| 单词 | lad |
| 例句 | The lad flushed a high dark red and his eyes shone. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z All seemed so merry except one young lad, And he was downhearted and sad. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “We’re the only ATA pilots here today. They usually send girls in the Lysanders—the lads all want something faster. Have a sandwich. You look like you could use one.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z See, lads,” he said, ‘‘next time this young varmint sets foot on my land, you can eat him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was Pod on the bridge of boats, the lad saved my life. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Welcome to this house, lad,” the doorkeeper said, and without saying more led him through halls and corridors to an open court far inside the walls of the building. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “Now there’s a highborn name for a lowly lad,” the woman said. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Said he, cutting them short: “Friends, no luck lies in that plan for us, no luck, knifing the lad. Let’s think of feasting.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z "Your father is dead, lad. Do you think you can bring him back?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There were four young guys, college types, and one of them had his wife and lad with him. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “This little lad,” he said, letting go of Pippo's throat and prodding him in the back so roughly that he stumbled against Meggie, “told us he’s gone out. Gone out where?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The shirt was no good to me wet, so I told a hearthless lad that hung about the courtyard to keep it on his back for me till I returned. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘Let’s go to old Tom Cotton’s down South Lane! He always was a stout fellow. And he has a lot of lads that were all friends of mine.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z ‘We want you. Take him lads! Lockholes for him, and give him something to keep him quiet!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z When they reached the stem, the lad tied up their blades and slammed a shoulder into Duck, and the big man went into the river. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Around the corner of the front counter, a skinny, unsmiling lad looked up from a littered table and nodded, meeting my eyes only glancingly, then looking away. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Blasphemous lies in earnest tones he told—the one who planned the lad’s destruction! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “There you go, lads. And remember, be careful with fire. Once you start it, fire works!” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The lads he was instructing ranged in age from eight to twenty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “It’s not because I’m a lad that they let me keep my boots,” he said, with just as much outrage in his voice as I must have had in mine. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Other lads had bear-paws on their boots and walked on top of the same drifts, never sinking through the crust. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Still there’s one thing the fine fellows don’t know: Mauhúr and his lads are in the forest, and they should turn up any time now.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Dunstan Thorn was not in the Seventh Magpie that evening: he was a practical lad, who had, for the last six months, been courting Daisy Hempstock, a young woman of similar practicality. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll leave the lad an acre in my will,” Buttercup’s father was fond of saying. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Paul introduced all the lads of the reception committee—not by their real names, of course. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z She found in the outer court a beautiful lad in priestly attire intent on purifying the sacred place with water from a golden vessel, singing as he worked a hymn of praise to the god. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Rainwater dripped from the hem of the master's cloak, but he stood stout as a winebarrel on his bit of decking and looking down at Ged he asked, “Can you abate this wind, lad?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly as they drew nearer a terrific baying and barking broke out, and a loud voice was heard shouting: ‘Grip! Fang! Wolf! Come on, lads!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z When these new interests and values are recognized and institutionalized, geek lads may have more status and feel less like aliens in their own schools. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, I knew you’d step up to the challenge, my lad.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Show us. I promise not to hurt you, lad.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A young man approached him, seemingly a shepherd lad, but fine and well-mannered like the sons of kings when they tend sheep. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ahem, well, yes, young Mr. Hillburn, ah, by the way, what is your name, lad?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Iron Emmett’s lads were well at it in the yard, blunted swords slamming into shields and ringing against one another. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His father came into his bedroom one night and sat at the end of his bed, saying gruffly, "She'll be happier, over the wall. With her own kind. Don't you fret now, lad." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z At twelve, she started keeping steady company with a lad of twenty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of these lads was getting a bit peeved.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “You are a good lad. You deserve the world.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘My lad,' said Troll, ‘this bone I stole. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z "Pull, gents! Be good lads! It's me own fault, not leadin' you around this bog. Me eyesight ain't what it was, is it, old tars?" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z The rowers bent their strong backs while a lad up beside the master beat the stroke on a drum. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “Ah! My mind was wandering. I love the way swallows turn just before they’re about to crash into the ground. No, lad. You wouldn’t be able to survive. It’s better if you go to Aztlan.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The deserter knows his life is forfeit if he is taken, so he will not flinch from any crime, no matter how vile or cruel: "The pin, lad," the big man said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Stay sharp, lads. The Magistrate said to be on the lookout for any funny stuff.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z ‘And Bill could take a bit more, couldn’t you, lad?’ said Sam. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He spent that afternoon with his orphans, even took up sword and shield himself to provide a sterner test for a few of the older lads. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Gold for gruel, and boys... a cruel price. Whatever happened to that sweet lad I knew?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They had a father and he as fine a lad as God ever made—the way he was always singin’.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But the younger lad grew adept and indeed more adept at petty thieving than at begging. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z When I was a lad I found an injured goshawk and nursed her back to health. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z One day he would be knighted, and the two little lads as well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And he thought and he said to himself further, still staring at the lad, “Everything this son has from me.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “You’re on fire, lad!” he said, and he got Billy away from the stove and beat out the sparks with his hands. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And the lad stood and looked at him with hatred, but Wang Lung would not turn back to see what the lad did. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z ‘Bill, my lad,’ he said, ‘you oughtn’t to have took up with us. You could have stayed here and et the best hay till the new grass comes.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Something my old master-at-arms told me. ‘Never go to battle naked, lad,’ he said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Gentle with the toes. Think of them as thin-skinned grapes, lad. You want to dry them without crushing them. Pat, do not scrub. Yes, like that.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Walowick, a Polish lad with dimples who looked like he had more teeth than he needed, looked up from his magazine, flashed a smile, and went back to reading. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z All kids can’t have absolute freedom all the time but many lads, especially older ones raised in the Digital Age, need more than they’re getting. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Was it you talked down my lads training in the Wellington bomber this morning?” the officer asked. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I was a handsome lad, but I have to admit I look ridiculous. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z “All you RAF lads wear the same boots. Never seen young Jamie take his off. Wish I had a pair.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The witty, clever lad that Lord Steffon had written of never reached Storm's End; the boy they found was someone else, broken in body and mind, hardly capable of speech, much less of wit. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “My lad is different altogether. No earthly use at games. Always writing poetry. I suppose he’ll grow out of it.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z "Thank heaven my audience is not made up of such sobersides. Sander, see that this lad is given instructions in laughing." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z "Speak up, lad. Now you're a king's little gentleman, they learn you to talk in whispers? Come back for a visit, have you! Oh, your pa'd be proud." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z I got to hunker in their bunker and dodge shrapnel with these brave lads. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z "The king knighted him before he rode north, in Jon's memory. The lad wanted it desperately, yet I fear he was not ready." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "Don't rush off, lad," said Captain Nips, hauling out a canvas load of firewood from under the seat. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z “Computer games: how they may be turning your lads into killers!” was the promo on one New York newscast. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I used to stand just here and watch the coal brought up by the handsome lad from Groza, the village my parents were bom in. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I think I was sent up to the house as a diversion while they were getting rid of the lad I’d tried to murder that morning and the other chained man. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “And you, Owens? Will you be a father to this little lad?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Their only issue, an unnamed boy de-scribed in Malleon's tome as a large and lusty lad born with a full head of black hair, died in infancy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He did not understand why the gods would take four lads as young and strong as his sons, yet spare their weary father. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Read it. Pass it on. And keep feeding the lads.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Why, the lad has a crippled hand—look, Mr. Hancock.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I don’t suppose you will be able to keep a diary, Frodo my lad, but I shall expect a full account when you get back. And don’t be too long! Farewell!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z "The legs, I could tell . . . the clothes fit, but the muscles in his legs . . . poor lad . . ." He coughed, and blood came up from inside him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Wizards do not meet by chance, lad,” said Vetch. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The wee lads are all distraught with the news and you will do them good. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z At last one of the lads gave a slow, reluctant nod. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Aye, the lad’s that,” the bodyguard agreed, his jaws full of food. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "The same things I'd have of all of them, lad. Men, horses, swords, armor, grain, cheese, wine, wool, nails . . . the Night's Watch is not proud, we take what is offered." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But to himself he said when he had let the lad go snivelling home, “We must get back to the land.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He turned to Lola on his left, and said in a way that was intended to include the whole table, “They’re nice lads, your brothers.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Don’t eat people?” the lad’s incredulous father exclaims at one point. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z When Phoebe reminded her that their mother had been lad- napped, Prudence said, “Oh Phoebe, Mom wasn’t kidnapped.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Shackleton turned away to hide a grin and told Frank Wild to turn the lad over to the bo’sun, but added, “Introduce him to the cook first!” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Already, apart from many younger lads, more than a hundred sturdy hobbits were assembled with axes, and heavy hammers, and long knives, and stout staves; and a few had hunting-bows. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress—to the future. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z To forget the atmosphere, I bravely led our lads yomping over custard snow to ultimate victory in Port Stanley. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z But the lads snickered at this, and at last Wang Lung rose, feeling himself after all but a guest in his sons’ courts. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Like the showers after winter football when Carver sits on the gym horse calling out, “Off with your cacks, Floyd Chaceley, or are we deformed?” and “Backs to wall, lads, Nicholas Briar's coming through!” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z "Why, neighbors, we ought all to be ashamed of ourselves! You come with me, lad. Breakfast! better than talking." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “I saw Kolya’s white-toothed smile and his thumbs-up sign. He was a good lad. He spent only one month with us; in the next air battle he received a fatal wound.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Well, you have gone to the limit, lad. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Jesse’s gift—his equivalent of other lads’ passion for music or sports—was computing. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You lads,” she said slowly, looking around at the grubby faces, “have been evacuated to a magic castle.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z But the driver, Michael, was a cheerful West Indian lad who took my case and made a fuss of sliding the front passenger seat forward for me. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The lad jumped, and the king noticed his company. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The poor wee lad was sitting on the stairs talking away to an angel. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z That was altogether too much from a lad younger than herself, and Meg walked away, saying petulantly, “You are the rudest boy I ever saw.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The two lads were well liked by the Thebans and the two girls were as good daughters as a man could have. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z "You ought to hear the droll names he gives the lads he trains." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z For many lads—often the best and brightest—school is a nightmare. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One group calling itself the National School Safety Center issued a checklist of “dangerous signs” to watch for in lads. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the girls were nimble-witted — far cleverer than we doltish lads — and would often confer among themselves and choose one boy, usually the plainest fellow, and then tease him all the way home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was thirteen my father’s mother told me a secret: as a wee lad your poor father was dropped on his head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She told Queenie about talking down the lads in the Wellington the first time. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z ‘Yes, very funny: lights and shouting and all. But Shelob was on the go. My lads saw her and her Sneak.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z "Go back to your work, lad. I'm sorry to have bothered you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was not like other lads, forever running about and bent on sport; he wanted most of all to learn whatever his foster-father could teach him about the art of healing. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, and for this he weeps in the night, and this is why he is so pale and so reedy a lad,” answered the eldest son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Sir Charles said, “I assume you’ve had some expenses in raising little Ahbo. I’m willing to give you some consideration for that. You say the poor lad is an orphan?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Andy—called “Harold” by Rob and all his Kiwi friends— was a big, sturdy lad, built like an NFL quarterback, with rugged good looks of the sort that earn men roles in cigarette advertisements. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “Well, but one lad must be on the land,” said Wang Lung suddenly in argument and his voice was very loud. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The pilots all looked like that in September of ’40, during the worst days of the Battle of Britain—the vicar’s lad looked like that, running out to his plane, the day he was killed. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z At all these studies Ged was apt, and within a month was bettering lads who had been a year at Roke before him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z "All them other lads," the fat boy went on. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The sentiment, if not the response to it, was echoed by lads all over the country. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "No, no, lad. Let's have it from bottom to top. Read it backwards. I do hope for your whipping boy's sake you don't stumble and trip as if the real words ain't on paper." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z It was lying under the table in the cafe, and the lad who sweeps the floors handed it to me. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “A fine lad. One of the finest of lads. And look at the health of him—would you now.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a moving event as we said goodbye, though only for a time, to our brave lads. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “It’s all down there, lad. Get it in your head, and you’ll have it!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Unhappy, alienated, isolated lads are legion in schools, and voiceless in media, education, and politics. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The lad who found it says it come from a grave—think of a barrow filled with stuff like this.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z "The lad's got no army but them gold cloaks, and he's ruled by a eunuch, a dwarf, and a woman," she heard a lordling mutter in his cups. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And Cuckoo made haste to say, “Anyone can see the thing and a lovely lad he is and too big for idleness and longing.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z His uncle Gerion thought that was the funniest thing he had ever heard, but his uncle Tygett said, “The last dragon died a century ago, lad.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When Dawn spread out her finger tips of rose I started, by the sea’s wide level ways, praying the gods for help, and took along three lads I counted on in any fight. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And the lad opened his eyes inquisitively to his father. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I’m an RAF lad! she thought, and laughed aloud in the dark. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Jealous she is because you’re too happy with that pretty Irish lad of yours.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A series of parents with nervous lads in tow sat at oak tables and asked questions about the school. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You were right, lad, to come prepared for Burton. But how do you think he knew we’d be here?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Before he got to the lane’s end there was Farmer Cotton with three of his lads, Young Tom, Jolly, and Nick, hurrying towards him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Our finest lad is down! You killed the best on Ithaka.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew it; all of those lads knew it. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I was reading story after story about how difficult a year this was for college admissions, how selective the top schools had become, how even the brightest lads were meeting rejection. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When the lad cried out that he would never be left behind, that he scorned life in comparison with death in so glorious an attempt, Nisus felt only grief and dismay. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But the way I see it we owe it to the lads we lost from this village. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I gawked about me like the greenest country lad as we were escorted to a massive square hall with a lead roof and high, arched windows. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “Is that your lad?” cried the uncle, “the little fat lad I gave a copper to in the summer?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “I smell bacon,” the lad said, pulling on his boots. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In fact, I called the admissions office to ask if the school would still look at a lad’s application three months after the deadline had passed. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Bilbo never did a kinder deed than when he brought the lad back to live among decent folk. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Spoils of war! It’s yours, all yours, you lucky lad.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The hero of it was a beautiful lad, whose name was Narcissus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z This lad was near twelve, and the steward praised his wits and courage. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z At the moment, he did not have the patience to try and coax a thought out of the lad, whom he suspected had been inflicted on him as a cruel jape. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “I remember him well. A fine upstanding lad he was, and I never could blame Margaret. But it broke my heart to have her go so far.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Just so the herdsman clapped his arms around Telemakhos and covered him with kisses—for he knew the lad had got away from death. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It had almost the same dispiritingly drab quality and the same bottom fine: an inhospitable place for a bright young lad with no friends to be living. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "Mind your head, lad," said Duffle a moment too late, for Shasta had already bashed his forehead against the low lintel of the door. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “The baker’s daughter likes the lad who works the press. She brings him extra breads and pies. Go ahead, eat.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z There was none to trouble him, for his youngest son was a silent lad who kept out of his father’s way and Wang Lung scarcely knew what he was, so silent a lad was he. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Sweet lad,” she begged, “’twill give thee strength and mend those ailing limbs.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “There’s my sweet maid. Good lads. You may leave us now. Not you, Reek. You stay.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I must say, lad, you’re making some sense now. Just a little.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I thought maybe I could visit Sarah and ask her to bring the little lad by. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “But once in a while it’s good to take a break from work. Let’s do something a wee bit different for a change. I’m thinking you’ll be good at this—you’re a tall lad.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “How does a King’s Landing lad end up with a ffee company?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The boy was a clever lad and no doubt he knew there wouldn't be any after. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He beat Jack, and the lad is a half-wit. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z It isn’t the Net that drives kids into isolation or creates lonely children; the Net attracts lonely and ignored lads, and puts them in touch with others just like them. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s a good description of him, little lady. I never saw a lad, page or prince, so eager to learn to do a thing right.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “We’ve tried hard, Lord knows. But Ishmael here, my boy Ishmael here—he’s a match, easily, for two lads, for three! We have high hopes for him.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Many of these lads felt like targets of a new hunt for oddballs—suspects in a bizarre, systematic search for the strange and the alienated. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The lad we’d taken for the girl in the pink fluffy jacket’s boyfriend. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “Those are bitter scars you bear, lad,” he said. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Devan was a skinny lad of some twelve years, brown of hair and eye. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Boys. I want to open a school for little lads—a good, happy, homelike school, with me to take care of them and Fritz to teach them.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z "And where have you been the whole night long, my lad?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “And this lad can barely keep his feet.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “His wife is ill, and he has closed his shop. My business dwindles daily. I have already lost one of my lads, gone with his family to Wilmington.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Franklyn Flowers offered to take the prince around the camp and introduce him to some of what he called the lads. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z You wouldn’t think there is anything life threatening about speech impediments, but let me tell you, there is nothing more dangerous than being a lad with a stutter and a lisp. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The lad, acquainted with his master's plan, slipped into the crack. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “I see your left foot is hurting, isn’t it, lad?” interrupted the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The lad who followed Robett Glover through the door was not a Stark, nor could he ever hope to pass for one. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I see at last a great difference between us, and yet, I admire ye, lad. You’re an idealist, praise be.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Miss Velma T. Harkrader generously devoted our last week of senior chemistry class to making relief parcels for our lads in arms. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I was not a self-possessed lad of fourteen. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The older lad shrugged, “Summon up a spirit from the dead, for all I care!” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The lad that had set the lights dancing sent one down to dance and glitter about Jasper’s head. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “Good morrow, lad,” he cried out, even as his hand eased off his weapon. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z A hint of a sneer played about the lad's lips; he was en-joying this. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z So we conversed, and grimly, at a distance, with my long sword between, guarding the blood, while the faint image of the lad spoke on. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of you wrote asking if you could help these lads. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In everyday life, you would not mistake him for a private school lad. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Maddie could hear the one lad’s distinctive nasal whinny even after his back had become anonymous. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Take care, lad, or you shall end up like me, stripped of any respectable rank and warming your shabby old hide at the fire of your enemies.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z "Handsome lad like you. There must be some special girl. Come on, what's her name?" says Caesar. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But with the words still on his lips, the sword was thrust into the lad’s breast. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The thuggish lad used it like a goading stick, and it worked. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The Englishman got up on the stage, and he rapped on the arm of a throne with a swagger stick, called, “Lads, lads, lads—can I have your attention, please?” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z This is perhaps the most orienting part of the geek experience for many lads like Jesse: They see the Net as a separate world, their world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A few of the White Harbor lads poked each other and laughed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Smiling, the Sun took off his crown of burning light so that the lad could look at him without distress. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked on quickly, and the lad came after me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are more of us than there are of them, lads,” he said, chest puffed out. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “It is. This has bin Eb’s home since he was a lad of ten or so.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “My God—what have they done to you, lad? This isn’t a man. It’s a broken kite.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They were the pride of Shantytown, the tall, blond, good-looking Nolan lads. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Singing your praises, those lads were. Made me wonder, though; have you any idea what the runway looks like from the air?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Pausing to turn a page, the lad saw her looking and, with boyish good nature offered half his paper, saying bluntly, “want to read it? That’s a first-rate story.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Why does the First Amendment end at the school door, when many lads, especially geeks, have spent much of their lives in the freest part of American culture— the Internet? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There must have been vents in the cell because he heard Hoede say, “Be a brave lad, and there’s a few kruge in it for you.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I was sitting with my arms wrapped around my knees, side by side with one of the lads who’d escaped when I shot his chains apart. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “And hast fallen into the river? Come, then, lad, and warm tha’self by the fire. Be not frighted. We’ll not hurt thee.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z "The things we love de-stroy us every time, lad. Remember when I told you that?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Number 2 is a boy, a husky lad with hair too long to be considered normal but too short to be considered long. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z We broke out more C rations, the canned stuff the army passes off for food, and shared them with the lads. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was out cruising the cosmos with Stephen Hawking while the other lads were playing.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you’re guaranteed fine dining when you becomes one of us, young lad,” said the Emperor of China. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “The lad risked the penalty to see justice done. I suggest you remit the sentence.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “Tall Andras is a good lad. Surely it was nothing he done?” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Some fine young lads from this village gave their lives to give us that privilege, and the way I see it, each one of us here now owes it to them to play our part. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z It’s a school on the reservation border filled with the poorest Indians and poorer-than-poorest white lads. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know what I expected, but he just looked like anybody—like the sort of chap who would come into the shop and buy a motorbike for his lad’s sixteenth birthday—like your headmaster. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z "I'm thinking these lads have mixed themselves up to flummox us." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Frog, the squire, was the youngest of the three, and the least impressive, a solemn, stocky lad, brown of hair and eye. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And when the lad was still silent, he coaxed again, and he said, “Tell your old father why you want to be a soldier?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Not that powerful, eh? Could have fooled me. You’re the son of the Earthshaker, lad. You don’t know your own strength.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z You will find him there with other lads that are remaining in the City. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The man in the black silk top hat noticed that Dunstan was staring at him, and motioned the lad over to him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Joffrey examined the boy, an ungainly lad with a coarse, freckled face and thick red hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And there she found him with Nestor’s lad in the late night at rest under the portico of Menelaos, the famous king. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Before it came, he must make certain that at least a few of his lads were ready to take his place at the queen’s side. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Short and stocky, plain-faced, he seemed a decent lad, sober, sensible, dutiful... but not the sort to make a young girl’s heart beat faster. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Reynard, be a good lad and tell S.Q. you wish to surrender. This will be the most efficient course. You are soon to be captured, regardless.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Why? He’s a good-looking lad. I’d put in a good word for him with your father like a shot.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Lord Cerwyn was a captive of the Lannisters, but his son, a lad of fourteen, arrived one bright, blustery morning at the head of two dozen lances. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z ‘What are you going to do with him? Don’t forget I spotted him first. If there’s any game, me and my lads must be in it.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z "Nay, lad," said King Lune, "thou art my heir. The crown comes to thee." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The Lady said she’d raised six weans of her own and five o’ them lads, eight o’ someone else’s lads wouldn’t be much different. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z ‘Here it is. Don’t pinch, lad! I won’t let you go. Tread water and don’t flounder, or you’ll upset the boat. There now, get hold of the side, and let me use the paddle!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z In general, the Virginians were the chief beneficiaries of all the highly stylized histories, though, as Adams observed, “not a lad upon the Highlands is more clannish than every Virginian I have ever known.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “I don’t know if Daedalus will help you, lad, but don’t judge someone until you’ve stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “And how about you lads? Do you have woofy names also?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z "The lad swears Lord Jon was as strong as a man half his age. Often went riding with Lord Stannis, he says." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "Like a crowd of lads-" He sighed, bent, and laced up his shoes. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “Be reasonable, lad,” said the bodyguard, tightening the girths on the saddle. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When Celia returned with the tea, Tam Lin shrugged and said, “In answer to your question, lad, you’re fourteen years old.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "No offense meant, lad. How would you calculate a proper ransom?" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z It was understood that life involved dangers, but that lads learned how to handle themselves. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "I got this to say. You're acting like a crowd of lads." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Then Wang Lung said, beseeching her, “Think and remember a little slight young lad, tall for his years, but not yet a man, and I did not dream he dared to try a woman.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z But the lad had lived among the soldiers when they were there and he had listened to their tales of war and plunder and battle, and he listened rapt to it all, saying nothing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “I’m fit as a lad, my dear girl.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Come on, lads,” shouted the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z These lads called him over to share food and drink with them, and were friendly though rough and full of jokes and jibes. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t say I really know her, lad. But I met her what, about two years back? Not that long, maybe a year and little change....” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “It had to happen sometime, lad,” Tam Lin said more kindly. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Word will get about as the sun goes higher of how I killed those lads. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “The lad meant no offense when he called thee ‘Crookshanks,’ Master Robin. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Finally Brother Luke said, “Hast seen enough, lad? It is a good way to the next hospice, they tell me, and we have two or three days’ journey ahead of us. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “What’s a captured lad from a bomber crew going to know about a wrecked reconnaissance aircraft?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z At this point one of the remaining lads from the bus collapsed in a shivering heap and Mitraillette sort of stalled. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Run and play, lad,” he said at last as to a little child. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z When the lad emerged from the cabin with Lemore by his side, Griff looked him over carefully from head to heel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Shooting was immediately halted, and the reckless lad, perhaps seeking an unusual pet for himself, was allowed to leave the premises with the bird. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z “Sorry about that, Matthias, my old lad. When these chaps gave up chasing me, I scooted back to my den. Spring cleaning, y’know. A bit late, but I’m only a bachelor in single quarters, what!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “This lad looks to be the right sort of age. He’s dressed—well, you’ll see how he’s dressed. And he found this. It could be him.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we’d lead a hard life here. Enjoy illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “Chopped off your fingers, did he? Skinned your widdle toes? Knocked your teeth out? Poor lad.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z ‘So ends a fair day in wrath!’ he said, forgetful of the lad at his side. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Expect the usual lads with one exception—tonight there’s one wee lassie coming along. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Did you hear that, August? The lad wants to work with animals. You want to carry water for elephants, I suppose?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z "The way before us is perilous enough, lad," said Squire Dalbridge. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Pippin rode off with half a dozen lads on ponies. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He was a lad not like either of his brothers, a lad as silent as his mother, and because he was silent none paid any attention to him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “You see, lad, I’m what you call a mercenary,” said Tam Lin in the lilting voice Matt had come to love. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, I know you—good lad—good lad—” he said softly. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He was a lad of less than twenty summers, with a fine noble face and a sense of humour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get a grip on yourself, lad. All right, I can see you’ve got grounds for suspicion, but credit me with a little decency.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "If the lad has something to say, I'll hear him out. Come closer, boy. We can't see you behind those horses." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And he took the meat out of the pot with his two fingers and threw it upon the ground and was heedless of the younger lad’s howling. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The god was horrorstruck to see the blood gush forth and the lad, deathly pale, fall to the ground. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t sweat it, lad. It happens to the best of us from time to time,” he turned away and began to rummage through his bundles. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He stood proudly and saw this happen and he would not laugh when the clerks, who had scorned him before, now cried out, “Pretty characters the lad makes and he is a clever one!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Turn over, do, there’s a good lad,” she said, intending her voice to be soft, but it was not. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Kin a lad come through weeks of this kind of actions without becomin’ a hardened man? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “Griff is different. He has a son he dotes on. Young Griff, the boy is called. There never was a nobler lad.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "You're merely a playgoer, then? Tell me, how did you like the play, a country lad like yourself?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Whenever he came to school with a black eye, Rowdy made sure to give black eyes to two lads picked at random. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “Come along, lad,” said the Harbormaster, and took him down the waterfront to the pier where Shadow was making ready to sail. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll send a rider,” said Franklyn Flowers, “but the lad won’t much like the idea of staying safe, I tell you that. He wants to be in the thick o’ things.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As she finished her prayer the two lads sank to the ground. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “My lads are locked up in the old sugarhouse,” he said, his smile fading. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry, lad. They don’t want you. You’re too skinny and snotty for their taste.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z And whenever he went he took with him his youngest son, who was to be on the land after him, that the lad might learn. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Smart as a whip, sharp as a tack, you'd have to get up pretty late at night to put anything past this lad,” said the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z And in the unlikely event that a lad wasn’t quite in the mood, he would be ushered into the house theater to be inspired by an exotic blue movie. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The lad was shorter than Duck, but his lanky build suggested that he had not yet come into his full growth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Well, most of the lads in the village have joined the East Surreys, except for...” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Even as he spoke, the bloodstained grass turned green again and there bloomed forth the wondrous flower that was to make the lad’s name known forever. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Choose a lad or two, and go and fetch him to my house. You’ll not have need to go near the old Hobbiton village over Water. My Jolly here will show you.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He killed with a careless thrust of his arm a lad who was serving him by pouring water on his hands before a feast. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z "Take a long breath, lad, and tell it slowly." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z So they turned aside and spent some hours at the fair, tethering the horses near the gate, giving a penny to a lad for watching them. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Such a large and likely lad drew the eye of old Lord Caswell, who offered him a place in his garrison, but the boy had wanted more. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I had no guess at all as to why they lad lain here for uncounted centuries, deep underground, fhere didn’t seem— The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Disguised as a peddler he went to the court where the lad was said to be, with gay ornaments in his pack such as women love, and also some fine weapons. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Evidently Mauhúr and his ‘lads’ had been killed or driven off. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It seemed to Tyrion that the lad had grown three indies since being knighted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “A simple task,” began the Humbug, suddenly wishing he were somewhere else, “for a brave lad with a stout heart, a steadfast dog, and a serviceable small automobile.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Add this, my lad,’ he said, handing Johnny an invoice he held in his hand. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is the way of things, lad. Everything dies but the gods.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z At first light blowing their fire up, they cooked their breakfast and sent their lads out, driving herds to root in the tall timber. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then with a dozen other lads he would practice with the Master Windkey at arts of wind and weather. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z So he sent for the lad and he came, and he was a man grown now, but still he was rude and still his teeth were as they were. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Now why don’t you go away? I was just advising the lad of the importance of proper spelling.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “And now, Arthur my friend, dear lad, am I not forgiven?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Stone-faced, the stocky lad bent, unlaced his boot, and drew a yellowed parchment from a hidden flap within. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "I'll wager tie lads have a few names for him as well," he said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Billington junior, a nice lad, met me at the station, and brought me to his father’s house, where they had decided that I must stay the night. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Then the lad here was right. Came to me just now and said he’d seen the fire-eater up there behind a column.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “When I was a lad I had no such melancholy and no such weepings and tempers, and no slaves, either.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The lad had taken great pride in serving as a king’s squire, and it had wounded him when Stannis commanded him to remain at Castle Black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Almost immediately, the Captain saw something in the skinny, hungry lad from Gary—some spark of raw intelligence, perhaps—and took him as a protégé. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z "Wilt thou sit down whilst I put this lad right about his arithmetic?" A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z "I suppose I can make room for one more. He's not very large. You don't eat much, do you, lad?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “It does to me, remember that, my lad. I give you entire liberty, but I trust you to make an honest use of it. Promise me that, Laurie.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He referred to my knee-length tunic and the bowl-shaped haircut common among country lads. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z I decided to get the little lads first. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z And he saw a tall and slender lad, who was neither his father nor his mother, except that he had his mother’s gravity and silence. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z They wrapped their huge coils around him and the two lads and they crushed the life out of them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, how fortunate I am to be a sailor of priority, taking voyage on a grand ship instead of digging tank trenches like most of the lads my age. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z "What are you talking about, lad?" replied Captain Nips. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z “I am infinitely older than you, lad. And I am safe wherever I am.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Having affairs he must see to before he left Iffish, Vetch went off to other villages of the island with the lad who served him as prentice-sorcerer. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z "Only vain, lad. Theon has always had too lofty an opinion of himself, I fear." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When the gong called to supper he went, but he would hardly speak to the other lads at the Long Table, or raise his face to them, even those who greeted him most gently. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Before them to show the way ran a little lad carrying a flaming torch and in the light of this torch the faces and the bodies of the men and the wet stones glistened alike. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z "This is Gendry. Strong for his age, and he works hard. Show the Hand that helmet you made, lad." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "And what would you know about it, lad?" asked the man in the green cloak. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Journalistic detachment was one thing, letting lads walk blindly into a trap was another. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Robin, looking over his shoulder, saw Geoffrey Atte-Water, the same lad he had first seen limping through the corridors of St. Mark’s. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “Ophelia, you read much nonsense. What dung-covered lad can tell his ABCs, let alone rhyme a sonnet and count all its feet?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z For many lads, it’s their lifeblood, and it shouldn’t be restricted, withdrawn, or used manipulatively except under the most serious circumstances. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “A couple of the mechanics let me borrow them. Rain doesn’t stop those lads working.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Just a lad of eighteen summers Sure there’s no one can deny As he marched to death that morning How he held his head on high. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “It was only a watch. Nobody got hurt, not like that poor Ross Wilcox lad. Nobody died. Be more careful with fragile things in the future, that's all. Is there anything left of the watch?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “So ... no wedding for Prince Frog. Is that why you’ve come hopping back to me? Have my three brave Domish lads decided to honor their contracts?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "Only some lads for the Watch. Got no part o' your war." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Other lads, they beat me up when I cry. Sometimes they make me cry so they can beat me up for crying.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I lost fights to boys, girls, and lads half my age. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Most of the lads in my new school spoke in quick, sharp bursts and dressed in stiff, new clothes and wore braces on their teeth. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “Dearie me, old lad, no need to be so touchy! Merely making a military observation, y’know.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Soldering, lads?” said a second Young Man, projecting his head out of the door. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Tom was a mild-faced lad who, like Jethro and Bill, had inherited the blond hair and blue eyes of his father’s side of the family. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The lad used to call him a punk and push him around. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s mercury in white shoe polish. Fights off the arthritis. Fit as a lad, I am.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Dear lad,” she said, “you must take these with you when you go to Athens with your new-found father. They are the clothes you were wrapped in when I found you.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dress. Wear the cloak with the hood and keep your head down. We’re supposed to be a pair of likely lads, just in case the slave-catchers are watching.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “These roads are a dinger,” Gramps said, but he was like a little lad riding a hobby horse. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “But by the laws of this realm,” he said, “he’s fully bound to me now. My apprentice. And a likely lad.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The boys he had led and lorded over were all ahead of him now, because of the months he had lost, and that spring and summer he studied with lads younger than himself. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z I might even dust down that pilot I once wrote, about a working-class lad becoming prime minister. The media class, not the middle class, are the BBC's problem 2011-01-26T12:39:16Z Approaching him, a white man in a white T-shirt and jeans, shaven-headed – the generic English lad – lopes, hands shoved into his pockets, deliciously framed by the outline of an old-fashioned red phone box. Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-09T23:06:18Z "He was a catalyst in the band, you see," says Klaus Voormann, the German artist who met the lads when they played the bars in Munich. Review of Martin Scorsese's George Harrison documentary 2011-10-05T14:20:00Z We are never told why the Glasgow lad of “Found Wanting” settles for the solicitor, who carries him off to Edinburgh, instead of writing back to the lonely crofter’s son. A Booker Prize Winner Takes On First Love and — Just Maybe — Hope 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Leon being bulldozed by Natasha while pitching lads' mag Covered was hilarious. The Apprentice 2011: the best and the worst of series seven 2011-07-15T13:56:00Z Also, Buzzfeed rounded up these dapper lads and lasses who made appearances throughout New York Fashion Week earlier this month. North West fits in at Balenciaga, sits front row with Kim, Kanye 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Poor, dim J would be better off wandering the streets, getting into ordinary kinds of trouble, rather than slipping into the wayward ways of Smurf, the Ma Barker of Melbourne, and her nasty lads. Animal Kingdom: A Cool and Creepy Crime Drama 2010-08-14T06:50:00Z This dashing lad won Maleficent’s love and, ambition overwhelming ardor, clipped and stole her wings to become the king of a neighboring realm. REVIEW: Maleficent: Sympathy for the Rebel 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z It not only calls for the covers of explicit lads' mags to be covered up, but also those of the "growing number of gay magazines for both men and women". Reactionary forces are shaping the debate on internet porn 2010-12-23T15:30:00Z Tired of forever playing a hovering angel in the annual Christmas pageant, Owen is a determined Gravesend, N.H., lad who mounts a vigorous campaign to score a new role: the baby Jesus. Book-It brings back Owen Meany 2011-12-08T21:44:03Z The film’s first shot is just as startling: three of the Liverpool lads running toward the camera down a narrow sidewalk, hemmed in by parked cars. Fifty Years Ago Today: The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z When he was a boy, he says, there was a consensus that Britain was moving towards a better, fairer future – one in which a lad like him could end up at Oxford. Alan Bennett: 'I've often wanted to be bolder' 2010-11-23T08:00:00Z I remember two lads standing there with pint glasses saying: "Fookin' 'ell!" How we made: Ben Kelly and Peter Hook on the Haçienda club 2012-07-02T18:32:01Z Brooks: “I knew Christ, Christ was a thin lad, always wore sandals. Hung around with 12 other guys. They came in the store, no one ever bought anything. Once they asked for water.” Carl Reiner, comedy’s rare untortured genius, dies at 98 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Khaleesi spent the early moments enduring two charming lads who made all sorts of offensive remarks and speculations. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 1: Picking Up the Jagged Pieces 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z “You find yourself calling your friends ‘lads,’ which is generally accepted,” said Mr. Coggins, 36. Noted: Americans Are Barmy Over Britishisms 2012-10-10T20:37:21Z One lad logged into Christian chatrooms because he was looking for potential business partners and figured that Christians would be trustworthy people, but was frustrated that they only wanted to talk about the Bible. Online, some are more equal than others 2013-03-10T00:05:42Z That looks to be changing with Badults, a sitcom about young lads failing to grow up. Pappy's: the boys who never grew up 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z This fresh-faced and buoyant lad will, in a flash, slither up a tall pole to reach Juliet's balcony to charm her with some of the most glorious love poetry ever penned. Intiman's 'Romeo and Juliet' paints full picture of young love, loss 2012-07-16T23:24:04Z I went up to Haworth, and I saw this lad walking down a lane wearing a hoodie, and I thought, 'Heathcliff!' 'Wuthering Heights' gets a gritty new film adaptation 2012-05-30T22:30:07Z The lad’s fondness for his grandpa has hatched in him an appreciation for farm life that bypassed his citified dad. | 'Farm Boy': ?Farm Boy,? ?War Horse? Sequel, at 59E59 Theaters - Review 2011-12-15T22:23:16Z After David learns a long-hidden secret, Ebenezer — quite the Dickensian rascal — conspires to have the lad tricked onto a brig sailing for the Carolinas, where he will be sold into indentured slavery. Review | Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ is not just an adventure tale, it’s a timely novel about politics and dissent 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z “I literally sit there in a pub, having a beer, chatting to a couple of lads about football. It’s like the best job ever.” Peter Crouch: 'Getting 50,000 people on their feet – you can't replicate that' 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z An earnest, friendly lad, Aldous is worried about global warming and wants to work on solar energy — particularly artificial photosynthesis — and he tries to get the cynical and misanthropic Beard to share his concern. Books of The Times: Ian McEwan?s ?Solar? Features a Boorish Physicist 2010-03-29T21:45:00Z But there's a lovely moment when he and guitarist Al Doyle celebrate under the lights, and people cheer the unlikely lads like superstars. Hot Chip – review 2012-06-12T17:04:49Z My flatmate Liam quickly fashioned himself as the top lad; he would confess later that he’d made a secret bet that he could shag every girl in the group. My search for Mr Woke: a dating diary 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z By any sane measure, banter was falling into disrepute, as often a disguise for malice as a word for the ribaldry of lads on the lash. The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z “The David Hemmings character was a polite composite of the group of mostly foul-mouthed cockney lads Bailey was part of,” said the photographer Eric Boman, who met him around this time. Photography: Photographer Who Broke Molds 2011-01-24T12:30:05Z In contrast the boys themselves are a fresh-faced lot, decent lads just out for a lark, riding the rails when they fall into horrendous trouble. Theater Review | 'The Scottsboro Boys': Kander and Ebb Revisit an Infamous Case 2010-03-11T05:17:00Z I was a lad; we partied a bit, but I didn't hide anything. Phillip Schofield: I had high times at Going Live! 2013-04-19T09:48:54Z The lad in this case played genie to himself and made his own wish come true by pouring out, over more than five decades, a glistening stream of gloriously articulate, brilliantly intricate plays. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z This lad's mother was telling him that they were portraits of previous Lord Mayors and that maybe one day his portrait would be up there and they both laughed. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z It's as if this young lad is constantly being chased by shadows. Blackout 2010-08-25T16:07:00Z There was a little rumour going round that they couldn't possibly be mixing it themselves; the sound quality they were getting was just too good for two lads that age. Disclosure and Zed Bias: dubplates, DJing and the sound of the suburbs 2013-02-15T14:00:00Z He said, softly: “Fair play to David, he’s a good lad, he soon a put a stop to those guys.” The death and life of the great British pub | Tom Lamont 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z When, in their early fame, the lads are asked if they’re millionaires yet, they shake their moptops no; the followup is: “Where does all the money go?” Review of Martin Scorsese's George Harrison documentary 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z You may remember wee Joe as the Geordie lad with the big smile who was basically adopted by judge and mentor Cheryl Cole. Joe McElderry covers Donkeyboy! Er, who? 2010-09-20T16:01:00Z I was in sixth-form at school, and I was anti-vivisection, and this lad in my class says: “If you don’t believe in experimenting on live animals, why do you eat them?” The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z All of which serves as a reminder that in early 1964 when Beatlemania was exploding worldwide, musical immortality seemed in doubt for the four lads from Liverpool. Beatles' 'A Hard Day's Night' gets fab 50th anniversary makeover 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z A winsome pair of longhaired lads are guided through a series of esoteric mysteries by the androgynous madam, Mr. Arnold’s high school friend and frequent star, Pandora. Tangled Bodies and Blown Minds, Complete With the Cockettes 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Stand down, World Health Organization; that lad who was good at penalties once has got this health crisis covered. Stand down, experts: celebrities have got coronavirus covered 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Albarn's first proper solo album saw the Blur and Gorillaz guru in wistful mood, taking stock of his life and whether or not our collective well-being has improved since he was a lad. Mercury Prize 2014: The nominees 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Maybe that new bass player will revitalise the lads somehow? Smells like team spirit ... why being a music fan is like supporting England 2010-07-06T11:53:00Z “I’ve loved singing and music since I was a little lad, and I could just tell that Margaret did, too. Her voice is amazing.” ‘Music takes her back to her happy place’: A woman with dementia is lighting up the pop charts with a pitch-perfect tune 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z The rest of the live action, starring Charles Crumb’s boyhood obsession Bobby Driscoll as the typical towheaded Disney lad, is more hit-or-miss, especially when Baskett is off screen. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z He said he didn’t lobby for his own music to be included this year, though he was letting other “lads” in the band know about the honor. Library of Congress taps 25 sounds for registry 2012-05-23T14:47:00Z For 15 minutes, all three of us would curl up close on the bottom bunk and listen to the lads from Liverpool speaking to their fans before their records were played. Family life: My religious grandfather, the Beatles and Gran's Hungarian pancakes 2013-07-06T06:30:10Z I feel like I'm one of the lads. Jagger's new band, formed on a whim, gets Superheavy 2011-09-20T20:08:43Z In a letter, 9-year-old Alfie Knight begs to be allowed to enlist because “I am very strong and often win a fight with lads twice as big as myself.” UK museum looks at epic, intimate sides of WWI 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Brawny lads compete for prize money by heaving all kinds of hefty things. Europe’s wide world of traditional sports 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z This little lad with primordial dwarfism came to see me at a cabaret club in Liverpool. Glastonbury 2013: views from Leftfield 2013-06-30T16:00:02Z It's a highly schematic piece about violence, bullying, pacifism and turning the other cheek that begins with the experience of two 11-year-old, middle-class lads from troubled families successfully confronting their classroom tormentor. In a Better World ? review 2011-08-20T23:05:31Z Mr. Polenzani will be partnered by the pianist Julius Drake for Schubert’s poignant song cycle about a miller lad suffering in unrequited love. The Week Ahead: April 3 ? 9 2011-04-02T03:12:49Z It was what you might call a pre-“woke” epoch; we were still drunk on lad culture. My search for Mr Woke: a dating diary 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Sometimes the lads in my neighborhood would feign self-assurance with aggression, but it wasn’t nearly as convincing as wearing a suit. His Family Had Money. Mine Didn’t. 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z A vocal supporter of the Monty Python comedy troupe, Harrison took it upon himself to secure the lads financing for their feature-length successor to the cult classic Holy Grail. Unseen on screen: the secret movie cameos you might not know about 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The effect is not to make you think his onstage persona is real — since the lad doth protest too much — so much as to make you wonder what is real and what is fake. Festivals In Review: Warring Relatives and Joking Rabbis 2011-01-15T00:29:04Z Two lads were throwing blows, stamping on each other's heads, explains a female officer who helped separate them. Her Majesty's Prison: Aylesbury; Black Mirror – TV review 2013-02-18T23:05:00Z We witness 13-year-old May falling in love with the four lads from Liverpool and, later, her incredible good fortune in landing a plum job with John and Yoko in the early 1970s. May Pang opens up about John Lennon's "Lost Weekend" in her "love story" documentary 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z With their tight jeans and updated teddy-boy styles, the four gaff lads exude rough sex: they could have walked straight out of the Smiths's "Rusholme Ruffians" from the album Meat is Murder. Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z In reality Jack is a streetwise London lad, but on screen he has just the right mix of sweetness, vulnerability and adolescent idiocy that we needed. Up the junction 2010-04-03T23:05:00Z Many an inebriated teenage lad scoffed at the pizza, but to a man they wolfed it down. Family life 2013-03-09T07:14:01Z This makes a slightly sour and runny jam which my wee lads and myself love eating with our porridge. Family life 2012-08-24T23:05:04Z “I’m very chuffed — is that a word that you have here? — I’m very chuffed that the three lads have gelled so well together,” Mr. Wolk said afterward, citing a British colloquialism meaning pleased. Vaudeville Authenticity at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z They dart down the dairy aisle, through the frozen foods section, before coming to the display of lads' magazines, which they mark with their own slogans. Lads' mags: the great cover-up 2010-10-15T06:00:00Z Four lads attempt to get to the famous Stone Roses gig. Man Of Steel, Paradise: Love, Admission: this week's new films 2013-06-15T05:00:16Z As he says this, two suspiciously young lads walk into his coffee shop. Vaping is ever more popular, but is it a smoking cure or a new hazard? 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z Out of the three men positioned as the main catch, he fares the best in the masking department; the remaining lad is hidden underneath a rooster's beak, feathers and flaming red wattles. On "Sexy Beasts," love isn't quite blind – but it's an entertainingly shallow heavy petting zoo 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z It should be noted that Theroux is no longer the likely lad who once nipped around Europe, Asia and the Americas in his great travelogues The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express. The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux – review 2013-06-01T14:00:01Z A teenage boy got into a car But the lad, he never got very far. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Relax, these aren’t old jokes retold as poems 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z The show lasted less than two seasons, but soon after she joined the Hollywood lad fantasy “Entourage,” in perhaps still her most well-known role. On ‘UnREAL,’ Constance Zimmer Leans In to Darkness 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z "If you get a quiet bit in a film young lads and girls get fed up and think, let's play something else on our phones." My wonderful life in cinema 2011-02-15T20:00:02Z When I was a lad going to evensong, the psalms sneaked into my brain and stayed there all week and helped to influence the way I think, the way I form my sentences. Gerry Rafferty's immortal earworm 2011-01-06T21:30:01Z If I’m being honest, my body’s journey from lad bod to dad bod preceded fatherhood. Body transformation: from ‘dad bod to rad bod’ in just seven weeks 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z The Big Seven of his title are the seven deadly sins, which his hero, 66-year-old retired detective Simon Sunderson , has been worrying about since he was introduced to them as a lad in church. Book review: In ‘The Big Seven’ by Jim Harrison, a detective behaving badly 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z This was ostensibly a documentary about a talented but overambitious young lad who would learn from his mistakes before he jeopardised a bright future. Britain's Youngest Head Chef 2013-04-18T06:00:08Z He's mellowed out now, really chilled, he's lost one eye and he's done so much prison… Uncle Tony, he's still a bit of a lad. Tricky: 'I can still be really dark in my mind' 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z The playwright took that as his premise — a horrible crime committed by a seemingly gentle, lonely lad who, in Shaffer’s conceit, loves horses to the point of worship. Constellation Theatre revives ‘Equus’ to great effect 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z These books tell the stories of brave lads who overcome adversity through self-confidence and pluck. Post-Oprah, Americans still hooked on self-help 2011-07-12T21:45:00Z Something of a highbrow himself, August delights in the college boy's company but can't help but notice the growing affection between his wife and the bereaved lad. "Water for Elephants" a lost opportunity 2011-04-24T22:00:45Z Freeze-framed in the pink and orange hues of the city's streetlights, four lads seem lost in some grotesque, alcohol-fuelled mime show that is both disturbing and hilarious. Mass Photography: Blackpool Through the Camera ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:47Z Even the biggest Mel Gibson sceptic couldn’t help but be charmed by the selfie some lad took of him up a mountain in Ireland earlier this year. The most exciting biopics of 2017 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Without naked women, Playboy will be just another publication struggling to stay abreast of the other lad mags. No nudes allowed! Playboy decides to put it all back on 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Unlike the real-life brothers on whom these characters are based, these lads are fatherless when Barrie meets them in Kensington Park. ‘Finding Neverland’ Opens at American Repertory Theater 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z When the lads of “The Choir of Man” launch into Adele’s “Hello” or the Kinks’ “Waterloo Sunset,” the harmonies hit the mark. Review | ‘The Choir of Man’ invites you into a pub for a sticky singalong 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Anyone for Tennis? – two Melbourne lads anatomising in ridiculous song their youthful explorations of sex, romance and women. New Edinburgh act of the day: Anyone for Tennis? 2011-08-18T14:05:58Z I was genuinely unsure whether Gene would dime on the lad, but he does, albeit reluctantly and without saying a word. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3 Premiere: Danglin’ Jimmy 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Most of the lads on duty are getting some sleep in the dormitory tent and only a skeleton crew are still keeping an eye on things. France's 24-hour parti people 2010-09-17T16:00:00Z The Chicago lads epitomize politeness to the degree that their wispy, 70s AM radio pop-rock threatens to get blown away by the breeze. Rainy start to day one of Lollapalooza 2013-08-02T20:41:00Z Of the major lad mags, only Maxim still stands, and one of its former editors, 36-year-old Jimmy Jellinek, two years ago became editorial director of Playboy, second in command to Hef. How Hef Got His Groove Back 2011-02-06T07:48:01Z And if Jim's highly articulate narration can be explained by the private-school education his father gave him, this lad can also seem too good to be true on occasion. 'Silver': courage and terror in the sequel to Treasure Island 2012-08-01T20:01:03Z Does Hucknall's track record prove the old saying that a lad will never be short of a girlfriend if he can cook? Love music love food: pop will eat itself 2011-07-15T22:00:00Z The lads have left their pudgy cat with a blind guy who collects parrots. Review: Can't Get Much Dummer Than Dumb and Dumber To 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z However, there are far fewer films about the collaborators who helped the Brixton lad born David Jones evolve into a zeitgeist-grasping global icon. David Bowie’s collaborator Mick Ronson remembered: “They were brothers and they were partners” 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z It's a wonderful piece, and the staging – in a playground – gives it authenticity, as a group of lads spend their summer attempting that dangerous swing stunt, the bronco. This week's new theatre 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z We do the same things every other lad our age does. One Direction's 2nd CD hits No. 1, sells 540,000 2012-11-21T04:09:11Z But in certain cultures in the past the lads who carried messages from place to place weren’t allowed to learn to read lest it impair their capacity to memorise important information. Lest we forget: memorising is useful | Katharine Whitehorn 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z “A nice lad put my shopping in the boot, but I can’t reach it.” Meeting Kenny Baker, the real-live human behind R2-D2 | David Barnett 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Unlike Parsons, I am not a best-selling author of middlebrow sensitive lad lit. Tony Parsons, that airport job was mine 2011-08-06T12:00:00Z The most wonderful element of this particular gaffe was Arcadia's justification, which was that Topman customers, "geezers, lads, whatever you want to call them," would in fact take Shepherd's words as a compliment. Angus T Jones joins the 'Ratner moment' hall of fame 2012-11-29T16:08:06Z The true meaning of feminism is tits out for yourself, not the lads. What have Cherry Healey and Dawn Porter taught us? 2011-08-05T23:12:01Z My eldest lad is 24, my daughter is 22 and my youngest lad, from my first marriage, is 19, and he lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. Eamonn Holmes 2013-06-21T12:00:02Z Not only the equipment but the right lad techs to know what to look for when they see a print out. Traces of Controversial Herbicide Are Found in Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z When asked about coping in an environment teeming with testosterone, Brady replied: "I don't mean that you become one of the lads, but you develop your own integrity, your own control of the space." No sex on stage, please, we're career women 2011-02-28T14:12:36Z I think we're two working-class lads, which could go for us if you pitch the right show and you shoot it in the right place. Ant and Dec: just the two of us 2013-02-23T09:00:00Z Local lads and lasses from Blackburn they were equally as warm and friendly as Mani and after exchanging contact details we had promised we were going to go for a drink in real life. Beat-Herder Festival diary: Nile Rodgers rocks the Ribble valley 2013-07-17T12:24:23Z For instance, when the London lads sit around indoors playing videogames, their Amish counterparts quickly grow unbelievably bored. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: Amish: The World's Squarest Teenagers 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z He said he didn't lobby for his own music to be included this year, though he was letting other "lads" in the band know about the honor. Library of Congress taps 25 sounds for registry 2012-05-23T11:11:19Z He was a nice lad but not great with the deadlines. Roddy Doyle Scored 8 Out of 10 on a Quiz About Roddy Doyle 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Matt Damon, riding the success of “Good Will Hunting” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” plays Cole as a sensitive lad dumbstruck by love. Stream These Five Cormac McCarthy Film Adaptations 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Sabotage Times A new project from former lad mag editor James Brown, who aims to do for the discerning middle-aged fella what Loaded and its ilk did for 1990s hedonists. Internet picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z Wearing's airbrushed image of the lad sits in a frame that opens up to reveal his rueful, handwritten account of what happened. The Henry's 'The Talent Show' winks at the camera 2011-07-07T19:29:04Z "Not bad for a lad from Sussex", might typically run the headline, when a man from the home counties gets to play a real live American. Fancy that: the golden age of the sexy geeky leading male 2012-07-27T21:59:00Z On the show, Portia dressed like a scrambled Y2K mood board and chose adventure with a “Love Island” type of lad over romance with a polite Stanford boy. Her First Time on the Front Row 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z A mixture of pranks, investigations and projects, appealing to May's audience of middle-aged engineers and top-banting "lads", this episode trades heavily on the docile charisma of his sidekick, Rory Barker. TV highlights: 25/4/2013 2013-04-25T06:01:07Z I can't speak for the lads, but I go to bed. The Strypes: 'We always knew that you had to practise for months, get in a van and do 200 gigs…' 2013-04-27T23:04:01Z Keep on dancing, lads, don't look around," the programme taunted, "You don't really want to know what's happening. For young Soviets, the Beatles were a first, mutinous rip in the iron curtain 2013-04-20T13:00:01Z Above him being a smashing actor, he’s just a smashing lad. Barry Keoghan Doesn’t Mean to Be a Scene-Stealer 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z This is confirmed when, a little later, Fiennes arrives, also sharp in black tie, as the three lads huddle for a joint breakfast television interview. Ricky Gervais's ballad of Reading jail 2010-04-08T21:00:00Z Since the launch of Feminist Fridays, several stores – including some Tesco and WH Smith branches where actions have been held – have moved their display of lads' mags to the top shelf. Lads' mags: the great cover-up 2010-10-15T06:00:00Z Did you have to show it to the lads? Shepard Fairey gets his sticky fingers on the Stones 2012-07-06T00:00:00Z “I look at him now and he’s got a bunch of lads around him,” says a colleague from that era. Does Boris Johnson’s government have a women problem? 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z I – a working class lad from Islington – had the feeling that, at any moment, someone was going to come up behind me and say, "Sorry, there's been a dreadful mistake, can you leave?" Corinne Bailey Rae, Sir Mark Elder and other musicians' greatest on-stage moments 2010-08-05T20:30:00Z Coward was a mere lad of 25 when “Fallen Angels” opened in London in 1925. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Fallen Angels,’ at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theater 2013-07-12T18:53:52Z A couple of the lads in the band left, and we didn't have a singer. 'We're not the new Beatles' 2013-06-15T10:53:14Z It was crude, but it firmly established his image as a cheeky, up-for-it lad. Also-rans to world's biggest boy band: the rise of One Direction 2012-11-17T14:47:23Z "She remembered this old horse, who would collect all the young fresh lads from the farms, and would come back with their old dungarees piled high … She gave me the poem, really." First world war poem wins National Poetry Competition 2013 2013-03-27T20:29:01Z According to Yahoo Lifestyle, the dad and lad were likely en route to New York City, where Cohen resides. Andy Cohen slammed for taking newborn son on private plane 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Such handsome lads, what college are they in? Seattle soundtrack: by Kinski 2013-05-24T23:10:00Z First there is the fable of a plucky young British lad, who overcomes macho resistance and peer pressure from his friends and relations to follow his dream of becoming a ballet dancer. 'Billy Elliot' author talks about blending politics and artistic aspiration as tour comes to Seattle 2011-03-17T01:40:20Z “Hey Jude” is the sound of the lads working hard to capture that feeling of “us,” after it stopped coming easy. “Hey Jude” at 50: Celebrating the Beatles’ most open-hearted masterpiece 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z There was a lad who came in who was 10 – he had made his own decision to be vegan; he was so determined, and his parents were so supportive. The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z Then there was “Operation Crucible” at the Finborough Theater, which found four British lads enduring acute psychological and physical anguish while buried beneath the rubble of a bombed hotel in Sheffield in 1949. London Journal: A Nonstop Carnival of Culpability 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z More crucially, we aren’t allowed time to get to know the different lads who make up the band they call Sing Street, or to see them struggle into harmonious existence. ‘Sing Street’ Review: New Wave Music as Sweet Deliverance 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Far from showing any signs of engine fatigue, for the lad from Mirfield, West Yorkshire, life and work just seem to get better and better. Patrick Stewart: 'I can store emotions. No experience is ever wasted' 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z "Our concept was a day in the life of a lad in Essex," says Mitch. The Milk's alternative guide to Essex 2012-08-24T23:05:00Z I suppose the rest of the lads feel that way at times, too. Roof climbing with Paul McCartney – a classic interview from the archives 2012-06-18T15:33:47Z The Craft Master version of Thomas Gainsborough's "The Blue Boy" becomes an anatomy lesson in Janet Galore's hands as she peels back the lad's 18th-century finery to display his internal organs. Bumbershoot preview: Visual arts 2011-09-01T21:06:20Z Not bad for a lad who started his working life at 12 selling crack. Jay-Z: good from the hood 2010-11-20T00:03:00Z One version of events in the Connon biography has things coming to a head when certain of Nichols’s guests “began chatting up the local lads.” | Beverley Nichols 2011-01-12T14:00:17Z The character of Jack was such a jack the lad, there was that wonderful mischievous side to him. Corrie's Bill Tarmey dies aged 71 2012-11-09T17:33:51Z Comic relief follows in the form of “Die Wandelnde Glocke,” about a lad who refuses to go to church until the bell comes to fetch him. Celebrating an 18th-Century Composer, Carl Loewe 2012-02-24T21:05:38Z Watching the movie is like finding an ancient back issue of a second-tier lad mag — not even Maxim, but Loaded or Nuts — in a friend’s guest bathroom. Review: ‘Entourage,’ the Screen Is Bigger, but Nothing Is Better 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The Great Hip Hop Hoax is the bizarre but true story of two lads from Arbroath who bonded over love of rap music and skating. Cannes Film Festival 2013 2013-05-16T20:23:54Z In a nod to Diamond, she said he was "a Brooklyn lad with a gift of melody who grew into a solitary man, `reaching out, touching me.'" Ma, Diamond, Streep receive Kennedy Center Honors 2011-12-05T14:27:10Z He's a working-class lad himself, he reminded readers, and libraries never did anything for him. Frank Skinner's attack on free libraries is a bad joke 2010-09-01T09:55:00Z He was an exceptionally bright and hard-working lad, but the road to secondary education – and a better life – was exclusively for the well-off. How one act of generosity led to a Kenyan miracle ? and a Sundance film 2011-04-13T09:00:01Z We will be seeing much more of this lad. TIFF 2014: Bill Murray shines, but saints all around in 'St. Vincent's' 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z The main objection has been that it perpetuates stereotypes: the local lad coming home after making good in the south, the sassy, brassy northern girls, and so on. Grimetime TV: why the north rules 2011-08-03T20:30:00Z Gunther rendered the impeccably groomed lad against a mottled, blackish-green background, a contrast that makes his pale skin and blond hair virtually glow. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z We had to give the lad – or more probably his parents – 10/10 for originality. Akala: ‘As I grew up, I became embarrassed by my mother’s whiteness' 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z The hardened lad in question was estimated to be no more than 13 years old. The power of pop literature: Why we need diverse YA books more than ever 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z She was Issur’s teacher, who introduced the lad to romantic poetry, took a shine to him, and invited him home “to help her with some English papers one evening.” Kirk Douglas, a Hundred Years Old 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z They take on lads' mags, the media, the Playboy empire and advertising through marching, groups and letter-writing, which gives this a feeling of going right back to where we started with the "Libbers". Winter Paralympics: Highlights | Women | FlashForward and more | Watch this 2010-03-22T06:45:00Z I got let down with a ticket the day before, which is what happens to the lads in the film. Stone Roses give blessing to film 2012-05-21T11:58:56Z Collins’ interest began in his youth as he was a 5-year-old English lad who saw actor Fess Parker portray Davy Crockett in a 1950s Disney miniseries. Phil Collins to donate artifacts to Alamo 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z As a young lad, I was encouraged by my parents to spend time with my ailing sister. The coalition's attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Wendy begs her parents to adopt all the Lost Boys, because what’s a dozen more strapping young lads around the house? NBC's Peter Pan Live!: Recap 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z The show, written by two 23-year-old local lads, closed the day after it opened. After Broadway heights of ‘Glory Days,’ back home with ‘Soon’ 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Jr. RTR and Charan make a mesmerizing team, dancing in sync side by side, as legions of ladies and lads in formal wear struggle to keep up with them. ‘Naatu Naatu’ From ‘RRR’ Is a Worldwide Hit, but It Draws on Very Local Traditions 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z In the background, lads attracted by the cameras grinned and gave the odd thumbs-up, lending events the air of a live Children In Need link up. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: The news 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z However, I also hear the biggest headache for northern lad Boyle is how his new film will be pronounced. Trailer trash 2012-02-12T00:06:12Z The diffident lad is given medication for an attention deficit disorder that temporarily transforms him into a confident near genius. Beginners ? review 2011-07-23T23:05:49Z The two early works by him that happily overlapped this season in major London productions are often regarded as the merely playful jeux d’esprit of a giddy lad with an insatiable and compendious mind. Stoppard Classics, Reborn for an Age of Uncertainty 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z "People say it's 'lad rock,'" says guitarist Serge Pizzorno, who is looking forward to "proving people wrong". What's it like to headline Glastonbury? 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Photograph: PA Fifty years ago this month, four lads from Liverpool entered a north London studio to record their first album. What's your favourite Beatles song? 2013-02-19T10:52:52Z “There once was a young lad from Rhone/ Whose odor he’d rather disown./ Now he’s taming his poo/ By anointing the loo/ And now happily sits on his throne.” Style Invitational Week 1396: Hail to Limerixicon XVII! 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z "One of the lads," says the guy from Chile. TV review: William at 30 2012-06-07T21:00:03Z Santa suits are a no-go; instead the lads – let's call them Antony, Lee, Duncan and Simon – show how mature they are by ram-raiding Dolce & Gabbana. One Direction and the seven ages of the boyband 2012-11-12T16:27:54Z "The only difference is the movie looks a bit more glamorous," one of the lads told me. Trailer trash 2012-07-14T23:06:26Z When I initially started going out with the lads, with Alex's old school friends, they all spoke English. Sam Riley shot to fame as the doomed Ian Curtis in Control. Now he's playing creepy Pinkie in Brighton Rock 2011-01-12T08:00:03Z The second album from the four Danish lads known as Iceage is an even more caustic slab of brooding punk than their blindsiding first record. Review: Iceage prove their worth on sophomore CD 2013-02-19T18:56:08Z Soon after, the lad was reportedly caught on camera arriving at the hangar via electric bike on the fateful Saturday last month. Teen fined for joyriding in seaplanes, while airport officials want to teach him to fly 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z “We had about 60 participants – mostly lads from the football club. We thought it would be a one-off.” ‘It's part of the fun to suffer’: hitting the great outdoors this Christmas 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z These are the crown princes here; better groomed, more successful versions of the lads lapping up their films. SXSW 2011: the best of British film at the festival 2011-03-14T20:59:00Z Apart from the fact that she fell for that soft lad Bumper! Your next box set: Brookside: Most Memorable Moments 2012-12-13T18:45:02Z The buzz around these four peculiar-looking lads had been building and their ludicrous brand of full-throttle yacht rock had found itself a cult following in London. Hidden treasures: Palladium – The Way It's Not 2013-03-26T16:31:00Z Again, a night of extreme debauchery leaves the lads clueless and foggy-brained, unable to recall anything without photographic evidence saved for the end credits. 'Hangover 2': Yep, we're waking up here. Again. 2011-05-25T13:10:00Z The journalist and author of “People Who Eat Darkness” and, most recently, “Ghosts of the Tsunami” avoids “lad lit” even more assiduously than he avoids “chick lit.” Richard Lloyd Parry: By the Book 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z A bright lad who taught himself to play cello and piano, in 1819 he was sent to a school for the blind in Paris, France. Trailblazers Louis Braille and Helen Keller opened new world to blind people 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z I found the dating site Gaydar when I was 14 and I met up with a local lad who was 15 and we messed about a couple of times. Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z The efforts of the criminal justice system were “focused, worryingly, on a particular set of our society, which is young Black lads,” he noted. For British Drill Stars, the Police Are Listening Closely 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Growing up in the gritty Bronx, Goldstein identified with the lads from working-class Liverpool. Meet the critic who panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ then discovered his speaker was busted. He’s still not sorry. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z We get a lot of Lady Gaga, and lads playing YouTube clips of rude football chants. Librarian Lizzy Evans on Shelf Life 2010-04-12T20:45:00Z Initially the brightest lad in the class, Julien Quentin, joins in, to ingratiate himself with his fellows and because he recognises in the clever, scholarly Jean an academic rival. Philip French OBE, Observer writer of 50 years and film critic extraordinaire 2012-12-29T18:54:00Z Marty is a fierce defender of the lad, who lives with him, even when Roscoe wants to try out for the female lead in the school play. | 'House of Lies': ?House of Lies,? With Don Cheadle, on Showtime - Review 2012-01-07T00:39:31Z It's set in 1971 and centres around a geeky lad who makes a computer discovery that will change the world, but also has to contend with the usual romantic entanglements and traumas of youth. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-10-12T23:05:58Z The poor young lad, according to his father, also is no longer enthused about eating “a big ribeye steak” and now “eats only to exist.” Stanford rapist’s father issues despicable plea for leniency: “A steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action” 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Hauling saddles heavier than themselves and blearily mucking out stables, these beardless lads submit to their chores and try not to miss their mothers. | 'Lads & Jockeys': ?Lads & Jockeys,? Documentary on French Horse-Racing School 2011-12-02T05:14:06Z They round up scantily clad women and sex-obsessed lads desperate to take the shortcut to fame and egg them on to play up the worst elements of their characters for the camera. Do TV's 'scripted reality' shows fuel regional prejudice? 2011-07-16T23:07:08Z He also spent two years working in coalmines; from being a bit of an oik when he started school, he was now the posh lad down the mines. Michael Eavis interview: 'We've got the perfect loos for Glastonbury' 2013-06-21T13:01:17Z Alfred Edward Housman was not a Shropshire lad but a Worcestershire one. A Worcestershire lad 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z His biggest magazine venture was the glossy lad mag Maxim, which was being published in 31 countries when he sold it in 2007 for nearly 1.5 million pounds. Felix Dennis, publishing provocateur turned poet, dies at 67 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Left-wing women are similarly set in their ways, as are liberal lads, who are three times more likely to chat with fellow liberals than conservatives. Conservatives much better at dating than liberals, survey says 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z That's something that younger lads need as much as us older ones. Welsh male voice choris: a vocal minority 2011-02-01T21:30:01Z Looking decidedly sheepish, the Irish lads asserted that I was Irish, to which the black guy replied, “No – she’s black.” Shedding my whiteness is a work in progress 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Alden makes his sexual attraction to Billy explicit by having him fondle the red neckerchief he has taken from the lad while he vows to destroy him. A grim, ghostly 'Billy Budd' on British stage 2012-06-24T11:27:08Z Bored of dubstep nights where lads hover over the DJ booth, the girls want dance music that actually makes people dance. Disclosure: how the Lawrence brothers are rebooting dance culture 2013-05-18T05:00:00Z “These four ‘lads’ were birthed under the coal-darkened skies of Liverpool,” the voice intones. Theater Review: ‘These Paper Bullets!’ Opens at Yale Rep 2014-03-27T21:56:49Z The lad mags were predicated on instant gratification, on living the consequence-free life. How Hef Got His Groove Back 2011-02-06T07:48:01Z But there's one lovely encounter I was told of, when he walked down to the railway path and encountered two lads by the track. The echoes of Benjamin Britten's 'composing walks' 2013-01-30T19:00:10Z "Elliott!" he barks as one lad fights shy of undulating his body across the floor, "I want you to attempt the worm!" TV review: Wonderland: Boy Cheerleaders and The Apprentice 2010-10-14T07:00:00Z They were just another bunch of lads out for a good time. “You don’t want to kill the myth”: The feud continues in “Substance: Inside New Order,” a second memoir by New Order bass player Peter Hook 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The good news is that the work by the NUS and its National Strategy Team on lad culture is emblematic of a wider fight back across the student movement. Everyday sexism in freshers week: the fightback starts here 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Kumar had come to shoot Patiala House, in which he plays a good Sikh lad who works in his dad's corner store but wants to play cricket for England. Nirpal Dhaliwal: My Bollywood bit part 2011-02-10T21:59:00Z "No, you can't go in the toilet with the lads and lay one out." Rod Stewart: 'I thought songwriting had left me' 2013-04-19T05:00:01Z There were a few young lads who'd just drifted into the work and he'd say to us: "For Christ's sake, get your act together." Ian Beesley's best photograph: a sewage foreman captured in tears 2013-01-16T16:59:55Z If you carry on like this the place you are going has 16-year-olds, 17-year-olds and they are built like brick sheds, how do you think you'll fare against one of those lads? BBC censured over violent Line of Duty scene featuring child actor 2012-12-17T12:05:23Z Jaime shoved the lad out of the window in an attempt to silence him forever — “The things I do for love,” Jaime said — leaving Bran paralyzed and comatose. 'Game of Thrones': 9 Especially Gut-Wrenching Moments 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Nothing more than a cheap laugh to lubricate your stale conversation and help maintain your reputation as a lad with copious amounts of banter, ready for deployment at any moment. A letter to … The man who insulted my brother, who has cerebral palsy 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Andrew Carnegie was a crofter's lad who emigrated from Scotland to America and became a billionaire. We must protect and reinvent our local libraries 2012-11-23T08:28:01Z The lad didn’t quite know what he had, and he sold it for six shillings, equal to $17 today. ‘The One-Cent Magenta’ is a brisk tale of ‘the most valuable stamp in the world’ 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Enrico was played as an effeminate lad about town who would have not lasted a second in any city if he had shown an aggressive side. Stage reader review roundup: your take on Damned by Despair and This House 2012-10-12T15:11:55Z But why not give the poor lad an extra minute or two of screen time? 2010-01-22T21:22:00Z But the lad from Levenshulme never forgot what he saw and learned as a working-class child brought up in an industrial Britain. Norman Foster at 75: Norman's conquests 2010-06-29T20:31:00Z When, in their early fame, the lads are asked if they're millionaires yet, they shake their moptops no; the followup is: "Where does all the money go?" Review of Martin Scorsese's George Harrison documentary 2011-10-05T14:20:00Z In “Disco Pigs,” this perspective is a folie à deux, the shared and sustained creation of a lad and lass who grew up together from infancy in a soul-sapping council estate in County Cork. Review: Dancing to Destruction in Enda Walsh’s Fierce ‘Disco Pigs’ 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z He swings from ropes, escapes from lofty towers and tenderly woos Maid Marian, played by the lovely Lass, who doubles as a spunky lad in Robin's posse. Occupy Sherwood Forest! 'Robin Hood' at SCT 2011-10-26T20:07:59Z That's not to say we don't like people complimenting us, but we see 16-17 as the ideal age for young lads to be playing rock and roll music. 'We're not the new Beatles' 2013-06-15T10:53:14Z The big groups of shirtless lads jostling past the babystrollers were a bit of a shock after the laid-back, genteel mood of three years ago. Safety must become Latitude festival's top priority 2010-07-19T14:17:00Z Inside the Beatles are playing their allotted role – good uncomplicated lads, "bubbling with fun" – as they pose for the press with a certain amount of patience and good humour. Pop at the pictures: Beatlemania begins 2012-11-28T15:29:00Z Alexander Sprague excels as Albert, the greengrocer's lad appointed King of the May in the absence of any local maidens unspotted enough to be Queen. Albert Herring – review 2013-05-17T14:33:54Z His behavior is that of a sensitive, gifted lad who’s used to being the smartest boy in the kingdom, which also makes him its most misunderstood. Review: Michael Urie Puts the Madcap in Hamlet’s Madness 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z That kind of writing has led some academics to claim it uses psychological trauma as a way to justify the glorification of some elements of British lad culture and even nationalism. Cillian Murphy: ‘I think James Bond should be a woman, which rules me out’ 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z William Blake, as a young lad, sees this. Kate Tempest’s Transformations 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The British folkiness continues as the first verse introduces “a wayward lad” making a rural trek. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Strikes Back, and Fleet Foxes Return With a Folky Epic 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z This was the television show, presented in a studio recreation of the bachelor flat Baddiel and Skinner shared for six years, that set the tone for the "lads' comedy" of the mid-90s. David Baddiel 2010-03-28T00:10:00Z The terrifically talented Benjamin Lewis, the Adrian I saw, radiated a sweet and incandescent solipsism, untainted by hipster irony, that befits a lad who is after all the star of his own life. Retrogressing in London With Meat Loaf and Adrian Mole 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z And the guy who sent 'em says, 'You've done the right thing lads. Michael Holden's All ears 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z It's an unusual set up, with vocals being played from a backing track while the lads fill in the beats with drum pads and analogue synths, but they make it work. SXSW music festival: Solange, Death Grips and Kendrick Lamar 2013-03-18T16:49:11Z The men who celebrated it weren’t just lads in the pub any more: they had spending power and establishment allies on their side. The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z There's much to like about Lass as a dashing lad, when Rosalind goes incognito in liberating male guise. 'As You Like It': Inconsistency slows this visit to the Forest of Arden 2012-06-08T20:27:04Z And the lad Snow took under his crow wing plunged the last blade into his too-trusting, unknowing breast. 'Game of Thrones' Finale Recap: Shocking Deaths and a Walk of Shame 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Cynics call Starr the luckiest drummer in the world — but hey, the Liverpool lads fired their drummer to get him, so they heard something, right? 15 top entertainment picks for July 8-14, 2012 2012-07-03T21:06:05Z There will be screaming, rampant texting, delirious Facebooking and posters popping up of a windswept lad who looks like your paper boy. "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Kate's suffering 2010-04-13T12:14:00Z One of the most annoying things about King Arthur was Hunnam’s thoroughly predictable turn as a cheeky working-class lad. Jude Law is one but Tom Hardy isn't: what makes a movie star? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Like a lot of people, I used to get those little “Archie” digests at the supermarket when I was a lad. How “Archie” went from dull to daring: The world’s tamest comic series is now our most groundbreaking 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z He himself frequents the place so he can get to know his subjects – "When I am king of England, I shall command all the good lads in Eastcheap," adding: "They call drinking deep, dyeing scarlet." Pubs in books 2010-07-08T13:37:00Z Once again, Nancy took this Yorkshire lad back to his roots. 'The Great British Bake Off': Five Early Contenders Emerge After Episode 2 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z The Leeds lad who was folding T-shirts not so long ago has done pretty well for himself. Sam Riley shot to fame as the doomed Ian Curtis in Control. Now he's playing creepy Pinkie in Brighton Rock 2011-01-12T08:00:03Z I'd get to see the lads on her bus, and travel with them for a day or two, then peel off and go to do my show. Elvis Costello 2010-10-16T23:04:00Z She wanted the exciting bad lad many teenage girls are attracted to, even though she was in her 40s. A letter to... my estranged adult children 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z You can see a full run down of events on the Leeds Big Bookend website but I'd also point to the event featuring adopted Leeds lad Boff Whalley, which will no doubt be entertaining. Tony Harrison to headline Leeds literature festival the Big Bookend 2013-04-12T07:00:05Z But what’s a lad to do when those laying claim to his, uh, hand are pulling him so hard in opposite directions that he threatens to split in twain? Theater Review: ?Cockfight Play,? Directed by James Macdonald, at the Duke 2012-05-18T02:00:02Z Promoting live music would be an obvious way to shift the spotlight from binge drinking and lad culture and focus on something more positive. Universities should open their ears to live music 2013-05-09T07:40:36Z That is, according to two activist groups in the United Kingdom, which are threatening retailers with legal action unless they remove so-called lad mags featuring partially or fully naked women from their shelves. The war on lad mags 2013-05-29T00:00:00Z There was a lad standing over us: the driver. Experience: a car crashed into me in the bath 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z These emotional lads from the tenements inspire the play’s older authority figures to tell their how-I-got-this-way stories, too, with soul-baring confessions that, at least temporarily, raze the dividing walls of generations and class structures. Review: ‘Transfers’ and the Anguished Art of the College Interview 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z The unhappiest of these lads doesn’t even have a name to call his own. Theater Review: ?Peter and the Starcatcher,? With Christian Borle 2012-04-16T02:57:15Z Ever since a plucky lad called Huck Finn took his famous river voyage, his exploits along the mighty Mississippi River have been greeted with cheers and jeers. Book-It’s engaging Huck and Jim navigate the n-word | Theater review 2013-04-23T01:30:59Z "We've got to get out/Go far away," they claim – well, we can help you out there lads. The incontinent Kings of Leon pigeons review this week's singles 2010-07-28T13:09:00Z That Mexican cartel, losing market share and foot soldiers to a rival operation, has proposed to distribute the lads’ business for a modest 20% vig. Oliver Stone's Savages: It's the Dope 2012-07-05T12:00:32Z They don't just focus on, say, the pampered insouciance of Camden, or the grimy railway arches of London Bridge; their vision of the city takes in school-run mums, paranoid Rastas, pissed-up lads and Sloaney schoolgirls. Saint Etienne: London's musical laureates 2010-05-24T13:10:00Z I use to watch the show as a young lad with my Mom. A Slower Pace for TV’s ‘Galloping Gourmet’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z He may be a Hollywood actor starring in a glossy TV , but Matthew Rhys is still an ordinary Welsh lad at heart, worrying about the Six Nations. Matthew Rhys: from Patagonia with love 2011-03-02T22:00:04Z I am 21, a 6ft strapping lad on a study year in Granada, Spain. When parents split up – your stories 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Hebburn is based on the experiences of a young lad called Jack, based on Cook, and tribulations of his family the Pearsons. Comedian puts Hebburn on TV map 2012-10-02T13:20:33Z As befits a lad of the 1960s with a talent for smooth come-ons, Frank Abagnale Jr. prefaces the story of his life with the promise that it will have “more curves than a Playboy bunny.” | 'Catch Me if You Can' : Scamming as Fast as He Can 2011-04-11T02:01:04Z The protagonist of “Other Names for Love” is Fahad, a sensitive young lad whose father, Rafik, is a self-made bull of a man. In This Debut Novel, Family Ties Bind, Even From Afar 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z In a statement, Paul McCartney called Cocker a "lovely northern lad who I loved a lot" and said he was "especially pleased" when Cocker decided to cover "With a Little Help From My Friends." Joe Cocker, rock and blues star, dies at 70 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z By day three the boys are requesting red runs and suddenly we’re a bunch of lads … well, kind of – a slightly odd mix spanning 13 to 52. A father-and-son ski trip to Andorra 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z Whereas Lewis's brashness, selfishness and recklessness may be to some extent understandable in a young lad, it's desperate and creepy in a man who appears to be approaching middle age. Great Balls of Fire! Jerry Lee Lewis biopic strikes wrong note on scandal 2012-08-23T11:49:00Z Whitecross's film about five lads trying to get into the famous Stone Roses concert is a lively and enjoyable trip, and a welcome lads' subculture movie that isn't about football. Trailer trash at the 2012 London film festival 2012-10-13T23:06:49Z Last November, English footballer David Beckham revealed that while his teenage son “does love football” like the old man, the lad “has a passion for photography as well.” Brooklyn Beckham’s Burberry backlash: This isn’t snobbery — working artists are right to be mad when rich kids jump the line 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z There was a little lad in front of us getting all excited because one of them was his and his mum and dad told him to calm down. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z The lads in my year are now protected. Why I put 400 condoms in the kitchen drawer for my sons 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z On release he was full of good intentions, but still "a bit of a lad, doing daft things". The Angels' Share's Paul Brannigan: 'I've been slashed, stabbed and shot at' 2012-05-31T15:30:41Z And then when we played in Dundee these lads turned up with a guitar, called themselves the Boston Tea Party. Jake Bugg: stars of 2012 2012-11-24T14:20:01Z “You can take a lad out of Shields,” he said, “but you can’t take Shields out of the lad.” Sam Fender, a Songwriter Caught Between Stardom and His Hometown 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z The busy city was a brave new world for this country lad, but Shakespeare didn’t lie low. How did Shakespeare shape the English language? 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z He wasn't from anywhere near Ireland but from Bethnal Green in east London, so to play along with the lads and the nickname, he would sing Danny Boy to entertain them. Family life 2013-03-23T07:15:01Z “The island lads and the Turkfest crew all mixing together and having a bit of fun – it’s great,” says Robert, who lives on the island and is responsible for purifying the drinking water. Turkfest: Ireland's little festival with a big heart – a photo essay 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z At the end of the corridor, where the rooms have upright pianos, a thin lad, Arson Fahim, 14, played a Mozart sonata. Afghanistan National Institute of Music Students to Tour U.S. 2013-02-01T21:18:01Z Along the way he became king of the lads: a poster boy for hedonism but with traces of street poet. Mike Skinner and Rob Harvey: halves of the Dot 2013-05-15T17:30:01Z The focus here: the personal challenges faced by four scruffy Liverpool lads as they meet and form a band destined to have vast musical and social impact. Theater reviews: 'The Last Days of Judas Iscariot' and 'Help' 2012-04-19T20:28:05Z The internationally known, youth-oriented Dutch drama troupe Theatergroep Max devised this biographical show, focusing on the first chapter of four teen Liverpool lads coming together to make wonderful music. Plays about the Beatles, religion and politics hit Seattle theaters 2012-04-05T19:30:09Z The next thing we knew our friend had re-emerged safely in Kenya — which was known as British East Africa when Waugh was a lad. | The Geopolitics of Name-Dropping 2014-03-12T22:00:59Z When I say lads, I’m pushing the word to the limits of its application. I'm on a lads' night out and my friend's just been homophobic. What do I do? | Romesh Ranganathan 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z "What really annoys me," he told her, "is these young lads with their hands down the front of their trackie bottoms playing with their brains." TV review: Show Me The Funny and British Masters 2011-07-18T21:00:01Z First Date: Nick, who you may remember from such places as two weeks ago when he won the coveted First Impression Rose, is the lucky lad who gets the first one-on-one date. RECAP The Bachelorette Watch: Boyz II Men II Bachelors 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z When I was a lad, we didn't study all the time. What to Do When Laptops and Silence Take Over Your Cafe? 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z I once did a gig with Williams, who said to me, "You're not everybody's cup of tea, lad – but then, who is?" Lenny Henry, comedian and actor – portrait of the artist 2013-06-04T15:59:12Z No Mozart, but Plenty of Whimsy Quiz for balletomanes: A pretty heroine is in love with an impoverished but handsome village lad. Dance Review: No Mozart, but Plenty of Whimsy 2010-10-01T22:59:00Z Loaded magazine didn't come along till later, but the show still got lumped in with lads mag culture, despite Neil and I being a good 10 years older than their readership. How we made Men Behaving Badly 2013-03-18T18:30:00Z I’m training under a professional lad called Paul Keane, who is really good. Barry Keoghan Doesn’t Mean to Be a Scene-Stealer 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Everybody in the village thinks it’s a hoot that the lad known as Cripple Billy dreams of becoming a movie star. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Daniel Radcliffe as Cripple Billy 2013-06-27T17:08:49Z The emergence of this physical ideal is linked to the death of lad culture. ‘Get shredded in six weeks!’ The problem with extreme male body transformations 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z “Prince Harry is what you would call one of lads. People like that. He’s not big-headed, nothing like that,” said car mechanic Shaun Gill, 39, another regular at Eton’s Henry VI pub. The media are agog but are Britons really bothered about royal... 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z They are better known as the five young lads of One Direction. ArtsBeat: One Direction Ends Taylor Swift's Run 2012-11-21T22:24:47Z When he signed up to fight in the first world war, all the lads in his regiment thought he was Irish as he had a thick unruly mop of auburn hair. Family life 2013-03-23T07:15:01Z Three more police officers, two male and one female, arrived and Fri explained again what had happened: “Some lads have burst in and done this,” she said. ‘Intimate terrorism’: how an abusive relationship led a young woman to kill her partner 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z What young lad hasn't strummed the air guitar to the classic riffs of those poodle-haired rock bands of the 80's? Collins to star in 'poodle-haired" rock musical 2011-06-02T10:05:19Z Not for the first time, UK comedy stands accused of boorish machismo, a throwback to 90s lad culture – or even to the chauvinism of the 1970s that alternative comedy was supposed to have swept aside. Funny men behaving boorishly 2013-01-04T19:00:01Z The entire mise-en-scène, including an inspired patisserie vignette that keeps the flour flying, suggests a Platonic frat house for rowdy lads with chivalric dreams. Theater Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ With Douglas Hodge 2012-10-12T02:00:00Z Luckily, he says, he found that by writing as he would for adults the books ended up being "pitched at just the right level for 11-year-old lads". Alex Scarrow: 'I've worked really hard to make TimeRiders absolute cocaine' 2010-07-22T10:43:00Z Forget cerebral satire and experimental weirdness – what we really need at Christmas is a bunch of lads arsing around and talking absolute filth to each other. This week's new live comedy 2012-12-22T00:05:10Z At one point a particularly cherubic-looking little ginger lad has a gun held to his head. MIA's Born Free: going for the jugular 2010-05-01T23:10:00Z Instead, it's Laszlo who has sacrificed his time and energy toward raising the unhappy accident his dead roommate foisted upon him, determined to prevent whatever "the lad" grows into from being an energy siphoning bore. "What We Do in the Shadows" sinks its teeth into a trend of men playing surrogate dads 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z “Oh, God,” Baneham recalls saying to his colleagues, “it just got more complicated, lads.” How ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Solved the Problem of Computer-Generated H2O 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z In his foreword, McCartney extols the understandable joy that he and his mates experienced as the world put out the welcome mat for the four lads from Liverpool. Paul McCartney’s photo collection, "1964: Eyes of the Storm," captures Beatlemania on the rise 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Later we stroll through the port, watching courageous local lads dive for coins among the ships. Magical mystery tour: a road trip through Mexico 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The trainer who clutches the horse’s bridle and the stable lad are as stiff as Madame Tussaud’s waxen figures and the outhouse in the distance is painted with curiously amateurish clumsiness. Auctions: Eagerness to Buy Old Masters at Odds With Their Availability in Auctions 2011-07-08T12:00:05Z All this begs the question, why didn’t anyone give the lads a pencil and some paper? Paul McCartney: The Beatles 'Forgot' Dozens of Songs 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z 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 “I get a lot of attention from the lads. Chris gets more of a female following. What about you, Hilary, what following do you get?” The Young Offenders: 'A Cork accent is a bizarre noise to come out of a mouth' 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z Staying in character, Brooks went on to add, "Thin lad, wore sandals, long hair, walked around with 11 other guys." 12 surprising facts about Mel Brooks on his 95th birthday 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z "There was a young Irish lad in tight red trousers gawping at us throughout our rehearsal," Fryer says. Cornish Floral Dance: a fuzzy custom 2011-07-07T21:00:02Z Peil flicks the lads aside as if they were so much flotsam. Review: Dance in 'The Variety Show' is varied indeed 2011-04-22T22:21:03Z On the other hand, I feel quite sorry for lads who don't get any advice on how to be men, then or now. A life in books: Janice Galloway 2011-08-05T21:55:05Z The lads' latest world tour is to launch a North American leg on July 9 with a concert at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium. One Direction heads to top of list in concert ticket sales in 2014 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Not even a Southeast Asian action video engages the interest of the hapless lad. Grandmas and Grandpas Are a Kid’s Natural Allies in These Books 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Hammond has secretly enlisted his brilliant, dweebish son Hector to examine Abin Sur's corpse; but the autopsy goes awry, and the lad is infected by the yellow slime of the dark lord Parallax. Green Lantern: Not So Super-Hero 2011-06-16T15:55:00Z No more beery nights with the lads, the plan is a different sort of male-bonding experience; fathers and sons on the piste. A father-and-son ski trip to Andorra 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z The middle-class lad throws his mobile into Lake Tanganyika to break away from his censorious mother; the child soldier casts his revolver into a river to signal his rejection of tribal violence. Africa United ? film review 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z Inspired, villagers in a couple of places near Barcelona decided to keep up with the landowners and turned to local lad Jujol to build them churches … on a budget. Gaudí's Catalan shadow: the art of Josep Maria Jujol 2013-06-03T06:00:06Z Hodor is short for “Hold the door,” both the last phrase the character ever heard and the one that fried his circuits as a young lad named Wyllis. Hodor on Hodor: Kristian Nairn Discusses His ‘Game of Thrones’ Fate 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The Queen’s Silver Jubilee celebration is in the wings, and the punk-preoccupied lads at the movie’s center are up for all sorts of mischief. Review: An Alien Teaches a Teenage Punk ‘How to Talk to Girls at Parties’ 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z "Stories we heard, lads we hung around with." The Rubberbandits: comedy, prank CDs ... and the IRA 2013-01-16T18:33:59Z The lads unwind their long sagas directly to us and to each other: It’s a personable approach. Romeo, Romeo — wherefore art thou so old? 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z “He was a catalyst in the band, you see,” says Klaus Voormann, the German artist who met the lads when they played the bars in Hamburg. Review of Martin Scorsese's George Harrison documentary 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z The love interest in Sara Jafari's "The Mismatch" is a British lad with all the embarrassment that entails; wearing running shorts in the winter, posting shirtless selfies where he pouts at the camera. Writing the White Boyfriend: How today's love stories are revising interracial romance tropes 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z George Alan Rekers, a founder of the Family Research Council, says he hired a gay hustler to carry his luggage through Europe in order to try to convert the lad. Crib Sheet: The 10 Things to Talk About This Weekend 2010-05-06T00:54:00Z The talented Lancashire lad who began life in a Gypsy wagon seems now, at 72, to be finally claiming the limelight for himself. Review: ‘Can’t Stand Losing You,’ Andy Summers’s Version of the Police 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z The question being posed here is: whatever happened to the lad band? New band of the day ? No 880: Brother 2010-10-05T15:41:00Z Hedwig’s personable, mercurial act is as botched as the sex-change operation that left the East Berlin-born lad in a gender netherworld. Review | Morton sings the hot pants off ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ songs 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z When he was young, the lad who would grow up to be Vin Diesel was in a gang. Vin Diesel: Self-Help Guru 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Then he sits the lad down and passes him an envelope. When will Bollywood offer a realistic portrayal of relationships? 2010-09-01T10:49:00Z And so it is for the commited Beatles-ologist – just how did those four lads come to "shake the world"? The John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies - review 2012-10-10T12:16:01Z Into this trashy-star-obsessed America came a kind of second British invasion: The lad mag. ‘Reading the story today makes me cringe’: Female stars and the media machine of the early 2000s 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Young Joseph, being a curious lad of experimental bent, soon discovered that he could inhale air as well as seawater though his rectum, and could exhale this air in a controlled manner. Passing gas is an art and science 2012-08-23T00:00:00Z Many popular happy-hour places, those with the cheapest grub or booze, often have a doorman out front, an eager lad ready to valet park your car and a concierge desk in the atrium. Trellis in Kirkland gets high marks for gourmet bar food and drinks 2011-06-07T23:26:04Z “Just a gang of lads in the room, hanging out,” he said. Ringo Starr Comes to Brooklyn on Halloween: 'Can You Dig It?' 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z You can see why a lonely, demented old woman and a simple-minded lad would take pleasure in his company and feel bereft without it. Theater Review: ?The Witch of Edmonton?: A Supernatural Subject with Human Urges 2011-02-04T17:00:53Z Rønnenfelt later wades angrily into the melee, and treats one bespectacled lad brazen enough to throw a friendly arm around his shoulder to a palm in the face. Iceage – review 2013-02-27T17:47:07Z Jane Pfitsch is the dishy British belle, a chipper lad in knickers and a newsboy cap, and the caretaker’s creepy wife, whose weird European accent transposes w’s and v’s. The adaptation game’s afoot: Ludwig’s five-person ‘Baskerville’ opens at Arena 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Eventually the actors came up with an idea for a film; something about the lives they led and a lad they'd known who broke out of Borstal. Bronco Bullfrog: the film the UK forgot 2010-06-03T22:10:00Z I thought I was still one of the lads that wasn't a singer or a pop star. Olly Murs: 'Look who's winning now' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z When the car and their money gave out in California, the lads picked fruit to buy food and hopped freight trains to get home. Lessons on Living a Better Life From a 109-year-old Man 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z In this hit film he reprises his role from the Broadway play as Will Stockdale, a country lad whose simple-mindedness is matched by his eternal good cheer. A few ways to enjoy and celebrate Andy Griffith 2012-07-03T20:17:11Z “It’s not just young lads who like football any more,” Crouch says. Peter Crouch: 'Getting 50,000 people on their feet – you can't replicate that' 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z His Siegfried was a sincere, well-meaning lad, but this was not a blazing, heart-driven performance, neither in the dynamic quality of his flights across the stage nor in his warmish rapport with Seo. Review | At Wolf Trap, a ‘Swan Lake’ with streaks of light 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z There were groupies chased, ashtrays urinated in and plenty of high jinks — standard fare for a band made up of four average lads. An insider’s take on rise and fall of Joy Division 2013-03-20T20:16:16Z Later, when someone told me Alex had a band, I found their website and sent a message saying: "Well done lads, I always thought you'd do something creative." Schoolteachers of rock 2010-04-25T20:30:00Z Granada Men & Motors was as integral a part of mid-90s lad culture as Fantasy Football or horrible Ben Sherman shirts. Men & Motors goes to the scrapyard 2010-03-30T11:01:00Z This Jim is not only an observant lad but quite polite and rather a soft touch. 'Silver': courage and terror in the sequel to Treasure Island 2012-08-01T20:01:03Z Being king looks pretty great, doesn’t it, lad? ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: A Regression to the Mean 2014-04-21T02:01:11Z Whereas on paper the temptation is to hate Brother, in person the sneaking suspicion is that these lads might just be a little bit too nice for all this "tonight, I'm a rock'n'roll star" behaviour. Brother at SXSW 2011 - review 2011-03-17T16:38:49Z Right down to the lad I struck up a conversation with once in a chip shop and the girl I met at summer camp when I was 12. Aisling Bea: ‘My father’s death has given me a love of men, of their vulnerability and tenderness’ 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z The first single, Gay Pirates – a folksy stomp designed to tackle homophobia by getting beered-up lads to sing along before they realise what it's about – was released in January. Cosmo Jarvis: 'My generation is the worst' 2011-08-11T21:30:01Z The lads are reunited with their ladies; the father-in-law accepts his daughter’s beau. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas: This Santa's Got a Brand New Stash 2011-11-03T21:21:13Z He’s also, most pointed out, very amiable and polite, at 17 still a little gauche beneath the cheekbones – a nice Wokingham lad. Mad Max’s Nicholas Hoult on hanging off lorries and channeling Andrex puppies 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The mood is the lads having a laugh on the coach. Footballers draw self portraits to raise money for charity 2010-04-08T23:05:00Z I asked a table of lads drinking large beers. Hot jazz on a cold mountain: a festival on Austria's ski slopes 2013-01-17T11:11:00Z You may not be overcome by grief when Mr. Benz’s Hamlet breathes his last, but you may feel a pang at the loss of a lad who was such boisterous good company. Theater Review: Michael Benz in ‘Hamlet’ at the Schimmel Center 2012-10-03T21:57:28Z Cameron wasn't a top toff dictating terms: he was a needy lad, too. Nick Clegg as a cartoon figure - it's fun but does it really hurt? 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z I'm a seat holder but I give my ticket to the younger lads. 76 minutes with … John Lydon 2012-05-31T20:30:00Z Hard-working and sincere, they are more than the lads' band their critics pin them as but, in truth, only a little more. The Courteeners | Pop review 2010-03-21T22:20:00Z And when Claggart falsely accuses Billy of plotting mutiny and sees the lad is too tongue-tied to respond, he laughs in his face, goading him to throw the punch that will kill him. A grim, ghostly 'Billy Budd' on British stage 2012-06-24T11:27:08Z Something Off Key at a Gospel Choir Few crucibles test the mettle of adolescents as thoroughly or harrowingly as all-male prep schools, where lads on the cusp of adulthood bend, warp, grow and sometimes shatter. Theater: Something Off Key at a Gospel Choir 2013-06-28T19:43:02Z A lads’ night out is no safe haven for the vegan teetotaller. I'm on a lads' night out and my friend's just been homophobic. What do I do? | Romesh Ranganathan 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Dickinson plays Jim, a working-class lad who moves to London and quickly falls in with a group of male escorts who cater to a very specific sort of patron. ‘Postcards From London’ Review: Small Town Boy Becomes Big City Escort 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z I also get to borrow from a modern version of U.K. lad culture. The Meaning of Tracksuits 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Starr's photographs and stories "portray four lads from Liverpool, trying to live normal lives amidst the frenzy that surrounded them," the statement said. Ringo Starr has a new book: `Photograph' 2013-05-29T14:59:11Z “That your car?” one garage lad asked when I went to retrieve it. Road Test: 2012 Hyundai Genesis R-Spec 2011-08-09T20:10:49Z The defendant raises his voice: “I’m just a jack the lad, and this was the first time I laid my hand on a woman.” 'It's always high drama. It's somebody's life at stake': inside British rape trials 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Lendrum’s father claimed that he and the lad were legitimate birders and this was “just a schoolboy collection.” Review | For years, Jeffrey Lendrum was at once an avid outdoorsman and merciless thief. Then he got caught. 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Toward the play’s end, two upper-middle-class lads on the edge of middle age dance to David Bowie’s “Starman,” a song that summons memories of their salad days at university. London Theater Journal: Laughing Wall to Wall 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z The first edition of Loaded magazine appeared in May 1994, with a picture of Gary Oldman on the front smoking a dog-end, under a banner that declared him a super lad. The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z A decade ago, he wrote that “Life is a continuing film education. And I remain a very impressionable lad.” An Appreciation: The Endlessly Curious Richard Corliss 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z "He was a creative lad, poetic even then." Coming soon to a fjord near you … Iceland takes film to its extremities 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z “Close to Home” is a dark but illuminating portrait of Belfast, painted by a man who knows the lads, the bars, the bookstores and back alleys that litter his birthplace. One Punch Later and Belfast Pulls Him Back 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z There were no deep childhood traumas holding him back; just that, for now, the benefits of being a bit of a lad outweighed those of going steady. Why Am I Still Single?: First Cut; Horizon – Swallowed by a Black Hole 2013-06-27T06:00:10Z Begley sums up this last as tracking “the fortunes of a quartet of penniless lads living, when we meet them, in a garret.” He photographed Victor Hugo and Jules Verne — now the spotlight is on him 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Their lyrics are taken from AE Housman's A Shropshire Lad, their subject "the lads that will die in their glory and never be old". Songs for squaddies: the war musical Lads in Their Hundreds 2010-05-19T21:30:00Z We’d been told that the way to get through the checkpoints was to have trinkets for the guards and also a lad who would entertain them so they’d wave us on. Hugh Bonneville: ‘I’m raging against the dying of the light by buying a convertible’ 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z This lad in reception – already topless – looks like he’d be up for it. 24 Hours in Police Custody review – even better than 24 Hours in A&E 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Essentially, he's less alpha-male and more one of the lads, if such a concept exists in US rap. Big Sean – review 2012-11-27T17:48:00Z “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” is the story of a downtrodden lad who wins a tour of the world’s most mysterious chocolate factory. Holiday Gift Books for Children 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z In the history of the Civil War preached to us lads growing up in the South in those years, slavery was never mentioned. Lies I learned as a Southerner: Racism, the Confederate flag and why so many white Southerners revere a symbol of hatred 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Matthew Warchus's revival of the 60's French farce earns Rylance a Tony award for his deadpan performance as Robert, a Wisconsin lad who is unsuspectingly sucked into his friend's playboy antics. Mark Rylance: 'You have to move into the chaos' 2013-07-01T06:30:01Z The Tesco demonstration is part of its Feminist Fridays campaign – monthly events where activists protest against lads' mags and other forms of sexism. Lads' mags: the great cover-up 2010-10-15T06:00:00Z That telling code-word “lad” appears 68 times in its 63 poems. The enduring allure of A.E. Housman’s poetry 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z “He’s not prudish. But seeing your dad naked is a lot for a lad to take.” Rupert Graves: 'Genuinely, it helps in this business being called Rupert' 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z To my great joy and the annoyance of the lads in my year I was allowed to join. Appreciations: Alan Plater obituary 2010-06-27T17:14:00Z I was on the jury that awarded Richard Wright the 2009 Turner prize, so I take an interest in the lad. Richard Wright's stellar art shines next to Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum 2013-03-14T13:19:05Z Smart, swift, goofy and unhinged, these lads — who now call themselves men — should snare plenty of laughs from both longtime devotees and Habit novices. 2 weekends only: Seattle comedy troupe The Habit 2011-09-07T21:11:09Z Early in “Checkout 19,” Claire-Louise Bennett’s enthralling second novel, the narrator describes a story she once wrote about a foolish and spoiled lad named Tarquin Superbus. Autofiction for People Who Think They’re Sick of It 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Two of his co-stars have taken up with glamorous girlfriends since the show took off – Thomas with an ex-Hollyoaks beauty, Buckley with a lads' mag model. Simon Bird spreads his wings 2011-02-20T00:05:18Z How many times had a callow lad slaving for the minimum wage poured me an unsatisfactory Guinness? Some say the affable charm of the people and the culture is Ireland's draw, but it's the pubs 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z These lads of the Black Watch, a centuries-old regiment of the Scottish Highlands, are as spontaneously foul-mouthed, exuberant, angry and frightened as they were four years ago. Critic's Notebook: A War Story Retains Its Resonance 2011-04-22T12:00:00Z Here’s the thing, ladies and lads – social progress is almost always reactive. It’s about time: The coming of a female Doctor Who is even more consequential than you thought 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z When he was a young lad, walking around South London, which was where the jails were, on South Bank, he saw the breaking out of this jail. Kate Tempest’s Transformations 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z I just knew that they were very talented lads and I wanted them on the song. Olly Murs: 'The fastest I've ever driven naked is zero miles per hour' 2012-12-19T12:25:00Z A mystery, involving a trio of three-masted ship models containing coded messages, sends the lad racing around the world in search of answers. 'The Adventures of Tintin': It's Spielberg's Indy, but with a cowlick 2011-12-20T01:51:04Z One was shown urging his players to injure opponents and the other was shown using profanity in front of his lads, ages 8 and 9. Reality TV Parents Need a Timeout 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z "You told me to come back when I was older," the lad said with a grin. Comic-Con, day 2 2010-07-24T12:19:00Z By now we’re accustomed to this Puckish lad looking out at us with his can-you-believe-this gaze when his friends and family behave as stupidly as he predicted they would. Review: Michael Urie Puts the Madcap in Hamlet’s Madness 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z I wanted creative-minded pioneers there who looked like a walking piece of art, not some drunken beery lads. It's Blitz: Birth of the New Romantics 2010-05-14T23:37:00Z This goes beyond simply protecting the public from unwanted sights: Many major retailers have already agreed to cover up lad mags or display them on the top shelf, which is entirely reasonable. The war on lad mags 2013-05-29T00:00:00Z For a moment, I was perturbed, but then, quite unexpectedly, I had become smitten with these four lads from Liverpool. "Everything Fab Four": Our new podcast about the life-changing power of the Beatles 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z More important, the arias were so callously apart from the pathos of Schubert’s earnest lad that they added telling perspective. Schubert's lonely hearts club band and a heart throb tenor 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Ali Catterall Trojan Donkey's first episode perfects the hidden-camera formula with overdone accents, toilet humour, and even a rugby lad forced to recite a Rudyard Kipling poem in ridiculous surroundings. TV highlights 21/06/2013 2013-06-21T06:00:01Z “I remember watching the season finale as a young lad. I also was thrilled by last night’s newest episode. Both were accurate.” The Show Is Fake. The Fandom Is Real. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z A man at the end patted me on the back and said 'Well done, lad.' The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z It's almost as if their mothers have got a little muddled about who these lads are, and what their relationship to them is. TV review: My Child's Big Fat Birthday 2010-07-20T06:59:00Z If you were a strapping lad you were advised that there might be a job in the police, or possibly the army. My belated thank you to Liz Lochhead 2012-08-17T13:00:01Z Armed with this information, Rick agrees with Shane that they must execute the lad, a decision that outrages Dale. The Walking Dead Watch: Judge, Jury, Executioner 2012-03-05T13:45:16Z See Woody Allen's "Radio Days" where the rabbi and the 2 parents vie for the honor of a little corporal punishment of their funny lad: "Don't you hit him. I'll do that." Jon Stewart and Robert Smigel Craft a Comedy Benefit at a Polarized Moment 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z But perhaps MTV can make a show based on its nearest possible equivalent: an endless loop of lads partaking in the cinnamon challenge. From Beavis and Butt-Head to Pimp My Ride: which MTV shows should be revived? 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z On this school trip to the library, Merlin gives the lads the whole "My Dad's a ninja but I can't show you my skills or I'd probably kill you" bit. Camelot: episode six 2011-07-10T21:09:00Z It's rather refreshing how much wind these lads manage to generate. ArtsBeat: Running in Circles: 'Chariots of Fire' in London 2012-06-28T14:59:50Z There’s a curious sensation to realizing that Paul McCartney — the lad of lads, the Beatles precocious imp, Fab Macca Wacky Thumbs Aloft — is turning 75 years old. Paul McCartney Turns 75 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z It's an indication of how quickly life moves for the lads of One Direction that their idea of ancient history appears to be 2012. One Direction's 'Four': How quickly they grow up 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z They were “away lads” from Somerset who spend their weekdays in Bristol working for a company that installs green rooftops on new buildings. Places 22 and 23 of 52: Cheeky Surprises in Bristol, and a ‘Wee Look Around’ Glasgow 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z By lad culture he specifically meant football hooligans, a subculture that shaped conversations about English identity for decades but that largely no longer exists. The Meaning of Tracksuits 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Every “lad in the city” memory comes rushing back when you experience Manhattan through his Chicago-by-way-of-Raleigh eyes: David Sedaris’s Diaries Track a Path From Struggle to Success 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z |
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