| 单词 | improbable |
| 例句 | The idea that Holmes might be the cause of Julia’s discontent seemed more and more improbable. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Great leadership had emerged in each previous instance to transform the improbable into the inevitable. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She’d been on her own improbable journey, a victim from a very early age, and she’d learned to fight back— for herself, for others. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z You can never tell when new things may be starting up from improbable lines of work. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His sugared almond tasted of her name which seemed so quaintly improbable that he wondered if he had remembered it correctly. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth’s change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z An arrow on the edge of my map pointed south to Katahdin Iron Works, site of an improbable nineteenth-century factory in the woods and now a state historical monument. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Exactly. It is absurd—improbable—it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z The only remaining possibility was that he had walked past the turnoff while I was down at the pond filtering water, but this seemed manifestly improbable. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Walking back to the truck, neither one of us commented about what most non-Afghans would have seen as an improbable coincidence, that a beggar on the street would happen to know my mother. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Afterwards, though, they seem improbable, childish even, like something you’d do for fun; like a girls’ club, like secrets at school. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll give you one theory, as wild and improbable as I can make it.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z So Allen came up with a secret, highly improbable strategy for getting through Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Chicken John was forever losing the trail and ending up in the most improbable places. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It was such an unthinkable prospect that the only responses I could imagine him having were melodramatic and improbable. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Pictures began to appear—mostly calendars showing improbable luscious blondes holding bottles of Coca-Cola. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z As Sherlock Holmes famously said, “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And here we are, at the center of the arc, trapped in the gaudiest, most valuable, and most improbable water wheel the world has ever seen. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z They told the incredibly dramatic—and highly improbable—tale of their escape from PSF custody over our shared meal of fruit snacks, stale Pringles, and Twinkies. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z After five years of searching, I thought it was highly improbable that we’d both discovered the Copper Key’s hiding place on the same night. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z An Alabama woman thought everybody should realize that an attack from Mars was “not only highly improbable,...but an absolute impossibility at present.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Without doubt, the moose is the most improbable, endearingly hopeless creature ever to live in the wilds. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The guards had covered their faces with handkerchiefs so no one would ever be able to identify them in the improbable event that circumstances changed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Whereas artisans attempt only what they know to be possible, artists are always driven to attempt the impossible—or at least the improbable or unimaginable. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The world’s most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, said that once you have eliminated all the possibilities, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Shortly after lunch, just before the rains hit, the dockers were startled by an improbable spectacle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z On a world level, the eruption at the Norte Chico was improbable, even aberrant. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The old man recalled that she had been in his store not long before, and along with some other improbable information she had disclosed that her name was April. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z When I asked him where he’d been, his explanations were either so vague or so improbable that I stopped asking. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z This did not satisfy Izzy, who felt this was an improbable coincidence. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z This seems improbable because no scientist on Earth knows how a planet might blow itself up, which is probably just as well. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At first sight this might seem very improbable, because such smooth regions would be heavily outnumbered by chaotic and irregular regions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Cutie gazed upon his long, supple fingers in an oddly human attitude of mystification, “It strikes me that there should be a more satisfactory explanation than that. For you to make me seems improbable.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z This sounded false, improbable, like something you would say on television. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you ready for this? It’s going to be good. Extremely improbable.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The vendor who formerly had the Quarter route wore an improbable pirate’s outfit, a Paradise Vendor’s nod to New Orleans folklore and history', a Clydian attempt to link the hot dog with Creole legend. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But it doesn't seem that improbable to me. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “This,” said Dr. Constantine, “is more wildly improbable than any roman policier I have ever read.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I find it improbable, and ominous: first the retrospective, then the morgue. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And though he was loath to make this leap, was it so improbable that he, like so many others, might be taken to an undisclosed location—to one of the secret prisons abroad? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z In the New Orleans show, I felt all the amusement of the improbable abnormal, but also a kind of horror that it could be so. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When I look at what seemed at first a highly improbable circumstance, it all seems so amazingly logical. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z It sounded too improbable, it was safer not told—not yet. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z In her gold sweater belted at an impossibly tiny waist, with her gold hair, in gold flats, she looked improbable, like sunlight. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And yet it is that improbable event, a small beneficial mutation in a nucleotide a ten-millionth of a centimeter across, that makes evolution go. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw a little girl who wore a white flower, but dismissed her as improbable. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m getting to it,” said Lazlo, though in truth he hadn’t quite figured out that part of his wild and improbable theory. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z This strange drama seemed so improbable that I felt I had to see it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The improbable appearance of the small crown of the head. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z ‘And these are the same people who say traditional origin tales are improbable!” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At the Abuja airport on his way back to Lagos, he thought of going to the international wing instead, buying a ticket to somewhere improbable, like Malabo. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The whispers were fanciful and improbable: the youth of Soweto had overthrown the military and the soldiers had dropped their guns and fled. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z No event in American history which was so improbable at the time has seemed so inevitable in retrospect as the American Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The Negro boys and girls who are facing mobs today come out of a long line of improbable aristocrats—the only genuine aristocrats this country has produced. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Round her neck was a collar of very large pearls which, improbable though it seemed, were real. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Such views enjoyed an improbable durability and could be found repeated or echoed in European texts till near the end of the nineteenth century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And John wondered what Elisha was thinking—Elisha, who was tall and handsome, who played basketball, and who had been saved at the age of eleven in the improbable fields down south. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The sun sets in a long, chilly, lingering sunset, flamingo pink, then salmon, then the improbable vibrant red of Mercurochrome. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z An improbable gust of wind ruffles his just-long-enough, perfectly mussed chestnut hair. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z In front of me is the Pacific, which sends up sunset after sunset, for nothing; at my back are the improbable mountains, and beyond them an enormous barricade of land. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “I like cooking, so there will be many opportunities for the improbable.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z This was statistically unusual, but not totally improbable, and was certainly not incontrovertible evidence of a plot. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Only an all-out effort would get it done, and it was still wildly improbable that we'd succeed in blocking the execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He hoped the birds had already sensed that something awful was about to happen and had flown away, though it seemed improbable. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Most important, in a day of improbable miracles, Ralph was able to connect the suctioning device to the ambulance’s cigarette lighter and make John comfortable. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Their abundant correspondence salvaged events from the mists of improbable facts. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Until the spring, improbable as ever, brought among its pretty new fashions, the greatest shock yet. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z But after completing her community college requirements, Mary attempted the short but improbable journey from the neighborhood to the campus. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In our latest enlightenment, the fabulous beasts are worse than improbable—they are impossible, because they violate evolution. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked at the improbable scales on the dolphins and on the Triton’s thighs, and then toward the house. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In creating modern maize from this unpromising plant, Indians performed a feat so improbable that archaeologists and biologists argued for decades over how it was achieved. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z To another, he expanded on the theme with a sort of minatory thrill: “I think it really not too improbable that a ten cm cube of uranium deuteride . . . might very well blow itself to hell.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He does not tell her that he has only one dream, and it is just as improbable as a career in garden piracy. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The rhythmic sounds might be the recapitulation of something else—an earliest memory, a score for the transformation of inanimate, random matter in chaos into the improbable, ordered dance of living forms. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There is scarcely an instance of hypothermic death that isn’t in some measure mysterious and improbable. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z And my mind could find nothing but improbable answers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. Something strange and improbable would happen so that the impossible couldn’t.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I knew that the Tiger General was the head of the brotherhood, but how he had gotten that other name—as improbable as it sounded—I did not know. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Water, sails, blue sky and suspended gulls flashed by like an improbable postcard, and we were across. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z In Johnny English Reborn, "the improbable secret agent" is called back into action when his superiors learn the Chinese premier's life is in danger. Rowan Atkinson back as spoof spy Johnny English 2011-10-03T12:28:04Z "The Hard Problem" is a 100-minute gallop, with no interval, through neurobiology, religion and improbable "black swan" events in financial markets that is both contemporary and timeless. Stoppard's new play lifts the lid on brain science 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z But musicals, with their prescribed jollity and often underage audience members, are an improbable medium to tackle such heavy content. Broadway, wasted: The 10 best musicals about drugs 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z But before the blind man turns into Josef Fritzl, he is a singular character, and you thrill to his improbable capabilities. The Twisted Appeal of “Don’t Breathe” 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z The blank, abstract space this creature inhabits calls our attention to the fanciful nature of the movie itself, as it begins to conjure an antic, improbable world out of nothing. | 'Rango': There?s a New Sheriff in Town, and He?s a Rootin?-Tootin? Reptile 2011-03-03T23:01:04Z Is it not rather improbable to have, in 10 children, 6... Homeless in Seattle, and Marrying Under the Overpass 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z It’s well known that he had affairs with many of his principal dancers — nearly all of them swan-necked, long-waisted, with improbable wingspans — and he played favorites. A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z The plot whizzes past inventive toward ridiculously improbable, but what really makes “Tigerman” roar is its captivating blend of tones — from the light hues of domestic comedy to the bold colors of Spider-Man. ‘Tigerman,’ by Nick Harkaway Tashian, 45, is also delighted by the improbable collaboration and its timing. New collaboration has Burt Bacharach still working at 92 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Literal-minded critics, angered by a few improbable plot turns and a metafictional twist at the end, will no doubt choose the latter. David Denby: “Third Person” and “22 Jump Street” Reviews 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Ours is an improbable world, in which Birkenstocks and tie-dye — once signifiers of hippie anti-style, as glamorous as trail mix — are now more chic than ever. Marcus King, a Bluesy Rocker Who Stared Down His Own Crossroads 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z With a company this minimal, the absence of a lawyer seems an improbable omission. | 'When I Come to Die': When the Final Curtain Doesn?t Fall 2011-02-11T03:01:32Z It might be Everything Will Be Alright in the End’s greatest, most improbable accomplishment: making that prospect sound not awful, but maybe even pretty good. Review: Weezer Insists That Everything Will Be Alright in the End, and It Is 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z They have decisively conquered our screens and our box offices, with ever grander and more improbable forms of spectacle, to the extent that we’re now beginning to question how much more of them we need. Auteurs assemble! What caused the superhero backlash? 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Together those statements might stand as a précis of the vivid and improbable real career that took shape after the fictional events depicted in this film. | 'The Rum Diary': Hunter S. Thompson?s ?Rum Diary,? With Johnny Depp - Review 2011-10-27T22:54:08Z It was an improbable, glamorous tale and it captivated Briggs, who was later to become a performer and writer. How Aboriginal 'Supremes' beat racism to inspire box office hit 2012-10-06T23:06:45Z Despite the verisimilitude of hospital procedure and medical talk, there isn't really anything real life about the personal drama here; people talk in improbable summarising snippets so we know where everyone stands. Tonight's TV highlights: Three In A Bed 2011-03-30T23:05:01Z Beck Dorey-Stein’s addictively readable memoir, “From the Corner of the Oval,” carries the reader on a ride that is improbable even by White House standards. A White House Memoir That’s Equal Parts C-Span and ‘Sex and the City’ 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z “His Martin Crane was Frasier’s moral center; his cranky decency and bewildered love for his two improbable sons was hilarious one minute, heartbreaking the next, and you never caught him acting.” John Mahoney: Frasier's 'cranky' dad was the stove at the heart of the show 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Alexander Wilson lived an improbable, deceitful, destructive but undeniably intriguing life. Review: In ‘Mrs. Wilson,’ an Actress Uncovers Her Grandfather’s Lies 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z My sister managed my Senate campaign and pulled off the most improbable upset. Joe Biden Talks About His New Memoir, ‘Promise Me, Dad’ 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Of course you don't, Werner – the idea of you watching such shallow backslapping is as improbable as you going to an NDubz concert. The dark comedy of Werner Herzog 2011-03-05T00:07:49Z But then there’s Lusk, a singer of such improbable natural gifts that he appears to be in another competition altogether; his take on Luther Vandross’s “A House Is Not A Home” was effortless and soothing. ArtsBeat: "American Idol": The Top 12 Guys 2011-03-02T10:40:23Z Possessed of few obvious talents and a bottomless sense of entitlement, this expensively upholstered figure was the archetype for the ordinary middle-class matron who blossomed into improbable, overwhelming, gasp-inducing fame. The Cathartic Value of Dame Edna’s Extravaganzas of Ego 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z It’s all part of the improbable life of a child prodigy. Joey Alexander, an 11-Year-Old Jazz Sensation Who Hardly Clears the Piano’s Sightlines 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z “Despite its serious concerns, ‘The Winter Soldier’ brims with improbable narrative pleasures,” Antony Marra writes in his review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z That was one of many improbable things I learned about the 26th president during a recent visit to Sagamore Hill, his beloved home near Oyster Bay, Long Island. Theodore Roosevelt’s Long Island estate speaks volumes — literally — about his character 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z So the band joins – perhaps even crowns – the pantheon of artists forced to make hasty exits from the stage for improbable reasons. Pigeon? Chickens 2010-07-26T19:00:00Z This is not as improbable as it might sound. ArtsBeat: John Waters Tries Some Desperate Living on a Cross-Country Hitchhiking Odyssey 2012-05-25T13:29:55Z Mr. Ayckbourn, who also directs the play, draws winning comic performances from his talented cast, but in lampooning the hypocrisy and paranoia of the bourgeoisie he keeps corkscrewing his plot in improbable directions. | 'Neighbourhood Watch' : ?Neighbourhood Watch? by Alan Ayckbourn at 59E59 - Review 2011-12-08T03:17:19Z As a result of these austerities — and of its continued, improbable popularity — “Perfect Crime” makes money, Ms. Russell said. Warren Manzi, Whose ‘Perfect Crime’ Is New York’s Longest-Running Play, Dies at 60 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Her success is a testament to an improbable transition. How Balloons Blew Up 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The property’s improbable name was inspired by the childhood years that the German businessman Niels Jäger, one of three owners, spent living in New York City. At Munich Hotel, High Style and Low Cost 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z One of 19 competing for the event's Golden Bear award, it centers on an improbable romance between an American traveler played by LaBeouf and a troubled Romanian musician, played by Evan Rachel Wood. Harry Potter star Grint changes pace in new film 2013-02-09T17:49:09Z I am now a 62-year-old Nanna myself and have been a vegetarian for the last 25 years, so it's highly improbable that I would hanker over Nanna's breakfast any more. Family life: Dad at 21, a bully-boy uncle and fried cornflakes 2013-02-02T07:15:19Z Now in Volume 3, an infantry grunt in World War II, Mizuki suffers through so many cliffhangers and improbable twists that it is difficult not to pity him even as you devour the pages. Shigeru Mizuki's 'Showa' draws a graphic portrait of Japan 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Bernstein in his improbable quest to train two baseball pitchers from India. A Minute With: Actress Lake Bell on going from indie to Disney 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z That “The Interview” landed amid the brouhaha of a hacking scandal, geopolitical crisis and First Amendment case study is as improbable as one of Rogen and Franco’s absurd plots. Review: ‘The Interview’ has some laughs and makes some points but isn’t as edgy as its reputation suggests 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The book relates the improbable but unputdownable story of a law-abiding young man who goes to prison to bring down a drug lord. Review | The hero of a new thriller learns a hard lesson: Never trust the FBI 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z “It’s radically improbable and the most practically impossible thing you could imagine,” said Andre Walker, referring to Tiwimuta, a publication he refers to as an object-zine, as he hauled a new copy from his rucksack. New York Fashion Week: Fashion Diary: An Improbable Magazine From a Fashion Zelig 2011-02-12T00:56:05Z It doesn’t all hang together, though its best pieces possess the improbable coherence of dreams. A Book’s Unlikely Pairing: Fernando Pessoa and Plane Crashes 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z If you spend significant portions of your week watching or reading the news in open-mouthed horror, this may seem an improbable claim. ‘Every day brings some new trauma’: keeping calm in an anxious world 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Bryan and Joseph are doctors, and they look down on Russell, an entrepreneur whose rough manners and improbable business schemes set off their snobbish, protective instincts. Movie Review: ?Darling Companion? From Lawrence and Meg Kasdan 2012-04-19T22:35:40Z The story apparently isn’t as improbable as it may sound; the movie is based on a memoir by Ken Baker. Review: ‘The Late Bloomer,’ About a Sex Therapist Who Missed Puberty 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z At first, Mr. Rapp’s signature gothic sensibility appears to be in abeyance in this provocative if improbable comedy-drama about a cultural conflagration taking place in “a small town in the American heartland.” Theater Review: At the Vineyard, Reading Can Be Hazardous 2010-05-20T04:12:00Z Dawson's widow, Tracy, and daughter, Charlotte, have approved the improbable revival, which is being scheduled to commemorate 20 years since the comic's 1993 death. Les Dawson set for a posthumous return, and an abundance of outrage 2013-02-27T11:44:08Z Will he continue his improbable run to the title? Spoiler alert! We're live-blogging the 'American Idol' Top 7 performances 2010-04-21T00:42:00Z “If you wrote a script for this, they would send it back for rewrites because it’s just so improbable and dramatic, funny and tragic, sad and happy,” Brian says. An ‘I do’ do-over for Claudia Uceda and Brian Mooar 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Miller weaves an improbable but compelling theory of how his study of sessile sea squirts influenced the United States’ painful legacy of forced sterilization. New & Noteworthy, From a Korean Thriller to John Maynard Keynes 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z “At first, it was a bit improbable because these are not our real characters ...” Isabelle Huppert and Her Daughter Meet on Screen at Cannes 2010-05-18T11:48:00Z What the colors represent is, like too many aspects of the wildly improbable plot, unexplained. ‘Promising Young Woman’ Review: Courting Dangerous Liaisons 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z “Aquaman” is an improbable movie, which in many ways makes James Wan the ideal person to direct it. The Director James Wan: If ‘Aquaman’ Doesn’t Work, Blame Me 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z "Newspapers matter not to me, yeah!" sings Eddie Vedder, somehow making the improbable choice of Pearl Jam to warm up a band who sound like Broadcast seem less ridiculous. Still Corners at SXSW 2011 - review 2011-03-18T15:10:11Z It still seems improbable for reasons I’ll get to, but first a little orchid history. This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z One key difference: The “Fast & Furious” movies, though wildly improbable in their plotting, retain some small connection to reality. ‘Need for Speed’: Visions of better films come fast & furious 2014-03-12T22:21:56Z The poetry round our way came courtesy of Robert Burns, the bard of human joy and folly, who taught me how to trust in the completely improbable. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z Inconsistencies are the core of her improbable, inimitable career. The TV Watch: Showbiz Diva Gives Thanks and Signs Off 2011-05-25T22:00:20Z But it is wildly improbable that virtually all of these businesses suffer from the same incurable blindness, even as they champion the very policies they fail to implement. Salon’s comments of the week: What’s “Hollywood’s best-disguised film noir”? 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Forget, momentarily, the societal discord crippling our political institutions while a pandemic-ravaged Earth spins into a fiery hellscape, or the fact that the M’s were denied a playoff berth after a season of improbable magic. Sub Pop signs influential Northwest rockers Built to Spill 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Theater has the luxury of not being literal in its presentation of improbable activities and far-reaching scale. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Urge to Fly 2011-03-10T17:31:44Z Then he hit upon a clever, improbable solution: What if he could convert all his doubts into artistry? In 'Birdman,' Alejandro G. Inarritu takes his doubts and lets them fly 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z In Brasilia, where guards in archaic uniforms stand by his inverted paraboloid arches, he pulled off an improbable combination of ceremony and futurism. Oscar Niemeyer: an appreciation 2012-12-09T00:06:19Z Then what follows is a discussion of the improbable alchemy that goes into producing a drink that is said to have been created by mistake in a German vineyard in 1794. Frozen Vines (and Fingers) Yield a Sweet Reward 2010-02-26T06:51:00Z The artist sees no taint or threat of compromise in his recent and seemingly improbable alliance with the world of style. Theaster Gates Is a Toast of the Fashion and Art Circuit 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z The Cannonball Loop included an “improbable” 360-degree vertical turn near the finish. ‘Action Park’ Looks Back in Amusement and Terror 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z His 1985 LP recording of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” led to an improbable spot on the British pop charts after he received an award from England’s equivalent of the Grammys. Christopher Hogwood, conductor who gave new drive to classical warhorses, dies at 73 The portraits of saints, surrounded by images of date trees and improbable fringed curtains, will remain partly unrestored and noticeably eroded. Antiques: Roman Forum Church, Santa Maria Antiqua 2012-06-14T21:10:47Z Nearly everything about “The Broken Circle Breakdown,” Belgium’s shortlisted submission for the foreign-language Oscar, is improbable, starting with what first inspired it. The Carpetbagger: A Belgian’s American-Seeming Film 2013-12-31T14:00:04Z We sat with an archivist for Coca-Cola, some newlyweds who had saved up for a honeymoon night and a retired surgeon in his 80s who was having an improbable romance with a younger novelist. On a Georgia Island, a Lot of Good Food and Plenty of Nothing 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z But almost unwittingly her book shows how improbable and precarious that model is. Favoring Immigration if Not the Immigrant 2011-05-08T22:39:54Z The world of the DC Extended Universe may be ending, but if there's one thing we know about this bizarre band, it's that it has a knack for surviving the impossible and the highly improbable. Is the new DC Studios regime the apocalypse that "Doom Patrol" can't survive? 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z They argued that the fabricated gossip was improbable enough to ensure editors had ample reason to check their veracity by calling the celebrity or their agent. Bob Geldof condemns lame and ineffective anti-poverty campaigners 2010-04-02T18:43:00Z Could Kasparov identify with a troubled, brilliant, awfully improbable character like Beth? ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Tries a Risky Play: Betting Chess Can Be Good TV 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Sometimes, as is only natural, Pittman’s obsession with cataloging so much means the most potent weirdness receives only cursory mention, like the improbable Coral Castle south of Miami. Jeff VanderMeer on the beauty and weirdness of Florida 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Ames made close connections with important Arab intelligence figures and established an improbable early back channel to Yasir Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization. Kai Bird’s ‘The Good Spy’ Portrays Robert Ames 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Even in 17th-century Europe, when female formal education was rare and witch burnings common, women sought to have fulfilling families and do valuable work, carving a path for themselves in improbable circumstances. Google honors a feminist original 2013-04-02T16:11:00Z Melody's involvement and identification with her patient in particular seems slightly improbable. The Long Life and Great Good Fortune of John Clare – review 2013-04-10T17:00:04Z In the Hollywood office of Mr. Hansen’s managers, decorated with Sonic Youth posters, “Ghost World” action figures and framed portraits of Donna Summer and Valerie Bertinelli, they were longtime peers turned improbable elder statesmen. Music: Together Again for the First Time 2011-08-18T18:29:50Z Goodman: It's very improbable: the scion of a president and a famous family who's a kind of screwup and a drinker and then has this sort of miraculous turn, and then everything that follows after. "This is not a whitewash": PBS filmmakers on working with documented liars for George W. Bush series 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z You can see the building of a world that is both probable and improbable at the same time. A Soothing Skyline and a Weimaraner, ‘the Most Architectural of Dogs’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z “Intermission,” by the Canadian playwright Daniel Libman, wants desperately to be clever and surprising, but its improbable plot requires too many characters who aren’t credible and conversations that are convenient rather than organic. ‘Intermission’ Explores Attitudes Toward Homosexuality 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z That becomes the motto for their improbable relationship. Cannes: A heart-rending take on a movie classic 2011-05-15T17:21:00Z Civilization, perhaps inevitably, is creeping into what was once an improbable undomesticated back country. Is that a forest downtown? 2012-07-07T16:00:00Z Even Mark Patten’s cinematography, though rich and clear, stubbornly resists playfulness as the movie’s surge toward mayhem, and Lee’s absorption of punishment, grow increasingly improbable. Review: In ‘Morgan,’ a Snow White With Lips Stained Red 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z As Onwuachi unspools his personal narrative to a packed auditorium at the Feb. 12 Bitten conference, the Shaw Bijou seems no more improbable than the rest of his history to date. Chef Kwame’s ready to show D.C. a fine-dining experience unlike any other 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z The hero of “Awake” has a psychiatric problem; there are no aliens or ghosts to explain away the more improbable turns, and this adventure is far more compelling. Television Review: ?Awake,? Starring Jason Isaacs, on NBC 2012-02-29T22:00:52Z But it also exemplified the singular weirdness of Washington friendships that, at their most improbable, can demand a discomfiting blend of open-mindedness, compartmentalization, cognitive dissonance and, sometimes, outright denial. Perspective | Only in Washington: The CIA lawyer, the film critic and the obscure 1950s movie that forged their unlikely bond 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z The flavors of Northeast China are on parade at these same-named dim sum outposts in Rockville and Annandale, where, despite the pandemic, customers are treated to an improbable selection of nearly 70 dishes. Tom Sietsema’s 8 favorite places to eat right now 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z In the film's third act, where the conventions of this kind of thriller take over, some improbable twists steal some of The Town's power. Review: Ben Affleck Goes to Town 2010-09-16T22:10:00Z For him to have ventured forth late in life from his literary safe haven to write “The Leopard” is a story as improbable — and at times fascinating — as the historical paradoxes of his masterpiece. How a Dying Man Wrote a Timeless Novel 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z His life is a riveting story of our nation's founding — an improbable turn of events that seems only in retrospect inevitable. 'The Art of Power': Thomas Jefferson shapes the republic 2012-11-20T21:35:18Z Few ever seem happy with their station in life, and while some find a prince and secure a happily ever after, others break and still others mount improbable great escapes. ‘Corsage’ Review: A Queen in Quiet Rebellion 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z An improbable cluster of military memorabilia, sports trophies and Cartier stone flowers in crystal vases will be up for sale on June 1 at Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas. Antiques: Beatles Photos, Medieval Fashion and Forbes?s Auctions 2011-05-19T20:54:27Z As a player, he has a singular talent for making improbable long-range shots that perhaps he shouldn’t be taking. The Misunderstanding of J. R. Smith 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z At the time I thought it was nicely done, a droll acknowledgement of an improbable victory. Laura Marling: 'Americans – they're just a lot more poetic' 2013-04-27T23:04:02Z Working in Prague as a court artist for the Holy Roman emperor Rudolf II, he painted and drew Mannerist-style allegories involving nude and nearly nude gods and goddesses athletically entwined in anatomically improbable positions. Getting to Know Bartholomeus Spranger at the Met 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z A narrator sets the scene for this improbable tale in the amused, worldly timbre of a young Ricardo Montalbán, and the series is shot in a bright candy-colored palette that suggests a modern fairy tale. ‘Jane the Virgin’ on CW and ‘Cristela’ on ABC 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z There is much — including this improbable justice league — that defies logic in the film, which is not to suggest that the illogical isn't stomach-churning entertainment. 'Cold in July' turns up the pulp fiction heat with Texas tale 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z It's all slightly improbable, but then songs adopted by protesters almost invariably are. Alexis Petridis on ad-hoc protest songs 2011-02-09T22:15:01Z Suggesting an improbable and heavenly alternative universe, Cloud-cuckoo-land is the place we fantasize about when we’re tired of existence on this strife-torn planet. Review: Building the Wall (Not That One) in Aristophanes’ ‘The Birds’ 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z Professor Davison’s belletristic debut was as improbable as his academic baptism. Peter Davison, Orwell Scholar on a Monumental Scale, Dies at 95 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Scully was still sporting her small gold cross and improbable heels. ‘The X-Files’ Season 10 Premiere: A Crazier Mulder Than Usual 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Now the Pines, a restaurant that has taken the improbable Brooklyn-as-woodsy-camp theme as far as it can possibly go, sits comfortably next to the old-school Glory Social Club. My Brooklyn, Then and Now 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The star and his friends offer harrowing accounts of improbable rescues. Review: A Daredevil Optimist in ‘Take Every Wave’ 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Armstrong – best known as one half of the sketch double-act Armstrong and Miller – even lodges the improbable complaint that his privileged upbringing has been detrimental to his career in British entertainment. Alexander Armstrong hits back at 'tribal aversion' to posh comics 2013-05-14T15:04:06Z It is where Donald J. Trump descended an escalator in June 2015 and began his improbable but ultimately successful presidential campaign. Remember When ‘Figaro’ Was Set in Trump Tower? 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Real ones, not the improbable "…And Just Like That" versions. Here for the right reasons: Why "The Golden Bachelor" is already our favorite edition 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Yi Sun-sin, who led a small fleet to improbable victory over a much larger Japanese fleet. Heroic tale of 'The Admiral: Roaring Currents' is a hit in South Korea 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z The wig also looked surprisingly natural on me, like I was born to wear a fiery and improbable drag. Wigs are my superhero costume 2012-10-12T23:30:00Z Working up from tiny little raptors to giant birds and vicious amphibious lions through huge poisonous worm-things to full-on enormous dragons – all are confronted with your brilliantly varied selection of improbable weaponry. Monster Hunter Tri 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z Well, for starters, Mr. DeVito and Mr. Griffiths - who are starring in Neil Simon's "Sunshine Boys" at the Savoy Theater - are both anatomically improbable figures. ArtsBeat: 'Sunshine Boys' in London: Anatomically Improbable 2012-06-25T15:40:09Z My favorite occurs in Act II, when Ford and an improbable number of extras pour into Alice’s buttercup-yellow kitchen in search of Falstaff. Last Chance: ‘Falstaff’ at Metropolitan Opera, a Bundle of Energy 2013-12-26T21:36:22Z Hsu traces the course of their relationship — one that seemed improbable at first but eventually became a fixture in his life, a trellis along which both young men could stretch and grow. The 10 Best Books of 2022 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z That Mr. Lehman achieved a similar alchemy in “Impossible Flow,” commissioned jointly by the ensemble and the Manhattan New Music Project, was due partly to the performers’ improbable skill. Music Review: A Complex Jazzman, Informed by His Classical Side 2011-04-20T21:12:55Z Somehow, we made it to 2154, which already seems highly improbable, but fine. James Cameron threatens to tell only "Avatar" stories from now on, despite the harm done 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z He uses words like "favouritest", shows unbridled enthusiasm for simple pleasures, displays improbable fondness for largely silent old people and is, generally speaking, an inexhaustible source of goodness in a dark and uncaring world. Derek; The Hairy Bikers' Everyday Gourmets – TV review 2013-01-30T22:44:07Z Rogers was an improbable pioneer of popular culture, an ordained Presbyterian minister with an academic background in child development and a passionate belief in the importance of kids’ feelings. ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ Review: Charm and Change 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Yet something about "Superstar" has always seemed a bit improbable, and its depiction of Holy Week set off controversy from the start. Best Easter pageant ever? Half a century of "Jesus Christ Superstar" 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z When she began leading the island into uncharted waters in 2006, she said, it was a “lonely, improbable place.” Governors Island as Playground for the Arts 2010-08-13T00:29:00Z It seems unlikely there will ever be many examples of such an improbable mutant. Review: In ‘First Daughter Suite’: Unelected but Still Under a Microscope 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Maybe he wasn’t so wrong about the improbable. Fool Me Twice? Yes, Please 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z No matter how improbable the artist, or seemingly unpromising the subject, the artistic drive won’t be denied. Paper Gallery: ‘Joe’s Junk Yard,’ by Lisa Kereszi, and More 2012-10-18T21:31:56Z It’s a caper movie, a modern-day Robin Hood tale organized around an elaborate, improbable but curiously plausible heist. Review: ‘Logan Lucky’: Steven Soderbergh and His Motley Band of Thieves 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Is it not rather improbable to have, in 10 children, 6 daughters who are nurses and 4 sons who are all servicemen? Homeless in Seattle, and Marrying Under the Overpass 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The patter, delivered in Mr. Silven’s smooth, slightly burred voice, is a little pat, as when he intones, “By coincidence, by fate, by destiny, a group of you have come together to predict the improbable.” Fool Me Twice? Yes, Please 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z In the improbable rediscovery of “Dreamin’ Wild,” many see an uplifting story: vindication for the effort, money and hope the Emersons put into its creation. At Home With Donnie and Joe Emerson: Touring the Farm Where the Emerson Brothers Recorded Their 1979 Album 2012-09-12T22:45:21Z “Finding My Voice” is the 1999 account of her improbable career, rising from volunteer on a home show to radio dominance. Diane Rehm’s next act: Using her famed voice to fight for the good death 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z That this restaurant exists at all is improbable. Hawaiian Food Is Flourishing … in Utah? 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z The gala crowd beforehand struck me as both glamorous and improbable, with Washington A-listers mixing with uncomfortably dressed-up members of our region’s science fiction community. Perspective | ‘Dune’ has long divided the science fiction world. The new film won’t change that. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Still, even as an increasing number of filmmakers are being plucked from the indie world and television to helm big-budget tentpole films, Trevorrow is well aware of how improbable the whole thing seems. 'Jurassic World' is Trevorrow Land 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Weaver is subtle and believable as she channels Mrs. Clinton’s improbable biography and even some of her real-life dialogue. Hillary Rodham Clinton Inspires ‘Political Animals’ Sitcom 2012-07-13T12:00:00Z Of course, Dr. Sam’s “problems” are inherently improbable in one regard: Nobody finds it strange that one small New England town can be home to so many murderers — and such imaginative ones at that. ‘Nothing Is Impossible: Further Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne,’ by Edward D. Hoch Even the Empire State Building, encircled by a post-9/11 military-grade police presence, seems like a highly improbable place for a shooting to happen today. Our city, a crime scene 2012-09-13T20:18:00Z When King recorded the song, as his first single, Stoller added the plaintive "la-la-la" underscoring to help create an improbable, and angelic, hit. Remembering Jerry Leiber, the 'Hound Dog' Poet of Rock 'n' Roll 2011-08-24T06:10:00Z This makes all the sweeter its celebration of the privilege, for just a couple of hours, of living inside that improbable paradise called a musical comedy. | 'The Book of Mormon' : Missionary Men With Confidence in Sunshine 2011-03-25T02:30:32Z That might qualify as the most improbable of many head-scratching plot turns, but it isn't a favorite. "Miami Medical" suffers from anemic storytelling 2010-03-30T00:50:00Z As Blum investigates, examining his cousin’s gauzy explanations, his story becomes a meditation on social coercion, the limits of human agency and his family’s improbable kindred spirits. New in Paperback: ‘Ranger Games,’ ‘Conversations With Friends’ 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z It is filmed plainly, often with improbable intimacy, and buffeted with a rather astonishing amount of contemporaneous video documentation. The Alternate Aesthetic Realities of ‘Tiger King’ 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z As improbable as a big-screen version of "Cats" seemed in Guare's play, it could become a reality if Lloyd Webber gets his wish. 'Cats' to be revived in London, and maybe made into movie too 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Poehler’s Leslie Knope was always an improbable sitcom heroine, a fiercely ambitious, hardworking, happy and, by Season 5, happily married city bureaucrat who actually wants to help people, and is pilloried for it. ‘Parks and Recreation’ Finale Ends Show’s Run, Sunny as Ever 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z It was this tiny tournament in a local leisure center, and it was so improbable that I would win. How Rekindling a Love for Tennis Turned Into a Raging Fire 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z After much grumbling and backbiting, they become a semi-happy extended family embarked on improbable romantic adventures. Review: ‘The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ Ups the Ante 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z A judge overseeing the case in Britain agreed that the assertions by Mr. Jacobs’s estate are “improbable” but refused to dismiss the suit. ArtsBeat: British Judge Refuses to Throw Out Suit Accusing Rowling of Plagiarism 2010-10-14T17:14:00Z We take credit for the improbable greatness, the objective superiority of our sweet Dungeness crab and lush local oysters, made sweeter and lusher by our frigid waters. Seattle vs. New England in the supper bowl: how our food cultures compare 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z The dancer who jumps highest, turns fastest or splits legs into the most physically improbable position is the best. Dance Review: Here, Some Promising Young Dancers, There, Some Well-Seasoned Pros 2011-03-23T21:29:04Z The lineup of characters here is less exhilarating, too — unless the reader shares Mr. Mallon’s great love for his friend Christopher Hitchens, who appears to busily improbable effect all through the novel. Review: ‘Finale’ by Thomas Mallon Moves Past ‘Watergate’ and Into the Reagan Era 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z “Mr. Smith” is a David and Goliath story that does the improbable — it makes you feel good about government and about the power of the individual. What You Should Watch This Fourth of July Weekend 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z It goes on to describe her improbable appointment to his office when he became president in 1994, and her close relationship with him until his death last year. Aide's book describes 'farcical' aftermath of Mandela's death 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z The late modernist’s enthusiasm for vertiginous, improbable structures resulted in a slew of masterpieces, including the opera “Le Grand Macabre” and works such as “Lux Aeterna” and “Atmospheres.” Review: Ligeti Sounded Thrilling, When Alarm Will Sound Was Let Loose 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Considering that you never even studied to be an actor, it seems improbable that you’ve been such a steady presence in American movies for 15 years now. Luke Wilson: How it feels to be America's boyfriend 2010-08-04T11:01:00Z Coming to the Oxford Union The bucolic setting for an improbable U.F.C. bout: Oxford University. This House Has No Confidence in Her Majesty's Jujitsu Skills: U.F.C. Coming to the Oxford Union 2010-08-31T15:31:00Z “A Night With George” is billed as “a working-class Belfast woman’s improbable connection” with Mr. Clooney, the handsome, funny, smart and clearly unattainable movie star. Theater Review: ?A Night With George? - Review 2011-09-17T00:28:24Z A judge overseeing the plagiarism case in London's High Court said in a ruling on Thursday that the claims made by Paul Allen, trustee of the estate of the late writer Adrian Jacobs, were "improbable." Harry Potter plagiarism case may come to UK trial 2010-10-14T12:15:00Z IT seemed slightly improbable when, five years ago, the American Ballet Theater principal Ángel Corella started his own company in the Spanish province of Segovia. The Week Ahead: April 15 ? 21 2012-04-13T20:56:22Z But improvisation is what Tyler specializes in, and so he improvised, making what happened during his freestyle all the more improbable and impressive. Tyler, the Creator, Funkmaster Flex and the Wildest Interview of the Year 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Politically, extricating Alaska from its self-styled discoverers is improbable. In the galleries: Reclaiming cultural identity 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Clearly, the more improbable the transformation, the better. The One Where It’s a Live Musical Parody of Your Favorite TV Show 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z His movement style is complex, counterpointed, coordinated, full of whole-body undulations and improbable extensions. Dance Review: ‘Raven Girl,’ a Wayne McGregor Ballet Premiere in London 2013-05-27T20:45:55Z "All right," Alan said, completely unaware of how improbable it was that every attractive younger woman in the book should find him irresistible. A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers – digested read 2013-02-10T13:00:01Z Yet despite his accomplishments as a composer, musician, conductor and romantic hero of an improbable life, Joseph Bologne, also known as Chevalier de Saint-Georges, is largely forgotten today. Concert brings to light forgotten works by 18th-century black composer 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z All of this is to say that TWD agreeing to film and release an entirely new episode within two months seems pretty improbable. This Is the Crazy Way Walking Dead Fans Are Dealing with That Cliffhanger 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z That’s my favourite thing about the Sahara: its capacity to conjure the improbable. ‘The most remote, alien place on Earth’ – Nicholas Jubber on the Sahara 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Edgar-Jones has the good sense — or perhaps the brazen audacity — to play Kya as a fairly normal person who finds herself in circumstances that it would be an understatement to describe as improbable. ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ Review: A Wild Heroine, a Soothing Tale 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z As improbable as it may sound, a musical about the nation’s first Treasury Secretary last week bested “Aladdin,” “The Book of Mormon” and “Wicked” to become the second-highest-grossing show on Broadway. 'Hamilton' (With Higher Prices) Would Make a Treasury Secretary Proud 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z The exhibition's improbable title, New Wooabbeleri, is taken from a competition entry to name the town in the 1960s when developers pioneered a brave new, postwar Britain along the banks of the Thames. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z “Surrender” leapfrogs through Bono’s and U2’s improbable story in vignettes that zigzag between poetic and prosaic, devout and skeptical, privileged and conscientious, mystical and political. U2 Revisits Its Past, in the Name of … What, Exactly? 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z The Fall River police began their search by concentrating on local immigrants, but an outsider seemed improbable. An Enthralling New Look at the Mystery of Lizzie Borden 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z But, in slow motion, and set to music, these feats are so improbable that it can seem as though you’re watching the footage in reverse. The Pathos of “Cheer” and the Extraordinary Deceptions of Cheerleading 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z The Jodrell Bank event is part of a trend of bands staging gigs in improbable locations: Bryan Ferry and the Courteeners are among those performing shows at Forestry Commission venues this summer. The Flaming Lips announce show at Jodrell Bank Observatory 2011-03-07T12:53:38Z Yet another of those improbable female guardian angels that moviemakers adore, Lena is soon swept up in Beckett’s adventure, helping him piece together the ragged narrative pieces. ‘Beckett’ Review: He Must Go On 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Many scholars find this to be somewhere between insufficient, improbable and preposterous. Noam Chomsky 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z What he reveals and whom he falls for are classic Conroy — improbable, yet … who can resist? 50 States, 50 Love Stories 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z And it's improbable, based on the figures, Lucy was murdered by one of her friends: Jay, for instance. Lucy Beale's killer - the likely suspects 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z The twist comes in the improbable titles, many of which seem to be quoting inane conversations overheard at exhibition openings and in related industry situations. Art in Review: ‘All the money IS in the label’ 2012-08-16T19:59:57Z The idea is wildly improbable, yet interesting to think about. Review: Michael Kinsley, Bringing Boomers News From the Final Frontier 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Okay, so “A Retrieved Reformation” is sentimental and improbable, but you’ll never forget it. Review | Why O. Henry is so much more than those short stories you had to read in school 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z That he and Ms. Lowe, or any couple who married after meeting on the show, have managed to stay together still strikes him as somewhat improbable. How Married ‘Bachelor’ Couples Make It Work. Yes, Some Are Still Together. 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z They’re afraid to do something improbable, something that is not immediately commercial. New York Fashion Week: Fashion Diary: An Improbable Magazine From a Fashion Zelig 2011-02-12T00:56:05Z It’s hard not stare because a Thoroughbred is an improbable thing to begin with. Television: HBO?s ?Luck,? Starring Dustin Hoffman 2012-01-25T15:29:12Z Everybody thinks they know what it’s about: country music, the Grand Ole Opry, Johnny Cash, improbable dreams of stardom, cheesy ballads and rhinestone shirts. Nashville, Tennessee: Music City’s still got soul 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z A highly improbable result would be a consistently funny and absorbing evening that revealed the flaws and disappointments afflicting these characters, and the rhythms of a hardscrabble livelihood in a blighted neighborhood. Review | It’s a hard-knock life, but often a funny one, in August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ at Arena 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Assayas spends a lot of time and drama on this improbable event -- almost an entire movie, in the three-part, five-hour version of "Carlos" -- and it's every bit as nutty as it sounds. "Carlos": International terror, Sopranos-style 2010-10-15T00:01:00Z Skills: This sounds improbable, but Rodriguez is the biggest female action star of the 21st century. The Expendabelles: Dream-Casting the Upcoming Expendables Spin-Off 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z My duty is to make probable the improbable. Alejandro González Iñárritu: 'When you see The Revenant you will say "Wow"' 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Melania was now in the White House, quietly beginning the latest remarkable chapter in her highly improbable life. How Melania Trump blocked Ivanka Trump from encroaching on her domain 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z It seems improbable that such a dysfunctional family could ever get along, but our thirst for resolution makes us delighted they will try. The Chooky Brae 2010-09-19T21:45:00Z Curtis' premise eventually earned him the scorn of President Roosevelt, who wrote, "such a theory is wildly improbable." 'Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher': the vision of photographer Edward Curtis 2012-10-05T18:09:03Z To say more would give away too much, but the denouement has the hard-earned emotional weight of the improbable underdog made good. Review | Dave Eggers tells the story of the most dangerous cup of coffee in the world 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Thailand's Phang Nga Bay resembles an alien seascape, where towering limestone cliffs in improbable shapes carve the view into unfamiliar patterns of land, sea and air. In Pictures: The World's Most Amazing Views 2011-02-18T16:30:00Z It might seem an improbable proposition, turning cold, hard rocks into comfortable and inviting furniture, translating rough stone into cushiony sofas and stools, rethinking rubble as accent tables with enough polish to occupy living rooms. An Argentine Designer Rocks the Boulders 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z She he never lost her English accent when she spoke, somehow joining the two languages into her own Birkin-ese, “the improbable French that added to her charm,” as Le Monde put it. Jane Birkin: An Adventurous Artist Made in England, Forged in France 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, there are moments in all his books that skirt the line between the improbable and the implausible. 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z As many critics have noted, she has an improbable gift for turning the initially irritating into the charming. Review: In Miranda July’s ‘New Society,’ the Audience Makes the Show 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z For the director Paul Verhoeven, Total Recall was the next step in his own improbable colonization of Hollywood, following RoboCop three years earlier. Total Recall at 30: a thrilling reminder of Paul Verhoeven at his best 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Four decades ago, this long, improbable journey was unimaginable for four Swedes. After 40 Years, Abba Takes a Chance With Its Legacy 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Such is the enduring and improbable enchantment that can be wrought by a bunch of wet rags. Review: Head Tripping the Light Fantastic in ‘Symphonie Fantastique’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z His plot is at times improbable and his narrative could stand some cutting, but — even with Trump silent — this remains a thought-provoking political thriller, a dark story for dark times. Review | This political thriller imagines the unimaginable: a silent Trump 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z For Franklin, the performance heralded a return that a few months ago seemed improbable. Aretha Franklin in glorious form at Chicago Theatre 2011-05-20T13:38:00Z Jesse Green, the chief theater critic for The New York Times, described it as “a performance of tremendous skill and improbable stamina.” Jodie Comer wins best leading actress in a play for ‘Prima Facie.’ 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z And for the many onstage witnesses to this improbable reunion, a world that has hitherto seemed terminally confused starts to make beautiful sense. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: When Shakespeare's Comedies Draw Tears 2011-02-24T20:24:53Z Stanley Lewis’s riveting paintings of scruffy residential backyards involve improbable amounts of built-up paint and intensely detailed realism. Art Review: ‘See It Loud,’ at the National Academy Museum 2013-12-26T22:02:57Z “Sometimes they flew in a V formation, their muscular wings beating in unison, their bodies’ improbable masses gliding over us in an arrow, honking as they sliced into the sky.” Puberty, Slut-Shaming and Cuddle Parties in Melissa Febos’s ‘Girlhood’ 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Often the candy dessert seemed to float across the dining rooms, borne on trays by waiters like improbable pink clouds. Four Seasons Restaurant Auction Tops $4.1 Million 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Both are Rube Goldberg contraptions, all the more improbable for relying on the emotional reactions of their targets. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3, Episode 5: The Long Con 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z “My duty is to make probable the improbable,” he says, with an impish smile. Alejandro González Iñárritu: 'When you see The Revenant you will say "Wow"' 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z It’s all very “Waiting For The Man,” except that the fact that the dealers don’t just jack the customer and take his bankroll and his car is, for a New Yorker, completely improbable. Behind the music on “Vinyl”: Martin Scorsese’s premiere gets the New York Dolls right — and Led Zeppelin so wrong 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Each detail of Jamison’s biography is more improbable than the last. When the Internet was for strangers 2013-02-17T17:00:00Z Perhaps on some Christmas past, you had the misfortune of being served some dry, brittle candy made out of marzipan and formed into some improbable shape like a cash register or a bunch of bananas. Austin Butler Sings ‘Blue Christmas’ With Cecily Strong in Her Last ‘S.N.L.’ 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Likewise, the plot suffers from an overreliance on coincidence; there are too many chance encounters, flukes and a statistically improbable number of uneducated orphans who become influential officers. Chasing Down a Deadbeat Dad, With a Knife Strapped to Her Leg 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z From the moment the young actor heard of the project, he had been intrigued by its improbable story and conflicted hero. Dev Patel Tapped His Inner Alpha for ‘Lion’ 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z He was an improbable prime minister for confronting Hitler. Was Churchill a Great Man? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Given the decrepit state of the place in 1982, this seemed improbable to me. Along a Fast Track, a Pause for Nostalgia 2011-03-24T21:43:12Z Peterson had considered the possibility of psychosomatic illness but felt it improbable, because many of the patients were otherwise well-adjusted, with no history of mental instability or trauma. A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Peck’s gift for composition — an ability to create apparently effortless groupings that keep dissolving and reforming with improbable brilliance — is clear throughout the ballet. Review: In Paris, a Bold Ballet Adventure From Justin Peck 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Josip and Andrej are insignificant men in an insignificant coastal town in 1980s Yugoslavia who form an improbable relationship as each other’s blackmailer in this funny, serious, clever novel by a Dutch writer and director. Not Lost in Translation: Provocative Foreign Fiction 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Half a century later, this moment seemed so improbable that Buergenthal began to doubt his own memory of it. Holocaust survivor Thomas Buergenthal silences the Hay crowds 2010-05-31T15:47:00Z The hospital also led Mrs. Trudeau into what is an improbable career for someone who spent most of her life trying to escape public scrutiny. The Quiet Comeback of Margaret Trudeau 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z The argument against analytics is really that there’s something human and elusive the numbers can’t account for, but the improbable here ends up scoring a lot of points. A Numbers-Cruncher Confronts Emotion and Other Unquantifiable Matters 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z "They feature painful separations across time and space, long voyages, and improbable yet heartbreaking reunions," Tresnjak says. Hartford Stage's Darko Tresnjak seals his passion for risk with 'Kiss Me, Kate' 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z He talks about helping his 9-year-old daughter redecorate her bedroom to reflect her improbable love of Queen. Dave Grohl: A back-aching, coffee-guzzling, minivan-driving classic rocker 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Implausible as the movie may seem, the behavior of Trump as candidate and now as president is even more improbable. The Manchurian President: A classic Hollywood thriller tells us more about America than any history book 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A gallant blue-collar widower strikes up an improbable romance with a wealthy, stuck-up heiress betrothed to a cocky himbo who is written expressly to be disliked. ‘Falling for Christmas’ Review: Trip Down Memory Lane 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z When each was hired by Disney to work as a story artist, it felt like the fulfillment of a wildly improbable dream. Disney's animation building getting a Pixar face-lift all its own 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z But those improbable revelations are never really the point in this novel. Book review: ‘The Rise & Fall of Great Powers,’ by Tom Rachman This improbable illusion is achieved and sustained with such artful and ingenious simplicity that I almost hate to describe it to anyone who plans to see the play. Review: An Elephant’s Ghost Stalks the World in ‘Mlima’s Tale’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z For 33 years I ran the simulation in my head of that improbable second line, and decided each time, without fail, that I did not want a child. Disneyland with my invisible guest 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z My advice is to plan for the obviously probable, and don’t sweat the unlikely and improbable. How to Plan In Case Things Go Wrong 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z As a girl, that made my own highly improbable professional dreams seem possible. ‘Jo Was Everything I Wanted to Be’: 5 Writers on ‘Little Women’ 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z He did not know whether casting his love away into the sea was an attempt to drive his love from his life, or a hope for some improbable luck. Sea Story by AS Byatt 2013-03-15T13:58:58Z This memoir takes her through her improbable acceptance to and graduation from Oxford University and covers a bit of her career as a writer. Books of The Times: Jeanette Winterson?s ?Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?? 2012-03-08T17:22:58Z While it is improbable that Penélope Cruz does not know how to flirt, as Graciela claims, it is delicious when she does. "The 355" delivers all the glammed-up action you want from a badass women spy flick 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z Callie uses this newfound ability to turn her father into an improbable late-age superstar, but her involvement, and her dad’s obsession with his own success, begins to suffocate her life. ‘Fantasy Football’ Review: Controlled Chaos 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z At their thinnest, the formations are a work of Lovecraftian geometry; improbable pillars propping up a lush tabletop of forest. On Wisconsin Islands, a Warm Welcome and Brisk Waters 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Foster is a persuasive, joyful actress—bright and sensitive, with a tinge of improbable musical-theatre pluck. How “Younger” Became “Gossip Girl” for the Publishing Industry 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z After just a dozen pages, it becomes clear that Skyhorse is an expert at how we are shaped by improbable circumstances. Brando Skyhorse’s memoir of surviving his wacky mother is harrowing and humorous The techniques employed are as ancient and ingenious as those of the British music hall, with a special emphasis on the trompe-l’oeil of quick-change artistry and improbable impersonations. London Theater Journal: On Artifice and Oxygen, Earnest and Jeeves 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z The narrator tries to follow an unpromising trail, meeting improbable — yet sometimes teasingly possible — others. Review | ‘The Scapegoat’ is a bizarre, arresting mystery you won’t be able to put down 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z That season was able to regain its standing with critics, after many derided the improbable plot twists of the second. 'Homeland' will still thrill despite Brody's death, creator says 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z And he’s retooling his online persona, too, as he steps into another improbable role: that of virtual impresario. The Mark Zuckerberg Aesthetic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z It allows you to consider the long and improbable leap from novitiate art to the real and electric thing. Books of The Times: ?Draw It With Your Eyes Closed,? Edited by Paper Monument 2012-03-29T16:33:22Z Now Bastianich, 44, has become an improbable but compelling TV personality. Meet MasterChef's Joe Bastianich: The Simon Cowell of the Food World 2012-08-28T12:00:37Z Rao, a reticent scholar with government experience but little popular support, was his improbable successor. Raise him up 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Now, it's as likely to be the art of doing something improbable, and reporting back. Tim FitzHigham ? review 2011-08-28T13:32:13Z Telling the story from Carraway's point of view was the key to the delicate balancing act Fitzgerald performed in narrating his improbable love story. Why Gatsby is so great 2012-06-09T23:05:21Z Doha, where dust and sand meet the electric blue of the Persian Gulf, feels improbable. What’s New in Doha? Basically Everything 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z The 1969 moon landing turned an achievement seen only in the imagination and sci-fi movies into a most improbable television event, a live broadcast starring Neil Armstrong and a desolate landscape. Correction: TV-Moon Landing Specials story 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Heino has staged an improbable comeback with an hit album of cover versions, but his far-right comments have provoked controversy. German far-right singer Heino stages controversial comeback 2013-02-24T13:34:30Z In this high-definition series of cinematic landscape paintings, hardy mortals are often mere matchsticks within improbable panoramas of shimmering blue ocean, rock cascades and towering trees shrouded in mist. Movie Listings for Feb. 20-26 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The characters’ desperation and some of their improbable choices are sketched from a stage of life observed and imagined rather than lived. 'The Roommate': When an 'Odd Couple' story shifts toward 'Breaking Bad' 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Richards’s 2010 autobiography, “Life,” topped The New York Times’s best-seller list — and deserved to, with its frank and kaleidoscopic mingling of music lore, drug chronicles, romance, strife, loyalty, score-settling and improbable survival. Pop: The Rolling Stones at 50 Prepare to Tour 2012-11-08T16:00:00Z Whether the album is actually improbable, or straining against limitations, is another question. Review: ‘Predatory Headlights,’ a Bright Double Album From Tenement 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z My plot involved various time layers and improbable interweavings of badly realised characters, and the digging up of Mayan eccentric flints – that's what they're called – in a part of Mesoamerica I knew little about. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z On Tuesday, the Church of England celebrates Christina Rossetti, surely one of the most improbable objects of worship in the calendar. Who's your favourite religious poet? 2010-04-26T08:30:00Z It’s an improbable plot set in a rather tame, domesticated version of Mr. Turow’s fictional Kindle County, a little like the Chicago area. The TV Watch: ?Scott Turow?s Innocent? on TNT 2011-11-28T18:47:35Z I don’t think I’m using the camera to do anything other than make you laugh at how improbable it is. Matthew Weiner on Life After ‘Mad Men,’ Sexual Harassment and His New Amazon Show 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Imagine the glee of other newspapers covering this improbable event. Disney?s ?Newsies the Musical? Comes to Broadway 2012-03-02T18:00:09Z Getting a bit closer to the magic of Neverland, it may be improbable that these women successfully pull off their various bids for freedom in a male-dominated world. Review: 2 J.M. Barrie comedies smart, breezy 2013-05-07T21:01:15Z Here, the story goes from slightly improbable to downright implausible. With His Fourth Book, Charles Yu Finally Feels Like a Writer 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Urgent, surreal, furious, funny and wildly messy, the movie sounds like an invitation to defeat, but it’s an improbable triumph that finds Mr. Lee doing some of his best work in years. Review: Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq,’ a Barbed Takedown of Gang Wars, With Sex as the Weapon 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z They met at the Paris peace conference at the end of the first world war, and became firm if improbable friends. Ashmolean exhibition of old masters marks museum's 330th birthday 2013-05-24T16:48:06Z But satire finds it just as easy to distort the improbable encounter, which produces a different ideological conclusion. The big picture: Conservative candidate Margaret Roberts campaigns in Dartford 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z In my better moments, I try to persuade them that my life is neither as improbable nor as idyllic as they imagine. My generation, living on the road 2014-04-20T23:59:00Z Spam is not going away; it's just mutating into new and improbable forms. Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet by Finn Brunton – review 2013-05-31T06:29:01Z For two, “Whisker Wars” gave Nelson the improbable: a social life centered on his beard. A competitive beardsman saw his home burn. But then fans of his reality show came to help. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z So back we go, and then forward, through the turns of an absorbing, sometimes improbable narrative of guilty secrets and unintended consequences. | 'The Debt': ?Debt,? With Helen Mirren - Review 2011-08-30T12:00:00Z Answer: She wouldn’t have, which is probably why Mr. Baker never explains their improbable pairing; the whole play would come tumbling down if he tried to. Theater Review | 'Sex & Violence': Short Stroll to the Wild Side From the Safe Side at Home 2010-02-17T21:43:00Z It seemed improbable that an National Football League player would say yes, but there was no harm in asking her daughter’s favorite sports star. Her dad died. So her favorite NFL star took her to the father-daughter dance. 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Maybe Juster’s story is like an aircraft so delicate, light and improbable that being spoken adds just enough drag to bring it down. Rainn Wilson Narrates a New Audiobook of ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’ 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z In Feral, we find George Monbiot in gloomy mood, mourning the loss of the improbable bestiary that lies under Nelson's Column, and with it a world that was once rugged and wild and big. Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding by George Monbiot – review 2013-05-24T06:30:12Z That made me giggle, but the pace of the plate-shifting is utterly improbable. A palaeontologist's view on Ice Age: Continental Drift 2012-07-23T17:10:05Z But, this is not the most improbable moment of “Nailed,” as this episode is titled. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 Episode 9: The Brothers McGill 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z In a pair of interviews, the most recent by telephone from his apartment in Stockholm last week, Mr. Bendjelloul, 35, reflected on his film's improbable ascent. The Carpetbagger: The Director's Big Challenge: Not Ruining a Cinderella Story 2013-01-31T15:00:40Z The back story to this premiere is as dramatic and improbable as any opera plot. In Santa Fe, an Early Look at a New Opera 2010-07-23T19:50:00Z The horror movie “The Gallows” starts with a decent if improbable premise, and it ends with a pretty good jolt. Review: ‘The Gallows’ Somehow Finds More Horror Footage 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Even more improbable was the composer who chose to take on the daunting job of turning Angels into arias and recitative. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z François appears to believe so, and the idea is far from improbable, in fact I find it quite plausible. Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’ 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z His improbable escapes have long since become ridiculous. Book World: ‘The Fixer’ by Joseph Finder 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z The year before, he told The Associated Press that he had an idea for a thriller he once considered highly improbable — until Donald Trump became president. Jason Matthews, author of ‘Red Sparrow’ thrillers, dies 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z I first read “Fahrenheit 451” in my seventh-grade English class at Horace Mann Junior High, and it seemed so fantastical, improbable and yet real enough that it made me deeply uncomfortable. Chelsea Clinton: By the Book 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z “They produced a blue-collar rampage whose effects still ripple, not the least of them being Donald Trump’s improbable ascension to the presidency.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z From the outset, the museum was an improbable pursuit. Cristina Cox, and Museum of Catholic Art and History 2010-05-17T21:46:00Z But “Shook” is done in by its final reveal, which manages to be simultaneously improbable and conventional. ‘Shook’ Review: Unliked and Followed 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Related: The Martian review – Matt Damon shines as stranded astronaut The storm This is the only thing I noticed that was completely impossible, as opposed to improbable or sub-optimal. How scientifically accurate is The Martian? 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Beneath the book’s highly improbable, overarching plot about an attack on a presidential candidate and a son’s search for his mother, you’ll find an inexhaustible collection of smart, witty scenes. With ‘The Nix,’ Nathan Hill announces himself as a major new comic novelist 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Nevertheless he succeeds in knitting this improbable imbroglio into the twilight of the French monarchy. Queen, thief, wife, lover 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Like the Horrors – whose journey from presumed music-press joke to authentically thrilling Mercury-nominated experimentalists is about as improbable and cheering as pop stories get – the girl groups weren't supposed to last. Cat's Eyes: Cat's Eyes ? review 2011-04-07T14:30:00Z Yet “Reagan” provides an unblinkered but respectful look at the man as well as a skillful, imaginative retelling of his long and improbable career. TV Watch: Remembering the Reagan We May Never Know 2011-02-04T18:54:16Z The deceptions and misunderstandings that occur here are as improbable, and perversely logical, as those of Feydeau’s paradigmatic sex farces. ‘Ayckbourn Ensemble,’ 3 Offerings by the British Playwright 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Now their improbable road to tuneful evangelical fame, in the run-up to the Bakkers’ tabloid-frenzied trials and tribulations, becomes the trajectory of a musical. ‘Born for This’ musical follows ‘PTL Club’ singers BeBe and CeCe Winans 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z It is the tale of an improbable bond between a Salvadoran soldier with a guilty conscience and a young American diplomat with a moral conscience. The diplomat and the killer: Death squads, dirty war and the untold story of H. Carl Gettinger 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z North India: Delhi, Rajasthan, Himalayas India’s crowded, boorish capital is an improbable haven of birds — and a natural place to linger for a few days, before venturing out to the wilds of the north. India, Through a Birder?s Eyes 2011-01-14T20:30:41Z Plans for a casino, a cable car, an Arnold Palmer golf course and 652 guest rooms all seemed improbable when I saw the site, but construction has moved quickly. Cambodia, in and Around Kep, Open but Undeveloped 2012-03-02T23:24:36Z EastEnders, of course, are planning their own stunt, and with the show in an improbable period of excellence, it looks like they know what they're doing. Corrie disaster 2010-07-08T13:32:00Z However, CBS did a one-season wonder with Under the Dome last summer; now that millions of people watch it every week, it’s back for an improbable second season. Extant series premiere: Halle Berry's space conception is not immaculate 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Coward, who wrote the play in five days at the start of World War II to lift the spirits of his countrymen, labeled "Blithe Spirit" an "improbable farce." Angela Lansbury keeps spirits high in 'Blithe Spirit' 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z But the story sounds highly improbable to Bill Keefer, a former federal marshal in the witness protection programme. Scott Thorson: the lover Liberace remade in his own image 2013-05-25T23:04:01Z Although “In Memoriam” clocks in at nearly 400 pages, Winn’s prose is percussive, driving the story forward with a mix of Edwardian masculine sentimentality and the improbable plotting of a period romance. A Devastating Tale of War, a Tender Story of Love 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z That happens so many times, in fact, that an element of absurdity begins to swell in the novel, inflated further by some of these characters’ improbable survival. ‘Dancing with the Tiger’: a whirling tale of art and its sometimes sordid acquisition 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z The challenge, for me, was to make what seems inevitable in hindsight feel wildly improbable in the moment. Meryl Streep’s Twenties, and My Own 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z There must be less likely sources for a jazz musical, but Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel “The Marble Faun,” from 1860, seems pretty improbable. Review: ‘For the Last Time’ Sets a Hawthorne Novel in New Orleans, in 1950 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z It’s part of why they used amateur actors, many of whom have become improbable cult stars. Tim and Eric Figure Out How to Do the Wrong Thing, Perfectly 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z There are two motifs in the play that, in combination, suggest its scope and its improbable combination of the clarity we all hope for and the ambiguity in which we mostly live. Theater Review: ‘Sorry,’ by Richard Nelson, at the Public Theater 2012-11-07T19:53:52Z This results in an exhausting number of chase scenes that ultimately lead the movie to a laughably improbable finish after a promising start. Movie Listings for June 5-11 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z At the time of its release by Hollywood studio Lewis J. Selznick Enterprises, critics faulted the film for its improbable story. Lost Alfred Hitchcock film found in New Zealand 2011-08-03T22:04:58Z “You realize you can’t take anything for granted, that when you are blessed with such an improbable opportunity, you want to make the most of it.” Vivek Murthy wants to fix our mental health crisis. But how much can he do? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z The novel opens on a demoralized postwar Italy in 1919 and chronicles the fascists’ improbable rise to power. A New Book About Mussolini Is Provoking a Debate Over His Legacy 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Fortunately, he never runs out of stories about improbable showbiz partnerships. Crazy tales about Alice Cooper, Groucho Marx and more 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Through an improbable series of twists and turns, though, that blind date would lead to director Christopher Nolan's new sci-fi epic, "Interstellar." Kip Thorne, the scientist who slipped through a wormhole 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z In 1897, a handful of spectators at the Lyceum Theater in London witnessed the improbable birth of “Dracula,” which was presented as a one-off stage reading before the novel was published some days later. How Did Bram Stoker Dream Up ‘Dracula’? A Novel Offers Hints 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z As premises for makeover reality shows go, this was so improbable that one could imagine Gok Wan storming from a production meeting in tears, defeated as never before by the raw material. Two Amigos: A Gaucho Adventure review – the sordid reality of mid-life crises happening abroad 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z The new mission has spurred the bar to fresh achievements, with a lineup of cocktails that make delicious and sometimes improbable use of plants. Eleven Madison Park Explores the Plant Kingdom’s Uncanny Valley 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z In his dying hours, lying helpless in the rubble, he might have pondered the improbable turn of events that saw his last hopes resting in the hands of two American reservists. Television: Greg Barker?s Film About Sergio Vieira de Mello 2010-04-30T19:38:00Z Why argue something so improbable, and so unexpected, unless they believed it had actually happened the way they told the story? Jesus Died Only to Rise Again. Where Did the Concept of the Resurrection Come From? 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z The character that emerges is of an impossible, improbable, irresponsible, irresistibly innocent sophisticate who many found to be the hero of the masterpiece that was his life. Dick Bellamy: The Man Hiding at the Center of Everything 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z It was to young white suburbanites, many of them Afrikaans, for whom he represented an improbable icon of transgressive anti-establishment thinking with frank songs about drugs, sex and the hypocrisy of the men in power. Sixto Rodriguez, Secret Rock Star Behind Searching for Sugar Man 2012-08-21T12:00:30Z This improbable winning streak eventually got the F.B.I.’s attention, when it was investigating insider trading at a different hedge fund, the Galleon Group, and managed to lock up its chief. Review: ‘Black Edge,’ an Account of a Hedge Fund Magnate and Insider Trading 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z What you’re now holding is this: an antic, improbable and resonant nonfiction book, one that’s part historical horror story and part squalid crime caper. Books of The Times: A Grotesque Artifact Starts a Journey From Garage Sale to Buchenwald 2010-09-30T22:21:00Z This is improbable, but much about Bowman is improbable. David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z In Colombia, he arranges a bigger sting, and after that, the narrative diffuses into an improbable “Heart of Darkness” style river journey. ‘Sound of Freedom’ Review: In the Land of Child Traffickers 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z But thanks to an improbable, possibly MacGuffinish twist, it is mandatory that they stay together. ‘The Diplomat’ Review: Save the Marriage, Save the World 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z "It's so mad and improbable and ambitious to try to raise a horse on an allotment with slag heaps in the background. " Horseracing tale wows Sundance 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Despite its serious concerns, “The Winter Soldier” brims with improbable narrative pleasures. A Rifle-Wielding Nun, a Medical Student and a Crackling World War I Tale 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z The British actor Andrew Garfield nevertheless seems like improbable casting for the prologue Spider-Man. Fancy that: the golden age of the sexy geeky leading male 2012-07-27T21:59:00Z On a widely discussed and admired recent episode of HBO’s “True Detective,” Rust Cohle, played by Matthew McConaughey, escaped from drug dealers, white supremacists and law enforcement through a series of improbable actions. Video Game Review: Thief, Fourth in a Series of Stealth Games, Rewards Patience 2014-02-25T22:49:32Z Sherlock Holmes gets around the smoking ban while solving an improbable crime in the BBC hit. Tulisa N-Dubz, Reece Shearsmith, Tim Vine and other celebs hit us up with lists of the year 2010-12-18T00:07:34Z An improbable dilemma, if the truth be told. Pass notes No 3,332: Peta 2011-08-23T19:30:03Z And in the fall the St. Louis Cardinals became, in the words of Jayson Stark of ESPN.com, “the most improbable World Series champions who ever lived.” A Nonfan?s Guide to the Key to the Super Bowl 2012-02-02T23:28:04Z The combination of Mr. Herzog’s doggedly curious sensibility and the mysteries of the digital universe seems both improbable and irresistible. Review: ‘Lo and Behold,’ the Danger, and Potential, of the Digital Revolution 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z It sounds like improbable urban-planning advice, but such were the words of Apollo’s oracle to Androclos, who used them to found the ancient city of Ephesus. 36 Hours in Izmir, Turkey 2013-08-21T21:03:40Z This is an improbable escape from an impossible situation. 41 Days, 26 Shows, 10 Countries: A Rock Tour Diary 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z This is just a small fragment of Lai’s extravagant narrative, whose charm and fascination lie in its countless subtle details and improbable propulsive thrust — as in “A Thousand and One Nights.” Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z Now, years later, they are closing in on an improbable dream: helping their home countries get clean, safe drinking water. In Africa, drinking water was scarce for them. Now they’re helping fight the global crisis with their own bottles. 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z The dignity of the presidential office has plummeted to a new improbable low with the revelations from the adult film star. Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels: brief encounters of the ‘textbook generic’ kind 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z That is so ridiculously improbable it takes away some of the fun. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 10: Nonconformity 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Finally, it will be hard to resist Company XIV Pinocchio: A Fantasy Of Pleasures, a wildly improbable mix of baroque ballet, commedia dell'arte, street dance and Fellini-esque surrealism that re-invents the familiar fairytale. This week's new dance 2011-07-29T23:06:00Z Yet, as a life-long resident of Brazil, a country better known for beaches and soccer, he may be the most improbable. Brazil's 'last samurai' seeks to keep tradition alive in South America 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z For the first time, the events felt almost improbable, like a bad dream. In Elvia Wilk’s “Oval,” Earth, Capitalism, and the Human Species Sink Toward Doom 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z For men who have spent a lifetime wearing ill-fitting off-the-rack clothes, the store will seem an improbable wonderland. ‘Not So Tall’ Guys Finally Get Their Own Store 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z For six hours, I stared blankly down at my legs and it all seemed improbable. My husband has ceased to exist – I still can’t understand how 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z “Our Kind of Cruelty” proceeds to events that are horrid, often improbable, but certainly dramatic. Review | A new, sexy thriller novel puts male depravity on full display 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z The final shot, accompanied by an improbable but perfect musical cue, is an astonishing cinematic gesture, an appalling, hilarious statement about modern values, the state of the world, human nature and everything else. Review: In ‘The Treasure,’ Digging for Something of Value in Romania 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The ratings put an exclamation point on an improbable 39-episode run for “Succession,” which debuted in 2018 to modest expectations and turned into a critics’ favorite and an awards show beast. ‘Succession’ Finale Drew 2.9 Million Viewers Sunday, a Series High 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Yet, it’s only now, at the improbable age of 81, that Ann-Margret is getting the chance to assert herself as a full-on rock ’n’ roll goddess — if a winking one. At 81, Ann-Margret Is Finally Living Her Rock ’n’ Roll Dream 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z Many are running for the first time, without the backing of Washington elites — and, inspired by the president’s improbable rise, they’ve taken on his brash tone and insurgent tactics, virtually campaigning in his image. Trump has spurred hundreds of women to run for office. Guess what? Some are Republican. 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z It might seem improbable, but it’s sure fun to watch. ‘The Attorney’: A case of comedy meeting intense drama 2014-02-06T22:46:38Z Conceptual art, at its best, is all about the improbable. Jennifer Moon's mesmerizing show turns the art world into a punchline 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z "Instead of motivating the person to achieve the goal, it may cause them to feel stuck in achieving them if too improbable." New Year's resolutions: What to do if you already want to give up 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Donald Trump had launched his improbable presidential campaign just two months earlier. Trump campaign, tabloid publisher hatched plan to bury damaging stories, Cohen prosecutors allege 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z LENOX, Mass. — Teenage saints — and yes, religious history records the existence of such improbable phenomena — are apparently not so unlike other teenagers. Review: ‘Mother of the Maid,’ a Lesson on Raising a Teenage Saint 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z It was magenta, a fiery and improbable color, and its long, flippy layers draped across my shoulders with architectural perfection. Wigs are my superhero costume 2012-10-12T23:30:00Z This whole series is, of course, an improbable fiction, but the C.D.C. plot line seemed especially to strain credulity, didn’t it? 'Blindspot' Recap: 'Bone May Rot' 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z “Così’s” plot, in which two men disguise themselves to test their fiancées’ fidelity, can often come across as both improbable and cynical. It’s (Almost) Business as Usual at the Salzburg Festival 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z On the verge of announcing his improbable candidacy for mayor of New York, Mailer decided to celebrate with a party at their apartment on the Upper West Side on Nov. 19, 1960. Adele Mailer, Artist Who Married Norman Mailer, Dies at 90 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z But on Wednesday morning Sony pulled off one of the more improbable turnarounds in the history of movie marketing. Why Sony's digital release of 'The Interview' changes the game 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z On the other, the improbable hero of his own story, the son of an absentee father, a born storyteller with a once-troubled youth. Mark Twain invented Mitt 2012-07-06T14:20:00Z Other works turned up in improbable spots; the artist Sol Wilson’s painting of a Massachusetts fishing wharf was hanging at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn. Antiques: ‘Art Interrupted’ Exhibition Ends Tour in Georgia 2014-01-23T22:58:12Z The plot does execute a few improbable maneuvers, but that is more than compensated by the perfect unity between story and narrator. Review | In these new audiobooks, great tales are matched with great narrators 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z And Ms. Bartoli’s Norma, however improbable it once may have seemed, is magnificent. Review: Cecilia Bartoli Has Dramatic Depth as ‘Norma’ at Salzburg Festival 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z This was about what I expected from my visit to the company’s San Diego headquarters: improbable physiques incapable of standing on their own. What I learned about male desire in a sex doll factory 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z But the story sounds highly improbable to Bill Keefer, a former federal marshal in the witness protection program. Scott Thorson, The Boy Toy’s Story 2013-05-10T21:40:24Z As improbable as it seems, change can happen, and its effects can be lasting. 'Pride' has a moving force that highlights a forgotten story 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z So does the improbable reappearance of the villain of the first book, whose vendetta against Margot endangers the Benedicts and everyone in their orbit. Three Northwest authors tell stories with a local setting 2014-02-26T20:14:33Z It's improbable they'd ever have acted on the plan, but Nowell – hearing word of it – was taking no chances, and 15 more men and women were charged and sent for trial. Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z As songs, each of these is imperfect, but together they make an improbable argument: Rihanna may be near her vocal peak, at the place in her career where it matters the least. Review: Rihanna, Blissfully Adrift, Juggles Styles on ‘Anti’ 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Endowed with an improbable durability, this infrastructure of printed words retains much of its power to define the region. ‘Little House on the Prairie’ and the Truth About the American West 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The initial welcome was more awed than ecstatic: muted applause and cheers from rescue workers still stunned that the improbable really worked. The TV Watch: Rescue on TV: Elation, Exhaustion and Elvis 2010-10-13T18:05:00Z But the reason this show is deserving of No. 1 is that "Ghost Hunters" has double-downed on its improbable success by having super popular live episodes -- as if this show doesn't need editing. The 5 most inexplicably popular reality shows 2010-05-12T04:38:00Z A past president of the Stevengraph Collectors Association, Mr. Adams bought an improbable assortment of famous faces on fabric, including those of Captain Cook, Queen Victoria, Garibaldi and Karl Marx. Antiques: Furniture as Sculpture: A Craftsman?s Legacy 2010-09-02T20:39:00Z The series also includes an improbable ending in which the Jewish character, Viktor, survives the war but his German lover Greta is executed after trying to save him. TV drama reopens debate over Germans' war guilt 2013-03-28T15:43:07Z I found the novel too long and sometimes improbable, but the missing-woman mystery held my interest. David Bell’s ‘The Forgotten Girl’ is a mystery about a missing mom In songs like that, the improbable guest list came across as a greater priority than the songwriting. Music Review: A Virtual Band With Plenty of Friends 2010-10-10T06:21:00Z The bond that Borges and Parini forge during their improbable journey is moving, with its unexpected moments of confession and shared fragility. A Road Trip With One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Writers 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Even so, as a neo-vampiric tale of dread and desire, the entire thing more or less makes sense on its own improbable terms. ‘Morbius’ Review: The Other Bat, Man 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z This is one of the most inventive memoirs of recent years, poignant and improbable as it nimbly sidesteps all the pitfalls of animal sentimentality. Chloe Shaw on when she first asked, "What Is a Dog?": "I wrote from a place of specified grief" 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z Alas, it’s not the only time Pamuk reaches into the grab-bag of improbable coincidences and pulls out an unlikelihood that strains reasonable bounds. In Orhan Pamuk’s New Novel, a Youthful Obsession Yields a Haunted Life 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z ‘AMERICAN HEARTBREAK’ HAS 34 songs, an improbable number but not, apparently, an undigestible one. Zach Bryan Is Music’s Most Reluctant New Star 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Simply getting a movie out of a slender story aimed primarily at 5- to 9-year-olds, let alone with a filmmaker known for making R-rated indies, seems rather improbable. For indie's Miguel Arteta an excellent, good move to make kids' film 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z On Friday Mr. Sachs was able to conduct his ensemble in the improbable world premiere of a 1976 work by one of America’s most influential composers. Review: Milton Babbitt Inspires a Focus! Festival Tribute 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Now, with the television series in the works, the improbable legacy of Muscle Shoals seems set to extend into the future. The Muscle Shoals Sound Finally Gets Its Due 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z It all builds to a plot twist near the end that is improbable even for a science-fiction tale. Movie Review: Aliens Fight Heroic Earthlings in ?Battleship? 2012-05-17T21:13:08Z All those serious-minded movies and shows that once seemed so improbable? ‘Watchmen’ Is Coming. (Actually, It Never Left.) 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, England — Is Jack Monroe the most improbable of celebrity “chefs?” Canned foods helped her through poverty. Now Britain’s ‘Tin Can Cook’ inspires others with her budget recipes. 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z These are just a few of the improbable heroes that Pixar, the animation studio, has brought to astonishing, and astonishingly profitable, life since its first full-length picture, “Toy Story,” in 1995. Music Review: ‘Pixar in Concert’ From the New York Philharmonic 2014-05-02T22:18:35Z The existence of a debut as confident and allusive as “Columbus” is almost as improbable as the existence of Columbus, Ind., where the movie is set. Review: Modernism’s Promise and an Auspicious Feature Debut in ‘Columbus’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z There are absurdist flights reshaping reality into improbable caricature. Tripping up the King's Jester: How is Hasan Minhaj still in the running to host "The Daily Show"? 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Those who feel that Nev's reaction fails the smell test are not giving the filmmakers, or the human capacity to believe highly improbable things, quite enough credit. Untangling the "Catfish" hoax rumors 2010-10-14T11:01:00Z But as Jacy dithers and stalls in the July heat, so does the story, even as it wends toward the feverish, improbable rush of its climax. A Cabin in the Woods, Intermittent Wi-Fi and a Dead Landline 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z The movement, with its improbable juxtapositions, seems to pour across the stage in an unquenchable flow, and yet it’s rarely too much for the eye to absorb. It?s Nick Cave?s World; They Just Dance in It 2011-04-06T21:47:54Z This mise-en-scène will doubtless strike readers of “Presumed Innocent” — or viewers of the 1990 movie version starring Harrison Ford — as improbable to say the least. Books of The Times: Scott Turow?s ?Innocent? Catches Up With Rusty Sabich 2010-04-29T20:51:00Z Then, in an improbable stroke of luck, Doris Lessing, at the urging of her son, who remembered Diski from boarding school, entered the picture and invited Diski to live with her. The Cant-Free Elegance of Jenny Diski’s Irresistible Mind 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z The occasion for this improbable scene was a benefit concert held on Thursday evening for the American Cancer Society, which honored Mr. Trump and Ms. Andrews for their philanthropy. Music Review: Lola Astanova in Horowitz Tribute at Carnegie Hall - Review 2012-01-21T00:44:23Z “Café Mort” is an improbable excursion into the supernatural, a latter-day fable that never establishes its rules or finds its footing. Life, and Other Interruptions: A Storyteller Explains ‘Why I Don’t Write’ 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z The music — elegantly funky, gracefully banging — draws an improbable line between the giants of classical composition and hip-hop production. Symphonic music meets hip-hop Friday night at Seattle Art Museum 2010-04-29T00:09:00Z The Dirty Projectors put on a show at the Showbox at the Market Thursday night that was as improbable as it was impressive: music made by music geeks for music geeks. Dirty Projectors adopt 14th-century musical style in eclectic Seattle set 2010-10-01T19:32:00Z The deepening, with its improbable heightening of beauty, its improvement on perfection, reaches something further inside you. Nrityagram Dancers at the Temple of Dendur at the Met 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z “The trick of the show,” Gordon added, was to create improbable situations that leave the audience asking: “‘What would I have done? Fox’s ‘Accused’ Is a Law Show, Not in the Usual Order 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z That this scientist somehow wound up rubbing elbows with the likes of Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway seems improbable on the face of it. Kip Thorne, the scientist who slipped through a wormhole 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Five years ago, I flew to England to see the grand opening of something improbable: an attraction called Dickens World. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z For her, sticking around has also had an improbable advantage: She has grown busier and more widely beloved on the far side of 85. Television: Facing Age With a Saucy Wink 2011-04-28T18:29:14Z As far-fetched and improbable as DARPA’s dream of steerable robo-bugs sounds, a host of recent scientific breakthroughs means it’s likely to be far more successful than Acoustic Kitty was. Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z An improbable group of people decided to fight back. The Carpetbagger: From Sundance, a Competition Slate That Could Be Called Accessible 2012-11-28T21:00:48Z That hope turned to anger, and that anger into protest, after the improbable, almost certainly rigged, victory of the incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘The Green Wave’ Documents Iran’s Green Revolution 2012-08-17T15:12:40Z Most recently “Lost” on ABC kept core fans going for an improbable six seasons, but it also shed most of its coherence and intrigue long before it ended. | 'Persons Unknown': In New NBC Drama, Guests Check In but Don?t Check Out 2010-06-06T22:11:00Z But it does help if the writer exploring the fetish has a seductive enough way with language to lure you into a world that's both highly illicit and wildly improbable. Review: 'The Cut' at Open Circle Theater delivers little pleasure with its close shaves 2011-01-20T23:40:05Z If gangsta rap on Broadway seems an improbable thing, Jackson points to such groundbreaking shows as “American Idiot,” which used Green Day music, and the rock musical “The Who’s Tommy.” Christopher Jackson shines in Tupac musical 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z As improbable as it may sound, “Coexist” is even more minimal and subtle than its predecessor. Album review: The xx, 'Coexist' 2012-09-28T16:54:00Z But despite their satisfying if somewhat predictable existence in a sleepy suburban Southern California town, June and Oscar find themselves dealing with improbable tragedies, energy-giving fountains and a mysterious briefcase-wielding weirdo. Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen Play It (Relatively) Straight 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z The problem is exacerbated by another jukebox tic: songs bent into improbable shapes to serve a story they weren’t designed for. Review: The ‘Tina’ Musical Is One Inch Deep, Mountain High 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Has success changed your life?A lot of things came together in improbable ways that felt fortuitous beyond my designs, and seemed to push the book forward. Sheila Heti: 'I love dirty books' 2013-01-19T17:30:01Z This holds especially true for the thing that can alienate newcomers from the show in the first place: Jane’s improbable pregnancy. The unexpected miracle of “Jane the Virgin”: Her surprisingly realistic television pregnancy 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z How she goes about that improbable mission, and with whose help, makes for a touching and suspenseful tale, even for listeners who are coming to Brown’s heroine for the first time. Audiobooks for Summer Trips With the Kids 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Most of these were improbable, for reasons that are worth spelling out. The New York Philharmonic Picks Jaap van Zweden 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z And the film richly explores our cathartic need to tell tales, its dual ending asking a lady-or-the-tiger question: Which story do you prefer, the one of genuine horror or the one of hopeful, improbable possibility? AP critics pick the year's best movies 2012-12-14T21:29:02Z Contemporary sculpture that evokes the mysterious deep, the improbable beauty of drawings of flora and fauna, and more. In Cuba, Patching Together 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Most improbable of all is the omission of a surrogacy contract; maybe Mr. Pearlstein, a Brooklyn lawyer, just wasn’t paying attention. 2010-01-22T04:49:00Z But Alberta, draped in her wine-colored velvet and ropes of pearls, does the improbable by making being stuck in an old mansion with strangers from different centuries and circumstances look like a blast. From ghosts to cannibals, here are the 10 breakout TV performances of the year 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Like Yusuke, she has suffered a terrible loss, and their shared grief — or rather, their common state of raw, lonely, unacknowledged anguish — becomes the foundation of a delicate and improbable friendship. One Indelible Scene: When the Show Must Go on in ‘Drive My Car’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z And now for something completely improbable: the history of the universe in one hour. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Eric Idle’s the Entire Universe’ and Dolly Parton 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z So it didn't matter how unlike Miliband Wallace was, as long as they shared the attribute of seeming an improbable sort to be prime minister. Ed Miliband looks as gormless as Wallace but in a totally different way 2012-12-16T00:06:04Z Elsewhere, Tate draws on conversations with a friend to trace an improbable musical lineage. The Critic Who Convinced Me That Criticism Could Be Art 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z As a kid, one of my favourite comics was a particularly improbable 1974 Hulk v Thing battle in which the two muscle-bound superheroes switched brains. Superhero smackdowns: why we love to see caped crusaders fight each other 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z ROME—In his 1972 movie ‘Roma,’ Italian director Federico Fellini imagined a Vatican fashion show, with models strutting, cycling and even roller-skating down the catwalk to present the latest in improbable ecclesiastical apparel. Vatican Treasures Star in a Glittering Met Exhibit 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Her arrangements — of, say, small wooden and porcelain figurines atop a tangle of netting and string, giving way to clusters of horns and glass — are as compelling as they are improbable. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z This novel contains a funeral oration of improbable beauty. ‘The Book of Strange New Things,’ by Michel Faber 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z They are, in any case, cool guys of a particular vintage, avatars of a salty, clean-cut, old-style masculinity that is enjoying a somewhat improbable vogue these days. ‘Ford v Ferrari’ Review: It’s a Gas 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z A piano and harpsichord play mute in “Forgotten Light,” their mechanisms hoping to create notes now improbable. Chaya Czernowin’s ‘Wintersongs’ at Miller Theater 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The resulting magazine, Jacobin, whose ninth issue just landed, has certainly been an improbable hit, buoyed by the radical stirrings of the Occupy movement and a bitingly satirical but serious-minded style. Bhaskar Sunkara, Editor of Jacobin Magazine 2013-01-20T22:57:50Z With an improbable piece of deduction based on an equation Adrian had written, I realised the handicapped person must have been Adrian and Veronica's mother's child. Digested read: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes 2011-08-15T20:30:04Z It’s the people, who act as one because they share an improbable idea. Rediscovering the World of ‘Blue Highways’ 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z This may seem an improbable combination, except to readers of W.G. Perspective | Thanksgiving is a time to grieve, read and remember. Two new books capture the mood. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z At Venice this year, “Exodus” was received as a return to form, but the fact that it was even completed was improbable. Lars von Trier Had the Key to the End of ‘The Kingdom’ All Along 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z However improbable, the match-up works, partly because the filmmakers don’t approach her as either an entertainment industry untouchable or one of its casualties. | 'Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work': A Comedian?s Life: Enter Talking or Mocking 2010-06-10T21:58:00Z But other relics of this competition can be found in improbable New York places, and none more than at the New York Society Library. “Hamilton” and the Books That Hamilton Held 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z The original story, which is credited to both Martin and Brickell, is apparently inspired in part by an actual event, though I'm afraid that doesn't make this improbable yarn any easier to buy. 'Bright Star' wears its old-fashioned heart on its gingham sleeve 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z She also noted how improbable their romance had seemed at first. A Heart So Full, Her Chipped Teeth Were an Afterthought 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Landlocked and a mile high, Denver might seem like an improbable place to find fine seafood. What to Do in Denver 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z One of their basses, Eamonn Dougan, ran a Singing Day that with improbable effectiveness for six hours’ work drilled Cumnock amateurs into the basis for a chorus that will hopefully become a fixture. Scottish Composer James MacMillan Opens Cumnock Tryst 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Ostlund’s version is a sharp, relentless satire of masculine insecurity and middle-class complacency, threading genuine discomfort among improbable laughs. ‘Downhill’ Review: A Small Disaster in the Snow 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z They said it because it was funny, and borderline improbable. On ‘KOD,’ J. Cole Speaks to the Generation That Spurned Him 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Her story was odd but not entirely improbable: She had been partly educated in the United States and her family belonged to the secular middle-class elite of Damascus. “A Gay Girl in Damascus”: Behind the twisted tale of a blogger who “catfished” the whole world 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z "Doing" movies has been a longtime tradition for the Angulos, who grew up under improbable circumstances. 'The Wolfpack's' isolated brothers relate to world through movies 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z In other words, all the people onstage are there to tell us stories that they utterly believe in, no matter how improbable they seem. Theater Review: ‘Into the Woods,’ at the McCarter Theater in Princeton 2013-05-14T21:08:58Z One wonders, however, what the comic purpose of swashbuckling perils and improbable coincidences is, other than to convey the fun of writing them. Finding the Funny in 17th-Century History 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Beethoven takes a kind of comic tune and puts it through a series of improbable yet triumphant variations. Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: His Greatness Is in the Details 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z During the late 1960s Mr. Seeger started an improbable project: a sailing ship that would crusade for cleaner water on the Hudson River. Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94 2014-01-28T06:32:10Z We Shakespeare-obsessed folk will scour the lineup for adaptations and reinterpretations, and some look intriguing, including ‘The Nightmare “Dream,” ’ an improbable mash-up of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Dracula.” Shows to Consider at New York’s Fringe Festival 2013-08-08T21:36:11Z A late and improbable burst of energy sees me overtaking a few runners towards the end and each greets me with a smile and a breathless “Jia you” – which appropriately translates as “add oil”. Chinese burn: how the People's Republic has become an endurance-running superpower 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Both were exceptional performances, with “Three” showing Mr. Naharin’s compositional genius and the dancers’ mastery of his particular movement style and its display of extreme displacements, naturalistic gesture and improbable juxtapositions. Dance Review: An Eccentric Sendoff for a Festival?s Leader 2011-06-12T22:10:07Z Pics/Everett/Rex Features Even now, it seems an improbable story. The Social Network 2010-09-24T17:26:00Z I don’t want to spoil the gripping and improbable details of Kenner’s film, but how the Damascus accident started is no big secret. The night we almost lost Arkansas — a 1980 nuclear Armageddon that almost was 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Seen on Broadway in 2013, the musical tells of Edward Bloom, an Alabama-based traveling salesman prone to relating improbable yarns about his own past. Review | ‘Big Fish’ looks for the truth in a father-son relationship 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z I told her I wanted to talk, to piece together a story that seemed too improbable to be true. Lenin, mum and me – my communist childhood 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z But the most remarkable moment in the quintet's concert Monday night — and the most vivid demonstration of its improbable accomplishment — involved only one of those voices, in harmony with itself. Pentatonix has the pipes, but pop stardom can be tricky 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z An improbable sensation in nightclubs and on radio, TV and the Broadway stage, Nichols and May became the royal byword for literate satire until personal friction and temperamental differences drove them apart. Mike Nichols’s Brilliant Career 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z That it’s getting a second season is pretty improbable in itself. 30 Shows to Watch This Summer 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z She can still soak up the camera hungrily, from those huge eyes and that perfect cascade of hair to the improbable wasp waist. "Passion Play": Megan Fox and Mickey Rourke, together at last 2011-05-07T16:01:00Z The composer of that song was Irving Fields, who died on Saturday at 101 at his home in Manhattan, and his career was as improbable as his songs. Irving Fields, Composer Who Infused Songs With Latin Rhythms, Dies at 101 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Exploring a new country as a young woman should be more interesting than as a backdrop for improbable romance. ‘Finding You’ Review: A Fiddler Falls in Love 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z There's also that same sense of measured surreality, that skill in manipulating our understanding that what we're watching is improbable, but not impossible. Janusz Kondratiuk: Poland's answer to Woody Allen 2011-03-24T16:39:35Z It’s hard to nail down the most improbable thing about Upside Pizza, a new slice joint a few blocks from the Port Authority Bus Terminal. The Kings of the Dollar Slice Build a Better Pizza 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Still, the notion of Ms. Shields tweaking hemlines and adjusting seams seems a bit improbable. Nothing Comes Between Brooke Shields and Her New Line for QVC 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Their points of confluence — the deaths of family members, improbable escapes, the hardship of life in ghettos and camps — underscore the horror and, at times, the grim absurdity of surviving extermination. ‘Shoah: Four Sisters’ Review: Harrowing Tales of Survival in the Holocaust 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Nixon’s improbable rise from the has-been heap to the White House is the subject of Buchanan’s new memoir, “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.” Pat Buchanan: I think Hillary will win in 2016 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z He is freer and more confident than ever before, layering and sculpting improbable instruments and bewitching harmonies into songs that are at once exquisitely simple and astonishingly sophisticated. Review: ‘Love & Mercy’ Gets Inside Brian Wilson’s Head 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The improbable bit of grit around which this exquisite, miraculous book will form is the title character, a bullied third grader who imagines himself as a caped crusader called “Ear Man.” It All Started in Omaha 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z And when it is channeled through Ms. Turner’s sandpapery basso, sarcasm has a ferocious comic bite that makes the early innings of Mr. Lombardo’s improbable drama about faith, recovery and redemption crackle with lively humor. | 'High': Assisting Recovery, Craving Redemption 2011-04-20T02:01:29Z This was Michael Schur, co-creator of "Parks and Recreation," on a call with reporters earlier this week to discuss the improbable creation and production of "A Parks and Recreation Special." "A Parks and Recreation Special": The COVID-era reunion we needed 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z What follows after one dead body turns up and then another are conspiracies and improbable turns. Movie Review: ‘Breaking the Girls,’ a Thriller Stuffed Full of Twists 2013-07-26T00:25:53Z Domestically, as Schwarzenegger's movie glory days began waning, he revamped his image again and became the improbable governor of California in a 2003 recall election. Schwarzenegger must revamp image once more 2011-05-21T20:31:06Z What it reveals is quite the work of art: the nose "could reflect the most improbable lights and colours and allowed objects to shine through in fragments". Kurt Schwitters: the pop art pioneer who brought order to chaos 2013-01-19T09:01:37Z “Is there a parking lot left in Manhattan? It seemed improbable,” Hamilton Clancy, the company’s artistic director, said in a phone interview. Outdoor Shakespeare Series Finds a New Place To Park 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Ayckbourn's production vividly endorses the key point: that we are watching plausible people in improbable situations. Taking Steps | Theatre review 2010-03-29T20:30:00Z After that, the action follows the same logic as a Western, a realm in which the improbable is expected. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 8 Recap: Showdown 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z For several years, Bstroy has been figuring out ways to make improbable gestures probable, with clothes that anticipate needs that are primal, polyvalent and sometimes mutant. After Kanye, After Virgil, After Heron 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z When he saw the American flag still waving at dawn — an improbable victory — Key penned the stirring “Defense of Fort M’Henry,” with a rhyme scheme matched to the Anacreontic Song. ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ Has Changed a Lot in 200 Years 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z And Ms. Murphy turns a classic comedian’s rubbery body language into an improbable series of dangerously sharp, twisted angles. | 'Anyone Can Whistle': Sondheim Tribute to Politics and Other Craziness 2010-04-10T00:20:00Z “Love Actually” is one of the millennium’s more improbable cult phenomenons, a yearly staple of cable programming around the holidays. Moms deserve better than this: The shameless pandering of “Mother’s Day” is an argument for the death of “hyperlink” films 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z And here we are, a gaudy efflorescence of consciousness, staggeringly improbable in light of everything we know about the reality that contains us. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z The play itself isn’t the greatest Coward; in April 1941 he wrote it in a week, and the “improbable farce,” as he called it, was entertaining a war-torn London by July. Ageless Lansbury puts fizz in ‘Blithe Spirit’ 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Not that it’s ever hilarious, even in laugh-lined movies like “Funny People” and “50/50,” to name two comedy-drama amalgams that combine cancer and chuckles in one improbable package. Movie Review: ?A Little Bit of Heaven,? With Kate Hudson 2012-05-03T23:08:55Z Chantal is a chic socialite who dons improbable disguises to shepherd airmen into unoccupied Vichy France and out of the country. Alan Furst’s ‘A Hero of France’: Putting a human face on the French Resistance 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Only someone with an enormous brain attic could deduce the opposite because, as Holmes often told me, "Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova – digested read 2013-01-13T19:30:01Z With an affordable renewal of their lease seeming improbable, the couple shuttered the Diamond in January. Last Call for the Beer Bar? 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z It is also the improbable subject of a passionate debate among scholars, journalists, and copy editors. Comma Queen: The Strippers, J.F.K. and Stalin—or, the Importance of Serial Commas 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z All it takes is a certain passion for this improbable, impossible, mythic city — especially when it’s hurting. The Italian Cafe Where New Yorkers Sample La Dolce Vita 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Then, they turned those improbable dreams into lasting legacies. Seeking answers to L.A.'s 99-seat theater crisis in the legacies of two theatrical trailblazers 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z But for her — and for this improbable but promising spinoff — it ends up being an invigorating new start. Review: On ‘The Good Fight,’ a Lawyer Claws Her Way Back to Normal 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The cast must also cope with a clumsy script, improbable chance encounters, illogical timings and villains with names like Darko. The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman – first look review 2013-01-23T17:14:22Z The leading online music portal Pitchfork recently expanded in an improbable direction: a physical, pulp-and-print quarterly journal, the sort of relic widely thought to be heading toward extinction. 50 Essential Summer Festivals 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z It does, however, skew the plot, making Trigorin's casual seduction of Nina seem grotesquely improbable. The Notebook of Trigorin | Theatre review 2010-04-05T21:00:00Z "There is something quite improbable about how these famous writers started playing together, and all their characters are quite fantastical." Howzat? 2010-05-07T07:12:00Z Her father muses on improbable topics, such as a book by Lawrence Durrell in which he says a boa constrictor falls from a ceiling fan onto a party of dinner guests. Weevils and all, Rome ring-road film marks documentary comeback 2013-09-06T17:17:57Z He’s the improbable star of what would be, except for the core content, an all-American odyssey. ‘Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood’ Review: Turning Tricks in Tinseltown 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z After it does, a thoroughly improbable coda reminds us, once again, that in showbiz, it’s all about hope. ‘I Love My Dad’ Review: A Father Catfishes His Son 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z So she was among the most improbable candidates for the job she would perform with undisguised gusto for almost 40 years. Jane Scott, longtime rock critic, dies at 92 2011-07-05T04:35:04Z The ultimate hope for these performers, no matter how improbable, would be to sing with their heroes. Country Music Finds a Home Far From Home, in Kenya 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z And in the the final paragraph, he observed, “Pending an improbable successful appeal, everything he had worked for was now gone, likely never to be recovered, ever again.” Just call it the Daniel Holtzclaw effect now: In rape cases, sympathetic reporting about “once-promising young men” need to stop 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Instead it’s the beautiful, improbable “One Day at a Time,” a multicamera family comedy. Review: The Euphoria of ‘One Day at a Time’ 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z It is that somewhat improbable journey that led her to NBC Universal’s West Hollywood studios at 8 a.m. on a Thursday in late February, taping an edition of “Fashion Police” for the E! network. Kelly Osbourne, From Party Girl to Fashion Sage 2014-02-26T23:11:52Z The improbable pair soon develop a friendship as Vincent takes Oliver to all his usual haunts including the the race track, a strip club and a local dive bar. Toronto Film Festival 2014: Ones to watch 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Yet, more than 25 years into his career, Hucknall still cut an improbable figure on stage. Simply Red ? review 2010-12-09T22:31:00Z How else to describe Mr. Ahluwalia’s improbable rise as a boldface cultural tastemaker, one who has tried everything from writing for The Paris Review to designing a pop-up restaurant in London. Waris Ahluwalia: A Ubiquitous Presence, However Unlikely 2013-12-12T01:20:00Z Macintyre won my heart with his 2007 book, “Agent Zigzag,” the hilarious and improbable story of a British con artist who became a double agent in World War II. Facts rule: 8 great nonfiction books 2013-06-14T17:29:09Z The film was an improbable vehicle for Honegger’s rehabilitation. Unlocking the Mystery of Honegger 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z This Netflix holiday romance turns to a classic formula: A blue-collar widower strikes up an improbable romance with a stuck-up heiress betrothed to a cocky himbo. Day 10: The Secrets of Being Santa 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z His boyish optimism, tempered by a lifetime of dashed hopes and unexpected luck, is the result of his improbable journey to Washington. What does Afghanistan need? Some major rebranding, says its 32-year-old ambassador. 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z There’s also the fun of spotting — in a work that feels, improbable as it sounds, like a cousin to Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs” — glimmers of plays to come in Nottage’s oeuvre. ‘Crumbs From the Table of Joy’ Review: Dreams on the Cusp of Womanhood 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z It is precisely because these women are improbable figures that they are so useful. Marine Le Pen’s Memoir: a Dutiful Daughter’s Sanitizing of Far-Right Politics 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z The Orientalism collection in particular seems like an improbable focus for a museum in the Arab world. Critic?s Notebook: Building Museums, and a Fresh Arab Identity 2010-11-29T19:10:00Z But he also has an improbable gift for making mathematical equations and raw geological data fly like drawing-room banter. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Punished By Fame 2011-02-25T16:44:55Z Yes, the ending is wildly improbable and hilariously predictable, but I wouldn’t change a single note. Review | An irresistible romantic comedy to begin your new year 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z He also admits that his premise was improbable, though not impossible: executions are rarely botched. A Playwright Whose Time Seems to Be Now 2011-02-09T22:29:09Z “Nowhere Boy” is elegantly structured, plausible in its improbable plot and studded with moments of rapturous prose. Stories for Kids About Heroic Young Refugees 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Oppenheim welcomed the political engagements and conflicts entailed in bringing his improbable proposals to fruition. Dennis Oppenheim, a Sculptor Who Moved Heaven and Earth 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Yet this weird little dude starts off the first episode in bed with one beautiful young woman and ends it in an improbable and awkward threesome with two other beautiful young women. Swipe Left: “Love” and the Unromantic Comedy 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z To call these musicals improbable hits is an almost ludicrous understatement. Tonys 2015: Meet the biggest hit maker on Broadway 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z This kind of thing makes Rosin come off like a mirror version of David Brooks, drawing improbable conclusions from pretend or crazily narrow, twisted bits of evidence or the most threadbare, throwback caricatures. Men aren’t ending 2012-09-11T17:56:00Z The success of “Chariots of Fire” was perhaps as improbable as that of Mr. Welland, who had once abandoned his dreams of acting to teach art. Colin Welland Dies at 81; Wrote ‘Chariots of Fire’ 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Another improbable metamorphosis is that of the old Daily News garage on Third Avenue, which is now Brooklyn Boulders, a cavernous rock-climbing gym. My Brooklyn, Then and Now 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z On the northeastern corner is a bail bonds agency with the improbable name of Heaven. Of the 63 people killed during '92 riots, 23 deaths remain unsolved — artist Jeff Beall is mapping where they fell 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z It's fast-moving and sharply written, though the frequent explicit sex scenes make the whole seem jadedly one-dimensional, and an improbable intersection of the main figures is a clumsy detraction. First fiction 2010-10-01T23:15:00Z The choice of Ms. Swift is not improbable. Hottest Ticket in Town? Taylor Swift, Class of ’22. 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z More damaging is Conway's stilted direction, with its awkward crowd movement and an improbable baby wrapped in a grey blanket that is handed without conviction from character to character. The Siege of Calais – review 2013-03-11T17:48:31Z At one point in the film, when confronted with some improbable information, the "Arrested Development" alum asks one of his partners in idiot crime: "You found a hit man online?" 'Horrible Bosses' offers a cast, script that kill 2011-07-07T14:54:00Z It was a showboating move, for sure, and Hoffa was “an improbable defender of the American Constitution,” Goldsmith writes, but just because Hoffa’s talk of civil liberties was conspicuously self-serving doesn’t mean he was wrong. ‘In Hoffa’s Shadow’ Details How a Famous Disappearance Hit Close to Home 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z And how does he view Lucky Shiner's improbable success? Guardian First Album award: Gold Panda 2011-01-27T22:30:01Z But Sydney Lucas as Small Alison may pull off the show’s most improbable coup of a performance. Times Writers Share Last Chance Theater Picks 2013-12-26T21:06:11Z It is an improbable extrapolation from the present, and the novel's worldbuilding is airless and unconvincing. 2121: A Tale from the Next Century by Susan Greenfield – review 2013-07-11T08:00:00Z If, by some typically improbable turn of events, Homer Simpson were to unearth from his backyard an old chest containing a chess set from medieval times, what would the pieces look like? Art Review: ?The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen From the Isle of Lewis,? at the Cloisters 2011-11-17T23:25:24Z At 43, Renner is no longer the new guy, but he continues to carve out one of the most improbable acting careers in a city full of them. Jeremy Renner reflects on an unexpected Hollywood trajectory 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z "Spring Breakers," positioned as both a celebration and an indictment of the annual bacchanal, follows four bikini-clad college students through a series of improbable adventures. 'Spring Breakers' has bikini-clad debut at SXSW 2013-03-11T19:04:11Z And while in the heat of his latest controversies that seems improbable, taking a long view of celebrity history provides ample evidence that just isn't the case. Mel Gibson will work in this town again 2010-07-13T06:42:00Z Fortunately, there were people well placed to support Miranda's improbable vision. Broadway musical 'Hamilton' could teach Oscar a lesson on diversity 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z They had both, it was whispered, already taken lovers since their improbable whirlwind wedding four years earlier. Carla Bruni: Sarkozy and me 2013-06-01T08:00:00Z Longstreth asks, insisting on companionship in the face of improbable tasks and the inevitable terror of death. Dirty Projectors Summon Pure Emotion on About To Die EP 2012-11-01T17:00:13Z We admired the fountains with water sprouting from improbable places at Place de Concorde. In France, Our Dog Has His Day 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Choke down those improbable coincidences and you can move on to the actual cases in “Unforgettable.” Television Review: ?Unforgettable? on CBS, With Poppy Montgomery - Review 2011-09-19T23:23:59Z Women would rather blame a “vague, improbable threat,” she says, than take responsibility for their own actions. Think Tank Tells Women How to Avoid Sexual Assault: Stop Getting 'Severely Intoxicated' 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z The takeaway moment for this concertgoer was “Maybe I’m Amazed,” with McCartney at the grand piano, bringing the song to a simmer and then taking it higher and harder, with some improbable falsetto notes. Concert review: McCartney at Wrigley Field 2011-08-01T05:52:00Z But an improbable near-affair is confected for Alma to give the movie the narrative engine it otherwise lacks, and instead it drains the life from it. The many faces of Alfred Hitchcock 2013-02-04T05:59:01Z But in 2006 an improbable decision was made to convert a former royal palace into the country’s first contemporary art museum. In Rwanda, Looking to Art to Soothe 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Then there’s your destination: the wonderfully strange, improbable town of Ward. To Ride Again Another Day in Colorado 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Haslem recently turned 80, which seems improbable, given that she continues to oversee the gallery and Artline.com, a Web site she founded 20 years ago. After nearly 55 years, art gallery pioneer ready to hang it up 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Issues of racial assimilation and forbidden longing are accommodated with improbable ease in another example of Pearlman perfecting the short-story's Tardis-like trick of having more going on inside than seems possible from the external dimensions. Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman – review 2013-02-28T10:00:01Z In the mid-15th century, the Incas built this improbable citadel nearly 8,000 feet up on a skinny ridge between precipices where the Andes meet the Amazon basin, and abandoned it a hundred years later. Hiking to Machu Picchu past sacred Inca peaks 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The declaration prompted an improbable deluge of headlines about 20th-century abstract art. Is the Mondrian Upside Down, or Is It an Abstract Enigma? 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Unless the listener knows the work’s plot, involving a wandering knight’s absurdly improbable love affair, these song texts will not make much sense. Review | Roderick Williams attempts chivalrous rescue of Brahms’s ‘Magelone’ songs at Phillips Collection 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Movement and music, each tense on its own, together produced an improbable lyricism. Review: Gwen Welliver Goes Equine at La MaMa Moves! 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z A New York City book critic facing a relationship crisis strikes up an improbable friendship with her new Indian American driving instructor. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z And whatever they lack in originality of reference is more than made up for by a gift for improbable combinations of clichés. Theater Review: ‘Tender Napalm’ by Philip Ridley at 59E59 Theaters 2012-08-30T02:00:15Z And his novel is so readable and tidily constructed that, initially, you barely notice its increasingly improbable plot contrivances. Books of The Times: ‘Say Nice Things About Detroit,’ Scott Lasser’s New Novel 2012-08-28T21:15:58Z And, as improbable as it seems, they're really good at it. Noah and the Whale ? review 2011-01-27T21:30:02Z But his improbable rise would not improve her view of human intelligence considered as a whole, and might lead her to downgrade her almost-hopeful view of the possibilities of American democracy. Is Donald Trump a new Hitler? Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Suddenly Anthony has more than his father to worry about, and the adversity just keeps piling up, building to a ridiculously improbable climax. Review: In ‘Wolves,’ a High School Athlete Can’t Outrun Clichés 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z So how did the upstarts from the West Coast achieve their improbable victory? Pacific Mambo Orchestra Is Unknown No More 2014-03-14T22:13:54Z Most of “Cars 2” takes place far from Radiator Springs — in Tokyo, Paris and London — and Lightning’s racing exploits are secondary to the improbable adventures of Mater. | 'Cars 2': Tow Truck Takes the Lead on a Second Lap 2011-06-23T12:00:00Z She does this by interweaving two supplementary narrative threads that help explain why this improbable scam actually worked. Review | The greatest prison escape ever? ‘The Confidence Men’ tells a sensational true story. 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Their story is as improbable as it is Dickensian in its twists and turns and sudden reversals of fortune. Books of The Times: Bruce Wagner’s ‘Empty Chair’ Novellas Explore Guru Territory 2013-12-16T23:03:03Z People can be foolish, but this seems simply improbable. 'Innocent': Scott Turow's sequel to 'Presumed Innocent' 2010-04-28T23:47:00Z His colorful frames track a deeply religious upbringing in southwest Louisiana — where he was raised as a girl — and present his improbable, fraught journey to M.I.T. and later into his transition and marriage. When Comics Writers Defy Gender Norms 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z I knew little about the Lehman family going in and it is simply an astounding tale, filled with huge personalities and improbable achievements. A Dramatic Play About Finance? Yes, if It’s Lehman Brothers 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Discovered, embraced, disbanded, reunited, ignored, reinvented, hailed, scorned, disguised, recognized — the Bee Gees’ long career was filled with improbable ups and downs. How the Bee Gees Stayed Alive 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z There are also a few decent descriptions of the fights that Azuro's dad gets into with various improbable opponents. Booker club: The Famished Road 2011-01-20T13:46:07Z Whatever — our man is the Zelig of his day, showing up at key moments as the improbable instrument of turning points in history and encountering a raft of real historical figures. ‘The Barbed Crown’: head to head with Napoleon 2013-05-09T22:29:24Z The company’s monster ratings flagship features cartoon tykes singing and dancing while they take improbable joy in tasks not typically considered joyful, like brushing your teeth, eating vegetables or learning about colors. How to Tell ‘Blippi’ From ‘Little Baby Bum’ 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Steph Curry fans, who have been loyal witnesses to his improbable streaks from beyond the stripe, surely agree with Professors Miller and Sanjurjo. Bob Dylan and the “Hot Hand” 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Such improbable success stories have inspired enterprising young people to join the NFT boom. Teens Cash In on the NFT Art Boom 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z So foreign, so improbable, so wrong for this audience. Skout’s minor problem 2012-06-19T23:20:00Z Still, stylish writing alone rarely creates bestsellers, and I think the real secret of the series’s phenomenal success is Child’s improbable, larger-than-life hero himself. Spoiler alert: Jack Reacher survives, but the 19th Lee Child novel is fascinating But like the former governor’s presidential bid, the odds of it happening looked improbable at first. ‘I don’t blame the scream speech’: Howard Dean on the first Internet campaign 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z But once, not so long ago, it carried eight kids and a coxswain from Northwest farms, orchards and shipyards to an improbable victory in the greatest of all crew races. ‘The Boys in the Boat’: UW team vanquishes Hitler’s crew 2013-05-29T22:21:04Z The novel’s slightly improbable denouement may reassure us that this couldn’t actually happen. Review | The sordid tale of the Borgias and other great audiobooks for your playlist 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z The sweep of his own life story is similar to one of his many novels - broad, impressive, improbable. Novelist Helprin spins a good yarn in life and art 2012-10-03T19:06:52Z But what if I told you I had a motley list of films that are so far-fetched and improbable that there’s no way they could come true? When Reality Is Scary Enough, These Movies Are Safe Nightmares 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z If there's one thing the banking crisis taught us it's that improbable amounts of money can disappear with mystifying speed. Not kerCHING, just thud 2011-02-14T21:35:14Z But everyone in Hollywood likes a comeback, and improbable as it may seem, Harvey Weinstein is the comeback kid. Harvey Weinstein: Oscars' comeback kid 2011-02-28T10:20:42Z En route to Jackson, Miss., he strikes up an improbable romance with a young African-American woman whose generosity he mistakes for thievery. A Road Trip Novel Distills America Through Gary Shteyngart’s Hipstamatic Mind 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z But the improbable part of the whole thing, for Mr. Gatins, was that Emma Stone managed to pronounce his name correctly when she announced his Oscar nomination early Thursday morning. The Carpetbagger: 'Flight's' Screenwriter Is Just Thrilled His Name Was Pronounced Right 2013-01-10T20:05:58Z For all the actors' direct address to the audience from the stage, the action remains hermetically sealed in the improbable, make-believe world of the performance. A Season in the Congo; Too Clever By Half – review 2013-07-20T23:05:43Z A woman with improbable eyelashes and a Pierrot’s face has us gather around an upright piano as she sings a sad tale of a minstrel. Review: Specters of the Stage Enchant in ‘Ghost Light’ 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z And though both actors deliver performances more credible than the plot that frames them, their authenticity only highlights the script’s affection for improbable coincidences and an ending even Garry Marshall might consider too pat. Movie Review: ‘Least Among Saints,’ Directed by Martin Papazian‘ 2012-10-12T00:39:41Z While some turns of the plot are pretty improbable, “Stage Kiss” may be Ms. Ruhl’s fluffiest, most accessible play. Theater Review: ‘Stage Kiss,’ a Sarah Ruhl Comedy, at Playwrights Horizons 2014-03-03T03:00:19Z The time spent building this improbable, precarious place – soon to be toppled by an earthquake, razed by a fire and then built up again – is also made manifest. Eadweard Muybridge 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z What is most real about this improbable character, in other words, is that he knows he is a fiction. The Autobiography of Fidel?Castro by Norberto Fuentes 2010-04-30T23:14:00Z The lies are elaborate and improbable but women, those gentle innocents, never seem to catch on. Just Go With It? Jennifer Aniston Runs Away With It 2011-02-11T00:40:00Z Musicians of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the improbable ensemble he founded nearly 20 years ago with Edward Said, were tuning their instruments, listening intently to one another. Orchestra That Bridges Mideast Divide Tours a Fractured U.S. 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Heads spin delightedly at the sight of something improbable: “It’s combining opposites,” Mr. Rosenbaum said in a recent phone interview. Antiques: Penitentiary Restores Prisoner?s Biblical Murals 2011-07-22T05:15:25Z Its star, Jodie Comer, late of “Killing Eve,” gives a performance of tremendous skill and improbable stamina, especially considering it is her first stage appearance. Review: In ‘Prima Facie,’ Jodie Comer Makes the Case 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Then again, when you've spent your career studying how space and time can bend and warp, normal ideas of what's probable or improbable don't really apply. Kip Thorne, the scientist who slipped through a wormhole 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z In contrast to this true story of injustice — eerily familiar today — “Darktown” offers an improbable tale of revenge. A novel about police brutality in 1948 Atlanta that sounds eerily relevant today 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z He charms them into improbable poses or amuses them for long enough to lower their guard. Sublime, ridiculous 2010-08-27T23:02:00Z This film, the fourth in a series that made its improbable and profitable leap from the theme park to the multiplex eight summers ago, represents an attempt to rejuvenate a flagging franchise. | 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides': Whale Oil Explodes and Buccaneers Bellow 2011-05-19T18:31:34Z But the problem with this piece by Gabriel Bisset-Smith is that, for all its sporadic vigour, it spirals off into wackily improbable fantasy. The Charming Man ? review 2010-10-25T20:30:00Z The director and actors have to figure out how to do that Durang-ian swing between “could happen” and “deliriously improbable.” Review: In ‘Hunter Gatherers,’ a Couples’ Dinner Grows Increasingly Bizarre 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z As you register the wildly improbable circumstances of their reunion, you stare in astonishment at how triply handsome they were—identical means all but indistinguishable in clips and photos from that time. ‘Three Identical Strangers’ Review: A Family Reunion Like No Other 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z And there were improbable story lines, like running gags about snake problems in the reptile-free far north. Boosters hope Alaska will be "Hollywood Far North" 2010-10-02T19:01:00Z This embrace of multiculturalism on the Great White Way may not be entirely attributable to the “Hamilton” effect, but the Broadway landscape has been permanently altered by this improbable blockbuster. A critic's take: Why 'Hamilton's' Tony Award record ushers in a new era for theater 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z That the park was built at all — let alone by an American-led design team — is mildly improbable. In Moscow’s Newest Park, All of Russia Comes Together 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z But the most improbable run in this category is that of “The Missing Picture,” a documentary by the Cambodian director Rithy Panh. Carpetbagger: Divisions in the Foreign-Language Category 2014-01-16T16:09:55Z There’s no shower, but it’s about as luxurious as you can get given the improbable locale. Sleeping in the sky: the glass pods in Peru’s Sacred Valley 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z He wanders in the desert and somehow lands in Georgia, providing the movie with its most improbable detour. 2010-02-12T23:26:00Z Diehard fans hope that rumours of his improbable return are true. Tyrion, Daenerys ... Hot Pie? The greatest Game of Thrones characters 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Back in Queens, where we both lived in our mid-20s, we found common cause in our improbable aspirations. Lionel Shriver: How I failed my best friend 2010-03-20T00:11:00Z Dodgson always rose to the challenge presented by an improbable melange of instruments, including, in 1999, High Barbaree, for recorder, guitar and harpsichord. Stephen Dodgson obituary 2013-04-15T15:52:17Z The tender strangeness of other Shakespeare plays — Hamlet’s sea voyage, the animate statue in “The Winter’s Tale” — must yield to “Cymbeline’s” final act, which discloses more than two dozen improbable secrets with machine-gun speed. Fiasco Theater Company Rides Shakespeare to Success 2011-09-02T19:00:54Z Instead he became an improbable sapper in 560 Field Company, which he later described as "a very working-class unit trying to build some patently inadequate defences against invasion on the coasts of East Anglia". Eric Hobsbawm obituary 2012-10-01T09:59:14Z At times this kitchen sink approach threatens to smother the story, but Maazel propels the narrative forward with her knack for evoking empathy out of the improbable and transforming coincidence into conspiracy. Fiona Maazel's 'A Little More Human' is like Pynchon writing a telenovela 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Mr Jennings’s book is rich in fond hopes and improbable ventures. Short-lived, much loved 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Indeed, our greatest trait is adapting to new circumstances and attaining improbable dreams. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z Those songs, beginning with her 1996 debut album “Trailer Park,” join the immediate and the timeless, the personal and the archetypal, in music that’s full of improbable combinations. Music: Beth Orton Releases ‘Sugaring Season’ 2012-09-29T23:43:03Z It was an improbable pennant win for the Phillies, and swarms of fans met the moment as they realized their long-suffering team was going to the World Series for the first time in 13 years. She put a stranger on her shoulders at a Phillies rally. Now fans want them to marry. 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Yet, improbable as it now seems, the show could again have ended at this point. The Thick of It: the TV programme of 2012 2012-12-21T22:55:06Z So while their improbable musculature arrangements will not defy the ravages of time for ever, for now the authority of Hollywood's commandOAPs will continue. Geriaction heroes and the age of aged movie stars 2013-03-30T06:00:00Z A horse’s flank is pierced by a falling house key, and Otis Sr. takes an improbable projectile in the eye. ‘Nope’ Review: Hell Yes 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z It sounds improbable, but would that really be any weirder than Simon Cowell's selection for Musical Heroes week: Boney M? Britain's favourite Beatles song? It looks like Hey Jude 2010-11-19T17:15:00Z Usually, the presenters are beautiful young women who webcast themselves eating improbable quantities of food while inanely chatting about how delicious it is. Table for one: how eating alone is radically changing our diets 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z But long before that, the case was a subject of fascination among New York’s news media, largely because it seemed so improbable. ‘Hustlers’: The Story Behind the Headlines 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z The book’s final chapters mostly concern the spiritualist enterprise, its improbable rise and inevitable fall. Review | Decades after the raucous ‘Harbart’ became a cult classic in India, a translation finally arrives 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z An improbable story to be sure — yet this is exactly what happened to Warnock. Civil Rights Memoirs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z The High Sierra Trail follows an arduous, improbable and unfailingly spectacular route across the national park in the southern Sierra Nevada. Sky-high trekking: taking on California’s High Sierra Trail 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Not long ago Russian soldiers in Chechnya and South Ossetia were scared silly with improbable tales of Baltic mercenaries, blue-eyed, ice-blooded snipers sometimes known as White Stockings. | 'Nikita'; 'Hellcats': Lethal Woman With Weapons Is Out for Covert Vengeance 2010-09-07T22:00:00Z An improbable technology is at work in a windswept hangar: an electricity generator powered by the buffalo themselves, hauling at some suspended weights. Philippe Parreno at the Serpentine: The installation that won't sit still 2010-12-01T16:19:00Z The notion that the U-Men would even have a legacy worth celebrating would have seemed highly improbable when the group formed in the early 1980s. The legendary U-Men and grunge-era Gruntruck release albums 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z After marrying such improbable flavors, perhaps they’ll find a way to unite his picky eaters around a common meal. Taste preference is the subject of a new book by a Silver Spring writer 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z An improbable assortment of critics — mindfulness gurus, twee indie rockers, even, seemingly, Pope Francis — have started to implore these armchair videographers to drop their phones and actually start living again. A Defining Question in an iPhone Age: Live for the Moment or Record It? 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z But the second season saw a backlash against what many critics viewed as improbable plot twists around Carrie and Brody, the rescued POW turned al Qaeda agent played by British actor Damian Lewis. After Emmys slip, 'Homeland' turns to new season to regain footing 2013-09-23T21:31:02Z But in 2000, the island won an improbable reprieve: a band of Abu Sayyaf guerrillas, Islamic separatists from the southern Philippines, raided the camps and kidnapped 21 people, including 10 tourists. Journeys : A Monsoon, Then Underwater Magic in Malaysia 2013-01-25T17:46:35Z In this country, take your pick: good-time girl, unfaithful wife, improbable lover of the world’s most boring football manager and – most scandalously – mother of four children by four men. Ulrika Jonsson on depression, fun and fame: 'It was intense. I didn't cope with it very well' 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z They forged an improbable, temporarily effective alliance with industrial workers, a convergence that many thought heralded a new revolutionary coalition. Review: ‘In the Intense Now’ Revisits the Drama of 1968 in France and Beyond 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z The achievement seems particularly improbable, given the firm that designed it. Architecture Review: One Madison Park Hints at a Better Design Future 2010-06-28T22:33:00Z That could create an interesting onstage moment if this inspiring saga of an improbable art project in the Rio landfill captures the prize, as seems distinctly possible. Your Oscar night primer 2011-02-27T15:01:00Z We are not reading some far-off or improbable future. The Dystopia Has Just Arrived 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z The improbable success of “Royals” on hip-hop radio is even stranger given that on those stations, it’s surrounded by the sorts of songs it rails against. Music Review: Lorde on Monday Night at Roseland Ballroom 2014-03-11T12:02:05Z But before the onset of neuronal damage and the loss of axonal potential, I was fully alive, and liked to call myself an improbable survivor. The drugs do work: my life on brain enhancers 2013-05-03T22:00:00Z His show is an improbable hit, as listeners around the world tune in to follow “the mundane details of Bernard’s strange subterranean existence.” A 500-Story Tower Has Collapsed. Can Humanity Be Rescued From the Rubble? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z The primary writers are gay men, and in the course of two seasons the hint of autobiography begins to express itself: an improbable, impregnable loneliness. “Looking,” Marriage, and the New Gay Sadness 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, that "Birth of the Cool" became a cultural phenomenon – crystallizing the transition from explosive, 1940s bebop to 1950s cool – seems improbable, in retrospect. Miles Davis' 'Birth of the Cool' heats up again 2011-03-07T15:00:00Z Now, after a decade of apprenticeship, Green is entering a new phase of an improbable career that has already taken him from poverty, violence and juvenile detention to a place at America’s leading opera house. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green ready for operatic stardom 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z In the most recent episode, Joel reveals that he's 56 — which, even if there's retinol and workouts in the QZ, seems highly improbable. What our reverence for Pedro Pascal's daddy era says about us 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z Just inside the entrance, as improbable and nearly as imposing as a brontosaurus, squats a four-door, two-tone 1955 Chevy Bel Air, headlights and taillights shining, Cuban music wafting from the radio. Sure, It’s Castro and Cigars, but Cuba Is Coral and Crocodiles, Too 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Nixon’s triumph was all the sweeter for being so improbable. The populist manifesto 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z “Andy would throw airs” — do aerial maneuvers — “in the most improbable ways in the most unlikely parts of the wave,” Mr. Pezman said. A Surfer?s Waterborne Homage 2010-11-19T21:23:00Z If this sounds an improbable match, the circumstances in which they met are significantly more improbable. John Oliver: a very British coup 2013-06-07T22:00:00Z It is so improbable and distinctive that it seems a small miracle each time a recital there goes off successfully. Music Review: Weilerstein Trio, With Alisa Weilerstein, at Bargemusic - Review 2011-10-02T21:27:27Z So the show registered as an improbable act of summoning and sustaining vitality under energy-sapping conditions. Overcoming Through Song in a Summer of Discontent 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Given the havoc that introduced species cause in today's ecosystems, the latter seems more plausible, albeit improbable. Questions about Noah's Ark that may bug creationists 2011-01-18T14:15:10Z Still, you remain deeply suspicious that your mad skills coded anything, let alone this improbable holiday monster. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z “Twelfth Night” invites such an approach because it never pretends to be anything but improbable, with coincidences and altered and mistaken identities in ample supply. Theater Review: Within ‘Twelfth Night,’ a Delirious One-Man Show 2014-02-16T21:19:31Z In most cases, Mr. Aaronovitch notes, conspiracy theorists would rather tie themselves into complicated knots and postulate all sorts of improbable secret connections than accept a simple, more obvious explanation. 2010-02-15T22:56:00Z The original story – about the intrigues concerning the Herzoslovakian succession – was no more improbable than the one the scriptwriters dreamt up involving an Austrian count, a missing diamond and a secret passage. Last night's TV: Agatha Christie's Marple: The Secrets of Chimneys 2010-12-28T08:00:03Z “All the Answers” works best as an account of an improbable life, with a peek at America’s bygone celebrity culture and unquenchable thirst for entertainment. Can You Illustrate Emotional Absence? These Graphic Novels Do 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z But at least since 1993, when the backstage campaign documentary “The War Room” became a hit, the sausage-making itself took on an improbable sex appeal. Perspective | The Trump cult has obliterated the line between citizenship and fandom, with deadly results 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z But the path that took Seymour Bernstein, an 87-year-old piano teacher, to the silver screen this year must rank as one of the most improbable of all. Ethan Hawke Films ‘Seymour: An Introduction’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z But Trump would have to cooperate, which appears improbable given his repeated claims that Biden cheated him out of winning the 2020 election. Peter Doocy and Jen Psaki’s daily clashes have become a White House briefing room ritual 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z The discovery by others that I had a sense of humor led to an improbable career pitching Visa, Dunkin' Donuts and Viagra. After losing to Obama, what should Mitt Romney do next? 2012-11-08T15:19:03Z And the family’s improbable journey from obscurity in Ireland to eventual prosperity and celebrity in the U.S. offers hope to America’s latest arrivals from Afghanistan, Ukraine and beyond. ‘The First Kennedys’ explores a dynasty’s humble Irish roots 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z And they are thriving in a seemingly improbable place: the 45 square miles under United States jurisdiction known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. An unlikely wildlife haven on controversial Guantanamo Bay 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z But I find it improbable that she would so decisively plump for the latter, and the final act, which sees her sacrificing life in Belgravia for dingy Baron's Court, doesn't really hold water. Less Than Kind 2011-01-24T18:09:40Z When Joseph described what he’d discovered in his research — the improbable series of events by which a young consumptive triggered World War I — his Lark colleagues all leaned forward in their chairs. Diary of a world premiere: Join playwright Rajiv Joseph as the curtain rises on his 'Archduke' 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Fast forward 11 years and the prospect of such calamitous tipping points in the North Atlantic or elsewhere no longer looks improbable. Climate apocalypse is here, now: Science fiction has become our new reality 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Rose’s opened in 2013 as an improbable but wildly successful butcher shop and takeout bakery. If you only have time to eat three meals in Durham, N.C., make sure they’re here 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Carr is in his dressing gown and his dotage when we first meet him, thinking up ways to transform this improbable slice of history into a book. Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Library in ‘Travesties’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z They produced a blue-collar rampage whose effects still ripple, not the least of them being Donald Trump’s improbable ascension to the presidency. The Day the White Working Class Turned Republican 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z As if that's not enough, Mears peers under rocks to see if any further improbable creatures are hiding from the cameras. TV highlights 15/02/2013 2013-02-15T07:00:35Z But “The Split” isn’t a lightweight soap that relies on improbable high jinks. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Of course those shows didn’t have the ace in the hole that “Tinker, Tailor” did: the improbable presence of one of the 20th century’s great film actors, Alec Guinness, as Smiley. Television: ?Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,? With Alec Guinness - Review 2011-10-22T04:00:07Z At the conclusion of a long interview over tiramisù and espresso, one critical question remained for this improbable pioneer: “Do you drive an Alfa Romeo?” Mezzaluna, the Little Restaurant That Started a Revolution 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z The way the cricket bat taps a ball, and makes it sail an improbable distance, becomes, in Stoppard’s hands, a metaphor for writing. ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Like those in “The Hobbit” these improbable landscapes are in New Zealand. Dance Review: ‘I came here on my own.,’ by robbinschild at Art in General 2012-12-17T05:20:05Z We found immense pleasure in watching the Warriors, giggling together whenever Stephen Curry would sink another improbable three-point shot. ‘Worn Stories’ Treats Clothing as the Fabric of Memory. I Can Relate. 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z If the improbable fairy tale was coyly predictable — really, who doesn’t love a happy ending? — neither Gilbert nor her publisher dreamed the book would become a cultural juggernaut. ‘Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It’: Really? We need to talk. 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z The history of the Grill is as improbable as Hutchins’s relationship with it. Florida Avenue Grill celebrates 70 years as a soul food favorite, now with vegan options It became a tradition and a kind of symbol for their whole improbable run. The evolution of Steve-O, where every act is his last 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z It’s a gift as improbable as it is welcome. Heidi Schreck’s Play About the U.S. Constitution Offers an Oasis of Sanity 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Fictional rock band names may often be improbable - Frozen Gold? Rock stars in fiction 2011-03-17T16:00:50Z It was to share the improbable journey that brought her to Washington from Midland, Tex. Carol Schwartz survived tragedy and five losing races for D.C. mayor. Her new memoir is suitably epic. 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z There are heist pictures that offer careful and detailed accounts of criminal procedure, generating suspense by focusing on the precise arrangements necessary to bring a brazen and improbable crime to fruition. | 'Tower Heist': Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy in ?Tower Heist? - Review 2011-11-03T20:29:01Z This will mean she must save 25% of her income—an improbable sum given other commitments such as mortgages, university fees and child care. Live long and prosper 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z A circling helicopter and the enthusiastic squeals of riverfront revelers interfered with pale slivers of sound played on muted instruments at dynamics sometimes marked at quintuple piano: an improbable notion of near-silence. Music Review: Flux Quartet Plays Morton Feldman at Bargemusic 2010-06-06T21:20:00Z This improbable production is defined by its creators as “a chamber opera play.” Theater Review: ‘The Giacomo Variations,’ With John Malkovich, at City Center 2013-05-31T18:03:12Z |
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