| 单词 | machination |
| 例句 | Nevertheless, she followed the highly partisan exchanges in the Republican newspapers and provided her husband with regular reports on the machinations and accusations of the opposition. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The economic, political, and social forces that unloosed themselves on the streets of Petrograd and launched the Russian Revolution were vastly more complex than Alexei’s hemophilia or Rasputin’s machinations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Prendergast read widely and possessed a good grasp of the grip-car wrecks, murders, and City Hall machinations covered so fervently by the city’s newspapers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Bobby chimed in with an equally vicious slur, again using what had happened as typical of Russian machinations. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But I thought it was more important that we see each other than to resist the petty machinations of the authorities, and Winnie consented to carry a pass. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My husband's career had allowed me to witness the machinations of politics and power up close. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In the late summer yet another of Snowball’s machinations was laid bare. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I perceived, as I read, how the collective white man had been actually nothing but a piratical opportunist who used Faustian machinations to make his own Christianity his initial wedge in criminal conquests. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I shook my head, unwilling to believe such machinations could be possible. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Power is the greatest aphrodisiac,” Kissinger famously said, and it must have been true: because Chapter Eleven was glued to the set night after night, following the machinations of diplomacy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Though Adams was vaguely aware of these machinations, he gave them little attention; after all, he never paid much heed to his cabinet anyway. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Perhaps Vaughan, blind to his friend’s machinations, had mentioned the investigation that he had been pursuing and confided the location of the hideout containing his money and evidence. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The story of the machinations employed to enable the Fischer–Karpov World Championship match to take place are enough to fill a separate book—and have!—but the details are hardly dramatic in retrospect. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Roan seemed to have been unaware of these machinations; he trusted that Hale, his supposedly closest friend, was helping him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Even the name of the wind was hidden from him by the clever machinations of his captors.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She tried to imagine what the tide looked like, coming in and going out, nipping at the sand like a little dog, heedless of people and their machinations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Walter withstood a barrage of hostile questions and rose above Yutar’s petty machinations to explain our policy in clear and simple terms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Often their personalities, strengths and fears become occluded by the machinations of the men around them, as happens occasionally here. ‘Mary Stuart’ Review: A Battle Royal in a Brooklyn Apartment 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z In his view IS ultimately arises from the machinations of outside powers, mainly America and Saudi Arabia. Rolling into town 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Combined with the increasingly “Parallax View”-like plot machinations, the result is dramatically wonky — and eccentrically thought-provoking. ‘88’ Review: Finding Hate in Numbers 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z At the same time, he is completely serious, as he has always been, about the folly of our machinations, political or otherwise. Milan Kundera's 'Festival of Insignificance' on being and smallness 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z When I ask Felix about all the machinations and intrigue around who got credit for what, he seems uninterested, and mostly just happy to be carrying on the family business. Secrets of the Dick Francis mysteries: One family kept the "greatest fiction factory" under wraps 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z “And the actual machinations and details of how this scheme actually worked, I didn’t understand.” ‘Operation Varsity Blues’ reenacts and reorients a scandal 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, popes and bankers vie for control of land, art and artifacts, their machinations and desires bringing forth a newly vicious historical era. Aztec and European empires collide in the strange and bloody 'Sudden Death' by Álvaro Enrigue 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z This played off an NBC News article citing "people close to Obama" and other unnamed Democratic sources referencing the former president's "hidden hand" and alluding to the hidden machinations of the Democratic elite. Ain't no party like an MSNBC party, even on this weirdly sober Super Tuesday 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z In all, the music industry and listener machinations made for one of the most disorienting, and often exhilarating, years of hit music in recent memory. The Pop Charts Were Crazy This Year. Here’s Why. 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z None who consider the possible allegorical parallels between the political machinations set more than 1,000 years ago and our fraught present should be dismissed either. "Vikings" kicks off its final season with its own "tender moment" in history 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z He then decided that intercutting between Purdue’s internal machinations and the people suffering in Finch Creek would offer “a true understanding of what happened.” ‘Dopesick’ Uses Drama, and Michael Keaton, to Give the Opioid Crisis a Human Face 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Can he reveal any of his burger machinations? When Daniel Boulud calls, D.C. chefs come While “Mindhunter” and “Stranger Things” delve into United States government conspiracies, “Secret City” explores similar machinations Down Under. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Secret City’ and ‘Blue Valentine’ 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z A new sense of urgency grew, as did the suspicions and machinations. Staff Benda Bilili: where did it all go so wrong? 2013-02-15T07:30:00Z But Conner, politically minded from the start, set his sights on San Francisco, where he rightly decided that the art world’s machinations would be less oppressive. Review: Bruce Conner’s Darkness That Defies Authority 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Stripped of the shadowy machination angle, the hybrid concept seems likeliest. Review: Drake's 'If You're Reading This It's Too Late' Marks a Transitional Moment 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Our hero’s circle of friends further expands to include Martha, Mr. Covert’s lovely ward and the target of his “vile machinations.” Jon Hamm gives his voice to Walt Whitman’s long-lost novel 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z The film creates its intrigue from the various promises and political machinations that reveal each character's true nature. In the shrewd "Promises," Isabelle Huppert is a local politician dealing with truth and perception 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z His perilous journey back to power is threatened by the machinations of the piece's two villains – rival duke Grimoaldo, and the latter's accomplice, Garibaldo – while his wife remains loyal to his memory. Rodelinda ? review 2011-03-15T18:23:42Z “Soundcheck,” which mixes live performances with artist interviews and talks — sometimes in-depth, sometimes simply chatty — about the machinations of the music industry, will continue in a modified form online, the show announced on Monday night. WNYC's 'Soundcheck' to Go Online-Only 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Frankly, it’s kind of nice to see a red carpet not be so fraught with marketing machinations. The Tony Awards Get the Red Carpet Blues 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z And if you like what “Revenge” has become in Season 2, with the sort of round-and-round plot machinations that never really get anywhere, then “Deception” is for you. Television Review: ‘Deception’ With Meagan Good on NBC 2013-01-06T23:05:24Z Presented with an agitated camera and a bare minimum of subtitles, “A Prayer Before Dawn” adheres to neither the familiar beats of the boxing movie nor the claustrophobic machinations of the typical prison drama. Review: ‘A Prayer Before Dawn’ Drops a British Boxer Into a Thai Prison 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z It is one in which the characters, even the bull, are subject not to the whims of gods and metaphors but to their own compulsions and machinations. ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight?’ Review: Hit and Run, Sleight of Hand 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Soon into its machinations, “Wife of a Spy” begins to thrum with unusual intensity. ‘Wife of a Spy’ Review: Trust or Fear in Love and War? 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z It’s a doorstop, full of sound and fury, more nihilistic than Shakespeare’s original, with all the blunt and dismal machinations of a soap opera. A King Lear Set in India, Wild and Tragic as Ever 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Edmund Lee wrote in The New York Times that the show “manages to provide viewers with an accurate reconstruction of the boardroom machinations behind the merger-mad media industry of recent years.” What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Succession’ and ‘Curse of Akakor’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z The director Brad Anderson adeptly handles the story’s many parts, the dealing and dealers, the jittery car trips and late-night machinations. Review: In ‘Beirut,’ a War-Torn Backdrop for American Spy Games 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z It endeavors to demonstrate things about perception, value and collecting, and thus about the art world’s machinations. Darren Bader 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z As a former Senate staffer, O’Donnell takes a practitioner’s delight in the machinations of politics: He finds, and manages to convey, excitement in things like the movement of delegates from one camp to another. The Presidential Election That America Lost 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z These are the only companies in which Prince Cap remains invested after Mike orders everything else dissolved to reduce vulnerability to Axe’s financial machinations. ‘Billions’ Season 7, Episode 11: Courting a Centrist Candidate 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z The devious machinations of House of Cards have nothing on his brazen shoutouts to the worst of the US. How Donald Trump has blown the White House drama out of the water 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z The machinations get clunky, and by the finale the show feels overlong and overstuffed. Review: 'Iron Curtain' turns Cold War into a splashy romp 2011-04-07T19:24:04Z The author makes room, instead, for exploring political machinations and the relationships between sisters; betrayal lurks at every turn. Review | Best science fiction and fantasy books out this month 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z After years of isolated plotting and machinations by the various groups in this story, the alliances are coming together at a dizzying rate. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6 Finale: Long May She Reign 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Still, there's a reason this epic was often invoked as a political apologue, especially in breakdowns of Beltway machinations. On the Iron Anniversary of "Game of Thrones," here's hoping Joe Biden doesn't go Ned Stark on us 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z In 1967, rock became a billion-dollar baby, and I added a section to my column about the machinations of the recording industry. I got high with the Beach Boys: “If I survive this I promise never to do drugs again” 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z Devoted fans of Hilary Mantel’s trilogy centered on the nefarious Thomas Cromwell’s political machinations will soon be able to read this last volume in the “Wolf Hall” trilogy. Review | Ten books to read in March 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Conversely his art at its best bears witness to the often perverse machinations of the state. Art Review: Ai Weiwei Survey Lands at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-04-17T21:00:53Z It’s the set pieces that stand out, like the wonderful scene in which Mr. Greenspan evokes the backstage machinations that led to the selection of Harding for the Republican presidential ticket in 1920. 2010-01-12T07:09:00Z In her capacious if conventional historical novel, Dunant returns to the machinations of the Borgia clan, whom she wrote about in “Blood and Beauty,” introducing a new character, Niccolò Machiavelli. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Then it promised to move back in the timeline and delve into the larger conditions and machinations behind the crimes. The Jan. 6 Hearing Put a True-Crime Drama on Prime-Time TV 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Yet if the machinations of the plot are a tad rickety, its geologic premise is inarguably stable. ‘The Burning Sea’ Review: Smoke on the Water 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z “Landfall” is a romance — a romance in which the president repeatedly intercedes, rom-com fashion — set against the machinations concerning the administration’s defining failure in Iraq. A Comic Novel About the George W. Bush No One Knows 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Culturally, the desire to protect the family from bad news rings true; structurally, the machinations involved become problematic. A Sudden Tragedy Leads to Unsinkable Family Secrets 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z In a memorable podcast, Ira Glass talked to a group of girls about their lives online, unpicking the machinations of their Instagram feeds as they watched the comments under their selfies roll in. Children won’t be saved by a digital detox 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z She remains fixated on the machinations of comedy. Mindy Kaling: 'I wasn't considered attractive or funny enough to play myself' 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z Still, there are small signs of moral shading in the early going — partly with the political machinations in its various royal courts, but especially with Galadriel. ‘The Rings of Power’ Review: Shiny, Not Yet Precious 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Of five episodes shared with critics, the most delicious has to be Episode 5, written and directed by Murphy, about the machinations and schemings in the buildup to the 1963 Academy Awards ceremony. Review | FX’s ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’: Another total knockdown, drag-out hit from Ryan Murphy 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Watching a small, diverse farm over a couple of months beginning in early spring is like watching the machinations of a Chekhov play. Farm to Gallery: Peter Nadin?s Comeback 2011-07-03T05:30:29Z In dream sequences and crosscutting story lines involving gangland murders, procedural machinations and bumbling small-time film directing, the show doesn’t always nail the balance of action and comedy. Why New TV Comedies Are Choosing Plot Over Jokes 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z As Stephen Colbert and his publisher, Hachette, continue their feud with Amazon, the comedian is using his celebrity profile to help the Hachette writers who suffer the most from Amazon’s machinations: debut novelists. “It was an out-of-body experience”: Stephan Eirik Clark on his novel getting the “Colbert bump” 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Adding to its eccentricity is a plot that mixes family dynamics into the world of deep state machination, a concept that feels keenly pertinent right now. Pledging allegiance to Amazon’s enigmatic “Patriot” may be worth it, but it isn’t an easy mission 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z "And one time I got the chance to see the backstage machinations of these extraordinarily gifted voices," he said. Johnny Mathis — time for a full-scale comeback? 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Even so, what emerges is important: a portrait of political campaigning that is more like what we hope than what we fear, that rises above the machinations and muck. David Axelrod’s ‘Believer’ 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z The boxing frame also helped to motivate Iago’s machinations and reveal the character’s racism, he added. A Rare ‘Othello’ Puts the Spotlight on Race 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z This is the beauty of this book, the machinations of a modern pitcher's mind. 'Pedro' goes inside corners of pitcher Martinez's life 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z When Game of Thrones began in 2011, the focus was as much on the sharp one-liners and the cunning political machinations as it was on the big twists and even bigger spectacle. Game of Thrones: how it dominated the decade – then lost its way 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Start with the acerbic Party Down, which stars Glee's Jane Lynch and focuses around the machinations of a dysfunctional catering company. Is this a golden age for sitcoms? 2010-05-27T14:26:00Z Unabashedly talky and unapologetically angry, Mr. Leigh’s film chronicles the debates and machinations leading up to a massacre of demonstrators marching for electoral reform and workers’ rights. At the Telluride Film Festival, the Past Isn’t Safe at All 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z It’s heavy on intrigue, politics and court machinations and utilizes the tried-and-true science fiction trope of transplanted memories. Review | ‘Dune’ is a classic space opera. Let’s talk about other great works in this genre. 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z There is a notable lack of scenic decoration during the first act’s machinations and romances; we don’t even see what the painter Cavaradossi is working on. A Lot of Opera Is Now Streaming. Here’s Where to Start. 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z “Because of that, you get these kind of labyrinthine machinations to desperately weave in character motivation, geography and the practical aspects of getting from one scene to another.” Mission impenetrable: are Hollywood blockbusters losing the plot? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The corridor is the corridor of history, where the Tudor maid and the Jewish victim of the Nazis co-exist and where women are peripheral to the power machinations of men. This week's new theatre 2011-03-05T00:07:36Z Carpenter’s stunning literary-fiction thriller takes on the same agency from a different but no less believable perspective — that of a young woman whose father’s machinations during the Cold War threaten her present and future. Review | Which D.C. novel best captures the city? 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z The best and subtlest touch is the dramatization of the jury’s crazily short deliberation, and the near-total absence of the machinations that sway the two jurors who were initially unconvinced. The People v. O. J. Simpson Will Be with Us Forever 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Naipaul ignored cold-war machinations in the Congo just as he would later scant the brutal rule of Iran's shah in exchange for broad musings on the innate defects of Islam. The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z The historical value of Dean’s book — which unspools as a practically moment-by-moment chronicle of the White House machinations starting soon after the break-in — is one thing. John Dean, sex machine? And other new revelations from the Nixon tapes. But at heart, “The Vacationers” is formulaic enough to insist that everyone emerge from its machinations as a better person, or at least a braver one. In ‘The Vacationers,’ Emma Straub Looks at Infidelity 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z The film’s center of moral gravity is ordinary soldiers, whose sacrifice and loyalty to one another are repeatedly contrasted with the political machinations of the powerful, on both sides. Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Tackle the Vietnam War 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z As “The Hunger Games” later underscored, the artificial parameters of “Survivor” presented competitors with one unswerving goal: to survive the machinations of the other players. Donald Trump, the ultimate “Survivor”: How watching Richard Hatch win laid the groundwork for Trump the GOP nominee 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Although Evelyn initially resists these maternal machinations, she panics and clings to the Manhattan social ladder when her father faces white-collar prison. ‘Everybody Rise’ review: A witty tale about a high-society wannabe 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Overseeing all the machinations is the Duchess Tremontaine, a villain so laughably scheming that you can’t help but root for her. Best science fiction and fantasy to read in May 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z He feels as if he's part of the American dream – he wants to get ahead, and quickly – but he has little consideration for the ordinary Americans his machinations may affect. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z And along the way, we get a very funny lesson on the frustrations and machinations of academic life. Review | Irritated by tweedy academic types? Read this wonderful campus comedy. 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Hamilton also denied personal culpability by unabashedly blaming all undeserved publicity on a political environment generated by the machinations of Jeffersonian Republicans. Jerry Sandusky’s guilty — and so are we 2012-06-25T13:59:00Z Chapter by chapter, we shift back and forth, from the ever-swelling calamities at the academy to the absurd machinations of Hollywood. Review | Emily M. Danforth’s ‘Plain Bad Heroines’ mixes up a delectable brew of gothic horror and Hollywood satire 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z But it distinguishes itself by rinsing away the cosmetics of royal etiquette and self-serious machination with bracing wit. In a TV landscape full of serious monarchs "The Serpent Queen" has bite, along with a good time 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z “It’s a unique opportunity for a public hearing of the machinations of the art world, which are usually very discreet,” said Nicholas M. O’Donnell, an art lawyer in Boston. Knoedler Gallery Heads to Trial in Sale of a Fake Rothko 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z On the plus side, there is something refreshing about the Vatican's attitude to PR and spin, which is either that they are the machinations of Beelzebub, or they simply haven't heard of them yet. Oops, we forgot Jesus's women 2010-07-30T11:14:00Z But Maia doesn’t have the strength not to fall victim to Madeline’s clever machinations. ‘The Good Fight’ Season 1, Episode 9: Blinding Privilege 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Shakespeare’s plays have traditionally been imagined as a better fit, especially his histories and tragedies, with their troubling acts of violence and complex social machinations. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Yet the machinations of recent weeks also epitomize Trump’s knack for turning a relatively obscure issue or backwater agency into fodder for a culture war — with little more than a tweet. How Trump’s obsessions with media and loyalty coalesced in a battle for Voice of America 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z This made for a fine line, I suggested, between her and her character, a lawyer who faces dire consequences for her increasingly Machiavellian machinations when “Saul” returns for its final run on Monday. Rhea Seehorn Is Getting Away With It 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z But, come Friday, there won’t need to be any complicated machinations or creative thinking to get comics in front of a live audience. A Stand-Up Set at the Swipe of a MetroCard 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z His real ads, as on his comedy records, often parodied other ads or functioned as critiques of advertising itself, highlighting its machinations, its institutional dishonesty. Satirist Stan Freberg, ad man and comic, dies at 88 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z “The puzzler in me loves the machinations,” he said. ‘Sleep No More’ Awakens After a Long Hibernation 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Seeding is just one of the machinations of celebrity dressing explained in "Will Work for Shoes: The Business Behind Red Carpet Product Placement," a new book by former fashion publicist Susan J. Ashbrook. Book reveals secrets behind celebrity-fashion buzz 2011-09-21T19:37:05Z “Acting as the Hand of the King, Tyrion is thrust into the center of the political machinations of the capitol city,” Beveridge and Shan write. Math Finds the Most Important 'Game of Thrones' Character 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z On this sophomore effort, she's solidifying her voice, inviting us along on her journey of self-discovery and rebirth, wholly in sync with the machinations of the universe. Top 10 albums of 2018 in hip hop and R&B 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z During faux commercial breaks, “Game Show” is equally enjoyable as a behind-the-scenes farce about network power grabs, contract negotiations, bedhopping and other machinations. ‘Game Show’ lets the audience play along 2013-08-01T21:40:42Z Anyone who follows the machinations of today’s news and social media ecosystems will no doubt recognize the danger to society when factually inaccurate stories catch fire and influence public opinion. Russia Hacking The News 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Plus there were the insights into "the machinations of acting" he received from his mother, who would give critical notes after his performances at school. Rory Kinnear as Hamlet: A palpable hit 2010-09-19T17:33:00Z In Britain Ms. Prebble, now 29, was hailed for creating an accessible story about the company despite the forbidding complexity of its financial machinations. Drama! Music! Financial Shenanigans! 2010-02-20T05:21:00Z Mr. Mackey’s “It Is Time,” a premiere, dealt with shifting perceptions of time through clockwork machinations, fluid distortions and playful interaction with Mark DeChiazza’s video images, projected on an overhead screen. Music Review | So Percussion: So Percussion at Zankel Hall: Textures From Contraptions 2010-03-26T22:21:00Z Citizen Kane … is a remarkable film for understanding the machinations of power, the machinations of ambition. France's pupils to view cinema classics in the classroom 2010-05-18T16:55:00Z Wool, 67, mostly demurs on questions about the effect market machinations can have on an artist’s life and work, saying that addressing it inevitably risks making one sound disingenuously ungrateful for success. Christopher Wool on What Brought a ‘Sunday Painter’ Back to Life 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z Part of the issue with the Hunger Games movies was that they became less interesting the more we learned about Panem, its big players and the political machinations. Do we really need a Hunger Games prequel movie? 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z With life experiences like those behind her, the extreme plot machinations of Hollywood melodrama must have possessed an everyday familiarity for Stanwyck. DVDs: Six Barbara Stanwyck Films 2010-04-24T02:40:00Z Whatever the machinations, that meant a glut of fevered speculation and analysis as the Bafta nominations yesterday were immediately followed by the Oscar nods. Close up: a veritable frenzy of awards nominations 2013-01-10T17:12:53Z It may be good fun, but there's also lots of mass murder in the Decepticons' machinations to enslave Earth. 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon:' Plot, 3-D change for the better 2011-06-28T16:59:03Z When the time comes to sit up, it can be difficult to extricate yourself from the sheer number of plot twists, political machinations and costumed dinner guests. Fascinating Alternate Histories in Four New Novels 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z For one thing, the plot machinations often were inscrutable. For Spielberg, ‘Bridge of Spies’ is culmination of a Cold War fascination 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z This is partially because of, despite the absurdist environments, the show's very real depiction of human behavior and political machinations. HBO Max's magical and action-packed "Adventure Time" special is a tribute to heroic resistance 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z “As a longtime Washington correspondent, Hulse is an expert guide through the machinations on Capitol Hill,” our reviewer, Evan Thomas, writes. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z As a kind of post-Brexit tale of upper-level government machinations, “Roadkill” couldn’t be more cynical about the political process. Review | With ‘Roadkill,’ PBS invites you to watch a narcissist politician who gets away with everything. How does that grab you? 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Sons of Anarchy, which began in 2008, focuses on the machinations of police and motorcycle gangs in California. Marilyn Manson signs up for Sons of Anarchy white supremacist role 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z That lie, and the questionable machinations of the moon-condo business, are the twin nuclear reactors that power the first season. ‘Hello Tomorrow!’ Review: It’s Only a Paper Moon 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z And it brings to life the social and political machinations of the Georgian era, most of all the new elite’s cementing of power and status through Italianate country houses filled with Grand Tour souvenirs. Art Review: ‘William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain’ at Bard 2014-01-02T22:03:54Z To succeed they have to play a game of hiding their anger behind careful smiles and sharp barbs rather than outright machinations or drawing swords. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Wounds We Carry 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z The play is deeply sympathetic to Cuban American emotions and distrust of what Martinez portrays as political machinations by both Castro and the Clinton administration, while also capturing contradictions within the community itself. Divisive Battle Over Elián González Reverberates on a Miami Stage 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z The script handles the tabloid attacks and portrays the behind-the-scenes machinations to discredit Meghan with directness. Surprise! Lifetime's new “Harry & Meghan” movie isn't a total joke, veering from kind to just weird 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z The story is ostensibly about the Roman empress Agrippina’s ferocious machinations to get her husband, Claudius, to cede the throne to her vastly unqualified son, Nero. Review: The Met Opera Is Handel’s House in ‘Agrippina’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Crucial to understanding the machinations of the Academy Awards is knowing that the nominees, and winners, aren’t necessarily the year’s best but rather the most popular. The Art of the Oscars Long-Shot 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Here, the Macbeths’ machinations were placed in context: No longer is their ascension just about the inevitability of fate, but how the greed of a privileged few can destroy the lives of a marginalized many. The Theater at War 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Previously private figures like Sandmann receive a kid glove treatment, regardless of the circumstances and machinations that have attracted newsroom cameras. Morning TV confessionals: From Nick Sandmann to Jussie Smollett, these interviews fail us 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z My own and everyone else’s lives were altered so much that the regular machinations of our test kitchen seemed too far-fetched. Ottolenghi’s Test Kitchen Is Closed. But the Recipes Keep Coming. 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Spinella conveys endless delight in his character's inventive machinations, appealing guilelessly to the audience for applause and sympathy. Review: 'Volpone or The Fox' a robust, merry farce 2012-12-10T04:01:05Z What's more, it's positively fascinating having such machinations laid bare in this manner. Recount! The Not the Booker prize goes back to the jury 2010-09-07T14:58:00Z That character, Victoria Leeds, is a drug dealer and would-be real estate mogul whose machinations threaten the Bay. Review: ‘Baywatch,’ a Romp Full of Surf, Sand and Lots of Skin 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Kauffmann’s machinations — granting Roosevelt special access to Greenland, and generally acting like an unofficial leader in exile — were an audacious gamble during wartime chaos. ‘The Good Traitor’ Review: The Defiant Diplomat 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z What ensues is a contest over Lance, the clerk who works the copy store’s graveyard shift and witnessed Jimmy’s machinations. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 Episode 9: The Brothers McGill 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Annie, pretty as a picture under her baggy pants and Doc Martens boots, is an outsider to the art world and naive to its machinations. ‘The Improbability of Love’ paints a romantic comedy about the art world 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z She has shown you do not need to explore the bloody Tudors and the machinations of a royal court to provide compelling drama. Gillian Flynn: chronicler of the midwest's dark side 2013-03-24T00:06:17Z "Empire of Silver's" secret weapon, however, is Zhang, whose complicated patriarch ultimately proves sympathetic and moving despite his boorish machinations. A polished, melodramatic 'Empire of Silver' 2011-12-01T21:50:07Z I didn’t understand the financial machinations that were going on behind the scenes. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Making Good Time With the Pony Express 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z Enough with the machinations, the subterfuge and the gambles. Mad Men Watch: Don Draper’s Baby 2013-06-17T14:54:15Z Even the wacky hide-and-seek machinations in the laundromat, into which Ebony Marshall-Oliver’s silent clerk is amusingly drawn, have their joyful payoff. Review | Shakespeare returns to Central Park with a ‘Merry Wives’ that lives up to its title 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z Walton said she wasn’t paying attention to any machinations happening in state or national politics around her candidacy; she was just trying to focus on creating a bottom-up movement in Buffalo. In Buffalo, a democratic socialist vies for mayor in a race she thought she’d already won 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z My mind could not keep up with my body’s machinations. Wasn’t I supposed to be sex-positive?: My teenage summer romance with an older man 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z These letters were replete with political machinations, military plans, and perhaps most relevantly for a Protestant England that was deeply suspicious of the Catholic Henrietta-Maria, promises to liberalize England's anti-Catholic laws. 5 historic codes yet to be cracked 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z It seems more dedicated to machination than to meditation, more focused on struggle than on serenity. Spare Times for Children for July 17-23 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Now, finally, the intricate machinations that have ground on for so long seem to finally be coming to a head: winter coming, alliances solidifying, thrones and revenge taken alike. Game of Thrones finale: fancy some son pie? 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The industry machinations mostly served as a glass-walled backdrop for relationship dramas. With ‘Younger’ and ‘The Bold Type’ Ending, Will TV Turn the Page? 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Her machinations are impressive to behold, and Thackeray’s satire of moneyed life even more so. Top 10 Non-Dickens Books for Dickens Fans 2012-02-05T20:06:36Z Like most of James’s best fiction, “What Maisie Knew” is about the subtle workings of power, of influence — of sway; as always in his work, the machinations are terrifying. Translating Henry James for the Screen 2013-04-28T03:43:13Z He is mainly a pawn in the machinations of his temperamental father the King and a fussy Grand Duke. Cinderella Review: Disney Rekindles Old Magic 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z But Lenny’s despotic machinations are complicated by the fact that he might very well also be a saint, albeit one with a nefarious moral code. A Man Without Qualities: HBO’s “The Young Pope” 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z When these characters confront their demons, the comic machinations of “Lower Decks” and the child’s adventure of “Prodigy” may boldly go straight to your heart. Catching Up With ‘Star Trek,’ the Quiet Franchise 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The political machinations of the carnivals are thrilling, and the narration lush and wild. Review | Best science fiction and fantasy books out this month 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z And in each case, Steel makes a point of focusing as much on the psychology of the victims as on its leader, gently unpacking the factors that can make people susceptible to the cult’s machinations. 6 Podcasts About Cults and Their Enduring Sinister Attraction 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z The plot, as Hebrew school alumni may remember, involves a Jewish beauty who marries a Persian king and ends up saving her people from the genocidal machinations of his adviser. Theater Review: ‘The Megile of Itzik Manger,’ by National Yiddish Theater 2013-05-03T20:57:55Z Through machinations too complicated to explain, Juliette, long the damsel in distress, is now a raging HexenBiest and she likes it, though she’s still plenty angry at those involved in the unintentional transformation. TV Picks: 'Grimm,' 'Casual Vacancy,' 'Bones' 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z In the books, she chronicles the machinations of Thomas Cromwell, adviser to Henry VIII. Hilary Mantel is made a dame 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Sunday’s season premiere of HBO’s “Succession,” a dramedy that follows the machinations of one of the wealthiest fictional families on earth, represents this concept at its apex. Forget Florida Man: Summer belongs to the trailer park queens of "Florida Girls" 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z “Florence tended to look down on books that owed their success to the dramatic machinations of plot,” Andrews writes. In ‘Who Is Maud Dixon?,’ a Dream Job Leads to a Twisty Nightmare 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Jane has this unique way of delivering a story that is just filled with these machinations of womanhood and femininity. Gwendoline Christie on Playing the ‘Complete Opposite’ of Brienne of Tarth 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z In blue states Democrats simplify voting; in red states Republicans suppress it with a long inventory of machinations: purge the rolls, convolute registration procedures, disenfranchise felons and cut back polling times and places. Why the Right to Vote Is Not a Right 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Films try to personify life in all its machinations. Steven Seagal: ‘I like to go after murderers, bank robbers, rapists, kidnappers’ 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z That kept the running time of the production to about 2 1/2 hours, but it also upset the pacing, making the plot machinations of Acts 2 and 3 seem rushed. Baroque opera in burlesque house 2013-03-21T16:06:09Z Whenever a series inadvertently reveals the business machinations on its plot development, that automatically triggers a demerit. 2018's biggest TV disappointments, from moderately painful to the absolute worst 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z It’s in the machinations of the campus cold war itself — and in her clumsy homage to le Carré — that Lutz stumbles. Review | Can a thriller also be a feminist social critique? Lisa Lutz gives it a try in ‘The Swallows’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Certainly in this saga of four generations of mothers and daughters, García has achieved a scale and empathy that far surpasses his previous machinations without sacrificing the nuanced platforms he has granted actors all along. "Mother and Child": Pushing past adoption clich?s 2010-05-07T11:03:00Z Even though the machinations of a retrial would be handled by attorneys, the ultimate decision of the next panel of jurors will be, once again, heavily dependent on their assessment of Constand and Cosby. What’s next for the Bill Cosby sex-assault case? 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Yet all conspiratorial talk of murder, power-grabbing and revenge are subsumed by the larger story of Prospero's wizardly machinations to return to Milan and reclaim his title. Review: 'Macbeth,' 'Tempest' among plays staged for free at parks around the Sound 2011-07-19T04:48:06Z It began, with Granny’s announcement and machinations, as essentially the world’s crappiest HR downsizing meeting. The Americans Watch: The Commitments 2013-04-11T14:14:20Z The rivalrous relationship between the Seymour brothers and Thomas’s own power-grabbing machinations further sabotage Catherine’s plans, with a final body blow dealt by his affair with the shockingly young Elizabeth. Even a Powerful Queen First Must Survive Being a Teenager 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Another continuity is the lack of a real centre of political accountability—political oversight of bureaucratic machinations is often largely ceremonial. In the air 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The first is that the algorithmic machinations of search engines, like the Peace of God, passeth all understanding. Why Google is unpopular in Old Europe 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z Milani adds: “The book is commendably exhaustive in its effort to expose the machinations of these forces. … Even when we disagree with Ghazvinian, the story he offers is delightfully readable, genuinely informative and impressively literate.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z She lost her beloved country house due to capitalist machinations. Struggling to Love, Work and Do the Right Thing in Putin’s Russia 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z I was a slave to the machinations of my aberrant brain. Brain On Fire: 'Blood and foam began to spurt out of my mouth' 2013-01-13T00:05:24Z No matter how hard Alison tries to run away from her clones and Dyad, she continues to get pulled back in by their machinations. ArtsBeat: ‘Orphan Black’ Recap: Season 2 Begins 2014-04-21T15:39:04Z Blazing Saddles, as Time noted in its 1974 review, was about “a hip black sheriff who must overcome racial prejudice and the machinations of a corrupt frontier political machine. “It was also very, very funny. Why Gene Wilder Trusted Mel Brooks 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z It connects them to the super-rich business executives of today who seem more interested in machinations and profits than in people. Television Review: ‘The Men Who Built America,’ on the History Channel 2012-10-15T21:45:53Z Mr. Padura suggests that his three main characters, though playing very different roles, end up victims of the machinations of a system that discards them when they stop being useful. Books of The Times: ‘The Man Who Loved Dogs’ Centers on Trotsky 2014-01-21T22:09:20Z Asked why he thought the city had attracted the awards, Mr. Camorra said, “I don’t know, but I’d assume it was a lot of political machinations.” How Melbourne Landed the World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z This detail-packed biography of the baseball legend recounts his eventful life and tracks the machinations behind his rise to an unprecedented kind of celebrity in the United States. New in Paperback: ‘The Big Fella’ and ‘Identity’ 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z While their machinations make up one plotline, another involves Timmy’s policies when he gains the throne and gives all children the rights of adults, and vice versa. Theater Review: ‘Timmy the Great,’ Family Musical, at Theater for the New City 2013-08-21T22:15:47Z Putin’s machinations certainly mattered, but Donald Trump’s rise reflects much more important changes within the United States in recent decades that widened societal divisions and increased political polarization. The Rivalry That Forged the Cold War 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Other internet-savvy astrologers are explicitly branding their practices as tools of the #resistance, looking to planetary alignments to shed light on the machinations of the tax bill or Russian election meddling. How Astrology Took Over the Internet 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z When not involved in those machinations, they populate whatever island the story has landed on, both as people and as tropical birds. Review: ‘Sunset, o639 Hours’ by BalletX at the Joyce Theater 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z She imposes a handicap on herself, affecting a limp as part of the machinations deemed necessary in order to find her lover. Her Lover May Not Exist, but Her Doubts About the Patriarchy Are Real 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z And one of the reasons it's easy to do that in either direction is because you never see the machinations by which any of those decisions are made. "It's like being black in America": "Snowpiercer" star Daveed Diggs on the Tailies with no agency 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z Beyond the Spartans' first field mission, the rest of the premiere revolves around standard paint-by-numbers political machinations at the military's headquarters on the planet Reach. Paramount unmasks "Halo" for a perfect launch to the long-awaited video game adaptation 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Which it will probably never get, given the machinations, duplicity, divisions and dark forces at play within the Chinese communist party. TV review: Dispatches: Chinese Murder Mystery; Full English 2012-11-12T23:20:01Z The film is transparent in the sense that you can see through everything it's doing, and it's so brazen about each machination that you can't help laughing. Morgan Spurlock sells out 2011-04-20T23:01:00Z The argument is that Let The Right One In was so original, so thought-provoking, so utterly insurmountable that it deserves to be left unmangled by Hollywood's suspect machinations. Let the right one win: a Let Me In/Let the Right One In trailer battle 2010-07-28T15:37:00Z The machinations of this plot generate little interest. Review: ‘Boo! A Madea Halloween’ Finds Tyler Perry in the Usual Costume(s) 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z That can be easy to forget — as I so often have — what with the opening credits animation telling us before each episode to focus on the ancient machinations of power at work instead. "Game of Thrones": Brienne's final gift to Jaime and the things we do for love 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Much of the plot of “Junk” concerns the machinations of this business battle. Seduced by Ayad Akhtar's 'Junk,' the new play that picks apart the Wall Street playbook 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z It all works out for him — and is really the ultimate goal of his machinations. "The Boys" comics artist Darick Robertson on Amazon's adaptation, politics and "The Punisher" 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Certainly, the machinations of the Borgias are their own kind of theatrics, and Fo exaggerates the analogy to the point at which artifice overruns plot and infects form as well. ‘The Pope’s Daughter’ review: Dario Fo’s novel defends the Borgia clan 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z All the drugs mentioned are real except for Ablixa — which has its own website, in case the machinations here make you so apprehensive that you want to try it. Side Effects: One Pill Makes You Murder 2013-02-08T05:01:30Z The anthropological underpinnings of a manipulative ex’s machinations do not exonerate his bad behavior; however, articulating them may help to quiet the surrounding chatter. How to Get Over That Ex 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Her machinations may be the stuff of comedy, but her frightened yet steadfast approach to Sonny at his worst is a thing of tender beauty. ‘Definition Please’ Review: What Does It All Mean? 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Consider the complex machinations of a grand old European hotel in a time of radical change seen through the prism of Anderson with his incredible eye for pomp and ceremony. Golden Globes 2015: 'Boyhood,' 'Grand Budapest' directors walk alone 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z But then, plot matters far less in Vertigo than the machinations of desire and obsession – and about those there is no finer film. Vertigo 2010-10-17T10:53:00Z For Ms. Rutherford, the female characters in “Don Carlo” are not merely products of the machinations of men in past centuries. The Women of ‘Don Carlo’ Portray a Moment in History 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z “Last Mission to Tokyo” is as concerned with the machinations of prosecution and defense lawyers as with the Doolittle fliers themselves. Trying the Japanese for War Crimes 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z The machinations fester and ravel in a plot-driven film that, for all its references to detergents, never lapses into soap opera. The Past: After the Oscar-Winning A Separation Comes the Divorce 2013-05-17T19:50:10Z A night of sensual play, manipulation, machinations and tragedy courtesy of two fiery playwrights like Berkoff and Churchill should never leave a room as cool as it does here. Review: In ‘Sex, Grift and Death,’ One-Acts That Test Perceptions 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z This film adaptation of the first three installments of the series follows the Baudelaires as they try to survive Olaf’s murderous machinations. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Breeders’ and ‘Notes on a Scandal’ 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z It mapped out Holmes’ mental machinations with verve and integrity. Sherlock is slowly and perversely morphing into Bond. This cannot stand 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Despite the incessant machinations of climate deniers, there is no scientific basis for doubt as to the reality of anthropogenic climate change. The Future by Al Gore – review 2013-01-31T12:00:00Z Their performances match Christie’s original, unfiligreed prose, and they don’t obstruct the view of the machinations of plot and court procedure. Review: Agatha Christie’s Murder Most Orderly and the Comfiest Seats in London 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z I wondered whether to Machiavelli it was a particularly satisfying tale, the much more powerful creature ultimately brought down by the machinations of a crafty thinker. In Tuscany, Following the Rise and Fall of Machiavelli 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z As one of my smart colleagues put it, "it's always good to remember that the reason we still visit Florence is the art, not the machinations of its Renaissance bankers". Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z Needless to say, such machinations had a dire effect on the material culture, as implied by Antonio Martinelli’s photographs of ruined palaces here. Review: ‘Sultans of Deccan India,’ Unearthly Treasures of a Golden Age, at the Met 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z But he’s also proven his disinterest in offering improvements, upgrades or plans for debugging the machinations that produce injustice, structural racism and inequality. Ta-Nehisi Coates blazes a singular intellectual path in 'We Were Eight Years in Power' 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z But I doubt it will leave anyone feeling especially dazzled either, by its just clever enough plot machinations, just progressive enough politics, and just fun enough performances. "Knives Out" isn't as sharp as it thinks it is 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z It’s a fleeting bliss-out in a series that knows how to bring the weird but has too often neglected to do so amid its blaster zapping, machinations and Oedipal stressing and storming. ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Embraces the Magic and Mystery. Read Our Review. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z As Homeland moves towards focusing on the machinations of discovering terrorist plots, The Americans moves away from the more genre-specific elements. Mission improbable: how The Americans changed the concept of the spy show 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z There followed many more years of wrangling over his estate, with the widow the object of family machinations to rival anything in Machiavelli. Yoko Nagae Ceschina, Countess and Fairy Godmother to the Arts, Dies at 82 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z This tradition of the novel is fundamentally secular – coincidence or human machinations, not God, order destinies. Ian McEwan on winning the Jerusalem prize 2011-02-24T11:30:36Z Her words tap into our interior lives and challenge our often naïve assumptions about both our own and the world’s machinations. Barbara Kruger: A Way With Words 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z "I'm fascinated by the situation over at NBC," Letterman said, describing "the bungling machinations of the idiots at the NBC executive level". 2010-01-16T10:27:00Z The machinations that Weir begins to uncover may seem familiar: The early episodes of “Rabbit Hole” suggest skulduggery that corresponds, from many people’s point of view, with recent tides in American history. In the Long, Paranoid Shadow of ‘24’ 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z The story it tells is of noble intentions undermined by the dark machinations of the US state, in the malign guise of the FBI and the omnipotent figure of its devious director, J Edgar Hoover. Black power’s coolest radicals (but also a gang of ruthless killers) 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z As if ecological devastation weren’t enough, Bug and Aurelia must also deal with the machinations of the disembodied Technalis ruler, Doyenne, a featureless head floating above her lair. ‘The Immortal Jellyfish Girl’ Review: A 26th-Century Love Story 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z We humans should not — indeed cannot — interfere with the machinations of the legal system to ensure that our own peculiar notions of “justice” are properly served. I too am savagely impartial and should be a Supreme Court Justice 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Unlike earlier Frayn gems in which plot twists and their philosophical reverberations sneak up on you unnoticed, "Skios" couldn't be more ornately overt in its narrative machinations. "Skios": Michael Frayn's novel of mistaken identity on a Greek island 2012-06-27T20:30:09Z His interests lie in the machinations of local and state politics. Bruce Castor is a magnet for controversy. Naturally, he’s Trump’s impeachment attorney. 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z In this latest head-spinning flight into other dimensions from the author of “Cloud Atlas,” all borders between pubby England and the machinations of the undead begin to blur. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z In the end, jurors mostly believed Jemal, acquitting him on six of seven charges but convicting him on wire fraud charges stemming from his financial machinations. Inside an eccentric mogul’s quest to save D.C.’s most distinctive buildings 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z What followed were four seasons of machinations, intrigues, betrayals and reconciliations, none of which changed the characters or advanced the story. ‘Succession’ Is Over. Why Did We Care? 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z “She was not just dealing with a bereavement, which is terrible enough already, she was dealing with it being a murder, and then she’s dealing with the political machinations of it.” A Murdered Spy’s Widow Relives Her Loss Onstage 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z There are plenty of other familiar characters and romantic complications, as well as all kinds of machinations upstairs and down. Television Review: Sincerest Forms of Flattery for British Shows 2011-01-06T23:10:24Z The play’s early going is all about the director’s machinations as he tries to loosen Anna up, get her to trust him. Redacting history in ‘The Letters’ 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z As a longtime Washington correspondent, Hulse is an expert guide through the machinations on Capitol Hill. How Supreme Court Nominations Became So Partisan 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z But mostly we’re interested in Pat, who keeps a wary eye on her husband’s machinations. Theatre’s Superpower 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z The machinations and emotional excesses of the plot are meant to be laughed off and forgotten, sitcom-style. ‘Shrinking’ Review: On the Couch With Harrison Ford 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z You, the player, will be thrust into this conflict, as well as into the political machinations among no fewer than five human kingdoms jockeying for influence in the strategically vital Pontar Valley. Video Game Review: Exploring Moral Consequences, the Obvious and the Unintended 2011-06-21T21:39:34Z "Cat," first seen in New York in 1955, tells the tale of one family's machinations to control some prime Mississippi Delta farmland. Review: A noisy 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' distracts 2013-01-18T01:32:11Z Credit goes to the actors, who delight in flaunting the shortcomings of their characters even as they fall victim to Gregor’s fiendish machinations. And you thought your contractor was bad. Meet 'The Monster Builder' at South Coast Rep 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Is there any way to equate the machinations of "Game of Thrones" with those of "Dallas"? Motherlode Blog: Why We Should Watch More TV With Our Children 2012-07-12T01:46:48Z That the feeble machinations of this breathless action thriller are based in a semblance of spy-trade truth does help its hurtling narrative seem slightly less preposterous. 'Salt': Angelina Jolie is breathless in action-packed spy thriller 2010-07-22T17:22:00Z After Season 2 was given over to the machinations of Vee and Season 1 was terrorized by the since-reformed enfant terrible Pennsatucky, Season 3 seemed vaguely shapeless without the looming threat of a big bad. 'Orange Is the New Black' Season 3, Episode 11 Recap: Angry Caputo 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z And that brings the discussion to an area unseen by most travelers: the behind-the-scenes machinations of regulation and legislation. Perspective | It’s been a wild year for travel. What’s ahead for 2018? 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The Man has been anticipating this confrontation for years as his comrades from that incident died under mysterious circumstances, because, it is suggested, of Nina’s machinations. Review: A Peter Eotvos Premiere and Schubert at the New York Philharmonic 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z It’s a heartbreaking moment, the payoff to a whole season’s worth of tortured exchanges and toxic machinations between the two siblings. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 9: ‘You Think the World Is Something’ 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Alongside this criminal plotline is a story of local political machinations. “Widows,” Reviewed: Steve McQueen Grafts Heist Film 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z “Booking such big interviews is a story unto itself, and Couric will recount the often ridiculous behind-the-scenes machinations that went into scoring the many big ‘gets’ throughout her career,” the publisher announced. AP NewsBreak: Katie Couric writing memoir, expected for 2021 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z But kowtowing to political machinations by censoring artists is not the right strategy to gain the high ground, and critics and arts commentators should be unequivocal in condemning this deeply worrying capitulation. Why Universal shouldn't have cancelled The Hunt 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Focussing on the intimate moments of everyday life rather than the machinations of those in power, he has a novelist's eye for telling detail and brings the past to life. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z It follows the day-to-day machinations of Lohan’s new job running what might honestly be the very worst place on the entire face of God’s green Earth. Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club: the reality show we really didn't need 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The vicious machinations echo an adage popularized by Jenny Holzer: “Abuse of power comes as no surprise.” ‘National Champions’ Review: A College Football Revolution 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z And, given that nobody knows Kim’s future, it’s at least possible that the two will meet in this time period, assuming she survives the machinations of the show’s present tense. ‘Better Call Saul’: There Will Be (Way More) Blood 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z If the search for the "real" Melville that occupies the novel's final stretch proves faintly predictable, then the fairytale ending is quite as far-fetched as the machinations of the obligatory rainforest-despoiling corporation. The Truth by Michael Palin – review 2012-07-13T21:55:03Z Kadare’s mellifluous fever dream is a portrait of madness: the madness of the Stalinist state and the madness of men and women in the clamp of the state’s machinations. Review | A fierce masterpiece by Albania’s most eminent novelist, Ismail Kadare 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Its forays into show business rivalry, election year machinations and satirical fantasy don’t involve passages of dramatic histrionics or riotous hilarity; rather, they pursue an understated, and effective, path to success. Theater Review: First of Two Summer Shorts Programs at 59E59 Theaters 2013-08-07T21:01:51Z With a libretto by Giuseppe Bardari, based on a play by Schiller, the opera gives a very idealized portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, who was no slouch when it came to political machinations. Music Review: ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Metropolitan, With Joyce DiDonato 2013-01-02T00:03:57Z And, at school, she falls prey to the evil machinations of the diabolical headmistress to whom all children are maggots. Matilda ? review 2010-12-10T00:06:00Z What lasts is the book’s emphasis on hidden machinations of power — there’s an unwinding subplot featuring the diplomat Kristin’s magisterial cleverness, her ceaseless web of highly effective invisible acts. In His New Book, a War Novelist Turns to More Intimate Battles 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z After all these years, it's difficult to separate Holbrook from Twain, who during his lifetime offered satirical, razor-sharp and still topical commentaries on such topics as racism, religion and politics — especially the machinations of Congress. 'American Odyssey' chronicles 60 years of Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Yet, for all its lighthearted genre machinations and optimistic title, the book is suffused with a surprising amount of gloom. The Absurd Biden-and-Obama Crime-Fighting Novel That Can’t Escape the Present 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z But it's the scenes of backstage machinations that set the movie apart. 'Crazy Horse' film goes backstage at Paris cabaret 2011-09-26T10:37:08Z “Fixers” takes the form of Chauncey’s laptop diary, as we follow him through years of secret machinations, culminating in a lot of second thoughts. ‘Fixers’: A financial thriller with cameos by Hillary Clinton and Obama 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Dexter doesn’t loom that large in the book’s machinations. In ‘The Paris Diversion,’ a Spy Stumbles in a Belated Sequel 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z It also explores his failings, as an FBI snitch during the 50s and a foreign policy blunderer whose machinations verged, on criminal. Tonight's TV highlights: Bible's Buried Secrets 2011-03-22T00:05:01Z Embroiled in the machinations of her godfather — a minister unseen during the opera, who plots to topple a corrupt regime in the Han court of China about A.D. Music Review: ‘Feng Yi Ting’ at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-27T21:15:25Z Character development takes a backseat to plot machinations in the first episode. The Catch: Shonda Rhimes-produced private eye curio is far-fetched but fun 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z It dissects not just their nefarious machinations but their wealth, their whiteness and maleness, the incestuousness of their shared world of power. How “Billions” Became One of TV’s Sharpest Critiques of Power 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z As Cymbeline’s malicious queen, she prowls the stage in a spidery black dress with a sly smile, relishing her machinations. Review: ‘Cymbeline’ Unspools Its Many Plot Twists at the Delacorte Theater 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z In some respects, it’s entirely different from the “Upstairs, Downstairs” machinations in “Spartacus.” The new ‘Black Sails’ on Starz: a sexy, violent pirate soap opera 2014-01-25T00:07:00Z The narrator gets pulled into darker machinations of the townspeople, and it is soon a question of just how far he will go to help his older brother finally speak again. ‘The Loney’ and other best horror, sci-fi and fantasy this month 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z All these machinations in “The Age of Reinvention” are reflected by its prose, which starts hyperventilating on the first page and risks going into cardiac arrest till the very end. ‘The Age of Reinvention’ review: A novel of Islamophobia and deception 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z And far from being the powerful seductress described by Walsingham, Alice is represented here as a helpless victim of others' machinations. 'The King's Mistress': re-imagining the life of the consort of a medieval king 2010-07-01T20:39:00Z The grain of his voice and his folky sense of melody still hold together all of the songs’ odd machinations. Bruce Hornsby’s New Album Is Complex and Untrendy. That’s Why It’s So Good. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The movie does a good job of explaining the fundamentals of the video store as a business, and how corporate machinations relative to debt and capital led to the Blockbuster chain’s doom. ‘The Last Blockbuster’ Review: All the Nostalgia, With No Late Fees 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z What the work’s woolly machinations suggested most was the aural equivalent of a floppy grandfather clock fashioned by Claes Oldenburg. | American Composers Orchestra: Louis Andriessen and Orchestra Underground at Zankel Hall 2010-04-11T21:04:00Z In retrospect, the fixation with the machinations of power can be spotted during his first decade in film. Adam McKay went from Ron Burgundy to Dick Cheney, and it actually makes perfect sense 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z She sets up a resonant dynamic between the political – the dangerous machinations of the papal conclave - and the domestic. Blood and Beauty by Sarah Dunant – review 2013-05-02T09:00:01Z The Second City Hollywood's new show, "In Trump We Trust" — a musical — portrays the Donald's career as the accidental outcome of goofy political machinations. Second City Hollywood throws a political party 'In Trump We Trust,' the musical 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Whitehead created surreal versions of South and North Carolina that seem less and less surreal as the convoluted political machinations of today unfold. Be grateful for what was good: One dozen musicians share the art they loved the most in 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The ruthless Godunov may recall Macbeth, but it may be Shakespeare's history plays that spring to mind in a tale of political machinations and revenge. This week's new theatre 2012-11-10T00:06:26Z We had gone through real machinations in the writers room to hide from the audience that this would be an actual surprise. 'Mad Men' stars remember biggest bombshells hurled at them on series 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Here, in “Age of Ultron,” it’s the reaction against the long trail of post-9/11 governmental machinations and grand N.S.A.-like projects. The New “Avengers” Is Really About the N.S.A. 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Once at court with his charge, he learns the machinations of the palace, but all the while the evil god Miasmus lies in wait plotting destruction. Review | The best science fiction and fantasy to read this month 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z We're more likely to learn the precise machinations of how the next pope is alighted upon than the arcane politicking and horsetrading that led to the selection of Tyler. In its bid to win the Eurovision war, the BBC is going nuclear with Bonnie Tyler 2013-03-07T17:42:09Z Both words and plot were delivered with a immediacy in itself refreshing and often witty, allowing conductor Anthony Negus to reveal the further motivations and machinations embedded in the infinite layers of Wagner's musical characterisations. Siegfried ? review 2011-07-25T17:30:01Z The British horror-comedy “The Baby” contains its fair share of blood, supernatural machinations and demonic possessions. In ‘The Baby,’ Killing With Cuteness 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Not to initiate a dialogue, or extract an apology — exposing yourself to more of his machinations would be disastrous — but to document what this relationship felt like for you. Is It Too Late to Confront My Abusive Ex? 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z "It's sticky to begin with: the early manoeuvring is hazy and the battle over hereditary succession sits awkwardly with political machinations." Critics split on complex Richard III 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Whatever the political machinations behind the reunion, it was a stirring journey through a great songbook, in part because it didn’t just focus on the hits. Beach Boys mix nostalgia, surf, melancholy at Chicago Theatre 2012-05-22T06:54:00Z Vanity Fair asked this week, in an article about the hypothetical machinations of Ivanka and her husband. To understand the Trump presidency, we must decipher Ivanka 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z What was more, as Ms. Curtin told it, her career was hindered by a set of backstage machinations as Machiavellian as anything in opera. Phyllis Curtin, American Soprano Who Championed New Music, Dies at 94 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z But before those royal machinations there’s an interesting conversation between Lady Olenna and Tyrion, who as new Master of Coin is distraught at the expense of the wedding. Game of Thrones Watch: The Walking Dead 2013-04-29T09:45:04Z However, Schnatter stopped just short of calling the alleged machinations a “conspiracy” when asked by the hosts. 'Papa' John Schnatter speaks out about ousting, taste-tests current Papa John’s pizzas on podcast 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z His latest, the first of the Assassini series, seems very different at first: an alternate world fantasy set in 1407 Venice, featuring vampires, werewolves and complex courtly machinations. Science fiction roundup ? reviews 2011-02-05T00:05:29Z Through a combination of political machinations and displacing black families to public housing, the city succeeded in razing the entire neighborhood to the ground. Charlottesville, “happiest city in America” — but for whom? 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z But with Obama I also did not see as many obvious machinations and untruths being circulated as what took place when Cheney and Bush were ginning up war in Iraq. "The Boys" comics artist Darick Robertson on Amazon's adaptation, politics and "The Punisher" 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z From film's early days, the machinations behind the ideals have been creative triggers for Hollywood classics. A new era of secrets and spies in Hollywood 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Shakespeare buffs will recognize Robin Goodfellow, Moth and Oberon, continuing their machinations from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” with a little plot help from “Much Ado About Nothing.” A Doubleheader of Baseball Novels for Fans and Non-Fans Alike 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z The beauty of King Louis’s palace is dimmed by the chilly machinations underneath. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 7: Of Love and Sacrifice 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Aaron Sorkin’s “A Few Good Men” was a riskier choice, given the dense, rapid-fire dialogue and a plot that hinges on American military machinations. Keegan Theatre finds Irish audiences enthusiastic about ‘A Few Good Men’ Several current and former association members said Flaa’s accounts of the inner machinations were accurate, but requested anonymity because they said they feared retaliation from the group. The Golden Globes’ Biggest Winner May Be the Group That Hands Them Out 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Her new one is called “Nicotine,” and like her previous books, it’s a mess: anarchic in its plot machinations, scrambled in its themes, mostly shallow in its emotions. Review: Nell Zink’s ‘Nicotine’ Is Hard to Put Down, Despite Its Unruly Plot 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z It's set in 14th-century Genoa and tells the story of the embattled doge, Simon Boccanegra, and the political and personal machinations surrounding him. Formula 1 2010-07-10T05:45:00Z These sprawling novels of galactic milieus, giant orbitals and even larger A.I. ships and their various machinations offer one of the most compelling and sustained visions of a far-flung future. Review | ‘Dune’ is a classic space opera. Let’s talk about other great works in this genre. 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z It’s the one about the theft of an 18th-century cow creamer and the machinations of the would-be dictator Roderick Spode, leader of the Black Shorts. Michael Dirda’s holiday book picks 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The substance of the plot — the political machinations, the romantic entanglements — doesn’t seem to interest her. Making Shakespeare Their Own, Serious and Silly 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The book is commendably exhaustive in its effort to expose the machinations of these forces. What Has Gone Wrong Between Iran and the United States? 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z You get a sense of that threat more vividly from the men in his command, who have no way to defend themselves against the machinations of a maniac. Review: In ‘A Soldier’s Play,’ an Endless War Against Black Men 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z The chapters alternate between Mr. Rabin’s tortuous attempts to negotiate a peace agreement of mind-boggling significance and the machinations of an assassin whose sole aim was to thwart it. Review: ‘Killing the King,’ on the Murder That Claimed a Peace Process 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Like “Queens,” Gratton’s new novel is gigantic and decompressed: Though it’s full of battles and political machinations, it’s also very slow. Visit These Science-Fiction Worlds to Make Sense of Our Own 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z He fills pages with Ostin’s various machinations and industrial subterfuge, bringing to mind the repetitive retaliations that sunk his one-time star Morrissey’s “Autobiography.” Seymour Stein’s “Siren Song” Recounts a Career Co-Starring Madonna, the Ramones, Talking Heads, and the Smiths 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Each appeals to the lizard brain without overlooking the more sophisticated machinations of our cognitive hardware. Ron Nagle's mind-bending art, like mini movies in sculpture form 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z By comparison, the political and legal machinations we see in “The Good Fight” come across as old-fashioned, even cute. Fighting “The Good Fight” 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Her machinations lead to his being blinded then expelled from Byzantium into the natural world beyond. Belisario ? review 2011-02-21T13:25:57Z But she hadn’t expected officials in her own country to green-light, much less actively encourage, such machinations. In ‘Lessons From the Edge,’ How an Ambassador to Ukraine Became a Casualty of the Trump Administration 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z “When the show is at its most ridiculous, dealing, say, with the machinations of an omnipotent cyber ninja, it still features characters struggling with mental issues in a realistic way,” he says. #PLLGameOver: Farewell Pretty Little Liars, the most fancentric TV show yet 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z But in this case, as with so many pension machinations in Springfield, political considerations botched the plan. Politics wreaked havoc on retirement code 2011-12-16T03:20:00Z As the series plays on, we start discovering that there are layers and layers of machinations and power structures that are going on. "Cape" star James Frain reveals show's secrets 2011-01-10T01:45:50Z Here she provides an exquisitely sensitive look at the mean-girl world: the mocking stares, the whisper campaigns, the machinations of cliques. The five best thrillers of 2014 The screenplay is by Beau Willimon, who knows a thing or two about these sorts of machinations from “House of Cards.” Fall Movies 2018: Dive Into an Ocean’s Worth of Offerings 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Her relative anonymity allowed her to let loose in front of the small crowd, and those who clicked with the percussive, ululating machinations that filtered out of her USB hollered and jerked along. Arca Once Made Electronic Music. Now She Builds Worlds. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Curt, sceptical, decided: the sentences that carry his machinations dramatise his attempt to grasp the meaning of what he observes at court. EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z If nothing else, her visual overhaul told you she was still not an artist in thrall to the usual record company machinations. A losing game 2011-07-24T18:15:01Z However, he concluded, "the omission of much of the political machinations mean that it lacks the thrills and dogged determination of previous productions". Plaudits for Maxine Peake's Hamlet 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Part of the power of the video Ms. Kardashian West released is it appeared to show that Ms. Swift’s public presentation and private machinations were at odds. Team Kardashian-West, With Release of Taylor Swift Clips, Is Primed for Battle 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z There’s time-travel, political machinations, references to Vietnam and JFK, and all manner of mutant mayhem involved. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘X-Men: ‘Days of Future Past’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The agreement that was supposed to steady the system is in tatters and the state's pension plans are running dangerously low on funds, casualties of neglect and political machinations in Springfield. Politics wreaked havoc on retirement code 2011-12-16T03:20:00Z But in terms of these larger plotlines, we follow them through their many machinations and, as in real life, many lead to a climax, while many others lead to frustration or an underwhelming resolution. The Wire re-up: season five, episode seven ? The Wire v The Sopranos 2010-03-29T23:15:00Z Spurlock has already established that this movie is about the machinations that corrupt artists and their art. Morgan Spurlock sells out 2011-04-20T23:01:00Z "Laura's script really, really shows the inner machinations of a small town, and I click right into that," explained the reed-slender, self-effacing Friedman. Local actress puts small-town roots to work in Seattle Rep role 2011-01-13T21:10:04Z Some of the financial machinations, like Jim’s frantic attempts to fend off a hostile takeover by Palm Pilot, are less than clear; but “BlackBerry” isn’t just the story of a life-altering gadget. ‘BlackBerry’ Review: Big Dreams, Little Keyboards 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Part of what makes the show--which examines the lives and machinations of figures such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Hamilton and Hamilton friend-turned-antagonist Aaron Burr--so distinct is the sheer brio of its concept. 'Hamilton' offers American history with a hip-hop beat 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z He has raged at aides, summoned up conspiratorial machinations about his enemies and generally been unpredictable, arbitrary and mercurial, sometimes filling important roles in his administration based on criteria such as physical appearance. Our tantrum president: Donald Trump needs to watch “Inside Out” ASAP 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z His breakthrough came in 2012 with “This House,” an improbably entertaining play about the machinations of the British Parliament in 1974. Brexit Is Dividing Britain. So Is a Brexit Movie. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Feldman described "Designated Survivor" as a blend of the aspirational qualities of "The West Wing" with the terrorism whodunit of "Homeland" and the political machinations of "House of Cards." Kiefer Sutherland as an accidental president in his new show 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Soneela Nankani, a talented voice actor of East Indian and West African heritage, narrates the book, her performance perfectly conveying Afi’s bafflement, hurt, anger and growing resolve to untangle herself from other people’s machinations. Review | Ken Follett’s latest epic is among the best audiobooks this month 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Mozart subtly questioned aristocratic hierarchies; Beethoven’s sole opera is about the rescue of a political prisoner; Verdi stoked nationalistic fervor and explored the machinations of church and state. At a Moment of Racial Tumult, the Little Rock Nine Inspire an Opera 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z It’s the stuff of tragedy, yet it would be a mistake to take any of the plot machinations—who is backstabbing whom, which corporate power play will win out—too seriously. Jesse Armstrong’s Savage Comedy in “Succession” Season 1 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z The Borgias’ political machinations provide an undoubtedly grotesque spectacle, a fine subject for the dell’arte all’improvviso, which has long been a creative touchstone of Fo’s. ‘The Pope’s Daughter’ review: Dario Fo’s novel defends the Borgia clan 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z The results of human machinations rarely amount to much, as Giulia Crespi — the 93-year old heiress of a milling fortune, whose family once owned Italy’s most important daily newspaper — remarked on Monday. On the Runway Blog: A Week Ended Under the Supermoon 2013-06-25T00:00:19Z The Times’s chief Washington correspondent offers a shrewd, entertaining look at the machinations surrounding Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court and the ominous political divisions his confirmation hearings revealed. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z “If the relationship was simply the shared companionship of old friends,” Mr. Persico wrote, “why all the machinations to conceal it?” Joseph E. Persico, historian who wrote of spies and FDR’s love life, dies at 84 “As for Sam’s machinations — although much of it was for personal gain — sometimes very positive alliances were formed and good things came out of it,” said Belle McIntyre, a photographer friend of Mr. Green’s. A Collector of People Along With Art 2011-04-06T23:34:47Z Unlike more recent popular political tomes, which are often awash with Washington insider gossip, Slevin’s telling includes little about machinations within the White House. Michelle Obama biography explores race’s role in her worldview 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z “Liberal democracy in the West today is not endangered by Russian machinations or resurgent fascism,” Lind writes, describing a world I would love to live in. Why Do Trump Supporters Support Trump? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z We're not just watching the machinations of how one person or one character moves through different classes. "It's like being black in America": "Snowpiercer" star Daveed Diggs on the Tailies with no agency 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z Doesn’t Otten worry that all these machinations will ruin the fun, that he’ll just look like a slick millionaire propping up an unnatural phenomenon? Dixville Notch and the midnight vote will not die without a fight 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z Its early Cold War machinations could have been Britain’s answer to Mad Men if only it had been allowed a full run. Firefly to Futurama: the cancelled TV shows you are still angry about 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Near film’s end, through various plot machinations, he is forced to pass as a “war bride.” Top 10 Cross-Dressing Movie Performances 2011-11-11T06:42:07Z And she must step into a show whose behind-the-scenes machinations and cast changes have been one of the juiciest running stories on Broadway this summer, prompting reams of coverage and gossip. Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z But if years watching this business has taught me anything, it’s that I rarely can second-guess the machinations of creative hiring that go on behind the ornate facades of these brands. Assessing the Alber Elbaz/Dior Rumors 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z There are behind-the-scenes machinations just like the office politics anywhere else. Kelly Ripa’s absence shows that office politics exist everywhere 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z But the machinations are just a pretext for such sequences as an escape in a crowded transit station and pursuits involving multiple teams of cars. Review: ‘Cold War 2,’ a Brisk Exercise in Hong Kong Suspense 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Lemoine is clearly aiming for the sublime, but his machinations are too bombastic and calculatedly stylised to appear remotely cathartic. Woodkid – review 2013-05-15T17:27:39Z There’s no way to say this often enough: Liberals and leftists have consistently underestimated the intelligence and shrewdness – and also the principles — behind the Koch brothers’ political machinations. Jeb must slay Trump and devour his soul: The mind-bending Koch master plan behind the GOP clown show 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z The shorter, tighter alternate version, with its crisper textures and boldly modern harmonies, allows us to follow Iago's plotting, and the responses to his machinations, more clearly. Triumphant 'Otello' marks Muti's return to CSO 2011-04-08T16:30:00Z In theory, the display was meant to be something like the moment in Wizard of Oz when the curtain is pulled aside to reveal the hidden machinations. Men in skirts, shiny silks at Paris menswear shows 2011-06-24T00:33:10Z Human violence in the antediluvian world, best represented by Cain’s murder of Abel, springs from the evil machinations of man. “Noah” wasn’t the first: 5 flood stories you may not know 2014-04-12T14:30:00Z As this collection moves forward, she is so reliably thundersome that she loses, as does Ahab in “Moby-Dick,” a certain “low, enjoying power”: She’s unable to comprehend much in front of her but apocalyptic machinations. Review: ‘After the Tall Timber,’ Renata Adler’s Collected Nonfiction 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z This may be because the production merrily plays fast and loose with the language, even as it wraps itself firmly around the machinations of the plot. Review: ‘Twelfth Night,’ Anything Goes in Love and Shakespeare 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Who had time to block out a couple of hours in the middle of the workday to keep up with the daily machinations of a bunch of fictional families? Critic’s Notebook: ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live,’ on Hulu and iTunes 2013-05-03T21:37:46Z And when it comes to assessing the virtues of contemporary culture, Burke is very #TeamAnthony: intolerant of filler, hungry for inner machinations. 'I'm an expressionist nihilist at heart': the dark allure of Tom Burke 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Much of Congo’s tragic late-20th-century history is attributable to these machinations. Rich pickings 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Furst’s clever machinations gain real momentum in the second half of the novel, where Ricard and his new companion, Leila, become embroiled in a plot involving Polish laborers, torpedoes and possibly deadlier weapons. Rounding Up the Spies of World War II in 4 New Books 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The political machinations that follow are thrilling, as is the lush and wild narration. The 5 best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z "Constructed reality" is one way of describing the show but it doesn't quite do justice to its creepy plasticity and contrived machinations. Rewind TV: The Fall; The Murder Workers; Skint; Made in Chelsea – review 2013-05-18T17:00:05Z On one hand, the book reads like a riveting novel as Wallace reveals the machinations and internal debates among the scientific community to devise a workable atomic bomb as quickly as possible. A Day-by-Day Re-Creation of Truman’s Decision to Use Nuclear Weapons 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z This comic counterbalance to all those cliffhanging traumatic moments, all the lives brought to ruination by J.R.’s machinations, is part of an underlying cheekiness that runs throughout the series. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Dallas’ 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z But now that, in real life, we’re in the throes of such a bizarre presidential race, his machinations are starting to look almost viable. House of Cards: a KKK connection isn't all Frank Underwood and Donald Trump share 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Janie Dee, floating around in a skimpy green cocktail dress, is a pleasure to watch: she makes it abundantly clear that Susan, far from being a victim of male machinations, is a blessedly free spirit. The Little Hut 2010-05-02T21:45:00Z The one victim of the show’s machinations is Chandra, whose dignity has been martyred for the cause. ‘The Night Of’ Finale: In a Lonely Place 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Blank’s film is a touching, and very funny, ode to art-making, and also to the skillful machinations of Mr. Luddy. Tom Luddy, a Behind-the-Scenes Force in Cinema, Dies at 79 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Finally, as long as you and Tabitha work in the same office, there’s a risk she might try to use your prior machinations as leverage against you. Work Advice: Feeling betrayed when a good friend flips sides over a bad boss 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Basically the history of the McCarthy era — the paranoia, the agency’s sinister yet amateur machinations, local politics, informants, the suppression of civil rights — is thrown at you as raw, inchoate data, as enveloping, exasperating minutia. Review: Ingenious Versatility in the Whitney’s ‘Open Plan’ 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z In the books, Doran’s alive, and he has a daughter Arianne who is a major player in the machinations for the Iron Throne. “Game of Thrones” recap: More like “Game of Crones” — and the show finally discovers its true heroes 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z McDonell evokes the clandestine machinations of the US military and the thrusting students and weary academics at Harvard with a heady verisimilitude. An Expensive Education by Nick McDonell ? review 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z Somewhere in the process of creating “The Responsive Eye,” this essential art-historical background to the contemporary artworks’ optical machinations was lost. Bridget Riley, Through Her Own Eyes 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Her scene with Margaery at the coronation was set up as a confrontation but was quickly revealed as the machinations of one who, unlike her brothers, is a good Lannister above all else. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: Flames in the Night Sky 2014-05-05T03:38:23Z The question of guilt played a large role in Professor Ronell’s machinations. A witch hunt or a quest for justice: An insider’s perspective on disgraced academic Avital Ronell 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z “What lasts is the book’s emphasis on hidden machinations of power.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z The plot machinations get shakier the farther “P-Valley” gets from the club. Review: ‘P-Valley’ Has All the Right Moves 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z She cast her discerning eye not only on the machinations of presidential contests, but also the violent mechanisms of American power. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Nor is it his description of the machinations of numerous state legislatures since Shelby to make it harder for people, especially Black and Latino people, to vote. Steps in the Left Direction 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Similarly, the behind-the-scenes machinations of the “Cedar” set offer moments of delicious satire. Double the Trouble in a Novel of Hollywood Marriages 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Rivera’s hard-fought congressional race in 2010 brought heightened scrutiny to his own political machinations. For Sen. Marco Rubio, a question of friendship vs. politics 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z All of this is engrossing for those fascinated by the machinations of the people and politics of the Middle East. Necessary 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Others regard them as heroes who gave young African-Americans power and pride in the face of endemic racism, only to be brought down by Hoover's machinations. After the Party: Music and the Black Panthers 2010-09-02T21:45:00Z Pregnant people's rights aren't bargaining chips to be traded for hypothesized political victories, and the political systems and machinations that empower mostly white men to dictate our bodies, lives, families and futures, aren't a game. Cable news needs to stop treating abortion like political horse race 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z The machinations by which this is achieved I hesitate to describe, since it would spoil one of the more delightful surprises in the show. Review: ‘The Odyssey’ Takes a Populist Turn as a Musical 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z It contains the prerequisite galactic empire replete with political machinations. Review | ‘Dune’ is a classic space opera. Let’s talk about other great works in this genre. 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z The movie "Lincoln" explores the political machinations involving President Abraham Lincoln and Congress in 1865 as they considered the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. 'Lincoln' at the Capitol draws director and star 2012-12-20T02:46:05Z President Paul Porter that Russian machinations could lead to World War III, and the operative is given pretty much free rein to thwart the Russian intelligence agency’s intentions. Review | Outspoken conservative Brad Thor takes aim at Russia in his latest thriller 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z But still, too often the show confirms the Modern’s blind devotion to the wan, cerebral machinations of late-late-late Conceptualism. Art Review: Ephemeral Events, Annotated 2011-05-06T06:00:07Z You can watch her evil machinations in the clip above. Bruce Timm discusses the Batman he was never allowed to make ... until now 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z The imperviousness of Doron and al-Makdasi to reason or compromise provides the emotional core, while the lies, machinations and sellouts of others provide the narrative engine. Review: ‘Fauda’ Returns on Netflix, Guns Blazing 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z But in the behind-the-scenes machinations before the season, Fox identified Nov. 11 as the date it wanted to monopolize the top of the Pac-12 draft. How will Fox handle Pac-12 showdowns on Nov. 11, including UW-Utah? 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z The two would confer each night to go over the latest machinations. Corbin Carroll’s ascent to top of baseball world ‘started in Seattle’ 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z These electoral slates were a machination that the lawyers treated as fact and the basis for their advice that “7 states” had “transmitted dual slates of electors.” Opinion: Crooked lawyers were crucial to Trump's Jan. 6 plot. We clearly need to reform the profession 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z The New York Times, after an investigation of Republicans’ post-election machinations, called Johnson “the most important architect of the Electoral College objections.” Opinion: Who is House Speaker Mike Johnson? Matt Gaetz' victory lap says it all 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z What drove female practitioners out of obstetrics was far more the common, everyday machinations of the patriarchy rather than religious superstition. Were midwives the OG witches? How the history of mystic medicine and reproductive health intertwine 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z He turned backroom 1970s parliamentary machinations into riveting drama in “This House,” charted the rise of media mogul Rupert Murdoch in “Ink” and skewered a TV game-show cheating scandal in “Quiz.” What’s in a game? ‘Dear England’ probes the nation through the lens of its soccer team 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z Newman solves the enduring mysteries of Orwell’s Julie without resorting to twisty or outlandish machinations. A feminist take on Orwell's '1984' reads like the original — only better 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z “Indeed, the sheriff’s latest excuses for not complying with the subpoenas are merely a continuation of his endless machinations to delay and deny meaningful oversight.” Former Sheriff Alex Villanueva will not face contempt hearing for defying subpoenas, judge rules 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z The backroom machinations are striking in a country that in 1998 forced a corrupt and nepotistic autocrat, Suharto, to step down after three decades in power. Jokowi, Indonesia's kingmaker, works to keep influence after election 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z Turning Point’s machinations have sounded alarms from their more established rivals, who view the organization as inexperienced when it comes to running a successful general election ground operation. How Trump’s MAGA movement helped a 29-year-old activist become a millionaire 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z “This feels like an op, a scheme, a strategy, a machination, a plot, a ploy, where they are trying to convince you that this is bad for Biden,” Mr. Kirk said during a recent show. Democratic revolutionary RFK Jr. poised to shake up presidential race with independent bid 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Mr. McCarthy plans to take over Ms. Pelosi’s hideaway next week, a person familiar with the machinations said. More Speaker Crisis Fallout: Pelosi Is Evicted From Bonus Office 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z These machinations are bureaucratic and often boring, so they garner little media attention. A study in contrasts: Biden stands with auto workers. Trump looks down upon them 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z But if “Fair Play” spends the better part of two hours tracing this newly lopsided romance to its logical, unhappy conclusion, the blow-by-blow machinations are still a chilly wonder to behold. Review: Bedroom and boardroom intrigue abounds in Netflix’s wickedly entertaining ‘Fair Play’ 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z By skirting the lines of acceptability, Ogunmola’s Dionna is left to wonder whether her concerns are simply machinations of her own mind. Pasadena theater grapples with sexual harassment, power dynamics in remixed Shakespeare play 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Public displays rejecting machinations by the attorney general’s office had been modest in the month since Arévalo’s resounding victory. Guatemalans rally on behalf of president-elect, demonstrating a will to defend democracy 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z From there, the movie largely skips over the Pinochet regime itself — a choice that, given Larraín’s past skill at dramatizing the machinations of power, feels like something of a missed opportunity. Review: A dictator as Dracula? Netflix's horror-comedy 'El Conde' doesn't draw blood 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Those entrusting their souls to the machinations of this corporation and church deserve full access to the man behind the curtain, a clear view of the Wizard before setting up shop in Oz. For some reason, Scientologists don’t want you to be able to repair their religious artifacts 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z But behind the success story lay a complex man whose machinations shook the British establishment to its very core. Obituary: Mohamed Al Fayed 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Now, of course, that footprint is being smudged out by the machinations of realignment, which are wreaking havoc on every time-honored rivalry and connection in college football. Will Huskies go out with a bang in final Pac-12 football season? 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z As the parental notification policies gain momentum — and the legal machinations move forward — staff in affected districts have expressed concern about how they’re supposed to carry out the new policies. Can public schools legally 'out' trans students to their parents? Experts weigh in 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z Self-appointed guardians of propriety who would ban books and impose their parviscient views on others need to be confronted and their bigoted machinations soundly defeated. Libraries: ‘Wonderful resource must be preserved’ 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z Those entrusting their souls to the machinations of this corporation and church deserve a clear view of the Wizard before setting up shop in Oz. For some reason, Scientologists don’t want you to be able to repair their religious artifacts 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z The Vietnam War might well have ended in 1968, rather than dragging on until 1975, had it not been for the backstage machinations of Henry Kissinger. Henry Kissinger at 100: A centenarian with a remarkable life — and still a war criminal 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z Bobo said he’s tried all along not to worry about roster machinations. Jake Bobo is making it harder and harder for Seahawks to keep him off the roster 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z House Republicans issued subpoenas Monday ordering testimony from four FBI and IRS employees whom lawmakers believe can sort through the political machinations that led to a no-jail plea deal for Hunter Biden. House investigators subpoena IRS, FBI agents in expanding Hunter Biden probe 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z Armed with guts, guile and willpower, here’s how the wily women of the HBO series survived the outlandish corporate machinations swirling around them. Frequent 'Succession' director Mark Mylod bonds big when he connects with a project 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z Both follow the news obsessively, tracking every machination in the former president’s legal drama. How Rep. Adam Schiff celebrated the fourth indictment of former President Trump 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z What machinations in the Florida school bureaucracy have facilitated this? The PragerU goal: "Indoctrinate kids at a young age into a far-right belief system" 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z “His whole thing, if nothing else, is just a constant interest in things, whether it’s the ecology of his backyard or political philosophy or the machinations of the politicians in Orange County and L.A.,” Larry Pryor, former Times journalist and USC professor, dies at 86 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z The grubby, political machinations of these hearings — the Strauss section is captured in black and white — act like a stark X-ray of Oppenheimer’s life. Movie Review: A bomb and its fallout in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z “If the outcome of all of these machinations is a very limited field and no Trump in the first debate, it’s hard to see how that can be successful,” Hutchinson said in an interview. First GOP debate next month faces threats of boycott as lower-polling candidates scramble to qualify 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z From these unlikely beginnings, Carnegie’s industrial innovations and political machinations resulted in a vast steel empire. Renovations will bolster Andrew Carnegie's elegant Green Lake library 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Deneen remains horribly aggrieved by the machinations of "the elites," particularly in academia, a somewhat ironic stance since he is a faculty member at a prestige university. There's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z The political machinations of the characters drive the narrative, and we begin to understand their complex motivations and the hidden secrets of each person. 'Warrior,' the underdog series based on Bruce Lee's vision, returns for Season 3 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Mitchell warned that leaving in place the ruling against the dress code threatens charter schools’ autonomy, “subjecting them to the same rules, regulations, and political machinations that have crippled government-run school systems.” Charter school lost case over skirts rule for girls, but debate over charter autonomy isn’t over 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z The machinations of electoral authorities keeping some popular candidates out of the race and cancelling others drew headlines in the capital and expressions of concern abroad. Guatemalans worry about security, unimpressed by leading candidates ahead of election 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z According to Ms Dorries, these "duplicitous machinations" were to avoid a by-election caused when an MP steps down to take a seat in the House of Lords. Nadine Dorries says sinister forces stopped her peerage 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z With access to top union leaders, the two-part documentary follows internal machinations at Unite, RMT and the RCN, as well as the GMB's campaign to win recognition at Amazon in Coventry. Is the past year's spike in strike action here to stay? 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Napoleon III was infuriated – Bismarck even humiliated Napoleon by leaking a memo to the press in which Napoleon’s machinations for territory before the Austro-Prussian War were revealed. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z These machinations point to a built-in weakness of the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel — there’s no crossover switch at University Street Station that could make service more flexible during a sudden disruption. Westlake Station damage means 2 weeks of severe light-rail slowdowns 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z We are proud of its accomplishments and success as a modern nation state, despite the hostile machinations of those who have sought its destruction from the moment of its founding. Faith in a better future for Israel endures beyond the fallibility of the moment | Op-Ed 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z In my time as a federal employee, I’ve endured repeated shutdowns, furloughs, attacks on my agency and anxiety in my employment due to machinations outside my control. Opinion | Federal employees are not downtown’s saviors 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Then there are the opaquely secretive political machinations that allow some groups to get a government rescue “while others are left to flounder.” Column: Love it or hate it, the Silicon Valley Bank bailout won't cost taxpayers a cent 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z And the Justice Department’s special counsel Jack Smith continues to probe Trump’s post-election lies and machinations, including his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Opinion: What other countries can teach the U.S. about how to prosecute Trump 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z He has denied the charges, maintaining he acted in good faith and was not aware of the machinations of others. EY fined over audits of failed German payments firm Wirecard 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Tarrio’s attorney compared the situation to machinations in his home country of Cuba. FBI informant testifies at Proud Boys sedition trial — for the defense 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Roberts’s storytelling soars as she leads the reader through Edith’s machinations to hide her husband’s disabilities while maintaining his White House’s functions. Review | Edith Wilson: The first lady who fooled D.C. and ran the White House 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Such Cold War machinations might seem like a thing of the past. Moscow hadn’t accused a U.S. reporter of spying since the Cold War — until this week 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z It’s easy, amid all the petulance and political machinations, to forget the essentials of the case against the former chief executive. Column: Scandal after scandal, Trump has defied political physics. Will this time be different? 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Wayne T. Carr, wearing a lumpy costume by designer Dana Rebecca Woods that slips past existing taxonomies, doesn’t play down the character’s sinister machinations. Review: Words aren’t the only magic in this interactive production of Shakespeare's 'Tempest' 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Alas, executing progressive, high-level personnel machinations has really been the Jets’ style. Analysis | The first pick of the NFL draft will be a quarterback. But which one? 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z And once an accidental death upsets everyone’s competing machinations, readers are unlikely to notice anything except the story’s acceleration toward ever more toil and trouble. Review | In Eleanor Catton’s ‘Birnam Wood,’ the end of the world creeps up fast 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z “We cannot let Republican machinations with our criminal code monopolize our time and prevent us from pursuing the rest of our vital public safety agenda,” she said. D.C. criminal code faces uncertain future as city gears up for new battle 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z With that vote, the state Public Records Act established the right of the public to have access to the machinations of government. Dear people of WA: The case for another voter-enacted open government law 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Fast forward to the 21st Century and we have come full circle, returning to one of the last places on earth to be swept into the unrelenting machinations of the human industrial complex. Pictures from above: What a bird's eye view of Africa reveals 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, the quid pro quo doesn’t stop there, as both Sandy and Paul find themselves enmeshed in Elsa’s shrewd machinations. Review: The path to redemption is murky in taut political thriller 'What We Do Next' 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Of course, as the Dominion filings showed, internal machinations at Fox News were precisely about how to prevent journalists from conducting basic reporting. Why Fox News won't just settle with Dominion 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The laughter did not stop her seditious machinations and coup plotting. Stop mocking Marjorie Taylor Greene 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Majors fully embodies the character, from his South-Central accent, his clipped cadence and hunched posture slowly unfurling as he becomes more confident and powerful, thanks to his own machinations and Donnie’s guilt-ridden enabling. Review: Michael B. Jordan is the one to fly now with 'Creed III' 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z The legal machinations haven't led to big victories in court so far, and in fact Thomas More's efforts have sometimes drawn ridicule from the bench. How an anti-abortion law firm teamed up with a disgraced Kansas attorney to dispute 2020 election 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z The English-language Moscow Times newspaper described Pavlovsky as "one of the most eloquent voices on the machinations and intrigue taking place in the halls of power." Ex-Kremlin's adviser, Soviet-era dissident Pavlovsky dies 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z But watching Fox's machinations around this case, it seems that they believe keeping up the pretense that they are "news" matters to their viewers, even if no one actually believes it. Why Fox News won't just settle with Dominion 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The Rangers on Saturday began the machinations necessary if a trade for Patrick Kane were to materialize. Kane incoming? Rangers trade Kravtsov, waive Leschyshyn 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z The legal machinations are in their early stages. In Town Where Train Derailed, Lawyers Are Signing Up Clients in Droves 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z The process took months, according to a person familiar with the investigation who requested anonymity to discuss the private machinations. McCarthy gives Carlson access to 1/6 footage, raising alarms 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Now, he has a duty to tell investigators what he knows about the former president’s machinations to stay in power, which triggered an assault on the U.S. Opinion | Pence should again show the courage he did on Jan. 6 — by testifying 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Braun’s lawyers have said that he was unaware of machinations by others. Ex-CEO of Germany’s Wirecard denies charges at fraud trial 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z All of this happens while victims’ families wait for justice, essentially as observers to the legal machination and maneuvers. Families of 2 men killed by WA police wait years for officers’ trials 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z U.N. officials have remained mostly quiet on the political machinations that have obstructed the provision of humanitarian assistance, a silence that critics charge is intended to allow them to maintain access to Damascus. Toll from Turkey-Syria quake tops 34,000; U.N. says it ‘failed’ Syria 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z It all makes for an unflinchingly cynical take on Hollywood’s machinations and the ways in which outsize egos compromise art. Review | Tim Blake Nelson’s debut novel is a chilling portrait of Hollywood 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z The story’s vast time frame and the prophesied disaster at the end cast a pall of melancholy over the waves of political machinations that keep buffeting the empire. Review | Salman Rushdie’s first novel since he was attacked is a tale of magic 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z The other is media that do a better job informing the public about these political machinations and motivations, even when they’re not inherently legible. Opinion | Everything you believe about the debt ceiling is wrong. Here’s why. 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z In the years that followed, while politicians wrangled over Brexit, we went back to the medieval market town more than once to see what people there were making of the machinations at Westminster. Brexit three years on: views from Stratford-upon-Avon 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z But if we rub the headlines out of our eyes for a moment, we will see the machinations of breathtaking, self-serving hypocrisy at work. Opinion | Those who would throw us on the glittering fire 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z Certainly, the Jan. 6 committee, likely due to the influence of vice chair Liz Cheney, presented at least some of the insurrectionists as being gullible victims of Trump's machinations. Proud Boys are right about one thing: It's ridiculous that Trump's not in prison 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z The young king and his wife enjoyed huge popularity, which quickly eroded because of Constantine’s active involvement in the machinations that brought down the elected government of then Prime Minister George Papandreou. Thousands turn out to bid farewell to Greece’s former king 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z "The thing I take solace in, with all the machinations you saw last week, most of that wasn't personal," he added. "He is a proven loser": Paul Ryan "can't imagine" Trump winning in 2024 after string of defeats 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Whatever the internal machinations, one thing remains clear: The war is not going to plan. Russia’s new commander reflects Putin’s plan to push for victory in Ukraine 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z By the following year he had squandered much of that support with his active involvement in the machinations that brought down the popularly elected Center Union government of prime minister George Papandreou. Constantine, the former and last king of Greece, dies at 82 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Some said they saw recent revelations by Prince Harry as nothing more than a distraction — the machinations of Britain’s aristocracy at stark odds with the deepening economic squeeze being felt across the country. After a River of Revelations, Prince Harry’s Memoir Lands in the U.K. 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Already, there is talk of similar machinations in South Carolina. Opinion | South Carolina’s protection for abortion rights might be short-lived 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z House Republicans stayed out of the machinations, though Senate Republicans had a large say since they were needed to provide enough votes to overcome a filibuster. Republicans Prepare New Rules, but Fixing Congress Isn’t So Easy 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Readers are introduced to scientologists, restless entrepreneurs, clinical experts and the machinations of magnate financiers searching for the next billion-dollar blockbuster. If Future Humans Terraformed a New Earth, Could They Get It Right? 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Gingrich, for his part, takes a relatively cheery long view of his party’s machinations. From Gingrich to McCarthy, the Roots of Governance by Chaos 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Their cackling machinations to keep their seats and punish opponents, all while insulting Black people, Oaxacans and others, made the very idea of Latino political power a four-letter word. Column: 2022 was the year Latino politicians became the ultimate villains 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z While the midterms were a disappointment, it's also a fair bet that the public's efforts to resist Trump's machinations are limited by time and energy. Kari Lake's "forever coup" is what the future looks like — until we start to see real consequences 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Amid the legal machinations, abortion access remains a divisive issue among the nation’s faithful. State lawsuits defend abortion access with religious freedom 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Embedded in the physical machinations of the solstice, our ancestors saw stories and myths that continue to inform us today. Five winter solstice practices that honor the dark time of year — and Earth’s rhythms 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z After helping get “The Recruit” off the ground and soaking up all he could on the show’s behind-the-scenes machinations, he’s also interested in using that intel to start his own projects from scratch. Noah Centineo is leaving teen heartthrobs in the past 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z "The Peruvian people are just exhausted from all the political machinations, the crime, uncertainty and stalling growth," said Eric Farnsworth, a vice president at the Council of the Americas and Americas Society. Peru explodes into fiery protest as anger over political crises ignites 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Sadly, most of those machinations are going on behind the scenes where voters don’t see them. Visions of a lively 2024 WA gubernatorial race dance in our heads 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Bout claimed he was simply an entrepreneur with a legitimate international transport business, wrongly accused of trying to arm South American rebels - the victims of US political machinations. Viktor Bout: Who is the Merchant of Death? 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z They said that Mr. Braun acted in good faith and was unaware of machinations by others in the company, especially concerning its business in Asia. The Fall of Wirecard, a Tech Scandal That Rocked Germany, Reaches a Courtroom 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z They claim Braun was unaware of machinations by others. Ex-Wirecard boss on trial in fraud case that shamed Germany 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z The D.C. press corps covers Republicans not as actual adults who should be held responsible for their own decisions, but as lost and confused children who are the pawns of other people's machinations. Uh, Politico? Biden didn't make Marjorie Taylor Greene "the face of the GOP" — Republicans did 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z It tends not to work out for them; Lipsyte’s humor is born of their impotent rage against the machinations of runaway capitalism and unchecked acquisitiveness. Sam Lipsyte's new ’90s caper novel is a glorious, grungy Gen-X swan song 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The tawdry machinations of day-to-day parenting are another matter, Ruth Whippman writes. Trump’s Far-right Embrace 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z “The reason I remember is all the stressful machinations on, ‘What should I do with this information?’” Former Anti-Abortion Leader Alleges Another Supreme Court Breach 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z Sam’s speech didn’t bother with the machinations of negotiations, but rather had the kind of frankness and freshness that comes natural to children. Ghanian girl cuts through jargon, delivers message at COP27 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z He claimed he was simply an entrepreneur with a legitimate international transport business, wrongly accused of trying to arm South American rebels - the victims of US political machinations. Viktor Bout: Russia hopeful for arms dealer prisoner swap with US 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z His machinations in getting three conservative judges appointed to the Supreme Court — including blocking a hearing for President Barack Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland — led to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Opinion | The political machinations that motivated voters 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z On the streets of Moldova’s capital, the financial machinations can seem remote to those struggling to pay their bills. Russia’s security service works to subvert Moldova’s pro-Western government 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The randomly selected members are not beholden to party machinations or outside interests; they are free to speak their mind and vote their conscience. Citizens’ Assemblies Are Upgrading Democracy: Fair Algorithms Are Part of the Program 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z "Political machinations over the weekend point to a party beset with divisions. With party unity and legitimacy conspicuously threadbare, we expect a structural credibility gap to remain," Nabarro said. Sunak looks set to become next UK PM after Johnson quits race 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z He referred to Ukrainians as “our own people,” echoing Mr. Putin’s line that the people of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are one Slavic nation divided by the machinations of the West. Russian Troops in Belarus Spur Debate Over the Threat to Ukraine 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z |
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