She asked me if I wanted to invite Sam and Patrick over for dinner sometime after the holidays are over because my mom gets nervous enough as it is during the holidays. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Middleweight? What, this was so long ago gravity wasn’t as strong as it is now, or did a pound just weigh less back then?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She has told me both, as it is awkward her father shouting her real name just below my louvered window when she’s supposed to come feed the hens—it is a poultry farm. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I'm ready to fall apart as it is. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Since this is not so, and the world is just as it is and no more, nothing changed. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police are out hunting for the childrens, but the childrens have managed to hide themselves well, and as soon as it is dark they slip into the tower one by two by one. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I hope it’s as much fun for you as it is for me,” she said pulling the blanket closer around herself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Try to get along. Enough people have been mean to Biddy. She doesn’t need you to start. And it’s as important to you as it is to her that this project work out.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Your agent will easily recognise the locality, as it is the ancient chapel of the mansion. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Always classify the interval as it is written. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

That is as true of advertising as it is of politics or literature. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, let's forget about that,” she said, “or I shall get overexcited. My blood pressure's much too high as it is.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Love to help ya, I really would,” he said, “but I don’t have enough for my roof as it is.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing is more usual than to feel that others have shared in our failures, just as it is an ordinary reaction to forget those who have shared in our achievements. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, sir. I kept my promise. I don’t know how they found out, but what does that matter? Your flying is as much theirs now as it is yours.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leap from the dinghy as it is torn away from the pole, and I cling to the scarecrow’s legs. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Look! This is how a rocket nozzle works, why it’s designed as it is. Did you even bother to read about De Laval nozzles?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As impossible as it is to think of marching an army that far on empty stomachs, it is Lee’s only hope. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Just leave everything as it is for now,” she said. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As weird as it is that Mikayla and I used to be friends, it’s even weirder that Twig and Mikayla used to be friends. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“It is better as it is,” he muttered to himself, and for the first time was wholly filled with despair. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It’s just as legitimate to add ize to the end of a word as it is to add un or pre to the beginning. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to talk,” I said, my voice steady and normal, as it is when talking to the familiar, the weak, and the small. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I said, “Maybe. But no marriage proposals, okay? I get too many of those as it is.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Was it as lame for you as it is for me, home school?” she said. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“We having trouble with salary as it is. Chariddy begin at home.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I don't dare leave the jacket, scorched and smoldering as it is, I take the risk of shoving it in my sleeping bag, hoping the lack of air will quell what I haven't extinguished. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“When it’s twice as big as it is now, we can braid it.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“That is the world as it is. That is the real world. It is there, in that box.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The Internet, powerful as it is, has hardly slain the beast that is information asymmetry. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Fitela was as unlike his uncle as it is possible for two men to be. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can hardly afford rent as it is.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As shocking as it is to discover the truth about men I had respected and looked up to, I guess Burt is right. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I know our nakedness is as much a form of trust as it is a form of craving. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Inside is as dark as it is outside. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Indifference to one’s neighbor and his troubles is a conditioned reflex in life in New York as it is in other big cities. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The list is as long as it is colorful. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I just don't want relaxers in my hair—there are enough sources of cancer in my life as it is. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She has enough to worry about with me as it is. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I must have some rice too. I cannot come every day....as it is I have waited a long time to make sure you were alone.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He caused no stir, put out no vibration, became as nearly invisible as it is possible to be. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t ideal, but it was our reality—the world as it is. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There really are broad patterns to history, and the search for their explanation is as productive as it is fascinating. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I care nothing for the size of its cabins or the quality of its appointments, so long as it is swift and safe. I wish to leave at once." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I realize what’s been right all along, as insane as it is. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Brandon seems to have left the sex tape, his secretly recorded session with Cheryl Moody, in a football teammate’s locker—accidentally on purpose, as it is said. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“She’s like to talk my ear off enough as it is without you egging her on. Now, let me get one last look at you before we head to Daffodil Manor.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Shameful as it is to say, the riots were the best thing that ever happened to us. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If this is going to work, I need to play along, disgusting as it is. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Maine is just as long coming down as it is going up, maybe longer. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry has a hard enough time as it is, looked at sideways by his whole family, Philip who knows and has not been kind. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They don’t want us to look attractive, f or them, things are bad enough as it is. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is good enough as it is. You can’t have everything you want.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

To understand how chemicals can alter the course of heredity, we must first watch the basic drama of life as it is played on the stage of the living cell. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got a right smart load as it is,” said one of them; “and it’s not me should tell you your business, but I wouldn’t tote that tent along if I was you.” The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

You got all these people pushing big flatbeds around, and them things are hard to push as it is, and you gotta maneuver it while it’s stacked with stuff. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

‘It’s my room just as much as it is either one of yours. I have as good a right in here as you do.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Though I can hardly breathe as it is, I run faster, and I’m on Christina’s heels. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

"Why, as I was about to say, one may set down speech as rapidly as it is spoken." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

And as hard as it is, regular communication is what gets things back to normal. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“To be contaminated by that atmosphere? It’ll be hard enough as it is, with the heritage she already has.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see the town of the Tang people even now in the late afternoon sun—not as it is now, full of souvenir shops and neon signs, but as it was then. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even scientists, with their commitment to seeing the world as it is, are a bit postmodern. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Such as it is: who knows if any of it is true? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

AIDS, as tragic as it is, pales in worldwide comparison to the more prosaic malaria, among other diseases. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, hard as it is, I force a smile and say, “Maybe just a quick hello.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

This “integration” image, as it is popularly interpreted, has millions of vain, self-exalted white people convinced that black people want to sleep in bed with them—and that’s a lie! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Traditionally held in the acrobats’ tent, as it is the largest. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“But in your grandpa’s case, because he is bilingual, he has lost his ability to speak English and has reverted to his mother tongue, as it is probably easiest.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“In the name of the Council, we swear by the River Styx to grant your reasonable request as long as it is within our power.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You like the house as it is, then, Bess? Or do you want to see it remodeled? No one likes a waffler.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“They’re frightened and tired as it is, you know. What we need is to find a safe place soon, and I’d rather succeed in doing what we can than fail to do what we can’t.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They look cute on you. I’ve got too many clothes as it is.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Rio Bravo, as it is called here, is swollen with rain, a torrent of water coursing toward the Gulf of Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

If mathematics education communicated this playful aspect of the subject, formally at the elementary, secondary, or college level or informally via popular books, I don’t think innumeracy would be as widespread as it is. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He should drop one wife, I guess, but for sure he’d drop the older one, and she already looks sad enough as it is. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If not for the grip on my arm, he'd be on the ground, but as it is, it takes all my strength to keep us both on the curved back of the horn. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It is customary for the first identifier to have the species named after him, or any name he chooses, so long as it is not already in use. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He usually preferred to start a new passage—or inyan, as it is called—at the beginning of a shiur, so as to give the class time to get into it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I find out that it’s just as hard to read lying on my back as it is to write. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

As annoying as it is that my mother is a liar, I don't have the heart to tell Dad about Uncle Max. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And her face—it’s not so much familiar as it is reminiscent of girls I’ve seen in secret fantasies. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“There’s very little you can change. You need to accept the world as it is.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“I will have the children read Hamlet as soon as it is practical. There are some useful cautions against eavesdropping to be gleaned from that. In the meantime, we shall deal with the squirrels.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

We all know that we aren’t supposed to talk about the test, not even now that we have chosen, but for them that rule must not be as serious as it is for me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But as it is, I feel like the sky will light on fire any second now, and all the stars will crash into one another and burn away to ash. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

That an institution of learning should keep a library was not as obvious then as it is now—Plato, for all the reasons we have already discussed, kept no such collection at his Academy. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

As time passed, the fabric of space continued to expand, the radiation cooled and, in ordinary visible light, for the first time space became dark, as it is today. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea that the Earth might be subjected to devastating impacts from time to time was not quite as new as it is now sometimes presented. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Just as well you can’t get stockings nowhere, hot as it is. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

How can we prosper, when we can’t rely on anything continuing as it is? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shoulda made a shopping list before I left the house this morning, but I barely got out as it is. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a tree, communication is just as complicated and miraculous as it is for humans. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s just 3,491 feet to the top, but, surrounded as it is by much smaller hills, it looks considerably bigger. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Astronomy is a science—the study of the universe as it is. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t got time to be worried about you—I have enough headache as it is. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought surprises me, accompanied as it is by a pulse of fierce desire. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We maneuver through the dim hallways of Terminal 5, as it is labeled—“an old name,” David says—which have no windows, no hint of the world outside. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“And trust in the justice of the Underworld, such as it is. That is all we can do, isn’t it?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You must find out all you can,” said Mr. Benedict sternly, “and you must report it to me, but you must take no unnecessary risks. Your mission is dangerous enough as it is.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I would rather my daughter live in my home, as poor as it is.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If there weren't men like me running schools like this, there'd be no South. Nor North, either. No, and there'd be no country—not as it is today. You think about that, son." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's soul food, eternal nourishment—served, as it is, alongside bitterness. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the darker parts of me, I crave destruction, as long as it is Erudite being destroyed. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I can't tell if he's meant that to be as painful as it is. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Sorry. Awesome as it is, it’s practically in our backyard, in the middle of your three-to-four-mile safe zone. Besides, it’s not about crossing things off a list.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t matter. It’s pretty just as it is.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“I did not intend to wound you. But sometimes the truth must be stated, unpalatable as it is.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s barely moving as it is, but now he grows completely still. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well. As sad as it is, I’m glad I can still count on you.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As hot as it is, he’s wearing his camouflage coat. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

For a point of objection, however eloquent, is only as good as it is applicable. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

They have been, as it is said in business, “incentivized” to do so. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

If our method works better than his it is because it fits better with the world as it is, not because the world was bound to be like that. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But according to most theories the universe at large–the meta-universe, as it is sometimes called–is vastly roomier still. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Yet our culture is as dependent on facts as it is on gasoline. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Jay swears though that Popeyes isn’t as good here as it is in New Orleans. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And that is another reason why the Ring should be destroyed: as long as it is in the world it will be a danger even to the Wise. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Yes. She’s in this as much as we are. But she likes her life as it is.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

His hand is firm and warm, and somehow, big as it is, it fits with mine. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"Don't trouble him on my account! My friend here can barely keep up with me as it is." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

My command, Jon Snow reflected ruefully, as much a ruin as it is a stronghold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Small horned toad. Rude as it is spiky. It’s stealing my seeds for my science experiment. I figured you’re a Holy Being, it’s a Holy Being. Maybe you know each other?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The answer is that Sesame Street, as good as it is, has a number of subtle but not insignificant limitations. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is tempting to think so—just as it is tempting to think that a truckload of children’s books will make a child smarter. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Somehow it still amazes him that all this seems to be as unbelievably, singularly good for Henry as it is for him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She has diluted it with alcohol—she wore gloves to do the mixing, as it is incredibly caustic. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Another fob? Some cuff links or a nice watch? I spoil myself too much as it is. You’d be doing me a favor by taking it off my hands.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Touching upon our movements, I should relate other news, as painful as it is interesting. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

As hard as it is, we all understand that what we're seeing is super important. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Surely we won’t be expected to pledge that much. Why, we haven’t even got enough money for gasoline for the tractors as it is!” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m close enough to nature as it is. The bathroom’s all yours.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

His smile looks more like a grimace, twisted as it is by grief. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to ride with my parents. What eleventh-grade boy rides with his parents? They treat me like too much of a baby as it is. I’d rather take my chances with the molesters.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

A young man s formation, as bold as it is foolish. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That is only natural, just as it is natural for a man whose life function is the making of money to make money out of a war. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s hope. Unfortunately there’s often a deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action. And as unfair as it is, after a few days any story becomes old news.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Molly does have to admit, as peculiar as it is, she likes putting things in order. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I figured something drastic must have happened in his life, as it is very unusual for a hound to be traveling all alone. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have no conflict of interest; it’s important to me that the Voigt-Kampff test functions, almost as important as it is to you.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Please. Don’t tell me to save my marriage anymore. It’s hard enough as it is.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if—when—I get into CSA I’ll learn how to make it all come out half as decent on paper as it is in my head. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They can do anything they want, as long as it is not a crime. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That’s just as much your fault as it is his, Mary Anne.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the first honoree, he announces, “Well, here’s your book. Looks rather bilge to me from a glance at the title page, but, such as it is, here you are.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The only form of agriculture they can practice for a long time is "slash-and-burn,” or "swidden,” as it is sometimes known. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The answer ought to be Feet, just as it is to all the other questions, but Talons will do.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A good thing. We've got too many Jews as it is. No need to keep the Polish ones, too." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

But here a bomb goes off, crude as it is. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bore and I have been having a lot of trouble communicating lately as it is, and sometimes I go a little crazy when I feel I’m being picked on or not being trusted. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

There have been too many loose tongues as it is. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Emotion in a persuasive appeal is only effective inasmuch as it is shared emotion. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

"Put it down, boy! I've enough of a score to settle with you as it is!" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

And I said, “Just so long as it is not naked and with wings, one atom at a time.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Don’t tell her about Peeta’s propo because it might make her sick, and it’s hard enough to get a decent performance out of her as it is. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Everything is just right here as it is wrong at home. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“On something so useless? And we will have to feed it! There is barely enough rice for us as it is.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Take my word for it, that bird is as safe with your dad as it is with you.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

And the only answer I come up with, unbelievably, is that I don’t feel ready to leave the Doctorita’s family, as flawed as it is. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as it is safe, you are safe. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He discovered so many elements not so much because he was serially astute as because he developed an ingenious technique of applying electricity to a molten substance–electrolysis, as it is known. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I think I will definitely go in the morning, as soon as it is light. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Columbia was then — as it is now — one of the largest mail order clubs in the world, and Wunderman had handled the company’s advertising since it was formed in the 1950s. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As late in the fall as it is, I don’t think he’s too busy, is he?” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For days, Enrique has been stuck in Nuevo Laredo, on the southern bank of the Rio Bravo, as it is called here. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“As long as it is somewhere safe it does not matter whether I keep it or you do. You could have asked. You could have said goodbye.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Cicero’s gift for invective was as important then as it is to speakers today. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the Chinese culture, young children never call their elder siblings by name as it is considered improper and disrespectful. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As dry as it is now, we’ll be running a risk of setting the woods afire if there’s much old grass around the place.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anger. Very nice. Useless to me, alas, but as it is so often a precursor to sorrow, I confess that I do like it.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Izzi and I exchange another glance, and as preposterous as it is, I find I’m suppressing my laughter. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I wonder if being friends is going to be as hard for our moms as it is for us. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The guards looked at each other, and the older one said gruffly, “Go on. You’re late as it is.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is how a tree must feel, she thought, as it is hit by lightning. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir, he gives me enough, such as it is.” Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally I offer the only comforting thing I have, as small as it is. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s as cold in the lobby as it is outside. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

‘Then let us start as soon as it is light tomorrow, if we can,’ said Boromir. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

If I face the truth, as ugly as it is, she’s right. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles—only the winners are remembered. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m late for supper as it is, and you know what the missus will say if I can’t eat a bite of what she’s been cooking.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now he is thinking about the ending of the story he is going to share, as it is still new to him and he wants to tell it right and true. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Then I wish it were as easy to send myself away from here as it is to send my love. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I am in enough trouble as it is. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Early as it is, Ms. Lewis takes a drag from a cigarette on our front porch. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I’m always dodging the cops as it is, and now I’m dodging West Indian Archie on top of it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, nearly 40 years after those early dates for pottery in Japan were measured, archaeologists are still reeling from the carbon 14 shock, as it is termed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not even sure I want her to be. Selfish as it is to say that.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He was also, strange as it is to say, a refreshing sort of female presence in a place where macho was the rule. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As hard as it is to pinpoint a dot inside a ripped segment of a map, it only becomes harder when the dot is moving. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Grow up, Cadence. See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Hard as it is to believe,” I tell him. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ll have to hitch up and take out to get home by midnight as it is.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s so few of us in hip-hop as it is. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s not the same for girls here as it is in America.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I balance my laptop on my knees and stick a cigarette in my mouth unlit because the air’s too close in here as it is. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted you to claim the whole world, as it is. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Because the mountains catch all the moisture from the Amazon winds, the terrain is as wet as it is steep. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“No need for her to worry unnecessarily....She has a lot on her mind as it is. I’ll see you both later this afternoon, then.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

"Actually, you know, I'm as much affected by the audience as it is by me. Its response helps me do my best." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have anything to say to him; I don’t feel like talking, and I’ll be seeing him soon enough as it is. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

‘I will help you bear this burden, as long as it is yours to bear. But we must do something, soon. The Enemy is moving.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the Middle Ages the flow of technology was overwhelmingly from Islam to Europe, rather than from Europe to Islam as it is today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In no position except for coxswain is experience so important as it is at stroke, though, and Hume still had a lot of experience to garner. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I will come to the village,” Salva promised, “as soon as it is safe.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t tell you much about where I am—the censors turn most letters into Swiss cheese as it is—but I hope I can come back someday. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

My heels scraped across the floor in short stints, hobbled by links of chain, as it is said that the young gentle-ladies of Japan walk, hobbled by subservience and feminine humility. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He is a boy who seems to hate the world as it is and love the world that ought to be. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Look, Ben, I know you didn’t agree with it, but as hard as it is, I’m glad I stayed. I truly am.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I know Pa does not want me to give up, and as hard as it is to endure life here day to day, there is nothing for me to do but go on. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Free-range farming, as it is called, will make life much better for millions of animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, stop that,” Ron begged her, “I feel sick enough as it is — quick, hide me!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In their millions the frog songs seemed to have a beat and a cadence, and perhaps it is the ears’ function to do this just as it is the eyes’ business to make stars twinkle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We are as far from the ideals and arguments of the previous century as it is possible to be. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

"It's for her own good, and I don't want to hear a word about it from any of you. This is hard enough as it is." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Seriously. Stop it. I’m already freaked out enough as it is.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

That was as true in the days of old as it is now. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s better to see life as it is, not as you wish it to be. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I’m engaged all right. But it isn’t the same between her and me as it is between you and me.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The decision feels indulgent, as it is not particularly late, or cold, or raining, and he is in no great rush to be home. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, he was as not normal as it is possible to be. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Right here, now, as I invent myself, I’m thinking of all I want to tell you about why this book is written as it is. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This house is small as it is for your family. We have inconvenienced you enough.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Things are uneven between us as it is; I’m not sure I can afford Cordelia. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My right hand can hold it as long as it is braced, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve attempted to ruin my dreams and ideals. I get enough from my mother as it is. You’re just being cruel.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m running low on hearts as it is, and it takes a right lot of ’em to rise up a human being, even for just a minute.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I thought for sure that coming here would finally give me some real answers about Quinton, but it’s just as big a mystery in the supernatural world as it is back home. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Perhaps her world was larger than it was before—as it is for children when they are no longer children. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Earl T. Askew stepped up and said into his ear, “O.B., let’s just let sleeping dogs lay. I pot tny hands full with Mrs. Askew as it is.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The group that runs war games for the U.S. military is called the Joint Forces Command, or, as it is better known, JFCOM. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In most adversarial situations, to prove your own case is to disprove your opponent’s—though rhetoric being as slippery as it is, the task is seldom precisely symmetrical. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

We all have to find some way to live with the world as it is now. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Do send me a copy of your article, as soon as it is published,” the dottore said, already striding past Victor and out of the office. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she said, very stiffly, “Our relationship is strained enough as it is. I didn’t see the point in making things worse.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

This principle was as valid for Hawaiian chiefs as it is for American politicians today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She and Molly are about as opposite as it is possible to be, which would be fine if Dina didn’t take Molly’s choices as a personal affront. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It is with such men as it is with the English landscape seen at its best as I did this morning: when one encounters them, one simply knows one is in the presence of greatness. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“This dress is fine. Old and shabby as it is.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

To talk about those regularities that appear in the natural world as ‘laws’ is to speak metaphorically: this was as obvious in the first century and the seventeenth as it is now. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I will keep this letter brief, as it is difficult to write in my present circumstances. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The pollen at the tips of tulip anthers is not so much powder as it is tiny balls of oil. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But as it is I perceive behind them only the suffering of the creature, the awful melancholy of life and the pitilessness of men. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. M. has made her plans, I dare say, and will play her cards well, early as it is. The girl evidently doesn’t think of it yet,” said Mrs. Moffat. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it will be as easy to let him shoot me as it was in the fear landscape, as it is in my dreams. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

As disgusting as it is, I need all the fuel I can get if I’m going to win in combat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Instead I think, he’s right: we are the establishment now, such as it is. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

As long as he continues to wind the second clock, and as long as it is accurate, he will know the time difference between his present position and his starting point. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Even the paper chain, great as it is, only makes me look worse. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Buddhism, particularly as it is popularly practiced, promises improvement through karma. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, they knew that a fox in the open, plain to be seen, is not dangerous as long as it is spotted in time. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just—this is hard enough as it is. And I was so sure I was right.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

There are no performers save the band, as it is difficult to hire entertainment to impress a gathering that is comprised predominantly of circus members. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We all crank down the windows, but it’s just as hot outside as it is in the car. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Not when I feel like I have so little control over my life as it is. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“We could never repay you as it is.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“My phone is fine as it is,” he said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Then let it be on my head, so long as it is done. I am not so blind that I cannot see the shadow of the axe when it is hanging over my own neck." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“No, Nell. We shall have little space as it is. Any kids we free will be better off in our care than where they’ve been.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“As for you, young man, I do hope you’ll refrain from knocking another hole in that wall. This building has enough holes as it is.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As good a placement as it is, Theo, still a real country boy, finds the city overwhelming. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But as hot and sticky and stinky and crowded and loud as it is, she’s having fun. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I wish all humans had your qualities, Nathan. The Fourth World wouldn’t be in such a mess as it is now,” Wind Being said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Getting a date is hard enough as it is. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I suppose it does look like a lab furnished as it is with steel, Formica, vinyl and lit by fluorescence. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slide of a dish across the floor as it is kicked. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“He likes you, Margaret. He always says that it’s as important for a parent to like his children as it is for him to love them.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the only boy who practised it seriously, and it was not quite so simple a business fifty years ago as it is today. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Always classify the interval as it is written; the composer had a reason for writing it that way. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Do you mean to tell me you’ve talked with her? Remarkable! The sparrow language, or ‘Sparra’ as it is called, is very difficult to comprehend.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The thesis is misnamed, because, as it is usually formulated, Duhem did not hold it and Quine abandoned it, but it is the fundamental conceptual underpinning of much modern history and philosophy of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I see your skinny little butt around here too much as it is.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I picked October, as it is a golden month with better-than-average weather, and my initials would be O.O. for October Owens, which would make an interesting monogram. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue-and-white lights on the front make the street almost as bright as it is in daytime. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Cal was as close to his own soul as it is possible to get. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father’s face, for behind your father’s face as it is today are all those other faces which were his. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I’m the mockingjay and it’s too hard keeping me alive as it is. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The prayer went thus: Our Father, who art in heaven Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm late for the fair as it is." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’d make such a fool of myself, and I’m already lucky enough as it is, that Kalinda decided to speak with me and walk with me and invite me to her home. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“And what if the cops would’ve come? And who knows how bad them dudes were hurt, right? They probably ended up in the hospital. We got enough problems as it is, right?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, every time you hear Big A you are also hearing Little A hidden within it, as it is part of Big A’s rainbow spectrum of sound. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My disease is as rare as it is famous. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are bits of grass mixed in with the mud bricks to hold it together, and the wall is at least half as wide as it is tall. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The great irony of anthracite is that, tough as it is to light, once you get it lit it’s nearly impossible to put out. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Prosecutors are well aware that the exercise of their discretion is unchecked, provided no explicitly racist remarks are made, as it is next to impossible for defendants to prove racial bias. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The truth is that one cannot go through life without being annoyed by other people, and this was just as true in Miss Penelope Lumley’s day as it is in our own. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

God could have made the universe in many different ways; he has arbitrarily chosen to make it as it is, and the order it displays is an order he has chosen to impose upon it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father’s face, for behind your father’s face as it is today are all those other faces which were his. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Long division will stretch his intellect such as it is, God help us. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

For thousands of non-believers, too, Rabana is compulsory listening as Ramadan is as much an opportunity for big family gatherings as it is a religious festival. Iran listens for Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, the lost voice of Ramadan 2013-07-10T16:44:15Z

Even if you can describe it in words, it will never be as interesting to those not tripping as it is to those who are. On Broadway Stages, the Beautiful Rooms Are Empty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

You have your own Twitter feed, which is great and awful, just as it is for the rest of us. Obama’s last turkey pardon is the dad joke the country needs right now 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

It’s as cruel a prank for the audience as it is for them. ‘Half Brothers’ Review: Distant Relations 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

“But I will let them grow as it is and just focus on making the trunk bigger. Because if we say too much now, Japanese cuisine will become an artificial tree like bonsai.” Michelin-starred Japanese chef fears loss of simple, traditional food 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Only a fool would dare leave the house and brave the inky black outside, teeming as it is with ghouls, goblins and all manner of undesirable. The 10 scariest Netflix original movies 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Not that any of them can explain why: their enthusiasm is as instinctive and difficult to articulate as it is boundless. A quick curtain call. Then bed: Child actors in adult theatre 2010-05-05T20:30:00Z

All dietary research is tricky as it is hard to control for other factors that might influence disease. Should we give up eating red meat? 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Abstraction would seem inherent to a solo-jazz-bass performance, but there’s nothing dreamlike about this album; his sound is as direct and powerful as it is elegant. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

You’re likely to leave this film starving for answers, but that hunger can be just as stimulating as it is burdensome. ‘A Banquet’ Review: Starving for a Higher Purpose 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

He is one of the most immediately identifiable stylists of the modern cinema, and his style is as much a matter of performance and of language as it is of image and tone. Eugène Green's “The Son of Joseph,” a Grand and Comedic Drama of Father and Son 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

As for cheese, so long as it is firm enough to grate, you can experiment with all sorts other than Parmesan without the whole thing falling apart. A Weeknight Pasta That Finds Freedom in the Familiar 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

They are tolerant of just about any soil type as long as it is well drained. Cool Your Garden with Color 2012-07-16T17:20:05.517Z

He later earned a Ph.D. in the field of neuroepigenetics in 2014, studying the role of DNA in processing pain; his music, heady as it is, can often seem like a therapeutic bath. Pharoah Sanders and Floating Points Meet in the Atmosphere 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

The thing to remember is that in the early 1920s jazz wasn’t necessarily as respectable as it is now – Zelda Fitzgerald, Scott’s wife, called it that “once-déclassé jazz”. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z

Minerality is often as much about texture as it is flavor. Your Next Lesson: Riesling 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

And in no repertory is that kind of polished facelessness as great a liability as it is in Verdi. Stephen Costello and Tamara Wilson Show Opposing Approaches 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

It was then, as it is now, the only city I’ve lived in with diverse and integrated uptown neighborhoods. Walter Isaacson recalls the summer he spent working and reading on the Mississippi River

Nerve-wracking as it is to put a film in front of an audience, Affleck said he enjoys studying the crowd's response. Affleck thanks Canada with 'Argo' at Toronto fest 2012-09-08T22:31:04Z

But, adding to the surprise, more and more women are drawn to the tuba, which is as much an instrument as it is the center of a cheery and affable subculture. TubaChristmas presents holiday music at its most sonorous 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

Culture critics fret that pursuing such success – chasing the viral dragon, as it is known – is changing the nature of comedy. Viral YouTube clips help America’s TV comedy stars find new audiences 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

But, no surprise, this image has very little to do with the reality of the tango as it is experienced by those who dance it. Queer Tango Brings Its Liberated Style to New York 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

But the song is as cagey as it is nostalgic; there’s as much evolution as repetition, with key changes and new bits of melody showing up unexpectedly all along the way. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Flips Mannequins Into Barbies 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Watching it now, it’s a statement as bold as it is bleak. How David Bowie Told Us He Was Dying in the 'Lazarus' Video 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

As Woolfe observed, it was a discouraging answer; it suggested an artist who believes the repertory to be more or less fine as it is. The Met Chooses Yannick Nézet-Séguin 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

The effect suits the plot, such as it is. | 'Super Night Shot': Gob Squad?s ?Super Night Shot? at Under the Radar - Review 2012-01-07T00:49:11Z

Reading it you didn’t sense, as you do in this new one, the cascade of Akhtar’s thinking, informed as it is by wit and banked anger. With Wit and Anger, Ayad Akhtar Addresses What It Means to Be American 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

It is entirely unclear, just as it is unclear if his wife is deriving any pleasure from it, as she makes nary a sound. I watched the Randy Quaid porno so you don’t have to 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

When Ezra Thomson limps in to join him, you suddenly sense that "Kammermusik" is as much about life's erosions as it is about movement springing abstractly from music. A night of 4 world premieres, including 1 by Mark Morris, at PNB 2012-11-04T15:35:35Z

Say Goodbye to Waiters In much of Scandinavia, restaurant culture isn't as pervasive as it is, say, in countries like Spain and Italy. Frugal Traveler Blog: Scandinavia on $125 a Day 2012-08-24T18:02:01Z

What is wrong with saying that Thanksgiving is about genocide as much as it is about gratitude? Feeling Conflicted on Thanksgiving 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

As a result, “The Last Thing Mary Saw” is as surprising as it is frustrating. ‘The Last Thing Mary Saw’ Review: God Is Always Watching 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

It’s become as much a cool urban hangout as it is conventional lodging. Hotel Review: The Dean 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Esther Greenwood’s account of her year in the bell jar is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing. Review: ‘The Bell Jar,’ by Sylvia Plath 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Bernardo, discovering her intrusion, humiliates her, and as their passion turns rancid, it becomes a fanatical, insanely vindictive power struggle that is as sickening to watch as it is riveting. Review: In ‘A Wolf at the Door,’ a Fiery Affair Turns Rancid 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

With an assistant on the opposite side of the machine, he guides and manipulates the structure as it is being wrapped, accumulating colors and striations until he is satisfied. The Artistic Machines of Anton Alvarez 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Michael Hoffman is a fine poet, whose acute ear and eloquent understanding of the transition-points between the two languages make the text as powerful as it is down-to-earth. Rereading: Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin 2011-01-07T11:40:24Z

Collectively speaking, nowhere else does the level of quality seem so high, the perspectives so diverse or the experimentation so fierce as it is in Oregon right now. The Oregon Trail 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

They represent a long tradition of resistance to the racism that is hardwired into the social and political structure of that country, as it is to the rest of the Afro-Atlantic world. An Enthralling Show of Afro-Atlantic History Illuminates Brazil 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

It's about feeling the energy of the room, I suppose, as much as it is two women doing whatever the hell they want. Concert review: Seattle duo Butts at The Funhouse 2010-05-27T17:39:00Z

Violent, physical, in-your-face and up-your-nose political and social change on this scale is as exhilarating as it is alarming. Hilary Spurling's top 10 unputdownable Chinese books 2010-05-11T10:30:00Z

Israel, impossible and messy as it is, becomes a conduit for new possibilities. In ‘Forest Dark,’ Nicole Krauss Plays With Divided Selves 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

You don’t see many political movies as it is. Judd Apatow: Pulling 'Interview' points to 'dark future' in Hollywood 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

But that would be to shortchange the ingenious way Adjmi weaves sound and story into something as granular as it is operatic. Review: In ‘Stereophonic,’ the Rock Revolution Will Be Recorded 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z

The image is as mesmerizing as it is disturbing, a meticulously crafted statement about the underlying economic engine that drives action all across the continuum, from spiritual to geopolitical. C.K. Wilde dazzles with cut currency 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Look, I’ve got a deep voice and I could just use my voice as it is. Idris Elba, Gamer (That’s Why He Was So Keen on ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’) 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

With quiet eloquence and self-deprecating humor, Ms. Ringer suggests how a profession as idealistic as it is hierarchical and competitive might drive a talented young woman to self-destruct. Books of The Times: Jenifer Ringer and Misty Copeland Have New Memoirs 2014-03-16T21:00:25Z

His world, as magical as it is bizarre, is full of beauty and bugs and — because it’s impossible to deny his freaky side — of things like James. Paul Taylor Dance Company Comes to Lincoln Center 2012-03-09T18:58:14Z

That’s not a bad recipe for beautiful theater either, and it is one that Mr. McBurney’s scintillating drama, strongly seasoned as it is with numbers, fulfills to the letter. | 'A Disappearing Number': Simon McBurney?s Play at Lincoln Center Festival 2010-07-16T22:29:00Z

But the popularity of Black Widow does not guarantee that Captain Marvel will be successful, especially considering Carol Danvers’ background is as political as it is supernatural. Meet Captain Marvel: Fighter Pilot, Feminist and Marvel's Big Gamble 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

This realness serves Stephenson's themes well: he likes to play with the sharp sheer between the world as it is and how it appears in the cartoon looking-glass of pop culture. Neal Stephenson's Reamde: Virtual Reality Check 2011-09-20T09:00:00Z

It’s as irrational to draw a hard line between fiction and nonfiction as it is to put one between the sea and dry land—but it’s even less reasonable to deny that there’s a difference. “The Jinx” and the Blight of Documentary Reënactments 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

He went on to say: “The relevant question isn’t so much ‘what did the president know and when did he know it?’ as it is ‘is the president physically capable of knowing things at all?’ John Oliver on Trump's wiretapping claims: 'Stupid Watergate' 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

It is not so much a sport I never mastered as it is an organ I never grew. Meeting his family, disowned by my own 2014-01-08T23:59:00Z

“The idea is that the world of comic books, the Marvel universe, should be as open to his daughter as it is to my son,” Mr. Coates said. Marvel’s World of Wakanda Will Spotlight Women, on the Page and Behind It 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

This is as true of self-evidently “serious” films and TV as it is of the “Fast and Furious” franchise. Women, stop apologizing for loving “Magic Mike XXL”: Our visual pleasure matters as much as any man’s 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

The collision makes Filth a rumpus as enjoyable as it is repellent — a metaphorical slasher movie you can sing along to. REVIEW: Can Filth Live Down to Its Title? 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

This grotesquely ahistorical and impersonal view honors a mode of racial enlightenment—a “both-sides” enlightenment—that’s as regressive as it is universally saleable. “Green Book,” Reviewed: Peter Farrelly’s Bland, Regressive Flip on “Driving Miss Daisy” 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

His work is as funny as it is grisly. With ‘Three Billboards,’ director Martin McDonagh shows his softer side 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

New York is the nation's largest market for country music, as it is for just about every format given its sheer size. Country music on air in New York City 2013-05-09T18:03:09Z

His book isn’t so much about parenting as it is about what he calls “contemplative computing.” Books of The Times: 3 Books Offer Ways to Cut the Cord, If Only Briefly 2013-08-18T22:14:01Z

The result is as appealing as it is surprising. Review: Chesney surprises with 'Life on a Rock' 2013-04-29T15:30:14Z

I love fresh cherries and a cherry pie too, as long as it is not viscous, gooey, soggy or too fluid. Another ‘Twin Peaks’ Puzzle: How to Make That Cherry Pie 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

The week's most popular show, as it is most weeks in the fall, was NBC's Sunday night football telecast. Pelley's muscle a Nielsen's Top 10 2012-12-11T20:10:21Z

The effect is as unsettling as it is transporting. Into the forest 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

The book’s plot, such as it is, concerns the unraveling of Jason Goodyear, a star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions. A Winning Baseball Novel by the Editor of The Paris Review 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

As he consecrates trash, Mr. Lanigan-Schmidt redeems his own fallen humanity, making it the stuff of art that is as aesthetically rich as it is spiritually expansive. Art Review: Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, at MoMA PS1 2012-12-06T21:51:50Z

Macabre as it is, a 12-foot skeleton can get under people’s skin in the best way. Can gigantic skeletons save Halloween? 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

And there is more to come: as overstuffed as it is, “Alienoid” is only the first installment of a two-movie epic. ‘Alienoid’ Review: Sorcerers, Alien Prisoners and Much, Much More 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

But then A Monster Calls isn’t so much for kids as it is for grownups. A Monster Calls Offers a Big, Less-Friendly Giant 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

While attending to ballet — always the thorniest of dance arts, as controversial as it is prestigious — I draw attention to two very unalike trends: one heartening, one dismaying. Hail, Dance, and Farewell to the Critic’s Life 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

Mr Beckert, a history professor at Harvard, calls this new economic order “War Capitalism” as it is based on imperial expansion, expropriation of land, and slavery. Spinning tales 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

If the race is close, as it is heading into Sunday’s awards ceremony, studios must dig deeper to gain an edge with the roughly 8,000 voters in the Academy for Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Want to win an Oscar? Spend millions on the film campaign trail 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

And I think that sometimes “genius” is not so much a compliment as it is a way to discount a kind of work and focus and attention. Penn Jillette: I didn’t want to be a stereotypical Hollywood liberal 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

“The reassurance, such as it is, comes from the fact that the products are mostly ineffective,” Lurie told me. Perspective | Most dietary supplements don’t do anything. Why do we spend $35 billion a year on them? 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

This was comical to me but also felt a little sinister as it is a million miles from the beliefs and practices of my liberal Muslim family. Four Lions: Laugh? I roared 2010-05-07T10:20:00Z

But these days it’s as much a mecca for worshipers of high design as it is a destination for those who pray for eagles and birdies. California’s Marrakesh: A Country Club That’s Chic Again 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Black Forest cake is a classic best left as it is. Review | Mirabelle, a gem in the making, loses some of its luster 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

One thing's for sure: the ending being as bleak as it is makes the book feel more distinctly Bachman: the pseudonym's books have a way with endings that stare into the darkness. Rereading Stephen King, chapter 19: Thinner 2013-04-16T17:27:36Z

Imagining it otherwise isn’t so much a challenge to the truth as it is a protest against necessity. Once Upon a Timeline in America 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

There is the fundamental act of recognising that this is not the world as it is. "The Matrix" is basically a sci-fi "Office Space" 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

As written by Carroll, Alice’s dream of Wonderland is as frightening as it is amusing, as bewildering and frustrating as it is exciting. Dance Review: Alice on Her Toes, at a Rare Tea Party 2011-03-01T22:56:51Z

But as helpful as it is to have a good workshop, what ultimately makes it a studio is the presence of the artist at work. Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Five Nights at Freddy’s — or FNaF, as it is known to fans — has thrived under Cawthon’s exacting control over the product; he oversees everything, including graphic novel collections and licensed toys and merchandise. A Reclusive Horror Designer Pivoted From Religious Games 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z

Buccmaster's tale, in the end, is as much awful confession as it is dark chronicle. Paul Kingsnorth bracingly conjures a vanished world in 'The Wake' 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

They found that Christmas at that time was a religious celebration, not a decorating frenzy as it is today. The history of Williamsburg’s beloved (but not so Colonial) holiday decorations 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

Linguists, like lexicographers, are descriptivists, studying the language as it is and describing it without trying to tell you what to do. The Long Hot Summer of Grammar 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

The primary relationship, for each character, is with fate — but fate has rarely been so many-faced, so muscular, so mercurial, or so mesmerizing as it is in “A Burning.” A Facebook Post Lands an Innocent Woman in Jail in This Riveting Debut Novel 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

This is a neighborhood where physical urban beauty is as easy to appreciate as it is in Paris or Edinburgh. My Brooklyn, Then and Now 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Pulling off a modern-day romantic comedy is no mean feat, and Mount, who also directs, crafts a charmer that is as crisply staged as it is well directed. 'Against the Wall' at Theatre West 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Joyful and redemptive as it is at times, the show’s strength comes from the dead seriousness of its one presiding voice, filtered through characters who are more alike than their shame lets them know. Review: With ‘Jagged Little Pill,’ They Finally Fixed the Jukebox 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

You know, our fight and our struggle is always different, but that's as it is in any aspect of life. Barry Jenkins: "'People in Korea don't want to watch black characters,' you can't say that anymore" 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

"It's as strange to be here once as it is to return," she said. Meryl Streep wins 3rd acting Oscar for 'Iron Lady' 2012-02-27T06:06:08Z

Rife with the kind of sublimely loose grooves achievable only through instrumental precision, "Black Messiah" is as vital as it is sublime. D'Angelo's 'Black Messiah' draws on history, sublime grooves 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Ken Johnson Contemporary art in China is as rambunctiously antitraditional as it is anywhere else in the world. The Week Ahead: Oct. 16 ? 22 2011-10-14T16:46:11Z

And so, a field slave is transformed into a field agent — a transition that proves as exhilarating to Hi as it is sobering, forcing him to confront the limits of his own agency. Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Debut Novel Mingles History and Fantasy 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

“It’s just as important how we drink it at home with each other as it is in the bar.” The Women Left Out of the History of Cocktails 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

This trip is as much about underscoring the “special relationship” between the United States and Britain as it is about a 66-year-old prince coming into his own. Camilla and Charles don’t get the WillKat treatment, but it’s still royal 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

In a sense, Mr. Sacchi’s luck charm, rooted as it is in an unlikely tale of survival, is more rational than most. We’re Holding Tight to Our Good Luck Talismans 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Behind the Bauhaus’s admirable idealism, you sense a kind of disgust with difference, and with humanity as it is. Review | Bauhaus designers changed the way the world looks. But did they make it better? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

Veronica’s revenge is as unlikely as it is fully deserved. Mutant bears, flying heads and chainsaw duels: the best movie moments of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

“It’s the same method for holes in socks as it is for moth holes in jumpers.” Forget fast fashion! Six ways to bring clothes back to life – from darning to stain removal 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

But each of these in-demand young actresses has taken to the stage here to demonstrate how romance is as likely to prickle, sting and even kill as it is to tickle. All Over London, Love Hurts 2011-02-23T10:27:47Z

The set’s vaulting fire escape figures in the song as well, as it is the launch pad for a moment as joyfully eye-filling as any in that festive emblem of city life, the ticker-tape parade. ‘Ordinary Days’ is an extraordinarily charming musical of questing young New Yorkers

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The self-negating, self-perpetuating cycle of aesthetic disruption and normalization is one of the great constants in music, as it is in many, if not most, of the arts. Beethoven Was the Johnny Rotten of His Day 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

It’s a blow-by-blow account as cringeworthy as it is intriguing, with Metcalf drawing the viewer in with a mix of gallows humor and pained recollections of her own actions. Battle of the Bastards to San Junipero: what was the best TV episode of 2016? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

It’s as much a clash of mind-sets as it is of beach manners. Lines Drawn in the Sand Over Dogs and Cleanup 2010-06-11T20:36:00Z

Indeed, Oscar nominee morning here is as much about gossiping over snubs as it is about dialing Mark's Garden to send congratulatory flowers. The Carpetbagger: Oscar 2013 Nominations 2013-01-10T13:02:33Z

An expansion of Mr. Stoppard’s earlier “In the Native State,” a 1991 radio play, “Indian Ink” retains vestiges of a form that is as satisfactorily heard as it is seen. Tom Stoppard’s ‘Indian Ink’ Focuses on English Sisters 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

With the slightest bit of chest-warming heat that glows rather than burns, Mockingbird is as nice to drink as it is to look at, in its pretty rose-gold-accented bottle. The best nonalcoholic tequilas for Cinco de Mayo 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

Probably the most important factor in rightwing populism among women is the same as it is for men: attitudes to immigration and Islam. From Le Pen to Alice Weidel: how the European far-right set its sights on women 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

Watch as it is shown being re-installed in Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Roger Hiorns's Seizure moved to Yorkshire Sculpture Park - video 2013-06-13T17:12:00Z

This scenario presents opera as a hurdle to be conquered: It’s not about finding art that we want to stage as much as it is about making work that fits our specifications. Review | War is hell, and other original insights: ‘Silent Night’ at the opera 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

And just when we’re wondering where all this is going, West executes a final act as devilish as it is emotionally potent. ‘Linoleum’ Review: Rocket Plan 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

In their place is a sense of music coming into being, coming alive as it is being made, something that will become inevitably lost when instrumental polish becomes shinier. Dudamel brings his YOLA youth symphony's spirit, and message, to Oakland 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

But Ms. Amirpour’s films are more than a sampling of her DVD collection; her engagement with familiar themes and classic tropes is as critical as it is admiring. Review: Cannibalism, Hallucinogens and Keanu: ‘The Bad Batch’ Has It All 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

But the Rhizome installation, which feeds a visitor’s personal data into a closed network of chattering electronic devices that fill a darkened room, is as alarming as it is entertaining. Review | In the galleries: Where nature and technology’s detritus collide 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

For Arnott, as for Curtis, history does not fall neatly into periods and presidencies, as it is taught at school, but accretes secretly and strangely in a sweep across decades or even centuries. The House of Rumour by Jake Arnott – review 2012-06-29T07:00:02Z

But like Mr. McDonagh’s early Irish dramas, the play is as much about the strange language and repartee of its oddball characters as it is about plot. Martin McDonagh’s ‘Hangmen,’ a Mordant Stage Homecoming in London 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

“It’s as much about the companies that are being presented as it is about the specific works,” he says. Perspective | Justin Peck, Misty Copeland curate ‘Ballet Across America’ series 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

But the idea that you could separate the art from the life, a conceptually and practically incoherent notion in any case, is as ludicrous for him as it is for Louis C.K. Hollywood on the Brink 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

Courts and lawmakers are only beginning to sort out questions of ownership when it comes to A.I., and copyrights in music can be complicated as it is. An A.I. Hit of Fake ‘Drake’ and ‘The Weeknd’ Rattles the Music World 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

This is as true for Lebowitz as it is for a group of well-meaning regular women named Karen whom Ziwe handles gently in a segment later shown later in the same premiere. With Showtime's sunshiny and sharp "Ziwe," we have an iconic talk show host in the making 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z

They want to build it in Dallas, a dream of a future that is as absurd as it is tragically doomed. Review: Blood Is Never Simple in ‘The Sisters Brothers’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Playful and bighearted as it is, the show doesn’t totally glow until the last moments. Review | The hippies are back in Shaina Taub’s musical ‘As You Like It’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

"Vengeance" is addressing issues of identity, myth, and cultural appropriation, but it is self-aware enough to call itself out as it is doing this very thing. In crime comedy "Vengeance," B.J. Novak dares to mess with Texas while also skewering all the rest 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

"It's an odd sensation, witnessing a gig that seems to be as much about the crowd as it is the band performing," said Alexis Petridis in his review. Sleeve notes: Frank Ocean opens up 2012-07-06T14:18:16Z

Instagram is as popular for wine as it is for the rest of our lives. 5 ways to get out of your wine-drinking rut and discover something new 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Like “The Expats,” “The Paris Diversion” is as much the story of a modern woman as it is a globe-hopping thriller. Review | A bored housewife jumps back into the spy game again in ‘The Paris Diversion’ 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

As part of the assignment, they are tackling questions of urban renewal and affordable housing — an issue that is as hot a button in Mexico City as it is in Los Angeles. As Trump aims to build a wall, Los Angeles architecture school SCI-Arc builds bridges to Mexico 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Gervais and Merchant made a great television classic in The Office which, with miraculous subtlety and realism, tackled the realities of work as it is really experienced by real people right now. Cemetery Junction: Film review 2010-04-15T11:30:00Z

If “Things Fall Apart” hadn’t already been taken, it would be an apt title for Pandya’s novel, which is as witty as it is woeful. These Debuts Arrived at a Tough Time. They Deserve Your Attention. 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

Sometimes the smallest action — seen just as it is, without elaboration — reveals a broader interdependent reality. ‘Precious Caterpillar’ Traces Journey of Tibetan Harvesters 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Creating new electronic music that sounds relatively plausible, even enjoyable and provisionally radical, is getting closer and closer to being as easy as it is to actually listening to music. Paul Morley introduces Marshall Jefferson and Orlando of Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs 2010-05-28T12:21:00Z

The crime is as simple as it is effective. A Cyberattack Shuts the Met Opera’s Box Office, but the Show Goes On 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

As he explained in an interview with The New York Times in 1994, “Making a film isn’t finding the answer to a question; it’s trying to capture life as it is.” Albert Maysles, Pioneering Documentarian, Dies at 88 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

But certainly her profile, well outfitted as it is, provides a glimpse into her business — and like the meme decrees, business is boomin’. How Naomi Osaka Became Everyone’s Favorite Spokesmodel 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

The Trap, as it is currently titled, is also billed as a revenge movie, but additional plot details have yet to surface. Jamie Foxx and Benicio del Toro to Star in Harmony Korine's Gangster Movie 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

This most recent production, by the film-maker Clio Barnard, is as much about how the story has been told as it is about its most recent tragic chapter. Social deprivation in Britain: how a writer's life turned to tragedy 2010-10-17T15:00:00Z

Ms. Smith said in her review, “is as anthropological as it is aesthetic.” Art for the Holidays: A New York Visitors’ Guide 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

“Childhood is over soon enough as it is.” ‘Mini-Me’ With High Heels of Her Own 2013-07-31T22:43:22Z

His clever, brash, kaleidoscopically grim 1996 debut, “Reasonable Doubt,” is as much a work of memoir of life in the street-level drug trade as it is an album. Jay-Z and the Politics of Rapping in Middle Age 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

As cockle-warming as it is to imagine characters we know and love seeing out their days quaffing sangria and playing Articulate!, it obviously wouldn’t make for a very good film. Rise of the 'bleakquel': your favourite heroes are back – and more miserable than ever 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

From around 1500, these splendid hangings from a French castle show the unicorn as it is trapped, escapes, is pursued by noblemen and, finally, is speared and returned to the castle. Art Review: ‘Search for the Unicorn’ at the Cloisters 2013-05-23T22:00:41Z

As invasive as it is, Imagine Dragons does not inhabit this space alone. Perspective | Imagine Dragons and the scourge of the rock-and-roll grave blockers 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

Disorientation is a double-edged sword, especially when the ostensible reorientation is as unsatisfying as it is here. In ‘The Moment,’ Doubts About a Character’s Sanity 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Even here, though, the movie seeks to entertain more than enlighten, with an implausible plot twist undermining what could have been a realistic portrayal of life as it is really lived in the gas fields. Hollywood faces fracking in 'Promised Land' 2013-01-02T13:35:09Z

And though the example of Geneva might appear unattractive to us, reminiscent as it is of some of the darker theocratic regimes of our own day, contemporaries judged it differently. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

The KonMari craze of tidying up is just as much about taming our latent anxiety as it is about taming our stuff. Perspective | Is KonMari a fad? I can say this: It tamed my anxiety as much as my stuff. 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

In South Asia, roasted cumin is as common a feature in the region’s raitas as it is in its cooling, savory lassis. The not-so-secret truth about yogurt the rest of the world already knows 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

Officials aren't certain how the sea lion ended up on the highway as it is not close to the ocean. SeaWorld staffers rescue sea lion spotted on San Diego highway 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

The series’s stylistic range is as unpredictable as it is wide. Take a Look at the Inspirations Behind ‘The Witcher’ 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

It’s an aesthetic that’s as confusing as it is unabashed, and perhaps that’s why it’s striking such a chord in these confusing times. Memphis Milano Returns, and Takes Over Fashion 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

A black polyhedron evoking a futuristic tombstone by Tony Smith completes a tableau that is as poetic as it is formally elegant. Art Review: Linde Family Wing at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Review 2011-09-22T22:25:49Z

Located as it is on the main floor of a bland office building, Enigma has an anonymous-looking entrance that requires a code number for admission, provided when the guest pays an advance deposit online. In Spain, a Restaurant Reimagines the Famed El Bulli 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

But everything about “In a Better World” feels just a little too easy: a better movie might have let in more of the messiness of the world as it is. | 'In a Better World': A Do-Gooder Vision Clouded by Blind Spots 2011-03-31T22:22:34Z

In person, Waters seems about as far from madness and mayhem as it is possible to be. Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

This lack of resistance to the verbal and musical associations of the songs blurs our response to the dance, as inventive and sophisticated as it is. It?s Nick Cave?s World; They Just Dance in It 2011-04-06T21:47:54Z

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The movie’s subject is the notion of liberation, one that’s as much aesthetic, philosophical, and emotional as it is practical and political. The Front Row: “Losing Ground” 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

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“If we want everything to remain as it is, everything must change.” How a Dying Man Wrote a Timeless Novel 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

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This is of course a long life habit, as it is with me. Guys keep dumping me 2012-09-04T00:00:00Z

Even the style that we shot "Storm Lake" with — we went in thinking they are no-nonsense journalists, telling the story as it is, and we wanted to honor that. In the PBS doc "Storm Lake," a tiny Iowa paper fights for the future of high-quality local news 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

Silly as it is, “Xander Cage” nevertheless purveys a deeply depressing view of heroism, one without conscience, compassion or moral qualms. Review: ‘XXX: Return of Xander Cage’ Deploys Vin Diesel on a New Mission 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Much of the action of “Industry,” such as it is, takes place in bathrooms, where people say and do things they shouldn’t because vulnerability creates intimacy. Review: ‘Industry’ Is a Familiar Story, but With More Zeros 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z

It's as worrying for the family when cancer hits as it is for you. Aherne: Humour helps deal with cancer 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

“It causes me pain to see the world as it is. But not to do anything, not to try, that would be a wrong.” The improbable story of the man who won history’s ‘biggest murder trial’ at Nuremberg 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

The aphorism is as useful to you as it is to them. Perspective | Miss Manners: Would-be guests won’t stop angling for invitations 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

With a pace and cinematic language openly inspired by Charlie Chaplin, it’s as much a riff on silent movies as it is a coming-of-age tale with a whiff of political farce. Music Review: Satchmo?s Story, Music Substituting for Words 2010-08-31T22:25:00Z

It is just as likely that he was misunderstood because of the nature of his work as it is that the nature of his work was inspired by a malicious intent. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

As a design object, the flag is hardly without interest, freighted as it is with symbolism, both direct and unintended. Why we're all flying the union flag 2012-06-21T18:31:56Z

Religion has changed, reformed, and revolutionized the world, and it will continue to do so as long as it is central to the human story. Toxic atheism drives people apart 2012-10-21T16:00:00Z

“It’s a really wonderful picture and somehow as bleak as it is, it also shows the resilience of children,” he said. How Real-Life and Fictional Horror Seeped Into ‘The Black Phone’ 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

“Even 10 years ago, it was not as much a part of people’s lives as it is today.” The Mission to Save Vanishing Internet Art 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

“Spamtown USA”, as it is sometimes known, is a cutesy, model version of a city, all straight lines and artificial lakes. ‘It's flavourful as hell’: welcome to Hawaii’s annual Spam festival 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

They were not something I had ever planned on needing, but then I never planned on having breast cancer and a double reconstruction, or as it is known these days, the Angelina Jolie surgery. I Was Misinformed: Love and the Stick-On Nipple 2014-04-18T18:55:23Z

The narrative could not be more straightforward, as it is taken almost verbatim from a perfectly calibrated three-act play by Herb Gardner. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z

It begins with Mr. Foster’s moving description of Fuller as “a dear friend — as far as it is possible to be with someone who is also one’s mentor.” Treats for Gear Heads 2010-09-19T21:30:00Z

But the hangover by proxy you may acquire is a fair price to pay for the satisfactions of this vivid and entertaining play, as witheringly funny as it is bitterly sad. | 'Bachelorette': Wedding Trash Talk in Leslye Headland?s Comedy 2010-07-27T02:04:00Z

Coming in at under 300 pages and with fashionably short chapters, “Dent” is as fast as it is entertaining. David Duchovny’s hilarious new novel hits a home run 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Language, then, is not so much a means of explication as it is of wonder, a mechanism for evoking the mysteries at the center of every life. Bravery, self-exposure and the precision of words 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Today, I get the sense that memory is much less sure of itself, engaged as it is in a constant struggle against amnesia and oblivion. Patrick Modiano accepts the Nobel, speaks of memory and oblivion 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

The musical is as much about their unstoppable drive as it is about their music. Review | ‘On Your Feet!’ isn’t profound. Just fun. 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Most recent are nine shrouded, horizontal human forms carved from Carrara marble, an evocation of death as obvious as it is opulent. Art Review: Maurizio Cattelan at the Guggenheim - Review 2011-11-03T22:20:09Z

The story, rooted as it is in character work, carries across as at least compelling moments that might otherwise be too offensive to contemplate. Review: 'Vice Principals' is a Brilliantly Unfunny Comedy 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

“I don’t think it’s a problem of who you’re picking as much as it is: How many options are available to minorities in film, particularly in quality films?” he said. George Clooney Speaks Out on Oscars Diversity: 'We Are Moving in the Wrong Direction' 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

“I’m an odd fit for Hollywood as it is, appearance-wise,” he said. Standouts on ‘Grimm,’ ‘Legit,’ ‘Blue Bloods’ and Other Shows 2014-03-21T20:16:42Z

This is about the minds as much as it is about the crimes. The Fall; Skint – TV review 2013-05-13T21:01:01Z

While “The Mule” embellishes a few facts surrounding the case, this account is as real as it is unbelievable. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Dance Moms’ and a New Trolls Series 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

What they build up to is even more seductive than anything that led up to it — a moment of breathtaking romanticism that’s as intoxicating as it is unexpected. ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ Review: A Mesmerizing Chain of Associations 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Or as it is called on the streets, “fake heroin”. America's opioid addiction: 'I ended up selling all my valuable stuff to buy pills' 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

What happens to it next is still apparently up in the air, as it is not, despite a remarkable Dylan songbook spanning more than 40 years, one of those easy-to-transfer projects. Perspective | Why ‘Girl From the North Country,’ with Dylan songbook, is the best musical of 2018 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

In a play that is as emotionally attuned to its characters as it is capacious, Parks presents freedom as both an existential puzzle and a historical wound. Suzan-Lori Parks' 'Father Comes Home From the Wars' is an entrancingly intimate drama 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

It’s clear to anyone with even a passing knowledge of the Oscars that winning an award is as much about campaigning as it is about being, you know, good. Nah Nah Land: the hyped films that failed to get any Oscar nominations 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

One of the most compelling aspects of “Billions” is that it is as much a reflection on how the public perceives the rich and powerful as it is a condemnation of the rich and powerful. ‘Billions’ shows why some of us root for the rich and scandalous 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

It is mouthwatering served slightly warm or at room temperature, just as it is, but it can handle a little dollop of whipped cream, if you desire. Sweet potato and orange are a perfect combination in your new favorite Thanksgiving pie 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

Clearly, money is an issue for Travelers Aid, as it is for every travel-related business and organization these days. Frugal Traveler: Frugal, but With Plenty to Give 2009-12-16T18:23:00Z

Just as it is outside the venue’s doors, redevelopment is ongoing and inevitable. In the galleries: Tales that unfold from the folding of paper 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

But it's not as important to me to do serious roles as it is to do comedy. Andy Samberg charts post-"SNL" career with Sandler 2012-06-12T18:55:52Z

Market day is as important socially as it is commercially — it’s a weekly chance for locals to resume friendships and get the current gossip. How to shop in a French market 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

Troy’s journey, as wide as it is deep, is as much about history as it is about character psychology. Casey versus Denzel: Oscar's lead actor race is a dramatic study in contrasts 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

He was delighted to find that “Sex Doll” was eligible “as it is a huge underground cult film in Japan, on the level perhaps of ‘El Topo.'” A Japanese Film Series, Brought to You by John Zorn 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

In this sense, Paley is a Whitmanesque writer: she loves what she sees, just as it is, and is in favor of it being even more itself. Grace Paley, the Saint of Seeing 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

When it does, the show will likely be as popular as it is now – maybe even more, if the durable fandom for "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" tells us anything. Why is the third season of "Love Is Blind" so disappointing? Because we seen its type before 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z

They have to hear it and understand it as it is sung. Sheldon Harnick, 'Fiddler' and 'She Loves Me' lyricist, sails back into the Tony spotlight at 92 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Even if I do something completely surreal and fantastical, the core will be about life as it is lived today. Noises off: Pros and cons in the job of theatre 2010-08-26T10:35:00Z

In “It’s De-Lovely,” he’s joined by Lady Gaga; theirs is a musical partnership that has been as fortifying as it is sweet. Review: What Does Ballet Need Now? Not Retro Fantasy. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

In her introduction, Hepola quips that she could be said to have written a satire of memoir, focused as it is on events she can't remember. 'Blackout': A deep, dark-humored drinking memoir 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

There is only one thing to do with the present moment and that is to accept it as it is. I miss playing music 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It’s an apt aesthetic detail for an artist mourning his uncommon city as it is rocked by turbulent political change. Five Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

I never think about decades or I never think of my age as it is. "Emily In Paris" star Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu: "It's so much fun to play a villain" 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

And his blustery, blubbery charm, backed as it is by a sly and acute intelligence, is hard to resist. Review: ‘Darkest Hour,’ or the Great Man Theory of History (and Acting) 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

As interesting as it is to see what Blumenthal will cook with, it's also fascinating to see what he won't: turtle is deemed too grim and stringy for consumption, even by him. Luther 2010-05-18T05:45:00Z

But the big question here is why any of "The Voices," as crisply made and stylish as it is, should matter or entertain. 'The Voices' speaks, albeit weakly, to fans of serial-killer films 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

And yet, it’s the social commentary of a woman slashing and bashing her toxic patriarchal society with machetes and rifles that allows “Av: The Hunt” to be as politically relevant as it is gripping. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

But what happens next — the damage to Margot and others — is as startling to the reader as it is to her. A Teenager Plays With Fire and Family Secrets in ‘The Margot Affair’ 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

To its many detractors, it amounts to little more than pretentious noodling, based as it is largely on improvisation. Steps to heaven 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

The lesson to be gleaned from the destruction of the old Penn Station is about the importance of preserving McKim’s public-spirited ideal for urban splendor as much as it is about preserving venerable buildings. Architecture: A Proposal for Penn Station and Madison Square Garden 2012-02-08T16:59:06Z

It’s a gorgeous, subtle imagistic portrait of the city as it is now, loaded up with the past and pregnant with possibility. “Detropia”: Can Detroit be saved? 2012-09-07T17:45:00Z

This means the finished product will be just as delicious on its own as it is when it's, for instance, mixed into a cake batter. What is marzipan? Plus, how to make it from scratch 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

But as it is written, all we know is that David likes the snow. Shalom Auslander on the tyranny of literary talent-spotting 2012-09-28T11:59:01Z

Moth’s journey is as much about her bond with her mother as it is about her own destiny. Which Kind of Witch Should She Be? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

That he can do so with such concision, magisterial command of metre and structure, and a great range of emotion, makes his work as pleasurable in its poetry as it is agonising in its message. Vendange Tardive by Peter Reading - review 2011-03-05T00:07:13Z

It sounds to me that the problem is not so much "laptops and silence" as it is the amount of time a customer spends in the establishment. What to Do When Laptops and Silence Take Over Your Cafe? 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

The story is not so much staged as it is engineered. A breezy Mary leads Olney’s ‘Poppins’ 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

"But then In the Bleak Midwinter goes on for much longer but no one minds, as it is absolutely gorgeous." Bleak midwinter to Sydney sun: King's College carol service gets a taste of Australia 2012-12-22T13:10:26Z

It also shows Gilligan’s willingness to try upend expectations about tone, pacing and style, as it is in many ways a very different beast from its progenitor. El Camino: what can we expect from Netflix's Breaking Bad movie? 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

The Jewish community's governing body said in a statement Tuesday that it is not against the game as long as it is not disturbing the congregation. Russian Jewish group OK with 'Pokemon Go' 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

“The undiscovered novelty of outer space will have a particularly unsullied charm for Gen Z, who are disillusioned with the world as it is,” said Ms. Zegler of Mintel. How Will We Eat in 2023? Here Are 10 Predictions. 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

In this, New York Fashion Week: Men’s, as it is officially known, is markedly different from its closest analogue, London Collections: Men. During Men’s Fashion Week, Media Connections Play a Part 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

“Everything in the Overlook signals trouble, trouble that unfolds at a leisurely pace almost as playful as it is hair-raising,” Janet Maslin wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Sherlock’ and Carrie Fisher’s ‘Wishful Drinking’ 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

That is the intention of the new photo collection “Both Sides of Sunset”: to showcase the city as it is. Los Angeles As It Is 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

This research, troubling as it is, offers journalists the chance to think differently. Perspective | Bad news for journalists: The public doesn’t share our values. But there’s hope. 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

The salad is lovely and light just as it is, but it is also wonderful with a sprinkle of salty feta cheese. This grain salad just might up the ante on tabbouleh 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

Hustle is fluid, fleet, as elegant as it is funky. A Walk in Their Heels: Meet the Hustle Evangelist 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

The story, such as it is, is a quirky repository of half-baked ideas, often stranding actors through no fault of their own. 'Tron: Legacy': Jeff Bridges gets stuck in the '80s-flavored sequel 2010-12-16T10:16:05Z

It's enough of a vanity project as it is. ArtsBeat: Apocalypse Soon: Tom Hanks Discusses His Web Series 'Electric City' 2012-07-16T12:00:46Z

The strangeness that De Palma conveys is as much psychological and even metaphysical as it is practical. Movie of the Week: “Mission to Mars” 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

But the book isn't so much a memoir as it is a how-to guide for getting products on celebrities, whether they be of the Hollywood or hometown variety. Book reveals secrets behind celebrity-fashion buzz 2011-09-21T19:37:05Z

It’s a gift as improbable as it is welcome. Heidi Schreck’s Play About the U.S. Constitution Offers an Oasis of Sanity 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

But the choice of an insistently transnational artist who, while acclaimed, is still not widely popular, and whose work is as dark as it is dazzling, does suggest the museum’s antennae are being retuned. Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

"In the movie we present North Korea as it is: It's a dangerous opponent, and it is aggressive, but it doesn't instigate this attack." Six North Korea-themed movies that beat Rogen and Franco to the punch 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

And yet, in the end, the movie is generous toward her, as it is to all its characters. Review: Girls Trip Is the Funniest, Raunchiest Movie of the Summer 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

“That really started and jelled the film as it is now.” ‘History Is Everything’: Making a Film About Black Maternal Mortality 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

It’s a nice bit of self-awareness for “Jane the Virgin” but it also shows that the Bechdel test, as useful as it is, isn’t the be-all and end-all for pop culture feminism. ‘Jane the Virgin’ Season 2, Episode 15: The Curse of Pablo 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

But then YoPo, as it is known, is not your typical purveyor of chilled dairy treats. There’s more in Chapel Hill than the Tar Heels, a family finds 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

It has always been a shift as unearthly to experience as it is difficult to achieve, at least to Mr. Wheeler’s standards. Doug Wheeler Builds ?Infinity Environment? at David Zwirner 2012-01-15T05:54:30Z

Okra’s unique viscosity allows you to quite literally stretch your soup from the bowl as it is spooned. Okra, a Summer Staple With So Much to Share 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

Life as it is may not be what a young person wants; life as it ought to be is perhaps not far from a fairy tale. This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on Fairy Tales 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

This year’s winner, 1944 by Jamala, doesn’t quite try to save the world in the classic Eurovision style as much as it reminds us that the world as it is is quite dreadful. Why the US embrace of Eurovision is good news for planet Earth 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

“These vignettes are sharp-eyed, sharp-edged and carefully deployed in a multigenerational jigsaw that’s as evasive as it is evocative. … Yet there is no doubt that this is a contemporary novel, insistent and alive.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

It’s something to be seen exactly as it is. What to see in L.A. galleries: Andrew Masullo's off-kilter world, plus Gary Lang and Ruth Pastine 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Don’t get me twisted; I love my neighborhood, where I come from and where I still am, as it is responsible for me being me. Stop saying you’re “from the ‘hood”: Guys who are really from the ‘hood never say this 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

But "Summer of '69" isn't so much Adams waxing nostalgic over the dog days of 1969 as much as it is a reference to the sexual position of the same name. 25 famous songs with misunderstood meanings 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

“It was before everything was as easily shareable on social media as it is now. So it just feels like a refresh, or a fun time to go back to and take inspiration from.” The return of the going-out top 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z

The dance becomes something of a game: What is part of the story, loose as it is, and what is imaginary? Dance Review: Deganit Shemy & Company at the Chocolate Factory 2012-06-22T21:21:15Z

It quickly becomes clear that Scott’s unflinching cocksureness is as much about the heartbreak he’s endured during his short life as it is his predilection for rebellion. Saying Goodbye to Strike Back’s Odd Couple 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

It’s an album that is didactic as it is diverse, showing an artist trying to make a place for himself in a quickly changing industry with ever-evolving taste. Talib Kweli on the Burdens of Being Hip-Hop’s Outspoken Conscience 2013-06-19T16:29:21Z

The excessive interest in film scores is as bad for music as it is for movies. Ornette Coleman’s Inspired Soundtrack for “Who’s Crazy?” 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

The monarch doesn’t celebrate the anniversary of the date she became queen, known as Ascension Day, as it is also the anniversary of her father’s death. Gun salutes mark Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee year 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

But if anyone from the Mouse House, as it is known in the industry, did contact him, he wouldn’t be afraid. Director Secretly Shoots Feature at Disney Parks 2013-10-11T19:13:27Z

It’s not so much a pizza aversion that vexes him as it is a cheese aversion. Scott Stossel’s secret: Atlantic editor revealed his raging anxiety. The reaction surprised him

It may go largely unremarked upon, but the life of a moderately successful rock singer, especially these days, can be as managerial as it is glamorous. Soccer Mommy Is Pushing Through the Indie-Rock Growing Pains 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

The word fills the room, delivered as it is in the sharp, ringing register of his character, which Kimmy Schmidt fans have grown to love. All hail Tituss, breakout star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

He begins with an exhilarating account of Brahms’s daunting Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, which does not sound all that daunting as it is played here so effortlessly. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, Harrison Birtwistle and More 2014-04-30T18:49:23Z

Star Wars is as much about interstellar conflict as it is about a teenager straining against the bonds of farmboy life. Despite its awards, Three Billboards is a shallow look at race in rural America 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

With this story of marriage on the rocks and the desperate quest for love, Cassavetes conjured an air of tragic exuberance that’s as original as it is thrilling. The Front Row: “Faces” 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

I like the Warholian notions of allowing the work to exist as it is, fusing photography and painting. Seven Artists on the Warhol Influence 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

“This garden, as big as it is, its productivity will probably never completely justify its cost,” said Crom. Capital Area Food Bank demonstration garden’s aim: to grow more gardens

Writing in Flavorwire, Jillian Mapes argued that the video isn’t so much about race as it is about gender, saying that it “speaks to a larger message about power and vulnerability.” Is appropriation automatically racist? 2014-04-17T18:14:00Z

It’s not as important to be of the people as it is to be the most well-known and the most admired of those people. Doomed to relive high school? Science that says who we were at 16 still defines us 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z

Jennifer McMahon melds the mystery genre with the supernatural for a psychological thriller that is as scary as it is enthralling. ‘The Winter People’: enduring ghosts in a New England town 2014-02-26T21:15:51Z

It's a surprisingly transparent ballad about his relationship with music; with its gentle pulse and dreamy atmospherics, it's as suitable for headphone listening as it is the dancefloor. Kaskade brings it back to the city that first inspired him 2013-10-03T14:42:21Z

But just when we’ve settled into that comfort, Davies plunges the brood into a nightmare ride through 15 years of upheaval that is as brutal as it is plausible. The quiet alarm of "Years and Years": A slow slide into dystopia, with cozy family dinners intact 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

The screenplay is as attentive to her condition, whose symptoms fluctuate, as it is to Jack’s drinking, and you admire the toughness required to carry out the physical labor of painting large-scale abstract canvases. Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche Star in ‘Words and Pictures’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

This Big Little Recipe is just as welcome in summer as it is in fall and winter. These 14 no-churn ice creams are summertime magic 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z

Not when I feel enough like a hamster in the wheel as it is. Stand up! 2013-01-10T19:40:00Z

We are not here to debate the evergreen issue, because America is divided enough as it is and this is the season of goodwill. Santa Baby, slip a sable under the faux tree for me. High-end fakes have taken over Christmas. 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

The village of Holcomb is located in the exact middle of the United States, as far from the sophisticated east and west coasts as it is possible to be. Truman Capote's In Cold Blood - rereading 2011-08-05T09:00:06Z

Network is like a time machine: when it was released four decades ago this week it more or less accurately predicted the state of media as it is 40 years later. Network at 40: the flawed satire that predicted Trump and cable 'news porn' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

"Serve this on your finest china or a paper plate . . . it's as easy to serve as it is to bake" Velveeta belongs in your desserts — including this nostalgic play on apple pie 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

That's as true for bridge design or economics as it is for performance. Tim Etchells on performance: 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration 2010-10-12T15:37:00Z

At the same time, the center of storytelling gravity is decidedly female, making this show as rich in poignant emotion as it is in Broadway pizzazz. 'Beautiful' makes a fetching Los Angeles debut at the Pantages 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z

How heartening to see that the idea of tempering justice with mercy, unfashionable as it is, persists. The Repo Man; 12 Year Old Lifer: True Stories – TV review 2013-05-03T06:00:00Z

Based as it is on the archives of EMI, a company that the Internet and Apple effectively destroyed, Burrows’s narrative lurches, like the fortunes of the corporation it shadows, to an abrupt end. Turn off your iPod and just look at this history of recorded sound 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

You could even say that the show’s star is not so much the isolated, obsessive Seurat as it is his eyes. Review: ‘Sunday in the Park With George,’ a Living Painting to Make You See 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

When the world is as dark as it is in this “House,” your eyes naturally seek the light, whatever its source. | 'The House of Blue Leaves' : A Papal Visit Has Dreamers Dreaming 2011-04-26T02:01:06Z

As a result, “The King” isn’t so much a diagnosis as it is a part of the mediascape that it decries. “The King,” Reviewed: A Documentary About Elvis That Wants to Be a Documentary About America 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

But unless Lachlan is hiding something up his sleeve, which is entirely possible, its title may not be prescient as much as it is a matter of common sense. Rupert Murdoch's retirement won't break Fox News — yet 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, "The Gray Man" is as mindless as it is thrilling — not unlike the similar Netflix offerings, "Extraction" or "The Old Guard." Netflix's "The Gray Man": Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans go loud in Russos' propulsive action flick 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

There's a high-speed car chase near the end that is as visceral as it is unexpected, as if Lou's internal turmoil has spilled out into the streets of Los Angeles. Crop of 'New Dangerous' filmmakers take edgy to new levels 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

And what we get is a show stripped of its pathos; Eidinger’s performance is as vibrant as it is off-putting and as aloof and performative as it is fascinating. ‘Hamlet’ Review: A Dirt-Eating Danish Prince, Born to Be Wild 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Pandya believes Sony Pictures will be able to absorb losses easily, as it is not unusual for a film of its budget to fall short. 'The Interview' makes first million in roller-coaster release 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Writing about food in Italy is often complicated enough as it is but proposing variations on traditional recipes could be thought of as an extreme sport in this country. "One nation united under pasta": How the "discovery of pasta" shaped Italy 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

Sonically, it is epic — an hour and 16 minutes of sounds that are at times ambient, at times rollicking, often digitally distorted — as dense as it is beautiful. Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner and Nico Muhly on making space music for a hard time on Earth 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

So, painful as it is, it must be re-broken before it can heal in the proper shape. The lasting trauma of rape 2013-02-18T01:00:00Z

Thriving as it is today, Bucharest’s Old Town was lucky to survive the communist period. Bucharest, Romania: Little Paris of the East 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

You should forget all that stuff: your task is to be a sincere artist writing only about what exists or what you think ought to exist, painting pictures of life as it is. This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on Fairy Tales 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

Exciting as it is, “Code of Silence” just makes you wonder what this man is doing in this city on this case. 1985: When ‘Rambo’ Tightened His Grip on the American Psyche 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

“His relationship with food isn’t based entirely on marvelous meals. It’s as much about the failures as it is about the successes,” Lindgren said, fidgeting a little with the excitement of a specialist. Dark Side of the Spoon: The Moods and Recipes of Nigel Slater 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

At Nurtureart, CPak Studio’s video “The Making of Neon Signs” tracks neon’s demise in Hong Kong as it is replaced by other technologies. Museum & Gallery Listings for Aug. 22-28 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

“The history of surgery, especially until the modern era, is as much about doctors’ innate conservatism as it is about innovation. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

This is as much the fault of the writing as it is of the performers. ‘Reckless,’ a Southern Drama on Sunday on CBS 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

But the country is really just an attractive, putatively exotic backdrop and as generic as it is in most mindless action blowouts. ‘Triple Frontier’ Review: Men on a Mission? Possible! 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

And don’t forget the coffee break, fika, as it is known. Summer, Reimagined — Minus the Gridlock. Five Alternatives 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

As satirical and clever as it is, “The Screwtape Letters” is nonetheless a sermon at heart, and sermons are rarely the stuff of riveting drama. | 'The Screwtape Letters': Adaptation of C. S. Lewis Novella at Westside Theater 2010-06-11T22:44:00Z

Interruption marketing, as it is known, ruled advertising for most of the 20th century. Noticed: Interrupting Enters the Public Discourse 2010-03-24T22:52:00Z

It's not really a spoof of the sitcom format, I guess, because the sitcom format is being as much honored and appreciated by the show as it is sometimes rattled by the show's energy. An interview with the dean of "Community" 2011-09-28T22:30:00Z

"If everything is left as it is, our cultural heritage is destined to die..." Italy's vulnerable beauty lacks funds and attention against earthquakes 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

Eventually Malachi’s world intersects with that of the teenagers, but the climax, such as it is, isn’t very climactic. Review: ‘Sunset Edge,’ Where Mysteries Lurk at an Abandoned Trailer Park 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Even though it tells a story from more than two centuries ago, Mr. Miranda’s “Hamilton” still manages to show the world as it could be, not as it is. Beyond ‘Hamilton,’ for Better and for Worse 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

The metaphor helps to organize the scattered dilemmas Mirza’s characters experience, and it is as ironic as it is profound. Sarah Jessica Parker Has a Book She Wants You to Read 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Sam Cooke's You Send Me was almost as gratefully dazzled as it is on the album, before the vocal gymnastics of Samurai Cowboy triumphantly emerged from a scanty beatbox exchange with drummer Kendrick Scott. Kurt Elling – review 2013-04-17T16:32:34Z

“It’s as true in any creative field as it is in food.” The Hippies Have Won (the Plate, at Least) 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

Berry proved in “Under the Harrow” that her prose can be as blistering as it is lush. A Daughter’s Search for a Father Wanted for Murder 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

If only the story scaffolding supporting it were as elegant as it is in similar social allegories such as "Get Out" – which is a tall order, I'll admit. "The Other Black Girl" peeks into the hidden horrors of being the only person of color at the office 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z

The show is not so much classic A&E as it is emblematic of its impresario in chief, another colony in the bizarre pop culture empire Wahlworld. The TV Watch: The Wahlberg Family Business Grows With ‘Breaking Boston’ 2014-03-12T21:09:49Z

For a novelist, the use of such personages is restrictive as much as it is fruitful. Regeneration by Pat Barker 2012-08-24T21:55:08Z

But “The Women” is about choice as much as it is about constraint, about performing identities and shucking them off, sometimes with tragic results. Deep Cuts: Writers and the Women They Worship 2013-04-17T19:07:02Z

But black viewers have gone missing when the core African-American presence was diminished, as it is this year. For Oscars Telecast, Few Black Nominees Mean Fewer Black Viewers 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Current polls suggest that politicians of both parties — and politics itself as it is practiced in Washington — are about as popular as crabgrass. | 'Born Yesterday': Daffy Blonde Gets Wise to Washington 2011-04-25T02:01:07Z

The current system is unsustainable – it cannot go on as it is. Coalition agreement - the full deal at a glance 2010-05-20T14:13:00Z

As fun as it is to watch Poehler and Offerman cut up, might there be more scenes of contestants actually cutting things up? Review | ‘Making It’ is a charming reminder that we are in the grips of a cutesiness epidemic 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

But "Home" is as striking as it is elusive, as seductive as it is ephemeral. Review: 'Home' is a sweet place that can't be nailed down in Scott/Powell Performance's sumptuous performance 2010-05-21T17:12:00Z

“I find it pretty easy to tap into that. It’s not as much a male-female thing as it is capturing Boruto’s curiosity and the way everything he sees excites him.” Anime’s Teen Boys and the Women Who Voice Them 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

The plot, such as it is, troubles only a few introductory pages: A stranger arrives and reveals that the town carpenter, Tetsuya, is in fact “the best archer in the country.” Review | Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Archer’ aims for profundity but misses 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

Drawn from Syms’s own experiences as a visual artist, “The African Desperate” is less an art-school parody as it is a portrait of existential incongruity, where contempt mingles with deep affection. ‘The African Desperate’ Review: Double Speak 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

"It may be slim, but it's the same as it is for other people." Illinois Lottery goes online as prize hits record 2012-03-30T11:43:00Z

Resonant as it is, “Upload” treats death itself fairly lightly. Life Is More Like a Simulation. On These Shows, So Is Death. 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

“As long as it is not disturbed, it posses no health risks,” said Cheyenne Westphal, chairwoman of Sotheby’s contemporary art department in Europe. Inside Art: Brooklyn Museum Experiments With First Impressions 2011-02-10T21:37:20Z

Ballet, in other words, is as much about the wandering male eye as it is about the female form. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bayadère’ at Met Opera House 2012-05-23T22:30:07Z

Its precision is as marvelous as it is captivating. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

This sweet, modest, romantic interlude is as clichéd as it is contrived. | Theater in the Dark, With Lights: Lots of Modern Angst, and Free Beer 2011-02-11T22:30:51Z

But her father's pain is clearly as real as it is uncomfortably public. How "Hannah Montana" destroyed Billy Ray Cyrus 2011-02-16T16:17:00Z

The difference here is that you’ve made her your permanent point of focus – and that’s going to be just as much of a burden for her as it is for you. I’m worried sick for my daughter, 26, after her relationship split | Dear Mariella 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z

As for this documentary, it's as enjoyable and personal as it is insightful and wide-reaching; essential viewing in whatever format. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-05-11T23:05:13Z

Dissecting the political rhetoric used in regard to American veterans, he explained that he was “uncomfortable” with the word “hero” as it is tossed around by politicians. Chris Hayes Has Arrived With ‘Up’ 2012-06-22T20:45:34Z

We hear several times from a monstrous local councillor obsessed with manhole-cover theft, whose foolproof "Sex Hex" is as creepy as it is funny. Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker 2010-05-14T23:27:00Z

But the frequency of their talks and Ms. Rubé’s advocacy was not always as prevalent as it is now. For Interracial Couples, Advocacy Is a Love Language 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Like every Norwegian I spoke to on the matter, Anna defended the practice, at least as it is conducted in their home country. Frugal Traveler Blog: Partying Above the Arctic Circle 2012-07-10T20:39:47Z

As for director Joel Polis, he fails to mitigate the static quality of his material, planting his performers in undynamic tableaux as they drub home a message as muddled as it is repetitive. Commendable ambition but cliched narrative in 'Disconnection' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

But, listenable as it is, it's not up there with the best work of her former band. Cheryl Cole and Nadine Coyle are disappointing as solo turns but could Nicola Roberts surprise us? 2010-10-22T23:06:00Z

But there’s gratifying nourishment in Ra’s recipe, a restorative fantasy as much as it is an unabashed tear-jerker. ‘… What the End Will Be’ Review: Learning to Let Go 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Vanessa is rewriting what happens, even as it is happening. Girl, Interrupted 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

As the action, such as it is, begins, signals indicate that someone has died. Review: In ‘The Height of the Storm,’ Two Stars and an Enigma 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Photograph: www.myqua.com Nicolas Jaar's Space Is Only Noise album sounds like a soundtrack to a new kind of nouvelle vague movie, filled as it is with weighty silences and moody ruminations in French. This week's new live music 2011-07-22T23:07:14Z

Both supply acidity, but the tomatoes have quite enough of that as it is, and adding extra cuts through the richness of the other flavours in a way I don’t particularly like. How to cook the perfect pasta puttanesca 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

But Cancel the Apocalypse is much more ambitious: a treatise on why the human race cannot go on as it is, and what we might be able to do by way of an alternative. Cancel the Apocalypse by Andrew Simms – review 2013-02-28T11:00:01Z

But as it is, it brings to light a sociologically piquant episode in American art history. Review: Vern Blosum, ‘Late Work’ 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

They will do any flavour of ice-cream you like, as long as it is vanilla. The wonder of seaside cafes: neon, nougat and knickerbocker glories 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

In the end, “The Keepers” is as much a character study as it is a crime documentary, if not more so. Review: ‘The Keepers’ on Netflix: True Crime, and Lots of It 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

But his mom wants the room to be tasteful, as it is right off the kitchen of their Kensington Cape Cod. Taking a tween boy’s room from Legos to laid-back 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

Their story is as improbable as it is Dickensian in its twists and turns and sudden reversals of fortune. Books of The Times: Bruce Wagner’s ‘Empty Chair’ Novellas Explore Guru Territory 2013-12-16T23:03:03Z

In a program note, she characterizes “Preludes and Fugues” as “the world as it ought to be” and “Yowzie” as the world “as it is.” Review: From Twyla Tharp, 2 New Pieces for Her Anniversary Tour 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

Raw ambition isn’t merely regarded with distaste, as it is in many cubicles; it warrants existential punishment. Forget the Downturn; Punish the Lazybones 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z

But essentially, this is a woman’s story told with such truthfulness that it is not so much a life observed as it is felt. Elena Ferrante’s ‘Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Classify it however you like; it is a shockingly powerful work of art, as funny as it is flaying. 10 Monologues That Make Solo Music 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

Powell instead carries the torch into the present, naming those singers now performing the work anew, painting a portrait of the Aldeburgh festival as it is today. Benjamin Britten biographies by Paul Kildea and Neil Powell – review 2013-02-16T14:30:01Z

"Idol" is starting a new season even as it is shedding its old style. 2010-01-13T20:35:00Z

The sight of Carter in extremis is as funny as it is disturbing. Review: Sam Shepard’s ‘Simpatico,’ Cut Loose and Roaming Wild 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

They create work that is as comfortable on television as it is in a museum. Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger turn animation into a wild sensory art installation 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Gautama Buddha would say that her unhappiness stems from “not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.” “Why am I so unhappy?”: “Transparent” enters a season of grief 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

The Speech, as it is called by Ms. Fisher’s friends and family, turned her into a global figure. AIDS Activist Mary Fisher Is Defined by Words, Not Disease 2012-08-22T21:10:19Z

This is work as it is imagined in When the Whistle Blows, the cheesy fictional sitcom in Gervais's TV series Extras – but enlarged to glossy, emotionally supercharged feature length. Cemetery Junction: Film review 2010-04-15T11:30:00Z

"The Missing of the Somme," by Geoff Dyer, is as elegant and poignant as it is slim. 'The Missing of the Somme': Geoff Dyer on the lingering losses of WWI 2011-08-31T21:32:07Z

It’s as laborious for the user to write as it is for followers to read. Welcome to Twitter hell: Imagine Donald Trump trolling us all — 10,000 characters at a time 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

The awards contenders in the current top 10 are doing well as it is. Oscar nominations are box office jewels for The King's Speech 2011-01-31T13:01:43Z

In Alison Anderson’s brisk, colloquial translation from the French, “Life Form” fuses the sincere with the subversive to tell a story as winning as it is perverse. ‘Life Form’: a fan’s notes to a novelist 2013-02-06T23:32:45Z

But this book is not so much about confirming the existence of female exploitation as it is about watching one young girl begin to comprehend it. Girl Hunter or Girl Hunted? 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

But before everyone knows them, only some people do, a degree of fame as pleasant as it is temporary. Il Volo, the Teenage Italian Singers, Go on Tour 2011-10-02T02:30:07Z

Immigration is a huge issue in Britain at the moment, as it is in most developed societies. ArtsBeat: Q. & A.: John Lanchester on 'Capital' 2012-06-13T16:28:11Z

He's showing sexual violence as it is: appalling, obscene, messy, inhuman, with not a trace of glamour about it. The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified? 2010-06-12T23:06:00Z

Wood is often just as frank about terrain that is as endless as it is unyielding, with surprises and pitfalls that are as brutal as they are random. In the age of Google Maps, why walk the 4,000 mile Nile River? Levison Wood's book explains 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

"When you're a creative person, you constantly need to be challenged – and as great as this show is, and as fun as it is, it's just not a challenge anymore," DeGeneres told the publication. Ellen DeGeneres says she's ending her talk show because it's no longer a "challenge" 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

And it is as much about devices, like smartphones and wireless networks, as it is about social networks.” Navigating With Social Media 2011-05-05T05:27:43Z

Pregnancy is brutal as it is, but there is something about the experience of childbirth that stretches in every sense your imaginary capacity for brutality. Swinton talks blood, birth and tomatoes in Cannes 2011-05-14T15:01:05Z

The shrine is popular among company employees and business owners because as it is dedicated to two of seven lucky gods. Japanese throng shrines to pray for profitable 2017 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

On the other hand, Catelyn knows who he is–and that knowledge is as limiting for her as it is empowering. Game of Thrones Watch: Prisoners and Free Folk 2012-05-14T10:18:36Z

For any spring-flowering branch, you can cut it just as it is about to flower, and over the next month or so, that includes star and saucer magnolias, flowering dogwood, redbud and crab apples. Forced branches can bring a bit of early spring indoors 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

It is as much an ethos to live by for Stockholm’s entrepreneurial jet set, all looking to create the next Spotify, as it is for its criminal underworld. ‘Snabba Cash’ Depicts a Sweden Flowing with Money and Blood 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

Appropriation is the rule of the music market, as it would be for decades, as it is today. "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom": Chadwick Boseman's finale performance is stunning 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

“It is more ominous than any oblivion, to see the world as it is,” the poet Carolyn Forché wrote in “Blue Hour.” Kristen Radtke Considers Another American Epidemic: Loneliness 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z

And Bach certainly would never have heard Arabic being widely spoken, as it is now, in the bustling, largely immigrant neighborhood of Neustadt. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

“It’s a very ambitious book to write, about a case like this with a scope as vast as it is,” Mr. Haynes said. Hunting — and Haunted by — a Serial Killer 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

Even as it is, it’s hard to fault the parents of children from schools like Public School 87, who raised $1.57 million for computers, science kits, desk chairs and dictionaries. Motherlode Blog: Amid Million Dollar PTAs, a School Fights to Keep Its Library 2012-06-04T14:36:45Z

The control that Lee imagines isn’t so much gun control as it is self-control. Spike Lee’s Necessary, Overwhelming “Chi-Raq” 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

While O’Connell was negotiating his terror, he says, his wife asked him to pay attention to the world as it is: “This was a house, and people were trying to live in it.” ‘Notes From an Apocalypse’ Is a Timely Tour of Preparing for the Worst 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

The influence of Judson on current dance artists is as inspirational as it is oppressive. Beyond Judson Dance, Shows at MoMA and Danspace 2012-12-23T08:20:05Z

The note reads, "I won't disappear," which is as much a message to the man in front of him as it is to us. "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" turns victims into people – but is it enough? 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

One was an affable socializer who was uncomfortable with giving appraisals and was forever putting them off, while the other was a no-nonsense tough guy who would tell it as it is. How psychopaths take over 2012-10-13T17:00:00Z

But it's as much about marketing, about feeding western expectations of progress needed to sell the film, as it is about the rights of Saudi women. Wadjda illustrates how Arab cinema is just beginning to come of age 2013-07-24T13:01:47Z

This text underpins Abdoh’s novel, which is as much a meditation on time and memory as it is a book about war. Torn Between War and Art, a Journalist Chooses Both 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Shunning chronology and adhering instead to an emotional logic, “Beginners” is as much about memory — its slipperiness and subjectivity — as it is about grief. When Life Throws Those Curveballs 2011-05-27T17:34:12Z

Flowerbx, now four years old, has become the go-to florist in Europe for the fashion set — a consumer base that is as picky as it is needy when it comes to blooms. The Flower Disrupter 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Blanco's identity crisis is acted out in front of us, in a show that's as much a piece of Manhattan performance art as it is a hip-hop gig. Mykki Blanco – review 2013-01-29T15:08:34Z

I saw it on Saturday night; it’s as much of a historical revelation as it is a musical delight. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

“It still has a long way to go before it is as generous and automatic as it is in New York, but we have moved the ball substantially forward.” $50 Million for the Hammer Museum, and Fresh Energy for Arts Giving in L.A. 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

And as self-contained as it is, the book opens up vistas to other books. In ‘The Mirage Factory,’ a Thriving Los Angeles Born From Humble Beginnings 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Corny as it is, I’m a believer in giving thanks at Thanksgiving, and I felt a visceral gratitude to the animals that were feeding our family. I shot a deer for Thanksgiving. Here’s why. 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

It’s just so unusual for American ballet to display character acting as vivid and widespread as it is here from a large number of performers. Dance Review: ‘The Nutcracker’ From American Ballet Theater at BAM 2013-12-15T22:25:37Z

One measure of LocoL’s success might be if the name “Watts” can become as synonymous with their burgers as it is with this dark chapter in LA history. The Los Angeles fast food revolution 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

What happens in the aftermath of “Brexit,” as it is known, is far from clear, but American travelers heading abroad will see some immediate effects. How ‘Brexit’ Will Affect Travel to Europe 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Hiddleston is shooting a movie in Hawaii and, as it is, his skin doesn’t look sufficiently sun damaged. Welcome to Skull Island: on set with Tom Hiddleston and the biggest King Kong ever 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The result is a gripping, terrifying novel that is as suspenseful as it is heartbreaking. Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

The point is that language is not fresh and new, and this is as true for the Oxford English Dictionary or for Dr Johnson as it is for me. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z

It's as much about a love affair as it is a nod to the magic of theater itself. 'The Fantasticks' reaches mind-boggling milestone 2013-09-12T13:15:14Z

The desire to identify a new generation of black filmmakers is as important for American cinema as it is for filmmakers and audiences. ?Pariah? Reveals Another Side of Being Black in the U.S. 2011-12-23T18:57:21Z

Some politicians not withstanding, I honestly believe that what’s happening in North Carolina and elsewhere is as much about fear and ignorance as it is about hostility. Are public-restroom monitors and birth-certificate checks in our future? 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

For 35 years, the Kellogg Collection has sold painted chests, gold mirrors, ceramic lamps and hand-woven rugs to Washingtonians who love the store’s unchanging look pretty much just as it is. The reign of beige: In a political town, design stays neutral 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Violence gets delegated, and it gets explicit.That’s not to say it always needs to be quite as brutal as it is in Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones: how to win – by the British army and other experts 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

It's an exercise in plangent that is as much indebted to his own musical icon, Woody Guthrie, as it is to country touchstones like Hank Williams and Waylon Jennings. Justin Townes Earle ? review 2011-07-29T17:30:49Z

As hard to watch as it is impossible to tear yourself away. Series: Watch this TV highlights 14/08/2012 2012-08-14T13:57:25Z

Of the concert itself, I recall almost nothing besides the screaming, a hive hysteria as hard to explain as it is embarrassing to relate. The Beatles Awaken a New Sensation 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

Everything staying exactly the same as it is. Stay Single and Don?t Change: Life Lessons From TV Season Finales 2012-05-16T10:00:18Z

Creating the greatest value for writers should lie in keeping their print and digital publishing in one place, as it is crucial for the promotion, publicity and management of texts – and for fair pricing. Will the iPad change books? 2010-05-28T10:53:00Z

But sublime as it is, under our current “shelter in place” order, I went a bit stir crazy in under a week; 10 days of enforced idleness could seem like a year. When the World Stops, Traveling in John Keats’s ‘Realms of Gold’ 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

“My work is as political as it is formal.” Sam Gilliam, Abstract Artist of Drape Paintings, Dies at 88 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

Back then, social media was not as inextricably linked with reality TV as it is now. Little Mix's Jesy Nelson on surviving the trolls: 'People were saying horrific things' 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

It’s not easy for a performer to make that kind of self-consciousness seem as emotional as it is intellectual, and to make us feel we’re experiencing exactly her point of view. Theater Review: Mary McCann in ‘Harper Regan’ at Atlantic Theater Company 2012-10-11T02:00:00Z

Demeyer views “Crowd” as a political work “because it’s like seeing the world as it is with all the senses,” she said. How Does Time Pass at This Rave? With Hypnotic Precision. 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

The deep significance of the land to the local identity is as unmistakable in Fayetteville as it is in Davis. West Virginia’s Small-Town Revival 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

It is almost as embarrassing asking Plant those questions people want asking about Led Zeppelin as it is for him to answer them. The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is as avowedly pro-life as it is pro-refugee. Conservative Christians are divided on Trump’s stance on refugees — but they can be convinced 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

That consolation is every bit as present in “Zero K” as it is in the best of DeLillo’s previous novels, down to the pleasures of the final page. Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

"We've worked on the project for the last two years and it was so important to him, as it is to me," RJ said. Robin Gibb's family planning public memorial 2012-05-28T10:16:30Z

Still, as much as it is about fighting statistics and changing the narrative, it is also about pizza. She proved them wrong: A deaf couple is opening a pizzeria in D.C. with all deaf employees 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

This is significant as it is presumably the only reason the Night King and his army haven't yet attempted to cross it. Will the Wall Fall in the Season 7 Finale of 'Game of Thrones?' 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

This is as true of children’s media as it is of blockbuster adult entertainment. 4 reasons America’s afraid of women with friends 2014-01-29T20:12:00Z

As fun as it is to see a Van Gogh next to your bookcase or good old Hatshepsut sitting in your chair, it’s a bit of a one-trick pony and too made-for-sharing on social media. Review | Miss visiting museums? Engaging with art on a small phone screen can actually be rewarding. 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

The person he becomes as a result of his ordeal is as much of a surprise to him as it is to us. Review: A Psychologist Is Put in the Hot Seat in ‘The Drowning’ 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

IS wants to do away with “false idols”, promising instead an Islamic caliphate that threatens to be as extreme as it is thuggish. Stones that speak 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

For that matter, “Wonder Woman” is as harsh on the weaponization of paganism as it is on that of latter-day monotheistic religions. Wonder Woman Review: Patty Jenkins's Hard-Won Wisdom 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

Like his best work with the Muppets, Williams’s music is naïve without condescension, as playful as it is heart-whole beautiful. Revisiting Childhood Wonder With Winnie the Pooh and Emmet Otter 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

I’m going to tell everything as it is.” Mya Taylor, the transgender actor who could make Hollywood history 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

The temptation of the exquisite shoe, Ms. Bergstein shows, is as irresistible as it is irrational: to stand apart from everyone else, as soon as your toes hit the ground. Books Of Style: Following Footprints, Down Through the Ages 2012-06-22T20:53:46Z

So, strange as it is to us, Lincoln thought he was cursed. Abraham Lincoln, bare-knuckle brawler? 2012-12-12T22:26:00Z

It’s a delightful film – one that’s as much in love with London as it is with its two stars. Simon Pegg: ‘I find it very hard to write for women’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

It promises themes of sex, violence and politics, set as it is in Las Vegas at the start of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. This week's new theatre 2013-02-02T06:00:18Z

The implication was raucously clear, just as it is when Trump regularly inflates the number of Syrian immigrants admitted by the Obama Administration: they are swamping us. On Brexit, the 2016 Euro Championship, and Trump 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

His new book is as much an indictment of the traditional supermarket’s role in American unhealthiness as it is about the evolution of the model. What’s New in the Supermarket? A Lot, and Not All of It Good 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

“I don’t think it’s a problem of who you’re picking,” he said, “as much as it is: How many options are available to minorities in film, particularly in quality films?” In Hollywood, must ‘white’ always equal ‘universal’? 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

The result is a book that is as much about innovation and ingenuity as it is about wood, coal, kerosene or oil. A History of the Energy We Have Consumed 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Maybe that’s a consequence of the constant self-curation that goes on in our social-media-filled world, or maybe it’s just advertising as it was, as it is, as it ever will be. The absolutely delicious Bolivian spirit all drinkers need to know 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

I think a lot of creative people are driven by that same thing — it’s not so much the drive for success as it is the drive to avoid failure. Life Lessons of Ian Schrager 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

"Death is as random as it is unexplainable. If you're very skillful — like Matt — you might tilt the odds a little, but not much." A gripping 'One Million Steps' examines Marines in Afghanistan 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

She also created two licks called “fill ins” to be played between sections of a song — or at the start of a song, as it is in “Under Mi Sleng Teng.” Sleng Teng: How a Japanese woman influenced Jamaica’s reggae 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

The diversity of assignments can be as hilarious as it is rewarding for an actor. 2010-01-13T05:52:00Z

The field was open then as it is now. Have personal essays gotten too personal? 2013-03-17T17:00:00Z

It’s also the movie in which the Leia and Han romance really gets underway, as messy and dysfunctional as it is, and everyone is forced to make hard choices. 25 Years Later, Return of The Jedi Deserves Another Look 2013-06-29T09:45:56Z

But “Fly,” which was performed to a crowded and enthusiastic audience in the New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s Victoria Theater here on Sunday, is as unabashedly a theatrical event as it is a historical one. Dance Review: Modern-Dance History Times Five, With Plenty of Theatricality 2010-12-14T06:00:17Z

On the contrary, the lithe runtime is designed to maximize impact while minimizing one's attention expenditure, making it as easy to breeze right by the little barbs as it is to binge. With "Maxxx," O-T Fagbenle subversively takes on pop culture's soft-serve cultural appropriation 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

In addition, the “Nature Isle of the Caribbean,” as it is known, has been a regional leader in the development of geothermal electricity, with a goal to source its electricity fully from renewable energy. Going somewhere? Try one of the 10 places named as most ethical travel destinations 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

Eccentric as it is, “Future” is one of the best skeptical books about the online world, alongside Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows,” Robert Levine’s “Free Ride” and Lanier’s own “You Are Not a Gadget.” Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z

Necks craned, passers-by peer for a better view of the All Iowa Lawn Tennis Club, as spectacular as it is incongruous, and a plume of dust forms in their curious wake. Tending to Grass, and to Grief, on a Tennis Court in Iowa 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

Written in lean, graceful prose that offers ample evidence of her talent, the book is as much a window into the mythologized publication as it is a chronicle of one woman’s self-discovery. Janet Groth Describes Her Life at The New Yorker 2012-06-27T22:01:52Z

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends mothers breastfeed for at least a year and then “as long as it is the right choice for you and your baby.” Here comes the reality breastfeeding show 2012-07-09T15:53:00Z

The other film that kept returning to me was Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, centred as it is on the absurd rituals of a group of middle-class people. The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z

She is keen to stress that her documentary, released as it is for the centenary, was not intended as “a super-critical Bergman-bashing film”. Beauty and the beast: Ingmar Bergman’s flawed way with women 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z

“I want to believe that the subjects are indeed telling it as it is,” she added, “but here I find I don’t care if I’m being snookered.” ‘Black Love’ Keeps It Simple: Honesty, Not Antics 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

So do Dennis’s dreams, which are as hard for us to distinguish from his waking life as it is for him to separate Iraq from New York in his mind. Review: ‘Raw Bacon’ Finds Fearful Poetry in an Iraq War Vet’s Mind 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

But it’s also suspenseful, devious, well-constructed and as filled with ethical questions as it is with gangsters. Review: Dennis Lehane’s ‘World Gone By’ Completes a Loose Trio of Novels 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

It’s a deeply human story, a meditation on family pride as much as it is a revealing look into the intricacies of Klingon politics. Why Aliens Are So Important to 'Star Trek' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Persuasive as it is, that accretion of evidence made no dent in Ms. Helayel’s defenses. Front Row: Is Issa in Line for Throne? 2010-11-24T20:50:00Z

Their relationship, such as it is, is based on compartmentalizing their desire for each other from the familial and career obligations intrinsic to who they are. From "You" to "Barry," we're fascinated by audacious grifters: The man who deceives us and himself 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

Of course, you are very welcome to change your mind later and suggest alterations or new features you'd like to see, but for now, I'll keep it as it is. Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading this week? 2013-06-04T17:36:24Z

But unlike some other, very technical bread books, the tone in these volumes is warm, encouraging, funny — sometimes even striving for poetic — as much as it is educational. The Year’s Best Baking Cookbooks, for Novices and Pros 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

Big as it is, it is dwarfed by the expanse of the Great Hall, and its aura of silent majesty is dampened by the distracting bustle of ordinary mortals. Art Review: A Pharaoh Lords Over the Met as a 10-Year Houseguest 2011-08-22T15:48:51Z

It’s likely that your child is getting plenty of iPad time in quarantine as it is. How to Get Your Kids to Stay 6 Feet Away… From Everything 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z

The struggle between promoting individual responsibility and helping others in the community was as pressing in Addams’s time as it is today. The American’s dilemma: Jane Addams, Barack Obama & the urge to help others 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

But I also guess that some of the tension, quiet as it is, within Louise might not release as powerfully if the story were set in an American city. This Week in Fiction: Jensen Beach 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

Small as it is, Engel says the Shop is one of the better venues Fringe has for dance, though most dance events this month will be in the Atlas. Fringe Festival happens in a lot of places

It's as much a story about class and the gulfs between people often on the same side as it is about sport in a very different era. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

In its new iteration, the Brooklyn Marriott, as it is known, will emphasize its ties to the neighborhood by serving locally produced foods including Brooklyn Roasting Company coffee, Brooklyn Winery wines and Ovenly pastries. A Makeover for Brooklyn Marriott 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

I don’t want this movie to be as relevant as it is. Lena Waithe’s Art of Protest 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

It is important to stress that, as long as it is not excessive, handwashing to minimise the risk of coronavirus spread from other people is a rational response to a genuine threat. The hellish side of handwashing: how coronavirus is affecting people with OCD 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

The language of queer humiliation—both by others and by one’s self—is central to Lemebel’s poetics, just as it is central to a certain strain of queer culture. A Surreal End for an Unforgettable Queen: Pedro Lemebel, 1952-2015 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

This, it seems, is the first movie to be explicitly marketed around the disastrous life of its own star, making it an indictment of contemporary celebrity as funny as it is upsetting. Lindsay Lohan as Liz Taylor: a comeback with all the hallmarks of another disaster 2012-11-24T15:37:28Z

This induction is as much ours as it is yours.” ArtsBeat: Yauch, Beastie Boys Rapper Known as ?MCA,? Dies 2012-05-04T18:28:16Z

But the popularity of this discourse in such ethnically diverse new money communities suggests that the mania for “border protection” may not be as simply racist as it is a kind of financial xenophobia. Who will win my bogan vote? 2013-05-27T01:30:00Z

It was perhaps the only album in history equally beloved by punk rockers, pop fans and metal heads, an accomplishment as unlikely then as it is now. Review | Remembering Kurt Cobain as a sweetly childlike, achingly opaque creative force 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Was there ever a moment during the making of “The Godfather” that you realized it was going to be as great as it is? Al Pacino on ‘The Godfather’: ‘It’s Taken Me a Lifetime to Accept It and Move On’ 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

That long period in the desert, such as it is, ended Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival. Cannes 2015: 'Mad Max: Fury Road' has George Miller shaping the future 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

It's as impossible to imagine Goodman on the cover of Time Magazine as it is to imagine Jonathan Franzen getting called "warm and sensuous". How to turn a great American novel into a Great one 2011-02-17T09:49:44Z

Perspective, point-of-view: This is the issue, as it is in all of city life. 'The Spectators' illustrates the push and pull of city life 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

The visual allusion is as painful a suggestion as it is an astounding idea. “Timbuktu” and “Girlhood” 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

Giving one of your romantic leads an incurable ailment is a device as narratively neat as it is lazy. Let the Beautiful Sick Girl genre die: Why “Everything Everything” should be the end of a tired trope 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

It’s fine as long as it is not too much. The Bachelor season 20 episode 8 recap: must we bring the families into this? 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

But nor is she quite at home with her life as it is; and a kind of weariness, a build-up of "amorphous longings, shapeless desires" has led her to this point of departure. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – review 2013-04-11T08:01:01Z

Terminal A was chosen as the home of the ArtPort Residency, as it is officially named, “because it was a space we completely controlled,” Ms. Scully said. You Have Airport Stories. Now, an Airport Will Write a Story for You. 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Youth is an essence as much as it is a phase of life. At Trillectro, youth is not wasted 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z

Carting a kid about for a day is stressful enough as it is, and fretting about hitting a seemingly arbitrary vegetable target just added another level of anxiety to proceedings. The 10-a-day diet tested: 'I feel like a sentient composter' 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

Spooky and spectacular as it is, “The Murder of Crows” does not quite cohere into an original Gesamtkunstwerk. ‘The Murder of Crows’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-08-09T15:11:07Z

Was this a genuine riot, as it is so often described – a shocked response to Stravinsky's simultaneously primitivist and modernist depiction of an ancient Russian ritual devoted to the seasons? The Rite of Spring: 'The work of a madman' 2013-02-12T19:59:01Z

Hannah Verdier Set as it is in Seville, you suspect that the appeal of this series depends greatly on the travelogue aspect and the Andalusian humidity. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 26-30 November 2012-11-26T07:00:00Z

The verdict of Bloomberg News: “ ‘Scandalous’ is as ecumenically innocuous as it is pointless.” ‘Scandalous’ doesn’t raise many eyebrows on Broadway | Theater review 2012-11-23T20:02:49Z

And it was my most autobiographical novel yet—and I tend to be pretty autobiographical as it is. “Lying to make life bearable”: Cheryl Strayed interviews memoirist Rob Roberge 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

But Dailey’s essay is as much about the culture of Los Angeles and its tendency to embrace pretty lies as it is about the history of regional flora. Weekend Reading: A History of L.A. Palm Trees, Two Civil War Families 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

TIFF, which this year will show more than 300 movies during its run of 11 days, is as valuable to programmers of arcane, experimental work as it is to theater owners looking for straight-up crowd-pleasers. Perspective | Want to know who will rule the upcoming awards season? Keep an eye on Toronto, the Oscar kingmaker. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t a matter of deep, soul-searching exploration, as it is for the key characters in his show. Up, Up and Away: The Trippy Tales Behind ‘Flying Over Sunset’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

First, Montmartre was a dangerous place in the 1890s and yet the memory of it, preserved as it is today as a tourist attraction, is soft and nostalgic. Toulouse-Lautrec and the real story of the Moulin Rouge 2011-08-17T11:28:54Z

The implication is as literary as it is personal: What control, if any, should a protagonist have over the outcome of the plot? How Much Power Do Women Want? A Novel Circles the Question 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Today, age for the intelligent woman is becoming an indicator of experience, wisdom, competence, as it is for the intelligent man, he said. BBC case fuels debate on changing the face of TV 2011-02-09T12:13:09Z

So yeah, sad as it is, I think you gotta be the snitch. We were breast-fed really late 2012-05-21T00:00:00Z

As powerful as it is bleak, it cannot leave audiences cold: You may hate it, or you may love it, but you will definitely have some reaction. Review | The American Dream as American nightmare: An opera for our time 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z

You begin to sing, such as it is. ArtsBeat: CMJ: Kirin J Callinan at Glasslands Gallery 2012-10-17T08:54:01Z

His images of landscapes are among the most ecstatic and rapturous ever filmed, and he patiently observes his characters moving through them with a determination that’s as existentially committed as it is gracefully choreographic. Postscript: Abbas Kiarostami, 1940—2016 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

But a bag must be attractive, particularly as it is an instrument of seduction, intriguing and surprising men. The secret life of handbags 2011-04-05T13:00:18Z

I don't know why I call it an imbalance since the disproportion is in perfect poise with the world as it is. Are Shakespeare's women second-class citizens? 2012-07-19T11:09:28Z

Her pain is evident, as it is in another chapter about her scary, physically abusive relationship with an ex-boyfriend. Amy Schumer’s new book has hilarious moments, but it’s dark, too 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

As tempting as it is to stuff a single large pumpkin, though, the degree of difficulty rises along with the poundage. The stuffed-pumpkin dish that will make vegetarians (and everyone else) happy this Thanksgiving 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

“This is as strange for you as it is for me,” Noah admitted. Watch the best moments from the first-ever “Daily Show with Trevor Noah” 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

Gorgeous as it is, “Like Someone in Love” offers much less intellectual substance than its forerunner. At New York Film Festival, Michael Haneke and Raúl Ruiz 2012-10-02T12:35:42Z

But the tale is as biblical as it is ultimate, and the man implies that the end has happened through godly fanaticism. Review: ‘The Road,’ by Cormac McCarthy 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

And for Seattle-based readers: Paul Allen initially wanted to name his museum at Seattle Center “The Jimi Hendrix Museum,” and MoPOP, as it is called now, is an excellent source for anything Hendrix. An introduction to Jimi Hendrix, Seattle’s own international music icon, through books, movies and music 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

Preposterous as it is, “The Calling” remains stubbornly suspenseful until near the end, when the yawning plot holes become too large to ignore. ‘The Calling,’ a Murder Mystery From Jason Stone 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

After the world premiere of “Sleeping In the Forest,” the question for Bassingthwaighte — as it is for any composer — will be whether there is longevity for the piece. Philharmonia Northwest presents old and new music created entirely by Seattle composers 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Shaffer’s literary ambitions also ran smack into the fact that Biden’s fan appeal, such as it is, seems to be tied to his role as Obama’s sidekick. Is there such thing as a Joe Biden superfan? 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

But the feeling of divorce, such as it is, is real. “GLOW” wrestles with the particular pain of friendship divorce 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z

The ghostlike human presence is Strachan’s memorial to a Buddhist victim of China’s occupation of Tibet, and haunting as it is, it is the exhibition image which lodges the longest in memory. Artist Tavares Strachan’s show at Frye packed with subversive drama 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

But her vision remains searingly her own, a relentlessly unvarnished view of human existence and its effect on nature that is as bleak as it is exuberant and, in this, disconcertingly inspiring. Art In Review: ZOE STRAUSS: ‘10 Years, a Slideshow’ 2012-07-12T21:25:56Z

LA's Electronic Entertainment Expo – or , as it is known – is the gaming industry's biggest annual showcase. Battle of the machines in Los Angeles 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

The shop will stay as it is, although a tea room will be added. From Alsace, Sweet Love for the World 2013-04-23T05:37:02Z

His reluctance to glory in any of his achievements has a particular texture, the modesty of the Brilliant American Liberal, which is not so much false as it is familiar, like a much-practiced pose. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

"The Beating of Our Hearts," which largely concerns Occupy Oakland, is as long as it is tiring. Self and concept collide in experimental collection 'When the Sick Rule the World' 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

Interested in a diet that’s as good for the planet as it is for you? How to eat healthy and save the planet 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

For jackin, poised as it is between underground and overground in Birmingham and Leeds, the question is how much bigger can it get while still maintaining what makes it so vital and fun? Jackin proves dance music is alive and bouncing – but mostly outside London 2013-05-28T15:51:00Z

Caravaggio's iconoclastic credo was that it is as difficult to paint a good picture of flowers as it is to paint figures. Prince of darkness 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z

It is as much about people shaping each other as it is a nightmarish vision of the future, but it is no less compelling for that. TV highlights 11/02/2013 2013-02-11T07:00:10Z

“Our alliance to the Lannisters remains every bit as necessary to them as it is unpleasant to us,” Lady Olenna says. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: A Regression to the Mean 2014-04-21T02:01:11Z

Which is not to elevate this belief system above others in a country as multifaith as it is multicultural and multiracial. Imprinted by Belief 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z

His character, walking around the convention floor, observes merchandise being sold in his name, as it is for other serial killers. ‘Based on a True Story’: The Vogue of Killer Content 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

That very transformation, rooted as it is in many different levels and aspects of Arthur’s real-life pain, professional and romantic, personal and creative, becomes the subject of grand and melancholy melodrama. The Cinema’s Fear of Drama 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Leonor is trying to write and revise her own life as it is happening. "Leonor Will Never Die" filmmaker on how she created her dreamy "action star grandma" 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z

One untitled view from the back of a speedboat especially captures the strange allure of a watery vista, an eternity that cares nothing for us and is, therefore, as scary as it is serene. Art Fairs Come Blazing Back, Precarious but Defiant 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Scattered throughout its glossy pages are beautiful photographs of rare fish; it is as much a pleasure to see and hold as it is to read. Novels focus on gritty realism, anger, loss, family dysfunction 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

“But it doesn’t want to ignore the history of art, as it is seen in these major works of the 20th century, which continue to be a vital reference for artists today.” The Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris Will Display Modern Masterpieces 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Ms. Lange is curious, and a little nervous, to witness the response to her family saga, rife as it is with money and privilege. Liz Lange Lets the Sun Into Grey Gardens 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

And that's the point — it's not so much about me understanding the humor or finding the jokes funny as it is about the reactions of people who do. How I made my peace with "I Think You Should Leave" – a cringe comedy I was one reluctant to watch 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z

If revenge is the driving force, as it is in "Gone Girl's" murder plot hatched after Pike's Amy discovered Nick's affair, it means most of the film will be spent in punishing the crime. Ben Affleck gets the manipulated man's every twist and turn right 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

When the marriage is a happy one, as it is in “Henry VIII,” the musical results can be exquisite. ‘Saint-Saëns and His World’ at Bard 2012-07-20T17:08:16Z

Pleasant as it is to look at nubile bodies entwined, the sex they have conveys little passion or erotic charge. Review: ‘Bang Gang,’ Seaside Orgies to a Soundtrack of Yawns 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Such is the response, in swift summary, of most of the art historians who have written about “Olympia,” a fountainhead of modern art and a painting as enigmatic as it is arresting. Review | Two revelatory exhibitions upend our understanding of black models in art 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

It's as much church incantation as it is an addition to the blubstep canon. New band of the day: Jamie Isaac (No 1,526) 2013-06-05T14:53:03Z

But their form of feminism, such as it is, represents an “evolution” from the writing of the last century, said Alemany Bay. For Latin American Women, Horror and Fantasy Capture Everyday Struggle 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

It is painful to watch the world challenging this view, even as it is also hard not to be on the side of the world. Movie Review: ‘Frances Ha,’ With Greta Gerwig 2013-05-16T21:27:33Z

Tinkering is a state of mind as much as it is a mode of discovery. “The Tinkerers”: How corporations kill creativity 2012-12-30T17:00:00Z

Just as it is difficult to say when the book begins, it is difficult to say when Machado’s girlfriend, blonde and slight, also a writer, first reveals her nature. Carmen Maria Machado’s Many Haunted Stories of a Toxic Relationship 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

First produced in 1942 in London, Terence Rattigan’s “Flare Path,” now at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills, is as sociologically fascinating as it is emotionally cathartic. Terence Rattigan's 'Flare Path' salutes ordinary valor in wartime 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Her evil is so seductive, wrapped as it is in maternal feeling. Jesmyn Ward: By the Book 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

It’s as much a character study as it is a crime movie. Fall Movies 2018: Dive Into an Ocean’s Worth of Offerings 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Then, using a digital camera, he photographs the inverted image of the landscape outside as it is reflected on the ground. Review | I used to think Ansel Adams’s photographs were boring. This exhibition changed that. 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

The round of loin wrapped in pork belly and bronzed crackling is as fabulous as it is limited in quantity every night. Where to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner in Pasadena, Calif. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

It seems that they are part of the First Order, which is not so much a remnant from the Empire as it is an imitator. J.J. Abrams Says Nazis Inspired the New 'Star Wars' Villains 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

"Vengeance" is as entertaining as it is offbeat, and it showcases Novak's talents in front of and behind the camera well. In crime comedy "Vengeance," B.J. Novak dares to mess with Texas while also skewering all the rest 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

The 68-year-old soul giant's comeback album, The Bravest Man in the Universe, is one of his best, but it sounds very little like the others, grounded as it is in hip-hop and electronica. Bobby Womack – review 2012-11-26T13:10:48Z

The takeaway from this vivid, tender book is that it can be as valuable for a reader to know a biographer as it is for a biographer to know his or her subject. Books Of the Times: ‘The Splendid Things We Planned,’ Blake Bailey’s Memoir 2014-02-23T22:48:06Z

It’s a family tradition, made as much from legend and myth as it is eggs and butter. I thought my cake recipe was my family’s alone. Then I traced its history. 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

“We let people be inventive,” he said, as long as it is a human-powered activity. Apptitude: Charity Miles lets you do good for others while doing good for yourself

It is important to remember this, just as it is important to remember that not everyone thinks the business output of Simon Cowell is rubbish, and that some people actually like Jamie Cullum. Being indie in politics 2010-05-21T09:30:00Z

“I’ve written visa letters for students — and it’s difficult as it is.” How the Trump travel ban is already impacting L.A. arts institutions and artists 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

India’s history, as it is usually told, is “a curiously unpeopled place,” Khilnani writes. Paperback Row 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

The book is as much a lifestyle manifesto as it is a guide to a particular bar and its drinks. A Book Adds Rigor to the Laid-Back World of Tiki Cocktails 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

"Either in the past or in the future, as it is an isolated case that misinterpreted our commercial freedom to determine the size of our cabin baggage." Spanish court calls Ryanair baggage fees 'abusive' 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

It is one of the few programmes that people and families still like to sit down and watch as it is broadcast. Queen tops Christmas Day ratings 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

With spare, elongated lines and broad shapes that bloom into a voluminous silhouette, the traditional Korean hanbok, made to accommodate movement, is as beautiful as it is functional. One Garment’s Journey Through History 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

In the end, “The Short Tragic Life of Robert Peace” is a book that is as much about class as it is race. 'The Short and Tragic Life' explores class, race amid struggle and wonder 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

But just as it is facing extinction, the clunky old cassette has been reborn. Return of the audio cassette 2010-03-29T20:00:00Z

And when the story we are watching is based on truth – as it is in verbatim theatre – we are implicated even more. Verbatim theatre: the people's voice? 2010-07-15T16:02:00Z

Toby Stephens, who plays Henry at the Old Vic in London, told an interviewer that he had felt it wise to lunch with Stoppard in advance, as it is "such an autobiographical play". Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z

Perhaps there was no high road to be taken here, but as unsatisfying as it is to reward Hudson—a poet who, in the parlance of literary criticism, acted dickishly—Alexie did the right thing. When White Poets Pretend to Be Asian 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

You return to the crooning, as it is. ArtsBeat: CMJ: Kirin J Callinan at Glasslands Gallery 2012-10-17T08:54:01Z

Rest, such as it is, comes whenever Costanzo rides a bicycle or cooks a meal, which is often. A Singer Brings His Authentic Self to the Philharmonic 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

They begin their journey in Bologna, a city known for being as learned as it is fat. TV highlights 11/01/2013 2013-01-11T13:08:15Z

Repugnant as it is, this violence appears to be aimed at Daisy not because she’s a woman but because she’s an utterly defenseless captive. “The Hateful Eight”: Quentin Tarantino’s Playfully Adolescent Filmmaking 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

As huge as it is — 54 landscaped acres and the world’s second-largest tennis stadium — the event site invites an intimacy in the early rounds that is reminiscent of baseball’s spring training. Indian Wells tennis tournament draws fans — and top players — to Palm Springs 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

There’s a lot of Havana that is very beautiful, as it is now, even in its sometimes dilapidated state. Conan O'Brien's history-making Cuba mission: 'Make them laugh' 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

"Technique back in my day was not so spectacular as it is today," he says. Stage set for Las Hermanas' Covent Garden debut 2012-11-16T12:40:05Z

There is nothing easy about the idea as it is conveyed here. LSO/Harding – review 2013-02-08T12:46:35Z

But both works are about the world as it is, the world as she made it, retrospective after all. Review: From Twyla Tharp, 2 New Pieces for Her Anniversary Tour 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

Ostensibly a people's music, the sound of the brass band is as much about community as it is about songs, and the north-east is still a hotbed. This week's new events 2013-07-06T05:00:00Z

As wrenching and messy as it is to have a big cry while reading, I consider it one of life’s great pleasures. Susan Orlean: By the Book 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

The Miracle happens about halfway through “Sully,” and it is as suspenseful as it is spoiler proof. In ‘Sully,’ New York Is Clint Eastwood’s Latest Star 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

But as hard as it is to break into the British stunt industry, it has been especially difficult for women to work in what was predominantly an all-boys’ club. Why stuntwomen are angry about 'wigging' – and are changing the industry from within 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

Now medium push isn't a globally recognized term, but it needs to be, as it is the perfect phrase for the person eagerly wanting to liberate themselves from overcooked meat. You deserve better than a well-done steak 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z

He found by looking at message-boards that wearing earplugs is not looked down on in dance as it is in indie. Ask the indie professor: Is there a link between indie music and Gnosticism? 2011-03-14T16:52:39Z

Now I see that Star Wars is, in fact, as much the story of the father as it is the story of his son. The Force Returns: George Lucas Before the “Star Wars” Prequels 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

An appealing element, she added, was that “there are no white saviors in this story, at least as it is told here.” ‘Queen of Katwe’ Makes Moves on a Ugandan Chessboard 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Place a piano among real sustaining or breathing instruments – a cello, a clarinet – and the illusion shatters, forcing us to hear the piano as it is: a tuned percussion instrument. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z

"This is a huge investment for us, as much in sweat equity ... as it is financially," he said, noting that initial projects to "build muscle" will focus on 3-D films highlighting Chinese cities. James Cameron takes 3-D film venture to China 2012-08-08T07:51:42Z

“It’s not as much of a memoir as it is an opportunity for kids to realize that if they want this, they can have it — but they have to work hard.” A Dancer’s Life: Chita Rivera on Working Hard and Learning From the Best 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

The contemporary “Safety Curtain” project has nonetheless managed to continue for 24 years, as it is well liked overall, and every year’s design gets abundant news coverage in Austria. An Opera House Gives Contemporary Art a Major Role 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

The movie is ultimately as remote from Greg as it is from Earl and from Rachel—and, for that matter, from anything resembling experience, including the director’s own. What’s Missing from “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

The result is a conservationist cry of anguish as deep as it is discreet. Art Review: Metropolitan Museum of Art?s New American Wing Galleries - Review 2012-01-16T04:58:27Z

“It should be as normal to see pictures of older women who are well dressed as it is to see younger women.” Up Close: Putting Fashion Camera?s Focus on Older Women - Up Close 2011-09-28T20:22:32Z

“Repeat Stuff,” whose title is just repeated in the chorus over and over, is a parody and a critique of a pop song that is as funny as it is catchy. On Comedy: Bo Burnham Releases His Comedy Special 2013-12-25T22:24:40Z

This cycle is insidious, and parents often don’t see it, even as it is happening to them. Perspective | My 9-year-old refuses to go to school and won’t say why 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Listen in order, because you will be confused enough as it is. The 50 best podcasts of 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

He gives us a man and a bird and tells us, best he can, what they’ve come to know about the world as it is. Three Memoirs About the Messiness of Life and Self-Definition 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Thus the film quickly becomes as much about the human emotions surrounding its star as it is about Nim. An Experiment That Evolved Into a Tragedy 2011-07-02T04:10:56Z

The sound is distinct, often as mournful as it is danceable. How Novalima modernizes and revives Peru's African roots music 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

“No, it’s just: Accept reality as it is as opposed to what you wish it were.” Elon Musk, Blasting Off in Domestic Bliss 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z

Equality apparently is just an illusion in "Squid Game" — just as it is at Netflix, as a workplace. Netflix execs and "Squid Game" VIPs are playing from the same out-of-touch handbook 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

Dakota Johnson in particular deserves a parade through the center of town for somehow carrying this ludicrous material on her shoulders and making it as watchable as it is. The seven most wonderfully ridiculous moments in Fifty Shades Darker 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

In the late 1980s, Mellencamp scored major hits with songs featuring violin, banjo, accordion and dobro — long before Americana became as popular a genre as it is now. “I’m a blue guy in a red state”: John Mellencamp and the search for an American soul 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

Even so, this is not so much a temple to food as it is a mind-blowing bazaar of the aromatic, the rare and even the quotidian, like Heinz baked beans and Fox’s U-bet chocolate syrup. The New Yorker’s Go-To for Spices and So Much More 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

In the meantime, it remains an event that loosens the reins of conventional presentation and is as much about art as it is about cultural melding. Critic?s Notebook: Crossing the Line Festival 2011-09-20T21:15:12Z

My other paintings are on either side of the door: they show a street scene of St Helier, the Jersey tax haven, as it is being burned down. Jeremy Deller's Venice all-stars 2013-05-30T05:30:01Z

That dilemma is as familiar as it is ancient. Long they ruled 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

In this way, the collection is as much about writing about grief as it is about the speaker’s particular grief. Confronting Grief, Mental Illness and Marginalization, in Verse 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

You’ve said that the way we see refugees is as much about us as it is about the refugees themselves. International Rescue Committee CEO: ‘The way refugees are seen is a running commentary on our own values’ 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

It will probably be quite a few years before it is heard here again, as it is not the composer’s best work. From the NSO, a pops concert that fizzled 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Dear Heloise: I appreciate your advice about ways to prevent road rage, and I would like to add something: As soon as it is safe to make a phone call, report it to the police. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: A widow’s advice for offering help 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

Tempting as it is to explain past events by invoking motivations relating to modern concepts of nationhood, it can be misleading. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z

Dried seaweed is rehydrated into long, diaphanous tangles for miyeokguk, a soup traditionally boiled for birthdays as often as it is on weeknights. Umami Is Often a Flavor Bomb. In This Creamy Pasta, It’s a Balm. 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

The concept of hygiene was not the same as it is today and inspections were not carried out to the same exacting standards. How chefs became rock stars: The shifting attitudes toward restaurant work 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z

As manipulative, obvious and sentimental as it is, this show is also tough to resist. Theater Review | 'Black Angels Over Tuskegee': An Elite Squadron, Before It Was Airborne 2010-02-17T21:55:00Z

Celery is a team player, equally adept at imparting subtle flavor, unseen, as it is at the center of the plate. The Real Heart of Thanksgiving 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

As hard as it is to define, I tend to think of our relationship as the one Michael and I were always meant to have. My ex and I live together — as friends 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z

Of course, Cobra Kai as it is now isn't the version Johnny resurrected after Miguel's influence on him transformed "Strike First, Strike Hard, No Mercy" into a positive philosophy based in confidence and assertiveness. Making "Cobra Kai" great again: The series returns with a parable about the peril of bipartisanship 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

And odd as it is, it could get weirder quickly, if New York Times reporters are the ones to break the news of which senior Trump administration official wrote it. Perspective | Publishing that anonymous New York Times article wasn’t ‘gutless.’ But writing it probably was. 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Empathy, a leap into another's point of view, is his tactic, just as it is also film's ultimate goal. Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z

As soon as it is on there, I decide it is stupid. My week as Bette Davis: 'My fierce brows are begging to be raised' 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

Is that as liberating for you as it is unsettling to a first-timer? Saeed Jones: "No One Is Safe" In These Poems 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.” 12 Quotes That Perfectly Sum Up Stephen Hawking’s Life Philosophy 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

This kosher white wine has a sense of humor to match the zip of acidity and guava flavors that make it as refreshing as it is delicious. These 5 great kosher wines are perfect for your Passover table, or anytime 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

I’m not sure, though, that “Dead Man Walking,” the opera, is calculated to draw in new audiences as much as it is to please people already familiar with opera. ‘Dead Man Walking’ is a new opera for old audiences 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

As freshly staged as it is, this scene-setter annoys with its numerous dramatic implausibilities: Why, for instance, do the bandits prefer Eric’s car to their own? Review: ‘Rover’ an intense look into near future 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

The prose, as fine as it is, as dense as it is, as obsessive as it is, remains in service to the story. Stephen King Reviews Tana French’s ‘Extraordinary’ New Novel 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

He too is a comic whose show is as much about bantering with IT professionals or his favourite German heckler, Stefan, as it is about its ostensible theme. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: good old-fashioned standup 2010-08-16T09:58:00Z

Ours is very satisfactory as it is, thank you very much. Our first Christmas as empty nesters 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

His objective is to create a product that has no materiality, a work that only exists as it is enacted. Genres, Like Sand, Tricky to Pin Down 2013-07-26T20:26:30Z

As pleasing as these challenges are, The Talos Principle is as much a game about reading as it is a game about puzzling through logic exercises. The Talos Principle Prompts Thinking Beyond Virtual World 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

Her art is as sorrowful and touching as it is funny; she mixes the vernacular and the vulgar, the dirty and the delicate. Sarah Lucas: tights, melons and concrete pies 2012-07-18T17:30:03Z

Nell Snaidas, the soprano, gave an emotionally charged reading of Scarlatti’s chromatic score, using carefully controlled dynamics and florid but thoughtfully applied ornamentation to evoke Orpheus’ desolation as it is transformed to determination. Music Review: The Link Between Love and Madness, Explored on a Small Stage 2011-01-04T01:15:03Z

It is as angry as it is delightful, and its glue is Diane. Mamma Mia's Christine Baranski on schmoozing with Cher and meeting Trump 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

He made a decent argument as well for Stravinsky’s Suite No. 2, a quartet of dances as droll as it is brief. Review: Christian Tetzlaff Sharpens Mendelssohn’s Edge 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

Did you note that Ava’s maiden name is revealed to be Randolph, not Carter, as it is in the Elmore Leonard books? 'Justified' Recap: What, Exactly, Is Ava's Plan? 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

The sentiment is as touching as it is hopeless. Books Of the Times: Ivy Pochoda’s ‘Visitation Street,’ Set on Brooklyn’s Edge 2013-07-21T21:49:10Z

It renders the movie, for all its suspense, violence, and moral outrage, as much of a joy to recall, moment by moment, as it is to watch. Review: Jordan Peele’s “Us” Is a Colossal Cinematic Achievement 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

Ahmed’s encounter with the poetry and with the brazen Farah is as much a history lesson for him as it is a confrontation with his own impulses. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Biometrics The scanning of eyes and fingerprints is used in the film to check people’s identities, just as it is today. Back to the Future Day: what Part II got right and wrong about 2015 – an A-Z 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

I have to admit that my job, as fun as it is to do, is really evil in that sense. Designing a Book Cover for Italo Calvino 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

Marion Winik’s reminiscences of dead family members, friends and occasional others is as much a memoir as it is a salute to those who have lived. Review | In these new audiobooks, great tales are matched with great narrators 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

That’s as true for me as it is for others in the diaspora. Tet Is Full of Traditions, but You Can Have It Your Way 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

"Barbarian Days" is as much a recollection and observation of a life among the swells as it is a reckoning with this "fugitive patch." William Finnegan surfs the meaning of his 'Barbarian Days' 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

I did laugh, but if you didn’t, perhaps this romp, sweetly goofy as it is, isn’t for you. Review | Obama and Biden are the ultimate crime-fighting team in ‘Hope Never Dies’ 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

The height of great comedy is to be as intelligent as it is bonkers, and this is it. For Eddie Izzard, a ‘99’ Ice Cream and a Waterloo Sunset Are Wondrous Things 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

But nowhere is the jockeying as pronounced as it is at Fox. Best Picture Race Puts Fox in a Tight Spot 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

You could say that it’s as much of a disadvantage in many parts of America to be black as it is to be gay. Andrew Solomon: “The conditions I’ve written about have been brutally stigmatized” 2012-11-24T22:00:00Z

This is as true for domestic abuse as it is for state-sponsored violence. Is the Egyptian state using sexual torture against women? 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

It’s as much a sad snapshot as it is a snapshot of people living their lives undeniably as themselves. Transgender Lives Onscreen: Seen, but Not Always Believable 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

But “One Dance,” gentle as it is, is also about fear. Review: On ‘Views,’ Drake Is Still His Own Genre 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

It’s as much a critique of stardom as it is a diversion from acting. Hey, Are You Looking at Me? Good. Now, Buzz Off. 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

It is as foolish to presume that criminality is monstrous as it is to presume that the leg operates independently of the hip. Christopher Dorner was not a monster 2013-02-14T23:26:00Z

In the event you need to kick-start your energy levels, might I recommend this performance of traditional Japanese Taiko drumming — a form that is as physical as it is musical. Datebook: Canvases attacked, drums pounded and colors bleeding 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Nigerian-born Franklin Ohenhn, who replaced his sister as one of Juliet's secretaries, says he sometimes finds himself drawn into worlds that are as far as it is possible to imagine from gentle, picturesque Verona. Dear Juliet: the fans who write to Shakespeare's heroine 2010-05-19T19:59:00Z

Popular, successful and commercially viable as it is, it doesn't seem to be in need of special protection. Do Flamenco and the Mediterranean diet really deserve special UN status? 2010-11-22T13:00:00Z

Mr. Trump does not exactly lack for that as it is. Trump Isn’t Watching Too Much TV. He’s Watching the Wrong Kind. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

It would change the atmosphere, and people like it as it is. Tchaikovsky and tractors 2011-03-24T10:33:02Z

We should stop searching for an enigma that doesn’t exist, Gessen says, and pay closer attention to the world as it is. In ‘Surviving Autocracy,’ Masha Gessen Tells Us to Face the Facts 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

Their defense of the “ending Medicare” claim, such as it is, is that using private insurers to deliver health care to seniors, instead of a government agency, fundamentally “ends” the program. Republicans 'Ending Medicare' is PolitiFact's 2011 Lie of the Year 2011-12-20T16:00:46Z

Meaningless tradition, either way, as it is a bit like gladiolas at a funeral. Twyla Tharp’s Premiere Week: The Stage Ship Sails 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

She also recommends repotting plants with new soil after purchase as it is highly likely that it will need refreshing. Don’t panic if you see a brown leaf … and four other tips for perfect house plants 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z

As frustrating as it is fascinating, Venice is not an easy city to get to know. 36 Hours in Venice 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

"This book is as much about him as it is me," Hook writes of Curtis, who struggled through medical, financial and romantic upheaval throughout Joy Division's lifespan. Joy Division bassist delivers 'Pleasure'-able read 2013-02-04T17:28:09Z

It's there in MoMA, as it is in Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Matisse at the Moma, New York 2010-08-15T22:00:00Z

For all the teetering towers of language that the boys of “Ballyturk” build for themselves, the last word here, as it is in life, is beyond words. Review: A Fantasy Town Builds a Wall Against Time in ‘Ballyturk’ 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z

Vlad was called Dracula, “son of the dragon” — or, as it is sometimes translated, “son of the Devil.” Radu Florescu, Scholar Who Linked Dracula and Vlad the Impaler, Dies at 88 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

It’s just as good by itself as it is served over pasta or polenta. Top Tomato 2014: A most interesting bunch of recipes, topped by rabbit ragu

And as important as it is for people to speak up, Mr. Washington said, it’s just as important for black artists to keep striving for that breakthrough. Denzel Washington, the Oscars and August Wilson 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

And if these theaters want to hold the mirror up to nature as it is experienced today, they need to eradicate the contagious tentativeness that has spread to their audiences. A new, fearless generation makes this a revolutionary moment in American playwriting 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

With its intimate portrayal of a tragedy that echoes the killings of unarmed black men around the country, “3 1/2 Minutes” offers a tale as emotional as it is topical. In '3 1/2 Minutes,' an eerie prefiguring of the Charleston shootings 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The paradise these characters seek might as well be the Spanish coast of the title, elusive as it is. ‘Costa Brava, Lebanon’ Review: Paradise Tossed 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

During Black History Month, many of us desperately need historical fiction, to tell us stories about a past that is every bit as heartening as it is troubling. I Dreaded Black History Month, Until a Novelist Opened My Eyes 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

But if it were merely those things — if it used Nim’s life as a case study in behavioral science or scientific misbehavior — it would not be as funny, upsetting and strange as it is. Captivating Films, Complicated Truths 2011-07-23T00:03:17Z

It's a feeling that stretches across the soundtrack, a pessimism foreshadowing that the path forward, filled as it is with potential, just might lead into quicksand. 'Hunger Games' soundtrack leaves listeners sated 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

I read it in just under a day as it is impossible to put down. Perfect Scoundrels by Ally Carter 2013-05-03T17:00:00Z

Birch, incidentally, is a mother of two, so it’s as tempting as it is irrelevant to wonder whether these themes slant personal. Review: In ‘Anatomy of a Suicide,’ Pain in Triplicate 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

According to the historian Edward Hasted, writing in the 1770s, Cooling was “an unfrequented place, the roads of which are deep and miry, and it is as unhealthy as it is unpleasant.” Pip and Me: A Journey Into the World of ‘Great Expectations’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

It also reminds him, he added, that being a director is just as much about letting go as it is about control. Possessed: Graffito in Jerry Mitchell’s Bedroom Is a Daily Reminder 2013-05-24T21:27:34Z

As imposing as it is, the mausoleum is given a lightness by its milky marble skin and the placement of its four minarets at the distant corners of its plinth. The real magic of the Taj Mahal 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

It’s as delicious as it is sloppy, spicy but not so strong as to overpower nuanced flavors redolent in turmeric and cumin. In Mauritius, Secluded Beaches, Verdant Hills and Harmony 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

Presumably, the voices drive the creative process that will fuel his career as a touring musician, but the notion is dropped as abruptly as it is introduced. Review | ‘Light Years’ is a new musical at Signature Theatre — with the emphasis on lite 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.This book is my all-time favourite as it is an entirely new concept. My top ten: Favourite books 2012-06-22T11:00:00Z

That is as true of presidents as it is of newcomers reciting naturalization oaths across the United States today. Stalking the Trump Family’s Roots 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

“It’s just as valid to have the Berlin Philharmonic from Berlin or the Vienna Philharmonic from Vienna on the virtual stage as it is to have them in Carnegie Hall,” Gillinson said. New York’s Carnegie Hall launches on-demand video network 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

As idiosyncratic as it is paradigmatic, the play now seems like one of the forgotten masterpieces of the 1970s — and an ideal production for either the Mark Taper Forum or Geffen Playhouse to import. Four political dramas that play around with form 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

López-Alt’s “The Food Lab” will appeal to a far wider public than McGee’s book, popular as it is, if only because it doesn’t carry even a whiff of the academy. Cooking: ‘Asian-American,’ ‘Women Chefs of New York’ and More 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

The icy blue eyes sweep and pierce, and then the lids slowly descend in a gesture as expressive of disgust as it is possible to imagine. | 'The Importance of Being Earnest': A Stylish Monster Conquers at a Glance 2011-01-14T03:00:01Z

Everyone knows, too, that Degas helped form the Impressionist group — and what was Impressionism about if not showing the world as it is? Review | Degas had a gift for conveying the truth — even when he was making it all up 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

"It's as dangerous for them as it is for us." Geldof: Band Aid single sales 'manic' 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

The playing was as loose and unforced as it is on the album, and both audience and band seemed aware of the music’s value. A BRIC in Flux Turns Out an Intimate, Focused JazzFest 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

The point of the scene, as notable as it is, overwhelms its realization. “High Life,” Reviewed: Claire Denis’s Disappointing Journey Into Space 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

Spoiler alert: The video didn't feature actual food but rather food slime, a thriving trend on TikTok — videos in which someone prepares a trompe l'œil dish that is as beautiful as it is inedible. How TikTok got me out of my pandemic cooking rut 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

And it's ugly and we've got to paint it as it is. William H Macy: 'Even the bad sex I've had was pretty good' 2013-01-17T19:00:00Z

This is the artist’s “Temple,” as imposing as it is sheltering. Review | In the galleries: ‘Taking Territory’ exhibition finds the creative common ground 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

As hard as it is to navigate work and family, it's important for me to be a good mom. The secret of her success 2011-04-01T15:28:00Z

Final "Battleship" figures have yet to be compiled as it is still in theaters. "Savages" star Kitsch hopes third film's a charm 2012-07-03T21:25:18Z

In such knowledge is power, which is as dangerous as it is exciting. Theater Review: Kim Cattrall Stars in ?Private Lives? - Review 2011-11-18T03:02:49Z

"Peace . . . Like a River" is a riveting record, demonstrating Gov't Mule's quest to challenge themselves and their audience with music that is as soulful as it is imaginative. Gov't Mule embraces Pink Floyd, peace and protest: "We're in some pretty precarious times" 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z

One of her first discoveries was aburatorigami, the traditional handmade blotting papers used in ancient Japan to protect gold as it is hammered into delicate gold leaf. | Bottled Secrets of the Geisha 2013-05-13T18:47:23Z

Her point is that life must be accepted as it is. | 'Restoration': Claudia Shear at New York Theater Workshop 2010-05-20T02:25:00Z

Her chromosomal structure, as a from-the-crypt voice tells us, isn’t so much a matter of the usual x’s and y’s as it is of z’s. | 'Arias With a Twist': ?Arias With a Twist? at Abrons Arts Center - Review 2011-09-19T02:01:03Z

But this kind of Darwinian ranking, inevitable as it is, illustrates the poison of the bias that got us here in the first place. Perspective | The Women’s Voices Theater Festival is a winner. But it could use some work. 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

For once one wanted her to have her aria in Act 4, except that the intrusive interval before that act makes things very late as it is. Marriage of Figaro makes delightful return to Royal Opera House - Guardian archive, 11 Dec 1985 2012-12-11T07:30:00Z

Instead the catalog, like the show itself, is full of examples of contemporary architecture as it is practiced on the ground and in the moment. A grassroots, handmade Venice Architecture Biennale from Alejandro Aravena 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

A simple mixture of butter, everything bagel spice, and an egg, this pasta is just as good at night as it is for breakfast, and you certainly don't have to be pregnant to enjoy it. What to cook (when you don't know what to cook) 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Given the sweaty rigor and vigor of Spectrum's dancers, this "beast" may well be as cathartic as it is disturbing. Spectrum Dance Theater: 'The Beast' is back 2011-09-29T20:03:07Z

Strikingly, the memoir is as much about place and belonging as it is about family. Review | Susan Straight’s memoir is a letter to her daughters — and a reckoning with America’s past 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

It’s as much spoken-word poetry or an auditory diary as it is a collection of songs. A heartbreaking tribute from a grieving husband 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Ro, on some level, has always believed that Starfleet is corrupt — just not as blatantly as it is now. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 5 Recap: Old Friends Return 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

That does not mean that we encourage it or let it happen in front of us, but that we allow the fact of it to be as it is. A visit to Monogamish Country 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z

ID, as it is known, grew 69 percent in total viewers over the past year. A Prime-Time True-Crime Spree 2011-08-20T19:45:03Z

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The American dream is not just a matter of fancy cars, sweet suburban vistas and, as it is imagined today, the prospect of your own reality television show or legion of Twitter followers. Critic?s Notebook: Louisville Dreaming: Characters Exploring Boundaries 2011-04-04T21:55:20Z

Although his voice is as powerful as it is on his albums, he seemed mostly content during the concert to let his backing tracks and backup singers do the heavy lifting. Ladies night at Verizon Center: Chris Brown, Trey Songz do their biggest hits 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

And the consumer electronics giant is also making a huge bet on 3D gaming, as it is on making 3D-capable televisions. Game on: Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft wage war 2010-06-16T00:48:00Z

As bad as it is now, then was far worse. The Billy Bob Thornton question: is this really cinema's darkest age? 2010-12-03T12:11:00Z

Test your balance, your quads and your lungs fat biking, as it is known, at the Haymaker Nordic Center, a seasonal golf course that turns into a groomed cross-country ski area in the winter. 36 Hours in Steamboat Springs 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

And the house, unlike some movie stars, is as seductive in person as it is on film. | At Home With Robert Evans 2010-10-27T12:30:00Z

And it’s as gratifying to watch Preti Taneja take on William Shakespeare as it is to watch India trounce Britain at cricket. A Novelist Recasts King Lear as a Corporate Tycoon in Contemporary India 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Suggestive as it is of rage, not just a chronic case of the Eeyore blues, the striking word “seething” is a useful window into Letterman’s uniqueness. The Legacy of David Letterman, Icon of the Grizzled Generation 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

What’s more, his Twitter feed means that we have a real-time understanding of the president’s thinking, such as it is. Perspective | Trump’s threats against the press may be toothless. But they’re far from harmless. 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Instead, she waves off a stranger and, posing a question that’s as existential as it is practical, demands, “Where am I, exactly?” Movie Review: Cate Blanchett Stars in Woody Allen’s ‘Blue Jasmine’ 2013-07-25T16:13:31Z

The South, he says, is as much his as it is anyone’s. S.A. Cosby, a Writer of Violent Noirs, Claims the Rural South as His Own 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

But the action, such as it is, is sclerotic and Finch a cipher whose previous life — aside from a brief flashback to his acquisition of the dog — remains almost entirely shrouded. ‘Finch’ Review: Three for the Road 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

He did have a caveat: “The authors have such a picturesque yarn to spin that their insistence upon thrusting bespattered conversation down the throats of the audience is as superfluous as it is unpleasant.” Review: ‘The Front Page’ Is Diverting, but Don’t Stop the Presses 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Even when its oar gets stuck in the reeds, Youngers' heart is in the right place, throbbing away merrily beneath a brain as positive as it is clever. Youngers: more Byker Grove than The Wire 2013-03-16T06:00:00Z

And this should be as true for television as it is for the rest of us. Oi! Celeb chef! Stop saying 'For me' 2013-01-01T10:00:00Z

But “Silicon Valley” is as much a wry study of modern entrepreneurialism — or, in jargon, “start-up culture” — as it is a comedy about work. ‘Silicon Valley,’ Mike Judge’s New Series, Debuts on HBO 2014-04-02T16:55:21Z

While Winslet's recent interview with the Times is getting a lot of attention this week, this isn't even the first time she's spoken candidly about her body, and embracing it as it is. Kate Winslet stopped "Mare of Easttown" from editing out her "bulgy" belly from sex scene 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

And it can also be just a distraction, as it is in an adjoining high-ceilinged hall devoted to monumental Buddhist images. Review: In ‘China: Through the Looking Glass,’ Eastern Culture Meets Western Fashion 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

As weird as the story is, it’s been made all the stranger by the decision to turn it into a metaphor about fascism, a conceit that is as politically incoherent as it is unfortunately timed. ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ Review: Puppets and Power 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

Plus, this is as much his home as it is yours, and he’s as entitled to his boundaries as you are, so he gets his say in the way you both deal with your mom. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Mom’s carping is ‘water off a duck’s back,’ but hubby’s tired of ducking 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

“Yet the weave of the personal and the political finally proves as irresistible as it is moving, partly because it has been drawn from extraordinary life.” What’s on TV Friday 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

But his movie is as miserable and ultimately confounding as it is earnest. Review: In ‘Jesús,’ a Delinquent Teenager in Trouble Too Deep to Handle 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

On the penultimate page, he and Val attend to their day’s housework, and he offers us something like a prayer to keep his life just as it is. Chang-rae Lee’s Global Revision of the Suburban Novel 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

Appreciating its worth as it is now is completely feasible, because “Halt and Catch Fire” is so very different than the show it used to be. The end of AMC’s “Halt and Catch Fire” invites a reconsideration of its opening episodes 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

There are hundreds if not thousands of them: brooches, necklaces, tiaras, diadems in every color as long as it is not black. T Magazine: Off With Her Headpiece! 2011-02-24T18:22:12Z

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In fact, she goes so far as to say that the silence is inexplicable on this matter: The silence around the gendering of violence is as inexplicable as it is indefensible. Are men more violent? 2012-07-29T18:01:00Z

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Muybridge's work can be, as it is here, spectacularly terrifying. Eadweard Muybridge 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z

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“Trans women watching can see me with my voice as it is and see me being OK with it,” she said. ‘Jeopardy!’ Hasn’t Had a Player Like Amy Schneider 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

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The success of Dogme showed that Denmark – small as it is, with a population of just over five million – could be a cultural force. How the Dogme manifesto reinvented Denmark 2012-11-25T19:00:01Z

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With young people from around Latin America and Spain streaming into the city, and the Mexican peso hitting record lows against the dollar, the city — daunting and endless as it is — radiates energy. 52 Places to Go in 2016 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

At New York City Ballet’s annual fall fashion galas, the question is asked as much of the dancers onstage as it is of the swells in the audience. Four World Premieres Set for New York City Ballet Gala 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

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Without overestimating the relevance or importance of her particular pulpit, Ms. Stokou simply depicts the noise as it is and lets us draw our own conclusions. What to See in New York ArtGalleries This Week 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

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Concerto, only underlined the fact his playing at its worst is as inaccurate as it is vacuous. Review: Maurizio Pollini and Lang Lang: A Study in Contrasts at Carnegie Hall 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

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Searls’s superb translation inscribes Johnson’s restlessness and probing into word choice and the structures of the sentences themselves, which quiver with the anxiety to get things right, to see the world as it is. A Masterpiece That Requires Your Full Attention — and a Lot of Time 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

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The horn, or khantsi as it is called in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, has a lip cuffed in silver and a finely wrought raven’s head at the tip. A Fierce Toast From Alice Feiring’s Drinking Horn 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

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Threading the needle between individual tales and a broader historical portrait is as much a challenge for Gerson as it is for his subjects. ‘The Story Won’t Die’ Review: Art in a Time of Crisis 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

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Salted butter is a must in this recipe, as it is in all traditional recipes of Nantes — once the capital of Brittany where sea salt is harvested. Perspective | What raising multicultural sons has taught me about food and appropriation 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

But thrilling as it is, mere mimicry is never the point. Review: Embodying Justice in ‘Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992’ 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

Everything in the book flows from the powerful impact of that night, the revelations of the ensuing years, and the discovery that love can be as troubling and terrifying as it is wonderful. How Alexander Chee wrote “The Queen of the Night”: “‘Buffy’ reruns daily. The need to watch all of ‘Six Feet Under’ in a week. So much Internet” 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

And like the Hollywood musical, his work has been accused of nostalgia, conservatism, appeasement, even as it is celebrated for its energy, technical skill and charm. From heresy to visionary 2013-02-23T09:01:01Z

“The 50 Year Argument” is as much as an ode to him as it is to the words he so carefully scrutinizes in freshly arrived manuscripts. ‘The 50 Year Argument’: A celebration of words that mattered — and still do

He is an obvious villain in waiting even as it is all too easy to see bits and pieces of oneself in him. Crop of 'New Dangerous' filmmakers take edgy to new levels 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

“I think it’s as important to document kindness, civility and generosity of spirit as it is to show cruelty, banality and indifference,” said Wiseman in his speech. After 56 years, 200 films and innumerable injuries, Jackie Chan wins an Oscar 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

The final season is as much Allam’s as it is Evans’s, with the stolid, old-school Thursday struggling in his roles as cop, husband, father and, to Morse, surrogate dad. ‘Endeavour’ Review: Farewell to the Morse Cinematic Universe 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

However, this show, influential as it is, seems almost forgotten. How “Twin Peaks” shaped the entire golden age of TV 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

And it's just as suited for a sleepy brunch as it is a speedy dinner. A pancake for when I'm too lazy to make pancakes 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z

To be sure, much of the reporting and commentary on hydroxychloroquine in the mainstream media isn’t so much “reckless” as it is cautious and hedged. For Fox News hosts, the hydroxychloroquine controversy is fuel for the culture war 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

Luckily, Reason No. 2: the ES-330 is simply a joy to play as much as it is a joy to hear. Possessed: Chef John DeLucie Unwinds With His Guitar 2010-12-03T19:12:00Z

There’s a weary innocence to the musician Cuco, whose début album, “Para Mí,” released on Friday, somehow manages to be as catchy as it is morose. The Extreme Highs and Lows of Cuco’s Début Album, “Para Mí” 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

Consider first that Passover is as much about spring as it is about that ancient flight from Egypt. How to turn Passover’s ‘bread of affliction’ into comfort food 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

“Certainly not the latter,” Trump responded, adding, “I’m rather unfamiliar with this role as well, as it is quite new to me.” ‘I’m used to it’: Ivanka Trump faces boos and groans along with applause at Berlin summit 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Kelley's play is as appalling and bleak as it is funny. Mike Kelley: the nonconformist's whole life is here 2012-12-18T18:00:31Z

The first time we see actor Kwok — in abject, James Dean mode — refer to Hao's tender character as "mother," the moment is as sad as it is jarring. A polished, melodramatic 'Empire of Silver' 2011-12-01T21:50:07Z

And, as easy as it is to complain about the details, the film gets the gist of it right. The True Story Behind the 'Deepwater Horizon' Movie 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

His behavior toward her — his moodiness, his evasive answers to her questions, his passive-aggressive efforts to shut her down — is increasingly alarming, even as it is also the most consistently realistic aspect of the film. ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Review: Where to Begin? 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Jon Snow wouldn’t even have a place in this show, as it is set 5,000 years before the events of the current series. Kit Harington vows never to reprise Jon Snow in any “Game of Thrones” spinoff 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Addressing your card to us this way would be perfect, as it is the de facto standard for any married couple, gay or straight, with different last names. The rules for addressing holiday cards to same-sex couples

As tempting as it is to strive for perfection, it’s not possible. 8 Professional Mistakes Millennials Make 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Change is coming to Efland, as it is to all of North Carolina. Civilities: A grandma asks about ‘our rights’ after a gay story is read in class 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

I'm thinking, Christ, is it as difficult for me to care about their decentralisation stance as it is for some people to understand Riot Girl's call for regular girl-only events? There's a riot grrrl going on – a classic tour feature from the vaults 2013-01-09T13:10:35Z

And “Warlight” is a mosaic of such fragments, so cunningly assembled that the finished pattern seems as inevitable as it is harmonious. Review | ‘Warlight’ is a quiet new masterpiece from Michael Ondaatje 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Intriguing as it is, “The Chameleon” might have been a much stronger film had it been narrated by its central character and included a lot more of his personal history. | 'The Chameleon': A ?Who Is It?? More Than a Whodunit 2011-07-14T22:46:18Z

Introduced in 2015, Universal Standard’s mission was simple: Make shopping as fun, and accessible, for a size 26 as it is for a size 6. 3 Labels That Prove Style Has No Size 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

It is just as crucial to keep the romance alive during quarantine as it is outside of it. Coronavirus lockdown: How to maintain a healthy relationship while in self-isolation 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

But the medieval hilltop town of Sant’Agata Feltria – near where Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, Le Marche and Umbria intersect – is home to a festival as local as it is vibrant. Italy’s best-kept food secret: the sagra festival 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

He seemed bemused — perhaps slightly appalled — by photographs of General Tso’s chicken as it is served today, with its generously, even munificently, battered and glazed chunks of boneless meat. Peng Chang-kuei, credited as creator of General Tso’s chicken, dies at 97 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

This philosophy is at the center of the book, which is as much about imbuing the nooks and crannies of your home with personal significance as it is about practicality and aesthetics. After a year out of the spotlight, a new kind of ‘Young House Love’ 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

Wonderful as it is, “Revelations” shouldn’t be the best part of the evening. Alvin Ailey’s signature works shine at Kennedy Center 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

The chutney, served with chicken and garnished with fresh cilantro leaves, results in a dish that’s as tasty and healthful as it is colorful. With fragrant, flavorful chutney, grilled chicken gets star treatment 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

We watch her become increasingly worn, making The Killing as much a portrait of a brilliant, flawed woman as it is a great whodunit. Your next box set: The Killing I-III 2012-12-20T17:55:01Z

It’s more like a philosophical horror monologue — and it’s as mesmerizing to watch as it is difficult to explain and experience. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

Anachronistic as it is, this word from the video age somehow seems accurate. Paul Cézanne: founding father of modern art 2013-02-05T14:53:15Z

Once the food processor is out, it’s nearly as easy to make two or three batches of dough as it is one. Homemade Pizza, Easier and Faster 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

In several of them I want you to not think that there is a plot, that it’s just sort of unfolding as it is. Adult superhero fans make Daniel Clowes sad: “People need something that has very clear moral boundaries, I guess” 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

The Hus also said they don’t want to hear any complaints about the robots taking a job opportunity away, claiming that it’s difficult enough to find staff in the rural region as it is. Dutch restaurant tests robot waiters amid pandemic: 'Hello and welcome' 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

But the story of this group of Tuskegee airmen is ultimately as moving as it is enlightening. 'Fly' smartly and briskly tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen at Pasadena Playhouse 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Indeed, at times the new “Wonder Years” seems as much about nostalgia for the cozy sitcoms of the ’80s as it is about nostalgia for the ’60s. Can ‘The Wonder Years’ Break Through the White Noise of Nostalgia? 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

But because film is the primary concentration for these actors, as it is mine, it's the first criteria for making my cut. 30 actors under 30 who matter 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

For "the history of humankind is at least as much about cooperation as it is about conflict, and about kindness to strangers as it is about the obsession with otherness". The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine – review 2013-04-11T09:00:01Z

The menu, as it is in those two restaurants, is essentially Italian, but less rustic and more expensive. Legacy Records Looks for History in a Brand New Neighborhood 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

Even the most graphic of emoji compositions show sex as it is: absurd, hilarious — and fun. Love in the time of emojis 2013-02-09T23:00:00Z

It’s as much a soundtrack to a life as it is a story. My streaming gem: why you should watch Wild Combination 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

Rarely is it displayed so vividly as it is in this volume. Books for Art Lovers 2012-11-22T20:15:43Z

It’s also what has made it such a potent weapon in the War on Christmas, which isn’t so much about defending the sanctity of the holiday as it is about triggering liberals. Bask in the absurdity of this 2018 #MAGA gift guide 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

The price paid, however, is a documentary as visually arid as it is topically fertile. | 'Burzynski': Prakash Jha?s ?Godfather,? Bhopal Version 2010-06-03T20:47:00Z

Love is not an emotion so much as it is a series of actions. Motherlode: Lessons From a Sleeping Baby 2011-05-06T14:23:32Z

Yet his own work, as dazzling as it is, seems laden with ironic references to Davis' music of the 60s. Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-06T13:26:00Z

Health care is too complex to be contended with in fewer than 10 pages, as it is here. Do millennial women really need the book ‘How to Skimm Your Life’? Give us more credit. 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Here, then, is an indictment of morality, at least as it is lived by Anne. Françoise Sagan, the Great Interrogator of Morality 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

It’s my main form of social interaction—as it is for millions of Americans who live alone or away from their families. My Struggle with American Small Talk 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

Restless, listless, sleepless and penniless, Sofia Papastergiadis, the heroine of Deborah Levy’s gorgeous new novel, “Hot Milk,” feels about as miserable and alarmed as it is possible to feel. Review: In ‘Hot Milk,’ by Deborah Levy, a Broken Life and a Frayed Maternal Bond 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

Daisetsuzan National Park is as thick with trees as it is with mountains. The Japanese island where powder snow is almost guaranteed during the month of January 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

For those looking for the road less traveled, FS Micronesia could be the spot, as it is quite remote: about 1,800 miles north of Australia and nearly 2,500 southwest of Hawaii. Going somewhere? Try one of the 10 places named as most ethical travel destinations 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

Yes, today’s certainty is tomorrow’s oops, a realization that is particularly alarming when applied to criminal investigation techniques, as it is in “Forensics on Trial,” Wednesday night’s episode of “Nova” on PBS. Television Review: ‘Forensics on Trial,’ on PBS’s ‘Nova’ 2012-10-16T22:05:40Z

The extent of the abuse their father inflicted upon them is coming into focus, and — as strange as it is to write this — I’m starting to like the brothers. ‘Law & Order True Crime’ Season 1, Episode 3: Court TV 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

Shot in and around New York in the early 1960s, the 75-minute, black-and-white movie projects a sense of beatnik doom as evocative as it is dated. Jonas Mekas’s Debut Is an Artifact of Beat-Era New York 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Director and producer Dana Nachman said the movie ultimately is not so much about Miles as it is about the volunteers who made the day. Volunteers power the forces of good behind 'Batkid Begins' 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Martinez’s approach is as brainy as it is entertaining, as political as it is personal. A Poetry Collection That Opens Up Like a Cabinet of Curiosities 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

If, God forbid, I catch a glimpse of myself as it is happening—face flushed, eyes flashing, mouth curled into an awful little snarl—I recoil in embarrassment. The Decline of Yelling 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Their presence, though, as comforting as it is, doesn’t quite justify the effort expended on the new series or the nine-plus hours it will take you to watch it. Review: The More, Further (Final?) ‘Tales of the City’ 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

Her voice is whispery, as it is throughout the album, and her backup puts an acoustic veneer on an electronic foundation; two chords pull her back and forth as she weighs her options. U.S. Girls’ Luxuriously Absurd Disco, and 9 More New Songs 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

Instead, it is as manipulative as it is illuminating. Exhibition Review: A Golden Age in Science, Full of Light and Shadow 2010-12-09T23:34:00Z

Like any popular diet, Paleo is as much a theory of human flourishing as it is a prescription for healthy eating. The Paleo diet is more than a fad: “The lifestyle captures a certain discontent with modernity” 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

This pétillant naturel, a sparkling wine produced by bottling the wine as it is still fermenting to trap the carbon dioxide trying to escape, looks like the palest possible rosé. 20 Wines Under $20: Plenty of Variety and Not One Chardonnay 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

His staging takes Rossini's repertoire of musical gesture, full as it is of sheer zaniness, and turns it into an equally zany visual experience, while illuminating the characters' puppetlike status. Review: Seattle Opera's 'Barber' really cuts it 2011-01-17T21:39:14Z

Bamboo may win you over as it is created from a quickly renewable plant that requires no fertilizers or pesticides, but the process for transforming bamboo into textiles can be energy and chemically intensive. 5 “green” products that aren’t as environmentally friendly as their labels suggest 2014-05-13T11:15:00Z

That's as true for children, and for ourselves, as it is for cupcakes. Motherlode Blog: A Crucial Child-Rearing Lesson From an Understanding Cow 2012-10-15T19:34:53Z

But that is as exhilarating as it is horrific. Hidden Treasures: Gas – Gas 2013-03-19T16:12:15Z

The truth is as simple as it is inexcusable. I was bad Santa 2012-12-25T12:45:00Z

“Mr. Robot” is as much tone as it is story, building ominousness through sound and production design even more than through dialogue or plot. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

“I hope my work is as much about the positive and inspirational aspects of change as it is about loss or melancholy.” Putting Memories to New Use 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z

Then there’s my ginger-turmeric bone broth with greens, which is just as good consumed curled up on the couch as it is sipped on the go. Three Restorative Recipes to Warm From Within 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

Keefe’s book is as much about this “penumbra of silence” as it is about lives lost and blood shed. ‘Say Nothing’ Unearths Buried Secrets in Northern Ireland 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

“I didn’t, but it helped me understand how hard it is to do a cop’s job right. As hard as it is, the great majority of our cops still do.” Bob Schieffer’s on police brutality: Media doesn’t tell you “how hard it is to do a cop’s job right” 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

Of all the Thanksgiving pies I tested, pecan pie holds up the best and is practically as good served the day after baking as it is baked the same day. The Absolute Best Pumpkin, Apple and Pecan Pies for Thanksgiving 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

When the men hobble out of the rooms the next morning, beaten and bandaged, it's as humorous as it is empowering. "Wild and raunchy": "Joy Ride" delivers a full-frontal subversion of sexuality for Asian women 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z

A lively interrogation of dance history that offers more questions than answers, the series is as educational as it is entertaining. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

A repertoire evolved and the instrument, which is held on the lap as it is played, was used to accompany dance, folk songs and poetry. In Mongolia, the Horse-Headed Fiddle Rides Again 2010-08-25T13:53:00Z

The score of Hammered Out links to a key moment in the opera, and the work's swung-rhythm eclecticism, as close to Bernstein as it is far from Britten, gives a glimpse of what to expect. BBC Prom 54; La fanciulla del West; Joyce DiDonato; Simon Keenlyside; Kronos Quartet 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z

Not surprisingly, the Treat, as it is called, serves only Hershey’s ice cream. Rehoboth Beach’s Funland: A timeless treasure 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

The research wasn’t really at our fingertips as it is now, but we found it some way. Billy Porter helps examine origins of gay rights movement 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

Yet "Patience" follows a committed path, anchored as it is in a fairly straightforward discussion about author W.G. 'Patience (After Sebald)' evolves into its own incredible journey 2012-05-10T20:29:04Z

Really, though, this is as much a portrait of metamorphosis as it is a thriller, and it owes less to the likes of Lee Child — or Alfred Hitchcock — than to Albert Camus. The thriller ‘The Bullet’ stars a Georgetown professor with a secret 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

"The Doors" isn't rock hagiography so much as it is the distant fantasy of a man who capped 1967's Summer of Love by requesting combat duty in Vietnam. 'South of the Border': Oliver Stone's portrait of an evolving Latin America 2010-07-29T20:30:00Z

Yet the tender bond between the titular pair gets short shrift in Nick Hamm’s bloated movie, stuffed as it is with subplots, characters and contrivances. ‘Gigi & Nate’ Review: A Tender Bond 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

The plot, as slim as it is, only gets more heinous from here. Child of God review – James Franco misfires with this punishing thriller 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

But jumbled as it is, this musical is not to be sniffed at. Rosie's Bum Rap: In Defense of Taboo 2010-05-11T16:35:00Z

“Arthur & George”—his recreation of a real-life mystery taken on by Arthur Conan Doyle that was published in 2005—is as much an excavation of biography and identity as it is a detective yarn. Music and memory 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

And few are more deserving – and more timely – than the extraordinary Fire at Sea, a film about the migrant crisis which is as lyrical as it is unflinching. And the real winner is… welcome to the Observer’s alternative Oscars 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

I trust Ms. Maxwell to show me the world — or the world of a play — as it is. | 'Wings': The Shadows of an Airborne Life 2010-10-25T03:00:00Z

In an ideal world, there’d be a way to cut back on the delays and the commercial breaks, and the choking commentary, and put the Olympics opening ceremony before audiences simply as it is. NBC Missed the Point of the Olympics Opening Ceremony 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

Science and Wired.com agreed with me on this one: as cool as it is, it’s just too frigging expensive for what it does. Great space heaters for your buck 2012-11-18T17:00:00Z

This lesson about tap tradition and individuality is the core theme of “About Tap,” as it is of Mr. Nierenberg’s earlier documentary “No Maps on My Taps,” from 1979. Tap Dance, and the Hard Work of Making It All Look Easy 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

All of that original content is as much about the parents as it is about the children. HBO's Sesame Street is the battlefield in the streaming wars for kids' TV 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

There never was an Officer Andy Landers, but, as conceived by Spike Lee, he’s crudely functional, a villain with a destiny as awful as it is seductive. The Unreality of Racial Justice Cinema 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

As important as it is to choose a gardening method, you're not locked into one type. Which gardening method is best for you? 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

It is as irrepressible as it is infectious. 'Sound of Music,' 'Pretty Woman' heroines so similar, yet so different 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Certainly nothing about Russia as it is currently constituted. How I Taught My Son to Speak Russian 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

Something, undoubtedly, will be lost, as it is being in other media. The lost art of editing 2011-02-11T14:05:33Z

I would have liked six rooms, then I probably would have done just that, but as it is I've chosen by instinct. Gary Hume: 'I couldn't hold down a job. That's why I became an artist' 2013-05-18T21:00:01Z

That track, steeped as it is in history, feels springy and unbound. New Music by Florence and the Machine and Meshell Ndegeocello 2011-11-07T22:33:38Z

As the film progresses, you begin to realise that Morgan is not being melodramatic, but actually offering a factual, accurate record of a breakdown as it is happening. Jon Savage celebrates the film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment 2011-02-10T21:45:01Z

When Ms. Collins is at the top of her game, as she was on Tuesday, her voice is as steady as it is pure. Music Review: Judy Collins at Caf? Carlyle: Folk Days to 9/11 2010-05-05T22:44:00Z

And thank goodness, because as good as it is, we have heard that song about three hundred times too many. Grammy Awards 2015 Recap 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

Lame and sappy as it is to admit, we do. | : Sept. 19 ? 25 2010-09-16T16:11:00Z

The New York Philharmonic is not, however, an ordinary orchestra and must never, as it is doing on this humdrum tour, act like it is. In Costa Mesa, the New York Philharmonic runs through the routine 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Chocolate, versatile as it is, is very temperamental. World Chefs: Chocolate sculptures showcase pastry artist's crafty side 2013-12-24T09:07:20Z

The Whole Book of Psalmes, or the Bay Psalm Book as it is commonly known, was translated directly from Hebrew to English and printed by Congregationalist Puritans in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1640. The Most Expensive Book in the World Just Sold for $14.2 Million 2013-11-27T00:29:03Z

“It would be cool if people get to see the community as it is, not just being polished up because there is a festival in town,” Nasty Nigel said. World’s Fair, and Queens, in the Meadows Festival Spotlight 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Situated as it is just on the outskirts of New York City, caught somewhere between urban and suburban, between entirely isolated and being in the mix. “Show Me a Hero”: David Simon’s new miniseries uncovers the human heart in local politics 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

“But it is as happy as it is possible to have.” A Conductor’s Tumultuous, Invaluable Tenure Ends in Minnesota 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

Still, the National Galleries of Scotland will get an undisclosed “participation fee,” as it is called, for its loans. Inside Art: Blinky Palermo?s American Tour 2010-02-25T20:58:00Z

With its vibrant photography and storytelling, this book, written with Jessica K. Chou, is as satisfying to flip through as it is to cook from. The 14 Best Cookbooks of Fall 2020 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

But we also burned lots of calories on dad angst this week, which seems to be just as central to Nic Pizzolatto’s vision for this show as it is detrimental to my enjoyment of it. 'True Detective' Recap: Full Moons and Sex Parties 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

And, regrettably, the press itself — maligned and beaten up as it is — nevertheless is Trump’s invaluable partner in distraction. Perspective | This is the moment all of Trump’s anti-media rhetoric has been working toward 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Why do conservatives hate Oberlin so much? 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

Despite its title, Andrew Delbanco’s “The War Before the War” isn’t so much about confrontation as it is about the earnest, and often self-defeating, methods used to avoid it. How Fugitive Slaves Exposed the Idea of the ‘United’ States as a Lie 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

"We must ask that His will be done in the earth, as it is in heaven. No one but Our Heavenly Father can grant leaders the wisdom and understanding they need." Russia, Ukraine war: Faith leader says 'human life more sacred than land or resources' 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

“As tough as it is for road lifers, the reality is that we risk spreading the virus to small communities if we are dispersed camping,” Kantor says. Pre-covid, the ‘van life’ was a free, easy and trendy lifestyle. Now, its practitioners are pariahs. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

It is as serious as it is funny. Andreas Meichsner photographs the madcap world of product-testing 2013-03-15T17:02:08Z

This reads like a classic, living and breathing and funny, as entertaining as it is wise. Motherlode Blog: The New Reader’s Back-to-School Booklist 2013-08-21T13:56:02Z

It's not "I'm in love right now" as much as it is "I was in love and it hurts to think about it." A dream job: Hans Zimmer and the music of 'Inception' 2010-07-20T05:02:00Z

Each co-editor must invest €11 in their chosen title, and will then be able to discuss the book with its author on Éditions du Public's forum, following each stage as it is written. France pioneers 'crowdfunded' publishing 2010-07-19T14:49:00Z

Lonely emo guitar leads off “Staring at the Sky,” and the hook, such as it is, has XXXTentacion singing, “I was staring at the sky/Singing toxic lullabies” with pop-punk cheek. XXXTentacion Left Splinters Amid the Wreckage on ‘Skins’ 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

It explores the relationship between Yale students and greater New Haven, a city he called “as studied in segregation as it is segregated.” It?s Yale Glee Club?s Year To Look Back, and Ahead 2011-04-07T21:17:25Z

Dreyer’s film was also expensive, but — as it is nearly a chamber work — its sense of spectacle was almost antithetical. A Restored ‘Passion of Joan of Arc’ Still a Transcendent Masterpiece 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

The thing is," she wrote, "nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth, so in a way one relishes the pain. Julian Barnes 2013-03-30T07:00:25Z

Watts: I also played a parent before I had children in films like "21 Grams" and I hope the work was still as imaginative as it is as a real mother. In "Goodnight Mommy," Naomi Watts is drawn to her character's "terrifying and confusing" behavior 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

Its juxtaposition of the personal and the political — Ms. Manning’s plangent isolation, coupled with the geopolitical reverberations of her revelations — is as unsettling as it is in “Klinghoffer.” ‘The Source,’ an Oratorio About Chelsea Manning’s Leaks 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

While that may indeed be its function from an industry point of view, “Making It” also serves as a validation of American moxie and creativity as it is realized by humble, anonymous home crafters. "Making It" and the bittersweet economics of crafting culture 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

“I didn’t go to the show, as it is bad for my health, but I know a lot of people who have seen it,” he said. Protests Shutter a Show That Cast White Singers as Black Slaves 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

This is one of those dishes that’s just as flexible in the eating as it is in the making. Another use for summer’s sweet cherries: In a simple grain salad 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Its mood is dreamy, sometimes almost languorous, at least as invested in the aesthetics of life on the run as it is in the politics of black lives. ‘Queen & Slim’ Review: Love on the Run 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

It’s a work that is as interested in interior emotions as it is in external physicality. Dance Listings for June 13-19 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

But as it is, workplaces like Amazon’s are filled with personal violations, if of a less serious nature. Amazon and the pick-up artist: How the celebration of “purposeful Darwinism” destroys women first 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

Into this void steps the essay, situated as it is “between the given and the made.” What Makes an Essay American 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

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And the dance, such as it is, is often an invitation for disaster. Tim Etchells on performance: 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration 2010-10-12T15:37:00Z

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His file of transcribed interviews swelled to 40,000 pages, and the version of the book he originally turned in to his publisher, Scribner, was twice as long as it is now. Andrew Solomon, ‘Far From the Tree,’ Parents and Children 2012-11-18T22:48:41Z

But the difference in quality also provides a handy guide to the changes made to Lang’s original, as it is immediately obvious which shots and sequences have been added to the old version. Dvdsdave Kehr: It?s Overlords vs. Lower Depths in a Future City 2010-11-20T19:15:00Z

It’s not a class in acting or comedy so much as it is a seminar in agelessness and professionalism, and in Short’s unmatched ability to turn self-absorption into a virtue. Review: Martin Short Kills in ‘Only Murders in the Building’ 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

One of the biggest variables this year, as it is every year, is the choice of host, Mr. Mischer said. Emmy Anticipation Runs High for PBS 2012-09-20T22:08:38Z

The mystery that Beckett ultimately unravels is as predictable as it is dull. 'Innocence' is as predictable as it is dull 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Really, it’s best to understand “Manifesto” as an art film that’s not so much about art as it is about about art. “Manifesto”: A manifesto on manifestos starring 12 Cate Blanchetts 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z

But it is the vegetated woodland floor that invites close observation, alive as it is with spring wildflowers that seem to leap from one of those meticulously wrought field drawings of Dürer or Ruskin. What you can learn from a walk through the woods 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

“I will not be reading any comments for a while as it is too painful at the moment.” Uggie, Co-Star of 'The Artist,' Dies at 13 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

The notion of a trapped consciousness is as terrifying here as it is in Dalton Trumbo’s “Johnny Got His Gun”: “His thoughts began to race like mad,” Steig writes of Sylvester. William Steig’s Books Explored the Reality That Adults Don’t Want Children to Know About 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

“The Red Wedding,” as it is known in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels, was delivered in an episode that was brutal, heartbreaking, impeccably well-constructed, horrifying, and appropriately cruel. Game of Thrones Watch: So Close. So Far. 2013-06-03T04:30:17Z

I'm definitely taller... and I'm quite short as it is! Pregnant pause 2011-06-03T07:50:38Z

And I do in some ways feel up to the challenge of telling this story, as scary as it is, because of the great divide that exists. Michael Jackson Musical Creators: ‘We’re Not Judge and Jury’ 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

So everything isn't as intense in her own life as it is on stage? Hattie Morahan: unhealthy obsessions 2011-02-01T22:00:03Z

The popularity of reality television, not nearly as ubiquitous when he died as it is now, worried Wallace. Donald Trump and the hobbling of shame: David Foster Wallace warned us about reality TV and we didn’t listen 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

Its ongoing future seems as inevitable as it is heartening to contemplate. An intersex teen is at the center of Blank Theatre's 'A Singular They' 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Employing minimal background music and a bleak, blue-gray color palette, Rasoulof evokes a sense of nihilism that is as suffocating as it is affecting. ‘A Man of Integrity’ Review: Fighting Dirty 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

Though certainly a welcome demystification of the topic, "Becoming Us" is not so much a transition story as it is a portrait of two families. TV Picks: 'Becoming Us,' 'Orphan Black,' 'Penny Dreadful' 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

But the real stuff is here, a sense of life as it is lived, an awareness of the worm inside each bottle of mezcal. ‘There There’ is an Energetic Revelation of a Corner of American Life 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

Above all, though, Jamison’s book is as much an apologia as it is a clinical analysis. Review | Kay Redfield Jamison puts Robert Lowell on the couch in an exhilarating biography 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

The result is a novel just as thrilling as it is thoughtful. Review | Mark Haddon’s ‘The Porpoise’ sounds like homework. It’s actually fantastic. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

Other than that, this cake is almost as simple to make as it is sublimely delicious — aside from the inelegant matter of flopping one cake atop the other. Nothing beats my Mom’s carrot cake, which is as simple to make as it is sublimely delicious 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

As funny as it is tragic, this section alone could carry the whole novel. ‘The Sympathizer’: A cerebral thriller about Vietnam and its aftermath 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

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The focus of this project is almost as noble as it is vague: to be altruistic, locally. Books of The Times: ‘The Humanity Project,’ Jean Thompson’s Latest Novel 2013-04-17T20:28:21Z

Rather than making the world a better place, it largely reinforces the world as it is. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

But somebody told me: “The reason why you don’t remember things is that it’s not the same for you as it is everybody else. Because you are it.” Lil Wayne’s Album Is Stalled. His Opinions Are Still Flowing. 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

While a sense of place has always been an important quality in a wine, it has perhaps never been as highly valued as it is today. A Wine From Nowhere 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

Those who don’t like it say it tastes like earth, but to my mind it’s easily as sweet as it is earthy. Yotam Ottolenghi’s beetroot recipes 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

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“The Institute,” filled as it is with anger, sorrow, empathy and, yes, hope, reiterates that commitment with undiminished power. Review | Stephen King’s ‘The Institute’ turns our political moment into gripping horror 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Sometimes historians are better positioned to gain such understanding, even as it is still underway. Fighting Wars Past, Present and Future 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

For “Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party”   is as much as an odd couple culinary vaudeville act at as it is an image makeover for both the rap mogul and the domesticity empress. The weird high magic of “Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party” 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Beautiful as it is, Prospect Park just feels incomplete in the fall and winter months; it truly comes alive in summer, when this festival brings dozens of free and benefit shows to its bandshell. Summer Stages 2012-05-17T19:59:09Z

“As fantastic as it is to watch leopards in South Africa or cheetahs in the Serengeti, that’s not our nature,” says Fellowes. More birds and bees, please! 12 easy, expert ways to rewild your garden 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

But some novels work the same magic for the world as it is today. Elizabeth Laird's top 10 books about tough stuff from out there 2012-05-17T08:00:00Z

The Karpas Peninsula, as it is known, is famed for offering something more sedate and traditional, less encroached-upon by the changing skyline inland. Ruins, casinos and abandoned construction mark Cyprus 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

His single effective act is as meaningless as it is cruel: when he finds an effeminate young soldier serving at his weekend retreat, Pinochet orders that the man be humiliated and expelled from the army. A Surreal End for an Unforgettable Queen: Pedro Lemebel, 1952-2015 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

She and Bialik make Abigail’s filial loyalty as sympathetic as it is exasperating, and as rife with difficult truths about aging as it is understatedly hopeful about growing up. ‘As They Made Us’ Review: If the Apple Falls, Who Retrieves It? 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Though a bit repetitive and diffuse, this fine book is as much a philosophical apologia as it is a history. Review | How do they do that? ‘The Secret History of Magic’ is a study of deception as art 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

The vampire narrative, concerned as it is with dominance, submission, power and exploitation, is the perfect conduit for investigating racial politics over 200 years of literary and cultural history. Three essential tales of black vampirism 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z

“It’s not as good after potato soup as it is after a plate of meat,” she said. Romania’s Springs Tap a Region’s Deep History 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

As long as it is black and looks mean, nobody will really mind. Wheels within reels: the evolution of cars on the big screen 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

In 2008, when the association was pushing for doggie bags, the number of bars serving craft beer and cider wasn’t as large as it is now. You can take that wine home with you. So why don’t you? 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z

That argument, such as it is, is that Santa Claus is based on a historical figure, Saint Nicholas. May All Your Christmases Be White: Fox News Reports Santa Claus Is Real, and a White Man 2013-12-12T19:14:10Z

President Barack Obama's visit today to Walt Disney World is as much an appeal to Brazilians and their dollars as it is Florida voters and their jobs. Obama at Disney: 'America is open for business' 2012-01-19T19:16:53Z

Literary fiction is rooted in the idea of engaging with reality as it is, of facing all the pains and pleasures of life and examining them in detail. Can fantasy ever tell the truth? 2011-03-17T09:37:12Z

But the collusion of dog and human has never been so abundant, imaginative and unnerving as it is today. Who’s a good boy? The unbreakable bond between humans and dogs 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z

Appetite for a new Twilight movie is as keen at the studio that made the originals as it is among fans. Twilight reunion movie 'a possibility' 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

It took a little longer, but the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, as it is now known, gathered steam and, as big museums and big sponsors signed on, turned into a runaway train. ArtsBeat: For Photography, the Biggest Show on Earth 2014-04-04T20:28:02Z

Unlike the quiet reverie of the dawn-watchers, the glow of the dusk crowd may be equally due to cocktails as it is to the red sky at twilight. In the Florida Keys, sunrises are a spectator sport 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

That warmth transforms Frank Loesser’s 1950 classic into something as touching as it is tuneful: You leave humming, and with a full heart. Review: A Mobile Audience for a Moving ‘Guys and Dolls’ 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

What’s more, Detroit’s relationship with Cassius is as political as it is personal. “Sorry to Bother You,” Reviewed: A Wild Workplace Comedy Energized by Righteous Anger 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

The result is an unusual limpidity in performance, as if the music is being explained as it is played. Thomas Ad?s 2010-04-29T20:45:00Z

Harrelson then came up with the idea of combining elements of theatre and film by live streaming Lost in London to cinemas as it is being shot. Live-shooting with Woody Harrelson at 2am: 'There's something about the terror of it I love' 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Anonymity is a double-edged sword, as it is in our modern world. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: All I ever needed to know I learned playing Scrabble on my phone 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Aldred’s story is as much an education on the environment as it is on climbing. Review | He has the job every kid wants: He climbs trees for a living. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

For Mario and Giuseppe, who credit the truck’s success to their family, Peruvian Brothers is as much about heritage as it is about food. How two brothers brought the tastes of Peru to a food truck — and the Mall 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Besides, BPC, as it is known, has the right people behind it. The Juice Cleanse: A Strange and Green Journey 2010-10-27T21:21:00Z

It’s a joy as simple as it is complex. Before the Wedding, a Test: 3,000 Miles of Barbecue 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Concerned as it is with the natural world and the oneness of the universe, it collapses categories. Things That Are by Amy Leach – review 2013-06-07T08:00:15Z

He mentions “the insurmountable barrier between the world as it is and the world as I want it,” and how his project was about “taking back our liberty.” ‘Silk Road’ Review: A Digital Drug Kingpin’s Undoing 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Chess’s novel is as timely and powerfully written as it is jaw-droppingly imaginative. Building the alternate-universe New York: Novelists Seth Fried and K Chess in conversation 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

To see the acronym for Make America Great Again over portraits of some of the worst Presidents in history is as ironic as it is chilling. Trump and Celebrity Approval: You Can’t Always Get What You Want 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

As excellent as it is, this icy street anthem is more than two years old. Perspective | 2017 was the greatest year in DMV rap history. These 25 songs prove it. 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

If you root for the bad-ass alloy on your female rock icons to remain forever bulletproof, looking away from Love is a move that's as understandable as it is steeped in resignation. Album Review: Courtney Love's 'Nobody's Daughter' 2010-04-23T15:04:00Z

He has, he says, written an "ordinary epic", a narrative that is determined to be interested in life as it is lived. We long for a sense of belonging that village life offers 2013-03-31T00:06:27Z

Mayo’s “Nerve Show,” as wacky as it is melancholic, straddles the time before the pandemic and the not-quite-after where we find ourselves now, an era of stuttering starts and stops and collectively frayed nerves. Review: A Choreographer’s of-the-Moment Brand of ‘Not Knowing’ 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Despite believing they are working for a better world, they are at most chipping away at the margins, making slight course corrections, while the system goes on as it is, uninterrupted. Meet the ‘Change Agents’ Who Are Enabling Inequality 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

The movie is as sumptuous in its color photography as it is austere in its mise-en-scène. ‘La Religieuse,’ a Culture War Casualty of 1960s France 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

The critic in me generally favors examining the merits of a work of art as it is instead of wishing it were something entirely different. The question isn't why cast a Black Cleopatra but rather why not profile another African queen? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

It helps that it’s a show that’s as invested in its female characters as it is in its horse. The Only Hollywood Abuser I Want to Hear From Is a Horse 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Everything in the book is told as it is, with little description to enhance things. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon - review 2013-04-17T08:00:00Z

Drawing is as much an act of deletion as it is of delineation. At LAXArt, boundary-blurring drawing as a form of sculpture 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

In the premiere, he stands in front of an AK-47 in a full swimming pool as it is fired at him underwater. Review: ‘Outrageous Acts of Danger’ Makes Science Life-Threatening 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

It’s “not an easy comedy to get the hang of,” Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times, “until you realize that it’s as much about emotional disorientation as it is disorienting in itself.” The Late, Late Show With Martin Scorsese 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

However intentional, they form part of a cultural database, which is as smart as it is appealing. ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ Review: Apocalypse Too Soon 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

This is just as good eaten at room temperature as it is warm. Yotam Ottolenghi’s picnic recipes 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

But it's never been asked and staged in quite such a mad spirit of playfulness, or on such an epic scale, as it is by New York's Nature Theater of Oklahoma. Life and Times: Episodes 1-5 – review 2013-05-27T16:39:07Z

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

Which, difficult as it is, is nothing compared with “co-raising children philosophically divergent.” Carolyn Hax: A boyfriend’s inaction on fertility treatment speaks volumes 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

I enjoyed this book as it is exciting, sad and humorous all in one. Laura-Bella Bergamotta by Emerald Everhart - review 2013-07-26T08:00:00Z

The meta-metaness of it all is saved by an insistence on giving Valerie, and indeed all the characters, a humanity that make the humor as universal as it is often painful. TV Picks: 'The Newsroom,' 'The Comeback,' 'The Blacklist' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

As thrilling as it is to see Anna offer herself up for societal shame in exchange for one-on-one Mr. Bates time, even Bates knows this is beneath her. Downton Abbey Watch: Bayonets Versus Feather Dusters 2012-01-16T13:58:47Z

The exhibition is a major New York solo museum presentation for an artist whose practice is as sensory as it is cerebral. Jennie C. Jones, a Minimalist Who Calls Her Own Tune 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Berlucchi is fancier than others on the route but as it is the winery credited with inventing Franciacorta, a visit is essential. Getting fizzy with it: the Italian wine route that sparkles 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

“It’s a dilemma for us, as it is, I think, for everyone,” said Mary Norris, a copy editor and grammar authority at The New Yorker. where have classical music’s uppercase letters gone? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

This last sharp bow-out could be the most intriguing of the lot, stuffed as it is with middlingly sane people. Big Brother; Father & Son; Dispatches; Luther 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

Is it, as it is shown, wearable and comprehensible outside the fashion cognoscenti? Paris Fashion Week: Creating the World of Tomorrow? 2010-03-05T01:10:00Z

Moonfleece is, like plenty of Ridley's work, as much about the pains of youth as it is about showing up controversial, political ideas. Folly of banning Moonfleece 2010-03-30T15:20:00Z

As worthy a goal as it is, it is still unlikely to provide enough seating for the 800,000 visitors expected. In Transit: Berlin Beer Festival to Offer 2,000 Brews 2011-07-28T10:00:33Z

The piece itself is as striking in its structure as it is strong in concept. Review: 'Dark Matters' at On the Boards is spellbinding dance 2011-02-18T17:57:04Z

But graffiti is where they started, and they wonder how the next generation will have the chance to navigate an art form that is reviled as much as it is revered. Washington is fighting graffiti artists — but it loves the graffiti aesthetic 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

Amazingly, the result is as stunning to the palate as it is to the eye. Moose, Anyone? In Newfoundland, Food Both Rustic and Sophisticated 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

This is not a catastrophe to be anticipated with dread, as it is in most other end-of-days movies. Movie Review: Bela Tarr?s Final Film, ?The Turin Horse? 2012-02-09T22:58:40Z

Appalachia, it appears, is a place defined as much by music, faith and family as it is by county and state line, and from where I stood that felt abundant. In Southern Appalachia, Searching for the ‘Big Bang’ of Country Music 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

As unsurprising as it is insidious, facial recognition algorithms are biased. "Coded Bias" exposes how facial recognition discriminates based on race, gender, and more 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

The crowd sings the stirring, irresistible, howling chorus, corny and manipulative and earnest as it is. Tim McGraw sings. Jon Meacham talks. This is not your regular book tour. 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

Project LIFT, as it is known, provides dance classes, mentoring and homework assistance to about 30 students a year from low-income families, roughly a fifth of the school’s student body. A New Leader at New York Theater Ballet and a Call for New Audiences 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

With MEA, it’s as if the cuticle is a door that’s slightly ajar, not swung wide open as it is with ammonia. Skin Deep: Can INOA Make Ammonia-Free Hair Dye Mainstream? 2010-03-11T05:32:00Z

Uncommon is the writer who ignores this sequence to forgo the novel altogether, as it is perhaps our culture’s most anointed literary form. Venita Blackburn Captures the Wonder, and Danger, of Young Womanhood 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

"But because the show isn't around, that allegiance is less focused. As sad as it is that it's not around, it's kinda nice that we get to step away from it." 'X Factor' winners Alex & Sierra aim to escape the here-gone cycle 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

As good an adaptation as it is, last season prompted me to re-read all 8 volumes -- this time on Kindle. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Wounds We Carry 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

One more reason the Douro is as exciting a wine region as it is beautiful. Think you know Douro Valley wines? 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

It’s as much of a consolation as it is a fact. In This Novel, a Grisly Discovery Leads to Self-Discovery 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z

The prize is as well known for creating literary stars in Britain as it is for being awarded to established names. Booker Prize Longlist Is Unveiled 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

It goes on to say that the book’s “examination of the hazards and hopes of black male life is as profound as it is revelatory.” Ta-Nehisi Coates' new book speaks resolutely to black America (but should be read by all) 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

But the show itself was abstract ideas as it is, originally. "Scenes from a Marriage" boss Hagai Levi on empowering the wife to leave: "I have to fight for her" 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

But rarely is the mythologizing as specific and literary as it is for the Long Island guesthouse of Betsy and Bryan H. Lawrence: They call it the Narnia House. A Narnia-Inspired Design, on Long Island 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Akram Khan’s “Giselle” isn’t so much a remake of a treasured ballet as it is an impressionistic proposition: Is there a way that “Giselle” could be sensed or felt instead of seen or heard? Review: Witching Up ‘Giselle.’ (The Horror, oh the Horror.) 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

"As far as I'm concerned this is the dream-team, and what has really impressed me is their desire to tell the story as it is, without coating it in sugar," said the author. Stephen Daldry and Richard Curtis pick up Trash 2011-04-06T10:19:36Z

“Maybe my great ambition, such as it is, is to refrain from engagement with systems that purport to tell me what I’m worth compared to anyone else,” she writes. The Infantilizing Ways We Talk About Women’s Ambition 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

The spiraling plot isn't entirely credible, crammed as it is into just slightly more than two hours of playing time. 'Abundance' of plot twists hard to believe in Western wives tale 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

Compare this to the solicitude the Lord shows his Adam and Eve, their freedom even to disobey and the absolute importance of their choice, dire as it is. The Truth and Fiction of Adam and Eve 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

But in the book “Outlander,” this story is narrated to the reader as it is told to Claire, who discovers the details of Jamie’s imprisonment in the weeks following, as he’s struggling to recover. The “Outlander” torture chamber: A shockingly brutal rape transforms a hero into a victim, but at what cost? 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

The petition, which had about 1,030 signatures Tuesday morning, said Meacham’s “beliefs and core values do not align with those of Samford University, as it is a Southern Baptist institution.” College cancels Meacham talk over Planned Parenthood ties 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

“Russia is looking for cultural exchanges wherever it can get them, just as it is looking for allies in technology, energy and the military,” Simon Morrison, a specialist in Russian music at Princeton University, said. Now Playing in China: Putin-Aligned Artists Shunned in the West 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

The striking originality of Saint-Saëns’s “Organ” Symphony, as it is popularly known, has been blunted by too many careless performances. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

His personality, so wry and full of insight, and never taking things at face value, is as much in his collages as it is in his writing. Tom Lubbock: the pain and the pleasure 2010-12-13T17:00:00Z

It is based on the premise that you are as real as he is and as deserving of attention, and that the world is worthy of our full and fearless interest, just as it is. Liner Notes for Jeff Tweedy’s “WARM” 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

I think these chefs do take each challenge as it is. "I do love a twist": "Top Chef" producer reveals "Fast and Furious" mise en place challenge secrets 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

The world was not as globalized as it is now and information not so accessible. Jane Austen’s early Chinese translators were stumped by the oddities of 19th-century British cuisine 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

Her compulsion, her sense of place, grounds the series, making it as much about the characters as it is about the crimes. Alafair Burke's obsession with a killer leads to a detective character 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

This history is as powerfully conveyed as it is tragic. The Deadliness of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak Was Not Inevitable 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

It is a tale that is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining, touching and, on occasion, humorous.” The Words, and Works, of Walter Dean Myers 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

The letters are fully and helpfully annotated, though The Seagull isn't usually attributed to Ibsen, as it is on page 666. The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4, 1928-1929 – review 2013-01-10T11:00:01Z

And not just every single African American kid, but any other kid — the content we're developing is as important for non-African Americans to learn as it is for African Americans. Former D.C. Public Schools chancellor: Black cultural education ‘could change the entire calculus’ for children 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

And this is what this drama achieves in its best moments by creating a story that's recognizably American and as affectionate and forgiving in examining that image as it is indicting. "Little Fires Everywhere" is a gripping, soapy reminder of that yesterday's ills are still present 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

Consider it a Hollywood seduction: As much effort is put into making you want to look as it is in keeping you at bay. Los Angeles, as a Pedestrian 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

She’d been talking about the challenges of the past week — nothing specific, just life as it is right now. Samira Nasr, a fashion first at Harper’s Bazaar: ‘I just want to bring more people with me to the party’ 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

The honorees can spot her at a distance, as it is said she favors bright colors so the public can spot her in a crowd. Elizabeth the Steadfast: Queen marks 70 years on throne 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Custard powder, as it is known in the U.K. and the rest of the Commonwealth nations, is primarily cornstarch with food coloring and flavorings like vanilla. This chocolate chip cookie isn't crispy or chewy — it's better 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

He wrote his book, and then Disney made its failed movie musical, which, as bad as it is, has nevertheless developed a cult following. Disney?s ?Newsies the Musical? Comes to Broadway 2012-03-02T18:00:09Z

Although most of his writing is political, he published a memoir that’s a snapshot of an Arab world rocked by dissent, much as it is now. T Magazine: Expatriot Games 2011-03-11T17:02:22Z

Embarrassed: It’s as much about self-respect — yours and his — as it is image-focus or the restaurants you frequent. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Find out if your casually dressed boyfriend puts tee before you 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

At that point, it’s clear that the film’s relationship-specific commentary, trenchant as it is, takes a back seat to a broader, more metaphorical point. Cannes: With 'The Lobster,' a director keeps swimming in rebel waters 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

His rapping, such as it is — very much in the mold of the Streets, or after-hours Drake, or Barry White intros — is almost comically erotic: intense eye contact, gratuitous detail, oily and damp. The Weeknd’s ‘Avatar’ Anthem, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

There are, however, a few holes in the Great Firewall, as it is called. How to Travel to (and Around) China, From VPNs to T.P. 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Harry, 66, whom Lady Gaga recently called "the most legendary woman in rock," said Blondie is just as much a part of the future as it is the past. Blondie spreads "Panic" to fans 2011-09-05T17:03:57Z

As entertaining as it is predictable, “Creed III” does exactly what you expect, delivering nicely balanced helpings of intimacy and spectacle, grit and glamour. ‘Creed III’ Review: A Franchise Finds New Fertile Ground 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

I’m certainly guilty of romanticizing the power of empathy, especially as it is generated by stories. What it would be like to live in violence 2013-04-18T20:20:00Z

Then there is the natural charisma of child performers, often as distracting as it is beneficial. The Dardennes and Philippe Falardeau on Child Actors 2012-03-09T16:30:00Z

It is a fiercely composed, historically informed, and richly textured film, as insightful regarding the particularities of the protagonist as it is on the artistic life—and on the life of its times.. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” Reviewed: Melissa McCarthy Finally Gets the Dramatic Role She Deserves 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

That's over in a few minutes for the audience, and it's as much of a show for us as it is for them. HBO's anguished "Scenes From a Marriage" is so potent, your own relationship better be rock solid 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z

However, if it is the inquirers’ job to monitor the outcome — as it is with doctors — they are not after pleasantries. Perspective | Miss Manners: Responses to ‘How are you?’ when you’re anything but fine 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

A new show from Forced Entertainment, a company now showing signs of being as loved and cherished in this country as much as it is abroad, is always a big event. This week's new theatre 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z

Recently restored, the Alex, as it is known, hosts not only local versions of Broadway hits like “Rent,” but also cocktail soirees in its scarlet-colored Play bar. Surfacing: New Life in a Johannesburg Suburb 2010-03-12T18:22:00Z

Many of the songs on Let England Shake are framed by war and by landscape, exploring a national heritage that is as bloody and militaristic as it is pastoral. Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll 2011-02-03T22:30:01Z

“They are creative all the time. We should do all we can to accommodate that, not restrain it — as long as it is not at the expense of the existing business, of course.” Alexander Wang, Serving Two Masters 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

I'm fortunate. I'm a 51-year-old man and I seem to be building a fan base that's not really a demographic as much as it is a disposition. Marc Maron promises an emotionally scary (and funny) new season on IFC 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Ironically, maybe that's why Black Dub's murky mish-mash of soul, blues, reggae and rock never quite takes off as expected – it's not so much directionless as it is going in too many directions at once. Daniel Lanois' Black Dub takes off in many directions 2011-06-11T14:28:00Z

That seems unlikely to drive away fans, though, indistinguishable as it is from what they’re used to by this point. The Conners: how does Roseanne survive without Roseanne Barr? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

“Big Time” doesn’t aim for the nuance or emotional wallop of “The Comeback,” but it does set itself a difficult challenge: being as suspenseful as it is funny. Why New TV Comedies Are Choosing Plot Over Jokes 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

K’ Road, as it is mercifully abbreviated, reminded me of some hybrid of Bedford Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and St. Mark’s Place in the East Village. Frugal Traveler Blog: In Auckland, New Zealand, a Frugal Trifecta 2012-03-20T17:25:56Z

Disappointed: It’s so easy to get in the weeds on estate questions as it is, and adding politics is a way to make sure you feel as bad as you are distracted. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Suspicion that a boyfriend lied about getting vaccinated leads to snooping 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

Inevitably, then, “Shipwreck” is a talky, thinky piece, but Ms. Washburn’s skewering of the chattering classes is as sparkling as it is spiky. From ‘The Simpsons’ to ‘The Twilight Zone.’ And Now, Trump. 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

This Gotham City wasn't just background, it was also a character, as it is often described by comic book writers. Batman's Chicago connection 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

That would rot his teeth, and besides, he said, he's sweet enough as it is. 'Duck Dynasty' stars swap jokes, greet fans 2013-04-03T16:54:13Z

This new wave of appreciation for Thai food is just as evident among Portland’s takeout restaurants as it is in the city’s fine dining establishments. In Portland, Thai Food Moves Beyond the Usual 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

As attentive as it is to form and detail, the image as a whole has a strange, incipiently erotic feeling. Art Review: ‘Gardening by the Book’ Celebrates Rare Botanical Volumes 2013-06-13T21:26:09Z

My boyfriend is five years younger than me and we have enough of a borderline mother/son dynamic as it is, without getting into enforced room tidying. 'We tenderly drop the vibrator into the bin': how I Marie Kondo'd my whole life 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

Following the Curves of a Republic’s Golden Age If you have ever been to Venice, you know that getting lost in that maze of canals and piazzas is as serendipitous as it is inevitable. Art Review: ‘Renaissance Venice’ at the Morgan Library & Museum 2012-05-31T21:44:28Z

If "Stranger Things" doesn't explore Eleven really losing, it's missing a huge opportunity, as it is if the story doesn't do more with a complex and compelling character like Max. How to fix "Stranger Things" for its fifth and final season 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

She would certainly agree with me that “Transparent” is just as much her show as it is Maura’s or the kids’. Better-than-ever ‘Transparent’ transitions into a study of American Jewish-ness 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

A specialist at Stanford in addiction medicine, Lembke delivers a bottom line as bizarre as it is true: Most doctors hate and fear dealing with pain, and are utterly unequipped to do so. A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid Crisis 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Ms. Mitchell’s work — particularly with her two-decade-old Black Earth Ensemble — often brings together instruments and musicians from across the globe to create a sound that’s as rooted as it is futuristic. Nicole Mitchell to Lead Jazz Program at University of Pittsburgh 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

Romance reality chemistry is rarely as stupendous as it is in the first seasons when the wonder and the schadenfreude are still fresh and new. Why is the third season of "Love Is Blind" so disappointing? Because we seen its type before 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z

"The idea was to explore the universe as it is," Obst said. Kip Thorne, the scientist who slipped through a wormhole 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

These are timely questions emerging from a too familiar tragedy, even if “Seven Seconds” is ultimately not as well executed as it is well intentioned. Review: ‘Seven Seconds,’ a Grim Account of Whose Lives Matter 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

Bravo filters the journey from Detroit to Tampa in a way that lets us know her heroine is descending into a perilous place that's as attractive as it is ugly. "Zola" transforms the greatest stripper saga ever tweeted into a masterful, can't-miss odyssey 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

“Early Work” ’s fetish is bibliophilia; it’s at least as romantic about literature as it is about romance. A Début Novel of Elderly Millennials, Afflicted with a Selective Strain of Self-Awareness 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

Connelly's film is as much a character study as it is a mystery. "The Dry" is a desolate, engrossing mystery in which everyone – even Eric Bona – is guilty 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

It’s his decision, the same as it is for any department on a movie: the director is your leader. The Art of Matching Actor and Role 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

It’s not the same for me to bring Emmett to the doctor as it is for him. Modern Love: Chained to the Hearth or Warmed by It? 2013-09-05T23:01:20Z

Was your radio voice always the same as it is now? Kojo Nnamdi and the role of a lifetime 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

His art, on display in a powerful new retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, feels deeply American, or at least as American as it is anything else. Yasuo Kuniyoshi retrospective a testament to artist’s vision 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

But a little cheesiness is as necessary to Neapolitan song as it is to the local pizza. | 'Passione': Soaring From Poverty All the Way to Ecstasy 2011-06-21T22:19:30Z

Jackson Price, Mr. Price’s son and helping hand in the studio, emphasized the importance of thin and even coats of acrylic paint, as it is he who executes the delicate next step of the process. The Blobs Aren?t Talking 2010-03-03T23:54:00Z

Some of the best scenes in these new episodes show Debbie falling apart in magnificent style, white wine in hand, and Gilpin once again makes her character's misery as funny as it is palpable. “GLOW” returns to Netflix with an excellent season 2, right when we need it 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Exist in your relationship as it is, then graduate, then move. Carolyn Hax: A talk that won’t make or break a long-distance relationship 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

The new version is doing as well in New York and Los Angeles as it is in Cheneyland. True Grit: Rooster to the rescue 2011-02-06T21:31:00Z

And yet it’s as compelling and surprising as it is for the opposite reason. Why TV's brightest shows are turning episodes into standalone stories 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

But basically, it wasn't celebrated as it is now. "All Creatures Great and Small" star on animals, slow-burn romance & what makes a Scottish Christmas 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

“We wanted the official language of the Church to be experienced in news just as it is in the daily broadcast of a Mass in Latin,” said Andrea Tornielli, the editorial director for Vatican communications. Latin lovers tune in: Vatican broadcasts news in language of... 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z

The day-to-day life of the Victorian, as it is made up of tasks and things, belies the day-to-day mind of the Victorian—the preoccupations, superstitions, beliefs and ideals of an entire society. The strange and magical Victorian wonders of “Penny Dreadful” suffer no sophomore slump 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

Union Station was twice as large as it is today? In Transit Blog: Ask a Railroad Station Expert 2011-12-28T15:43:27Z

If you have to, you can store your basil in a plastic bag, just as it is, in the fridge, for a few hours. How to stop your basil from wilting immediately 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

The basic strategy is as simple as it is devastating: Go ahead, open up that sealed room; let some light into the darkness. ‘4:48 Psychosis,’ a Polish Adaptation of Sarah Kane’s Play 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

I would recommend this book to children of all ages as it is a simple, short book but doesn't bore the reader. Hitler's Daughter by Jackie French - review 2013-03-02T12:00:00Z

You long for the world as it is, rather than how others see it. Venice Biennale: how much is that fox in the mini-mart? 2013-06-02T18:30:01Z

It’s less about knowing the stats and the numbers as it is building an identity and trying to connect with people.” ArtsBeat: Diamond Rings Match Eye Makeup to Sports Jersey 2010-10-21T17:56:00Z

The Handover Ceremony, as it is called, is a modest ritual. This Library Has New Books by Major Authors, but They Can’t Be Read Until 2114 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

This salad is lovely as it is or served with any grilled fish or seafood, salmon or calamari especially. Yotam Ottolenghi’s pasta salad recipes 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

The impact of this unmediated immersion in the exertions of Ali and Frazier to pummel each other into unconsciousness is as terrifying as it is beautiful. The Muhammad Ali Documentary That Gets to the Existential Heart of Boxing 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

What I'm trying to say is that it's important to know about the things you do and to have learnt it, as it is to learn your instrument. David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, white funk and other theatrical matters – a classic interview 2012-06-12T15:57:34Z

The mystery of the dynamic between two people in a long-term relationship is as intriguing as it is indecipherable. My mum is having an affair and has left. Now she won’t talk to us | Dear Mariella 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

My attraction to this most sacred and private portion of the garden is as much about finding out who someone really is as it is about seeing what they have planted. Outdoor Décor 2012-06-04T17:20:06.327Z

And that style is as simple as it is complex, Riding explains. Michel Legrand puts his Umbrellas up indoors 2011-03-17T22:10:01Z

The tenderloin is a quick-cooking cut that, when sauteed, as it is here, should be kept over heat for only a few minutes. It’s not often you come across a dish that’s this fast and this good 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

But “Swan Song,” a science-fiction drama written and directed by Benjamin Cleary, posits a scenario of doubling that’s just as much about acquiring emotional intelligence as it is about reckoning with existential and practical ramifications. ‘Swan Song’ Review: Second Life 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

Pluralism is as healthy at the multiplex as it is in the public square. Love is all around, and rom-coms are, too 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Or they can set aside trepidations, shed the marketers’ blinders and explore the knotty, sometimes perplexing world of Champagne as it is understood today. Rosé Champagne Brings the Holiday Joy 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Are there specific things you look for in a pool-side read or will any type of book, as long as it is enjoyable, do? What makes the perfect holiday read? 2010-07-02T15:52:00Z

Like so much of this great company's work this is as likely to be as much a treat for adults as it is for children. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z

Thanks to Kamala Harris' historical election to the vice presidency, the line of succession would not be as thoroughly obliterated as it is in "Y: The Last Man." "Y: The Last Man" presents a fascinating dystopia that probes the artifacts of our gendered world 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

"In general, we believe that it should be as easy to buy from local farms as it is to buy from Amazon — we want to allow farms to compete in this competitive marketplace." From virtual farmers markets to CSA apps, farmers have gone digital to get produce to consumers 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

“The message that I’m delivering is probably risky enough as it is. I sit there and say, ‘I’m not married, I don’t have kids. ‘I Don’t Know What a Carrie Is’: Candace Bushnell Works It Out Onstage 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

And as fun as it is to be in a movie like Sharknado, she insists she’s ready for a real challenge. Taradise Lost: Sharknado's notorious party girl gets older, and wiser — maybe 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

I think six years ago, seven, eight years ago, talking about equity was not as well received as it is in America today. Untangling catch shares with Lee van der Voo 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

Buddhism, as it is practiced in Thailand, addresses many worldly needs. The rescued Thai boys are considering becoming monks — here’s why 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Among the challenges that he saw for the Writing On members was the fact that poetry is not as popular in German as it is in their home regions. Writing Again, After Fleeing Syria 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Royal New Zealand Ballet may be based a long way from the main centres of ballet, but the repertory for its UK tour is as international as it is eclectic. This week's new dance 2011-07-08T23:09:31Z

The movie derives its humor, such as it is, from the teens’ avatar choices. Review: ‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’ Has Dwayne Johnson as a Nerd 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

Natural wine is as much defined by the intention of the producer as it is by adherence to a set of rules. France Defines Natural Wine, but Is That Enough? 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Still, a product endorsement, historic as it is, is not without risk. The Poetic Justice of Amanda Gorman’s Estée Lauder Contract 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Even “Terminator Genisys,” as mediocre as it is, felt like a movie about the very experience of its viewing. "Southpaw" Is a Throwback—in the Worst Way 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

I’m perfectly happy with my life as it is, but eventually I’d like a partner. Should an introvert date just to date? 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

Ageism remains as rampant in the entertainment industry as it is across all professions, with a woman's career mobility and earning potential narrowing at a younger age than that of her male counterparts. The sexual celebration of mature women in bloom, from "Queen Charlotte" to Martha Stewart 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z

Opera as it is in L.A., and particularly at the Music Center, for instance, would have seemed impossible 50 years ago. How Plácido Domingo taught L.A. to love opera 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Lip Lab, as it is called, is the first stand-alone store from Bite Beauty, a two-year-old company in Toronto whose all-natural lipsticks were previously available only through Sephora. Perfect Lip Shades, Created by You 2013-12-04T23:15:25Z

But work on any part of the Americas is eligible, as long as it is written in English or available in a published translation. Histories of Hoover, the Mexican Revolution and 1790s New York Win Bancroft Prize 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

The book was also designed by Hamilton, and is as visually cool as it is beautifully written. Michael Bracewell's top 10 art books 2012-06-06T10:35:15Z

Traveling A to Z through centuries of great design, Kalman’s picture book is as educational as it is whimsical. Cooper Hewitt’s reopening is fêted with a new book from illustrator Maira Kalman 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

Starlings want to remind us that Sheffield was once as close, spiritually and musically, to Detroit and Düsseldorf as it is geographically to Doncaster. New band of the day ? No 928: Starlings 2010-12-10T16:54:00Z

Though the production is fine as it is, the intriguing preamble through the bowels of the theatre proves that nothing beats getting lost in a good book. Bleak House 2010-07-11T21:16:00Z

However, Inuvik’s dominant position in the north is unlikely to change, as it is also the area’s administrative and government center. The Road to the Top of the World 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

It’s almost as much like the tragedies of ancient Greece as it is like Shakespeare, or perhaps grand opera, even though the characters belong to another social stratum, altogether, from the usual aristocrats of Verdi. What August Wilson Means Now 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Segel deserves acclaim for a performance that is as revelatory of the unexpected depths of this hitherto bro-centric actor as it is of Wallace’s self-effacing fascination. How “The End of the Tour” Nails an Entire Profession 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Books come into this world mortally wounded as it is. Confessions of (Another) Book Reviewer 2012-05-09T17:37:24Z

He finds little of it left, but his search captures in vivid detail the city as it is best remembered. Read Your Way Through Cairo 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

As for the plot of “Blood on Snow,” it is as predictable as it is hackneyed. Review: Jo Nesbo, in ‘Blood on Snow,’ Tries a New Kind of Hero 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

Certain field games can be safely played as well. Parents.com recommends games like kickball, as long as it is played on a big enough field. Best backyard games for social distancing this summer 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

The other option is to leave the flour as it is, and rethink the other main ingredient in pie dough: fat. 100% whole-wheat pie crust is a bad idea. Or is it? 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

It’s a lesson as true in politics as it is in our personal lives. I’m American and devastated. Why did we vote for Trump? | Mariella Frostrup 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

The story, to a libretto by Felice Romani, which Rossini completed in great haste, as usual, when he was only 22, is as mad as it is immoral. Il turco in Italia; Felicity Lott, London Conchord Ensemble 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z

And nowhere in New York is this collective mind-set as embraced as it is in Bushwick. A Commune Grows in Brooklyn 2010-09-18T01:07:00Z

Bandar, as it is known, is a town of scorching sunshine, warm blue waters and towering palms, and was once an important post on the spice route from India to Europe. A foodie tour of Iran: it's poetry on a plate 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

Fortunately, malaria is not endemic to the U.S. as it is in Kenya. Why mosquitoes bite some people and not others 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

One suggested explanation is that when inequality is as large as it is in the United States, it becomes less noticeable—perhaps because people with different incomes and wealth don’t even mix. We’ve been brainwashed 2012-06-14T17:21:00Z

This condensation, which is as entertaining as it is efficient, comes courtesy of Patrick Marber, whose new work about a semipro soccer team, “The Red Lion,” is also currently in repertory at the National. London Theater Journal: Maximally Minimal 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

“Under African Skies” is as much about the experience of making “Graceland” as it is about cultural politics. Movie Review: ?Under African Skies,? About the Paul Simon Album ?Graceland? 2012-05-10T23:19:38Z

But in the production that opened on Monday night at Playwrights Horizons, the process of bringing brightness to the world isn’t nearly as smooth as it is in the Book of Genesis. Review: Big Dreams, Bright Ideas in ‘The Light Years’ 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

And heaven forbid that any performer should directly or indirectly question our responses to a performance as it is occurring. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Defying Expectations Off Broadway 2013-01-24T17:37:58Z

The mandate for choosing the items for sale seems to be that everything must be as fetching as it is functional. Critical Shopper: A Primer for the Wholesome, Happy Home 2011-01-19T23:48:52Z

The final scene, in which she rejects Onegin's longed-for ardour, is as physically wrenching for us as it is for her. Onegin – review 2013-01-21T18:17:00Z

Incredible as it is, she upstaged the Kardashians; Maybe, finally, this is where the classy begins and the trashy ends. Style Invitational Week 1139: 64 different ways to lose! 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

Demand won’t be going away, as it is mostly derived in the US and western Europe, which leaves policy. The Business of Drugs: inside the economics of America's longest war 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

“Preparing for a role is tough enough as it is — you have a lot of things to think about.” How ballet dancers flaunt — and hide — their tattoos on stage 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

The Weegee Archive, as it is now known, has resulted in a series of riveting exhibitions at the International Center of Photography. Art Review: ?Weegee? at International Center of Photography - Review 2012-01-19T23:35:18Z

"What native powers these books possess comes from my immersion in the time, and my ability to ignore the world as it is." James Ellroy talks up his new L.A. Quartet 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

The plot, such as it is, involves Mr. Suozzi’s being led by Mr. Ramasar et al. to don first a waistcoat that changes his fate and then a coat that seals it. Dance Review: New York City Ballet?s Architecture of Dance 2010-04-30T23:01:00Z

She said that “to receive an honor related to foreign policy means a great deal to me, as it is what I wish to dedicate my working life to.” Angelina Jolie honored by Queen Elizabeth II 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

This beautiful whitewashed boutique hotel is near Cuernavaca’s city center but is quiet, as it is surrounded by high walls. Cuernavaca: A side trip into opulence, only an hour away from Mexico’s capital 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

The men continually ribbed one another — about masculinity and looks, mostly — though their teasing was nowhere near as ruthless as it is in "Whiplash." 'Whiplash' director, stars march to a friendly beat — off-screen 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Adams hasn’t found a way to make Max and Whitney’s fantasy experience as powerful to the audience as it is to the characters themselves, so the talked-about loss of it registers intellectually but not emotionally. 2015 Contemporary American Theater Festival sets the stage for rebellion 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

And the climax of the film is as inevitable as it is implausible. Review: Venice Festival Opens With Glimpses Into the Pitfalls of Passion 2010-09-02T12:34:00Z

This is as vital for journalists as it is for activists and community organizers, especially in times of crisis. #OscarsSoWhite creator April Reign on what we all stand to lose if Musk crashes Twitter 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z

Their fame, such as it is, has not insulated them from bad behavior and opprobrium, even at home. The Prancing Elites Dance Their Way Up 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

“The uniform doesn’t change,” Mr. Browne said firmly, giving credence to the idea that cool is a demeanor as much as it is a temperature. Manning Up in the Heat 2013-07-24T21:14:00Z

Still, once one adjusts to the Americanization of Ebenezer, this “Carol” remains a juggernaut entertainment as eye-catching as it is ultimately uplifting. South Coast Rep's Ebenezer Scrooge is back for 'A Christmas Carol' for 36th year 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

It is as touching as it is odd. Tilda Swinton brings erudite vampires to Cannes 2013-05-25T17:04:09Z

Speaking by telephone from separate cities, the two dug back into a time, 40-odd years ago, when drag was hardly as popular as it is in today’s RuPaul era. In a Bygone New York, John Epperson Invited Charles Busch to a Show 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

Didactic as it is, “One Way or Another” can be taken for socialist realism, but if so, it is a highly original and even critical variant. A Feminist, Neorealist, Communist Film, and a Plain Great Movie 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

In a nutshell, she needs to enliven herself; as it is, members of the corps de ballet overshadow her. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Stravinsky-Balanchine Program 2012-09-29T01:50:08Z

India is known for its vegetarianism, but dairy from cows is a big part of the local diet, so veganism is as new to India as it is anywhere else. Promising cruelty-free travel in an increasingly cruel world, vegan tourism makes a strong play 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Follow along on the next pages to see how to build a bed every bit as practical as it is handsome. How to Build a Really Cool Storage Bed 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

If it helps, this isn’t about rules of etiquette so much as it is about the law of unintended consequences. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Lord, give me patience with this friend who always name-drops Thee 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Perhaps, Groff suggests, it's not as easy to be a wife as it is to be a husband. Lauren Groff's 'Fates and Furies' turns the struggles of marriage into art 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

One answer on offer is, An organism whose haunting questions perhaps ought not to be meaningful to the organ that generates them, lacking as it is in any means of "solving" them. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

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