| 单词 | preoccupation |
| 例句 | It was rare for them to spend their free hours together but she rounded them up from their preoccupations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There was also a strange preoccupation with the weather; strange, to me, because none of them seemed to be involved in activity which might be aided or impeded by weather of any sort. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In her hands she carried two things that made Creüsa, in all her preoccupation, start and look sharply at them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Jenny noticed his preoccupation at supper that night. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z As the spectacle of the hangings fades from the public’s preoccupation, Lincoln’s reputation grows. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z After the war, Hess returned to Princeton and the preoccupations of teaching, but the mysteries of the seafloor continued to occupy a space in his thoughts. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She floated above them, gazing down neutrally, absently braiding them with other preoccupations. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A certain compulsion forced him to continue to search for the secrets of the chessboard, and this preoccupation commanded his attention for hours on end. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Ranofer thought he could guess the causes of this strange preoccupation, and his guesses gave him considerable satisfaction. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Refining this figure has been an ongoing preoccupation of cosmology. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Marine models were essential in the early days of research on muscle structure and function, and research on muscle has become a major preoccupation at the MBL. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The other man didn't match the eyewitness descriptions of the person seen leaving the cleaners, and he didn't have our caller's history of stalking, violence against women, and preoccupation with the Morrison murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The key value that took the place of credulous piety was politeness, which was the great preoccupation of writers in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Given to mystical preoccupations, this android proposed the group escape attempt, underwriting it ideologically with a pretentious fiction as to the sacredness of so-called android “life.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Deep otter-brown lines of preoccupation etched themselves permanently into his careworn face and gave him a harried look of sobriety and mistrust. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z They talked about a devastating erosion in standards, how the students of today bore no resemblance to the students of even ten or fifteen years ago, how their preoccupations were with anything but school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the hearing’s more sinister features was its preoccupation with an encounter between Oppenheimer and his friend Haakon Chevalier just before work began at Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His preoccupation lasted all the way across the sodden vegetable patch until they arrived in greenhouse three, but here he was distracted by Professor Sprout showing the class the ugliest plants Harry had ever seen. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He went through the motions of courteous research, but he could not hide his real preoccupation. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a preoccupation, verging on obsession, that would inform his decisions, and guide his energies. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And, naturally, the crucial topics for the new science corresponded neatly with the professional preoccupations of seventeenth-century mathematicians: astronomy/astrology, navigation, cartography, surveying, architecture, ballistics and hydraulics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A heavy air of preoccupation hung over him for days after his return, and I recall once, in reply to my inquiring how he had enjoyed his trip, his remarking: 'Disturbing, Stevens. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z My extreme preoccupation since I came here—no, since the first Games, really—has left little attention for her. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Arnauld’s preoccupation with the fact developed out of the great dispute over whether Jansenism, of which Arnauld was the leading light, was heretical. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In his opinion, superstitions were largely a female preoccupation. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z My preoccupation with curbing my impulses, my speech, my movements, my manner, my expressions had increased my anxiety. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In time, media interest in these kinds of stories grew into a national preoccupation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z His preoccupation with improving the cyclotron condoned sloppy and inattentive experimental work. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Forbidding sex between white women and black men became an intense preoccupation throughout the South. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was the seventeen- year-old’s constant preoccupation—who could whip him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The Eugenics Record Office, with its preoccupation with racial purification, and its drive to eliminate immigrants, “deviants,” and “defectives,” struck him as frankly sinister. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It's as though for the last few days, sheltered by the rocks and the rain and Cato's preoccupation with Thresh, we were given a respite, a holiday of sorts. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I didn’t think there was anything unusual about a constant preoccupation with death. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Bacon read it in manuscript, but had no time for it: Gilbert’s preoccupation with magnetism seemed to him an irrational obsession, and as a result he had ‘built a ship out of a shell’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The old understanding of handling crime epidemics leads inevitably to a preoccupation with defensive measures against crime. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t remember having a preoccupation with death and dying before the bombing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z That the word had been written by a man confessing to an image in his mind, confiding a lonely preoccupation, disgusted her profoundly. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But it isn’t silly, this preoccupation with small time units. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The Exposition Universelle of 1889 was, in effect, the starting point of the twentieth century’s preoccupation with what we now call ‘world music’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Much to Bobby’s consternation, Regina insisted that he have a psychological evaluation to determine whether something could or should be done to temper his relentless preoccupation with the game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z From all accounts, the slave master’s preoccupation with Cora and her escape only deepened over time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In the midst of all his preoccupations, Harry had not forgotten his other ambition: finding out what Malfoy was up to in the Room of Requirement. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I wondered what he would do when winter came; but by the first snowfall, the preoccupation had vanished, never to return. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z "That almost certainly. But it hardly affects the issue. Our main preoccupation is this—to save our lives." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z To exaggerate a bit, the one-in-eleven figure is a little like saying that nine out of ten people will develop age spots, which doesn’t mean it should be a major preoccupation of thirty-year-olds. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For a week, she dodged Pauline’s repeated invitations to come for dinner; Mal, and probably Pauline as well, would sense her preoccupation right away. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My greatest preoccupation was that moment of transition when I would “pass over.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z That preoccupation has diminished somewhat—or been sublimated— in recent years as we have subscribed to an all-purpose, mass-market version of the American dream, but it hasn’t entirely disappeared. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But to understand where Descartes’ preoccupation with laws of nature comes from we must consider a text that has not previously been discussed in this context. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z So I had to be content without him; but contentment cannot be forced, and Nathan noticed my preoccupation. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He was not alone in his preoccupation with the future. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Widespread preoccupation with litigation, however, is not the only—or even the main—reason civil rights groups have shied away from challenging the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was filled with embarrassment: embarrassment for the human race, its preoccupation with money, its love of swindle. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In adopting the term ‘theory’ the scientists were thus freeing themselves from the philosophers’ preoccupation with truth in so far as it implied knowledge of causes and of what Aristotelian philosophers called substances, or forms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Jethro, although he was concerned mostly with the goodness of the food he ate, was vaguely aware of a troubled preoccupation all about him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z This she did only late at night or otherwise when she was completely alone, so that no change or preoccupation was noticeable in her manner. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z This sounds as though I bemoan an older time, which is the preoccupation of the old, or cultivate an opposition to change, which is the currency of the rich and stupid. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Admiring people based solely on their wealth is a preoccupation that dates back to medieval times and continues to flourish today. Ask Molly Ringwald: my daughter loves celebrities and shopping. I don’t 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Banner's preoccupation with traditionally masculine subject matter – war films, flying machines, the female nude – raises an obvious question: does she consider herself a feminist? Fiona Banner: fight and flight 2010-06-21T20:30:00Z There are hints throughout of Mitchell's novelistic preoccupations: the relationship between the body and the self, incorporeality, immortality, fate. David Mitchell: 'In a libretto you just write "storm"' 2013-03-25T20:40:00Z But rather than segregate his academic life from his popular fiction, Mr. Eco infused his half-dozen novels with many of his scholarly preoccupations. Umberto Eco, Italian Semiotician and Best-Selling Author, Dies at 84 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z The continuity of her work with the sculpture of the past is to do with her direct manipulation of form, and with sculpture's constant preoccupation with bodies in space. Sarah Lucas: tights, melons and concrete pies 2012-07-18T17:30:03Z I had entered in part because I had a bit of a preoccupation with Plath. My Mademoiselle Summer 2013-07-19T20:55:07Z It's baffling to me that on this of all days, a woman's chief preoccupation should be thinness. How to have a feminist wedding 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z The history of historical re-enactment offers a forceful lesson: it is a better guide to the preoccupations of the present than the reality of yesterday. How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman – review 2013-07-12T11:00:01Z Mr. Price said that a central preoccupation in writing the play was the influence that Wales had on Private Manning. ‘Radicalisation of Bradley Manning’ Hits Home in Edinburgh 2013-08-04T21:20:18Z Paige’s preoccupations run to humiliating Arnold, once a wife beater and now an aphasic stroke victim, by dressing him in clown makeup and ladies’ nighties. Review | Taylor Mac’s play ‘Hir’ shows an America that’s groping in the dark for its moral identity 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z His preoccupations include art history, architecture, cinematic space and the acts of making, and his films are invariably finely crafted, rhythmic and lyrical. This week's new film events 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z His preoccupations include, like Mr. Smithson, a focus on entropy as well as destruction and anarchy. Special Report: Contemporary Art: French Artist Looks for Beauty in Ruins 2010-06-15T11:30:00Z Love and loss: the twin preoccupations of life and literature. For the Love of a Dog 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z So what does this panoply of global design tell us about designers' current preoccupations? What are the best Designs of the Year? 2012-02-08T14:35:00Z Public perception becomes a central preoccupation for the Windsors. Review | ‘The Crown’ is back with midlife crises, heavy heads and sterling performances 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z I have a not fully understood relationship to vision—a lifelong terror of blindness, a preoccupation with glasses, binoculars, telescopes. This Week in Fiction: Thomas McGuane 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z There was a tension between music imbued with Englishness, which was both an obsession and a preoccupation, and music that might speak to an international audience.” Whodunit Most Musical by a Musician Most Literary 2011-02-19T01:45:10Z Oxford’s word of the year is chosen to reflect “the ethos, mood or preoccupations” of a given year, but also to highlight the fact that English is always changing. ‘Post-Truth’ Defeats ‘Alt-Right’ as Oxford’s Word of the Year 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z I’m 54 -- it’s been an enduring preoccupation of mine. Tony nominations 2015: Alison Bechdel on 'Fun Home's' moment 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z The classic Austen preoccupations with real estate, income, class, reputation and equilibrium in life are all rendered brightly and legibly here. 'Seagull' and 'Sense and Sensibility,' From Bedlam Company 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Swinton handles it all with effortless ease; it deservedly turned her into a major name and showed a career trajectory outside the Jarman films that had been her preoccupation to date. Tilda Swinton's performances – ranked! 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Harris is in search not just of the preoccupations of an artistic elite but the sensibilities of a generation . Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z Among the show’s other preoccupations has been the notion that motherhood is rarely immune to delusion. Critic?s Notebook: Murder and Melodrama: An Obsessive Killer Is Revealed in a Stylish Whodunit 2011-06-19T22:08:38Z What has happened is that the preoccupation with market efficiency and economic growth has begun to subordinate all other values. Find a play. Squat a building. Steal a van. Now make a show 2010-06-28T14:04:00Z The sheer heterogeneity of human experience is one of his enduring preoccupations, and he has found, once again, an impossible and perfect embodiment of just how curious our species can be. | 'Tabloid': Was It Love? The ?Manacled Mormon? and His Kinky Weekend 2011-07-14T22:11:29Z There is far less preoccupation with providing characters the consumer will admire, and a willingness to experiment with story in ways UK publishers are unwilling to encourage. In translation: nine authors pick their favourite children's fiction 2013-06-28T17:29:01Z The preoccupations of Hydra’s moneyed vacationers are both alluring and relentlessly superficial: questions of interior design, dinner menus, the quality of the local help. Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z The stories in the collection might very well share that preoccupation. This Week in Fiction: Thomas Pierce 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Considering American society’s neurotic preoccupation with youth and the hugely profitable exploitation of that obsession by a vast array of commercial enterprises, it’s a potentially rich vein for imaginative mining. Review: Faile Mines the Dark Depths of Modern Youth With Two Exhibitions 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z There was a time not so long ago when the Sundance Film Festival was in danger of being overwhelmed by swag, hype and other extra-cinematic preoccupations. Worried About the Health of Cinema? Sundance Has Good News for You. 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Virtually every intellectual and political figure we look at in our book shares that central preoccupation with rejuvenating the nation. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Orville Schell and John Delury on China’s Quest for Rejuvenation 2013-07-16T18:46:30Z These preoccupations seem positively stoic when compared with the newest obsession, the ethnic food holocaust. Gene Weingarten: Millennials, maybe you’re right about us baby boomers 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Red flags that parents should watch for include a significant change in behavior, severe sleep problems, complete social isolation, persistent separation fears or low mood, or preoccupation with death and dying, according to Pimentel. Perspective | Could therapy ease your coronavirus stress? How to decide, what to expect and where to find it. 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z Carey's terrifying situation was a variation on that era's preoccupation with man's identity amid the lonely crowd and threat of the bomb. Richard Matheson, author of I Am Legend and inspiration to Stephen King 2013-06-25T12:40:13Z The parallels with today’s political preoccupations — whether in the United States or Brexit-era Britain — are striking. Coming to Chicago: A ‘Giselle’ That Speaks to the Present 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z “It reflects it was a real preoccupation of the English-speaking world in 2019.” Oxford Names ‘Climate Emergency’ Its 2019 Word of the Year 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Their preoccupations on this excellent album are, more or less, UK grime and Chicago hip-hop, with flashes of the Caribbean. Future Brown, Confident Song Collective, Cooks New Stews 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z And also how much his preoccupations of those long-ago days — tension between rhythmic regularity and tremors of instability; simultaneous propulsion and reflection — still interest him today. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Have your preoccupations and approaches changed since you first began performing? Laurie Anderson keeps experimenting, next with ‘Letters to Jack’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z This preoccupation with death reaches an absurd peak during a brief vacation — alone — in the countryside. Review | Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel ‘Whereabouts’ is a delicate exploration of despair 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z It was then, in the 1870s, that Richards began to concentrate on maritime views and that his preoccupation with ocean waves emerged. Art Review: William Trost Richards at National Academy Museum 2013-08-15T20:21:06Z Its songs primarily deal with the anxiety, frayed relationships and ennui that crop up in one’s mid-20s, a preoccupation that juxtaposes strikingly against such brash, self-assured music. Dude York’s personality shines through on new record 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z This scene distills many of the film's preoccupations into one hilarious, mortifying moment. 4. "Dogtooth" 2010-12-31T02:01:00Z He went on painting and exhibiting, pursuing his own creative preoccupations indifferent to the opinions of the rest of the world, but by the ’70s he had almost disappeared from view.” Alan Davie, Painter With a Global Bent, Dies at 93 2014-04-17T03:18:03Z Billy’s search for redemption becomes the preoccupation of the musical’s second act, which occurs in a creaky approximation of the afterlife. Review | Women in classic musicals have to put up with a lot. Exhibits A and B: ‘My Fair Lady’ and ‘Carousel’ 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Death, class, gender and art are among the entwined preoccupations in this marvelous, complex, attractive, frightening book, which allows life to spill out of the frames of the artworks providing occasions for the poems. Sex, Death, Suffering and Surrealism, in New Books of Poetry 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z The architecture and adornments of this 18th century showcase reflect another preoccupation of the Manchu Emperors: the need to instill unity among China's various ethnic groups. Five Reasons to Visit Chengde 2011-06-23T11:35:00Z He analyzes them as products of Brecht’s preoccupations, in particular a struggle to gain control of his overwhelming emotions by cultivating intellectual clarity and ironic distance. Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht These are the preoccupations of the novel: What death means, the hopes or dissimulations of futurists, their analysis of our contemporary, verging-on-catastrophe moment, contemplations of faith and the afterlife. Don Delillo's deep freeze: 'Zero K' takes on death, futurists and cryonics 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Her current preoccupations include an addiction to a “Bachelor”-like reality show called “Eligible,” which does double duty as the novel’s title. ‘Eligible,’ Curtis Sittenfeld’s Update of Jane Austen 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Fellow academics were initially sceptical of his preoccupation with online behaviour, but by 2011 “everyone knew hate speech was the key problem of the internet”. ‘A threat to health is being weaponised’: inside the fight against online hate crime 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z But it seems to this reader, Rebecca becoming Maud also speaks to the preoccupation of this entire book: the periphrastic construction of identity itself. From Family Trees to 23andMe, and Back Again 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z He earned a degree in mathematics from the Sorbonne in Paris, but his preoccupations included photography and film. Douglas Slocombe dies at 103; he lensed Indiana Jones, Ealing comedies 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z We don’t know much else about them, which makes their preoccupations more intensely absurd and also more grotesque. | 'Autoerotic': When Sex Is Loneliness Multiplied 2011-07-21T21:47:40Z Though it’s easy to mock this kind of thing as the twee preoccupation of the privileged classes, it’s much deeper than that. Is Michael Pollan a sexist pig? 2013-04-28T01:00:00Z Just the way any sci-fi movie seems rational, but is very much the product of your present imagination and neurosis and preoccupations. Author Jennifer Senior: “Kids have almost no responsibility, and I find that unnatural” 2014-02-03T23:59:00Z They explore not just the anxieties and preoccupations born of four decades of economic transformation, but more existential questions, about hope, anxiety, pleasure and curiosity. Fountainheads 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The preoccupation with his hair, the blondness of the hair, the fetish of that. This is what happens when performance artist Karen Finley inhabits Trump and talks Weinstein 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z In a pop culture universe dominated by grown men who never quite outgrew their adolescent preoccupations, Nanjiani’s origin story is hardly unusual. Kumail Nanjiani: 'For a long time, there was one famous American brown actor' 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Spooked by fears of a triple dive after the double dip, growing GDP is understandably a preoccupation, but what a shame that all that cultural and relationships stuff is barely an afterthought now. The arts: beauty and the bean counters 2012-12-17T21:47:28Z It was a small example of one of Marra’s favorite preoccupations in fiction: the thin line between the tragic and the comic, how they dance with and undercut each other. Using Fiction to Summon the Glittering, Golden Age of Hollywood 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z Friedman also argues that the Bible’s preoccupation with the stranger is not from the Israelites who, after all, already lived in Canaan. Two Authors Examine Biblical History for Clues About Faith 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Occasionally, a dancer slides into shot, or a ship glides past, but it gradually becomes apparent that these are Cunningham's preoccupations, too, precisely what inspire the wonderful abstractions of his choreography. Tacita Dean: Craneway Event 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z Authors de Graaf and Batker seek nothing less than to persuade Americans to abandon our preoccupation with economic growth as an end in itself. Authors dubious that economic growth leads to happiness 2011-12-08T21:37:04Z More than the first True Grit, the new one emphasises Mattie's precocious, almost obsessive preoccupation with the law. True Grit: Rooster to the rescue 2011-02-06T21:31:00Z But Mr. Brody’s is a brooding sort of grimness, mixing in Houdini’s quest for fame, preoccupation with spiritualism and looming foolish death. On TV, a Near Epidemic of Frowns and Clenched Jaws 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z I’m against our preoccupation, and how judgments about attractiveness spill over into judgments about competence and job performance. Skin Deep: Makeup Makes Women Appear More Competent: Study 2011-10-12T22:18:30Z To Em, in her preoccupation with counting chickens, her niece is little more than a barnyard critter under her feet. Oz Revisited – Part 5: What’s the Matter With Kansas? 2013-09-20T20:09:43Z Grouped in themes including Shakespeare's preoccupation with the medieval past, classical world, Venice and rebellion, they range from giant tapestries and royal portraits to intricate jeweler and everyday items, and span over 2,000 years. UK exhibition stresses Shakespeare's relevance today 2012-07-18T15:06:30Z The focus on the unconscious continued as its own driving force within surrealism, and it was that preoccupation that survived the war. Review | When artists confronted the horrors of war with monsters and dreams 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z It was Willie’s preoccupation with his ex-wife from his second marriage, which ended six years ago. Date Lab: She’s used to younger men. He was surprised she wanted to remarry. 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z These are not the preoccupations of escapist entertainment; they're the foundations of a morality play. Braaaains! The 10 essential zombie films 2010-05-30T18:01:00Z How the decision plays out will be the central preoccupation of British politics for the next ten years, possibly more. The Return of Tony Blair 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z She deconstructs the novels to their author's skills and preoccupations, and shows how her fiction is put together. Olivia Manning: A Woman at War by Deirdre David - review 2013-02-16T08:01:01Z Alcott’s genius is her timeless preoccupations—love and death, jealousy, fear and joy—which, despite changing mores, have kept the March family current for 11/2 centuries. Timeless Preoccupations and Old-School Virtues 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The selection, according to Oxford, is meant “to reflect the ethos, mood or preoccupations” of the preceding year, while also having “potential as a term of lasting cultural significance.” The Word of the Year Goes Goblin Mode 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Leaving: nerves, distraction and preoccupation with their own busy lives. The long five minutes: Abortion doulas bring comfort during a complicated time 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z This is how central a preoccupation Shakespeare was at the time.” Measuring America’s Shakespearean Devotion 2014-03-19T20:47:10Z That search for authentic masculinity is a weighty preoccupation of “The Spark and the Drive.” ‘The Spark and the Drive,’ by Wayne Harrison Mr. Mitchell said of the literary preoccupation with the end of the world. ‘Station Eleven’ Joins Fall’s Crop of Dystopian Novels 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z His vehicle becomes an ideal vehicle for the production’s preoccupations with lost travelers, people forever in between destinations. ‘Nomads’ at the Incubator Arts Project 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z The first, Go, is an exercise in melodic flexibility, the preoccupations of the third, Apex, are mostly harmonic, while the fifth, Exeo, seems to assemble itself from a whole collection of sharply contrasted ideas. Dusapin: Seven Solos for Orchestra 2010-04-15T21:30:00Z But the preoccupations that trouble Deb are universal, extending even to our fears of the loss of what defines us when we die. Review: ‘D Deb Debbie Deborah,’ a Dizzying Subversion of Identity 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z He’s not political, per se: His preoccupations are more cosmic, like an Oklahoman Bono. Garth Brooks Is Back With a New Album, ‘Man Against Machine’ 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Ms. McKinney’s preoccupation is with what she calls her “stolen” tale. Weathering a Scandal and Now a Movie 2011-07-09T03:53:02Z And this ichthyological preoccupation in the text is emphasized by more than a dozen color photographs of exotic fish swimming through these pages. David Vann’s ‘Aquarium’ delves into the depths of mother-daughter tension 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Her women have different accents and back stories, but they share many of same preoccupations with age, power and loneliness. It’s Jessica Lange’s Show on ‘American Horror Story’ 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z When you look at lists of non-fiction in the UK you see the preoccupation we have with the second world war and the events leading up to it. Samuel Johnson prize longlist spans the globe 2010-04-22T08:33:00Z Mexican Baroque art depends on the imaginative elaboration of surface rather than of space — even to the extent that writing text on a picture became a common preoccupation. 'Painted in Mexico': LACMA's remarkable and important new show 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z “The description is exact and graceful, as Matar’s prose tends to be. … What he sees in art connects naturally with his own preoccupations.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z “It’s liberating to be released from any preoccupation with whether or not what you’re doing is profound.” Who Needs a Super Bowl Ad? Skittles Ups the Ante With a Broadway Musical 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Writing takes him to another place, Dr. Sacks says, “where I am totally absorbed and oblivious to distracting thoughts, worries, preoccupations, or indeed the passage of time.” Review: Oliver Sacks Looks at His Life in ‘On the Move’ 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z He is a genial, likeable sort, whose only flaw is a preoccupation with work. Is it OK to laugh at Ibsen? 2010-10-25T09:57:00Z In an era in which artists’ reputations are made with Instagram and YouTube pages, as much as with gallery shows, 89 Plus is a window into the preoccupations of this generation. 89 Plus Project Focuses on Technology-Obsessed Artists 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z The Alienist is a humorous novella that parodies scientific preoccupations of the day and the aspirations of a small town near Rio de Janeiro. The Alienist by Machado de Assis – review 2012-12-23T00:10:26Z Dreams now played out waking preoccupations, rather than otherworldly agendas. In the space of dreams: Wendy Ortiz's 'Bruja' is vivid and dark 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The central thread, though, is the origin story of one Josef Loewe, our narrator, who shares with the author a birth year, 1962, and a philosophical preoccupation with the nature and purpose of narrative. A Psychedelic Epic That Wants to Consume the World 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z But for admirers of Inge, a chronicler of desperate American lives once held in the same esteem as Tennessee Williams, “Off the Main Road” provides a highly legible map of its creator’s abiding preoccupations. Review: ‘Off the Main Road’ Stars Kyra Sedgwick as a Wife in Distress 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z It helps that Swift, now 31, hasn’t outgrown her preoccupation with high school romance. Review | Taylor Swift’s new take on ‘Fearless’ piles on the nostalgia, along with some revenge 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z Heroes and ideals are enshrined, while streams of civic pilgrims come bearing new preoccupations — truths that are not yet self-evident, and may not even be true. The National Mall’s immortal reflection 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z I assumed she was referring to my preoccupation with wine, but no, she meant my Prius. Perspective | What your wine choices say about the way you think 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Her questions and preoccupations gesture at the links between the individual and the collective’s capacity for denial and willed amnesia. An Award-Winning Debut Novel About Innocence Shattered Offers Terror and Solace 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Here, movement through space and location are specified, as well as relationships and social networks, and national monuments and preoccupations. The Guggenheim Shows First On Kawara Retrospective 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Just as Leonardo DiCaprio personifies the new preoccupation with mind over matter in "Inception." Will Hollywood grow up for boomers? 2010-08-02T19:34:00Z And while she shares certain of his preoccupations — with otherness and evoking animal life — hers is a more prosaic mission: She mirrors reality. After Disaster, Japan Seals Itself Off From the World in ‘The Emissary’ 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z This preoccupation with time — how people weather both the cruelty and the comforts of passing years — has long been a part of Tyler’s work. Anne Tyler’s Latest Heroine Quits Cushy Arizona for Quirky Baltimore 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z In real life, Dr. Wivel, the curator, said, Raphael’s preoccupations were decidedly more earthly. For Britain’s National Gallery, a Raphael Show Comes at the Right Time 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z What all the poems have in common — the apprenticelike ones, the discarded ones and the ones that have become classics — is a preoccupation with absence and negativity. Books of The Times: Philip Larkin?s Complete Poems, Edited by Archie Burnett 2012-04-09T21:28:30Z His literary preoccupations include power imbalances, the abuse of citizens by governments and — in this book especially — the methods by which people are killing the planet. Review: China Miéville’s ‘Three Moments of an Explosion’ 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Sitting at her kitchen table, Wynn returned to one of her preoccupations: the chasm between the left’s ability to criticize and its ability to proselytize. The Stylish Socialist Who Is Trying to Save YouTube from Alt-Right Domination 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z With its release, Whitehead, accustomed to his niche as a quirky writer with eclectic preoccupations, suddenly became a literary icon. Colson Whitehead Reinvents Himself, Again 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z What had been a series of disparate characters with no focus or purpose now merged into a single figure who became a preoccupation. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z The Library of America volume is an anthology of hunches, prejudices, preoccupations and reactions. Pauline Kael and Her Legacy 2011-10-15T22:17:20Z But her preoccupation with our planet’s ponderous apocalypse also highlights the paradox of human invention: We make things to preserve our memories, ideas and cultures, and we also make things to destroy them. Three of Fiction’s Brightest Stars Have New Books — of Poetry 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z She said social justice, not surprisingly given the year’s events, was a repeated preoccupation of directors. London film festival to be 'most accessible yet' as lineup unveiled 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z This preoccupation with marrying within the religion reminded me of what it is like being Muslim, and trying to convince one's family that love is no respecter of which god, if any, you pray to. My month of being Jewish 2010-04-08T07:00:00Z In his application for a Harvard National Scholarship, after emphasizing his interest in looking at and making art, he lists his other preoccupations: music, ballet, theater and movies. Superb Oddities: Robert Gottlieb Reviews a Biography of Edward Gorey 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Watch a few of the Austin auteur's movies in a row and you'll see his preoccupations recur: consciousness, reality, mortality. 'Boyhood' director Richard Linklater versus time: the big stare-down 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Gustav Mahler, maker of gigantic symphonies, may seem an odd preoccupation for a chamber group. Argento at the Armory, With ‘Das Lied’ 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z The left side holds smooth earth; the right bears the imprint of her hand, marking the start of a long preoccupation with human markings on the landscape. Michelle Stuart’s Work at the Parrish Art Museum 2013-08-29T21:35:15Z Instead there are other preoccupations, other motivations, some unfamiliar to us. ArtsBeat: A Critics Conversation: Modern Dance Madness 2012-04-03T14:14:19Z What happens after the death of a choreographer who is a company’s sole creative source, is a continuing dance-world preoccupation. For Tanztheater Wuppertal, Life After Pina Includes New Works 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z They spoke for a while, and eventually Arceneaux confessed his preoccupation with that infamous tribute—an admission that did not immediately endear him to the actor, Arceneaux said. Revisiting Ben Vereen’s Misunderstood Blackface Inaugural Performance 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive Werner Herzog is a singular film director, drawn to bizarre characters and situations in strange surroundings, with a preoccupation with outsiders who refuse to conform to a limited social structure. Bruno Schleinstein obituary 2010-08-22T18:12:00Z Glück’s verses often reflect her preoccupation with dark themes — isolation, betrayal, fractured family and marital relationships, death. Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s the same impulse that’s behind the ellipses at the end of so many of her essays; her writing rarely winds up, but wanes with unnerving preoccupation. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z The risk in performing preoccupation is you can wind up looking bored. ‘Human Capital’ Review: The Waiter’s in a Coma. Tennis Anyone? 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z A single overarching preoccupation connects the six brooding stories in Anthony Doerr’s “Memory Wall.” Books of The Times: Anthony Doerr?s ?Memory Wall,? Fleeting Yesterdays 2010-07-28T22:07:00Z Through the Harry Potter movies he's become friends with JK Rowling, and gets very upset about the general preoccupation with her wealth. Robbie Coltrane: 'I take no nonsense' 2012-11-09T22:59:00Z Television shows tend to reflect the preoccupations of their creators, and ageism is a fact of Hollywood life. Review: In ‘Grace and Frankie’ on Netflix, New Wrinkles in Comedy 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z No single “sightseeing” activity better connects you to the French preoccupation with fresh products and their strong ties to the soil. How to shop in a French market 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z On “Heaven and Earth” there’s a balance between big-stroke conceptualism — the first CD, “Earth,” is meant to represent worldly preoccupations; the second, “Heaven,” explores utopian thought — and the workmanlike reality of collaboration. Kamasi Washington, Still in an Epic Mind-Set on ‘Heaven and Earth’ 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Featuring 10 hourlong episodes that all arrive on May 15, the deeply irreverent show is witty and self-aware, using a charismatic woman from the past as a conduit through which to explore more modern preoccupations. This Is Not History’s Catherine the Great 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Heavy farm breakfasts before work got the blame for indigestion, a major preoccupation at the time, and a lighter version became the ideal. Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z The publisher says its word of the year process aims to select a word that "captures the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of that particular year". 'Post-truth' beats 'Brexiteer' to title of word of the year 2016 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The ability of books to take us out of ourselves, to burst the bubbles of our humdrum preoccupations, doesn't depend on being cloistered away for some literary time out. Literary London on your iPhone 2010-03-23T09:03:00Z "The preoccupations of certain stages of life - child-rearing, adolescent-rearing, empty nest, aging, death of a spouse - are clearly mirrored by the novels I wrote at the time I was going through those stages," she says. Anne Tyler, still making it up 2012-04-03T12:39:08Z And Mr. Bannon’s preoccupation with the 1930s and his kind of wishful reclamation of Italian and other fascists speaks for itself. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 1 of 2 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” is based on a novel by the Canadian writer Iain Reid, a spare and elusive story that provides Kaufman with a stable enough trellis for his own florid preoccupations. ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Review: Where to Begin? 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z One example is the preoccupation with the Challenger, its recurrence apparently random, except that it isn't at all. Review | In the wake of the space shuttle Challenger disaster, a family tragedy unfolds 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z The work of transforming actors pretending to be in a band into a band became the professional preoccupation of the music supervisor Frankie Pine. ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ and the Ballad of Making Rock ’n’ Roll TV 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Roy’s preoccupation with these topics has been so absolute that her second novel, when she finally produced it, was stocked with characters personifying her causes. The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z “Most interpretations tell us more about the preoccupations of its chroniclers than any essential truth about the mystery,” Robertson writes. An Enthralling New Look at the Mystery of Lizzie Borden 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Josh’s sense of powerlessness with regards to the Colton situation and Ali’s increasing preoccupation with outsiderdom and social injustice both seem to be indirect motivating factors for their respective relationships. Transparent recap: season two, episode four – fear and self-discovery 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z They feature the usual preoccupations of horror — supernatural evil, gore, creepy basements — but they also evoke the poet Anne Carson’s answer to the question, Why does tragedy exist? Home Is Where the Horror Is 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The conspiracy to take down Mr. Spitzer may be a major preoccupation of “Client 9,” but Mr. Spitzer’s halting attempts to explain himself may prove more riveting. Film: Client 9 and Other Interested Parties 2010-10-23T02:33:00Z As in her second novel, “A Little Life,” Yanagihara evinces a preoccupation with the horrific, and the dystopian future depicted in the final section is horrific indeed. After ‘A Little Life,’ Hanya Yanagihara’s Big New Novel Rewrites History 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Graeber believes that democracy – or rather, the thing that we have come to call democracy, with its professional politicians, political parties and preoccupation with the money – has been entirely co-opted by finance capitalism. The Democracy Project: a History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber – review 2013-03-28T16:10:18Z Ample but intimate, each over 500 pages, the books brim with global and political preoccupations even as their primary power derives from the alternating currents of family devotion and repulsion. Jonathan Franzen Takes On the Domestic Ills of the 1970s 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Murphy senses, probably correctly, that their preoccupation with the status of their vehicles is a kind of anxious compensation for low wages. ‘The Long Haul’ Is a Trucker’s Slangy Tour of the Road 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z She is not part of the wine industry, which permits her to avoid the usual preoccupations with tasting and labels. The Best Wine Books Are Not Always About Wine 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Whatever the preoccupations and blind spots of our jobs, you and I are people who like movies. What Did That Oscars Show Say About Movies? Our Critics Puzzle It Out. 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z Arnold considered the preoccupation with youth in her films. Andrea Arnold’s Immersive Cinema 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Indeed one of the main criteria for diagnosis of eating disorders is a preoccupation with the weight, shape and size of one's body. Some Ozempic users say it silences ‘food noise’. But there are also drug-free ways to do that 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z She takes a personal approach to the subject, describing a lifelong preoccupation with mushrooms: how they look, how they taste and how they reproduce. Are Mushrooms Our Friends? 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z And, for me, his primary preoccupation was never more brilliantly realised than in Strangers on a Train, the murder-swap from 1951. My favourite Hitchcock: Strangers on a Train 2012-08-02T16:55:00Z Once again in the spotlight, as activists challenge photo ID laws that they say hinder minority voters, and definitely a preoccupation for Malcolm. Fifty years after his death, Malcolm X speaks to the current moment 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z My characters are extreme examples of gay preoccupations with youth and beauty. ‘Our Young Man’ Reframes a 19th-Century Work in the 1980s 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z It is oracular, delirious and American — rich with the intensities of Melville, the expansiveness of Whitman and Toomer’s own bedeviling preoccupation with color. A Century Later, a Novel by an Enigma of the Harlem Renaissance Is Still Relevant 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Maybe the problem is the continuing, understandable preoccupation with the country’s departure from the European Union, a.k.a. The Meghan Markle Non-Effect 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Like most of Mr. Allen’s recent work, this movie takes place within the hermetically enclosed universe of its maker’s long-established preoccupations. Review: In ‘Café Society,’ Rearranging Old Preoccupations 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Rogers's personal correspondence, too, sheds a light on particular preoccupations. Richard Rogers: the world as it could be 2013-07-15T17:45:01Z “Cosby notes that his early quest for ‘love’ was beset by chaos because of his preoccupation with female anatomy.” Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Or its curators, for that matter: Given its themes and preoccupations, Kim’s show would be thinner and less persuasive if it were held at the Getty Center. With Pacific Standard Time, Getty finally climbs down from hilltop oasis it built 20 years ago 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z And so my looking at the picture of my mother in turn reignites an earlier preoccupation with the changing meanings and uses of nostalgia. The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z “That's what I'm talking about. It's trying to shift the conversation from vanity and a preoccupation within this to actual health.” "They're not practicing what they preached": WeightWatchers is shifting into weight loss drugs 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z There’s a fair amount about sex, one of Mailer’s signal preoccupations. ‘Selected Letters,’ Norman Mailer’s Correspondence 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z How do you see that relationship affect your writing style or your preoccupations as a writer? How Covid Got Gish Jen Thinking About China 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z But he says his story selection is based more on what the audience wants than his own preoccupations. The Social Network creator to tell true story of crime, sex... and moon rocks 2011-01-23T00:07:00Z Also, young people have been tested with more adult responsibilities and preoccupations than usual, much like what happens in wartime. "Everything is changed": Star Jonah Hauer-King on the WWII drama "World on Fire" and Season 2 plans 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z In fact, “Midnight Mass” — which also stars the “Haunting” actors Henry Thomas and Kate Siegel, Flanagan’s wife — draws on many of the same preoccupations of that series in its interrogations of theology and faith. Mike Flanagan Explores His Private Horrors in ‘Midnight Mass’ 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z They include All of Us, a sequence of 31 war poems never fully published before, which reveal Lawrence's preoccupation with the Allies' campaigns in the first world war. DH Lawrence's poetry 'ruined by censorship' 2013-03-24T00:06:30Z This placed the movie at the heart of the political preoccupations of its era. Exhibition Review: ‘Exquisitely Evil,’ Bond Villains at International Spy Museum 2012-11-15T23:35:07Z For many a group on the jam-band scene, songs are outside preoccupations, useful mainly as springboards, and hardly the yardstick by which the enterprise should be judged. Music Review: Umphrey?s McGee at Brooklyn Bowl - Review 2011-09-09T23:42:12Z I’d write stories between novels, which were always the major preoccupation. This Week in Fiction: Elizabeth Harrower 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Ultimately it’s a story of how recklessness and ruthlessness – financial and moral – promoted chequebook journalism, a preoccupation with intrusive tabloid gossip and growing indifference to the pollution of accepted notions involving personal privacy. Paper Giants: Magazine Wars - TV review 2013-06-02T15:04:00Z For Mr. Lamar, a rapper at the peak of his powers and reach, and one who resists many of mainstream hip-hop’s central preoccupations, it’s an opportunity to become even more insular. Kendrick Lamar and Lil Wayne Each Sidestep the Traditional Album Cycle 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z But their preoccupation with her life doesn’t seem to involve her lived reality. Kiley Reid’s Novel Is About Race and Class and Other People’s Children 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z The paintings are about the preoccupations of people trying to cope, Pomés says. For two Cuban artists, divergent paths intersect at GALA Hispanic Theatre What’s more, Churchill made the mistake of continuing to give priority to international affairs after the war, when that was no longer the public preoccupation. Was Churchill a Great Man? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Aza has normal teenage preoccupations, and struggles to navigate the rites of adolescence: dating, fretting about college, calming her overbearing mother, appeasing her demanding best friend. John Green Opens Up About His Own Struggles 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z In both its self-referential, backward-glancing sound and its lyrical preoccupations, “Midnights” is a record about stasis, arrested development, and that liminal time between yesterday and tomorrow. Taylor Swift, 30-Something, Is Revising Her Own Love Stories 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z The strange rhythms of its passage, and the ways those can be captured and counterfeited on film are among Mr. Linklater’s abiding preoccupations. Review: In ‘Everybody Wants Some!!,’ Casual Sex and Casual Philosophizing 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Reading also eases your mind and draws its focus away from whatever preoccupations might otherwise keep you awake. The reason reading makes you sleepy 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z His novels shared certain characteristics with theirs — a cameralike detachment, an indifference to psychology, a preoccupation with physical details and the instability of human perception — but he took a more philosophical and political approach. Michel Butor, French Novelist Who Shattered Conventions, Dies at 89 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, he said that his personal preoccupations do sometimes surface in his paintings in ways that he does not fully realize until they are finished. A German Painter’s New Rule: ‘Never Answer a Critic’ 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Back in 1963, when he made his first expressionist short, La maleta, international cinema was an enthralling preoccupation of the American thinking class. Raul Ruiz, 1941-2011: Death of a Little-Known Movie Master 2011-08-22T10:20:00Z Now, contemporary art holds sway, reflecting the fast-forward cultural preoccupations of our society. Obsessed by the Present, Who’s Got Time for Old Masters? 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z That has been his central preoccupation virtually since he returned from military service in Vietnam in 1968, “very mixed up, very paranoid and very alienated,” as he has put it. Oliver Stone’s Putin puzzle: An evil genius who made history, or a shrewd, small-minded nonentity? 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z But the central preoccupation of the novel is also one that Said might have recognized. Dread, War and Ambivalence: Literature Since the Towers Fell 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z As often as not, those preoccupations are benign — and can be illuminating and provocative when they’re artfully plumbed. Perspective | Uma Thurman, Quentin Tarantino and the costs of auteur worship 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z The ceramic works draw from a similar pool of preoccupations -- the body, memory, death and life in all of its urgent physicality. Roger Herman ceramics: bold, bawdy and ... is that a little bondage sketched on there? 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z The book is a lot of fun if you’re on intimate terms with the hierarchies and status preoccupations of these kinds of people. Books of The Times: In ‘Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.,’ Women Flummox a Writer 2013-08-04T17:47:50Z Eighteen years later I find myself on the brink of publishing a second work owing its genesis to my abiding preoccupation with the very big and the very little. Big on littleness 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z As their name would suggest, dreaming is a major preoccupation for the band and features heavily in their lyrics. The only rockers in Afghanistan ? but Kabul Dreams take wistful approach 2010-03-31T16:17:00Z A fear of the wider world is always a preoccupation for children, no matter how hard adults try to shield them from it. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Bossa nova started in the late 1950s and became an international preoccupation briefly in the early 1960s. The Essentials of Brazilian Music for Olympic Listening 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z His growing preoccupation with this woman adds to tensions on the work site, fueled by Cem’s irrational jealousy of his master’s imagined involvement with her. In Orhan Pamuk’s New Novel, a Youthful Obsession Yields a Haunted Life 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Yet for others, the Crystal Palace’s iron-and-glass construction and emphasis on visual display shows modernity’s preoccupation with surfaces. Holiday windows: The allure of showing and hiding makes us look 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z The darker pieces are built with multiple strata of resin and black ink, thus embodying what Giolitti’s statement calls her “preoccupation with interconnectedness.” Review | In the galleries: Works draw on feeling, seeing and a penchant for jazz 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Maybe it's the genre's origins in church music, spirituals and mountain songs, or its preoccupation with family. Dolly Parton proves that nothing says Christmas like a magical country mama 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Others, such as Beckett and Harold Pinter, took a more surreal approach to distilling the neurotic preoccupations of the characters they put on stage. A new discovery for science and art: the cultural divide is all in the mind 2012-11-24T16:02:57Z Tom Hughes TV Shows about the unemployed After the first Thatcher recession, unemployment was the 80s' big preoccupation. Acceptable in the 80s 2010-07-29T21:00:00Z We have ascribed to the genre certain flattening traits—a degree of self-absorption, a preoccupation with authenticity, the presence of a writer as a protagonist—that can seem like so much “idle pondering.” The Overlooked Autofiction of Yuko Tsushima 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Williams’s preoccupation with the eternal questions of love and death hang over his work. Tennessee Williams Made Paintings. They Were About Love and Loss, Too. 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z His latest film captures the particular culture of a boxing community in Texas and Agnes explores with Wiseman his preoccupation with human and institutional violence. Film Weekly podcast: Frederick Wiseman's world 2011-04-07T11:42:00Z That’s certainly been an abiding preoccupation for Suzan-Lori Parks, whose past haunts the present as enduringly as the slave ghosts in Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean.” What August Wilson Means Now 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z “But it’s also a more vulnerable performance, less tightly woven and deliberately plotted, even turning uncharacteristically jagged at points as it explores some of the writer’s touchiest preoccupations.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z As Clooney says, it is election season, so we can forgive him a little preoccupation. George Clooney interview: ‘Donald Trump is a xenophobic fascist’ 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z He was allowed to make a 29-minute live-action film, , but when early audiences found its preoccupation with a pet’s death unsuitable for kids, execs shelved the movie. Tim Burton's Frankenweenie: A Re-animated Delight 2012-10-04T12:00:18Z Soon enough, the dramatic lines will blur ingeniously, as their personal preoccupations draw them inexorably into the ominous goings-on at Muldoon manor. Playwrights get last word in delightful ‘Critic’ and ‘Real Inspector Hound’ 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z It is the relationship within it of Wagner's two great preoccupations: myth and psychology. What's Wagner's secret? Love, actually 2013-04-25T16:00:01Z The conflict that arose between the two cities’ cinematic preoccupations provoked a major crisis in Vogel’s life. The Limits of American Cinephilia 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Back arched and pelvis pushed, his torso slumped into an almost jazzy syncopation, emphasizing Balanchine’s persistent preoccupation with American dance and music idioms. Dance Review: City Ballet?s Albert Evans Gives Farewell Performance 2010-06-21T22:33:00Z Broder’s preoccupations — and sometimes her prose — mirror her essays and poetry and tweets, but she has also allowed her social-media style and substance to blossom. The Merman of Her Dreams 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z They're lighter than meringue, usually revolving around what I assume to be childhood preoccupations of the 1940s, but are now just archaic curiosities: marble games, soapbox derbies, radio quiz shows, etc. Comics: Not crazy about 'Arkham Asylum: Madness' 2010-09-07T20:59:00Z Seemingly mesmerized by her own image, she is captured at the innocent early stages of preoccupation with womanly self-presentation and self-making. Abigail Heyman’s Groundbreaking Images of Women’s Lives 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Jules Feiffer has always been adept at using satire to trace the links between our public and private anxieties, our political and personal preoccupations. Books of The Times: ?Backing Into Forward?: Jules Feiffer?s Ink-Stained Memoir 2010-03-17T22:47:00Z And he finds other men with similar preoccupations. Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Werner Herzog's 3-D Trip 2011-05-01T05:50:00Z He attributes his preoccupation in the days preceding 9/11, for example, to worry over his son Nic's relapse into drug addiction. Books: Donald Rumsfeld on being the smartest guy in the room 2011-02-08T08:01:00Z While he joked about religion and language, his main preoccupation was show business. Lenny Bruce Shattered Taboos, but Was He Funny? 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Beginning with taping just one channel on the hostage situation, her preoccupation soon expanded into a 24-hour affair across multiple networks. 'Ahead of her time': the woman who recorded the news for 30 years 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Forgive me for presuming that your main preoccupation in the aftermath of that is how to best raise your child. I’m a newly single mother and confused about my sexuality | Mariella Frostrup 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z And the fact that the fictional director denounces the current preoccupation with 'child abuse' adds another twinge of fascination. Cannes 2013: Venus in Fur - first look review 2013-05-25T10:04:14Z Regardless of the reasons, though, there is no denying that consciousness was Aiken’s major thematic preoccupation. Is it time to rediscover Conrad Aiken? 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Her mother's preoccupation with her own appearance set an example that nagged Lee through adulthood. Review: Om is where the heart is 2013-01-24T19:09:08Z Its primary preoccupation is preoccupation—devotion, longing, hunger—either for man or God. Jonny Greenwood Surrenders to the Drone 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z But what about characters for whom even gruesome and tragic changes aren't as compelling as their own sociopathic preoccupations? 'Post Mortem': Examining a sociopath's life, surrounded by death 2012-05-24T20:25:05Z These twin preoccupations with sex and fashion seem transparent and familiar to a 21st-century audience. Nozze di Figaro: The revolution in action 2013-07-10T14:55:47Z His preoccupation with Beethoven, whose complete solo sonatas the pianist is recording, extends to a popular online course on the piano sonatas. Jonathan Biss reflects on ‘late style’ in piano masterworks by Beethoven, Brahms and Kurtág 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z She wove her preoccupations, along with a wallop of rage, into “Fleabag,” a show at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe that scooped up an Olivier nomination and the Stage award for solo performer. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Taraji’s White Hot Holidays’ and ‘SuperMansion: War on Christmas’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Their tumultuous marriagedrives a compelling plot and illustrates the novel’s lyrical themes of freedom and transcendence, which were preoccupations of 19th-century social reformers and thinkers like the Howes. Kimberly Elkins’s ‘What Is Visible,’ a novel about Laura Bridgman But light seems to be his greatest technical preoccupation. Barocci: Brilliance and Grace – review 2013-03-03T00:05:53Z Some of Quintana’s childhood writings reverberate uncannily with echoes of themes her parents repeatedly explored in their work: a preoccupation with alienation, the abyss and the edge. Books of The Times: ?Blue Nights,? by Joan Didion ? Review 2011-10-31T18:26:44Z He does an admirable job navigating Mel Gibson’s Freudian preoccupations—martyrdom, faith, blood, guts—without making Doss too much of a simpleton or a saint. Oscar Spotlight: The Actors 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z The song combines the uplift of hymn with the vigorous urgency of a national anthem, exemplifying the public-spirited preoccupations that have led James to let his marriage to Candida take care of itself. | 'A Minister's Wife': Three Hearts Butt Heads in One Marriage 2011-05-09T02:01:03Z Most reflect a preoccupation with, and a wish to improve, the position of women in contemporary society. Response: Germaine Greer's criticism of George Bernard Shaw is unfair. He was strongly pro-women 2011-02-02T08:00:02Z This preoccupation runs throughout her essay, invoking the primal energies of the hunt and the desire for survival. Weekend Reading: Soccer Violence, Nazi Hipsters, and More 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z On the EP’s seven songs, his preoccupations are the obstacles and opportunities for a kid who seeks out the city’s shadows: subways, drugs, dirty pay phones, aggressive cops, 9/11. Critic’s Notebook: Ratking’s EP ‘Wiki93’ Is Thoroughly New York 2012-11-06T22:30:05Z Are you conscious of returning to certain preoccupations over time? ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Manuel Gonzales on His Story Collection 'The Miniature Wife' 2013-01-24T14:30:39Z The title of her new book reflects one of Turkle’s preoccupations. A Critic of Technology Turns Her Gaze Inward 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Moreover, the personal preoccupations of her work, easily overlooked at the time, become apparent when viewing the films as a whole. Mae West Vamped and Winked. She Also Blazed a Trail We’re Still Following. 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Suh’s preoccupation is with the construction and collapse of identity, which we witness both in the Charlie Chan scenes and in those that feature Frank and his friends rehearsing and palavering. Review: With ‘Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery,’ Lloyd Suh Takes on a Legacy 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Furthermore, Mr. Allen’s art in particular is saturated with his personality, his preoccupations, his biography and his tastes. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z White outlined this preoccupation with seemingly minor tasks as one of the main hazards faced by new farmers. "The Fabulous Beekman Boys": Can farming cure a midlife crisis? 2010-06-16T12:01:00Z Voice, as it happens, is a preoccupation that she and Carol share. Movie Review: Lake Bell Stars in Her Directing Debut, ‘In a World’ 2013-08-08T22:02:17Z The Renwick hopes to chart a new course for craftsmanship in a digital age and to showcase the preoccupations of skilled 21st-century artisans. Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery Reopens With a New Focus 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z This is a central preoccupation for Scorsese: the ability of cinema as a mechanical process to somehow plug into the human heart of an audience. Interview: Martin Scorsese 2010-11-21T00:06:00Z In its preoccupation with guilt, “The Good Wife” resembles no literary work more than Kafka’s “The Trial.” What Was “The Good Wife” Really About? 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The tissue that holds it together is Johns’s abiding preoccupation with love, loss and death. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: A seminal artist’s career is celebrated and illuminated in two cities 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z In its parade of ribald gags and infantile preoccupation with body parts, not to mention a climactic decapitation, water-balloon-style, The Interview displays all the mindless excesses that repressive regimes condemn in Hollywood movies. You Can't See The Interview, But I Did 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Bravado is a father now, too, with a 1-year-old son, leading him to reflect even more on personal responsibility, a preoccupation he inherited from his father. After Kanye, After Virgil, After Heron 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Marc’s forms are often imitated, but what other designers seldom imitate is his preoccupation with materials and processes. Is There Anything Marc Newson Hasn?t Designed? 2012-01-27T17:23:09Z In other words, dreams communicate our unconscious preoccupation. Night terrors: what do anxiety dreams mean? 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Johns is well-known for his own preoccupation with cartography. All the World in a ‘Slice’ of Art 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z The selection is meant “to reflect the ethos, mood or preoccupations” of the preceding year, while also having “potential as a term of lasting cultural significance.” Oxford’s 2021 Word of the Year Is a Shot in the Arm 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z Even his young-man movies showed an old man’s natural preoccupation with what comes next and what lies beyond. The Movies' Grandest Oldest Man: Manoel de Oliveira Dies at 106 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Once again, he finds an explanation in the female preoccupation with people and emotion as opposed to the male orientation toward things and abstract thought. Charles Murray Returns, Nodding to Caution but Still Courting Controversy 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Bartok’s Rhapsody for Cello and Piano, a transcription of his First Rhapsody for Violin and Piano, extends Brahms’s preoccupations with melodious virtuosity and folk-dance borrowings, though shot through with odd, eerie harmonies. Music Review: Steven Isserlis at the 92nd Street Y 2013-01-28T22:31:28Z It is the preoccupation of many a New Zealand novel and at the beginning of this one, things seem to fall into a familiar pattern. A New Zealand Novel Full of Taciturn Men and Wooden Dolls 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z For most of history, tattooing has been a male preoccupation, either a one-fingered salute or an exercise in swagger. Books of The Times: ‘Bodies of Subversion’ Explores Women’s Tattoos 2013-07-03T15:41:14Z And while the set is little more than a raised platform with yellow banners on the front and sides, it suits the production’s preoccupation with the fluidity of borders. The Trailblazing Efforts of “Indie Opera” 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z And it is precisely the prospect of retelling these stories through the prism of modern preoccupation that acts as catnip to novelists. Why the tale of Achilles and his lover still has the power to move us 2012-06-02T23:06:04Z But the women are vivid: their hair and jewelry and clothes, their preoccupations and mannerisms. Young Women and Their ‘Unfinished Business’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Portman’s central preoccupation, she says, is to “investigate the mythology” underlying the creation of Israel, something all too obviously obscured by the decades of rancour since. Natalie Portman on Israel, Hollywood sexism and ‘being the boss’ 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z And you begin to understand the museum’s preoccupation. Exhibition Review: When Pictures Leap to Other Screens 2011-01-13T21:55:50Z The dark side of the Christian mythos — its preoccupation with sin, suffering, judgment and redemption — is missing. Art Review: Louis C. Tiffany Works at Museum of Biblical Art 2012-12-31T23:14:26Z Mortality and the passage of personal and historical time are all preoccupations of Mr. LeDray’s art. What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z You can detect traces in “Gesualdo” of the refined textures favored by the spectralists and also their preoccupation with single notes. Prince, Killer and Composer,' Gesualdo' Inspires Sound and Fury 2010-10-19T11:30:00Z The debates around cloning in “Constance” echo many of our contemporary preoccupations — skepticism of science, radical mistrust of those with opposing views, conspiracy theories. A Human Cloning Error and Existential Questions Fuel This Science Fiction Romp 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z And we see it in the vocational crisis at the center of “The Marriage Plot,” the novel that presents in clearest form the shared preoccupations of the Conversazioni group. Riff: ?Why Write Novels at All?? 2012-01-13T22:19:00Z “The Lost Kings” traces Jeanie’s inquiry into the night that severed her family, but Johnson’s deeper preoccupation seems to be with childhood: its mysteries, its freedoms, its end. A Bloody Crime, a Mysterious Disappearance and the Long After 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z I first really felt that embarrassment was one of my preoccupations when I wrote “The Fortress of Solitude.” Jonathan Lethem on his new mega-literary, meta-literary collection 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Chesterton’s Father Brown and his own father’s experiences, preoccupations and priestly dilemmas. Sidney Chambers is again on the case 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z If the environment of slang is always the city, then its central preoccupation is invariably crime. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z So is our preoccupation with active shooters reasonable? One year after the San Bernadino attack, learning to survive is a routine part of life 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The director revealed his enduring preoccupations in the Sembènian heroine: Broadly speaking, she was principled, defiant, inclined to revolt, however outwardly hopeless her odds appeared. In These Ousmane Sembène Films, Women Are Revolutionaries 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z But for a writer whose preoccupations have often included sex and absurdity, it provided a lot of material. Patricia Lockwood likes to write in bed. 'Priestdaddy' is her memoir 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z All these stories follow Latin Americans in Europe, animated by García Márquez’s preoccupation with the history, identity and fate of his region. The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z James, there’s a preoccupation with high school themes in much of your work. James Franco on Daddy: ‘Our end goal doesn't depend on me being Beyoncé’ 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Lubos's actions remind us of the ineluctable nature of the female cycle, while simultaneously informing us of her physical preoccupations as a dancer who is also a mother. Vincent Dance Theatre – review 2012-11-18T00:06:05Z Camouflage and cover are the novel's preoccupations; enigma, disguise and indirection its styles of telling. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male 2013-03-15T12:03:22Z But while much has changed in Motion's life, his poetic preoccupations have remained constant. Andrew Motion: a life in writing 2012-10-05T21:55:13Z The self's deep preoccupations, the isolation of the individual consciousness, which keeps so much concealed, were what he wished to dramatise. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z At the cricket match — during which West acquitted his bowling duties honorably, despite his own bad hoof — thoughts of war were clearly far from the characters’ preoccupations as they batted, drank tea and chattered. ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ Returns With Even More Creatures 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z America's obsession with dogs is — like all other uniquely American obsessions — a preoccupation with celebrity and the all-consuming power of media. The changing face of “America’s dog” — and what it says about us 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Our interest in everything to do with trains and railways – and the 'golden age' of steam in particular – is one of our most endearing and enduring national preoccupations. Historic railway signal boxes get listed status 2013-07-25T18:12:42Z The art lays bare the preoccupations of children for whom abuse and trauma is an everyday occurrence. Abused children turn their fears into artwork for groundbreaking exhibition 2012-06-11T14:10:03Z Very little happens, yet how true to life it seems – the background of disconsolate rains and chattering mynah birds entirely Bombay, the preoccupations universal. First fiction 2010-10-01T23:15:00Z How does the writer conjure a sympathetic interior life for someone whose chief preoccupations are getting enough calories and sleep before the next day? A Novel Chases Its Narrator on the Tour de France 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z That and your intimidation say your biggest obstacle is your preoccupation with not embarrassing yourself. Carolyn Hax: Workaholic ready to dip a toe into the dating pool 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z The neighbor’s teenage daughter, the focus of much of the plot, is chiefly characterized by her preoccupation with her “budding breasts,” whose size she frequently discusses. In Haruki Murakami’s New Novel, a Painter’s Inspiration Is Supernatural 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z He said he had hoped filming “Living,” three parallel tales of wrenching personal loss, would shake his recent preoccupation with death. Vassily Sigarev, a Voice From Russia’s Rust Belt 2012-07-29T22:00:23Z Soon I was diagnosed with agoraphobia and panic disorder, which is essentially a preoccupation with recurring panic attacks. Desperately Seeking Hope and Help for Your Nerves? Try Reading ‘Hope and Help for Your Nerves’ 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z You knew, when Mr. Biss went public with his current preoccupation with Beethoven a year and a half ago, that he was going to dig deep. Music Review: Jonathan Biss Plays Beethoven at Caramoor 2013-07-14T22:25:22Z The picture is about that perennial American preoccupation with male friendship, seen as a finer and stronger thing than love between men and women. Philip French OBE, Observer writer of 50 years and film critic extraordinaire 2012-12-29T18:54:00Z But for all their calm preoccupation with measure and proportion, these documents, drawings, tools and models outline a dramatic revolution. Exhibition Review | Yale Center for British Art: It Took Tools to Build a Revolution 2010-02-26T23:50:00Z Her claim that the British preoccupation with the home as an outward manifestation of status dates back to the Georgians seemed self-evident. TV review: At Home With the Georgians 2010-12-03T08:00:00Z The current preoccupation with Hollywood divorces and the endless war between stars and the tabloids were only nascent developments when Crowley came onto the scene in the 1950s. The Hollywood superlawyer whose death went unnoticed 2011-03-29T00:52:57Z The exhibition demonstrates how fully the gardens embody Charles’s philosophical and aesthetic preoccupations: his love of nature, his passion for tradition, his enthusiasm for artisanal crafts. In the Footsteps of Charles III 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Martin’s deepening preoccupation is being noticed back in Australia. Aboriginal artists find a surprising new champion: Steve Martin 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z More generally, the preoccupation with “How do I look?” may well be getting in the way of living authentically. Motherlode Blog: For Teenage Girls, Facebook Means Always Being Camera-Ready 2012-03-07T17:05:43Z This is particularly a problem in the United States gallery, the only place the museum puts aside its preoccupations with national boundaries and organizes displays by style. Museum Review: The Musical Instrument Museum Opens in Phoenix 2010-04-24T00:46:00Z Talking about the Delia Darlings, she reveals that they intend to continue their inspiration's preoccupation with the avant-garde by collaborating with artists who specialise in diverse genres. Manchester honours the woman behind the spooky music of Doctor Who 2013-01-10T12:00:00Z Meanwhile, Richardson’s frequent autobiographical detours account for some of the book’s uneven texture and preoccupation with frivolity. Review | Scholars have dismissed debutante balls, but ‘The Season’ digs in to the strange, fascinating history 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z The other preoccupation on the album, besides technology, is heroin. Can a Quote-Unquote Band Drag Rock Into the Future? The 1975 Is Trying Its Hardest 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z It reflects its era’s preoccupation, at once playful and earnest, with finding authenticity in an alienated, media-saturated world. ‘Tell It Like It Is,’ a Chapter of New York From 1968 to ’86 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Her works reflect a preoccupation with alternately capturing and throwing off light. Frieze New York Presents Global, Cutting-Edge Art 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Suicidal preoccupation in Hamlet is paradoxically a source of his humanity. To be or not to be: Playwrights on the complex issue of suicide 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z I wonder at times whether our preoccupation with birds stems from the sheer variety of functional applications into which we have pressed their various body parts. Wings of desire: why birds captivate us 2013-07-27T07:00:07Z The show feels like a tour round Williams's mind – his bugbears, his fantasies, his comic fears and preoccupations. Bedwyr Williams: My Bad ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:32Z By contrast, in “Notes on an Execution,” Kukafka aims to undo some of these conventions, including the preoccupation with dead women, in order to explore more ambiguous and ambitious terrain. ‘Notes on an Execution’ Isn’t Your Typical Serial Killer Novel 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Among Christina Coker's preoccupations are coastal towns on Britain's forgotten edges, battered by economic blight – seaside tourists replaced in bed and breakfast houses by lodgers paid for by social services. Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z “Nothing Feels Natural” sees the band adjusting its sound in subtler, more skillful ways to fit the preoccupations of each song. A debut well worth the wait from political D.C. punks Priests 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Her preoccupations were nostalgia and melodrama, and strategic falseness became a kind of calling card. Review: Lana Del Rey, a Character No More 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z They speak to his longtime practice of using ready-made objects as raw materials, and his preoccupation with environmental crises. Willie Cole’s Ecological Interventions Turn Trash Into Art 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z It is puzzlement — ranging from the amused to the appalled — at the gulf between her public preoccupation with ethical action and some truly filthy private behavior. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Wiseman, who began his career as a filmmaker in that decade, has a preoccupation with process that may be a generational characteristic. Frederick Wiseman: The Filmmaker Who Shows Us Ourselves 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Much of this — the intense close-ups, the daily dance with death, the preoccupation with bodily functions — may remind you of "The Hurt Locker" or HBO's excellent, undervalued "Generation Kill." 'Restrepo' documents Afghan war at human level 2010-07-15T21:07:00Z The following year, he returned to his preoccupation with corruption and the police, directing and co-writing the factually based Prince of the City. Sidney Lumet obituary 2011-04-10T16:59:14Z O'Rourke confides: "I count the hours until I can go be alone and get back to my secret preoccupation, my romance with my lost mother" … "Everything had become fodder for nostalgia." Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z “The Phrygian cap represents a brief preoccupation of mine,” Mr. Puryear told The Times last year. Artist Martin Puryear Chosen for U.S. Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z One of the enduring preoccupations of Chinese visual culture is a fascination with the inherent formal qualities of ink and paper. 5,000 Years of Asian Art in 1 Single, Thrilling Conversation 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Plebs transfers 21st-century characters and preoccupations to ancient Rome – and finds humour in that mismatch. A Roman historian's view on Plebs 2013-04-01T16:50:55Z Young Saul was his son's ally and encourager; old Saul was "buried under pessimism, anger, bitterness, intolerance and preoccupations with evil and with his death". Greg Bellow: My father, Saul 2013-04-27T08:01:15Z The characters and themes of those rich, subtle, ironic works are tantalizingly close to today’s preoccupations; their tone and attitude is unmistakably ours. Mozart’s Opera ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at the Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z Writing that expresses the same wants and preoccupations as that artist's other creative output, without needing to comment on that work. Theatremakers, don't be coy ? blog about your work 2011-02-18T15:29:17Z Mr. Maillot’s choreography is indeed animated by a preoccupation with primal desires and impulses, which often give a blunt, contemporary dance look to his primarily balletic lines. Jean-Christophe Maillot Brings ‘Lac’ to City Center 2014-03-13T22:17:53Z Already apparent were the preoccupations with theology and violence. Geoffrey Hill, Dense and Allusive British Poet, Is Dead at 84 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Nearly all the artists bend the pixels to their own purposes, aesthetic proclivities and preoccupations. An Exhibition Worth Thousands of Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Atwood said the novel’s recent resurgence reflected our cultural preoccupation with imagining disastrous futures as a way of digesting current anxieties about political extremism and the fate of the planet. Margaret Atwood Will Write a Sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z One thing that does unite Greece's new generation is a preoccupation with family, Tsangari observes. Attenberg, Dogtooth and the weird wave of Greek cinema 2011-08-26T23:04:02Z This book also leads you to wonder: Did Trevor’s preoccupations shift in his late work? Review | ‘Last Stories’ is the final, brilliant collection by Irish master William Trevor 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z It is, we’re told in the film, a largely male preoccupation, and a largely British one. Review: ‘Poached’ Explores Collectors Who Steal Rare Birds’ Eggs 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Parisian director Patrick Jean combines the two preoccupations to dazzling and hilarious effect in Pixels, his first proper short film. Best short films on the web 2010-12-19T00:04:08Z The data plans were a particular preoccupation as Flight 1586 landed, the savvier publicists showing other publicists how to avoid that bane of international travelers, roaming charges. ArtsBeat Blog: At the Toronto Film Festival, the Publicists Invade 2011-09-08T19:22:29Z Again, though, this preoccupation does not reflect reality. Sexy teacher fantasies are not reality 2013-09-11T23:00:00Z Over the decades, the new words function as a sort of timeline of the preoccupations and proclivities of the English-speaking world. New words to live by 2011-09-06T15:45:04Z To discuss it would mean to admit weakness and make oneself susceptible to accusations of shallowness, and yet our preoccupation with being beautiful, thin and toned enough persists. News that will shock exactly no woman: Female body confidence is at an all-time low 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z In this respect, he is emphasizing one of the preoccupations of the great national museums, especially those created during the Enlightenment. Museum Review: The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Renewed 2012-07-14T00:49:03Z The troupe’s appearance relates to the garden’s exhibition “Wild Medicine,” which celebrates another Renaissance preoccupation: the healing properties of plants. Spare Times: For Children, for June 5-11 2013-07-04T18:46:51Z Though personal preoccupations inspired Fox Solomon’s creations—she says that she was, in that period, consumed by thoughts of her husband’s incurable illness—her pictures held more than the artist’s intentions. Rosalind Fox Solomon, Inward and Out 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z DURABILITY, of garments but also ideas, would seem to be a preoccupation of the three most interesting forces showing this season. Fashion Review: Fashion Review: The Italian Men’s Wear Shows 2013-01-16T21:30:06Z How we start wearing scarves: “Ditto the purse, a preoccupation that steals in on you like fog,” writes Diane Johnson. Newly Released Books 2011-02-16T22:45:21Z Margaret’s biggest preoccupations were about herself, or rather her place in the world. Perspective | Adolescence is temporary. ‘It’s Me, Margaret’ is forever. 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z While chunks of the show are more grown up than ever, sex and strippers remain a preoccupation. Confessor. Feminist. Adult. What the Hell Happened to Howard Stern? 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z This posthumous collection takes up many of Johnson’s central themes, including his preoccupation with mortality. New in Paperback: ‘The Power,’ ‘Fire and Fury’ 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z I presume the creators of “Fly by Night” are paying intentional homage to Jonathan Larson, whose preoccupation with time passing infused his scores for “Rent” and “Tick, Tick ... Boom.” ‘Fly by Night,’ a Metaphysical Musical 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Whether that light is a symbol of scientific discovery or just a filmmaker’s preoccupation with radiance, it’s difficult to say. Review: ‘Marie Curie’ Recalls a Beautiful Mind and Tough Life 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z All that business about the importance of the grand royal illusion, whether or not there’s substance beneath it, was an abiding preoccupation in the canon. ‘King Charles III’ and ‘The Ruling Class’ in London 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Even without the narrative elements of film or text, Mr. Ouramdane manages to evoke some of the preoccupations of his earlier work in “Tout Autour.” Dance Review: Lyon Opera Ballet Offers a Premiere by Rachid Ouramdane 2014-02-26T22:22:22Z As our reviewer, Stephen King, put it, the novel’s chief preoccupations are “the power of words, the power of stories and the persistence of memory.” 15 New Books Coming in October 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z It's certainly atmospheric and playful, with terrific animation and entertaining sleight-of-hand tricks as it considers 18th-century preoccupations with the location of the soul – feeding into our own 21st-century feelings about carrying an organ donation card. The Irish Giant – review 2012-05-28T17:20:16Z “He’s abstracting more because it’s more about psychology and less about aesthetics, more a preoccupation with the human condition, which has always been present: the despair, the getting older, but also the joy.” Eric Fischl Goes Back to His Future 2013-05-15T23:11:56Z Certain preoccupations persist: alluring widows, naïve young men, a fondness for coincidence. A Master Storyteller From 19th-Century Brazil, Heir to the Greats and Entirely Sui Generis 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Or maybe Jessica Rabbit is a better reference, since this is a movie by Robert Zemeckis, who puts some of his longstanding preoccupations on vivid, sometimes baffling display. ‘Welcome to Marwen’ Review: Playing With Toys and Putting Away Childish Things 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The country is on his mind constantly, a preoccupation common to most expatriate South Africans. District Six revisited 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z The book moves along quickly and Mr. Freedland, a former Washington correspondent who covered the Clinton White House and the 2016 election, has a visceral feel for the vanity, codes and preoccupations of the capital. Is Trump Imitating Fiction? Or Is Fiction Imitating Trump? 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Todd gives us secret glimpses into the preoccupations, sorrows and joys of each of these very different people. Review | Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charming new novel about friendship and the literary life 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z He discovered spats between his parents and his father’s sentiments toward a changing art scene; he caught glimpses of Nachume’s preoccupations and his political leanings. A Flood, a Boxcutter and a Son’s Pursuit to Keep His Father’s Legacy 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z New music is thankfully a preoccupation of the New York Philharmonic under Alan Gilbert, but glamour isn’t always part of the equation. A New York Philharmonic Biennial Program From Austria 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The preoccupations of my writing career are everywhere apparent – the mysterious nature of other people and the continuing enigma of love. Author, author: Paul Bailey 2011-01-15T00:05:47Z In tracing the persistence of female disempowerment, Beard argues that we inherited a deep cultural preoccupation. Tracing the roots of misogyny to ancient Greece and Rome with Mary Beard 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Death, class, gender and art are among the entwined preoccupations in this marvelously complex and frightening volume. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z It feels less like a novel than a collection of essays linked together by the author’s preoccupation with her hair — or, rather, the hair of her narrator, Mila. For Black and Mixed-Race Women, Hair and Identity Are Tangled Together 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Albers’s geometric arrangements of photographs prefigured some of his lifelong artistic preoccupations as a painter: serial variations, studies of perception, the use of the “square” as a signature graphic device in his investigations of color. The Little-Known Photo Collages of Josef Albers 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z In 2015, Oxford Dictionaries chose the “face with tears of joy” emoji as its word of the year, saying it best represented “the ethos, mood and preoccupations” of the period. Emojis Meet Hieroglyphs: If King Tut Could Text 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z On some level, this preoccupation echoes the last few years of July's life. Miranda July sheds her pixie image with novel 'The First Bad Man' 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z This fear might explain the earlier preoccupation with familiar strangeness and the old made new. Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas 2013-02-25T10:51:18Z We do feel, however, Klay’s restlessness about how much information to give — and his preoccupation with the adequate tools to give it. The Intricacies of Colombia’s War, Stitched Together in a Novel 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z In the late 1960s, radical feminists defined themselves against what they saw as the anti-feminism of the left, consciously privileging gender over other issues in a response to a leftist preoccupation with class and race. Power comes with economic security: Steinem and Albright glibly dismiss the possibility that millennial women have legitimate reasons to support Sanders 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Then, in late September, the piece will travel to the Armory, where the audience will be immersed in panels by Julie Mehretu, an artist whose abstractions share preoccupations with Sorey and Rothko. 50 Years Later, the Rothko Chapel Meets a New Musical Match 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Still, the preoccupation with Simone has more to do with her sound than her life story. Nina Simone’s Time Is Now, Again 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z In an interview the next morning, Cave agreed that the film reflects many of his own current preoccupations, but that it also brings up questions he at times finds himself unable to fully answer. The real Nick Cave? In '20,000 Days on Earth,' take your pick 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z On Friday, Boss Hog releases “Brood X” — its first album in 17 years, and a glimpse, perhaps, into the preoccupations of a rock ’n’ roll couple facing middle age. Boss Hog’s Punk Rock Revs Up as It Hits Middle Age 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z “Often in the West, we find a disproportionate preoccupation with a real or imagined pre-colonial Africa,” she wrote in an email. History and Humor Inspire Victor Ehikhamenor’s Art 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z They form a kind of counter-tradition of office literature, dealing with the same bureaucracies and white-collar doldrums that have inspired male novelists but reflecting the particular challenges and preoccupations of women in the workforce. The Office Politics of Workplace Fiction by Women 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z And of her collections: Once her stack of newspapers, a major preoccupation, grew so heavy it buckled the floorboards. ‘Vivian Maier Developed,’ an Intimate Biography of a Very Private Photographer 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z In a profession notorious for microscopic preoccupations, few historians have ever commanded such a wide field in such detail or with such authority. Eric Hobsbawm obituary 2012-10-01T09:59:14Z Ms. Smith writes of her mother’s initial preoccupation with the singer: “I think the Jacksons represented the possibility that black might be beautiful, that you might be adored in your blackness — worshiped, even.” Can 48 Artists in 14 Rooms Capture Michael Jackson? 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z The pair share many of the same preoccupations, almost telepathically. She’s Her Own Artist. And a Daughter’s Muse. 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Among them are Blackett’s feckless, dissolute son, Monty, who is scheming to avoid military service; his daughter, Joan, a human viper; and the Human Condition, an elderly, mangy spaniel with his own preoccupations. Review | The sordid tale of the Borgias and other great audiobooks for your playlist 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z If the central preoccupation of “Outline” was the question of self-definition, and of “Transit” the workings of fate, the theme in “Kudos” is success: Who will thrive? Review | With ‘Kudos,’ Rachel Cusk completes a literary masterpiece 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z There is also in this music a seeming preoccupation with the past — the analogue sound world near past and the mythic past — as well as an obsession with the digital present. With Jóhann Jóhannssson and Bedroom Community, L.A. Phil tries to break through the Icelandic cliches 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z “The Turnout” has a bit of gore, but its deepest preoccupation is with bodies and sex. Megan Abbott’s Latest Crime Thriller Links Ballet and Sex 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Truthfulness in writing is clearly an abiding preoccupation for Hadley, whether she's talking about her own work or about teaching creative writing, which she does at Bath Spa University. Tessa Hadley: A life in writing 2011-02-28T00:04:00Z TUE-WEDS New City Theater stages Samuel Beckett's "comic vision of our preoccupations and the earth's possible future." Community calendar 2012-02-22T23:13:04Z It is entitled You’re Wetting Your Pants About What Now?, and aims to showcase the pettier preoccupations of the far right/radical right/whatever the free-speech snowflakes are demanding to be called this week. Sorry to break it to you, far-righters: James Bond is not on your team 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Breton’s first manifesto was directed at writers, but its call for “pure psychic automatism” whether “by writing, or any other means,” which would take expression beyond reason and “all aesthetic or moral preoccupation,” was general. Art Review: ‘Drawing Surrealism’ at the Morgan Library and Museum 2013-01-24T23:00:37Z Dialogue measures the distance of speech from his real preoccupations. The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore. Week two: dialogue 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z But for sociologists, changes in the art market are one of the many elements that reflect how the pace and preoccupations of our culture have altered over more than 100 years. Obsessed by the Present, Who’s Got Time for Old Masters? 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z I also like her point that eating more vegetables and less meat liberated her from “from the stifling preoccupation with weight that plagues so many Americans”. “We’ve become a food culture” 2012-11-19T12:45:00Z As a rule, she doesn’t sell her plants; her preoccupation is with creating them, not monetizing them. Kusamono: The softer side of bonsai 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z The Death of Eli Gold sounds like a mature approach to the author's proud preoccupation with notions of masculinity and male sexual appetites. David Baddiel 2010-03-28T00:10:00Z Putting movies on stage is a van Hove preoccupation; he’s transformed Bergman before, and his “Network” with Bryan Cranston just played London’s National Theatre. Review | Ingmar Bergman’s close-ups are now spectacular stage vistas 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z The poetry showcased here tends to reflect those and other dark preoccupations. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z I consulted experts in food studies, cultural anthropology, and psychology to help shed light on what meatmares might tell us about social anxiety, guilt, and our culture’s preoccupation with meat. “I had a meatmare”: Why flesh haunts the dreams of vegetarians 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z That is an intriguing possibility, one that may distract right-wing culture warriors from their preoccupation with the alleged socialism of “Elysium.” Cross-Cuts: Reconsidering Box Office Bombs Years After the Fact 2013-08-23T12:44:45Z The faces in those movies change as do their budgets and all the contingent rest — the support staff, locations, costumes and so forth, even as the preoccupations remain much the same. Review: Woody Allen’s ‘Irrational Man’ Explores Life’s Randomness 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Preoccupation with effect is preoccupation with the self," Mamet writes, "and it is not only joyless, it is a waste of time ... The underrated genius of Steve Buscemi 2010-09-20T21:01:00Z There have also long been tabloid rumors about the demise of her marriage, which might make the choice of a show called “Divorce” seem revealing, as if it were some subconscious confirmation of her preoccupations. Sarah Jessica Parker, Leaving Carrie Behind With HBO’s ‘Divorce’ 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z But her work both before and after the trilogy shared many of its preoccupations, with her classically trained yet brutal tone blurring the line between observing suffering and becoming its mouthpiece. Diamanda Galás Gives Voice to Unbearable Pain, Once More 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z The novel’s allure persists to this day, even if some of Holden’s preoccupations now seem a bit dated, and it continues to sell more than 250,000 copies a year in paperback. 2010-01-29T13:57:00Z She was self-aware and self-mocking — game enough to see the funny side of Colleen’s preoccupation with what she looks like.” Diane Keaton, Hiding in Plain Sight 2010-11-15T19:16:00Z And so the Edwards saga continues, a private story turned very public preoccupation. 2010-01-16T04:00:00Z But they don’t address the more practical and dreary preoccupations that can trigger many of us day to day, such as bills and arguments and loneliness and excessive boozing, for example. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Her self-torturing asceticism verged on the holier-than-thou, and her preoccupation with bodily chastisement was akin to that of the desert saints and anchorites, says Saunders. The Woman Who Shot Mussolini by Frances Stonor Saunders |Book review 2010-03-28T00:10:00Z The kings, sitting on ornate thrones with swords across their laps, seem lost in thought, their shoulders weighed down by their preoccupations. Art Review: ?The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen From the Isle of Lewis,? at the Cloisters 2011-11-17T23:25:24Z The spirits of Oak Hill Cemetery present a ghoulish gallery of desiccated lives, minds dehydrated until all that remains are the central anxieties and preoccupations of their lives above ground. ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ arises from a tragic footnote in American history 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z He shares in the fears and preoccupations of the post-9/11 leaders. Interventions: : A Life in War and Peace by Kofi Annan – review 2012-11-15T08:00:04Z This novel brought together and dramatised preoccupations that had been present in his fiction from the beginning, such as the hypocrisy of Christianity and the fascination with power. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z A lot of the spiritual New Age-ism that we see today is based on a preoccupation with health and the body. The age of atheism: “If God exists, why is anybody unhappy?” 2014-02-15T15:45:00Z Their parents, for all their preoccupations, were masterful disciplinarians. Eric and Don have the Trump name, the money, the genes. Here’s what makes them different. 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Slight, almost terse at barely over 100 pages, it resumes his earlier preoccupations and personal history, here set in contemporary Paris. ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Yet this problem of dramatic incongruity appears strangely relevant to the current moment; the intensely self-involved preoccupations of the élite operatic characters render them blind to the casual ferocity of the hard-drinking, war-loving chorus. Opera and Brexit in London 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z The record is not just intellectually and emotionally consistent: the production superbly complements the lyrical preoccupations, intuitively blending those distant musical relatives, reggae and rap, with a unique fusion of sounds from the African diaspora. Damian Marley and Nas: 'We have a lot in common' 2010-08-12T22:30:00Z The playwright's preoccupation with loyalty, revenge and murder clearly resonates with the hardened criminals, and helps them produce performances at once powerful and convincing. Theme of captivity dominates Berlin films in 2012 2012-02-13T12:35:51Z With no back story or visible friends or family, he’s a smooth-skinned enigma whose soft, cushiony physicality anchors the movie’s tactile preoccupations. Review: A German ‘Cakemaker’ and an Israeli Widow Share Loss and Cookies 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z In that period, essentially the high point of architecture’s modern movement in this country, those preoccupations were thought to be incompatible. A vast Louis Kahn retrospective lands at the San Diego Museum of Art 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z “It will never see the light of day,” Mr. Marra said emphatically, but added that the book sprang from a preoccupation with religious and political violence. Anthony Marra on ‘A Constellation of Vital Phenomena’ 2013-05-29T20:47:38Z What is fascinating is what the plays reveal of children's preoccupations. Theatre review | Here, There & Everywhere | Theatro Technis | London 2010-03-20T01:03:00Z This seems to be a preoccupation for the Washington, D.C., native, who still lives in the area with his wife of over 35 years, Emily. ‘We Own This City’ Brings George Pelecanos Back to Baltimore 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Their preoccupations though are pretty much what we think of as “Chekovian.” Theater Review: ‘Ivanov,’ With Ethan Hawke, From Classic Stage Company 2012-11-12T03:00:00Z Every generation reframes the story in the light of its signal preoccupations. An Enthralling New Look at the Mystery of Lizzie Borden 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z The problem of Frances' pain is the core preoccupation of "Conversations with Friends": how can I exist as a woman in pain, a "sick person," without being read as needy, weak, desperate? "Conversations with Friends" challenges us to rethink the desirability of the woman in pain 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z That preoccupation — along with a delightfully omnipresent, biting wit — emerges again in “Gloria.” Review | Tell your friends about the disturbing ‘Gloria,’ but do not tell them the plot. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z “My chief preoccupation has been really grappling with and trying to understand in some small way the influence and the meaning of power,” she said. Surrounded by Violence, and Contemplating Its Toll on Us 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z He also has 11 grandchildren, and one of his current preoccupations is the numbing effects of digital technology on millennials. The Return of Werner Erhard, Father of Self-Help 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z They skirted around the Teutonic-Romantic preoccupations of their teachers and elders Parry, Stanford and Elgar, and kept their distance from the blighted despair of the Celtic twilight movement. Cloud of knowing 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z Psychiatrists sometimes refer to a preoccupation, mostly among young men, of not feeling muscular enough and a strict adherence to eating foods that lower weight and build muscle as ‘bigorexia.’ What Is ‘Bigorexia’? 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z If your main gripe with the original was its preoccupation with a single victim and the dogma of just one religious denomination, then this overpopulated sequel has you covered. ‘The Exorcist: Believer’ Review: Double the Possession, Half the Fun 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Photograph: Rex Features The shortlists for the 2013 Forward poetry prizes have been announced, reflecting modern preoccupations ranging from the internet dating to 21st-century psalms and karaoke bars to documentary poems. Forward poetry prizes highlight 'powerful year for poetry' 2013-07-08T07:00:08Z “Having that much preoccupation with their body shape would not be healthy.” Kumail Nanjiani and the Twilight of the Schlubs 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z In the following years, the Cold War lingered, and so did the presidential preoccupation with frozen desserts. How ice cream went from elitist indulgence to America’s favorite frozen treat 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Its exuberantly fragmentary form and preoccupation with sex in the shower provoked a storm of critical praise and subscription-cancellation requests. Donald Barthelme’s “Snow White” Finally Comes to the Stage 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z In the era of psychoanalysis, dreams were suddenly so much more than illustrations of waking preoccupations. In the space of dreams: Wendy Ortiz's 'Bruja' is vivid and dark 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z It was his chief preoccupation through the summer, with performances in Paris, Bonn and London. Colin Davis Brings London Symphony to Carnegie Hall 2011-10-16T01:25:19Z Consciousness is an entirely subjective phenomenon and, perhaps inevitably given its subtitle, you will learn as much, if not more, about Cole-Adams’s own anxieties and preoccupations as you will about anesthesia in her book. What Happens When You Go Under 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The overarching theme has to do with music and human movement: a genuine preoccupation for Mr. Hollenbeck, who has long collaborated with the body-focused performance artist Meredith Monk. Music Review: A Distinctive Voice, No Matter Who Is Performing 2011-04-26T21:30:10Z Shakespeare always seems to speak to one's latest preoccupations. What Macbeth tells us about the digital world 2012-10-29T13:22:38Z Their shared creative preoccupations — the fragility of relationships, the gap between men and women, the failure of life’s promises as we age — all chime with those Mr. Stone found within “Yerma.” Billie Piper Hasn’t Looked Back Since She Left the Tardis 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z In the final room of the exhibition a series of self-portraits show Munch's unflinching preoccupation with his own physical decline. No "Scream" but plenty of darkness at UK Munch show 2012-06-27T11:50:20Z Probably I was just preoccupied with those issues, and those preoccupations guided the work. Not Getting with the Program: An Interview with Meghan Daum 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z It’s also a problem that Mr. Houseago is far from alone in his preoccupation with the past. Art Review: Thomas Houseago’s Outsize Sculptures at Storm King 2013-08-01T22:25:24Z His preoccupation, above all, was with the Indian struggle for rights, not theirs. ‘Gandhi Before India’ Shows How the Mahatma Was Made 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Considering his longtime preoccupations, it’s no surprise that even when trying to come to grips with crushing loss, he resorts to the language and context of comic books and movies. Patton Oswalt: ‘I’ll Never Be at 100 Percent Again’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The references may have changed — “alligator pears” instead of avocado toast; Vionnet, not Vuori; telegrams rather than texting — but the preoccupation with love, money, fun and trouble is eternal. She Wrote Frankly About Divorce, and Suffered the Consequences 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z Strauss's preoccupation with operatic patronage, creation and performance, maps to some extent on to the circumstances of the festival's creation in the 1930s. Ariadne auf Naxos – review 2013-05-19T16:00:01Z "Sorcerer's" seems unable to lure younger moviegoers, perhaps because of their preoccupation with "Despicable Me" and other recently released family films. Jerry Bruckheimer strikes out again with Cage flop 2010-07-20T07:16:00Z His music, with its elements of autobiography, increasing preoccupation with death, and anticipations of an afterlife, has acquired a very special, almost sanctified aura since his murder in 1983. A$AP Rocky, Rokia Traoré, The Handsome Family: this week's new live music 2013-05-18T05:00:11Z Jamison: That’s really interesting for me to think about, how the essay fits into a larger cultural preoccupation with exposure. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z He is yet another of our author’s unruly preoccupations, and Lawrence’s meditations about place heavily inform Mr. Dyer’s. Review: ‘White Sands’ Asks Why We Visit the Places We Do 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z And yet, Harry Potter and Hermione and Ron and Ginny — in their actions and dialogue, their preoccupations and loyalties — remain themselves. In the Latest Turn for Harry Potter and Company, Letting All the ‘What Ifs’ Out to Play 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Tarkovsky was barely interested in Lem's main preoccupation: to theorise about what might constitute alien life. Solaris: No 6 2010-10-21T10:49:00Z And these are products in part born of the public’s disturbing preoccupation with Bundy, seen in real-time as young women flocked to the Florida courtroom to watch his trial. Ted Bundy, "I Am the Night" and our secret obsession with psychos 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Inside it, Schuyler finds “the old red hangings and tobacco-stained rugs have been replaced by a delicate gray décor with hints here and there of imperial gilt” — ornamental foreshadowings of Vidal’s preoccupation with empire. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z But you do not need to spend long in oncology waiting rooms to discover that the chief preoccupation of many, if not most, patients is the horror of going bald. How to get through chemotherapy: Decca Aitkenhead on cancer treatment 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Although not a major preoccupation, most letters mention the availability, the cost, and the enjoyment of food. The recipe for Coney Island hot dogs from "Homefront Cooking" will elevate any Fourth of July picnic 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Harrison has wrung an enormous amount out of these preoccupations, among others, and if “The River Swimmer” is any indication, he remains at the height of his powers. Books of The Times: ‘The River Swimmer,’ Two Novellas by Jim Harrison 2013-01-15T19:55:50Z Yet “The Bear” shares with its predecessors a preoccupation with loss and endurance, themes explored here in a more mythic style still firmly grounded in physical reality. Review | Andrew Krivak’s ‘The Bear’ takes a gentler approach to post-apocalyptic fiction 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z But the place, even in its late days, was clearly the work of particular personalities with their own idiosyncrasies and preoccupations. Exhibition Review: Magnes Judaica Museum Joins Berkeley Library - Review 2012-01-22T23:04:04Z Some of my clinical preoccupations centre on how we acquire a physical, corporeal sense of self. Patterns of pain: what Covid-19 can teach us about how to be human 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Utah criminology professor Gerald Smith identified several warning signs such as “excessive preoccupation with social causes, race relations, environmental issues, etc.” Pot: Not just for losers! 2012-08-15T11:44:00Z Oxford’s word of the year is chosen to reflect “the ethos, mood or preoccupations” of a particular year, but also to highlight that English is always changing. ‘Toxic’ Is Oxford’s Word of the Year. No, We’re Not Gaslighting You. 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Allis reconsiders and weaves those themes into a modern context, satirizing junk-culture preoccupation with celebrities and their relationships, sex tapes, well-marketed confessions and public redemptions. ‘Paper Bullets’ takes aim at celebrity culture — and misses 2013-03-20T21:35:38Z The author's crow preoccupation incorporates "large concepts such as conservation, the environment and learning to live more thoughtfully," wrote Seattle Times reviewer Irene Wanner. Local books: 'It Gets Better'; a Robin Hobb fantasy collection; 'Crow Planet' in paperback 2011-05-10T00:44:04Z Body temperature, particularly of the hands, is important for pianists, but Gould's preoccupation bordered on the obsessive, feeding into his proto-paranoiac fear of physical contact. Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie – review 2013-07-05T17:10:01Z The key word there is “produced,” since one of Mr. Godard’s preoccupations in recent decades — he’s now 80 — has been the conflict between production and distribution. | 'Film Socialisme': On a Mediterranean Cruise Ship Steered by a Godardian Crew 2011-06-02T23:04:32Z Lovecraft’s fiction reveals strange preoccupations — slime, crustaceans, the revelation of forbidden knowledge. Gods, Monsters and H.P. Lovecraft’s Uncanny Legacy 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z “In other words, it’s a passionate treatment of one of Robinson’s longtime preoccupations” and “a dense, eccentric book of profound and generous gifts.” 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The exhibition focuses first on Ms. Mann’s preoccupation with family relations when her children were young and she adroitly registered the endemic conflicts and convolutions in the process of growing up. Sally Mann’s Haunted South 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z As always these visions reflect the preconceptions, and preoccupations, of the viewers. Hurricane Sandy: Rebuilding is madness 2012-11-04T00:44:00Z It was a move which opened the door to both to a lifetime of study of the 19th century and to an equally long-lasting preoccupation with the problems of the left. Eric Hobsbawm obituary 2012-10-01T09:59:14Z And partly it derives from “Significant Other” dealing with common preoccupations: Do we ever fully know who we lie next to? Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z A selection of his street portraits in color, taken with a digital camera from 2001 to 2007, demonstrated the continuity of his preoccupations over 50 years. Dave Heath, Photographer of Isolation, Dies at 85 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z As in New Orleans, there was a price to the preoccupation with unrest, which shifted priorities unnecessarily and sowed panic. Finding peace in post-disaster Haiti 2013-05-26T14:00:00Z And getting in remains a preoccupation of both middle-class moviegoers and the filmmakers who cater to them. Admission Accomplished: 10 Great Getting-Into-College Movies 2013-03-25T09:45:07Z Apparently determined to rewrite 2,500 years of dramatic literature, Anderson ignores another cardinal tenet: that a character’s early preoccupations will bear verdant or evil fruit later in the story. The Master: Neither a Scientology Exposé Nor a Cinema Masterpiece 2012-09-13T12:00:39Z Opera fandom is often built around a preoccupation — zealous, territorial, absolute — with distinctive voices. Bel Canto Rarities, Delivered With Unflashy, Revelatory Style 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Both performers came together in Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 by Schnittke, whose works often show a preoccupation with blending together intensity and lightness. Music Review: Wendy Sutter and Olga Vinokur Perform at Bargemusic 2013-07-15T21:40:35Z It’s worth pondering why it continues to be a preoccupation for you that she confront the “real” you. My mum loves me, but doesn’t really know me | Dear Mariella 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Object of veneration or not, Tornado Nude embodies the preoccupations for which Banner is best known: sex, nudity and war. Fiona Banner: fight and flight 2010-06-21T20:30:00Z An intense preoccupation with texts might seem paradoxical coming from a composer, but Mr. Harbison begs to differ. Music Review: Bach Cantatas at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-12-08T23:12:37Z What he’s best known for is fashioning his many interests and preoccupations into a giant Aladdin’s rug, which he then gamely invites his readers to climb aboard. Review: ‘Pacific’ Is Simon Winchester’s Latest Big-Picture Book 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z His preoccupation with how male bodies “perform within certain rituals and coded activities” was inspired by female artists like Marina Abramovic, Adrian Piper and Patty Chang, who questioned value systems around gender. The Forgotten History of Chinese Railroad Workers Rises From the Texas Dust 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Written several years after L'heure, L'enfant shows Ravel's new musical preoccupations: a Wedgwood teapot and a Chinese teacup dance to a ragtime foxtrot in a score rippled through with jazz, blues and melody. L'heure espagnole/L'enfant et les sortilèges; BBC Prom 33 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:35Z Lahiri provides a fluid translation and a brilliant introduction explaining her own preoccupation with the book. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Given that the main preoccupation of “Unreal Estate” is staring, the book is startlingly reluctant to provide illustrations. Books of The Times: ?Unreal Estate,? by Michael Gross - Review 2011-11-30T22:40:44Z If Davies' work is the cinema of passion, Greenaway's is one of preoccupation, and Zed is a summary of his obsessions: death, sex, light and Dutch golden-age painting. Distant Voices, Still Lives and A Zed and Two Noughts: watch the double bill 2012-11-16T10:00:00Z There are moments, though, when the exhibition goes too far in its promotional preoccupations, almost becoming creepy itself. Darwin Center at the Natural History of Museum: London Museum Boldly Spreads Its Wings 2010-04-07T22:49:00Z It’s easy to prefer the curation and control — another “Mr. Robot” preoccupation — we bring to our online identities, or that a gifted hacker brings to his mastery of lines of code and complex networks. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 2: Elliot Hits Undo 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, mortality and work would become two of his preoccupations. Dennis O'Driscoll 2013-01-04T19:05:37Z The killing of Lou also highlighted one of the show's major preoccupations, survivor's guilt. After seven seasons, "Rescue Me" ends with a cough and a smile 2011-09-08T02:01:00Z The day-to-day life of the Victorian, as it is made up of tasks and things, belies the day-to-day mind of the Victorian—the preoccupations, superstitions, beliefs and ideals of an entire society. The strange and magical Victorian wonders of “Penny Dreadful” suffer no sophomore slump 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z It’s also possible that the preoccupation with Mrs. Clinton’s ostensible penchant for cursing isn’t about hypocrisy at all, but old-fashioned anxiety about the dissolution of traditional gender roles. Review: The Anti-Clinton Brigade’s Four-Letter Word Obsession 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z She says considering the whole of her work for the new book has reassured her that these sort of nagging preoccupations form part of something longer and more coherent. Cornelia Parker: 'I've always been happy to sleep with the enemy' 2013-05-18T09:00:02Z The question is vibrant with the static of his own preoccupations. Perspective | Why our art critic can’t get enough of Fellini’s ‘8 1/2,’ and the dream scene that unlocks the secret to all human creativity 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z A remarkable work, it contains, almost fully formed, the essence of both his preoccupations and style. Bellini: Il Pirata – review 2012-06-07T14:30:02Z While Spence says this trend partly reflects that yachting still involves romanticised notions of escape, it is also rooted in owners’ preoccupation with bragging rights. Superyachts and bragging rights: why the super-rich love their ‘floating homes’ 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z One of the juiciest recurring themes this season has involved the preoccupation with — and disagreement over — various signs and omens. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 1, Episode 7: Out of the Ashes 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z And his misplaced preoccupation with current events unfairly paints all chefs of the era with the brush of scandal. New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells reviewed my book; now I know why so many chefs hate him 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Its preoccupation with high politics is a limitation – it seems to assume that all change depends on presidential whim – and it lacks the intellectual complexity and true iconoclasm of Adam Curtis's documentaries. Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States – box set review 2013-07-11T14:00:01Z A big preoccupation was the austerity programs implemented by Prime Minister David Cameron, so Zeldin hit the pavement and conducted extensive research. His Shows Take On Big Issues. They’re Also Good Yarns. 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z The effect was thrilling, a liberation from the preoccupation with correctness and placing that pervades the Paris Opera style and which often makes this “Sleeping Beauty” feel like watching an advanced exam. Dance Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ at the Paris Opera Ballet 2013-12-22T20:39:11Z Once he found it, though, it became a preoccupation. Art Review: ‘Dancing Around the Bride,’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-12-06T23:01:56Z Besides their personal relationship, which lasted from 1960 until Hesse’s death in 1970, the two artists shared a preoccupation with the grid. Art Review: Uptown, a Jumble of Treasures 2011-04-22T03:31:19Z Football has always been a major preoccupation for Foreman. Michael Foreman: life through a line 2011-03-07T15:39:18Z But Mr. Biss settled comfortably into the later movements, and his suspenseful treatment of the halting, fragmented ending of the work proved especially apt and profound, given his preoccupation with leave-taking. Review: Two Concerts Explore Schubert, Before He Took His Leave 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The exhibition is tapping into an age-old preoccupation here: With their binge-drinking warriors, laconic humor and scary teeth, were the Vikings more British than the British? Vikings in London, Glamorous but Just Like Family 2014-03-28T13:35:00Z The panic in his voice is a perfect match for his preoccupation: The confusing way money works and the infuriating inequities of class. Three New Stand-Up Specials, Three Very Different Approaches 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z For just this reason, Mustafa wasn’t sure if he was going to include “The Hearse” on the EP — whether it was fair to center his own hurt and preoccupation with those he perceived as enemies. Mustafa, a Folk Hero for a Weary Generation 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z It seems perversely, even tragically, appropriate that an institution founded in New York’s original Gilded Age may be foundering amid the financial pressures and preoccupations that characterize our freshly gilded Manhattan of today. The Cooper Union Tragedy 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The last of the potentially troubling songs that I am aware of, Asian Rut, is suggestive of a bit of a preoccupation with race, but the lyrics reveal nothing more than that. Morrissey, this joke isn't funny anymore 2010-09-03T22:25:00Z That need to avoid snap judgments based on surface impressions and to be more thoughtful, more nuanced about how we react to others, especially "outsiders", is a preoccupation that runs through much of Gleitzman's work. Morris Gleitzman's 'friendship books' 2010-10-01T12:04:00Z The narrator’s preoccupation isn’t maternal feeling; it’s lust. Motherhood Meets Lust and Violence in Ariana Harwicz’s “Die, My Love” 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The moment Belle arrives at her mother’s waterfront condominium we understand her preoccupation with beauty products: The apartment is crammed with jars and vials, and the wall mirrors are all inexplicably cracked. In This Dark Fairy Tale, the Beauty Industry Is the Villain 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z Such approximations and calculations were among his preoccupations. Exhibition Review: ?Secrets of Archimedes? at Walters in Baltimore - Review 2011-10-16T23:08:04Z One answer, her art suggested, lay in the prototypes, which were, per the artistic preoccupations of the day, often copies themselves. Elaine Sturtevant, Appropriation Artist, Is Dead at 89 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z That simple activity became a serious preoccupation with everyday movements, of which walking is perhaps the most obvious. Steve Paxton, a Buddha of American Dance 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z What about a screen that displays his real-time preoccupations? Can Virgil Abloh Fit in a Museum? 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z O’Keane’s preoccupation is with sensation: How does sensory input translate into information, blossom into knowledge and experience, become preserved as memory? A Lucid, Literary Illustration of the Complex, Beautiful Work of Memory 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Is it possible that your preoccupation with whether they’re “really good-looking ladies” or “very far from it” might be flavoring your messages? Am I too ugly to date? 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Kiefer's willingness to engage with the German myths and preoccupations that had been contaminated by association with Nazism earned him a certain notoriety throughout the 1970s and 80s. A life in art: Anselm Kiefer 2011-03-21T08:00:00Z He seems to flow out of a romantic preoccupation with slightly marginal aspects of British life. Peter Blake, ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Artist, Still Going In and Out of Style 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Hagen's first opera, "Shining Brow," relating strange events in the life of Frank Lloyd Wright, was the first clear hint of a preoccupation that is ripely and fascinatingly extended in "Amelia." Seattle Opera's 'Amelia': Approachable music, a powerful story 2010-04-28T23:27:00Z For this reason I may be out of sympathy with the Millennials’ intense preoccupation with GPAs. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z Rooney’s ability to dive deep into the minute details of her characters’ emotional lives while maintaining the cool detached exterior of the Instagram age reflects our current preoccupation with appearance over vulnerability. Review | At 28, Sally Rooney has been called the voice of her generation. Believe the hype. 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z The book opens with “An Actor Prepares,” in which a college theatre professor’s sexual preoccupations and relational dysfunctions are revealed through a production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Books to Watch Out For: September 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The Iran-contra scandal gets a bit of attention, but only as a sidebar to the film’s main preoccupation, the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Review: In ‘The Reagan Show,’ No Grenada but Lots of the Arms Race 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Nothing much happens, but Ms. Atik, who used the short form to excellent effect in her recent “Five Times in One Night,” nails the rhythms and preoccupations of contemporary urban conversation. Review: Ensemble Studio Theater’s ‘35th Marathon of One-Act Plays’ 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Overall one is left with a shuddering sense of X’s insignificance, its preoccupation with what more politically motivated successors deem “opulent micro-concerns.” Chuck Klosterman Rewinds to ‘The Nineties’ 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z And it, too, channels dark preoccupations in lively ways. Moment of Friday: Michelle Andrade in praise of Joan Rivers, Sarah Silverman 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Pearson’s aesthetic is sophisticated for the often candy-colored world of children’s animation, and the plots fit neatly into a number of present-day parenting preoccupations. Here Comes Hilda 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z This preoccupation can be seen as Borges's defining concern and is the meaning at the centre of the symbol he most frequently employs: the labyrinth. A brief survey of the short story part 27: Jorge Luis Borges 2010-07-22T10:59:00Z But to the twins she gave birth to and reared in a state of otherwise-engaged preoccupation, Anna is a tantalizing unknown, especially as she nears death. Review: ‘Our Mother’s Brief Affair,’ a Play About Unmoored Lives 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z “Cosby notes that his early quest for ‘love’ was beset by chaos because of his preoccupation with female anatomy.” Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z And given his preoccupation with fakery, it’s not surprising that he might express contempt for those whose profession it is to deceive. The blur between acting, fakery 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z The news, however, may seem predictable given the filmmaker’s artistic preoccupations. ‘Rimini’ Review: Just an Austrian Gigolo 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z And wasn’t the return of the repressed a shared preoccupation in some of their jests? Exhibition Review | 'Charles Addams's New York': The Perverse Pleasures Underneath the Ordinary 2010-03-04T23:28:00Z What he sees in art connects naturally with his own preoccupations. Hisham Matar Spent ‘A Month in Siena’ Staring at Art 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The city and its Jewish quarter, Bom Fim, provided him with inexhaustible source material, as did his own preoccupation with the predicament of Jews in Brazil. Moacyr Scliar, Brazilian Novelist, Dies at 73 2011-03-06T02:03:37Z Many of the photographs that Schmelling selected are encoded with Hopper’s preoccupations. Dennis Hopper’s Quiet Vision of Nineteen-Sixties Hollywood 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z Instead, the novel focuses on these characters’ preoccupations, which highlight the ways they ignore one another’s pain. Review | Amelia Gray captures the mind of Isadora Duncan, the mother of modern dance 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Organizing the Future— Mere progress is the preoccupation of lesser beings. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z “Upload” has elements of the darkly speculative series “Black Mirror” and the comparatively hopeful “Years and Years,” but its preoccupations are as timeless as they are the finest genre fiction. Review: ‘Upload’ Asks Old Questions With New Technology 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Warhol’s preoccupation with photography is a meaty subject for a show. Andy Warhol Through the Lens 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Lee’s tenure at Princeton for many years has no doubt provided him with much material about the preoccupations of a young person in a New Jersey college town. Review | Chang-rae Lee’s ‘My Year Abroad,’ is a sweeping, twisty tale of love, family and hope 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z A preoccupation with equipment is the brake that so many people allow to prevent them from getting on with it. Entering the Intergenerational Foundation film competition? Read on 2013-02-13T09:00:03Z A recent Washington Post article dug deep into the archive of Mr. Allen’s unpublished writings and found ample signs of his preoccupation with very young women, something moviegoers have been aware of since “Manhattan.” My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Still, Poplak acknowledges that Noah is an “uber-South African,” whose comedy is specifically concerned with the country’s history and its complex preoccupation with race. South African writer declares Trevor Noah “a nastier Jon Stewart for a nastier age” 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z The subtitle of this slanted memoir signals both its musical preoccupations and its cleaved and chimerical structure. Boundary-Pushing Books for Fans of Narrative Experiments 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z Whether or not Mr. Panter has a point about the union-driven costs on Broadway, his blunt style and preoccupation with dollars and pounds have made him a divisive figure in the theater world. An Empire Where the Curtain Would Not Fall 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z They also help us to see that the reason Doctor K looms larger than any other character, aside from the protagonist herself, is that she shares her granddaughter’s preoccupation with sight and manifesting the hidden. “Sight” and The Pleasures of Overthinking Motherhood 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z And what he and Tynan concocted was a movie that ran totally counter to the studio's preoccupation with harmless eccentrics and benevolent communities. Kenneth Tynan off stage: the theatre critic's life in film 2010-05-20T20:45:00Z A “preoccupation with gesture is the focus of King’s sculptural imagination,” Mr. Kramer wrote. William King, Sculptor Who Used Wit, Dies at 90 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z “Tomboyland” unfolds somewhat chronologically, from Faliveno’s childhood obsession with tornadoes to her adolescent obsession with being an athlete and her adult preoccupations with roller derby, pantry moths, gun culture, class and the idea of motherhood. Review | Melissa Faliveno’s ‘Tomboyland’ essays offer funny, moving explorations of self and society 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z “She’s going to be an undergraduate and her own woman, and she’s going to have the beginnings of an adult’s preoccupations,” Pullman says. Philip Pullman Has Made a Career Building New Worlds. He’s Not Done Yet 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z And most of all, he pities his father’s loneliness, for being sentenced to a lifetime preoccupation with torture and a headful of savage sexual fantasies, predicated on the harming of innocents. Review: In ‘My Father, the Pornographer,’ Chris Offutt Opens Up 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Not unlike that President, Minaj’s preoccupation with numbers also reflects an element of wishful thinking. Nicki Minaj’s Empty Obsession with Being No. 1 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z "It catches perfectly the play's melancholy and preoccupation with time, transitoriness and loss," says our own Michael Billington, "even if it cannot efface golden memories of the one he did at Stratford in 1958." What to say about ... Twelfth Night 2011-01-20T17:11:23Z Dr. First agrees that compulsive sexual behavior is characterized by the same hallmarks as any addiction: escalation of behavior; loss of control; preoccupation and obsession; tolerance and withdrawal symptoms; and increasingly disastrous consequences. Seven signs your dating a sex addict 2012-09-07T14:31:00Z They say that making the content as significant as possible to a modern audience was always their main preoccupation. Maxine Peake brings the Pendle Witches to Preston library 2012-12-19T15:07:50Z Her preoccupation with the subject was rooted partly in her own history as a Jewish émigré from the former Soviet Union. Svetlana Boym, 56, Scholar of Myth and Memory, Dies 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z In other words, it’s a passionate treatment of one of Robinson’s longtime preoccupations. Marilynne Robinson’s Essays Reflect an Eccentric, Exasperating, Profound and Generous Mind 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Then another group chat erupts about young people’s preoccupation with digital devices. A month of meaningful conversation: my quest to befriend a new person every day 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z For the 42 seasons that “Saturday Night Live” has been on the air, critiquing the show has not only been the preoccupation of comedy nerds but also every American’s national duty. Trump and ‘S.N.L.’: A Look Back at a Complicated Relationship 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z “Partituur” shares preoccupations with “We Are Still Watching,” and also a civilized timidity. ‘Partituur,’ a Romp by Ivana Müller in Crossing the Line 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z He dealt with the trauma not by conducting a shadow presidency in his imagination; rather, at first, he grew a beard, ate too much and got fat, then found new ventures and preoccupations. The End of the Line 2012-08-25T11:00:00Z For all its topicality, though, the novel is oddly of another era in its preoccupations with wealth and class. This Bleeding City by Alex Preston ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:02Z Yet free speech, for better or worse, is not Kipnis’s primary preoccupation. ‘Unwanted Advances’ Tackles Sexual Politics in Academia 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Sehgal’s preoccupation is not the invention and aesthetics of the actual movement. Genres, Like Sand, Tricky to Pin Down 2013-07-26T20:26:30Z The first story is hers — she’s finally leaving behind her adopted country, Ireland, and with it Niall, the married man who has consumed her adult life, “leaving, she hopes, such full preoccupation and terrible necessity.” Review: Jane Urquhart’s ‘The Night Stages,’ a Novel of Melancholy and Missed Chances 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Mailer and Egypt don’t remove Mr. Barney from his usual preoccupations so much as they complement them; the movie’s title speaks directly to the work’s practically overwhelming concern. Review: In ‘River of Fundament,’ Matthew Barney Contemplates Waste 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z But, even if the result is an odd mish-mash, there are moments when Williams's preoccupations coincide with Chekhov's: most especially in Nina's heartfelt cry that "what's important is only to go on". The Notebook of Trigorin | Theatre review 2010-04-05T21:00:00Z But his latest work, “The Year of Billy Miller,” addresses a new audience and different preoccupations: the trials and triumphs of second grade. Spare Times for Children for March 14-20 2014-03-13T23:26:13Z But as we move back and forth between his unchanging rocks and his ever-evolving clouds, Epstein’s historical, temporal, and social preoccupations begin to reveal themselves. New York City, in Between Rocks and Clouds 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z In America, the hunt attracted considerable attention despite the nation's preoccupation with the Civil War. Crime fiction: Nothing like a good 19th-century mystery 2012-01-04T22:42:04Z But one display at the building’s center, “What Would You Do?,” connects to a recurring preoccupation here and may — once other narrative exhibitions are completed by 2016 — shape the kind of understanding offered. Museum Review: National World War II Museum, in New Orleans, Expands 2013-01-12T01:38:46Z The bonds of family — how they’re formed and displayed and strengthened — are a preoccupation of her work. In her sixth book for teens — 'Far From the Tree,' a National Book Award finalist — Robin Benway strikes at the heart 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z For Michael Stipe, however, the past has become a preoccupation of late. Laurie Anderson and Michael Stipe on Music, Art and New Chapters 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z At the same time, he feared that parsing multiracial identity was quickly becoming a preoccupation of the well off. Race Remixed: Pushing Boundaries, Mixed-Race Artists Gain Notice 2011-07-05T16:59:30Z TV’s recent preoccupation with the great beyond has to be reflective of where the real world is at in 2019, when very little seems certain but we can all agree on one thing: we’re doomed. Dead and loving it: why has TV become so obsessed with the afterlife? 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z It's a very western preoccupation – the tectonic weight of past pop culture pressing on present-day reality – for which Tarantino became a mouthpiece. Is Quentin Tarantino the world's most influential director? 2013-01-15T11:53:17Z Leonard Bernstein, one of Mahler’s most powerful modern champions, shared this preoccupation, Morlot said. Seattle Symphony sets tone for ambitious season with Mahler choral epic 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Along with memory, another of Ogawa’s preoccupations is the human capacity for cruelty. Yoko Ogawa Conjures Spirits in Hiding: ‘I Just Peeked Into Their World and Took Notes’ 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Indeed the pursuit of his “wings” becomes Clarence’s, and eventually one of the film’s, major preoccupations. “It’s a Wonderful Life”: Occupy Bedford Falls! 2012-12-08T00:30:00Z Ornithology is another longstanding preoccupation, and here the sighting of birds provides a pleasure that weighs against the everyday muck of tabloid headlines, disappearing species and politics. Vendange Tardive by Peter Reading - review 2011-03-05T00:07:13Z But it’s also a more vulnerable performance, less tightly woven and deliberately plotted, even turning uncharacteristically jagged at points as it explores some of the writer’s touchiest preoccupations. Elena Ferrante’s New Novel Is a Suspenseful Story About the Sins of Parents 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z In a series of skillfully executed set pieces, Rosenfeld skewers the pretensions and preoccupations of women for whom “parent” is both verb and competitive sport. ‘Class’ Takes Satirical Aim at Brooklyn Grade-School Parents 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z The fact that we saw ourselves reflected in the image of a brilliant, gorgeous moralist was enough to erase any preoccupation with the hypocrisies of the ruling class. Michelle Obama’s New Reign of Soft Power 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The brothers had signature preoccupations, which they discussed with excitable urgency, talking into the camera at tremendous speed. Margaret Talbot: How the Y.A. Novelist John Green Built an Ardent Army of Fans 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z The effect was thrilling, a liberation from the preoccupation with correctness and placing that pervades the Opera style and which often makes this “Sleeping Beauty” feel like watching an advanced exam. Ballet Review: Ballet Stands on Ceremony 2013-12-10T16:26:42Z Stephenson's abiding preoccupation is information flow, and how information shapes the lives of the humans around and through whom it flows. Neal Stephenson's Reamde: Virtual Reality Check 2011-09-20T09:00:00Z Full blooded assault on "professionalised" academic criticism and its preoccupation with "meanings". John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z Lucy and Ethel rise above all others, but Mary and Rhoda found their niche in the 1970s, replacing housework and marital scheming with the single woman’s preoccupation with feminism, careers and dating. Television Review: ?Absolutely Fabulous? 20th Anniversary Specials - Review 2012-01-05T22:43:52Z For the past six years, that last question has been the preoccupation of Robert Sterne, the show’s lead casting director. How ‘The Crown’ Casts Its Royals 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z The Tate show reveals her preoccupations in a way that is direct, intimate and readable. Rachel Whiteread: Through the eyes of a child 2010-09-06T20:31:00Z Beyond its basic theology, which is not new, and not especially unusual, the church has a few more idiosyncratic preoccupations. Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church by Lauren Drain – review 2013-04-10T07:01:01Z Well, that would be earlier this year, allowing for plentiful wisecracks about the Scottish independence referendum — not quite as glib as they seem, given the novel’s nationalistic preoccupations. ‘Skeleton Road’; Crisscrossing plots, with a turn for the philosophical 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z The Tai O Heritage Hotel, a renovated century-old police station on the very western edge of this westernmost point in Hong Kong, is an unusual blend of the city’s history and its preoccupation with commerce. In Hong Kong, History at a New Hotel 2012-11-28T00:06:36Z As a fiction writer, I’m perpetually in some state of preoccupation. My constant fear: Am I a lousy father? 2014-01-17T14:00:00Z “His sole and devouring preoccupation since infancy,” money, has been rendered “meaningless.” ‘Lionel Asbo,’ by Martin Amis 2012-08-18T00:06:07Z This reflection is always evolving in step with the nation’s passions and preoccupations. Perspective | A wave of war memorials is coming to D.C. Are we all at peace with that? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Given Mr. Almazan’s preoccupation with root systems, it was a hopeful and fitting way to close. Fabian Almazan Takes ‘Rhizome’ Project to Village Vanguard 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z But perhaps the answer lies more in an overlapping set of intellectual preoccupations. Piero di Cosimo, a misunderstood master, at the National Gallery of Art 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z That’s because age, not gambling, is the real preoccupation of Mr. Milch and Mr. Mann. | 'Luck': ?Luck,? Starring Dustin Hoffman on HBO 2012-01-27T12:00:00Z It's historically been there in their performances, but also in the band's preoccupations, which are maybe best described as quasi-classical heroism. This week's new live music 2013-02-16T06:00:00Z Paul, who is no slouch, said Anthony would study past midnight on a Friday, say, for an exam two or three weeks away, showing a “singular preoccupation with schoolwork that was clearly obsessive.” My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z Ms. Tynan absorbed her parents’ obsession with fashion and she writes well about what she calls “my unregenerate preoccupation with the things people wear.” Review: In Tracy Tynan’s Memoir, ‘Wear and Tear,’ Feeding on Explosive Drama 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Part of the appeal of these stories is their intense preoccupation with practical matters, and the problems Pi must solve form the dramatic heart of the film. Movie Review: ‘Life of Pi,’ Directed by Ang Lee 2012-11-20T17:49:12Z The stories in “Trajectory” are a guided tour through the author’s preoccupations: the follies of academia. Richard Russo’s Latest Cast Includes Average Men and One Big Star 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Absorption is a nonprescription remedy for unhealthy preoccupations. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to transition a neighbor’s flirty banter into something more? 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z All three write in journals, and their entries, offering windows into their preoccupations, are delivered in voice-over narration. Living With the Men of Paul Schrader’s ‘Man in a Room’ Trilogy 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z As you can tell from the title, this new version may not be faithful to the text but explores why race and racism remain such a preoccupation of audiences. The Week Ahead: June 27 ? July 3 2010-06-25T15:46:00Z The space that she evokes most vividly lies between our rational minds and our preoccupations. A haunting story by one of the best young Spanish-language writers 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z I'm not noticing it, I'm stuck in my head, I'm in this fog of preoccupation. Sad after losing your sense of smell to COVID? Turns out there's a link between sense and happiness 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z The preoccupation that made me write the book has gone for me, it's been solved. Sheila Heti: 'I love dirty books' 2013-01-19T17:30:01Z The novels have an old-fashioned preoccupation with virtue, grace and their relation to lives as lived; though they are set in the 1950s their concerns are distinctly 18th-century. Amazing grace 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The movie's main preoccupation is much the same as Bird's real-life one: dystopia, and why we're in such a hurry to get there, via either our movies or a cultural resignation. 'Tomorrowland' director Brad Bird's mantra: 'We have to bring in new ideas' 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z This might be a prize for women writers but that shouldn’t stop authors tackling male preoccupations as well as female.” How well do you know your Orange prize trivia? 2012-05-30T13:52:59Z At the time, I made no connection between the sensation and my preoccupation with potential parenthood. How I Rebuilt My Childhood Library, Book by Book 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z More than just a clever authorial performance, the structure underpins a sustained preoccupation with the tension between fate and chance, art and accident, script and improvisation. William Boyd’s Madcap Burlesque Revisits the Summer of 1968 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Daugherty expertly dissects Ms. Didion’s preoccupation with narratives — not just with the techniques of storytelling but also with the subtexts undergirding the personal and political story lines mapped in her work. Review: ‘The Last Love Song,’ a Biography of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z The book is slender, containing only eight stories, but it might also be considered capacious, hard to reduce to a single theme or preoccupation. What Constitutes a Foreigner? Two Story Collections Explore 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z But it also drew a remarkable line through the preoccupations that began Mr. Acconci’s career and carry it up to the present day. Vito Acconci, an Artist as Influential as He Is Eccentric 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Still, greatness was an early preoccupation of his. James Salter: the forgotten hero of American literature 2013-05-11T13:30:01Z “And always, there will be those who don’t believe the monster even exists. I think a wave of vampire stories that captures a claustrophobic preoccupation with death and paranoia may be filling our screens next.” Why the Vampire Myth Won’t Die 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z There is also a growing feeling that the preoccupations of her parents’ generation seem, well, a bit lame. Generation Z: ‘We have more to do than drink and take drugs’ 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Other works share that preoccupation with women living under political occupation and are equally witty. Arabian sights 2010-07-08T14:55:00Z What really fascinates him about scaffolding, and the core preoccupation of the show, is how easily something short-term becomes permanent. The Best Half-Hour of Comedy in 2020 Is About … Scaffolding? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Germany’s attempts to atone for the evils of its past, while confronting the troubles of its present, is its never-ending preoccupation. Fury in Germany as Rap Duo With Anti-Jewish Lyrics Gets Award 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Tests also showed a preoccupation with future harm at the expense of what might be needed in the present moment. Anorexia: you don’t just grow out of it | Carrie Arnold 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Another preoccupation, he said, is thinking of the vibes less as a solo instrument that recedes at the end of a spotlighted improvisation. Creating Uncommon Vibes 2011-07-22T20:52:11Z Dr. Stern’s scholarly preoccupations dovetailed with his public role as an interpreter of the German past, defender of liberal values and passionate advocate for a united, peaceful Europe. Fritz Stern, a Leading Historian on Modern Germany, Dies at 90 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z “The Young Pope,” debuting Sunday, Jan. 15, on HBO, lets Mr. Sorrentino once again use his trademark style — saturated Technicolor, a hint of magic realism — to explore some of his recurring preoccupations: power and loneliness. In HBO’s ‘The Young Pope,’ the Vatican Gets an Eccentric New Resident 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z In July, its chief preoccupations included coverage of a new electric car charging station — one of only two in Adirondack Park — and a race between paddlers and the Lake George Steamboat Company’s Minne-Ha-Ha ferry. Refuge and Renewal on Lake George 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Still, the specific priorities, preoccupations and loyalties of the exhibition are all very plain to see. In Chicago, an ambitious biennial for architecture banishes the stars and anoints a new generation 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Pollock’s new novel is, if anything, even darker than the stories, and its violence and religious preoccupations venture into Flannery O’Connor territory. The Child of a Ragged Town Keeps Returning for Inspiration 2011-07-11T15:10:40Z As both titles point out, 1984′s preoccupations seem to be love, fear and creatures of the night. Ryan Adams Goes Punk on '1984' 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z He weaves in his own preoccupations about art and film, Diderot and Kant, and what it means to be a spectator and a subject of art. Philippe Parreno at the Serpentine: The installation that won't sit still 2010-12-01T16:19:00Z That may not in itself explain the preoccupation of the young Mr. Tcherepnin, who was born in 1981, with the materiality of sound and its interaction with human physiology. Music Review: Sergei Tcherepnin’s Music for One at Issue Project Room 2012-11-28T16:06:13Z The thing that’s still an artist in this person who is trying to become an administrator is that I’ve got to listen deeply to my preoccupations and my heart. Bill T. Jones Is Making Room in Dance for More Than Dance 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z But a steel door buckled by a concrete block isn’t necessarily in tune with international collectors’ current preoccupation with artists who deal with issues of identity, gender or social justice. In Berlin, the Art World Spreads Out to Stay Safe 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Suddenly the newly prospering India was part of my life, and given my intellectual preoccupations, I was keen to understand how the country's new wealth was changing the infrastructure of opportunity in low-income communities. The Guardian first book award: the shortlisted authors introduce their work 2012-11-09T22:50:02Z Writing in The New York Times, Eleanor Stanford said it’s “witty and self-aware, using a charismatic woman from the past as a conduit through which to explore more modern preoccupations.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Great’ and ‘Graduate Together’ 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z The relationship between reality and its abstract representation is a centrally enduring preoccupation for modern and contemporary art. Chuck Jones’s Animated Offspring in ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z They weren’t inspired by the preoccupations of Cinema 16 but, as Vogel mentions, by the New Wave. The Limits of American Cinephilia 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z It does allow Mr. De Palma to revisit some of his longstanding preoccupations: with characters who double each other; with deceit and disguise; with mirrors, corridors, wigs and staircases. Movie Review: Brian De Palma’s ‘Passion’ Stars Rachel McAdams 2013-08-29T22:04:14Z “It’s always been news or sports,” the primary preoccupations of the youthful, politically minded Hill happy-hour crowd. The endless, impossible search for just one conversation that doesn’t mention Trump 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Maybe because their preoccupations seem so resolutely antiheroic, or because their ambitions fit so snugly within their love of genre, the scale of this project was hard to spot at first. The Coen brothers: the cartographers of cinema 2011-01-27T18:29:31Z And true to its name, it provides extra sauce for dipping and enjoying remnants of pizza crust — a growing national preoccupation. La Vara Chefs Open Saint Julivert Fisherie in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The Unabomber’s manifesto appeared just as Washington was beginning its long preoccupation with terrorism and national security. How publishing a 35,000-word manifesto led to the Unabomber 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Combining dissimilar works related in some way has been a preoccupation for Mr. Greenberg in his series Music at Close Range. Music Review: Piano by Jacob Greenberg and Reinier van Houdt at Spectrum 2014-03-26T20:59:42Z Indoors, Baker's wife Margaret managed to be welcoming despite her preoccupation with a domestic crisis. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z While recently sidelined with Covid-19-like symptoms, Heller decided to turn his preoccupation with the sound of New York into a social media challenge. How Does a New Yawker Tawk? 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z The result is a genre hybrid of sorts, the open-seas peril of a "Captain Phillips" with the immigrant preoccupations of "The Visitor." Cannes 2015: For 'Mediterranea' director, boat people as film drama 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z His preoccupations collide in the 1500s, when science and magic intermingled and questions of England's wider identity and ambition were taking root. Dr Dee: An English Opera ? review 2011-07-09T23:06:01Z Hall's gift is to ensure that his output transcends mere dancefloor functionality to hint thrillingly at the emotions and preoccupations of its creator. Clubs picks of the week 2013-05-11T05:00:22Z Creativity itself is also a preoccupation of another fellow, the cartoonist Lynda Barry, though she explores it with more low-tech means. MacArthur Foundation Announces 26 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z But while many rock micromovements of the day were ingested by the mainstream, the Rapture stayed small, a champion of a world preoccupied with itself and the preoccupation of few others. Music Review: The Rapture at Webster Hall - Review 2011-09-25T21:54:09Z This lavishly illustrated volume is the “Lonesome Dove” author’s testament to a lifelong preoccupation — George Armstrong Custer. 15 books for the readers on your list 2012-12-13T00:35:33Z On the surface a child's preoccupation with personal photos seems quite benign, or even beneficial. Motherlode Blog: Why We Should Take Fewer Pictures of Our Children 2012-10-12T15:55:46Z Films with serious-minded preoccupations and a need for challenging performances might seem the most vulnerable to such hazards. The Dardennes and Philippe Falardeau on Child Actors 2012-03-09T16:30:00Z Franco proved them all wrong, in keeping with a preoccupation over artists undertaking quixotic and possibly ill-advised projects that spans his oeuvre and motivated his greatest success The Disaster Artist. Zero stars: is James Franco's starry Zeroville the worst film of 2019? 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z She connected Ms. Varejão’s preoccupations with the violence at Istanbul’s airport that took place just hours before the conversation. Waves of Dark History Break on an Olympic Pool 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z In an interview, Lauwers described his work this summer as a continuation of his broader preoccupation over the past decade with theater focused almost entirely on people. An Opera Screams for Human Dignity 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Though its central nuclear panic theme has long since faded from public preoccupation, this gripping drama – considered by some the finest of the 80s – continues to merit revisiting. Catch-up TV Guide: From The Thick Of It to Arnold's Blueprint 2012-10-05T23:05:14Z There’s nothing necessarily unrealistic about this preoccupation with sex, but the show’s treatment of it is both cloying and slightly repellent. Television Review: ‘Underemployed,’ Craig Wright MTV Series, With Michelle Ang 2012-10-15T21:24:38Z The music developed further the chopped acceleration Bowie had previewed on Diamond Dogs and it continued the dystopian preoccupations of that album. When Bowie met Burroughs 2013-03-09T09:01:00Z Some days, and in the dark intervals between days, it seems to me that Glück’s preoccupations are what poetry is for, that poems are confrontations with the void. Louise Glück’s Stark New Book Affirms Her Icy Precision 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Almost as if he’s trying to redress his previous dramatic preoccupation with his first wife’s death, Linke spends the latter part of the show enthusing about his rapturously happy marriage to his second wife. One-man-show revisits ghosts of the past — including his own 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z She detects a wearisome “cultural preoccupation with healthiness above all else.” Books of The Times: ‘In Praise of Messy Lives,’ Essays by Katie Roiphe 2012-11-27T16:27:18Z Even for outsider civilians responding to disaster zones, disorder can be a prevailing preoccupation. Finding peace in post-disaster Haiti 2013-05-26T14:00:00Z Instead of pure dance, they substitute odd “scenarios,” which are just incomplete stories, excuses to insert classic Fosse bits and preoccupations. For Broadway Dance, High Kicks and Low Comedy in a Season of Change 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z A preoccupation of her fiction is the moral point where the bystander becomes complicit. Aminatta Forna: a life in writing 2013-05-03T17:00:02Z The show, known for its opulent atmosphere, lavish sets and costumes, and preoccupation with the problems of the wealthy, ran alongside Ronald Reagan's years as US president, 1981-89. John Forsythe obituary 2010-04-04T16:02:00Z If you’ve ever harbored the desire to do the splits, this desire probably left you around age 13, eclipsed by equally brutal preoccupations like romance or acne. So, You Say You Want to Do the Splits? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z This preoccupation with inequality and its psychological damage lingered among American writers of the first half of the 20th century. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z In many ways, “Send for Me” is indeed an anthropological excavation; its preoccupations are many and sometimes diffuse but it is haunted throughout by the endlessly fascinating question of inheritance. Inspired by Holocaust-Era Letters, a Novelist Examines Inherited Trauma 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is that it maintains many of the director’s longstanding preoccupations: stylised violence, genre elements, rat-a-tat dialogue and a period soundtrack. Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood hits Cannes to praise and boos 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Regardless of his assertion that “this is not a book about Parkinson’s disease,” that condition remains a central preoccupation in the text, the other one being the hopes and worries of the boomer generation. Michael Kinsley’s ‘Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide’ 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Instead, many objects seem selected because of their connections to more recent political preoccupations. A Library?s Treasures, From Gutenberg to Malcolm X 2011-05-17T12:00:00Z These images underscore the artist’s preoccupation with time—how we measure it and our relationship to it throughout history. Darren Almond's Ghostly Photography at London's White Cube Gallery 2014-01-30T05:00:00Z Bringing the museum to fruition became a full-time preoccupation about a year and a half ago. A Graffiti Museum Where the Writers Are in Charge 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z I Hate My Teenage Daughter “Parenting” is one of those words, like “veggie,” that worm their way into common parlance on the back of infectious social preoccupations. The TV Watch: ?I Hate My Teenage Daughter,? on Fox 2011-11-29T23:19:39Z Beethoven’s preoccupation with making the concert experience really, really loud may mark the beginning of a musical arms race for ever louder and ever more stimulating symphonic performance. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z “The Third Reich of Dreams” unfolds over eleven chapters, arranged by recurring symbols and preoccupations. How Dreams Change Under Authoritarianism 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The objects she has brought together come mostly from grave sites and temples, the preoccupation with equipping the dead for the afterlife having preceded the Pharaohs by many centuries. Art Review: ?The Dawn of Egyptian Art? at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-04-12T22:17:19Z To meet the 68-year-old author in his lair is to be ushered not just into his home but also into his powerful preoccupations. Mansion Of Secrets: An Espionage Expert's Outrageous Spy Lair 2012-12-06T15:00:00Z But on a Sunday morning last weekend in the Wiltshire region of southwestern England, Mahsa’s chief preoccupation was the correct sourcing of dried plums. World music fest adds the actual taste of what people hear 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z To add to the ancient preoccupations of sex and death, class is also embedded in the “Müllerin” cycle. Ian Bostridge on Schubert’s Hidden Depths 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z This goes back to your earlier question regarding my preoccupation with the past and the present, and how each moment contains both. This Week in Fiction: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z In later years, Wagner dismissed Saint-Saëns’ own music as lacking inspiration, while Saint-Saëns attacked Wagner in print as a thinker and dramatist obsessed with “the German preoccupation with going beyond reality.” Seattle Symphony ends season with Wagner, Saint-Saëns 2013-06-25T18:30:10Z |
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