| 单词 | arcane |
| 例句 | So we erased all of Ravenskill’s memories of us with arcane magic. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Shush orders were an arcane type of magic, something their ancestors had used to keep dissenters quiet back when only the wealthiest had any rights. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “The Society of the Evening Star is an arcane organization that we all hoped had gone extinct decades ago,” Maddox explained. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z So his managers conspired to skip him ahead to a P-2, which, by the arcane rules of bureaucracy, didn’t have the same requirement. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The Fellini-esque quartet spoke in an arcane language and made references to people with feudal titles who lived centuries ago. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He quickly found the more arcane sites: alien abduction, UFO sightings, and the supernatural. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Simply being able to count was considered a talent as mystical and arcane as casting spells and calling the gods by name. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Punctuation isn’t some subtle, arcane concept that’s hard to manage and that probably won’t make much of a difference one way or another. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z To simulate gravity, feign grief and pretend supernatural intelligence of the hereafter in so fearsome and arcane a circumstance as death seemed the most criminal of offenses. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The passage can be cryptic, abstruse, arcane; these are symptoms of the curse of knowledge. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But as the largely self-educated son of a Kentucky farmer, he wasn’t able to tap into the knowingly arcane by-ways of classical history with which his predecessors were able to signal their patrician credentials. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Before I could protest, she laid a hand on my avatar’s chest and muttered a few arcane words. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And in the middle of the circle of children, like the object of some arcane ritual, there hovered a bomb, its downward-facing tip seemingly balanced on Adam’s outstretched finger. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I had foolishly discouraged McMillian's family from attending the oral argument because I knew that the issues were fairly arcane and that there would be very little discussion of the facts. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “If by witchcraft, you mean the arcane practice of reading. Your commander said we’d be tried for our crimes. I want you to tell me just what crime I’ve committed.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Within the ranks of his arcane field—an advanced technology called synthetic aperture radar, or SAR—he is an eminence. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother had lived with Robbie on and off since she was about sixteen, following every arcane rule the woman laid down, and it’s possible she was secretly happy to see Robbie’s authority challenged. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z By now the reader will not be surprised to learn that an apparently arcane debate about the distant past could become vehemently personal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The paper, with dozens of tables and arcane symbols to denote traits and variants, was challenging even for statisticians. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z All that arcane business about planets ascendant in this or that solar or lunar “house” or the “Age of Aquarius” comes from Ptolemy, who codified the Babylonian astrological tradition. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But buried among his arcane formulations were insights of the loftiest brilliance. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He's returning to the slightly arcane history of science. Oscar-winner Graham Moore's next novel: The battle over the lightbulb 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z I don’t want language that is artificial or arcane — just language that says things in such a way that we hear what is being said, and register it in the depths of us. Jeanette Winterson Owns the Entire Oxford English Dictionary 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Award bonus points for arcane trivia, frequent visits and thorny or new works. The Met Opera Is Struggling. How Can It Fill Those Empty Seats? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z They tend to be gathering places for the offbeat and eccentric, and they are repositories of arcane local knowledge. How to find a great cup of coffee in Charleston, S.C. — or wherever you go 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z With 2002's less benign Geogaddi, animated by an interest in religion, mathematics and numerology, the duo attracted the kind of people who spend long nights investigating the internet's more arcane precincts. Boards of Canada: Tomorrow's Harvest – review 2013-06-06T20:15:01Z Mr. Echols recently came to Brooklyn, where, dressed entirely in black and with arcane symbols tattooed on most of his visible skin, he spoke before a rapt crowd at the Brooklyn Bowl. Now Damien Echols Will Teach You the Secrets of Magick 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z If those titles aren’t arcane enough for you, I also picked up “Critical Approaches to Medieval Literature: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1958-1959.” Perspective | I did not spend my summer binge-watching TV. Here are the books I loved instead. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z “What seems like arcane scholarship,” he said, “can appear as a bombshell to young militants.” Claiming a Copyright on Marx? How Uncomradely 2014-05-01T02:53:35Z Though most of the 63 alphabetical entries — like napkins, forks and even picnic baskets — are common enough, there’s also a more arcane jib door, Louis XIV chair and flokati rug. A Compendium of Everyday Objects 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z His musical vocabulary is arcane to modern ears. Monteverdi's Flying Circus 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z Loesser’s ease with rhymed everyday speech, including the most arcane slang, was second to none. Music Review: Frank Loesser Songs at the New York Philharmonic 2012-03-27T22:52:16Z But a majority of works date from 2000 and are often arcane, ineffective or not especially innovative. Diving Into Movie Palaces of the Mind at the Whitney 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Clearly, the film’s creators are intimately acquainted with every rank, sweat-stained crevice of the supermacho culture of professional hockey, its arcane rituals and its profane, combative style of male camaraderie. Movie Review: ?Goon,? Directed by Michael Dowse 2012-03-29T21:23:35Z Tamura's sake list is broad, affordable and user friendly, offering helpful descriptors for the novice, and enough facts about region, percentage of rice milled, and other arcane information to satisfy the sake savvy. Sushi Kappo Tamura: Meshing Japanese concepts with American exuberance 2010-10-21T22:14:00Z In her definition, a dork is someone who is curious about every arcane and mundane aspect of a subject some may think isn’t exactly cool. Up Close: Yoga Blogger Covers the Lighter Side 2010-07-28T22:58:00Z In the trailer's starting area, arcane symbols appear on hillsides or between strange pillars. This Is the Creator of Journey's Stunning Next Big Indie Game 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z All three were Burns suppers, arcane evenings of ritual, poetry, and heavy food, normally held in late January, in honor of the birth of Scotland’s national bard, Robert Burns. Burns Night in the Age of Brexit and Trump 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z The outcome is a delightfully rum collection of anecdotes and arguments, some of them marvellously arcane in the most ludicrous navel-gazing Oxonian tradition, others touching on grander matters of state, foreign policy and high principle. Romantic contrarian 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z While Brits may jokingly describe the coin as a “pound of flesh,” it is thought to offer a glimpse of arcane art history. ArtsBeat Blog: Ancient Pornographic Artifact Discovered by the Thames 2012-01-05T18:30:48Z That may sound awfully arcane, but Mr. Brenton pokes ingenious fun at the debate’s potential dryness. London Theater Journal: Pomp and Circumstance 2010-08-03T19:04:00Z Such earthly demands push most scholars into academic jobs at colleges and universities, where they’re rewarded for producing arcane work that remains cloistered in the hallowed halls of academe. These books are brought to you with the help of Uncle Sam. 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Shea’s Achilles heel as an emcee, he confessed, is that he has an inclination to get arcane. The Aspiring Writer Who Became an Eating-Contest Emcee 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Not just the knowledge of world geography but the very conceptualisation of space in this late medieval map looks to us remote and arcane. Here be monsters 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z Larson covers a lot of ground — science, politics, history, adventure — and the book is dense at times, particularly when names and arcane bits of history tumble forth. Science and the Race for the South Pole 2011-06-03T16:50:45Z There have been arcane, ancient sculptures, canvases by little-known artists and bizarre objects like glass cabinets filled with medical supplies or cigarette butts. Art for Sale, No Introduction Needed 2011-04-28T17:58:20Z When a summer storm brings an arcane circus to a Midwestern town, two lads are torn from their humdrum ennui into a fantastical realm of bearded ladies, malevolent carnies and the infamous Illustrated Man. Salman Rushdie, Diana Gabaldon and other authors reflect on the books they find most transporting 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z The company is fighting to preserve an arcane rule adopted by the Republican-dominated Federal Communications Commission last year that effectively enabled it and other big media companies to buy more stations. Sinclair Broadcast Group solicits its news directors for its political fundraising efforts 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z Cue much intellectual globe-trotting and arcane pontificating as the novel transforms into a road trip of ideas. Review | Tom McCarthy’s ‘The Making of Incarnation’ is a mind-bending international caper 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z In the world of “The Plains,” which both is and isn’t Australia, the plain people and their plain speech also serve to conceal things—elaborate rituals, cosmologies, obscure passions, arcane knowledge. A Strange Australian Masterpiece About Our Relationship to the Land 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z What may look arcane, pagan or alien — that “Wicker Man” vibe I thought I wanted — is largely a celebration of “community, history and localism,” Ms. Neale says. The Weird, Mystic Pull of Southwest England 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Neal, for his own reasons, complies, and goes semistraight, using his arcane skills and exquisite sense of gamesmanship to thwart cons perpetrated by people who are, in many cases, just like him. Television: ‘White Collar,’ ‘Leverage’ and ‘Suits’: TV Criminals 2012-07-06T16:00:00Z They range from the crass and moronic, via the comically arcane, to the serious and brilliant. The best books on the Beatles 2012-09-26T07:00:15Z Too often, though, they’re lazy ploys to earn the audience’s buy-in, or to signal the connoisseurship and impressively arcane tastes of the filmmaker. Perspective | Filmmakers are making their soundtracks do all the work, and it’s getting a little lazy 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Of all the arcane relics of an ugly, patriarchal past that haunt the arts world, the persistent impulse to name things for influential or wealthy people is a bizarre survivor. Perspective | In light of Plácido Domingo’s fall, let’s rethink naming things after the rich and famous 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z When I entered my grandparents’ crumbling old house as a child, I stepped into a timeless world of praying, washing, ritual and arcane Brahminical rules around eating and the preparation of food. What’s in my name: tales that cross continents and generations 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z What’s at stake isn’t the arcane purview of a handful of film buffs, but a nation’s legacy, an industry’s institutional memory and an art form’s creative future. Perspective | The death of FilmStruck: Erasing cinema’s history will have only a negative effect on its future 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z And all these extraordinarily arcane people showed up and have been practicing, it turns out, every month for the last, like, 200 years. ‘The Crown’ Has a New Diana and Charles to Tear Apart 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Today most new Yorkers would need footnotes to understand the opening number of “Guys and Dolls,” with its arcane references to the “morning line,” “the horse likes mud,” “The Telegraph” and “five to nine.” Belmont Awaits Its Annual Return to Glory 2011-06-09T23:00:12Z But we haven’t heard enough from nurses, whose world is just as arcane and important. Christie Watson Is a Lovely Writer — and, Judging From This Book, a Gifted Nurse 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Computer technology, film theory, medicine, architecture; nothing was too arcane, or apparently distant from dance, to escape his questioning, magpie eye. Ballet's rock star 2011-01-02T00:03:05Z One day you’re arriving at a country estate on the most arcane of government assignments, trading icy barbs with a widowed heiress. ArtsBeat: ‘Downton Abbey’ Recap: Letters of Love and Not 2014-02-10T03:00:57Z And that, sports medicine doctors say, points to the problems: there is little or no uniformity among products, the labels are confusing and the ingredients are arcane. 2010-01-14T00:15:00Z If people are catching on to Uncle Lou, it isn’t because the restaurant, on Mulberry Street just north of Columbus Park, is brimming with arcane delicacies you can’t get anywhere else in the area. Uncle Lou Is a Restaurant for People Who Love Chinatown 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z This was pop fandom in 2020: competitive, arcane, sales-obsessed, sometimes pointless, chaotic, adversarial, amusing and a little frightening — all happening almost entirely online. How Pop Music Fandom Became Sports, Politics, Religion and All-Out War 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z While the show’s intricate plotting could drift to the arcane, particularly in later seasons, the series never gave up its central humanity — or its occasional, welcome moments of humor. The Best TV Shows of 2017 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Servers are well versed in the club’s arcane lore and customs. The Lobster Club Does Japanese, From Raw to Half-Baked 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z They obsess over “arcane rules and loopholes, scoring short-term successes while magnifying their institution’s broader dysfunction.” Crib Sheet: The 10 Things To Talk About This Weekend 2010-08-04T19:49:00Z Though some critics inevitably disdained Mr. Cahill’s books as middlebrow, many others, including eminent scholars, praised his gift for bringing arcane topics to life. Thomas Cahill, Popular Writer of Ireland’s History, Dies at 82 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z Deciphering Baudrillard’s arcane prose is like wading through treacle; Blade Runner is a ride you don’t want to get off. ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’: what Blade Runner 2049’s dystopia tells us about 2017 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z The subject matter here can grow fairly arcane, and the creators of the show know it. | 'House of Lies': ?House of Lies,? With Don Cheadle, on Showtime - Review 2012-01-07T00:39:31Z Lacking apparent utility and "relevance", the liberal arts, and in particular seemingly arcane subjects such as classics, get squeezed. Why the historically black Howard University shouldn't cull classics 2011-02-07T15:46:09Z Salon des Invites Renaissance-era cabinets of curiosities - those rooms filled with exotic geological samples, horns and feathers purportedly from fabled animals, and other arcane bric-a-brac - were the precursors to the modern museum. T Magazine: Salon des Invites 2012-11-05T14:00:29Z This ritual encounter begins in Iowa — blessedly so, I might add, despite the frequent lament that the state’s Republican voters are too conservative, that its caucus system is too arcane and exclusionary. Iowa’s Heartland Beyond the Campaign Trail 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z The result is a story of spiritual crises with a narrative range more expansive than Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead novels, which can sometimes feel liturgical in their arcane ruminations. Review | Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads’ represents a marked evolution in a dazzling career 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z You can easily move outward from the inner circle and make sense of other kinds of gigantic, staggered drift, maybe rougher or more arcane or less quantifiable. Big Ears Festival Resists Commercial and Genre Constraints 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z They memorize arcane facts about wine regions and winemaking, jot notes on index cards and quiz one another, rarely seeing their wives or girlfriends. Movie Review: ‘Somm,’ a Documentary by Jason Wise 2013-06-20T22:49:02Z "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana" is Eco's fifth novel, and like the others it comprises both traditional narrative storytelling and inventive discourses on arcane subjects while drawing on philosophy, history and literature. With 'Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana,' Umberto Eco considers identity 2005-06-13T04:00:00Z It toys with arcane ideas across seven movements, and with a summarizing “Epilogue” it’s more unified than any of Bach’s suites. Jennifer Koh’s Bach and Beyond Part III for Violin 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z "It's easy selling crack to kids in the schoolyard," he says of the CDIs and all the other arcane acronyms the Street sold to investors whose avarice was matched only by their gullibility. Oliver Stone's New Wall Street: Greed Is God 2010-09-23T08:25:00Z Old All-Stars Who Still Dazzle the Eye Those of us who love the arts often deify the arcane. Paper Gallery: Art Books on Winslow Homer, Mati Klarwein and Gustav Klimt 2013-01-17T22:01:35Z This museum excels at exhibitions that brim with somewhat arcane information embodied by visually dazzling objects, and few subjects qualify for that approach like color. 10 Under-the-Radar Art Shows to See Now 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z They share an air of relaxed intricacy and matter-of-fact experimentation, coming across as neither precious nor arcane. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z The stylistic challenges of French harpsichord music exceed those of Bach, with an equal number of uncertainties and arcane rules, particularly as to ornaments. French pianist Moulin shows promising talent in short but sweet performance Every year brings a fresh collection of all-too-believable tales of West Country bleakness, delivered in an unflinching monotone and garnished with impressively arcane jokes about pop culture. This week's new live comedy 2013-02-16T00:05:15Z Forty-seven songs; more than 20,000 words; fast-paced lyrics, abundant wordplay, complex rhyming patterns, plus allusions not only to hip-hop and musical theater but also to arcane aspects of early American history. They Translated ‘Hamilton’ Into German. Was It Easy? Nein. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z To shape the arcane language in a way that communicates the meaning is only the first hurdle an actor faces. ArtsBeat: Highlights From a Decade of Watching Shakespeare 2011-08-02T21:55:05Z Need to look up an arcane food fact? The six cookbook titles this longtime food editor could not give up 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z There is no feminine “ideal” any more and we are a richer culture and happier society for dispensing with our arcane filing system for humankind. My daughter needs plastic surgery – how can I tell her? | Dear Mariella 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z The painting evokes the arcane codes of a secret society as well as a sense of mystery and possibility. Male or female? Black or white? The paintings of Lezley Saar play with labels and expectations 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z There are essayists who can take the most arcane or trifling subjects and make them enthralling. An Essayist Searching for Alternate Worlds 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Goya’s dark visions — his sardonic, scathing, urgently exploratory tone — are behind so many of Thompson’s final works, with their black magic and bat wings and arcane allegory. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Because of arcane legal spells and incantations limiting its rights agreement, “Rings of Power” is working at Tolkien’s margins, using the six appendices to his trilogy as source fodder. ‘The Rings of Power’ Review: Shiny, Not Yet Precious 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Again, it was very nearly a one-man field: in the Soviet era, the topic was forbidden, and in the west it seemed arcane. Paul Foote obituary 2011-04-05T17:45:40Z These are drawings of the most arcane refinement, unearthly beautiful. Abroad: Caravaggio in Ascendance: An Antihero?s Time to Shine 2010-03-10T02:49:00Z The hobby had an arcane, almost Victorian dustiness to it, akin to collecting stamps or coins. How Much Would You Pay for a Houseplant? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z What if they were actually centers of arcane magic?’” A Star of Y.A. Imagines a Supernatural Ivy League in Her Debut for Adults 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z There’s one fairly arcane scene in the new film, set in an anti-Catholic nightclub, where highly sectarian Protestant patrons are obsessed with the 1690 Battle of the Boyne. The ‘Trainspotting’ junkies are back, but it’s more than drugs that are eating at them. 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z And figurative elements help to make sense of arcane financial transactions, like three prowling, red-eyed velociraptors that represent structures for hiding debt. Drama! Music! Financial Shenanigans! 2010-02-20T05:21:00Z Several hundred decisions, major and minuscule, common-sensical and arcane, went into configuring the room. In Redesigned Room, Hospital Patients May Feel Better Already 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Moses has a surprisingly natural way of blending these two disparate registers, so even the most arcane passages seem to spring naturally from the mouths of these eager students. | 'Completeness': ?Completeness,? by Itamar Moses - Review 2011-09-14T02:01:02Z Atkins speaks with equal naturalness about the most arcane poetry and the newest computer graphics software, and at 38 he still has a baby face, offset by flecks of gray hair. Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Umberto Eco, an Italian scholar in the arcane field of semiotics who became the author of best-selling novels, most notably the blockbuster medieval mystery “The Name of the Rose,” died on Friday in Italy. Umberto Eco, Italian Semiotician and Best-Selling Author, Dies at 84 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z In the late 1970s, they secured cuts to the capital gains tax and changes to arcane regulations governing how easily pension funds could place money with venture capitalists. How the Department of Defense Bankrolled Silicon Valley 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z The belief system of the happy inhabitants of Hårga seems to be a mix of northern European paganism, occult tradition, arcane numerology and made-up nonsense. Midsommar: what the hell just happened? Discuss with spoilers 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z The rebels’ hideout is filled with arcane and dysfunctional machinery. Fantasy worlds get an upgrade with alternate technology 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z In private, friends say, Ms. Clinton is much more Bill Clinton’s daughter — voluble and argumentative, warm with a biting sense of humor and a knack for remembering arcane facts. Chelsea Clinton, Living Up to the Family Name 2011-12-03T23:32:03Z One episode traces the history of offices back to monks; many others address arcane elements of Irish mythology. An Outsider Takes on Ireland, From Inside a Plastic Bag 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z At the same time, anxiety about the value of what Sotomayor characterizes as “comically arcane” research is almost always near the surface of statements valuing “majestic” knowledge and expertise. What makes the ideal university? Six values that power higher education at its best 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z He brought arcane wisdom from afar: on astral projection, past lives and the power of the mind to bend and shape reality. Till Seth Do Us Part 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Scholars including Morrison H. Heckscher, chairman of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, provided the text, describing clockworks in geek-fests of arcane phrases like “rack-and-snail hour strike” and “anchor recoil escapement.” Antiques: Do-It-Yourself Comes to Collector Publishing 2010-02-19T06:03:00Z Both seem utterly sincere in their efforts to capture the odd scraps that others tend to dismiss as trivial or arcane, the traces of our passing presence in the world. Between Birth and Death, Some Dancing and a Little Mystery 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z It’s true that rap is routinely made up of arcane local vernacular, references to pop culture, snippets of other rap lyrics and even music-industry, inside-baseball jargon. Riff: Lady Mondegreen and the Miracle of Misheard Song Lyrics 2012-07-13T18:54:28Z He owned a gas station, and spun a long tale of opportunities lost and grievances mostly voiced at government, many of them arcane and petty. What I learned after 100,000 miles on the road talking to Trump supporters 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The subject may be arcane, but the treatment is zany. With ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen tackles the Web, mothers, the truth 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z We're more likely to learn the precise machinations of how the next pope is alighted upon than the arcane politicking and horsetrading that led to the selection of Tyler. In its bid to win the Eurovision war, the BBC is going nuclear with Bonnie Tyler 2013-03-07T17:42:09Z Yes, she’s a serial college dropout and a judge’s daughter with an encyclopedic knowledge of every arcane subject and a Merriam-Webster dictionary nestled amid the underwear in her red plaid valise. When Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal Went Screwball 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z There are a couple of Proms things I do know about in advance for various arcane professional reasons, but the broad sweep of the season is still shrouded in mystery for me. My fantasy Proms lineup 2010-04-07T15:26:00Z It is not that fashion never requires translation; a lot of it is arcane even to adepts. The Year in Style: Daphne Guinness, Fashion?s Wild Child 2010-12-31T04:15:37Z Rudolf was also intellectual and particularly fascinated with the erudite and arcane. Bartholomeus Spranger’s wild, weird and voluptuous art at the Met In this wildness there is something timeless, something arcane. Don’t write off Mississippi: Before you dismiss us as “a garbage state,” listen to the queer Southerners you’re leaving behind 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The world of Magic can seem arcane from the outside. The Twenty-Five-Year Journey of Magic: The Gathering 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z This may come as a surprise to anyone who has heard the numerous accounts of customers’ being tossed out of Shopsin’s for any number of arcane infractions. How to Complain at a Restaurant? Just Ask Our Critic 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z The result was a sort of “Rube Goldberg Variations,” disguising virtuoso exertions with arcane mechanical gags. Music Review: Piano by Jacob Greenberg and Reinier van Houdt at Spectrum 2014-03-26T20:59:42Z He spent a working lifetime not simply in the kitchen testing unusual seasonings and combinations of ingredients, but also in libraries poring over texts for the arcane details of food preparation. Gil Marks, Historian of Jewish Food and Culture, Dies at 62 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z He is introduced as a sort of scholar-about-town, with his little car and his arcane knowledge of the city. An Irish Flâneur, Greeting the Past on His Present Wanderings 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Women may be responding to the still arcane conventions of spousal roles, which contrast with growing equality in other institutions, such as the workplace. Why Women Are More Likely to Ask for a Divorce 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z We fetishize genius because it is too much work to figure out the complicated, often technical and sometimes arcane discourse of art, or music or science. Perspective | Netflix’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ is a revenge fantasy against elites — making it perfect for the age of Trump 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Except it was more labour-intensive, silvery and arcane than that nursery-rhyme suggests. Making a book from a lump of lead 2013-05-23T09:57:09Z Yet, no matter her/his gender or the arcane rules laid down by the Changers Council, our intrepid protagonist doggedly continues to love the same fiercely intelligent girl. Trans-ported: the power of walking in someone else’s shoes 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z I was even watching arcane films of folk traditions in Northumberland and stuff like that. Andrew Weatherall: 'Never take the Guardian on to a building site' 2013-02-06T16:50:00Z Racine’s drama was treated as if it were a script for a telenovela; Stevenson’s tale became the subject of an arcane TV game show. The Films of Raúl Ruiz Come to Lincoln Center 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Indeed, anyone who’s taught will recognize these characters, tightly bound in their arcane knowledge and rancid grievances. Review | Irritated by tweedy academic types? Read this wonderful campus comedy. 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z These range from the arcane and baffling to walks and cycle rides aimed at opening up fresh perspectives of the miasmic city. Best of the London Festival of Architecture 2010-06-16T11:56:00Z “See, that’s the thing. I constantly advocate for this arcane idea of letting the work speak for itself.” Kathryn Bigelow on Detroit: ‘There’s a radical desire not to face the reality of race’ 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The key to a show like this is not leaving behind the casual race fan by wading too deeply into the arcane language of handicapping and odds making. Television Review: ‘Horseplayers’ on Esquire Network Follows High Rollers 2014-01-20T22:25:15Z Four questioners brought up immigration and the Mexican border, while three asked about the filibuster, the arcane Senate rule that will be key to getting legislation passed. For media, Biden news conference notable for what’s missing 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z He moved the works produced by the Commonwealth government from the cramped, arcane and disordered into the modern era, and left strong foundations for the process to continue. John Pitson obituary 2011-02-20T17:57:51Z And above them, like cathedral spires, rose the stacks, shelf after shelf, carrying a book for every card below, books ranging in subject from the majestic to the comically arcane. What makes the ideal university? Six values that power higher education at its best 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z A tale in which even the most minor infractions to male self-esteem are settled through the arcane code of dueling, “Rules of Seconds” exploits the suspense of its situation with an insouciant tongue-in-cheek spirit. Amy Brenneman as a damsel in distress? 'Rules of Seconds' has some surprises up its sleeve 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z And anyone who has actually gone to the trouble of perfecting this arcane talent doesn’t want an audience to miss a single gem-like word. Learning 'Lear': The How-To's of Hub-Bub 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Our notion of space as arcane as the flat earth. Mexican marvels: DBC Pierre and the axolotls 2012-06-20T22:22:00Z “Game of Thrones,” Harry Potter books and movies and “The Lord of the Rings” all popularized fantasy storytelling and pushed arcane nomenclature like orcs, sorting hats and Valyrian steel into wider circulation. In a Chaotic World, Dungeons & Dragons Is Resurgent 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z The questions they asked were not arcane or academic but practical and real. How would the Stoics cope today? | Ryan Holiday 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z This museum excels at exhibitions that brim with somewhat arcane information embodied by visually dazzling objects, and few subjects reward that approach like color. 31 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z He selected the artists for the Sisley project and then let them follow their own muses, from the familiar to the arcane. | Art on Your Sleeve 2010-09-22T15:42:00Z Wayne Shorter is not only one of jazz’s greatest composers but its angel of esotericism, an enlightened and arcane elder. Wayne Shorter, Jazz’s Abstruse Elder, Isn’t Done Innovating Yet 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z They recount their character’s metamorphosis to a living person and ask sometimes arcane questions — “What is the relation between a sign and melancholia?” Review: ‘H {N)Y P N(Y} OSIS,’ Out of This World, at Park Avenue Armory 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Goldberg's pictures are hazy and abstract, marked by the deep orange and yellow hues of analog warmth overlaid with the arcane trappings of analog imperfection. Actor Adam Goldberg, of 'The Jim Gaffigan Show,' is an analog man living in a digital world 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Over the past year, critical race theory has gone from arcane legal concept to potent political rallying cry, as Republican legislatures have rushed to introduce bills banning it and other “divisive concepts” in public schools. Bans on Critical Race Theory Threaten Free Speech, Advocacy Group Says 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z And his point is not just about the arcane jargon of "concerto" and "oratorio". Doomed? 2011-05-12T12:33:19Z “While the show’s intricate plotting could drift to the arcane, particularly in later seasons, the series never gave up its central humanity — or its occasional, welcome, moments of humor,” she wrote. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Walking Dead’ and ‘Encore’ 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z His day job involved explaining the arcane workings of second-inversion dominants and Neapolitan sixths to a class of puzzled undergraduates that included me. Accessing a Place Of Shaggy Wildness 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z Oliver, a.k.a. “the British Milhouse,” does his civic duty by trying to explain the complex and arcane process so Americans can understand how a president is made. John Oliver Challenges The Caucus and Primary Systems 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z He possesses a blend of discernment and arcane fish knowledge that, so far, computers have yet to replicate. The Last Robot-Proof Job in America? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z A conspiracy thriller filled with bewildering connections, dark conjecture and arcane information, The House of Rumour perhaps most resembles The Da Vinci Code, rewritten by an author with the gifts of characterisation, wit and literacy. The House of Rumour by Jake Arnott – review 2012-06-29T07:00:02Z With the Kremlin occupied by someone of true machiavellian stature, invading neighbouring countries, assassinating dissidents with arcane poisons, sapping the foundations of international democracy, Vladimir Putin has all boxes ticked on the malefactor’s charter. Back from the red – return of the Russian baddie 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z And the lyrics, with elaborate syntax popular with poets when the words were drafted a century ago, fluster many with arcane metaphors such as that of a land "lying eternally in its splendid cradle." As protests simmer, Brazil's national anthem soars at World Cup 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Because of that, their union would seem to have been prohibited by the arcane diktats of the Royal Marriage Act of 1772. Tina Brown on the Final Two Episodes of ‘The Crown’: Love and Duty 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Despite its high anecdotal and amusement quotient, Jack Lynch’s fine book does deal with some fairly arcane material. ‘You Could Look It Up’: The world before and since Wikipedia 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z The most hardcore war games are astoundingly complex, and at that time, the genre was getting only more arcane. The Cold War-themed board game that feels more relevant than ever 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Still, that arena of pistons and camshafts can be just as fascinating as any other arcane craft, which is what drew me to Wayne Harrison’s new novel, “The Spark and the Drive.” ‘The Spark and the Drive,’ by Wayne Harrison They each dramatize a love affair set against the backdrop of Brexit, using the most universal and gratifying human experience to illuminate one of the most arcane and incomprehensible. The Brexit Romance: Finding Love in Irreconcilable Times 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z It’s not clear who won that one, but scholars today still debate the validity of Scaino’s arcane theory of the origins of the game’s odd scoring system. The Antiquarian Book Fair: From Sondheim’s Letters to a Brontë Discovery 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Now that poem, rendered in its creator’s arcane handwriting, appears at the start of his autobiography, “Greenlights,” which Crown will publish on Tuesday. Matthew McConaughey Wrote the Book on Matthew McConaughey 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z But this unfussy account of an arcane local ritual ends with screams. Ghost stories 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z “The Effect” shares the principal virtue of “Enron,” in that it makes complicated and arcane material utterly accessible. Review: ‘The Effect,’ About Falling in Love While Taking Antidepressants 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z He also knew Proust and helped inspire the character Charles Swann; the fictional and real aesthetes, Mr. de Waal writes, were “both experts in the arcane subject of Venetian 15th-century medallions.” Antiques: 264 Carvings Tell History of Edmund de Waal?s Family 2010-08-12T21:10:00Z As a scientist not intimidated by arcane theories, he had only scorn for psychiatrists’ methodology and felt supremely confident in challenging their theories of homosexual pathology. The Brilliant Astronomer Who Devised New Tactics to Fight Anti-Gay Bias 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The police, he says, tried to shut down the venue, citing Seattle's arcane Teen Dance Ordinance as a justification. Seattle's Dave Meinart is a nightlife entrepreneur and a political player 2010-07-16T21:08:00Z "Crooked," Austin Grossman's clever new supernatural novel, delves into even more arcane territory. In Austin Grossman's supernatural novel, 'Crooked,' Richard Nixon meets H.P. Lovecraft 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z But Gould was already markedly odd in his manner: gauche and abrasive, he was often absorbed by the increasingly arcane rituals with which he sought to control his personal environment. Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie – review 2013-07-05T17:10:01Z The subjects of the convolutes run from “Panorama,” “Mirrors,” “Fashion,” and the famous “Flâneur” to the more arcane “Dream City and Dream House, Dreams of the Future, Anthropological Nihilism, Jung.” Walter Benjamin’s Unfinished Magnum Opus, Revisited Through Contemporary Art 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Mr Steinmetz’s prose does not always sparkle and some arcane details of banking history are fuzzy, but the tale of Fugger’s aspiration, ruthlessness and greed is riveting. Goldenballs 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z I'm in my early 40s, and the joke presumed thorough knowledge of pop culture made within my lifetime, much of it arcane. Should comedy worry about its shelf life? 2011-03-14T14:30:00Z Aly is an earnest, tireless compiler of the often arcane or overlooked, yet there is something raw, never quite finished, if always usefully suggestive, in his approach. What Were the Origins of the Holocaust? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z The language can be arcane, and the literary satire is accessible to only a handful of Renaissance literature scholars. Shakespeare's 'Love's Labor's Lost': Kathleen Marshall directs a winner at the Old Globe 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z I hold up this stereotype of college—an addled, existential wrestling with knowledge among arcane intellectuals—not as an ideal, but as a dramatic foil to Millennial expectation. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z Faced with all this, a retreat into the world of arcane academia must be enticing. Towering folly: why architectural education in Britain is in need of repair 2013-05-30T07:00:07Z He created an elaborate game with arcane rules that could only be played in this courtyard, under this linden tree. Pasta Dreams and Flying Machines: Our Tuscan Adventure 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z All of this appears designed to impart to the potential audience member the fact that much of what awaits them will be puzzling and arcane, and some of it simply unknowable. Inception: confusion can be good 2010-06-04T09:25:00Z They also took Jack through some of the script's arcane, profane terminology. Close up: Jodie Foster aims to help scientists make contact 2011-08-18T16:38:32Z Carey cements the essential foundation for the arcane doings by establishing the two families as quintessentially real and believable. Review | ‘Lucifer’ writer Mike Carey continues to cement his status as a novelist 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z The episode was also timely in a much more minor and arcane fashion: its title, “Loser Edit,” echoed a recent column by Colson Whitehead in The New York Times Magazine. 'The Good Wife' Recap: It's Gross, You're Gross 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z To understand this week's brouhaha, you must delve into the arcane word of "cosplay" – a word I'd never even heard until exhaustive research for Laughing Stock led me to the Doctor Who website Kasterborous.com. Stephen Merchant flies solo and Simon Pegg crash lands into 'sexism' row 2012-07-24T15:24:39Z He wore multiple pairs of black-framed glasses around his neck so that he always had the right pair with him, ready to sketch the most arcane architectural details. Rafael Viñoly, Global Architect of Landmark Buildings, Dies at 78 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z It's essential viewing both for cinema scholars and for people who want to see what seal-hunts and arcane tribal ceremonies looked like in the early 20th century. 'Mockingjay Part 1' sets up 'Hunger Games' finale nicely 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Much of the seafood eaten doesn’t come from the island’s own waters, in part because of arcane legislation that controls fishing rights. Von Diaz’s Essential Puerto Rican Recipes 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z The one room, stacked high with books and dusty brown boxes, is organised like a garden shed: apparently haphazard, it's actually a miracle of arcane categorisation. We're all going on a ... 2011-07-30T23:04:12Z Nate Silver — the closest thing there is to a celebrity in the arcane field of statistical journalism — is not wildly optimistic about that. Perspective | Nate Silver will make one firm prediction about the midterms. Most journalists won’t want to hear it. 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z He even got the editors of the Bluebook — the legal profession’s arcane but rigorously adhered-to citation bible — to change its rules in its 2021 edition, requiring cases involving slavery to be identified. Fighting racial bias with an unlikely weapon: Footnotes 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Her books are packed with arcane flora and fauna and eccentrically named towns and characters. Books of The Times: A Novelist Wills Her Dream Home Into Being 2011-01-04T17:12:56Z The presence of a Punch doll in the nursery gives brainy Detective Arthur Bryant ample room to expound on arcane puppet lore. Crime fiction: new works by Thomas Perry and Cara Black 2012-03-07T22:57:05Z Mr. Hunt and Mr. Sanders are supposed to be competing, but sometimes the arcane rules of the game require them to work as a team. Television Review: ‘Owner’s Manual,’ a Reality Show, Makes Its Debut on AMC 2013-08-14T23:04:16Z “There is also a host of arcane Massachusetts laws that are still on the books,” he said. 'Necrophilia legislator' on a crusade to outlaw loophole of arcane era 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z The connections aren't always obvious but they make peculiar sense in the film, even if you don't get wise to PES's arcane visual and verbal puns. Best short films on the web 2010-12-19T00:04:08Z There's an arcane mathematical discipline called "information theory" that underpins all digital communications nowadays and yet resolutely disdains to make any connection between information and meaning. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z Happily, the Web site iomoi has bamboo pens and snazzy pencils that could rekindle the arcane art of penmanship. | A Year of Favorites 2010-12-21T18:32:55Z “It’s an unfathomable web of arcane mystery,” he says. Jewels from ‘The Crown’: A costume exhibition at Delaware’s Winterthur Museum 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z His descriptions of the capital are exquisite and exhaustive in their detail, making it feel like a foreign place filled with arcane rituals and hierarchies. Leo Hollis's top 10 books about cities 2013-04-26T07:37:40Z Yet some of the most notable moments come in the arcane debates over policy. 'Hamilton' offers American history with a hip-hop beat 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z “Lodge 49” gets to its story eventually, enfolding real estate, surfing and the arcane secrets of alchemy. The Best TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Personal episodes mingle effectively with engaging disquisitions on, say, the dilution of antitrust law, the financialization of modern medicine and other arcane economic issues that rarely intrude so forcefully in the pages of literary fiction. Review | Ayad Akhtar’s play ‘Disgraced’ won a Pulitzer Prize. Now ‘Homeland Elegies’ shows what that success cost him. 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z The seminal event—the “big bang,” in Mr. McCullough’s view—was the Netscape IPO on Aug. 9, 1995, when the stock of a fairly obscure company peddling a seemingly arcane product went on sale. ‘How the Internet Happened’ Review: Building a World Online 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z To many visitors today, figures of saints and Bible stories are as arcane as Egyptian gods and myths. Making Museums Moral Again 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z As often happens when curators immerse themselves in a subject, weird and arcane facts emerged. Inside Art: Carsten H?ller Is Installing a Slide at New Museum 2011-10-06T22:52:27Z He has a way of packaging really arcane material in a popular manner.” Jesse Pearson, an Editor in His Third Act 2013-02-01T22:54:46Z The sport has its own arcane terminology, with difficulty ratings like V5. Social Climbing Has a Whole New Meaning 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Apology’s content, a mix of fiction, literary nonfiction, photography and cultural reporting, ranges from the comedic to the arcane. Jesse Pearson, an Editor in His Third Act 2013-02-01T22:54:46Z It also contains an arcane reminder of ancient Christian-Jewish relations, tucked away in a dark corner. Tracing Jewish History Along the Rhine 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The next step for the IBM machine and its programmers: taking its mastery of the arcane and applying it to help doctors plow through blizzards of medical information. Machines beat us at our own game: What can we do? 2011-02-17T13:31:05Z The arcane palindrome is not promoting a new flavor of toothpaste or a rock band's latest album. Ace Hotel joins growing billboard art movement in a big way 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The issue might sound arcane, but it has significant financial implications, because Tony Awards can drive ticket sales. Eyeing Tonys, ‘Shuffle Along’ Hopes to Be Classified a Revival 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z The result was unpleasantly like that of a reality television final episode, or some arcane Olympic event that required a lot of gung-ho patriotic explaining beforehand. The real debate winner was Anderson Cooper: Who knew good journalism still makes for great TV? 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Long celebrated for his compelling, cerebral books, Powers demonstrates a remarkable ability to tell dramatic, emotionally involving stories while delving into subjects many readers would otherwise find arcane. Review | The most exciting novel about trees you’ll ever read 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z In any case, the exercise proved too arcane for the 21st-century general public, for whom double features were as quaint as quill pens. DVDs: Hot and Sticky Grindhouse, Classics and Homages 2010-10-03T01:53:00Z “Harry” finds himself just as puzzled by departmental expense chits, arcane filing systems, contrived acronyms and where, in all of London, can be found a decent cup of coffee? A maze of danger and deception in newly reissued spy novels 2013-12-06T22:54:24Z This sometimes arcane but highly effective assemblage of rare furnishings, artifacts and a smattering of art and printed matter is a kind of exploration of taste as biography, through exhibition. Art Review: ‘Salvaging the Past,’ on Hoentschel, at Bard Graduate Center 2013-05-09T20:53:25Z Around this time, as stacks of books on arcane knowledge rose around him, Mr. Laffoley began keeping handwritten illustrated journals with voluminous annotations. Paul Laffoley, Painter Inspired by Time Travel and Aliens, Dies at 80 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Yet the album is more focused on delivering a soulful sound that is neither too arcane, nor too mainstream. Review: 'Twilight' breaks out mourners for last CD 2012-11-12T16:46:08Z More than 150 pages later, he had produced a document overflowing with arcane details, some eventually pared away, like a four-page description of how violin strings were made in the 19th century. The Carpetbagger: What the Writer Had to Edit From ‘12 Years a Slave’ 2014-01-16T23:00:12Z Lewis wrote this piece as one of four original works for Audible, and it shows off his ability to humanize and make fascinating even the most arcane data. New & Noteworthy 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z References both arcane and popular pour forth in the kind of lucid sentences that could be slotted right into one of his hyper-articulate, syntactically articulated scripts. Whit Stillman Pays a Visit to Jane Austen 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The ambiguity of the term, the fact that its definition remains unsettled even among legal scholars, only serves to bolster the position that the rule is arcane. Don’t be a Ted Cruz birther: Liberals should reject the xenophobia behind “natural born” citizenship 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Of Shakespeare’s plays, “Love’s Labor’s Lost” is one of the trickier ones to pull off, writes Times theater critic Charles McNulty, with its arcane language and satire intended for devotees of Renaissance literature. Essential Arts & Culture: Norton Simon keeps its Cranachs, Doug Aitken lands at MOCA, the power of 'Carré' 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z Because of the arcane nature of the case, it is difficult to speculate along political lines what the court will do. The Supreme Court May Change the Way You Buy Wine 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Pardlo’s writing is often pointedly arcane, poking fun at the self-consciousness of academic and critical discourse. Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Winner for Poetry, on His Sudden Fame 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Opera should never become merely the rote execution of arcane gestures, removed from any actual meaning or purpose. On spinning in opera (and going through the motions) 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z He is saying, simultaneously, something simplistic but important — racism is toxic — and something complex but relatively arcane — don’t believe this image, don’t take anything literally, don’t trust first impressions. Review | In Jeff Wall’s photographs, it’s all about the details. But are they important? 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Such arcane knowledge smacked of elitism in an increasingly egalitarian age. What America Owes to the Greeks and Romans 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z It’s arcane and complicated, something about the licensing of dietitians and nutritionists. Mr. CrossFit vs. Big Soda: A profane fitness guru’s wonky war with the soda industry 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z On Thursday night at a post-performance discussion with the audience, Mr. Williams rattled off, with extreme precision, yet more arcane details about the Graeae. Dance Review: Christopher Williams Works at Dance New Amsterdam 2010-06-09T00:18:00Z Zealous enthusiasm for the politically charged and frequently arcane theories that energized departments in the 1970s, ’80s and early ’90s — Marxism, structuralism, psychoanalysis — has faded. Next Big Thing: Literary Scholars Turn to Science 2010-03-31T22:36:00Z He prided himself on making arcane debates among economists and business leaders understandable, often using an anecdotal or irreverent approach to explain a complicated issue. George Goodman, TV’s ‘Adam Smith,’ Dies at 83 2014-01-03T18:55:35Z Within his benign cultural fief, Mr. Schwartz is a star maker, whose passion for the most arcane details of popular musical history is boundless. Music Review: Saluting a Radio Man Who?s One of a Kind 2011-07-14T22:48:03Z “I myself delve into very arcane things,” Mr. Guest said, waxing gleeful about a website dedicated solely to shoelaces. Christopher Guest: No Eccentric Obsession Left Behind 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Etiquette is often misunderstood as a set of arcane or arbitrary behaviors governing how to sit or the right way to eat asparagus. The new rules of cannabis: how to pass the joint and more 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z There will be disquisitions on arcane topics including, frequently, mapmaking. A Mother Keeps Wartime Secrets in Michael Ondaatje’s New Novel 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z In a missive for sci-fi magazine Asimov’s, published in 2004, Ebert recalls how “Fandom was a secret society and I had admission to friends everywhere who spoke the same arcane language.” Roger Ebert was the original fanboy 2013-04-05T16:50:00Z Gone are the days when auctions included the unexpected; gone too, for the moment anyway, are the more arcane works that appeal mostly to connoisseurs. Art: A Bouquet of Offerings to Test Uncertain Waters 2011-10-30T04:00:12Z For more arcane references, footnotes can only add to the pungency of the humour and the social commentary. Poem of the week: Twenty-eight and Twenty-Nine by Winthrop Mackforth Praed 2011-01-04T10:56:26Z Kidd has become well known beyond the arcane world of graphic design through a continuous flow of magazine and newspaper profiles, radio interviews and TED talks, as few others in the industry have. A Decade in Book Design 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Jentleson understands the inner workings of the institution, down to the most granular details, showing precisely how arcane procedural rules can be leveraged to dramatic effect. As the Georgia Runoffs Arrive, a New Book Says the Senate Is Broken 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z It's a romantic story: A young woman, plucked from her arcane studies, reinvigorates a stagnant community with the power of her song. 'The Sound of Music' at the Ahmanson is fresh and lively 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Photograph: Justin Lubin/AP It doesn't matter how many drugs they take, or Malawian orphans they adopt, or arcane but fashionable religions they profess, Hollywood actors always claim to be "ordinary". America's funniest man 2010-08-21T23:08:00Z The others require a vast knowledge of arcane make believe and are boring. The All-Stars of ‘Star Wars’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The majority of my interactions with online friends is perpetuating some injoke so arcane that nobody remembers how it started or what it actually means. When the Internet was for strangers 2013-02-17T17:00:00Z I like the arcane rules, I like the crash of helmet on helmet — and that last is obviously the problem. Motherlode Blog: Will the concussion risk ever push parents to keep their children out of football? 2012-01-12T18:24:44Z TIFF, which this year will show more than 300 movies during its run of 11 days, is as valuable to programmers of arcane, experimental work as it is to theater owners looking for straight-up crowd-pleasers. Perspective | Want to know who will rule the upcoming awards season? Keep an eye on Toronto, the Oscar kingmaker. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z “Zoning determines so much, but it’s so boring and so arcane,” says Woo. An art group's mini-golf links take on L.A. zoning, density and Trump's Palos Verdes golf course 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z “Jeopardy!” may hinge on one’s mastery of the arcane, but it also insists that a fact is a fact, no matter what. Perspective | In the dumbest and darkest of times, Alex Trebek maintained a safe space for intelligence 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z Sometimes legal ethics can be complicated or arcane, but any schoolchild can identify an effort to bribe a judge as wrong. 'The Fall of the House of Zeus': Portrayal of lawyer's fall not a pretty picture 2011-01-06T00:11:06Z He was right: Mr Böhmermann may now face charges under an arcane German law which criminalises insults against foreign heads of state. A right, not a duty 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The show is really a demonstration of deduction, yet nothing about it is abstract or arcane. Exhibition Review: In Dinosaur Science, Size Is Just the Beginning 2011-04-14T21:59:16Z At times they broke into some kind of arcane code language: “I jumped from nobody on the street, straight to TSSCI.” Edward Snowden meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack: ‘He was small and lithe, like a house cat’ 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Among its 100,000 entries are details of releases so arcane they make the Lennon single look like a copy of Do They Know It's Christmas?. Britain's rarest record – yours for £200,000 2012-11-22T19:30:02Z This is his fourth attempt to restore a Petipa ballet using arcane dance notations stowed away in the Harvard Theater Collection. Review: ‘Harlequinade’ Has Charming Baubles, but Why Do It? 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z It is, after all, just a simple bit of paint: one more arcane marking in an urban landscape filled with street art and random splashings; a small-caliber mystery in a big city rich with secrets. An Artist?s Alfresco John Hancock 2010-09-18T00:13:00Z Now, with his project Car Seat Headrest, he releases the studio album “Teens of Denial,” a promising collage of arcane references, knotty confessionals and sturdy lo-fi rock rumbles. Pop & Rock Listings for May 20-26 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z It’s thick with scientific references, tech talk, arcane erudition and historical research, and it features a child born black to white parents. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Though the Beach Boys sing beautifully, the arcane songs puzzled some of the group members. Brian Wilson's lost 'Smile' album finally unearthed, with all the trimmings 2011-11-02T14:39:00Z There is an arcane, fateful quality to this work; the author’s voice opens like a vessel for his entire era to echo through, even as it rings Biblical, apocryphal, as in “The Widow,” for example: W. S. Merwin in The New Yorker 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Antitrust is an unusually arcane area of the law, not easily accessible to a wide public. Amy Klobuchar on Breaking Up Giant Corporations 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z Sellers with a good-faith belief in their ownership rights enter a landscape in which ethics and regulations are evolving, governments are increasingly assertive, and lawyers versed in arcane statutes are as necessary as jungle guides. Sotheby?s Caught in Dispute Over Prized Cambodian Statue 2012-02-28T20:30:53Z I think they show off technical skills too much and choose too arcane theses. No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z The show is also a lesson in the arcane world of fishing law. Critic?s Notebook: New TV: ?Gator Boys? and ?American Stuffers? 2012-01-01T18:02:55Z As the novel opens, Pinhead is approaching the end of a monumental — and genocidal — mission: destroying all living human magicians, usurping their powers and absorbing their arcane knowledge. ‘The Scarlet Gospels,’ by Clive Barker 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Filled with arcane talk about “discharge petitions” and “procedural votes,” “All the Way” is not standard Broadway fare. Bryan Cranston Is Playing Lyndon Johnson on Broadway 2014-02-05T20:10:11Z It seems a pretty arcane pursuit, but it's without precedent or in isolation. Public Service Broadcasting: Inform-Educate-Entertain – review 2013-05-02T14:29:01Z It is one of the most endearing attributes of this storyteller of outsize gifts and estimable skills at synthesizing the arcane and the everyday into illuminating, spoken treatises, usually on vital American subjects. Review | The provocative Mike Daisey is a straight-shooter in his solo show about guns. 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Riley invents her own arcane systems but she surely also admires Beckett's humanity. Bridget Riley: paintings and related works 2010-11-22T21:31:00Z You might think such an arcane idea would never catch on, but it did – along with the b in subtle, the l in salmon and the p in receipt, and many more. David Crystal: the story of English spelling 2012-08-23T13:00:01Z Referring to the employment of arcane arts as witchcraft takes on entirely different connotations, though. Bring on the witching hours: “AHS: Apocalypse” and the sisterhood that will save us 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Moeller, a 28-year-old stage director, cut through the arcane thicket of thought by focusing on a meeting between Kierkegaard and his lover. Danish philosopher's tough ideas adapted for kids 2013-05-04T06:36:08Z If language is a technology—prone, like any other, to weaponization or obsoletion—will ours lead us out of dystopia, or only further into it, winding up an arcane relic of some fallen civilization? The Apocalyptic Visions of Ariana Reines 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Newbold believed each arcane letter was actually a collection of minuscule symbols readable under proper magnification, which would have meant the microscope was invented centuries before we thought. The strange quest to crack the Voynich code 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z To shape the sometimes arcane language in a way that communicates the meaning is only the first hurdle an actor faces. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Highlights From a Decade of Watching Shakespeare 2011-07-21T16:23:35Z I have given up on ever finding anyone interested in this or it ever spontaneously coming up in conversation, and so admire those that can find an outlet for their arcane and inscrutable information. University Challenge: I'm glad someone knows about the Grand Duke of Finland 2012-11-09T12:07:07Z I was girding myself for another blast of arcane deep-fried cuisine, but found only a handful of corndog stands and one selling deep-fried Oreos. As Life Spins On, the Midway Beckons 2010-08-28T05:01:00Z Podcasters, too, are indebted to Morris for making the world safe for intelligent meandering, in which a storyteller diligently chisels at a complicated and even arcane subject with no guarantee of a satisfying conclusion. Review | In ‘Wormwood,’ Errol Morris finds a limit to how many layers a mystery can have 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z In Stafford, there is the kingdom of childhood in all its taboos — its furtiveness and griminess, the arcane rituals and untethered sensuality. Jean Stafford’s Novels Frankly Survey the Kingdom of Childhood 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Their sound was a hodgepodge, too: metal roar, fey folkie drama, Gothic despair, arena bombast, progressive rock, psychedelia, a weird mix of hip and mainstream, the populist and the arcane. Smashing Pumpkins revisit breakthrough albums 2011-11-27T21:47:00Z The exhibition is also a kind of apotheosis of Mr. Williams’s own artistic milieu: 1970s site-specific installation, 1980s Pictures Generation art and the arcane 1990s trend of institutional critique. ‘Production Line of Happiness’ Is a ‘Making Of’ Special 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The more daring cable networks explore subjects that are too arcane or uncomfortable for network television. Television Review: Laura Linney in Showtime?s Cancer Comedy 2010-08-15T22:05:00Z Diagnosis of eating disorders, chronic self-harm and other, more arcane forms of self-injury has mushroomed over the past decade, especially among girls, young queers, anybody who is under extra pressure to fit in. 'Being a perfect girl can kill you' – extract from Unspeakable Things by Laurie Penny 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z And so watches are retracting into an arcane culture designed to exclude the uninitiated. Mach2 modernism 2010-07-02T11:03:00Z Then he explains the object in silly, arcane detail, with specifics that are both very funny and sometimes breathtakingly tender. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Examines the inner workings of an arcane society in which winners are losers, excrement is extolled, decorum is debased, and a homosexual horse-breeding ritual is conducted annually. Style Invitational Week 1091: Turn a good idea into a bad one with 1 weird trick! Then I met a man online who charmed me with his references to Fellini and Patti Smith and his knowledge of arcane facts about New York City. Modern Love: What a Scale Can?t Measure ? Modern Love 2011-12-01T22:25:17Z Still, as albums bearing arcane language, startling solecisms and quixotic musical structures go, Railway Architecture is probably the best of the year. New band of the day ? No 870: Silvery 2010-09-17T16:27:00Z Rattigan is quite often congratulated on being good at writing parts "for women", as if he were employing an arcane set of skills while extending some kind of social service. Cause C?l?bre; Rocket to the Moon ? review 2011-04-02T23:09:47Z On Saturday night, Smithians stood 20-deep at the three microphones set up around the theater even after an hour of arcane and inane quizzing. Kevin Smith: I "feel good" about semi-retirement 2011-03-07T02:07:48Z The first time Scott and Butler worked together was in Butler’s 2013 debut film, The Stag, which focused on that most arcane heterosexual activity: the stag weekend. The rugby buddy movie that tackles homophobia with a laugh 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z A question about a plot point will provoke a mind-warping answer, a barrage of arcane facts interspersed with self-effacing jokes and casual profanity. Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z The show even displays publications arguing for his authorship using arcane analyses of secret allusions to his name in the King James text. Exhibition Review: ?Manifold Greatness? and King James Bible at Folger - Review 2011-09-29T22:15:20Z Schartmann’s treatise is one of the quirkier entries in Bloomsbury Publishing’s 33 1/3 series, which usually consists of slim, focussed investigations into the contexts or arcane histories of classic albums. How Video Games Changed Popular Music 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z He plays Howard Silk, a mild-mannered office drone for a United Nations-like organization, his job so arcane even he isn’t sure what he does. J.K. Simmons on the Art of Being the Bad Guy 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z And then, using a somewhat arcane decision-making process, he ends up with a private detective. David Rabe on the Netherworld of Fiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z So did the Obama administration’s record-breaking use of an arcane century-old law — the Espionage Act — which it used nine times to pursue leakers. Perspective | Shocked by Trump aggression against reporters and sources? The blueprint was drawn by Obama. 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z But the historically informed performance movement has revived music written for this combination of instruments and voice, bringing these sounds, once thought arcane, to the ears of modern composers, who sometimes write for them. Review | Countertenor Iestyn Davies and Fretwork revive music old and new at Library of Congress 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The intertwined works explore arcane scientific and metaphysical fields of study that McCarthy had long been obsessed with: quantum physics, the philosophy of mathematics and theories about the nature of consciousness. A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Books 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Though she learned her arcane craft as a hobby in Japan, Ms. Tokara now fills orders for sweets from her office and is a wholesale supplier to a few local shops, including the Panama Hotel. | Choice Tables: A Trail of Sweets to Guide You Across Seattle Area 2010-05-12T18:39:00Z They seem both too arcane and oversimplified, as if the artist were trading on the viewer’s scientific naïveté, aiming to dazzle rather than guide us through the technical ideas at the core of the work. In San Francisco, Art That Unspools the Mysteries of the Universe 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z While this legal question may sound arcane, it’s a vital one to social media communications. When Does Social Media Chatter Become Criminal? Previewing The Supreme Court's 'Elonis' Case 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z If it sounds arcane, keep in mind that nearly all the slots for volunteers are already reserved. The Guggenheim Shows First On Kawara Retrospective 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z “I’m fascinated, for example, by the Kabbalah — not Madonna’s version of it, but just the arcane, mystical side of Judaism.” Songwriter With a Global Guitar 2011-05-09T22:00:27Z Some chapters are vague or obvious, others specific and arcane. ‘100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know About Math and the Arts’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The fates of characters we care about will always trump the resolution of arcane plot points. 2010-02-03T22:47:00Z Given the ratings, does he ever think he should cool it a bit with the arcane reference points? NBC Brings ?Community? Back to Its Passionate Fan Base 2012-03-12T21:53:03Z She also began studying, on her own, what was then an even more arcane subject than mid-20th-century American printmaking: computers. After nearly 55 years, art gallery pioneer ready to hang it up 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The battles across emotional, ideological, even theological lines — two of the 11 characters are religious scholars — rage in every direction, to an arcane extreme. Kushner’s ‘Guide’: Long, gabby and intelligent Narrating the clips, he provides a dissertation on arcane matters like the correct brush length to maximize performance of a rotary polisher. Primp Your Ride 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z Rarely does such a strange work win immediate recognition, but Schulz's writing pulls off the neat trick of being at once direct and arcane. A brief survey of the short story part 30: Bruno Schulz 2010-12-03T10:09:00Z “I had never seen it before. It was kind of arcane knowledge.” Sheila Michaels, who brought 'Ms' into mainstream, dies at 78 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Turow is particularly good at integrating this arcane material into a dramatic narrative. Review | Scott Turow is a master of the legal thriller. ‘The Last Trial’ proves he’s still at the top of his game. 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z For all of his arcane talk, Mr. Williams can also be blunt when he needs to be. Pharrell Williams, Making Noise for ‘Hidden Figures’ Everywhere 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z The original script, filled with arcane references and wildly purple witticisms, would feel a slog for modern audiences. Playwrights get last word in delightful ‘Critic’ and ‘Real Inspector Hound’ 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Ms Beard is a sure-footed guide through arcane material that, in other hands, would grow tedious. What a strange lot 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z As Sigourney falls increasingly under Eden’s spell, she may find herself embroiled in an arcane “experiment” of unprecedented cruelty. A compelling experiment in 'Boxes' by Theatre West 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Derrida’s writing is famously knotty and dense, full of citations and arcane terminology. What Jacques Derrida Understood About Friendship 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Sher manages to make Shakespeare’s often arcane language sound as familiar as the slang you’d hear on the streets today. ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z And the actual writing — a mix of humor, vulnerability, introspection, delightfully arcane facts and awe — made me laugh out loud and quietly cry. How Tim Cahill’s ‘Pass the Butterworms’ launched my travel writing career 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z I had not thought much beyond the assortment of arcane grapes in suggesting these three wines. Different Grapes From Different Regions, All Screaming Italy 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z If this sounds a little arcane, the result is enjoyably ethereal – especially when the afternoon sun floods through the high windows behind and sets the structure aglow. 1:1 with the V&A's Small Spaces 2010-06-09T20:30:00Z Twenty-five years ago the French classicist Pierre Hadot argued that the Greeks never intended the love of wisdom to end up as the most arcane of intellectual disciplines. Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z He studied the arcane lost language of rural protest in his collaborative book Captain Swing. Eric Hobsbawm changed how we think about culture 2012-10-02T14:29:06Z At first glance, it might seem that these hugely arcane tours through the court and social outliers are just an easy way to get more Meghan into the SEO terms. The more dysfunctional the royals are, the more their fans love them 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Gnosticism would work with arguments that elitist knowledge of arcane bands confer "cultural capital", the notion that cool is a commodity of sorts. Ask the indie professor: Is there a link between indie music and Gnosticism? 2011-03-14T16:52:39Z We deduce that he is really rich in that he has the money to buy the big, sleek airplane that is the subject of many arcane phone conversations in the first act. Review: In David Mamet’s ‘China Doll,’ Al Pacino as an Urban Warrior in Winter 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z But where Mr. Baldessari paid tribute to the puckishness of Magritte, Mr. Demand appreciates his more arcane, cryptic side. Art Review: Out-Magritting Magritte, or at Least Coming Close 2011-08-11T21:37:51Z But, in fact, his knowledge of the 14th century’s arcane culture may be the best preparation for capturing the inanity of contemporary educational theory and rhetoric. Review | Parents will stop at nothing to get their kids into a prestigious school 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z This fake filmed ad for a would-be Netflix mini-series chronicles another arcane American institution that demands total loyalty from its participants: being a bridesmaid. ‘Saturday Night Live’ Tackles the Trump Indictment 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z And besides, addressing an envelope feels as arcane as making a barrel. Stationery stores are in trouble, but our love for Valentine’s Day cards burns hotter than ever 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z They needed to preserve the essential meaning of each element of the show, but also elide some of the more arcane details, and they needed to echo the musicality of the language. They Translated ‘Hamilton’ Into German. Was It Easy? Nein. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z “Nothing is too arcane or technical or grotesque for her, and it all finds its way into her fiction.” Margaret Atwood, Digital Deep-Diver, Writes ‘The Heart Goes Last’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Not for them the rarefied logical paradoxes of the British or the arcane vocabulary of the French. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C Dennett – review 2013-05-15T06:00:03Z But they obviously move in arcane circles where esoteric ideas are routinely promulgated. New band of the day – Prince Rama (No 1,337) 2012-08-23T15:42:26Z Money wasn't everything for Elizabethans: those born into the elite guarded their power with arcane social rituals for which no codebook could be purchased. TV highlights 07/06/2013 2013-06-07T06:00:02Z Snow, at the Night King’s side, is resurrected by Sam using his arcane knowledge of cures, and strikes down the Night King on his throne. 'Arya will kill Cersei wearing Jaime’s face': your Game of Thrones predictions 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z One year it’s the badly written roman à clef by the assistant at Vogue, the next it’s the badly written thriller yoking together international intrigue and arcane history. It?s Been a Gloomy Summer on New York Stages 2010-07-28T17:57:00Z But Gustavo Dudamel stepped up to the avant-garde Italian plate on this occasion in inspired performances of two seemingly arcane works. L.A. Phil covers lusty Modern Italian with gusto 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z The first of these was the doctrine of God-in-the-body, which asserts that God might come to dwell in a man—a belief derived from an arcane theological heresy called monophysitism. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z There are all sorts of arcane eligibility criteria. 2013 Olivier award nominees: 'No, I haven't written a speech' 2013-04-25T05:30:01Z Tomorrow's Harvest is another intriguing Rorschach blot of a record from a splendidly arcane band. Boards of Canada: Tomorrow's Harvest – review 2013-06-08T23:05:05Z This follow-up concerns two families who, having breached the arcane rules of the faith, are shunned by the community and forced to forge a new life in the modern world. Tonight's TV highlights: Great British Food Revival 2011-03-16T00:05:01Z He also had a long fascination with the Middle Ages, monastic traditions, languages and all manner of arcane knowledge. Umberto Eco, best-selling author of ‘The Name of the Rose,’ dies at 84 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Although the label feasted on arcane artists, Mr. Miller saw nothing peculiar about his tastes. Billy Miller, Curator and Historian of Fringe Music, Dies at 62 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z This testimony pointed her in the direction of extremely arcane documentation, material of needle-in-a-haystack obscurity. Books of The Times: A Military Post?s Secrets: Espionage, Not Aliens 2011-05-15T22:11:44Z Travel literacy falls into two broad categories: understanding how the travel industry works, with its often arcane rules and restrictions; and being aware of other cultures and customs. Perspective | Want to improve your ‘travel literacy’? Here’s how. 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Footnotes explain the meaning of such arcane acronyms as "QED" and "QPR". Finches of Mars by Brian Aldiss – review 2013-06-05T12:55:01Z It’s all too easy to dismiss lack of parity within the entertainment industry as an arcane problem that only affects cosseted actors on one hand, or embittered erstwhile auteurs on the other. Amid calls for gender equity in Hollywood, the stakes are high. 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Richard Wilson, one of the show’s executive producers, said he saw Johnson, straw-haired and spouting arcane references, on a news show one night, thought, “He’s a slightly ludicrous figure,” and decided to book him. A Show That Laughs at Boris Johnson, and May Have Aided His Rise 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z “An unfathomable web of arcane mystery and liturgy, blurring so many lines no clergyman or historian or lawyer could ever untangle any of it.” Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ is best when viewed like separate little movies 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z A lot of artists, asked to put into words how they do what they do, quickly turn arcane. Television Review: ‘Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love’ on ‘American Masters’ 2013-12-26T21:25:37Z Celebrated by many for their majesty and spirituality, Anton Bruckner’s symphonies are seen by others as unduly long, arcane and opaque. A Long Party of Concerts to Celebrate Anton Bruckner 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z This is a subject so arcane that Noh masters, who spend their lives learning the tradition, say they never fully understand it. Noh theater: The world's oldest stage tradition is popping up everywhere 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z These days much new art and many exhibitions, like “Greater New York,” operate the way this show does, through occult meanings, insider formulas and arcane links between present and past. Last Chance: ?Evryali Score Mysteries,? Ghosts at David Zwirner 2010-07-28T20:00:00Z To help answer any lingering D&D questions you might still have going into “Honor Among Thieves,” Daley and Goldstein explained some of the movie’s more arcane nods and allusions. A Beginner’s Guide to Dungeons & Dragons 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z That said, the foreign-language Oscar race, with its arcane rules and history of total lottery-ticket randomness, has virtually no commercial or artistic ramifications and could go to any movie on the list. Your Oscar night primer 2011-02-27T15:01:00Z Ironically, the network’s aversion to video, fueled by the fear that the medium seems arcane to a new generation, comes in a year when music videos have been somewhat revived. The Scandalous Dullness of MTV’s First Post-Millennial V.M.A.s 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Hamelin continues his triumphant march through the standard repertory, after years spent exploring arcane material heavy on virtuosic display. Review: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z One of the most haunting moments comes near the end when two people are quizzing each other on the most arcane facts. A big 'like' for Caryl Churchill's 'Love and Information' 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z But the arcane process of getting certification leaves a wide berth for unscrupulous officials to profit. Chinese TV censor's conviction points to 'common' bribery problem 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Pinchin spends several pages explicating their personal animus, which ostensibly stems from an arcane debate over the location of bluefin spawning grounds but seems really to be about how scientists should position themselves vis-a-vis industry. In bluefin tuna, fisheries science is never neat 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z He has invested his remaining political capital in the worthy if arcane issue of redistricing reform - curbing the gerrymandering which bedevils local and state elections and fuels partisanship. He'll be back: why old age can't keep Arnold Schwarzenegger down 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Masonic lodges are normally male-only societies, associated with arcane symbols and rituals. Vatican confirms ban on Catholics becoming Freemasons 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z But the chamber's arcane rules can make quick action difficult. US Senate works to avoid shutdown with vote possible on Wednesday 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z But opponents could invoke the Senate's arcane rules to complicate a vote before midnight on Friday when current funding will expire. US Senate aims for quick vote to avoid shutdown, but possible potholes ahead 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z For all their efforts, primary care had not become easier for millions of Americans to access, insurance benefits were as opaque and arcane as ever, and prescription drug pricing was still a public scandal. Column: How Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid tried to take over healthcare — and failed 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z But McCaul and others have had to contemplate arcane legislative procedures just to push it to the floor, underscoring just how dysfunctional the House has become. Some want to grant temporary House speaker more power as Republican gridlock stalls Congress 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z Too often, though, “Going Infinite” is labyrinthine and downright arcane. What you won't learn from Michael Lewis' book on FTX could fill another book 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z In a Sept. 28 court hearing, he said that even though the case involves some "arcane" subjects such as cryptocurrency, "the issues in this case are pretty straightforward." Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud trial: How will he defend himself? 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z House Democrats are scrambling to buy time to figure out their position on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s stopgap bill, using arcane rules to buy as many minutes as they can. Democrats take floor, stall for time while parsing through McCarthy’s new stopgap bill 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z Deciding what is or isn’t “good design” is somewhat arcane for the pair, but ultimately, they aim for their work to feel important to someone. The horizon line of fashion is changing. It looks like the mood Eckhaus Latta inhabits 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Brooks proceeds from Pythagoras to Newton to Einstein together with many lesser-known mathematicians, showing how their seemingly arcane, abstract work has shaped our daily lives and our very grasp of the nature of reality. Get into the back-to-school spirit with these 5 audiobooks 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Beneath the headlines, investors are even gloomier with higher-frequency and more arcane data from a shrinking current account surplus to ballooning deposits and soft surveys pointing to a deep-seated confidence problem. China-linked assets squeezed as slowdown ripples across markets 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z The fact tenants may need to pay extra for living in subsidized housing centers on an arcane concept in tax law known as possessory interest. Thousands of California tenants could face obscure tax bill for living in subsidized housing 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries then used an arcane rule called the “magic minute,” which allows a lawmaker to speak on the House floor for as long as they want to. Democrats take floor, stall for time while parsing through McCarthy’s new stopgap bill 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z But the discrepancy could just as well have been a statistical fluke, an experimental uncertainty or a product of various potential errors in theorists’ arcane calculations. Muon Mystery Deepens with Latest Measurements 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z The trial also will represent the first time that Cannon handles a case involving classified evidence and the arcane rules surrounding it. Exclusive: Trump documents case judge made multiple errors in earlier trial 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Maybe it’s something innate, something arcane that it touches on. New novel imagines the story of ‘Medusa’s Sisters’ 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z It’s as if I had another, more real body that could be glimpsed only temporarily, through arcane practices into which I had no insight. What I Saw When I Looked Inside My Own Body 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z The answer to that is not embedded deeply in the arcane data I’ve been skimming through here. The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Diagrams of these unlikely events require onerous calculations and resemble abstract art, with arcane loops and squiggles representing hosts of virtual interactions. Muon Mystery Deepens with Latest Measurements 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z What used to be an arcane hobby has become far more popular recently, fueled by the advertising campaign and audience anticipation around this weekend's film release of "Barbie." 'Barbie' movie revives interest in doll collectors' market 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z It is not the first time special counsel Jack Smith has invoked an arcane law in a Trump case. Special counsel digs up obscure laws to build cases against Trump 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Whichever branch of science he was writing or lecturing about, he was concerned with making sure the subject was not arcane. Everett Mendelsohn, Who Linked Science and Society, Dies at 91 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z In May, Comer — whose main role in Congress is churning out falsified evidence for arcane right-wing conspiracy theories — had admitted that his supposed "whistleblower" had gone missing. Hunter Biden "whistleblower" is a fugitive and an accused spy — why MAGA conspiracies won't change 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Export-control law had long been seen as a dusty, arcane backwater, far removed from the actual exercise of American power. ‘An Act of War’: Inside America’s Silicon Blockade Against China 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z The “nine-dash line” is an arcane but sensitive issue for China and its neighbors that depicts Beijing’s claims to sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, which Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines reject. Vietnam bans ‘Barbie’ movie due to an illustration showing China’s territorial claim 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z University of California, Berkeley law professor John Yoo said these arcane laws are being used in Trump cases because a former president has never before been prosecuted in the U.S. Special counsel digs up obscure laws to build cases against Trump 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z People who don’t do crosswords often believe that you need an encyclopedic knowledge of arcane facts to complete a puzzle. A Mini Challenge 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z These spectacles feed a misconception that debate is alien to science, and consensus emerges from some arcane priesthood in lab coats. Debating Antivaccine Cranks Debases Science and Harms the Public 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z As with so much in Washington, the mechanics are a bit arcane. House conservatives eye ‘unauthorized’ spending to broadly slash federal budget following debt deal 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z “His book deserves to be read not only by historians and bibliophiles, but by anyone with a taste for arcane detective adventures and a curiosity about the motivations of scholarly perseverance.” Owen Gingerich, Astronomer Who Saw God in the Cosmos, Dies at 93 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Instead, Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the majority in a 5-to-4 ruling, reaffirmed the law’s authority over racially biased maps and the arcane structure of legal precedents and court tests that underpin it. Supreme Court Gives the Voting Rights Act a Tenuous New Lease on Life 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Carl Hulse, our chief Washington correspondent, wrote about how covering the debt limit crisis required knowledge of arcane congressional processes and pure stamina. Your Wednesday Briefing 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Carl Hulse, our chief Washington correspondent, wrote about how covering the debt limit crisis required a combination of arcane knowledge and pure stamina. Your Wednesday Briefing: A Dam Destroyed in Ukraine 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z “So now you have to go through this arcane process of three years of budget planning while the war fighter is screaming and yelling and saying, ‘I really want this stuff.’” Start-Ups Bring Silicon Valley Ethos to a Lumbering Military-Industrial Complex 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Surely what our kids need in high school and college, they say, are not abstract lessons in arcane facts, but skills that will put them on the path to jobs and productivity. Opinion: Why it matters that Johnny doesn't know history 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z The National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation challenged the law under an important but relatively arcane principle of constitutional law known as the “dormant commerce clause.” Opinion: The Supreme Court says California can regulate pork. That's big, even if you're not a pig 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Their contacts in government and knowledge of arcane acquisition procedures help ensure that the money keeps flowing for more guns, tanks, ships and missiles. Not your grandfather's military-industrial complex: Experts say new Pentagon stats are "stunning" 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Things can get pretty arcane if you’re not steeped in the topic. In dog show world, details obvious and subtle rule the day 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z It's hardly surprising there were so many arcane traditions, in a ceremony that dates back 1,000 years at Westminster Abbey. The Coronation: Six takeaways from an historic day 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z Yet despite these elaborate efforts, the arcane laws of quantum mechanics dictate that, even here, the electrons do not interact directly with the quarks. Physicists See ‘Strange Matter’ Form inside Atomic Nuclei 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Thanks to an arcane line in the tax code, Fox can deduct that settlement payment from its income taxes, according to a company spokesperson and tax experts consulted by The Lever. The Fox News model: Mafia, family or cult? 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z He did not cite polls that did not show him in the lead and named arcane and national outlets alike. Trump, facing probes, seeks to assert dominance over GOP at donor retreat 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z But Fed watchers were surprised to see the bank come under scrutiny for an arcane payments issue. DeSantis goes after Fed digital currency — which doesn’t exist yet 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Some residents of the majority-minority district said they supported GOP legislators’ decision, which they said rested on the arcane rules of legislative decorum. Nashville expulsions: ‘Two steps forward, one back’ for Black residents 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Much of their focus will turn to the arcane world of managing interest-rate risk. Silicon Valley Bank’s risk model flashed red. So its executives changed it. 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z The case puts the spotlight back on the arcane business of nomination selection that bitterly split the party in early 2021, as Youngkin sought his party’s gubernatorial nomination. Lawsuit filed over nomination method for one Va. GOP race 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z The review found the government had misinterpreted an arcane aspect of immigration law. ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He’s not the only one who had to prove his citizenship 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and others — and the government’s rescue over the weekend — left many of us again rushing to understand the arcane details of the financial system. The Bank Failures, Explained 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z This often begins with detention in frightening conditions: To be arrested is to be suddenly plunged into control by a government speaking an often arcane legal language. Opinion | How government’s excessive reliance on plea deals can undermine justice 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z The fact that the country is awash in parking spots stems from America’s longstanding love affair with the car, compounded by arcane zoning codes that mandate off-street parking for real estate projects. Awash in Asphalt, Cities Rethink Their Parking Needs 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z That can help reframe the narrative and undermine the arguments made by the trade groups and elite economists who talked about carbon trading systems that were too arcane for regular citizens to understand. How free-market extremism became America's default mode 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Turner’s greatest skill is her ability to present years of arcane research in chapters that are always wonderfully accessible and briskly entertaining. Review | 600 years later, this ‘nasty woman’ is still stirring up trouble 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Readers unfamiliar with such arcane aspects of detective fiction history need not worry. Review | Don’t worry, ‘Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone’ is a comedy 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z An arcane legal concept called sovereign immunity — that you can't sue the king — barred the federal judge from ordering a state official to follow his own state's law. Prosecutors beware: DeSantis' free speech attack is about abortion 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Much of the accounting is arcane and some of it peculiar to Boeing, which in the past routinely used tricky financial engineering to make sure it met quarterly cash-flow projections. Boeing to slash about 2,000 white-collar jobs in finance and HR 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The arrangement is so complicated and arcane that the Santa Clara County assessor has an entire page devoted to Stanford faculty housing. Sam Bankman-Fried's parents used their house to bail him out. But they rent the land from Stanford 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z When Sunny flees with her daughter to a remote compound, Paul finds them and puts Karma through a series of tests to prepare her for an arcane ritual. Review: Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel create sparks in 'Shotgun Wedding' 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Even viewers who find the movie overly arcane, repetitive and undisciplined have found it difficult to resist the Daniels’ earnestness and go-for-broke vision. Perspective | This year’s Oscar nominations featured a unicorn: Genuine surprise 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z His career has been defined by long detours into the bowels of arcane mathematical problems. Unlucky numbers: Fighting murder convictions that rest on shoddy stats 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z They force companies to struggle through arcane state aid regulations for too long to obtain the investments needed for cutting-edge breakthroughs, he said. EU seeking to offset Biden’s green plans with own subsidies 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z The mistake was due to an arcane difference in the search codes background investigators are supposed to use while screening aspiring cops, Settle wrote. Why Virginia police hired ‘catfish’ cop Austin Lee Edwards 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z In the Senate, the arcane rules mean it can take much longer to dispose of amendments without all senators agreeing — and unanimity is vanishingly rare. Republicans Prepare New Rules, but Fixing Congress Isn’t So Easy 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Throughout the battle between House GOP leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California and a small group of congressional Republicans blocking his election as Speaker, most media coverage of negotiations has focused on arcane procedural disputes. Two years after January 6, the House Speaker fight may be encouraging more domestic terrorism 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Cheryl L. Johnson is no stranger to the arcane and sometimes repetitive elements of parliamentary procedure in Congress. With Republicans in Disarray, the House Clerk is in Charge 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z While few voters are likely to be following every twist in the arcane congressional procedure, several Republicans acknowledged that the party’s infighting in the House could saddle it with an enduring perception of dysfunction. ‘Nobody Is in Charge’: A Ragged G.O.P. Stumbles Through the Wilderness 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Congress last Friday passed legislation changing the arcane law that governs the certification of a presidential contest, but Mr. Raskin told CBS that it doesn’t go nearly far enough. Jamie Raskin calls to change Electoral College to national popular vote 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z Patriots players would impress with their arcane knowledge of the rule book and know just when to implement that knowledge. Analysis | What to know from NFL Week 15: Trevor Lawrence arrives, and Bill Belichick is faltering 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Lawmakers are expected to overhaul the arcane election law that Trump tried to subvert after his 2020 election defeat by including legislative changes in a year-end spending bill. What to watch as Jan. 6 committee wraps up its investigation 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Just reading arcane health insurance terms can induce a rare combination of drowsiness and panic. A Guide to Signing Up for Health Coverage 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z These acts represent “an enormous step” in the Orthodox world even if they seem arcane, said Elizabeth Prodromou, a fellow for Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. Scrutiny of Ukraine church draws praise, fear of overreach 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z The revised criminal code which has been approved this week by the Indonesian parliament is getting the kind of publicity rarely given to arcane changes in another country's legal system. Indonesia 'sex ban': Criminal code changes threaten other freedoms 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Having 51 senators also means you have more control over the arcane workings of the chamber's committee structures. US midterms: Georgia Senate run-off looms after bitter campaign 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Having a contest where rules allowed for no winner was an early sign the arcane process would one day become a key point in the argument against keeping Iowa first. Iowa caucuses, built on myth, lose place at head of the line 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Like Masterson, the three women were members of the Church of Scientology at the time of the alleged attacks, and prosecutors in the trial delved into the faith’s arcane rules for its followers. Mistrial in Danny Masterson rape trial after jury deadlocks 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Johnson is perfectly at home creating matryoshka-like games within games, giving his actors arcane explanatory dialogue to deliver with rapid-fire dexterity. Review | ‘Glass Onion’: Another fun, and scathing, Knives Out mystery 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Begin has a taste for the arcane: His hobbies include maximizing frequent flier rewards and collecting indulgences, which he refers to as “Heaven’s frequent flier program.” Old Latin Mass Finds New American Audience, Despite Pope’s Disapproval 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Or couldn’t pass the literacy tests composed of counting bubbles on a bar of soap or reciting some arcane amendment to a state constitution. Perspective | You can’t ever take for granted the right to vote 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z I had an immense number of women writing to me about the Emoluments Clause, arcane constitutional doctrines. "I had this nightmare, but I didn't know it was mine:" Dahlia Lithwick on Trump's crisis of law 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The decision, which may carry deep consequences for the state’s agriculture industry, focuses on the arcane wording and complicated legal history of the California Endangered Species Act — a precursor to the federal law. Bumblebees can be classified as 'fish' under California conservation law, court says 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Lawmakers in both parties have said they want to change the arcane law before it is challenged again. Congress eyes strongest response yet to Jan. 6 attack 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Here, the arcane and rigorous are not barriers to accessibility but attractions that tie believers to a long history of spiritual clarity, which they see as sharply contrasting with the modern church. Old Latin Mass Finds New American Audience, Despite Pope’s Disapproval 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The lengthy article discussed many of the arcane measures the BBC would take, but also the psychological weight the queen’s death would carry. Covert plans, fake news: How the news of Queen Elizabeth’s death broke 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Like every crypto builder, Huffman’s challenge is to abstract away all those confusing terms and arcane user experiences, and replace them with something approachable and valuable. Reddit’s CEO explains why he’s still big on the blockchain 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z This is the problem, not some arcane ideas of the right-wing that need to be excavated. Do it, Dems! Vote for Cheney in a GOP primary 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z But let’s leave aside this whole arcane question of what’s properly classified and what isn’t. Opinion | Inside Trump’s chamber of secrets 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z In style she has the defiant flair of her ACT UP forebears, but in substance she defers to wealth and respects arcane and regressive Senate rules. Perspective | How Sinema subverts the radical conventions of queer politics 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z It seems that most individuals follow the arcane rules of music composition, even those who are unaware those rules exist. No music training? No problem: Even novices intuit complex music theory 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Bankman-Fried’s lobbying efforts focus on two arcane but significant regulatory changes. A young crypto billionaire's political agenda goes well beyond pandemic preparedness 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z It’s also a fun reminder of some of the secrets that used to be accessible in games with the right combination of arcane button presses. Super Punch-Out!! has a hidden two-player mode — and you can try it on the Switch 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z That Smetana was losing his hearing as he composed the piece seems like more than arcane biographical trivia; as the piece unfolds, one suspects it accounts for the music’s indulgence in meticulous depiction. Review | Gil Shaham, the NSO and Mother Nature take Wolf Trap by storm 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Despite partisan obstruction, arcane rules and dilatory habits, the Senate struck a blow against hopelessness. Opinion | Senate Democrats strike a blow against cynicism — and hopelessness 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z The vote-a-rama is part of the arcane process known as reconciliation that Democrats are using to speed their sweeping climate, energy and tax package through Congress. Senate Holds All-Night ‘Vote-a-Rama,’ With Democrats’ Agenda at Stake 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z Democrats were speeding the bill through Congress under the arcane budget process known as reconciliation, which shields certain tax and spending measures from a filibuster but also strictly limits what can be included. Climate and Tax Bill Scales Crucial Senate Hurdle, Paving Path to Passage 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z But Democrats are betting that they can ram it through the Senate, using an arcane and complicated "reconciliation" procedure allowing passage without any Republican support in a 50-50 split Senate. U.S. Senate Democrats push ahead on $430 billion drug, energy bill 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z I do love this: The Counterclaims are a made-for-litigation tale that is contradicted by the evidence and common sense Usually legal documents have arcane, passive-aggressive digs at the other party in them. The best burns Twitter’s lawyers deployed to deny Elon Musk’s claims 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The Electoral Count Act of 1887 governs the counting and certification of electoral votes in presidential elections and has long been criticized as arcane, vaguely written and vulnerable to abuse. Update to electors law desperately needed, senators declare 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z “He himself invested in an ideology from abroad that was quite arcane in order to do what he did in this decision,” he said. Justice Alito mocks foreign critics of abortion reversal 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z For arcane reasons, the archdiocese controls Our Lady of Mount Virgin’s property, whose future isn’t yet clear. ‘Spiritual refugees’ feel the loss of closed Catholic churches in Seattle. Some are appealing to the Vatican 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Proving reality is like that usually involves the comparison of arcane probabilities, but physicists in China have made the point in a clearer way. Reality doesn’t exist until you measure it, quantum parlor trick confirms 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z In fact, the clouds-to-rain equation has become well-known to many of us, even if we were not versed in the more arcane and abstruse aspects of weather forecasting. Saturday was our second wettest day in a wet month 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z OMB administers the entirety of the federal government’s budget, an oftentimes arcane undertaking that has prompted a wide spectrum of calls for transparency and scrutiny. Democrats use Pentagon policy bill to close loopholes Trump exposed 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Given the present composition of Congress, the only plausible way for Democrats to advance the global minimum tax would be through budget reconciliation, an arcane process that's exempt from the Senate's 60-vote legislative filibuster. “Sabotage”: GOP colludes with autocrat Viktor Orban’s government to kill global corporate tax deal 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z For years, gaming superiority was an arcane art, known only within the limbic intuition of the top-level talent. Pro gaming tools are helping streamers get paid 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z It sounds arcane but has been hotly debated, with France and Germany insisting on describing a rising China as a “challenge” to the trans-Atlantic security order, not as a “threat,” as Russia has clearly become. Spotting the Fault Lines in NATO’s United Front 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Under arcane rules, both signatures must be added to new series of currency in tandem. Yellen may soon get her name on the greenback. 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Americans went most of their history without having to worry seriously about arcane electoral college procedures. Opinion | Fix the electoral count law now, before Trump tries to exploit it again 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Most don’t understand the historically razor-thin margins in the House and Senate, nor do they fully understand arcane rules like the filibuster. Analysis | Pete Aguilar’s rising star status meets the moment at Jan. 6 hearing 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z A handful of congressional Democrats are turning their attention to an arcane loophole that, as TYT previously reported, is driving high prices for gas and food. How Wall Street speculation is driving inflation — and how the Democrats can fix it 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z It will be focused on holes and ambiguities in the arcane rules for counting electoral college votes set forth in the Constitution and in a poorly written 1887 law, the Electoral Count Act. Perspective | The Jan 6. committee should be looking ahead to election threats in 2024 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z He's got one more case coming up in the fall against a researcher who is also accused of lying to the FBI about something arcane and irrelevant. The Durham investigation is a flop — but Donald Trump just can't quit the conspiracy 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z She is also outspoken on the need to simplify Parliament's rules and procedures, which are so arcane and complicated that they are only fully understood by a handful of experts. Interview: Only a crisis can save MPs from themselves - Hannah White 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z For another, the removal this year of the arcane rule that obliges teams to start a race on the tyre they used in second qualifying frees up strategy, especially here. 'Prospect of losing irreplaceable Monaco very real' 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z The goal is to rally an elite crowd, which typically spends the week opining on arcane concepts like stakeholder capitalism, to commit to the real-world business of arming and rebuilding Ukraine. Ukraine makes its pitch to the world elite where Russia once held court. 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z To help bring down the cost, the groups offer guidance on maximizing all sorts of arcane systems, from hotel rewards to credit-card points to hospital indemnity insurance. How Ben Got His Penis 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Without his agreement, the Senate must follow a lengthy process stipulated by the chamber's arcane rules. Defiant U.S. Senator Rand Paul stymies effort to pass $40 billion Ukraine aid bill 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Snyder's most recent argument that Putin's intentions are as intolerable as his brutality is profound but intensively linguistic and somewhat arcane. We must defeat the enemies of democracy — but that doesn't just mean Putin 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z The bright, sweetish, clear liqueur is the color of a cat’s eye, and it hits the tongue like a fairy spell, otherworldly and arcane, floral, grassy and herbaceously vibrant. What’s in the green elixir Chartreuse? Only a couple of monks know for sure. 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z It also has more sensors for more thorough health tracking and doesn’t require this terrible, arcane process for updating its software. The Apple Watch Series 7 is cheaper than ever at Walmart and on Amazon 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z While it’s less arcane than earlier FromSoftware titles like Dark Souls, the game constantly hands you items, quests, and mechanics with very little explanation. All hail Elden Ring’s ever-growing map 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z It’s certainly true that this short book contains many of his trademarks: discursive and periodic sentences, arcane jargon, endless self-analysis. A newish David Foster Wallace novella prompts the question: What made him great? 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z The image calls to mind a kind of condescending chivalry that is both arcane and misguided. Perspective | A prayer for women and children. And men. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z The wiry, sandy-haired astrophysicist is part of a growing subculture of endurance obsessives — men and women who have set their sights on completing outdoor running and hiking feats and breaking arcane records in the process. Blisters. Hallucinations: A hiker's grueling attempt to cross Death Valley in four days 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Its contest is a set of caucuses, an arcane system whose rules few understand and that disenfranchises voters. Analysis | Democrats take aim at Iowa as they seek to change their nominating system 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z It hinges on an arcane measurement in a PCR test called a cycle threshold, or Ct value. Making COVID Tests Better at Detecting Infectious People 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z And they hinged largely on interpretations of arcane provisions of employment laws. Biden’s high court choice defies expectations on labor cases 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Rallying public support around an arcane if consequential judicial matter could also prove difficult. Can New York Overhaul Its Complex, Antiquated Court System? 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z However five other, less high profile referendum proposals about largely arcane aspects of the justice system were accepted. Italy's Constitutional Court vetoes referendum to liberalise cannabis 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z The dispute centers on the revolving door between government regulators and the arcane world of financial technology. Senate Republicans Stall Crucial Vote on Fed Nominees 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z This is not a fight over an arcane budget process. Stop chronic underfunding of services for people with developmental disabilities 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The arcane setup of the Electoral College complicates and reduces the playing field for presidential elections. Don’t complicate Washington’s elections 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Medicare benefits are governed by arcane laws and regulations, and officials said Thursday this the first time the program has covered an over-the-counter test at no cost to recipients. Medicare opens up access to free at-home COVID-19 tests 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z It turns out that both men sought to advance an arcane branch of mathematics known as elliptic curves. The Texas Oil Heir Who Took On Math’s Impossible Dare 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Some held their jobs for many years and viewed themselves not as politicians but as bureaucrats in chief, tending to such arcane responsibilities as keeping the state seal or maintaining custody of state archives. Campaigning to Oversee Elections, While Denying the Last One 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z “Sort of a looking back to the good old days, and reinventing some kind of arcane ceremony,” he said. English island seeks a landlord-king who likes solitude, seals and beer 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z Perhaps most important of all, the U.K.'s arcane political system, although weird and broken in its own special way, simply doesn't offer the same opportunities for anti-democratic subversion. So what the hell happened to Boris Johnson — and can it happen to Donald Trump? 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Sinema claims, quite falsely, to support the voting rights bill, but insists on letting the Republicans have veto power over it, putting an arcane and anti-democratic Senate rule ahead of democracy itself. Feminists are right to shun Sinema 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z But Kolker’s article — “Who Is the Bad Art Friend?” — lit up social media because it was about more than an arcane plagiarism argument between two unknown authors. Review | How to make it rich as a bad art friend 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Although the technology behind this discovery—atom interferometry—might seem arcane, atom interferometry may one day be used to detect gravitational waves and help us navigate better than GPS, researchers have said. In a First, an ‘Atomic Fountain’ Has Measured the Curvature of Spacetime 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z |
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