| 单词 | parable |
| 例句 | His punishment is the Word, and his deficiencies are failures of words—as when he grows impatient with translation and strikes out precariously on his own, telling parables in his wildly half-baked Kikongo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As for this truck-and-fanbelt story, the Reverend loved to speak in parables, and we could surely spot one coming. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He spoke in Asiatic parables that could not always be understood. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Her way of telling a parable is different from my father’s. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wed, I want to ted you another parable now.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When I chuckled at the older woman’s invocation of the parable, she laughed, too. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “No,” said the Wart He sat down resignedly upon the most comfortable part of the floor, perceiving that he was in for something like the parable of the looking-glass. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The social insects, especially ants, have been sources of all kinds of parables, giving lessons in industry, interdependence, altruism, humility, frugality, patience. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For this woman, enslavement is not a parable. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Others were given the parable of the Good Samaritan. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you remember the parable of the sower?” she teased me. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z God was testing him like Job, he declared, and the point of that particular parable was that Job had done no wrong to begin with. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I just can’t take any more of your parables and diddering around. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z For once he had no words to instruct our minds and improve our souls, no parable that would turn Ruth May’s death by snakebite into a lesson on the Glory of God. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He paced, paused, spoke, and paced behind his palm-leaf altar, giving every impression he was inventing his Biblical parables on the spot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Unable to work either the dishwater or Methuselah’s long memory into a proper ending for his parable, Our Father merely looked at us all and heaved the great sigh of the put-upon male. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing there, feeling the eyes of the two hundred Muslims upon me, I heard him make a parable about me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Indeed, on several occasions, a seminary student going to give his talk on the parable of the Good Samaritan literally stepped over the victim as he hurried on his way.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Today she chose the parable of the Good Samaritan. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He was known for anecdotes, and parables from Syria, quotations from the Qur’an, stories from his travels around the world. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “No, no, dear boy. You exaggerate. A minor parable at most. Besides, I fear it is a trifle optimistic.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Recounted in numberless articles and books, the Maya collapse has become an ecological parable for green activists; along with Pleistocene overkill, it is a favorite cautionary tale about surpassing the limits of Nature. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “What does that mean, Lili? Don’t talk to me in parables. Talk to me honestly.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z She enjoyed the stories and parables and supposed that white men had a point: Talk of salvation could give an African ideas. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The boy was brought before the chief and asked if he knew us and if he had ever heard us speak parables in the white man’s language. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Finally, my history deserves public notice as no more than this: a parable for the life of its reader. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My father mopped his brow again and launched into the parable of the one mustard seed falling on a barren place, and the other one on good soil. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z You have heard it, and it—this true story of rich implication, this living parable of proven glory and humble nobility—and it, as I say, has made you free. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a fast food parable about how the industry started and where it can lead. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z I tried to think of some other work animal for my parable, but the Congo has none. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Even when they succeeded, as so many of them did, they were singled out, made examples of, transfigured into parables of diversity. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Set in medieval Spain, Parsifal is ostensibly a parable about the Holy Grail, the cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “It is similar to telling parables, but in the white man’s language,” I concluded. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The film resists the way that it will be read by many people, which is as a scolding parable of marginalization and decline. “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” and the Fear of Being Erased 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Yet the verve with which they throw themselves into Jean-Paul Sartre’s parable proves infectious. ‘No Exit’: Ready for your close-up 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z A beautifully rendered pairing of bloodied turtle and skull-headed eagle is a parable of European colonization of the Americas. Review | In the galleries: ‘Sea of Change’ exhibition sets the voyage on a different course 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z As an adult, I see a parable about the inevitability of death — and also the horrors of dementia, a disease that forces us to witness the transformation of loved ones into "something else." Grief is a distant planet: How "A Wrinkle in Time" is helping me deal with my father’s decline 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Finding inspirational parables about life and truth in our fictions is easy, be they televised or written on the page. From "Jeopardy!" to "Trivial Pursuit," how LeVar Burton's latest lesson is one to inspire us all 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Now that Season 5 has set up the game pieces for the sixth and final chapters, it has become a parable of the inescapable collision of fate and choice. The "Better Call Saul" point of no return: Jimmy McGill is dead, and Saul Goodman rises 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z The movie also tries to be a sex farce, a redemption story, a good-friend-bad-friend parable and a few other things, failing across the board. Movie Review: ‘Excuse Me for Living,’ Directed by Ric Klass 2012-10-12T01:30:44Z But, he added, of his take on a work that has been variously seen as a parable of industrial capitalism, a feminist fable, an absurdist fantasia and much more: “It’s not a politics-free zone.” The Stakes Are Sky-High for a ‘Ring’ Coming to the Met Opera 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z But beneath its mild staginess and intermittent mania lies a cynical, piercing parable about China’s past and perhaps its present. Review: In ‘Mr. Donkey,’ a Village School’s Ruse Farcically Backfires 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z What if it was just another parable like the mustard seed or the pearl of great price? My night in Judgement House, the church play about hell that made me a teenage born-again zealot 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z Game performers, many of whom are double cast, pitch their performances just a tad over-the-top — the right tack for this sometimes hyperbolic parable. 'A Wrinkle in Time,' live onstage: A celestial romp aimed at kids 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z It’s his first time as star and showrunner: “What we pitched was parables through the eyes of a clown: EDM Jesus Sucks at Life!” James Van Der Beek: 'I lived in fear of teenage girls' 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Once upon a time, this movie's mix of murder mystery, political parable and grownup love story would have lured sizable U.S. audiences, even if they did have to read subtitles. Oscar's Big Secret: Love and Death in Argentina 2010-04-25T02:35:00Z Steier has wisely jettisoned a whole strand of steampunk circus imagery and concentrated more on the plot as a parable of the start of World War I, with “Little Nemo” touches. At the Salzburg Festival, Riches, Retreads and Notes of Caution 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z The Nobel Foundation said in 1998 the prize was given to Saramago "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." Nobel-winning Portuguese author Saramago dies at 87 2010-06-19T02:24:00Z I see this movie, in fact, as a parable about the fact that true individuality depends upon healthy community, and vice versa. “Planet of Snail”: An unforgettable love story 2012-07-26T00:01:00Z Ever since the election, there’s been a lot of overreading of culture whereby everything is being seen as a direct one-to-one parable. Game of Thrones Creators: ‘We Know What Happens in Each Scene’ of Season 8 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z It’s located and local, a parable that builds up from a valid, often ignored ground-level experience of our country. Comics Resist: Secessionist Californians battle Trumpism in “Calexit” 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z This parable of resistance to a rising plague of authoritarianism was savaged by the French critics, who couldn’t help invidiously comparing the work to the author’s novel “The Plague.” Tyranny and resistance: Albert Camus' 1948 drama 'L’État de siège' carries new relevance 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z As players in a parable, Berlin's bunnies reflect human upheavals around the globe. 'Rabbit ? la Berlin': a bunny's-eye view of the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall 2011-02-17T21:29:13Z Having served as the occasion for this inspirational, moving parable, the issue of women students at the school is quietly abandoned. The “Dead Poets Society” takeover of America: How memes ate our politics 2014-02-26T23:59:00Z “The Little Prince,” the 1943 novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, is not just one of the most beloved children’s stories of all time, it is also a parable celebrating the wisdom of the innocent. | 'The Little Prince': ?The Little Prince? at New Victory Theater - Review 2011-10-07T00:15:32Z These little parables of precarity, with their dull earth tones and barren landscapes, reflect the motherless, scorched-earth quality of Seville in decline. Murillo, Not So Saintly: A Quiet Master Reassessed 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z As he moves through SoHo, accompanying himself with an improvised monologue of parables, observations and associations, Mr. Mekas describes the rootlessness he still felt after four decades in New York. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Like them, it’s a parable of tolerance, but it’s a particularly obvious and heavy-handed one. Television Review: Girl Meets Alien in ‘Star Crossed’ on CW 2014-02-16T22:22:46Z Much of the L.A.-based artist's work reads as a parable of the here and now, a poke at the fundamental contradiction lurking within our device-dependent lives. Laurie Lipton: Drawing the walking dead with a most beguiling beauty 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z But “Laws of Nature” neatly frames an environmental parable in personal terms, like a good children’s song. Releases From Ghostface Killah, Fred Hersch and More 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Is this a parable for the ravages of colonialism or a metaphor for Britain losing its grasp on a land that it never had a right to it in the first place? FX's stunning "Black Narcissus" remake leaves the viewer in a state of unrequited desire 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z But what is meant to be a political parable, or even just a moody crime saga, is cut short by the dissonance between its self-serious attitude and the rough-edged execution of its melodrama. ‘Back to the Wharf’ Review: Ghosts of the Past 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z “A parable of social mobility and selling out” that “often plays like a modern-day musical,” Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday noted. The original ‘Hamilton’ stars aren’t throwing away their shots 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z And the music, Yoruba praise-songs and parables with sprays of English, develops at its own schedule. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-03T22:17:00Z Remember, in addition to "Parasite" being a parable about wealthy and social standing, it's also a story about the power of pretense. Big wins for "Parasite" including Best Picture provide the thrills in a long, dull Oscars 2020 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z They can be wry and plainspoken, like the waltzing tall tale “Easter Eve,” or earnest and overreaching, like the attempted workingman’s parable “The West End.” Critics? Choice: New CDs: Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins 2010-08-15T23:05:00Z “Even after all these years I have no idea what you’re talking about half the time,” Saul tells him, after a long parable about a squirrel on a wire wheel with broken feet. ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 6: Carrie Needs a Powerful Ally 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Landscapes, portraits, parables and fantasies abound in the show. Davidson Galleries’ ‘Wood Engraving Invitational’ 2014-01-16T21:48:16Z Jonathan Moore's production functions more successfully as a straightforward gangland caper than when striving to frame the action as a spiritual parable with a window into the fourth dimension. Faith and Cold Reading ? review 2011-02-16T18:20:31Z It’s a chilling parable, well imagined and artfully told, and set in a future so familiar it’s almost the present 2.0. A ‘Black Mirror’ Christmas Tale on DirecTV 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z It isn’t necessarily satisfying, on the level of human psychology, to read this patriarch as a puppet master, but it’s got potential as a parable. “Kidding,” Reviewed: Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry Reunite to Conjure Whimsy, Dread, and Puppets 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z It’s faith, then, that accounts for the elevation of this ordinary little parable, in which Christmas legend and retail commercialism work hand in ho-ho-hand. Top 10 Worst Christmas Movies 2011-12-20T11:58:00Z A former Jehovah’s Witnesses missionary, she often drew character names from the Bible and adapted Old Testament tales and parables to her own ends. Gloria Naylor, whose novels gave voice to African American women, dies at 66 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z A comment on the innately human desire for companionship, the story is a “picaresque parable,” A.H. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Honeyland’ and ‘Accept the Call’ 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z It's never too soon for a parable about deforestation and its consequences. Mal Peet's top 10 books to read aloud 2011-08-03T13:08:37Z It is far more than just a thriller, and more, too, than a parable of moral conflict, self-reliance and Anglo-Saxon survivalism. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male 2013-03-15T12:03:22Z Mr. Meloy is a tale spinner, singing character studies and parables. Music Review: For Decemberists, a Time to Shift Gears 2011-01-25T23:06:16Z "One Lucky Elephant" is almost a parable, one that's less about elephants or animals than about human beings and their efforts to heal original sin, something that's never possible. "One Lucky Elephant": Man and pachyderm, a love story 2011-06-11T13:11:00Z In this modern parable “as in the Bible,” our reviewer, Jonathan Dee, wrote, “every disaster story is also an origin story.” New in Paperback: ‘A Children’s Bible’ and ‘The Education of an Idealist’ 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Her comeuppance is equally chaotic, as “Tár” refuses to resolve itself either into a parable of #MeToo justice or a rant about the excesses of cancel culture. ‘Tár’ Review: A Maestro Faces the Music 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z And about Alexander Payne’s “Downsizing,” a genial, barbed parable of consumerism, environmental crisis and social inequality disguised as a dystopian farce. Best Pictures, Maybe, but Telluride Is Not About Oscars 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z “When it works best, ‘Changeling’ is a feverish and bluntly effective parable of wronged innocence and unaccountable power,” A.O. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Stand Up to Cancer’ and ‘Nora From Queens’ 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z They're deeply moral stories; the best of them read like parables. What's on Stephenie Meyer's ideal bookshelf? The works that made the artists 2012-11-25T00:05:41Z It’s the ultimate thrill-ride parable that even Nelson Mandela, who for much of his iconic life had little to smile about, might enjoy. Mandela in the Movies: 10 Films About Apartheid 2013-12-06T21:21:59Z "Pi"'s ambiguities, its contemplation of religious and moral questions, and its nature as a parable made reading the book a rich — if mystifying — experience. 'Beatrice and Virgil': Yann Martel's haunting fable of humans, animals and violence 2010-04-14T21:26:00Z It's like the parable of the drowning man. The Fort Bragg murders: is Jeffrey MacDonald innocent? 2013-04-13T23:05:28Z While still at Cambridge, he wrote an existentialist parable indebted to Genet called Ladder of Fools. Howard Brenton 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z Put in a 10-minute parable sequence in the middle of an episode or do a one-year jump in the middle of an episode — elements that people aren't used to seeing. 'Fargo' mastermind Noah Hawley makes stranger-than-fiction real 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z It could be a rowdy, funny, even powerful updating of the love-thy-neighbor message–verily, a parable. REVIEW: Black Jesus Laughs With, More Than At, Its Son of God 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z “The branch is a parable of growth, but it’s also fragile.” Indonesian puppetry and a festival of West Javanese culture come to Freer/Sackler His challenge is a reader’s challenge when faced with a story that borders on parable. Marisa Silver's 'Little Nothing' is fierce, mysterious fairy tale 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z "The Company's logo was a giant crumbling tower. It was Babel, of course, the old Biblical parable." Tom McCarthy keeps protagonist and readers guessing 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z “Die Zauberflöte” is, at least in part, a parable of what humans are capable of — of what they can achieve when they look inside themselves. Review: Pulling Back the Curtain on ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Advertisement In a thematic section devoted to Zen ink painting, we suddenly have, along with devotional icons and illustrated parables, pictures of birds and seasonal flowers, landscapes, fruit-and-vegetable still lifes. Masterpieces of Japanese Art at the Met 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Foreman didn’t intend his script to be the blacklist parable it became, but as he watched his friends fall around him, it was almost inevitable. You Must Remember This: Why We Return to ‘Casablanca’ and ‘High Noon’ 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Producers have called the production a "truthful, uplifting parable for anyone who's ever been in love, in trouble, or in high school" and said the tale is both "darkly funny, romantic and moving". Heathers musical to open in New York 2013-12-11T12:27:41Z Recall the Bible’s parable of the sower, whose first batches of seeds were devoured by birds, languished in inadequate soil, and withered under a scorching sun. Seeds, the Gateway Drug to Gardening 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z These are also the questions raised by “Sweet Land,” a parable of, and fantasia on, Manifest Destiny and the colonization of America, that “sweet land of liberty.” Review: An Opera Erases and Rewrites the American Myth 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z “Wonderland” transforms Alice’s surreal wanderings into a contemporary parable about reconnecting with your inner child and other watery truisms of the self-help industrial complex. | 'Wonderland': There?s No Place Like Queens 2011-04-18T02:01:04Z I would happily have spent two or three hours there, with or without a consciousness-raising parable attached. 2009-12-17T01:16:00Z But Ms. Fuller writes with ferocity and precision, and she turns the story of her marriage and its disintegration into a resonant parable about her and her former husband’s mismatched views of the world. Alexandra Fuller’s ‘Leaving Before the Rains Come’ 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Children relished its adventures; adults either enjoyed the story as a parable of lost youth or dismissed it as drama while dissecting its psychological implications. Peter Pan ? review 2011-08-27T23:06:39Z They’re not my cinematic religion, but just as the scriptures for other people’s religions can have a mighty mythopoetic allure, superhero stories can refract a big picture of a complex world into potent parables. Advice for Robert Downey, Jr. 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z “The narrative became a vehicle to address both personal and social issues through the lens of parable,” Mr. Cohan added in an e-mail. Texas Monthly: Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock Changes Style for New York Show 2012-10-28T06:48:04Z Jordan Peele politicized the body horror tradition with his crossover hit Get Out, refashioning it as a parable about white contempt and envy for black physical excellence. Invade and conquer: film's grisly return to body horror 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Set in a honeybee hive, the novel is a parable about the consequences of groupthink. Review of ‘The Bees’: Paull’s transfixing first novel exposes dangers of the hive mind Ionesco’s parable offers a warning about the ease with which entire populations can willingly surrender their human values to the baser impulses of herd mentality. The 99-Seat Beat: DACA drama, Lenny Bruce and new Nick Payne 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z But as a parable for where we’re headed on that big old highway in the digital sky, “The Nether” exerts a viselike grip, while taking you down avenues of thought you probably haven’t traveled yet. Review: Jennifer Haley’s ‘The Nether’ Explores the Dark Side of the Web 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Rolling Stone hailed Raw as turning “a cannibal coming-of-age story into a shocking, clever feminist parable”. The female directors bringing new blood to horror films 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z The book delivers a parable of self-acceptance, as well as recipes for sugar cookies — both the edible and ornamental varieties. Winter Holiday Treats For Picture Book Readers 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Handel and his collaborator Thomas Morell updated the Old Testament story of Jephtha for their oratorio, “Jephtha,” adding a happy ending to the parable about a father who sacrifices his daughter to God. Opera, Ballet and More Treats for Fall: Global Arts Guide 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Yes, most of the metaphors and parables packed into this story — a grab bag of sci-fi tropes highlighting humanity’s hamster-wheel existence — are this heavy-handed. From 1619 to the Year 3020, and Every Podcast in Between 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Like all good parables, "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" doesn't belabor its point or become preachy. “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”: The best “Jurassic” sequel delivers a strong animal rig... 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z But the show, arriving early in the Trump administration, quickly became a success, seen as a parable about welcoming strangers and building community. ‘Come From Away’ to Close, the Latest Broadway Show to End Run 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Considered as a parable, the simulation argument is essentially ironic. What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z This helps build suspense, and adds a flavour of parable. Poem of the week: The Man by Maitreyabandhu 2013-07-01T10:29:17Z But they are also fantastical, a blend of satire, science fiction and parable, the point of which is to change our view of reality by inflating it to surreality. A Different Kind of Dystopian Novel 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z The story of Jack London Square is a distinctly American parable of capitalist intervention. Opening day at Oakland’s Museum of Capitalism 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z With “Living,” Ishiguro — a British writer whose parents moved the family from Nagasaki to Surrey when he was five — infuses his beloved parable with nostalgia closer to home. ‘Living’ Review: Losing His Inhibition 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z "It's a parable for the times we live in," said Mills. Edinburgh festival will reflect clash of cultures 2010-03-17T19:47:00Z The film isn't the simple conservative parable that rightwingers would like, but it is in the end a reactionary vision. Batman's political right turn 2012-07-22T17:29:01Z Of course, the telling of the parables — the prodigal son, the good Samaritan — still fill lots of stage time, a bit tediously, with the performers adopting cute accents. ‘Godspell’ Review: Musical Theater Rises From the Dead 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z The tone aims at the severe clarity of a parable and is most effective in this mode. A Norwegian Novel Complicates the Canon of New Testament Fiction 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z “I have a feeling that Kingdomality was the end of the parable trend,” she said. Whatever Happened to Just Being Type A? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z “Going Up in the World, ” about a window washer turned successful businessman, becomes a kind of parable about the boom of the early millennium and the coming crash of 2008. Review: Graham Swift’s ‘England and Other Stories,’ a Darkness Across Time and Fates 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The musical is a retelling of Jesus’ ministry structured around a series of parables, mostly from the Bible’s Gospel of St. Matthew, with songs interspersed. Day by day: Musical ‘Godspell’ celebrates 50th anniversary 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z Scheduled for June 4, the book is a parable about welcoming outsiders. Team that spoofed Pence book has new picture story 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Since Emma Rice first re-imagined Hans Christian Andersen's The Red Shoes as a parable about the choices facing women today, she's found a rich source of inspiration in wonder tales from around the world. This week's new theatre 2011-07-22T23:08:04Z “Arrival” is a science-fiction parable in a distinctly more idealistic hopeful key than most movies in this genre, one in which the best solutions don’t necessarily materialize in a gun sight. Review: Aliens Drop Anchor in ‘Arrival,’ but What Are Their Intentions? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z He has moved with a smooth, urbane grace across storytelling genres and filmmaking styles, including bracing contemporary dramas, whimsical fables, camp parables and the odd musical. 'Young & Beautiful's' Francois Ozon savors challenges of film 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z These mediation sessions serve as entertaining parables in themselves, as Anil must ponder disputes such as one involving a shared mango tree. ‘The Golden Son’ review: An immigrant’s dilemma 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z “Are we not drawn” is a parable of disaster, but run the tape backward and it instead promises repair. Review: ‘Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era’ Stages a Disaster in Reverse 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Parables excerpted from the Transition’s Bible-thick “Mentor’s Edition” fail to deliver any kind of concluding principle, ending instead with some delightfully odd, vivid moments reminiscent of the visual parables in a Wes Anderson film. 'The Transition' plumbs every poet's worst nightmare: corporate hell 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z It’s the first of many imaginatively theatrical set pieces in this unconventionally told parable of gender identity and the subtle, sinister power of the media. 'Women Laughing Alone With Salad': A playwright's raucous riff on sexism and body shame 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z In this scene, it’s an uncomfortable parable of moneyed power; Lucious and Mimi are business partners that are terrifyingly open to misuse of power. “Empire”’s sex slump: Why sex on TV’s sexiest show — including that threesome — is so incredibly awkward 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z I’m just saying that “The Sessions” should be taken for what it is, a sweet but minor fictional parable about the strange possibilities of love. “The Sessions”: An unlikely, certain-to-be Oscar-bound sex fable 2012-10-19T17:02:00Z From some distance, it’s a parable about the current age, in which an increasingly fraught vision of American prosperity abuts the realities of stagnation and loss. Novels of White Status Anxiety 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z What emerged was a series of parables for what he saw as a "coming-to-terms album". The end of the Streets 2011-01-02T00:04:01Z I imagined it would just be a parable like, what was his end? "Why Fish Don't Exist" explores eugenics in the US, a Hawaiian murder plot, and the meaning of life 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z But “What Strange Paradise” vibrates between parable and particular. Review | ‘What Strange Paradise’ is a visceral account of a refugee’s desperation 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z It is also a timely parable about what happens when trust breaks down. 'It was just left to the people': behind a chilling documentary on the Flint water crisis 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z “All Is Lost” is about a lot of things—solitude, hope, invention—but at its heart, it’s a parable about the human compulsion to try. We are all d**k-measurers now: The Oscars and awards-season devalue and pervert art 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z "The Artist" hews faithfully to the classics it celebrates, offering a cautionary parable regarding the wages of fame but wrapping it in velvety aesthetic values, crisp storytelling and fabulous dance numbers. New DVDs | 'The Artist,' 'Mirror Mirror,' '21 Jump Street' 2012-06-25T19:25:04Z ‘A Fable’ This saggy, perplexing parable by David Van Asselt concerns an angel and a devil fighting for the soul of a laggard soldier. Theater Listings for June 6-12 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z As a parable of the power of sports, the story is irresistible. The N.B.A. and China and the Myths of Sports Diplomacy 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The movie, filmed in a semidocumentary style, is both a religious parable and a grim reflection of Eastern European immigration to the West. The Week Ahead: June 10 — 16 2012-06-08T19:14:41Z The Mendelssohn might have fared better if it hadn't been preceded in a double bill by a genuine masterpiece: Benjamin Britten's church parable, The Prodigal Son. The Homecoming/The Prodigal Son 2010-07-20T20:45:00Z Younger, reform-minded viewers interpret the story of Omar as a parable for their own struggles — Omar brings the prophet’s words on monotheism, tolerance and social justice to backward tribes who stubbornly cling to old values. | The TV Watch: Saudi Arabia: Ramadan TV Gently Pushes Saudi Boundaries 2012-08-20T02:22:34Z And the still disruptive import of his Beatitudes and parables feels weirdly absent from these short chapters that quickly push him off stage. Mary Rakow’s ‘This is Why I Came’ asks us to reimagine biblical tales 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z In essence, the film plays as a parable of the difficulty of rehabilitation and biographical storytelling when your subject is so unreliable. Murder, mystery and a hit record: the unbelievable story of Ike White 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z It is a dreamy, surreal parable set in Slab City, Calif., a desert campsite that looks like something between a trailer park and a Martian utopia. A Director Follows Acclaim for ‘Tangerine’ With a Film for Kenzo 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z In Time is Niccol’s most explicit denunciation of inequality, and a parable of the rich getting richer as the poor lose time. In Time: Justin Timberlake Tries to Beat the Clock 2011-10-27T22:04:17Z While it would be comforting to dismiss this 1922 drama as a fascinating anachronism, O’Neill’s nightmarish parable of alienation and class conflict still feels close to home. Review: A Mesmerizing ‘Hairy Ape’ Brings Existentialism to Park Avenue 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Is this an Obama-era parable, Hollywood recycling, a sign of the times or a change in mood or meds? The Year the Studios Get It Right 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z And there’s the parable “Fish,” in which Mr. Brooks learns the wisdom of simplicity, and the rejection of big-city capitalism, from a guy with a fishing rod. Garth Brooks Is Back With a New Album, ‘Man Against Machine’ 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z The clinic called as I was exiting a screening of the Cain and Abel parable “East of Eden.” Selling my eggs to make rent 2013-02-03T18:00:00Z When I read it all I see is a parable about an emasculated, alienated father. Hating Ms. Maisy: The Joy, Sorrow and Neurotic Rage of Reading to Your Children 2012-07-18T15:43:27Z Incendiary parable for the Trump era from Spike Lee, dramatising the true story of an African American policeman who helps infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. The 50 best movies of 2018 in the US: 50-41 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z His brother Stephen — an acclaimed singer and producer — contributed three tracks: “Sabali,” a slow-burning song called “Leaders” that is perfectly suited to Nas’s player parables, and the rousing spiritual “In His Own Words.” Damian Marley and Nasir Jones in ?Distant Relatives? 2010-05-13T17:54:00Z The parable of an ambitious entrepreneur who lets his ingenuity curdle into unchecked greed is more or less intact, and his corruption is conveyed in a few memorable, semi-inspired visual flights. Movie Review: ?Dr. Seuss? The Lorax,? With Ed Helms and Danny DeVito 2012-03-01T17:57:47Z The story is as simple as a parable, a campfire story, a children’s book: A faithful animal, separated from its loving owner, suffers, struggles and resists while trying to transcend its brutal fate. Movie Listings for April 10-16 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z There are even hints of a religious parable and a suggestion that we revere our leaders instead of holding them accountable. | 'When We Go Upon the Sea': At 59E59 Theaters, Bush Awaits Dock for War Crimes 2010-06-21T00:22:00Z Watching it through the lens of this moment, however, "Juneteenth" becomes a parable about compromise. This Juneteenth, "Atlanta" will give you all the insights you need on how America co-opts a holiday 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Starting with a Buddhist list of 12 types of illusion, Westerhoff mixes Tibetan and Indian parables with European philosophy and findings from modern psychology on unreliable perceptions. Steven Poole's non-fiction choice ? reviews 2011-03-19T00:06:01Z Mr. Nichtern doesn’t assert that film is a Buddhist parable in disguise. Looking for Buddhist Wisdom in ‘The Princess Bride’ 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z It’s partly a #MeToo parable about personal and professional boundaries, in which a prominent cultural figure is accused of predatory behavior. At the Telluride Film Festival, ‘Women Talking’ and Other Topics of Conversation 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z The Beaver, a strange parable about a toy manufacturer who battles severe depression by speaking through a rodent hand-puppet, was meant to test the audience's tolerance for an actor they supported for a burly quarter-century. Box Office Weekend: 'Thor' is Epic, 'Fast Five' Stays Strong, but Mel Gibson's 'The Beaver' is Nowhere To Be Found 2011-05-08T06:05:00Z He brings up “Into the Wild,” and proceeds to describe its plot in a way that sounds almost like a introspective parable. Dave Chappelle Returns to Stand-Up, With Stories to Tell 2013-08-15T11:55:00Z “Der Rosenkavalier,” a bittersweet parable of a society on the verge of convulsive transformation, became merely a plush, pretty nostalgia trip. Critic’s Notebook: Opera’s Sad Goodbye? How About, ‘Good Riddance’? 2013-12-30T22:21:55Z But he steers clear of the allegorical tales he was telling last year that seemed like parables about regret. Dave Chappelle at Radio City Music Hall 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z The director Lucky McKee, in this lean adaptation of a novel by Jack Ketchum and himself, maintains an artfully calibrated pace, investing a powerful parable with an abundance of closely observed details. | 'The Woman': ?The Woman,? Directed by Lucky McKee - Review 2011-10-16T22:01:46Z Then think of 99 Homes as a social parable in Exorcist terms: Can Dennis learn the brutal details of repossessing homes without letting the demon Carver possess his tender soul? REVIEW: Spider-Man Has a Housing Crisis in 99 Homes 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z “Noah,” Mr. Aronofsky’s earnest, uneven, intermittently powerful film, is both a psychological case study and a parable of hubris and humility. Movie Review: Russell Crowe Confronts Life’s Nasty Weather in ‘Noah’ 2014-03-27T18:05:40Z And while all the performances are solid, I often had difficulty in believing these characters as something other than figures in a parable. Theater Review: ‘Grace,’ With Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon, at Cort Theater 2012-10-05T02:00:00Z Those are the questions that animate "Bullets Over Broadway," Woody Allen's delicious cinematic parable about the struggle between creative greatness and human goodness. 'Bullets Over Broadway' makes up for its lack of new music with strong choreography and acting 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z His biographies of Marie Antoinette, Erasmus and Mary Stuart, all published in the early 1930s, were acute studies of doomed protagonists; his novellas sharp parables for his own dark times. Song of exile 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z It’s more a ready-made parable of toxic parenthood or a mass-cultural case study than a thriller. “The Act,” Reviewed: A Juicy True-Crime Drama That Deconstructs Soapy Tropes 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Salon's Melanie McFarland reacted to the victory by writing that "in addition to 'Parasite' being a parable about wealthy and social standing, it's also a story about the power of pretense." Trump criticizes "Parasite" Best Picture Oscar win because it's South Korean 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z For me, the whole thing is an anxiety nightmare parable about our current state, and that’s why it looks the way it looks. Oskar Eustis on Trump, ‘Julius Caesar’ and the Politics of Theater 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z In a sense, those fight scenes, skillfully choreographed by Yuen Woo-ping, are but a metaphor in service to a parable of freedom and love. ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ Still Flies High 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z It had also become a fixture in classes about late 20th century architecture, a textbook example of Post-Modernism, parable of the star architect, catnip on Instagram. For AT&T, Balancing Change and Preservation Under the Same Broken Pediment 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z This is the most personal or revealing film the shy Lucas has ever made, a grim parable about a romantic rebel in a regimented and repressive future society. The folly of Empire: how Star Wars menaced Hollywood 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z What follows is the parable of the missile launcher, which is perhaps the strangest story we’ve seen on The Walking Dead in quite some time. The Walking Dead: season six, episode six – Always Accountable 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z There are haunting parables, such as "The Stone Ship" or "The Queue", and children's poems such as "Night Boy" or "Johnjoe's Snowman" that simmer with disquiet. Poetry in brief 2011-03-26T00:05:32Z The idea of acquiring self- understanding from an extreme situation is also invoked in the form of a parable early in the novel, essentially setting the agenda for what follows. Book review: ‘The Zone of Interest,’ by Martin Amis He has returned with another parable about village life, written with breathtaking and deceptive simplicity, translated from the Tamil by N. Kalyan Raman. One of India’s Most Original and Controversial Novelists Returns With a Powerful Parable 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z The inscrutability of Hamish Glen's production is compounded by a jittery narrative style in which everyone seems to speak in polemics or parables, making a straightforward plot incredibly difficult to follow. Too Much Pressure - review 2011-02-06T17:58:50Z Surreal imagery and eccentric characters aplenty in a parable of a snowy Turkish village that takes in an eccentric stranger. This week's new films 2012-06-15T23:05:17Z So do the plots, folksy comic parables involving foolish husbands and cheating wives. Urban Arias’ ‘Bastianello’ and ‘Lucrezia’ are at once timeless and anachronistic Lerner’s musical women, however dated they might seem on the surface, usually offer little parables about living in all our dimensionality. I Love Performing Those Songs. But What About the Gender Politics? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z First seen at the Aldeburgh festival last month, Mahogany Opera's production of Britten's church parables has transferred to Southwark Cathedral, where it now forms part of the composer's centenary celebrations at this year's . The Prodigal Son/The Burning Fiery Furnace – review 2013-07-07T17:20:00Z A parable about the contagious nature of corruption and the curse of dirty money, “1000 Rupee Note” asks, How valuable is a windfall to people who live their lives largely without money? Review: ‘1000 Rupee Note,’ a Poor Widow’s Blessing and Curse 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Flight, like disappearance, is a significant theme, and the poem is haunted by the myth of Icarus – not by accident one of modern poetry's favourite parables. Poem of the week: 'Time has disappeared/Lo temps s'es perdut' by Aurélia Lassaque 2013-02-11T11:28:12Z As Marina observes, that tale, about a man who becomes obsessed with one of his ancestors, is “a parable on the perils of research.” Paul La Farge’s ‘The Night Ocean’ will suck you into the vortex of H.P. Lovecraft 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z That befits Shakespeare's Jacobean-style drama, which is less of a tragedy than a parable of how not to govern an empire, or make peace with its enemies. Seattle troupe mounts a spooky, lean, all-women 'Titus' 2012-09-13T20:30:07Z The sermons that really work keep the sermon format, including parables and stories, and have a clear message for people to take away.” London Series Turns Sermons Inside-Out 2010-09-07T10:00:00Z The fictional Republic of Gilead as an allegory of Trump’s America drew scoffs from conservatives, some of whom argued that its vision of sexual slavery could also be read as a parable about assisted reproduction. 10 Cultural Battles That Ruled 2017 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z It’s unfortunate that Bertolt Brecht’s 1941 parable on fascism always feels relevant. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Set in the Victorian era, it’s part ghost story and part natural history lesson, part romance and part feminist parable. A Spirited Widow and a Monstrous Serpent Propel a Lush Novel 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z At his lowest point he was offered the chance to direct One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, another anti-authoritarian parable adapted from Ken Kesey’s novel. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest director Milos Forman dies aged 86 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z No doubt this episode is meant to be read as a sort of existential parable, but it never becomes more than a vividly drawn dream sequence. Review: In Vladimir Sorokin’s ‘The Blizzard,’ a Doctor’s Long and Strange Trip 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z It was a Bible parable with a powerful, universal message, the story of St. Christopher carrying a baby over a stream. Kyung-sook Shin's 'I'll Be Right There' finds artful solace 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Written by Sam Caitlin and directed by David Slade, the episode cemented the show's status as a parable of economic disillusionment. Recap: "Breaking Bad" 4x3, "Open House" 2011-08-01T18:30:00Z You may think you're reading "The Illumination" as fantasy or parable. 'The Illumination': Kevin Brockmeier's fable of human pain made manifest 2011-02-24T00:04:07Z Romero expanded this premise into parable of a government experiment gone horribly wrong in wartime. The Crazies Review: Don't Drink the Water 2010-02-26T08:40:00Z It's also a concrete parable of a situation that plays itself out in ways large and insignificant, all the time. "Better Call Saul" and the two faces of JMM 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z There's some interplay with the son and a parable about monsters with hearts of gold and it's all very sad. "Fringe" recap: Two shapeshifters revealed 2010-10-15T12:30:00Z Appropriately, this cold war parable won the top prize, the Golden Bear, at the first Berlin Film Festival, where the public had no difficulty identifying with the difficulties of living in a divided city. Dvdsdave Kehr: Rain City Woes and Escape in the Desert 2010-12-03T16:01:00Z Set in a preindustrial, agrarian world, the play charts a relationship that suggests a biblical parable rewritten by Thomas Hardy. Minds in Meltdown, and a Risk-Taking Director Back on Form 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z They started "A Serious Man" with a Yiddish parable and at the end of it you're like, "What does that have to do with the movie?" 'Fargo' mastermind Noah Hawley makes stranger-than-fiction real 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Two decades ago, only one man understood the transformative power of his parable about industrious mice. Perspective | ‘Who Moved My Cheese’ became a monster hit. Twenty years later, we’re still wondering why. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z The first of three “parables for church performance” that Britten wrote in the 1960s, “Curlew River” is an adaptation of Juro Motomasa’s medieval play “Sumidagawa” that hovers serenely between Japanese theater and Anglican spirituality. Critic’s Notebook: Mark Morris Directing Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2013-07-30T20:59:50Z “Catching the Wind” is presented as something of a parable — “This book,” Gabler states, “is about political morality” — but the concept never quite coheres. The Best of the Kennedys? 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z The parable is this: A group of men in the dark touch an elephant to learn what it looks like. My bipolar awakening 2012-08-15T20:59:00Z The Erwins’ film presents a parable of how love and hard work can lead a hero down a prosperous, predetermined path. ‘American Underdog’ Review: A Football Fairy Tale 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z With spare prose and evocative illustrations, a traditional Spanish folk tale about the marriage of a mouse to a kitten who becomes a monstrous cat is transformed into a powerful parable of domestic abuse. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2021 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Last year, I made the case that Star Trek: Into Darkness was accidentally a pro-drone-strike parable and that Matt Damon’s Elysium was actually an anti-Obamacare warning. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Godzilla’ is an anti-global-warming alarmism blockbuster 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Ultimately, this offbeat travelogue is a sly parable about losing your sense of self while en route to elusive destinations. Karen Joy Fowler's fine new story collection, 'What I Didn't See,' moves from ordinary to fantastical and back 2010-09-29T21:40:00Z “We might file this tale between Cain and Abel and the golden calf, parables about the many ways we fail.” ?People Who Eat Darkness?: The disappearing blonde 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z The first was a playlet in the form of a creation parable, the second a rhythm-and-blues musical set in a Las Vegas hotel suite. Will Holt, Who Wrote ‘Lemon Tree,’ Dies at 86 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Related: The portrayal of boxers in film: clever political parables or clichéd bores Intriguingly, though, issues of race and colour are ostensibly incidental to Creed. Creed adds to short list of boxing films starring a black hero 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z That’s a question for David Soman’s sumptuously illustrated “The Impossible Mountain,” a parable about conquering fear and venturing out into the world. Opening the Door: 3 Picture Books Look at Life on the Other Side 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z In this way, this imaginative tale, with its short chapters and relatively short, simple sentences, also acts as a parable, with Roz a contrast to human settlers of the past. Best books for children and young adults this month 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z I hesitate to make this story into a parable—its protagonist would have protested—but this, after all, is a keynote address. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Even my mother, who had a penchant for relaying dark parables to her willful daughter, knew that I needed a message of hope to cling to. Making sense of a senseless world: How children's books can mitigate the horror around us 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Inspired by a Michael Lewis tome about the 2008 housing crash, the fourth-wall obliterating parable of American greed netted McKay a slew of Oscar nominations and a win for best adapted screenplay. Adam McKay went from Ron Burgundy to Dick Cheney, and it actually makes perfect sense 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z How do you think “The Rooster Prince” parable fit in, or the narration of “Full Moon” at the end? ArtsBeat: ‘Fargo’ Recap: Boots on the Ground 2014-04-23T03:22:49Z His parents embraced Murray without reservations, but his father’s sermons were confined to parables about the prodigal son and unconditional love. Review | In ‘Shaking the Gates of Hell,’ a preacher’s son examines his church’s culture of silence on civil rights 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z "The Betrayers," then, reads less as a parable of reconciliation than an expression of its own inability as a novel to live up to the vagaries of history. Blame and forgiveness in David Bezmozgis' 'The Betrayers' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z It’s a fitting but unfortunate parable in an era of rampant economic inequality. They Fixed Pornography 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Dickens' novel is a class parable about a boy raised by a blacksmith who believes himself to be better than his humble origins and the people around him. Olivia Colman on her "Great Expectations" for Miss Havisham: “There's such darkness inside her" 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z He believes that the scriptures must be taken at their word, rather than being allowed to flourish as many-layered parables, teeming with quarrels, follies, jokes, reversals and paradoxes. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z This was, he said, a parable that the storyteller in him could not ignore. Titanic's legacy: A fascination with disasters 2012-03-31T22:31:05Z That’s an intriguing moral for a visual parable made by a painter whose style is defiantly, transcendently ageless. Review | In the galleries: Renaissance influences synchronize with Magic Realism 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Or is it a parable about the pervasive rot of global capitalism and the decay of long-revered institutions? The FIFA corruption sideshow: Takedown of 1 percent crooks or strategic move against Putin? 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z The novel can’t seem to decide whether this episode is a parable or a revenge fantasy, revealing something that runs much deeper and darker than mere extramarital passion. Troubled Marriages, Old and New 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Taken together, the stories create a parable of community, as children discover how to be a part of something larger without losing themselves. Review: Reviving a ‘Really Rosie’ That’s Hard-Candy Cute 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Eventually a sketchy Christ parable emerges from all the backyard nattering and gender bending, as do fantasy sequences set in an imaginary land of big birds. 'Mormon Bird Play': a muddled comic fantasia 2011-11-07T23:22:04Z Part parable, part creation story, this novel by the author of “Motherhood” and “How Should a Person Be?” is a philosophical meditation on love and the long reverberations of grief. 12 New Books Coming in February 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z In an email, Junot Díaz talked about “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” Ms. Le Guin’s parable about a society whose happy existence depends on keeping one small child locked away in misery. Ursula Le Guin Has Earned a Rare Honor. Just Don’t Call Her a Sci-Fi Writer. 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z If that’s some kind of cautionary parable, though, no one’s listening. Game of Thrones Watch: Making a List, Checking It Twice 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z These bursts of experimental style feel at odds with the movie’s core: a simplistic parable of pervasive sexism. ‘Run Sweetheart Run’ Review: Escape in L.A. 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The accounts about his tenure at Philadelphia are a parable of the problems faced by institutions, from big corporations to small nonprofits, when employees are accused of objectionable behavior. He Left a Museum After Women Complained; His Next Job Was Bigger 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z A modern-day parable of underdogs taking on bullies, it quickly found millions of readers. Ronni Solbert, Children’s Book Illustrator, Dies at 96 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z It’s often said, even among his devotees, that Britten’s “Curlew River” — one of his three church parables — is a minor piece, admirable but stylistically offbeat and structurally overlayered. Dance Review: Mark Morris Presents Purcell and Britten at Tanglewood 2013-08-01T21:50:31Z That last film, a subversive movie about a superhero who wasted his powers, was a brilliant parable for the years ahead. Can Will Smith Become a Major Movie Star Again? 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z He sings a parable about a "doorkeeper to the Law" and a countryman who spends his life waiting patiently for admittance - and dies before getting there. Glass's operatic 'The Trial' brings Kafka up to date 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Maybe the most disturbing part of the film’s invasion parable is its use of children as colonial catspaws. The 5th Wave could be an apology for colonialism – but it's not 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Here was a parable for a time when authoritative representations of truth seemed increasingly unreliable to youthful rebels everywhere. Art Review: A Fine Line: Style or Philosophy? 2011-06-23T22:45:46Z But he didn’t come to Iowa just to tell his parable about schoolyard jerks. He’s already a famous surgeon and author, so why is Ben Carson toying with a longshot presidential bid? There’s certainly greater complexity in this adaptation than the thinly veiled parable of resistance to Nazi collaboration in Anouilh’s text. 'Jean Anouilh's Antigone,' Greek mythology for the selfie era 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z A marionette Socrates, aided by his wife and students, uses abstract parables, paradoxes and, of course, the Socratic method and Socratic irony to examine epistemological and moral topics like justice, democracy and liberty. Theater Review: ‘The Republic, or My Dinner With Socrates,’ at La MaMa 2013-12-09T22:33:28Z “Ancient Tillage,” a version of the prodigal-son parable, is both a celebration of André’s ties to the land and his family and an almost nihilistic condemnation of these ties. Why Brazil’s Greatest Writer Stopped Writing 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z For this very reason, actually, the second season of “Cobra Kai” works even as a cautionary parable about the extreme dangers of social and political division. "Cobra Kai" returns: Will the "no mercy" way of fighting win? 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z The hosts of the first two seasons, fitfully struggling toward consciousness between occupational assaults and killings, were always stand-ins in a parable about free will and enslavement. What Is ‘Westworld’ Without Westworld? 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Katherine Anne Porter’s novel has its problems, but for the most part, it avoids turning itself into an obvious parable. Will McAvoy, you’re so smart! 2012-07-23T18:30:00Z Storytelling and social justice, the twin themes of Fugard's work, are wedded together in a two-act drama that is constructed to resemble a parable. Athol Fugard builds on his distinguished corpus with 'The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek' 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z In that regard, "Maleficent" is Disney's most adventurous female empowerment parable yet as it explores how the age-old power struggle between men and women shapes the identity of both parties. Angelina Jolie is wickedly good in the not-quite-classic 'Maleficent' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Both are essentially exculpatory parables of empowerment, anchored in feminist ideology. Arts & Leisure Preview: Violence That Art Didn?t See Coming 2010-02-24T19:11:00Z Whereas “Portnoy’s Complaint” was an outrageously comic tale about the throwing off of duty, “Nemesis” is a pleasantly told parable about the embrace of conscience — and what its suffocating, life-denying consequences can be. Books of The Times: When Polio Disrupted the Playground 2010-10-04T17:16:00Z Too elaborate by half, probably – but it’s what Bong does with that parable that makes the relentless, politically provocative and visually spectacular “Snowpiercer” the best action film of 2014, and probably the best film, period. “Snowpiercer”: Movie of the year, at least so far 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z But the drama's power as a parable shows best in its wordless sequences. When it comes "Better Call Saul," we should be in no hurry for it to end 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Like the latter, it is a great political parable for desperate times. Poem of the week: The God of Love by George MacBeth 2010-06-07T14:18:00Z “He likes defiant, enigmatic paradoxes and pregnant parables that never quite close, perhaps by design.” Alec McCowen, British Actor Who Played Saint and Fool, Dies at 91 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Conscientiously pointing out the blind spots and contradictions that undermine ideals of justice and nonviolence, Ms. Bier nonetheless delivers a parable that is more soothing than disturbing. | 'In a Better World': A Do-Gooder Vision Clouded by Blind Spots 2011-03-31T22:22:34Z They started with “Citizen Ruth,” which satirized the abortion debate, then adapted the Tom Perrotta novel “Election,” a barbed political parable set in a suburban high school. Arts & Leisure: Alexander Payne?s New Film, ?The Descendants? 2011-11-09T13:00:06Z The Canadian writer’s 10th book is part bonkers cosmology and part contemporary parable. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The moral of this story is yet unclear, except for the takeaway from many such parables: Be careful what you wish for. Review: In ‘The Returned,’ the French Zombie Drama Deepens 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z More fundamentally, “The Imitation Game” is a parable of disruption. ‘The Imitation Game’ Stars Benedict Cumberbatch 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z In this tense parable about a soldier’s homecoming that opened at 122CC Theater in Manhattan on Monday night, every sound underscores what’s left unsaid. ‘9 Kinds of Silence’ Review: A Soldier’s Battle Is Within 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z But I’ve been reinterpreting it over the years and now I see it as a domestic abuse parable, and what it means to be partnered with men who want power at a woman’s expense. From Rosemary's Baby to Suspiria, five directors on cinema's scariest moments 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Like most such Newsroom parables, it gives you obvious clues–tone, cadence, music, camera angles, who gets the better speeches–to lead you to the path of virtuous and true thinking. Listen Here, Internet Girl: The Newsroom Rapesplains It All 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Yet the narrator’s unfulfilling day job serves largely as context for a drifting parable on the gradations of privilege. Review | In Lynn Steger Strong’s ‘Want,’ a woman collapses under the obligations of modern life 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Occasionally the songs’ lyrics overlap, returning to insoluble obsessions; they wander among observation, parable, reminiscence and incantation, sometimes infusing the most commonplace sentiments with mystery. Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z In the interview, Fosso was reluctant to supply fixed explanations for his work, preferring the openness of parables. In Samuel Fosso’s Photos, ‘You Can See Evil, You Can See God’ 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z “Life in the Iron Mills,” sold to The Atlantic Monthly as an exposé of working conditions in early industrial America, turns out to be a parable about art. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Brazilian freakout parable about a town that appears to have disappeared from the map and is under threat from a group of heavily armed tourists. The best films of 2020 so far 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z And few seemed to worry, as many did about the first movie, that is a suggestively violent kill-or-be-killed parable populated with teenagers. Catching Fire Scorches the World With $307M Opening 2013-11-24T21:29:04Z War is hellishly ambiguous in this powerful, slow-burning parable, in which a Russian soldier is caught between the occupying Nazis and his own side, who suspect he might be a collaborator. This week's new films 2013-04-27T05:00:15Z Sissy Spacek is the bullied teen with telekinetic powers in this parable of bullying and misogyny, which is also a brilliant satire of high school, particularly the prom as a theatre of cruelty and anxiety. The scariest horror films ever – ranked! 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Since then they've served as parables for rampant groupthink and, more recently, the pandemic. Beware the rise of vampire shows. It could mean a recession is looming 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z “Korach,” an ambitious but flawed parable by the legendary downtown impresario Judith Malina, explores the travails of anarchists over the millenniums. | 'Korach: The Biblical Anarchist': A Man So Stubborn He Wouldn?t Listen Even to Moses 2010-12-21T21:51:06Z The Wayne Shorter fusion anthem “Endangered Species” comes with new lyrics framing an environmental parable. Esperanza Spalding on a Year in the Spotlight 2012-03-16T15:58:59Z Will this turn into the story of a troubled artist finding a new muse, or perhaps a #MeToo parable of male entitlement run amok? ‘Ahed’s Knee’ Review: A Filmmaker’s Agony in the Desert 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z In the end, this isn’t a biopic or a horror movie or a cautionary parable: It’s a musical, and the music is great. ‘Elvis’ Review: Shocking the King Back to Life 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The original film was meant to be a Christmas parable, a la "It's a Wonderful Life," about discovering the value of what you have as opposed to the pipe-dream wish you think you want. "Home Alone" itself shows why a Disney+ reboot Is a bad idea 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z The appalling tirade she delivers could be a self-serving tweetstorm, even though Molière wrote the stinging parable in the 17th century. Review | A woman plays the title character in ‘Don Juan,’ and he’s still a jerk 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z More than a suspense flick, “Fever” proves to be a quirky parable of guilt, passion and social responsibility. Movie Listings for Sept. 4-10 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Williams’s transformation continues the modern tradition of viewing “The Tempest” as a parable of colonization but reflects the allegory in American mirrors: the slave passage, Jim Crow, the blues, Holiday’s own troubled life. Bring on the ‘Stormy Weather’: In Series does Shakespeare by way of Billie Holiday 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z A subtle weave of fiddles, squeezeboxes and mandolins provides the backdrop for Mitchell's parables on a brilliant, highly original album. Anais Mitchell: Young Man in America ? review 2012-02-12T00:05:41Z Manoeuvring the camera around a warren of suffocating spaces, director Grigori Kozintsev makes the tragedy into a parable of power and powerlessness. The best Shakespeare films – ranked! 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z As a film, it has been variously interpreted as everything from a depiction of masculinity in crisis to a post-Watergate paranoid parable about corrupt authority figures. Jaws, 40 years on: ‘One of the truly great and lasting classics of American cinema’ 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Best internet spoof The Wrestler as a parable for the decline of America. Who's the least expendable of The Expendables? 2010-08-06T23:06:00Z Rather than a fable of regeneration through violence, it’s a gentle, therapeutic parable built over a deep reservoir of pain and hard feelings. Are the Movies Liberal? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Individual titles resemble those of parables — “The Deal,” “The New Man” — as if to telegraph their aphoristic plots. New Story Collections Reconsider History and Upend Tradition 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Before I became a parent, I had vaguely thought that song was a parable for the child's fear of abandonment. Film review: Toy Story 3 2010-07-15T21:57:00Z Yet three of the novel’s four parables refuse resolution outright; the language, rich and inscrutable, is both a barrier to and a protest against certainty. “The Divers’ Game,” Jesse Ball’s Unnerving Parable of a Country That Feigns Innocence 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Far more startlingly effective is “New Order,” a superbly crafted dystopian parable by Michel Franco. Perspective | At a perilous time, the Toronto International Film Festival captured the zeitgeist 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z The setup yielded musical numbers that were understandably solemn but rarely ever energetic or surprising, and as didactic as a Sunday school parable. 'Glee': You've Got to Have Faith (Unless You Don't Want To) 2010-10-06T13:19:00Z The little, lonely robot Wall-E stole our hearts, and his journey — a parable about ecology and the future of mankind — feels as urgent as ever. What’s on TV Thursday 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z When Blunt is onscreen, these woods are alive with the magic of a fractured fairy tale that wise parents might tell to a sophisticated child — a parable of grownup wonder and angst. REVIEW: 'Into the Woods': A Disney Musical for Adults of All Ages 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z Though “Census” reads, at times, like a protracted parable, it eschews tidy lessons. Review | A man and his son with special needs make their final days together count 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z What happened next, however, was something fresh: a parable of the e-book revolution. Hilary Boyd and the rise of 'gran-lit' 2012-11-11T00:06:16Z Crowds with faces blurred and smeared into bestial ferocity gather to watch boxers brutalise each other as they act out a Darwinian parable about the survival of the fittest. George Bellows: Modern American Life – review 2013-03-17T00:05:47Z In it they found a tortured love story, or a parable of bourgeois decline. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z There no parables, words of wisdom or reflections on eternal life. Review: In ‘Last Days in the Desert,’ Ewan McGregor Is a Conflicted Jesus 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z When “The Leftovers” works best — wondrously, transportingly — it works beyond logic, through image and parable, like a kind of dirty-realist gospel. Review: ‘The Leftovers’ Has One More Cosmic Joke to Tell 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z But it leaves us with an intriguing parable about the relationship between an audience and a play. Why can't theatre cope with too much reality? 2012-07-03T12:22:08Z Nightmarish Russian parable about a woman attempting to locate her husband, apparently in a Siberian prison, through a fug of bureaucratic delay and deflection. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z But Martin-Green expressed confidence that, whatever shape or form the series takes, there will always be a place for the imaginative parables that it has helped pioneer. Can ‘Star Trek’ Chart a Way Forward? 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z This is fiction in touch with the starker parables, with Kafka and Beckett, with the austerity of bare rooms and declarative, uninflected sentences. Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z A parable of two Americas, in vulgar microcosm. Review: ‘Why Him?’ Better Yet, Why This Movie? 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Here, the image — a powerful black man quelling his emotion and struggling to present as calm, smaller, nonthreatening — has the strength of parable. Review: ‘Black Lightning’ Is Pulp With a Purpose 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Better yet, filmmakers could deal with controversial subjects by way of metaphor or parable. Why Hollywood keeps whitewashing the past 2011-08-12T15:20:00Z The setting of “The Archer” is the world of parables that we might think of as Meaningville, an abstract realm with muted colors and a fuzzy periphery signaling Lessons are about to be unfurled. Review | Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Archer’ aims for profundity but misses 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Praised by the Swedish Academy for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony", the award of the Nobel prize in 1998 took his fame to a new level. Nobel laureate Jos? Saramago dies, aged 87 2010-06-18T15:19:00Z From the start Gilligan and Gould have styled “Better Call Saul” as a parable of moral degeneration and compromise. We are all Kim Wexler, part 2: “Better Call Saul” finale taps our love affair with grifters 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Fuchs, however, turns the work into a parable of US dominance in the aftermath of the second world war. Saul ? review 2011-07-11T15:14:09Z It becomes easy — and honestly, sometimes really satisfying — to narrativize perceived hosts' slights like a modern-day parable. Why are we SO obsessed with stories of hospitality gone wrong? 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z The works share a familiar setup that serves as a kind of urban parable about the ways in which the education system and other institutions can sabotage and trap people of color. Onstage, Paradise for Black Characters Often Comes With a Price 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Yet as with any media as popular as these movies and shows are now, the parables communicated in superhero movies have become deeply embedded in the collective psyche. The labor laws of the superhero universe amount to disturbing propaganda 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z What he told is what we've been discussing all month on the reading group: a dark parable about redemption through suffering. Reading group: John Huston's Wise Blood is an unlikely cinematic feat 2012-12-21T15:10:19Z Travis Beacham, who conceptualized the story that became “Pacific Rim” and began constructing the world of “Carnival Row” nearly two decades ago, originally intended the piece to be a parable about racism. "Carnival Row": Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne's fairy tale is fractured by competing narratives 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The show, Mehari Sequar Gallery’s inaugural exhibition, includes such illustrated parables as “A fight between grasshoppers is a joy to the crow.” Review | In the galleries: Many works in ‘Spring Solos’ form a chorus of concern for the environment 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z A few of these first took shape as bedtime stories for the great wit’s two sons, but others resemble the adult parables and anecdotes with which Wilde effortlessly charmed London dinner parties. Review | A reading list just right for Christmas 2020: A little Dickens, a little Wilde, a little Donald Duck 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z But “First Winter” knows what it is: a stark metaphysical parable that contemplates the superficiality and fragility of modern civilization. Movie Review: ‘First Winter,’ a Benjamin Dickinson Film 2012-11-16T00:09:10Z “True to the Game” presents a Philadelphia parable. Review: The Crime Drama ‘True to the Game’ Lacks Finesse 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z “The Unknown Girl” is as tense as a police procedural, and as mysterious as a religious parable. Review: The Hard Road of Decency in ‘The Unknown Girl’ 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z In 2015, Syfy turned the world of the Expanse novels into a series, which The Times called “a space opera laced with parables.” Best-Selling Books, Unusual Authors 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z But empathy, as anyone who has suffered through a painfully well-intentioned parable about racial understanding will tell you, is rarely enough. White filmmakers, black characters and the fear of cultural appropriation 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z “As the franchise has grown, it’s gotten less parable and more political, but that’s because the situation’s gotten more dire,” says Blum. Making America Gory Again: how the Purge films troll Trumpism 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z It is an urban parable, writ large in the steel and concrete of Manhattan. The High Bridge, a Scenic and Serene Cousin of the High Line 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Tori Sampson makes her Playwrights Horizons debut with a parable of blackness and beauty. 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z "Perfect Sense" is a solemn sci-fi parable set in present-day Glasgow, whose deepening sense of foreboding is sustained by the enigmatic, pseudo-biblical reflections of an unseen narrator. 'Perfect Sense': Whiffs of love amid sensory-loss epidemic 2012-02-16T21:36:10Z Even a small, ridiculous event can become a parable about the ways the best-laid plans of congressmen go awry in this town. Max Rose came to Congress to do big things. But first, he has to do dumb things. 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Titled “Eye of the Beholder,” the episode, which takes place in a nightmarish world, is a parable about relative standards of beauty. Donna Douglas, the Fairest ‘Beverly Hillbilly,’ Dies at 82 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Instead of merely cranking out another team-up, Waititi and Robinson scripted a parable about finding empowerment through that mystical state that's as elusive as finding the center of all things: closure. Bad romance: The problem with "Thor" is that the MCU is better at thunder than love 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z The movie, an Afrofuturist fantasia that is also a musical, a science-fiction parable and a hacker manifesto, depicts a pocket of resistance in the form of a community of African rebels. ‘Neptune Frost’ Review: Unanimous Gold Mine 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z What it came down to, finally, was a parable about the venality of politics. 'The Good Wife' Recap: You Just Can't Win 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The visible onstage public health measures — partitions, masks, social distancing — “become part of the parable of being a moral person,” said Matthew E. Adelson, the show’s lighting designer. ‘Godspell’ in 2020: Masks, Partitions and a Contactless Crucifixion 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z "Pig" is pretty much a facile parable about loss as Rob and various characters he encounters mostly come to acknowledge that they have lost what they love. Nicolas Cage's revenge thriller "Pig" is more about loss than bringing home the bacon 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Its dark, morally scandalous vision has been imposed on the kind of tale that is, more conventionally, an inspiring parable of entrepreneurial gumption. Cross Cuts: How Walter White Found His Inner Sociopath 2013-07-24T14:48:26Z On one level, the novel is a parable — with overtones of Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American” — about the United States and Iraq and the still unfurling consequences of the war. Review: ‘Youngblood,’ an Urgent Novel About the Iraq War 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Reading the Stalinist parable “Nineteen Eighty-Four” to make sense of Trumpism feels about as useful as scanning the instructions on a bottle of bear spray while your torso’s already half-digested by a savage Kodiak. Fascism for liberals: “RoboCop” at 30 and the problem with prescience 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z And so was written the first parable of the New, New Atheism. Don’t stop believin’: Do atheists need a church? 2013-04-28T16:00:00Z You could read “Psycho” as an Oedipal parable, say, or George Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead” as a sendup of voracious consumerism. Movie Review: ‘Chernobyl Diaries,’ Co-Produced by Oren Peli 2012-05-25T21:37:16Z Serling, who died in 1975, envisioned “The Twilight Zone” as a delivery system for parables with deliberate messages of social justice and allegories of human weakness and folly, coated in a digestible layer of fantasy. After ‘Us,’ Jordan Peele Crosses Over to ‘The Twilight Zone’ 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z It was an intense, almost hallucinatory parable of utter vulnerability and desperate compromise. ‘Miss Bala’ Review: Gina Rodriguez Finds the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z In the fourth season all the major characters have a parable to share, a historical anecdote to bestow or a yarn holstered and ready to unravel. In "Fargo," comedian Chris Rock gets dramatic as a mob boss whose weapon of choice is the monologue 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z The 1971 musical “Godspell,” which was being reincarnated by the Berkshire Theater Group, is based on parables from the New Testament, and its leading man is named Jesus. ‘Godspell’ Review: Musical Theater Rises From the Dead 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Eggers wisely does not strain to try to turn Alan’s story into an existential parable of the human condition like “Godot.” Books of The Times: Dave Eggers’s New Novel, ‘A Hologram for the King’ 2012-06-13T21:40:56Z Mr. Ahmadinejad’s plans for a nuclear arsenal are a threat to the security of the United States, whereas Ms. Hunter’s ambitions serve mostly as a cautionary parable for aspiring American presidents. TV Watch: One Woman?s ?Truth?: Rielle Hunter Talks to Oprah 2010-04-29T22:45:00Z “The Walking Dead” is a parable about the survival of the fittest that is also consumed with the moral fitness of the survivors. The Tv Watch: Trapped in a Dog- Eat-Dog World 2014-03-31T02:00:12Z Mr. Bazan sprinkled a handful of old Pedro the Lion songs into his set, including a tough version of “Big Trucks,” a parable about compassion that was one of the band’s first singles. Music Review: Songs of a Doubting Thomas at Bowery Ballroom 2011-06-26T22:00:31Z The lottery parable continues, and a big, glittery hammer rams home the well-worn message that money doesn't buy happiness. TV highlights 09/04/2013 2013-04-09T06:00:01Z His long con made Mr. DeMeyer’s tale something of a parable of our age, a dark fantasy for millions of people who serve the plutocrat class and dream of getting even. The Wine Thief 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z But was also a parable about adoptive parenting. Pixar’s Monsters University: When Hairy Met Scary 2013-06-13T18:12:17Z “Being Harold Pinter” traces acts of violence by people in power as they appear in the plays of Pinter, especially in his later works, which are often parables of state-sanctioned torture and humiliation. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: When Political Theater Feels Truly Dangerous 2011-01-12T23:37:21Z She suggests Brooker’s parable has a universal theme, about the fears any parent has about raising children, and the understanding that at some point you have to let them go. Jodie Foster: ‘I make movies to figure out who I am’ | Tim Adams 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z “We’re not good Samaritans,” one man tells him, comparing his center with the biblical parable about a man, a Samaritan, who brings a wounded stranger to recuperate at an inn. Tim Kaine is back at his old Senate job. It’s never seemed more important. 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Now “Billions” tells a tale that’s simultaneously broader and more dangerously intimate than the drama’s primary parables about the addictive nature of wealth and vengeance. "Billions" is better than "Game of Thrones" at studying power, hate and corruption 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z As a work of literature the Bible has everything: poetry, philosophy, storytelling, myths, fictions, riddles, fables, parables, allegories. If You Could Add One Book to the High School Curriculum, What Would It Be? 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Eggers’s novel is a haunting and supremely readable parable of America in the global economy, a nostalgic lament for a time when life had stakes and people worked with their hands. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z At the heart of the book is a kind of parable of the mother-child relationship, in which total intimacy and togetherness must give way to separation. Room by Emma Donoghue and Forgetting Zoe by Ray Robinson 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z And Telly Leung performs an antic, amusing mash-up of famous movie lines — from “Gone With the Wind” to “Network” to “Dirty Dancing” to “Stage Door” — in the parable of the prodigal son. | 'Godspell' : ?Godspell? at the Circle in the Square - Review 2011-11-08T03:00:04Z He combined contemporaneous political issues with elements from a Chinese parable and the story of the judgment of Solomon, in which two women claim the same child. Review: 'Caucasian Chalk Circle' jabs at injustice 2013-05-31T00:10:08Z It’s like a theological parable about a man who plays God and then cannot escape his created universe. Inside “The Stanford Prison Experiment”: Six days in a fake prison, and how they changed the world 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Benjamín Naishtat’s satire, set before the coup that installed a military junta in Argentina, is an enraging – and informative – parable of iniquity about the fate of the disappeared. The 50 best films of 2019 in the UK: 41-50 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Not a predictable one, however, which is all to the benefit of this incisive, funny cinematic parable, shot and edited in a disarming, documentarylike style. Review: The ‘Glory’ of a Good Deed (and Its Fallout) 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Raschka's lovely story can easily be read by adults as a parable of death and rebirth. These Caldecott winners are not resting 2011-06-11T03:51:13Z I saw his story as an epic and I wanted to heighten that quality . . . and to play up the parable quality. "Why Fish Don't Exist" explores eugenics in the US, a Hawaiian murder plot, and the meaning of life 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z When I first saw this scene – and misled by the size disparity between toy and owner – I thought it was a parable for a child’s anxiety over being abandoned by the parent. 'I completely lost it': the movie scenes that made our writers weep 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z A violent, amoral but ambiguous parable that’s pored over by an online fandom looking for hidden meaning. TV for the fake news generation: why Westworld is the defining show of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z For him, Andersen’s tale is “a kind of parable, drawing a religious and moral equivalency between the suffering of the poor girl and the suffering of Jesus.” Music Review: The Crossing in ‘The Little Match Girl Passion,’ at the Met 2012-12-24T22:47:20Z "I didn't want to write a parable," she said. AS Byatt tells Edinburgh audience why she loves reading Terry Pratchett 2011-08-28T18:34:10Z With its parables of human frailty and tales of lives ruined by debauchery or drink, the poem covers a lot of ground. George Crabbe: The man behind Benjamin Britten 2013-06-14T17:00:01Z This notion of hedging expectations is an apt, if sobering, takeaway from this trying parable of climate change. Review | In Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Dead Astronauts,’ time travelers try to rescue a ruined world 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Sofia Coppola’s latest movie, “The Bling Ring,” is another American Dream parable, a deadpan, curiously touching story of young people who believe the finer things in life are theirs for the taking. The Luxe Life in ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Bling Ring’ and Other Films 2013-05-16T12:00:01Z Another distinctive, beguiling southern parable from Nichols, this time tracking the friendship between two boys and the mysterious fugitive they find down by the river. Star Trek Into Darkness, Mud, A Hijacking: this week's new films 2013-05-11T05:00:12Z The story is as simple as a parable, a campfire story, a children’s book: A faithful animal, separated from its loving owner, endures, suffers, struggles and resists while trying to transcend its brutal fate. Review: In ‘White God,’ Man Bites Dog, Dog Bites Back 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z But “Amigo” is not a simplistic parable of diabolical colonialists and their innocent victims. | 'Amigo': The Cause Is Familiar, but the War Is Less So 2011-08-18T21:30:06Z “Two Sparrows in a Hurricane” is a parable for the cliché that love can conquer all; Tucker phrases it with such gulping generosity, and the synth-cradled melody is so gently comforting that you believe it. Tanya Tucker’s New Album Might Be the Best of Her Long, Underrated Career 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Thus the same episode may be interpreted as a simple diversion by some and a profound parable by others. Jordan Peele's "The Twilight Zone" is a spine-tingler for our darkest timeline 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z “If the book rings true,” Goldberg wrote, “it’s because Aida is such a complex and imperfect figure; she is not whom you’d invent if you wanted to write a social justice parable.” New in Paperback: ‘Running to the Edge’ and ‘The Queen’ 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z But even this benevolent omission partly explains the narrative’s shortcomings — the story doesn't work as a parable of anything because the films to which is pays tribute aren't parables. "Stranger Things" wants to be everybody's memory and nobody's parable 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z O'Collins calls this one of "the most egregious examples of Pullman's tampering with the text" as it removes from the parable its central message: the unconditional mercy of God embodied in the person of Jesus. Jesuit priest accuses Philip Pullman of waging war on Christianity 2010-08-12T14:18:00Z And the struggle between Hades and Persephone naturally becomes a parable of climate change, in which the despoiling of the earth is akin to infidelity. Review: The Metamorphosis of ‘Hadestown,’ From Cool to Gorgeous 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z They underscore the ways that both are patriarchal domination parables. "Black Widow" is a triumph for Marvel fans, yet that's what makes it so infuriating 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa has made a slow but compelling parable about the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and the partisans hiding out in the forest, preparing to hit back. The best films for spring 2013 2013-04-01T05:59:03Z Folded into the compressed, densely psychological portrait of this family is a whole universe: a parable of rising India, an indictment of domestic violence, a taxonomy of ants and a sly commentary on translation itself. A Great Indian Novel Reaches American Shores 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The parable of Lucy and the football became our modern-day version of the myth of Sisyphus. Where has this Barack Obama been? If Obama had governed like this in 2009, he’d be a transformational, historic president 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z DuVernay, 46, has come to see the case as a parable of rhetoric, how mindlessly we absorb and regurgitate the narratives we’re told from on high. Ava DuVernay: 'I’ve always fiercely held on to my blackness' 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Dystopian parables like “The Walking Dead,” where zombies rule the earth, are an increasingly fashionable genre of entertainment, but the degree of apocalyptic pessimism is very different depending on the size of the screen. The Social Split Between TV and Movie Dystopias 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Such scenes announce the higher role "Mahalia" plays as a parable about a Black woman's voice and identity, and how often and ferociously both are policed and diminished. In Lifetime's joyful "Mahalia," Danielle Brooks' song and fury triumphs over a tepid script 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z Their latest parable, winner of the directing award at Cannes last year, is “Young Ahmed.” ‘Young Ahmed’ Review: Fighting for the Soul of a Teenage Militant 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z These dreamlike visions all accumulate into a parable about aggressive urbanization in the name of progress. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Here was a dark, ultramodern anthology series that harnessed all of our technological anxieties and spun them into twisted parables on the relationship between man and machine. In ‘Black Mirror,’ Sci-Fi That Feels Close to Home 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z He takes particular issue with Pullman's retelling of the parable of the prodigal son. Jesuit priest accuses Philip Pullman of waging war on Christianity 2010-08-12T14:18:00Z Back in 2017, while preparing for a role in “Myth,” a climate parable, he began reading books about climate change and became alarmed by the unusually warm summer he was experiencing in England. Amid Climate Talks, an Actor’s Call to Action Unfolds Onstage 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Late in his novel "Your Face in Mine," Jess Row cites a parable attributed to Zhuangzi, a Chinese philosopher from the fourth century BC. 'Your Face in Mine' a bold take on race, identity by Jess Row 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z “His was to be this unbelievable parable, a legend.” | How One Man Went From Surefire Superstar to Schlubby Nobody … and Made Peace With Himself 2013-12-05T16:00:26Z “The Brink” uses satire to tell truth to power, but it works better as farce than as parable. Review: ‘The Brink’ Stars Tim Robbins as a Sex-Crazed Secretary of State 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z As a parable of how individuality is squashed and warped – not only by the heartless teachers, but by Billy Casper’s uncaring family – it is as heartrending as ever. Ken Loach – all his films ranked! 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z That the show never gets serious about any of this dilutes some of its potential as a parable, which isn't necessarily to its detriment. "Gen V" is bloody and raunchy enough to live up to the expectations set by "The Boys" 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Although what happened to Mr. Perelman is a story about losing money, it is also a parable for how the game is rigged for those at the top. The Debt King 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z She’s a songwriter based in Austin who finds parables in the everyday and also finds humanity behind the archetypal; her lean, bluesy band is all the support she needs. New Music by Phish, Popcaan and How to Dress Well 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Stanley Kramer's race relations parable may look a little crude and hectoring these days, but the full-bodied performances keep it afloat. Tony Curtis: a life in clips 2010-09-30T11:57:00Z Equal parts morality play and cautionary parable, the material reads on one level as a corrective memo from its creators about the perils of losing one’s way. Theater Review: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Allegro’ 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z “One day, parable took truth home, and fed truth and clothed truth in story. “Now truth... knocked on those people’s doors and this time was readily welcomed.” Rediscovering truth: African storytellers tap into rich tradition 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z The play is based on a 13th-century Chinese parable, in which two women fight over the custody of a child. At the Salzburg Festival, Bertolt Brecht Will Keep Confronting Chaos 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Serving working stiffs from Staten Island, truck drivers from New Jersey, slicing smack through tony, litigious, brownstone Brooklyn, it is a modern American parable. It’s a Crumbling Road to Despair. Can New York Fix the B.Q.E.? 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z But rumblings emerged that many of the greying Academy’s more conservative members were uncomfortable with the film’s gay content – and were proven correct when Paul Haggis’s ham-fisted, everyone’s-a-little-bit-racist parable emerged victorious. The 10 best Oscar snubs 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z In “Godspell,” adapted from the off-Broadway musical, a bunch of modern-day New Yorkers decide to become disciples of Jesus and form an acting troupe that performs parables from the Gospel of Matthew. From mall cops to sex buddies: 14 times movies about the same thing came out at the same time 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z “Battlefield” is the instruction by Dritarashtra, by Yudishtira’s mother, by the gods and others, through example and parable about the ethics of responsibility, of following one’s destiny and trying to make the best of it. Getting down to the basics in Peter Brook's 'Battlefield' 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Thomas Salvador’s “The Mountain” is a lightweight parable about a man who abandons modernity to connect with the earth. ‘The Mountain’ Review: Stone-Faced in Nature’s Splendors 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z But Holden's attempt to return the stone is a poetic and haunting parable of remorse. Artist Andy Holden makes a marvellous mountain out of a misdemeanour | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-19T16:11:00Z Is this a philosophical statement on two antithetical approaches to life, a parable about our responses to order and chaos? Review: Serving Murder in ‘The Dumb Waiter’ 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z All three open with songs contemplating death, and her other solo songs explore desire, myth, memory and transfiguration: as narrative, as images, as parable. Aoife O’Donovan’s Songs Poured Out When Touring Shut Down 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z What we look at as a parable about parental moral failings, Sarah sees as free publicity. "Barbie Mom's" breast enhancements for 7-year-old 2011-06-10T20:11:00Z Of course, Lee reinvents this as a parable of present and future times, a story stuffed with unsubtle — but often very funny and certainly pertinent — premonitions of Donald J Trump. Cannes 2018: cheering – if baffling – set of prizes caps a curious year 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Daniel and Johnny's fight club adventures also have doubled as a cautionary parable about toxic masculinity, and the deleterious effects of nostalgia addiction, among other things. Making "Cobra Kai" great again: The series returns with a parable about the peril of bipartisanship 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z If not despair, exactly, then sadly concede the massive showbusiness firepower that Hanks brought to this folksy parable of … what exactly? The 25 best Tom Hanks films – ranked! 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z As for this great parable for our age, well, a reboot is in the works – according to the film site IMDb, Shrunk is a thing. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z The title track is an affectionate parable about a “rebel without a clue” named Eddie, who moves to L.A. and becomes a rock star. Listen to 14 Essential Tom Petty Songs 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z It is an alluring parable about how otherness at once kindles and defeats desire. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z The Rover is really two movies: the gritty little revenge drama on the screen, and the grand geopolitical parable in its subtext, as explained by Michöd in the press notes. REVIEW: The Rover Goes Weirdly Western Down Under 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z And whereas the Catholic Mass synopsizes the same story each week — of Jesus' power to transform himself into an incredible, edible God — Glee has an ever-expanding scripture, providing 24 new parables a year. Glee The 3-D Concert Film: The Church of Latter-Day Songs 2011-08-12T09:45:00Z This is a thrillingly immersive “parable about life, about the struggle between rich and poor, between one race and another.” New International Fiction, From Ecuador to Zimbabwe 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z They are the human heart in a parable of greed and corruption, not revolution, making beasts of men. NoViolet Bulawayo Allegorizes the Aftermath of Robert Mugabe 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z Fascinating fact: In the auditorium, an etching of a proverb about coins, bread and flowers is attributed to an “ancient parable.” On the trail of Frank Lloyd Wright in Illinois and Wisconsin 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z This kind of frustration was both spirit and subject of the regrettable parable “Don’t Look Up,” in which astronomers’ warnings about an approaching comet were swallowed in the black hole of 24-hour media. ‘Extrapolations’ and the Peril of Climate Cringe 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z The body of texts variously held up as “scripture” include prophecies, biographies, letters, poems, songs, parables, laws, histories, dream diaries, genealogical lists, memoirs, and epics. The Book of Mormon: the Great American Bible 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z He has this parable where he says, "Don't pull the weeds out while the weed is growing. Wait for both to be done, and then harvest the whole thing." What comedian Pete Holmes knows about the self and love, and self love 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z When G G and Asa get heated over an accusation of wearing — insult of insults — H&M, you find a generic all-American parable of new money and assimilation insanity. Television: The Persian-ness of ?Shahs of Sunset? on Bravo 2012-03-09T23:39:45Z Basically, we decided to incorporate as many sort of quotes, fables, and parables because we liked the idea that this young man uses language as a weapon. The making of a fascist: “You get into a sticky area if you try to psychoanalyze a fictional future despot” 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z For a man who preaches his life story as a parable for self-reliance, it’s an odd fit. Ben Carson, or the tale of the disappearing Cabinet secretary 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z “Dawn” was a wishful parable of decolonization and counterinsurgency, concerned with the competing but equally legitimate claims of two tribes occupying adjacent territory. Review: New ‘Planet of the Apes’ Makes You Root Against Your Species 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z These parables are words of wisdom, and sometimes we all need a little wisdom.” Nigerian and Swahili Parables Are the Inspiration for Interior Design at a London Exhibition 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z This conversation among cosmic forces occurs in one of many parables — and parables within parables. Review: ‘Battlefield’ Explores the Silence After the War 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z As a parable, this is all highly relevant. Review | ‘The Wall’ imagines the wall of Donald Trump’s dreams 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z And, yet, “Very Nice” is not a text that reveals itself at the last minute as metafiction or parable, in the lazy manner of those “it was all just a dream” stories. Review | ‘Very Nice’ is a good book to pack for your vacation. But maybe it’s more than that. 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z The analog world, with its hard-bound literature and daily papers, is fundamental in this parable about the lure of digital technology. ‘Mr. Harrigan’s Phone’ Review: Are You Still There? 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z He’s proven to be very good at managing the business of big movies, but Mr. Favreau clearly loved making a tidy parable of food and family. Jon Favreau Serves Up a Smaller Film, ‘Chef’ 2014-04-25T16:51:47Z The central identity parable of "Mad Men," which seemed like a simple act of deception in the first few seasons, has deepened into something richer and more ominous. "Mad Men" finale: Hello darkness, my old friend 2010-10-18T12:38:00Z Julio Quintana’s “The Vessel” is a modest, but not maudlin, parable of hope about mustering the strength to vigorously plunge again into life’s uncertainties after a devastating loss. Review: ‘The Vessel’: Learning to Forge Ahead After Wrenching Loss 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z What Raspail described as a “parable” came to be seen as a canonical text in white nationalist circles. A Racist Book’s Malign and Lingering Influence 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z In this sense, “Roe” offers a remarkably fitting parable for the present women’s resistance. A Play About Roe v. Wade That Is a Parable of an Exclusionary Women’s Movement 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Instead of a parable about the evils of greed and speculation, "Wall Street" was seen by many as an antiheroic saga with a charismatic dark angel at its center. "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps": Gekko's back! 2010-05-14T15:15:00Z A passionate environmentalist, she turned some of the same raw materials into a parable about human-animal relationships and the destruction of the earth. In Ottessa Moshfegh’s New Novel, Nothing Is Certain. Not Even Death. 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z It’s a parable, in some ways, for Hef’s relationship with womankind. Perspective | Hugh Hefner was a feminist (if you believe feminism is pretty women having sex with you) 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Greed – scornful of modern excess and mindful of exploitation – is just the kind of parable we need right now. Greed is ... good? Why Hollywood can't make its mind up about billionaires 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z But she is also a practicing Buddhist, and she presents Cage almost as a figure in a parable. Books of The Times: ‘Where the Heart Beats,’ John Cage Biography, by Kay Larson 2012-07-22T21:59:58Z There are hints of death everywhere in the piece — a parable about japonica flowers that have “died in the frost,” the withering body, the decomposing tissue of the corpse, the inviting soil. Black Art and Poetry Elevate a Tribute to Civil Rights Leaders 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z The scriptural basis for the doctrine of seed faith, generally credited to Oral Roberts, is the parable of Jesus in Matthew 4. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z “He used parables. Metaphors, it’s part of our blood.” Meet the star of art-house favorite ‘White God.’ He’s a good boy. 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z It is also, as this sort of adventure tends to be, a parable, with strong family ties to the work of Joseph Conrad and Werner Herzog. Review: In ‘The North Water,’ There’s Blood on the Ice 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Like all Tevis’s work, “Mockingbird” is certainly if obliquely autobiographical, a parable about freeing oneself from addiction and striving for self-realization. Review | ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is a bestseller, but its author, Walter Tevis, was hardly a one-hit wonder 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z “The parable was that there was a king, and his kingdom was in disarray. If he could figure what everybody’s job should be, the kingdom would be in better order.” Whatever Happened to Just Being Type A? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z His country is presented to us as all heat and dust and moonlight; his family communicates in inscrutable Eastern-sounding parables. A Syrian Refugee Lands in Ireland in ‘From a Low and Quiet Sea’ 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z The play is a parable of greed and revenge and conformity — and perhaps Nazi Germany too. 'Finding Neverland' and 'The Visit': Two Musicals to Savor 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Food is featured, but the parable from the Bible is like a spice meant to flavor the focal food and allow it to convey a moral. The art mystery in the menu: The meal in this painting is more than just lunch — but what? 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z They’re not my cinematic religion, but just as the scriptures for other people’s religions can have a mighty mythopoetic allure, superhero stories can refract a big picture of a complex world into potent parables. Advice for Robert Downey, Jr. 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Does The Post serve as a modern parable? Tracy Letts: ‘Freedom of speech is under attack’ 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z The film is so spare and spartan, it could be a parable. Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Amazingly “Marvel’s Luke Cage” pulls all of this into its second season, weaving in a parable about fame’s seductiveness and its pitfalls to boot. In "Marvel's Luke Cage," history makes a rage in Harlem 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z From there the movie tries to be a parable based on its tagline, "Dead is better" — namely, that there are fates worse than dying or surviving a loved one's death. "Pet Sematary" stinks like a rotting corpse: Stay away and watch the original 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z This seems like a faith-inflected movie for the age of a Latin American populist pope, a parable of spiritual endurance with an eye on social and economic iniquities. Review: ‘The 33’ Recalls a Chilean Mine Disaster and the Men Who Endured It 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z If “Iraqi Odyssey” is a Homeric parable, he suggests, Iraq is the equivalent of Penelope, patiently waiting for Odysseus to return. Review: ‘Iraqi Odyssey’ Shows the Arc of a Family and a Country 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z When it all fell apart within days — after a staff uproar over anti-Asian tweets that McCammond posted as a college freshman — some critics saw a parable about an unforgiving “cancel culture” in elite media. Inside the Teen Vogue mess — which is really a Condé Nast mess 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z Not merely a saga of coked-up trashy hoods, it's a modern-day parable on loyalty, betrayal and the corrupting influence of power. Imported gems 2010-04-20T12:59:00Z This is a homicide parable set in “Real Housewives of Orange County” country. Viral podcast “Dirty John” goes Bravo: It’s true crime, “Real Housewives”-style 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Instead it stands as a kind of old-fashioned parable about the precariousness of life, and the ways one man’s decisions can warp the destinies of everyone around him. Books of The Times: ‘Canada,’ a Novel by Richard Ford 2012-05-21T21:59:38Z The book is a parable so rich in flights, ahem, of fancy that it has been adapted over the decades into plays, musicals, movies, operas, graphic novels and games. Review: ‘The Little Prince,’ a Lumbering Circus 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z It’s a parable of life in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, full of explosive emotional outbursts fueled by vodka, and thus disturbingly contemporary. Category Close-Up: A Tough Call in the Foreign-Language Race 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z For another, “Paddington 2” is an inclusive and beautifully moving parable that has something to offer to people of all ages, and ends with a moment that can reduce grown men to tears. Why “Paddington 2″ deserves Oscar nominations in at least five categories 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Now if the redounding is too blunt and obvious, then what you get is a moralistic parable and not literature. The search for decolonial love 2012-07-02T20:54:00Z The ballad is conventionally seen as a parable of man versus machine, but Whitehead was primarily attracted to other themes. Interview: Colson Whitehead 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z For all we know, this is really what it felt like in Hoxha’s Albania, and “The Accident” may be less a parable than a kind of topsy-turvy realism. Books of The Times: Power Struggles and Riddles, in Romance and Political Intrigue 2010-11-23T23:27:00Z The father asks why the child thinks the bear is dead, after which the parable concludes: 'The Transition' plumbs every poet's worst nightmare: corporate hell 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z The subject is too depressing, too vulnerable to the exploitations of poverty tourism, too readily transformed into a moralizing parable about the virtues of giving. Why Richard Gere’s “homeless” photo went viral: It’s more common — and closer to home — than we like to think 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Kelly Reichardt’s political parable boils with silent rage and explodes with the violence of ideals gone wrong. Here Are the 10 Best Movies of 2014 (So Far) 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Palermo wants his movie to be a parable, a supernatural tale involving normal tensions of adolescence and the need for independence. Review: ‘One & Two’ Exposes Dangers of Trying to Control Teenagers 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z It is also, in part, a parable about the dangers of a class so complacently secure in its certainties that it fails to register a new danger. Stephen Poliakoff on Dancing on the Edge: 'I can come across as arrogant' 2013-01-27T18:00:01Z The 1960 adaptation of HG Wells' novel is a hauntingly bleak parable about man's self-destructive nature. Clip joint: the five best time machines 2013-06-05T14:54:04Z Built on a well-worn model — think Cain and Abel, or the parable of the prodigal son — “The Burgess Boys” focuses on brotherly love or, more precisely, the lack of it. ‘The Burgess Boys’: old wounds, new conflicts, in a small Maine town 2013-04-03T22:32:19Z An audio segment called “Death of a Cave Allegory,” a modern retelling of Plato’s famous parable, felt like an unremarkable excerpt from an undergraduate philosophy class. ‘Liminality’ Is Theater of the Mind That Explores the In-Between 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z The resurrection of this ironic parable serves as a chilling reminder of the valiant spirits lost in the unthinkable human destruction of the Holocaust. Review: 'The Last Cyclist' is an affecting fable 2013-05-31T00:19:17Z A parable about masculinity, the movie critiques the ideology that places a man’s work above all else, including the people he loves. Men Are in Trouble and Hollywood Wants to Help 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z In Lee’s parable of the governor’s daughter, we don’t know for sure. ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ Still Flies High 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z It’s tempting to turn the Thai Spoon story into a parable about the Eden Center, a place that seems to court both chaos and culinary thrill seekers. The hunt for the D.C. area’s best cheap-eats hotbeds: Eden Center 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The story is a parable about a nameless man seeking entrance to what is called the hall of law, whose way is blocked by a gatekeeper. Music Review: Salvatore Sciarrino?s ?Porta Della Legge,? After Kafka 2010-07-21T21:23:00Z It’s a brilliant parable for isolationism and how the powerful withhold truth and knowledge to build up barriers. Yorgos Lanthimos totally gets that you might hate his movies. He's fine with that. 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z But perhaps there is a suggestion of parable. Poem of the week: Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock 2010-10-20T12:52:00Z In style and theme, “The Lesson” is a textbook work of neorealism, at once a moral parable of contemporary life and a close examination of local circumstances. Review: ‘The Lesson’ Is a Test of Conscience and Patience 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Poldek’s Jews, meanwhile, huddle in darkness and enact their own parables of human nature under duress. | 'In Darkness': ?In Darkness? From Agnieszka Holland - Review 2011-12-09T01:31:14Z Like the great space epics of the past, Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” distills terrestrial anxieties and aspirations into a potent pop parable, a mirror of the mood down here on Earth. Review: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar,’ with Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z If the film were released today it’d be considered a parable for gun control or tobacco or terrorism – pick your headline. Shark Week: why we love these vacation-ruining, 400-million-year-old millennials 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z The best of the lot, 28 Days Later, starts off about the fragility of civilization – with eerie, empty London standing in for Ozymandias’ wreck – and ends as a parable about family versus man’s baser instincts. From Albert Camus to The Walking Dead: a look at pandemics in culture 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z The show works at every level, as satire, parable and romcom, and from the first appearance of Ross Green's wry narrator unfolds with luxurious, rapid-fire precision. Some Like It Hip Hop – review 2012-09-29T23:05:24Z Super-flashed and hue-distorted scenes of ritual and ordinary activities in the rural north where she lives, they fall somewhere between parable and paranormal. In her photos, Ishiuchi Miyako focuses on the dynamics, tensions of postwar Japan 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z Black Mirror, described by Channel 4 as a "twisted parable" about the way we live in a modern world, was first aired in 2011. Brits win at International Emmys 2012-11-20T12:32:28Z Over her past five superb albums, she has written delicate and stormy parables about romance, wanderlust, art and self-realization, invoking myth and archetype as much as confessionalism. Review: Laura Marling’s ‘Semper Femina’ Seeks the Cryptic in the Plainspoken 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z "I've moved towards – not parable exactly, but towards history," he says, then checks himself. Howard Brenton 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z It was an ecological parable about a messianic mutant fish-man who drinks his own wee and sells dirt for a living, for crying out loud. Waterworld the remake! SyFy wade in for possible new film 2012-11-30T11:48:16Z “Fire in Dreamland,” Rinne Groff’s shaky parable of art and love and licorice at the Public Theater, is set just after Hurricane Sandy, the 2012 catastrophe that devastated New York’s coastline, flooding Coney Island. Review: ‘Fire in Dreamland’ Is a Parable of Love and Licorice 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Odin Teatret’s company-devised “Inside the Skeleton of the Whale” is an hour-long piece loosely based on a Kafka parable about a man prevented from passing through the “Door of the Law.” Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z The effect of this is to turn the play as a whole into a spoken parable. In the laudable 'The Christians,' characterizations are a saving grace 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Even in its boasts, “How I Got Over” is selfless: an album of doubts, parables and pep talks. New From Roots, Travie McCoy, Jason Moran and Nina Nastasia 2010-06-20T23:48:00Z Often described as the Chinese Hamlet, it reminds me more of the luminous parables of Brecht, who surely borrowed aspects of it in creating The Caucasian Chalk Circle. The Orphan of Zhao – review 2012-11-09T01:02:50Z It contains his parable of the drowning child: If you’re walking past a shallow pond and see a child drowning, you should wade in and save the child, even if it means muddying your clothes. Effective Altruism Warned of Risks. Did It Also Incentivize Them? 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z It's hard to tell if it's a parable or an anecdote drawn from life; either way, it strikes a chord. Things That Are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals by Amy Leach – review 2013-06-09T09:00:01Z The parable Mitchell constructs actually does have broader philosophical underpinnings: It seems intended to evoke the oppressiveness of economic hierarchies. Review | ‘Hadestown’ ushers Broadway back to the Kennedy Center in style 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z At its heart, “Aspie Seeks Love” is a parable about loneliness — a condition which afflicts everyone at some point in their lives and for far too many proves incurable. Dating with Asperger’s: A new documentary follows a lonely Aspie’s search for love 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Supernatural comedy, psychological mystery, modern-day parable, “Walter” is a little of all of these — another way of saying it can’t decide what it is or what story it wants to tell. Review: ‘Walter’ Is Obsessed With Fate 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Photograph: MTC Watching – or, more precisely, listening to – Melbourne Theatre Company's production of The Crucible, it's striking how pertinent Arthur Miller's parable of social paranoia remains. The Crucible – review 2013-06-28T00:38:00Z The result is a Christ parable with a Transformers-sized appetite for destruction. Man Of Steel, Paradise: Love, Admission: this week's new films 2013-06-15T05:00:16Z The following year he gained his only Oscar nomination for his turn opposite Sidney Poitier in the tense racial parable The Defiant Ones. Tony Curtis dies aged 85 2010-09-30T10:06:00Z Together, they spin a parable of healing our racial divide, submitting that may be as simple a task as taking a ride with The Other. Hollywood still loves a white savior: "Green Book" and the lazy, feel-good take on race 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z And Dave Eggers recently published a parable about a flamingly incompetent leader called “The Captain and the Glory.” Review | Finally, a novel that captures the inanity of the Trump era. It isn’t pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Scott also sees the film as a religious parable, in which both Marie and the donkey are sacrificial figures. ArtsBeat Blog: Critics' Picks Video: 'Au Hasard Balthazar' 2011-10-18T18:08:31Z The nicest surprise is how the husband-wife writer team of Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver keep the movie's genre motor running while creating a plangent parable of parenthood. Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Chimpan-tastic! 2011-08-04T16:05:00Z Lorca's dark, deterministic parable of blood feuds and illicit passion is treated with no more reverence: Nobby Dimon's adaptation does away with symbolic personifications of the Moon and Death, and introduces flamenco-dancing sheep. A Blood Wedding in Wensleydale 2010-10-05T20:29:00Z Bigelow directed a gripping, horrible parable for the losing game of Russian roulette that was the US warfare campaign in Afghanistan. Greatest Oscar winners ever: who is the best director of all time? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z This moving Sisyphean parable, in which the seasons unfold beautifully on the wide screen, uses no dialogue, highlighting the characters' suffering in silence. Kaneto Shindo 2012-05-30T16:58:59Z Directors love Wagner’s operas, which infuse the suggestive sketchiness of parables into clearly conceived plots and characters. Review: A Blunt New ‘Lohengrin’ at the Met Stars a Shining Knight 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Like its predecessors in the genre, the film is a parable of hard times: the brothers are only stealing to secure their late mother’s ranch before the bank forecloses on it. Oscar Spotlight: The Screenplays 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z He now delivers this fiscal parable with the authority of a preacher with a direct line to God. The Price - review 2011-03-17T18:00:43Z All of his message films -- "The Defiant Ones," "On the Beach," "Judgment at Nuremberg," "High Noon" -- resonate today, but none more powerfully than "Inherit the Wind," the quintessential parable about McCarthyism. Stanley Kramer's "Inherit the Wind" still resonates 2010-09-23T05:47:00Z Healy’s account is a parable of America’s tragic racial past and its insidious legacy. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Frears delivered power, intrigue and sexual menace with this story of elegant cynicism set in 18th-century France – a parable of the arrogant ennui that prefigured the revolution. Every Stephen Frears film – ranked! 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or a parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. Marilynne Robinson's Gilead 2010-04-12T13:00:00Z Where “Spotlight” was about the heroics of a team of reporters uncovering the abuses of the Catholic Church, “El Club” was a devastating parable about preserving the status quo. Director Pablo Larraín is this awards season's double threat with 'Jackie' and the poet caper 'Neruda' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z But there’s another message, a rather bleak one, especially taken in concert with Tyrion’s parable of Orson the Methodically Murderous Simpleton from a couple weeks ago. 'Game of Thrones' Recap: Season 4 Finale 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Then again, this is not Shakespeare we're contemplating here, nor anything from the "Star Trek" universe or other profound, complex parables about humanity rendered on the canvas of deep space. Paramount unmasks "Halo" for a perfect launch to the long-awaited video game adaptation 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The film, about a kind of money crisis in the crime world, is presented as a parable of the financial crisis. | Scoot McNairy 2013-01-02T17:00:01Z The movie bogs down toggling between melodrama and parable, leading to a denouement that plays like a semi-homage to Luis Buñuel’s “Belle de Jour,” always a nice movie to be reminded of. ‘Perfect Strangers’ Review: A Dare Makes an Intimate Party Too Intimate 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z It is also smart and often deftly written, a parable of power and the humanity it strips away. Okey Ndibe's 'Arrows of Rain' splits its powerful message 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Rich with such revelatory details, “The Unknown Saint” turns its slight, sketch-like premise into a deceptively profound parable. Stream These Five International Films Now 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z But Petzold doesn’t hammer the potential for political parable or allegory here — which is a little surprising, given the lessons on modern German history he offers up in pictures such as “Phoenix.” ‘Undine’ Review: Love In and Out of the Water 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z The video is a parable about privilege: He and his friends wear whiteface and are racially profiled by black employees of a car dealership. Meet Aminé, a Joyful Rapper With an Eye on Politics 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z It's a story of the devastating toll of drunken driving, but also a modern-day parable of loss, celebrity and one man's quest for redemption. Parole battle pits Sinatras against killer of singer's close friend 2010-07-24T22:34:00Z The overtones of martyrdom and sacrifice in this religious parable sat uneasily with the images of Watson tottering around the Scottish countryside in hotpants and heels. Are you a female movie character? Are you promiscuous? Things won’t end well for you … 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z But its short life in New York is a parable of what can go wrong in the distribution of public funds for the arts. Cristina Cox, and Museum of Catholic Art and History 2010-05-17T21:46:00Z The prejudice and mistrust can be seen as a parable of modern race relations – but for Poliakoff they are a metaphor for the antisemitism that has informed so much of his work. Stephen Poliakoff on Dancing on the Edge: 'I can come across as arrogant' 2013-01-27T18:00:01Z It becomes easy — and honestly, sometimes really satisfying — to narrativize perceived hosts' slights like a modern-day parable. Why are we SO obsessed with stories of hospitality gone wrong? 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z This is active, arresting drama built around parable and an epic Sanskrit poem, the “The Mahabharata,” believed to date to the 8th or 9th century B.C. Review | The remarkable ‘Battlefield’ speaks softly, and profoundly 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Julian Roman Pölsler's bewitching debut manages to be at once a creepy sci-fi parable, a feminist Robinson Crusoe and a clear-eyed ode to the wonders of nature experienced in solitude. The Wall – review 2013-07-04T20:44:00Z Perhaps instead of mining “Stranger Things” for nuggets of relevant cultural parables, we might consider what its declared political and social agnosticism tells us about Gen X and Millennial fans of the series. "Stranger Things" wants to be everybody's memory and nobody's parable 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Their assassination of Kira and subsequent punishment by the shogunate became a double-edged parable of loyalty and obedience. Movie Review: Keanu Reeves Stars in ‘47 Ronin,’ an Old Samurai Tale 2013-12-24T19:17:07Z Over time, the folklore morphed into a parable on gender equality. The live-action ‘Mulan’ is not the first retelling of the legend. Or the second. Or the sixth. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Take a closer look at The Shape of Water, however, and its florid whimsy subsides into a stark, clear and eminently contemporary human parable, streaked with fury against traditional hierarchies of power in America. Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water is a much-needed ode to the 'other' 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Nor is it much of a cultural parable, though that seems to be part of Mr. Koch’s intent. Books of The Times: ‘The Dinner’ by Herman Koch 2013-02-06T22:50:22Z It’s a parable for the fractured state of Romania itself through the lens of one man’s desperate attempt to fix what broke him. These Soccer and World Cup Movies Have Big Goals 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Besides presenting a parable about Israel and Palestine, it reminds us of all unhealed divisions between rich and poor, ancient and modern, native and immigrant. Poem of the week: The bus to Ramallah by Jasmine Donahaye 2011-02-14T11:52:43Z At the same time, it’s a TV show and it’s a parable. Who Will Watch ‘Watchmen’? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z A series of cryptic parables explore themes of honor and conscience in ways that hover between a specific Japanese context and dreamlike universality. Music Review: Vox Contemporary American Opera Lab at Skirball Center 2012-11-11T23:04:39Z In the prestige movies that court critical and academy approval, black people are often symbols and symptoms, their stories parables of pathology, striving and redemption. Hollywood, Separate and Unequal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Their chatter about smaller concerns — debts, gossip, hair, mail — slyly leads us to think we are in for a modestly entertaining and mostly cheerful parable of racial accommodation that soon embraces love. Review: ‘Wedding Band,’ a Searing Look at Miscegenation Nation 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z Like the ancient parable from India of blind men describing an elephant: It depends what you’re feeling. Palm Beach used to be a nice town for billionaires. Then Trump came along. 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z If “The Sopranos” was a timely parable about the crumbling state of the American family, “Game of Thrones” is a timely fable of sweeping global destruction and doom. Riff: The Bleak ?Game of Thrones? Needs More Light 2011-04-17T03:00:17Z Parents, daughter and nanny all feel neglected and jealous in different degrees and directions, a potentially barbed situation that the writers play for mild laughs and greeting-card parables. Review: In ‘Turn Up Charlie,’ the Manny Isn’t Just a Man, He’s Idris Elba 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z For Rome, she is an escape from his exhausting mode of everyday survival; Mr. Harris’s parable is a timeless foray into the imagination. Dance Review: Rennie Harris Puremovement Performs at the Joyce 2014-01-31T22:57:41Z There could hardly be a more fraught parable of the artist and her audience. Diamanda Galás Gives Voice to Unbearable Pain, Once More 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z In this parable of Colombian society, naked humans are violently subjugated and imprisoned by clothed ones in a strange, repressive world. Newly Published, From a Naked Humans Society to Kyoto Travels 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z The film is a parable about racial and musical politics in the record industry and a slice of social history that gazes back at a scene often overlooked in waves of ’80s and ’90s nostalgia. ?Everyday Sunshine? Celebrates Ska-Punk Rockers Fishbone 2011-10-02T02:45:06Z It is an almost religious film, in its way, a parable for the martyred loneliness of the marginalised and the dispossessed. 'Greatest of the great' - Agnès Varda: the eternally youthful soul of world cinema 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z “Snowpiercer” was a high-speed science-fiction parable about the lower-class section of a train carrying all of humanity rebelling against the train’s upper-class in the front. Fall Preview: Bong Joon Ho and ‘Parasite’ are coming for you 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z But you can see another, more strategic reason he might cotton to Mosley’s touching blend of parable, mystery and period melodrama. Review: The Graying of Samuel L. Jackson 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z That strife is the primary tension of a show that, for all its ecological advocacy, is also a parable about understanding between parents and children. Review: ‘Wild: A Musical Becoming’ Is Finding Its Footing 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z The Madwoman, the main character of Britten’s austerely wrenching “Curlew River,” a parable for church performance, has lost her son. Ian Bostridge Stars in Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Firth made up the story himself — about a penguin who can't fly, "a bit of a parable for himself" — based on stories he's told his own children. Colin Firth studied stammer for royal role in 'The King's Speech' 2010-12-18T02:05:18Z “Angel City” is a quiet waltz, almost a lullaby, that carries a parable about overcoming fears to become “closer to free.” A Solo Spotlight for a Powerful Voice 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z So the film is both a parable of Cage’s real-estate profligacy and a fantasy that all those white elephant properties might somehow produce ivory. DVD Roundup: Harry Potter's Riches, Nic Cage's Rags 2011-11-09T04:58:32Z The vignettes are pithy and pointed, like short stories or parables, but filmed with a relaxed naturalism. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z But it’s the least apocalyptic of post-apocalyptic settings, and the science-fiction elements remain in the background while the show delivers an elaborate parable about life under foreign occupation and the moral dimensions of armed insurgency. Review: In ‘Colony,’ on USA, Los Angeles Is Occupied 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z It’s satirized the media through its local news personalities, and the general inanity of politics through its various town forums, but it doesn’t often fall into current-events parable. TV Tonight: What Are Parks and Rec?s Politics? 2012-04-26T14:19:34Z It is the rare meditation on race in America that includes a parable about an exploding wading bird. Strap in for ‘The Shipment’ as it delivers weird, entertaining ride 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z With a title drawn from a Buddhist parable, the movie avoids the sentimentality of formulaic "breakthrough" moments in Joan's clear-eyed choices, refusals and reckonings in the face of death. 'Delicious' delivers a tart tale of a dying salty matriarch 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The opening scenes of "Intrepido: A Lonely Hero" promise a sharp parable about workaday economic realities. 'Intrepido' takes muddled approach to day laborer's strife 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Playwright Michael Weller apparently intends this baroque play, directed by Herendeen, to be a parable about geopolitical conflict and xenophobic prejudice. Review | Anxious men and other world-builders at CATF 2019 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z The lack of names and other proper nouns gives the book the quality of a supernatural parable. Review | In ‘The Memory Police,’ an authoritarian government tries to erase the past 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Our critic called it a “quaint and engaging modern parable.” The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Carter also touched on the parable from Matthew that tells of the crowd of laborers who famously began work at varying hours but all received the same wage. In Plains, Ga., President Jimmy Carter’s Sunday school program still draws crowds 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Many people, I would guess, can even remember exactly when and where they first experienced this parable about the horror of blind obedience to ancient tradition. New collection of Shirley Jackson writings is best left to devoted fans 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z The new Child’s Play is actually a parable about smart tech and consumerism. Doll parts: why there's always room for creepy toys in Hollywood 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Published on the eve of an epoch of terror and repression across South America, it is an unmistakable parable of imperialism: There are natural catastrophes, civil wars, plagues of insomnia. The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z In a way, F Scott Fitzgerald's 1920s parable is a perfect fit: a study of surfaces and seduction and the hollowness of the wealthy. The Great Gatsby, Beware Of Mr Baker, Fast And Furious 6: this week's new films 2013-05-18T05:00:09Z He sang the tiny role of the Novice on a 2000 recording of the seething opera, based on Melville’s parable of good, evil and sexual repression on a British naval vessel. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Billy Budd,’ an Unusual Foray for Mark Padmore 2014-02-06T23:28:59Z Re: Friend: That parable that ends with “you knew I was a snake when you picked me up” might be a good mantra for you. Carolyn Hax: Brother’s affair with BFF puts sibling in an awkward situation 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Eschewing the cryptic tradition of the parables, the billboard had a more direct message: “Jesus is watching you.” 10 most absurd right-wing Christian billboards 2014-05-06T11:00:00Z The plot — if one can call it that — harps even more than the film on the parable of female self-improvement, in the mode of “Wicked” and “Legally Blonde.” Theater Review: In the City of Second Chances 2010-10-19T11:34:00Z The story of the cows is a West Bank parable. We are imprisoned by Israel: A filmmaker not allowed to attend his U.S. premiere on the nightmare of life in the West Bank 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The Keane story is a rich parable that deserves either a wilder or a more acute telling than Burton provides here. Review: Tim Burton Paints by Numbers in 'Big Eyes' 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z She nibbled a celery stick, sipped tea and offered a parable that reflected her approach to music. Yoko Ono’s Vintage Sonic Blasts Still Sound Like the Future 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Ortberg’s transition is mercifully free of grim stoicism, flexing instead an array of satiric voices, chief among them riffs on Christian parable. The Masculine Mystique: A New Kind of Trans Memoir 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Is “The Affair” ultimately a parable on the dangers of distracted, righteous or just plain bad parenting? 'The Affair' Recap: The Shamed Parent, and the Shameless 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z Like the Durrenmatt play, this adaptation — set in a desolate European town called Brachen in the aftermath of a great war — is on one level a harsh parable of inhumanity and avarice. Review: Chita Rivera Stars in Kander and Ebb’s ‘The Visit’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Set in the 18th century, it is a parable of healing in which a man, lost in the mountains, enters a world of discarded umbrellas and kimonos and proceeds to mend them. | 'The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014': Oscar Shorts, From Surreal to Oh So Real 2014-01-30T22:56:19Z Sitting down for lunch after the shoot, Mr. Criss described the series as a parable about “the ultimate creator and the ultimate destroyer,” in which resentment turned Mr. Cunanan from aspirant to assassin. Darren Criss Plays the Happy-Go-Lucky Killer in the Versace TV Drama 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z A coruscating parable of emigration, discrimination and violence, the work whips between ethereal choral chants and pummeling roars and shrieks, both instrumental and vocal. After a Quarter-Century, the Queen of Salzburg Calls It Quits 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Once again, we’re treated to scenes replete with fear and foreboding, parables and pratfalls. 'Fargo' Recap: Baring Teeth 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Yet though “Musashi” is at heart an extended parable, which deals more in archetypes than specific psychological portraits, there is nothing simple-minded in the way it works out the title character’s destiny. | 'Musashi': From Hisashi Inoue, a Zen Comedy-Drama 2010-07-08T22:44:00Z It’s a prophecy and a parable about the range of human reactions when an unnamed city in an unnamed country is suddenly afflicted with a mysterious contagion of blindness. Isabel Wilkerson Loves Books. That Doesn’t Mean She Treats Them Gently. 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z He didn’t mean to write a pandemic parable — he finished a draft of the book months before the coronavirus became rampant in the United States — but he agrees that the parallels are a little unsettling. Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Hence his advice to a doubting would-be counselor is to seek answers and inspiration in Kafka's puzzling parable, a short work that opens like so: "The Good Fight" makes the Kafka-esque dream of a People's Court a reality 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z What the audience gets to see is not only a lesson about technique but also a parable about beauty and wisdom, youth and old age. An avuncular Frank Gehry takes to the Web in new online master class 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z This becomes a parable about the failure of an older generation to relinquish control over the next. Sleeping Beauty – review 2012-12-12T18:16:01Z When Animals Dream” is a beguiling parable of cruelty and the resistance to it. Review: In ‘When Animals Dream’ a Teenager’s Secret Is a Revelation Even to Her 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The former is here to launch the Proclaimers-inspired musical Sunshine on Leith, while the latter is screening his apocalyptic war parable How I Live Now. Toronto 2013: Reporter's diary 2013-09-09T07:46:10Z Reitman proposed setting the story in present-day Manhattan, and making it a self-aware parable about entrepreneurship, marketing and the business world. Ivan Reitman on directing the original “Ghostbusters” and why fans will be “very, very happy” with the female-centric reboot 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z This novella in three parts is both thriller and parable. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Sudden wealth makes a family ruthless in this crisply plotted novella, translated from Kannada, a spiky, scary story of moral decline and a parable of rising India. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z It’s a painfully explicit political parable that, while valid, banks too much on shock value. ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ Review: Pride and Pole Dancing Behind Glass 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z The tale of their divergent paths was like a politically incorrect parable, a lesson in what not to do if one wished to build a cooperative, functional family. The Famous, Feuding Siblings Who Helped Shape Modern China 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Rather than terrorize poor Sleeping Beauty, she befriends her, and “Maleficent” becomes not a saved-by-a-handsome-prince story but a parable of female solidarity and motherly protection. Critic’s Notebook: The sisters of summer The page, titled “The Encyclopaedists,” starts out as a sort of tongue-in-cheek joke, and gradually evolves into a mirror of — and parable about — their changing lives. Review: ‘War of the Encyclopaedists,’ by Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Using an intriguing mix of styles, Susan Grace turns mountainous West Virginia landscapes into parables of strength and struggle. In the galleries: Attention to detail 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z I might be thinking about Cosmopolis as a parable of fame in part because Robert is cast in the role, and Robert has a very intense and specific kind of global celebrity. Robert Pattinson and Director David Cronenberg on Cars, Cosmopolis and Fans Who Care 2012-08-14T20:48:47Z A treatise on the moving image; a parable for the actor's craft; a profound meditation; a playful prank – Holy Motors is all these things and more. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-01-27T00:06:05Z It's a half-intentional parable about the alienated nature of contemporary existence that presents the mass media as an instrument of hegemonic control. Horror-meister John Carpenter's mediocre comeback 2011-07-05T22:20:00Z In a five-star review, Observer film critic Mark Kermode called it “a deliriously disorienting experience that can be read as either political parable or pulpy potboiler – preferably both”. The female directors bringing new blood to horror films 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z At best, we’re left with the stark elements of a parable, which raises the book’s pretentiousness quotient to dangerously high levels. Review | Dave Eggers’s ‘The Parade’ is a heartbreaking work of staggering cynicism 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Alternatively, you can view it as a dark parable on the creative process, with the artist deciding what is let in and used up. Darren Aronofsky on Mother! - ‘Jennifer Lawrence was hyperventilating because of the emotion’ 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z As with any novel so interested in complicity and repression, there’s a temptation to read “The Discomfort of Evening” as a parable. An Award-Winning Debut Novel About Innocence Shattered Offers Terror and Solace 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Central among them is the parable of the cave from Plato’s “Republic.” Now You See It: A Magician’s Memoir Promises Truth and Other Lies 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Orphée, though, is a relatively straightforward chamber opera in two acts, using nine singers and a chamber orchestra to unfold the Orpheus myth as a 20th-century parable of artistic creativity. Glass: Orph?e 2010-09-30T22:00:00Z But this is not really a parable of black against white, or red against blue. Review: ‘The Purge: Election Year’ Offers a Campaign Platform of Blood Lust 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The subjects include not only the painted panels of the master, the parables often illustrated in them and even the unexpected pleasures of the museum cafe. Review | In ‘Short Life in a Strange World,’ paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder help an author make sense of his existence 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z It’s certainly too ham-handed and too synthetic to be any kind of persuasive parable about the relationship between Africa and the West. Denis Johnson’s New Novel, ‘The Laughing Monsters’ 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z But he also carries the burden of being a victimized Everyman in a parable that can’t get its story straight. ‘Joker’ Review: Are You Kidding Me? 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z That’s a story that may not require a show that runs about as long as Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Ten Commandments parable, “The Decalogue.” In ‘The Last Dance,’ Michael Jordan and the Bulls Still Dominate 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z This is her story, and it is a parable of faith evoking the Book of Job. Keeping the faith in Tarell Alvin McCraney's 'Head of Passes' 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z For her, “Shrew” is a parable of discovery in which two misfits find, beneath the social construction of love, its natural contours. Review: Taming ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ Under a Tent 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The larger parables that emerge concern bodily limits and mortality. Poem of the week: Actaeon by George Szirtes 2013-07-22T11:16:36Z The food seemed to multiply, as in the parable of the loaves and the fishes; however much I ate, I couldn’t finish it. Spreading the Flavors of Indonesia, One Table at a Time 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Panoply, the podcasting company that produced “The Message” in partnership with General Electric this year and is releasing the techno-sci-fi parable “LifeAfter” on Sunday, Nov. 13, is building a fiction division. The Story So Far: Fiction Podcasts Take Their Next Steps 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z The 1842 parable stars a traveler, solitary except for guardian angels, who negotiates a small boat from boyhood to old age. Review | In the galleries: ‘Sea of Change’ exhibition sets the voyage on a different course 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z A taut little four-hander, it's essentially a clever Enlightenment parable about the relationship between humanity's natural instincts and society. L'Isola Disabitata ? review 2010-10-27T22:29:00Z "What seemed to be political fanaticism," he writes in the former novel, "was only an excuse, a parable, a manifesto of fidelity, a coded plaint of unrequited love." Milan Kundera's 'Festival of Insignificance' on being and smallness 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Chewing on a line like that, Shannon is the only the actor who seems to recognize that this material is more suited to a potboiler than a limp, contrived spiritual parable. ‘The Quarry’ Review: Traveling With a Guilty Conscience 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z On the surface it might be a series about giant spaceships and lizard-like alien overlords, but it doesn't take much digging to uncover a parable about the rise of fascism and the second world war. Six to watch: US miniseries 2012-08-06T09:57:28Z It stumbles in turning Hill’s parable into a vivid movie experience. Review: Horns: Harry Potter Goes Just a Little Voldemort 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z In the novel, Ruff upended this legacy by centering Black characters and making the story a parable about throwing off the constrictions of white supremacy. Living While Black in ‘Lovecraft Country’ 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z What in this sometimes compelling, often tedious assortment of parables, poetry, dramatic monologues, cautionary tales and horror stories is true, and what is fantasy? ‘ZeroZeroZero,’ by Roberto Saviano 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z “Mother!,” an ambitious parable hidden in a horror flick, tops them easily. Making ‘Mother!,’ the Year’s Most Divisive Film 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z "I thought writing meant writing existential parables about the meaning of life," he says. Pulitzer playwright Ayad Akhtar: 'I was in denial' 2013-05-07T17:26:22Z From him Michael picked up the New Orleans trick of being a storyteller rather than a preacher, with the result that his tales have become the parables of our times. Becoming Michael Lewis 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z I’ve considered the parables of free-range parenting and confessed my addiction to energy drinks. 2015: The year of writing racially 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z The songs from “Blood on the Tracks” are artfully multifaceted: romances, travelogues, tall tales, parables and possibly memories, all at once. On ‘More Blood, More Tracks,’ Familiar Bob Dylan Songs Cut Closer to the Bone 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z This final collection is made up of headlong prose poems that amount to sly — and heartbreaking — metaphysical parables about mortality. New & Noteworthy Poetry From James Tate, Jana Prikryl and More 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z In a famous Hindu parable, three blind men encounter an elephant for the first time and try to describe it, each touching a different part. A Master Storyteller From 19th-Century Brazil, Heir to the Greats and Entirely Sui Generis 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The story of Trumpy Bear, then, is in many ways a parable for the Trump era, beginning with the 2016 election. Bask in the absurdity of this 2018 #MAGA gift guide 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z And they tell a false story – or parable. Birthday; Kiss Me Kate; Get Stuff Break Free – review 2012-06-30T23:05:59Z Writing on the eve of a battle, Sir Thomas presents a guide for living an upright and noble life in twenty short chapters, each containing a moral and a parable. Ethan Hawke Explains His Thing for Knights 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Strindberg's play was written in 1888 and first performed a year later, and pioneered the use of theatrical naturalism to tell its parable of class and power. Jessica Chastain to star in film version of Miss Julie 2013-01-31T13:01:49Z But one gathers, by story’s end, that the story of the silkworm is valuable to him less as a matter of historical fact than as a parable: a lens that brings history into focus. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z And they exist in an expanding continuum of current series that operate as parables for the real-world nightmares we're living through today. The politics of Important TV: Why "The Terror" and "Our Boys" won't get the "Chernobyl" treatment 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Ephron made witty, sophisticated romantic comedies for the movies, but that genre has noticeably faded from the big screen in an era when the box office favors animated blockbusters, dystopian parables and comic book heroes. ‘Selfie,’ ‘A to Z’ and Others Refresh the Romantic Comedy 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z By its conclusion, the novel has become a haunting parable of the pastor Ames’s understanding of the Calvinist teaching “that people have to suffer to really recognize grace when it comes.” In ‘Lila,’ Marilynne Robinson Gives a Prequel to ‘Gilead’ 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z With “God’s Time,” the writer and director by Daniel Antebi instead opts to make a boho buddy comedy that eventually becomes a grim parable of violence and presumptive heroism. ‘God’s Time’ Review: Saving Her From Herself 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z “Basquiat,” about the reckless and brilliant young painter who had been a friend of Mr. Schnabel’s, was at once a pop parable and a knowing, mischievous art-world satire. | 'Miral': Hopes and Struggles in a Difficult Land 2011-03-24T21:53:01Z Indeed, the story of how soccer escaped its gritty, clannish, working-class roots and became an enormous global industry is a central cultural and economic parable of our time. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z The incident went on to become a parable of environmental disaster, as well as a red-letter event in the history of sneakerheads. If the Shoe Floats 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z This story wasn’t meant to be a parable about women’s collective power in the era of Donald Trump. Steve McQueen on “Widows”: “It is an emotional awakening for these women” 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z This horror movie takes a common childhood experience, feeling disoriented by a parent’s sudden change in appearance, and expands it into a disturbing psychological parable about identity and loss. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Big Flower Fight’ and ‘Dead Still’ 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z He’s setting up some of the parable that took place however many millions of years ago, then drawing off that and putting contemporary things alongside it. Justin Theroux on the 'Spiritual' New Season of 'The Leftovers' 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z But beginning with the piercing parable that opens the second act — about whether Judaism, Christianity or Islam is the true faith — the play grows increasingly engrossing. Review: ‘Nathan the Wise’ Brings a Morality Tale to Today 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Best known is Juha, their only feature, a country v city parable based on their father's novel. This week's new film events 2013-05-18T05:00:10Z No less than Mr. Cuarón’s “Gravity,” another technological tour de force, “Children of Men” is an evident religious parable. Still Stoking Terror: The Hopeless World of ‘Children of Men’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Tolstoy banished from within himself the life-giving power of art, moving on to primitive parables and cheap moralizing. The Square 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z The only meal we ate in its formal dining room was breakfast, an expansive buffet spread across half a dozen tables like a parable of plenty, Southern-style. ‘Taking the waters’ at the regal, glamorous Homestead Resort One thing is for sure: a generation would have grown up less empathetic and less politically aware, not having been educated on the sly by a brilliant, accessible parable of our real-world complexities. Can you imagine a world without Star Wars, Harry Potter or Oasis? 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z But that irony levitates the novel above what could have been a shrill parable about the evils of religion. Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a swirling tale of genies and geniuses 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Shot on beautiful British Columbia locations, in postindustrial settings that could have been left over from a “Planet of the Apes” movie, the gorgeous extinction parable “See” exhibits a ripe ridiculousness that’s almost endearing. Apple TV Plus: More Than ‘The Morning Show’ 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Each homiletic is followed by a brief parable demonstrating its principles. Ethan Hawke: Actor, novelist — spiritual guide? 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Jordan Peele’s Get Out is a thrilling and confrontational film, a brilliant parable for the way that African-Americans feel about their post-Obama twist ending. Oscar nominations 2018: a cautious, comfort-food list in Trumpian times 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z George Rush, a former gossip columnist who covered the accident and its aftermath for The Daily News, said the story played out as “a larger parable about class conflict.” Is Lizzie Grubman a Changed ‘Party Girl’? 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Desmond’s devotion to the Bible yields no parables, no diction, no favorite stories, no specific references. Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge”: Religious Pomp Laced with Pornographic Violence 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z It appears a perfect parable for our times, which is exactly what it becomes in Nicholas Hytner's exhilarating production featuring a compelling central performance by Simon Russell Beale. Timon of Athens - Review 2012-07-18T00:23:36Z On the surface, “Hunted”— running Wednesdays on CBS — is a parable about the ubiquity of surveillance. Igniting Resistance, or Smashing It, on TV 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z But they’re delivered in such a deadpan way that the novel reads less as a character study than as an absurdist parable about the impossibility of human connection in the modern world. Heroines of Self-Hate 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z In his elegiac 2012 novel, “The Yellow Birds,” Kevin Powers took a different tack, turning the Sisyphean nature of war in Iraq into a kind of sad parable. Human Costs of the Forever Wars, Enough to Fill a Bookshelf 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Loose biblical associations are threaded throughout: a census is about to be held, the family meets many sinners, listens to parables and discusses sin, guilt, redemption and how miscreants should be treated. Life and afterlife 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z It would not have been the first time that someone unable to control his urges felt a strange affinity to a parable of self-regulation and the perils of indulgence. ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z But this is, at heart, a love story, a parable of people who desire life too much to surrender to encroaching infirmities. Perfect Sense: Love in the Time of Catastrophe 2012-02-01T16:45:20Z Mr. Negrin presents “Rinaldo” as a precursor to Mozart’s “Magic Flute”: a parable about the difficult quest for enlightenment and the temptation of the dark side. Music Review: Francisco Negrin Directs ?Rinaldo? for Lyric Opera of Chicago 2012-03-01T23:12:14Z "Remember the parable of the sledgehammer and the nut," he said unto Christ. The Good Man Jesus And The Scoundrel Christ 2010-04-26T21:00:00Z Butter’s story is a very American story, because the arc of its vilification and subsequent redemption is a parable for how we get food wrong time and again. Our messed-up relationship with food has a long history. It started with butter. 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z “The Plague” is a parable and sermon, and should be considered as such. Looking at Albert Camus’s “The Plague” 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Jesus of Nazareth continued this prophetic tradition, preferring enigmatic parables to propositions – overturning tables in the temple to illustrate a point, and transforming a simple, valedictory meal into a mystical emblem. William Blake's passionate humanity 2010-08-12T15:00:00Z What’s left is a fairly predictable parable about trading ethnic solidarity for career opportunities, climbing the network ladder on the brown backs of others. Review: In ‘Fade,’ Outsiders Find Each Other Thanks to a TV Crime Show 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Like all good parables, you can apply it any number of ways. "The Social Network": A modern horror film 2010-10-04T18:01:00Z But you don’t have to speak Romanian to grasp the meaning of these painted parables. Cultured Traveler: Romanian Church Murals Offer Colorful Lessons 2010-06-18T16:50:00Z I was a child of six, a new immigrant to America from Iran, still trying to bridge the old world with the new and latching on to the ultimate outsider parable. Inspiration Information: 'The Last Illusion' 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z After three brilliant and heartfelt parenting parables that ruminated on aging, loss and impermanence alongside the pitfalls of arcade claw machines and toddler daycare centers, this was the final goodbye. ‘Toy Story’ lives on, but should it have? 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Juster’s story could be a parable about anyone’s life, but it doesn’t end there. Perspective | Remembering Norton Juster and other lost literary friends 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z His restrained bedside manner is pitch-perfect, casually launching into parables with an ominous psychosexual charge and mysterious symbolism, which builds to fever point on unsuspecting ears. Artist of the week 203: Sung Hwan Kim 2012-08-16T09:38:07Z Like “Lost,” it’s an adventure story with overtones of a religious parable, with spiritual trials and imagery. The Strange, Lovely ‘Infinity Train’ Reaches the End of the Line 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z |
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