal as it is seductive. Underwater grotto meets aerial acrobatics in the Cabiri's 'Devil in the Deep Blue Sea' 2010-10-27T20:42:00Z In “Migraine,” Katherine Foxhall delivers a thorough and illuminating history of migraine that traces our endeavors to understand, treat and eliminate this painful condition we still know little about. Review | Migraines have plagued me for years. A new book puts my pain in perspective. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Sometimes these snapshots are illuminating, though often they come across as padding for a book whose focus is on Egypt, and Cairo in particular. Sex and the Citadel by Shereen El Feki – review 2013-03-06T14:00:01Z And whereas its productions of 19th-century classics used to be its cornerstone, leading the world in illuminating style, textual tradition and dramatic seriousness, none of its current ones are good enough. Royal Ballet Has Slipped a Little From Its Peak Form 2013-12-20T20:39:50Z I’ve found it illuminating, having given birth to my third child, to see how times have changed. Cultural Studies: In Celebrity Climate, From Bump to Paunch, Pudgy Moms Can’t Get a Break 2012-08-17T20:19:36Z Most, though, were new — an illuminating peek at new technologies, new ingredients, and a brave new world of home baking possibilities. We tasted 10 vegan butters in the name of science 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z Floyd’s picture, created when she was just 13, is an experiment in illuminating her own face, a defiant rejoinder to the ways that the camera can produce racial bias if not used with care. Picturing Black Childhood: An Artist’s Journey 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z “Afterparties” is a deeply personal, frankly funny, illuminating portrait of furtive, meddling aunties, sweaty, bored adolescents and the plaintive search for survival that connects them. From Anthony Veasna So, Glimpses of Cambodian Life in California 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The details are illuminating, especially the hooks and bars on the back. The Costumes in Modern Dance’s Attic 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Schiff is a magnificent pianist, and these performances were profoundly illuminating. Pianist Andras Schiff mesmerizes with last sonatas of 4 composers 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z And nothing can fuel your understanding -- or your rage -- like this illuminating, handy breakdown by Mother Jones. 2011's best -- so far! 2011-07-04T15:01:00Z Yet, while lavish and illuminating, the show is also oddly listless, even hollow. Art Review: Reflections on the Self and the Wider World 2010-12-16T23:33:38Z But as illuminating as these interpretations were, they still gave the impression of occurring in the quaint alternate universe of a musical descended from operetta. Review: ‘Oklahoma!’ Preserves a Classic While Adding Punch 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Sorrow Swag” ends with a blaring reference to Samuel Beckett’s dramatic monologue “Not I,” a spotlight illuminating Mr. Getnick’s mouth and gold-encased teeth as he wails into the darkness. Review: American Realness Illuminates Racial Identities With 3 Dance Works 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z The evolution of the song from folkie ballad to hypnotic samba, preserved in a series of long, choreographed takes, would be illuminating in itself, but Mr. Godard had much more in mind. When Mick Met Jean-Luc 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z When you were filming the series, what was the most illuminating thing for you personally? Laura Jane Grace’s rebel music: “I doubt you’re gonna find a successful civil movement or social movement that doesn’t have a soundtrack” 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z But this illuminating exhibition in the Bronx reveals the artist’s brighter side. Artists works show how their gardens grow: The seeds of creativity 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Anderson is especially illuminating about Lawrence’s purely political gifts: his way of anticipating the fallout from strategic or military maneuvers, his “peculiar skill at polite belligerence,” his no-nonsense powers of description. Books of The Times: Scott Anderson’s ‘Lawrence in Arabia’ Revisits Legends 2013-09-08T20:10:15Z Christiane not remembering her sentences was an illuminating moment of the gravity of what they were experiencing in there. Could you stay sane on Mars? Real-life mission simulator put six people to the test in "Red Heaven" 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z “Vanishing Pearls” is most illuminating when offering a historical perspective. Movie Review: ‘Vanishing Pearls’ Looks at the Deepwater Horizon Spill 2014-04-18T02:15:52Z It's not the only valid way to make a movie, but it's demanding and illuminating, and there are not as many rewards in it as there are in the shoot-the-camera-out-of-a-cannon type of directorial pyrotechnics. Sidney Lumet, 1924-2011: He made movies for grownups 2011-04-09T22:45:00Z As the Nigerian film industry’s first Christmas comedy since it became a Netflix partner, this romp about three brothers trying to make their mother’s holiday wish a reality is festive and illuminating. ‘A Naija Christmas’ Review: Honoring a Mother’s Wish 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z But “Kusama — Infinity,” while conventionally structured, provides ample, illuminating access to an artist’s way of thinking and working. Review: ‘Kusama — Infinity’ Gives an Artist Her Due 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z In PJ’s case, especially, it’s the ambiguity of what happened to him on one fine day on the island of Inishmore that feels so resonant and, paradoxically, so illuminating. Review: ‘On Blueberry Hill’ Looks Back in Radiant Regret 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Contemporary dance in Morocco is still “fragile,” as Benali put it in an illuminating question-and-answer session with the audience after the performance. Moroccan dance ‘Identity/Identite’ is bold and liberating, but its intentions aren’t clear But these are minor objections to a work that is illuminating in its mission to tell the story of the wolf mind and of individual wolf personalities. Review | This husband-and-wife team ran with wolves for years. Here’s what they learned. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z But always the view from the top is illuminating. What Made Our Species Unique: Walking 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z The interviews are illuminating, if not always flattering. “Chuck has his own way of showing appreciation”: Concert documentary “Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll” offers a candid Insight into Chuck Berry 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z But Lazarus’s life provides a more illuminating context for the meaning of “The New Colossus.” Perspective | Don’t let the Trump administration vandalize Lady Liberty’s inspiring message 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Ohlsson opened with Liszt's labyrinthine arrangement of Bach's Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor, illuminating all the inner voices of the Fugue portion with unusual clarity. Garrick Ohlsson performs a superb night of Liszt in Seattle 2012-03-08T17:57:04Z Overcooked bacon is a clear danger here, despite the illuminating timer dial. Kitchen gadgets review: Bacon Express – this toaster for bacon is the abomination we deserve 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z This dark but illuminating return to his fictional roots is Perry at his representative best. Review | ‘Eddie’s Boy,’ by Thomas Perry, continues the saga of a retired hit man who can’t escape his past 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z It is one of the most endearing attributes of this storyteller of outsize gifts and estimable skills at synthesizing the arcane and the everyday into illuminating, spoken treatises, usually on vital American subjects. Review | The provocative Mike Daisey is a straight-shooter in his solo show about guns. 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Jones is especially good at illuminating the ambivalence that activates an enticing mystery in this production: Laurey seems repulsed by the slightly creepy Jud, and yet also intrigued by his off-kilter intensity. Review | A radical new Broadway ‘Oklahoma!’ says it’s not such a beautiful mornin’ in America 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Click to enlarge Thank you for your illuminating monograph on Tolstoy which perfectly reflects my own anti-existentialist interpretation of his character; one that I iterated some years ago, I recall. Building: Letters 1960-1975 by Isaiah Berlin – review 2013-07-07T17:00:00Z Think of the Barbara Ehrenreich method, all of this work and explaining and illuminating and understanding, and all of these quests, and it’s all very valuable. Tom Frank interviews Barbara Ehrenreich: “You’re the anti-Ayn Rand” 2014-04-06T11:00:00Z The other five were all friendly and illuminating. Taking the Empire Builder train across America 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z “Never” is a cautionary tale about the power of unintended consequences, and it is disturbing and illuminating in equal measure. Review | Ken Follett’s latest epic is a cautionary tale of global catastrophe 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Here are some of the most illuminating moments: Gloria Steinem tells Lena Dunham why crying at work is powerful 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Brown’s analysis of key works is illuminating, but his claim that Henry was “our finest letter writer, our outstanding 19th-century historian,” remains open for debate. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Woven together by Jeff Malmberg — if not seamlessly, then with illuminating patience — these disparate strands honor an individual as unique as the miniature universe on which he depends. | 'Marwencol': Model Town as Safe Haven 2010-10-07T23:58:00Z Equally illuminating is her examination of the resentment that the military has generated by expanding its role, assuming responsibility for all manner of unlikely projects. Review: ‘How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything’ 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the otherwise illuminating retrospective has no catalog. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Sunday, closing illuminating reception starting with sunset walk through the neighborhood, 4-7 p.m. Community calendar 2012-01-25T23:08:10Z Their resolutely separate beams — one illuminating the contemporary route, the other the ancient — intersected more and more for subsequent musicians. Boulez and Harnoncourt, So Different, Yet More Alike Than They Realized 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z And that’s what makes the entire thread a fiercely illuminating conversation. Inside the mind of a serial rapist 2012-07-27T20:00:00Z Actually, his contention that Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare felt like an unrelated gripe shoehorned into an otherwise illuminating investigation, but at least he graciously allowed an Oxford professor to put the other case. TV review: The Hollow Crown: Richard II; Derek Jacobi on Richard II; Mad Mad World 2012-07-01T20:00:01Z Actually, this is underselling what a consistently entertaining and emotionally illuminating show this is. Smart Watch: “Insecure,” “Disenchantment,” and more top TV picks for this week 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z While the fear is that dances will diminish with age, sometimes they get better or just change in illuminating ways. Best Dance of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z More illuminating than his de factor ouster by NBCUniversal were the cries of righteous indignation leading up to it, from nearly everyone involved: Integrity restored, please return to not watching NBC news 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Evans has made a lively and illuminating tribute, and not always an unduly flattering one. ‘Claydream’ Review: Same Mold Story 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z To understand that, it helps to see multiple variations of particular subjects, and there are some illuminating examples in the exhibition. ‘Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts’ at the Morgan Library 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The 11-acre property is surrounded by stately trees and landscaping that includes colored lights illuminating the mansion at night. Graceland marks 30th year as tourist attraction 2012-06-13T11:19:09Z As he demonstrated in his illuminatingly unorthodox Broadway productions of two Arthur Miller plays, “A View From the Bridge” and “The Crucible,” Mr. van Hove aims at his audience’s gut, not its mind. Review: An Electrifying Bryan Cranston Is All the Rage in ‘Network’ 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Such passages provide the reader with some illuminating historical perspective and try to project a balanced kind of reasonableness on the part of the author. Books of The Times: In ?Gunfight,? Adam Winkler Traces the Gun-Control Battle 2011-10-09T21:04:24Z Undeterred, Conor eventually tracks down the Artist, the man behind the city's counterfeit money, for an illuminating chat. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 15-19 October 2012-10-15T07:00:00Z There’s a rich display of Spanish colonial art, and an illuminating gallery of Philadelphia’s free Black clockmakers, porcelain makers and silversmiths. Gehry’s Quiet Interventions Reshape the Philadelphia Museum 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z This all-consuming story rages along, bright and scalding, illuminating three intertwined lives in contemporary India. Review | Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Burning’ is blazing up the bestseller list and emerging as the must-read novel of the summer 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the behind-the-scenes stories from the movies are invariably more illuminating than the onscreen one. Female success and male decline: what A Star Is Born tells us about fame, fear and feminism 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z As the creator of the “Forbidden Broadway” series of satirical revues, which began in 1982, Mr. Alessandrini has emerged as one of the mainstream musical’s most incisive and illuminating critics and historians. Review: In ‘Spamilton,’ Broadway’s Savior Meets His Match. It’s Not Burr. 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z If the illuminating power of “The Flick” is refracted through an offbeat prism, “Disgraced” unfolds with a more laserlike focus. In uncovering tensions, productions expose humor and society’s fears 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z It was long — the final hour didn’t exactly fly by — but “La Substance” made for a hallucinatory experience equally illuminating and tedious. Dance Review: ‘La Substance, but in English’ Tweaks Consumerism 2014-01-13T23:29:50Z The curators often seem content to unearth a few modernist gems, create some illuminating juxtapositions and make local historical adjustments. Art Review: ‘A World of Its Own,’ Examining Photography, at MoMA 2014-02-06T22:33:50Z The experiments and observational studies reported in “Biased” are important and illuminating. Justice Is Blind. Sometimes, So Is Prejudice. 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z “Last Men in Aleppo” is a searing and illuminating documentary about volunteer medical aid workers in war-torn Syria. The Hidden Gems of 2017 Movies Are on ... Netflix? 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Listen Closely The New York Philharmonic is devoting most of March to the Modern Beethoven, a festival with two potentially illuminating, if not particularly novel, goals. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in the Modern Beethoven Festival 2012-03-02T22:43:08Z But one thing about age that is relevant: Your encounters with the Australian surfers who lived a deliberately vagabond lifestyle were illuminating in contrast to the circumstances around your journey. Hiking 630 miles of English coast, with nothing left to lose 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Nothing and no one is out of place in the world Shakespeare brought forth from his imagination, because that world remains an illuminating mirror of the one we live in. Review: ‘Twelfth Night,’ Anything Goes in Love and Shakespeare 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z And then give him one for spiritual effects, because “Stories by Heart” is delightful: illuminating the stories, uplifting us. Review: Surprise Lessons From John Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z But Shadowball is undeniably a thrilling and illuminating venture for its young participants. Shadowball 2010-07-01T21:00:00Z We hope that you find these war stories as moving and illuminating as we do. Sunday Reading: War Stories 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z Clusters of lights illuminating Lower Manhattan, as seen from the Empire State Building, in 1986. A Nostalgic Look at Independence Days of Yesteryear 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Artificial Intelligence, the joy is in watching the brave new world come into focus, illuminating just how close today’s society might be to that spooky futuristic society. Review of Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z Vikander earned a British Independent Film Award nomination last year for her illuminating performance. Vera Brittain's writings shaped Alicia Vikander's approach to role 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Watching “Roma,” one awaits such illuminating details about Cleo’s life outside of her employer’s family, and such a generously forthcoming and personal relationship between Cleo and the children in her care. There’s a Voice Missing in Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z As it stands, the early episodes may not be very illuminating regarding Dickinson or her poetry, but they’re a consistently amusing twist on teenage agita, and a lot quicker to watch than HBO’s “Euphoria.” Apple TV Plus: More Than ‘The Morning Show’ 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z That was part of their final American tour under their last chief conductor, Simon Rattle, whose interpretations could be willful in a way that was sometimes illuminating and sometimes frustrating. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Gives a Master Class at Carnegie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Stars collide and interweave in an illuminating gallery of small-scale prototypes, whose stellar forms appear as 3-D printing études. In Frank Stella’s Constellation of Stars, a Perpetual Evolution 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Yet there is something illuminating even in this — because when the curtain falls and we are trapped inside that house, the ghosts that we are left with don’t belong to the Mannons. Review: ‘Mourning Becomes Electra,’ Up Close and Powerful 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z The filmmakers never let us forget how hip they are to humanity’s dark side, and their hyperawareness is more wearying than it is illuminating. Review: Clooney's Overpolished 'Suburbicon' Misses the Mark 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Mbue’s capacious sympathy and careful fidelity to the voices of her characters — from the extraordinarily rich to the precariously poor — made “Behold the Dreamers” one of the most illuminating and touching novels of the year. Review | In ‘How Beautiful We Were,’ an African village goes up against an American oil company 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z In an evening consumed by make-believe, it was a rare moment of movement not just imitating life, but illuminating it. Review: City Ballet Dresses Up for Another Fashion Letdown 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Rush captures nature with precise words that almost amount to poetry; the book is further enriched with illuminating detail from the lives of those people inhabiting today’s coasts. Searching for Language to Capture How Climate Change Has Altered Our World 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z It’s a serene, meticulous game that rewards perfectionism and involves coaxing the wild creatures into picture-perfect poses by offering fruit, playing music and illuminating their silhouettes as night falls. The Video Games That Got Us Through 2021 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z Richards and Langthorne manage to be respectful of Jackson without shying away from the harsher truths about his life, but there are some moments when “83 Minutes” veers into invasive territory that isn’t always illuminating. The full story on Michael Jackson’s tragic death 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Altogether, the two biographies complement each other well in illuminating different aspects of Hannibal’s abilities as a military leader. World War II Seen by a Classicist, and Other New Books About Conflict 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z “She does not stop at illustrating or illuminating, she’s always asking questions, thinking, philosophizing.” Sheila Heti Is Still Asking Questions 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Dark corners are sometimes better undisturbed unless the benefit of illuminating them outweighs the destructive force of secrets revealed. My birth mother’s terrible accusations are tearing me apart | Dear Mariella 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z The gala, titled “Mozart — the Early Years,” was a brief but illuminating look at where it all began. L.A. Phil throws a Mozart gala with Dudamel, Wang, Thibaudet and fly chocolate balls 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Mane took the stage shortly after midnight, his jewelry and million-dollar smile illuminating the whole space. Gucci Mane, taking a spin through his catalogue, shows why he’s idolized by rappers and fans 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z “World Without End” is full of illuminating detail, drawn from painstaking work in archives, about the people and processes that made these extraordinary achievements possible. Border line 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z To be clear: These films do an outstanding job of threading viewers through their respective arguments, illuminating the effects of local and state legislation and giving voice to citizens living with their fallout. Perspective | Documentaries aren’t journalism, and there’s nothing wrong with that 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Here the various elements seldom reflect on one another in mutually illuminating ways. Review: A Captive Emily Dickinson in ‘Because I Could Not Stop’ 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Banks, whose great works resonate with such heart and soul, brings his full narrative powers to bear on illuminating this still largely unexplored new terrain. Books of The Times: Russell Banks?s Novel ?Lost Memory of Skin? - Review 2011-09-25T22:26:09Z For Diller, the collaboration with de Waal in illuminating the many corners of hidden history in his book has opened up significant aspects of her own past. Elizabeth Diller Is Retelling Edmund de Waal’s Story — and Her Own 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z The most illuminating parts of this muddled book are those in which Secrest quotes Schiaparelli's autobiography directly. 'Elsa Schiaparelli': Fashion designer too elusive for words 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The title of “Secret Sunshine” thus becomes both its moral and a description of its curiously illuminating qualities. | 'Secret Sunshine': Fierce Tests of Endurance and the Resilience of the Spirit 2010-12-21T23:18:57Z Butler’s “Lusus Naturae,” a trio exploring King Kong from the angle of decolonizing the self, was the most illuminating; at times, it could have been more subtle, but at least it was concise. Review: Reimagined Gibney Company Makes a Long-Winded Debut 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Sunlight flooded the room, illuminating the white clapboard walls and rafters. Dance: Pilobolus Takes On a Tango Inspired by a Music Video 2012-07-13T18:16:18Z Our critic called it a work of “disquieting, illuminating force.” The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z But her anger, in the end, clarifies and intensifies our view of her dilemma; it becomes an illuminating force. She Ate and Ate, and Never Felt Satisfied 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z To me, the most illuminating aspect of this book is that it’s absolutely humorless. Murder, Murder, Everywhere 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Scrooge’s boyhood misery and his relationship with his sister would be illuminating additions in a production that attracts children. Spare Times: For Children, for Dec. 9-15 2011-12-08T23:17:55Z Dozens of tiny candles twinkled in the warm night, illuminating tables set for dinner and stone stairs snaking down the mountain to bungalows. One of Guatemala’s most exquisite boutique hotels is owned by Francis Ford Coppola 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The result is an illuminating show called “First Peoples.” Museum Review: The Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City 2012-03-23T22:08:01Z But each of them goes through the book illuminating readers about how this harsh new China works. Books of The Times: A Comrade by Accident, a Seeker by Design 2011-06-09T21:52:53Z Reading it was illuminating and humbling; I felt as if my own son was responding to my own queries about what it's like to live inside an autistic mind. David Mitchell: learning to live with my son's autism 2013-06-29T08:00:00Z “Close to Home” is a dark but illuminating portrait of Belfast, painted by a man who knows the lads, the bars, the bookstores and back alleys that litter his birthplace. One Punch Later and Belfast Pulls Him Back 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z As in real life — with further apologies to Freud — other people’s unconscious imagery is rarely interesting or illuminating. A Novel of Sex, Faith and Lots of Yogurt 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z But formal quibbles pale in comparison to the content he’s illuminating. Review | In ‘Nobody Speak,’ the free press, not just a website, faces a grave challenge 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z There have been some inside accounts illuminating the mechanics behind the massive plan. The Trump White House provided reporters with a gusher of leaks. With Biden, everything’s changed. 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z An opening section on a cocksure young bullfighter proves fleetingly illuminating, though subsequent features on child cage-fighters and a 12-year-old lion tamer are surprisingly devoid of interest. Tonight's TV highlights: A Farmer's Life For Me 2011-02-01T00:05:01Z Being on the inside, it's far from a neutral account, but the access is illuminating. This week's new films 2011-07-15T23:06:43Z Sure, there’s a spaghetti trope mishap and some of the red herrings smell fishy, but even these stumbles contain illuminating insight into Serwa’s character. Scary Novels From Nick Lake, Kenneth Oppel and Roseanne A. Brown 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z But it was even more underwritten than before, name-checking controversies rather than illuminating them, which has been true of most of the show’s Trump-related material. Review: ‘S.N.L.’ Targets Trump Again, With a Hint of Exhaustion 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z This talking-head footage is a promising start that ultimately leads to a less than illuminating documentary. ‘The Times of Bill Cunningham’ Review: Another New York Snapshot 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z “It certainly had a bruising and edgy element, and there was no love lost, but at the same time, it felt illuminating.” Clashes in the White House press room are riveting. But how far is too far? 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Surrounded by darkness, the fire illuminating their faces, the family members are indistinguishable from a distance. What’s life like as a young Kennedy now? A mix of fame, obscurity and trauma. 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z It was also illuminating: “I now know what love is,” he said. From a Wedding Writer’s Notebook, 10 Views on Love 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z But the goal here is in skewering stereotypes, rather than illuminating the reality underneath. Megan Abbott on Cheerleaders in Pop Culture 2012-07-27T15:27:38Z These scenes are interesting and sometimes genuinely illuminating. Review: Okwui Okpokwasili’s ‘Bronx Gothic,’ From Stage to Screen 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z The Underground Railroad perfectly balances the realism of its subject with fabulist touches that render it freshly illuminating. To Understand America, You Have to Ride the Railroad 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z There are quotes, letters, notes and sketches that provide illuminating — and sometimes heartbreaking — insights into the lives of the project's eight participants. Artist works with prisoners, their children 2010-08-23T18:01:00Z If Esfahani's programme notes were illuminating, his introduction to the Bach family's dynamics was totally engaging. Mahan Esfahani – review 2013-02-25T16:10:50Z This illuminating stillness is a gift shared by few English-speaking actresses. Jane Eyre: Mamma Mia, a Star Is Born! 2011-03-11T06:45:00Z As with the three-company performances of Balanchine’s “Jewels” last year, dancers from different traditions will bring out different facets of Balanchine style — all illuminating but not all equal. Our Critics Pick the Dance Moves (and Objects) to See This Fall 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z In his illuminating new book, the journalist Jonah Lehrer explicates some now classic case studies. Books of The Times: ?Imagine: How Creativity Works,? by Jonah Lehrer 2012-04-02T21:58:15Z On the rare instance that a documentary film crew gains access to a convent, the results can be illuminating and, for the viewer, far more peaceful than intimidating. ‘The Sisterhood’: R U there, God? It’s me, without makeup. The overlap of these two spheres, fomented by their focus on the idealized man, is detailed by Bruce Robertson, one of the most illuminating of Hartley scholars, in the show’s excellent catalog. Marsden Hartley Gets His Due in Berlin 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Wilcken’s own research and observations, however, are enough to make “Claude Lévi-Strauss,” subtitled “The Poet in His Laboratory,” an illuminating study. Books of The Times: A French Thinker Who Crossed Continents and Cultures 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z Beckett ends “Watt” with an “Addenda,” containing “precious and illuminating material” not included in the main text because of “fatigue and disgust.” The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z The interplay of styles is exciting and illuminating, but Ms. Sen is shrewd to save the two central numbers of the program for herself and Ms. Satpathy. Dance Review: The Collaborative Show ?Samhara? at the Joyce Theater 2012-03-21T20:49:44Z Now that many Americans are heading back to the office, this should be an especially illuminating listen. 6 Advice Podcasts to Navigate the Weirdness of Daily Life 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The insect community's response to the degrading ITV1 hit is extremely illuminating. What does the insect community make of ITV's celebrity freak show? 2012-11-25T00:05:45Z Indigenous teens don't have a "Stand By Me," or popular movie comedies devoted to illuminating their experience. "Reservation Dogs" creator on evolving the show's representation & storytelling: "It's not finished" 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Hildegard Bechtler's dusky, uncluttered space has a staircase leading straight from sitting room to prison; Bruno Poet's lighting calls one person after another out of the shades, illuminating unsuspected parts of the stage. Cause C?l?bre; Rocket to the Moon ? review 2011-04-02T23:09:47Z In writing this illuminating biography of James “Cool Papa” Bell, Lonnie Wheeler was faced with sketchy records, chaotic seasons and organizations that mutated constantly. Review | Best audiobooks to listen to now 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Presented with the Chocolate Factory Theater at Abrons Arts Center, “Distances” is more interesting than illuminating. ‘Distances’ Review: Fumblingly Picking at the Knot of Race 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z But for “Embattled Garden,” a minor piece I’ve previously dismissed as hopelessly dated, the commentary was illuminating. Review: Martha Graham’s ‘Embattled Garden,’ Deconstructed 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z In successfully illuminating both the inner life of a family in peril and “the troubled borderland between black and white,” he has created something memorable and true. Greg Iles concludes his spectacular Natchez Burning trilogy 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z That basic material is hugely illuminating in its own right. Books of The Times: ‘No Easy Day,’ by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer 2012-09-02T18:35:49Z Earlier this week, Louis C.K. told the writer David Marchese, in a long, illuminating Q. and A. on Vulture, that white guys are doing fine. Defining, and Proclaiming, a New Black Power 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Every character in the book is drawn to Graham, and his passing is a profound loss, but each loss is different and uniquely illuminating. Sue Miller’s ‘Monogamy’ Begins With an Ending 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z An hour of rehearsal observation was permitted, which was both incredibly exciting and minimally illuminating. A Visit to the Strange, Secretive World of David Bowie’s ‘Lazarus’ 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z In his illuminating book “The Ministry of Truth,” a biography of “1984” and its influence, Dorian Lynskey makes a persuasive case that the novel is structured in a way that heightens its ambiguity. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z But anyone willing to log off Instagram long enough to read “The Every” already knows all this, which makes the novel feel more smug than illuminating. Review | You won’t find Dave Eggers’s new book on Amazon. That’s the most interesting thing about it. 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z The director, Oliver Butler, stages the play with patience, allowing the actors room to fill in their characters with quiet, illuminating moments. | 'Buddy Cop 2': Debate Society?s Offbeat Play Has Chemistry 2010-06-03T22:23:00Z Sunlight was falling straight across the display, illuminating a cluster of fuchsia Queen Beer blossoms. Orchids Take Their Star Turn at the New York Botanical Garden 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z At intervals, Vanessa would look over at me and smile this absolutely wicked smile, illuminating a sense of both mastery and farce. Dominatrix for a day 2012-11-04T01:00:00Z Her reactions, joyful to pained, offered insight into how delicate the process of illuminating Black childhood can be. Picturing Black Childhood: An Artist’s Journey 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z I have never seen a “Macbeth” in which “light thickens” so obscuringly and illuminatingly. Critic’s Notebook: Something Wicked This Way Runs 2013-07-08T21:17:36Z If awards don’t tell us anything definitive about the books themselves, they certainly indicate something illuminating about the era. Perspective | Goodreads Choice Awards: An annual reminder that critics and readers don’t often agree 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Over all, though, it’s an illuminating and often alarming look into the future. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z “Sometimes if a weapon is used, there’s castoff patterns you get as you bludgeon somebody,” Ms. Smith continued, illuminating the scene with her flashlight. Heiress Plotted 19 Grisly Crimes. Investigation Underway. 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Impeccable scholarship and painstaking fair-mindedness characterize Roper’s deeply illuminating biography of this improbably influential figure, one of the best of a slew of new publications on the anniversary of the Reformation. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z A chapter in the catalog instructing collectors on how to care for their treasures by Ada Hopkins, the Bata Shoe Museum’s conservator, is less than illuminating in that regard. Review: Missing Sneaker Culture at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z “The idea of looking at our own age’s anxieties and hopes and fears — illuminating the past, and revealing moments of change in the past to better chart our future — that felt like a rich opportunity.” Oregon’s theater trail to Washington 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Light seeps from pretty perforated ceiling lamps, illuminating ivory walls judiciously adorned with paintings, textiles and wood carvings. A taste of Lebanon at Cafe Munir 2012-04-05T19:24:04Z But the work of getting here has been in many ways a muddy slog, as Tharp has chronicled in an illuminating series of blog posts for the New York Times. Twyla Tharp’s unceasing quest to reveal truth in human movement 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z With electric lights illuminating its corners and clocks on two sides, it is a beacon of futurity. Art Review | 'Twilight Visions': Shocking Is Poetic at International Center of Photography 2010-03-11T23:02:00Z In one sequence, a man cuts a huge swathe of grass that borders a suburban car park in Pittsburgh, the haze of the setting sun suddenly illuminating the soft rain that falls around him. Paul Graham: 'The photography I most respect pulls something out of the ether' 2011-04-11T06:00:06Z Ms. Coates’s illuminating “Incarnations” translates this balanced partnership into performance, riffing on the structure of a classroom lecture. Reviews: Colliding Particles, a Grim Duet and Channeling Martha Graham 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z She travels to Indiana, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles, conducting illuminating interviews with administrators, social services staff and, most powerfully, people unlucky enough to reside in the digital poorhouse. How Big Data Is ‘Automating Inequality’ 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Before spiraling into the everything bagel that is Sunday's telecast of the 95th Academy Awards it's somewhat illuminating to look back at a few insights from Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences voters. How the Academy Awards managed to be both uplifting and disappointing -- everything, all at once 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z He is especially illuminating in following Kennedy’s final steps when his attorney general brother nudged him to become “the nation’s first civil rights President.” Kennedy and King: The remarkable intersection of two great lives 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z But some historians question whether it is the most illuminating verbal touchstone, given its own complicated history. ‘Sedition’: A Complicated History 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Kay’s chapters, written in first-person diary form, were among the most engaging for me, illuminating the motives and desires of the men who are intertwined by the investigation. James Ellroy’s ‘Perfidia’: dark doings on the eve of WWII 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z But as told here it’s not particularly illuminating, just another tale of female desire run ingloriously amok. | 'What She Knew': Oedipus? Mom Explains It All to You 2010-12-08T20:38:00Z Amis’s explanation of why Larkin is not “a poet’s poet” but “a novelist’s poet” is so illuminating, so useful to a reader, that it almost justifies the book all by itself. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z All three musicians played with commitment, deftly illuminating the work’s impressionistic hues. Music Review: Chamber Music Society Plays Turina and Ravel 2011-10-07T23:30:07Z The account of this one Mediterranean clan, like the best micro-histories, contains much more than a family story, illuminating the forces that shaped the world we live in now. Meet the Levy Family. Their History Is Our History. 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z At the winter solstice, the setting sun shines through the entry tunnel, illuminating the entrance to the main cell. Scotland’s Orkney Islands: remote rewards far from the maddening crowds 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z The following year, having recognised the fire risk from primitive switches in one of his installations, Holmes patented the quick-break light switch – the perfect complement to Swan's illuminating innovation. What's in store: how First Time Out opened our eyes to new possibilities 2013-06-07T10:55:00Z Books about espionage are in a class by themselves, sometimes illuminating but often raising more questions than they answer, as a crop of new works reminds us. How Allied Intelligence Dealt With Threats From World War II to Now 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z Spread a small amount of matte illuminating foundation with fingertips over the entire face. | Achieving a Velvet Complexion 2013-08-13T16:04:47Z At the David H. Koch Theater on Thursday, however, the programming was illuminating. Dance Review: City Ballet in Varied Works at Koch Theater 2012-10-07T20:27:27Z “New Dark Age” is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about the Internet, which is to say that it is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about contemporary life. The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Earlier this year it won a special Producers Guild prize – the Stanley Kramer award – for illuminating provocative social issues. Angelina Jolie backs UK fight against rape in war zones 2012-05-29T11:36:14Z This has been a tour that has been punishing as well as very illuminating in terms of the movie that we made. Emilio Estevez on making "The Public," a film about dignity, homelessness and libraries 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The Independent called it a "taut, illuminating two-hour show," while the generally conservative Daily Telegraph praised it as "thought provoking and admirably evenhanded." London theater turns England's riots into a drama 2011-11-24T16:08:14Z Bernstein’s first three musicals got revelatory symphonic treatments thanks to illuminating conducting in semi-staged performances. The best classical music performances of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z To attract both newcomers and professionals, the festival organizes illuminating educational programs, guided tours, family workshops and online competitions. In Transit Blog: Avedon to Warhol: Madrid Hosts Visual Arts Festival 2012-06-08T19:48:43Z These novels turn the reader’s attention outward, illuminating not just the nature of the Underground Railroad and of migration pathways, respectively, but of the world that necessitated and produced them. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Running through this vast enterprise is the implicit belief that crime fiction is capable of addressing — and illuminating — any aspect of human behavior, including the tragic history of race relations in 20th-century America. ‘The Bone Tree,’ by Greg Iles: Laced with menace, betrayal and twists 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Instead, they tick as many boxes as possible without illuminating them: Tory public-school clannishness, Labour dithering and the febrile rumour-mongering of the Westminster village. Stiffed! 2010-04-18T20:30:00Z An exhibition of Mr. Van Noten’s work will open Feb. 28 at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, illuminating his world and creative vision by showing his collections alongside museum pieces. Fashion Review: Colorful Dries Van Noten 2014-01-17T11:39:55Z Reading about Stone's life is an illuminating experience. A new book places Lucy Stone at forefront of women's suffrage 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z The air around them seems alive, illuminating and electrifying the movement as it ebbs and flows. Pacific Northwest Ballet's Rico Chiarelli lights the way 2010-12-03T21:21:00Z On a round table in the back was an array of seasonal corduroys, blue and yellow and orange and more, pants that I first saw illuminating the front window a couple of months ago. | Peter Elliot Men: Peter Elliot Men: Looking Like You Don?t Try Too Hard 2010-07-07T00:42:00Z But while there are some obvious connections to be made, the distinctions between Ms. Goldin’s work and the average smartphone diarist are just as illuminating. Nan Goldin Wants You to Know She Didn’t Invent Instagram 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Yoda there, describing the Force in layperson’s terms, without actually illuminating a great deal about what it actually is. 'How do wookiees breed?': the big Star Wars questions answered 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z That’s simply not true: The letters are all over the map, but that doesn’t make them entirely illuminating. Books of The Times: ‘The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan’ 2014-04-16T21:14:50Z But if jazz is at last partly about history, then Mr. Robinson’s show was as illuminating an event as any bebopper could have done. Smokey Robinson Delights Montreal Jazz Festival 2010-06-29T16:40:00Z He defines this as “a musical phrase that reveals the total commitment of the improviser”—hardly an illuminating description. Steps to heaven 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z However the reader may regard the author’s own historical baggage, the book puts the problems of today’s world and America’s role in that increasingly interconnected and increasingly riven world into useful — and often illuminating — context. In ‘World Order,’ Henry Kissinger Sums Up His Philosophy 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Both he and Mr. Gomes provided the most musically illuminating dancing of the two performances; both of them gave their ballerinas beautiful support. Dance Review: Two Top Giselles, Back to Back 2011-05-29T22:49:01Z "Valley Vista" came about because the San Fernando Valley can't catch a break, says art historian and Valley native Damon Willick, who curated the show and penned an illuminating companion book by the same name. 'Valley Vista' at Cal State Northridge takes a stand for Valley art 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z The scenes between him and his father are affecting and illuminating. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Looking Back 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z In 2010, Bailyn was awarded a National Humanities Medal “for illuminating the nation’s early history and pioneering the field of Atlantic history.” Eminent scholar of early U.S., Bernard Bailyn, dies at 97 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z In three memoirs — “Yossarian Slept Here,” “Reading My Father” and “The House in France,” respectively — they shift the spotlight from their famous parents to themselves, illuminating their supporting roles. Literary Lions, by Their Cubs 2011-08-10T21:14:41Z In “Fatal Discord,” Michael Massing looks at the illuminating tensions between Erasmus and Martin Luther at the dawn of the Enlightenment. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Bright lights exploded, illuminating the entire front of the hotel. The great Moon-rock heist - extract 2011-07-08T21:59:00Z As such, many of the most illuminating scenes in “Genius” deal not with Franklin’s private life but with the way the often shy, soft-spoken musician shaped her own work. In ‘Genius: Aretha,’ Respecting the Mind, Not Just the Soul 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z Two small, illuminating exhibitions of work by Helen Frankenthaler at the Clark Art Institute, one of paintings and the other of woodcuts, together suggest nature lurks throughout the imagery of this ostensibly unyielding formalist. Berkshire Tour: Formalism Relaxes, Handcraft Goes Digital 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Flaherty and Styron’s strange and illuminating stories, as told by Kennedy, provide not just insight but the impression of progress. “The Great God of Depression,” An Insightful Podcast About William Styron, Writing, and Mental Health 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z After the Wall The section’s largest gallery delves illuminatingly into art made mostly in Europe after 1989. The Word at MoMA Is ‘Rotation, Rotation, Rotation’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Three other new books are seemingly obscure, but actually quite illuminating. George Washington, William T. Sherman and Viking Marauders 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, determined philosophical viewers might extract from it illuminating ideas about creative thinking in today’s increasingly digitized and mechanized world. Review: ‘Image Object’ Looks at the Relationship Between the Virtual and the Physical 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z People leaving their cars can now walk through a theater capsule of kinetic images illuminating steel plates overhead on their way to Sunset Boulevard. There’s a New Billboard in Town, and You Can Walk in 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z His prose, in a crystalline translation by Michael Hofmann, is as sharply illuminating as a surgical light. Reconstruction 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Older readers who cried at the opening sequence of Up will find these recollections of Lucy and Arthur’s courtship equally moving, and young readers will find them illuminating about that strange country, life-before-me. Elegy With a Side of Applesauce 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Then Bill Cosby changed all that by illuminating the family comedy with his point of view.” In a Gloomy Economy, TV Sitcoms Are Making a Comeback 2011-10-23T23:40:12Z In addition to illuminating the inner workings of everyday political terror, she tries to shed light on a family tragedy. Review: ‘Karl Marx City’ Revisits the Everyday Terror of Dictatorship 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z It was some of the best Thai food I’ve had outside Thailand, but it was also illuminating for other reasons. Confused in California 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z But what stood out most were the ghostly points of light illuminating the audience’s faces in the recent shows. Fashion in the Age of Instagram 2014-04-09T20:24:46Z There are illuminating moments, however, such as when Amir receives a visit from his wife Maryam. ‘Children of the Jacaranda Tree’: The legacy of repression on generations of Iranians 2013-06-27T22:22:48Z Photograph: C Flanigan/WireImage In November, A$AP Rocky gave an interview in which he somehow managed to be both inane and yet completely illuminating on the state of modern rap. Trends of 2012: The year hip-hop's attitude to homosexuality changed? 2012-12-20T11:30:00Z However, impatience should be suspended for this prosaic but interesting documentary illuminating the epic logistics, economics, politics and engineering involved in building the stadia in which the matches will be played. Doctor Who 2010-06-05T05:45:00Z Publishers Weekly hailed the book as “thoughtful and illuminating.” She’s considered the mother of disability rights — and she’s a ‘badass’ 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z This is invariably illuminating about the music, though it rarely addresses how the ballet answers it. City Ballet’s ‘Robbins 100’: Making Music Theatrical 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z A full moon appeared, illuminating the Atlantic Ocean, and revealing the sleek outlines of five southern whales. | Explorer: In Argentina, Glaciers by Way of Patagonia 2011-09-16T18:55:00Z In ways that matter, “Confirmation” is precise and illuminating, particularly for those viewers who didn’t pay attention when all this occurred. The Anita Hill saga was so gripping in 1991. Why is HBO’s ‘Confirmation’ so flat? 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z For that he brought some of the great masters of day, with special and illuminating attention on Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Music. Elders and the next generation convene at the Ojai Music Festival 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z The episode in which Kat reflects on her biracial identity is very illuminating — what do you think this episode is trying to say? The Cast of ‘The Bold Type’ on Staying Current 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z “But they end up illuminating some of the most important themes in our national history.” Mormon Studies Attract More Scholars and Attention 2012-07-02T18:31:01Z Except, to be honest, this illuminating and sometimes devastating documentary isn't quite what it's billed. 'Soundtrack for a Revolution': a powerful mix of music, civil-rights history 2010-04-29T21:50:00Z The results are both illuminating and mystifying, a window into profound stillness and irrepressible motion—the latter captured in the blurred flow of waterways and curved trails of stars. Moonlit landscapes shine in a new book of photographs by Darren Almond 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z “I want to break cinema,” she tells the Guardian at the top of a discursive, illuminating phone call. 'I want to break cinema': is Dick Johnson Is Dead the most radical film of 2020? 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z None of the responses were especially illuminating, though there were some intriguing conversational detours. Charlie Sheen hits New York - but what IS the show? 2011-04-10T00:08:52Z It’s a collection of essays, published by Princeton, which I found to be very illuminating. Eric Berkowitz on sex and society 2012-07-09T11:45:00Z Müller takes care to situate the United States in an international context, using examples from other countries to illuminating effect. Democracy Is for Losers (and Why That’s a Good Thing) 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z “But his work with Dr. Rodchenkov is levelheaded, and his documentary illuminating.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Icarus’ and ‘Rachel Getting Married’ 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z You only need to read today’s headlines to comprehend the continuing human cost of the political and military transactions depicted in this engrossing, illuminating play from the author of “The Overwhelming.” | 'Blood and Gifts': ?Blood and Gifts? at Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater - Review 2011-11-22T03:02:13Z If you’re an “old,” I suspect your reaction to it may be the same as mine, which is to say “Swiped” is illuminating, fascinating, depressing and horrifying. Dangers of dating in the Tinder age: “If you called someone you’d probably get labeled a psyc... 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Simon has intimated that her next project will be pursued out in the world, beyond the America she has photographed in such a singular and illuminating way. Cow-dung toothpaste? Taryn Simon's book Contraband unloads America's baggage 2011-01-03T17:51:54Z But it’s a pretty, pleasing piece, dancing to the music without particularly illuminating it. Review: Ballet Hispanico Adds Style and Bounce to an Apollo Homecoming 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z As it is, we are served up a small number of illuminating, hilarious and often strangely effective scenes — then it's on to the next city, the next group of people. On BBC America's reality series 'Come Dine With Me,' average folks compete to be the best dinner host 2010-07-13T21:47:00Z But the most illuminating moment of the visit may have been supplied by Stephen Colbert in the monologue that opened the Grammy show. 2010-02-12T21:05:00Z He’s a birder, and there are tales illuminating the contrasts between them like when red squirrels moved into their attic, he trapped them. When I learned to hunt 2013-01-06T01:00:00Z Just as illuminating is the exhibition’s section of works by “Thomas Hart Benton’s Circle.” Thomas Hart Benton’s ‘America Today’ Mural at the Met 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Evans, who died in 1988, was a composer-arranger of nearly boundless vision, with a gift for blending timbres in distinct and illuminating ways. Music Review: Gil Evans Project at the Jazz Standard 2013-05-15T21:10:30Z We hope that you find these pieces as illuminating as we do. Sunday Reading: Impeachment and Echoes of Watergate 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z But the comics format makes an opaque topic artfully illuminating. 'Threadbare's' investigative comics explore the hard choice some women face between sweatshops and sex work 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z There is a lot more, and it is altogether wonderfully illuminating. Art In Review: DAVID PLATZKER 2012-07-05T20:37:54Z All three of these series were everything a documentary should be: intelligent, illuminating and entertaining. The state of British TV: factual TV 2011-04-01T10:47:39Z This is not a fatal flaw because the acting is so good, the individual moments so illuminating. ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Episode 7 Recap: Feminism 101 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z “It’s about tying the two brands together and illuminating what’s best in the South.” In Transit Blog: Resorts Get a Southern Living Signature 2013-06-24T22:30:41Z And her efforts, with Sam, to help a maimed Vietnamese child backfire in ways both terrible and illuminating. Books of The Times: Tatjana Soli?s ?Lotus Eaters? Offers Lessons From Vietnam 2010-03-29T04:59:00Z Long fluorescent tubes animate the display in white, red and black light, illuminating "Rodarte: States of Matter," a new exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art that opens Friday. New exhibit shows Rodarte fashions as sculptures 2011-03-03T21:16:32Z Like the Watergate season, the Clinton series reveals how its scandal connects to the partisan wrangling and bad faith of today, and makes for enjoyable, illuminating listening. The Best Podcasts of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z But it is his visit to a Wiccan named Jamie — who writes a blog called "Witchful Thinking" — that proves to be the most illuminating. 'Man Seeks God': searching for a deity to believe in 2011-12-28T21:48:03Z And his lamps were on it, illuminating it. Karen Green on life after suicide 2011-04-09T23:04:02Z But this was still an evening of powerful, illuminating theater. A 'Carmen' in San Francisco breaks down barriers 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Together the shows make an illuminating if accidental pairing. Television Review: ?Inside Comedy? and ?Russell Simmons Presents The Ruckus? 2012-01-25T16:21:00Z It’s charming and illuminating, if not quite equal to the brilliance of the first section. What Decades of Reading Scandinavian Crime Fiction Can Teach You 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The effect was of hanging out in a family kitchen, and being treated to illuminating confidences that felt almost too intimate to hear. The Best Theater of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z There are lots of illuminating connections to be drawn among the works here. Art Review: In Five Chelsea Galleries, the State of Painting 2012-06-28T22:03:04Z I just looked for the parts that were entertaining or illuminating in some way, so it might look like I wrote four sentences on one day when really I probably wrote pages. David Sedaris on his new book, 'Theft by Finding' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z ‘OSLO’ The delicate art of backdoor diplomacy was brought to illuminating life in J. T. Rogers’s vibrant re-creation of the events that led to the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Best Theater of 2016 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z As always, Hughes' artwork — done in bright gouache, a type of watercolor — is both illuminating and humorous. Medalists produce two instant children's book classics 2011-01-08T00:49:41Z By the end of the marathon, I had had an illuminating encounter with life, death and consciousness through Bill Viola’s own experimental and farseeing eye. My Bill Viola Video Marathon 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z “Would that I could mention all the illuminating details in this biography,” Charles Johnson writes in his review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z None of this is to say that it’s never valuable to consider a piece of art on its own terms, or that biographical details necessarily make for illuminating connections. How the Myth of the Artistic Genius Excuses the Abuse of Women 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Substantively speaking, Clinton came across as better informed and more skilled at illuminating her policy issues and discussing her 30 years of public service. Even Andy Cohen needed a shower: Watch what happens when Donald Trump turns a presidential debate into a reality TV nightmare 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z There are fewer central London landmarks than you get with the London Eye, but you do get the thrill of crossing the Thames, and an illuminating overview of the changing Docklands landscape. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-06-29T14:58:23Z “Trials” is perhaps more intriguing than strictly illuminating, but there’s never a bad time to think about how societies enact justice and on whose behalf. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z You're engaging in the fundamentally the same critique the author is illuminating. ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z But there’s a difference between making reference to something and actually illuminating it, or using it as the basis of authentically human drama. Haven’t Watched ‘Squid Game’? Here’s What You’re Not Missing. 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z His staging takes Rossini's repertoire of musical gesture, full as it is of sheer zaniness, and turns it into an equally zany visual experience, while illuminating the characters' puppetlike status. Review: Seattle Opera's 'Barber' really cuts it 2011-01-17T21:39:14Z Mr. Koopman was his usual animated self, conducting from a portative organ and adding fillips to cadences: sometimes illuminating, sometimes weirdly perky. ArtsBeat: When Expectations Mix With Reality 2011-04-16T11:50:33Z Instead, Sexton echoes and complicates Josephine’s experience in each of the later two story lines in ways that feel both historically accurate and socially illuminating. Review | ‘The Revisioners’ reminds us of slavery’s long reach, through the generations 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z An exhibition displaying everything in the catalog would be a once-in-a-lifetime event and a richly illuminating meditation on the classic Arcadian myth of pastoral bliss and what it means for the modern world. Art Review: ‘Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-07-01T22:11:53Z A man in Leicester, England, awoke one night in 1982 to find a soft light illuminating his room. 11 strange stories from the national UFO reporting center 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, this “Three Sisters” doesn’t absorb us sufficiently into the siblings’ unhappy bubbles; it’s a delicate negotiation, illuminating the contradictions of the women’s lives. Review | Sometimes, no sisters are better than ‘Three’ 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z This is interesting information but the hazard is that art is turned into a rhetorical instrument rather than a bearer of illuminating or speculative ideas. ‘Greater New York,’ a Show of the Moment, Dwells in the Radical Past 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The sense of dependency between Othello and Iago which Shaw traces in an illuminating programme note is apparent in the production. Othello – review 2013-04-27T23:07:10Z For the first hour, Chin often seems to be finding her operatic footing, relying on her gift for illuminating complexity with shimmering, nearly tactile instrumental color to also supply theater. 'Alice in Wonderland' at Disney Hall proves exhilarating 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z While Biskupic sheds light on when and how Roberts made that decision, she is less illuminating on why. The ‘Enigma’ Who Is the Chief Justice of the United States 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z We hope that you find these pieces as illuminating and instructive as we do. Sunday Reading: On the Precipice 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z There’s a lot of complicated, illuminating chemistry in this relationship too. | 'The Normal Heart': Raw Anguish of the Plague Years 2011-04-28T02:30:28Z It is always lovely to behold — and often illuminating — but don’t expect the stormy passions that can move an audience to tearful wonder. Theater Listings for July 3-9 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z In the first few episodes, “The Big One” maintains this balance—mostly fascinating listening, full of illuminating science, history, and context, with occasional off notes. “The Big One” Podcast: Anticipating a Devastating L.A. Earthquake 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Though they only begin to plot the complex history of Spanish royal patronage, the contrasts are illuminating, especially between the many nude women and the fewer men. Now Showing: Porn Fit for Spanish Kings 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z It encourages fandom through substance, by showing us the art itself, illuminating its workings, and educating us about recitativo and coloratura. “Aria Code,” an Effortlessly Listenable Opera Podcast 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The connections that emerged between the works on Tuesday were illuminating. Resonant Bodies Festival, a Showcase for Vocalists 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z But it is the chapters on his parents, both now dead, and the other private reflections that are more illuminating – more so, probably, than the author intended. The boor's head 2010-05-21T23:03:00Z Chandor faded the screen to black — or rather, to white, the brightness of the movie screen illuminating the theater. Spoiler alert: These movies offer no closure 2013-12-18T23:03:45Z This is undoubtedly the work of a mature master, in such full command of her resources that she can focus simply on telling a story and illuminating characters. Review: A Composer Creates Her Masterpiece With ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z However much those assertions rankle historians, we can't, as the illuminating classicist Mary Beard likes to say, get rid of ancient Rome. 'Norma' and 'La Clemenza di Tito' make for a Roman feast 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Much of My Mic Sounds Nice is illuminating and celebratory, and there is an attempt to end the show on a high note, by highlighting underground female MCs such as Invincible and Medusa. Is this the truth about women in hip-hop? 2010-09-03T12:22:00Z All of this is illuminating as far as it goes. 'Stravinsky in Hollywood' an illuminating look at his L.A. years 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Without the commitment and illuminating encouragement of Valerie Eliot, what Professor Haffenden has called "one of the major editorial enterprises of our time" would not have evolved. Letter: Valerie Eliot was an expert editor of her husband's letters 2012-11-15T13:48:00Z Together with his illuminating memoir, they make fine travel companions in this year of going nowhere. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z As Quick & Dirty celebrates its first birthday, I thought it would be illuminating to look back at some of those interviews, and the best advice from them. The best kitchen wisdom from our favorite cookbook authors 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z With the slightest of touches and quickest of sketches, an imaginative filmmaker can turn subsidiary characters into lively and vital presences whose rapid glints of illuminating remarks or actions lend a story scope and fullness. The Silent Women of “Entourage” 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z However, it's always accessible and illuminating and not about trying to beat an audience into submission. Stage reader review roundup 2012-06-01T14:52:34Z Such work is illuminating, making me perceive existence in a different way. Left out: the authors who know disability from inside 2013-07-11T10:55:47Z Extraordinary collection illuminating African American life from the antebellum period to the present. In Tallahassee, getting the party started for game day At last, if posthumously, she’s getting the full New York treatment, with “Carol Rama: Antibodies,” a large and illuminating tour of 60 years of Rama’s unsettling art, at the New Museum. The Psychosexual World of Carol Rama Still Shocks 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z “Journey to the Edge of Reason” makes ample and illuminating use of Gödel’s correspondence and journals, including a diary, kept in a special shorthand, that had never been translated before. A New Biography of Kurt Gödel, Whose Brilliant Life Intersected With the Upheavals of the 20th Century 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z When he gets right inside what a musician is doing in a particular recording or performance, and describes how that affects your body or perceptions, the results are usually lovely and illuminating. Review: In ‘Every Song Ever,’ Ben Ratliff Helps the Listener Discern 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z For all its deep-seated sorrows, this is a hopeful book, a series of striking vignettes illuminating the humanity of these fully realized characters. ArtsBeat Blog: Book Review Podcast: Leah Hager Cohen's 'The Grief of Others' 2011-09-16T21:58:23Z Details on the 2010 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism: Herald Courier reporter Daniel Gilbert was honored for illuminating the mismanagement of natural-gas royalties owed to thousands of land owners in southwestern Virginia. The 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners 2010-04-12T22:55:00Z She was headed east and noticed that the light was illuminating the lane markings and street signs before her. The 'whoa' moment and Mary Corse: The painter who toys with light is finally getting her due 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Were there any particular dishes, recipes or ingredients that you felt especially stood out amongst all of your illuminating discussions with so many diverse immigrant voices and experiences? The legendary Lidia Bastianich on the deep importance and myriad contributions of immigrants 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z In 2010, during a concert presented as part of a Beethoven symphony cycle at Lincoln Center, he reset his ensemble differently for the Sixth and Ninth Symphonies, to illuminating effect. Ivan Fischer Returns to Mostly Mozart With ‘Nozze di Figaro’ 2013-08-09T18:45:43Z In a few cases Muzsikas interposed performance of the original tunes between Bartok’s settings, with illuminating results. Music Review: Andras Schiff and Muzsikas at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-23T22:05:10Z Although the technology used to produce “Vertical Migration” is novel, the aim is to accomplish what artists traditionally seek — illuminating a feature of life that is typically overlooked. Dancers From the Deep Sea Shine on the U.N. for Climate Week 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Christopher Beha’s review shed an illuminating light on Mann’s nonfiction writings and the evolution of his political and artistic views over time. British Nuns, General Motors and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The small, but illuminating “Tenacity” exhibition at the Jamestown Settlement dives into the untold stories of the women of the early colonies, and includes many artifacts from the early 17th century. An Awakening in Columbus, a Reckoning in Williamsburg 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z But if imaginatively deployed, even material considered second-string can yield illuminating results. What Museums Don’t Reveal About Religious Art 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z The online world has recently engaged in a frank and intermittently illuminating conversation with itself over the meaning — if there is one — of the word “clickbait.” RIP “clickbait”: The REAL reason to stop talking about this word 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z So, clearly, the Conversation isn’t as illuminating as it thinks it is. 'It's nothing like a broken leg': why I'm done with the mental health conversation 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Any kind of longform transcript is more illuminating, I think, than him sitting in front of someone on a camera talking. John Oliver: ‘Maybe Brexit is a great idea. There’s absolutely nothing to suggest that’ 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z That dramatic struggle is the focus of “A Ballerina’s Tale,” an oddly staid feature documentary by Nelson George that is most illuminating about Ms. Copeland’s support network of successful older black women. Movie Listings for Oct. 30-Nov. 5 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z "Each one is original and extraordinary in its own way - each offers something different and exciting and illuminating." Debut writers dominate Baileys list 2014-04-07T18:15:07Z It’s really a potentially illuminating window into not only social media, but how we communicate in the 21st century. Delroy Lindo on ‘Da 5 Bloods’ and Playing a Trump Supporter 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z To the extent that it shifts focus toward the tools of the rock trade, the show is illuminating. The Art of Rock: Four Museums Explore How We Connect to Music 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The book is, blessedly, not about offering a diagnosis or unknotting the riddle of how Kate understands time; rather it is about illuminating the riddle itself. A Heroine Who Lives at Once in Elizabethan England and 21st-Century New York 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Originally conceived as a book, the film — streaming on Netflix — unfurls as part kaleidoscopic visual odyssey, part ruminative personal essay, illuminating a fruitful period of Black cinematic expression that extended far beyond Blaxploitation. For Elvis Mitchell, Critic Turned Filmmaker, a Chance to Show and Tell 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z They are merely a device for illuminating some other point: a press conference for the pOlice to display their drug haul; a televised mayoral debate; some reporters sniffing around Hamsterdam. The Wire re-up: season five, episode six ? breaking the code 2010-03-23T00:15:00Z Neville’s approach to immersive social photography might be dismissed as merely earnest were the images not so compelling—full of tenderness, intelligence, spontaneity, and all manner of illuminating details. Mark Neville’s Immersive Photo Experiment 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Rather than being compiled by the editor or the publisher, all of the photographs were chosen by Moore, thereby illuminating the artist’s response to his subjects as much as they do the rooms themselves. Books 2010-03-01T00:00:00Z You can see how he perfected that style in an illuminating new edition of his short stories. Perspective | On Hemingway and the ideal of masculinity 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z In “Four Lions,” a farce that recognizes the limits of humor and the existence of tragedy, comedy is a means of illuminating the rhetorical confusion and knee-jerk pieties surrounding a charged subject. Film: The Gang That Couldn?t Bomb Straight 2010-10-23T16:08:00Z It doesn’t help that Ms. Blythe proves more irksome a stage presence than she is illuminating. Bumpy Starts to London’s Fall Theater Season 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mr. Erwitt has been a seeker of the “decisive moment,” an instant in real time when people, animals or objects appear before the camera in surprising and illuminating ways. Art Review: Captured: A New York Minute, or One in Havana 2011-06-09T23:00:29Z He delighted in the ship’s luxuries, including the 70 electric light bulbs illuminating his cabin. When Puccini Came, Saw and Conquered New York City 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z She was the gift that kept on giving, generously offering illuminating codas, clearing up lifelong misconceptions: Waiting a dozen years longer than she had to wed didn't hurt me. A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Both men are damaged by catastrophic and irreparable loss, and Casey is adept at illuminating the tissue-thin fabric that sometimes divides the well mind from the ill. ‘The Man Who Walked Away,’ by Maud Casey 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z To see so much theater in a week is a heady, if sometimes dizzying, experience, but always an illuminating one. In Praise of Repertory Theater: Macbeth at the Matinee, Miller at Night 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Conjuring a range of references, from studies for Soviet agitprop posters to semiabstract landscapes to concrete poetry, they fill in the background of his reticent, radical objects with a kind of illuminating white noise. Last Chance: Franz Erhard Walther, in an Interactive Show at Peter Freeman 2010-04-27T22:04:00Z In interviews that are too glancing to be truly illuminating, a few reporters are asked about the paper’s coverage of Hillary Clinton’s email server, and about the Oct. Review: ‘The Fourth Estate’ Is a Competent but Incomplete Peek Inside The Times 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Nicholas Ludford’s “Salve Regina” is a joyous tangle of long, florid lines with the occasional tangy dissonance illuminating a single word. Review: Singing the Lone Survivors of Nearly Lost Music 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Worse, the film depicts families then as being entirely smug, ignorant and racist, while sneering at the folks at the insurance firm with no understanding, insight or appetite for something illuminating. Gervais' "Cemetery" a witless disappointment 2010-04-16T05:11:00Z Mr. Levingston, in particular, values illuminating connections among the pieces he programs. Music Review: A Little Offbeat Humor in Cyclical Explorations 2011-05-13T22:35:41Z But where that show — co-curated by Mr. Müller and assisted in its German iteration by Mr. Diederichsen — felt illuminating and cohesive, this show has a lot of interesting work without a strong coherent thread. Better Living Through Music, Art and Polyamory 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z One piece of research Graham passes my way is the illuminating, if clumsily titled "Sexual Scripts Among Young Heterosexually Active Men and Women: Continuity and Change". How the British changed their minds about sex 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z That question, posed in this illuminating new book by David Casarett, a hospice physician and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, sounds simple and turns out to be anything but. Notable nonfiction of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Those were different times, and a 14-year-old boy from the early 1970s was not like our modern teenagers constantly plugged into the illuminating world of the internet. Review: In ‘Everything’s Fine,’ the Discomfort of Adolescence 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z There’s a new conductor in the orchestra pit – the excellent Julia Jones, in her company debut – who gracefully supports the singers while crisply illuminating the score with all of its humor and pathos. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘Magic Flute’ is a delight for the eyes and the ears 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z The three works chosen also related to each other in illuminating ways. Review: Spano and SSO skillfully serve 20th-century classics 2010-04-30T17:05:00Z The approach proved illuminating, not least for providing a view of “WTC 9/11” not predicated exclusively on horror and anguish. Music Review: American Contemporary Music Ensemble at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-09-12T22:08:27Z Harry’s story is an illuminating one, considering how much New York has changed and how stars are made and marketed today. Review | In her memoir, Debbie Harry gives an unvarnished look at her life in the punk scene 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Through a modern lens, the performance is illuminating. Revisiting The Byrds' "So You Want to Be a Rock N Roll Star" 55 years later, from the Monkees to REM 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, the choreography never quite takes off, neither illuminating character nor justifying itself as musical composition. Dance Review: Melinda Sullivan Brings ‘Gone’ to Ailey Citigroup Theater 2013-08-06T21:29:18Z A: To me, the podcast is hopefully an entertaining story that also is illuminating about our cracked system. Review | Michael Connelly reveals how ‘Bosch’ was born and other tales of his humble rise to fame 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z In one of its sweetest, most illuminating sequences it follows a young Black mother from Connecticut, who grew up going to the Met, when she returns with her two small daughters. The Met Changes Course 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z When viewed through the illuminating frame of a fine performance it dazzles both with its light touch and with its sturdy construction, like a cathedral made of spun sugar. | 'The Importance of Being Earnest': A Stylish Monster Conquers at a Glance 2011-01-14T03:00:01Z “Lawrence in Arabia” is a fascinating book, the best work of military history in recent memory and an illuminating analysis of issues that still loom large today. Books of The Times: Scott Anderson’s ‘Lawrence in Arabia’ Revisits Legends 2013-09-08T20:10:15Z In one of the more illuminating letters quoted in “The Untold Story,” Eliot explains his reasons for rejecting the “sound, earnest and educated verse” of a manuscript that the house was considering. The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z You might think that this technique, or perhaps it is more of a worldview, would prove just as illuminating when applied to Shakespeare, that most musical of playwrights. Review: An ‘As You Like It’ That Is More Prose Than Poetry 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z That was what happened when I first heard a wildly illuminating new mix of the album being released today under the name “Tim: The Let It Bleed Edition.” The Chaos and Clarity of the Replacements’ ‘Tim’ 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z A neon sign dangles from the rafters, illuminating the words “Car Radio” and a stylized bolt of lightning — a ray of energy that seems to infuse the room with a crackle. Chicano art pioneer Frank Romero is still painting, still loves cars and still defends ugly palm trees 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Two episodes air Sunday, illuminating the concepts of chicken Parmesan and grains. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Schubert decorates the slow movement with exquisite tinkling high notes that usually are made to serve as the musical equivalent of illuminating a scene with magical starlight. Pianist Andras Schiff mesmerizes with last sonatas of 4 composers 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The reruns were a reminder of just how timeless the show is, illuminating different nooks and crannies of the American experience and drawing unexpected lines between them. 7 Podcasts to Comfort and Connect 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z "Neverhome" moves forward with the stark inevitability of a Greek tragedy in a series of haunting scenes, each illuminating some essential element of what is happening to the protagonist and to America. Laird Hunt's 'Neverhome' tears a woman and a nation in two 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Moving beyond the written historical record, Whipple interviewed living chiefs of staff, and their insights make “The Gatekeepers” an unusually candid and illuminating study of presidential power. New spring nonfiction dips into social issues and politics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z I think the outsider’s point of view is always illuminating. Lee Child on His New Thriller, Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher and Wandering Heroes 2012-09-19T14:00:36Z “We were looking forward to going north, to Mexico, where we would spring for a real hotel and a little luxury by way of compensation for all the rough—but illuminating—living we’d been doing.” Sunday Reading: Summer Travel 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z One light pours ethereally over her left shoulder, illuminating her bonnet and the pale rose blush of her cheek. At Norton Simon, a delicate 'Tete-a-Tete' with Whistler, other masters 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z From the first, Mr. Crutchfield’s predominant passion was for opera, an art form he has dissected with microscopic attention, illuminating the momentous communicative consequences of the minutest technical tics or choices. Music: Will Crutchfield, Preaching the Gospel of Bel Canto 2010-07-03T17:17:00Z But this is a small quibble with a highly entertaining book that should be read more as an illuminating examination of an under-discussed topic than as a prescription for how to behave. ‘Spite’ Looks on the Bright Side of a Dark Feeling 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z The present writer spent an alternately illuminating and rather trying few hours attempting to unpick the lyrics of I'd Rather Be High. David Bowie: The Next Day 2013-02-25T16:48:23Z If the show were a satire of the artist as a comfortably middle-class tenured professor and soccer mom, it would be funny and possibly illuminating, but it’s not. Michelle Grabner 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z The best historical fiction casts a sceptical and interpretive light onto events from the past, illuminating the contemporary human condition. A Place to Call Home is Australian television to be proud of 2013-07-18T02:32:00Z Watching “Path of Blood” is frequently a queasy experience, and given the bewildering array of names and complications, not always an illuminating one. Review: ‘Path of Blood’ Presents Terrorists’ Videos 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z "Light, Paper, Process" is an illuminating and exciting exhibition, rare in its thoughtful balance of articulated theme, historical context and respect for the integrity of the individual artists. 'Light, Paper, Process' an inventive subversion of photography 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Some are illuminating, like Charles Dickens’s marked-up copy of “David Copperfield,” in which he excised paragraphs and inscribed prompts that he used in public readings from the book. A Library?s Treasures, From Gutenberg to Malcolm X 2011-05-17T12:00:00Z The plaintive “Song” finds them combining and illuminating each other’s surgical skills for dissecting the fractured human heart. London Theater Journal: Nowhere Man 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z The Richmond lab’s 2012 Visualizing Emancipation project, for example, plots out intricate interactions between federal policy, the Union and Confederate Armies, and thousands of enslaved people, illuminating how liberation unfolded on the ground. Lab in Richmond Animates Comprehensive 1932 U.S. Atlas 2013-12-25T22:20:08Z This method, of which Neil MacGregor has been such a strikingly successful practitioner, proves brilliantly illuminating. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-02-08T07:00:02Z In this respect the early chapters are the most illuminating. Works of Glass 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z To remember is orienting and illuminating, and we should always bear in mind that faith is an essential element of the nation’s story, for good and for ill. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on African-American Religion 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z A Moroccan lamp hangs overhead, illuminating two vintage wooden mannequins and a shelf of old cameras and silver whiskey flasks. In San Francisco, the Wizard of Oddities Is In, Sticking His Neck Where It Belongs 2012-07-27T21:34:26Z There, we donned our hard hats and headlamps and silently entered single file, darkness enveloping us, just the light of our flashlights illuminating our path. Deep in Vietnam, Exploring a Colossal Cave 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z It’s a technique he employed to illuminating effect in his nearly 8,000-page “Echolot,” a nonfiction work made up of collected texts offering myriad perspectives on key weeks of the war. 750,000 Germans Fled East Prussia in 1945. A Novelist Imagines One Family’s Exodus. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z What happened today, this week, or even this month is not very illuminating, because the fundamentals of an economy evolve at a much slower pace. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z “From the very start,” he writes, “I thought of writing biographies as a means of illuminating the times of the men I was writing about and the great forces that molded those times.” In ‘Working,’ Robert A. Caro Gives Us a Brief Look at the Process of Writing His Epic Books 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Boo's book, set in a Mumbai slum, is the story of a boy and his harsh and illuminating education in the consequences of crime or perceived crime. Erdrich wins her first National Book Award 2012-11-15T15:12:08Z We swam single-file through a cave, our flashlights illuminating rocky outcroppings. Diving Thailand’s Andaman Sea, by day and night 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z It’s illuminating and fascinating and it’s one of the things that inspired me to do the work that I do. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z What they might have expected was illuminating, elevated debate. The Buckley vs. Vidal debates: The original knock-down, drag-out TV 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z In an illuminating interview with Esquire where Matthew discusses meeting his wife and winning an Oscar, the most riveting thing by far is his account of Kay, who is affectionately referred to as K-Mac. Matthew McConaughey's Mom Is Living Her Best Life 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z The range of responses to the source material was illuminating: Ms. Saariaho summoned ghostly whispers; Mr. Lindberg, crackling energy; Mr. Tan, antic strumming and ritualistic vocal shouts. Music Review: Two by a Finnish Composer, and Variations Inspired by a Birthday 2011-05-11T21:41:23Z Mr. Anikushin played with assurance and flair throughout, illuminating the dramatic rhythms and cinematic sweep of the first movement and imbuing the soulful third movement with a poetic spirit. Music Review: The Pianist Maxim Anikushin at Carnegie Hall 2012-04-09T20:31:22Z It also opened the door to serious scholarship like “Atticus Finch: The Biography,” Joseph Crespino’s crisp, illuminating examination of Harper Lee’s dueling doppelgängers and their real-life model, Lee’s politician father, A. C. Lee. Harper Lee and Her Father, the Real Atticus Finch 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z It's the most illuminating thing anyone's likely to say about films on the radio this week and nobody asked him to say it. Next week's radio: from Meeting Myself Coming Back to Paul Jones 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z But as has been said before in these recaps, examining the ways in which the two talk to each other is a fascinating exercise and, in the case of this finale, illuminating. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 2 Finale: Nobody Does It Alone 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z The imagination is absolutely critical to political activism, illuminating the vision of a world that does not yet exist. Poet Martín Espada: "The imagination is absolutely critical to political activism" 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z None of the commentary is any more illuminating, but it is up-to-date. Review: A Message-Heavy Bill T. Jones Dance-Theater Collage 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z While illuminating how Fisher’s personal trauma catalyzed her wit, Weller shows that the life of this Tinseltown scion touched on major issues of our day. Review | A new biography dishes about Carrie Fisher’s tumultuous, bittersweet life 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Gilbert, intent on illuminating the Webern work’s Romantic spirit, focused on its roiling textures; its dark, shifting coloration; and an undercurrent of emotional intensity. Music Review: Many Different Sounds In a Wide-Ranging Week 2010-10-15T21:26:00Z But what she subsequently tells the anchors is really illuminating. The “Survivor” finale proves we’re still falling victim to workplace harassment 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The composer had recently published a deeply illuminating book on songwriting, “Finishing the Hat,” and I was there to grill him for 90 minutes. Perspective | There will never be another Stephen Sondheim 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Then, a shazam! of light burst through, illuminating the campfire circle. You snap pix of national parks for fun. Jarob Ortiz takes them for a living. 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z To a significant degree, I found the user comments on the third-rate Breitbart-affiliated social media site where I streamed the movie "My Son Hunter" more interesting — and definitely more illuminating — than the film itself. "My Son Hunter": There's barely even a movie inside this deep-state right-wing grift 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z They prayed for two weeks before deciding that providing an illuminating insight into the Amish lifestyle was worth the risk of excommunication from their community. TV highlights 02/08/2012 2012-08-01T19:29:01Z While varied and associative enough to be interesting, the writing is always directed toward illuminating the research. Neil deGrasse Tyson Explores the Symbiosis Between War and Astrophysics 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z He played with clean articulation, warmth and power in both toccatas, his improvisatory flair illuminating their grandeur and dramatic scope. Music Review: Jeremy Denk?s Recital at the 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-06T23:30:10Z The music's very noisy,'" she tells Rob Chapman, in one of many poignant moments in this fitfully illuminating biography, adding: "He didn't enjoy it. Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman 2010-04-24T23:09:00Z I wouldn't be surprised if people started quoting "Game of Thrones" characters the way they quote "The Godfather," "The Art of War" or "The Prince" -- by way of illuminating life's crueler truths. How "Game of Thrones" slew all comers 2011-06-17T18:01:00Z This is one reason brain injuries, some described here, have always been so horrifyingly illuminating: they reveal that mysterious interface between biology and experience. Glimpsing the Brain?s Powers (and Limits) 2010-11-19T18:00:00Z But such twinges of authentic emotion are more disruptive than illuminating. Review: ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ Uses Love as a Weapon 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Hearing Kernis talk about his “Mini Kernis Festival” on Wednesday evening, with three world premieres among those four works on the program, was particularly illuminating and timely. What’s it like watching world premiere concerts online? 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Perhaps the Vietnamese portions of the script are more illuminating. | 'We Are': Illuminating Voices of Vietnamese Women 2011-03-21T21:34:22Z Norton & Company, documents Ms. Khan’s travels, illuminating the beauty of Palestinian cuisine and the political realities that envelop it. A Writer Describes Palestinian Cuisine, and the World Around It 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z These are not new ideas, but Mr Filiu expounds on these analogies with a wealth of illuminating detail. Burning down their house 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Century-spanning juxtapositions have a more illuminating impact in a section of the show called “Personas,” in which you’ll find portraits from three centuries, by Jewish artists and of Jewish sitters. A Museum’s Fresh Take on the Whole Megillah 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Stevens is most illuminating in her behind-the-scenes glimpses of the work. Turning the Lens Around on Richard Avedon 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Pulling together numerous threads, the directors delve into the U.S. medical system — illuminating disparities in Black and brown communities and the gross neglect that befalls them as a result of centuries-long systemic racism. ‘History Is Everything’: Making a Film About Black Maternal Mortality 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z And as potentially valuable as “Robin’s Wish” is for illuminating Williams’s death — initial reports noted his past struggles with addiction and depression — it is more affecting and appealing as a tribute. ‘Robin’s Wish’ Review: Celebrating a Life, Highlighting a Disease 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z But it’s incredibly meaningful that he wrote the story in the way that he did, because his particular way of telling it offers hope of illuminating the homophobes, particularly those in the machismo-heavy music world. Frank Ocean’s brave revelation 2012-07-05T18:05:00Z The line between a filmmaker and his films, and a writer-director and his collaborators, all but disappears in “A Fuller Life,” a loving and illuminating documentary about an American original, Samuel Fuller. ‘A Fuller Life’: a riveting portrait of filmmaker Samuel Fuller 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Professor Hamilton, whose honors included an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2021, was also acclaimed for illuminating the work and lives of other writers, especially Mr. Lowell. Saskia Hamilton, Poet Who Edited Another Poet’s Letters, Dies at 56 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z BBC Four controller Richard Klein said the station was "proud to broadcast some of his classic works alongside rare and illuminating archive interviews". BBC celebrates Britten centenary 2012-09-11T09:42:31Z Rizvi’s descriptions of historical sects of Islam and their conflicts with one another are especially illuminating. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Two Books About Muslim Identity 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z But Hedwig is quick to note that a wall bears an uncanny resemblance to a bridge, illuminating not just the demarcation but also the connections between the two sides. How LGBTQ love saves Christianity: A priest explains 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z The curatorial act can also invoke deeper understanding through comparison with other objects, illuminating new perspectives on familiar works. It’s the year of Rembrandt again, to the delight of museum audiences 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z But the statement released by the parents of the young man who killed six other young people at the University of Santa Barbara over the weekend is illuminating. Elliot Rodger's Parents Break Silence on Shooting 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z A fragmentary, aphoristic examination of night in all its illuminating darkness from a Lebanese-American poet who is also an admired visual artist. The Best Poetry of 2016 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Clearly, there wasn't one illuminating over his head when he started down the crazy path. Rand Paul is pro-choice for toilets 2011-03-11T19:01:00Z His Richard III at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2017, for example, was a chaotic-evil rock ’n’ roll goblin, the performance simultaneously illuminating and unhinged. Method Acting? Lars Eidinger Just Wants to ‘Become Myself’ 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Still, his study is illuminating, maybe in more than the manner strictly intended. The Age of Creepiness 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z In execution, however, the results were less than illuminating. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs 9/11 tribute paired with Beethoven And their cooking is essential, illuminating the sheer diversity of the city’s Mexican-American population and the variety of Indigenous peoples, languages and traditions that it represents. A Delicious Link to Oaxaca in South Los Angeles 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Less inflammatory but similarly illuminating are two documentaries that plumb political dimensions through intensely personal stories of soccer obsession — both by the Romanian auteur Corneliu Porumboiu. These Soccer and World Cup Movies Have Big Goals 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z “Get Back” is interesting, irritating, sweet, stultifying, illuminating, punishing, satisfying, totally life-sucking, ultimately unnecessary and still pretty cool. Perspective | The Beatles are overrated. That’s our fault, not theirs. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z She can’t quit either one, but she can warp and examine them in illuminating ways. Jenny Hval Makes Ideas Sing 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z “The Village” is as much a gesture toward healing as it is a work of investigation; the results are illuminating and tremendously moving. Three Podcasts to Listen To in May 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z This kind of biographical insight is illuminating only because her stories resist traditional reading. Diane Williams, a Master of the Very Short Story, Has a Very Big New Book 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z “Last Flight Home” is far more than simply a countdown of those days, but it is that, illuminatingly. ‘Last Flight Home’ Review: An Intimate Memorial 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z And Corwin’s story isn’t quite a mystery—it’s a tragedy, doled out bit by bit, illuminating little about human nature and making you feel bad for listening to it. “Case Closed,” Reviewed: Do We Really Want a True-Crime Podcast With Answers? 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Music, here, serves as an illuminating metaphor for happiness. Concertos take the lead at L.A. Phil, L.A. Chamber Orchestra 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Surprising moments of wonderfully bewildering poetry do pop up, at once reflecting and illuminating our brave new transnational world in which technologically sophisticated, ecologically imperiled lives are now lived. Warm spots in Pierre Huyghe's often chilly Conceptualism at LACMA 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z An illuminating insight into what all our money got spent on. TV highlights – 08/05/2013 2013-05-08T06:00:04Z Stepping inside is like entering an antique marquetry box, with the flickering candlelight illuminating woodwork and a painted ceiling that make a fine setting for the inward-looking psychological dramas of the Jacobean period. Murder by candlelight at London's new Jacobean theatre 2014-01-14T18:43:00Z The colors are gorgeous, their application confident and the titles illuminating. Art In Review: MARY WEATHERFORD: ‘Manhattan’ 2012-09-13T21:02:04Z His comparison of jazz soloing to funk soloing, for instance, is illuminating. Review: ‘Kill ’Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul’ 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Watching “Rainbow” isn’t always a pleasant experience, but it is a surprisingly illuminating one. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Punished By Fame 2011-02-25T16:44:55Z A master of historical nonfiction applies his methods to his grandfather, a mobster in Johnstown, Pa., illuminating the Mafia’s network in small-town America and, affectingly, the dysfunction in his family’s past. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z A series of illuminating essays also traces the trajectory of rock photography from its glossy showbiz roots to the rise of lo-fi digital photographs taken by amateurs and posted on the internet. Photography books of the year 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z Impressive, illuminating debut examining myriad characters in an increasingly security-conscious Brazilian neighbourhood. This week's new films 2013-03-23T06:00:09Z Her younger sister Adriana doesn’t just share her bed; she’s always ready with some spiky insight, illuminating every discovery, even those that turn tragic. Review | A teenager meets the family she didn’t know existed in ‘A Girl Returned’ 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z This is an illuminating way to learn about viticulture, but it’s a confusing way to find a red that goes with duck. Restaurant Review: Little Park in TriBeCa 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Kirn’s sentences are smart, his metaphors are apt and his ability to cobble together pieces of pop culture in new, illuminating ways is the work of a real artist. Walter Kirn’s ‘Blood Will Out’: a true tale of glitter and gullibility 2014-04-03T20:44:52Z Terence Davies’s blithely unconventional biopic glides through Dickinson’s life with poetic compression and musical grace, illuminating both her temperament and the austere, intellectually intense 19th-century New England environment that nurtured and constrained her gifts. The Best Movies of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The soprano Alyson Cambridge was sensational as Vi, her radiant smile and focused voice illuminating the club’s darkest recesses. Music Review: ‘Blue Monday,’ at the Cotton Club 2013-06-19T20:48:52Z Each artist has enough room to strut his signature stuff against an illuminating backdrop of his 10 compatriots. What to see in L.A. galleries: street-art ethos, a mesmerizing digital canvas, wild tapestries 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The archive, by the way, is quite illuminating on Updike’s relationship with his mother. Updike at Work: Letters, Postcards and Much More 2010-06-21T17:35:00Z In the conductor Kent Nagano, the production has the world’s finest champion of “A Quiet Place,” who several years ago recorded Sunderland’s version and again leads it to brilliant and illuminating effect. Review: A Rescue Operation Salvages Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The reduction became, perhaps, more illuminating of Nora’s character than the full text of the play. How designers compress ideas to their essence 2012-07-17T00:00:00Z By illuminating sources that clearly point the way forward, Ms. Simmons demonstrates that it’s not a matter of innovating new solutions, but about the will and power to redistribute resources. Monuments That Celebrate Communal Struggles, Not Flawed Men 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Her discussion of producers is illuminating, and her recommendations are astute. 6 Books for Thinking, Drinking and Changing the World 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z An exhibition tracking the uses of technical images by crime stoppers from the early days of photography to now and into imaginary futures could be eminently illuminating. Review: ‘Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play’ Is a Rogues’ Gallery 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Both painters make remarkable use of light, and visitors will find this atmospheric exhibition as illuminating as anything currently in Venice. Art: Venice Biennale Thrives Despite Tough Economic Times 2011-06-06T12:30:05Z Our reviewer, James Goodman, called the book “lovingly researched” and “lively and illuminating.” New in Paperback: ‘Women Talking’ and ‘How to Disappear’ 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z The tales navigate a framework of stark realism, embossed with flecks of treasured or upsetting memory, illuminating the experience of a Black woman growing up in a nation of maddening inequality. Review | Online festival highlights the powerful plays of undersung dramatist Adrienne Kennedy 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z And on Thursday, CNN kicks off “The History of Comedy,” an eight-part docu-series full of illuminating perspectives on how far comedy has evolved — or, some might say, degenerated — over the decades. Review: CNN’s ‘History of Comedy’ Has Good Timing 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z “God Save Texas” “is both an apologia and an indictment: an illuminating primer for outsiders who may not live there but have a surfeit of opinions about those who do,” our critic Jennifer Szalai writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z These sections also seem oddly beholden to the original Civil War, and not in an illuminating way. Jeff VanderMeer on the biggest dystopia of spring, 'America War' by Omar El Akkad 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z But once more through exquisite and, above all, illuminating performances, Christie worked considerable magic. William Christie, with small Les Arts Florissants group, works magic 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z A sense of belonging to a larger collective vision reinforces Wright’s fragments, as they remain cryptic yet illuminating in the manner of nature itself, sharing secrets only with those who “read the leaves” closely. A Poet and Essayist Meditates on the Deep Roots Binding Humans and Trees 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The loud outbursts no longer felt like stun grenades but rather like flare gun signals illuminating the surrounding music. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, With Works for Strings 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z During a visit to London earlier this year, Ben Brantley wrote: “Watching ‘Rainbow’ isn’t always a pleasant experience, but it is a surprisingly illuminating one.” ArtsBeat Blog: Judy Garland Drama Coming to Broadway 2011-08-18T13:42:15Z Yet the person I read about in my recovery diary is childlike and prosaic, unlike that umbral pre-hospital self who could, even at her most obscured, be eerily illuminating. Brain On Fire: 'Blood and foam began to spurt out of my mouth' 2013-01-13T00:05:24Z In fact, so many illuminating sparks are set off by this show, mounted in celebration of the statue’s 125th anniversary, that its closing section about Lady Liberty comes as an anticlimax. Exhibition Review: ?Emma Lazarus? at Museum of Jewish Heritage - Review 2012-01-03T22:12:56Z But most of his conversations about the song, its writer and its many interpreters are thoughtful and illuminating. Books of The Times: ‘The Holy or the Broken’ by Alan Light 2012-12-09T22:49:21Z It is illuminating of the man, of the times he lived through, and also of a rare kind of moral resolve, both sobering and inspiring. Not Me: A German Childhood by Joachim Fest – review 2012-08-10T21:55:03Z Along with the court cases and the three lovingly researched lives, Luxenberg devotes many lively and illuminating pages to race and politics in New Orleans. The Tumultuous Path From Emancipation to Segregation 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Side characters, including dogs, get a lot of screen time — which is charming, if not always illuminating — while some plot moments rush by, particularly in Part 3. Review: ‘A Very English Scandal’ Is Very Good. And Scandalous. 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Still, it’s illuminating to see this ballet, especially knowing what marvelously thorny vision Mr. Wheeldon would soon grow into. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Dances Balanchine and Wheeldon - Review 2011-09-25T22:17:14Z Detailing Martin’s work with entertaining, illuminating anecdotes, Kaufman comes up with a solid, valuable portrait of one of the 20th century’s most memorable actresses. Mary Martin — from Weatherford, Tex., to Broadway stardom 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z She tries to present it, particularly in her tacked-on introduction and conclusion, as foreshadowing and illuminating the tragic deadlock in Israeli-Palestinian coexistence. How the Great Leftist Thinkers of the 20th Century Contended With Zionism 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z So isolating great moments isn't always easy or even illuminating. Tom Ewing 2010-12-09T22:30:00Z In that case you want to supplement your dining area’s light level with good, warm lighting illuminating faces and food. 5 Easy Ways to Make Your Dining Room More Enjoyable 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Almost as old as photography itself, camera-less photograms are produced by arranging objects on light-sensitive paper and then briefly illuminating them. In the galleries: Expect the unexpected as two artists engage in a ‘Surreal Dialogue’ 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z This film, somewhat clumsy yet full of illuminating interviews, seems mostly like an exercise in building national pride, but it holds lessons for anyone trying to resist an overwhelming force. ‘The Invisible Front,’ on Lithuania’s Postwar Resistance 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The book is particularly illuminating in discussing Hannibal’s famous crossing of the Alps in 218 B.C. World War II Seen by a Classicist, and Other New Books About Conflict 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Everts, a science journalist, has written an entertaining and illuminating guide to the necessity and virtues of perspiration. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z In 2016, when the series had its debut, the results were illuminating. 39 Dance Performances to See This Fall 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z “Nietzsche and the Burbs” sticks to the same formula, illuminating and gently mocking the ideas of its title subject. If Nietzsche Were in High School 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z But no matter how you turn it, “The Vixen” offers an illuminating reflection on the slippery nature of truth in America, then and now. Review | Francine Prose’s ‘The Vixen’ turns Cold War paranoia into smart comedy 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z I expect that the three upcoming discussions will be illuminating and moving alike; her presence here is an occasion to celebrate. The Special Presence of Anna Karina 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Are there other works of art about mental illness, or addiction, or homelessness, that you’ve found particularly illuminating? This Week in Fiction: David Means on Stories of Homelessness 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Rousso’s study of how France strained to reëstablish small-L liberal continuity across an autocratic interlude struck me as instructive and perhaps illuminating for the path ahead. The Deep Irony of a Scholar of Vichy France Being Detained in Houston 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z But the greatest and most illuminating recordings of both "Appalachian Spring" and the "West Side Story Symphonic Dances" are the ones Bernstein made in 1982 with the L.A. New York Philharmonic sticks with American classics at Santa Barbara Bowl 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z A pianist’s choice of what to play can be more illuminating than the performance itself. A Pianist’s Rare Visit to New York Reveals His Personality 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Isozaki finally built the museum as a village of platonic solids clad in a richly textured red Indian sandstone, with large pyramidal skylights illuminating the serene galleries below. Arata Isozaki, Prolific Japanese Architect, Dies at 91 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z The seven bonus tracks are illuminating if not revelatory, largely alternate vocal takes, though Lee’s poignant song from the 1972 movie “Snoopy Come Home” is included. Boxing Up the Past: The Year in 16 Pop, Rap, Soul and Jazz Sets 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Eminently listenable and often illuminating, the 10-episode series is like a bonus feature for opera fans, and a welcoming entry point for newcomers. A Luminous ‘Aria Code’ Joins a Meager Field of Classical Music Podcasts 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Reminiscing about it in “Footprints,” an illuminating 2004 biography of Shorter written by Michelle Mercer, Shorter said, “This is what freedom means.” Jazz icon Wayne Shorter can play anything. He’s still trying to say everything. 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z White’s songs celebrate his corner of the South by illuminating its spooky side—like all good folk tales should. The New Sound of Muscle Shoals 2012-12-25T13:20:15.353Z He’s a terrifically descriptive writer, particularly when illuminating the banal suburban world around him. When It Comes to Writing, Cheston Knapp Is His Own Harshest Critic 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z The sun slices through my office window, illuminating a thousand shimmering dust particles in the air. ‘Kadian Journal’: A father tries to survive the loss of his son, 14 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z A perceptive, illuminating look at Galileo’s discoveries and the anti-science naysayers who tried to take him down. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z When these versions worked, they were not only fun but also offered an illuminating glimpse of the music’s possibilities beyond those Hendrix already explored. Music Review: Unplugging the Hendrix Experience 2011-03-03T21:18:08Z Regardless of what anybody thinks of these wines, I think that trying them was illuminating, and I plan to suggest it again, from another angle, in the future. Supermarket Wines Are Poured, and Worlds Collide 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The beams reach deep into the burial chamber, illuminating its inner reaches for 17 minutes with a natural light show. Beyond Dublin, a dazzling day trip 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Jule Böwe's Kristin sustains minute examination of her every pore and illuminatingly suggests a woman whose eavesdropping anxiety conceals a working-class strength and, as she presses flowers between the pages of her Bible, inner devoutness. Fräulein Julie – review 2013-05-01T12:58:35Z She also told Sen. Blackburn during the illuminating conversation, "I pray that everyone who sees this show will remember, in 2022, to be kind." MLK Day preview: Alveda King tells Sen. Marsha Blackburn, 'We must be kind' 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z The middle third of “A Path to Peace,” where Mitchell describes his experience trying to bring Israelis and Palestinians to the negotiating table, is the book’s most illuminating section. George Mitchell wrote 'A Path to Peace' about Israel and Palestine. Is there one? 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z “Baptists in America” is an illuminating book, if at times dense. Dipped in controversy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Despite the fluffier and repetitive responses elicited by Ice-T — the old-school rapper turned “Law & Order: SVU” lead — this is a film that does sweat the technique, with at times illuminating and spirited results. Movie Review: ‘Something From Nothing,’ Ice-T’s Rap Documentary 2012-06-14T23:47:21Z It’s an illuminating historical read and a realistic depiction of the costs of war. 4 Young Adult Crossover Novels 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z It is a rare playful moment in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's nasty yet startlingly illuminating new production of "Così fan Tutte" and a tiny surprise, which I have now spoiled. Dudamel and the L.A. Phil illuminate, elevate 'Cosi fan Tutte' 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z “Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” directed by Danya Taymor and extended through Nov. 10 at Playwrights Horizons, is hardly the first play to be hailed as illuminating our polarized political moment. A Play ‘Meant to Trouble’ From a Writer Raised in Conservatism 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z But over all, Mr. Beaty shines an illuminating light on the life of an important American artist who was an equally significant activist, well before the advent of the civil rights movement. Review: Daniel Beaty as Paul Robeson in ‘The Tallest Tree in the Forest’ 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z When he got around to his more widely circulated songs, he reworked them ruthlessly: stripping away pop enticements like intros and instrumental hooks, magnifying dynamic ups and downs, illuminating each lyric anew. Elvis Costello Treats Carnegie Hall to a Solo Show 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Anyway, you have to admit that directors here come up with some surprising and, on occasion, illuminating variations on what to do with comestibles. | London Theater Journal: Revenge Served Sticky, and Cleanly Staged Comedy 2012-02-07T16:07:11Z The Bowl concert was, if not illuminating, good-natured. New York Philharmonic sticks with American classics at Santa Barbara Bowl 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z For those wishing to see the master in action, EuroArts has collected 10 Boulez DVDs under the title "Emotion and Analysis" that include live Boulez performances, documentaries and Boulez's illuminating analyses of his own music. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Documentary was at its most illuminating at the Dublin festival, where The Boys of Foley Street went hell for leather in charting the city's recent dark history. The best theatre of 2012: Susannah Clapp's choice 2012-12-15T21:00:02Z Here are Shakespeare forgeries, Shakespeare adaptations, Shakespeare translations, Shakespeare images: artifacts that draw on a primary source for power and present it again to us, illuminating it with refracted light. Museum Exhibitions at National Archives and the Smithsonian 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z All told, the story undun tells is sometimes chilling, often thrilling, and always illuminating. The Roots Have Made A Concept Album. And It?s Good! 2011-12-06T11:58:41Z Lady Bird could be seen as the story of a young woman getting the naivety knocked out of her, through various encounters, often bruising, often illuminating, with friends, boys and family. Why millennial stories are saving Hollywood 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z He coasted into his new album, “Views from the 6,” standout track “9” with images of Toronto’s CN Tower illuminating the backdrop behind him, and it was as good as forgotten. Review: Drake and Future co-headline at the Tacoma Dome 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Now, a new video by the people at TedEd explains in illuminating detail exactly how cancer spreads–or metastasizes–through the body. Watch how cancer spreads through your body 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which inaugurated its dedicated Rodin gallery in 1912, while he was still alive to donate work, the answer is an alternately illuminating and overwhelming collection of additional context. Rodin From Every Angle: A Cornucopia of Shows for the Holidays 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z This sensation — reading the internet in a book — is both illuminating and a little unsettling. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From ‘The Office’ to Eating Well 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Nor was mixing small earlier Boulez pieces with Bartók string quartets in early evening concerts illuminating. Feeling the sonic rush at the Ojai Music Festival 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z They were his attempts at interpreting and illuminating life. John Titchell RA by Tim Binding 2011-02-12T00:05:48Z As Louis Hyman shows in his illuminating and often surprising new book, the midcentury idyll of steady employment and a regular paycheck wasn’t designed to include women and people of color. How the ‘Temp’ Economy Became the New Normal 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z In one illuminating section of the exhibition, Hopper even tangles with the infamous urban planner Robert Moses over the transformation of Washington Square Park. Edward Hopper’s Fantasy Island 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Though as documented in James Spooner’s illuminating 2003 documentary “Afro-Punk,” which spawned a festival of the same name, fans and musicians who were minority group members often found themselves on the fringes of the scene. Hardcore Punk Is Looking (and Sounding) Different Now 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z In the same way that we test flame-retardant pyjamas by putting them in an inferno, so I think these cases are extreme versions of parenting as a way of illuminating a universal reality. Andrew Solomon: 'I'm one of five parents with four children in three states' 2013-02-16T15:00:01Z But, argues an Indian historian, Ramachandra Guha, in the introduction to this entertaining and illuminating collection of essays, “the politics matters just as much as the economics.” No unity in diversity 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z The onslaught of information certainly impresses by illuminating a rich and not-often-discussed slice of feminist history, but the execution is distractingly flashy and gratingly unfocused. ‘Rebel Hearts’ Review: Sisters Act Up 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Indeed, it’s the most relevant book of Oates’s half-century-long career, a powerful reminder that fiction can be as timely as this morning’s tweets but infinitely more illuminating. Joyce Carol Oates’s new novel arrives splattered with our country’s hot blood 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Powerful without being preachy, her language has a rhythmic pulse filled with humor, wonder and insight, much of it illuminating an inner life beyond a hard exterior. Running for Their Lives in Two Middle-Grade Novels About Track Teams 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z "While we are far from a finished product that, regardless, would never air during this current news cycle, I do think Preston's take is illuminating, particularly with some distance," Obst said. TV adaptation of Ebola best-seller 'The Hot Zone' in the works 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z We learn the most about Totenberg and Roberts, including an illuminating look at the Democratic political dynasty in which Roberts grew up. The Women of NPR, When NPR Was a Start-Up 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z It also promises some form of performance by Mr. Taylor, whose most recent appearance in this setting, in 2012, was an illuminating triumph. Jazz Listings for Nov. 13-19 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Peppered with illuminating anecdotes from famous siblings and from the author's own life, this book is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in human relationships. 'The Sibling Effect' charts the enduring influence of brothers and sisters 2011-10-05T23:03:03Z The stories of these candidates are surprising and often illuminating. Sunday Reading: The Democratic Presidential Front-Runners 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z That conversation — illuminating systemic racism — is the most important “thing” that makes white people uncomfortable, as his title has it. I’m a Pro Football Player Now, but I’ll Be Black Forever 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z At least designers are asking the right question, even if not all the answers are particularly illuminating. Safe Mode in Milan 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z Curious, fantastical and weighty, this illuminating memoir penetrates the force field of mystery shrouding one of America’s most iconic musical figures. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Finally, the Juliette chapter tied into the season’s mystery, illuminating the cryptic scene from the end of Episode 1. ‘The Affair’ Season 3, Episode 3: Noah and Juliette 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z “How the Classics Made Shakespeare” deserves an accolade too seldom awarded to academic works: Besides being eminently readable, it proffers illuminating observations and facts on every page. Review | Who art thou, Shakespeare? 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z There is so much in the exhibition that is illuminating about the war. Critic?s Notebook: Museum of the Confederacy and Others Depict the ?Lost Cause? 2011-12-05T23:01:15Z “Jasper Johns: ‘Something Resembling Truth,’” will present six decades of Johns’ work, including 120 of the artist’s paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures, with an eye towards illuminating “continuities and changes” in the artist’s oeuvre. The Broad announces on-sale date for tickets to its next special exhibition, a Jasper Johns survey 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z I attended only the first chapter, “Natives | Empire | Jail,” and although Chipaumire calls “Nehanda” a “juridical opera” incorporating song and dance, this introductory section felt more like a concert, one more atmospheric than illuminating. Review: In ‘Nehanda,’ the Band Played On 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z If anything, I enjoy how “Insecure” gives me a different way to see the world, illuminating the experiences of black women who are unlike myself. ‘Insecure’ Season 1, Episode 6: A Real One 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Obreht, who is best known for her stunning debut novel “The Tiger’s Wife,” has a knack for illuminating both history and human nature in her writing; “Inland” continues in that vein. You need to read this: 5 hot new fiction books coming in August 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Nichols’s source notes are one of the highlights of the volume, pointing the reader to more illuminating books and articles. ‘The Death of Expertise’ Explores How Ignorance Became a Virtue 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Two illuminating conversations with her male counterpoints shed some light on the choices of the new Lady of Winterfell. Two Pivotal Scenes May Hold the Key to Sansa’s Future on Game of Thrones 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Niven brought a spirited defense to the reputation of each, and was praised for illuminating their stories with details from personal documents and unpublished works. Penelope Niven, Carl Sandburg Biographer, Dies at 75 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Indeed, the documentary’s most illuminating beats come from the photographers’ recollections of private moments with the queen, when they observe her guarded persona punctuated by flickers of vulnerability. ‘Portrait of the Queen’ Review: Seeking Fresh Angles on a Familiar Face 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Asked what ties these three works together in concert, Bronfman says it is actually the things that separate them from one another that is illuminating. Well-traveled pianist Yefim Bronfman to return to Seattle 2012-12-06T22:14:14Z Q: Care to share any funny or illuminating anecdotes from your Galapagos video shoot? A behind-the-scenes look at 360-degree video 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z As alternatingly illuminating and awkward as the usual cocktail-party chatter between intelligent people, the conversation wended back to the inevitability that all stylistic choices will be cringed at later. Dance Review: Jennifer Lacey in ?Gattica? for American Realness - Review 2012-01-15T23:13:51Z The archival materials unearthed here, especially personal letters and diary entries, are potent and illuminating, and some of the commentary offers real depth and insight. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z But Ms. Gordon said the collection was very much “a political archive,” illuminating the years immediately following 1869, when the suffrage movement had split over the 15th Amendment. A Trove on the Women’s Suffrage Struggle, Found in an Old Box 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z This sign is like a light illuminating a cave most people never enter. New York’s Sidewalk Prophets Are Heirs of the Artisans of France’s Lascaux Caves 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z “That was illuminating and also disappointing, and that’s when I realized that no options were available.” Ettore Sottsass Exhibition Canceled After Museum and Estate Clash 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Indeed, the most illuminating aspect of the set is the playfulness, witnessing songs blooming, a sound being explored with casual joy, like-minded artists coming together in that ethereal realm that transcends theaters, studios or garages. Back to the basement with Bob Dylan 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Lasers zip across a stage littered with detritus, reflecting off spoons and illuminating a fish tank in which a Big Ears puppet is ritually drowned. Gobo. Digital Glossary ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:54Z The sight of Mell running around outside in pajama bottoms brandishing a toy ray gun is neither as funny nor as illuminating as Mell seems to think it is. ‘Some of Our Stallions’ Review: At Least They Don’t Shoot Horses 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Her husband, who commissioned the painting, was thrilled with the results, writing: "It has a ray of heaven illuminating in her face the charming qualities of her soul." Portait of a neglected painter: Philip de L?szl?'s works to go on display 2010-03-23T15:44:00Z The unspoken lesson might be to sprinkle in illuminating analogies from antiquity as often as possible, for Zeus’ sake. A Critic Considers the ‘Ecstasy and Terror’ of Today With the Help of a Few Ancients 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Ann Hornaday, chief film critic for The Washington Post, helps us decipher the medium’s message with “Talking Pictures,” her illuminating new book for anyone who wants more from the movies than popcorn and thrills. Don’t just watch movies — understand them 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Yi’s work with odors runs the gamut from the emotional to the sociopolitical, illuminating her interest in the way the human nose has been conditioned by outside forces. The Artistic Aromas of Anicka Yi 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z This does not always entirely pan out, but when it does, the results are illuminating — “View From the Bridge” is a perfect example. The Demolition Artist: 3 Critics Debate Ivo van Hove 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Ms. Wright conveys a bird’s-eye command, hitting her notes precisely and illuminating even the space around them with a ruby glow. Lizz Wright’s ‘Grace,’ an Ode to the South and to Forgiveness 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Both are illuminating, if occasionally plodding, in their own ways. Critic’s Notebook: Dance on Camera Festival Has a Wide Focus 2014-01-31T00:04:43Z Entwining these three asymmetrical lives as deftly as Wickenden does proves illuminating. An Unlikely Alliance in Upstate N.Y. and the Fight for Black and Women’s Rights 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z In his review for The New York Times, Ben Brantley wrote that its success “seemed to confirm the reputation of its author as one of this country’s most original and illuminating writers about race.” ‘Kindred’ Creator Wants Viewers to ‘Question Their Assumptions’ 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z In the event, however, it was a spare, careful, unsentimental untangling of the man's life that was illuminating, moving and altogether rather wonderful. TV review: Who Do You Think You Are?; Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies; John Barrowman's Dallas 2012-08-29T22:10:01Z The phrases from Plath's earlier drafts are illuminating: "I was a flat personage," it was "a clean killing," and it was all "Final, like a bad accident." How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Lucky for us, Clark loves to talk in detail — excruciating, sobering, hilarious, illuminating detail. Is Brandy Clark the most empathetic storyteller in country music? 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z But Nézet-Séguin’s treatment of Beethoven as ahead of his time pays off in an illuminating Second, a poetically compelling Third and a delicate, patient Sixth. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z The result is “get dancing,” an illuminating, heartfelt program of old and new work performed at Danspace Project on Friday. Review: Reviving Andy de Groat’s Works in New York 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z And his customers’ stories — about their families and losses and fears — turn out to be a series of distorted but illuminating mirrors of Jimmy’s conflicted nature and troubled history. | 'Bluebird': He?ll Take You Anywhere You Want to Go 2011-08-23T02:01:00Z With great efficiency and a wealth of supporting detail, Follett traces the impact of Mikhail Gorbachev and his era of reform, illuminating the forces that destroyed a monolithic institution. ‘Edge of Eternity,’ the final installment in Ken Follett’s sweeping trilogy Encountering it is like a near-death experience, at once traumatic and profoundly, permanently illuminating. ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z It’s a rare novel that conveys the vertigo of a journey without demystifying its individual turns, but Nguyen is an able captain, and the path he charts for us is illuminating. A Broken Family Flees 1970s Saigon for New Orleans 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z And I certainly found the afternoon involving, and sometimes illuminating. Bostridge’s cerebral ‘Winterreise’ reaches through song to speech 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Though the final emphatic climax was achieved with suitable flourish, this was not a particularly illuminating interpretation. BBCNOW/Fischer ? review 2011-02-01T18:05:52Z It was an illuminating conversation, taking place on a sunny fall day at recess. The gym class wars: Was I glorifying violence with these physical education games? 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z “Arte del Mar” might have been more illuminating if it were a bit larger, and extended past the pre-Columbian tradition to include the art of colonial settlers and of Afro-Caribbean populations. The Art of Caribbean Exchange, in Gold, Stone or Hardwood 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Now in its 23rd season, this heady summer series has turned its prodigious intellectual and artistic resources toward illuminating “Saint-Saëns and His World” in two weekends jam-packed with concerts and lectures. Critic’s Notebook: A Bard Music Festival Weekend of Saint-Saëns 2012-08-13T21:46:15Z About three miles north, Light the Way, an installation illuminating the University of the Incarnate Word, runs through Jan. 6. Christmas (on the Cheap) in January 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z It transforms sound, dampening it and illuminating the world with a phosphorescent glow. Snowmaking is the most dangerous part of skiing 2013-02-23T13:00:00Z But the show has a few other, more illuminating things to say about race. Rose Byrne: ‘You understand why feminists are furious – we’re still talking about this?’ 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z I drove down from New York, we had lunch, caught up, and began what has become, for both of us, a very illuminating high school reunion. My one black friend 2012-07-04T16:00:00Z It’s an album that looks to the past while illuminating perfectly the many talents of its contemporary creator. Of Montreal Breaks Genre Barriers on New Album 2013-10-11T12:00:49Z The connection of the interviews to the evidence of the historical record is sometimes illuminating and sometimes paradoxical; sometimes the past reveals present-day illusions, sometimes new recognitions shed light on old mysteries. Two Prescient Films About the Memory of the Holocaust 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Buzzed-about Montreal duo Purity Ring turns the stage into the equivalent of an outside patio at a posh Chicago restaurant by illuminating what resemble honeycombs placed on long sticks. Pitchfork Day 1 wrap-up: Feist, Japandroids, Big K.R.I.T., rain 2012-07-14T05:09:00Z Together, the books recounted the private trials of one Mississippi family while illuminating more than 50 years of troubled racial history. Review | Greg Iles bounced back from a catastrophic car crash with a monumental trilogy. He’s not done. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Packed with illuminating interviews and lyrical movement, “Breath Made Visible” portrays a woman with angels in her feet and innovation in her blood. | 'Breath Made Visible': A Woman Who Can?t Stand Still 2010-04-23T00:20:00Z The Beckett allusions are insubstantial, but in truth none of this literary game-playing is illuminating, and mostly feels like a lazy attempt to pad the play with audience-flattering in-jokes. | 'Leaving': A New Play by Vaclav Havel Has Its American Premiere 2010-06-08T22:24:00Z Mass culture enhanced and exacerbated its modern incarnation yet continues to be lousy at illuminating critiques of it. ‘The Idol’ Is Ending Sunday. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing. 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z I confess I am an avid consumer and I have to wade through a sea of lazy cliches to get to anything genuinely illuminating. I'm a huge fan of Top Gear. But this time I've had enough 2011-02-05T21:30:00Z These authors, hailing from different backgrounds and writing in different registers, illustrate just how creatively fiction is illuminating our past, present and future. ‘Underground Fugue’: A tale of mother-daughter love against a backdrop of terror 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z It is illuminating to see the mind of an organization at work—to eavesdrop on the conference calls and deskside scrums that determine angles of coverage. How “The Fourth Estate” Attempts to Capture the Still-In-Progress Story of America’s Debasement Under Trump 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Thursday night’s concert, however, went off without a hitch, perhaps because it was so simple — a man standing alone onstage with his guitar, his harmonica and some of the most illuminating country songs ever penned. Review | A Kris Kristofferson concert that felt like a goodbye 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Led by Ramachandra Guha, cricket writers have produced illuminating studies of the Indian game’s socio-political context in which not only cricket, but also India, is the subject. Batting for survival 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The abuse these patients heap on healthcare workers is both appalling and illuminating. The white, conservative Southern women who asked me to keep their abortions secret 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z At the end comes a room of yammering strobe lights, illuminating a long wide shelf. How the Hayward Gallery's Light Show monkeys with your eyeballs 2013-01-28T18:33:05Z The object of our affection rises from the crowd like fireworks, simultaneously illuminating the unfamiliar landscape of our travels and obliterating its interest. Modern Love: Romance, the Ultimate Souvenir 2012-09-07T00:15:52Z His explanations of changes in style and genre are illuminating, and illustrated by shrewd musical selections. ‘Moonage Daydream’ Review: David Bowie’s Sound and Vision 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z This less than illuminating explanation sets in motion the tragedy that unfolds — or rather one of them. Review: ‘Spring Awakening’ by Deaf West Theater Brings a New Sensation to Broadway 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z The first, though intriguing, is more puzzling than illuminating. ‘The Two Popes’ Review: Double Act at the Vatican 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Other elements of “The Gun” are perhaps unwittingly illuminating. Books of The Times: The Flesh and Blood Behind the AK-47 2010-12-02T22:57:00Z The songs add up to a cycle, illuminating one another’s mysteries. The Best Albums of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z It would be illuminating to see how the starchy, starkly lighted landscapes of the nominally trained folk painter Thomas Chambers might rattle the gentle glow and soft leafy vistas of the Hudson River School. American Folk vs. Academic Art 2013-01-31T13:00:00Z An illuminating article by the British critic J. J. Charlesworth, at artnet.com, bolsters my policy of carefree resignation. A Fearful Frenzy: The Art Market Now 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z The one point on which I found his meeting minutes really illuminating was his long chapter on Afghanistan. 'The Promise': Jonathan Alter's chronicle of Obama's first year in office 2010-06-03T20:07:00Z Winters closely captures the process of their work, illuminating the grueling nature of combing out the minutiae of the most important data leak in modern history. “The system is rigged”: How the crimes of “The Panama Papers” affect us all 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z In his review for The Times, Ben Kenigsberg called the results “wry and illuminating.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Flay List’ and ‘Hail Satan?’ 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Two in particular deliver on the promise of the title, illuminating the strange way that borrowed words and chords can tap into reservoirs of otherwise inaccessible feeling. Movie Review: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis,’ Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen 2013-12-05T13:00:01Z In so doing she exposes mankind’s best and worst qualities, our universalities and differences, illuminating all the while the myriad ways in which a heart can be pure. A Suicide Bombing Shatters a Divided Family 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z It contemplates the Soviet state at almost the exact midpoint of its existence, illuminating the faces of those who lived there and at the same time reckoning with the dead weight of history. ‘State Funeral’ Review: Saying Goodbye to Stalin 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z But it’s still sort of rare, like monks illuminating a manuscript or something. Michael Pollan: Bad food is costing America its economic health 2013-12-08T19:00:00Z It was illuminating to fans, but also something of a badge of honor for the famous, especially when the conversations were adversarial. R.I.P., the Celebrity Profile 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z An Obie award winner, it seemed to confirm the reputation of its author as one of this country’s most original and illuminating writers about race. Review: ‘An Octoroon,’ a Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Comedy About Race 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Over the course of nine galleries and 150 works, their effort weaves together art, biography and history into a rich, illuminating narrative. Art Review: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, a French Artist of Multiple Passions 2014-03-27T22:29:43Z I listened to my husband and his father discuss the difficult things in life — cancer, aging — with the lighthouse periodically illuminating our faces. Keeping the Fire of Irish Lighthouses Alive 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z This engaging and illuminating portrait allows subsequent generations to understand who Lenny Bruce was, and, more important, why he mattered. Lenny Bruce's fire and fury light up Theatre 68 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z In downtown Pensacola, car alarms went off, the vehicles’ flashing lights illuminating the surrounding floodwaters. Slow-moving Hurricane Sally drops several feet of water on Alabama and Florida 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Just as illuminating is the way the programme goes on to show what happens when the getting-stuff-out-of-the-ground stage is over. Tonight's TV highlights: Digging For Britain 2010-09-01T23:05:00Z In the world of classical music, distinctions of all kinds — stylistic, national, ethnic, religious — are often eased through illuminating, creative programming emphasizing resonance and links. Jordi Savall links cultures of Spain, Mexico in new program 2014-02-25T22:41:50Z Instead, he focuses on illuminating the profound fissures of Swift’s sensibility and on examining the ways in which they inform his works and relate to the religious and political turmoil of his era. Review | Jonathan Swift: Not (entirely) the misanthrope you thought you knew 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Seeing art in its architectural context is enlightening, but so is seeing it with the proper lighting, and in the illuminating context of the full spectrum of an artist’s career. Perspective | Seeing Tintoretto in Venice is very nice. But so is seeing his works in a well-lit museum. 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z There was no more enjoyable and illuminating way of looking at paintings than in his company. Old master paintings worth £100m given to Britain – with strings attached 2013-02-19T15:59:55Z For me, talking to the vendor at the farmer's market or finding a local CSA-produce box is often more illuminating than trying to track down the sources behind grocery store offerings. What's the actual difference between vegan and vegetarian? 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z But in the illuminating “This Is the Life,” DuVernay not only fills in an important formative gap in California’s hip-hop history, she displays the inventive eye that would later lead to her future cinematic successes. ‘This Is the Life’ Review: A Valuable Part of Hip-Hop History 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Since then, it has been a critical bulwark of film preservation, saving an enormous number of movies from deterioration and illuminating the brilliance of countless others. New this week: ‘I Am Greta,’ Chris Stapleton & CMA Awards 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z It’s not that it eschews that earlier novel’s complex, tangled family portraits, illuminating the ways in which one generation embraces or rejects the expectations of its precursors. Books of The Times: ‘NW’ by Zadie Smith 2012-08-26T19:49:57Z As it is, The Arbor's method obscures its subject matter rather than illuminating it. Clio Barnard's The Arbor is out of lip-synch with reality 2010-10-25T10:06:00Z “The images are advocating, illuminating and cementing others’ existence,” says Mr. Lemons. Black Beauty: Photography Between Art and Fashion 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Sometimes the iPod segment is much more illuminating than the gallery display. 2010-01-15T05:00:00Z Often its effects are the opposite, tilting what should be illuminating exchanges into street brawls. A farewell to harms: Meghan McCain exits "The View" but may have tainted it forever 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z I thought your response to Giuliana Rancic’s comments was worded in a way that probably was illuminating for people who didn’t get why it was offensive. Zendaya: I'm Not a Role Model 'Because I’m Not Playing a Role’ 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z The chapter — a David Foster Wallacean swerve into a crisp nonfictional standpoint — provides illuminating background on the period the novel documents. ‘Beatlebone’ review: What does John Lennon need to find his muse again? 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z One point made in this wry and illuminating documentary from Penny Lane is that the group that calls itself the Satanic Temple is not composed of devil worshipers. ‘Hail Satan?’ Review: Pitchforks, Black Clothes and Good Deeds 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z His insider look at what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, as well as Biden’s description of the deliberations before the killing of Osama bin Laden, are particularly illuminating. Six vice presidents talk about job once considered invisible 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Eccentric pianist Gould is always watchable; as are the people talking about him in this illuminating doc. This week's new films 2011-01-22T00:06:21Z The idea of examining unfinished works from the 15th century to the present is topical, illuminating and crowd-pleasing. At the Met Breuer, Thinking Inside the Box 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z But this “Death of a Salesman” revival eclipses the classic instead of illuminating it. Review: ‘Death of a Salesman,’ Diluted by Too Many Experiments 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z People with varying qualifications prattle about a subject in a way that’s supposed to be entertaining, occasionally bumping into an illuminating fact or idea while doing so. Review: ‘Join or Die With Craig Ferguson’ — Historic Errors 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z You had the sense of Mr. Bennett, poised, calm and good-humored, as a lighthouse in the middle of a churning musical sea, illuminating the way for all approaching ships. Music Review: Tony Bennett at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-09-19T22:54:03Z But his selections from well- and lesser-known Keaton films are illuminating and astute. Review: ‘The Great Buster’ Brings a Deadpan Genius Back to Life 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z She felt that an open Bible was an illuminating guide, a protectant, this night light for the soul. Toni Morrison Taught Me How to Think 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z After all, Ms. Churchill, though several decades the senior of the 45-year-old Mr. McDonagh, is far more of an experimentalist, a writer who bends time and language into exotic and illuminating shapes. For ‘Hangmen’ and ‘Escaped Alone,’ Connecting Threads in London 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z There’s also an illuminating Ted Talk animation on cookie science. The Science Behind Baking the Most Delicious Cookie Ever 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z A go-to technique, Sandgren said, is to have “a long surface of light on one side” illuminating the tear, creating a border of light that accentuates its shape. How to Turn a Good Cry Into Good Cinema 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z At night, I watched from my apartment window the city glowing back, my neighbors illuminating their dwellings with candles and neon signs. My mother, alone in the woods 2014-01-20T01:00:00Z But also because — as intense and unsettling as the argument was — it was substantive and illuminating in a way time-killing cable shouting matches rarely are. On CNN, Debating Trump and the Ku Klux Klan. Really. 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z This remarkable film is poignant, charming and illuminating in delightfully grown-up ways. 'While We're Young' illuminates in delightfully grown-up ways 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z She will be missed, not just as a vision of beauty but for her illuminating spirit. Dance Review: Janie Taylor and Sébastien Marcovici Depart City Ballet 2014-03-02T23:25:56Z If the similarities between the images are always apparent, the differences are illuminating. Review | In the galleries: ‘Afrofuturism,’ defined in the moment, by nine artists 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z “Silence for her is a force of nature, awe provoking, like lightning, capable of electrocuting us and of illuminating the night.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z His prose is vivid and precise, his sense of setting sharply illuminating. 'The Convert's Song' is a skillfully layered thriller 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Revisiting all of Ken Burns’ distillations of America’s wars would be an illuminating endeavor, if only to see how his storytelling style has evolved and how the nation has transformed along the way. Ten years in the making, "The Vietnam War" is broad and stunning 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The shifting kaleidoscope of voices is at once illuminating and dizzying. Joyce Carol Oates’s Novel Plumbs the Depths of America’s Abortion War 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Although he had "never experienced the world of gangs", he found the way the boy had to hide behind a tough facade illuminating. Wandsworth jail reading group: 'Here, they don't have to be prisoners' 2013-01-15T15:30:01Z That query, so simple, yet rife with complications, informs every fine strand of this wise, illuminating novel. ‘ Gentlemen’: a superb novel about Irish patriot Roger Casement 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Some of these theatrical elements are more distracting than illuminating. Review: ‘Social Security,’ the Heroic Poetry of Solitude 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Although the author focuses on the high points of Gandhi's life, he attempts to show his human side by illuminating the trials, ambiguities and eccentricities of the man. 'Great Soul': Joseph Lelyveld tells Mahatma Gandhi's larger-than-life story 2011-04-06T22:21:04Z Krauss’s illuminating novel toys with questions of identity that resist easy answers. New in Paperback: ‘Ranger Games,’ ‘Conversations With Friends’ 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z However, his stark framing grants the scene a mythic, muscular force, illuminating the peculiar and self-sacrificing dedication required to make any tradition last. A Festival Full of Exploding Sledgehammers 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z “Puchner’s enthusiasm … inspires illuminating detours into subjects like the history of Esperanto and the birth of simultaneous interpretation at the Nuremberg trials.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Ms. Garfield and Ms. Omagbemi, with rough and tender attack, internalized his words, illuminating not just the dancer but also the creature within. Dance Review: Keely Garfield?s ?Twin Pines? at Danspace ? Review 2012-01-23T22:08:42Z As Scott Malcomson writes in “Splinternet”, an illuminating survey of the past and future of the internet, it was developed “by the US military to serve US military purposes”. Growing up 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z When we reach the exhibition’s crime scene, the effect is a little less illuminating, partly because we are guided along such narrow tracks. Exhibition Review: A Sherlock Holmes Exhibition Stops in Ohio 2014-02-14T23:25:09Z Amitav Ghosh’s “The Nutmeg’s Curse” is an illuminating book by any measure on the historical roots of the climate emergency today. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z What’s more illuminating, then, is attempting to reconcile Brown’s own way of discussing what happened to him with the knowledge that he was a victim of child abuse. Chris Brown Was Raped. Does It Matter If He Doesn’t Think So? 2013-10-09T21:57:04Z One of Smith's brief and illuminating chapters looks at the idea of the "Ideal City", spinning through notions conjured by Plato, Vitruvius, Leonardo, Thomas More, Campanella, Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier. City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age by PD Smith – review 2012-06-08T21:55:08Z The event, which opens the memoir and ends it, is surprisingly illuminating and not in the way you expect. 'Lost and Found in Johannesburg' maps the growth of a writer and nation 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Especially since her latest book is based on the theory that “bad behavior can be so much more illuminating than the world of the respectable conformist.” Manspreading, Renaissance-Style: 2 Experts Weigh In on Etiquette of Centuries Past 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z He is now a registered financial adviser, and his blog, as the name implies, is devoted to illuminating the public about the booby traps of investing. Cultural Studies: Parting Is Such Sweet Revenge 2012-08-10T21:10:47Z Borage blossoms have been strategically placed around the perimeter of the plate, illuminating the dish like evening stars. Jean-Louis Palladin was D.C.’s original celebrity chef. But his legacy is complicated. 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Particularly illuminating is a triplet of the abandoned "Jenny at 16," a precursor of "Jack and Diane," which follows in both demo and finished form. Billboard CD reviews: Christina Aguilera, Korn, Jewel 2010-07-02T21:49:00Z As often as not, those preoccupations are benign — and can be illuminating and provocative when they’re artfully plumbed. Perspective | Uma Thurman, Quentin Tarantino and the costs of auteur worship 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Their book is a professional job, filled with illuminating details about the day-to-day operations of the bureau. Hunting Down the Best True-Crime Tales 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Yet Ms. Jones, in her first Broadway appearance in four years, is as illuminating as ever, confirming her reputation as an actress of not only formidable charisma but also meticulous craft. | 'Mrs. Warren's Profession': ?Tis No Pity She?s a C.E.O. 2010-10-04T02:01:00Z Yet the sum effect here is not distorting but illuminating, setting off a steady chorus of “Eurekas” in your head. Review: ‘DruidShakespeare: The History Plays’ Is Complete With a Crown Fit for Many Kings 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Still, “A Private Life” offers a rich and illuminating reassessment, invigorating the somewhat lackluster discourse about the iconic movie star. Review: ‘Elizabeth Taylor’: the first modern celebrity 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z "Your body no longer belongs to you," is one statement, repeated several times and in multiple iterations by numerous actresses in Kristy Guevara-Flanagan's illuminating documentary, "Body Parts." "Body Parts" examines the labor of movie nudity – the good, the bad and the merkins 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z Every so often, a ray of sunshine pierces the gloom, illuminating a small urban patch. ‘Weathering With You’ Review: Letting the Sun Shine In 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z And the outcome is illuminating enough to wonder what would happen in Part 3. Review | Nora’s back in ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2.’ Lucky for us, she’s played by Holly Twyford. 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Sometimes by being fantastical, it allows us to talk about reality in a more illuminating a way, because it’s a different sort of an entry. A.M. Homes, too, has met this guy at a reading: “I don’t read books by women” 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z This was all illuminating, the transparency heightening appreciation of skill and artistry. Review: In ‘Unedited,’ the Revisions Are Part of the Tradition 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z These encounters vary the show’s pace, but they aren’t particularly illuminating. Review: In ‘The Prisoner,’ Peter Brook Ponders Crime and Punishment 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z But his work with Dr. Rodchenkov is levelheaded, and his documentary illuminating. Review: Unexpectedly Exploring the Russian Doping Scandal 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Instead, the Britten Sinfonia presented a typically illuminating programme that put some of his less familiar works in different contexts, making us think about what we were hearing, but without it feeling cerebral. Britten Sinfonia/Alice Coote – review 2012-11-23T18:58:29Z At the time, the artist kept a sketchbook that is one of the first objects in his illuminating retrospective—his first major show in over 35 years—now open at the Art Institute of Chicago. ‘Charles White: A Retrospective’ Review: Shimmering Black History Brought to Life 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z I swept my flashlight around, illuminating eerie coral and ghostly creatures that stared at me incredulously before darting away. Diving Thailand’s Andaman Sea, by day and night 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z So here's a roundup of recent familial soundbites from Pitt -- and by soundbites, we really mean morsels in which he acknowledges various personal topics, if not exactly illuminating them. Brad Pitt roundup: His wedding, his honeymoon, his kids 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z But the ultimate fate of Ishtar and its creator yield the most illuminating insights. Ishtar at 30: is it really the worst movie ever made? 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z This podcast on design, architecture and other assorted cleverness may be pocket-sized – most episodes clock in at under 20 minutes – but nevertheless it manages to cram a truckload of illuminating info into each one. Catch-up TV guide: from Vicious to Mad Men 2013-06-08T05:00:06Z It makes for an illuminating change, but in the current roster of productions, there’s a clearer sense of one pair of eyes and hands deftly presiding over the proceedings. Perspective | A cool musical where? The autumn season of plays at American Shakespeare Center is a rich one. 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z This expansive notion of democracy is the key revelation from Sitaraman’s illuminating book. Could Politics Be Fairer? Two New Books Say Yes 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z After last week's illuminating chat with Sarah Waters, this week's guest is one of the most compelling contemporary writers of non-fiction. Live webchat: Mark Lynas 2011-07-20T12:54:28Z The resultant conversation wound up perhaps a bit … scattered, if illuminating in its own way. Cannes 2015: 'Youth' finds Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel getting cheeky 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Three in particular — at the School of Visual Arts, the International Center of Photography and MoMA PS1 — form an unexpectedly illuminating progression. Critic?s Notebook: 9/11 Exhibitions Rekindle Grief in 3 Ways 2011-09-10T00:00:13Z In breaking down the chemistry of that transformation, Ms. Scott has never shined brighter or more illuminatingly. Theater Review: Sherie Rene Scott: Semi-Star From Kansas 2010-04-30T02:27:00Z You fall in love with illuminating the human condition. Sterling K. Brown and Andre Braugher’s Lives Keep Intersecting 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The festival exemplifies site-specific theater, where art and environment meld, each illuminating the other. Each summer, theater fans descend on an unspoiled Dutch island 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z In comparison with another new book, “Lusitania” by Greg King and Penny Wilson, Mr. Larson’s is less gossipy but much more illuminating. Review: Erik Larson’s ‘Dead Wake,’ on the Sinking of the Lusitania 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Dudamel went for dark textures and illuminating details, moving inexorably forward as if this were a Greek tragedy. Gustavo Dudamel, L.A. Philharmonic focus on Apollo 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z “The line between illuminating and trivializing is particularly thin here.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Son of Sam: The Killer Speaks’ and ‘Atypical’ 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z If they were, Jackson Pollock's Lavender Mist would today look like a period piece, illuminating the quirks of 1950s America but quite odd and silly from our point of view. Tate Britain's Painting Now exhibition: how can painting ever belong to 'now'? 2013-07-04T14:50:12Z The production is steeped in a luminous and illuminating empathy that feels both uncommon and essential right now. Review: ‘Fulfillment Center’ Finds the Poetry in Missed Connections 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z But I can’t think of any that are more essential or illuminating. Theater Review: ‘The Designated Mourner’ by Wallace Shawn, at Public Theater 2013-07-22T02:00:02Z And it captures Baldwin’s genius: illuminating the bruising, personal toll that American society often exacts. What to Read Before or After You See ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z One illuminating episode from Season 1 begins by revealing Sheila’s unorthodox morning routine: She paints her perfect teeth yellow and covers her neat, blonde hair with a long, ratty, black wig. What to Remember Before ‘GLOW’ Comes Back for Season 2 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z You’ve heard a lot of generic one-liners involving amusing children and clueless husbands, some of them pretty funny but none of them especially illuminating. Review: ‘One Funny Mother’ Delivers One-Liners Without Depth 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z The book is especially illuminating on the powerful, if overlooked, properties of the humble catalogue card, some 79 million of which were printed annually at the system’s peak in 1969. What libraries lost when they threw out the card catalog 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington, and its National Museum of the American Indian, in Manhattan and Washington, offer multimedia digital materials illuminating the country’s reckoning with racism. Digital Field Trips: Museum Adventures Abound for Kids 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z At once faithful and irreverent, it’s an illuminating interpretation that is alert to the script’s inadvertent comedy and delighted to mine it. Review: 1 Actor, in 8 Roles, Wrestles Nuance From Eugene O’Neill’s ‘Strange Interlude’ 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z Other performances were more straightforward, but no less illuminating. Music Review: All Guitar, and a Little Comic Relief in Unexpected Places 2011-04-24T21:48:59Z This all proved so illuminating you almost didn’t want a complete “Flute,” although Dudamel was clearly born to conduct one sooner or later. Why 1791 in 2017? Gustavo Dudamel searches for meaning in Mozart's last year 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Working with a scientific consultant, Cornelis van Leeuwen, a viticulture professor, she presents her findings clearly and concisely, aided by illuminating maps and graphics and gorgeous photographs. 6 Books for Thinking, Drinking and Changing the World 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Reopening the conversation is certainly worth attempting but a discussion with your mother about why she allows it to continue might be more illuminating. My stepdad won’t stop watching porn in our house | Mariella Frostrup 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z One of the achievements of the illuminating exhibition “The American Style,” which opens on Tuesday at the Museum of the City of New York, is that it helps make the invisible visible. Exhibition Review: National Design That?s Hidden in Plain Sight 2011-06-13T22:41:43Z The second, ungainly duo disrupts the harmony established by the first, illuminating just how sublime that harmony was. Review: Traditional Dance From Okinawa at Japan Society 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z The costumes, music and projections similarly seem to function more as pastiche than the means toward illuminating or furthering the story. Review: In ‘Misdemeanor Dream,’ Speaking to the Unseen 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Even so, this is a tremendous selection of pieces from Carter’s extraordinary late-career bloom, played with love and insight by musicians capable of embracing their challenges and illuminating their charms. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Beethoven, the Bad Plus, Fred Astaire and More 2014-04-02T16:00:38Z And it’s told without judgment or stigma, elegantly illuminating the very real psychological challenges older individuals face, and the high senior suicide rate. “I tried to kill myself”: The Oscars shined a much-needed light on mental health 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z When we read her work, we must be awed by that precision, by the way that her intent focus on the particular ends up illuminating the general. Farewell Alice Munro, and thanks for everything 2013-07-05T06:00:04Z Mr. Gerstein played these pieces with an illuminating clarity and an unassailable technique. Music Review: Kirill Gerstein at Peoples? Symphony Concert 2010-05-10T20:47:00Z In a popular engraving from 1862, The Bill Poster's Dream, the bill poster himself sits slumped like a drunk against a lamppost, exhausted, glue-pot by his side, examples of his handiwork illuminating the night sky. Can paper survive the digital age? 2012-11-09T09:20:27Z She may be able to provide some helpful or illuminating context. Perspective | Ask Amy: Opposite sisters don’t attract 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z And speaking of tone, there is a fascinating and illuminating difference between the language of A Journey Round My Skull and the many tumorous volumes that have followed it. A healthy dose of sick lit 2010-09-03T09:09:00Z “In Mr. Aaron’s adroitly edited version, Inman’s diary is a fascinating document, by turns bizarre and illuminating, poignant and obscene,” the psychologist Michael Vincent Miller wrote in The New York Times Book Review. Daniel Aaron, Critic and Historian Who Pioneered American Studies, Dies at 103 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Silence for her is a force of nature, awe provoking, like lightning, capable of electrocuting us and of illuminating the night. The Case for Covering Your Ears in Noisy Times 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z It is accompanied by a lavish catalog with illuminating essays by Robert Storr, the writer, curator and dean of the Yale School of Art, and the cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum. Critic?s Notebook: Forrest Bess Paintings at Christie?s and Whitney Biennial 2012-03-22T21:35:57Z “Oh, my God, Saddam?!” someone moans as recent Iraqi history gets rehashed with illuminating detail but also sometimes with more heat than light. Review | ‘Noura’ is the best premiere of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Johnston’s 1988 quartet, illuminatingly played by the Lyris Quartet, is a small masterpiece of altered reality, its every unamplified chord taking on the quality of amplification, of righting a topsy-turvy world. What do microtones have to do with global warming? Two concerts offer an answer 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z The food itself is phenomenal—breads, salads, stews, curries, sticky-sweet desserts—but even more illuminating is Helou’s decision to include blocks of different recipes for a single dish. The Best Cookbooks of the Century So Far 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z It was illuminating to see Mr. Nelsons not only in performance but also in rehearsal, on Saturday morning. Music Review: Andris Nelsons Conducts Boston Symphony at Tanglewood 2012-07-16T22:18:50Z And how effective is a narrative twist in a podcast episode at actually illuminating our past? You Know Your History? These Podcasts Aren’t So Sure 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z We're so used to music supporting images that the opposite process, of images illuminating music, struggles to get off the ground. Noise by David Hendy and The Story of Music by Howard Goodall – review 2013-03-08T10:01:01Z Through each of the seven sections that follow, Mr. McGregor finds ingenious ways of illuminating and extending these basic physical ideas. Dance Review: ?Undance? by Wayne McGregor and Friends in London - Review 2011-12-05T23:11:05Z With great differences, illuminating moments of dovetailing and 25 instances of out-and-out overlap, the Modern and Marlborough shows are accidental complements that at times seem to finish each other’s sentences. Art Review: Picasso Prints at MoMA and Marlborough 2010-04-08T22:17:00Z Such was my illuminating experience last week on two successive nights, with established revivals of musicals that have introduced new actresses in pivotal roles. How to Keep a Musical Great: Call Heather Headley and Marin Mazzie 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z An imposing basalt sarcophagus from about 600 B.C. gets pride of place in one gallery of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s illuminating new exhibition... ‘Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World’ Review: A Cross-Cultural Journey Begins 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z As Cassavetes had subsidized his indie films with roles in so-so movies and TV shows, so did Falk use Columbo as his day job, allowing him to go trekking into illuminating back alleys. Peter Falk: From Lt. Columbo to Wings of Desire and Princess Bride 2011-06-25T05:45:00Z Or is this dismayingly erratic yet so frequently illuminating text exactly what it was when its author laid down the burden of his oracular vision of our literature? Harold Bloom Is Dead. But His ‘Rage for Reading’ Is Undiminished. 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z This prejudice helped Jeffrey Lendrum, the title villain of Joshua Hammer’s entertaining and illuminating new book, “The Falcon Thief,” to maintain a dual identity for decades: heroic birder and merciless thief. Review | For years, Jeffrey Lendrum was at once an avid outdoorsman and merciless thief. Then he got caught. 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Under Anne Bogart’s direction, these aspects never cohere, nor does the incoherence seem especially purposeful or illuminating. Review: In ‘The Exalted,’ Puzzling Stories Inspired by a Rich Life Cut Short 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Oswalt spends much of the running time driving around California's many interstates looking slightly peeved, but his insights are always illuminating and funny. Catch-up TV guide: from The Big Reunion to Community Channel 2013-03-09T06:00:07Z Here are some of the most illuminating excerpts, and you can hear the full podcast on Audible.com. “I was a d*ck”: Bob Odenkirk on struggling at “SNL,” blowing off David Cross and his career regrets 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z And the answers are always illuminating, given that these three remain among the most watched and beloved movies of all time. Why Black Panther should win the 2019 best picture Oscar 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z It’s illuminating for wine lovers to see them from another perspective, and more than a few readers will want to try some of the ciders enjoyed by Mr. Wilson along the way. The Best Wine Books Are Not Always About Wine 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z From the perspective of the audience at Here, where “Joan” opened on Sunday night in a Colt Coeur production, the view is considerably more comprehensive, though seldom very illuminating. Review: In ‘Joan,’ a Photographer Tries to Focus Her Past 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z All of the above, with the exception of Welty, are included in Myth, Manners and Memory, a relatively selective, but nevertheless illuminating, group show at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill. Myth, manners and memory 2010-10-02T23:05:00Z "The past few months have demonstrated more than ever the vital role factual film-makers continue to play in not only illuminating the world around us but also in exposing wrongdoing and injustice." Channel 4's Gypsy Blood wins Grierson award 2012-11-07T12:53:22Z The history is illuminating, as is the section describing individual growers and houses. Five Wine Books to Give This Holiday Season 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Looking over my top ten political books for teenagers, I find the list pretty illuminating. Saci Lloyd's top 10 political books 2013-03-15T16:24:50Z Genre, or any clear iteration of style, is probably the least illuminating handle on him. Pop: The Many Sides of a Violist 2013-06-28T19:41:04Z “War and Peace,” as guided by the quarantine-motivated blog posts on A Public Space of the magnificent fiction writer Yiyun Li, whose entries were so illuminating and endlessly charming! The Last Book That Made Aimee Bender Laugh Out Loud 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Tori Amos restarted the conversation about art and aging as a woman, and the results are illuminating. REVIEW: Tori Amos Creates Her Own Mythology on Unrepentant Geraldines 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Here, there’s talk around “clarifying” or “illuminating” potions, masking the still active, undisclosed ingredient of everyday beauty products. A poo facial mask – smaller pores, yes, but do you really want faeces on your face? 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Even at this late hour, the windows draw in a wan light from a street lamp, illuminating rows of graceful columns. L.A.'s Hauser Wirth & Schimmel is out to upend the definition of a gallery 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z That said, the duet was illuminating for the tensions it exposed. Review: Ann Hampton Callaway Hits Redial in ‘On My Way to You’ 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Nora's brilliance, properly set in its context, is illuminating rather than showy. A Doll's House – review 2013-05-11T23:04:06Z Together, these fantasy stories offer a rich and illuminating cultural experience. Best science-fiction and fantasy books to read in March 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z In the odd, difficult role created for Suzanne Farrell, Sterling Hyltin was serene and playful, giving us something graceful to watch without illuminating the work’s enigmas. Review: ‘All Balanchine II’ by New York City Ballet 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Theater is a remarkably effective vehicle for illuminating the hidden margins of our world. Deaf West artistic director David Kurs: Why deaf actors should be cast to play deaf characters 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z What can you say about the silver screen being both a mirror reflecting back on us and a lamp illuminating our way? From "Black Panther" to "RRR," the new "Story of Film" honors innovation, influence of global cinema 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Sprinkled throughout are Raichlen’s literate musings and his illuminating interviews with cool “Food Dudes” from Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Keller. A manly cooking primer from Steven Raichlen 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z More importantly, his illuminating words enabled me to draw connections between the teaching and learning of populations like Indigenous Americans and the urban youth of color in my hometown. For white folks who teach in the hood: A lesson in campus colonialism 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z In story after story, the participants say that a lack of basic information fueled mockery, denial, even violence, which makes the effort to ban this illuminating book feel especially heartless. Perspective | For Banned Books Week, I read the country’s 10 most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z “Imperial Intimacies” lingers in these sorts of attachments to Britain, illuminating their ability to cannibalize private thought. An Intimate History of the British Empire 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z In that regard, the show is illuminating but not wholly convincing. Art Review: ?Rembrandt and Degas? at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-02-23T15:55:08Z But years later, it’s fascinating and illuminating to hear what might have been. On ‘More Blood, More Tracks,’ Familiar Bob Dylan Songs Cut Closer to the Bone 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z I also loved the upstairs gallery whose exhibits provided an illuminating look at the lives of the three sisters and their doomed brother. Yorkshire celebrates the writing Brontë sisters, 200 years later 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Hoss’s work is impeccable and illuminating, and the movie’s foursquare, frank, brisk approach is salutary. ‘The Audition’ Review: A Violin Teacher on the Verge 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z When it comes to seeing the small, scared child in everyone, though, Nussbaum can be illuminating. When It Comes to Politics, Be Afraid. But Not Too Afraid. 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z A literary-criticism virgin would be well served by this book's account of what good criticism is not, and perhaps inspired by many of its tartly illuminating aperçus on canonical dead authors. How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton – review 2013-07-26T07:01:00Z Mr. Bavouzet offered anecdotes and demonstrations, illuminating Debussy’s “gray harmonies” — created when one hand plays black keys, and the other white keys — and discussing the influence of Wagner on Debussy. Music Review: Efflam Bavouzet Performs at Kaplan Penthouse 2013-08-01T22:49:39Z Certainly your craving to be controlled and overpowered is worth exploring with an expert and might reveal aspects of your psychology that would be illuminating and perhaps helpful. I’m happy, so why do I fantasise about sex abuse? | Mariella Frostrup 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z The product history is mostly illuminating, though, as Rowbottom shows how the brand tried to keep up with the times. In ‘Jell-O Girls,’ a Dark Family History Behind a Candy-Colored Dessert 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Indeed, as Thomas Karshan notes in his illuminating introduction, Nabokov would never write so explicitly about revolution and its ideology. Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z But his life provides illuminating if often dispiriting perspective on the gay experience in the mid-20th century, when homosexual culture was developed exclusively in private spheres, or at least managed to hide in plain sight. Books of The Times: David Margolick’s ‘Dreadful’ Explores a Gay Novelist’s Anguish 2013-07-31T21:30:19Z What they don't get is interesting or illuminating. From "Hillbilly Elegy" to "The Gentlemen," here are the worst films of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Every single aroma I could detect again was more precious, intense and illuminating, even my dog’s fishy breath. Will Fish Sauce and Charred Oranges Return the World Covid Took From Me? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z For the literally illuminating “Light, only Light,” Jun Takita created a three-dimensional sculpture of his brain based on an MRI scan and covered it with glowing moss. ‘COLLIDING WORLDS: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art’ It is the largest exhibition on the subject ever mounted by the museum, and as such provides an illuminating counterbalance to the perhaps understandable view of the Modern as irredeemably Francophile. The Week Ahead: July 3 ? 9 2011-07-01T18:34:09Z "But a lot of times you're not, and I think showing the rest of the story, how it may continue to get discussed" is illuminating. CNN's Sanjay Gupta adds fiction to his workload 2013-02-01T22:16:04Z Matthew Bauer's illuminating documentary, "The Other Fellow," explores the lived realities of those individuals who have the name James Bond. In "The Other Fellow," real people named James Bond reveal the blessing and curse of the 007 moniker 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z This illuminating new exhibition, “WWII & NYC,” even makes it seem plausible that the waging of the entire war was a kind of Manhattan Project, at least in part. Exhibition Review: ‘WWII & NYC,’ at the New-York Historical Society 2012-10-04T23:36:35Z But it is also illuminating and, in its downbeat, deliberate way, exhilarating. Review: ‘The Woman Who Left’ Is an Epic, Intimate Tale of Injustice 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z As always, Myers does a superb job at illuminating the choices — and challenges — facing troubled teens. Prize-winning children's books by African Americans 2011-02-19T00:39:28Z For Mares, mismatched shades create an illuminating blend of reflections, resulting in minimalist geometric patterns and textures. For photographer Gil Mares, the Port of L.A. is his supermodel 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z But that doesn’t mean it’s any more illuminating. Critic?s Notebook: Richard Nelson and Jonas Hassen Khemiri?s Takes on 9/11 2011-09-21T22:01:28Z That truth is one reason why an extant recording of Kasem berating an American top 40 producer during a recording session went viral, and was so illuminating. Casey Kasem: A critic's take on why he mattered, for so long 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z This choice helps plant the documentary firmly in the present, illuminating the past but not dwelling on it. ‘Women of the White Buffalo’ Review: Speaking Out on the Reservation 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z But this is the kind of illuminating production that shows just how well he knew what he was doing, and how relevant he continues to be. ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’ at BAM 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The light that humor shines on the human condition may be a different frequency, but it’s just as illuminating as its calamitous twin. Perspective | Finally, a comic novel gets a Pulitzer Prize. It’s about time. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z This deficiency is an illuminating demonstration of how much stage presence matters in Naharin’s work. Review: Gibney Dances Ohad Naharin, Minus the Inner Drive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z For Erskine, the acting part of the process has been especially illuminating. The Catharsis of ‘Pen15’ 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z But the young historian Robert Elder has given us just that in “Calhoun” — an illuminating account of the life of the notorious white supremacist as well as his complex afterlife in American political culture. John C. Calhoun: Protector of Minorities? 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z We go out to consume something tasty we didn’t have to make while engaging in pleasurable, sometimes illuminating conversation. Are restaurant dining rooms getting louder (again)? 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Dr. King worked in the service of the movement, not the other way around, and Mr. Oyelowo’s quiet, attentive, reflective presence upholds this democratic principle by illuminating the contributions of those around him. In ‘Selma,’ King Is Just One of Many Heroes 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The illuminating catalog to the exhibition, written by its curator, Ross D. E. MacPhee, notes that after the discovery of Scott’s body, Amundsen “began to experience a seismic shift in public opinion.” Exhibition Review: Race to the South Pole at Museum of Natural History 2010-05-28T22:30:00Z Casper sniffed around the stage, the bright lights illuminating the dog hair flying everywhere, before acquiescing to Berkeley with a sit. Dogs get a sniff of the stage life with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s casting call "The term 'Twilight' is used so as to evoke the idea of a particular time of day when the sun is just below the horizon, illuminating the landscape," the lawsuit says. Bath & Body Works sues over Twilight toiletries 2011-03-10T02:04:22Z But in “Widows” there’s an element of cynicism in the playing of that role, a sense of McQueen adorning the storytelling with doctrine rather than enriching or illuminating it. “Widows,” Reviewed: Steve McQueen Grafts Heist Film 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z There have been plenty of successful dark and bittersweet musicals before, but not since Sondheim have tragedy and comedy been so illuminatingly entwined. This 'Fun Home' weaves tragedy and comedy into a wholly original American musical 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The conversation promises to be insightful and illuminating, as the popular Zelenskyy has spent nearly a year fighting a war against Russia, who invaded Ukraine in February. What to watch on Netflix in December 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z A canny mix of documentary and staged footage is married to a narration of fantastical encyclopaedia entries on Utopia, illuminating the islanders' romantic, weird or destructive social codes. Artist of the week 125: Ben Rivers 2011-02-10T15:01:14Z Contemporary experience and ancient authority are brought together; the timeless past unites with the varying present: an illuminating collection. Exhibition Review: ?Journey Through Jewish Worlds,? at Yeshiva University Museum 2010-06-25T23:36:00Z Scattered though it is — perhaps precisely because it is so scattered — this quirky hour of entertainment presents an illuminating theatrical portrait of the mind of an artist at work. Theater Review: ‘Bodycast,’ at BAM, With a Lecturing Frances McDormand 2013-12-04T19:14:04Z Bourdain, rest his soul, sought to be illuminating and expand the way we view the world and travel. After Chris Licht, people are wondering where CNN goes from here. Here's a wild suggestion 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Seeing this empathetic connection between geniuses in different fields made me fantasise about, say, a set of Lucian Freud paintings illuminating a Harold Pinter play, or a David Mamet play featuring sets by Jasper Johns. Stage direction: why don't more visual artists do theatre? 2012-07-17T15:01:13Z And before more accurate, illuminating images of whiteness can circulate, they must be made. Buck Ellison’s Great White Society 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z So the program, illuminating as it is, still feels a bit like those tourists: peering in, not quite seeing the whole story. | 'The Amish': ?The Amish,? an ?American Experience? Film on PBS 2012-02-27T23:17:02Z In the past Propeller has used its no-holds-barred approach to surprisingly unsettling and illuminating effect. | 'The Comedy of Errors': Giving Shakespeare His Sombrero and Kazoo 2011-03-18T11:00:00Z A study in denial, “American Anarchist” may be illuminating for being unilluminating. Review: ‘American Anarchist’ Is a Frustrating Study in Denial 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Playing him was really illuminating about my own personal insecurities. ‘We Feel a Kinship With the Creature’ 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z But Mr Hilmes is illuminating on the emergence—and continuance into old age—of Liszt’s preternatural gifts as a pianist. Piano man 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z For centuries, Adam Nicolson writes in his illuminating new book, “Life Between the Tides,” the shoreline has been “one of the most revelatory habitats on earth.” Peering Into the Brutal, Beautiful World of Tide Pools 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z One example: "I Am Jazz," a sensitive, illuminating unscripted series about transgender teen Jazz Jennings and her close-knit family. TLC cancels '19 Kids and Counting' amid Duggars family scandal 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z As we approached, the sun punched its way through the haze, shining a spotlight on the cathedral of ice that lay before us and illuminating it in all its glory. How global warming has changed what it’s like to travel to the North Pole 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Otake has been illuminating the environmental damage caused by nuclear accidents. Bill T. Jones and Eiko Otake: Opposites Guided by ‘Too-Much-Ness’ 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Using the controversial 1980 Warhol series "Ten Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century" as his jumping-off point, Mr. Kornbluth examines how art can be at turns infuriating and illuminating. Spring and Summer Theater Listings 2010-02-21T00:33:00Z Exit polls soon provide precise demographic breakdowns, illuminating just who voted for whom. ‘53% Of’ Review: Zinging Pro-Trump Women, and Everyone Else 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z As people of different faiths and different cultures discuss it together, yet more dimensions of the story emerge, some difficult, painful, requiring repentance, raising anger, some illuminating, suggesting undreamed-of connections. The Book of Genesis, part 8: Why this story? 2011-01-31T10:00:00Z The way the three men depicted women also reads as an illuminating stand-in for the way that, as artists, they saw the world in general. Klimt, Schiele and Picasso: Erotic Visions From Three Modern Masters 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z This rapturous example of Turner at his most abstract and suggestive is a gold and bronze storm of light, the sun illuminating the spray of a waterfall, the atmosphere a misty veil of colour. Chapman brothers, Von Ribbentrop and Damien Hirst ? the week in art 2011-07-15T08:39:21Z The air was heavy with mist when the lights were finally trained on the stage, illuminating a set that looked as if it had been transported from a low-frills scuba diving resort. Jamaica Kincaid’s Antigua 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z When the outlaw vanishes, then returns years later as a humble stranger quietly performing acts of repentance, a confrontation ensues, illuminating the murky fog of real-world forgiveness. Screams. Tears. Meltdowns. New Picture Books Let Bad Behavior Fly, With Just a Bit of Advice 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The Procedure is said to be thrilling, exalting, illuminating, surprising, elitist and very, very important. Books of The Times: Literature Can Turn Most Lethal 2011-07-06T21:30:34Z In its modernization of classical Asian gestures, his work is more suavely stylish than philosophically or spiritually illuminating. Art Review: A Fine Line: Style or Philosophy? 2011-06-23T22:45:46Z The progress of the naked body through photography is the subject of “Naked Before the Camera,” a resonant and illuminating if sometimes fraught exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art Review: ?Naked Before the Camera? at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-03-29T21:57:05Z Ambiguity Pinter-style has rarely felt as passionate or as painful as it does in this truly illuminating revival. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Surprised by 'Betrayal' 2011-07-13T16:31:48Z But, for those who think games have the capacity to take us to novel, joyous, or illuminating places, here are eleven that, this year, seemed to light a way forward. The Best Video Games of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z The aliens’ musings over human biology and its contribution to society are illuminating: The most valuable thing about humanity, they argue, is a literal cancer on the species. Review | The weirdly specific mixtape Vol. 2: Close encounters of the tentacled kind 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Eventually, a subplot involving Franz Kafka scurries into the story and offers a bit of cerebral intrigue — along with Krauss’s illuminating commentary on Kafka’s life and work. Is Nicole Krauss’s new novel an act of literary revenge? 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z At his best, Jarvis wonderfully recaptures the antic, convivial spirit of “The Pickwick Papers” while illuminating its sources and paying eloquent tribute to the gifted, conflicted man who played an instrumental role in its creation. ‘Death and Mr. Pickwick’ asks if Dickens stole his famous first novel 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z “In terms of me being fixed now, no. But it was definitely illuminating.” Cary Fukunaga: exclusive interview with the new James Bond director 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z But it is the benches, seen together, all made in poplar, that are so illuminating, especially of the idea that “shared seating” for meals, prayer, discussions or socializing encourages both community and equality. Art in Review: Francis Cape: Utopian Benches 2013-07-18T20:56:52Z Photograph: Tom Waine As erudite as he was rude, Kenneth Williams is now remembered as the author of a bleak and illuminating diary and not just for his saucy anecdotes and Carry On films. Kenneth Williams: secret loves behind the life of a tormented man 2010-10-09T23:08:00Z And though you probably aren’t feeling too good about Becky — or about yourself — at this point, you have to admit that it’s been a most illuminating journey into darkness. ‘The Village Bike’ Stars Greta Gerwig as a Woman Obsessed 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z But the current alignment of stars is unusually illuminating. 3 celebrities portray Shakespeare’s uncommon men 2014-02-03T06:51:22Z Over the course of this motley, illuminating exhibition, it may occur to you that all of Brown’s works are still lifes — a silent absence, or freezing, of motion — of some sort. The Keeper: Roger Brown, the Artist as Voracious Collector 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z "It's illuminating, exciting, yet also curious, to see how my imagination matched theirs," she said, following a preview screening in December. Critics hail Wolf Hall's TV debut 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z |
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