| 单词 | mercurial |
| 例句 | There are the flaws everyone’s allowed to see—his big mouth, his mercurial temper, his searing impulses—and then there’s this. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He was in a mercurial Hastings temper, and a halter and chain looped over his bridle barely restrained him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the punishment inflicted by the Council his mercurial spirit had fallen low and he had become the apathetic wretch the sight of whom had so much shocked Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Her personality was too big and mercurial to be contained in a frail human body. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z In Lagos, the harmattan was a mere veil of haze, but in Nsukka, it was a raging, mercurial presence; the mornings were crisp, the afternoons ashen with heat, and the nights unknown. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Ac-cording to members of the extended family, his moods can be dark and mercurial, although they say his famous temper has lost much of its volatility in recent years. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Kendra relished being part of the mercurial procession, overjoyed at the fortunate ending to the terrible night. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Once in a while Lainie suggests that we follow it around ourselves but I think that would only be a temporary solution, we are too mercurial for our own good.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And in one great mercurial swing, Alex is not just angry anymore. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Then, mercurially, as though he’d read the letter, by God, for the last time in his life, he stuffed it like so much excelsior into its envelope. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z His most important question was whether the mercurial and messianic Teller could manage anybody. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A battle raged between two titans: the professor Booker T. Washington and the brilliant, mercurial, and quarrelsome W. E. B. Du Bois. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In the context of Jim Crow, though, her success is precarious, dependent once again on the toxic insecurities and mercurial passions of her white neighbors. Review | ‘The Revisioners’ reminds us of slavery’s long reach, through the generations 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z If this approach — steadfastly resigned rather than mercurial — made for static storytelling, it paid off in Grimes’s climactic mad scene. Review: Opera Stars Take On an Omicron-Battered Vienna 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z And with a voice as magically mercurial as its plot, “The Underground Railroad” won a National Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize and, most important, Oprah’s blessing. Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Though in reality, the market for small-batch goods can be mercurial. My virtual life as a jam maker in "Stardew Valley," where small-batch food takes down Big Business 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Guccione's staff, which included family members, often described the publisher as mercurial. Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione dies at 79 2010-10-21T02:03:00Z The brooding Courtney also impresses with his mercurial turn as a man who is wary of these strangers and exudes menace. "Does trauma-bonding negate the love?": Stars Erin Moriarty and Jai Courtney talk "Catching Dust" 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Former colleagues describe Lack as mercurial and demanding. Andrew Lack takes command of NBC's troubled news operation 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z A born performer with a personality profile that might best be described as mercurially shy, Adams doubled as a free-associating stand-up comedian Monday. Ryan Adams at 9:30 Club: Performer and his fans find a comfort zone in D.C. show He got Brown’s gunshot kinetics and percussive way with a conversation, his allure and mercurial short fuse. It’s Hard to Make Dignity Interesting. Chadwick Boseman Found a Way. 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z The tone is mercurial, offsetting pathos with humour. Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I can no longer hide’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z In this way, the composition recalled some of the mercurial, charming entries in Mr. Wolff’s early series of “Exercises.” Review: Nate Wooley’s Festival Delivers a New, Idiosyncratic Repertoire for Trumpet 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z In recent years, though, mercurial chefs, photogenic plates of grub and kitchen dramatics have been everywhere, especially reality television, both lowbrow and high-end. Review: ‘Burnt,’ With Bradley Cooper as a Chef Fresh From Rehab 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Phil six years ago, but at 73, Argerich has lost nothing of her fleetness of touch at the keyboard or her mercurial manner. Martha Argerich mesmerizes the L.A. Phil 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Given the ideological and mercurial biases of the corporate press, there are ground for suspicion that book critics, journalists and obituary writers have reason to overlook Didion's political work that goes beyond popular reputation. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Davis’s mercurial temperament is the fulcrum of “Miles Ahead,” which focuses on the trumpeter’s unhinged quest to recover a stolen tape of his last recording session. Here’s how Miles Davis and Nina Simone were alike and different 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The abbess, I suppose, wanted to keep her sick and mercurial charge happy. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z This may not be the way you’d always want to hear this mercurial symphony; here it seemed well outside Stalin’s shadow. Review: Semyon Bychkov Makes the Philharmonic an Event 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Both Mr. Cohen and his song are fascinatingly mercurial, with the power to move their admirers in mysterious ways. Books of The Times: ‘The Holy or the Broken’ by Alan Light 2012-12-09T22:49:21Z Newspaper accounts often liken him to the mercurial characters found in Southern Gothic novels. 'Art and Craft': The life and times of Mark Landis, devoted forger 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z It was not always easy to be a friend of Charles, and Mr. Layne survived — with a submissive grace — the designer’s mercurial personality. Charles James and Me 2014-04-23T23:10:18Z During a house dance battle tucked in before intermission, two dancers known as Spex and Poker faced off with mercurial moves. Dance Review: E-Moves Presents New Choreographers at Harlem Stage 2014-04-13T21:12:20Z His mercurial stage presence and rapid ascent suggests he is getting it right. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Lorin Maazel, the brilliant and mercurial American conductor whose artistic journey went from child prodigy to leader of some of the world’s top classical music institutions, died Sunday morning at his home in Castleton, Va. Lorin Maazel, child prodigy turned brilliant conductor and festival founder: 1930-2014 In a richly colored and intensely dramatic performance, the Utrecht players conveyed the captivating strangeness of this brooding, mercurial 30-minute work. Music Review: Utrecht String Quartet at the Frick Collection 2013-01-22T23:00:32Z The buzz: "As a mercurial experiment in home recording, Unknown Mortal Orchestra lines up nicely with the ex-Beatle's McCartney and McCartney II LPs" – avclub.com. New band of the day ? No 1,060: Unknown Mortal Orchestra 2011-07-12T16:06:16Z His Hamlet is antic, mercurial, unpredictable, but each line of verse comes across clearly, almost conversationally. Oscar Isaac’s Mom Died. Now He’s Working Out His Grief in ‘Hamlet.’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z We hear, too, from the woman’s mother, Bella, who recounts how badly she wanted her mercurial daughter to need her when she was younger. These Are Not Your G-Rated Fairy Tales 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z It was far too limpid, mercurial and seemingly fragile, a complex whisper when other bands were gnashing and barking. Playlist : Music by Wild Flag, Lindsey Buckingham and the Raincoats 2011-09-10T00:08:45Z With a poetic libretto and mercurial score, its ideas shift in and out of focus, slippery and only suggested: the ephemerality of inspiration; the stifling frustration of doubt; the ecstasy of cultivating beauty. Review: A New Opera Pays Poetic Tribute to the Creative Process 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Like the mercurial Flitcroft, Rylance enjoys defying audience expectations and slipping back and forth between roles at either end of the energy spectrum. Mark Rylance on ‘Jerusalem’ and the Golf Comedy ‘Phantom of the Open’ 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z The sparse, anguished tone of Eötvös's music is often in stark contrast to the mercurial wit of the original, making the action seem infinitely more wrenching. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z It was just very mercurial — and a relationship that echoed things with his dad and with Eugene Landy. Heroes and Villains: Love & Mercy's Paul Dano on Playing Brian Wilson 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Her observations nonetheless have a mercurial illumination that’s tinged with an occasional flash of charmingly corny humor and folksy wisdom. A Brilliant, Unknown Memoir About Classic Hollywood 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z A mercurial movie star and his best buds get back in business with his former agent, now a studio head, in this follow-up to the HBO series. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Her heroines can be funny, brave and resilient for sure, but she is just as concerned with showing them as mean, mercurial, judgmental and passive. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z For those looking to discuss the cultural effects of musical artist and Twitter enthusiast Kanye West, Washington University is now teaching a class on the mercurial rapper. You Can Now Take a College Class on 'The Politics of Kanye' 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z The lighting reflects Hedda’s mercurial moods, and so do the menacing hums and growls of the sound design. A manic ‘Hedda’ sails ’round the bend at Studio Theatre 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z It is lush with flowing melody, full of warm emotion and highly dramatic in its mercurial shifts through a dynamic range from fortissimo to triple p. Music Review: Musica Sacra at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle ? Review 2011-10-16T22:47:40Z Not like a star, but I’m mercurial, and if I was, like, having some sort of tizzy, he’d say, ‘I’m going to get cigarettes and I’ll bring you a black and white cookie.’ Cher Talks About (What Else?) Being Cher 2013-07-03T20:32:07Z Quick-witted and no-nonsense, Ms. Weymouth is more like her steely grandmother than her famously demanding and mercurial mother. Katharine Weymouth Takes Charge at the Washington Post 2013-08-02T20:48:16Z Retna’s art is too mercurial to stay attached to opera for long. Perspective | This legendary street artist has done walls, shoes and Bieber albums. Now he’s trying opera. 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Lasting about nine minutes, this work is a colorful, mercurial, deftly orchestrated piece. Christopher Rouse and EarShot Premieres From Philharmonic 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Though when one hears him speak as a commentator on Sky Sports, it's hard not to wonder if there is anyone less Dylanesque and mercurial in the world. The Duckworth Lewis Method: 'Cricket forces you to sit on your arse, which is healthy' 2013-06-22T23:05:08Z Here, you might imagine, is the mercurial spirit of the masquerade itself. ‘Disguise: Masks and Global African Art,’ Where Tradition Meets Avant-Garde 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The music, mercurially shifting to accommodate the diverse worlds of the stories, is by Stephen Flaherty. 'In Your Arms' a pleasing, sketch-heavy dance-musical at the Old Globe 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Her reputation as mercurial, moody and combative was well established, and she did little to dispel this image in her memoir, “I Put a Spell on You.” Nina Simone, Diva Out of Carolina 2010-02-26T16:31:00Z You then heard those elements in context during a potent, mercurial account of the work’s first two movements. Classical-Music Station Sponsors a Week of Chamber Works, On and Off the Air 2011-04-06T21:30:07Z He was nothing if not mercurial, and this viewer-friendly show captures his infectious fluidity over eight decades like no Picasso exhibition I have ever seen. Art Review: What the Peripatetic Picasso Kept in His Closets 2011-03-10T23:11:06Z In a popular series of New Yorker vignettes, Hahn transformed him into Pan Heh-ven, a mercurial poet who mouths Confucian maxims with a lilting Cambridge accent. Getting to the Bottom of a Mickey Hahn Mystery 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z But with Wilder’s passing last week, the world also mourned the passing of the man synonymous with that of the mercurial candy man. 'I wanted to be Willy Wonka': how Gene Wilder inspired future pastry chefs 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z On his superb new album Bird Songs, a set of adventurous interpretations of Charlie Parker classics, the gifted American saxophonist demonstrates what he means, but keeps the mercurial source material explicitly displayed. Joe Lovano Us Five ? review 2011-03-30T18:15:00Z The only natural here is Charlie Watts, who is both mercurial and charming. Rough Stones 2012-11-05T16:09:28Z Figuring it out by doing all of her scenes with the mercurial Mr. Phoenix was more relief than challenge, she said. Teyonah Parris, Katherine Waterston and Others Break Through 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Upset about a rule preventing them from sliding into first base, the mercurial tribesmen revolt against Fairsmith. Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Scott Weiland, the American musician whose mercurial vocals were a signature of the rock band he co-founded, Stone Temple Pilots, and who later sang lead in Velvet Revolver, died Thursday in Minnesota. Scott Weiland, Former Singer of Stone Temple Pilots, Dies at 48 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Throughout this mercurial movement, he played with an uncanny blend of deliberate direction and halting expressivity. Music Review: An Intimate Entree, Escorted by Beethoven 2014-03-13T22:21:16Z The band's first UK tour in years typifies their mercurial but baffling career. Earth, Wind & Fire 2010-07-25T21:30:00Z A wispy motif that alternated with dramatic moments anchored the mirthful but mercurial opening movement. In Aizuri Quartet, a natural bond and a captivating performance 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z It derives in part from the city's mercurial and intangible spirituality, rich in symbols, occult meanings, numerology, syncretism between Catholicism and magic, between scintillescent sunlight and deep shadow – and the cult of death. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z Her mercurial, dramatic songs aren’t tied to the standard forms or plain rhetoric of the blues or pop. New Music: New Albums by Trixie Whitley and Kris Kristofferson 2013-01-28T22:36:50Z Downey Jr is on fine form as the titular mercurial mogul and, in an age when we have to endure Elon Musk and his unwieldy submarine, Stark’s persona seems charm itself. The 20 best Marvel films – ranked! 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Suddenly, she found herself a near-constant presence by Mr. Trump’s side, flying in his jet, living rent-free in a Trump-owned apartment and attending to his mercurial moods. The Woman Who ‘Totally Understands’ Donald Trump 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Cerebral but disarmingly earthy, mercurial, self-protective, and intolerant of imperfections in all things, particularly music, he was as complex and uncategorizable as his sui generis music. Dr. Funky Butt and Me: My Friendship with the Real Donald Shirley 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z This year, in addition to the safe pleasures of La bohème, it unearthed a forgotten work by the mercurial Stephen Oliver, who died of Aids in 1992. In the Penal Colony; Don Pasquale; La boh?me/Euridice; Chilingirian Quartet 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Though she doesn't seem the kind of mercurial Schumann player who is going to be at her best in works such as Carnaval or Kreisleriana, the bigger-boned pieces might suit her very well. Yulianna Avdeeva – review 2013-02-06T17:57:28Z Bates’s music is too fluid and mercurial for such easy labels. A composer offers the field just what it needs 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z He meticulously charts his subject’s path from striving club comic to mercurial star. What silenced the laughs for Mort Sahl, the once towering American comic? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The problem with that, though, is that you're not Chris Morris, so to try and second-guess this mercurial satirist will always be fruitless. This week's new DVD and Blu-ray 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z Posies enthusiasts, meanwhile, would do well to check out the similarly mercurial power pop of Gibraltar, or the more British Invasion-inspired Stag. Macefield fest brings The Sonics, Posies, THEESatisfaction and others to Ballard 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Streisand’s characters constitute this cocktail of “mercurial” and “determined” with a couple squirts of “feral.” Barbra Streisand Is Ready to Tell All. Pull Up a Seat. 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z Given Schrader’s experience with Lohan and Pryor, we can take it that the director has learned a thing or two about how to deal with mercurial talent. Paul Schrader: ‘I’ve made some important films. Dog Eat Dog is not one of them’ 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Lisiecki’s willingness to recede into the sonic background did not convey the teeming, mercurial atmosphere of this Romantic war horse. Music Review: Jan Lisiecki Makes Debut With New York Philharmonic 2012-12-14T22:19:09Z Mr. Dean’s 25-minute concerto, in a single movement with five sections, is an intensely dramatic and mercurial piece. Review: She Returns to Lead the Philharmonic. For Real, This Time. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Is the era of mercurial jerk geniuses coming back? Dara Khosrowshahi, Dad of Silicon Valley 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z The portraits etched by the mercurial Giancarlo Esposito, on the other hand, are so distinct that you can imagine them playing scenes off each other. Giancarlo Esposito, an Actor Known for Divergent Roles 2012-06-01T04:30:02Z This is all the more frustrating because ambivalence is baked into the title song, which alludes to the city’s mercurial temperament. ‘New York, New York’ Review: The Big Apple, Without Bite 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The political climate is particularly bitter, and we're dealing with a president who is mercurial on the best of days. HBO's "The Outsider" to "Wrinkles the Clown" – why the boogeyman is all over our TVs 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z While the mercurial Westerberg has always been regarded as the public face and chief behind-the-scenes creative force for the band, it’s Bob who emerges in the book as its heart and soul. Why Rock Criticism Was Essential to the Replacements 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z She describes Leo as mercurial, jealous and prone to rages — a demanding husband and father who, in 30 years, never spent time at the bedside of a sick child. ‘A Couple’ Review: Tolstoy Story 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z At a time when much of the world’s focus is on North Korea’s mercurial leadership and nuclear capabilities, this studio’s work is quietly making its way beyond the borders of that hermit kingdom. Cambodia’s New Angkor Museum, Created by a North Korean Art Factory 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Its central role for Taylor Stanley, a mixed-race dancer, was mercurial, slippery, hard to classify. Kyle Abraham Wants You to See Another Side of Misty Copeland 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z It depended too much on feelings, and in my father’s line of work and in his own life experience, feelings were unreliable, mercurial, even dangerous, for everybody concerned. Obama as folk hero: To be what he’s trying to be — black, idealistic and president — is nothing less than superhuman 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Lately, the weather has been so mercurial that figuring out what to wear has become the fashion equivalent of Russian roulette. Noticed: This Year?s Fashion Is Sometimes as Fickle as the Weather, Literally 2012-03-30T22:20:01Z Biba Bell, Jmy Leary, Paige Martin: any of these beguiling, smart, mercurial women would be reason enough to attend a show. The Week Ahead: April 17 ? 23 2011-04-15T14:13:52Z The first violin, he said, was intended to be "fantastic, ornate and mercurial"; the second was "laconic and orderly"; the viola was "expressive"; and the cello was "somewhat impetuous." Award-winning U.S. composer Elliott Carter dies at 103 2012-11-06T00:53:04Z The Schumann, a profound, mercurial and emotionally complex work, suffered from a careful tempo and sometimes plodding phrasing. A mixed bag from six young musicians (and from the judges) 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z "He was articulate beyond belief, fertile, with a mercurial, wicked sense of humour and limitless imagination," Vick says. Helicopter opera set for take off 2012-08-17T16:48:16Z But the ocean’s wilderness and the North Atlantic’s mercurial weather predominate. Read Your Way Through Newfoundland 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z And all without the slow grind of a marketing campaign; set beside the mercurial business of Bowie, the movie industry appears to be forged from lead. David Bowie in the Movies 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z What delusional grandeur made me think I could tame the unpredictable, mercurial and gloriously messy ride known as life? If this is my final tweet 2012-06-29T23:30:00Z This clunky Vinnie Jones time capsule – a soccer-focused redo of The Longest Yard – features a young Statham as mercurial goalie Monk, daydreaming of making cartwheeling saves against a team of lousy screws. Every Jason Statham film - ranked! 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z They talk on the phone nearly every day, make the same facial expressions, laugh at the same dirty jokes, have the same mercurial temper. Modern Love: A Brother?s Need, a Sister?s Gift 2010-07-16T16:53:00Z The mercurial comedy of Wilder’s flamboyantly aphoristic script shows them to be more or less clueless—except for one thing. The Goofball Criminals of Paul Schrader’s “Dog Eat Dog” 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Parkinson is a marvelously mercurial Henry, a cautionary example of what happens when we attribute divine rights to mortals with all-too-human impulses and superstitions. London Theater Journal: Shadowlands 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z As our mercurial political conditions change — on him and everyone else — prop open doors back to the truth. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: They stayed away to protect his health, but covid-denier dad sees it differently 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z But the relationship at the heart of this novel — between Jo and her mercurial mother — is much closer to timeless. In This Novel, Witchcraft Makes Women Powerful, and Vulnerable 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z The opening work, Schumann’s stormy “Manfred” Overture, got a large-scale, expansive reading that fully realized the score’s furious energy and mercurial character. Incandescent talent of cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and conductor Ruth Reinhardt shine with Seattle Symphony 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Amazon has struggled to get its TV originals right, but it made a perfect start with this mercurial, millennial dramedy. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Both films highlight the mischievous, mercurial aspects of Mr. Dylan’s personality, while also providing undeniable proof of his musical prowess and incidental proof that he was, indeed, a young man once. Critic?s Notebook: His Back Pages, Captured on Film 2011-05-17T19:00:20Z Choreographer Molly Scott and Powell seem to read each other's minds with a lithe, mercurial accuracy. Review: 'Home' is a sweet place that can't be nailed down in Scott/Powell Performance's sumptuous performance 2010-05-21T17:12:00Z He may be benign, but he has a mercurial wit, a cartoonist's eye for the telling gesture, a spiky morality, a gleeful touch of anarchy. Quentin Blake at 80: the illustrator's magical art 2012-12-14T22:55:10Z He also handled the work's mercurial twists and turns, its mordant and abrupt stops and starts, with a kaleidoscopic array of effects. Review: Symphony does Prokofiev proud 2010-04-02T18:57:00Z I’ve been under the ministrations of many physical therapists who knead and rub and press my mercurial, angry psoas. But what if I actually need painkillers? 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Transactions are like song and dance routines, and so, of course, much of the action in “The Pig” is actual song and dance, offering mercurial yet robust shifts in tone. Theater Review: ‘The Pig, or Vaclav Havel’s Hunt for a Pig,’ a Wry Czech Tale 2014-03-12T16:30:28Z She was mercurial: cold, critical, withholding at some moments, rage-filled and verbally abusive at others. Sherman Alexie on his new memoir, his mother and politics as usual 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Ai’s work is rooted in conceptual art and dadaism; mercurial Marcel Duchamp remains a vital touchstone. Ai Weiwei: ‘Without the prison, the beatings, what would I be? 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z It’s the reason she’s had to “walk on eggshells” around his mercurial moods. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: ‘King Kong’ Ding-Dong 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z The Mimi-Harry romance proceeds swimmingly, but it also sweeps before it much of the novel's initial, mercurial appeal. Mimi by Lucy Ellmann – review 2013-02-15T08:01:01Z He then navigates what could be a cruel and mercurial Hollywood world, finding initial success by writing children's TV shows such as "He-Man," "She-Ra" and "The Real Ghostbusters." Comics and sci-fi powerhouse J. Michael Straczynski has an incredible origin story of his own 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Ax deftly navigated the concerto’s mercurial quick-cuts in his scintillating and colorful performance, qualities matched by Mr. Gilbert and the impressive Philharmonic players. Review: Concert Hall, Meet Cabaret 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The mercurial superstar announced Tuesday that he's released "Breakfast Can Wait." Prince delivers 'Breakfast' for his new song 2013-09-03T12:51:44Z In the face of feckless leadership from the shift supervisor, a foul-mouthed and mercurial Jehovah's Witness named Marío Sepúlveda steps to the fore, rallying his companions to keep the faith in their darkest hours. Hector Tobar's 'Deep Down Dark' chronicles Chile's mine-shaft miracle 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z And Arkady is being uncharacteristically mercurial when he suddenly calls a halt to Operation Zephyr. 'The Americans' Recap: It Means Nothing to Me 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z One witness was a former assistant for the R&B singer who echoed testimony of other ex-employee s describing his mercurial behavior and the control he exerted on everyone around him. R. Kelly behavior mirrors abuse tactics, expert witness says 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z During one stretch, she found common ground between two of Brahms’s searching intermezzos and a few of Chopin’s mercurial, lilting mazurkas. Two Pianists Test the Meaning of Virtuosity 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Grime's chamber pieces express a dreamlike tranquillity one minute and explosive brutality the next, reflecting the mercurial nature of Schoenberg's own settings. Hebrides Ensemble | Classical review 2010-03-16T22:15:00Z Matthew Morrison, recently of the TV show Glee, is more convincing and relatable as Barrie than the moony and mercurial Johnny Depp in the film. 'Finding Neverland' and 'The Visit': Two Musicals to Savor 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z In his first extended action on “The Walking Dead,” Mr. Morgan shifted seamlessly between malevolence and mercurial charm, reveling in the character’s overblown mannerisms while keeping him grounded in a calculating intelligence. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Premiere: Negan’s Victim Is Revealed 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Writing music for dance, he said, had made him aware that while the mind can move “in mercurial, intellectual directions,” the body is very different. An ‘Allegory for Our Times’: The Royal Ballet’s ‘Dante Project’ 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Captain Beefheart had a mercurial reputation; his music could be impenetrable, he could be imperious. The night Captain Beefheart drove me into the hills in a red Corvette 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z There might have been something more nerve-wracking than being an opponent to world chess champion Bobby Fischer, and that was being the mercurial man's minder. 'Pawn Sacrifice' film captures chess drama of Fischer-Spassky face-off 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z One surreal night in 2010, a team of forensic specialists under orders from Venezuela’s mercurial president, Hugo Chávez, lifted a coffin lid on live television. Review | ‘Two Spies in Caracas’ conjures international intrigue in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z “She has a great warmth about her and a mercurial quality,” he said of her Amanda. She and Her New City: Kim Cattrall Does London 2010-04-02T15:08:00Z He also again displayed his penchant for mercurial cruelty, braining the messenger who brought shaming news of the king’s aid in the failing Stepstones war effort. ‘House of the Dragon,’ Season 1, Episode 3: Two Targaryen Hunts 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z In Ford’s portrait, Henry is weary, choleric and mercurial, while Catherine is completely sympathetic, nothing like the girl — frivolous and promiscuous — that many historians describe. Review | Fans of Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy will want to read these historical novels next 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z As the Royal Academy's forthcoming exhibition Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album shows, the mercurial actor took to photography in his own instinctive and utterly obsessive way. Dennis Hopper's Lost Album: life both sides of the lens 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z She is rather mercurial, but her behavior is not unjustified. “Breaking Bad” star Betsy Brandt on carrying the indie film “Claire in Motion” 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z But for even the mercurial Cage, “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” which opens in theaters Friday, represents something different. Nicolas Cage faces off with a new foe: Himself 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z A mercurial personality who could flip from naked neediness to towering rage, Mr. Lewis seemed to contain multitudes, and he explored all of them. Jerry Lewis, Mercurial Comedian and Filmmaker, Dies at 91 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The pair last collaborated on the 2007 film I’m Not There, a fractured, skittish Bob Dylan biopic in which six actors were cast as the mercurial singer. Cate Blanchett: ‘I used to be very socially awkward’ 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Reviving “Roseanne,” even with its hallowed status in the realm of TV sitcoms, was particularly tricky given the mercurial nature of its star and announced political leanings on its central figure. Without Roseanne, who are “The Conners” now? 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z But the mercurial professor suspects that the young man is a spy dispatched by his archenemy, Professor Edward Drinker Cope. Dinosaurs — and Michael Crichton — roar again in ‘Dragon Teeth’ 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z He could be mercurial, irresponsible; "Some nights I could not tell," Hirsch recalls, "If he was the wrecking ball / Or the building it crashed into." Edward Hirsch's ode to a lost son 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z If the Intiman Theatre saga was a play, it would be a mercurial drama plotted with booms and busts, colorful characters, anticlimaxes and reversals. Analysis: What's the next act for Intiman Theatre? 2011-04-22T03:11:04Z Off-screen, he often was described as mercurial and found himself at the center of altercations and ugly disputes. Omar Sharif, international heartthrob of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and ‘Doctor Zhivago,’ dies at 83 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z He extended the capacious, dramatic sound and modern harmonic ideas of Coleman Hawkins and Chu Berry from the 1930s, as well as the streamlined and mercurial improvising of Paul Gonsalves. Music Review: A Jazz Pianist Pays Tribute to a Neglected Composer 2009-12-17T06:09:00Z Feaver, a British art critic, draws on his conversations with the famously private painter, interviews with Freud’s family and friends, and more for this examination of a mercurial, manipulative and brilliant artist. 13 New Books to Watch For in January 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z So I turned, as I often do, to Bobby DeMasco, the occasionally mercurial owner of Pierless Fish Corp, one of the country’s truly great premium fish wholesalers. Porgy is the trash fish of the summer 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Ms. Heredia’s mercurial, impassioned voice was at the center of the music, moving between clarity and rasp, sorrow and rage, tragedy and exultation. Music Review | Flamenco Festival: Turning Back History: Reuniting Styles Long Divided 2010-02-22T22:49:00Z Unlike, say, Paul Simon, a presenter who toils over his records, perfecting every nuance until everything is just so, Dylan is restless, visceral, mercurial, always seemingly on the way to his next creation. Bob Dylan’s First Day with “Tangled Up in Blue” 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z This leads us, within a couple of episodes, to a fictional world with a strong similarity to “The Devil Wears Prada,” a film about a young woman at the whim of a mercurial boss. Off-pitch ‘Mozart in the Jungle’: Conducting serious actors among classical-music-industry cliches 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Morse's lighting and Matt Starritt's mercurial sound score also contribute to the whole. Intiman's 'Romeo and Juliet' paints full picture of young love, loss 2012-07-16T23:24:04Z His father, who sold office machines, provided a comfortable suburban upbringing, but his personality was mercurial. C.K. Williams, whose conversational poetry drew praise, dies at 78 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Just what is it about the controlling, mercurial vampire Edward Cullen – a character who constantly tells his girlfriend he's dangerous, who constantly polices the couple's sexual boundaries – that they're so drawn to? Stephenie Meyer on Twilight, feminism and true love 2013-03-11T06:00:03Z Schnabel is interested in this difficult, mercurial man and attentive to his hardships. ‘At Eternity’s Gate’ Review: An Exquisite Portrayal of van Gogh at Work 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Parsons has hummingbird-like feet, huge elevation and mercurial leaps, and Brach's porcelain demeanor belies a fierce technique, her back a study in suppleness, her turns precise. In-your-face Tchaikovsky from American Contemporary Ballet 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z What happens when a region’s culinary identity is closely tied to an animal, and that animal is threatened by the mercurial forces of climate change? A California Chef Learns to Swim in Changed Waters 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z In the oddly mercurial way of Eastwood, he might actually have made a film that debunks Trump more brutally than the commentators quietly pointing out that most drugs enter the US in legal border crossings. Beautiful boys acting ugly: why cinema can't kick its drug habit 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z “Lanier is often described as ‘visionary,’ ” Jennifer Kahn wrote in a 2011 New Yorker profile, “a word that manages to convey both a capacity for mercurial insight and a lack of practical job skills.” Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z Will Nolan choose to have her switching sides between the Dark Knight and his enemies, upholding that age-old prejudice, which posits women as unknowable, mercurial creatures? Anne Hathaway's Catwoman walks into a crowded Dark Knight Rises 2011-01-20T14:56:04Z Complex, mercurial, mischievous — he was all those things. The Life of Tobias Wong, Designer 2010-06-25T22:17:00Z He spent all of January 2016 and part of February reconsidering Bowie’s greatest hits and his greatest guises, and the result is “On Bowie,” a book-length eulogy for the mercurial rock star that debuts today. Rob Sheffield: “What I love most about David Bowie is that he celebrated the romance of being a fan.” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Throughout this mercurial novel, playing fast and loose with facts lets richer truths about the world emerge. Álvaro Enrigue’s ‘Sudden Death’ hits history around like a tennis ball 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Zhu fervently conveyed the rhapsodic sweep and mercurial fervor of the music, while bringing out the inner structure that holds it together. Review: Young Concert Artists Is Back, With a Superb Pianist 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z But Owens's singing has sombre magnificence, and Carpenter's mercurial, vibrantly coloured organ arrangement clothes the skeletal frame of the piano score with the richer arraignments of the orchestral version that Shostakovich never lived to hear. Michelangelo Sonnets – review 2013-07-05T16:36:00Z The deal, which made the mercurial Jobs Disney's biggest shareholder, was widely questioned by analysts who believed the price was too dear. How Robert Iger's 'fearless' deal-making transformed Disney 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Hedwig’s personable, mercurial act is as botched as the sex-change operation that left the East Berlin-born lad in a gender netherworld. Review | Morton sings the hot pants off ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ songs 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Bazalgette is more relaxed, louche even, with a confidential manner, a mercurial wit and a face that crinkles easily into a wide smile. How will Arts Council England's new chairman handle funding conundrum? 2013-01-27T13:51:11Z And on his prayerful ballad “Entropy and Time,” which closes the album, Prasanna leads a mercurial recitation, shifting tempos and trusting the others to stay with him. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-14T23:23:56Z Media accounts situated the show as part of a pattern of mercurial behavior, including his quitting his hit show on Comedy Central. Chappelle Returns to Hartford (All Is Forgiven) 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z The women are Balanchine women: mercurial, elusive, conflicted in their independence. Review: City Ballet Celebrates Balanchine and Heeds Mother Nature 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Unlike many legacy rockers, Dylan puts on mercurial live shows, reworking old songs and sometimes disregarding his classic songs. Your week in Seattle music: Bob Dylan, Phish and more 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The largest island was called Robinson Crusoe, as for four years it had been the home of the man on whom Daniel Defoe based his character, in real life the mercurial Scottish mariner Alexander Selkirk. Take the long view: Chile revisited 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z With the strings often evocatively gauzy, wind solos slicing piquantly through the textures, he and Guerrero conveyed the work’s mercurial swerves of mood without affectation or exaggeration. Review: Schumann at the Philharmonic. Robert, Too. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Judging by the images and models of him, Padmasambhava was a genial, if mercurial, teacher, alternately baby-faced and beaming or stern in a nice-dad way. 22 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Karabits's interpretation was taut, mercurial and sharply focused, with a subtle sense of dynamic gradation and a telling but discreet emphasis on Tchaikovsky's shifting instrumental colours. RPO/Karabits – review 2013-03-21T18:17:23Z His frequently sinister, corrosive effects pair with mercurial hip-hop beats for a taut sort of dance melee; “A Color Map of the Sun” is out now. Pop & Rock Music Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T00:54:30Z His performance in Scum began to look like one of those rare, mercurial moments of unrepeatable inspiration – and he admits that, in truth, "technically and all that, I wasn't good enough". 'I used to be a raving lunatic' 2010-09-02T20:00:00Z If you haven’t, there’s still time — Mantel is working on the third novel in the trilogy, in which Thomas Cromwell learns the price of loyalty to a mercurial and desperate king. PBS adaptation of ‘Wolf Hall’ fit for a king 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Glass is mercurial: constantly changing, shifting, reinventing himself. Perspective | If you think you know who Philip Glass is, you probably don’t. 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Certainly as played by Manu Kumasi in Forum Theatre’s “How We Got On,” Hank radiates so much gusto and goofy, mercurial charm that you almost expect all of middle America to convert to hip-hop fandom. Idris Goodwin’s ‘How We Got On’ at Forum Theatre When the dancers paused in a tableau, with Ms. Fenley cast onto her back before women bearing a silver fabric banner, you could imagine an epic, mercurial battle. Dance Review: Molissa Fenley and Dancers at Judson Memorial Church - Review 2012-01-10T23:37:41Z Most likely it's both – another of those darting, mercurial studies in grey from the man who made Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood. The Master trailer: will Paul Thomas Anderson's film inspire devotion? 2012-07-20T14:10:48Z At times, it’s hard to keep up — but a mercurial stream of facts and anecdotes is only apt. New & Noteworthy, From Astrophysics to Reading Nabokov 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Her father is an opium addict and a mercurial disciplinarian who remarries upon his divorce from Julie’s mother. A Fictional Heroine’s Fitful Upbringing Is Set Against the Sino-Japanese War 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Elsewhere the mercurial Sterling Ruby offers a mural-scale wall sculpture in the form of two cartoon mouths with pointy teeth dripping gobbets of blood. Art in Review: ?SOFT MACHINES? 2011-07-28T19:49:51Z Why is the identity of motherhood so vexed and so mercurial? What a mother should be 2013-05-12T10:00:00Z This shifting, mercurial work, alive with gurgling rhythmic figures and skittish violin bursts, was inspired by three Chagall paintings of Old Testament subjects. Critic’s Notebook: Under Leif Ove Andsnes, Ojai Festival Enjoys Long Scandinavian Nights 2012-06-12T21:53:19Z This natural, mercurial rebel found that a bigoted put-down in the press could never be ruled out. Film review: Gainsbourg (Vie H?ro?que) 2010-07-29T21:25:00Z A conductor could interpret the music as Classical, but Rizzi has been working with the Met Orchestra to bring out the mercurial tumult that courses through Cherubini’s instrumental writing. The Met Opera Takes on ‘Medea’ in the Shadow of Maria Callas 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z He obtained a similar effect with Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” draining much of the mercurial color and interest from Ravel’s extravagant orchestration. Kavakos ends two-week NSO residency by taking up the baton 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z It’s a marvellous, mercurial ghost story, haunted by anonymous text messages as Maureen juggles her shopping duties with attempts to make contact with her dead twin brother. Kristen Stewart: ‘It's not confusing if you’re bisexual. For me, it’s the opposite’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Yet an overall sense of trajectory, melding Schumann’s mercurial moods into a kaleidoscopic narrative, never quite materialized. A promising piano program but a flawed execution at the Phillips 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z In her new book, “The Palace Papers,” Tina Brown takes on a centuries-old institution of strong personalities, byzantine rules, a definite pecking order and mercurial public support. Tina Brown Catches Up With Royal Intrigue in ‘The Palace Papers’ 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z But he struggles more with the other, mercurial side of Hildy -- the crucial edge and drive that makes him a pea in a pod with editor Burns. 'The Front Page': Easy laughs in era when newspapers were king 2011-04-17T22:22:01Z But she carries a similarly restless, mercurial air. Kristin Scott Thomas: ‘For me, Brexit is a disaster – talk about not knowing where you belong’ 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z The next day, a fall morning that reflected a mercurial mix of light and dark like a spun nickel, I met Doug at the Walmart in Aberdeen. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z Traditional south Indian food was something I craved now and then, but it was also time-consuming and mercurial, so I devoted my energy elsewhere. How I became the keeper of my mother-in-law’s spinach rice recipe 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z The mercurial climate that England has experienced this June, in which several seasons seem to be jostling for primacy, matches the amiably balanced and accepting nature of Mr. Dromgoole's interpretation. ArtsBeat: In London, a 'Henry V' That Doesn't Take Sides 2012-06-27T15:15:09Z Shaham is a mercurial violinist with a silvery, slippery tone beautifully employed in the opening solo. Leonard Slatkin is traditional and bracing at Hollywood Bowl 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z And her resplendent voice matches her mercurial character’s every emotional shift. How to Keep a Musical Great: Call Heather Headley and Marin Mazzie 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The mercurial artist’s singular blend of deadpan delivery and self-aware silliness was fully present in his latest left turn, a show titled “New Worlds,” presented Friday to a full house at Strathmore. Review | With Bill Murray, crossing a bridge from America past to America present 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Her mother is a mercurial, sarcastic woman whose “tenderness was as devastating as her viciousness.” Review | A daughter searches for her mother’s secrets in Kashmir but finds only more questions 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z A biographical drama about Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of the Beach Boys. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z But lately, with the mercurial weather and my new dog-walking schedule, I’ve found myself caught in bright sun showers, swampy mists and downright tempests. Williamstown Theater Festival Tries to Weather the Storms 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z What is more unearthly than the bodies of jellyfish “in a furnace of colour” or the mercurial limbs of the octopus? Review | In ‘Washington Black,’ a 19th-century slave escapes on a balloon 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Banks’ voice, so crisp and commanding when Interpol played classics like “Evil” and “Slow Hands” that night, became more mercurial. Interpol classes up the Paramount, expanding on their instantly recognizable sound 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z When the late, great Michel Richard opened Central, he made sure one wall featured a giant portrait of himself, but given his mercurial personality it seemed more charming than anything. Branded, and over it: You don’t have to sell me on the place I chose to eat in. 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z He was offering, with some provocation, a defense of his latest character — a brilliant, mercurial midcentury couture designer at the center of Paul Thomas Anderson’s lush new psychosexual drama “Phantom Thread.” Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson on How They Created ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Cumberbatch's portrayal of Assange is cagey, mercurial — his eyes, even when he dead stares at the camera, insist he is thinking two, three, six steps ahead of everyone else. Celebrating Benedict Cumberbatch's best movie misfits 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Though far too mercurial to be labelled tragedy or comedy, Tom Stoppard's English version – first produced by the Bridge Project at the Old Vic last year – suggests that it is all a question of perspective. The Cherry Orchard - review 2010-10-22T20:30:00Z The primal energy of dancing and chanting, running and jumping, and exulting in a newfound freedom is amplified by the free and fast, mercurial and thrusting, stunned and wide-eyed camera work. A Lost Masterwork Is Found: Thomas White's “Who's Crazy?” 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z During passages of this mercurial, mostly subdued piece, the music shifted from sustained, focused and elemental sonorities, to passages of swaying rhythmic figures and collective bursts of fidgety lines. The Philharmonic Takes New Music Beyond Geffen Hall 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Events like this were strangely not anathema to Chilton, who reformed Big Star when he felt like it, so this should be a testimony to his brilliant, mercurial nature. This week's new live music 2012-05-25T23:05:17Z He was like a businessman; he didn't have that mercurial quality that booms out of him on stage. David Bowie: loving the thespian 2012-08-27T13:53:51Z What follows are excerpts of messages from a number of Fowley admirers -- employees, friends, musicians, fans -- whose experiences with the mercurial music man shine a brighter light on a Los Angeles original: Friends, colleagues, fans recall Kim Fowley as brash but loving 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z On Sunday, Thibaudet played the jazzy, mercurial G Major Piano Concerto of Ravel with his countryman Morlot and the orchestra, proving again the brilliance of his technique and his stylistic mastery of this repertoire. French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet demonstrates his mastery of Ravel 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z As his left hand crashed surprising chords at unexpected moments into the bass, his right hand delivered mercurial, chromatic, exhilaratingly long and vehement high-register runs with a seemingly inexhaustible inventiveness. The Best Jazz Reissues of 2014 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The news, as Mr. Smith made clear, was Mr. Tharaud’s absorbing and mercurial performances. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z People are mercurial, a trait that might account for the constant shifts of mood. Music Review: Rendering Elgar?s Mercurial Impressions 2010-12-10T22:00:00Z The primary relationship, for each character, is with fate — but fate has rarely been so many-faced, so muscular, so mercurial, or so mesmerizing as it is in “A Burning.” A Facebook Post Lands an Innocent Woman in Jail in This Riveting Debut Novel 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Trump is a mercurial narcissist and as prone to making foes into friends within the same Twitter burst, and this is certainly true as it pertains to Fox. What's next for Fox News without its "golden goose" 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z Yet just when Logan’s inner circle thinks that it might finally be free of his mercurial approach to business and family matters, he springs one more annoying surprise from beyond the grave. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 4 Recap: A Coronation Demolition Derby 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Desire is tricky, mercurial, alternately fleeting and enduring, tragic and transcendent. ‘Paris, 13th District’ Review: Groping Toward Happiness 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Douglas is a heart-on-sleeve actor, mercurial and excitable; he has played tough guys and vulnerable guys, heroes and villains. Kirk Douglas at 100: a one-man Hollywood Mount Rushmore 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z This mercurial mix of sumptuous bass clarinet hooks over sparkling percussion, free-jazzy electric guitar breaks, funk-bass strumming and folksy accordion tunes is delivered by the resourceful Portal and a sizeable group. F&M playlist 2010-08-19T22:55:00Z Though he would've loved for the show to continue past its three seasons, that struggle helped him develop a thick skin -- a must in this mercurial business. "Arrested Development" star resurfaces in indie 2011-03-14T22:53:34Z He plays Jax, Bobby’s mercurial, ill-tempered employer and sometime confessor, a kind of Fagin in red bathrobe and slippers. | 'Loosies': ?Loosies,? With Peter Facinelli - Review 2012-01-10T23:32:00Z Almodóvar’s sense of cinema design — the décor simulates a luxe apartment and lays it bare as a soundstage illusion — is acutely keyed to Swinton’s performance here, which projects mercurial emotion with Swiss watch precision. ‘The Human Voice’ Review: Almodóvar Meets Cocteau Meets Swinton 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z This exhibition is a lot easier to get through with Clark’s driving, mercurial, sometimes pioneering intelligence whispering in your ear. Lygia Clark’s Many Twists and Turns, at MoMA 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z No matter; back behind his electronics, he was mathematical and mercurial. Review: PC Music and Sophie in a High-Concept Extravaganza at BRIC House 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z But he also tends to be forgetful, and is often tardy and mercurial. What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Each section of that masterful portrait gallery of the composer's friends had its own color and character, and Dutoit was particularly good at bringing out the light, dancing quality of the more mercurial variations. CSO and soloists shine under Dutoit, but Penderecki piece is dull 2011-03-18T17:25:13Z He was preening, mercurial, a creature of luxurious comforts and particular tastes. Karl Lagerfeld, the Designer Who Dressed to Survive 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Aunt Lydia is a mercurial assassin: a pious leader, a ruthless administrator, a deliciously acerbic confessor. Review | Praise be: Margaret Atwood has published a sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Otherwise, she is magnetic in the role: persuasive, mercurial and occasionally cruel. ‘About Love’ Review: Turgenev With Songs and Heartbreak 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z At first he is curled up, a mercurial foetus; and then, with slow grace, he reorganises his body until one reads him as a hieroglyph, the human form discernible only with effort. Cirque du Soleil: Totem ? review 2011-01-09T00:06:11Z Front and center since day one has been the mercurial dynamic between Tyler and Perry, known for decades as “The Toxic Twins.” Joe Perry: “On stage, we’re the same people we were when we were nineteen years old” 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z In general the players’ energy, sometimes dispensed almost violently, seemed appropriate to these mercurial works. Music Review: The Belcea Quartet Plays Beethoven at Carnegie Hall 2012-11-08T22:46:42Z They are impressionistic, and, in their swift movement and glancing, sun-and-water imagery, they realise the essential, mercurial quality of Schubert's music. Poem of the week: Schubertiad by Fiona Sampson 2010-08-02T10:49:00Z Mr. Trifonov said it took him a whole summer to learn these mercurial, complex pieces. Fleeting Fingers and Red-Eye Flights: A Pianist Is a Study in Stamina 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Moreover, our self-knowledge on this account need not be delusional, rigid, nor friable—it may be a real, if mercurial, source of wisdom, a “part of nature that just keeps pouring and pouring.” The Re-Enchantment of Carolee Schneemann 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Again alertly accompanied, Ms. Weilerstein savors Mr. Carter’s mercurial shifts and puckish gestures. ELGAR, CARTER: CELLO CONCERTOS 2012-10-28T04:20:05Z He has raged at aides, summoned up conspiratorial machinations about his enemies and generally been unpredictable, arbitrary and mercurial, sometimes filling important roles in his administration based on criteria such as physical appearance. Our tantrum president: Donald Trump needs to watch “Inside Out” ASAP 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z In this account, it was a mercurial fantasy, rich with fluttering cello bursts, alternately stentorian and whispered sung passages, skittish piano flights, and sliding riffs for electric guitar. From Harlem to Italy, Sounds of Gay Subversion 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z She could be mercurial, fierce, insecure, recklessly sexual, passionately maternal, wildly brave and incredibly fragile all at once. Delving deep for Norma's voice on 'Bates Motel' 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z “Don’t Call Me Home,” which comes out Tuesday, is an ode to a vanished world — the feral, slightly squalid world of downtown New York in the 1980s — and to her mercurial, charismatic mother. A Daughter of a Warhol Superstar Tells Her Story at Last 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z But try this instead: Give in to the billowy, mercurial nature of the meringue’s natural movements. The Pavlova Begs for Improvisation 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Below, in no particular order, are our 2010 runners and riders, a mercurial dozen that eschews token jazz entries and makes no apology for it. Mercury prize 2010: A dozen of the best 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z At an age when other singers are losing their voices, Mr. Webb finds his mercurial, unguarded singing, which he used to consider a liability, attaining the gritty authority of a softhearted country outlaw’s. Music: Jimmy Webb Sings on ?Just Across the River? 2010-07-18T02:31:00Z But it is mostly a portrait of Mr. Lydon, now 62 and still a witty, mercurial figure fascinated by commercial fame and constantly wrestling with the challenge of making viable art within that framework. Review: Johnny Rotten Mellows (a Bit) With Age 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Seymour’s cast is so mercurial they change minds in midparagraph; mixed emotions are the order of the day. Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Legacy Left to Byron’s Wife and Daughter 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z As sensible and focused as her neighbors are mercurial, Delia, in her indrawn way, is a pioneer. Dark Clouds Over London Stages 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Nordstrand’s bleak, quicksilver beauty mirrors the mercurial fortunes of its inhabitants. Review | In ‘The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls,’ a tidal wave strikes, and a small town must pick up the pieces 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z The Booths — headed by Junius, a mercurial Shakespearean actor — were a liberal, vegetarian, antislavery family, and Fowler sets their personal drama and conflict during the years heading up to the Civil War. 14 New Books Coming in March 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z The book seems to suggest that the real American inheritance is transformation, and that American transformation is a mercurial thing. “The Westing Game,” a Tribute to Labor That Became a Dark Comedy of American Capitalism 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Then there’s “Lone Star Love,” which after nearly two decades as a regional-theater staple, finally crashed thanks to the mercurial behavior of its star, which resulted in his lifetime banishment from Actors’ Equity. A Not-So-Merry Mix: Shakespeare, Bluegrass and Randy Quaid 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z But with a client as mercurial as the president, he wasn’t going to get to make all the decisions about who else would be at the defense table. Trump lawyer Pat Cipollone was a camera-shy Washington Everyman — until impeachment made him a star 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z “He came on as the kind of mercurial iconoclast he is. He stayed in the corner.” Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z As the recent chatter about Mr. Colbert reminded us yet again, show business is mercurial. Critic’s Notebook: Gauging Stephen Colbert as a ‘Late Show’ Host 2014-04-09T21:36:11Z America’s palate was easier to master than the mercurial moods of its politicians. Searching for America with General Tso 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z But it's the scamming, the milieu and the mercurial characters that keep you hooked. Review: 'Mauritius' at Seattle Public Theater is a taut, twisty thriller 2010-10-07T21:32:00Z As Young put it, “It’s a mercurial shape-shifting organizing form that can infiltrate and press into spaces and challenge growth from the inside out.” Aunts Is Back, Turning City Blocks Into Dance Floors 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Always mercurial in temperament, she was driven to madness by the death of her much-loved husband. Theresa Breslin's top 10 books about the Spanish inquisition 2010-03-24T12:48:00Z She was mercurial; she left unexpected abrasions, and a lot of people behind. Kathy Acker, Drawn to the Margins, Pushed Literature’s Boundaries 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z She noted the unusually detailed and mercurial dynamic markings, pointing specifically to a passage in the first-movement development section with four bars fortissimo, four pianissimo, then another four fortissimo. Recording As a Road To Recovery 2011-01-27T22:59:45Z Her Prospera wields a magic staff like a mercurial despot and frequently appears covered with volcanic mud. Helen Mirren among the guests to laud Julie Taymor at Shakespeare gala 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Though he was no fan of Brooke’s artwork, and was famously irascible and mercurial, van Gogh enjoyed learning about Japan. The Hunt for Clarity About van Gogh’s Last Days Leads to Maine 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Instead, the band’s story has been as convoluted and mercurial as its music. The Mars Volta Returns With a Swerve: Its Own Version of Pop 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Clark took full advantage of the situation to create a masterwork of balance and exuberance, with a mercurial lyricism inflected by the bebop heritage of virtuosity and the cultural heritage of the blues. The Best Archival Jazz Releases of 2018 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Watching Mr. Jobs, who was famously mercurial with employees, and getting older has taught him to be careful how hard he comes down on people who work for him. The Slow-Burning Success of Disney’s Bob Iger 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z The German's mercurial work is both playful and feminist; she is an indomitable talent who refuses categories. 2013 visual art preview: Manet's portraits and Lowry reappraised 2012-12-30T19:45:02Z He reckons that most Hamlets are remembered for, and reduced to, one essential quality: "David Warner's melancholy Hamlet", or "David Tennant's quick-witted, mercurial Hamlet". Jonathan Slinger on Hamlet: 'I'm going to try to achieve the impossible' 2013-03-11T19:00:02Z It seemed like an ordinary November afternoon, or as ordinary as it could be for someone working at Twitter under its mercurial new owner, Elon Musk. She Worked for Twitter. Then She Tweeted at Elon Musk. 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Who would emerge happier from the season finale of “Looking”: fans of Kevin, the new, perhaps too perfect boyfriend of the show’s mercurial hero, Patrick, or fans of Richie, Patrick’s moody, soulful ex? Review: HBO’s ‘Looking’ Has Season Finale, but No Word on Its Future 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z But after a weeklong journey through Sicily with a mercurial GPS misguiding us across the unfamiliar island, we both needed an aperitivo first. Overnighter : Shaking the Crowd in a Sicilian Town 2013-04-26T16:17:07Z But according to some of those close to the mercurial Irish musician, there are relatively few he’s been longing to work with. Van Morrison on 'Re-Working the Catalogue' with an all-star lineup 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z For a second, it feels like Lucious, even in his bullish, mercurial cruelty, is the only one in the family being totally honest. ‘Empire’ Season 2, Episode 13: Of Family Secrets 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z In Denk’s mercurial reading, the individual vignettes were highly characterized yet also unified by the pianist’s inimitable sensibility — a sensibility alive to the work’s poetry, wit, impulsiveness and off-beat yet irresistible charm. Denk shows range in ‘iPod shuffle’ 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The young man smiled, accustomed to his teacher's mercurial temperament, and the way he hovered with the sharp eyes of an angel or assassin. Fabio Bidini, 'last teacher' to Colburn School's pianists, thrives 'inside the music' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z And the mercurial nature of the Pakistani spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, leads one to question again why America relied on this dubious partner. Many masters, many lives 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z This is the music that, essentially, became Americana, that rich, mercurial gathering of folk, country, gospel, bluegrass and r'n'b. The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z But his style is more perversely mercurial than any of those. OAE/Norrington ? review 2011-03-07T21:45:01Z It suggests not only something mercurial about the human spirit, or the enervating slowness of progress, but also a haze of deep vulnerability. Lizz Wright’s ‘Grace,’ an Ode to the South and to Forgiveness 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z This is a novel about art and the mercurial currents of fate that determine how it’s celebrated, valued and commodified. Review | The art of rebellion: The son of a famous painter tries to reframe his life 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z It was certainly the more mercurial ones to which I was drawn. Light is right at the Brit Insurance Design awards 2011 ? review 2011-02-17T09:51:50Z Dafoe’s mercurial movements, his rippling face and spooky smiles, dovetail beautifully, articulating Wake’s moods and adding to the destabilization. ‘The Lighthouse’ Review: Dark Nights, Troubled Souls, Hairy Men 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Obnoxious to a fault, her charges snipe and gossip and dress up, their moods as mercurial as their allegiances. Review: ‘#Horror’ Finds the Fear in Cyberbullying and Social Media Threats 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Kracklite, even without the same mercurial menace as Gary Cooper, was equally fascinating as a kind of awful warning of the worst things that can happen to a curator. Building an audience for architecture 2011-01-20T21:45:01Z I was 14, listening to thuds on the walls, and the syrupy, mercurial rising of deeply hateful voices. A bitter aftertaste: how you taught me to drink 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Episodic and mercurial, it missed many of the work’s long lines. Music Review: Mahler?s Third, Whimsy-Free Version 2011-02-27T22:42:49Z With his long legs and fiercely carved profile he's a master of traditional flamenco; but his mercurial body also flickers through skidding cartoon comedy, ballerina delicacy and exotic stillness. Israel Galván – review 2013-03-26T18:11:27Z Joaquin de Luz brought to Harlequin the same mercurial flash he showed in the role 10 years ago, shooting up and spinning with the pressurized flow of the fountain in the second act’s enchanted park. Review: ‘Harlequinade’ Returns to New York City Ballet 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z He's a brilliant, mercurial actor, alternately twinkling and smirking, calm and volatile, intense and insouciant, intelligent and suddenly adrift. Shattered ? a stonking showcase for its mesmerising hero 2010-10-18T23:05:00Z Kim Fowley, the mercurial and eccentric music producer and Svengali who created and managed the all-female rock group the Runaways in the 1970s, died Thursday after a long battle with bladder cancer. Kim Fowley, the eccentric L.A. producer-manager who created the Runaways, is dead at 75 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Regeneration is a word not often associated with summer towns — ephemeral by definition and seldom more so than on an island whose geography is entirely at the command of a mercurial ocean. Looking Back on Fire Island Pines and Its Importance to Gay Culture 2013-05-22T23:28:30Z Nelsons cushioned Mutter’s elegantly assured playing with spirited, swift touches in Mozart’s First Violin Concerto, and he matched Capuçon’s dazzling, consuming focus and mercurial coloring. The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Perhaps most surprising is how mercurial he is stylistically; his paint handling is under continual adjustment. Art Review: ?Van Gogh Up Close? at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-02-02T23:27:06Z His mercurial nature was the making of him – a peculiarly Gatsby-esque urge that allowed a Bristol street urchin named Archie Leach to reimagine himself as an American prince, the embodiment of Hollywood grace and glamour. Cary Grant: how 100 acid trips in Tinseltown 'changed my life' 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z The mercurial theater aesthetic of Fornés is tricky to figure out in performance. In 'The Conduct of Life,' witness an American classic that's more often taught than staged 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z It presents a mercurial swirl of thoughts and emotions that you have to think is true to Émilie’s life. Critic?s Notebook: A Mistress of Voltaire, Set to Video 2011-06-05T22:05:53Z And then, just like that, the mercurial Mr. West decided to stage the pop-up show in Los Angeles — and then it was gone. Gallery Hopes to Sell Kanye West’s ‘Famous’ Sculpture for $4 Million 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Keaton gives a profoundly moving double-edged performance as a tersely melancholy has-been and, in flashbacks to the freewheeling days of slapstick silent short films, as the blank-faced, mercurially acrobatic master of uproar. A Nineteen-Fifties TV Series That Let Directors Run Free 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Valentine’s Day is an afterthought in this film, but there aren’t too many productions that capture the mercurial feelings that nag and berate both singles and couples on February 14th. Ranking: Valentine’s Day Films From Worst to Best 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Flight schedules will be a little less mercurial. Perspective | How to solve common pandemic travel problems 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Serious, the contrast between muck and iris further shouts Brown's mercurial mindset at us, helping us to understand why the man's fire and brimstone speeches ensnare the imagination of everyone he encounters. "The Good Lord Bird" is a zany, rollicking ride through the mania of abolitionist rebellion 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z He was difficult, mercurial, endlessly self-sabotaging and, for a brief time, utterly brilliant. Alex Chilton: rock's forgotten boy 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z By turns playful and fierce, Packer alters mercurially from a "woman warrior" like Joan of Arc to a bashful young Juliet to a despairing Lady Macbeth, to name but a few of the most familiar. Review: Captivating, eloquent 'Women of Will' 2013-02-04T18:11:11Z Mr. Nézet-Séguin boldly plumbed the music for wayward harmonic turns, mercurial shifts and weighty orchestral depths, as in the Dutchman’s long, brooding monologue when we first meet him. Review: Met Opera’s Next Music Director Captains a Blazing ‘Dutchman’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z There is also a general deification of the mercurial director, who’s going to break you down and build you up, because that’s the theater. Rachel Bloom’s Life Is an Open Book 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Winner of three Grammy Awards, Argerich, who is 75, is described as brilliant and mercurial and considered one of the greatest pianists of her time. James Taylor, Al Pacino, Mavis Staples selected for Kennedy Center Honors 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z What accounts for the changes in Shakespeare’s writing and the growing intensity, the deepening involvement with mortality, that culminates in “Hamlet” and “King Lear”? Why do these texts seem so mercurial, wild and bottomless? Perspective | Maradona was great, and maybe the greatest. Can we make similar claims about artists? 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z By and large, the crowd in New Orleans didn't seem to want him to be the mercurial D'Angelo of "Voodoo," the album just before the disappearance. Music Review: At Essence Music Festival, a Mercurial D'Angelo 2012-07-07T13:10:09Z Harington says he is "very nervous" about returning to stage, but critics generally praised him Tuesday, with the Evening Standard welcoming his "mercurial physicality." Kit Harington has gone from blood and gore in "Game of Thrones" to blood and gore in an English Elizabethan drama 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Yet it can never have been easy to keep company with a moody, mercurial, compulsive human being, one noted for his prodigious appetites for sex, alcohol and drugs and his lacerating tongue. 19 Things About Betty Catroux 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z But the director, Tomer Heymann, finds idiosyncratic insights within typical narrative beats about fame and power — two mercurial things that, for the film and Agassi himself, don’t exist in a vacuum. ‘Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life’ Review: A Gay Porn Star Is Born 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Finally, Ginny is getting a taste of the mercurial side of Perry that isn’t quite as alluring as the Perry who slugged some jerk in the schoolyard. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: The Smoking Gun 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Confined for much of the time to an uncomfortable chair in Giacometti’s dilapidated studio, hair slicked back, attired in an immaculate coat and tie, Lord seems the stoic opposite of his unkempt, mercurial host. Review: ‘Final Portrait’ Watches Giacometti’s Paint Dry 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Rather than diluting it, more songs and more sounds broadens the band's range and versatility; the mercurial lineup constantly alters the performance's emotional timbre. Avett Brothers disarm audience at Paramount 2010-07-19T19:02:00Z She has the role’s intoxicating lightness and charm, its mercurial changes of mood; she makes us feel that pointwork is a new invention; and, best of all, her whole torso moves with marvelous expressiveness. Review: New York City Ballet Performs Bournonville Classics at Spring Gala 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Those are confidently and mercurially held by Bergès-Frisbee, who was a nymph in the fourth Prates of the Caribbean movie and played the title role in Daniel Auteuil’s The Well Digger’s Daughter. REVIEW: I Origins: The Eyes Have It 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z The dreamers are lucid, exercising conscious authority over its landscape, which means that the mercurial logic of dreams never has a chance to assert itself. Everything you wanted to know about "Inception" 2010-07-19T13:01:00Z Ms. Ireland moves between Darja’s mercurial moods with a fluidity that makes us sense the calculations behind them, the ever-present sense that she is continually forced to make compromises to keep herself afloat. Review: ‘Ironbound’ Stars Marin Ireland as a Struggling Immigrant 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z It was something more mercurial and harder to pin down but — on all the evidence presented by this show and its excellent catalogue — very, very enviable. Perspective | What makes a great art school? Haystack has the elusive answer. 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Not because its star is the mercurial Charlie Sheen, but because the title is too long to fit on your average theater marquee. Word Power: 10 Memorable Movies With Long Titles 2013-02-12T13:00:28Z One reason for this year’s sales uptick is a rare appearance by the Chilean-born Berliner Ricardo Villalobos, one of techno’s most mercurial talents. Time Warp U.S., in Brooklyn, Features E.D.M. With a Grittier, Subtler Sound 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z I did a reader poll recently to test my theory that nothing our mercurial president might do or say — however absurd or outrageous — would be truly surprising. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Spot the fake news headline 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z The album is worth hearing because Mr. N’Dour is never less than a compelling presence, and because a few tracks, like “Medina” and “Survie,” play to his mercurial strengths. Playlist: Reggae via Senegal, and a Tough Utopia 2011-06-10T18:55:16Z The songs on “Silences” stay mercurial, alluding to old styles only to have them melt down and mutate into something stranger. Adia Victoria Wants to Make the Blues Dangerous Again 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Gathering online around the hashtag #TolstoyTogether, readers perhaps unsurprisingly found themselves drawn to a book about a country grappling with uncertainty and ordinary people subjected to the whims of mercurial and ineffectual political leaders. Leo Tolstoy vs. the Police 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z The mercurial and brilliant music was a nice showcase for a conductor fond of contrasts and an orchestra that has started the season sounding energetic. Review | NSO gets off to an energetic, all-American start 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Mozart himself was a mercurial fellow, and the Israeli-American violinist matched him thrust for trenchant thrust of wit, poetry, and imagination. Shaham's Mozart dazzles Seattle Symphony audience 2012-10-26T19:16:04Z Headliners JLS lack one iota of the Beach Boys' mercurial magic, and are calling time on their generic but successful pop/R&B career. Beach Boys/JLS – review 2013-07-08T17:13:43Z She was also mercurial, cantankerous, infuriating, monomaniacal, self-protective and monumentally egotistical. ArtsBeat: More Words About Ellen Stewart 2011-01-23T22:13:35Z Her comely, mercurial mother mocked her desire to be a poet, telling her that “everything written in books is a lie.” Beyond the Cruel Facts of Her Life Are Truths That Cut Deep 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z And few things can make you feel lonelier than not being able to enjoy and share love; what’s worse, contending with the mercurial temperament of a person terrified of exposure. The year of the suicide 2012-12-31T15:30:00Z The idea involves Quicksilver’s mercurial talents—his exertion of control over events that, as seen from his super-sped-up perspective, appear in ultra-slow motion. The Empty Astonishments of “X-Men: Apocalypse” 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z Clutching at his cap like a security blanket, Mr. McKellen is in supreme physical and rhetorical command of a wonderfully mercurial part. In Pinter’s ‘No Man’s Land,’ Actor-Knights Wield Their Words 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The mercurial singer-songwriter has emerged from solitude to enjoy a hero’s reception at her scant live performances. Summer Stages 2012-05-17T19:59:09Z Its sound is mercurial, almost like a synthesizer in its mutability: now a liquid stream of notes, silvery and flowing, and now a tinnier rasping beat. Loosening its tie, NSO debuts a steelpan work and its composer 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Pakistan’s mercurial cricketers often seem to do so on a weekly basis. Batting for survival 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Her portrait of the complex Mr. Scull — possessive, brash, mercurial, generous and brutal — is especially engaging. Art Review: At Acquavella, Art From Robert and Ethel Scull?s Collection 2010-04-15T21:53:00Z In the mercurial second movement she eagerly responds to each mood swing in the music, turning in a standout performance of this masterful concerto. Bach, Reich, Bartok, Beethoven and More 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z “He’s mercurial,” Mr. Farrell said, and then, in a burst of enthusiasm, added, “He’s really bold, man, he’s really bold.” Film: Neil Jordan?s ?Ondine,? Possible World of Impossible 2010-05-28T18:58:00Z Two years ago, as part of the first NY Phil Biennial of new music, Mr. Gilbert conducted the premiere of Ms. Adolphe’s “Dark Sand, Sifting Light,” a short, mercurial and alluring piece. New York Philharmonic’s Next Leader Gives a Taste of Things to Come 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z The mercurial Kate Jewett, her curls bouncing as she folded herself into crisp shapes or curved her torso like a bow, guided the others in pelvic tilts, rocking buoyantly from side to side. Shen Wei Dance Arts at Celebrate Brooklyn! 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Welser-Möst’s detailed care for dynamic shadings was reflected in playing of mercurial shifts and subtleties. Music Review: Orchestral Extremes: From a Pizza Shop to Carnegie 2011-02-06T22:41:17Z In the first movement of the Sonata No. 11, he brought milky textures and alluring colorings to bursts of undulant figures in the bass and stretches of passagework in the mercurial development. Music Review: Leif Ove Andsnes at Carnegie Hall, Part of a 19-City Tour 2014-03-20T23:37:04Z A zippered track jacket bore the ghostly image of a military medal surrounded by the swirling mercurial patterns that are a recurring motif at the label. Menswear on the European runways 2011-01-24T19:08:53Z The mercurial director is known for producing fraught, emotionally tense dramas in the vein of her 1993 Oscar-winning film The Piano. Elisabeth Moss: 'How I found my inner tough guy' 2013-07-02T17:12:01Z Johnson is more successful at locating the playwright's bracingly mercurial tone. A kinder, gentler 'Dance of Death' at A Noise Within 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Lenny was the artist in question: Leonard Bernstein — mercurial, brilliant, colorful, populist and popular. Washington Master Chorale offers lively Bernstein tribute, from ‘Candide’ to ‘Lark’ Lohengrin comes, as well, from a more divine realm to save Elsa from persecution amid conflict and mercurial alliances — between paganism and monotheism, between the Holy Roman Empire and opposing forces. A New ‘Lohengrin,’ Threatened by War in Ukraine, Comes to the Met 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z With the wind solos quivering with ardour, and the mercurial dance rhythms infused with urgency, this was a stirring showcase for an orchestra in opulent voice. LSO/Harding/Hardenberger 2010-06-06T21:30:00Z His frequently sinister, corrosive effects pair with mercurial hip-hop beats for a taut sort of dance melee. Songs and Laughs for the New Year’s Eve Countdown 2012-12-27T23:59:25Z One enjoys a precise oven, and the other is fascinated by the dangerous and mercurial nature of flame. Summer TV: It's even hotter inside these reality shows, where contestants play with fire 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z But it was in the Chopin, via a mercurial Ballade, a dramatic Scherzo, an angelic Nocturne and a robust Polonaise, that Haywood revealed his emotional depths and technical facility — and whetted Washington’s appetite for more. Pianist Sam Haywood displays lyrical sensitivity in a recital at the Kennedy Center Michael, who was four years younger and considered less mercurial than Roger, returned to King World with his brother two years later. Michael King, Builder of a TV Empire, Dies at 67 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Leonard Bernstein once likened the Ninth’s nearly 90 minutes of mercurial music to an irregular heartbeat. Henry-Louis de La Grange, Mahler Authority, Is Dead at 92 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z There’s no grandeur to Mr. Dawson’s Henry, and the whims of his mercurial mind feel less sudden than scripted. Review: No Battle of Wits in This Mild ‘Man for All Seasons’ 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Odenkirk seems to relish his mercurial role and his joy is infectious. In the joyfully violent "Nobody," Bob Odenkirk channels his inner John Wick 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Wednesday’s set confirmed his fealty to an older reference point, the mercurial vocalist Mark Murphy, and to Mr. Murphy’s best inheritor, Kurt Elling. Music Review: Sachal Vasandani?s Flexible Tradition at Joe?s Pub 2010-06-04T22:06:00Z Cleaving to the Romantic notion that your first instincts ought to be trusted, Brahms advocated the slighter, more mercurial symphonic fantasy Schumann originally produced in 1841. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair – review 2013-06-12T16:57:53Z Mr. Saul has also found a lot of people who had violent conflicts with the famously mercurial Pryor but did get to see him at very close range. ‘Becoming Richard Pryor,’ Scott Saul’s Biography 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The mercurial hip-hop dancer Raphael Xavier brings his pared-down “Point of Interest,” and Ragamala Dance Company explores the textures of night in “Nocturne,” drawing on lineages of classical Indian dance. 10 Spring and Summer Dance Festivals 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z It is wily, mercurial, subtly layered and populated by characters so well imagined that they’re hard to part with — even if, as in Amy’s case, they are already departed. Books of The Times: ‘Gone Girl,’ by Gillian Flynn 2012-05-29T20:37:17Z In “Molly Keane” Phipps repeatedly ventures “deep down,” into her own life as well as her mother’s, to grapple with a mercurial woman, “enchanting and troubled.” Review | Molly Keane worried her daughter wasn’t ‘nasty enough’ to write about her 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Directed by Katie McHugh for Yonder Window Theater Company, the play opens on a quarrelsome, mercurial marriage strained by years of caring for an incapacitated child, whose perilous health is a nonstop emergency. In This Playwright’s Dystopia, Forgetting Is Forbidden 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z My relationship with social media has always been mercurial. Life after social media: What I discovered after deleting all of my accounts 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Quartley’s mercurial performance is quite magical enough on its own terms. Hamlet and the Surveillance State of Denmark 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Movements from Janacek’s mercurial, dreamy, sometimes nightmarish suite “On an Overgrown Path” were inserted among the other pieces. A Pianist Loses Himself in a Musical ‘Labyrinth’ 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z Sly Stone’s mercurial nature and his substance abuse. Behind the music on “Vinyl”: Getting Sly & the Family Stone all wrong — at the expense of the band’s women 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z The colors changed constantly, mercurial and expressive, as the action unfolded. Review: Revisiting a Kaija Saariaho Opera Days After Her Death 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Ruby’s gritty pastiche of graffiti techniques and allusions to prison surveillance jump-started his metamorphosis into a mercurial art star of the highest order. This Artist Is Calvin Klein’s Latest Muse 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z In it they complained about management marked by favoritism, conflict, mercurial decision-making and a lack of communication. President of Picasso Museum Dismissed Over Delays 2014-05-13T14:31:05Z Gentry was a fabulously mercurial singer and lyricist. Hidden treasures: Bobbie Gentry – The Delta Sweete 2013-01-15T12:24:59Z It wasn't even clear whether the mercurial artist would show up that night, according to liner notes in the new release. Sony to release new DVD/CD of legendary Bob Dylan tribute concert 2014-03-03T17:24:10Z Indeed, the act of remembering can be a highly mercurial thing — particularly when deep-seated political views are involved. Recalling Jan. 6: A national day of infamy, half remembered 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z Most one-man shows reflecting the biographical struggles of showbiz personalities against such perennial demons as mercurial agents, forbidding fathers, rapacious studios, ego-maniacal movie-stars, typecasting and their own self-destructive personalities can sustain 90 minutes. At the Royal George, the world according to John Leguizamo 2011-02-06T13:40:10Z Which is to say, this was a precious, anticipated, frankly anxious affair — the materialization of a beloved and mercurial performer moving from the chimerical to the literal. Jai Paul Emerges, Tentatively, for His First Headlining Concert 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Distinctive lighting by James F. Ingalls illuminates the mercurial mood swings in this surreal yet satisfying production. Review: Spirited, sexy version of 'Master Builder' 2013-05-20T23:43:09Z Gastronomes began to brace themselves for news that the mercurial chef would be opening a pizzeria or something equally egregious. D.C.’s new Momofuku and Milk Bar attract a cloud of hype, and a really long line 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z A mercurial Ms. Jovovich helps turn up the heat, partly by stripping off her clothes, while Ms. Conroy, who played the matriarch on HBO’s “Six Feet Under,” adds a spooky touch. | 'Stone': Upright Parole Officer With a Target on His Back 2010-10-07T23:04:00Z A proud autodidact, Pitre has moved among long-form electronic drones, mercurial acoustic improvisations and glistening string meditations, all employing just intonation. How a Pro Skateboarder Became an Apostle of Ancient Tuning 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z The period material, the sets and costumes, work very well in a wide-screen format, but in truth it's the lethally mercurial temperament of Moreau that holds it all together. Jules and Jim: No 10 2010-10-16T10:45:00Z But the play is driven and made fascinating by its imposing female titans — both tough customers, each mercurial in word and deed. At ACT, a tale of 2 queens, 1 throne 2011-09-16T19:59:04Z Godard, the leading light of the French new wave, electrified world cinema with his mercurial 1960 picture Breathless, before going on to shoot the likes of Le Mépris and Weekend. Awol auteur Jean-Luc Godard sought for honorary Oscar 2010-08-27T09:18:00Z His fame, money, gambling, lust and mercurial nature were problems for the MGM studio, which did not like seeing its young star sully his reputation and box-office potential. Mickey Rooney, versatile actor and master showman, dies at 93 2014-04-07T21:03:24Z Through mercurial movement that suggests, at times, a body at war with itself, Doherty unveils a brokenness — and, though more elusive, an almost exalted levity — beneath her characters’ aggressive posturing. From Northern Ireland, Dance as a ‘Physical Prayer’ 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Instead of stately grandeur Hunter gives us an Egyptian queen who is small, mercurial and witty. Review|Theatre|Antony and Cleopatra, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon|Michael Billington 2010-05-10T23:18:00Z This solo, according to her website, “dwells in the untranslatable, sensual, absorbent, expansive, nonlinear, protean and mercurial nature of embodied thought.” 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Here, a soulful, mercurial account showed how deeply he has internalized Mr. Wolff’s language. Music Review: Eyvind Kang Presents His Eclectic Mix at the Stone 2013-07-03T20:39:35Z Wordless, they employ moving, abstract images of mercurial fluidity painstakingly choreographed to music. Jordan Belson, Experimental Filmmaker, Dies at 85 2011-09-11T09:36:30Z The third movement is written as a mercurial, almost memorial passacaglia. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Screaming Reflection on War 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The superb Inon Barnatan was the soloist in Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, capturing both the majestic and mercurial elements of this great work. At Tanglewood, You Can Hear 8 Concerts in 3 Days 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z His mercurial personality and eccentric leaps of mind certainly made him difficult, even incomprehensible. John Rety obituary 2010-03-18T18:22:00Z Nobody plays sociopaths half as well as Glenn Close, and as the mercurial Patty Hewes, she takes command of the screen. Damages 2010-05-28T07:00:00Z I'm passionate and feisty and mercurial," she laughs, "but I'm opinionated and political. Patricia Clarkson interview: 'I'd love to play an action hero!' 2013-06-25T18:00:00Z His orchestral music is a whole mercurial world, always ready with new sonorities around the corner. John Zorn: A Portrait – review 2013-01-14T17:32:59Z And that was before the mercurial mononym subjected the Internet to “Rock & Roll Love Affair,” his first new release since 20Ten and his most disappointing since The Rainbow Children. Prince’s New Song Needs Some of His Old Kinkiness 2012-11-29T16:00:07Z Cox is odds-on with bookmakers’ to win best actor in a drama for his portrayal of the mercurial billionaire media tycoon Logan Roy, in Succession. Hazmat tuxedos and video calls to feature at first all-virtual Emmys 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z The mercurial beauty of her movement kept shading into struggle or grotesquerie, with its edgily detailed filigree of collapses and trembles. Seattle International Dance Festival 2013 kicks off 2013-06-17T20:09:36Z Meanwhile, the mercurial Margaret, with her trademark bouffant and dangling cigarette holder, “had what Cecil Beaton described as a ‘sex twinkle,’” Morton writes, “a look that suggested a knowing naughtiness — with the hint of rebellion.” William and Harry Aren’t the First Royals to Chafe Against Their Roles 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z She is repeatedly thwarted by her spouse’s mercurial moods and the judges’ embodiment of a patriarchy thousands of years old. From Israel, a Drama That Started a National Debate About Divorce 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z It looks at, in Greer's words, "the mercurial nature of human desire." Review: Seattle fiber artist Mandy Greer spins 'Honey and Lightning' at Roq La Rue 2011-01-27T21:08:10Z To balance the mercurial and overbearing Morse, Lewis was a plain-spoken Everyman with a sneaky, sardonic wit. Critic’s Notebook: First Things First: The Case, Then the Pint 2013-06-13T22:43:18Z She was also the favourite of her father, an actor whose mercurial, alarming presence dominates the first half of the book. Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing by Jane Dunn – review 2013-04-20T08:00:48Z While a few sympathetic characters emerge, for the most part members of the royal family appear variously insane, opportunistic, petulant and mercurial. 3 Books That Take Us Inside the Lives of Britain’s Royals 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z But Mr. Imbrosciano is impressive and fully dimensional as the man-child Jan, whipping from affection to exultation to menace in a performance of mercurial velocity. Review: ‘The Unexpected Guest,’ From Agatha Christie, Dispenses With a Bully 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Bernstein, Barrios reports, “was as mercurial as his music; Laurents was a master at clever, cutting sarcasm; and Robbins’s outbursts of temper . . . promptly became the stuff of legend.” Review | Just in time for an updated ‘West Side Story,’ a look back at the 1961 classic 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z The orchestra sounded energised and mercurial, both in their instrumental pieces and when accompanying three rising-star singers in arias from works on which Hunt Lieberson put her stamp. OAE/Christie – review 2013-06-05T17:39:34Z Jackson has a lithe, mercurial quality, with troubles hinted at in his light-limbed charms, and Williams — paired most often with him — treats him with appropriate caution. Byrd and Dance Theatre of Harlem: a thrilling 'Contested Space' 2012-11-17T17:06:18Z Georgia’s mercurial weather shifted from an unreasonable 48 degrees to a balmy 75 degrees over the weekend. The One Book Stacey Abrams Would Require the President to Read 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Describing the personality of the famously mercurial Cleopatra, the actress puts it neatly: "She changes on a dime." Kim Cattrall: A New York doll returns to the UK 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z Anderson describes Tupac as “fearless, to the point of recklessness”, depicting him as mercurial, brilliant and troubled. Slow Burn: The podcast exploring the murders of Biggie and Tupac 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z His mercurial side was well-known in the theater community. After Scott Rudin bullying exposé, there are mostly crickets 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The best and worst thing about the Globes is that they’re idiosyncratic and mercurial. The Golden Globes TV Nominations Are Out. Don’t Get Too Excited. 2013-12-12T15:20:27Z But Tom Wambsgans — mercurial yet sensitive, diabolical yet almost constantly hapless — stood out from the beginning. Matthew Macfadyen Has Mixed Feelings About the End of ‘Succession’ 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z He was mercurial and impulsive but widely admired by Internet denizens three times his age. 'The Idealist' is a riveting look at activist Aaron Swartz and the free culture movement 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z “House,” the Fox drama, was centered on the exasperatingly juvenile genius Gregory House, a drug-addicted doctor and mercurial boss and friend. Television Review: In ‘Rake,’ on Fox, Greg Kinnear Is a Smart Ne’er-Do-Well 2014-01-22T22:54:04Z It may be this mercurial quality which keeps people guessing — that makes her so spellbinding on screen. In "Mama Weed," Isabelle Huppert is a stylish drug dealer with a twist: "She's a female Robin Hood" 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z He opened his program on Saturday by seguing from his own mercurial, rippling improvisation into Adams’s kaleidoscopic “China Gates.” Two Pianists, Two Recitals, Two Deeply Personal Statements 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Gray’s presence in Glasgow is persistent and mercurial: you never quite know where he’ll crop up next. How Alasdair Gray Reimagined Glasgow 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z As she did in her 1998 bestseller, “The Orchid Thief,” Orlean brings us along as she tries to understand the mercurial figure at the center of a crime. Review | Everybody who loves books should check out ‘The Library Book’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z He also says it's possible the always mercurial Trump could change his mind and discard all the policy proposals his advisers have prepared. What a Donald Trump second term would look like 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z Two other blurbs on the cover read: "paranoid and mercurial" and "understanding how Emperor Chongzhen drove himself to a dead end". Book critical of Ming emperor recalled after drawing online comparisons with Xi 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z By contrast, half an hour earlier, the mercurial Richie Mo'unga had glided though Ireland's defensive wall like he had a ticket for platform nine and three-quarters to set up Will Jordan's try. Argentina caught in path of All Blacks juggernaut 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Employees at Abercrombie speaking to US media described Mr Jeffries as a reclusive, mercurial and obsessive boss, prone to superstitious rituals. How Mike Jeffries used shirtless models to sell Abercrombie 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Milley's political dexterity behooved him throughout his career, as CNN notes, as did his ability to cope with Trump's "mercurial demands" with "a judicious silence." “DEATH”: Trump implies top U.S. general should face execution 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z After Disney took over, Iger’s leadership bridged the disparate cultures of the merged companies and he eventually succeeded the mercurial Michael Eisner as chief executive. Why would Disney want to sell ABC? 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z In a quip characteristic of the mercurial judge, Carter warned reporters after the hearing to be wary of describing the ruling with a finality that could turn out wrong. Veterans' claims over misuse of the VA West L.A. campus may go to trial 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Yet while the mercurial billionaire is more highly sought after than ever, there is no love lost between him and the Biden administration. Elon Musk woos world leaders, courting controversy 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z So how can President Joe Biden, who has been busy building alliances to counter China, bring the mercurial North Korean leader to the table? Kim Jong Un: The US wants to engage North Korea but doesn't know how 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z But when the agreement collapsed in late July, Mr. Biden, whose upbeat public image often belies a more mercurial temperament, was stunned. President Biden Keeps Hunter Close Despite the Political Peril 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z The movie’s most mercurial and multitasking figure, Carmen is also a woman of God, clad in beatific nuns’ robes and coiffed like Dreyer’s Joan of Arc, who means to exorcise the demon in their midst. Review: A dictator as Dracula? Netflix's horror-comedy 'El Conde' doesn't draw blood 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Street interviews suggest the public are also being forced to reconsider formerly negative attitudes toward Mr. Kim’s secretive and mercurial state. In isolated Russia, signs of a change of course on North Korea 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Her June, who seems stubbornly fixed at first, proves more mercurial, her taciturn toughness and controlling nature products of a finally revealed backstory that will lead to a much belated reckoning with herself. 'The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart' review: In this moving drama, mysteries abound 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z He took issue with critics who suggested he was reverting to the mercurial player who had moody outbursts during his first five seasons with Minnesota before being traded to Buffalo in 2020. Bills receiver Stefon Diggs says any lingering concerns are water under the bridge 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Her disposition was too mercurial and too empathetic to survive the sustained glare of the spotlight that came her way once her version of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” became an international blockbuster in 1990. 10 essential Sinéad O'Connor songs 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z They will also be watching to see whether North Korea seeks closer ties with its wartime allies, both of whom have complicated, sometimes conflicted relations with the mercurial Kim regime. Seventy years on, North Korea tells its own story of a war and its aftermath 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Even authoritarian states like China and Russia are leery of dealing with a brutal and mercurial leader like North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. As China, Russia drill, North Korea left on the sidelines 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Over the course of his two decades in power, his allies and rivals alike have come to expect a mercurial approach. What is Turkey's leader Erdogan up to now? 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Coaches' faith could quickly be exhausted and a player, such as the mercurial Mark Ramprakash, would only be one underwhelming match away from speculation and scrutiny over their place. Behind the 'Bazball' buzz - why there is no turning back for England 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z But what unites these two unabashed crowd-pleasers — one an achingly perceptive almost-romance, the other a wildly creative and mercurial piece of animation — is their sly philosophical depth. The best movies of 2023 (so far). And where to find them 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z But the decision to work with Tesla comes with big risks for the rest of the auto industry, which will be relying on Mr. Musk, a mercurial leader, for an essential technology. Tesla May Have Already Won the Charging Wars 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z He is the mercurial freelance warlord who made a last-ditch attempt to win by force in one of the most extraordinary Russian power struggles in recent memory. Your Wednesday Briefing 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z But it is equally the personal story of an obstreperous and mercurial freelance warlord who undertook an emotional last-ditch attempt to win by force one of the most extraordinary Russian power struggles in recent memory. His Glory Fading, a Russian Warlord Took One Last Stab at Power 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z The big picture: Our reporters reconstruct Prigozhin’s personal story as a mercurial freelance warlord who made a last-ditch attempt to win by force, one of the most extraordinary Russian power struggles in recent memory. Your Wednesday Briefing: Wagner Chief in Exile 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Sam Walters crashed over for the first try and the mercurial Austin slipped through two tackles to set up Richie Myler for the second. Leeds run in nine tries past woeful Huddersfield 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z “If I ever use the word ‘success’ at all,” he said, it means “that somebody is able to make a lifetime’s career out of something as mercurial and precarious as being an actor.” A priest who taught acting derailed this actor's chemistry career. He's performed ever since 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z “If I ever use the word success at all, it’s that somebody is able to make a lifetime’s career out of something as mercurial and precarious as being an actor.” What does it mean to be a successful working actor? Probably not what you think 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Western nations and foreign investors are also awaiting the outcome because of Erdogan’s unorthodox leadership of the economy and often mercurial but successful efforts to put Turkey at the center of international negotiations. As Erdogan’s votes dip, Turkey appears headed to a runoff presidential race 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Another will be handling her mercurial, unpredictable new boss. New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino is Musk’s bet to win back sales 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Most significantly, Ms. Yaccarino would have to deal with a mercurial and unpredictable boss in the form of Mr. Musk. Elon Musk Appoints Linda Yaccarino as Twitter’s New Chief 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Twitter’s advertising business has taken a hit under Musk’s mercurial rule, though the billionaire told BBC last month that the company is now “roughly” breaking even. Reports: NBC Universal executive will take over as the new CEO of Twitter 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Many former supporters say they are weary of his mercurial leadership and public tantrums against Thailand’s media — he once joked “we’ll probably just execute” journalists and once threw a banana peel at Thai reporters. A fresh face and a familiar name raise election jitters in Thailand 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z King Charles I, who ascended to the throne in 1625, was known for possessing both a stammer and a mercurial temperament. He is King Charles III. Who were Charles I and II? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z As any lover of guacamole knows all too well, peppers are mercurial, especially the common jalapeño. The spicy margarita is everything we want in a warm-weather drink 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Not even the über-wealthy Howard Hughes, smitten to the point of violent obsession, could subdue Gardner’s indomitable will to be dependent only on her own mercurial terms. Review: In 'Ava,' Elizabeth McGovern casts a spell at Geffen Playhouse as a classic Hollywood femme fatale 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Ausubel captures these siblings in all their mercurial passions and desperate loyalties. Review | In ‘The Last Animal,’ a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth brings hope 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Capturing his persona and making a clear narrative out of his mercurial life are not easy tasks. Review | Ethan Hawke on a new biography of the elusive Sam Shepard 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Despite his views on Trump, Murdoch appeared at times concerned that the network’s news coverage not antagonize the mercurial president and risk angering his supporters. Murdoch confided Trump was going ‘increasingly mad’ as Fox pushed false claims 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Shorter’s quirky, probing approach to music proved harmonious with Davis’s mercurial temperament, melding just as well as with the restless inventiveness of pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams. Wayne Shorter, jazz musician of innovation and introspection, dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z There certainly remains plenty of tragedy and joy that can rip through the heart, yet these all come together as fleeting fragments that can feel elusive; almost mercurial, even. ‘One Fine Morning’ review: A mosaic of little moments captures the pain of love 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Music over the radio seemed to soothe her mercurial father, and she said that she mostly sang along to keep him happy. Raquel Welch, 1960s actress and pinup star, dies at 82 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z He added that the committee now knows all of this “because of Elon Musk,” joining a chorus of Republicans praising the mercurial billionaire throughout the hearing. GOP lawmakers allege Big Tech conspiracy, even as ex-Twitter employees rebut them 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Musk is mercurial, having already floated several new Twitter policies and then backtracked or revised them after outcries. Twitter’s plan to cut off free data access evokes ‘fair amount of panic’ among scientists 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z The blockbuster deal with Brooklyn sending the mercurial Irving to the Mavericks became official Monday, two days before what figures to be his Dallas debut at the Los Angeles Clippers. Irving trade official as Mavs essentially start season over 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Wi-Fi can be mercurial in Appalachia and other rural areas, so mobile wireless broadband is also on hand as a backup, if a patient’s residence lacks a connection. The Hospital Makes a House Call 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z But, like its mercurial protagonist, it changes shape to become a deeply meaningful meditation on narrative itself, blending fact and fiction into a seamlessly poetic whole.” The 33 movies we loved in 2022 — and where to watch them 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z And though their relationship can be mercurial, Trump views McCarthy as “predictable and steady” and generally likes him more than many of his colleagues, a Trump adviser said. The House hard-liners blocking McCarthy aren’t listening to Trump 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Famous people moved frequently through her childhood, courtesy of her father, Lou Walters, an immigrant from England who she described as a “brilliant and mercurial impresario” who “made and lost several fortunes in show business.” How Barbara Walters Went From ‘Today Girl’ to Pioneering Media Star 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Some of those close to the mercurial cleric expect this withdrawal to be temporary. Analysis: Iraq's mercurial Moqtada Sadr risks isolation with political retreat 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Today, the chain hosts a small family of active volcanoes, including the mercurial Mauna Loa and the hyperactive Kilauea on the Big Island, both of which stopped erupting simultaneously this month. ‘Mind-blowing’ network of magma chambers found under Hawaii’s volcanoes 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z The mercurial Mr. Musk said he wasn’t asking just for the jollies. Elon Musk offers to step down as Twitterer-in-chief 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z The mercurial forward is regarded as one of the best players in the world over the last 15 or so years, having often done things few others can dream of on the pitch. World-beaters - Messi & Maradona's Argentina impact 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z He has survived and even thrived in the face of Donald J. Trump’s mercurial opposition. The Georgia Republican Unscathed by Walker’s Defeat 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Her effortlessness and laid-back English reserve also personified the gold-dusted hues of California, perhaps better than locals Nicks and Buckingham, who were notoriously mercurial and the opposite of chill. Christine McVie's greatness proved that shy girl power had a place in rock 'n' roll 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z This looked like the team they were talking about before the showpiece started in Qatar, with the mercurial Messi leading the younger generation. 'This was the night the real Argentina stood up' 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z His mercurial temperament, especially his apparent embrace of right-wing tropes and overt racists and antisemites, has predictably unnerved the advertisers on whom Twitter must depend for revenue to stay alive. Column: Elon Musk's engagement with the far right on Twitter is out of control 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Excessive reverence has killed many a well-meaning adaptation, but this “White Noise,” at once wildly mercurial and fastidiously controlled, somehow winds up triumphing over its own death. Review: 'White Noise' puts a loud, brash and enjoyable spin on a Don DeLillo classic 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Protectionist policies that hurt Canada are "a bigger risk with Trump because he's so unpredictable and mercurial," said Roland Paris, Trudeau's former foreign policy adviser and professor of international affairs at the University of Ottawa. Analysis: Trump lesson on U.S. protectionism guides Canadian foreign policy 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z But, like its mercurial protagonist, it changes shape to become a deeply meaningful meditation on narrative itself, blending fact and fiction into a seamlessly poetic whole. Review | ‘You Resemble Me’: An extraordinary directorial debut from Dina Amer 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Lofoten, an archipelago off Norway’s northwest coast, offers one of the most picturesque backdrops for witnessing this mercurial sight. The 25 Travel Experiences You Must Have 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z And for all the low quality of the regular season, a potential playoff field full of mercurial teams could make for riveting drama. Perspective | NFL contenders beware: A star quarterback is no longer enough 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z The mercurial billionaire has said he won’t make major decisions about content or restoring banned accounts - such as that of former President Donald Trump - before setting up a “content moderation council” with diverse viewpoints. Cesspool or civility? Elon Musk’s Twitter at a crossroads 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z The mercurial billionaire has said he won’t make major decisions about content or restoring banned accounts — such as that of former President Donald Trump — before setting up a “content moderation council” with diverse viewpoints. Cesspool or civility? Elon Musk’s Twitter at a crossroads 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Back in April, the mercurial billionaire made an overpriced takeover bid, which he then tried to back out of. Opinion | World’s richest man decides to set $44 billion on fire 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z While Mr. Butts was much less mercurial than Mr. Powell, he was not to be taken for granted. The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, Dynamic Harlem Pastor, Dies at 73 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The mercurial Musk has not made it easy to anticipate him. Elon Musk takes over Twitter but where will he go from here? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Twitter’s users, advertisers and employees are parsing Musk’s every move in an effort to guess where he might take the company — but the mercurial tech executive has not made the job easy. Musk in control of Twitter but where will he go from here? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Several of those sources described Chalker as a chaotic and mercurial boss whose priorities constantly shifted, with many projects ultimately going nowhere. FBI probing ex-CIA officer’s spying for World Cup host Qatar 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z If Ham was instead deferring to a mercurial star who expects to play in big moments, he should survey the Pacific Division for examples of healthier alternatives. Analysis | ‘No, Russ, no’: Westbrook’s pride continues to cost the Lakers 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z On stage and screen, she “made her home in language, that fleet, mercurial country.” Review: A "mixed" memoirist's Silk Road travelogue becomes a road map to sanctuary 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Jobs was mercurial, but he also was the portrait of discipline. Opinion | Elon Musk is no Steve Jobs 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z I returned to my mercurial habits and drove too fast to tally eagles. How I found myself befriending a wild fox 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Once Mr. Musk — a famously mercurial entrepreneur — completes the deal for the company, he can do almost anything he likes with the firm. Twitter Tries Calming Employees as Deal With Elon Musk Looms 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z She’s a beautiful woman and a decidedly ugly American, and the movie seems by turns fascinated, appalled and electrified by Qualley’s mercurial performance. Review: Claire Denis' erotic thriller 'Stars at Noon' emits the sweat smell of sexcess 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Relying heavily on a famously mercurial billionaire for crucial war equipment — or rockets for spaceflight — raises potentially troubling policy concerns for sovereign countries, writes The Financial Times’s Gillian Tett. A “Roller Coaster” Day Whipsaws Markets 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Musk extended the mercurial artist a hearty “Welcome back to Twitter, my friend!” greeting on Saturday, but has said nothing about him since. Ye Poses a Test for a Post-Musk Twitter 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z The mercurial billionaire has made only the vaguest of public statements about his plans for the company and its products. Elon Musk’s Twitter Will Be a Wild Ride 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Erdogan, the mercurial president of Turkey, played a central role in the grain talks, and on Tuesday he trumpeted his role in that deal and as the host of inconclusive peace talks in March. Russia’s Invasion Shadows U.N. Assembly Amid ‘Colossal Global Dysfunction’ 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z |
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