Such inventions developed on many independent occasions in world history, at different places and times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The eyebrows work in consort with my inky black hair, which weighs in midway between curly and wavy, and calls for the invention of a new word. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the Internet, probably the single most important human invention since the printing press, takes the whole process a step further. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Across its pages swarm boyhood drawings, inventions: an electric bed heater he wanted to build for Frau Elena; a bicycle with chains to drive both wheels. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Now he was alive to the risk that a private corporation might steal away with the rights to his invention if he did not promptly establish his prior claim. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Some inventions arose straightforwardly from a handling of natural raw materials. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is striking that the observational search for extraterrestrial life began in the same generation as the invention of the telescope, and with the greatest theoretician of the age. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Sumerians put these inventions together, added writing, and in the third millennium B. C. created the first great civilization. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When other entrepreneurs created jukeboxes by arranging for a phonograph to play popular music at the drop of a coin, Edison objected to this debasement, which apparently detracted from serious office use of his invention. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had an obvious application in warfare, both on land and sea, and so he persuaded the Venetian government to reward him for his invention. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This isn’t repeated as speculation or as part of the underwear invention, but as fact. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The pinnacle of German invention, can be kept in business by twelve little African boys and some elephant grass.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she skipped rocks, she was looking out at the horizon and thinking about an invention she wanted to build. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I was fascinated by canned food simply because that miracle of Western invention was never allowed in my house. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Yeah. Completely. I love our hot water heater. It's one of the greatest inventions." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new technologies and the settlement of alien habitats resulted from genetic mutations and environmental pressures more than from cultural initiatives. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who today remembers that gasoline, the fuel of modern civilization, originated as yet another invention in search of a use? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When a widely useful invention does crop up in one society, it then tends to spread in either of two ways. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Unhappily, no supernova explosions have been observed in our Galaxy since the invention of the telescope, and astronomers have been chafing at the bit for some centuries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We, or at any rate I, had built such elaborate fantasies about him and the illusory mother that seeing him in the flesh shredded my inventions like a hard yank on a paper chain. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

What consumed him in this period mostly was something new: his first purely commercial venture, built around his first invention totally unconnected with the work of the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Winslow didn’t know that fish fertilizer may not have been an age- old Indian custom, but a recent invention—if it was an Indian practice at all. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Similar histories can be related for all modern inventions that are adequately documented. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I feel like I’m back in my group foster home, listening to the radio, hearing about his earthshaking invention for the first time. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

With the money I make from my numerous inventions, I build my own spaceship and discover another planet that looks a lot like Earth and is only twenty minutes away. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He glanced up at the remaining Violet orbs swinging overhead, cradled in his reflective inventions. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Axis orientations affected the rate of spread of crops and livestock, and possibly also of writing, wheels, and other inventions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They resented her spending time on those dumb inventions. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

That’s what is meant, in this context, by “invention”: not making things up, but exploring what there is to say on a subject. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Eleven of these bars were new inventions from the factory. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The form of the invention eventually adopted might have been somewhat different without the recognized inventor’s contribution. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Intelligent beings can solve problems better, live longer and leave more offspring; until the invention of nuclear weapons, intelligence powerfully aided survival. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had gotten married over the telephone in 1899, just for the novelty and wonderment of exchanging vows in two different cities by means of such an exciting new invention. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Several decades later, borrowing from this technology, Henry Ford credited the meatpackers for the idea that led to the invention of the automobile assembly line. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

What actually happened was not a discovery of food production, nor an invention, as we might first assume. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the most important invention in the kitchen since jarred mayonnaise.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In 1474 the republic of Venice formalized its own patent system by requiring that those wanting to claim a monopoly first register their new inventions with the state. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The invention of the double-outrigger sailing canoe may have been the technological breakthrough that triggered the Austronesian expansion from the Chinese mainland. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Though, Otto supposed, the flip side was someone like Leen Ellison, who failed to keep her inventions contained anywhere, usually resulting in mayhem. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Necessity, you might say, was the mother of invention. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Tentatively, therefore, archaeologists assign the invention of zero to sometime before 32 B.C., centuries ahead of its invention in India. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And assuming Leo’s doomsday candles didn’t go off by accident - Leo’s inventions sometimes did that - in which case the weather would get much hotter, with a ninety percent chance of fiery apocalypse. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

That is, inventions supposedly arise when a society has an unfulfilled need: some technology is widely recognized to be unsatisfactory or limiting. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had all sorts of plans to make money, she added, inventions he was working on, odd jobs he had lined up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In these societies technology developed most rapidly, because they accumulated not only their own inventions but also those of other societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout his life, Bell created many other inventions, including those that paved the way for the development of airplanes and phonograph records. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

This made Violet nervous as she sat on the floor by the window, working on her invention as quietly as she could. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

As always, I was electrically aware of Edward sitting close enough to touch, as distant as if he were merely an invention of my imagination. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, we can infer the methods of prehistoric invention by watching technologically “primitive” people today, such as the New Guineans with whom I work. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, you have spotted my pet invention,” he said, shoving the tray into Hermione’s arms and joining Harry at the statue’s side. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

If inventions are as idiosyncratic and unpredictable as the disk seems to suggest, then efforts to generalize about the history of technology may be doomed from the outset. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The two indisputably independent inventions of writing were achieved by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia somewhat before 3000 B.C. and by Mexican Indians before 600 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The other reason is that other opportunities for the independent invention of writing were preempted by Sumerian or early Mesoamerican writing and their derivatives. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Levittown of my youth, and of Volpe’s early years in teaching, was the great suburban dream before the invention of the dream’s antidotes—video games, cable TV, the Internet. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Dad gets carried away with his inventions; Mom’s a math teacher so she zeroes right in on things. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A good example is the history of Thomas Edison’s phonograph, the most original invention of the greatest inventor of modern times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the usual experience of archaeologists, inventions are supposed to flow from mainlands to islands, and small peripheral societies aren’t supposed to contribute revolutionary advances to the rest of the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The glossy leather on your shoes, or the document that protects your invention, is pronounced PAT-ent. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The byte or bit is a man-made invention, but the theory of digitized information that underlies it is a beautiful natural law. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The truth had become as ghostly as invention. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They have a certain gaiety to them, a power of invention, they don’t care what people think. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A lot of inventions ... dangerous ones. If my mother wants me to use this plan, she must think things are very bad.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, many or most inventions were developed by people driven by curiosity or by a love of tinkering, in the absence of any initial demand for the product they had in mind. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

By honoring both the invention of an essential instrument for large-scale research and the creation of a laboratory model to put it to use, the Nobel committee validated a sea change in science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

To that end, I made a little invention just for me. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the invention and widespread use of machines made the further direct enslavement of men economically impossible, and so slavery ended. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

That kind of technology was still in its infancy, but Riverbank was known for its acoustic engineers and inventions. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It is his invention for cooking, and he is proud of it. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In reality, even for the most famous and apparently decisive modern inventions, neglected precursors lurked behind the bald claim “X invented Y.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Long before the invention of the World Wide Web, cognitive scientists modeled human memory as a network of nodes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The modern tourist industry, in the sense of people traveling en masse to a congenial spot and finding lots of diversions awaiting them when they got there, is essentially a White Mountains invention. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was the newsreel that told of amazing inventions and adventures in far-off lands; there were the cartoons and the slapstick comedies, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Riding a bike is pure and simple—Ronny says he thinks it’s mankind’s greatest invention, and although I thought that was stupid at first, these days I’m not so sure. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It’s what pilots relied on before the invention of the glide scope. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Lawrence eventually accepted the patenting of scientific inventions as a necessary evil. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

One night, after what felt like a googolplex inventions, I went to Dad’s closet. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because technology begets more technology, the importance of an invention’s diffusion potentially exceeds the importance of the original invention. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Later one conquistador reassured his countrymen that they could walk across these Inka inventions “without endangering themselves.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After the invention of the fact, testimony could be approached with a form of systematized distrust. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The idea behind such companies is among humanity’s most ingenious inventions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would open the books and read, while filling my composition books with notes on my reading, new vocabulary words, and sentences of my own invention. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

No one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The second is that societies lacking the invention find themselves at a disadvantage vis-a-vis the inventing society, and they become overwhelmed and replaced if the disadvantage is sufficiently great. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The motor vehicle is another invention whose uses seem obvious today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the play was being performed, Violet had watched the light controls carefully, taking mental notes in case these devices came in handy for an invention. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I have complete faith in your inventions, Father! No one has ever been as smart as you.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

For example, medieval Islam, centrally located in Eurasia, acquired inventions from India and China and inherited ancient Greek learning. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And they really deserved a couple of days up north without any worries, because they worked really hard, Dad with all his inventions and Mom teaching math. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our starting point in Chapter 5 is the invention of perspective painting, which involved the application of geometrical principles to pictorial representation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Let’s begin by comparing the acceptability of different inventions within the same society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Quentin ran outside the bunker and fumbled with a new invention he called a “theodolite.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The ball and Frank Millet’s other inventions imparted to the exposition a wilder, happier air. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It provides the reader with the line of thinking that led Papin to the invention of the steam engine. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Cristofori’s invention, instead of plucking the strings, tapped them with a gentle hammer tipped with deerskin. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Ernest’s genius, Seaborg perceived, was to draw into his orbit like-minded scientists in every field, not just physics, and imbue them with his own drive to build and perfect his magnificent invention. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the simple best invention of Life. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He seemed a druggist in name only; he more closely fit the prevailing ideal of the self-made man who through hard work and invention pulled himself rung by rung into the upper strata of society. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But Bachpere was involved in a keyboard innovation that proved equally important to the history of music as the invention of the piano. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

So we’re forced to indulge in an underground market of technology and inventions to help better ourselves. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We take facts so much for granted that it comes as a shock to learn that they are a modern invention. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Today we often think of biological and chemical warfare as modern inventions. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

My great error was not that I had accepted someone else’s dream but that I had accepted the fact of dreams, the need for escape, and the invention of racecraft. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Even so, thanks to Mendeleyev’s invention, chemistry was now on a firm footing. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The spirit of musical invention heralded by Monteverdi was enthusiastically taken up by his successors over the following century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Rather than the rolling suitcase everyone else in the family remembers, Yoyo thinks of the speech her mother wrote as her last invention. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

If discovery was new with Vespucci, then surely invention was not? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She knew how to coax milk and gather eggs and bake bread and fashion inventions and build contraptions and grow plants and press cheese and simmer a stew to nourish the mind and the soul. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Two years ago, she’d inherited the machine from the greatest inventor of all time, and it was loaded with invention ideas, schematics, and diagrams, most of which Annabeth was still trying to figure out. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“My father is busy with his inventions and my mother has other things to worry about.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The invention of writing makes a convenient landmark, for the absence of written records is surely one of the key differences between prehistoric and historic societies. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

An alternative view rests on the heroic theory of invention. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It made me wish all of a sudden that I’d brought some kind of invention for her, so that she’d have a reason to like me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think liking boys is an American invention.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It could in fact be the single most important invention in all Western music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Eisenhower’s remarks revived the contempt for the very concept of a “safe” thermonuclear weapon that had been raised by Strauss’s invention of the “humanitarian H-bomb.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“And the conspiracy—the organization? It is real? It is not simply an invention of the Thought Police?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“If I had the true historical sense,” McMillan recollected, “as soon as I woke up in the morning I would have written down in a notebook: ‘I made a big invention last night.’ Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Or creating a schematic for an invention that would’ve shifted the world. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He was equally enthralled by Lawrence’s innovative Journal Club, that weekly free-form exchange of scientific data and news for graduate students, physics faculty, and the occasional visiting eminences that Oppie called Lawrence’s “other great invention.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The occasion was Operation Castle, a test of Los Alamos and Livermore inventions at Bikini Atoll in March 1954. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Bingley of course returned with him to dinner; and in the evening Mrs. Bennet’s invention was again at work to get every body away from him and her daughter. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

He came to the Salinas Valley full-blown and hearty, full of inventions and energy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because, some historians declare, they lacked the aptitude or impetus for mechanical invention. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d asked Leo to send one of his special inventions—a holographic scroll—to alert their friends inside the camp. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the abbeys all the monks were illuminating the initial letters of their manuscripts with such a riot of invention that it was impossible to read the first page at all. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between the recognition that the Torricellian tube is a pressure gauge and the invention of the atmospheric steam engine there was no intervention of an extraneous factor. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Racial bias in our criminal justice system is simply an old problem that has gotten worse, and the social excommunication of “criminals” has a long history; it is not a recent invention. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Visitors also encountered the latest and arguably most important organizational invention of the century, the vertical file, created by Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal System. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Hence the greatly increased life expectancy brought by modern medicine may have contributed to the recently accelerating pace of invention. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Southern redneck would prove to be one of the most durable inventions in American history. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And not believing him, not forgetting that troops were being shuttled toward battlefields all over the world, I went along, as I always did, with any new invention of Finny’s. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Particularly on project days, when Petey showed up with inventions of a mind-boggling variety. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries gunpowder, printing and the compass were the three inventions of modernity most frequently cited to prove the superiority of the moderns to the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His invention, it turned out, could also cleanse noxious vapors and particulates from smelter effluent, coal particles from mine air, and much more. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

For each great invention that ultimately found a use, there are countless others that did not. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the cumulative effect was a fundamental transformation in the nature of our knowledge of the physical world, the invention of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Conversely, the same invention’s reception also varies greatly among contemporary societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Charity, like Socialism, is an invention of the weak to exploit the strong and bring them to their knees.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The metric system merely completed a process that had begun with the invention of the telescope, which definitively destroyed the idea that the universe was made on the same scale as man. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Wow! I had no idea. You must have to be a fast thinker, to come up with inventions like that.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I lit the tallow candle and we went over everything, and each invention he viewed with a shout. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a young man like me, the invention of the Internet was the invention of space travel. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"Ah...it's just...something of me own invention." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

These familiar examples deceive us into assuming that other major inventions were also responses to perceived needs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But, all other things being equal, more land and more people mean more competing societies and inventions, hence a faster pace of development. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The team approach to physics, Alvarez judged, was “Lawrence’s greatest invention.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

On the downside, my personality was entirely their invention. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They had been “transformed” into an invention and were now the product of Golde’s “human ingenuity” and “inventive effort.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The corporation’s directors were empowered to fatten its portfolio with other promising inventions and use them the same way. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

You may also have heard some Bach fugues or inventions; there are no better examples of counterpoint than these. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It was the invention of a reliable, universally adopted musical notation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For that reason, we must consider the concept of history, which, we are often told, begins with the invention of writing some 8,000 years ago. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Made it when he was an old man in Ithaca. One of his last inventions, and we stole it!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was the only invention he cited in his entry in Who’s Who. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And yet, while she was singing with pleasure and dying with laughter over her own inventions, Aureliano was becoming more and more absorbed and silent, for his passion was self-centered and burning. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But its very simplicity and the great ease which it lent to all computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I hate the old chess and the old chess scene,” he wrote to a friend, making reference to his invention of Fischer Random. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The site was supposed to be very old—well before the local invention of pottery. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I immediately fell in love with their invention, and I asked them to sell me a camera. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

An example of a much more difficult invention is writing, which does not suggest itself by observation of any natural material. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fazio once told me that necessity is the mother of invention. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

What did the map of knowledge look like before the invention of the fact? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This isn’t repeated as speculation or as part of the underwear invention, but as fact. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Necessity is the mother of invention, and over the centuries the English language has developed workarounds for its rigid syntax. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Not true, the Ferris Company said; the story was the concoction of a reporter “short on news and long on invention.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the word, you hear the invention of religion itself. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Working before the invention of carbon dating, they had no way to determine Aspero’s age. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The first argues that before Columbus discovered America in 1492 there was no clear-cut and well-established idea of discovery; the idea of discovery is, as will become apparent, a precondition for the invention of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Though her inventions were known to get loose from time to time. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hideo's invention uses the world’s best 3-D effects generator—your own brain—to create for you the most incredible illusion of reality ever. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In ancient Greece, Pythagoras was remembered for a different invention: the musical scale. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A few years later Edison told his assistant that his invention had no commercial value. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the utility of the wheel surely caused it to diffuse rapidly east and west over the Old World from its sole site of invention. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the inventions was sticking a dentist’s drill into a guy’s ear. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My reply, that it’s my own invention, is greeted with skepticism. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Just why these inventions were a source of satisfaction to James Gatz of North Dakota, isn't easy to say. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

One of his most important inventions was a complicated contraption he called the Prospector. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Word may trickle through about an invention made somewhere far away, but the details may not get transmitted. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The starting point for our discussion is the common view expressed in the saying “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of a ‘present’ was not mere hobbitlike invention, all the same. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In short, chlorofluorocarbons may ultimately prove to be just about the worst invention of the twentieth century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Another reason it would be a good invention is that there are so many times when you know you’re feeling a lot of something, but you don’t know what the something is. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“That,” he said, “is our most important invention, the key to the whole Plan. We made a pilot model last fall. We tried it out, and it worked. So now we’re making three more.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I see that process of “invention” going on whenever I take New Guineans to work with me in an area away from their homes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just that some environments provide more starting materials, and more favorable conditions for utilizing inventions, than do other environments. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Granny also said TV was a silly invention. Back before she got one of her own.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had no difficulty in procuring Isabella’s invitation; and she was fortunate in having a sufficient reason for asking it, without resorting to invention.—There was a tooth amiss. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I use Scotch tape to seal the four corners and place my invention on the lining of a clean pair of underwear. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They tell us race is an invention, that there is more genetic variation between two black people than there is between a black person and a white person. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Except later it was Freak himself who taught me that remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

This new vocabulary was crucial to explaining the status of the new knowledge, and yet it is a language that we have come to take so completely for granted that its invention has become invisible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mom spent a lot of time reading, and Dad got the shed set up so he could work on inventions, and I made a couple of new friends. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The real revolution in astronomy came with Tycho Brahe’s nova, with the abandonment of belief in the crystalline spheres, and with the invention of the telescope. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Although the Party, according to its habit, claims the invention for itself, atomic bombs first appeared as early as the Nineteen-forties, and were first used on a large scale about ten years later. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

"Remembering is just an invention of the mind." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

South, and James Watt’s 1769 invention of his steam engine to solve the problem of pumping water out of British coal mines. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Quite a few inventions do conform to this commonsense view of necessity as invention’s mother. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I am dead, and the Marshalls are dead, and the novel is finally published, we will only exist as my inventions. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

During the next 6,500 years there were remarkable technological advances—the invention of the water-wheel and the windmill, for example—but until 400 years ago technological change was slow, and it was frequently reversed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Neolithic Revolution is the invention of farming, an event whose significance can hardly be overstated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ziman, in a recent Nature essay, points out, “the invention of a mechanism for the systematic publication of fragments of scientific work may well have been the key event in the history of modern science.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, as we’ve seen in this chapter, local technology depends, for both its origin and its maintenance, not only on local invention but also on the diffusion of technology from elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Arguably their greatest intellectual feat was the invention of zero. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Out of nowhere she’ll get this intense look and then just start coming up with all sorts of ideas for cool new inventions. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Too bad all this stuff got wrecked, but at least I salvaged the scrolls. If I can get them back to Camp Half-Blood, maybe I can learn how to recreate Archimedes’s inventions.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Pride of place is given to the discovery of America and the invention of the compass, with, between them, the printing press. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The end of the Ice Age was accompanied by the first of the two most decisive changes in Japanese history: the invention of pottery. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Renaissance invention of one-point perspective—also called linear or scientific perspective—provided a geometric system for the convincing representation of architectural and open-air settings. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is it that promotes an invention’s acceptance by a society? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every year during the month of March a family of ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village, and with a great uproar of pipes and kettledrums they would display new inventions. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Even worse. I knew Daedalus. His inventions brought me nothing but trouble.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was a wondrous invention, but it sounded like a cement mixer. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the protests of his wife, who was alarmed at such a dangerous invention, at one point he was ready to set the house on fire. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

All these different revolutions have their utility in understanding the past, but they should not distract our attention from the main event: the invention of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Like Pythagoras, Descartes was a mathematician-philosopher; perhaps his most lasting legacy was a mathematical invention—what we now call Cartesian coordinates. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It’s not as if it’s a new invention, air-conditioning, but every store in town that has it puts a sign in the window, prints it on its ads because it is so vital. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Australians and New Guineans, separated from the Asian mainland by the Indonesian island chain, received only a trickle of inventions from Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Other instances are Eli Whitney’s 1794 invention of his cotton gin to replace laborious hand cleaning of cotton grown in the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And indeed, the invention of writing was an early accomplishment of the “historic” civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The invention of grafting was hardly just a matter of some nomad relieving herself at a latrine and returning later to be pleasantly surprised by the resulting crop of fine fruit. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

These puzzles remind one of equally puzzling non-inventions, or else disappearances of inventions, in small isolated societies, including Aboriginal Tasmania, Aboriginal Australia, Japan, Polynesian islands, and the American Arctic. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Its east—west major axis permitted many inventions adopted in one part of Eurasia to spread relatively rapidly to societies at similar latitudes and climates elsewhere in Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He also read out papers submitted by Fellows who were not present, and described new inventions. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He jumped to test his invention—he expected to fly—but instead he fell straight down, hitting the ground like a meteor and leaving a 5.9-inch-deep crater from the impact. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t telling about something—using words, English or Japan­ese—already something of an invention? Isn’t just looking upon this world already something of an invention?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the written word is a recent invention that has left no trace in our genome and must be laboriously acquired throughout childhood and beyond. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She paused at the invention table, surveying its gears and wires and wood and glass and books with intricate diagrams and instructions. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Even inventions that meet the need for which they were initially designed may later prove more valuable at meeting unforeseen needs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

An estimated sixteen million visitors come to see the new inventions, including a solar oven, American porcelain teeth, Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, Thomas Edison’s phonograph and his megaphone, modified to help the hard of hearing. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A Bach invention, a Brahms symphony, and a Beatles song are different forms in different genres, and at first they may sound as if they have nothing in common. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The key change occurred in 1608 with the invention of the telescope and the microscope. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Hence they must have inexorable explanations, ones more basic than mere details concerning who happened to win some battle or develop some invention on one occasion a few thousand years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Alexander Graham Bell, famous for inventing the telephone five years earlier, suggested using induction balance, with which he had worked while perfecting his invention. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Electric light is a wonderful invention!” she said. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The following 1,500 years saw the outpouring of Chinese technological inventions, mentioned in Chapter 13, that included paper, the compass, the wheelbarrow, and gunpowder. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before the invention of the telescope, the parallax of even the nearest stars was too small to detect. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You really seem to like these stories. Who knows, perhaps they’re all your own invention, and this Capricorn is just a rather eccentric book collector!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“This is the Testing Room for my very latest and greatest invention—Television Chocolate!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

We normally distinguish between inventions and discoveries, but the distinction was slow to establish itself and is even now clearer in our use of ‘invention’ than of ‘discovery’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But I assure you, my invention is destined to bring peace to thousands—perhaps even millions—of troubled souls. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Monks discovered that the astrolabe, an Arabic invention, was a handy tool for keeping track of time in the evening, helping them keep their prayers on schedule. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the wake of Columbus’s discovery of America a silent revolution occurred, the invention of what we now call ‘the terraqueous globe’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But the experiments had not yet been done, the inventions had not yet been made. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The history of writing illustrates strikingly the similar ways in which geography and ecology influenced the spread of human inventions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

With the invention of sex, two organisms could exchange whole paragraphs, pages and books of their DNA code, producing new varieties ready for the sieve of selection. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did they see themselves in Benjamin Franklin or his inventions? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

That title was held by another Eastern invention: the Babylonian style of counting. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Some were in so far over their heads that they resorted to invention, fabricating preposterous stories or quotations out of thin air. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, guns were a foreign invention and grew to be despised, as did other things foreign in Japan after 1600. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The invention of airplanes dated from long before her birth, but the switch-over in the war had happened only four years ago, well after she was grown up. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In fact they cared not at all about the war, about scientific inventions, about the advance of industry, the price of gold, or the latest extravaganzas in the world of fashion. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is an invention of my own, useful for reading old manuscripts and admiring works of art painted with single bristles of a horse’s mane.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“The invention worked fine,” Violet said, rubbing her sore shoulder. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

So, too, science itself is an invention, but Newton did not invent gravity, he discovered its law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He left his corner and went back gratefully to his mat, thanking all the gods of Egypt for the invention of barley beer. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s invention of a new chess clock that operated differently from those traditionally used in tournaments had to be specially manufactured for the match, and Vasiljevic had it made. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He aspired to become a colleague of the great Tycho Brahe, who for thirty-five years had devoted himself, before the invention of the telescope, to the measurement of a clockwork universe, ordered and precise. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a lot of discussion, my parents made the daring decision to bring the new invention into our home. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The more profound the thought, feeling, skill, and invention an artist puts into his or her work, the more it unfolds to an alert spectator. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the story came from some part of me that wished I knew more, or at least had actual memories instead of feelings that may have only been inventions. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Luck, like most everything else, must be a Chinese invention. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rillieux first demonstrated his invention in the 1840s, and planters were quick to see its value. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It is possible that the invention of antibodies evolved from the earlier sensing mechanisms needed for symbiosis, perhaps designed, in part, to keep the latter from getting out of hand. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That “heroic theory of invention,” as it is termed, is encouraged by patent law, because an applicant for a patent must prove the novelty of the invention submitted. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, in a burst of invention, I hired an all-night taxi to lead me, and sure enough I had passed very near my hotel. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I already mentioned that the invention of pottery in Kyushu around 12,700 years ago and the resulting Jomon population explosion were the first of two decisive changes in Japanese history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Today we take this simplified browser technology for granted, but it was actually one of the most important inventions in modern history. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Such complex inventions were usually acquired by borrowing, because they spread more rapidly than they could be independently invented locally. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

With the invention of the telescope, what Kepler called “lunar geography” was becoming possible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Audrey spent the drive describing her mother’s next invention: an office chair that grew more uncomfortable the longer you sat in it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

"Something is going to come if you just relax. You'll see, like the Americans say, Necessity is the daughter of invention. I’ll help you." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The relative importance of local invention and of borrowing depends mainly on two factors: the ease of invention of the particular technology, and the proximity of the particular society to other societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

One way is that other societies see or learn of the invention, are receptive to it, and adopt it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

From a patent lawyer’s perspective, the ideal invention is one that arises without any precursors, like Athene springing fully formed from the forehead of Zeus. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But that was before the invention of crack. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Violet chose several about mechanical inventions, Klaus chose several about wolves, and Sunny found a book with many pictures of teeth inside. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

"And how is Jimmy Hoo's invention going? I gave him the idea, you know." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the most important transformation in human history before the invention of science, the Neolithic Revolution, took place comparatively recently, between 12,000 and 7,000 years ago. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When I translate these notes they turn out to be so unlike him, so lacking in invention, so moronic in fact, that I can hardly believe it: “Talked to B.W.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, the commonsense view of invention that served as our starting point reverses the usual roles of invention and need. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Continental differences in axis orientation affected the diffusion not only of food production but also of other technologies and inventions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes that paper ran articles about Negroes who were responsible for new inventions or discoveries. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He filed for a patent, which was denied on the grounds that no living organism could be considered an invention. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

While he had successfully trapped the prairie dog, the rest of his invention wasn’t quite the success Chase imagined. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It involved an invention known as the cavity magnetron, a source of high-powered microwaves. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Uhh ... perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don’t want any invention. We want the ‘straight facts’, as you say in English.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, there were alternatives to the language of progress which served exactly the same purpose—the languages of invention and discovery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There were inventions, too— weird metal machines I couldn’t make sense of. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Aristotle drew up a whole list of “topics”—like “invention” and “proof,” the term has a special force in rhetoric. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“We cannot take the same attitude now because the success which we have achieved in the development of nuclear power is fraught with infinitely greater dangers than were all the inventions of the past.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Stanley couldn't help but think that there was something special about the shoes, that they would somehow provide the key to his father's invention. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He does, it is true, mention a small number of modern inventions—stirrups, the compass, clocks, gunpowder, printing—but he has almost nothing to say about new observations, new explanations or new proofs. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In a moment his fear would dissolve, replaced by something wonderful—which was far more troubling than the fear, for how could they work to defeat Mr. Curtain if they found his invention irresistible? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in the course of the modulation of relations between animals, there are inventions that seem to have been thought up on the spur of the moment, like propositions to be submitted for possible evolution. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had joined the ranks of those ‘overcome with the incredible delight conceived of their own devises and inventions’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The outstanding examples in recent years are the transplantations of hearts, kidneys, livers, and other organs, and the equally spectacular inventions of artificial organs. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, invention is often the mother of necessity, rather than vice versa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, the development and reception of inventions vary enormously from society to society on the same continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Necessity being the mother of invention, black people created their own transit system, an informal network of bus routes, controlled by private associations operating entirely outside the law. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Evidently, Giordano has no word for ‘invention’ or ‘discovery’, so he relies on a paraphrase: ‘a new technique that never existed previously’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The theory was so seductive—so artfully vivid—that even the invention of the microscope was unable to deal the expected fatal blow to the homunculus. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

That involved the invention of many new instruments for improved measurements on Earth and in the heavens—cross-staffs, sextants, quadrants—and it was driven by a new obsession with accuracy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I suppose all great inventions spring from some such experience. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Egyptians’ innovation of the solar calendar was a breakthrough, but they made an even more important mark on history: the invention of the art of geometry. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was one of the few ironic remarks Phineas ever made, and with it he quietly brought to a close all his special inventions which had carried us through the winter. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We might joke about looking “kempt” or being "couth," but in fact the negatives have no opposite forms—they’re either obsolete rarities or whimsical inventions. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a young man, Blaise invented a mechanical calculating machine, named the Pascaline, which is similar to some of the mechanical calculators that engineers used before the invention of the electronic calculator. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Because the properties repeated themselves periodically, the invention became known as the periodic table. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

These new people are, like us, a modern invention. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Hence, for the student of world history, the phenomenon of writing is particularly useful for exploring another important constellation of causes: geography’s effect on the ease with which ideas and inventions spread. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They sought each other with their tongues, as they always did, even though it seemed like a new invention, and fell kneeling as they kissed in desperation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the crucial modern inventions depend on prior scientific discoveries: in the case of the steam engine, Boyle’s law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I tried to rescue Sunny,” Violet said, “using an invention of mine to climb up the tower.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Their invention is part and parcel of the invention of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Ring also called for the invention of subsequently dubbed 'Wagner tubas, a hybrid that combined elements of the French horn, trombone and euphonium. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

So it was with the complexity of music following the invention of musical notation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As I pulled the chain and watched the water swish against the sides of the bowl, I thought this was about as extraordinary an invention as there could be. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

That would outnumber the lives saved by two of the most widely promoted inventions in recent memory: safer cribs and child car seats. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Leo felt bad about ruining all these ancient inventions, but this was life or death. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This offense, I felt sure, was entirely of his own invention. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of wormholes between different regions of space-time was not an invention of science fiction writers but came from a very respectable source. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The writing was no longer an ambiguous syllabary mixed with logograms but an alphabet borrowed from the Phoenician consonantal alphabet and improved by the Greek invention of vowels. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This particular invention lunged with one arm stretched toward the girls; it seemed to be chasing the Ellisons. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

One man who took such apocalyptic speculation seriously was Leo Szilard, the energetic and resourceful Hungarian physicist who had tried to patent a prototypical cyclotron just before Lawrence’s practical invention. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The invention was not a success, because the height of liquid in the tube also depended on the changing pressure of the air outside. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Reinforcing that interpretation of a single invention of pottery in the south and a spread from that one source, the style of the earliest Jomon pottery is fairly uniform over the whole of Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Defeated by those practices of consolation, José Arcadio Buendía then decided to build the memory machine that he had desired once in order to remember the marvelous inventions of the gypsies. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When Edison built his first phonograph in 1877, he published an article proposing ten uses to which his invention might be put. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I think sometimes that he was an invention, and in some ways he is, because when the young are killed, they are haloed by all that was possible, all that was plundered. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Perspective painting was a more recent invention than double-entry bookkeeping. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A long line of folks waited to sample the new invention. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

This truthfulness thing was a whole lot harder than my spur-of-the-moment inventions. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here, for starters, is Quintilian: “The whole art of oratory, as the most and greatest writers have taught, consists of five parts: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The conflict struck many people as horribly modern, fought as it was with recent inventions like tanks, airplanes, and poison gas. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Such transmission of inventions assumes a whole spectrum of forms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like the scientific inventions that were sparking into life all around him, heralding the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, this music was intended, primarily, to benefit and enlighten all. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But although the boost to Galileo’s income provided by the invention was short-lived, it came just at the right time. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

There’s a circular flow between manufacturing and invention, and you really need both. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

They say desperation is the mother of invention, right? This saffron-packed chickpea and almond pasta will transport you to Spain 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

In a way, the film, too, is a portrait — of Mr. Johnson and also of Mr. Messer, an artist of febrile, labor-intensive energy and distinctive invention. Review: Sam Messer Collaborates With Jonathan Safran Foer and Denis Johnson 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Of his books, the most famous was his wild Eastern fantasy Vathek which, for its colour, wit and invention, remains a ripely rewarding read. David McKie's top 10 eccentrics in literature 2011-03-02T11:31:07Z

It appears that the work was widely read, its inventions internalized. Lana Del Rey Is Exhausted 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

It’s all competently done, but none of it matches the invention of Grohl’s drumming in the last decade with Queens of the Stone Age, Probot or Them Crooked Vultures. Foo Fighters new 'Wasting Light': Trimming the fat, but not the cliches 2011-04-11T15:11:51Z

Hangings and burnings are coming, but along the way there are revelations, plot twists, celebrities and trysts – all very bold inventions. The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z

It also enlarged my appetite for literature, pushing me back to my favorite poems and passages of Harrison’s invention. Not for the “clean eating” crowd: Jim Harrison’s “A Really Big Lunch” is a blueprint for eating for pleasure 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

The real potential of Humans is in examining the stressors that our inventions are meant to relieve, the ones they create and the ones they pass along down the social scale. Review: Humans is a Robot Chiller for the Smartphone Era 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

A prime example of this is the invention of old people’s councils. UK and US 'must learn from poor countries' to solve ageing crisis 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

It’s very easy to disappear into contemporary evening wear for men, which is where its invention was intended to lead us. Donald Glover, the Only Dressed Man in Hollywood 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

His invention is considered one of the most important technical advances in history. Russian FSB men stole priceless bible, offered bargain sale 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Its very title rejects the return that Wenders was attempting, and the film itself is among the most original and most daring films of the time, one of the era’s signal cinematic inventions. Where Wim Wenders Went Wrong 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

What that leads to in practice is bizarre inventions such as “Friends Day”, the anniversary of Facebook’s founding in February 2004, when the company tries to encourage users to post messages to each other. Ghosting busters: why tech companies are trying to stop us blanking each other 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

The sartorially coordinated family is not a recent invention. Stop dressing like your kids – it's weird, sad and kind of creepy 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

The distinctiveness of 19th-century American invention is not in what went awry but in what succeeded. Exhibition Review: The World as America Dreamed It 2011-07-27T22:13:47Z

She has the role’s intoxicating lightness and charm, its mercurial changes of mood; she makes us feel that pointwork is a new invention; and, best of all, her whole torso moves with marvelous expressiveness. Review: New York City Ballet Performs Bournonville Classics at Spring Gala 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

The difference is that Rube Goldberg never built his inventions; most are unbuildable. ‘The Art of Rube Goldberg’ Review: The Machinery of Humor 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

Police in America are particularly excited about what predictive policing – one of Time magazine's best inventions of 2011 – has to offer; Europeans are slowly catching up as well, with Britain in the lead. How Facebook could get you arrested 2013-03-09T19:20:01Z

You look at these works and these rooms of objects, and you think: this is the story of a man in pursuit of the story of human invention. Salute Diaghilev 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z

Not since the invention of penicillin, or maybe even Play-Doh, has an accidental discovery been as epic as the revelation that the Academy Awards show doesn’t need a host. No Thanks. Really, Oscar Winners, Skip That Part. 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

The brilliant, clear fruitiness we associate with white wine today is a relatively recent invention. The Best Wine Books of 2018 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Though “Portals” goes a little slack near the end, the structuring of its moving parts and its high level of invention, continuing behind the scrims and spilling through the gap, matched Ethel’s verve. Dance Review: Dusan Tynek Dance - Review 2011-11-04T22:32:48Z

Art history itself, in fact, is a Greek-German invention; it was 18th-century Prussian aesthetes, most prominently Johann Joachim Winckelmann, who first systematized the art of the past, and placed Greece at the summit. Documenta 14, a German Art Show’s Greek Revival 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

Another link between trains and movies is that before the invention of handheld cameras, heavy photographic rigs were placed on rails to achieve smooth “tracking” shots. Lose yourself in the hypnotic allure of YouTube’s ‘cab ride’ train-travel videos 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

The Lambert No. 1, a 1902 invention that retains its handsome wooden case, resembles an old-fashioned telephone and is about the same size. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Click! Clack! Ding! The American Typewriter’ at the New Britain Museum of American Art 2014-04-27T00:23:07Z

The era of chivalry was the idealised fantasy that grew out of the military superiority of the armed horseman, and which lasted roughly between the invention of the stirrup and the invention of gunpowder. For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England 1066-1500 by Nigel Saul ? review 2011-07-22T21:55:04Z

One could also look into the wide, wonderful world of warming drawers, which seem like the natural evolution of Louis C. Rodier's 1885 invention. Steamed: The weird and wild world of winter radiator cooking 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

Stopping well short of the valley’s modern era — the action ends in the early 1970s, with the invention of the microprocessor — it’s rewarding as both history and nostalgia. Television Review: ‘Silicon Valley,’ on ‘American Experience’ on PBS 2013-02-04T22:50:31Z

It does the job, rather than standing out for its own brilliance and invention. For Broadway Dance, High Kicks and Low Comedy in a Season of Change 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

One of his more memorable interviews was with Percy Shaw, who had made millions with his invention of the cat's eye reflector. Obituary: Alan Whicker 2013-07-12T11:45:54Z

I was filled with a sense of accomplishment and a profound appreciation for the invention of the chairlift. Skiing as It Was Before Chairlifts 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

While the film traces Lamarr’s personal and professional lives in a holistic way, it hinges on her invention, in the 1940s, of a pioneering communication system that helped lay the groundwork for modern encryption. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ and ‘Bombshell’ 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Broadly speaking, the story of how this book — itself an invention of the author — narrowly escapes destruction is the thread that links the different narratives. From Anthony Doerr, an Ode to Storytelling That Shows How It’s Done 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

The singer’s status among the most talked-about stars in pop music is a relatively recent invention, dating back to the 2013 Video Music Awards. Miley Cyrus is the Perfect Host for the Video Music Awards 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

“The architects have felt free to find their answers in terms of existing building types and historical precedents,” she wrote, “rather than through the invention of new forms. The design goes beyond modernism.” Michael McKinnell, 84, Dies; Architect of a Monumental City Hall 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

But most of the way, directed with amazing invention and verve by Nicholas Hytner and starring a force of nature called James Corden, the thing is impossible to resist. Low Comedy, High Concept 2012-04-24T10:50:07Z

Mohammed’s redacted story, as well as the obvious inventions about his actions, and how they arose and got entangled, became a big part of our work together. Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

“It’s a testament to his incredible powers of invention,” said Mr. Bird, a professor of English at Winthrop University in South Carolina. A Rediscovered Mark Twain Fairy Tale Is Coming Soon 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

If the movie itself were better, it might have reëstablished melodrama, even more than fantasy, as a timely mode of auteurial invention. Blake Lively Lives Forever 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

All of which suggests that, like baked ziti and garlic bread, chicken francese is an Italian-American invention that was probably called “French” because of its luxurious, buttery sauce. The Single Best Thing to Cook With Chicken Breasts 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

As it happens, penal servitude — the leasing out of prisoners to private enterprise, either within prison walls or in outside workshops, factories and fields — was originally known as a “Yankee invention.” Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z

Farming needs new invention, better support from consumers and "farm to table" agriculture and aquaculture. Alice Waters on Sex, Drugs and Sustainable Agriculture 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

With necessity as the mother of invention, we came up with an idea that we referred to as “spy training.” Motherlode Blog: Letting a Child Walk Alone 2013-09-09T16:49:16Z

Mr. Soulier, a 32-year-old French choreographer with a growing reputation in Europe, is unusual in his generation in his fascination with movement invention. Let’s Get Physical: A Berlin Dance Festival, Serving All Audiences 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

Such uninhibited invention can delight — and can easily tip over into tiresome self-indulgence. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Government funding of basic research in university labs would lead to discoveries in fundamental science that would be the “seed” for future inventions. In This Space Race, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk Are Competing to Take You There 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

Most are just generic placeholders, but a few are strikingly brutal exploiters, none more so than V. A. Vandevere, a subversive invention. Review: ‘Dumbo’ Goes Bonkers in Dreamland 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

There's no flinching from the most extreme technical demands – the fiendish second movement of the Sonata, Quasi Faust, is triumphantly negotiated – and the sheer strangeness and power of the invention is given free rein. Alkan: Grande Sonate Les Quatre Ages; Symphonie, etc – review 2012-05-24T21:31:01Z

A few days later, in a panic, I started the worst diet of all time, one largely of my own invention. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Behold, the worst diet of all time 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

Seen from another angle — and neither view is true without the other — it’s primarily a tale of absolutely stunning human invention, invention inspired by reasons good and bad, but stunning either way. ‘Assyria to Iberia,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

In doing so, they remind us of the richness of human invention that goes into unspooling a cracking good yarn. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ and ‘Murder Ballad’ 2013-05-23T02:00:01Z

Yes, this event celebrates the marriage of invention and ingenuity, and every year hundreds gather in Brooklyn to help create those principles’ offspring. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

It is likely that no matter the medium, Murphy will continue to operate in a rarefied galaxy of her own invention while remaining down to earth. Róisín Murphy, a Disco Queen Ruling Her Own Galaxy 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

Though the accordion is a European invention, Lafayette’s Martin family supplies many of the button-style instruments favored in zydeco and Cajun bands. Accordions, Étouffée and Nonstop Dancing in a Zydeco Capital 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

The prominent  mention of the new invention in the recommendations of subsequent editions proves its enormous significance. The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z

As for the origins of Israeli innovation, he points to a combination of factors, from tech-savvy military alums to the desert environs that inspired the invention of drip-irrigation in the 1960s. In the Heart of Israel’s ‘Start-up Nation,’ an Exclusive Scene Opens Up 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

It would be comforting to take this heartbreaking vignette for a cinematic invention, though it probably isn’t. Art Review: Vietnamese Voices Against a Whir of War 2010-08-12T21:59:00Z

She also paints a larger context of asylums such as Friern, which were a Victorian invention. Historian recollects the demons of her own past in ‘The Last Asylum’ 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

Their show explored the Sunni-Shia divide, the ruthless beginnings of the banana industry, the invention of race — the kinds of compelling but knotty stories that have fueled a booming market for podcasting among younger listeners. Why your favorite new NPR show might sound a lot like a podcast 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

One such invention is the Morph folding wheel, developed by young design agency Vitamins, for a new generation of folding wheelchairs. Design Museum selects its picks of the year 2013-03-19T23:09:46Z

Success enabled him to acquire things — not status symbols, but machines, vehicles and other inventions that propelled industry and culture forward. Pioneer Village in Nebraska, a blast from a highly inventive past

It is a brilliant and subtle invention – and like everything else packed with gags. Monkey Business ? it's an ace ape jape 2011-02-17T11:23:36Z

The exhibition explains this progenitor was unknown to Disney’s animators, and chalks the company’s invention up to serendipity. Is Disney the Met’s Fairy Godmother? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

Contrary to widespread belief, she said, blackface wasn’t an American invention, but sprang from older European performance traditions going back to the Middle Ages. A Blackface ‘Othello’ Shocks, and a Professor Steps Back From Class 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

In 16 themed sections, this exhibition explores the breadth of Leonardo’s genius, with a special focus on his inventions — from musical instruments to weapons and, of course, flying machines. MOHAI exhibit lets you test some of Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

This neighborhood is known for fortune cookies — a Japanese invention that became misidentified with China in the United States — and inari-zushi, allegedly the favorite food of the fox god. To truly see Kyoto, walk, bike or take a train through the historic Japanese city 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

This is a character who navigates his path with an obsessive orderliness, moving according to the rules of some chessboard game of his own invention. The 'Curious Incident' of a young detective set loose to find life's truths 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Whatever his skills as a landscape designer, he was an entertainer of great energy and invention. An 18th-century Parisian garden of delight can teach us much about what not to do today 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

Instead, as if abashed by the shadow Williams casts over him, too often he undermines his own inventions, withdrawing into excesses of explanation, banal writing and self-contradiction just when he ought to go for broke. A Novelist Dares to Imagine Tennessee Williams in Love and at Work 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

The five-part ensemble, an invention of an earlier period, is the “dark sheep of the family,” he added. Music Review: At 4x4 Baroque Music Festival, Five-Part Works Are the Stars 2013-07-31T22:05:04Z

Through their invention of a machine known as the Keller Machine, automation increased their production of candy canes from thousands per day to millions. The history of candy canes and why they taste so cool 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

So that was my invention on my part I guess. "Around the World in 80 Days" co-creator on the twist ending, David Tennant and where to go next 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

Though the chateau now seems the epitome of classical tradition, it emerged as a progressive collage of inventions representing the most advanced thinking of its time. How Do You Add to Versailles? Bravely 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

But he himself was no sybarite; he was earnest about his invention’s benefits: how weightlessness contributed to health and well-being. The Squishiest, Sweetest Sleep 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

These are testament to Mozart as a fountain of melodic invention; the remarkable variation finale to the Sonata in G, K 379, was a particular high point. Bath MozartFest – review 2012-11-12T17:28:09Z

The problem is that this suspenseful Reagan-era story of a Southern sheriff haunted by a violent act in his past seems most believable as the invention of a well-intentioned author writing in 2021. New Southern Fiction By Percival Everett, Wiley Cash and Andrew Siegrist 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

But, its invention of a generic white knight who prompted the riots by hurling the first brick into a window is tantamount to stealing history from the people who made it. For ‘Stonewall,’ an Indiana-Born Avatar 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

The invention of stretch fabrics changed the materials but not their purpose. In Paris, Underneath It All 2013-07-29T10:37:16Z

It is an uncompromisingly unfunny exercise in self-love and self-absorption, in which nothing in the movie is convincingly real, and yet there is also nothing among its baroque inventions likely to raise a laugh. Lola Versus 2012-07-19T21:08:01Z

Monday through Thursday, the Junk Art Workshop will provide materials like plastic containers, cardboard tubes, bottle caps and foam packing peanuts for the creation of whimsical monsters — or any invention. Opening Young Minds With the Arts When Schools Are Closed 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

The attorney accused government prosecutors of concocting a “cocktail of mischaracterization of truth and invention of fact” about his client and urged the court to “resist the temptation to consume its cocktail.” What were the Capitol rioters thinking on Jan. 6? 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z

Teams of interns compete against one another in a game based on Quidditch, an invention of the "Harry Potter" books that's a favorite with computer programmers. Google goes Hollywood with 'The Internship' 2013-05-28T20:25:03Z

The only letdown beyond the lack of invention is the fact that, with a few extracurricular battles, you rapidly become overwhelmingly powerful and, as a side order, accumulate an unspendable amount of riches. This week's games reviews 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z

Paul Brown began ceding artistic invention to code 50 years ago, after seeing a 1968 exhibition titled “Cybernetic Serendipity” at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts. Review | In the galleries: Artists, too, might someday be replaced by machines 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

She pointed to previous technological inventions that critics worried would kill the artist profession but only made it stronger. An Art Professor Says A.I. Is the Future. It’s the Students Who Need Convincing 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

McCaughrean's talent for invention and her ear for dialogue means that all these character sketches are lively and entertaining. The Positively Last Performance by Geraldine McCaughrean - review 2013-02-06T07:00:06Z

It looked intriguing but seemed to dwell not at all on the darker parts of the bank's colonial history; the flurry of energy and invention leaves trickier issues untouched. Heatherwick Studio; Serpentine Gallery Pavilion – review 2012-06-02T23:05:42Z

Photograph: Alamy The invention of the plough allowed humanity to plant crops on hard and stony soil. The root of inequality? It's down to whether you ploughed or hoed... 2011-07-30T23:06:21Z

Yet invention was only part of the story. ‘Empire of Cotton,’ by Sven Beckert 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

"We wrote this character, but Gael brought such a richness. It's his invention," Coppola said. 'Mozart in the Jungle' plays it close to home in the classical world 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

There’s a level of invention, a depth of reflection, and a tangle of emotions in “Ishtar” which are reached by few films and few filmmakers. Elaine May Talks About “Ishtar” 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Over the weekend, I got my first cordless vacuum — a truly game-changing invention — and embarked upon an epic cleaning spree of my entire apartment. A 20-Minute Cleaning Playlist 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z

Steam trains charging past at over 20mph, the incessant ticking of the grandfather clock, the invention of the telegraph … all were driving him to distraction. Going offline: the benefits of a break from the internet 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

He seems more at home portraying the red-bearded Englishman of Nestor’s invention, although even here a running gag about a creaking briefcase is a dud. Theater Review: ‘Irma La Douce,’ Back on the Streets 2014-05-08T19:50:34Z

Terence Blanchard’s game musical score, at least, offers a modicum of wit and invention. | 'Bunraku': Josh Hartnett and Woody Harrelson in ?Bunraku? ? Review 2011-09-30T01:07:36Z

I watch him on that stage, and I have to remind myself that Tracy is my invention. How an Elvis impersonator-turned-drag queen was born: Playwright Matthew Lopez on 'Georgia McBride' 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

In other words, there is no such thing as total invention. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

Wallace and Gromit are back for a series looking at inventions. Pass notes No 2,870: Wallace & Gromit 2010-10-26T18:59:00Z

His invention was born of a childhood rapt by the beauty of an atlas. Perspective | In a world of Monopoly and Risk, the maker of Catan settled for more 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

All of my fiction is full of invention—invented characters, invented situations—but I feel an urgency I don’t fully understand about being true to place. Garth Greenwell on Transitional Spaces and the Burden of Action 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

He became rich and famous because of several communications inventions. We know about Edison, Bell and the Wright Brothers, but Fessenden? 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

“I think one of America’s greatest world contributions is the invention of glamour and Hollywood,” he continued. Zac Posen’s Path From the Red Carpet to the Bottom Line 2013-05-31T22:16:15Z

But the prospective series will depend on balancing history and invention. ‘The Breaks,’ a TV Movie on VH1, Examines the Year Hip-Hop Found Its Flow 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

Dusty Springfield, an invention that would eventually possess its inventor, was a theatrical event. Dusty Springfield's sublime masquerade through the American south 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

One lengthy 1907 response to a prominent British critic goes on for more than 50 densely packed pages of argument and aggrieved invective, a royal fisking well before the invention of the Internet. Washington National Cathedral goes under the microscope

They resemble portraits but, said Curtis, "they are not portraits, but inventions and fabrications". Turner prize 2013: a shortlist strong on wit and charm 2013-04-25T15:27:55Z

But like any comic invention, the actor and the character are very integrated. Noah Baumbach on Frances Ha: 'I wanted it to feel like a first film' 2013-07-18T18:00:00Z

But for farmers like Curt Greenwalt, introducing modern cooks to the nutty oil from its seeds is like showing off a newfangled invention. Nutrient-rich and local, camelina oil gains a following 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, how has the invention of glass effected us all? TV This Week Oct. 19 - 25: 'The Good Witch's Wonder' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Irregular health resonated with concerns about the moral implications of the inventions and technologies revolutionizing American society in the nineteenth century. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z

The fact of its invention matters almost as much to our self-image as the gun itself. Guns, Gunfights and the Legends of the Wild West 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Will their next album be played in television commercials and sold at Starbucks, or will they do something drastic like write a rock opera about the invention of the steam engine? Music Monday: The Decemberists' Long Live The King 2011-10-31T15:15:44Z

Braque would later say that he and Picasso were roped together like mountaineers in their invention of Cubism. Art Review: ?Georges Braque: Pioneer of Modernism? - Review 2011-10-13T22:30:51Z

This leads us back to Cyrano's actual nose: was it purely Rostand's invention? Beyond Cyrano de Bergerac’s nose – the real man behind the swashbuckling hero 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

Dries Van Noten ’s show Wednesday was a magnificent sweep of imagination and invention compressed into elegant, modern clothes. Special Report: Fashion: A Photo Gallery to Wear from Dries Van Noten 2011-09-28T17:44:01Z

Like the film, the hamburger is a non-California invention that has achieved a kind of symbolic apotheosis in Los Angeles; symbolic, that is, of the way fantasy can lord it over function in Southern California. Learning to Look at L.A. 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Yet while there are good reasons for the work's popularity, for me it's one of those pieces where Kylián's fluency looks facile, his invention lacking musical or conceptual heart. Boston Ballet: Programme 2 – review 2013-07-07T17:00:00Z

From there, his filmography is splattered with violent invention, from the demented horror comedy Spider Baby, to the swaggering Blaxploitation classic Coffy. My streaming gem: why you should watch Pit Stop 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

By some measures, the 1930s were the most productive decade in terms of the numbers of inventions and patents granted relative to the size of the economy. G force 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Mostly, his stand-up involves personal observations and absurdist banter — such as musing on the invention of ventriloquism in 13th century England. In Carvey’s D.C. show with Miller, politics won’t be a centerpiece

Initially, his invention, also known as a velocipede and dandy horse, was too expensive for common folk and was derided as a toy for the wealthy. In Germany, site of the ‘first bike tour in history’ has much to offer modern-day visitors 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Expect, as always, a work of stunning stage invention. The best dance in 2011 2011-01-03T11:42:33Z

He never seemed to get wise to the fact that the answers were pure invention. 'Tony Blair called back to see if I had blown myself up' 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

And there were the fictional or semi-fictional inventions–bigshots and little people, existing at the margins–immigrants and African Americans, suffragists and hustlers. REVIEW: Boardwalk vs. Empire: Can HBO's Gangster Chronicle Bring Its Two Sides Together? 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

The 20 paintings on fabric here by Claude Viallat, rigorously composed yet teeming with chromatic invention, may add up to the most significant postwar art history lesson in town this summer. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

But her varied invention in repurposing old books and making arresting artifacts from them never flags. Two fine shows at Northwest African American Museum 2013-01-03T22:17:00Z

A lot of odd inventions are featured in “Billy Bob’s Gags to Riches,” but none are what the world really needs. Television Review: ‘Billy Bob’s Gags to Riches,’ a Dispatch From Lowbrow Land 2014-01-27T22:19:41Z

The episode begins PBS’s series “Breakthrough,” which focuses on inventions that altered the modern world. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Homecoming’ and ‘Breakthrough’ 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Scott played at St. Thomas unseen, opening the concert with a few remarks about Vierne’s rich harmonic language, craftsmanship and invention. 2010-01-11T07:05:00Z

Reggio’s latest, “Visitors,” follows a similar path but is distinctly its own invention. ‘Visitors’: a meditation in black and white 2014-02-06T22:33:02Z

These extremely complex and beautiful works show Michelangelo's power of invention, the immense creativity and mastery in the medium. Michelangelo drawings displayed 2010-02-18T16:15:00Z

In her book, Ms. Stillinger notes that the term “folk art” is itself a modern invention. A Confusing Look at Folk Art and American Modernism 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

It's like any other invention or social change, etc. Hugh Hefner: Rebel with a cause 2010-07-30T12:47:00Z

Expect fewer performances, less invention and much less work in the community. A blitzkrieg on the arts 2010-10-04T20:59:00Z

They were deep into melody and tone and the fine mechanics of the postbop tradition; their music was a form of study, invention and respect. Peter Bernstein Quartet at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

But foraging as a primary means of sustenance vanished long before the invention of 7-Eleven. In Asheville, N.C., foraging for food with the Mushroom Man

This striking production, by Tortoise in a Nutshell, ran just 45 minutes, and packed huge invention into that time. Edinburgh fringe theatre roundup 2012-08-11T23:05:48Z

These inventions provide a lighthearted counterpoint to the more treacherous mendacity of the American government. 'My New American Life': Francine Prose's satirical novel of immigration 2011-05-11T21:04:03Z

In the past few years, Alvarez has doggedly pursued this approach to art-making, constantly fine-tuning his inventions but also embracing chance and accident when he likes the results. The Artistic Machines of Anton Alvarez 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Shepherd's and cottage pies are well-known British staples, definitely not caterer's invention. A Take on Shepherd’s Pie, Straight From the Farm 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

This baked good, he learned, is a German invention. | Snap Tonic 2010-10-25T15:39:00Z

In offering his invention to the Pharaoh, Theuth explained that his discovery provided a recipe for memory and wisdom. Is there any reason to read? 2012-06-08T00:00:00Z

Ok, so I’m definitely guilty of being an “idea person,” always daydreaming about this new invention or that new website that should be made. 3 Mantras to Help You Become More Entrepreneurial 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Among his inventions, the lyrics for the Toys R Us jingle, which will be stuck in my head until I die: "I don't wanna grow up. /I'm a Toys R Us kid." Is James Patterson's claim that white men face racism an enraging PR stunt from a former ad man? 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

We can at least be grateful for one of the authors’ liberties: the invention of Emily Penrose, the fair but tough-minded editor of the magazine. Review: A Three-Way Smackdown Over ‘The Lifespan of a Fact’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

A third student wanted her invention to solve two problems at once: “Feed the homeless and keep them company.” Class of KidsPost: Third-graders from Arlington Traditional School 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Other aspects of Kip — his youthful fascination with EST, his frequent, contentious and expensive divorces — are my own invention. The unexplained death of “fracking king” Aubrey McClendon and a writer’s peculiar bereavement 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

He began his career as an apprentice to William Le Baron Jenney, who contributed to the invention of the modern skyscraper. AD remembers the architect behind iconic American buildings 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

The view was nice but not dramatic, which may be why at least two of the several notable paintings of the Clove contained significant inventions by the artists. In New York’s Catskills, the Hudson River school art trail brings landscape painting to life 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

And even we, in our muddle of memes, feel something like the awe they must have experienced standing before these 600-year-old paintings, where human invention stretches toward the sacred. Jan Van Eyck’s Diamond-Hard Brilliance, as You’ll Never See It Again 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Official portraiture is about advertising, and therefore about invention. Presidential Portraits: Staring History in the Face 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Like the Internet, much of the invention around the electric light was by users. ‘The Age of Edison’: The light bulb creates a new era 2013-03-07T20:48:34Z

Through forlorn analog-keyboard tones — sometimes sounding like a steel drum, or a Wurlitzer organ — Mr. Rende’s playing evoked children’s songs, hymns, chorales, baroque inventions, Robert Wyatt dirges, and pentatonic melodies from Japanese or Ethiopian music. Thomas Morgan’s New Trio Plays at Seeds 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

The height of modern cuisine, for Aretino, is salad, which he sees as a Renaissance invention. Could the humble salad be the Renaissance's greatest invention? 2010-10-08T13:43:00Z

I suspect that were he alive, Adolphe Sax would face the same quandary and would further be dismayed by your reviewer turning his invention into a meaningless adverb. Letters to the Editor 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

The sheer danciness of Mr. Morris’s invention is often evident in odd little strokes. Dance Review: Some Death, Some Struggle, Some Strain, Yet So Much Still Is Joyful 2011-07-29T21:45:30Z

Mr. Garben’s set — based on the complete songs of Loewe in the 17-volume edition of 1907 — presents an inexhaustible store of literary curiosities preserved in music of colorful freshness and invention. Celebrating an 18th-Century Composer, Carl Loewe 2012-02-24T21:05:38Z

The Lost Interview is filled with such observations about invention and business. Exclusive Video: Steve Jobs Talks the ?Magic? of Innovation in Lost Interview 2011-11-15T19:56:06Z

“Iskar,” a collective invention, has a shadow foothold in Bulgarian vocal music. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-05-16T19:58:50Z

“We need people who have attachments in the real world. The desire to act alone is one of humanity’s dumbest inventions,” she says. Karyn Kusama has been through ‘dark times’ in Hollywood. But her movies are even darker. 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

His Rube-Goldberg-like invention alters the landscape and puts an end to all that loneliness. Kids books get whimsical with lonely typewriters and wild inventions 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The London restaurant, which opens next month in the Mandarin Oriental overlooking Hyde Park, will champion British food from Tudor times up through that 20th-century invention, the ploughman’s lunch. T Magazine: A Very Heston Holiday 2010-12-04T12:00:00Z

These machines were satirical images of a world in which invention seemed to promise transformation, yet engulfed the human. ‘The Art of Rube Goldberg’ Review: The Machinery of Humor 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

For years, almost since the invention of the form, this is what television looked like. ER at 25: a matter of life, death – and George Clooney 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

James Watt and the Newcomen steam engine, on which his invention was based. From the archive, 21 August 1856: In praise of...scientists of the industrial age 2012-08-21T06:30:00Z

Throughout the music and the dancing, there’s a play of textures and endless invention; surprises upon surprises. Perspective | Storytelling is the key ingredient in the year’s best dance works 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

Most students, even now, take this advice and do produce volumes which are full of work written by hand, notes and thoughts and inventions both casual and highly developed. Philip Hensher: Why handwriting matters 2012-10-06T23:05:27Z

A New York doctor, expounding on the miracle of the stereoscope, calls it “a very American invention.” A Comic Novel Asks Who Gets to Write the History of the Colonial Philippines 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Related: Clicker-bait: our guide to summer's best television The show does appear to be intent on one-upping its own visual invention. Hannibal showrunner: 'We are not making television. We are making a pretentious art film from the 80s' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

A chance to be inspired by the inventions of the wider world, perhaps? TV highlights 11/12/12 2012-12-10T20:00:02Z

“The whole of Japan is a pure invention,” wrote Oscar Wilde in 1889, as a craze for all things Japanese was sweeping European capitals. Review | Three large masterpieces, reunited for the first time 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Art historian Zoë Lescaze’s new book originated from one belief: that our “most dearly held notions about the prehistoric world are artist inventions.” The art of extinction: Why a dinosaur painted in Russia looks different from one painted in France 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z

The album’s lyrical invention rivals Brian Wilson’s, though, as with the Beach Boys’, there are disturbing, broken undercurrents — which here involve James’ frantic, crippled beats. The 12 greatest albums of the ’90s 2014-05-10T15:00:00Z

There are enough of these St. Jeromes, and they convey such a range of invention and emotion, that one can’t help but sense some shared identity between the artist and the saint. Review | The Rijksmuseum displayed ‘all the Rembrandts,’ and crowds went crazy 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

Since the invention of the book, the aliveness of poetry has been perhaps slightly pushed to the edge of things. Top 10 tips for writing poetry 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

“Isadora is a fascinating dancer, to be certain. But the greatest? In terms of technical skill or invention?” one character asks. Amelia Gray's 'Isadora' is a heavenly celebration of women in charge of their bodies 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

The invention of the long-playing record had allowed the art of extended improvisation, as well as the freedom of the jam session, to at last be represented on disc. 50 great moments in jazz: Duke Ellington plays Newport jazz festival 2010-04-06T11:02:00Z

Their inventions are semifinalists in a toy design contest at the Kid International Discovery Museum in Bethesda, Maryland. What’s the next toy trend? These kids hope it’s their inventions. 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

King said that what ultimately guided her was the tactile allure and magnetism of an invention. Listen to Five of the World’s Newest, Wildest Instruments 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

But it outruns the invention of Scott Frankel's score, which stirs the emotions much as one might stir porridge, in the hope that it will eventually produce a more piquant flavour. Finding Neverland – review 2012-10-04T12:25:16Z

In the 1920s, scientists in his research institute developed the pesticide Zyklon A, which paved the way to the invention of Zyklon B, used in gas chambers by the Nazis. How Jews Have Made an Impact on the Modern World 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

All novels are odd melanges of truth and invention. Peter Carey? Doesn't know his leeches. Tom McCarthy? Bad on moths 2010-10-17T20:44:00Z

The style was often called “release technique,” whose invention some accredited to her. Trisha Brown, Choreographer and Pillar of American Postmodern Dance, Dies at 80 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

It’s the fascinating chronicle of an artist whose imaginative reach was not limited to his most beloved invention, the Muppets. Books, DVDs for performing-arts fans 2012-12-13T00:32:42Z

“It’s not an origin story, it’s not an invention story, it’s not how the Mac was invented,” Sorkin says. Five Things We Discovered about the New Steve Jobs Movie 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Scarcity, in other words, would have to mother invention. The man who helped spark the cocktail movement — and keeps feeding it 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

What’s the longtime allure of a cosmetic modification that, even after the invention of modern tools, can hurt like hell to acquire? ‘Tattooed New York’: Mohawk Chiefs, Bowery Denizens, Inking Artists 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

But by his teenage years the swing era had arrived and the jazz-tinged style known as Western swing had evolved, bringing improvisation and invention to the standard hillbilly band. Johnny Gimble, Who Fiddled His Way to Fame, Dies at 88 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Surprisingly, given its reputation for ad lib invention, the script remains almost exactly the same as in the UK, apart from a few changes for clarity – "Old Bill" is replaced by "police". One Man, Two Guvnors: the tour de farce reaches Adelaide 2013-03-06T15:47:12Z

The invention of pots that could withstand flame made it possible to cook with liquids, to mix things in soups and stews. Review: Michael Pollan and Pangs of Guilt, Not Hunger 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

Even as Ms. Rosenblit assumes various guises and, quite literally, tears her world to pieces, she cultivates a grounded energy, adapting to havoc of her own invention. Review: A Choreographer Makes a Holistic Mess 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

That distinction sets the offense in Minhaj's stand-up inventions apart from the fictional indulgences of workaday stand-up. Tripping up the King's Jester: How is Hasan Minhaj still in the running to host "The Daily Show"? 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z

Once he graduated, he and two friends toured the United States and Mexico as the Three Leonardos, an acrobat/comedy troupe that promoted his invention. Bounce so hard 2012-07-28T13:00:00Z

The film follows a “Christmas Carol”-style path from here: Gustafson’s betrayal breaks Jeronicus, who becomes depressed, loses his spirit for invention and becomes estranged from his daughter. ‘Jingle Jangle’ Review: Dancing Through the Snow 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

In part, that religion is a human invention. The Book of Mormon – review 2013-03-21T23:00:02Z

Written recipes are a relatively new invention; many cultures passed down culinary traditions orally. Who Owns a Recipe? A Plagiarism Claim Has Cookbook Authors Asking. 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z

Yet in contrast to LeWitt, who explicitly enumerated the mathematical or geometric rules that determined his drawings, Darboven never let order supersede invention. The Perils of Order, Taken to the Extreme 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

She was indebted to “all those artists, and all those years of work, and an insistence and persistence and invention in that form,” she added. Frank Bowling’s New Paintings Are Family Affairs 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

But before the invention of these weapons, our hunter-gatherer ancestors threw darts, knives, spears, sticks and stones at rivals and prey. How humans became the best throwers on the planet 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

It’s a wonderful thing to make an exhibition, but often the greatest insights come haphazardly, discursively, through the slow and unpredictable invention of the studio. The Psychosexual World of Carol Rama Still Shocks 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

As a researcher who studies race, rhetoric and intellectual property law, I can say that the U.S.'s race and gender invention and patent gap results partly from a failure of imagination. The iconic American inventor is still a white male — that’s an obstacle to race and gender inclusion 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Acted with extraordinary grace and invention by a cast mixing hearing and deaf actors, the production felt as vital as the original. The Best Theater of 2015 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

There is the scene in which Wonka shows the five children invited to tour his factory one of his new inventions—edible wallpaper. Willy Wonka deserved an Oscar: A close look at Gene Wilder’s finest role 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

In the new novel, characterisation and plot seem secondary to energy and the kind of extreme invention that has become his trademark. 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z

Hoarders are not a 21st century invention — in the 1940s the Collyer brothers put the disorder on the map when they were found dead in their debris-riddled Fifth Avenue home. How hoarding and tidying up defined the decade 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

And he had seen it – seen the moment his invention worked. Sarah Manguso: the disease that stole my youth 2011-01-23T00:05:41Z

Until the invention of the microphone, the pop crooner adopting a relaxed conversational tone couldn’t have existed. Frank Sinatra: A Hundred Years On, the Voice Resonates Still 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

“From the invention of the radio at the beginning of the 20th century to right now, decades after decades, the Eiffel Tower has been a partner for all the radio technology,” Martins said. The Eiffel Tower grows even higher, thanks to new antenna 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

His invention of silvers, greys, blues, at once cold and shimmering, made everything from dead stags, suspended and frozen, to an abattoir and a mortuary appear objects of beauty. Michelangelo Sonnets; Hippolyte et Aricie – review 2013-07-06T23:09:04Z

Another spontaneous invention featured Daniel Carter on alto saxophone and piano; Joe Morris on bass; and Andrew Cyrille, a former employer of Mr. Ware’s, on drums. Memorial Service for David S. Ware, Jazz Saxophonist 2013-01-08T23:13:50Z

Or happen into the U.S. premiere of new work by Mari Kimura, a violinist who uses her technological inventions to tease out our physical relationship to music. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

Like most good inventions, it is simple, easy to use, and above all, obviously true. Misreading Harold Bloom 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

It registers as both sound and psyche, as the infinitely complex dreamscape of one man, a bewildering tapestry of lifelong memory, thought and wildly inspired invention. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Dance Company in ?Roaratorio? - Review 2011-12-08T23:13:25Z

Shoppers peered at the display, excited but hesitant, as if they’d stumbled upon a trove of strange inventions from a Jules Verne fantasy. Click, Clack, Ding! Sigh ... 2011-03-30T21:11:58Z

Whether the redo proves redemptive or more of a repetition-compulsion, Ms. Tharp is wisely hedging with two revivals from a breakout period when her invention was overflowing. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Dance Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

It is also a cautionary one, because it shows that it was who you knew as much as what you knew that was important in the world of Victorian scientific invention. Capturing the Light by Roger Watson and Helen Rappaport – review 2013-04-21T11:00:02Z

In “The Daedalus Effect” his inventions create constraints; in a way, they’re substitutes for a dominatrix. Dance Review: Arturo Vidich at Invisible Dog Art Center 2013-01-26T00:57:22Z

As an example, he points to Thomas Edison, who is represented by several inventions. What can an old wooden cart teach us about American ingenuity? 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

To pick my favourite modern-day invention is truly a Sophie's Choice scenario. How great is the automated lacing system? 2010-09-01T07:59:00Z

After all, on July 11, 1965, the invention of the Goettreider Engine that harnesses the power of the Earth’s rotation, started a chain of events that solved all our problems. Review | ‘All Our Wrong Todays,’ by Elan Mastai 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

“I would liken it to the invention of the electric guitar for rock ’n’ roll.” Robert L. Drew, Pioneer in Filmmaking, Dies at 90 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

The shoes are activated when the heels click together — one reason Mr. Wilcox calls his invention No Place Like Home. The Details: In Praise of British Design 2012-09-26T22:11:26Z

That’s pretty exciting, the self-accelerating nature of giving knowledge to people who have the ability to crack it and turn it into new inventions and ideas. Chris Hadfield meets Randall Munroe: ‘Are we alone in the universe?' 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

It’s the part of criticism that doesn’t depend on perspicacity or knowledge; it depends on rapture, submission, and literary invention. “Marnie” Is the Cure for Hitchcock Mania 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

More than 30 years later, both hold up as quietly dazzling examples of boundless, intricate movement invention inside luminous visual and sonic landscapes. Review: Trisha Brown’s Mischief, Mystery and Delicate Aberrations 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

For more than a decade, my parents refused to get a color TV on the grumpy assumption that new-fangled inventions, in their early years, are too filled with bugs to be worthwhile. Gene Weingarten: Our columnist hits his ‘cell by’ date and finally gets a smartphone

Its musical language might seem almost simplistic to us today, having been through the entire development of 20th-century music, but the main issue with the piece is the never-ceasing power of its rhythmic inventions. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z

"The Star of Caledonia is a welcome; its kinetic form and light paths a constant trace of Scotland's power of invention," said Mr Balmond. Star selected as border landmark 2011-07-04T13:03:38Z

World Photography Day marks the day Louis-Jacques Daguerre's invention was recognised by the French government as a gift 'free to the world'. Send us your pictures 2011-08-19T09:57:00Z

His performance, which unfolded at the festival’s climactic conclusion, merged his lyrical, squawking free jazz inventions alongside traditional Saharan sounds of indigenous Touareg musicians. At 81, jazz titan Archie Shepp’s legacy comes into clear focus 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

It matches the music — with imagination and invention, with scenarios and steps. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Season Begins 2014-04-30T17:50:19Z

These showtune-humming pranksters were destined to mock the Church of Latter-Day Saints in song – an institution that, like the Broadway musical, is a singularly American invention. The Book of Mormon ? review 2011-03-27T00:05:50Z

Elizabethan travel books contained a heady mix of fact and pure invention, which confused English readers and popularised wildly fictional versions of the place and its people. 'As a black woman I'm always fetishised': racism in the bedroom 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

Then again, what space was left for art when its traditional license of intellect, invention and poetic imagination was so effectively seized by Donald Trump’s own brand of performance art? State of resistance: Californians push back against President Donald Trump through art 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

One of the most fascinating themes of this tour de force is the sustained tension between memoir and invention that runs through any creative person’s life. Review | Ayad Akhtar’s play ‘Disgraced’ won a Pulitzer Prize. Now ‘Homeland Elegies’ shows what that success cost him. 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

Jeffrey Lord argued on national television this week that the Klan is an invention of “the left.” It’s not enough to disavow the Klan: Racists and Republicans have years of experience disavowing Klan, but supporting racist politics 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

When asked if that included the town’s young teenagers, he replies, “Adolescence is  20th century invention.” The Walking Dead Watch: Hey, Judas 2013-02-25T20:07:50Z

Don’t expect high-tech wizardry here; it’s no spoiler to say that the titular invention in this interactive show breaks down in short order. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Both so conform to the appetites of online conspiracy theorizing that they feel like inventions of paranoid message boards; they come across as somewhat unreal. Nxivm Had a Cult Leader Made for the Internet 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

Full of invention and animation, and often spangled with little bells and other bits of flickering gold, these adornments were crafted exclusively for rulers. At the Met, All That Dazzles Is Not Just Gold — It’s Feathers, Too 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

In Week 1322 we asked you to think up some inventions that still had a bit of a bug . Style Invitational Week 1326: Foaling Around — our most popular contest 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

The Manhattan skyline at night amazes us with the scale of human invention; the Milky Way amazes us with the scale of the universe. De-extinction won’t make us better conservationists! 2013-09-06T12:40:00Z

So is his web of academic avatars and his invention of a meeting between Dickens and Dostoevsky a revenge against the world that shunned him? The man behind the great Dickens and Dostoevsky hoax 2013-07-10T16:35:00Z

With its needle forever pointing true north, the compass was, in Dr. Aczel’s words, “the first technological invention to change the world since the wheel.” Amir D. Aczel, author of ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ and other best sellers, dies 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

The 19th century saw chocolate drinking become cheap enough to spread beyond the wealthy, the invention of solid chocolate and the development of milk chocolate. The dark truth about chocolate 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z

The surprise album drop may not have been a new invention. 10 years of Beyoncé: A decade "causing all this conversation" 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

Literary studies, when Bloom was coming of age, tended to advance a rather smoothly linear notion of inheritance and invention: writers took what they needed from their great precursors and discarded the rest. Misreading Harold Bloom 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

Adding to the forced-extroversion fun is a new invention, a multipurpose webcam that’s the relative size and shape of an eyeball. Review: In ‘The Circle,’ Click Here if You Think You’re Being Watched 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

The invention of cellphones with cameras was awful for comedians because you’re figuring out where the line is, and you’re saying terrible things. How a Review Changed Both Sarah Silverman and Our Critic 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

That power of invention was reflected in every bar of a buoyant performance. The Firework-Maker's Daughter; Hallé Orchestra/Elder; Cheryomushki – review 2013-03-31T00:07:03Z

The invention of people is something of an afterthought in this legend, but a big deal is made out of how one gentle Titan, Prometheus, gave the people fire. “Cosmic” meltdown! Neil deGrasse Tyson under siege from Christian right 2014-04-04T12:00:00Z

With time, the restaurant would become a Dallas institution — the invention of the frozen margarita machine only added to the legend. The swirly, brain-freezing origins of the frozen margarita machine 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Polley's invention made life easier - perhaps too easy - for a generation of children. Eugene Polley, inventor of TV remote, dies at 96 2012-05-22T18:05:12Z

In 1915, one critic wrote, “He was born to laughter as much as Edison was born to invention, and Tolstoy was born to world literature.” Charlie Chaplin's Scandalous Life and Boundless Artistry 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Sometimes their predictions are accurate – from private space travel to the invention of Viagra – but on the whole their visions of lunar colonies, alien encounters and physical immortality are disappointingly fanciful. Gerard Byrne: A state of neutral pleasure – review 2013-01-20T06:00:04Z

The invention of the printing press made it possible to accumulate and disseminate knowledge on a scale hitherto unseen. The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

I think it’s to do with Conan Doyle’s extraordinary invention which has a universal appeal to all nationalities,” he said. Sherlock enters new year as global TV phenomenon 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

The Westminster Kennel Club was established in 1877, before the invention of the light bulb and the automobile, according to the organization. Thousands of dogs vie for Best in Show at New York's Westminster... 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

The stories that people tell about invention in the U.S. continue to focus on white men – the Benjamin Franklins, Thomas Edisons and Elon Musks – without affording women and people of color the same larger-than-life status. The iconic American inventor is still a white male — that’s an obstacle to race and gender inclusion 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Its five movements intersperse really striking invention with moments that are awkward or uninspired. Mahler's majesty a worthy farewell for SSO's Schwarz 2011-06-17T17:54:04Z

The year was one of crisis, but also of adaptability, invention and lessons that cannot be forgotten as the industry rebuilds itself in 2021 and beyond. Best Classical Music of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

The brothers are competitive about candle sales, Celena said, avidly tracking whose invention is most popular. Three young brothers started a candle company to buy themselves toys. Now they donate $500 a month to the homeless. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

Amidst the developing romances, the hype leading up to the “big game,” and the discussions about the evolution of basketball, Grissmer includes several scenes depicting the events leading up to Naismith’s invention of the game. Basketball, the musical 2012-12-16T16:00:00Z

Their fifth studio album sustains their trademark blend of unfathomable heaviness, structural invention and ecological-cum-existential poetry while subtly enhancing its dramatic and emotional impact. Gojira: L'Enfant Sauvage – review 2012-06-21T20:59:01Z

The whole show lasted just an hour — but an hour so rich in choreographic and musical invention, wit and surprise, that it felt almost overwhelming. Review: Pam Tanowitz’s Witty Dance Secrets in London 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

In three new works, performed at on Wednesday night, Mr. Tynek showed a remarkable capacity for creating tightly structured dance worlds, inhabited by ingenious, surprising movement invention. Dance Review: Dusan Tynek Dance Theater Performs at Dance Theater Workshop 2010-06-03T22:40:00Z

For most of the last century, wages in poorer parts of America rose faster than wages in richer places, as inventions were put to work in the hinterlands. Amazon and America’s real divide 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

“Let’s not forget that ready-to-wear was invented in Milan in the 1970s, another moment of crisis that Italians overcame with bolts of fantasy, invention and hard work,” he said. Milan Men’s Wear Shows Signs of a Renaissance 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

Yes, ripeness was all and invention was all. Once upon a life 2010-05-01T23:35:00Z

The mark of a bad novel is not excessive invention; it’s excessive laziness. Perspective | Mr. President, you don’t know a poorly written novel 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

Throughout the ballet, the music is the chief element of interest, as it weaves together the folk and classical sequences and Hungarian motifs with great feeling and invention. Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Raymonda’ comes slowly to life 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

The language of the text is another of Tolkien’s inventions: the Black Speech of Mordor. Tolkien’s World: An Exhibition Transports Us to Middle-earth 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Studio panic over online piracy is like railway companies a century ago fretting over train robberies but ignoring the invention of the automobile. Sweded movies: the end of Hollywood as we know it? 2012-07-05T19:00:03Z

But these inventions were due, and willy-nilly they arrived. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z

If necessity is the mother of invention, then the fringe is currently showcasing a fine range of inventors. Making a spectacle: design magic at the Edinburgh fringe 2010-08-23T13:44:00Z

Actresses have been subject to abuses of power virtually since the invention of cinema, a medium invented by men photographing other men doing things and women looking beautiful. Perspective | Uma Thurman, Quentin Tarantino and the costs of auteur worship 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z

Initially, not much: I’ve read too much idealizing lore about the invention of basketball, too much nostalgic fantasy. Basketball, the musical 2012-12-16T16:00:00Z

Also enthralling are the accounts of craft inventions before the scientific age. Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik – review 2013-07-03T11:15:01Z

From the invention to the precision, the sensibility feels a close cousin to that of filmmaker Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel." 'Paddington' brings irresistible bear to life 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

The way science works – with theories that are tested against evidence, through experiment – was not the invention of one great philosopher. Higgs boson: the human urge to visualise the particle is irresistible 2012-07-06T13:00:02Z

Rather, they hint at a capacity for irrational and anarchic invention in children that the adult world tends to ignore, preferring to tell itself more sentimental stories about childhood. Perspective | Kids used to make up their own games. Now the games play them. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Essaying “The Man I Love,” the Gershwin tune, they create a slow, breathing pulse; they start in a similar mode on “Free 3,” the spontaneous invention that closes the album. Critic’s Notebook: Jeff Ballard and Other Jazz Drummers Step Out Front 2014-02-05T23:02:56Z

Mr. Ulbricht was all the more impressive against the two hapless couples of “Midsummer,” whose confused strife did not inspire Balanchine’s richest choreographic inventions. 2010-01-08T03:48:00Z

Esse has playground fun with hula hoops and badminton rackets in the picnic dance bonanza “Once a Year Day,” and his most interesting numbers are spaghetti-limbed inventions for second bananas. Review | Splashy ‘Pajama Game’ at Arena Stage aims to seduce with 1950s style 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Yet the comic strip, painstakingly drawn, beautifully inked, suggests that he was also spending long hours in an imaginary high school of his own invention. How Hef Got His Groove Back 2011-02-06T07:48:01Z

There is so much invention and delight in the corps’ lines. A triumph from the Suzanne Farrell Ballet 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

The watershed moment, the form’s equivalent to Dylan going electric, was the invention of Dave. The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

The invention of a new aristocratic heroine, who chooses to march with the people, creates a tragic victim for the plot. Bolshoi Ballet: The Flames of Paris | Dance review 2010-04-01T21:30:00Z

Licorice parfait with lime syrup, another Mangan invention, tops the dessert list. The Asia Issue Bites: Exotic Tastes in China, Vietnam, Singapore and Japan 2011-03-18T18:55:21Z

While Rossini’s later operas have greater emotional depth and more harmonic and melodic invention, his confidence was there from the beginning. Music Review: Rossini Double Bill by Julliard Opera at Lincoln Center 2012-02-05T22:34:44Z

It was created by Dr Samuel West, the man behind the Museum of Failure in Helsingborg, Sweden, which exhibits innovative, but unsuccessful inventions from the past. 20 of the world’s creepiest museums 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

“Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915,” which runs through April 3, ends well before the invention of ready-to-wear. | European Fashion at LACMA 2010-09-24T17:15:00Z

Alif’s invention exceeds his wildest dreams, and even his own comprehension. “Alif the Unseen”: Hacker meets Jinn 2012-07-01T22:00:00Z

The word Brexit was a tragically unintentional success in verbal invention: coined as a warning, it became a rallying call. From woke to gammon: buzzwords by the people who coined them 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

In short, they’d rather come up with the silver bullet or the genius invention that will go down in history rather than, say, feeding hungry people. The pandemic is testing the generosity of billionaires, according to a Washington Post survey of the 50 richest Americans 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

But this HBO adaptation of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title is so respectful and gracefully done that big inventions and small omissions don’t stand out or disappoint. Frances McDormand Stars in ‘Olive Kitteridge’ on HBO 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Antoine’s Restaurant, in the French Quarter of New Orleans, is the oldest restaurant in the country still owned by its original family, and claims the invention of oysters Rockefeller more than 100 years ago. | Under the Spell of Old Restaurants 2013-12-07T00:32:45Z

As he matured as a songwriter, though, he began to rely less on macabre invention and more on gimlet-eyed observation. Bright Eyes’ Summertime Sadness 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

Working with these elements, Mr. Zapf evoked beauty as well as clarity, cleverness without hubris, invention without distraction. Hermann Zapf, 96, Dies; Designer Whose Letters Are Found Everywhere 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

“With the inventions, I’m not taking any material from Bach,” he said; instead, he tries to respond to the “concept” of the piece. Bach Invented. Now a Pianist Is Trying to Match Him. 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

Sebastian Foxx is a canny invention — “a man of action and one of principle!” declares the admiring street urchin he takes on as a servant. Book review: ‘The Day of Atonement’ by David Liss

Directed with humor and visual invention by Ryan Prows, it keeps its secrets under wraps until the very last moments, to compelling effect. ‘V/H/S/94’ Review: The Right Snuff 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton Iceland may be short of money but it's not lacking in artistic invention. Faust 2010-10-03T20:30:00Z

There’s some mystery surrounding the origins of candy canes because there are no exact records of their invention. The history of candy canes and why they taste so cool 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

He wonders why “it took close to 6,000 years” from the invention of the wheel to the invention of the wheeled suitcase. Books Of the Times: ‘Antifragile,’ by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2012-12-17T05:15:19Z

Aside from all the formal invention and satirical energy of Saunders’s fiction, the main thing about it, which tends not to get its due, is how much it makes you feel. George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z

Mr. Martel’s admission that he borrowed the idea led to an impassioned debate among writers and critics on the nature of literary invention and the ownership of words and images. Moacyr Scliar, Brazilian Novelist, Dies at 73 2011-03-06T02:03:37Z

Even if, to some degree, it was my invention. ‘Vagina Monologues’ playwright Eve Ensler: ‘My whole life, I’ve been waiting for an apology’ 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

In truth, the cuisine was less Tuscany’s than Mr. Strausman’s own invention. One Chef, One Roof, Many Menus 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

It's an artistic lie, a story, an invention. T.C. Boyle discusses "The Lie" in movies 2011-11-18T19:29:19Z

They include doctor's instruments and carpenter's tools, drinking tankards and kitchen stuff, and carvings made by those onboard, full of grotesque invention and fine-wrought eccentricity. Mary Rose's Tudor treasures deserve this revelatory new museum 2013-04-09T14:59:45Z

Though Woese engaged in a fair amount of experimentation, he disapproved of what he called “technological adventurism” — the engineering approach to biology enabled by the invention of faster, cheaper methods for studying genetic information. A New View of Evolution That Can’t Be Represented by a Tree 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

Creators, with their special hubris, are at constant risk of being swallowed by the act of creation; they give their inventions fabulous power and, in the process, lose control of them. Pour One Out for Tyler Perry’s Madea 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

Arguably, the invention of nuclear weapons has leveled the strategic playing field among states that possess them in much the way that the invention of firearms made hand-to-hand combat less important tactically. ‘On Grand Strategy’ Review: The War Against Decline and Fall 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Karen was a journalist, Barry worked in film and had several patented medical inventions on the side. Netflix documentary "Circus of Books" offers an insider's homage to a legendary adult bookstore 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

There are no footnotes in these novels to distinguish truth from fantasy, research from invention. Perspective | Alan Dershowitz claims a fictional lawyer defamed him. The implications for novelists are very real. 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

What's more, while much of the work they offer is fragile and slight, it is also full of invention and craft – using tools from shadow puppetry to wireless technology. Lyn Gardner on Edinburgh star ratings 2011-08-21T20:59:02Z

His invention popped up in bars and restaurants all over the country, and pretty soon, the world. The swirly, brain-freezing origins of the frozen margarita machine 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

While there are certainly ancient accounts of sport and military training, the idea that one ought to exercise for health, enjoyment and community is a modern invention, a response to increasingly sedentary jobs and cultures. Making sweat feel spiritual didn’t start with SoulCycle – a religion scholar explains 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

What I was after in New York as a character was the idea of New York being an immigrant city, a city of self invention. Tribeca Film Festival Interview: Pamela Romanowsky on 'The Adderall Diaries' 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

This invention may be Strickland’s baby, but she can’t control what it will grow into. ‘I want to give my child the best’: the race to grow human breast milk in a lab 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z

Twentieth-century science fiction was a product of 20th-century science, a period of physical advances and inventions when humans split the atom and traveled to the moon. Review: ‘Black Mirror’ Finds Terror and Soul in the Machine 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

There was also the rise of "modal jazz," using scales as the basis for melodic invention, rather than the underlying chords. How Miles Davis electrified jazz 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

And indeed, Cole plays with just enough rampant activity and invention to make you forget about the son montuno groove that he’s replaced. The Playlist: Ashley McBryde’s Loner’s Lament, and 10 More New Songs 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

Shots of Jordi’s students are laden with uncertainty; at times, they look capable of malicious invention. Review: ‘Virus of Fear,’ a Kiss Touches Off Child Abuse Accusations 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

With that, he decided on the name of his invention, and in the early 1940s, Griswold-Nissen Trampoline and Tumbling Co. was opened in Cedar Rapids. Bounce so hard 2012-07-28T13:00:00Z

The exhibit retraces such inventions as the first mass-produced American clock, the gun and the railroad with patent models, diagrams and drawings. Patent models join art in new Smithsonian exhibit 2011-07-16T18:46:04Z

The invention of electricity brought light in the evenings. G force 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

He tells Galileo of an invention from Holland: a tube with two lenses that makes distant objects appear close. Galileo reaches for the stars 2012-09-26T15:02:28Z

The good news: These artists tackle their subjects with impressive technical prowess and invention. October galleries: Apocalypse now 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

That happened a while ago when I saw a trailer for Ephrat Asherie’s “Odeon,” which managed to suggest irrepressible cheer and good-humored invention in a quick succession of clips from the hourlong dance. Ephrat Asherie, Frederick Ashton and a Solemn Memorial 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

The ensuing surge of group invention added up to a suite, with a twist roughly every five minutes. Music Review: Back to an Ensemble After Solo Work, Offering a Mind-Meld With Partners 2010-10-05T21:13:00Z

He lingers over the invention of the martini. Books of The Times: ‘The Book of Gin,’ by Richard Barnett 2012-12-11T21:11:25Z

The child is a theory tester, a knowledge collector, witty in her invention of imaginary friends, whom she might make out of the mists and fogs of her experience into something distillate and fixed. Baby Faces and the Myth of the Child’s Mind 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

We need invention, experimentation and, yes, failure, in order to advance and evolve. TV’s War With the Robots Is Already Here 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

He's celebrating with Germany's finest new-music group, Ensemble Modern, and a performance of his Music for 18 Musicians, that seductive, pulsing, life-affirming hour of rhythmic invention and slow-moving tectonic harmonies. Steve Reich at 75: the rebel who changed classical music 2011-08-09T14:47:23Z

He often retreats to his studio to work on his inventions. Film: Methods Behind ?How to Train Your Dragon? 2010-03-20T07:05:00Z

An unseen householder demonstrates how Velcro completes the invention of the iPad: use it to stick the iPad on your car dashboard, your oven, your bedroom ceiling – anything. Vimeo: where young film-makers fly Concorde 2010-06-01T10:56:00Z

Once books were a new invention and were read slowly and deeply as aids to memory rather than as replacements for it. 'Moonwalking with Einstein': How not to forget what we remember 2011-03-03T00:38:06Z

And, conversely, even when you invent, there is some personal reason for the invention; it is never entirely disconnected from your life, or entirely disconnected from memory. This Week in Fiction: Tim Parks 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

At its terrifying best, even when Scorsese’s mighty power of invention falters or his efforts show, “Silence” is beyond good and bad. Martin Scorsese Tests His Limits in “Silence” 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

We risk losing the “bristling harmonies,” the “cutting yowls” and “multidimensional textures” of classical music at its best when we think of it only as an invention “to address a yawn shortage,” Gersten writes. Perspective | What your wine choices say about the way you think 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Perhaps that sense of freshness and invention is why, after accidentally stumbling into the solstice celebration, I began to see them as a perfect example of America’s tangled, 21st-century relationship with faith. Meet the modern-day Pagans who celebrate the ancient gods 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z

Dr Diamond is considered to be one of the most important figures in early British photography, making his first photograph just three months after William Henry Fox Talbot introduced his invention of photography in 1839. Photography's history to go on show 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Aren’t real artists the ones whose work is instilled with their own originality and invention? ‘The Art of Forgery,’ by Noah Charney 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

In recent years, he developed several applications for smartphones, but few inventions of any kind have had the lasting effect of the instant replay. Tony Verna, TV producer and director best known for inventing instant replay, dies at 81 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

How much of this is the actual Tijuana landscape and how much of this is your own invention? Hugo Crosthwaite on Tijuana, Mexico's missing, the power of comic books 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Now, as it was back then, it is often the pâtissiers who push the boundaries of cooking through all kinds of technical and artistic inventions. A Small Slice of Versailles 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

Watching “Deadwood: The Movie” is like looking at a 19th-century photograph of a wizened historical figure whose heyday was before the invention of photography. Review: In One Last ‘Deadwood,’ the Future Prevails and the Past Endures 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

His memories of it, images of his family, imaginings about who had lived there before, and historical study and invention appear throughout. Time, Remixed 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

It relies on advances in archaeologists’ knowledge to shed new light on the invention of scripted language and its subsequent evolution. Hunting for the Dawn of Writing, When Prehistory Became History 2010-10-19T21:55:00Z

Likewise with inventions: the printing press was only possible – and perhaps only thinkable – once moveable type, paper and ink all existed. Steven Johnson: 'Eureka moments are very, very rare' 2010-10-19T19:30:00Z

In one of the work’s strangest but most touching inventions, she leads the Act II Waltz of the Flowers, a nicely daft fertility ritual that celebrates the happy ending. Mark Morris’s Party With Robots, Barbie and a Nutcracker 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

He regards literature as “an evolved machine” containing “deep blueprints” for secret “inventions,” which I would call narrative techniques. Art’s Greatest Enemy Might Not Be Science 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

The public lending library is a recent invention, a response to the spread of literacy to the working classes who had neither money to buy books nor space to store them. Germaine Greer: Reading rooms are an oasis 2010-09-05T21:29:00Z

In giving the photograph its due, the Victoria and Albert Museum is living up to the vision of its Victorian founders, who embraced all aspects of design and invention and all places and times. Victorian visionary of the 21st century: the V&A embraces photography 2011-07-19T13:41:01Z

Maybe it helps to know that these sit-down-and-shut-up practices are a recent invention. How to Birth a New American Theater 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

If someone insisted on it being such a thing, they'd diminish the record's invention, but Gold Panda's titles leave the door open for his listeners to build their own stories around his work. Tom Ewing 2010-09-16T20:44:00Z

Though “Dark Meadow” came in the form of “Dark Meadow Suite,” a selection of highlights that strip away the work’s structure and meaning, the movement invention still pops, even in an underpowered performance. Review: Pushing 100, the Martha Graham Dance Company Leans Into Youth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

It’s the sound of the banal workaday current from which the secret spark is struck—the one that lights the sacred flame of obsession, passion, invention, creation. Frederick Wiseman’s Relentless Museum Talk 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

After all, Jefferson excelled at nearly everything: politics, architecture, inventions. High-quality Virginia wine may surprise some, but it shouldn’t 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Because Noir may have been America’s greatest cultural invention, even if she might not have invented it. Marlon James' Great American Novel: None (with an 'American Tabloid' asterisk) 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

In the 1800s, the Fairbanks brothers moved to town, earning their fortune through the invention and production of the platform scale; they founded a museum, athenaeum and academy, all operating to this day. In Vermont, a haven for dogs and the humans who love them 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

“Wilkins’s invention was not only the first of many proposed irony marks, but also the first of them to fail,” Mr. Houston writes. Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help? 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

Others, including the Elegante, combining mezcal and ginger liqueur, are lovely inventions. Mezcal’s the Thing in a New Cocktail Book 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

But invention comes easier to him than completion, and one of the novel’s running gags is Joshua’s accreting list of script ideas, e.g. ‘The Making of Zombie Wars’ goes beyond the undead 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

In a review for The Los Angeles Times, Charles McNulty wrote that that incarnation of the musical “doesn’t rise to the challenge with anything resembling bold invention.” ArtsBeat: 'Chaplin' Musical Tramps Its Way to Broadway 2012-05-10T16:09:14Z

Here the limitations of habit — one dancer’s eagerness and the other’s ineptitude — yield choreographic invention, two dispositions producing a third. Jonathan Royse Windham’s ‘Creatures of Habit’ at Dixon Place 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

In terms of movement invention, “Tidal” is derivative, but not by a long shot the worst piece I’ve seen in the recent past. Dance Review: Swirls of Motion in Black and White 2010-12-06T23:25:00Z

Musical invention meets visual spectacle in "VIVIDA: A Choral Synthesis of Sight and Sound," two unusual concerts presented by the Esoterics this weekend. The visuals will inspire the music in the Esoterics' concerts at the Sculpture Park 2010-10-07T20:49:00Z

The line is a scriptwriter invention, but in his memoir, Kennedy acknowledged that he realized immediately his career would suffer. What really happened at Chappaquiddick? A new movie explores the truth we’ll never know. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

The adventures are often so massive, the worlds so complicated, that what the tales need as much as creative invention is time. From 'Maleficent' to 'Game of Thrones,' a magical time for adults 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

Lowell wrote with extraordinary grace and invention about his bouts of mania, his hospital stays, and the ramifications of his manic cruelty and affairs on his friends and loved ones. How much did Robert Lowell's manic-depression affect his poetry? A new biography tries to find the answer 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

“It’s also a cause for optimism, a place of invention and opportunity.” Why Rem Koolhaas Brought a Tractor to the Guggenheim 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Howard Chiu, an engineer who worked in robotics and aerospace, quit his day job two and a half years ago when his invention was a finalist for the Chicago show’s innovation award. All Those Kitchen Gadgets, but a Sharp Knife Just Might Do 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

A good creativity exercise is to come up with terrible inventions. Bad Ideas, Senior Living and Scenic Transgressions 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z

Its choreography is dense with invention, its dancers project a fine fierce physicality and an alert, emotional presence. Stephen Petronio Company ? review 2010-10-07T21:45:00Z

Like everything else in the room, his body is another invention, ripe for reconfiguration. Dance Review: Arturo Vidich at Invisible Dog Art Center 2013-01-26T00:57:22Z

An octet of instrumentalists responded to the singer’s speak-singing inventions with a repertoire of blips, taps, paper rips and jittery flutters. Review: Tyler Duncan Salutes Eccentric Patrons of Surrealists 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

That would be just as much an invention, an embrace among disparate people whose common ground is mostly being a generation or two removed from an immigration story. I am Indian American, and it’s 2017. But I still get asked ‘What are you?’ 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

The invention sparked inside these hubs is delivering streams of new designs and products to the rest of the world – including to other global hubs. Amazon and America’s real divide 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Tomlinson is something of a legend within computing circles because of his role in the invention of email. New York's MoMA claims the @ symbol as a design classic 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

Time magazine included it in its 50 worst inventions list, but this slight was nothing compared to the militancy adopted by some. Comic Sans not your type? Lighten up 2010-10-22T13:15:00Z

The Hundred- Year Childhood Childhood, it is often said, is a recent invention. ‘Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000’ at MoMA 2012-07-26T16:28:17Z

It was a memorable game in the long football rivalry, but it soon became known for the sensation created by Mr. Verna’s invention. Tony Verna, TV producer and director best known for inventing instant replay, dies at 81 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

In “What We Talk About When We Talk About Books,” Leah Price describes the book ownership I fantasized about as a child as a relatively recent invention. Recalling a Time When Books Could Give You Indigestion 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

“All Is Lost” is about a lot of things—solitude, hope, invention—but at its heart, it’s a parable about the human compulsion to try. We are all d**k-measurers now: The Oscars and awards-season devalue and pervert art 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

So in “Inventions/Reinventions,” Tepfer boldly — even audaciously — supplies those “missing” nine inventions in the form of his own free improvisations. Bach Invented. Now a Pianist Is Trying to Match Him. 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

Ms. Lee wrote fictitious police reports and witnesses’ statements to accompany each invention. Heiress Plotted 19 Grisly Crimes. Investigation Underway. 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, in the smaller Undercover tent, the Mummers, Fenech-Soler and the Pierces all give performances sparkling with musicality and invention. V Festival: day one ? review 2011-08-21T17:17:01Z

There’s new inventions that are making people nervous. Spoiler: George Washington lies, stands tall in docuseries 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

But it’s not at the level of imagination or invention of her first two films. Juleen Compton, a Director and Actor Whose Career Was Tragically Overlooked 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

There's no attempt to force the issue, even in those passages when Schumann's invention is too prolix for his own good, and Luisi trusts the composer's often-questioned symphonic instincts. Schumann; The Symphonies; etc 2010-05-27T21:15:00Z

Its amoral criminals and beggars are over-the-top inventions, and Ostermeier’s visually subdued production derives most of its pleasures from letting the cast’s superb talents loose. At Glamorous French Festivals, Poverty is Only Onstage 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

They are so whimsical, so apparently random in their profuse invention, that their incidents can be hard to remember. A Wildly Inventive Fantasy Series That Began on the Web and Became a Best-Seller 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

But it was data strategy manager Jon Tickle - evicted after four weeks before returning for the last two - who provided the laughs with his eccentric ways and wacky inventions. The end is nigh 2009-08-26T10:59:00Z

"The real business of detection was the invention of a plot." Guardian bookclub: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale 2012-12-28T22:55:11Z

Giving an immediate impression of grace and elegance, it soon shows itself as seething with invention, full of tugging chromaticisms and deviant harmonies held firm by ostinato bass lines or other repeated structures. Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

He can be forgiven for giving such short shrift to Davos types who have no sense of history: driverless cars will change the world less than the invention of cars in the first place. G force 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Einstein's scientific biographer wrote that "to say that this made possible the construction of nuclear weapons is like saying that the invention of the alphabet caused the Bible to be written". Peter Forbes: rereading Einstein's collected papers 2013-06-21T09:00:02Z

I don't think anyone can quite coin a sentence with such invention and wit. Jeeves and Wooster to take to West End stage in Perfect Nonsense 2013-06-02T18:00:05Z

The show is full of marvelous pairings and clusters of paintings executed close to the same time in which Matisse approaches and sometimes takes a timeout from “radical invention.” Art Review: Matisse at MoMA: Carving With Color 2010-07-15T16:01:00Z

Mr. Sehgal’s preoccupation is not the invention and aesthetics of the actual movement. Genres, Like Sand, Tricky to Pin Down 2013-07-26T20:26:30Z

He also felt free to make things up, so a few characters — like an old flame of the first lady, Pat Nixon — are clearly inventions. Books of The Times: ?Watergate,? a Novel by Thomas Mallon 2012-02-15T20:34:23Z

That is why Van Cleef’s most famous invention in 1933 was called a “mystery setting,” because the gemstones were mounted without, apparently, any claws to hold them in place. Parisian Exhibit Reveals Secrets of Fine Jewelry Making 2012-11-27T13:30:19Z

When I attended the University Of Chicago before the invention of nuclear fission, there were two identities: Male, and, for three students, female. BREAKING: “Cultural appropriation is not just appropriate — it is my birthright!”: The Greatest Living American Writer 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

The bar up front provides an unhectic cove where you can decompress with cocktails that locate the middle ground between tradition and invention. Restaurant Review: Fung Tu on the Lower East Side 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Of the 76 inventions in the book, at least 65 were created by immigrants and 15 involved children of immigrants, Baker says. From safety pins to 3-D printers, inventions from a 'Nation of Dreamers, Immigrants, and Tinkerers' 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

So essential that they now appear an invention of mine, a brightly coloured exaggeration. Elena Ferrante: ‘One morning I looked at myself in the mirror and recognised my mother’ 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

Now living in Berlin, Ruíz combines a visceral understanding of Brown’s work with her own daring, intensely physical approach to movement invention. Live Performance in New York: Here’s What to See This Spring 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Humor and structural invention play crucial role here, too, though with more inward cast than the albums by Tobias and White. For Three Avant-Garde Musicians, It’s Time for Pop 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

“This is a show about invention, experimentation and the inherent risks in trying to break new ground -- themes that really resonate with us as a network and attracted a passionate audience,”  he said. AMC renews computer drama 'Halt and Catch Fire' 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Vampires in particular featured heavily in the ratings; this should be a source of delight for us, as vampires are a Slavic invention. What they're reading in Poland 2011-04-04T07:00:02Z

Less so is Nina Barzegar, whose world premiere “Inexorable Passage” was thrilling in its fusion of experimental, extended-technique effects, as well as melodic and chordal inventions. Review: Iranian Female Composers Speak Indirectly to the Moment 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

What inventions and innovations are we suffering without? Deadly silence: what happens when we don't believe women 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

How else to handle the national divertissements but with charming silliness and abundant dance invention? Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘Nutcracker’ by American Ballet Theater 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

For example, while “Booger Snot” is clearly an invention, Ernest Mckinley Snot is quite real. Weingarten: The lame name game

But those glitches are easy to overlook because of the sheer abundance of visual invention. Critic’s Notebook: Festival of Gkids Films at IFC Center 2013-12-19T22:40:06Z

The invention of fluorocarbons in 1928 meant that the Einstein-Szilárd fridge never caught on, but it is curious to contemplate that the theorist of relativity might well also have had an appliance in every kitchen. Peter Forbes: rereading Einstein's collected papers 2013-06-21T09:00:02Z

Such invention gives Hayes’s poetry a lightheaded if not always lighthearted sense of play, immersed as it is in heavy subjects like race, violence, desire and other dangerous mysteries of self and world. In a (Prose) Tribute to Fathers and Father Figures, a Fast-Paced Poet Slows Down 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

She understood that, to establish your place in the museum, invention will carry you much further than mimicry. Two Napoleons in Brooklyn, One in Timberlands 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

They are particularly good at conveying that what made Edison special wasn’t so much his inventions as knowing what to do with them. ‘American Experience’ Explores the Mastery of Thomas Edison 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

We’re given hints that Cott’s halfhearted roué of a Gaston is capable of seeing beyond his hidebound role as the toast of Paris, in his fascination with science and newfangled inventions. ‘Gigi’ skips uncertainly onto Broadway 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

Literary fiction is not the invention of marketers; it answers the interests of readers. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z

If Batman has become an Idea as much as Character — an invention that engages “our darkest selves” — then Weldon is a well-suited detective to illuminate these darkest literary places. Holy longevity, Batman! This crusader has staying power. 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

SAT Museum staff, artists and community partners provide hands-on opportunities for families to explore art, science, invention or craft, 9:30-11 a.m. Community calendar 2012-01-25T23:08:10Z

Based on historical fact and literary invention, it spans 90 years, from the writer Isaac Babel’s adventures in the First Cavalry Army in 1920 to a fatal plane crash in 2010. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

It’s imitation Reich, inferior in invention and less precisely calibrated in duration. ‘Rosas Danst Rosas’ Revisits a Choreographer’s Early Work 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

Awkward, big, and suffering from dyslexia, Butler was picked on by her schoolmates; she retreated into a world of books and invention. Prince, Cecil Taylor, and Beyoncé’s Shape-Shifting Black Body 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

Yet, while Verne embraced all manner of misadventures, even conceptualizing future inventions such as, yes, rockets and helicopters, he distrusted hot-air balloons. Up and Away: ‘The Aeronauts’ and Hot-Air Balloons in the Movies 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

A Bach devotee, Mrs. Gehrig had me learning several of his two-part inventions and my first prelude and fugue. The Case for Greatness in Classical Music 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Grier was a one-man morale booster in August after the composer Stephen Sondheim publicly criticized artistic inventions being discussed for this “Porgy and Bess.” David Alan Grier of ?The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess? 2012-02-28T00:35:51Z

It not only positions de Kooning far forward in a 20th-century American cavalcade of stars, it turns his career into a kind of Rose Bowl float of creative exuberance and invention. Art Review: ?De Kooning: A Retrospective? at MoMA - Review 2011-09-15T11:00:58Z

The beauty of that, in hindsight, is that it was pure invention. From "Simpsons" to Coachella, Danny Elfman reflects on 35 years of TV and film scoring 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

The word is a neologism, an invention, not unlike the region as a whole. Southern California, End of the Line 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

It can affirm the human capacity for invention even when death is stalking your studio door. The Saint Who Stopped an Epidemic Is on Lockdown at the Met 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

That test is an exhilarating moment of pure cinematic invention, which Vigalondo films with a straightforward practical exuberance and a logical cleverness. “Colossal”: A Monster Movie Hiding Ugly Romantic Passions 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

I mean, adhering to all those standards of quality, coherence, invention — that's just what The Man wants you to do. How Low Can They Go? James Franco, Danny McBride and Natalie Portman in Your Highness 2011-04-07T09:15:00Z

The conversations are sharp, informed, often entertaining: They are two-part inventions in which the interviewer is a major presence, a player. A new biography gets Oriana Fallaci the way people who knew her couldn't 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

The invention is an elaboration of his work in paper, which the Miyake studio discovered on the Internet. Magical Reality in 3D From Issey Miyake 2010-11-22T12:30:00Z

The prosecution fills his silence with inventions and assumptions, painting Amal as violent, unstable, angry — and guilty. Teenagers in Turmoil 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z

But the ink study for the painting indicates that the image wasn’t really Rubens’s invention. Art Review: ‘Dürer to de Kooning,’ at the Morgan Library 2012-10-11T23:02:45Z

Autumn leaves in general are a source of great vexation, particularly when you add the relatively recent invention of the leaf blower. Perspective | Was Rand Paul attacked over a yard dispute? It wouldn’t be unheard of. 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

"O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend/The brightest heaven of invention," Seattle Shakespeare Company artistic head Stephanie Shine proclaims with conviction, as the one-woman chorus narrating "Henry V." Theater review: 'Henry V' asks, 'Ain't war grand?' 2010-04-20T20:25:00Z

Kamkwamba was unable to return to school for five years, until his inventions captivated supporters who helped him gain entry into the African Leadership Academy, and then into Dartmouth, where he graduated in 2014. From ‘The Lion King’ to Angelina Jolie, Chiwetel Ejiofor Has a Lot to Talk About 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

If necessity is the mother of invention, then maybe Madge just invented a new way to keep fans on edge. Can Madonna turn the song hack to her advantage? 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Braxton's music can be brittle, fierce, even impenetrably complex, and his methods so radical as to require a notational language of his own invention that only a small group of players can interpret. 50 great moments in jazz: Anthony Braxton swims against the tide 2011-04-13T14:57:21Z

After a romp full of jazzy Balanchine inventions, the two dancers shake hands, then part, leaving the stage in different directions. My Surprising Duet With Arthur Mitchell in Cold War Moscow 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

A great spur to the invention or at least the constant improvement of photography revolved around sex and the ability to see people naked. Photography in the Raw 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

For those put off by tuna, there was a new local invention: the California roll, made with avocado, at Ichiro Mashita’s counter not too far away. Tracing a Los Angeles Treasure: Its Glorious Sprawl of Sushi 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

But like his flesh-and-blood monsters, this invention contains its fair share of menace too. The real star of Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winner Parasite? The house 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Terri Hanauer directs this force of outre nature with a modicum of invention, as in the car crash sequence done with folding chairs, and a steady hand. 'Mutant Olive,' one actor's audition -- and life story 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

What comes through is the record of an artist-poet of exceptional strength and invention. Carl Andre’s Epic Sculptures, United at Dia:Beacon 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

He’s passionate, intense, an occasional grudge-holder and a compulsive sender of tweets almost Joycean in invention and astounding in invective, many of them directed against Trump and his defenders. ‘The Plot Against America’ Imagines the Rise of an Intolerant Demagogue 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

In a pastoral service of compassion, Dyson argues that white Americans are also among the victims of the invention of whiteness. “You can’t coddle white brothers and sisters”: The fiery racial gospel of Michael Eric Dyson 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

But it is not clear whether these developments are an outgrowth of the Lamarr-Antheil invention alone or subsequent research. 'Hedy's Folly': Screen siren had more than looks 2011-12-22T00:52:05Z

What’s all the more remarkable is that the film that might be called his comeback, “Chi-Raq,” has nothing of the retrospective, nostalgic, or self-righteous about it—it displays an uninhibited freedom of invention. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

The theme pursued with the most energy and invention is the resentment of stereotyping, that sly and effective means of erasing individuality. Art Review: Mideast Photography at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2013-12-26T22:22:28Z

Next came Autobahn, named after another German invention. Why Kraftwerk are still the world's most influential band 2013-01-27T09:00:03Z

Afterward the always curious Thackery asked about the mysterious substance used to record the images, and was told it was a new invention called celluloid. 'The Knick' Recap: A Dazzling Shot, and Other Developments 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

Because the score is truly timeless, a masterpiece of musical cohesion — it’s virtually all in ¾ time — and lyrical invention . Review | Signature opens season with ‘A Little Night Music,’ one of Sondheim’s precious gems 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

And in her view, these “off the grid” narratives have always held great appeal, long before the invention of smartphones. 'Wild' and 'Tracks' Explore Isolation 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

The appreciation of wine was based solely on the way it tasted: the invention of drinking glasses meant that the colour, transparency and clarity became important. Mark Miodownik: an obsession with materials 2013-05-24T15:53:00Z

The highlight should be Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in D major, a work of marvelous rhythmic vigor and madcap invention in its outer movements, with some soul-searching beauty in its central Andante. ‘Prokofiev, Haydn & Mozart’ a promising SSO combo 2014-01-16T20:30:56Z

As with many Internet phenomena, it’s difficult to pinpoint a clear trajectory of the community’s invention and growth, save for its migration from platform to platform. Anorexia’s scary online empire 2012-07-28T12:00:00Z

I’m impatient to acquaint myself with its cornucopia of invention, and yet I dread revisiting something so ridiculously pointless. Dance Review: New York City Ballet?s Architecture of Dance 2010-04-30T23:01:00Z

She decides to enter the school's invention fair but it goes horribly wrong when Medusa gets her invention... Goddess Girls: Athena the Brain by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams - review 2012-08-20T08:00:00Z

These performers see conjecture not as a worrisome chore but as an opportunity; improvisation as a matter of course; invention as a necessity. Review: L’Arpeggiata Opens Before Bach Festival at Carnegie Hall 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Fanatical reporting and occasional invention did not seem contradictory to Mitchell; each was a means of finding beauty in the mundane. The grammar of hard facts 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s, with the invention of fast-cook foods such as frozen fish sticks and TV dinners, frozen meals became an important part of Americans’ meals, and separate freezers were in demand. Your guide to buying a stand-alone freezer — if you can find one 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

The new documentary “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story” shows how hard and how long she struggled to escape it — including through her invention in the 1940s of a groundbreaking communication system that underlies modern encryption. Review: ‘Bombshell’ Tells the Amazing Story of Hedy Lamarr, the Star and Inventor 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

In a world that is still similar to present day, the recent invention of an external womb known as the “baby pouch” is changing society. Artificial wombs could soon be a reality. What will this mean for women? 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

After five years in development, six months' rehearsal and some astonishing technical wizardry, it’s clear that there’s nothing “mere” about Global Creatures’ multi-million dollar invention. King Kong stomps on to stage in Melbourne 2013-05-27T04:32:00Z

But perhaps his most influential inventions were the cameras he devised and built in his garage and sold. Peter Gowland, Pinup Photographer and Author, Dies at 93 2010-04-05T02:49:00Z

It was 10 years ahead of the NHS, so a major piece of social progress that we regard as a quintessentially British invention was actually foreshadowed by that building. Campaigners fight plan to sell world-renowned Finsbury Health Centre 2010-04-12T14:49:00Z

Though she is an invention, Kiki has never lacked for biographical detail. Kiki and Herb Make America Great Again 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Thundercat also skittered around the bass strings with considerably alacrity and invention. Flying Lotus hypnotic and personable at Neptune | Concert review 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

The director steers his admirable forces from the Garage actors workshop in a formidable display of small-theater invention. Tainted-blood scandal of '80s Japan brought to life on the L.A. stage 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

But their greater act of liberation may have been their invention of the perfectly two-faced rock band: pious toward its sources, vulgar toward its audience, amped up and on the hustle. Music: Stones, Chieftains, Beach Boys and El Gran Combo Turn 50 2012-02-03T21:32:08Z

For all its linguistic invention, there’s nothing formally unconventional about “American Buffalo”; in fact, it’s almost classical. Five Broadway Revivals Give a Tour of Our Theatrical Past 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

The invention that disrupted this rhetorical world was the canon. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

“Mont Blanc” embodies Rousseau’s powers of invention, even though it is finally unlike anything else he ever did. Getty exhibition makes a case for the enduring power of Theodore Rousseau 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

The elevation of specialized knowledge over broad learning, of technical expertise over general competency, of the small like-minded group over the wide, diverse society — Mr. Okrent’s invention had it all, years before the Internet arrived. | 'Silly Little Game': Charting the Glory Days for the Founders of Fantasy Baseball 2010-04-19T22:51:00Z

It’s also possible that what “invention” means for advanced A.I. will be different from anything we’re used to — it might be wondrous or weird or incomprehensible. TV’s War With the Robots Is Already Here 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

It turns out that Ava really is too good to be true; she, like Max and the other bloody boys, is a fictional invention come to life. What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

Running beneath these dark corridors “filled with rough desire” rages a theological argument that reminds us that existential despair is not an invention of the modern age. Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’ gives voice to a furious mother 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

What this meant was his book included a certain measure of invention. Judge frees original 'In Cold Blood' files for publication 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

Among his many other inventions was calculus, which he found independently of Newton and published in the form we use today. My hero: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz by Lee Smolin 2013-05-10T15:01:01Z

When he’s playing someone else’s repertory — like Ellington’s “In a Mellow Tone” or Coltrane’s “Acknowledgement” — he’s figured out a way to balance the integrity of the original melodies and his own inventions constructed over them. Pop: New Releases from Saxophone Players and Drummers 2012-10-07T05:10:06Z

Even while under construction, it emanated invention and inspiration. Retreating for the Summer, but Not Heading Backward 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

What really sparked the explosion of pasta shapes was the invention of the extrusion press. Agnolotti, bucatini and the innovative new "cascatelli" — a brief history of pasta shapes 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

The several encores included “Modern Music” from Billings’s “Psalm-Singer’s Amusement,” which opens with the line: “We are met for a concert of modern invention/To tickle the ear is our present intention.” Music Review: The Early American Songbook, Reclaimed 2010-12-07T21:27:00Z

For decades now, Singletary has reminded us of the lasting Indigenous practices of adopting new techniques and materials and the merging of tradition with invention. Seattle artist Preston Singletary gets solo show at Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Here, Sheffield's impressively spacious S1 Artspace takes the idea further, providing the venue for four installations based on the whole idea of the gallery as a stage set, each with its own ambiguous inventions. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-29T23:10:59Z

Such poetic abstraction risks sounding flip out of context, but the qualities of Ewart’s compositional practice made the gesture seem more like an authentic celebration of multiplicity and invention. Review: A Contemporary Music Group’s Next Era Begins 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

The process of invention is not only exhilarating, it brings Slava closer to his grandmother. ‘A Replacement Life,’ by Boris Fishman 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

“The idea that the development of children might be a subject in itself, something for people to study and write books about, was largely a twentieth-century invention.” Sunday Reading: Children’s Television 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

Rusbridger’s 20 years as editor of The Guardian — 1995-2015 — parallel a period of dramatic transformation in the newspaper industry, arguably the most dramatic since the invention of the printing press. A Revolution for Journalism — or a Death Knell? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

A typesetting machine A film camera A tape recorder A jukebox Which of Twain's inventions was the only one to make money for him? Quiz: Mark Twain 2010-04-21T09:14:00Z

Before his downfall, Robert created a $1.6 billion empire hawking his silly inventions. | 'Father of Invention': ?Father of Invention,? With Kevin Spacey - Review 2011-10-13T23:24:32Z

One problem, for fans of things like musical invention at least, is that all the artists mentioned above rely largely on comfortably retro sounds to do what they do best. Tim Jonze On Shuffle … modern country music 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z

“I had many iterations and inventions of like creating my own drum kits out of cardboard boxes and tambourines, just fooling around and then making loops,” she said. How a Sooty Old Piano Helped Beth Orton Reach a New Creative Peak 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

They prioritize education: One in three urbanites has a college degree, twice as many as rural residents, which is part of the reason the lion’s share of new inventions come from cities. Do Democrats hate cities? 2012-09-08T17:00:00Z

But invention is accompanied by enough revelation to prevent the style from becoming romantic or nostalgic. Exhibition Review: National Design That?s Hidden in Plain Sight 2011-06-13T22:41:43Z

Even though the torn croutons bobbing in it are too big and rough, the dish is still one of the best things anybody has done with clam broth since the invention of chowder. A Brooklyn Landmark Holds Its Head High Again 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

When he’s stuck on a character, struggling to fit his invention into his complicated, intricately constructed narratives, he will reach for the piano keys. The bestselling literary sensation you may struggle to name 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Lurking beneath the charisma of Sachs’s inventions is a nostalgic wistfulness. Tom Sachs: Rocket Man to Renaissance Man 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

While the story is somewhat of an invention for the sake of tourism, there is an element of truth to it. Seaside traditions in Portugal’s Nazare 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

David is an engaging invention, a cross between Jeeves and a double agent in a Jacobean melodrama, and his favourite movie is Lawrence of Arabia, the story of a control freak moving between two cultures. Prometheus – review 2012-06-02T23:07:09Z

And that, Charles Powell says, is what makes his invention stand apart from all the others. What comes in 66 sizes and vegan latex? The new generation of condoms 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

In this case, it has let the dancers catch up with Ms. Childs’s current choreographic concerns — not only in terms of space and rhythm but also in movement invention. A Choreographer Dancing With Ghosts, and the Future 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

"I observed him and his manner on set and his passion for newness, for invention, for reinvention, for making fresh and new everything he touches, which definitely Georges did." Scorsese and "Hugo" team up to celebrate movie making 2011-11-22T21:20:47Z

Shoppers peered at the display, excited but hesitant, as if they'd stumbled upon a trove of strange inventions from a Jules Verne fantasy. Click, clack, ding! Sigh ... Manual typewriters inspire digital generation 2011-03-31T02:05:22Z

What is the catalyst for groundbreaking inventions and innovative breakthroughs? Books of The Times: ?Imagine: How Creativity Works,? by Jonah Lehrer 2012-04-02T21:58:15Z

To mark the 180th anniversary of photography’s invention, this exhibition of some 170 photographs looks at the first 50 years of the medium. The best exhibitions of summer 2019 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

“It was an invention in my mind, a hypothetical that would work.” Charlie Puth Got Famous. Then He Got Good. 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

Well, 95 percent of this play — the words, the language, the sayings — are totally my invention. Holland Taylor Plays Ann Richards One Last Time 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

He created a baffling, eclectic mythology, peopled by characters of his own invention who stood alongside figures drawn from the Bible and the classical tradition. William Blake's passionate humanity 2010-08-12T15:00:00Z

But there’s something uncanny happening: He’s participating in a scheme of his own invention, but also is just another person emulating a popular dance step, as if he weren’t both the alpha and the omega. It’s a TikTok! No, It’s a Song! Drake and the Viral Feedback Loop 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

Recorded in 1894, The Sneeze became synonymous with the invention of movies. Ghostbusters enshrined in cinematic immortality at Library of Congress 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

Beauty and popularity are inventions, and have been long before TikTok came along. TikTok Made Them Famous. Figuring Out What’s Next Is Tough. 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

The inventions help travelers organize their garments and eliminate wasted space. Tips on how to travel light without sacrificing comfort and style 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

He began with the dance-dedicated Whirl, a typically glittering stream of contrapuntal invention, skipping melodies and nonchalantly shifting chord patterns that occasionally suggested a distant Astaire-Rogers soundtrack. Fred Hersch 2012-10-05T16:57:57Z

At a moment in which the U.S. faces threats to democracy, environment and economy, it is more important than ever to invent new ways of talking about invention. The iconic American inventor is still a white male — that’s an obstacle to race and gender inclusion 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

The most popular inventions were machines that produced food or battled diseases. April Class of KidsPost: Pinecrest School fifth- and sixth-graders 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Even the moniker “Marchine” is an invention of a program, a combination of Marche and machine. Peering Into the Future of Novels, With Trained Machines Ready 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

He went to work for Westinghouse to perfect his invention. ‘The Last Days of Night’: The flaws of Thomas Edison, both real and imagined 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Woolf’s imaginary interaction with a contemporary male novelist who speaks about how much she’s meant to him — an invention of the libretto — is cloying and overwrought, drenched in bells. Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

Rations to soldiers during World War II and the invention of the postwar “coffee break” helped feed America’s growing habit. How Coffee Ruined a Country 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

"The energy crisis – necessity is the mother of invention". My prize-winning European tour with 50 other post-A-level teenagers 2010-08-17T19:30:00Z

But it's not as if gore and splatter, along with the obligatory philosophical lessons about the transitory nature of life and the futility of war, are new inventions in Japanese cinema. "13 Assassins": A new samurai action classic 2011-04-28T01:30:00Z

The upside-down cake was an invention of the Association of Hawaiian Pineapple Packers, which wanted American consumers to use the fruit for more than just special occasions. Review | ‘BraveTart’ is packed with clever upgrades of baking classics 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

But history shows that bonuses for college football coaches stretch back to the early 1900s, well before the invention of television or even the first commercial radio broadcast. How big bonuses for winning coaches became a tradition in college football 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

This year's Music-in-the-Round festival celebrated both, with a concert in honour of the country's greatest composer and Sheffield's most significant invention. Music-in-the-Round festival – review 2013-05-13T17:31:19Z

The Six Organs of Admittance mastermind wrote its nine tracks according to a compositional system of his own invention designed to “extinguish patterns and generate new means of chord progressions and choices.” Your week in Seattle music: Brandi Carlile, Cold War Kids and more 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

As in each of her pictures, Gaignard portrays a character of her own invention, here with long, blond hair and jet-black roots, outfitted in regional strip-mall kitsch. An Artist’s Costumed Alter Egos Cross Racial Lines 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

Glimpse a surreal world: reinvented tarot cards, a piano with three rows of rainbow-colored keys and other fanciful inventions. 2010-01-29T05:21:00Z

I’m all for necessity being the mother of invention. Tilda Swinton Has Made the ‘Ultimate Lockdown Film’ 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

The shoulders became a playground of invention, as Mr. Tisci renewed his commitment to tailoring by cutting a round sweep from the neckline and teaming the double-breasted jacket with a tunic and narrow pants. Fashion Review: At Givenchy, Sweet Tranquility 2012-10-01T18:52:38Z

But she insists that the Pixar character was already exceptional before she came on board the project, making the film’s invention of Dorothea an even more radical addition to Hollywood’s jazz canon. Why Is It So Hard to Show Black Women’s Musical Genius Onscreen? 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

Doesn't the act of putting them in his novel make them his invention? Ghost Light 2010-06-18T23:05:00Z

Ms. Jaffe worked steadily and methodically into her 90s, producing paintings and works on paper that showed no sign of flagging invention or vigor. Shirley Jaffe, Geometric Artist of Joyful Forms, Dies at 93 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

She was a master of improvisation, the original mother of invention. “Auld Lang Syne” and Four Generations of My Family 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

When Rhonda finds a long-forgotten container of her mother’s award-winning ice cream, she is inspired to create her greatest and most delicious invention yet. Funny Genre-Bending Fiction From the Creators of ‘Dragons Love Tacos’ and the ‘Spy School’ Series 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

In the first half, when most of his inventions clocked in at an uncannily precise five minutes, he often seemed to be rolling a boulder uphill. Music Review: Keith Jarrett in a Solo Concert at Carnegie Hall 2012-01-26T22:29:27Z

Decades before the invention of computer programs like Photoshop, Uelsmann began assembling photographs from multiple negatives and extensive darkroom work to create surreal landscapes and other images. Photomontage pioneer Jerry Uelsmann dies in Florida at 87 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

But Sondheim’s words and music live on a whole other plane of invention — and that was what dazzled us, show after show. Perspective | There will never be another Stephen Sondheim 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

He loved working with Hubert Humphrey, remembering how the Minnesota liberal "overflowed with ideas and energy and invention and compromise and ideals, and all that stew!" Sam Vaughan, editor and author, dead at age 83 2012-02-01T03:02:16Z

Craft beer culture, and mixology, are mostly based on quality, not quantity, and American beers are so much better than what was available 20 years ago that they almost seem like a wholly new invention. Hemingway drank too much: Our strange, macho romance with Papa’s alcoholism 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

However, as the programmes Winfrey was touting included an interview series and a book club, forms in which she has a long record on conventional TV, there was a gulf between rhetoric and invention. Apple TV+: less a rival to Netflix, more a smug religious cult 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

“But it’s also about the incredible invention, resourcefulness and creativity they bring to their predicament. They have an optimism I find striking — they just keep at it.” For This Show, the Artist Went Overboard 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

This scene, to me, is the invention of 1980s pop cinema. It Took Me 40 Years to Watch the Movie ‘Diva.’ It Was Worth the Wait. 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

He has done that and, at the same time, produced a show that is filled with musical invention, austere forms of abstract beauty and visceral expressions of joy. Review | A searing, all-star art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

At last month’s salon a few dozen people — the space holds about 120 — gathered around a table laden with wine, cheese, sausage, sweets and an Asian pork dish of Mr. Larrain’s invention. Art Parties, Alive and Well in New York 2010-06-03T22:07:00Z

Perverse invention and rational coherence lock into each other at weird, compelling angles in his work. The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z

As far as she’s concerned, the Yeti is a divine invention. Can the Yeti Unite America? 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

A philosopher, writer, television personality and filmmaker, Lévy is a quintessentially French invention in a country that fetes its public intellectuals like pop stars. A Polarizing French Philosopher Chooses War Zones Over Salons 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

Yet even without the invention of the cotton gin, it was understood that the value of Virginia’s slaves would rise if the Atlantic slave trade were outlawed. Robots, Female War Correspondents and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

Given Kellogg's haphazard philosophies, it's little wonder his inventions were a mixture of useful and ludicrous. 11 of John Harvey Kellogg's strangest inventions 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z

“Onward,” Pixar’s latest invention, begins with a bit of what is now called “world building.” ‘Onward’ Review: An Expected Journey 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

"Bombay Beach," which earned a unanimous vote by the jury for its "beauty, lyricism, empathy and invention," takes place in the desolate desert by California's Salton Sea. Tribeca festival jury rewards first time directors 2011-04-29T00:26:26Z

Miller’s inventions aren’t exactly examples of form following function, but their forms are elegant nonetheless. Review | In the galleries: Whimsy rendered starkly, in black and white 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

It is a great baggy monster of a love letter to its author's provincial origins, ranging all the way from ice age Cheshire to the invention of the eccles cake. The North (And Almost Everything In it) by Paul Morley – review 2013-06-13T09:01:01Z

You say in the film that you think the idea of the teenager was an American invention. The makers of ‘Teenage’ discuss youth culture, from Nazi Germany to the Internet age

What a shame; what a waste – the ice-cream cone is one of the great food inventions in US history. Upside down ice-cream cone: just a trend for lazy eaters or conveniently crunchy? 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but what happens next? Arts Council chief: 'what happens next?' 2013-07-24T11:05:55Z

Necessity is the mother of invention in "10,000 Km," for the characters and filmmaker alike. '10,000 Km' navigates long-distance couple's cyber disconnect 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

The stock devices Mr. Taylor uses to distance himself from the hokey material — a doubling and tripling of couples, an amateur-theatricals frame — don’t make up for a lack of invention and engagement. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Evening Includes ‘Sunset’ and ‘Gossamer Gallants’ 2014-03-19T20:08:21Z

New inventions play a role—smartphones that distract us, medications that confuse us; so does the new popularity of adventure sports, such as rock climbing. Be Careful! Your Mind Makes Accidents Inevitable 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Instead, he allows Shostakovich’s restless invention to sound joyful for its own sake. Review: Semyon Bychkov Makes the Philharmonic an Event 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

While Professor Mabee paid homage to Morse’s artwork and inventions, his biography painted a thoroughly unpleasant picture of its subject. Carleton Mabee, Biographer of Morse, Dies at 99 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

I can well imagine Faulkner spinning out the tale on a lazy afternoon, as anyone may launch freely into preposterous invention to amuse a child. When William Faulkner and Langston Hughes Wrote Children’s Books 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

But they don’t spur Mr. de Gallai to any corresponding invention. Dance Review: At the Irish Rep, Popular Music, Traditional Dance - Review 2011-09-13T21:39:58Z

Port is as much a British invention as a Portuguese wine. Port’s Dilemma: ‘Before Dinner Is Too Early; After Too Late’ 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

You’ll see models of his flying inventions, replicas of his notebooks and machines you can test out yourself. 8 terrific museum exhibits to see in the Seattle area in fall 2021 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

In this case, I flipped the ratio—more reality, less invention. Callan Wink on Fiction in the Age of “Alternative Facts” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

We think of the caesarean as a modern invention, but it’s not. The emperor's cut: A C-section saved my life and my baby’s life 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

The revelatory solitude of practicality, the many small daily decisions on which the major inventions of art depend, are as remote from Gomez-Rejon’s film as are the practical details of the other characters’ activities. What’s Missing from “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

The rarest works will be 30 murals that he completed before the invention of Polaroid and that once hung on the walls of the company’s Massachusetts headquarters. 2010-02-11T08:21:00Z

The Bandit is his invention, the wheeled guitar contraption at his feet. Glastonbury 2010: How Dizzee and the performers psyched up 2010-06-28T07:59:00Z

The exhibit tied the then upstart city to the growing power of American invention--the Ferris wheel and zipper were both unveiled--and enhanced an architectural reputation that would soar for another century. Reinking, Thodos create a vision of ambition and madness in 1983 Chicago 2011-02-20T16:21:00Z

Her "breakthrough invention" was for a guidance system to control notoriously unreliable U.S. torpedoes. 'Hedy's Folly': Screen siren had more than looks 2011-12-22T00:52:05Z

And so it does, albeit with the not inconsiderable consolation, for humanity, of the invention of wine, as the dead Ampelos is transfigured into the first vine. Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson – review 2013-03-01T17:45:01Z

Puro also shows her invention in her long titles: “How to Arrest Time by Crushing Rust to Powder”; “elegy with five-finger discount on smallpox blanket.” In Recent Poetry Collections, Weapons Made of Words 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

"We overhauled our delivery process and offerings," Rubin says, including adding the option to order by text and other upgrades as "necessity is the mother of invention." For liquor stores, sales surged during the pandemic. What will happen when drinkers go back to bars? 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

And here’s the worst part: If a company ultimately pilfers inventions or trade secrets or anything else from users, it will already be too late. Let’s watch a murder 2012-06-10T01:00:00Z

Needham broke his back and punctured a lung when he landed, but still felt his Cannon Turnover invention was a success. Stuntman, documentarian among early Oscar winners 2012-11-30T15:42:08Z

Hip-hop is many things, depending on who is drawing the boundaries: sometimes it’s a walled-off fort, sometimes a steady fountain of invention and change. Music Review: Nicki Minaj Backs Out of Summer Jam 2012-06-05T18:57:16Z

The stretched out, heavily padded “Inventing Anna” works as a clichéd morality tale but stumbles badly as a piece of storytelling — more invention and incident means less coherence and less consistent characterization. ‘Inventing Anna’ Review: The SoHo Scammer, Explained at Length 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

But these conditions both in Newark and within the Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine bands provided Vaughan opportunities to hone her natural abilities and to experiment within a community that appreciated invention. Sarah Vaughan finally gets the biography she deserves 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

But the idea of the biological clock is a recent invention. The foul reign of the biological clock | Moira Weigel 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Lane is a story-maker, a sort of historical epistemologist, and also an artist of taste and invention. The State of Independent Film in 2016 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Lamarr’s invention didn’t become widely known until near the end of her life, in the late 1990s. Hedy Lamarr – the 1940s ‘bombshell’ who helped invent wifi 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

A retired production engineer in New Jersey who’d racked up patents for his inventions, he saw himself as the Ashkenazi Thomas Edison. I never should have followed my dreams 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

I imagine solitude might have been something like this for Williams, whose lonesome moments yielded so much thrilling invention. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

Prosthetics — human inventions that make human boundaries indistinct — are a related leitmotif. Looking Inward, and Back, at a Biennale for the History Books 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kelly composed the score, meshing birdsong and repetitive incantations, à la Laurie Anderson, to provide a rhythmic base for breathless running and flurries of locomotive invention. Raja Feather Kelly and Tzveta Kassabova Join Forces 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Jonzi D and his American fellow compère Grandmaster Caz kept insisting that hip-hop is the most fertile source of invention today. Review: With ‘Breakin’ Convention,’ a Hip-Hop Festival Impresses at the Apollo 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

Her large-scale photographs spike tired conventions of documentary portraiture with freewheeling artifice and invention. Perspective | Dawoud Bey, Jasper Johns and ‘Automania’ are among the many compelling reasons to visit museums this summer 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

He also made a point of featuring some lyrical inventions of his own. 2010-01-08T03:51:00Z

Wrapping paper is one of the most oppressive inventions in human history. So farewell 2011, a year of Liberal lemmings and robotic dancing 2011-01-02T00:03:07Z

I think about all this because the Fourth of July is, in many ways, a celebration of the greatest act of alternate history ever imagined: the invention of a nation from whole cloth. Some alternate Americas for the Fourth of July 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

He patented the idea, protected it fiercely, put his new invention into production, and made a fortune. Steven Johnson: 'Eureka moments are very, very rare' 2010-10-19T19:30:00Z

But that profusion itself has a moral point: it represents—as all the adventures of September and A-through-L and Blunderbuss represent—the role of play, of free invention, and of apparently pointless creative pursuits. A Wildly Inventive Fantasy Series That Began on the Web and Became a Best-Seller 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

It was exciting to see how a white guy would deal with their invention of racism in the American theater, and own it. ‘A Level of Abuse’: Laying Bare Theater’s Dirty Secrets 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

A big interplanetary wave to the American version of OK! magazine, which links up with reality around once every six years, before spinning back off into a galaxy of quarterwitted invention and fan fiction. Prince Harry and Pippa Middleton: the myth behind the confected romance 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

There's a conspiracy theory about the invention of the phrase conspiracy theory. 17 facts about conspiracy theories 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z

You also find creative genius in product inventions like the Swiffer. How We All Can Be ?Creative Types? 2012-04-05T15:13:09Z

“Biped,” the most sensationally imaginative work of Cunningham’s last 20 years, is at once a triumphant outpouring of pure dance invention and a masterpiece of theatrical poetry. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe in ?Biped? at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T22:49:13Z

The chief protagonists in this story are Hans Asperger, he of the syndrome, and Leo Kanner, who is widely credited with the invention of autism in a paper published in 1943. Horrible history 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

“To treat Gutenberg’s invention this way, however, is to miss the chance of understanding the main forces that have shaped the modern mind.” Elizabeth Eisenstein, Historian of Movable Type, Dies at 92 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Their premises are simple—an African king’s coronation, a tour of a great scientist’s inventions—and mere pretexts for describing the objects of his fancy. How Raymond Roussel Put the Impossible on the Page 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

No jarring novelty, but no surprising invention, either. Review: Richard Alston Dance Says Adieu in (Quiet) Character 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

The album confronts mortality with a last burst of probing, passionate invention. The Best Albums of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Their work included film, fine art, craft and sartorial inventions such as one-of-a-kind hats. Fashion and the Power of the Pulpit 2013-07-15T12:12:14Z

If every new invention begins as a miracle, turns into a necessity, and ends up as a vice, the art of filmmaking is in the restoration of its miraculous aspect. Technologies That Changed the Art of Cinema 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

By means of his process, by means of the invention of a process that’s an inspiration in itself, Winogrand created a body of work that’s also the work of the body. How Garry Winogrand Transformed Street Photography 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

“Sea Marks” takes place in that distant, storied past before the invention of email. Gardner McKay’s ‘Sea Marks’ Is Revived at Irish Rep 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Tobin Falmouth is an invention, too, the brooding, troubled lead character, and in the play he travels to Midlothia to confront a feverishly divided populace. Some of Adam Rapp?s Life, in ?The Metal Children? 2010-05-17T22:02:00Z

Significantly, fashion followed the same course after the Victorian invention of synthetic-pigment textile dyes, which produced strong, harsh colors. Designers Circle Back to Pastels 2014-04-07T06:12:36Z

Oliver Hardy died long before the invention of the selfie stick. Pen & ick: Winning captions for Style Invitational cartoons 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

And you know, to me, the history of the Marx Brothers is kind of the invention of comedy, not just as a substance but as a business. Jerry Seinfeld Rarely Laughs While He’s Reading 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

The best of them involve an ostensible savior, an American explorer who turns out to be a pathetic neophyte, but the humor and invention are leached out by Jonathan Levine’s inert direction. Amy Schumer’s Comedy Deserves Better Than “Snatched” 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

It is a reminder that advertising- supported entertainment is hardly indelible or eternal, but a relatively recent invention whose future is insecure. Good at Skipping Ads? No, You’re Not 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

The guillotine is a French invention too, made famous during the Revolution and used during a bloodthirsty period of ideological fervor known as the Terror. Paul LePage’s guillotine dream: A warped, bloodthirsty fantasy of justice resurrected for the YouTube age 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

But the film does not mention them, preferring – rightly – simply to revel in the invention of Nakamats himself. Kids in care and The Invention of Dr Nakamats 2010-10-06T07:00:00Z

The album shares the perils of all revivalism: that it’s an emulation and pastiche rather than an invention, that it’s nostalgic rather than contemporary. Childish Gambino’s ‘Awaken, My Love!’ Sounds Like the 1970s 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

It’s not, as Gifty’s mother suggests, that mental illness is an invention of the toxic West, but that the way it’s experienced on either side of the ocean is different, depending on the surrounding culture. In Yaa Gyasi’s New Novel, a Young Scientist Tries to Understand Her Family’s Pain 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

Byrd’s fantasia “Two Parts in One” and complex setting of the “In Nomine” tune showcased that composer’s contrapuntal rigor, harmonic invention and melodic fancy. Review | Countertenor Iestyn Davies and Fretwork revive music old and new at Library of Congress 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Borders, in fact, are a relatively recent invention, says Taylor. Why two artists surveyed the U.S.-Mexico border ... the one from 1821 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

In this case the narrative that abstract painting was the early-20th-century invention of a few white male Europeans. A Long Overdue Light on Black Models of Early Modernism 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Not all of Mr. Ives’s inventions are pleasing. | 'The School for Lies': Glittering Opprobrium in Iambic Pentameter 2011-05-02T04:27:03Z

Children who would rather frolic can enjoy brussels sprouts bowling, a garden invention. Spare Times for Children for June 6-12 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

For Cervantes, then, Cardenio's tale becomes one of shared madness, the contagious, crackpot invention that makes all comedy, and all love, possible. The secret connection between Cervantes and Shakespeare 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

So the opera’s glimpse of his gay life is an invention — a double-edged one that acknowledges what could have been and what eventually would come. An Oliver Sacks Book Becomes an Opera, With Help From Friends 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

One of his earliest inventions was a story that his father's engineering firm had devised a special shell that shot down flocks of Zeppelins, for which the War Office refused to pay. Double Agent Snow by James Hayward – review 2013-01-04T22:55:13Z

"Can you think of examples from the world we live in now, inventions that exist because of imaginary numbers?" he pleaded. The Brown Years; Chris Moyles; In Our Time 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

In the improvised exchanges between Ms. Butterfly and the younger tapper Alexandria Bradley, the level of surprise and invention was delightfully high. Syncopated Ladies and Beauteez’n the Beat Revel in Tap 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Later he turned to cityscapes, which display the greatest amount of direct invention; the steep streets of San Francisco appear here as black-and-white roller coasters, as if M.C. The Art of Staying Cool: 10 Can’t-Miss Summer Shows in New York 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

Like baseball—another great American invention—part of jazz's appeal is in how it unspools without deference to the clock. 2009-12-10T17:54:00Z

The brushmarks, or rather their cartoonish equivalents, just hang there, suspended between accident and invention, and between life and its depiction. Roy Lichtenstein: too cool for school? 2013-02-18T18:15:39Z

The trios emerge as works full of invention and intricacy and also of structural integrity. Classical Recordings: Schumann: Complete Works for Piano Trio 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z

That was his first return to his homeland, and he stayed until 1866 or 1867, skipping the American civil war and tinkering with various inventions. Eadweard Muybridge: Feet off the ground 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

Only rarely does his work get weighed down by an overzealousness with material invention, as in two clumsy pieces involving tape and foam. Ben Buswell's photographs look like drawings and act like sculpture 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

The invention of processes that allowed images to be reproduced in newspapers without first being engraved made illustrated journalism common. Review | How photography became the ‘dominant form of recording the world’ 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Sydney and her kin derive their understanding of humanness — the information that feeds their models and algorithms — from the internet, itself a utopian invention that has evolved into an archive of human awfulness. When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

The land he supposedly parachuted into had itself been the invention of outsiders, with agendas of their own. Richard Avedon’s Portraits of the American West Ride Again 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Whatever its flaws, this Austrian invention is relevant and alive. A successful Austrian invention 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

So Tate Modern has, in a sense, been a crossparty invention. 10 years of Tate Modern 2010-04-24T23:07:00Z

As a law professor and a licensed patent attorney, I understand both the importance of protecting inventions and the negative impact of being unable to use the law to do so. America’s always had black inventors – even when the patent system explicitly excluded them 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. Newell directs with sensitivity and the occasional invention; the movie has an almost tactile appreciation of period detail, as when Juliet sets to writing, the camera lingers on her onionskin typing paper. War of the Past, War of the Future: Netflix Tries Both 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

No one believes that El Greco was a prophet, that he foresaw industrialization, the invention of photography or the rise of modernity, and painted accordingly. Perspective | Compassion. Claustrophobia. Originality. Why El Greco inspired so many great modern artists. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

People won't be able to wait to see what new inventions they are going to come up with. Pythons to announce reunion plans 2013-11-21T10:21:06Z

Mike Lawton's invention can convert any diesel engine to run on plant oil. Theo's Adventure Capitalists, Luther and The Story of Science 2010-05-12T07:00:00Z

She speaks about how she “built this Bruce character,” as she puts it, and she attributes her successes to this invention. ‘Untold: Caitlyn Jenner’ Review: Honoring the Athlete 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

It goes on to highlight how his mother supported and influenced him, his time with his wife, his car accident, his inventions, and the many rock stars he influenced along the way. Les Paul exhibit to open in Wisconsin hometown 2013-06-06T17:18:07Z

Mr. Allen banks heavily on A-list actors and classic works of fiction but is light on wit and invention. Television Review: ‘Clear History,’ Starring Larry David, on HBO 2013-08-09T21:51:47Z

Sorry to Bother You plays off all this, and America’s booming private prison sector, with the invention of a chilling entity called WorryFree, a jail-like workplace that guarantees employment, housing and food for life. Sorry to Bother You: is this the most shocking anti-capitalist film ever? 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

Do the scaffolding of plot and invention, the linguistic embroidery, deny the actual victims their more authentic voices? The story of twins who endured Josef Mengele, the Nazi ‘Angel of Death’ 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

One of Gordon’s subjects is the gradual way in which new inventions make their effects felt. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

While there may be a 'devoted' subgroup of Hawaiians , most of us go to Eegees, a local invention. Tucson Becomes an Unlikely Food Star 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

The story of its invention, distribution and updating is an amusing, invigorating, poignant and suspenseful story of an astonishing social network, and warrants a movie in itself. Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

The invention of Orlando’s child, the character played by Mx. A Female Composer Makes History With ‘Orlando’ in Vienna 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

And how much of this intoxicating book is history, rather than a gifted writer's invention? 'Doc': Mary Doria Russell's intoxicating novel of Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp and Dodge City 2011-05-11T20:59:05Z

This allows for a dazzling level of linguistic invention.” ArtsBeat: Reviewer Spotlight: Emma Donoghue 2011-02-04T16:42:55Z

The fine art of sketch — which dates back to the Compass Players in 1955 — is, arguably but credibly, a Chicago invention. SketchFest: Comedy without borders 2011-01-10T06:00:00Z

IN concert programming as elsewhere, invention carries an element of risk and uncertainty. A Festival Built for Risky Business 2011-05-06T05:00:07Z

My dad loved to talk to people and he would call people in the middle of the night and talk about anything and everything, about life, nature, business and inventions. Marlon on Marlon… the Brando tapes 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

The current historical moment, in which facts are negotiable, white nationalism is on the rise and the nation is weathering a pandemic, is an important time to redefine American mythologies of invention. The iconic American inventor is still a white male — that’s an obstacle to race and gender inclusion 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

One wishes for more surprise, more invention, from this book—a less conventional way of seeing and writing. Nicole Chung’s Adoption Memoir, “All You Can Ever Know,” Is an Ode to Sisterly Love 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

These are family members determined to live “in a world of their own inventions.” Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’ gives voice to a furious mother 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

The fountainhead, of course, is Armstrong, whose advances in the 1920s were so exceptional that his musical inventions are still being copied today. Listen up: ‘How to Listen to Jazz’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

It’s a matter first of judgment, then of invention. For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

“It’s an invention for our modern, busy lives that’s meant to make the tamal easier and less messy to eat while on the go.” Choice Tables: Mexico City for Tamales, Tortas and Tacos 2012-09-14T17:33:47Z

It was this youth as consumer ideal that was an American invention. The makers of ‘Teenage’ discuss youth culture, from Nazi Germany to the Internet age

In the installation, as in the prints, new meets old, with totemlike poles wrapped in contemporary fabrics and staffs molded from a resinlike material of Mr. Onobrakpeya’s invention. Art in Review: Bruce Onobrakpeya: ‘Jewels of Nomadic Images’ 2012-11-15T23:28:43Z

The Innovators is a lightning round of the digital age, presenting invention after invention in mostly bite-size pieces. Book Review: The Innovators by Walter Isaacson 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Adler’s anthology brims over with fierce delight and uncanny invention; the stories here vary in their effect nearly as much as Poe’s do. Dark Books for Dark Times 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

“We cannot, each of us, study all aspects of the past, and intellectual historians may be well advised to leave many inventions, such as stirrup or grist mill, to other specialists,” she wrote. Elizabeth Eisenstein, Historian of Movable Type, Dies at 92 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Assemblage, not invention, is the choreographer’s basic task. Is Beyonc? a Choreography Thief in ?Countdown?? 2011-11-21T17:25:51Z

But according to Mr. Hogwood, “the theory that Mozart’s music was simply awaiting the invention of the Steinway is wrong.” Christopher Hogwood, Early-Music Devotee, Dies at 73 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

David R. Chan, a Chinese food expert who has eaten over 7,400 Chinese restaurants in America, explained the invention of this variety was out of "historical accidents." What "Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings" gets right about Chinese food 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Rafferty brings to light a crucial fault line in the history of filmmaking and film criticism: the cinema, since its invention, has been haunted by an inferiority complex in the face of the theatre. Free Yourself from the Cult of Marlon Brando 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Magritte’s modest contribution to Surrealist invention here lies in the seaside view set on an easel inside a room. Auctions: Money Pours Into Impressionist and Modern Art 2011-05-06T11:30:08Z

Like many items on Chinese takeout menus in the States, duck sauce is an American invention, though whose origin is pretty hazy. What exactly is duck sauce? The sticky history of the Chinese-American takeout staple 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z

She also wants to make sure her invention can be used by anyone, not just by people who are good with technology. Florida middle-schooler wins 3M Young Scientist Challenge with music therapy invention 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

But for me the flow of invention was company enough. Dance Review: ‘Astral Converted’ by Trisha Brown at Park Avenue Armory 2012-07-11T22:05:08Z

But the subtitle of the book is not how systemizing drives human invention, it’s how autism drives human invention. Does Autism Hold the Key to What Makes Humans Special? 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

Here I felt that nothing could reflect the zest and invention of the whole group. Peter Brook on A Midsummer Night's Dream: a cook and a concept 2013-04-15T14:28:03Z

With the domestication of animals, the rise of agriculture and the invention of metalworking, we entered the level of the barbarian. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z

Mr. Gerstein began with the “Chromatic Invention” from Volume 6, essentially a slightly prickly sounding two-part invention in flowing style. Review: Kirill Gerstein Plays Liszt’s ‘Transcendental Études’ 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Through the Franco-Prussian War, World War I and II, depressions, multiple governments, the invention of cars, planes, rockets to the moon and the internet, this wine survived to tell its story. A 150-Year-Old Wine and Its Descendants Reveal Their Secrets 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Though it has been represented on the global stage for decades, assouf — an invention of Tuareg musicians that blends rock, blues and African folk music — has a notable new ambassador in Mdou Moctar. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention. Barry Unsworth, Booker prizewinner, dies at 81 2012-06-08T10:54:11Z

The trailer also teased a look at the invention of warp drive. War With the Klingons Is Imminent in Epic New 'Star Trek: Discovery' Trailer 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

At the beginning of the last century, dum-dum bullets, a British invention, were outlawed following an appeal by Germany. Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control by Medea Benjamin – review 2013-05-09T09:01:01Z

Adichie’s exploration of identity and belonging enacted what Said once called a “plurality of vision” — an awareness that “the very idea of identity itself involves fantasy, manipulation, invention, construction.” Dread, War and Ambivalence: Literature Since the Towers Fell 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

The rush of invention here captures an idea from his “system notes” for “Ghost Trance Music”: “past, present and future as one unit.” Anthony Braxton Composes Together Past, Present and Future 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

The Miyake style was in the geometry, square shapes, cut big and bold; and in the fabric inventions. Louis Vuitton Follows Sports Trend in Men’s Paris Show 2012-06-28T18:03:39Z

Goldberg’s “invention drawings” are just one glorious tip of a very extensive iceberg. Pootwaddles and Dunklewimps: Rube Goldberg’s glorious cartoons at MoPOP 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

The level of invention on the hip-hop/electronica side is just infinitely higher. Is guitar music on the way out? 2012-06-29T11:40:00Z

Mr. Kushner’s verse adaptation retains the original French names and the essential details of the plot, but he supplies inventions of his own. The Week Ahead: May 29 ? June 4 2011-05-27T18:10:22Z

But the story of his antics, and of their fateful consequences for Brown’s mission, is largely the show’s invention. How Accurate Was ‘The Good Lord Bird’? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

The face may be borrowed from life, but the character is a product of my subconscious, a series of autonomic associations and inventions that remain mysterious even to me. The unexplained death of “fracking king” Aubrey McClendon and a writer’s peculiar bereavement 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

District Court in Providence that DeSimone convinced acquaintances and others to invest in inventions he said major international corporations, including Nintendo and Sony, had offered to buy for millions of dollars. Trial begins for RI art dealer accused of $6M con 2011-03-02T23:14:15Z

Niccolai is proud that he was able to bring Leonardo’s inventions to life. In Florence, Italy, da Vinci’s inventions are there for the touching 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

Building work on the royal estate lasted for more than half a century, providing a testing ground for new inventions. Science and Curiosities at the Court of Versailles - review 2010-12-07T13:59:00Z

It acknowledges that in Cody’s invention of Buffalo Bill and in his creation of “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West,” there was a fair amount of distortion. Critic's Notebook: Buffalo Bill Museum in Wyoming 2012-08-03T19:07:26Z

Prosecutors say DeSimone, who they say did not know the Fidelity CEO, used similar claims to attract and defraud investors in McKittrick's inventions. Trial begins for RI art dealer accused of $6M con 2011-03-02T19:02:15Z

The creator of the cult TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Firefly," as well as the acclaimed Web series "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog," is beloved for his witty genre inventions. After long wait, Whedon brings 'Cabin' to SXSW 2012-03-10T19:52:08Z

His most recent film, “Moneyball,” is about the independence of mind that emerges from financial constraint, the invention that is mothered by necessity. What’s Missing from “Foxcatcher” 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

He personifies the idea that the artist is as much an invention as the art itself. Paul Gauguin: guilty as charged 2010-09-27T20:31:00Z

Trade magazine Variety said whatever the film's shortcomings, "one thing that's faultless is its star, Chadwick Boseman, who plays Brown from age 16 to 60 with a dexterity and invention worthy of his subject." James Brown biopic 'Get On Up' revels in drama and dance moves 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

The work is certainly complex, more than an hour’s worth of free-flowing invention. Dance Review: ‘The Spectators’ at New York Live Arts 2013-05-16T20:28:13Z

I didn't know she was the invention of a woman, Dalia Messick, who had changed her name to Dale because women couldn't get hired as comic strip writers. Living inside Brenda Starr's head 2010-12-30T15:29:00Z

Like other great inventions, its provenance is shrouded in dispute. How did "granola" became a personality trait? 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z

Weill and Brecht demand — and deserve — a particular world of movement invention, something severe and strange, with an unmistakable point of view. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at David H. Koch Theater 2012-02-11T00:40:27Z

And that is because the first step in the march toward digital modernity was the invention of the camera. Riff: On (Digital) Photography: Sontag, 34 Years Later 2011-05-08T05:30:17Z

Though Posy is an invention, readers of “Ethan Frome” will immediately recognize the story of the sledding accident from the climax of the novel. Onstage, the Pen Is Usually Duller Than the Sword 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Coull, who traveled from Wellington, New Zealand, last year to spend a month at Columbia, contacted Mr. Grinspun after reading about his inventions in hair simulation and fur grooming. Perfecting Animation, via Science 2010-12-29T23:11:28Z

But the series has diverged from the source material often enough over the years, cavalierly killing off foundational comic-book characters or following new threads of its own invention. ‘The Walking Dead’ Ends With a Promise of More Life 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

Spared the constraints of academic pre-packaging, you are free to explore the more light-hearted aspects of artistic invention in past cultures that are usually dealt with in oppressively serious fashion. Art Review: Unlikely Wit on Sacred Pages at the Louvre 2011-07-29T11:30:07Z

In “Cubed” he walks us through the invention of a few of our favorite things: the vertical file cabinet, the suspended ceiling, the fluorescent light bulb, the elevator, the Dictaphone, the human-resources department. Books of The Times: Nikil Saval’s ‘Cubed’ Tells the History of the Modern Workplace 2014-04-24T19:44:01Z

Altogether, it was an extraordinary feast of movement invention, what Cunningham called “an adventure in attention.” Review: 100 (or So) Adventures in Attention, Merce Cunningham-Style 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

They represented not only consumption, but also much more: the way New York became a city of aspiration, invention and reinvention. New York’s Lost Department Stores 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

That does not mean he slavishly follows Shakespeare’s text or that he does not have all sorts of inventions of his own – such as introducing guns instead of swords. Ian McKellen’s favourite Shakespeare roles on film 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

The mystery is why some inventions gain traction and others, like holograms, are met with a flurry of excitement, used for a short time and then abandoned. Art Review: Holography in ‘Pictures From the Moon’ at New Museum 2012-08-24T05:10:05Z

One of the chef’s inventions, cigars of phyllo stuffed with spinach and goat cheese, sounds better than it tastes. At Mazagan, a glimpse of modern Morocco

The invention of an alter ego set me to thinking anew on this aspect of the writing life. John Banville on the birth of his dark twin, Benjamin Black 2011-07-22T21:55:11Z

But the simple direct-from-the-package convenience of Swanson’s invention, along with the colorful box’s visual appeal, subtly connected the TV Dinner with the snack foods of the 1950s. TV makes us fat! 2013-09-07T22:00:00Z

Contemplating the result, Ms. Heller was “thrilled at just the sheer invention of it.” Literary Lions, by Their Cubs 2011-08-10T21:14:41Z

She is the series producer, who in the absence of a show runner, an American invention, is the person who executes each of Fellowes’s scripts with the same care he would. Julian Fellowes: The Creator of ?Downton Abbey? 2011-09-11T05:00:22Z

The killer for Zoo Time is that Jacobson has a limited talent for invention, and certainly very little inclination for it. Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson – review 2012-08-30T07:00:42Z

Thanks to Hollerith and his invention, it was the most detailed statistical portrait of the United States that had ever been created. How the Census Changed America 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

Some of the painters match the printmakers’ technical facility and invention. Review: Kirkland exhibit asks, Is connectivity really bringing us closer together? 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

In their jeeps and immaculately pressed gabardine trousers, they were like a “moving exhibition,” extolling the virtues of American invention. Design: Who Made That Soy-Sauce Dispenser? 2012-06-16T03:20:04Z

But the vividness of her theatrical invention is undercut by the prosaic structuring of the work. Jasmin Vardimon Company: Freedom – review 2012-11-13T18:30:01Z

It couldn't have happened before the invention of ultra-sensitive weighing scales. Steven Johnson: 'Eureka moments are very, very rare' 2010-10-19T19:30:00Z

SAT-SUN All-ages showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness and the Maker movement, people show what they are making, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-06-05T21:59:43Z

It tied into a desire, she said, to portray the country as "an international, outward-looking country" that was about "invention and creativity". Edinburgh festival organisers plan VIP tie-up with Olympics 2011-08-12T20:19:04Z

It begins with a show-offy introduction and then takes off happily, following symphonic convention but with many instances of genuine invention and distinct personality. Dudamel gives Schubertian tragedy a surprising buoyancy 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

Brilliant, except it appears to be the invention of French engineer Marc Seguin and suggested to Stephenson by Henry Booth. How the BBC rewrote history to disrespect Leeds ... again 2013-02-04T17:10:13Z

In The Times, reviewer Robert Abele called the film "exquisitely attuned to the commingling of the bitterly funny and tragic … proof that the legendary provocateur is still a font of out-there invention." Alejandro Jodorowsky's renewal continues with 'The Dance of Reality' 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

According to the patent application, the invention worked like this: Steamed: The weird and wild world of winter radiator cooking 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

She is the rare painter who curses the invention of the frame; her canvas is the wall, and the bigger it is, the greater the possibilities. Unconstrained by Frames, an Artist Finds New Spaces 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

The film will focus on the bottle since its invention in 1915 and its influence on pop art, cinema and artists like Andy Warhol. The Coca-Cola Bottle is Getting Its Own Documentary 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

Rather than the inventor of the crimes, he seemed their invention: a convenience created to fill the gaping holes in logic. Rewind TV: The X Factor; The Trouble with Aid; The Killing; The Poison Tree; This World – review 2012-12-16T00:05:52Z

One of the work’s less heralded but utterly moving, innovative achievements is its invention of a new subject position and manner of respect for a heterosexual male subject—a new, and still underexplored, possibility. The Re-Enchantment of Carolee Schneemann 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

Some years are seen as explosive and revolutionary in terms of invention and impact, while others are regarded as, well, damp squibs. New band of the day ? Craft Spells (No 1,002) 2011-04-11T15:59:29Z

The City of the Future, an interactive installation shown at the BFI in 2007, revealed through archive footage how little the fabric of Britain's cities has altered since the invention of cinema. Robinson in Ruins 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z

But even if Post were to craft the perfect sirloin simulacrum, his invention might still give many people the creeps. Fake burgers will save us all! 2013-12-08T22:00:00Z

Mr. Stein said that Mr. Knausgaard’s invention of a “narrator who is a real person and is in charge of the story” has “solved a big problem of the contemporary novel.” Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle’ Is a Movement 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

In its invention, its cool ruthlessness, its interrogation of why and how we use narrative, it has not aged at all. Review: In ‘Mr. Burns,’ Apocalypse Now, With ‘The Simpsons’ and Songs 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

Sarah hopes to put her invention in a wristband that users can wear, and to find a music database to partner with, to provide the tunes. Florida middle-schooler wins 3M Young Scientist Challenge with music therapy invention 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

The real problem is that capitalism has become associated with high finance, rather than the heroic entrepreneurship of Thomas Edison, whose inventions still surround us. What’s the alternative? 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Here is a perfect example: I learned in middle school and high school that Eli Whitney was a freed slave whose cotton gin invention helped end slavery because the machine could out-work field hands. Reparations are overdue: "Confronting the truth" about slavery means paying for it 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

Embedded in it was a personality typing system of her own invention she called the Four Tendencies: a homage to Freud’s “fateful tendencies.” Whatever Happened to Just Being Type A? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z

Until the 1820s, with the invention of the cotton gin, more than three-quarters of the fabrics, textiles, ropes, sails, clothing, canvas, etc. in America were made from hemp. 6 surprising health benefits of hemp seeds 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

In fact, this 125-year-old invention is getting more efficient all the time. Alt.Fuel.Car 2011-06-08T22:00:00Z

Marshall's story may be an entertaining invention, but enemies on the Roman empire's fringes did indeed use what we would now call terrorism to try to thwart it. Centurion kicks off British sword and sandals film wave 2010-04-22T22:15:00Z

Talbot famously described his 1839 invention of the photographic negative as "the art of fixing a shadow," and by 1978 camera images had certainly become ubiquitous. Alas, mere 'Shadows' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

The hallmark of these hoary reminiscences is the way in which they're conveyed as cultural moments to rank to alongside the invention of the printing press and the arrival of celluloid. Royal Wedding; Worried About the Boy; Girls and Boys: Sex and British Pop; Ashes to Ashes 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z

If Haley’s book was an unstable blend of myth, history and invention, two revolutionary truths lay at its core that forever changed Americans’ perceptions of the slavery era. Fact, fiction and tangled “Roots”: How a family history that wasn’t entirely true broke through America’s biggest lies 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

The invention of the modern elevator by Elisha Graves Otis was crucial, and so was the development of iron and steel frames that enabled lighter, higher and slimmer constructions. Review: ‘Tall’ Is a Little Movie About How Buildings Got So Big 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

This invention, thought to originate in the Netherlands, allows partygoers to pedal a bike together while consuming beer and tooling around the city. In Transit Blog: Morning Walkabout - 5/31: Beer Bikes and Zuckerberg's Tip in Rome 2012-05-31T15:27:33Z

Nevin's Bakers Pride ovens became a standard for making pizza and it is that invention that allowed pizza to become a global phenomenon. Some commonly accepted "truths" about the origins of Italian food may actually be myths 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

“We live in a world surrounded by our own inventions, and yet we really don’t understand how the imagination works,” he explains. How We All Can Be ?Creative Types? 2012-04-05T15:13:09Z

By the end of the evening, I am fairly certain neither Penny nor I will be bottling our great inventions. Vermouth revival: a masterclass in fortified wine 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

This device is dubbed the MegaZapper, and it’s the big draw at downtown Bellingham’s Spark Museum, dedicated to electrical inventions through the ages. Worth the trip: a pilgrimage to experience Bellingham’s MegaZapper 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Seattle may be a coffee mecca, the city of grunge and birthplace of technological inventions, but organizers of this weekend's ZomBcon would like to see it crowned with more of a ghoulish title. Living dead to gather at ZomBcon 2011-10-18T23:23:04Z

These robust sculptures celebrate the essential beauty of wood, but also human craft and invention. Review | In the galleries: Stable’s spaces make room for lots of art and much conversation 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

The invention of modern book printing by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century was key to the subsequent evolution, and broad dissemination, of Western thought and culture. Seattle Symphony takes on Mendelssohn's ambitious 'Lobgesang' 2010-06-09T23:42:00Z

“His inventions are disruptive — beautifully so,” said Terence Conran, the British restaurateur, retailer and furniture designer. Dyson Wants to Create a Hair-Dryer Revolution 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

With these Arab, Israeli and Spanish players, Barenboim navigates an unerring path through the glittering labyrinth of Dérive's invention. Barenboim at 70: five YouTube clips 2012-11-15T14:54:36Z

There was poetry of all sorts to be found in Leiber's inventions. Jerry Leiber obituary 2011-08-23T17:58:52Z

In the five years I spent reporting my book “The Monopolists,” published in 2015, which chronicled the discovery of the board game’s invention, Hasbro declined to comment or acknowledge Magie’s role in originating the game. The Misplaced Feminism of Ms. Monopoly 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

As to who can claim credit for the invention of the flat white, it’s clearly Australian in origin, just like the pavlova and the lamington. Hey hipsters, hands off my flat white 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Dolores may have been Arnold’s invention, programmed to kill her fellow hosts to stop what he thought would be the barbarity of the park. Westworld finale recap – robot army, assemble! 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

So what to make, then, of the existence of a musical about the invention of basketball? Basketball, the musical 2012-12-16T16:00:00Z

The whole story takes place at a time of exhilarating discovery and invention. Review | ‘The Doll Factory’ is a guilty pleasure wrapped around a provocative history lesson 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

Each hourlong show will focus on efforts made by three women to sell their inventions on the Home Shopping Network. The Week Ahead: Nov. 14-20 2010-11-14T06:30:00Z

The skeletal creatures demonstrate the heights of invention in this group show, which also includes many examples of more traditional woodworking. Review | In the galleries: Animator finds playful inspiration on both sides of the border 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

This show is a study in ultra-refinement in which art, craft and invention collude in a burnished glow. Gouthière at the Frick: Gilding the Lily (and Everything Else) 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Using odds and ends that he and Tina buy, Raymond builds little inventions that speak to his ingenuity and, every so often, to something deeper and more desperate. Movie Review | 'Children of Invention': Scheming, Scrambling and Surviving in Tze Chun?s Debut 2010-03-12T00:03:00Z

If he did invent it, I suspect he believed his own invention. Five great published diaries 2012-07-16T11:00:00Z

He admitted that he deliberately created confusion to achieve "a greater possibility of invention". 50 years of Breathless 2010-06-05T23:04:00Z

For all the seriousness Lehman loads into those undulating eyes, his playful way with form turns each of his portraits into an idiosyncratic invention. What to see in L.A. galleries: Hot-button greeting cards, mesmerizing photograms 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

Still, the theatrical and musical invention is a show all its own. A 'Flute' from Africa renews Mozart's musical magic 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

For mastery of texture, color and invention, Mr. Anderson sets standards. Opera Review: A Review of Julian Anderson’s ‘Thebans’ for the English National Opera 2014-05-05T12:53:03Z

Mental Floss also gave the movie credit for its semi-accurate predictions about climate change, consumer good shortages and even inventions like motivational exercise bikes. "Soylent Green" scarred me with its disgusting twist ending – but scientists love its prescience 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z

What they really are, they're all inventions, and carefully defended inventions, because that allows me to do exactly what I want without having to research, without having to become the slave of history books. Book Talk: Jim Crace says last novel a generous gift 2013-02-14T11:14:29Z

In fact, one of its central themes — the locals believe the dead should be returned to the ocean — is a pure invention by the director. Director Helps Put Peru on the Film Map 2010-09-28T11:41:00Z

These inventions shifted the balance of power from performers to production teams. Bopping brilliant 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

As the scholar Roland Greene writes, although the sonnet was “practically a technology for representing voltas or turns of all psychic sorts,” Lock’s cycle “refuses invention to a degree almost unprecedented at the time.” The Hidden Life of a Forgotten Sixteenth-Century Female Poet 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

It’s actually an old winemaking method, as de-stemming machines are a relatively recent invention that helped winemakers emphasize fruit flavors in the wine. Turns out, the stem end’s the beginning of something great 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

The thematic material and the movement invention often pull in opposite directions so that neither is fully realized. Review: ‘Borderline’ Is Rigged, to Fantastic Effect 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

However petty and malicious the man could be, his artistic achievement was huge, not only in sheer physical bulk but also in ambition, imagination and invention. Critics Name Their Favorite Wagner Recordings 2013-08-22T20:50:13Z

Despicable Me is likable but lacks the wit and invention of a Pixar title. Despicable Me ? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z

And, of course, the notebook from the Da Vinci museum filled with our son's latest inventions is yet another way. Tips for Keeping That Post-Vacation Feeling 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

The book’s original fans have seen many things since: the invention of Facebook and Twitter, the introduction of the iPhone, the “Hunger Games” books, the “Hunger Games” movies. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Da 5 Bloods’ and ‘Artemis Fowl’ 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

At times the invention gets wearying; Holy Motors might best be seen with pauses for reflection between each segment. Holy Motors: Leos Carax Flirts with a Cinematic Masterpiece 2012-10-19T15:07:14Z

It's all fast-moving fun, even if da Vinci's invention of the world's first bicycle, a wooden "velocerotor", stretches credulity just a little too far. Tonight's TV highlights: Living with The Ayatollah - Panorama 2011-04-11T06:59:01Z

History does not record that the invention of writing was accompanied by a rash of intemperate cuneiform proclamations later regretted, but it would not surprise Miss Manners to learn that it was so. Perspective | Miss Manners: ‘Kids these days,’ Part 792 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

They are strung together with a machine of his own invention, using just thread, glue, and pigment. The Artistic Machines of Anton Alvarez 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

And then in the mid-1900s, about a century after its invention, margarine became particularly popular when it was championed for its low cholesterol. Can you actually substitute margarine for butter in baking? 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

Some of Bacigalupi’s inventions reek of stereotypes: Mexico, for example, has devolved into a series of political entities called “the Cartel States.” Imagining a thirsty future in Paolo Bacigalupi’s ‘The Water Knife’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

And he’s eloquent in his chronicling of the lives affected — and sometimes destroyed — by the invention and use of the world’s most deadly weapon. In deft, distressing ‘Apocalypse Factory,’ Seattle author details Hanford’s role in the dawn of the nuclear age 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

The movement incorporates bits of ballet, gestures ordinary and obsessive, formal invention and flares of drama, the virtuosic and the casual, all treated equally. Dance Review: Tere O’Connor’s ‘Bleed’ Debuts at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-12-13T22:05:12Z

Coates' marvelous invention in the third movement is to so tire the brass players lips that their intonation begins to falter, revealing her quest for new tunings as a natural process. Gloria Coates' great oddity on display at REDCAT 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Old England is dying and has yet to be replaced by the new; there are no exciting buildings or inventions—at least not in “Great Expectations.” Beyond Expectations: Rereading Dickens 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

But the genius is staggering in Rubens' fusion of formal invention with conceptual substance in the tapestry designs. Wonders unfurl at Getty, Met tapestry shows on Rubens, Coecke 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

"It was really a necessity being the mother of invention." 'Walking Dead' star Danai Gurira also breaks out in the New York theater community with two plays 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

But “Jack Engle” reminds us, through contrast, of what he achieved elsewhere: the invention of a hopeful, vibrant poetry of urban coexistence. The Claustrophobic Paranoia of Walt Whitman’s Lost Novel 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

At first Baby seems more an invention than a character, a collection of traits and quirks that might not add up to a whole person. Baby Driver Is Fast, Furious and Full of Heart 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

And I have often got frustrated by the lack of invention or freshness in that folk club world. Fiddler on the yoof ? My son the 12-year-old fiddle prodigy 2011-03-31T22:00:00Z

His slave master, Oscar Stewart, attempted to patent the invention. America’s always had black inventors – even when the patent system explicitly excluded them 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

There is swing and patience and steady-simmer invention and subtlety in Mr. Cables’s playing, concision in his writing, watchful energy in the group’s interaction. Playlist: Albums From George Cables and Zara McFarlane 2014-01-24T19:33:17Z

For Sarah’s invention to work, it asks users a lot of questions about how they’re feeling. Florida middle-schooler wins 3M Young Scientist Challenge with music therapy invention 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2: 'a staggering lack of invention'. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 ? review 2011-07-16T23:05:57Z

Back in the Netherlands, the wealth and freedom fuelled by this trade brought a glittering age of writing, painting and technological invention. The full story of the British empire is yet to be told 2012-12-28T19:31:12Z

For him, the year 1932 was a cavalcade of public praise and private indulgences, a year when stylistic invention tipped into frenzy. Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

Will we get to see any crazy inventions that are coming in the next three years? Parks and Recreation's Retta on the Series Finale, Her Favorite Episodes and 'Treat Yo Self' 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

A genius of the system, his freest inventions require the best technical armamentarium that money can buy—and he gained access to it at the cost of his inner freedom. The Brian De Palma Conundrum 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

One of her inventions for “Spider-Man” was a Geek Chorus, four comic-book buffs who create the musical’s narrative on the spot. A Broadway Superlative for All the Wrong Reasons 2011-03-13T23:28:26Z

Anyone who has ever stayed in bare-bones accommodations knows that the development of the modern bathroom is the single most important achievement of our species besides the invention of language. Going Backcountry, Three Ways 2013-05-17T18:47:13Z

Might Daisy’s “past life” be entirely her own knowing invention? I Love Performing Those Songs. But What About the Gender Politics? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

It’s things like the invention of printing and the resultant rise of literacy, the empowerment of women and the rise of universal moral and ethical principles. Is it impossible to trust one another in the information age? 2013-01-21T12:45:00Z

On first read, the book presents as a long, spontaneous act of pure invention. “The Verificationist”: Donald Antrim’s unsung masterpiece 2012-06-17T16:00:00Z

Among Mr. Singer’s breakthrough inventions was a guitar-bot, which resembles the junky droid in the movie “Short Circuit” but works remarkably well as a musical device. 2010-01-30T00:49:00Z

All around him was shiny invention but it wielded a double-edged sword. A Revolution for Journalism — or a Death Knell? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Necessity, of course, is the mother of invention. Shoe Obsession for the Ages: Prince’s Killer Collection of Custom Heels, Now on View 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

Will they at last become lovers or allow their connection to lapse, awaiting the invention of Facebook? | 'One Day': Emma and Dex and July 15 2011-08-18T12:00:00Z

The conceit that every fictional invention is a spin on a real-life event clearly appeals to Harvey Weinstein, producer of the film and the musical. In 'Finding Neverland' at the Pantages, pirates and pixie dust obscure the show's secret weapon: Sorrow 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

In Rushdie’s telling, Quichotte is the invention of a writer named Sam DuChamp, a washed-up spy novelist of small sales and broken dreams. Salman Rushdie Updates ‘Don Quixote’ for the Digital Age 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

But even as the directors’ invention fades along with Hare’s — the community meetings, full of serious nodding, are especially silly — Fiennes never falters. ‘Straight Line Crazy’ Review: The Road Rage of Robert Moses 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

And yet their narrative hovers in a misty zone typical of Sebald, who was loyal to neither history nor fiction but rather to an unstable confluence of invention, memory, and imagination. W. G. Sebald and the Emigrants 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Their central invention is the use of massive subwoofer speakers that emit frequencies too low to be audible to the human ear, yet strong enough to set abuzz every object and diaphragm in the room. Review: An ‘Opera for Objects’ Makes Music Out of Fear 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but desperation is the father of denial. Hallelujah, 'St. Vincent' lets Bill Murray run amok 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

The performances burst with agility and invention, melody and lyricism; they swing hard while negotiating a knotty and thorny substructure. The Year’s Most Essential Jazz Reissue 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

Perhaps “the invention of art history” would be more accurate? For the juiciest gossip on Renaissance artists, listen to Giorgio Vasari 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

But once outside the theater, they may think again and realize that this kinder, gentler Messer is a preposterous invention. | 'Life as We Know It': Finding Love Over Dirty Diapers and Sippy Cups 2010-10-07T22:29:00Z

Created between the eras of Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald—a tumultuous period of aspiration, industrialization, social realignment and urban enterprise—these inventions were partly counter-images to the American dream. ‘The Art of Rube Goldberg’ Review: The Machinery of Humor 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

Pictorial communication — signs, symbols, images and colors on a flat surface — is one of the oldest and richest of human inventions, like writing or music. Painting, Still Lively in the 21st Century 2010-03-26T16:33:00Z

Its explanations of how new inventions work are simplified to the point of superficiality. Review: ‘Dreams Rewired,’ a Futuristic Look at the Past 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

With all its loose energy, its generosity of attention and invention, its puckishness and wild similes, its lyric intensities and its sudden lurches of feeling, The Yips is a novel that's more than just odd. The Yips by Nicola Barker - review 2012-07-18T07:00:03Z

Lack of originality is not a crime, though, and children’s literature is an art of recombination perhaps more than of invention. Review: ‘Mary and the Witch’s Flower’ Chases a Girl and Her Broomstick 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Enter Hamilton Stage, a converted former Bell Telephone building used in the 1930s to showcase inventions. | Rahway: Hamilton Stage for the Performing Arts Is Making Its Debut 2012-09-22T05:19:06Z

Although he is of their own invention, his presence on their laptop gnaws away at their sense of consumerist security, his wildness horrifying them while stirring some repressed animal spirit. Wild Life ? review 2011-03-09T19:15:01Z

His success proves a kind of failure, as the credit for his invention and the cash goes elsewhere. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z

Another 19th-century invention, rugby union, also boosted the connection between singing and national identity – and while religion may have declined in the country, sport has not. Welsh male voice choris: a vocal minority 2011-02-01T21:30:01Z

She is also a master of movement invention; the human anatomy becomes a collection of seemingly interchangeable parts, repurposed and redefined. You'd Follow Them Anywhere 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

The movie itself transforms the barest outlines of a narrative—patients from a mental institution escape from a bus and form a society apart in an abandoned farmhouse—into a low-budget frenzy of theatrical invention. Ornette Coleman’s Inspired Soundtrack for “Who’s Crazy?” 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Yet many exemplars of clarity and simplicity in design are recent digital inventions. 2010-01-25T09:32:00Z

Literature that tells lies is not worth the paper it is written on, but a lie is not the same as a fantasy, an invention, an allegory, a myth, a dream. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z

It’s not an energy of the camera, of cinematic invention, but an energy solely of performance. Everything That Is Suffocating About French Film, in One French Film 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

And Osborne, who here launched a Beethoven cycle with the BBCSSO, underlined his stature as a musician of profound individuality and invention. BBCSSO/Manze – review 2012-10-28T14:00:38Z

Chocolate babka is more of a mid-20th-century invention, purported to be descended from chocolate-making Spanish Jews who fled Spain around the time of the Inquisition. The two bakery secrets that make this babka better than the rest 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

And maybe it’s unfair to ask that an author this skilled at invention, character and style also exhibit proficiency in philosophy and theology. On Loony Island, a Malignant Priest Strips Mental Patients of Free Will 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

In the 1940s, the electric guitar was a recent invention, not a mass-produced commodity. The Holy Grail of the electric guitar? Not exactly. 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Up to the beginning of the twentieth century, every account of the elevator’s history credits another mechanic with a similar-sounding name, Otis Tufts, with its invention, although he is almost forgotten today. The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z

But if you really enjoyed the movies and want to truly respect the invention of the insanely imaginative world that is Harry Potter, the books should be read. Majoring in Potterology 2012-05-25T19:20:00Z

But they tended to be monochromatic, as if early-onset ennui and the shallow comforts of art snobbery were the exclusive inventions of white people. How a $15,000 Movie Rallied a New Generation of Black Auteurs 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

His output after “Nebraska” divides people, though some of it very strong: Springsteen almost always brings energy, but the invention hasn’t always been there. Get ready to revisit “The River”: Springsteen’s forgotten “Party Lights” alone shows the depths of his power 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

The joy of being surprised by his own inventions. ?City of Bohane,? by Kevin Barry 2012-03-30T23:27:18Z

Not into innuendo and violence – panto can take care of all that – but into stylishness, subversion and invention. Swallows and Amazons; Get Santa!; The Animals and Children Took to the Streets; A Flea in Her Ear ? review 2010-12-19T00:06:17Z

Cruelty inspired some of her best work, but also robbed her gift for invention. Paula Fox looks back on a wayward life 2011-05-05T10:32:09Z

“Until they patented something and disclosed the inventions, it was all trade secrets and tight security.” What in the World Is a $590 Scratch-and-Sniff T-shirt Doing in 2020? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

Most of the director’s efforts, in any case, seem to have gone into the script; even the moments of visual excitement and invention seem more crafted in advance than seen. The Vacuum-Sealed Efficiency of “Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation” 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

Roman author Pliny the Younger ascribes to Emperor Nero both the invention of the ice bucket and the chilling of water. The icy backstory to that "clink clink" you’ll hear when raising a toast to the end of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

But in the end it all comes down to the actress, who seems, before our eyes, to be participating in the invention of a new kind of screen performance. The Oscars: Natalie Portman Embraces Monster and Victim 2010-12-31T20:48:10Z

Mensa and Chance have been friends — and friendly rivals — for several years, with Mensa drawing acclaim for his charisma and invention with Kids These Days. Vic Mensa steps up 2013-09-05T19:39:00Z

Polley was proud of his invention even late in life, a spokesman for Zenith said. Eugene Polley, inventor of TV remote control, dies at 96 2012-05-23T07:46:52Z

It's a reference to the invention of the washing machine, which improved housewives' lives. How we made: New Order's Gillian Gilbert and designer Peter Saville on Blue Monday 2013-02-11T17:31:49Z

"The Social Network" is an immediate story, set not in palaces but college dorm rooms, cluttered start-up space and anonymous legal offices where Zuckerberg battles former associates over the proceeds of his invention. 'The King's Speech' gets 12 Oscar nominations 2011-01-25T14:00:55Z

This week’s film is “Hugo,” Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Brian Selznick’s book “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” about an orphan in Paris and the invention of film. Spare Times for Children for July 27-Aug. 2 2012-07-26T22:37:49Z

For everything this newly formed quartet played bristled with the spirit of invention, experimentation and relentless risk-taking. Sound of genius: Ken Vandermark, Jason Moran 2011-02-07T14:55:20Z

Polley was proud of his invention even late in life, Taylor said. Eugene Polley, inventor of TV remote, dies at 96 2012-05-22T18:05:12Z

Eventually, some of the words were written out in a typeface of his own invention, dubbed “Boy Scout Utility Modern,” which is used for the works in the current show. Ed Ruscha Continues His Wordplay 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

One of the inventions is a large wooden pulley system, or carrucola in Italian. In Florence, Italy, da Vinci’s inventions are there for the touching 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

But none these dating apps would exist if it weren’t for Hot or Not’s original invention. How 'Hot or Not' Created the Internet We Know Today 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

One of Cree’s best inventions was the “popcorn reading party.” Critic’s Notebook: A Splendid Little Book Club Has Ended Its Run 2013-04-24T21:59:48Z

Imagine a series in which suspense were contingent on whether the Patent and Trademark Office was going to approve the invention of a new kind of parking meter for deployment in municipalities of southern Ohio. Television Review: The Law? She?ll Do It Her Way, Thank You 2011-01-16T23:02:07Z

If you were in a mind to be critical, you could say that the ratio of new material to clips, and the comparative levels of invention for each, were quite low. TV review: Whatever Happened to Harry Hill? Vic & Bob's Lucky Sexy Winners; Just Around the Corner 2012-08-23T22:15:01Z

“I had to write a term paper, and I wrote about how America has given the world two inventions of enormous power,” she says. Movie Review: ‘Not Fade Away,’ Directed by David Chase 2012-12-21T00:07:53Z

When it comes to inventions and weapons of war, however, Da Vinci's Demons is on to a winner. Leonardo the ladykiller? 2013-04-16T11:27:51Z

An engaging, warts-and-all history of one of America’s greatest creative inventions by a dance critic at the New York Times. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Polley's invention made life easier – perhaps too easy – for a generation of children. Eugene Polley, inventor of TV remote control, dies at 96 2012-05-23T07:46:52Z

In the original series, the Red Room very rapidly passed from invention to cliché, from inspiration to device, from ingenuity to self-parody. “Twin Peaks: The Return” and the Search for David Lynch 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

Forkbeard Fantasy's The Colour of Nonsense proved that that company's invention is undimmed by the years and the veteran actor Maggie Steed was a sheer delight as Judith Bliss in Hayfever. 2010 in theatre: a year of surprises and songs 2010-12-28T09:00:01Z

But for all its invention, “Maniac” keeps the “Inception” convolutions to a minimum, toggling intelligibly between the lab and the flights of fancy in Annie and Owen’s heads. Review: ‘Maniac’ Is a Hallucinatory, Emotional Dream Machine 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Pushing lines of taste, her inventions can suggest organs ripped from bodies, mysterious deep-sea creatures or sci-fi wraiths. For Mire Lee, Rising Art Star, It All Comes Down to Guts 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

Although immensely hardworking and committed to her career, she still managed to maintain a vibrant social life with regular nights out, frequent trips abroad and the constant invention of new dance routines. Eleanor Jeffery obituary 2012-06-28T11:20:03Z

Other inventions contain brief samples that are triggered variously. In the galleries: Strangely familiar objects for the eyes and ears 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Ives’s lyric and comic invention never falters as he blends, in capering, cascading verse, both the cultivated language and decorous rhythms of classical comedy and cheeky, up-to-the-minute slang. Review: A Revival of ‘The Liar’ Plays Alternative Facts for Laughs 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Anything but her invention – despite the fact that it had actually been made public in 1941. Hedy Lamarr – the 1940s ‘bombshell’ who helped invent wifi 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Bringing one’s hands together to make noise is, you won’t be surprised to hear, not a modern invention. Perspective | The nightly ovation for hospital workers may be New York’s greatest performance 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

And the greatest and most chilling of Ashton’s many inventions are the strokes of doom that arrive at the nightmare hour. Dance Review | Joffrey Ballet: Enchantment in a Race Against the Clock 2010-02-22T23:39:00Z

What we get instead are entirely new Nickis, of her own invention and on her own terms. Review: Nicki Minaj Reinvents Herself on Personal The Pinkprint 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

So do many other marvels of invention; Mr. Morris’s larder of choreographic resources here seems endless. Mark Morris’s Transcendent ‘Il Allegro,’ Captured on Film for PBS 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Before his invention, he said, alternative methods for making fries at home took too long, with disappointing results. How the Air Fryer Crisped Its Way Into America’s Heart 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was your own early culinary invention? An Especially Good Tuna Salad Sandwich Starts With the Crunch 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

He regarded the body as a playground, gender as an ongoing invention, and domestic interiors as surreal constructions. Jimmy DeSana, Downtown Pioneer and Provocateur, Goes Mainstream 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

An image that could be fully achieved only by live performers on a stage, it’s a fierce reminder that in art, anger can be a most fertile mother of invention. Theater Review: Belarus Free Theater’s ‘Minsk, 2011’ at the Public Theater 2013-01-17T22:04:19Z

Although others assert differently about the true provenance of leggings, Field's flair for invention remains beyond dispute. Drama and imagination: The iconic stylist behind “Sex and the City” on what fashion should be 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

A list format can become monotonous, though, and latter sections veer into formal invention, such as a dialogue with “the Voice,” a.k.a. ‘Quicksand’ review: A zany, and trying, tale of a man who can’t catch a break 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

From the now cliché "think outside the box" to Apple's slogan "think different," innovation, a central component of invention, is associated with breaking limits. The iconic American inventor is still a white male — that’s an obstacle to race and gender inclusion 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Bey’s photographs, after all, are knowing inventions, the product of darkroom trickery. Review | This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

Students are adept at astronomy, alchemy, self-transfiguration, and casting spells by pointing their fingers and various hand gestures, since Rowling states the wand is a European invention. J.K. Rowling Reveals All 11 Wizarding Schools in the Harry Potter Universe 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z

In Necroville, decay sits next to fabulous invention, terrible privation next to limitless possibility. Eric Brown's science fiction choice ? reviews 2011-03-05T00:07:12Z

Aslan, wrote Lewis, "is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question: 'What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia?'" New "Narnia" film stirs religious controversy 2010-12-09T05:04:00Z

Let’s not officially call these folks doing the clipping and curling and blow-drying stylists; they are artists, architects and masters of invention. The Week Ahead: Aug. 8 ? 14 2010-08-04T19:06:00Z

The invention of kitty litter in 1947 made indoor cats more acceptable. The Outdoor Cat: Neighborhood Mascot or Menace? 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

But all offered teeming dance invention, heady gymnastic prowess and refreshing precision and wit. Review: Trey McIntyre Project is physical and precise; witty and intricate 2010-03-19T16:44:00Z

Vian was a fantasist, but, as is often the case, his best inventions turn out to be those that skim the surface of reality. Whimsy and War: Boris Vian’s Two Minds 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

Here, the German folk tunes and national anthem referenced in the title provide the skeletons for Lachenmann's invention, with just the occasional glimpse to suggest what is underpinning it all. Prom 5: Bamberg SO/Nott 2013-07-16T15:03:38Z

It sounds ascetic, but this is Japan, where simplicity means invention and elegance. Best places to eat and drink in Japan: readers’ travel tips 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Yes, but Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut feature, the festival’s opening-night film on Wednesday, demonstrates that there is still room for invention in this ancient and ubiquitous genre. New Directors/New Films Festival Opens With Bold Strokes 2014-03-18T21:30:55Z

Both men created historical villages that were also imaginative inventions. Critic's Notebook: The Art of Collecting Collections 2011-05-19T21:00:31Z

He sold his idea to a toy invention firm for $500, and it was then licensed to Milton Bradley. Man Behind Operation Needs One Himself 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

Porcelain was a most unlikely invention: totally unlike standard pottery, it achieves its amazing toughness and bone-like translucency through an unlikely combination of white clay, feldspar and quartz heated to 1,200C. Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik – review 2013-07-03T11:15:01Z

The invention, and the way Donatello recovered and transformed elements from classical antiquity, was immensely influential among other artists in the early Renaissance. Statue May Be a Lost Work by Donatello 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

And Beatrice Webb, of whom Ms. Nasar writes: “No one had a greater claim to the invention of the idea of a government safety net — indeed, the modern welfare state” than she did. Books of The Times: ?Grand Pursuit? by Sylvia Nasar - Review 2011-12-01T22:20:40Z

And into this third jar, which now absorbs my close attention and runaway invention, I am dropping those hot, cinnamon-flavored bombs known as Atomic Fireballs. The Tipsy Diaries: The Kitchen Sink in Your Drink 2010-09-02T21:30:00Z

“The original meaning of ‘genius’ is a level of excellence and invention that makes people think of whatever it is you are doing in a way that never previously existed. Steve Earle’s outlaw heart 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

According to the footage, using the invention is fairly simple. Viral video shows man using deodorant container to spread avocado on toast: 'That really does not look edible' 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z

It was a wartime invention, actually, created by a woman named Eugenia Duke and her daughter, Martha. Want a more decadent chocolate cake from the box? Add a spoonful of Duke's Mayo to the batter 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

But I've never seen Bonachela so confidently in charge of his own choreographic inventions, handling both large ensembles and small duets like a master. Rialto life 2010-06-07T15:11:00Z

Margiela, Martin His plastic fur coat made Time Magazines list of top 50 inventions of the year. | Blake Lively, Bargain Hunter 2010-11-19T23:15:00Z

People have been sending images through the mail since almost the invention of photography, and we have been distributing images of ourselves long before the invention of the word “selfie.” Review | Museums wants 2 show u memez now. They shud be careful. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

As its title states, he was nearly 90 when he choreographed it, yet it's a piece alive with invention and experiment, demonstrating that the choreographer had lost none of his creative power. This week's new dance 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z

So naturally The Perfect Gamemakes the dribble into the keystone of its version of the game’s invention and subsequent evolution. Basketball, the musical 2012-12-16T16:00:00Z

The invention of the telephone back in the 1800s gradually changed storytelling, making it much harder for writers to use distance as an excuse for characters’ not having a conversation that needed having. Critic’s Notebook: Supreme Court’s DNA Ruling Tests the Scriptwriter’s Art 2013-06-04T22:12:16Z

Baby Monkey’s office is a cozy space, filled with intriguing detail and references to cinema, art and invention that change to reflect each of Baby Monkey’s upcoming cases. Review | The struggle for women’s rights and other lessons for young readers 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

It starts with the generation following the invention of photography, accelerates as mass culture emerged in the 1920s and proliferates in our time. 'Apparitions' at the Hammer explores low-tech art in a high-tech world 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Their performance, from 2009, unfolds as rough-and-tumble sport, but not without a framework: only two of the eight tracks here are whole-cloth inventions. Playlist: New CDs: Albatrosh, Trio M, Charlie Haden and Hank Jones 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z

It’s as if they’re newly discovering the hippie lifestyle more than 50 years late, and calling it their personal invention. To Sayaka Murata, Nonconformity Is a Slippery Slope 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Her gnarled art, entangled as it is with the history of sculpture, is also an act of rollicking invention. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

At the same time, BBS Productions ran out of steam in a Hollywood that had shifted from late-60s optimism and invention into the late-70s blockbuster era. How Hollywood feted the black power movement – and fell foul of the FBI 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Cities are our greatest invention: an agglomeration, a coming together of individual buildings. Norman Foster Is Still Looking Upward 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

David Letterman is saying goodbye…33 years of superb invention on his part and laughter on ours. Highlights From David Letterman's Last 'Late Show' 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

In that great broad envelope labelled "arts and culture", we are among the world's engines of invention. We know spending on the arts makes big money for Britain. So why cut it? 2013-05-02T19:30:01Z

That suggestion is the only one in a script fusing fact with invention that I did not buy. On the London Stage: It's Judy's World and Welcome to It 2010-12-01T08:00:00Z

Even the central slow movement threatens to turn into more of the same, and the effect is of a superabundance of invention that never quite comes into focus. Proms 35 & 36: BBC Philharmonic/Storgårds; Glamorous Night – review 2012-08-10T11:11:19Z

It is the birthplace of Nicholas Tselementes, the country’s first celebrity chef, who is credited with having either modernized Greek cooking, with the invention of moussaka and pastitsio, or having diluted it with European influences. On a Small Greek Isle, Drawing to Discover and Remember 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

Thomson could never be accused of pessimism, and his book is a glorious celebration of one of humankind's great inventions: a form of public poetry that the ancient Greeks would have recognised and revelled in. The Big Screen by David Thomson – review 2012-10-12T21:55:01Z

And then there’s Tomorrowland, where technology and science point the way to a shiny, happy future of inventions and space travel and nuclear-powered everything. Tomorrowland: how Walt Disney’s strange utopia shaped the world of tomorrow 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Sometimes I feel a wave of disappointment that my compulsive loop of invention has not been proved true. Russell Kane's ordered life 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z

“It’s like if the invention of the Furby would lead to the Sudanese Civil War. Who knew that’s where it was heading?” John Oliver: Trump and North Korea are “Goading each other toward armageddon” 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

This year marked the 50th for Mariano's restaurant and his invention. The swirly, brain-freezing origins of the frozen margarita machine 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

This problem all started with the invention of the industrial roller mill in the 1850s. Will the real "whole grain" please stand up? 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

Card of Darkness, on which Gage collaborated with Pendleton Ward, the creator of “Adventure Time,” is not a riff on an established idea as much as a striking invention. The Best Video Games of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

The highlight of this program may be Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 4, a work of marvelous rhythmic vigor and madcap invention in its outer movements. The Week Ahead: Mariners FanFest, Colin Meloy 2014-01-16T00:00:46Z

SAT Museum staff, artists and community partners host hands-on opportunities for families to explore art, science, invention, or craft, 9:30-11 a.m. Community calendar 2012-02-02T00:47:04Z

Arthur is also someone who devotes his life to an invention that ends up causing more problems than it solves. Writing middle-aged men in crisis: Novelists Lindsay Stern and Andrew Ridker in conversation 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

Suddenly, the most sacred genesis tale of Modernism — the invention of abstract painting — has acquired a female actor who actually got there several years ahead of the revered triumvirate of Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich. The Best Art of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Even so, to combine his flow of comic invention with such equilibrium of temperament seems like an unusual trait. Will Ferrell: ‘Ignorance is a key part of comedy’ 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

But it doesn't stint on thoughtful invention, something my three-year-old daughter appreciated as much as I did. In the Night Garden Live! 2010-08-18T22:00:00Z

Booth, who grew up among deaf family members, brings fierce passion to this eloquent and deeply skeptical portrait of Bell, whose inventions went hand in hand with a misguided crusade to eradicate deafness. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

He accepts the Olympics and marvels that his invention helped produce a champion such as Shaun White, whose two Rolling Stone magazine covers essentially cemented the sport’s acceptance into the mainstream. Jake Burton alive and bristling in ‘Dear Rider’ documentary 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Yet here is an idiosyncratic concerto teeming with invention. Review: George Benjamin, at Mostly Mozart, Shows Depth as a Conductor 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

Sebald as he explores the places where narrative authority, invention and speculation flow together. Inside The New York Times Book Review: The 10 Best Books of 2016 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

A cancer survivor with a sense of humor, he loves entertaining customers with inexpensive little “inventions,” such as the Quarter Pounder, a contraption that brings a little wooden hammer down on a real quarter. $99 Road Trip: On the road to Rainier 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

The original novel has achieved immortality, and Winterson’s Mary can never shake off the specter of her creation and the inventions it inspires. A Novel That Riffs on Sex Dolls, Mary Shelley and Brexit 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

Has the necessity of invention, enforced by the limited space and budget on the fringe, provided us with a new and superior form of musical? Pint-sized powerhouses: do big musicals work better in smaller spaces? 2011-08-18T12:31:56Z

“Steve goes, ‘OK, caption: “the invention of fire,” and people are celebrating by burning a wagon wheel.’” They Are Also 2 Wild and Crazy Guys 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

There isn’t much funny about the tedium and death toll of this pandemic, so they mine levity from profane harebrained invention. South Park pandemic special: a biting and surprisingly affecting satire 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

International visitors see the United States as the land of the lawn, an abiding feature intertwined with the 19th-century inventions of the lawn mower and suburbia. Perspective | Down the garden path: A new show tracks America’s love affair with plants 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

The artist Raven Chanticleer, the subject of the gallery’s present show, also sounds like an invention, and in a way he was. Art in Review 2010-03-04T22:24:00Z

Sondheim's greatness is uncontestable, but it's his theatrical imagination that we cherish, more than his musical invention. Prom 19: Sondheim at 80 2010-08-01T20:31:00Z

Priest writes intelligent action-adventure with fluency, invention and style, and a nod along the way to race and gender issues. Science fiction – review roundup 2013-05-08T08:00:02Z

Mr. Marclay is half Swiss, I remember; is “The Clock” a grand riposte to this mocking of his nation’s invention? 24 Hours Inside the Christian Marclay Installation ‘The Clock’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

Are we now completely confusing the sensation of invention, of creativity, with that of deft emulation? David Mitchell: A 'new' play by William Shakespeare? I'd prefer a new play by somebody else 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z

"For Aaron," Fincher says in the movie's press notes, "invention is somebody sitting alone in a room ... and for me, invention is swindling the right people ..." 'The Social Network': A Pie in the Facebook 2010-09-24T18:50:00Z

Other moments — the suggestion of a fleeting disagreement in the bedroom scene — seemed their own invention, superbly judged. Review: At 53, an Effortless Return to Dance ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

He stuffed it with objects, including 4,000 cartons of inventions and artifacts displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1876. The Smithsonian got its start thanks to a mysterious gift 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

The show’s most inspired invention is the sideshow attraction No Bones Magee, whose big number starts funny and ends twisted in more ways than one. ArtsBeat: New York Musical Theater Festival Report: ‘Icarus’ 2013-07-25T21:02:49Z

It all began with Aristotle, whose “Poetics” identified a core literary invention that Fletcher calls “the stretch.” Art’s Greatest Enemy Might Not Be Science 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

With the invention of the metronome it became more acute. Ticktock as Taskmaster: A Show About Metronomes and Musical Time 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

More efficient agriculture and the invention of artificial fertilizers permitted humans to produce food sufficient to support numbers that would be unthinkable for other animals of our physical size. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z

The same split-pea invention cooked with the classic bourguignon medley of thyme, bay leaves and pinot noir. Where to find the best vegan dining in Manhattan 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Such invention has been enabled by the dearth of real historical records, including about Vladimir. The Myths That Made, and Still Make, Russia 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

That Evan does everything wrong — particularly, in the repulsive invention of a history with a dead student that increases his visibility and popularity at school — does not disqualify him as a winning character. Review | Welcome home, ‘Dear Evan Hansen.’ You’re back where you belong. 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

The basic idea is the crucial one: of all jazz singers, Holiday is the one who is a jazz musician, the equal in musical invention of the epoch-making instrumentalists who played alongside her. The Art of Billie Holiday’s Life 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Travellers exchanged ideas on scientific invention, religion, culture, music – everything, really. David Baddiel on the Silk Road 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

It wasn’t until the 1870s rise of post-cholera sanitation awareness that the United States began to see widespread indoor plumbing and, thus, the invention of the modern public bathroom. How the bathroom became a political battleground for civil rights 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Are these things the greatest invention in history? Like Riding a Bike? A Former Skier Returns to the Slopes 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

For now, "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" is a mesmerizing taste of Amirpour's work, filled with enough creative invention to whet the appetite for more. 'A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night' has a definite bite 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

“It’s an American invention and something that’s been greatly influential in the history of the United States,” he says. Raise a toast to the all-American history of the cocktail 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Paul Brown's designs, which make much use of a revolving stage, a stark rotating screen and a single wintry tree branch, are at one with the constant invention in Britten's wonderful score. The Turn of the Screw ? review 2011-08-12T17:01:45Z

In her central chapters, Fox looks at the means that those involved in technical and industrial work, particularly civil and mechanical engineering, used to communicate experiments and plans, inventions and achievements. The Arts of Industry in the Age of?Enlightenment by Celina Fox | Book review 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z

Despite all they’ve endured, the Kosawans can’t fathom that corporations — possibly the West’s most magical invention — are entities perfectly designed to insulate people from the ethical implications of their actions and their wealth. Review | In ‘How Beautiful We Were,’ an African village goes up against an American oil company 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Adding an ironic other dimension, the looping inventions sprawl across multiple sheets of gridded graph paper. Review | In the galleries: At American University Museum, a world of atmosphere 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Abraham’s production ranks among the most purely enchanting I’ve seen, brimming with an appealing insouciance and full of invention and vital comic performances. Beyond Shakespeare’s Wildest Dreams 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

The museum’s historical survey leads us through patent quarrels over the invention of the electronic computer, the evolution of data storage, the development of microprocessors, the growing sophistication of computer graphics. Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. 2012-09-28T17:20:02Z

"For the first time," he says, in French-roughened English, "I see a musical with so many lyrical ideas, with so many inventions, with a new style, with a new way to approach the musicals." Michel Legrand puts his Umbrellas up indoors 2011-03-17T22:10:01Z

She mentioned other influences in this “polyglot nation,” not least its landscape: “its exciting strange contrasts of barrenness and fertility — its great sweep of distances — its monstrous architecture — and the divine machinery of invention.” Review: In Megan Pugh’s ‘America Dancing,’ a Focus on Where the Moves Came From 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

They are, he said, writing with more "invention and imagination" than he can remember. Hay Festival line-up revealed 2010-04-04T21:16:00Z

The first known sidewalks were laid in central Anatolia around 2000 B.C. — a millennium or two after the invention of the wheel, according to the book “Sidewalks: Conflict and Negotiation over Public Space.” The death of the sidewalk 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Spiral sliced ham is, in fact, an American invention. How to cook a spiral ham (and enjoy it for days) 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

Though emblematic of our time, energy drinks aren’t an invention of the new millennium. Yum yum radium: Energy drinks are bad, but not as bad as they were years ago 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

Of course there are run-of-the-mill pieces, but mostly Mozart is too full of surprise and original invention to settle for that "mundane Viennese" rap. The full Mozart 2011-01-12T12:24:01Z

That those essentially German inventions were pressed to serve as a means by which to establish an “Ars Gallica,” or French art, was one of the paradoxes examined during the festival’s first weekend. Critic’s Notebook: A Bard Music Festival Weekend of Saint-Saëns 2012-08-13T21:46:15Z

Robert inexplicably goes into business with his boss from hell, peddling a new invention called “Watchdawg,” a wireless electronic “leash,” equipped with bells and whistles, to connect parents with their straying little ones. | 'Father of Invention': ?Father of Invention,? With Kevin Spacey - Review 2011-10-13T23:24:32Z

Modern art is the product of trained students much more than of solitary geniuses, and whole chapters of art history were written in schools that became, sometimes just for a few years, epicenters of invention. Flying Goats and Black Squares, Charging Into the Future 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Made possible by discoveries in electricity and electromagnetism, there were three key inventions during the 19th century: the telegraph, telephone and wireless technology. TV highlights 07/02/2013 2013-02-07T07:00:08Z

The prominence of movies that subordinated the story to the director’s inventions was due, above all, to the bare fact of directorial self-assertion. Saul Bellow, Film Critic 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

The anthropologist Margaret Mead proclaimed the show “as new and significant as the invention of drama or the novel.” Television: Reality-TV Originals, in Drama?s Lens 2011-04-17T04:00:04Z

Emancipated from the careerist cell of his own mind’s making, and liberated to live permanently on the emotional edge of invention, Mellencamp’s motivation is now much simpler. “I’m a blue guy in a red state”: John Mellencamp and the search for an American soul 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

But there’s a fertility of invention and a modernity of spirit here that are all Mr. McIntyre’s own. Dance Review: Trey McIntyre Project?s Ballets at Jacob?s Pillow 2010-08-06T20:54:00Z

Perhaps most tellingly, hip-hop is actually more tolerant now: more understanding of its intra-genre quarrels, more available to different participants, more open to sonic invention and revision. How Do You Capture Four Decades of Hip-Hop? Very Broadly. 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

If we police boundaries too strictly, we’re stifling the possibility of cross-fertilisation and invention. Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs​:​ loving homage to Japan ​or ​cultural appropriation? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

Even her name is an invention: she added “Mary,” she said, partly because it suggested to her a school waif being rapped on the knuckles by a scolding nun. Up Close: Andrea Mary Marshall, Photographer and Shape-Shifter Pursuing the Unsavory 2013-01-02T21:18:56Z

The burgers drip with grease and the old man stationed at the grill engages in the kind of idle chatter that’s been endangered since the invention of the smartphone. Time Traveling Through Las Vegas 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Murphy took on a wide range of subjects as his writing career advanced, most of them more weighty than peculiar inventions. Jim Murphy, Who Wrote Vivid Histories for the Young, Dies at 74 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Scientists will probably never be able to credit one person, or even a group of people, with music's invention. Who invented music? The search for stone flutes, clay whistles and the dawn of song 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

Their nefarious rulers and eventful politics volunteer themselves for parody, yet the lurid reality often outpaces satire and renders invention superfluous. I witness 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

That last ingredient had the intrigue of invention: it didn’t even hint at melting until it was eaten. The Last Days of wd~50 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the movie feels like a fourth or fifth installment of a cop-buddy franchise, when habit has replaced invention, and the stars' chemistry has evaporated. Kevin Smith's 'Cop Out': Too Flabby to Fly 2010-02-26T20:35:00Z

These works are so rarely seen on stages today not because of their composers' lack of invention or mastery of their craft, but because of problems of their consistency and stamina. Raiders of the lost arias 2011-07-21T20:31:00Z

Adversity, though, can be the parent of imaginative invention. Surprises abound in the illuminating 'Leap Before You Look' at UCLA's Hammer Museum 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

To general amazement, a twenty-eight-year-old former census employee named Herman Hollerith won easily, with an invention called the electric tabulating machine. How the Census Changed America 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

One that relies less on a mandate of the heavens or bloodline, and more on sheer invention. Rick Owens, Talking Doom 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

Puebla gets credit for the invention of mole sauce — that would be mole poblano. Favorite Places: Savoring the Pleasures of Puebla, Mexico 2013-09-10T21:19:20Z

There is nothing by Caravaggio in this exhibition, but his influence and example permeate the Frenchman’s art, and you’ll need to know something about him and his devotees to fully adjudge Valentin’s invention. ‘Valentin de Boulogne,’ Bright Star in Caravaggio’s Orbit 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Williams, the kinetic comic who has sometimes revealed a marshmallowy streak in movies, never indulges the audience’s hunger for displays of humorous invention or pinpricks of poignancy. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Ghostly Beast Burning Bright in Iraq 2011-04-01T02:01:01Z

Things heat up when Sam's invention is quietly marketed as "RePose," inviting amazed clients to the "Salon Styx" to commune with projections of their loved ones on computers with "monitors larger than whales." 'Goodbye for Now': Laurie Frankel's novel of love, grief and digital resurrection 2012-08-02T20:09:06Z

But this is also a story of the invention of the modern luxury canon. Can’t Afford a Shopping Spree at Cartier? This Book Is the Next Best Thing 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

A: Not only is necessity the mother of invention, but sometimes abundance can kill creativity. Co-creator of ‘Saw’ and ‘Insidious’ looks forward — and backward — with sci-fi thriller ‘Upgrade.’ 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Woody Allen, the urbane atheist of the upper east side, is very much his own invention. Woody Allen: 'My wife hasn't seen most of my films... and she thinks my clarinet playing is torture' 2011-03-13T00:05:42Z

At the time that Hettinger was floating her invention, a very different craze was making its first inroads into the handheld-toy marketplace. The Fidget Spinner Is the Perfect Toy for the Trump Presidency 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

Lucas’s characters and inventions are now the property of Disney, which in its wisdom has enlisted J.J. ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ gets the nostalgia-novelty mix just right 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

Ours is a theater of invention, a theater of the individual.” Zimmermann & de Perrot?s ?Gaff Aff? at Baryshnikov Center 2010-05-02T21:56:00Z

The invention of chewing gum, or the invention of the shopping trolley? Let's roll: the best board games for Christmas 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Kevin finally lost his job to his incompetence–the “keleven” is maybe the episode’s funniest invention–but he came to terms with it and found a better place. The Office Watch: That’s What She Said 2013-05-17T13:18:33Z

Traipsing across Venice in search of Tintoretto clarified how thoroughly a Christian faith animated the formal invention of his greatest paintings, which I often found in obscure churches and cash-poor confraternities. 3 Days, 150 Paintings: A Whirlwind Tintoretto Tour 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

People everywhere lived in small, egalitarian hunter-gatherer groups, until the sudden invention of agriculture around 9,000 B.C. gave rise to sedentary societies and states based on inequality, hierarchy and bureaucracy. What if Everything You Learned About Human History Is Wrong? 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z

This new interpretation of the evidence led to the invention of the concept of a reflective cognitive style, which I pursued for many years. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z

When it comes to children at play, probably not: the pleasure of inventiveness matters more than the quality of the particular inventions. | 'Despicable Me': 3-D Animated Feature With the Voice of Steve Carell 2010-07-08T22:20:00Z

Cancers, start recording – write down everything, your ideas and inventions! Sign Language: Horoscopes for people oblivious to Astrology 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

Typesetter Steamship pilot Miner Barber Twain lost large amounts of his own and his wife's money on a failed invention. Quiz: Mark Twain 2010-04-21T09:14:00Z

This is a dazzling display of invention, and accompanied by an equally profligate range of live musicians, including the Corsican group A Filetta, it seems to contain all the world's cultures. Puz/zle – review 2013-04-25T17:02:05Z

The teeming, astonished onlookers as well as the assistant who has just severed the suspension cable are inventions of the recent past. The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z

Harold Bloom called it an “extravagant invention” but added, “I don’t intend to give an elaborate plot summary, since if you read ‘Ancient Evenings’ for the story, you will hang yourself.” Matthew Barney’s Most Punishing Tour: ‘River of Fundament’ 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Different models of various inventions are arranged chronologically to show their evolution and effect on American life. Pioneer Village in Nebraska, a blast from a highly inventive past

This meeting was crucial for the hairstylist, who credited his invention of the five-point bob to the Bauhaus focus on structure and geometry. From bob cuts to Bond films, the Bauhaus legacy lives on 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

Our national history gained a legion of diarists after photography’s invention. How the East Was Won: A Photographic Portrait 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

He concludes that “born-again paganism”—a theology of his own invention, holding that God and the world are the same—is the only truly convincing way to understand our place in the universe. The Sage of Yale Law 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Brook’s book ventures from there into the English attempt to break open trade with Ming-dynasty China, then into the Chinese invention and use of the compass and the first Chinese person to live in England. ‘Mr. Selden’s Map of China’ charts a fascinating course, circa 1600 2013-12-31T22:37:14Z

What these inventories do demonstrate is children’s extraordinary capacity for invention, and that’s worth reflecting on. Perspective | Kids used to make up their own games. Now the games play them. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Many scientists present at the first test came to rue their invention. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Week 1209, false trivia about inventions: — The modern hospital bears little resemblance to its predecessor, the “house of spittle,” which was reserved exclusively for patients with consumption. Style Invitational Week 1261: Post mortems — our annual obit poetry contest 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

The top layer was made up of a short two-part invention and a trio sonata; the Bach bread underneath was the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor for harpsichord.  Bach forever! Camerata Pacifica enters the fray 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

But for Tony Stark, whose invention of an airborne Iron Man suit made him a superhero, the image of a flying man falling signals something worse than an anxiety attack. Iron Man Three: Tony Stark Saves the World, Gets a Heart 2013-04-30T18:35:40Z

Charles Perrault is credited with the invention of the story of Bluebeard, which is clearly indebted to folk tales. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z

These titans believe that the same brainpower that produced technological invention can be transferred to solving some of the world’s most intractable problems in health and poverty. From ancient castles to mega-yachts: what history teaches us about the super-rich 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

In other words, "Jewish People" is a political construct, an invention. The Invention of the Land of Israel by Shlomo Sand – review 2013-04-18T09:01:01Z

Even a kids' movie needs more complexity and more invention. Quirky 'Home,' with Jim Parsons and Rihanna, keeps it too light 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Were they an invention of nutritionists/dietitians to monitor food allergies, food intake, weight loss or gain, etc.? Should "food diaries" be assigned in schools? Experts point to potential dangers for youth 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

She made them hungry for more stew: ornate, disobedient, eerie literary inventions about black women, often with nary a white person of any significance in sight. Toni Morrison Taught Me How to Think 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

And this season he went back to a concept first tried in the 1990s: Simplicity is the mother of invention. Special Report: A Glance at the Minimal '90s 2010-09-16T02:40:00Z

Upon seeing this “pure machine” — a forerunner to “Deep Blue,” the computer that beat Garry Kasparov — Edgar Allan Poe called it “beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.” Review | The Met is the world’s greatest art museum. Three under-the-radar shows confirm it — again. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

This and some of the odder inventions of “Foundation” reminded me stylistically of last year’s “Raised by Wolves,” the HBO Max drama of obsessive android maternal love. Review: The Math of ‘Foundation’ Doesn’t Add Up 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Monet’s rich yellow sunsets and landscapes could only be painted after the invention of cadmium yellow in the early 19th century. Now supply-chain woes have come for the color blue 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

The follow-up is an original story, in which inventor Flint Lockwood must save the day after one of his inventions malfunctions, creating food-animal creatures that overtake the region of Swallow Falls. Meatballs movie tops US box office 2013-09-30T08:36:27Z

Yes, image was crucial to Bowie, but it wasn't just his look that mattered; through the invention of multiple, subsequent personalities, he invited a different perspective on his art – his music. Dame theory 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

The electric guitar was no single individual’s invention. Behind the Guitar Heroes 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

Is this speed-grungy thing an American invention, or a British one? New band of the day ? No 775: Male Bonding 2010-04-28T16:03:00Z

"Prog rock is a great British invention and it's time we celebrated and rewarded not just past greatness but also the inventiveness of today's bands who are successors to this extraordinary British success story." Rock awards show's unlikely host 2012-08-10T13:23:51Z

But frame for frame, the amount of invention going on here can't be believed unless it's seen. Michel Gondry's 'Mood Indigo' is wildly inventive 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Comics may seem like a 20th century invention, but “stories beget other stories,” says Atwood. Margaret Atwood brings back 'Angel Catbird' and looks ahead to 'The Handmaid's Tale' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

He rehearses intensely with the actors before production, so the actual shooting days are a mix of preparation and creative invention. 'Jealousy' a Garrel family endeavor to create art from loss 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

Their invention, which is two years old and now available in about 50 salons across the country, is a gel made of black pigment, acetone and stearic acid that’s painted onto the eye fringe. Skin Deep: Batter Up: Eyelashes Enjoy a Spike 2010-12-29T19:52:53Z

For one, the sheer volume of rococo invention. A Wildly Inventive Fantasy Series That Began on the Web and Became a Best-Seller 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

The show’s visual invention honors the animal kingdom, and the puppeteer Basil Twist and his hardworking team spring one enchantment after another on the audience. A Studio Ghibli Classic Comes to the London Stage 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

His vision for what the Boston Symphony might be is still inchoate, pulled between the weight of old customs and the invention of new ones. At the Boston Symphony, Andris Nelsons Embraces Tradition but Looks Ahead 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

Their invention has become a hermitage for him. 2010-01-29T13:57:00Z

Marcel Duchamp may be the true progenitor of today's art in his invention of the readymade – but he does not set the pulses racing in the same way. Why Picasso has his finger on the 21st century's pulse 2011-03-08T15:30:01Z

And there is no invention round, not to start with anyway. TV review: MasterChef 2011-02-17T07:59:01Z

Passing over an object, a paleobot’s camera determines whether it’s a fossil by using data from photos and descriptions Ryan programmed into his invention. Dreamers turned doers gather at Maker Faire 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

This week: Come up with an idea for an invention that still needs a bug ironed out, as in the inking examples above from Week 323 in 1999. Style Invitational Week 1322: Back to the drawing board 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Sarah is working on refining her invention and coming up with an app version. Florida middle-schooler wins 3M Young Scientist Challenge with music therapy invention 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

Pressed to identify the greatest invention, the oldest man in the world extolled the virtues of aluminum foil. Mel Brooks: ‘Donald Trump doesn't scare me. He's a song-and-dance man' 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

The obvious progression was for Avent to put his energy and invention into his own business. This collector-grower built an Eden of rare plants. Now he tackles the challenge to preserve it. 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

The invention of cinema in the late 19th century made it possible to show apparently moving, lifelike photographs of real people. Moving art: the magic of animation 2011-08-23T11:40:04Z

Here, it’s Loony Island, and it’s a spectacular invention. On Loony Island, a Malignant Priest Strips Mental Patients of Free Will 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

But Haydn's trio are marvelous, overlooked inventions, full of the unexpected. Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov fittingly honors the woman who insulted Stalin to his face 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

You leave feeling slightly shaken: excited by the play’s formal invention, moved by its coiled emotional power. | 'Born Bad': Unspeakable Truth, Unspoken 2011-04-08T23:43:43Z

This exquisite corpse is disconcerting because it flows so well; the artists seem to have intuited a motif of sinuous lines, even though they were blind to one another’s inventions. Art Review: ?Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration? at MoMA 2012-03-29T22:25:34Z

“A character of somebody’s invention, a martyr in another passion play,” she sings in a low voice on “Relative Fiction,” dismissing the succinct and confining image of her past. Julien Baker Explores the Art of Doubt on ‘Little Oblivions’ 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

It’s hard to be much more exact, since its invention was a scattered effort extending over years if not decades. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z

But these seeds of paranoia really blossomed with the invention of the term the “cultural elite.” Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z

This is a work of fiction, a category of writing succinctly defined as invention. A Multiracial Family Provides a Lens on the Essence of Caregiving 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

“We can make better music and keep alive a spirit of invention, rediscovery, curiosity and questioning. “We should never be satisfied to just do things the way we’ve always done them.” It’s choral early-music season in Seattle 2013-12-04T21:34:29Z

"People just didn't think they would see any invention in classical ballet, certainly not at NYCB, without Balanchine." Pacific Northwest Ballet kicks off 2010/11 season with 'Director's Choice' program 2010-09-15T23:30:00Z

Some notable inventions: stealth aircraft, armed drones, Agent Orange and even the internet. Paperback Row 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

“Hit & Run,” which moves much of the action to New York City, required more invention. What if ‘Fauda’ Moved to New York? 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

For the reader who makes it to the author’s note at the end, that question is finally answered: much of the book is heart-felt, convincing invention. A Provocative New Novel Reimagines the Anne Frank Story 2013-08-30T22:06:01Z

There is, too, the extraordinary instrumental invention that so bemused the first audience. The Rite of Spring – a rude awakening 2013-04-12T15:01:01Z

David Crowley of the Royal College of Art raves about how the collection preserves "a unique and significant moment in Poland's history" – one where necessity truly proved the mother of invention. The neon signs shining a light on cold-war Poland 2013-04-28T18:30:00Z

The drink was the invention of the New Orleans bartender Joseph Santini, who served plenty of them at his 19th-century bar, Jewel of the South. Resurrecting a New Orleans Bar and Its Dramatic Drink 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

The storyline runs in parallel with another about Baltimore Sun reporter Scott Templeton, who – like Jayson Blair – spices up his reporting with details of his own invention. When good TV goes bad: how The Wire lost its spark 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

Still running — deadline Tuesday night, Jan. 17: Our contest for bogus tales of how products or inventions came to be. Style Invitational Week 1210: Bill Us Now — our ‘joint legislation’ contest 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

It is no surprise that the largest manufacturer of a technical apparatus has an interest in retroactively claiming credit for its invention. The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z

Technological innovation and the creation of new music-related industries -- the invention of the phonograph, radio, the cassette, the compact disc -- have all expanded the audience for music. Future of Music 2012: A fight over Internet radio scraps 2012-11-14T04:21:00Z

Yet even as he has written seven substantial books in 12 years, Eggers has also established his own publishing house, bristling with attitude and backward-looking invention. ‘A Hologram for the King,’ by Dave Eggers 2012-07-20T17:08:36Z

The invention of what General Electric called “electric servants” liberated women from domestic slavery. G force 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Some of the period coverage of Lamarr’s invention attests to this. Review: ‘Bombshell’ Tells the Amazing Story of Hedy Lamarr, the Star and Inventor 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

Promoted as journalism, the monologue was revealed as a mix of documentary and invention. A Mix of Fact and Imagination, ‘As Seen on Radio’ 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

Vegetables and fruit are fine, but he avoids foods like bread that were unavailable before the invention of agriculture. 2010-01-09T03:29:00Z

As the WPD website explains: World Photography Day originates from the invention of the Daguerreotype, a photographic processes developed by Louis Daguerre. Send us your pictures 2011-08-19T09:57:00Z

Despite some harrowing invention in its choreography, the narrative is muddled and its vicious misogyny remains fatally unexamined. MacMillan triple bill | Dance review 2010-03-24T22:05:00Z

It fell out of favor, however, with the invention of the printing press. It’s not so elementary: The secrets of Sherlock’s mind palace 2014-02-09T14:30:00Z

These three works – Body Mandala, Speakings and … towards a Pure Land – combine distinctive orchestral invention with strange, glistening electronics so that the borders are blurred. Philip Glass Ensemble: the Qatsi trilogy; BBCSO/Volkov; Melvyn Tan; T'ang Quartet; Bo Skovhus; Montreal SO/Nagano; Llyr William; Ten Plagues ? review 2011-08-20T23:06:12Z

The score remains on this inspired level of invention as the story takes us through a far-reaching musical journey. Music Review: A Karlheinz Stockhausen Work Has Its North American Premiere 2013-07-19T21:29:24Z

It runs out of steam 90 seconds before the end, but still, the first three minutes are crammed with scintillating invention. New band of the day ? No 895: ANR 2010-10-26T15:39:00Z

On the next floor up, we examine several of Leonardo’s most curious inventions. Leonardo’s spirit lives on in his hometown of Vinci, Italy 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Frank’s connected with so many scenes and moments, from the Beats and Abstract Expressionists to the modern invention of American independent film. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Capturing the Elusive Robert Frank 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

The instrument was the first of six or seven musical inventions he fashioned over the years. Think Tim Jones’s Cosmic R&B Is Weird? Wait Until You Meet His Dummy 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

The show, which encircles the Astor Chinese Garden Court, explores gardens as a source of artistic invention and interactions between pictorial and garden arts in China across 1,000 years. The Week Ahead: Aug. 19 — 25 2012-08-17T20:40:22Z

That too many other numbers disappoint is a problem not just with the choreography but also with the overall staging, which by the middle of the second act seems to run out of invention. Review: A Fair Fight Makes ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ Lovable Again 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Kellogg's invention even wound up in the White House, where Calvin Coolidge took to it three times a day to keep in shape. 11 of John Harvey Kellogg's strangest inventions 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z

This grimness places the opera in a lineage of artfully agonizing opuses, but there’s also a lightness of invention throughout her score. 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

“All these tricks or inventions, or technical discoveries in my work, are informed by the daring of the Abstract Expressionists,” Bowling said. Frank Bowling’s New Paintings Are Family Affairs 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

With his orange skin tone, animal-pelt hairdo and overweening ego, Trump may be the greatest gift to comedians since the invention of the mother-in-law joke. The New Politics of Late Night 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

This opera should leave you burnt to a frazzle; horrified by man's immorality and greed, flabbergasted by the intricate layers of plot and character, above all bewitched by the music's sublime invention. I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky; Icarus at the Edge of Time; Don Giovanni 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

But its most extraordinary invention is in having US celebrities basically playing themselves. The Larry Sanders Show | Your next box set 2010-03-19T06:45:00Z

Neither do they explain Einstein’s general theory of relativity or Freud’s invention of psychoanalysis. Science doesn’t disprove God: Where Richard Dawkins and new atheists go wrong 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z

This invention was just one of many innovations of what became a new technological age. ‘Tiger Rag’: a novel of jazz and its devotees 2013-01-30T19:30:54Z

A mix of live and recorded segments, it will also feature a visit to an invention convention. Take a Look: ‘Reading Rainbow’ Goes Live, With New Friends to Know 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

Others, however, see this long-awaited invention as not so much a realisation of the sci-fi dream, but an indictment of the public. How great is the automated lacing system? 2010-09-01T07:59:00Z

In the public spaces, radiant-heated, fir-inlaid concrete floors are stained a shade that echoes the patinated leather wainscot on the heavy posts, a kids-friendly invention because of the splintering of aged wood. 2010-01-01T05:00:00Z

Back then, Rudolph was a leading light in American architecture, his work the epitome of American invention and daring. Paul Rudolph Building in Goshen, N.Y., Faces Threat 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

But the only extreme sport I opted for was a car-based one of my own invention that I call Night and Day. Madeira Draws a Younger, Hipper Set 2010-07-09T16:48:00Z

He feels a “perverse admiration” for his presentation and admits to himself that Walker’s “powers of rhetoric and invention were dismayingly impressive.” Classic ‘Stoner’? Not so fast. 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

The form is still largely an American invention and one where we excel. Kinky Boots dances to victory 2013-06-10T09:10:00Z

Titch introduces Wash to a whole spectrum of discoveries and inventions that are transforming human knowledge and commerce, from early forms of scuba diving to miraculous ways of recording images. Review | In ‘Washington Black,’ a 19th-century slave escapes on a balloon 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

The music is often exhilarating, seductive in its episodes of calm, and buzzes with startling structural inventions. Basquiat Strings: Part Two – review 2013-05-09T21:00:01Z

One unbattered invention, “Perpetual Notion Machine,” is an elaborate interactive device that yields only ambiguity. How are these things not like the others? 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Due to the advent of modern technology and the glorious invention called “the Internet,” a handful of “Moderate Muslims” were eventually found in the U.S. and Europe after diligent, strenuous effort. How to be a Moderate Muslim: Shake it off! 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

He wrote that Mr. Breck “pitches into the part with wit, energy and comic invention.” Peter Breck, 82, Actor in ?The Big Valley,? Is Dead 2012-02-11T04:20:12Z

White, but it was probably birthed by the invention of the typewriter. In defense of Andy Rooney 2011-09-28T13:29:00Z

In addition to being the eldest son of a very wealthy family, Jarecki made hundreds of millions of dollars off of the invention and subsequent sale of Moviefone. “The Jinx”: Would Robert Durst exist without Andrew Jarecki? 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

For Fiasco, you see, the necessity of telling a story, which would appear be what these talented artists live for, is an especially fecund mother of invention. Theater Review: ‘Into the Woods,’ at the McCarter Theater in Princeton 2013-05-14T21:08:58Z

The Belgian floral innovator Daniel Ost fills another kind of canvas with his sculptural organic inventions. The Season’s Fashion Books From Cindy Crawford, Terry Richardson and More 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Chai is not, of course, a recent invention, but for all that it seems to be an import from US coffee chains, it could be considered a British one. Chai latte: the all-conquering beverage causing a storm in a coffee cup 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

The notebooks are fascinating: full of story scenarios, often just a line long, and ideas for inventions wise and wacky, from nicotine tablets to help smokers quit to tiny TV screens attached to spectacles. 'Truth is funnier than anything': the life of Preston Sturges told by his son 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

These brothers of invention might be too clever for their own good. New band of the day ? No 895: ANR 2010-10-26T15:39:00Z

In the thriller “Mr. Robot,” characters and whole story lines have proved to be inventions of the protagonist’s subconscious. ‘Legion’ and the Rise of Surreality TV 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

How much of the text is taken from her work and how much is your own invention? ‘Who Will Remember Her, Once She Is Buried?’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

In “The Alchemist” a man tries to beat back the bramble with his inventions. Review | Best new science fiction and fantasy this month 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

A historical novel about the battle between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over the invention of the lightbulb. Notable fiction in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Two actors — Jon Patrick Walker, a mellow, thoughtful Lennon, and Robert Stanton, a nervous, wiry Stockhausen — carried the bulk of a narrative knitted from historical quotations and a few choice inventions. Music Review: A Soundtrack to a Collaboration That Never Was 2011-03-11T23:45:18Z

“This was all about invention: Esperanza was inventing, Wayne was inventing, and I got to invent alongside of them,” Gehry, 92, said in an interview. How Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter Realized His Dream: an Opera 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

Letting children use their imaginations to conjure this image is healthy, psychologists argue, saying that the practice is what will later help them dream up inventions and other big ideas. Is Santa Claus worth the heartbreak? 2013-12-22T21:00:00Z

Necessity is the mother of invention, and at the start of the pandemic, the thing everyone needed was masks. What We Learned From a Year of Crafting 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

This experiment raised public awareness of the invention and in the following years resulted in numerous orders for freight elevators. The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z

You get to do a lot of invention when you have a wholesale reorganization of the cast. Chuck Lorre talks about the good mojo and humbling work of sitcoms 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Virtually all the greenery we use to mark the holidays is an invention of modern times, though the sacred sentiments they express of goodwill and good cheer are deep-rooted and timeless. What you need to know to care for holiday greenery

She proved an endless font of invention, bending melodies, harmonies and rhythms to new shapes without ever falsifying the spirit or mood of the original. New York Philharmonic and Dianne Reeves on New Year’s Eve 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

Of course, air travel is an invention that did not exist at the time humans evolved, so fear of air travel in and of itself is not a biologically shaped fear. Our new era of anxiety 2012-06-02T22:00:00Z

While Anthony Montague Browne, Churchill's Private Secretary from 1952 to 1965, describes in his book, Long Sunset, how Churchill used to break into spontaneous, lighthearted verse of his own invention when at work. Winston Churchill manuscript reveals his poetic side 2013-02-06T20:30:03Z

"In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure," writes Badiou. Alain Badiou: a life in writing 2012-05-18T21:55:11Z

Fascist Italy looms as a gaping hole in this show’s map of European graphic invention. The Artists Who Redesigned a War-Shattered Europe 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

It's stranded between self-awareness and naivete, between playful invention and going-through-the-motions listlessness. Close encounters of a tired kind 2011-06-19T21:20:00Z

In real life, Mr. Hogancamp lives alone in an overstuffed trailer near Kingston, N.Y., where he busies himself with carpentry and photography, building and documenting a meticulous fantasy world of his own invention. Mark Hogancamp, the Artist as (Imagined) War Hero 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The actor patented his invention for tensioning drum heads in 2002, after working on the project for several years with Poncho Sanchez, a Latin jazz percussionist. Marlon Brando: Godfather of invention 2011-07-05T15:12:19Z

In turn, this centrifuge invention, which Costner worked on along with his engineer brother, may be brought to the attention of BP. Stephen Baldwin making timely oil documentary 2010-05-20T06:34:00Z

The sound Davis was creating in-the-moment arrives with such force and furious invention it's hard to imagine the courage it took to follow him, then or now. Box-set highlights: Paramount Records, William Onyeabor, Joni Mitchell 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

Such characters cannot be taken naïvely: they flaunt their status as literary inventions, outgrowths of human wishes and writerly words. A Wildly Inventive Fantasy Series That Began on the Web and Became a Best-Seller 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

A few years after the invention of bossa nova in Brazil, in the late 1950s, there appeared a wave of samba-jazz groups, often piano trios. Review: The Rio 65 Trio Resurrects the Barreling Sounds of a Samba-Jazz Band 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

That’s the messy magic of Query’s invention: It’s easy to use and eat. Marshmallow lovers still stuck on gooey cream 100 years later 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Prior to the invention of the printing press and mass literacy, this would have made little sense as the "reading public" did not really exist. Why "free speech" needs a new definition in the age of the internet and Trumpist tweets 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

She did so several years before the male artists usually credited for its invention, with a boldness of scale and color that would be matched only by the Abstract Expressionists several decades later. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

One answer lies perhaps in the way Otis’s invention is presented. The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z

“The Old Man and the Gun” is a portrait of the artist as a master of deception, whose intrepid ruses are his utterly authentic expressions and inventions. Review: “The Old Man and the Gun” Is a Peak in Robert Redford’s Career 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Each player joins Ms. Davis in playing one composition and one spontaneous invention, with the interplay captured on CD and on DVD. The Playlist: Danny Brown and the Weeknd Serve Up Twists and Turns 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

So Palmer had a brainwave: shoot on videotape, which had steadily improved since its invention in the 1950s, reaching the point where it could conceivably handle being blown up to cinema-sized screens. Tony Palmer: he's with the band 2013-07-28T18:00:00Z

As with Horie’s invention, capillary action pulled ink through a filter — similar to the one in a cigarette — to the paper’s surface when a writer pressed the highlighter to paper. Who Made That?: The Hand-Held Highlighter 2012-01-22T08:45:49Z

But when Mr. Ruin, standing at an overhead projector, displayed a list of prisoners’ inventions, Ms. Bell only supplied unnerving pops, clicks and gurgles through a microphone. Review: ‘Prisoner’s Song’ Delves Into Creativity of Confinement 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

My head felt clear, my limbs felt loose, and the world rolled out its carpet in front of me, beckoning me to bask in the sunshine of my mind’s own invention. What happens when you try all the CBD products you can find? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

The invention of the meat grinder popularized the dish in the 1800s. In a world of limitless dinner options, my case against meatloaf 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t until 1895, almost 60 years after the medium’s invention, that an Englishman named Paul Martin began experimenting with taking photographs at night. Art Review: What Photographers Saw After Sunset 2011-04-29T05:30:10Z

The background: Do you remember when people used to talk about the sheer ingenuity and invention displayed on TV adverts, adding that they preferred them to the actual programmes? New band of the day – Angel Haze (No 1,293) 2012-06-22T08:00:00Z

Russell sees industrial invention as creative work, the envisioning of a product in terms of its personal, practical, and emotional connection to a consumer’s life—a work of imagination and of empathy. David O. Russell’s Self-Reflexive “Joy” 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z

Thousands of years after their invention, kites are still mesmerizing humanity with their wonder. From pterodactyls to flying fighters, kites are more fun than ever 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Anyway inventions don't spring from the brain fully formed. Christmas cards allow us to say much less to a greater number of people 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z

“Decade” throughout resounds with invention, its interplay of narratives providing a fractured response that comes to physically uniform life in one of the choreographer Scott Ambler’s many interpolated sequences of movement. Theater Review: Onstage in London, Works That Look Back in Time as They Move Forward 2011-09-20T12:00:07Z

He was born in Siberia in 1869, and very little is known about his early life, which “helped to make possible the invention of all sorts of tall tales.” ‘Rasputin’ Unravels the Myths of the ‘Mad Monk’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

In this premiere, 10 contestants show off their making prowess by creating models of themselves as food items and reimagining their favorite inventions from their childhood. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Making It’ and ‘Diamantino’ 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

But even with their inventions in storage, company members are giving a free virtual performance on Sunday: “The Paper Bag Players at Home With the JM.” Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

He’s explored the idea of patenting some of his inventions. The Last Days of wd~50 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

There is a display on the invention and evolution of the Anglepoise light. Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things – review 2013-02-03T00:05:26Z

Their approach to the cuisine of their childhoods is a mix of scholarship, invention and battle cry. Another Foothold for Philippine Cuisine 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

But if you admire theatrical invention and outrageousness, help yourself. | '666': The Spanish Trouple Yllana at the Minetta Lane Theater 2010-04-22T23:13:00Z

Victoria's popularity was undoubtedly boosted by her remarkable personal courage, but Murphy doesn't really prove his point that this was the invention of modern monarchy. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2013-01-18T21:00:07Z

From the new album he played pieces that revolved around urgent strumming and Celtic drones, along with a lovely Bach-like invention, “Pianoforte 2010,” that was a bit too delicate for the din of the room. Music Review: A Carefully Honed Image as a Master of the Ukulele 2011-01-22T00:26:37Z

Thomas Edison didn’t invent the first lightbulb, but his patent in 1880 demonstrated major improvements to an existing invention. Here’s an idea: Visit the Inventors Hall of Fame. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

But it seems kind of wacky to forage for the locus of this mess in the Hart affair – as opposed to, say, Roger Ailes’ biography or the invention of the internet. The Front Runner: the truth behind Hugh Jackman's scandalous new film 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

These are inventions enough for many children's theatres but not for this one, where so often angels and essences have been conjured out of wood and string and wool. The House Where Winter Lives; Hansel and Gretel; Pinocchio – review 2012-12-30T00:06:25Z

Each chapter of “Wonderworks” discusses multiple related texts and their hidden inventions: the “valentine armor” in Jane Austen, the “empathy generator” in “Oedipus Tyrannus,” the “gratitude multiplier” in “Middlemarch.” Art’s Greatest Enemy Might Not Be Science 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

Narrative depth may be in short supply, but the energy, invention and humor are bracing. Movie Review: ‘Frankenstein’s Army’ Pits World War II Soldiers and Cyborgs 2013-07-26T00:16:05Z

The New Grove Dictionary of American Music said that at its best, Carter's music "sustains an energy of invention that is unrivaled in contemporary composition." Composer, Pulitzer winner Carter dies in NY at 103 2012-11-06T02:07:08Z

Smashing sections on the local intersection of early airplanes and futurism, and the invention of the film festival, almost casually, in 1932. The Venice Lido by Robin Saikia ? review 2011-07-08T21:55:18Z

The couple pass a laptop back and forth, smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee in a frenzy of invention as they analyze Chris’s new crush. A Deflated Adaptation of the Singular Cult Novel “I Love Dick” 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Like Usnavi, the movie — bristling with ideas, verbal wit and musical invention — wears its heart on its sleeve. ‘In the Heights’ Review: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

In their visual freedom and invention, they gleefully anticipate “The Wizard of Oz.” Film: Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Camera 2010-02-27T03:00:00Z

Through the best Catholic invention of all time—nepotism—my uncle gave me a summertime job. The hoarder, the corpse and the overnight shift: My summer as a Manhattan doorman 2013-12-16T01:00:00Z

As usual, the composer orchestrates not only with tremendous skill but also with frenetic invention. SXSW Live-Streaming, Young Richard Pryor, and Nuclear Fear 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

The affair is pleasurably steamy, and however heretical O’Connor’s invention, it’s nice to see Emily Brontë having a bodice-ripping good time, especially given how steeped in sorrow her real life was. ‘Emily’ Review: A Brontë Sister’s Savage, Hardy and Free Life 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

But it is also possible to see Lagerfeld’s persona as just as significant an invention as his clothes. Karl Lagerfeld, and his problematic past, take center stage at the Met Gala 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Teicher is reaching back before the invention of metal taps to an earlier tradition of thumping and scraping, but he applies it to his own ends. Review: A Tap Prodigy, Growing Up in Public 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

Yet early screen depictions of World War I, like “The Big Parade” and “All Quiet on the Western Front,” show more passion and visual invention. Review: ‘Journey’s End’ Returns a Play About World War I to the Screen 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Madeleine Vionnet’s invention of the bias cut in the 1920s changed the fit of fashion and attitudes to the female body. Fashion Review: In Paris, the Couture Finale 2014-01-22T18:40:00Z

And the musical arrangements were meant to be contemporary, veering into various hip-hop offshoots, but not with any sort of invention. Review: In ‘The Wiz Live!’ on NBC, a Search for More in the Emerald City 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

When the show bursts into action, or insists upon making its characters intense and extraordinary — some of them fictionally take credit for real-world medical advances and inventions — it grows, paradoxically, proportionally less interesting. 'The Knick' is a bloody trip back to 1900-style doctoring 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

They published the results but didn’t see much call for their invention. Snowmaking is the most dangerous part of skiing 2013-02-23T13:00:00Z

The exhibition focuses on moments of resiliency and invention in response to pandemics, past and present. Perspective | How to survive a pandemic? Courage, resiliency and resistance to bad ideas. 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Certainly, Aiken is rich in invention, and sometimes he is also rich in art. Over time, the L.A. Times saw Conrad Aiken as brilliant, misunderstood and dishonest 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Three: The new picture reduces the role of Buba the mechanical owl, one of Harryhausen's signature inventions, to a perfunctory cameo. Clash of the Titans: A Hit from a Myth 2010-04-02T09:20:00Z

But it’s not like suicide is some new invention. “The Skeleton Twins”: Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader go dark in a potent sibling dramedy 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Since the invention of “womyn,” many people have come to prefer the term “queer” as a catchall for a number of L.G.B.T.Q. identities. Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Live in This Perfect Place? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

In both she uses specific phrases, such as a word of her own invention – "mindchange" – the mental equivalent of climate change, with equally apocalyptic consequences. 2121: A Tale from the Next Century by Susan Greenfield – review 2013-07-21T10:00:00Z

You don't hear so much about his sense of the zeitgeist, his canny grasp of psychology and the meticulous details of his musical invention. Madama Butterfly; Cavalleria rusticana; Pagliacci; Pierre-Laurent Aimard – review 2013-06-15T23:05:36Z

There were newfangled inventions: player pianos, phonographs and nickelodeons. Max Morath, Pianist Who Staged a One-Man Ragtime Revival, Dies at 96 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

Given a new name and image, a morality clause to conform to, and publicity stunts including staged romances with studio stablemates, the star’s persona began and ended with the inventions of the front office. Moguls and starlets: 100 years of Hollywood’s corrosive, systemic sexism 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

And neither is it the invention of the washing machine. Is scrapping workers' rights the Tories' idea of spreading privilege? 2012-10-13T23:06:35Z

My iPod The iPod was a brilliant, brilliant invention. Charlie Hunnam Is a Cat Person 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

It was one of many examples of Sarajevans’ humor and invention in the face of great suffering — resisting the hell of war by getting on with the business of creation. Sarajevo’s Enduring Optimism 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

"Roasts are an American invention, but they really ought to be British," he argues. Channel 4 launches comedy roast shows 2010-04-05T06:00:00Z

For Mr. Ray, sculptural invention takes the form of an excessive perfectionism, in which new scanning and casting technologies permit thrillingly off-key riffs on ancient forebears. In the Swim of Digital Images, There’s Nothing Boring About Sculpture 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

For a period film, there’s relatively little delight or invention in costume or style—the movie is odorless and textureless. Inherent Vice: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Nostalgia Trip 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

But it also abounds in a teeming sense of invention, bubbling with fantasy, while his sense of narrative structure – influenced as much by contemporary literature and cinema as music – was extraordinarily audacious and potent. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z

The strength of both shows, though, isn’t verisimilitude but invention. Theatre’s Superpower 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

It was also a recognition that its wild progenitor had been all but destroyed during the preceding century thanks to the invention of the steel plow. A native plant designer’s memoir reflects on a life in the field 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

A question that hovers over much of the exhibition is whether all the inventions on show will really, truly do all the things they hope to do and on a significant scale. Designs of the Year 2012 ? review 2012-02-12T00:05:52Z

Drawing on black influences, he made pop songs swing, while treating a new invention, the microphone, as if it were a friend’s ear. How Bing Crosby Changed the Course of Pop Music 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

I do miss Boo Boo, and her original invention, but at least I still have my teeth along with those sweet memories. Frozen cup: When the best part of summer cost just a quarter 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z

If the lyrics’ probing political sobriety might come across as something of a bummer, the music’s rousing invention is a kind of reminder not to curdle into passive cynicism. For Three Avant-Garde Musicians, It’s Time for Pop 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

And when her marriage goes the way of her vision, Carolina and Turri’s long-dormant passion blossoms into something potent enough to inspire the invention of... the typewriter. New Books by Ivan Doig, Ayelet Waldman and Lily King 2010-07-14T22:50:00Z

Behind everything was Mr. Wilson’s smartly skittering pulse, along with his rummaging sense of invention. Music Review: Matt Wilson Leads His Jazz Band at Iridium 2010-05-20T22:12:00Z

The background: We realise that rock'n'roll is a US invention – we're not that thick – but who came up with the idea of scuzzy Americana, the Yanks or the Brits? New band of the day ? No 1,087: Spectrals 2011-08-18T16:07:53Z

The first, the rumored farm site of glitter’s invention, refused to answer any of my questions. What Is Glitter? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Whenever you look behind any artist claiming to be authentic, you find the same story of invention, duplication, homage, unreality and indecipherability. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

Put another way, no one is scrambling to lay claim to the invention of the turkey sandwich. Was the cheeseburger actually invented in Louisville, Kentucky? 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

They’re still finalizing the details, but Russ Stein hopes there’s at least one item on the menu: a meatball-heavy pizza of his own invention. She proved them wrong: A deaf couple is opening a pizzeria in D.C. with all deaf employees 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

A brilliant talker and aphorist, a fast-walking, fast-talking fount of gossip and insights, cutting wit and grandiose dreams, wild impulses and crazy projects, incisive observations and boundless audacity, Brooke seems like an ingenious invention herself. “Mistress America” and the Art of Making a Living as an Artist 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

Confronted with his inventions, he occasionally mounted energetic defenses. He Was a Prominent Holocaust Survivor. But His Story Was a Hoax. 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

His work was a combination of artistic improvisation and low-budget invention. Perspective | Martin Margiela did himself a favor: He anticipated fashion’s future — and its failures 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

Then there is the element of sheer invention. Gaetano Pesce Adds ‘Performance Artist’ to His Portfolio 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

The huge, shape-shifting Cheshire Cat, dissolving and re-forming before your eyes as the orchestra describes a glissando miaow, is an invention of genius. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ? review 2011-03-06T00:10:18Z

These “traditional” gender roles have been reinforced in every society since the invention of the plow, and no amount of social revolution or personal enlightenment can make them vanish completely. Did I make it? 2012-11-18T17:01:00Z

The film’s idiosyncratic twists of plot give rise to ingenious stylistic inventions. What to Stream: “Tux and Fanny,” Albert Birney’s Boldly Imaginative Instagram Animation 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

The most recent piece on the album — “The Navigator,” which concludes this set — is a magnum opus of slippery, sinuous invention. 5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z