| 单词 | preface |
| 例句 | Over the past few years, when people had prefaced something they were about to say with “there’s something I want to talk to you about,” it proved to be nothing he wanted to talk about. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z When he had made an end of his breakfast, and was wiping his knife on his leg, I said to him, without a word of preface,— Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z But since then it has indeed been uninterrupted and continuous; as an account of modern science, the preface is spot on. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Copernicus had no chance to complain about the preface because he died in 1543, the year his great work was published. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Some days, many days, only a death toll was announced, prefaced by a reiteration of the general situation. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It is impossible to tell whether Osiander’s preface soothed any ruffled feathers at the Vatican, but the evidence suggests that there were no ruffled feathers there to soothe. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In her preface, Maria declared that she offered her designs to all, “to copy and paint, and to sew in the women’s rooms, and for use and pleasure of all expert lovers of art.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z As a preface, the judge explained that the law allowed a penalty of up to a year in jail for each count of negligent homicide. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Osiander’s preface certainly didn’t soothe the Lutherans, and the book was roundly condemned by the European protestant movement. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The writers of books on insect behavior generally take pains, in their prefaces, to caution that insects are like creatures from another planet, that their behavior is absolutely foreign, totally unhuman, unearthly, almost unbiological. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I was nearing my nineteenth birthday and I did not know how to pronounce the word “preface.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Emenike talked for a long time, often prefacing a story with “The thing you have to understand about this country is this.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She was trying laboriously to read Mr. Douglass’s book, but was yet to get through the first page of the preface. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “Talk to him,” he said with no preface. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z As history, the preface is bunk, because in 1651 progress was new. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Even Sebond’s work had fallen foul of the censors, not for its basic thrust, but for the extravagant claims made on behalf of it by Sebond in his preface. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Galileo had had the preface set in a different typeface from the rest of the book, clearly indicating that it did not represent his own views. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I tried to keep it casual and prefaced the question by saying that I knew dances weren't his cup of tea...but would he like to go to prom with me? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “It’s just the beginning,” I prefaced, handing her the sketch pad. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But in his preface Gilbert presents himself as sailing on a quite different ocean, an ocean of books. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I preface showing my ID by saying, ‘It’s a strange birthday,’ ” said Ms. Foote, a gift-bag designer, who attends a memorial service every year on Sept. This Life: A Day to Dance or Weep? 2010-09-03T20:42:00Z Girodias eventually re-issued the fifth volume of “My Life and Loves” as “What Frank Harris Did Not Say…” — with what he called “an apologetic preface.” For April Fool's Day, a celebrated literary hoax 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Before then, any generalization should be prefaced by an acknowledgement of you being a mere tourist. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Brian also added a preface from Goethe's Faust: "He who ever strives with all his might/ That man we can redeem." The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z It was prefaced by an anecdote about a man urinating in a New York subway station, Ms. Murney’s disgust and another observer’s mean-spirited reaction. Review: Julia Murney in Honesty Mode at Feinstein’s/54 Below 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z As he writes in his preface to the show’s hefty catalog, “My goal from early on was to only buy the ‘Oh my God.’ ” Art Review: Ronald S. Lauder Collection at Neue Galerie - Review 2011-11-03T22:11:06Z She prefaced the request with an apology: “We didn’t plan to destroy your evening.” ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Familiar Faces and Themes All Over the World 2011-07-21T19:00:11Z Why is an eggplant deemed “mighty,” for example, while leeks are often prefaced with the word “humble”? These Leeks Are Anything but Humble 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z In his preface to “The Passenger,” Shostakovich called the opera a “perfect masterpiece” whose “spiritual format and humanism impress the listener without fail.” Recognition for a Composer Who Captured a Century’s Horrors 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z For 25 years – whether set in Berlin, Istanbul, Tokyo, Paris, Reykjavik or Lindenhurst, Long Island, the preface “written and directed by Hal Hartley” has always promised the same thing. Hal Hartley’s epic oral history: The “Henry Fool” trilogy, Parker Posey and the real sage of ’90s indie film 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Who knew how apt a preface such works would provide for the rudderless world we now inhabit? Off Broadway’s Season Shook Up Norms of Life and Theater 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z When The Waste Land appeared in November 1922 it was prefaced by an epigraph about death from . Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell – review 2013-06-02T07:01:17Z In the preface to his novel “Muse,” an affectionate sendup of the publishing industry, Jonathan Galassi pines for a bygone era when “literature was life” and “books were revered, hoarded, collected.” A New Publisher for Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z “We have mostly ignored Trump on this show,” Oliver prefaced. “It is no longer wise to ignore it”: John Oliver gives Donald Trump exactly what he deserves, and it was worth the wait 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, the production’s opening night at the Joyce Theater, Mr. Koubi prefaced the performance with a charming speech from the front of the auditorium. Review: A Work That Conjures Desert Sands and Whirlwinds 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Purcell cleverly prefaces his Haydn, and Dowland his Schumann, and if his Brahms Fourth is misguided, his Beethoven Ninth is bracingly straightforward. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z In the preface, she wrote about seeing the book through to completion without her husband. Barbara Gelb, Author, Playwright and Journalist, Dies at 91 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z In his preface, Lloyd Webber implies that some readers may find his book lacking in dramatic narrative. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Hotheaded Perfectionist 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z “No other Japanese painter adapted so well to American society,” Mrs. Davey writes in the book’s preface. A New Forum for Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Architecture 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z “I can program things, like an all-Ives program, and not worry about people not coming,” she said over lunch after a Friday matinee concert prefaced by a recent, swiftly beloved innovation: a free doughnuts-and-coffee reception. Orchestras in Albany, Rochester and Buffalo Stay Nimble 2014-04-30T12:32:12Z The author refers, obliquely, to the endeavour in the preface to Orlando, where she describes Quentin Bell as "an old and valued collaborator in fiction". Laugh with Woolf 2013-02-07T12:48:00Z The screenplay to “Tomorrow” is prefaced by a line from Ingmar Bergman, who haunts these artists’ work: “I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.” Elmgreen & Dragset’s ‘Tomorrow,’ at Victoria & Albert Museum 2013-12-09T23:11:08Z They prefaced their performances with short, demystifying films in which they appeared as ordinary blokes with cheeky senses of humor. Review: BalletBoyz Get Ready to Rumble 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Davis acquired a reputation as a seer, though in the preface to a 2006 reissue of that book he resisted that characterization. Mike Davis, Who Wrote of Los Angeles and Catastrophe, Dies at 76 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z But he also began “Changes” with a rousing rendition of “God Bless America,” prefacing it with a monologue in verse: Charles Bradley, a Late-in-Life Soul Music Star, Dies at 68 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Vladimir Jurowski, however, opts for an edition of his own, which amalgamates Haydn's first and third versions by prefacing most of the choral movements with abridgements of their orchestral counterparts. Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross 2011-02-10T22:15:00Z In the preface to the novel’s third edition, in 1841, Dickens writes that he “wished to show, in little Oliver, the principle of Good surviving through every adverse circumstance, and triumphing at last.” Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 10: Oliver Twist 2012-01-27T18:23:43Z If you speak with your friends about this, preface your remarks with “I know this is unreasonable,” before sharing your hurt feelings. Social Q’s: Try a General Compliment — Social Qs 2013-01-03T23:37:31Z “Demons” was prefaced by a stylish performance of Mozart’s late Sonata, K. 526, which glowed with energy and irresistible lyricism. Kennedy Center hosts a recital of a new classical work inspired by Dostoevsky, dedicated to Angela Davis 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z I especially loved the famous prefaces to classic books and the poetry — Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” rings in my ears still. Why Michael Eric Dyson Would Demote ‘Heart of Darkness’ From the Canon 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z One is reminded of the animated “Before the Law” sequence that prefaces Orson Welles’s film of Kafka’s “The Trial.” ‘The State Against Mandela and the Others’ Review: Sounds of Injustice 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z For the rest of the album performance, the Boss kept explanation and narration at a bare minimum—just enough to preface the more challenging numbers, specifically “Independence Day,” “I Wanna Marry You,” and “Stolen Car.” Bruce Springsteen takes you to “The River” on his new tour: A heartfelt, back-to-basics show — that so far avoids politics 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z While Ball accomplishes the stated goal of his preface, bringing the son with Down syndrome to life, the census itself leaves a little to be desired. A Dying Father, His Son and One Last Road Trip 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Carly prefaced this story with, “I really shouldn’t tell you. . .” to which I responded, “Then please don’t!” but Carly proceeded anyway. Ask Amy: Employer learns through gossip the awful truth about employee 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z In his preface, Brennan refers instead to his book as an “intellectual biography,” which is a subtly different animal. A Study of Edward Said, One of the Most Interesting Men of His Time 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z That quaint nugget of journalism prefaced Monday evening’s performance of “Croon,” a show at the Metropolitan Room by the Los Angeles-based singer Todd Murray. Review: Todd Murray’s ‘Croon,’ Caresses Woven From Music and Lyrics 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z That might sound hippie-dippy but, Smith said, she heard the phrase from older black women in Chicago, used to preface some request for a younger person to do something, or shape up. With disco balls and gorgeously cinematic installations, this artist is creating deeply subversive work at the Frye 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Back to the preface: growing up with two names "does give you two aspects of personality, and Ruth and Barbara are two aspects of me", she wrote. Ruth Rendell: a life in writing 2013-03-01T10:00:01Z Two more hymns, “Shall We Gather at the River?” and “Nearer My God to Thee,” prefaced a frolicsome account of Ives’s more playful Sonata No. 4. Music Review: The Violinist Hilary Hahn at the Stone - Review 2011-10-12T21:22:30Z Here, too, is a show about “man devouring man,” to quote a lyric from Mr. Sondheim that dovetails with Mr. Bond’s bleak, beautifully written preface to the newly published edition of “Saved.” Theater Review: Psychological Turbulence Onstage 2011-10-18T13:00:19Z The preface removes some of the suspense from what follows, and also makes it clear that the counterterrorism plotline in the novel’s early pages isn’t going to be its primary focus. New Political Thrillers Head to the Brink of Disaster (and Dive In) 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z On Thursday the conductor Andrews Sill prefaced “Diamonds” with an invaluable “See the Music” talk about the Third Symphony’s opening movement and the rhythmic, structural and thematic reasons Balanchine may have omitted it. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet’s Tchaikovsky Celebration 2013-01-26T01:22:39Z “The problems of sex-life are infinitely complex, and for their solution urgently demand both sympathy and scientific research,” the author writes in the preface. Downton Abbey Recap: The Baby Blues 2014-01-20T03:01:06Z Later, in the Kaplan Penthouse, Mr. Denk prefaced his recital by claiming that he was assigned to write program notes but missed the deadline. Music Review: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Jeremy Denk at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-20T22:02:00Z I have to preface this statement with: it’s very nice that they all tried. Gal Gadot and friends singing to us about self-isolation? That’s a bit rich 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z “If I get carried away and do all my white girl runs, I’m sorry, I’m just excited to sing,” she prefaced the song. Watch Kelly Clarkson Tease Her Next Project Through Song 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Kent Tritle is the soloist in Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3, the famed “Organ,” which is prefaced by Vaughan Williams’s “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.” 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The playwright's aim, as expressed in his brilliant preface to the play, was "to modernize the form" according to what he believed were "the demands a contemporary audience would make of this art." 'Julia' updates 1888 classic with passionate acting, stunning staging, modern observation 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Accepting the award, Lear also turned to his book, reading from its preface. PEN Center USA literary awards a star-filled event 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Next comes Meltdown curator Antony Hegarty, who prefaces his first-ever live performance of his band's big hit Blind by cheerfully reminiscing with Butler about how poor and unknown they were when they first recorded it. Hercules & Love Affair – review 2012-08-08T16:44:23Z People who dare to ask questions about the genre tend to preface them with a lot of apologies for their own ignorance and for how stupid they assume their question is going to sound. Perspective | What does a conductor do, anyway? A music critic lays it out. 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z In a preface to an edition published in 2000, a generation later, he wrote: Letters to the Editor 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Ms. Getlin prefaced the song from “Sweet Charity” with a mention of a group of seventh-grade girls who once tormented her. Music Review: Alex Getlin, 18, Performs at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-06-14T21:20:13Z Singer Victoria Monet, the first opening act, prefaced her song “Better Days” by saying, “We all need something right now in this crazy time.” Ariana Grande grows up on ‘Dangerous Woman’ tour 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z I say this as a way of prefacing my plan to explore the city, which was no plan at all. How to explore a new city: A wanderlust guide to tourism 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z The new version retains Smalley’s original preface, as well as letters of introduction that were printed in the 1911 edition, from James himself and William Dean Howells. The Bookish Pleasures of a Henry James Yearbook 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z In the preface, you describe how you panicked while writing the book. Scandalized by Ali Wong’s Stand-Up? Brace Yourself for Her Book 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Nearly every song was prefaced with a long and winding anecdote. Barbara Cook at the Wallis: Still doing what she does best 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z "Every year sees an increase in the number of persons employed in the Public Health Service, who would formerly have been mere adventurers in the Private Illness Service," he wrote in the preface. Bernard Shaw and his lethally absurd doctor's dilemma 2012-07-13T21:54:04Z Her subject, she observed wryly in her preface to “Things Have Changed,” a mysterious song from the movie “Wonder Boys,” is “not really in touch with his feminine side.” Music Review: Barb Jungr Interprets Dylan at Metropolitan Room - Review 2011-10-19T23:01:02Z “Reading your own way into secular revelation” is “the enterprise of my long life,” Bloom tells us in his preface. Review | ‘The Bright Book of Life’ examines ‘novels to read and reread’ 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z After a brief preface, the story proper opens with Emily on the moors, lying on the ground and idly stroking the grass as she talks to herself. ‘Emily’ Review: A Brontë Sister’s Savage, Hardy and Free Life 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z In the opening pages Lipsky gives us an introduction, preface, and afterword to frame the narrative of his encounter with Wallace, and places them all before the main text itself. Book Review: David Foster Wallace Biography 2010-04-14T13:25:00Z She prefaced Holst’s cosmic suite with more contemporary fare: the orchestral versions of Pierre Boulez’s “Notations,” translucently celebrating the composer’s 90th birthday year, and a new violin concerto by Luca Francesconi. Review: Two BBC Proms More Modern than Pastoral 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z The most baffling thing about “The Bright Book of Life” is that there is absolutely no context provided for it — Bloom’s rambling, perplexing preface is less than helpful. Harold Bloom Is Dead. But His ‘Rage for Reading’ Is Undiminished. 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z He said: "In the preface to The Betrothed he imagines a steam-powered novel engine producing books by machinery rather than inspiration." Scotland's image-maker Sir Walter Scott 'invented English legends' 2010-08-16T16:21:00Z In her script’s preface, Ms. Taylor also cites the influence of “Afrofuturism.” Theater Review: ‘Stop. Reset.,’ by Regina Taylor, Opens at Signature Theater 2013-09-09T21:00:52Z Last night's episode was so highly anticipated that ITV2 prefaced it with an hour of highlights and a shriekingly awful music video. The Only Way Is Essex: beyond trash TV 2011-03-21T12:05:02Z It’s important to preface this by noting that because a few tight red swimsuits threaten to undo any progress towards cinematic gender parity made this summer. Summer movie preview: 5 storylines to watch 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z In a perplexing preface to the second edition of “Wuthering Heights,” Charlotte praised the novel — “We seem at times to breathe lightning” — while also questioning the wisdom of creating a character like Heathcliff. Perspective | Two centuries after her birth, Emily Brontë’s gifts keep giving 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z It was Bryars's iconic Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet that rounded off the event, prefaced with piano pieces by Howard Skempton. Scottish Ensemble/Smith/Burgess/Brannick 2010-04-27T21:15:00Z The author declares in his preface his commitment “to play it straight, to look the man right in the eye, not up in adulation or down in disdain.” Groomed to Be President 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Mem, mem, mem,’ ” she wrote in a preface to an excerpt from the eventual memoir, “The Shadow Factory,” in The American Scholar. Paul West, Writer Who Shoveled Absurdity Into His Books, Dies at 85 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z All the authors preface their stories with brief appreciations of Greene and his publishing house. Review | Something to celebrate: Four literary gems that have survived the vagaries of publishing 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Both films should come prefaced by warnings for viewers of either sex aged above, say, 35. The 25 greatest summer films 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z In a preface, Mr. Windham called his erstwhile partner “the rarest, most intoxicating, the most memorable flower that has blossomed in my garden of good and evil.” Donald Windham, Novelist and Memoirist, Dies at 89 2010-06-04T05:37:00Z Even left-field prompts work if you preface them with “This crossed my mind today.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How much truth about your daily struggle is too much for elderly mom? 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z “My job is to get your attention and keep it long enough for the message to get across,” Mr. Goines wrote in the preface to a collection of his work published in 1994. David Lance Goines, Who Shaped the Counterculture Aesthetic, Dies at 77 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Calmly share a few specific examples, prefaced by a sincere desire to get along better with her and her boyfriend. As if Thanksgiving Weren’t Stressful Enough This Year 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Guns N’ Roses prefaced its grandiose hit ballad “November Rain” with the instrumental second half of “Layla” by Derek and the Dominos, the obvious model for the former song’s guitar-hero finale. Review: Guns N’ Roses, Partly Reunited, in Its First Arena Performance 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Richardson wrote the book’s affectionate preface, hilariously describing the decorator in his later years as the “bouffant Tiresias of latter-day Pimlico—bewigged, caftaned, and outrageous.” A New Book Explores the Work of Geoffrey Bennison 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z That did not make it the worst holiday in itself, but I say that as a preface for a detail about this story. My worst holiday: Guardian writers on breaks that nearly broke them 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Wanting to diversify into something less vulnerable to weather, Melamed went to economist Milton Friedman to discuss his idea of trading in financial futures, prefacing their talk with "Please, don't laugh." Man saved from Nazis by 'Japan's Schindler' returns on journey of homage 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Jonathan Swift, no amateur, wrote in his preface to “The Battle of the Books” that “satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.” Is Satire Possible in the Age of Trump? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z I have come here armed with a long list of questions from Observer readers, most of which are prefaced by tribute to Doreen Lawrence's spirit and dignity. Doreen Lawrence: 'I could have shut myself away, but that is not me' 2013-04-20T22:26:39Z New editions of his older books often include new prefaces and afterwords that look at his old arguments in the light of new developments in politics and society. Daniel Bell, Ardent Appraiser of Politics, Economics and Culture, Dies at 91 2011-01-26T16:05:52Z She, too, wanted to dream up rich fictional lives in lieu of what she saw at the time as the burden of prefacing her story with an explanation of her mixed-race identity and upbringing. Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner is fighting for joy through grief 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z The Plastic Ono Band's event-opening set is prefaced by No 4, a 1966 film featuring bare bums in all their hairy, dimpled glory. Yoko Ono's Meltdown – review 2013-06-22T23:05:41Z In the preface to that anthology, Main declares his hope that the book will be a guide to wisdom and virtue. The Bookish Pleasures of a Henry James Yearbook 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z In the preface to Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion’s collection of essays from the 1960s, the author speaks to her primary strength as a journalist. Joan Didion Documentary Reaches Funding Goal Within One Day 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z The film looks like an omen, the fidget through unscripted skits of mayhem a preface to YouTube. Pulp Fiction to Magnolia: the best films of the 90s – as chosen by critics 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Wang, cavorting in costume, played keyboards with the ensemble and prefaced the cheerful epilogue with a giddy cadenza on digitally sampled harpsichord. Music Review: Light and Color in an Undulating Cloud 2010-10-18T22:29:00Z The maps prefacing the first seven stories show the same intersection of Nepal, Bhutan and India. The Gurkha's Daughter by Prajwal Parajuly – review 2013-01-25T22:55:01Z Without much of a preface, she grabbed me by my shoulders, looked me right in the eyes, and said, "Scott, Dad died." Trauma ran away with my childhood: Losing my father to violence forced me to grow up fast 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z She wrote in the preface that the book was “an attempt to open up the Metropolitan’s world,” which she considered as insular as “the Kremlin or the Vatican.” Johanna Fiedler Dies at 65; Wrote of the Met Opera 2011-06-04T04:36:12Z Each song is prefaced by a personal reminiscence. Real 'Jersey Boys' to embark on national tour 2012-05-15T07:02:09Z In the preface to his two-volume manifesto, “Poetics of Cinema,” Ruiz described the cinema as “an instrument of speculation and reflection” and “a machine for travel through space and time.” The Films of Raúl Ruiz Come to Lincoln Center 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z “I hasten to add this is not the final word,” Ms. Dench writes in the preface, noting that she plans to keep on working “right to the end.” Taking Her Art Seriously, Not Herself 2011-02-14T20:07:15Z She played two of those here, prefacing each with an excerpt from the source material. Music Review | Regina Carter: Grooving to African Folk With Yacouba Sissoko 2010-03-24T20:58:00Z The first segment, child star, is often prefaced by the word “tragic”; she’s been estranged from her parents since she was a teenager. Natasha Lyonne: ‘There’s a fighter in me that wants to survive’ 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z As her preface notes, she gathered these women together “under the sign of a compliment that every one of them received in their lives: They were called sharp.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z They performed Parker’s “Dewey Square,” prefaced by the most straightforward kind of thanks a working musician like Mr. Sullivan, who is 83, could give. N.E.A. Jazz Masters Hail From Inside and Outside the Club 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z This first defeat would preface one of the oddest and most influential literary paths of the twentieth century—a kind of greatness, if one as strange as it was great. How Raymond Roussel Put the Impossible on the Page 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z This turns out be all too fitting a preface for the fragmented show that follows. Theater Review | 'All About Me': Michael Feinstein and Dame Edna, at Henry Miller?s Theater 2010-03-19T03:32:00Z Paul’s habit of prefacing every show-offy bit of data with “if I’m not mistaken” is a sign that, in the ways that count, he is. | 'Midnight in Paris': Kicking the Old Ennui With the Lost Generation 2011-05-19T14:22:17Z Despite its overtures toward thought-provoking sci-fi, The Divergent Series, as Insurgent is prefaced in the advertisements, is actually more akin to Screen Gems franchises like Resident Evil or Underworld, only not as stylish. “Insurgent” is the “KFC Famous Bowl” of film: Critics agree the “Divergent” series is the poor woman’s “Hunger Games” 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z The hype explosion that prefaced its debut last fall — Joss Whedon's return to the small screen! 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' is a true television marvel 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z In the preface to her latest work, “Of Morsels and Marvels,” she conveys her surprise at his negative response. Writing, and Cooking, Across Borders 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z She declares in her preface that she proposes “to return to the early times of our history with the intention of rediscovering the building blocks of our contemporary personality.” ‘Know Thyself’ Review: The Evolution of a Culture 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Everyone involved knew this about the philosopher and his passions, and here is just one disclaimer from the preface: “There are statements which are certainly untrue, for example in the sections on stars and Protozoa.” What We're Reading: Summer Edition 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z They are then joined by Kendall and Roman for some sport in rubbishing Shiv’s over-earnest memo, prefaced by a quote from Thomas Aquinas to much mirth. Succession recap: season two, episode seven – deliciously twisted as ever 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z The allusion to Bach forms one of the starting points for English Touring Opera's new production: director James Conway prefaces the opera with Bach's cantata Christ Lag in Todesbanden, with its comparable emphasis on mortality. The Emperor of Atlantis – review 2012-10-09T16:49:30Z I prefaced any discussion of my trip with “If I make it” – lest the fates deem me presumptuous and strike me down with the plane. My fear of flying 2012-12-16T17:00:00Z In contrast, "Europe," as Jean-Paul Sartre claimed in his strident preface to Franz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, seemed to be "springing leaks everywhere". The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z The touchstone for saxophonists in this style is still Grover Washington Jr., whom Mr. James acknowledged as an early influence in his preface to “The Moment.” Review: Boney James Performs with Panache in Smooth Cruise Kickoff 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Lauer prefaced one question by saying that “nobody would expect you” to have read deeply into foreign policy before running for president. Matt Lauer Loses the War in a Battle Between the Candidates 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Mark Macias, a public-relations adviser who works in crisis management, puts it this way: Would you condemn racism with the preface, “As a person with a black friend . . .”? As ‘the fathers of daughters,’ they were offended by harassment. But what did that really mean? 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Each volume, with its own editor, included a preface by Professor Barnet surveying Shakespeare’s life, work and stagecraft, followed by an introduction to the work at hand by an eminent scholar. Sylvan Barnet, Scholar, Is Dead at 89; Edited Signet Shakespeare Paperbacks 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z As in Chaucer’s poem, she prefaces her tale with what is essentially her life story, enlisting the pub’s patrons as her many husbands and various friends and acquaintances. Review: In ‘The Wife of Willesden,’ a Literary Marriage Falters 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z “I found,” Sally Bedell Smith writes in the preface to her sympathetic 2017 biography, “that much about Prince Charles was poorly understood, not least the extent of his originality.” Royal Reads: 6 Books About British Monarchs and Coronations 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z In the preface to a booklet that accompanies what will be the ivories' first public showing outside Afghanistan, British Museum director Neil MacGregor alludes to the miracle that brought these ivories back to light. The Begram ivories: Rescuing Afghanistan's lost history 2011-02-27T00:05:25Z There’s a delightful audacity in prefacing the weighty Ninth with one of Beethoven’s slenderer works, the overture to “King Stephen,” which is built around an ingratiating little tune that sounds like a classical music box. McGegan, BSO offer slender, uneven, but compelling Beethoven Ninth 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z When a journalist prefaced her question by congratulating the filmmakers on an "interesting" film, Hoffman chipped in: "That's not a good word ... you really didn't like it!" Meet the Meyerowitzs: Hoffman, Stiller and Sandler seek highbrow laughs 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z William Wordsworth, in the key text of Romantic poetics, the preface to “Lyrical Ballads,” from 1800, had urged that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings . . . recollected in tranquility.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z For the English preface, J. B. S. Haldane wrote that “one reason why Engels was such a great writer is that he was probably the most widely educated man of his day.” What We're Reading: Summer Edition 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z She prefaced the social media posts with the line: “Just when you thought…” Julia Louis-Dreyfus Has Breast Cancer 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z “Emerson, Thoreau, and William James all made lasting contributions to modern life, and their personal triumphs over disaster and loss and defeat are further contributions,” Richardson wrote in the preface. Posthumous book coming from historian Robert D Richardson 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z The finished copy, having changed the name of the Dajanis and hence the title, includes the same preface but with the main character's name changed to the fictional Isaac Luminsky. The House of Rajani by Alon Hilu 2010-04-10T14:10:00Z Under the settlement, attorneys said, the church will donate the eight pages, known as a “canon table” that prefaces the rest of the Bible, to the Getty on Jan. 1, 2016. Legal settlement with Armenian church lets Getty Museum keep prized medieval Bible pages 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z In an informal preface to the audience, Smith, who relied on a crutch to move around because of an injured tendon in her leg, talked about the origins of the piece. 'Never Givin' Up' recites MLK's 'Letter' to call for justice 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z While “landscape painting did not appear in European painting as an independent genre until the 17th century,” as the preface to the exhibition book stresses, it was practiced long before by painters when sketching. Exhibition Review: 17th Century Art: The Landscape Comes of Age 2011-06-03T12:00:43Z Even more intriguing is a new preface that he wrote for the book’s latest edition, in 2018. Richness in Stasis: La Monte Young Finally Releases ‘Trio’ 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z "It is a comic novel," she writes in that preface, "and as such, very serious, for all comic novels must be about matters of life and death" – and for her that means "belief in Christ". Reading group: sin and symbolism in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood 2012-12-12T09:11:58Z You wrote in the preface to last year’s report that “the social cancer of hate continues to metastasize.” The president of the National Urban League discusses the state of black America 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z But it’s the bluntness of his original chorus — which is prefaced by Mr. Iglesias singing, “I don’t mean to be rude” — that got the song noticed in the first place. On the Pop Charts, Singing the Unspeakable 2011-03-15T16:00:06Z As Toni Morrison wrote in the preface to "The Black Book": 7 thrilling books by Black authors you need to read now 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Their first kiss takes place over the board and prefaces their sexual consummation. In "The Queen’s Gambit" and beyond, chess holds up a mirror to life 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z “We tear away carpets and in almost each room we discover trap doors in the wooden floors, hiding places behind old paneling,” she writes in her preface. How 2 Jewish Sisters Built a Cultural Oasis During World War II 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Mary painted, and George had recently published his first collection of poetry, “Discrete Series,” with a preface by Ezra Pound. When the Oppens Gave Up Art to Fight Fascism 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The preface to the catalog states that the show “highlights the ends more than the means of Bellows’s art — its subjects and meanings more than its methods and techniques.” Art Review: ‘George Bellows,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-11-15T23:23:38Z A brief historical preface explains that in 1895, the island of Taiwan was ceded by China to Japan, which subdued the native population and turned them into demoralized, alcoholic slaves. Movie Review: ?Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale,? by Wei Te-Sheng 2012-04-26T23:32:16Z But as Poehler explains in her preface, she wasn't quite sure this was a good time for a book. Amy Poehler memoir 'Yes Please' is smart, funny, a little messy 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z He prefaced the remarks as “a hypothetical I am going to ask as a thriller writer,” and denies he meant any form of violence. Inside the World of Brad Thor 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z This essay is adapted from the preface to “Fashion Climbing,” a posthumous memoir by the New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, to be published in September, by Penguin. Bill Cunningham Was So Alive 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z “At first, I made French fries and ate fast food,” Cai writes in the book’s preface. Eating Alone in China 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z I think of the preface that Jack Kerouac wrote to “The Americans”: a period piece, indulging Beat longueurs. The Shock of Robert Frank’s “The Americans” 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The reasons for this are explained in the preface to the first volume: Hale gave her collection of Eliot's letters to Princeton University Library, where they will remain under embargo until 2020. The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume 3 - review 2012-07-13T21:55:08Z In your preface, you note that there weren’t a lot of black voices in Bartlett’s until an edition in the 1960s. From Du Bois to Dr. Dre: A New Bartlett’s Celebrates Black Quotations 2013-11-18T18:30:34Z The new series is due out Friday; her appearance here would make for a good preface. What’s on TV Thursday: Ava DuVernay on ‘Desus & Mero’ and ‘BlacKkKlansman’ 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z A full understanding of the etiquette surrounding pining for an ex may best be prefaced with a discussion of the forces that fuel wounded lovers in the first place. How to Get Over That Ex 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z As a preface to those engagements, Mr. Bavouzet performed Beethoven and Debussy at Mannes, in the final recital of the International Keyboard Institute and Festival. Music Review: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet at International Keyboard Institute 2013-07-28T18:57:26Z On Wednesday, Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 is prefaced by Boulez’s less frequently spotted “Éclat.” Classical Music Listings for Nov. 4-10 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z It’s a move most artists preface with several years of compromising, but in the Internet era, it may become a more rapid phenomenon. New Music: Albums From Wiz Khalifa, Melanie Fiona and Lost in the Trees 2012-03-19T22:16:52Z The preface of Ivanka Trump’s new book, “Women Who Work,” is anodyne enough. Having Trouble Having It All? Ivanka Alone Can Fix It 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z It also included a preface from Bradbury, whom he had met as a teenager at the Los Angeles Science Fiction League; he was best man at Bradbury's wedding. Ray Harryhausen dies aged 92: master of stop-motion animation 2013-05-07T19:06:34Z In the preface to “Loitering,” his new and collected essays, Charles D’Ambrosio presents himself as a true believer in the form. Book Review Podcast: Charles D'Ambrosio's 'Loitering' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z These sentiments will hardly tarnish his good-natured image, or dissuade US journalists from constantly prefacing his name with "the beloved". Steve Carell: 'I don't care for mean humour' 2010-10-14T20:30:00Z “I found,” Smith writes in her preface, “that much about Prince Charles was poorly understood, not least the extent of his originality.” A Kinder, Gentler Portrait of Prince Charles 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z The preface sets the scene, followed by a final reading of the banns to the congregation and the couple. The Book of Common Prayer, part 3 2010-09-06T09:30:00Z In his preface to “A Rebel in Defense of Tradition,” his 1994 biography of Macdonald, Mr. Wreszin described the sliver of ideological ground occupied by one generation of such radical outliers. Michael Wreszin, Biographer of American Radicals, Dies at 85 2012-09-16T00:41:10Z At its heart, the game is a celebration of hiking itself: the long-term reward of a spectacular view prefaced by the many surprising joys collected along the way, The Best Video Games of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z So it is salutary for us to read the aesthetic philosophy expressed in the preface to The Portrait of Dorian Gray. Beautiful rebels: the daring art of the aesthetic movement 2011-03-28T20:31:01Z Each section of the exhibit, which is divided by historical era, is prefaced with a quote from a 1943 book, “Chinese Life and Fashions,” by the Chinese novelist Eileen Chang. History of a Dress, Chinese Style 2010-08-30T12:10:00Z A ruler’s power in a fascist State is prefaced on this routine. The GOP’s gross Adam Sandler primary: Donald Trump, penis jokes and the pathetic state of conservatism 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Well, I should preface this by saying I don't have a lot of what comes next figured out. Breaking Bad Q&A: Creator Vince Gilligan Talks the Finale, and the Future 2011-10-10T17:45:00Z I only preface that because I don’t want to put words in your mouth. Todd Solondz, patron saint of pessimism 2010-07-23T19:01:00Z Visit 18 sites — six in each of the three counties — and receive a copy of the book, “Landmarks and Legacies,” with a preface by former vice president and current Delaware resident, Joe Biden. Satisfy your food, beverage or cultural craving on a Mid-Atlantic trail 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Garner provides several charming analogies in his preface for how readers of the book should understand his five-stage system of acceptability, one of which is this: 5 Common Words That Used to Be Totally Unacceptable 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The first half of the concert prefaced Brahms's First Piano Concerto with the world premiere of Jonathan Lloyd's Old Racket. BBCSO/Davis – review 2013-04-15T17:13:40Z The second includes the second premiere in two weeks, with Conrad Tao’s “Everything Must Go” prefacing Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The leap, prefaced by bounding woodwind, juts impertinently upwards, while the chromatic descent, thanks to the addition of an extra note, has mutated into a yielding moan. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z This clip of a lion attack is prefaced by an announcer telling us that the incident occurred in Pakistan, "a country where it's legal to keep exotic animals as pets." Why we're fascinated by animal attacks 2010-08-18T11:01:00Z When Dr. Lipinsky started to get excited, the first thing he said was “I need to preface this with an apology.” Chalk It Up to ‘Chill Yentas’ 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z The paperback edition, just published, contains a new preface updating the story in light of the election of Donald Trump. Stellar nonfiction chosen by the National Book Critics Circle 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Held onstage during the intermission between Puccini’s first two acts and prefaced by a short assemblage of filmed performance clips, the ceremony was simple. Review: Plácido Domingo Reaches 50 Years at the Met Opera 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Save for a preface and afterword, the whole book is told through Morse's reviews of hotels on the fictional website RateYourLodging.com. Rick Moody's uneven 'Hotels of North America' is not worth a stay 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z But when she knew she had a good joke coming, she prefaced it with a small, sideways smile: Her mind was a half-step ahead of yours. The Comedy-Destroying, Soul-Affirming Art of Hannah Gadsby 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z “All societies admit the power of music or sound. Attempts to control what is heard in the community are universal,” Ms. Oliveros wrote in a preface to the meditations. Pauline Oliveros, Composer Who Championed ‘Deep Listening,’ Dies at 84 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z “Vital. Vital,” is how the poet Gwendolyn Brooks began her lyrical preface to Etheridge Knight’s first pamphlet of poems, “Poems From Prison.” In a (Prose) Tribute to Fathers and Father Figures, a Fast-Paced Poet Slows Down 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z “Starlings” collects a range of works written between 2000 and 2017, prefaced with an introduction that lays out Walton’s relationship to short fiction. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z After this preface the dance improved quickly, with Mr. Ekman taking advantage of the rhythmic acuity and sharpness of the Cedar Lake crew. Dance Review: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet at the Joyce Theater 2012-05-23T21:55:51Z BCP's preface gathers the dearly beloved in the sight of God and in the face of this congregation. The Book of Common Prayer, part 3 2010-09-06T09:30:00Z On Facebook, one constantly sees real stories prefaced with the advisory: “Not from the Onion!” Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z As she writes in the preface to “Mary Barton,” she wishes primarily to raise awareness of the “agony of suffering” of Manchester’s poor. The Unjustly Overlooked Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z He had prefaced his remark by asking, "Are we on the seven-second delay?" MSNBC reinstates analyst after his remark on Obama 2011-08-02T21:21:08Z Backed by 20 pages of sources and notes, a preface and even a series of “supernatural axioms,” these stories are meant to function together as a single work of fiction. Voyage-tales collection blends atypical narrative, history In the preface to “A Voice Still Heard,” Morris Dickstein observes that Howe saw himself as a “perpetual dissenter.” ‘A Voice Still Heard,’ a Collection of Essays by Irving Howe 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z In the film's prologue, a doctor tells him, "I don't love your EKG" – a wonderfully smarmy preface to everyone's worst nightmare – and he flees the office rather than hear the details. Michael Douglas: The last great antihero 2010-05-21T12:01:00Z His eyes seem to preface every thing he says and sings with the words, “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.” 'Springsteen on Broadway': A rock-star confessional with heart 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z That single event prefaced the disintegration of our solid faith in government, fathering the now pervasive and enervating assumption that we no longer have control over our economic of political destiny. We can’t forget John F. Kennedy’s assassination 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z In 1953, the film's preface tells us, the CIA and the British secret service organised a coup d'état that toppled the legitimate Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh, who'd nationalised the oil industry. Argo – review 2012-11-11T00:05:47Z Fowler does drop a hint on what the novel is “about” by prefacing her tale with some lines from Franz Kafka’s short story, “A Report for an Academy.” Karen Joy Fowler’s novel of a very complicated family 2013-05-29T22:24:45Z Mary Shelley wrote in her preface to the novel. ‘Frankenstein’ Manuscript Comes to Life in New Publication 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z But without those kinds of external threats, the sad gnaw of solitude quickly sets in, a deep-seated melancholy infusing the solo-act-in-space that was Silent Running, the eco-conscious preface to Moon. Going solo: the grinding power of the single-actor film 2011-03-25T12:13:18Z She broke the news to me on the phone the other night, prefaced it with, “I can’t believe I’m saying this, but…” Identity politics along the border: Dissecting why some Latinos love Trump 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z That performance ideally prefaced a penetrating rendition of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. Music Review: Zubin Mehta Leads Final Concert in Festival 2014-03-17T22:11:13Z Simmons identifies herself in her book's preface as "an American orphan." What were cupcakes like in the 1700s? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z But he has no table of contents, chapter titles or preface to guide the reader through his chaotic work. Literary biography: possibility and peril 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z He said he hadn’t thought about the characters’ religions while he was writing the novels, which both are prefaced with reminders that the works are fiction. 15 Years After ‘The Five People You Meet in Heaven,’ Mitch Albom Says Who Comes Sixth 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z As befits a lad of the 1960s with a talent for smooth come-ons, Frank Abagnale Jr. prefaces the story of his life with the promise that it will have “more curves than a Playboy bunny.” | 'Catch Me if You Can' : Scamming as Fast as He Can 2011-04-11T02:01:04Z “If in France, we strive to more originality,” he wrote in the preface to “I Spit,” signed in his own name, “no anxiety is felt in exploiting unblushingly a formula which has proved its value.” Whimsy and War: Boris Vian’s Two Minds 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Bach wrote his set of 15 Two-Part Inventions as teaching pieces for amateurs of the keyboard, as he put it in a preface. Music Review: Simone Dinnerstein Gives New Twists to Classics 2014-01-24T20:42:00Z The majority of her replies could be prefaced with the words "I've been there". Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There by Cheryl Strayed – review 2013-04-28T07:30:01Z She prefaces segments with offhand references to her past infamy. Karen Finley Relives the AIDS Epidemic in ‘Written in Sand’ 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z But of more interest to those already familiar with the poet whom Ted Hughes characterised as "the father of us all" are the extracts from diaries, notebooks and articles that preface the book. Edward Thomas: Selected Poems ? review 2011-08-19T21:55:05Z Each of the concertos in the Italian composer’s beloved cycle is prefaced by a sonnet that likewise addresses seasonal associations. The magic lute: Baroque instrument gets electric update for world premiere 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z In a brief preface, Follett mentions that the idea behind this book emerged from his research for his 2010 novel “Fall of Giants,” which is set in the early 20th century. New Political Thrillers Head to the Brink of Disaster (and Dive In) 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z From here, Waters prefaced his feelings towards Biden by saying it's possibly the most radical thing he could say. John Waters talks President Biden and monkeypox on "Real Time With Bill Maher" 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z As Ki no Tsurayuki puts it in his preface, we are "startled into thoughts on the brevity of life". Japan’s cherry blossom viewing parties — the history of chasing the fleeting beauty of sakura 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z It is the sort of restaurant where the menu has a preface. Vegetables With Benefits at ABCV 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Woetzel attempted to preface their performance by showing a garbled black-and-white clip of Balanchine and Stravinsky discussing time signatures, but technical difficulties prompted him to ask if there was “a physicist in the house.” ‘DEMO’ at Kennedy Center celebrates artist collaboration 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Whether or not these tales – usually anonymous – are true, in WhatsApp groups over the country, women are prefacing any request of their bridesmaids with “not to be a bridezilla or anything, but …” How ‘bridezilla’ became this summer’s biggest sexist slur 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z In a new preface, Johnson explains that he was reluctant to tell the story of how wine has since “joined the tedious world of luxury goods.” Crack open the best 2020 wine books for rich history, international politics and a vintner’s lively memoir 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z The opening, with its studied languor prefacing a joltingly fast allegro, immediately pitched his interpretation into territory between dream and hallucination. LPO/Yannick N?zet-S?guin ? review 2011-02-18T19:14:46Z Daniel Harding brought philosophy and music back into juxtaposition, however, in his performance with the London Symphony Orchestra, by prefacing the tone poem with a reading by Samuel West of the book's prologue. LSO/Daniel Harding ? review 2011-02-13T22:01:02Z The line from the poem by Elizabeth Bishop in the preface: "Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?" echoes throughout the novel. The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska – review by Lloyd Jones 2013-06-13T06:12:13Z He rewrote the preface, which he said was “rendered incoherent by the documentary,” but stopped short of declaring the case against the singer closed. Michael Jackson Biographers Face History, and the Mirror 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z When I cautiously told Beth, prefacing it with disclaimers, she reassured me: “Hey, that’s the world we live in now: no borders.” Modern Love: Downloadable. Unsustainable, Too. 2011-08-11T18:57:16Z We are also given a preface, an ambulatory and often playful meditation on history and forgetting that begins with the narrator’s visit to the cemetery at the center of a small fishing village. A Literary Catalog of Things Lost to History 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z In a preface to a collection of his screenplays, Antonioni described his collaborative process with Mr. Guerra as one of “long and violent arguments,” which he found “helpful.” Tonino Guerra, Italian Screenwriter and Poet, Dies at 92 2012-03-23T04:08:37Z The most vivid of several characters was a beloved grandfather whom she described in an exquisite vignette that prefaced Stephen Sondheim’s “I Remember.” Review: Marissa Mulder Trusts Her Intuition at the Metropolitan Room 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z I will preface this by saying fantastic show, I love it. ArtsBeat: Your 'Homeland' Questions Answered 2012-12-14T16:46:42Z A preface claimed that what followed was a newly discovered diary, appended with pages from the diaries of Salah Dajani, a young boy who was a member of a well-known Palestinian land-owning family. The House of Rajani by Alon Hilu 2010-04-10T14:10:00Z “I think sometimes,” Rock says in his preface to “Life on Mars,” “that the lack of a budget and money and the urgency of youth helped a bit.” Review: A feral, mischievous, ecstatic Bowie revealed in new Seattle MoPOP photo exhibit 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z The author of From Here to Eternity, Jones had actually served at Guadalcanal, but in the preface to his novel he admits he had created a place of the imagination. The Thin Red Line: No 10 2010-10-19T10:45:00Z Though prefacing the events chronicled in "Breaking Bad," "Better Call Saul" opens as a sequel. 'Better Call Saul' the real deal, and Odenkirk delivers goods 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z After starting with Götterdämmerung in 2009, he's going back to the second opera, dividing it across two evenings, and prefacing the first act with a specially commissioned prologue. The best classical music for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:12Z It is significant that Crimp's play text prefaces the final section with a quote from Dante that translates as: "You are not on the Earth as you believe." In the Republic of Happiness – review 2012-12-13T18:15:55Z He prefaced his speech at the summit with a short film, narrated in his trademark lion’s growl, featuring the character of Nature speaking about the future. Harrison Ford: leaders who deny climate change are 'on the wrong side of history' 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The movie is prefaced with an epigraph, ascribed to Hiram Johnson, a Republican senator from California, in 1918: “The first casualty of war is truth.” | '5 Days of War': More Than One Kind of Deadline 2011-08-18T22:42:32Z Liszt, who read widely during this period, prefaced the works with literary quotations. Music Review: Martin Helmchen at the Frick Collection - Review 2011-11-03T00:11:37Z The start of the war was dispatched in a preface performed on cartons covered with a map. 'The Great War's' portrayal of WWI battlefield horror proves ingenious 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Apart from Ms. Kretschmer’s welcoming comments before each half of the program, the players did the talking, prefacing each piece with personable observations in lieu of printed program notes. Music Review: Debussy Flows in Ripples And Seductive Warbles 2011-05-20T03:01:13Z The preface, Mr. Blauner said, acknowledged that “myths” had built up around the book. Releasing Old Nonfiction Books When Facts Have Changed 2013-01-30T21:12:24Z “It was an attempt to create more options for myself, a new story with a new ending,” he wrote in 2011 in the preface to the 40th-anniversary edition of the book. John Jay Osborn Jr., Author of ‘The Paper Chase,’ Dies at 77 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z If you cannot have what you believe in," Shaw wrote in his preface, "you must believe in what you have. Bernard Shaw and his lethally absurd doctor's dilemma 2012-07-13T21:54:04Z A grandfather falling into a hole is the preface to a death, like a grave predicting a body. She Tumbled Into a Hole, and Her World Broke Open 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Disgusted: When I prefaced my statement by suggesting “a daring pre-dawn raid,” I assumed readers would understand that I was joking. Perspective | Ask Amy: Beneficiary wants to avoid ‘Lifetime’ role 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z One approach is to preface follow-up questions with: “I don’t want to pry, so I understand if you’d rather not answer.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A non-answer answer to name-change inquiries 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Elsewhere in his preface, Harris pointedly describes Moore's book as "a further, 'authorized' work". Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore; Not for Turning by Robin Harris – review 2013-04-24T12:57:02Z That sky-high dance is the charming preface to “Voice of My City: Jerome Robbins and New York,” on view now at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Review: An Aching Ode to Jerome Robbins’s Lost New York 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z As I was searching for the sound and tone of “On Freedom,” I returned often to Anne Carson’s prefaces to her translation of plays by Euripides, “Grief Lessons.” Why Maggie Nelson Is Drawn to Certain Autobiographies 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z And whenever you say something to them, preface it with an unspoken, “I am saying this to a grown man.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Any harm in ‘my house, my rules’ as the last word on unmarrieds sharing rooms? 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z And while Bedlam doesn’t go in for a lot of self-conscious fourth-wall breaking, it prefaces both of its current productions by having the cast members roam casually among the audience. 'Seagull' and 'Sense and Sensibility,' From Bedlam Company 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Rowe prefaced his 1709 edition of Shakespeare's Works with a short biography that was reissued last year to mark its 300th anniversary. Shakespeare biographies: the good, the Bard and the ugly | Michael Caines 2010-04-05T11:16:00Z Geraldo Rivera was one of those pushing this theory, prefacing it by saying he didn’t want to sound like a “far-right lunatic” – something that amused Oliver. John Oliver on Fox News's pipe bombs coverage: 'A time for wild speculation' 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z You clearly know there is something a little wrong about these boots, otherwise you wouldn't have prefaced your question with a defence. Actresses looking to survive film awards season ? ignore your stylist 2011-01-16T21:00:01Z The song is based on a short poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton a Poem, one of a collection of writings known as the Prophetic Books. Anthem meant to be less rousing 2012-07-03T09:02:07Z When the novel’s diversion is revealed, you’ll understand why Pavone prefaced his novel with a quote from Harry Houdini: “What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.” Review | A bored housewife jumps back into the spy game again in ‘The Paris Diversion’ 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z But she never wrote the kind of tell-all preface to a planned edition of her love sonnets that would have brought her money when she needed it. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The movie unveiled in Utrecht this week came with a preface in which the director warns us that we are about to watch an "unfinished" work. Dark Blood - first look review 2012-10-01T12:54:20Z Rather than presenting Steichen’s work chronologically, she grouped 315 of his photographs by theme, prefacing each section with a personal essay that incorporated Steichen’s comments to her about his work. Joanna T. Steichen, Managed Work by Edward Steichen, Dies at 77 2010-08-07T05:04:00Z Handing out the Oscar for best director three weeks ago, Emma Stone prefaced the award by suggesting the power and influence of that figure in the film-making process. The end of the auteur? 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Mofsie prefaced each with a few words on its origins or significance. Round (and Hoop, and Eagle and Deer) Dancing on First Avenue 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z “The King” doesn’t preface the battle with the St. Crispin’s Day speech — “we happy few, we band of brothers” — one of Shakespeare’s most soaring and frequently bastardized orations. ‘The King’ Review: Once More Unto the Breach (but Why?) 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Apart from an anachronistic preface that isn't very helpful, the production delivers the Bard's story cleanly and clearly, and is strikingly costumed by David Woolard. 5 plays at Oregon Shakespeare Festival: a critic's take 2011-07-31T04:07:15Z I just preface this saying that it was very nice of her to let us use her house. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: A ‘Bling Ring’ Star’s Head-Spinning Trip 2013-05-20T13:02:17Z She prefaces high notes with a split second of preparation, symbolic of a performance that hits its marks conscientiously, not blazingly. Review: In Staatsoper’s ‘Elektra,’ an Ax-Wielder With Royal Bearing 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z He also gave marvelously idiomatic performances of Cage’s “The Seasons,” prefaced by a reading of a Cage text that offered nice contextualization, and Feldman’s brief “Two Intermissions.” In Pedja Muzijevic’s recital, talk gets in the way of ‘Haydn Dialogues’ 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Indeed, the fate of the story’s heroine appears in a brief, impressionistic preface, but you won’t fully appreciate that opening until you finish the whole novel and begin obsessively reading it again. Review | Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Station Eleven’ was a huge hit. Now she’s back with a different apocalypse. 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z In the preface, he further explained: “If I’ve succeeded in hiding my plans from her since writing this, she should be very surprised. I hope she says ‘yes.’ How 12 authors turned their book dedications into grand romantic gestures 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The far-fetched but hardly distinctive tale told in “American Sausage Standoff” is prefaced by a title card reading “This story is based on fact.” ‘American Sausage Standoff’ Review: Order the Salad 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Ferry stresses this interpretation in his preface, where he quotes a passage from Book 11: Virgil’s ‘The Aeneid’ still looks strikingly contemporary 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The catalogue was prefaced with a quotation from Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 65: “How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea?” Making Art in a Time of Rage 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z I saw the performance the Afghan Whigs did at the Apollo Theatre, where you prefaced the song with the story that you and Dave used to go see the band together. The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli on keeping it “fun” after death of a beloved bandmate and 30 years of touring 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z "I'm intimidated and concerned about the limitations my health will impose on writing this book, an ongoing process of discovery," he writes in the preface. The future tense of joy: "Deadwood" creator David Milch recaptures memory in "Life's Work" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Perhaps recalling Seurat’s pointillistic technique, he writes in a preface to “Flying Over Sunset” that his script “connects the dots” of known history. Review: In ‘Flying Over Sunset,’ Getting High With the Stars 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z My resistance to optimism, never formidable, dissolves by the “Wonderland” preface. Steven Johnson on How Play Shaped the World 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z It was true for Julian Lage, a guitarist who received national attention as early as 8, yet prefaced his solo career with years of mentoring by the vibraphonist Gary Burton, a former prodigy himself. Joey Alexander, an 11-Year-Old Jazz Sensation Who Hardly Clears the Piano’s Sightlines 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z He approaches them with deference, even apologizing in a preface because “many godlike talents, including some who took precious time to treat me to deeply revealing interviews, are scarcely mentioned.” How American Chefs in the 1970s and ’80s Created a Revolution 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z This rich, sprawling film bears out the words in the unascribed epigraph that prefaces the film: “There could be a novel by Tolstoy in everyone’s life.” Review: With ‘One Cut, One Life,’ Ed Pincus and Lucia Small Document His Illness 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z SZA prefaced her performance of “Drew Barrymore” by explaining that the song was inspired by crippling self-doubt. Review | SZA turns self-doubt into sublime sounds at Fillmore 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z In the preface to her book, Gibb describes watching a short film about West in the British Library. West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West by Lorna Gibb – review 2013-04-06T08:00:36Z Murder mysteries, period dramas, fantasy epics, modern adult romance — all benefit from gentle hills dotted with ancient churches, rivers winding past storybook villages and conversations prefaced by "I'll put the kettle on." Provocative 'The Casual Vacancy' no ordinary jaunt to countryside 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z “A Woman’s Prerogative” was prefaced by his story of growing up with five sisters for whom he played the role of romantic adviser. Music Review: Eric Michael Gillett Sings at Feinstein?s at Loews Regency 2010-07-07T21:57:00Z A note that prefaces the script helps elucidate some of these idiosyncrasies. Theater Review: ‘Stop. Reset.,’ by Regina Taylor, Opens at Signature Theater 2013-09-09T21:00:52Z Waivers were not required, but as in Pasadena the performance was prefaced by a brief test to allow listeners to determine whether the darkness would be a problem for them. Music Review: A Musical Question: Does a Quartet Sound Different in the Dark? 2010-09-06T22:51:00Z In a Q. & A. interview in the preface to the book, Mr. Feinstein recounted a trip he and Mr. Dylan once took across the country in a Rolls-Royce, before Mr. Dylan’s greatest fame. Barry Feinstein, Photographer of Defining Rock Portraits, Dies at 80 2011-10-21T04:57:18Z I'm revisiting one of the most iconic cookbooks of the 1970s: "Simple French Food" by Richard Olney; the preface of this book should be required reading by any serious cook or gastronome, professional or amateur. How to focus on simple cooking, according to a professional chef 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z In the preface to a later edition of her novel, Ms. Gloeckner writes that, in many ways, it is about her, but that it’s also about the reader. Review: In ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl,’ a Hormone Bomb Waiting to Explode 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z At the start of every season in the writers room, Mr. Weiner began by reading Cheever’s preface to his “Collected Stories.” ‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner’s Foray Into Fiction 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z “The suppression of the preface ensured that only one name remained prominent: that of the king himself,” Mr. Mosley wrote. Exhibition Review: ?Printing for Kingdom, Empire & Republic? - Review 2011-12-24T01:47:25Z This volcanic actor’s entrance in the lopsided new revival of Lanford Wilson’s “Burn This,” which opened on Tuesday at the Hudson Theater, is prefaced by a fanfare of violent pounding. Review: Adam Driver Heats Up a Wobbly ‘Burn This’ 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Crabbe himself, in a preface to the poem, described Grimes as a man "untouched by pity, unstung by remorse, and uncorrected by shame". George Crabbe: The man behind Benjamin Britten 2013-06-14T17:00:01Z That first programme, prefaced with the ominously stiff announcement "Ladies and gentlemen, rock'n'roll" and played over footage of the Apollo 11 moon landing, was watched by just a few thousand people. MTV: 30 years of innovation and corporate rock'n'roll 2011-08-01T10:52:50Z Is it any surprise that his preface is not apologetic in the least? For April Fool's Day, a celebrated literary hoax 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z "This is my side of the story and my opinions, nothing on behalf of Starbucks," he prefaced the video. Supporters raise over $60G for Starbucks barista blasted by ‘Karen’ attempting to flout mask mandate 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Near the end of the debate between New York governor Andrew Cuomo and Cynthia Nixon, his Democratic primary challenger, one of the moderators prefaced a question to Ms. Nixon by referencing her net worth. The Big Secret of Celebrity Wealth (Is That No One Knows Anything) 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z “It is not possible, almost a century and a half later, to know the truth of the events recounted in this volume,” Burnet’s alter-Burnet notes in his preface. A thriller with a fine literary pedigree: 'His Bloody Project' by Graeme Macrae Burnet 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z A dedication to “all 52” — Republican senators, presumably — prefaced the new “Turtleneck,” arguably the National’s punkiest tune ever. Review | The National stay suave while shaking things up 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The idealism of love fills the play; the lure of money animates the preface. Bernard Shaw and his lethally absurd doctor's dilemma 2012-07-13T21:54:04Z In his preface to the New York edition of “The Golden Bowl,” James discusses the impulse to tinker that inevitably arises when an author revisits work in a later edition. Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Oddisee prefaced “Waiting Outside” by addressing a taboo subject within the black community: mental illness, and the error of treating “depression” like a four-letter word. Oddisee returns to his U Street corridor origins, playing the 9:30 Club for the first time 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z “I’ve limited myself to artists whose works illuminate science and might even contribute to scientific advances,” he writes in the preface. ‘COLLIDING WORLDS: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art’ He even manages a kind of poetic jingoism, where nearly every criticism of the United States is mere preface to an elegant and spirited defense. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z She suggests instead prefacing the statement with “even though”, as in, “Even though you know it’s only one party, you’re still so disappointed to be missing it.” How to be a good listener: the experts' guide 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z The show even has an ominous, voice-over preface: “For the men and women of the Detroit homicide unit, every life counts, and every murder tells a story.” Television Review: He Treats His Partner as Badly as He Does the Suspects 2010-09-20T23:36:00Z Richard Schiff, of The West Wing fame, makes the composer a figure of wondrously acerbic vanity who prefaces every remark by reminding everyone of his 28 Broadway scores. Smash! ? review 2011-04-01T20:30:00Z Critics rightly mocked him for this preface, but it introduced into the reader's mind the idea of Byron as a character – as a young man and a lord. Rereading: Childe Harold by Lord Byron 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z Ross prefaced the piece by speaking about Mendelssohn’s older sister, Fanny, and how the world of classical music excluded women such as her for so long. Review | Ross emphasizes the new and the forgotten with Alexandria Symphony 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z In a preface commissioned by Mr. Richards, Hilton Als, a writer for The New Yorker, remarks on the “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” flavor of Mr. Cunningham’s reminiscences. Bill Cunningham Left Behind a Secret Memoir 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Copland served as a preface to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, with which Dudamel had made classical music and L.A. history at the Hollywood Bowl eight years ago. Dudamel and Beethoven — and Vin Scully — for the common man 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The evening culminated in a special tribute to Ray Charles during which Obama introduced Usher prefacing the performance by stating that he himself would not be singing. Watch President Obama lead a Ray Charles singalong at the White House 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z I will confess that Mr. Miller’s incantatory and gorgeous preface — a discussion of why disappointment is not an obstacle to transcendence, but rather, its aim — caused me to well with tears. Books and the ‘Boredom Boom’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z All that is missing is an Arab sage prefacing every portentous utterance with "It is written". Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z “You might think of this as tapas Shakespeare,” the general editors’ preface suggests. The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Writing was, he said in the preface, "the only remedy I could think of to keep me from going mad or dying of grief". Casanova unveiled: new edition of his book reveals the man who loved liberty as much as women 2013-03-30T13:04:25Z “Sally operated from a minimalist kitchen that somehow reflected her cooking style,” he wrote in the preface of his book, “The French Laundry.” ‘French Laundry’ restaurant founder Sally Schmitt dies at 90 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z The preface of “Buzz” recounts a family vacation when she was 10 years old and discovered an odd zippered pouch in the hotel dresser. Review | One woman’s bold case for breaking the sex-toy taboo 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Telling the story of the artist Jed Martin, son of a famous architect, it sees him asking the writer Michel Houellebecq, "a celebrated author", to write the preface for his exhibition catalogue. Michel Houellebecq novel draws bitter critical fire 2010-08-31T14:43:00Z McCormick’s story is further explained by John W. Troutman, the editor of “Biography of a Phantom,” in a preface and afterword. A Biography of a Blues Legend, Five Decades in the Making 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Mr. James prefaced the song with some thoughts about sexism, and then the band started a ghostly dirge. José James Celebrates Billie Holiday at the Blue Note 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The author’s mother, Elizabeth Moynihan, however, was an ardent sailor who, as she writes in this book’s preface, “immediately set about helping him.” Books of The Times: John Moynihan?s ?Voyage of the Rose City? ? Review 2011-09-29T22:01:35Z “If that is not the intention then the management of the site has a responsibility to very clearly preface the content with a disclaimer and to label opinions as something distinct from evidence-based reporting.” A new film claims root canals cause cancer. Don’t believe it, dentists say 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Interviewed tonight by Carey Schofield, the academic author, he suggested he had not made a final decision to return, prefacing his remarks by saying "if" he did so. Pervez Musharraf uses Hay festival to hint at possible return to power 2010-05-30T22:55:00Z The full texts of both versions are reprinted in “Final Verdict: What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case,” by Walter Schneir, with a preface and afterword written by me. Marvin Gaye, the Venona Project and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z It was a fitting preface to Luna Pearl Woolf’s “Après Moi, le Déluge,” a strikingly allusive concerto for cello and chorus that movingly reflects on the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. Music Review: Julian Wachner’s Trinity Choir at Zankel Hall 2012-06-03T22:24:45Z Q: Your preface poses the book’s key question: “Why is ‘The Office’ different?” Why was ‘The Office’ so successful? Kevin Malone, aka Brian Baumgartner, seeks answers in a new book 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Dean prefaced the concert with his own new orchestration of the slow movement of the first Razumovsky Quartet, which, even with the subtle addition of woodwind, still sounded like a stark descent into unconsolable despair. Northern Sinfonia/Dean – review 2013-05-12T13:55:17Z “The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million,” Henry James wrote memorably in his preface to “The Portrait of a Lady.” 'Mrs. Osmond' takes up where Henry James' 'Portrait of a Lady' left off but falls a bit short 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Another part is Snyder’s writing background: as she states in the preface, Snyder has reported from the “hidden corners of the world” about political corruption, war crimes, terrorism, sex trafficking—the big stuff. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z This newly published diary reads, in part, as a preface to that book, and as a cautionary guide to our own perilous time. Not a Moment Too Soon: Iris Origo’s War Diary 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Even New York magazine's David Edelstein, who prefaces his review by asserting that the original "Dumb and Dumber" is "a clasick," says that the sequel's "badness could give you an ulcer." 'Dumb and Dumber To' lives down to its title, reviews say 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z "Women Who Work" will include a new preface that Ivanka wrote after her father's surprise victory in November's presidential election,the AP reports. Ivanka Trump's book on women and work is running late 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z In his preface, Mr. Conquest noted that “in the actions here recorded about 20 human lives were lost, not for every word, but for every letter, in this book.” Robert Conquest, Historian Who Documented Soviet Horrors, Dies at 98 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z In a brief preface, Follett notes that the inspiration for “Never” came from his research into the origins of World War I for “Fall of Giants,” the first volume of his Century Trilogy. Review | Ken Follett’s latest epic is a cautionary tale of global catastrophe 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z In his thoughtful preface, editor Paul Vangelisti writes that this controversial author “may be, along with Ezra Pound, one of the most important and least understood American poets of the past century.” The best new poetry books for March 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z In the preface to "One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War," Bing West announces that "this is my sixth and final book about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan." A gripping 'One Million Steps' examines Marines in Afghanistan 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z He prefaced this section with the words: "Now, I was told not to do this." Lembit Opik 2010-06-03T12:18:00Z A preface describes the book as a “literary fantasy derived” from Solanas’s biography; “Few facts are known about Valerie Solanas and this novel is not faithful even to those,” the note continues. “Valerie” Is an Extraordinary Love Letter to a Radical Feminist 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Their Maid of Orleans is, as Shaw writes in the play’s preface, “a born boss.” Review: In Shaw’s ‘Saint Joan,’ a Sane and Sensible Martyr 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z In a 1988 preface to a new edition of her autobiography, Professor Davis recalls her suspicion of the mainstream feminist credo “The personal is political.” A New Home for Angela Davis’s Papers (and Her ‘Wanted’ Poster) 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z As Davis points out in a preface, the book is more focused in its material than was her previous collection, “Essays One.” Translation Is Hard Work. Lydia Davis Makes It Thrilling. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z It is now normal to preface any praise of a public figure with the word “flawed,” but who isn’t flawed? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z There’s a certain amount of chronological dislocation in the narrative, though Hannah prefaces most of these leaps with dates to reduce confusion. Kristin Hannah’s ‘Fly Away’: grief sends family and friends into a tailspin 2013-05-01T18:26:58Z “I’m a f**king idiot,” Ali Wong writes in the preface of her book of essays, “Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life.” Comedian Ali Wong's book "Dear Girls" tells a magical, raunchy love story 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z "It's not just a preface to what happens on Sunday at the Oscars. It's really a mix of both worlds." Make room for Indie Spirit Awards, Oscar's maverick cousin 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z I should preface this by saying that I think under the right circumstances, Franco can be brilliant. Great Oscar debate: Why was Franco nominated? 2011-02-24T21:20:00Z In its preface, a facetious narrator tells of Nietzsche’s traumatized reaction to a carriage driver’s assault on a horse. Critic?s Notebook: New York Film Festival, With Bela Tarr and Nuri Bilge Ceylan 2011-10-04T22:23:21Z She advises in a preface that the rest of us skip past the how-to sections, but I reserve the right to regard them with fascination. ‘The Art of Memoir’ review: Mary Karr’s advice for telling your life story 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z It provided a satisfying evening Friday, though, prefaced as it was by the hour of wine and hors d’oeuvres that routinely are offered before the S&R Foundation concerts at Georgetown’s elegant Evermay Estate. A delicious and bite-size program of two piano quartets 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z A trigger warning or, really, any sort of preface, would disrupt the creation of those highly pressurized, vital moments in literature that shock a reader into a higher consciousness. Trigger Warnings and the Novelist's Mind 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z And even the final scene of separation is prefaced by a sad, weary sigh. Berenice – review 2012-10-02T23:48:56Z Here we go,” a bit of a tender-footed preface to warn people that a joke was coming on a subject most wouldn’t expect. Comedian Dane Cook ‘Jokes’ About Aurora Shooting 2012-07-27T18:35:07Z A Facebook friend recently prefaced his casual announcement that he was going to see U2 with a tongue-in-cheek addition: “Here’s a polarizing subject.” Leave U2 alone: Why did one of our best rock bands become so loathed? 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z The preface to the poem describes it as “subversive to the existing interests of Government.” Shelley Poem, 200 Years Later, Returns to Oxford 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z He tells a story in the preface about a skydiving incident in which his reaction speed was so fast as to be actual evidence that our souls reside outside the body. Dr. Eben Alexander’s so-called after-life 2012-11-26T16:00:00Z The preface contains a reproduction of the composer’s earliest thinking about the score: his annotations in the margins of a copy of Wilde’s play “Salomé,” which was first published in 1893, in French. The Endless, Grisly Fascination of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Graber’s poem, prefaced by a passage from St. Augustine’s “City of God,” is a meditation on survival and on our attitudes toward mortality: Poetry Podcast: Anna McDonald Reads Kathleen Graber 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z Wakefield, a lifelong friend, has divided the book into sections according to decade, prefacing each with a brief essay. Kurt Vonnegut: Letters edited by Dan Wakefield – review 2013-04-18T07:01:01Z So she prefaced the songs "The Way We Were" and "Through the Eyes of Love," both with music by Mr. Hamlisch, by saying, "Let's do a Jewish thing." ArtsBeat: A Night of Music to Remember Marvin Hamlisch 2012-09-19T12:49:45Z Thus Mary Shelley, prefacing the revised 1831 edition of her Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus. Frankenstein at the National Theatre 2011-02-12T00:05:26Z I will preface this section with the disclaimer that there is no such thing as a completely bad potato. The absolute best way to cook potatoes, according to so many tests 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z In his preface to “Leaves of Grass,” Whitman wrote that the genius of America is found in its “common people” rather than in its executives or ambassadors, colleges or churches. Review: ‘In Jackson Heights,’ an Ode to the Immigrant Experience 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Too often, we take for granted what their preface calls the “thin and lovely membrane” that is our biosphere. The Great Outdoors: From Your Backyard to a Garden in Japan 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z When asked a question, he considers it before answering in articulate, well-modulated sentences, often prefaced with “I think,” or “perhaps.” Man of Medicine, Dance and Film: 3 Dimensions of Pontus Lidberg 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The first dark note arrived with a pensive version of Noël Coward’s “Mad About the Boy,” prefaced by speculation about the object of Coward’s unrequited passion. Music Review: Delights Alongside Dark Notes 2011-06-02T22:05:21Z He beamed whenever one of the four other players demonstrated his virtuosity, and prefaced the two-hour concert — following a 20-minute opening jam — with lengthy comments on the musicians’ skills, reputations and personal lives. Herbie Hancock stretches out and enjoys the jams at Kennedy Center 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z “This book seeks to recover an alternative tradition in literature, poetry and philosophy, one that says not only is idleness good, but that it is essential for a pleasurable life,” Hodgkinson writes in his preface. Celebrating Literature’s Slacker Heroes, Idlers and Liers-In 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Cocker's triumph with "Up Where We Belong" was prefaced by a Grammy-nominated 1982 performance of "I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today" with the jazz unit the Crusaders. Singer Joe Cocker dies at age 70 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z He prefaced his first publicly released volume, Hours of Idleness, with a kind of pre-emptive apology that made heavy weather out of his youth and nobility. Rereading: Childe Harold by Lord Byron 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z In the preface to “The Story of a Goat,” Murugan suggests that he’s “fearful of writing about humans.” Review | Perumal Murugan said his career as a novelist was dead. Lucky for us, he was wrong. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z We are told in the preface not to expect a dystopian narrative of family abuse and trauma. When Your Family Becomes a Noah’s Ark-Style Experiment With Race 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Following “Writing Home” and “Untold Stories” — both justly acclaimed — “Keeping On Keeping On” is Bennett’s third collection of occasional journalism, stray speeches, diary entries and play prefaces. Alan Bennett’s Latest Nonfiction 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Grant’s preface alludes to the fact that he wrote as he was dying cruelly of throat cancer, after a swindler had bankrupted and humiliated him. The Ghost That Haunts Grant’s Memoirs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z But by prefacing the note with “Hey,” and not just “Nancy,” then it is no longer rude because it’s no longer threatening. Perspective | A Capitol invader left a note calling Nancy Pelosi a b-word. His attempt to walk it back has been . . . really something. 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z It might also explain why continuity and generational wisdom formed another sturdy spine in the show, as when Mr. Mellencamp prefaced “Longest Days,” one of his most elegant ballads, with a reminiscence of his grandmother. Review: John Mellencamp, Still Defiant, at the Apollo Theater 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z He chose to live in America, he states in his preface, because he was interested in money and power, and that was where "the money and power actually were". Civilization: The West and the?Rest by Niall Ferguson ? review 2011-03-25T12:37:09Z His “there is no one, not even the wind” comes directly from his experience of the “space and solitude, the stillness and light of the desert,” as he writes in a preface to the work. Review: The Quietly Cosmic Sound of Desert Stillness 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z In his preface, Amis notes that “political prophecies” tend “to be instantly dismayed by events,” and he can hardly be faulted for underestimating Corbyn as an electoral force. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z And it’s unconventional, too: a preface and a set of five interrelated meditations on memory, history, books, beloved objects, and the process of the evolution of a human being over a series of decades. A rich portrait of Penelope Lively’s long and eventful life 2014-02-05T22:02:42Z Lortie prefaces each of the scherzos with a nocturne in a related key as well, providing moments of relieving calm between the cascading pyrotechnics, and ends the disc with the sonata. Chopin: Scherzos; Sonata No 2, etc 2010-07-01T21:35:00Z In her preface to “The Magic of Handwriting,” Christine Nelson, a curator at the Morgan Library, notes that a handwritten note has the magical capacity “to conjure the human being who once marked the paper.” Review | Email and texting are terrible. There’s an easy solution: Write more letters by hand. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Nathaniel Rich, prefacing “South and West,” wrote that she “saw her era more clearly than anyone else, which is another way of saying that she was able to see the future.” Review | Joan Didion’s ‘Let Me Tell You What I Mean’ shows a writer ahead of her time 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z In his preface, Christopher Tolkien writes that he thought “Beren and Lúthien” would be the final of his father’s stories published on his watch. Review | J.R.R. Tolkien’s latest posthumous book may actually be the last 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z During the sixth century, Cassiodorus, who was effectively the prime minister in the Ostrogothic civil government then in power in northeast Italy, prefaced his accurate account of production with a passionate declaration. Toast of a Wine-Making Tradition in Italy 2010-03-29T15:23:00Z Recently, Moses Lake's Carol Bending found herself exchanging extended emails with her sister in Arizona about the PBS series "Downton Abbey" — sometimes prefacing notes with "Don't read if you haven't watched yet!" How TV brings us together 2012-03-14T20:52:06Z For the experiment, a spoiler paragraph was included in each story either as a preface, or discreetly incorporated into the body of the text as if it was meant to be there all along. Sorry to spoil your “Game of Thrones” revenge-spoiler fantasy, but it doesn’t work 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The piece did well to withstand being prefaced by a rare screening of the 1936 documentary The Way to the Sea, with music by Britten and commentary by WH Auden. Music-in-the-Round festival – review 2013-05-13T17:31:19Z In his preface, Alter promises to advance a revisionist brief for Carter’s presidency. The Feats and Failures of Jimmy Carter 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Dean gathered these women together, she says in her preface, “under the sign of a compliment that every one of them received in their lives: They were called sharp.” Ten Women Whose Tongues and Pens Were as ‘Sharp’ as Knives 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z All this polychrome ingenuity was but a preface to the novelty of the program. | West 46th Street: West 46th Street/Streetscapes - Mementos of a Lost Battle 2011-10-09T05:48:09Z “The words aren’t ‘mine’,” she explains in a preface to the transmission. The Apocalyptic Visions of Ariana Reines 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z In that, we would have been at one with the writer of the King James version's preface, Miles Smith, who insisted that "niceness in words was always counted the next step to trifling". The King James Bible reconsidered 2011-02-19T00:06:00Z Baked rigatoni is prefaced by the initials BK, a salute to the late owner of the East Hampton restaurant where Gee met the Papettis. Don’t let the name stop you. I’m Eddie Cano is a charmer. 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z When his type was first used in 1702, for a history of the Sun King’s triumphs, Grandjean was named in the preface. Exhibition Review: ?Printing for Kingdom, Empire & Republic? - Review 2011-12-24T01:47:25Z It examined the effective mental enslavement that prefaces the forthcoming physical servitude of women trafficked from Nigeria to Europe. Unreported World: Sex Lies and Black Magic (Channel 4), Baboons with Bill Bailey (ITV) 2011-04-09T08:00:02Z By the time Busby was completing A Commonplace Killing, Peston writes in his preface, she was "being turned into an invalid, in almost unimaginable pain most of the time". Peston transcribed wife's final book 2013-04-30T09:31:12Z So whatever you decide — and it is your decision, I’m with you 100 percent on the “my house” part — please preface it with an unspoken, “I am deciding this for a grown man.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Any harm in ‘my house, my rules’ as the last word on unmarrieds sharing rooms? 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z The novel contains five chapters, as well as a preface and afterword; you can read it carefully in about thirty minutes. How Dennis Cooper Creates Fiction from GIFs 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z In her preface, she writes of the “happiness” she enjoyed while working on the book and the “pleasure” she hopes its readers will experience. The Bookish Pleasures of a Henry James Yearbook 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z The performance was prefaced, arguably unnecessarily, with Elliott Carter’s Duo for Violin and Piano, a Library of Congress commission from 1973-1974. A ‘Mantra’ for our time at the Library of Congress 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z The concerto was prefaced with a reflective account of Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony that was often rather beautiful rather than bleakly nihilistic. Britten Sinfonia/MacMillan ? review 2010-10-25T21:00:00Z Presenting works from the first and second Viennese schools in this way is a standard ploy but, by way of preface, Karabits offered Webern's arrangement of Bach's Ricercar from the Musical Offering. BSO/Karabits - review 2011-03-13T15:01:13Z The audible sighs when Welch prefaced numbers with "and this is a new song". Florence and the Machine at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-25T23:59:00Z This all ties into something that I've noticed over the last decade and let me preface it by saying that it's very much a personal observation rather than a trend based on anything provable. The Infidel: a case of mistaken identity 2010-04-08T11:00:00Z On the hairiest of hairpins, I follow the local custom of honking before initiating a turn but, frankly, were anyone oncoming with any commitment at all, the horn would merely preface a collision. On Maui, seeking out the hidden wows of wild Hawaii 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z “The results of the historical and scientific study presented in this publication allow us to confirm the attribution of the work to Leonardo da Vinci,” he wrote in the preface. A Clash of Wills Keeps a Leonardo Masterpiece Hidden 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z I've read the preface and everything that you said in terms of asking fans to send in letters. Asking for it: "Drag Race" winner Bianca Del Rio has questionable advice for you 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z His preface added an authentic British touch to the shenanigans about bumbling medieval knights on a quest for the Holy Grail who find any excuse to make musical mayhem. 'Spamalot' a summer treat at Hollywood Bowl 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z Though calculated in its nonchalance, this preface was in some ways the most appealing part of the night. Pilobolus Performs at the Joyce Theater 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Cowell became a household name as a judge on “American Idol” from 2001-2010 thanks to his harsh critiques of aspiring singers, often prefaced with the line “I don’t mean to be rude but...” Star maker Simon Cowell gets his place on Hollywood Walk of Fame 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z There was a new tone poem, “August Moon,” that Mr. Coleman outfitted with a gorgeous unaccompanied preface, withholding the steel glint that usually undergirds his tone. Music Review: Winds of Jazz: Energies of a Cyclone and an Ebullient Breeze 2011-01-19T22:51:35Z The tour of the memorial is prefaced by a quote from Lincoln, — “all that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother,” raising expectations of the childhood scenes that soon follow. ‘The Better Angels,’ About the Young Abe Lincoln 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The event prefaced a revival of the company’s production of “War of the Worlds” and turned into a heartfelt tribute to the director. Anne Bogart Is Not Entirely Retiring 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z His social-media feeds, thus far with a modest following, are a hopeful thicket of designer hashtags, often prefaced with the openhearted greeting “Good Morning World.” Di Mondo May Be the Most-Photographed Man in New York 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z That battle cry prefaces a desperate, suicidal run across a fragile bridge by aboriginal warriors to confront the Japanese Army in the Taiwanese historical epic “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale.” Movie Review: ?Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale,? by Wei Te-Sheng 2012-04-26T23:32:16Z “Readers…will find myths about Kafka exploded,” writes Shelley Frisch in her translator’s preface. A closer look at the young Kafka 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The solution to this is following the lead of Jane Austen and prefacing every opinion with “It is a truth universally acknowledged…”. Talking while female: an expert guide to the things you definitely should not say 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z In the preface to this ample assembly of her essays, Lydia Davis offers a modest account of the book’s origin. For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z “Dear Lord” felt like a preface, a preparation for the longer, mystical “Olé.” At Ailey, a Dance Set to Coltrane Finds a Somber Radiance 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z He was ebullient as he answered questions sent in by readers and famous fans, often prefacing his responses to his peers with enthusiastic expressions of respect and affection. Spike Lee: 'Race relations today are the direct result of having a black president' 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z “Anti-ESG shareholder proposals have won some of the lowest support levels on record,” Diligent’s Josh Black wrote in the preface to this year’s Diligent survey. Column: Voters, like investors, have had it with GOP extremism 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z No need to preface it with anything or add a “but.” Jared Goff is a 'poor man's Matt Ryan'? Lions quarterback responds to Ryan Fitzpatrick comment 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z We should preface every mention of him by stating that he's been indicted in four jurisdictions for 91 felonies. Donald Trump's thrill ride is nearly over — but the media refuses to let go 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z “Scientific evidence remains inconclusive as to whether human activities affect global climate,” its chief executive, Lee Raymond, wrote in the preface. Column: The oil companies lied to us about climate change. California should sue them into the ground 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z In the report’s preface, Mark D. Brewer of the University of Maine asserts that “today’s Republican and Democratic Parties have evolved to a place where they emphasize difference, stoke fear and animosity, and incite conflict.” Column: How the media's obsession with Biden's age could help reelect Trump 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z It turns out that DeSantis is not very good at debate, at least not the kind that prefaces a presidential election. Column: Ron DeSantis, the abysmal front-runner among GOP candidates not named Trump 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z But as he prefaced his remark by saying he was the only one on stage not "bought and paid for", it was unclear what the audience was responding to. Republican debate: What they said (and didn't say) about climate 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z They might feel like those magical unicorns but there are other unicorns in the meadow, as I wrote in the preface. From star to stars: Astrophysicist Aomawa Shields traces her journey from acting to astronomy 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z “Social media is rewriting the central nervous system of humanity by algorithmically connecting, informing, nudging, persuading, mobilizing, and yes, entertaining us,” writes Aral in a new preface to “The Hype Machine.” Opinion: Lies, damn lies and social media — there's a reason this country is so deeply polarized. 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z “I do have something for you, and I think it might hold the heart of the show,” he prefaces with sincerity. Inside Meryl Streep's 'lightning-in-a-bottle' lullaby on 'Only Murders in the Building' 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z In a preface to the report, former Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill, however, explained it is hard to drive reform from the centre. 'Eye rolling' civil service leaders block reform, report says 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z A couple more tips: Each concert at Benaroya Hall is prefaced an hour before it starts by a brief — and free — recital featuring one or more of the artists performing in the larger program. Your guide to this summer chamber music festival 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Cuba, he recalled in the preface to his book, made the biggest impression of the 87 countries he visited while covering various secretaries of state. Longtime AP State Department reporter George Gedda dies at 82 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z In its original preface, Writers Project official John D. Keyes wrote that the goal was to “present Los Angeles truthfully and objectively, neither glorifying it nor vilifying it.” A guide to the guidebooks that told the world Los Angeles was a paradise 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z “Personally, I take heart knowing every single day is a day to begin anew in the garden,” Cowden states in the book’s preface. Tips from 'Plant Grow Harvest Repeat' to extend your garden's growing season 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z I suppose I could have prefaced that with a spoiler warning, but really, at this stage in the frenzied cycle of superhero-movie overhype, who are we kidding? Review: The spirit is thrilling, but 'The Flash' is weak 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z I’ll preface this by saying that he’s a delight, an absolute doll. Riley Keough, Emily Blunt, Kathryn Hahn and more reveal their particular set of skills 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z “So I just want to preface it by saying that.” Media whiplash: CNN’s Tapper muzzles Trump-friendly footage a month after town hall 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Celadon soon enlisted David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, to write the preface to its edition. How a round-the-clock team turned the Jan. 6 Report into recorded history in 26 hours 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Carlile put it best, or at least more poetically, in her prefacing remarks on stage, likening the intimate Joni Jam to peering into the tiny cabin inside of a snow globe. Joni Mitchell makes music history — with Brandi Carlile — in Gorge triumph 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z A segment featuring showrunners and writers of NBC shows was prefaced with a disclaimer at stating the interviews were taped before the writers’ strike commenced. Writers' strike picket lines spoil television's upfront advertising party for NBCUniversal and Fox 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z But a preface was added to the coronation oath to say the Anglican church “will seek to foster an environment where people of all faiths and beliefs may live freely.” King Charles III crowned with regal pomp, cheers and shrugs 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Channeling Nochlin, she eschews the authoritarian language of “greatness,” prefacing many of her assertions with “to me….” She has an eye for the anecdotal aside. Art history — minus the men — in a zingy new revisionist compendium 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z I contributed a preface to a paperback reissue of Samuel Schoenbaum’s definitive “Shakespeare’s Lives” and regard Irving Matus’s evidence-based “Shakespeare, in Fact” as a cogent refutation of the principal arguments for the Earl of Oxford. Review | As we honor Shakespeare, scholars respond to questions about him 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z "So, for the first time there will be a preface to the Oath." Coronation: Public asked to swear allegiance to King Charles 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z They easily made it through a bulk of the standards but hit a roadblock on the preface to the guidelines. After months of controversy, Va. approves new school history standards 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z He prefaced a business negotiation with an emotional sop he knew his kids desperately wanted. Perspective | ‘Succession’ goes for the kill 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z “We need to start considering that gardens are part of an old world and to adopt a new vision for our future,” Reynolds writes in the book’s preface. 'We Are the ARK' returns gardens to nature through acts of restorative kindness 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z In the preface to a section of excerpts dedicated to Jobs’s early days at Apple, in the 1980s, Berlin writes delicately that his “management style was dismissive.” Steve Jobs has a new ‘memoir,’ more than 11 years after his death 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z "Women's thinking is different from men's," the pope wrote in the preface to a book entitled: More Women's Leadership for a Better World. Pope says equal opportunities for women are key to a better world 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z I always preface my requests that they repeat themselves with apologies for not knowing their language. Advice | Miss Manners: My mom always thinks she’s right and rants constantly about being a victim 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Any thriller brazen enough to preface its story with Ronald Knox’s classic 1929 “Decalogue” — otherwise known as the “Ten Commandments of Detective Fiction”— runs the risk of being too clever by half. Review | Don’t worry, ‘Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone’ is a comedy 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Many hoped her appearance would preface a new album or tour — a surefire post-Super Bowl play following an event that pays its performers union scale. Column: How did Rihanna pull off her big-reveal heist of the Super Bowl? 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z In a preface to the new edition, he noted the progress made on the issues that concerned him, but also cautioned about complacency. Charles Silverstein, 87, Dies; Helped Destigmatize Homosexuality 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z And so Biden surely knows, better than any of us, that this first phase of his presidency is merely a long preface. Review | A not-too-deep look at Biden’s presidency so far 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z “When I spoke to President Xi, I prefaced our discussion by saying we are not going to decide here today the issues that are between the Philippines and China in terms of territoriality,” Marcos said. Marcos says sea feud involving China keeps him up at night 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Benedict then largely kept to his word that he would live a life of prayer in retirement, emerging only occasionally from his converted monastery for special events and writing occasional book prefaces and messages. Benedict XVI, first pope to resign in 600 years, dies at 95 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z In a veiled swipe at his predecessor, Biden’s preface to the strategy said, “We cannot ignore this threat or wish it away.” Perspective | Democrats’ probe of white violent extremism likely to stop under GOP 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Yet rumors of similar perks prefaced virtually every nomination day. How did we let the Golden Globes back in? 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Merchan briefly discussed the transcript issue with jurors and Necheles proceeded to show them the correct version, prefacing her remarks with a mea culpa: “Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize for that error.” Trump Org. defense lawyer scolded for using struck testimony 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z She may have had a “fine appreciation of the absurd,” as Morton observes in his preface, but she rarely breached convention or emoted in public. Review | Princess Diana confided in Andrew Morton. What more is there to divulge? 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z The host prefaced all the election-night weirdness by committing to a “Stranger Things” parody for the broadcast and shared a few early results on the projected winners when polls began closing on the East Coast. Chicken analysts and Herschel Walker gags: Late night makes sense of midterm results 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Kerry and Mr. Xie have known each other more than 20 years, and in Glasgow prefaced talks on methane and coal by catching up about their gardens and grandchildren. As Other Global Crises Collide, Nations Converge to Address Climate Change 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Lesmerises asked Ferentz three questions at the end of the Ohio State news conference and, in prefacing one, pointed out that the Hawkeyes have one of the least productive offenses in the country. Ferentz apologizes for criticizing reporter asking about son 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z “Harvard Law School is like the Emerald City of Oz, or like a great European capital, like London or Paris,” Mr. Osborn wrote in the preface to the 40th anniversary edition of his novel. John Jay Osborn Jr., author of ‘The Paper Chase,’ dies at age 77 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z The former was lightly edited by the writer, the latter deftly assembled to cover a dozen earlier years by editor MaLin Wilson-Powell, whom Schjeldahl generously credits in the preface with having “invented” the project. Appreciation: Why New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl was the last of a breed 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Crown, a Penguin Random House division, announced Monday that the book will be called “A Message from Ukraine” and will also include a preface by Arkady Ostrovsky, the Economist’s editor for Russia and Eastern Europe . Zelenskyy to publish book of wartime speeches in December 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z The book’s preface opens with a gentle mockery of the myth of Colditz, which locates all detainees’ “mustaches firmly set on stiff upper lips.” Review | A tale of WWII derring-do that reveals the humanity of its heroes 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Mui had prefaced her question by noting that Virginia’s constitution prohibits governors from serving back-to-back terms. Youngkin, amid 2024 buzz, sidesteps question about completing term 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z He said the queen’s name was something “she probably rarely got to hear very much because everybody had to preface that with ceremonial nominals.” Live: Live updates: 500 foreign VIPs expected at queen’s funeral 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The book, which features the photo of a soldier leading German prisoners inside and on its dust jacket, is going to be changed to add information about the dispute in a preface, she said. Amid campaign, Mastriano’s disputed dissertation made public 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z In response to questions about prominent midterm election issues, Lee repeatedly prefaces his answers by circling back to a reminder that McMullin has been “embraced and endorsed and funded by the Democratic Party.” Utah’s Evan McMullin upends two-party fight for US Senate 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z For I’m looking at my preface, it’s my “Woe! Oh Woe Is Me!” face, And I hate that it’s the only one I own. Style Invitational Week 1502: It’s Hi- time for Limerixicon XIX 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z So let me preface this by saying I am not a mathematician. Cultural Bias Distorts the Search for Alien Life 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z They resort, Keegin says, to “prefacing an opinion with ‘as a scholar of’ or ‘as an expert in,’ perhaps putting ‘Dr.’ or ‘PhD’ in one’s Twitter display name.” Opinion | Blaming social media for academia’s ruin misses a larger, darker truth 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z She prefaced her answer by saying that voters should check with local election officials about the options available for returning ballots. Forbidden from getting help returning absentee ballots, disabled voters sue Wisconsin 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z “The story of the Negro in Virginia is also the story of the American Negro,” Lewis wrote in the preface. How researchers preserved the oral histories of formerly enslaved Virginians 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z In your preface you use the metaphor that the states served as a "wrecking ball clearing a path for Trumpism." How the states went nuts: Democratic backsliding in state capitals — and how to defeat it 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z It may also preface more normalisation between Israel and other Gulf states. Factbox: Biden set to tackle oil, Israel, Yemen, Iran on Saudi trip 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Throughout Saturday morning, people prefaced their comments along the lines of “I’m not for abortion, but.” For some, the abortion decision heralded good news — and misgivings 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z So while unable to comment specifically on that faulty 737 MAX risk analysis, “the committee was able to make recommendations that, if adopted, would significantly improve the … process,” the report states in the preface. Independent report recommends changes after FAA’s faulty 737 MAX risk assessment 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z It may also preface more normalisation deals with Israel, including by heavyweight Saudi Arabia, following the forging of relations with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in 2020. Israel says it's building regional air defence alliance under U.S. 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Guthrie, who has prefaced her interviews with the fact that her husband had consulted for Johnny Depp’s camp, was not reticent in taking the opportunity to confront Heard on inconsistencies she saw in her evidence. Amber Heard doubles down: 'Dateline' interview takeaways on Johnny Depp defamation verdict 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z In “What’s My Theme,” of course, I had to preface it by saying I’m being serious, so people know. Comedian Tom Segura on writing his new book, ignoring cancel culture and angering his mom 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z In the preface to a mixology book published in 1994, Mr. Chou called Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping “great leaders” for making China prosperous. They Inhabited Separate Worlds in Taiwan. Decades Later, They Collided in a California Church. 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z In the mouth of a golfer, long grass becomes “cabbage,” and every destination is prefaced by “Rancho.” Perspective | Golf has done so very much good — for Phil Mickelson and his pals 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z At present, those listed are subject to stringent financial reporting requirements and have to preface anything they publish, including social media posts, with a disclaimer stating that they are foreign agents. Russian ex-president Medvedev calls for tougher 'foreign agent' law 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z He wrote the preface to the Italian edition of the book “Building Bridges,” by the American Jesuit, the Rev. James Martin, about the need for the church to reach out more to gay Catholics. New Italian church head faces demands for abuse inquiry 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Biden prefaced his answer by saying that U.S. policy “has not changed at all.” Biden tees up four-way talks with India, Japan, Australia 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z But Mr Biden also prefaced his remarks saying US policy toward Taiwan "has not changed", which a White House spokesman swiftly reiterated. Biden says China 'flirting with danger' over Taiwan 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z But he prefaced those comments with a reference to Nadal, someone he jokingly described as having won the French Open “at least 28 times.” Rafael Nadal Is the French Open’s Man of Mystery 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Coach Pat Skellchock and his staff are happy to provide pointers, but sometimes their perspective comes with a preface accompanied by a laugh: “You’re better than me.” Like father, like son? Churchill baseball star outdoes dad, a former pro. 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z |
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