| 单词 | precarious |
| 例句 | “Who knew better than I on what a precarious, tottering house of cards my whole life rested?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Tata Bidibidi, with his kind, pretty wife and their precarious boat dispensing milk powder and quinine and love to children along the river. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m afraid of being alone,” she whispered, as though she were afraid that normal speaking would bring down some precarious barricade inside her. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z A few eked out a precarious existence on the ground and survived. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s narrow and precarious, but I’ve done precarious before, so it’s nothing new. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z "He's old physically, but ideologically he's a vigorous young man. He can be depended upon in the most precarious circumstance." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I leave the key on the mantel, close the door, and push the precarious cart all the way across Przemyśl to Tatarska 3. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It seems too small and too big, too precarious and too safe, all at the same time. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “As well off as her economic situation is, her success is precarious,” Walter Allen said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Our attorneys warned me that it would put me in a more precarious legal situation; anything I said in my statement regarding my own innocence would be discounted by the judge. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His position looks precarious, even though he’s holding on to the railing with both hands. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Message; movement; information; form; Darwin; Mendel; Morgan: all was writ into that precarious assemblage of molecules. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Moreover, the exposition had entered that precarious early phase common to every great construction project when unexpected obstacles suddenly emerge. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As precarious as her food supply was, she wasn’t even slightly tempted to cook this one. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She leans close to my ear and whispers, "Now that Ambrosia has put us in a precarious position, you must fix it. You have to do what you're told. You have to be perfect." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z If she had needed her arms for balance on this precarious perch, she would not have been able to drink. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I had backed into one of the carts, lost my always precarious balance, and had fallen down. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z You watch the performance from this precarious vantage point, directly below the performers with nothing in between. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It was a precarious existence, to say the least. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z And yet, all the time, I think we must have had an idea of how precarious the foundations of our fantasy were, because we always avoided any confrontation. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, I was reminded daily that my favor at the court of Elsinore was unlikely and precarious. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z We were clearly the front-runners to win the award, but the center was in a precarious position—how would we get the Freedom Writers to New York? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z For a few precarious seconds, the chaplain tingled with a weird, occult sensation of having experienced the identical situation before in some prior time or existence. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But I have to see Rhiannon—I can’t cancel on her for a second day in a row, not when things feel so precarious between us. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Dug into the slope a hundred feet below our camp, in an equally precarious setting, were the tents of most of the other teams—including Scott Fischer’s group, the South Africans, and the Taiwanese. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The night that followed seemed to all of them disorganized and precarious. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Happier perhaps than she would have been had she not had those wild, precarious years with Chacko. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Though she was still fatigued from her bout with malaria, she impressed everyone with her strength and courage as she dealt with Garfield's precarious condition. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Kermit believed that he would be able to transport some—if not all—of the empty canoes down the precarious rapids and waterfalls. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z As she pondered how she was going to climb down from her precarious perch, she suddenly felt the rope around her waist slacken. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He slung on his backpack and carried his two suitcases and guitar with a precarious grasp. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z For Joe, the incident, brief as it was, provided a sudden and cold reminder of how precarious his position on the crew, and therefore his attendance at the university, really was. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This in turn put more weight on the left rear wheel, which slipped from its precarious purchase into the powder as well. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He had not our dire incentive for the success of that Regiment—a noncommissioned officer in a hated regiment in a precarious fastness only a few hundred feet from a growing and volatile enemy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z If two or three of the heavier boys could band together at one end, they could make precarious sitting for the unlucky female at the other end. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He watches as she ascends quickly up the stoop with her shopping bags, her heels suspended over the treads in a way that looks precarious. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The life of a zoo, like the life of its inhabitants in the wild, is precarious. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Performers standing stock-still with elaborate costumes and painted skin on platforms set up in precarious spaces between tents. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Then below me I see a precarious sight, and I know I must be nearing the bottom. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z This left his young wife, Johanna, and three-year-old Maria in a precarious position. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Yasuko materialized next, just below my precarious stance, but was flummoxed by the last and steepest portion of the Step. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In the fireworks’ diminishing glow, the tenement houses across the street seemed precarious, as though they would collapse into ruin and rubble at any moment. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Which is why I spent all weekend clearing piles of clothes and papers out of the living room, piling everything into my closet in one giant, precarious stack. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Still, I trotted along in silence, not wishing to do or say anything irksome; my position was precarious enough already. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The kitchen and sitting area were at the front of the house, separated by cupboards and a tall, precarious bookshelf that was Papa’s most prized possession. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It is, instead: Why were such otherwise-sensible statesmen as Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton all convinced that the newly established government of the United States was so precarious and problematic? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Elizabeth spent most of the days in a precarious tree-house they had built the previous summer between three great birches on the lake shore. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no way to return her gloves to her pack here on this tiny precarious place, so she fixed them under the rope on her shoulder. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z New restrictions made life for Jews in these areas more and more precarious. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The only thing to do was shimmy to its precarious end. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z From this precarious vantage point, I can see the shape of the whole arena for the first time. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The alleged “safety” of malathion rests on rather precarious ground, although — as often happens — this was not discovered until the chemical had been in use for several years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Funny, he knew Leon was in a precarious position and yet there was always the danger of underestimating him. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At both the social and verbal levels, in short, an American nation remained a precarious and highly problematic project—at best a work in progress. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Below them, Petra held tight to a low- lying branch with a precarious crack in it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The water also ate away some of the soil from around the pillars holding up our house, making it even more precarious. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Their quarry was long gone, but the reminder of the slave patrols exposed the precarious nature of the residents’ lives. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Except for his precarious adventure with Petra Cotes, he had never known a woman. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The parapet reached almost to my shoulders, so I dragged a folding chair from the stack against the wall, opened it, and climbed onto the precarious seat. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z A strike based on a political grievance rather than on clear-cut issues like higher wages or shorter hours is a more precarious form of protest and demands particularly efficient organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a huge worry that he cannot dismiss: Theo’s health is terribly precarious. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But despite those precarious turns, Swift became a poet, a priest, a political operator and, of course, the greatest satirist in the English language. Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The viciously green silk dress is a drama in itself, in which Mulligan looks at once sensational and precarious. Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan on their new creations - an acclaimed film and a baby daughter 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z He had written a linguistically adventurous national portrait for a precarious age—his, and ours. What John Dos Passos’s “1919” Got Right About 2019 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z In the Romance, the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter was as warmly expressive as always, with precise articulation that didn’t waver even in passages of precarious double-stops. Review: Carnegie Hall’s Season Opens With Two Faces of Cleveland 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z In it, she slipped Western content — a globe supported by an Atlas-like figure — into a Northwest Coast format, suggesting a precarious balance between the two. Book review: History of totem pole is a story of near-death and rebirth of an art form 2010-05-26T23:20:00Z But the accusations over the last few years made by her and dozens of other women leave you in a precarious place in terms of how to respond. Just What Was on Trial in the Bill Cosby Case? 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z It was a precarious walk on slippery stones, and rain was beginning to fall, but finally, the waterfall appeared. Vancouver Island, Through an Artist’s Eyes 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z We realize now how precarious, how fragile a claim like that really is. When Love Isn’t as Simple as Standing by Your Man 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z “We have a larger sense of ourselves as being on precarious ground,” Washburn said in an interview. Revisiting a Post-Apocalyptic Play in the Pandemic 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z There were days when my mental state was precarious at best. Raising Muslim kids in a climate of hate and fear: This is how our family has fought Islamophobia since 9/11 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z It is a great step for Jende, who embraces America wholeheartedly despite its hardships and his precarious resident status. Best audiobooks of 2016 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Winter always presented the added challenge of puffy coats sprouting into the precarious walkway. The only sugar-rimmed margarita worth drinking 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z They are “fiercely intelligent, though not necessarily educated — full of scams to feed their families,” Morgan says, and they’re often in a precarious relationship with the law. Lonnae O’Neal: Want to hear what blacks say when whites aren’t around? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Koepp filmed them without the aid of visual effects and the precarious, unarmored position of a cyclist adds to the thrill: There is skin in the game. Review: Shannon rides away with 'Premium Rush' 2012-08-23T14:09:08Z However, the real star – aside from the orchestra and its refreshingly enterprising and adventurous 2012/13 season – was Nézet-Seguin, whose extraordinary sense of movement and phrasing allowed the piece to find its precarious balance. Mørk/LPO/Nézet-Seguin – review 2012-11-22T17:44:12Z The theme of the innocent abroad is not new, yet the complex dynamics of Mitko’s precarious existence and the ethics of their transaction are barely addressed. Come as you are 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Blood flows freely in the streets of Surry Hills as the precarious peace between two rival mob bosses begins to unravel. Gory 'Razorhurst' by Justine Larbalestier mixes noir and ghosts 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z That approach continues here, as Graham explores the precarious future of both humans and the natural world. Four new poetry collections 2012-08-29T19:22:04Z And Yu-Hsuan Chen’s clever one-room set — the walls fold in and out to create spaces outside of the group’s meeting spot — emphasizes their precarious hold on this made-up world. ‘The Antelope Party’ Review: Friendship Is Magic, With Exceptions 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z At the same time, it’s sobering to remember just how precarious a line divides the relics we treasure from those we treat like garbage. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z This has often made it a financially precarious career. Parker Posey: ‘I didn’t think I would work again – so I wrote a book’ 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Domestic scenes, lit by the golden glow of an oil lamp, perch on them with precarious cosiness; soldiers at the Front splash over them, illuminated by the hard white light of foreign stars. The Accrington Pals; Di and Viv and Rose; One Monkey Don't Stop No Show – review 2013-01-27T00:06:22Z They held signs that called attention to militarization, to the crisis at the border, to the precarious state of the rule of law. Evening in America: What it felt like on Trump’s Fourth of July 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z This German could also see that the apparent freedom of American intellectual life was “precarious and deceptive,” co-opted by “the system,” and that even by accepting a fellowship at Wesleyan, “I had lost my credibility.” A New Translation of an Anti-Heroic German Doorstopper of 1968 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Loving other living things reminds you of how precarious life is. Perspective | Ask Amy: Insurrectionists should be reported 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z A meticulous plywood hedgerow greets visitors, who then encounter pieces that are less symmetrical and seemingly more precarious. Review | In the galleries: Misty images from a twilight zone 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Crowds have flocked to the rejuvenated neighborhood, though many of its oldest buildings remain in a precarious state after decades without significant repairs. In Bucharest, the Old Town Sees New Life 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Pinter's drama at this point is purely atmospheric, the strange foreboding hinting at territorial struggle, the provisional nature of relationships and the precarious security of any shelter. A licensing decree prohibiting reviews of 'The Room' at REDCAT overshadows the production, which is iffy 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Oscar and his uncle, who leads a precarious life as an agricultural worker, are left to an uncertain fate. Icebox: the harrowing drama about child separation in America 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z What you do notice is the precarious status of black lives, the negation of their worth. To Understand America, You Have to Ride the Railroad 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z But while the company remains in limbo, its precarious situation should be a reminder to look at the bigger picture. Critic's Notebook: With City Opera?s Woes, Other Small Companies Step Up 2012-01-04T14:47:57Z Despite the precarious times for the city’s budget, four new libraries will open in Chicago by the end of the year. Daley's last one for the books 2011-03-02T23:04:00Z Adiga, the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel “The White Tiger,” brings to life the precarious circumstances and impossible choices that immigrants face in his new book. 14 New Books to Watch For in February 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Painters, dancers and musicians often rely on precarious, part-time jobs to fund their passions, and basic incomes are seen as a way to let them focus on artistic pursuits. Ireland Asks: What if Artists Could Ditch Their Day Jobs? 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z It takes a ton of physical trust to pull off the limber illusions and precarious balances these two do. Seattle International Dance Festival displays Swiss movement 2012-06-03T19:49:03Z Camila is one of the thousands of sex workers worldwide left in a precarious position after the very intimacy that defines their work was thwarted by social distancing measures. Streetwalkers to sweet talkers: Chile's sex workers shift online amid virus lockdown 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Its routes are often serviced by precarious gig workers, its quotas are too punishing to allow for socializing, and all potential human interactions have been replaced by one-way surveillance. Dance, I Said — Dance! And Leave the Package on the Porch. 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Introspection shaded into aggression and back; the music was perpetually self-questioning, craftily precarious and full of suspense. Arca, Valued Facilitator, Steps Out Front 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z It’s a retail business that is inherently precarious and faces challenges unlike any other. Perspective | Behnke’s closure is a reminder of the tight rope that many garden centers face 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z "Embrace insecurity," after all, sounds like exactly the sort of message that the chancellor of the exchequer might find cynically helpful to inculcate in a society facing ever more precarious circumstances. Let your security blanket slip 2013-01-04T22:55:09Z “Lazarus,” which was sped into production and where only van Hove knew of Bowie’s precarious health, was among the most challenging experiences of Nicola’s time at the Workshop. Bidding Farewell to His Theatrical Flock 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z As a teenager, roving beneath the blinking lights, the carnival felt free, it felt precarious, it felt like what I thought adulthood would be. When the Creepy Carnival Comes to Town 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z The documentary subjects, each vastly unique in their own ways, are connected by "some inherent sense of the world as a more precarious place, anything could happen at any time." “The world is a precarious place”: How “Generation 9/11” tells a tender coming of age story 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Willis used vertiginous angles and odd zooms to reinforce the unease and disorientation in "Klute," and wide shots of Beatty set against imposing geometric architecture to underscore his precarious isolation in "The Parallax View." Gordon Willis dies: 8 of cinematographer's most memorable movies 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z These are paintings whose condition as art is precarious, and whose sorry plight is dramatised as a kind of stoicism. Angela de la Cruz's brush with death 2010-04-05T21:00:00Z However, with its precarious construction, dangerously sharp objects, besmirched materials and gooey substances in unexpected places, Barclay's is an edge-of-the-seat kind of decor. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z For most of the book, we travel along with Josie in a precarious rented RV that she dryly calls the Chateau. North to Alaska in Dave Eggers' new 'Heroes of the Frontier' 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z To have those hours of fighting and screaming replaced by a precarious quiet felt like a gift. Seeking the Comfort of an Old Flame: Solitude 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z I’ve always loved how precarious it feels, organized and chaotic at the same time. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z In 2010, when Feature’s finances were precarious, numerous artists offered to raise money with a benefit exhibition and sale of their donated artworks. Hudson, Gallerist and Nurturer of Artists, Dies at 63 2014-02-17T04:37:35Z Naturally, this only further strained my precarious finances, which in turn required more and more mental energy to handle. The hour you are most alone: how I got trapped by poverty and depression 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Miller describes this precarious ecosystem as the “economy of favors.” The Hazards of American Justice 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z The tension between Nussbaum’s discreet and dangerous self-possession and the hostile forces around him is searing, and it shows his precarious individuality in high relief. Looking Good Is Not the Point: What Artists Bare in Self-Portraits 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z There are moments of precarious equilibrium, too, emphasised by the end-stopping of each stanza. Poem of the week: Stowaways by Lawrence Sail 2011-01-31T10:20:36Z There was a sense that there was an inevitability to all of this, that rights are always precarious. Perspective | Abortion bans have some women preparing for the worst. It involves ‘auntie networks.’ 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z I thought that if the colossus was relying on such precarious support, then his own position might be a little tenuous. Stepping Across the Ice: Teffi (1872-1952) 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z As we see it, sexual exploitation perpetrated by men in positions of power instills fear that keeps farm laborers obedient, despite precarious working conditions — and keeps fruits and vegetables cheap. Sexual violence is a pervasive threat for female farm workers 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z Linking the two identities is his camera – the online conduit to a shapeless fandom, as amorphous and precarious as a string-wand bubble. Jawline: behind the social media documentary about short-lived fame 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z I found America a very precarious place for a Black person. A London Monument to Equality, Inspired by an Act of Defiance 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Our attachment styles reveal themselves in romantic, emotionally intimate situations — for example, during a fight, a breakup, or that precarious, weird moment when a relationship goes from casual dating to a serious prospect. Are You Anxious, Avoidant or Secure? 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z The economy must continue working for those with precarious incomes. Brazilian rapper warns of coronavirus danger in Brazil's slums 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Her typically precarious constructions – be they the tottering boat or maquettes where tiny dwellings perch on cardboard precipices – are bittersweet reminders of the frailty of things. Artist of the week 150: Emily Speed 2011-08-11T15:26:52Z The difference is not between the square who sells out and the cool guy who opts out, but rather the technocratic office worker and the precarious creative. When Apple took over 2012-10-14T15:00:00Z Airlines, cruise lines and tour operators will cancel, suspend or reroute service if the situation on the ground is too precarious. The most frequently asked travel questions answered 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z It’s the right spot from which to look back and interrogate her precarious upbringing, her tricky maternal and paternal legacies. Growing Up in the Margins Without Being Marginalized 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Did Lawrence’s murder give Ferdinand a sense of how precarious life could be? Rio Ferdinand: ‘I used to drink 10 pints then move on to vodka’ 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z When I ate, it was one wobbly, precarious forkful at time. ‘Reality shrivels. This is your life now’: 88 days trapped in bed to save a pregnancy 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z When the Qatari funding dried up, however, the club found itself in a precarious financial situation, forced to sell star players to stay afloat. Málaga, Spain’s Self-Appointed New Arts Hub 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z What follows is a guide to the highlights of a defiant, resilient, precarious and exciting new season of art — and its society — in New York. Art Fairs Come Blazing Back, Precarious but Defiant 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Making that balancing act more precarious is the show’s rapid evolution from an animated short to a global cross-platform franchise. The Weird World of Adventure Time Comes Full Circle 2013-03-29T11:00:44Z Even when the deal was struck, the Met’s finances were precarious. The Met Opera Fired James Levine, Citing Sexual Misconduct. He Was Paid $3.5 Million. 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z He would eventually return to public life, though it was the precarious double life of a high-functioning addict. An Anatomy of Addiction: When Two Brilliant Minds Met a "Miracle Drug" 2011-08-05T10:30:00Z After all, it is the arts pages of our national newspapers that regularly write about the precarious state of regional theatre, praising those practitioners who are successfully defying the economic odds. Get out more 2010-05-26T15:56:00Z And the documentary record upon which “The Agitators” rests is uneven and sometimes precarious. An Unlikely Alliance in Upstate N.Y. and the Fight for Black and Women’s Rights 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Furthermore, he seemed able to walk a precarious line between the church's longtime pastor and the anointed successor. 'A Twisted Faith': Gregg Olsen's story of betrayal and murder in a Bremerton church 2010-04-12T20:23:00Z A bigger problem was his fading movie career, which rendered his financial situation precarious. A New Biography of Ronald Reagan Captures His Passion for Stardom 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z For months, we have watched millions of barrels of oil erupting from the ocean floor, just after its explosive force claimed the lives of 11 workers who toiled on precarious platforms perched above the waves. Exhibition Review: At the Folger, a 200-Year Survey of the Sea 2010-08-18T18:21:00Z Leonard says that this asset speculation further enriched the wealthy few while work became ever more precarious for the many. A Fascinating Page-Turner Made From an Unlikely Subject: Federal Reserve Policy 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z He delights in putting her in a precarious situation. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 5: On Your Knees 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z In 2017 the luxury industry will be faced with a precarious balancing act on multiple fronts. A Challenge for Tradition 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z But the discussion certainly throws into high relief the precarious position of literary figures in contemporary China. Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Receives Nobel Prize. But Is He Politically Correct? 2012-10-11T14:50:27Z But just as the ocean floor drops abruptly by hundreds of feet at a sea wall, a fact that he learns from his father-in-law, the footing of Alex’s life is more precarious than he realizes. ‘Sea Wall/A Life’ Review: Quiet Tragicomedies of Love and Loss 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z They perform a precarious balancing act between symbolic figurative associations and abstraction derived from the inherent qualities of materials in space. The 'Maverick Modernist' you don't know but should: Peter Krasnow at the Laguna Art Museum 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Work is either scarce or precarious, particularly for workers in essential jobs like food service, package delivery, elder care and health care — which has a disproportionate effect on low income families. Review | ‘Hood Feminism’ makes a convincing — and urgent — case about how race and class divide women 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z This is a precarious balancing act, and it’s a testament to Zellweger’s abilities that Bridget was so appealing fifteen years ago. Bridget Jones Abandons Irony 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z “They’re the people making a sacrifice and putting themselves in precarious situations.” PCP to psychedelic fish: uncover the stories behind the world's strangest drugs 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z In a precarious moment, it’s cozy, and not from obliviousness but from determination. Pink Sweats Harnesses the Power of Niceness 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z In the work's second half, the music takes a more somber turn, and the benches become precarious perches from which dancers fall, sometimes to be raised back up, sometimes not. UW's Chamber Dance revives haunting 'Hold' 2011-10-14T17:23:04Z Buying unnecessary items on Amazon with credit cards is a fast and easy way to exert some feeling of control over our precarious surroundings. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z That is harsh and precarious and utterly nourishing. California’s Highway 1, With Memory Riding Shotgun 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z “Stress Test” conveys in visceral terms just how precarious things were during the crisis, just how frightened many first responders were, and just what an achievement it was to avert a major depression. Books of The Times: In ‘Stress Test,’ Timothy F. Geithner Recalls Crisis Days 2014-05-11T21:52:32Z In many ways, the system is the same as it has always been in America: technically flawed, often unjust, and essential to the country’s precarious claim to democracy. This Is What Democracy Looked Like 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Detective novels are notoriously conservative in their restoration of order, but the order in Farrell’s world is precarious. A crime novel that captures the humanity of a dying town in rural America 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z But the years of volatility also required the label to be nimble with its handling of an iconoclastic artist and his precarious career. How YoungBoy Never Broke Again Hit No. 1 From Jail: Fans Had His Back 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z The stage being by its nature a precarious and dangerous place, true parity among all those elements is a rare and difficult achievement. Music Review: ?Madama Butterfly? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-12-08T22:28:07Z From start to finish, her book reminds us what it means to survive, and just how precious and precarious a state that is. Is This a Good Time to Be Born? Comparatively Speaking, Yes 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z In 1921, it was upgraded to a wooden suspension bridge that was equally precarious. At the Grand Canyon, a cancer survivor rises to the challenge of a rim-to-rim-to-rim hike 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Tall, long-limbed and with long feet, spectacular yet precarious, she only just musters the attack to surmount the role’s hurdles but discharges blazes of glory on the way. Dance Review: Balanchine’s ‘Nutcracker’ at New York City Ballet 2012-11-25T22:19:46Z The enforcement of these laws, along with the N.Y.P.D.’s routine harassment, made being gay precarious at best and deadly at worst. Stuck in Stonewall 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z “So many of our institutions are precarious, even in the best of times.” Harlem Stage Celebrates New Lease on Life 2010-06-29T22:39:00Z The business is precarious and copywriters stoop to publicity stunts to gin up business. Television: Changes for Fourth Season of ?Mad Men? 2010-07-16T19:01:00Z In our increasingly precarious times, it makes sense that polyamory is popular. All you need is loves: the truth about polyamory 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z And once the American military withdraws next year, the school’s existence could become precarious if such conservative forces come to power. Afghanistan National Institute of Music Students to Tour U.S. 2013-02-01T21:18:01Z Your story shows how precarious a stable life can be, even without a devastating diagnosis. Hiking 630 miles of English coast, with nothing left to lose 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Ballet casting is more precarious than most because dancers often have to pull out of a show because of last-minute injury. Polunin puzzle 2013-04-05T14:29:25Z This year, perhaps as never before, our reading habits reflect our precarious reality. What the country is reading during the pandemic: Dystopias, social justice and steamy romance 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Markovits also sees the future of elite universities as precarious, but for a different reason. The Meritocrat Who Wants to Unwind the Meritocracy 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z His quintet made it feel plunging and precarious, charged with fervor. Jon Irabagon Paints Tradition in New Hues 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z "Make it look more adventurous," calls out Ryan McGinley, the photographer snapping her from an equally precarious spot on a nearby outcropping of rock. | Nicaragua 2012-11-16T14:00:37Z Now, mindfulness apps are playing a similar role, offering artistic opportunities at a precarious moment for the music industry. Meditation Apps Want Us to Chill Out. Musicians Are Happy to Help. 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z Then we followed a long line of precarious cornices to the summit. Explorer: Skiing Igloo-to-Igloo Across the Grand Tetons 2011-03-04T19:55:00Z With the money lake dried up, countless big-name film-makers have been stuck piecing together movies with precarious jumbles of private equity. Megan Ellison, the most powerful new force in Hollywood 2013-02-18T19:56:34Z In this precarious moment, such communions feel newly poignant. A Poet of Found Language Who Finds Her Language in Archives 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z In the autumn of 2008, with the economy in free fall, it was easy to suppose that he was falling, too, from a precarious middle-class existence into an underworld of criminality. Cross Cuts: How Walter White Found His Inner Sociopath 2013-07-24T14:48:26Z Fascism was on the rise as people's economic security grew ever more precarious — hm, relatable — and even in the escapist soap opera of "Downton Abbey," the moneyed Crawley family could feel it coming. "Smash capitalism" to "release your job," what "Downton Abbey" & Beyoncé can teach us about progress 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z A Hawaiian family was camping next to it, with teenage boys casting fishing lines from precarious rocks nearby. Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawaii 2012-11-30T19:41:37Z To last year’s Golden Globe awards, she wore a plunging black jumpsuit by Valentino, presaging the return this season of the precarious ’70s neckline. Red Carpet Watch: Julia Roberts: The Red Carpet Fashion Choices of the ‘August: Osage County’ Star 2014-01-17T21:34:38Z We climbed steep hills and clambered down rocky paths along some pretty precarious ledges. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part One 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z And Johnson added his own oomph to the role with visual tics signifying his character’s precarious mental state. Analysis | The delightfully bonkers film that turned the Rock into Dwayne Johnson 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z It’s a grim hallmark of the precarious jobs market that is inhabited by a growing chunk of the UK population; 1.8m in 2017. US citizens are standing up against poverty – the UK should follow suit | Mary O’Hara 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z When the movie opens, she is within inches of a much deserved promotion, but her professional fate hangs in the balance of a precarious deal she must usher through without incident. 'Equity' Forges a New Model for Women in the Workplace 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z We were packed so tightly, I couldn’t move an inch; even clapping felt like a precarious use of my elbows. Get Close: 10 Gems From the Pretenders 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z It seems highly precarious for the daily lives of millions of women to depend on a man’s personal passage to fatherhood. Perspective | What men are trying to say when they show off their Female Relationship Résumé 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z With audiences and advertising revenue dwindling, networks are in a precarious place. Best of Late Night 2022: A Rebuilding Year 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z But almost unwittingly her book shows how improbable and precarious that model is. Favoring Immigration if Not the Immigrant 2011-05-08T22:39:54Z The report said women facing discriminatory dress codes tended to be young and in low-paid jobs with precarious contracts, making it difficult for them to challenge company practices. Wear high heels or go home - British report finds sexist dress codes rife 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The fifth episode zeros in on several women who have invariably more precarious positions on the film than those of their male peers. A New Podcast Rekindles a Box-Office Bomb 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z And West, 53, and Debicki, 32, were charged with depicting the most precarious chapter of the Charles and Diana story: the painfully public implosion of their royal marriage. ‘The Crown’ Has a New Diana and Charles to Tear Apart 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Major repair and conservation work is heavily dependent on grant aid, but those sources are precarious – English Heritage will inevitably have to make further budget cuts as government spending cuts bite. One in 10 English churches needs urgent repairs 2010-06-30T14:05:00Z Although they appear powerful, these females occupy a socially precarious position: they rely on males for access to scarce resources and their lives are almost wholly consumed by descendant worship. Unnatural selection 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The precarious balance of the family tips over when Jolene and her fellow pilot, her best buddy, Tami, are suddenly deployed to Iraq. Kristin Hannah's 'Home Front': a military family's struggles 2012-01-25T23:34:04Z In its shadow lives a precarious community of construction workers and economic migrants, all desperate for a piece of the country's booming future. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z “Again and again, I was asking what mattered most in this precarious and precious life.” Review | Ann Patchett’s ‘These Precious Days’ is a beautiful reminder of what’s important 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z But she consulted a therapist “because … I was building my stability and progress on sheer terror,” which was “too precarious.” The Real Janis Joplin 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z She dutifully describes the Cinderella episodes the girls and parents of Troop 6000 enjoy, but she refuses to avert her eyes from their precarious lives. For Homeless Girl Scouts, It’s Not All Badges and Cookies 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z The move dispels the map’s authority, making it look precarious and absurd. Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, Shaped by the Land 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Little girls’ dresses are flowy, with lace cutouts, and children’s’ skulls are only partially sculpted, precarious and porous. Karon Davis' 'Pain Management' plumbs loss and love in a tribute to her late husband, Noah Davis 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z I checked in on James Hill, a resident who told me he moved to 1490 from what he suggested was precarious housing in Far Rockaway, Queens. The Housing Situation Is Dire. But Progress Is Still Possible. 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z The magnitude of this precarious success was lost on no one; a massive media scrum awaited the doctors as they emerged from the operation. The story of the surgery that made Ben Carson famous — and its complicated aftermath 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Although his condition was clearly precarious, there was no reason to think he wouldn’t live for several more years. Chaz Ebert and director Steve James on Roger Ebert’s legacy 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z The Fourth Estate’s job is to hold the powerful accountable, and yet the distrust of institutions — especially the news media — puts free speech in a precarious spot. Perspective | A movie about Hulk Hogan’s court case shows how the First Amendment is under attack 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The practical part of just standing on a relatively steep roof feels precarious, even if you’re only 20 feet off the ground or whatever. ‘Almost Famous’: The Oral History of a Golden God’s Acid Trip 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z As digital cameras have become sharper and more versatile, many filmmakers have turned to 16 millimeter to evoke the analog past and the blurry, precarious nature of memory. Happy 100th Birthday, 16-Millimeter Film 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z That precarious position introduces Hiram to the social and psychological contortions of America’s “peculiar institution,” and he becomes an insightful critic of the layers of white deception. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Our scary past, precarious present and uncertain future — all glimpsed through the fish-eye footage of battered body cams and the texting thumbs of powerful people who were up to no good. The Jan. 6th hearings: Was the finale just the beginning? 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z This has left those who lack the resources to deal with unplanned events, such as a sudden redundancy or a family illness, in an even more precarious position. "Squid Game": The real debt crisis shaking South Korea that inspired the hit TV show 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z That's no small achievement in itself – but he also seemed as secure as any individual can be in the precarious business of acting. Paul Bhattacharjee and Cory Monteith deaths: is acting today just too tough? 2013-07-23T17:45:00Z But these reactions might also be taken as evidence of a shared strength: the always delicate, sometimes precarious balance that each artist maintained between raw materials and aesthetic impulses, between improvisational process and final statement. An Appraisal: Helen Frankenthaler and John Chamberlain ? an Appraisal 2011-12-28T00:42:54Z For much of the night, Mr. West performed on a smallish square platform, tethered to the center by a rope that ran up under his coat as it tilted at various precarious angles. Review: Kanye West, Both Close and Out of Reach at His Tour Opener 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z De Bont painstakingly lingers on its creepy statues, iron gates and precarious spiral staircase, and the ornate and wonderfully eccentric design upstages the actors in almost every scene. ‘The Haunting of Hill House,’ on Netflix, Is a Family Drama With Scares 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z “Lila” — which might well have been titled “Balm in Gilead” — is his wife’s story, chronicling her precarious childhood and youth, and her efforts to come to terms with that legacy of emotional damage. In ‘Lila,’ Marilynne Robinson Gives a Prequel to ‘Gilead’ 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z The equilibrium of this precarious system is carefully set up in the opening scenes, as is the musical’s stylistic daring. Review: ‘Caroline, or Change’ Makes History’s Heartbreak Sing 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Hemming characters into confined spaces doesn’t preclude cinematic power — especially in stories about the economically precarious life of geishas. Review: ‘Madama Butterfly,’ Without Its Flesh-and-Blood Intensity 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z It took a few songs for the Stones to align; “Start Me Up” had some particularly precarious moments. Review: Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, Electric, Not Just Nostalgic, at Desert Trip 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z It started a little uncertainly – the first 15 minutes felt a bit precarious – but after that it was very inventive. iLL Manors – reviews 2012-05-26T23:03:05Z And aside from their precarious financial instruments, his colleagues' main problems are testosterone-charged insecurity, elitism and casual anti-Semitism. Abraham makes 'Merchant' a memorable show 2011-03-18T21:06:11Z "The results underline the importance of labor market disruptions and socioeconomic factors, such as precarious forms of labor, for food security and climate impact modeling," the study adds. Oxford study shows that "heat can lead to food insecurity in a matter of days" 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z Chamblas had told me that his weekly class was precarious, sometimes canceled at the last minute because the prison was on lockdown for one reason or another. Can a Dance Class Free Men’s Bodies in a Place Meant to Contain Them? 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z As the novel opens, this extended family has just moved to Vineland, N.J., into a collapsing house that serves as their precarious shelter and a very sturdy metaphor. Review | In Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Unsheltered,’ Trump is just the latest threat to Earth’s survival 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z A too-small bowler hat was perched jauntily on his head at a precarious angle, which made him look like a perpetually shrugging pop star. A Three-Day Trek in the Highlands of Myanmar 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z In the opening lines of the video for his 2014 single “Explode,” rapper Big Freedia outlines the precarious position he holds in the hip-hop industry. Rapper Big Freedia's career bounces in various directions 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Smoked fish that requires refrigeration, such as lox, nova-style, kippered, or jerky, is considered precarious for those who are pregnant because, like deli meat, it could be contaminated with listeria. So, you’re pregnant — here’s what’s safe to eat and drink 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z It’s all too precarious, which is to say it’s all too real. ‘Sorry We Missed You’ Review: The Human Toll of That One-Click Buy 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Except that all these symbols of the winner’s position soon reveal themselves to be less than genuine and, above all, precarious. Elena Ferrante: ‘It is time to eliminate the concepts of winning, losing and failing’ 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z As I inched into my 30s, I found myself in that precarious place where I knew I drank too much, but I believed I could manage it somehow. My drinking years: ‘Everyone has blackouts, don’t they?’ 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z The company has experienced a string of deficits and declining box office earnings in recent years, and, Mr. Villella said, finances remain precarious. Edward Villella and the Miami City Ballet Board 2011-11-13T23:07:55Z His films seep this investment: they are precarious emotional balancing acts; precious in both senses, which choke you up as they loosen the taps. ‘People just want a bully’ - director Mike Mills on how the US picks its president 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z So what do you do now, knowing that your livelihood is now more precarious? "We're going to be canceled for a joke": Judy Gold on how "safe spaces" in comedy ignore reality 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Despite all the exposure the women enjoyed at their peak, the collapse of the Communist government in Bulgaria at the end of the ’80s put them in a precarious position. An Unlikely Union Between an ’80s Rock Star and a Folk Choir Blossoms in Bulgaria 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z The orchestral arrangements are tinctured with dissonance; sustained synthesizer tones slide on and off pitch, feeling precarious. Nine Inch Nails Faces the Pandemic With Hope, Despair and Noise 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z For people in precarious work who are more at risk of food insecurity, missing work could mean losing their job, placing future wages at risk. How food insecurity affects people’s rights to choose whether or not to have children 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Increasingly, though, Nik is at the red-hot center of Denise’s concerns: Ada is planning to make a documentary about him, which, Denise worries, might somehow tip the already precarious balance of their family life. Books of The Times: A Rock-Star Life Imagined, but Never Actually Achieved 2011-07-11T22:00:32Z Pilobolus has been pushing bodies to their limits in unusual shapes and precarious balances since 1971, when its founding members met at Dartmouth College. Review: Delayed by the Pandemic, Pilobolus Celebrates Its 50th 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z But when are things not precarious, especially when it comes to securing human attachment? Review: ‘Labor of Love’ and ‘The Course of Love,’ on Finding and Keeping It 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z He photographed the terrain — living rooms, concrete churches and precarious shacks, communities facing imminent death by forced removal, and the barren aftermath. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Instead of Handmaids, the women most likely to be capable of becoming pregnant are twentysomethings trying to pay off student loans with wages from precarious jobs. We Live in the Reproductive Dystopia of “The Handmaid’s Tale” 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z On Feb. 14, Perino said he helped a little old lady retrieve the French jam brand's raspberry preserves from a precarious position on a high shelf, for which she offered her thanks. Jam brand goes viral on Twitter after claims of founders' anti-Nazi efforts surface: 'Fascinating' 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z In the context of Jim Crow, though, her success is precarious, dependent once again on the toxic insecurities and mercurial passions of her white neighbors. Review | ‘The Revisioners’ reminds us of slavery’s long reach, through the generations 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z And here the Ballet West women negotiated the exposure and challenge of Petipa’s choreography with a quality both hard-boiled and precarious that forced the danciness of the earlier sections to evaporate. Dance Review: Moiseyev Dance Company and Ballet West Fall for Dance 2012-10-03T22:32:53Z “You accept this precarious market to do this art. There are rich rewards, but they’re not material rewards. Something goes wrong, and people are not prepared for it.” Getting down-and-dirty to help stage artists who are down and out 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Onscreen and in life, the welfare of white people feels decidedly yoked to the well-being of racial minorities, especially in these precarious days. “Get Out” and the Death of White Racial Innocence 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z But the marvel of Bon Iver is how fragile and conditional each song seems; not monumental but precarious and permeable, susceptible to chance or whim or fate. Bon Iver Steps Back From the Brink on ‘i,i’ 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z A sudden confession about her own precarious frame of mind zings like a shocking jolt from the pages. Decades After Two Murders, an Appalachian Town Grapples With the Crimes 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Instead, she asks readers to recognize how messy, precarious, and queer, in every sense of the word, life in a body can be. A Professor’s Memoir of Life Inside a Ravaged Body 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z It’s an instantly engrossing show, made more tense by Sedgwick’s all-in performance of a woman losing a precarious grip on things. Review | Fall TV 2017: 10 new shows worth checking out (and 5 you can totally skip) 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z It also sparked a sense of betrayal among some of Smollett’s initial supporters and added kindling to the nation’s already precarious racial and political tinderbox. ‘Angry, betrayed, disappointed’: Jussie Smollett’s alleged lies inflame already tense Chicago 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z The scores comes out sounding more personal, if documentary, for it — a postcard from a precarious Europe on the brink. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Same goes for Louis Hyman, whose “Temp” took a familiar subject — the gig economy — and showed how the world of precarious jobs was anything but inevitable. Times Critics Discuss the Year in Books, From Triumphs to Disappointments 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z It makes for difficult viewing, but Myers’s intelligent script is attuned to the difficulties of re-establishing trust and love within these precarious relationships. Offbeat Streaming: ‘Knock Knock,’ ‘John Lewis’ and ‘Sleight’ 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Whether Hodges was blacklisted or not remains a mystery, but his situation was always going to be precarious. The Political Athlete: Then and Now 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z For now, the not-making-a-dime defence seems to be keeping potential litigants at bay, enabling a return to the unshackled creativity of the late 80s, but it is a precarious freedom. Harlem Shake: could it kill sampling? 2013-03-13T17:03:00Z Jordan snarls on the leadoff title track, a song that careens with the precarious dynamism of a carnival thrill ride. Snail Mail Turns a Bleeding Heart Into a Spectacular Album 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z It’s a precarious ending: Flowers may bloom, but a more colorless reality awaits outside. Review: A New Opera Pays Poetic Tribute to the Creative Process 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Queerness, Pendleton said, was “the perpetually misunderstood position,” at once precarious but also full of possibility. Adam Pendleton Is Rethinking the Museum 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Berkeley insisted that Williams, five months pregnant, perform precarious water-ski stunts at Cypress Gardens for Easy to Love. Bathing Beauty: The Wet and Wild Life of Esther Williams 2013-06-13T15:28:43Z Watching these episodes reminded me of the precarious tenderness of this age and how quickly the world tans the softness of innocence into a tougher hide simply by moving through it. As "PEN15" draws to a close, we're left in the hell of seventh grade, exactly as it should be 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” which he wrote after a precarious sailing trip, is about a cheeseburger, plain and simple, with a euphoric bridge that is just a list of condiments he loves. Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Smart diners come early and grab one of the two windowsills, although eating is still a precarious business. The Sound and Fury of Handmade Dough at Very Fresh Noodles 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z He has a son from a previous relationship and fears that an already precarious custody arrangement could be made worse if people find out that he’s gay. Wilson High Principal Pete Cahall: ‘It’s time to come out’ as gay In a loose white dress — somewhat like a hospital gown — she climbed to the top of an eight-foot ladder and sat on that precarious perch for the rest of the dance, partially immobilized. Dance Review: Donna Uchizono Interprets Ideas of Oliver Sacks 2013-04-23T22:10:51Z “The Treasure” is both a fable of futility worthy of Samuel Beckett and an allegory of Romania’s precarious place at the margins of the European Union. ‘The Whistlers’ Review: From Bucharest With Ambivalence 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Although I did a good deal of patting his back hard to make him more comfortable I had no idea how precarious his hold on life was. Claire Tomalin’s Favorite Fictional Heroine? It ‘Must Be Natasha’ in ‘War and Peace’ 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z The situation was still rather precarious in Los Angeles. VIRUS DIARY: A film writer goes back to the movies 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z It’s the only place where I can receive a drug that could change my life, but access remains precarious. A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z "Modeling is precarious freelance labor," said model Sara Ziff, who was discovered at 14 walking home from her New York City high school. Fashion models organize to fend off abuses 2012-02-08T19:25:08Z The frightening part of this story is that Provincetown’s charming little ecosystem of restaurants, inns and performance spaces is a microcosm of the precarious ecosystems of dining, travel and live entertainment that exist elsewhere. After a Midsummer Shiver, Provincetown Proceeds With Care 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Not the most thrilling rhetoric perhaps, but unavoidable given the theatre's precarious situation. Hull Truck theatre returns to its roots 2013-04-25T10:39:16Z Her position is especially precarious when illusion is so essential to a show's charms. Spoiler alert! 'Borrowed Time' magic show will leave you astonished 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Through re-enactments and expert interviews, the leadership and collaborations of presidents, generals, explorers and ordinary Americans who helped guide the country in these precarious moments come into focus. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Ganja & Hess’ and ‘Outcry’ 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z I’m not sure if we’ll be able to use it, since my husband’s health is so precarious. After husband’s fall, will American offer a refund? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The career path is still precarious for unknowns who want to destabilize pop. With Streaming, Musicians and Fans Find Room to Experiment and Explore 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z They appear suspended as though caught in a gel, a reflection of their precarious state of limbo as a people. The Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Maduro said it was an error to let people live so long in such a precarious structure, where some people died falling off ledges. Venezuela's world-famous 'vertical slum' may be demolished 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z A moment before, having ad-libbed his way into that precarious position, he had said, dryly, “There’s a load of possibilities here.” Dance Review: Keith Hennessey?s ?Almost? at Abrons Arts Center - Review 2012-01-14T01:00:28Z Alaska officials hope this and other projects will help diversify the state's economy from its precarious dependence on dwindling oil production. Boosters hope Alaska will be "Hollywood Far North" 2010-10-02T19:01:00Z But that balance is increasingly precarious, especially with the double threat of climate change and population growth, which is expected to increase by 46 percent in Salt Lake County by 2040. In Salt Lake City, a Proposal to Link Ski Trails 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The infusion of AI comes at a precarious time for the writing world. Oh, the humanity! Stop using AI to pitch stories 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z As the pandemic continues to loom over the return of live performances, the Broadway season remains precarious. With a Mess of Fabrics, Broadway’s Costume Shops Return to Work 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z “Things are quite precarious right now,” she said. The Petronio Residency Center to Close After Six-Year Run 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z If anything, it would make his safety even more precarious. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: You’re wealthy, your brother’s ill, and help is … not on the way 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z But he is handsome, of course: He’s played by Richard Gere, who uses his unmistakable if somewhat faded movie-star charisma and his formidable acting skills to draw us into George’s sad, precarious reality. Review: Richard Gere in ‘Time Out of Mind,’ a Life Adrift on the Margins 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z The one thing they all share is a hollow look in their eyes that communicates the precarious situation they’re forced into. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 1, Episode 8: Profit and Pleasure 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z But life in New York, where he worked as an art handler, house painter and carpenter in between music gigs, was at times precarious, especially after he and Ms. Siegel broke up in 2013. Hamish Kilgour, Whose New Zealand Cult Band Had Reach, Dies at 65 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Two young black women face futures made precarious by sudden violence wrought by men in their lives. You Will Soon Know These Names: Taylor Russell and Jodie Turner-Smith 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Against a foe nefarious, his fate is so precarious, you pray he just makes it out alive. Style Invitational Week 1078: Hyphen the Terrible — neologisms plus winning parodies “Ownership is a sign and a signal of wealth and status and success in a precarious capitalist competitive world,” she said. Real Men Don’t Rent 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z A creaky lantern hangs from the ceiling; she reaches toward it and, with a brisk shove, sets it swinging on its precarious hinges. ‘Then She Fell’ Is Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Life and Work 2013-08-09T18:49:22Z As the years pass, Nick’s precarious masculinity erodes. A Spellbinding Debut Leaps Across Genres to Recreate the Confusion of Trauma 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Even for an artist like Ware with a decent-sized fan base, the economics of making a full-time living as a musician in the streaming era are precarious. How Jessie Ware Cooked Her Way Into a Musical Fantasy 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Quarry Hall at Dinosaur National Monument is newer and slicker than the Price museum, but we soon learned that its fate was once as precarious as a plant-eating stegosaurus amid a pack of predatory sauropods. On a dino crusade in Utah, tracks don’t always follow the map 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z It used to happen just before the plane landed, in that precarious moment between heaven and earth. Three-hour lead time and luck are keys to avoiding TSA slowdowns this summer 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z While their jobs may be not as precarious as adjuncts, any marginalized faculty is going to be in danger when it comes to cuts. With a storyline about the adjunct crisis, “Lucky Hank” moves to the head of the class 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z But tragically Amy seemed to fall apart under the relentless media attention, her troubled relationships, her global success and precarious lifestyle. ArtsBeat: Amy Winehouse Documentary Coming From Director of ‘Senna’ 2013-04-25T15:34:32Z To earn money, he and Ms. Davis went on tour, promoting books and documentaries about the case, despite Mr. Echols’s precarious physical and psychological state. Now Damien Echols Will Teach You the Secrets of Magick 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Her physical existence in the world is precarious.” The Startling Poetry of a Nearly Forgotten Japanese Modernist 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z “She dutifully describes the Cinderella episodes the girls and parents of Troop 6000 enjoy, but she refuses to avert her eyes from their precarious lives,” Samuel G. Freedman writes in his review. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z The impact on arts organizations and artists, often in a precarious financial condition even before the pandemic hit, has been brutal. The Metropolitan Opera Won’t Reopen for Another Year 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Rock and roll music has always reflected the times, and we're in some pretty precarious times. Gov't Mule embraces Pink Floyd, peace and protest: "We're in some pretty precarious times" 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z It is not the nature of the capitalist system that is inherently problematic; rather, it is the failure of individuals to be mindful and resilient in a precarious and uncertain economy. The mindfulness conspiracy 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z In the other version of Mary’s story, she’s an unprotected worker in precarious circumstances. The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Elsewhere in government-controlled areas, damage has been more extensive, there has been no running water for long periods and fighting makes access to the outside world precarious. Far from war's front lines, life in Syria is still tough 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z I doubt Watkins was standing behind Muybridge coaching him – especially when Muybridge is standing in precarious places. Eadweard Muybridge: Feet off the ground 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z The time spent building this improbable, precarious place – soon to be toppled by an earthquake, razed by a fire and then built up again – is also made manifest. Eadweard Muybridge 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z That was during the Great Recession; 12 years later, the country is again facing financial crisis, and it is again a precarious time to be an independent designer. Who Designed Jill Biden’s Inauguration Outfit? 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Those ancient Greeks knew a thing or two about the precarious balancing act between pursuit of personal fulfillment and responsibility to something greater than one’s own self-interest. 'Jean Anouilh's Antigone,' Greek mythology for the selfie era 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z What’s often missing are the elusive intangibles — a stuttering, precarious sort of grace, for starters — that once sent Monk’s music into flight. New Music: New Music by Kevin Hufnagel, Jimmy Owens and Guided by Voices 2012-01-03T00:53:03Z “She really went into what it means to love someone even though it might be a precarious situation,” he said. Turning To a Ghostwriter for a Personal Toast 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z And, yes, the country’s work force was made up largely of noncitizens, too many of them working in precarious, exploitative situations far from their home countries. The Stories About Abu Dhabi That Are Rarely Told 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z It was a precarious life, but she had a gift for multitasking. How an anxiety attack changed a skeptic's mind about self-help books 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z More broadly, the whole system of dance companies has become more precarious and the former post-Juilliard trajectory for students less viable. ‘It’s About Connections’: Alicia Graf Mack Remakes Juilliard Dance 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Despite all the exposure the women enjoyed at their peak, the collapse of the communist government in Bulgaria at the end of the ’80s put them in a precarious position. An ’80s rock star, a beat boxer and a Bulgarian folk choir walk into a studio 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z To highlight this precarious position, just this week, the trans employees who helped to stage the company-wide walkout also issued a list of very basic demands. Netflix execs and "Squid Game" VIPs are playing from the same out-of-touch handbook 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z The Titanic, Friedlander said, touches on "precarious circumstances and how someone's socio-economic class can potentially affect the way their life is valued by others and why that's inappropriate and immoral." Titanic a magnet for kids, fine line for educators 2012-03-21T16:27:11Z These women’s designs are a reminder that objects of beauty and comfort should be available to everyone, and that these precarious, uncertain times might be making partial pioneers of many of us. The Enduring Appeal of Laura Ashley 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z To my eyes, the stacks weren’t really that precarious. Review | All the books in my 300 boxes sparked joy. The lockdown made me rethink why I was keeping them. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z “It’s great with zero budget things like this, with the art in such precarious places,” he added, continuing on his way. In Berlin, Finding Art in Unlikely Places 2010-08-01T10:01:00Z The winding road, even in daylight, was precarious with dramatic cliff-plunges. On Tobago, Mermen Come Calling 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Although I understand it's a great way to meet people, it's also horribly precarious. Is hitchhiking a thing of the past? 2011-08-13T23:06:26Z It’s a precarious wet-foot situation, especially when rushing in the morning. | Check In, Check Out : Hotel Review: Hotel Mio in Buenos Aires 2011-09-16T18:55:00Z Those lives seem a little precarious from the start. Down and Out in Paris: Amy Herzog’s Belleville 2013-03-06T13:00:15Z To be in a boy band is to enjoy a precarious kind of fame. Protest music?s odd conservative turn 2012-05-21T15:38:00Z He also reconnects with Sam, with Tinafey’s urging and support, and his precarious relationship with his daughter drives both the plot and the emotional journey of the novel. Richard Lange's 'The Smack' is refreshingly realistic L.A. Noir 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z But even then, the ideal of wildness was precarious. Paris, home of the avant-garde 2011-03-26T00:05:47Z Grunge’s living legacy seems more precarious than ever since Chris Cornell’s untimely death last year. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z With fierceness and fine comic timing, the performers persuasively chart the breakdown of Lee and Austin’s precarious detente. Two plays deal with betrayal with mixed results 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The latest wave of drama over her memoir “Not That Kind of Girl” hits at a precarious time. “Girls” with baggage: Will the Lena Dunham controversy affect the experience of watching her show? 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z In her class for Syracuse, which she teaches in Manhattan, Ms. Reid addresses the precarious definition of what the president calls “fake news,” and why it is a dangerous concept. How Joy Reid of MSNBC Became a Heroine of the Resistance 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z In part, I can’t decide if this episode was more about Bill’s precarious foothold in life and work, or Virginia’s. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Doing Your Own Dirty Work 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z “It’s a very precarious situation,” said Rep. Pamela Hunter, the first vice chair of the New York State Democratic Party. In Buffalo, a democratic socialist vies for mayor in a race she thought she’d already won 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z PALMA, Majorca — In 1938, the Spanish artist Joan Miró, then 45, was living a precarious existence in Paris, moving from one insufficient studio to the next. Seeing Miró’s Majorca Studio, Just the Way He Kept It 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z But those dreams are precarious for the economically vulnerable. Is this Howard University’s tipping point? 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z As food supply systems become increasingly precarious, roadkill serves as a reminder of nature’s idiosyncratic bounty. Eat more roadkill! It’s the most ethical meat 2014-03-09T16:30:00Z Rich called forward voices created in a precarious world. Adrienne Rich’s Poetic Transformations 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z These are the US indie queens, women whose legends were built by low-budget films, who used their intrinsic cool and prolific output to keep the most precarious corner of the film industry afloat. Rooney Mara: look out, Greta Gerwig – there’s a new arthouse darling in town 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z “The first thing I was told about Bruce was that he puts people in really precarious situations,” said Terron Wood, a model who shot several ad campaigns with Mr. Weber between 2007 and 2010. Male Models Say Mario Testino and Bruce Weber Sexually Exploited Them 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z The Grade II listed building is on the at-risk register: 40% of the site is in a "precarious and fragile" state. Wilton's Music Hall clears first hurdle on road to £1.6m full restoration 2012-06-28T19:33:32Z Ours was an uneasy peace, perhaps too precarious to survive rigorous examination, and we were both on edge as Election Day approached. Modern Love: The Mixed-Politics Marriage - Modern Love 2012-11-03T03:48:14Z "To get to this stage in life with your dignity and judgment intact can be somewhat precarious," the 50-year-old actor admitted as he accepted the Globe. The King's Speech on course to wear Bafta crown 2011-01-18T19:44:17Z Because dreams, it is believed, are wasteful, an unnecessary expenditure of calories during a precarious and vulnerable time, putting dreamers at risk of using up all of their stored fats. A Brilliantly Funny and Slightly Bonkers New Novel From Jasper Fforde 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Heirlooms inhabit a commercially precarious world, and fluctuations are not inherently dire. There are hundreds of recorded types of some fruits. You wouldn’t know it from stores. 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Near the end, the movie becomes a surreal depiction of his precarious mental state. Review: ‘Set Fire to the Stars’ Unleashes Dylan Thomas on America 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z We took all of that energy that we weren't supposed to succeed, and we showed them that success exists even in the most precarious corners. Golden Globes 2015: 'Jane the Virgin's' Gina Rodriguez on her nomination 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The hotels I am grateful for are run by sensitive, thoughtful people who provide the precarious balance of anonymity and personal care that I crave. Exploring the Brave New World of Hotel Tech Amenities 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Karl's rich uncle Jakob meets him off the boat but he soon drifts into a netherworld of precarious employment and squalid lodgings when a misstep at a country get-together means he's sent packing once more. The Man Who Disappeared by Franz Kafka – review 2013-06-16T09:00:01Z The big difference is that for us freelance/adjunct/part-time workers, work is fundamentally precarious. I worked hard for no pay — and I dug it 2013-02-10T23:00:00Z They're malicious spam that wastes time and they couldn't come at a worst time in the currently precarious world of literature and writing. Oh, the humanity! Stop using AI to pitch stories 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Enter a pandemic that has shattered our already precarious parenting lives and provided ample evidence of our systems’ failures. Perspective | How to cope with parent guilt, during the pandemic and beyond 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z “The precarious structure embodies the vulnerable status of these migrants,” said Ms. Ramírez, who shows the acquisition in a dialogue with Ms. Mesa-Bains’s “Transparent Migrations.” Inspiration From South of the Border Moves Center Stage in Houston 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z It was seven miles down a bumpy 4x4 track to the trailhead, and then a two-mile, winding, precarious hike to the water’s roar, but it was worth it. British Columbia road trip: the art of getting lost 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z But as traditional family structures have declined, fatherhood has also become more precarious. Condoms are so hundred years ago: Why we need more ways for men to control their fertility 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Once the film, which is visually snazzy in a twisted, kitchen-sink style, turns into a satire of the Los Angeles rock scene, it loses its precarious footing. | 'Sympathy for Delicious': A Cynical Faith Healer Who Can?t Fix Himself 2011-04-28T23:40:24Z Sadly, due to precarious funding for such digs, most of what emerges out of the site is stored away, perhaps simply to be abandoned as the wind works away at what remains. Review | In ‘Surfacing,’ Kathleen Jamie ponders the natural world and our place in it 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The problem here was not just that in this crucial dramatic moment, with Ms. Voigt about to sing the first line of her first Brünnhilde, Mr. Lepage saddled her with a precarious stage maneuver. Opera Review: A ?Walk?re? Still Obsessed With Its Big, Expensive Toy 2011-04-23T18:40:58Z The balance of nature is at stake, a precarious balance perhaps more vital than a human life or a tiger's life. 'The Tiger': John Vaillant's mesmerizing tale of a man-eating tiger, vengeance and survival 2010-08-25T23:16:00Z The LP, he has said, is about “our narrowing, precarious future,” and it returns to songs with lyrics and vocals after more than a decade of primarily instrumental and ambient works. Beyoncé’s Anthem for the Unique, and 10 More New Songs 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z But like Willa far in the future, he’s saddled with the demands of a multigenerational family, a precarious income and a collapsing house. Review | In Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Unsheltered,’ Trump is just the latest threat to Earth’s survival 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z In the novel, the story with the animals appears not to have saved Pi from trauma, and so we begin to wonder about how Pi’s insistence on belief may have actually reinforced his precarious condition. How “Life of Pi” anticipated 9/11 2013-04-28T19:00:00Z She writes difficult, nuanced characters in difficult, precarious situations, none of them angels, none demons, all of them hanging onto their emotional, marital and/or financial stability by thin threads. 'Refund' burrows into what's right, wrong about 21st century America 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Phillips’s protagonist, Josephine, is a woman in precarious financial straits, relieved to finally obtain a job entering information into a database. The Office Politics of Workplace Fiction by Women 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z We begin to recognise the precarious high-wire act that most creative depressives undertake, trapped between the unbearable pain of their illness and the equally unbearable blockages brought about by their medication – walking Dryden's "thin partitions". Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z Mr Thompson's own position looked precarious at times. Mark Thompson: A hard act to follow 2012-09-15T01:03:43Z They reveal that life on this planet is magnificently diverse, but also precarious and in deep, deep peril. Perspective | Are nature documentaries the greatest art of our time? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z When “Mezzanine” appeared, its songs hovered in their own cavernous voids: at once dynamic and methodical, implacable and precarious, urgent yet stubbornly unhurried. Massive Attack Revisits, and Rethinks, Its Classic Album ‘Mezzanine’ 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z If it’s impossible not to spend every waking hour obsessing over the precarious state of the public’s health, it’s likewise impossible not to project those anxieties onto anything one might choose to watch. Exposure therapy: why we're obsessed with watching virus movies 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Sinai, up the street, revealed that he was indeed down with a life-threatening blood clot, made all the worse by his already precarious health. Clive James Got It Right 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z With the election, the freedom of the press suddenly seemed even more precarious. For documentary filmmakers, our crazy news cycle is a nightmare — and a dream come true 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Once you’ve turned 40, the road forward has fewer forks, scars from the past have settled into the skin, and existence begins to feel more precarious. Humana Festival, Turning 40, Looks at Mortality, Dystopia and Change 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Gossipy chatter about the precarious personal lives of the genre’s superstars who may or may not be singing about their precarious personal lives. Ashley Monroe, rising above the chatter of country music 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z "Rock and roll music has always reflected the times, and we're in some pretty precarious times." Gov't Mule embraces Pink Floyd, peace and protest: "We're in some pretty precarious times" 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z “Harlem Shuffle” is largely the story of piling up more and more weight against that precarious wall that Carney imagines separates him from the city’s grifters and thieves. Review | With ‘Harlem Shuffle,’ Colson Whitehead proves once again that he’s a master of reinvention 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Her earlier pieces, especially, were harrowing in their portrayal of haunted souls and precarious sanity; later in her career, there was more humour, though it was wry rather than sunny. Step-by-step guide to dance: Pina Bausch/Tanztheater Wuppertal 2010-03-30T11:13:00Z Many are in precarious health as a result of the operation. Female mutilation a means of male power over women: UN rights chief 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z As days passed and deaths from COVID-19 and from the protests began to mount, it became even more clear to us abroad how precarious remaining in the U.S. would've been. Before Jan. 6, I knew violence was coming. I know how far men like Trump will go to win 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z The precarious multiple-ladder-stacking technique used to get it up there in the first place was a stunt worthy of Mission: Impossible. Cine-files: City Screen, York 2012-05-29T08:40:00Z And yet things have never been so precarious. House of Cards's Spacey-less final season trailer: Netflix plays it safe 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Elsewhere he depicts Edinburgh as a precarious, soot-blackened fairyland; ringed by black rock and lashed by rain. Edinburgh film festival review: The Illusionist 2010-06-17T08:41:00Z And it exposes a misleading Sackler-produced advertising campaign that used fake doctors to promote precarious combinations of antibiotics. How Big Pharma Grew Addicted to Big Profits 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z For decades, African-American folklore failed to capture mainstream attention and remained in a perpetually precarious position, always on the verge of being lost. From Two Scholars, African-American Folk Tales for the Next Generation 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z But all their plans are halted and Dendera's precarious balance is toppled with the arrival of a hungry mother bear. 'Dendera': Yuya Sato on his fable about old women battling a bear 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z The language is too heightened, the images too magical and precarious, the yearnings too dire, the sense of loss too palpable—everything is too simultaneously comic and tragic. Creating new books from old 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z Julius’s position at work has been precarious since it was revealed that he voted for Trump. ‘The Good Fight’ Season 1, Episode 6: Potency and Perspective 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The virus was on the wane, but its impact made things seem precarious inside the mall. Greetings from the pandemic memory hole, where the last two years are one big blur 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z The Covid era is a precarious time for students joining the art world, itself reckoning with the economic sustainability of museums, galleries and global art fairs. Newly Minted Artists, Facing a Precarious Future, Take Action 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Because of this, there are too many books stacked in precarious towers waiting to collapse whenever I reach for anything, the newer books burying the older. Sandra Cisneros Loves to Read About Women Waging Battle 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z High culture is a precarious achievement, and endures only if it is underpinned by a sense of tradition, and by a broad endorsement of the surrounding social norms. High culture is being corrupted by a culture of fakes 2012-12-19T08:30:04Z The block looks greener, more settled and maintained, than it did when I lived there, but it also feels more precarious to me, more vigilant and embattled. The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z They fear that the lack of a strong musical hand could leave the house adrift as opera struggles for relevance and the Met’s finances remain precarious. Amid Tension, Met and James Levine Mull Last Bow 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z “It’s a very precarious situation,” said Rep. Pamela J. Hunter, the first vice chair of the New York State Democratic Party. Who’s afraid of India Walton? 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Land ownership in America, a precarious notion for both the colonists and the enslaved, took on new meaning during Reconstruction. Black families once lived off their southern farmland. Their descendants are struggling to hold onto it. 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z It forces us to ask how this little festival, privately run on a precarious budget and with no major sponsor, can muster performances of this quality and intensity. Götterdämmerung; BBC Proms – review 2012-07-21T23:05:54Z The loss of a child, precarious finances and fear of belittlement from their white neighbors confound an immigrant family from Taiwan. 50 notable works of fiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z A precarious staircase, which she continually struggles to ascend, symbolises both the glamour and entrapment of celebrity. Powder Her Face 2010-04-28T21:00:00Z They endure precarious careers, roller-coaster romances and personal conflicts, but the tone of the story truly darkens when Pearl Harbor is bombed and the United States declares war on Japan. ‘China Dolls’: Lisa See’s novel about friendship in a nightclub in the late 1930s But he determined early on that playing jazz would be a precarious way for him to make a living, and he became more focused on presenting it. George Wein, Jazz Festival Trailblazer, Is Dead at 95 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z That’s especially true for domestic laborers, she added — another precarious job that Filipinos dominate. As virus mutes Dubai nightlife, Filipino bands feel the pain 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z One story is about an increasingly precarious sex game, another about an 11-year-old’s birthday party gone wrong. If You Thought ‘Cat Person’ Was Dark, Wait Until You Read the Rest of the Book 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z The Public, like most nonprofit theaters, is in a precarious financial position because of the pandemic. How André Holland and Company Brought ‘Richard II’ to Radio 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Also dangling are three ladders, too precarious to be climbed by anyone carrying the weight of everyday life. Galleries: One view of how people of color are portrayed in pre-modern art 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Sure, restaurants are precarious enterprises, narrowly avoiding failure night after night, but stress is not the same thing as a narrative. Review: 'Feed the Beast' Will Leave You Hungry 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z On the north side, where Santiago lives, the land flattens and the dwellings grow more precarious and quirky. T Magazine: The Coast of Utopia 2011-09-30T14:00:14Z But others from the class led much more precarious lives. ‘A Long Hungry Look’: Forgotten Gordon Parks Photos Document Segregation 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z At Thursday’s news conference, Melanie Keen, the director of the Wellcome Collection and one of the Turner Prize judges, praised Darling’s “fragile and often precarious sculptures” evoking vulnerable bodies. Artist of Black Portraiture Leads Turner Prize Shortlist 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z You may be imagining a man in an oversized coat squatting in a theater with a camcorder nestled on his knees, but no – it’s nothing so precarious. The Revenant and The Hateful Eight leaked – and awards season is to blame 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Chekhov suggested that every day imposes a precarious mood, and we either submit to the point of damage, or we struggle to transcend it, trying to gain some equilibrium, and even discover a little happiness. Ann Beattie is one of our few contemporary masters of storytelling 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z But her work feels both more omnivorous and more precarious. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Four decades on, the Met still stands, eternally precarious. The Met Chooses Yannick Nézet-Séguin 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The play’s poignancy lies in how mercilessly difficult that is, and how precarious for all of them. Review: A Crisis of Borders in ‘72 Miles to Go…’ 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Set in 1931 Berlin, "Cabaret" centers on the world of the indulgent Kit Kat Klub as it becomes intertwined with the world outside, which gets more precarious on the brink of World War II. 'Cabaret' celebrates 41st birthday with a party 2013-01-28T14:13:14Z They lie among the skin magazines, traffic tickets, discarded socks and shoes, beneath the Waits Towers – precarious piles of records, tapes, boxes and beer cans atop hidden pieces of furniture. Tom Waits: 'I'm a night-owl reporter' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-08-07T16:41:06Z The Democrats, meanwhile, intuiting that their roles were more precarious, remained sober. Perspective | The Michael Cohen hearing wasn’t a hearing at all. It was cheap theatrics. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z In 2017’s “Flight Pattern,” a meditation on the refugee crisis that has been haunting Europe, she conjures both chaos and a precarious calm in a swirling mass of 36 dancers. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Homer Simpson in a precarious scene from “The Simpsons Movie.” ArtsBeat Blog: Dispute Over 'Simpsons' Actors' Salaries Could Halt Series 2011-10-04T19:24:07Z This approach produced some exciting moments: women balancing on the men’s shoulders at a precarious downward slope; one man skidding under his partner’s leg in the split second it was lifted. Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet Plays With Limits and Dystopia at City Center 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Minor characters who really should have been shock-death fodder long ago, but just keep on trucking, oblivious to their precarious position. Game of Thrones: the survivor awards (aka how the hell did they make it out alive?) 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Earlier today David was kind enough to speak with Forbes about his editing process, precarious sanity, and the biggest challenge upon synthesizing his favorite films into a quick, 10 minute video. A Video Countdown of the Year's 25 Best Movies 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z The paper’s future seemed precarious — until, one afternoon in summer 2013, it suddenly didn’t. Perspective | The Style section at 50: Still sharp, snarky and soulful — and always a work in progress 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Here, ugliness becomes a kind of precarious beauty and yards of fabric suddenly transform an ordinary stage into a spiky mountain range or the furious waves of the ocean. New York City Ballet Is Back, and the Real Jewels Are the Dancers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z She says they were humble and hard-working and couldn’t understand why she would pursue such a precarious career path. Kali Uchis used to live out of her car. Now, she’s one of pop music’s rising stars. 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z But, as “Mad Men” continues its long farewell march, what should be a celebratory moment for Hamm is looking like a strangely precarious one. Why the golden age of TV isn’t producing more movie stars 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The second season of “Atlanta” had a theme: money, scams and the precarious struggle of its characters on the periphery of the hip-hop business to hang on to what they have. The Best TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z The women endure precarious careers, roller-coaster romances and personal conflicts, but their precarious bond is put to the test when the United States declares war on Japan. The top 50 fiction books for 2014 Back then, he photographed these precarious places in a classic documentary style influenced by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange's stark images of the Great Depression in 30s America. The Garden: Alessandro Imbriaco photographs one family's exile to Eden 2013-02-15T12:27:38Z Of note, I think, is Coates’ willingness to describe openly the precarious financial straits he and his wife, Kenyatta, navigated as he sought steady employment. Ta-Nehisi Coates blazes a singular intellectual path in 'We Were Eight Years in Power' 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z A street lobster roll is a precarious pile of heartbreak just waiting to happen. Spaghetti in a cone: a miracle of physics, a genius food delivery system 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Tinder & Ash employs trapeze and handstands to dissect vulnerability and interdependence while Tangle Movement Arts turns a series of hanging loops into a stand-in for examining precarious relationships. Dance Listings for Aug. 1-7 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Their anomie is both a psychological state and a natural reaction, Mr. DeLillo implies, to the precarious conditions of a world in thrall to madmen and the mass media. Books of The Times: Don DeLillo Stories, Led by ?The Angel Esmeralda? ? Review 2011-11-16T18:38:21Z Thea Djordjadze's chair, two pieces of foam balanced on stick legs, looks so cheap and precarious that it could fall over any minute. Interior dark: two shows reveal visions of the unhomely 2010-06-16T10:07:00Z For whatever reason in that moment, I thought of his side of the room we call our office, a jumble of precarious stacks of stuff that no effort at feng shui could fix. Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Forced Cinderella to Scrub the Stage Floor’ 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z My heart goes out to suffering zoo animals mostly, I think, because I feel fully identified with their precarious place in the world. Animal penises’ amazing evolution 2012-06-12T15:40:00Z Her professional progress is as precarious as her social life. Movie Review: ‘Frances Ha,’ With Greta Gerwig 2013-05-16T21:27:33Z The two leaned on each other, struck precarious balances, sprang apart. Khambatta Dance Company tops off a fine 'Spotlight on Seattle' evening with some blanket-wrestling that turns into a sublime duet 2010-06-09T17:38:00Z Once she'd captured the precarious little sculptures with her camera, she broke them up again. Artist of the week 192: Sara VanDerBeek 2012-06-07T09:27:20Z He comes out of hiding after the illicit nest egg he saved for himself and his wife, who is in precarious health, is depleted. 8 New Comic Book Series for the End of Summer 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z It’s a fitting analogy for the present economic moment: a classical temple rebuilt from refuse atop a precarious structure. | Hany Armanious 2010-12-06T16:55:00Z "You might not want it to end up in San Francisco," Francis said, referring to the precarious balancing act for the plates and the notion of exhibiting them in an earthquake zone. Serra sculptures both huge and dense go on view in London 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z She observed some of my behaviors: racing thoughts, hopelessness, bursts of distraction, random crying spells, precarious irritation. How marijuana edibles keeps this guy focused and working 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z "The situation of human rights organizations is so precarious in Russia today that Agora is unable to accept the prize money awarded along with the Rafto Prize." Russian lawyer wins Norwegian human rights prize 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z It seems highly precarious, too, for the daily lives of millions of women to depend on a Supreme Court justice’s feelings about his wife and daughters and female law clerks. Perspective | What men are trying to say when they show off their Female Relationship Résumé 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Naturally, the Corcoran is spinning this decision as the best possible outcome given the museum's precarious financial circumstances. R.I.P. Corcoran Gallery. Now, about that collection... 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z But it's a precarious proposition, one that could easily backfire and expose how much of an outsider you actually may be. Andrew Yang fails to show his authentic "New Yorker-ness" in a revealing tweet about Shake Shack 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Its society lives in a precarious but largely peaceful symbiosis with the Indigenous Ñeê population. A Town Is Besieged by Children, Foreign and Violent 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Oliver referenced a Washington Post report published over the weekend, titled "Trump at a precarious moment in his presidency: Privately brooding and publicly roaring," which states: John Oliver calls out Donald Trump’s “galling lie” about Don Jr. 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Your social standing is so precarious in this world anyway, that your social capital is much more vulnerable. "Boys & Sex" author: If you can't say no, I don't know if you can hear it 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Watching the birds fight for a chance to peck at the wildebeest’s eyes and entrails seemed to me a sufficient reminder of the precarious state of life in the wild. Personal Journeys : In East Africa, Safaris That Leave a Lighter Footprint 2014-01-31T18:49:41Z And this fact—given Spain’s especially precarious economic position—may help us get to the root of the sudden interest in the issue. “Workaholism” is real 2012-10-02T22:38:00Z But it was precarious, torn by rival Mongol realms. Reconstructing Marco Polo’s Journey East 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z A fall in 2010 caused a broken hip and other injuries that left him in more precarious health. 'Taxi,' 'Grease' star Jeff Conaway dies at 60 2011-05-27T19:32:29Z The book follows a nameless freelance writer and translator, who, seeking to improve her precarious financial situation, takes on a temporary, low-level position in an Amazon warehouse, in Leipzig, during the Christmas rush. “Seasonal Associate” Is a Labor Memoir for the Amazon Era 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z These blows could be deemed an assault on an officer, rendering Henry vulnerable to an extended stay in solitary confinement, which would, of course, only further harm his already precarious mental state. Where the Sick Get Sicker and the Sane Are Driven Mad: Behind Bars 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z It’s a harrowing, often heartbreaking tale of precarious boat trips, run-ins with corrupt border guards and parched, hopeless days in the Sonoran desert. Javier Zamora Carried a Heavy Load. He Laid it to Rest on the Page. 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z The HIV epidemic, he said, “is at a precarious point”, with funding 20% short of where it needs to be and people with HIV being put on treatment at a slower pace than before. UNAids chief refuses to quit over handling of sexual misconduct claims 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Fisk argued that its precarious financial state prevents the historically black university from maintaining and displaying the collection. Judge rejects Fisk deal to sell O'Keeffe share 2010-08-20T21:44:00Z And today, in a time of global warming and wealth disparity, “when so much feels precarious, serial monogamists cling to their partners for comfort.” Review: ‘Labor of Love’ and ‘The Course of Love,’ on Finding and Keeping It 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z The word “contingent” does have the advantage of describing the precarious nature of all those professors who teach off the tenure track, with their unpredictable income depending on enrollment and various funding sources. The Wal-Mart-ization of higher education: How young professors are getting screwed 2014-02-16T11:59:00Z Survivors eke out a precarious existence and strike back however they can. Close encounters of a tired kind 2011-06-19T21:20:00Z Directorial conceits are applied delicately, in keeping with the gentler threads of this Shakespearean romance, balanced on the precarious edge of comedy and tragedy. Review | ‘The Winter’s Tale’ should warm your heart. This one leaves you cold. 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z But in “Education,” McQueen makes agonizingly clear just how precarious his path was. Perspective | The unbreakable gaze of Steve McQueen: ‘I’m asking you, please, look’ 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Zelda and her frequently precarious mental state are the focus of the story as she talks with a young doctor about her life and husband. Spring and Summer Theater Listings 2010-02-21T00:33:00Z Donnie’s finances are precarious because his career as a music journalist is unsteady. Review: In ‘Dot,’ a Fading Matriarch Brings a Family Together 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z The eight episodes of this semi-autobiographical comedy also gives viewers insight into the life of undocumented immigrants and the precarious life of those waiting for asylum to be granted. "You have to outwork everybody": Mo Amer on his Netflix immigrant comedy about hustling in Houston 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z This kind of financial patronage is pivotal in propelling careers forward, particularly in precarious areas like the cultural industries. The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Deeply afraid of poverty, unconvinced of the viability of her relationship, and unwilling to surrender her dreams for a precarious future as a struggling single mother, Seek makes an adoption plan for her unborn child. Amy Seek's 'Confessions of a Birth Mother' explores meanings of motherhood 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Photograph: Disney/Pixar In the notoriously precarious film industry, where nothing is certain and no one knows anything, there is one word that functions simultaneously as talisman, balm and kitemark. Living dolls 2010-06-30T19:00:00Z To what end, exactly, is uncertain, but it does allow Chowdhury to explore the difficulties of mixing business, pleasure and personal experience in the precarious quest to analyze subcultures defined by their marginalization. Review: ‘Public Obscenities’ Pushes Far Beyond One Field of Study 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Set in 1931 Berlin, “Cabaret” centers on the world of the indulgent Kit Kat Klub as it becomes intertwined with the world outside, which gets more precarious on the brink of World War II. Linda Emond, Danny Burstein Join ‘Cabaret’ 2013-10-07T18:02:01Z The groups holed up and took stock of their situations, all of them precarious. 'The Walking Dead': Did the Midseason Finale Satisfy? 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Life-saving surgeries in precarious conditions are shown, sometimes in graphic detail. Mark Hopkins?s Film Explores Doctors Without Borders 2010-05-29T02:32:00Z And a strapless one-piece had hiplines that started at just under the bust, the whole seemingly precarious contraption held, one can only hope, in place by a low-slung belt. Bountiful bikinis at Rio fashion week 2012-05-27T18:58:14Z Indeed, Hollywood history shows us that the construction of a threequel is precarious, and often ends in anticlimax. Furred time's a charm? How Paddington can escape the curse of the threequel 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Everything revolves around the cops' precarious relationship with the drug kingpins in their unnamed British city. Crime fiction: the return of Jo Nesb?'s Harry Hole, Bill James times two and new books by Seattle-area authors 2011-05-04T20:19:04Z Complicating matters were Martí’s precarious health and military inexperience. ‘José Martí,’ by Alfred J. López 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z As a living legend, the very model of moral perfection and feminine wisdom, she enjoys a special position of extraordinary power — and she knows just how precarious that is. Review | Praise be: Margaret Atwood has published a sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Now, their lives are slightly more stable, though just as precarious as any refugee’s. A German Opera Spotlights the Refugee Crisis, With Refugees 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z How precarious and miraculous the good stuff in my life is. Where Did Those Hot Dog Fingers Come From? Daniels Explain 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Such an unlikely tie also led to the precarious situation still playing out on “Secretary.” The cold comforts of “Designated Survivor” and “Madam Secretary” 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z It is helping refugees and their families along their precarious path to safety. Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2015: refugees 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z But anyway, I think we are in a precarious position in terms of America’s image in the world. Madeleine Albright: ‘We are like the worst possible example of things. And it is hurting us.’ 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z In the second city of Maracaibo, where electricity is exceptionally precarious, truck driver Jesus Paz complained at a large display of lights at one end of the iconic bridge at the entrance to the city. Venezuela Christmas decorations light up anger over blackouts 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z They grew up with Harry Potter and graduated into a precarious economy, making them the ideal customers. I was an astrologer – here's how it really works, and why I had to stop 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Does establishing a film culture really matter in a precarious new democracy with so many other pressing needs? Lights, camera, revolution: the birth of Libyan cinema after Gaddafi's fall 2012-10-01T18:01:01Z 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 The late eighties and early nineties were the darkest, most precarious years of my life. Revisiting a Symphonic AIDS Memorial 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, she had precarious ground to tread: voicing women’s real-life concerns within the often idealistic Movement. Helen Gurley Brown, 1922-2012 2012-08-13T20:07:00Z Because this relationship is precarious, leaders often remain aloof to keep followers from seeing them as ordinary human beings. Why are people calling Bitcoin a religion? 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Bomb sites were our playground, offering precarious adventures in blown-apart buildings with their exposed staircases leading nowhere, their rat-infested cellars containing hidden household treasures. Family life 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z It's an especially precarious time in our lives because the stakes of everything feel so high. Nasim Pedrad finds her inner boy as "Chad": "It’s such a universal notion to just want to belong" 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z It’s no surprise, then, at this precarious juncture of history that people from the world over are making the journey to witness this lesson together in the theater. 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' reminds us of the power of courage in the face of evil 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Written to friends, writers, customers and family members, they depict a witty and resourceful woman struggling to keep her business, her writers and her precarious existence afloat. Books of The Times: ?Letters of Sylvia Beach,? Edited by Keri Walsh 2010-04-18T22:21:00Z Other days, I think that even if takeout isn’t quite enough to keep restaurants afloat, it’s crucial — the only way to sustain the precarious businesses fighting to stay open through the pandemic. Is My Takeout Risking Lives or Saving Restaurants? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z And as usual again, Jay is called on to solve a metastasizing case while walking a precarious tightrope between cultures. Aaron Pedersen Is a Different Kind of Archetypal Leading Man 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Although their marriage continues to be in a precarious place, this episode explores the deep affection they still have for one another. ‘The Good Fight’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap: Office Warfare 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Technical difficulties are bound to crop up in work that relies heavily on props and precarious contraptions, like the daredevil vignettes devised by Brian Sanders for his company, Junk. Dance Review: Brian Sanders’s Junk Infuses Choreography With Props 2014-03-11T21:59:41Z She was a little wild that night, a little precarious, and when she went to perform we all stood by the stage to watch. Amy Winehouse sang of a deeply feminine suffering 2011-07-26T11:38:04Z The dilapidated wooden, one-room schoolhouse is more than a century old, with a torn-up floor, a precarious roof and missing windows. She found her father’s segregated schoolhouse decaying in the Va. woods. Now, it is on the way to being saved. 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z As it stands, agriculture in Canada and elsewhere relies on the low-paid, precarious work of seasonal migrants who are barred from unionizing and frequently face abuse. Can the heat from running computers help grow our food? It’s complicated 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Despite these incidents and the precarious nature of the electronic music trend, big-room dance clubs headed to New York include an offshoot of Ibiza’s Space and a permanent home for the nomadic party promoter Verboten. Clubs Ban Photos, Putting Off Some Instagram and Selfie Fans 2013-12-31T21:46:36Z The World Service's drama output, funded by the Foreign Office, is looking precarious. Don't touch that dial: the threat to radio drama 2010-06-20T20:45:00Z As he wrote to his agent while working on “The Glass Menagerie,” his sister “had the same precarious balance of nerves that I have to live with.” Review: A Gothic Tennessee Williams Mash-Up in ‘Glass Guignol’ 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z I am writing from a place of tremendous and precarious privilege, one where I get to make almost all of the decisions about my own body. Selling my eggs to make rent 2013-02-03T18:00:00Z Reporter Jenny Kleeman gets thoroughly involved as usual – marching bravely into places, spending the night with a family in a precarious shanty town, doing proper journalism. TV review: The City with Too Many People and Chopin: The Women Behind the Music 2010-10-15T21:15:00Z He has denounced the invasion publicly and called Vladimir Putin a crazed “monster,” putting himself in a precarious position after Putin labeled Russians who oppose the war as “scum” and “traitors.” He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z The entire experience of Japan seems removed from my life, some precarious, incoherent dream. The Kisses That Paid My Rent 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z In a precarious theater season pocked with cancellations, “Caroline” made it the full three months and one day from its first preview to the scheduled end of its limited run without missing a performance. After Its Odds-Defying Run, John Cariani Says Bye to ‘Caroline, or Change’ 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z With the precarious nature of the pop-up model, however, Mr. Wolf is not taking any chances. Fly by Night 2011-06-29T21:12:52Z What Davis recognizes in hindsight is how precarious that comfort and prosperity were. Remembering a Mother Whose Gambling Operation Was a Very Successful Secret 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z But what the A.A.P.A.C. study suggests is that diversity on Broadway is precarious and far from complete, and it can rise and fall with the fates of individual shows. The 2016 Tony Nominations: Not All About the Hamiltons 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z But the journey itself is not quite as straightforward, spinning from precarious to horrifying in the blink of an eye. The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: No 4 – 1917 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z She has swapped legal teams and expressed a desire to get back to work, though her situation remains precarious as she tries to regain a professional foothold after years without new music. Kesha Finds Sympathy, and Setbacks, in Her Fight With Dr. Luke 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Many young Koreans work at precarious jobs, with low pay and little job and income security. Why young people in South Korea are staying single despite efforts to spark dating 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The position of blacks in the North during wartime was precarious, to say the least. Review: ‘Personal Correspondents: Photography and Letter Writing in Civil War Brooklyn’ 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The work is far from over, in Seattle and beyond, and trying to measure progress is a precarious endeavor considering rock’s full history, says the singer/guitarist with alt-rockers King Youngblood. How Seattle’s storied rock scene is shattering the genre’s white male image 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Because I feel my job here is so precarious, I’m hesitant to complain to management. Worst co-worker ever 2012-07-24T00:00:00Z As an improviser he strives for the unexpected, hurtling through precarious intervals. Music: For a Team Player, the Solo Moments Are Secondary 2011-04-01T21:46:41Z In the months that have followed, classical music — an industry more precarious than its moneyed veneer lets on — has been devastated. For Classical Music, Spring Was the Season of Solos 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z In the collection, Rankine relies on second-person point of view to force her white reader to embody the precarious terrain that is Blackness in America, and as such, to confront their own complicity: Best of 2020: George Floyd and the white gaze 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Concerned about the precarious passage, the community gathered together and decided to install a pedestrian crosswalk. A tribute to architect Michael Graves and the small-town life he embraced 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Javert is the reverse, rising to prison officer and policeman, forcing his way up through the social hierarchy, but always feeling precarious. A New Version of ‘Les Misérables’ Has Less Singing, More Misery 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z And life, with all of its problems and risks and uncertainties, is precarious and stressful. Jonathan and Julie Myerson on Blue Valentine: almost too painful to watch 2011-02-06T00:08:49Z Careers in the industry are precarious and often based on nepotism and an old-boys network. Guidelines are a start, but sexual harassment in the film industry is not going away soon 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z But mostly she left it to the “aunties”, a number of middle-aged female followers, who feared for their own precarious place in her affections if they didn’t enforce punishments. Growing up with The Family: inside Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s sinister cult 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z But she worries about the precarious funding situation for dance, and President Trump’s proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts. Dance Place’s Deborah Riley, moving on: ‘It’s been my family’ 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z The composition heightens a sense of precarious instability, as if everything might tumble into a viewer's lap. The Kimbell captures 'Painter's Eye,' but it can't elevate Caillebotte 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z In the collection, Rankine relies on second-person point of view to force her white reader to embody the precarious terrain that is blackness in America, and as such, to confront their own complicity: Now that another black body has been laid to rest: George Floyd and the white gaze 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z It is alarming to understand oneself as a heavy, precarious pile of discrete muscles adhering to bones and skin, performing rote motions with little to no supervision — rather than as a person with ideas. The Secret to Beauty: A Stranger’s Hands Inside Your Mouth 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Are we living in ceaseless boom times or on the verge of a precarious tumble? Perspective | All those reality shows you loved about people’s weight, marriage and kids? They’re back — and nicer. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Even in 2016, in the most democratic nations, our equality stands precarious, subject to the whims of shifting political tides. Want to help fight climate change? Start with reproductive rights 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z In its unsubtle way, “Blue Bayou” strives to draw attention to the precarious limbo inhabited by foreign-born adoptees whose citizenship was never finalized. ‘Blue Bayou’ Review: No Direction Home 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z That it felt like lot, a financial breakthrough, speaks to just how precarious a career in dance can be, even one supported by the many awards and grants Gutierrez has received. Frank Conversations About Making a Living in Dance 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Her mental health continued to deteriorate in full public view, her writing becoming increasingly incoherent and her precarious health becoming more apparent with every moody photo she posted of her needle-thin frame in skimpy clothing. Mom, interrupted: Heather Armstrong's journey from mommy blogger to cautionary tale 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z Linda Bell Blue, the executive producer of “Entertainment Tonight” and its spinoff series, “The Insider,” dismissed the notion that Ms. Hart’s departure would put the show or the genre on more precarious footing. After Hart, a Deluge Of Meaner Celebrity TV? 2011-05-19T19:24:45Z Then I mourned my family’s precarious, hard-won harmony, which dissolved into endless fights about time, work and space. ‘Why Was It So Hard?’: How the Pandemic Changed Our Children 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z They are in precarious financial condition after a calamitous loss of revenue forced many to lay off staff members and abandon leases on theaters and galleries. A Soaring Arts Scene in Los Angeles Confronts a Changing Landscape 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z That something was Medicine for Melancholy – and it’s not hard to see his fairly precarious existence in San Francisco threaded through it. Moonlight becomes him: Barry Jenkins's journey from a Miami housing project to the Oscars 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Her own health and sanity were often precarious. ‘Elizabeth Bishop’ Details a Poet’s Life. An Author’s, Too. 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z But that also left her in a precarious position of being found out, arrested and tried for treason, all of which comes to pass. How "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" uses Rebecca Romijn's Number One to place prejudice on trial 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Her status in Hollywood was already precarious when “Red Channels,” an influential pamphlet containing the names of people in the entertainment industry said to be Communists or Communist sympathizers, was published in 1950. Marsha Hunt, Actress Turned Activist, Is Dead at 104 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z It says the building is in a precarious state and the walls would collapse without the temporary scaffold system for support. Campaign to save listed Manchester building continues 2012-07-10T13:37:09Z The whale would have ended as foul-smelling excrement leaving Stubb, hunched over the precarious head at the bow of the Pequod. Animal penises’ amazing evolution 2012-06-12T15:40:00Z The only childless one of the group, she was infinitely patient with 10-year-old me, letting me play with the gold clasp on her cigarette case and stack her chips into high, precarious towers. The secret weapon in Mom’s underground poker party sandwiches 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Both cosmic and personal existence are precarious in the extreme. Q. & A.: Jim Holt on Why the World Exists 2012-07-18T14:09:41Z Its goal: Take on greater density and more affordable apartments in return for improvements and guarantees that preserve the precarious soul of the district. In Gowanus, a People’s Housing Plan to Challenge the Mayor’s 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z But the story’s countervailing movement links these precarious lives to the past. A powerful new entry in the literature of race in America 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z It’s not just that a director as successful as he has had to be nimble and quick-witted to thrive in a precarious profession. Books of The Times: ‘Jack Be Nimble,’ a Memoir by Jack O’Brien 2013-06-20T21:34:04Z At UCLA, the stage set was packed with stacks of books, like precarious literary cairns or metaphorical stand-ins for skyscrapers on the cityscape. An unforgettable trip through L.A. from its 'Ambassador' 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z But the glut of legal weed places Oregon’s young industry in a precarious position, and could swiftly reshape it. How do you move mountains of unwanted weed? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Perhaps not 12 weeks before the Presidential election — that’s particularly surprising, given the precarious status of the rest of network’s faux-news block right now. No compromises, no regrets — Larry Wilmore and the price of “Keeping it 100″ 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Women held a precarious, mostly powerless position within the deeply religious Puritan community. Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Casting a major feature film involves walking an even more precarious tightrope between filming schedules, actors' availability and studios' tastes, as Lucinda Syson explains in her tiny attic office in Soho. 'Next!': the secretive world of casting directors 2013-05-21T18:30:01Z But even as a boy, Sam Jr. knew that the house was sitting on precarious financial ground. Samuel Goldwyn Jr., second-generation Hollywood producer, dies at 88 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Her team spent eight months attempting to get her healthy, and now she’s back in a precarious mental state. ‘The Idol’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap: A Human Moment 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z At 9:30 a.m., they start the precarious process of transferring the glowing coals on a shovel to a stone hearth built into the back wall of the kitchen. Southern Barbecue With a Fiery Dip and a Deep History 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Bill Cosby’s “Far From Finished” comedy tour, whose final scheduled show is May 2 in Atlanta, has come at a precarious moment for the former TV star. Bill Cosby's Comedy Tour Is Ending, But His Career Could Well Go On 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z My ongoing research shows that unaccompanied migrant youth face labor exploitation and suggests that Trump’s orders exacerbate the precarious work conditions of unaccompanied immigrant youth workers in the U.S. How unaccompanied youth become exploited workers in the U.S. 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Hong Kong is a city of brilliant, elaborate human life; it's also a precarious bauble on a dying planet. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – review 2012-06-21T14:41:32Z He leaves us with insights into the reach and sweep of its empire and an appreciation of how precarious life was for slaves and freemen and soldiers. Review: ‘Dynasty,’ Tom Holland’s Chronicle of the First Five Emperors Who Ruled Ancient Rome 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Their response said that the analysis’s methodology was “precarious” because it extrapolated on death rate evidence from differing studies and compared that information with the top-ranking causes of US deaths. Study on medical error as third cause of US deaths criticized as 'precarious' 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z They are visibly precarious, structurally Existentialist you might say, which seems appropriate to the time in which they were made. Art Review: ‘Calder: The Complete Bronzes’ at L&M Arts 2012-11-08T22:38:37Z Ali nimbly sketches their shifting fortunes and feelings, sensitive to the contours of the Black and Muslim experience, whether showing the importance of community or the precarious sense of not getting second chances. ‘Two Gods’ Review: Matters of Life and Death 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z This, however, sounds like wishful thinking; viewers will likely tune in primarily to observe the disconcertingly precarious spectacle of Lohan herself. The Precarious Spectacle of the Girl Boss in “Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club” 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z “In the back of my mind, I was always aware of the precarious state of the country’s political climate, although I never imagined what then happened taking place,” Ms. Danesh said. Despite Turkish Strife, Fashion Brands Stay True to Istanbul 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Years pass, and he persists with his precarious life in America, unable to attend his sister’s and then mother’s funerals, while growing more distant from his wife and daughter by the day. Ha Jin Considers the Cost of Freedom in ‘A Song Everlasting’ 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z And he knew that this precarious life we live as artists could be taken away from you by White people. Perspective | The unbreakable gaze of Steve McQueen: ‘I’m asking you, please, look’ 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Nearly everywhere, it seems, people have been sharing Words With Friends, slinging Angry Birds at pigs or springing their creatures through a precarious Doodle universe. Video Games: Video Game Retail Sales Decline Despite New Hits 2012-10-03T12:34:03Z Rather than manipulating recorded sounds, Radigue was more intrigued by electronic feedback — a precarious and time-consuming process to capture, especially as she became focused on controlling minute changes. For a Composer at 90, There’s Nothing but Time 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Some of the music maintains a precarious balance between chanson and yé-yé, which sounded hopelessly corny at the time, but now has a curious charm. Richard Williams on France's brilliant early-60s pop radio 2010-08-26T20:59:00Z Tours given by homeless people, or those in precarious social situations, are on offer in several cities now, including Paris, Barcelona and London. Top 10 cool city tours around the world: guided walks with a twist 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z The precarious course to safety generally runs through multiple countries. ‘Beyond Utopia’ Review: Exit Strategies 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z She expresses more concern about the effects of heavy rain on a visitor’s garden than about her precarious income and Swiss-cheese sleep. Review: In ‘Mary Jane,’ a Young Mother Faces Her Worst Fears 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Bernie follows her, only to be almost killed by American spies even as we learn about the precarious Swiss neutrality. Book review: Philip Kerr’s ‘The Lady from Zagreb’ 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Moreover, "Ivanov" wasn't written for psychiatrists engaged in the precarious business of keeping mentally ill patients alive. To be or not to be: Playwrights on the complex issue of suicide 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z “It means that we’re going to get through the next several months, which for anyone in the arts is a precarious time.” Yes, We Liked the Berkshires Shows. Here’s $2 Million. 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z LASDUN: Longing, money, culpability, exploitation, murder; also the precarious beauty of the Catskills in summer. Salon’s author questionnaire: “Language is at best an effort, always doomed and imperfect” 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z One of the first big trades he executed on his own behalf was designed to hedge his own wealth against the possibility that the stock market might fall from its precarious height. Roy R. Neuberger Dies at 107; Applied a Stock Trader?s Acumen to Art 2010-12-25T04:31:59Z It features sweeping views of the Atlantic, but can be a precarious setting: The drop from the cliff to the ocean is about 50 feet. Peter Beard Still Missing, Weeks After Disappearing on Long Island 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z And he joins at a precarious time, as Turner Broadcasting announced over the summer that it would cut 10% of its workforce, translating to 1,475 positions. It's official: Kevin Reilly to serve as TNT, TBS president 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Dwight’s grown on me hugely over the past season, and the precarious situation he’s now in often whips up decent amounts of hand-wringing anxiety. The Walking Dead: season 8, episode 12 recap – The Key 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Walking around the complex, it’s obviously old — 15th century — but in no danger of collapse, no matter how precarious its hillside position. Circumnavigating Italy’s storied Lake Como by paddle and pedal 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Hoping to spring Joshua from his precarious role as house spy, Fraser looks for leverage over Dulles. ‘The Wilson Deception’ review: A terrific new Fraser and Cook mystery 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Miyazaki's movies are exciting and fantastical, often involving flying machines, ecological disasters, clashing civilisations and precarious spiritual values – all rendered in clean, colourful, hand-drawn animation. Studio Ghibli: Leave the boys behind 2011-07-14T21:00:03Z Striking a precarious balance between leisure and dread, relaxation and anxiety, Boehm captures the tenor of our times. Last chance to see painter Armin Boehm's fractured point of view 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z A repeat motif has evening bleed into night, and "That Woman", one of the best poems in the book, maps the uneasy and precarious relationship between polished surfaces and "dark undersides". Everything Begins Elsewhere by Tishani Doshi - review 2012-06-01T21:55:01Z What was St Louis is now a gated city called Defiance, but can a precarious peace last? TV highlights 16/04/2013 2013-04-16T06:01:35Z And if you’ve ever cared for someone drawn into the orbit of a religious fanatic, you’ll appreciate just how precarious his situation is. Review | ‘The Incendiaries’ is the most buzzed-about debut of the summer, as it should be 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Informal workers win some freedoms and flexibility in communities otherwise dominated by precarious service sector jobs. Criminalizing the hustle: Policing poor people’s survival strategies from Erin Garner to Alton Sterling 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z It strikes me as precarious; nothing holds it in place. When I learned to hunt 2013-01-06T01:00:00Z Getting here required him to dig deeper than ever, navigating precarious historical, physical and emotional fault lines in the process. How Daniel Kaluuya Makes His Characters Come Alive 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z But these days, given how precarious life seems right now, I am exhausted by petty, self-interested nastiness that seems to be such an acceptable part of American life. How Many More Weeks (Years)? Watching ‘Groundhog Day’ Together 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z “One of the biggest challenges of being an artist is the fact that the financial conditions are always precarious. You also know that it will dry up.” Miguel Gutierrez Awarded New York Live Arts Residency 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Her work had landed her in a precarious position. Next Stop: Marriage 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Stubbornly determined to prove her parents wrong, she moved to London at just 15, and after a precarious few years living in squats, won a scholarship to the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts. She Was About to Quit Acting. Then She Got the Role of a Lifetime. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z That may be changing as more people become familiar with the ideas that animate the movement and as middle-class finances remain precarious. Would you consider living in a much smaller home? 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The Lento in particular is a precarious balancing act, as the first violin must find purchase on notes that are whisper-thin and achingly high. World-class musicianship on display at Chamber Music Society Winter Festival 2011-01-28T19:29:03Z But her musical ambition was also what "splintered a vein through the already precarious and widening rift" between the high-schooler and Chongmi, who once admitted she was "just waiting for you to give this up." Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner is fighting for joy through grief 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z She spends the duration of the film either melting down or on the precarious verge of melting down, while assorted acolytes mostly scramble to accommodate her. "Her Smell": Elisabeth Moss can't save this humorless, grunge-era "Spinal Tap" knockoff 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Andre’s pursuit of the precarious has led him to a somewhat comfortable place in his work. Eric Andre Isn’t a Prankster, He’s a ‘Benevolent Attacker’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Undemocratic politics are bad for the family business: The life of a zoo, like the life of its inhabitants in the wild, is precarious. How “Life of Pi” anticipated 9/11 2013-04-28T19:00:00Z Having alienated the townspeople, Sylvie and Ruth make a daring escape by nightfall across the narrow, precarious railway bridge which extends for miles across the lake. Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z Not evolved to navigating the precarious surfaces, one walrus falls, and another, and another, their massive bodies slamming onto the rocky beach. Watching ‘Our Planet,’ Where the Predator Is Us 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z When Rachel first rescues baby Borne from his precarious nest in the fur of a giant bear named Mord, he resembles an exotic houseplant. ‘Borne’ is the latest dazzling novel from New Weird author Jeff VanderMeer 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Families will be grateful that this beautifully photographed documentary avoids graphic imagery, instead evoking its subjects’ precarious existence with fascinating details. Around Town for Children for Aug. 2-8 2013-08-01T22:28:16Z And after he abruptly finished, he thanked and shook hands with everyone there: a man keeping his balance in precarious territory, a man who knows how to make friends. Souleymane Badolo at the River to River Festival 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z But as in any dynamic art form, it is out there on the fragile, precarious leading edge that the most exciting new growth often occurs. He built a ragtag theater into an American trendsetter. Now Woolly Mammoth’s founder is retiring. 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z The company’s finances are precarious, Kaliada said, though she had a clear vision for the future. An Exiled Theater With a Warning for Europe 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z So they’re in a fairly precarious position when we see them again, and it’s a question of who will get out of this situation and who won’t. Zombies, Aliens and Robots: The ‘Walking Dead’ Producer on Her Greatest Hits 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z But the stage world surrounding him will go through struggles, convulsions and precarious balancing acts, before exploding into ecstasy. Golden visions from Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan | Dance review 2014-03-07T18:41:37Z A precarious stack of parenting books—about baby sign language and baby knitting patterns and organic gardening with your baby—threatened to topple off my bedside table. What kind of monster hits her kid? Now I knew exactly what kind of monster 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z The national press — battered by four years of abuse by the president, and by the incompetence and falsehoods of his spokespeople — is in a precarious position. Perspective | The media can be glad for the Biden White House’s return to normalcy. But let’s not be lulled. 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z “If I had one wish, I wish they could have all sat down to think of a Plan B, because we’re in a precarious situation now.” Despite Turnaround, ‘Beetlejuice’ Being Forced Out of Theater 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Taken altogether, she produces precarious, tender portraits of parents and children — newborns, teenagers and adults — and suggests that these relationships are what save us in the end. An Ominous Sleeping Sickness Paralyzes a Small California Town in ‘The Dreamers’ 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z And a good pension in the precarious world of the arts is one element that helps keep players ensconced in their chairs, ensuring that handoff of artistic heritage. Philadelphia Orchestra Tries to Avoid Pension Payments 2011-11-30T23:36:36Z Meanwhile, the busy percussion section looked particularly precarious on a high ledge, swapping scores and stations like a tag wrestling team. National Youth Orchestra – review 2013-01-07T18:25:30Z But this is an unusual time, when concerns about the Delta variant have made an already precarious reopening seem even more risky. ‘This Is Broadway’ Campaign Aims to Attract Wary Theatergoers 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Wealth and privilege rarely seem as precarious as they do in "The Maid's Room," writer-director Michael Walker's sly, satisfying thriller about class, status and violence. 'The Maid's Room' adds suspense to class tensions 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z The streaming service is banking on the Victorian fantasy's appeal as an allegory of the intolerance pervading our precarious present, with mythological immigrant creatures clashing with the humans who invades their homelands. 13 can't-miss TV shows coming in August: What stands out in a hot and crowded month 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Mitchell Jackson, author of “Survival Math,” shared some of his favorite works of African American literature, drawn from what looks like a precarious vertical stack but is actually a clever shelving system. Perspective | There’s no replacement for the thrill of browsing in a bookstore 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Connecting these images is a sprawling, precarious labyrinth of folded cardboard. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z But when Kit receives a visitation from her dead husband warning of a “banshee” in their midst, Junior's precarious sanity hangs in the balance. One family's cry of the 'Banshee' at Theatre of NOTE 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Their youth long gone, members of Japan's generation of "parasite singles" face a precarious future, wondering how to survive once the parents many depended on for years pass away. Life's illusions catching up with Japan's middle-aged 'parasite singles' 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z I became nauseous with the knowledge that this precarious joy would have to collapse in the following 500 pages. 'A Little Life' a darkly beautiful tale of love and friendship 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z So in the moments between getting bullied at school and deflecting his parents' somewhat academic interest in his precarious emotions, Oliver finds solace in imagining the public reaction to his sudden death. Submarine: From Teen Angst to Pure Delight 2011-06-03T10:05:00Z That leaves him in a precarious position, which he sums up in a video log entry. 'The Martian' trailer: Matt Damon is lost in space (again) 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Mrs. Ash decreed that music was too precarious a way to make a living. Paul Ash, President of Music Store Chain, Dies at 84 2014-02-11T02:14:50Z She spends the majority of the book on the verge of burnout or rage-induced aneurysm, in large part because of her precarious position on the Murder Squad. A female cop feels a target on her back in Tana French's 'The Trespasser' 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z She perches on what appears to be a gold velvet slipper chair, her pose at once regal and precarious, her staring eyes mimicking Neel’s scrutiny. It’s Time to Put Alice Neel in Her Rightful Place in the Pantheon 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z The late payments put Howard Theatre Restoration in “a precarious position with our lenders,” said Myla Moss, the nonprofit’s chairwoman. Money problems and no-name acts: The Howard Theatre is struggling. Again. 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z My middle daughter says she is going to move back home as her flatshare situation is precarious. ‘My life is basically over’ – 14 days on a sugar-free diet 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z It is one thing to be a brave, precarious little boat when you are surrounded by the Coast Guard. “Hi, I’m right here”: An open letter to Paul Ryan about poverty and empathy 2014-03-10T23:00:00Z Other paintings allude to more precarious states of mind. Burgers’ ‘Eternalism’ : flower power with philosophical twist 2013-01-10T22:12:03Z In many countries, the rise in unemployment resulting from the coronavirus pandemic has forced even more people into poverty and onto the streets, and the imposition of lockdowns forced many into increasingly precarious situations. Why Shouldn’t Housing for the Homeless Be Beautiful? 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z So suddenly I felt like I was put in this very precarious position. Julianna Margulies, in Closing Arguments for ‘The Good Wife’ 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z On top of this, as he wrote, was the precarious state of the British film industry in the decade and more after the end of World War II. Christopher Lee: A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Journeyman 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Miller’s retelling, with primary sources and many direct quotes, sympathetically portrays the complicated and precarious situation faced by both the Dionnes and the medical community rallying to save the quintuplets. The Dionne Quints Were Premature and Tiny. But Fame Was the Real Problem. 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z A big reason that Hal is sympathetic to Oliver, aside from their shared history, is that, in the new order, his job is as precarious as hers. Sana Krasikov on the Rise of Group Morality 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z “Magic Mike” was about how, in a precarious labor market, a gig worker might wrest dignity and autonomy from conditions rife with exploitation. ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ Review: Stripping Down to Bare Essentials 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Those factors, he added, have made walking in the city a sometimes precarious endeavor. Los Angeles Pedestrians Look Forward to Relaxed Jaywalking Law 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z “It just shows how precarious the situation is for undocumented people.” ‘I Came From Nothing’: An Undocumented Writer Defies the Odds 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z She says she didn’t fully realize how precarious the family’s financial situation was until later, when she was exposed to the ways that people outside of her community lived. Her Blog Post About Uber Upended Big Tech. Now She’s Written a Memoir. 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z This theme would have had its own appeal to Schubert, painfully aware as he was of the precarious social position of the independent composer. Ian Bostridge on Schubert’s Hidden Depths 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z It was also that we recognize how slender and precarious the line between normal and abnormal can be. Review: ‘The Astronaut Love Show,’ Tales of Not So Magnificent Obsession 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z His narrator is at least intermittently aware of his precarious place and the absurdity of his quest. He’s a Lifer at Angola. He’s Black. Was He Falsely Convicted? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z More than 40,000 children lost their parents, were injured or were placed in precarious situations following the disaster, according to Nepali officials. 'Kung Fu' nuns bike Himalayas to oppose human trafficking 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z But what happens when her love for Samsa and her yearning for freedom — an already precarious equilibrium for Boulder — clash? She Is a Rock; She Is an Island 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Beset by enemies at home and abroad, the Queen knew that her hold on the crown was always precarious. The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford – review 2012-08-17T21:55:05Z But the majority of guests occupied a newly precarious purgatory. The State of Conservatism 2010-06-11T21:46:00Z After some minutes, things moved along to, oh, attempting a wobbly bending of the knees, with feet still glued to the floor in their precarious V-shape. Perspective | Parents, you’re enrolling your little ones in the wrong kind of dance class 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z He is racing against time and karma: It is Underwood’s precarious limbo between power and self-destruction that lends “House of Cards” much of its suspense. The TV Watch: ‘House of Cards’ Returns, With More Dark Scheming 2014-02-13T13:00:01Z Why is tenure so precarious?—batter the college and its discontents. “The Shakespeare Requirement” Is a Sad-Professor Satire That Burns with Moral Anger 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z It has been a major point of departure for illegal migration, with Lebanese now following the same precarious path as Syrians fleeing their civil war, trying to reach Europe via the Mediterranean. Closed for decades, theater returns to Lebanon’s Tripoli 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Other mild spoilers include a "temptation" for Larry, whose relationship with his imprisoned fiancee is described as "precarious at best". Orange is the New Black is 'a 13-hour movie' 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z They pruned on precarious bamboo poles lashed between high branches, and they worked through thunderstorms, freezing downpours and even an earthquake. Perspective | A gardener went to Japan to polish her pruning skills. She found tough love. 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z With its vertiginous angles, picturesque buildings and view-framing archways, the precarious hamlet is almost too photogenic a subject. Review | In the galleries: These are not your usual travel pictures 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Just how precarious wasn’t clear until Wood left the band. Black Country, New Road’s Perilous Triumph 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Like many of the show’s intriguing sculptures, Thron’s edifice seems both brawny and precarious. Review | In the galleries: A revelatory exhibition by D.C. artist Jonathan Monaghan 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z In interviews, eight current and former temps described their employment at NPR as a stressful, precarious experience. At NPR, an army of temps faces a workplace of anxiety and insecurity 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z But it’s a precarious claim given the season’s tendency to disappoint and looking back to years prior, it looks like 2019 is far from the coldest summer on record. Sun's out, flops out: what's the worst movie summer ever? 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z For months, as El Niño strengthened in the Pacific, police and social workers warned people living in especially precarious temporary riverside dwellings to move. Homeless in Los Angeles 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Peace is precarious unless it is based on justice and human dignity.” Chrysler's Kumbaya King 2012-05-16T22:34:55Z Life turns precarious, Michi grows isolated and Plan 75 — the name of the government program — starts to sounds appealing. ‘Plan 75’ Review: Leaving Early 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z It brings home how precarious that world is. Isolate or infect humanity? In "Sea Fever," a captain faces a dilemma eerily like our own 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z I was struck by this curious act, its precarious refusal of convention. A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Slanted stones form a precarious ramp; so do sculptural shoes with uneven soles. Review: ‘The Mutes’ Gives Voice to Musical Outsiders 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z On this week’s podcast, the actor Chris Messina reads “When Love Isn’t as Simple as Standing by Your Man,” a story that shows how even the most enduring marriages are precarious. Modern Love Podcast: Chris Messina Reads ‘When Love Isn’t as Simple as Standing by Your Man’ 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Louisa May Alcott, like Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters, wrote with an acute sense of the precarious lives that women have always led. Joy to the world, "Little Women" has come – and the updated classic is a modern marvel 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Reanimated by a specialist Nasa team but helplessly fused in meteor rock, Stamper must talk them through the precarious drilling process required to neutralise the threat he now represents. From Gladiator to Scarface: five film heroes to bring back from the dead 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Can places with precarious water supplies continue to grow and irrigate feed crops for dairy cattle? Dairy, drought and the drying of the American West 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z For an hour, the dancers discussed their own precarious present, but then Mr. Linyekula got them dancing. Faustin Linyekula: Remember His Name (and Country and Past) 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Like Melanie, the families in this book are dealing with health crises, precarious jobs, and work schedules that are ever changing, and so many other issues that are bigger than they are. More time in the kitchen may not be the answer to feeding kids well 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z His lyrics hold “a truly precarious footing on the border between despair and hope.” ‘The Next Next Level’ by Leon Neyfakh: a tale of rap and friendship 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z And because New York City is so under-screened, finding homes for movies becomes increasingly more precarious. Hey, New York Film Lovers, Another Art House Is (Back) on the Scene 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z In this way the age of media mergers that already poses a threat to independent filmmakers and series creatives will only become more precarious. What we could lose when — not if — Netflix and its kind take over TV 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z She longs to see her children and grandchildren from a former marriage, but finances are precarious. | 'The Old Masters': Showdown at the Italian Villa, Easels Drawn 2011-01-28T03:01:21Z And in the process, Shafak explores the precarious state of Turkish politics, the evolving position of women in Islam, the sexual ambiguities of college life, and the most profound questions of faith. Review | Elif Shafak’s new novel is so timely that it seems almost clairvoyant 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z With contemporary visual art in a variety of media and traditional craft objects dating from the 17th century onward, the exhibition highlights both the Sami past and their precarious future. Weekend Miser: Communing With an Arctic People 2014-05-08T21:19:14Z The vats of hot oil are precarious, balanced over stoves on the pavement, or in retrofitted shopping carts filled with charcoal, held in place by wads of crushed aluminum foil tucked under the wheels. The Nightly Feasts of Little Guatemala, Los Angeles 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z The world is a fragile, beautiful, precarious place. 6 Thought-Provoking Y.A. Thrillers That Tackle Social Issues 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Ruth’s son starts to struggle with his mother’s precarious position and the revelations of the trial. Jodi Picoult’s New Novel Reviewed by Roxane Gay 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z She simply leaves Casey in a very promising place, no more or less precarious than she had been when things were bad and could turn good. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman on the Road to Happiness 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z I had a massive bleed and the doctors made it plain that my chances of surviving were precarious if they didn’t operate again. Emilia Clarke, of “Game of Thrones,” on Surviving Two Life-Threatening Aneurysms 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z She proves a smirking, suicidal sprite who distracts him from completing his project while reminding him of his own precarious political circumstances. 'Closed Curtain' a cry for openness and art in Iran 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Throughout “Ants From Up Here,” and through the course of every song, Black Country, New Road tests and reinvents itself, creating music that sounds both intricately plotted and precarious. Black Country, New Road’s Perilous Triumph 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z As a single woman in a foreign city presuming on the unspoken plans of a married man, she knows she’s in a precarious position. Review | Barack Obama’s summer reading pick ‘Intimacies’ is an unsettling novel about moral dilemmas 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z You’ve seen a million pictures taken in these precarious reflective towers. 6 decorating trends that need to die 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Her following is devoted, if precarious; even those who won’t vote for her — “because of, like, the market,” one investment banker explains — admire her fierceness and her consistent coiffure. ‘Let’s Not Do That Again,’ a Crackling Satire Set Against a Senate Run 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Suddenly we see how precarious our world view is. Sticking the world together with words 2010-07-19T09:22:00Z Moviegoing is no longer what it used to be, and the machinery that fed it is at present a Frankensteinian hybrid of tech, media, private equity and precarious labor. Are the Movies Liberal? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Roger's early education took place at home where his mother, in an effort to boost the family's precarious finances, set up a kindergarten for local children. Obituary: Roger Lloyd-Pack 2014-01-16T12:27:05Z The rest of the film traces their precarious existence in Calabria. In ‘Mediterranea,’ Two Migrants Speak for Many 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z But the selfie-stick, indiscriminately extended and held aloft like a golf club in front of monuments and in museums, is visually disruptive and, depending on its wielder, precarious. The Travel Selfie: I Was Here, Give Me a Discount 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z So many of the restaurants I’ve loved were precarious to begin with, held together by duct tape and will. Before They Closed, Restaurants Opened Doors for Us 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Enciso brings these repressed histories to a simmer in the film’s final segment, where Anxo wanders through a dark wood, whispered voices from the past swirling around him, threatening to erupt into a precarious present. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z A picture may be worth a thousand words, but posing in such a precarious position surely isn’t worth a thousand Instagram likes. Royal Caribbean cruise ship passenger booted from trip for dangerous swimsuit selfie: 'What an absolute idiot' 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z With restaurants already on precarious grounds, the coronavirus pandemic could continue to cause serious issues. Will buffets make a comeback after coronavirus? 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Broadway shows were in a precarious state of anticipation and sudden cancellations, and the storied “Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes” prematurely ended its run because of breakthrough infections in its cast. The Met Opera Spirits ‘Rigoletto’ to ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z When I got there, I couldn’t speak the language, and I didn’t have all the tools to compete for equal opportunities, so I had to build a career with elements that were very precarious sometimes. Oscar’s Most Talented Newcomer Is 59-Year-Old Antonio Banderas 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Dunthorne introduces Richard Ayoade's adaptation of his own Submarine, and its key influence The Graduate, and there's a special screening of Kubrick's The Shining at the precarious, disused Burton Cliff Hotel. This week's new film events 2013-04-06T05:00:08Z Yamamoto is clear-sighted and un-nostalgic about his family’s precarious economic circumstances. A Japanese Photographer’s View of Life in His Family’s One-Room Home 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z The assemblage is mounted high on the wall, giving it a precarious feel. In the galleries: From the everyday to the fantastic 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z With his encouragement, she made a precarious living as a freelance writer, while papering her lavatory walls with rejection slips received from publishers for her book projects. Verily Anderson obituary 2010-07-29T17:17:00Z She shows readers how old money mingles with new money; how rural ranch hands and landowners share dusty roads with movie stars, all living in precarious coexistence. In the Canyons of Southern California, a Rocky Coming-of-Age 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z I know how precarious life can be, so I then had a period when I was making as much money as I could, so my children would be safe. Paul Bettany: 'Lars von Trier simply wouldn't talk to me' 2013-05-30T13:01:15Z Young love can feel eternal and precarious at precisely the same moment. The Playlist: Shawn Mendes Shows His Scars, and 9 More New Songs 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z DeLillo refers to “the human slivers of a civilization,” but the plot of this novel is so attenuated that it conveys little of that precarious condition. Review | Don DeLillo’s ‘The Silence’ is an absurdist look at our technology dependence 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z The scene is a perfect, precarious balance of bright colors and big forms. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Playwrights tend to just march along, doubtful about what they're doing, and wondering if it amounts to much in such a precarious profession. Seattle playwright Yussef El Guindi wins prestigious award 2012-04-01T20:52:33Z "People choose their words very carefully. And it is a precarious business. And it does go on. There's blacklisting. And you have to be careful." Maxine Peake hails her sporting hero 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z That said, “The Golden Legend” is a powerful and timely comment on the precarious state of religious minorities in Pakistan and an honest mirror to the Pakistani state and society. ‘The Golden Legend,’ by Nadeem Aslam, follows an imperiled widow in Pakistan 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z It begins with a small 1971 homage to Cubist still lifes; the picture’s precarious goblet of beer presages Ms. Murray’s later semi-abstract vocabulary of caroming coffee cups and spilling liquids. What?s Blooming Indoors 2011-04-21T22:57:20Z Something about the confluence of my body’s slow unraveling and the precarious liaison we were carrying on brought out the fire in all things. Modern Love: My Illness, the Third Partner in Our Relationship 2014-04-24T19:30:01Z The physical energy the performers displayed on this precarious surface was impressive. Review: Wilde’s Wacky ‘Earnest,’ Now With Arias 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z How many of these highly vulnerable minor leaguers are going to be willing to risk angering the people who hold their precarious futures in their hands? America’s next big labor battle could be Minor League Baseball 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Unscrupulous employers might further embrace precarious employment models, in the knowledge that everyone is getting a basic income to tide them over. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z What the portrait shows is the trick of keeping one's balance as the new life takes over, leaving barely any breathing room, of trying to sit tight in this precarious state. Alice Neel: Painted Truths 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z They warned that cuts to regional and local administration budgets meant small museums were in a "precarious" state, decaying and threatened with closure. France and the arts: a new revolution 2011-03-24T08:00:02Z They are demanding, urgent, precarious; when time is short, I regard them meanly. The Southern glory that is tomato gravy 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z And frankly, in this slightly off-kilter version of our world and its precarious legal, political, and cultural state of affairs, her mind trips are the main source of comedy. "The Good Fight" differentiates between who has the luxury of tuning out our political troubles 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z One of the hack’s most poignant revelations was how precarious films such as “Steve Jobs” are within a blockbuster-driven business model. ‘Steve Jobs’ and the secular ritual of going to the movies 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z “There are similar skill sets in both professions. But then I saw that being a barrister was as precarious a profession as acting.” Benedict Cumberbatch Acts Clever Again in ‘The Imitation Game’ 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z But the coal industry’s decline has left things precarious, and he’s been thinking through ways to meaningfully offer help. Sturgill Simpson Leaves His Old Sound (and the Spotlight) in the Rear View 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Then you climb down a precarious set of stairs built into the sandstone cliff, before you reach the beach. A Portugal of Pristine Beaches, Tiny Villages and Little Else 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z From my vantage point, up on the bridge, these tiny figures appear to have embarked on a long and precarious voyage. Clod Ensemble: Silver Swan – review 2012-11-27T13:02:24Z This fact, that what some see as a flicker of natural brilliance is to others a nuisance to be removed, puts the lesser celandine, along with many other wildflowers, in a precarious position. A Garden Designed to Run Wild 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Even as the homeowners find it increasingly ludicrous that anyone would covet their precarious security, a mood of suspicion mounts. ‘Capital,’ a Novel by John Lanchester 2012-07-13T18:01:49Z The prospect of that particular one ever being released is far more precarious from a legal perspective than Nocentelli’s solo album, but if all principal parties can get on board, it could happen. The Meters’ Leo Nocentelli Gets a Solo Career, 50 Years Late 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Into this precarious state of affairs steps “Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being in Person,” an argument by the British artist Andy Field for venturing out among the populace. You Had to Be There. ‘Encounterism’ Argues You Still Do. 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z What might appear to be arbitrary encounters of disparate objects – a fragment of metal grill fencing with a wisp of delicate fabric – accrue a precarious mystique. This week's new exhibitions 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z To be female and a fan is to be in a pretty precarious position pretty much all of the time. Punched, groped, beer thrown in my face: Being a woman at a concert can be terrifying 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z The consequences of this new culture and economy — which leaves most of us in a precarious balancing act of survival, while a handful are able to capitalize on it — are seemingly irreversible. Jeff Bezos' divorce drama and those awful sexts: Why we can't look away 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z The essay was admired as an unvarnished reflection on a precarious freelance existence. William McPherson, Pulitzer-winning book critic who chronicled his decline into poverty, dies at 84 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Over decades, the trio’s violinists and cellists came and went — changes that might have doomed the precarious balance of sound, interpretation and chemistry that is the heart of chamber music. Menahem Pressler, Pianist Who Co-Founded the Beaux Arts Trio, Dies at 99 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z The novel’s action picks up here when Clytemnestra is teetering atop a precarious kingdom. Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’ gives voice to a furious mother 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z But I’ve learned that these kinds of events are precarious, and I steeled myself for the inevitable. Does my mom have BPD? 2013-04-22T00:00:00Z Mandel once again shows to great devastating effect how precarious a society is when maintaining it depends on relying on people to be worthy of trust. March to the shelves for these new books: Recommended reading for spring break and beyond 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z And what is your guidance on the topic, especially given the precarious state of our democracy and the rampant spread of mis- and disinformation? Perspective | Miss Manners: Rules about difficult topics exist for a reason 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z Surely, he’s describing his own precarious position, too. Review | ‘This Is Happiness’ is an unforgettable trip to a lost Irish village 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Jena Malone: I'd taken a year and a half off getting lost in motherhood, and it felt precarious. "Lorelei" star Jena Malone: Lower-income stereotypes have always been "stigmatized but romanticized" 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z Even on a weekday afternoon, with a constant drizzle making the 132 steps slick and a bit precarious, a steady stream of visitors took turns this week posing and playing photographer. ‘Joker’ Stairs Become a Bronx Tourist Draw. Hope You’re in Shape. 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Somehow, that lands as yet another thing to do when we already feel like we can't put one more chore atop this precarious Jenga stack of unanticipated duties. A Mother’s Day scream into the void 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z The Blooms’ precarious middle-class perch is imperiled when Gabe announces that he can no longer pay his grandchildren’s tuition at a yeshiva because he needs the money for an experimental treatment. Zach Braff Directs and Stars in ‘Wish I Was Here’ 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z In "Y: The Last Man," survivors find themselves in an entirely new world, one that's too precarious to take chances by assigning power and leadership, feeding petty political squabbles while the world is on fire. Cures for a patriarchal hangover on “Y: The Last Man” 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z From this precarious world, puppets will emerge, in perhaps unexpected ways. Puppets in Dreamland from the man behind War Horse 2012-10-07T18:04:51Z I studied partner abuse in college, so intellectually I’m acutely aware of the precarious situation I’m in, and how quickly and gravely it may escalate. Men aren't volatile riddles for women to solve 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Their artistic collaborations matched their personalities: they focused on performances that put them in precarious and physically demanding situations, to see how they and their audience would respond. The bittersweet story of Marina Abramović's epic walk on the Great Wall of China 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z So do their cousins in what can be the precarious circumstances of foster care. Films Like ‘The Boss Baby’ Can Be Painful for Adoptees and Foster Kids 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z With both parties hungrily gazing at midterm elections and the balance of power so precarious, don't be surprised if the dialogue slowly changes from what must happen to increased mentions of the word "compromise." On the Iron Anniversary of "Game of Thrones," here's hoping Joe Biden doesn't go Ned Stark on us 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Mahler's Third is the most ambitious of his symphonies and consequently the most precarious in performance. 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