| 单词 | peasant |
| 例句 | She didn’t feel inclined to watch peasants bouncing about in bright colors for hours, but Queen Georgina enjoyed it, and had invited her to sit beside the throne today. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She had a way of claiming possession of everyone and everything: my darling, my child, my little peasant. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The hydroelectric dam began a tragic turn of events for all the peasants, but especially for the women of the central plateau, Farmer said from the podium. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He’s begun a series of paintings of peasants weaving. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When it was discovered that the rabbi was not dead but was being cared for by the Russian peasant, he was brought into the still-intact home of a Jewish family and nursed back to health. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He opened his mouth to interrupt, but Bartholomew was already barreling past peasants. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z North of the village was the commons, where we peasants grazed our own oxen and sheep. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z This painting shows peasants toiling in a field while an overseer wields a staff. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z You could be a king or a peasant and no one would know. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fabulous jeeps! Fabulous army! Too bad you’re losing to a bunch of peasants firing slingshots!” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The peasants went to an Indian curandera who knew all about the power of herbs and suggestion, and in whom they had great confidence. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He moved along the bank a few paces where generations of peasants had worn a “highway,” and soon came to the path. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z If you want to sound a proper peasant, say it as if you had mud in your mouth, or were too stupid to realize it was two words, not just one.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “No one’s taking our hostage compahero anywhere,” one of the peasants said, and in order to emphasize the words they sent the would-be rescuers packing with a short volley fired into the air. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t want to say? I’m sorry, little peasant! You don’t exactly have a choice!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The Irish and the Italians were peasants, tenant farmers from the impoverished countryside of Europe. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Once, where the road was narrow, a group of peasants suddenly came out of the mist and stopped to ask their way. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “He tells me your mother taught you. But your mother was a commoner, a peasant, correct?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Bands of displaced peasants roamed the razed countryside, fighting the crows for gleanings. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Some of them were just like the peasants at home or those I saw coming through France and Germany, with short jackets and round hats and home-made trousers; but others were very picturesque. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z That transfer is not at all surprising, considering that many peasant farmers live and sleep close to cows and their feces, urine, breath, sores, and blood. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Its tranquil beauty mocked the relative prosperity peasant families had enjoyed for centuries, before the dam was built. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Spending a night in a dark wood with one—and, moreover, a peasant girl—well, that was a different matter altogether. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He was just about to forbid him to set foot on the property when Clara convinced him that this was hardly the time to place his political enmities before the peasants’ Christian fervor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am suggesting,” the golden godson had replied, “that you are no orphan peasant from Zosma.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “If peasants are the Devil’s slaves and if Jews are his emissaries and if women are his spies, Saracens are his foot soldiers. Are they not?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z His successful predictions included rebellious activity by the peasants in Styria, incursions into Austria by the Turks in the east and a cold winter. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Now and again we passed a leiter-wagon—the ordinary peasant’s cart—with its long, snake-like vertebra, calculated to suit the inequalities of the road. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z William said, “Of course we are. A giant monk, a Saracen oblate, a Jew, and a peasant girl. Aren’t all the king’s friends like that?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The peasant farmers had watched the dam being built, but even when it began blocking the Artibonite River, forming a reservoir that flooded their farms, they felt stunned disbelief. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Butchers and brewers, peasants and priests, knights and nobodies. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The girl wore a peasant blouse and a nondescript ankle-length skirt; her calloused and dirty feet were bare. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mauve favors outdoor scenes: peasants in fields, men on horseback on a beach, flocks of sheep. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I was still mad at them, so I refused to partake, but they fed like kings, throwing eggshells off the side of the wagon like they were gold coins meant for peasants. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He had never negotiated with a little girl before, much less a peasant girl. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Government officials in Port-au-Prince told the peasants that their pigs would be replaced with pigs purchased in the United States, from Iowa farmers. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But Hesiod, who was a peasant living in a poor man’s world, knew that the poor must have a just god. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “What is it that black peasants want, then?” asked an Afrikaner with a scruffy red beard, in soiled overalls. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “A waste of words. The peasants might as well be blind for all they ever see.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Such behavior became lethal in the presence of peasant soldiers ungracefully blasting away with guns. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I saw one young fighter salute his opponent—and five peasants hit him from behind with scythes and hammers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They look just as kindly as our own peasants in Friesland. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He was there many years, thinking, meditating, singing his strange songs, listening to the birds, learning from peasant women how to heal sickness with grasses and herbs, to write amulets, to drive out evil spirits. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Next fing I know, the Jew and the peasant are out in the market. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The peasant and his collie were back behind the plow. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It is a scene of peasants sitting around a table eating potatoes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z There were many peasants with baskets and sacks upon their backs. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “She wears her hair in braids. She looks like a peasant.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But none of this was known to the peasant standing on the carpet, unsure of where to put his hands and perspiring heavily. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I would speak to him like the peasant he was. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s the kind of fatalism and pessimism typical of a repressive feudal system, where peasants have no reason to believe in the efficacy of their own work. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Instead, I hoped they wouldn't judge me when I dined on Noodle Roni like the peasant that I was. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “How could a miserable peasant woman acquire such skills?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Several other travelers were before them on the bridge, mostly peasants driving laden donkeys and mules or carrying baskets on their heads. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The moors their axes had stripped of trees glowed silver in the moonlight, and the yellow lights of peasant huts were like scattered jewels on the ravendark cloak of a king. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z They are peasant girls, not much older than I am, wandering in the field. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Lancelot mounted his horse, got his bearings by asking several peasants where he was, and rode off toward the forest of fire apple tree where he had lost his cousin. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When they walked, their stride quickened; all the peasant hesitancy of their speech vanished as their voices became clipped, terse. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A long line of peasants like Anya waited at the windowed building’s huge doors, nervously tugging at shirts or hats, holding long scrolls of paper, or talking in hushed voices to a person beside them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Their faces are mirrors of each other, but their bodies are opposites—one tall and skinny and the other short and chunky—as if Princess ruled their mother’s womb and Primadonna was an underfed peasant. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z On the land taken from the commons, landowners were able to employ laborers from the peasant class to raise large herds of sheep and to send the wool to factories to be processed. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z He was mastering Creole “like a rat,” in the Haitian idiom, and he stopped to talk to peasants whenever he could, soaking up information. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In his mid-thirties, he still looked like a coarse peasant, although it had become more a matter of style since success and his knowledge of the world had softened his roughness and refined his ideas. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They have faces that make one think—honest peasant faces, broad foreheads, broad noses, broad mouths, broad hands, and thick hair. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z When these peasants are excited they have a curious expression, a mixture of cow and yearning god, half stupid and half rapt. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Our peasants are hard and cunning when they bargain. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Harrison is the most pretentious peasant I have ever seen,” Kainene said, as she started the car. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Now, it seemed, Russia itself was being portrayed as a ‘primitive’ society, lodged in the Western mind as an archaic peasant culture. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He has a plan to draw at least a hundred figures like one he's already made of a peasant woman pitching hay. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was a peasant, with a team of mules, who had brought a telegram from town, sent by my sister Ferula, telling me of Rosa’s death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A hundred thousand people lived in the dam catchment area, but up to a million peasant farmers, coming from far away, relied on the clinic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Then, amongst a chorus of screams from the peasants and a universal crossing of themselves, a calèche, with four horses, drove up behind us, overtook us, and drew up beside the coach. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Sadly, the diligent peasants almost never achieved the future economic security they so craved through their hard work in the present. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Every single one of the peasants dropped to a knee as the princess passed. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z ‘Will French peasants go on forever pulling off their caps and saying “Oui, Monsieur,” when the gold coaches run down their children? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s wearing bell-bottom pants and a peasant blouse with puffy sleeves, and she has shiny dangling earrings. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z You did not see them again except as sport clothes, odd-looking at a table among the closely packed peasants in black smocks. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z At sundown, before the men came in from the fields, Ferula gathered all the peasant women and children to say the rosary. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The peasants’ carts did not help much either. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z They organized peasants into fighting cadres, seized land, expelled the owners and established People’s Courts to try Class Enemies. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The peasants would crown as emperor a farmer who knew the earth or a beggar who understood hunger. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no need to pretend in front of those Mexican peasants. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In the absence of Lord Furnival he was in charge of the manor, the laws, and the peasants. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z She was making a Russian peasant costume for a play to be presented in Denver. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z And oh, how I yearned for the day when armies of black peasants would invade the white world, and butcher, guillotine, hang, machine-gun, bury alive and drown in hot lead every bad white man alive. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z How foolish I had been to think I was as free as any peasant girl and as worthy as any king’s daughter! Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Once, on a day when they didn’t have to fly, they helped local peasants to harvest a field full of rye. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z If the rains failed or clouds of locusts arrived or if a fungus infected that staple species, peasants died by the thousands and millions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Jacob was sent out to ask a peasant passing by if she knew the Holy Cross-Roads Inn. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z And this made women buy the cheap clothes, because they thought they could look as pretty as I. It was at this shop, working like a peasant, that I met Clifford St. Clair. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the party they piled the peasants onto wooden carts and hauled them off to vote, under careful observation, amidst much joking and laughter. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Both books are about a Russian peasant, around the turn of the century,” he said, in what was, for his implacably matter-of-fact voice, a rather narrative tone. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Why does that peasant have a rope around her neck? The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “I have knights and lords in my service, scions of noble Houses old in honor. They cannot be expected to serve under poachers, peasants, and murderers.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He’s a crude, simple-looking man of few words, like a peasant. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I used to wonder why the peasants hated us so strong. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z A little peasant girl, with a rope around her neck. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The typical peasant in traditional China ate rice for breakfast, rice for lunch, and rice for dinner. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “The peasants are always the last to understand. We don’t know what’s going on in other parts of the world,” he said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z First he would do his exercises and run around the ouse, oblivious to the taunts of the hardy peasants looking on. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “How could I resist?” the peasant woman later told your sisters when they were older. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z But those misgivings gave way to euphoria as I saw black peasants making off with plundered goods. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d be happy to stand outside and sketch people on the street, especially peasants, laborers, poor people, like the miners in the Borinage. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When the nobles appropriated the commons, they created a peasant class that had little choice but to work for the landowners. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The peasants of Europe worked essentially as low-paid slaves of an aristocratic landlord, with little control over their own destinies. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Surely, some peasants were liars and loafers and allies of the Devil. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z That caused quite a sensation among the villagers, who were accustomed to loose-fitting, simple peasant clothing. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z One of our passengers, a peasant farmer, had a son, Michela, who was being held on suspicion of murder. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “I suppose that’s part of why Perrington is so infatuated. She arrived here in a litter bigger than most peasant huts; it was carried here from her home. A distance of almost two hundred miles.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Fruit and slaughters are not usually combined, nor are gods and peasants. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z On the peasants whom he had not despoiled because he was not interested in their lands, he levied a contribution which he collected every Saturday with his hunting dogs and his double-barreled shotgun. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Landowners’ fields were emptied by death, forcing them either to work peasants harder or pay more to attract new labor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The peasants still had to work on the same land, but instead of growing their own crops, they got paid in wages—they weren't allowed to sell or eat their own produce. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Chickens came in and out like my relatives’ graceless peasant guests. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you looked at all this with peasant eyes,” he said of the view in front of us, “the scene is violent and ugly.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The peasants all called you “Don” and when you met them they took off their hats. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Disguised as a traveler, she would slip into taverns and coach houses to eavesdrop on conversations and chat with the locals, then bring the peasant talk back to camp. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “I walked hundreds of kilometers with that cart. My silver and dishes are in that wagon. I’m sorry, but I’m not letting some peasant family make off with all of those valuables.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Scaring Breeland peasants, and bullying bewildered hobbits, had been their work. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They were peasants who had also been expelled from their hacienda, arriving as humbly as their ancestors of the preceding century to beg the patron to give them work in the coming harvest. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Stephanie wore peasant blouses, long colorful skirts, and sneakers; and the tall straight way she moved was almost regal. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But each of those times the Jews were warned by friendly peasants and were concealed in the woods or in huts. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z They flocked to watch peasants bent over in the fields, digging the hard dirt, crying into the furrows to water the seeds. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Because when it comes right down to it, those poor peasants are a lot worse off today than they were fifty years ago. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We beheaded him, cleaned out the palace, and inaugurated the peasant who would begin the new order. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of a year he never spoke at all, unless he was forced to it or found himself alone with the foul old old peasant he met in the woods sometimes, his counselor. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Of those who managed to live ordinary lives, some already had more education than others, or their parents were peasants, or they came from a small village or a big city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z To Farmer, it wasn’t unlike the fate of Haitian peasants who left the central plateau and migrated to the slums of Port-au-Prince. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The little peasant had trapped her lips between her teeth. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z They tell him he has to stop using Catholic peasants and workers as models. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Louis hated peasants, too, apparently, and yet he had no problem sitting beside Jeanne—hoisting her in the air and dancing, even. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Maybe they had lost their homes, the peasants tried to console themselves, but at least they had their goats and their black, low-slung Creole pigs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In the castle, roots were regarded as peasant food. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z “Meet seventh grade peasants! Me? Of course, Karen. This is all so silly.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The peasant’s ancient ancestor, the forager, may have eaten berries and mushrooms for breakfast; fruits, snails and turtle for lunch; and rabbit steak with wild onions for dinner. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Like most peasants, Will’s father owned strips of land in all three of the village fields. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Most look young and all are thin and dark-skinned, like the peasant workers at our uncle’s farm, with greasy long hair flowing past their shoulders. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not kidding, the woman seems to float everywhere, as if she’s too posh to walk like all of us peasants. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “We are passing a town. Now I see peasants in the field.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A lonely peasant cottage stood back from the road, but as yet there was no sign of the White Swan. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “Closest New World’s got to a big city. Miles away. Not for peasants like us.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z There was nothing accidental about a wretched road, or an overcrowded tap-tap with bad brakes, or the desperation of peasant women needing to sell something at market in order to feed their families that night. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z They talked of justice, of equality, of the peasant movement and of Socialism, while Blanca listened with impatience, wishing they would hurry up and finish their discussion so she could be alone with her lover. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z On the first day of school, she had proudly told the class that she was the daughter of a poor peasant from Khost. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It said that for thousands of years birds had been tormenting the peasants. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “He probably feels that in his gut as well. And peasants, too. Is that God, telling him to hate me and Jeanne?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Here was vital essence of the no-name peasant foundling who had the unforgivable habit of helping him for no good reason, all while looking guileless, as though it were a normal thing to do. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “His name’s Samuel Collier, age eleven, son of dead peasants. Can you take him?” he asked Reverend Hunt when he opened the orphanage door. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z All thought of women and Jews and peasants went straight out of his head. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Most peasant farmers and herders, who constitute the great majority of the world’s actual food producers, aren’t necessarily better off than hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "Bless me, holy children—oblate, peasant, and Jew. Bless me." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “So I realized I was being unfair and should forgive you. After all, wolves don’t know they aren’t supposed to eat peasants.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The French Revolution was spearheaded by affluent lawyers, not by famished peasants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z That was the mentality among peasant farmers, Farmer said. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I no longer had the strength to grab a sturdy peasant girl by the waist and swing her up onto my saddle, much less rip her clothes off and enter her against her will. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who stood the best chance of contracting TB, which was usually spread by the infected person coughing or sneezing, lived in crowded peasant huts, urban slums, shantytowns, prisons, or homeless shelters. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z And I understand how working and hoeing are dancing; how peasant clothes are golden, as king’s clothes are golden; how one of the dancers is always a man and the other a woman. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Even amongst slaves there were lords and peasants, as he had been quick to learn. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I could see the guillotine and tribunals of black peasants. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She was the only adult in hippie clothes—peasant blouse, long cotton skirt, Day-Glo headband with a yin/yang disk in the center of her forehead. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z They hacked down trees in widening rings around their central halls and blistered the land with peasant huts and pigpen fences till the forest looked like an old dog dying of mange. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Lembede, whose father was an illiterate Zulu peasant from Natal, had trained as a teacher at Adam’s College, an American Board of Missions institution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z An aristocrat was the lowest form of life, a parasite who expected honest peasants to be his slaves. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “You won’t catch me walking behind a plow. I’ve got peasants to do that back in England. I say we eat the stores we’ve brought, get the gold fast, and go home.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z It’s a family of peasants sitting around a table eating. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I am an orphan, the son of dead peasants. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The knight carried Jeanne across a peasant’s garden plot, scattering chickens as he went. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z We learn that things were one way, something happened, and then things were another way: On Monday peasants toiled in the mud for feudal kings. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “He’s just an orphan peasant from Zosma, you know,” he’d said, lest they be tempted to feel anything like respect for him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I stood beneath his photograph with my brief case in hand and smiled triumphantly into his stolid black peasant's face. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “But the Jews lead the peasants away from Christ, and for this, they are worse.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The captain was stationed with eight American soldiers in Haiti’s rural central plateau, charged with keeping the peace for 150,000 Haitians, mostly peasants, spread over a thousand square miles. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He was deeply impressed by field recordings of peasant folk music he had heard in the years before he began composing The Firebird. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Evidence from fossilised skeletons indicates that ancient foragers were less likely to suffer from starvation or malnutrition, and were generally taller and healthier than their peasant descendants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “My teachers didn’t go easy on me. If she ends up chased through the woods by a mob of peasants, will you tell them to go easy?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But in fact she had very little contact with the peasants and was far from knowing each of them by name. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Clear-thinking and self- taught, Kotane was the son of peasant farmers in the Transvaal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That spirit alarmed and discomfited many Europeans, toff and peasant alike. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The birds were all good because they fed on grapes and you never took a lunch because the peasants were always honored if you would eat with them at their houses. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z There was a village in the north of France where peasants were venerating a dog as a saint. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The bald knight squinted at the peasant woman. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “I know you don’t like the word peasant.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z One of our leaders on those excursions was a pretty young woman named Lois, about twenty- five at the time, who wore long braids, full skirts, and peasant blouses. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early morning peasants sold vegetables I had never seen or eaten before in my life—and my mother assured me I would find them so sweet, so tender, so fresh. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of them are illiterate farmers and peasants who supported the revolution. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Since he can’t use the Catholic peasants as models, he turns to landscapes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Theo likes some of Vincent’s paintings well enough to take them back to Paris: oil paintings of peasant women and a still life of flowers in a vase. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “You’ll never be trapped like that poor amateur. You can see behind you like a bat. Hold the peasants back with one hand and kill the warrior with the other.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They interposed themselves between the peasants and their leader. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the valleys of the Euphrates, Indus and Yellow rivers, other peasants monitored, with no less trepidation, the height of the water. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A swarm of peasants armed with pitchforks stormed across the screen. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z But no matter how she scrunched, she could not see if their roofs curved skyward like the temples of China or were topped with straw like the homes of peasants. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The knights followed her, and the peasants followed them. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z This completely changed the structure of communities and created a peasant class, who were forced to work for the landed class and to fight in their wars. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z His father hunted every day and stopped to eat at the houses of peasants. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Nurses in uniform and in peasant costume walked under the trees with children. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z They see the life and the feeling that Vincent meant to evoke, of real people, in a family, with faults, eating around a table, peasant life, real life, unromanticized. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z At least a thousand, maybe more: bowmen, spearmen, peasants armed with scythes and sharpened sticks, freeriders and mounted archers, and another hundred knights to stiffen them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Rivka hissed Hannah quiet and ran a finger across her own throat, the same signal that the peasants had made in the fields when the cattle cars passed them by. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They simply exchanged the life of a feudal peasant in Mexico for the life of a feudal peasant in California. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He was of middling height, his shrewd peasant’s face weathered by wind and sun, his grizzled beard and brown hair well salted with grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The typical peasant developed a very strong attachment to this structure. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The peasant moves the boundary stone And steals the lord’s demesne. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “Let the flood descend, the flood of Poor peasants and poor soldiers, The flood of the poor jobless multitudes Let that flood descend!” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A peasant living on the assumption that bad years would not come didn’t live long. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, when she made fun of his constant waving to peasants, she felt him close up on her, and she knew if she wanted to know him better, she should not make that mistake again. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z With him were a pair of ragged peasant boys from the Fingers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She smiled and leaned forward, playing with the edge of her bell-sleeved peasant top. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Pa quickly gathers our family and stands us in line with other peasant families. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The old peasant, friend of Prince Hrothulf, whispers crossly: “In the old days they used to kill virgins. Religion is sick.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Until the late modern era, more than 90 per cent of humans were peasants who rose each morning to till the land by the sweat of their brows. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Jacob is struggling to keep up, trying to duck and weave past all the peasants and peddlers in the road. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z But there were no peasants here, so he was stuck with names like dumbo. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z It became possible, for the first time in human evolution, to develop economically specialized societies consisting of non-food-producing specialists fed by food-producing peasants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They made rough movements, and their accents were not American exactly, but peasant like their mother’s, as if they had come from a village deep inside China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia suggests to the boy that he put down his pen for six months and work as an apprentice with the Escambray Theater, which educates peasants in the countryside. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A sickly peasant who was healed by magic and went on to perform the greatest of deeds. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He was a farmer’s son, and Anya liked to imagine that if Ilya could go from being a peasant to a knight, maybe she could too. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “Listen to him talk about the Abruzzi. There’s more snow there than here. He doesn’t want to see peasants. Let him go to centres of culture and civilization.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Johannesburg had always been depicted as a city of dreams, a place where one could transform oneself from a poor peasant to a wealthy sophisticate, a city of danger and of opportunity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You use the intonation of the peasants. Is that taught in your books?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She did not like how he said peasant. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The Jews were helping the nobility, but in doing so, in collecting taxes from the serfs and peasants, for example, they were building up against themselves the hatred of these oppressed classes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The clinic’s seventy community health workers, who lived among the peasant farmers and had until recently been peasant farmers themselves, spoke often about the economic obstacles to treatment. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Now that noon was past, there were few people on the road, but soon they fell in with a peasant with a shepherd’s crook over his shoulder. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z William passed peasants working the abbey’s fields, and their little dark hovels, lining the road. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “Surely, this Bavarian peasant is worthy of framing; and this basket of apples! never have I seen anything more lifelike. One might almost be tempted to reach out a hand and take one.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z How could the people who owned such rich farms, such beautiful furniture and gardens, modern bathrooms, and electricity to run refrigerators have ever needed to come take over the Soviet Union’s peasant huts? A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “We think. We read. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates this war.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z You observed peasants from the comfortable distance of your artistic nook but you wouldn’t want to be one. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z By threes and fours our class was scattered over the platoons amongst Frisian fishermen, peasants, and labourers with whom we soon made friends. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The other peasants hesitated—and then began nodding vigorously. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The peasants hid their daughters and clenched their fists helplessly because they could not confront him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But one day, all these tired peasants—from all over China— they gathered in fields everywhere. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z At the same time I was promoted from being a senile old peasant to being a revered elder. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Slay the dragon or go feed the hungry peasants.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!” he cried, seizing his forehead in his hands. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z "Is that normal? For peasants? To use dogs as babysitters?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Those accused of being witches were usually poor peasant women, often widows. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Trueba knew that this unformed peasant was more intelligent than the others. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Farther down the sloping meadow he found a ruined ox yoke left by a careless peasant which would burn long and well. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The peasants among us who get tit-bits sent from home can afford to trade. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered Papa talking about Stalin confiscating peasants’ land, tools, and animals. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Definitely. If you don’t, the dragon will kill the peasants. You slay the dragon, the peasants will rejoice. Peasants always love dragon slayers.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The peasants would offer her a chair and a cool drink. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “I can’t imagine fighting peasants in Vietnam,” one student said to him, “given everything I have learned about moral behavior over my lifetime.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z One peasant woman explained, “A lot of us wondered what would have happened if we had known how to write. If we had known how to write, perhaps we wouldn’t be in this situation now.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It was the guardsmen, the journalists, and the peasants, who were finishing off the last of the senator’s bottles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The drawback of the system was that the peasants had no control over where their strips would be. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z When they reached the ranch, the peasants, emboldened by the support they had received from the press, refused to let them in, demanding a court order. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “They are worse than peasants, the Jews are,” Louis went on. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The bombings destroyed many villages and killed many people, allowing the Khmer Rouge to gain support from the peasants and farmers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Outlined against the snow as they were, I could see from the men’s clothes that they were peasants or gypsies of some kind. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z "There was smoke and noise and sacred activity constantly going on up there, but the peasants didn’t know what they were doing." 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Mom heaved the dramatic sigh of a mother from an Indian movie whose daughter desires to marry a simple peasant instead of the rich, suitable suitor. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I ran around barefoot, wearing peasant dresses, shared my parents with the other kids, protested the Vietnam War, did farm chores, and listened to a whole lot of sitar music. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “They change the ballots,” said Blanca, who was at the meeting, sitting on the ground among the peasants. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The closest he’d been to a daughter of Eve was seeing that peasant across the field. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The emperor, who sat facing south, must have been very frightened—peasants everywhere walking day and night toward the capital, toward Peiping. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a tantrum whenever he saw any of the peasants giving their children only bread and feeding milk and eggs to the pigs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the Russian Revolution, about 80 percent of the population were peasants who worked in the fields like their medieval ancestors. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She looked like a Mongolian peasant hawking flowers in a flea market We took them from three different graves in the cemetery and couldn’t find a twelfth gladiola anywhere. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z We were better equipped than many founders of dynasties had been when they walked north to dethrone an emperor; they had been peasants like us. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “How dare such a filthy peasant as you even presume to put your foot within this place?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The peasants went over it to and from the villages to gather wood or to pasture the sheep. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z It also meant that no peasant had all of his land in the fallow field, which would have resulted in starvation every third year. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z After two years of study—the graduates of three-week and six-week courses were more admired by the peasants for learning at such wondrous speeds—my mother returned to her home village a doctor. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There were tradesmen as well as peasants, men in livery, and here and there, a woman. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z If my cousins are indeed royalty here, then I am just a peasant who only wants a good education, opportunity for a good future, and my mother. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Just like a peasant, to burn his own village from sheer stupidity!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z When asked about jobs in their former lives, the new people lie and claim to be poor peasants, like Pa did, or small shopkeepers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Quite naturally she considered the stuffs she wove unapproachable for fineness and beauty, and she was outraged when she heard that a simple peasant girl named Arachne declared her own work to be superior. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The life of a peasant is less secure than that of a hunter-gatherer. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “We cannot have peasants worshipping false saints, can we?” he asked. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z All that night he kept recalling the faces of the peasants, whom he had seen come into this world on his property, as they moved off along the highway. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She had the flat-footed gait of a barefoot peasant, a narrow waist, small breasts. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Yezzan’s slaves ate better than many peasants back in the Seven Kingdoms and were less like to starve to death come winter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If ’tis neither one nor the other, then ’tis neighbor against neighbor, or ’tis the lord of the manor against the peasants, begging thy pardon, young master.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Southern-born, he had migrated north and his life reflected the crude hopes and frustrations of the peasant in the city. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In October 1843, a young man from Silesia, the son of two peasants, joined the abbey. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “The peasants are up in arms. Every day there are new demands. It seems as if they want to be patrones themselves. The best thing you can do is sell the property.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Since we are now a family of peasants I will have to learn the time of day and night by the position of the sun and moon in the sky. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were peasants going up into the hills. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “This is just animal refuse, right? You peasants do your own business somewhere else?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “You’re a peasant and a fool and I want my sword.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z There were other photos too, mainly of young Soviet soldiers shaking hands with peasants, planting apple saplings, building homes, always smiling genially. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Some were from peasant families, some were the children of intellectuals, some were the children of factory workers and had worked in factories themselves. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Momma was relieved too, although she had had a good time cooking special things for him and showing her California son off to the peasants of Arkansas. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor was she the only one; the tenants at Tres Marias and many peasants from haciendas across the region also waited for him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was flour to last for a short time, but the yearly portion from the peasants’ holdings was to have been brought to the castle the following week. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z William’s voice could now be heard throughout the monastery: “Just as peasants can be popes and Jews can teach us the Bible and women can be disciples of Jesus, Muslims can save your very life!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He closed in one of his favorite ways, by quoting a peasant: “You want to stop HIV in women? Give them jobs.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “His Grace has seen victory in his fires,” Foxglove said, “a victory that will be sung of for a thousand years in lord’s castle and peasant’s hut alike.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Yep, and he looked so cute, even in his'brigadUta uniform. He says he’s leaving in a few weeks to go teach the peasants.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Marines had supervised its construction, forcing peasants to do the labor. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The historian David Arkush once compared Russian and Chinese peasant proverbs, and the differences are striking. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z "Oh, surely you can save me a peasant or two, Father," Tyrion replied. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The little peasant girl forced herself not to smile. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z If you were a peasant farmer in Southern China, by contrast, you didn’t sleep through the winter. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z If she did end up covering her face, it would be like saying to the world You cretins and peasants are only permitted to see my eyes. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “Sunday peasants! Go to hell, all of you!” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Twice the bullet- riddled bodies of peasants from other haciendas were discovered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Stupid words. No wonder they call us senseless peasant women; but I am not and never will be. There is no earth in my breeding.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He had watched her washing clothes, squatting on the flat stones of the river, her dark legs polished by the water, as she rubbed the faded rags with her rough peasant hands. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Hrothulf speaks: In ratty furs the peasants hoe their fields, fat with stupidity, if not with flesh. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He found that the peasants’ vocabulary didn’t even have a word for illicit drugs, which almost no one could afford anyway. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He told us about an hacendado, a large landowner, who used his company store to keep his father and other peasants in a state of endless debt. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “We all must chooseshe proclaimed. “Man or woman, young or old, lord or peasant, our choices are the same.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Everyone — men, women, children, knights, peasants, craftsmen — wanted to go on Crusade. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “What a strange peasant you are. Not many peasant boys defending the Jews, are there?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The peasant woman slurped and snored, sunken in her bed of straw. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the world goes on spinning, as a peasant plows a field, a fisherman angles for his daily catch and a ship sails on. 'Juliet and Romeo'? Royal Swedish Ballet gives Shakespeare a twist at Segerstrom 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z This novel centers on two children — Bronze, a mute peasant boy, and Sunflower, the daughter of an artist — who are growing up in the wetlands of the northern Jiangsu province during China’s Cultural Revolution. The best children’s books of 2019 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Simon, wearing a pink peasant blouse and a long ruffled skirt, said hello to Tamoyan, the Yazidi mourner, who was recovering from an ear infection. Taryn Simon’s Varieties of Mourning 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z With “proud humility and heavy Ukrainian accents,” the men explain to Teffi, “We’re the peasant bands you all kept talking about.” Teffi’s “Memories” and the Women of the Russian Revolution 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The red fabric is printed with scenes of French medieval peasants, to match early 1900s drapes just legible in an old photo of the room. Antiques: Wharton’s Curtains Are Recreated; Renoir’s Letters Go on Sale 2013-07-04T23:49:28Z “This is peasant soup,” say the authors of a new cookbook featuring the foods of Sicily, and I’m sure they meant that in the nicest way. The humble soup with a golden secret 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Art lovers who flash on scenes of peasant weddings, the hunt or the harvest are on the wrong track. Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z He considers her victory was not simply a "peasants' revolt" of middle class activists. Margaret Thatcher biography reveals passions across the years 2013-04-21T19:41:48Z In Romanian folklore a genie tells a peasant he can have anything he wants, but his neighbour will get twice as much. Fallen out with the neighbours? Time to build a ‘spite house’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Seven years later, in “The Big Sombrero,” Ms. Verdugo played a madcap Mexican ranch owner who, with her peasant rancheros, is saved from swindlers by an American singing cowboy, played by Gene Autry. Elena Verdugo, Who Lifted Latina Image on TV, Dies at 92 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z But the museum has something for everyone: costumes, toys, beer mugs, woodworking tools, model rooms recreating the interiors of a peasant house and a pharmacist’s studio, complete with an alchemist’s oven. Discovering the Marvels of the Alsace 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z The peasant says, firmly: “Put out one of my eyes.” Fallen out with the neighbours? Time to build a ‘spite house’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z October is an intuition of what Pushkin called the merciless senselessness of the Pugachevshchina, the 18th-century peasant revolt from which the ruling classes learned secretly to fear and hate the lower orders. Hallucinating history: when Stalin and Eisenstein reinvented a revolution 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z I pack warm pajamas, to bundle up like a Slavic peasant at bedtime. A ‘Girl Singer’ and Her Extra Hair Hit the Road 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z In this spirit Miró created for himself the alter ego of a Catalan peasant, indefatigable and ribald, wild bearded under a barretina, the red cap of the rural radical. A life in paintings 2011-03-20T00:08:06Z Anecdotes like this bring China to life in a way that outlandish-but-true statistics—some 250m peasants have moved to Chinese cities—cannot. Birdies, bribes and bulldozers 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z His portrait of an age-gnarled Lear is rendered with exacting physical precision that suggests both the peasant stock and ruthlessness of his character’s past. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z They’re followed by zany peasant dancers, and children, or actors playing children, who stage mock battles on horses constructed from paper and bamboo. Art Review: ‘Theater, Life, and the Afterlife’ at China Institute 2012-05-31T22:11:08Z The Chinese, he said, “shun all activities concerning industry and artisanship, which has made the learned inept at anything practical, and the peasants ignorant of real knowledge.” They Wanted to Write the History of Modern China. But How? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z It breezed north for 45 minutes and plummeted in the hamlet of Gonesse where frightened peasants attacked the contraption with rocks, knives and pitchforks before dragging the monster’s wheezing remains through town on a horse. Up and Away: ‘The Aeronauts’ and Hot-Air Balloons in the Movies 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Primordial brutes sporting horned helmets have been a staple since Conan the Destroyer; there is literally nothing that scares peasants more. Joe Queenan's Guide to Movie Cliches: Action 2010-10-19T11:00:00Z The same year, he played a medieval prince to Sophia Loren’s peasant girl in the panned comedy “More Than a Miracle.” Omar Sharif, international heartthrob of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and ‘Doctor Zhivago,’ dies at 83 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Visits to now defunct department stores such as Woolworth and Korvette's led to my initially sari-clad mother adding peasant blouses and flared trousers to her wardrobe. Family life 2013-02-23T07:15:01Z The historical Joan of Arc was a peasant, a soldier, a mystic and a martyr. Joan of Arc, Superstar? Not to the Woman Playing Her 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Combining beautifully embroidered blouses and colorful peasant skirts with outsize jewelry both ancient and contemporary, Kahlo’s ensembles were in today’s jargon assiduously “curated.” 10 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2019 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Otherwise a peasants’ revolt may be just around the corner: “In a real society, there’d be more riots.” Encyclopaedia Westerosa: the biggest Game of Thrones mysteries, solved 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z “On the south edge of the city there used to be only acres and acres of peasant land on the opposite side of the river,” he said. Next Stop: The Poetry of Hangzhou 2011-04-08T18:55:00Z Suddenly free but with no land and no livelihood, the dumbfounded peasants rioted. Stories of revolution in Russia’s St. Petersburg 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z At that time, officials encouraged peasants to sell their blood for pittances. ‘Ximei’ Review: An AIDS Activist Fights Medical Injustice in China 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Although “Donizetti” has no scenery and no narrative, it looks at first like an outtake from the older ballet’s celebration of the festival of the vine, with the jollification of decorous peasants. Dance Review: First a Toast to the Past, Then the Frolics of a Bubbly Balanchine 2011-06-01T22:30:32Z These, too, were victims of Pol Pot’s ideologically grim reign, which sought to “purify” Cambodia by stripping it of any perceived Western influence and bourgeois taint and by turning the population into revolutionary peasants. Movie Review: ‘The Missing Picture,’ Rithy Panh’s Look at 1970s Cambodia 2014-03-18T22:24:57Z “We embrace the peasant traditions of central Italy — no compromises, no shortcuts,” Mr. Gerbi said. Paying Tribute to Porchetta, the Ancient Italian Pig Roast 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z I wore an ankle-length velvet skirt and a peasant blouse I’d sewn myself, my long brown hair loose and flowing over dangling hoop earrings. Dating my therapist 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z The Catalan peasant has become a triangle with an ear, eye, pipe, the hairs of a beard and a hand. A life in paintings 2011-03-20T00:08:06Z It’s an astounding mountain of Cubist structure cobbled together from the revolution-minded iconography of a serape, sombrero, straw mats and peasant gourds all anchored by the vertical slash of Emiliano Zapata’s rifle. LACMA's uneven new Picasso and Rivera show reveals an unprecedented, must-see discovery 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z My personal favourite among action film cliches is when the villain, asked what to do with the thronged hostages/peasants/rebels, sneers: "Kill them all." Joe Queenan's Guide to Movie Cliches: Action 2010-10-19T11:00:00Z The poet is like a peasant eating figs, nuts, almonds, and some fish from the river. Orphic Paris, Part XVI 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z He takes a good bit of his plot from the historical peasants’ rebellion led by Robert Kett, who appears here as a roguishly romantic hero. Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column Exhumes the Murderous Past 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Some students were barefoot, in sympathy, I assumed, with peasants of the undeveloped world. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z A communal meal at a great-uncle’s house reveals village elders sniffing at the government’s proposed “rural revival,” knowing that it really means extra land fees for already strapped peasants. Movie Review: ‘Three Sisters,’ a Documentary by Wang Bing 2013-05-10T01:05:30Z The Communist party, which might, perhaps, have shown more sympathy for the subject matter, despised her for treating Chinese peasants as individuals rather than a suffering class. Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck's Life in China by Hilary Spurling 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z He hails India as a democracy in which "numbers of the disenchanted and the frustrated" are growing, along with a huge sense of hopelessness among landless peasants. From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra – review 2012-07-19T07:00:02Z She made my wedding shirt, sort of a peasant shirt, a silk shirt. We set up a video camera and asked people to tell us their love stories 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z And when Vivaldi’s peasants celebrate, in the finale of “Spring” and, especially, in the first movement of “Autumn,” Ms. Seiler’s rubbery portamento and casual rhythms suggest alarming levels of inebriation. New Music Looks at Vivaldi?s ?Four Seasons? 2010-04-01T17:07:00Z One saw the substance all the time in Vietnam in the bombing and shelling of the peasant hamlets. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z If it’s any consolation, so do the peasants. | 'Lush Valley': Lush Valley at Here Arts Center - Review 2011-09-12T02:01:00Z Or asking the peasants in King's Landing about what they think the world should look like and how can these powerful ruling houses be held accountable. "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z Maria Bochkareva, a Russian peasant who fought in World War I. She formed the terrifyingly named Women’s Battalion of Death and won several honors, only to be executed by the Bolsheviks in 1920. 7 of the most amazing women you’ve never heard of 2014-01-20T20:00:00Z The father, a peasant who worked in the remote Serbian village of Shid, was the putative outsider. Art Review: The Outsider Art Fair Features a Global Vision 2014-05-08T21:52:59Z And all the time the outsider treads a careful path through dangerous times, as peasant unrest turns to full-throated revolution, and Jean-Marie prepares for his last banquet, and the breaking of the last taboo. The Last Banquet by Jonathan Grimwood – review 2013-07-20T10:01:08Z Half a century later, in a corner of southern Brittany on France’s west coast, Huon still uses oxen to plow his fields, determined to preserve an ancestral, peasant way of life. French farmer finds happiness in life before machines 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z I think that’s because, historically, Russia was a peasant country, a country full of villages, which meant that there was a lot of livestock, such as cows and pigs. This Week in Fiction: Tatyana Tolstaya on the Beauty and Anguish of Killing to Eat 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Scholars who argue collectivization was necessary to force Russian peasants into a modern state are “dead wrong.” ‘Stalin: Paradoxes of Power’ by Stephen Kotkin 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z There was also brisk business in paintings of modern Italian life, including images of peasants and what were perceived as other native types. Art Review: ‘The Path of Nature,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-01-24T22:22:49Z By designing practical pieces, such as safari jackets, trench coats, peasant blouses and Le Smoking suits, Saint Laurent "played a part in the transformation of his time." 'L'Amour Fou' centers on the partner of late designer Yves Saint Laurent 2011-05-23T15:07:04Z Les Misérables Hit musical based on the Victor Hugo novel about a French peasant’s quest to redeem himself after spending several years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread. L.A. theater openings, April 5-12: 'I and You' and more 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Kind of like the rest of us peasants, but on such a grander scale. Cheers for naked Prince Harry! 2012-08-22T19:35:00Z Nearby hangs Irving Penn’s much better known image of a Peruvian peasant and her daughter in the same studio, with better lighting, from 1948. Art Review: ‘A World of Its Own,’ Examining Photography, at MoMA 2014-02-06T22:33:50Z For the peasants, the question would be less about illness and more about cost. Thanksgiving, medieval style: Give thanks that “Red Deer testicles” and “living eels in roasted pig” aren’t on the menu today 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z It gives us words about connection, like “pact,” “peace,” “appease,” “pacify,” “pawl,” “pole” and “peasant.” Can you identify? 2012-05-17T00:00:00Z Projected images, instead of painted scenery, take the ballet from its initial village setting, where peasant girl Giselle falls in love with a duplicitous aristocrat, to the eerie beauty of its supernatural denouement. This week's new dance 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z They built what were known as "folk high schools" – liberal arts colleges for the rural poor that aimed to turn peasants into active participants in political life. Something puzzling in the state of Denmark 2012-12-21T22:55:08Z A poet immerses herself in the inferno that is 1970s El Salvador and documents all that she sees, from impoverished peasants to a uniformed butcher who flaunts the ears he collects from his victims. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z One of Switzerland’s most revered artists, Hodler was the son of a carpenter and a woman of peasant stock. Art Review: ‘Ferdinand Hodler: View to Infinity,’ at Neue Galerie 2012-09-20T21:50:42Z On a recent steamy afternoon, Ms. Bridges was seated in the deep blue living room of the elegant Harlem apartment that has become her calling card, a slight figure in a ruffled peasant shirt. At Home With Sheila Bridges: Weeding Out the Riffraff 2013-07-17T23:00:39Z Ms. Aymé’s prewar paintings include portraits of Asian peasants and servants, especially women with infants, and scenes of ruins and covered markets with bursts of sun between columns and stacks of produce. ‘Little Dreams in Glass and Metal’ Spotlights Enameling 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The Act I peasant pas de deux is cut from this performance. Critic?s Notebook: A Flying Giselle, Coming Right at You 2011-07-13T23:00:27Z Most people view a dish of handmade pasta with a long-simmered sauce of heritage tomatoes as representative of the eternal verities of Italian peasant life; I see it as one calamitous laundry bill. Confessions of a messy eater 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z For example, “the Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony is all Russian peasant folk music,” he offers. Perspective | The Soulful Symphony reinvents itself, elevating music’s American roots 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z It’s the ultimate peasant food — a dish that involved stuffing lungs and livers into a stomach casing ensured that no part of the animal went to waste. In Scotland, Guts, Glory and Haggis 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Who but Cersei could make a line like “Now the future of the Seven Kingdoms rests in his dirty peasant hands” sound inspiring? “Game of Thrones”: Backbones All Around 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The scene is a gentle, almost imperceptible dramatic pivot: As they soak up the glory of natural light, they notice two peasants, unknown to them, staring in their direction. Review: Scorsese's 'Silence' Gorgeous and Haunting 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Trying to unburden herself of the child, she leaves him on a peasant woman’s doorstep, but rushes back to his defense when the woman cowers before the thugs who are after the baby. Theater Review: ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle,’ at Classic Stage Company 2013-05-31T02:00:01Z He got it simply from living a life as a poor Galilean peasant enthralled to this enormously wealthy, repressive and political authority. “You want people like that to hate you”: Reza Aslan on Glenn Beck, that Fox News interview, and who gets to speak for Jesus 2014-04-20T10:59:00Z Their estates, Smith writes, "represented small, isolated islands of privilege and authority amid a vast peasant sea of poverty and resentment." 'Former People:' the decline and fall of Russia's glittering aristocracy 2012-10-10T22:09:03Z A gigantic beanstalk grows out of a medieval peasant’s posterior, and another peasant says, “I told you they were magic beans and not to eat them.” Sam Gross, 89, Dies; Prolific Purveyor of Cartoons, Tasteful and Otherwise 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Kanazawa means “gold swamp,” a name traced to a legend about a peasant who found gold in a bog. Japan’s bullet train has made this well-preserved city more accessible than ever 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z It is a lovely magic-realist fable set among an exploited peasant community who appear to be living in the 19th century – yet this is misleading. Royals, rogues and Rudolf Nureyev: the best films of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z French people—who are apparently divided between snobby Paris types and good, clean-plate-club peasants—are being educated as to the utility of doggie bags. News you can eat: The Nov. 21 week in food 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z When peasants were told to hold their tongues, they would do just that — manually. Borscht Belt Sherwood Forest 2013-07-19T18:43:48Z Otherwise, little of substance seemed to link Bruckner, the peasant priest of Austrian Romanticism, and Mahler, his more cosmopolitan admirer and successor. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Bruckner at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-04-25T21:50:09Z We Pictures Limited/ The Weinstein Company When a mild-mannered peasant unsheathes the powers he has long kept hidden, the results can be spectacular. Dragon: The One-Armed Swordsman With a Heart 2012-11-29T15:00:15Z He secured a set of fourteen slides of his own—striking scenes of destitute families, refugees in freight cars, a “sad-eyed Polish peasant” whose wife and children had died of typhus as refugees in Russia. The Second Man in the Front Row: A Forgotten Story of the First World War 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z The Maid of Orleans, or just Joan to her friends, was born to a peasant family in north-east France. Six teenagers who rocked the world 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Outside his door, peasants complained about the price of bread; up the road, revolutionaries stormed the Bastille prison. Beyond Architecture, a Builder of Lusty Fantasies 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z “These matters of popular belief and folks’-lore, these rights and legends and superstitions, were, after all, the poetry of the people, the bond that knit the peasant to the soil.” The Artist Who Dared to Paint Ireland’s Great Famine 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Pici is the local style of eggless peasant pasta; it is like plump, irregular strands of spaghetti, stretched out by hand. Pasta Dreams and Flying Machines: Our Tuscan Adventure 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z “I’m three-quarters Welsh peasant and one-quarter French peasant,” he notes. The secrets of people who never get sick 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z The exhibition traces Van Gogh’s evolution, contrasting early depictions of soot-stained miners with the weavers and peasants that populate his later paintings. Where Van Gogh the pastor became Van Gogh the painter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z “In Italy, skin grafting had evolved as a peasant’s operation, linked culturally and technically to the farmer’s procedure of plant grafting.” A Medical History of Transplant Surgery That’s Not for the Squeamish 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Some toilet-oriented regurgitation was involved, followed by comical sweating, like you see in “The Wizard of Id” comic strip from a peasant before he is hanged. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: This hot sauce is a killer 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z We Rule , ngmoco, Inc, free Grow your ancient kingdom by farming, supplying peasants with housing, schools and places to work and adding ambitious construction projects. New iPad games reviews 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z This book, which it is claimed influenced Tsar Alexander II's decision to emancipate the serfs in 1861, comprises vignettes of peasant life as observed by a landowning hunter much like Turgenev. A brief survey of the short story part 50: Ivan Turgenev 2013-06-21T13:42:13Z An old woman called Miss Ulyana cohabits with a prosperous old peasant in exile. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Having children sometimes feels like being a peasant in the court of King Joffrey. Keep your kid’s meltdown off Instagram 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z We have supported the enemies of the peasants of Saigon. Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s Searing Antiwar Speech, Fifty Years Later 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Dressed in miliary-style fatigues, Samba and his comrades drive out to rural villages to lecture peasants and landowners on the virtues of collective agriculture. ‘Dancing the Twist in Bamako’ Review: Youth in Revolt 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z The Straparola stories are pretty good examples of the kinds of stories old peasant women tell. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z There is a class element as well in "Game of Thrones" with the so-called "smallfolk," those peasants and others who are outside of power. "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z Here, high-rises pierce the hazy sky and peasants grow vegetables on riverbanks. ‘A Touch of Sin’: Violence rocks lives in rapidly changing China 2014-01-02T22:40:24Z The often faintly embarrassing rustic masque also becomes a Slavic peasant ritual plausibly filled with "sunburned sicklemen, of August weary". The Tempest ? review 2011-04-10T20:31:00Z Leave alone forever, please, this particular authoritarian recipe for bootstrapping a peasant society to wealth, because it only gets you halfway there, and leaves you surrounded by crumbling concrete and rusting machinery. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z A. My parents are peasants in a poor, mountainous area of Hunan Province. Zhang Zanbo: A Chinese Documentary Filmmaker Returns to His Roots 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z In a tweet on Tuesday, Mr. Musk derided what he called “Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark.” On Twitter, Who Needs a Check Mark When You Can Have a Rat? 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z They'd educated a peasant society till it was bristling with science degrees. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z He wanted a formal education for Allegra, not a life sowing seeds alongside a peasant woman, a failed Capuchin sister. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z Zapata was leader of a critically important peasant revolt south of Mexico City during the Mexican revolution. Diego Rivera's Cubist masterpiece arrives at LACMA 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Ten or so peasants were gathered round him. A brief survey of the short story part 50: Ivan Turgenev 2013-06-21T13:42:13Z Its passive and vulnerable peasants live in misery, the outside world barely exists and their only tangible relationship is with the soil they cultivate. The best summer reads ? and where to read them 2011-07-15T13:15:01Z He seemed destined to live a typical peasant’s life until he underwent a religious conversion at 28 — either to overcome drunkenness or, by his own account, insomnia and bed-wetting. ‘Rasputin’ Unravels the Myths of the ‘Mad Monk’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Hulka documented farms, cemeteries, markets, mines, thatched cottages, shingled churches and beehives, as well as peasants of various ethnic groups and religions. Rudolf Hulka Photos Show Europe and North Africa in the 1920s 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Her Giselle was a believably innocent and psychologically fragile peasant girl, but her physical fragility came from her motor running too hot. Dance Review: ‘Giselle’ Stars Natalia Osipova in a Cinema Broadcast 2014-01-29T21:28:25Z The feudal fear of peasant revolt was transplanted to mechanical servants, and worries of a robot uprising have lingered ever since. Why Do We Hurt Robots? 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Gettinger arrived in the first months of a decade-long civil war that would be marked by peasant massacres and the loss of some 75,000 civilian lives, most killed by government forces. The diplomat and the killer: Death squads, dirty war and the untold story of H. Carl Gettinger 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z She led an army of a million peasants and destroyed a dynasty. Review: ‘The Woman Warrior,’ by Maxine Hong Kingston 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Aslan uses previous scholarship to describe the precarious existence of Jewish peasants and the lower classes, and how the Romans and the Jewish upper class exploited the land and the people. Books of The Times: Reza Aslan’s ‘Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth’ 2013-08-05T19:15:02Z Thus, he quits his quiet life in the countryside and convinces a naive peasant neighbour, Sancho Panza, to join him in his quest. Anthony Close obituary 2010-10-03T17:41:00Z Troubled sous chef Fabian wants to go back to traditional peasant cooking, but Zac knows he wants nothing to do with peasants ever again. The Cook by Wayne Macauley – review 2012-12-13T08:55:01Z Think Chinese peasant pants, sumo rope belts and origami folds. Special Report: California Dreamin': Arts and Crafts Make a Comeback 2010-09-16T11:56:00Z It takes in the dried-up soil, the prickly pear, the palm tree and the distant mountain, but it always misses the peasant hoeing at his patch. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Back home, thanks to his skill as a draftsman and his compulsive productivity, Kurt found success as a socialist realist, producing large-scale murals of heroic workers and peasants and portraits of bureaucrats. ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z “And a pale woman, in a white gown, who was ‘desperate for company’, and a poor little peasant boy.” What happened when I went to psychic school 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s hard to imagine how the Catalan peasants of yore might react to the espadrille’s modern mutations. All Hail the Humble Espadrille! 2010-08-16T13:10:00Z “I believed what Chairman Mao said, that we go to learn from the peasants and we can contribute.” The China Institute?s Curator Has Connections 2010-03-20T04:40:00Z Novels about the very poor, the oppressed, peasants, aren't generally written by or for the people they are about. Raised from the Ground by José Saramago – review 2012-12-26T08:00:10Z Laughing and swooning in a tight black top and white peasant skirt, she looked over at Alan Held playing Wozzeck, her jealous common-law husband, with a complex mixture of disgust and regret and love. Keep Going, Keep Going, Even at the Met 2011-04-03T02:14:50Z The initial plan for Bolivia, drawn up by an American in the late 1940s, did not have high hopes for poor peasants of the southern Altiplano and the harsh environment they lived in. What your organic market doesn’t want you to know: The dark truth about quinoa 2014-04-24T11:50:00Z The February revolution sees the pulling down of the statue of Alexander III; there is tension and frustration between the workers, peasants and soldiers. Hallucinating history: when Stalin and Eisenstein reinvented a revolution 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prize in Literature, which is awarded for a body of work, cited Buck’s “rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China” and her “biographical masterpieces.” A Pearl Buck Novel, New After 4 Decades 2013-05-21T21:00:02Z The group's goal is to teach and promote the cuisine, while also "vindicating the role of peasant women," They offer cooking classes at the kitchen, located an hour and a half outside of Guadalajara. How Maru Toledo is preserving Jalisco’s forgotten culinary history 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Dancers in coarse tunics moved like peasants rather than princes and princesses: their shoulders were tense, their limbs awkwardly angled. The Rite of Spring at Sadler's Wells: 'It takes you to so many places' 2013-04-03T17:30:01Z It is easy enough to see why a peasant society in the throes of famine might experience high levels of enforced emigration. To the Ends of the Earth by TM Devine ? review 2011-08-04T08:59:01Z Morgenthau was also a transformation, as brutal as Mao, who wanted to transform peasant culture to an industrial culture, and it killed 30 million. | The Dinosaur in Anselm Kiefer 2013-05-03T22:13:05Z Or again, there is the menacing late story "The Gospel According to Mark", in which a flash flood forces a young medical student to spend several days with a benighted and illiterate peasant family. Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges – review 2013-05-30T11:00:01Z That same dandified poverty clings to the faces and tattered garb of Savoyard peasants whose desperation he drew. Watteau at the Royal Academy: the theatre of life 2011-03-14T17:11:09Z But after a relatively bland canzonetta, she kicked up her heels in the finale, gamboling through the virtuoso licks and getting down and dirty in the peasant dance sections. NSO’s all-Tchaikovsky series still satisfies, even surprises 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z It’s a story that hurls the lives of mountain peasants into a violent political maelstrom, sending Ali and his family across the Mediterranean to a temporary shelter that turns grimly permanent. The Ultimate Summer Escape: Historical Fiction 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The result was a slightly dysfunctional blend of toga dresses — which gave a streamlined spirit to scarf prints — and peasant blouses. Special Report: No Operatic Shout From the Heart 2010-09-24T18:06:00Z Adam is an ideal portrayal of a medieval peasant. Digging with dignity: Adam delving, Canterbury Cathedral's wondrous window 2012-08-14T10:16:22Z Early on, at least, Roman peasants left few historical traces. Review: In ‘SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome,’ Mary Beard Tackles Myths and More 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z And by episodes with "no deaths," we mean that no named characters died now did any random soldier or peasant. The only four episodes of "Game of Thrones" where no one dies 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z More important, he acts with his vocal instrument, capturing both the cultivated and the rough, boisterous qualities of a man who describes himself as half peasant. Opera Review: A Baritone Shines in Strauss Opera at the Met 2014-04-04T09:10:47Z Her body was thick-waisted but supple, with a peasant’s grace—confident and humble both—and a quiet poise, greater than that of most beauties. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Nevertheless it is fascinating to contemplate a pastoral, heart-tugging fantasy like “Gypsy Girls,” a full-length, near-photorealist portrait of a rustic beauty in peasant dress holding a pudgy child in her arms. Art Review: Uptown, a Jumble of Treasures 2011-04-22T03:31:19Z “I’ll shoot there and in a remote mountain school where Taoist philosophy originated, where they recruit peasant children to teach them Tai Chi with martial art,” he said. Film: Following Workers? Trails of Tears in China 2010-08-29T02:23:00Z It’s all good stuff, small pox vaccinations for the poor, tripling the garbage collection in Copenhagen, no longer allowing the rich to run roughshod over the peasants. A Royal Affair: The Enlightenment Brings Sexy Back 2012-11-08T15:00:36Z In the photos, the sultry Russell languished on a bed of straw, looking petulant as her tight-fitting peasant blouse slipped off one shoulder. Actress Jane Russell dead at 89 2011-03-01T00:36:50Z Born to landless peasants, Balke was lifted from rural life by talent so evident that the locals bankrolled the early phase of an artistic education that took him from Olso to Copenhagen and Stockholm. Wild Waves and Quiet Streets: 2 Artists Working From Memory 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “They’re the naïve tales of peasants trying to make sense of their lives,” he said. With Turturro, Italy Knows No Bounds 2010-03-03T00:09:00Z The peasants in a Pieter Bruegel the Elder painting all look the same — like human-potato hybrids — and nobody marks it as a demerit. John Waters’s First Novel Is Manic, Hyperbolic and Deviant. Surprised? 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z She hissed: "This is not a pub, you Irish peasant." Me and Mine: A Warm-hearted Memoir of a London Irish Family by Anna May Mangan ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:02Z Murphy was outfitted in a long-sleeve peasant dress and fringed suede boots. The Rise of ‘Schitt’s Creek’ 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Gerald might have once seen himself as a peasant boy, and maybe deep down still does. The Odyssey of a Gay Black Football-Star Banker, From ‘Peasant Boy’ to the Mountaintop 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z That a left-wing painter softened and sentimentalized the harder-edged peasant genera of Millet shouldn’t be surprising. Review | It’s easy to see Millet’s influence on other painters. It’s harder to see his genius. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z But the Buranovo Grannies, who performed in customary peasant garb, say they want to be taken seriously. Russian grannies win bid to sing at Eurovision 2012-03-08T11:18:08Z The sleeve showed her dressed up as a Ruritanian-like peasant with a silly hat and old-fashioned hair and makeup. Family life 2012-09-28T23:05:25Z An episode of crazed runs for both instruments leads to the concluding Allegretto, which sounds like a frenzied peasant wedding dance, meshed with stinging Modernist harmonies and fractured rhythms. Review: Juxtaposing Contemporary and Classical, Sometimes With Forearms 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z But these were no depressed Soviet-era peasants shoveling in the day's only meal. Frugal Traveler Blog: Saving Rubles in St. Petersburg 2012-09-04T21:23:01Z So as soon as I was born my fate was to be a peasant, just like my father and my forefathers before me. Heading West: A Ballet Dancer From China Looks Back 2010-08-20T22:01:00Z The gala opened with a dramatic excerpt from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet ballet and included the coronation scene from Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov, when the vast stage swarmed with peasants. Russia's new Mariinsky theatre woos the doubters 2013-05-02T20:36:35Z Eventually this returns in the fantastical Polka, a raw sort of peasant dance, in which dancers toss their arms in the air and stomp like mad. Dance Review: Old Rituals to Shape Young Dancers 2011-03-24T21:31:21Z Ms. Yates’s original film was one of the first and only documentary records of the Guatemalan civil war between peasant revolutionaries and the genocidal military junta backed by the United States. | 'Granito: How to Nail a Dictator': ?Granito: How to Nail a Dictator? - Review 2011-09-13T22:51:03Z These all-powerful individuals, who were thought to have been invested by God, were in death treated worse than peasants. Essay: In Europe, Sharing Moments With History 2012-10-10T20:43:02Z English peasants dispossessed by the practice of enclosure, an early ancestor of private property rights; Native Americans dispossessed of land by American settlers; Appalachians dispossessed of their subsistence farms by coal mining operations. What the People of Appalachia Want 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Liked to party and to play at being a peasant. Theater Review: David Adjmi’s ‘Marie Antoinette’ at Yale Repertory Theater 2012-11-12T17:08:56Z “We see a young peasant woman preparing the last meal for the man she loves who is sentenced to death by hanging — a man, a woman, bread, salt and wine, love, life and death.” Liviu Ciulei, a Daring Theater Director, Dies at 88 2011-10-27T00:29:20Z Overwrought effects include Ivania Stack’s aggressively threadbare peasant costumes, and the show’s awkwardness hits its peak when actors strip down to faux-nude leotards with arteries and veins stitched to the fabric. Fable of grief has clipped wings at Theater J 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Others prefer chicken, rabbit, pork and snails, citing paella’s peasant roots. In Spain, finding peace — and paella — on Mallorca 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The role of Tita, part nurse, part chorus, is assumed by the actress with the unusual name of VIVIS, who brings a marvelous peasant vitality to the role. 'Mojada' at the Getty Villa convincingly updates Greek tragedy to modern-day L.A. 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Rivera’s home country, 5,000 miles from Paris, was then deep into a bloody peasant revolution — a convulsive civil war that would drag on for another five years. LACMA's uneven new Picasso and Rivera show reveals an unprecedented, must-see discovery 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z She ran down the beach with Cosby in pursuit, but she tripped on that long peasant skirt and fell onto the sand, she said. Bill Cosby’s legacy, recast: Accusers speak in detail about sexual-assault allegations I’ve got to make all the peasants laugh at the king, but the king’s sort of got to like it. Ricky Gervais on ‘After Life’ and Life After the Golden Globes 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z The museum, in addition to hanging Goncharova’s huge stage backdrop, is showing her sketches of flowered peasant outfits, her costumes embroidered with sea creatures and a Cubist caricature of Diaghilev she drew. Antiques: A Ballet?s Costumes Take Center Stage 2010-09-23T21:11:00Z I counted three mud huts and a handful of unconvincing peasants with suspiciously clean faces. Camelot: episode nine 2011-07-30T21:01:00Z But instead of the scenes of adobe houses and sombrero-wearing peasants of the curios, this vessel is decorated with blank-faced Los Angeles office buildings. Art Review | Josef Albers and Ken Price: Josef Albers and Ken Price: Bauhaus Meets Venice Beach 2010-03-18T22:29:00Z But he almost always used French, sharing Voltaire’s view that German was a language fit to be spoken only by peasants and to horses. Prussian and powerful 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros, who had been commissioned to paint idyllic scenery for a rooftop beer garden, instead depicted an imperialist eagle hunched over a crucified Latin American peasant. Antiques: Commeraw Pottery and a Siqueiros Mural 2011-10-13T20:38:56Z A naturally gifted peasant warrior, Thomas was once given the job of guarding Estonians from invaders. Rise of the Guardians and other all-star supergroups 2012-11-29T20:00:01Z Little caps, like something a peasant woman working in a Soviet collective farm might have donned, topped off all the looks. YSL does fall-winter 2011-12 in a nutshell 2011-03-07T23:05:18Z Uxbal is too poor, hard-pressed and desperate for that, which is not to say that he isn't a man of sensibility and moral intelligence beneath his tough peasant exterior. Biutiful 2011-01-30T00:05:53Z As a ballerina, Ms. Alonso was especially associated with the title role of “Giselle,” the doomed peasant girl who falls in love with a count in disguise. Alicia Alonso, Star of Cuba’s National Ballet, Dies at 98 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z She has a flowered dress and a peasant scarf and looks like Nikita Khrushchev’s wife. Styles Q & A: John Waters Offers Season’s Greeting With a Wink 2013-12-06T23:52:50Z Nigerian peasants bend on one knee before them. T Magazine: In Lagos, the 1% Takes Stock 2014-04-25T17:00:01Z His parents, intellectuals descended from peasants, were imprisoned briefly during Stalin’s reign. Yuri Lyubimov, Experimental Stage Director, Dies at 97 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Having saved the Republic from ‘Black’ Spain, the land of colonels, priests, and landowners, they now seemed ready to establish Red Spain, a land fit for workers and peasants. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z She’s ashamed of her peasant roots and ashamed of her shame. Review | Meng Jin’s ‘Little Gods’ is an ambitious, formally complex debut 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Act I’s peasant pas de deux was danced with touching enthusiasm and purity by Sarah Lane and Joseph Gorak. American Ballet Theater Performs ‘Giselle’ 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Set in Egypt at the end of the 19th century, it tells of a peasant family living off the illegal trade in pharaonic treasures. The 10 best Arab films 2013-07-06T15:00:00Z Even the most refined aristocrat of antiquity would have been told nursery stories by his first attendants, who were illiterate slaves and peasants. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z Mango has chimed in with a peasant blouse with Balkan-inspired embroidery. Fall Fashion’s Artful Mash-up, Subtle and Worldly 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z In the early 20th century, Bartók visited Hungary’s remote villages, collecting folk songs sung by peasants whose lives had not yet been touched by railroads or electricity. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z More than once, the aristocratic protagonists stumble upon singing peasants seemingly oblivious to the doings of their social betters. A Postmodern Period Piece From a Cinema Titan 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z In the Getty exhibition’s volume, the costume historian Margaret Scott points out that peasant dress is often glamorized, “even to the extent of including gilded straw hats.” Antiques: Beatles Photos, Medieval Fashion and Forbes?s Auctions 2011-05-19T20:54:27Z Esther, an orphaned Jewish peasant, learned how to embellish her looks in the court of King Ahasuerus of Persia, also known as Xerxes. 2010-01-07T16:51:00Z Everyone — cave dweller, 1920s flapper, medieval peasant — has existed in his or her own urgent present. ‘Manhattan’ and ‘The Knick’ Return to a Forward-Looking Past 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Several examples partake of the floral patterns usual to peasant art, or present figures only slightly more demonic than those inspired by folk tales. ‘Art Brut in America’ Highlights Outsider Artists, No Longer Looking In 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z To complicate things further, while Murray today continues to live on, at least a part of, the farm where he was brought up, he is far from a straightforward peasant poet. A life in writing: Les Murray 2010-11-22T00:05:00Z He looks, as Schnabel notes, like a Moroccan peasant woman. Julian Schnabel's Polaroids 2010-10-09T23:05:00Z Her advanced sexual skills were not peasant but passed on for almost two centuries and developed in France. In Haiti, Tracing a Paradise Lost 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z There’ is also the fact that Robin is no starving peasant himself, but a nobleman. How the Robin Hood myth was turned on its head by rightwingers 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z The socialist reform of agriculture under Mao paved the way for the market reform of agriculture after Mao, he argues, because "Chinese peasants had become relatively more educated, literate, capable at self-organisation and technically able". The Struggle for Tibet by Wang Lixiong and Tsering Shakya | The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity by Wang Hui 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z In the decades after World War II, the Italian earth produced a lot of cinematic salt, and local stories of peasant and proletarian hardship proved to be a popular global export. ‘Happy as Lazzaro’ Review: This Modern Fairy Tale Is an Instant Classic 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z “They weren’t supposed to kill people,” he said, but the peasants resented the educated class. In St. Paul, Great Deals and Ethnic Diversity 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Having escaped peasant obscurity, Agnes fights adversities that threaten to send her back to poverty. Review | Twice-told tales: Jo Nesbø, Madeline Miller and others revive classic stories 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z In Act I she is a peasant in whom slight touches of gaucheness coexist with the extraordinary beauty and natural refinement that would lure a passing nobleman. Dance Review: Osipova, Vishneva and Cojocaru: 3 Giselles at Ballet Theater 2012-05-21T04:14:04Z “It’s a Mexican peasant dish,” I said sprinkling in the peppers. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z I’ve used the word “peasants” to describe these wines, and I’m not alone in my sentiment. Perspective | For Burgundy’s best-value wines, look south 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Elliman, 61 and sunny in a peasant blouse and green scarf, seemed thrilled. Autographs of the Formerly Famous 2013-12-12T01:25:58Z It begins some 50 years before Maxine Kingston was born, some 30 years before the revolution, in the Hong family compound in a peasant village in Kwangtung Province. Review: ‘The Woman Warrior,’ by Maxine Hong Kingston 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s about a peasant girl in love with a disguised, two-timing nobleman; she drops dead when she learns the truth about him. Nearly blind from an acid attack, the Bolshoi Ballet’s director still has an eye for beauty The aggressive aristocratic man leans in to land an almost violent kiss on the rather unreceptive lips of a woman dressed in peasant clothes, who turns her head aside. The Getty just announced its most important drawings acquisition in 20 years—and adds a 'Surprise' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z As for the many varieties of pizza, she once observed: “These crisp or chewy country breads are the food of peasants and wily city dwellers with little money but lots of imagination.” Carol Field, author of celebrated Italian cookbooks, dies at 76 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z But the old fight in me stirred, the fight of a peasant’s wife who had sewn seeds in the hills of Alfonsine while pregnant, tended my ill husband a day after childbirth. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z The peasants on Prozorsky’s estate mock her, and she learns that one of them had a long affair with her husband. Sofiya Tolstoy’s Defense 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Able to move quickly, informed by the local peasants of French units, they were able to harass the enemy’s foraging parties mercilessly. Books of The Times: Dominic Lieven?s ?Russia Against Napoleon? 2010-04-07T22:54:00Z The cast of six can speak the speech, especially Louis E. Davis as a peasant in broad comic mode and Chelsea Mayo as Don Juan’s regal betrayed wife. Review | A woman plays the title character in ‘Don Juan,’ and he’s still a jerk 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z His life has been woven into the history of the nation, and he has become the foremost chronicler of Mozambique’s antiheroes: its women, its peasants, even its dead. How Mia Couto’s Words Help Weave the Story of Mozambique 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z In the past, caraway came cheap, making it a staple of hearty peasant recipes like sauerkraut, roasted potatoes and soups. Forget pumpkin spice everything: these are the real tastes of autumn 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z But more of the paintings depict the heroism and resolve of grouped soldiers, workers or peasants. In the galleries: Norman Rockwell would have recognized these socialist images 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The British have set fire to a peasant village. Young Winston: close, but no cigar | Reel history 2010-03-25T08:00:00Z Both "Empress" novels were rich with lore and the history of the Boxer Rebellion — the opulence of palace life contrasted with the deprivation, degradation and suffering of the Chinese peasants. 'Pearl of China': Anchee Min's version of the life of Pearl S. Buck 2010-04-07T22:30:00Z Some environmentalists have questioned whether this green revolution was such a good thing, tying so many of the world's peasant farmers to mechanised, energy-guzzling farming practices, and Pearce sees their point. Peoplequake: Mass Migration, Ageing Nations and the Coming Population Crash by Fred Pearce | Book review 2010-03-27T00:10:00Z Half a century later, in a corner of southern Brittany on France’s west coast, Huon still uses oxen to plow his fields, determined to preserve an ancestral, peasant way of life. French farmer finds happiness in life before machines 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Poor Tim is a peasant, just like his parents and grandparents before him. Funny Genre-Bending Fiction From the Creators of ‘Dragons Love Tacos’ and the ‘Spy School’ Series 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Yates' original film was one of the first and only documentary records of the Guatemalan civil war between peasant revolutionaries and the genocidal military junta backed by the United States. 'Granito' returns to Guatemala's civil war 2011-11-23T22:26:08Z Many, perhaps the majority, of those half million civilian casualties were caused by the air and artillery bombardments of peasant hamlets authorized by the American military and civilian leaders in Saigon and Washington. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The modern dish is a culinary descendant of puchero, an Andalusian peasant soup Spain introduced across its many territories during the colonial era. Gangland eatery, El Comal seals the well-deserved reputation of Los Angeles as a diverse food city 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z This becomes clear when the family scion, Supratik, leaves the comforts of home to throw in his lot with landless peasants and displaced tribesfolk — the “Others” of the title. Book review: ‘The Lives of Others,’ by Neel Mukherjee At one juncture, a Swedish peasant is required to express the injustice of his lot via the line: "Though I sleep on dung, I must hold my tongue." Kristina 2010-04-15T21:00:00Z It is packed with so many heroic artisans and sentimental peasants that it feels like a dinner theater production of “Fiddler on the Roof” or a canvas by Thomas Kinkade, the “painter of light.” Books of The Times: ?Extra Virginity? by Tom Mueller; a Word on Olive Oil - Review 2011-12-07T21:50:14Z These days, their main function is to steer along the festivities, which consist of locals dressed as peasants, paupers and aristocrats – a nod to the village’s social history. 10 traditional winter festivals in Europe 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z There may be something a little uncomfortable about tourists thronging to eat and sleep in peasant dwellings. Matera: Italy's magical city of stone 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z They parodied religious themes, mocked piousness, presented death and destruction in surprisingly realistic detail and elevated peasants to central roles. Peeling Back the Paint to Discover Bruegel’s Secrets 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z The ballet shows its choreographer, Vakhtang Chabukiani, dancing in a ripped shirt, with a bare midriff and torn pants, surrounded by women in peasant skirts and blouses. Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Take On ‘Laurencia’ 2012-12-24T22:49:32Z Jaskier sits in a tavern, writing down an eyewitness account of what the peasant telling the tale believes to be Geralt’s horrible death. "The Witcher" and "The Mandalorian," heroes of the gig economy 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z It was the realism that offended Dickens and many others, with Mary shown as a simple peasant woman, "horrible", he thought, "in her ugliness". Saints and sinners 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z He was photographed in 1862 wearing sabots, the wooden clogs that were traditional peasant footwear. Review | It’s easy to see Millet’s influence on other painters. It’s harder to see his genius. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Directed by Yang Yuntao with an extensive creative team, the show is billed as “an inspiring retelling” of the ancient folktale about a humble and heroic peasant girl. Dance Listings for Feb. 27-March 5 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z When you asked what their parents did for a living, most said, ‘My mother is a peasant,’ or ‘My father is a farmer.’ Teaching the People’s Republic 2012-09-03T13:00:00Z A young peasant, Joan hears divine voices that tell her to lead a mission to liberate the city of Orléans, besieged by the English, and take the Dauphin to Reims for his coronation as king. Music Review: Braunfels’s ‘Jeanne d’Arc’ Plays at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-02T21:51:38Z On the other hand, peasant food, which inevitably sounds far more appetizing, was about making the most of what was available, without the least concern for presentation. Thanksgiving, medieval style: Give thanks that “Red Deer testicles” and “living eels in roasted pig” aren’t on the menu today 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z It sees the pariah status of these shunned peasants — some 200,000 are living in Slovakia — as a motivating factor in their embrace of petty crime. | 'Gypsy': ‘Gypsy,’ by Martin Sulik, Fictional Portrait of the Roma 2012-06-26T21:20:58Z The story concerns the gradual creation of the town of Kingsbridge and of the many people — priests, nobles, peasants, the enslaved — who played significant roles. Review | Ken Follett’s ‘Pillars of the Earth’ prequel is just as transporting — and lengthy — as his famous epic 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z “The knish is a classic example of peasant food evolving into comfort food and even sophisticated fare,” Mr. Marks’s history begins. Gil Marks, Historian of Jewish Food and Culture, Dies at 62 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z A small number of yeoman property owners vs a sea of peasants, with the nobility pulling the strings to keep things in check. How California Turned Into a ‘State of Resistance’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z I was so taken aback by this inversion of the norms that I ran away blushing, a peasant overcome by the kindness of a king. Self-flagellation and stuffed goodie bags: my night at the tacky, endearing Oscars 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z He is bored with what’s around him: the peasants, the same servant. Mariusz Kwiecien on the Mend for ?Don Giovanni? at the Met 2011-10-24T11:01:06Z Frank Harvey, in “Air War — Vietnam,” recounts with the power of anecdotal narrative the casual destruction of peasant hamlets in the Mekong Delta by the United States Air Force. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z This element, often distracting, is especially out of place in Act I of “Giselle,” where the male peasants greet one another with the refined manners of dandies at a salon. Dance Review: Paris Ballet Opera’s ‘Giselle’ at Lincoln Center 2012-07-15T21:45:22Z Many more were peasant farmers who had never left their villages, never mind India, before. Royal treatment 2010-04-18T19:00:00Z This time, it was Stalin’s campaign to bring Ukraine to heel and finance industrial development by expropriating grain from peasant farmers. Robert Conquest, Historian Who Documented Soviet Horrors, Dies at 98 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z So how does a performer distinguish himself from some other bloke who says things to himself like, "Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!" 'Hamlet' lovers can feast on live broadcast, plus Kenneth Branagh and Derek Jacobi on DVD 2011-01-06T00:08:04Z Giselle and her compatriots are now migrant factory workers rather than happy peasants; Albrecht is one of the wealthy “landlords” who own the now-closed factory, but pretends to be a migrant. Review: ‘Giselle,’ a Winning Gamble for English National Ballet 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Hoffman writes admiringly of "the logic, restraint, and complex placidity" of his creations, which showed "the outlines of a modest Palestinian peasant house fused with contours far grander and stranger." Three architects who built Jerusalem: How they shaped and fled (and were forgotten by) the conflicted city 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z In their clear enjoyment and simplicity, this crowd is reminiscent of the peasants and fishmongers immortalized in Picasso’s drawings on display at the nearby Musée Picasso. On the French Riviera, Fitzgerald Found His Place in the Sun 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Often signing their efforts simply Le Nain, they elevated genre painting with dignified depictions of peasants usually seated, motionless, in landscapes or plain interiors. Le Nain Brothers’ Prescient Work at Kimbell Art Museum 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z His booze- and pill-addled odyssey takes him to the hinterlands of Transylvania, where Bartok recorded the peasant works that furnished his modernist compositions with the rich idiom of folklore. Boundary-Pushing Books for Fans of Narrative Experiments 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z I have been around him and I watched his wife dismiss my wife like she was a peasant. "The Comey Rule" will likely trigger Trump, and series star Michael Kelly couldn't be happier 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z A drawing of Hercules and another of a peasant farmer are not so easy to distinguish. The Cézanne We’ve Forgotten How to See 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z And the people that he preached to, all the villages that he went to, the very point of his message was geared toward poor, marginal peasants like himself. “You want people like that to hate you”: Reza Aslan on Glenn Beck, that Fox News interview, and who gets to speak for Jesus 2014-04-20T10:59:00Z The paper became wildly popular in Egypt: peasants crowded into coffee shops to hear it read aloud, and sheikhs were rumored to hide it in their turbans. The Egyptian Satirist Who Inspired a Revolution 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z The underlying assumption here is clear – no Italian peasant could possibly outwit these eminent scholars, could they? How true to life are the psychics and psychologists in Red Lights? 2012-06-15T11:28:23Z And that only whets the appetite for the next installment, in which Stalin decides to starve Russia almost to death to bring peasants under state control. ‘Stalin: Paradoxes of Power’ by Stephen Kotkin 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z By and large, illiterate peasants working all day in the field don't have the luxury to despair at the ceaseless collapse of culturally generated meaning in a godless universe. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z Sorting through photographs and breaking down his “peasant,” Jewish and South American Indian heritage, Mr. Kubelka calls himself “a typical mixture of Hapsburg history.” Movie Review: ‘Fragments of Kubelka,’ Directed by Martina Kudlacek 2013-05-02T22:39:52Z When the video tape for Black Pond came on, we felt very proud, but also like we'd somehow snuck a wily, plucky peasant into a festival of lords and ladies. Baftas 2012: 'A business conference with great canapes' 2012-02-13T17:51:26Z That meaning carried over to 20th-century Mexico, where it was used as a pejorative to describe dark-skinned peasants. A comedian’s Cholofit videos spoof gentrification and our fitness-craze culture 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z During the course of its two acts, the heroine — a peasant girl with a weak heart — falls in love with Albrecht, a nobleman disguising his true identity. Skylar Brandt: A Ballerina Invests in Herself 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z His elegant lines, to-die-for feet and aristocratic ease were not exactly the equipment of a peasant. American Ballet Theater Performs ‘Giselle’ 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z In “Jardí Tancat,” done to Catalan folk songs, three men and three women play peasants being earnest, honest and suffering while experiencing a few of life’s fleeting joys. Dance Review: At Miami City Ballet, Edward Villella’s Tenets Live On 2014-01-13T22:49:55Z She was a guest at Butterfly’s wedding on Friday evening and a peasant in “Turandot” on Saturday afternoon. The Met’s Herculean Task: 4 Operas in 48 Hours 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z It is a fantastic scene, with flamboyant imaginary architecture, sensual statues and tiny people as earthen and vulnerable as Bruegel peasants. Tanks for everything, Tate Modern 2012-07-13T11:48:53Z Primitive art, peasant art, Indian art, Japanese and Chinese art, musical instruments, drums, jazz, the spectacle of sport, the colour of sport, magic realism, Borges, the metaphysical, dawn, sunsets, fish eyes, trees, flowers, seas, atolls. John Hoyland obituary 2011-08-01T19:14:31Z In my first book, there's a scene of a ceasarean birth – a completely unqualified peasant helping a farmer's wife to give birth, and realising she needs to have a cesarean. Tim Pears's 'small acts of resistance' 2010-03-18T14:00:00Z Napoleon underestimated the Russian winter and the hardiness of the Russian peasant even before he met defeat at Waterloo. ‘On Grand Strategy’ Review: The War Against Decline and Fall 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Winter was the season of long, dark evenings, when most peasant families had to huddle together indoors with no light but what came from the fire. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z It’s heartening therefore to report on the exceptional luster shown by the young Skylar Brandt in the peasant pas de deux on Saturday and Wednesday afternoons. Review: Paloma Herrera and Xiomara Reyes Give Farewell Performances of ‘Giselle’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z We whizzed by snow-haired women who looked as if they had walked out of a painting of 1600s-era peasants, selling chrysanthemums and moonshine roadside. Cobblestones? Check. Castles? Check. Budget? Check. Why Romania Is Worth the Trip. 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z There, I was confronted by fantastical 17th-to-19th-century religious sculptures, which are apparently quite famous within Russia, carved in complex detail by local peasants. A Bilbao on Siberia?s Edge? 2011-07-22T18:59:16Z She can do anything you ask her, or whatever comes to her mind: a Russian peasant, a Chinese person, or she will invent languages on the spot. The Dutch Composer Louis Andriessen at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-01T20:43:00Z In the sequence called “Transmigration,” peasant figures move through a forest of raised forearms; in “Dictator,” animals are strangled and trees bulldozed. Art in Review: CAO FEI: ?Play Time? 2011-05-26T21:50:35Z He’s accompanied by his wife, Monique Ortiz-Arndt, in a peasant dress operatically singing the part of Humpty Dumpty atop a ladder. How to Decolonize a Museum? Try an Ax. 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z If Nina gets a peasant loaf with a hacksaw in it, what will she owe her benefactor? 'The Americans' Recap: Prepared to Carry On 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Men sport lederhosen — leather shorts with suspenders once worn by peasants working the fields — accessorized with long stockings and a hat with a feather in it. Rick Steves: How to become a Bavarian at Oktoberfest 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z As early as 1524 the peasants of southern Germany rose in revolt against their princes, demanding greater freedoms and a greater say in the rule of the land. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z One is Mr Zhou, whose rise from peasant to professional golfer is, as Mr Washburn puts it, “the stuff of movies”. Birdies, bribes and bulldozers 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Situated just a one-hour bullet train ride north of Hong Kong, the thriving city exemplifies China’s breakneck transformation from peasant economy to capitalist giant. 2010-01-09T01:05:00Z The editors are like detectives, following phrases back to times when Anglo-Saxons were jabbering about peasants and overlords. Oxford Dictionary Adds 'Fo' Shizzle,' 'Masshole' and 'Hot Mess' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z History is a catalog of faces: city-dwellers and peasants; victims, perpetrators and bystanders; Germans, Jews, Russians and Ukrainians. ‘Babi Yar: Context’ Review: Unearthing Footage of a Nazi Massacre 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z The buildings around the convent were a pastiche of gray, cream, and flesh-colored bricks and plaster; the streets were irregular and winding and smelled of thick peasant soups. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z Outside, a broad balcony overlooked two facing hills, with the ocher rooftops of the town’s much smaller peasant houses and a few church spires filling the space between them. In the Czech Republic, Moravia and Its Castles 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z It portrays a skeleton skipping through the population, from the pope and an emperor, down to a handworker, a peasant and, most horribly, a baby. Review: Thomas Adès Leads the Philharmonic, and Björk Listens 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z This is a barretina, the Spanish peasant headdress… And the man's heart, entrails and sexual organs. A life in paintings 2011-03-20T00:08:06Z Billington’s book, named for two items typically displayed in a place of honor in the peasant home, reminds us that Russia’s vast geography helped shape its identity. Condoleezza Rice on the 10 Days Still Shaking the World 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z In this picture, he is wearing a dark, belted peasant blouse of a thick, canvas-like cotton; dark trousers and boots; a Cossack hat. Why Tolstoy Took Up Tennis 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z “This was no ordinary fan used to create cooling breezes in summer. It was a weapon of the kind used for self-defense, often by merchants, peasants, or women.” Book review: ‘The Iris Fan,’ a thriller by Laura Joh Rowland 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z When the peasants cannot pay, these thugs confiscate their pigs and chickens, rice and seeds, the very possessions needed to sustain their lives, then bulldoze their houses into piles of bricks and dust. Books of The Times: ‘The Dark Road,’ a Novel by Ma Jian 2013-06-11T19:33:26Z The mural features a resplendent temple scene that at its heart, contains the image of a dead indigenous peasant tied to a cross. Olvera Street's once-whitewashed mural by Mexican master David Alfaro Siqueiros gets a needed cleaning 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z You were one of the millions of educated urban youth who Mao Zedong “sent down to the countryside” to learn from the peasants. Carpetbagger Blog: Zhang Yimou and the Challenges of Filming in China 2011-12-21T16:44:15Z She describes her family's journey as one of "our reincarnation from city people to peasants". In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner – review 2012-09-29T21:55:01Z From filet mignon to Space Invaders crisps – the thought of missing a single molecule of tang fills me with a greedy peasant paranoia. Russell Kane's ordered life 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z The elegant dress and demeanor of the Germans contrast with the simple clothes of the peasant hunters. ‘Russen & Deutsche,’ at Neues Museum in Berlin 2013-01-05T00:57:53Z And then he lingers in the countryside, struck by the rumbling unrest between displaced peasants and greedy landowners grabbing tracts of common land. Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column Exhumes the Murderous Past 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Neither peasant nor aristocrat, he sprang from lower social orders but had a gift of moving up and down the social ladder astutely. The landscape architect who bottled nature 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z If peasants starved and then abandoned the country for the cities, the aristocrats, who lived off peasant production for both food and wealth, went down with them. Climate Change and Human History 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z The protesters, from a relatively privileged group of land-owning peasants called Jats, were agitating to be included in India’s list of “other backward classes”, which guarantees university places and government jobs. We’re not gonna take it 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z “Swanson, a prodigious researcher, recounts how in their nearly 200-year ‘attention-grubbing’ history Rangers burned peasant villages, slaughtered innocents, busted unions and committed war crimes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z In 1524, Müntzer joined the peasants’ uprising, preaching to his followers that the end of days was at hand and calling for the blood of princes. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z The two boarded a plane to Cologne and made their way to the Dutch border, where, on a moonless night, a peasant guided them across a brook, under barbed wire and into Holland. Maria V. Altmann, Pursuer of Family Klimts, Dies at 94 2011-02-09T05:24:09Z In the original, Central American peasant Spanish collided with Mexican narco-gangster argot, underlining the difference between the migrants and those who exploit them. Books of The Times: ‘The Beast’ by Óscar Martínez Details Immigrant Trek 2013-12-17T21:43:42Z As for the figures, whether peasants in a landscape or pleasure-seekers in a boat, they are uniformly faceless, and sometimes depicted as just a few patches of flesh tones in acres of blue and green. Alfred Sisley: The Unheralded Impressionist 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z An Ottoman noble is taken prisoner and compelled to work the farm belonging to a Montenegrin peasant. Bow and Cooper in ‘Children of Divorce’: Poor Little Silent Rich Kids 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “Poland 1939” is weakest in its discussions of Polish society, which was mostly peasant and about a third national minorities. Remembering Poland’s Doomed Fight Against the Nazis 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z “SVU” is the yeoman’s work of episodic television, and shortly after, a crew member yelled, “Back to work, peasants!” Television: ‘Chicago Fire’ and the Changing Dick Wolf 2012-10-07T04:49:02Z Ackroyd has always been fascinated by the telling detail, the tiny sliver of an undocumented peasant's life that brings a whole period into focus. Peter Ackroyd: 'I just want to tell a story' 2011-08-25T13:51:05Z The novel, depicting a peasant uprising and corruption, was banned in China. Chinese Nobel winner: Politics a great challenge 2012-12-07T18:30:17Z Mr. Gerima first drew attention in the mid-1970s with “Harvest: 3000 Years,” about an Ethiopian peasant family struggling to survive under feudalism; it was filmed as Haile Selassie’s imperial rule was collapsing. Haile Gerima?s Films Mirror Ethiopia?s Struggle 2010-03-29T22:08:00Z The peasants' revolt in 1381 stormed into the capital and overran the Tower of London, whose defenders were massacred. I depict a riot 2011-08-09T13:28:10Z Instead, it rests with a simple, loving peasant named Platon Karataev who is sent to fight the French against his will. Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” can inspire those who fear Trump’s America 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Behind the vase, a rosy-cheeked woman in peasant dress looks down in concentration as she strums. German Artists Who Blazed a Path Cut Short by War 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z In the opening scene, when the choristers, playing peasants, take a break from work and find shady spots to rest, you can practically feel the hazy Italian sun. Review of Metropolitan Opera’s ‘L’Elisir d’Amore’ 2012-09-25T12:41:03Z He wears an embroidered linen peasant’s shirt, rather than a Western dress shirt, and a stablehand’s lace-up boots, rather than a more upscale slipper. For Josh Groban, a Boot Camp for Broadway 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Heroes die, villains triumph, peasants and slaves suffer horribly and knights are as likely to be plate-metal-encased thugs and hoodlums as they are noble icons of chivalry. The essential guide to "Game of Thrones" 2011-04-09T21:01:00Z She's definitely not a supermodel but never stoops as low as a peasant. Falling Fast by Sophie McKenzie - review 2012-10-06T14:00:00Z He attributes his sympathy for the underdog -- his characters include chambermaids, peasants and victims of persecution -- to his humble roots. Nobel-winning Portuguese author Saramago dies at 87 2010-06-19T02:24:00Z The movie scores its satirical point about the irresistibility — at least for these naïve peasants — of the silliest aspects of capitalist development. Movie Review: ‘UFO in Her Eyes,’ a Chinese Satire, at MoMA 2012-06-12T23:02:22Z For autumn she looked to Russia, serving up flowing peasant dresses, nubby knitwear and oversized sweatercoats in neutral, unbleached tones. YSL does fall-winter 2011-12 in a nutshell 2011-03-07T23:05:18Z The great Catalan painter and sculptor began by painting scenes of rural peasant life, and went on to become a wayward surrealist, abstractionist and creator of a freeform symbolic world. The best visual arts for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:01Z Where the peasants of northern Romania ate badly, the Gypsies of Colonia were going hungry; while the peasants lived short lives, the Gypsies showed obvious signs of illness. Gay, Jewish, Mentally Ill, and a Sponsor of Gypsies in Romania 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Pelle – actually a sombre 19th-century period drama – was sold with a touch of sexploitation, a topless peasant girl on the poster. Populaire success: the Weinsteins' ambiguous magic 2013-05-29T17:03:59Z Mr. Slimane’s look echoed the sort of bohemian chic of long caftans, peasant blouses, frilly bows, tiered skirts and fringed jackets that Mr. Saint Laurent designed in the 1970s. In Paris, Dior, San Laurent and Their New Designers 2012-10-03T22:25:55Z Consider the story of Baucis and Philemon, elderly peasants who unknowingly welcomed two gods into their humble home. After tragedy in France, rethinking the dynamic of guest and host 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z "The peasants must get rich," the leader of the party announced, "and some will get richer than others." Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z In Ms. Guy’s retelling, a Creole peasant woman falls in love with a wealthy man but finds she cannot transcend his family’s class prejudice. Rosa Guy, 89, Author of Forthright Novels for Young People 2012-06-07T04:23:10Z The sprites behind the schemes could come across as craven; an online crew of viral marketers referred to non-entrepreneurial peers as “peasants.” Our Never-Ending ‘Scam Season’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z One peasant family sold their daughters to a travelling dwarf impresario at a hundred and fifty dollars a head. “The Wizard of Oz,” the Last Munchkin, and the Little People Left Behind 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z His stubby, sun-coarsened features and hands make him a sensitive forerunner to a Bruegel peasant. Art Review: Rediscovering an Earthy Master 2010-10-07T21:50:00Z Chris’s other home, out west, a commune and stash house run by a pair of kind criminals, likewise produces its archetypal hallmarks: peasant dresses “from which milk-laden breasts kept flopping out. Babies in all directions.” On Being Young, Gay and Addicted in the 1970s 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Browse one-of-a-kind clay objects from the Amazon and the southern highlands, and colorful handmade retablos, portable boxed altars depicting religious ceremonies or scenes from peasant life. 36 Hours in Lima, Peru 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Swanson, a prodigious researcher, recounts how in their nearly 200-year “attention-grubbing” history Rangers burned peasant villages, slaughtered innocents, busted unions and committed war crimes. The True Story of the Texas Rangers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Saturday, moreover, was just as tony an occasion as any opera night at the Salzburg Festival, for which black tie or formal versions of traditional Austrian peasant dress are common. Gustavo Dudamel, Cecilia Bartoli and a grim, bizarre 'West Side Story' in Salzburg 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z In one horror-filled episode, starved peasants turn with murderous rage on their sleek, well-fed oppressors. Review | Arthur Conan Doyle wrote more than detective novels. Let’s not forget his more swashbuckling stories. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Still, she brought a winning combination of elegance and spunk to the part of the farm owner Adina in her amorous jousting with the ardent peasant Nemorino and the bullying sergeant Belcore. Review: A Donizetti Revival at the Met Hints at More to Come 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z As the daughter of a Russian peasant and an itinerant, erratically educated dancer she had little contact with Keynes's own world, whose fixed points were Eton, Cambridge and Bloomsbury. Niall Ferguson should know that JM Keynes's marriage was happy – with plenty of sex 2013-05-06T12:13:56Z It’s easy enough to spot the fab pieces — a taupe astrakhan blouson, printed tribal trousers and leggings, a sweet peasant blouse — but the ground is pretty familiar. Fashion Review: Minimalism, and Plenty of It 2010-03-09T00:26:00Z Despite occasionally acknowledging the chaos El Chapo’s drug syndicate and others have sown in Mexico and in the United States, Penn portrays Guzmán as a poor peasant driven by economic desperation into the drug trade. Guzmán interview draws fire for journalistic compromises 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z “It should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity.” Review | The messy, brilliant life of Pablo Neruda 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z These peasant hamlets, one must bear in mind, were not being plowed under because American or South Vietnamese ground troops were attempting to seize them from the enemy in pitched battles. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z "The stock market plummeted by 20%, and foreign trading ceased. The value of wheat and corn harvests dropped by half for peasants." Black Friday: A brief history and little known facts 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z A group of peasant girls arrives offering flowers to the Countess; among them she recognises Cherubino; unfortunately, so does the Count. Glyndebourne 2012 - Marriage of Figaro synopsis, cast and creatives 2012-08-14T11:26:10Z He contributed images for propaganda posters, the raised fist of the Catalan peasant, for the republican cause. A life in paintings 2011-03-20T00:08:06Z Early photographers in Asia posed their subjects and edited their negatives in ways that conformed to their preconceptions of what peasants, priests, noblemen, villages and ruins should look like. ‘Rinehart’s Studio’ Puts a 19th-Century Sculptor’s Career in Perspective 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z But his novels, which are peopled with both emperors and peasants, encompass an explosive range of sensation and emotion. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z A peasant couple, she with a basket balanced on her head and he holding a bowl filled with bread, dominate the foreground. Thrilling new exhibition shows modern Mexican art is bigger than murals 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The Prince is a naïve but well-meaning monarch who is being shielded from the oppression in his kingdom — until a local firebrand leads the peasants to revolt. Cinderella Then and Now: Revisiting Rodgers and Hammerstein 2013-03-13T11:00:32Z They inlaid Rococo desks and tables with scenes of colonnades, battlefields and frolicking peasants. Holiday Gift Guide: Antique Collections, From Royal Goblets to Buddhist Robes 2012-11-22T20:51:14Z He was an unabashed snob and social climber who also relished the company of peasants and shepherds. A Renowned Travel Writer’s Letters From the Road 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z In a scene filmed in northern China, where pesticides are heavily used, bees have all but vanished, and peasants are reduced to laboriously importing pollen from the south and daubing it by hand on blossoms. Movie Review: ‘More Than Honey,’ a Documentary by Markus Imhoof 2013-06-11T22:11:19Z A not atypical 'peasant' girl friend of an army colonel, upon checking, had an M.D. as a psychiatrist and a PhD from the Sorbonne. In Haiti, Tracing a Paradise Lost 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Taking an example from my adopted culture, pot-au-feu is a well-known classic of the French table, but at its core it is just another rustic peasant dish of boiled beef and winter vegetables. Perspective | What raising multicultural sons has taught me about food and appropriation 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z But the delightfully offbeat Museum of Naive Art, in Croatia’s capital of Zagreb, showcases a uniquely Croatian art form: paintings by untrained peasant artists. Quirky European sights, from Lennon ‘love wall’ to salt mines 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Pages are distributed clandestinely, and committed to memory by workers and peasants. Review: ‘Neruda’ Pursues the Poet as Fugitive 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The role of Giselle, a peasant girl who dies of heartbreak and, resurrected, saves her lover from a tribe of ghost women, should lend itself to dramatic and bittersweet goodbyes. Dance Listings for May 22-28 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The roughly 250 objects here skim across the collection but indicate its scope and aims, one of which was to show American folk art’s roots in European peasant art. A Rich Feast of Folk Art at the New-York Historical Society 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z First, she made new versions of earlier work; then, in 2009, she turned to joyful paintings that connect to peasant and folk art. Into the Land of Polka Dots and Mirrors, With Yayoi Kusama 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The dramatis personae include landed aristocrats, their bourgeois neighbors, peasants and servants. | 'The Forest': Dianne Wiest Tries ?The Forest? at Classic Stage 2010-05-07T03:50:00Z Showing off his knowledge of local history, Depardieu likened himself to Yemelyan Pugachev, the chief of a peasant rebellion in the 18th century. French actor Depardieu gets Russian home address 2013-02-23T17:16:19Z She sees the abject poverty of peasants forced to work themselves into early graves and observes the operation of a death squad on the streets of the capital. Review | Carolyn Forché’s most famous poem is a grisly look at a war-torn nation. Her memoir goes deeper. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z A later political work about the Vietnam War superimposed bombsights on terror-stricken peasants. Antonio Frasconi, Woodcut Master, Dies at 93 2013-01-21T16:04:35Z The one in the square was huge — a diorama, really — with bucolic scenes of peasants leading donkeys and hauling hay. A Catalan Christmas 2011-12-16T18:49:33Z “I was wearing this crazy hippie peasant dress with holes in it,” she said. A Life Frequently Apart, but an Enterprise They’ll Boldly Take On 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The outerwear was Indian safari meets colonial capes and jackets; underneath were peasant tops and dresses in linen or bright ikat cotton. | Joseph Altuzarra 2012-06-13T19:38:25Z European peasant art, African art and children’s art are just some of the precedents their packed surfaces evoke. Art in Review: Yayoi Kusama: ‘I Who Have Arrived in Heaven’ 2013-12-05T21:41:18Z Li, the son of a party official and a peasant woman from the hills, grows up in an age of reform. A Chinese Life by Li Kunwu and P Ôtié – review 2012-10-12T07:00:01Z And in a mesmerizing performance Mr. Beale emphasizes the peasant within the tyrant. Arts & Leisure: ?Richard II,? ?Madness of King George? and ?Collaborators? in London 2012-02-12T06:00:50Z Gadarine, upon returning to her peasant family, is treated as a prodigal daughter who is wasting her life by not settling down and doing “real” work. Movie Review: Braden King?s ?Here? Raises Questions of Philosophy 2012-04-12T21:55:25Z He is interrupted by the arrival of Figaro and a group of peasants praising him for abolishing the droit de seigneur. Glyndebourne 2012 - Marriage of Figaro synopsis, cast and creatives 2012-08-14T11:26:10Z Local bodies such as peasant communes could make decisions about their land while obeying an imperial prince, who in turn obeyed imperial institutions that acted as a check. Neither holy nor a failure 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z “I began to think that if revolution doesn’t work for peasants, maybe there’s not that much to say for it,” he said. James C. Scott, Farmer and Scholar of Anarchism 2012-12-05T04:50:08Z In pictures such as the Museo Civico’s “Rachel at the Well” the mass of livestock and attendant peasants so dominate the composition that the biblical incident, relegated to the background, becomes almost incidental. Review: Bassano's Pastoral Idyll 2010-04-23T13:25:00Z The Tavianis' finest film perhaps is Padre Padrone, the true story of a boy escaping from hard-scrabble peasant life in present-day Sardinia to be educated during his military service on the mainland. Caesar Must Die – review 2013-03-03T00:07:05Z Their star model, “the peasant,” is a fixture at Spain’s outdoor cafes. All Hail the Humble Espadrille! 2010-08-16T13:10:00Z In the early days of the French Revolution, aka the most iconic and violent class war in history, Brooks is King Louis, shocked upon being informed that the peasants don't exactly like him. At last! "History of the World Part II" is finally being made – prepare for “phoney baloney stories" 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Then he reread his first chapter, which includes the story of the div and the peasant father. Khaled Hosseini: 'If I could go back now, I'd take The Kite Runner apart' 2013-06-01T08:29:01Z To prep meals for my plane ride tomorrow I wore a turquoise Cupio peasant top and black leggings. | Carnie Wilson : How Carnie Wilson of Wilson Phillips Dressed for the Interview Circuit 2012-04-09T06:48:01Z Set in a small village, like much of his fiction, `Red Sorghum' is an earthy tale of love and peasant struggles set against the backdrop of the anti-Japanese war. Chinese writer Mo Yan wins Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T12:40:17Z For example, Forest Law was the central conflict in “Robin Hood,” as the merry men, starving peasants all, were forbidden to hunt the King’s forest, and so they resorted to poaching. Scalia’s elite hunting pals: Meet St. Hubertus, patron saint of rich guys with guns 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Children dance in a ring by a replica coachman's hut, led by women in peasant costumes. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z The critic Adam Kirsch, writing in The Times Book Review in 1999, noted, accurately enough, that “in his autobiographical essays he goes out of his way to tell us that he is essentially a peasant.” Critic?s Notebook: Making Rare Appearance: People and Their Appetites 2011-08-10T04:28:58Z After all, unlike feuds or plain murder for revenge, a traditional affair of honor always involves social equals — there is no glory in killing a peasant and considerable shame in being killed by one. The literary history of duels, those absurdly formal fights to the death 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z It was a really profound experience to play a peasant child in this very Russian piece in the middle of Louisville with all these Russian influences around. Wendy Whelan Is Inspired By Stravinsky and Chanel No. 19 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z When seething peasant Murrieta takes up the man-in-black’s twin role — with an aristocratic nom de guerre and mask, sword and whip — hilarity ensues. Zorro at 100: Why the original swashbuckler is still the quintessential American action hero 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z The entrenched elites brazenly used the law and military force to retain their power and extend their privileges, while the mass of exploited workers, servants and peasants led brutish lives of endless, relentless toil. Review | The volatile era that gave rise to Jane Austen and Lord Byron 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The cheapest and most accessible foods are peasant foods, which are inexpensive, or in their garden. Secrets of longevity can be taught, and "conservative cities have been better" at adopting them 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z Other numbers ranged from songs about peasant life to what Wu Man described as a “blues-type” song that was billed as an ode to battle sung by a Tang general, Qin Qiong. Review | Three centuries old, a band finally plays D.C. 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z All the peasants and royalty who listened to their music are dead, too. 'Game Of Thrones' Author George R.R. Martin Gives Upset Fans The Bird 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Here our heroine shows her true feminine soul, in a bejeweled chiffon evening dress with spaghetti strapped V-neckline and ballerina skirt, or a transparent embroidered peasant blouse with matching shimmery silver silk skirt. Summertime looks spill onto winter runway 2012-02-26T21:54:14Z That their costumes seemed more reminiscent of Grant Wood than Thuringian peasants only added to the sense of fun. Review | Washington Bach Consort gives a cheerful performance fit for spring 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z That said, Chinese peasants are hardly passive in the face of injustice. Birdies, bribes and bulldozers 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z On the day of the execution, a large group of townspeople and local peasants gathered to witness the poor creature's demise, no doubt relieved at having avoided disaster. 25 animals that have been imprisoned or arrested 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z And, in due course, his naturalistic, down-to-earth depictions of shepherds, cowherds and peasants were being sought after by collectors and the landed classes of countries as religiously and socially diverse as France, Spain and England. Review: Bassano's Pastoral Idyll 2010-04-23T13:25:00Z Bartok would spend weeks at a time travelling the world, dropping in on peasants and asking them to sing for him, at the time a European craze. A sonata in two movements 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Jesus was an extremely poor Galilean peasant from the countryside, from the backwoods, what we would nowadays refer to as a “country bumpkin.” “You want people like that to hate you”: Reza Aslan on Glenn Beck, that Fox News interview, and who gets to speak for Jesus 2014-04-20T10:59:00Z "Toguna Industries" rings with gymnastic kora runs to open before settling into a hypnotic, shimmering melody, and celebrates an agriculture company that helped peasant farmers recover from the crisis. Sharon Van Etten sings of a toxic relationship on 'Are We There' 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z The family was from "many generations of peasant stock" and were tenants of a smallholding on the Duchy of Lancaster estate. Cornelia Parker: 'I've always been happy to sleep with the enemy' 2013-05-18T09:00:02Z “The Siesta” captures the sweet repose of two peasants napping in the sunshine beneath a hay bale. Where Van Gogh the pastor became Van Gogh the painter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z In five months, filming in Budapest, she had to see Aliena through 20 years from "princess to peasant to wool merchant to love interest to wife and mother". Hayley Atwell 2010-10-09T23:05:00Z Around the corner, I couldn’t resist the chocolate-covered potato chips sold by women in 19th-century peasant garb and mop caps at Anne of Green Gables Chocolates. T Magazine: A Fish Tale 2011-08-26T18:05:57Z It’s hard to keep all the corpses from reawakening, for example, when the rules allow you to burn peasants but not the nobility. 5 New International Series Visit 5 Far-Flung Crime Scenes 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The priest — we never learn his name — is plagued by a debilitating stomach ailment and endures ridicule and alienation when he tries to minister to the peasants of his parish. Claude Laydu, French Actor Known for Bresson Role, Dies at 84 2011-08-10T14:59:14Z Inspired by European Dada and Futurism, it rejected a nationalist art based on images of peasants and factory workers in favor of one fueled by urban noise and speed. ‘Paint the Revolution’ Offers Mexican Muralist Muscle and Delicate Beauty 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The Mint Theater continues its relationship with the English playwright Miles Malleson, staging two of his adaptations: Chekhov’s story of an artist and Tolstoy’s tale of a peasant couple. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z It is a clever interjection; she gets the job and begins her near-meteoric rise from peasant girl with no diploma to intrepid journalist with guts of steel. The Woman Whose Hair Frightens Iran 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z What is forgotten, Gilbert suggests, is the uncomfortable fact that many peasant great-grandmothers ate “a monotonous and often dangerous diet.” The Allure of Imagined Meals 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z There were studded leather chain-mail vests and hot pants with peasant tops. Emilio Pucci: The Rainbow Alternative for Milan Fashion Week 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z But also, as I said before, in so many ways, my mother was a peasant at heart. Luca Dotti: “Food comes in seasons, not cans and boxes” 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z A world of landlords and peasants, of masters and servant, of patrons and workers is one in which art and life harmonize. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z It had to tell stories that illiterate peasants could understand. The middle ages invented fine art ... and Britain itself 2012-08-08T15:40:27Z Its pouchlike body is pushed in on three sides, one of which bears the enigmatic image of a peasant woman and a goat delicately rendered in low relief. Art Review: In ‘Making Pottery Art’ at the Met, Beauty Is Political 2014-02-13T21:07:22Z It’s performed by Nova in a peasant costume that Bocanegra designed—a bundle of sticks and roses attached precariously to her braided red hair, all of it glorifying the beauty of vulnerability. Suzanne Bocanegra’s Haunting, Beautiful Clutter 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z As Opera News reported in its obituary this week, the soprano Eileen Farrell once recounted what happened when she sang the part of the beleaguered peasant girl Santuzza opposite Ms. Chookasian in the 1960s. Lili Chookasian, Opera Singer, Dies at 90 2012-04-12T17:31:06Z In 1945 her peasant girl was “gay and robust” in the first act of a performance, Mr. Martin wrote. Alicia Alonso, Star of Cuba’s National Ballet, Dies at 98 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z On one wall, a flat screen played a slide show set to triumphant instrumentals: a yellow sun against a flame red sky, soldiers with rifles and peasants smiling around a campfire. Bites: Restaurant Report: Pyongyang in Amsterdam 2012-08-22T19:00:20Z The first took place early, and was almost undone later: Operation Barga, by which land was "redistributed" from landlords to sharecroppers and peasants in rural Bengal. Amit Chaudhuri: my new perspective on Calcutta 2013-02-02T07:01:14Z Because I am that French peasant and he was that reserved English person. Alison Moyet: 'I smashed all my gold discs. There were hundreds' 2013-04-18T19:00:00Z An equal vote in choosing how to govern our society Was granted to the peasant and the wealthy high-and-mighety. Style Invitational Week 1297: A different type o’ headline contest 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Set in a small village, like much of his fiction, `Red Sorghum’ is an earthy tale of love and peasant struggles set against the backdrop of the anti-Japanese war. Chinese Writer Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2012-10-11T11:10:26Z The designer quoted Brigitte Bardot as his muse, but there was something of “Carmen” in the bravura of big skirts, peasant tops, loose hair, smoky eyes and ebony crosses at the throat. Special Report: Fashion: At Jil Sander, Raf Simons Plays With Modernism 2011-09-25T16:45:15Z In his Pastoral Symphony he goes for a walk in the country; he sees peasants merry-making, there's a thunderstorm … but that piece is all about the composer, his feelings and his responses. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z Beech and chestnut thrive on certain slopes, the latter providing an important income and a source of vital nourishment to the peasant Cévenol over the centuries. The sweet air of the Cévennes: a British writer on life in the rural heart of France 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Freymann said she was fired after jetting off without permission in search of embroidered peasant blouses in Mexico. Roberta Freymann Is All Over the Map by Design 2010-10-13T23:49:00Z As passion sours into betrayal, a personal affront quickly feeds a political outrage that, in turn, ignites a violent peasant uprising. Lois Weber, Eloquent Filmmaker of the Silent Screen 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The 57-year-old retired from directing after the release in 2011 of "The Turin Horse", a bleak, black-and-white portrayal of a peasant and his daughter abandoned by man and God in their remote, windswept cottage. Bela Tarr swaps film making for running unique school 2013-02-25T13:02:17Z Indeed, in just over three decades, what a phenomenal life the self-proclaimed peasant boy has lived. The Odyssey of a Gay Black Football-Star Banker, From ‘Peasant Boy’ to the Mountaintop 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z These peasant executioners were often given wine to loosen their inhibitions. | 'Enemies of the People': Cambodian Journalist Revisits Khmer Rouge 2010-07-29T22:13:00Z Alison Ladman writes in Our Coast Magazine that knishes "started as peasant food, later became a 19th century street cart convenience food and now are a staple of Jewish delis." Happy Hanukkah! This year, celebrate the knish 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Traditionally, the matryoshka dolls are painted as peasant girls in Russian national costumes. Trump dolls on sale in Moscow ahead of U.S. election 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Blechman’s visual references stretch from peasant Russia to the space age, from Kandinsky to LPs — in other words, over the many decades of Stravinsky’s eventful life. Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Celebrates ‘Stravinsky and His World’ 2013-08-12T21:49:21Z The following year, her portrayal of a Chinese peasant in The Good Earth won her a second statuette, at a time when Oscar winners were disclosed some time before the ceremony. Actress Luise Rainer dies aged 104 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z She was like a medieval peasant confounded by books and easily impressed by stained glass.” Book Review: ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ May Be the Novel of the Summer 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Photograph: Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London The story is told of a Chinese peasant invited to the emperor's palace to be rewarded for his loyal service. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z She alternates compare-and-contrast images of czarist life and peasant labor, and lingers, as if in appalled fascination, over extended shots of court processions, with male and female nobles dressed in Tenniel-worthy attire. The Art of Politics, in ‘Agitprop!’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Directed by Yang Yuntao with an extensive creative team, the show is billed as “an inspiring retelling” of the ancient folk tale about a humble and heroic peasant girl. Dance Listings for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z A stickler, he had Oxford Collections, a partner for production and sourcing, rework the elastic of his peasant blouse to ensure that the neckline would always be evenly gathered. Target’s Newest Dance Partner? Joseph Altuzarra. 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Among the legumes were Umbrian green lentil and baby chickpea, and more unusual varieties like a wild pea named roveja and a squared peasant bean that looks like a small pebble called cicerchia. In Umbria, an Italian Olive Oil Worth the Accolades 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z “Mine, then, is the story of a peasant boy...and, with luck, God and His miracles or lack thereof,” he writes. The Odyssey of a Gay Black Football-Star Banker, From ‘Peasant Boy’ to the Mountaintop 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Seeing the emperor at his chessboard, the peasant chooses rice, requesting one grain for the first square, two for the second, four for the third, and so on. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z “I play human beings in peasant dresses and tutus. You know?” Megan Fairchild, the Swan With the Screwball Spark 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z At the railroad stop, the lover of the downtrodden buys fourth-class tickets so he can be with the peasants, but hours in the drafty, unheated railcar give Tolstoy chills and fever. The Literati: Tolstoy’s Last Chapter 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z One is the eventual heir to the land, the other a peasant of uncertain paternity. A Five-Hour Crash Course in Italian History That’s Also Great Filmmaking 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Pavarotti was a simple man, a family man, a cheerful “peasant” who brought peasant authenticity to high art. Perspective | Even opera lovers should grit their teeth and watch this mediocre Pavarotti film 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z The peasants, seated on opposite sides of a table, mirror each other’s gestures; a wine bottle divides the scene neatly in half. Art Review: Workers at Rest: Smoking and Playing Cards 2011-02-10T21:40:34Z Visual examples include mice chasing cats; servants riding on horseback while noblemen have to go behind on foot; and peasants serving communion in the cathedral while priests sweep the adjacent streets. There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z After the Martinique sojourn he took to calling himself a savage and declared his interest in primitive subjects: Breton peasants, Caribbean blacks. Art Review: The Self-Invented Artist 2011-02-24T22:33:10Z Semi-sheer chiffon peasant tops, fluid caftans, the cheetah spots gilded with gold, and handkerchief bell-bottom pants showed just the right hint of skin. Special Report: Transparent Choices 2010-09-26T16:42:00Z It's about principles and values and ethics and morals and being peasants in this society. In the thrilling "Workforce," an exploited construction worker takes the ultimate revenge 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z It features a Mao-like dictator who crushes the hands that applaud him, after which the countryside is obliterated by backhoes and derricks, leaving peasants and animals wandering among skyscrapers to the sound of upbeat music. Chinese Life as Child?s Play 2011-06-04T23:45:24Z To understand the full cruelty of Hogarth's jibe, you have to realise that food crises were a reality when this painting was done in 1748 and some French peasants really did starve. Hogarth and Scarfe offend humanity … and that is why they are great 2013-01-30T14:19:02Z With its title role pivoted between peasant girl and moonlit ghost, this 1841 work also offers ballerinas one of the most testing challenges of the repertory. The Mikhailovsky Ballet and a tale of two Giselles 2013-03-25T15:15:16Z A century later, Neapolitan peasants revolted against their Spanish overlords, furious that they were being impoverished through taxes to pay for Spain’s foreign wars. Favorite Place: Seduced by Naples 2013-12-13T16:02:13Z Here the old woman called Miss Ulyana cohabits with a prosperous old peasant in exile. Chekhov’s Beautiful Nonfiction 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Gentile characters are usually flat and stock — the cruel landlord, the boorish peasant — and the defining characteristic of the gentile female is a straightforward binary: either she is a temptress or she is not. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z Even worse than this, the peasants and working people, brainwashed into docility, dumbly accept whatever their overlords do to them. Review | Your perfect July 4 read: A book packed with politics, preaching and fireworks 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z She smiled nervously and took her seat, adjusting her floral peasant shirt, rattling her bangles. Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie 2013-01-13T17:37:08Z Based on a Cinderella-like classic folk tale, “The Snow Maiden” tells the story of a peasant girl transformed into the titular character by Grandfather Frost, Santa’s Russian cousin. Dance Listings for Dec. 19-25 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Kwok Yun is given an award for being “a model peasant” and is relieved of working in the mine where she has been toiling. Movie Review: ‘UFO in Her Eyes,’ a Chinese Satire, at MoMA 2012-06-12T23:02:22Z At first glance, it seems like an ordinary, innocent photograph: a group of Polish peasants holding shovels in a field on a sunny day. 'Golden Harvest': Did Poles Profit Off Jews During WWII? 2011-04-13T20:30:00Z But some peasants were less impressed, and déclassé words such as "ludicrous" and "awful" were soon whizzing about. Kelly Osbourne: in defence of that £160,000 Emmys manicure 2012-10-04T14:02:33Z In politics, he defended the interests of the Anglo-Irish Protestants but not the Catholic peasants. The man behind 'Gullivers Travels,' Johnathan Swift, is celebrated in a new biography 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z She wrote plays under the pseudonym of a Russian peasant. Marta Becket, Dancer in the Desert, Dies at 92 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z He dresses them like 19th-century peasants and uses them as free labor while pocketing their benefit checks and preaching a hell-and-brimstone doctrine of severe deprivation. ‘Mr. Splitfoot’ review: A gothic tale in the woods of New York 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z He was doubtless alluding to the YSL-inspired peasant blouses and satin skirts, operatically billowing smocks and buoyant gowns that wafted down his runway, some leather-cinched at the waist to provide a hint of tension. New York Fashion Week: Brazen or Subtle, Mining the Past 2010-09-16T07:20:00Z The Kremlin still refuses to acknowledge that the 1932-33 deaths of three to five million peasants in Ukraine amounts to a genocide. Vasily Grossman 2010-05-06T14:42:00Z They came enveloped in ebony, ivory and sapphire; in regal faux furs and velvets; erupting ostrich and peasant feathers, bristling raffia and courtly lacings, panniers and pouffs; almost invisible under their encroaching robes. Magical Thinking at Céline and Comme des Garçons 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z The priest was no better than the peasant. ‘Born Bad’: How the idea that we’re all sinners has shaped Western culture 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Long before that, Chinese peasants were reporting that eating pinkish wheat – a key sign of infection with a mold called Fusarium – caused them to feel ill. Fungi in flour can cause lots of ailments — but nothing like what happens in HBO's "The Last of Us" 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Soup was not destined to be limited to fancy restaurants or the long simmering stock pots of peasants. ‘Good soup is one of the prime ingredients of good living’: a (condensed) history of soup 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z In Druhástrana, peasants work the land for unnamed, callous owners who always demand more. Helen Oyeyemi Dishes Up Magic in Her New Novel, ‘Gingerbread’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z We need a new balance on our plate that — without romanticizing the past — should resemble a peasant diet. Your grain-free diet isn’t natural, good for you or good for the planet 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z At the start of Big Breasts and Wide Hips, the peasants try to bury some corpses in a mass grave. Mo Yan's storytelling is as surreal as China 2012-10-11T14:16:53Z At this year’s Governors Ball – the Academy’s Oscars afterparty – the proper A-listers were, as usual, hurriedly ushered into a special section behind a velvet rope, so they could relax unbothered by the peasants. Tom Hanks on surviving coronavirus: 'I had crippling body aches, fatigue and couldn't concentrate' 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Pent-up anger among peasants and industrial workers, and an impatient middle class, meant that reform and repression alike risked a social explosion. Blindly over the brink 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The images in this and other Bucovina monasteries were intended to instruct, entertain and enlighten illiterate soldiers and peasants and to underline their loyalties. Cultured Traveler: Romanian Church Murals Offer Colorful Lessons 2010-06-18T16:50:00Z Burke has no inclination to romanticize gangsters, no matter how well groomed: “They were brutal, stupid to the core, and had the visceral instincts of medieval peasants armed with pitchforks.” A Gumbo of Crime: From the Bayou to Britain 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Who are your literary heroes?The characters in my novels are mostly based on the ordinary peasants from my home town, who labour on the farms throughout their lives like ants. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak 2013-05-14T14:19:53Z Slaves were valuable property, and much harder and, thanks to the decline in supply from Africa, costlier to replace than, say, the Irish peasants that the iron-masters imported into south Wales in the 19th century. Blood cotton 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z She won a Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize for her classic novel "The Good Earth," the poignant and accurate story of the sad lives of Chinese peasants. 'Pearl of China': Anchee Min's version of the life of Pearl S. Buck 2010-04-07T22:30:00Z BUCHAREST, Romania — One painting shows a peasant crucified above a hole in the shape of Romania. Exhibit shows Romanian artists resisted regime 2012-09-28T11:20:16Z Their only break from the bleakness of the asylum was to work for local peasants until they were too ill or too old to continue. Witold Starecki obituary 2011-08-08T16:41:24Z Blouses were mostly crisp and collared rather than the full-sleeved peasant variety. T Magazine: New Geometry 2012-11-26T22:09:58Z “These peasants didn’t get the message that it was time to wander back to their flea-infested hovels,” he thinks at a party in Tripoli, smiling politely at his Libyan guests. In Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s Second Novel, an Ex-President Goes Rogue 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z The one of a peasant dance is brilliantly funny; the harvest is mainly landscape, a most beautiful landscape, it's summer I think. Denis Healey: the artist within 2011-01-05T20:30:01Z And the meal, beginning with homemade peasant bread and brown butter and ending with a fresh rosemary shortbread dessert, was exquisite. SideTour, a Means to Enlightenment and Adventure 2011-11-17T22:53:26Z They all make fun of my lust for creating, this madness which enables so many poverty-stricken peasants to buy their daily bread. Inside France's $100 Million Palace Pompadour, A Royal Chateau Restored By A Press-Shy Philanthropist 2013-03-28T11:00:00Z The scene is replete with peasant women and children, drunks, blind people, beggars and thieves. Spain IDs previously unknown Bruegel masterpiece 2010-09-23T16:49:00Z Join in, and imagine the countless peasant backs that bent so many centuries ago to set these ancient, weathered stones into simple perfection. Tuscany for beginners: a guide to the best sun-soaked hill towns 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Constantly on the lookout for sculptural inspiration, Nadelman was already taken with European peasant art and was also buying antiquities before he reached New York. A Rich Feast of Folk Art at the New-York Historical Society 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Let’s proceed to one of the basic tactics the United States used to prosecute the war in South Vietnam — unrestricted air and artillery bombardments of peasant hamlets. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Yet as Sambath gently coaxes peasants to confess to atrocities, there is not a shred of bitterness in his questioning. 'Enemies of the People': One man's quest for truth about Cambodia's 'killing fields' 2011-01-20T22:24:05Z Meanwhile, Arthur is still, quite unbelievably, alive and the remaining sackcloth-clad peasants gather for the final onslaught. Camelot: episode 10 2011-08-05T21:01:01Z “Gerald might have once seen himself as a peasant boy, and maybe deep down still does,” Mitchell S. Jackson writes in his review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Thousands of peasants fled the highland villages, while traffickers realized the benefit of obtaining their supplies from abroad. What It Took to Get El Chapo Behind Bars for Life 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z They worked in rural areas ministering to El Salvador’s desperately impoverished peasants, and White admired their commitment and courage. The diplomat and the killer: Death squads, dirty war and the untold story of H. Carl Gettinger 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Having driven to Romania soon after the fall of Ceausescu, he finds himself adopted by a peasant farming community, where he slots in nicely – until a Gypsy girl enchants him. Travel books for your Christmas wish list 2010-12-18T00:08:01Z Sweetly, too, Chip Zien, the original Baker of “Into the Woods,” displayed the pointy green peasant cap he wore in that musical of fractured fairy tales, as he sang the Baker’s exasperated anthem, “No More.” Review | A blessed event for hard times: Sondheim sung by Broadway’s best 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z This exhibition boasts the most extensive selection ever shown, including peasant portraits, watercolours, sketches and oils, and three of the greatest Card Player paintings. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z He and his wife, Sophia, were soon quarreling furiously over his desire to give his money to the peasants. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z It had everything you expected: big fields, beautiful villas with hidden valleys and rustic peasants. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z Marble is quarried from their flanks in such great quantities that many peasant huts have the polished stone for their floors. A Cuban Island That Has Played Both Paradise and Prison 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z It’s 1894, and nearly a million Arab peasants are carving a triangle more than 300 miles long on each side into the Egyptian desert. ‘The Slippage,’ by Ben Greenman, and More 2013-04-24T21:29:52Z They moved onto unused land, owned by the rich, to grow food for the starving peasant population. Theatre in spotlight at music festivals 2012-07-09T07:25:57Z I was required to report in fancy dress – Saxon peasant, old woman – and I loved it. ‘Alcoholism continues long after you stop drinking': my 15 years sober 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z To prep meals for my plane ride to N.Y.C. tomorrow, I wore a turquoise Cupio peasant top that tied in the middle with big bell sleeves and threw on black leggings. What I Wore: How Carnie Wilson of Wilson Phillips Dressed for the Interview Circuit 2012-04-05T22:01:31Z When, in “Rest,” the wanderer seeks refuge in a peasant’s hut, Bostridge disingenuously asks, why is it a charcoal burner’s hut rather than, say, a shepherd’s? Ian Bostridge’s ‘Schubert’s Winter Journey’ examines the composer’s melancholy work 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z A long dark cape introduced luxury peasant wear: georgette dresses in flower prints that looked like black and white photographs stitched into a filmy fabric. Fashion Review: Marchesa Goes to the Scottish Highlands 2014-02-16T12:38:54Z Like Mr. Osorio, he was a painter, but it was his fine-grained, socialist realist-style prints of laborers and peasants that became influential within the East Harlem art community. Honoring Latinx Art, Personal and Political 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z The characters are neither aristocrats nor neo-realist proletarians or peasants, but rather inhabitants of a world of relative prosperity and privilege. | 'Le Amiche': A 1955 Antonioni Movie Gets a Film Forum Run 2010-06-17T21:57:00Z Earlier generations saw vegetables as a kind of peasant food, a cheap way to fill a plate when meat was expensive. Vegetables: Are they the new bacon? José Andrés and other chefs think so. She even remembers what she was wearing: a long “hippie days” peasant skirt. Bill Cosby’s legacy, recast: Accusers speak in detail about sexual-assault allegations Yet as Mr. Thet Sambath gently coaxes peasants to confess to atrocities, there is not a shred of bitterness in his questioning. | 'Enemies of the People': Cambodian Journalist Revisits Khmer Rouge 2010-07-29T22:13:00Z They fined and arrested Austria-Hungary’s travel agents, accusing them of duping gullible peasants into leaving the country. Backwards and forwards 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z In fact, Suro says, for years Mexican elites didn’t even drink tequila; they looked to European spirits and French wines, dismissing their native spirits as the stuff of peasants. How to drink tequila and mezcal like a grown-up 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z He sleeps alternately in mosques, hayricks and grand estates, and meets wealthy barons and humble peasants in homespun clothing. Q&A: Reflecting on a Writer’s Walk Through Europe 2014-03-21T16:44:21Z To do this, it transforms itself into an old peasant, a fellow Buddhist or a beautiful young woman. Review | The action-packed saga ‘Monkey King: Journey to the West’ gets a modern take 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Historian Ronald Wright asserts that civilisations jeopardise themselves when inequality runs rampant and the peasants are not given their share of the land. It's a good week in television for republicanism 2012-06-01T23:05:37Z Then, on Monday night, Marc Jacobs returned to the ’70s, sending out rose satin pantsuits with wide-leg trousers, zigzag knits and cotton peasant blouses with full sleeves that recalled Saint Laurent. Fashion Review: Down From the Stratosphere, Gaga-Free 2010-09-15T06:45:00Z Baron Cohen, 39, will star in a Hollywood adaptation of Zabibah and the King, the tender tale of a wise and good Iraqi leader who falls in love with a humble peasant girl. Sacha Baron Cohen to star in film of Saddam Hussein novel 2011-01-20T16:39:32Z During the 1930s, the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto designed furniture to be made from silver birches in a nearby forest, and the work of the French designer Charlotte Perriand was inspired by Alpine peasant life. DESIGN: A Revival of Rural Craft, With a Modern Twist 2010-07-25T18:00:00Z "It's not Wyclef that you have expelled, it is the youth you have denied ... it's the population you have denied, its the peasants you have denied," Jean sings. Wyclef song accuses Haiti president of blocking him 2010-08-26T21:50:00Z The victims of China’s golf boom are the same people who suffer from other mega-developments: the peasants. Birdies, bribes and bulldozers 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z I’m an uneducated peasant woman whose daughter happens to be Joan of Arc. How to Be a Stage Mother (No, Not That Kind) 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The street outside was once an obscure thoroughfare for donkeys and peasants. Ian McEwan: By the Book 2012-12-06T15:54:37Z With its noble Irish rebels and gormless peasants being chased by redcoats through the Wicklow hills, this melodrama from 1865 seems to require a tongue-in-cheek approach. Arrah-na-Pogue ? review 2011-01-11T23:00:00Z Tellingly, loyal peasants relate how Guzmán chartered aircraft to take their children to the state capital for medical treatment, like a good old-school mafia don. Mexico: How arrest of the last don heralds ruthless new drugs era 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Nobody is quite who we were led to believe, least of all Tim, who may have been born a peasant but has the heart of a lion. Funny Genre-Bending Fiction From the Creators of ‘Dragons Love Tacos’ and the ‘Spy School’ Series 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Soon, other island dwellers contributed their own artifacts, and now several rooms adjacent to the restaurant display antique fishing and herding implements, peasant clothing and photographs that recount the story of Ponza’s dual nature. Overnighter: Off the Roman Coast, Bobbing for Views 2011-05-06T20:15:00Z In the New York premiere of the Khan version, which opened on Wednesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the peasants have become migrant factory workers, or Outcasts, who square off against the factory Landlords. Review: Witching Up ‘Giselle.’ (The Horror, oh the Horror.) 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z To many, Mr. Bikel was simply and enduringly Tevye, the stoic and irrepressible Jewish peasant who survives czarist Russia only to be brought low by his daughters. Theodore Bikel, Master of Versatility in Songs, Roles and Activism, Dies at 91 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Tens of thousands of peasants occupied Bobai County town and set fire to government buildings to protest against the crackdown. China's barbaric one-child policy 2013-05-06T06:00:01Z You'll get almost the same effect as the maxi with the trousers and a peasant top. Length breezes into spring styles 2011-03-16T17:40:00Z Eusapia, a middle-aged woman of peasant stock, was often caught cheating and would openly warn those who wished to investigate her alleged abilities that she would cheat if they allowed her to do so. How true to life are the psychics and psychologists in Red Lights? 2012-06-15T11:28:23Z She also shows us the darker side of history: peasants starving in famine, violent executions for petty crimes and the brutal racism and classism of the caste system. ‘The Strangler Vine,’ by M.J. Carter 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Think of Bruegel's painting The Census at Bethlehem with its chilly panorama of peasants paying their taxes. Defenders of the state: why we should care about army cuts 2010-10-04T13:45:00Z Don Arturo watched the flames grow higher, incinerating live animals and even some peasants who had fallen asleep in his fields. ‘ZeroZeroZero,’ by Roberto Saviano 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Nijinska's austere evocation of a traditional peasant wedding portrays the story of small lives, especially women's lives, being swallowed up by collective forces. Royal Ballet: Triple Bill – review 2012-07-02T17:17:10Z Down the path is a small house he used as a school for peasants’ children. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z A baby’s patchwork quilt that Delaunay, inspired by peasant textiles from her Ukrainian childhood, pieced together from disparate fabrics in 1911 was another turning point. The Week Ahead: Mar. 13 ? 19 2011-03-11T15:34:45Z Here, grotesquely impoverished peasants, animated by greed and pagan ritual, thieve and scheme while subsisting largely on bread, tree bark and bats. Review: An Estonian Folk Tale Unfolds in ‘November’ 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Almost as astounding, though: how a Soviet state built on hatred of czarist excesses had devoted itself to preserving the treasures those rulers had accumulated on the backs of peasants mired in poverty. Into the Baltic Sea, but out of the Cold: Revisiting Berlin and St. Petersburg 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Bartok’s “Out of Doors,” a 15-minute suite in five movements, explores the elemental side of nature, complete with pungently modern evocations of Hungarian peasant drums and pipes, and modal folk tunes played in eerie octaves. | Martina Filjak: Birthday Gift: New York Debut 2009-12-17T05:42:00Z Then, after lunch, she traveled 45 minutes outside central Beijing to visit the studio of Hai Bo, whose stark photographs of peasants and rural landscapes hint at the world that just disappeared. Diane Von Furstenberg and China: A Perfect Fit? 2010-12-19T04:20:18Z A folk band — swaggering in their colorful peasant costumes — gives me a private concert. Krakow: The heart and soul of Poland 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z She added, “They were not just laughing at the other, peasants or people from a different social class, but they were increasingly laughing at people from their own or similar social class.” Need a Good Laugh? Check Out Some 17th-Century Dutch Art 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z And in the frenzied finale’s little cadenza, with its slips and lurches, she gladly embraces the role of the drunken peasant. Tchaikovsky for Christmas 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z |
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