People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Hina is ten years younger than Mom, has short hair, a zillion funky pairs of eyeglasses, is this amazing graphic designer and cool in ways I can only aspire to. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

And being skinny was not something a child aspired to be. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“This nationalism that means we should aspire to indifference about our own individual cultures is stupid.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Amir jan. Our aspiring storyteller. What a pleasure,” he said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Barack had often said that he aspired to climb the steps of the White House because the Little Rock Nine had dared to climb the steps of Central High School. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Where not to work if you’re a hacker who aspires to stay off government radar: the Apple Genius Bar. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t care, because in those wartime days such jobs as I could aspire to were going begging. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henceforth, if one aspired to be considered a member of the Himalayan elite, eschewing bottled oxygen was mandatory. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The man who’d proudly owned eighteen suits as a teenager, and who’d aspired to own a hundred more, now dressed the same way every day. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time in her life that she aspired to fail. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It aspires to be both a work of art and something instantly accessible to anyone’s ear, for the sheer pleasure of it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As an aspiring politician, it was essential for Comrade Pillai to be seen in his chosen constituency as a man of influence. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ancient Greek and Roman civilisations became something of an ideal to which people might aspire. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The aspiring artist of talent will eventually achieve the real thing. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hovered—happily, I’d say—between the hardscrabble Philadelphia neighborhoods they came from and a more cosmopolitan life they aspired to. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

So whiteness is the thing to aspire to. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

What my father aspired to be and what Allah had destined for him was nurtured chiefly by the fertile tutelage of his parents while his family was still together and thriving as a unit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do not aspire above your station,” she says softly to me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It is common for aspiring jockeys to be so rubber-legged upon dismounting from their first circuit around the track that they are unable to walk back to the barn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus I have come a long way and returned and boomeranged a long way from the point in society toward which I originally aspired. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story, which helped Canetti earn the Nobel Prize in literature, includes a character named Fischerele who aspires to become chess champion of the world. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I doubt that trying to amend the Constitution would actually succeed, but it may be valuable to aspire to it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He wanted to train me to an elevation I could never reach; it racked me hourly to aspire to the standard he uplifted. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The shell barges were much like the racing shells the boys aspired to sit in, but they were a few inches broader in the beam, with flatter bottoms and keels. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Attention to the welfare of the nation is the highest virtue to which a citizen can aspire.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The magnitude of the job dwarfs every man who aspires to it.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In point of fact, Linda aspired to certain illusions of security offered by those establishment traditions and values which had created an insupportable tension between the lawyer and his first wife. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Renting a tuxedo seemed to me an excellent way to contract some hideous disease from its previous tenant, and I did not aspire to become the world’s only virgin with pubic lice. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The last example shows that verbs can be drained of life when they are turned into adjectives, too, as when contribute becomes contributive to or aspire becomes on the aspirational level. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Let me be rightly understood. This match, to which you have the presumption to aspire, can never take place. No, never. Mr. Darcy is engaged to my daughter. Now what have you to say?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

An aspiring writer could be forgiven for thinking that learning to write is like negotiating an obstacle course in boot camp, with a sergeant barking at you for every errant footfall. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Before he made that call, he would have said he was a man who aspired to peace, and rest. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “That, Octavian, is something to aspire to.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The difference between British racism and Afrikaner racism was that at least the British gave the natives something to aspire to. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They must demonstrate through words and deeds their ability to live by and aspire to the same moral codes as the white middle class, even while they are being discriminated against wrongly. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At that time, a career as a civil servant was a glittering prize for an African, the highest that a black man could aspire to. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sure that mine about Everest was not mine alone; the highest point on earth, unattainable, foreign to all experience, was there for many boys and grown men to aspire toward. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The phrase on the aspir- ational level adds nothing to aspire, nor is a prejudice reduction model any more sophisticated than reducing prejudice. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Sadly, no matter how fancy you made your house, there was one thing you could never aspire to improve: your toilet. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

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

Visiting valets, I have found, are often the worst offenders, aspiring as they usually do to the position of butler with some urgency. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The other was in the West, where Albinus was, who also aspired to imperial power. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were also encouraged not to settle for old-fashioned and “bourgeois” gender roles—“bourgeois” being a catchall term for the upper middle classes of Imperial Russia who’d aspired to wealth and luxury. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This year it was to be a plantation of sun flowers, the seeds of which cheerful and aspiring plant were to feed Aunt Cockle-top and her family of chicks. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had a black boy announced that he aspired to be a writer, he would have been unhesitatingly called crazy by his pals. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He soon aspired to construct a new science of morality and politics on geometrical principles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For her, Pedro moved out of his neighborhood into a downtown apartment, thereby, without intending to do so, ascending to the middle class to which he had never aspired. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Gilbert had aspired to do, Galileo had actually done: he had announced discoveries which were entirely at odds with the established philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"Balon Greyjoy is not a man to be trusted. He wore a crown himself, remember, if only for a season. He may aspire to wear one again." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

After all, to aspire to colorblindness is to aspire to a state of being in which you are not capable of seeing racial difference—a practical impossibility for most of us. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Fronted by a lush lawn and palm trees, the Union Passenger Terminal had opened in 1954, an art deco-style building once aspiring to grandness but since overtaken by a certain grey municipal malaise. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

So if everyone in America aspires to be WASPs, then what do WASPs aspire to? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mendel, the monk, was an isolator; Darwin, who had once aspired to be a parson, a synthesizer. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Although she did not aspire to be an astronaut, she knew it was something women could do. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“There is a bigger gap between the average person and what they are aspiring to,” Schor said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Bobby was World Champion—or so he still claimed—and she aspired to be. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Like how he used to make beats, and sell instrumental tapes to aspiring rappers and singers in the neighborhood. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Still, it is a shock to realize that “trailer trash” has become, for me, a demographic category to aspire to. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why is it that most people aspire to little more than comfort? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Literally, he lived only to aspire—after what was good and great, certainly; but still he would never rest, nor approve of others resting round him. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But as an aspiring architect, she couldn’t help admiring the terraced gardens, the fountains and temples, the winding cobblestone streets and gleaming white villas. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Ring may have aspired, through ancient myth, to explain and explore basic human instincts, yet it was still, by and large, a series of oversized operas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Her only political ambition was to “reign in the heart of my husband. That is my throne and there I aspire to be absolute.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

A roomful of NBA stars, young and on top of the world, might have intimidated anyone, let alone Reggie, a good basketball player himself, who aspired to coach and lead players. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“She treats all with an equality I myself aspire to. Come, let us eat.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

With nothing to really aspire to, life had become about maintenance. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

"Your brother Benjen came to me about Jon a few days ago. It seems the boy aspires to take the black." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It seems fair to say that Brunelleschi’s image aspires to exemplify what philosophers call a correspondence theory of truth, in which a statement or representation is true if it corresponds to external reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Like me, he’d never had it, and he didn’t aspire to it, either. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We were maids and farmers, handymen and washer-women, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The educated Englishman was our model; what we aspired to be were “black Englishmen,” as we were sometimes derisively called. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To help aspiring riders establish themselves in the sport, a horse ridden by a bug boy had his impost reduced by five pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the street lives an aspiring rock band composed of four middle schoolers. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I aspire to be like him. Everything he draws blows me away.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no doubt that Bacon and his followers aspired to transform the world through their new science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A moody man, often competent, bad-tempered, wealthy, aspires to a place in Richmond society, frets and broods and fights with superiors. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although they lived in an America where in theory there existed equality of opportunity, they knew unerringly what to aspire to and what not to aspire to. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lagos has never been, will never be, and has never aspired to be like New York, or anywhere else for that matter. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The usual suspects: crazed fans, wannabe disciples, and aspiring bounty hunters. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They were the first South African expedition ever to be granted a permit to climb Everest, a mixed-race group that aspired to put the first black person on the summit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Marat aspired to liberty; the outcome was Napoleon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

One man walked up to Blackburn and introduced his son as an aspiring doctor. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of prodigious output that even aspiring male engineers could only hope to replicate. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He often put on this face, an imitation of the sensible, no-nonsense dad I think he aspired to be. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But I used to hide in the back of the school theater in London and watch Mrs. Campbell test aspiring actors. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hamilton himself was a kind of Horatio Alger hero who aspired to fame more than fortune, but he understood the world of banking, investing, and speculating from within. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“No, you aspire to design your outfit and be like me, your fashion hero,” says Cinna. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I actually aspired to cowardice, because the alternative, the real reason I was running, was that Assef was right: Nothing was free in this world. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro therefore prized education as the only doorway into the world of knowledge and dignity to which he aspired. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Decaying leaves clung fiercely to the floor among tiny green sprouts that aspired toward the world above. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I aspired to her levels of grace and perseverance. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Social Eating House does not aspire to be a Pollen Street Social; the idea here is refined food in a funky atmosphere. Choice Tables : London’s West End, a Stage for Good Eating 2014-02-13T22:55:59Z

The more I get to see it visually and hear their words, the more it helps me aspire to inspire. Kendrick Lamar, on a Year of Knowing What Matters 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

Championing the cause of the aspiring amateur, his book Digital Filmmaking delivers a sensible tutorial on the disciplines required to produce a film – whatever the size of budget, crew or camera. In praise of ? Mike Figgis 2011-02-07T00:05:08Z

Brian, an unconventional family dog that talks, drinks alcohol, dates women and is an aspiring novelist, has been a major character since the pilot of "Family Guy" in 1999, appearing in more than 200 episodes. 'Family Guy' fans start petition to resurrect show's beloved talking dog 2013-11-26T02:47:14Z

It's the rare series that doesn't aspire to be broadly pleasing while making its case for being carefully watched and evaluated as entertainment, societal critique and high art in one pass. With "Swarm," two "Atlanta" collaborators kick the beehive of toxic fandom 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

It was then that Avedis I, a 22-year-old Armenian metal smith and aspiring alchemist, learned that mixing ample tin into copper would produce a rich, robust sound. A Family’s 400-Year-Old Musical Secret Still Rings True 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

None of the films appear to have ever been made, he said, and the aspiring filmmakers, now all dead, left little other trace. An Heir, a $25 Million Giveaway and 30,000 Unopened Letters 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

It is the sort of drama that aspires to win Oscars. A Minute With: Steven Spielberg on "Tintin" and "War Horse" 2011-12-21T16:14:35Z

From an early age, Mr. Okun aspired to a career as a classical pianist. Milt Okun, music impresario who spanned pop, folk and opera, dies at 92 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

For their part, the aspiring singers respect Kazaras' judgment, experience and fascination with details. Peter Kazaras, veteran of all opera trades, steers Seattle Opera's young artists 2011-03-30T02:35:05Z

And unlike Mr. Fallon, he isn’t likely to grow up aspiring to host the “Tonight” show anymore than he will get his news from a paper edition of The New York Times. The TV Watch: Jimmy Fallon Debuts New ‘Tonight’ Show in New York 2014-02-18T06:42:54Z

He was wearing jeans and a black T-shirt; only his black dress shoes still tagged him as a “man in makeup” — something he says he never aspired to be. And in the Left Corner, Weighing In ... 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

That’s what I would aspire to write in any joke or any written prose, television script, anything. Barbra Streisand, James Corden and More on Their Favorite Sondheim Song 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

As the discussion surrounding the relevance of jazz plays out, one thing is certain: there is no shortage of aspiring jazz musicians. Jazz moves to stay 'relevant' 2012-07-03T07:44:48Z

Prudently trimmed, the work emerges as a Rossinian lark with a handful of limpid arias that aspire to Donizetti. Critic’s Notebook: Glimmerglass Offers an Ambitious Spread of Works 2013-07-22T22:01:46Z

But the architect Frank Gehry is a fan of the organization that just purchased it: the National YoungArts Foundation, a nonprofit that helps aspiring high school artists. National YoungArts to Take Over Bacardi Complex in Miami 2012-10-03T01:17:21Z

It’s a marker by which we measure ourselves in so many ways — by those we aspire to be like, or those we admire. Andrea Riseborough Can’t Believe She Was Nominated for an Oscar, Either 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

Its platinum 2015 album, “Blurryface,” is adventurous and ambitious; while remaining resolutely pop at its core, it aspires to rock’s pomp without losing sight of how rock’s energy now largely exists in other genres. Twenty One Pilots, Bringing Rock’s Pomp and a Lot More 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Centuries after Alexander the Great’s attempts to push his empire east, this style remained in currency, informing depictions of bodhisattvas — those who aspire to Buddhahood and seek to bring this enlightenment to others. Review | With renovated galleries, the Freer and Sackler museums confront their own quirkiness 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

How do we expect them to aspire to or even understand the potential of fulfilling adult relationships? My boyfriend is addicted to porn but doesn’t want sex 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

Adams, through his lawyer, said that while he “has communications online with various fans and aspiring musicians,” he “does not recall having online communications with anyone related to anything outside of music.” Ryan Adams Dangled Success. Women Say They Paid a Price. 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

When he was an aspiring singer, did he know that what would set him apart from his peers — what, in essence, would catapult him to fame — was the flexibility of his midsection? Music Review: Luke Bryan Brings Hip-Hop Excess to Madison Square Garden 2014-01-26T22:43:51Z

The people I admire are not on the macro scale that I aspire to be on. Meet the Moroccan-American Singer Speaking Out With Music 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Audrey, a marketing associate, and Morgan, an aspiring actress, are roommates; Audrey has the more conservative personal life—her relationship with Drew, she thought, was stable. Review: “The Spy Who Dumped Me” Is the Best Secret-Agent Movie in Theatres Right Now 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

The flashbacks to the 1950s remind audiences of the uphill struggle of Black ambition, and the deep scars that were incurred by those who aspired, even in a place that carried the nickname Chocolate City. Review | ‘City in Transition’ is an exhilarating journey across Washington through the eyes of Black artists 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

Ms. Balan plays the title character, an aspiring detective in Hyderabad who works to build a career from her formidable sleuthing abilities, her traditionalist family notwithstanding. Vidya Balan Stars in ‘Bobby Jasoos,’ a Bollywood Film 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

But for a certain viewer, what makes the latest round in the "Predator" franchise stands head and shoulders above its four predecessors is Naru, Amber Midthunder's aspiring Comanche hunter. With "Prey," Amber Midthunder gives us a woman warrior worthy of sequels 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z

In another essay, Knapp uses his own flailing attempts to imitate Roger Federer on his neighborhood tennis courts to deconstruct his journey from aspiring reader and writer to literary Reader and Writer. When It Comes to Writing, Cheston Knapp Is His Own Harshest Critic 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Instead of aspiring to grandeur, we surrender to pettiness and accommodation. ‘Self and Soul’: Mark Edmundson’s biting critique of modern complacency 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

The ongoing expansion will hopefully make the platform more accessible, to both consumers and aspiring shefs. Online marketplace Shef is serving up tasty home-cooked meals and celebrating the moms behind them 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z

But they also often aspire to be more than juvenile, puffing themselves up with money and fuzzy, heavy themes. Movie Review: In ‘Pacific Rim,’ Pilots Inside Robots Face Alien Invaders 2013-07-11T12:00:01Z

Mr. Conaway’s character, Bobby Wheeler, was a vain and handsome aspiring actor who never seemed to get a break in his show business career. Jeff Conaway, Actor in ?Taxi? and ?Grease,? Dies at 60 2011-05-27T20:02:15Z

But if I were an aspiring restaurateur, I would reopen my steno pad. ‘I Hear She’s a Real Bitch’: A Swaggering, Feminist Restaurant Memoir 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a theater aspiring to community goodwill, not to mention a dependable income stream, must be in want of a holiday show. ‘Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley’: Comic play is a gift for Jane Austen fans 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

The 26-year-old aspiring restaurateur and chairman of the party's West Los Angeles central committee is one of a raft of ethnically diverse young libertarians who hold seats in L.A. 'Liberty Kids' shake up L.A. Republican Party, look to other states 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

The two leading female roles were played by an aspiring actress named Shirley Booth. Arthur Laurents, Playwright and Director on Broadway, Dies at 93 2011-05-06T04:27:34Z

The reality is that Canadians and Americans have different relationships with their leaders; we don’t tend to put them on pedestals, or use them as examples of perfect citizenry to which we can aspire. Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau: A Very Canadian ‘First Lady’ 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Holten’s gray production aspires to stylization but is merely clunky. Music Review: A von Trier Tragedy, Recast as Opera 2011-07-31T21:40:49Z

The two other most salient facts about Casey, she soon reveals, are that she is an aspiring writer and that her mother has recently died. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman on the Road to Happiness 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

And also with Miss Baker, whose heights of celebrity the Girl aspires to, though not without ambivalence. Review: ‘Josephine and I,’ a Tribute Show by Cush Jumbo 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

And it gives us someone to aspire toward, even if her experience is something that we can never reach. White Writer 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

For that reason, many bloggers aspire to travel less. That Solo Travel Blogger? She Just Wants a Vacation 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Competitions are often derided for their scorecard mentality, but they offer aspiring musicians a coveted chance to perform with major orchestras. Music Review: A Chopin Competition Winner Collects Her Reward 2011-01-05T23:15:23Z

Like a lot of eighty-seven-year-olds, Bill did not aspire to digital mastery: he never had an e-mail address; until he started writing a blog, he’d never read one. Tuesdays with William Zinsser 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Escovedo aspires to activate the body and the soul on his new record, and with a searing combination of imagination and gusto, manages to succeed. In “The Crossing” Alejandro Escovedo has crafted a rock n roll immigration epic poem 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

He's an aspiring author — mildly self-loathing and lonely when he really thinks about it — who becomes enchanted by fellow student Billy. 7 must-read novels to transport you in February 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

But it would sit just as comfortably next to a Song dynasty scroll, and it’s not necessarily clear which set of cultural requirements it’s aspiring to meet. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

Another daughter, an aspiring competitive swimmer, practices her strokes in the living room. Death doesn't stand a chance in sunny 'Failure: A Love Story' 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

He grew up in leafy, placid Parkland, and aspires to get an MBA and a job on Wall Street. A conservative Parkland student’s whirlwind trip to D.C. ended in the Oval Office 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

But opportunities for an aspiring Hispanic actor were so thin on the ground, that he thought about quitting. Anthony Ramos: 'Americans now feel what people in the hood have felt for years' 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

Hollywood should give up on the idea that everyone aspires to be us. How Can the Oscars Be More Entertaining? Here Are Five Ways 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Dr. Chiba, is treating a police detective who once aspired to become a film director. Animation That Broke the Rules 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

The aspiring actor was invited to a meal with him at a Manhattan hotel, but on arrival was told to go to his suite because he was running late at a meeting. The allegations against Harvey Weinstein: what we know so far 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

Rather than helpful advice, what the aspiring actors, comedians and writers on staff get is discouragement, again and again — from their agents, from their parents, from their boyfriends and girlfriends, and from each other. "Party Down": The best comedy you haven't heard of 2010-04-17T22:59:00Z

He aspired to save for a deposit on a roomy apartment for him and his child, who was living with his parents. Modern Love: A Lost Child, but Not Mine 2011-07-28T22:12:45Z

The suspension bridges are strung with necklaces of light; the skyscrapers aspire to the sky and, at night, create a firmament all their own. 2009-12-21T05:00:00Z

Real-world fashion potential: Good, at least for the kind of women who aspire to look like they live in Miami. New TV shows dial up style 2011-09-21T19:22:03Z

To call the new album “Black Messiah” is to hint at a second coming, but the album’s notes insist, instead, that “We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.” Review: D’Angelo’s ‘Black Messiah’ 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

Liz Lemon was the woman I had always aspired to be. How Liz Lemon inspired me to quit my job 2011-05-12T20:25:00Z

It was something that I never though possible so I never aspired to it. "I want to be like Betty White": Jacki Weaver on success after 60 and why ageism is "unimaginative" 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

It might show that you’re not as thoughtful and considerate a person as you aspire to be, but that’s not an unsolvable problem: just send him these Father’s Day cartoons. New Yorker Cartoons for Father’s Day 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

This week, two aspiring pop stars will be cut from the remaining 11 due to last week's dramatic save of Casey Abrams. 'American Idol' update: Get poked by contestants; see who is the most-searched 2011-03-30T21:58:17Z

Like Louis and Prior of Tony Kushner’s two-part “Angels in America” — which “The Inheritance” aspires to emulate — Eric and Toby reflect the mores, joys and sorrows of gay partnership of their era. Review | ‘The Inheritance’ is epic in length, but not always in satisfaction 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z

Ms. Landau had aspired to become an artist before her father, also a developer, sent her to secretarial school. Emily Fisher Landau, Patron of Contemporary Art, Dies at 102 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

“Girl was a kind of woman I would aspire to be someday, because she had great honesty and integrity, which are important to me,” Ms. Irglova said. Arts & Leisure: The Film ?Once? Becomes a New York Musical 2011-12-04T03:13:02Z

Declining to identify himself, he noted, “I have aspired to make my authorial persona as transparently false as possible.” Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

Burley also features as an aspiring dancer in StreetDance 3D, currently on release, after making her breakthrough on hard-hitting horror Donkey Punch. Film Weekly: Edinburgh with added Kicks 2010-06-03T08:56:00Z

Influences of Brecht-Weill and the British music hall coincide with strong melodies in an American vernacular that aspire toward art song. Review: Stacy Sullivan Performs an Act of Remembrance 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

This alternate reality is seen through the eyes of an aspiring D.J., Review: Angelenos Long for Life Beyond the Valley in ‘We Are Your Friends’ 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

At the close of the last millennium, when the American literary establishment was focused on a particular kind of white domestic realism, much fiction aspired to timelessness. Planned Obsolescence 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

Dina Lohan told Popeater that she and her younger daughter Ali -- also an aspiring singer and actress -- are officially changing their last names to her maiden name, Sullivan. Just call me Lindsay. Not Lohan 2011-03-25T17:39:43Z

Mr. and Mrs. Casotti may have been exemplars of piety, but the painting says as much about the worldly recognition they aspire to as it does about their belief. Art Review: ‘Bellini, Titian and Lotto’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-07-05T21:59:59Z

When Christopher John Rogers was an aspiring designer in middle school in Louisiana, he came across the work of the Belgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten. Two Fashion Designers on Staying Inspired and Independent 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

"It doesn't say much for a lot of films if they don't do that. I've always aspired to something seamless, to filmmaking that doesn't advertise itself, that doesn't seem like you're there." Mike Leigh explains what was 'terrifying' about filming 'Mr. Turner' 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

After all, the director grew up a version of what these kids aspired to be, and much of her previous work worried at the fame game. The Bling Ring – review 2013-07-07T00:05:00Z

She is unfailingly honest, which I admire and aspire to, but I’m not unfailingly honest. David Henry Hwang, the Man Who Can Make Bruce Lee Talk 2012-11-10T14:39:45Z

As you make these changes, aspire to create a different type of relationship with your son. Perspective | How do I teach my teen to not give up? 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

Or when Geri is seen talking to an awkward bloke at a party, using the F-word itself: it was the first time I’d seen a woman I aspired to be labelling herself a feminist. Spice World: the feminist movie? When girl power hit the the big screen 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

He joked with one student — an aspiring journalist — that there will be no jobs left for her when she graduates, adding as a by-the-way that media enigma Matt Drudge lives in Miami. What it’s like to take a political science class with professor Marco Rubio 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

This comedy is about two friends and aspiring boxers who get caught up in a money-laundering scheme. 6 Funny Movies You Should Watch This Weekend 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

These aspiring Don Drapers can draw inspiration from the museum’s show “Everything Is Design: The Work of Paul Rand.” Spare Times for Children for July 17-23 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

"Lowery is hardly the first filmmaker to crib Malick's poetic aesthetic, but his clear confidence in aspiring to the same sort of enrapturing experience is undeniably impressive," said the film magazine Screen International. 'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' offers new take on American outlaw films 2013-08-15T20:50:01Z

"The 'New Writing play," she writes, "like the 'Well Made Play' before it, exists as some sort of ideal to which new writers are supposed to aspire." Noises off: why there's no such thing as new writing ? or an all-black play 2012-05-18T08:50:58Z

“Among your characters you must always include The Starving African, who wanders the refugee camp nearly naked, and waits for the benevolence of the West,” Wainaina wrote in satirical instructions to aspiring writers. Kenyan writer Wainaina, challenger of African stereotypes, dies at 48 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

A recent study published in the journal Psychological Science, found that fathers who perform household chores are more likely to bring up daughters who aspire to careers in business, legal and other professions. You've Come a Long Way Daddy 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

Anderson was an exotic beauty, aspiring actress and international socialite while Murphy dabbled as an author, environmentalist, musician and surfer. T Magazine: Lost in Paradise 2014-05-08T13:00:10Z

So listen up, aspiring comedy stars, if you want to make it in Hollywood, it's not enough to deliver the jokes. Breaking comedy's raunch barrier 2011-05-23T15:23:04Z

If making a living as an internet celebrity was inconceivable a decade ago, it is now a profession that many aspire to. Meet Gavin, the eight-year-old with a face shared more than 1bn times 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Obsession is the overarching theme, probably, but with a dubious premise and four unpleasant characters, the play is not involving enough to be as shocking as it aspires to be. Theater Review | 'Sex & Violence': Short Stroll to the Wild Side From the Safe Side at Home 2010-02-17T21:43:00Z

Complex creates 33 weekly and daily video shows across multiple platforms, on topics from urban sneaker shopping to aspiring rodeo riders. Celebs Will Say Anything if You Blast Them With Hot Sauce 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

Embarrassing qualities, all, for an aspiring punk rocker. Kim Gordon, Kurt Cobain, and Punk Myth-Making 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

While a little more idealistic than I personally feel capable of aspiring to, the philosophy of this book strikes me as pertinent for a person in power. Amanda Knox: By the Book 2013-05-07T18:24:20Z

It looked like a headband aspiring to be a hat; a hatband, if you will. We Can’t Stop Thinking About Amanda Gorman’s Headband 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

So, to be more nuanced about what’s at stake: In the present moment, where does art rise above ironic ridicule and aspire to greatness, in terms of challenging convention and elevating the human spirit? David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

Like them, Found at Sea aspires to make a craft of its own saying. Found at Sea by Andrew Greig – review 2013-05-03T14:36:01Z

“If you aspire to be a gangsta rapper, by definition your lyrics need to be violent,” said Charis E. Kubrin, an associate professor of criminology, law and society at the University of California, Irvine. Using Rap Lyrics as Damning Evidence Stirs Legal Debate 2014-03-26T23:01:35Z

Claybourne Elder was 23 years old and an aspiring actor when he took a trip from his home in Utah to New York City. A stranger bought this Broadway star a ticket years ago when he couldn’t afford it. They just reunited. 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

The institution was basically conceived on the premise that this is the mode to which all advanced art aspires. At MoMA, Women at Play in the Fields of Abstraction 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

“It wasn’t just a matter of putting food on the table – that was part of it – it was also a question of, you could reach, you could aspire, you could move out.” The science of white working class pain: Trump’s appeal is rooted in the body as well as the mind 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

There’s a thin line between the way these guys dressed, how they acted and what they aspired to be. Q&A: Mapping a Darker Side of New York 2013-12-25T19:10:51Z

He's got a lot to contribute to aspiring performers, Mandel said. Mandel searches for Tiny Tim redux on talent show 2010-06-15T12:11:00Z

The Golf Wang pieces do not aspire to practicality: they are meant to be the loudest items in your closet, statement pieces delivered with a shriek—barely palatable, but impossible to ignore. Tyler, the Creator’s Fashion Statement 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

He was an aspiring actor who would bend your ear for a half an hour about auditions he’d lined up. Talking Baseball, Broadcasting, and “Brockmire” with Hank Azaria 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

He and Chad "Rowdy Rebel" Marshall — another aspiring hip-hop artist who also pleaded guilty in the same case — gained notoriety with their performance in the "Shmoney dance" video, which has about 15 million YouTube views. 'Hot Boy' rapper Bobby Shmurda gets 7-year prison sentence 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

But during his own era, he aspired to a loftier goal with history paintings, which were considered at the time to be the apex of artistic achievement. A Homecoming for Dutch Masters, Thanks to an American Billionaire 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

He aspired to a playwriting career and earned a Broadway credit in 1959 as one of the lyricists for “First Impressions,” a musical based on Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” that Mr. Styne’s company produced. Bo Goldman, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter, Dies at 90 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

Only with help from the Beatles, Monty Python and a string of Labour Party victories did R.P. become — briefly — something to mock rather than aspire to. Get to Know Your Larynx. Then Make Some Noise. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

“In Iraq we aspire to the global cooperation to protect the heritage of Iraq and to restore its looted objects.” British Museum to Return Looted Antiquities to Iraq 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

The book’s plot centers on an aspiring novelist who discovers that she was adopted and that her birth mother is about to be released from prison after being convicted of murdering a schoolgirl. P.D. James, who brought a gritty realism to the British detective novel, dies at 94

Such details are essential for any novel that aspires to be a realistic portrait of cancer. 'Alice & Oliver' is like 'Love Story,' but with more grit and less sap 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Jeanette said that for years she aspired to be as disciplined, as focused and as good in ballet class as her older sister. Patricia and Jeanette Delgado, Sisters in Miami City Ballet 2013-04-23T22:12:30Z

Shot in hand-held digital, the movie opens abruptly with Anna, an aspiring writer, delivering a paper in a classroom, where she and Jacob trade looks. | 'Like Crazy': ?Like Crazy? From Drake Doremus ? Review 2011-10-27T22:04:03Z

Madonna isn’t too excited about a planned feature movie that will follow her early years as an aspiring material girl in gritty 1980s New York. Madonna Criticizes Planned Film About Her Early Years 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

In my opinion, Tosi is who all costume designers interested in period clothes aspire to be. The artists' artist: costume designers ? in pictures 2011-08-17T23:01:00Z

These are the kinds of jobs to which highly educated people once aspired. Gary Shteyngart on How Hedge Funders See the World 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

You wonder if Corré’s stunt might have aspired to something more positive—selling everything and donating the proceeds to charity, for example. Oasis and the Fading Dream of the Nineties 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

New York might seem a challenging environment for the aspiring caveman. 2010-01-09T03:29:00Z

Spears has never dabbled in or aspired to high art, but there’s a sourness to her voice that nonetheless distinguishes her from other pop ingénues, who belt and warble with trained aplomb. The Sexual Innocence of Britney Spears 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

This year, for instance, the characters of Erivo’s fellow best actress nominees include a Fox newswoman, an icon of classic Hollywood, an aspiring young writer, and a hopeful divorcee. Slaves, nannies, and maids: Oscars value women of colour – in subservient roles 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

An aspiring author herself, Ms. Sheard asked Salinger for advice, and he encouraged her. 9 Letters From Young J. D. Salinger Unearthed 2013-04-23T22:10:00Z

In it, he plays an aspiring dancer, squaring off against Patrick Swayze for the last spot in a male revue. The Big, Funny, Tragic Life of Chris Farley 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

The ballet's pantomimic minor characters and ensembles hark back to a default 19th century; but in the love story that engages his five central characters, he aspires towards a much more contemporary realism. Onegin – review 2013-01-21T18:17:00Z

She has raised the money for aspiring architects who would otherwise struggle to afford the fees to help them pursue their ambition as Stephen hoped to. Doreen Lawrence: 'I could have shut myself away, but that is not me' 2013-04-20T22:26:39Z

This is a wonderful and inspirational biography for aspiring young dancers and other athletes. Review | Four new books to inspire young readers 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

"House of the Dragon" aspires to treat its women better than the creators of "Game of Thrones." "House of the Dragon" and the question of queens 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z

It’s a passage that should send chills down the spines of aspiring influencers, hoping to one day be followed by cameras. Review | The juicy details of Jessica Simpson’s memoir are only part of her misunderstood story 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

So to be a guy who gets it done and never gives up but enjoys what he’s doing — that’s something to aspire to. Holy D.C. connection! A local comic book writer used to work for the CIA! 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

It is a structure that brings to mind Walter Pater’s famous dictum that all art aspires toward the condition of music, a fusion of form and subject matter. Theater Review: ‘The Awake,’ by Ken Urban, With Consciousness in Limbo 2013-08-30T22:36:00Z

Because she works so closely with restaurant legends — and judges aspiring ones — Ms. Lakshmi is simultaneously confident in her tastes and anxious about cooking. Padma Lakshmi’s Thanksgiving Turkey: Slow Roasted and Richly Sauced 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

There was also a 19-year-old aspiring rapper who goes by the moniker Kid King, and Futu, the owner of the market. Saving, and Splurging, in Guyana 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Why do all these billionaires aspire to go to outer space? Mary South on Content Moderation and Trauma 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

Dumlee, the aspiring rapper linked to the gang Death Patrol, said politicians would soon move on. After a Star’s Killing, Sweden Struggles With ‘Gangster Rap’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

“Phase Six” aspires to real density, but it can’t quite get there: The characters remain essentially static. In ‘Phase Six,’ Two Women Get to Work Saving the World From a Pandemic 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

This culminated in breakneck runs that would intimidate any aspiring speed-metal guitarist. Zakir Hussain and Niladri Kumar: A master class in tabla and sitar 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

For reasons yet to be fully elucidated, James Franco – actor, writer, director, producer, painter, film-maker and aspiring poet – has an unquenchable interest in gay rights. Sundance film festival 2013: Interior. Leather Bar – first look review 2013-01-21T15:07:55Z

“We both aspired to be pop stars,” he said. George Michael Preferred Music to Fame. The Doc He Made Does, Too. 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

The store aspires to recall an old Ivy League clubhouse, but feels like a facsimile you could make at home with a 3D printer. Critical Shopper: Critical Shopper - J. Press York Street in Greenwich Village 2013-04-16T17:00:39Z

As a student at Hunter College High School in Manhattan, he aspired to write. Chris Hayes Has Arrived With ‘Up’ 2012-06-22T20:45:34Z

His indie rock and folk songs take on subjects dangerously prone to caricature — aspiring death-metal rockers, masked wrestlers, spiritual seekers — yet he renders them in nuanced and empathetic ways. Mountain Goats founder John Darnielle returns with a second powerful novel 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

In today’s Hollywood, where action film’s aspire to look like Action Comics, beefcake is the new cheesecake. Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain: The Second Time as Farce 2013-04-26T03:30:45Z

Last fall, Raphael competed against 400 other aspiring young journalists in the TFK Kid Reporter Talent Search. Kid reporter interviews first lady, tours Mount Vernon

In an age of wall-to-wall eye candy, in which it often seems everybody aspires to a Vogue photo op, Ms. Shear refreshingly manages to be frumpy, dumpy and commandingly attractive. | 'Restoration': Claudia Shear at New York Theater Workshop 2010-05-20T02:25:00Z

Dickinson "never preaches", she continues, but offers a "different angle" on the world, leaving the reader with "lines which remain like hooks in their skin, nagging for attention" – an ability any poet would aspire to. Reader reviews roundup 2012-06-29T14:44:12Z

Fifty witnesses testified at the singer’s five-week trial, many giving harrowing accounts of how he would use his star power to lure young fans or aspiring musicians into his orbit and later abuse them. What to know about R. Kelly’s federal child porn and obstruction of justice trial in Chicago 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

He creates his own music, and aspires to build his following as a musical artist/dancer. Janet Jackson hired her as a backup dancer. Instagram made her a star. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Redford, 75, set up the Sundance Institute in 1981, which led to the film festival, to encourage emerging and aspiring filmmakers working outside Hollywood's major studios. Robert Redford noncommittal on future of London's Sundance event 2013-04-24T14:00:38Z

It was under this username that Fanning met an aspiring entrepreneur named Sean Parker, one of the few who didn't scoff at the programmer's big idea. 11 facts about Napster 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

The couple’s daughter, Sofia, is an aspiring actress who attends Los Angeles High School of the Arts. TV stars and coaches charged in college bribery scheme 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

It showed little reverence for radio formats, aspiring to high art instead. Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Ode to Happiness in “Everything Is Love” 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

“Let my journey from then to now be an inspiration for all aspiring actors.” Broadway theater will be renamed after James Earl Jones 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

When her performance opened the Sadler’s Wells Ballet’s season at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1949, it became a yardstick for local ballet, the standard to which dancers in New York aspired. Critic’s Notebook: That ’40s Pas de Deux? You Can Still Catch It 2013-08-28T21:52:03Z

It's also patronising to say that only middle-class women might want careers – women from all backgrounds aspire to stimulating, well-paid work. Do Marissa Mayer's maternity plans make her a fit role model for women? 2012-07-21T23:05:56Z

Trying to get noticed they played open-mike nights in New York City and aspired, in vain, to move up to the small clubs on the Lower East Side. The Lumineers’ Strange Road to the Top 10 2013-02-06T13:01:48Z

If "And Just Like That" aspires to truly move on, answering our question of what might have been with the other guy is essential. "And Just Like That," Carrie's last supper serves up Samantha's cameo and just maybe, a fresh start 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z

Evelyn can aspire to a lot of things but not to being one of their number. Review: ‘Everybody Rise,’ Stephanie Clifford’s Debut Novel, Features That Old-Money Scent 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

There are so many skill sets to being a professional choreographer, and this is the first time that there'll be a platform -- ongoing -- for aspiring choreographers. Nigel Lythgoe and DanceOn to launch online dance shows 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lubovitch’s passion for movement was awakened during his freshman year at the University of Iowa, where had enrolled as an aspiring gymnast and art student. Lar Lubovitch: Confessions of a Former Go-Go Dancer 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Here we were, in these damp, ragged woods, serenaded by the roar of hostile surf, because I was determined to mold my child into the stoical adventure-seeker I aspired, and mostly failed, to be. Personal Journeys: Camping in the Caribbean: A Mother-Daughter Adventure 2014-05-09T19:06:46Z

In another, she said she had aspired to be a detective. Ruby C. Williams, Folk Artist With a Produce Stand, Dies at 94 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

At a young age, from a family and culture that reveres singing, Robinson aspired to be a drummer instead. The accidental opera star: 'A lot of the purists, they don’t believe my story' 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

“Extraterrestrial” is a subtler and cooler film, and does not aspire to be a brain-teaser in the same way. “Extraterrestrial”: The girl and the flying saucer 2012-06-15T16:09:00Z

In his plotting, dialogue and empathy for the bad guys, Goldberg aspires to the heights of Elmore Leonard. Lars Iyer’s ‘Wittgenstein Jr.,’ Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘F’ and More 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Then why has a group of aspiring opera singers at the Mannes School of Music spent the past 18 months learning how to speak into a microphone? How Young Singers Get Used to ‘Dust’ in Their Mouths 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Brad Watson has been an aspiring movie star, a garbage collector, a digger of ditches, a bartender, a professor, and much more. “Something was wrong with Aunt Jane”: Brad Watson on the uncommon woman behind his new novel, writing difference and the appeal of “fly-over” country 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Once a byword for the worst excesses of overtourism, Barcelona now aspires to be a role model for other cities that once put all their eggs in the tourist basket. La Rambla: plans to transform Barcelona's tourist rat run into a cultural hub 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

The skills that aspiring drummers would do well to emulate. Ringo Starr's MasterClass offers a student-focused approach to finding one's own drumming style 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

Online messages from aspiring DJs ages 6 to 65 poured in from around the globe, she said. Youngest Dubai DJ scratches her way to fame in world contest 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z

But the band does not aspire to anything more ambitious. Flight of the Conchords: Aimless, and That’s O.K. 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

When I was asked to give this talk to a roomful of aspiring writers, I had to confront the elephant-in-the-room question: How shall we continue to write in these numbing times? Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

The Fringe, which attracts thousands of aspiring comedians, started in the same year when eight theater groups turned up uninvited to perform on the fringes of the first International Festival. Edinburgh festivals, including Fringe comedy showcase, canceled 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

A charitable foundation is being established to honour his work and an annual scholarship fund will be awarded to aspiring young actors. Character actor Lauter dies aged 74 2013-10-17T08:45:44Z

Trained as a lyric soprano, Ms. Juntwait aspired to be an opera singer but found that the profession did not accommodate the demands of early motherhood. Margaret Juntwait, host of the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday matinee radio broadcasts, dies at 58 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

The most important quality for an aspiring illustrator is, he reckons, self-belief. How do I become … an illustrator 2013-01-29T12:48:36Z

Although they’re intended to ensure that guests don’t steal relics from the kitchen drawers, they’ll probably do double duty for aspiring TV chefs who want to try their hand at Beef Bourguignon. You can now rent (and cook in!) Julia Child’s Provence cottage 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

People aspire to be a good server in a restaurant where they give them massive tips, and where they make good money. Gabriela Cámara has had a very good year, and she's only getting started 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

A thorough makeover of last fall’s first-person shooter Far Cry 3, Blood Dragon transforms what was a jungle adventure that aspired to be thoughtful into something intentionally goofy. Video Game Reviews: Injustice, Monaco, Far Cry 3, Guacamelee! and Robot Unicorn Attack 2 2013-05-07T17:35:05Z

He's a school teacher and aspiring novelist, she runs a fair-trade shop, and they live with their kids in an enviable brownstone. 'The Affair' puts a postmodern twist on infidelity 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

He could have aspired to be an actor or athlete; he just turned out to be both. David the Goliath gets what he wants 2011-03-22T21:55:00Z

HOWEVER, this man was not famous, I was not an aspiring comedian, and there was nobody's manager telling me to shut up or risk losing roles. Louis C.K. Is Accused by 5 Women of Sexual Misconduct 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

On Dec. 22, 1992, he was an obscure performance artist and aspiring writer supporting himself with odd jobs. David Sedaris’s Back Pages, Before ‘SantaLand’ Made Him a Star 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

The title of Jay Martin’s tightly wound debut film, “7 Minutes,” is the time that three aspiring bank robbers imagine it will take to pull off a heist that might net them a half-million dollars. Review: In ‘7 Minutes,’ From Jay Martin, a Bank Robbery Plan Implodes 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Awkwardness never seemed like something to aspire to. Welcome to the golden age of social awkwardness 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Even so, she aspired to be an actress. Mary Alice, Tony Winner for Her Role in ‘Fences,’ Dies at 85 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z

They transformed Coach from a beloved but stodgy collegiate label into a chic symbol for aspiring fashion-seekers. On the Runway Blog: Reed Krakoff to Go Solo, Leaving Coach Next Year 2013-04-23T15:17:12Z

That “business” concerns an aspiring actor and personal trainer who’s been having an affair with a mobster’s wife. Review: In ‘Barry,’ This Actor Slays Them, Offstage 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

“Desert Notebooks” sometimes seems to aspire to the atomized condition of sand. Ben Ehrenreich’s Dispatches From the Beginning and End of the World 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

By using hieroglyphics, Mr. Penck aspired to create a universal language for addressing all conceivable states of mind and the world. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

“Even if there’s so much work for some, I want to be positive. And as Marion said so well I hope you get better and aspire to something in your life than constantly sending s—!” Marion Cotillard's Partner Guillaume Canet Calls Cheating Rumors 'Stupid and Unfounded' 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

At its heart is the "shefs," a portmanteau of "she" and "chef," who are the mothers, stay-at-home parents and aspiring chefs behind each and every tasty recipe. Online marketplace Shef is serving up tasty home-cooked meals and celebrating the moms behind them 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z

An aspiring engineer, he is already taking college courses for credit at the University of the District of Columbia. Worried about racism’s impact on her biracial son, a mother looks at home schooling 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

They’ve accomplished a feat almost everyone who ties the knot aspires to: to reach old age together, glad they picked each other. The secret to a long-lasting marriage 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

I see, swinging "like men" is what women should aspire to? For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Their cause has been helped in recent months by the advent of U.S. streaming giant Netflix's program "Glow", a 1980s-set drama chronicling the lives of aspiring female TV wrestlers. Britain's female wrestlers grapple with acceptance 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

Fairly early on, aspiring musicians must develop their own voices. Glenn Gould’s Every Detail. But Why? 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Alsop’s statement came at the start of the annual conference of the League of American Orchestras, which was held in Baltimore last week, and which this year aspired to tackle the timely topic of diversity. Desperately seeking relevance, orchestras grapple with existential questions 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

Dismayed by the parts Hollywood was offering, Marling engineered her own acting breakthrough by co-writing movies with her flatmates, both aspiring directors. How female actors are rewriting Hollywood's script 2013-07-11T17:00:01Z

He has amped up that half-century-old Paris Review tradition, attracting a mix of writers, agents and magazine editors, perhaps more aspiring than established, and certainly more young than old. Lorin Stein, the Paris Review?s New Party Boy 2011-02-25T19:58:16Z

And it aspires to bigness in many of the same ways. Review: In ‘Lempicka,’ Blond Ambition Is Set in a New Key 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

“Food of Life” was Deravian’s gateway drug: It was the first cookbook Deravian ever bought for herself way back in 1996, when she was an aspiring actress who lived in Los Angeles. Najmieh Batmanglij is the grande dame of Iranian cooking. It’s time you knew her name. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Why must a mass-market paperback aspire to the thickness of a foam travel pillow? James Patterson Would Like You to Read 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

An aspiring pitcher, he blows his chance in front of a talent scout, leaving blood spattered on home plate from a wild pitch. Movie Review: In ‘Grand Slammed,’ an Aspiring Pitcher Goes Nowhere Fast 2014-04-25T00:55:20Z

My grandfather was actually an aspiring concert pianist, born and raised in Tel Aviv. A Collector Who Grew Up With Art Now Fosters Its Makers 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Even as humans fear the superiority of the machines, our species remains the ideal to which they aspire. When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

It is not an easy task when women now far outnumber men on many campuses—thereby raising the proportionality hurdle—yet far fewer of them aspire to play varsity sports. Title IX: How a Good Law Went Terribly Wrong 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

The space is probably the most dramatic site for sculpture in New York, yet Ms. Wagstaff’s commissions do not aspire to be sculptures at all. Becoming Modern: The Met’s Mission at the Breuer Building 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

So you've got an entire generation of young girls, aspiring gymnasts, at home wanting to follow her path. "It's not worth it": ESPN podcast "Heavy Medals" probes the Karolyis' ruthless gymnastics empire 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

For that, she blames his staunch socialist belief that workers don't aspire to the boss class: he had "no hinterland of aspiration", despite sending her to private school. Guardian Angel: My Story, My Britain by Melanie Phillips – review 2013-05-17T06:32:01Z

Her father was also a carpenter and a mechanic, and her mother was a chef and an aspiring country singer. Mimi Parker, Moody Alt-Rock Vocalist, Is Dead at 55 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

It is a carefully made artifact that aspires in the direction of art—as is all writing, even a memoir or an essay, which purports to be telling the truth. Failing to Write a Novel in the Most Distraction-Free Place on Earth 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

For Eric Henson and Skip Harvey, aspiring illustrators, and Holly Conrad, a costume and creature designer, Comic-Con is a job fair. Movie Review: ?Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan?s Hope,? by Morgan Spurlock 2012-04-12T21:47:24Z

For aspiring artists who had never even seen a copy of the masterpieces of the Old World, the experience of an afternoon at the Louvre was enough to bring them nearly to their knees. David McCullough's 'The Greater Journey': How France nurtured the American experiment 2011-05-18T23:11:59Z

It holds special meaning for Mr. Black, who aspired to be an actor when he first moved to Los Angeles. Five Places to Visit in Beverly Hills 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

In Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, an aspiring con-artist, played by Steve Martin, learns to pour, savour and pose with champagne. Champagne with Steve Martin 2013-03-16T20:30:00Z

I was aspiring to create that big summer movie experience and a movie that had to be seen on the big screen. How Did ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Get Those Dogfight Scenes? Joseph Kosinski Explains. 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

They mistake world-weariness for outright pessimism, and aspire to nothing more profound than that most overused of registers: “gritty”. The Dark Knight at 10: how Christopher Nolan reshaped superhero cinema 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

Director Bess Kargman's documentary follows a half-dozen aspiring professional ballet dancers at the Youth America Grand Prix, a competition for performers ages 9-19 where prizes, scholarships and contracts with prestigious companies await. Capsule reviews of `The Avengers,' other new films 2012-05-02T22:04:55Z

His Creon aspires for aloof authority; the production’s narrative shows how Antigone shrinks the distance suddenly, racing toward him, back into that firm embrace. Critic?s Notebook: Going Under the Radar, and Into the Unknown 2011-01-11T23:53:39Z

When he first introduces the idea of hsi dream job to his family, they misunderstand and think he aspires to be Somali and ask why he wantesto be a "pirate." Netflix's "Uncorked" spills the real truth about rejection and privilege in pursuit of passion 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

We still need something to aspire to, I suppose. You Remember Jessica Simpson, Right? Wrong 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

"Christmas" is also interested in what motherhood does to aspiring female artists. 'Happy Christmas' piles insecurities, angsty comedy under tree 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

“But he’s not a movie critic, nor is he a literary critic, and sometimes there’s a greater truth we aspire to. It’s not the facts on the ground.” ‘Lost City of Z’ alters history for the sake of modern audiences. Are we okay with that? 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

But the real engine behind the Senate bill is Nguyen, the State Department employee and aspiring astronaut. Meet the 24-year-old who could change how the US handles sexual assaults 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

His screenplay, Joseph Morgenstern wrote in his review in Newsweek, “sustains a level of wit and tension that few modern films aspire to, let alone achieve.” Lorenzo Semple Jr., Creator of TV’s ‘Batman,’ Dies at 91 2014-04-01T04:02:29Z

In this smart, sparkling modern-day Cinderella tale, an aspiring screenwriter who works as a personal assistant to Hollywood royalty realizes that her own dreams and ambitions are worth putting first in her own life. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

When Henry Chalfant arrived in New York City from suburban Pittsburgh in 1973, as an aspiring sculptor, he found a place teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. ‘I Have to Get That’: How Henry Chalfant Became a Graffiti Ambassador 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

I wanted to cherish this book, to feel I could pass it on to young aspiring reporters, to get them to consider working at papers like The Storm Lake Times. How a Small-Town Newspaper Editor Won a Pulitzer Prize 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

There's little of the flightiness of Pontormo, where everything aspires to the condition of a flag, flame or cloud. Bronzino's Medici portraits ? review 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z

Then a terrorist bombing blows the block to smithereens and turns Quon into an aspiring avenger. Review: Jackie Chan Seeks Vengeance in ‘The Foreigner’ 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

She developed a course that is required for all aspiring winemakers called the Kindergarten of the Nose. How a quest to sharpen my sense of smell made me a more grateful cook 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z

A three-year-old video of rapper Cardi B resurfaced on social media recently, which shows her explaining to the camera the lengths she went to survive when she was a younger aspiring musician. No, Cardi B is not like Bill Cosby: Controversy over resurfaced video is fueled by bad faith outrage 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

But ask him if he aspires to emulate, in size, any major Northeast arts festival — Jacob’s Pillow, Tanglewood — and he answers simply: No. Mount Temper Arts Goes Its Own Slow Way 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

But novels about the Way We Live Now aspire to recreate the feeling of their times, the vibe, as well as the details. ‘Middle England,’ a Traditional Novel Set in Our Very Unconventional Times 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Quite likely a photojournalist is what she aspired to be. Vivian Maier: lost art of an urban photographer 2013-06-25T09:15:33Z

The mirrors reflect the audience members, too, underlining the social roles that we perform and aspire to. Review: In ‘Chambre,’ Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson Refract a Tale of Murderous Maids 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

A poet who lived among sharp implements would have choked to death on a title as aspiring and pasty-faced as “Continuous Creation.” One Last Book From an Outback Poet Who Was Part Hero, Part Pariah 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

The Augustan age aspired to "clarity, eloquence, and expressions of logical justification". Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges – review 2013-05-30T11:00:01Z

In retrospect, Ellis’s criticism was a gift, but the aspiring writer was floored. Writer Joe McGinniss Jr. follows in his famous father’s footsteps, with a novel twist 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

Specifically, according to the New Yorker, the classes appeal to a group it deems “CATS — the curious, aspiring thirtysomethings who constitute a plurality of its audience.” Perspective | We took Bill and Hillary Clinton’s MasterClasses. Guess who seemed more prepared. 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

There was that famous statement, “All art aspires to the condition of music.” The Healing Arts of Brian Eno 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Then, many party leaders openly aspired to see China evolve in a more constitutional, law-based direction. 1949: The Year That Set the Course of Chinese-American Relations 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

Hines was an aspiring actress and played a small role in the movie “5 Flights Up” along with Freeman and Diane Keaton. Man sentenced in fatal stabbing of Morgan Freeman relative 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Macke’s family was well off, from the Rhineland, where he was born in 1887; as an aspiring young artist, he traveled extensively. German Artists Who Blazed a Path Cut Short by War 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

An aspiring screenwriter working as an office manager, she had finally fallen in with a group of South Asian artists. Bhangra Is Big on Campus. Now It’s Inspiring a Musical. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

It does, I think, what every epigraph should aspire to do: surprise the reader, catching us off guard and subtly manipulating our approach to the text. Epigraphs: opening possibilities | Toby Lichtig 2010-03-30T12:00:00Z

But not unlike the aspiring actors, designers, directors and administrators who have flooded onto the Williams College campus all afternoon, Ms. Gersten is also something of a newcomer — at least to the top post. Second Act for New Chief of Festival 2011-06-22T23:00:45Z

And there is nothing more absurd than someone who aspires to show good taste in contemporary art. Why I've joined Damien Hirst's bad taste party 2010-09-28T14:07:00Z

Both works involve an ailing soldier, but whether Harris makes any deeper connections to the Sophocles work, or aspires to some dialogue between her piece and the classic, is unclear. ‘On Sugarland’ Review: A Nameless War, and Too Many Wounds to Count 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

I was amazed when it got published – as an aspiring writer, you don't ever expect that to happen. Brandford Boase award goes to My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece 2012-07-05T17:17:00Z

During opening statements on Wednesday, New York prosecutors accused Weinstein of committing violent attacks on aspiring actresses, who they said suffered shame and humiliation as they internalized trauma from the encounters. Actress Annabella Sciorra expected to testify in Weinstein rape trial 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

As sung by Aimée Cucchiaro, a continual delight as a series of generic victims, as well as an aspiring fashion designer named Pixie, this clever ditty kicks things off to an enjoyable start. Theater Review: ‘The House of Von Macramé’ at Bushwick Starr 2013-01-27T22:48:18Z

A new drama about "aspiring performers" living in an "apartment-style motel for displaced dreamers." 17 of Seattle's top entertainment picks for April 22-29, 2012 2012-04-18T23:13:04Z

Burns was there for the second installment of her “Making of a Midwife” video series, which documents the experiences of aspiring midwives, about the Haitian birth assistance organization Midwives for Haiti. | Christy Turlington Burns and Citizens of Humanity Promote Maternal Health 2013-08-19T19:00:15Z

As Franz got older, Wright found him easier to relate to, and even became a kind of mentor to the aspiring poet. An Ecstatic, Troubled Poet Comes to Life in a New Biography 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Even if you don’t aspire to be a mogul champ, you’ll reap the benefits of improving your technique wherever you ski. Technique: Six Women-Only Ski Clinics Go Way Beyond the Snowplow 2011-12-09T19:25:17Z

The aspiring vlogger points to the role that social networks played in his decision to use them. ‘I thought it was a miracle. Then I started shaking’: the danger of buying diet pills online 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z

Miss Black America aspires to a lot, and often falls short. ‘You can be unapologetically black’: How Miss Black America has endured 50 years 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

And with chorus lines of splashy heels, it’s a dreamscape for aspiring young drag queens. It’s Gay Pride Weekend: Dress the Part 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

If you were singing and dancing at Cornell and aspiring to be in those musicals in junior high, then this is something of a full-circle moment for you. With ‘In the Heights,’ Jimmy Smits Sings a Little but Gave It a Lot 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

“Fashion photography,” she said, “idealizes the view of how one should look, or aspire to look. Street photography is how people really look.” An Exhibition That Blends the Runway and the Street 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

They were pop fables, something this slick spectacle doesn’t remotely aspire to be. ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Review: Let’s You and Him Fight 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

There is the Make the Cut Contest, during which the company chooses a few sketches from aspiring designers and users vote for the winner, whose item is then produced and sold on the site. ModCloth is Selling an Era They Missed Out On 2013-09-11T23:33:26Z

Yet her iteration continues to be thought of as a kind of pace car for aspiring anthem singers. Mariah Carey’s Rather Perfect Farewell to 2016 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

Witness the Tankards’ mocking of their hero’s self-puffery, as if he were aspiring to be an action hero, with laughable results. Bone Up on Shakespeare, With a Skeleton and His Ankle-Nibbling Nemesis 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z

There are several things I think it's important for an aspiring writer to know. Philip Pullman: a life in writing 2011-03-03T12:00:00Z

Although an impassioned balletomane, Mr. Braunschweig seemed less enthusiastic about performances than about his ceaseless campaign to better the lot of aspiring dancers and retired dancers. Philippe Braunschweig, Prix de Lausanne Founder, Dies at 82 2010-04-07T02:44:00Z

When the news finally gets through to the station, Marcus, a lowly officer who aspires to the lofty title of detective, jumps on the case as his big break. Theater Review: In the Musical ‘Murder for Two,’ One Man Is Many Suspects 2013-07-26T02:00:01Z

The aspiring singer was discovered by producers from the reality competition series when they saw him on Instagram covering Boyz II Men’s “On Bended Knee.” America's Got Talent Airs the Late Brandon Rogers' Audition 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

To the great amusement of her colleagues, Lisa is an aspiring poet. A Love Letter to Old-Fashioned Department Stores 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

He and Chad “Rowdy Rebel” Marshall — another aspiring hip-hop artist who also pleaded guilty in the same case — gained notoriety with their performance in the “Shmoney dance” video, which has about 15 million YouTube views. 'Hot Boy' rapper Bobby Shmurda gets 7-year prison sentence 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

It follows the collapse of the five-year marriage between an aspiring novelist and a budding actress from both points of view. Songwriter Jason Robert Brown revisits tough times 2013-03-29T12:59:08Z

Lawson is his freeloading friend and roommate, Shawn, an aspiring novelist. "Romantically Challenged" not likely to win hearts 2010-04-17T00:30:00Z

One of the aspiring entrepreneurs is Saija, who offers nature and wellbeing services in what she calls the “Healing Forest”. Serene summer in Finland’s centenary national park 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Eno's ambient music aspires to deflect attention, to slip into the perceptual background. The Playlist: Ed Sheeran Returns With a Foot in the Past and an Eye on the Future 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

I often think that academic books that aspire to reach non-specialists have a problem distilling what’s actually interesting about their research. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

He encourages all aspiring Jedi knights to come to the performance dressed as a favorite character from one of the films. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Though she had aspired to be Yoko Ono, the experience more conjured Angelyne, the pneumatic blonde known for self-financed billboard appearances. For Sandra Tsing Loh, Change is Good 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jones is a fop; his attire Shows the flair to which many aspire, But with haute couture tweeds From Milan, he exceeds What his ditch-digging job would require. Style Invitational Week 1088: Our winning F-word limericks! (No, not that F-word.)

Ephron aspired from a young age to be two things: A journalist living in New York City and the next Dorothy Parker. 8 fascinating facts about Nora Ephron 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

His words could have come from any aspiring musician in New York or London. How Kwaito became a global force 2011-08-11T21:30:02Z

“He played it hot, with screaming single-note sustains and shuddering vibrato, a siren call to a legion of aspiring guitar heroes.” Lonnie Mack, Singer and Guitarist Who Pioneered Blues-Rock, Dies at 74 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Iconic status may help if you aspire to a political career – governor of California, maybe? – or if you want to do a lot of commercials. Audrey Hepburn: an iconic problem 2011-01-20T21:30:02Z

"Party Down" centers on a group of aspiring performers and creatives in Los Angeles who pay the bills by working as cater waiters for fancy events. Are we having fun yet? “Party Down” addresses the pandemic the way few shows have 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

Truly ambitious types may aspire to become the next Babe Paley. What Price Generosity? 2013-06-21T22:36:02Z

Leigh, a feminist and aspiring playwright, is ostensibly the real heroine of the story, though Luke gets most of the attention. ‘Fallout,’ by Sadie Jones, a tale of passion and imperfect love in 1970s London theater world

In The New York Times, Walter Goodman praised the movie, about an aspiring American pop star in Japan, for its “rhythm and zing.” Thanks to Carol Burnett and Dolly Parton, New Life for a 1988 Film 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z

As an aspiring cartoonist with no artistic ability, Martin was in a tough spot. They Are Also 2 Wild and Crazy Guys 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

Shark Tank The reality series that has aspiring entrepreneurs pitching their products, inventions and ideas to a panel of potential investors ends its season. Friday's TV highlights: 'Captain Phillips,' Barbara Walters and more 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Dre is awkward and aspirational, a young woman who aspires to be fashionable and current but wears her mismatched spirit on the surface like an inside-out sweater donned in the dark. With "Swarm," two "Atlanta" collaborators kick the beehive of toxic fandom 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

More days now actors are aspiring to star in a television series. Actor Frank Langella talks robots, high heels and Hollywood 2012-08-16T20:13:53Z

Davuluri, an aspiring physician, defeated representatives from 49 other states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Miss New York wins Miss America contest 2013-09-16T03:55:02Z

Set in Spokane, this chilling tale follows Dean Walker, an aspiring photographer, into a quarantined city in search of fame. NW Books: the musical history of Jimi Hendrix 2012-12-28T21:52:26Z

We had evolved enough to shed traditional roles and aspire to an egalitarian relationship, but that didn’t solve the problem of nobody liking the drudgery of household chores, particularly the never-ending laundry and dishwashing. Honey, I Swept the Floor! 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

That is, we see characters as individual versions of who we aspire to be or would never want to meet, and we process them via singular, separate visions of a known universe. “Star Trek” seeks out new life for Jean-Luc Picard: Why he’s the captain we need now more t... 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

“Huge was never something I aspired to,” he says. Josh Hartnett: 'People genuinely thought I'd been thrust on them' 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

“I idolized the iconic drunk writers because I understood their drinking as proof of extreme interior weather: volatile and authentic,” she writes, and she desperately aspired to find her place among “the Old Drunk Legends.” Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

After Williamstown she did what many young, aspiring directors do: became an assistant. 2010-02-10T00:13:00Z

Accomplished but utterly unknown as a photographer during her lifetime, Maier, who died in 2009, represents for aspiring artists the dream that their work will at last be celebrated after they are gone. The (Often Complicated) Lives of Artists 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

I recently spoke at the Austin film festival writer’s conference and met dozens of black aspiring screenwriters. Only 4.8% of TV writers are black. As one of them, I know the system is broken | Stefani Robinson 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

Lea Michele, who plays Rachel, the aspiring Broadway diva, is the unlikely heroine, the most deliciously annoying high school arriviste since Reese Witherspoon played Tracy Flick in “Election.” Television: In Fox?s ?Glee,? It?s the Attitude That?s the Showstopper 2010-04-09T18:08:00Z

Before he alighted on a career in comedy, Woody Allen aspired to be a magician, spending hours every day practising sleight-of-hand tricks with billiard balls, coins, cards and rings. Magic in the Moonlight: Woody Allen's film is as airy as they come – first look review 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Many women aspire to the idea that we can "have it all." Girls run the world, but should we have to? What writing a novel taught me about emotional labor 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

An aspiring model and reality television star, Neiers served 30 days in jail. AP Exclusive: Secret testimony reveals stars' loss 2010-08-31T13:56:00Z

“There’s such a big culture on television now around aspiring singers, and this plays into that,” she said in a phone interview. Book a Room, Be a Pop Star for a Day 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

“Soul” follows an aspiring musician and middle-school band teacher who loses his life — but attempts to escape the afterlife during his quest to help an infant soul. Pixar’s ‘Soul’ wins best animated feature Academy Award 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z

For many aspiring thespians, the dream is to become a working actor. The secret to Tony Awards nominee Laurie Metcalf's success? Brilliance and a whole lot of hard work 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

Ansari’s character, Dev, then finds himself grappling with the difficulties of trying to push back against these stereotypes while still making a living as an aspiring actor. From Apu to Master of None: how US pop culture tuned into the south Asian experience 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

This week, Amazon.com Inc announced "Kindle Worlds," which offers aspiring writers an opportunity to pen their own takes on franchises in books, TV, movies, even games and comics. Unhappy with how your fave series is faring? Amazon gives you a say 2013-05-24T18:45:00Z

In Mr. Batiste’s hands, the national anthem seethes, mourns and aspires, drawing on the rollicking stride piano of Fats Waller and the volcanic eruptions of Art Tatum. Jazz Is Built for Protests. Jon Batiste Is Taking It to the Streets. 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Britain’s film industry was struggling for financing at the time, and Goldcrest quickly became a crucial investor for the country’s aspiring moviemakers. Jake Eberts, Movie Producer, Dies at 71 2012-09-12T21:30:10Z

In his latest, a math professor becomes entangled with an “aspiring villain” who wants to break into Fort Knox in order to steal an empty shoe box. 33 Works of Fiction and Poetry Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

He was a vivid sound-painter: close your eyes and the music conjures a glorious history and an aspiring future. RSNO/Oundjian – review 2013-03-24T13:53:47Z

She had had it with slumming down with Joseph, her socially low-on-the-totem-pole husband by aspiring to godhead. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z

Two decades ago, three aspiring actors moved from the Bay Area to Hollywood. Tommy Wiseau in ‘The Disaster Artist’ wants to be taken seriously. James Franco can relate. 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

In her play, Kate, a smart aspiring novelist, echoes those lines with her final, cutting words: “Boys boys boys you just never get enough of yourselves, do you?” Critic?s Notebook: Women Playwrights and Gender Stereotypes on Broadway 2011-12-24T01:47:25Z

The young mother-narrator, an aspiring novelist, has one simple goal: “All she wanted was to get back to the page at her desk.” Review | Lily King’s ‘Five Tuesdays in Winter’ is as beautiful and tender as ‘Writers & Lovers’ 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

After moving to Los Angeles seven years ago as an aspiring film-maker, the first thing she did was look up swim teams. 'We were forming family': how LGBT sports grew in the early 1980s 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

But his writing — supple, vivid, graceful — transcended mere reportage, and his service to aspiring writers was immeasurable. Movie Review: ‘Plimpton!’ Directed by Tom Bean and Luke Poling 2013-05-21T22:48:07Z

“Funny Girl” begins with the spectacle of Barbara Parker, an aspiring comic actress who realizes that being elected Miss Blackpool is a terrible career move. Nick Hornby’s ‘Funny Girl,’ About a 1960s BBC Sitcom Star 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

I believe all mystery writers aspire to write prose as beautiful as Burke’s. The Crime Novelist William Kent Krueger Still Loves Sherlock Holmes 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

Before being entrusted with leading performances, aspiring conductors would start off coaching singers at the piano, rehearsing the chorus and assisting senior conductors. Gustavo Dudamel Hasn’t Conducted Much Opera. That’s OK. 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

He was a one-man band; he aspired to be a one-man orchestra. Don Lewis, Unsung Pioneer of Electronic Music, Dies at 81 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

“We certainly don’t aspire to be in the city because the west coast is our muse and I can’t see Wolfgat existing anywhere else,” he said. From fishing village to gastronomic heaven: tables turn for Wolfgat 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

That, in a nutshell, is what he aspires to be: British design's glad-hander-in-chief. What price success? London Design festival misses a trick ? again 2010-09-28T15:09:00Z

The fellowship aims to address the hurdles aspiring curators face because of a lack of resources or the amount of time it takes to earn a graduate degree and accumulate sufficient work experience. Lacma and Arizona State Join Forces to Help Curators of Color 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

Finding compatibility between European military snare drums, Latin American bongos, Asian gongs and African drums, Schick observed, could become "a model for an environment of cohabitation … that we could all aspire to live up to." Feeling the sonic rush at the Ojai Music Festival 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

For all its "mild comic horror and violence, frightening sequences and innuendo", this is a film with an innocent heart: perfect fare for aspiring goths and their balding parents alike. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-01-27T00:06:05Z

These are anti-posters, which aspire to be honest rather than glib. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z

This sly and defiant metafictional road movie, about two friends investigating the possible suicide of an aspiring actress, dramatizes unquestioned patriarchal tradition and desperate responses to its oppressive power. 2019 Has Already Been an Exceptional Year in Movies 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

Assia Wevill, an aspiring poet, and her husband, David, a Canadian poet, who were subletting the Hugheses’ London flat, came for a visit. Review | Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

Though Gifford aspires to explore Beck's life and times "without moralizing," the book is most effective when Gifford nimbly dismantles the structures and practitioners of sexual violence and oppression. A cold, hard look at the work and influence of Robert 'Iceberg Slim' Berg 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Practically as soon as Rooney hit the literary world with her debut novel Conversations With Friends in 2017, she became a calling card for anyone who aspired to be seen as culturally attuned. 'The stakes were really high': the stars of Normal People on bringing Sally Rooney's novel to TV 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z

That kind of unstudied elegance attracts people still figuring out how to style themselves or aspiring to learn the cues of a more elevated social world. Always Well Groomed 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

My only criticism is that Howard may have attempted too much – watching the compressed chain of events almost feels like watching a trailer for the full-length drama the piece aspires to become. Zátopek! – review 2012-06-18T17:35:31Z

Success, Dave writes, demands “being conscious at all times of how your actions and your hoped-for reception align to deliver the personal brand you aspire to.” Review | The path to enlightenment — and a happy marriage — the Hollis way 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

Doctors aspired — sometimes — to do no harm as they faced the unprecedented and little-understood task of dealing with radiation in the form of fallout from the world’s first nuclear detonations. Experiencing War Far From the Battlefield 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

In the new musical “Rent a White Guy,” Charlie, a recently dumped college grad and aspiring novelist, moves to China after a fortune-cookie message suggests he apply for a teaching job. Theater Review: ‘Rent a White Guy,’ a Musical at the Secret Theater 2012-09-25T22:45:32Z

The American Composers Orchestra provides a valuable opportunity to aspiring composers through its annual Underwood New Music Readings, in which six emerging artists are chosen from hundreds of applicants. Music Review: Underwood New Music Readings at DiMenna Center 2012-06-04T21:56:04Z

Women aspiring to these jobs are overcoming cultural barriers in a society where women are restricted to mainly working the fields and cooking and cleaning for the family. In Pakistan's coal rush, some women drivers break cultural barriers 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Here, though, they aspire to be only transparent conduits for the voices from the album, which is vinyl and is played as they speak on a turntable by a disc jockey, Max Bernstein. ‘Early Shaker Spirituals,’ Plain-Spoken Tribute 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

As a child, Blunt aspired to be a translator, but fell into acting as a handy way to manage a stutter. Emily Blunt: 'It's about human beings and how they're affected by a crisis' 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

He met another aspiring MC, Chancellor Bennett, aka Chance the Rapper, at an open mic night when they were high school freshmen. Mensa moves smartly after breakup of Kids 2013-11-30T06:00:00Z

Together, they inaugurated the Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart Emerging Singers Programme in conjunction with the Wagner Society of Washington DC, set up to assist aspiring Wagnerian singers early in their careers. Evelyn Lear 2012-07-16T12:47:17Z

But Mr. Aznavour has learned to adapt to the demands of a show that aspires to Broadway. Charles Aznavour, With ‘My Paris,’ Tackles His first American Musical 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

The aspiring boxers’ devotion to old-fashioned concepts of manliness, which she portrayed in the book “The Modern Kids,” reminded Ms. Frank of how her suburban mother endorsed with religious intensity a 1950s stereotype of femininity. Jona Frank: Between Reality and Fantasy 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

In 2000, he essayed a very different role and received positive reviews for "Finding Forrester," playing a reclusive writer who bonds with a young black basketball player who's an aspiring scribe himself. Sean Connery, Oscar winner and James Bond star, dies at 90 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

Butler was asked Friday if Johnston still aspired to an acting career. Palin fiance Levi Johnston to film music video 2010-07-23T20:57:00Z

As a young man, Hitler aspired to become an artist but was rejected from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Purported Adolf Hitler watercolor painting to be sold at auction 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

And it broke my mind open, both as an aspiring writer, as this really gorgeous piece of writing that I read and immediately thought, oh, I want to try to emulate this. "My Dark Vanessa" author: Canceling Nabokov's "Lolita" is "missing the point" of society's problem 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Influenced by Rembrandt, Soutine aspires toward a physicality that transcends itself. ‘Chaim Soutine: Flesh’ Review: Bloody, Brilliant Still Lifes 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

And summer is covered with Camp ZinZanni — weeklong workshops for aspiring acrobats, jugglers and clowns, ages 5 to 16. Seattle's Teatro ZinZanni woos wider audience with brunch, kids shows and more 2011-03-14T23:56:08Z

This reflects the kind of pianism to which Piemontesi aspires: composer wins over ego, musical integrity over flashiness, tireless preparation over hopeful inspiration. Francesco Piemontesi: Recital ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:44Z

Modeled on the lighthouse of Alexandria, Egypt, built by Alexander the Great, it is a beacon of what Batumi aspires to become. Next Stop: Glamour Revives Port of Batumi 2010-09-12T07:05:00Z

He slides his shoes back on, and offers a final tip for aspiring musicians. Peter Gabriel: 'It doesn't have anything to do with witchcraft!' 2010-06-02T20:30:00Z

One of the aspiring entrepreneurs managed to get the bidding up to $4 million, a sum that Mr. Burnett said was probably “the biggest amount ever available in a nonfiction TV show.” Enough Wallowing, Reality TV Is Ready for Entrepreneurship 2011-03-28T01:29:28Z

He recounted his determination as a 17-year-old aspiring musician to play every open-mic night in London, and said he writes as many as eight or nine songs a day. 6 Takeaways From Ed Sheeran’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ Copyright Case 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

And if an aspiring artist is on your list, the book also features wisdom about Oseman's creative process. Books for hard-to-shop-for tweens and teens, from Star Wars and Harley Quinn to gothic horror 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z

She felt compelled to meet with him anyway, because as an aspiring screenwriter, she thought it could change the course of her career. Violence. Threats. Begging. Harvey Weinstein’s 30-year pattern of abuse in Hollywood. 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z

For aspiring directors in the audience, Ms. King said, it’s an opportunity to see how “these little dreams can turn into big realities.” Kidsfilmfest Is Back, With a Villainous Teddy Bear and Surfer Dudes 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

As a cartoonist, I aspire to tell stories through comics in my Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. ArtsBeat Blog: Jeff Kinney's Favorite Books From Childhood 2011-11-15T14:36:14Z

But "Two Men in Town," a drama that's built on dread and circles the question of redemption for a newly released prisoner, falls short of the mythic territory it aspires to. Redemption tale 'Two Men in Town' is an uneven mix 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

A group of galleries rather oppressively evokes the living room, dining room, bedroom and study of a well-heeled collector, rooms where every object aspires to the status of art. Art Review: ?If You Lived Here, You?d Be Home by Now? at Bard - Review 2011-08-25T22:30:54Z

“I never aspired to be a great female singer songwriter or great artist,” she says. Rise of the female rock memoir 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

This is what young girls are supposed to aspire to? Are You There, God? It’s Me, Katy Perry 2014-01-22T17:08:52Z

Once, White's work was the epitome of all that art photography aspired to be. Minor White snaps into focus again in Getty Museum show 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Brown aspired through his illustrations to “affirm lessons that children of all colors need to learn,” Hart said. Langston Hughes and Elmer W. Brown: A Children’s Book Deferred 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Having raised sponsorship from the Ford Foundation, she single-handedly trained a new generation of aspiring young Kenyan journalists in offices and editing suites built from scratch in the grimy industrial district of downtown Nairobi. Polly Renton obituary 2010-06-23T18:33:00Z

His text book, The Nature of Photographs: A Primer, is a kind of ideas manual for aspiring photographers. Writing and photography ? is a picture really worth a thousand words? 2010-08-04T05:00:00Z

Women aspiring to these jobs are overcoming cultural barriers in a society where women are restricted to mainly working the fields and cooking and cleaning for the family. In Pakistan's coal rush, some women drivers break cultural barriers 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

What mattered, he contended, was that music, whether aspiring to sound vintage or “progressive,” still possessed the capacity to conjure a “new feeling” in its listeners. Whither the Indie Band? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Fans of Haggis' interlocking story-telling style will be happy when the strings finally come together, although the film's ending does leave viewers with questions - an ambiguity the Ontario-bred director aspired to. Director Haggis polarizes again with 'puzzle' of a film, 'Third Person' 2013-09-12T20:38:09Z

But it aspires to be a semi-serious drama that keeps at least one foot on the ground. Movie Review: ‘Why Stop Now?’ With Melissa Leo and Jesse Eisenberg 2012-08-17T15:07:21Z

A lot of people who watch our videos and watch some of the interviews that I do are aspiring writers. "People are actively, persistently racist": Poet Joshua Bennett on performative anti-racism 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

But he eventually had the idea of teaming up with his younger brother Joel, an aspiring actor, and a few friends, to make a nine-minute action film, “Loaded.” Filmmakers With Shared Grit 2010-02-17T23:09:00Z

If you ask automotive research firms, the answer is Americans aspire to something a little more high-class. The Cars Americans Think Are The Best 2011-03-30T22:00:00Z

But this film, directed by the fashion writer and editor Michael Roberts, doesn’t aspire beyond embrace. Review: Watch Manolo Blahnik Make Famous Friends — and Shoes 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

“He does not aspire to the position of Obi-Ben Kenobi, nor do I aspire to be some new age Alec Guinness,” says the actor. Entertainment Weekly's new Star Wars: The Force Awakens issue – 10 things we learned 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Conductor James Lowe is an energetic evangelist for classical music and tonight we see him audition a number of aspiring teenage musicians. BBC Proms 2010-07-24T05:45:00Z

But does she aspire to a future free of pie jumps altogether? Olivia Munn of G4, Goes Beyond Comic Pinup 2010-06-26T02:53:00Z

Okubo’s pictures aspire to be as elemental as the stars, suns and moons that appear in nearly all of them. Review | In the galleries: Building on an artwork expressed via different media 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

But until he went to college he was an aspiring rancher, not an aspiring musician. Dave Brubeck, Jazz Musician, Dies at 91 2012-12-05T18:31:41Z

America never had a golden age to which we should aspire to return; and, like the moment captured in this painting, there’s little innocence in what we often remember as harmless Americana. The controversy behind the painting that will hang at Trump’s inaugural luncheon 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

To have such a long and diverse career, without losing that sense of self, is something I aspire to. Movie Stars Have Heroines, Too 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

McCourt aspired to become a teacher and dreamed of impressing folks back home in Limerick. Fall Back Into the School Year With Books by, for and About Teachers 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

These sculptured war trophies served both as visual metaphors for a vanquished enemy, as well as precious symbols of a culture the Romans aspired to surpass. In Rome, Revisiting the Spoils of War 2010-03-18T11:00:00Z

Ideally, a piece will aspire to the swift seamlessness of screen. Scene changes – the traffic jams of theatre 2012-11-13T13:33:09Z

An aspiring artist and writer, he also wears his hair long, but with his delicate features and refined air, he is often mistaken for a girl. Review: A House Car? For ‘Microbe and Gasoline,’ It’s Freedom 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

While performing "Larger Than Life," Anderson and comedian Kyle Cease started Stand-Up Boot camp to mentor aspiring comics. Comedian Louie Anderson to end run at Excalibur 2010-06-12T00:24:00Z

At the novel’s heart is the relationship between Gonzalo, an aspiring poet, and his stepson, Vicente, who grows up to become — you guessed it — an aspiring poet. ‘Chilean Poet’ Is a Playful Novel About (Yes) Chile and Poetry 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

“That Mattel has perceived there is a market for dolls emulating adventurous women scientists to which young girls can aspire is a great thing,” Nadkarni said. She started climbing trees as a kid. Then this ecologist helped create scientist Barbie. 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

At a mere 580 pages, this novel is roughly half as long as David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest,” the reigning bible for aspiring literary novelists. ‘Book of Numbers,’ by Joshua Cohen: TMI? 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

On the “American Idol” finale last month, Beyoncé introduced her muscular, arresting ballad “1+1” in the sort of performance that is seared on the brains of 8-year-old girls who aspire to be singers. Critic?s Notebook: A Farewell (for Now) to Old Selves 2011-06-27T23:01:17Z

Once hired, aspiring operators undergo a week of training at the beginning of the season. Thank you for calling the Butterball hotline: now let's talk turkey 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

She told the producer — fresh off a sensational marketing campaign for “The Crying Game” — that her 23-year-old daughter Katherine was an aspiring actress. Violence. Threats. Begging. Harvey Weinstein’s 30-year pattern of abuse in Hollywood. 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z

The competition allows contestants, including college students and aspiring filmmakers, to showcase their talent while making short films about some aspect of L.A. L.A. video contest lets aspiring filmmakers showcase their work 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

This strikes me as a tenet that many of us as musicians automatically hold and aspire to whenever we meet to play music, regardless of whatever ‘God’ we happen to believe in.” Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

But secrecy is a mechanism, a system, that aspires to invisibility. Review | The value of Trevor Paglen’s art may remain a secret 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

An aspiring fashion designer, he was hoping to see big industry names at the shows. On the Runway Blog: Fashion Week Stargazing: Day 8 2012-09-13T22:29:58Z

Lacotte doesn’t find — or seem to aspire to — any choreographic equivalents for the complicated motives that impel Julian to pursue his ambitions, or for the feelings of the women who fall in love with him. Review: ‘The Red and the Black’ Is Sumptuous, but Safe 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

We get fan mail every day from kids who aspire to play. They’re just a typical Michael Jackson-, Hendrix-, AC/DC-covering cello duo 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

The Blank Theatre’s 24th Annual Young Playwrights Festival Four-week showcase features new plays by aspiring young writers from all over the country. L.A. theater openings, May 29-June 5: '42nd Street' and more 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

“There are poets who aspire to such positions. I never did.” Mark Strand, acclaimed bard of absence and loss, dies at 80

While The American Reader aspires to publish important fiction, poetry and criticism, the most interesting thing about the project may be the editor in chief herself. Uzoamaka Maduka Leaves a Paper Trail With the American Reader 2013-01-02T22:14:17Z

It’s so necessary to be able to look up onscreen and see ourselves reflected in a way that inspires us and that we can aspire to. Gina Prince-Bythewood Made a Summer Blockbuster. It’s About Time. 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

We should all aspire, if I may borrow from Prior’s parting words, to be theatrical citizens. Center Theatre Group's starry 50th: From offending Ronald Reagan to Trump-era provocations 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

Another section of “I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf” features several cartoons offering encouragement to aspiring authors. Cartoonists Tackle the Big Stuff: O.C.D., Motherhood and Too Many Books 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

The apparent innocent thrust into peril at the beginning of the novel is named Florence Darrow, an aspiring writer working as a publishing assistant at the “niche” firm Forrester Books. Review | ‘Who is Maud Dixon?’ In this inventive thriller, you’ll be turning the pages to find out 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

"Jones was aspiring to realism and verisimilitude and objected to the sanitisation of his novel," she said. Censored gay sex in From Here to Eternity restored for new edition 2011-04-05T15:20:59Z

As a young woman, Ms. Garden aspired to be an actress. Nancy Garden, young-adult writer who explored gay romance, dies at 76

Billy, born deaf, is the lip-reading outsider in a noisily talkative, borderline dysfunctional family of competitive egotists: father and mother are writers, brother Daniel is a would-be academic, sister Ruth an aspiring opera singer. Tribes ? review 2010-10-21T01:07:00Z

An aspiring actor, he relies on best friend and roommate Chandler financially until he gets his big break on a soap opera. A Viewing Guide for the 'Friends' Newbie 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

Walk into Code: 146 on a Friday or Saturday night and you’ll find it packed with Liberian locals and expats who go there to hear aspiring artists at the club’s popular open-mic night. The Ease of Monrovia’s ‘Hipco’ Clubs 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z

She had always acknowledged her faults to make other people laugh, Cooper said, and growing up she aspired to be like TV comedians who gave her parents “moments of complete escapism” from their financial struggles. Finding TV Inspiration in Internet Forums and Old Friends 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

The show was sunny enough to permit crossover episodes with “Murder, She Wrote,” yet sufficiently rad that grade schoolers aspired to own its tie-in lunchbox. Reviving “Murphy Brown” and “Magnum P.I.” on the Post-Moonves CBS 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

“My advice for aspiring writers is to go to New York,” Mr. Kirn said. A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z

The first kind, which includes everyone from corporate suits to aspiring counterculturalists, is drawn to the new Austin, the Austin of the South by Southwest festival, of Dell computers, of fields of food trucks. Pursuits: Austin’s Moon Towers, Beyond ‘Dazed and Confused’ 2014-02-13T15:08:48Z

It’s not uncommon for aspiring actors to pick up gigs on the side. 7 surprising ways porn is changing 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

In a world where Lady Gaga aspires to turn dance-pop "entertainment" into an art form, Spears is perfectly happy to let her collaborators do the heavy lifting and the heavy thinking. Spears just along for the ride — all the way to the bank 2011-03-25T21:31:45Z

An aspiring filmmaker, Castle accepted the role after figuring that being on set would demystify the moviemaking process for him. Michael Myers Is a Terrifying Acting Challenge, Too 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

I said, ‘I’m an aspiring early riser,’ which was totally not true. A Connection Rooted in the Land 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

Mercedes, who coaches a girls’ dance team and aspires to open her own gym, sizes up Autumn as an upstart trading on her looks. Review: ‘P-Valley’ Has All the Right Moves 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

The musical is about a young aspiring musical theater writer who is Black and gay, and who is haunted by a mostly self-critical inner dialogue that springs to life in the show. A ‘Strange’ Wind Blowing: Tony Voters Like ‘Loop’ and ‘Lehman’ 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

Doug married the aspiring country singer last month, and when Us Weekly picked up the story, it became an overnight media scandal. Creepiest moments in Doug Hutchison's TV debut with teen wife 2011-07-15T20:01:00Z

Bee was a gig worker and aspiring retiree before her time. Here Are Three Netflix Cartoons You Should Be Watching 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

But he flubs what could be his big break by throwing a tantrum about how the good-but-not great show could aspire to be more like “The Sopranos.” With age, Judd Apatow’s series “Love” on Netflix finds itself 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

To hammer home the stakes, “Promising Young Woman” needs at least one scene where a man responds credibly to Cassandra’s trickery: Not all aspiring abusers turn apologetic when denied. ‘Promising Young Woman’ Review: Courting Dangerous Liaisons 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

As waitresses in patterned pink jumpsuits ferried bottles to tables, aspiring Ari Golds drank fruity cocktails and instinctively networked. Boîte: Soaked, a Club Atop the Mondrian SoHo: Review 2012-08-29T20:50:53Z

The uneducated Fikret, a teenager who illegally sells roses in traffic, aspires to a steady job but flails briefly as a busboy. Movie Review: ‘Koprudekiler’ (‘Men on the Bridge’), a Drama Set in Istanbul 2012-06-19T22:23:59Z

Most birders aspire to see hundreds — if not thousands — of species in their lifetime. In the Falkland Islands, a quest to see as many penguins as possible 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

As first episodes go, it’s creepy: An aspiring ballerina who has just run away from home to New York gets a phone call. In ‘Flesh and Bone,’ Moira Walley-Beckett Leaps Darkly Into Ballet 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Not only did these aspiring space travelers have to navigate the racial politics of their time, they also had to study cutting-edge science and engineering to compete with others, Grant said. ‘Black in Space’ looks at final frontier of civil rights 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

He told Warhol that he aspired to be a photographer; in that case, Warhol told him, he should just call himself one. Leee Black Childers, Photographer of Counterculture, Dies at 68 2014-04-11T04:47:07Z

The very comforts and pleasures to which a family man aspires now strike him as unseemly. “American Sniper” Takes Apart the Myth of the American Warrior 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Auden — who himself aspired to be “a minor Atlantic Goethe” — championed this “last universal genius” in several characteristically brilliant essays. A new look at Goethe, a one-time cultural celebrity 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

It’s philosophical aims also make it seem like it’s aspiring to be something that is actually good and insightful, which it also isn’t. Mother May I Sleep with Danger?: James Franco's lesbian vampire flick lacks bite 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

The passengers include his brother, an aspiring musician, and another young man who dreams of playing professional soccer. Movie Review: ‘The Pirogue,’ Directed by Moussa Touré 2013-01-22T23:28:36Z

But any reporter aspiring to do solid journalism or general respectable work should not wait for those winds to shift. How Fox's dismayed "news" staff can learn from the Deadspin exodus 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

"And it's easier to reincarnate a dream when you have a personality who you can aspire to, or who can be entertaining in their otherness." Sarah Burton's smooth succession at Alexander McQueen 2011-05-09T17:55:04Z

There are parts of Paterson that I really aspire to — being so present and aware of the beauty in details around you. In ‘Paterson’ and ‘Silence,’ Adam Driver wrestles with poetry and piety 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Rhodes, once an aspiring teenage African American gymnast herself, wrote, “I imagine another little girl may see herself in Gabby Douglas and believe, now, that her dreams aren’t so crazy after all.” The Olympics’ delicate gender politics 2012-08-11T16:00:00Z

There is a character who is front and center, a leader, or aspiring leader, with ample resources to take it where it needs to go. Emilia Clarke Knows Exactly Who Daenerys’ True Love Is on 'Game of Thrones' 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

For Zorrie, since “being alone wasn’t necessarily what she aspired to,” what matters is connection. A Portrait of a Stalwart Life, and of America Itself 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

What would you say to young boys and girls who aspire to dance? Role model 2011-02-09T10:39:21Z

The brief spotlight is meant to drive interest and build audiences, which is especially crucial for aspiring directors. For Web-Financed Film Projects, a Curtain Rises 2010-07-07T21:49:00Z

He became friends with Dr. Chalfie’s daughter, Sarah, also an aspiring actress, who connected him to her father. Tickling Worms in the Lab, Tickling Funny Bones Onstage 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

If Pacino is feeling reminiscent of his early days as a Bronx-born aspiring thespian knocking around in 1960s downtown New York theaters and cafes, it's partly because his recent work reflects on his beginnings. Pacino's late comedic turn also a homecoming 2013-01-29T17:46:04Z

An aspiring dancer who can’t seem to find permanent work with a company, Frances floats through a series of addresses, relationships and friendships. Greta Gerwig shines in ‘Frances Ha’ 2013-05-23T20:24:33Z

“The Treasure” features an aspiring Aztec despot who murders an American envoy, the hijacking of a plane carrying the United Nations Secretary-General and soldiers from ancient Rome looting the Library of Alexandria. Clive Cussler, adventure novelist, dies at 88 in Arizona 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

In the late 1940s, joining a wave of aspiring painters moving to New York, Mr. Jenkins used the G.I. Paul Jenkins, Abstract Expressionist Painter, Dies at 88 2012-06-17T15:10:16Z

Britain fancied itself a New Rome, and Kent aspired to be its “Raphael Secundus,” or second Raphael. Art Review: ‘William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain’ at Bard 2014-01-02T22:03:54Z

The city finally has sushi that aspires to stand with the greatest in the world, but eating it has become a rich person’s game. The Sushi at Shion 69 Leonard Street Is Among New York’s Best 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

“A Public Reading” is a meditation on the human desire to aspire to the status of a god, and the corrupting influence of this wish on the spirit and the flesh. Theater Review: ‘Public Reading About Death of Walt Disney,’ at Soho Rep 2013-05-10T17:23:50Z

The "Black Dahlia" here refers to Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress who was gruesomely murdered in Los Angeles in 1947. T Magazine: Pulp Friction: An Interview With Joyce Carol Oates 2012-08-15T19:00:32Z

Janet Groth acknowledges up front the main question her new memoir raises: Why did such a bright, intellectually sophisticated, aspiring writer spend 21 years behind a receptionist's desk? 'The Receptionist:' an extra-literary education at The New Yorker 2012-07-03T21:01:06Z

While he preferred not to speak about race, he was celebrated as a pioneer who defied stereotypes about classical music and helped open doors for aspiring artists of color. André Watts, Pioneering Piano Virtuoso, Dies at 77 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

“Like you could grab a beer with him!” is how two members of the public discuss the aspiring Presidential candidate Burr in “Hamilton”—applying the lowest-common-denominator measure of acceptability that recurs in every contemporary campaign. Why Donald Trump and Jeb Bush should see “Hamilton” 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

But even for men who no longer aspire to chasing the money, the idea of going part-time still has what Karen Mattison calls “a huge brand problem”. I don't know how he does it! Meet the new superdads 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z

“Every Day Is Extra” is a bittersweet reminder of what the country once demanded of its leaders, and what the American upper classes once aspired to supply. John Kerry Describes Politics as It Used to Be 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

Sullivan’s own notion of identity aspired to be more fluid—at first, anyway. Lou Sullivan’s Diaries Are a Radical Testament to Trans Happiness 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

This collection seemed pitched to the aspiring customer, rather than the one who has already arrived and therefore expects more genuine luxury. On the Runway: Paris Men's: Dude Surfers 2011-06-23T22:32:24Z

For every student like Grant who benefitted from Singer’s crimes, there was a student who aspired to attend premier schools and sports programs. The Unseen Student Victims of the “Varsity Blues” College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

If you look at that lady, that's kind of who I'm aspiring to be and probably will never be! 'My bus smells of wee!' Celebrities on their Glastonbury 2013 experience 2013-06-30T15:42:59Z

Nick, an aspiring documentarian whose job offer at a California film production company got rescinded on the eve of their move, now works for a shady firm called EverythingMustGo! This couple will stop at nothing to keep their house and marriage afloat 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

There is some dry wit, too: the performers constantly build human towers, as if aspiring to get closer to heaven. How Like an Angel – review 2012-06-29T17:00:01Z

The comforting reality shows tend to work by reflecting the viewers, rather than presenting extreme models of people they might aspire to be. In Turbulent Times, Comforting Reality Shows Captivate U.K. Viewers 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

There, Mr. Patinkin, still in his teens, along with other aspiring artists, formed a company called the Playwrights Theater Club, a forerunner of the celebrated comedy troupe the Second City. Sheldon Patinkin, Force in Chicago Theater, Dies at 79 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

What advice do you have for aspiring writers who come from a similar background? Damon Young on the ‘Absurdity’ of Being Black 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Ms. Nelson, the waiter and aspiring comedian whom Mr. Friedman kissed in his car, recalled the time she met an idol, Ms. Poehler. Ken Friedman, Power Restaurateur, Is Accused of Sexual Harassment 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

So it is perhaps fitting that the last play I am likely to see before Labor Day belongs to this genre of silk-lined schadenfreude, though it aspires to be much more. Kieron Barry’s ‘Tomorrow in the Battle’: A Love Triangle 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

In addition to the main prize, aspiring novelist Maia Jenkins was named as the winner of the Baileys Women's Prize/Grazia First Chapter Competition for unpublished writers. Eimear McBride wins Baileys prize 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

One of her most influential and contentious papers showed that when teenagers transitioned from MySpace to Facebook, a kind of “white flight” occurred, in which Facebook became more associated with children who aspire to college. Danah Boyd: Cracking Teenagers? Online Codes 2012-01-20T23:56:23Z

I say to aspiring young cartoonists that you have this extraordinary shop window that we never had 30 years ago that can be seen by billions of people. Martin Rowson and Phill Jupitus: 'Cartoons are a kind of voodoo' 2013-01-28T17:15:26Z

Yet regardless of his personal flaws and the fact that few of his movies found a mainstream audience, Mr. Godard was and still is an important influence on aspiring filmmakers. Jean-Luc Godard, Daring Director Who Shaped the French New Wave, Dies at 91 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

There are a few things that Timothée Chalamet has that I, and many other people between the ages of oh, say 18 to 45, aspire to have. All I think about is Timothée Chalamet's espresso martini 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

As a child growing up in the Hasidic Jewish enclave of Vitebsk, Russia, Marc Chagall aspired to be a singer, dancer, violinist and poet. Marc Chagall reveals his theatrical side in LACMA's 'Fantasies for the Stage' 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

Look at some of the recipes, see what you can do, see what you aspire to. David Burtka says it's on you if your kids are fussy eaters 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

The film is merciless toward Anderson, an aspiring novelist in his mid-30s whose smooth exterior conceals a sad history of failure compounded by emotional instability. | 'Daydream Nation': Picking Up Extra Credit, and Teacher, After School 2011-05-06T05:30:05Z

As an aspiring restaurateur, Dom has to decide whether or not to accept Lynn’s financial benevolence at the cost of his own independence. HBO’s ‘Girls,’ ‘Looking’ and the delicate balance of vignette 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

Stroming picked up Lazzarini at the height of his fame to join the convention circuit, teaching hundreds of thousands of aspiring young dancers. Mega dance company bred culture of sex, silence, dancers say 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

While Burns’s explorations of history and culture aspire to standards of objectivity, Cousins is unabashedly, unapologetically personal. ‘The Eyes of Orson Welles’ Review: An Idiosyncratic Look at an Enigmatic Master 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

An aspiring singer-songwriter struggling to escape the shadow of his father, a country music legend, finds romance and writes a breakout hit, only to grapple with stardom and temptation. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Premiering in the early days of “Seinfeld,” it was a movie about nothing that captured the spirit of twentysomethings who, according to the clichés of the day, cared about nothing and aspired to nothing. Teresa Taylor, Butthole Surfers Drummer and Face of Generation X, Dies at 60 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

I've always said if I wasn't an actor I would aspire to be the executive secretary of the President of the United States. Fischer blends family and business with new movie 2012-04-30T16:09:09Z

Until the 1910s, aspiring literati devoted themselves to writing poetry, in an elliptical classical Chinese infused with millennia of allusions; vernacular fiction was scorned as a disreputably popular form. Rereading: Lu Xun's The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

The same is true, as well, of “Brainquake,” which, while not a great novel is a fascinating one, pulp that aspires to tell us something about who we are. On his birthday: Samuel Fuller, novelist? 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

Disney’s “Coco,” about a 12-year-old aspiring musician in Mexico, won best animated feature and best original song. Oscars 2018: ‘The Shape of Water’ wins best picture at awards show laced with social and political statements 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

In Phillips’ “Joker,” the iconic comic book villain is an aspiring stand-up comedian named Arthur Fleck. Todd Phillips expects "Joker" backlash because film "doesn’t follow anything from comics" 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

Their music aims to achieve that same basic thing that every Grammy telecast aspires to: defeat our feelings of anxiety and isolation by bringing people together. Perspective | What’s a Grammy worth on this imperiled planet? 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

In a world where Lady Gaga aspires to turn dance-pop “entertainment” into an art form, Spears is perfectly happy to let her collaborators do the heavy lifting and the heavy thinking. Britney Spears' 'Femme Fatale' a group effort 2011-03-25T18:23:46Z

And if “all art constantly aspires toward the condition of music,” as Walter Pater wrote, what can poor songless plays hope to achieve? Best Theater of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

As an aspiring actor, he was reportedly warned by one agent the false eye would preclude him from working in television. Columbo's Peter Falk dies at 83 2011-06-24T21:14:56Z

The long slog facing an aspiring astronaut, she said, calls for the same traits that were useful as she pressed lawmakers: she describes herself as “patient and pathologically optimistic”. Meet the 24-year-old who could change how the US handles sexual assaults 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

But as time goes by they aspire to do many things that go beyond their business and their initial set of commercial concerns. Evgeny Morozov: 'We are abandoning all the checks and balances' 2013-03-09T19:20:02Z

Some aspiring comics would spend months performing on Mondays, gaining experience and trying to get in Mitzi Shore’s good graces. Pauly Shore: Eyewitness to Comedy History 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

Numerous brilliant directors have never stepped inside a regional theatre, still less aspired to run a building; others reject the idea of buildings altogether, working instead in site-specific or non-traditional spaces. In at the deep end: the Young Vic's theatre boot camp 2011-01-10T21:31:01Z

“It was unimaginable for a Mexican actress to aspire to a place in Hollywood.” Hollywood basks in diversity praise but Latinos ask: are we invisible? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z

“He was an aspiring photographer, and in that sense we’re commemorating not just his life but the creative potential of all lives truncated or cut short by police violence.” Tyre Nichols’s Photography Will Soar on Desert X Billboards 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

Most of the images haven’t been published, and depicted in many of them are behind-the-scenes players, now-acclaimed Broadway stars and aspiring performers who never made it into the show. ‘Rent’ in Pictures, in Advance of ‘Rent’ on TV 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

As donors loudly applaud a secondhand Marco Rubio story about aspiring to wealth through hard work, a waitress quietly asks for clean martini glasses. You Got Served: A Waiter’s-Eye View of Mitt Romney 2012-09-19T12:00:55Z

Viewed as a play, it is neither as profound as it aspires to be nor even entirely cohesive. Review: ‘Privacy,’ a Play That Urges You to Keep Your Smartphone On 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

When I were a real aspiring proper real journalist, he would of been the type I would of wanted to of been. Rewind TV: The Hour; The Apprentice; Show Me the Funny; Imagine; Richard Hammond's Journey to the Centre of the Planet; Twenty Twelve ? review 2011-07-23T23:06:24Z

The aspiring actress is remembered not by her talent but her gruesome end: death transformed Short into the Black Dahlia, one of the ugliest unsolved homicides of Hollywood’s post-War era. Ted Bundy, "I Am the Night" and our secret obsession with psychos 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

Funny that this funky high-low mix is now something to aspire to. | Men’s Wear That Channels a Classic French Vagabond 2013-09-05T18:01:11Z

A California woman recalled how her sister became the perfect Asian daughter Ms. Chua aspires to produce, only to kill herself because she was afraid to tell anyone she suffered from depression. Cultural Studies: Retreat of the ?Tiger Mother? 2011-01-14T23:39:11Z

“Many cartoonists aspire to be artists; Bob was an artist who aspired to be a cartoonist — the only cartoonist I know who worked with charcoal. His drawings always suggested color to me.” Robert Weber Dies at 92; His New Yorker Cartoons Twitted the Overprivileged 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

An aspiring writer marries a man she meets while mopping the floor at the museum where she works. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

It’s also worthwhile for anyone who loves the film, Crow’s music or the opportunity to meet on the ground floor a show that aspires to higher levels. Levinson, Crow take ‘Diner’ for a test-drive 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

Trainor, who grew up in Nantucket, Massachusetts, had long aspired to a career in music – but she always thought it would be as a songwriter, not a singer. How Meghan Trainor Became 2014's Most Unlikely Pop Star 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

In Mr. Acconci’s case, the work grew out of an experience as an aspiring poet and fiction writer whose fascination with the physical space of the page eventually led out into the world. Vito Acconci, an Artist as Influential as He Is Eccentric 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

By the end of “The Visit,” the teenage girl — she’s an aspiring filmmaker, explaining her constant recording — has changed from auteur to something a lot more relaxed, perhaps reflecting his own recent shift. With ‘The Visit,’ M. Night Shyamalan Returns to His Filmmaking Roots 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Alicia's has a cup of tea, establishing her as the fancy half, an aspiring interior designer. "Master of None" returns for an unexpected third season with "Moments in Love" 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z

“We are still struggling to aspire to the Hyde Amendment while others work to get rid of it.” America’s abortion deserts: How the right turns back the clock on Roe 2014-01-16T12:44:00Z

“We’re hoping,” he said, “to model the kind of discourse to which we aspire.” Civility? Depth? One host’s radical approach to TV talk in a troubled time 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

I once made the mistake of going on a Tinder date with an aspiring comedian. 'Anything that doesn't involve late nights and alcohol is good' – how to get better at dating 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Today, thanks to the Magna Carta, penicillin, and LinkedIn, there exist many kinds of subjugation to aspire to. The Great American Dream Value Menu: The hard truths nobody tells young people about their dreams 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

“We didn’t aspire to get signed. We thought it would not be in the cards,” Chambers said a few days after their New York debut, sitting in the lobby of the band’s Brooklyn hotel. Wet Leg, the Indie-Rock Duo, Blew Up Fast. They Know It’s Weird. 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z

He has aspired, he has said, to a nonjudgmental neutrality. Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z

“There’s just this mad avalanche of material that’s available, so it’s so hard for aspiring young players to find where they should go” and “not be enslaved to yet another tool or device.” 2010-02-12T21:05:00Z

These are things to look for in our cinema of the ordinary, which aspires to be extraordinary.” David O Russell: ‘I relate to Joy – she manages a lot of commerce that is unforgiving and nasty’ 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

An aspiring writer, Hend possesses an acute sensibility, but somehow never quite succeeds in harnessing it to the creative process. Brooklyn Heights by Miral al-Tahawy, translated by Samah Selim - review 2012-11-13T16:54:01Z

Apart from one good but minuscule solo, in which a dancer aspires upward in rapid, flickering gestures, the work’s dynamics are consistently heavy, ponderous. Talking About Love, Demonstrating Violence 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Done with an ease and grace and reality level to which I and all of the people I've ever worked with making films aspire. 5 favorite marriage movies with Barry Mendel 2012-12-20T20:28:12Z

He is tall and muscular, like the basketball player he once aspired to be, and his speaking voice is raspy. Anthony Santos Has New Album and TV Project 2011-11-13T05:00:12Z

Invited to Hollywood at 18, and accompanied by her grandmother, she was one of 65 aspiring actresses who were given screen tests. Lupita Tovar, Star of Spanish-Language ‘Dracula,’ Dies at 106 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z

But makeup is only the gateway drug if one aspires to the height of conventional beauty. Cancer, animal cruelty, feminism: So why can’t I quit using makeup? 2014-01-04T23:00:00Z

The following Saturday, April 23, those same fairgrounds will be home to a one-day festival called the Big 4, which apparently aspires to be the heaviest heavy-metal show that ever tested the mettle of metal-heads. ArtsBeat: Bang Your Head and Protect Your Ears: The Big Four Are Coming to California 2011-01-25T16:42:01Z

“I was meeting all these people who were following their passions and doing what they really wanted with their lives ... it’s something I would aspire to do – to live life on my own terms.” They got their dream job away from it all – but what happened next? 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

Interweaving virtuoso instrumental solos with exactingly difficult ensembles and pulsing rhythmic monotones, this is music that rejects stillness and aspires to extraordinary exhilaration. Music of Today; Philharmonia/Salonen 2010-10-01T21:40:00Z

Surprisingly, the musical’s most eloquent scene was not the eponymous dream ballet but this razzmatazz number performed by Max von Essen, as Henri, an aspiring crooner and repressed homosexual with dourly puritanical parents. The Top Ten Showstoppers of 2015 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Formerly an auto body shop, the 1924 building later became known as the Chophouse, a rehearsal space for aspiring bands. New Seattle Marketplaces Satisfy Appetites for Everything 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

In an early issue of The Equinox, Crowley argues that an aspiring magician should “train himself to think backwards by external means.” What exactly lurks within the backward grooves of “Stairway to Heaven?” 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

Nebulously aspiring to save the world through openness, the group’s half-dozen members blog, exchange intuitions, make promotional T-shirts and intermittently volunteer with the activists encamped at Zuccotti Park. ‘Read Receipts’ On: Two Dystopian Novels Predict the Surveillance State 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

He played “an aspiring young provincial playwright fond of leaping onto couches and giggling loonily,” as Frank Rich put it in The New York Times, adding that he “alternately hits and overshoots his broad mark.” Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Broadway – Nathan Lane! 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Once, we aspired to reach the moon; now, we just hope to hold on to what we've got. Sustainable design is wearing thin 2011-02-03T16:56:09Z

Speaking with Anderson Cooper Monday night, aspiring First Lady Melania Trump defended her husband’s notorious “locker room talk,” recorded in a 2005 conversation with “Access Hollywood’s” Billy Bush. Grow up, Donald Trump: POTUS is a job for adults only 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

In much the same way, as a biologist and former science writer and journalist, she aspires to tell people in plain English about science. A life in writing: Barbara Kingsolver 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

“Taboo” aspires to explore a number of complex, uncomfortable issues in the three episodes made available to critics without concretely establishing a thesis about any of them. Mucky intent makes “Taboo” a questionable proposition 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

A California woman recalled how her sister became the perfect Asian daughter Chua aspires to produce, only to kill herself because she was afraid to tell anyone she suffered from depression. Retreat of the 'Tiger Mother' 2011-01-15T04:14:04Z

Beau's an aspiring singer-songwriter himself, as well as Kelly's Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor and a little something more. 'Country Strong': Tunes emanate from the tall corn 2011-01-06T06:00:00Z

Just as the hotel chain heiress apparently modelled her own makeover on Mattel's fashion doll, so Barbie's doe eyes, pert nose and pouty lips have somehow become the facial standard to which many women aspire. Only God Forgives: Kristin Scott Thomas and other big-screen Barbies from hell 2013-05-30T17:00:01Z

Moments like this allow us to relish in his relatability and aspire to not just learn from him, but to be fearlessly optimistic despite circumstances. New doc "John Lewis: Good Trouble" gives nuance to a relentless freedom fighter 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

But he graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and spent his early adulthood in New York City, where he was an aspiring filmmaker, stand-up comic and animator. Mo Willems and the Art of the Children’s Book 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Is that something an artist can aspire to? Grammys 2015: Beck discusses his album of the year nod 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

The show, about four geeky technology institute workers, an aspiring actress and their friends, is in its third year on CBS' Thursday night schedule. CBS comedy 'Big Bang Theory' hits ratings high 2012-11-20T22:56:09Z

The script could use more consistency and cadence in its fantasy sequences to achieve the fugue-like effect I presume Ms. Anyanwu is aspiring to. Review: Remembering What Was and Wasn’t in ‘Good Grief’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

And a child, without fail, signifies those things to the mothers, aspiring mothers and motherly figures who populate “Hao.” Love’s Perils, Trauma’s Wounds: New Story Collections 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

She took refuge in study and, spurred on by parents who encouraged traditional, respectable careers, aspired to become a doctor. Insecure’s Yvonne Orji: 'I’m 33 years old and I’m a virgin' 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

To get the aspiring songwriters in the mood, the students listened to “I Got a Boy” by Girls’ Generation, a wildly popular K-pop girl group. Sweden’s Songwriters Dominated U.S. Pop. Now, They’re Looking to Korea. 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Glover plays Earn, an aspiring rap manager whose cousin has a song and a dream; Earn’s attempts to push “Paper Boi” to stardom, and himself to stardom-adjacent comfort, run up against the wall of reality. Here Are the Best Pilots of the Fall Season 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

Luke, who hails from a Texan military family, lost his mother a year after his father's death in 9/11, and aspires to continue his family's legacy by joining the military. “The world is a precarious place”: How “Generation 9/11” tells a tender coming of age story 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

Deploying a style that evokes Brechtian distance without its polemical fireworks, Mr. Massini aspires to what might be called a god’s eye view, as dispassionate and relentless as history itself. Review: A Slain Journalist’s Voice Resounds in ‘Intractable Woman’ 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

It cast an intimidating shadow for aspiring players, including Mr. Wilner, now 48. Mezzrow Seeks to Fill a Jazz Niche in the Village 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Born on Dec. 21, 1947, Mr. de Lucía grew up in a musical family and aspired to play the guitar from childhood after receiving his first lessons from his father. Paco de Lucía, Flamenco Guitarist, Dies at 66 2014-02-26T15:51:58Z

While at Juilliard, Williams met another aspiring actor named Christopher Reeve and the two became lifelong friends. Robin Williams: A comic actor with classical training 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

Each day, Ms. Miller aspires to handsomeness — a homage to her icon, Katharine Hepburn. Intersection: Fashion Is Art in the Wynwood Neighborhood of Miami 2014-01-15T19:30:47Z

Hysteria became the sound that other artists aspired to. Def Leppard's Hysteria – 25th anniversary 2012-08-10T12:00:55Z

Jack Boulware, executive director of Litquake, the San Francisco literary festival that spawned the crawls, said they offer readers and aspiring writers a level of access to authors that auditorium-style events tend not to allow. A Heady Cocktail of Books and Booze 2013-09-12T17:11:04Z

On one hand, there’s a lot of pressure to aspire toward an unattainable version of black beauty. Nicole Beharie on ‘Miss Juneteenth’ and the Danger of Labels 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

Those who aspire to true guitar godhood will need to invest an extra $150 for Mad Catz Inc.'s Pro Guitar peripheral, a solid piece of equipment with electronic frets and actual strings. Review: 'Rock Band 3' hits all the right notes 2010-10-26T21:32:00Z

There was no Silicon Valley, nowhere people from the Midwest aspired to be. “Homeland” made me laugh: Here’s what it’s really like being a CIA agent in the Middle East 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

In its 2009-10 run, its group of aspiring Los Angeles artists donned ridiculous pink ties to pass hors d’oeuvres at gaudy blowouts for people with more money and success, deserved or not. Are We Having Fun Yet? ‘Party Down’ and the Sadness of the Sitcom Revival 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

Bunty was a comic for girls — it was full of comic strips about boarding schools and aspiring ballerinas. Elton John’s Bookshelves Are Meticulous. Just Ask Him. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

It was that aspiring insurrectionist, scaling a railing with all the artifacts of a domestic terrorism coup. Perspective | Trumpist masculinity reaches its high water mark 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

We are freelance journalists and aspiring screenwriters with big ideas and big ambitions who are trying to figure it out one day at a time. Beyond brown shame: Refreshing "India Sweets and Spices" moves past struggles of hyphenated identity 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

As a result, the play is neither as funny nor as poignant as it aspires to be – even if its heart is in the right place. Blue Hen 2010-05-06T22:15:00Z

Famous men — athletes, actors, musicians, politicians — get to be that way partly because they represent what other men aspire to be. The Actual Malice of the Johnny Depp Trial 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

I’ve never been one who aspires to meet the people whose work I love. Kristin Cashore: By the Book 2012-07-06T17:36:04Z

As for Henry, he’s an aspiring writer of both musicals and children’s poetry, and finds refuge in passive-aggression masked as fumbling cuteness. Review: In ‘Evolution of Mann,’ Fumbling Cuteness Goes Only So Far 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

For the film adaptation, he called for aspiring actors to submit audition tapes to get a chance to play a part. ‘It’s not a movie, it’s a moment’: Crazy Rich Asians takes on Hollywood 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

Rocky, then an aspiring rapper, knew about Yams long before they met: “Yams was like a mystery,” he said. ASAP Rocky, Dearly Missing ASAP Yams, Half of Their Formidable Hip-Hop Tag Team 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

They receive tons of emails from aspiring indie filmmakers who simply must know how “two extremely average guys,” as Mark puts it, managed to pull it off. How the Duplass brothers have worked together for almost 40 years without killing each other 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

“Pleasure” is at its best when it follows its lead character — an aspiring adult-film actress named Bella Cherry — through a series of naturalistic encounters that explore consent and coercion on triple-X sets. After the First Virtual Sundance, Four Writers Compare Notes 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

Whose career do you admire or aspire to?I don't aspire to anyone's career, although there are actors who I think are good. Gemma Arterton: 'Our house was a bit Ab Fab at times' 2013-05-11T23:05:25Z

In another sense, Lou aspires to be something much grander than a purveyor of grisly footage for the evening news. ‘Nightcrawler’ Stars Jake Gyllenhaal as an Obsessive 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

But the movie itself handles the hook in a way that aspires to raise eyebrows, not inspire a Congressional hearing. ‘No Hard Feelings’ Review: How Lucky Can a Nerdy Kid Get? 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z

"With a deluge of television networks, TV shows, magazines and websites, images of the dream kitchens used by famous chefs, owned by celebrities and purchased by aspiring homebuyers bombard American viewers," she wrote. When did play kitchens become so chic? 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z

Martin tweeted Saturday that Boag was "the first comedian I ever saw live, my influence, a man to whom I aspired." Disney legends die within a day of each other 2011-06-05T20:54:07Z

It’s spiritual company, making me less lonely and giving me something to aspire to. A Choreographer in Quarantine (the Kind With a Guard in the Hall) 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

Documentaries about film technology, at least those that aspire to reach some portion of a mainstream audience, have to make wonkiness ingratiating. ‘Making Waves’ Review: How Sound in Cinema Moves Us 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

No, what's tragic is the fact that the Thompsons don't aspire to those mannerisms or those beauty standards yet so many people find it shocking that they love each other and themselves. Here comes Honey Boo Boo's surprising home-truth 2012-08-13T17:25:43Z

Asrat, an aspiring illustrator, asked a nearby artist for some paint and began work on a portrait of a protester on the side of the Pacific Range Foods on 12th and Franklin Street. What is the fate of BLM protest art? 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z

How much of Mulholland Drive is real, or dreamed by Naomi Watts’ aspiring actor? David Lynch: ‘You gotta be selfish. It's a terrible thing’ 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

“It expands resources, both human and financial, it opens up new horizons for the types of artists and venues those artists can aspire to, and it builds audience diversification.” Ford Theatres announces new collaborations for summer 2017 season 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Johnson will also engage aspiring poets who stroll through the Guggenheim’s doors. Coming Soon to the Guggenheim: Words, Words, Words 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

She aspires to be a monster tamer — a real one, unlike the fraudulent professionals who have taken to growing jackalope horns in old fruit. Beauty and the Beasts 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

Her mother, an aspiring actress and model, had agreed to allow the filmmaker to take photos of her young daughter—he said it was for the French edition of Vogue. Top 10 Revelations from the New Roman Polanski Book 2013-09-17T09:45:45Z

The writer Gay Talese once called it “the most unpromising address in New York City for aspiring restaurant owners.” The Many Lives of Limelight 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

His next role in "We Are Your Friends" is less comedic: He plays an aspiring DJ who is trying to break free from a life cleaning pools with his buddies in the Valley. CinemaCon: The five biggest winners from Warner Bros.' packed slate 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

T Bone Burnett advised aspiring artists to stay off it completely. Music's key trends in 2010 2010-12-04T06:00:00Z

In her research, Ms. Goldsmith learned that Cornelius Vanderbilt, the family’s shipping and railroad magnate, had once advised aspiring investors to “do as I do, consult the spirits!” Barbara Goldsmith, best-selling chronicler of the (unhappily) rich and famous, dies at 85 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

"It's what a lot of women aspire to," she said, "and she shows it doesn't have to be a power lady of another generation." First lady surprises designer with choice of gown 2010-05-20T17:10:00Z

Meanwhile, writers from the 1830s and 1840s prodded men to aspire to svelte bodies, strong trunks and no excess body fat. Why do men obsess over six-packs 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

This novel does not possess — or aspire toward — the symphonic sweep of “Underworld”; it’s more like a chamber music piece. Review: In Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K,’ Daring to Outwit Death 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

I was quirky, aspired to sell stories, and wore tutus, and name earrings – not pearls and cardigans. We focused on the wrong feminist icon in the "Sex and the City" franchise 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

And Gainesville, Florida, psychiatrist Dr. Andrew J. Pierce understands the curiosity from a unique perspective — his wife is an aspiring dermatology nurse practitioner. The primal appeal of pimple-popping videos: Our obsession with gross anatomy has deep roots 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Presumably some percentage of her audience is put in danger of aspiring to her path. Television Review: Opinions You Won?t Find on Twitter: Fran Lebowitz Talks 2010-11-21T22:48:00Z

But nothing quite worked, and though its producers clearly aspired to the inspirational bombast of Steven Spielberg or perhaps Leni Riefenstahl, they could barely muster a second-rate pastiche of Charlie Chaplin. Perspective | Trump wanted a photo op. He delivered the most ominous message of his presidency. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Tanner I definitely think that the Prince is very brave and compassionate especially toward his Marie, which is what I aspire to be like in real life, too. After Misty Comes Marie. Breaking Barriers in ‘The Nutcracker.’ 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

An aspiring writer lands in the life she thinks she wants, one where she’s creating art instead of cleaning it. A Novel That Will Get People Talking 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

The Kid, the title character in Sapphire’s unsettling new novel, is an orphan, an aspiring dancer, an abused child and a violent offender. Books of The Times: He?s a Vessel Overflowing With Rage (And He?s the Orphan Son of Precious) 2011-07-04T19:26:18Z

But when painters started successfully to sell landscapes in the 17th century they took their cue from Leonardo's cartographic approach, and their paintings aspired to the status of maps. Here be monsters 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

Yoshito told me during my visit to the studio that they aspired to total freedom in their dance, and that it emerged from a place of universal love. Kazuo Ohno obituary 2010-06-07T17:40:00Z

Through its Grow Boating initiative, the association matches aspiring sailors with boats participating in the Thursday Downtown Sailing Series and races held Friday nights on Shilshole Bay during the summer. Off to the races, but no rush: Downtown Sailing Series kicks off 2011-07-08T02:31:04Z

They also host a range of other special events, including competitions and workshops for aspiring local film-makers – and recently even organised a large-scale outdoor screening on Saffron Walden town common. Cine-files: Saffron Screen, Saffron Walden 2012-11-06T16:50:00Z

It is in the nature of science fiction to aspire to more, to ascend fearlessly toward the sublime. Review: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar,’ with Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

It looks like a photograph of a painting, rather than a painting that aspires to the condition of the photograph. The Duchess of Cambridge gets an undertaker's makeover 2013-01-11T17:56:13Z

But actors only get to play the roles they're hired for, and some of them really do aspire to something beyond what they're generally offered: to stretch themselves, to do things differently. Audrey Hepburn: an iconic problem 2011-01-20T21:30:02Z

Cowell became a household name as a judge on “American Idol” from 2001-2010 thanks to his harsh critiques of aspiring singers, often prefaced with the line “I don’t mean to be rude but...” Star maker Simon Cowell gets his place on Hollywood Walk of Fame 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

An aspiring model, she accepted a walk-on part in "A Hard Day's Night," which placed her in George's orbit for a day-long shoot on their mobile film set. George Harrison's songwriting evolution: The Quiet Beatle's considerable impact on the group’s sound 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z

He aspired to be a playwright but majored in chemistry at Queens College. Gerry Goffin, lyricist who co-wrote seminal ’60s hits, dies at 75

We stow away with Belle, an aspiring actress and gimlet-eyed observer, and a gaggle of pals eager to bask in the wealth of their frenemy’s much older billionaire boyfriend. The Beach May Be Closed, but These Books Are Worth Opening 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

A wide-eyed and innocent aspiring actress named Betty Elms arrives in Los Angeles with visions of stardom. David Lynch’s chillingly prescient vision of modern America 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

That said, aspiring skating tourists should be relatively adept on in-line skates — the ability to brake is crucial, especially when hurtling down a steep boulevard surrounded by thousands of other skaters. Skating the Roads of Paris 2010-08-15T10:00:00Z

You will be expected, from roughly the age of 16 onward, to be aspiring to and planning a “dream wedding.” Olivia Munn’s “superhero diet” is why you shouldn’t take diet advice from celebrities 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

"While we aspired to the lofty and cerebral plane of a quotidian materiality, our unconscious life unraveled with an intensity and melodrama that inversely matched their absence in … our austere sculptural and choreographic creations." Step-by-step guide to dance: Yvonne Rainer 2010-12-24T13:12:31Z

It might sound like a prequel to “500 Days of Summer,” and surely it will launch a thousand screenplays, but the blog doesn’t aspire to the Hollywood ideal. Woman going on 100 dates: “Rejection isn’t so bad” anymore 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

The DreamWorks Animation 3-D movie about a hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons collected $43.3 million during the three days beginning on Friday, according to studio estimates on Sunday. "Dragon" knocks "Alice" off top box office perch 2010-03-29T16:42:00Z

For generations, Jo was a beacon to girls who didn’t aspire to the feminine ideal. What really killed Beth March? And other gender lessons from “Little Women” 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z

Perry said he was not aspiring to great artistry. After Madea, Tyler Perry Builds a New Kingdom 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

He was an aspiring musician with a beguiling backstory — a peripatetic childhood in a notorious cult with hippie-idealist parents and four gifted younger siblings. River Phoenix died 25 years ago. He’s still slipping away from us. 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

Both of them are examples to aspire to. Throw Momma From the Plane? 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Women may aspire to be men just to be free from persecution by them. Rebecca Solnit: if I were a man 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

I want and aspire for my bosses to be very happy with the work that I do for them. On the Runway Blog: Q & A With Katia Kuthe, New Director of Creative at Kate Spade 2012-07-19T17:00:08Z

A panel of judges praised 24-year-old Parwaz Hussein and she was voted through to the next round of "Arab Idol", in which aspiring popstars from Morocco to Bahrain compete for a recording contract. Kurdish singer sparks identity debate on Arab talent show 2013-04-25T08:19:03Z

"This is a dream job for any young aspiring presenter - unfortunately being eliminated will be their nightmare," he said. Blue Peter presenter judges named 2013-06-03T12:51:56Z

The "we" to which Anna and Otto belong is the "we" to which we, reading, at least aspire to belong. Rereading: Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin 2011-01-07T11:40:24Z

Critics have well and truly looked down on Tom’s whimsical, chin-lifting philosophy, branding it “naggingly repetitive”, “so very annoying” and “too hokey for anything but aspiring meteorologists”. We spend so much time staring at our phones. What do we miss when we don't look up? | Mel Campbell 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

If anything, she says, she has more in common with Tracy, the solemn, aspiring author. Greta Gerwig: ‘I don't need a man. I would have done all this anyway' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Long before Rosetta Stone, the French Institute Alliance Française began helping aspiring French speakers brush up their conversational skills. Paris in the Springtime, in New York 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

He truly aspires to write in their tradition. ‘The Woman in the Window’ Nods to Classics Old and New, From Hitchcock to ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

So he quickly threw himself into setting up his next movie, a musical called "La La Land" about a young L.A. jazz pianist who falls in love with an aspiring actress. Damien Chazelle's wild, crazy ride to the Oscars with 'Whiplash' 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

He's an aspiring artist with a stylish haircut and a tight-fitting Provincetown T-shirt, and has the angry, somewhat dogmatic queer-radical opinions to match. Does "Weekend" mark a new direction for gay cinema? 2011-09-21T22:01:00Z

“Yes, Chef” is a good book to give to the aspiring professional cook in your life because its abiding theme is the brutal and selfless work that must undergird culinary inspiration. ‘Yes, Chef,’ by Marcus Samuelsson 2012-06-26T12:37:23Z

That magic, of course, is the product of an often cruel and impersonal machinery in whose gears aspiring artists like Noni often find themselves caught. ‘Beyond the Lights,’ a Diva’s Romance 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Yet, like any savvy aspiring celebrity, Gritty leaned hard into the skid. How the Left Won the War for Gritty 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Ned’s odyssey reunites him with Simon, still wearing his garbage collector’s uniform as a Nobel laureate and now aspiring comedian. Review: In Hal Hartley’s ‘Ned Rifle,’ Closure for a Son and a Series 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

All around, signs encourage you: We aspire to inspire. Addicted to my cycling class 2014-02-20T00:00:00Z

Gilbert doesn’t just call for aspiring artists to speak their truth, however daffy that may appear to others; she is showing them how. ‘Big Magic’: Elizabeth Gilbert’s advice on how you, too, can eat, pray, love 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

“No one has ever seen this happen at a museum that aspires to be a major metropolitan museum,” he said. Jorge M. P?rez?s Name on Miami Museum Roils Board 2011-12-06T23:33:51Z

Named for the owners’ young daughters, the two-story Nina May aspires to shop from a 150-mile radius and invites diners to leave decisions up to the chef. Tom Sietsema’s 8 favorite places to eat right now 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

A remarkable stroke of fate sent Jeff Buckley, then an aspiring young troubadour, to stay in a New York apartment that happened to contain a copy of “I’m Your Fan.” Books of The Times: ‘The Holy or the Broken’ by Alan Light 2012-12-09T22:49:21Z

I just think so many of her performances in the ’80s and ’90s were a real gift to females and aspiring creators coming of age at that time. Dolly Parton and the Women Who Love Her 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

And yet the festival is still the industry's most prestigious annual showcase for new and emerging talent from all over the world and the place to be for any aspiring British act. SXSW 2013: The British are coming! 2013-03-12T12:36:00Z

The memes work because we both see ourselves in SpongeBob and aspire to be him. Stephen Hillenburg: the naive genius who made SpongeBob a cultural titan 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

Luckily for aspiring musical theater performers in New York, it’s not unusual for big Broadway names to offer encouraging, tough-love-based 10-minute apprenticeships to singers who don’t mind looking silly in front of strangers. Inside a Master Class: Breathe, Punctuate, Forget Led Zeppelin 2011-07-21T20:24:06Z

In the 1980s, they were students at the Amsterdam Fashion Academy and collaborated for the first time in 1986, when Mr. Matadin, by then an aspiring designer, needed a photographer for a look book. Fashion Photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin Polish Their Brand 2013-12-31T20:40:47Z

He also noted that despite the genre’s name, they are actually anti-reality; those on the shows and those who aspire to be on them adopt made-for-the-camera mannerisms and mind-sets. Critic?s Notebook: Reality TV Debate - Critic?s Notebook 2011-10-07T21:28:36Z

And aspiring chefs came to see Mr. Phojanakong do what had once been considered impossible: make the once-derided, even feared, cuisine of the Philippines friendly, approachable and hip. King Phojanakong, Pioneer of Filipino Food in New York, Dies at 54 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z

"Young Adolf" imagined the aspiring artist Hitler in Liverpool before World War I, to comic and disturbing effect. British novelist Beryl Bainbridge dies at 75 2010-07-02T12:35:00Z

As Lane lobbies Mina to let him investigate, she’s reminded why her sister’s case attracts so much attention: a golden-haired, aspiring beauty queen, plucked from the safety of a wholesome warm bed. Murder in the Brain-Broiling Heat and Red Dust of the Outback 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Do your events, as opposed to literature tents at more mainstream festivals such as Glastonbury, create a better platform for aspiring spoken word artists? Arts head: Melanie Abrahams, founder of Tilt and Renaissance one 2013-06-25T10:40:51Z

Authors who aspire only to write mere entertainment, on the other hand, are missing an opportunity: If you’ve got a kid’s attention, why not put it to good use? The “Goosebumps” Conundrum: What Makes a Children’s Book Good? 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

In the story, the deity issues a command to the aspiring writer before she leaves. ‘Friday Black’ Uses Fantasy and Blistering Satire to Skewer Racism and Consumer Culture 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

But the best ambient music is carefully and artfully composed; it aspires to spark personal catharsis or deep release in a listener. Against Chill: Apathetic Music to Make Spreadsheets To 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

He was living on a higher plane, one in which the body wasn’t the obstacle to pleasure but the vehicle to obtaining it, a plane to which I newly aspired. Modern Love: Romance, the Ultimate Souvenir 2012-09-07T00:15:52Z

"It’s good to get in there and pay upfront as an aspiring conservationist." MeatEater host Steve Rinella discusses ammo shortage and ten years of being on TV 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

The work created in those early decades was often gleefully contemptuous of anything that aspired to good taste. ‘Fantasia,’ ‘Snow White,’ Betty Boop, Popeye and the First Golden Age of Animation 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

But he had aspired to a singing career first, and after he became a television star he recorded albums, including “George Maharis Sings!,” George Maharis, TV Heartthrob of ‘Route 66,’ Is Dead at 94 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

A vivacious aspiring singer, whom talking heads hyperbolically compare to Whitney Houston and Sade, Ms. Vincent died in late 2003 at 38. Movie Review: ‘Dreams of a Life’ Looks at Joyce Vincent 2012-08-02T20:52:19Z

"I was there when that idea was born and I said it was the best idea they could possibly come up with," he told the aspiring filmmakers backstage. Dozens of stars rehearse day before Oscar ceremony 2013-02-24T04:26:10Z

“Black Feminist Video Game” aspires to this same degree of poignancy and ingenuity, but despite its cute gameplay, it can’t get past Level 1. ‘Black Feminist Video Game’ Review: Pixels and Polemics 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

There is a certain amount of chaos in his personal life that I do not aspire to. Tom Morello keeps punk-rock spirit of Woody Guthrie alive 2012-05-09T21:39:00Z

I aspire to be offended and stirred up. A warning about trigger warnings 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

An early criticism of "Mrs. Maisel," about a mother and housewife turned aspiring comic in 1950s and '60s New York, was that the children of the main character weren't around very much. Feminism has come to "Mrs. Maisel" – dad feminism, that is 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

Willis is trapped in these roles — not just as an aspiring actor but as a character on a page. Review | Charles Yu’s ‘Interior Chinatown’ brilliantly skewers Hollywood typecasting 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

Compare the efficiency of GPS with the three years aspiring London cabdrivers typically spend preparing for the arduous examination they must pass in order to receive their license. What Silicon Valley Could Use More Of: Inefficiency 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

Apparently aspiring to take on London in the way Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America” took on New York, this big, untidy drama sets out to portray the surreal twilight of a particular eve of destruction. London Theater Journal: Apocalypse at the National 2010-08-06T16:25:00Z

That was why Twain, when he was still an aspiring novelist, built his house adjacent to hers — to rub literary shoulders. In the footsteps of Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Noah Webster 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

“A lot of actresses aspire to the cover of Vogue,” Mr. Lourd said. It’s Called the Met Gala, but It’s Definitely Anna Wintour’s Party 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

What the two want to make is a set of heroes that young girls, older women and men can all aspire to be. Meet Marvel's New All-Female Superhero Team 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Sports are a time to get it out, a socially acceptable venue in which to not only scream, shout and weep, but also aspire. "Hoosiers" and Indiana basketball made me believe 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

No wonder a new generation of restless New Yorkers is starting to heed the Los Angeles siren call, and not just aspiring actor-waiters, as in years past. Los Angeles and Its Booming Creative Class Lures New Yorkers 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

At times, “The Prey” evokes the French import “Tell No One,” but it’s no insult to say that it doesn’t aspire to art-house significance, just to white-knuckled entertainment. Movie Review: ‘The Prey,’ a Thriller Starring Albert Dupontel 2013-06-06T21:44:58Z

Add the huge hole left in Welsh literature by aspiring writers boarding trains to London and putting memories of the principality firmly behind them from the early 80s onward. Rachel Trezise's top 10 Welsh underground novels 2010-05-19T07:56:00Z

Every element has been heightened in just the right way, a delicate achievement when you consider the heightening that’s aspired to. ‘On the Town' Revival Opens on Broadway 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

As a 20-something aspiring to impress I experimented with blending multiple cheeses, some very fancy. The great mac and cheese debate, and my go-to recipe for the holidays 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

What Mark aspires to is the fat woman’s enviable complacency. This Week in Fiction: Tim Parks 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

“As long as human beings aspire, they will be capable of corrupting the object of their aspiration,” he told me. How to Restore Your Faith in Democracy 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

They stopped showing us things to aspire to because it only depressed us. Nostalgia TV: a comfort blanket when times get tough 2013-04-11T11:23:51Z

"I'm probably going to be all right," he said, "but the aspiring writers are going to have a very hard time getting published." Grisham releases 'The Firm,' 22 others as e-books 2010-03-16T06:16:00Z

Every aspiring musician needs someone to believe in their songs. Music tastemaker Gary Calamar of KCRW makes an EP of his own work 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

An aspiring Tasmanian distiller challenged the federal statute in 1989, paving the way for a boom first in craft Tasmanian whiskies, and more recently, gins. In Tasmania, a Gin Boom Showcasing Native Plants (and Even Sheep Whey) 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

It's a network of foodies, proud parents, hipsters, aspiring artists and, unfortunately, celebrities. Instagram: should I stay or go? 2012-12-19T16:31:36Z

Having gone from disco king to aspiring chorus boy, he lives in a world closer to a backstage Hollywood musical like “42nd Street” than “Mean Streets.” ‘Saturday Night Fever’ at 40: You Should Still Be Dancing 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

A mad genius who seemingly aspires to be Comic-in-Chief, President Zartan purrs, “They call it waterboarding, but I never get bored,” like a kid who decapitates toy soldiers, just for the fun of it. G.I. Joe Retaliation: Make That Redemption 2013-03-29T03:35:55Z

Known in the industry as a top-liner, Parks, who performs as Tayla Parx, contributes melodic and lyrical ideas to some of the biggest artists in the world, and those aspiring to be. Tayla Parx Helped Ariana Grande Evolve. Now It’s Her Turn. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

Yet there are encouraging signs that the festival and Bernard Foccroulle, its general director since 2007, aspire to change that sedate mood, or at least challenge it. Critic’s Notebook: Very Old and Brand-New Operas at French Festival 2012-07-23T21:53:26Z

He never aspired to be a leading man, Bickers said. George Coe, character actor and veteran of ‘Saturday Night Live,’ dies at 86 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

Her impersonation of a writer giving advice to aspiring writers is funny because it’s true. All the Writers’ Workshops 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

This is their moment, and all the young and aspiring designers are taking advantage. On the Runway Blog: Professor Pinault Pays a Visit 2013-02-06T22:45:57Z

Since late 2010, the company's Hollywood studio, Amazon Studios, has let aspiring screenwriters and film makers upload thousands of scripts to its website. Crowdsourcing goes to Hollywood as Amazon makes movies 2012-10-10T11:04:09Z

She has also given several interviews to other media outlets describing what she claims were repeated assaults by Mr. Cosby when she was an aspiring teenage actress. Lawyer Defends Cosby Over Assault Claims 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z

He meets aspiring space colonists at a conference of the Mars Society in Los Angeles. ‘Notes From an Apocalypse’ Is a Timely Tour of Preparing for the Worst 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

Not Suitable for Work I am a college student and an aspiring fashion designer. Social Q’s: Girls Not Allowed 2013-08-01T18:38:42Z

Former congressman Beto O’Rourke, who aspires to the same office as Truman, attempted a wife joke of his own on the campaign trail. Analysis | Take my wife joke, please! A campaign trail cliche finally bombs 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

Others were stewardesses, bartenders and aspiring actresses or models who never became famous. Will the #MeToo movement catch up with Bill Cosby as his sexual assault retrial begins? 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

That’s the clear takeaway from the final tally of PBS’s The Great American Read, which aspired to name the country’s favorite novel from a curated list of 100 titles. Perspective | What’s the best American novel? A PBS vote is a revealing look at our (limited) taste. 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

Pinker writes that his book “is designed for people who know how to write and want to write better. This includes students who hope to improve the quality of their papers, aspiring critics and journalists.” Can something be totally unique? Steven Pinker’s new book says yes.

The hosts genuine warmth and camaraderie distinguishes this from many similar roundtable-style podcasts, and their insights into the nitty-gritty of production are invaluable for fans and aspiring creatives alike. 6 TV Tie-In Podcasts to Enhance Your Next Binge 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Flaherty customizes the vocal arrangements for the “rats” — the aspiring ballerinas who were often stalked by “abonnés,” older male patrons given backstage access to the girls. From ‘Ragtime’ to ‘Rocky’ to ‘Dancer’: Flaherty and Ahrens, together 30 years

Valentino said she was with her friend and roommate at the time, an aspiring actress named Meg Foster. Bill Cosby’s legacy, recast: Accusers speak in detail about sexual-assault allegations

Now, all those plans and promises lay broken on the ground in deliciously odd pieces after the series’ 25-year-old lead organizer and aspiring conductor drove it full-speed, full-force into a brick wall. This is the story of the Fyre Festival of Classical music, enjoy 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

“I don’t aspire to create beautiful rooms for people, as much as I want to change the way we live in them.” How to Design a Glamorous Space That’s Practical Too 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

The comedian, actress and musician Bridget Everett will be on the big screen this summer in “Patti Cakes” — she plays the boozy mom of an aspiring white female rapper from New Jersey. Bridget Everett’s Luxuries: Beautifully Packaged Dry Shampoo and Raw Dog Food 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

His family moved to Harlem when he was about 7; he first aspired to be a visual artist and studied commercial art in high school. Bill Dixon, Voice of Avant-Garde Jazz, Dies at 84 2010-06-19T21:25:00Z

Leo’s a writer, and she aspires to be one. ‘The Roads Not Taken’ Review: Alternate Lives, All of Them Hellish 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

This production has zero value as cinema and doesn't aspire to have any. Laurence Fishburne does justice to "Thurgood" 2011-02-24T15:25:00Z

The end result is a series that aspires to convey the same level of human desperation as AMC’s other signature shows, but with more decaying flesh, exploding body parts and devoured horses. Television: The Zombie Attack as Stress Test 2010-10-22T18:23:00Z

But it does not aspire to be anything else. A Visit to Italian Villages That Inspired the Term ‘Riviera’ 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

Happily, in a podcast released earlier this month, Harris has reported that since that statement he has been a “vegetarian… and aspiring vegan.” New atheists must become new vegans: Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and the extra burden on moral leaders 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

Murphy is an aspiring film-maker, who wants to make movies out of “blood, sperm and tears”. Director Gaspar Noé on his 3D sex film, Love: ‘All governments like controlling people’s sexuality’ 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

He recounts how Madonna, then a young aspiring dancer, became obsessed with meeting her idol Martha Graham much as “a visitor to Loch Ness might long to meet the monster.” Books of The Times: ‘Hello Goodbye Hello,’ by Craig Brown 2012-08-05T20:56:23Z

Brigid, an aspiring composer, is working two bartending jobs as she faces piles of student debt. Review: ‘The Humans’ Depicts a Family, and a Country, Under Pressure 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

He will also launch a weekend workshop for aspiring producers. Noted film producer signs on as Quinnipiac mentor 2011-07-09T13:46:15Z

But the others are too stubbornly devoted to the pitfalls and limited choices they’re familiar with to aspire to do anything different with their lives. Forget Florida Man: Summer belongs to the trailer park queens of "Florida Girls" 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

As Ishizuka's research found, many American parents describe this parenting style as an ideal, something to aspire to, but for some parents it's simply out of grasp. Sex and the Baby Industrial Complex: Why gender reveal parties persist despite multiple tragedies 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Today her candidly mercantile approach is reflected in Sotheby’s’ sale catalog, a lavish volume that aspires to scholarship, with offerings grouped under headings including minimalism, abstract expressionism, modernism and surrealism. Art’s New Perch: Your Neck, Not Your Wall 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

Scarves, Ms. Jaffe said, speak to a generation of fashion indies, aspiring Rachel Zoes, for whom wrapping and tying “is all about being your own stylist.” It?s a Turban, It?s a Dress (It?s a Scarf) 2011-05-25T21:01:02Z

The drama centres on two aspiring black boxers, Leon and Troy. Roy Williams: Confessions of an uncool kid 2010-06-07T20:31:00Z

By now it should be clear that Nichols is a strategic thinker as much as an aspiring auteur; a necessary personality trait, perhaps, for someone coming into film-making from outside the NY-LA hothouse. Mud director Jeff Nichols: 'Mark twain bottled what it felt to be a child' 2013-05-02T17:37:37Z

In 1986 Lincoln Center established the annual Martin E. Segal Awards, given to aspiring young artists. Martin Segal, Leading New York Cultural Figure, Dies at 96 2012-08-05T23:27:45Z

He aspired to Harvard, his father’s alma mater, so he could write for The Lampoon. Nathaniel and Simon: The Brothers Rich 2013-01-04T21:32:05Z

In a world that feels increasingly out of control, I aspire to be that bold. Jennifer Lopez's reinvention of the breakup 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z

A Photographer Calling the Tune Many aspiring country singers have day jobs, typically along the lines of waiting tables or tending bar. Mark Seliger’s Career as Frontman of Rusty Truck 2013-08-05T21:20:25Z

Aspiring female rappers continue rapping and aspiring on the return of the reality series "Sisterhood of Hip Hop." TV This Week June 7 - 13: 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

There is only one cabin class on Southwest, so one can’t aspire to an upgrade. 7 Hours of Travel, 2 Hours on the Ground: Worth It for the Rewards Points 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

Eddy, 22, one of the youngest inmates in the group, asked for advice for aspiring writers. From Behind Bars, Inmates Award France’s Latest Book Prize 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

Picasso at the Lapin Agile The aspiring artist meets a pre-fame Albert Einstein and others at a Paris bar in 1904 in Steve Martin’s comedy. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 5-12: Chita Rivera, Julia Migenes and more 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Plant speaks about his musicians and their world with as much personal affection as he does respect for their talent – and for what it is in life that they aspire to. The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z

And if you don’t aspire to be a professional storyteller, he says to find another class. His class is famously tough. ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Westworld’ wouldn’t exist without it. 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Q: Which of Spock's qualities do you aspire for yourself? A Minute With: Zachary Quinto on 'Star Trek,' Spock and coming out 2013-05-15T14:18:03Z

At 23, Mr. Larson aspired to be a Broadway actor and playwright, and he hesitated to accept the role for fear of being typecast. Jack Larson, a Playwright Better Known as Jimmy Olsen in ‘Superman,’ Dies at 87 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Never has the show aspired to color the goings-on in Washington D.C. as comical, though. “The Circus” host calls Steve Bannon’s propaganda film “a cinematic reach-around” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

She never aspired to lead an all-out campaign against Trump’s authoritarianism. Nancy Pelosi’s Brilliant Career 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

He also shares how he himself, as an adult, aspires to bring Christmas joy to others as he moves through his own life. Fox News' Lawrence Jones on Christmas: 'The best time of year' 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

When William Faulkner was asked by the Paris Review to share his thoughts on the art of fiction in 1956, he offered several useful pieces of advice to the aspiring author. Sarah Churchwell: rereading The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 2012-07-20T21:55:05Z

The games industry is becoming far more open – it's caught up with the film industry in terms of the level of quality it aspires to. Are video game soundtracks the new concept albums? 2012-05-28T13:56:00Z

Gilles received backlash from her post and instead, supporters created a GoFundMe, raising $63,714 as of Saturday in tips for the barista, who is also a dancer who aspires to teach children. Supporters raise over $60G for Starbucks barista blasted by ‘Karen’ attempting to flout mask mandate 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z

"Smart conversation, those are the two words that I would like to aspire to, and also fun conversation," Couric said. Katie Couric signs deal for ABC talk show 2011-06-07T04:33:54Z

Every 16th-century savant and scholar and crackpot aspired to study in Prague under great minds like the astronomer Johannes Kepler and the court mathematician, Tycho Brahe. Unmasking Magic and Murder in the Best New Crime 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

The shy, doe-eyed Sparkle is a secret songwriter and aspiring singer whose ambitions are aggressively discouraged by her mother. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘Sparkle,’ With Whitney Houston and Jordin Sparks 2012-08-17T15:03:02Z

And while it's easy to believe otherwise, given the dazzling heights to which contemporary bar menus aspire, those four building blocks are all a cocktail requires. How to make a Rye Old-Fashioned, a classic 3-ingredient drink (plus ice) 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

That show was called “Aspire,” and this show aspires to turn the experience of writing it into a musical comedy. | 'The Road to Qatar!': Let?s Sing About People Who Don?t Speak Like Us 2011-02-04T23:19:12Z

And if an aspiring artist lives far from the fashion industry and its gatekeepers, that’s not necessarily a barrier to entry. Seeing Fashion With a Sketchpad and Markers 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

Post-collegiate aspiring millionaires who once might have flocked to junior analyst programs at Wall Street banks or law schools are now trying to create — or at least glom onto — a Next Big Thing. WeWork Goes to Summer Camp 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Instead of aspiring to spout musty lyrical knowledge, Migos are exuding a different kind of musical wisdom. Migos-mania: How the Atlanta rap trio mastered the sound of silence 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Cesar is an aspiring pro player who quits his job with the St. Louis Cardinals when he can't advance beyond being clubhouse janitor. Baseball saga "Perfect Game" doesn't round bases 2010-04-20T01:22:00Z

At the peak of weekend business, what this newfangled piano bar in a fashionably grungy neighborhood of affordable rents and aspiring artists had done with its piano was silence it. The Tipsy Diaries: Getting a Kick From Piano Bars 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z

Because it's so important for us to be able to see ourselves in a way to be inspired by and aspire to be, but for the world to see that too. "The Old Guard": Gina Prince-Bythewood on superhero diversity, that ending & sequel possibilities 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z

And little training is required for aspiring space travelers. Money Can Buy a Visit to Space or the Deep Sea, but It Can’t Buy Safety 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

When an aspiring potter named Yukio returns from the past to the cafe, he observes, “The world hasn’t changed, I have”; he’s no longer “imprisoned by the thought: I don’t deserve happiness.” Hope Gained and Lost, in New Fiction From Around the World 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

I am not sure if he actually aspires to a happy married life. This Week in Fiction: Akhil Sharma on the Complicating Forces of Shame 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

When she wrote about “Girls” for The Washington Post, Elizabeth took special glee in the fact that the lead character was an aspiring memoirist. Perspective | Elizabeth Wurtzel was right all along 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Why was this all he aspired to be? He Knew What Jackie Gave Up for the Kennedys. This Is His Story. 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

Today, hundreds of aspiring rappers are after the money and respect that come with being a top-tier battle rapper. The Fierce, Flourishing World of Battle Rap 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

His writing, though, trends towards the upbeat, and aspires to be inspirational. Too Sincere for the Internet? How the Web Journal Thought Catalog Sparked an Online Firestorm 2012-07-05T14:00:18Z

James, an aspiring actor who trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles, will reportedly submit a proposal to Westminster Council with the intention of changing the venue's use. Raymond Revue strip club to become London's latest fringe theatre? 2013-04-18T12:40:16Z

Penny aspires to be an actress but pays the rent by waiting tables at a Cheesecake Factory. Kaley Cuoco gets a bang out of 'Big Bang Theory' 2012-11-14T13:51:12Z

Big Time in Hollywood, FL In this new series, two aspiring young filmmakers plan to swindle their parents out of $20,000. Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'Nashville: On the Record' on ABC 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

Shows like the Emmys and the Oscars used to aspire to elegance, a quality that isn’t so valued now, for reasons both good and bad. Review: The Emmys Keep it Light and Forgettable 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z

An aspiring standup comedian, he believes his mission is to bring laughter to the world, until life disabuses him of that notion. ‘He is a psychopath’: has the 2019 Joker gone too far? 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

“For an aspiring actress, meeting a world-renowned film producer carries value, in and of itself,” the judge wrote. Harvey Weinstein: judge allows sex trafficking case to move to trial 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

The film doesn't aspire to anything particularly sharp and sophisticated, and even diehard Ferrell fans might feel he isn't exactly giving us the shock of the new. The Campaign – review 2012-09-27T21:31:01Z

At first glance, Take It Easy Hospital look like any other aspiring indie duo. Rock me Ahmadinejad 2010-03-20T00:10:00Z

The spaces left vacant attracted a new generation of aspiring gallerists. Scene/Seen: In Arts Capital, Galleries Fill a Void 2010-10-15T13:30:00Z

These couples are as enduring, if not more so, than the films or songs they produced — and they give us all something to which to aspire. These Celebrity Couples Provide Your New Relationship Goals 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Also, something I aspire to do this summer is read more poetry. What to read this summer? Ten authors weigh in with their picks. 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Her boyfriend, Nick, an aspiring novelist, trails in her wake. Immigrant Lives, Back to Back and Upside Down 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

In his first career, though, he was an aspiring composer of musical theater, a Broadway orchestrator and even a sometime singer. David Pogue makes opera debut at Wolf Trap with Google Glass in ‘Carmen’

For aspiring writers, as Mr. Butcher was back then, that was very enticing. Jim Butcher, One of the Authors From Ambermush 2011-09-23T23:00:21Z

Grooving through the decades, this entertaining documentary aspires to prove that the Bee Gees were more than a hitmaker for disco nightclubs. ‘The Bee Gees’ Review: Night Fever, for Decades 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

Hall said that although he didn't expect Voigt's classmates to match her extraordinary vocal power, they could aspire to her tonal purity. Placido Domingo, Deborah Voigt to headline opening of Chapman's new arts center 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

The passage of 50 years has obliterated any appealing period details in the architecture, although the inhabitants are of the same slightly bohemian, aspiring middle classes. | 'The Hallway Trilogy': Love Thy Neighbor? Yeah, Right 2011-02-25T03:00:00Z

“Hearts and Minds” aspired to be the American equivalent to Marcel Ophuls’s “The Sorrow and the Pity.” ‘Southern Comfort’ and 'Hearts and Minds' on DVD 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

After some technical wizardry and having resisted piano-bashing all evening, Gerstein thumped the keyboard with his entire right forearm for a splashy final chord – the kind of thing every aspiring pianist can try at home. Götterdämmerung; BBC Proms – review 2012-07-21T23:05:54Z

Stevenson, an aspiring and penniless writer, was gravely ill when he finally won her heart. ‘Under the Wide and Starry Sky’: R.L. Stevenson’s muse 2014-01-15T22:17:21Z

June, an aspiring novelist, is seething with jealousy for her classmate Athena, an Asian American author whose writing has already attracted a good deal of attention. 13 New Books Coming in May 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

Cowell became a star with his wisecracks and sometimes nasty put-downs of aspiring singers. 'American Idol': The slow fade of an instant hit 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

What one piece of advice would you give to an aspiring illustrator? Drawing lines: Q&A with Dinosaur Cove illustrator Mike Spoor 2013-02-15T12:12:10Z

All the people here are aspiring to be respectable, civilized, “normal” folks. Review: Chloroform, Lies and Racism Fire Up ‘The Jacksonian’ 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

If there is a Golden Rule of writing, one that any aspiring novelist knows by heart, it is this: Show, don't tell. Isabel Allende is a star, but 'The Japanese Lover' doesn't shine 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

He aspired to such a clean, white-guy style that his early image was that of an also-ran Bill Cosby — at a time when there was room for only one Bill Cosby in show business. ‘Becoming Richard Pryor,’ Scott Saul’s Biography 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Quakerism is about integrity, equality, simplicity, community – all of the things I aspire to. How we live together: the Quakers 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

An aspiring painter, he drinks in everything he sees with bright, inquisitive eyes, and the joy that springs from his new sense of freedom is translated into ebullient movement. Review: ‘An American in Paris,’ a Romance of Song and Step 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

Mei is an aspiring doctor, a daunting feat for any woman of the era, but especially for a woman of color. "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" gives us a refreshing take on abortion, but how realistic is it 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Their makers do not consider themselves designers, nor do they aspire to be. Home-Made Europe: the DIY geniuses shaking up design 2012-05-30T16:14:18Z

Matthew appears at the start of “Out of This World” as an aspiring ringmaster, and his sister plays the role on some weekend shows. Step right up — and fast — for this famed circus’s final act 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

As if a full schedule is what we aspire to, rather than a schedule full of things that make us happy. America’s Donald Trump complex: We’re addicted to consumption — and it’s destroying us 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

It was a simpler time when bubble perms and Ford Capris were to be aspired to. The Professionals race back to the big screen 2011-03-28T19:33:29Z

“Modern girls like my granddaughter aspire to be lawyers or bankers,” she continued. Haute Ticket: Jacqueline de Ribes at the Met 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

Sarah Burton’s Alexander McQueen collection had no elaborate theme other than the skill, time and spirit of collaboration that’s required to create clothes that aspire to become heirlooms rather than castoffs. Perspective | Fashion commits many sins. It’s trying to redeem itself. 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

He wrote the film with Nicole Perlman, clearly aspiring for a rollicking adventure in the mold of “Indiana Jones” or “Star Wars,” which the movie’s poster evoked. Review: ‘Guardians’ is irreverent but not enough 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

“I think it’s the difference between a craftsman and an artist. I aspire to be an artist.” Willem Dafoe: 'With success comes certain things that corrupt you' 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

“I keep both programs open on my screen at all times,” said Behrang Garakani, 50, an aspiring artist who returned to college after a career in video game development. An Art Professor Says A.I. Is the Future. It’s the Students Who Need Convincing 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

Not that “The Outsider” aspires to more than the straight-to-video standard set years ago by other anonymous crime thrillers, in which muscled men went looking for answers. Movie Review: Soldier Searches for a Daughter in ‘The Outsider’ 2014-02-07T01:08:03Z

Crisply written, rational and practical, “Zero to One” should be read not just by aspiring entrepreneurs but by anyone seeking a thoughtful alternative to the current pervasive gloom about the prospects for the world. From one who should know 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

His father, an aspiring musician, worked in amusement parks. Olly Alexander Is Done With Shame 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

The chef says he aspired to create a restaurant that felt like a fun dinner party. Review | Tom Sietsema’s 8 favorite places to eat right now 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

The entire time I lived in New York, I aspired to impress the video store clerks. "Blockbuster" and missing the community of video stores 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z

Back in 2009, he reworked his emotionally powered double bill Uprising/In Your Rooms into a show that aspired to the intensity and scale of a rock gig. This week's new dance 2011-07-08T23:09:31Z

The moment aspiring film-makers realised there was a potential shortcut to distribution and acclaim, they started smoothing off their rough edges – consciously or without even noticing – or at least they began to stylise themselves. Film-makers need to trust the audience 2013-05-24T13:00:01Z

But most have focused on the importance of calling one’s elected reps — a tactic that has left aspiring activists in the vote-deprived but heavily Democratic nation’s capital feeling a little useless. D.C. activists don’t have senators to call. So they found their own way to fight Trump. 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

Is this "never dead" or "not dead" or "coming back to life" status something they are aspiring to--to become the risen dead who look like monsters and ravenously fall on the living? ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 9: Lessons to Be Learned 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z

On the less impressive side are enamels that seem to aspire to the condition of Modern easel paintings, encompassing subject matter both abstract and figurative. Craft & Folk Art Museum weaves 'Little Dreams in Glass and Metal' 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

This is the level of nastiness that Gardiner should aspire to. Dancing on Ice: why Jason Gardiner should not be fired 2011-02-08T14:49:14Z

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. ArtsBeat: Emmys Watch: Damian Lewis on 'Homeland' and 'The Forsyte Saga' 2012-09-21T18:30:54Z

Ms. Stoss, who aspired to play collegiate soccer, also suffered several concussions in high school. A Love as Old as AOL Instant Messenger 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

So, where does art rise above ironic ridicule and aspire to greatness, in terms of challenging convention and elevating the human spirit? David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

An aspiring crook gets a day's work experience with hitman Tim Roth in a British thriller. Star Trek Into Darkness, Mud, A Hijacking: this week's new films 2013-05-11T05:00:12Z

But Stewart Sr., an aspiring writer, left his only child a rich musical legacy in the form of a large, eclectic collection of LP recordings. Extraordinary Beethoven, and an Adventurous Streak 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

When she was 5, her mother, an aspiring writer, moved her and her younger sister to New York, leaving their father, an executive at a door-manufacturing company, in Florida. Sarah Paulson Opens Up About Acting, Marcia Clark and Dating Older Women 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

Funded through the state lottery, the program will work with technical schools to provide training and apprenticeships for aspiring crew members. Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal courts Hollywood in L.A. visit 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Twelve of the interviews are with the ex-mistress, Vita Nova, a seamstress’s daughter turned sex goddess, media celebrity and aspiring national savior. Sex Goddess, Celebrity and the Best Hope for Her Country 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

It never aspired to be, but that doesn’t matter. "Vikings" kicks off its final season with its own "tender moment" in history 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Probably when he announced he was a vegetarian and aspiring vegan. Blind date: ‘Oh hello, he’s nice-looking’ 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

He said the magazine would have a contest, inviting aspiring writers to send in submissions to finish the story. The Ending of This Louisa May Alcott Story May Disappoint You 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

He’s working on the screenplay for a movie version but aspires to literary legitimacy and has his own novel in progress. Anna Gunn and Billy Magnussen Star in ‘Sex With Strangers’ 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

“It’s who we mentally aspire to be, talking and wrestling with the things we actually deal with.” Sundance 2015: In 'End of the Tour,' David Foster Wallace, explained 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

He thereafter consistently dramatized critical junctures in 20th-century Polish history, making movies that aspired to be political events. Remembering Andrzej Wajda, Unflinching Observer of Modern Poland 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

The two orchestras recently embarked on a partnership that centers on the creation of the Shanghai Orchestra Academy, an educational venture for aspiring orchestral musicians that offers coaching, workshops and mock auditions. Maxim Vengerov Performs With the Philharmonic 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Though it was originating the role of Rizzo in “Grease” that made Barbeau a star, it’s “Fiddler” that’s always been her favorite musical, “because there was so much to aspire to every night.” 50th anniversary of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ reunites Tevye’s many daughters

It’s an ambitious novel that aspires to be a tragic one. Louise Penny’s ‘The Long Way Home’ is an artful mystery featuring Armand Gamache

Which, really, was a roundabout way of saying that we now all aspire to the K-Middleton family aesthetic: always orange, never underdone. Tanning Tales: radio review 2013-07-05T06:00:13Z

Is it too harsh to observe that it’s a relationship choice aspired to and embraced by men far more commonly than women, and one with distinct and obvious disadvantages? I fight all the time with my young boyfriend. Can we work it out? | Dear Mariella 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

Nearly all of the final 25 are the work of trained if fairly young photographers, filmmakers, animators, artists, musicians, music-video or television-commercial directors — or graduate students who aspire to these titles. Art Review: The Home Video Rises to Museum Grade 2010-10-22T00:00:00Z

I aspire to do what he does” West went on to say that he and other artists were "tired" of being disrespected by the Grammys. Kanye West: Grammys 'lack respect' 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

When hip-hop journalist, social activist and performance poet Kevin Powell moved from New Jersey to New York City at the age of 24 in 1990, he was an unknown aspiring to recognition and achievement. ‘The Education of Kevin Powell’: An activist and ex-MTV star looks back 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

Young Henry saw, in that scene, something to aspire to. Scorsese’s Achievement with “GoodFellas” 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

“You’re supposed to aspire to be better, and that is exactly right.” ArtsBeat Blog: Have a Little Faith? At NYU, The Debate Rages On 2011-11-16T20:55:51Z

It’s something people still get, and aspire to.” Marin Alsop and Michael Tilson Thomas on why Leonard Bernstein and his music live on

It rightly swept the boards at the Baftas and the Emmys in the year of its broadcast, and remains the series that all other Tudor shows aspire to. Six to watch: TV Tudors 2013-05-24T12:02:18Z

Even when they aspire to more balanced lives, they often find that traditional workplaces won’t enable it. Young People Are Going to Save Us All From Office Life 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

O’Connell’s style is playful over-the-top perfection, and there’s a chapter on entertaining, should you aspire to a soupçon of his signature flair. Entertaining tips from the renowned owner of the Inn at Little Washington 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

Tunes From ‘Screwy Bally-Hooey’ Warner Brothers Attention all ye would-be hosts, writers and performers aspiring to the venerable 92nd Street Y series Lyrics & Lyricists. Music Review: Lyrics & Lyricists Salutes Warner Brothers at 92nd Street Y 2012-06-03T21:57:02Z

However hard he may find it, the prince should aspire to do the same. Why Prince Charles has to keep his views to himself 2010-10-08T06:00:00Z

It will feature 16 and 17-year-old aspiring tycoons fighting to win access to a fund of £25,000, which will be controlled by Lord Sugar. Sugar 'frustrated' at Webber show 2010-05-11T09:28:00Z

Nor does she aspire to: “I just like to bring the funny,” she said. Leslie Jones of ‘S.N.L.’: ‘I Just Like to Bring the Funny’ 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Whatever values that I aspire to are constantly present in all of his music. Not your classic classicist 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Its first works often aspired to, and reached, passionate arena-rock grandeur. On Arcade Fire’s ‘Everything Now,’ Pop Can Reach Deep 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Filmed in a semi-documentary style, it fitfully aspires to moral seriousness. | 'Inhale': A Life-Saving Journey to the Dark Side 2010-10-21T23:10:00Z

We still see it occasionally, and there are still those of us who aspire to that. Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto give voice to the prickly friendship of authors "Truman & Tennessee" 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

“I saw America for what it is, not what it imagines itself or even aspires to be,” she writes. Highways Through Hell 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

“In most of her songs she talks about being alone and afraid,” said Alisa Gordon, 18, a college student and aspiring actress in Nashville. Billie Eilish: Gen Z’s Outrageous Fashion Role Model 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Terkel's words were jazz, complete with rhythm and pitch when he was speaking, and Moshier's jazz suite aspires to capture some of the character – if not the sound – of Terkel's artistic voice. An ode to Studs Terkel – conceived in jazz 2011-01-17T15:04:00Z

Seminar Orange County premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s comedy about aspiring novelists who take classes with a demanding writing teacher. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 25-Oct. 2: 'Phoebe Zeitgeist Returns to Earth' and more 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

The president would be fascinated by the Kaiser and enjoy a strange sense that he is not unique: He aspires to be an American czar but may be an American kaiser. Simon Sebag Montefiore: By the Book 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Then I realized I always knew what I wanted: teach aspiring writers who felt marginalized to find their voice and place in the publishing world. A Zoom of one's own: Leaving my job helped my mental health — and my mission 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z

In Xinjiang, there is an established system of apprenticeship in which aspiring cooks train for months under an ustam, or master chef. Is their crossroads cuisine ‘the next big thing’? Uyghurs hope so. 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

All of which is to say that I didn’t aspire to add to the supply of writing-program fiction, and I’m not a particular fan of the subcategory, though I am, of course, robustly hypocritical. This Week in Fiction: Curtis Sittenfeld on Reluctantly Writing Fiction About an M.F.A. Writing Program 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

Reading Like a Writer is a clarion call for aspiring writers to do that most simple, time-consuming but enjoyable thing: their homework. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose – review 2012-05-26T23:07:19Z

Artists.MTV will be open to established acts and aspiring ones. MTV launching broad online store for musicians 2012-03-15T22:02:11Z

It aspires to some “Phantom of the Opera”-like darkness, but more often suggests itself as a candidate for the sendup artists of “Forbidden Broadway.” ‘Girlstar’: No stars 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

He still aspires to do other kinds of work: “When I go to the gym, I listen to ‘Hamilton,’” he said with a touch of wistfulness. In Praise of Repertory Theater: Macbeth at the Matinee, Miller at Night 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Over a long career, the actor says in a recent visit to Washington, he has experienced multiple periods in which acting work — or the kind of acting work that he aspired to — had simply “evaporated.” ‘What I feel like, finally, is an artist’: How Rupert Everett reinvented his career 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

But that narrative, of an aspiring woman in a heady and male-dominated milieu, is compelling. 'The Receptionist:' an extra-literary education at The New Yorker 2012-07-03T21:01:06Z

I was an aspiring writer who took herself terribly seriously, and so I tackled that thing as a writing assignment. The Power and Limitations of Victim-Impact Statements 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

His program, especially the Friday politics show, became a must-stop for current and aspiring local and state officials, from D.C. Kojo Nnamdi, long-running Washington radio host, is retiring from daily show after 23 years 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

“Practical advice, I believe, would be to read,” he said in 1969, when asked about advice for aspiring authors. Early Cormac McCarthy Interviews Rediscovered 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

However, the abiding memory is of a man who played soccer in a way that many of us – both amateurs and professionals – have all aspired to. Pelé: A global superstar and cultural icon who put passion at the heart of soccer 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

In a room full of aspiring artists and performers, it’s advice they won’t soon forget. Paul McCartney Surprises High School With a Concert 2013-10-10T17:16:43Z

I’d met another hiker—she is just briefly mentioned at the end, I met these two women in central Oregon and hiked with them a bit—and one of them was an aspiring magazine editor. The Trailblazer: Q&A with Wild author and advice columnist Cheryl Strayed 2012-06-14T14:46:49Z

Tour budgets and contract negotiations get at least as much attention as songwriting and recording, and if that sounds dry, aspiring musicians could certainly learn a lesson or two. Rock Lives: This Season’s Pop Music Biographies and Memoirs 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Lavishly built on a monumental scale with shiny gold and glass, the "time-eating" clock aspires to rival the heroic timepieces of the Baroque era. The art of time-keeping 2011-03-23T14:48:36Z

These sorts of cautionary tales are unavoidable on a show that aspires to authentically portray the experiences of young women who exist online. Where ‘Euphoria’ Is Surprisingly Conservative 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

“Tom always struck me as someone whose messages were totally suffused with the mixture of plainspokenness and deep insight we aspire to.” An Overlooked Novelist’s Unfinished Epic About the Lives of Forgotten Men 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

This ambition for art — to aspire to nature’s sincerity and unfussy dignity, for beauty to always follow function — suffuses the work of Jesse Ball. A Widower and His Son Find Kindness and Cruelty on the Road in ‘Census’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

In 1964, in one of her last known major interviews, she remarked that she aspired to be the “Jane Austen of south Alabama.” Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

The octet doesn’t aspire to much more than uptempo party music, but on that count it succeeds completely. Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z

He and his wife, Patsy, who was also an aspiring writer, were living in Paris. A Writer’s Controversial Past That Will Not Die 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Perhaps the target audience isn't aspiring businesspeople after all, but bleeding heart liberals like myself, who will watch through fingers, but watch nevertheless. If The Apprentice is capitalism, bring on the revolution 2010-10-07T13:30:00Z

When you’re a writer, it’s what Shaw says: All writing aspires to the quality of music. Don’t Talk Too Much: Tony Kushner on an Operatic ‘Angels in America’ 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Rattle's handling of the G minor Symphony No 40, K550 undoubtedly aspired to something larger than the sum of its parts, however. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Rattle – review 2013-01-30T18:44:44Z

Fox has raided innumerable archives for new material, but her meticulous scholarship never swamps her sensitivity to the constraints under which people worked as well as the visions to which they aspired. The Arts of Industry in the Age of?Enlightenment by Celina Fox | Book review 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z

She watched, loved and aspired to be in classic movie musicals — Frank Sinatra, in his “Pal Joey” and “Guys and Dolls” period, was her first crush — and she rarely saw kids popping up in them. Arts & Leisure: Elizabeth Olsen in ?Martha Marcy May Marlene? 2011-10-11T15:30:08Z

Lee Man-ki, director of Uway Institute of Educational Evolution, plans to increase the number of courses for aspiring college prep consultants by 50 percent. Box set: TV drama stirs debate over South Korea's cutthroat... 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z

Dej Loaf raps about “girls that need no makeup” and Leon Bridges applies his Sam Cooke fervor to thoughts like, “Don’t aspire to be what you see in the magazines.” The Playlist: Kanye West’s Breakout Star 070 Shake, and 10 More New Songs 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Newell and whoever sings backup practically shout the choruses, in the spirit of bands who aspire only to rooms much bigger than this one. Music Review: Power of La La La and Lures of Ooh, Ooh 2011-03-25T22:53:49Z

Laura and Paul are two young aspiring funeral directors; there's nothing weird about them, they just want to do the best job possible for the family of the bereaved and the deceased. Teen Undertaker 2010-08-20T05:45:00Z

The watchword of Trump-era protest aspires only to a stalemate: “Resist.” Perspective | It’s a brave new world. Why is our protest music stuck in the past? 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

At eighteen, he went to music school, in Philadelphia, where he aspired to become an opera singer. Serpentwithfeet‘s Sensual Ode to Drama 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

It is a film that is pregnant with ideas, and for aspiring to a cinema of ideas Kiarostami is to be thanked and admired. Film review: Certified Copy 2010-09-02T21:35:00Z

Like Lane and Cera, Sharp delivers a star turn that never aspires to be anything but true to the play. Three bright performances on Broadway: Nathan Lane, Michael Cera and Alex Sharp 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

Laura and Sam, aspiring models, are roommates who make each other cry a lot. TV review: Seven Days 2010-09-23T06:00:00Z

He plays an aspiring fighter named Adonis Johnson, the heretofore unknown son of the boxer Apollo Creed. Michael B. Jordan Gives Millennials Their ‘Rocky’ With ‘Creed’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

For aspiring communists, this is a good reminder that the only thing worse than the gulags is the meetings. The apocalypse, as imagined by Nora Roberts 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

With some exceptions, the crowd is mostly made up of lean, dreadlocked drum circle leaders and aspiring yogis with whimsically painted faces. 100 Percent Bananas? Meet the Fruitarians, who believe we can live on raw fruit alone 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

He turned his attention to pushing other media, namely paintings and drawings, the rarefied forms to which he had asked photography to aspire. Art Review: Alfred Stieglitz at the Metropolitan Museum - Review 2011-10-13T22:23:17Z

Those who aspire to curatorial positions and opinion leadership in today's art circles many not like it but it probably is a good thing. Kendrick Lamar Shakes Up the Pulitzer Game: Let’s Discuss 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

At one point in time I performed improv regularly and aspired to be a stand-up comic. So, college “p.c. culture” stifles comedy? Ever hear a comedian sh*t on the American Dream at a Wal-Mart shareholders meeting? 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

He grew up in New Jersey and aspired to be a television director, but auditioned for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, was accepted and eventually performed with that circus. 2010-01-15T03:58:00Z

ITV1's latest talent contest Show Me The Funny – Stand-Up Showdown offers some 10 aspiring comedians the chance to headline a nationwide tour, as well as their own DVD and a £100,000 prize. Alan Davies gives the lowdown on stand-up comedy 2011-07-15T23:06:15Z

He added, though, that while he aspires to be a history professor, he was "extremely conscious of the contraction of job opportunities" in publishing and academia. New York?s Literary Cubs 2011-11-30T23:21:40Z

“I was aspiring to meet someone who self-identified as a nice Jewish girl,” he said. Date Lab: They both like to tell stories in front of an audience. That’s a problem. 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

For those who aspire to be guardians and stewards of French savoir-faire, what better way to prove it? Woven Into the Fabrics of France 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

Another subplot details the unnerving interviewing process for aspiring Supreme Court clerks, an experience Mr. Lat endured. David Lat’s ‘Supreme Ambitions’ Is a Thriller for Lawyers 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

The idea that female stars and aspiring stars are required to accept the attentions, at the very least, of older male studio executives and producers, is as old as the Hollywood hills. Moguls and starlets: 100 years of Hollywood’s corrosive, systemic sexism 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

As a society we are less encouraging of girls who aspire to headline Glastonbury. Glastonbury is better than most – but it's still a sausage fest 2013-06-26T14:57:11Z

Her book unfolds the romance between Alice, an aspiring writer, and Ezra, a charming, geriatric novelist. One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Many see Barbie and Ken as images of idealized genders that transgender people might aspire to. Transgender people don’t all want to look like Barbie or Ken 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

It’s the complete opposite of traditional history, which aspired to objectivity and wide-angled perspectives, and tried not to judge the past retrospectively through contemporary mores and ideals. Books of The Times: Some Stuff She Knows About Hawaii 2011-04-17T20:53:54Z

Still, if there’s a reason to try and aspire to Coop’s possibly doomed way of thinking, it’s because he’s a tryer too. Larry David to Lisa Simpson – life lessons from TV's top role models 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

His birthplace, Urbino, was also that of Raphael, the beau ideal to whom all painters aspired. Federico Barocci: divinity in the details 2013-02-16T09:01:00Z

What the chefs are bringing to breakfast and brunch here is what they aspire to bring to any meal: fresh ingredients from the farmers’ markets and careful technique, for starters. Los Angeles: City of Breakfast 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

We cannot aspire to be Superman or Wolverine because they have Powers, even as we are increasingly too-aware of our own political and economic powerlessness. Keep your man-child antiheroes: The new crush-worthy guy is the quietly competent, grown-up man 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

It aspired to be in the same league as genuinely worthy films, and even more to do so in a genre — surveillance state thrillers — that aliens movies have rarely ventured into. "Captive State" is boring 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, an aspiring writer suffers “a prolonged psychic unraveling” when he accepts, finally, that he will never write like Martin Amis. Review: New Novels by Kris D’Agostino, Kathleen Rooney and Others 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

For many Americans, work has become an obsession, and long hours and endless striving something to aspire to. Young People Are Going to Save Us All From Office Life 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

That joining together of aspiring strenuousness with an ever-increasing allusiveness would define Carter's creative project for the next two decades. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z

It is a humility to which the rest of us should aspire. David Frum Rethinks Conservatism 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Perhaps even more significantly, Six's film is one of the few contenders aspiring to credibility. Is The Human Centipede the most horrific film ever? 2010-08-23T10:38:00Z

He had long been an aspiring filmmaker when he wrote and directed the 2001 blaxploitation spoof "Pootie Tang," which blew up in his face. Louis CK back for Season 4 of 'Louie' done his way 2014-05-01T15:26:49Z

Then an aspiring wildlife photographer, I assumed I’d have to travel to far-flung places in order to find subjects to photograph. Life Is Hazardous for Urban Raptors. These Women Offer Hope. 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

This is not just a collection of recipes or, as so many cookbooks these days are, a “branding opportunity” for an aspiring chef. ‘Victuals,’ reviewed: A love letter to Appalachia, with recipes 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

I aspire to die someday with dignity, though I'm not currently making a fantastic show of living with it. Would you help your good friend die? 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

But his words describe many among the hordes of fans, aspiring illustrators, collectors and designers whom Morgan Spurlock’s documentary “Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope” surveys with amused sympathy. Movie Review: ?Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan?s Hope,? by Morgan Spurlock 2012-04-12T21:47:24Z

There’s a doctor who tests his heart, an aspiring beard masseuse, a flight attendant, a Pilates instructor, and a woman who puts on a plastic glove and tells Nick to bend over. Nick Viall Is Back On The New Season of 'The Bachelor' 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

From its beginnings, the Flea was seen by aspiring actors as a place they could exercise their talents without needing to present a long résumé or a fancy degree at the door. The Flea Theater, Experimenting Again, Walks a New Tightrope 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

I speak about truth because it is what I aspire to. ArtsBeat: Mike Daisey Apologizes for Falsehoods in Monologue About Apple 2012-03-26T12:52:25Z

Growing up, the philanthropist and entrepreneur said, he aspired to tell stories that would get people interested in "the big issues of the world." UCLA gets $10 million for center to spur socially conscious projects 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

The theater was part of the Little Theatre Movement of the early 20th century, when small non-Equity playhouses featured experimental and innovative productions and provided an outlet for aspiring playwrights. Spending a city weekend in Fells Point, Baltimore 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

He was, after all, an aspiring actor and an occasional playwright. Exhibition Review: Morgan Library?s ?Charles Dickens at 200? - Review 2011-09-22T21:48:27Z

Its ethos of “middle-age contentment” and just liking what you like was now “something to aspire to.” I’m Not a Dad, but I Rock Like One 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Of course, the festival was full of aspiring hitmakers — far too many songwriters relentlessly repeating their hooks over dull march beats. At SXSW, Stepping Back to Allow Hopeful Artists to Step Up 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

“Dottie was the first person to run across and get him up and tell somebody to call 911. She just took over. I was so proud and impressed. I aspire to be someone like that.” Love American Style When a Polish Immigrant Matches With Miss Minnesota 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

She’s long been something of a cerebral tomboy, a young woman who, she thought, could not aspire to dashing men like him. Reader, She Didn’t Marry Him. Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Rodham’ Reimagines Hillary. 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

The rap artist Azealia Banks plays Coco, an aspiring hip-hop musician whose crew, the self-dubbed “Staten Island’s Finest,” is stalled with no record label interest. Review: In ‘Love Beats Rhymes,’ a Hip-Hop Artist Transformed by Poetry 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Many recruit singers from the scores of aspiring pop stars who send them demo recordings. O Say, Can You Sing at the Ballpark? It’s a Tough Song 2013-07-04T00:02:52Z

We are, after all, not exactly showered with intimate, aspiring films of urban life. Capsule reviews of new movies 2013-01-16T20:59:09Z

“I aspired upward towards the bourgeoisie,” she told me. Sharon Olds Sings the Body Electric 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

The Paperboy doesn't aspire to any great commentary on America: but it's a smart, entertaining thriller with an excellent performance from Kidman. Cannes 2012: The Paperboy – review 2012-05-24T10:49:18Z

Surf City bar and restaurant in Jersey City was reportedly hosting an open call looking for employees, aspiring actress Maya Murphy wrote on Facebook. Woman accuses New Jersey restaurant of using racist 'code' during hiring event, manager refutes claims 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

“Letters should aspire to the condition of talk,” Iris Murdoch once wrote. A Cool Head and Warm Affections in Lionel Trilling’s Letters 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

Caz, wearing a T-shirt, thick chain and baseball cap, is accompanied by a driver and a younger aspiring rapper, Rayza, who serves as a kind of assistant. They took Grandmaster Caz’s rhymes without giving him credit. Now, he’s getting revenge. 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Within the park, it aspires to be a kind of good new son-in-law, handsome yet accommodating. Natural History Museum’s Expansion: Part Dr. Seuss, Part Jurassic Park 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

You can aspire to be your own version of awesome, without having to listen to any advertiser whose shtick is all about heaping criticism. How The Media Makes Men Hate Their Bodies Too 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

We begin, as usual, with previews of fighting, screaming, temper tantrums, and one aspiring chef saying, "I like winning," as if that's news. "Hell's Kitchen" screams back to life 2010-06-02T19:01:00Z

The Arlington Arts Center can’t aspire to that sort of organic jumble, but its “King of the Forest: Adventures in Bioperversity” is agreeably unruly. In the galleries: Where the wild things are 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Art, he believed, had to aspire to something more permanent. Review | Want to go deep inside a great artist’s mind? MoMA’s Cézanne exhibition is the one to see this summer. 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

As Gentry, an aspiring dancer from Birmingham, Ala., who became a mother of two and a community garden organizer, put it, “We’ve evolved but we haven’t really changed.” The Original ‘Real World’ Cast Reunites, Older but Still Not Polite 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

“Here I Sit, Broken Hearted … a Bathroom Odyssey’ This hourlong exercise in puerile scatology seemingly aspires to emulate, oh, perhaps “The Book of Mormon” in its exaltation of the coarse and the crude. Theater Listings for July 1-7 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

She is Maxine, an aspiring movie star and the designated survivor of a rural killing spree. ‘Pearl’ Review: A Farmer’s Daughter Moves Up the Food Chain 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

We are never left in any doubt that his mobster is someone to whom we should all aspire. Live by Night: how the gangster film went from top of the world to sleeping with the fishes 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

On the one hand, it’s all about silly rules on a page, rules that ought to be bent – Anna is an aspiring writer, hardly a terrorist. Gaga in Love With Like Crazy 2011-10-27T22:58:38Z

Johnny Maddox, an aspiring pianist who had been a clerk in the store, cut Dot’s first single, “Crazy Bone Rag.” Randy Wood, Founder of Dot Records, Dies at 94 2011-04-15T01:17:54Z

“Jane the Virgin” on CW centers on a young woman who, besides being a virgin, is a waitress and aspiring writer who is working for a teaching degree. ‘Jane the Virgin’ on CW and ‘Cristela’ on ABC 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

The eponymous characters are, as the trailer explains, a population of squat beings that all aspire “to serve the most despicable master.” Watch the Trailer for 'Minions' 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

When the pandemic prevented a young aspiring cartoonist from attending art camp last summer, she was devastated. 6 ways to help kids regain a sense of purpose 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z

And falling down stairs on buses, is probably not what he aspires to. How "Endeavour" dries out the heroic drunk detective myth 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z

In exchange for their lives, the fae are expected to refrain from flying or aspiring to be on equal social footing with humans. "Carnival Row": Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne's fairy tale is fractured by competing narratives 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday, Johnny Wright will begin accepting video auditions worldwide from aspiring musicians, ages 16 to 30. Backstreet Boys manager seeks new young talent via web audition 2010-12-09T01:12:00Z

Born and raised a Catholic, when Jamie Manson was a teenager, she aspired to be a priest — that is, until she learned the Catholic Church doesn't ordain women. On abortion, "religious leaders should be asking for your forgiveness" — not the other way around 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

On Jan. 1, Missouri became the first to regulate the names of aspiring meat alternatives, restricting the word “meat” to only products harvested from livestock. How meat producers are trying to avoid becoming like dairy farmers competing with nut ‘milks’ 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Suavely impersonated by George Sanders, DeWitt is a snake-like charmer who holds court at fashionable parties, to which he squires seductive aspiring performers: Marilyn Monroe, no less, played his squeeze. Michael Billington on celebrity status 2010-07-07T21:01:00Z

The woman, who met Weinstein while she was an aspiring actress, testified Monday that she tried to make Weinstein “my pseudo father” after a rough upbringing. Key Weinstein accuser, driven to tears, is due back on stand 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

He estimates that “maybe only half” of the students he encounters aspire to a career in restaurant kitchens, and he anticipates more curriculum changes in the next five to 10 years to reflect that. Lights! Camera! Culinary School Will Teach Instagram Skills 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

That is high praise indeed, given that this is a film aspiring to match the achievement of “27 Dresses,” “When in Rome” and “Leap Year.” | 'No Strings Attached': Firmly Committed to Casual 2011-01-20T14:18:23Z

“That was the kind of thing I aspired to create,” Mr. Gelb said. How a Somber Symphony Sold More Than a Million Records 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

A similar all-embracing metamorphosis is obviously what’s being aspired to in the latest translation of this watershed work, probably the greatest of all American operas. | 'The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess': Bess Claims Top Billing in New Version of Gershwins? Classic 2011-09-01T13:17:56Z

“Neither one of those things are what I’m aspiring as a woman to resemble.” Skin Deep: Brazilian Bikini Wax? In a New Trend in Hair Removal, Women Prefer the Natural Look 2014-01-29T20:42:14Z

She started out aspiring to be an actress, and she eventually accumulated a handful of credits in movies, several of them based on her mother’s books. Carol Higgins Clark, Mystery Writer, Is Dead at 66 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

By the time of the filming of “Heartworn Highways,” their house had become a salon for established and aspiring musicians: both Guy and Susanna were considered mentors to other artists. Postscript: Guy Clark, 1941-2016 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

She quickly followed up with “From Twinkle, with Love,” a comedic love triangle about an aspiring filmmaker. Library of Congress National Book Festival: Teen Stage schedule 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

The other day, De Salvo was one of a few dozen influential women asked to dole out advice to aspiring art professionals. The Next Steps for the Brooklyn Museum 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

It’s the kind of thing that an aspiring strongman like Trump himself would never say—he just blusters, pretending, or maybe even believing, that the things he says are the real facts, the only facts. The Kind of Comedy That Can Hurt Trump 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Interwoven is Payne's story, that of the aspiring poet who became a novelist, all the while prone to his own toxic mix of alcohol and rage. David Payne's 'Barefoot to Avalon' avoids easy answers in a tale of two brothers 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

Early on, Lewis aspired to be a minister; as a child, he preached to a captive audience of the family’s chickens. Jon Meacham on John Lewis, the Legend and the Man 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

But up and down those streets, inside those homes, the families that live there today, like the families of decades past, still aspire and work and argue and celebrate. ‘Kind of Kin’: lines that divide a small Oklahoma town 2013-02-13T22:31:22Z

My friend had simply aspired to be psychedelic. Acid redux: My long, strange, cancer-fighting trip back to tripping 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

The Newman-Bice-Moore-Tiffany Act to set minimum engagement ring sizes for aspiring second husbands. Style Invitational Week 1423: Muddled heads — anagram a headline 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

In 2007, Mr. Maiden appeared on “I’m from Rolling Stone,” an MTV reality series in which aspiring journalists competed for a job at the music magazine. The Guy Who Turned Cuomo’s Inspiring Words into a Video 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

An aspiring comedian who dreams of being on “Saturday Night Live,” Hudi tends to laugh off the indignities he suffers because of his size and awkwardness. Body Language in Middle Grade Lit 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Today, this tiny area continues to attract aspiring homeowners looking for historic fixer-uppers and a sense of community. Surfacing: Atwater Village, Los Angeles 2012-06-01T18:10:06Z

There's even a course to teach aspiring models how to strut and pose with cars at auto shows. A Look Under The Hood 2010-07-29T22:00:00Z

What also registers quite wittily in this production is that the exaggerated shape of its title character was exactly what fashionable European women once aspired to in their dress. Review: ‘Venus’ Recalls a Woman’s Fortune, and Her Ruin 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Record producer Reid, who helped launch the careers of stars like Usher and Pink, picked Rene as one of the aspiring stars he will mentor for "X Factor." Chris Rene will emerge a star, says "X Factor" judge 2011-10-20T21:06:03Z

As James, Sutherland admirably plays against type in an unshowy role as a mousy, unappreciated man - he's even lost his teeth - who aspires to more in life. Starry cast is smooth in 'Championship Season' 2011-03-07T03:11:09Z

The aspiring dancers lined up Tuesday on a Manhattan street outside Radio City Music Hall for the open audition. Dancers audition to appear with Rockettes in NYC 2013-04-30T17:24:09Z

Now in the aspiring writer’s head was a new line from Kafka: I am only accepting this to keep you from thinking you’ve omitted anything. A Writer’s Justification 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

They appreciated the gravity that faces other than the usual European stock company can lend a film that aspires to transport young minds. "Prince of Persia" royally blows it 2010-05-28T00:20:00Z

As befits a book by an octogenarian describing “sexcapades” and “shenanigans,” this book aspires to disingenuous innocence. Books of The Times: Anne Sebba on Duchess of Windsor, Scotty Bowers on Himself 2012-02-05T22:22:14Z

Organization Man aspired to join a large corporation and become a pillar of his community. The Forces That Are Killing the American Dream 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

It is the first multiarts appreciation of Beckett, Mr. Doran said, and the first to aspire to be an annual event. Critic’s Notebook: Happy Days Beckett Festival Arrives in Northern Ireland 2012-08-27T21:49:32Z

A major voice against the Vietnam war, Bly is also known for being one of the leaders of "the expressive men's movement", which aspires to reconnect men with their masculinity. Robert Bly to receive Poetry Society of America's Frost Medal 2013-02-14T17:49:35Z

“That, to this day, is what my work aspires to be,” he writes. Mark Morris: Loves Dance, Hates Brussels 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

I always aspired to have a piece of that. What the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Wears Offscreen 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

“On an intellectual level it has a very moral and powerful point of view,” he said of that 1974 film, speaking in the reverent tone that aspiring musical theater composers use when they talk about . New Plays Like ?The Little One? Put Scary Onstage 2010-06-26T02:39:00Z

It’s possible she would have matured into the international humanitarian she aspired to be, doting on her sons and grandchildren, still the most glamorous member of the royal family. Diana and the media: She used them, and they used her. Until the day she died. 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

They aspired to create not just a family but a haven, a dream all the more poignant given their histories. Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

His daughter is engaged to a failed businessman and aspires to open a restaurant on her father's dime. Comedy on Mexico income gap a big screen hit 2013-04-05T15:14:08Z

As a traditional comic book movie — which this does not aspire to be — "Joker" would be a failure. The problematic "Joker" 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

But some striking scenes notwithstanding, this movie doesn’t achieve the delirium it aspires to. Review: ‘9 Fingers,’ a Gangster Tale, Is Missing More Than a Digit 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Prosecutors say Alex Da Silva gave dance lessons at salsa clubs where he met aspiring dancers he assaulted. TV show choreographer gets 10 years for rape 2012-01-27T22:20:15Z

Anonymous Anonymous: Your mom, actually, is not generous, not by any definition I’d aspire to. Carolyn Hax: It’s better to give than to receive thoughtless gifts 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

The middle class is the closest thing to a perfect balance — the financial comfort to aspire to minimum of a comfortable life and not have pressure of upper class. "Mothering Sunday" director on challenging politics through intimacy: "Nudity levels out classes" 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

He first aspired to be an opera singer. Charles S. Dubin, Television Director, Is Dead at 92 2011-09-10T00:48:55Z

And now meet Andrew Young, the "little known but loyal aide" aspiring now to disloyalty and great renown through the publication of his tell-all book, "The Politician." 2010-01-30T13:30:00Z

You also aspire to “seeking faith with doubt”—so how does the faith part work? Instead of Sobbing, You Write Sentences: An Interview with Charles D'Ambrosio 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

With "Ad Astra per Aspera" it aspires to be bolder and wiser while shielding itself somewhat from the accusations "Discovery" sustains for supposedly making its social justice themes text as opposed to subtext. How "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" uses Rebecca Romijn's Number One to place prejudice on trial 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

A grieving waitress and aspiring author starts dating a renowned, best-selling author after he dines at her restaurant with his kids one night, but is he really right for her in the end? Review | The best books to beat this year’s special brand of Valentine’s Day blues 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

Yet it also squanders the formidable presence of Gary Oldman in just a few scenes as the big-city mobster who Jack aspires to be like one day. Review: `Lawless' a visceral, fitful fever dream 2012-08-28T22:50:58Z

Circus rolling through Kansas in 1905, Oscar aspires to merge the scientific acumen of Thomas Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park, with the renowned legerdemain of Harry Houdini. Oz the Great and Powerful: Mostly, It’s Wicked Bad 2013-03-06T16:10:03Z

His wife of 26 years, Rita Wilson, an actress and aspiring singer, recently wrapped up a two-week engagement performing at the Hotel Carlyle. The evolution of Tom Hanks

On the other hand, it "sometimes veers perilously close to committing the very sins it aspires to criticize. The movie is drenched in gay panic." 'Get Hard': Kevin Hart prison comedy has a hard time with critics 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Rivkin has organized meetings with dozens of aspiring artists, directors and writers from the suburbs with the actress and director Jody Foster and Allen. | Paris à la Hollywood 2012-09-28T22:41:01Z

“It is not incumbent to erase the particular or whitewash difference in order to recognize the possibility of, and aspire to, the universal.” How Moving to France and Having Children Led a Black American to Rethink Race 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

They serve as role models for this generation's hottest models on the runway — and aspiring models. The 12 biggest bombshells from Apple’s “The Super Models” docuseries 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z

In 1998, when he was an aspiring concert promoter in Jerusalem, he once booked the Iranian American house duo Deep Dish to play a club there. With EDM now mainstream, Hollywood club Sound finds niche underground 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

It stars Ashleigh Murray as an aspiring fashion designer whose friends share their own big dreams. New series ‘Nancy Drew, ‘Batwoman’ join CW’s fall schedule 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

It might have been instructive for aspiring comedians had Seinfeld illustrated how he took an idea and worked it until it was where he wanted it to be. Review | Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Is This Anything?’ charts his life as a comedian, one bit at a time 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

Like “More Life,” it aspires to cool uniformity, presumably in hopes that brain-chilled streamers won’t hear any weird noises and decide to change the proverbial channel. Review | Drake is making background music, and it’s burying us alive 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

My journey is not easy to explain: from young aspiring actress to the depths of addiction, and then from junkie to yogi. Mirror: Teacher: Experience Needed 2011-03-11T17:26:35Z

She moves to Los Angeles, where she hopes to build secondary sources of revenue by writing songs for aspiring artists and recording for commercials. ‘Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl’ Review: A Star Who Fell to Earth 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

I sort of aspire to the same life older conductors have, of continuing to be challenged by classical repertoire and new music. ‘2666,’ a Most Difficult Novel, Takes the Stage 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

An aspiring tech town must get it right. What's at the Detroit Auto Show 2012-01-11T21:20:04Z

I’m starting to think that all of the greatest music aspires to something similar. Perspective | Everything you’ve been told about ‘dad rock’ is a lie 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

All three were aspiring actresses and were in their early 20s when they say they were assaulted. At Harvey Weinstein’s trial, a big role for other accusers 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

It’s depressing anyway that the movie shaped real, tragic events into a moralising narrative designed to deter women from aspiring to freedoms that are commonplace for men. Are you a female movie character? Are you promiscuous? Things won’t end well for you … 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

When she arrived in New York with Mailer, he presented Barbara to his friends and family as an aspiring writer. Norris Church Mailer obituary 2010-12-07T18:30:00Z

Does she aspire to anything outside of her dealings with males? Review: In ‘Ma Ma,’ Penélope Cruz as a Cancer Patient Finding Love 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

The producers were up late Monday night filming Mr. Johnston, who is a guest star in a music video by the aspiring pop singer Brittani Senser. Levi Johnston Pitches Reality Show 2010-08-10T14:55:00Z

I was an aspiring freelance journalist, there for the first time, hoping that a story about the place might inspire an editor to buy my first article. Experience: I had a date with a serial killer 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Still they arrive, the cohorts of aspiring performers, looking for new lives of wealth and stardom in a world that can no longer offer either. How the internet killed porn 2012-06-05T19:00:01Z

We are a niche that it seems shouldn’t exist in a country that aspires to be postracial. Personal Journeys: Traveling While Black 2014-01-03T19:31:34Z

He added that he met her the day she moved to L.A., when she came to a party at his house as an aspiring actor. Stars reading about our stars: Sterling K. Brown, Darren Criss and others to perform 'In the Cosmos' 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

Imperfect though we may be, what makes us strong, and special, is that we’ve always aspired to reach those ideals. With a Possible Presidential Bid in 2020, Kamala Harris Talks About Her New Book 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

How does this sit with the country's attempts to rebrand itself as an aspiring superpower? Much ado about Delhi: RSC's Indian Shakespeare 2012-08-01T07:01:00Z

As a child, I aspired to be one of those campground hosts, living a perpetual getaway existence in an Airstream trailer surrounded by potted geraniums and an ever-changing array of seasonal neighbors. My generation, living on the road 2014-04-20T23:59:00Z

There's also aspiring mermaids, who struggle to plant their foot in the industry and, instead, fuel their passion via small gigs that offer measly compensation. "There's serious athleticism" to being a professional mermaid 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

The demographic "bubble" of college age kids peaked in 2008-09, but more kids are applying, especially those in the first generation of their families to aspire to higher education. Princeton Review college guru visits Seattle 2010-10-22T21:09:00Z

Bean soon discovers that Ivy aspires to be a witch and is working on spells. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 24-30 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The shy, virginal Jake, an aspiring filmmaker who idolizes Werner Herzog, mostly hides behind a camcorder that he uses to tape interviews for a “movie” that we see at the end of the film. Movie Review: ‘Peace, Love & Misunderstanding,’ Starring Jane Fonda 2012-06-07T22:47:39Z

But it's not really for scientists, other than aspiring entomologists. Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O Wilson – review 2013-06-16T09:30:01Z

In “Idiot Wind,” Kaldheim, now 70, recounts those travels as well as his time as a teenage seminary student and his years as an editor and aspiring writer before he left New York. In ‘Idiot Wind,’ a Lost Soul Finds His Way Home 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z

These revelations of vulnerability give the book its heart and are likely to expand its readership beyond aspiring journalists. Young Newshound Who Inspired ‘Home Before Dark’ Investigates Herself 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lars’s tenacious, stay-relevant strategies over the years serve as a lesson to aspiring designers of any race, who can no longer rely on wholesale orders from the ever shrinking department store sector. Byron Lars Is Still Here 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

These little videos didn’t aspire to the craft of TV or movies. Vine and the New Gatekeepers of Self-Expression 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

On the surface, "Obvious Child" is about a few weeks in the life of aspiring stand-up comic Donna Stern. 'Obvious Child' teases the comedy out of the human condition 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Marcato, 41, an aspiring filmmaker, takes his audience through an original script, uniquely crafted for each show. Business Is Boo-ing! The World of Extreme Haunts 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

One of the unique elements of Lizzo’s show is how seriously it takes both the talents and struggles of its aspiring “Big Grrrls.” Lizzo’s ‘Big Grrrls’ Asks Big Questions 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

The performer hadn't aspired to be a Playboy model. Playboy goes retro, slashes price to 60 cents 2011-09-12T14:12:00Z

Most rappers charged in recent cases have been amateur performers who aspire to fame, even though gangsta rap is no longer as popular as it was, having been supplanted by more mainstream party music. Using Rap Lyrics as Damning Evidence Stirs Legal Debate 2014-03-26T23:01:35Z

I think he aspires to happiness, and married life seems to him a place where happiness can possibly exist. This Week in Fiction: Akhil Sharma on the Complicating Forces of Shame 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

“Vinyl” aspires to beauty and nuance, but routinely falls back on bombast. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1, Episode 5: Hannibal’s Anagrams 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hallberg’s impeccably rehearsed remarks seemed geared toward aspiring ballet stars, as he shared anecdotes from his career and lavished praise on his colleagues. Review: ‘David Hallberg Presents: Legacy’ at the Koch Theater 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

Now, Taylor-Ann is studying communications at the University of Arizona, while younger daughter Hayley, 17, is an aspiring actress and a model for the fashion line Torrid. 2010-01-21T01:27:00Z

“Jake Squared” aspires to the tradition of “8 ½” and “Synecdoche, New York,” phantasmagorical portraits of artists seeking perspective on their lives. ‘Jake Squared,’ a Midlife-Crisis Romantic Comedy 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

While some were content with supporting roles, others aspired to solo stardom. Backup singers take center stage in new documentary film 2013-06-14T19:30:42Z

His colleagues were mostly aspiring London actors who worked odd jobs to pay the rent and got calls from Central Casting to head out to Elstree and get fitted for stormtrooper uniforms and prosthetic heads. Behind the scenes on “Star Wars”: The strange but mostly true stories of “Elstree 1976″ 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

What it doesn't yet offer – in contrast to, say, Ballet Black, another small, aspiring classical ensemble – is a fierce sense of pitch, a mission statement. New English Ballet Theatre – review 2012-07-05T17:30:01Z

I remember thinking how beautiful and perfect they looked, exactly what I aspired to be. Horror stories of that holiday favorite "The Nutcracker" 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z

When Mr. Chu made his online pitch, the film seemed a godsend for Asian actors, aspiring or otherwise. ‘Crazy Rich Asians’: Why Did It Take So Long to See a Cast Like This? 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

My cameras were important to me because I aspired to be a photographer – I still do. 'I cried all night': homeless women on their first night on the streets 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

Too bad it didn’t aspire to be more; still, it sounds great. Review: In ‘Lonesome Traveler,’ a Folk Music Journey Unfolds 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

You always wanted to aspire and reach up to the standards of greatness established by such people. Style icon André Leon Talley on navigating the fashion world: “My armor is my self-invention” 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

“I think probably because she was a downtrodden, poor little soul. I think people were sorry for Hilda. “She went plodding away, doing her best all the time, always aspiring to better things. Jean Alexander, who played Coronation Street's Hilda Ogden, dies aged 90 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Ricky Drummond is effortlessly earnest as our meek hero, Melvin, an aspiring earth scientist who gets dropped into a vat of contaminated goo and emerges as a grotesque creature with superhuman strength. Review | Rorschach Theatre’s ‘Toxic Avenger’ musical oozes B-movie camp 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

The play introduces us to an evening class that is as much a spot for lonely-hearts as it is for aspiring hoofers. Theater Review: ‘Swing & Beowulf,’ at the Irish Arts Center 2014-05-05T21:12:47Z

But they can also be sharp, lucid, funny, tender, intimate, gossipy, jubilant and absolutely honest about the two aspiring authors’ gigantic ambitions. Books of The Times: ?Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters? 2010-07-19T22:25:00Z

When you look at “Otello” and “Aida,” someone is aspiring to be the leader or the princess of Ethiopia, I never had a problem with it. ‘No path is easy’: Black opera singers detail struggles 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Yes, this is the part where I lament the death of the mid-tier, mid-budget title that aspires to be little more than a movie-star delivery mechanism, a movie pretty much like “Palm Springs.” Movies Survived 2020. The Oscars Diversified. There’s More to Do. 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

But it was the Velvet Underground of publications: everyone who read it, it seemed, was a journalist or a member of the elites it chronicled — or, at least, aspired toward one or the other. Peter W. Kaplan, A Consummate Editor’s Editor 2013-11-30T20:33:25Z

He also "adores cocktail bars" and is an aspiring menswear designer. Date Lab: They share a passion for fashion 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

But it is a fact that there are more aspiring designers than ever before. Fashion Asks: Who Deserves Success? 2010-06-09T18:10:00Z

That characteristic — that a wine, restaurant or bar is uniquely Australian — is perhaps the most important quality to which the country’s chefs and producers might aspire. Looking Toward a New Era of Australian Cuisine 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

If you aspired to high office in the 20th and early 21st centuries, this was sound advice: Get thee to a prosecutor’s office. How Tough-on-Crime Prosecutors Contribute to Mass Incarceration 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Craft was an aspiring conductor when in 1948 he met Stravinsky, often regarded as the pre-eminent classical composer of the 20th century. Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

Neshat plays an aspiring engineer whose life becomes ever more circumscribed. Marjan Neshat on Her ‘Kind of Miraculous Season’ Onstage 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

What do you want aspiring chefs and foodies and weekend culinary warriors to take away from the cuisine? How to cook Native American cuisine at home with chef Freddie Bitsoie 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z

And scuba training agencies are providing e-learning instruction for aspiring to advanced divers. How the scuba community is navigating the pandemic’s uncharted waters 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Talent, as many a scholar with a book manuscript in their top drawer or aspiring actress pulling pints knows, is certainly not a guarantee for success. Top of the dross: being the worst in the world takes skill 2011-03-21T17:23:01Z

More than a decade after the boxes were designed, nostalgia prompted León to ask on Twitter about the young models so many Black girls aspired to be. What happened to perm box girls? They’re wearing their natural hair. 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

Fortunately, avalanche safety classes and online programs exist to teach aspiring backcountry riders how to recognize safety hazards and make informed decisions. So, you want to be a backcountry skier? 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Many chefs aspire to open their own restaurants. Mena, From Victoria Blamey, Opens in TriBeCa 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

Not that she doesn’t aspire to the job. Taylor Schilling Gets Red-Carpet Tips From Thakoon Panichgul 2013-12-31T20:40:45Z

Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was able to prey on aspiring actresses because he had so much control. Perspective | What Meryl Streep and ‘The Post’ can teach us about the power of being a female boss 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z

It was obviously not my place to aspire to be one of them. Books of The Times: ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-02T18:37:46Z

And Lovely is an aspiring actress who could help Jivan, but only at great personal cost. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

Plus it’s an exploration of the nature and purpose of storytelling itself; our heroine, Jane, is an aspiring writer, and different episodes toy with different genres or motifs. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Jane the Virgin’ and ‘30 for 30’ 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

The book will become a bible for aspiring chefs and, given the near impossibility of gaining a reservation, the best way to experience Mr Dabbous’s cuisine. Time to get serious 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Most aspiring opera singers in their mid-20s are still figuring out their voices and learning technique. Music Review: Winners of Grand Finals of Metropolitan Opera Auditions 2014-03-31T21:47:28Z

I asked whether that would be enough, if all the kids were aspiring to own fast cars and, um, travel in helicopters. Will.i.am arrives by helicopter for flying visit to climate debate 2012-05-24T10:49:59Z

“The writers aspired to create the same kind of artistic illumination as those they wrote about.” David Dalton, Rock Writer Who Lived the Scene, Dies at 80 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

Sebald leaves Walser here in a helium balloon, "over a sleeping nocturnal Germany… in a higher, freer realm" – that same kind of transforming condition to which his own writing so stubbornly aspired. A Place in the Country by WG Sebald – review 2013-04-27T14:00:01Z

The channel is launching a competition for aspiring new crimewriters, who can win a holiday in Sweden, home of the most miserable of all the gloomy detectives, Wallander. Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie lead list of UK's top-earning crimewriters 2011-04-10T19:29:39Z

For Foster, that meant aspiring to substantive work and a semblance of normalcy, despite the coddling, ma­nipu­la­tion and exploitation — her word — that she endured. How Jodie Foster stays one of the most ‘real’ stars in Hollywood 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Hogan was an aspiring singer herself working part-time at a record company and the two hit it off. A sense of community for Neko Case 2013-09-04T13:31:39Z

Bands playing rushed, tiny club showcases this year can aspire to an appearance like CMJ’s biggest show: the indie-rock triple bill of Phoenix, Dirty Projectors and Wavves at Madison Square Garden. | Oct. 17 ? 23 2010-10-15T16:51:00Z

Rice, the former aspiring pop star that he was, has always excelled in down-to-earth lyrics that make outsize characters thoroughly relatable. Why ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ the Album Has Always Rocked 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

Praising Louix XIV in Roi Soleil guise, the opera inveighs, none too subtly, against those who would aspire to equal him. Phaëton – review 2013-03-10T17:47:39Z

We see a lot of aspiring musicians in the audience. They’re just a typical Michael Jackson-, Hendrix-, AC/DC-covering cello duo 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

What book do you find most useful to help teach aspiring writers? By the Book : John Irving: By the Book 2012-06-07T15:45:22Z

After all, she had come to the United States to learn English, a prerequisite to work in the top kitchens she aspired to join. When a girl meets a guy and they make pizza pie, that’s amore 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

Obviously any person, regardless of gender, who aspires to some form of urbanity will lament aspects of new parenthood, which ushers in a regime of cloying songs, egregiously-colored plastics and inane books. “If your child needs socking, sock him!”: How reading about pregnancy almost ruined me 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

The aspiring model, who was on the E! Orlando Bloom burglar re-arrested over drug charge 2010-12-01T20:34:00Z

The comedy-drama series follows a group of waiters — mostly aspiring actors or writers — working for a catering company in metropolitan Los Angeles. Zoë Chao Identified With ‘Party Down’ a Little Too Well for a While 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

Young Jess, an aspiring soccer star, grows up in a middle-class Indian neighborhood of London where she is expected to become a wife and mother like her mom. London Theater Journal: Make 'Em Dream 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

The event, formerly known as the Grants Banquet, celebrated some of the organizations with aspiring artists, filmmakers and storytellers. Golden Globe group gives $5.1 million in grants 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

We therefore needn't aspire to enter their world. Jennifer Aniston's success rests on our thinking of her as a loser | David Cox 2010-03-22T10:45:00Z

An aspiring clarinetist, he stumbled into a career managing orchestras after failing to win auditions for professional ensembles and enrolling in law school. An Orchestra Veteran on Music’s Post-Pandemic Future 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

Troy Carter, founder of the artist services company Q&A, said in a telephone interview that he recalled meeting Gamble in their native Philadelphia when Carter was a 17-year-old aspiring rapper. 50 Years Later, Gamble and Huff’s Philly Sound Stirs the Soul 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

They include Misty Copeland, the American Ballet Theater principal, as an aspiring dancer, who lives with her aspiring dancer boyfriend, played by the A.B.T. soloist Calvin Royal III, and pole dances to make ends meet. The Pirelli Calendar Finally Makes Women Subjects Instead of Objects 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Actor Stephen Dorff blurs the line between fact and fiction, playing the role of an aspiring country singer infiltrating real-world Nashville and winning over—while simultaneously duping—Music City legends like Kris Kristofferson. These are TIME's Most Anticipated Movies of 2017 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

This is the kind of thing aspiring singers are not typically prepared for in music schools. A New Work by John Luther Adams Debuts at Lincoln Center 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

Farcical, tongue-in-cheek and often just plain silly, “The Gentleman” pays homage to late Victorian melodrama and in its tone aspires to a P.G. ‘The Gentleman’: a Wodehouse wanna-be that (kind of) does 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

Like “The Hills” and “The City,” it presents a group of 20-something friends struggling toward urbanity: a blogger, an aspiring lawyer, a bride to be and so on. | 'Jersey Couture': On Oxygen, Picking Party Dresses in New Jersey 2010-05-31T23:44:00Z

As moody and messy as its eponym, “Baby Ruby” aspires to demonstrate how postpartum psychosis can feel like a horror movie. ‘Baby Ruby’ Review: Enfant Terrible 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

A young, aspiring actor, alone in a hotel room with a older person who piles on the praise — and maybe some alcohol. Asia Argento, sexual assault accuser and accused: One #MeToo story doesn’t cancel out the other 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

After a decade of hustling, first in development at Charlize Theron’s female-centric production company and then as an ­aspiring screenwriter, she was beginning to think, “Maybe this isn’t what I’m supposed to do.” How a writer defied ‘one in a million’ odds to get her first movie made by Steven Spielberg 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

I think that made it something that was not only something to which I aspired but also attainable for me. Ketanji Brown Jackson on being a ‘first’ and why she loves ‘Survivor’ 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

“I related and aspired to that on some level.” Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

But it also aspires to be something more. ‘To the Bright Edge of the World’: A terrific tale of Alaskan adventure 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

He once aspired to become a journalist in the Woodward/Bernstein mold. How America’s most famous farmer can appeal to left, right and center 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

“The decorator people most aspire to is Thomas Jefferson,” says Michael S. Smith, the Los-Angeles based designer who decorates for the Obamas. The reign of beige: In a political town, design stays neutral 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Each brother aspires to complete the entire cycle. Two Brothers, Both August Wilson Stalwarts, Play the Same Role on Opposite Coasts 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

And Cuban briefly had his own reality show, called The Benefactor, in which 16 aspiring entrepreneurs competed for a $1 million prize from the Dallas owner. The Mavs' Big Winner: Mark Cuban's New Image 2011-06-17T09:15:00Z

And though she begins reluctantly, Lucy’s mother turns out to be a corn country Scheherazade, with successive stories of local women who aspired above their station and usually came to bad ends. ‘Lucy Barton’ Review: Laura Linney Finds Her Perfect Match 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

Many South Korean government bodies have launched projects to incubate and groom aspiring oegugin influencers, specifically to promote tourism and enhance cultural knowledge about the country. "Oegugin" influencers are rising to stardom in Korea. But there's a dark side to pop-nationalism 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

If you know a male journalist — present, former or aspiring — give him this novel. Review | A corrupt, cynical world as only David Mamet could imagine it 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

Chopra aspires to create something on par with the best Indian dining in Washington. At Bombay Velvet in Reston, fine aspirations with an uneven start 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

In the case of that last pairing, history has wrought an enormous transformation since the Disraelis’ day, allowing the wife to aspire to the same supreme position her husband once commanded. Secrets of a power marriage: The Disraelis were the Clintons of their time 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Dunning, 40, was an aspiring actress who met Weinstein while waiting tables at a trendy lounge. Is Harvey Weinstein a rapist? As trial concludes, jury will be faced with a complicated case and a heavy task. 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

Some aspiring hip-hop producer needs to sample the plucked strings from the intro. LeRoy Bell in Elton John video from 1979 2011-10-10T16:43:08Z

Eileen is a charming innocent who wants to be an actress; Ruth is an aspiring writer who is more savvy and hard-boiled and baffled by her younger sister’s ability to attract attention. Donald Saddler, Dancer, and a Choreographer on Broadway, Dies at 96 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

Don't Fall in Love is even better, a lovelorn shuffle that makes indie seem less like a joke and more like something you'd aspire to. New band of the day ? No 832: Still Corners 2010-07-23T15:24:00Z

"It's who we mentally aspire to be, talking and wrestling with the things we actually deal with." 'End of the Tour' trailer: Jason Segel takes on David Foster Wallace 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

It also aspires a value system, the way music. Chef Marcus Samuelsson: "Look out for the Black-owned restaurants … because we need you right now" 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

Ms. Krall met Mr. Short more than two decades ago, while still an aspiring musician. Diana Krall on Handling Grief, and ‘Finding Romance in Everything’ 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

For those at the helm, the philanthropic plutocrats and aspiring “change agents” who believe they are helping but are actually making things worse, it’s time for a reckoning with their role in this spiraling dilemma. Meet the ‘Change Agents’ Who Are Enabling Inequality 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

After a nationwide search 20 aspiring dancers perform in different styles, vying for viewers’ votes. So You Think You Can Judge Dance 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z

I continue to work with lots of aspiring baseball players through our Dixie Youth program. After ‘Moneyball,’ Tabitha Soren kept shooting. The results are stunning. 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

The tights are not made for Lanika and other black girls aspiring to become ballerinas. Viola Davis made Emmys history and spoke truth to power in her speech 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Larson had appeared in a few movies and was aspiring to act in serious dramatic roles on Broadway when he was cast in “Adventures of Superman,” which premiered in 1952. Jack Larson, who played Jimmy Olsen in TV’s ‘Superman’ series, dies at 87 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

"This is where we aspire to be one day." Students replace models as Oscar trophy carriers 2013-02-21T17:36:12Z

This black comedy stars Robert De Niro as Rupert Pupkin, an aspiring, unsuccessful standup comedian and fantasist. The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

Established and aspiring choreographers working along the theatrical dance spectrum converge on Cielo’s dance floor to test out ideas in front of a rowdy, supportive crowd. Dance Listings for May 20-26 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

This is solid advice for aspiring artists — some of the only instances of it in the show. Can Jeff Koons Teach Me to Paint? 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z

Masha’s fate is currently unknown; our recent efforts to contact her have not been successful, but her Facebook page suggests she is still an aspiring model. Op-Docs: Teenage Girls Audition to Be Models in Siberia 2012-09-12T18:50:33Z

It's billed as a musical adventure comedy about an orphan girl who aspires to become a dancer. Box Office disaster: Lackluster releases, Mayweather-McGregor, Hurricane Harvey create slowest weekend in over 15 years 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

But these books are greater than anything I could ever aspire to create. What's on Stephenie Meyer's ideal bookshelf? The works that made the artists 2012-11-25T00:05:41Z

All the while, she kept music at arm’s length, claiming that she preferred textile design to the trap-lined rat race of being an aspiring rapper. Kilo Kish States Her Name 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

“In San Francisco, it’s a much more intellectual city where people are focused on their career and what they’re aspiring for,” Bradford said. Sexless in Silicon Valley: why nobody's getting laid in America's tech hub 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

This book never aspires to be pious or politically correct. Books of The Times: ?Hope: A Tragedy? by Shalom Auslander - Review 2012-01-17T23:18:49Z

But the earlier pioneers showed that immersive art could be mind-blowing and, at the same time, strive to say something about the human condition — that thing we expect art to aspire to. Paranormal Play in Denver From Meow Wolf 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Instead, it can be a confrontation with how little we know about ourselves and how we might aspire to be sure of even less. What does OKCupid want? 2013-02-16T17:00:00Z

Several Lisbon companies offer three- to four-hour tours that introduce aspiring foodies to Portuguese culture while filling your stomach at the same time. A food-lover’s tour of salty Lisbon, Portugal 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

No matter the poster or the politics, food shines bright as something that all of us can aspire to, if only we curate our lives and our diets carefully enough. Click plate: how Instagram is changing the way we eat 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

It is no revelation that teenagers constantly bombarded by images of a rich lifestyle which they aspire to but rarely achieve will want to take rather than earn. Cannes Film Festival 2013 2013-05-16T20:23:54Z

Another Mitchell production, 2006's The Seagull, saw her as Nina, the aspiring actor who falls for the wrong man and ends the play broken and abandoned. Hattie Morahan: unhealthy obsessions 2011-02-01T22:00:03Z

Konstantin, the aspiring playwright in Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” dreams of inventing “new forms” for the theater. Review: A Star Director Takes a Back Seat in ‘The Seagull’ 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

In any case, the real governing spirit here isn’t Foer but the frequently name-dropped Philip Roth; Abe seems to aspire not just to his stature but also to his characters’ unapologetic selfishness. Review: In ‘The Wanderers,’ Two Marriages and a Movie Star 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

College Daily’s potential readership—Chinese students who are studying abroad and those who aspire to do so—is growing rapidly. The “Post-Truth” Publication Where Chinese Students in America Get Their News 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

It reflects the human condition: you aspire to do something, to be something, but you’re doomed to mortality.” | Ridgefield: ?James Grashow: Corrugated Fountain,? in Ridgefield 2012-03-31T04:30:54Z

Venezuela's famed models and aspiring beauty queens are struggling to doll themselves up as shortages turn eye shadow and breast implants into coveted luxuries. Beauty-obsessed Venezuelans hunt for scarce makeup, implants 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

She aspires to keep dancing for years, citing Mikhail Baryshnikov’s trajectory into modern dance as a model. Wendy Whelan, Ballerina of Architectural Bearing 2012-01-22T05:20:06Z

One of the advertising slogans was “15 minutes a day,” the amount of time an upward aspiring working-class reader might invest to achieve the equivalent of a liberal university education. Emily Dickinson, British Abolitionism and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

That may sound harsh, but to an aspiring writer, proofreading is the hallmark of caring. Modern Love: Learning to Silence My Inner Editor 2014-02-13T19:38:06Z

With a story, you aspire to an end, and an end that is satisfying. How to Make a TV Drama in the Twitter Age 2013-08-09T14:51:02Z

"At this point," she explains resignedly, "I just aspire to look good in clothes." Date Lab: She’s used to younger men. He was surprised she wanted to remarry. 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

The film, with its chapter headings, aspires to a novelistic structure, each part favouring a different character or storyline. Hannah and Her Sisters: No 7 2010-10-16T10:48:00Z

Shouldn’t writing that aspires to be autonomous and irreducible consist for the most part of screaming and falling? A Writer’s Justification 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

None of that stopped pioneering feminist writers including Mary Robinson and Mary Wollstonecraft hailing D'Eon as a shining example of female fortitude, someone women should look at and aspire to. Portrait mistaken for 18th-century lady is early painting of transvestite 2012-06-06T14:16:21Z

If it sounds ridiculous that the face of Bravo seriously aspires to one day host a presidential debate, consider Mr. Cohen’s uncanny ability to shape-shift. Andy Cohen Had a Year 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

The production, which is to begin previews next month at the Al Hirschfeld Theater, which will star Daniel Radcliffe as J. Pierrepont Finch, the aspiring executive played by Robert Morse in the original Broadway run. ArtsBeat: Anchor Away! Anderson Cooper on How He Landed in 'How to Succeed' on Broadway 2011-01-20T14:30:50Z

The Circle was for gay people who didn’t aspire to join the movement’s advancing orthodoxy of the ’70s. Growing Up Gay to a Glam Rock Soundtrack 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

He is the co-founder of Cape Collective Assist, a cooperative that facilitates a range of development programs for aspiring photographers in the city. Cape Town’s New Masculinity 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z

Glover has never aspired to be just one thing — he wants to be as many things as he can be. There Are So Many Reasons Why Donald Glover Should Be the Next Spider-Man 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Faultless napery, preferably white—naked tabletops have no place in any restaurant aspiring to loveliness. AD’s Aesthete picks three restaurants where the interiors are as fantastic as the food 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

I’m not yet the writer I aspire to be, but at my age, great books written by women over 60 give me hope. Sandra Cisneros Loves to Read About Women Waging Battle 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

They also host readings, 10-minute play contests for aspiring playwrights, and a new series of “science plays” — shows with scientific themes produced in tandem with local scientists. In Transit: American Plays, in English, at Berlin Theater 2011-04-28T10:00:18Z

And what is incredible about the experience of viewing these images is that they tell a story encapsulating everything I want my daughter to aspire to. Let's get physical: how women's sport can conquer body image 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

This book, a handsomely designed reference tome that chronicles the history of engineering, famous engineers and their creations, will serve as a fine gift for a current, aspiring or retired practitioner of the profession. 15 books for the readers on your list 2012-12-13T00:35:33Z

It’s a template often simulated by the candidates who aspire to become president. Of course Trump didn’t wear a mask on camera: How the president subverts the ritual of the political photo op 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

It evoked a classy, beautiful but cold woman, usually the one the hero aspires to, but realises, by the end, would not be good for him. Martha Hyer obituary 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

The annexe was home to African-Americans and international students from the Asian subcontinent, budding intellectuals and aspiring writers, party animals, surfer dudes and jocks. Barack Obama: the college years 2012-05-25T22:00:53Z

The album's finest track, "The Promised Land," perfectly combines the two sentiments: mourning what's been lost, while aspiring for a brighter future. Review: Milk Carton Kids raise voices in harmony 2013-03-25T18:37:08Z

Fortunately, she makes friends with an aspiring journalist named Carolyn, who helps her explain to their classmates that Iran is pronounced “ee-ron” and not “I ran.” KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel’ 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

An aspiring poet and a self-taught artist who began with line drawings and wire sculptures, he lived for a time in the Boston area and published poems and illustrations, mostly in local newspapers and magazines. Michael Crawford, Wiseacre With a Pen, Dies at 70 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

After a day of reflecting on the creativity of Black girls and women, I asked Roberts what she aspires for kids growing up today. Picturing Black Childhood: An Artist’s Journey 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

And while American Idol’s promotions still peddle the promise that the show can make aspiring singers’ dreams come true, The Voice prefers to cast Betty White as its golden-voiced discovery. How NBC's The Voice Sold 20 Million Songs Without a Single Star 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

For Elspeth, a fact checker and aspiring writer, it is “an alternative means of communication.” Caleb Crain’s “Overthrow” and the Power of Literary Form 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

Some of them, like Balthazar, have even aspired to Raoul’s cool. The New York Restaurant Where (Almost) Nothing Has Changed Since 1975 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

But the back garden of Moat Brae, a late Georgian villa in the rural town of Dumfries, became more than a playground for the aspiring novelist and playwright. Peter Pan's Neverland could become forever-land 2011-08-02T15:07:03Z

Wintour also shared the tidbit that Kors is an aspiring Broadway producer. Parker pays somber tribute to fashion's McQueen 2010-06-08T04:00:00Z

The two met at a party in New York in 1999, when he was married and she was an aspiring model and actress. Padma Lakshmi Opens Up About Rushdie in Memoir 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

I aspired to a look that was clean, well-kempt, invisible; in this I was successful. Perspective | Mothers and daughters: It’s a complicated sisterhood 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

The full list includes flight attendants, aspiring models and a performer who was the opening act for a Cosby comedy show. For Bill Cosby retrial, prosecutors seek to put 19 other alleged victims on the stand 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

There's plenty in the predicament of vicars without having to lampoon faith or what the church aspires to. 'Vicars' lives are extraordinary' 2010-12-19T00:05:14Z

Mr. Wink, a musician, and Mr. Stanton, then an aspiring actor, met catering an event at the Temple of Dendur in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. How Blue Turned to Green: Blue Man Group at 25 Years 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

These scenes are full of young people carrying mail cartons and taking dictation, and you hope that one of them aspires to be the Robert Silvers or Barbara Epstein of 2063. ‘The 50 Year Argument,’ an HBO Documentary 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

And it offers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the most prestigious ballet academy in the country, which has an almost mystical quality for aspiring ballerinas. ?A Very Young Dancer? and the Life That Followed 2011-11-17T12:00:00Z

But being an aspiring writer is like living smack in the middle of the Land of No — no money, no stability, no idea of when, or if, the stream of rejections will ever end. I sold my soul to Ricki Lake 2013-03-18T01:00:00Z

It wasn’t Mr. White’s antics, related most fully in “White Heat 25,” that caught the eyes of aspiring chefs, either, though he was funny in a mean way. Marco Pierre White’s ‘White Heat’: A Game-Changer, Revisited 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

The type of flight depicted is one that I hope my pilot never aspires to. Why is airport art so lame? 2012-09-27T21:36:00Z

It’s clear he doesn’t aspire to be of her neighborhood, even if the code of honor might be stronger there. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: Is Anyone Trustworthy Around Here? 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Iman is the sort of woman young girls aspire to be like, says Berne, carving out careers as both a model and entrepreneur, while finding time to be a real champion of charity. Iman and Missoni clan jetting in for Rodeo honor 2011-10-20T17:56:18Z

Except at pretentious costume extravaganzas like the annual Met Ball, people no longer aspire to dress like that. ‘The Rich Look’ Lives On in Paris 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

At less than two minutes long, it's the R&B equivalent of a hip-hop radio freestyle or mixtape track, definitely not aspiring to be a "hit single." Video with commentary: "Acura Integurl" by Frank Ocean 2011-05-23T16:36:15Z

“I aspired to be a great artist competing with the boys as much as the girls.” Rise of the female rock memoir 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

Now there are football schools for aspiring pros, giving them lessons in life skills and financial literacy, as well as soccer training. Rewind radio: Good Morning Sunday; Pity the Poor Soccer Stars; 5Live Breakfast: Your Call – review 2013-01-26T22:30:01Z

All writing is autobiographical, in other words, even when it aspires to be, or insists on being labeled, something else. What do writers owe their subjects? 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

The essay “Language Matters” is a brilliant micro-lesson in attention to the rhythm of prose and should be required reading for aspiring writers. Michael Dirda’s ‘Browsings’ offers meditations on the life of the mind 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

"It certainly helps you when you see people achieve goals that you aspire to." Women directors growing presence at Tribeca Film Festival 2013-04-22T15:13:10Z

But the Seattle-based Guns N’ Roses bassist remembers sparse times as an aspiring punk rocker when he walked the thin line that so many cross over, panhandling and standing in line for food stamps. Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan’s ‘Cold Outside’ video highlights homelessness issue in Seattle 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

The movie, which opens on Friday, is the director Matthew Vaughn’s violent and foul-mouthed satire about aspiring crime fighters who use traditional weapons to compensate for their lack of superhuman powers. Film: Chlo? Grace Moretz, Hit Girl in ?Kick-Ass? 2010-04-10T04:13:00Z

It was the organ of a group we don't hear much about, "the quietly aspiring black middle class". Next week's radio: from Shelagh Fogerty to Ebony: Black On White On Black 2013-06-08T05:00:08Z

Eden is a piano player and aspiring songwriter who has been trained to hear “life’s orchestra,” and who interprets and expresses emotional events in musical terms. ‘Not Too Far From Watts’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Is there a point where a simulation — of a Mars mission, of the kind of person we aspire to be — is so realistic that it’s as good as the actual thing? Review | The first step to Mars takes place in the Utah desert 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Charmatz, 44, seemed mildly pleased at the idea of not aspiring to “good” choreography. A French Choreographer Who Plays With the DNA of Dance 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

And last November, Devorah Rose, an aspiring reality television actress and magazine editor who chronicles society in the Hamptons, posted a photograph on Twitter of her and the author at dinner. Salman Rushdie, Out of Exile, Is a Fixture on the Social Scene 2012-03-23T21:30:22Z

In the intense film, out Friday, Teller plays a college conservatory student who aspires to be the next Buddy Rich. 'Whiplash' director, stars march to a friendly beat — off-screen 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

After a tabloid scandal derails his political career, aspiring New York senator David Norris is preparing his concession speech when, by chance, he meets a strapping contemporary ballet dancer, Elise Sellas. No adjustments needed for 'Bureau' 2011-03-03T14:55:00Z

A weird little boy who did nothing to help anyone and ended up ruling the world anyway, Bran is everything we should aspire to. From Bran Stark to Boris Johnson: TV heroes and villains of 2019 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

"Producing the Ring is a rite of passage which every opera company aspires to undertake," said Opera North's general director, Richard Mantle. Opera North tackles Wagner's Ring Cycle – minus the financial dramas 2012-06-12T16:15:28Z

King’s aspiring novelist admits, “I knew I was going to write a lot of stupid things that made me cry before I wrote anything good.” Review | Lily King’s ‘Five Tuesdays in Winter’ is as beautiful and tender as ‘Writers & Lovers’ 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

But, at the same time, watching Mandelup’s sinewy portrait of this aspiring famous person, you want to disconnect him from his world. “Jawline,” Reviewed: A Chilling Look at the Making of a Teen Influencer 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

At its best the series, a swift half-hour at a time, distilled and defanged the world it represented, giving HBO subscribers a fantasy picture of New York they could both aspire and relate to. | 'Sex and the City 2': Sarah Jessica Parker, Flying Down to Abu Dhabi 2010-05-26T20:10:00Z

Starting with an idealistic cop’s laborious reconstruction of shredded financial documents, it aspires to some of the quotidian procedural force of “The Wire,” but Mr. Padilha’s moralistic and melodramatic instincts quickly assert themselves. TV Shows to Watch From Hong Kong, Brazil, Sweden and More 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Kareem has given a gift to aspiring basketball players, a formula for astounding success. Kareem and His Hook Shot Deserve a Statue 2011-05-20T08:40:00Z

At the end, one aspiring designer will be named the winner. Rihanna will executive produce `Styled to Rock' 2012-12-05T20:47:12Z

I aspire to this simple/minimal/robust/orderly life and home and workspace; but you should see the state of the place. Jon McGregor: My desktop 2012-06-20T09:06:32Z

The 72-year-old actor said he's proud of the black comedy about an aspiring dancer and her dysfunctional parents. Sorvino to debut film funded by Pa. taxpayers 2012-02-20T17:51:08Z

An uncle, a cousin and a grandfather were preachers, and as a boy he attended Seventh-day Adventist, Baptist and Holiness churches and aspired to be a singing evangelist. Little Richard, Flamboyant Wild Man of Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 87 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z

For an aspiring medical specialist, this might sound like a circle of hell, a few years of professional exile in exchange for help with med school loans. What medical schools are doing about a looming shortage of doctors 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

"Uncorked" stars Mamoudou Athie as Elijah, a young aspiring master sommelier from a family and community in Memphis where master sommeliers don't really exist. Netflix's "Uncorked" spills the real truth about rejection and privilege in pursuit of passion 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

It aspires to something large and lofty, but in the end it’s a big pile of rocks, ice and vain and valiant human effort. Review: ‘Everest’ Revisits a Fateful Adventure in 3-D 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Unlike many R&B singers, who aspire to vocal dexterity and range, Mr. Tiller plays with rhythm and cadence, a clear suggestion that his true heroes are rappers, not singers. Review: Bryson Tiller Brings Fresh Success and Tart Sentiments to Radio City 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Joy had always been a closet writer, she said, but her “sense of shame” was “too great to be an aspiring writer.” On the Ranch with the Creators of “Westworld” 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

"I'm so proud to be the first Indian Miss America," the 24-year-old aspiring physician said. Miss New York is first Indian-American to win Miss America 2013-09-16T04:32:45Z

Village Gifts where aspiring princesses can snap up $64.95 Belle costumes; and the Be Our Guest Restaurant where, in defiance of Florida weather, soft, romantic snow perpetually falls outside the windows. Inside Disney’s New Fantasyland 2012-12-21T16:55:27Z

This book might aspire to be like Sam Wasson’s enchanting “Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.,” a close look at the making of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and a short, sweet groundbreaker for Hollywood historians. When Marilyn Took Manhattan 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

"The Hasselhoffs" featured the actor and his two daughters, who are aspiring to get into show biz. Hasselhoff reality show canceled after 2 episodes 2010-12-10T21:31:00Z

I asked Cathy*, looking at the scenes of domesticity she aspired to. I thought I knew about feminism – then I started work in a women’s prison 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

After high school, Michael went to Syracuse University but, aspiring to Hemingwayesque adventures and literary achievements, he dropped out to travel in Europe and write. Michael Herr, Author of a Vietnam Classic, Dies at 76 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

As he coaches the aspiring stars, Mr. Levine is animated, encouraging and impressively precise with his suggestions. For James Levine, The Twilight Of a Conductor 2011-05-20T20:25:13Z

But it’s not as if aspiring autocrats declare when it’s time for autocracy; instead they resort to their crude repertoire, inciting bigotry, agitating for “law and order” and subjecting immigrants to gratuitous cruelty. In ‘Surviving Autocracy,’ Masha Gessen Tells Us to Face the Facts 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

Randolph’s character, Aunt Pooh, is the streetwise sister to Jay, an absentee mother played by Lathan, the film’s director, and the mentor to her niece, an aspiring rapper played by Gray. Da’Vine Joy Randolph Doesn’t Want Anyone Finishing Her Sentences 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

His technical prowess humbled other aspiring pickers and sent many back to the woodshed. A look back at guitarist Danny Gatton and the rise of ‘Anacostia Delta’ blues 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Born into modest affluence in Gwangju, she appeared in school musicals and idolized Audrey Hepburn but aspired to be a diplomat. Film: A Fine Balance: The Quiet Life of a Star Actress 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z

They came to Camp in search of collaborators, and found them: An aspiring D.J. and makeup artist they met are eager to work with them. WeWork Goes to Summer Camp 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

I wondered if she had ever aspired to be a big Hollywood celebrity. The ?It? Girl, Now a Woman 2011-07-01T20:49:29Z

She signed on to host the Oxygen reality show “The Face,” on aspiring models. The Three-Decade Wild Ride of Supermodel Naomi Campbell Isn’t Slowing Down 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

“Wants for Dinner,” with its Caribbean backbeat, minor chords and whooping male backup vocals, aspires to the hard-nosed competitiveness of Rihanna. Critics? Choice: New Cds: Just Glad to Grab the Mike 2011-01-04T01:07:08Z

Coal miners with ambition, that is: Molly, who has two degrees from Yale, is an aspiring photographer. Lizzie Borden’s ‘Working Girls’ Is About Capitalism, Not Sex 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

O’Brian and his classmates are not aspiring TV writers, at least not primarily: They are getting their Masters in Fine Arts in playwriting. Playwrights Are Finding ‘Television Money’ Helps Pay the Bills 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

It was the late ’70s, the era of “The Deer Hunter” and “Apocalypse Now,” when Uslan, a comics scholar turned aspiring producer, pitched the major studios on his idea for a Bat-project. How Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ radically changed the superhero-movie landscape 30 years ago 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

The number of home sales rose 8 percent, which Mr. Miller attributes to the “pent-up demand” from last fall, when the uncertainty of the presidential election caused many aspiring home buyers to wait. The Talk of the Hamptons This Summer 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

He offered no clues as to what aspiring songwriters or singers should do to please his all-knowing ear. SXSW 2013: Clive Davis and how the talent scout who knew 'nothing' got famous 2013-03-14T21:28:00Z

It doesn’t expect to persuade you through reason; it aspires to move you to believe. Review: ‘The Leftovers’ Has One More Cosmic Joke to Tell 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

He hadn’t particularly aspired to be poet laureate, Mr. Levine said, but he was pleased that after a long career, the honor had come his way. A Gritty Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate : Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate 2011-08-10T02:20:31Z

Within hours of the story’s publication, the news bubbled with stories about the presumed affair between the candidate and the unnamed woman, later identified as Donna Rice, an aspiring model and pharmaceutical saleswoman. Politicians’ sex lives used to be off limits. One scandal changed everything. 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

We see Vera in various contexts — as servant, as friend, as aspiring actress and bantering back lot doll. Review: Early Hollywood in Black and White in ‘Vera Stark’ 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

Pointing out that not every singer has the same lung capacity, Mr. Crutchfield answered that you should always aspire to control the breath you have. Music: Will Crutchfield, Preaching the Gospel of Bel Canto 2010-07-03T17:17:00Z

The show follows aspiring hero K.O. as he works at a superhero supply store while learning about the business and culture of being a hero. How ‘Adventure Time’ Became a Talent Factory for a Generation of Animators 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

The dialogue aspires to a kind of farcical, dreamlike dottiness, and once or twice I did feel the prudish grimace that had settled on my face cracking with something approaching mild amusement. House of Holes by Nicholson Baker ? review 2011-08-11T13:30:01Z

It's billed as a musical adventure comedy about an orphan girl who aspires to become a dancer. Box Office disaster: Lackluster releases, Mayweather-McGregor, Hurricane Harvey create slowest weekend in over 15 years 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

It was built by the Y.W.C.A. as an exclusively female hostelry — a spot where single women, including aspiring actresses, could stay without fear of the Harvey Weinsteins of the world. Hotel Review: The Figueroa, Los Angeles 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

My boyfriend, who lived in the same residence, was an aspiring journalist too. Starting over is an art: how to stop feeling lonely and make friends in college 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

Yet both aspire to fatherhood, even as they worry that it may be getting late. Meet the New York Bachelors Who Yearn for Something More 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

But these days impersonation is the province of every aspiring biopic star. Film: That Unmistakable Streepness 2010-02-20T04:19:00Z

Students aspiring to veterinary education are investing in the hope that it will return value through payment from clients. Cuddles can’t pay the rent: The high cost to becoming a veterinarian 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

We have touched that secret society that Thiebaud aspired to and can say: I see. Perspective | Wayne Thiebaud’s artistic eye was so much keener than pop art confections 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

To say it more specifically: Many of the contestants in the first six episodes are models — actor/models, aspiring models, a “model and former scientist,” but models nonetheless. What Is It About Dating Shows Where Contestants Can’t See Each Other? 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z

The author of the Easy Rawlins mystery series and many other novels explains how fiction works in his view, and offers tips to aspiring writers. New & Noteworthy, From Black Utopias to a ‘Little Women’ Tribute 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

Berninger fronted a group called Nancy that aspired to be  Pavement. The National: gloomy ? with a hint of sunshine 2010-04-22T20:30:00Z

In several stories, Mr. White drops in on Forney Culpepper, an aspiring writer exploring his identity after his father dies and his mother abandons him. Short Stories for Summer Reading 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

The irony is that while western consumers aspire to craftsmanship, the majority of the world's population lives in countries that have local craftsmen but aspire to industrialised products. The art of craft: the rise of the designer-maker 2011-08-01T15:08:33Z

Netflix still aspires to have its own breakthrough topical comedy series. Can Hasan Minhaj Make Topical Comedy Work on Netflix? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

None of these works aspire to historical accuracy. Catherine Was Great. But Was She a Girl Boss? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

He believes the commercial and critical success of "Smoke Signals" galvanized aspiring directors. Native voices: Indian perspectives are focus of UCLA archive's film fest 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

An aspiring figurative painter of a conservative bent, he found Picasso’s increased fracturing of forms enraging. Modern Is Modern Is ... 2011-06-03T20:27:28Z

Calloway had always aspired to being an Ivy League student, even keeping a “Yale box” stuffed with motivational memorabilia. 'I love fame': how Caroline Calloway survived being cancelled 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

“Movies make you feel something, they inspire you, they make you aspire.” Oscars to celebrate ‘Godfather,’ ‘Bond’ anniversaries 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Before he became a best-selling writer, Dan Brown was an aspiring musician. Dan Brown … Children’s Book Author? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

The play, though, doesn’t aspire to much beyond being an exchange of zingers, and Mr. Rockefeller’s aren’t especially zingier than the ones in the TV show. Review: The Golden Girls, Back Again as Wisecracking Puppets 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

What refreshing honesty: an author who aspired not to high art with his latest novel, but rather to keeping the wolf from the door. Stories told by book dedications 2011-07-20T09:25:16Z

An aspiring dancer whose sense of fun is starting to look a lot like immaturity, Frances is having trouble negotiating that tricky stage between studenthood and adulthood. Frances Ha, The Wolverine, Blackfish: this week's new films 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z

But for Arnold and his editors, he was also an aspiring football player from Enid whose failed NFL dreams, combined with possible head trauma, may have contributed to his pathology. Just call it the Daniel Holtzclaw effect now: In rape cases, sympathetic reporting about “once-promising young men” need to stop 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

They, like a woman with a beautiful trained soprano voice when she aspires to a professional career, are a dime a dozen. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

But a second Herald story dug deeper: Southern Slaves, the paper revealed, is actually a group of aspiring rappers from the same Miami neighborhood who frequent open-mic nights. Journalists are reexamining their reliance on a longtime source: The police 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Ms. Tindall said she aspires to serve “not fancy or complicated food but nice, clean, simple dishes made with quality ingredients.” The Asia Issue Bites: Exotic Tastes in China, Vietnam, Singapore and Japan 2011-03-18T18:55:21Z

He advised aspiring musicians to understand the science of music and to have "humility with your creativity and grace with your success." Quincy Jones talks music, life, love at ASCAP expo 2010-04-24T21:16:00Z

But the real pleasure comes from spending time with endearingly earnest Sam, the college senior and aspiring painter whom Elisabeth hires to babysit her infant son. A Babysitter, Her Employer and $46 Hand Soap 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

The implication was that Jimmy was done aspiring to respectability, the kind achieved by his older brother, Chuck, the co-founder of a corporate law firm that Jimmy had hoped to join. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 Premiere: No Seriously, Call Saul 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Ultimately, I aspire to pack everything I need without suggesting he is my “everything.” Security in a Bright Yellow Suitcase 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

After years of aspiring to stake out the terrain of edgy, hip opera, the Metropolitan Opera seems to be having a season of retrenchment. Review | Blood-and-guts singing dominates Met ‘Adriana’ — and Netrebko was good, too. 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z

The result is a funny, moving reminder that however much we aspire to be the king, we are all fools in one way or another. My Perfect Mind – review 2013-04-07T13:17:11Z

The buffet lunches, the steaming floury potatoes and unlimited roast ham and apple compote flavoured with rose-geranium leaves, set a standard of good eating to which I still aspire. Memories of Myrtle Allen, the Matriarch of Irish Cookery, and of Family Holiday Idylls at Ballymaloe 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

But most neither achieve nor aspire to the level of art, and few are stamped with the signature of their directors, however much those directors may point the camera at themselves. Captivating Films, Complicated Truths 2011-07-23T00:03:17Z

On Wednesday, Nobiva's classmates - aspiring doctors, accountants, engineers and lawyers - spoke of their plans to serve their communities. S.Africa: 1st class graduates from Winfrey school 2011-11-30T13:28:13Z

The play's director Sally Cookson explained that the novel was originally adopted by the feminist movement because the central character "aspired to achieve" and "to find fulfilment on her own terms". AUDIO: Is Jane Eyre a feminist icon? 2014-02-11T10:21:12Z

Part of the mission of Anthony Philip Fine Art in Bushwick, Brooklyn, is to connect emerging artists with aspiring collectors. Collector Helper at Anthony Philip Fine Art 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian Calling all aspiring film-makers keen to use their skills in defence of the dignity of man. Death by degrees? Bela Tarr to open film academy 2012-09-28T12:34:33Z

He shows his client a warmth that aspiring defence attorneys should take note of. The People v OJ Simpson: episode three – the Dream Team comes together 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

The comic relief on her new debut album, “Young Forever,” is “Tired of California,” a sweet-voiced summation of the attractions, superficiality and ennui of aspiring to stardom in Los Angeles. Queen’s Unearthed Lament, and 6 More New Songs 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

There's real power in the honest, tje innocent, the aspiring ones. Review: Real Russians and Fake News in ‘Describe the Night’ 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

But I love I'm British But… it's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film and it has the sort of openess that I still aspire to with everything I do. Britain's best film directors show some early promise 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

But he never aspired to the ensemble virtuosity of the more commercially-driven orchestras of the day. He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Ms. Moore aspired to a career in dance. Mary Tyler Moore, TV star who became symbol of women’s liberation, dies at 80 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Lycidas himself represents Edward King, Milton's fellow-student at Cambridge, and also an aspiring poet, drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Anglesey. Poem of the week: Lycidas by John Milton 2010-09-06T15:30:00Z

“Letters should aspire to the condition of talk,” Iris Murdoch wrote in one of her own. Mourning the Letters That Will No Longer Be Written, and Remembering the Great Ones That Were 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Most serials that aspire to television are produced in relatively long, 8-to-10-minute chunks that could easily be assembled into a sitcom or hourlong drama. Watchlist: Mishaps in Politicking, Single-Parenthood and Finding a Partner 2011-01-14T20:17:09Z

This accuser rarely itemises both what is being aspired to, and just why it is that the subject in question fails to make the grade. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

Using imagery of the Nazi ghetto, the authors told of white neighborhoods closed to aspiring black homeowners and renters who “hit the invisible barbed-wire fence of restrictive covenants.” ‘Ghetto,’ by Mitchell Duneier 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

The tome that’s the gateway drug of aspiring politician authors, though, is arguably Barack Obama’s “Dreams From My Father,” which first appeared when he was not yet an Illinois state senator. Every candidate an author: The ceaseless boom in books by politicians 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

All in all, “See Dad Run” seems to aspire only to blandness, which is perhaps just right for Nick at Nite’s risk-averse audience. Television Review: ‘See Dad Run,’ on Nick at Nite, Stars Scott Baio 2012-10-12T21:10:04Z

Death of a Salesman has a great record of cementing the careers of aspiring actors. New Spider-Man poised to net Tony for Broadway role 2012-06-09T12:02:13Z

Japan's first self-made woman billionaire, Yoshiko Shinohara, recently retired to concentrate on philanthropy by funding scholarships for aspiring nurses, social workers or day care staff. Giving while female: Women are more likely to donate to charities than men of equal means 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

Weinberg’s memoir doesn’t aspire to the depth of Feeney’s study, but its fealty and kindliness have their own appeal. Watch One With the Gipper: An Aide Recalls Movie Nights With the Reagans 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

I can’t say all my dreams had come true, but I can say I was twenty-nine and dating an aspiring performer who lived in his grandmother’s basement. Jews dig Christmas too 2012-12-25T21:00:00Z

I tried mostly to maintain the right ratio of being honest, outraged and approachable, which is pretty much what I aspire to be in real life. Don't blame the trolls: Here's why I quit Twitter and what happened after 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Member of a transitional generation – not quite a monster, not quite a human being – he can be neither what he was nor what he aspires to be. Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell – review 2013-03-14T08:00:01Z

This lengthy book does aspire to be more comprehensive than earlier volumes. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z

Danny Riordan, an aspiring songwriter and friend of the Raisens who said he was present for part of the “Healthy” session, remembered the excitement in the room as the song boomed over the studio speakers. A Songwriting Dispute Brews Over ‘Truth Hurts,’ Lizzo’s Biggest Hit 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Acting and role-playing of various sorts are common Sirkian themes, but here they seem to resonate with Hudson’s own life of imposture, both as an aspiring actor and a gay man passing as straight. DVDs: Douglas Sirk Without Tears 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z

However, based on recent displays, let's cross our fingers that the next star aspiring to show how much they care workshops said concept before posting it. Dear Hollywood: In times of international crisis, speechlessness is always preferable to stupidity 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

But that might require a certain amount of submission to a director instead of the total liberation ideal to which he currently aspires. 5 Directors Who Could Help Johnny Depp Recover From 'Mortdecai' 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

His new book, "How Magicians Think: Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters," isn't a how-to for aspiring prestidigitators. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

Earlier on the red carpet, Bean said he took on the against-type role because it’s something he’s “always kind of aspired to — playing diversity and different characters.” Britain’s Bean, Brazil’s Montenegro Win Emmys 2013-11-26T12:38:12Z

As soon as you say, ‘Let’s play around with this rhythm,’ it sounds like your section won’t be playing together, which isn’t something an orchestra like the Met aspires to. Harry Bicket, Conducting Mozart’s ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z

In La La Land, Stone’s Mia is an aspiring actress and playwright stuck working the coffee shop on the Warner Bros. lot. Do You Hate Musicals? 'La La Land' Could Change That 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

“So You Think” rewards proficiency in multiple styles, and aspiring dancers are paying attention to this, with ballet dancers dipping into hip-hop, for example, and vice versa. Dance: Dance as Slick TV, but What About the Art Form? 2010-06-11T18:49:00Z

The "New Basement Tapes" ensemble aspired to channel a similar esprit de corps that's evident in the recordings Dylan and the Band made 47 years ago. Back to the basement to finish a project Bob Dylan began in 1967 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

About 30 percent of former professional or aspiring artists went into another career because of their school loans and other debts. ArtsBeat: Survey Suggests Employment Prospects for Arts Graduates Are About the Same as for Others 2011-05-06T17:25:55Z

Originality may be a quality we prize more, a characteristic of anything that’s aspiring to be art. “Anger Management”: Charlie Sheen’s crass comeback 2012-06-26T15:15:00Z

They don’t aspire to be much more than Internet memes, but you can see in them something of Mr. Kelley’s concern for the human yearning behind sad clichés and inadequate forms of expression. Art In Review: JOHN MILLER: ?Suburban Past Time? 2012-02-16T22:48:16Z

Despite their allegiance to the suburbs, many of the artists who work there still aspire to show work in Paris. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Beyond the Paris Limits, a Cutting Edge 2010-06-15T11:30:00Z

Her advice for aspiring long-distance drivers: Bring lots of food. Perspective | Pro tips for planning a long-distance road trip 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

The poem, which I chose, articulated what all of the little black girls running around the stage aspired to be: beautiful, confident women unbowed by the blond-and-blue-eyed standards into which we would never fit. How Maya Angelou’s words shaped a young Houston girl’s dreams

It doesn't help that the main characters in "Ghoul" are aspiring filmmakers who can't seem to differentiate documentary from home movie, broadcast news or reality television. 'Ghoul' an inept 'Blair Witch' wannabe 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Yarrow was one of many aspiring folk artists playing coffeehouses and clubs in New York. Peter, Paul and more than memories 2011-08-25T18:09:03Z

Based on news reports of kidnapping in a Manila college, “Dead Kids” aspires to explore how widening class disparity in the Philippines is burdening a new, increasingly globalized generation. ‘Dead Kids’ Review: A Flashy Portrait of Teen Angst Gone Awry 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

Fox’s “American Idol” attracted 21.8 million viewers on Wednesday as the seven remaining aspiring pop stars performed songs written in the last ten years. ArtsBeat: Seven 'Idol' Aspirants, 21.8 Million Viewers 2011-04-21T22:39:10Z

Men of Britain, is this what you aspire to? I've never seen … any James Bond film | Hadley Freeman 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

A second aspiring space tourist, Japanese entrepreneur Satoshi Takamatsu, also arrived at Russia’s Star City training center to prepare for a spaceflight. Singer Sarah Brightman preparing for space station visit 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Mondale started as an aspiring actress, with bit parts in TV's "Three's Company" and "Dynasty." Eleanor Mondale, reporter and daughter of former VP, dies 2011-09-17T18:22:00Z

There are some politicians who are able to be activists at the same time and I would aspire to put myself in that category. Caroline Lucas: 'Politics is about everything we do' 2013-07-27T23:05:02Z

But aspiring Gold members must either pay a hefty credit card fee or stay a significant number of nights to become elite. Practical Traveler: How to Attain Hotel Elite Status 2012-02-15T17:25:18Z

Kelly never aspired to be on the same morality level as Cosby, but he never needed to be. Is time finally up for R. Kelly? "Surviving" series shows why he's been protected for so long 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z

Yet for a film that seems to aspire to greatness, "Tolkien" is done in by its lack of vision. "Tolkien" has a good idea at its center, but the execution is mixed 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

The chef says he aspires to elevate the staples by making them “ours.” Review | Glover Park Grill woos its neighborhood with all-American cooking 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

She now sells to thousands of restaurants and countless aspiring home cooks, retailing at shops that include Whole Foods and Sur La Table. How to Organize Your Kitchen Like a Professional Chef 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

“Personally, I’m an artist, but the things I do for Rookie, I do in the service of teenage girls,” said Ms. Spiegel, 22, a story editor at Rookie and an aspiring fiction writer. Tavi Gevinson of ‘Rookie’ Inspires Young Women to Create Communities of Self-Empowerment 2014-04-02T21:19:04Z

Javan is an aspiring musician, Malcolm a property developer with dreadlocks and a very odd house. TV review: Seven Days 2010-09-23T06:00:00Z

It’s good to see that at least one animal out there aspires to be something other than an insufferably cute ersatz football player. ‘The Adventures of Puss in Boots,’ a Netflix Series 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

The 9-year-old aspiring astronaut wanted to check out a calculus book, but a librarian threatened to call the police if he didn’t leave. ‘Black in Space’ looks at final frontier of civil rights 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

Just ask Jack Colton, a local Vegas hero who reveals the secrets of Sin City nightlife on his Web site to everyday players who aspire to VIP-table status. Vegas' Top Nightclubs 2010-03-01T23:00:00Z

I’m not sure what it aspired to be, exactly, except for an excuse to put Trump in a bad steampunk trench coat behind five laser pointers aimed at the ceiling. Donald Trump on SNL: candidate’s hosting stunt was no laughing matter 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

It aspires to uplift but more often soothes, like heavy wool in the wintertime. Music Review: Bart Millard and MercyMe Perform at Citi Field 2012-08-13T22:45:06Z

His music has never been in fashion, and may never be — he was open about not aspiring to be a Beethoven — but it rewards those who seek it out. In Life and Music, Ned Rorem Was Unwaveringly Himself 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

We’re the society of opportunity after all – the place where anyone from anywhere can aspire to be president or at least get very rich.  Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z

Their cause has been helped in recent months by the advent of U.S. streaming giant Netflix's program "Glow", a 1980s-set drama chronicling the lives of aspiring female TV wrestlers. Britain's female wrestlers grapple with acceptance 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

Libertarianism is politically and sociologically illiterate, as it aspires to deny any connection between people outside of commerce or, what F. A. Hayek called, “voluntary transaction.” My regrettable libertarian romance: I rebounded from my experimental phase, but many don't 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

Much of the film was shot on Cornwall's wild coastline Smith directed the aspiring young actor in several school productions - Stevens auditioned for Macbeth aged 13 - and later encouraged him to read English at Cambridge. Downton star Stevens returns to 1913 2013-06-13T07:30:24Z

Carpenter even admitted that a new stop on the Skinner was something that his organ “should aspire to.” Cameron Carpenter unleashes his International Touring Organ at CAP UCLA 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

In 2009, aspiring American singer Judith Hill was on the verge of being a part of one of the world's most anticipated tours and her big break. Michael Jackson's final duet partner 2014-04-02T05:21:44Z

For almost two decades,there has been a steady stream of reality shows that allow aspiring performers to strut their stuff. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Original Cast Album: Company’ and ‘Songland’ 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

"Episodes" marks a comeback for LeBlanc after 10 years on "Friends" and another two on the TV comedy "Joey", which took his aspiring actor character to Los Angeles and ended in 2006. "Friends" star Matt LeBlanc happy to send himself up 2010-07-29T23:57:00Z

The result was a hotel that aspired to be a city within a city — that provided what the Hyatt billed as “indoor sightseeing.” Westin Bonaventure architect John Portman, who aimed to soothe anxiety in the postwar city, dies at 93 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

These are things I aspire to, which might be one of the reasons I enjoy playing characters like her. Edie Falco on playing a good cop, resistance to change, and Giuliani's love for "Sopranos" 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Sargent previously played the aspiring musician Drew in “Rock of Ages” from March 2012 to July of this year. ArtsBeat: A New Spider-Man on Broadway 2013-09-16T00:01:08Z

Torres said his show may lure more young people to join the force because many Mexicans aspire to be like characters in soap operas. New TV soap scrubs image of Mexican federal police 2011-06-16T18:25:08Z

Baldy and Sloppy are back to terrify another coach-load of aspiring chefs with their indifferent mastications. Tonight's TV highlights: Madagascar 2011-02-16T00:04:00Z

If you're an aspiring musician, on Sunset Boulevard in the 70s or on The X Factor today, it says you may yet see your name in lights. Don't Stop Believin': the power ballad that refused to die 2010-12-16T22:14:01Z

Her name was hidden from history, but her code number has been claimed by this slick and grim espionage flick that aspires to become an all-star, all-female franchise — the Spice Girls version of Bond. ‘The 355’ Review: Exile in Bondville 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

Not since midcentury industrial designers aspired to elevate the quality of everyday life for everyone, everywhere, has a designer thought at such sweeping scale. Bruce Mau: A Designer Puts Life on the Drawing Boards 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

He has given up on his future, aspiring only to “utter harmlessness.” Marilynne Robinson’s New Book Explores Love in Segregated America 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

“We came to create this character together, who was a person we aspired to be,” English says. Rich in love: Candice Bergen’s sumptuous life 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

They were apart quite a bit in the early years of their relationship, as Mitchell was paying her dues on the road as an aspiring singer-songwriter. After 16 Years in ‘Hadestown,’ Anaïs Mitchell Emerges With a New Album 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Against the Wall World premiere of Charlie Mount’s comedy about an aspiring stand-up comic. L.A. theater openings, May 18-25: Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' and more 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

But in the first season of Mad Men, way back in 1960, he was an aspiring writer, with a novel in his top drawer. The Atlantic publishes short story by Mad Men's Kenneth Cosgrove 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Brigid aspires to be a composer, but is mired in student debt; she makes her living tending bar. Review: ‘The Humans,’ a Family Thanksgiving for a Fearful Middle Class 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

If “The Conquest” aspires to be a Gallic answer to “The Queen,” it more closely resembles a diluted, somewhat less amusing French answer to “In the Loop.” | 'The Conquest': ?The Conquest? Sarkozy Made - Review 2011-11-10T23:13:46Z

Its interactive show, free to children and teenagers, uses big-band music to recreate the mood of the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem in the 1920s-1940s as it follows the fate of Lillian Carlyle, an aspiring dancer. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

“But that was not me. I was not a savvy, aspiring entrepreneur.” Why the founder of Scott’s Cheap Flights wants you to take more vacations 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

The makeup, hairstyling, and outfits of both women evoke the nineteen-seventies, when Thomas was a little girl and her mother was an aspiring model. Mother, Muse, Mirror 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

Her women neither revel in nor aspire to what one of them describes, facetiously, as “girl power.” Perspective | Thank you, Gillian Flynn for giving women permission to be bad 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

She was the cook to aspire to in our family. 4 Basque-Pyrenees pantry essentials in my kitchen 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

Best of all, his hero, played with a quiet, nuanced gravity by Mr. Aoyagi, does not become a superhuman warrior but rather a weary veteran aspiring to civilization’s higher ideals. Review: ‘Tatara Samurai’ Forges a Man of Honor 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

But it also aspires to add more to the overall programming mix. Music Center's next boss, Rachel Moore, gets bravos from L.A. arts leaders 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Their accounts of their travails may briefly cheer aspiring writers. Books of The Times: ‘MFA vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction’ 2014-02-25T20:27:31Z

Here’s a project for aspiring artists and engineers alike. Take a hike! Here are 5 fun midsummer things for kids to do | The Weekly Wonder 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

That sounds like something to aspire to, doesn’t it? This Week in Fiction: Karen Russell on Balancing Humor and Horror 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

Filmed in a quasidocumentary style using handheld cameras, extreme close-ups and a muddy palette, this slice of regional life aspires to be a northern New England answer to “The Last Picture Show.” ‘Beneath the Harvest Sky’: a teenage slice of small-town life 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

The top three reasons why Americans quit their jobs in 2021 were low pay, a lack of opportunities for advancement and – take note, aspiring a**hole bosses – feeling disrespected at work. "The Thing About Pam," "Super Pumped" and "The Dropout" make it official: It's A--hole Season! 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

For the Rip Van Winkles of the world, Chang, a Northern Virginia native who once aspired to be a professional golfer, is a game-changer in the industry. Momofuku CCDC review: For the shrimp buns and servers, the wait is worth it 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

NBC’s “America’s Next Great Restaurant” features aspiring restaurateurs trying to impress a panel of judges to win financing for a new chain. Enough Wallowing, Reality TV Is Ready for Entrepreneurship 2011-03-28T01:29:28Z

Indeed, there is much to suggest that women who aspire to office continue to dress defensively. The Fashion Conservatives 2010-10-20T22:33:00Z

An aspiring filmmaker, she was transported by the cinematography and by Beth’s character. How ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Is Inspiring Women to Take Up Chess 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

Catherine’s style — streamlined and seemly almost to a fault — resonates as well with scores of young women who aspire to a classically patrician look but who have, until recently, had few credible role models. New York Fashion Week: Kate Middleton?s Style Felt on the Runways ? New York Fashion Week 2011-09-07T21:34:15Z

“Cowboy’s Back in Town” is Mr. Adkins’s first album for Show Dog, the label headed by country music’s aging king of thoughtful brawn, Toby Keith, to whose throne Mr. Adkins has appeared to be aspiring. Critics? Choice: New CDs: Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins 2010-08-15T23:05:00Z

I don't think psychoanalysis is a science or should aspire to be one. Adam Phillips: a life in writing 2012-06-01T21:55:08Z

But for some aspiring authors, the revelations are also fodder for a virtual world where Tsarnaev has a parallel identity as a flawed romantic leading man ripe for saving. Inside the Wild and Addictive World of Celebrity Fan Fiction 2013-08-26T09:45:08Z

It was for middle-class people aspiring to be culturally upper-middle class; my parents were refugees from Hitler’s Europe just striving to be middle class. First Encounters with the Art and Presence of Saul Steinberg 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Even the book’s original author knows that not all of her vintage advice is suitable for the aspiring popular girls of today. The Old-Fashioned Self-Help Book That Got a Teen a Movie Deal 2013-10-31T15:37:09Z

“The Three Musketeers” aspires to be the first episode of a franchise in waiting. | 'The Three Musketeers': ?The Three Musketeers,? With Christoph Waltz - Review 2011-10-21T23:17:20Z

“If you aspire to be a gangsta rapper, by definition your lyrics need to be violent,” said Charis Kubrin, an associate professor of criminology, law and society at the University of California, Irvine. Rap lyrics can be used as ‘smoking gun’ in criminal cases 2014-03-28T02:01:41Z

I think we are now producing more actors who aspire to be like Olivier. Are British actors the world's best? 2010-06-19T23:14:00Z

As an aspiring keyboard player, I was particularly drawn to the piano playing of David Sancious, a crucial lynchpin in Bruce's nascent backing band. The inauspicious arrival of Bruce Springsteen 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

Another World” might, possibly, describe the mixed feelings of an aspiring singer getting what he wants. Review: Royal Headache Releases Its Second Album 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Every practicing and aspiring critic today should read Thomson’s exhilarating writings, and it’s easier than ever: The Library of America recently released the second of two volumes devoted to his criticism. An Essential Music Critic, but Nobody’s Role Model 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

She'd made a fine mentor, the kind who might inspire greatness from an aspiring young writer. 'Letters to Juliet' Review: Love's Labour's Found 2010-05-13T20:35:00Z

Ms. Agnew said that the complainants included an aspiring actor and a man whom Mr. Spacey had met at a work event. Kevin Spacey Called ‘Sexual Bully’ by Prosecutor in U.K. Trial 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

“I don’t remember anybody in my training talking about joy as something that can be cultivated or aspired to. And she did.” Jennifer Muller, Choreographer Whose Dances Told Human Tales, Dies at 78 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

Retracing his life as an aspiring musician, she tracks down his favorite musician, James Forester. The Carpetbagger: Sundance, Film by Film 2013-12-04T22:31:45Z

Even their aspiring rich don't ever feel tempted to wear Texan-type hats. The myth of the cowboy 2013-03-20T18:00:01Z

Money is of course where it ends for many aspiring, unconventional filmmakers. Alejandro G. Inarritu on directing his own career 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Lucas aspires to be like him one day, until something happens that changes his life: he finds that he, himself, a Chief Inquisitor's son, is a witch. Burn Mark by Laura Powell 2012-12-06T15:00:00Z

Humphries will be auctioning “How to Break Into Comics by Making Your Own Comics,” which are video-chat sessions with aspiring writers. Comic Creators Unite to Benefit Stores 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Rueda produces some delicious white wines to pair with seafood, but while they are often terrific values, they rarely aspire to greatness. A $12 crisp Italian white and more great wines to open while it still feels like summer 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

I spent the early years aspiring to make money so I didn’t have holes in them any more. Jon Bon Jovi: 'there’s no chance I’d put on a pair of ripped jeans now' 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

I aspire to be far more in touch with my faith. Amrit Kaur of ‘Sex Lives of College Girls’ Runs on ‘Super Soul Sunday’ Podcasts 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

In his performance, Williams walked a fine line between representing what society condemned and what it aspired to become. Where to Stream Michael K. Williams’s Best TV Performances 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

At a halftime show the choreography can certainly aspire to be as flashy as the music. What Do Dancers Bring to a Halftime Show? They Complete the Picture. 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

It doesn’t aspire to provide a broad overview of the debt crisis but instead hands the reader a small but sparkling prism by which to view the problem, this time from a global perspective. Books of The Times: ?Boomerang? by Michael Lewis - Review 2011-09-26T22:25:20Z

Speaking of wrinkles, Douglas, who is playing a misanthropic real estate agent in the film, is 69; Keaton, as a neighbor who is an aspiring singer, 68. Rob Reiner talks about making movies for grown-ups

Or not his, he reflected, for was he not merely a fictive trope of a supreme narcissist, the self-proclaimed saviour of the novel, a creation to which Stephen Dedalus and Mrs Dalloway could only aspire? Digested read: Umbrella by Will Self 2012-08-19T15:00:00Z

Stone, who plays an aspiring actress, said "I learned to tap and ballroom dance and sing live on camera, which was pretty insane." Gosling, Stone spin modern twist on old Hollywood in 'La La Land' 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Jean was aspiring to take the top job from a standing start, in a country that, even before January's calamitous earthquake, was wracked by crime, corruption and economic decline. Wyclef Jean: 'Fans are calling me the new Dylan' 2010-12-05T21:30:00Z

He normally urged aspiring actors to find other careers, he said, and he gave his daughter the same advice at the time. John Aniston, Veteran Television Actor, Dies at 89 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

Ryder's heroine Lelaina Pierce is an aspiring documentary filmmaker who plummets from her aspirational heights as the valedictorian of her class to taking abuse as a lowly production assistant at a local daytime show. Reality bites, so of course Generation X was always going to sell out and vote Republican 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

His father made a little money playing the trumpet and horn, and his mother was an aspiring singer. The Puzzle of Rossini?s Brief Career 2011-07-03T02:00:06Z

The aspiring writer soon discovered that the absurd destructiveness of his mental compulsion was matched only by the absurd elaborateness of his retrospective justification for it. A Writer’s Justification 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

In this period of my life his idea of simplicity and of being close to nature is what I wish to aspire to. Punk "godmother" Patti Smith pays homage to St Francis in Assisi 2012-07-25T16:24:17Z

All of 18 and aspiring to be a model, she knew she had to pose for him if her career was to take off. Lens Blog: Terence Donovan's Fashion Photography 2013-05-14T09:00:14Z

But mostly the movie aspires to be goofy fun. ‘How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’ Review: A Series Scales Up 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Every lyricist on Music Row aspires to think this elegantly, finding ways to pack the universe into pithy, coherent, pleasingly rhythmic bundles that report on the finer details of the human condition in plain English. Everyday Zen: On the road with Willie Nelson at 81 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Like most of the audiences at the folk coffeehouses, the crowd — which that night included another aspiring musician named Bob Dylan — was largely white; she was of Cree descent. Buffy Sainte-Marie Broke Boundaries in Folk. A Documentary Tells Her Story. 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

She was a medical student, and he was an aspiring cartoonist. Out of ‘The Real World,’ a Relationship That Has Endured 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

In their suit, Cedillo's lawyers claimed the aspiring actor was hit by a snapped cable which had been pulling another vehicle involved in the stunt. Transformers actor wins $18.5m after botched stunt causes brain damage 2012-05-24T10:40:36Z

“Bernstein was a unique composer in terms of his relationship to musical theater,” says Shawn, who attended a 1958 revival of “Wonderful Town,” with Russell returning as Ruth, an aspiring journalist. Seattle Symphony to perform ‘Wonderful Town’ in honor of Leonard Bernstein’s centennial 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

But he was ultimately repelled by Bloom’s bizarre and consuming fixation on Anna Steiger, her daughter from an earlier marriage, and an aspiring opera singer. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

Use of the site by casting folks, producers and aspiring talents is free. Paula Abdul to launch casting website 2010-11-22T11:58:00Z

Today’s orphic tools may not aspire to the Greek prophet’s standard of beauty, but they carry this original impulse to combat the sounds of others. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

But then, what celebrities do well is what politicians aspire to: They make themselves the protagonists of a story their followers want to share in. What Politicians Could Learn from Oprah Winfrey 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

Ann changed her last name to Eden and aspired to be an actress; sadly, her father, who became a trolley conductor, became convinced she was Eve Arden. A Factual Account of Truman Capote, Notorious Embroiderer of Truth 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z

Gardner Smith, a precocious student of literature, read the same novelists as most aspiring writers in mid-century America: Hemingway and Faulkner, Proust and Dostoyevsky. “How Does It Feel To Be a White Man?”: William Gardner Smith’s Exile in Paris 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

She met Mr. Feldman, an aspiring novelist and screenwriter, through mutual friends, and tried to help him get a foothold in Hollywood as a writer’s assistant. ‘This Close’ Is by and About Deaf People, but That’s Only the Beginning 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

In my fifth year at the paper I was made a columnist, and I began aspiring to some measure of what Jimmy Breslin and my favorite writers at the Village Voice did across the river. R. Kelly and the Damage Done 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

And the whole production isn't quite as penetrating, lyrical and haunting as it clearly aspires to be. The dark side of America's first reality show 2011-04-21T14:05:00Z

For him, all music aspires to the political. Daniel Barenboim - review 2011-04-08T23:51:33Z

In his youth he was an aspiring pianist, and in the early 1950s he danced with the National Ballet of Canada until an arm injury curtailed that career. Brian Macdonald, Eclectic Choreographer and Director, Dies at 86 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

And you don’t need to be an aspiring actor to enjoy Mirren’s digressions on her facial expressions in “The Queen,” or her axioms that can apply to any person, in any profession. Is the future of education paying $90 to watch Werner Herzog tell stories about eating maggots? 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The Reality Rocks Expo, the first fan-focused conference for enthusiasts of the form, which took place last weekend here in one wing of the Los Angeles Convention Center, aspired to join that category. Big Ant and Vyxsin and, Maybe, You 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z

Harvey Weinstein is being accused of violating sex trafficking laws as an aspiring actor has launched a lawsuit against him. Harvey Weinstein sued for alleged 'sex trafficking' in Cannes 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

Should it aspire to artfulness, or is that a luxury when there are American educators who don’t believe the Holocaust happened? A New Book From the Creator of ‘Wonder’ Tells a Holocaust Story 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

In these raging nowadays, purging people because you hate their politics is lovely, but my motivation was primitive: A two-legged mammal of any discernment, especially an aspiring agoraphobic, cannot have 888 friends. I tried to cut 100 Facebook friends. One was Meryl Streep. 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Fleming’s orchestration of her encores — four of them — should be the object of study for every aspiring young singer. Mastering the art of entertainment: Renée Fleming in recital 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

The Newark Public Library, one of the first grand civic buildings in the city, was finished in 1901, and like a lot of libraries built back then it aspired to be an Italian palazzo. A Scene Right Out of Philip Roth: His Books Come Home to Newark’s Library 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

It’s also about a young aspiring actor auditioning for a part in a movie telling Haines’s story and fretting over his closeted boyfriend. Theater Review | 'Looking for Billy Haines': Choosing Gay Identity in Old Hollywood 2010-04-05T22:15:00Z

Wearing sweatshirts and mom jeans, they look more like a focus group on suburban Costco shoppers than a circle of aspiring necromancers. What happened when I went to psychic school 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

The London show on July 14 will pit aspiring artists from the United States and Great Britain. London Calling: NYC exports Apollo Amateur Night 2012-03-13T20:46:03Z

Mongiardo, 45, is currently a senior television programming executive, but back in the early '90s he was an aspiring musician whose own dream came true when Stegmeyer offered him a job as his assistant. Friends reunite to give Doug Stegmeyer's last music project a push 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

She said there are “mini bridges being built” to independent film from sites like Funny or Die, where aspiring filmmakers can experiment with comedic shorts. Sundance Festival Shows More Comedies 2013-01-16T17:58:40Z

But I see it as something that could be, to which we could aspire. Q&A: Julia Ducournau on bodies, cars and love in ‘Titane’ 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Suicide by creativity is something perhaps to aspire to in an age where more people know Katie Price better than the Emperor concerto.  James Rhodes: 'Find what you love and let it kill you' 2013-04-26T16:08:01Z

Fielding was nominated for the latest Bridget Jones novel, Mad About the Boy, while O'Connor's The Thrill of it All was the story of 25 years in the life of an aspiring Anglo-Irish rock band. Booker satire wins comedy book prize 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

A recent study showed that little girls who played with Barbie dressed as a doctor aspired to far fewer and less ambitious careers that girls who played with an amorphous Mrs. Potatohead doll. New GoldieBlox video rebels against 'Big Sister' beauty standards 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

Lee Hyeyoung plays a writer who aspires to make a movie. 159 Films, for Every Taste, Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

An aspiring Eagle Scout inspired by events on 9/11 tried to fund the statue’s restoration by making and selling stained-glass ornaments, but those funds went toward a new bronze version. What the saga of Chieftain Blue Sparks’s desk has to teach us 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

He now aspired to an academic life, but a spell working on the university radio station convinced him to return home to the boards in Britain. John Burgess obituary 2011-01-02T18:22:59Z

Bringing: openness, empathy and willingness to learn, said the aspiring doulas. The long five minutes: Abortion doulas bring comfort during a complicated time 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

The notion of aspiring to achieve things in life was sort of in the blood. Why Store Art When You Can Share It? A Collector’s Trove 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

A 1946 English-language letter of encouragement that he penned to an American World War Two veteran who aspired to be a scientist also fetched $6,100. Einstein letters of admiration and advice auctioned in Jerusalem 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

“Destroyer’s” Bell aspires to be a lone wolf, too, but Kusama insists that her choice has consequences. Karyn Kusama has been through ‘dark times’ in Hollywood. But her movies are even darker. 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Flashbacks reveal that she was once a nun and aspiring concert pianist who was forbidden to play the piano. Review: In ‘The Lady in the Van,’ Maggie Smith Homesteads in the Driveway 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

It also has the English novelist herself on hand to impart a lesson from which many of these aspiring new musicals could benefit. Critic?s Notebook: New York Musical Theater Festival Is Under Way 2011-10-03T22:31:10Z

An aspiring actor and comic, he was constantly performing. The end of casual sex 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z

In part, this reflects the festival’s self-image as a place where regular women, as opposed to aspiring celebrities, get a moment in the lights. Who’s Irish Now? 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

James, in these moments, appears as the headstrong, unstoppable kind of woman so many aspire to be. “Daily Show” alum Jessica Williams battles Tinder, manspreading in new trailer 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

Being both an artist with a studio practice and an arts administrator organizing group art shows while trying to be the wife of an aspiring rock star became increasingly untenable. Yoko Ott: always looking at art outside the frame 2013-01-13T06:35:36Z

Nobody aspires to be a backup . . . part of me still cringes every time I hear myself described that way. Why Philly Loves the Eagles’ Big Nick Foles, the N.F.L.’s Best Backup 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

I learned this information about the actress from a recent profile in Vanity Fair, a magazine I’ve always aspired to write for. “She is blonde but dark at the roots”: Vanity Fair’s Margot Robbie profile is a masterclass in how not to write about famous women 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

The filming of “Your Highness” took about six months in 2009 and happened mostly on a soundstage in Belfast frequented by productions that aspire to a craggy, lived-in Middle Ages aesthetic. Way Back in Time With Two Friends Who Go Way Back 2011-04-01T20:53:01Z

She saw parallels between her aspiring warrior in “Prey” and her own rise as a star. Amber Midthunder Has a New Action Hero for You 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

The un-named programme will see aspiring fashion designers compete to design an outfit for Rihanna's appearance at the Wireless Festival in London in June. Rihanna scraps visit 'for family' 2012-06-08T07:40:47Z

On Thursday, the professionals and aspiring artists share the stage for a gala. Dance Listings for April 4-10 2014-04-03T22:42:35Z

A conclusion hovers unspoken in the gallery: Blondness equates to a kind of freedom to which those who adopt the color aspire. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

As aspiring comedians, they were in the right place at the right time: Chicago in the 1980s. This Little Amsterdam Improv Club Launched Big American Careers 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

In the corner of the room, Eduardito Borges, an aspiring reggaeton star known as El Mascara, closed his eyes as the hair washer massaged his hair in the sink. Forget Retro. The Men of Havana Embrace the Reggaeton Look. 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

Automobiles, which sometimes aspire to be spaceships, seem to want to lose their old-fashioned door handles. Design: Some Handles Go Into Hiding; Others Make Grand Entrance 2011-07-03T03:27:01Z

The film, written by Matt Greenhalgh, aspires to be a much more modest British answer to “Citizen Kane,” especially in its portrait of a mogul as failed star maker. Movie Review: ‘The Look of Love’ Stars Steve Coogan as a Sex Impresario 2013-07-04T20:55:14Z

Perhaps inspired by his experience, the young protagonist, who now works at a cinema himself and is an aspiring film editor. Berlinale film shows refugees' lives at historic airport 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

The poignancy of a life snuffed out too soon pervades the show, attesting to the Basquiat allure that has captivated aspiring painters, graffiti artists, museum curators and moneyed collectors. Sweeping Basquiat Show Curated by His Sisters Offers Intimate Look at the Artist 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

People who vote aspire to fit in with the people around them, or want to be seen as the type of person who does what's right. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Sasha Issenberg on the Science of Campaigns 2012-10-10T17:34:32Z

It aspires to become a showplace for the discovery and exploration of American literature, and it pretty much started in late 2009 when my office phone rang. Where do art and the humanities belong? David Kipen on the new American Writers Museum 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

And he is still teaching at 90, holding one-on-one counseling sessions for accomplished and aspiring writers at a round wooden table close to those bookshelves. William Zinsser, Author of ‘On Writing Well,’ at His Work 2013-04-28T16:18:48Z

If Hope's combination of versatility and ubiquity will likely never be matched, it's at least been aspired to by multi-hyphenate entertainers such as Mel Brooks, Steve Martin and Neil Patrick Harris. Four ways Bob Hope conquered the entertainment world 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

The volume of lab films reaching competition could be dismissed as a fluke: a particularly strong group of aspiring filmmakers succeeded in making a particularly strong batch of movies. This Year, Sundance Will Savor Its Homegrown Projects 2011-01-18T23:19:16Z

Ros Philips brings Tardis-like powers to her inspired staging of Craig Taylor's miniature dramas, originally serialised in the Guardian and now brought vividly to life as the plays they always aspired to be. One Million Tiny Plays About?Britain 2010-05-23T20:45:00Z

It became communist after World War Two but embraced democracy in 1990 and aspires to join the European Union. Ruined Albanian churches could be tourist magnet if repaired: experts 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Last year two aspiring writers were signed after pitching their manuscripts at the Isle of Man literature festival. Chance for writers to pitch own work 2013-09-19T17:02:43Z

She says she is challenged by the feisty acting and difficult dance turns of the Black Swan character in Swan Lake and aspires for that role. From a Manila slum emerges an unlikely ballerina 2012-12-26T08:31:04Z

“The heart and the intention around Peggy have stayed the same,” said Benton, whose character is an aspiring writer. ‘The Gilded Age’ Finally Arrives on HBO 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

The break-up of Yugoslavia and the start of the Bosnian war in 1992 attracted aspiring journalists to the region, hoping to make a name for themselves on the front line. Last night's TV 2010-05-25T07:00:00Z

Earlier this year, as Strickland Banks was breaking big, Drew approached Microwave, Film London's micro-budget funding service for aspiring filmmakers. Plan B: 'Strickland Banks may be soul, but it's still real life' 2010-12-16T22:29:00Z

Ms. Fleming taught a session to a group of aspiring high school students, not just encouraging them but also bending over volunteers and squeezing their backs to improve their breathing. The Diva Departs: Renée Fleming’s Farewell to Opera 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

For “Anger,” which was seen at the Humana Festival in Louisville last year, aspires to more than caricatures of dangerously devolved masculinity. Review: ‘Do You Feel Anger’ Plumbs the Depths of Office Humor 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

But it remained a station for American expats curious about the Top Forty power ballads and soft-rock hits from back home, and locals who aspired to a future somewhere else. Listening to George Michael in Taiwan 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

It centered on a young black aspiring writer and his interactions with the residents of the apartment building where he worked as a janitor. James Alan McPherson, first black writer to win Pulitzer Prize in fiction, dies at 72 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

It’s what most good first novels merely aspire to be.” William McPherson, Book Critic and Novelist, Dies at 84 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

In the culturally aspiring movie world of 1964, it was possible to film the same basic story as “Gladiator” and actually have the dying Emperor Marcus Aurelius use a phrase like “Pax Romana.” Movies 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

The opening ceremony concluded with the hosts, standing beneath a sculpted dove, announcing that the festival would showcase films from countries opposed to war and “aspiring to a beautiful and peaceful life.” In North Korea, an International Film Festival Where ‘Self-Reliance’ Is the Star 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Prosecutors meanwhile argued that the actress was the victim of manipulation, and was prevented from acting freely by the power gap between Weinstein, a major Hollywood producer, and Mann, an unknown aspiring actress. Analysis | Harvey Weinstein accuser Jessica Mann’s dramatic testimony is a new kind of test in sex-crime trials 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

The world is full of aspiring theatre directors. Want to be a theatre director? Here are my 10 top survival tips | John Caird 2010-03-23T12:12:00Z